Ligonier Banner., Volume 31, Number 3, Ligonier, Noble County, 23 April 1896 — Page 2

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THE river Jordan makes the greatest descent in the shortest distance of any stream. During its course of 120 miles it has twenty-seven falls and descends 8,000 feet. i ,

MouUNT ARARAT, 12,700 feet, is the highest land in Armenia. The perpetuad snows that lie upon its summits are believed by the dwellers in the valleys beneath to cover the remains of Noah’s ark. 5

AN English trades union has refused to work with men who ride to their work on bicycles, on the ground that they have an unfairadvantage in being able towork longer at the shop and yet get home at|the same time “as those who walk., !

NEw vpossibilities in the use of the Roentgen rays have been discovered by Dr. Frenzel, of Berlin. Twelve sheets of bromide of silver paper laid one upon the other were placed in the holder and a picture of a frog taken. The §mage was equally well defined on each sheet. g d

AN equestrian statue of Gen. John M. Corse, ‘‘the hero of Altoona pass,” is to be erected at Des Moines, la. Corse was left to guard Sherman’s supplies at Altoona with 1,500 men. *““Hold the fort, for I am eoming,” was the famous message he received from Gen. Sherman.. And he held it.

A NoveL system of disseminating weather forecasts has been inaugurated by the Florida Central & Peninsular railroad. The engineers on that road blow six long blasts of the whistle, at intervals of three miles, to warn fruit growers of cold waves predicted by the United States weather bureau.

AN agricultural exhibition which has been opened in Paris, under control of the government, includes 6,000 enteries of agricultural implements and machinery. The exhibits very strikingly illustrate the progress made by French manufacturers in the last few years. /At one time nearly everything came from England. » :

| A NEW glass has been manufactured that, while it allows the free passage 'of light, is a decided check to heat. In lan experiment it was proven that a iglass plate four-tenths of an inch thick allowed but four and six-tenths per jcent. of radiant heat to pass through fit. Ordinary window glass lets 86 per cent. of heat through. :

Or all the numerous instruments employed in our times the oldest and most widely known are the drum, harp and bagpipe. The first of these, simple as its construction is, has literally played an important part in music. It originated in the north of Asia, and was for more than 2,000 years the only instrument known to the rude and roving Tartars. i :

THE accidental arrival in New Zealand of two poisonous sHakes among ballast, from Queensland and South ‘America alarmed the colonists, for the islands contain no native venomous reptiles, though the climate is, in places, well fitted for them. The result of the alarm was that parliament passed an act subjecting to heavy penalty anyone importing dangerous serpents. o

Tee Russian sceptor madé for the coronation of the Emperor Paul in 1797 is the most wonderful thing of its kind which has ever been known, for the famous Orloff diamond surmounts it. {The orb also dates from the reign of th ul, and is of solid gold, set with three rows of brilliants and a huge almond-shaped diamond. The diamond ‘cross is suppdrted by an exquisite sapphire worfh a fortune.

FroM present indications. this year’s sealing catch off the Pacific coast will be the smallest on record and will practically be a dismal failure. Coast sealing is prohibited after April 80. The reports brought to Victoria up to the ’Fnd of March show that the schooners ;of the sealing fleet had up to that time taken fewer seals than in any previous season, and there are fewer seals in the coast waters than in many years.

Silx of the large Tennessee Centenfial exposition buildings are now expected to be completed by June 1 next. All will be staff-colored, to give a stone effect. 'The commerce building will thave a great central dome. 175 feet high. The fine arts building will be an exact reproduction in size and appearance of the Parthenon at Athens, There will be a woman’s, children’s and a Negro building. The exposition will not be formally opened until May .38 : -

EXPERIMENTS in the horticultural de‘partment of Cornell university with the development of plants by electric light have been highly gratifying. Prof. Bailey is reported as saying: “We have proved that by using electric light during the daytime we can produce lilies fully two weeks before those that are grown under natural conditions. The effect is fully as marked in the case of lettuce, but we found that electricty is a positive detriment to peas.

- | OxE of perhaps many little consil_(ered ways in which the forests of the | United States are being eaten up is in | supplying timber for railway trestle ' !work. There are about 2,000 miles of trestle structure in the United States, ‘according to the forestry division. . IThis trestle work has to be replaced ' lentirely every nine years, on an aver- _ lage,and every year timber amounting ~ Ito 260,000,000 feet, board measure, is . lused for this purpose. Nearly all the - ftimber is cut from the largest and fin~_lest trees. The annual expenditure on ~ dthis work is estimated at about $7,000,~ . § A swinpLE which evidently is new in Missouri is being worked with great - Ssuccess in many towns there. A woman " Bbook agent appears in town and goes * §from house to house leaving books for §examination. Next day a man calls to . Esee if the books are :ﬁn,nted, and if they ~ Sare not he takes them away with him. ~ #Usually they are not wanted. A few . fdays later the womyﬂt appears ~ Bagain, and on being told that the man fhad taken away the books weeps copi_fously. says the villain has been collect- : m‘u over w» and so on, Jisnd accepts the proffered compensas

e Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. The Proceedings ofithe First Session. Washington, April 15.—A bill was introduced in the senate yesterday to prohibit the transmission of the reports of results on bets or prize fights or races from one state to another, and making such transmission a misdemeanor. Senatcr Squire spoke on the needs of coast defenses and Senator Chandler spoke in favor of tl\ele claim of Dupont, ‘of Delaware, to a seat in the senate. Without a dissenting vote the house passed the fortification bill, making appropriation of $11,384,613. The Arizona statehood bill was reported favorably. :

Washington, April 16.—The time in the senate yesterday was occupied in discussing the claim of Mr. _Jsupoqt to the vacant seat from the state g‘f Delaware. In the house a joint resolition providing for the election of Gen. Franklin as a member of the board of managers of the Ngtional soldiers’ home was discussed, but no action was taken. ¢ {

Washington, April 17.—The resolution for an investigation of recent bond issues was taken up 1 the senate yesterday and Senator Hiil defended Secre- | tary Carlisle and his administration of the treasury against insinuations of ir‘regularity. A favorable report was ‘made on the bill for the reorganization of the army, increasing the force to 20,000 enlisted men. In the house the fight against the reelection of Gen. W. B. Franklin as a member of the board of managers of the national soldiers’ Lome resulted in the defeat of those who opposed him, ! ) Washington, April 18.—In the senate vesterday Senator llill resumed his speech in opposition to the bond resolution and yielded for the introduction of a bill on Pacific railroads which caused a lively debate, during which Senator Allen (Neb.) charged Senator Gear (la.) with lying. Adjourned to the 20th. In the house the contested election case from the Sixteenth congressional district of Illinois resulted in favor of Mr. Rinaker, the republican contestant. A bill was introduced to increase the internal revenue tax on cigarettes from 50 cents per 1,000 ynder the present law to $5O per 1,000. A bill to pay war claims caused much discussion but no results. ‘

FROM WASHINGTON.

The bureau of statistics says that the exports of breadstuffs dusring March were $10,096,557, against $5,716,411 in March a year ago; of cotton, $19,006,570, against $15,271,926 a year ago; of mineral oils, $4,359,244, against $3,036,766 a Yyear ago, and of provisions, $12,823,749, as compared with $13,258,780 in March, 1895. . y

On April 22 the national conference will meet at Washington in the interest of permanent arbitration between tre United States and Great Britain. In the United States there were 223 business failures in the seven days ended on the 17th, against 259 the week previous and 241 in the ‘corresponding period of 1895. At the leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 17th aggregated $784,338,764, against $926,220,255 the previous week. The increase, compared with the corresponding week in 1895, was 5.6. T il ) At the treasury in Washington a counterfeit ten-cent silver piece was discovered. oy : ; - THE EAST. The socialist labor. party mnational committee called a national convention in New York city on July 4 to nominate candidates for president and vice president. | Harry Brown, aged 19; Harry Schaffer, aged 22; Stanley Early, aged 22. and D. M. Cafe, aged 19, were drowned in the river at Pittsburgh, Pa. On the 16th the National league baseball season of 1896 opened, the result by percentages beingasfollows: Brooklyn, 1.000; St. Louis, 1.000; Washington, 1,000; Pittsburgh, 1.000; Boston, 3.000; Chicago, 1,000; New York, .000; Baltimore, .000; Cleveland, .000; Louis- | ville, .000; Cincinnati, .000;* I'hiladelphia, .000. ; | The convicted murderer, H. H. i Holmes, was baptized and received into_ the Catholic church in Philadelphia. The ceremony was performed by Rev. ¥ Jd. Dailey. L |

In convention at Portland Maine republicans elected national delegates instructed to support Reed for the presidency and adopted a platform declaring for protection and the goid standard. ¥

At the age of 64 years John Stetson. proprietor of the Park theater and of the new Hotel Savoy, banker, broker and merchant, died at his home in Boston of pneumonia. ‘- , Republicans renominated Seth L. Milliken for congress in the Third district of Maine and Charles W. Stone in the Twenty-seventh district of Pennsylvania.

Edward and Josephine Courmatine, Lena and Annie Dubois and Rosie Bonnien - (all children) were burned, to death in a tenement-house fire at Turner Falls, Mass. ' In Philadelphia George D. Wetherill & Co.,manufacturers of paints and dealers in window glass, failed for $175,000. For reasons unknown Joseph Daugherty shot his wife, aged 20 years, and then shot himself at Litz, Pa.

WEST AND SOUTH.

“Lily White,” or Melton, faction of the republican party met at Columbus, 8. C., and elected delegates to the national convention who go uninstructed. By the Queen & Crescent train plunging through a trestle bridge eleven passengers were more or less injured near Vossburg, Miss. : At Xenia, 0., Charles Morris, the confessed murderer of Mr. and Mrs. Douthetts, committed suicide when told to get ready to go to Columbus to be hanged. _ :

John G. Carlisle, secretary of the treasury, spoke in Chicago on the financial question, umder the auspices of labor assemblies. He argued in favor of a gold standard, and said the unlimited coinage of silver would create a great panic and that complete commercial revolution would be the result. Thieves wrecked the vault of the Pioneer Banking compauy at Pioneer, 0., and $lO,OOO was secured,

The Colorado democrats in . convention at Denver adopted a platform opposed w 0 bond issues and in favor of free silver and selected delegates to the national ¢s wvention who indorse the plat: form. Seanator Tillman, of Soath Carolina, addressed the gathering. *

Masked men robbed the Farmers’ bank at Maitland, Mo., of $l,OOO. North Dakota republicans in convention at Fargo declared against free silver and elected delegates in favor of MecKinley.

The Missouri democratic state convention at Sedalia lauached Richard P. Bland's boom for the presidential nomination on a free coinage of silver platform and delegates in his favor were elected to the national convention.

In Faulk county, S. D., a tornado wrecked houses at Cresbard, Millard and Burkmere, and in Cresbard two children of E. T. Evans were killed.

Nebraska republicans in convention at Omaha selected four delegates to the national convention and adopted resolutions against the free coinage of silver and indorsing the candidacy of William McKinley for the presidency. Fire wiped out the entire plant of the Michigan Beef & Provision company in Detroit. the loss being $lOO,OOO. Samuel Covington shot and killed Michael Kelleher and Ricbard Williams in a dispute over money at Central City, Col., and was himself shot dead by a pursuing posse. : National Miners in session at Columbus, O:, reelected Philip H. Penna, of Indiana, president. : Republicans in Indiana made the folJowing congressional renominations: George W. Faris, Fifth district; Henry U. Johnson, Sixth district, and Jesse Dverstreet in the Seventh district.

At Bedford City, Va., the First national bank and the Liberty savings ,bank of the same place, the only banks in the town, closed their doors. The Kentucky republicans in convention at Louisville elected national delegates favorable to Gov. Bradley for president. The platform: denounces the free and unlimited coinage of silver and favors protection. . In convention at Lansing, Mich., the prohibitionists elected ‘national delegates and adopted a platform that declares for free silver, prohibition, equal suffrage, liberal pensions, and election of United States senators by the people,

The executive council of the American Federation of Labor have prepared plans: for a monster eight-hour day strike, which is to commence \n Boston May 1 and to extend to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis and all the cities where the force of such a move would be most keenly felt.

-On July 15 the Nebraska populists will hold their state convention at Grand Island.

The death of Edwin Pardridge,a weilknown board of trade operator, occurred at his home in Chicago, aged 69 years. :

Flames at Chandler, the county seat of Lincoln county, O. T., burned the post office and nearly all the business portion of the town. e At Wallace, Mich.,-Andrew Olson and his wife were fatally injured by lightning, and their two little children were killed.

The place of burial of Secretary Gresham will be changed from Oakwoods cemetery in Chicago to Arlington at the national capital. In Vernon county, Wis., a rainstorm swept away many barns and granaries and a large number of cattle, hogs and sheep were drowned. The entire village of Odanah was under watler and great damage wasedone.

In the orchards of the central part of California fruit was severely damaged by frost. In Cincinnati James H. Eckels, comptroller of the currency, addressed an audience of 2,000 business men on the financial question from the gold standard point of view.-

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Dispatches say that the sultan had repealed theorderexpelling the Protestant and Catholic missionaries from Asia Minor. i

Gen. Booth has appointed Miss Eva Bcoth, his youngest daughter, commandant of the Salvation Army in Canada and Newfoundland. e

Advices from Havana say that the insurgents have hanged 22 Spaniards in the Sagua district. Gregorio Borges, Esteban Hernandex and Jose Bacallao were executed at Havana because they belonged to an ine surgent band. = - e :

LATER NEWS.

The percentages of the Laseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 19th were as follows: Washington, .667; Pittsburgh, .667; Birooklyn, .667; Cleveland, .667; Philadelphia, .667; St. Louis, .500; Chicago, -500; New York, .333; Boston, .333; Baltimore, .333; Louisville, .250. : The Conway Cabinet company made an assignment in Milwaukee with liabilities of $130,000. - By an explosion in the Broadwater mine at Niehart, Mont., seven men lost their lives and six others were seriously burt. :

Powell & Hollingsworth’s tobacco factory and 12 residences were burned at Trinceton, Ky. -

The fishing schooner J. W. Campbell of Gloucester, Mass., went down in a squall on Long Island sound and nine of the ablest sailors from that port lost their lives.

The river front at Evansville, Ind., was swept by fire, the loss being $lOO,OGOO. )

Four men working in the slopeof the Eddy Creek colliery near Olyphant, Pa,, were instantly killed by the ground caving in. Arthur I. Boreman, the last of the war governors of West Virgimia, died at his hcme in Parkersburg, aged 73 years. The works of the Dauntless Bicycle company. and Baker Brothers machine factory were burned at Toledo, 0., the total loss being $200,000.

In the suburbs of }I avana 12 unarmed Cubans were shot and 11 were wounded by Spanish soldiex%\ Willard lves, a mewber of congress in 1852 and a well-known banker and philanthropist, died at his home in Watertown, N. Y., aged-90 years. Mrs. Bell, for cruelty to her two grandchildren, was sentenced in Ot~ tawa, Ont,, to life imprisonment, It was said that Spain was on the brink of a revolution, the receunt election. frauds inaugurated in the government's favor having increased the number of maleontents immensely. Mrs. Apolonia Pecher died in Mishawaka, Ind,, aged 101 years. Washington, April 20.—The senate was not in session on Saturday. In the house the general deficiency bill ($4,791,340), the last of the regular appropriation bills for this session, was res ported, Several bills to donate con--demned cannon to G. A. R. posts were passed and tributes were paid to thé ‘memory of the late Representative Cogswell, of Massachusetts,

T 1 ’ CARLISLE’S ADDRESS. Becretary of the Treasury Talks Money to Workingmen. Chicago’s Great Auditorlum Crowded with People Eager to Hear the Views of the Administration’s Representative on Currency and Finances. Chicago, April 16.«—-E§ery one of the §,OOO geats in Chicago’s great Auditorium was filled Wednesday night with people who came to hear the address of Secretary Carlisle on currency and finance. Several hundred people stood through the entire address and several hundred more went away, being unable to gain admittance.

The stage was occupied bg about 200 officers of Chicago trades and labor assemblies, at whose invitation Mr. Carlisle came to Chicago. M. J. Carroll, editor of the Eight-Hour Hecrald, presided.

Mr. Carroll said it was the desire of the laboring people of Chicago to hear some plain, intelligent truths regarding the currenc¥ question, and that the secretary of the United States treasury had been selected as the most fit person for giving the information wanted. He referied to the late Horr-Harvey debate on the silver question, and said that nothing had been learned from it, and that the labor people were still undecided as to whether silver could be coined free without detriment to the credit and financial standing of the country. He then introduced Mr. Carlisle. Mr. Carlisle called attention to the fact that the workingmen, more than all others, should insist upon a policy that will preserve the value and stability of all our currency and gromote the profitable conduct of our industrial enterprises, for it is his home and his family that will suffer from the effects of a cheap currency that will increase the price of commodities more than the wealthy capitakist. A goor man has nothing to dispose of but his labor, and nothing with which to support himself or his family but his wages or the proceeds of his own labor. Any policy that even temporarily suspends or obstructs the industrial progress, by diminishing the demand for the products of labor, must be injurious to his interests and inflict suffering upon all who depend upon him.

_ Whether we shail or shall not have a long period of financial, commercial and Industrial depression in this country is a question directly and necessarily involved in the demand now seriously made by many of our fellow-citizens that the United States, without the cooperation of any other government in the world, shall authorize the free and unlimited coinage of full legal tender silver at the ratio of sixteen to one, notwithstanding the true market ratio between the two metals is about thirty to one. The naked proposition is that the United States shall coin, at the public expense, for the exclusive benefit nf the individuals and corporations owning the bullion, all the silver that may be ¥resented at the mints into dollars conaining 37114 grains of pure silver, or 41215 grains of standard silver, worth intrinsically about 51 or 52 cents, deliver the coins to the depositors of the bullion and compel all the other people in the ,countrty to receive these coins at a valuation of 100 cents each in payment of debts due them. Its immediate effect wtguld be to contract: our currency to the extent of about $620,000,000 by stopping the use of gold as money and putting a premium upon gold coins about equal to the difference between the intrinsic value of the gold dollar and the intrinsic value of the silvéer dollar. Gold coins would at once become a commodity and would be bought and sold by speculators in the market. It would cease to be used as money, because no man would pay in gold, or in paper redeemable in gold. worth 100 cents, when the law permitted him to pay it in silver, worth only 51 or 52 cents on the dollar. The expulsion of $620,000,000 would itself be sufficient to create a financial disturbance unparalleled in history. But not only would our currency be reduced to two-thirds its present volume, this that was left would be so depreciated in value that it would require about twice as much as we now have te transact the business of the country, provided there should be any business to transact. After struggling for more than a quarter of a century, through labor organizations and otherwise, to secure a rate of ‘wages which would make the proceeds of a day’s work equal the cost of a day‘s subsistence for the workingman and hia family, you are asked by the advocates of free coinage to join them in destroying one-half the purchasing power of the money in which you are paid and impose upon yourselves the task of doubling the nominal amount of your wages hereafter; that is, to struggle for another quarter of a century, or perhaps longer. to raise your wages jin a dex;reciated currency to a point which will enable you to purchase with them as much of the necessaries of life as you can purchase now; and if, after Years of contention, privation and industrial disorder, you should at last succeed in so adjusting wages that you would procure at the higher prices of commodities just what they will procure now at the existing prices, what would you have gained by the change from the old to the new conditions? : 1f the solution of tﬂ!s question affected only the character and amount and purchasing power of the future earnings of the American laborer, it would still he g subject of the gravest importance to hir; but its importance is greatly increased by the fact that the safety and value of g very considerable part of his past earnings are also involved.

The banks, trust companies, building asgociations and other similar’ institutions, owe the people of the United States to-day §5,353,183,021 for money acually deposited, a sum_ nearly eight tiires greater than the total capital of the national banks in the country; while the life insurance policies . held by the peogle in the various kinds of corporations and associations and in fi.ce to-day amount to §510,203,804,357. a largsr sum than has been actually invested in all our railroads and about 15 times largerﬁ than the capital of all the national banhs. In view of these facts, which cannot be successfully disputed, I submit that you ought seriously to consider all the consequences to “yourselves and your fellowcitizens before you agree to the free and unlimited coinage of l-gal tender silver at & ratio of sixteen to one, in order that these great corporations and associations may have the privilege of discharging their debts to the people by paying 51 to 52 cents on the dollar, for that is exactly what | it means. s

But if free and unlimited coinage of legal tender silver at the ratio of sixteen ta one is established in this countg, a very large part of the money deposited in thesa varjous kinds of savings institutions will not even bhe repaid in de%reclated silver, but will be wholly lost, because such a reckless monetary system would precipitate a financial panic, which very few, if any, of the depositories could survive. 1 doubt if there is a single financial institution in the country that could sustain the pressure that would be immediately made upon it by its depositors and other creditors, when it became apparent that our standard of value was to be lowered and our currency depreciated by free coinage. L L

J.ess than three years ago you saw our financial, commercial and industrial affairs violently disturbed by the fear that the government would .ot be able to maintain gold payments, and that our currency would descend to a silver basis. If a mere doubt as to the kind of money we intended to use produced these distressing results, what think you would be thedprobable consequences of a deliberate determination upor the part of our people to adopt:silver monometallism as a permanent system?

The greatest crime short of absolute political enslavement that could be committed against the workingman in this country would be to confiscate his labor for the benefit of the employer by destroying the value of the money in which his wa%es are paid; but, gentlemen, this irreparahle wrong can never be -perpetuated under our system of government unless the laboring man himself assists in forging his owm chadng, 000 ! National Congress of Religious Education. Washington, April 18.—The first national congress of religious education, under the American society devoted to that cause, will be held in this city, beginning Monday evening next and continuing until Thursday afternoon. . Associated with the officers of the society in the call for the congress is a committee representing seven of the leading denominations, including, besides prominent pastors, Justice Brewer, of the supreme court; Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, secretary ot the navy; J. L. McCurry, ex-minister to Spain. .

Seeks Heavy Damages.

Chicago, April 17.—Edward S. Richards filed a suit for $1,000,000 damages in the federal court Wednesday uguinst tie Grand Trunk railroad, alleging infringement on his patent grain-trans-ferring apparatus. The bill complains that the railroad'is using his invention without paying him any royalty.

~ Made a New Re;:;r:l.

Boston, April 15. — Ives defeated Maurice Daly in the international billigrd tournament yesterday and made @ new record for a run on cushion earoms, scoring 85 points against 77, the previous record; ; '

| AN AID TO TRADE. Seasonable Weather Brings Improvement ; .+ -in Business. . New York, April 18.—R. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly review of trade say: ‘““The sudden change from sleighing to midsummer heat has tested the prevalent idea that good weather only was needed to bring general improvement of business. Everywhere there has been more retail buying and in some branches better demand at wholesale and at the works has resulted, but not as yet in most lines. There is no abatemeant of the almost universal disposition to deal with unusual conservatism and not to anticipate future wants, and this has been especially conspicuous where combinations have been formed or prices advanced. ‘T'o many interested indiron ore and coke, steel billets, Bessemer pig and various forms of steel, it may be disappointing that the forming of combinations and fixing of prices have not started again the rush to buy ahead of needs, which made last year so memorable. But it is not easy to forget the lesson which the past year taught. Instead of ircreasing, purchases have been on the whole rather slackened, though a little betterin plates at the east and in sheets at Chicago. ‘The boot and shoe makers have put some quotations a shadelowersinceleather has fallen below the average a year ago, and hides at the lowest average since November, 1894, having declined three per cent. this week. The northern and northwestern demand is backward, though che south has bought freely. The silk.association states that 40 per cent. of the machinery and hands in the country are idle, purt1y because of increasing Japanese competition, Several more woolen mills have shut down and some have reduced wages ten per cent., while many are working only half time, but recent advances by appraisers not only disclose heavy undervaluations in the past, but tend to check future imports. The demand for goods does not improve. Somewhat more demand for staple cottons has been aroused by bargain prices, but the closing of many mills for a time is urged as necessary. ‘““Wheat rose about five cents last week, met some reaction, but is a shade higher than a week ago. After remaining unchanged for many days, rumors either way having no effect, cotton rose a sixteenth on Thursday. Heavy commercial and mill stocks hinder most buyers, and possibilities of injury. to the coming crop retard sellers at current prices. ! ‘“‘Partly because of low prices, which were again the lowest ever known, the volume of business represented by clear-ing-house exchanges, 6.5 per cent. larger than last year, is 20.4 per cent. smaller than in April, 1893. Rallroad earnings for April thus far show a gain of only 2.6 per cent. over last year. The stock market has grown stronger on stories about things done abroad, a few foreign purchases helping, though trusts weakened on. the sign-' ing of an anti-trust law by Gov. Morton.

“March imports were $3,912,455 smaller, and exports $12,366,107 larger than last year, and the excess of exports was $9,144,015. “Failures for.the past: week have been 223 in the United States, against 241 last year and 36 in Canada, against 3¢ last year.” :

ED. PARDRIDGE DEAD.

Noted Wheat Speculator Passes Away at | Chicago.

Chicago, April 18.—Edwin Pardridge, of the board of trade firm of C. W. & E. Pardridge, the reigning king of plungers in the wheat pit, died Friday morning at his Prairie avenue residence of Bright's disease, after an acute illness cof ten days. He was 60 years old. He leaves a widow and five children. [Mr. Pardridge was born in Durhamville, N. Y., and was a prominent dry goods merchant here 30 years ago. He first came into prominence on the¢ board of trade as a bear in the wheat market about 15 years ago, and is reputed to have made and lost several fortunes since that time. He distributed much of his wealth among his family, and died worth over $500,000. IYe lost a fortune a year and a half ago and was compelled to sell a State street store building for $750,000 to provide himself with ready money after he had scraped together several hundred thousand dollars to keep pace with the rising wheat market. 'Che plunger determined to hypothecate his real estate, which was worth several millions of dollars, but fortunately for him his wife was in Europe and mortgages were valueless as collateral without her signature. This chance saved him from utter ruin and he ordered his brokers to. cover his short wheat. His gains in one year were estimated by conservative operators at $1,500,000 and his losses in memorahle squeezes were from $600,000 to $BOO,OOO. He was always a bear speculator and was admitted to be the largest trader who had ever operated on the Chicago board. In one hour he was short 15,000,000 bushels of wheat and there were many anxious faces in the pit. The market rose five, eight and ten cents, hut the Napoleon of the bears stood out on the greater part of his 15,000,000. He predicted a rapid decline of the bolstered market and it came so quickly there was no cover left for the bulls. The fortune he made thereby was the biggest one man had ever taken from ‘the market. During the world’s fair he sold 20,000,000 bushels of wheat witheut having one bushel to deliver, and he beat “old Hutch” in gambling on the future price.]

SLEW HIS BABES. lleartless Deed of a Mentally-Deranged . Chicagoan. Chicago, April 15.—John Lehman, a driver for the Chicago & West Division Street Railway company, killed his three children Tuesday night and then committed suicide. Lehman, though only 38 years old, was possessed with the idea that he was growing aged, and, being in poor health, has been despondent for many weeks past. He was fond of his children, and, while he had over $1,500 saved and in bank, he was afraid he would die and his little ones would not be properly provided for. Tuesday night he carritd out a ca:e-fully-laid plan and killed his children and then shot himself. : Ives Defeats Schaefer. Boston, April 18.—The cushiou carom billiard tournament was . concluded here Friday night, the finsl game being between Frank Ives and Jake Schaefer. Ives won by a score of 3CO to £B4, and therefore is the cushion carom champion of the world. It {ook 69 innings to @ecide the battle. Ives’ highest run was 30; Schaefer’s, 26; averages: Ives, 4 3869; Schaefer, 4 22-68. 1 Held Up a Street Car.. ~ Chicago, April 17. — Half a dozen thugs held up and robbed the conductor of an electric car on Chicago avenue in the midst of the evening’s heaviest tratfic. The motorman was beaten almost into insensibility, the car windows smashed and the conductor -himseif hurled over a dashboard. The passengers fled in terror. : : : Mayor’s Vetoes Ignored. Albany, N. Y., April 17.—The New York senate has passed the Greater New York bill over the mayoralty vetoes. The measure will be aeted on by the house next week. i To Reorganize the Army. Washington, April 17.—The senats committee on military affairs has ordered a favorable report on the bill for ‘the reorganization of the army. It provides for the enlistment of 30,000 men, seven regiments of artillery, ten regi‘ments of cavalry and 25 regiments of fofantey, oo 00 i 4 __Countertelt Ten-Cent Plece. e Washington, .;xag Is.-;qupupterféic ten-cent silver piece was discovered ut heavier ?mi the genuine and the lie upon which it was struck is not clean cut as In theoriginal,

ON MY LADY'S SILVER TABLE

Venice and northern Italy are inexhaustible fields for the hunter of silver curios. Filigree silver work made into necklaces, pipes and toys is very beautiful. |

The most highly prized siljver toys come from far India. Those fortunate women who have been to that country bring back a collection of heathen idols, boats, lamps, statuettes of g"irl’s- and women, solid silver arklets and nose and ear rings. The first thing on the table mustbe a silver lamp, preferably a Roman or Grecian antique. Candlesticks are not admitted unless they are very tiny. Photograph frames of rich repousse work are allowed, but the pictures they contain must be very handsome.

Little silver sofas, chairs, {mirrors, windmills and what-not may be grouped together on one corner of the table; richly embossed silver boxes sometimes big enough to hold cigarettes stand near, a miniature Russian sleigh with tassels and laprobes and a driver scarcely discernible holding the reins over horses not larger than mosquitoes is another coveied curio. i

ETIQUETTE POINTS FOR% GiRLS.

In entering a house the lédy?precedes the gentleman. |

It is not considered good f%rm for a girl of 16 to wear diamonds. |

The gentleman is presenteid to the lady, and not the lady to the gentleman.

Ices, wafers:and lemouadeg form a suitable collation for a small entertainment. . !

The announcement of an engagement usually comes from the mother of the young lady. o

It is never proper for a girl to accept presents from a young man unless he is betrothed to her. ! Lo

In meeting one’s betrotheh on the street one should bow pleasantly as one would to any other gentleman. When one’s pardon is asked for some slight inattention an inclination of the head and a smile is the best answer. When there are several callers, either ladies or gentlemen, those that come first should, as a rule, leayve first.

It is in very bad taste for a young woman to eat candy during a theatrical performance, or, indeed, in any public place. f

THERE is more Catarrh in thissection of the countrg than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years wassupposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors £ronounced it alocal disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with,local treatment, pronouncedit incurable. Sciencehas proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F.J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. I%t acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the svstem. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails tocure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold b{)Druggists, sc. Hall’s Family Pills are the best.

‘I sHORE does hope,” said Uncle Mose, “dat dey will git dis heah new photograph trick so fine %;y summer dat man kin tell “;‘eldder melon is ripe.”—lndianapolis Journal. E

A Spring Trip South.

On April 7 and 2i, and May 5, tickets will be sold from principal cities, towns and villages of the north, to all Yoints on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and a portion. of Kentucky, at one sin%e fare for the round trip. Tickets will be good to return within twenty-one days, on payment of $2 to agent at destination, and will allow stop-over at any point on the south bound trip. Ask your ticket agent about it, and if he cannot sell gou execursion tickets write to C. P. Atmore, General Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky., or J. K. Ridgely, N. W. P. A, Chicago, IIL

“I'LL kiss (f'ou for my sister’s sake.” ‘‘Pray, don’t forget yourself,!” she said. I strm%;ltway took her at her word And kissed her for myself iusteaé. ,——Truth. Half Fare to Virginia and Carolina. April2l and May 5 Homeseekers’ Excursion tickets will be sold from all points in the west and northwest over the!‘Big ¥our Route’” and Chesapeake and Ohio Ry. to Virginia and North Carolina at one fare forthe round trip. Settlers looking for a home in the south can do no better than in Virginia. There they have cheap farm lands, no bliz- ' zards, no cyclones, mild winters, never failing crops, cheag transportation and the best - markets. Send for free descriptive pamph~let, excursion rates and time folders. -U. L. Truirt, N.W.P. A., 234 Clark St.,Chicago,llL Are You Going to Cripple Creek ? The Santa Fe Route is fhe most direct and only through broad-gauge line from Chi.cago andy Kansas City to the celebrated Cripple Creek gold mining district. Luxurious Pullmans, free reclining chair cars, fastest time and low rates. : A profusely itlustrated book, descriptive of Cripple Creek, will be mailed free of charge on application to G T. Nicholson, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, or a copy may be obtained from any agent of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. e g HoRrACE appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight as supposed to g{roceed from judgment, 'not from passion.—Y oung. ’ — e ———— s Better Than Refined Geold Is bodily comfort. This unspeakable boon is denied to many unfortunates for whose ailments Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is a promptly helpful remedy. The dyspeptic, the rheumatic, the nervous, persons troubled with *biliousness or chiﬁg and fever, should lose no time in availing theinselves of this comprehensive and genial medicine: It promotes appetitc ard nightly slumber. - e ————— e —— # CoRROBORATED.—New Yorker—“ Are Philadelphians as slow as New Yorkers think they are?’ Philadelphian (surprised)— ‘Do New Yorkers think we're slow?-~Truth. st S ——— ! | A Chlld Enjoys | The pleasant flavor, gentle action, and soothing effect of Syrup of Figs, when in need of alaxative, and if the father or xgxother be cpstive or bilious, the most gratifying results follow its use; so that it is {he best familg reméd{oknown and every family should have a bottle. Piieea : ey Miss DE PLAalN—¢Doctor, what is the secret of beauty?’ Family Physician (confidentially)—‘‘Be born - pretty.”—N. V.| Weekly. - _ S . WaxTED—Reliable men to take the agency for our pianos and getgans in eve’:rgecounty notalready represented. Money can be made. Quly men of good habits who can give firstclass references need aggly. Address Estey & Caxr, No. 233 State Bt., Chicago, 111, ¥ e . } Taere are in business three things necessary—knowledge, temper and time.—Feltham. el : . MoVicker's Theater, Chlel':io.; trat%?l?:y' April ﬁtsh. 'l'hos.l -g/V, -Keene, tﬂ;; agedian, us his annual engagemen two ‘weeksm can be secured ;'gy ?Qﬂ. : l

Tae secret of success in modern art is to be crazy in an original way.—Fliegende Blaetter, ‘ Firs stopped free by Dr. Kline's (ireat. Nerve Restorer, No fits a.fterﬂ‘flt day’suse, Marvelous cures. Treatise and §2 trial bottle free. Dr, Kline, 981 Arch Bt., Phila,, Pa. : ? S——————— ! y : Trn best hearts, Trim, are over the bravest, replied my Uncle 'roby.,-smu <

. “THOU hast a pretty wit,” quoth the monarch. ‘‘Aye, and a dry humor,” replied she jester. ‘Whereupon the king pushed the button.—Philadelphia Record. : ; Dip fyo.h write The N. G. Hamilton Pub. Co., of Clevetand, Ohio, about their Life of McKinley! Better do so—chance to make money rapidly. ; ‘EvEN from the body’s purity the mind receives a secret, sympathetic aid.—Thomson. e e e He—*Do you believe in love at first sight?’ Miss Thirty-Eight—*l believe in any kind of love.”’—Bomerville Journal, *THE measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen.—Lamb. - m - Spring Your blood'in Spring is almost certain to be full of impurities—the accumulation . of the winter months. Bad ventilation " of sleeping rooms, impure air in dwellings, factories and shops, over-eating, heavy, improper foods, failure of the kidneys and liver properly to do extra work thus tbrust upon them, are the prime causes of this condition. It isof the utmost. importance that you

l :- f . our DIOO Now, a 8 when warmer weather comes and the tonic effect of cold bracing air is © gome, your weak, thin, impure blood - will not furnish necessary strength. That tired feeling, loss of appetite, will " open the way for serious disease, ruined health, or breaking out .of humors and: impurities. To make pure, rich, red blood Hood's Sarsaparilla stands unequalled. . Thousands -testify to its merits. - Millions take it as their Spring Medicine. Get Hood’s, because . ‘ v . . Sarsaparilla Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. Bsl. Prepared only by C. 1. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. ’ 1 are the X HOOd S P l"S wlthli{o%%%g ggx}ssim?l: ASK YOUR DEALER FOR | W. L. DoucLas $3. SHOE Bs\JokloTHE If you pay 84 to 86 for shoes, examine the W. L. Douglas Shoe, and s 3 see what a good shoe you can buy for = OVER 100 STYLES AND WIDTHS, ol CONGRESS, BUTTON, and LACE, made in all = kinds of the best selected S i | leather by skilled work;e men. We N ‘ make and . -;ﬁ,. R sell more céz&%/ :’3 Shoes : ;’ ANy M §\“‘,\\\\\\' s N ot,her fl3 manufacturer in the world, Sy ) None genuine unless name and 3y - price is stamped on the bottom. ¥ Ask your dealer for our 85, /; “‘-, ¥ 84, 83.50, 82.50, $2.25 Shoes; /o g|’ 82.50, 82 and $1.75 for boys. ; TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. If yourdealer cannot supply you, send to fac- : tory, enclosing price and 36 cents FRAGRE to pay carriage.” State kind, style . of toe Bap or plain), size and r width. Our Custom Dept. will fill Bzl e'our order, Send for new Illus- ©” i rated Catalogue to Box R. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. The Greatest Medical Discovery . of the Age. / KENNEDY'’S MEDICAL DISGOVERY. DONALD KENNEDY, of ROXBURY, MASS.,: Has discovered in one of our common asture weeds a remedy that cures every Eind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula down to a common Pimple. He has tried it in over eleven hundred cases, and never failed excel;])tin two cases ¢both thunder humor.). Hehasnow in his possession over two -hundred certificates of its value, all within, twenty miles of Boston. Send postal card for book. - A benefit is always experienced from the first bottle, and a perfect cure is warranted when the right quantity is taken. : When the lungs are affected it causes shooting pains, like needles f_assmg through them; the same with the Liver or Bowels. . ’ghis lés claused gy the ducts being stopped, and always disappears In a, Wégek a?tgr t’aking it . ﬁead th%plabel.‘ : If the stomach is foul or bilious it will cause squeamish feelings at first. No change of diet ever necessary. Eat the best you can get, and enough of it. Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bed= time. Sold by all Druggists.

‘For your Pratecﬂonc ATAR RH we positively state that this remedy does not contain mercury or any ‘» ELy’S other injurious drug. Caq EAMBAL“ Nasal Catarrh is a local Ro,,‘l'qQ CURESCOLD disease and is the re- &’co‘ta?” NN sult of colds and sud- W'FEVER 3 EAD den climatic changes. W » 9@ §’ : ELY's B Yy CREAM BALN T~ ol Rt idacartiie ANSS ain an niaammation, j neuis we seres, e COLD 'n HEAD from Colds, Restores the Senses of Taste and smell. The Balm is quickly absorbed and gives reiief at once. Price 50 cents at Druggists or by mail. . - ELY BROTHERS, 56 Wirren Street, New York. A SHINING EXAMPLE of what may be accomplished by never varying devotion to.a single purpose is seen in the history of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., Chicago. For 65 years they have simply been building grain and grass-cutting machinery, and while there are probably forty manufacturers in this line, it is safe ‘to say that the McCormick Company builds one-third of all the binders, reapers and mowers used throughout the entire world. : . That the best line from Chicago : to Cripslq Creek, Colo., and all Lo XoTel N iontn &on b B VIR ‘f"a. ’“.\ @ ,'i _»(3 ~“ rat ,ﬁ ‘Possenger Department, 101 Adams Street, Mar~ {@uette Bullding, Chicago, Illinole o e A e e T s O e B e e R