Ligonier Banner., Volume 32, Number 43, Ligonier, Noble County, 27 January 1898 — Page 6

: PON'T WORRY, DEAR. Pon’t worry, dear; the bleakest years That clog the forward view, . ¥ ~Each thins to nothing when it nears, ; And we'may saunter through. ; he darkest moment neyer comes, -1t only looms before; : The loss of hope is what benumbs, Not trouble at the door.. 2: : = Pon’t worry, dear; the clouds are black, ~ But with them comes the rain, ‘And stifled souls that parch and crack -May thriil with sap again. .The burden bear as best we can, ~ And there’ll be none to bear; Hard work has never killed a man, - But worry did its share. - ; Don’t worry, dear; don’t blanch, don’t yield, -- But dare the years to come; ‘Nor give the enemy the field . Because he beats his drum. . [ ;. These little woes that hover near y - Are nothing, though they gall; T We know that life is love, my dear, - And life and love are all. il —Samue} Merwin. in Youth'g_’Companion. . 3%o‘o@o@..\o@.‘.’: : Qi ° : : Unexpected Friendship. s ® i o @ /BY THOS. P. MONTFORT. o 9@o@.@“oo‘.@“‘@.

NE Sunday morning in August, in O the year<lB7o, a very aged and feeble woman crouched in the tall grassat the side of a road which rar across a stretch of wild Kansas prairie.. She was poorly clad in worn and faded garments, and her pinched features and emaciated Body told all too plainly that she had suffered for want of food. -She presented a touching-and pathetic appearance, sitting there all alone on the open prairie, with the hot sun beating mercilessly down on her head, and her aged form drooping and trembling under the burden of eares that had f_éllen to her lot. g : :

Presently the Sabbath stillness was broken by a wild, unearthly shout that came from away off to the north. In- " stantly a dozen other shouts,equally as wild and unearthly, followed. The poor old woman started up in alarm and, ‘looked fearfully out from her shelterin the grass. A half mile away up the road she saw a small body of men on horsehack galloping down in her direc‘tion. ‘Her eyes were weak and dim, and - she could not make out much about them at that distance, but she knew from ihose shouts who they were. i With an expression of fear on . her face, she shrank back in the grass and: .tried to hide. Agaihthere came to her _ears a series of those hideous shouts. - She put her hand to her heart, and her ~eyes filled with tears and her lip quiv_ered:’ ; - ’ ' . *lt’s those -dreadful cowboys,” she ‘gasped, “and they're coming right this way. Oh, I wish I'coyld thide. They’re so mean and I'm so afraid of them. It would be justlikethem to shoot me or. | ride over me.” o L She looked eagerly around, but thege was n 6 place to hide. Then she tried §o get up and run away, but she trembled so that she could not stand. She sank back helplessly ‘and sat quaking with ,alarm. Presently a half dozen men galloped up, and, seeing her, came to a halt. They were cowboys, rigged outin their Sunday attire, going to town for a day of it. They stood for a little while gazing at her in silent astonishment, while she east furtive, timid glances at ‘them. Finally ‘one of the cowboys, a grizzled, bearded'‘old fellow, spoke to the woman. . . n “What in the name of blazes,” he exclaimed, “are you doing out here?” | She looked up at the speaker, but did _not reply. Shewas too terrified to utter . a 2 word. After the lapse of a moment one of the cowboys said: ~ ““I recken, Sime, that maybe she’s squatting on-this claim.” : : *‘Of course she’ssquattingonit,” Sime replied. “We can all see she’s doing el G , - “I mean maybe she’s going to take it up amd settle on it,” the other explained. “If she is you’d better run her off, you're so poison fond of chasing settlers off government land.” yi “No, na,” the woman said, hastily, “you’re mistaken. I'm not-a squatter and I don’t want to take up any claim. I just stopped to rest awhile, and if you - won’t hurt me I'll go away directly. I will surels = v oo e | The _cow.boy%exchanged.a glance and then smiled. Directly Sime said: “Look here, aunty, you haven’t got a riotion that were’re going to hurt you, I hope?” | . fis ey “Cowboys ain’t like setflers,” she said, “and I was afraid you would think I wanted to take up a claim.”, - ' ~ old Sime laughed. " D “I reckon,” he replied, “youn couldn’t _take up enovigh land to break up the ‘cattle business entirely. But, serious--Iy, aunty, ‘what are ybu doing out here like this, anyway ?” 5 s “I'm going to town,” she piped in her thin, quavering voice, “t 6 get myself - put on the county.. ITain’t got anyhome _ or friends any more, nor any money.” A pitying expression came ‘into old - Rime’s .face, and when he spoke again his voice wasigentler than it had been.

- *Thatls a bad condition to be in.,” he gaid. “a mighty bad condition, sure.” “Yes, it is,” she agreed, “and it hurts _ me sorely, fot I never expected to live 15 come to such a pags. When my old “‘man and ¥ came to §ans‘as we had a ~ little money, and we calculated to get " us a claim and build a nice little home. - tolivethe halance of our days. But now he’s.dead ‘and I'm homeless and penni~less. Ohjit's bitter, bitter!”? - L - **How did it happen you didn’t get a - Bome?” Sime asked. e “We tdok: up one claim and built us a house, but 'some cowhoys came along < and-drove ms off,” she said. “They claimed we were on their range, but if nve were we liad a right to be there, for it was government land. Then we stopped on another claim and planted a crop, but some more cowboys drove their cattle into our ficld and destroyed our corn and wheat.” . L _ “Onery, sneaking- cusses!” Sime ob‘gerved in a Tew voice. e ) s~ “After that,” the woman went on, ~ %“we came down here and took another i elaim, .’flze cowboys didn’t botherusany _ more, but it was' tbo late to raise any ~ érop and our money was pretty nearly sl gone. Then my husband took down ith malaria and was sick a long. time. .. Toh@ninnct of gut inimey,soon weat, *m ,gk c“ ‘ffia -n ‘9l‘, ‘ s \ "

“He’d swindled you, then?” Simesaid. “Yes, and got everything I had. I didn’t know anything to do only to try and get on the county, so I started this morning to walk to town, but I gave out when I got this far and I had to sitdown and rest. Seems like I'm not muck account any more. If you won’t botker me, though, T'll go on directly.” . “Aunty,” Sime said, “don’t you be uneasy about us bothering you. We may: be tough, but we ain’t exactly heathens, One thing I want you to do, though, and that is to tell us the name of that man who beat you out of your claim.” : “It is Lige Russell,” she answered. " “I know him,” Sime said. “Jake,” he continu(%d. turning to one of his eompanions, “I want you to go -over to Russell’s with me, while the rest of the boys wait here with aunty.” “What are you going to Russell’s for?” Jake inquired. v . “To see if we can’t persuadehim to do the right thing in this business,: That claim’s worth at least $500.” :

“Guess ‘l_t"v-is“:,;’ ‘Jake admitted, “put that don’t signify that Russell will pay that much for it.”

“*Well, that’s all right. T'll see if he’s not open 'to argument, and .if one kind of reasoning won’t go maybe another kind will.” s ST .

Sime whirled his horse about, and he and'Jake galloped away ’‘across the prairie. After a little less than an hour’s ride they reined up at Russell’s gate. A stentorian “hello,” or two brought Russell‘'to the door. Sime saidr ! “Mr. Russell; we want to talk with you on a little matter of business.” ° - “I-never talk business on Sunday,” Russell replied. . “Too pious, eh?” : - “I hope so, sir.” ~ “But not too pious to turn a poor old woman out on the world on Sunday after robbing her of her last dollar.” * “Sir, what do you mean?” “Just what I say. Mr. Russell, and you know well enough what it is. 1 want you to pay that woman the balance of the money on her claim.” : ‘I shall not do it. The claim is-mine.” Tt is worth five times what you paid.” ;. “It is, but that’s none of your busipess.” : “I propose to make it my business. You have got to pay that money and keep that poor old woman off the county : - “Who's going t 6 make me pay it?” “I am-’! - “How, I"d like to know ?” “You know what cowboys sometimes do to settlers, Ireckon? You know how they pasture their cattle on settler’s crops and burn the settler’s hay and all that sort of thing, don’t you?” ] “Yes, but what of it?” i “There’s just this much of it, Mr. Rus~ sell. Unless you do the fair thing by that woman all those things will happen to you, and you will lose ten times as much as you have swindled her out of.” “Do you mean to threaten me, sir?” Russell thundered. v *“Oh, no,” Sime replied calmly. “I am not threatening you. Nothing of the sort. ‘T am only telling you what I. feel in my bones is going to happen; and I want to say to you that when I feel a thing like that in my bones it generally comes to pass just so. I'll bet my head that if you don’t pay that woman $3OO more money you won’t raise a sign of a crop, and all your hay.will be burned up. Come. now, which shall it be?” Russell knew the man he had to deal with, and he knew that to gain the ill will of a gang of cowboys was no very desirable thing. So, after hemming and hawing for awhile, he at last paid old Sime $3OO for the woman. But as he did so he made a very wry face, for though he was wealthy he was as close-fisted as a miser.

- Sime and Jake galloped back, put the money into the woman’s hands, and then took her on to town. She rode behind Sime on his horse, and before the journey was over she had quite recovered from all her fear of the cowboys. “It was very good of you to get all of this money for me,” she said. “I reckon cowboys ain’t all so mean as those we used to know. I know you men ain’t mean, anyhow.” “We ain’t angels, ma’am,” Sime replied. ‘“Not by a good deal.” “You’re ‘good: men and I like you,” she said. “You have kept me from going on the county, and you don’t know what a relief that is.” They were all silent for a moment. Then Sime said: ‘ ““What will you do now, aunty?” - “I've been thinking about that,” she replied, “and I reckon maybe I’d better go back east to my old home. I have friends back there; you know.” - “A good idea,” Stme satd. “You'll be better off back there.” . They escorted her to the station in a body, purchased her a ticket and saw her on the train. ‘Then they stood on ‘the platform about the window where she sat and talked with her while the train waited. Just ‘pef?re she started she remarked to them with tears in her eyes: - = . : 1

“I'm never going to think so hard of cowbqys any more. I'lltry tolike them all on your account, and Ilove all of you because you have been good friends to me and made me the happiest creature cn earth.” God bless you.” ' The train moved away, but the cowboys stood looking ' after it, feeling happier, for some, reason, than they had felt for a yéar.—Detroit Free Press.

!}leadi Made Frosting.

It is sometimes convénient to have icing on hand for cakes. This can be done by preparing a simple foudant icing. of a pound of sugar, boiled to “the ball,” with a cup of water. Cook the sirup in a bright granite-ware saucepan. When a drop rolled between the finger and- the thumb becomes a creamy ball, remove the saucepan from the fire. When the sirup has cooled enough to bear one’s finger in it, begin to stir it, and after it has become smooth and white, and of the consistency of lard, begin to knead. When it has been well kneaded press it into an earthen jar; cover it with well-oiled paper and set it away. It will keep about a month, but after that time it soon becomes too stale for use. When thisicing is needed for cake, set a little ir a bowl in boiling water, and when it is‘nrel(;?d_ pour it over the cake and quickly spread it on smoothly and evenly. It will ‘harden rapidly—N. Y. Tribune. o e e | 'Lost Their Heads. _ Bildad—Was youruncle’s willbitterly flested?.. . e roou el msgfi Whay actuals M%‘W

- NOMINATION CONFIRMED. Senate Seats Joseph McKenna on Supreme Bench. - Washington, Jan. 22.—The senate on Friday confirmed the nomination of Joseph McKenna to be associate justice of the supreme court of the United States. In the executive session Senator Allen (pop., Neb.) had before him the charges filed with the committee on judiciary, which he read at length. These comprised a large number of letters, some resolutions and the protest of lawyers and judges of the Pacific coast charging that McKenna is un-

-e : 4 77 ~Z-«':{z‘ : ey w . : \B A : N %/ A g I)t\\g 22N il : W < —W’ == 7\ e, = G 1 v A SN N = ‘ X~ gl , | /] JOSEPH M'KENNA. Sl e fitted for the high office of supreme court justice on the ground of a want of legal attainments. He commented at length upon this latter document and was interrupted by Senator Perkins (Cal.), who read a published defense of Judge McKenna, giving statistics to show that he had not, as judge of the California federal court, been more frequently reversed by superior tribunals than had other judges of the same rank. Senator Allen did not insist upon a roll | call when the vote was taken and the vote was overwhelmingly favorable to confirmation. | o 'AGREEMENT REACHED. Outline of Basis of Settlement Between Germany and China. Washington, Jan. 19.—A, cable dispatch has just been received at the Chi- l nese legation from the Tsung Li Yamen, Peking, to the following effect: A settlement of the difficulties with Germany has been effected.’ Kiao-Chou bay is to be leased, .a belt surrounding the bay 1 extending 100 li (about 30 miles) to be the boundary. All the German troops 1 outside the preseribed limits are to be | withdrawn. Ttwo of the culprits charged Wifl*v the murder of the missionaries are 1 to be punished with death, and the rest with imprisonment. Permission will be granted for the building of churches in the cities of Tai Ning, Tsao Chow Fu and Chbu Yeh, and dwelling houses for the missionaries in the districts of Tsao Hien and Shan Hien will be »erected.l for which purpose a sum of 225,000 taels will be allowed. This amount is to be«,i taken ‘also as'a compensation for the | killing’ of the missionaries. The sanc- I tion of the throne has been obtained to the above mode of settlement. |

Lordon, Jan. 20.—A special dispatch from Peking says. China is ready to open three new treaty ports and to agree to an extension of railsay into Yun-Nan province, but declines to consent to the exclusion of other powers than England from the Yang-Tse-Kiang valley. . . London, Jan. 20.—Sir Michael HicksBeach, chancellor of the exchequer, speaking ‘at Bristol Wednesday. announced that China had approached England for assistance to pay the Japanese indemnity, and that the negotiations were still pending. The newspaper statements on the subject he characterized as inaccurate and incomplete. The government was not ashamed of these negotiations, and believed the country would approve them. He could see no reason why foreign ‘powers should object; but if the negotiations failed, Great Britain would take her stand on existing treaty rights. oy ; " Shot Down in the Street. St. Louis, Jan. 19. — Dr. Charles F Simmoms, a reputed millionaire, and president of the Simmons Patent Medicine company, shot down Emil Davidson, bookkeeper for the .St. Louis Trust company, at the corner of Cardinal avenue and Olive street in the morning at 11:15 o’clock. Dr. Simmons, who is -an elderly gray-haired man, met Davidson on the street. Passers-by heard angry words and the nextinstant Simmons drew a revolver and fired five times, each shot taking effect. David- ! son dropped to the sidewalk seriously weunded, but it is thought he will recover. Simmons was at once placed ~under arrest. He told Capt. Boyd that the man he shot had attacked hisdangh- | ter, and that in trying to kill Davidson ‘ he avenged the wrong done his daugfhder. This is Dr. Simmons’ third deadly iafl?ray. Several years ago he stabbed his brother-in-law in Mississippi. Three years ago he stabbed his bookke¢per. named Meßrain, in a quarrel. ‘ They Can’t Agree. ‘ ~ Chieago, Jan. 22. — A combination of the operators of Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, having 12 votes of the 36 in\the conference with the miners, on Friday defeated the very first proposi‘tion which came before the conference =—{hat et *mine run’ or ‘pross weight. When the special session. which was held Friday night, adjourned at ten o’clock there was a feeling that the opposing sides were farther apart than they were on the first day of the meeting. President Ratchford and ‘James Farms, of the miners’ union, favored a double scale rather than have ‘the comvention adjourn without arriving at an agreement. This proposition is what Secretary Ryan, of the Tllinois state organization, ‘denominates “bicoalism,” and he 'declares that the Iliinois men will have none of it. :

¢ Intimidation * Defined.

~ Boston, Jan. 21. — Judge Sheldon, of the superior criminal court, has - decided a point of law which is of much importance to labor organizations. He ruled that the word “intimidation” as used in the statute means “threats to mse force” and does not mean “threats to leave work” or “threats to refuse to ‘work with others.”. ' | Merry Must Hang. : Chicago, Jan. 22~The jury in the case of Chris Merry and James Smith, charged with the brutal murder ' of Merry’s wife, ibgzmght in a verdict of guilty against Merry ‘and fixing ‘his ‘Pm{ty, at death. Bmith was declared Dot guilty, but was immedijately rear80Ty uiter the mmet, .o g

THE AMERICAN FLEET. Movement of United States Cruilsers ; Off Key West. Key West, Fla.,, Jan. 24.—The fleet of battlé ships will sail for Dry Tortugas this marning. Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 24.—A special to the Times-Union and Citizen from KMy West, Fla., says: There has been much éxcitément in this city during the dast 24 hours, due to an alarming telegram from Havana stating that the streets had been flooded with an anonymous circular calling upon all- antiAmerican eieme_nts to mobilize and raid the: American colony. Capt. Gen. Blanco, fearful that the rabid eiement of the city might attempt such violence, has placed an extra military guard around Consul General Lee’s office.

The feeling of uneasiness felt here because of the proximity of this eity has been allayed, especially since Sunday morning at ten o’clock. when Admiral Sigard’s imposing fleet of battle ships, c(z]\'syfig of the New York, Indiana, Massachusetts, lowa and Texas, arrived off the bar. The Maine, Montgomery and Detroit, and the torpedo boats Cushing and Dupont left the harbor at 11 po'clock and joined the fleet, the svhole making an impressively formidable appearance and one inspiring confidence in the strong right arm of the American government. The sfopping of the war ships here is a break in the programme of the admiral, whose plan, under orders, was not to stop. The fleet, however, will leave today for Tortugas. S o Washington, Jan. 24.—80th Secretary of the Navy Long and Secretary of State Sherman unequivocally deny that any war ships have been sent to Havana. They denounce the report contained in n dispatch | from Jacksonville, Fla., as wholly unfounded, and say that if Admiral Sicard had received dispatches from Consul-General Lee to go to Havana they would have heard something from Gen. Lee here in Washington. No message at all has been received by either the secretary of state or the secretary of the navy to give rise to the report that the war ships had gone to Cuba. Assistant Secretary of State Day says he thinks the appearance.of the gunboats off Key West is the cause of these sensational reports. - o )

* A later dispateh from Jacksonville contained sensational rumors of excitement in Havana. Itsaid the guard about the consulate had been doubled and that circulars had been distributed among the volunteers calling upon them to protect the Americans. The officials say that if Consul-General Lee had secured information of this threatened outbreak in time to make &1l of these preparations for the protection of the consulate afid the American citizens in Havana he would certainly have had an opportunity to notify the state department of the threatened crisis.

Madrid, Jan. 24.—The report that American war ships have been ordered to Cuban waters has causéd great excitement here. The Imparecial, in the course of a violent article, says: “We see now the eagerness of the Yankees to seize Cuba.”” The cabinet met and decided—so it is reported—to address a manifesto to the country: One minister in the course of an interview said the government was quite tranquil respecting the movements of American war ships, which were fully known to the minister of marine.

A private report from Puerto Principe confirms the report that Gen. Castellano has destroyed Esperanza (at the extreme west of the Sierra Cubitas). the headquarters of the insurgent government, which moved to Navajaz, saving documents and files. When the¢insurgents retired they left 57 of theif number dead on' the field, but carried away ‘their wounded. The government troops lost 27 killed and 87 wounded. -

WAR ON THE JEWS.:

Continuation of the Riots at Algiers : : —Work of the Mobs. ) Algiers; Jan., 24.—Anti-Jewish riots were renewed here Sunday, The mob invaded the Jewish quarter and pillaged the shops in the Rue Babazoum, driving the Jewish merchants out into the istreets. A squadron of chasseurs was ordered to the scene and charged the mob with drawn swords, but the mob reformed further on, cheering for the army. Revolvers and daggers were freely used. One man who was stabbed in the back and shot in the head died on the spot, many were seriously stabbed, one, named Cayol, dying from his wounds at four o’clock Sunday afternoon. - e ' The crowd, hearing of this, became dangerously excited, and shouted: “They’re murdering us; death to the Jews!” and resumed pillaging. The fronts of six shops were destroyed, and the loot wasburned. The police repeatedly charged the rioters, but were stubbornly resisted, and were powerless to restore. order until the troops arrived. Several policemen were severely maltreated. Many arrests for theft have been made, The Jewish anthorities recommend their coreligionists to remain in doors. | Both the imen killed in the riot were d,'hr‘istiams. and their companions have §worn to avenge them. Disturbances | and the looting of Jewish shops continued throughout the evening, despi#e the efforts of the troops to quell disorders. At one o’clock p. m. some JewiLh flour stores were pillaged and theix%‘ contents thrown into the streets. ;he zouaves then charged the crowd with fixed bayonets, 'and dispersed it, [ma.ny persons being injured. ' Big Fire in Milwaukee. - 7 Milwauliee, Jan. 24.—Fire Saturday night >co/;%)letely destroyed 'the large ’brick building and contents of the F. A. Walsh comé’a'ny, manufacturers of packers’ and grinders’ tinware and tinners’ machinery. The loss is estimated -at $300,000, $225,000 of which is on stock and machinery and $75,000 on building. The insur#nce is $250,000. i Well-Known Actor Dead. New York, Jan. 24.—Charles Thomas Parsloe, the actor, famous for his pre‘sentation of “My Partner,” in conjunction with Louis Aldrich, is dead at his -home in this city. et SE [’ Death of Grant’s Brother-in-Law." Carlisle, Pa,, Jan. 24.—M, J. Cramer, ex~minister to Denmark and Switzer‘land and 3 brother-in-law of Gen. U. 8. Grant, died suddenly at 2:30 o’clocl Sunday morning of neuralgia of the “heart, aged G 5 years.; For the last six months he had been a professor at . Japan’s Ketion Not Relished. w'éfé':x‘ A-a‘iig;};;".,fif.:-fi~ special dispateh from Berlin says: In view of the disgt of B Jdpdnedy Reet o fhikese

| RAIN AND WIND. Cren.?e- Havoc in Three States—Ohio Riyver Rises, v _ | Indianapolis, iXId., Jan. 21.—A violent storm from the southeast, traveling at the riate of 53 miles an hour, sweptover o state for 15 hours Wednesday night and ‘Thursday. ' Heavy rain accompani4d the storm. At least one life was lost. E. T. Cross, a traveling salesman for the Cumberland Bone EPhosg‘g‘ate company of Boston, was drowned while trying to ford Lick creek, in Orange county. The streams in every section of tlle state are over their banks, and much property has been destroyed. The town of English is partially under water. Three bridges and three build--ings in the place were swept away dur-’ ing the night, and three families were ba-reilfr saved from drowning. At Muncie the wind lifted the iron top off the strawboard stack at the Consumers' Paper company, and Christian Brown was struck and received injuries from Whic{] he may ‘die. The tower on the courthouse at Danville was partially destx}oy_ed. The damage throughout the oil region was large, many derricks being demolished. Dispatches from points along the Ohio river state that the iiver is rising rapidly and that a general flood is feared. , The residents: in t:h\_e lowlands are moving out. , Leavenworth, Ind., Jan. 21.—The towboat| Job Williams, with a tow of 60 coalboats, was caught in the storm above here Wednesday night. = Fourteen of the coalboats were sunk and two &:f the steamer’s crew were Wwashed overboard and drowned. : Springfield, 0., Jan. 21.—A1l railroads in this locality are damaged as a result of tl}‘e.'heavy rain and strong wind that prevailed Wednesday night and Thursday. | The “Big Four” has to send its trains from London to Columbus over the l;afl—Handle- on account of the dangerous condition of the Scioto river bridge. Buck creek isa torrent,ahd the prospects are that it will overflow its banks. Many dozen housés in this city are threatened. . The water covers the yard} and is creeping up to the first floor _ ‘ Columbus, 0., Jan. 21.—The heavy rains have swelied the Scioto river to enormous volume and a break in the levee has spread its water over many acres of low country. It is estimated that 600 acres of land in the vicinity of the Green Lawn avenue bridge are under water. The waters rose ten feet during the night and the river is ten feet above normal. o '

WHITE HOUSE THRONGED.

l"res#dent Receives 2,000 Guests at . His First Official Reception.

Washington, Jan. 20.—The first official reception of the present administratian was given at the white house Wednesday evening. Aside from the fact that it was the first, interest in the event centered in the new method of distributing the invitations, so that only |a certain portion of those entitled to the hospitality,of the executive mansion would be entertained in a single eyening. The plan, so far as could be judged from appearances, was .an entir? success. ' - 'Whlen the invitations were first issued and ‘ll was seen that a precedent was to be made by the omission of naming the diplomatic corps as the especial guests of honor, people wondered what would be the outcome so far the foreigners themselves were concerned, since it was known that the corps individually and collectively is a stickler in all matters of official etiquette.” As it turned out the diplomats were moved to put in a protest on this scdre, with the result that they were subsequently notified throL.lgh the state department that a special concession would be made in their honor, and, while the invitations failed.to name them theguests of honor at the first card reception, as/has heretofore been the custom, they would be accorded a special and private reception lat 8:15 o’clock. ‘ .

. The other guests bidden to the reeccption| were invited from mine to eleven o’clock, so that when the senators, representatives and society people invited were at length ushered into the presence of the president, Mrs. McKinley and the receiving-party, the gergeous pageant of the diplomats in full court dress, blazing with orders, was already a matter of ancient history. But the diplomats were still there in all their splendor, and everyone anxious to see the array of gold lace and decoraticns ‘of honor which the foreigners wear in such profusion was able to do se without inconvenience. )

: JAPAN READY FOR WAR. Her War Vessels Will Leave Soon for Chinése Waters. London, Jan. 22.—The St. James Ga-, zette, commenting upon the dispatch from Yokohama saying that a fleet of nine .Japanese warships will leave Japan in the course of a week for Chinese waters, says: ! ‘“Japan is prepared for war. That, in a nutshell, is the news from Yokohama, and it is really the first news from Japan since the beginning of the Chinese crisis. It is‘ obvious that the Japanese government had stopped telegraphic communication, ‘which it never does except when mobilizing the army or-navy. That is precisely what it has been doing. It is almost certain that the destination of the fleet is Wei-Hai-Wei, and there is no doubt the movement means that the status quo in:China, so far as Manchuria and Corea are concerned, shall not be altered by ‘Russia or any. combination of Russia’s allies; in defiance of Great Britain and Jap{n. So long as the defenders’ policy is equality of opportunity in China they are fn a position to enforce their claims,” ' Barbecue Will Be Historie. Denver, Col. Jan. 19.—The committee of arrangements of the national stock groTvers’ convention at its meeting Tuesday adopted the report of the'¢ommit#ee having inchargeall preparations for the barbecue on the afternoon of the 27th. This feast will be histggic for the reason that it will be the last time in America where wild buffalo, bear, elk and antelope will be served. The meéu will consist of eight beeves, four buffalo, six elk, ten antelopes, four bea#s,’ 40 sheep, ten pigs, 200 opossum, ten barrels of pickles, half-a ton of cheese, 40 barrels of sweet potatoes, 3,000 loaves of bread and 400 kegs of beer. | : : :

’ l Br,uid Riots in Italy. 1 Ancona; Italy, Jan. 19.—The bread riots were renewed here Tuesday. The pa.r‘ricipun‘ts in the demonstration hav‘ng| been expelled from the tGwn assentbly outside the town gates, but the cavalry dispersed them. A band of rioters wrecked and tried to burn the country house of a grain dealer.; The troops quenched the fames and dispersed the anob, Fifty persons have siving bread o persons without food.

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. . THE MERCHANT’S CHOICE. A merchant, seeking for a clerk, - : Addressed two boys as folows: - . s ‘“Say, boys, which would you rather be, . Domestic ducks, or swallows?" - . I would rather be a swallbw, air? D 3 Replied one boy with vim, - ’ ‘“For swallows soar above the earth. : While ducks just walk or swim; “And ducks are such slow, s_tupid birds— Such clumsy, waddling things— . > They have hard work to walk.at all, ' And seldom 'use their wings.” : “I'd ruther be a‘duck, I vow!” = - The other boy replied, 5 : “Fer all the needs o’ ducks, yer see, Are easily supplied. : “They never work, ner worry much, They jes trus” ter the'r luck, , - A gently floatin’ down the stream, =~ - Oh, I wud be a duck!” . .. Thé merchant turned upon his heel, - - What need to question more?’ And now the boy who first replied, . Is head clerk in his store. - ) —Rufus Clark Landon, in N. Y. Observer. . SCHOOL FOR PARROTS. - ilo‘y Birds Are Educated in a Large London Establishment, According to Pearson’s Weekly there is a school in London where parrots are educated. : B The parrots’ academy is conducted on systematic lines, and resembles in’ many of its features an ordinary educational establishment. In Room 1 are congregated the birds to be taught, screeching and shrieking in the bliss cf ignorance. So soon as they have become accustomed to their surroundings and a little of the natural wildness that characterizes them has worn off, a monitor, in the shape of a parrot that has mastered the art of monosyllabic utterance, is Introduced, and under.its tuition the alass begins to show progress by voicing such simple words as !bYes,i and A(NQ'Q’ . - .

Room or Standard I 1 marks a step in the upward grade. Bi-syllables are here introduced, and - double-worded sentences of an easy nature repeated. The third standard comprises tri-syl-labic words and sentences of a more advanced kind. . Thus far the work is of.a routine character, the teachers being the birds themselves. But with Standard IV the real work of education begins, and the bird monitor gives-place to the. pedagogue proper. The Dblackboard, too, now comes in. With a piece of chalk the teacher.makes the letter “a” on the board, pronounces it aloud, and'the ‘birds repeat it, and, in turn, the whole alphabet, after him. o By the time Standard V is reached a parrot of: ordinary intelligence. can read and spell such words as “cat” and “dog” with reasonable facility. Standards V and VI continue: the process by gradual adyafn,ces, simple Ee L AT i . & [ e glvl!\\i:”g@ ik I.',a e ,’ {5 ' Viray Y (W @E et : , ’,«{L,..m,, A M R 0l i C TN ‘i b !/‘l} '/j// /8 \ I LS I ///J L= T A= \;\) : ,31' \\\\\)\\ ) : L e R ' TEACHING POLLY. o sums in arithmetic being added to.the curriculum and the method of telling the time taught. L The seventh and last standard is devoted entirely to music, vocal and instrumental.. Not that parrots .are iaught to play the piano. That stage of development has not yet been at--lained, but the more proficient of them are instructed in the art of singing-a song to the pedagogue’s accompaniment on that instrumeént. - When this ‘point has been reached the bird gets his certificate. - R . There are only two or three of these academies in England, and the fees being high and the business brisk, the iownsirs are doing well. It costs $3O tc sécure a goad education for a -parrot, exclusive of extras in the shape of food and one or twp other things, and it takes several months, in the case of the most forward and intelligent pupils, to pass in all the necessary subjects. i Res 5 S

| AGES OF ANIMALS. | Elephants Live Longer Than Lions, : i - Horses or Cows. L e l As far as naturalists have been ableto discover, the elephant lives to the greatest age of any of the animals with which we are familiar. It takes 25 to 30 years, and sometimes longer, for elephants to compléte their growth. It is recorded. that certain specified animals have ' lived more than 150 years, but the statistics on subjects of this sort are necessarily incomplete, and therefore unreliable. e L . The lion is supposed tolive 10 years, ‘although it is claimed that one keptin the " Tower of London attained the age of 70 years. It is not supposed that he would have lived to that age in his natural condition. v __ The horse is a short-lived animal, but when carefully kept and allowed to spend a ‘great deal of its time in .pas-‘ ture, it has been known to live past the age of 40 years. The trouble witk horses _is that they are fed for hard work, con‘sequently their feet and their' digestion wear out. Eighteen to 24 yearsis | a very high average age for horses to attain. ' * Cows live 18 or 20 years, but they have very little value toward tlre latter portion of this period. save it exceptional cases. : : : An Infant Philosopher. = Little three-year-old kthel was veryfond of stories and rhymes, She fre-. ' quently begged her mamma to repeat ‘them to her and often made some ‘quaint comment. One evening her mamma repeated the nursery rhyme: “When T was a bachelor, I lived by mysélf. | A_ll thes:;f:d and cheese :I’got_,l put upen The rats ang the mice made such a strife, 1 was forced to go to London to get myself 0 R weT e ' Before she had time, to finish Ethel said: : S fP SR *“\Why, bow silly! He'd a good deal better have got a cat.”—Chicigo JourG o SRR S R e O ~ That Was the Game. Mamma~—Ethel, what do you mean by shouting in that disgraceful fash- § oo e R R RS e

-~ SPECKLED SQUIRRELS. 'l’-hey"‘l.ive in Georgia and Make Ice Boats of Themselves. " If you want to hear of squirreis which know something besides cracking nuts and climbing trees, ask the average Georgia “cracker.” Down in his piny woods there dwells a tribe of speckled squirrels which has no“use for those northern brothers who.shut-themselves up-in a hole all winter. Instead, they gather near the banks of the frozen creeks and prepare for enjoyable skating; or ice-boating parties. Oftéen when a Georgia countryman is spearing-fish throgigh a hole in the ice, he hears the “squeak squeak” of a score or more squirrels rushing to the trunk of some decayed tree. After a few minutes of incessant chatter the whole party scampers up. the tree, and then comes the creaking of teeth upon bark as they rip it off. Before very long the sounds of gnawing and breaking cease, and one by one the squirrels descend to the ground, each one bearing a niece of bark. Each squirrel puts his own piece % 1L : f/'//r\\f! f Ny NTRN S ”. )»r . WL/ tf o 7 L\‘ g V) P e T LY ‘T ,‘/“; . 7 5 ! - , RS, Gy »’ffi N \;;/_ =T e 7 = T :-:‘g?tl;K"‘.f—\ i /";"H,:’é.';' (,»'(/,/2?;,,;\ el 8 e e i TV, 's:“‘ b -s" ..";',{’ %,‘.{!!}l{, m, “!i ~H!‘: J\." / BeP~ R aes) il Y e 4 TR ’\!\‘ ‘.{“\\\ 7 / ;', L Pt SN P ; lw TR =m :H[H” ‘ Ui HEA ‘,(“} = - " AN ICE-BOATING PARTY.

of bark on the ice, jumps on it," rajses his long and bushy tail for a sail, and away the whole party goes, Lept in one direction by two or three older squirrels who act as whippersin. The turning of the-tails to the right or left directs their course, just as the sails of a schooner are trimmed to ber course. When the skaters decide they have had enough exercise they run . their. queer barks on the bank where they desire.to land, and in a few seconds thewholecrowdarechasing away at the edge of the ice. Veracious mountaineers aver that the syuirrels sometimes hold ice-yachtingraces. Two or three champions select their pieces of bark with unusual care, and go over them with the utmost care, bitingaway with their sharp teeth any little excrecences upon the bark so as to make them as smooth as possible. Then upon’ the ice there is high excitement among the “dead-game sports” of squirreldom; and. they—so - these veracious hunters say—promptly wager upon the result their choicest stores of carefully hoarded nuts. When the race is sailed and the victor has won, to a chorus of squirrel squeaks and barks, the property changes hands, and the losers go home in a sad procession.—N. Y. World., _EELS STOPPED THE MILL. Hundreds of Them Clogged in a Water Wheel at Youngstown, Ohfo. “*Many a curious prank is credited to the eel, but one of the oddest of whick he has truly been guilty is just reported from Youngstown, 0., where he had actually succeeded:in forcing a flour mill to cease operation. The mill is known-as the Baldwin mill, and is situated on the bank of the ‘Mahoning river.. Its power is furnished by five water wheels, with an engine to be used in times of low water and when there is backwater to eontend against. It is the custom of the miller, Homer Baldwin, to start up Monday morning and . run ° steadily until Saturday night} without a stop. One Monday morning not long ago, the mill started as usual with three water wheels in operation, the number ordinarily sufficient to furnish all the power required. Presently, however, the miller found that strangely enough the power was lacking, and he put on the fourth wheel. The following. morning the power had grown even less than with three wheels running, and the fifth wheel was put into operation. Still the power was insufficient and at last the engine was started up in’‘order to obtain the necessary degree of power. _ ° It was suspected that somethingmust be wrong with the wheels, but owing to the high water it was impossible to make -an examination before the following Sunday—when to Mr. Baldwin’s | surprise—he found that the waterwheels were clogged up with dozens of eels, varying from three to four feet in length, weighing in the mass several hundred pounds. - A ~ After the eels had been cleared away the mill was run at full power with but.three wheels in operation. This -is the second time in the memory of the traditional oldest inhabitant that eels have been gvidenced in the Mahoning river. Some eight years ago, it is said, Game Warden Samuel Lever placed a number of young silver eels in the river. At first it was supposed that the miil eels must be those litfle ones grown - up, but examination disclosed the fact that the big fellows that stopped the mill wheels were not silver eels at all—and there lies the mystery. . 2 ’ T ‘The eel is one of the queerest of the finny tribe. For a long time nobody -could guess how he happened to come into existence in the,strange places where he is apt to be found. He is a most mysterious fellow, and the mys- , tery about him is by no means cleared away, 'though the fish experts’ have : studied him in many ways. : - A curious ,‘fact.*and one which makes the Mahoning incident harder to explain, is that eels do not spawn in fresh water, but in brakish and salt water. It is knowq that many eels descend the rivers in the fall and winter and entér ‘the salt water, and it is supposed that ‘spawning takes place at that time. In the spring and summer young eels from ng obstacles, ascending vertiosl walls ‘utaries, ‘and even making their way ke e By ;‘%*fifwfifi# e D VLT It LRI UYR SR N A LT et R ;}g 1 W {gi:g;;fl,. B fes sl J:,:k;: oo