Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 1, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 May 1896 — Page 2

BOLDEST ON RECORD. to Rob lk« CwW»r of ■ Uiya CklMfO Onr buoita Store— A Bm*» »•- fMW Mod Kunuiut; Kettle The Troprle* ter Shot Ueed aud the iMhler end Two Other Persona Wounded—Foiled I* Their Attempt tHe Robbers Keenpe. • Chicago, May 8.—Last night, while Madi&ou-street, one of the principal thoroughfares of this city, was crowded with people a bold attempt was made to rob the large retail dry goods store of George J. Marshall, io* 9 cated on West Madison, and as the result the proprietor is dead, the cashier shot through the hand while defending her employer’s money5 and two others wounded by fly ing bullets. THE DEAD. George J. Marshall, proprietor, shot in head and breast; died iustautly. Wounded: Miss Mattie Uarretson, cashier, shot through hand. Miss Kiltie Hynes, shot through both tegs while passing the scene on a cable car. <* A. S. Bagg, shot in right leg while trying to head oil one of the robbers. Shortly before nine o’clock last evening a man, apparently about 50 years old, entered the store of George J. Marshall and r.sked what time the •tore would clo^. . On being informed that nine o’clock: wa, the closing hour he departed. Promptly at nine o’clock the man returned accompanied by a man about 25 years old and another about 30. Two of the men went inside of the store while \ ^ the third stood guard at the door. I Kachman was armed with two re- J voivers The two men who went into the store immediate’)' approached Miss Garretsou, at the cashierVdcsk, and 5 leveling their revolvers at her ordered j her to open the cash drawer. The i young lady refused, and closing the j drawer turned off the combination. j (hie of the robbers shot her in the ; hand, but uot quick enough to pre- j rent the drawer from being locked. Mr. Marshall, being in the store at J the time, ran to the cashier's desk and the robbers rau out. pursued by him. j When on the side walk the three dee-1 peradoes each fired two shots at the proprietor, and then, ttriug to scatter the crowd, started away on the run. j Marshall was hit by two balls—one in ^ the temple andji the other in the left; breast, lie died instantly. Just at the time the tragedy occurred a cable train passed aud two bullets weut through One of the open cars. One of them ^passed through both legs of M4s Kittie llynes, a passenger. A general panic followed and j In the effort of the passengers to get j off and away frOm danger, many were j badly bruise l aud scratched. Two of the highwaymen rau east on j Madison street and the other one went i west. The two rutiuing east had gone j •bout s block w hen they they were ordered U> halt by A. S. llagp, who hap- ! pened to be passing at the time, liagg j was immediately shot nod fell over on the sidewalk, while the. fleeing men j went on their wav unmolested. Thirty minutes after the shooting j occurred the chief-of-polioe personally appeared at the place of the murder with a large force of detectives. He has descriptions of the men from over a dosen witnesses who can positively identify them, and believes he knows who the robbers are and that he can capture them.

THREE MORE BODIES, tUklag El*m In All. Taken from the Wreck of *•»• Clod Natl Lwt{ln)| llou«e. Cixcimxati, May 8.—The total list of recovered dead in the wrecked building on Walnut street is row eleven victims, three inore bodies being* taker from the ruins this evening. They were; Mary Kennedy, domestic at Fey a. C. F. Andress, of Mount Auburn. William Lehieide, bartender. $ A large force of firemen are still busy- removing the debris and will probably have: the entire piace cleared -by midnight. There are still several people in the list of missing who are supposed to M buried' in the ruins. JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE. An lNSSNt Mail Knot and Killed WhU* At* tempting to KUl til* Wife. Clkvixami, O.. May 3- —William Worcester wits shot antf killed last night at 7 o'clock by John T. Bain, while attempting to murder his wife, Sarah, in the Hubbard building at 284 Detroit street The Worcesters formerly lived ih Oberlin, O., where, on account of his frequent murderous assaults on his wife, the husband was adjudged inuiDr and committed to the Toledo asylum lie was released a few days ago and returned to ttmeity where his wife has supported herself and children by keeping boarders. Worcester became engaged in a quarrel with his wife and was about to kill Iter, when Bain, ode of the boarders, drew a . revolver and shot him dead. HOLMES HANGED. rite Mss of Btuoy Murder* KtpiatM On* of Them O . lit* Boll <wn. l*HiLAi*Ki.i*m.\. IV. May 8—Herman W. Mudgett, alias 11. 11. Holmes, was hanged in Mbyaiuensing prison yesterday. The drop fell at 10:13:30. It was fully a half hour later before !»e was officially pronounced dead, . Just before the drop fell the doomed criminal made a statement denying all his previously-con fess-*d murders, admitting, howevfr, that two women had died at his hands as the result of malpractice. STRUCK. AT A CROSSING. Ill t*»r»oa» Mart Bat Son* of Tbvia Bo UawU to bo fatally luJarrO. CuiCACO, May A—A carriage containing sit persons was struek by the Mil- ; waultee limited train yesterday morntog while crossing the tracks of the Northwestern railroad in Rogers park. All were injured. They are: George W. Adams, reUred capitalist, back hurt; Sara t U. Adams, daughter, head ent; Mrs. J. H. Trainer, daughter, head out and back injured; Mrs. Parkins, dan* JU|r, arm hurt, two infanta uf tim ’ 1» out , ' ’ life.; ...Tf-t:

SAUCY LITTLE PETREL. Wh Made Sport of By • BrttM Cruiser at shanRhat—Her Blue Jacket* Reseated the leealt-A Handful! of Theta Whipped a Score of British Tars, and the Consular Coart Assessed the Damages on the British as the Af gressors* Sax Fraxcisco, May $>.—A morning paper says: — Fighting’ with ehampagne bottles a* a beginner and finishing with knives, a dozen or so of the tars of the United States gunboat Petrel whipped twice their weight in Britishers at Shanghai shortly before that vessel sailed fot this port, where she arrived last week. The saucy little gunboat was made the sport of a big British cruiser, and while a marine battle was averted by prompt apology, the sailors of the two warships took up the matter ashore. A handful of the Petrel’s men were tackled by a score of the lusty marines from theiBritish cruiser Spartan, and blood and champagne flowed like water. The melee occurred on Washington Y birthday, and the events which led uj to it on the night before.* The Sporran arrived at Shanghai shortly after the Petrel dropped anchor there. Thai there was no love lost between the crews of the vessels was manifest froir the start, and the oflieers were only polite to each other. Even politeness was forgotten ou the night of February 21, when the search light af the Spartan was turned on the deck ol the Petrol. Every nook and corner of the little gunboat was explorec by the powerful rays, and then to add insult to injury the light was with I drawn, leaving all in gloom, and thee instantly turned on again, as if thasi on the Spartan wanted to see how th< Yankees liked the treatment. Then were mutterings among the forward hands of the Petrel and a seen* of excitement on the quarter deck where the officers were gathered, j Capt. Emory wrote a curt note to the commander of the Spartan and dispatched it without loss of time. { The sesrchlight was not turned on the i Petrel again that night, and a note ol j apology for the discourtesy earlier in ! the evening was received from the j Spartan's captain. The officers on the . Petrel were satisfied, but. their greetings to the Spar- ; tan’s quarter-deek thereafter were ! stiffer than ever. The blue jackets j of the Petrel were far from being sat- j isfied, and among themseltres they j swore vengeance for the insult. The j men had not long to wait. Eight or! ten of them were seated in an upper j room in a saloon on the following day j when about twenty of the Spartan’s ! men entered the barroom. The Yan* \ kees were drinking grog and singing patriotic songs, when the biggest En- j gHshman in the intruding crew sug- j gested that they throw the Yankees j through the windows. The British tars j started up the stairs, but none of thorn j reached the top. The door above was [ suddenly opened, an through it came a | shower of glasses, bottles and cases of j champagne, which had been stored in j the little room. When everything that i could he utilized as a weapon was gone j the American suitors came flying down j the stairs and the battle became a hand-1 to-hand conflict. Knives were drawn ! and used freely, and the English forces j were badly cut up. "When they were j finally routed half a dozen of their j men lay bleeding on the floor. The British consul subsequently held j an official inquiry into the affair, and I the Court decided against the Spartan's | crew. It assessed the ship the cost of! the damage, which amounted to aev- I eral thousand dollars. j THE CUBAN WAR.

iiM. Mar«o In PuimhIoo of l‘tn»r Dei Rlu Md Hitt Ins HU Tins#. Nkw York, May 9.—A messenger direct from Cuba arrived at the office of the Cuban junta in this city Thursday niff ht and reported to Gen. Palma practically as follows: “Gen. Maceo, with a well-equipped army, has full and complete possession of Pinar del Rio province, and expects to hold his present position until the rainy season sets ib. “The reeent victory claimed for the Spanish troops under Gen. Ynclan, was ' a severe reverse for Statin. * “Gen. Maoeo sends word that he will recross the trocha when he gets ready to do so, but that he has no intention j of leaving his headquarters in the! mountains at present. Weyler wants j Maceo to attack the trocha now. because he has massed thousands of j Spanish soldiers there. Maceo lausrhs , at this, and would like to have Weyler ; know that the patriots will pay him a visit soon enoujfh. ** Gen. Mariano Torres relates in an official report from Mangurgaa, received by Gen. Palma, that Xarclsco Lopes, an American citisen. was snatched, from the breakfast table by Spanish soldiers passing that place April 11. taken to the road and shot. Gen. Torres ssys that the Spanish are constantly committing atrocities in the interior of Cobs. NATIONAL MUNICIPAL LEAGUE riaUties I p 1U Profnant u4 Adjourns. Baltimore. Md.. May tt-The National Municipal league completed its programme and adjourned. The sessions have unquestionably been oi great value to reformers as showing the extraordinary rise of Interest in reform work. The papers read before the convention have been for the most part severely practical and‘the delegates appear to be imbued with the belief that excellent results are bound to follow._ MORE ARMS FOR CUBANS. Sap gamut to Have Moon Safety LuA*4 bp Um Mfuwr IWnaatfa. Philadelphia. May 8. —-Word was received here yesterday afternoon of the arrival at Prujilto of the steamar Bermuda. She merely touched there, and then cleared for Puerto Cortex, Huaiur&s, where she is expected to drop anchor in the tourse of a day or so. Her arrival in Prujillo indicates that she escaped from the Spanish war vessel which it was reported had chased her. It is believed that the arms and ammunition were safely leaded.

DUN'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW Heavy Exports of Uold Cmm No Monetary Disturbance—Coa Ad vnc* in the Fntnre Revives end Pototi to Better Thins* to Come, ilUioo|h Neither the Volauxe of UoKlneet nor price* Obtained are at Free* eat Satisfactory. New York. May 9.'—R. G. Dan & Cot, in their weekly review of trade thi* morning, say: The export of $5,850,000 gold thi* week have produced no monetary disturbance, and this is at once proof of the soundness of financial conditions and of the prevailing confidence in better things to come. It does not matter whether the gold is required for Russia or anywhere else, it would not go from this, rather than other countries, if there were not balances to meet. . Much of the hesitation at present is I due to temporarily reduced demand in ! some industries and in iron and steel, i the power of the new com binations is | being generally tested by refusal of , orders, so that production exceeds eonsumption, but the low consumption exceeds uew buying. The general irregularity of prieec and slack cases | of demand for fiuished products does not prevent the marking up of prices by combinations, but are largely due to doubt whether such prices as are fixed can l>e maintained. Pig iron is weaker at the east and also at Pittsburgh; tin steady and lead slightly lower, and American tin plate 30 cent! below foreign. For textile manufactures, the situs tion is trying. Cotton mills have a fairly active demand, though not equal to their normal output, and for many months hate been accumulating goods, hoping for better things, so that some are now stopping; although the demand for good grades with higher prices for cotton, has helped to a tonal 1 advance in prices. Print cloths are an eighth higher, hut some other grades have declined, so that the average of all quotations is slightly lower. Woolen manufacturers find prices of wool sagging both here and abroad. The decline with London reaches about six per cent., while the average of quotations by Coates Bros., Philadelphia, was nearly one per cent, lower May 1, and prices have been further reduced by concessions to clear off stocks. At the west traders^are buying much above the parity of seaboard priced, and many growers are refusing to sell, believing that the upward spurt of last year will be repeated. Sales for the week have been less than half a week's full consumption. Men's woolens show no improvement, but there is more active bnymg in fiannels, and the demand for fancy dress goods is encouraging, though foi*plain goods,it Is but moderate. * : Cotton speculation has lifted &he spot price to 9.31 cents and profits have been realized from the men whe have sold cotton they did not own, but j it is still the fact that the outlook foi next fall's crop is unusually favorable, J while stocks here and abroad exceed all - possible demands until Scptem- j ber 1. Failures for the week have been 238 In the United States, against 23? last j year, and 24 against 31 in Canada laa>t year.

QUEER RULINGS Of a Milwaukee Judgv Sat A»td» and ft New Trial Ordered. Chicago, May 9.—The United State* court of appeals,by a decision rendered yesterday, in the damage suit of Miss Maria Cahill vs, the St. Paul railroad ! for loss of both feet in a crossing accident, reversed the decision of Judge Seaman, of Milwaukee, which was given for the company under remarkable circumstances. The court instructed the jury to J bring in a verdict for the company be- j eause the woman was on a railroad I crossing and a trespasser. One after I another the jurors arose and refused j to return such a verdict after hearing j the evidence. The judge directed the jury to retire, and when they returned it was with a verdict of S?5,000 damages foi M iss Cah ill. The verd ict was set aside by the conrt and, under protest, thej jury entered one for the company, except Julius 1L Clayton, who told the court he “would rather rot in jail' , than do so. To save the juror from jail the plaintiff allowed the verdict j for the company to stand and an ap- i peal was taken. The court of appeal* gives Miss Cahill a new triaL TWO "suicides Of Prominent Men In Cleveland. Theti Hud lea round Near Tofthur. Cleveland, 0.,May 9.—The body of ▲. C. Hogan, for many years superintendent of the canning department of the Standard Oil Co. in this city and at i Whiting, Ind., was found in an unfrequented part of Lakeview cemetery. He had committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. He was seen alive laat when he entered the cemetery Thursday morning. Ill-health, whieh had caused him to retire from business, is the supposed reason for the suicide. He leaves six sons, most of whom occupy positions of trust with the Standard. B. F. Whipple, one of the prominent Odd Fellows of Cleveland, also committed snicide. His body was found last night at Ambleside, but a few i rods from where Hogan's was found, by some children who were gathering powers. No reason is know n for hii act. THE NEGRO FORD Confesses to the Murder of EUle Cregion lu Washing torn. Wasuhotox, May The negro, Irwin Ford, who was arrested at Harpers’ Ferry, W. Ya., for the murder of Elsie Creglow in this city, has confessed to killing the girl by cutting her throat Ford denies any Attempt at a criminal assault. He eays the girl threw a stone at him as he was passing where she was watching cows. He was angered by her so I lions and attacked her. She fought [ him and he killed her with a knife

HOW CUBA IS OPPRESSED. yore*J to Bij Good* from Kpria Which Might Be Bought Cheeper In This Coun-try-High TniM the Uom of the Bevolntioa. The etril effects of high tariff taxes have a practical illustration in the system of “protection” by which Spain forces the people of Cuba to pay much higher taxes on American goods than on those of Spanish origin. 1 In the earlier history of Cuba its ports were closed to foreign commerce, Spain reserving for herself the entire trade. : Laws prohibited the raising of wheat ! and potatoes which were supplied by | Spain. In ISIS the ports of the island ! were opened to foreign trade,1 but in | 1832 a new tariff was enacted which | lowered the duties on all Spanish products and at the same time increased | the rates on all other merchandise, so | as to practically prohibit the imports- ; tioa. As an example of the changes that i were introduced may be cited the case | of steel rails, which, under the old I tariff, were charged six per cent, on a | valuation of §25 per ton, while in the new tariff they were subject to a duty of $22 per ton. Iron, according to the previous tariff, paid $1.30 per 100kilos, and under the new $2.65, A hundred kilos of cotton prints from Spain pay $2.67; from the United States §47.2d A hundred kilos of cotton hosiery, if from Spain, pay $10.03; if ifrom the I United States, $105. One thousand ; kilos of sugar bags, if from Spain, pay $4.60;* if from the United States, $82.50. One hundred kilos of cashmere goods, j if from Spain, pay $15.47; if from the United States $300. The discrimination between the Spanish and foreign merchandise varied from 250 per cent to 600 per cent, and in some cases runs as high as 3,000 per cent, and the trader must pay in addition, ten per cent for charge* Under this arrangement Spain imports virions products and mannfactores and then sends them to Cuba, her middleman making a profit before the goods are transhipped to the West Indian colony, where they must pay another duty. Thus it is possible' for the Spanish merchant to import jute bags jfrom England and export them to Cuba as a Spanish product Again, American wheat is bought; in New York, sent to Santander o- to Barcelona there to be converted into flour, and a large profit made by the exporter, who sends it to Cuba as a Spanish flour. I 1

The exports of Spain to Cuba have reached the figure of about $38,000,000 per auuuro. At least three-qhart^rs of this amount, it is estimated, would be purchased by Cuba in the United States at an advantage of no less than SO per cent, if the tariff did not stand in the way. On this basis the United States are annually deprived of a commerce amountin ' to §17,000,000 or $18,on which a profit of at least 31,500,000 would be realized. On the other hand, 80 per cent of the * total products of Cuba, are consumed iu the United States, and there is a direct export tax on sugar and tobacco amounting to over $1,000,000, which the government of Spain, through its tariff arrangement, compels the American consumer to pay into its treasury. This is the visible contribution, but as those products, as well as all the others, are taxed in various other indirect ways, the consumers in this country are affected further to an Extent that cannot be reduced to figures. Speaking on this subject, a well informed Cuban of New York said: “Whatever advantages this country might derive from its commerce with Cuba are practically absorbed by the Spanish government through its tariff arrangements. The Cubans, have snffered so much from the effect of the high tariff that to a unit they are against it, and there is no doubt that one of the first steps taken by the government of the republic ef Cuba, should the revolution triumph, would be to lower the rates at least 75 or 80 per cent., and this would mean an immediate increase of commerce of the United Slates with Cuba of $14,000,OOOor »16,<)00,<K>a { “Spain knows that emancipation of the island would mean a great loss to her manufacturers and merchants, for the whole commerce of Cuba will come to the United States, and that is one of the reasons why she is making her great efforts to continue her rule there.* 1 NOT CORRECT Senator Shormaa as a PottUoggsr Jag Kllng with Ft«area. Senator Sherman’s paper in the Forum, entitled “Deficiency urt Revenue the Cause of Financial Ills,"* is conspicuously deficient alike in fairness and accuracy. T|e whole comparison between the operation of the McKinley law and the Wilson law is palpably disingenuous. In trying to traverse the president's statement that the McKinley act was inefficient for purposes of revenue, Mr. Sherman presents a comparison between the total receipts and the total expenditures of the government from October*189fl. to November, 1S98—that is, from the passage of the McKinley law to the election of Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Sherman’s reason for stopping there is because “any tariff law denounced by the party in power, with a1 promise to repeal it and reduce duties, would prevent importations under tho old law, ftnd thus reduce the revenue.** But Mr. Sherman makes no allowance for the contraction of revenue under the earlier operation of the Wilson law, due to the withdrawal of whisky from bond to escape the increased doty, and the heavy imports of sugar in anticipation of the placing ot that commodity on the dutiable list i Senator Sherman makes the broad statement that “the Wilson law has produced a deficency eveiry hoar and iay that it has been on the statute book, while the McKinley law always produced a surplus until after the incoming of this administration, and if administered sinee that time by friendly agents would have furnished the government nil.

needed. " Now, boil* of these iUt» ments cannot possibly be tree. If Mr. Sherman means by a surplus an excess of revenue over all expends tures, including those of the post office and the amount due to the sinking fund, there never was a surplus during the whole term of the McKinley act but there was, on the contrary, an annual deficit It is a little over a year since Senator Gorman presented in the ' senate a table whose accuracy neither | Mr. Sherman nor any of his colleagues j has ventured to dispute, showing j that for the four fiscal years, 1391 to j 1S94, inclusive, there was an excess of , expenditures over revenue amounting i to $119,219,213. If the inquiry be con* | fined to Mr. Sherman's “fat” years, 1891 and 1892, there will still be found j in these, after providing for the sink* ing fund, a defieency of $44.887,298. If Mr. Sherman means by deficiency an excess of the ordinary expenditures of the government over its ordinary receipts, then it is not true that the Wilson law has produced "a ‘deficiency every hour and day that it has been on the statute book. Last month there was, instead of a deficiency, a surplus of receipts over expenditures, and to-day the deficiency ou the fiscal year is little, if any. in excess of that which existed on the same date in November. So with the statement about the excess of importations under the Wilson law. In touching this subject Mr. Sherman ignores his previous j statement about the shrinkage of itn* | portations in 1893 and 1894 because the J party in power had denounced th% Mej Kinley tariff, and conveniealy for* gets that the importations of 1895 must be lumped with those of the preceding, year to make a normal average* What a very contemptible piece of claptrap it is to assert that “importations of wool were increased under the Wilson law six-fold. It is'ho wonder that our sheep are being destroyed.”' In point of fact, for the calendar years 1891 and 1893, the typical McKinley period, the imports of raw wool were 393.t5t.125 pounds, against 423,209,844 pounds for the calendar years 1891 .and 189.% in which there was the immediate prospect and the actual beginning of tfye regime of un taxed wool The increase amounts to about per cent* instead of 500 per cent, as Mr. Gherman claims it to have been. A paper vitiated by errors of statement so gross as these is not calculated to command very serious attention.—Boston Herald*

STILL GOING American Engines Heine Shipped to Russia for the > Ibenap Kali war. “The British steamship Wansbeck i cleared the custom house to-day with ■ a cargo of locomotives built in this j city for Libau. Russia, valued at | 000. The cargo consists of It* complete j locomotives, stowed away in boxes in i the Wansbeek's hold. They are for use on the new Siberiah railway, and { are built to use either petroleum or j Coal for fueL” Taking as a text the above newsdis* j patch from Philadelphia, Capt. John { Codman, the well known advocate of free ships, writes: “If the permission to import ships from abroad would min all our shipyards, why has not the permission we have always had from the .time when railroads were first built in this cohntry ruined all our engine works? Is there more skilled labor in building an iron steamship than there is in building an iron locomotive? In fact, is not the skilled labor in the former case very much less? We began without let or hindrance to import railroad engines from England to equip onr railroads. Then we had to build shops to repair them, s, and this, led to building them. This3 dispatch shows the result. Philadelphia is much further from Russia than is Glasgow or Newcastle. The freight and insurance are consequently great er, and yet the directors of the Siberian Railway Co. send to Philadelphia for | their railroad engines—to Philadel- I phia, the city Of Mr. Cramps who went I to Washington last year and found i means to kill the free ship bill which, ! but for his machinations, would have j passed by a large majority. “Congr ess, for some reason or other took pity on poor Mr. Cramp and would not let his shipyard suffer. With all deference to Mr. Cramp sod his associates, I do not think that they have all along consulted what would be their own interests in opposing freo ships, and I know, and so does every- j body else who lias given the subject j an unprejudiced consideration, that they and they alone have been the j cause of the almost total annihilation of the American merchant marines Had onr govern meet in yearn past pursued the same policy in regard to ships that it pursued in rdgard to railroad engines, we should to-day import no more of the former than of the latter. On the contrary, we should have at least divided both the ship building and the carrying trade with England, and probably have surpassed her in each of them. There is a lesson in this Philadelphia dispatch. Locomotives of our own bnild are shipped to Russia, and the profit of building them accrues to American citiaens.” Bat they go in a British ship, and the freight money accrues to Englishmen. The ship as well a* the locomotives might as well have been the property of American citizens, and the benefit of the whole transaction might have been ours:”_ McKinley and Reciprocity. The reciprocity which was in the McKinley law would have been better named if it had been called “surreptitious dicker.” The commercial nations, as a rnle, had provided against it by treaty stipulation. In its workings it did not prove to be of any value, except to trade with Cuba. It was a Blaine idea to temper the atrocious discriminations of th# McKinley tariff, McKinley fought avatnst it tooth and nail; bat he wan obliged to yield to the superior knowledge and tractical ability of its supporters, especially Senators Adrich and Allison. Nothing better Illustrates the topsy-turviness and inconsequence of politics than the fact that the McKinley shooters are now •putting the air with cries tor the renewal of aboadoned reciorocitv.

HUMOR. Passenoek—“That fellow back there is raising1 a great row because he has to stand.” Conductor—“Yes: he's riding on a pass!”—Chicago Record. ||) Hazel—“I have one of the nicest dentists you ever saw.” Nutte—“In what way?” Hazel—“Why, he pulled out the wrong tooth the other day, and * wouldn't charge me a cent for it.”— N. Y. Herald. Mudge—“Another man called me a liar last night." Yabsley—“What did you do?” “Well, as he was three sizes bigger than 1, 1 asked him why he couldn’t say something original.”—Indianapolis Journal. “What have you for a hungry wheelman?” inquired the young man in , knickerbockers, glancing ever the bill i of fare. “Our saddlercck oysters are very fine, sir.” said the solemn waiter, ; unbending slightly.—Chicago -Tribune, i “There's money in stocks,” said the ! man who is young and enthusiastic. “Yes,” replied his seasoned friend, : “I'm sure there is. I have been putj ting half my salary there for the last | four years, and it's all there yet.”j Washington Star. - . afi HATS, Taeixo oil the hat or cap as a sign of j reverence or respect was mentioned in the time of Csesar. j The apex was a tali, conical cap I worn by the Roman priests as a part of their official regalia. > When the crest of the liberty cap [ was pointed forward it was designated I a Phrygian bonnet j Hear-hkad helmets were common' | among the American Indians at the be- •' I ginning of this century. | It is stated that nearly one million | pounds of fur for hatters’ purposes are j produced in the United States, A Turkish turban of the largest size contains from ten to twenty yards of the finest and softest muslin. * The earliest military head covering is believed to have been a rawhide cap, next a cap of iron. In the “Cyclopedia of Costume” seventeeen hundred apd twenty-eight different styles of hats and caps are illustrated or described.

SCIENCE. Somts Danish naturalisto in Greenland have brought up lobsters from a depth of oue thousand three hu ndred fat horns. Roses do not secrete honey in their flowers. Insects are Simply attracted by the perfume and rich colors', and by the abundant supply of pollen, which serves as food. Cripple The iron grasp of scrofula has no mercy npou its victims. This del§ou of the blood is often not satisfied with causing dreadful sores, but racks the body with the pains of rheumatism until Hood’s Sarsaparilla cures. “ Uearly four years ago I became afflicted with scrofula and rheumatism. Made Running sons broke out on my thighs. Pieces of bone came out and an operation was contemplated. I had rheumatism ha my legs, drawn up oat of shape. I lost appetite, could not sleep. I was a perfect Wreck. I continued to grow worse and Jftnally gave up the doctor’s treatment to Well lake Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Scon appetite came back; the sores commenced to heaL My limbs straightened out and I threw away my crutches. I am now stout and. hearty and am farming; whereas four yean ago I was a cripple. I gladly recommend Hood’s Sarsaparilla.*’ Uftsuuf Ham *0x1*. Table Grove; Illinois. Hood’s Sarsaparilla XatheOneTrueBloodPttrfeer.AUdrumlsU.lt. Prepared only by C. L HoodhCsx. Lowell. Hood’s Pills SS.2SW easy to operate.' “Just as Good » never yet equaled the BIAS VELVETEEN SKIRT BINDING. Simply refine the;44just as good ” sort. If yoaar dealer will not supply you we will, tin sSosrf'w 1ms/® aa! MUrk'i said “Home Dressmaking.” a new book 1 Emma M. Hooper, of tSe L*d*e*‘ Home put on Bias Velveteen Skirt lags Sent tor 25c., pottage paid. i'" telling Hov/ * iga Maria S. It. 4k M. Co.. P. O. Bex 000. N. V. C«y. A SHINING EXAMPLE of what may be accomplished by never varying devotion to a single purpose is seen in the history of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., Chicago.! For 65 years they have simply been building grain and grass-cutting machinery, and while there are probat* forty manufacturers in this line, safe to say that the Company builds one-third of the binders, reapers and mowers throughout the entire work!