Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 17, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 September 1895 — Page 6

DEFENDER SELECTED, (|mUk Beaten the Vigilant la the Third Trial Knee. W Salt Against the Valkyrie 111. for the America** Cop. “The Blue Itlbbon of (he he**'—The .superiority of the Keel boat Abundantly 1>« ui oust rated —The Time. Nhw Yobk, Aug. 31.—A11 hail, Defender! The gallant white sloop won the third trial race yesterday and was formally selected to defend the America^ cup, “the blue ribboon of the ■sea.” In a wash to windward of ten miles, «nd a run home with spinnaker and •balloons set, the Her res noli' keelboat beat the Vigilant handsomely, and could have beaten her a miuue more had she been pushed to her utmost. A rattling breeze , and a rough sea made the test of abilities of the new boat one of the best that has been afforded. Yachtiug sharps who saw her said that she would do. She re moved all doubts as to her ability to go through a head sea iu a blow. She established a record as a*weather boa|* anil her heavier and s^gnaer^jrigycfnr good service. The1 keel boatoutpolpted the center-boarder and outfooted her in the windward work. She showed herself stiffer iu a breeze and easier iu gettiug through rough water. She made less fuss aud left a clean wake. - At the, outer mark she had live minutes und seven seconds the best of it. The Defender won by 5 minutes aud 13 seconds elapsed time over the twentymile course. After the race the following announcement was made by the cup committee: The America's cup committee have selected the yacht Defender, of the Jiew York Yacht club, as against Valkyrie 111. in the contest for the America's cup. (SiguedJ A. C.VS8 Cam iki.u, r Secretary. Lord Dunraveu’s Valkyrie was out for a practice spin and to g^ve his lordship an opportunity to see the race. The cup-hunter was too late in gettiug under way, and arrived only in time to see the tinish. Less sail was carried by ihe Englishman,' a working topsail being used instead of the club topsalsof the American boats, but he seemed to heel over more aud to labor iiarder iu the sea than even the blunt-nosed Vigilant.

JLoru liuuraven gave me racers a wide berth, aud seemed to avoid allowing any one a chance to get a line on the speed of his boat compared with the Yankee dyers. The official starting time of the two boats was: Defeuder, 11:10:08; Vigilant, 11:10:18. The official finish was: Defender, 2:0:1:18; Vigilant, 2:07: 40. Elapsed time, Defeuder, 2:53:10; “Vigilant, 2:57:22. FILIBUSTERS ARRESTED. Twenty Cubans with Arms ami Ammunition, Ku Koute to Cuba, Captured. Wilminuton, Del., Aug. 81.—Yesterday afteruoou United Mates Marshal Lanneu, of Delaware, with a posse of Wilmiugton policemen and two Pinkerton detectives, left this city on the tug boat Meteor, aud landed at Penn’s Urove, N. J.,l where they arfested twenty Cubans who had been taken there from this city Thursday night ou the tug Tarns. The meu had with them traveling bags and a supply of ammunition, pistols aud machettes. The weapons, excepting the pistols, were found on the deck of the tug, but the men had gone «ip into tue town, where they were captured. Most of them were at the .railroad station, and the officers, believing there would be resistance, drew >their pistols and held the meu up. SINGULAR ACCIDENT. -A Locomotive llremau Decapitated by the Irou Aprou of a Coal Tipple. Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 81.—David Allison, hremau on Pennsylvania railroad engine No. 1318, was killed Thursday iu a peculiar manner at Millwood -coal tipple. The heavy iron hpron of the tipple was lowered just as the fastrunniug engine shot under it. The •cab of the engine was torn completely ■off. Allison was standing on the footboard of the tender. 11 is head was cut completely off aud fell under a ,gondola car, while his body was left standing on the engine tender. The ■ engineer escaped by jumping. It is reported that the tipple teuder has ■been arrested by Westmoreland county .Authorities, and will be held pending .an investigation. Allison was 85 years -of age and resided with his family at Derry.

A LEPER IN ST. LOUIS. 'Visited Frleuds iu the City for Trcntmeat, but Has Mow Uoue South. Sx. Louis, Aug. 31.—An alleged leper has been in the city several days at the house of relatives, lie came, it 16said, for treatment, and the health department did not know what to do with him, as it would be necessary to | •build a ward for his speeial benefit to j ■secure his isolation. The matter was ■simplified by the patient’s friends sending him to his home in the south. Acting Health Commissioner Francis refused to discuss the case or give the aame of the unfortunate or his friends. He said it was not positively diagnosed as a case of leprosy, that the young man's friends were prominent people, and that it would be unjust to them to use their names, especially as the youug man had goue. All other officials approached were equally reticent A GENUINE MOUNTAIN FEUD. The Heltons Mud Taylors Reinforced sad Ready fur Renewed Hostilities. Lexington, Ky., Aug. 31.—Late re ••ports from that portion of Harlan county bordering on the Virginia line, where a feud has been raging between the Hiltons and Taylors, are to the effect that the Brooks boys, five in .number, have enlisted under the Taylors’ banner, and ’ Bad” J .m Jackson, -who has killed several nen, and is now out ou bail for shooting with intent to kill, has joined the Hiltous and more bloodshed may be expected

BRADSTREEVS TRADE REVIEW Shaw* a Strlhlne IncrraM la the Volume of Bit«la«iM WUh tk« Jobber* la Staple LInMi-t Veritable Boom la lleMemer Ftp. While ta_ Drr Unodo. MUIlnrry. Sheen, Itan, Clot blue aa«t Grocer Im the ittftaa Demand le Good. New York. Aug. 81.—Bradstreet’s to-day says: « The concluding week of August surprises even the more optimistic with a striking increase in the volume of business with jobbers in staple lines, at such centers as New York, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago. St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and to a more moderate extent at distributing points in south Atlantic and gulf states, among them Charleston, Chattanoogo, Atlanta, Savannah. Jacksonville, Birmingham1 and Dallas. In dry goods, millinery, shoes, hats, elothing and groceries the autumn demand is making itself felt, with the prospectfor a further improvement in immediately succeeding weeks. This situation is, encouraged by a j practical certainty of an unprecdent- j edly large crop of Indian corn and a phenomenal harvest of wheat in the | northwest, as well as by the nnex- j pected bound of prices of steel and ! iron, followed by a corresponding gain in demand. The gain in quotations for steel and iron is one of the shap- j est within a week on record, and | following, as it does, an advance of about 50 per cent, from lowest levels reached iu 1893-94, is enough to ! raise the question of whether a veritable boom is impending in these metals. A jump of nearly $2 per tan for lies- j seiner pig within a week, 81.50 for billets. 5t for charcoal pig, and western j mills refusing to take orders for fu- | true delivery except at value, renders ! these industries excited. AH forms of j finished iron and steel wiill tend up- ! ward in price. The total volume of general trade for the summer has been larger than in 1804, and in many instances than in 189S, with the outlook to-day for even a better fall demand than many anticipated. The upward and onward impulse of this weeV is noticeable. All winter lines of goods have felt an improved request, and manfaeturers and jobbers are preparing to handle a large fall trade.

Even at the south, where recovery from the effects of the late trade depression was felt latest, jobbers in dry floods, hardware and groceries, an nounce the receipt of many orders foi September delivery. Even in Texas, where at the south the state has suflered from drought, and at the north from continuous rams, and where the cotton crop is to be short in consequence, country merchants report a better feeling in all lines and a fair demand from wholesalers. Increased wheat shipments from Tacoma, investments at Seattle, flour shipments from Portland (since the establishment of the China steamship line) and a moderate volume of trade at San Francisco.characterizes the situation on the Pacific coast. Exports of wheat from both coasts of the United States and from Montreal this week (flour included) amount to only 1,871,000' bushels, against 2,* 389; 000 bushels last week, 8,420,000 bushels in the corresponding week one year ago, and 5,092,000 bushels.two years ago. I During nine weeks of the current cereal year, total wheat and flour exports from the United States and Canada amounted to only 16.000^000 bushels, as compared with 25,000,000 in a like portion of the preceding year. * A FRIEND IN NEED. The Belmont-Moreau Syndicate Still Standing by the United States * Treasury Gold Reserve. Washington, Aug. 31.—It is generally recognized here im official circles that tl^e Belmont-Morgan syndicate will not permit the treasury gold reserve to fall below the $100,000,000 mark. Four times they have come to the rescue when, such a result would have followed constant drains on the reserve for shipment to Europe. Yesterday, at the last moment, the syndicate deposited SI,000,000 in gold in exchange for legal tenders, without which the gold reserve would have ; dropped below the limit. -j At 1:80 o'clock Assistant Treasurer Jordan at New York telegraphed that J S2.250.000 in gold had been withdrawn } for export to Europe. This reduced j the treasury gold reserve to S99.456,- j 634.

At S:35 o'clock a telegram from Mr. Jordan .announced thst the syndicate had deposited 91.000.0U0 in gold, which raised the treasury^ gold to $100,456,354. “ So far the syndicate has deposited in excess of the (fold required for its $6?,400,000 in bonds nearly $10,000,000 to keep the reserve intact » WAIF SAVING. The Convention or the Association for that Purpose In Detroit. Detroit. Aujf. SI.—The convention of the Waif Saving Association of America has selected Toledo as the place of meeting for next year, the third Thursday in August The officers for the ensuing year are: Ex-Gov. Oglesby, of Illinois, president; T. E. Daniels, Chicago, secretary; L. D, Drake, Booneville, Mo., treasurer; vice-presidents—Joseph Leiter, Chicago; II. H. Kohlsaat Chicago; Gov. W. J.- Stone of Missouri, and Mayor Wal* bridge of St Louis. STEAMERS IN COLLISION. A General Commotion and Panic In Which Many Paeteuecre were Injured. Chicago, Aug. 31.—The steamers Christopher Columbus (the whaleback) and John A.’ Dix, both heavily loaded with passengers, collided at the mouth of the river here at 11 o’clock last night. A panic ensued, in which many were more or less injured. The John A. Dix had her side brpken in, and every passenger on board was thrown from his feet. A general commotion resulted, and it was in the after scram - ble that the most injury was done.

THE U^iwuURATIC DOCTRINE. It E»a»lm Finn and lncb»nj«d on tb« Mwey QoMtln. The reaffirmation of the Ohio demoe* racy of the democratic plank in the national convention of 1693 on the subject of gold aud silver calls attention to something that has been overlooked by a good many of the talkers on the free coinage question. It has been assumed by many of these that the doctrine of the democratic party on the subject is in doubt, while some have not hesitated to affirm that the party is in favor of the free coinage of silver at the old rate of sixteen for one. It is worth while, therefore, at this time to recall that the only authoritative utterance of the democratic party on the subject is contained in the platform of 1693, which was indorsed by the Ohio democracy., The plank reads as follows: “W« denounce the republican legislation known as the Sherman act of 189* as a coward - ly makeshift fraught with possibilities of danger in the future which should make all its supporters as well as its author anxious for its speed/ repeal We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country and to the coinage of both gold and sliver without discriminating against cither metal or charge tor mintage: but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value or be adjusted through international agreement or by sucb safeguards of legislation as shall insure tho maintenance of the parity of the two mettils and the equil power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the payment of debts: and we demand that all piper currency shall kept at par with and redeemable la such coin. We Insist upon this policy as especially necessary for the protection of tho farmers and laboring classes, tbe f.rst and most defenseless victims of unstable money and a fluctuating currency." As to what this meant there could be no real doubt. The friends of free silver had none at the time, for they moved through Mr. Patterson, of Colorado, to insert the word “free” before the words “coinage of both gold and silver” in the jnoqey plank. This motion was emphatically voted down, and the meaning of the plank, so far as free coinage of silver was concerned, was thereby put beyond the possibility of misconception or misconstruction. It is worth while to recall also what President Cleveland said on the same subject in his letter of acceptance. Starting with the. proposition that the people are entitled to sound and honest money abundantly sufficient in volume to supply their business needs be proceeded:

"Whatever may be the form of tho people s currency, national or state—whether gold, silver or paper—it should bo so regulated and guarded by governmental action or by wise and careful laws that no one can be deluded as to tho certainty and stability of its value Every dollar put into tho hands of the people should to of the same intrinsic valu j or purchasing power. With this condition absolutely guaranteed both gold and silver ean be safely utilised upon equal terms in the adjustment of our currency. “In dealing with this subject no selfish scheme should bo allowed to intervene and no doubtful experiment should bo attempted. The wants of our people arising from the deficiency or imperfect distribution of money circulation ought to be fully and honestly recognized and efficiently remedied It should, however, be constantly remembered that the inconvenience or loss that might arise from such a situation can be much more easily borne than the universal distress which must follow a discredited currency. ” v This is the national democratic doctrine to-day; and it will remain so until the democratic party in national convention sees fit to modify or change it. Its strong affirmation by the Ohio democracy indicates that it will not be essentially changed at the next assembling of the national democracy.—Detroit Free Press. THE REPUBLICAN MISTAKE. : Defeated by Their Insane Force BUI Isaac In 1893. Chairman Manley o* the national republican executive committee expresses with candor t^e opinion that his party made a great mistake about 'the force bill issue, and should have dropped it eight years before they did. This is retrospective and historical, but it is interesting and undoubtedly true. We imagine Mr. Manley says no more than his former chieftain, the Hon. James G. Blaine, would say if he were living now, or would have said with entire frankness if questioned on the subject at any time within four years before his death. We believe, furthermore, that the remark of Mr. Manley expresses the present convictions of Hon. Thomas lx Keed on the subject. The force bill issue in 1892 was primarily and peculiarly the creation of Gen. Harrison, and it defeated him and elected Mr. Cleveland.

There is no probability that the democratic campaign oI 1S9S, whoever the republican candidate may be, w«l turn on the issue of federal interference in elections and negro domination in the south. The disappearance of that issue from American politics was the greatest if "not the only important result of the democratic victory three yeara ago next November.—N. Y. Sun. -Gov. McKinley prophesies that. the majority by which he was elected in the year of the great political landslide ‘'will not be materially decreased” in the Ohio election this fall. Predictions of this sort may be expected all around. But with republican politicians generally it will be nothing more than whistling to keep their courage up The fact is that the world has moved fast and far since November, 1804, and the conditions have altogether changed. That was a time of depression, low wages, poverty—u republican year. This is a time of business revival, of rising wages, of comfort and hope—a democratic year.— Boston Post. -Some scattered republicans may talk free silver, but when the time comes they will be found voting against democratic candidates with all the delight of gratified hostility. Democrats will win or lose by what they do for themselves. If they cam.ot organize a straight democratic party behind a platform they cannot play winning politics.—St. Louis Republic. * -Nearly everybody except the Ohio governor himself sees that the ; joint debate between Maj. McKinley and General Prosperity is a one-sided «3air,—Iiouisville Courier-Journal.

THk o^MOCRATIC NEED. if 1 —— /> TV toe Ltwtonhtp Necessary to Sucres* of the Pirty. The Philadelphia Telegraph seeks to deny to the liberals in Engl: rod and the democrats in this country he hope ! which the World found for the an in the alternate defeats and triumph » of the past thirty years. It says tha “The uprising of the electoral e of the United States against the democrat 12 congress last year was for canae. and that :au.e s*.Ul exists In tbe vicious and injurious ligislation. not only in that which waseffected rat in that ; which wax attempted, of the tost congress The people who have suffered so 1 reatly because of the acts and tha attempt* < it the late democratic majority in congress, ai id who are still suffering because of them, are not likely to forget what party It was thut ii dieted the long-continued distress upa them. *' So every uprising in the ps st resulting in a defeat of the party in power has been for cause or supposed cause, but this, has not prevented the awingof the political pcndulnm just ;is far in the opposite direction within two or

four years. The people's dissatisfaction with the last congress was not with ti%, principal acts of legislation, bat with the delay and faithlessness in some important particulars that marked the action of the senate. The surrender to the sugar trust and the “hold-t^p” of the Wilson bill by the sugar, iron, coal and transportation rings, angered the democratic voters, and justly. But the important extension of the free list and the reduction of duties t n the necessaries of the people met i he hearty approval of the great popular majorities that condemned McKialeyism in 1890 and again in 1892. The “long-continued distress” of the people was not occasioned by anything which the democratic congress did or attempted. That distress was caused by the impairment of public confidence in our currency under the o;>eration of the republican <sxlver-pun :hase act. The foundation of a restored confidence was laid when the democratic congress and administration forced -a repeal of this mischief-working law. The recovery was slow, as all reoo'eries from such panics and depressions are slow, but it came in due time. That no' injury was wor ted to any legitimate business inter ist by the partial measure of tariff reform finally adopted is abundantly pi oved by the present condition of all the great industries Agriculture, mi .nufactures, traffic and commerce are ill thriving. Prices and wages have at ranced, the volume of business has steadily increased and the high tide of prosperity, has enveloped the land. 1 ho republicans are silenced. Thoy have no policy. All the conditions exist for a popular reaction in favor of the democrats. Only wise leadership is needed to cause history to repeat itself in another swing of the pendulum. For the party’s and the country’s sake it is to be regretted that the leadership is not vet equal to the opportunity.—N. Y. World. ___ POINTED PARAGRAPHS. -The eastern republicans are very much afraid that Ben Harrison's sonorous silence is silver.—Detroit Free Press. -The gold surplus ran out of the treasury faster under Harrison’s administration than it has any time since.—Chicago Chronicle. -Mr. Foraker denies that good times are returning. Who says that 4 Mr. Foraker is not loyal torMr. McKinley?—Louisville Courier-Journal. -The iron mills of this country are unable to fill their orders. This is one of the many beneficial results of the Wilson tariff and democratic rule.— Sioux City Tribune. -Democratic good times are causing the republican managers more trouble and anxiety than are all the national issues combined. There is a growing desire to continue the policy which has relieved depression and restored prosperity.—Detroit Free Press. -Maj. McKinley will please observe that the democratic tariff is doing some very vigorous talking in its behalf. And the best feature of the business is that the people applaud every additional increase of wages as a big point in favor of a continuance of democratic tariff reform.—Lafayette

(Ind.) Journal. -Until the MeKinleyite press can satisfy the voters of the United States that they are better off when they pay forty dollars each for a suit of clothes than when they pay twenty-five dollars sheep and wool statistics will be produced in vain. The voters who wear clothes are fifty times more numerous than the voters who raise sheep.—Chicago Chronicle. ' -Times of prosperty are-demo-; era tic times. Just now the people are ^enjoying the fruits of the democratic victory of 1392, which established the conditions under which industry and trade have found a solid place to stand upon. It has taken a long time to get rid of the malign influences of the four years of republican rule under llarrison. but at last these are shaken off and the country is on the high road to the greatest prosperity ever known. —Boston Pest. -“The increase of wages,’4 says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “ha3 given Mr. McKinley great discomfort, but as a circus was attached in Ohio the other day he begins to hope that the business revival is only a spurt, and that the re turn to depression of last year may not be far off. ” The failure of that circus is not the only failure on which the governor can base a hope that the hard times are not yet over. There is, for instance. Gov. McKinley’s own great and lasting failure to find out where he stands on the silver question.—Lou isviile Courier-Journal. -Republican journals persist in saying that the woolen industry cannot be prosperous under the present tariff. But it appears that the productive capacity of the woolen machinery now in actual operation largely exceeds the productive capacity of the machinery in operation in 1802, before the national elections, a year before the beginning of the panic, and under the McKinley tariff. We have also shown that since last March wages have been increased in about fifty woolen factories.- -N Y. Tiro***.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. —The Brahmin’s faith was thus called because it was supposed to be origin* a ted by Brahma. —One hundred and ticenty-oneof the 139 missionary societies of the world are supported by the Anglo-Saxon race. —Compulsory attendance at school is to be tried as an experiment in the Russian governments of Kharkoff, Pol* tava. Kursk, and Volonetz. —The ralue of all,property used for educational purposes in the United States is placed at 5600.000,000: the pub* lie school property alone is valued at 9400,000,00a —A ritualist Church of England clergyman in Cardiff has publicly asserted that the doctrine of the immaculate conception of the Virgin is a necessary complement of the Christian dispense* 1 tion.

—Unoccupied mission territory to the extent of 4,000.000 square miles still exists in Central Africa, an area larger than the whole of Europe, says Ker. George Ureenfell of the Baptist Congo Mission. —Among Tarious schemes successfully carried out by a Christian Endeavor society in Atlanta, G*., are the sustaining of a free dispensary, a Bible training class and the raising of special flowers by each member of the flower committee. —A new heretical sect has been discovered in Russia. It is known as “The Pilgrims” or “Wanderers,” and numbers thousands in Tomsk and other Siberian governments. Their mode | of life is copied from the primitive ! Christians; they believe that the reign j of antichrist is at hand, and give that ! as their reason for retiring to Siberia, I for, when the archfiend comes the Or- ' thodox chNarch and the bureaucracy of : the government will be the first to fall i into his power. j —All the French authorized male rei ligious~orders have informed the Arehi bishops of Rheitns and Paris they intend to pay the new tax imposed by the government on monastic property. They hold that, having to choose between compliance and passive resistance, the moral necessity does not exist that would justify the latter course. They thus take the same grohnd as the bishop of Beauvais, who recently came near being pxcotfnnunicated for urging compliance with the law. —The Austrian universities, in which the German language is used as a medium of instruction, this term have a total teaching force of 738 and an attendance of 9.009, distributed as follows: 680 in the theological department, 3,432 in the law, 5,740 in the medical, and 1,107 in the philosophical. Vienna reports 5,308 students; Gratz, 1,426; Prague, 1,105; Innsbruck, 864; Czernowitz, 306. The technical schools for German Austria have a teaching force of 77 and an attendance of 1,775, Vienna having 1,107; Prague, 253; Brunn, 217; Gratz, 193. —American students have long been admitted to the higher courses of instruction in France without being able to obtain degrees unless they had already a French bachelor’s degree. A movement is under way to admit to the higher degrees graduates of foreign universities of good standing, like Harvard and Yale, as is done in the universities of Germany. WIT AtfD WISDOM. —Heroism, the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.—Carlyle. —A man who was arrested the other day for stealing an umbrella tried to get off by saying he was laying something by for a rainy day. —The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers, and dreads nothing so much as their charity and patience.—Lowell. —By the time a woman has reached the age when she has reason to sigh and shed tears, sighs and tears are no longer becoming to her.—Atchison Globe. —When certain persons abuse ns let ns ask what kind of characters it is that they admire. We shall often find this a most consolatory question.— Colton.

! —Ohio man (in Kentucky)—Anchwhet kind of tobacco has vour town—pure? Colonel Scott—Putty good, suh? You can see how the lawns look, suh!— Cleveland Plain Dealer. —He—Do you think blondes have more admirers than brunettes? She— I don't know. Why not ask some of the girls who have had experience in both capacities?—New Haven Union. —She—I presume the country editor’s pathway is not strewn with flowers? He (pleasantly)—No, not exactly; but we stumble on a bushel of potatoes occasionally, or a cord of wood.—Detroit Tribune. —Amateur artist—I should like to present the last picture I painted to some charitable institution. Now, which would you recommend? Cruel lady friends—The blind asylum.—N. Y. Journal. —“Any snakes in this neighborhood?” asked the Northern visitor. “Its ’cordin’ to what you want,” replied the taoonlight manipulator: “a pint might fetch ’em, but we give a guarantee with every quart”—Atlanta Constitution. —Timmins—This talk about the type-writer being a drawback j to genius is all rot I do all of my poems with a type-writer. Simmons—You do? I had an idea that you made them with a set of rubber stamps.—Indianapolis Journal. —“Dr. Reilly’s discovery of the dangers involved in kissing is very alarming, isn’t it?” said the young man. “Very,” the young woman replied, “but then you know women admire courage in a man above every other qualitv.”—Chicago Times-Herald. —Affliction comes to us all not to make us sad, but sober; n>»t to make us sorry, but wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plow enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by plantIng is multiplied a thousand-fo.ld.— Beecher.

THE OPERA. Tamaoxo is to cmt« the part of X«t® in Boito's new opera, “Neweo." “Dns Walkcrk” and uSie|ffred* it is hoped will be given in English next season in London, with Frau von Januschowski as the soprano. Voltaire said that his purpose in going to the opera vras to promote digestion; that it quickened the pulse, imparted activity and forced the blood to circulate more freely. Massexkt is spending his vacation at his country house, hard at work upon his new opera, “Cendrillon” (Cinder* ellaX The libretto is based on the nursery story, but it is written in verse. Mmk. Calve is studying the part at Valentine in Meverneer’s “Huguenots* during her vacation, while Jean do Reszke is at work on the principalpart in Massenet's **Le Cid,” which he will sing in New York next winter.

LITTLE CULLINGS. Dtxi'TH, by a census just finished, has a population of 53,04C. The assessed valuation of the towi| of Sioux City,, la., this year is little more than half what It was last year. Last yea* it was put at $17,000,000, while this year it is but $0,098,000. The peanut crop is likely to be a little short this year. . Tennessee will probably produce an average crop, but in both Virginia and North Carolina tho acreage ia peanuts is ten tofifteen per cent, less than last year. The very largest ‘Standpipe* in tho United States is at the corner of Seventeenth and Crocker strpets. Des Moines, Ia. It is 133 feet high and SO odd feet in diameter., and holds 530 gallons. , HINTS FOR HOWE COMFORT. Late at breakfast—hurried for dinner—cross at tea. A shout needle makes the most expedition ia plain sewing. Diktv windows speak to the paSscrby of the negligence of the inmates Tired Women Nervous, weak and all worn out-will find in purified blood, made rich and healthy by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, permanent relief and strength. Get Hood’s because Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the Only True Blood Purifier Prominently in the public eye to-day. Ills •old by all druggists. $1; six for $3. Hnnd’c Dtlle are tasteless. mUd.elteenooa S rills iive. ,VU druggists. 25o.

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