Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1901 — Page 3

iflliWilldmllii Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville By, Rensselaer Time-Table, South Bound* N 0.31 —Fast Mail,... *.* 4:4Ba«m fetiaiSwtoKtei-ISSt No.99—Milk accomm., (dai1j0..... • •.*•ls P- «*•, No. S—Louisville Express, (daily).. 11:04p. m•No. 45—Local freight t :40 p. m. North Bound. frta»«ae@«nnr«rs: %Aap.»&SS»Vim-: ata INo.3B—Cln. toChioago 2:«P.m. No. S— Usil nod Express, (daily)... 3:27 p. m. 46-Local freight »:» «• «*>• f jo. 74-Freight, (dhily) »fl»p.m. •Daily except Sunday. {Sunday only. No. 74 carries passenger* between Monon and Lowell. Hammond has been made a regular stop for No. 30. No. 32 and '33 now stop at Cedar Lake. Frank J. Bhd, G. P. A., W. H. McDoel, President and Gen. M g r, Ch ah. H. RocxwaiiL, Trafflo M'g r, •X—— *•— CHICAOO. W. H. Beam, Agent, Rensselaer.

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans. Will practicein all the courts. Office first stairs east of PoMpffice. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Hanley & Hunt, Law, Abstracts, Loans'hnd Real Estate. Office up-stairs in Leopold's block, first stairs west of Van Rensselaer street. Jas. W. Douthit, LAWYER, - *< • Rensselaer, Indiana. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The L. N. A. AC.Ry, and Rensselaer W. L. A P. Co. over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, ludiana.

99AMK POUTS. C. t. IFITLIR. MASSY S. KUSSIB Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) Attorheys-at-Law. Law. Real Estate. Insurance Abstracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. * RENSSELAER, IND. Mordecal K. Chilcote, William H. Parkison Notary Public. , Notary Public. Chilcote & Parkison, attorneys-at-law. Law, Real Estate, Insurance, Abstracts and Loans. Attorneys for the Chicago. Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. Will practice In all of the courts. Office over Fanners' Bank, on Washington St., RENSSELAER. IND.

J. F. Warren - J. F. Irwin Warren & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections, Farm Loan* and Fire Inaurance. Office in Odd Fellow’* Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington. • • - Indiana. Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block. H O. Harris, E. T. Harris, J. C. Harris, [’resident. Vlce-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank Deposits received on call. Interest Bearn.g Certificates of Deposit issusd on time, Exchange Bought and Sold on principal cities. Notes Discounted at current rates. Farm Loans made at 5 per cent. W> Solicit a Share of Your Business. .

Addison Parkinson. John M. XYasSon. President. Vice President. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. Commercial State Bank, (North Side of Public Square.) RENSSELAER, IND. The Ofify State Batik in Jasper Co Ol&KCIOlM, Addison Parklson; 0.1. Ifurray. Jas.T. Randle. John M. Wasson and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This bank is prepared to transact a general hanking buslneas. Internetallowni on time deposits. Money loaned and good notes bo%ht at current rates of interest. A share of your patronage 1« solicited. Farm Loans at 5 par Cant. l)rs. t. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. I. H. Washburn will givespertai attention to Diseases of the Eye, Bar, Nose. Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also teats eyes ' for glasses. Orn*< Ttunws, No. SS. Naciaeaoa Phomi ns St. Rensselaer, - • Indiana. > : ■ E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over Postoffice. Rensselaer, Indiana. Orriaa Ph0i,»,177. hsaiesnes Atst, tta. h. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office Lark’s drug store MorrUMdnjfllah Stable Powder Scrtd hr*rr. Tong.

“After Buffering for two months from a say ere attack of grip I found quiofc relief and a lasting cure by using Dr. Miles’ Nervine Pain Pills and Heart cure.”—Harry Abbott, Cincinnati Ohio. Warren & Irwin are making loans on farm or city property at a low rate of interest and commission and on more liberal terms than can be obtained elsewhere in Jas* per County. Cow* For Sale. 200 milkers and springers; always on band. Sold on one year’s time. , Sam Yeoman I have private f uhds to loan on real estate at low rates for any length of time. Funds are always on hands and there is no delayno examination of land, no sending papers east—absolutely no red tape. Why do you wait on insurance companies for 6 months for your money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates Funds always on hand. ; W. B. Austin. S. P. Thompson will sell his lands in Union township, in tracts, and on terms to suit those desiring to farm or raise stock. See or write to S. P. Thompson, 'Rensselaer, Ind. Bear in mind* that the clients themselves control the publication of non-resident notices, notices of appointment, noticesof administrator’s and guardian’s sales, notices of survey, and many other legal notices whichßo not pass through the hands of county or local offices. When you have anything in this line insist on your attorneys placing the advertising in The Democrat.

Ujr That THE QEMOCRAT Prints The Best UIMT H° rse Cards VI Mill ■ I LARGE SELECTION’ OF ‘ ,» HORSE CUTS FOR DIFFEREMT CLASSES OF 11 BREEDING HORSES. TOHSHIPIRIIWCK MHroy Township. Wiji.T. Smith, trustee of Slilroy township, notice that lie will be at his residence in said township on the Second and Fourth Saturdays of each month for the purpose of transacting township busiaess; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on sucb designated day. Wm. T. Smith. Trustee. Hanging Grove Township, Joseph Stewart, trustee of Hanging Grove township, gives notice that he will be at his residence in said township on Friday of cock week for the purpose < f transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated dav. Joseph Stewart, Trustee. Jordan Townshjp. John Bill, trustee of Jordan township, gives notice that he will be at his residence in said township on the Second and Fourth Saturdays of each month for the purpose c:f transacting township business; anti business relating to making contracts or paying claims will he done on such designated day. John Bill, Trustee.

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DIE IN AN EXPLOSION.

MANY KILLED IN CHICAGO BY BURSTING BOILER. Twelve Dead end Over a Score Inn Jared, Borne Fatally—Disaster Occurs In • Big Laundry, and Completely Wrecks the Entire Building. The boiler In the Doremus laundry, at 458 West Madison street, Chicago, exploded Monday morning, killing twelve persons. Injuring thirty more, and wrecking the entire block of buildings on tb* south side of Madison street, from Loomis atreet to Throop. With the exception of the barracks of the Volunteers of America, in the middle of the block, next to the laundry, the structures were one•tory high, with thin partitions between the stores, and with back doors opening Into an alley. The barracks is two stories high. Candy stores, second-hand stores, Chinese laundries, feed stores, tailor shops, a rifle gallery, a bicycle store, and a shoe store occupied the rest of the -block. Back of them in the southwest corner of the building was the boiler. The proprietors of these places were getting ready for the day’s business. Thirty-six of the sixty girls employed in the laundry had passed the automatic timekeeper. The boiler was holding almost the full pressure of steam aud the girls in the place were sorting out the linen for the washing. A deafening roar rang through the building. The whole place shook as if with fright, and then came the crunching of timbers and the shattering of glass. Most of the girls bad not time to move on inch. Tons of debris crashed in upon them, and the noise of the wrecking drowned out their shrieks for help. Then came the hiss of escaping steam, with its terrible menace of scalding to those who lay helpless beneath the twisted iron and broken beams. The light wood caught dr®. The big room, which had fallen like a bouse of cards, now was lighted up by slender threads of flame which crept through the wreckage and came closer to the maimed bodies. Thousands of men and women rushed to the assistance of the victims. The police and fire departments and various hospital corps were soon oil the scene. For two blocks up and down Madison street buildings were shattered by the force of the explosion. Nearly every window in these two blocks was broken and the list of persons cut by flying glass will amount to fifty or more. Persons who were in bed in the near vicinity were hurled from theif beds by the force. Men in neighboring stores were dashed to the floors and covered with the shower of glass. Passengers in street cars Were thrown violently from their seatSu>* The' terrible roar of the manfmoih boiler as it went tjyiug skyward and the crashing of the walls intermiuiled with the shrieks hr the injured and lying.

AMERICA HOLDS ALOOF.

Will Make 'o Alliance w'th I‘nslnn l Aeiinst Russia. According to a Washington correspondent the United States Government has not reached an agreement with England for the exclusion of Russia from Manchuria, and will not suggest or entertain a proposition for such n compact with any nation. It is adhering consistently to the policy adopted at the commenceent of the uprising to preserve’ she integrity of the Chinese empire, and the approvals given by the European nations and Japan to the notes issued by Secretary Hay convince the administration of -the alncerity with which the advances tifcve been received. Within the last month it was reported that the Chinese Government was considering individual settlements with the nations represented at Pekin. The United States immediately protested, and addressed instructions to our ambassadors and ministers in Europe and Japan explaining the apprehension entertained concerning the injurious results that would follow private or individual negotiations, and soliciting a further expression of the policy that would bo pursued by the respective governments in the matter of territorial con cessions. The Chinese minister, Mr. Wu, was- also advised, and he notified his Government that the United States would protest against any settlements other than those reached through joint negotiations at Pekin. Russia has given assurances that the occupation at Manchuria is temporary and solely for the purpose of restoring peace and- order in the province. The United States cannot look with equanimity upon the separation of Manchuria from the Chinese empire, confines the correspondent. Should it be ceded to Russia ns indemnity, other nations that participated in the relief of Pekin will demand territory, and the partition of the empire would bo earriefl to the extent of practically obliterating it from the map.

Telegraphic Brevities.

J. W. Campbell is the new police chief, St. Louis. Town of Molson, Wash., is In the hands of a receiver. More trouble between Russians and Ohigcso in southern MauehurU. Washington Legislature passed n bill proflding for executions by ♦leetridty. In a wreck at East Aurora, N. Y., one trainman was killed and three injured. English stocks have depreciated since the formation of the billion-doliar steel trust The United States imported $7,500,000 more silver from Mexico in 1900 than in 1890. At Meycrsdnle, Pa., 250 miners struck because two union men were discharged for loading dirty cowl. Mrs. Lotvillc, East Cambridge, Mass., goes to prison for fire years for blinding John Bourchard with vitriol. Government is pinuning to spend SOO, 000 In surveys of unexplored Alaska country, during the coming summer. I4*ut E. V. Baldwin, who will search for the-north pole, will take 125 tons of a secret food with him. H i has placed the order in Chicago. Canadian government will make the St. Lawregte route between Montreal and Quebec, as well as Canndian canals, navigable both day and night. The value of the chicle, the basis of Shewing gum, that Is produced io Mexico, la three times as grout as that of the country's present rubber product

WORK OF THE SESSION

WHAT THE INDIANA LEGISLATURE HAS ACCOMPLISHED. Review of Legislation that Haa Been Paaeed Governor Durbin's Veto of the Joaa Railroad Consolidation Bill— Primary Election Bill Passes. ' Indianapolis correspondence; The legislative session has come to end, final adjournment has been taken, and Senators and Representatives have returned to the avocations that engage their attention as private citizens. We present below a brief resume of the most important legislation that has been accomplished in the sixty duys since the session opened. Most qf the bills already signed by the Governor are of local importance only. One, however, is in the interest of good roads. *" It provides that the maximum weight of wagon, with tire under three inches, aud load, shall not exceed 3,200 pounces; three to four inch tire, 4,000. Another bill signed enables school trustees of adjoining townships to establish joint district schools, thus insuring longer terms. It is a step in the general consolidation of weak rural schools recommended by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The Joaa Bill Veto. The most sensational occurrence of the session was the Governor’s veto of the Joss railroad’ consolidation bill," under which, it is said, many consolidations were projected, and it was hoped to elude damage suits by removing jurisdiction to the Federal Court. The point was raised that it would lie an important surrender of the State's sovereignty, and the Governor took this view’ of the bill, sending it back to the Senate, where it originated, with a ringing veto. It had passed.the Senate by a vole of 32 to 7 and the House by a vote of 72 to 20, and some of the railroad attorneys supporting it were anxious to try to pass it over the Governor's hegd. Such intention was abandoned later. The other bill vetoed by the Governor is known a#“the Bluffton bill. It enabled sehool corporations to issue bonds to build school houses and provided that this debt should not be charged to the debt of the municipal corporation. Many towns, notably Bluffton, Lafayette, Sullivan and Salem, are badly in need of new sehool houses, but cannot build them because of the narrow margin between the existing municipal debt and the 2 per ceut constitutional limit. Gov. Durbin took the view that the bill provides a subterfuge to evade the constitution ;id4 seeks to accomplish what is inhibited wy the constitution. Among the bills passed is Senate bill 1211 (Senator Thompson), which provides that books and papers of a firm or corporation can be searched to determine whether certain persons are sequestering property from taxation, only after the township or county assessor has made an affidavit before the Circuit Court setting forth the name of the person and describing the property alleged to be sequestered. The hill of Representative Metskef abolishing trading stamps passed notwithstanding the importunities of a powerful lobby. The last bill to repeal the Caraway law and punish the buyer as well as the seller of votes—-that of Senator Inman —was killed. The railroads succeeded in their opposition to Representative Neal's hill requiring 500-mile books, good for the purchaser or any member of his family, to be sold for $lO. The bill passed the House, but the majority of the Senate railroads committee agreed on a report indefinitely postponing the bill. Senator Cregor and Senator Fleming each brought in a minority report, but the temper of-the Senate was against tho bill. The last temperance bill before the Legislature was killed and this General Assembly will notTffld a line to the statute books on tlie subject of the liquor traffic. The pre-election promises to pass an adequate and comprehensive anti-trust law faded into thin air.

Primary K cotton. T’lio Joss primary election bill, bearing the name of Representative Mintnrn. but containing none of Mr. .Minturn'w bill except the enacting clause, has passed. The bill provides that the precinct committeemen of the party organization shall be selected at primaries, the voting to be according to the Australian system mid the polls kept open from 1 until IS p. m. The primaries of different parties shall not be held simultaneously. Shortly thereafter the precinct committeemen shall meet, organize and decide by majority vote whether uuminalions shall be made diresq.lv in primaries conducted according to the Australian system, or whether delegates only shall be selected at such primaries and the candidates nominated in connect ion by the defl-gates thus chosen. The lull is of compulsory application only to Marion and Vuuderburg counties. Kidnapers need to beware, for the bill of Mr. Bishop applying either the death penalty or life imprisonment to the kidnapers of persons of any nge, providing the motive be a ransom, has passed. The death of the Calumet cniml bill had been predicted. The congressional ■'•apportionment bill was passed. The Democrats claim that it is illegal and threaten to appeal on the ground that the territory forming certain districts is not contiguous. A joint resolution, jiassed, to be referred lo Cougress. asks an amendment to the constitution of the United States to elect United States Senators by the people. The general appropriation bill received thi' approval of both brunches. The Neuate killed n resolution nuieildiag the constitution so as n> extend the right of suffrage to women. The House had paused the resolution. The medical bill also passed.

Short State Items.

IVkin has several cases of smallpox. George F. Coffin, Rush County pioneer, is dead. Anderson Presbyterians will build a new church. Epidemic of mumps In the southern reformatory. Bloomington has downed the hot water, heating ordinance. , The Big Four will build a new $15,000 passenger station in Lebanon. Big yield of peaches is expected. TU* trees have stood the winter well.

INDIANA LAW MAKERS

The House on Thursday passed the bill for the strengthening of <be fish and game law. Extraordinary pow’ers nre given to peace officers by the hill. It provides for the issuing of seareL warrants by justices of the peace in all cases where there is reason to believe anyone has fish or game in his possession out of season, and in such cases the State is made the complaining party. The nnti-kidnaping bill, which provides for imprisonment for not less than ten years and for life as the maximum penalty, was also passed. The Senate killed the resolution amending the constitution so as to extend the right of suffrage to women. The hours had .passed the resolution. The medical bill passed. The bill separating the woman’s prison nnd the girls’ industrial school was killed. The voting machine bill passed. A new railway consolidation bill was introduced. The telephone bill failed to pass on Friday. The bill to separate the woman’s prison nnd girls’ industrial school passed the Senate. The report of the committee investigating the woman’s prison practically whitewashed the management with very.little qualification. The “no gas no pay” bill was ruled out of order. The Joss primary election bill w’ns concurred in for the Mintnrn bill. It leaves primaries optional with each county. The bill providing for the publication of legal advertisements both in daily nnd weekly papers failed to pass. The House and Senate held brief sessions, Saturday morning, adjourning soon after receiving the Governor's message concerning the signing of bills. Short sessions were also held Saturday afternoon. Nothing was done. The Sixty-second General Assembly came to an end at midnight Monday. Two hundred nnd thirty-five bills were [Missed by both houses nnd of these 200 have become laws. Of the bills acted on just before the close of the Legislature the one of probably the widest interest is Senator Wood’s medical bill, which makes it unlawful for Christian scientists and Dowieites to engage in healing or treating patients without having undergone examination at the hands of the State medical board. The bill will become a law without the Governor’s signature. Of all the measures which passed both houses there was but one joint resolution. This authorizes the erection of a monument in University Park in Indianapolis to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. The most conspicuous among the bills vetoed is the Joss bill, providing for the consolidation of railroads in indinun, clearly a corporate measure. The anti-trust bill passed is a harmless measure aud the primary election law is not generally effective.

State Items of Interest.

Fowler's got the measles—got 'em Wi. Xoblesville ministers are making war on card parties. I)r. W. H. Bowman of St. Joe is Dekalb ('qunty's new coroner. The project of an electric road from Peru to Converse is to be revived. Geo. Giblin. 56, of near Moore's Hill, prominent farmer and Democrat, is dead. Wild ducks and geese are plentiful in tlie ponds and creeks near New Albany. Thought that gas belt manufacturers will have gas for fuel for eight or ten years ye(. Merchants ia Montgomery County nre being fined for keeping their stores open on Sunday. Farmers near Valparaiso say crows are dying in great numbers either from cold or starvation. A tramp with stove and cooking utensils has spent the winter in a big sycamore tree near Peru. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Westfall of Tippecanoe County celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. The. only union of glass snappers in Indiana has been organized in Muncie, with nearly 100 members. , Glen Hodapp and two companions, Seymour, caught threfe wild geese, which weighed over forty pounds. Crawfordsville Elks have invited Carrie Nation to be one of the attractions at the Elks’ carnival July 4. George Davis. (VS, a wealthy farmer near New Albany and a brother of Jeff. C. Davis, died of pneumonia. Paul Asher, at Greenfield, finding his wife in company with Cy Henby, tired two shots at the couple, but did no damage. William ltedwine, of Elwood, fugitive from justice for two years, under a larceny charge, was arrested while visiting his family, at Elwood. On excellent authority the statement is published that all the stock in the Union Traction Company Ims been purchased by George F. McCulloch of Muncie. Unknown man tried to kidnap a child from the Logausport orphans' home. Supposed to have been the father of a boy recently sent to the institution by tlie court. Mr*. Agnes Bronger was arrested in Celina on the charge of baptizing her 2-wccks-old babe in a creek. She belongs to a fanatical sect nod is supposed to be insane. George W. Jarrett, 18, who killed his stepfather, Anton Maloy, at Columbus, has not been indicted by the grand jury, as it was shown he shot his father in defense of hi; mother. Theodore Ileckmnu, 81, of Galena, caught, between Oct. 1 nnd Jun. 1, eighteen woodchucks, sixteen Skunks and five rabbits. They weru all taken in one trap and from one hole. Will It. Mack drove into Monticello the other day with a lighted lantern in his buggy, to keep his feet warm. He left the lantern burning while transacting business in Monticello, spreading the robe over it. The fire that followed destroyed the buggy. Alderman Ivebble end Walter Johnson, of Columbus, had a fight over the bursting of the water mains there, aud both were badly battered. Mrs. Winnie Wilson, a Kokomo •‘grass’ widow, has gone into court to get |M>asession of her 13-months-old baby, which, she says, is detained by her brothers to prevent her marrying again. George Woods, a whits man,, who wit-, nessed the lynching of the negro Ward at Terre Haute, was made insane by fear that he would bo held accountable and died in jail, Where be waa placed foe safekeeping.

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Lieut. Thomas F. O'Reilley has just been reinstated as a second lieutenant in the rank, the rank which he held when

he was dismissed by a court martial in 1872. In that year Lient. O’Reilley, who had fought through the rebellion, coming out a brevet colonel, ‘was stationed at Fort Randall as a second lieutenant. Col. (now Gefl.)

LIEUT. O'REILLEY.

Otis was his superior officer, and ona evening Lieut. O’Reilley escorted the wife of another officer to the colonel’s house and introduced her to those present. A scene followed, and as a result Col. Otis preferred charges and O’Reilley was dismissed. During the last thirty years his is snid to be the only case on record in which an officer so dismissed has been restored to his rank. Alexander Graham Bell, the telephone man, a millionaire several times over, has been serving as a special agent of the census bureau. He had charge of the enumeration of deaf, dumb and blind population, nnd is now preparing his report. Mr. Bell, who in early life was an instructor in a deaf ami dumb asylum, draws $6 per day from the government while engaged in this census work. Queen Sophia of Sweden, who is reported seriously ill with the influenza, has not for some years been popular with

her subjects. The story of how she came to lose the respect and admiration which she formerly enjoyed is a strange one. When the Salvation army movement first beca m e prominent Queen Sophia was one of the first to espouse it. Finally a brutal murder was committed in

QUEEN SOPHIA.

Sweden, and a‘Salvation army officer was accused of it, and public sentiment demanded that lie be punished to the full extent of the law. Great pressure was brought to bear on the Queen by the friends of tlie man, and at last she yielded and secured his release, ller action was bitterly condemned, and her popularity suffered a blow from which it never recovered. Senator Tillman of South Carolina has had the unique distinction of being twice elected to the same term in the United States Senate. The Legislature elected him week before last, and, finding out that it had acted too soon, went through the formality again last week. Col. Peter Miehie, who for more than thirty years had been the professor of philosophy at West Point, is dead. ■ Col.

Miehie was a Scotchman by birth and graduated front the military academy in 1863. H« got out of thb school in plenty of time to see active service, and inside of two years he had risen to a brigadier

COL. MICHIE.

general. In the spring of 1871 he came to West Point to fill the position which he had ever since occupied. One of his sous, Lieut. Dennis Miehie. was killed at the fight at San Juan Hill, nnd another, William, died soon after in Pennsylvania. Sir George Williams, who founded the Young Men’s Christian Association in London, in 1844, may attend the convention of the association in Boston next June. Sir George is now 80 years old. He is at present in southern Europe for his health. Miss Irene Brodie, the eldest daughter

of the late Steve Brodie, falls heir to about $85,000 by her father’s will. Miss Brodie. who is co-legatee with her brother, sister Helen and her stepmother. will receive the bulk of the fpr* tune left by the jumper, the rest of the money going to the other three heirs.

Congressman Galusha A. Grow’* hobby is the care As deaf and dumb children, and he is now’ endeavoring to have the government send children from the other States tfnil territories to lie educated at the Mary S. Garrett School in Philadelphia. Bamuel It. Artmun, Speaker of the lujlanu House, was born in Augusta, Marion County", Ind., In 1806. He lsdh£ Son

Of Joseph ami Elizabeth Duulap Artman, Imth of whom were born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Hp was given a common school education. Inti-r attending the Indiana State Normal Sehool, from which he was grad-

S. R. ARTMAN.

unted. In 1889 he was married to Miss Addle A. Cobb. He is now serving his second term in the General Assembly. The present heir to Queen Wllhelmina's crown Is a German, the rieh and young Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, considered the best royal match ia the world. His grandmother, the late Grand Duchess Sophia, was the aunt of the present Queen of Holland. Jndge Ray, one of the New York delegation in Congress, Is said to be able to smoke a cigar faster and to smoke more cigars in a day than any other Congress man. He never neglects an opportunity to amoks.

MISS BRODIE.