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U K P K A II VI J1 IUI 1 n 1 I Htff I ilVLl amvtiieii max txnnu oimnus ij lie Declare lie Win toi,cr, lld Trouble I Inspected at KXirn. Hon of the Time Limit. PERU WOOLEN MILL ASSIGNS COl.nitKI) filKL, STtlLKX FIIOM KVa:svili.i:, inns ix tiik soith. Ilnrtforil C ity' New Municipal Rull.I. V Mollu-r liive er Life for I!r Child Small Store Fires. s. ,-, :.!l to the Indianapolis Journal. PAoLI. Ind.. Jan. 4.-The indignant peovc who held a mass meeting here yesterday and ordered Dr. Driscoll. the dentist u, leave town in twenty days, also gave similur notice to Ford Wilson, a friend of I. recoil. As Mr. Wilson had no business hre, they gave him just twenty-four hours t.. make his departure. Lite this afternoon Wilson was still In t .v. n. and said he would not leave. If he i, h. ro at 10 o'clock to-night trouble may U .xpecteil. as it is the common belief the titiznus will take action which may result in ruugh treatment for the young man. A. 1IUROIC 3IOTIII2H. With Her Clothes Ahlnzc She Saved Her Chilri-IIcr liurn Fnlal. :al to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND, Ind., Jan. 4.-Mrs. Orville I)- Hoff, of Geneva, burned to death last liuht. her dress having ignited from a -tow Her first thought was for the little child she had in her arms. She placed it why re the Kibe would be safe, then ran Into Hi.- kitchen and closed the door. Here she was found by neighbors, all of her clothing i. a ving been burned off. Mrs. De Hoff lived four hours before ath came to her relief. Her husband and ihr-' other children were not at home when th- aeoidont occurred. Family Saved Ijt a Dojr. Fj ---ia: to the Indianapolis Journal. LAP0RTL Ind.. Jan. 4. Members of the family of Herman Meyers, occupying a flat over a store at Michigan City, owe their lives to the houe dog, which at 1 o'clock this morning, by its persistent barking, aroused th members and enabled them to rsr-ape in their night clothes from the building, which was enveloped in Harnes. In the excitement the baby was forgotten, but the father discovered the fact, and, rushing into the burning structure, rescued the infant. The property loss is $5,000. Fire in a Dedford Store. r?clal to the Indianapolis Journal. BEDFORD, Ind., Jan. 4. The Chicago Branch dry goods store, owned by C. Autrbaeh. was set afire late this evening by an overheated stovepipe. Some light dry goods caught first and the blaze communicated 11 over the store. The store was full of customers, who made a rush from the building. The stock is badly damaged, but is insured. A R n IT K ATI () X A G II IZ IZ 31 EXT. Commission Appointed to Settle a Dottle Glns Wage Dispute. NEW YORK, Jan. 4. The local unions of glass blowers reported to-day that an agreement has been reached between the American Flint Glass Workers' Union and t'ne Glass Bulb Manufacturers' Association that will prevent a general strike in the traue. Some time ago the glass blowers (.emanded an increase of 10 per cent, in wages, and several conferences were held fiver the demand. Thc employers argued that owing to the competition they were unable to grant the increase. An arrangement was reached by which each side appelated a commissioner to go to Europe to investigate the conditions under which glass incandescent light bulbs are made. If the commissioners report ;:ga!nst an increase the present wages will continue. If for an Increase the employers are willing to grant it. Each side is said t he willing to abide by the decision of the commissioners. Gliiwt Meeting Was .Not Held. ?acial to the Indianapolis Journal. Ml'NCIiv:. Ind.. Jan. 1. The meeting to have been held in Muncie to-day for the purpose of completing the organization of all window glass manufacturers of the country into one selling agency was not held, the reason given being that Geneial Manager Leopold Marnbourjr, of the federated co-operatives, was snow-bound in the East and could noc reach home until Surday. Consequently telegrams were sent last night postponing the meeting until Tuesday f next Week. PITTSBURG. Jan. 4. Leopold Mamtourg. president of the Co-operative Window Glass Manufacturers' Association, arr i .1 in Pittsburg to-day and spent much cf the dav in conference with the officials ff the Pittsburg Plato Glass Company. What the conference was about Mr. Mam-t-'uri; declined to state. Others interested sal.! it was in the hope that the existing contract the co-operatives had with the I'.at. Class Company might be amended la ..rder to protect them from a ruinous I.riee war. C0313IEIICIA1. CLUII II L I LI) IMG. 3Inuei Organization Decides to Pnt lp a Fine Structure. filial to the Indianapolis Journal. MPXCIE. Ind.. Jan. 4. At a meeting of t.V: Muncie Commercial Club last night a r.ew organization was made by the adoption of new articles of incorporation for t-T purpose of erecting a Commercial Club l'-:;!d:r:g opposite the Kirby Hotel on Main vtr. a three or five-story building will 1 - r cted that will be a model of its kind. Th" lub is incorporated for J25.W0 the :ing will be erected by stock subscrip-ti.r..-of $20 per share. Will Have it Xew City Ilulldlnff. ;-. . tl t,j the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITV, Ind., Jan. 4. The t :ty '..;jncii contracted last night with L. r- Gable for the erection of a new city '-Ming, to cost about $laU. It will conti:' a city lock-up. quarters for the city o:;' i ,l and the hose company. It will be on structure and an ornament to the (:ty. The Council also took the preliminary steps to pave Washington street, the (oy's principal thoroughfare, with vitriiied brick. DIED A3I()G ST II A X G E R ? Little Colored Girl, Who Wnn Stolen from EvariMville I.mt Jnly. S;" :al t the Indianni-olis Journal. EVAXSVILLE. Ind.. Jan. 4. Last July P.,sley, si little colored girl, was kidr"Id in this city, and the police departnr.t failed to find a clew to her abductor, although unusual efforts in that direction made. The little girl, only seven years wös an only child, and the mother almost lost her reason in consequence ef xht- girl's disappearance, and for a consider-ar-time after that haunted police headfp.arter.s in the hope of learning something rK-ird:r:tf her missing one. A letter has just been received by Mrs. r'c-y and signed by William Rolling, a J'- who formerly resided here, stating f ' had kidnaped the little girl and that she -c, been with him up to a short time ago. wru-n she took sick and died. 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to relieve h rXSVJ8 P1 that hc ht hrr tho ro'Vf mlnd by writing ami teliin-r with Brief Ä i ,S now nny wild point fn the Sorn ?2mc from Rome mont win redouble SJd the .pol,cc departto locate the man crtionS in trying POWDKII CLAUSE FIGHT. lock Coal Miner, AVill IRut that It !c i:ilmlnntel. Social to the Indianapolis Journal. RRAZIU Ind.. Jan. 4.-The block coal miners will B0 ,nto the natlonal coJJ to make a determined tand against any compromise agreement by which they will be um.er any obligations to purchase powder from the operators. If the matter Is left to be settled by districts the block coal Khmnt rieh? to' claim is their open mLrket l?hPUirChaSe I,ow'' In the a-in ,2 itr i, at the lowest possible tttrure !hat he "fi,im'":rf f ,hls "rl?t ffl k, u V 1 not ln anv wy be eoverned snot Id" thel s, "f thc tumyinou.?mTnners I : eY slRn an agreement this veir uh srt attL"?OW ,n, ce?V hiJh stip,w Kthe m,ners shall purchase pow der from the operators at a Riven price i h operators, it is understood, will make 2,rtrrnSfta,nd for the inrtlon of the pow! der-purchasing clause in the vearlv con mfni;.rT1;e; Fay they, can5 Ä' hJ miners first-class powder as cheap as it can be sold in the open market, and they thmk it is no more than Justice that their employes should purchase it from them. 3Iay He a Lockout. Social to th Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS. Ind.. Jan. 4.-What will be the llrst lockout In Columbus may develop from the order posted by the Orinoco Furniture Company to-day. Because the management refused to discharge or force a wood worker to Join the union the rest of 2JOIJe decLdedJ S on strike to enforce their demand. To the demands of the workmen the company replied as follows: In attempting to force us to coerce one of our employes to join your union vou are in our opinion exceeding your rights and interfering in matters which in no way concern you. We therefore ask you to withdraw the proposition above referred to. and if you do not do so we will close thc factory indefinitely." ITS SCOPC IlllOADEXED. Western OH .Men's Association Becomes the Xationnl Association. TOLEDO, Jan. 4. Action fraught with importance to the oil world was taken at the annual meeting of the Western Oil Men's Association here to-day. Definite action regarding changing the name of the National Oil Men's Association was officially taken, and the propostion will be finally voted upon on Feb. 1, 1901. The result of this movement will be to bring the oil producers of the United States and Canada together for mutual advancement. The organization will maintain a bureau of publicity. The formation of branches will begin after the February meeting. The annual election resulted as follows: President. Col. B. M. Moulton; vice president. A. E. Klauser; treasurer. H. R. Klauser; secretary. George A. l. Whitney, jr.; board of directors. Otis A. Browning. W. V. Gordon. W. 15. Delaney, A. Harmon, Henry Alexander, Thomas Percy. FAILURE IX WOOL. IIonnty-Aided Pern 3Innufncturer Has 3Iade an Assignment. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PERU, Ind., Jan. 4. Joshua Turner has made an assignment of the Peru woolen mills to II. II. Hammond, an attorney of Cleveland. The liabilities are about $$,000. with assets of about $3,000. Mr. Turner came from Cleveland last spring, and after getting $1,000 aid in public subscriptions took a purchase lease on the old mill and opened it for business. It is said he did not have enough capital to keep things going. The mill property reverts to the owners, and the added machinery to the subscribers to the opening fund. The assets assigned are the manufactured stock, the materials and the unpaid accounts. It has not been determined what will be done with the property. CAL'GIIT V A LIXE SHAFT. Jackson County Spoke Factor Frohahly Will Die from Injuries. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BROWNSTOWN, Ind., Jan. 4. While at work at his spoke factory William Todd, of the firm of Todd, Henderson & Fish, of Norman Station, in the western part of this county, was caught by a rapidly revolving shaft and was terribly hurt. His left arm was torn off at the elbow and dislocated at the shoulder, while his right arm was broken la three places. He was otherwise badly bruised. Owing to his age, fifty-five years, his recovery is considered doubtful. He has a wife and several children. Raids on 31nrion Gamblers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION. Ind., Jan. 5. At Saturday midnight the police department began a systematic raid of the gambling resorts of this city, as the order to close issued by the commissioners bcveral days ago had not been obeyed. At Pierce & Patterson's place disguised n itrolmcn worked their w;jy past lour or live guards and chrough a secret door and arrested thirty-six men. One; man stayed thc tines for all. amounting to $73" At Peter Garrett's place seven men were arrested. At 1:20 o'clock Sunday morning thc officers were still out, but most oc the places had been warned and were closed. A great union revival of all the Protectant churches will begin here today, and the raid is the llrst step toward the purification of the city. Columbus to Have a Library. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind.. Jan. 4.-Through thc efforts of the local School Board, with Superintendent T. F. Fitzgibbon at the head, Columbus is to become a beneficiary of Andrew Carnegie. He lias just announced that if the city of Columbus will provide for not less than $1.500 per -year tor maintenance and provide a site lUOifl ill Se given for the buliding of a public library. The fact that a 3 per cent, tax levy is nöw made for the maintenance of the present librarv. which is under the auspices of the local School Board, and which produce" practicallv about $1.500 per year, will make the requirements of the library giver easy for this community. 3Ir. IIoIHd.o' Tension Rill. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind.. Jan. -Representative Holliday left this afternoon for Washington, where he will at once draft a bill amending the dependent pension bill In such a manner as to give every widow of a Midler $12 a month even Je conbe caused by other rnJll? cna tr-ieted in the service. Mr. ltoinua he think" The will have no trouble in getting the biU through Congress and 1 he beliPvVJ Tit will soon become a law. Should It widows of Didiers would only be reVirorf to establish the death of tneir nusSlid., when thilr name, would be placed on the pension roli Xo Xevr Cases Reported. SpecUl to the Indianapolis Journal. 1 nvrir r i' Ind.. Jan. 4. Strict uarantine was established to-day over the oues where the twelve Brad"f. U 5 ml no one is permitted to h are ofn "reported to-day. The City ?T. Cm be opS to-morrow afternoon all will "ptnt i themselves at II o vcCv".aSn.e Everything possible , I. fnfdonc to prevent the spread of the th be c on taglon. o,to Take" n Change f Venne. ii .Tnurnal. R Spe fecial to tne mu.a..- nnlton TEBItK HAUTE. jL Z 1 De who Is noiainj; imocrat nfllee with an armed the e county unwu.w ----- vnue from ard. .o-day -took " fÄV ?? crk. JU th dgc summon j.. "r-r-z. a cert ticate oi ?ctÄrraan,Uohtanmufc James J elec

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,, J a rnember of the local bar. was called to preside and the day was spent in argument. Veteran Voters League. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY. Ind., Jan. 4. The Veteran Voters' League, composed of men who voted for the three martyred Presidents, Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley, was organized In this city this afternoon with the following oflicers: President. Prof. J. P. tunk; vice president, L. B. Huckeby; secretary and treasurer, Dr. W. F. Morrill. Railroad Subsidy Voted. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LA PORTE, Ind., Jan. 4.-In the special election held in Dewey township, of Laporte county, to vote a subsidy of $1S,000 to the Cincinnati. Richmond & Muncie Railroad, the proposition carried by a large majority. The road is In operation to Peru and the roadbed is constructed Into Starke county. Indiana Obituary.GREENFIELD. Ind.. Jan. 4.-Leander Andrew Davis, who for many years has been the leading watchmaker and jeweler of this city, died at his rooms here this morning from blood poisoning and a complication of diseases. He had been sick several weeks. He had no immediate family, but left a large number of relatives. The time of the funeral has not been announced. FORT WAYNE. Ind.. Jan. 4.-Vlctor Cavalier, a well-known French farmer, with extensive holdings near Areola, a few miles west of here, 'died suddenly to-night from angina pectoris. He was about sixty years old and left a widow and several adult children. He was an active Democratic politician in Cook township. LADOGA, Ind., Jan. 4. After an illness of several months Mrs. John Zimmerman, wife of a well-known local business man, died this morning of cancer. She was a Virginian of the old stock. Her father was one of the aristocratic land and slave owners of Botetourt county, having at one time owned two hundred slaves. PORTLAND, Ind., Jan. 4. A telegram received to-day from Port Atkinson. Wis., tells of the death of Mrs. Charles W. Ferris, formerly of this city, from pneumonia. While a resident of Portland Mrs. Ferris was quite a leader -in society circles and a prominent member of the Shakspeare Society. MUNCIE. Ind., Jan. 4.-The death of Asbury Wagoner, aged seventy, occurred in Muncie last night. The body will be sent to Rushville, his former home, for burial. Indiana X'otes. TERRE HAUTE. The body of a negro, Sam Russ. was found frozen in a creek near the city Saturday afternoon, and it is believed he lost his life in the blizzard two weeks ago. He was about twenty-five years old. He. and his wife separated a few weeks ago. SULLIVAN. Charles W. Welman, of this city, has formally announced himself as a candidate for member of Congress from the Second district to succeed Robert W. MIers. Mr. Welman was the Democratic nominee for secretary of state ln 1804. MARIOX.-Matholics from all over the gas belt will meet here on Sunday for the installation of a local lodge of the Knights of Columbus. Several of the national officers will attend. A banquet will be served in the evening. PORTLAND. Ben Curtis, wanted for a year for a criminal assault in Jackson township. Jay county, was brought here Saturday evening by Sheriff Andrew. He was captured near Muncie. INDIANS IN POWWOW. ) They Discnss the Distribution of Money for Sale of Lands. GUTHRIE, O. T., Jan. 4. The Kiowa, Comanche, Apache and Wichita Indians are in conference near Anardako, with Lone Wolf presiding. They have met to express their views in regard to the distribution of the first payment of the money apportioned on the sale of their lands in the new country. They declare the sale is illegal, and they don't want to accept the first payment of but they do want the $70,000 due them for rental of their grass lands. At 9 o'clock to-night word came from Washington that Secretary Hitchcock has decided to issue to the Indians the grass money now on deposit in the United States treasury. It will be distributed next week. The Indians are in a joyous mood over the news and a gigantic feast and dance -are in progress. Rronze Gun from Emperor William. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4.-Peter Schneider, chairman of the German veterans' monument committee, announced to-day that he had received contributions as follows: From Emperor William, a bronze gun captured in battle; from the Grand Duke of Hesse, iHn) marks; from the Grand Duke of Baden, L.n) marks; from the city of Hamburg. marks; from the city of Bremen, 100 marks. The organization of the veterans of the German armies consists of fourteen companies which have seen service in either or both the Austrian and Franco-Prussian wars. It is called the Central League of Fatherland Warriors. The gun presented by Emperor William will occupy a position near a monument to be erected by the association in a local cemetery. Sperm Oil to Re Higher. NEW BEDFORD. Mass., Jan. 4. All the sperm oil in first hands here has been solel this week, and it is not known when the market will be restocked. Some 2.5') barrels caught by the Okhotsh sea fleet and ZS barrels from San Francisco are in sailing vessels bound around the Horn. These consignments, with the quantity now on board the brig Harry Smith, at Fayal, are not due before spring. Since the market here was cleaned up at a good advance, it is expected that sperm oil will be a highpriced commodity for some time. Rev. C. A. Alden on a Farm. SPRINGFIELD, Mass.. Jan. 4. Rev. Charit s A. Alden, who disappeared from New York city a short time ago, is understood to be at his father's farm in North Sutherland, having gone there two or three days ago. The wife of his brother John accompanied him. He is said to be suffering from a severe nervous strain, and his brain is somewhat affected. The report that he is short in his accounts is not credited in the vicinity where he was formerly well known. Confederate Veterans In ion. NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 4.-Gen. J. B. Gordon, commander of the United Confederate Veterans, announces that "under the custom established by the association, leaving the dates of the reunions to the general commanding and the department cummanelers, by unanimous agreement and at the desire of and acquiescence in by 'our host' the next reunion will be held at Dallas, Tex., on April 21. 23. 24 and 25." Duel a Ln Code. JACKSON, Miss., Jan. 4. A duel took place in Franklin county on Thursday between two well-known young men C. P. Shell and Robert Thomas. Several shots were exchanged, strictly in accord with the code duello, and Thomas was wounded in the right arm. He is one of the leaders of the Thomas-Ashley feud, which has been in progress some. time. In a melee between the factions several weeks ago a bystander was shot and killed Ohio Postmaster in Trouble. WARREN. O.. Jan. 4. John W. Hahn, postmaster at Bayard. Columbiana county, was brought before United States Commissioner Wilkins to-day- on the charge of making false returns for the alleged purpose of increasing his compensation. Hahn waived examination and was held In $1.000 bond to await action of the United States grand jury. He furnished bail. Prison Mutineer Held for Trial. FORT LEAVENWORTH. Kan.. Jan. 4. Turner Barnes and Fred Robinson, the remaining ringleaders of the federal prison mutiny of Nov. 7. which resulted in the killing of Guard Waldrupe, were given a hearing to-day and held to the United States grand Jury. Bond Reduced and Given. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. Jan. 4. George W. Morgan, president of the defunct Continental Security Company, who has been in Jail several weeks on charges of embezzlement, was to-day released on V.) bond. The amount was reduced from $7,000 upon application for a writ of habeas corpus. A Few Bargain. I have a few diamonds In stock that are bargains. SVould be pleased to have you call and examine. J. P. MULLALLY, Jevtler, 23 Monument Place.

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TO FIGHT THE PIRATE CASTRO'S GUXBOATS AFTER THE REBEL STEAMER LIBERTADOR. Latter Is Reported to Have Anchored in Venezuelan Waters, Preparatory to Discharging Arms. RETURN OF GENERAL RIERÄ UN AHLE TO LAND AND WEXT HACK TO CURACAO ISLAXD. Germany's Xote to President Castro Couched In Moderate Terras Gen. Monagas and His Sons. WILLEMSTAD, Island of Curacao, Jan. 4. The armed revolutionary steamer Llbertador, formerly the British steamer Ban Rlgh, anchored last evening at Machurucuto, a small Venezuelan port situated between Rio Chaco and Uchlre. Three Venezuelan war vessels have received orders to start immediately for Machurucuto and endeavor to capture the revolutionary vessel. General Riera left this island Thursday to join the insurgent forces on the coast near Vela de Coro. Doubtless he was unable to land on Venezuelan soil, for he returned unexepectedly to Curacao thl3 morning. . It is reported here that the vessels composing the Venezuelan fleet are without coal and that their engines are out of order, and therefore President Castro's ships could not put to sea and search for the Libertador. About 1,500 partisans of General Relra, a Venezuelan revolutionary leader, were awaiting his arrival near Coro, Venezuela. Six other bands of insurgents, raised by Generals Fernandez, Mendos and others, are under arm?, but they are avoiding coming Into conflict with the government troops until they receive reinforcements and arms and ammunition. The fact that the government's efforts to capture these bands have been without success is looked upon by the revolutionists as proof of the vitality of the revolutionary movement. The Venezuelan government, according to the advices from Caracas. Is without money and is vainly trying to buy war supplies In New York. It is further asserted that the employes of the government of Venezuela have been without pay for the last six months, and that they are only awaiting favorable opportunity to take part ln the revolt against President Castro. REVOLUTIONARY LEADERS. General Domingo Monajras and Ills Sons, Antonio and Heraldo. NEW YORK, Jan. 4. The Venezuelan colony in New York and many residents of Brooklyn are taking interest in the movements of the filibustering steamer Ban Righ, which, according to cable advices, has just left Fort de France, Martinique, for the coast of Venezuela, owing to the fact that General Domingo Monagas, who was a resident of Brooklyn a few years ago, is one of the chiefs under Senor Manuel A. Matos, who figures as the leader of the expedition and the uprising. General Monagas is well known in Spanish-American circles. He is said to be the real leader of the operations against the Castro government, owing to the fact that Senor Matos, who supplied the money for the Ban Righ expedition, is not a military man. Senor Matos, however, is the executive head of the movement, and in the event of its success will, it is reported, immediately be declared provisional President. General Monagas and his two sonst Antonio anel Heraldo, were passengers on the steamer Caracas a month ago from La Guayra, Venezuela, to San Juan, Porto Rico. Antonio was formerly secretary of the Venezuelan consulate in this city. He and his brother will be aid3 on the staff of their father. Their departure from .Caracas was at the time when all persons suspected of being enemies of the Castro regime were imprisoned. The general learned that he was on the list and left the country before the police had an opportunity to arrest him. GERMANY'S XOTE. It Simply Recited What Venezuela Was Expected to Do. BERLIN, Jan. 4. Herr Von Prilgrim BaltazzI, the German charge d'affaires at Caracas, handed President Castro a fresh note on Thursday reciting in simple language what Germany desires Venezuela to do respecting all her claims and the questions in dispute. An official of the Foreign Office has informed the correspondent of the Associated Press that the new note is so phrased that no possible offense can be taken. It contains no suggestion of an ultimatum and no time limit for compliance with the terms of the note is named, though in presenting it the charge d'affaires asked for an early reply. The object of the note is to afford President Castro an opportunity of yielding gracefully and it conveys no intimation of what Germany will do if Venezuela refuses to pay the German claims. Diplomatic opinion here considers that Germany's representations to the United States regarding Venezuela indicate that the German government entirely accepts the Monroe doctrine. The papers have partly taken the same view. The Tageblatt says: "The phrase 'America for Americans' is an irreversible fact." Some newspapers, like the Cologne Volks Zeitung, a leading Centrist organ, see in Germany's consultation with the United States an unnecessary recognition of the latter's "pretensions in Central America," and the paper last named avers that the representations of the German ambassador. Dr. Von Holleben, at Washington, were followed by "i fresh outbreak of insolence uporf the part of the American press." RESTORIXG THE ILL-GOTTEX. The Lady That Wrote In Disguised Hand on Monogram Paper. H. E. Armstrong, ln Ainslee's Magazine. Nothing is more curious than the puny deceits which the regenerate sometimes practice when contributing to the conscience fund, matching their cunning, as it were, against the detective skill of an outraged government. A Pomeroy (O.) penitent who sent $3J with a dirty scrawl almost illegible, "Money I owe the public," thought to pass for an illiterate and to throw suspicion on his inferiors. Letters, although written in a hand denoting refinement, are often misspelled so clumsily that a Sherlock Holmes is not needed to detect the imposture. A Baltimore exquisite feared to write a word lest she betray herself, but the dainty paper in which the sum of $17 was wrapped bore a monogram, and habit added another clew in the wax seal on the envelope's back. In hard times remittances fall off, on the principle that you must be "Mush" before you are generous with the government. In 1&3 only seventeen Individuals in our population of 70,000,000 confessed to overreaching Uncle Sam and reimbursed him. They turned in $700. It was regarded as a light remorse business. The banner contribution came from London through Consul General Patrick Collins in March, lSii. A clergyman in the Presbytery of St. Paul, who was acting for a parishioner, placed the sum of $14,2f5.15 ln his hands for transmission to the United States government. No explanation was vouchsafed. In the Treasury Department at Washington speculation was rife for a time about the true inwardness of this contribution. An opinion advanced wafl that some peculating customs officer had "got religion." It was also conjectured that the sum represented duties evaded by an importer who no longer needed the money in his business. The next largest contribution was $S.000 in notes of large denominations which came from New York in 1VJ1, the source being equally mysterious. .Occasionally a name that appears to be genuine accompanies the amount. But the Treasury Department's receipt

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usually comes back undelivered. Unless the remittances are trifling they are always acknowledged in the newspapers. Tills rule of the department is. no doubt, a solace to the penitent. Humorists sometimes try their wit on the government with inventions that are too transparent to get Into print. Cranks indite letters more remarkable for length than point, but no crank has sent the government a welcome addition to the fund. The large sums comb from persons who unmistakably have suffered from remorse, and whether fearful that life is drawing to a close, or religious conviction has reclaimed them, they cannot feel relief or know a tranquil mind until their accounts with the government are squared. It has been said that if revival meetings could be held all over the United States simultaneously the conscience fund would Jump like a cornered stock on the exchange. RUSSIANS AT HOME. Unflattering: Account of Peculiarities of SInnner, Food and Their Dress. Philadelphia Inquirer. The Russian, as you find him in Siberia, has many good qualities. Above all, he is hospitable. This prompts him when giving you a glass of wine to spill it on the tablecloth. That indicates his liberality. To be careful and watch the pouring so that it comes within an eighth of an inch from the rim of the glass would mean stinginess, and such a thought is abhorrent. But a commission needs to be sent the length and breadth of the Russian Empire to teach the people, officials as well as ordinary folks, what are the table manners of Western nations. Said a man in a restaurant the other day: "I knew at a glance you could not be a Russian, because you were using your knife and fork ln a civilized way." You know how the player of a kettle drum holds the sticks that in the right hand Is a sort of grip, and that in the left with the palm turned up and held by the two first fingers. A Russian holds his knife and fork in the same way. He gets a piece of meat on the end of the fork, and with it sticking up in the air bites while poking vegetables into his mouth with his knife. There are no mustard spoons, so he dives his knife into the mustard pot. Personally, I am regarded as an extraordinary being because I won't use a napkin that evidently six other people have used. It takes time for a Britisher to conform to the meal hours of the Russian. There are no bacon and eggs for breakfast. Indeed, there is no breakfast at all. You have a glass of tea, or two glasses of tea, with slices of lemon in it, and that serves till 2, 3 or 5 o'clock, when you have dinner. Before dinner it is usual to have a eeluski. In case you should have no appetite, there is a side table laden with twenty dainties. You have a glass of vodki, and toss it down your throat at one swallow. If you are an old hand you will have two, four or six vodkis, which put you into tho best of good humor, but unfit you for anything but gossip the rest of the afternoon. Then you pick up a fork lying about never washed or wiped from one day's end to the other stick it into a sardine, or a slice of onion, or a little bit of cheese, or some caviar, and you eat. You have just enough of these to provoke an appetite, and when it is provoked you sit down to dinner. In the afternoon or evening you will drink many glasses of tea, which is, I admit, an enjoyable occupation. Between 10 o'clock and midnight you have supper, really another dinner, and about 3 o'clock in the morning you think of going to bed. To do things in the prope way and be correct and Western is, of course, the ambition of Irkutsk. So there is quite a social code. The old millionaires who for forty years found Irkutsk society such as it was before the corning of the railway quite satisfied with an old shirt and a pair of greaseel top boots are now "out of it." A millionaire only becomes a gentleman in Irkutsk. A man is known by his furs, and his wife by 'her furs and pearls. A thousand pounds is quite a common price to pay for a good fur coat. Macaulay writes somewhere about Russian grandees coming to court dropping pearls and vermin. I would be sorry to say things that are exactly like that. But certainly the Russian is as sparing with water as though it were holy oil from Jerusalem. When railway traveling a Siberian lady decks herself in all her finery, light colored gowns and feathered hats and loads of jewelry. The English woman who travels in a plain tailor-made garment and a straw hat is thought something of a barbarian. CARIXG FOR PIAXOS. What Injures thc Instrument Most Is Dryness. New York Times. "This is about the time of year when we are nearly driven crazy with work," said a tired-looking piano tuner to a reporter. "Everybody wants the piano tuned for the holidays, and most people forget about it till the last moment. And besides being the busy season, we have been having the most trying weather. "These cold dry days throw pianos out of tune, and besides that the sounding boards are beginning to split. It always surprises me what poor care most people take of their pianos. Let a man buy an expensive watch, and he'll treat it as though it were a live thing. But people don't seem to realize what a delicate piece of mechanism a good piano is. Pianos are not so much affected by heat or cold as they are by dryness or elampness. Of course if you stick one end of a piano up against a stove, or a heater, or register, and let the other end come near a cold, leaky window, it'll raise Ned with it, but most persons are onto that. The trouble is the piano is too drj "You know the sounding boarel the life of a piano Is forced into the case when it is made so tightly that it bulges up in the center or has a 'belly,' as we call it. on the same principle as a violin. The wood is supposed to be as dry as possible, but of course it contains some moisture and gathers a lot more on damp days and in handling. Now, when you put a piano in a dn overheated room all this moisture Is dried out and the board loses its 'belly' and gets flabby and finally cracks. Even if it doesn't crack the tone loses its resonance and grows thin and tinny, and the felt cloth and leather lised in the action dry up. Then the whole machine rattles and everybody kicks. "How can you prevent it? Easily enough. Keep a growing plant in the room, and so long as your plant thrives your piano ought to or else there is something wrong with it. Just try it and see how much more water you'll have. to pour on the flower pot in the room where your piano is than in any other room. "Some people keep a huge vase or urn with a sopping wet sponge in it near or under the piano and keep it moistened just as a cigar dealer keeps his stock. They keep this up all the time the fires are on." Kicked Up a Dust. Washington Sun. "Did I ever tell you how clouds of dust once saved Washington city from what many people believe would have been certain capture at the hands of the Confederates?" asked a member of the old Veterans' Reserve Corps, which was on duty at Fort Stevens during the war, to a crowd of companions in a down-town hotel the other day. No one in the asemblage had heard the story, and so the veteran continued. "It was when the Army of Northern Virginia was just outside the capital city. You may remember that General Early, who was In command of this particular division of the Confederate forces, in writing to refute statements published in Northern papers to the effect that he could easily have marched into Washington, said: 'I knew the defenses were weak when I arrived, but my troops were so exhausted from the enforced march that a halt was absolutely necessary, and the next morning I knew by clouds of dust that reinforcements had arrived.' "That dust, gentlemen, was raised by a few men. not exceeding one hundred, of the Veteran Reserve Corps. The temporary commander of this company, a stout man of medium height, whose name or rank I did not learn, because he wore no blouse or insignia, placed the men in line in the rear of and between Fort Stevens and Fort Slocum. After making a short speech, in which he urged every man to elo his best, he directed us to march down some distance on the grass past Fort Stevens. Once there, he told us to break ranks and right-about, returning In the middle of the main road and kicking up all the dust we possibly could. We doubled on the line, marching down on the grass and coming back in tne dusty road. It was a dry season and we all had on broad-soled shoes. We made the dust fly, I tell you. and it is no wonder General Early thought reinforcements by the thousands had come to the relief of the handful on duty at the forts." The Jockey nnd His Valet. New Orleans Times-Dernocrat. Some years ago there was an attempt made to deprive the jockey of his "valet." That a boy who had just been graduated from the bootblack stand, the cooking shed or from the humble estate of junior groom, and had come out as a Jockey, should insist upon enjoying the luxury of a valet

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