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a greater volume of money. The agricultural districts, particularly throughout the West and South, have long complained of their lack of banking facilities for the reason that the law prevented the organization of national banks with a capital of less than $50,000. Bills have been before Congress to reduce the capitalization limit to but the proposition has never made very great legislative headway, owing to the Populistic and demagogic prejudice and opposition to the national banking system. Besides, this plan of relief for small communities has been heretofore taken up in connection with other banking and currency projects, and has been handicapped on that account. Alone and by itself, the plan might be favorably considered by Congress. ♦ HOOSIERS DID NOT GET IT. Contract for Postoliice Lock Boxe* Given to the Ya,le-Towne Concern. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—The Keyless Bock Company, of Indianapolis, failed to secure the contract for supplying postoffices with lock boxes during the ensuing year. The Yale-Towne Lock Company was given the contract this afternoon. Supervising Architect Taylor explained why the Indianapolis concern failed to get the work In this wise: "One kind of lock boxes offered by the Indianapolis company had such a complicated machinery that it was liable to get out of repair and the other had so little machinery that it afforded no security, and for these reasons both were unsatisfactory to the Postofflce Department. The committee to which was referred the proposals of the several lock companies and samples of the boxes it was proposed to put Into postoffices was composed of three members, one from the Patent Office, one from the 'Treasury Department and one from the Postofflce Department. They were not experts and knew comparatively little about the mechanism of locks, yet neither of them was more than two or three minutes in# getting into the Indianapolis box. This box was the one that was offered on the simplicity plan.” General Brooke’s Report. WASHINGTON. Oct. 27.—1n his annual leport to the adjutant general of the army Maj. Gen. John R. Brooke, commanding the Department of the Missouri, says that a large amount of traveling by railroad has been done by troops during the past summer, and this has been a source of education to officers and men. As In our small army any concentration of troops will, of necessity, be by rail, the experience is of great importance, not only to the troops, but to the transportation companies as well. General Brooke says there has been no trouble during the past year In the Indian country. Many improvements are required at Forts Brady and Wayne, in Michigan, now occupied by the Nineteenth Infantry, and Fort Sheridan and other posts require more buildings. Fort Sheridan, says Gen, Brooke, has never been completed according to the original plan, and no effort should be spared to put it on a proper footing. The Apache prisoners of war at Fort Sill are still under the care of the army, and It is not believed to be. advisable to make any change at present. Seal Conference Takes a Rest. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—After a session to-day lasting two hours, the International seal conference adjourned till next Monday. One of the Japanese delegates, Mr. Mltsukuri, who Is an alumnus of Yale, was desirous of attending the celebrt tion of the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the Scientific School, while some of the other delegates had some private business matters to attend to, so it suited the convenience of all to take the adjournment. Prof. Thompson, one of the British experts, called on Secretary Sherman to-day to pay his respects. He has been in informal conference with Prof. David Starr Jordan respecting the subject matter of the next conference between Great Britain, Canada and the United States, but all formal conference is postponed until the arrival of Mr. Macoun, the Canadian delegate. Bureau of Ordnance. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Gen. Flagler, tfchief of the Bureau of Ordnance, has submitted his annual report to the secretary of war. The amount expended was $4,901,108. During the year 24,564 rifles were furnished the militia of the States. A large share of the report is given to details of tho business of the Rock Island, Watertown and Watervliet arsenals. From the Sandy Hook proving ground many guns, mortars and carriages have been sent to sea coast fortifications. Satisfactory results have been obtained with smokeless powders. The report is devoted largely to a technical discussion of ordnance, which has been done during the year, including the work on seaooast defense and field guns, small arms, powders and equipments of the army.

Why Fund til 11 Wan Dropped. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—The famous Marine Band, of Washington, will have a new leader in the person of Professor Zimmerman, leader of the band at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Professor Fanciulli, who has conducted the Marine Band since John Philip Sousa left it some four years ago, has Kept himself and everybody else connected or associated with him in hot water ever since he started in and, although he is considered a very line leader, the secretary of the navy determined to get rid of him, and so, when his term of enlistment terminated, he was dropped. The Marine Band is about to take a Western trip, but will probably not play anywhere except at the Cnicayo horse show. Two Americans Pardoned. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Vice Consul General Springer, at Havana, has telegraphed the State Department that the Spanish authorities have pardoned Frank Agramonte and Tomas Julio Saenz, two American citizens who have been imprisonel at Santiago de Cuba since June, 1895. There are now probably less than half a dozen Americans held prisoner in Cuba, exclusive of tho Competitor crew. $28,000,000 of Paper Money. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Assistant Secretary Vanderlip to-day authorized the director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to print and deliver to the treasurer of the United States the following silver certiiieates: Fives, (>OO,OOO sheets, making $12,000,000; tens, 300,000 sheets, making $12,000,000; twenties, 60,000 sheets, making $4,0)0,000; total $28,000,000. Pritchett to Succeed Dutlleld. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—1 t is announced at the Treasury Department to-day that H. S. Pritchett, of the Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., will be appointed superintendent of the coast and geodetic survey, vice General Duffield, who has been requested to resign. General 9ioten. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-C. T. Davis was to-day appointed postmaster at Newbem, Bartholomew county, Indiana, vice Lester Huffer, resigned. Major Alfred C. Girard, surgeon, stationed at Fort Douglass, Utah, has been detailed to represent the United States army at the ninth annual meeting of the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography. The President and Mrs. McKinley entertained a few friends at an informal musicale at the White House to-night. In addition to the members of the Cabinet and their ladies, the guests included Major and Mrs. Heiston, Major and Mrs. Rand and Colonel and Mrs. Bingham. During the evening Horace Sims, the boy soprano singer from Racine, Wis., entertained the gathering with several selections. Searetting for Provisions. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—A letter has been received here from Lieutenant Richardson, of the Eighth Infantry, who is accompanying Captain Ray in his Alaskan Inspection, in which the officer says that he will remain with Captain Ray at Fort Yukon until tie river freezes over, which Is expected shortly, and then they would try' to make the Jr way up to Dawson by dog trains. At the date of the report, Sept. 13, the steamers were unable to get above Fort Yukon bar, and were unloading goods there. That meant, in the opinion of the lieutenant, a very serious condition of affairs up at Dawson, in fact nothing less than starvation. Already boats were going down the river with parties of three or four persons looking for provisions, and large numbers were expected down as soon as the river closed. It is doubtful if there was food enough on the river for all, even if properly distributed. Some might get up by the dog teams when the freeze comes, but that would be a slow process. About 350 people are wintering at Rampart City’, around which the prospects aro so good that they are believed by* some to forecast a second Klondike. Senator Morgan Improving. SAN DIBOO, Cal.. Oct. 27.—Senator Morgan is slowly improving, but still confined to his bed, Tlu.ro is not much change to4*y.

EX-JUDGE SUIT'S DEATH * JLRIST AND BRILLIANT ORATOR SUCCUMBS TO CONSUMPTION. - * White County Coon Hunters’ Fight with u Large Wild-Cut—Murderer Kempfer Denies His Identity. Special to the Indianapolls Journal. FRANKFORT, Irid., Oct. 27.—Ex-Judge Joseph C. Suit died at his home in this city at 3:38 o'clock this afternoon, after an iilness of several months, of consumption, aged fifty-eight. Deceased was widely known throughout the State, both as a lawyer and orator. He was a prominent member of the Masonic, Knights of Pythias and Red Men lodges, having at times held the principal offices of these orders in the state lodges. When Boone and Clinton counties were made into separate circuits Mr. Suit was appointed by Governor Porter as judge of the Clinton Circuit Court, in which position ha made an enviable reputation as a Jurist. He was a Republican in politics, and each campaign was active on the stump, advocating the principles of the party. He served during the war as a member of the Tenth Indiana Regiment. He leaves a wife and two sons and a daughter. Ex-Judge Suit had many friends in Indianapolis. He was a member of Indiana Consistory, Scottish Rite Masons, and frequently attended the convocations of the order ,n this city. His speech at a banquet several years ago endeared him to every member of the Rite. John C. Baldwin. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Oct. 27.—Notice of the death of John C. Baldwin, a man who was prominently Identified with the early settling of Montpelier, has been received here from Fall City, Neb. Baldwin at the time of his death was seventy-six years old. He Is well remembered by the old settlers of this section of Northeastern Indiana. John Baldwin was the son of Abed Baldwin, the founder of Montpelier, and one of the heirs to the original town. His name Is mentioned among the Baldwin* heirs in the suit now pending in the Blackford Circuit Court for the possession of the pubic square. He helped to institute the proceedings, which excited so much interest in this county a few months ago. He was perhaps the oldest living settler of Montpelier. John Ljl Follette, Sr. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND, Ind., Oct. 27.—John La Follette, sr., died at his home, In this city, this afternoon, aged eighty. No arrangements have yet been made tor the funeral. The deceased is the father of Hon. J. J. M. La Follette of Indianapolis, assistant United States district attorney; George W. La Follette, postmaster at Poe, Allen county, and Attorney John F. La Follette, of this city. Other Dentil* In the State. CONNERSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 27.—Mrs. Eliza Dale Florea, the oldest native resident of this county, died this afternoon, aged eighty-two. Deceased was born in what is now Fayette county, when Indiana was a territory. She married Louis C. Florea Nov. 5, 1835, and was the mother of eight children, six of whom survive her. The funeral services will be conducted at the Lick Creek Church, Elder Harvey Wright officiating. WABASH, Ind., Oct. 27.—Mrs. Marie Wetherbee, aged thirty-four, died here today of consumption, with which she has been afflicted for three years. Mrs. Wetherbee was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Lytle and the sister of the famous Zella Nicolaus. She had been a widow for several years. GREEN CASTLE, Ind., Oct. 27.-Mrs. Mary Bowman, aged eighty-one, died today at Broad Park of pneumonia at the residence of her daughter. Mrs. Bowman was one of the best known women of Putnam county.

MONSTER WILD-CAT. Coon Hunter* Slay the Dreaded White County “Varmint.” Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Oct. 27.—For some time past the farmers living in the vicinity of Idavllle, Just over the line in White county, have been missing pigs, lambs and fowls, and In a number of instances the carcasses had been found, showing that the depredations were being committed by some large animal. Several people had reported seeing an animal resembling a panther or wild cat and hunters had reported encounters between their dogs and some strange animal, in which the dogs always got the worst of it. Tuesday night Joseph Hall, his two sons, John and Aaron, and a young man named Lucy went coon hunting, and a short distance from the Hall farm the dogs treed the animal. When the men came up to the dogs the animal sprang from the tree, striking Mr. Hall or. the shoulder, knocking him down and inflicting an ugly wound with its claws. The other members of the party came promptly to the rescue, and after a hard fight the animal was killed, it proving to be an enormous cat weighing ninety-four pounds. The body of the cat has been sent to English lake, where it will be mounted and will then be placed on exhibition. MURDERER KEMPFER’9 BLUFF. Denied Hi* Identity 'When Arraigned In u. Brazil Court. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., Oct. 27.—Newton Kempfer, who shot his wife and wounded his little four-year-old daughter yesterday morning, was given a preliminary hearing to-day. He denied that his name was Kempfer, insisting that it was William Brown and that his home was in Baltimore. Asa witness was testifying to hts identity, a finelydressed young woman stepped in the courtroom and recognizing the prisoner as her brother, burst out in tears. This created a scene and the prisoner's "bluff” was baffled by a sympathizing sister, Miss Kempfer. She lives in Indianapolis and it is claimed he has well-to-do relatives living at Lafayette. The murdered woman’s maiden name was Anna Jones, and her father, J. J. Jones, a prominent citizen of Paducah, Ky., arrived in the city this evening to take his daughter's remains home for burial. Wonld-Be Dynamiter Plead* Insanity. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTI.AND, Ind., Oct. 27.—1 t took considerable scurrying to get a jury to try John Rinker, who is charged with plotting for the destruction of the I. O. O. F. block at Redkey in order to obtain insurance money amounting to $2,250 from the Firemen’s Francisco, and the Continental Fire Insurance Company, of New York. The -state began promptly with its witnesses,- and during the day had examined a number who were present when the discovery was made of the cotton and other inflammables which had been placed in a snJall hole between the ceiling of the lower story and the floor of the upper. The half-burned candle and the cotton were exhibited in the courtroom. Rinker’s attorney has put in a special plea for his client, that of unsoundness of mind, and it will be on the ground of insanity that the fight for liberty is to be made. Charles Crandall, who is charged with having agreed to fire the block for Rinker. is In the county jail, and will bo tried next. Tb< defense to a certain measure, admits Rinker’s acts. Editor llurbinsou in a Corner. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES, Ind., Oct, 27.—0n complaint of Mrs. Nora L. Dunlap, Abraham L. Harbinson, editor of the National Era, of this city, the Populist organ of Knox county, wiu# arrested and charged with obtaining money by false pretenses to-day. He was arraigned, pleaded not guilty, and was released after giving a bond of SSOO. Mrs. Dunlap alleges that she had retained Harbinson for her attorney, and paid him to institute divorce proceedings, Harbinson. she alleges*, appropriated the money to his own use, and then neglected to bring the suit. “One of the Best” Plead* Guilty. Serial to the Indianapolis Journal. NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Oct. 27.—Charges were filed against William Kelley, a saloon keeper of this city, by Marshal Barnett last night for violating the Nicholson law. Last Sunday Kelley was found in his saloon with the back door open and a half dozen men with him. The case was heard by Mayor Wilson to-day. Keliey pleaded guilty and was lined $lO and costs. Tint

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Daily Ledger has this to say of the affair: "Kelley was one of the delegates to the convention of retail liquor dealers that met in Indianapolis last week, and was welcomed by Mayor Taggart as ‘the best men on earth’ and men who always obeyed the laws. ’Tis sad to think Kelley should have so soon forgot the eulogy of his great chief and have gone and placed a blot on the fair record of ‘the best men on earth.’ ” Time for Van Banklrk to Settle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON. Ind., Oct. 27.—A SIO,OOO breach of promise suit was filed to-day by Cora E. Hunter against W. J. Van Buskirk. She is one of the best known young women in this county and he is a bachelor farmer, who owns land adjoining her father’s. They have been keeping company for the past seven years, and it is said Oct. 9 was set for the • wedding. Miss Hunter received a letter notifying her he Lad changed his mind and had left the country. He went to Indianapolis for two weeks, returning last Saturday. He assigns no reason for breaking off the match. In her complaint she states that she had made all preparations, from trousseau to invitations and dinner, and she thinks she is damaged fully SIO,OOO worth. State Christian Conference. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO. Ind., Oct. 27.—The Indiana State Christian Conference w 7 as in annual session Monday, Tuesday and to-day at Center, this county. Officers of the conference are: President, W. D. Samuels, Covington, O,; vice president, C. A. Brown, Lebanon; secretary. D. B. Atkinson, Muncie; treasurer, S. M. Atkinson, Lebanon. Participating prominently in the exercises are W. H. Ford. New Castle, O.; R. H. Gott, Malott, and others. Reports read show forty thousand members of the Christian denomination in Indiana, divided into eight conference districts. Second District W. R. C. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Oct. 27.—The Woman’s Relief Corps of the Second Indiana district convened. In annual session in this city to-day, with two hundred, delegates. This is the largest district in the State. Department Commander Dodge and Adjutant General Smock, of the G. A. R., were present. Mrs. Agnes Hitt, of Indianapolis, and a large number of women prominent in the W. R. C. work in the State are also here. The session devoted to the hearing of reports from the counties comprising the district and the convention closed to-night with a camp fire. Joseph Pcß'grs’* Ninetieth Birthday. GREENWOOD, Ind., Oct. 27.—Joseph Peggs was ninety years old yesterday, and celebrated the occasion at his home, east of town, by a family reunion. He has been a resident of this county since IS4O, having lived at his present residence since 1842. He has a wife, two sons and two daughters living—William A. Peggs, of Marion county, aged sixty-three; John H. Peggs, of Columbus, fifty-five; Margaret F. McGregor, of Acton, aged sixty-one, and Mary A. Myers, of Marion county, fifty-four. He was born in Trimble county, Kentucky, Oct. 24, 1807. Carrie Corbett’s Suit Continued. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DANVILLE. 111., Oct. 27.—Mrs. Carrie Corbett has continued, by agreement, until the next term of court her slander suit against J. H. Gernand for $20,000. It is believed that she will give a release in full if paid the recent verdict of $54,000 which she recovered in the breach of promise suit. It is said that her attorneys, George Mabin and Major Kimbrough, offered to take $6,000 after the evidence was all in, but Gernand thought that his attorneys, W. J. Calhoun and J. W. Keesler, could beat the case, and refused to pay it. Joseph Knoivle* Killed on a. Trestle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, LOGANSPORT, Ind., Oct. 27.—Joseph Knowles, an old citizen and formerly a merchant on Sixth street, was struck and instantly killed on the old canal trestle north of town by a Panhandle train this afternoon. Knowles had lain down by the side of the track to allow the train to pass, and, revising up too soon, was struck by a car step and thrown down the embankment. His back was broken and hip crushed. He was seventy-seven years old, and leaves a married daughter, with whom he had been living.

The Elopers Enjoying; Themselves. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 27. Charles Woolsey and wife, who caused the latest Danville, 111,, sensation by eloping on a bicycle, arrived in this city this morning. They both looked fresh and happy, and Mrs. Woolsey is a decidedly pretty brunette. They rode around the streets for an hour, and then left for Newport. There was no parental objection to the marriage, but the young folks decided that they would give everybody a surprise and have a wedding trip awheel. The Last of Clodfelter’* Scheme. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Oct. 27.—The entire outfit of the Clodfelter line Is to be sold at receiver’s sale on Nov. 15. according to an order made to-day in the Superior Court by Judge Brownlee. The power houses at Fairmount and at Alexandria, the ties furnished by the Loud Lumber Company will be kept separate. A special plea was made by the lumber company, W’hich alleged that the poles and ties had been procured through fraud. Building; Boom ut W inchester. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINCHESTER, Ind., Oct. 27.—An active building‘era has struck Winchester. Many dwellings are going up and some good bush ess rooms are nearing completion. Aaron Votaw is erecting buildings for a hub and spoke factory, and lumbermen here can scarcely supply the demand for lumber. Along with these evidences of reviving prosperity there is talk of putting in a second gas plant and reducing the price of gas. Another oil well has just been completed. “Lanky Boll” Initiated by Elk*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Oct. 27.—Champion Bob whose show was the attraction at time White Theater last night, was elected an Elk at a special meeting held for that purpose, and after the show the lodge devoted two hours to decorating him with horns. It is understood that no frills were omitted, and that the pugilist took the unabridged course. It is also reported that he received the various attentions of the members with great good nature. Tle Seisro Acquitted. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE, Ind., Oct. 27.—The jury In the case of George Skelton, the colored man accused of assaulting Mrs. Harry Banta, a white woman, returned a verdict of acquittal at 8:30 o’clock this morning, having been out twenty hours. For ten hours seven of the jurors held out for conviction, but finallj* agreed to set the negro free. The feeling here is that the verdict is in accordance with the evidence. Alidncted Hi* Baby. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Oct, 27.—Charles M. Drushall, of Headley, Pulaski county, was arrested here to-night at the instance of his wife, charged with abducting their four-months-old child. The child was turned over to the police matron to await the coming of its mother. Drushall and his wife have been mark'd but a little over a year and separated last week. Garnishee Law l neonstitutlonal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NOBLESVILLE Ind., Oct. 27.-Judge John F. Neal, in the Circuit Court, this morning declared the garnishee law passed by the last Legislature unconstitutional. He took the ground that it was class legislation and did not apply with uniformity to all classes of employes, giving the right of exemption only to those in continuous employment. Scarlet Fever at Orphan*’ Home. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 27.—Scarlet fever is causing consternation at the Orphans’ Home. There are five new cases reported. One child has died and quite a number of others are verj 7 sick. A strict quarantine is being observed. There are fifty children in the home at present. Norrl* Pleaded Guilty. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SCOTTBBURG, Ind., Oct. 27.-In the Scott county Circuit Court to-day John C. Norrl* pleadod guilty to the charge o t

forgery and w f as given a sentence of from two to twenty-one years and fined SIOO. Indinmi Note*. The convention of the Southern Deanery closed in Jeffersonville last night. Bishop White presided, and during his stay in Jeffersonville was the guest of Captain E. J. Howard. The cornerstone of the new frame church being erected by the Heavenly Recruits at Rushville was quictlj’ laid Tuesday by Rev. It. M. Bentley of Shelbyville, who organized the church. The location of Markey & Jones’s annealing furnace factory, was secured for Anderson yesterday. The plant will be erected at the intersection of the Panhandle and Big Four Railroads. B. B. Beeson, proprietor of the Richmond Enterprise, a weeklj' Prohibition paper, has sold the plant to the Rev. E. A. Devore, of Lewisburg, Pa, The purchaser formerly held a professorship in Merom College. Dr. S. H. Secay, of Jeffersonville, was arrested j'esterdaj’ by Sheriff Hawes on a charge of performing a criminal operation. He is one of the oldest practitioners in that city. He was indicted by the last grand jury. The revival conference of the Richmond district of the Methodist Church closed last night It was decided to combine the conference with the ministerial lyceum and the meeting of the two will be held at Winchester next j r ear. Elaborate preparations are under way for a meeting of the Eleventh district K. of P. on Dec. 9 arwinehester, the home of Grand Chancellor Union B. Hunt. Supreme Chancellor Philip Colgrove, of Hastings, Mich., has signified his intention of being present. The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of . r £ ree ncastle district of the Northwest, Indiana Conference closed a two days session yesterday at Greencastle. Delegates were present from Vigo, Clay, V ermillion. Parke. Putnam and other counties. Among those having places on the programme were Mrs. Birland. of Dana; Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Royse, Mrs. Robbins and Mrs. McKinsey and Mrs. Stallard. of Terre Haute; Mrs. Hall, of Newport; Mrs. Wilder and Mrs. Haslep, of Brazil. EDISON'S LATEST WORK. Hl* Proce** of Recovering: the Iron Contained In Low Grade Ore*. NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—The Electrical Engineer will publish to-morrow the first authoritative account of Thomas A. Edison’s success in recovering by electrical means the Iron contained in low-grade ore. The inventor's experiments have been carried on during the past six years at the old Ogden iron mines, a few miles from Do.ver, N. J. His process, in brief, consists of pulverizing the ore. The powder is then allowed to fait ij l close proximity to electro-magnets, which deflects the iron to one side and the nonmetallic matter fails to the other side by gravity.

DUCHESS OF TECK DEAD . DIED TWO HOIKS AFTER A SURGICAL OPERATION FOR HERNIA. ♦ Cousin of Queen Victoria, Sinter of the Duke of Cambridge uml Mother-in-Law of the Duke York. * RICHMOND, England, Oct. 27.—The Duchess of Teck, cousin of Queen Victoria, sister of the Duke of Cambridge and moth-er-in-law of the Duke of York, died at the White Lodge here at 3 o’clock this morning. An official statement has been issued to the effect that she died of cardiac failure two hours after an operation had been performed on her. The funeral will probably take place at Windsor, During several days past active preparations have been on foot for the opening of a charity baazar at Richmond, the Duchess having promised to he present at the ceremony. Tho streets have been .n progress of decoration and the baazar itself was approaching completion. Everything possible was being done to make the baazar a notable event and do honor in every way possible to her Royal Highness. Inquiries made to-day at the White Lodge, the residence here of the Duke and Duchess of Teck, shows that it was only when the Duchess returned from the north a few days ago that there were slight symptoms of recurrence of the strangulated hernia, for which she submitted to an operation In July last, but it w r as not expected that any serious consequences would ensue. On Monday, however, the duchess became ill, though even then no serious symptoms were observed. But on Tuesday she became worse and the London specialists who had previously operated upon her were summoned to Richmond. They held a consultation and decided last evening that the life of her Royal Highness couid not be sustained without another operation. This was successfully performed, but the duchess gradually sank and died at 3 o’clock this morning. The Duke of Teck is prostrated at the death of his wife. The Duchess of York was the only other membep of the family present at the death of the duchess, as until late last night, fatal consequences were not expected. VVhen the condition of her Royal Highness grew more serious her relatives were hastily summoned. After the operation, during which the husband and children were torn with anxiety, they were permitted to enter her room, as it was hoped that all danger was passed. The duchess, with smiles and tears, showed that she recognized them, but after a time the look of recognition slowly faded away, and she relapsed into unconsciousness. The action of the heart becoming increasingly difficult, they realized that all hope had gone. The end came quietly and peacefully. The funeral has been provisionally fixed for Saturday, the arrangements being intrusted to the Duke of Y’ork. The Duke of Teck is so overcome with grief that he is unable to see any one. The population of Richmond, especially tne poor people, to whom the duchess had endeared herself by many kindnesses, is giving touching evidences of its sorrow. The duchess w r as attacked with very se<vere pains yasterday, but she bore her sufferings with the greatest fortitude, and showed the same heroic spirit after her return to consciousness. She took nourishment and conversed a little with her husband, with the Duchess of York and Prince The Duchess of Teck w r as born Nov. 27, 1833, and was married on June 12. 1866, to Prince Francis, Duke of Teck (eldest son of Prince Alexander of Wurtemburg), who was born Aug. 27, 1837. They had four children. of whom the eldest. Princess Victoria Mary, born May 26, 1865, is the Duchess of York. The Duchess of Teck was the daughter of the Duke of Cumberland, seventh son of George 111. She was sixty-five years of age. Her husband, the Duke of Teck, served in the Austrian army, w r as a captain during the Austro-Italian campaign of 1859, was mentioned in dispatches for gallant conduct, but resigned after the campaign in 1866. Subsequently he served with the British forces in Egypt, in 1882, for which he received the Egyptian medal and the Khedive’s star, was mentioned in the dispatches and was promoted to the rank of colonel, unattached. The duke is honorary colonel of two British volunteer regiments and president of the Royal Britannic Society of London. LONDON, Oct. 27.—Flags are half-masted all over the public buildings throughout the country tc-day as a mark of sympathy with the royal family in the loss sustained by the death of the Duchess of Teck. The distress of Queen Victoria when she heard the news of the death of the duchess was very painful indeed. The Prince of Wales was at Newmarket, Intending to be present at the race for the Cambridgeshire stakes to-day, when he was Informed of the death of the Duchess of Teck. His Royal Highness immediately left Newmarket for London. The court circular under date of Balmoral says: “Her Majesty 7 has received with much sorrow the very unexpected new r s of the death of her beloved cousin, to whom the Queen was warmly attached. The duchess was so universally beloved for her kindness and goodness to all that she will be most deeply mourned by the whole country.” All the morning papers are in mourning, and contain long articles of sympathy with the bereaved family and elaborate memoirs of the deceased. Mr*. Sarah Albert Wood* Perry. PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 27.—Mrs. Sarah Albert Woods Perry, wife of Rt. Rev. William Stevens Perry, Protestant Episcopal bishop of lowa, died to-day in this city at the residence of her aunt, Mrs. William Bacon Stevens. Bishop Perry and his wife had just returned from Europe, whither they had gone for the benefit of the invalid wife’s health. They arrived in New York on the Lucania on Saturday und came to this city on Monday. Mrs. Perry was very 111 at the time and a physician was called, but he could do but little for the patient.

Services will be hq|d at the residence of Mrs. Stevens Friday afternoon, conducted by Bishop Hale, of Illinois. Dr. Alexander Milton Ross. DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 27.—Dr. Alexander Milton Ross, of Montreal, a famous Canadian scientist and physician, died in this city to-night, at his son’s residence, aged sixty-five years. Dr. Ross was on his way Southward and had stopped in Detroit for a visit. During the war he was employed by President Lincoln as confidential correspondent In Canada. He was one of the founders of the Society for the Diffusion of Physiological Knowledge In 1881, and is widely known as the author of a large number of works on medical and scientific subjects. The remains will be taken to Toronto. Tle “Peppermint Oil King.” LYONS, N. Y., Oct. 47.—Hiram Gilbert Hotchkiss, known as the ‘‘Peppermint Oil King.” died here to-night, aged eightyseven years. M. GitNton Hethune. PARIS, Oct. 27.—M. Gaston Bethune, the well-known artist, is dead. MILLS’S NEW HOTEL The “Waldorf of the Slums” Opened with Appropriate Ceremonien. NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—The new Mills Hotel, which has been designated the “Waldorf of the Slums,” located on Bleeker street, this city, was opened thfs afternoon, Bishop Henry C. Potter, ex-Mayor Hewitt and Mr. Mills taking part in the ceremonies. The hotel, which is a ninestory, fire-brick structure, trimmed with brown sandstone, is provided with baths, steam heating, electric lighting, etc. The main corridor, which is as elegant as any of the expensive hotels uptown, has a mar-ble-tiled floor. The rates will be 20 cents per night including bath. The hotel is build upon the site of the De Pauw row, once owned by the late A. C. Stalwart, and it was there tnat Charles Dickens, the novelist, was entertained by the millionaire merchants. D. C. Mills, owner of the hotel, says it will make money and is not a charity. He is building another hotel in the crowded East Side. SCENES IN* NEW YORK. (Concluded from First Page.) cars.” Another speaker ingenuously and logically remarked, "of course everybody’s going to vote for Mr. Low; there’s really no work for us to do, but still, you know, w'e must do it.” When the resolution indorsing Low by the women who couldn’t vote but who could write poetry was offered, President Scrimgeour merely said: "All in favor please say aye,” and then as the by no means demonstrative “ayeing” died away she announced; “It is carried.” At this autocratic order of things everybody giggled, but the president just dropped into her most conversational tone and said: "Look here; I’ve taken three courses of parliamentary law, and I guess I ought to know what’s right—so there.” As the crowd dispersed some of the most enthusiastic of its members, those who had pounded and clapped and yelled and sold programmes the hardest, took a stand at the doors of exit and industriously distributed handbills. “Why, what does this mean?” asked one woman, os she glanced at her handbill and read: "Vote for Henry George.” “Oh, I know you can’t vote, said the distributor with an irresponsible smile. “But you can write poetry for him.” She was plainly just one of those women so much in evidence nowadays, w r ho are enthusiastic over everything, and everybody, and everywhere, but whose chief reason for existence is what they prove as to the sweet reasonableness and logic of their sex.

FAIR GOVERNMENT CLERKS. There Are Now Six Thousand of Them Employed at WiiNhington Alone. Ladies’ Home Companion. Os the twenty thousand clerks employed by the government in Washington more than six thousand of them are women. Their salaries range from S6OO to SI,SOO a year. The women clerks are under the protection of the civil-service rules, and they have all been appointed under the regulations of the Civil service Coinmhision. The system gives a greatly improved service. Women are said to pass better examinations as a rule than men; they are more apt, quicker to comprehend and brighter in the performance of their duties, and In many branches of the work are preferred to men, They are treated fairly and cordially in all things; there is,a disposition on the part of men to recognize ability and accord hearty support to high-class powers The women clerks are generally content with their life. Many of them have seen better days and circumstances, and have children or parents dependent upon them for support. They are usually the most charming ladies to meet. Their salaries allow them to live comfortably, and they all dress well. In many of the buildings the offices are spacious and are fitted up with all the modern conveniences; some are quite sumptuous in size and furnishings, while others are smaller and plainer in their appointments, and in some of these, through long accumulations, the furniture is crowded. But wherever assigned to sit, the crisp muslin frocks and the- bright ribbons of the women give an air of freshness and beauty to the surroundings, like that of roses in a garden of shrubs. Nowhere are so many white dresses worn by women as in this capital city-even to the sheerest of muslins and organdies—ih the streets and in offices. However one may regard the custom, one must admit that the dainty costumes light up the dingy official spaces with a wonderful brilliance. For the most part there are not many clerks placed in one room—often no more than two or three persons—and tall, green screens are very generally used to shut out the gaze of curious passers-by In the corridors. The ages of the women range from twenty to fifty years, and even more than that. One ungallant chief of a division remarked that he found the average very high in his rooms. Though they are as a rule very happy in their situations, some are restless and would hail with joy a change of surroundings. There is a charming spirit of camaraderie and loyaltv to each other among the members of the' little coteries, who have known one another through long years, that is truly beautiful. LIKE COUNTRY LIFE. Naval Officers, When Retired, Seldom Live in Large Town*. Washington Star. “Naval officers always settle In the country when they can,” remarked a prominent officer to a Star reporter. “During their active careers, that is, during the time they are at sea, they are necessarily cramped for room, and, while some of them on the large, modern ships have elegant and sumptuous quarters, there is necessarily a limit to it. This thing grows on a man to such an extent that the first thing he does v. hen he is retired, and in hundreds of cases long before retirement, he hunts up a farm. Three of the admirals on the retired list, headed by Admiral Ammen, are the owners of farms In the immediate vicinity of Washington, and a number of other officers are similarly provided for, though their farms are not extensive. “They seem to want stretching room, and it will be noticed that when they do they secure big places. Their minds fun into stock and chicken raising. The officers of the Marine Corps have been noted for years as the owners of the speediest horses owned or driven about Washington, and they have been always prominent in connection with our racing associations and organizations. Naval officers have been similarly prominent. It is different with army officers. Their ambition seems to be for nice houses In the cities. The naval officers’ ideas all run toward the country. 1 don’t like to give names, but I could give dozens of illustrations to prove what I say, if it were necessary. Take a look at the incoming cars from any of the suburban places around Washington any morning and there will be sufficient proof of what I say.” Mob Frightened l>y Soltlier*. MANHATTAN, Kan., Oct 27.—A mob of about one hundred armed men assembled in the outskirts of Manhattan at 1 o'clock this morning, bent on lynching Ike Warren, the Leonardvllle joint keeper, who killed Sheriff Lard last week. While awaiting the arrival of another band of two hundred men the would-be tynchers learned of the presence in this city of a detachment of United States regular troops and decided to postpone their raid on the county jail. The soldiers had camped near town while en route to Fort Riley from Leavenworth. NYliat She Said to Melba. Philadelphia Ledger. A young girl, an ardent admirer of Madame Meiba, at a reception given for the latter was so completely overcome when it came her turn to have a word with the prima donna, that, blushing crimson and looking up with a sweet smile, she murmured: “You sing. I believe?” Murdered with a Hatchet. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 27.—Ferdinand Beard and Tom Needy quarreled while repairing the roof of a house hero this afternoon and Needy struck Beard on the head with a hatchet, fracturing his skull. Beard died a few hours later. Needy was arrested and claims self-defense. *

ELECTING A LORD MAYOR HOW THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE GREATEST CITY IS CHOSEN. A Selection Made liy Burlesque Method* with the Consent of Half a Dozen Very Wealthy Men.

I. N. F., in New' York Tribune. In view of the first municipal election In Greater New York it may be interesting to describe the simple method by which the lord mayor of the greatest city in the world is anriually elected. There have been two municipal functions in the city of London this week, the sheriff's installation and the election of anew lord mayor, and each has been in accord with venerable precedent. The municipal year opens with these quaint ceremonials of Michaelmas day. which are colored with the ancient traditions of the liverymen of the mediaeval guilds. Before the new sheriffs, who had been elected by the Council, were Installed the great hall of the Guild Hall were strewn with camomile flowers and sweet-scented herbs in conformity with an old custom. The aldermen and members of the Council, with the retiring sheriffs and the ora mayor, formed in procession and marched into the hall. The maeebearer and common crier, wiien the court had been opened, summoned the new sheriffs to take the oath of office. The tw'o officials, one a veteran alderman of twenty years’ service, and the other a Scotch councilor, who now enjoys at thir-ty-three the distinction of being the youngest sheriff in the annals of London, repeated at the bidding of the tow r n clerk a declaration of fealty to the crown in archaic English, and subsequently signed a modern translation of it. Gorgeously attired footmen then advanced and divested the retiring sheriffs of their gold chains of office, and the Scotchman changed his gown. The gold chains were put around the necks of the new sheriffs, and they were conducted to their seats under gog and magog in solemn state. What is still known as the sheriffs’ breakfast, although it is a dinner with two hundred guests, ending after midnight, followed the installation. This final ceremonial occurred In Vintner's Hall, one of the quaintest relics of antique London, where five kings were once entertained in the course of a single year. On the following day the new lord mayor was elected with all the ancient formalities. The present lord mayor and the new sheriffs went in full state from the Mansion House to the Guild Hall with a retinue of* swordbearers and macebearers, chaplains and under-sheriffs, wearing either couit suits or robes and carrying bouquets. At the Guild Hall they were received with ceremonious solemnity by the corporation, and were escorted to the little Church of St. Lawrence in Jewry so attend Michaelmas service and to hear a sermon by the vicar. After the service they returned to the Guild Hall, the ltoor of which had been sprinkled with sweet-smelling herbs. There was a small attendance of liverymen, who were to exercise the time-honored privilege of selecting two candidates for lord mayor. The common crier proclaimed in stentorian tones the purpose of the gathering, and the recorder explained that in order that their choice might be free and unfettered, the lord mayor and the Vldermen, whs had passed the chair, would leave them to their deliberations. CHOOSING BY SHOW OF HANDS. The common sergeant next read the names of seven members of the Court of yridermen, who, having duly served in the office of sheriff, were eligible for election as lord mayor. A show of hands was ordered and the sheriffs announced that the choice of the livery had fallen on Aiderman Davies and Sir John Moore. ■ The sheriffs immediately retired with the nominations to the Council chamber, where the aldermen, choosing between the two candidates, elected the lord mayor. When the sheriffs returned to the main hall the recorder announced with a grand flourish that Lieutenant Colonel Horatio David Davies, M. P., alderman and spectacle-maker, had been elected lord mayor of London for the ensuing year. The designation of spectaclemaker referred to the liveried company or guild of which he was a member. The swordbearer at once invested the lord mayor with the chains of office, and the new civic head of London thanked the livery for the honor which had been conferred upon him. A vote of thanks to the outgoing lord mayor wiis passed, and the two officials returned in the same state carriage to the Mansion House, where a reception was held in the evening. No civic election could have oeen more expeditious than this function. In the twinkling of an eye the group of liverymen raised their hands and named two candidates from the seven who were eligible. They put out their thumbs and pulled out two plums. In five minutes the aldermen had expressed their preference for one candidate over the other, and London had a new lord mayor. While the liverymen had been pompously reminded by the recorder that their choice was absolutely free and unfettered, they knew that everything had been arranged in advance among the little group of ex-sheriffs of the Court of Aidermen, who had not passed the chair, and were alone eligible for election. It was decided as long as a year ago that Alderman Davies should be elected lord mayor this Michaelmas. He had expressed his willingness to take the office, and everything had been settled beforehand. The liverymen raised their hands and the aldermen voted, but these functions were purely formal, and everything had been cut and dried beforehand. The candidates do all the caucusing among themselves. Not only has anew lord mayor been elected in consequence of these amicable consultations among eligible candidates, but the succession has also been determined for the following year, w’ithout a Citizens’ Union to force nominations. Arrangements of this kind are expedient, for the office of lord mayor is an expensive one, and only a rich man can hold it. The expenditures for subscriptions and entertainments are largely in excess of the salary and the official allowances. It costs every lord mayor anywhere from £IO,OOO to £20,000 to occupy the office. The outgoing lord mayor. Sir George FaudelPhillips, has probably spent from £25,000 to £30,000 in excess of his salary and allowances. He has taken charge of the Indian famine relief fund and many of the jubilee funds, and has been the patron of all the charities during an “annus mirabilis” of subscription lists and systematic codging. He has subscribed liberally to every fund. His gracious hospitality has been enjoyed by thousands of jubilee guests at the Mansion House. The last year has been an exceptional one, but the office is always a costly one. Whoever accepts it expects to pay heavily for the honor. No lord mayor ever emerges from the office without being at least £IO,OOO poorer for the experience: but the honor of knighthood is invariably bestowed upon him. and his wife enjoys the distinction of being addreseed as Lady So-and-So. No alderman who has passed the chair ever returns to it. Re-election to the office never occurs. No alderman is willing to pay the tolls twice. He might be, if he could get a peerage for a second term. WHAT DETERMINES THE CHOICE. The choice of a lord mayor is ordinarily determined by seniority of service. Every alderman who has been sheriff will be lord mayor in the natural order of succession, unless he declines the honor on account of the expense. The senior ex-sheriff is the candidate usually selected, and the group of aldermen who have not passed the chair Is ordinarily so small that every member of It can have a reasonable expectation of becoming lord mayor some day. As the aidermen are elected for life they form a small and exclusive municipal club, which can b# conducted for mutual benefit and convenience. The succession is talked over and arranged from year to year in a friendly way. Sometimes a cadidate has business reverses and has to wait until the times improve and he can afford to take the office. At other times an ex-sheriff has a foreign journey to make or is out of health, and the honor is deferred to a more convenient season. The outgoing mayor retains his seat in the Court of Aldermen. About one-half the members of that court have been lord mayor, one-half of the ‘remaining aldermen have been sheriffs and are consequently eligible to election to the chief municipal office, and the others are coming on and expect to live tor a year in the Mansion House before the; die. The Court of Common Hall, representing the entire body of liverymen, nominally selects two candidates for lord mayor, and the aldermen choose one or the other. This privilege is of no real importance. Only a small proportion of the liverymen is ever represented in the showing of hands, which passes for an election. The choice is restricted to the ex-sheriffs, and everything is arranged in advance. There are eighty liveried companies, with an aggregate membership at about eivhty-tive hundred. They

are societies of gentlemen living in Greater London, and the government of the Innermost square mile known as the city is virtually in their hands. They control the election of aldermen and common councilors, and leave their representatives to make arrangements for the succession to the mayoralty. These guilds are self-perpetuating, and their membership is restricted to men of wealth. Their influence is not confined to the square mile which they actually govern. They constitute a close corporation of eighty-five hundrtd rich and influential men, financially interested in the water, gaa and transit systems of the entire metropolis. and directing the fortunes of many privileged monopolies, whose business is not under public regulation, as it is in other English cities. The election of the lord mayor is a burlesque performance, with touches of mediaeval mummery, like the November procession, with its tinsel splendors and grotesque pageantry. Half a dozen ex-sheriffs have an informal conference, and one of them agrees to take the office and to pav the costs for a year,- The common crier, tiie recorder. the common sergeant, the mace bearers, the sword bearers and the chapla ir.s appear for dress parade and a small knot of liverymen gives assent. The lord mayor is elected by representatives of the liveried guilds, and he exercises jurisdiction over a square mile of territory, with a resident population of 35.000. The greater London. with its 700 square miles and 7,000.000 residents—a world within itself—has no executive head and no centralized system of government. It is the center of a worldwide empire, yet it is an anomalous jumble of “disjected provinces” without unity of action or enlightened and progressive municipal policies. The modern art of municipal government can offer no more start'lng contrast than that between the choice of the lord mayor of London by half a dozen rich gentlemen who have been sheriff and the popular election of a municipal dictator for Greater New York. THE FIRST ARCTIC PIGEONS. Sir John Rons Took Some to the Polar Regions In IKSO. Boston Herald. Writers for the contemporary press who have recently treated of Andree’s essay to reach the north pole in a balloon appear to have forgotten—if. indeed, they ever knew —that carrier pigeons have previously been taken to the arctic regions by other explorers, and that in one instance it is believed a bird made its way south to its old homo in Scotland. When Sir John Ross went out in the Felix, in search of Sir John Franklin’s expedition, in 1850, he took with him four homing fiigeons belonging to a lady in Ayrshire, intending to liberate twm of them when the state of the ice rendered it necessary to lay up his vessel for the winter, and the other two when he discovered the missing explorer. if he should he so fortunate. A pigeon made its appearance at the dovecote in Ayrshire on Oct. 13, which the lady recognized by marks and circumstances that left no doubt in her mind of its being one of the younger pair presented by her to Sir John. It carried no billet, but there were indications, in the loss of feathers on the breast, of one having been torn from under the wing. Though it is known that the speed of pigeons is equal to one hundred miles an hour, the distance from Melville island to Aytshire, being in a direct line about 2.400 miles, is so great that evidence of the bird having been sent out as early as Oct. 10 was required before it could be believed that no mistake waa made in the identification of the individual which came to the cote. It was afterwards ascertained that Sir John Ross dispatched the youngest pair Oct. 6 and 7, 1850. in a basket suspended from a balloon, during a west-north gale. By a contrivance of a slow match the birds were to be liberated at the end of twentyfour hours. The reader can form his own opinion as to the identity of the pigeon in question; but, at the time, it was fully believed that the bird was one of the two sent off from the expedition in Melville ba y. The expedition fitted out by Lady Franklin in 1851, which sailed in the Prince Albert, under command of William Kennedy, took a number of homing pigeons. It reached Upernavik on June 10. and after taking on board some Eskimo dogs, set put to explore the shores of Prince Regent’s inlet. The mueh-dreaded “middle ice” was reached soon after leaving, and four days were spent in passing through it to the western side of the bay, during which time the men were constantly employed in sailing, boring, pushing, warping, not infrequently exposed to the perilous “nips which are sometimes productive of dire consequences. At this point in the voyage it was deemed advisable to test the powers of the pigeons, but the poor birds refused to take the long flight to England, and resolutely persisted in returning to the ship again and again after a short survey of the icy region in which they were let loose.

He Spoke in Latin, Philadelphia Times. The students of Greek and Latin have always felt that something ought to be done to tlx the pronunciation of those languages for modern use in the classroom if nowhere else. .Os course, nobody can ever know what sound the Greeks gave their vowels or whether the Romans pronounced C hard or soft. It is reported that the subject has been diplomatically discussed and that weighty notes have been addressed by England to France and Germany concerning this ever new and much debated subject. Are we going to talk cf Sezar, Sazar or Kazer? Os Sisero, Tzlcero or Klkero? Apropos of the differences which these various pronunciations indicate the same journal relates that at the Berlin Congress Lord Beaconsfteld (who could understand French, but could not speak it) suddenly rose and pronounced three words which sounded: Kasi kassus bellie. General astonishment and alarm; and while the other English delegates nodded their heads in approvai, the Russian and German wondered what the awful sounding English pronunciamento could portend. So profound was the impression made that the sitting was brought to an immediate conclusion. That evening, at dinner, however, Count Gortschakoff, able no longer to contain his curiosity, leaned over to Beaconsfield and asked him as a personal favor to explain what the three English words that had created such a profound sensation meant. “But that is not English,” said Beaconsfield very much offended; “that is good Latin,” and he wrote it out: “Quasi causus belli.” The Durrant Case. Washington Post. “Does Durrant show any sign of weakening or collapse as the time draws near when his last chance of relief from the death penalty, through the intervention of the courts, must be decided one way of the others?” asked a Post reporter of Captain Hale, warden of the San Quentin penitentiary, who is stopping at the Shoreham. The noted prisoner is confined at San Quentin, and under its roof will, in all probability. make his exit from the world. “No,” replied Captain Hale. "Durrant has shown no sign of giving way. The nerve he displays is remarkable. If he realizes that his earthly days are numbered he does not show it by speech or action. He appears utterly oblivious to his situation. I must say for him that he is a model prisoner find hasn't, from the hour of his incarceration, cost us a particle of trouble. “I will not attempt to forecast the action of the United States Supreme Court in his case, but will state that if the appeal of his counsel is allowed that eight hundred men who are now inmates of the San Quentin penitentiary for all grades of crime will follow the same course that Durrant's lawyers have kaken. They will seek a writ of habeas corpus, or, being denied, will appeal to the United States Supreme Court It can easily be seen what a stupendous amount of criminal business that would bring down on the court, for every State in the Union would soon be following the California example.” Great I* Science. Boston Transcript, Great is science. Two young American singers recently secured engagements in Berlin on the strength of phonographic samples of their voices. The dancers might also take a hint from this. Their biographs might have more weight with managers than their biographies. AW! 1 " rrn NATIONAL . Tube Works Wrought-lron Pipe for Gas, iltipL steam aDd Watßr ’ Holler Tube, Cut and Malle* ■.. (p* r-M, able lion Kitting* (black and _ galvanised). Vaivi-a. Tit of vi. Engine Trimming, mSp Steam Gauges, Pipe Tonga £?■ 3 l*l[>e Cutter*, Vises, Sere# HI kw Plate* and bleu, Wrenches, M 8j(59 Steam Traps. Pumps. Kip b- % J en Slrtks. Hose. netting, llsbCiia IT3I bit Meta!. Solder. While and E'tS Colored Wiping Waste, ami | ■ |rl all other supplies used la w■3 connection with Gas. steam KkJ I 4 and Water Natural Gas fc l Supplies a specialty SleaiaUoafii g Apiarians for Pub. lie Uulldiugs, Storo-room* Mills, Shops, Kactories, Laua dries, Lumber Dry-Housus, ( see. Cut aud Thread to or* I J der any size Wrought-Iron 1,1 Pipe, rroiu 4 inch to l| Inches diameter. H MIGHT 4 JiLLSOK, V (jj . ruMOVAiui ra.