Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1895 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1895.

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Established 1853. Still the Sale -Goes On The great S3 Ladies' Shoe Sale vc mean. Ho w the crowds did come yesterday and oh, how pleased they were when they got here. Again we say ALL KINDS, ALL STYLES, ALL SIZES, $3 All the best values A Pair. 'you ever had. PettisDryGoodsCo DAILY'S TURX TO CRY. He Struck n. Small Boy and Wii - Taken to Police Station. George Hamlin, a fourteen-year-old boy employed by the Sentinel, was brutally assaulted, last night, shortly before 12 o'clock, toy James Daily, a medical student, aged twenty vme years. Ham'in had. been on an errand and was returning to the office. He met Daily on North Illinois street, near the T. M. C. A. building. Daily carried a cane, the crook of which he put on the boy's neck, thus holding him. Young Hamlin attempted to get away, but Dally re- , fused to allow hlm to go. The boy began to fight, whereat Dally struck him in the forehead with the heavy end of his cane. Hamlin was knocked down and a large pool of blood soon formed where he fell. He was carried to the Sentinel office, where his wound was dressed. He was painfully, but not seriously injured. Daily was later arretted by officers Thorne and Lyons and lated for assault and battery with intent to kill. He laughed when tirst brought In, but when informed that his bond would be $1,000, he began to cry. He asked that sev-, . eral well-known physicians be summoned, and It was evident that he had been drinking. Daily is the son of a well-known Muncle citizen. He studied medicine here last year and came back recently to take some extra work. He was stylishly dressed and quite a sum of money was found on him when . searched. .':-"--.; AMUSEMENTS. Imrersoll's Best Story. One of the most substantial organizations of newspaper writers In this country ia the Chicago Press Club. Its splendid entertainment of newspaper visitors to the world's fair will not soon be forgotten. It accepts no favors from individuals, although they are frequently offered by thoughtless persons who hope thereby to gain the favor of the press. Every year for several years past it lias engaged Robert G. Ingersoll to lecture for Its benefit and on those occasions the vast Auditorium of that city is crowded to its capacity. Previous to his lecture there, a few weeks ago, a party of Newspaper, men were awaiting his arrival at the Grand Pacific Hotel, where he always stops when he is in Chicago, and they were beguiling the time by relating stories they had heard of which the Colonel was the central figure. Each man would claim - that his was the best story he had ever heard. Finally the Colonel entered, and, after greetings, was appealed to to tell the best story about himself. . , ' "Well, boys," -he said, "I think the best story ever told on me was by the fellow who said that my best epitaph would be' the subject of my lecture to-night 'Kobert Hums, and as he spoke there was that ly , twinkle in his eyes that has charmed Its every beholder. - Colonel TiiRersoll will be seen at the Grand opera House next Tuesday evening, March 28, when he will deliver his new lecture, entitled, "The Bible." Feats will be on nale at the box office, commencing this morning. . rrk Th-lr-''SpwIal Delivery. The new melodrama, "Special Delivery," which filled tho Park Theater twice yesterday, is all and more than had been promised. The play Is good, tho company' excellent and the scenery very effective. "Special Delivery" is all about a postman, the victim of circumstantial evidence. While the dramatic scenes and climaxes are Btrong ! and cleverly worked up to, the comedy element Is not only amusing, but lively. During the action of the piece a number of musical specialties are introduced. Ralph Ktuart, as the mall carrier so wrongfully accused, proved himself a good actor, and Miss Tessie Deagle won the admiration of ; t he spectators. Tho stage settings, notably the Harlem bridge, are realistic, f 'Special Delivery" will be given the rest of this week. "Tho Derby Mascot" comes Monday for a week's engagement. . PogllUtu at toe Empire. .v Three local pugilists Intend trying conclusions to-night with the professional fighter now with Martin Julian's troupe at the Empire. They are Daniel Collin vs. Danny McBrlde, Eddio Baker vs. Danny McBride and Charles Harris vs. Johnny Van Heest. The medal offered by the management to tho two oy wrestlers last night was won in two bouts by Peavey, who now is the possessor of tho paper-weight championship of Indiana. At the conclusion of the match. Peavey announced himself ready to meet all comers at eighty-three pounds, give or take three pounds, reserving the privilege of three days training. I Anna Boyd Engaged. ' BALTIMORE, Md., March 21. The engagement Is announced of Tunis F. Dean, manager of Harris Academy of Music, and Miss Anna Boyd, the clever actress and singer who fills the title roll in "Aladdin, Jr., David Henderson's spectacle, which is playing at the Academy the present week. The wedding will tako place early in the coming summer. . Note of the Stnge. Madame Nordica'a flatteo, Mr. Doehnic, is said to bo a "ferocious" baritone with few personal attractions. Miss Franc Burch, the noted humorous and dramatic reader a nd Impersonator, at Seventh Presbyterian Church to-night. Admission, 13 and 3 cents. Robert Hilliard, who has been starring with some success in "The Nominee" and other bright plays, made .his first appearance Tuesday night at the Olympic Theater, V Ht. Loubv as Philip Norton in Charles T. Dazey's new American drama, "The War of "Wealth." An entirely new production will receive its premier at MeVickcr's Theater, April 15, In the way of an entirely new play by Joseph Arthur, author of "Blue Jeans" and "The Still Alarm." The title of the new play is "Llnsey Woolsey." It is a domestic drama In four acts. It is to be staged by Ben Teal. The company, scenery and costumes will be the bent money can secure. Among the new ballet features offered in the production of Charles II. Yale's "Newest Devils Auction," 'at English's, next week, is "The Queen of the Ballet," a novel conceit, which is afterwards caricatured by tho "Prize Winners,'? a , laughable burlesque performed by the CeeJieo troupe of grotesque dancers. 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Boulevard." a combination of terpslchore and pantomimic, depict life in the streets of a great metropolis. MANITOBA SCHOOL Q UESTIOX. Order of the Dominion Conucil Made in Favor of Catholics. '-

OTTAWA, Ont., March 2L The long expected order In council,-giving the decision of the government of the Manitoba school question was made public to-day. After a long history of the case, and citing the recent decision of the imperial privy council, a recommendation is made to the Manitoba government to the effect that the Dominion government suggests to the Manitoba Legislature that it pass an act enablinJfcie Roman Catholic minority to maintain separate schools and that they shall not be taxed for the maintenance of puMio schools. The Dominion government will meet on April 18. for the dispatch of business, when the order in council on the Manitoba schools case will form a prominent topic of debate. NEW ORLEANS BANK CLOSED. Depositors' Money Returned, bat the Rent Kot Paid. NEW ORLEANS, March 21. Mr. Phillip J. Greene came to New Orleans from Denver, Col., early last winter and, deciding to make his home here, established a private banking house for which he claimed a capital of 5300,000. . He applied for admission to , the clearing house, but was refused. During the first week of March Mr. Greene left for Chicago. He has not returned and it is annouced that he ; is lying at death's door in that city. His wife left last night to join him. Callers at the bank to-day were informed that all funds on deposit had been returned to the depositors and that the business would be wound up as rapidly as possible During the day suit was entered against Mr. Greene for $12,0C0 for rent of. the offices occupied by him and attachments were run on the concern by traders aggregating $1,000. The closing of the bank caused no excitement on 'Change and the prospect is that the losses, if there are any, will be small. . . Other Business Troubles. WARRENSBURG, Mo., March 21. The Johnson County Savings Bank closed its doors again this afternoon. A card on the door announced that the directors deem it inadvisable to continue business longer, and a receiver will be appointed, but that there will be sufficient money to pay all depositors as soon as collections can be made. This bank closed about twenty months ago, but resumed business again soon after-1 wards, but people had lost confidence in it. COLUMBUS, O., March 21 Lockhart, Staley A Willard, dry goods, are in the hands of Receiver George W. Bright. Disagreement between partners was the cause. Assets, $G0,0OO; liabilities, to-i.CCO. POOR ME3f IV XEW YORK. Small Salaries ; Are the Rule, but People Mnnaa-e to Lire. New York Commercial Advertiser. New York has often been called a city of paupers and millionaires. The city conveys to a stranger tho impression that its advantages are for the rich, and that the poor have little satisfaction in it. As a matter of fact New York is like any other American city, with the single exception that it costs more to support a large family here than elsewhere. But the small families and the single men can live as cheaply" here as in Cincinnati or St. Louis. It is stated that a bachelor may live here, and in considerable comfort, and get more tor what he sepnds than anywhere else in the United States. It is eminently the place for him, the spot he would choose above all others, at least on this side of the sea. Having a regular income of $1,500 or $2,000, small at It is, he can get on if he be a frugal manager without friction or loss of dignity. He cannot, obviously, stay at a very good hotel or take his meals at a high-class restaurant. But he can get wholesome and sufficient food in quiet out-of-the-way places no city on the globe except Paris has so many and so varied restaurants and can sleep and keep his trunk in a hall bedroom. Three suits of clothes one for business, one for morning or afternoon and one for evening will serve his purpose. Here nobody asks or cares where or how one lives. If one be reputable, presentable and have good manners, little else is required in one's outward relation to one's acquaintances. Upon a salarjr of f -1,000 or $3,000 a year a bachelor may here enjoy luxury which, as a' husband, he could scarcely compass with five or six times the amount. If he cares for society he is generally welcome to pleasant, refined circles, though if he wish to keep his bachelorhood and not entrench on his capital, he would better shun them. Pleasant circles have pleasant maiden daughters who are always dangerous and capable of overcoming, in a most mysterious manner, anti-matrimonial views supposed to bo inflexible. Many a bachelor of limited means has become a benedict before falrlv understanding Ills peril. The coat of living steadily Increases here much more proportionately than wages do. Tho average earnings of fairly educated, more or Icbs refined men, native born, many of therm Anglo-Americans, are not, it is reported, above $1,500 or $1,000 a year. The figure may seem too low when we remember how many men get $4,000 and $5,000. but these are picked men, who can do something better than the mass of their fellows, and they are not many in a comparative sense. The greater majority of New Yorkers are married. How doi they llvf? The common saying that one-half of the- world does not know how the other half lives applies in this-case. We of - this city seldom think of our immediate neighbors; are often unacquainted even with their names; feel no concern in or for them, unless circumstances in some way individualize them. But how do they live? It would be interesting, perhaps painful, to know. The mass of them, though" employed here, have their homes out of town in Brooklyn, or elsewhere on Long island; In Westchester county, on Staten island, in New Jersey for the sake of cheaper rent and various little eoonomies. Necessities are cheap in Manhattan, luxuries are very dear,, and so many that we seem to need them mainly, the necessities being almost superfluous. We can get on with a few luxuries, if single. To marry, therefore, is to divide an income by four or five. A great many men are annually deterred from matrimony in this city solely by want of sufficient means. A great many more are not so deterred, and their marriage afterward produces much misery, and ends in separation and divorce; the misery and divorce resulting directly or Indirectly from their straitened circumstances. Cry of the Unsuccessful. Have you thought, in your moments of triumph, - O you that are high in the tree, Of the days and nights that are bitter . So bitter to others and me? When the efforts to do what is clever Result in a failure so sad. ' And the clouds of despondency gather And dim all the hopes that wo had?. Have you thought when the world was applauding . Your greatness, whatever It be. Of the tears that in silence were fallingYes, falling from others and me? When the hardest and latest endeavors Appeared to be only in vain, And we've curtained our eyes in the night time Indiff'rent to waking again? For it wants but little reflection. And you'll be the first to agree That the favors in which you are basking Are darkness to others and me. Ami it's hard when you lie in the sunshine Of fortune so emiling Indeed, If you have not a thought for the many Who'll never can never succeed. Pall Mall Budget. Trilby Shoes. Cincinnati Tribune. The young woman wailed. Further, she went in her mother's arms. "I will never go back to him, never," she sohled "Tell me, my daughter," said the elder woman. "Why, ho went and told mo that If I would stay away from the matinee he would bring me a pair of Trilby shoes." "And you stayed awav." "Yes, and he brought n.e a pair of carpet slippers, and the 'hateful wretch proved by the book that that was the kind of shoes she wore." Letnoii for Savol Contractors. Louisville Commercial. The loss of the. Relna Itegenta, of the Spanish navy, a vessel in which we ske noma interest, because it participated in ur naval Columbian parade, has been, fullv confirmed. Its wreck h a been found, and its loss, with Its great destruction of life, will be a lesson to naval constructors who make ships topheavy and unseaworthy in trying, to make them, formidable. . The Latest. New York Mail and Express. A kind-hearted old lady In v Baltimore thinks it is cruel to open clams with a knife before stunning them with a blow. This Is the extreme in sentimentallsm. A Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Clams Is not armou; the lnn.'o.-?lbilitles now.

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CLARENCE AXD SADIE ROBIXSOX COXVICTED AT BUFFALO. Former Sentenced, to the Penitentiary for Life and the Latter Awarded Tvrenty Years. BUFFALO, March 2L Clarence Robinson has been found guilty of murder In the second degree and his wife, Sadie, of manslaughter, for. the killing of Montgomery Gibbs. The former was sentenced to prison for life and the latter sent up for twenty years. The verdict of the jury was rendered immediately on the opening of the court today, the twelve men having been out since 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. So intense was the interest in - the outcome of the trial that the City Hall corridors were crowded long before the hour of opening of the court. Sheriffs deputies with staves struggled with the throng to keep them from bursting In the court-room doors. It was with difficulty that a passage was cleared for the entrance of the handcuffed prisoners and the judge. When the jurors were in their places, the straining of attention to hear their verdict made the court room as sjlsnt as a tomb. The jury was asked: "Gentlemen, have you agreed on a verdict?" . The venerable foreman replied: "Wehave." . "How do you find." "Clarence Robinson guilty of" murder in the second degree; Sadie Robinson guilty of manslaughter." . Then the fomality of polling the jury -was gone through with. When the verdict was announced, the Robinsons brightened up and their attorney beamed with delight. After the judge had entered the sentence, he look inquiringly toward the attorney for the defense, and remarked significantly: "Mr. Saperston, this is the last day of the court." The attorney took the hint. He asked for, time to prepare a motion for a new trial. The Court We'll settle this case now. Mr. Saperston But, your Honor, this verdict was unexpected and we're not 'prepared to present arguments for a new trial until we have a few days, probably a week. The Court (Interrupting) You've had all the time necessary. The motion is denied. The judge then directed the defendant, Clarence Robinson, to be sworn. The prisoner stood up and answered the usual ques1-, tlons regarding his age, occupation - and parentage, and was asked if he had any reason to allege why sentence should not be passed upon him. The prisoner said he had. Standing erect and looking remarkably selfpossessed for a man who had endured a ten days' trial for his life, Clarence Robinson addressed the court thus: "I deny that we were there when this murder was committed and that we attempted to commit a felony. The verdict, it seems to me, is not in accordance with the evidence. And as for the evidence produced by the prosecution, there is not one thing showing that we were on the spot that night. This verdict came upon me unexpectedly. - I do not think it a just verdict. If they found mo guilty, the verdict should have been murder in the first degree. But there was no evidence to prove that. How could they find me guilty of anything else? .We said, and we still say, we were at home that night. I think," -he said, commenting on the case as he might if he had been a spectator, "that the most telling evidence in the case was that concerning the cartridges and the letter written to the News by Mrs. Robinson. But I must Bay that other cartridges would show marks like those produced and other revolvers might make such marks. .1 don't know why some other cartridges were not brought in to show that." Regarding his own confession, he said, he had been Induced to make it through insane jealousy of his wife. He believed that his wife waa also influenced by Cusack in the way she testified. "She always was weak headed," he said "and if we had chosen to put in a plea of insanity for her, it would have been easy enough to prove." The court told the prisoner that the Jury had taken a merciful view of the case. He then pronounced sentence of life imprisonment. , ' Next Sadie arose and faced the judge. She answered the questions curtly, and when asked what she had to say why sentence should not be pronounced, replied: "I say ,that most all thoce witnesses lied. I know it." She was sentenced to twenty years at Auburn. The prisoners were remanded to jail, court adjourned and the crowd slowly melted away. ' - Wife Murderer Gran ted a vv Trial. MANDAN, N. D., March 21. William W. Pancoast, the Ohio bank robber and alleged wife murderer, sentenced to hang May 23, gets a new trial. Pancoast robbed a Medina (Ohio) bank of several thousand dollars a few years ago, ran away to Canada and thence to Minneapolis, where he changed his name to Myron R. Kent. There he married -Miss Julia Holmes, a young lady in the first circles, and in the fall of 18!2, moved to a farm near Mandan. In March, 1893, Mrs. Kent was munlered and Kent disappeared. A hired man named Sorabtskl was arrested and confessed that he killed Mrs. Kent for $1,800; which Kent promised to give him. Kent was arrested In Colorado, brought back here and convicted of murder in the tirst degree. The Supreme Court of North Dakota, in granting a new trial, holds that when the defendant presents an afiidavlt stating that he cannot have a fair trial by reason of bias and prejudice of the judge, it is the absolute duty of such judga to call in another judge to help try the case. The court says the word "may" in the statute must be construed as mandatory. A UyiDK Man" Statement. BUFFALO, March 21. Lester T. Halliday died to-day, and the police are puzzled to know whether to believe his antemortem statement or to think he committed suicide. With his dying breath Hafllday reiterated the story of highwayman's assault, but the bullet that pierced his lung did not perforate his coat or breast. The shot was tired close to tb body, and the revolver was found where ;t had been flung from the bridge, all tending to confirm the suicide theory rather than that of robbery. The police have made two arrests. The suspects are Lillian Preston and Calvin Baker, the former Halliday's sweetheart and the latter his rival. Tha woman accuses Baker of threatening Halliday's life, though Baker does not answer the description Halliday gave of his assailant. A Boy'n Crime. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., March 21. Charles Donaldson, an inmate of the reform school here, was summoned to the bath room this morning to be punished for breaking a rule of the institution. Before entering the room he borrowed a pen knife. Keeper Davis took hold of the boy and the latter stabbed tho keeper three times over the heart. In the right side and on the left arm. Doctors were summoned and after an examination, pronounced the keeper in a precarious condition. Donaldson, who is thirteen years old, was sent to the school as a waif and under the rules he must stay there until he is of age. ' Englishmen Mnrdered in Mexico. TRESNILLO, Mexico, March 21. The dead bodies of two Englishmen, who left here about a week ago for Durango, have been found near Sombrererte, terribly mutilated. It is supposed they were murdered and robbed by the servants who accompanied them. The servants were Englishmen and both are missing. The names of the murdered men are C. J. Hamerforl and Edward Sembl. They came to Mexico several months ago to invest in coffee lands. Two Children Burned to Death. WINSTON, N. C; March 21. Information reached here to-day that two children, aged five and seven years, of a woman named Hart, living in Ashe county, were burned to death iu a tiro which consumed their home. The children, it is said, were locked in and the lire started. The mother and an unknown mun have been arrested on suspicion that they et lire to the building to rid themselves of the children. Saved. ? Chicago Tribune. . ' Sneaking through obscure alleys, dodging behind usli barrels, slinking along in the sliudow of some friendly barn or coal shed, darting furtively through the glare-of the moonlight that lit up tne open spaces where the alleys intersected and plunging desperately into the gloom again, the stooping, shrinking figure of a mm made its way through a secluded part of town. There was a hunted look in his eye and he panted with fear, A noise as if pursuers were on his track fell upon his ear. He crouched behind a huge garbage box

and listened. It was the wrangling of a

, conference of cats in a neighboring back yara. - .- lie bared his head and wiped the cold perspiration from his brow. The chill March wind pierced him to the very mar- , row. Shivering from head to foot, his teeth chattering and his eyes rolling wildly In their sockets, he started on again, more cautiously, if possible, than before. Presently he came to a high board fence. Without a moment's hesitation he climbed over it and found himself in the rear of a largo brick dwelling. The house was dark. The inmates evidently bad retired for the night. "I am safe thus fat-," be-said to himself in a trembling whisper, "but somebody may be watching for me with & shotgun." . Crouching in the shadow of the fence he crept along on his hands and knees until directly beneath a kitchen window. Then he raised himself cautiously, drew a chisel from an inner pocket of his coat, inserted it below the sash and pried with all his might. The fastening yielded and the window was open. - He drew inside a valise he had been carrying, and then with desperate yet noiseless h9te clambered in himself and shut down the window. "Saved," he gasped, an3 fainted away. He was a member of tie Fifty-third Congress returning home. DEBS WAS MISTAKEN. A. R. UV Coniplracr ' Cases to Be Pushed toy the Government. CHICAGO, March 21. Edwin Walker and Thomas Mltchrlst, of the special counsel and United States District Attorney General Black had a conference with Judge Grosscup to-day about the trial of Eugene V. Debs end other Railway -Union officers, which has been set for e rehearing on the first Monday in May. It was agreed to advance the trial one week if the counsel for " defense will agree. Mr. Walker will confer .with Messrs. Darrow and Gregory concerning the matter. Mr. Walker left for Washington to-day to be present at the hearing before the Supreme Court on the habeas corpus : application testing the constitutionality of the act "under which Judge Woods committed the officers of the A. R. U to jail for contempt. The action of the court dn setting a date for the trial dissipates the belief which was general In labor circles that the case Would never reach a rehearing. In a lecture delivered in the Auditorium here recently. Debs asserted that the government would not press the matter, Intimating that the prosecution had become convinced that a conviction was impossible. - The government attorneys to-day, however, declared that they would push the case as rapidly as possible. WEATHER BUREAU FIGURES. Temperature Recorda Yesterday Morning and Last Night. C. F. R. Wappenhans, local forecast .official of the Weather Bureau, furnishes the following observations taken yesterday at the places and hours na-ned: , 7 a. m. 7 p. m. Bismarck, N. D. .. .. i.-.... SO 43 Rapid City, N. D 46 Pierre. S. D. -V... St. 56 Huron, S. D. 2 o4 Yankton, S. D. 21 St. Vincent, Minn 84 46 Moorhead, Minn 34 4S Duluth, Minn " . o3 St. Paul, Minn 30 42 North Platte, Neb 30 54 Valentine, Neb. 84 rb Omaha, Neb 4t Des Moines, la. 44 Davenport) Ia. 28 4i Koekuk, la 30 - , Concordia, Kan 30 4b Dodge City, Kan 32 52 Wichita, Kan .. 30 48 Kansas City, Mo 6 ?? St. Louis, Mo 32 44 Springfield, Mo. i. ....... 25 44 Chicago, 111. .. 30 28 Springfield, 111 28 43 Cairo, 111. .. 83 4b Marquette, Mich lb Grand Haven, Mich 22 30 Indianapolis, Ind. 44 Louisville, Ky. .. Cincinnati, O. .. -J . -J Cleveland, O 22 26 Parkersburg, W. Va 22 Pittsburg, Pa -b Buffalo, N. Y 26 . 2b New York. N. Y. ................ 28 ob Boston. Mass. t. iV.r',-28 Washington. D. C. 34 Charlotte. N. C. 4 44 Atlanta, Ga. .. ,34 4b Jacksonville, Fla. 4b 60 Chattanooga, Ten. , 36 .. Nashville, Tenn.. 30 , . 44 Memphis, Tenn. .. 34 48 Vicksourg, Miss, 38 . 56 Fort Smith, Ark. 32 48 Little Rock, Ark 34 48 Oklahoma, O. T 32 48 Amarlllo, Tex. 62 Abilene, Tex 46 64 Palestine, Tex ...... 38 54 San Antonio, Tex 52 6b Galveston. Tex. 54 52 Shreveport, La, 40 56 New Orleans. La 43 &b Helena, Mont ....s.;.. ; 30 42 Havre, Mont ob 4b Cheyenne, Wyo 2 4Denver, Col 38 oi Santa Fe 32 48 Salt Lake City, Utah 34 . ,48 Foreemit for Thursday. 1 WASHINGTON, March 21. For Indiana and Illinois Fair, but partly cloudy; warmer; southerly winds, increasing to brisk.- ' For Ohio Fair; winds shifting to southeast; slightly warmer. Thursday's Local Observation. Bar. Ther. It. II. Wind. W'lher. Pre. 7 a m..3iU6 28 70 North. Clear. 0.00 7 p.m.. 30.31 4i 36 N'east. Clear. 0.00 Maximum temperature; 46; minimum temperature. 26. '. , , ' ' Following ia a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation March 21:' Temp. Pre. Normal .1 42 .13 Mean Jb .00 Departure from normal., 6 AS Excess or deficiency since Mar. 1. 117 1.8 J Excess or deficiency since Jan. 1. o.'!5 4.41 C. F. R. "WAPPENHANS, Local Forecast Official. '.'CUBA. AND THE CUBANS. Tax-Bidden People Who Hope for Aid . from Thin Country. . Washington Letter in Chicago Post. The relations ot Cuba and the Cubans to Spain are the relations of a slave to a cruel, avaricious master. The population of the island was estimated in 1S90 at 1.631,687, of whom tho whites constituted 65 per cent., so that there are approximately 1,OCO,000 Cubans In Cuba of white and half-caste blood. Thirty-live per cent, of these can read and write. Havana has a population of about 200, OW; Matanzas, the next largest city, about 90,000, and Santiago de Cuba, capital of the province in which -the current rebellion is up, about 73,000. The army in time of peace is limited to 20,000 men and the militia to thrice that number. All the important ofliees in the army, and, indeed, also in the civil government, are held by Spaniards, who make not the slightest effort to hide their contempt for the colonists. Such email measure of self-government as is allowed to the natives is of recent origin. With the Spaniards In authority peculation is reduced to a science. ' - Cuba is divided into three provinces, the southwest and central being the 'richest and most populous, containing twenty-two cities and towns and 204 villages and hamlets. Ten per cent, of the area is cultivated, 7 per cent, is unreclaimed and 4 per cent, is under forests. There are large tractsi of the island still unexplored. Slavery was absolutely abolished in 1SS6. and education was made obligatory in 18S0. Havana, the capital, had a population of l!i8,27l in 1887, and the population of the island in 1S87 was made up of 977.992 Spaniards. 10,632 foreign whites. 13,811 Chinese and 489,249 negroes. The chief produce of the island is sugar and tobacco. In 1893 sugar t the amount of 742,108 tonsi was exported, and In 1892 tobacco' to the amount of 240,0O bales was shipped. In the same year 166,712.000 Havana cigars were exported. The total exports from Cuba in 1S!C amounted to S9.632514 pesos, of which 84.964.680 pesos was for vegetable, 871.62S pesos for animal and 3,433,924 for mineral produce. The import value was put at 56,265,315 pesos, of which 18.553,307 pesos was from Spain, lo,245,S8 pesos from the United State?, 11,051,384 pesos from Great Britain. 2.250,901 pesos from France, 1,000,000 pesos from Belgium and C69.000 pesos from Germany. The chief imports are rice, jerked beef and flour. There are in Cuba 2.S19 miles of telegraph, with 167 offices, and about 1,000 miles of railway. The estimated revenue for 1893-94 was 24.440,759 pesos, of which 11.375.000 pesos was for customs: expenditure, 25,984,239 pesos, of which 12.574.4S5 pesos was for debt, 5.901,084 pesos for the Ministry of War and 4.015.034 pesos for the Ministry of the Interior. The debt is put at over i:i(,200,00u. The most remarkable cures of scrofula on record have been accomplished by Hood's Sarsaparilla. This medicine Is unequaJel for, diseases of the blood. Take only Hood's. , Hood's Pills are hand made,, and perfect in proportion and axperance. 25c.

FIRE AT SIOUX CITY

PROPERTY VALUED AT ABOUT 5H,OOO DESTROYED ,nY FLAMES. Storage Warehouse, LInaeed 31111 and Elevator Burned Farm Implement Companies Heavy Sufferers. SIOUX CITY, Ia., March a. One of the most serious . fires in the history of Sioux City destroyed the warehouse of the Western Transfer Company, No. 200 Iowa street, , to-day, together with lis contents, entailing a loss of more than 1200,000. The high wind which was blowing communicated the fire to the linseed oil mill across the street, and it was partially destroyed, with the greater part of its contents, making a total loss of $500,000. Tho wind, which had been from the southeast, now changed and increased in velocity blowing for a time directly from the east. This-1 communicated the flames to the two big tanks owned by the linseed oil mills, and the platform on - which they rested began to burn fiercely. Thousands of people had congregated by this time and when they saw the tanks on fire, there was a wild stampede. The storage building was an immense structure, 500x60 feet, including the brick storage annex. The main part of the elevator was five stories high, and had a capacity of 150,000 bushels. In the bins at the time were stored 100,000 bushels of flaxseed and on the lower floor were several thousand tons of linseed oil cake ready for the market. In the annex the oil was in huge tanks, having an estimated capacity of 120,000 gallons. When it waa plain that nothing could be done towards saving the implement warehouse the firemen turned their attention to saving the oil mill storage house. Mayor Fletcher telegraphed to Lemars and Missouri Valley for the fire departments in those towns, and they were soon ready to respond, but when it was found that the fire could be controlled, messages were sent to hold them back. The 1 building of the Western Transfer Company was a mam-, moth frame structure, six stories high, covered with corrugated iron. The iron aided the flames, as it kept water from reaching the wood work. The huge four-story and basement warehouse, 100x150 -feet was filled from top to bottom with farm inplements and machinery, valued at about $200,000. This machinery was owned by about twenty implement companies in different parts of the United States. The list of these companies is &9 follows: Rock Island Plow, Rock Island, IU.j Nebraska Moltne Plow, Omaha. Neb.; Sandwich - Manufacturing Company, Sandwich, 111.; Walter A. Wood Harvesting Company, St, Paul, Minn.; J. F. Seiberling & Co., Akron, O.; Aultman & Taylor Machinery Company, Mansfield, O. ; Advance Thresher Company. Battle Creek, - Mich.; Kingman & Co., Omaha, Neb.; Norwegian Plow Company, Dubuque, Ia.; Chambers, Deerlng & Quinlan Company, Decatur, 111.; F. B. Talt & Co., Decatur, 111.; Hurst, Dunn & Co., Peoria, 111.; Rockford Manufacturing Company, Rockl'ord, 111.; Oliver Chilled Plow works, South Bend. Ind.; Sterling Manufacturing Company, Sterling, 111. ; Stoddard Manufacturing Company, Dayton, O. ; James Selby & Co.. Peoria, 111.; Selby, Starr & Co., Peoria, 111.; Acme Harvester Company, Pekin, 111. The contents of the burned warehouse carried insurance aggregating $31,750 in the following companies: Insurance Company of North America, $3,650; Liverpool, London and Globe, $4,000; Royal, $6,000; Commercial Union, $3,000: Phoenix, $3,500: Norwich Union, $3,000; Traders, $600; Franklin, $2,000; Philadelphia Underwriters. $4,000; Pennsylvania Fire, $3,000. The warehouse Itself was protected by $30,000 insurance, in the Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance Company. The insurance on the oil mill cannot be ascertaJned, as , the National Linseed Oil Company handles the insurance on all its plants. The Franklin and Pennsylvania companies each carried $3,0u0 and the Commercial Union $6,000 on seed in the elevator. The value of the contents of the elevator at the market price would make the loss $300,000. ( ' Costly Cotton Fire. V. NEW ORLEANS, March 21. The. cotton trade of New Orleans, which has suffered greatly the past two or three months on account of the labor troubles on the river, received another blow this morning when between 15,000 and 20,000 bales were destroyed by fire. The fire occurred in the International cotton press, situated at the corner of Gainnie and South l'eters street. The 'flames were first discovered at 3:30 this morning by the watchman. A gale from the northwest was blowing and the fire soon swept across the street to yard No. 2, where also several thousand bales of cotton were stored. It took the firemen six hours to get the fire under control. The loss is estimated at $300,000; insured. Forest Fire in New Jersey. ATLANTIC' CITY, N. J., March 21. A forest fire which has already burned over twenty-live acres of valuable timber Is raging within two miles of Egg Harbor City to-night. Several residences are in the path of the flames, and gangs of men are working to save them from destruction. 'WEALTHY PRIMA DOXXAS. Grist Made Three Fortune and Other Singeri Crew lticli. London Telegraph. Altogether, an inquiry into the varied fortunes of famous prima donnas would be a fascinating subject for the artistic biographers. In the early days of Italian and French opera the principal female artists were poorly paid; in England the prima donna was somewhat cavalierly called the "first singing woman," and her salary rarely exceeded 8 a week. One of the earliest performers of the kind was a young lady known as Margherlta or Mairgheretta, who flourished In the reign of Queen Anne, and who seems to have made considerable sums, in addition to her earnings at tho theater in the Haymarket, as a solo singer at the bouses of the nobility and gentry, but until late in the eighteenth century the stipends of the "first singing women" were Insignificant in comparison with the prodigious sums bestowed upon the male "soprani." The most notable of these whs Carlo Broschl, surnamed Farlnelli, in consequence, it is supposed, of his father having been a miller. He was a pupil of the famous Porpora and in 1734. his master having been appointed director of tho Iomlon Italian opera, Farlnelli visited England, from which he took v away, after a campaign of almcst unex--ampled brilliancy, many thousands of pounds. In Paris two years afterwards his enchanting vocalization succeeded in dispelling the musical apathy of iouis XV, but it was in Hpaln that he achieved his greatest triumphs. He went to Madrid with the intention of remaining five weeks, and he stopped there five and twenty years. Philip V had been for a long period a prey to the darkest hypochondriasis, but at the entreaty of the Queen Farlnelli sang repeatedly before the afflicted monarch, who, roused from his somber melanchol bade the artist name whatever reward he chose. The soprano repliea triit he should be sufficiently recompensed if hh Majesty would get shaved and preside at the next Cabinet council. He became the courtly as well as the artistic favorite of the King, but in 1771, when he was visited-in the Spanish capital by Dr Burney, the father of the Inimitable authoress of "Evelina," the soprano mournfully told the English physician the price which he had had to pay for his favor at court. Philip only liked four songs, and this quartet of ditties Farlnelli had to sing to his Majesty every evening. After an absence of eight and twenty years Farlnelli returned to his native country and built .liim.seU' a magnificent palace at Bologna, but ho found himself alone In the world, without family and without friends, and his only solace was to converse with ine foreigners, especially the English who came to tee him. As regards lady artistes of the lyric stage, the Orfeo in Gluck's exquisitely beautiful opera of that name ought to have made a iarge fortune; only, unfortunately, the vocalist . wh sang the captiviting "Che faro senza, Euridiee." In Pais was not a contralto, like the delightful Mile. Ravogli. but a male counter-tenor named Legro,, who sang detestably. To find a wealthy prima donna in the closing years of the last century there must be recailed lime. Grassinl, a mezzo-soprano of supreme 'beauty an.i a musical genius as superb, whose singular fortune it was to win the hearts of both Napoleon the Great and of the victor of Waterloo. Her portrait is at Apiley House. As for" Giuiia Grisi, that delicious songstress made at least three fortunes on the continent, in England and In the United States; but, although she built lor herself a beautiful villa in the vicinity of Florence, she did not die possessed of great wealth. Mme. Bantl, who was the contemporary of our Mrs. Rillington. and who had been in her girlhood, like the tragedienne Rachel, a street bal'.ad singe., gained and squandered immense treasures, but at her death she had little to leave beyond her larnyx. which she bequeathed to the Academy at Bologna. Mrs. Blllington herself, who had also an enthusiastic admirer In Napoleon, is said to have made 111,000 in a single year's engagements: but she did not die in affluence. On the other hand. Mme. Catalani realized a prodigious1 fortune, which nhe w sensible enough to keep. Malibran died too early to be accounted a millionalra

prima donna. Henrietta Sontag, Countess Rossi, acquired a large, fortune, but was ruined by the events of 184S, was forced to return' to the stage and died in Mexico. Sophie CruvelH was a favorite of fortune, while at least two English prima donnas rose to high rank, as well as to celebrity and affluence. Lavinla Fenton, the original Polly of "The Beggar's Opera." died Duchess of Bolton, . and the fascinating Kitty Stephens became Countess of Essex.

FAITH IS DESTIXY. A enlr Told Episode In the Life of Xapoleon Bonaparte. Paris Figaro. On the 5th of October, 1799, a little before sunset, on the top of one of the hills near Ajaccio, three men with a military appearance and wearing long overcoats stoo looking out upon the sea. Although the weather was magnificent, not even a flashing boat was In sight; the gulf was deserted. At the foot of the mountain a portion of the town appeared, and the port, in which four big war ships were at" anchor. This was the squadron which on the 24th of August left Alexandria to bring General Bonaparte back to France. The three observers were Bonaparte himself, his chief of staff, Berthler. and Admiral Gantheaume. . "There is no possible doubt about it, said the Admiral, holding his glass; "there goes an English war ship, and further in the distance I notice two others." "Do you suppose that the English have received Information?" suggested Berthler. "No," said Bonaparte; T'these ships -are putting to sea without paying any attention to Corsica." "As a matter of fact," Paid Gantheaume, "their course is nor' nor' west, and they are moving slowly, with very little wind. General, we shall be obliged to put oft our departure twenty-four hours." "That is -impossible. Admiral we must leave this very night." "General, excuse me for Insisting: but if, as everything seems to Indicate, the English fleet is there, we would be obliged to pass through Its line, and it would be very difficult for us to do so without being perceived. On a clear night like this the chances are all against us." x "Admiral," said Bonaparte, slowly, "in the East a man becomes a fatalist. Now I believe firmly, that destiny is on my side." At this moment one of the sailors that escorted the three chiefs came up. He reported a singular discovery. On the crest of the mountain the men found a mass of cut shrubbery, evidently Intended to make a bonfire. This, in all probability, was intended to be a signal that night. As the sailor finished his report two gunsnots were heard and shortly afterward two sailors brought a struggling man before the chiefs. Two individuals armed with guns were found- in ambush behind the rock near the path. When hailed they took to flight. On being pursued they fired. One was captured and the sailors were still pursuing the other. The prisoner was a young man about twenty years old. He wore a brown cap and a hood. His dark face wore a savage expression. His ' dark eyes sustained haughtily the piercing glance of Bonaparte. Gantheaume questioned . him: "What were you doing there, hiding near the road and armed with guns?" "We were' watching for a wild boar." "Why did you not answer when you were hailed? Why did you run away, and why did you fire upon French Bailors?" "We are mountaineers, and wfe are not acquainted with uniforms. We believe that we were attacked, and naturally we defended ourselves." "you are spies in the employment of England," sale. Bonaparte. "You were preparing a signal for the English cruisers; but, on seeing us, another idea came into your heads; you thought you had a good chance to assassinate General Bonaparte, and you put yourselves in ambush so that you might fire on me as I passed by. But it seems to me that I know you. What is your name?" Another report was heard, and voices cried out, "He is dead!" An expression of savage despair contracted the features of the prisoner, and his eyelids became red, "You are a Valturlo." continued Bonaparte," tone of the bitterest enemies of my family. Yes, I have seen you before? .you; are Giovanni Valturlo." "No," said the prisoner. In a hoarse voice, "Giovanni 13 the man whom you hirelings have Just assassinated. I am his brother Guiseppe. the last of the Valturlos." "You hate me pretty hard, don't you?" said Bonaparte. "If I had three souls I would sell them with delight to. the devil for the chance of a single shot at you." Bonaparte looked at him for a few seconds in silence. "Are you a good shot?" "At five hundred yards I can drop an eagie. - Do with me what I would like to do with you." "Bring him over to yonder bush," said Bonaparte, to one of the sailors, "and count your steps as you advance." The sailor placed himself at the foot of tho bush with the prisoner, after having counted fifty paces. "Give him his gun," said Bonaparte. The sailor, almost stupefied, looked at the General, hesitated, but at last, obeyed. Bonaparte then said to the bandit, "Take good aim." Without losing a second over his sur prise Giuseppe pointed his gun. The scene was so rapid and so extraordinary that the two companions of the General were unable to interfere. They remained there as If they were paralyzed until the shot was fired. With his back against the trunk of an oak and his hands behind his back Bonaparte never budged. A few pieces of bark fell over his clothes. The ball lodged in the trunk a few inches over his left shoulder. Giuseppe, almost weeping with rage, threw his gun into the bushes. "Let that man go," said Bonaparte. Before disappearing the Corsican shouted: "You may reign, but I will never be your subject." That same night the French fleet left Ajaccio. On the 9th of October it reached Frejus, and one month afterward Bonaparte celebrated the eighteenth Brumalre. Giuseppe Valturlo kept his word. He loft Corsica and established himself in Tunis, where he became a Mussulman. His grandson, by whom this singular episode is related, lived at Tabarca at the time of the occupation. DARW1.V OF AUSTRALIA. He Makes It Certain that Man Ileally Is it. Ivan Karoo. The Queenslander. , ' A new Darwin has arisen, who has proved, to his own satisfaction at least, that man is a development of the ape. And he has chosen the humble and innocent babe as the base for his deductions. He sees the monkey in the man, or rather in the baby, at every turn. "Monkeys are snub-nosed; so are babies." Therefore, babies are monkeys. Could anything be clearer than that? That is S. S. Buckman's theory of evolution. Carrying the same idea a little further, I may. say with truth that dugong3 are snub-nosed; so are babies. Ergo, babies are dugongs. The one reasoning is as senseless as the' other. This Mr. Buckman carries the resemblance between babies and monkeys through a whole catalogue of "points." - "Babies and monkeys both have pouch-like cheeks." He Is not a family man, or he would know that the baby's pouch-like cheeks are developed ater birth by the natural action of drawing the vital fluid from the? mother. There are many other comparisons which are no wiser than those quoted, but I shall deal only with the last No. 12 on Mr. Buckman's list of points of resemblance. "Children are very fond of rolling. This points to the time when our ancestors had hairy bodies tenanted by parasites, and allayed the irritation by rolling." Shades of Darwin defend us! Has this genius ever seen a dog rolling, or a cat, or a horse, or any other of the familiar animals? If his reasoning be followed to the bitter end it can be proved that we are descended from the horse, the ass, the goat, the dog, or even the whale. We show points of resemblance to all of them at times, particularly the second, and especially when we get hold of pen and ink and commit to paper our opinion of things in general. You cannot persuade me, Mr. Buckman, that my ancestors were ever anything but men, savages, perhaps, but still men. and not goats, nor monkeys, nor kangaroos. Having studied the Buckman theory thoroughly and grasped all its possibilities, I consider mvself now capabale Of demonstrating to mv readers that they are kani Karoos or descendants from the kangaroos. j . ine Kansaron mi w does man. 2. The kangaroo eats vegetable matter; so doea man when he can get it. 3 The kangaroo hops; ditto man, especial-, ly when he has trodden on the penetrating end of a tack. 4. The kangaroo's arms are shorter than its legs; so are man's. 5. The kangaroo runs away when it is scared; man does the same. 6. The kangaroo sometimes passes food to its mouth with its paws; ditto man when he does not posses a fork or does not know the use of it. 7. The kangaroo looks behind him as he is moving off; so does man to-wlt. Ixt's wife. And , so on. I mlgbt find resemblances all the way from the tip of the kangaroo's noe to th end of his manslve tall, but further coropurlon is quite unnecessary. There is enough food for reflection In these seven points to keep our nursery philosopher from sleeping for half a century. Policemen and Dress Reform. Philadelphia Press. Woman's dress reformers need to reform the minds of the average policeman as well as ttelr dresses lest arrest. Imprisonment, tear and chagrin attend their effort at practical dress reform. A woman bicyclist in New York city wearing a bicycle co-

A Hew Discovery by the Shakers For more than a hundred years the Mount Lebanon Shakers have studied the cultivation of medicinal plants and sought to extract from them their healing essences. Their labor baa not been rpent In vain. They have made a discovery that will prove a blessing to mankind. It consists of a cordial that causes immediale relief in cases of indigestion. The importance of this discovery will bo apparent when we realize that nearly nine-tenths of all our sufferings are caused by dysiepsiA or indigestion. Nearly every person you meet has this digestive trouble in some of Its varied forms sick headache, distress after eating, pain and fullness in the chest arter eating, palpitation of the hart, etc.. are bat lymjs toms of indigestion. To relieve these suf ferings has been the study of the Shakers, and they have succeeded. The reason th Shaker Digestive Cordial has such an im mediate and salutary effect is that It causes the food eaten to be digested, for it 14 undigested food that causes the distress. The cordial causes the food to be digested before there is time for it to ferment and sour on the stomach. When the food is so digested it gives strength and vigor to th feeble body, makes one feel bright and cheerful and makes one gajn In flesh. The Digestive Cordial Is so prompt in it action that the very first close will have a perceptibly favorable result. . It gives immediate relief. In order to prove this statement, small trial bottles placed in the druggists' hand can be obtained for 10 cents each. Thl trial bottle will have a decided beneficial effect and will satisfy any one that the Cor. dial is adapted to his case. After a trial give praise to the Shakers of Mount Leba non, N. Y. ' PENNSYLVANIA LIKE FOR New York, Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. The shortest and most direct route and the. only one running four (4) dally trains from Indianapolis, with Pullman Vestibule Sleeping and Dining Car senicel Leave Indianapolis at 4:50 a. m., 2:15 p. m., 5:10 p. m. and 7:03 p. m. For full information call on ticket agents. No. 4S West Washington street. No! 40 Jackson place and Union Station. GEORGE E. ROCKWELL. D. P. A.

tume according to the latest . mode from Paris was arrested and locked up for not having lights on her bicycle, and for the grave charge, In the police sergeant's estimation, of wearing men's clothes There is no prerogative, that the police adhere to more persistently than the wholly mistaken notion that they have a right to regulate woman's apparel and to arrest her if she appear in public with nether garment too bifurcated for their taste. Dress reforrn associations need to address themselves to removing this obstacle In the .pathway ot more rational dress for women. . . jnETCRXIXQ LETTERS. Suggestion that If Followed Might Sometimes Save Trouble. Kate Field's Paper. I have wished for a long time that noma one would point out in print the advisability of returning to a writer his letter along with the answer to it. This would be really to answer the letter, not merely to write another In exchange. An answer should respond to all questions, and make suet comment upon anything that may hav been written as will add to the interest ot the discussion. By the return of the original letter the writer of it is the better enabled to understand the one it has called forth. It often happens that considerable time elapses before a letter can be answered, and unless it is re-read, the answer is probably highly unsatisfactory, indeed, even if the greatest care is taken In this regard, the author may have forgotten just what he wrote by the time the answer reaches him. How much mntal wear ami tear could be saved, therefore, by inclosins the letter in the reply, the latter beginning: "In response to the inclosed, 1 write to say," etc. nut t hero are still other reasons why a letter should be returned with Its answer. Between relatives and intimate friends matters are often discussed which do not In any way concern outsiders and which, the writers would not care to have made publio lest they shouM.be misunderstood, though they may be harmless enough In themselves. Apropos of this, several package of flower seeds were recently sent to tme relative by another wrapped up In fragments of old letters. Whilw helping to ussort the seeds my eye fell upen a fragment whose contents, being typewritten, were taken in almost at a glance. It concerned a private matter between the writer and recipient and bad I not been "behind the scenes," as it were, I might easily havo construed it to mean something entirely different from what the writer intended. I was surprised at its liability to misconstruction and I straightway did what Its owner was under moral obligation to do, but had neglected, and consigned it. to the flames. A request to have a letter destroyed as soon as read Is seldom complied with. Mont persons have an aversion to burning; old letters, and they can hardly be blamed for it. But what are we to think of people who use old letters for wrapping paper? Letters, as a rule, are Intended only for the eyes of those to whom they are written, and it is not honorable for any (one to allow them to lie about on to fail Into the hands of others. A common, indiscretion in this line is for a family to vacate a house, leaving behind them a heap of olcT letters for their successors to examine if so inclined. A correspondence is often carried on between young people, Including an exchange of confidences, much regretted when maHirer years have brought the writers added, wisdom. Think, then, what" a satisfaction It would be to both if they could have the privilege of destroying their own missives, which, though written in good faith, seem so foolish in the light of calmer Judgment, ami experience. . My proposal for a general practice of returning . letters does not. of - course, applyto those of a strictly business nature, or to those which, for some particular reason, need to be kept for future reference. B-Jt even these should not be kept longer than is absolutely necessary. It would be a source of much satisfaction to most peofds to have a chance to burn their own letters, and then know positively that they aro o-, stroyed. If once the custom could become universal it would be the most popular of commonplace reforms. The first correspondent to atlopt it might have to explain his reasons, but there Is no doubt that the othr party would appreciate them and follow suit cheerfully - TO EVICT THE EVEU OXE. Gullibility f n. Woman Who Fnneie Herself Possessed. the Devil. '- Paris Letter to London Telegraph. An extraordinary case illustrative of tha superstition and gullibility which render some people an easy prey to designing individuals has Just occupied the attention of the Amiens Police Court. At that town lives a venerable maid, who, by ome crazy -fancy, took it into her head that she was . possessed of the "evil one," who every night made his unwelcome appearance at her abode and sent her furniture spinning in all directions. She implored the gendarmerie and the police to rid her of the. diabolical presence. At last a goo 1-natureJ commissary sent an agent of the law (who, of course, saw and heard nothing) to pass a night at her abode. In her despair the old lady now had recourse to a somnambulist, who told her that the only way to make everything happy and comfortable once more was to procure a mysterious mirror which was then in the possession of a merchant in 'New York, and which she warranted to act as an lufalllble talisman. The worthy dams had no idea of exposing herself to the da aggers of the deep with the inevitable accompaniment of mal de mcr. so In her perplexity she applied to a business man named 1enne, who consented to ntart at oive on the voyage on the condition that his expenses should be paid. Lenne was supplied an a first installment with WX) francs, but In a fortnight he re-appeared with a story that he had heard from New York that the talimantc mirror was in l.ondon, whither be must proceed. Six hundred francs was given him for this Journey, but he remained in the neighborhood of Amiens, hi wife tuk'ng to the oil maid letters from time to time, in which he averred that he had entered into relations with policemen, lawyers, and even with ths "Chef de la Marino." but that several thousand franca would be required to carry ths whole thlnw through. No mirror (tallMtnanio or. otherwise) was forthcoming, und soon afterwards Lenne got Ida victim to !gn various promissory notes for him. At last matters came to a head. The oil lady had parted with all her money, an I tin notes remained unpaid. Threatened with a prosecution in consequence, the victim turned on her persecutor, who was arrested, with an accomplice. Lenne has been sentenced to fifteen months Imprlsunment and the other culprit to two months of tho sn me penally. At the trial the old ladv expressed the confident hope that she nilht yet procure the talisman, as the demon wm still plaving havoc with her furniture tni turning her house upside donu.