What Mrs. Edson Did

-The Board l "i Auuii iKis verv properiy cut down the bilis of the Garfield doctors, but it did not go far enough in the reduction of cluinis preaented. li is absurd to allow ■ Mrs. Edson f8,000 and allow men of . the skill and reputation of Agnew and , Hamilton but (5,000.- Chicago Times. There, hold on now. 'You havo struck an unprotected woman. Mrs. Edson was nlv the nurse, but she did more to keep Garfield alive than all the doctors. Her beef tea, lliat she lircd down his neok, oame aearer to Ondingthe bullet than the doctors' piobes, ana she didn't put on style and quarrel with anybody, or get an 'idea she owned the earth, and she shóuld be paid ug as much as the cnss-eved butchers whc didn't know enough to follow a bullet hole.- Peck's Sun. An aristocratie lady asked Miss Sedg wiek, when she was laEnglftnd, ifthere were any old trees in America, adding, "G, I beg pardon, vuur eountrv lias not beensetfled long enongh for that." Tüc anecdotes reminds one of a dinner at the Lord Mayor where a lady from New York city was astonkied by her neighbor at the table saying, "I suppose you often walk out on the prairies."