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6 THE BROOKLYN BAItr EAGLE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1895 BUSINESS NOTICES. BUSINESS NOTICES. lacks nothing of emphasis and expUcit in conjunction with the city works commissioner, should turn the water off from every trough in the city and thoroughly disinfect them. Watering troughs are seldom cleaned. They are at best dangerous conveniences and In times like the present they are doubly so.

TUESDiAY EVENING. DBCE5IBER, 3, 1S33 South Brooklyn by several car routes and Erasmus academy Is but fifteen minutes' ride from the heart of that populous quarter. Flatbush is a great and growing section In itself and is easily reached from all the neighborhoods which are now most in need of high school facilities. And, what is more, Flatbush has had the spunk to make an offer which no other section can duplicate and which the board of education will not reject if it has the best interests of Brooklyn as a whole at heart greatly increased when the river is filled with ice, and boats come Intocollislon with It and further weaken the structure." It was not long ago that the supervisors attempted a gigantic by trying to contract for a lift bridge over Newtown creek at almost double the cost of a similar one in Chicago, but thanks to Mr. Fltchie's vigilance and veto power, backed up by the Eagle and protests from hundreds of indignant citizens, that job was frustrated.

Mr. Fitchie now points out the dire necessity of Newtown creek bridges at a reasonable cost; of the need, of imperative improvements in public buildings under the charities department, and other matters of equal importance. He refers to the city's close proximity to the debt limit and urges this as a strong reason why the county officials should provide means of effecting these improvements while they yet have the power. "If we go out of office indifferent to the needs of the new municipality," says Mr. Fitchie, "the act would be a crime calling for severest public censure.

Your honorable body cannot expect to consider and award within a month, and do justice to the people, contracts amounting to a million FLANDRAU CO. 372, 374, 376 Broome St, New York, CARRIAGE BUILDERS. Tonn Carriages, new In form, the btehest grade of woricroanehip and materials, finished in exquisite coloring of paint aad trimmed attr3 tirely. in unrivalled variety and reasonable In pzioe. Snbnrban carriages In all styles, constructed with special reference to required ass, in equal variety.

Medium priced carriages, only differing In elaboratenefS of finish and folly warranted. The whole stock forming the largast is the world. Complete stook second hand. GRAND and UPRIGHT PIANOS. Call and Inspect tho ne'wly invented patent Grand Pianos In Upright Form.

Also for sale for cash or on iSHtnllments a large assortment of nearly new STEINWAY Grand, Upright and Square Pianos, all warranted like their new Pianos. AIro, second hand Pianos of other make, In perfect order, at low figures. STEINWAY SONS, 107 111 E. Mb St, NEW YORK. Nearly a Million Housekeepers who use say it's best.

Once tried, you'll so decide. AMUSEMENTS. STEINWAY HATINEE EVERY DAY. AL REEVES' CO. ness.

As the reply of the latter country has not been received the full dispatch of Secretary Olney has not yet been disclosed. The agency of this government In successfully protesting against the arbitrary action of the government of Hawaii against American citizens in the recent insurrection is set forth. The incidents which show the good understanding of our people with Italy. Guatemala, Mexico and Nicaragua and with Russia are passingly recited. A strong plea is made for the observance of our duty as'a nation to be neutral between Spain and the Cuban insurgents.

The personal sympathy of many Americans, for good cause, with efforts of Cubans to free their island is unaffectedly acknowledged. An extended recitation of the conditions of American interests in the disturbed portions of Turkey reveals the fact that they have been adequately protected and will continue to be. A strong plea for the application of civil service reform to the whole consular service is made and a demand for increased salaries for ambassadors and for ministers, with the provision oS official residences for them, is also appended. This substantially concludes the treatment of our foreign affairs in the message. On financial matters the President stands by the policy of tariff reduction.

1I! denies "the right of the government to obstruct the avenues to cheap living." Apparently he will adhere to the 'Wilson law. till he gets something still better, lie recognizes that, while the power of silver for evil In law has been reduced, more fiscal legislation is necessary. He. therefore, argues earnestly for a law to enable him to retire the greenbacks, and si'ts forth his reasons for the. argument.

A recitation of the steps taken to maintain the gold reserve is the next chapter in th message. The contention is that its maintenance Is obligatory. The failure of the las' congress to give adequate legislation for that purpose is notid. Thai tli i rendered a recourse to bond issues necessary is stoutly declared. The President would broaden the basis and increase the out put of the national banks, after the retirement of the greenbacks, as he proposes.

The argument which he advances in favor of these measures of currency reform and fiscal safety will be regarded as strong by the friends of honest money everywhere. His appeal to the free silver delusion against their own errors, is earnest, conciliatory and should be convincing. His confidence in fthe triumph of sound principles is absolute. He "does not. believe the people can be persuaded to jeopardize their nation's prestige and standing by encouraging financial nostrums or that they will yield to the false allurements of cheap money, when they realize that It must result in the weakening of that financial integrity and rectitude which thus far in our history have been so devotedly cherished among the traits of a true Americanism." To silver he would give its full function as a currency for monetary use.

But between that and a standard of value, for ns and for the world, is a difference which Is vivid and vital and which he sets forth with elevated precision of language. The temperance, plainness and vigor of the message will insure its favorable comparison with any which ihave come from the same hand. As a man of action, rover Cleveland occupies no secondary place among American chief magistrates and as a publicist his messages give to him a rank that not many of his predecessors have exceeded. The Pulpit and the Times. One of the more noteworthy sermons delivered in Brooklyn on Sunday was by the Rev.

Dr. Cartwright of St Barnabas' P. E. church, who contended that tho ministers of to day were behind the times in their methods of presenting the truth and that the effectiveness of the church was thereby greatly impaired. Dr.

Cartwright asked. "Is this condition of affairs traceable to some inherent weakness in the gospel Itself, or to some radical defect in our church organization?" There is an impression in some quarters that the Bible is not in touch with modern times, that its possibilities have been exhausted and that in order to retain its hold on the masses the church must more closely align it self with liberal and advanced thinking. No one can have failed to observe that the pulpit nowa days is not so much an agency for the uissemination or the gospel as It is a lecture platform or a stage for the deliv ery of prize essays. Certainly the nam ber of ministers is increasing who deem themselves derelict in their duty if they do not discuss the social and secular problems of the hour. If we were to search the files of the newspapers for six months past and print a list of the pulpit discourses In Brooklyn oe secular topics, those who believe that the mission of the pulpit is to preach the word rather thau indulge in political harangue or metaphysical speculation would be amazed at the presentation.

What is worse the list would include the names of many men of respectable ability who have abdicated their old time function of interpreting the gospel in response to what they believe to be the demands of modern thought. They are presumably afraid that if they confine themselves to the gospel they will be accused of want of It would perhaps be too severe to affirm that our modern sermons for the most part are a burlesque on preaching. But if such be the case Is it not due to some extent to the Inability of a large proportion of the clergy to understand that the founders of Christianity did not build for an epoch, but for all ages and that the Bible fits into modern times just as well as it did Into any other period of the world's history? The great need of the pulpit is strength and power, and those qualities are sacrificed to the extent that ministers of the gospel ignore the word on which Christianity rests. Glanders and Public Troughs. There is a good deal of talk abotit glanders in Brooklyn.

Whether the disease is seriously prevalent or not it is well to take precautions against it, since veterinarians have found no sure cure for the disease. There is danger of contagion in the public watering troughs. If this outbreak does not speedily disappear, or. at any rate, if it shows any signs of spreading, the health authorities tF otered at the Brooklyn. N.

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Msssage of the President. The message of President Cleveland to ftlie Fifty fourth congress is published on the fourth and fifth pitjres of to day's paper. It is novelty in such doeuuieuts In these respects. It treats only of "the condition of our foreign relations and of the exigencies of our national nuances." Mr. Cleveland thus confines himself to two topics, as in 1.SS7 he confined himself to only one the tariff.

The departmental reports he lets speak for themselves, except as anything in them may be re lated to the brace of subjects which he revigjvs. Mr. Cleveland in this manner dwells on precisely the matters of highest interest, they being such also as have cost his administration the severest criticism from political opponents. Thau this is shrewd is evident. That it is wise becomes evident as the message is read.

The possibility of rendering presidential messages unique and interesting were thought to have been exhausted. Mr. Cleveland shows they are not. The statements are extremely interesting. Reciprocity has been established with the Argentine Republic.

This nation lets in wool from that republic free. That nation lets in several products of the United States at reduced duties. The President announces that his own arbitration of a dispute about territory between Brazil and Argentina has been adopted by both countries. Chili has resumed specie payments with excellent gain to our commerce with her. This republic has kept out of complications with Japan and secured protection of American citizens from the wave of internal in disaffected parts of China.

The case of ex Consul John L. Waller, convicted in Madagascar of military offenses against France, will shortly, the President states, "reach a satisfactory solution." That ruean3 he will be discharged. The hearty co operation of our "ii.ii me luiernauonat exposi tioa appointed by France for 1900 is earnestly recommended. The discussion in the message of the relations of this country with the states of the German empire is made the occasion for some old fashioned tariff reform talk. The President protests against the discrimination of that empire with regard to American export interests represented mostly in cattle and In grain.

He grimly suggested that international trade cannot be one sided and hints at retaliatory possibilities of a drastic sort. The fine showing of our navy at the opening of the Kiel canal is appropriately praised. Next follows a discussion of our relations with Great Britain. First is treated the action of the Behriug sea arbitration tribunal. Some of its results are still unaccomplished.

The sea is insufficiently patrolled. Seal life is. therefore, inadequately protected. A new treaty of arbitration for the final allotment of the $425,000 awarded by the tribunal to Great Britain will at once be submitted to the senate Progress In the movement between the two nations for the prevention of collisions at sea is reported. An appropriation to complete the preliminary survey of the Alaskan boundary is urgently recommended.

A joint commission to determine the respective jurisdictions of the Dominion of Canada and the United States in the Great Lakes is urged. The President declares that "Great Britain has been told, concerning her dispute with Venezuela, wbat the interest and policy of the Unlt' States are. and that "this government is unalterably opposed to a forcible increase by any European power of its territorial possessions on this continent, and that such a proposition will be maintained by us." At the sarnie time Great Britain was urged to submit the matter to friendly and impartial arbitration. Apparently the President's statement to Great Britain An Extraordinary Court Scene. Newspapers exist for benign purposes.

Occasionally" one of them Is the protection of the people from their secondary, courts. Such an occasion Is presented by the case of the state against Walter L. S. Langerman, lately before Recorder Goff in New York. The case was a miscarriage of justice.

The verdict of conviction was contrary to the weight of a parody on probability and a premium, upon impossibility. Yet the jury were thanked by the court, the policemen who thad exhausted their capabilities for energetic injustice were thanked by the court, the complaining witness, as a martyr of truth and a miracle of courage, was thanked and lauded by the court and the community was prepared for the sentence of the prisoner to the utmost extent allowed by law. Tbat was the situation last Friday. What occurred on Monday was published in the Eagle on that day. Our readers are sufficiently familiar with It.

The recorder first refused to set aside the verdict as contrary to evidence, on motion of defendant's counsel, and afterward did set it aside, on his own motion, because he said he had found it was contrary to truth. The woman had confessed to him that her whole statement was a sensational and revengeful lie. She has been committed for perjury un der circumstances which render her conviction doubtful, because a confession of perjury alone does not suffice for conviction. That can only be secured by corroborative evidence. We hardly know how to characterize the language of the recorder In the proceedings on Monday.

If all the newspapers did not agree In their reports, any account of the proceedings, standing alone, might be regarded as an incredible fiction. The recorder had to discharge Langer man, but felt constrained to denounce him. He had to admit his innocence of the offense with which he was charged, but he roundly accused him of a series of like offenses on none of which had he ever been tried, and the evidence to support any of which had been submitted to no judicial tests. He also felt constrained to commit the woman for perjury, but he rhetorically slobbered all over her with sympathy, with regret with half praise, and with whole commiseration. Now let us look at the facts and measure them by the rights of the prisoner and by what judges are authorized and not authorized to do.

Recorder John W. Goff had no more right to charge Walter Jj. S. Langerman with a series of unproved offenses and this proposition is unaffected by whether the offenses can be proved or not than he had to drag Mayor Strong or the Rev. John Hall or Archbishop Corrlgan, or any other man, into his court nnd set him up as a target for a like harangue.

Langerman was free, because Innocent He was as free. if foul, as if pure. As a free man all the court had to do or should have done was to discharge him. To "Jaw" him was an outrage which infracted personal rights and judicial proprieties as much as the re corder's charges against the defendant implied an infraction of the moral code. Bad as Langerman may be, he was a better man In Goff's court yesterday than the head of that court himself was, so far as the decent observance of Justice and right in that court was concerned.

Again: The gush, mush and slush with which the recorder saturated the com plainant who was committed for perjury were In execrably bad taste and were as thoroughly alien to what a judge should say and do as the woman's testimony, on own confession, was alien to truth. is time to speak out. Too many jus tices are outraging justice. There are too many stump speeches from the benches of our secondary courts. Too many magistrates are venting on prisoners, whether innocent or guilty, a brutal savagery of utterance for which thev could be justifiably horsewhipped, out side of court, and for which they could be impeached and removed, with the approba tlon of mankind, for employing them in court.

The first witness or the first de fendant who resents this growing system of Infernal tyranny and insult, and who takes his chances on resenting it. will deserve, and should receive, the thanks of the public and of the press. Langerman is probably a bad lot Barbara Aub is the same sort. The incident of sex in the case of either has nothing to do with their equal and undiffering baseness and nastiness, but Langerman, having been wrongly convicted, was innocent and Barbara Aub, having confessed to per jury, was guilty of that, which is bad enough, and of the consequences which the trial of the case, through the record er's rot and the jury's imbecility, came near to inflicting on the defendant. The subject was one for an entirely sane court to rid itself of as quickly as possible.

The extraordinary endeavor of the recorder, however, to advertise the failure of his own court, to secure a just result by trial process, was lamentablv successful, and the maudlin and mawk Ish plea which he put In for a jury which rejected truth and sustained perjury was on a par with his exhibition of himself. There is no man who in a right field has done more for good results in govern ment than John W. Goff. but the woful mistake of rewarding him for service, where he was efficient, with office wherein he makes such exhibitions of himself as he made on Monday begins to wear the aspect nnd the size of a public danger and a public calamity. Acoept the Offer.

The trustees of Erasmus academy Flatbush have offered that fine old prop erty to the Brooklyn board of education on the condition that it be transformed into and maintained as a first class high school by the city. It Is a rare chance and the (fffer should be accepted by the board when the matter comes up this afternoon The high school committee made an in vestigatlon and has decided to report in favor of accepting the offer of the Flat bush people. Certain members of the board are opposed to the plan on the ground that Flatbush should not have a high school In advance of South Brooklyn or the eastern district. Flatbush taps UNTHAN, THR ARMLESS WONDER. Fitchie and the Supervisors.

Supervlsor at large Fitchie has been a good man in the public service. Just now he is dealing with the expiring board of supervisors in a manner which should earn for him the lasting gratitude of all honest Brooklynites. The supervisors as a whole have shown themselves to be a sorry lot Their chamber has been a nest of scandals these many years. Their elimination at the close of this month will be a gain, not a loss, to the community despite the presence of a number of excellent men in the board. The county's legislative record is not an enviable one.

The court house committee, the county farm committee, the jail committee, the military committee and. Indeed, what active committee can be omitted have come to be regarded as polite terms for so many sub divisions of a system of government by plunder. A critical glance at the printed records and the printed records do not tell all, nor half of all is sufficient to show wrong on wrong. Tiie scramble for places on active gmmittees at tne Degwming or eacn year xu uui been for the glory of doing good public work, but for purposes of private advantage and plunder, Impure and simple. For years previous to the administrations of George Klnkel and Thomas Fitchie there were few checks on these rapacious tappers of the county till.

Their salaries were nominal. Their wealth became princely. Other kinds of men were kept in the background, and job after job went through. The St. Johnland plant cost more than $3,000,000.

This year the state paid $1 for it, and made a poor bargain at that. Plumbing that was not plumb, reservoirs tliat held no water, the everlasting leaky roofs of the armories, the county building "supplies," the court house "repairs." the bogus record copying, the juggled contracts which were opened by fraud and examined before the chosen contractors dropped their bids into the box these and a thousand other costly luxuries which the county has been en joying will come to an end with the pres ent year. If any one chooses to go over the county treasurer's books he will find that enough money has been paid out in repairing the roof of the Thirteenth regiment armory to build a handsome house on the park slope; that "supplies" Oh, mysterious and all enveloping word for the hall of records have cost the county five fortunes in five years; that the Jail has been shoveled full and shoveled empty of county gold a dozen times over; that court house "repairs" have been expensive enough to suggest brand new court hous5, despite Its dingy, foul smelling corridors, its smoky outer walls and its totally Inadequate court rooms; that the little Dean street armory, until recently occupied by the Third Gatling battery, has done itself proud in the way of repairs and altera tions; that from enormous sums spent in tne maintenance of county charges county charges always have come high down through the various grades to and including the trifling matter of janitors engineers and scrubwomen for the court house, the hall of records and the jail, there has been an appalling waste of the public funds. Bribery was so common and plunder ing was so "regular" that for a shame fully long time no one dreamed of such a thing as stopping either the one or the other. Until two years ago.

the supervisors were in the habit of making "Christ mas presents" to such newspaperreport ers as were weak enough to accept. There are no Eagle reporters on their blacklist This little outlay was always quietly buried among the "sundries." The official stenographer as a rule knew nothing of shorthand. He reported for duty once a year on the occasion of the annual junket to the county farm. And so it was so it has been for many years with the board of supervisors; false to their pledges, profligate in their expenditures, greedy in their grabs, wanton in their wastefulness. Only a few Items have been mentioned in a melancholy list a mile long, but nothing has been overstated, and the figures are available to show results far more astounding than any general statement can be.

It, is with tiie remnants of this band rather, the remnants of a succession of such bands that Thomas Fitchie is battling now. He vetoed their half million dollar county hospital job yesterday because there is now no need to erect a half million dollar hospital, and money is sadly wanted in other directions. He opposed the payment of a fee to an outside architect on the ground that the county has a competent and salaried architect of its own. Superintendent of Public Construction Daniel Ryan. The meat of Mr.

Fltchie's hospital veto is contained in the following paragraph: An opinion from an official source warrant my belief that a. building could be put up at an expense of from J60.000 to 175.000. which would (rive the department ample accommodation until the annex and the insane asylum re verted to the county: and I am firmly convinced that with the Improvements now In course of completion, and others that are in contemplation by the charities commissioners, that the much needed remedy is closer to us than in beginning the construction of an expensive building far removed from the present hospital. It would take two and a half or three years to erect and equip an hospital such as the plans and specifications call for. and at an expense of not less than half a million of dollars.

A new staff of physicians and attendants would be absolutely necessary. Before the time the new structure would be available the commissioners of lunacy will have returned the asylum which, at a comparatively small cost, can be converted into one of the most commodious and comfortable hospitals in the. In another message to the supervisors yesterday Mr. Fitchie told them a few things they should do before tbey retire from office. It was a sharp message and should bring good results but will It Bonds arc needed for the erection of Newtown creek bridges.

Only yesterday the Eagle's Lons Island City correspondent reported that the bridge at Vernon avenue, which "has been condemned as unsafe, shakes and trembles violently every time a heavily loaded truck passes over It. Hundreds of teams and thou sands of passengers go over it daily. mis danger will probably be CRIMMINS and GORE, "COMING THROUGH THK RYE." $7 MONTHLY PAYMENTS (225 cash), including Stool, Cover and free delivery within 40 miles of New York city. (Other styles, 300 to $800.) Second hand Piano bargains, $4 payments. Old Pianos taken in exchange.

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Articles purchased may be left for future delivery. "If you get it at Webster's its good." WILLI AVl WISE SON. Christmas Gifts in Fine Goods Only. LOWEST FACTORY PRICES. JEWELERS.

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OEMS A SPEOIALTT. NO. 27 JOHN ST. NEW YORK. AMUSEMENTS.

EHMAN'S AGNES CHARCOT, HYPNOTIST. PARK THEATER. A. M. Palmer and Edwin Knovrlefl.

Lessees ft Maanffera MATINEKS, WKDNKSDAY AND SATURDAY. A. M. PaLMER and BDW1N KNOWLKS' Stupendous Production of THE GREAT DIAMOND R0BBEEY, After a Run in New York of Nearly Three Months. SAME PRODUCTION.

SAMi: CAST. Next Week 20TH CENT DRY GIRL HOLMES' CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE. To dav. To night. i THEATER.

LEW DOCKSTADER, California Trio. Willis and Collins. Sirron and Simkbm. Campbell and Beard and 'Z0 other stars. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, ON SATURDAY EVENING.

DECEMBER 28. Piano Recital PADEREWSKI. TICKETS AT THE OFFICE OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE, 50 KULTOW ST, AND AT CHANDLER'S, 3O0 FULTON ST. RESERVED SEATS. 53.00.

32.50. 2.00, 91.60. BROOKLYN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL ASOCIATIO AND HOME FOR DESTITUTE OH1LURKN. ANNUAL FAIR AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, December 5th, 6th and 7th, From 2 to 10 P.3M. Hot luncheon from 12to2 P.

with froo adMilailoo. Table d'hote dinner from (i to P. SI.OQ. Music ty Professor Conterao'a Uand. CONCERT.

Mrs. Emma Richar 'son Kuster, Assisted by Pupila and Mr. Albert Ge ard Tiiies, Tenor; Mr. Arthur MeMn TayJor, Violinist, Association Hall, TUESDAY. DKC.

10. 8:10 P. SI. All 'eits reserved. 50 cents each.

Now on sale at Am. sociation and at Annable's, To.tiplcins and Pumam sts. naea. FOH ETHICAL CULTURE OP Brooklyn. Mr.

W. SAN FORD EVANS December 4, n.8:30 rooms or Franklin Literarr Society. 43 Court St. opposite City Hall. Subject "Tho Doubter's, Mt.

Ararat." The public lnvltei dollars, but you should pass the laws that will make these improvements possible by providing the necessary means and then the city administration, In proper time, could complete the work on lines inviting the broadest competition and assuring the greatest economy. It should be remembered that while the power to issue county bonds ceases on December 31 the other powers of public administration are not going to end with the board of supervisors." Mr. Fitchie has both courage and sense. If he prevents the hospital job, and the lift bridge job and all the other major jobs which the supervisors may have in hand for their final splurge, and at the same time forces action in the direction indicated by his message, he will prove himself to be indeed the little giant Jiis friends proclaimed him when they prematurely launched his mayoralty boom. And there are other mayoralty campaigns coming.

PERSONAL MENTION. Senator Hill, having given up his lecture tour, will go to Old Point Comfort for recuperation before taking his seat In the senate. The Corean nation Is to go into mourning for a year for the death of the murdered queen, proclamation having been made on November 30. Former State Controller Edward Wemple, indicted for arson, has been declared insane by a commission of physicians and will probably be committed to the Utica state hospital. The Rev.

Joseph Powell, in Flndlay, was arrested for Illegal registration, having mentioned in a sermon that he, although not a naturalized citizen, had registered. His argument In the sermon was that election laws are not properly enforced. RECENT EVENTS. The battlefield of Bull Run, comprising 600 acres of the Yorkshire estate, has been eold at auction for from $3 to f6 an acre. The plaster coiling fell In a primary scbool in Patereon.

probably fatally injuring Bella Craig, 10 years old, and Injuring three other pupils. The effort by the New York Central railroad managers to beat the best time of the English trains was a failure, owing to an accident; but, up to that time, the English time was surpassed. Boring under the North river Is soon to be resumed on the abandoned tunnel from Jersey City to New York, mans belnir under wav for a reorgalnzation of the company' with the aid of capital from railroad companies in terested and from English capitalists. POLITICAL POINTS. Mr.

Reed may not have to "count a quo rum, Dut tuinK of tne quorum he will have to manage. Cleveland Plain Dealer Patriotic citizens who care more for clean. stable government without any bombast or claptrap than for spoils or the success of a personal favorite will not be sorry to learn that the Minnesota Republicans propose to present tne name of Senator Cushman K. Davis as a candidate for President before the next Republican national convention. Phlla delphia Tlmes The proposition to reform congress by tak lng away the desks and easy chairs of the members and giving them only hard benches to sit upon is a great Idea.

It might be further expanded by limiting the members to the r.ld fashioned Jury fare of bread and water until they forswear private bills and expedite the public business. Pittsburg Dispatch CONTEMPORARY HUMOR. "The prisoner offered this court a bribe of 50 cents to turn him loose," said the indig nant cross roads Justice. No, jaour honor. replied the lawyer, "it was $2." "Now, that's something like it.

I stand corrected. Let him go. Atlanta Constitution. Maud Oh, girls, have you heard the news? Ethel Vane Is engaged to Mr. Barrel! and she told me be was as rich as a Turk.

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