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Summnry of Foreign. Domestic and War Itemsâ€"Concise. Pithy, and Pointed. ‘ DOMESTIC. The Senecal Colonization Campany has been formally organized. At Essex Centre recently Simon Cunning- ham, Wife, and child attempted t3 cross the railroad. The waggon was struck by the engine, Cunningham was killed and his wife fatally injured. ‘ ' - Mr. Demers, of the Quebec Canadian, received cableqrams from his brother at Rome, stating that he and other Canadian pilgrims had an interview with the Pope, and received the communion at his' hands. A son of Mr. E. Hackett, M.P., for Prince County, was drowned rtcently while bith‘ ing. NEWS IN A NUTSHELL Wm. Hewitt, sr., druggisfi of Victoria, died rccently at the advanced age of eighty- nine years. The electric light ha? been used on the Quebec harbour improvements for the first time. A young woman named Stevenson, hailing from Hamxlton, has mysteriously disappear- ed from Montreal. The annual meeting cf the shareholders of the Brantford Young Ladies College was held in that city recently. , Mr. John Cote, of Ottawa, was found ly- ing dead in the middle of the road on Con- cession street, tecendy. The hackmen of H amzlton have held a meeting and organized afiunion, with rules of government similar to thesaof the Toronto union. James McGehan, for criminal assault at Dundas, onaJ little girl named Gerrie, and assault on Mrs. Gerrie, was scntcnccd to one year in the common gaol. Montreal shows neariy double the surplus of any great city on‘this continent or in Europe, except: Toronto, of births over deaths. George Miller has been committed fur trial on the charge of shooting Benson Sills with intent to murder at Thurlow township. Frank Bowie was arrestsd at 11% dwcHiug at Tracadie, as an accessory to the murder of Randall Macdonald. 'L‘here is strong proof that he aided his son. The case 0t Maria McCabe, charged with the murder of her child, came up in court. at Hamilton recently. The prisoner was com- mitted for trial. Operator Johnson, who was responsible for the South Eastern railway accident, is seventeen years old. He was on duty all night, and at; 9 a.m. had. not been relieved. A man named O‘Leary, who had been gaoled at Montreal on a capias for a debt by a. Mr. Ross, was liberated by order of the court, as he was more than 73 years old A young man named Lafontaine, While picknicking at Beloeil with two brothers, was killed in their presence by a. boulder which crashed down from the mountainside. Mr. Joseph Hiekson, accompanied by his private secretary, Mr. Reed, has gone east from Montreal to meet; Sir Henry Tyler, President of the G. T. R , who visits Can- ada. The Mississauga Indians of the Credit are looking up evidence in support of their claim to the possession and valuable tracts of land in Toronto and the Hamilton and Welland districts. Madame Elunie Columbia Mondelet has asked the Court at Montreal for a separation from her husband and an interim alimentary pension of $100 per month during her life- time. O’Donnell, Carey’s murderer, is an Ameri- can citizen, a. native of Ohio. The Customs receipts at New York for July show no reduction on account of the new tariff. It has been ascertained that hot winds in June badly shrivelled the wheat in many sections of California. There has been great rejoicing among the Irish organizations of Syracuse, N. Y. , over the killing of Carey. Thirty-nine guns were fired. ' Three hundred and sixty cases of giant powder. ignited by heat from the forest; fireg, blew out way pane of glass in Yale, Charley Ford, the murderer of Jesse James, has been arrested at Kansas City on an old indictment for the Blue Cut train robbery. FIVE hXINUTES’ SELECT READING. An agreement has been reached between the New York Cigar Progressive Union and the manufacturers, and the strikers have re- sumed work. B. F. Semig, Assistant Surgeon of the United States army. was found dead in a hotel at San Francisco, with a bottle labelled poison by his side. It; is stated that the Nova Scotia. Bank of Woodstock i3 heavily involved by the failure of Shaw Bros., Boston. The Bank of St. Stephen is also a hea'vy loser. A posse sent to capture the negroes who murdered W'yatt in Hempstead county, Ark, fought; with them, killing three, wounding two, and capturing ten. A boat containing Pat Quinn, George Sonst, aged 16, and his sister, 14, capsizzd in the river at New York recently. Quinn was saved and the others were drowned. A nine-year-old son of Hon. E. Toplifi, while going home from school in Brookfield township, Mich., was bitten on the bare foot by a. rattlesnake, and died before morn- mg. The cholera has been declared epidemic in Bombay. Mrs. Boyd, of Brooklyn, who had an estate of $75,000, was recently found dead in a. but on Smith’s Beach, L. I. It is al- Ieged that she was enticed from home by her son-in-law Crawford, whose wife was her £3.19 heir. The Emperor W'illiam is still at Gastein, and is deriving much benefit from the baths. Several persons have been arrested at Ischia for plundering corpses. At Tourna], Belgium, the trial of Canon UNITED STATES. GENERAL. Bernard for embezzling church funds has begun. The Paris Chamber of Deputies has ac- cepted the Senate’s amendment to the Judi- cial Reform Bill. An extra, budget for 1884 has been sub- mitted to the French Chamber of Deputies by the Governmefit. The special measures for the protection of officials connected with the Phoenix 1 ark murder trials have been resumed. 1"etloz7zosti, a Sh l’etersburg organ, says senous designs to incite revolt in Poland have been discovered. The eldest snn of James Beresford Hope, M. P., has been married in London to a daughter of General Frost, of St. Louis. The Cologne Gazette places the number of lives lost at Ischia at 8,000. A bill has been introduced into the House of Commons to centralize the hospital man- agement in the event of an outbreak of cholera in London. The widow of Lord Frederick Cavendish, who was murdered in Pliu‘nix Park, Dublin, will be married again bcfyi'e the termination of the present yea-r. A Dublin despalch says some of the citi- zens again attempted to light bonfires in the streets as a tokou of their rejoicing over Carey’s death, but the police again inter- feted. Parnell has submittad to his colleagues for their judgment the pressing invitation he received to visit America. His colleagues generally are of the opinion that he will be urgently needed In Ireland. Mr. Gladstone stated in the Commons that the Imperial Government were not pre- pared to make treaties for submitting ques- tions of differences with other nations to in- ternational arbitration. In the Commons recently, Mr. Ashly, Colonial Unlier Secretary, stated that the papers relative to the indemnity {or vio- lence done to the American fishermen at Fortan Bay were being prepared. The Shadow. of a. Hand. In the year 1846 the inhabitants of Dicppe were thrown into a state of the utmost consternation by a series of robberies and murders, evidently the work of one man. No trace of the perpetrator could be dis- covered. though one of his intended vic- tims, who had narrowly escaped, averred that he had only three fingers on one of his hands. The Government offered a large re- ward for his. apprehension, and the police displayed the greatest activity. In the out- skirts of Dieppe there lived an elderly lady, of the name of Beaumaurice, alone with one servant, in a rather solitary house. She was the widow of an officer, and noted for her strength of character and personal courage. The excitement prevailing in the town made no visible impression upon her, thongh the contrary might have been ex- pected from one in her lonely position. On the 30th of April,;Madame Beaumaurice, who had been suffering all day from nervous headache, retired to her bed-chamber about ten o’clock in the evening. Feeling very tired, she sat down in an easy chair to take a little rest. Before her stood the dressing- table, draped with curtains reaching to the floor. A lamp was burning behind her, on a little table. The lady had begun to undress herself when she saw something that stopped the beating of her heart. There appeared on the floor the shadow of aman’s hand. The hand had only three fingers ! The position of affairs was clear enough ; the murderer was concealed under the dressing-table. The lady kept perfectly still and considered What was to be done. After a few moments re- flection, she went to the door and called her servant, and asked her, as soon as she made her appearanceâ€"“ Marie do you know where M. Bernard lives '3" “ Yes, madame.” “I had quite forgotten that I have 500 francs to pay to-morrow morning. You had better go at once and get the money.” “Very well, madame." “ And lest he should hesi- tate about giving you the notes, I will give you a written order to take to him.” The girl waited, and her mistress wroteâ€"“ Dear M. Bernard, the murderer of the Rue des Armes and the Rue Grenard is in my house. Come immediately, with two or three gen- darmes, and take himinto custody.â€"Helene Beaumaurice.” She gave the note to the servant maid and sent her away. Then she sat down again and waited. Yes, the lady sat a whole hour in the room, in the pres- ences of a notorious murderer who lay con- cealed under her dressing-table. There she ‘ satâ€"calm, cool, and resolute. The shadow : of the hand appeared from time time on the ? floorâ€"the only token of the dreadful pres- , ence. When at length the gendarmes ar- 1 rived, Jacques Reynauld was taken prisoner, a after a desperate struggle, and shortly after- : wards paid the penalty of his crimes under the axe of the guillotine. â€"â€"‘M-->wâ€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"- The Real Worth of the Vacation. The superior man is the man who makes the best uses of his natural forces ; the in- ferior person is the one who uses up his vitality in the shortest space of time. This may be a slow way of approaching a great principle, but it is perhaps the most sure method of showing the way to that conserva- tive and rational living which has character- ized the wisest people and those who have used life to the best advantage. There is vast power in keeping an equilibrium of forces. The vacation is the‘time when na- ture repairs the waste tissues. It seems like idleness to be lolling around listlessly by the seashore or at the country farm or by the mountain side, but it is just that seeming torpor of the faculties, on the part of the brain workers, which does mest to re- cruit wasted energies, and is the best use to which the swiftly fleeting hours of vacation can be put. There is nothing like the ex- treme of rest to balance the extremes of strain to which bright persons are subjecting themselves in daily life. It can only be met in all of us by such a return to nature that her thousand ministrationsto the minds and hearts of men may not be thwarted by our own indiscretion’. The great thing is to maintain an equable life, to keep the nerves steady, to hold ourselves in check, and, if vacation can be used in such a way that professional and business people and busy brain workers can find res-t for themselves in July and August, the whole community gains by their reyal of the chief forces of M'Wâ€" 4 life. This is wha a wisely-used vacation means for those 0 are now taking it. It means a mind and body in good repair on I the first day of September. The Fate that has been Meted Out to Them In the Past. The fate of Bailey, who was murdered in Skipper’s alley, Dublin, in the latter end of 1881, should have taught Carey how little dependence he could place upon police pro- tection when his services were no longer re- quired. This Bailey gave information to the authorities which enabled them to make one of the most extensive seizures of arms and amunition ever achieved by them in Ireland. Twenty-five rifles, ten revolvers, 12,000 rounds of ammunition, an immense store of dynamite, fulminate of mercury, detontating caps, and gunpowder fell into their hands through Bailey’s instrumentality. How did the Government reward him? After a fort- night they from him, but proffered to pay his {are to London. a generosity which would have less- ened the British Exchequer by about $5. The wretched man begged to be sent out to some distant colony, pleading that his life would be in as much jeopardy in London as in Dublin. The representative of the Crown in Ireland could not dream of becoming re- sponsible for such an extravagance. Bailey was turned adrift, his landlord would not let him back to his miserable tenement, His employer would not give him another hour’s work. He was forced with his family into the workhouse. Even there the paupers turned against him and rendered his exist- ence so unendurable that he ventured into the outer world again with the desperate rc- solve to bag or steal as much as would take him out of the country. Three days aiter this his belly was discovered in Skipper’s alley, and two bullets in his head told from what quarter his death sentence had come. No clue has ever been found to justify an arrest for the crime. Other Irish informers, too, have been UNIFORMLY FOREDOOMED from the moment they appeared in the wit- ness-box to tender evidence against their former friends. Pierce Nagle was the first traitor of importance in the Fenian ranks. To his revelations were due the conthion of the staff of the Irish People newspaper, and the first executive of the Irish Revolu- tionary Brotherhoodâ€"Luby, O’Leary, Kick- ham, O’Donovan Rossa and the rest. After his nefarious work had been accomplished he disappeared, and for eleven years nothing was heard from him. But the vengeance and hatred of an Irish conspiracy is ever- lasting, and in 1875 (eleven 'yeArs after his treachery) it overtook Pierce Nagle. One cold gray autumn morning his corpse was found under a London railway arch, and a huge cheese knife driven through the back and penetrating the heart told that he had not died from natural causes. Warner, the Cork informer, who was the first to reveal the existence of the seditious spirit in the army, was attacked a year or so subsequently in Clontarf. He was severe- ly wounded, but did not die then, and his assailant, who was taken on the spot, got off with twenty years’ penal servitude. War- ner’s wounds hastened his death, and added to the agony of his last moments. Talbot, to whom the life-long imprisonment of Ser- geant McCarthy and other military Fenians was due, escaped for five or six years, but it was only a respite, not a reprieve. He‘ was eventually shot through the head in Hardâ€" wicke street, Dublin, after leaving a brothel. He died in terrible pain, which was intensi- fied by the bungling of surgeons who attend- ed him, and who, in probing tor the bullet, explored every inch of his cranium. Anoth- er military informer, named Meara was shot dead in a. public house in Bishop street, Dub- lin, before he ended his appearances as wit- ness in the court-martial. The last informer who suffered the death penalty previous to Carey was-a man named Clarke, who was traCed all the way from Mayo to Australia, and shot whilst engaged in ploughing a field. â€"Phéladelphz'a Press. “ Mars 1” The colonel lifted his eyes from the map of Gen. Crook’s Mexico campaign and said, with an air of celestial weariness, as he caught the gleam of her Tremont Temple spectaeles : _ A “ All right, Minerva ; make it short and not too hard. March on.“ “ Why did the State of Massachusetts re- fuse to sell the syndicate one-half of the Hoosac Tunnel 2” asked the blue-eyed maid, holding her fingers in Emerson’s “English Traits " to mark the article on “ Song and Dance Business Without a. Master,” she had beg}; readjng.‘ The colonel rubbed his helmet of the shin- ing bronze and awful plume and said he hadn’t taken much interest in Massachusetts politics since the Parcw had refused to make Ben Butler 8. double ell (lee, but he suppos- ed they would sell it because there was some sell about it.” “But Hebe said : “But don’t talk so like a mouthing para- grapher, Mars {you make Minervas.” H Howeâ€"var, Atliene pressed the question, and said : “Juno know the reason yourself, 0 white- armed Hebe ‘2” “ Oh, don’t Boreas with fourth grade; ex- aminationsf’ replied the ox-eyed queen of heaven. “ If they cancel it: they can’t sell it, of course.” “But all the gods shouted, “Construe, construe !” and Hebe said she would not guess anymore if she was to be Saturn in that way. _ Ganymede, the barkeeper, coming in for orders, said he didn’t know that he caught on just exactly, but he thought it was be- cause one was sellin’ a, hole, and the other was hole in a. cell, whereat all Olympus howled, and told him to crawl up into the hayloft and sleep it olf. 1‘ But say, Abilene,” said Apollo, the cele- brated inventor of the naris water which bears his name, “ why can’t they sell one- half the tunnel?" . “Because they don’t half to '3” suggested Mercury; but the immortals told him if he couldn’t do better than that he’d bette‘r go back to the drug store and stick to the thermometer business. And then Athene said : “Because they have to sell the hole thipg if__they sell any ‘of i_t.’_’ Avhollow'groan, {mingled with low calls for “police,” swept over the MILâ€"San Francisco Argonaut. DOOM 0F IRISH INFORMERS. \VITIIDRE‘V POLICE PROTECTION Life on High Olympus. The five Mexican women and one child recaptured from the Apaches by Gen. Crook were surprised by a band of Apaches under the personal command of Geronimo, about the 10th of May. The Indians, with their captives, travelled incessantly the remain- der of the clay and all night. They calcu- lated that the next morningr after the cap‘ ture they were at least one hundred miles distant, though they cannot tell in which direction. For three days they were with- out water, but after that it was found in abundance. The country through which they passed was wild beyond description. At times they were compelled to crawl upon all fours. Their thirst for the first three days nearly drove them crazy, and the In- dians would whip and lash them up, and compel them to travel. Toward the last of their captivity their food commenced giving out, and they were put upon ration , a small piece of raw beef being all that was given them. This had to be divided among the six. Mrs. Antonia Hernandez all this time carried her little child in her arms. The Indian children took great pleasure in tor- menting him, pinching him, and jabbing sharpened sticks into his sides, giving him great pain. When they remonstrated, Geronimo or his men only laughed at her misery. The last two days of their cap- tivity they had no food at all. There was snow on the mountains. The cold was in- tense, and the women sufl'ered greatly, al- most freezing. "he Indians never remained quiet in one spot a day, but were continu- ally moving. They travelled nearly 100 milesa day, going in every direction, but tending generally nearly westward. The captives were abused and maltreated in every possible manner. They were made to work heavily whenever camp was made, and were a. general object of abuse and rldieule. The Indians would take up Mrs. Hernandez’ little boy, threaten to kill him, and would throw stones at. him to the great mental anguish of his mother. One of the women was sent as a hostage of some sort to Chihuahua to make peace. The exposure to cold, thirst, famine and exhaustion from travel‘and fear of torture was having an effect on the poor women. The first thing they knew they were hustled one day fur- ther into the mountains. The next day a brother of Chief Chatte delivered them up to Gen. Crook. As one of them expressed herself when she saw Gen. Crook and the soldiers: “It seemed as if the sky opened and Heaven appeared.” â€"San Francisco Morning Call. Indian Treatment of Mexican Captives. Dwellers in the lake cities, or in any free and open city, with access to the air, have little conception of the suffering of the labor- ing population in New York. New York has its sea breezes, but they cannot pen- etrate the narrow streets nor modify the retained heat of the brick walls. They are literally ovens, Where the baking is done not by direct fire but by radiated heat. A New York physician says the best place in the world to bake a baby is New York. They melt away every summer. People are so thick in the tenement houses that they breed discomfort and disease and inflict them upon one another. There is no water on the upper floors; or if there is it is tepid. In small rooms six, eight and even ten peo- ple are huddled, and they cannot get a draft by opening their doors through. They are handiworking people, tired out at night, and the irritated children keep them awake. The streets and roofs are thronged with wo- men striving for a breath of fresh air. Sometimes the mother falls asleep from sheer exhaustion, and policemen have rescued their babies from the gutter in which the little ones tumbled from the mother’s relax- ed arms. The vermin swarm on hot nights with special virulence. Exasperated by. the heat, and vermin and want of rest, the inmates of these places quarrel, and often come to blows. The promiscuity of the sexes driven into a. herd to sleep or rest, is the source of immorality. New York, according to the census, is the greatest manufacturing city in the United States. Nothing that the New York Tn‘bzme’s protection agent, Mr. Porter, can find tosay of the English workingmen is more horrible than can be told of the ten- ement districts in New York. And if any English people should care to advocate free trade as the Tribune advocates protection, it need only have one of its representatives write up these crowded New York streets in the great manufacturing centre of the United States. It mantles its Teller to be Called Chief Liar. It is related that Mr. Sam McCurdy of Louisville, Ky., was sitting ’neath the shade of a tree talking to some friends, when his attention was called to a hen with a brood of young chickens and a large rat that had just emerged from its hole and was quietly regarding the young chickens with the pro- spect of a meal in view. As the rat came from the hole the house-cat caught sight of it. At the appearance of its ancient enemy, the cat, a. Scotch terrier quietly made for the place were the cat stood. At this mo- ment a. boy named Andy Quaid came upon the scene. The chickens were not cognizant of being watched by the rat, nor did the rat see the cat, nor the feline the dog, who had not noticedthe coming of_the boy. _ ‘ A little chick wandered too nigh and he was seized by the rat, which in turn was pounced upon by the cat and the cat was caught in the mouth of the dog. The rat would not cease his hold on the chicken. end the cat, in spite of the shaking she was getting from the dog, did not let go the rat. It seemed to the boy that the rat was about to escape after a. time, and getting a. stone he hurled it at the colony. The stone struck the dog right between the eyes. The ter- rier released his grip on the cat and fell over dead. It had breathed its last before the cat in turn let go of the rat and turned over and died. The rat did not long sur- vive the enemy, and beside the side of the already dead chicken he laid himself down and gave up the ghost. The owner of the dog was so angry at his death that he is said to have come near mak- ing the story complete by killing the boy that killed the dog that shook the cat that; caught the mt that bit the chicken in a yard on Clay streetâ€"Louisville Courier-Journal. The Horrors of New York City. A PRIZE: STORY. When she was asked to express an opin- ion on some trivial matter she looked timldly round with her clear gx'ay eyes upon each of the masculine persons and said : “ May I ‘3” Hch we Ind the ivy and the oak reduced to practice. lvcry nun in that group grew an inch or two in stature and in girth Without knowing it. A new maguanimity stirred in him and he cried : “ Certainly ! certainly !” I have met that “May 1” woman a good many times since, and she always walked over the stoniest places of life with sylph- like comfort, for all the masculine persons puf their necks down for her to step upon. . She is the superb phantom of the ‘so'cial circle, the mistress of the mob, the emyiress of the mascgline personsgverywhere. Your crdinary- masculine person doesn‘t want to be conjured. He wants to be ca- jolcd. And in every but of pretty women who tyranize with their lack eyes and coerce with their saucy conduct there is one gray-eyed “May I" creature u ho locks up all the men’s hearts; and than in her own sweet and doci.e way, tortures and pawns and burns them afterwards, without so much as a. protesting squeak. Don’t ask file to name them 1111. I have one in my mind now who clung; to an ob- server with the delicacy of :1- tcar and the sweet softness of an odor. But she put $200 a. week in the bank and always sa‘d to the receiving teller with a winn’ng pathos: ‘ ‘ May 1 ‘3” Aml the receiving teller, feeling a thrill 6f masculine sympathy, always responded with angsspring “pertainly.” Such sufmrb womerf are CFC).th to keep alive the masculine ideal of woman. It would utterly die out if men could not go at intervals and refresh their memories with the angelic, impalpable character, set like a lmnbent flame on a mos: palpable physique. I admire the “May I” woman. She not only wears an expression tint, as Emerson says, appears to be looking for something better than she has ever fnund, but he: in- nocent conduct always assures us that she has found something lxtt 1' than she has has ever looked fenâ€"New York World. A curious bet which was made by two New Yorkers one day this week il ustrates, as well as possible, the point which has been reached in dresaing at the Branch. During the afternoon concert at the West End the son of a wealthy banker appeared in a curious combination of clothing which atâ€" tracted attention from everyone. Not to be outdone in this respect, another young fel- low immediately repaired to his room, and shortly afterward emerged in an entirely different suit. The coat was a. seal brown, with a. large green collar trimmed with braid full two inches wide, while the trousers were “ polka-dot,” but so large were the “dots” that they might easily be mistaken for saucers. His appearance created a general laugh among the people assembled on the veranda, and he indignantly aked one of his friends to explain the cause of it. In reply the young man offered to bet fifty dollars that he dared not enter the dining-room that evening in such a dress. The bot was made, and, as it soon became noised about, every- body was looking for him during the dinner hour. The doors of the diningroom had hardly opened when he made his appearance, looking somewhat nervous and sheepish, but nevertheless dressed in the same suit. After gazing anxiously around the room as if trying to gather courage for a lie all eifort, he walked boldly down the room and took his accustomed seat in the rear. It was in- deed a victory over the crowd, and as he walked from the room two or three people applauded himâ€"Long Branch Letterin Phil- adelphia Press. Joaquin Miller on the Model Farm, On- The Province pays $30,000 a year to main- tain a school for the practical education of farmers. This school turns out annually from 200 to 300 well disciplined and splen- didly equipped men to take charge of the most important, healthy and altogether hon- orable pursuit on earth. We, in the States, are accustomed to think if a man is fit for nothing else he can settle down on a. farm and get on. We have made the farm the last refuge of the tramp. They here are making the farm the first place for the true gentleman. And this is right. We must have one of these institutions in every State of our Union, a dozen if necessary, to dig- nify and make easy and intelligent the office of the farmer. The trade of war is out of date, the lawyer’s office is of doubtful call- ing, for what does it give to the world in re- turn for his bread? The dector’s place is hardly desirable for a refined nature; but the Canadians have decided that the farmers hold the wcrld on their shoulders and are standing truly by them. They have alto- gether more than eighty associations devoted to the culture and development of stock and grain. The Province of Quebec has an institution not widely unlike that of Guelph, Ont., only on a smaller scale. I did not visit this, but am told that it is conducted entirely by a lady. The Province pays $5,000 bounty towards its maintenance. As against them we have only little to show ex- cept the school in Michigan. Yet it is true that we have many institutions that profess farming. But I fear they do not practice it as at this model farm. Of course I cannot en- ter into details or attempt to digest the big book making their annual report on this place. But I may say as a cardinal idea they seek to be solidly practical; severely so; to keep the feet of the students down firmly down on the hard earth. They ig- nore Greek and all such nonsense, and try to teach common sense Yet no ignoramus is admitted here by a t deal. Each ap- plicant must be at le 16 years old, must be of sound morals and good health and pass a very severe matriculation examination if not a graduate of the many high schools in the country. Joseph Cook hopes the day will com? when “we shall have nly one postage-stamp for the whole world. And then anice fix we’d be in if some fellow should fold that one up in his vest pocket, and perspiringly fuse it against a. small square of hard tobacco and two or three newspaper clippings. And that is just what would happen if the world got down to its last stamp. ’ A Plucky Fool. H May I II o