Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1902 — Page 7

Sr "V. Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Ry. Rensselaer Time-Table, South Bound. No.3l—Fast Mail 4:49 a. m No. s—Louisville Mail, (daily) 10:55 a. m. No.33—lndianapolis Mail, (daily).. 1:46 p.m. No. 39—Milk accomm., (daily) 6:15 p. m. No. 3—LouisvilleExpress, ( daily )..t 1:25p.m. •No._4s—Local freight 2:40 p. m. North Bound. No. 4—Mail, (dally) 4:30 a.m. No. 40—Milk accomm., (daily) .... 7:31a.m. No. 32—Fast Mail, (daily) 9:55 a. m. •No. 30—Cin. to Chicago Ve«. Mail.. 6:32 p. m. tN0.38 Cin. to Chicago 2:57 p.m. No. 6—Mail and Express, (daily)... 3:30p.m. ♦No. 46—Local freight 9:55 a.m. No. 74—Freight, (daily) 9:09 p, m. •Daily except Sunday. tSunday only. No. 74 carries passengers between Monon •nd Lowell. Hammond has been made a regular stop for No. 30. No. 32 and 83 now stop at Cedar Lake. Frank J. Rkkd, G. P. A., W. H. McDoel, President and Gen. M’g’r, Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic M’g’r, CHtOAQO. W. H. Beam, Agent, Rensselaer.

CALIFORNIA Best Personoiiy conducied Tourist Excursions. Leave CHICAGO Tuesdays and Thursdays -VIA THEGREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE AND SCENIC LINE. Tourist Car via Southern Route Leaves Chicago Every Tuesday. Daily First Class Sleeper Through Between Chicago and San Francisco. Crossing the best scenery of the Rockies and Sierra Nevadas by Daylight. Direct connection to Los Angeles. Best Dining Car Service through. Write for information and literature to K. E. Pai.mzr, G. A. P. D., Peoria, 111. John Sebastian, G. P. A., Chicago CITY, TOWNSHIP AND COUNTY DIRECTORY • CITY OFFICERS. Mayor John Eger Marshal Abram Simpson Clerk Schuyler C. Irwin Treasurer James H. Chapman Attorney Harry R. Ktirrie Civil Engineer H. L. Gramble Fire Chief Eldenß. Hopkins COUNCIUUIN. Ist ward Chas. Dean, H. J. Kannal 3d ward I. J. Porter, C. G. Spitler 3d ward J. F. McColly, J.C. Chilcote COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk '. John F. Major Sheriff. Abram G. Hardy Auditor W.C. Babcock Treasurer R. A. Parkiaon. Recorder ..Robert B. Porter Surveyor Myrt B. Price Coroner . Jenui ngs Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor John R. Phillipa COMMISSION KBS. Ist District Abraham Halleek 2nd District Simeon A. Dowell 3rd District Frederick Way mire Commissioner's court—First Monday of each month. ' COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. rHIBTKES. • TOWNSHIPS. Joseph Stewart Hanging Grove John Ryan Gillam Lewis tshrier Walker Elias Arnold Barkley Charles M. Blue Marion John Bill Jordan Geo. M. Wilcox Newton S. L. Luce . Keener Thomas F. Maloney Kankakee Stephen D. Clark .Wheatfield Albert J. 8e110w5...... ......Carpenter William T. Smith Milroy Barney D. Comer Union Louis H. Hamilton. Co. Supt Reusseleer G. K. Hollingsworth Rensselaer J. D. A11man...... .... Remington Geo. O. Stembel Wheatfield JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge. .".....Simon P. Thompson Proeecuting attorney John D. Sink Terms of Court.—Second Monday in February. April, September and November.

_ TOmiP WnES’ CIIRDS.__ Milroy Township. Wm.T. Smith, trustee of Milroy township, gives notice tbstbe jvlU.be at bis residence in said township on the First and Third Saturdays of each month for the purpose of transacting township business; and business relating Fq making contracts or pay' ing claims wiirbt, done on such designate* day. -Wm.T. Smith. Trustee. aaMaa Hanging Grovjs Joseph Stewart, tristflltt Hanging Grove township, gives notice thgMhq ,w(U be at his residence in sa|d township op Friday df each week for thepun'cse <f transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated day. _ . _ Joskph Stkwarl', Trustee. Jordan Township. John Bill, trustee of Jordan township, gives notice that he will be at his residence in said township on the S-cood and Fourth Saturdays of each month for the purpose of transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated day. Johw Bill, Trustee. JI I k ■ Kj/'V ' [Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat-' 1 [ ,ent business conducted for Moot RATS Fc<S. !! i 'Ouaorricc is opposite u.B.p«tsmt orrica [ and we can secure patent in less time than those [ , remote from Washington. i' Send model, drawing or photo., with descrip- ' lion. We advise, If patentable or not, free of [ charge. Our fee not due till patent Is secured. ' A Pamphlit. " How,lo Obtain Patents.” with ' [ cost of sama In the U.S. and foreign countries [ i sent free. Address, C.A.SNOW&CO. A whole armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office Morris* English Stable Liniment Caret LamenoM. Cats, SraisM, SeratelMW GaUs, Swaauey, Sold by A. F. Long.

Everybody reads The Democrat. 5 PER CENT. MONEY. Money to bum. We know you hate to smell the smoke. .Stock up your farms while tht’Pe is money in live stock and save taxes on $700.00 every year. Takes 36 hours at the longest to make the most difficult loans. Don’t have to know the language of your great grandmother. Abstracts always on hand. NOwed tape. Chilcote & Parkison. When you have a legal notice to be published, such as notice of appointment, notice of final settlement, notice of survey, notice of administrator’s or guardian’s sale, non-resident notice, or any other notice not controlled by county or township officers, bring it to The Democrat office. Our prices for this work are lower than others by reason of our setting them without any padding whatever, and we will appreciate the favor.

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Hanley & Hunt, law, Ahsirocis, loons ana Root Esiaie. RENSSELAER, IND. Office up-stairs in Leopold block, first stain west of Van Rensselaer street.

Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Brokei Attorney For The L. N. A. AC. Ry, and Rensselaer W. L. A P. Co. over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana.

U. M. Baughman. G. A. Williams. Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law. Notary work. Loans and Real Estate. Special attention given to collections of all I inds. Office over “Racket Store,” Kexsselakk, ■ Indiana. Moses Leopold, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND INSURANCE, Office over Ellis & Murray's Rensselaer, - - Indiana.

J. F. Irwin S.C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections, Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellows' Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Remington, . . . Indiana. Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance •nd Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block.

RRAMR VOLT*. O. RFITLRR. MARRY R. KURRIB. Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successor* to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Real Estate, Insurance A bar acts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, IND.

Mordecai F. Chilcote, William H. Parkiaon Notary Public. Notary Public. Chilcote & Park’son, ATTORNEYS aT LAW. Law, Real Estate. Insurance, Abstracts and Loans. Attorneys for the Chicago, Indianapolis A Louisville Railway Co. will practice in all of the courts. Office over J. Makeever's Bank, ou Washington street. KKNSSKLAKR, - - INDIANA.

H. O. Harris. E. T. Harris. J. C. Harris, President. Vice-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call, Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit isaued on time, Exchange Bought and Sold on principal cities. Notes Discounted at current rates, Farm Loans made at 5 per cent. We Solicit a Sharu of Your Business.

Drs. I. B.&L M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. I. B. Washburn will give i penial attention u> Diseases of the Bys, Ear, Nose. Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also tests eyes for glasses. Orvios T«l«.hoh« No. 40. Rseioeaoe Phoms No. 07. Rensselaer, - - Indiana.

E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over I mes' Millinery store. Kenaeelatr, Orrtoa Pmoni, 177. RatioiMOß Fmohii fit. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’a drug afore.

FLOODS DO DAMAGE.

HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY REPORTED. Hundred* of TenneeaeausWithout Shelter and Industries Are CrippledChurches Crushed by Wind In and Near Pittsburg—Many Persons Killed The most severe floods known in the last twenty years have been raging in eastern and middle Tennessee. A number of lives have been lost and property estimated at over $1,000,000 in value has been destroyed. Railroad traffic has been seriously interfered with and in many towns people are homeless aud industries are suspended. The most serious damage is at Harriman, which town has been practically destroyed, The heavy rains caused an unprecedented rise in the Emory River, which swept nearly everything in the town before it. From 300 to 400 people who lived in the river section are without homes, having fled from submerged houses. In Harriman alone the loss is estimated at $250,000. Five factory employes of McMinnville were drowned. The Annis cotton mill, the Tennessee woolen mill and the Falcon rolling mill were greatly damaged. Practically all the small houses in the town were destroyed. Three lives were lost in Giles County. John Cole and his family, who lived on Richland creek, near Pulaski, were driven to the roof of their house to escape the rising water. The foundations of the structure gave way and the refugees were thrown into the flood. Mrs. Cole and her two younger children were drowned. , Driven from Homes. The damage at Murfreesboro and other parts of Rutherford County is estimated to be half a million dollars. The streams between Murfreesboro and Bell Buckle rose so fast that occupants of many homes were forced to seek safety in the second stories of their houses. Traffic on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis and Louisville and Nashville railroads at some points has been stopped owing to the tracks being submerged. Much property at Mount Pleasant and Shelbyville was damaged. Several hundred persons at the former place were driven from their homes by the flood and were forced to take refuge in the court house. Coal Creek and Jellico in the mining district are' partly submerged and families living in the lowlands have been cared for by their more fortunate neighbors. At Gadsden and Columbus, Ga., manufacturing plants have been forced to suspend, and parts of the towns are under from two to four feet of water. The damage to crops will be heavy. Killed at Worship. One of the fiercest windstorms ever known in that section struck Pittsburg, Pa., just before noon on Easter Sunday. It came up the Ohio valley and passed on eastward, strewing its track with the dead and wounded and doing great damage to property throughout its course. By a singular fatality the principal casualties were in churches, against which the storm seemed to have a special grudge. The gale burst just at the hour when the Easter services were in progress and the churches were filled with worshipers. At Knoxville the big chimney of the Presbyterian church was blown down and fell through the roof, injuring some forty members of the congregation. At Robinson Run the spire of the United Presbyterian church was struck by lightning and pierced the roof, wounding six persons among the worshipers. The gable end of the Franklin Methodist church was blown in and two members of the congregation were killed aud many injured. Two of the victims of church wrecks were pastors. A number of other church buildings at various points in the storm’s path were more or less damaged, but in these cases the members of the congregations fortunately escaped without harm. Th« damage to other property was heavy, houses being unroofed aud blown down, mill stacks toppled over aud telegraph and telephone wires generally disabled.

BULGARIANS OUST DICKINSON

Refuse to Recognize the American Representative. Charles M. Dickinson of New York, United States diplomatic agent at Sofia, Bulgaria, has been declared persona non

grata by the Bulgarian government on account of his attitude in t*e ease of Miss Ellen M. Stone,' the American missionary who was abducted by Macedonian political and religious enthusiasts. Mr. Dickinson is now in Constantinople. In view of the

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declaration of Bulgarin, this government is obliged to consider his position nt Sofia as vacant, and he will not return there. The news of Mr. Dickinson's dis.nii.Msal was received at the State Department from Jolui G. A. Leishman, United States Minister to Turkey, who sent a brief telegram saying that the Bulgarian government had declined to recognize Mr. Dickinson. Tho only explanation of this action given by Minister Irishman wns that It was based on dissatisfaction with Mr. Dickinson's conduct “'last fall.” This unquestionably refers to the activity shown by Mt. Dickinson at Sofia in geeking to secure the release from captivity of Miss Stone and her native companion, Madame Tsllka, whose husband, a minister, was recently arrested by the Bulgarian authorities for complicity in the abduction of the two women. Mr. Dickinson, It la understood, believed that the Bulgarian authorities had been responsible, through neglect, for the kidnapping of Miss Stone, and he was of the opinion also that they interfered with his efforts to secure her release. Music publishers in Trandon called on Ambassador Choate and asked his assistance in stopping the piracy of American songs by unauthorised English publishers. George Bowles shot and Instantly killed his father at Martin's Ferry, Ohio. Tbs elder Bowies was abusing bis wife.

FARMERS HAVE AN INNING.

High Prices of Their Products Mak* Agriculturists Jubilant. According to reports from the Chicago Stock Yards farmers who have eattle for sale are among the most fortunate men in the entire industrial system of the country. Not for twenty years have they received as high a price for beef as they are getting to-day, and packers and meat dealers generally are agreed that the producers have the market so well in hand that they will probably get even higher prices during the coming months, not only for beef, but also for pork and mutton. Among the causes for high prices is the short corn crop of last year, which has resulted in food animals light in weight, because the feeders desire to economize their corn as much as possible. In addition the farmers are bolding back all breeding stock in order to enable them to reap still richer profits in the coining years. The farmers' ability to hold his live stock off the market was never ns great before as uow, and he is using it to the limit, keeping the animals until they cease to be growers or producers and become feeders on high-priced corn. The consumer is paying the highest of prices for his meat, but the heavy profit is not resting in the retailer’s or packer's hands, but slips along into the farmer’s pocket. While the actual number of cattle received in Chicago between Jan. 1 last and March 15 exceeded that of the corresponding period of last year by 55,000 head, this greater number actually weighed less than the smaller number received during the corresponding time of last year. The ratio has fully held good during the last half of March, and prices of cattle are still booming in consequence. It is notorious also that the weight of the hogs now arriving is far behind that of the corresponding period of last year and has been running behind- eyer since the feeding season began last fall. Beef cattle on the hoof are higher now than at any time since 1882, and the average weight is about the lightest on record for this season of the year. AU authorities agree that the available supply of good beef cattle is extremely light and that it will take a long time to bring the supply up to normal, even allowing an increase in the population to take care of the increase. The breeding of cattle is a much slower proposition than of most live stock, and time must also be allowed for the growth and final feeding of the animal. The universal attempt on the part of the consumer to avoid paying current high prices for meats and secure some cheaper substitute is shown in the enormous demand for poultry. Never in the history of the produce trade, says a Chicago paper, has poultry been in such large and steady demand for months at a time as during the drought in the corn belt last summer. Except for a brief and unusual period during World's Fair year were prices of poultry as high as they are now running.

POPE RECOGNIZES END IS NEAR.

Issues Testamentary Encyclical to the Catholic Church. The Vatican organ, L’Osservatore Romano, publishes • papal encyclical in which the Pope says the time has come when he must recognize that he approaches the term of his life on earth, so that this encyclical may therefore be regarded as his testament to the Catholic church. He says: “I would encourage Catholic bishops throughout the world to continue vigorously to resist the persecutions which now afflict the church. These persecutions will continue, but they will not prevent the spread of the light of Christ among infidels. “Never has humanity found itself in a more miserable condition than it is at present. There is disorder iu all social relations and especially iu family relations. "Excessive liberty has fostered socialism and anarchism. “Unjust wars are waged by strong nations against weak peoples and exaggerated armaments among great nations produce an effect which is even more disastrous than war, and creates a world-wide inquietude. "There are unceasing troubles and misery among the people, provoking them to anarchism, which henceforth promises to constitute a formidable party of malefactors working against all Emperors, Kings, and President—indeed, against all governments, nnd these governments must adopt decisive measures to defend genuine liberty, and must enforce the teaching of religion. In conclusion, the Pope invokes the union of all Christian churches as a leading remedy to save society from the violent attacks of atheists nnd free masonry, and adds that he maintains the necessity of the temporal rights of churches being upheld and counsels the active spread of Catholic workmen’s societies.

PENSION COMMISSIONER EVANS,

Department Head Who Has Tendered Hie Resignation. United States Pension Commissioner Henry Clay "ho the other day filed his resignation with President Roose-

velt, and whose friends have predicted an important for cign mission for him, has been a Tennessee Republican since the Civil War. although he was born in Pennsylvania. He was twice Mayor of Chattanooga, h 1 s home city, and lu 1800 defeated a strong Democrat for Congress in a Dem-

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ocratlc district. He also came within a few hundred votes of an election as Governor of Tennessee. Colonel Evans was n prominent Vics Presidential candidate in 1890

Denuded by Lightning.

W. W. Heed, a wealthy laud owner and oil operator, was walking along a public highway In Indiana recently when a severe storm was passing over, lie was carrying au umbrella, which was struck by n bolt of lightning and torn to pieces. His clothing was torn into ribbons and scattered about th i road. He was found a short time late: is a nude condition and thought to be I ad. He was carried Into a neighboring farmhouse, where he recovered.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Heavy Fire Lona at Brazil—A Young Woman Commits Suicide in RiverEfforts Increased to Find Missing Norman Rohrer—Hit by a Train. Fire in Brazil badly burned the Knight block. The origin of the fire is nnunknown. The firms and their losses are ns follows: Brattin jewelry store, SB.000; Hawkins dry goods, $2,000; Lyttle clothing company, SS,(MX). One fireman was slightly injured by falling from a building. Loss on the Knight block will bring the total to $25,000. Prompt assistance from the Terre Haute department, which sent five men and two hose wagons on a special train, probably saved the entire business portion of the city from destruction. Ends Life in Wabash River. Miss Marie Freeland, 27 years of age, committed suicide by jumping into the Wabash River at Peru. First she went to the home of her sister, Mrs. Charles Daniels, where a reception was being held, anti slipped a note under the front door. It was found late that night. It said: “You will find me in the river. Dear sister, good-by forever. Kiss papa and mamma for me. Bury me ail in black.” In the morning footprints of a woman were found on the river bank. The body was found in five feet of water twenty feet from the shore. The cause of the suicide is veiled in mystery. Ask Police to Locate Son. The parents of Norman Rohrer, of La Porte, a medical student who disappeared from Detroit Feb. 1. will ask the police of every city in the United States to keep a lookout for the missing man. The father believes his sou is still alive. This belief is not shared by his townsmen, who are convinced the young man killed himself. Citizens of La Porte will raise a reward to be offered for the discovery of young Rohrer, dead or alive. Train Hits Hose Wagon. As hose company 16 was responding to a fire alarm in Indianapolis the horses dashed into a Monon passenger train running at high speed at 16th street and the stracks. One horse was killed and the wagon was smashed, but the firemen escaped. A Lake Erie passenger train had just passed and the Monon was following. Indiana Man Kills Himself." C. S. Bitzer, aged 68 years, committed suicide by shooting in the Illinois street tunnel, under the Union station, Indianapolis. His body was found by a pedestrian. He formerly traveled for a Cincinnati distilling company. Within Our Border*. Logansport may get a savings bank. Telephone wires in Muncie will be put under ground. Diamond flint glass works, Hartford City, resumed. Dr. J. H. Bower's residence, Syracuse, burned. Ixrss, $2,000. Muncie Commercial club raised $20,000 for a new clubhouse. Indiana university will establish a department of commerce. Union men, Aurora, lost their strike with the Royer wheel company. Evansville may build a municipal telephone plant. About S2<K),OOO will be needed. Oliver Graham, Terre Haute, shot by Erwin Greer, is dead.' Both negroes, Greer's in jail. Roy Richmond, 20, Muncie, stole ■ pound of honey and a monkey wrench. He was sent to the reformatory. Marcellus Forbes of Sullivan was sentenced to jail for 60 days and fined S3OO for assaulting Ora Jennings during a ball game.

John Banning, a farmer, of Ferdinand, was compelled to pay $125 to the government as tax on whisky handled by him the last two years. After twenty-four hours’ deliberation the jury in the wife murder case at Washington against Frank Purcell returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter.

George F. McCulloch, president of the Union Traction Company, is said to be working on a scheme for connecting Indianapolis with Chicago by an electric railroad system which is to touch Noblesville, Tipton, Kokomo and Logansport, In the Howard County Circuit Court Elijah and Effie Vernon and William and Bertha Barnes were divorced. Ten minutes later Barnes and Mrs. Vernon obtained a license to wed and were married before the ink on the divorce docket wns dry. A SIO,OOO damage suit was compromised. At Shelbyville the jury in the case against Mrs. Emma Samiefur and her sou, Clarence Sandefur. for the murder of George Scott Dec. 27, returned a verdict of acquittal for the mother and convicted the son. finding him guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Young Hamlefur is aged 23 years and always has borne a good reputation. The agitation caused by the discharge of the Rev. Muncie as principal of the Meridian Street school, in Brazil, on a charge of hugging and kissing one of his young girl pupils was subdued by the school I ion rd reinstating Mr. Muncie and the striking school children returning to school. The reinstatement was brought alHiut by a petition to the school board signed by every parent of the scholars who attended the Muncie school. The father of the girl accuser headed the list. oseph Kouits, a banker at Wanatah, filed with Referee F. I'l Lambert a petition in bankruptcy, scheduling assets of SB6,<HG and liabilities of >57,671. Richmond's eighty cases of smsllpox cost that city $2,500, an average of over S3O to the case. Mnthias Gundick, 02, was killed by a Lake Shore train at Otis. He lived st Michigan City. Mrs. Nora Stinkard, wife of a Bicknell merchant, swallowed too many headache powders and is dead. t'urnvgie library in Elwood will be erected at the southwest corner of N. A. and Sixteenth streets. Dr. L. 8. Keene. 80, of Kaporte, died at Deland, Fla., where be and bls wife were spending the winter.

WSHINGTON GOSSIP

A sequel to the famous Fitz John Porter case came before the House committee on military affairs when a hearing was given on the bill authorizing the Secretary of War to compute the amount of pay and allowances of the general during the period of his enforced retirement from the army and making* appropriations of the amount tb his widow and children. The hearing was attended by several of Gen. Porter’s old comrades in arms and by his daughter and sons. When at the instance of Gen. Grant an army board passed upon the case of Gen. Porter, the recommendation was made that he be restored to rank and pay. Acting on this Congress in 18>S6 restored the general to his rank, but there was no restoration of the pay. It was stated that the present measure is a simple act of justice to the family, who had suffered along with the general during the twenty-three years he was in retirement.

The bill recently introduced in the Senate by Mr. McMillan of Michigan to prevent robbing the mails, provide a safer and easier method of sending money by mail and to increase the postal revenues, has been introduced in the House by Mr. Gardner of Michigan. The bill is indorsed by the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. It provides that all paper money hereafter issued by the United States of the denominations of sl, $2 aud $5, except national bank notes, shall be of the form known as the post check and shall be convertible by the holder thereof into a check to a named payee, These post checks will be exchangeable at any United States money order postoffice for current funds, after which the postmaster will cancel them and forward them to a repository designated by the Postmaster General and shall receive credit therefor.

Congress boasts this session two brothers, representing the same State, as like as the two Dromios and as confusing— William Kitchin, the member of the fifth district of North Carolina, and Claude Kitchin, who was elected to this Congress from the second district. They are not twins, despite their strong resemblance, but were born three years apart. William in 1866, Claude in 1863.' Besides the facial likeness the Kitchin brothers have many other points in common. They are alumni of the same college, successful in the same profession—-the law—they are both eloquent public speakers and much in demand by their party as campaign orators, they affect the same style in dress, live in the same house and are more devoted to each other than were the Siamese twins.

President Roosevelt has denied through his secretary that Prof. O’Brien, the teacher of athletics, has been coaching him in the Japanese art of “jujutsi,” but the story has brought into prominence not only Prof. O’Brien, but a mysterious form of defensive athletics that the professor brought from Japan some years ago, after he had served as chief of police of Nagasaki for ten years, and which he was taught as a great favor. "Jujutsi” is a defensive art, without weapons, whereby a series of lightning quick movements are made upon an adversary, breaking a bone or spine, dislocating a joint or even breaking a neck—killing or crippling instantly at the will of the artist without leaving a mark to show the cause of death.

The dome of the capitol building at Washington has been struck by lightning on five different occasions. When the dome is struck it is attended by phenomena of a very interesting character. The report made by the explosion begins with a crashing noise, then a continuation of the report, which sounds at times very much like a shower upon ■ roof, and again as a fusillade of bricks, accompanied by a great volume of flying echoes. This is caused by the conductivity of the metallic roofing material scattering the discharge. Following the report, if at night, the interior of the dome is weirdly illuminated for a second or two by a bluish flame, often accompanied by a strong odor of b rimestone.

Chief Clerk Browning of the House has finally closed up the old House desks deal, depositing something like $l,lOO in the treasury to the credit of furniture and repairs account. Mr. Browning says this task of disposing of the old desks and chairs was the biggest undertaking ' that be has handled during the past five years. A large portion of his time since early in December has been spent in reserving desks, shipping them to homes of members, ascertaining what desks members desired to reserve or uot reserve, and undertaking to secure desks tor members who neglected to reserve until too late and whose desks were sold at auction. One of the most pathetic sights in Washington is that of the old women who are struggling to keep their positions in the government departments. Some of them are feeble through age. . many are aeml-invalids and almost all of them have persons dependent upon them. They have obtained their places through the influence of relatives, and their tenure of office frequently depends upon the continuance in {rawer or authority of these relatives. Not a few of them are wofully inefficient, but they atruggie with woman'a persistency to do their best, whatever that may be. A renovated butter bill was introduced in the House by Representative Graff of Illinois, who is a member of the agricultural committee. It proposes a tax of 10 cents a pound upon renovated or process butter, a license of SOOO for manufaettff era and S4B for dealers, and a fine of fro.n SI,OOO to $5,000 upon those who conduct business without a license. The packages of process or renovated butter arc to be marked with label to show contents, and failure to affix label is to be pnniahH by a fine of SSO for each offense.