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PISGAH NEWS LETTER. Pisgah, July ll.-Our section had fine rains last Frday. Other places near here had none and * are suffering very much especially corn, as this is the month it is made. Cotton is Hpgrowing fast, but cot too much to B|weed. The plant is doing as well as could be expected. I notice from the papers that the ?" ant imported to destroy the ball ??weev? will sting the bare foot people Hpp they can't pick cotton. This is Rwhat I predicted some time ago and Hgwil? make the remedy worse than the disease. K- Politics are beginning tobe active. Lee County people will have, a lively Bprtime judging from the manv candi Spates in the field for the oSces. I will Bpgive your readers an account of their oratory when they speak at Smithville., Tie State Campaign at Camden was not large, bnt vei^ interesting. Grams for railroad commissioner made the finest speech of the commissioners. He occupied strong ground. Mob?ey told what wonderful things he was : agoing to do if elected. John fi. Eada made a sensible speech like his father always did. Cansler, the jolly man, pitched into his opponents and made mince meat oat of them ; the rest sang their sou g as usual to tue same old tune. "Put me in and put Ihe other man ont and sea what great things,! am goitg to do for the peo? ple" and the general opinion is . tbat: ?h?" oats'* would do no'better than the "ins." Williams running against Finley for Congress is going to press him hard if he don't land. Finley il feeling sot over good abont it WU .?ama is a fine speaker, and a good man wita it. George K. Rembert candidate for Solicitor made a fine speech and no doubt will poll a good vote. lam fully convinced that we should have a division in the party on State issnes like we did in 1890, or we will soo? die from inerton. As matters now stand, if continued, no one will soon take any interest in public mat? ters ontsidac^. the candidates. A man should have enough patriotism to take an interest in public matters outside of tho primary election. We should vote at the general election, like we do at the primary or we will soon see the effect of it in congress. lam snxpriised to seo Chairman Dabbs not approving of paying pri mary election managers for their services. If any one deserves pay they do, as they have always-done a lot of work in past years for nothing. Just as well not pay the printer for his advertising, as the. managers, whose time is werta as much to them as others. Let the office-holders foot all the bills, as usual They get the pay and it is right that they should .meet the expenses of the\ elections.. The State pays the managers at the gen? eral elections and the primary ones deserve as much as the work is harder. Mr. John W. Allen and Miss May, of Columbia are visiting here. Mr. Leighton Allen, who has been sick with fever for sometime, has gone to the springs to recuperate. A good many speak of going to St. Louis in the fall to see tho big fair. It wili .be more pieosant then. Rev. Thomas Leitch will commence - a meeting at Smithville next week. I understannd Sumter and Lee have worked our roads. Good. Messrs. E. L. and E. DWither? spoon have gone ou a visit to their - old home in Montgomery City , Mo., * and will spend ten or fifteen days on their return at St Louis, seeing the ex? position sights. A Texas Murderer Caught Jack Dynum, alias Lafayette Jack? son, alias John Wyatt, alias Joe Wat l sons wanted for murder ir. Texas .and Louisiana, will be taken back from South Carolina tomorrow, after elud? ing the oiScers of the law since 1888. The story of the capture of Dynnm is peculiar. His capture is traced di? rectly to bis ability as a fiddler. After killing his man, in Van Zandt County, Texas, be went to Louisiana, where he became involved in another difficulty and killed another. . He then fled to ?his State, and after wandering around settled in Chester County. .Dynum was always a noted fiddle player, and his playing in Chester be? came known all over the county. In Yan, Zandt county, Texas, there used to be fiddle concerts, and at one Of these a Chester man was present, and remarked to Sheriff J. 6. Lawley that he knew of a man in Chester who could excel! any performance given. Dynum had always carried off the prizes in Texas and the sheriff natural? ly became interested. He com ru need in litigation, and as a result went to Chester yesterday and arrested i^ynum. Dynnm had denied the murder, but on being told that he. was also want? ed in Louisiana for anoth*: murder, be was caught in several conflicting statements and the requisition papers were promptly granted by Secretary Normen! Dynnm is a white man, 56 years of age, and has a good educa? tion. At the hearing he employed an attorney and stated that be would fignt the case out when it went to trial in Texas. Memphis, Tenn., July H.-A spc cia! to The Commercial-Appeal from j Cleveland, Miss., says that Harry P. Williams, one of the most popular citizens of that place, was shot and killed at a late hour today on the main street by James S. Wakefield. Williams was accompanied by his wife when the tragedy occurred. The killing resulted from a trivial affair. . The A Jbany Herald offers the follow? ing: "When a man gets religion aod then starts out to paying his debts there is reason for belief that he has got the real thing." Ever see it dor e, or only indulging in glittering sup? position? Covington, Ga., July H.-Fire in Covington late Snnday night resulting in the de>tructou of property amount? ing to $125,000, wth $60,(.00 insurance. The Pike can now resume business. That other attraction at St. Louis bas exhausted its force. The hammock season has arrived. A large stock to select from at Osteen's Boc k Store. mur? WASHINSTOM LETTER. What the Washington Of?ce-Hold ers Say About the Nomination . of Judge Parker. Washington, July 10.-The report this mornnig that after an all-night session the Democratic convention at St. Louis bas nominated on the first ballot Judge Alton B. Parker is re? ceived by leading Democrats here with much satisfaction. The platform, too, is all that was boped for, though it is quite too prolix and some of our peo [ pie would bave preferred an approval of the income tas and others wanted ! the insertion of tbe Hill plank guaran? teeing the country against financial : changes. It is expected, however, that I the latter defect will be remedied by Judge Parker himself when he makes bis first responsive utterance in bis letter of acceptance. Some surprise has been expressed at tbe admission of Philippine delegates by the Republican convention and i their rejection by the Democratic con? vention. But, as Congressman Cow? herd, chairman of the Democratic National ?Cojnmittee, says, "How could it be otherwise Republicans claim that the Philippines have been subjugated and rightly robbed and appropriated, and , a re now a part of our'insular possessions,' while Dem? ocrats hold that their subjugation is a crime to be repented of, and that they are entitled to their independence. In Porto Rico the case is different, because the Supreme Court has decid? ed that Porto Rico is a part of our ter? ritory^' Secretary Hay signalised the bot weather term by boldly asking the British ministry what they mean by violating tbe inegrity of China by sending an armed expedition through Tibet. The British government, as usual, bas frankly disavowed any "ulterior purpose" and declares that Gen. Macdonald's army had made ar rangements to retire before it bad begun to advance ! The killing of a few thousand ? Tibetans more or les3 was made necessary by the jealousy of Viceroy Curzon who thinks that his rights and' feelings had not been properly considered. It will be inter? esting to the American public to watch the British column of invasion and observe the alacrity with which it faces about for home. Of course we must keep on'ter ms of perfect amity with'John Bull and permit bim to loot Lassa if be finds it necessary to do so. Since his arrival in this city Secre? tary Paul Morton has devoted almost his entire time to acquainting himself with bis new duties at the head of the naval establishment, and studying the details of the business requiring his personal attention. He bas called on the various admirals and: bureau ? chiefs at their desks and has found ; time in the.intervals of inspection to visit Arlintgon, the Soldiers' Home, and some cf the other departments and to make ?two trips down the Poto? mac on tbe yacht "Sylph," which by an odd figure of speech is called **the President's." Pani seems tc be a tender-beartd father of the floating : contingent. His first duty was to con? firm the conviction of Lieut. Reginald Hogan of the Marine Corps, found guilty of scandalous conduct, of at tempting to kill .<a negro in a fit of drunkenness and of ? violently resisting arrest by the police. Secretary Mor? ton attended to the case by remitting the punishment and telling Hogan not to do so again. Clergymen here have just been scan? dalized by the appearance among them of Rev. William Hoffman, of Mount Pulaski, ills., recently elected pastor of St Matthew's Lutheran Church, Hagerstown, just over the Maryland line. He returned from the west with his bride, Miss Amelia Roth, whom he married at Pekin, Ills., June 29th. The young couple were shocked yester? day by a delegation from the Hagers? town congregation waiting upon them and asking them why they occupied a room together at a hotel in Pekin on Sunday nigiht, June 26th, and were registered there as "Rev. Hoffman and wife," three days before the mar? riage. . The young couple explained that there was nothing wrong about it; that on the Sunday night in ques? tion Hoffman and Miss Roth went to Pekin together after service, missed the car back, and were forced to stay in Pekin all night They explained that they went to the hotel, register? ed as husband and wife, occupied the same? room, and "sat up the entire night and conversed." Hoffman says he registered Miss Roth as his wife for her protection, and the meddlesome hotel-keeper adds that they occupied one room for the same reason, for "there were lots of other rooms." The Hagerstown church considers the explanation satis? factory. Miss Roth was secretary of the Sunday School connected with Mr. Hoffman's Pulaski cbrage. The effort to protect Texas from the ravages of the cotton boll weevil wtiich tnreatens to destroy the cotton crop of 'that state and to sweep across the entire cotton belt if not arrested, is accompanied by many suggestions, to stay the advance of the plague. Pro? fessor Cook of the Agricultural De? partment here has brought from Gua? temala to Galveston a large number of. voracious ants peen liar to the fauna of Central America, whose func? tion and pleasure it seems to be to attack and destroy the weevil. A corps of experimenters bas assembled at Victoria, Texas, where, under direction of Dr. Cook, they wi li release the carnivorous ants into cages covered with mosquito netting invest? ed over infected cotton paints. The results of these experiments will de? termine whether this lively exotic is an effective antidote to the bane from which Texas has for ten years been a sufferer. Another hopeful remedy is proposed in "the cotton tree," which grows to the height of forty or fifty feet, multiplies very rapidly, is im? mune to the boll weevil and will yield from twenty to twenty-five pounds per tree, including seed. If difficulty is found in gathering the crop, the tree is easily dwarfed, so as to bring the cotton within reach. At an average yield of twenty pounds of cotton per tree, fcne yield would be sixteen bales to the acre. The expense of planting is no greater than that of corn, and it is able to withstand droughts during eight months of the year. It is planted only once in twenty-five years. This tree comes to us by way of Mexico. Hunt's Round Pointed Pens for sale at Osteen's Book Store. STEAMSHIP BORNEO . IN PHiUBELP J. Mallory Line Loses One of Its Finest and Newest Boats. Ph: ladelphia, July 12.-The Mallory Line Steamer San Jacinto, which waa built one year ago at a cost of a half million dollars was burned at the wharf here today. In addition to the loss on the steamer there is a heavy loss cn the cargo. There were no fa tali ti ss among the crew. LOO* GOL FOR HISH "PRICED MEAT. Fifty Thousand Chicago Packing House Employes Ordered Out on Strike. . Chicago, July 12.-Fifty thousand packing house employes in this city and i a other western cities were order? ed oui on a strike this morning. Other labor unions are expected to become' involved and a serious strike by which many great industries will be tied up and hundred of thousands of skilled workmen will be idle. 2??53????^BS TERRIBLE TALE OF THE SEA. Great Steamer Lost With all on Board. Sydney Australia, July 12.-The Britifih steamer Nemesis is long over? due and is believed to have been lost with all on board during the recent terrille gale. Weekly Crop Bulletin. Columbia, July 12.-The week end? ing 8 a. m., July 11th, bad a mean temperature of 81 degrees, which is abou'; normal, due to very even night temp aratoires and moderately bot days. The extremes were a. minimum of 61 at Greenville on the 5th, and a maximum of 99 at Blackville and Yemiissee on the 7th. There were several local high winds accompanying thunderstorms, most damaging in a part Df Sumter county. The relative humidity was above normal along the coast, and normal, or below, in the interior. The sunshine was generally deficient. 3* Th ire were frequent thunderstorms in th s central and northern counties throughout the week, and over the | extreme northwestern ones during the closing days, with practically no rain or widely scattered light showers in the Savannah valley from Anderson county southward to Hampton. The weekly amounts ranged from *4 trace'' to ovsr three inches. Over the greater portion of the State the rainfall. was ample for all crops and in parts of Ches ;efield, Darlington and Marlboro counties, it was excessive to an in? jurio as extent. The moisture deficiency appears to be most injurious in Green? wood, Salr.da, Barnwell and Hampton counties with many other localities thafc-ire suffering. Additional reports indicate that the bail storm of the 2nd in Marion and York counties was more destructive than at first indicated. Thers were numerous hailstorms on the 7th, but were destructive over very small, widely separated areas only. Tie week was generally favorable for f armwork and for laying by crops, excejjt in the counties named as hav? ing bad excessive fains. As a rule crop.-; continue clean and well culti? vated, though some places report grassy and weedy fields. In many parts of the State corn is "firing" owing to insufficient mois? ture, but where rains occurred the corn crop continues very promising, especially young corn on bottom lands. The majority of the reports on cot? ton indicate further improvement, but some deterioraton is noted due to both lack of moisture and excessive mois? ture, causing the plants to yellow, shed their foliage and squares. Insects that puncture squares and young bolls have been noted in Greenville and Pickens counties, by some thought to be Doll worms, by others to be boll weevils. The plants ar blooming free? ly in places and bolls have been noted in a few localities. Sandy land cotton is better than that on clay soils, the latter being unseasonably small. Sea island cotton has good color and gro?'th and is blooming freely. Tobacco is very promising, with selecting and curing making fair pro? gress. The iains were very beneficial to rico. Melons are ripening generally and shipments are heavy. Stock water still scarce in places. Fruit is scarce in the eastern counties and plentiful in the western ones. GLENN SPRINGS WATER Cures Dyspepsia. GLENN SPRINGS WATER The Kidney Cure. GLENN SPRINGS WATER For the liver. j GLENN SPRINGS WATER ; Bs st Remedy for Stomach Troubles. BRYAN IS LOYAL, BOT NOT EKTH0SI?3TIG. Gives Reasons Why He Will Sup i port Platform and Then Finds Fault With Nominees. j His Support is Half Hearted and His Statement Calculated to Encourage the Populists and Radical Dem? ocrats. Lincoln, Neb., July 12.-Wm. J. Bryan today gave ont the following statement: "I shall vote for Parker and Davis, the nominees of the Democratic na? tional convention, and shall do so for the following reasons: "First, because the Democratic ticket stands for opposition to imper? ialism, while the Republican ticket stands for an imperialistic policy. On this question, which was the para? mount issue in 1900, and which must remain an important issue so long as an attempt is made to hold colonies under the American flag-on this issue the convention was unanimous, the platform emphatic and I have no doubt that the candidate will carry out the platform. "Second, Mr. Roosevelt is injecting the race isse into American politics and this issue, if it becomes national, will make it impossible to consider economic questions that demand solu? tion. The election of the Democratic ticket will put a quietus upon this at? tempt and permit the race question to work out without the bitterness 'which Mr. Roosevelt's conduct has engendered. f tThird, Mr. Roosevelt stands for the spirit of war. His friends re? present him as a man of blood and iron. He believes in strenuousness and inculcates a love for warlike things. The Democratic ticket stands for peace, for reason and for arbitra? tion rather than for force, conquest and bluster. "Fourth, the Democartic platform declares in favor of the reduction of the standing army, and as this plank was unanimouslly adopted, there is reason to believe that Democratic success on this subject would bring some advantage to the people. AS TO ECONOMIC QUESTIONS. "For these four reasons I feel justi? fied in supporting the ticket, but must not misrepresent the situaton or appeal for the ticket on false grounds. A Democratic victory will mean very little if any progress in economic ques tons, so long as the party is under the control of the Wall street element. On the money question, Mr. Parker is as thoroughly committed to the side of the financiers as Mr. Roosevelt. If he does not go as far as the Republicans would in retiring silver dollars, in establishing branch banks, in enlarg? ing the powers of the national banks, and in the substitution of an asset currency for the present currency, it will be because he is restrained by the Democrats in the house and in the senate. Nothing good cex?d be expect? ed of him on the money question. ' "On the trust question the Demo? cratic platform is very much better than the Republican platform, but the nomination of Judge Parker virtually nullifies the anti-trust plank. Unless in his letter of acceptance^ commits himself to attempt anti-trust legisla? tion, we need not expect him to pursue a different course from that pursued by President Roosevelt. . ~ "So far as the labor questions are concerned we must wait Judge Par? ker's letter before we shall know whether the laboring man has any? thing to expect from his election. The labor plank as prepared by Judge Parker's friends on the sub-committee was a straddling, meaningless plank. In the full committee, planks were adopted in favor of arbitration, the eight-hour day and against government by injunction ; also a plank on the Col? orado situation. If Judge Parker is silent or ambiguous on these subjects it will mean that the financiall influ? ence back of him will not lew him take the labor side of these disputed ques? tions. SOME LITTLE PROGRESS. "On the tariff question some little progress may be hoped for, but the Parker men on the committee were necessarily in favor of a very conser? vative tariff plank, and it remains to seen whether Judge Parker will carry eui the positive and definite plank j which was submitted by the full com mitee. This is the situation. "Judge Parker stands for enough things that are good to justify me in giving him my vote, but as I have tried to point out for several months, the triumph of the Wall street element of the party denies to the country any hope of relief on economic questions. I have nothing to take back. I have nothing to withdraw of the things that I have said against the methods used to advance his candidacy. It was a plain and deliberate attempt to deceive the party. Tho New York platform was vague and meaningless, and purposely so because the advocates of Judge Parker were trying to secure votes among the people who would have opposed his views had they known them. If he had sent the Al bany convention the telegram that he sent to the St. Louis convention, he would have had very few instructed delegates from the south and no possi? ble chance for the nomination. Bnt he and his managers adroitly and pur? posely concealed his position nntil the delegates had been corraled gand the nomination assured. Then his friends attempted to secure a gold plank which was overwhelmingly defeated in the committee. After the party had rejoiced over the harmony secured by the omission of the question, anctafter he had secured the nomination, he inr jected his views upon the subject at a time when he could not be taken from the ticket without great demoraliza? tion. The nomination wa3 secured therefore by crooked and indefensible methods, but the Democrat who loves his country has to make his decisions upon conditions as he finds them, not upon conditions as he would like to Lave them. "After having stated that I shall support the ticket and after having given my reasons for so doing, I think it due to the Democrats of the nation to say tba while the fight on economic questions is postponed, it is not aban? doned. As soon as the election is over, I shall, with the help of those who be? lieve as I do, undertake to organize for the campaign o? 1908, the object being to marshal the friends of popular government within the Democratic party to the support of a radical and progressive policy, to make the i Demo? cratic party an efficient means :in the hands of the people for securing relief from the plutocratic element that con? trols the Republican party and for the time being is in the control of the Democratic party. This plan of organ? ization wll be elaborated soon." SALTING BABIES. A Cruel Custom That Still Lives Ia Parts of Europe and Asia. In certain localities in Europe, and Asia thc people still adhere to the ex? ceedingly curious custom of salting newborn babies, notwithstanding its "cruelty c*id danger. The method va? ries with the differing nationalities of the peoplo using it. The Armenians of Russia cover the entire skin of the infant with a very fine salt, taking great care that the salt reaches all the spaces between'the fin? gers and toes and the depressions in the body, such as the armpits and the hollows under the knees, for not a spot of the surface of the child must remain .untouched by the salt. The salt is left on the baby for three hours or more and then washed off with warm water. A mountain tribe of Asia Minor is even more merciless than the Arme? nians. They keep their newborn ba? bies covered with salt for twenty-four hours. The modern Greeks sprinkle their babies with salt, and even in some parts of Germany salt is still used on a child at birth, but in a much more humane manner, by rubbing a little behind the ears or by placing a pinch of salt on the longue or by filling a little paper with salt and placing it under the garment. The mothers im? agine that this will give their children health and strength and keep the evil spirits away from them. This custom, when carried to excess, is cruel, the salt inflaming the skin and sometimes causing such intolera? ble tortures that the child dies in con? vulsions, but the ignorant and super? stitious mother, believing that the salt? ing process hardens the child, that without it the babe could not grow up into a healthy man or woman, hardens her heart to its cruelties. It is not known definitely how this odd custom originated, but probably some ancient innovator, observing the preservative power of salt in keeping meat sound, reasoned that it would be a good thing to salt down young babies for a few hours and thus impart some? thing of the strengthening and pre? serving qualities of the salt to the puny offspring of man. ' SENTENCE HERMONS. There is no short cut to happiness. Virtue is not a matter of vocabulary. Nothing succeeds where the soul fails. A little silence may save a lot of sor? row. With God life and love are synony? mous. A sharp man always cuts his own fingers. Repentance cannot tear up the roots of the past. No man reaches the stage of triumph but by the steps of trial. The man who takes life as a dose al? ways finds it a bitter one. A man makes no particular progress by patting himself on the back. Virtue may be its own reward, but it is not its own advertising agent. Some men expect to acquire all their good habits in their second childhood. Chicago Tribune. Tribute of True Love. In pathos and deep affection no love letter ever eclipsed the one found in tue knapsack of a Confederate soldier after the battle of Atlanta. It told all about home and concluded with this poetic effort: It's hard for you uns to be livin* in camps, It's hard for you uns to be fightin' the Yanks. It*s hard for we uns from you uns to part, 'Cause you uns got we uns heart. -New York Tribune. More Important. Wife-I'm so afraid this new hat will get damaged if it's left in thc home. Husband-Why not put it in our sai'e deposit closet? Wife -But is there room there with all our bonds? Hus? band-No, but we can take the bondi out.-Life. HINDOO FANATICISM. Self Inflicted Torture* ot Mentions Zcr.lot? of todSa. Self inflicted torture by Hindoo zeal? ots is common 3n India. Cne man will lie upon his back., place a piece cf soil upon Iris lower lip, plant in it a mus? tard seed and not rise from his posi? tion until the seed has become a plant of size. Another will make his couch upon spikes; a third walk with bis boots filled with similar delights; yet another keeps his hands clinched un? til the nails grow through his palms and out at the back of his hands, while others distort their legs and arms into atrophy.- The extent to which Hindoo fanaticism will go, or native belief ex? tend, was shown by a case reported in the Civil and Military Gazette of La? hore a year or so ago. The natives of Trevandrum were found worshiping as a god come, among men a man who had taken up his residence under . a tree on the bank of a river. FOF the first week or so he ate a plantain and drank som? milk twice or thrice a week. Then he gradually enlarged the intervals, till after three or four months he took no food at all, but passed his time huddled before a fire, j seeing no one, hearing no one. Ex? posed to cold and wet, to heat and dust, ne sat thus without food for three years, "wrapt in divine con? templation." At the end of the three years be died, never having spoken to, or heeded, a soul from the time he first appeared until the spirit passed from his body. CURE FOR HICCOUGHS. Simple Scientific Remedy Tb at Give? Immediate Relief. An attack of hiccoughs brings its vic? tim less sympathy perhaps than almost any other ailment, the main reason be? ing that, except in very rare cases, it is not attended with fatal results an? that in most cases it attacks otherwise healthy persons. Still, it is one of the most annoying and most obstinate of difficulties. While the effort-to cure it is being made it generally disappears, yet it resists the most vigorous effort of the will to control its vagaries. A hiccough is a quick, involuntary, inspiratery movement of the dia? phragm, brought suddenly to a stop, by an involuntary closing of the glot? tis. The muscles that control these two portions of the human anatomy are incessant workers. They wait on every breath without being guided by the will and even work while we sleep. While they do their duty Jife passes." , tranquil, calm and pacific,: but if from? any cause a disturbing element enters i into their bailiwick they rebel, are be? yond the control cf the wilj and, hav? ing no guide, as it were, run away, and. like any.runaway, have no care for the damage done. TheNeffort to remove the disturber is the cause of the hic? cough, and the following method of treatment arrests these muscles in their wild escapade, brings them back to their duties, and, like the parient serv? ants they are, they resume their work and life becomes as placid as before: First, expel all the air from your lungs very, very quickly. The portion of the body they attend to is, as it were, collapsed, and now commences the next and concluding part of the cure. Second, commence to fill your lungs with air. but do so very slowly, but steadily. Pucker your mouth, and if possible leave an opening of your lips oo larger than a pin, and through tbis\ inhale the air. Fill your lungs. ra?s> your arms and throw out your che?t_ and when you are full these' muscles resume their regular duties and the* hiccoughs are gone.-Brooklyn Eagle. SORRY SHE SPOKE, The Mistake That Waa Made by a Netv York Milliner. One of the richest and most promi? nent society women in New York caught an unexpected glimpse of the* reverse side of a Fifth avenue trades-" woman's manners the other day'. The' society woman in question is very quiet and unostentatious in her dress, and it is only the appointment of her equipage that betrays the fact that she is wealthy. She stopped her carriage outside the establishment of a fashion? able milliner, entered and addressed the proprietress. "I see you have *i your window a sign. 'Apprentice Wanted,' " she bepran. The milliner eyed her contemptuous? ly from the crown of her modest bon? net to the tip of her common sense shoe. "You would not do at all," she said. "I want a ladylike person who can walt on customers." "I wished to place one of my maids with some one from whom she could learn millinery while I am abroad," continued the visitor quietly, "but I'm afraid you would not do." As the footman opened the carriage door for his mistress the horror strick? en milliner recognized too late the liv? ery of one of the "first families" of New York.-New York Press. To Avoid a Tie Vote. In the history of our comic literature there have been many genuine "Irish bulls" recorded, but rarely one that is of a neater brand than that encounter? ed at a political gathering on Locust street above Broad, in Philadelphia, says the Record of that city. A con? vention of delegates had been called to revise the rules of the party, and in or? der to expedite matters a delegate moved that a committee of fifteen be appointed to draft the proposed rules. Before this was adopted another dele? gate suggested that a committee of fif? teen would be unwieldy ami proposed an amendment reducing the number to eight. This was agreed to, but before its adoption an aged delegate, with a rich Milesian brogue, arose and sol? emnly proposed, "Misther Chairman, I move yer that the committee be in cr'ased to noine, so that in case of a toi? vote there'll be a majarity cf wan.*"