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, ( J ' V ( SI. The Standard is Only One Dollar Per Year. Largest Circulation A iiy Paper in mis Section. $1. THE STANDARD. "IcrFlIIS 4-PAGKR HAS A BIGGER CIRCULATION AT EVKRY POSTOFFICE IX THE COUNTY, SAVE ONE, THAN ANY orilKU PAPER. PIT WATER I OI K EYES WITH 1 s Standard THE STANDARD. - - i ON LY T VD AS MUCH HKAl)i;"; Id ATT EH AS ANY PAPEIl EVER Oil NOW PUB LISHED IN - T II E COU N T Y . r TICIvLE US I) 777 $1. s ATi ;;i).iT it i: r i. r.cr I o x s. Iluiii iii na'tuv is a curious study. It i aUo an important one. One of VOL. V. NO, 3. CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1892. WHOLE NO. 231. THE I. A I'M', or TIME. (An essay read be lore the Norwood Debating Society, by Cart. Marcus Ma rion Albrijrht, conductor on the Yadkin Kailroail. running from Salisbury to Norwood- Ed.) We are not referring to the laps of the good old mothers who used to cuddle us little shavers fondly there in the roseate day of the long ago when we were young and pure and innocent of the worldly guile, that ha? since made its imprint on us, and where, in certain moments of inte justice, she laid us, face down, preparatory to the ad mini 8 1 ration of prompt and proper puni-hment, nor yet -o other laps of more or less persuasiveness to which the wicked parugrapher of the modern press occasionally alludes, to jeer sil the fom.iuss of youth who cherish love's young dream ; no, it is to neither of these that we refer, but to the dizzy glide of the whirling seasons, and ages and periods which go to make up the general run of things as they rush backward into the illimitable past Have yon ever thought seriously on this subj.vt? Not just given it & few moments' cursory tuought,but have you ever goti" oil by yourself where you were all alone and nobodr there but you, and sat down there in the stillness of an awful solitude and turned your thinker loose on this subject? If you never have you 6hould do bo yet. It is never too late, to do the" nght thing, but if you haven't the time to do it, and are not afraid to trust yourself alone with the great and swelling thoughts 83 they come throbbing from the bosom of a specialist on the subject, Fend a stamp and your address to Frof. R. L. Smith, of the Norwood Debating Society for a copy of an address re cently delivered before that body by a Richmond and Danville Railroad official. Not a Fair Shake. Traveler Say, my friend, there' no meat in this s-indvvich. Waitress No? Traveler Dnu't you think yn'-.V. better dive that puck another shuilk ut;J let me draw au:n? Life. ilne Things to Know. 1. s'o Save Washing. Tack thin cove? i:ig f cheese cloth or lawns aero tops of blankets. This can be rep uvd wheu soiled. 2. Hang all bed coverings out of doors on windy days If treated thus, they will not require frequent washing. 3. I'.i-fore washing blankets, whip out the dust. 4. Do not hang pillows in the sun. The oil in the feathers will emit a disagreeable odor. 5. When cane seats have become limp and stretched, wash well with hot water and pUce in draft to dry. 6. Use grated horseradish for poultice in neuralgia. 7. Apply old tea leaves to inflam ed eyes. 8. For hemorrhages hold arms of patient over head for five miuutes. 9. For headache put cold water simultaneously on feet and back of neck. Stockholder Meeting. The annual meeting of the stock holders and directors of the Yadkin railroad, which was postponed from last November, was held in this city today. A majority of the stock holders was represented in person or by proxy. The report of President A B Andrews was read, which ebowed the road to b? in a better condition financially than any new road in the Stab. The stockholders elected Messrs T F Kluttz, S II Wiley, S J Pemberton, S II Heart). D M Bennett, J Henderson and J W Manny as directors for the ensu ing vfar The lnec:ors met and el( ed tbf following officer-": A U Andrews, presi ) nt ; Then F Kh.t'z, vice preiden ; A H R yd n; fccr vv ; II W MiU r, of Raleigh, assis -fac SH'vtr n; J W Hall, of Atlanta, treasurer -Salisbury Her Id. Liberal Donation, We learn from privntp but r- liable source ihat the Messrs Dukrp, of Durham, have donated $2".000 more to Trinity College. The meet Sng of the Executive committee, of which Col. Anpangh is Chairman, was held tjday mainly to accept the CTOMg' ft. TWO SLSNJOVS AOAIX. Conrlnftire Keiwinn in t'pvor of AH Day Seliool Work. Mr. Editor : The discussion of the question as to one or two sessions of the Graded School has been one sided enough to please the worst advocates of the one session idea, but I feel that the other side has not had its views represented. I am opposed to the one session plan, and with your permission, will give a few reasons. In the lirst place we want the teachers to do full time. They teach only five or six hours a day and only five days in the week. We pay for a full day's work and ought to get it. We are entitled to ten hours' teach ing and ought to have it six days iu the week. When I went to school we went early aud put in a full day. We always found the teacher there at sun up, and wheu we left about sun down he was there yet, setting copies or sweeping out the school house The teacher and scholar put iu their whole time, and thought it no more than right to do so. In the second place we want more teaching on the children's account. We don't want them running on the street half the day or slam-banging around the house. The school house is the place for them, and there is where they ought to bs. If the pa rents can stand it half the time the teacher ought to be able and willing to staud it the balance of the time, especially when they are well paid for that purrose and the parents not. In the third p. ace it is too hard on the children to educate them so fast. Anybody knows that to crowd a whole day's education into a child in five or six hours is too great a strain on its constitution. The old way is the best way, and it is the part of wisdom to go slow in the matter of educating children, filling them up gradually as they are able to hold it, and not causing them to bulge by crowding it in too fast. There are many other reasous which I might advance against the proposed change, but 1 think these sufficient for the present, and will write ag;tin fchould it be necessary. AXOTHEK P.YUEXT. orit M lt-niioi:. What Our Correspondent 'inU May Alto ut I'eople anil Thinn. Mt. Pleasant, Jen. 21. This week has ben rough on school teachers and other animals of like nature. Pre.-ident J. D. Shirev, after a very severe a tack of grippe, is again able to resume his wrk. We are glad to note the rriviil of Funders Carolina C. W. Harris ai d B. Y. burk, students of .North College. The roll of students at the college is increasing, and the prospects for the eprinir term are fair. J. F. McCubbins, of Salisbury, paid Mt. Pleasant a Hying trip Sun day. Who danced at Lentz's hotel Thursday night ? The infant child of W. A. Kind ley has been very sick, but is inis proving. The measles have canvassed the town and are rapidly dying ont. Mr. Matthew Cook, an aged citi zen of Mt. Pleasant, is in very bad health at present Fudge. Dealing iu Futures. Representative Alexander, of N. C , has introduced in the House a bill relating to "gambling iu agri cultural products." Tnis gambling, according to the bill, is defined to be a contract to sell for future de livery com, wheat, oats, rye, barlev, etc., the oontractor or seller not be ing the owner at the time of the making of th? contract The bill excludes from mails any letters, postal cards, or circulars, concerning gambling in agricultural produets and checks, drafts, bills, money, postal notes or money orders for use for such a purpose. It also excludes from the mails, newspapers, circular pamphlets, or publications of any kind containing advertisements, telegraphic reports or other articles giving quotations of any nrirket relating to gambli .g in gricuRtiral products. A tax of 3 per word is levied on each imers ate fel.-graph or tel phone message used for or in aid of the gambling referred to in the act. An Abnormal School. The young ladies in thn Man land State Normal School have taken off their corsets, and what is more re inarkable, intend to leave them nil henceforth and forever. Under the circum-tances the iustit i ion should chang its name to abnormal school. The Pope is improving and there ii bo danger of his death. County Alliance. THE MECTIXU WAS Fl'I.I. OF Iil'SI XESS. Live Subject were Iiseuel ami Art 'l I pon- The OrKiiu Matter The Red net ion of the Cotton Acre njse Committee Appointed Cabarrns County Farmers' Alli ance met in regular session Thurs day ni -rning, January 14, ISO:?, at Mt. Gilead, and considering very rainy weather, there was a large at tendance. Capt. C. McDonald was elected a delegate to the district meeting of the Alliance of is congressional district., .it which a representative will be chosen to attend the national conference of labor organizations to be held in Sr. Louis, Mo., Feb. 2'2, 1892. The following preamble and reso lution was adopted : Whereas, the South during the past year produced more cotton than demanded by th- needs of the world, and thus reduced the price below the cost of production, entailing immense losses upon the combined farmers of the South, I!i solved. That we urge upon ev ery member of the Alliance to re duce his respective acreage in cotton fully 10 per cent, below the amount cultivated last year, or not exceeding ten acres to the plow, and that we call upon the farmers of the county outside of the Alliance to join with us in bringing about this reduction. Resolved, That we will be glad to co-operate with the merchants of the county in refusing to advance supplies for the coming season to any farmer who will not agree to j reduce his acreage in cotton accord inn with thtt above resolution, and i make up or increase this r?duction ; in food crops. The following resolution was re- ceived from Rocky River Alliance: i "That the County Alliance bere-j quested to appoint a committee to ' meet with a like committee, should I such be appointed, from the adjacent ' counties to consult and report with reierenceio me auvisaoiiity or cs- ' ; taul'shiuc an organ to represent the 1 "... 1 ! Alliance in this section. : . I 1 he committee reoie sted was an-1 . , pointed as lollows : l;-v. J. u. An derson, C. McDonald and C. D. ii.ir ringer. The following preamble and reso lution was adopted: Whereas, an address issued from Raleigh something more thin a month ago, signed by a committee; of nine persons, four of whom are: Alliancemen, Mr. I'd Chambers' Smith being chairman of the coin-! mitt.ee, has been circulated by the ; , , 1 . . . this State, therefore be it Resolved, That we, the County Alliance of Cabarrus County assem bled in its quarterly session, Jan 14, 18!2, hereby emphatically disown any connection with or responsibility for said address or contents of the same. The following action was taken : Whereas the -..ree coinage act which was before our last national legislsture and passed the Senate and is now pending the action of Congress does not make silver avail able for the payment of obligations containing the gold clause. And whereas the power to do so is expressly conferred noon Congress by that article of the Constitution authorizing it to "coin money and regulate the value thereof." And whereas this very point has beeii decided by the Supreme court of the United States as constitutional, as may be seen in cases of Knox vs. Lee and Parker vs. Davis (12 Wal lace.) And whereas the obligations of the country are undergoing a trans formation, passing to forms of obli- I gations payable iu gold, a3 may be seen by testimony before the coinage committee during the session of last Congress in tesitmony of such men as Mr. 1-ndicott of Boston, Presi dent of one of the largest savings Banks of Massachusetts, (p. CO), Mr. Edward Harper, Treasurer of liar vard college, (p. C4), Geo. E Leigh ton, bank director of St Louis, (p 141), Jno Ilasseu Rhoade, (p 119) Francis G Newlands, Vice President National Silver Association, (p 9i) Therefore, be it resolved, that the attention of our Congressmen and Senators be hereby directed to this matter, and t ey be requested to use every endeavor to have an amend ment containing a legal tender clause inserted in the hill for free coinage which will make silver available for obligations containing the gold clause. Beit resolved further, that a copy of these resolutions be fowarded to our Congressman and Senators, and that it be sent to the National Econ omist and Progressive Farmer for publication. Also the following was adop'cd: Whereas the obligations of the people of the State sue in many cases by special contract being nvide payable in gold. And whereas this works injuri ously and unjustly against the grejit mass of the people. Thercrore, be it resolved, that we, the county AUHance of Cabarrus county assembled Jan. 11, IM'Z, do request our Mate Alliance to call attention of the nexs Legislature to the matter snd endeavor to have them use euvv le-:itimate imau3 forbidding public, obligations here after to be made to 1 payable ojjver wise than Hinpiv in money, or ijlnt negotiability be denied to securities payable otherwise than timply in money. The lecturer. Rev. J G Anderson, delivered an address full of facts substantiating Alliance principles, the doors being ojt-!i to the public. The next regular m a ting will be with Pine Forest Aliiar.ce on the 2nd Thursday and F. i lav in April, j II G Gillanh, i Secretary, Will Stoek I'alteii faster When Loose or Tied l i ? Au experiment under this head is in progress at the Experiment Farm. Eight steers from the moun tains were purchased early in Octo ber and divided in:o pairs as evenly matched as possible, aud four were turned into roomy box stalls and kept well bedded with fortst leaves, while the ether four were tied upon a platform with stanchions and chairs of an old unpatented form, but which gave the animals some freedom of movement in position. The combined weight of each lot of four steers was at the start : Four loose steers, :,i: pounds. I Four tied up steers, :,101 pounds, i Daring the first p'-rio of '-'0 days after all were stL-rted on the same rations, four of th? steers were sic!;, i oi.lv two of them seriously, however, i ami those two were the only ones . , . that lost v. ei ht. The ore tied up . , , , lost" t!!03f, th UL'I) . , , " sick, nor was lie s: - i, , one m the h'o.-e s wis not so so long ;;s the one in tlie lT.e s'an. iMtingin.s period the loose stters paired 1-54 pounds, tied i p steers gained l'7 pounds. i be s'u-k steer w s lame f t a few days from combined tfftc: of standing on the leior v.w the dis ease, wliicli -cie .1 tie' joints above the feet. At th- ii d of tl. forty !as in ;:'!. ti gained v.":- pounds Ste-rs 'Ml po'.Mi Is, i lid penoi II d nn steers 1 t!,' loose ; a erage of 'ids ivspect- "1 . ,-,i on no r.d ive v lor each lot ar A full report i!l le made of the result of this expeiiiiaiit when it is completed. Frank E. Emery, Experiment Station, Raleigh. N. All Kinds ol' es. Representative Alexander has troduced a bill, stringent in m- its terms, against 4 Futures." Queen Victoria will open the Brit tish parliament in person instead of by Deputy in 18i. The date is February 0 Edison is coming back to North Carolina to experiment, with his electricity on gold ore. He will make headquarters in Charlotte. Judge Lindsiey, of Kentucky, his declined the office of Interstate Com merce Commissioner, to which he has beeu nominated aud confirmed. Ills personal interests compelled his course. All of the State officers except Sec-retery-of-State Coke have now had the grip, some very severily. Auditor Sanderlin is now very sick with it. Jay Gould is credited with being an omnivorous and tireless reader, and to be as well potted on books and papers as he is upon stocks and dividends. IniliK tive Kousoning. Shocked I-nly Do you know what be comes of little hoys who swear? Little MoyYes'm. Wen they frits big 'nouv;h they kin earn two an a half a diiy drivin a team. tfood News. Mm fiiVX ml ii ii : ) i ' ANOTHER MILE, PROBABLY. Bi IMPROVEMENTS TALKED Sl.HKHSI.Y. The I II in my Line May Ite Extended A Seliool tor Girls Bock ((iinrry Thrown Open. Concord is not a dead town ! She lias been cut at and slashed at but with all the drawbacks, ishe's still in the ring and doing business with her accustomed steady push. The Standard writes today, Of some big operations that are : likely to be started, Of an extension of the Dummy line, Of a straight road, which has never been straight, Of the erection of a school build ing that will be a building, Of the development of a rock quarry, Of throwing opn some desirable building lots. ilere goes, and we write as one knowingly. Mr. Robert Phifer has over two I 1...-. 1 i i i . , i i "cres or. wen situated land norl!l f oavii." He wants that land jputmeay aud good reach to the town. He wants to make some im provements that will add much all along the line. It is proposed to extend the dummy line from Odell's factory to the railroad at the crossing on this side of C, J. Goodman's. The object of this is to bring in the many heavy Icars that come to Odell's mills that's one reason. It will develop the property up that way bring it into reach of town and turn it to good use, and there are other reasons. It is proposed to straighten the dirt ro id. This ought to be done. There is no use of the road being as it is. It is known that ihe Board of Mis ions, that govern the White I all Seminary, has accepted a fifteen acre donatiou from Mr. Geo. Lore. This tract is west of Concord and beyond Buffalo. it is proposed (and will be done) to erect a large i brick building for a school for girls ; on the plan of the present White HaH. Mr. Phifer has offered, the IBoaid, ground on his place. Mr. J Lore is willing that the location be I made on Phifer's land, and will "ive I the Bo.ird the tract in question for use as a location for a school for I males There is no reason to doubt that the Board will accept the I change. ' Th ii l:nrivn tli!it tl-.ort. is .. ci-il.an " ' " "1'"-"- did lock quarry above town we need rock for maoadann'zatiou you See the point. If the dummy line is extended, you will see residences going up like magic. Give the people suita ble lots, well located, they provide homes. Anything that tends to wards domiciling people under their own vines and lig trees well, that's a good thing. Let us hope that arrangements may be made, and that the dummy may nave a fact to go steaming up to Concord's future suburban town. Charlotte Xcwn On Fair. "The big Poplar Tent druuk of IS 30 lias never yet been explained in print. It rained tremendously all day long and everybody on the hill was drunk. That was the day outs sold high. A fellow was on the ground with a wagon load of oats. Y'ou paid 50 cents for a bun dle jMid found a quart of liquor down in tlie oats, mere was a revenue agent or) the grounds that day, but he bought as many oats as anybody else." "It was the Poplar Tent fair that originated the idea of public mar riage. Capt. Chas. McDonald got up the scheme, and furnished the bride aud groom. Col. Thos. Rob inson married the couple. County fairs everywhere caught up the idea and i;0 fair was considered complete without a wedding. 'The sin is on the head of Chas. McDonald." The Matter Coming: to n Point. Coroner Kay lor, of Burke county, has summoned a jury, and examined a host of witnesses -.vith regard 'to the dynamite explosion in Morgan ton on the night of December 2-1. A number of important witnesses being absent from town the inquest was adjourned until Saturday. The authorities, the Herald says, hope that enough evidence may be fur nished to fix the responsibility for the explosion, and to lead to a prose cution in the courts. Sherman Is A?RinHt Harrison. Senator Sherman, while on his way to Washington, said to a Pitts burg reporter that he would retire from public life a the end of his present term. He also said that Harrison would have hard work to carry Ohio if renominated. THAT LEAP YEA II BALL. Its Pleasures and Delights Still Itiug. The Leap Year Ball, given by the young ladies, in the Opera House, Tuesday night, was a most brillian affair. The ladies in the party were: Misses Jennie and Kate S ith, Lal la Hill, Ada Rogers, Sallie B Ervin, Jeannetfe Flrvin, Claude F'isher, Grace White, Annie Smithdeal, Mary Reed and Minnie Ervin. The gentlemen, Fenand Houghton, Frank Smith, Geo. L Patterson, W M Stuart, Joe Goodman, Jno. Wads worth, Jno. Yorke, Ed Hill, Theo. Gowan, Julius Parker and Rufus Patterson. The lunch that the ladies served was just such a3 the men always feel that they deserve. The ladies set a good example; they called for their Leap Year beaux with carriages and cared for them gracefully and tenderly. The happy young people are hap pier still in the memory of the pleasant and delightful evening, aud the men see now how the ladies can outstrip them in gallantry. A Xorth Carolina Murderer Reran lured. Robt Graves, alias William Dillard, who murdered a man in Asheville, N. C, in 1881, and who was arrested and sent to the penitentiary for ten years, but afterward escaped, was arrested at Bluetield, Va , Saturday, by Detective C C Gale. Graves will be taken to Raleigh to serve out his term. Free Passes. The Railioad Commission Satur day made a decision as to the giving of free passes by railways. It adopts the decision of the United State Railway Commission that it is a violation of the act to give Euch pas ses to officials. It reserves its decis ion as t the right to give passes to newspapers for advertising. Some of the officials have passes and use them, but this decision will stop all that, to the great delight of the Farmers' Alliance, no doubt, as the secretery of that order recently made enquiry of every official as to whether they ride on free passes. The Peohihition Convention. Notice is given, by order of the national committee of the prohibi tional party, that the national con vention of that party to nominate candidates for president and vice president of the United States, aud to transact such other business as may properly come before it, will assemble in Music Hall, in the city of St. Louis, Mo., at 10 o'clock a. ra., on Wednesday, June 5J'J. What a Picture. The extra session of the Pennsyl vania Legislature, called to investi gate the administration of the Audi tor General and State Treasurer, cost $50,000, and it didn't investi gate. When it got to the danger point the Republican Senators dis covered that they didn't have the power to investigate. Wilmington Star. Proportions of Perfect Flfftire. The height of a person with a "perfect figure" should be exactly equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of either hand, when the arms are fully ex tended. Ten times the length of the hand, or seven and a half 'imes the length of the foot, or five times the diam eter of the chest, from one armpit to the other, should also dve the height of the whole body. The distance from the junction of the thigh to the ground shoold be exactly the same as from that poiut to the crown of the head. The knee should be exactly midway between the first named point and the ground at the heel. The distance from the elbow to the ip of the middle finger should be the same as from the elbow to the middle line of the breast. . From the top of the head to the level of the chin shoull be the same as from the level of the chin to that of the armpits, and from the heel to the toe. The Democratic Way3 and Means Committee have discussed and agreed upon several bills attacking the Mc Kinley monstrosity and enlarging the free list. The details of the plan for issuing new Chesapeake and Ohio bonis has been issued. A handsome sum has beeu sub scribed by 'the ladies of the First Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, for a memorial tablet to the late pastor, Rev. A. W. Miller. Specials from various portions of Illinois indicate that the prevailing cold wave i3 one of the most severe of any in recent years. It Is a Certainty I THAT IROM.SI.I JIAfiXIFICEXT S'TK l't TI'KE WILL HE Bil l !.''. The Xf While Hall Scnismry will Ho l"p The Architect S:is tti-en Here to View the (Grounds Work will Kein when the Wea:!;er bre.-il.s It's in the air ! When the ice melts away, progn. s.s sniffs the breezes rtronnd here. Sometime apo the Stan. lard to'.d about G. M. Lore giving away fifteen acres of land. And the Standard told how a committee from a North ern Presbyterian Mission B.iard bit at it; and the Standard tells today how the Board itself lias accepted the donation. What for ? To use for a purpose ; to build a a handsome building ; to open up a way and furnish means of education to worthy young girls, as is being done at White Hall, except; on a larger scale and an advanced curric ulum. That's just what it means. This is a dead certainty the die is cast, and the building will have its foundation laid when the weather breaks. Mr. Clarence W. Smith, an archi tect of considerable reputation, of New York, was here on Wednesday to view the grounds that he might more intelligently furnish a design and the necessary drawings for the building which will be modern in style and magnificent in point of size and appearance. We don't stop here to talk about what White Hall has done for this county and hundreds of girls we only say that New White Hall will surpass the old in every respect. The proposed scho-el building above town is not off. The Standard knows of a man who can be the meaus of bringing a blessing here to boys. In fact he is discusang the matter now. Mr. Smith, the arehittct, has re turned to his home with a fond place in his heart for Concord. Some ;((! r:iiiii ;. Mr. Ii J Upchtir h. who about four miles from Raleidi live: tool the first premium at the recent Stale Fair for the best yield or corn o:. upland. On five acres he made ;; barrels. This is a very large jnid for upland iu tills Slate. Mr. Upchurch is a number of the Alliance, lie recently killed enough of meat to last him two years provid ed he sells none. One of liis hogs weighed GC0, another 400 pounds. He has a lot of beef cattle for sale now. He and bis brother, Mr. W G Upchurch, of Raleigh, conduct a fine dairy farm and have the best herd of Jersejs in the State. They make on their cotton farm an average of a bale of cotton per s.cre. They buy no supplies sell them every year, and yet with all this good farming they say that "farming does not pay them."" This knocks the stuffing out of the little, measly assertions ot smart Alex's who are forever saying that the farmers don't prosper because they "do such poor farming," or because "they buy their supplies." The truth is farming dors not pav anybody that farms hardly, but it does pay some people who do not farm. On the farm just mentioned corn, wheat oats, clover, grass, cattle and hogs are laised. They ell a surplus of everything except wheat. Now if they don't make it pay what is the use of blaniiner other farmers. The Messrs. L'pchurch do not do "fancy farming," but simply sub stantial common sense farming. Now why don't it p:iy them ? What would be the result if everybody made a3 much per acre as they do ? The country would be covered with products that could not be sold. Progressive Farmer. AtlniitttUK Xew States. A Washington special says : There, is, however, one measure of great importance to the Democrats party which stands au excellent chance of adoption. That of a bill admitting at least three and perhaps all four of the territories. ow Mexico, Arizana and Oklahoma will probably be included in one omni bus bill, and L'tah will be in a sepa rate measure. TIIK STAXDAIIO OF COXCOKU. "One took a paper and his life Was happier than a king's: His children all coultl read ana write And talk of men and things. The other took no paper, and WThile strolling through a wood, A tree fell down upon his crown And killed him as it should. Had he been reading of the news At home, like neighbor Jim, I'll bet a cent that accident Would ne'er have happened him.:' s it is v.i.-elv renauked that r tudy maul; iml is :m:,"' and o.:e t-f the sages:, of the l Gru a phiV.ophers U au- ri y for th dictum that to .no v.- tny.-eH"' is th limit of wis- o; tl i.to vet In fact, it sve ins to be uni- accepted ty the wise men that Kiiowlctiire oi oncsoif is know i, ledge of human ra'.uro, mid knows lc(l::e of human nature entitles its possessor t walk in the front, rank of the proc!?ssNn, right up next to the band waiTou. There are very few men who en joy getting acquainted with thein-selv-s. it is a species of disenchant1 nient which is not pleasant, at least in its first stttges. The natural con sequence is that very few continue the cuUi nation of an acquaintance with themselves to the point of fa miliarity, and hence the elect and precious of wL-dom are never in the majority. This remark does not ap ply to the editor and readers of the Standard, but is general in its na ture; that is, r.s Capt. Jack Bunsby would sav, "the bearing of this ob servation is in the application of it." Its funr.y, but its true, that all the good people are worse than you think, av,d all the bud people are better than they g;t credit" for. The m::!i v. ho studies human nature knows this and lie neither idolizes die good people of his acquaintance nor judges with sexcrity the bad. It is customary to characterize the bigot as a fool, but that judgment is too harsh, lie is jits'- a man like the rest of us and his fault is simply that he hasn't learned sjmething that voa h -ve. lisi l, 111 mi aim vn n. U f.!c. like IIurlullirumlK), '. dull m :imv oived on earth. r.).k- l (it l.irih, ive Ke:i 1'iiesl lo Munibo j'.H,, Whether or not the human race v. ill ever bo sensible aud humane is a queslio.i extremely difficult of -etli.it ion. The probabilities are against i'. Bat whether it will or nut, on tiling is certain: that tiiose who stu.'y to Know themselves and their f.l low men will become sensi ble ar.u humane, in exact proportion as they bec-jmc j roficiciit in that tec.-..; the k important of all the sciences, i j wiei'-e of human nature. AU Kiht Then. MM "Now my little man, describe your ymp totns." "I haven't tint any symptims. I dot a p:u:;." Harper's IJazar. i;r. it:ll ii.kmi it:i:t. .icii t'i:mf !anliell4 rerOirni.uiee with a I Remarkable 'iiraeluile. Lieutenant Mansfield, of the Royal Naval Reserve, ha3 made, according to a report from Bombay, a descent of 11,400 feet with a parachute of his own contrivaLce. The descent was made in the Victoria Gardens in Bombay. Lini tenant M-nsfield as cenditi iu a balloon to which was attached a trapeze instead of a car. On the trapeze he sat. His para chtt'e was fixed to the balloon eo that it could be easily detached by the a-ronaut. The balloon rose in the air until it wa3 scarcely visible to the spectators. When the balloon had reached a height of ll,40i) feet he had almost lost the sense of feeliug. Ascertain i;;g tlie apparatus was in good order, he took hold of the ring of the para- chtii himself clear of the trapez and dropped. ITc fell with frightful swiftnes3 for aU-it SCO feet. At 10,200 feet he found himself still falling rap idly, but was able to control tho paraehate. At 10,000 he wa3 fall iug g- iiiSy, ami after that he began bid; if: to :md fra ia the different ' air enrr.-nts, descending gradually. He felt the heat from a factory ch-rn-.ey at 1,000 feet, j Then lie put the steering qualities j of his parachute into use. There was nothing but house tops in view. IIe cll0s,, t!ie tir.rCst and flattest he ! coui.i sec, some distance to the east i ward, L'uided himself to it and I alighted upon it uninjured, j An eye witness to the descent said he raw ;t ppeck in the sky. He j watched, and it became larger, and at last was distinguishable a3 a man j guiding a parachute by means of ' ropes. : i.C