Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 44, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 March 1894 — Page 2

Shr 3?ihc County JJnncrf rat M- McO. 8TOOPS, Editor and Proprietor- * PETERSBURG. - INDIANA. All of the anarchists recently arrested in Paris will be' tried together at the next assizes, proof of their mntual complicity having been established. Two American line steamships now under construction at the Cramps’ ship yard at Philadelphia, have been named after the western cities of St Ljouis and St PauL *■ -*— - i. The committee of the German reichstag to which was referred the RussoGerman commercial treaty, accepted the measure as a whole by a,vote of 18 to 12 on the 8th. Stephen Geer, a dairyman, was assassinated while standing in his own doorway on the Charleston pike, near Jeffersonville, In(J., at 2 o’clock on the morning of the 6th. . ' 4 £ Bernardo A. Thiel, bishop of Costa Rico, and several other prominent Catholics, clerical and lay, have been arrested at San Jose, charged with plotting revolution. The Italian chamber of deputies, on the 9th, by an overwhelming majority, voted to prosecute Deputy de FeliceGiuffridai, of Catania, for alleged complicity with the Sicilian anarchists.

Congressman M. C. Blanchard was, on the 7th, appointed “United States senator by Gov. Foster of Louisiana, to fill the unexpired term of Senator * White until the legislature meets in May. 1 Miss Ida Van Etten, an America^ writer,‘who had been living__fetf'”several months at the Continental hotel , in Paris, died, on the 5tli, it is said, of starvation, amid the most pitiful surroundings. A movement to hold a big convention of workingmen in Washington on April 6 and 7 to protest against the passage of the Wilson bill bjT the senate, was inaugurated in Philadelphia on the 8th. Mr. Wm. ‘Totter, , ex-United States minister to Italy, who lias been succeeded by Ambassador MacVeagh, had an audience with King Humbert, on the 8th, and presented to his majesty his letter ol recall. The court of inquiry into the loss of the man-of-war Kearsarge met at the Brooklyn navy yard, on the 8th, but adjourned again, owing to the continued illness of Capt. J. N. Miller, one of the members of the court. Up to tlje 7th the treasury departhad received on account of the late bond issue *58,261,512—*88,235.000 in gold and *19,830,000 in legal tenders— all but *250,000 principal and premium for which the bonds were sold. The three pool rooms of Minneapolis, Minn., were closed, op the 5th, under the new ordinance prohibiting gambling. It was expected that one of the rooms would reopen, when it would be pulled and the legality of the ordinance tested. Any person who can give the necessary bond and satisfy the postmastergeneral that he has th<k facilities for doing the work may this year bid for the contract for furnishing stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers to the government for the four years beginning October 1 next. The British column, operating in Assam against the tribe of Abors was defeated, recently, and retreated on Sadiya. A force of 200 sent to the relief of the column was also forced to retreat. A detachment of thirty men was massacred, and the position of the main column was reported to be critical. At 5 o’clock on the morning of the fith the rescuers clearing the gangway of the Gaylord mine at Plymouth, Pa., in which thirteen men were entombed three weeks before, came upon the uninjured car used by the buried men. The mine officials were s confident of the early finding of the bodies of some .of the men' The disruption of the Spanish cabinet, which had been threatened for months but was deferred by an agreement to patch up their differences until after the settlement of the country’s dispute with Morocco, occurred on the 8th. Queen Regent Christina immediately instructed Premier Sagasta to reconstruct the ministry. A bill was introduced in the house of representatives, on the »th, by Mr. McRae, of Arkansas, providing for the abolition of the bounty on sugar and placing that commodity on the free list. If, after a Reasonable time has elapsed, the bill is still unacted on in the senate, an effort will be made to place it as a rider on one of the appropriation bills.

After a trial lasting four months and four (days for complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin in Chicago in May, 1889, of which he had once been convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, and of which sentence he had served three years, ex-Detec-tive Daniel Coughlin was. on the 8th, acquitted by the jury, and for th6 first time in nearly five years walked out of court a free man. The Portuguese,having obstructed the progress of British parties engaged in constructing a telegraph line between the British sphere and Tete on the Zambesi in southeast Africa, Lieut. - Com. George S. Q. Carr, in command of .the steel stern wheel gunboat Mosquito, landed a party of blue jackets in order to protect the men at work upon the 'telegraph line. The Portuguese fired jupon the British landing party and the i fire was returned. Latest advices, up to the Vth, state that reinforcements jfor both parties were being hurried i forward.

'CURRENT TOPICS. !'- THE HEWS IH BRIEP. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

IT Ik the senate, on the 5th, the seigniorage bill was received from the house and laid on the table. A resolution was adopted calling., on the secretary of the treasury for a statement as to repayment by states of interest paid by the government on state bonds for the Cherokee fund. Mr. Voorhees reported from the finance committee a compilation of the coinage laws of the government from 1792 to 1MM, which was ordered printed.....In the bouse the session was opened with prayer by Evangelist Dwight »L. Moody. The day was taken up in a discussion of the policy of the administration in pension matters. In the senate, on the 6th, Mr. Hill offered a resolution calling on the flnarce committee to amend the tariff bill so as to Increase the revenue to cover the current deficit of >73.00X000, and to omit the proposed internal revenue and direct-tax features. Mr. Stewart spoke on the seigniorage bill. Several senaters aroso to a question of personal privilege, denying that they had obstructed the work in committee on the tariff bill to secure protection to local interests. as charged in a New York paper. After an executive session the senate adjourned, _In the house, after unimportant morn? ing business, a resolution vacating several appointments to the naval academy at Annapolis. Md.. made by the secretary of the navy in violation of the rights of congressmen, was passed. The house went into committee of the whole on the pension appropriation bill, and soon after adjourned. In the senate. On th’e 7th. a bill for the reclaiming of the corvette Kearsarge aqd her equipment was passed. Some unimportant bills and resolutions were passed, and the senate took up the seigniorage bill, which was pushed through its various stages until a vote was pending -on its final passage, when, upon the earnest protest of Senator Sherman against undue haste in passing a bill of such importance, the bill was allowed to go over for one day. After a short executive session the senate adjourned.In the housie the pension appropriation bill was taken ftp in/pommittee of the whole, and discussed updrr the five-minute rule. Several amendments were rejected, and when the committee rose the bill was reported to the house and passed. In the senate, on the 8th, a large number of private pension and other bills were passed, after which the Bland seigniorago bill was taken up, and Messrs. Sherman, Man'derson Allison and others spoke in favor of tfie motipn to reconsider the vote of the day previous ordering the engrossment and th|rd reading of the bill. Messrs. Faulkner. Harris and others spoke against the motion. After a short executive session the senate adjourned. _In the house several minor bills were passed, and the District of Columbisi^ appropriation bill Was discussod for two hours and went over. < In the senate, on the 9th, consideration of the Bland seigniorage bill was resumed, and Mr. Harris asked and secured unanimous consent for a final vote on the bill at 2 p. m. on tho 15th, provided Mr. Allison’s motion to reconsider wai lost. The remainder of the open session was taken up in the discussion of .the measure_Lin the house almost the entire day session was deyoted to the District of Columbia appropriation bill. An evening .session was held for the consideration of private pension Milk PERSONAL^ AND GENERAL; A delegation representing the iKsh societies of Brooklyn called on Mayor Schieren, on the 5th, and asked hitn to allow the Irish Hag to be hoisted on the city hjall on St. Patrick’s day. The mayor replied that he was the mayor of all nationalities and would give special privileges to none. He was reminded ox the fate of Abram S. Hewitt by his callers. In a short address from the throne, on the 5th, Queen Victoria prorogued the British parliament, and after brief sessions both houses adjourned. Four men of a gang of nine shaft sinkers in the Richmond shaft in the northern part of Scranton. Pa., )vero killed, on the 6th, by the fall of a shelf of rock and the consequent explosion of<R blower of gas. The lighthouse tender Violet, with President Cleveland and party on board, returned to Washington, on the 6th, at 1:30 p. m. Mrs. Margaret Gi.asson was suffocated by smoke from a fire in a New YoXk city tenement in which she lived, on the 7th. Her babe was fjound by her side unconscious, and sent to a hospital.] Two children in an adjoining room escaped injury. Judge W, H. Maultby for forty seven years prominent in nort hern Michigan, and known to nearly everybody in the straits region, died at Cheboygan, onthe 7th, aged 8p. The barn on the farm of Charles Pierce, located near Cold water, Mich., was destroyed by fire, on the 7th, together with forty sheep and |many horses find cattle. Miles Nixop, the tenant on the farm, was burned to death while tr\Ting to save the stpek. Alderman Martin B. Lomasney, of Boston, was shot in$he leg, on the7tb. just outside the aldermanic chamber in the city‘hall, by a crank named James Doonan, who fired five shots at the alderman from a 38-caliber revolvef, only one of which, however, took effect. In the police court at Columbus, O., on the 8th, Judge Martin discharged Dr. A. J. Parke, who was charged with stealing a diamond from a corpse which he had viewed as coroner, and held Grant Wilson, the undertaker’s hostler, who made the aftidavit against the doctor, for the theft. Fire in a Detroit (Mich.) lpdging house, early on the morning of the 8th, compelled the occupants to jump for their lives from the windows. One man was probably fatally and another seriously injured. Samuel Margarum, trustee of the Gunkle Banking Co., of Middletown, O., insolvent, on the 8th petitioned for the appointment of a receiver for the United Paper Co., of Middletown. The Patrons of Industry of Nortlj America finished their work in fifth annual convention at Toledo, O., onthe 7th, and the delegates departed for

tneir nomes. Ai.l of the cart drivers employed by the street-cleaning department of New York city went on strike on the 8th. Squads of police were sent to the district as trouble was apprehended. The Netherlands phrli^ment amended the principal clause of the reform bill, on the 9th, so as to destroy the principle of the measure, whereupon the bill was withdrawn by the minister of the interior, Dr. Tak von Poortvleit. It was expected that the ministry would resign in consequence of the action of parliament. The prince of Wales started from Cannes, France, on the 9th, to pay a visit to Emperor Francis Joseph, at Mentone, where the Austrian ruler was sojourning.

Thk imports of dry goods at the port of New York for the week ended on the 9th were £2,367,034, and the amount marketed £2,433. lot. For the corresponding week of 1893 the imports were 64,342,134, and the amount marketed 64,267,179. A new and fatal disease has made its appearance among the hogs in the vicinity of Wooster, O. It attacks the muscles of the hind legs, which become rigid and then gradually fall away till death ensues. ; Ix the Pollard-Breckinridge case in Washington, on the 9th, Mrs. Luke Blackburn and Maj. Moore, chief of police of Washington, testified to promise of marriage being made by Breckinridge to Miss Pollard in their presence, and gave considerable collateral evidence tending to show the engagement of the parties to marry. A statement has been prepared by the immigration bureau of the treasury department showing the number of immigrants which arrived at the ports of New York. Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore from foreign ports during the calendar year 1893. The whole number is shown to have been 431,712. and these, it is said, represent at least four-fifths of the whole number which arrived at all American

At the meeting of the house judiciary committee, on the 9th, Chairman Culberson announced Representatives Hoatner, Terry and W.A. Stone as the committee to g investigate Judge Jenkins’ injunction against employes of tile Northern Pacificarailroad. The investigation promises to have important developments. THEdecrea.se in the number of claims received daily at the pension bureau is shown in a statement prepared by the department. The number of pensioners on the rolls is now approximately 906,000, against 952,000 for the corresponding week of last year. The number of applications has, however, steadily diminished since September 1. Maj. Georoe C. Conner died at Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 9th, aged 60. He was a uative of Ireland. Soon after the war he became a partner of Sheldon & Co., publishers, of New York, and later southerneagent for the Appletons. Til.man II. Fisher, a member of the New York consolidated stock exchange, was suspended, on the 9th, for six months because of alleged questionable business methods. Fisher advertised extensively in the newspapers in the south and west, and promised to make fortunes for bis clients on small capital. u Senator Aet.ison regards the appointment by Germany of a commission to investigate the silver question as an incident of great significance, particularly because the commission, with the exception of one, or at the most two of its members, is composed of bi-met-allists. Mr. and Mrs.- Gladstone have received autograph letters from Queen Victoria, both messages being couched in language of high appreciation of the services rendered to the country by Mrr* Gladstone. The boiler at Foley & Faller's machine shops in Pittsburgh, Pa.; exploded on the 9th, killing Otto Kelleher, the engineer, and probably fatally injured Frank Fallei\ a member of the firm. The president, on the 9th, appointed Walter J. Wilson, of West Virginia, son of Chairman Wilson of the house ways and means committee, and Lewis G. Stevenson, of Illinois, son of Vice-President Stevenson, among others assistant paymasters in the navy. LATE NEWS ITEMS, The senate was not in session on the 10th.In the house, after unimportant preliminary business, the District of Columbia appropriation bill was further considered and passed—111 to to 11—carrying a total appropriation of $5,206,773—half payable by the government. The sundry civil appropriation bill was then taken up, becoming the unfinished business on the calendar. Washington's birthday was generally observed among the Americans in llawaii. Minister Willis invited the officials of the government to notice the day, which they Cordially, complied with by closing public offices for the afternoon. The celebration was arranged nominally by the American league. Salutes were fires by the Philadelphia, Naniwa and the Champion. The statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended on the 10th showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $145,245; loans, increase, $646,100; specie, decrease, $16^,500; legal tenders, increase, $857,600; net deposits, increase, $1,362,500; circulation, decrease, $106,300.

Commander Monteil’s new French expedition in Africa will be concentrated on the upper Mobangi river. It will leave the Mobangi country more than a thousand strong. The route of the expedition is suppose to be directed to the region of the upper Nile. The aggregate of corn in farmers’ hands in the surplus states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, is 61.1 per cent, of that in farmers’ hands in the entire country, or in quantity 860,000,000 bushels. Statistics issued by Lloyds show that within the last three months twenty-eight vessels have been abandoned in the Atlantic. Nineteen of them carried cargoes of tipnber and must be dangerous delelicts. It is rumored at the court of St. James that Czar Alexander III. will be~ the queen’s guest next summer and that preparations for his visit are already making. William Potter, formerly United States minister to Italy, left Rome for Naples, on the 13th, en route to the United States. On the 10th the New York associated banks held $75,638,375 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per-cent. rule. Queen Victoria started for the continent on the ISth.

THE TARIFF MEASURE, As Amended by the Senate Subcommittee Having: It in Charge, Laid Before the Foil Committee* and Given Oat for Publication—The Principal Features in Which It Has Beeu Amended. THE SEX ATE AXD THE TARIFF BIT.E. Washington, March 8.—The Wilson tariff bill, which passed the house of representatives February 1, was laid before the full membership of the senate committee on finance thi* morning1 at 11 o'clock in the amended form upon which the democratic majority of that committee finally agreed, after one whole month's consideration, and numerous changes of % front upon all the more important objects of taxation. Simultaneously with the presentation of the bill to the full committe it was given out for publication through the press. The chief features upon which public interest centered were the provisions in regard to the tariff on sugar, iron ore, lead, wool and its manufactures, cotton manufactures, anti the internal revenue taxes on whisky and tobacco. The sugar provision is as follows:

SUGAR SCHEDULE. All sugars, tank bottoms, sirups of cane Juice or of beet Juice, melada. concentrated melada. concrete and concentrated molasses testing by the polariscope not above 80 degrees. shall pay a duty of one cent ''-per pound: and for every additional degree or fraction of a degree above 80 and not above 90 t^egrees shown by the polariscope test, shall pay one one-hundredth of a cent per pound additional: and above 90and not above 96 degrees.for every additional degree or fraction of a degree shown by the-polariseope lest shall pnv a duty of two one-hundredths of a cent per pound additional: and above 96 degrees by polariscope test shall pay a duty of one and four-tenths cents per pound; molasses testing not above 66 degrees by the polariscope shall pay a duty of two cents per gallon: molasses testing above 56 degrees shall pay a duty of four cents per gallon. IROS ORES, COAL, ETC. Iron ore, including managniferous iron ore also the dross of residium from burnt pryites, 40 cents per ton. Coal fS taken from the free list and made dutiable also at 40 cents a ton. and coke at 15 cents. Lead ore. which in the Wilson bill was 15 cents per cwt ad valorem: lead ore and lead tiros, three-fourths of one cent per pound: provided that silver ore and all other ores containing lead shall pay a duty of three-fourths of one cent per pound on lead contained therein, according to sample apd assay at the port of entry. • WOOL SCHEDULE. Raw wool is left on the free list exactly as in the Wilson bill, the provision to pro into effect August 2, 1894. In manufacturesot wool the valuations as given in the Wilson bill are stricken out, aud the schedules now read as follows: Wool of the sheep, hair of the camel, goat, alpaca and other like animals ip the form of stubbing, waste, roving waste, ring waste mungo. shoddies, garpetted or carded waste, carbonized* noils or other waste product, any of which is composed wholly or in part of wool, the hair of the camel, goat, alpaca and other like animals, which has been improved or advanced beyond its original condition as waste by the use of machinery or the application of labor or both, and carbonized wool, shall be subject to a duty of 1 per centum r.d vnlorum. On wool of the sheep, hair of the camel, goat alpaca, or other like animals, in the form of roving, roping or tops. 25 per centum ad valorem. On woolen and worsted yarns 30 per centum ad valorem. On woolen or worsted cloths, shawls, knit fabrics, manufactures of every description made wholly or in part of wool, worsted, the hair of the camel, goat, alpaca, or.other animals, and any of the above having India bubber a& a component material, not specially provided for in this act. 3i per centum ad valorem (instead of 4‘J as in the Wilson bill). On blankets, hats of wool,and flannels. 25 per centum ad valorem: valued at more than 39 cents per pound, 30 per centum ad valorem. On women's and children's dress goods, composed wholly or in part of wool, not specially provided for in this act, 35 per centum ad valorem (instead of 40). On clothing ready-made, and articles of wearing apparel of every description, and imitations of fur, composed wholly or in part of wool, etc., 40 per centum ad valorem (instead of 45). On webbings, gorings. suspenders, braces, beltings, bindings, braids, etc., 35 per centum ad valorem (instead of 40). Carpets renfain unchanged. The reductions in the duties for manufactures of wool shall take effect December 2, 1S94. STRICKEN FROM THE FREE LIST. Articles stricken from the free list are as follows: Apples, green, ripe and dried, etc.; beef, mut ton. pork; bone char, suitable- for use in decolorizing sugars: biturainus and shaU) and coal slack or culpa, coke; cocoa, fiber; floor matting, manufactured from round or split straw, including Chinese matting ; dates, cocoanuts, Brazil nuts, cream nuts: gambler; guts, salted; horn strips and tips: iron ore; olives, green or prepared: orchids, lily of the valley, azaleas, palms and other plants used for forcing undei glass for cut flowers or decorative purposes: sausage skins; sugars; stained o: painted window glass or painted glass; paintings and statuary. In the paragraph referring1 to articles imported for exhibition by any association authorized by the United States or any state the additions to the free list are as follows: Any cattle, horses, sheep or other domestic animals which have strayed across the border to any foreign country, or where such domestic •nimals have been or may be driven across such boundary by the owner for pasturage purpose. ((he same may be brought ‘back to the United States free of duty, under treasury regulations. The paragraph pertaining to straws, hats, etc., is changed to read as follows:

Straw, chip, grass, palm leaf, willow, osier or rattan, in the form of braids* plaits, laces suitable for making or ornamenting hats, bonnets ami hoods; also when ip ported for trimming men’s and boys’ hats only, hat-bands not exceeding two and one-half inches in width, and when cut in lengths not exceeding thirtyseven inches; hat bandings not exceeding one and one-quarter inches in width, and when cut in lengths not exceeding fifty-four inches: and h^t lining composed in whole or in part of silk, satin or cotton, when cut in pieces not exceeding twelve by sixteen inches, or five by thirty inches. Other items added are: Diamonds and Other precious stones, rough or uncut, including miners’ diamonds; cod oil, not specifically provided in the act; medals bestowed and accepted as honorary distinctions. To the paragraph which admits free “spermaceti, whale and other fish oils of American fisheries,” the* committee adds, “and all fish and other products” of such fisheries. To the paragraph dealing with paintings, the word “painting is defined as follows: And the word painting as use I in this act ■hall not he understood to include such as

made wholly or tn part by stenciling or other mechanical process. In defining professional books, tools of trade, etc., admitted free, the senate adds a provision which declares that things admitted free under this head shall not be construed to include theatrical scenery, properties and apparel. but such articles brought by proprietors of* managers of theatrical exhibitions arriving from abroad, for temporary use by them in such exhitions, and not for s any other person, and not for sale, shall be admitted free of duty under such regulations as the secretary of the treasury may prescribe. The free admission of raw silk id specifically stated to not apply to silk' doubled, twisted nor advanced in mank ufacture in any way. To philosophical and scientific apparatus is added utensils, including bottles and boxes containing instruments. Stained or painted window glass, or stained or painted glass windows specially imported for the use of any society or institution conducted for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific or literary purposes, and not intended for sale, are added to the free list. Plows and other agricultural implements, which the house bill made free, have a provision, that all the articles mentioned, when imported from any country which lays an import duty on articles, coming from the United States, s^all be subject to duties under existing law. SII.K SCHEDULE.

In the silk schedule, carded silk is changed from 25 cents per pound to 20 per centum advolorem; thrown and spun silk from 20 to 25 per centum ad valorem. Silk laces are reduced from 50 to 45 per centum. GLASS SCHEDULE. e There are only four changes in the glass and glassware products: Plain green and colored, molded or pressed, arid flint and lime glassware Including bottles, vi|»ls and so fortSi are raised from 3) to 40 per eeaitum ad valorem. All articles of glass, cut, engraved, painted, colored, printed, stained, decorated, silvered or gilded, not including pljate glass silvered, or looking glass plates, are raised from 33 to 40 per centum ad valorem All glass bottles, decanters, whon efit. engraved. painted, colored, and otherwise decorated. or raised from 35 to 4** per cent. Unpolished cylinder, crown and common window glass, not exceeding _16x24 inches square, one and cae-eighth cents per pound; above that and not exceeding 24x30 inches square, one and one-fourth cents per pound; above that and not exceeding 24x36 inches square, from one and three-eighths to one and one-half cents pet; pound; all above? that from one and one-half to one and flve-eighths cents per pound. TOBACCO SCHEDULE. The schedule of the Wilson bill levj*ing a tax of 81 per thousand on cigarettes wrapped in paper is stricken out, and there is substituted a tax on cigars of all descriptions, including cigarettes weighing more than three pounds per thousand, 85 ;per thousand; oh cigarettes wrapped in paper, 81 per thousand; and or cigarrettes in tobacco 50cents per thousand. WHISKY SCHEDULE. Sections 82, S3 and S4 of house bill relating to the whisky tax are stricken out altogether a id newnroyisions inserted. On the first, day of (^SP.^cond 'month Matter the passage of ;he act -there shall be collected on all distilled spirits in bond at that time, or that may be |h.‘u or thereafter produced in the United States >n which the tax is not paid before that day, $1.10 a proof gallon, or wine gallon when Belov proof, but in computing the tax all fractional parts of gallons less than one-tenth shall not be counted. Unless new stamps can be ma lp the present issue is authorized to-be tsed That the tax herein imposed shall b3 paid by the distiller of the spirits, on or before their removal from the distillery or p ace of storage, except in case the removal :herefrom without payment of tax is authjrizod by law; and upon spirits lawfully' deposited in any distillery warehouse, or other bonded warehouse. esfcab ished under internal revenue laws within eight years from the date of the original entry for deposit in any distillery warehouse, or from the date of original gauge of fru t brandy deposited in special bonded warel ouse, except in case of withdrawal theref *0111 without payment of tax as authorized by law. Warehousing and transportation bonds are required as under the present, law, conditioned, however, for the payment o; taxes at the new rate and before rfem oval from warehouse and withjn eight years. Frovisloi. is made for. collecting the tax when r,ny.failur4or refusal to give warehouse bonds on original entry occurs. Distillers are permitted, prior to the exp ration of four years of the date of t e origiriaP’gauge as to frilit brandy, < r original entry as to all other sp 'its, to have the same regauged. ' - The edr missioner of interval revenue is autlioi zed, upon the execution of proper jb< ud, to establish one or more warehou es, not exceeding ten in any one district, to be known as general | bonded warehouses^ to be used ex1 clusively for the storage of spirits distilled from material other than fruit. Provision is made for removal of liquors from the distilling warehouse to the general bonded warehouse, and spirits cun be withdrawn from transfer from one general bonded warehouse to another but once. Distillers who have given bond and only distilled spirits of their own production in the original packages with tax-paid stamps attached, are exempted from the payment of the special tax of a wholesale liquor dealer. The remaining provisions relate to detail, conviction and punishment for violations of the law

THE INCOME TAX. With the exception of changes in the text and modification of some of its provisions, the income tax remains as part of the bill. The language of the first section is made clearer; and reads as follows: That from and alter January 1, 1S95, there shall be collected and paid annually upon the gains, profits and income received in the preceding calendar year by every citizen of the United Sta tes and evpry porson residing therein. whether said gains, profits or income be derived *oth any kind of property, rents, interest, dividends. or salaries. or from any profession, trade, employment or vocation carried on- in the ! United States or elsewhere, or, from any other source whatever, a tax of 2 per cent, on the amount so derived over and above $4,000, and a like tax shall !>e levied, collected and pait^annually upon the gains, profits and incomes of all property owned and of any business, trade or profession carried on in the United States by persons residing without the United St.v~s. In estimating those things which go to make up an income in addition to the sales

of live stock, sugar. wool. etc., the committee adds cotton. Proceeding along the line of the hous9 bill changes are only made to make the te xt clear and where a word is used capable of being construed to glee a discretionary power, the tense erf the verb is changed1 to make it mandatory. ! In section 59, which says there shall be levied and collected a tax of 2 per cent, on all dividends, etc., the committee strikes out the following: • On all dividends, annuities and Interest; paid by corporations or associations, organised for profit by virtue of the laws of the United States, or of any states by means of which the individual. stockholder is in any wise limited. in cash. scrip or otherwise: and the net income of all such corporations in excess of such dividends, annuities and interests, pcStam any other sources 'whatever." The requirement that accounting officersmustsend in their lists within thirty days after any dividends become due and payable is changed to read: “On or l>efore the 10th of the month following that in which such dividends become due and payable."

The provision of section 59, “that this act; shall not apply to the income or dividends received or paid by such building and loan associations as are organized under the laws of any state or territory’, and which donot make loans except to shareholders within the state where such associations have been organized, for the purpose of this act ‘dividend’ shall include every payment in the way of division among the owners s of the stock or'capital of a corporation. or persons entitled to a share of its profits or income, whether such dividends are paid out of profits or not, or are paid in cash or otherwise,” is stricken out. An important clause added provides that dividends or interest accruing to states, counties or municipalities, and dividends in these or annuities accruing to, corporations or associations organized anti conducted solely for charitable, religious or educational purposes, or to any’ trustee or other judiciary, on stocks, shares, funds or securities held solely for charitable purposes, on salaries due to state, county or municipal officers, shall not be subject to such tax or deduction. The house bill made it obligatory upon all corporations, paying any employe a salary more than 14,000, to pay the Wx and charge it to such employe. The senate bill directs the corporation to report the salary paid, but gives the employe the right to "act as his own financial agent in this transaction. The provisions making payment of prize money the same as incomes frorap salaries is eliminated. In expunging the tautology found in tire house bill, the senate committee has cut out a number of sections, preserving the essential points by incorporating them with sections which they have condensed and rearranged. WANTED TO SEE HIM POP. A Child’s Curiosity Spoils, Her Big Sister’s Well-Laid Plans. X The last of the sunset glow was fading from the western horizon, and the stars had begun to shine out clear and bright on the darkening September sky. On a corner of the.boarding-house piazza, in the light which shone from the door, a slender young girl with dark eyes, wavy brown hair, and wearing a gracefully-draped white gown, sat in the shadow. The glow of the cigarette showed that a summer young man occupied a chair slightly in the rear of her. Their conversation was intermittent, and carried on in low tones. ‘ Yes, I'm glad we’re such good friends, Mr. Van de Horn, because I— because we’re so congenial—and, to be frank, because. I like you.” The girl turned her head and smiled at her companion, giving a pretty emphasis to the last sentence,. ’ “Hut, say, maybe you don’t like this smoke—I’ll fire jit,*’The cigarette went : whirling out upon the lawn. “Oh, I wouldn’t have had 3-011 do that on my account for anything, Mr. Van de Horn. And then you are so fond of them. “Perhaps 1 ought to have fired it before, but I didn’t think; but, say, what a prett3’ ring that is,” taking the hand whigi rested on the chair arm. “Did you know we were thinking ot going away to-morrow?” said the girl, pensively, without noticing the remark ~ as to the ring.' - .. “No, you don’t mean it? Tell us all about it,” said the 3’oung man, still holding the hand. * “ThereQs nothing to tell, except how lonesome I’ll be, and”^A little sigh was all tnat remained of the sentence. There was silence for several moments, broken only by the scraping sound when Mr. Van de Horn’s chair was moved along a little. “I wish you wouldn’t, Mr. Van de Horn; I feel sad to-night, and you really know you shouldn’t do that” “But, my dear Miss Landis, lam. merely comforting 3’oti.” “No—there, there! I shall have to go into the house. No one but—that is, no one—can give that sort of consolation td me. I didn't think 3-ou would trifle. I thought you would appreciate friendship.” :»• it. \

The young1 lady had started to rise from her chair, and the young man, as lie dropped on one knee, still holding the hand between his own, did not see the sight which made her stop. “You mistake me—you really do. It is more than friendship I offer you—” But he got no further. In the light which streamed from; the doorway stood a little white-robed figure, and-at the pause a small voice piped: “Sister May, is he doin’ to pop? Tell me, cause I want to see iC” ' “Child, what are you doing down here at this time of night?” sai<Jthe young lady,/glaring and rigid. “Want to see you make him pop,” said the tot, in a' rather frightened tone of voice.' “What are you talking about? Go up stairs this minute back to bed.” “I didn’t do nullin’,” came in tearful sobs. “I heard mamma say if anybody could make a man pop you could, and I never saw nuffln’ pop but a cork and a stick, and I jest only wanted to sen Mr. Horn pop.” -Chicago News. - —Three hundred and sixty mountain* * in the United States are over ten thou* sand feet high. .