Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1895 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, .MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1895.

Japanese army, went on infantry, cavalry.

rtluery ana the baggage moving wun me precision of clockwork. A track had been lall around the outskirts of Toklo to the principal barracks. nd the embarkation was made there. the rule to pass po soldiers through citi In a body. At Yokohama a track is laid from the main line to a point where transports may be easily reached, and at the beginning of the war . 25,000 men were shipped there so quietly that not one citizen in five knew that a movement was taking place. The .celerity and the systematic way in which the Japanese handle their troops Is the astonishment and the admiration of till military men. I went out on Tuesday, morning to see the exhibit at the main military station. Regiments and detachments were found standing in line beside their stacked arms, waiting patiently for their transportation. There was no straggling, no skylarking. The faces of the men were serious. They were for the most, part splendid young fellows, stocky looking and earnest. They seemed to All their trouser . legs and boots with muscle and flesh after the manner of German soldiers one sees in Berlin and the garrisons along the Rhine. The officers, in their flat caps and longskirted overcoats, -looked very much like sun-burned Germans, and the men, in their blue uniforms white leggings and trimmings of bright red and yellow, bore the appearance of swarthy jack tars in tightbuttoned dress. . ? Trains came and went with absolute regularity, and there was neither bustle nor excitement. The infantrymen, I observed, were armed with the Japanese Murata rifle, which is made here, and which contains the best, features of the Remington, the Martir.i-Henry, Mannlicher and ail other modern firearms in combination. There being no patent laws for foreigners here, the Japanese can help themselves to the best of all mechanical contrivances in sight, and in this, as in most things, they are adapting and combining the most desirable. The Imperial Guard, being the counterpart of the English household troops, is very proud of itself. It is expected to make a fine, record for itself in the approaching campaign.. In viewing a marching regiment of these troops one is struck by the uniformity of size. The men do not seem to vary three inches in stature. As they move in perfect step their flattopped caps look a though they had been aligned with a spirit level. All the parade grounds in Tokio are filled from morning till night with drilling squads and companies. I observe that special attention is f riven to rapid advancing in open order and iring in kneeling posture. In this sort of . -work the little chicken-cock soldiers seem to be adepts. '"" Despite the Japanese desire for better things, two things here strike one as sin?ular and incongruous. One is the wretched ootwear of the people at large and the other la the tenacity with which the country clings to the old, stupid ideographic style of writing, adapted from the Chinese centuries ago. To write Japanese correctly requires years of patient study and only then la it given to a few, even as music is a special gift. The clumsiness of this chirographic system is apparent. A few evenings ago I was handed an itemized bill in a restaurant which measured nearly four feet, though the total was only a few yen, and I am sure that a reasonably skillful topographical engineer could have drawn a map of the Japanese; empire while it was being made out. ! . The Japanese language looks well In Roman character and is easily studied. Taught in the public schools, fifty children would become proficient in reading and writing to where it is now given to one to enjoy a smattering. What a blessing it would bo to the vernacular press, too, to do away with- the semi-Chinese hieroglyphics! The .novelty of journalism appeals to the Japanese mind. Newspapers are far to advance of the popular demand. Something like six hundred are published In the empire. Tokio had seventeen daily Journals at the last census and the strongest and ablest, even in these exciting war times, cannot boast of a circulation of more than fifteen thousand copies. The tediousness of "setting up" a newspaper in zigzag, twisted, convoluted and triangulated blocks is more than painful. In the first flace the compositor must be a more earned man than a college professor. His erudition must ext.el that of the average editor of an American newspaper. He must be reasonably familiar with the fourteen thousand ideographs which constitute the scholar's vocabulary and he must have at his finger ends the four thousand characters in daily use. The office of the Nichl Nichl Shlmbun, the 'leading Tokio Journal, is a curiosity shop to the journalist of the Western world. About one hundred and fifty people are employed, six of them being compositors. But each compositor has a half dozen assistants. Copy is cut into large "takes" - i a i a-. . 1 i l ( . n .. This individual wears a pair of goggle spectacles of enormous magnifying power. He is prepared to drop any one of the four thousand character blocks into his "stick." He has before him a case containing fortyseven kana syllables wherewith he connects the ideographs. Taking his copy the compositor cuts it into bits and passes it over to his boy assistants. These bright fellows go hunting about the office for the required Chinese picture words. . While doing this they sing the name of the character they arc looking for. All is bustle, jollity and noise. When a boy has collected the characters called for on his "take" he delivers them to the scholastic compositor, , who places them In order, along with the connecting kana before him. When made into forms the modem stereotyping process is employed and the printing is Jone on hand fed flat bed cylfnder presses. It will - thus be seen that the linotype machine, which is quickening and cheapening the newspaper production of our country, is not practicable here. With the Roman alphabet the Japanese newspaper, " cheap. as it is, would be still further cheapened, and certainly improved a hundred fold. But the rulers of modern Japan do not, I am told, care to have reading and writ-. Ing made common. These arts are only for the few. The leaders guard with jealous care their history and their legends, and: yet they spend . millions on their public schools, knowing ; that without enlightenment the empire cannot be great and strong. As for the footgear, that is only explalnauiB upon nq grouna inai learner is, scarce and dear, and that the Japanese house falls for cleanliness and softly stockinged feet. . The -modern Japanese gentleman wears his European suit of clothes and his latest style hat with grace while tramping about in awkward digitated socks and wooden slogs. Pretty women and children go mincing through the streets on wooden blocks, 'Which, must have come into fashion witrr" Jimmu-Tenno, the founder of tha present dynasty, making as much noise on a hard pavement as the same number of shod j donkeys. . . - But incongruities must be looked for here. The incandescent light swings in front of the moldy Buddhist temple; the flare covered bull Is led in barbaric procession past jraudy modern shops; the tram car driver hoots the half naked coolie in his primitive cart in the streets of the capital and telegraph wires enter the sacred precincts f a monarch who holds that he is of divine origin. On all hands feudal stupidity jostles modern methods and, ideas, but there la no retrogression." DEPEW ON SILVER. He Says' 00 Per Cent., of Eastern Peopie Are for the Gold Standard. : CHICAGO, March 31. In an Interview to., day with a reporter for tha Record, Chauncey M. Depew, talking on the silver ques-, tion", said: "The question of free coinage is not taken seriously in the Eastern States. - It is- not mentioned in politics. , It is not discussed in the papers. I 'will venture that 90 per cent, of the people of the Kast are in favor rf the cold standard without anv nnolo-. gies. Where the alleged issue of silver coinage is thought about at all it is merely that it is all right for one to take up as a bobby If he has time. I do not wish to be ltigoted in reviewing the situation, because I know that in the South the sentiment is very nearly unanimous for adopting the silver basis. And the West also clamors for the same end. But it remains true that the East does not attach importance to this fact, nor do our people expect - any serious step toward the change." "May not the two nations unite on silver and make it the one issue?" "The Democrats will have to make a stagger at indorsing free coinage to, hold old Democratic States. Hut It will not be constitutional. The Republicans will Pteer clear of the" question. Kither party, it . is safe to say, will only treat the matter so far a pontics may demand to hold their old strength and keep wind for the sails of a third party." "But some of the party leaders in he Kast have declared for the restoration of silver to its old monetary fuitctton." it was urged. "None of them mentioned the fact while they were candi&ates. Nothing but a miracle can wrest triumph from the Republican party." v , i 'Smallpox, nt LonlvIlle. LOUISVILLE, "Ky., March 31. A very malignant case o smallpox developed at the City Hospital hero to-dav. The sick man is a middle-aged negro by the nameof Charles Oliver, who was a steamboat hand, nnd who came here from Evansville, J ml. The patient was removed to the pesthouse and the hospital thoroughly fumigated. Dr. Barbour, superintendent of the lin.-pital. stated to-night that every precaution had been taken to prevent the disc ti-e from rpreadnig ovpr t?ie institution, '::.-- : :..j!i."!i::.;'.ja' . '"' r r'-" in larjo variety at Hit--

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KOKOMO LADIES BLACKED THEIR FACES AXD ACTED AS MIXSTRELS. liarnt Cork on the Stagre No Worse than Chalk on the Street, the Preacher Thought State Aews. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., March 3L The ladies of , the First Presbyterian Church caused a slight commotion in religious circles by giving a minstrel performance in the opera house Friday and Saturday evenings. About thirty of the most prominent church members appeared on the stage in burnt cork and gave an excellent entertainment, net-' ting the church a handsome sum. Rev. R. G. Roscamp, the pastor, was consulted by the more diffident ladies," who 'hesitated about applying the cork. He eased . their consciences by the jocular remark that some of them appeared on the street daily with powdered faces, and even wore them to church, and he saw no difference from a moral standpoint whether the powder used was white or black. .CATHOLIC PYTHIAXS. Many, Including Those of Terre Haute, Will Not Leave the Order. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 31.-The Terre Haute Catholic Knights of Pythias have decided not to leave the order notwithstanding the decree from the Propaganda at Rome. They have held meetings and by individual conference finally concluded that the church has no right to demand that they should leave the order. The church gave them permission to enter the order and nothing has taken place since which would render It any more difficult for a Catholic to retain his membership and church standing at the same time. The truth is that these Catholic Knights are somewhat . encouraged in the position they, have taken by the known opposition oT. a large majority of the clergy to ths decree. It is a fact that there has gone to. ome a statement which fc is expected will result in either a modification of the aprrpff or ita wliMramiii ... . it. rt ai. . The story of the issuance of the decree as told by one who is acquainted with the tA12.tnat the German Catholic Knights ?c r7 thla8 maJe such representations to their bishops that the latter asked the Propaganda to issue the decree. The German knights were incensed over the action pf-the Supreme Conclave at Washington last year, when it was ordered that none of the ritual of the order be in the German language. The bishops, such as Kat?ur' f Milwaukee, who have been making the fight for the maintenance of the German language in all organizations and in the schools, sent the request to Rome for adecree against the knights. The Catholics several years ago were given permi55,?,n.,to iola the Knights of Pythias, Odd Pel lows and Ancient Order of United Workmen. There are many German lodges or these two orders and no decree fias been issued against membership in them. Recently Mgr. Satolli told the Fall River. Mass., knights tnat they might make their Easter duty this year without first withdrawing from the secret society. This permission is not accepted In this diocese and up to tills time no Catholic who is a knight ' m good standing has been received in the confessional or at communion, which two church duties are expected to be performed ,Z J111 Catholics sometime between Ash Wednesday and the second Sunday after Easter, which latter day will be April 28. It Is believed the modification of the decree or an order rescinding it will be received before the last day. It is a fact not generally known that neither Archbishop Ireland nor Archbishop Kane has promulgated the decree. Nor has Cardinal . Gibbons given it the sanction of his indorsement, Indiana is in the archdiocese of Cincinnati and the decree, came to the bishops in this State fom there. BISHOP WARREN PREACHED. Sunday Exercises of the North Indiana. M. E. Conference. . Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPOHT, Ind., March 31. Logansport was filled to-day with visitors to the North Indiana M. E. Conference. -Bishop Warren preached an eloquent sermon at the opera house this morning from Ephesians iii, 14-16. He also ordained a class of eight deacons. In the afternoon, services were held in memory of the preachers who died during the year. Memorial papers on E. Holdstock and W. S. Boston were read by Rev. Edward Gregg, Rev. L. J. Naftzger read papers on J. A. R. Gahring and D. T. Stright. A paper on Benjamin Smith was read by L A. Beeks. No memorial on Presiding Elder Birch was read, but one will be published in the minutes. Bishop Warren ordained a class of fifteen elders after the memorial services. Prof. G. K. Morris lectured to men in i"6 afternoon under the auspices of the 1. M. C. A. "The Mask Taken Off" was his subject. The Epworth League meeting in the evening was led by the conference president. A sunrise prayer meeting this morning was led by Revs. F. T. Simp.-on, E. E. Neal and W. M. Nelson. The conference love feast at 9 a, . m. was led by V?V'VA.V Greenman, N. H. Phillips- and M.. H. Mendenhall. Conference will adjourn -to-morrow afternoon, when the appointments will be read. All the Protestant pulpits in the city were filled morning and evening by visiting clergymen. Funeral of the Rev. Birch. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIB, Ind., March 31. Rev. Birch, of Kokomo, who died while attending the North Indiana M. E. conference at Logansport last week, was for several years pastor of Simpson Chapel, In this city, and had a very large circle of admiring friends in Muncle, who were pained to learn of his- untimely death. He was a member of Muncle Commandery, No. 18, Knights Templars, and the following members of the lodge attended the funeral to-day at Kokomo, as a lodge: D. C Mitchell, W. R. Snyder. J. W. Per?in5,AW' Kelley, J. Edward Haffner. E. W. Bishop, A. E. Whitney, David Cammack, Melville Wood, Lee Glass and Lee Shaw, WIDOW'S CLAIM SATISFIED. The Wabash Road, Paid $3,600 and Georn-e J. Gonld l,GOO More. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. it WABASH, Ind., March 31. George J. Gould, the New York millionaire, pays $1,600 in the settlement of the suit for damages against the Wabash railroad brought by Mrs. George Jones, whose husband was run down and killed by Gould's special train 21 nLn's county- on the night of Oct. i. ine train was running venr raDidlv the sWeaiU,!? J '4""K0n ' not see nr hZhlS,Cafriage UD and not see or hear the train, which struck wTtg 3 Wh, was on h,s hunting trip " est. got off and made careful lnauirv regarding Jones's family. A damage suft was brought for $10,000, and the Wabash company ottered to compromise for S3 but the widow asked K,2fK). Thus the natl tor stood until Mr. Gould was advised of IS and PromPtly offered to make up the difference between $3,603 and $5,200 The agreement was. made last night and tha entire 55.2C0 will be paid in April. . Seventh District V. P. . c. E. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO. Ind., March 31. The Seventh district Y. P. S. C. E. convention meets in mis city next Thursday for a three days' session. The local committees have the preliminary work complete, and entertainment has been procured for five hundred delegates and visitors. Over three" hundred delegates have bespoken accommodations. State president Judge Lex J. Kirkpatrlck will preside, and prominent Endeavorers from all parts of the State will bo present. The programme of exercises embraces among others the following names: Judge Kirkpatrick, Harriet J. Wishard, S. Edgar Nicholson, Mayor Kirkpatrick of Kokomo, Miss Gamett Ashbrook and Miss Jennie Masson of Indianapolis, Prof. E. O. Ellis of Fairmount, Rev. Myron Long and Miss Winnie Butler of Marion, Mrs. M. L. Hagerman Of Muncie, Rev. Harry Nice of Peru. George Hinley of Ridgevillc, Rev. Little and Ed Bridges of Wabash. Bond Contract Repudiated. , Special to the IndlanapGlis- Journal. . JEFFERSONMLLE, Ind.. March 31.The city official: .-vre much exercised over the report that Splizer & Co.i r'-oston, had recused to ra.t!fy the viry -"' 1?3C':' worth of refunding.' tliy tf Jrrrr.-nv!:ie, v,J.Ij!4

to them by the finance committee of the City Council when the bids were opened at the City Hall two weeks since, their bid being the highest. The city officials were much pleased over the handsome premium included in the bid. For several days ru more have been numerous that the firm would refuse to ratify the contract, but for what reason was not known. It iar now learned that Spitzer & Co.'s attorney failed to approve the deed because the. city's indebtedness exceeds by about $60,000 the legal limit, as undr the law it cannot legally incur a debt of over 2 per cent, of ' its tax duplicate. What action in regard to the bonds will now be taken Is not known. ' ' Banker Arnold Seeking: a New Trial. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., March 31. The attorneys for Thomas Arnold, one of the proprietors of the Bank of South Whitley, which failed in September, 1833, have discovered a flaw in the proceedings against him which they think will give him a new trial. After a hearing that lasted over a week Thomson. Arnold was convicted of receiving deposits when he knew the bank was insolvent, and on Dec. 4 was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary and fined $500. The counsel for Arnold have found that the minimum sentence which could be imposed in a case of that kind is two years, and they hold the verdict will not stand. Attorneys for the State think that Arnold should be satisfied with the light sentence, and declare, if he is tried again, the punishment will be more severe. The case is one of peculiar interest to the legal profession. G. A. R. Headquarters. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind.. March 31. Department Commander Shiveley, of the G. A. R., requests a correction of the statement that he Intended removing the headquarters of the order from Indianapolis to Wabash. He states that he had appointed Adjutant-general Smock to serve as adjutant-general during his incumbency, and the headquarters are located at the home of the adjutant. The banner and colors of the State organization were brought to Wabash, but he wishes it understood there will be no change otherwise. The information of a prospective removal was given the Journal by Post Commander Miller, of this city. Chnrged with Stealing; Freight. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. . LOGANSPORT, Ind., March 31. For some months past there has been extensive thieving at the Panhandle freight depot here. The railroad detectives suspected August Worth, a freight handler, and early this morning the officers searched his house. They found a cart load of shoes, coats, hats, hardware and miscellaneous articles which, it is claimed, were taken from, the freight depot, and had' long s'.nce been paid for by the company as "lost in transit." Worth was locked up on a charge of larr ceny. ' .. ; Sunday Lavr Observance. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENSBURG, Ind., March SI. Prominent citizens of this place petitioned the Mayor, praying for the enforcement of the Sunday law, and It is understood that all violators are to be prosecuted. The main fight is being made against the cigar stores and other places that sell cigars cn Sunday. This morning groups of citizens gathered on the streets and discussed the reform movement vigorously. The trend of public opinion is that the law should be respected by everybody. . Violin Made in 1010. Special to the'lndianapolis Journal. ' BROWNS'iOWN. lnd. March 31. Adolph Herrmaiyi, a young man of this place, is the possessor of an old and valuable violin. The instrument is of very antique make, , an inscription in Latin conveying the intelligence that it was made in the year 1616, by Germonius, an old maker of violins at that time. The instrument is one of rare tone, and weighs only thirteen cances.' Herrmann contemplates selling it to some collector of rare fiddles.

Sbelhuru Mine to Resume. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBURN, Ind., March 31. The Sheiburn mine, which has been idle since the 10th of February, will resume work tomorrow. The suspension was - caused by the" receiver's failure to meet his regular pay obligation with the men. The resignation of the present receiver has been in the hands of the court several days, and was disposed of late Saturday night. C. C. Heiser, of Chicago,, the mortgagee, will assume full control. Successful Revival. ' Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES, Ind., March 31. The most successful revival ever held In the Presbyterian Church of this city has just closed. Rev. T. S. Scott, the pastor, was assisted by Rev. E. T. Rankin, an evangelist of Peru, Ind. There -were eighty-nine accessions to the church. The closing services were held to-day, when forty-five persns were baptized. Others had been previously baptized. Q,ulncy Rees Acquitted. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. 1 CONNERSVILLE, Ir.d., March 31. The jury In the case of the State vs. Qulncy Rees, charged with the murder of young Oscar Knotts, nt Falmouth, this county, after being out nine hours, returned a verdict of acquittal at midnight last night. The case occupied the attention of the Fayette Circuit Court all last week, and great crowds were present at the proceedings daily. - Charged with Forgery. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., March 31. Last evening Andrew W. Martin wa arrested on the charge of forging the name of John Richmond to a promissory note for $1,000 in favor of Frank Crockett. Martin furnished $1,000 bond and was released until April 12, when he will be given a tr al. The three men reside near Cowan, and all are large land owners. The arrest caused much surprise. - Plate-Glass Works Closed. Special to 4ho Indianapolis 'Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., March 31. The Diamond plate-glass plants in this city and Elwood closed down Saturday in all departments, throwing 1,600 people out of work. It was announced by the officials that operations would be resumed In thirty days. The close is for the nurpose of invoicing stock pre paratory to entering the trust. Indiana Notes. Kokomo Odd Fellows have decided to erect a $15,000 building the present season. Other business buildings, costing in all about $30,000, will also go up this year. The beech trees throughout Wabash county are dying. Many of them, farmers say, will not put out leaves this spring, owing - to the extreme dry weather. The young trees are suffering more severely than the old ones. R. T. Sailors, near Wabash, has a ewe which on Jan. 10 dropped a lamb. , On March 28, two months and eighteen days later she gave birth to two lambs, both of them very small, but healthy and frisky. Breeders say they have never known of a parallel case. , Farmers throughout Wabash county S.'ate that the growing wheat 13 in a precarious condition, and many fields are becoming yellow and bare. There has been little or no moisture this spring, and the hot dry weather has baked the earth, and it has been carried away by the gales. The sou has been blown out from beneath the roots of the plants. OBITUARY. Anthony C. Ileslng, Former Eflltor of the Illinois 'Statts Zeitung. CHICAGO, Marc ? .-"1. Anthony C. Hesing, former edtnr v nd publisher of the Illinois Stat5 Zeitur.g, died to-day at the ago of 8 emy : .o. Leath was due to a stroke of paralysis.vijs end T?as painless. For the last few yeirs Mf. Uesing had, retired torn active buness and political life. Wten Mr. Hesing retired from newspaper ork. his son, Washington Hesing, now postmaster of Chicago, took charge of the Staats Zeitung. Washington Hesing to-nlffht said that for thr- la,t two months his father's health had lPih niuch better than for some time previou3,j and ho was abla to get around and busy himself with a number of matters of importance. He called at the postoffice last 'Thursday to see tis son. Tha funeral arrangew,ents have not yet been completed, but the jinterment wilJ be Wednesday at St. Benif4"e Cemetey, in this c.ty . , 'Sir. Hesing was born Jan. 6, 1$ in Ger. many, and came to ; Americ in 1S39. Throughout the war Mr. Hesl,s vvas an ardent supporter; of the Uncol administration and during the reconstruction was a radical. Ho contributed largaty to the Republican congressional victo in Illinois in 1S66. With the exceptiofJ being one of the Lincoln park commH ioner from 1ST! ta I8TJ he had held no PMitical office since he as she-riff. He haseen i acthe f:rc- ja rc"t'.'.-s, however To

him the foundation and success of "Al tenhelm," or the German old people's home, near Oak -Park, is very largely due. He took an almost fatherly interest in it and its inmates and In his later years devoted a large share of his time and energies to it. For the past year or more he has baen active in the work and efforts of the city's civic federation. - On the seventieth anniversary of Mr. Hesings birth he was . given a notable reception. Congratulations were received from all parts of the country from representatives of all classes of citizens. The employes of the Staats Zeitung, who had been in the service of that Journal for more than twenty-five years, presented him with a gold-headed cane as a mark of respect. The Plattdeutsch Verein also presented him with an address of respect and the Orpheus Maennerchoir serenaded in a body. Mrs. Hesing died some years ago. , Washington Hesing is their only child. . Very Key. Payne Smith, D. D. r LONDON,' April 1. The Times announces the death of the Very Rev. Payne Smith, D. D., dean of Canterbury. He was born in 1818. Dr. Smith was at one time under liberarian at Oxford University and was the author of many works. He was a member of the Old Testament revision committee. In 1965 he was appointed to succeed Dr. Jacobson as regius professor of divinity in the University of Oxford and In 1871 was raised to the deanery of Canterbury. ; Gen. Sir George Tomkym Cheaney. LONDON. April 1. Gen. Sir George Tomkyns Chesney is dead. General Cheshey was the author of "The Battle of Dorking," which was published in 1871 and created, a great sensation, so realistically was it written. In 1887 General Chesney became a member of the council as the Governor-general of India. Other Deaths. CORNING, N. Y., March 31. Edward Bradford Barnes, Southern correspondent at St. Louis of. the Northwestern Miller, the leading trade journal published la Minneapolis, died in this city to-day after a brief illness of typhoid fever. Mr. Barnes was twenty-eight years of age, and graduated from Cornell in 1888. He was for a number of years identified with the Minneapolis Journal and Tribune. PEORIA, 111., March 31. Rev. Father Nicholas Holtel, a priest of St. Boniface Church, was found dead in bed at the parochial residence to-day. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of death from apoplexy. Father Holtel was born in Cincinati, in 1852, to which place the remains will toe taken for interment. He was ordained twenty years ago and has been pastor of St. Boniface since 1892. DAYTON; O., March 31. Thomas S. Babbitt, one of the most wealthy and prominent men of Dayton, died to-day from can cer that had given him great distress for months, and had eaten a portion of hia face, eyes and mouth. ' LONDON. April 1. The Times announces the death of Sir Charles Mills in London. He died of influenza.

WEATHER BUREAU FIGURES. Temperature Records Yesterday i 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 named: 7a.m. 7p.m. Bismarck, N. D 44 Pierre, S. D 32 Huron, S. D 34 Yankton. S..D. .. 38 St. Yincent, Minn .. 50 Moorhead, Minn 1 42 Duluth, Minn 30 St. Paul, Minn .. SI North Platte, Neb i 36 32 Valentine. Neb 32 30 Omaha, Neb 4t 38 Des Moines, la . 40 40 Davenport, la, 36 36 Keokuk, la 42 .. Concordia, Kan 46 40 Dodge City, Kanl 36, 41 Wichita, Kan ;;.... 52 62 Kansas City, Mo. 56 55 St. Louis, Mo'.....,;...'. 62 62 Springfield, Mo 60 66 Chicago. Ill .; 34 34 Springfield, 111 62 42 Cairo, - 111 'A 66 Marquette, Mich ...v ,. .. Grand . Haven, Mich... '. 32 Indianapolis, Ind................. 43 5S Louisville, Ky .. 62 Cincinnati, O ... 64 Cleveland, O. . .. 36 Parkersburg, - W Va... .. 64 Pittsburg, .pa ..i,..,... ........ .. v 54 Buffalo. N. t Y Ml.r,jtA,,.j,, , . 32 New York . .,,,,,.".... ........... ... ,' 40 Washington,. D. C 46 Charlotte, N. C 52 Atlanta, Ga .. 64 Jacksonville, Fla 70 Chattanooga, Tenn ,.. .. 56 Nashville, Tenn 61 , Memphis, Tf-nn .. 72 Vicksburg, Miss 72" Fort Smith, Ark .. 70 Little Rock, Ark .. 74 Oklahoma, O. T 52 66 AmarJIlo, Tex, 3t 50 Abilene, Tex '.!..;"... . 50 66 Palestine, Tex .. ; ' 4 San Antonio, Tex...... .. 8 Galveston, Tex - . . 4 68 Shreveport, - La 74 New Orleans, ; La 68 Helena, Mont ' 50 Havre, Mont 50 Cheyenne, Wyo , 22 26 Denver, Col ,. 26 30 Santa Fe. N. M.. 22 38 Salt Lake City. . Utah ,32 44 Timely Down-Ponr In Xeurnska. OMAHA,, Neb., March 31. Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night rain or snow fell in nearly every county in eastern and northern Nebraska. , A few spots in the center and western part of the State have not reported, but it is known that the storm was almost general through the thickly settled portion of the State. More timelv rain never came, as the great est anxiety was felt for the coming crop of Nebraska and the lack of rain had given rise to apprehensions that already the conditions in. the State were such that the outlook for an abundant crop was very dubious. ...... Sheep Ready to Be Shorn. CASPAR, Wyo., March 31. The heavysnowfall of the last forty hours has ceased, with no particular, damage to the range interests of "this section. Thousands of sheep are here, as shearing was to have commenced to-morrow. Four hundred thousand are registered to be shorn in the pens of this vicinity, and the storm will retard commencement a week or ten days. Sheep men are, however, jubilant, as the snow insures abundant feed. Railroad communication 13 still, shut off. . I, , i - 4 Hail and Rainstorm. HURON, S. D., March 31. Rain began falling here at midnight and has continued with occasional additions of light hail. Up to to-night , one inch of rain has fallen, with good prospects that the storm will continue all of to-night. This is encouraging to farmers, the prairies having been drier than at any time since 3879, and they had concluded not to put in seed until rain did corne. - - - The Drought Broken. SIOUX CITY, la., March 31. The drought has been broken, and a steady rain has been falling all day and is still coming down heavily to-night. Sunday's Local Observations. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. W'ther. Pre. 7 a. m.. 28.98 46 61 East Pt. CTdy O.tO 7 p. m. .29.80 59 81 S'east Cloudy 0.20 Maximum temperature, 62; minimum temperature. 42. ,-' Following is a comparative statement of the tcmpeiature and precipitation March 31: - Temp. Pre. Normal ; 46 .12 Mean ". 52 .20 Departure from normal 6 -OS Excess or deficiency since Mar. 1. 37 2.66 Excess or deficiency since Jan. 1.. 45 5.28 PIUS. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS, Local Forecast Official. Forecast for Monday. WASHINGTON. March 31. For OhioThreatening weather and rain; possibly snows on the lakes; easterly winds; slightly colder in southern Ohio. For Indiana and Illinois Threatening weather and rain; variable winds; colder in southern portions. . Xot Permitted to Sit at Work. TROY. N. Y-, March 31. The operatives of the Harmony mills, at Coho3. are greatly exercised over the action of the superintendent, John E. Prest. It is claimed that since hia advent to Cohoes he has gradually Increased the speed of the machines so that it is almost impossible to do the work properly. Last week Superintendent Prest Issued an order directing that the benches upon which the employes were accustomed to sit. be removed, and thai from that time all a work in the mills must stand no. At this the operatives were wrathful, and indignation meetings were .vell. The feelinas of the mill hands rachHl eut'h a point that everything portends u most serious strike.

THE EARLY SKTTLKHS

LIVES OP THE 3IEX WHO BLAZED THE AMERICAN' WILDERNESS. The Hardships of n Typical Family How the Log House Was Built Journeys That Were Perilous. Pittsburg Dispatch. The hardships, privations and ' denials Dome by the early settlers were such that the "hard times" in the modern sense hardly afford a comparison. It required a most heroic courage and fortitude in the "early days" to locate in the unbroken wilderness, erect a rude cabin and then commence the removal of the heavy forests with ax and fire, thus slowly to bear back the dense woodland that in time to come there might be fields of waving grain and hapy, smiling homes. The writer's ancestry, both on the paternnal and maternal side, left the kingdom of Bavaria and settled In the American colonies, the first mentioned in 1725 and the latter in 1716. Being himself of the sixth generation born on American soil he may be pardoned for alluding to such of his ancestors as began their work within the present century, and as being typical of the hardly and courageous men and women who helped to make the stock of the stout advance guard of pioneer civilization. . Of the eighty-four and the seventy-five years of the other century of which these people bore a part of the colonial struggles, warfare with the Indians, of 'the children carried into captivity by their red captors, and of the women that were scalped by the savage denizens of the woods it is not the present purpose to speak. The tierce retaliation that some of the earlier sires inflicted on their red enemies may also for the present be passed by, and tne account may begin witn the very early years of the century that is now nearing its close. It was in the year 1802 that John Neidig and John Harmon, great grandsires of the writer; loaded their wagons with their families and household ettects, and, starting from Adams and Franklin counties, in Pennsylvania, drove "over the mountains" into what is how Beaver township, Mahoning county, Ohio. As a State Ohio had then no organic existence being simply a part of the great Northwest Territory. The federal Lnion then consisted of sixteen States, and the year following Ohio came in as the seventeeth. The first mentioned of these pioneers reached his destination in the month of May of the year mentioned, and, having a family of six sons, some grown to young manhood, of Herculean build and giants in strength, the customary round log cabin was soon erected, and some acres were in readiness by fall, to be sown to wheat, in October of that year Harmon arrived and located on his section (a tract of land one mile square and containing 640 acres), and which had also been "entered" some time previous under the then existing land laws. BUILDING A CABIN. This gentleman was in somewhat better condition than his neighbor as to means, but had not such exceptional family help, and as tho former was already In shaps for cold weather the two men and their help began vigorously to get Harmon's cabin Into condition for the nearby winter. He had come with two teams and the covered wagons were driven under two large oak trees that stood near a spring close to the present pleasant country residence now owned by Daniel Geiger. In and under these wagons the family camped until at tne end of eight days the caoin was in readiness for occupation. In this time every stick had been taken from the stump, puncneon Coor and dor, a clapboard root, neld In position by heavy poles laid crosswise over the split boarad, the building "chinked" in the spaces batween the logs, and well daubed inside and out with common yellow clay mortar. This was done as soon as the roof was on, and while the puncheons were being split and hewed, a rousing fire was kept burning in the center on the still bare ground to dry the mortar and make the structure habitable. So vigorous did the women and children replenish the lire that the bark on the logs was parched, and, as the clay mortar clacked, it was pressed and the cracks closed until finally dry and hard. At one end of these cabins was a huge fireplace, the chimney structure on the outside, all of wood and so completely mortar covered on tho inside as to be fireproof. But it was considered a feat in those primitive days, and was long considered as a notable event that a- pioneer had built and occupied his house within eight days' time from his arrival. The teams and wagons wera now dispatched back over the mountains to return laden in the ensuing spring. Meanwhile, there was the constantly re sounding stroke of the ax. There were no ' sawmills, and timber, though of the very finest had no value whatever. Black walnut trees and maple and poplar3, although thev stood straight and trim as masts, were only an encumberance and had to be felled, cut or fired through into suitable lengths, then laboriously logged Into huge piles and slowly byrned. . . ABUNDANCE OF GAME. Between times and as a matter of neces sity was the chase. Of bear, deer, squirrels and turkeys there was a plenty, but there were no cartridges, no breechloadlng arms In those days, not even the hammer and cap, only the old-time "flint-lock." What counted at that time was skill with the rifle and physical strength. The settlement of these pioneers was about five miles north east of the old town of Columbiana, which was as far back as 1802 a small hamlet, and it was still forty-nine years later, in 1801, when the Ohio & Pennsylvania, now known as the Pittsburg, Fort -Wayne & Chicago railroad, was built. In this vicinity, and included in Harmon's section, was what is still called the "pine swamp," which is not pine but tamarack.' Drainage has reduced its area, but in early times it covered 150 acres and was a famous pigeon roost. On the northern side it discharges Into Yellow creek, which flows through Poland and empties into the Mahoning river at Struthers, O. Southwestwardly Bull creek carries its reddish waters past New Waterford and into the Ohio river through Columbiana county. In those early days the swamp had a depth of guano in many palces of eight Inches, and the arrival of the birds in the evening and departure in the morning was like that of long-continued rolling thunder. From grandsire and granddame the writer has listened to tales of pigeon hunting with torches at night, the proceeds being a considerable item in the subsistence account. The tamaracks and alders would literally be loaded down with the myriads of wild pigeons which, blinded and confused by the glare of the torches made of hickory bark, could be clubbed down with light poles and by bagfuls carried out. The muck in many places was treacherous and well nigh bottomless and much of the spice of a nocturnal pigeon hunt was when a- hapless hunter, in his excitement, got off the firmer roots and hummocks and sank to his waist in the mud. from which his companions had to rescue him, an object at once laughable, but most unhappy and pitiable. ' But the lives of these people were made up of hard labor and close economy. To make a journey over the mountains was a matter of considerable peril and involving at least a month of time and, as a rule, the wife gave a farewell, when she went West, to all her old home kindred for ail time to come. Some of the men mad a few business return trips, and then all their future lay In the homes they were hewing out of the great Western wilderness. There was rivalry as to who should increase his clearing the fastest and get ready for the more imposing hewed log houses, perhaps two stories high, stone chimneys and several rooms. Meantime they had their joys and sorrows, their acclents and adventures. There were weddings, births and deaths, wars with the Indians and British, in all of which these humble people bore a part. Valne of an Old Letter. New York Mail and Express. To-morrow is St. Valentine's day. Apropos, here is a story without a moral, except that it is just as well not to be In a hurry about burning old letters; An acquaintance of mine, a lady in Colorado, read in a country newspaper that a postage stamp issued by a certain postmaster of Brattleboro, Vt., was worth $.00. As her mother came from Brattleboro, he cut the paragraph out and laid it aside, and took the earliest opportunity to run over the old lady's papers, which had been packed away In the trunk and placed in a garret along with a lot of worthless trash. What was her surprise and delight to find the valentine addressed to her mother, from the envelope of which there was a Brattleboro stamp. She wrote to a stamp collector in Chicago, described the stamp and asked what he would give for it. He promptly replied $250. She declined the offer, and her husband said she was a fool.

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She then wrote' to a New- York collector, and he responded promptly by wire offering $500 less a commission oflO per cent. This, too, she declined, or, rather, she declined to allow the commission. 'The result was she got her $500. clear money for this little bit of paper more money than her mother ever saw in all her life. The element of romance in this St. Valentine's day story is eliminated by the fact that the man who sent the valentine diJ not marry the lady to whose daughter .it was such a windrall. Ln Grippe. My desk and my paper, my pen and my ink Are ready for business; but where is my "th-Pk?" Whenever a blossoming thought I Would , n'.p, My head begins humming" the lay of La Grippe. I've earnestly sought how I best may evade The loathsome embraces of that wicked jade; Am told many ways how to give her the slip, But rone have yet saved me from Madame La Grippe. One told me to stick out my tongue, which I did. When on it a teaspoon of sulphur was slid. Expecting, I think, that the madame would skip. So much 't would remind her of home, poor La Grippe! Another assured me quinine was the best To quiet the groaning and give friends a rest; Another that whisky was just the right whfr To use in a conflict with Madame La Grippe. . Oh, fudge, I can't write, and it's no use to try! A buzz in my head and a flood in my eye! And here's a big sneeze getting ready to--to Oh! put In a word there to rhyme with La La Grippe ! Boston . Transcript. WHISTLER'S VERSION". He Tells the Story of the Quarrel About Lady Eden's Portrait. Londcn Saturday . Review, "Tell ycu about it why, certainly. It's delightful; they're all 'making copy for the seco.-d volame of my G3ntle Art.' Of course I ll begin at tha beginning. If you insist i-pon it, and gravely yes, gravity's the soul of humor. First of all, Mr. Moore came to me and told me about the Baronet, a s.ii of h'jmble confrere, don't you know, who admired my work becomingly, and wanted to have something from my brush. Anyltllj thing, however slight, a mere sketch of Lady Eden, something that could be dons in a sitting or two, don't you know. As for the price well, tha Baronet was a gentleman and not a Rothschild; he coull afford 1C0 or 110 guineas "for any little thins, it needn't be much just whitev.r I Iked to throw off. ' I gave provisional consent. Money didn't'matier, of course; it never Cots to the artist, don't you know, though occasionally it makes a difference to the man a secondary consideration in all cases, li; I am en ve.ne and the subject helps me. Ia due c&jrse of time I got a letter from the Baronet, the sort of letter that a man who dreaeed every night for dinner would write thanking me ana praising me, and and something about terms. Thereupon I 'repueu, reciprocating politely, and and said that the terms were 1C0 or 150 guineas. At the moment I was not in the humor for pastels or water colors; oils the strong speii, uon't you know, held me. and I began the portrait. The arrangement piea&oa. rue, and I let myself go and took pains pleasures. I mean, pleasure In elaborating It and finishing it, and the Baronet seemed delighted, don't you know, as. the sittings went on, and the thing grew became confidential even, and confided to me that he'd had troubles with other painters; and everything went well till the . famous day of the valentine, the 14th of February. He came up to me witn a sort of attempt at facetious familiarity, and gave me an envelope and pegged me not to open it then said it was a valentine for me, and so on, and so on. I took all this for the isaronet's awKward way of being generous, though my experience is that awkwardness usually goes with untimely thrift. Still, don't you know, in soite of his being a baronet, I hoped for the best and 'went off home, and there I found a little note and a check; the note was, 'Herewith the val entine. Value' oh, yes! value, 106." "Then I was a little puzzled. It seemed to me a Southern gentleman, don't you know, keenly alive to the finest tuggestlons of honorable conduct that the price shouTa have been fixed by me, or at least by my work. Had I given them my best, don't you know, with love of the work, and delight, or something thin, perfunctory, and mecaar iti.1? I was hurt, offended, at thin foolish, facetious way of telling me that tho leitst value out upon my work was the proper value. And then a light broke in upon me. ine naronet was evmsimy trying to score off me, as he had scored off the others; but that must not be allcwed; the diamitv of art forbade. I sat down and wrote to him in this fashion: 'Dear Sit William Eden I have received your valentine. . You are really magnificent, and have indted scored all round, etc.,-etc., yours.' "Like my letter? No. he didn't seem to. I thought by what he said that he was just off to shoot in Central Africa; but next morning he appeared in my studio In brown boots, don't you know, and traveling costume, which was, of course, appropriate for Paris in the eyes of an Englishman.. He told me he'd never been so insulted. I laughed, and told him that I didn't think he could be. don't you know, ha, ha. He supposed that that was another example of mv art of making enemies; and I, though inwardly enjoying the soft impeachment, reassured him the only people. I made enemies of were foemen worthy of my stei. don't you know more or less worthy. Ruskin and Oscar Wilde and Burne-Jones, ha, ha, but never a baronet. i He appealed to my letter, and declared that 100 guineas was the price agreed upon; but I insisted upon reading the letter, and there the. figures stood 100 or 150 guineas, and then came the Baronet's memorable reply: 'I know that I have there a beautiful little picture, but that is my luck, and a man is a d d fool who gives a larger price for a thing that he can have for a smaller one." After that I felt that the incident, dramatically speaking, was closed; but he persisted in spoiling the situation by prolonging it, tediously repeating that he had been Insulted, to which at length I replied that I was in every way at his disposition, ready to ieet him if he so desired; but no, he preferred the iteration of his grievance, and so moved awkwardly from remonstrance to expostulation, and at length offered to draw a check for me for the extra 60 guineas then and there. That was too much; I politely Insisted that the incident was closed, and conducted him, using all courtesy, to the door. But how undignified they are, these baronets. He went on talking as we went down the stairs (I looking down upon him from a vantage,- declaring that he had been ill-treated and Insulted, till I ventured to remind him that such abject confessions on a staircase would not, if overheard, increase . t he esteem whlcn would naturally be felt for a gentleman of his rank in France. And therewith exit the' baronet in his brown boots. "Did I keep his check? Of course I kept if, thafs the point of it. What else was there for me to do? Suppose I had returnel his check, I should have had to destroy the portrait; I could not keep a picture of his wife. 1 fhould thus have lost my work, and he, having suffered no damage, would have gone about saying: 'An impossible person. Whistler, don't you know; all fads, and fancies, and whims. I commissioned him to do a picture of my wife, don't you know price carefully agreed upon, knowing what an extraordinary person he was and after he had finished it he returned me my check. An incalculable creature no method in his madness doesn't score off anybody. No, no, that must not be the Issue I resolved. "I kept the check In order that the baronet might be forced to come and ask for it to tell his story here in open court. I therefore destroyed the portrait, but kept th arrangement, an idea that surely belonged to me, and got an American lady whom I knew to sit for the face, and so my work was not lost. The artist's work, you know, dearer to him than life itself, remains, and will remain, while the man, don't you know the man has the satisfaction of scoring off the baronet.. Of course I returned his check in due course, and the French court has just handed the picture over to me. That is where the matter stands at this moment." ' HlKhwuytHHii Stubbed. SAN JOSE. Cal.. March 31. Iist night three men held up and robbed William Dowdian, a merchant, in tho f--t v.Uch

followed he stabbed one of the men who was later found dead In a vacant lot, where he had bled ( to death. RUINED BY PIGEOXS.

Town Clock Stopped When It Ground to Bits One of Its Tenants. New London Special to New York World. A quaint, moon-faced steeple clock, high above the street, in the tower of the ancient First Church, of New London, had kept time for the old whale town for half a century, and had been about as faithful and true as the sun. But. then, time goes wondrously slow in New London, as a rule, and It was not such a great chore, after all, on the part of the clock to dole out tho time the town really wanted. The clock was of old-fashioned, liberal architecture, heavily timbered, with wood enough In ' it for a whaleboat, and the movements of Its ronderous wheels and its cordage were measured, dignified and laborious. When it struck at midnight its tones awoke half the mariners in the city, and on a still day the chucking of its -pendulum was audible to wayfarers In the tranquil 6treet. Its pleading tones were part'ruiarly agreeable to the retired old sea captains, especially in a New London, fog. They reminded them so much of fog signals on a lee shore, they said. But the old clock "began to behave very queerly recently. It snipped stitches in time and out of time mysteriously, whistled, clattered and grunted, and one afternoon, in the midst of a fog, it suddenly stopped with long b-r-r-r! s-h-h! It had never done such a thing before in all its long career; hence everybody wondered what was up with it Afterward it was learned that time was up with it. It is the rule in New London when In doubt to send a man aloft; that Is to say. If there's such a thing as an aloft belonging to the municipality. .In this instance an agile sailor for $1 quickly shinned up the tapering steeple, and disappeared into the wooden recesses of the timepiece, while a watchful crowd in the street below held Its breath with concern as to his safety. What if the old clock should suddenly take a new start and grind him up into minutes or seconds! But the trusty timepiece did nothing of the sort. The bold sailor, after half a dozen moments of anxiety on the part of the crowd, reappeared on the outer wall of the steeple and slipped down to the street as unconcernedly as a tree toad. He reported the sum total of his experiences to his employers. ' "It's all owin' to the durned pigeons,' he explained. As near as he could calculate about two dozen city pigeons had been roosting on the clock beams and spars for several years, "seems as it tne oia clock had got pretty blamed tired of th hull gang," he added, "specially since some o' the cheekiest Dlxeons have taken to mat ing on the internal small wheels and cogs, sorter ridin' round on 'era in a new kind of a merry-go-round. Finally." continued the sailor, "it appears mat a Dig pigeon got himBeir mixed up witn tne gearing oi the hour hand, an was sliced Into plgeen' pie." That was on the day when the oil clocK cnocKea ana gaspea ,aua stopped. , There hain't no use tryin" to fix her up," continued the nautical examiner, "fur she's clock-a-block, an' there ain't no more go in her." . Nevertheless the New London town , government having taken the matter into consideration at a special meeting ruefully, but with affectionate unanimity, dispatched a more accomplished expert, a laaidlubber, tr. is true, up the steeple, and after an hour or two, when everybody believed he was lost, he also came back with a verdict verif ylng the sailor's. On the strength of the expert's decision, but with pathetic reluctance, the town government has rendered-judgment that the town must have a new clock. The vital questions now before the citizens of New London are: What sort of a timepiece shall the new one be? When shall it be erected? How much shall it cost? Shall it, can it be equipped . with a voice that will be audible ln a fog six miles across the harbor and Fisher's island sand in the sheepfolds of Mr. Ferguson's insular re--treat? The question is being discussed in the local pres3, in mart and shop, along the river side, even in "Barry's Bail loft," before the celebrated "Jlbboom Club" and In other marine retreats. Yesterday one local newspaper had this editorial: "Parts of the old clock have worn out. ligeons made a. roosting place in its works until the belfry windows were screened, and all conditions have operated to put the clock beyond repair. When a change is made it ought to bring with it an illuminated dial that he who runs at night may know the time as well as he who walks by day. The public property committee, from whom the information comes that the clock is worn out, should not be as slow as the clock, but get a move on and havo the new timepiece la place without delay." , The Youotc Queen of Holland. Harper's Young People. Here Serene Majesty, Wllhelmlna Helens Pauline Marie, Queen of the Netnerlands, is now a charming young girl of lourteen, whose life so far has been as unclouded and happy as though no cares of state were hanging over her head for the tuture. She has no public duties to tuliill, and she will have none until she comes of age and is crownel. She lives very much as uo other young girls of her age, except that much more is expected of her, ana she is brought up with a constant preoccupation of her tuture destinies. Her lite is very simple. She rises at 7, goes the first thing , to say good morning to her mother, and then at 8 his her breakfast, after which for three hours she 13 busy with her lessons and masters. Her first governess until she was four years old was a French woman, Mademoiselle Liotard, who was then replaced by the Queen's English governess. Miss Winter, who has been with her ever since. Queen Wllhelmlna is very bright and clever, and studies hard, so as to learn everything that the ruler of a kingdom should know. She has a great deal of spirit, ar! a quickness of comprehension that, will stand her in good stead pome day, as you can see by this little story. Svie was the Idol of her old father during his lifetime, and one day, going into his private room, she found the King walking the floor with his hands clasped behind his back, 1n a tnoroug'hlv bad humor. .He paid no attention to her as she entered. "Are you angry papa?" she asked, going up to him. Her xatner either did not near, or pretended not to do so. The Princess stood for a second, and then crossing, her own llttlo hands behind her back, she began to walk resolutely up and down by the side f ier father, without saying a word. The Klnr made two or three turns more, and thpn, looking down at his small companion, he suddenly burst out laughing and caught nor up in his arms, with every trace of b's ill-nature gone. This shows the woman of resource who understands managing rngn. nnlnon d'Etre. " Detroit Tribune. ;'" "Common law marriage seems to be quite a fad?" "It's the correct thing to tie your own tie, you know." Very Likely. Philadelphia North American. The esteemed Mr. Bland, has Joined the ranks of the lecturers. A silver offering, presumably, will be accepted at the door. Meet n TliluK. . Philadelphia Inquirer. . . Miss Old I would never get married if I had to ask the man. Miss Peart Maybe you wouldn't then. Dr. Price's Cream Baling Powder World's Fair Highest Award. National Tuba AVerki TOGHWROS PII'E TO - Gas, Steam and VTate r Uotr Tubft, Ct ud MnllKAble Iran. Fittuivs lilNO!t Uli (1 fiulioli, V lv. S'.o? o;k. fc.nr.tie Trlnirolnu. btm Cr.nn:-. 11? A'onir. HlH C'llHrri, VIma. s:rw limosanrt incj. 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