Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 14, Plymouth, Marshall County, 18 January 1895 — Page 6

OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY.

Over the hills and far away! A little boy steals for his morning play, And under the blossoming apple tree He lies and hp dreams of things to be; Of battles fought and of victories won, Of wrongs o'ert brown and of groat deods done. Of the valor that fie shall prove some day Over tho lulls and far away , Over tho hills and far away! Ovor the hills and far away. It's oh for tho toil tho livelong day! But it matten th not to tho soul aflame With Ike love for riches and power and fane! On, O man! while tho sun is high On to thi rtain joys that lie Yonder where blsscth the noon of day, Over the hills and far a way Over the hills and far away! Over tho bills and far away. An old man lingers at dose of day; Now that his journey is almost done, His battle fought and his victories won. The old-time honesty and truth. The trustfulness and tho friends of youth. Homo and mother where are they? Over the hills and far awayOver the y srs, and far away! -Chicago ttecord. A BASH IT L MAX. "If you will take it. Leah." Archer Bhef mau laid an exquisite little fan In Leah Aylnier's hand. "if I will take ibis darling little fan! (ill. Archer, Indeed I will, and thank J oil very much. And yet, with a strange diffidence, he had never dared t toil inn bow he worshipped her- lie who could eloquently address a crowded audience; be. whose pen bad often caused dire consternatlon among hts enemies. This proud man was a coward when be fain would pour om bis goal at ti e feet of this girl of l& And Lena? Oh, she blushed and smiled, and wondered with a sly glance at bis magnificent and clear-cat features if be COVM be wen by her or any other woman. For she loved him better than she knew herself. It was tit same bouse, the very Ssuu room; and in the bay window pendant baskets, covered with trailing vines, and oaken rases wherein grew choice plauts, lent to the apartment an ap pearan.e strangely familiar, yet strangely unlike. In the days past there bad boon an nir of Indescribable elegance and roAnement in the Aylmer mansion; now, when it bad passed into the bands of Mrs. Albert Pennoyer, it was charac terizod by the same high-colored splendor that that lady rejoiced in personally. A stylish, handsome widow, now just n, who had married Albert IVunoyer fcr his money, and who now, mourning dispensed with, was on a second lookout. Just now Archer Sherman was all the rttge, consequently Mrs. Pennoyeri delight. Ho was the rage for two reaBous; one, he was considered invulnerable, almost unapproachable; the other, he had just returned from a seven yturs' business connection Id China, and was decidedly "new," even to "obi" friends. And among Archer Sherman's old friends was Mrs. Albert IVunoyer. On this sunny January afternojn. then, Mrs. Pennoysff was elegantly dressed, and waiting for a promised call from Mr. Sherman. But of course Leah Aylmer, as the maid showed her Irto Mrs. Pennoyer's boudoir, did not know that She was as beautiful at 28 as she had been at 17. Bhe was unmarried, and perhaps a tritle paler than then; but. considering till the trouble that had been piled on her young shoulders, sbhad preserved wonderfully. "Oh, It's you. Miss Aylmer! I was expeeting some one else. Will you sit down?" "Thank you. I will detain you only a moment. Perhaps you will look over these" she uncovered a small casket "und select for your own use from them. Necessity eotnpels me to sell my Jewels, Kate Mrs. Pennoyer." "Oh, yes; you used to wear such pieildld ornaments when we were In the same set three or four years ago, Ifu't it? the time, you remember, when ev rybody thought you were engaged to Mr. Sherman V" A sudden, swift pallor swept over Leah's face, she made no reply, but Mrs. Pennoyer saw the white lingers tremble as they raised a pearl ring from its violet velvet. "You've a number of rings, I see Here is an amethyst set, too, but I don't like amethyst! or pearls, either. 1 adore turquoise, only it would not go with my Indian skin -pink only does that. (Hi, isn't that watch chain and charm expuisite? Miss Aylmer, I'll have that pink coral ami gold chain for say neck, and that exquisite little fan for a medallion." "That alone is not for sale," she said, huskily. ' You may have the chain." 'Not for sale! Oh, to be sure; I understand now. Let me see, Mr. Sherman gave you that, didn't ho?" Her rales wag- full of malicious triumph, as she sent the arrow to Leuh's heart. "It does not matter who was the donor, Mrs. Pennoyer. Do you wish any of these?" "I do wonder which Archer would like ue in best ? These emeralds are dark; I'll wear them when he conies again. So " Leah's lip quivered under the crepe veil. It was so hard for hor that Archer Sherman had jilted her and would marry Kate Pennoyer while she remained so true. "I will not detain you longer, Mrs. Pennoyer. If you wish to purchase yoi; can send your maid. I wish you good-afternoon." Archer Sherman was a good deal older looking, but a great deal handsomer, than when he wont away, and Mrs. I'euuoyer, as she lookod earnestly

at him, thought what a wonder It was that he reached such mature age untouched by woman's charms. But she intended to teach him a different lesson; she decided to marry him herself. "I haven't seen our mutual friend. Miss Aylmer, since my return." ho said, carelessly, and then the black eyes opened in surprise. "Miss Aylmer! Leah, you mean, jear little thing. Just before she left New York she gae me su-n a beautiful keepsake." Inder hor full, drooping lids, she waa watching him. and she saw him start as if a serpent had touched him when she laid in his band Leah Ay liner's little fan. the one he had given her years ago. "She gave you this? May I ask when?" "Let me think; it must be a year or more ago. just as she went away." "And you haven't seen her or heard of her since?" "Not once; but bow I would love to see her again! Leah was so beautiful, I always thought; dlriu't you? and when she insisted on my accepting this little pink and gold toy I told her that it" A low rap on the door interrupted Mrs. Pennoyer, and then Leah Aylmer entered unannounced. "If you please, Mrs. Pennoyer, I nch'eutly left" Then she saw Archer Sherman, who sprang to her side. A painful Dinah spread over her face, t li"ii she paled; then, somehow or other how she hated le rself! -the tears overllowed her sv, cot eyes. Leah! Leah! How could you give it to her?" cried Archer. What do you mean V" He turned toward the chair where Mrs. Pennoyer bad been sitting, but she had gone why, he knew best. Then cam;' explanations, and when Leah went OUt from her old-time home. Waning on Archer Sherman's arm. and tin; dainty little fan close clasped In her lingers, be whispered, as they crossed the threshold: "My darling, when we are married we will buy your old home back again; shall we? for In it has been decided by fate the mst momentous event of our lives." Tid Bits.

Put I pun His Honor. In 1S4G, when bands of outlaws were a constant menace to life and property in Hungary, the widow of a wealthy magnate was living in a lonely castle not fur from the principal route be tween Kuda ami Vienna. This lady reopived one morning a polite note, requesting her to provide supper at tea o'eloek that night lor twelve gonth'tneu! There eould be no doubt as to the character of her self-invited guests; but she realized the futility of sending to town for help, as every road would be watched, and her courier waylaid. At ten o'eloek that evening up rode an armed band of twelve men. The castle gates were thrown open, and the mistress herself stood at the out ranee to receive them, richly apparelled, as if to welcome honored and Invited guests. She took the arm of the chief and led the way to the dining hall. There a goodly feast was spread, the tables and sideboard being covered with a magnificent display of gold and silver plate, the toevmiilttlon of many generations. The leader of the robbers started in surprise, but quickly recovered himself and acted the part of a well-bred gentleiimn during the feast. At its close he said: 'Madam, the happiest moments of my life have always been the shortest. In appealing to my honor as you have done to-night, you have saved me from tho commission of a crime. Had SS I am, no one ever appealed to my honor in rain. As for you," looking sternly around with his hand on his pistol, "whoever takes anything from this house dies." Subsequently the name of the robber was discovered. lie was an impoverished younger son of one of the noblest families in Hnngary. His fate was sad enough; he was captured a few months alter the above Incident, and ended bis life under the hands of the common hangman. His Sum. Kate Sanborn tells, in M Abandoning an Adopted Farm,"' a story of a big boy in a country school, who was clever enough in some studies, but hopelessly deficient in mathematics. The teacher, a mau who had little mercy for a stu phi pupil, one day lost patience with him entirely. The boy had failed to do a Simple sum in subtraction, and the teacher rubbed out the figures on his slate, put down six ciphers and six more under them. Ho drew a line, handed the slate back to the dullard, and said, gravely: "There! see if you '"an subtract that." The poor boy gazed stolidly at the new sum. It looked queer and hard. He tackled it aloud, making hideous grimaces as he progressed. "Nawthin from nawtbin leaves naw thin. Nawthing from nawthin leaves nawthin. Nawthin from nawthin leaves nawthin. Nawthin from naw thin loaves nawthin. Nawthin front nawthin leaves nawthin." There he panned, confused, but rallying all his brain power, ho exclaimed: "If I'm over goln' to carry, I've got to carry now! Nawthin from nawtbin leaves one!" New Medical Treatment. A doetor, whose home is near Frankfort, presents a new medical treatment, whieh consists In exchanging liquid for aerial draughts. Live in a psfpsi ual draught, so he preaches, and you will never catch cold. And his practice is In keeping with his precept At his establishment all of his patients, j many of whom are suffering from se- ; rlous diseases, fire constantly subjected by day and night to strong currents of j air, and w hen they go out generally dU- ' psoas with hats and bonnets. 1

SHOW UP THE SOUTH.

PREPARATIONS .-OR ATLANTA'S GREAT EXPOSITION. Arrangements for the First International Inhibition Which the Cotton States Have Ever Held Show to Upen Next September. Site and Isuildiuga. Atlanta, tin., correspondence: When in the face of hard times, with cotton a drug on the market at five cents a pound, Atlanta said, "Let us have an exposition," people were thunderstruck with the aadacJty of the proposition. When th Queen City of the South wont further, and said, "Lot us make our exposition national yea. international -in character sad cope,' then the people thought it w a s a mammoth r. a. COLL.1KB. joke. Hut Atlanta has gone n with tho project, and ts a result all those who once laughed so loud at tic idea have been struek with awe by tho wonderful success which seems assured for tho Cotton States and the International Exposition which will open its gates to the world September 18 next, to elose them on the last day of 1805. There is every prospect that the Cotton

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ATLANTA, LOOKING SOUTH FROM THE EQUITABLE BUILDING.

States and International Exposition will be ahead of the Centennial Exhibition in splendor and usefulness. Even with its excellent exhibit at the World's Fair in lsl.' the South could not hope to bring as prominently as it wished before the world its advantages in the industrial ami agricultural fields, and so a fair for the special reason of attracting wide attention to these things will he of especial utility. And if superior organization were all that wore needed to insure its success that is a foregone conclusion, for the men and women in whose hands the managemenl of the exposition has been placed stand at the head of the business people the South. All things of a port ly local character have been put in the background as far as Atlanta and Georgis are concerned, and the aim of the exposition will be the advancement f.MTl'.l STATES GOVERNMENT Üt II. DING. of th interests of tho country in general find the South in particular. Site of the K position. Piedmont Park, the site of the exposition, is located two miles from the go . -graphical center of the city. The 189 ares within the exposition enclosure stretch over immense hills of gentl acclivity and vales of surpassing loveliness. Tho landscape gardening, rich in the profusion of Southern foliage and flowers, which will form part of the dis play, will be one of the most pleasing attractions. A beautiful artificial lake, to be navigated by electric launches and gondolas, will be to the exposition what the lagoons wore to tho World's Fair. Tho main buildings, with their dimensions, are as follows: United States Government Building, 180x200 feet; Manufactures and Liberal Arts, 210xli70 feet; Machinery, 100x500 feet; Minerals and Forestry, 80x220 feet; Agriculture, IBOx NK) feet; Transportation, 120x413 feet; Woman's Building (according to the original plans to ho 124x184 feet, hut these dimensions will probably be materially Increased); Fine Arts, 100x245 feet; Negro Building, 100x900 foet. One of the novelties of the exposition will bo a building, as above mentioned, for the use of tho negroes and to contain exhibits for their benefit. The negroes of the South will probably form no small part of the attendants at the exhibition, and the forethought of the man agement in thus providing for them is to be commended. A different plan ns to the construction sf the exposition buildings will bs followed from that adopted bj the THOMPSON'. World's Fair managers, for the buildings nro to remain after the elose of the fair to adorn the park and form one of the future sttractions of this city. Georgis pine will be the principal material employed, the inside of the buildings beieg for the most part finished in yellow pine. The exposition will not be without Its Midwav IMaisance, that part of the grounds devoted to such exhibits ns were to be found on the Midway of Jackson Park in t'hiongo being known ns tho Terrace. The principal features of the Chicago Midway and many others will be there to furnish amusement to those surfeits! with light-Seeing of a higher order in the other parts of the grounds. The Demand for Space. There need bo no fearj that all the space which can bo furnished will be iu demand,

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for already applications are la for ranch more room than can be set apart for exhibitors Tho management is wisely put tins; those applications through a sifting process and will grant spaee only to the best of those who desire to exhibit. Not alone is tho United States expected to have splendid exhibits at the exposition, but other countries a.s well will without doubt take advantage of it to show the world what they can grow and make. The three months and a half through which the exposition will bo open are those during which the greatest number of people from the North and West and from otiier dimes are seeking tho Southeast for boa!": and pleas ire. and those people will aid materially in making the exposition a success financially. Its success along other lines is already assured. Charles A. Collier, the President and director general of the Cotton States and International Exposition, has had a lurgo experience in public affairs and in exposition work. He was born in 1848, being the son of one of the pioneers of Atlanta. Most of Iiis life has been devoted to business enterprises, In which he has been uniformly successful. His greatest achievement was the successful eonduet of the Piedmont Exposition of ls7. Duly 11 days elapsed from the first suggest ion to the opening day of this exposition. At the elose of the exposition, after paying ail expenses, the treasurer had a balance of ?3ti00U.

CURRENCY BILL IS DEAD. Carlis'.e-Sprinmer Measure Ijnomiiiously Killed in the Hou.se. Washington pedal: The Carlisle currency hill, whieh lias been under debate in the House for about two weeks, was igBomiaiously ditched Wednesday. It had not strength enough to surmount the first parliamentary obstacle placed In its path. The Committee on Rules, in obedience to the decree of the Democratic caucus on Monday, brought in an order to close general debute and proceed under the Ive-minute rule until Saturday, when the final vote should be taken, but the supporters of the hill showed lamentable weakness. They were unable to order the previous question, the demand therefor being refused, tirst by a rising vote of 92 to lol, ami then on a yea and nay vote of 124 to 120. The advocates of th1 bill wore dun. founded when they discovered that they had been beaten in the parliamentary skirmish, and the order was withdrawn. This was the first reverse the Committee on Utiles bad suffered in four fears. An analysis of the vote showed that all of tho 124 votes in favor of tho motion wore cast bjr Democrats, while 82 Republicans. 39 Democrats and S Populists voted against it. Mr. Bland snd others loudly protested that the adoption of the rule would cut them :T. Mr. Outhwait rejected all saggestio ns for amending the rule and demanded the previous question. The Republicans voted solidiy with the Democratic opponents of the measure against ordering the previous question and it was defeated on a rising vote, 92 to lol. Among the Democrats who voted apainst ordering the previous question wire OockreH, (ft Texas; BfcGaan, of Illinois; Hooker, if Mississippi; Ellis, of Kentucky; Money, of Mississippi; Railoy. of Texas; Bland, .of Missouri; Hall, of Missouri; Holms a, of Indiana, and Conn, of Indiana. Mr. Outhwait hurriedly demanded the yeas and nays and the roll was called. The roll call was watched with intense interest, but announcement of the result of the vote only confirmed the defeat of the advocates of the measure. The supporters of the bill made a desperate effort to secure a majority of the votes, but the previous question was again re jeetod. 124 to 120. The advocates of the bill had suffered their first parliamentary reverse. The failure to order the previous question threw the special order open to amendment. Though there was no demonstration from the opponents of the bill, its advocates were panic-stricken, realizing that the vote given probably sealed the doom of the currency bill. Mr. Outhwait Immediately arose and withdrew the special order. News by Wire. Willi.-.nj Jackson was killed by a boiler explosion in Selina, Ala. Ivy Bobo, colored, was hanged at Friars Point, Miss., for the m ilder of his wife. He confessed on the gallows. N. 0. RIankenship has been arrested at Texarkana, Ark., and charged with being an accomplice in holding up a St. Louis Southwestern train. Judge ;. B, Kinkead and William N. Lane resumed their feud at Lexington, Ky., but no blood was shed. Lane is a friend of Desha Breckinridge. While attempting to save a raft of nur logs in Salt River. Ky.. W. Sk Rownian. Tom MacJure and Willie Prent wood wer carried away with the tide and drowned Thomas Albert, a member of Company C at Rradford, Pa., was found dead uns the rille range with a bullet in his hesrt. It is not known whether it is an accident or not. The Coroner's jury at South Bald, Ok., has returned a verdict of justifiable homli.le in the eaSS Sf Chief Of Poiise Williams, charged with killing Prank Smith and James BroWB. The Cotton-growers' Protective Association met at Jackson, Miss., to dOTlss meaua for reducing the cotton acreage. A resell, t ion in favor of te Hatch antioption bill was adopted by a vole of 217 to 10. The Colorado River Irrigation Com pan? elected officers in Denver and the James II. Beattj faction was defeated by the John C. Beatty people. New bonds fyr the canal work in Southern California will be issued.

TO AID NEBBASKANS.

STATEMENT GIVEN OU T BY THE RELIEF COMMISSION. About 240 t;ir Load of PrOvlaioaS and Clothing Raised Local Iit rlhutini; Committee mi Work in Twenty t-i Cocntict A Double Suicide Work of Relief. W. N. Xason, President of the Nebraska Stale Relief Coinntisaiott, has made the following stat tuen! in regard to the reorganization and woifc of the conuahtsion: "The coninufsion is not a one-man esa Cera at all. as. in addition to myself, the following gentlemen are members of it: Rev. L. P. Lnddcn, Secretary: ' U. MeClay, Lincoln. TrenKitn r: Her, Josei!i T. Dnryea. Omaha; C J. Krnst, .'. V. Hartley .ml A. J. Rawyer. Lincoln; Henry Spri. k. Poatatiette; snd S. !.. Thompson, Broken Hour; leaking in all nine rh nibers composing the imuuission. IVe have an auditing committee, and a record is kept of everything that is received snd j ski sat, and the auditing committee audits all the account. At the butt meeting f the regular working majority ire sntbori.ed Rev. L. P. Ljnddtn to in?nr Incidental expenses, the principal itm of srhick is the salary of one stenograph r. All the bilN at'- to be nubmitt d to Ibe com ntittee for spproi d. "When we tirt organized the uunisfdoii are had nothing to dip use ! Ides was to e; oopo interested in the movement to raise funds tvithont soliciting aid r advertising the S: adversely, and we bare been successful in obtaining large contributions in this way. We decided that we w ould try io organise I ttnaha in a quiet w ay and get our t- opb to do what they can to aid sufferers. Wo do not want to prey upon the eitisens of Omaha, as they have so many charitable causes thai they ire ;aki;.g eaTe of now. but we mere! wanted to stimulate the movement. "We do our 'vk in systematic manner, and wherever a county has applied for relief we have uniformly required the people t that Keetioo to call a public meeting and appoint a central committee, comprising two members of the county board and from Bvo lo seven eitisens satisfactory to the people of the section to constitute the central committee, with whom we t ran sad our bussness, and that central committee appoints a committee of three in every precinct where there is destitution, and this hist committee acta as visiting committee. We have effected organisation of committees in this way ü! twenty-six ouaties. "Among others who have already 'v' us rcliea from outside points are; Mrs. C. L. Burrows, of Savanna. III., who has donated a car-load of coaL We have just received a check from William H. Allen, of Boston, .Mass.. for lös. and the other day the same gentleman sent us a b k for $2U0, besides a lot of good clothing. C lb Hummel has sent us $1!.". and the proprietors sf a coal mine at Athens Id., nave promised to send us the output for a half day sf their coal mines, which ttill amount to about fourteen car-loads of coal, and the Borhugtoa Road has nsontcd to transport it free. "We have already distributed about Joo car-loads of provisi eis. coal an 1 clothing, and about forty more ear-loads are sow in the course of transportation. 1 should estimate that we have already disbursed about $11300 for the relief of the sufferers. This is the amount of cash paid out up to date. It was arranged at the meeting last week thai there would be one r two members of the commission iti the office at Lincoln from now on so as i attend to the prompt diatribotioa vf supplies. " HUSBAND AND WIFE DIB. Dcetitation in a Nebraska Family Leado to Double Suicide. As a result of destitution and their helpless situation among hundreds of Starring people. .lohn Harris and wife, living near Paston, Neb., committed suicide with I razor. Mrs. Harris was found lying on the bed entirely nude, with her throat cut from car to ear. and the bedclothing saturated with blood. .lohn Harris, the husband, was found lying on the Boor near the foot of the hod with his throat likewise cut. Tho couple had only moved to their present place a month ago. The house in which they lived was a sod dugout, situated seven miles southwest of Pax ton. The surroundings of the place went to show that the pair were in very poor circumstances. No motive can be given for the deed except that the wife was expecting soon to become a mother and was on the verge of starvation and suffering. They were probably too proud to hog. The following letter was found, written by the husband in a clear and steady hand : "Dear Hid Parents Wo have decided to end our lives together. Ida took sick before daylight and it is now 7 o'clock. Ida cut her throat and 1 out mine. I would jrive the world to see my poor old father and mother. It seem-- like a year since 1 saw any of my folks." The country round sbowt PaXtOB has produced good crops in times past, and will undoubtedly do so again, hut the failure in 1888 and Sgaia in 18M was almost complete, and the situation is most pitisble. Among the different families in Keith County now in a state of destitution there are between 000 and frtNl children. The commissioners confess their inability to cope with the situation. LOSS MAY REACH EIGHT MILLION rii rcv's Victims Sniil to lb" Move Numerous than Sapposed. Information received in Yankton. S. I.. from London regarding .1. T. M. Pierce's swindling transactions show that the aggreirato British losses may reach the stupendous sum of $8,000,000. A letter from a London firm of solicitors ssys that t.ot a Quarter of the fraudulent transactions have yet COtne to light. It is stated that the receipts by Pierce at his London office were limited only by his ability to issue bonds ami mortgages and other pa per often exceeding $100,000 a w eek, and it is alleged in London that he received n less than $300,000 during his last week there. It is owing lo his gigantic trans actions that his victims expect to receive nu offer of compromise after the matter shall have cooled down. To Ssmks these losses known would impair tho credit of the losers, and also make them an object of ridicule, therefore they prefer to boar their losses in silence. One million four hundred and four thousand dollars of forged honds. mortgages and tax deeds are now in possession of agents of ereditOTS of Tierce in Yankton. They have boon sent there as chums against the estate of Pierce, but this estate will not sell

! for enough to pay tho attorney's form. The claims which are BCCSSSfSMied by DSS . spurious security ar: as follows: American .Mortgage Trust Company. London, Red ford investors. $300,000; Beffsst investors. SIÖ'I.imk; Oasgow. Scotland.

$250.000; IfoddersnVhl, En., $100,000; .1 B. Psgaa, Brooklyn, $70,000; W. s. Johnson, London, .."h.m; real esAnas frands in Yank: .n. $78,000; total, 5L404.000. INSURANCE FIGURES. Lo-ses by Tire in the I riited Stute for lass V ar 1--M. The Journal of romui-r-c and Comniorilal Bulletin says: The Ire losa sf the United (States and Canada for t!u mouth ol December, as estimated from our liaily Bleu, amounts to $1o.:;2I.(Mmi, and the total for the ;ear ;s therefore $12hV L-Pi.elO. The following comparative table exhibits the ..-. by mouths: I HOC $1SM4.!NMI Il.!14.tl0ti lo UPUSNi I1..V-Ü.N0II I. s.",.iro '. ".! "hi 11.33(1.0 i 1". ; r..::oo T.sT'i. x i !3,::m.:Mfi li-'.'MvT1' r'.::.i. k'-s lvr:. 917.tCN.-4MI to.', to i ii;.;j..;.vi 1 1.HKt.lMMt M.fJT.pni 1';.::i4.o."hi lJ.Jls.7oo l :.ss2it Io.This Tiro It.OI t.Too 11.4MCt.O io 1.' r.. 47.". ItBL M'..H.S.4O0 ll.S7.0tMI S.I 17.100 11..".' Uoo IO.777.SlSI K.2KSU0 l0.S07.OlSI 10. 4 .".'. 10.1 m.!ssi s.1-.;.7oo l'i.i:ß.wsi 11. ::j1.ooo .1.1 R lei, Ie, Apr V iy JIIM J i!v . s. ,.t I let VoV Iee T t;i! f.,r year Fl32.704.TOu 4i." s;.-, j-.-'4';.4oo A (la nee si ike table ifl show how in ii le-.s the leases of IHM :m than tl ose of lv.: r-Ti b ivij. When the inrrease in insurable ralne m the essastrjr, and partirolsrly the decided and general ces in fire inst ranee rates, is esa- - dered. it is not Strasse that tho are b turanee ststestents now being poblished ihouM confirm o,ir tsedletioas sf last month a to liberal profits, A largo portion of 1,.- tiro loss of the Country is preventable, but there is a deplorable apathy of public sentiment upon this point. In spite of the fact that this apathy is responsible for lire loss .ind resultant expensive insurance, poor or rooked are n srshals are permitted to bs app idnted, political "combines" soil inefficient water works to siiiiipsllbjs. tiro ehiefs get s commission on rotten hose and defective engines. ineinli:iris are covertly admired, if sot applauded, as "slick." eleetrie wires are recklessly installed, and worae than careless insurance rontnaaies insure sasnected nrehags and dancerously constructed property t'udy half the tire loss of the United States is chargeable to the combination sf carelessness and crime, and a proper nnderstanding of this fact by the masses would result in some reform at least. Who can doubt what the effect would bo if the factors which make insurance costly were given with their rspective proportions in let;,il in tho agent's hill instead of the mere lump sum of the premium'.' Supposing for a $10 premium the bill ran : To natural and Baprereutsfcie hazard. ?4 oo To uik; voidable incendiarism 7,"i T t looked or Incompetent lire marshals 7. To dishonesty in purchasing lire ap pliances ... To political Job in srater nocks To recklessness of elect fie.-, 1 companies Is carelessness of ssdeTWl iters i'o taxes given away to exempt lireBWS To otltor State or local taxes or fees . To poor or corrupt balMlng laspectnra To owners not enforcing care ia building To cononission to sgCUl BS BS so ."o H jr. ."HI s sn 1 Total US " Were every premium payer to have the cost of his insurance analyzed for him. just as he was paying his premium, th--needed reduction in tiro loss would s mn be brought about by a wave of public sentiment. It is wonderful how what might bo callinl the wroiignes of a wrong' stirs the riglrtSSMSS zeal of ti;e populace when the nervo running from the iocket lo the moral sense is agitated at its lower extremity. If every male citizen iu the Tinted Slates were this month SSSSdy and specifically subjected to a tax f St to make up for the unnii-essary tire loss of 1st! there would he a geawtai move m the direction of reducing IhS lire waste :: reasonable proportions. DYING IN A MADHOUSE. YY. J. Scanlan, One a I f ndlna DSMS diMti la NOW Nuir into Koath. Was. .1. Bcnnlan. who was a universal favorite on the vaudeville stage, is reported to lie at the point of death Si Whito Plains insane asylum. New York. Ho tirst began to show signs of parotic insanity two years Kart, ami was sent to WM. .1 . W A .X I x . Tlooiningdalo tsylum. This actor had a knack of always pleasing his audience, whether by word or gesture. His wit was clean and gUSCk, and was duo partly to his t'eltic origin. His failing mind anil incarceration was cause if deep regret to thousands of his admirers. Scanlsn I wrote quite a number of opular songs. Molly it" was the one that had th greatest vogue. Scanlan's career has j been a strangely romantic one. When a boy he w as a boot bhtct in New York, and here ho first displayed his talent by jmimis I ms his patrons. Yhen tho dreadful mal ady came on him he was the hading Irish comedian in America. C'onur. to t.oui-hitc SiumIuv. Tin law compelling Tongress to adjourn sine die at noon on Mai b t w ill ; compel that body lo legislate on Sun lay this year. Our national lawmakers will ninaiti iu session nil Saturday niht and j pretty much of Sunday. There will lie an j interim for sloop. From Sunday after noon both branches will remain in ontuitions session until noon of the followin day. This was the case :it th.. , of the Fiftieth Congress, during Harrison's administration, ami also at the close of the short session during Hayes' administration. Kdward .1. Thelp. ex-Minister to England, has returned to New Haven to resusie his course of fccturcs before the Yale law studeut).

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