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L ! . b g The Ligonier Banner, LIGONIER, . i ? INDIANA. - Bop INGERSOLL once said that he wouldn’t believe there was a hell until " Missouri went republican, and now the lola (Mp.) Register demands that he redeem his pledges. - : TP U _ DoN’t eat two mince pies, a plum pudding, a duck, lobster salad and ice cream, and| then attribute your 'sense of fullness to the presence of your mother-in-law in the house. ' A 600 D many sinsthave been laid at the door or the deadly cigarette, and now a Brooklyn dentist avers that -it - kills the nerves of the teeth. Throw away the cigarette, and:if you must smoke buy a pipe. T S ———————— THERE may be as much in hypnotism scientifically as there is in chloroform, but it is as difficult to hypnotize persons, male or female, against their will as it is to chloroform them against their will. ' Let foolish young females remember that. Then let them beware of hypnotism and all other forms of foolishness. A—— NS BSN W SRS THE city of Hartford, Conn., claims to have had closer connection with American literature than any other city of its size in the country. It bases its claim on the fact tha;hit has been the home of Mrs. Sigourfley, Harriet Beecher Stowe, |lsabella - Beecher Hooker, Mark Twain, William Gillette, the playwright; Noah Webster, the: lexicographer, and a host of others of greater or less fame. ;

| Tﬁng’ortdguese are now setting up the claim that they discovered America forty-four years before Columbus did. 1t is alleged that their ships reached the coast of Brazil in 1445, while Columbus did not sight the West Indies until 1492. This view is sustained by Prof. H. Yule Oldham, lecturer on %eogrgphy in the University of Camridge, but the other geographers do not consider his points fully proven.

~ Aproros of industrial schools, Denmark hag maintdined one for several’ years for instruction in butter making. *And now that little kingdom of only about 2,000,000 inhabitants exports '100,000,000 pounds of butter per year, an average of fifty pounds per inhabitant. Dairy products are almost the only articles the supply of which has

' mever yet run ahead of the demand. ¢ There is always a market for good butterl andi Denmark has discovered the faect. |- ° 2y T

TuE City of Mexico authorities who were looking after . counterfeiters made some startling discoveries. It was evident there was an organized colony of several hundred people scattered about the city making and circulating the spurious coin. Thousands of dollars had. been successfully " ‘shoved” within the last few weeks. Arrests of members of the band had been -made| almost daily until there were 280 of them in prison awaiting trial. . " :

RoBERT BUCHANAN, who failed for $76,000 not long ago, has just been discharged by the bankruptcy court on condition that he pay half of. all he -earns above $4,500 a year toward satisfying his ecreditors, till they shall have recovéred thirty-seven certs on the dollar. His lawyer tried to free him from the obligation, but the judge héld that aa'ﬁ author who had earned $7,500 a year by his writings might be expeeted to continue to do so, and should do something for his creditors.

IF the Ailantic were lowered 6,564 feet the distance from shore to shore would be only half as great, or 1,500 miles. If lowereda little more than 3 miles—say 19,680 feet—there would be a road of dry land from Newfoundland to Ireland. This is the ridge on which the great Atlantic cables are laid. The Mediterranean is comparatively shallow. A drying up of 666 feet would leave three different seas,land Africa weould be joined with Italy. *The British channel is more like a pond, which accounts for its choppy waves.

NEW ZEALAND presents a striking example of the dependence of public prosperity on agriculture. Not many Yyears ago the country appeared to be crashéd under a heavy debt incurred by the extravagant system of borrow-

ing and the Maori war. Instead of is- - suing more bonds the people and statesmen set themselves to developing the agricultural resources of the - colony. The dairy and frozen meat industries have reached great magnitude, and nowhere, says a recent report, is the farmer more prosperous.

It is announced that horseflesh is soon to be placed on sale in New York as an article of food. It has been used as food in Paris for a good many years, and although it does not seem to be esteemed as a luxury, it doubtless serves a useful purpose in relieving the hunger of the impecunious, for it ralust be sold at a lower price ‘than beef or mutton to secure customers. We believe the medical testimony is to the effect that horse flesh is not unhealthful if the animal isnot diseaseg, and the health department will probably look after this, in case it comes into use as food.

INVEBTIGATION goes to show, and experiments on cadavers prove, that a pistol or rifle ball deflected from its

course immediately resumes its line of flight after “‘rimming” the object it is unable to pass directly through. In other w‘or(is, a bullet turned from its

course by a rib or other bone passes under the skin and flesh until it reaches a point mathematically directly opposite to the point where it entered the body and then passes out, resuming its direet line of flight. lln case its initial © welocity is far spent it remains imbed- ~ ded in the flesh opposite the spot where it came in contact with the bone. ABTOUNDING stories of the cheapness of horses come from various portions of the west. They are said to be cheaper than gond dogs in the east. 1n . many parts of the west two or three dollars is said 1o be accepted asa good . Blee feE a;:uixu:ed o 4 hundved head of unbroken anch horses v&f;éi 80ld in Denverreeen TR WO4 Mop lebight aad 1y 0 S SR LR A 8 bt iJ‘ hghh gl g 9 ﬁ%%&‘@ : ) S WRGRIR Sh s b the pear Tiiare.

Epitome of the Week.

INTERESTING NEWS COMP{LATIéN.

FROM WASHINGTON.

* IN the supreme court of the District of Columbia the first of a series of attacks on the income tax was begun by John G. Moore. «

THE income tax law will again be fought in the senate on the ground that the actis illegal. o "IN the United States the visible supply of grain on the 26th was: Wheat, 89,071,000 bushels; corn, 8,838,000 bushels; oats, 9,000,000 bushels; rye, 452,000 bushels; barley, 8,806,000 bushels.

THE EAST.

IN Pittsburgh E. D. Witt & Co., pro‘prietors of the East End theater, assigned with liabilities of $lOO,OOO. Frames destroyed nearly 2,000,000 feet of lumber and twenty loaded railway cars at Burlington, Vt., the loss being $150,000. Miss MirLLER, of Johnstown, Pa., wearied of waiting for a lover who had deserted her years ago on Christmas day, ended her life. A FAST express train at Vineland, N. J., collided with a carriage and killed three of the occupants. IN New York Samuel C. Seely, who stole $354,000 from the Shoe and Leather bank, was senteff®d to a term of eight years. - THE first of the police officials convicted as a resilt of the Lexow inves tigation, Ex-Capt. Stephenson, of New York, was sentenced to three years and nine months imprisonment and fined $l,OOO. : : BECAUSE of domestic troubles William 8. Whitman, of Winooski, Vt., shot and killed his wife and two boys and then committed suicide. : IN New York Edward R. Carter for twenty-nine years a clerk in the National bank of commerce, confessed to embezzling $30,000. . \ A poucH destined for Hartford and‘ containing 600 letters was stolen from the depot platform at New Haven, ‘ Conn. ol

TeE steamer Majestic arrived in New York with the largest single mail ever brought across the Atlantic. It was in 1,672 bags.

THE most severe 'blizzard in years swept over the eastern states. Along the Massachusetts coast many ships were wrecked, causing great loss of life, and in the cities ot Boston and New York much damage was dune by the storm, j :

Ar New Castle, Pa., August Permontir shot and fatally wounded Miss Meister, thé daughter of his landlady, and Robert Charles; another boarder, and then blew out his own brains. He fvas insane. ety

IN New York the dry goods and millinery firm of J. Lichtenstein & Sons failed for $450,000. o

WEST AND SOUTH.

THE state: relief commission says there are over 28,000 families in Nebraska needing aid because of crop failure. ;

Durine the sinking of a well on a farm near Brownville, Neb., rich goldbearfng ore was discovered. ‘ TuaE death;of ex-Congressman Marquette, of Lincoln, Neb., occurred at Tampa, Fla., from rheumatism of the heart, aged 63 years. IN a race wanr, cansed by the killing of Joseph H. Isom, & white man, near Quitman, Ga., seven negroes were shot and more shooting was expected. At Junction City, Ky., Micajaa Rowsey, a desperado, was killed by Town Marshal Ellis, whom he resisted. Rowsey was the last of a father and seven sons, all of whom died with their boots on. ;

- By the failure of -the Citizens’ stock bank and Slater savings bank at Slater, Mo., many farmers and merchants were financially ruined. Ex-SENATOR ALCORN’S funeral at Eagle’s Nest, Miss., was attended by 800 negroes, the majority of whom were his former slaves. . = it IN St. Louis sneak thieves entered a barber shopand stole a pocketbook belonging to Michael Doran containing $28,000. - - CHARGED with being the leaders of a band of counterfeiters John E. Bittell and his wife were arrested at St. Joe, Mo. . ‘ :

‘Mzs. InA Ross was given a verdict at Huntsville, Ala., of $16,000 against the Western Union Telegraph company for failure to deliver a message to her hus band.

By the tinbox scheme Henry Kinnett, a farmer living near Preble, 0., was bunkoed out of $3,000. ° :

IN burning some old letters Mrs. Kelher, of English, fnd., destroyed $2,400, the total proceeds of the sale of her home. )

A MOB lynched a mnegro named Benjamin at Ocala, Fla., for assaulting a white woman. : :

In Terre Haute Ind., George Robs erts, given ‘a life sentence for train wrecking, says he was promised immunity for aiding the authorities to convict his associates.’ : ~ HENRY R. EVANS wag taken ill and died within a few hours while eating Christmas dinner at the home of a friend in Rockford, 111 L

THERE is no law in Colorado, says Judge Wall of Leadville, prohibiting a man from burning his own house. SocieTy women issued Christmas editions of the San Francisco Examiner and the Rocky Mountain News at Denver. S i

TareEe students of the St. Paul eollege broke through the ice and were drowned while skating in a park at St. Paul. : st ;

Four business firms in Milwaukee failed with liabilities aggregating $195,000. . - BrcAuse of her husband’s fondness for a 6-year-old daughter by a former wife, Mrs. Myrtle Simpson poisoned herself at Peoria, 111. :

’ Ix Chicago Eugene V. Debs and other members of the Américan Railway union were grauted a stay of sentence - until January 8. i Ix a collision between passenger r trains at Waxahachie, Tex., eighteen persons were seriously injured. Tuar state teachers’ associations of 11linois, Wisconsin, lowa, Michigan, Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota and Kansas held their annual meetings. WHEN arrested in New Orleans upon the charge of insanity, A. W. Alton, of | New Jerusalem, Tex., said he was on the way to Washington to kill the president. . o ) - Fisg destroyed the state normal col‘lege for girls at Livingstone, one of the most prosperous institutions in i “1‘ O ’l. e g Dan MeDonald et ol o et Ayt v aged yeurs ey R TR s

FroM Nebraska to the Atlantic coass a heavy snowstorm raged. ; Five boys were fatally burned in a suburb of Richmond, Va., by an explosion of gunpowder.

AFTER supposing him dead for thirty years William Blakesley, of Sacramento, Cal., gladdened the-hearts of his parents at Trenton, N. J., by let~ ting them know he is alive. THE attorneys of Madeline Pollard propose to follow Breckinridge on his lecture tour and attach the receipts. FrLamEs swept over a large area in the southern part of “N” county, 0.T., and a number of farmers lost everything they owned and barely escaped with their famflies. i IN New Orleans Miss Celeste Stauffer, who was engaged to Samuel J. Tilden at the time of his death, was married to George 8. Eastwick. FIRE destroyed the old capital building at Atlanta, Ga., the loss being $lOO,OOO. :

WiLL Perry and Alex Williamson, two young men living at Coalburg, Ala., fought for the hand of Nannie Bell and both were killod. Sen BURGLARS entered the bank at Somonauk, 111.,, and robbed the safe of $B,lOO and a large amount of valuables. %

THE father of the free school system of Wisconsin, Col. Michael Frank, died at Kenosha at the age of 90 years. It was voted by the women’s council of the Nineteenth Century club of Memphis, Tenn., to boycott Congressman Breckinridge’s lecture.

A TERRIFIC blizzard swept the western states and the mercury fell far below zero. ; -

WiLrtam FINDLEY and Joseph Bidwell, farmers of Union county, were killed near Columbus, 0., by. a PanHandle train.

THE college presidents of Indiana and lowa decided to forbid intereollegiate football games. S AT the age of 44 years ‘“‘Sim” Coy, for many years a picturesque figure in Indiana- politics, died at his home in Indianapolis. \ \ RoBBERS broke into the home of Henry Fecker, at Piqua, 0., and carried off his savings, amounting to $4,750. : ' RoBBERS and farmess' engaged in a desperate fight near Salem, 0., and two of the latter were shot and oné of the former.

ATTORNEYS in lowa met in Des Moines and organized a state bar association. A. J. McCreary, of Keokuk, was elected president. - :

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

TeE Hawaiian authorities discovered a royalist conspiracy and five of those implicated were placed under arrest. - GEORGE H. ASHFORD, of Vancouver, B. C., killed his wife and one child while drunk and fatally wounded another. ‘

'NEARLY 100 persons were said to have perished in a storm which swept Great Britain. A Great damage td property was done. ;

CHINA decided to send a new mission to- Japan to sue for terms of peace direct. F

MoHAMMEDAN inhabitants of Turfan, Kashgar, were in open rebellion, desiring to shake off the yoke of China and found an independent government under Russian suzerainty.

Orr Port Erin the British steamer Abydos was lost in a gale and twentytwo persons were drowned. THE Brazilian troops burned a house at San Gabriel used as a hospital and 120 rebels perished. :

THE death of Francis 11., ex-king of Naples, occurred at Arco, in the Austrian Tyrol, at the age of 59. It was said that Austria proposed to join Germany in retaliating on the United Statles if the sugar duties were not modified. St :

MARAUDING Yaqui Indians in the western part of Guaymas, Mexico, visited the ranch of Julio Cardenas and massacred the latter and his entire family, consisting of wife and two children. bl oo - IN Brazil another rebellion was threatened. The army, which is devoted to Peixoto, refused to obey President Moraes’ orders, and 200 offi‘cers were imprisoned. - JosE ELLAURI, twice president of Uruguay, died at Montevideo.

LATER NEWS.

THERE were 350 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 28th, against 849 the week previous and 511 in the corresponding’time in 1893. .

THE p.llesidént has 'ar,pproved the act to establish a national military park at the battlefield of Shiloh.

Five men were killed and a number of others badly scalded by- the explosion of a sawmill boiler at Bonayr, Ky. | : . OrFICERS searching for a stolen body in Indianapolis found twenty bodies of varions ages in an empty house. PETER MURDOCK, a New Orleans motorman, shot his wife and then blew out his own brains with a revolver.

THE county treasury at Santa Rosa, Cal., was robbed by a burglar of $B,OOO. - MicrIGAN teachers in session at Lansing declared in favor of free text books and agaidst teachers using tobacco. :

AT Wellington, Mich.,, Matthew Palmer cut his wife’s throat and then cut his own. Both were dead. . TwENTY-FIVE bakers in Cincinnati reduced the price of bread from five to three cents.

At Silver Lake, Ore., during a Christmas celebration a lamp exploded and forty-one persons were burned to death and fifteen injured. v :

~ LeEeLER’s hotel and other buildings in Waterbury, Conn., were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $lOO,OOO. OuTLAWS, supposed to belong to the Dalton gang, burned the courthouse at Stillwater, 0. 'T., with all its records.’

Doss HATTS murdered his fiancee, Lizzie Smith, at Hunter Hill, Ala., and then killed himself.

Ex-SENATOR JAMES G, FAIR, the bo- . nanza millionaire, died at the lLick house in San Francisco of astlima, aged 68 years. FrAames swept away a business block in Buffalo, N. Y., the loss being $300,000, - * i Two StioKs, the Sioux Indian who nurdered ' four cowboys February 2; 1808, was hanged at Deadwood, 8. D., protesting his innocence. @~ = Tux Spokane (Wash.) Commercial savings bank, with a capital of $50,000, suspended payment. S e _ Excuawers at the leading clearing Tt i x{.:‘ ".i"el;?»;;fi f.:(_ w;ﬁ%n i ’* “«*“g%%ﬁ

PERISHED BY FIRE.

Awful Ending of Christmas Festivities in Oregon.

The Hall jn Which They Are Held Takes Fire from an Exploding Lamp—- : Forty-One of Those Present ; Burn to Death.

KrAamMATHE FALLns, Ore., Dec. 29.— News has just reached here that a horrible holocaust occurred at Silver Lake, Lake county, Ore., on Christmas eve, in which forty-one persons were burned to death and sixteen badly injured, five of whom will die. A large erowd had assembled in Christman Bros.’ hall to, attend a Christmas tree festival. While the festivities were at their height some one climbed: on a bench, from which point he expected to get a better view of what was going on. In doing so his head struck a lamp hanging from the ceiling, overturning it. The oil immediately caught fire and, everything!in the room being dry and of an inflammable nature, the room was soon a mass of flames. X By this time 'the confusion was |of great that people began scrambling in’ a wild endeavor to reach the door. Women and children were trampled under foot, and, as there was only one exit to the hall, and the fire being between the majority of the crowd. and the door, many rushed headlong into the flames. The dead are: Lt Mrs. John Buick and two children, Mrs. Owsley and two ichildren, J. J. Buick and daughter, Mrs. Snelling, M's. Howard and two children, W. O. Heart and wife, Mrs. Coshow, Frank West, wife and two children, Ed Bowen, Miss MocCauley, T, J. Laurie and child, Mrs. Ward, Mrs. Abshir, Frank Horning, Mrs. Payne, Mrs Willlams and child, C. W. Martin and wife. Robert Small, Mrs. Ella Ward and child, Frank Ross, mother and sister, a child of Roy Ward, Ira Hamilton, Mrs. Gus Schroeder and child,

The building, a two-story frame structure,; contained Christman Bros. store. In the first floor was the hall, which was rented for gatherings of all kinds. BSilver Lake is a small village in Lake county, Ore., of about:100 inhabitants, and it is 150 miles from the nearest telegraph office. !

BRUTAL INDIAN HANGED.

With Four Otber Indians He Killed Four : Men in Cold Blood.

DeApwoop, 8 D., Dec. 29. — Two Sticks, the noted Sioux Indian murderer, for whose reprieve many efforts have been made in vain, was hanged here Friday. ~

[The crime for which Two . Sticks was hanged was the murder of Emanuel Benedict, Rodney Royce, James Bacon and William Kelley at Humphrey and Stringer's cattle ranch on the Sioux reservation February 4, 1803. Bacon and Kelly were boys of 15 and 16 respectively and the other two were employes on the ranch. Four other Indians were engaged in the massacre. Of these First Eagle was killed by a pursuing ‘'posse, and Fights With, Two-Two and White Faced Horse are now serving sentences in the penitentiary. The murder was brutal and unprovoked. The victims were sitting about the fire talking to the Indians when the latter, without warning, opened fire on them and killed three instantly, the other dying soon afterward.] L :

A GHASTLY FIND.

A Son Discovers the Dead Bodies of His Parents at Vassar, Mich.

VAgsAR, Mich., Dec. 29.—George Palmer and wife were found Friday morning with- their throats cut lying dead on the flpor! Their son went to the barn to do the work about 8:30 o’clock and when he returned he found his parents dead. The couple had not lived happily and it is believed that Palmer killed, the woman and then cut his own. throat. KFrom the position of the bodies Mrs. Palmer had evidently been taken unawares by her husband. After killing his wife, Palmer laid down by her side and drew the butcher-knife which he had used on his wife, across his own throat, The murder theory has no foundation in fact. , |

PRINTERS TO COMBINE. Larger Concerns of the Country Said to ; Be About to Unite. ARRON, 0., Deec, 29.—1 t is stated here that there is'a project on foot to combine all of the larger printing houses of the country. If the deal is consummated many millions of dollars will be involved, the money coming not only from this country but from Europe. The information comes from one of the directors of the mammoth Werner printing concern of this city. -He said that the matter would be fully discussed at the annual meeting of the Werner company to be held at Chicago during the early part of January. e

DISASTROUS FIRE.

Buffalo (N. Y.) Block Destroyed with s Loss of $300,000. .

NEw YOoREK, Dec. 29.—A special from Buffalo, N. Y., says, fire destroyed the three-story brick block at the northeast corner of Broadway and Fillmore avenue. The building’ was owned by John Kennedy, of Binghamton, and occupied by Hckhardt & Co., Oswald Tinkler and Charles Weisman as stores. The fire spreafd over the whole block and across Broadway to the threestory brick block extending from Fillmore avenue to Gibson street. The loss will reach $300,000. : )

. Cheap Bread at Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, Dec. 29.— The crusade for cheap bread here has resulted in twenty-five bakers of this city to date reducing the price from five to three cents a loaf. Somé reduced to four cents, and but few now are able té maintain the five-cent rate. : | President Approves of the Park. ‘ WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—The president has approved an act to establish'a national military park at the battlefield | of Shiloh, similar to those at Gettysburg and Chickamauga, carrying ano appropriation of $75,000 for the purpose of securing the necessary land and for making improvements. . - i ' Potato Famine Threatened. : LoxDoN, Dec. 29.—With a view to. averting a potato famine in li_‘elnnd} the government has decided to advance' ‘money without interest to the poor | law guardians for the purchase of seed potatoes. ' G = e Girl Burned to Death. Hor Springs, Ark., Dec. 29.—Miss Ura Hattie Clay, 14 years old, while sitting near a firein a reading room ‘suddenly found her d;aiss on fire ;gd | was quickly enveloped in flames. e mhgdm&éyﬂ?deom and before the fire could be extinguished she was ___ mlown Into the River. ' __Husow, 0., Dea 9=While crossing i atitoat bl Nodd st from the bridge MBOSME: river. The Vol haw not besh RGNS Sl R R L e

FEWER FAILURES. a— N S A Decrease in Business Disasters During ‘the Year. : NEw Yomg, Dec. 20.—R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “‘Commercial failures for 1894 hiready reported number 14,292, against 15,242 last year, with labilities of $163,238,404, against $346,779,889 last year. Next week the final report for 1894 will probably include about 400 more failures, with liabilisies of about $4,000,000. From these ac~ ocounts, banks and bankers, financialand transporting companies are excluded. Manufacturing failures already number 2,756, against 8,422 last year, but liabilities are only 864,491,287 against $176,982,001 last year. The trading failures already number 11,310, against 11,512 last year, but liabilities are only $87,899,067, agalinst $130,062,383 last year. - The statement by sections shows a decrease of about twothirds in defaulted labilities in the middle and central northern states, one-half in the west and southwest and & third in other sections. !

““Wages actually paid in November are compared to-day with working hours in establish~ ments throughout the country, and| in about fitty branches of industry, the average being 236.4 hours per hand this year, 218.4 last year, and 243.2 in 1802, The wages paid per hour ‘were 1.2 per cent. less than last year. and 8.59 per cent. less than in 1892. 'As the hands employed in ' establishments reporting were 853 per cent. more than last year, but 12.02 per cent. less than in 1892, the total wages paid in these establishments in ' No.vember was 16.33 per cent. more than in November, 1893, but 21.77 per cent. less than in November, 1892. Thus the decrease in purchasing power of the working force is found to be due mainly to decrease in number of hands. and hours of work, rather than to reduction of wages paid per hour,

‘Holiday trade has scarcely met expectations. Purchases have been numerous, but smaller than usual in amount and more confined tqsneedful articles, thus anticipating ordinary trade. The volume of business represented by clearing’ house- exchanges is 7.7 fqr cent. larger than l%st ‘year, but 218 per cent. less than the year before, and the daily average for December has beén 7.1 pér cent. more than last year, but 25.2 less than the year before. In spite of some sensational losses oh western roads, the earnings of all railroads reporting for December are 2.9 per cent. greater than last year. and but 11.6 per cent. less than in 1892. “‘Wheat has declined one-half cent during the week. Exports in December from both coasts have been a little larger than last year, but for the crop year about 2,000,000 bushels smaller. The western estimate, usually regarded with most confidence, is,’ that the crop will reach 515,000,000 bushels, which will leave for export, with stocks. brought over, more than 200,000,000 bushels, of which only 75,000,000 bushels have gone abroad. Corn has declined three-fourths of a cent, with good receipts. The price of cotton has not changed, but the fact that receipts from plantations this month have been greater than in 1891, while stocks in sight here and abroad are larger than at the same date that year, is an obstacle to any rise. :

O “Money is still coming to this city in a steady stream, and exports of gold for the week are expected to be about $2,600,000. The dissolution of the bond syndicate, on the ground that the pending currency bill has destroyed the market for bonds, is the most important event in financial circles, and is liable to have results of some consequence. For commercial loans the demand has 'slightly increased, though only as might be expected at this season. Eed

Bradstreet’s saya: ; “General trade presents the usual holiday characteristics. A majority of wholesale dealers ard manufacturers are beginning or have finished taking account of stock or arranging settlements for the new year. Main activity has been for Christmas specialties in retail . lings. The practical conclu~ sion of holiday trade has brought about a moderate reaction, 'and this emphasizes the dullness noted in preceding weeﬁs. Jobbers claim the outlook for trade during the late winter and early spring is for very conservative buying. But in some lines, notably heavy textiles, recent cold weather has stimulated sales, and reports from retailers ‘west and south indicate low stocks, almost beyond precedent. This is taken as indicative of a better merchandise trade in the near’ future than for several years past. Traveling salesmen, with few exceptions, are off the road. Merchants generally incline to the view that 1895 promises a favorable business,. although, as lindicatedy opinion is divided as to whether renewed activity will mark the early months of the coming year or not.” - ;

DEATH OF EX-SENATOR FAIR. One of the Bonanza Kings Passes Away at San Francisco. SAN FRANcCISCO, Dec. 29.—Ex-United States Senator James G. Fair, one of the bonanza kings, died at midnight. [James G. Fair was born in Clougher county, Tyrone, Ireland, in 1831. His parents emigrated to America in 1843, and settled. in Illinois. Young Fair was attracted to Callfornia in 1849, where he engaged in quartz mining. ' His mastery .of the business procured for him the suverintendency of various properties in different parts of the state. In 1860 Mr. Fair went to Nevada, where his remarkable talent for engineprin‘g and mining proved the basis of his fortune. He fs said to have had no equal as an architect and builder of quartz mills and chlorinizing furnaces. In 1865 he became superintendent of the Ophir, and in . 1867 of the “Hale & Norcross. It was at this time that, in conjunction with J. W. Mackay, J. C. Flood and W. S. O'Brien, he formed the famous Bonanza firm. Mr. Flood was relied upon, to secure ‘the properties: from which such enormous wealth was to be drawn. Various mines were acquired; which afterwards constituted the Virginia Consolidated and California 'mines. Millions and millions flowed into the coffers of the firm, but Mr ‘Fair continued his minute supervision of the work, going down to the lowest levels of the mines. So much exposure seriously impaired his health, and in 1879 he was 'obliged to take a sea voyage. He sailed around the world, and returned to Nevada when the canvass of 1880 was at lts.‘_heigfhc. He became the democratic candidate for United States senator and was elected. His wealth was recently estimagd at $50,000,000. May 2, 1883, Mrs. Fair, whom he married in 1862, brought an action for divorce. Mrs. Fair was awarded $4,250,000 in cash and bonds, the family residence in San Francisco and the custody of the three younger children. The senator was given the custody of the eldest son, James G. Fair s Jl'.] z ; A 5

Loggers Desert the Camps.

MexomiNEE, Mich., Dee. 29.—The weather has been very cold, the temperature changing from zero to 10 below, but no snow has fallen here since early in November, and that quickly disappeared. Ice formed in the bay for the first time this season Thursday night, but all is broken up by the northwest winds. Men in large numbers have come out of the logging camps. In most of the Menominee camps operations are said to be at a standstill and a log famine is apparent. g Fate of a Hermit. : i WicHITA, Kan., Dec. 29.—J.ane Emil Lane, an old Frenchman who for a long time had lived in a tumbledown shanty in the western part of Beaver county, No Man’s Land, was found dead in his hut Thursday. 1% had beerr frozen to death. The ol man was a kind of a hermit. He was reported to be the illegitimate son of Bonaparte’s famous marshal of the “same namé. IHis neighbors say he was 90 years old. "He had been hidden away in Beaver county for about ten years and the people living near-him supplied his few wants. S ' . Courthouse Burned, . . Pexry, 0. T., Dec. 29.—The county courthouse of Payne county, at Stillwater, was burned ‘together with al)t the eounty records, late Thursday evening. The fire was of incondiary origin. Iﬁsbelim&m - Dalton gang burned the house to save Arkansas Tom, & member of the-gang, who is uader indictment for crime in 1 G CROUIE bt SS. | Bumos Avnes, Doc. 30, The govBt igl sinburs wadenmndbions o

ws R vIO L A S RRN 2 | (e A T S L e ' POEMS OF THE DAY. My Tatle Mata. ! mkmmuﬁﬁcmmy’emg P "My little maid, L i I watch their changeful lights arise, o Mol Rmeyeds - | For] should I wrong her geetle trust, i | | SeremS.completey | ‘What keenest loss forever must ; | { My fiiture meet. We walk throngh ways-with danger fraught, - ¢ orm:;armm. L In sweet exch of inmost thought— My little maid. i _ —Cora S. Wheeler, in S. S. Times. o Unnecessary Sympathy. lalways-felt sorry when Imet Jim—- * . Poor fellow, he's married now; A And life is a serious thing to him, « . For he lives by the sweat of his brow,” And the caresiof a family weigh him down, And he slaves to run the house; Why, Jim was the gayest boy in town,: : And Tll bet he's as poor as a mouse! . -And because he looked so worn and sad, . Itried whenever we met . B To talk of the good times we'd had, " In hopes that he might forget. . - Till I said I was livingat the club; = Then I felt a deep chagrin; ¢ Lest he should think I was trying to rub Hismisery furtherin. P '~ But heexclaimed: ‘“That’s a horrible life! - No child to climb on your knee; No quiet home and the loving wite"— By Jove! He was pitying me/” 5 o ; —Harry Romaine, in Life. S—— W 2 </ Uncertainty. o Sometimes I dream, with quiet thought in my own heart, &7 ¢ If in her thoughts but one-of ‘me e'er.taketh 3 part? S : : ‘lt may not be for me to know, : o And yet I pray it may beso. -

For in my heart she always is;- each thought . and every prayer Sl b That surely she must know how she i§ enshrined there. . > i - It may not be that she does know; S : O that I could but tell her so! o 5

The Cheerful Man’s Sern}on. ; It’s easy to smile and be cheerful . When everything's pleasant and fair; ‘We never complain of lifes hardships a When there are no burdens to bear. But as Soon as the blue skies cloudover, : And the way that was smooth had grown rough, - i o i) ‘We forget the bl,gthe songs we were singing, And our faces are doleful enough. :

But some can be cheerful when shadows = . Are thick round the pathways they tread; ‘They sing in their happiest,measures . ~_‘With a faith in blue skies overhead. 5 They face with a smile that's like sunshine The trials that come in their way, ! And they always find much to be glad for In the lonesomest, dreariest day: ;

Thank God for the man who is cheerful® - - In spite of life’s troubles, Isay— = ; ‘Who sings of a brighter to-morrow, : - Because of the clguds of to-day. - . His life is a beautiful sermon - And thisis its lesson to me: - Meet trials with smiles, and they vanish, Face care, with a song, and they flee. - —Eben E. Rexford, in Chicago Tribune. ‘ «“See First Page.” . = . Is the heart a wayward one? \ ‘Have the feet gone far astray? g ‘“Read the preface.” ‘“see first page,” .Records of an early day. S i

Oh, how fair that life began On the rosy natal morn— ' Oh, what budding hopes were rife When the little child was born.

‘Was the sapling trained aright? Did it have the sun gnd air? T Were its withered boughs removed ' ® And the dead leaves clipped with care?

Were the best impressions made On the young.and plastic mind? Know ye, ‘‘as the twig is bent - So the tree shall be inclined?”

Mind, then, what the*preface tells, - Doting mother, fond and fair; - Let the first pure, spotless page’ Show a record brightand rare. - - v eoo R e =Ny Y, Weekly.

fais S Two Boys. : Between two bonny boys I stand, On each fair head I rest a hand.

Two faces bright are raised to mine, And both with boyish mischief shine;

Two eyes of gray, two eyés of blue, . ey ‘Where chi}dhood’s happy heéart looks through

On each dearhead a hand I lay, *'God keep my bonny boys,” I pray.

Dream children! -Visions of thenight, ] You vanish with the-morning light. : : Between two baby graves I kneel, ) Too tired for tears—l only feel. . : Babes ever! Never older grown, : So young they could not walk alone; - On each short mound a hand I lay: ’ A *Giod keép my bonny boys,” I pray. : L —Floretta N. Crawford, in Youth's Companion. ‘ When'Bgtt;y Smiles. . : 'Tis always summer in my heart" ‘When Betty smiles at me; e I feel the stab of Cupid’s dart e .When Betty smiles at me. ! A sweet confusion she displays : As speechless, quite, I stand and gaze— Distraught I am, in many ways— ‘ ~ When Betty smiles at me. L > ‘White, pretty teeth gleam through red lips, ‘When Betty smiles at me; Has In each soft cheek a dimple dips, e "When Betty smilés at me. o 5 . I see the gladness in her eyes— . - The first faint rays of love’s sunrise— And guess the truth that in them lies—- ' When Betty smiles at me. ; Thenis —Detroit Free Press. % v R . e ‘While Baby’s Sleeping. The festless hands, so keen for play. : Lie clenched and do not stir; ’ Her breath so light it scarce would sway A web of go's%mer;_. erd Her baby voice ‘thatcoos and crows, o In sweetest cadence keeping, = = Is hushed, the house no music knows =l - ‘While baby’s sleeping. ; : i | Her sunny eyes that when they rise. ¥ { Dawn daytimes of delight, s . Behind their fringing canopies - : | Have set, and it is night. L ' Five little toes the cover shows sy Beyond its edge just peeping, e Fair as a pink five-petaled rose — . 4 While baby’s sleeping. - e | See! on the pillow here I've tound i i ‘Golconda’s treasure now— . I The golden curls that cluster round =~ My darling's neck andsbrow, = ! Her lips just parted/in a smile, *~ - = - Some pretty secres keeping; A & An angel whispers to her, while My baby's sleeping. ot b et b OY, Reoorder: | It 18 the nudity %,the live wire that makes it shocking.—Pittsburgh Post. -

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