Bogus Cream

A lady who resides in the west end reUtes today the strange confession of a milkman. For some time past she had suspected that the cream left at her house was dilnted. Although it had plenty of foarn on top it did not seem to be equal in quality to good milk. She determined to interrógate the milkman, and so she watched for him. When he carne she informed him of her suspioion. At first he insisted that the cream was as good as any sold, bnt when she persisted in her statement that she had drank country milk that was far better he weakened and said: "Can you keep a secret, mum? Well, to teil 3'ou the truth, mum, the cream you got is not cream at all. The f oain that is on top is made from the white of ggs, and is put there to make you believe you are getting the genuine article. Bnt you are right in suspecting that you ain'fc, mum. It's nothing but a delusion - and maybe you might say a shame too. But I don't know. Most people never find out the difference, and as long as they don't know as how they are being fooled, why, what's the odds?" - St. Louis Post-Dispatch. On the Warpatli Agaiu. Judge Lawrence, one of the political wool shepherds of Ohio, is trying to have the treasury department rule that all assorted carpet wools shall pay doublé dnty. As it is, the duties are much higher than nnder the old law, and have already caused the price of carpets to advance 10 per cent, or more. Manufacturera of carpets say that if Jndgo Lawrence succeeds in getting the decisión he is demanding many classea of carpet wool wül be absohitely shnt out of the country. Aa we raise practically no carpet wool ouraelves, onr carpet makers will thus be compelled to confine their operations to the less desdrablo imported wools. We imported 83,000,000 ponnds of carpet wool last year, which was more than three-quarters of onr entire imports of waol. Aprevious achievement of Judge Lawrence was to get the 'treasury department to tax common goat's hair at the rate of combing wools, thus excluding it from the country. As he is again on the warpath the carpet makers are said to stand in fear and trembling, hardly knowing whether to order certain foreign wools lest a decisión shonld be made taxing them at a doublé rate befare they should reach New York. The political shepherd i inexorable; he has recentry declared that he wants all imr-irts-oi woed and hair to be