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RULED OFF FLOOR DURIIIG A SPEECH Council Grows Restless Hearing Street Statistics and Immediately Takes Drastic ' Action. (Continued from Pago One.) croailag of the Pennaylranla railroad. 9 iiiwiii m iiiriui Councilman Thatcher put In a demand for an are light on South Tenth tract, between E and J. saying there wu not a alngle light between these points. A petition waa presented to build cement curb and gutter on South Twelfth atreet, between K and F street. There waa a discussion of paving South Eighth street, and a statement by Mr. Hammond, president of the board of works that this Improvement waa early on the schedule for next year. The drinking fountain on Ridge street was the source of another complaint. This has not been running for two montha and Councilman Burdsal moved that It be changed to the corner of Grant and Ridge street, and plaoed In condition for use aa soon as possible, aa many men of that locality are teamsters snd use the fountain a great deal. A vote of thanks was given the firement at No. 2 hose house for their work In painting and reflnishing the Inside of their quarters. It saved the city much expense. The vote was given on the motion of Councilman Oscar Williams. AN "INNOCENT" VICTIM. The Original ef Squsere Died ef Broken Heart. The grossest Injury which Dickens ever Inflicted on a fellow being wss his too accurate portrait of an Innocent man In his Squeers. That Yorkshire schoolmasters were, as a rule, cruel and wicked enough It Is true, but the particular scboolmsster who was recognized and who recognized himself as the original Squeers seems to hare been an exception to the rule. It will be remembered that Dickens and bis Illustrator traveled together to the north of Englsnd for the purpose of collecting material for "Kickleby" and especially for the Dotbeboys esplsode. At Great Bridge they Tlslted a boarding school known as Bowes academy. The msster. William Shaw, received the strangers with some hauteur and did not as much aa withdraw his eyes from the operation Of penmsklng during the Interview. Phis sketched him In the act; Dickons described the set The personal peculsrltles of William Shaw were recognized In Squeers. Shaw became butt of popular ridicule, lost his pupils and finally died of a broken heart Yet there la abundant evidence to prove that he waa a really excellent and kind hearted man. who was msde . to suffer for the misdeeds of his nelgh-lxrs-Exchange. COTH WANTED TO KNOW. But the Beautiful Daughter Got the Better ef the Contest . . "Maris." aaid the choleric father of beautiful dsughter. "who wss that young fool who called on you last night and atayed until midnight? 1 want to know at once." "You shall know In due time,' said Maria, "but first I wsnt to know some thing. Wss he a young fool simply because he called on me) "What" "Or wss he a young fool because he thought me attractive enough to talk to until midnight?" -Why" , MX suppose you think that any young man who comes to this house at all Is I jrounf fool, but why?' "Jfow, see here" "Is It because there are so many girts wto bare aenslbto fathers that any young man who calls on the tfaugbtor or an ill natured old curmudgeon Is a young fool?" "For goodness' sake" "But I suppose (sob) I ought to (gurgle be grateful (sob) because you dMdut call blm a fool to his face for coming to see me. I know you despise me (boo-hoo-hoo), but" But Msrla was talking to space. The choleric father had fled to the cyclone cellar.-Pittaburg Dispatch. The Thirteenar. nervous little man stepped briskly Into a Kuclld avenue jewelry store the other morning with a medium sized clock under his wing, ssys the Clevelsnd Plata Dealer. He placed the chronometer on the counter, turned the hands around to about one minute of 12 o'clock and told the expert Behind the counter to listen. "It keeps perfect time," the customer said, "but I want to find out If you notice anything wrong with the way It strikes." The jeweler listened. "There's nothing, wrong," he replied, with a grin, after the clock had struck, "except that she strikes thirteen Instead of twelve. That csn easily be remedied." The customer looked ss relieved ss If he'd just awakened from a bad dream. "That's just what I've alwaya thought ever since we'Te hsd the clock." he burst forth. "I've always felt sure It struck thirteen. Rut no one else In the family ever spoke of It, and I was afraid to say anything about It for fear there wss something wrong with my own works. Well. It's worth the price of having the thing repaired just to find out I waa right" Diwr Faamlljr circle. Father acd Mother. alMsrs sad brothvrt, soea Kto knew oao aottwr's tatlraat affair, and Uttto bowol sad IKnf diatvrbMcoa ooaa beeosM h fcoU tawwt It la wU to rambar Omi ss coaatipoues) as tadicMtlon. and otbat Irraailn of too stomach, liver aad bewala a owtek coo bo bod by too oaoot Dr.Caldwod'a arras Hoibi. Toko tt tooWM ead ron

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GOVERNMENT (S TO FIGHT LOAN SHARK

All U. S. Clerks Who Disobey New Law Would Lose Their Positions. Washington, D. C, June 6. "Loan sharks" in the government departments are to be driven out if the senate committee has its way. It has recommended the adoption of an amendment to the Galllnger "loan shark" bill providing that employes of the government guilty of violating any of the provisions of the bill shall be dismissed. The provision was recommended by Senator Curtis, who has been giving the featurea of "loan shark" leglalatlon much attention, and It found Instant favor with the members of the committee. Senator Curtis pointed out recent disclosures of practices of employes of the government who were loaning money to fellow employes at exorbitant rates, and he mentioned particularly stories that had come out of the bureau of engraving and printing and the government printing office. A Steep Interest. Members of the committee have heard that federal employes have loaned money to their companions In office at rates as high as 30 per cent, and the recent Investigations In the bureau of engraving and printing, it Is pointed out, resulted in the dismissal or demotion of several employes who were found to be loaning money at big rates of interest. When the measure is called up for consideration in the senate there Is sure to be much discussion, but its passage by a substantial majority Is predicted by Its friends. One of the fights over the bill on the floor will come in connection with the rate of interest to be allowed. As the bill passed last session, and as it was introduced again this session, at the Instance of those who have been Interested in such legislation for years, interest at the rate of 2 per cent, a month is allowed. As the bill will come from the senate district committee the maximum rate allowed will be Hi per cent a month. There are some senators at least five on the district committee that favor 2 per cent a month Interest, because, they say that is the rate recommend ed by the remedial loan associations and others who have studied the prob lem and know the subject in all phases. There is talk that one of these senators will offer an amendment on the floor of the senate to fix the Interest at 2 per cent. Committee Evenly Divided. The district committee was evenly divided on that proposition, and should the Issue be raised in the senate both sides will be heard, and a wide divergence of opinion will develop. A roll call may be required to settle the question. Senator Pomercne, a member of the district committee, may fight the bill on the floor of the senate. He voiced his disapproval of any measure that recognized the loaning of money at a greater rate of interest than 6 per cent, and urged that all those who charge more Interest than 6 per cent should be classed as usurers and treated accordingly. Efforts were made to persuade him of the need for such legislation as is provided in the "loan shark" bill, but he went away from the committee meeting obdurate. Senator Curtis, who was instructed by the district committee to draft the amendments favored by the committee, completed them yesterday afternoon. One Proposed Amendment. The most important addition to be favored provides: "That any person contracting, di rectly or Indirectly, for or receiving a greater rate of interest than that fixed In this act shall forfeit all Interest so contracted for or received; and in addition thereto shall forfeit to the borrower a sum of money to be deducted from the amount due for principal. equal to one-fourth of the principal sum; and provided further, that any person in the employ of the government violating any of the provisions of this act shall forfeit his office or position and be removed from the same." The other amendments simple change from "2 per cent" to "14 per cent" the rate of Interest to be allowed, and from "three hundred dollars" to "one hundred dollars" the maximum amount which can be loaned at that rate. MINISTERS GIVE FOR KU KLUX KLAN MARKER Chattanooga, Tenn., June 6. Offer ing $25 as a nucleus. Rev. W. E. Thompson, pastor of the Centenary church, of this city, in an address de livered before the annual reunion of the John B. Gordon Camp of Confederate veterans, at Lafayette, Ga., inaugurated a national compalgn for the acquisition of funds to ereot a monu ment to the Ku-KIux. "Were it In my power" said he. "I would erect a monument to the KnKlux Klan that would pierce the blue vaults of heaven. Those staunch men. tried and true, upon many a hard fought battlefield. In the face of im posing odds, threw themselves into the yawning breach and saved AngloSaxon supremacy for the South. Too much praise can not be given those brave men." A Short Fall. "Golly, Mike, are you allre after falling two stories? Why. thst's not far; this Is a fiftyone story buOdlng." Judge. The prodigal robs his heir; the x&laer robs himself. Bray ere.

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By Plan of New Yorker Mismated to Get Alimony. New York, June 6. Frederick Thompson is to be president of the Divorce Insurance company, unlimit ed. He said tta3 corporation papers were being drawn, and within thirty days his new plan would be a reality. He said the comany would begin its career with $1,000,000 in the treasury and would have in its directorate a score of men whose names are familiar from Maine to California. "It is sure to become the most widely discussed business venture the United States has ever seen, not excepting Standard Oil or Steel." said he. "First, get the title fixed in your mind and then think of life, fire and accident insurance companies. Then the whole scheme of the new corporation must become apparent in a flash. "The prime purpose of the new concern is to alleviate a most deplorable condition, for It is deplorable that husbands and wires find it necessary to continue living in wedlock because thy have not money enough to live apart. Four-sevenths of the so-called happy marriages would be dissolved over night if the woman had independent means, or if the husband would agdee to meet the wife's money demands following a divorce. "The Divorce Insurance company, unlimited, will fix all this. We shall have men and women solicitors, the men to approach brides-elect, the women to sell policies to the bridegrooms-to-be. When Percival Marries "Young Percival Hardup's engagement to Dorothy Spender has been announced. He is in the seventh heaven planning how she will make his $10 per week expand so that they may buy terrapin seven times between pay days. The Divorce Insurance company, unlimited, will see the engage ment announced in print. In a day or two one of our women solicitors will call on Percival. She will point out the cold figures as to the happiness expectancy of marriage contracted at his age and on his income. As I recall it, this expectancy for a $10 a week clerk at the age of twentyone is a trifle more than eighteen months. "For a sum as low as fifty cents a week he can take out a policy in the Divorce Insurance company, unlimited, which will protect him absolutely. "At any time be wishes to obtain a divorce or faces a suit by his wife, his policy will guarantee traveling expenses to an easy divorce state, the hiring of efficient counsel and alimony to the victorious party." Thompson refused to reveal the names of his associates. In the Lamb's club it was suggested the directorate might include Nat C. Goodwin, DeWolf Hopper and Lionel Lawrence. No one on Broadway doubts that Thompson has twenty well qualified directors. SASSED" JUDGE. BUT USED THE WIRE Wife of Former Strong Man Tells Jurist Her Opinion of Him. Chicago, June 6. Mrs. Leslie Carver, wife of Charles A. Carver, former strong man of Yale and a famous athlete, who is now seeking a divorce from her in a Nevada court on the charge of cruelty, dispatched a scorching telegram to the magistrate of the western court who is to head the evidence in her husband's suit. Mrs. Carver first got into the limelight when she filed a suit for seperate maintainance. She declared that her husband had struck it rich in a stock venture, and the court awarded her alimony of $300 a month. She claims that none of the alimony was paid, and said that the western judge denied her alimony pending the new trial, as well as railroad fare to to Nevada to defend herself in court. She said her husband had made large sums of money in stock deals In Chicago when he was giving lessons in physical culture to millionaire Chicago business men, among them James A. Patten. "I have just been existing since my husband left me," said Mrs. Carver in the office of her attorney, James T. Brady. "Where are you living?" she was asked. "I am living at the Plaza hotel,' Mrs. Carver replied. "You see, I am not earning much money." However, Mrs. Carver was dressed in the top of fashion and had all the outward signs of prosperity. "Would you go back to your hus band?" "Oh, I don't know," she answered. "I suppose If I were to see him on the street I'd just pass him by without speaking to him." Convicts For Food. There are many stories of cannibalIsm under pressure of famine, but an Incident of one of the earliest attempts to colonize Buenos Aires is almost more horrible, it is told by Mr. A Stuart Pennington In "The Argentine Republic. The Indians bad attacked and all but destroyed the settlement which was under the orders of "a cruel and soulless tyrant," Francisco Ruiz Galan. "The difficulty of finding food was such that even vermin failed, and the bodies of the dead in the colony were eaten by the survivors. It Is re corded that any excuse was taken by the hard hearted governor to condemn men to death so that their bodies might serve as food." An important movement is being made to promote Irrigation In Cuba

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SEEK SACRED RIVER GUIDED BY SPIRIT Twenty-Six Persons Who Left Findlay Last March Still on Hunt.

Findlay, Ohio, June 6. According to letters received in Findlay the little band of Revival Spiritualists that left Findlay, Sunday, March 19, to seek a sacred stream in California, near Los Angelee, have received further orders from the spirit that directs them, and they have, accordingly, moved further north to another spot, which the spirit will point out to them. The reason for this second move is that the Bpirii has advised them that Los Angeles, near which they are now located will be destroyed by a great earthquake some time during October, and they must move away from the spot, in order that they may not be destroyed along with the iniquitious hosts of that wicked city. They have been advised aa to the exact time the city will crumble. The party left Findlay In a special tourist sleeping car, twenty adults and children. To finance the trip, valuable property was sold and the members of the party had, when they left here, something like $5,000 in cash. Since leaving it is stated they have experienced great trouble in finding work to earn enough to meet the expenses of the party. For the exodua the pilgrims plan to make further north, they have secured twenty mules, which will convey them to a point to which the spirit has directed them, where they will await the final summons to the New Jerusalem, where the men of the party expect to be directed to act as the twelve apostles. Another party Is forming here, and it is expected that sometime next fall they will leave this city in a special car for the western state. TO RESIGN IF TOWN CLOCK STRIKES AGAIN Cuffield, Ct., June 5. According to a statement by Rev. Daniel R. Ken nedy, pastor of the First Congregational church of this place the church will be without a minister if the town clock is allowed to strike. The clock, a memorial gift of Mrs. Cornelius D. Newton, is placed in the steeple of the church and for the past months has not been striking the hours. Somebody found that the clock was not striking, on the orders of the Rev. Mr. Kennedy, as it disturbed the sleep of his two small children. Forthwith a communication was sent to the church committee asking that the striking apparatus be wound up. If this is done the Rev. Mr. Kennedy says he will resign. Nearly twice as many women as men are engaged in the industries of Japan.

Ss There No Limit to This Man's Power? A Gentleman Cured of Rheumatism of 20 Years' Standing Last Night Upon the Platform. Sales Increasing and Mail Department Swamped with Orders From Outside Towns.

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Not Serious Crime to Grab Umbrella on Wet Day. Chicago, June 6 Theft of an umbrella when it's raining is not a serious crime, according to Municipal Judge Heap, who heard the plea of Leslie Jearney, IS years old, arrested while making his way out of a store with the umbrella. "It was raining and I wanted to go to the public library," the youth testified. "I had no money, judge, and I didn't want to get soaked in the rain, so I took the umbrella. Then I was arrested. I'm guilty, judge." "Well, you're frank about it," said the court, "and I'll let you off this time. A man has a sort of a right to steal an umbrella when it's raining and he's penniless. Don't let is happen again though." A STORY OF MEISS0NIER. The Pointer's Two Breakfasts With a Stingy Art Patron. ' Meissonier once got acquainted with a Parisian grandee, very wealthy, very fond of posing as an art patron, but slightly ' penurious. One day Meissonier, breakfasting with the grandee, was struck by the beauty of the texture f the tablecloth. "One could draw upon It," he remarked, and, suiting the action to the word, he produced a pencil and made on the smooth, snowy nap a wonderfully able sketch of a man's bead. The particular tablecloth In question never went to the wash. The "economical swell" had the head carefully cut out of the damask and hastened to frame and glaze his prize. A few weeks afterward Meissonier again breakfasted with his patron and found by the side of his plate at the corner of the table assigned to him a neat little sheaf of crayons and holders, -with a penknife and some india rubber. While the guests, at the conclusion of the repast, were enjoying their coffee and cigarettes the host saw with delight "from the corner of his eye" that Messonier was hard at work on the tablecloth, this time with a superb little full length of a mediaeval halberdier. The party broke up, the guests departed, and the "economical swell" rushed back to the dining room to secure his treasure. But, alas, the painter had for once 6hown himself as economical as bis patron! He bad made disastrously good use of the penknife, and one corner of the tablecloth was gone, halberdier and all! TEEPLE'S Brown Volvet PUMPS At 03 ARE GREAT vice of their friends and neighbors. Others came to express their thanks for the benefit which they had received. In the great moving mass, the darked side of life predominated, the suffering humanity had a large representation. People with bodies racked with pain, victims of stomach trouble for -weeks, who had experienced but little rest day or night. Young people who should be enjoying the fullest measure of health; and aged men and women to whose burden of years had added the affliction of disease, awaited their turn to meet Phenomenal Spiegel. Some said they had lived for months without hopes, but had been encouraged by remarks of others standing in line waiting only to thank Mr. Spiegel for the good work he is doing. Mr. J. T. Powers, of this city, hearing of this man's medicine decided to give him a trial, purchased some of his liniment for muscular rheumatism last Thursday. He says: "This remedy must be a miracle for my experience with Beaver Liniment tells me there is something remarkable in this discovery that I should experience such immediate relief for only three applications removed the soreness and stiffness." Last night a gentleman whose name could not be learned was treated by this great man for rheumatism, claiming to have been a sufferer for 20 years, and to the astonishment of the large crowd, Phenomenal Spiegel, after applying his discovery had the afflicted joint loosened up and stiffness was entirely gone. Another show will be given tonight at the same place. STRAWBERRIES now. Pickings received twice PINEAPPLES 1035 MAIN ST.

BURGLAR OBJECTS TO POLICE BOTHER Disgusted Raffles Declares He Can't Make Money if Officer Meddles.

New York, June 6. On the eminent authority of a burglar who has been working in the Bergen region of Jersey City for thre months, despite the fact that thirty-five policemen and detectives in plain clothes have been on duty there all the time looking fof him, Jersey City is a community of tightwads. He is unable to make a decent haul, and all that he has accumulated as a result of his efforts is scarcely enough to warrant the expenditure of the talent and energy need ed to carry on his work. He has writ ten this letter to the chief of police: "The police butting in annoys me and have frequently, it is my belief, prevented me making a successful haul. . So far I have been unable to get away with anything worth while. In all the houses I have visited in the last three montha I have not gathered enough to pay me for the energy put forth. I am beginning to believe Jer sey City is a collection of tightwads, and none of them have any money or anything else. But I am going to stick to it until I make one real good haul and then I'll quit. The complain has been placed on file. The burglar has been working in the Bergen section for three months. His field comprises about ten city blocks. In that time, he has made thirty-five entrances to houses and got away with something in al most every instance. According to Police Captain Toppin, who has been getting many sar castic letters from the accomplished young burglar he proclaims himself as "The Slippery Kid" $10,000 will not cover the plunder hs has obtained. He wears gloves and leaves no finger prints. He tentered the home of George T. Smith, in his customary manner by breaking the glass in a window and removing the lock. The smashing of

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