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Show J I V" A CLUE AND CRAY. PATHKTICCENE. Tbsir Daly Rivalry Few I A TRAMP DECORATES PERS A Prai PAU- .CRAVE- - riantr for Rmtl Xilnn lUll iatiflM aaf Tran for a for and ! for Old (laawlaai - Toaolfc HE LITTLE country churchyard at w ax filled with thr mho villager had gathered there la di reverence to the dead hcroca. 5ten the - nrwatr lit t It? marked v. Lose atara OugM. and atrlpea fluttered - , In the oft treera that dallied with the whispering leavea,n, flower and wreathe were laid In commemorative of the love the 11 v lug bore for the dead. Bleeping eo peacefully below. Kind worda had been tittered by the good old preacher, whoae long, white hair swept about hta head B h lined MS Tat e toward the blue, oud-fleeced aky and asked God to trie the loved one who gave up life Tor the cause of light, and for all the dead who bad taken part in the great at ruic sir of war. And w hen the flow-er- a were laid upon two gravea lying clone aide by aide, the tcara gathered In the gentle old mag eye aa he recalled the pair of handsome aona who had gnnje from the - quiet paraonage o to dye with their heart' yeiuw Mood the yernal aod of the aunny aouth. And now all waa over and done, and the good people departed, leaving behind a few scattering ones walking among the narrow paths of the quiet churchyard, whoae alienee was broken alone by the twittering of bird among the rustling leavea A man with wild, unkempt hair straggling about tils face, stood bronaed, weather-beate- n upon the outside, leaning with crossed arms upon the White picket fence. Ills clothes were ragged and good-heart-r- d -cl- dlrl-slalne- hi shoes were battered, out at the toes, down at the heela. He waa a dilapidated specimen of humanity, a voyager upon life's troubled stream, drifting -- From point to point aa purpnaeleaa aa a bubble upon the crest of a wave. Hla yea were fixed Intently upon one corner of the churchyard where briars and bushes covered in tangled masses a few mounds Forgotten ligaln. Poor old pard! They mean a ell, but they don't finish the work. The worda fell from the lip of tho strange man in oft. low ahlspera. From a pocket of the ragged coat he drew a bit of red doth and wiped away the tears that rolled down the seamed face. He walked around to the entrance and passed through the little turnstile. No one no-.- .. Heed the poor, ragged fellow who slowly wended his way along the narrow pathways toward the tangled corner of it he churchyard. When he reached the spot he took off his hst and stood there with bowed head, gating mournfully before him, Then he reached out hla Land and pulled the briars and bushes aside and bent forward. Just as I thought. Fnrgolteh, They didn't know you, old pard. They didnt know how brave you was in time of wsr.r There Is no flag to mark your rave. They didn't know how proudly you carried the atara and atrlpea above you at Malvern IIlll. The birds In the "bushes were not disturbed by ;h stranger's whispered tones. There was something so quieting In the softened tones that the tittle birds hopped about among the b ranees so near that his Arembllng hands could have touched them. The man gathered a bunch of violets from the grass near th fence, and then went back to the brambles and pulled them aside. Here's a pretty blossom, pard, for the sake of Seven Oaks; here's another for Lookout Mountain, where you was great; here's four or flv--e for Malvern HiH, where you waa a hero a nation could be proud of: and here are all the others for Antletam and other you moved with the front jduer, where Jlne and never backed from your duty. And my tears are for your long days nd hmger nights rpert In the career of a tramp whp died a pajpor So-- ldier.," fat THE Memorial day preserve ita holy and sat red association because it mingle Into one, the highest, noblest and most grateful feelings of whleh mlnd and heart and immory are capable;. The gleam of joy la seen through the mist of tears. Flowera bloom and bird are highest up In the air, yet the funereal dirge la heard and the flowers are placed on tombs and over mounds where lie the dead sleeping death reconciling embrace. ThI rain upon the river and surfxhlne on the hill are a salutary mingling For It la good for ua to sorrow, and yet to sorrow with hope chasing away our tcara. We cannofor- get the pant What ingrates should we ba.eaoa if w fntrtikL.An ciaa a a.. b blind to the present. To perceive It la texr foe the post l In nor daty.-Th- e the eye, the joy for the present light up the very Jear with a Tadlance born of Leaven. Memorial 'day la to be observed by Americana In all time because. It commemorates our dead. It matter not now on which aide they fell. They sleep together; and when summoned by the angel will awake together and be brothers for evermore. A reverent silence prevail aa we put on every mound Ita garland Who aaka whether they wore the blue or the gray? We do not know, nor do we want to know, aa we traverse the battlefield from whose verdant faces nature has wiped the track and jtain of bloody conflict. Home boy, precious to woman, mother, wife, aweetheart, waited and waited and waited. He never came, so ahe went to him. The aouth and the north weep together. Their only rivalry la that of loving duty to the heroes gone. Let not a word of faction disturb the solemn tasks of mutual grief on a day which la a day of Ootd. Although tha gravea of our revolutionary soldiers, of those of 11?, and of Jacksons warriors at New Orleans. may be difficult to discover, one could wish they should all share the honors of the day. And many a gallant sailor boy la burled fathoms deep In ocean caves, and on the lakes where Perry Swept to victory, and around the But coasts of our southern clime. rench of though buried beyond-ou- r hand, they are none of them beyond our hearts' affections. And every wreath on every American soldiers or sailors grave la our tribute to ono end all and all In one. Day, Shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, eyes to the front, the men In blue marched together thirty years ago. The shoulders bore muskets; the hearts were like those of lions In their bravery; the eyes looked forward without flinching to the chance of suffering and death. And shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, eyes to the front, the men In blue will march together May 80. The shoulders will again bear muskets, but their harmless musslis will hold bouquets Instead of bullets, the hearts, still brave, will be filled with the'ten-dernes- a of weeping women rather than the fury of fight; the eyes will look fortears to the ward through a fllm-rs- f graves where tie the men who fell In 'llt'in mi! ." THEY ARE A BLOODTHIRSTY OP PATRIOTS LQJ Their Hatred of Their Opprraeloba Leads Them to Adopt the Mast Creel Weapon of War Kaowa to HERE is no weapon In peace or war like the machete, j which the Cubans now are using In their fight for liberty:- .Hrery-top- those long past battles; to the last resting places of comrades who, escaping the dangers of war. have since dropped by tho wayside at the call of peaceful death. Heroes all! All honor to them! Make way! Remember the Soldier. Remember the soldiers; children. Remember them all with flowers' Theirs was the battle and theirs the pain. Ours U the pear and ours the gain; Tluirs aa the sowing, the harvest j And oots ' all we can . give them today Is n try has a sword of its own,' but Cuba is the one place whose only sword and only lnstru- ment of war has been her reaping hook, or cane knife. If she forces herself from Spain the most decisive part of the work must be done with the machete. A New York Cuban in giving his estimate of the chances of the Cubans said that the conflict hinged very largely on bow many of the people In cane fields had good machetes. There Is not. one Cuban in a hundred who knows how to use a gun, says the St Louis Post Dispatch. The Islanders have been denied the use of firearms so long that those who had fallen Into possession of guns In the battles of the ten years rebellion often threw them down when they got Into battle and relied chiefly upon their cane knives. The battle of Bair a, in which so many Spanish heads were cut off, and which was the bloodiest In Cuban history, was won by cane knives over the best American Springfield rifles in the hands of the Spaniards. The Spaniards now have a rifle of 43 caliber and of their own make. Cuban leaders have bought Remington and Moser rifles of the same caliber, so that they can use all ammunition captured from the Spaniards. They are making every effort to encourage their countrymen In the use of guns, but have not neglected to smuggle a great many cane knives into the island. More than a month ago Spain declared the cane knife a weapon of war and contraband goods. Germany, England, and the United States fbrnlsh Cuba with all hef cane knives, and Spains declaration making them contraband Is one of the interesting diplomatic questions that Secretary Gresham la now trying to adjust with that country. The best cane knives are made in America, and before and since the uprlalng oa the Island there has been a great demand for them. Besides the cane crop in Cuba is now being harvested and Spain feels that she can crush, the uprising more easily If she can cripple the harvest The mother country has not only taken this opportunity to deprive Cuba of the one weapon and utensil that Is necessary both In war and peace, but she has sent an agent to the United States to buy cane knives, or machetes, as they are called in Spanish, with which to train her own Cuban army. But the prospect that the Spanish soldiers wfll learn to use this weapon la not half eo promising as that the Cubans will learn how to use rifles. A reporter was recently shown in a little shop Just what a Cuban cane knife will do In the hands of a Cuban who knows how to use one. The dry head of a bullock that had been butchered some days before was placed before him. Now," said the Cuban, "I will split that bead open between the horns with one stroke as if it wore so much butter. This he did. The Cuban said he had cut off horses' heads in battles and had more than once'seen the ghastly sight of men split down from head to foot with such a weapon. In the national museum in Madrid are a number of gun barrels cut In two by theae knives. The great execution of the machete lies in the wonderful skill In handling It. There are three classes of these knives The first Is nothing more-no- r lesa than a sword, twenty-eigInches In length, made of the very best American spring steel and Incased in a leather scabbard. It looks like an ordinary sword, but Is much heavier. It la worn by Cuban officers and gentlemen. The next Is an overseer's machete, very flexible, and with a Blight stroke It will sever a man's head from tho body. But the broad, heavy, sixteen-inch knife Is Cuba's peculiar weapon of offense and defense and her principal agricultural and- - domestic Implement It Is used for nearly every service, for which we use a knife, an or a ax, a cleaver, a prunlng-hooscythe. Forests are cleared with them and they are about the only tool In a butcher shop. Nowhere else In Spanish America is the machete so generally used. Nearly the a hole of Cuba is dbvotcd to the cultivation of cane and tobacco, and every stalk of these crops is harvested with the machete. Great skill In handling them Is the result. An army of the most skillful fencing masters In New York or Paris could not stand up before an equal number of Cuban cane cutters. In one of the enago. when a degagements tachment ofSpaplsh cavalry charged upon the Cubans in the oifeu as the onare reslaught was ported to' have caught the Spanish sabers In orqUetlllas, or forked sticks, and then cut men off their horses as if they were nothing.more than stalks of grass. These regular cane knives, on account of their peculiar shape, cannot be worn In a scabbard. They must be worn hanging, exposed from the trunk, and the fact that they can thus be worn at atT denotes that) the wearer is onr of very careful habits, for the blade Is always kept as sharp as the very best steel can be made. Abeolte-l- y every jnaJe Cuban male wears one. It la bis most highly valued "piece of property, and he will do almost anything to secure a good machete. In the ht k, flowers! The stranger turned away and walked with bent head out of the graveyard. Decoration Day, He pnssed on down the village street, A china decorator May la named. to looking neither right nor left; and w hen h reached the brow of the hill And pretty cups she paints, though all unfamed. the peaceful beyond he turned Asked little Flo: What shall you paint town, waved hla hand whispered today? and then he disappeared. When the straggling ones In the churchyard "Nothing at all, my darling," answered, Hay; drew near the pauper's corner they wondered whose grave there had been I tbooeM you'd paint a lot today," said Flo strewn with violets, and they wondered Because It Is Memorial day, you who had placed them there; but tha know' JIUIe birds among the brambles knew, (and they kept the secret to themThat this nation, under God, shall selves. i have a new birth of freedom, and that To attack a man with any weapon la of tho people, by the peoa serious matter In Madagascar. It Is government ple, for the people, shall not perish from punishable by death. the ear th. Abraham Lincoln. to-ra- ItEBELS. Honoring Homes, Decoration CUBAN msde.-the-Fuban- s ftfttft mountains of aouth western Cuba he Is STK 4 M TO TTTF Xu Allis ilLt.Vil. at home with his machete. He would , not give it for the best American rifle j or revolver. The undergrowth is too ELECTRICITY IS THE COMING dense for anything but the passage of MOTIVE POWER. the machete through the brush. He trims his footpath and waits to spring Iluur oa tb branch upon a Spaniard and behead him. And Sixty Mile Railroads Tli Locomallit s host there is nothing that a Spaniard dread so much in Cuba as the work of these Flora of Mo hknrry -- Trlm Lit by knives. Their stroke Is the atroke ol l.irundrarrut Light. death in nearly ever f instance. Cubans In New York say that Spanish JVO LOCOMOTIVE soldiers need not hope to attain much engines driven by proficiency in the use of a weapon that the Cubans have been brought up upon electricity to at-- or more than a century. The Cubans tain a speed here-tofocan, however, maintain only guerilla unheard of aarfare with' such weapons and win con- been have 'ffiftlfr at the strutted devoted to the machete' tfcdt '"some of Call ehglhs'Iactory them wlff tell you It will. In some way, in France, someachieve for them their liberty. what on the same principles as the PRETTY PAIR PAY, celebrated Fusee, built on the Hell-na- n plan, but having a great many Mr. FoiUr laid to Got Mora Thao improvements upon that model. ElectriM0,eo for Two Montlu Work. cians are agreed that these engines It is claimed that John W. Foster will constitute a new departure in electric receive more than $100,000 for two traction. It is only sixteen years since months' service as diplomatic adviser, electricity was first used as a motive helping to let Ld Hung Chang down as power, and during that short time it easy as possible with the Japanese. Mr. has made more progress than steam Foster Is one of the most experienced, 1! has done in nearly eighty years. In 1879 not one of the ablest commercial diploSeimena and Haiske experimented with mats In this country, perhaps In the a train of which electricity drove the world; but the importance of his servmotor, but they never accomplished a ice to the Chinese government can greater speed than eight miles an hour. hardly be overestimated, as is clearly Electric tramways were Improved and shown by a statement made by a widemultiplied since that first attempt, esawake member of the diplomatic corps. pecially in the United States, where Before John W. Foster left this counthere are now 350 lines in operation. try, said this gentleman, he had made The City & South London railway has a contract with the Chinese minister also for some years employed electricity by which he waa to receive a very large as a motive power, and has succeeded sum for his services as adviser to the in attaining a speed of from twenty-fiv- e Chinese government In the efforts then to thirty miles an hour, and lately being made to secure peace with Japan. the Baltimore & Ohio railway has emThe cable Indicates that he has earned ployed a number, of electrical engines every penny of it. When Mr. Foster was on its various lines, some of which first engaged, it had not been decided have drawn their trains at a speed of to send LI Hung Chang to treat with forty miles an hour. But France is first Japan. The first thing Mr. Foster did In the race with electric engines of high was to Insist that he be called to Pekin, speed. Fourteen months ago some restored to his former honors, and very interesting experiments were sent out with full powers to negotiate made with the sFusee between Havre a treaty. He knew that the Japanese and Beuzeville, and afterwards on the would receive the veteran statesman line between Paris and Mantez. The a 1th greater courtesy than it would exengine drew a heavy train at a speed tend to any other living Chinaman, and of fifty miles an hour, and would have he shrewdly guessed that Li Hung exceeded that limit if the government had not stepped in and forbidden aqy Chang would command some sympathy for the harsh treatment re- increase of speed as dangerous to the ceived by him at the hands of his empublic. Encouraged by this success, peror. The result has fully justified Ccmpagnie de lQuest ordered two new his expectation. LI was received with electrical locomotives to be built at the distinction, and since the unfortunate Cali factory, and they will shortly on either the Dieppe or the Incident of his attempted assassination, which, however, in view of the happy Trouville line. These locomotives are outcome, can be hardly be called unfor- of 1,500 horse power, which is nearly tunate, the Mikado has done everything ihree times that of the Fusee. The new In his power to make the task an easy engines have power enough to move 30 tons at a speed of sixty miles an one. The shrewd Foster was constantI our on a level. The engines are conly at hla elbow, and when Japan demanded an Indemnity of 300,000,000 structed in tlje following manner An taels,' It was it poster's suggestion, that enormous boiler is protected on the LI besought the Japanese minister not right and left by two lateral reservoirs to cripple the revenues of China for all or bunkers, containing 400 cubic feet time by demanding so high a price for of water and six tons of coal. Tho heatpeace. The plan was successful, for the ing surface is much greater than that Japanese finally consented to put the of the Fusee,, which had 432 square amount at 200,000,000 taela. Aa a tael Is feet. The mechanical energy Js first worth about 73 cents In gold, the minis- transformed into electrical energy by ter's shrewd work has probably saved means pf a vertical steam engine workChina more than $70,000,000, so that the ing two generating dynamos. These emperor can well afford to pay the are excited, separately by another . smaller dynamo, which serves, at the American's little bill. same time, to light the train by lamps. The motors are Perfectly SxtUfled. Which Crack Boat Builder Ah! How de do, placed directly over the axles, to motion. These a they revolving impart Mr Rich man? How did that .row-boI or made you last eummersuit? Mr. Rich-ma- n motors are sheltered by a roof, a sharp a with rather cabin, spacious Perfectly. Crack Boat Builder in front to diminish the resistAhLIm glad to hear It. I always like prow lighted, to give satisfaction. Suited perfectly, ance of the air. This cabin ais ventilalateral wtndows, and has eh? Mr. RIchman Yes. I left It In by tor in the root. The engineer and the all summer, and front of my boat-houfireman work with it, and the first has who tried to it steal every scalawag got ai his command the vertical engine, upset or drowned. the rheostat of electrical excitation, the brake and the whistle. A tablet, placed School Children. London at by It la calculated that if the children a the height of the eyttheindicates and speed registering apparatus, under the care of the London school the intensity of the electro motive board were to join hands they would force. One of the most striking things reach from Londou to Carlisle, a disin these locomotives is their neatness. tance of 30Q, miles. Sheltered by the cabin, the engineer and firemen, together with the apparaLowest it Plke tenk. tus, remained untroubled by dust, soot who spent five yearo or smoke, so that the brasses and Sergt. O'Keefe, in the observatory on Pikes peak, says metal instruments shine like gold, and, that the lowest temperature observed in fact, a man might run the engine 60 waa degrees below zero; the highest, in white gloves without soiling them. 63 degrees above. This new type Of electro-motiv- e engine is mounted on two DECISIVE BATTLES. trucks, thus Insuring great stability Acttum, B. C. 31. The combined fleet3 and smoothness in running. It is safe of Antony and Cleopatra defeated by to predict that electric traction has Octavius, and imperialism established definitely entered the field of practical in the person of Octavlu. usefulness. Other companies will soon Philippi, B. C. 42. Brutus and Casulus fallow the example of the Cpmpagnie defeated by Octavius and Antorry.The de 1QuesC if merely for the sake of the fate of the Republic sealed of coal, and the public well Metaurus, B. C. 207. The Carthagin- saving the speed, cleanliness and ians, under Hasdrubul, were defeated by the Romans, under Cal us and Marcus comfort of the new system. Stxty miles an hour now, perhaps 130 tomorrow-w- hy Li ft us. not? Syracuse. B. C. 414. The Athenians defeated by the Syracusans and their allies, the Spartans, under Gyitppus. FORMATION OF COAL. Marathon, B. C. 490 The Athenians, under Mllttades, defeated the Persians Dr. Grmir'i Theory rranrara fami under Datis. Free government preHitherto 1'ilnraii Phrnouieao. served. The formation of coal, according to Winfield-LlppA. D 1 Teutonic InDr. Homer Creenes cosmlcal theory, dependence established by the defeat of was due to the solar orb bringing forth, the the Roman legions under Varus at hands of the Germans under Arminlus millions of years ago, when it was a wonlarger end hotter than (Hermann ) Chalons, A. D. 431. The Huns, under derfully luxuriant vegetation. IncludAttiia. called the Scourge of God. de- ing plants of strange kinds, mosses a feated by the confederate armies of large as forest trees, and ferns thirty Romans' and Visigoths. in height, growing up rtciS from, Tour. A.' D. 732. Th Saracens de- feet the clayey soil and forming dense Junfeated by Charles Martel and Christen' dom rescued from Islam. gles in the' vast marshes, the Uttar Hastings, A. D. l(hS. Harold, comgreat acres of the earths surcovering by manding the English army, defeated rethese ferns, mosses and the leaves, face; new ilUara the Conqueror, and a In England by the branchea, and trunks of trees in time gime established Normans. falling and decaying where they grew, Blege of ' Orleans, A P. 1429. The only to render the soil more fertile and English defeated by the French under the next growth more luxuriant year Joan of Arc. Defeat of the Spanish Armada, A. In-D. after year, century after century, this 15SS. process of growth" and decay going on, England saved from Spanish vasion. until the beda of vegctable matter thus reLutaen, A. P-- 1631 Decided the deposited became of great thickness; ligious liberties of Germany. Gustavus the earths body, however, still continAdolphus killed, consequence of which Blenheim, A. D. 1704. The French and ued to shrlnkin ' Bavarians, under Marshal Tallard. de- her crust sinking throughout vast alllrs. feated by the English and their areas, the beds of vegetable matter go under Marlborough. ing down and tha water sweeping again re he-trie- at se eight-wheel- e; y. over the great Jnarjhe3, sr.d and mr.1 and grave! were ia' down anew over the deposits, and the Uajey soil from which the next rich growth would spring was spread out oa the surface, this process being repeated again nud again, as often, indeed, 63 teams of coal in any coal bed. In this way, at cording to Dr. Greene, the conditions for made comthe formation of coal plete, atmosphei ic air being entirely excluded while tne vegetable be is underwent the itrocesues of de omposltion so that in some beda of coal hole trees have been found, with roots, branchea, leaves and seeds complete, and all converted into the same kinJ of coal as that by which tfiej were surrounded sfe CRIPPLES ' SUDDENLY HEALED. An Amalng Incident of heml-SVBuie In the Hawaiian Inland. Judge Austin of Hilo relates some interesting experiences of his own while secretary to Princess Ruth 4h 1834. At that time she was the governess of Hawaii. He had been appointed secre- tary, but with orders from that Keelikoianl should never interfere with his work. In that year there waa a large gathering of the naKameha-mehall- l. tives at Kailua, commanded to assemble by her in order to explain to the people the tax laws and to enforce the payment of taxes. A large lanal was provided in which the meeting took place, and she proposed to address them. It was the unwritten law that the very old and infirm, all cripples and incurables, should be exempt from taxation. The natives were unwilling to pay taxes, so they prepared for the meeting. Many who were young men and in the best physical condition came in, appearing to be doubled up with disease. Many used staffs and walked with trembling steps. Some walked slowly, coughing at every step Some neld up a leg and appeared to be cripples. One enterprising native appeared on a stretcher, carried by four of his companions. When the assembly opened it appeared like a hospital without a well person in it and numbered several hundred. The princess made a brief address and was followed by her secretary, Judge Austin, who told them that all present would havo to pay taxes, as there was nothing the matter w ith them. At once there was a commotion. The men who were double up straightened themselves out. The The men with coughing stopped. game legs moved about quickly. The man who came in on a stretcher got up and made a speech to the crowd, showing that he had a very poor opinion of the government. The staffs were flung aside. In a few moments a fine stalwart body of men were seen taking the mountain road and moving off with perfect ease, and the lanal was littered with the debris of the materials they had used in making themselves and infirm; 1 appar-ent'crlppi- HIS CANE SAVED HIM MONEY. And That I VVhjr the Toan Lixjcr Without It (. efr A prominent young lawyer In thia city was recently remonstrated with by o friend because he invariably carried a cane in business hours, says the New York World. It has a frlvolou3 appearance and may hurt you professionally, said his friend "People will not credit you with sufficient steadiness and aplieation if they see that you are audicted to such a dmlish habit. That young lawjer replied that he did It on the fee re of economy. Before I carried a cane, he said,J,I lost on an average a dozon umbrellas a year, which at $10 npiece means $120. This cane cost me $1.50. I have not lost an umbrella since I bought It, over a year ago. You see, I get used to having something in my hand, and when I leave a restaurant or car, I look for instinctively around that something I Before got uted to the cane I never thought of the nmbrella unless it happened to be raining, and If it chanced to be a borrowed umbrella 4 gg using, the indignation of the lender when I told him I had lost it was worse than tho pecuniary loss. I have come to the conclusion that this cane is worth its weight in gold to me every year. PLATT IS- - NOT CLASSIFIED. Ic Dr. Dana Net Know What I'hara of DrRcnrrarr He-Ropmwnt. Degeneracy wan the subject at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century club, whfch was held at Sherdin-cuss- ry s last night. The speakers were Dr. Charles L. Dana of this city: Richard Burton of Hartford, and C. Sod.ikichl, a Japanese writer. Dr. Nordaus book, which has recently attracted so much attention, furnished the text on which the discussion turned. All men of genius, I believe, and so science teaches now, are degeneratis, said Dr. Dana. Their talents overcome the natural abnormal tendencies, so it is a good thing to be a little insane. I think Nordau was mistaken when he said there were only two degenerates in American art and literature. He names Poe and V. Altman. Ke seemed not to know the soulful pot of Wisconsin or the bard of California, Nor did he study the phases of degeneration as exhibited af Washington. had he might have changed his opinion. It ceems to me that some of our political men have passed into the class of generated matoids. I am not s ire in what class of degenerates Mr. Tlatt would be placed." If-h- Ir AntfkAtsm e Vrtn. An Anttkatzen Verein exists ai Munster, in Westphalia, whose members are pledged to kill all this stray cits-thefind. The tails they brought as evidence to the societys rooms, and last year 1,222 were brought in. A pro- posal was made recently to extend the society's operations fo dogs, but It wa voted down. y |