Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 17, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 September 1894 — Page 6

CHAIRMAN WILSON, Of the House Ways and Means Committee <• .v ■' Talks On the Tariff BUI to His Ccffi•titueuta In Accept In* n Kenouilnatlon to Cougreaa at thqlr Hands. , Martinsburg. W. Va., Aujr. 30.—The democratic nominating' convention for the Second district met here at 11 a. m. for the purpose of renominating Hon. Wm. L. Wilson, chairman of the committee on ways and means. In accepting the nomination Mr. Wilson said, in part: h The honor to which you summon me to-day la not a new one for me to receive at your generous hands. So many times has it come to me in the past—never coldly or grudgingly— that I should vainly seek for new and stronger language in which to assure you of my increasing gratitude for your approval and support. But if fitting and sufficing words are slow to come. I beg you not to doubt that 1 am more deeply moved and more affectionately touched by your action to-day than I have ever been before. That action comes at the end of one of the greateet and most momentous struggles that has marked our political history. and it comes in such a way as to stamp with your approval as constituents and democrats the services which your representative was called upon to render for the supremacy of democratic principles and the fulfillment of democratic pledges. It is no mock affection, for nothing could bo more blameworthy and criminal on my part on this occasion, but the simple candor which is due from me to you, when 1 say that but for what seemed a duty and a call growing out of the struggle. I should gladly ask at your hands an honorable discharge from further public service and permission to take my place once again in the ranks of the militant and ever-faithful democrats of the Second congressional district. In other campaigns I have accepted this trust ^t your hands with a full knowledge of the labor and the strain required for a thorough canvass of so large and so •toutly-contested a district as our own, jr put also with a confidence in my ability to meet that labor and strain. To-day I can not possess that confidence, and in view of the large and dangerous drafts made upon my strength and health. 1 shall be constrained to ask at your hands some remission of the labors of public canvassing which I have heretofore so greatly enjoyed. I shall not, however, be a drone iu the approaching contest, and shall spare no reasonable effort to meet personally, if not upon the hustings, as many of the people as I can. Fellow citizens, this is enough for me to say of a personal nature. There are other thoughts that fill your minds to-day. Boundless as is your kindness to me, it is something beyond f that which has gathered this great convention and creat assemblage.

The congress which adjourned yesterday was charged by the American people with a duty clear, unmistakable, transcendent: to wrest from the grasp of private and selfish hands the power of federal taxation; to lift from the backs of the American people that burden of tribute to privilege and monopoly which under thirty years of republican legislation had grown constantly heavier, until it far exceeded their legitimate and necessary taxation for the support of the government: to reclaim and make forever sure that heritage of American youth, which is the true meaning and priceless boon of democratic institutions—equal opportunity in a land of equal rights. This was the inspiring mission which the democratic partyhad long sought from the American people power and authority to perform. To this mission the immediate representatives of the people gave themselves earnestly and faithfully. In that work they were at all times cheerod and encouraged by their great leader, who for eight years, in defeat and victory, has led in the movement for tariff preform while he scrupulously abstained from interfering with the work of those intrusted with reform legislation, he was instant, in season and out of season, in urging that the pledges on which we had oome into power should be fulfilled in the letter and in the spirit, and that the blessings of reduced and just taxation should be fully and honestly secured to the American people. In this great work your own representative, thanks to your kindness in granting him a publio service, was assigned an important and most arduous part. No man could, fitly undertake to frame a revenue bill for a nation of seventy millions of people, unsurpassed in wealth aud in the magnitude aud variety of their industrial and commercial interets, to purge injustice and monopoly from that system: to replace class exaction by public taxation. privilege by equality: to lighten the burden of the people, secure larger rewards for their labor and freer play for their industries, without beiug appalled by the greatness of the trust committed to< him. and the thickening difficulties in the way of its successful performance. No man could worthily approach such a work without putting away from him any petty or personal ambition and any selfish concern for his own political future. No man could hope for any measure of real success Who was not willing to dedicate to such a task every power of body and mind, with an bumble invocation for strength and wisdom from the unfailing source of strength and wisdom. I can not claim to have risen to the full height of this duty, but I have never faltered in the belief that you, my 'friends and constituents, expected and desired me to enter upon my work in this spirit and in this spirit to persevere to its close. I knew that you were tariff reformers without reservation, I knew that the democrats of West Virginia were not protectionists for West Virginia and reformers and free- traders tor other states. But even if I had known otk» erwise I should not have, gone aside one step from what was to me the clear pathway of duty to all the people. You know, .for you have followed with watchful interest the varying history of our attempt at tariff reform. You have followed with rising hopes and hearty approval the action of the house of representatives in the framing and passage of a measure bearing the badges of democratic principles and fraught with promised benefits to all the people. You have followed with waning hopes and angry disapproval the tedious and torturous passage of that bill through the senate, and seen that despite a nominal democratic majority in thut body, the great trusts and monopolies were still able to write their taxes -in as they had done uuder republican rule in some of its most important schedules. The burden upon you is tho same whether they use a democratic hand or a republican hand as their amenuensis. But the wrong to you is infinitely greater when men who bear the commission of your own party thus prove faithless to its highest duties. * I need not recite to you the successive steps, the material and baneful alterations through which tho house bill quietly passed into a law yesterday morning, without the signature and approval of the president, who was elected upon the issue of tariff reform, and who anticipated, as the signal triumph and historical achievement of his administration, the privilege of affixing his name to a genuine and thorough reform bill. You know by what influences this was brought about. The oountry knows, and history will know, where to put the responsibility for the partial failure to redeem our pledges to the people, and our partial failure to dislodge the great privileged interests from our tariff. I am not sure that this very failure may not be the harbinger and assurance of the speedier and more complete triumph of commercial freedom, than the smooth and unobstructed passage of the house bill would have been. The American people are aroused as hardly anything else could have aroused them to the deadly menaoe that protection begets to the purity and very existence of free government. They have seen a single great trust empowered by our tariff laws to control the production and sale of a necessity of life, parcelling out the country with its partners, and using its law-made wealth and power to thwart the best efforts of the people to reduce their own They have seen it hold up con

(Tress (or weeks* sad have heard its mlmooa boldly declare that there should be no tariff bill In which its interests, were not fully protected. and they have realized the Anal fulfillment of that boast. When the Sugar trust thus challenges the American people to a contest of strength its days are numbered, its temporary triumph is its speedier and more complete overthrow, and with its overthrow will vanish its sister brood of monopolies that are strong through its support. But, my friends, there is another and a brighter side to this picture. With all its manifold failures, its final retention of many protective duties, its objectionable sugar schedule and its excessive duties on cottons and woolens and metals, the new bill carries in it substantial relief to the American people, and must be accepted as a substant ial’ beginning of thorough and progressive tariff reform, it means cheaper clothing, cheaper tools, cheaper pottery and many other necessaries for the people. It means freer and larger commerce with those nations that buy our farm products and consequently larger and better markets for our farmers. It means a transfer of some of the burdens of government from what goes out for the daily purchase of the necessaries of life to that which comes in over and above the amount needed for such purchase. If we denounce some of its duties and rates, it is because what may be much lower than the duties and rates of the McKinley bill are yet enormities in a democratic bill. But. as the president well said, we hava gained advantage ground from which we can continue to shell the camp of monopoly. Tha day of mad protection is over in this country. McKinleyism will disappear as a dark and hideous blight from our statute books. Tha fight will go on. not. in such a general engagement and protracted struggle as we have just passed through, but in that steady and resistless pressure that will take one after Another of the strongholds of privilege, until au shall disappear before the advance of public opinion and public emancipation. I have dwelt at some length upon those phases of our tariff struggle which are naturally and properly uppermost in the mind of every genuine democrat. We tagve a right to confess our own shortcomings, air measured by the high standard of our own principles and professions. We have a right to hold our own faithless servants to that responsibility which duty and party fidelity placed upon them. I But all this does not imply satisfaction with our own party as a whole, or distrust as to its meanings and intentions. If the closeness of the vote in the house of congress gave opportunity for a few to combine against all the rest of the party.and obstruct its faithful efforts to redeem its pledges, the overwhelming mass of the democrats in the country are subject to no just criticism. They have kept the faith. They have been true to their principles. We may ourselves properlv and bitterly condemn those that failed us in this fight. We are not, therefore, subject to condemnation by our opponents. If we have done less in the way of relieving the people’s burdens than we had hoped and promised, they would have done nothing at all. If we have anywhere uncovered a trust and found it too strong for our complete dislodgment in the first attempt we have ngver failed to find them sturdily and solidly arrayed for the defense. The weapons with which monopoly has fought us they have forged and tempered and supplied. The intrenchments and fortresses behind which privilege has shielded itself from our attack they have builded for it. stone by stone and stronghold by stronghold.

ABANDONED TO A MOB. The Smallpox-Infected District of Milwaukee Deserted by the Health OUlcers and in the Hands of Squads of Angry People—To be Quarantined, if Necessary, by a Cordon of Soldiers. Milwaukee, Aug. 39.—To-night the health department has temporarily abandoned the South Side. Fifteen new cases of smallpox were reported from that section to-day—all from the Eleventh ward, but Dr. Kempster ordered his officers to keepaway. No attempts will be made to-day to investigate new cases or remove parents. The Eleventh ward is in the hands of squads of angry people, who are marching up and down the streets seeking for quarantined houses. In three or four instances the guards have been obliged to desert their posts. The state board of health was in session all day in Parlor E oi the Pfister, but nothing was decided upon. The whole time was occupied in asking questions of the health officer, chief of police and the mayor. There is considerable guessing going on. as to what the state board will do, but it seems certain to do something at once, and its measures are expected to be drastic. Whether the state board will take control is doubtful; but the Eleventh ward will undoubtedly be quarantined and law and order restored, if it requires state troops to do it. Fred Rosenberg, the man who was arrested’ on the charge of engaging in the smallpox riot on the South Side yesterday, was discharged by Judge Willber. A FRIGHTFUL COLLISION Between a Street Car and a Rapidly-Mov-ing Passenger Train—The Mortorman Fatally Injured and a Passenger May Die From His Wounds. Chicago, Aug. 30.—John Briggs, who was a motorman on an electric car, lost control of it while passing Desplaines avenue in Harlem, a suburb of Chicago, yesterday afternoon. The car dashed along the tracks on the avenue until the crossing of the Nor them Pacific railroad was reached. A train came towards the car at a high rate of speed. The engineer thought the car would stop and made no attempt to cheek the speed of his train. The car and train came into collision. The car was splintered and tossed across the tracks. Briggs was thrown from the car to the ground and suffered a compound fracture of the skull, from which he died at the county hospital last night. Of the six passengers, all were hurled from their open seats to the ground, but the only seriously injured one ia James Key, colored. He was taken from the hospital to his home, 8136 Dearborn street, and may die from his internal injuries. The engineer and fireman of the train were arrested and locked up. NATIONAL BANKS. Summitry of the Report* of Three Thousand Seveu Hundred aud Seventy Banks. Washington, Aug. 30.—A summary of the reports of the 3,770 national banks in the United States under the recent call of the comptroler of the currency shows on July 18, 1894, aggregates as follows: Loans and discaunts.. .81,033,589,358 Gold coin in reserve. 125,051,677 Gold treasury certificates ......... 40,560,490 Silverdollars.. .... 7,016,489 Total specie in reserve........ 250,670,652 Surplus fund, undlved profits, less expanses and taxes paid. 84,569,294 Dividends unpaid.... .'.... 2,586,504 Individual deposits..... 1,677,801,200 The czar of Russia is suffering from ierious kidney trouble.

ALIEN ANARCHISTS. Secretary Carlisle Replies to Represent*, tire Ooldsetr Explaining the BUI as Pre. pared by Him, bat Declining to Define the Term Allen Anarchist, as Used la the BUI, In Advance of Presentation of Cases for Adjudication. Washington, Aug. SO.—Representative Goidseir, of Chicago, classed among the house opponents who successfully prevented action on the Hill bill to exclude and deport alien anarchists, wrote a letter to Secretary Carlisle the other day stating that he had been informed that the bill was prepared by the secretary, and asking a definition of the term alien anarchist “as contained therein.” An answer was sent to Mr. Goldsier yesterday in which the secretary said: “Your information that the bill, as it now stands, was prepared by me, or at this department, is incorrect, as it contains several provisions which were not in the original draft which accompanied my letter on the subject addressed to Hon. David B. Hill, chairman of the committee on immigration. The first section, however, was prepared by me, and has not been changed except by adding the words “other than such anarchists.” As changed in the senate it now reads: ‘Be it enacted, etc.: That no alien anarchist shall hereafter be permitted to land at any port of the United States, or be admitted into the United States, but this prohibition shall not be so construed as to appl^ to political refugees or political offenders, other than such anarchists.* “Under this section, as amended, 1* it should become a law, alien anarchists would be prohibited from coming into the United States, although thej might be political refugees or politics' offenders, but under the second sectioi an alien anarchist who has been per mitted to land, or who has come into the United States cannot be arrested and deported, unless it is proved, m addition to the fact that he is an alien anarchist, ‘that his presence in this country will be a menace to the gov ernment or to the peace and well-being of society in general.’ “Under the fourth section, which re lates to proceedings in the courts after the trial and conviction of at alien for any crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, the party may be deported if the judge is satisfied from the evidence that he is an anarchist, ‘or that his remaining in this coun try will be a menace to the govern ment or to the peace and well-bein^ of society in general.’ “In the original bill prepared at this department, the judge Avas not permitted to order the deportation of the party unless he is satisfied that such alien is an anarchist, or that he is not attached to the principles of the constitution and well disposed to the peace and good order of the same, and that his remaining in this country will be a menace to the government or to the peace and well-being of society in general. “You ask me just what class, under my direction, would be excluded under the terms of the bill. “The bill, it seems to me, quite clearly specifies the classes to which its provisions apply, and if it should become a law, the principal difficulty which the executive and judiciary officers would encounter would be in determining whether a particular case does or does not come within any of those classes. “Replying to your question in the terms in which it is stated, I would say that if the bill becomes a law all the classes specified will be liable to exclusion or deportation, but I do not consider it proper, by definitions or otherwise, to embarrass the administration of the law or prejudice the rights of individuals in advance of the presentation of the actual cases for adjudication. ”

THE DEFEAT OF THE DUTCH. Further Particulars of the Late Battle With the Troops of the Rajah of Lorn. hok. r The Hague, Aug. SO.—The Official Journal publishes a dispatch giving an account of the disaster to the Dutch forces on the island of Lombok at the hands of the troops of the Rajah of Lombok, which shows that the Dutch losses aggregate over 500 men killed, wounded and missing. The dispatch says that Gen. Vette, the commander of the expedition, was surprised at 11 o’clock at night by a large force of natives, who kept up a continuous firing throughout the night. The water supply failing, the Dutch retreated toward the capital of the island. The natives harrassed them en route and further on they raised barricades which were so strongly defended that Vette lost a score or more men. On August 27 the Dutch column reached Ampenan, where it was found that their total loss was twenty-two officers and 364 men killed, wounded or missing, besides losing four field guns. Five steamers with troops and field guns will leave Batavia, Java, for Lombok to-day. The people here are greatly excited over the disaster to the Dutch army, and believe that the whole truth has not yet been told. They are clamoring for prompt measures to wipe out the Dutch defeat, and Gen. Van Der ■\Yijieck, general of the Dutch forces, has summoned a council of naval and military commanders to determine upon decisive measures against the Lombok natives. A Jealous Husband's Deed. Columbus, O., Aug. 30.—George Kolb. % drummer living at 130 East Spring street, shot and instantly killed his wife last evening. He was jealous of her, and finding her away from home when he returned, seemed to suspect that she had gone to an improper place, and to a number of persons stated that he would kill her as soon as she came home. She arrived at about 7 o’clock and as she stepped from the carriage, he rushed out and shot her through the head. She was 34 years old. He did not attempt to escape At the city prison he blamed her for it. . _ _ _

LOST HIS MUSTACHE. A Ywry Cate Trick that Failed to Work— The Defendant la a Dlvore* Salt Trie* to Fool a VltacM at to Hie Identity—Recognised by HI* Wife. Is Expoeed and Beats a Hasty Betreat. Hastings. Neb., Aug. SI.—One of the most singular court scenes was witnessed here yesterday in the taking of testimony in the divorce suit of Mrs. Bichard B. Sheridan, of St. Louis, against her husband, who is a prominent member of the Merchants’ exchange of that city. Mrs. Sheridan is suing for divorce in St. Louis, alleging that her husband has been living on one of his ranches near Blue Hill, this state, in adultery with a St. Louis inamorata named Nellie Donnelly. Mrs. Sheridan mistrusted her husband’s honesty when every Saturday night for nearly a year he went away to see how the crops were looking. She eventually satisfied herself that he was in company with another woman at these times, and made an investigation. She found her husband comfortably installed in a new house which he had built at Blue Hill, with the Donnelly woman. Her divorce suit followed. While the testimony was being taken, an incident occurred which had a denouement altogether unexpected by the chief actor. Just as Mr. Bowers was in the act of identifying a photograph of Sheridan there came a sharp rap upon the door, and the attorney admitted Mr. Sheridan. His mustache had been shaved off, and he began to explain that he was an attorney acting in behelf of Mr. Sheridan, who was in St. Louis and could not be present, and that he would like to talk over the case. di Mrs. Sheridan recognised her husbandv voice, and lost no time in coming forward and presenting her surprised spouse to the lawyer. Sheridan was/considerably nonplussed at this unexpected turn of affairs, and permitted himself to be led forward and introduced to Mr. and Mrs. Bowers, hotel keepers, with whom he had stayed several times. He submitted to the ordeal as gracefully as possible under the circumstances, and was immediately recognised as “Mr. Spencer” by the hotelkeepers. But when his wife eoolly inquired if he was not glad to renew his acquaintance with his former hosts his patience forsook him and, grabbing his hat, he hastily made his exit. Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan are well known in St, Louis. He is prominent on ’change, where he has made and lost two or three fortunes. Mrs. Sheridan is the daughter of Capt. James A. Guion, who was for thirty years or more connected with the Wiggins Ferry Co. In her plea for alimony Mrs. Sheridan alleges that her husband is worth $50,000. A CATTLE QUARANTINE That Will Effectually Destroy Oar Growing Trade with Belgium. Washington, Aug. 81.—A cable dispatch from the United States minister at Brussels to the state department to the effect that an order of the Belgian government subjects all American cattle, to forty-five days’ quarantine, was received yesterday. An exception is made for cattle en route before August 29, but this only on condition that they be killed at the public slaughter house on arrival. Dr. Salmon, chief of the bureau of animal industry, referring to this quarantine, said: “We are building up quite a little trade in cattle with Belgium, a line of cattle ships having been established between New York and. Antwerp. This order, if carried out, will effectually destroy this trade. The alleged cause of these restrictions is the sickness of some cattle recently landed from the United States, which some wiseacre has pronounced to be contagious pleuro-pneumonia.”

WORSTED BY INDIANS. Mexican Troops Ambuscaded and Robbed During the Battle that Ensued. San Diego, Cal., Aug. 81.—News has been received here that forty-five men of the Fourteenth Mexican battalion, who left the Pilares, July 28, to advance against the Yaqui Indians, wer^ ambuscaded in a thickly wooded part of the road. Nine soldiers fell at the first volley, and when Capt. Gomez rallied his men they were repulsed more than once during the hour the fight lasted. Twelve federals were killed, eight wounded and the wife of a sergeant killed. Some of the savages stole all the baggage, animals, money and h large quantity of ammunition, while the others were fighting, and then left the soldiers in possession of the field. THREE MEN KILLED By the Explosion of an Old and Overstrained Portable Boiler. Elbow Lake, Minn.. Aug. 31.—A threshing machine boiler exploded yesterday morning in Pomme de Terre township, killing three men. The dead men are Hans K. Hanig, Knute K. Hanig and Tolef Anderson. The first two are father and son, owners of the engine. Hans Hanig's head was completely blown off. A piece of casting went through the leg of Anderson, and he died shortly after. H. T. Hanig, a water hauler, was seriously scalded, but will probably recover. The boiler was an old one, and carried too much steam. Milwaukee Must Take Care of Her Own. Milwaukee, Aug. 31.—State troop9 will not be sent to Milwaukee to quarantine the city or any part of it, nor will* the state board of health take charge here, for the present at least. Gov. Peck insists that the local authorities should do their full duty. He said it was not for them to turn the whole matter over to the state; that they had ample authority and ample force if force were nesessary. If the Btate should take charge here as had been requested by the local author! ties, the reports that would be spread would cause meat harm to the city _

DUN'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW. Th« iMS-LookedJor Improvement In Boslneaa Yet Krnuilu > Thing of the Futare—Business, If Good In Comparison with Inst Year, Is Still Poor when Com. pared with Former Years—No Boom Ex. pooled. New York, Sept. 1.—R. G. Pun & Co.'s weekly review of trade issued to* day says: The activity which came with exhausted stocks and the pressure of delayed fall demands, and was increased by the removal of uncertainty about the tariff, has continued with heavy entries of foreign goods since the bill became a law. But the people whc know best are saying “Improvement will come,” rather than “improvement has come.” The gain is not yet what has been expected, and business, if good in comparison with last year, is still poor in comparison with years preceding. ~T * August has ended, but the interior demand for money still merely balances the receipts of superfluous currency from eastern points, although crops are moving quite freely. The recent material increase in demand for commercial loans appears to have been due to payments for sugar imports, for whisky taken out of bond, and for imported goods taken out of the customhouses. and has dropped off sharply. The unavoidable conclusion is that the desired increase in domestic distribution has not yet reached such proportions as to influence the loan market. Imports will be large, it is clear, but for the past month have been 5 per cent, less than a year ago, and meanwhile exports of domestic products from New York for the month have been $2,619,597, or 8 per cent, smaller’ than last year. Europe sold securities here for some days, and August earnings are 1.7 per cent, larger than last year, but 14.3 per cent, smaller than 1893. Passenger business last year was heavy, and decreases this year 18.6 per cent, on roads reporting, against an increase of 13.1 per cent, in freight earnings; but the east-bound tonnage from Chicago was 189,788 tons in four weeks ending August 25, against 190,784 last year, and 207,695 in 1893. Wheat moves largely^ but western receipts were 5,762,777 bushels for the week against 2,923,901 last year, and for August 28,500,000 bushels against 15,500,000 last year, which does not fit short crop predictions. Atlantic exports for the month have been only 14,000,000 bushels against 24,000,000 last year, and the price has risen a shade during |he week. Receipts of corn are only 1,423,3(*3 bushels against 3,460,646 for the same week last year, while exports are insignificent, and the price has advanced 3K cents, while pork has risen 25 cents per barrel, and lard 55 cents per 100 pounds. Fears of frost, the crop being late, are urged as a reason for quotations otherwise unwarranted. Cotton has declined an eighth for the week, but the year closes with every indication of a yield materially exceeding the world's maximum consumption of American and with 1,600,000 balescroi, cotton in sight. If all the mills ware running full force the situation would not promise much. The mills are dot, running full, though the stoppage at Fall River looks every day more like an effort of the operatives to force curtailment of production in order to lift prices and make reduction of wages seem unnecessary.

The demand for products of iron and steel has increased, but priees tend downward where any change appears, as there is not enough business yet to employ the works in operation. Steel bars are sold atone cent in Pittsburgh, wire nails at 1.03, with bessemer iron at 11.63. Several additional furnaces have gone into blast. An encouraging sale of 40,000 bundles of cotton ties in competition with foreign ties, duty free, is noted. There is a better -demand for structural work, though one considerable contract for Cuba was broken off by the advance in Spanish duties. The boot and shoe manufacture still finds highly encouraging orders, though almost wholly for low grade goods, so that sales of leather in ^il markets are notably of thirds or other qualities below the best. Shipments from the east are not only larger than last year, but for August were 335,844 cases against 333,494 in 1893. Marked changes in tin, which sells at 15.6 cents, and in lead, which is quoted at 3.3 cents, are due to the change of duties, and tin plates sell at 75 to 80 cents per box below recent quotations. Glass manufactures are demanding a reduction of 40 per cent, in wages, which the men, though willing to accept 30 per cent., have refused. - • The volume of trade shows a gain over the worst month of last year, exchanges at the principal clearing houses gaining 8.3 per cent, for the month, but are 31.5 per cent, lower than in 1B93. The average of prices, all products considered, is but 5 per cent, louver than in 1893, and not quite 3 per cent, lower than last year. . Failures are still few and small. For the third week of August reported liabilities were $3,976,518, but for three weeks only $8,214,470, of which $2,845,S38 were of manufacturing and $3,S8-f,-414 of trading concerns. The average was only $11,521 per firm failing. The failures this week have been 188 in the United States against 336 last year, and 40 in Canada against 39 last year. The Case of Edward T. Adams, Convicted of Mu»der In Mexico, Washington, Sept. 1.—The department of state has been informed by Minister Isaac P. Gray that he has made an urgent appeal to President Diaz for executive clemency in the case of Edward T. Adams, the Texan convicted of the murder of a restaurant waiter in Mexico. The sentence of death had been confirmed by the national supreme court, and the president alone now has the power of commuting the sentence to imprisonment I for life. The case has attracted a good deal of attention. _

Great Grief end Heed Sharing. Among the ancients shaving the head was a very common mode of expressing great grief or sorrow. Sometimes it was done by the priest or some other religious functionary formally cutting oft the hair, sometimes by violently plucking it out by the roots. In extreme cases among men the beard as well as the hair was either cut off or plucked out. The idea seems to have been that mourners should divest themselves of that which under ordinary circumstances was considered most beautiful, ornamental and becoming. Lucian (and he is not the only one of the ancient writers by any means who gives points on this queer mourning custom) says that the Egyptians expressed their intense sorrow by cutting off the hair upon the death of their Apis and that the Syrians acted in the same manner at the death of Adonis. Olympiodorus remarks concerning Job i., 20, that the ancients, among whom long hair was regarded as an ornament, cut it off in times of mourning, but that those who commonly wore It short suffered it upon such occasions to grow long.—St, Louis Republic. The Voice of the People Proclaims one fact as true, namely, that Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters effects a cure whenever it is persistently used for the ailments to which it is adapted. Among these are malarial and dyspeptic ailments, rheumatism, nervous and kidney complaints, coustipation and biliousness. A tablespoonful three times a day is about the average. The barber neatly mowed his lawn And said, when he was through: “ Shall I put a little sea foam on, Or give you a shampoo l" —Indianapolis Journal. Hall's Catarrh Care , V, Is taken internally. Price Tx'. The First Ark Light.—Noah was the first electrician. He made the are light ou Mount Ararat.—Philadelphia Record. Freshness and purity are imparted to ths . complexion by Glenn’s Sulphur Soap. Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye, 50c. Bright peopj reflecting.—Syi don’t spend all their tir fuse Courier. Health, comfort and happiness abound in homes where “Garland'’ Stoves and Ranges are used. Sometimes even the man who goes wrong pays as he goes.—Galveston News. ThatTired Feeling Is due to an impoverished condition of the blood. It should be overcome without delay, and the best way to accomplish this result is to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which J-jOOjf C Sarsaparilla will purify and vital- 4 sr»rvrw ize the blood, give# III strength and appe- -J___ tite and produce sweet and refreshing sleep. Be sure to get Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and only Hood’s. Hood's Pills cure nausea, and biliousness. W. L. Douglas CO C U^tET IS THS SEST. yil OnVb NO SQUEAKINa

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