Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 26 February 1895 — Page 3

BABY LOUISE.

I'm in love with you, Baby Louise! With you* silken hair and your soft brown eyea, And the dreamy wisdom that in them lies, And the faint, sweet smile you brought from the skies,

God's sunshine, Baby Louise.

When you fold your hands, Baby Louise, Your hands like a fairy's, so tiny and fair, With a pretty, innocent, saintlike air, Are you trying to think of some an^el taught prayer

You learned above, Baby Louise?

I'm in love with you, Baby Louise, Why, you never raise your beautiful head! But some day, little one, your eheek will grow red With a flush of delight to hear the words said, 1 '"love you," Baby Louise.

Do you hear jne, Baby Louise? I've sung your praises for nearly an hour. Yet your dark l'ringed eyelids droop lower and lower, And you've gone to slcp, like a weary flower,

Ungrateful Baby Louise! —Margaret Eytinge in Detroit Free Pre&s.

DELAYED DISPATCH.

I had never been left alono in charge of tlio olfico before. It was a cold, blustery flay in January, one of those dreary winter days that mako one leel so melancholy and blue, the wind shrieking about the building and the mow falling thickly in great whiro flakes, which seemed to be vying with each other for a comfortable spot on which to fall when reaclrng the friendly bosom of earth. Old Sol had not lavored us with a smile all day, but had sulkily hidden his face behind the gray restless clouds. It was truly a dismal afternoon.

The office building in which I was domiciled was one of those dreary old country stations which seemed to bo dropped along the side of the railroad track at intervals without an effort at making them other than what they are, both uncomfortable and unsightly.

The little town of 13 was a sleepy little village of about 900 inhabitants, built down in a valley, surrounded by hills, from which flowed an abundanco of beautiful, clear, pure spring water, supplying the humble, contented citizens. Today the place presented a picturesque appearance. The snow had been falling heavily during the night, and the trees, fences, housetops, bushes and streets were completely covered I with the "beautiful.

The principal street of the village ended at the foot of the long winding hill which served as a coasting place for the merry young people. The only sign of life abotit the place this memorable afternoon was the occasional jinglo of sleighbells wafted to my ears on the frosty air as some farmer's boy took ad- I vantage of the deep snow to exhibit his

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new sleigh, and a merchant now and then coming to the station for his small shipments. One or two disconsolate looking tramps passed my office, trudging along through the snow, casting an envious glance in my direction as 1 sat in the bow window.

This cold wintry day, as I sat in the little office listening intently to the tick of the two instruments on the talno in front of me, little did I dream that it was to be the one eventful day of my I life. Looking from the windows, I could seocast and west of me the straight line of track stretching away like two silver reptiles running side by side over a vast white sheet. A short distance north of tho office was the old woolen mill of Bartlet & Sons, from which issued tho sound of tho merry wheels as they humrued in busy unison with the click of the looms, keeping company with my I wandering thoughts.

At a distance of perhaps a quarter of a mile on each side of my office were two curves, preventing my seeing a train approach tho station from either direction until tho shrill whistle of tho engine called for my signal or down brakes,

I had just learned telegraphy, or thought I had, having studied it about I four months, and had become proficient enough, as my sanguine teacher avowed, to fill the place with perfect safety while he made a pleasure trip to Louisville, the center of gravity for him. I remember I had serious misgivings as to my ability to take care of the office work and sat with tears trembling on my eyelashes long after the train bearing my only assistance had disappeared and felt very much depressed, ae though on the eve of some great calamity.

To throw off this dreadful feeling I walked to the waiting room and back several times, humming a popular air to keep up my spirits. I think I had been thus occupied an hour or

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heard the train dispatcher at "M." giving an order to tho operator at Wilmington for No. 48, a freight train coming east. It road: "Train No. 48, engino 236, has until eleven ten (11:10) a. in. to run to Raysville for No. 11, engine 245.—R. G. L."

I went to the table and copied the order as it was given, simply doing so to pass the time, and heard the operator at Wilmington receive it and give the signatures of both conductor and engineer of No. 48, the dispatcher giving him the correct time. Then I noted Wilmington reporting No. 48 out of his station at 10:40 a. m. After an internal of half an hour or so tho operator at "M." asked if therowere any orders for

No. Ill, receiving a negative answer from tho dispatcher. All this I notod casually, not thinking for a moment that it had the slightest interest for me, other than something to copy, and in blissful ignorance that we were on tho verge of a terrible catastrophe.

In a few moments, while lazily gazing west from my window, I saw a hazy, dark mist curling up over tho snow capped trees in tho distance, •which looked very much like suioke from an engine, and while I was conjecturing as to what it might mean I heard tho signal for my target as it sung around the curve into sight. It struck me as being exceedingly strango /that No. 48, a freight train, was running to "M., regardless of tho limited, and I concluded to inform tho dispatcher of the unusual situation, telling him "No. 48 is coming." He answered "O. j£.," and then I gare them my signal

to go ahead. Just as they were rounding tho east curve, the cabooso just disappearing, "M. called me and asked, "Is No. 48 on the siding?" I told him "No that they had just left the station, giving the time they had passed.

His reply: "My Godj has No. 48 gone? No. 111 is pulling out. They will collide. Can't you get No. 48?" My hair felt as though it was raising off my head, chills chased themselves up and down my spine, and the cold perspiration poured down my pallid cheeks as I rushed with all speed and less grace from tho offico and frantically waved a white apron I wore and which I tore off as I ran, but the crew of the freight failed to look back as the caboose sailed round tho curve, and my hoart almost failed mo as I realized that tho only hope now was to catch No. Ill beforo they left 'M."

I ran back into my offico and sank into a chair, no longer ablo to stand on my feet, scarcely breathing until in a low—Injurs it seemed to me, but in reality—seconds tho dispatcher called me, saying, "We've got No. 11." Vvtro over woriH so sweet to mortal ears?

tick of that little brass sounder as it rang those words through the room was like sweet music, so. welcome were they, to nio.

How did they get No. 111? I will tell you. When 1 told the dispatcher that No. 48 was beyond recall, he opened a window in mad haste and screamed to the people on the platform below him, "For God's sake, stop that train!" And they, realizing that something was terribly Wi'ong, rushed after tho rapidly disappearing train, frantically waving handkerchiefs and umbrellas, screaming like madmen, finally attracting tho attention of the rear brakeman just as No. 111 was going out of sight and hearing. They backed up oil a siding and waited, and soon the freight train pulled into "M. station, tho crew as unconcerned as though they had not just escaped a smashup and tho possibilities of instant death a few moments beforo.

A white faced operator, with trembling lips, leaned out of the window and asked them, "Haven't you forgotten something?" And the forgotten order was suddenly remembered, but too late for them.

Tho whole crew was of course discharged, and I—well, when thoso welcome words were ticked off that dear old sounder, telling mo that No. Ill's crow and passengers were safe, I lost consciousness and only camo back to lifo in to a on to N I say to his engineer: "Poor girl, she has fainted. Sho is almost frightened to death.''

Had I not warned the dispatcher in time for him to catch the passenger train, there would have been a horrible collision, and wo can only picture to ourselves the horrors accompanying such a catastrophe.

My reward was a position with the company and a handsome gold watch. I staid with the company but a short time, however, for I never could cure myself of tho horror I had of railroad telegraphing produced by my terriblo experience that wintry day in January, and as I writo this story, sitting here in my cozy little sitting room by a bright coal fire, watching the flames creeping around tho black diamonds in the grate, as I go over the scenes and situations of that dreary afternoon, I shudder and wonder if old Fat her Time will over enable mo to forget that dreadful experience, so that I can speak of it all without a shudder.—Northwest Magazino.

Russian Traits.

Tho Russians are lazy and effeminate. In the winter they seldom walk, and when thoy do so they crawl along, muffled up in furs, and do not move with any briskness. One sees a groat many military officers in Moscow, and their want of smartness is noticeablo. Numbers are always to bo seen lounging about the boulevards with their hands in the pockets of their gray overcoats. These boulevard warriors do not look very formidable. The Cossacks are dirty looking ruffians, badly dressed and mounted on small horses, which are said to bo excellent animals, possessing wonderful staying power. I was told by an officer that the Cossacks have degenerated very much and have been spoiled by being turned into regulars. The Cossacks? of tho Don especially have deteriorated, but those of tho Caucasian regions are fine soldiers.

One of the worst characteristics of tho Russians is their dishonesty in trade. In Moscow, even in many of the best shops, one has to bargain for purchases, as a much higher price thau is expected is always asked. In this way foreigners in Moscow no doubt frequently pay three or four times the necessary price for articles. In the same way one has to bargain for everything, and this, in my opinion, constitutes one of the most disagreeable things connected with life in Russia. One always imaginos that one is being swindled, and too frequently, no doubt, the idea is not a vain one.

That the Russians are a dirty people is well known. Very few houses have even a footbath in them, and although there are fine public baths the Russians, even of the upper classes, seldom make use of them. Indeed I believe the lower orders are cleaner in this respect —Westminster Review.

His Broken Rent.

It seoms tho tax collector had been diligently searching for Oscar a considerable time when one morning he discovered the descendant of the O'Flahertys issuing from his house in Tite street. Tho collector demanded certain payments, which Osoar refused to make. "But, Mr. Wilde, this is your house. You occupy it. I've just seen you coming out of it. You must livo there." "Most positively I do not." ."At any rate," retorted the now slightly exasperated man, "you do what legally constitutes living in tho housa You sleep there. You don't deny that." "But, my dear man," Oscar answered languidly, stifling a yawn, "you must consider I sleep so badly. "-—Chap Book.

AN ATHLETIC CRAZE.

THE FINEST GYMNASIUM OF ANY

CLUB IN THE WORLD.

A Remarkable Statement by a Physical

Culture instructor—The Art of Learning

to Laugli—Kasy Way of Making Sandows

and Samsons.

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[Special Correspondence.]

NEW YOI:K, Feb. 18.—"Giro me a man V^ho has boon bodrulilen for 20 years. Only let liim bo ablo to walk, and if ho has no \iisea.so I'll mrke a strong man out of him."

That is wnat Professor Sam Gordon, gymnasium instructor in tho New Manhattan Athletic club in this city, said to me yesterday, and I believe him.

The athletic fad is one of the queerest of all the Is which periodically attack and convulse his metropolis. The opening of the New .Manhattan has given a remarkable iniiKTus to the most rational form of exercise. It gives an opportunity for acquiring si:', ngth which never beforo has been anoi'ded to a great number of men. Heretofore the would be athlete has been lorecd to join one of the old line athletic clubs or go to a gymnasium. One plan iias always been very expensive, and •the oi her, lor obvious reasons, lias never been popular It is the first largo proprietary elui' ever organized in this country oil the Knulish lines, and it has become wonderfully popular. It now has more than u.ooo meinbeis, and the list contains some of the best known names in social and Ijusinesscircles in Is'ew York. Its out of town membership comprise wealtny gentlemen in almost every lar^e city in the central and New England states.

In the Gymnasium.

The chief 'attire of the New Manhattan is t-lie gymnasium, and tho chief feature of the gymnf.sium is I'mfc^s-or Gordon. The "gym'- is the finest and best equipped uf that belonging to any club in the world. The prolessor is a short man, with square jaws and clear blue eyes. On the street he looks like a bank clerk in a tremendous hurry to get somewhere. His shoulders are set back, and his step is as springy as if he had rubber heels on his boots. It is only when ho has stripped for work in his little office and steps out into the gymnasium that you can form a correct idea of the champion strong man for his weight in tho world. From his waist up to his ears the muscles stand out

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all over him in pink and red ridges, somo spreading out like ribs and others rising in unexpected [daces in great hunches. To tne youn." art student whoso researches in anatomy have been gained from manikins the professor's arm. with its muscles set, would be a bewildering and awe inspiring puzzle.

The gymnasium opens at 8 a. in., and on certain mornings of the week the junior members of the club, sons of older members, come in for instruction and are taught more in a week than they get in their schools in a quarter.

It is a sight not soon to bo forgotten, these men of the narrow, cobblestoned streets of busy down town at play in this up town club It is such serious play to most of them. It is estimated that it takes an ordinarily light hearted man three weeks to learn to laugh in a natural manner in his gymnasium clothes. If there were pier glass mirrors on the walla so that a man could see how he really looks instead of only imagining, it would probably take tl .ee months. If gymnasium suits were wearable at public balls, there would bo no need of masks at these merry functions. A pair of worsted knickerbockers and a sweater disguise most men beyond recognition except by the man who rubs tbcm down after their Turkish baths. He is accustomed to tho remarkable metamorphosis that this changc In costume makes in men.

A hank president, a doctor, a lawyer, a broker, three lat young men with very Jolly faces and very rich fathers and the thinnest man I ever saw outside of a museum were going through the Gordon free movement yesterday afternoon. I saw them all afterward at dinner and in the billiard room, and I shouldn't have known nno of them if they had not been pointed out to me. Professor Gordon relies chiclly on this free movement In making men strong. It is on this that he bases his assertion which heads this narratlvo. It is a plausible theory because it is so simple.

It requires no apparatus except a small pair of dumbbells and can be practiced as well In a bedroom as In a gymnasium.

Good Health For All.

This Is the way ho taught It: He drew his class up in a line and faced them. Then, taking tho bells in bis hands, he twisted bis wrists, with the awns outstretched, and tho muscles around his uppor arms and shoulders moved up and down, in and out, like separate plcces of mechanism. Then ho stretched over right and left, backward and forward, threw his arms In and thruat them out, held them up and poked them down. Then he worked his legs in a similar manner until he was thoroughly limbered up. After this ho lay down on a mattress and stretched a long, satisfactory, 7 a. m. in bed stretch. This was subsequently added to by a score of different kinds of stretches, and tho lesson was over. It was precisely what every healthy lad In his teens does whon ho wakes up in the morning, only It was reduced w» a system, with a certain number of stretches in each direction, and it brought into play every muscle In tho body. When tho class had finished, tho men wont to their dressing rooms or took the elevator to the baths and big pool on tho ground floor.

This pool, by the way, Is the largest in the country. It is 100 feet long and 2.1 feet wide and gives a man all the natatorial exercise that ho requires,! General Thomas L. James, onco postmaster general, and William Allen Butler, the fa­

mous lawyer, never let a week go by without enjoying it. One of tho best photographs ever taken of this pool shows among other figures the hoad of the ex-P. M. G. bobbing up liko a small round cork on tho surface of tho water several feet back of Sandy Conolly, the swimming master.

After a man has been put through the free movement in tho ''gym" for three or four weeks he is puton the machines, and then his fun begins. These machines give him a chance to do things with his newly acquired strength and nimbleness. They let him show off what he has learned, and from 4 until (3 in the afternoon tho gallery of the gymnasium is thronged with conservative members of sedentary habits, who watch the youngsters and relate stirring incidents of their younger days when they could "skin the eat'' like winking and could turn double somersaults backward without half trying. But they never go on the tloor and illustrate their stories. it is a very delightful, very rational and altogether healthy hour or two that, the members spend on the floor making Sandows and Gordons of themselves, and if you happen to have a recently bedridden friend who wants to become a veritable ham son I have suggested a way to ratify him. Bkn.jamin Noilnn:oiJ.

A STUDY OF CHICAGO.

Close Observations of tlie Most Rcinarkable City on Karth. [Special Correspondence. {'mrVGO, Feb. li».—All great towns of the world have an individuality peculiar I to themselves which either attracts or 10pels or is neutral, as the ease may be. At least this is 'he conclusion I have arrived at. It is very much like meeting a man. I You either like him or don't liko him, or you don't care a rap for him. If you aro of a philosophic turn, however, you will bo apt to siudy him, whether he calls out any feeling in you or not. And so it is with towns. A man of the aforesaid turn will study them, whether ho is charmed or disenchanted with tliein, just for the delight of studying. This is my case. I'm studying Chicago. It is a big job, but I'm hammering away at it just for fun. I may know loss about it after I am through than I did before I began, but a little thing liko that never phases a scribbler in tho giving forth of his know all report. Tho less ho knows about more things concerning a place tho surer is ho of his general analysis of it. For example, tho subtle, knowledgeable Kipling passed quickly through this town one day, dreamed about it the next night and knew more about it tho following day than any polico captain in it.

Whether I like Chicago or not is a thing I cannot tell even for myself. I only know that I am stunned by it. It is so big and. everything is so much on tho rush. Compared with it New York is almost Philadelphian in tho ease of its gait and manner. Everything is noise and bustle and wide streets along which people rush and tear as fast as they can. They look as if they wouldn't stop even if old Captain Death came up to arrest them. They have one god, which is Chicago, and this god is his own prophet. This must be the greatest town in the world, because everybody in it says it is. I am impelled to make this statement in good faith by the remembrance of some proverb or another which I believe says that the world values men and their possessions according to the estimate which the men themselves put upon them. »ftlf I had never been in New York, I would have thought that that town was a sort of slow, up tho Hudson village where everything was out of gear and several hundred "ears behind tiio times—that is. I would have thought this if I were guided by what the Chicagoans hero say about it. According to their torso way of putting it, New ork isn't in it at all with Chicago. They have higher buildings and can ki 1 more pigs in a day than the whole of New York's population could think of in a year. And thus it goes. They even laugh at the idea of its being a rival of their town.

There is one thing, however, that this town possessos above all others, and that thing is soot. It is here, there and everywhere. If you put a clean collar on In the morning and wear it through the day, you will find it to be almost black when night comes I asked a Chicagoan the reason of this, and for answer ho gave mo a reproachful look. We had been arguing about the merits of Chicago and demerits of New York, and he seemed to consider this an unfair question. When I added that it was a pity perfection should have so dark a blemish, ho told me that he didn't see tho use of bringing sarcasm Into an argumont. IIo was offended. I had touched a tendor spot.

To bo serious, however, one must admit that Chicago is indeed a great town. Tromendousness is the dominant noto of its personality. Power, power Is every where. It is shown in the monstrous buildings, the marts, the mighty granaries and storehouses and in tho long, wide streets along which people crowd and crush and pass and repass. A great boom and roar is all around you. It seems to come up from the earth, to fall from above. You aro seized with awe, for you are facing an ever growing thing inoalcnlably virile and mighty, a thing of a myriad possibilities. It 1b as a Titan Heroules with t^.5 hundred hands of a Briareus. And the roar and boom swells up as you listen and dazes you. Before you lies the problem, at once terrible and grand, of the great modern city. Where will It lead top What shall be Its outcome? you ask. There Is no one to answer you—no one eo keen or subtle or piercing enough of vision to solvo the problem. The unraveling of it belongs to itself. It Is even as a vast genii escaping from a maglo bottle. The onlooker is unable to analyze. He has no time for aught savo wondorment at this increasing, escaping thing.

Tho men I see here are keener of feature and more set of face than the men of any other great town I have been in. They are filled with that terrible energy which springs from a lust for acquisition. They are Intent upon oonquerlng and acquiring. Conquering and aoquiring what? 1 might Bay that they were Intent only upon the getting and aoquiring of gold, but if I said this I would be making the mistake of the shallow, superficial scrlbblor who abuses this town because he thought It easier and smarter to abuse than to try to understand. No, it is not gold that these people aro really rushing after. To them the yellow metal Is but the counter which marks the extent of the possession of something which is to gold even as bread Is to a stono. This something is the solving of that problem of problems—how best to live. Mind you, I do not mean to say that the people here say or even know that the latter is really what they are after, but It Is nevertheless. Thoy may mistake the counter, gold, for tho thing it represents or tries to represent, but this Is because they havo not tho time for analysis of themselves and their motives.

BAHT KENNEDY.

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THE STAMP OF STYLE.

Narrow frills of embroidery sot in plain rows at the hem, also in designs simulat- I ing overskirts, are popular. I

Bands of galloon or ribbon edged on either side with laco about a finger wide aro the trimming seen on a house dress of striped silk.

Among new capes thero aro thoso that suggest sheds, so square and uncompromising arc their edges as they project over the shoulders.

A natty and becoming hat has a narrow brim turned up all around the edge and bound with velvet. Birds with pointed wings and a cluster of velvet are used for tho trimming.

A new model of a waist has draped sections very wide under the arms and crossing up over the back, growing narrower at the shoulders. '1 his trimming suggests an ordinary surplice waist put oil wrong side up.

A stylish cape has a squaro yoke with collar in sailor f.-e-hion, very br. ad at tho shoulders and across the back and running to points in front. A band of plush about four inches wide is the trimming of this garment

Aeioth cape with a perfectly plain yoke extending to the shoulder points has the remainder of the material gathered Jn very full. Where the cape portion joins the yoke is a hand of fur about three inches wide, 'l he standing collar is edged with fur to mMirh

A new waist trimming is made of silk put oil from either side, then shirred very full down the middle ot the front. The effect is thai of a huge puff in front of either shoulder and extending to the waist line. The hack has a similar trimming, except that it is much narrower.—New York Ledger.

THE THEATER HAT.

The way to deal with tho big hat is to take it oil'.—New York Recorder. The theater hat is rising to tho dignity of a political issue.—Chicago Herald.

The way to overcome the theater hat imposition is to elevato tho stage.—New Y'ork World.

At present four legislatures are considering bills against tho big theater hat. Here's another argument for less frequent legislative sessions.—Boston Herald.

Tho New York statesmen may legislate against the big theator hat, but the women will never agree as to the amount of felt, feathers and fuss required to constitute an offense. Washington Post.

Tho Colorado legislature should bo a good place to introduce a bill to prohibit tho high theater hat. The threo women who aro members of that body take off their hats in the legislative hall.—Sioux City Journal.

It is a notable fact that in three states of the Union, New York, New Jersey and Illinois, there tire bills beforo tho legislature to curtail tho big theater hats. More power to tho woman who clasps a tiny bunch of violets on her back hair and calls it a bonnet.—New York Sun.

DO NOT—

Let tho children go to bed with cold feot. Look toward a bedroom door when passing. Always knock at any private room door.

Carry tho wholo world on your shoulders, far less tho universe. Trust the Eternal.

Live for self alono. Aim to help the needy and deserving and study tho happiness of frienus.

Build up higher than your foundation will warran. It's tho tree with more branches than roots that is biown down.

Let the baby sleep with its mouth open. Place it on its side, smooth out its ear and the creases in the pillowcase, and sleep will bo longer and sweeter.

Put ,'i wee, helpless baby to bed between two giants, lor if the poor little thing is not crushed to death tho monsters will absorb its vitality and leave it pale and lifeless.— Good Housekeeping.

GEMS FROM JEFFERSON.

A respectable minority Is useful as censors. Tho wholo body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, executive and judiciary power for itself.

I havo sworn upon tho altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyrunny over the mind of man.

It is better to keep tho wolf out of the fold than to trust to drawing his teeth and claws after he has entered.

It is a fatal heresy to suppose either that our state governments aro superior to the federal or tho foderal to tho state.

It is not by tho consolidation or concontration of powors, but by their distribution, that good government is effected.

Tho way to havo good government and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among tho many, distributing to every one exactly tho functions he is competent to.—Thomas Jefferson.

WHEEL TRACKS.

A now cycle lamp Is claimed as weighing only six ounces. Contentment In cycling lies less In having wheels as you want them thau in wanting them as they are.

The difference between cycling woes and equino whoas is that the former stops a ride and the latter 6tops a horse.

A man's wheel and his toothbrush should be treated very much alike. Both should bo kept scrupulously clean, and neither should over bo loaned.

Riders should always glvo warning not only when passing vehicles, but when about to pass other cyclers. We have seen several accidents through one rider coming up behind another and attempting to pass without warning.—Sporting Life.

WILDE'S VIEWS ON WOMAN.

A woman's llfo revolves on curves of emotions. A woman whose size in gloves is 7J£ never knows much about anything.

For so well dressod a woman, Mrs. Chcveloy, you have moments of common sense.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover anything except the obvious.

Women who havo common sense are so curiously plain, aren't they? They always look like secondhand dictionaries.

She wore too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. This is always a sign of despair in women.—Osoar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband."

MURDER MYSTERY.

Remains of a Man Found, Apparently liiirn«(l at lie Staltr. CHICAGO, Feb. 2(5. Evidences of what the police think is a frightful, murder mystery v.e found Monday, when TWO children discovered the mutilated body of a nia:i in a louelv locality at Ninet v-third street and Western avenue. Tlie body, which was that of a man about 2a ye..rs old. was found in a sitting posture, leaning against a tree. The hands, legs and lower part of the bodv were badly binned, deep gashes were found in the head and about the, waist were the remnants,.of a charred and »inged rope.

The theorv that the mail had been tied and burned to death was at first laughed at by the police ofiicers, but later investigation seemed to pro", either thai he had been murdered and an attempt made to conceal the crime by burning tlie body, or that lie had real!v been burned at the stake.

That the man could have been burned.-, to tie 1111 was hardly thought prooab-e by the police, but the spot waere t.ii: body was found is an isolated, one on t^o prairie and a considerable distance fro a any :w.• 111ngs. The man had evidentiV. been ai lor some time, as tlie feetbeen gnawed to tiie bones ny dogs. T,.u lace was not baulv mutilated and the officers hope for ail identification.

Tlie body is supposed to be tiiat- of Fred Jrioi/nuler, a ontcher of this Letters ion ml on the corpse bore ti»afc-A ud!i'"s, but" were deciphered with greatdifiieulty. A large aniou.it of kerosenehad been poured over ihe body in order, that ]t 11g 111 hum more rapidly, r'ro.a the letters, it is supposed tne man had asisier in St. Clair. Mich., named \v*dhelmina Wulf. The last seen of Hai,.hutei Wiis three weeks ago when, with .s^.")0 his possession, lie went out to buy cattle.

Late yesterday evening the police ar-' rested a saloonkeeper named Marsen and took him to the Thirty-t'l'tli street Station whore lie was subjected to a thorough examination, lie denied any knowledge of Hol/.huter's death further than that the lat ter had been ins saloon on the day beforo his appearanceswas known. Marsen will be held to await the verdict of the coroner's jury.

It was learned that Hol/Jiuter lna-.i-j an appointment with JMarsen toleaw' for Elgin Wednesday morning, Jan. '60. At o'clock that morning he called at tho saloon, where he remained an hour, and then left with the saloonkeeper for Emerald avenue and Thirty-fourth street to buv a cow. Mar.son asserts that ou the way they met- a- man. whi) stopped, them and began to talk with liol/luiter concerning lie purchase of an ice wagon. Marsen says he left them talking, and went back to his saloon, and has not seen Ilolzhuter since.

I ire in a Print shop.

MIXNK.AI'OUS. Eel). —Fire yesterday partially destroyed the plant of the Crown Lithographing company and the Housekeeper Publishing company, both owned by the same men, involving a loss of about SjitiO.OuO. several employes and firemen were slightly hurt by .lumping from windows and falling glass The plant was located in the old Centenary Methodist Episcopal church building, erected and for many yars the liiiest church edifice ill tiio northwest-.

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SPUIN'ci IKI.d. Ills., 1 eb. \!f.—General John A. Me( 'iernaud is again confined to bed, tins time with a severe attack of la grippe. 'Ihe attending physicians report the case as serious.

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Generally fair weal her slightly coolor northwest winds.

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MARKETS.

lleview of tlie (.rain iiiitt Livestock. .Markets l'«r 1-Vbruary

I!lll! jio.

Wheat—N:-. red, ."o' jc No. :i red. Corn—No yellow, Ki' jc No. I \ellovf,' •liic No. IS corn, l.V,,e. Oats—No. -J white

i$f1,«#»12e:

No. mixed. &M4o. Cattle—

(Jood to prime export steel's, sm UUW 40 fair to good shippers. £4 1 fto light, to. good steers. $4 inK" 1 ."!» light butchers, $15 of)(ti3 no demand lor stockei's veals. #3 00«xt U0. Hogs—Medium, $4 iu ao good to prime heavy, $4 4 pigs, £4 &">(' 4 {.*. Sneep and lambsChoice to prime iambs, GO(^3 t5 lair to good, $4 7»(.((,» Oil: sheep dull for all kinds gooil mixed, fitl.c:* M) extra, 5-4 00 export grades very dull, lower good to prime, #4 Ul)y£4 extra wethers, 44 40.

Ciucuiuati Tobacco.

Offerings Reject-ions. Actual sales.... Receipts

III ids.

The offerings of new and ohl during the week sold as lollow»: 878 hlitis new: JiSl at $1 06W.3 95, at $4 00©5 95, 163 at 00«*7 95, 09 at 00^ 9 95, 4-1 at $10 00(f. 11 "6, 556 at fl-J Oti^ 14 75, 31 ut $15 OOWilU 75, 1 at ijiiiO 00. 1,457 hliils old: 80S at $1 00@3 95, 51S at 4 00l?5 95, US'J at £k WAfl 95, 115 ut OlVj) 9 95 81 ut |10 00(i£ll 75, 75 »t $1:2 00V 75, 75 at #15® 17 50, 3 at W 25(^22 00.

Uottuii.

Wool—Ohio and Pennsylvania XXX 18c, XX and alxve 16',,(4170, 16c, No. 1 l«(g','0c, No 2 19J,(t631e, tine unwashed lsic, unmerchantable 13)-i®i8^c, Ohio combing No 1 ?B®,^-blood tiOisJBlc, No 2 Vi-bloud V0(i*2-c, Ohio delaine 18®5ftc. Michigan and above 15c, No. 1 lSKglOo, No. a 15o, fine unwashed 10^(8111c, unmerchantable 12c, Michigan combing No. 1 ^t^^-blood 80c, No Vblotai 10c, Michigan delaine lT)s318c. Kentucky, Indiana and Misfouri, combing ^t-Wood 16^-5®18o, do blood 14X®'lSc, do braid 16«$17o, clothing %-blood' 16® 17c, do

4-blood

coarbe 15c

15® 17c, da

Pittsburg.

Cattle—Prime, #5 H5®5 50 good, »4 60$ 6 00 good butchers, *4 00®4 50 rough fat, I(W 40®3 SO fair light steers, $3 20® 8 60 fat cows and heifers, 50®3 80 bulls, stags aud cows, $1 JXK&8 96 fresh COWB and springers, S15 00t|40 00. Hogs.— Phiiadelphias, S4 86®4 40: best mixed. |4 30®4 35, Yorkers, 14 15®4 roughs. $3 00®4 00 Sheep Extra, $8 80(gi4 10 good, *3 30®8 00 fair. 92 20® 3 00 common, II 00®3 00 besrt lambs, |6 20®5 40: comniou to fair lambs, $2 5®4 80 veal calves, «4 00®6 25

Ciucinaatl.

Wheat—54c. Corn—4»®4?^o. CattleSelect butchers, $4 35®4 65 fair to good, $3 50 25 commou, $2 50®3 40. Hogs— Selected aud prime butchers, $4 !30®4

Sacking,05

$4 'Out4 25 common to rough. ti0®4 Sheep—*2 00®4 25. Lambs— $3 00® 5 00.

ClikURn.

Hogs—Selected butchers, $4 25®4 35

£ackers,

fl 00®4 25. Cattle—Prime steers, 25®5 50 others, $3 00®4 35 cows aud bulls, $1 dOsH 00. Sheep «2 25®4 50, lambs, $3 $5 35.

New York.

Cattle—*4 15®5 20. Sheep—*2 25®4 40 lamba, «3 2605 60

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