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"De afo'said cull'd lady has got all de
scarfs an' clocks she wants, but yo' go up
dis street two blocks an' turn to the left
an' go one block."
.
" Yes'm."
"Den yo'll cum to a cull'd lady standin'
at her front gate an' lookin' up an' down.
She's my darter, an' she's got $17 in de
house."
"Yes'm."
"Yo' jess stop an' git off dat speech 'bout
a condescenshus cull'd lady doin' the
washin' fur a disconnected white woman
on dis street, an' she'll use up dem hull
$17 buyin' scarfs an' take allude clocks
you's got on de 'stallment plan!"
With the Travelers.
OW you seem to think I am just
loaded with stories, but you have
about reached the bottom, see?" said Koch-
man, as he gently held aloft his forty-
fourth oyster.
"That's your oyster, Reinhard."
"Well, rather."
"If the trade is not!"
"As I was about to remark, I am about
punched dry, but just now," and in the
meanwhile four more juicy bivalves had
disappeared, " I was thinking' of a little in-
cident which occurred down in Mobile—no,
it was not, it was in Jacksonville."
"The town doesn't matter; go ahead,"
said the funny man of THK MUSIC TRADE
RKVIKW.
" I t was in Jacksonville, some years
ago— '
"What! years ago?"
"Yes; as I was about to remark, I was
there; mighty pleasant time, too."
"Never mind about the time, how about
the story?"
"All right; yes, waiter, you may bring
two more—make them light—with just a
dash of absinthe. Now I'll go on. It was
down in Jacksonville, that a street vender
came along with a cuckoo clock under his
arm and four or five gay-looking piano
scarfs over his shoulder, and called at the
side gate of a house on Alfred street, where
a colored woman was hanging out the
family washing.
"No use to cum in yere!" called the wo-
man, as she fished a shirt from the basket
and gave it a shake preparatory to hanging
it up.
The "man entered the yard, however, and,
walking straight up to her, he said:
" I am not here to see the woman of the
house."
"Oh! ye ain't?"
"No'm. I'm here to see the entaneous
colored lady who condescends to do the
washing for the distinctive white woman
who lives here. Will the aforesaid colored
lady do me the honor to look at this $6
piano scarf, which is sold for 50 cents a
week on the installment plan?"
A bland smile came to her face as she
hung up the shirt, pinned it fast by the
sleeves, and dried her hands on her apron.
Then she went closer to him, and said:
ately and prospectively, many millions of
dollars' worth of inventors' rights, and this
must inevitably ultimately result in the
repression of the inventive spirit, and must
deprive the people of immeasurable bene-
fits which would have come of encouraged
and stimulated invention under the old
regime. The law as it stands, and as it is
interpreted, is an insult and a direct injury
of enormous magnitude to the best friend
of the human race among all its workers—
the inventor.
When the United States
loses its regard for the rights and privi-
leges that were justly and fairly accorded
to inventors in our earlier life as a nation
and instead of gratitude and generous re-
ward gives them grudgingly less than a
fair and liberal share of the profits which
they so lavishly secure for the world, a long-
A Collector of Bass Drums.
step will have been taken toward that de-
N a little old-fashioned house on the cadence which historians arc accustomed to
bank of the upper Delaware, near Er- assure us inevitably sooner or later comes
winna, lives an old gunsmith named Jerry to every people. The immediate and com-
Martin, who has gathered together a queer plete repeal of every obstructive law and
collection of old relics, says the Philadel- the inauguration of a new period of good
phia Record. The old man has a craze for will and generous encouragement of that
the hoarding up of bass drums. In the highest of industries, is the right way and
little attic room over his workshop lie sev- the only way to insure permanence of that
eral score of old drums, covered with the growth in material prosperity which has
accumulated dust of years. Some of these for a hundred years and until the present
drums were used in and about Bristol dur- moment almost, been the most marked
ing the spirited campaigns attending the chaarcteristic of our history.
election of Presidents Van Buren, Polk and
Buchanan. There is one time-worn drum,
The Canadian Exposition.
with a fractured head and worm-eaten
sides, which was carried during the excit-
N International Exposition will be
ing campaign preceding the election of the
he'd at Montreal, Que., from May to
first Harrison, the hero of Tippecanoe.
October, \)6. This will give an opportun-
Old man Martin also has a collection of old
ity of taking choice between Canada and
watches, which were carried through the
Mexico, for an International Fair is to be
Mexican and Civil wars by United States
held in the latter country about the same
soldiers. One of the watches, an old bull's-
time.
According to the plans outlined,
eye, had its works knocked out of shape by
the site will cover not only the present Ex-
a Mexican bullet aimed at the heart of the
position grounds at Montreal, but will take
soldier who wore the timepiece. The ball
in the adjoining grounds of the Mountain
still lies imbedded in the watch.
Royal Park. Over one hundred and tw r enty
one acres will be utilized for buildings and
other features of architectural attraction.
Inventive Genius in America.
I
A
T
HE latest blow, and one of the most se-
vere, which has been aimed at our
system of rewards to inventors, was dealt
by the Supreme Court of the United States
in its recent decision making the domestic
patent expire with the termination of any
foreign patent on the same device, without
regard to the period of life of the former,
says R. H. Thurston, in the Forum. The deci-
sion was, probably beyond question, strict-
ly right as an interpretation of the law.
The fault lies with the legislators, and not
with the court; but the effect is to deprive
the American inventor, in many cases, of
years of profitable business in the making
and vising of his device. The period of
profitable introduction of a patent is gen-
erally late in its life; and, the more im-
portant the patent, the longer, as a rule,
must the inventor labor before he can se-
cure its introduction and recoup his ex-
penditures, often enormously heavy, in its
perfection
and introduction.
Revised
statute, No. 4,887, as interpreted by the
court of last resort, extinguished, immedi-
G. C. ASCHHACH, music trade dealer, 01
Allentown, Pa., has made arrangements to
handle the Doll and Baus pianos. ' He left
an order last week with Jacob Doll for
twentv-five instruments.
A Reputation
Is made by selling Pianos of
the highest excellence. The
reputation of many dealers has
been made by selling the
HENRY F.
fllLLER
Pianos.
They
cost more than
the majority of
Pianos, but they have ac-
quired their reputation as
Pianos of the highest grade
solely because they merit the
highest praise. If there is not
an authorized representative
in your city, write to the man-
ufacturers
88 Boylston Street
BOSTON, HASS.