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BY TIIK
8TATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
PIYTON BROWN
President and General Manager
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AN HISTORICAL QUESTION.
The war no coinir on between
Fanny Davenport and Sarah Hern
hardt in the New York Herald with
the editor of that journal standing (AY
a referee besides the theatrical Hide
of it has rekindled interest in th
greatest Bin trio group of illustrious
personages in Ancient History the
first two Csars Mark Antony and
Cleopatra who ruled the world at the
beginning of our era
The question at issuo between
Fanny and Madame Sarah is this
clash of two brilliant actresses iu the
intellectual moral and physical char-
acter of the Egyptian oNcen one ofj
the mist famous women of history
Mmo. Horn hard t sketches Cleopatra
as she is pointed by Plutarch a most
cliarming though not ethermlly beau
tiful a delicate amorous and womanly
woman; tall Mender with along nose
redeemed by lare dark languorous
eyes.
But Miss Davenport in her last let
ter to The Herald defends her concep
tion of Clepatra as played on the stage
and attempts lo prove from P.utarch
himself that Egypt's queen was just
the rovorso of Hurdou's idea as pict-
ured in front of tho foot lights by
Mme. Bernhardt. That instead of be-
ing an "ideally womanly woman"
which is noxt to au angel Cleopatra
was of the earth earthy with all the
fault foibles and weaknesses of an
earthly woman and that she has lived
through tho ages because she sacrificed
'all for love."
With considerable force Fanny
quotes the following sentence to show
that the woman who betrayed Mark
Antony at tho battle of Actium waB
nof'delicat ":
"For tho played at dice with him
drank with him; she accompanied
him in hiri rambles and freaks by night
in tho dress of a slave."
Again the historical fact of Cleopa-
tra pulling up Antony a man weigh-
ing 200 pounds at the end of a rope is
-cited to show that she was tho Ama-
zon which Miss Davenport represents
on the boards.
But Miss Davenport so far as mcral
graces and conduct go makes the mis-
take and commits the injustice of
judging this famous representative of
womanhood of antiquity by tho cus-
toms and ideas of the present day.
Bernhardt also probably errs in as-
signing too high a degreeof ideality to
Ptolemy's sister. From ancient his-
torians aro gathered facts by infer-
ence and incidental allusion which
the authors themselves never intend-
ed to convey. Among them is the
unavoidable conclusion that Clopatra.
was a voluptuous amorous "womanly
woman" but tho masculine greatness
of whore mind is shown in her gener-
alship displayed at the battlo of Acti-
um where she practically decided the
fate of tho world lost its mastery to
Mark Antony and handed it over to
tho Caisars. That she must have
been possessed of extraordinary at-
tractions of person as well as of mind
is provon by her capturing the hearts
of two such men as tho "imperial Cm-
gar" and Marcus Antonius amid nil
tho beautiful Patricians of Konie and
the Empire founded by the conqueior
of Gaul.
Ono pliaso of the subject the color
of Cleopatra whether the was of Cau-
casion whiteness or Egypt's hue has
been kept in tho back ground by both
actresses whether intentionally or
accidently does not appear. Neither
is probably equal to solving a question
which our university students and
professors cannot definitely answer
with the historical proofs.
In the controversy both women ap-
pear determined to have the last word.
The "adorable Sarah" is next to be
heard from.
REGULATING ALIj CORPORATIONS.
Senator Carter of Fort Worth has
in tho senate ft bill calling for such a
supervision of all corporations as can
not but be most repugnant to every
business interest. Of this bill the
Chamber of Commerco of his own city
has just said :
"Kesolved that the directors of the
Chamber of Commerce not only dis
approve of tho bill recently introduced
by Senator Carter in the senate at
Austin respecting restrictions on cor
porations but gently request that a
bill be passed encouraging the forma
tion of corporate devices for commer-
cial purposes and giving them such in-
ducements as would be likely to aid
and encourage the existence of such
corporations and to promote such ag-
'gregations of capital throughout the
' state. The secretary was instructed
to send a copy of the resolution to
everv commercial organization in the
state calling their attention to the
danger involved in the passage of the
Carter bill.
The Ddllas News in a later issue
had the lodowing editorial para
graphs:
Farewell to the little factory enter
prises when Senator Carter's bi!
p.is;es requiring private corporations
to unbo-um themselves. No man
want a tn become an unlimited or
special partner in every little enter-
prise he invests a few hundred in. I
tlm inn.m is to be hauled up and
shown to be a failure before it has had
A vpar fnir trial he will not feel dis
posed to take any share iu so
trial and so large a risk.
short a
l i Carter considered the
useless expense to be iocurred by the
state in case his bill to require private
corporations to report in detail their
private business becomes an euecuve
law in that particular anu uoes not
generally paralyze private enterprise
by corporate methods? There are
probably throe times as many incor
porated concerns iu Texas as the
average citizen imagines as many
as a dozen charters a day have been
issued by tho secretary of state. De-
tailed reports from all of these every
year would have a well trained sup-
plemental bureau employed in provid-
ing and keeping a new si t of huge
books a house full of fresh pigeonholes
aud a world of absolutely valueless
statistics in shapely order. In the
case supposed the only good thing
about it would be fat salaries for about
half a dozen friends of Senator
Carter or of Bomehody else. I his
would be the result if the law should
fail to do away with tho present
method of doing private business un
der f charter. On the other hand its
success in the opposite direction
would work financial and material i. .-
jury to the state in so far as it opera
ted with the inevitable eflect of driv
ing or repelling private capital
domestic or foreign from associated
employment in active and productive
investments.
The object and scope of the bill is
well explained in this editorial from
the Waco Day and it is called to the
earliest attention of the legisdaturo.
Some of the men who have been
permitted to go to Austin this year us
legislators are monomaniacs on the
matter of "regulating" tilings. Their
mbi lion does not halt with regulating
railways. They want tho state to
take hold of business of all hinds and
exercise u degree ot espionage and
control that it not only paternalism
in tho highest degree but which must
of necessity prove unwarrantably
onerous and distasteful to the citizens
engaged in tho business thus placed
under espionage. Senator Carter of
tho Fort Worth district is one of
these zealots. If the Omnipotent
Creator of this universe had not al
ready reeulated the courso and the
functions of the sun moon and stars
it is altogether likely that Senator
Carter would como to the frout sell
confident to a marvelous degree with
a bill to put those luminaries of the
heavens Under state control and regula-
tion. It contemplates uncalled for and
intoleral loespionageof bu? inessallairs.
It is sweeping and takes in all cor-
porations except those formed for
charitable or benevolent purposes. It
would be well enough to require the !
prescribed reports from a bank of de-
posit or a trust company both being
institutions handling the funds of the
general public. But where is the
.piity or tho wisdom of requiring all
corporations to put on record for the
edification of an - one who chooses to
read such record the complete yearly
history of their business? Outside i f
banks and trust companies the gen
eral public has no more interest or
concern in tho business all'drs and
methods of a privato corporation than
in tho business all'.iirs and methods of
an ordinary co-partnership of two or
moro persons formed to sell mer-
chandise practieo law or any other
privato business. To illustrate more
clearly this proposed law would com-
pel every private corporate enterprise
in this city to put on recoid every
January the record open to the world
a complete expose of its business
assets liabilities expenses salaries
every detail of the business. Partner-
ship business would not be subjected
to such requiiements. Any intelli-
gent business man will recog-
nize readily enough that the
corporation with such a law
in force will bo placed at a
disadvantage in many ways. The dis-
crimination is unjust and the etl'ort of
such a law will be to hamper aud to
menace capital that is invested in cor-
porate enterprises. Mr. Carter's
measure is thoroughly essentially per-
nil ious and the biuiuess influence of
the state onyht to protest against its
passage. ThoDextsttp in the pro
gramme of paternalism and "regula-
tion" will bo to rcuuiro Smith Jones
it Co. who run a privato mercantile
business to publish all their business
affairs to the world once a year. And
there would be just as much wisdom
just as much equity just as much
sound public policy in that as in the
proposed law.
Some of the lexas papers appear to
have gone wild over the school fund
investment business. Keep cool
brethren. Jim Hogg and the school
fund will turn up all right in the end.
Never fear.
The editor of the Dallas Mercury
alls upon every farmer to fend him
a club. He is growing belligerent.
J Arguments brother that is what tells.
AUSTIN WEEKLY STATESMAN THUB3PAV MARCH 5 1891
HOMEOPATHIC
IDEA OP WHAT SHOULD BE THE ITO
TER KIND OF MEDICAL LEG-
ISLATION. 1 lie School Wan In 'o AdTantacen (Imply
Kqual Hightii Vetore the I.sw.
The follow ing circular explains itself
and has been sent a1! the legislator:
Austin- Tkx February 2-i 1891.
Dear Sir Medical legislation is in
the air. It would seem that your
honorable body cannot escape the
pressure upon them to take some ac
tion looking toward the better regula
tion of a medical practice in our state.
To accomplish this purpose four dif
ferent bills have been presented be-
fore the Senate and the House. Ob-
serve that the pressure while coming I suits "raise'' the standard of our pro-
ostensibly from the people emanates I lt
in realitv frnni flip metlinul nrnhmdnii '
t-.w.v.-...
itself. It would be but human to bus
peci mux seiiisn interests may nave as
much to do with this solicitude as a
genuine love for tho "dear people."
As members of one of the sects In
medicine called "homeopathic" al ow
us to call your serious attention to the
fact that under the pressure of an
earnest (bsire to elevate the med cal
proles-ion and protect the people from
ui qualified physicians grievous in jus
tice una cruei wrong in iy be iiimneii
twitmlly (lore to (tie or the other
sehoo's ot medicine through misinfor-
mation or la- k of knowledge. To the
end that all tho facts may lie before
you we desire to inform you that we.
as a nomeopainic scnooi are not op
posed to medical legislation per se:
but we are bitterly opposed to class
legislation or to any measures look
tug to the establishment of a sort of
medical trust. All licensing or exam-
ining boards in which the controlling
vo e is placed in the hands of one sect
is most plainly of such character.
However permit us to say that as a
scnnoi we auier radically trom the al o
pathic school as regards the efficiency
of examining boards tor elevat-
ing tho qualification of the
profession. As ' a school. we
have long held that this must come
from better teaching facilities and to
this end have turned our attention to
increasing the requ renients of our
colleges where our physicians are
educated. Wo believe at beginnini? at
the heart in striking at the root of
this matter. Consequently for several
years past every one of our fifteen (15)
colleges Iihsj by ordt-r of our National
Society the xVmericau Iustitute of
Homeopathy required tirst of all.
better preliminary educiition in those
seeking to study medicine. Aprospec
tive student must present either an
uciue. or must pass an examination
equivalent to that demanded of appli
cunts to literary colleges. In the
second place none of the colleges may
graduate a student unless no has
studied medicine three (U) years and
has taken three courses of lectures
each not less than six (6) months in
length. Better tstnl the last session of
the Institute has r solved that after
1S!)'3 these colleges shall demand four
(4) years study of medicine instead of
t hree (:t). (.-joe trat snctions of Amer-
ican Institute of Homeopathy session
lb'.M) pp. 1UIM('8.)
In contrast to i his stand it is a sol-
emn fact that with barely a half
dozen exceptions the many allopathic
colleges fall far La hind these ad-
vanced requirements The great ma-
jority still require no preliminary ex-
amination or eiiucan'on and sti.l grad-
uate students upon ('2) courses of live
(;) months each .
.Now in a 1 candor we ask why the
allopat hs who are so interested in the
welfare of the public do not begin
their beneficent work of reformation
by petitioning their state and national
societies to compel their colleges to de-
mand higher requirements for gr du-
atiou ami lengthened courses of study;
in short bring them opto something
like the standards common to medical
olleges in Europe and the homeo-
pathic colleges m this country? Echo
answers "why?" instead ot that they
spend time money and force in seek
ing paternal legislation as if the law
could give power to a hoard of exam
iners to bestow upon a man that
which only a long and thorough course
of education can give.
This then is tho basic plat
form upon which wo as a school
stand; better general education
longer and more thorough graduation.
Let all tho schools of uieibciiH begin
to build upon this platlnrin and our
Stat will soon have a higher clas ot
physicians than a century of examin-
ing boards can give us. Let the tate
demand that any pli sician desiring
to practice medicine within her bor-
ders shall present legal evidence of
being a graduate of a legal iy chartered
medical col eye. requiring four years'
study of medicine and three courses of
lectuusof not less than six months
each. We as a school will most
cluerfully we como and uphold such
a law. iSueh a law we liud in t he
Me Kinney bill and we most heart ily
endorse ir. similar registration laws;
are iu successful operation in Illinois
and Pennsylvania. Minnesota re-
quires lir.t of all a diploma from a
college demanding three courses of
six months each before an applicant
can even come before the board of
examination.
As a means of raising the qualifica-
tion of lue-dieal men we believe the ex-
aming board is a distinct failure. The
protection of the public from unquali-
fied men chart tans and quacks can
be better accomplished by simpler
measures such as are embodied in the
McKinney bill.
The fallacy of the examining board
idea as an elevating instrument may
be set forth as follows:
1. We have already shown that
higher standards of attainments aod
better qualifications of physicians can
be secured through the medium of ed-
ucation only.
2. It places the decision of who is
and who is not qualified to practice
medicine in the hat ds of a few men
selected from the rank and filo of the
profession in the state without anv
probability that they possess capabil-
ity superior to those whom they are
expected to examine; in mcv wim
strong probability of inferiority for
ir is a known fact that the boards are
made up of the politicians in
tli nrnfuKKt'orm- the better class of
physicians And sufficient occupation
in their Witiimite calling without
desire or inclination to depart from the
scauctity thereof. Furthermore if
superior educational requirements
dictated the selection of the memoers
of an exaiuii.il g board consistency
u-n 1 1 lil nimiMi-l i ho appointment of
homeopaths as we have -hown our re
quirements so far in advance of those
of the old colleges.
:i Herein is seen the weakness of
examining boards as u means of rais-
ing the standard of qualification for
such hoards possess the power aud
actually do examine and license men
who have tho most limited general
education have never taken a course
of lectures in any college nor have
ever seen a clinic or a hospital. "By
their fruits ye shall know them." Some
of the most objectionable men in the
prole-sion today in our state are the
products of the examining boards
already established by nst laws. How
can such power ued with such re
- . . - . .
' '
Olll!
h iredicnl traininc are passed
through tho same mill and ground out
grist no better than the former are
put on the same level before the peo-
pleand the former prciiounced just
as "safe" and just as "skillful'' as the
latter. The stamp of un examining
1 1 'ard is to be all that is necessary to
convince the public that the bearer is
a safe and skillful physician! And yet
who knows? Tho public may still
continue to pronounce their own ver
diet- and stamp one man "good" and
auotlier man "bad."
However if bv your united wisdom
examining boards are deemed belter
adapted to protect tho public from
unquiililied physicians man a law de
manding thorough education in legal
colleges and legal registration of di
ploma we turn-your attention finally
to the only feature which is really ob-
noxious to us aud to which we can
never be reconciled to wit: the plac-
ing of the tremendous power of decid
ing a man's professional stauding.thus
affecting also his means of livelihood
in the bands of men so diametrically
differing from him in the most vital
points of the practice of medicine: a
difference sad to say which amounts
in most coses to bitter enmity and con-
tempt. With all due regard to tho
sense of honor of the members of such
a board is it in human nature for a
majority to deal fairly by a hated and
despised minority? We mav even
credit them with sincerity for did not
Paul persecute the early christians
verily thinking he was doing God ser-
vice? Ti e power to persecute and op
press should never be placed by law in
tempted hands: weak human nature
cannot be trusted so far.
The allopaths claim the ritrht to
single boards with exclusive or major-
ity membership because of their su-
periority iu numbers. Whoever heard
ot any school or sect because of its su
periority in numbers being made the
standard whereby to judge those of
other sects? What think you of re-
quiring a Roman Catholic priest to be
examined and licensed to preach the
gospel by a board of Protestant cler
gymen became forsooth the latter
outnumbers the former? The first ef-
forts of tho old school have invariably
been to secure boards miid'j up exclu-
sively of their own physicians; but
where the pressuie from homeopaths
and electics been me too great a sop
was thrown to them by granting oi e
representative to each school. ' "Hut
what are i hey among so mam?''
Never have they been prevailed upon
to yield an inch more. The effects
are apparent in Minnesota where dur-
ing the past year out of every 100 old
.'diool applicants 81 were passed
wlnle out of every 100 homeopaths 20
were passed.
If then dear sir you deem board
examination best why in the name of
all that is luir and true to the spirit
of our American institutions can we
not have a board in each school? As
equal citizens before tho law as men
ot intelligence and keen 3eDse of manly
and professional independence as
your faithful constituents we pray for
justice. Surely our esprit Uu corps
would lead us in the future as it lias
led us in the past to maintain as high
a standard as that in auy othersehool.
We can only contemplate the possi-
bility of being placed so completely
at the mercy of those who oftitues
prove our bitterest professional ene-
mies with horror and dismay. So
plain in this principle of justice
that all other states now facing
this question aud deciding for
boards of examination are giv-
ing each school its own board. New
York Florida. California ami quite
recently Wisconsin have ull dealt
fairly by the schools in giving them
separate boards. The public pres as
well have sounded out the same clear
and ringing note of equal rights'belore
the law to all schools; the constitution
of the state itself expressly declares
that "no preference shall ever be
given by law to any schools of medi-
cine" (Art. 10 Gen. Provision Sec. 31).
May the fair fame of Texas liberty
never be tarnished by any lesser mead
of justice.
Signed :
M. J. Bi.kim 31. D.
Sau Antonio Texas
Jos. Jones M. 1).
San Antonio Texas
G. G. Clifford.
San Antonio Texas.
Tuos. H. Bragg M. I)..
Austin Texas
Chas. Lowrt M D.
Austin Texas
Homoeopathic Legislative Com.
The Merriest Girl That's 0n.
"Bonnie sweet Bessie the maid of
Dundee" was no doubt the kind of
a girl to ask "What are the wild
waves saying?" or to put "a little
faded (lower" in your button hole she
was so full of vivacity and beaming
with robust health. Every girl in he
land can be just as full of life just as
well and just as merry as she since
Dr. Pierce has placed his "Favorite
Prescription" within the reach of all
Young girls in their teens passing the
age oi puberty find it great aid. Deli-
cate pale and sickly girls will find
this a wonderful invigoration and a
sure corrective for all derangements
and weaknesses incident to females.
How a Stnmler Tor a S!i1p Show AmuHeil
Hiiiisi.-ir la the rosto.Ilee.
In aliilc.rio'js mood a t.iil man with a
theatrical mak-.-j;) entered the posro-iico.
C w;ts early moi-nin;? and the corridors
were almost de.s;;rteil. As he slowly passed
through tha buicliri;' on the ground floor
bo gave evidence that lr.) w;is or hud been
ashoutcr for the sii'.J sho'T of a cii'eus
There was mischief in h eya us In
glanced toward a window behind which a
clerk sat.
"In this cage" he exclaimed in deep
sonorous ton;;-! as if aJdresin..t an
tttuheucB of curious an 1 ex.ie-.-t.ua people
"you will find tunc iiiehiaclinly beast the
laughing hj-i-na. This atiiai d roams a'oont
tho prairies in Ow i:i::ht and there he
laughs uud laughs and laughs but what
on earth he is laughing at nolo;ly has been
able to find out.
"Pass along pass along hut do not press
ngai list tue ropes. ou Imve ample tune
to view all the curiosities before the great
show begins."
Scores of clerks attracted by the un
usual noise hurried to the little windows
and poked out their heads. This pleased
tho tall man immensely and ho laughed
immoderately.
"In the next cage" resuwd. the orator
ns ho proceeded on his way "Is the far
famed llocky .Mountain goat which leaps
from peak to peak and slays from crag to
crag ever uud anon alleging t hat plaintive
cry. 'Dual baa!'"'
' Then manlier head was I'n u-'t out of an
opening and the tall man. ii li a aWeeping
wave of the baud said " Thank you sir;
that will do."
"Iu thy ttcxt cage" continued tho mirth-
ful man "you will pe;v.-ivo the gigantic
rocodil.lo who when ho eats eats seven-
teen (liuereiiL kinds of foo l always eon
abiding his repast by devouring a bale of
liay.
"Thaulc yo'i th ink yo.i sir; you aro bo-
having nicely nicely.
"I'assaloTig o ; along ladies and gents;
but bear in iniu 1 an 1 ivme:n!ier you have
ample ample time to see all tho curiosities
before tho show in tho groat pavilion
opens."
Gradually tho tall humorist made his
way around the. corridors his voice losing
nono of its voliitm-'orsticiigtii. Meanwhile
the commotion in the post ilhcc depart mem
was increasing. Kvery window was occu-
pied by one or more clerks with bulging
eyes and necks craned to catch a glimpse
of the daring practical joker. Kverybody
had a chancel o see him for he did notdeuy
himself to anybody. Tiiis is what one
group heard as he came into view:
"fa the next cage are the mighty boa
constrictors whose bite is worse t iian death
and whose strength is crushing. In the
smaller cajjes on the right aro ot her rare
reptiles brought frmu remote tropical re-
gions where ono day they lived and nour-
ished. Twice a year these snakes shed
their skins. They fee l upon birds frogs
and guinea pigs."
By that time the loungers in tho build
Ing were enjoying the sport highly but
how the clerks fob H n il known.
As the stranger nc.n-e l t he last door at
the upper end of the I'm- i-i.Iw iy sido he
turned toward another 'cage.1' and ex-
claimed: "In the nevt cage yet will ()' 1 Tom
feeding the Polar bear his daily meal il
broken ice. Toil ice i ex;nv-!y ii.iportcd
by us from tae a roth: regions at. cltorni jus
expense am!''
At that inomer.t the wati h-eari made his
presence known an I t he j.ikc.r u-as foived
to cease jokiag; lair c.s lie weni out. of the
door he fired t.Sd.-i lioi which wasevideial)
intended to hi: the u :i!ea:oaii:
"Little Joc'.o u ill now a-.c :n :'ie ladder
turning a complete va-.'!-.i:til. ai. each mid
every round."
The'i tic? swinging doo-s c!-.i-': 1 behind
him and he was lost to view Now Ver
Heruli.
What lo li.
"I1 ys." evci'edly c.v'ait icd the m.-m.-ig-ingci'itor
rushing into t in local room of h
Chicago morning paper h.te one night in
tsSS ' here's t bo chance of your life to dis
tinguish yourselves forty men and women
bun.'id todi'ath in an asylum lire in 1 .
Want two of you t i o la re on a special
train and covr the thing as completely its
possible until wu t:et a n lief down to you.'
Tho only men o-i lini y at t!i:it hour were
a collide of i-w:T arrival- from 'laniinm.''
They were whirled down to the train ami
put on a special car. A.vay went the train
through iho night to the scene of tlioilis
aster.
"I say Cholley" N'o. 1 broke out after a
short interval of silence "did you bear him
say he expected us to diM i rigid; h on r.-Ives?
Wonder what he intends lo do by us when
we net hue!;?''
"I heard one of the hoys don't yo know
saying that the health of the editor w.-isu't
good. '1 hey may want asuci-essor to him."
Wliilethi-y pursued this interest ing topic
the train pursued itscoorse and t wo hours
later the young Englishmen after much
consultation started toward ('hieago a tel-
egram reading like this: "Dear .Mr. l-Milia-:
We are here. What shall we do?"
The answer came back shortly. "Find
out. w here the fire is hoitc.st and jump in."
.Milwaukee Sentinel.
Tlui Opportunity Seized.
The bashful young man was looking at a
painting representing -m arctic landscape..
"Isn't it strange .Miss Ida" he said "thai
they harness the reindeci ?''
"No" she answered dreamily. "People
can harness the lightning dear.
This is so s.il!enso uncxpeore 1 Horace.
1 well ask papa." Chicago
Tribune.
KM) anil I'hiw.
Three successive tel-grains from a yotui!?
man staying at Monaco to his anxious
momma who has sent him there for his
health. "Send me socio inonev. Have
lost my pocket book." "N o need of money.
Have found pocket book." "s en! money".
Pocket hoi. k found but nothing iu it."
Fliegeude Ul.itrer.
A OtieMiiiii of Darkiu s.
As
i . : c i
V '.:!. vwii.'iiii3:-:-!
Ethel-I thieu 1 ought rntell von K)'th
that I met your lianee iu a dark hallwai
lost night and he kissed me
Bldh-Iivieed! The hallway must have
been very dark.-JIunsey's Weekly
HOW WE SUFFER.
The Man Who-Want-to-Know-Ton-Know
anil Ills Victims.
I never read of a railroad or steamhoal
disaster without secretly hoping that Tub-
man - who - wants - to - know-you-know Is
numbered in the victims. I don't say any-
thing against a person storing his mind
with knowledge but what I object to ia
tho way that knowledge is sometimes
fired of! at a man who is lame and can't
make his escape.
For instance our train going east was-
flagged at midnight and held for un hour
because of a wreck on the road. Every-
body in the sleeping car awoke and most
of the people got up and dressed although
it would have been common sense to torn
over and go to sleep again. One of the pas-
sengers was a largo portly man wl o had
formerly driven hogs to market. Ry the-
exercise of economy perseverance virtue
tenderness and a dozen or so other attri-
butes he had climbed up until he owned a
slaughter house and bought the hogs
which others drove. This was not only a
good drive on him but ho was legally en-
titled to feel proud of it. He had just fin-
ished telling a crowd of passengers in a
loud voice that ho was figuring to buy that
railroad add chnngo the management
ivhen The-man-who-want?-tii-knoYf jou-
know suddenly interrupted him with:
"Kxcuse me my friend but can I ask yon
a question f
"Certainly sir" was the courteous reply.
"I was talking with a chap in tho depot
at Butl'iilo and wo couldn't exactly agree
about Mohammed tho Arab lie was as
you know originally culled Ilalabi anil
was born about tho year 570. What wo
differed about was his birthplace; as I hav
it it was Mecca; as ho had it it was Syria.
What is your opinion?"
Tho man who had climbed up the ladder
of lil'eby virtue of his own integrity turned
pale looked helplessly around and finally
sunk down a crushed and helpless victim
and he didn't even look up when un old
farmer remarked to his wife:
"Good 'null for him. If a feller hain't
studied algebra and geography what's the
use of his pettin' on so much stylo"
Again there was a party of us on the"
promenade deck of a Hudson riversteamer.
Tho prominent one of tho crowd was a pule-
fuced weak eyed young man who had been
all over Europe and who had attended col-
lege longenough to learn everything worth
knowing llo talked very glibly of the
Stone Age tho Drift Period and all that
and as he camo along to tho Palismlew he
observed that:
"The true igneous rocks belong either t
tho truppean or volcanic divisions whila
the mass you seo beforo you is composed
to a very largo extent of stratified nu-Uv-morphic
rocks."
I looked around to see if The-man-who-wants-to
- know - you -know was present.
He was. He sat with his cluur t ipped back
and his feet on the rail. His suit was a
very loud check and he had. tho general
bearing of u man who trades in horses and
buys sheepskins of farmers. Ho listened
with great interest and when tho young-
man had linished he squared his chair
around and said:
"Professor you are right; you have Lit
tho bull's eye; you know it all."
"Awl" replied tho young man.
"I'm glad to have met you because those
things have bothered uie aud because 1
want to ask you a question."
"Aw proceed."
"You have heard of Scipio of course"
"Awl"
"Killed you know in the year 187 B. Cr'"
"Awl"
"Of course j-ou have heard of Basil stir-
named the (ii-eajj tireelc you know and
born in the year; 320 in C.Tppadocia. Pretty
good fellow I guess but wouldn't bet oat
it."
"Awl What is your question sah"'
"I was getting to it. Suppose you owned!
a horse?"
"Aw!"
"No matter about tho color or sex. Yo
are awoke at night by his stumping in tbs
stable."
"Awl"
"You go out and And him very ill. Now
sir can you tell mo how to inform myself
whether he is suffering with a calcareous
carbonate of soluble obliquity or is attack-
ed with a horbiverons transition of inter-
strut died exhalations?"
Tho young man rose up looked around
him to take a last furewell of earth unit
then plunged over tho rail into the river.
Tho steamer was stopped and every effort
made to rescue him but he did not want
to be rescued. I Iu wanted to sit down on
the bottom of the Hudson and have a good
long think with himself. M. Quad in De-
troit Free Press.
It Was of No Consoqiieiirfl.
"It occurs to me Miss Twilling" said
the young man "that in the relations
which will some day exist between us tho
thought of ahem I money might assume
undue proportions. I should hute to think
that any discussion us to my salary would
give rise to any painful scenes."
"Believe me Henry" said tho young:
girl as she placed her hand gently on his
arm "that never under any circumstances
would I allow such a little thing as that to
come between us." Harper's Bazar.
Iltiiidc ami Ulank Clicctis.
"Yes" said tho merchant to his book-
keeper; "1 always carry about me a blank
check which I can till out wherever I may
be when I run out of cush. You should
do the same."
"In my ease" replied Mr. Lodger "it
would be apt to remain blankety blank"'
aud his cake and coffee lunch began to pain
him in the chest. American Stationer.
Applied Somnambulism.
Mrs. Bendix Yes my husband is a som
nam 1m list.
Mrs. Kuwler How dreadful!
"Not at ull. You see whett he gets up
.n the night und walks tho floor I put th
baby into his arms and he never knows it.
New York Sun.
ClrciiQiHtuuces Alter Cascn.
Sinn- t rr'SlT knifc-vTub me bad
injun; take paleface scalp
Mr. M.ln.mf.m.. r '
elf fV- T """-"on-i trouble yoar-
-S ; w met0 hand U 10 ton.
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