Balzac used to hunt names for the characters in his romances. He would not be satisfied with one of his own invention. It had to have actual existence. So perambulating Paris or Tours, he would study the signs, and was delighted when he found a name which suited his personages. Dickens, we tancy, rather invented his funny names. It I said, however, that he took Oliver Twist from an omnibus conductor. There was a bus driver, and as the conductor shut the door of the vehicle, he cried out to the jehu, Go on, Oliver Twist," and Dickens, who was a passenger, adopted the name for the boy who asked for more."-New York Tribune. .. Two That advocates of temperance may sometimes be too sensitive is illustrated by a story that comes all the way from Scotland. well-known temperance men of Kirkaldy were upset recently while returning from a temperance meeting. In its account of the mishap the local paper remarked: Fortunately both gentlemen were sober at the t me." 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One disease, one remedy, the successful physician of to day is the specialist, the successful medicine is the medicine prepared especially for one disease. A whole package taken at one time would not hurt you, but would simply be a waste of good material. Over six thousand men and women in the state of Michigan alone have been cured of indigestion and dyspepsia by the use of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. Sold by all druggists at 50c. per package. Send for free book on stomach diseases to F. A. Stuart Co., Marshall, Mich. 46 The present Archbishop of Canterbury is the subject of almost as many anecdotes as the late Master of Balliol himself. Here is a very amusing one, for the truth of which I cannot vouch. It is known to many that Dr. Goe, formerly rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury, and afterwards Bishop of Melbourne, was the possessor of two very curious Christian names-Field Flowers. The story alleges that this reverend gentleman, in his salad days, was ploughed for smalls. Dr. Temple was among the examiners, and, when the unfortunate young man came up to learn his fate, he was thus addressed by the present primate Field, you're ploughed; Flowers, you're plucked; Goe, you can go!"-M.A.P. The gray old mountaineer asked me down to take dinner with him. He lived in a wellkept cabin with his daughter. After dinner we sat in the shade of a tree and he told me about himself. "Air you married?" he asked, after he had told me he was a widower. "No, but I hope to be some day," I answered, quite sincerely. You ought to be; every man ought to be ; a man that ain't ain't showin' a right feelin' to'rds what the Lord's done fer him; ther ain't nothin' on the face uv God's green earth that is a patchin' to a woman, I don't keer what kind she is." "You're hale and hearty yet," I said, "and I don't see why you don't take some of your own advice." "Don't crowd it, mister,' he said, waving his hand as if warding off my attack. "I'm figgerin' on sever'l this very minute, and I ain't quite shore yit which one to pick. I've been married four times, and every time my notions uv women has got so much higher that I'll be derned ef I don't kinder look forrerd to losin' a wife jist for the satisfaction uv gittin' another one.". Wave. 66 Representative-elect John L. Burnett of Gadsden, Ala., who will succeed Milford W. Howard, the Populist, will probably be the smallest man in the next house. He is nevertheless, an able lawyer, although he is known in his own state as "The Jack of Spades.' A story is told of him, and one of the Alabama delegation vouches for its truth. When he first appeared in the supreme court of the state to argue a case, he stood up in front of a high bench, which it is the custom there to place in front of the seats of the judges. On this bench the lawyers rest their books and their papers while making arguments. Mr. Burnett, according to the story, arose and addressed the court, proceeding with his arguThe judges peered out towards the high bench, and were unable to perceive the attorney. He was so short that his head was not apparent over the high bench. Mr. Burnett, remarked the chief justice in dignified tones. "It is customary for lawyers to arise in addressing this court."-Washington Star. ment. It is not generally known that a reward was once offered for Senator Morrill's life. He told the story himself at a meeting of the Vermont Historical Society about four years ago. In the early days of the late war,' 99 he said, my picture was put forth by a rebel Virginia newspaper, with an advertisement offering a reward for me, dead or alive, of $25. That was usually offered for the recovery of runaway slaves. They described me as a person who would be expected to have been the author of Yankee Doodle" rather than of the infernal tariff of 1861.' 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The Marquis of Anglesey, who died recently, was one of the last of the great race of English viveurs. But in the course of time he retired within his ancestral fastness at Plas Newydd. There, one day, a fire occurred. Thereupon he ordered that a quantity of hand-grenades be sent down from London. When they arrived the butler was instructed to string them over the house. But though the house is large, such was the quantity ordered that after stringing a dozen remained. "What shall I do with them?" the butler asked. Perplexed, the marquis pondered. And as he pondered, suddenly one after another there surged before him the unhallowed episodes of anterior years. Sadly yet advisedly he answered: You may put them in my coffin."-Argonaut. In Boston a young man went to inquire for rooms on Beacon hill, the natural home of the spinster. 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The fourteenth amendment relates to the "United States." That is a term which has two meanings in the larger sense it includes all that is within the national boundaries-"the whole American empire," as Chief Justice Marshall calls it; in the more restricted sense it includes only the states, but excludes all federal territory. It is in the second-the restricted-sense that the term is used in the constitution as denoting the sovereign power whose governmental agencies are therein provided-a sovereign power in which the territories have no share: "We, the people of the United States . . . do ordain and establish this constitution." It is by no means proved that the term occurs anywhere in the constitution in any other sense. Territories are not "states" within the meaning of the constitution, and the United States" in its restricted governmental sense is merely the "states" federally united. From these considerations it follows that some constitu62 tional inconveniences apprehended from annexation of lands over sea and inhabited by inferior races are not likely to occur. It is by no means a settled thing that persons born in annexed territory are by mere force of the fourteenth amendment citizens of the United States. On the other hand, a reasonable interpretation would limit the constitutional requirement to the states, leaving citizenship within territories to legislative discretion. Congress may lay a direct tax on such territories, subject only to the constitutional limitation of proportion to population. 33 42 The Old Bailey. 42 A Glimpse of Nubia.. 55 Fathers, Mothers and Freshmen.. 55 Darius. 56 59 A Study in Nativities... The Care of Wayward Children.. 44 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Kentucky Business Ethics..... 61 AFFAIRS The Constitution and the Government of Colonies Professor Harry Pratt Judson, of the University of Chicago, contributes an important paper on this subject to the January American Monthly Review of Reviews. His article is largely expository but does not lack emphatic expressions of personal opinion. He presents a logical review of the whole problem and concludes with this summary: The power to acquire territory is no longer seriously questioned. The purposes of annexation are not limited by the constitution, but are at the discretion of the political branch of the government. It is not necessary, therefore, that annexed territory should be destined for statehood. It may be held permanently as a colony, for purposes of national defense or from economic considerations. It may be held in trust for the inhabitants, with the expectation of ultimately turning it over to them should they so desire and should they prove themselves capable of orderly government. Meanwhile the government of such territory is subject to the control of con ress. The limitation of uniformity placed by the constitution on the power to lay indirect taxes is confined to "the United States," which may well mean the states. Thus there would be no such limitation so far as territories are concerned, and hence congress would be quite free to maintain therein such system of duties and excises as circumstances may warrant, irrespective of the policy controlling the "states." The navigation laws are constitutionally limited also with reference only to the "states." Thus congress may, if it seems expedient so to do, establish the "open door" in over-sea territories without let or hindrance from the constitution. Such personal rights as the constitution guarantees within the whole jurisdiction of the national government-both in states and in territories—are on the whole such as would not materially impede adequate control of federal territory, and at the same time such as we would wish to extend to all people under the American flag. |