Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 246, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1899 — Page 7

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1SS9.

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NO DEMAND FOR STOCKS SHORTS HAD FULLY ANTICIPATED ADVERSE BANK STATE31 EAT. Bull Movement of the Fast Ten Days Seems to Have Spent Its Force Local Trade Qalet. At New York, Saturday, money on call vas easier at 2&33 per cent.; last loan at 2 per cejit. Prime mercantile paper, 44S5 per cent. Sterling exchange was steady, with actual business In bankers bills at HSftgH-SSU for demand and at $4.S34.S31i for sixty days; posted rates, $4.84 and 4.8'U; commercial bills, J1.S2. Sliver certificates, &S?4fi(c; bar silver, tOUc; Mexican dollars, AV&c. At London bar silver closed steady, at 271S-16d an cunce. Tho exports of gold and silver from New York to all countries for the week aggregate $XS,971 silver bars and coin and J?,!3 in gold. Imports of specie were J 115.913 gold and $73,251 silver. The New York weekly bank statement shows tho following changes: Furplus reserve, decrease $3,1S7,2T3 Loans,- decrease .. Specie, decrease .. 3.12G.90O 4,2&200 Ix-sal tenders, decrease Deposits, decrease 1 4 St 4J0 8,341.3m) 223,400 Circulation, increase 1 The banks now hold $9,191,200 in excess of the legal requirementat The New York Financier says: "The statement of the New York clearing house banks for the week ending Sept. 2 shows, as had been anticipated, a loss in surplus reserve, due to operations with the treas vry and the interior. The decrease In money held above legal requirements aggregated about S3 per cent., and as there Is no reason to expect a different statement for a week cr two to come, the outlook favor3 a firmer tone in money. The banks have apparently reached a position where they cannot ex pand their business further, and If the de mand for money from the West and South attains considerable proportions contrac tlons In outstanding commitments are in evitabl-?. The loans of the banks have been reduced steadily since the opening of July, the decrease up to the present having been forty millions. Deposits show a heavier falling off. The result of these contractions, however, as reflected in excess cash Is seen in an enlargement of reserve of only $3,000, (m. These are the conditions under which thrt hanks face a demand. the extent of which la in doubt. for rnonev needed to move tho crops. Still, the outlook is not as dubi ous as might be xnrerrea. ine interior institutions are much stronger than at this time last year and the decline of foreign exchange rates forecasts what may be expected if rates show a tendency to rise beyond a reasonable figure. At this time last year the reserves of the New York banks were only $5,' higher than at present and fell to 4.3&)M on sept. 1, dui a monm later, owing largely to gold imports and trMnrv operations, excess reserve had ris'n to about $20,000,000. The movement of money to the West this year will probably t much leas than last, but in any event me method r,f rpcureration then employed is easier of accomplishment now. The principal feature in the current statement, aside from the loss of $.",272.tXK in cash, is the de-creaj-e of $.2U.3"0 In deposits. Loans, In the face- of considerable Stock Exchange ac tivity, have contracted Circulation for the week has increased $22S,400." The New York stock market was intenselv ilull throuchoot Saturday's short session and net changes extended beyond fractions only in rare instances. As the bears had fold the matket short in anticipation of tho bank statement, the evening up of their contracts when it appeared, closely confer min:r to estimates, created a demand which rallied the market from early de pression and brought prices in most cases above Friday's level. The fact that Monday Is a holiday had an effect in keeping Stock Exchange operations at a minimum. The report of a death from yellow fever in New Orleans and the Texa3 quarantines causeu weakness in the railroads there in the South, notahlv Illinois Central. Brooklyn Transit, Tennessee Coal. The Republic Steel stocks and American Tobacco led a rise before the bank statement came out. In contrast to the sudden outbreak. Friday, of activity in Vanderbilts. there was only a ingle sale In the first hour of Northwest ern and of Omaha, the latter at a gain or a point. New York Central did not appear cn the tape at all until tne second nour. Kansas & Texas seconds became active In the lata dealings and advanced 1 per cent. The stock market hrrs shown the effects the paat week of profit-taking by the organized pools, which were active in advancirg the Drlces cf certain rauroau siocksl Those stocks have suffered most acutely, but the whole list has shown an increasing disposition to sag. Early in the week the rools were sharply manipulating tne maus trial shares to sustain prices and covering as they went. The short interest in some cf the industrials was sensitive to the up ward movement and was inclined to cover. helping the strength. The various professional maneuvers were the surface indication cf the culmination of the recent bull movement, and the market lapsed into dull r.ess and neglect after they had been concluded. There was no heavy liquidation in evidence outside the pculatlve pront-tak-lnsr. and the market took on the condition of Uthargy and sluggishness which Indicates the contentment of the maps of holder of securities and the unwillingness of buver to raise their b ds. This has not pre vented the rise of a railroad stock here and there fom Individual causes. Earnings of railroads continue- to show unprecedented" results. Lu: there 1 no change la the cau

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tious and conservative policy heretofore shown by railroad manager. They have continued to make extraordinary outlays yemc.,!t and In many instance!, are inclined to pile up a surplus against future contingencies or to put the surplus earnings into permanent improvements designed to cheapen the cost of transportation. Present nigh prices of railroad stocks have thus anticipated increased dividend disbursements, r 1 : manT cases, have not come. The persistent Increase of railroad earnings maKes the htchr AivA,Am i 1

robable, but. the actual declaration has teen In m i n , . .1 m, V v ' v.sca muie man auscoumeu. ine stocks of iron and steel companies on tne exchange very obstinately refuse to advance, owing to a feeling that the present conditions in iron and steel are pnorrnal and necessarily transitory. Even Iitti?uJr.,nl tone of one 8tock ln thl" group elicited little response elsewhere. The evl?riice ?f ""easiness, if not of actual distress, in foreign finnnMal mntor, nn o count of the, heavy bill, they must pay to I itJ:ountry,ar accepted by the bears as -j.rui nidi rijucr means win re sougnt fUtCre to kntlar ViaI wAm c - ionm atf! ,utlook concerned, money wumons art; favorable to the decline In pri 16 I' curiues. The surplus reserves of N ew York hnnV, o t.'"i - , , rnL, iS prod of the year. Even if interior mon.;y markets nm nhi. n 12If l5e crP3 that involve a curtailrXl w Kuvpiy at a source to which New rrsi. H.c n ccij ui Idle lor nt Kl' v ei constaht recuperative process "au&3 oi jngiano. t rance and Gerany lor ma n v voBk. r,a . v. - great centers of finance in much better Sfi vn meet an imperative demand in iX,7- t . iUV oia- ui it is still quite odious that oniv a bffrVi 1. ... ?rid 4Sduce 8h,Pments of gold to New xorK. ine government's revenues are run-IJi-f lar a,head last year's corresponding period and the out-go is much less. Had it the iS! oniV VS &VZnJF. ?,eS" 7 'ft by that bank for the old custom house and s rVIi ?,Yt":.inS.?w York money m Pi lr y nuuiU nave Deen seriously nched the nnt woair The honrl m 1 rlr V ..a m v : ",u,",ri ntxa uecn quiet ana JrZefPll&I- Vnlted States new fours ' " u in tne Dia price. r OlJOWlnrr Is n lief ftf o. i -a tm ciusing uias: Stocks. Cloflni? Rid. 224 t: 5CT, u 67 28 U 1KH 9 41 97 119S fiTi 64 46 184 123 1774 22 764 14 1664 Atchison cja '-n.iiirvii iiiri ................. nutlmore & Ohio Canadian Pacific Canada South Central Pacific '.'.'.I'.'.l'' nesapeake & Ohio 500 Chicago Great Western 1 3.7) PklAu - . . Ch .. Ind. & Louisville Chi.. Ind. & IlllUvllU nrf irtrt - ...... 4W Chicago A Eastern Illinois 310 nitago & .Northweattrn 350 Chicago, Rock Iland & Pacific... 2,330 c., c., C. & St. Louis 100 Colorado Southern Colorado Southern first pref 670 Colorado Kouth Delaware & Hudson rel.. Lack. & Western Denver & Rio Grande Ienver A Rio Grande pref Krle Erie first rref Great Northern pref T T ....... 260 220 100 95 200 xncKin?r K:oai Hocking Valley 100 Illinois Central 200 Iowa Central Iowa Central pref 100 Kan. City, Pittsburg & Gulf.?...... 200 Lake Erie it Western 100 !- E- Western pref Lake Shore Louisville & Nashville 3,'ioo Manhattan L 1.220 Metropolitan Street-railway 200 Mexican Central 60O Minneapolis & St. Louis 200 Minneapolis &l St. Tvmia nrt-t It 35 114 144 ins, 21" o4 2014 ?14 1124 205 14 76 f7 4S 44 14 484 119 Missouri Pacific Mobile & Ohio Missouri. Kan. Jfe Tptm 600 300 Missouri. Kan. &. Txa Tref " ?nn New Jersey Central 400 New York Central 920 - Norfolk & Western 450 Norfolk & Western pref 213 Northern Parifln 9 firm 139 26 714 C6 77 264 46 77 135i 614 33 58 4 34 114 70 374 164 3 133Ti 177 123 364 12-4 r.34 21 474 80 77T4 22 H 12 30 IS US 153 V 133 rortnern I'acinc pref Ontario & Western Oregon Ity. & Nav Orecon Ry. & Nav. pref Pennsylvania Rending 2&3 2C0 410 400 Reading first, pref LlOO Reading second pref.... .... Rio Grande Western Rio Grande Western pref .... St. Lnuia C- Kin Prsn... St. L. & Fan Fran. flrst pref St. L. & Ean Fran, second pref.... St. Louis Southwestern St. Louis Southwestern pref St. Taul St. Taul pref St. Paul & Omaha Southern Pacific Southern Railway Southern Railway pref Texas & Pacific Union Pacific Union Paciflc pref Wabash Wabash pref Wheeling & Lake Erie W. & L. E. second pref Wisconsin Central 200 45 L200 200 400 B.090 139 S.KO siiss 2.S3 100 i. I u0 4S1 200 EXPRESS COMPANIES Adams American United states Wells-Fargo . i MISCELLANEOUS. American Cotton Oil American Cotton Oil pref American Malting American Malting pref Am. Smelting and Refining. Am. Smelting and Refining pref.. American Spirits American Spirits pref American Steel Hoop American Steel Hoop pref American Steel and Wire American Steel and Wire pref..... American Tin Plate American Tin Plate pref American Tobacco American Tobacco pref...... Anaconda Mining Co Urooklyn Rapid Transit Colorado Fuel and Iron Continental Tobacco Continental Tobacco pref Federal Steel Federal Steel pref General Electric Glucose Sugar Glucose Sugar pref International Paper International Paper pref Laclede Gas National Riscuit National Riscult pref National Lead National Lead pref National Steel National Steel pref New York Air Brake North American Pacific Coast Pacific Coast first pref Pacific Coast second pref.... Pacific Mail People's Gas Pressed Steel Car Pressed Steel Car pref Pullman Palace Car P.. C. C. & St. L. Republic I. and S Republic I. and S. pref Standard Rope and Twine Sugar Sugar pref Tennessee Coal and Iron United States Leather United States Leather rref United States Rubber 434 934 144 65i 42 $04 5 23 3S 4 9S 434 90 128 144 164 5 564 974 604 81 121 6414 I054 31 4 7H 95 110 53 9T4 168 13 464 85 34 146 1194 594 89 158 77 294 7S S 156 119 914 10 75 494 115 SS 150 100 600 24)0 1.350 400 100 1.450 120 9.995 250 720 t250 1.570 10O 100 U10 400 250 500 10O 1,000 625 100 100 1.041 3.450 IM2 200 7,220 150 United States Rubber pref. Western Union Total sales .127.900 UNITED STATES BONDS. United States twos, rec United States threes, reg .United States threes, coup United States new fours, reg United States new fours, coup United States old fours, reg United States old fours, coup United States fives, reg United States fives, coup MINING STOCKS. Boston Quotations. Adventure 1004 10S4 10s 4 130 4 1304 1114 113 1114 1114 S 6 SO S50 74 S33 35 20 SS 614 159 22S 114 464 43 so 20 175 60 SO 31 ,500 50 48 . 750 105 10 20 SCO 70 365 17 Allouez Mining Co.... Atlantic 1 to? ton and Montana. Butte and Boston ... Calumet and Hecla... Centennial Franklin , Humboldt Osceola Parrot 4 Qulncy Santa Fe Copper Tamarack Winona Wolverines Utah New Ycrk Quotations. Cholor Crown Point Consolidated California and Virginia.. Dead wood Gould and Curry... Hale and Norcross Homestake Iron Silver Mexican - Ontario Ophlr Plymouth Quicksilver Qulckllver pref Sierra Nevada Standard Union Consolidated Yellow Jacket Saturday Bank Clearings. At New York Clearings, f203,93,e34; balances, $12,176.749., At Boatoft Clearings, $23, 45., 960; balances, $2,2S2.S79. "V At Baltlmotf-Oearlngs, $4,662,133; balances, $58.612At Philadelphia Clearing. $20,137,350; balance. 122C$ 040

ll.OO.SSS. Money steady at 407 per cent. notly at . New York exchange, 63c discount bid; 40c discount asked. At Cincinnati Clearings. $1,535,250. At Chicago Clearings, J22.Cf9l.333; balance!. C121.370. New York exchange, 60c discount. Sterling. $4.84 and $4 874. LOCAL GRAIN AXD rRODLXB.

A Week of Quiet Trade and Few Changes ln Values'. Weather conditions In the week ending Sept. 2, taken with the fact that it was the end of summer, helped to make trade quiet ln nearly all lines. There are evidences on all sides that with the coming of fall weather trade Is to be larj;e ln Its volume and leave no room for complaint. Prices continue unusually steady In all lines. During the week hardly a chanpe was made In any line except in the nature of an advance. The most notable advances were in hide and leather markets and drugs. Prices on everr article In the food line are well maintained. Choice fruit is selling at good prices, but inferior stock is difficult to dispose of at low figures. The general expression is that only cooler weather Is needed to give business a boom. The local grain market show more activity, but receipts still fail short of local demand. Millers are buying grain at other grain centers. The week closed with track bids, as reported by the secretary of the Board of Trade, ruling as follows: Whet-Ko. 2 red. 67c; No. S red, 63C6c; August, 67c; wagon wheat, 67c. Corn No. 1 white, 32c; ,No. 3 white (one color). 32c; No. 4 white, UC31ttc: No. 2 white mixed. 32c; No. 3 white mixed. 32c; No. 4 white mixed. 23Q31c; No. 2 yellow, 32c; No. 3 yellow. tic: No. 4 yellow, 29631c; No. 2 mixed. 32c; No. 3 mixed. 32c; No. 4 mixed. 29 31c; ear corn. 31c. Oats No. 2 white. 23c; No. 3 white, 22c; No. 2 mixed, 215ic' No. 3 mixed, 20c. Hay No. 1 timothy, $8.50(529; No. 2 timothy, &3.50. Inspections Corn: No. 3 white, 21 cars; No. S yellow, 3; No. 3 mixed, 6; No. 4 mixed, 2; total, 33 cars. Oats: No. 2 white, 2 cars; No. 3 white, 1; No. 2 mixed. 4; total. 7 cars. Hay: No. 2 timothy, 1 car. Poultry and Oilier Produce. (Prices paid by shippers.) roultry Hens, Sc; cocks, 3c; young chickens, 74-g8c; hen turkeys, young and fat, 8c; young toms, 7c; young ducks, 4c; geese, 3c for full leathered, IV-c for plucked. Cheese New York full cream. 10lle; skims, 6tc; domestic Swiss. lOfft&c; brick, 12c; llmburgtr, 11c. Butter Choice, 114c; poor, iQSc Eggs Candled. 12c. Feathers Prime geese, 30c per lb; prime duck. 10017c per lb. Beeswax 30c for yellow; 25c for dark. Wool Medium, unwashed, lSG19c; tub-washed, 20(3 25c; burry and unmerchantable. 5c less. HIDES. TALLOW, ETC Green-salted Hides No. 1. 94c; No. 2, 84c; No. 1 calf. 10c; No. 2 calf, 84c. Grease White, 3c; yellow. 24c; brown, 2o. Tallow No. 1. 3c; No. 2, 24c Boues Dry, $1213 per ton. Live Stock. EAST BUFFALO, Sept. 2. Special. Ransom, Mansfield & Co.. live stock commission dealers, report: Cattle 40 cars on sale. Market steady to firm for good fat grades; and stockers were also strong, with some holdovers. Veals easier. Tops, $7B7.50; common to fair, $56.73. I log 3 Receipts. 26 cars. Market dull and slow for all but good Yorkers; heavy grades very slow. Y'crkers. $4.654.90; light, $4.804.85; pigs, corn fed. $4.603J4.70; mixed. JH.70&4.SO; heavy and mediums, $4.C0(g4.70; grassers, heavy, $4.35(&'4.40; light. $4.55(24.63; roughs, $3.803.90; stags, $3.2i 3.50; skips and grassy lots of pigs, t3.253a4 25. Closed dull, with 8 loads of late arrivals ot Michigan hogs left over. Sheep Receipts, 6 cars. Market steady and firm for good kinds; others dull and unchanged. Best lambs, $3.806; good to choice, $5.405.70; culls to fair. $35.25; mixed sheep, $3.50&3.85; good to choice, $3&3.40; culls to fair, $12.50; fair to good fat ewes. $2. 50 3. 50. Closed steady. Canada lambs, $5.50Q6. CHICAGO, Sept. 2. Receipts cf cattle to-day were too light to make a market. Unchanged prices prevailed for the few ordinary grade lots offered, but quotations were practically nominal. Prices for hogs were firm and about 5c higher early, but the improvement was lost before the market was closed up. Heavy hogs sold at ja.SO'p 4.60; mixed lots at $4.15(4.60. and light at $4.20(9 4.65; pigs brought $3.50(34.45 and culls $23.90. Sheep and lambs were in fair demand at steady prices. Offerings were light and the market was partly nominal. Sheep sold at $25?3 for inferior up to $4.35g4.50 for prime native wethers. Lambs were salable at $3.506 for Inferior to choice flocks, extra fine lambs bringing $6.25. Receipts Cattle, 200; hogs, 11,000; sheep, 2,300. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 2. Cattle Receipts, 300. Market steady to strong. Native shipping and export steers, $4.756; dressed beef steers. $45.65; steers under 1,000 lbs, $3-75Q;3.25; stockers and feeders, $2.60(54.85; cows ahd heifers, $2.40Q5; canners, 11.502.75; bulls. $2. 25 ? 4; Texas and Indian steers, $34.C5; cows and heifers. $2.30(3.50. Hogs Receipts, 1,400. Market steady. Pigs and lights. $4.4004.60; packers, $4.25Ca,4.55; butchers, $4.45(34.60. Sheep Receipts, 2,300. Market steady. Native muttons. $3.5C4; lambs, $43.73; stockers, $23 3. CO; culls and bucks. $1.653.50. BALTIMORE, Sept. 2. Flour Receipts, 16.585 brls; exports. 70.CS4 brls. Wheat dull; spot and the month, 970c; October, 71714c: December, 73TR744c; steamer No. 2 red, 65;$?SGc; receipts, 33,209 bu; exports, 45,000 bu; Southern, by sample, CO 704c: Southern, on grade, 67fc704c. Coi strong; mixed, spot. 36?i'527c; the month, 36V;f36c; October, 3636c; November and December, S34g:33c; January, 33433c; February, 334c; steamer mixed, 33fe354c; receipts. 134.395 bu; exports, 3S1.7S1 bu; Southern white corn, 399334c; Southern yellow corn, 294'? 40c. Oats firm; No. 2 white, 27428c; No. 2 mixed, 25254c. NEW YORK, Sept. 2. Beeves Receipts. 21L Little trading: feeling steady. Exports, 884 cattle, $.104 quarters of beef and 75 sheep. Calves Receipts, 72. Veals steady; grassers dull. Veals, $r.8; grassers and fed calves, none; elty dressed veals, 4t?12c. Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 1.621. Sheep firm) lambs steady. Sheep, $3314.20; lambs, $4.2536.15. Hogs Receipts, 94. None for sale. Feeling steady. CINCINNATI, Sept. 2. Hogs dull and lower at J3.25S4.60. Cattle quiet at $2.255.25. Sheep steady at $2 ft 3. 85. Lambs steady at $33 6.75. VITAL STATISTICS SEPT. 2. Dlrthn. Joseph and Maggie F. Gill, AO Temple avenue, girl. J. C. and Cora Beck, 1250 Oliver avenue boy. John and Fannie E. Bell, 954 Indiana avenue, girl. . William and Winter, 2212 Lawrence street, boy. Charles and Annie P. Brunson, 420 E. Thirtieth street, girl. Deaths. Emll O. Kerper. fifty-nine years, 75 Woodruff Place, brain direase. A. N. Clark, seventy-one years, 427 North Capitol avenue, sclcrosis Nellie I. Fitzgibbon, thirty years, 728 East Vermont street, exhaustion following grip. LJzzle Jones, thirty years, city, drowning with suicidal intent. Juett Kemp, two years, 1513 East Sixteenth street, dysentery. V.r. Tabron. thirty-one years, St. Vincent's Hospital, suicide by carbolic acid. . Grace L. Dodd. forty-nine years, 2210 Jefferson street. Blight's disease. Clara J. Tolker, thirty-four years, 1722 Sheldon street, carcinoma. Etta Davis, thirty-one years, 44 Laura street, phthisis pulmonalis. Mary Eagan, thirty-six years, 532 West Pearl street, cancer. Michael Sweeney, seventy-seven years, 1702 North Illinois street, heart degeneration. Mnrrlnere Licenses. Theodore King and Hattle Royse. . Frank J. Fisse and Josephine Linnemann. Ben P. Nenbitt and Daisy Lou Fee. V. M. Max field and Myrtle U Grove. Charles W. Ellis and Susie A. Rotach. Edward Heuser and Rosa Speiser. William Davis and Grace Cope. Edward C. Hartman and Mary Vorhees. William H. Colwell and Delia Lankford. "William Morin and Rose Cowin. Richard Morley and Katie Malloy. r Tito Fashionable Flovrera. Philadelphia North American. Hollyhocks and hydrangeas have been the two flowers that have carried off the honors of fashionable favor this season, and there are no prospects of any wane in their popularity. Hydrangea blossoms have been used on summer hats, painted in profusion on gauzy gowns and used for house decorations. Hydrangea colorings, mauve, faint green, misty blue and silvery rose, have been put together ln some lovely gowns and hats, while dainty little rooms have had their walls, hangings and furniture all in repetitions of the same delicate hues. Hollynocks have leaped from the obscure corner of the garden to the proud eminence of drawing rooms at a single bound. Whole rows of the tall plants are set on piazzas and in large entrance halls, and clusters of roses and white ones have been used as decorations at most formal dinners. Consequently the florists are bending every energy in perfecting the picturesque flowers, for they promise to be more and more in demand for autumn and winter festivities. DntldlnB: Permits. Anna. Albertshar, 515 North Liberty street, frame stable. 2125. Mark F. KIssell. 24 and 26 W. McCarty street remodeling double frame house, fcWX A. Q. Aufderheide, 1312 Martlndale avenue, summer kitchen and veranda. 285. Mrs. M. D. Gorman, 706 Beaty street, repairs of frame dwelling, 250. I J. Hackney, 2121 North Delaware street, bam, $st4. John 11. Riley, 610 South UllDou street, nodellcs Troodxhed, 5.

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IN TIGHT PLACE. (Concluded from First Pa se.) upon declared he would draw up a formal application for the reading of these papers. STRONG WITNESS FOR DREYFUS. The next witness, M. Des Fonds-Lamothe, a former officer of artillery, testified that in 1S24 Colonel Picquart lent him a firing; manual which he might have kept as long as he pleased. "So," the witness added, "there was little secrecy at that time." The witness then continued, as given elsewhere. Not one of the generals found a reply to the witness's argument, which looked, like a clincher, General, De Boisdeffre alone declaring that, although it was true the circular mentioned was sent to the probationers, they knew that they could nevertheless go to the maneuvers If they made special applications. Geiv.rals Mercler and Roget then went on the stage and confronted M. Des Fonds-La-mothe and a heated discussion ensued. Gen. Roget asked when the witness had altered his conviction In favor of Dreyfus and M. Des Fonds-Lamothe replied: "At the time I was before the Court of Cassation I expected proof of my comrade's guilt, and I was thunderstruck when I found the date of the bordereau had been changed." The prisoner then rose to reply to General De Boisdeffre's argument. He declared. he had never asked for permission to go to the maneuvers, and recalled that when Colonel Du Paty do Clam fixed tho date of the bordereau ln August he (Dreyfus) pointed out that he could not have written the phrase, "I am going to the maneuvers." General Roget here interposed that requests to go to the maneuvers were usually made verbally, so that It could not be proven whether Dreyfus had or had not asked to go to the maneuvers. The general, however, admitted that no Inquiry had ever been made on this Important point. General Roset was greatly excited during the foregoing scene, but Des Fonds-Lamothe did not flinch. He retorted quickly to all the general's observations. The two men glared at each other, and once General Roget addressed M. Des Fonds-Lamothe in such a bullying fashion that tho audience hooted him. PROCEEDINGS IN DETAIL. Major ilartmann Affaln Stirs Up the Anti-Drey fas Clique. RENNES, Sept. , 2. The proceedings in detail to-day throw liaht on several points briefly touched on In the review already cabled. When the oourt-martial reassembled Major Ilartmann ascended the witness stand and completed his testimony. Referring to his examination of the paragraphs of the bordereau relating to modifications In artillery formations, ho pointed out that much depended on whether the word "formation" referred to formations in times of war or In times of peace. In the former case, he added, only an officer belonging to the bureau of the headquarters staff could have obtained the information prior to July 4, 1S94. except through steps which would have Immediately led to his detection. After July 4, 1S34, when the decree was issued making effective the new modifications in the artillery, it was a. matter of common knowledge. If the formations referred to were merely maneuvers, only an officer attending the maneuvers of the Third Brigade at Chalons camp could have obtained the information, and no officer of the headquarters staff could be suspected. Note Dreyfus was not connected with the first bureau and did not attend the Chalons maneuvers. Estexhazy attended those maneuvers.! Discussing the firing manual, Major Ilartmann showed that' it was wideley distributed in August, 1S94, and; therefore, could have been borrowed by an officer of any arm of tho service attending the gunnery school. But the comments in the bordereau, in the opinion of. the jrjtness, could only be attributed to an nonartillery officer. Major Ilartmann was proceeding to discuss the shells when General Dt-loye objected, Eaylng such matters could not be discussed in camera. . Members of the court-martial then questioned Major Ilartmann, who differed with them as regards the meaning of sentences in the bordereau, and the witnesses proceeded to show how Est'erhazy could have supplied the information contained ln the bordereau and how easily Esterhazy could have collected at the Chalons camp Information sufficient to enable him to' compose a report on Madagascar and the covering of troops. Replying to M. Iabori, the witness repeated the testimony he had given before the Court of Cassation in regard te the communication of ociet artillery documents by Archivist Boutennot. Counsel recalled the statements of Generals Roset and Mercier contradicting Captain Freystaetter's evidence relating to the leakage of information about a shell, and asked the witness if he was sure the leakage could have occurred in lSyi, to which Major Hartmann replied: "Certainly; in both the case of ths shell and the detonator." Replying to further questions the major said that while he was connected with the artillery technical department he never saw Dreyfus. DELOYE ASSAILS HARTMANN. General Deloye here advanced and remarket! that Major Hartmann's evidence did not give him the impression that it wholly accorded with the real facts. Sensation. Continuing the general proceeded to refute Major Hartmann's arguments. He asserted Dreyfus could have casually abstracted information from the conversation of officers acquainted with the details of the gun and the brake without his informant being aware of it. The major replied that if the general tenor of the evidence was admitted to be true it was difficult for the details not to be true also. He, therefore, asked General Deloye to be more explicit. The general reiterated that Dreyfus could have obtained the information from officers with a special knowledge, who had Imparted it unconsciously during the course of conversation. The majcr pointed out that this could hardly have happened in the case of Dreyfus, as it has been shown throughout the trial that it was sufficient for any person to have been in touch with Dreyfus for that person to remember what had papsed between him and the prisoner. The witness did not doubt that if an artillery officer had been asked for information by Dreyfus he would have come forward to say so. as it would have been his strict conscientious duty. Commotion.) At the conclusion of his testimony Major Ilartmann asked if the artillery department of the War Office had not investigated the leakage at Bourges, and General Deloye replied: "There have been many Inquiries into many leakages, but the artillery department has never inquired into them. In regard to Dreyfus it was asked to do so, and supplied information, but that is all." Major Hartmann retorted that he was surprised that when an officer was accused of a most abominable crime of treason it was not thought necessary to open an inquiry with a view of proving him guilty o Innocent. General Deloye Pardon me. I said there was no inquiry. But, let us understand one another. I meant no Inquiry on the part of the artillery department. Replying to Col. Jouaust General Deloye said he had made an inquiry at Bourges relative to what Dreyfus miht have divulged concerning the Robin shell and Robin at that time declared Dreyfus had never asked him for Information except once, when he asked how the spindles of spinning mills could be made to work faster. Replying to M. Demange General Deloj-e said he regarded himself solely as u technical expert and. therefore, only had to demonstrate the possibility of the prisoner being guilty, without saying whether he thought him innocent or guilty. M. Labori asked General Deloye if he would undertake the responsibility of commenting on the terms of the bordereau. The general replied that It was not within hii province and that it was not for him to express an opinion on a question or argu.ments. He desired to remain on scientific "eround. He merely declared that the iml possibilities urged by Dreyfus did not exist. At- this stage or tne proceedings there was an animated discussion between General Deloye and M. Labori. who closely questioned the director of artillery. : M. Later! tzJll: "Cia Qtzzza Delcy crjr tax-

thing in regard to the Importance of the documents the traitors, particularly the write of the bordereau, may have delivered?" DON'T ASK ME." General Deloye, speaking with great emotion and extending his arm towards counsel for the defense, said: "Don't ask me; don't ask me. There is sufficient evidence In the bordereau to show the traitor Is a master hand, a seigneur. He knowa the Importance of documents he la delivering. Information has the value of official documents. It is like notes of the Bank of France. The Information was accepted as pure gold. "When I read the bordereau I was shocked." Prolonged excitement In court.) M. Labori Ho jv does General Deloye explain the words in the bordereau "some interesting Information?" General Deloye Great heaven, yes It was interesting information information affecting the covering of troops. Why, it was of the greatest possible value. Counsel asked Major Hartman to give an cpinion on this point, and the major pointed out that even if the writer of the bordereau was a master hand, "a seigneur," he was Ignorant of artillery matters, for If he referred to the hydraulic brake of "120" gun he was communicating matters long known, while if he referred to the "120" short gun the expression wa3 not correct. When asked If he had anything to say, the prisoner rose and. holding a paper in l is hand, said: "General Deloye said the artillery department placed firing manuals at the disposal of the second bureau. The bordereau, in announcing the dispatch of this manual, states that it has been placed at the disposal of the probationary officers. There Is here an important inaccuracy. The probationers of the headquarters staff never attended these firing trials. It is the officers holding permanent positions in the staff who are meant. I see on the margin the names of smch officers." General Deloye, ln reply, -aald the error had been made in the seccmd bureau, and not in the artillery department. Continuing, General Deloye Incidentally energetically protested against General Sebert's reference to Captain Valerios's testimony, and accused General Sebert of imputing to the captain as a crime the fact that he had risen from the ranka General Mercler then reappeared ln the witness box and attempted to refute Major Hartmann's arguments. He accounted for the use of the expression "hydraulic brake" in the bordereau by the fact that Germans used the expressions to designate similar brakes. Therefore, he added, it was natural that the correspondent of the Germans should employ the term. APPEAL TO ARMY OFFICERS. General Deloye also said: T beg the court to allow me to say that in an army liable to find Itself confronted by the enemy there Is need of cohesion. Consequently, all the officers of France must march hand ln hand, as brethren. I do not think It is, good for it to be said that officers who have risen from the ranks should stop short at a certain point and that individual merit should not count, and is a bar which cannot be passed. No, that is not satisfactory any more than It is true. Captain Valerio is an example. He has made himself and a large number of others similarly able have filed the positions to which they have risen. Coming here as the representative of the minister of war, I beg the court to allow me to say to ene of our comrades, who has risen from the ranks, that the opinions are not ours. I think It was necessary to say so." After a brief discussion between General Mercier, General Deloye and MajOr Hartmann on the German expression to designate hydraulic brake, the trio returned to their seats. M. Louis Havet, a member of the institute and the professor of the College of France, furnished further expert evidence. He said the conclusions which he had reached after an examination of the bordereau from a standpoint of grammar, terminology, vocabulary and syntax enabled him to definitely declare that It was absolutely Impossible for the bordereau to be the work of Dreyfus, but that it was certainly the work of Esterhazy, who used tracing paper. Major Carrlere asked M. Havet if he had not been in court before testifying, and, after the witness had admitted this to be the case, the government commissary said he did not wish to draw any conclusions therefrom, beyond pointing out that be had been guilty of a grave breach of judiciary discipline. Colonel Jouaust Had you been cited for the defense when you entered the court? M. Havet No. I was only cited in the last few days. Colonel Jouaust Very well. That will do. A brief suspension of the session followed, and after the resumption it was noticed that M. Cavaignac, the former minister of war, was in court, sitting beside General Do Boisdeffre. The letters exchanged between General Gonse and Colonel Picquart relative to Esterhazy were read as already published. Gonse, In these communications, urged caution, while Picquart replied that unless he acted quickly they would be overwhelmed. M. Labori pointed out that during Picquart's investigations, while urging caution. General Gonse never mentioned the alleged confession of Dreyfus. General Gonse tried to explain this by saying he advised Picquart to separate the two cases, saying Dreyfus had been convicted and they could not reopen the question of his guilt or innocence, but the general said he told Picquart he ought to Investigate whether there were other traitors. A FRENCH SAYING. Referring to the correspondence with Picquart, General Gonse exclaimed: "When cne procures the handwriting of a man one can get him hanged." Laughter. General Gonse referred to a well-known saying of a French Judge, Laubardemont, "Give me four lines of a man's handwriting and I'll have him hanged." Continuing, General Gonse said: "When a man wishes to publish another's letters he asks what the writer's meaning was. That was but fair. But without doing so, Picquart handed my letters to M. ScheurerKestner without my knowledge or consent. These letters have been discussed everywhere and have been published ln a book, which can bo found at every bookseller's, entitled, Gonse-Pilate.' " Excitement. M. Labori Was not the bordereau, ln conjunction with the petit bleu, the basis of Picquart's belief in Esterhazy's guilt? Gonse I said to Picquart: "Don't let us tiouble about handwritings at present." M. Labori How could the Dreyfus and Esterhazy cases be separated when both were bated on a common document? General Gonse Because at that time Dreyfus had been convicted and the bordereau was ascribed to him. M. Labori Was it not possible to reconsider an error? General Gonse There was nothing to prove to me that the bordereau was written by Esterhazy. M. Labori Will General Gonse repeat what Colonel Picquart told him concerning the conclusions of Mr. Bertillon? General Gon3e I was not acquainted with M. Bertillon's conclusions, but Picquart seems to exaggerate them. At M. Labori's request Colonel Picquart was recalled and said: "In a brief letter which I wrote to General Gonse in regard to M. Bertillon's conclusions, 1 only referred to part of his observations, and the best proof that 1 did not want to exaggerate them is the fact that I asked that General Gonse order a supplementary inquiry." Colonel Jouaust In what form did M. Bertillon communicate the result of his examination? Colonel Picquart Verbally, on two occasions. As regards General Gonse's letters, I handed them to a lawyer when I understood that I was the object of abominable intrigues and when I received from my subordinate, M. Henry, while in Tunis, a threatening letter, which had been forwarded with the assent of Generals Gonse and De Boisdeffre. If this letter was published I cannot be held responsible for it. General Gonse maintained that the Henry letter was written without his assent, and in reply to an insolent letter from Picquart. Ihe letter, the general added, saw machinations everywhere. He alleged that he was sent to Tunis to be killed. The court could form its own conclusions. Colonel Picquart remarked that he brought the secret dossier to General Gonse simultaneously with the bordereau, and that the general consequently was In a position to judge of the probabilities of the Innocence of Dreyfus. ONE LETTER OPENED. M. Labori asked if General Gonse knew of the plot hatched against Piquart, and If he knew that letters addressed to Picquart at Tunis were opened at the War Office, and the general admitted that a letter was opened in the intelligence department in November. He added that suspicious letters were always handed to him by Lieutenant Colonel Henry, so that he, the witness, might report to the minister of war on them. M. Labori To whom was the letter addressed? General Gonse I do not know. No doubt to the chief of some department. Colonel Picquart It was addressed to me, personally. M. Labori Does General Gonse know that the words In the letter in question were U2tl fcr t QutsUca cX fatricittj a t:!

gram Intending to destroy the value of the petit bleu7 General Gonse admitted that the address seemed to him somawhat suspicious. If thi letters were seized, it was because they were addressed to Picquart as head of the department, and it was thought they might relate to official matters, lie added that Picquart's letters were only opened when they looked suspicious. Colonel Picquart retorted that it was curious his opened letters afterwards reached him without a sign of having been tampered with. Counsel then questioned General Gonse relative to the opening of the "Speranza' letter, and the general replied that this letter was not- addressed to Picquart, but bore a curious address. M. Labori Why does General Pellieux ascribe the letter to Colonel Picquart, whom he had never seen? General Gonse I do not know. M. Labori pointed out that the first letter which was genuine was forwarded to Col. Picquart after having been opened, while the "Speranza" letter was retained. The letter could, therefore, be regarded as the work of a forger. Great excitement.) Colonel Jouaust You are entering into a discussion. M. Labori. sharply No, Monsieur le President. By virtue of Article 319 of the code, I merely say what I think ln regard to the evidence. General Gonse, replying further, dwelt on the fact that it was necessary that the intelligence department should know the acts of Colonel Picquart, who had been removed on account of his conduct. M. Labori Does General Gonse think the Henry forgery was the result of a plot against Colonel Picquart? General Gonse said he thought the forgery was an "unfortunate proceeding."' Laughter.! He would have prevented It if he had been consulted. But he did not believe there was a plot against Picquart. Henry desired to have fresh proof against Dreyfus, "though fresh proof was not really required, as the diplomatic dossier contained ample proof." PROTEST FROM LABORI. M. Labori protested against such a statement, and asked which document of the dossier implicated Dreyfus. Col Jouaust refused to allow the question and counsel thereupon remarked that he reserved the right to form what conclusions he thought proper on this point. CoL Jouaust Form as many conclusions as you like. M. Labori next referred to the attempt to bribe Commissary Temps and erasures in the petit bleu. General Gonse declared the petit bleu already had traces of erasure before It was first photographed. This M. Labori vigorously denied and asked that the evidence of the experts proving the contrary be read. General Roget reappeared on the scene, and amid the keenest attention of all described the forgery proceedings against Picquart as resulting from his, the witness's, discovery that erasures had been made in the petit Heu. "It was General Zurlinden," General Roget added, "who ordered Picquart to be prosecuted. I assume responsibility for all my own acts, but for my own acts alone. 1 am surprised that the defense should arraign me on this point." x M. Labori declared he merely wished to show that the erasure could not be ascribed to Picquart, and that, therefore, there ought not to have formed the basis of a prosecution against him. Then counsel again asked that the expert evidence on the subject be read. . . . . . Col. Jouaust promised that It should be read on Monday. ' On three occasions M. Demange asked General Gonse to explain why Picquart, on seeing the petit bleu, proposed to lay a trap for Esterhazy unless the petit bleu was addressed to Esterhazy. But counsel elicited no reply until General Roget came to the rescue and said Picquart knew Esterhazy was coming to Paris in any case, and if he sent a decoy letter Esterhazy would have appeared to have come in response to it, whether he did so In reality or not. M. Labori declared this was untrue, and Picquart maintained that his conduct was perfectly straightforward. M. Des Fonds-Lamothe, a former military officer and now an engineer, was the next witness. He testified that he was a probationer simultaneously with Dreyfus. The witness said that in August, 1SS4, he borrowed the firing manual from CoL Picquart and kept it as long as he liked. "In 1S94," the witness continued, "firing manuals were given to whoever asked for them." M. Demange Can the witness, who was on the headquarters staff with Dreyfus, say whether ln 1894 he thought he would go to the maneuvers? Excitement. M. Lamothe I am performing a conscientious act. I am convinced not one probationer ln 1894 could have believed he would go to the maneuvers. We were informed by a circular, dated May 15, 1894, not to attend the maneuvers. The object of antedating the bordereau, the witness added, was to make It a prior date to that of the circular. It had since been attempted to attain the same object by post dating the circular. The circular was then read and found to be dated May 16. 1894. but Generai De Boisdeffre Intervening asserted that probationers might still hope te go to the maneuvers by a special permission. TIIC COURT AT IlEXXES.

New View Given of It by One Correspondent. G. W. Steevens, in London Mail. You will say I am trying to shirk my duty, but my first duty, as they say in the court-martial, is to tell the truth. The truth is that the Dreyfus case, the world-shaking, heart-tearing Dreyfus case Is becoming a bore. I think most fair-minded observers have given up all hope of arriving at the certain truth. The enormous range and enormous complexity of the case a range of five years and a complexity Involving perpetual contradictions between men who both ought to know, perpetual appeals to witnesses who do not and apparently will not appear, rival interpretations of cryptograms in. German cipher, and the unceasing doubt that any given document may turn out at any moment to be a forgery it has melted all our brains to Jelly. The Frenchman and the foreign partisan have no such symptoms; to them everything on their side is crushing, everything on the other flimsy. "Every day," says the Intranslgeant, "fresh proofs are remorselessly piled up against the traitor." "Every day," says the Aurore, "demonstrates more fully the deplorable weakness of the enemies of truth and justice." I have met one Frenchman and only one impartial enough to admit that he was partial. Said he: "Suppose you had discovered that there was treachey in your navy, which is your all as our army is ours. And suppose that for live years you saw your admirals maintaining one side of the question and the Little Englanders the other. Wrhich side would you be on?" I had only one reply: If I were a Frenchman 1 should have been an anti-Dreyfusard. In England I should trust the admirals. But what should I do when, after I had trusted the admirals five years, the admirals came forward to give me the materials to form my own judgment, and gave me the same sort of materials as the French generals are giving in the Dreyfus case? If the evidence had been given at once, I should have said that it looked bad, perhaps, but was not enough to hang a dog on. But after rive years of bitter faction? It is not so easy to resume the judicial mind in a day. I deClare it Is an outrage to ask a Frenchman to be impartial.' For the members of the court-martial the test is as cruel a one as any man could undergo. If you took seven Frenchmen from the street they would have made up their minds before they so much as saw the prisoner; Dreyfus would be condemned, on a fair average, by five to two or six to one But these seven officers, in addition to the prejudgment of years, find superior officer after superior officer the men whom it is their military duty to trust and follow coming before them and pleading all on one side. Whatever they decide, they will be the butts of the bitterest hostility for the remainder of their lives. Even though the evidence were abundant. Irrefutable, and all on one side, their position would be difficult enough. It turns out scanty, doubtful and ambiguous. The result is that whatever decision they give will be ascribed, not to an honest estimate of the weight of evidence, but to the motives of which professional interest or political prejudice will be the least discreditable. I take it that every one of the seven would sooner have faced a park of German artillery ct 200 yards than sat on the Dreyfus court-jnartiaL Considering this, when I read in English papers that the court is showing signs of ftartlallty, my blood bolls. If it were true, t would be better left unsaid at the moment. As it is not true. It degrades the men who make the accusation to the level of a Drumont. Drumont. of course, has not lost the chance of an indecent exhibition only he imputes unfairness on the opposite sido. "On the first day," says one of his writers, "Colonel Jouaust showed tact and impartiality,", which means that he severely cress-examined Dreyfus. But now he has repented of his gcod intentions. "Why did he brutally threaten to clear the court when somebody shouted 'hon' at Dreyfus?" If this sort of thing goes on. the Libre Parole reminds him, one will recall the fact that the Colonel Jouaust's wife Is a relation of Waldeck-Roussean that the agent of the Pcrr.rr.a cwlaCsra wta actually a wtne:j

at his marriage and that his brother is a militant Freemason! As a matter of fact, the court-martial has commanded the respect of everybody, Dreyfusard or anti, that has seen it at work. The colonel I have spoken of before; he gives the Idea of being a Just but kindly father to everybody ln the room. The lieutenant colonel on his right, who is director of tha Kennes School of Artillery, is. if looks go for anything, as arute and cool-headed a Judge as even the Dreyfus case could ask. Everybody to the two burly black bulletheaded captains, of exactly the same service and curiously alike, who sit at the two ends like the supporters of a coat of arms pays the keenest attention to the evidence for five hours and a half every hot morning. They constantly ask questions, and not one of them has yet asked an irrelevant or unintelligent one. It is plain that they know the case thoroughly. Whether they will decide it as I should do. I neither know nor care. But of this at least you may rest certain: Dreyfus is having as fair a trial as France can give him. As to the post dating of the circular, witness said he did not doubt that different ministers of war who had expressed opinions on the case were perfectly honest, but he thought they had made a mistake. Sensation. DREYFUS INNOCENT. Witness also pointed out that for Dreyfus to have been able to write .the bordereau it would have been necessary for him to have the firing manual in his possession before the maneuvers, which was impossible. The charge, therefore, collapsed. That Dreyfus did not write the bordereau, the witness was absolutely certain. Murmurs of approval and disapproval. Replying to the Judge the witness reiterated that it was Impossible for Dreyfus to have believed, after May, 1S04. that ha would attend the maneuvers. As M. Lamothe was about to leave the witness box. General De Boisdeffre ascended The platform and said he wished to say v. few words in reply to M. Lamothe. Simultaneously Generals Mercler, Roget and Deloye all asked for a similar privilege. The senerals successively admitted the correctness of M. Lamothe's statements la regard to the circular, but attempted to refuse his testimony on other points. Gen. Roget finally asked M. Lamothe from what time his tellef in the prisoner's Innocence dated. M. Lamothe From the time of the Publication of the proceedings before the Court of Cassation. 1 was expecting proof of my comrade's guilt, and I was thunderstruck when I saw the date of the bordereau had been altered. Roget asked if M. Lamothe had not on several occasions expressed his belief In Dreyfus's guilt. M. Lamothe admitted that possibly he had done ap before the publication of the proceedings before the Court of Cassation but not at the time of the prisoner's arrest, for that was kept secret. Asked the usual qrestion. the prisoner reminded the court that in 1894. when Col. Dm Paty de Clam had endeavored to make the date of the bordereau August, he had protested that he could not have written the sentence, "I , am going to the maneuvers." since he would not be going on regimental duty until October, November and December, and dwelt upon the fact that at tho time he handed M. Demange a note on the subject. Dreyfus. In conclusion, maintained that he had never asked leave to go to the maneuvers. M. Demange corroborated the prisoner's testimony and pointed out that the note mentioned by the prisoner had been added to the dossier by the Court of Cassation while Dreyfus was still on Devil's Island, thus precluding all doubt as to Its genuineness. Gene Roget attempted to show that Dreyft ght have asked leave to go to the rm .vers in 194. but again M. Lamothe c eckmated htm by demonstrating that he did not do so. M. Demange created a stir by saying that it was most regrettable that no inquiry had been made by the War Office on a point of such Importance. The court briefly retired and afterward announced that it had been decided to hear the remainder of Major Hartmann's evidence ln camera on Monday. The court then adjourned.

PROSPECTIVE DUEL. General Roget May De Forced to Fight Colonel Schneider. PARIS, Sept. 3. La Laterne to-day says that Colonel Schneider, the Austrian military attache, has telegraphed to the charge d'affaires to ask General Roget if the reference made to him by Roget In his reply to PIcot's testimony ln the Dreyfus courtmartial was Intended as an insult. If it was then the charge d'affaires, on behalf of Schneider, was to demand an apology from General Roget or satisfaction by arms. HOW WU IXFLUE5CE EACH OTHER. Scheme Carried Oat Which Proved the Povver of Frequent Suggestion. New Orleans Times-Democrat. "It is a scientific fact.' said a citizen who plumes himself upon being a close student of human nature, "that no man can hold out against the continued opinion of his fellows. If six friends in whom you have confidence were to assure you that two and two made five it would be only a matter of time when you would believe it, and, strange to say, this lack of self-reliance is peculiarly strong in all matters touching one's own personality. We all know, for Instance how oulckly we become alarmed when people tell us we are looking ill, and how easily wo are disconcerted by criticisms upon our attire. Well, acting on this eminently human weakness, a certain amiable gentleman and myself recently performed an experiment upon the eleven other tenants of the block ln which we have our offices. We undertook to make the whiskered ones fhave and the hairless ones grow whiskers. and as an initial step prepared a sort or schedule in which we set down our exact intentions in regard to each. 'Mr. A., waxed mustache;' 'Mr. Ii.. small chin tuft;' 'Mr. C. mutton chops and so on and so on. I know it is a very old pag, but we went about It in a strictly businesslike fashion, keeping & record of the time each man held out. Our suggestions would be something like tills: Hello. Colonel! Why in the world don't you grow a pair of side whiskers? They would give you dignity and an air of opulence. All capitalists in pictures wear slders, and. seriously, old man, a nice pair of 'em would be a great help to you ln business.' 'Hu-m-ra,' the colonel would say thoughtfully, 'd'ye reallr think eoT and thereupon the idea would proceed to germinate in his mind until the side whiskers themselves began to protrude from his countenance. In three weeks we landed ail but two. The quickest work was with a real estate man. who wnacked off his mustache as soon as we told him he would look like Lawrence Barrett if he was only smooth-shaven, and the hardest tussle was with an insurance agent whom we finally persuaded to raise a goat beard. "Strange to say," continued the conspirator, "the two who proved obdurate were the very chaps we had thought would be the easiest of all. One wore an enormous drooping red mu stache and the other had an abnormally thick black beard. We began on the first fellow by hinting to him that he would look very distinguished with a clean upper lip; then we tried to ridicule, and finally I showed him a newspaper clipping saying that any largo mustache was a lurking place for microbes of the most depravedi species. None of these maneuvers had the slightest effect. He would simply stroke his absurd crimson ornament and remarlc vaguely that he 'guessed he'd let it stay on." We tried the other chap by telling hlra that a mystical lady had said it was a pity that a man with such clean-cut features should disfigure himself with a hideous, bristling beard. He grinned and was eager to know the lady's name, but the beard still lingered. To make a long story short, w tried everything we could think of on both men and made a total failure. I couldn't understand it. Neither of them seemed to be phenomenally strong-willed, and it was mcst mysterious that they should be Immune to the tactics that had floored everybody else. One day my barber heard m making a last attack on our bearded friend and smiled ironically. 'No use telling that man to shave off his beard. he said. He wouldn't do It for a house and lot. Why not? I asked. 'Because he has a wen on his chin.' replied the barber. 'It's the prize wen of the South half purple and half red. That gave me a rlew. 'Do you happen to know Mr. So and sor I inquired, naming the gentleman attached to the red mus gentleman auaturu iu me if u mushe. 'Yep,' said the barber. I shave him ularly 'is there anything peculiar about V I asked, cautiously. 'No, not that I tache. regularly. him; know of answered the barber, 'excepting his harelip.' That settled It. I went bade and scratched both names off the list. Army of Women Minister. San Francisco Examiner. There are to-day about tkree hundred women ministers in the United States. In America the ministry is being more .used by women as a profession than the law. The great value of women ministers in America Is for scattered parts that cannot possibly support a man. They can maintain m woman minister. The chief opposition to women pastors comes from ministers of the poorer and least qualified class. Of course, the older and more conservative ministers, bishops and the like, do not look with much) pleasure on a woman In the pulpit. But many congregations ln the United Ctatea are ready for women ministers. Mother Goose Cp to Date. Jack and Jill went up the hill. To get a pall of water; But ivhat Jack said when he fell Cr. Jill raid he hadn't oughter. -- .