Poor St. Louis Has To Stand A Great

deal frota the "kerflip" newspaper paragraphs of tlie country. ïlje latest is froMi the Washington Post wliich gives ts versión of a meeting, alleged to have occurred years ago, between Senator Sherman and a newly-elected representative trom the St. Louis district: "Ach, Senator," said the latter, "I was gladt to see you. I haf lieardt of you more times as I haf hairs on my headt. You was from Atlanta?'' A Democratie farmer took his clip of V(il to market and aold it forl2'. cents per pouud, and then went to the postoffice after liis pension check, and received notice that his pension had been stopped. At the sanie time lie received a letter írom his son in the city saying the factory where he worked had simt down and thrown him out of employment and asking for money. So he wentto the bank to get a certifícate of deposil cashed, but found the bank liad failed - then went home to vote the Kepublican ticket.- Toledo Commercial. What lias Chicago got to offer as an ofl'set t this from a New York paper? iimplytaothing. Chicago has nohistory. Dopsy-like it has simply growed: "The first policemen in New York pre apjointed in 1G5S. The force was then ■alle.l the rattle watch, and had niue nembers. The wages vere fifty cents a night, ' one or two beavers, and 200 or 300 sticks of firewood,' and the captain of the watch collccted $1 a month frona ■ach house to meet the expenses. After nine o'clock till daybreak it was the duty of the watch to cali out the hour on every street corner. They were to airesl anyone ' heard to blaspheme the name of God,' or anyone ' in any way insolent or unreasonable in his 1liavior.' " Wilson, the chaiiman of the Waya and Meauscommiuee, haying in charge measurea appertaining to the tariff, n which the greal industries of the nation are vitally interested, represents u district, composedof 15 monntain countiea in West Virginia. In tlie whole 16 there are not as many factories or hivcs of labor as there are iu the cities of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. In a recent issue if the Mail and Express Henry L. Stoddard Baya of bim : " Wilson himself has as little interest in the activities of industrial lite as his district. líe would rather pore over the pages of forgotten lore tliau listen to the hum of a thousand spindles, and sit alone onder his study lamp than mingle in the busy throug. It is to BUCh a man with no interest in common with either capital or labor that the work of shaping the industrial policy of the nation has been intrusted." Intellectual work - Making up the niind.