Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1901 — Page 2

The Doctor's Dilemma

CHAPTER V. "Martin Dobree!” ejaculated both in «oe breath. "Tea, mademoiselles,” I said, uncoiling tbe tress of hair as if it had been a serpeat, "and going forward to greet them; "are yon surprised to see me?” "Surprised!” echoed the elder. "No; we are amased—petrified! However did ~so2-cat.h«!f‘e? When did you come?” “Quite easily,” I replied. “I came on Bunday, and Tardif fetched me in his own boat. If the weather had permitted I should have paid you a call; but you know what it has been.” "To be sure,” answered Emma; “and how is dear Julia? She will be very anxious about you.” “She was on the verge of a nervous attack when I I said; “that will tend to increase uer anxiety. “Poor, dear girl!” she replied sympathetically. “But, Martin, is this young woman here so very ill? We have heard from the Renoufs she had had a dangerous fall. To think of you being in Sark over since Sunday, and we never heard « word of it!” “Is that the young woman's hair?" “Yes,” I replied; “it was necessary to out it off. She is dangerously ill with fovor." Both of them shrank a little towards the door. A sudden temptation assailed me, and took me so much by surprise that I had yielded before I knew I was attacked. It was their shrinking movement'that did it. My answer was almost «8 automatic and involuntary as their ■•treat. “You see it would not be wise for any •f us to go about,” I said. “A fever breaking out in the island, especially now pou have no resident doctor, would be ♦ery serious.”

Thus I secured isolation for myself and «ay patient. But why had I been eager to do so? I could not answer that <tiou to myself, and I did not ponder over It many minutes. I was impatient, yet Strangely reluctant, to look at the sick girl again, after the loss of her beautiful Lair. The change in her appearance •truck me as singular. Her face before iad a look of suffering and trouble, makig it almost old, charming as it was; •ow she had the aspect of quite a young igirl, scarcely touching upon womanhood. We sat up again together that night, Tardif and I. He would not smoke, lest the scent of the tobacco should get in through the crevices of the door, and lessen the girl’s chance of sleep; but he held kis pipe between his teeth, taking an imaginary puff now and then, that he might keep himself wide awake. We talked to ane another in whispers. r-'Tell me all you know about mam'■elle,” I said. He had been chary of his knowledge before, but his heart seemed •pen at this moment. Most hearts are snore open at midnight than at any other Lour. ij,- ■ not much to tell, doctor,” he ♦nswered. ‘‘Her name is Ollivier, as I •aid to you; but she does not think she is any kin to the Olliviers of Guernsey : Bhe is poor, though she does not look ad ts she had been born poor, does she?” K JTJot in the least degree,” I said. “If Ihe is hot a lady by birth, she is one of the first specimens of Nature's gentle-1 folks I have ever come across. Has she Written to any one since she came here?” “Not to a soul,” he answered eagerly. “She told me she had no friends nearer than Australia. That is a great way •ft." “And she has had no letters?” I asked. “Not one,” he replied. “She has neither written nor received a single letter.” “But how did you come across her?” I Inquired. “She did not fall from the •kies, I suppose. How was it she came to live in this out-of-the-world place with pout” “I’ll tell you all about it, Doctor Martin,” he said, and he related how he had tnet the young lady in London. “Tardif,” I said, when he had concluded the recital, “I did not know what • good fellow you were, though I ought to have learned it by this time.” “No,” he answered, “it is not in me; It’s something in her. You feel something of it yourself, doctor, or how could you stay in a poor little house.Jike this, thinking of nothing but her, and not caring about the weather keeping you away from home? There was a curious thing —she had not any luggage with her, not • box nor a bag of any kind. She never fancied that I knew, for that would have troubled her. It is my belief that she has run away.”

“But who can she have run away from, VardifV” I asked. “Heaven knows,” he answered, “but £ie girl has suffered; you can see that y her face. Whoever or whatever she has run away from, her cheeks are white from it, and her heart sorrowful. I now nothing of her secret; but this I do know: she is as good, and true, and *weet a little soul as my poor little wife was. If she should die, it will be a great grief of heart to me. If I could offer my life to God in place of hers, I’d do it willingly.” "No, she will not die. Uook there, Tardlf!” I said, pointing to the door sill of the inner room. A white card had been •lipped under the door noiselessly—a signal agreed upon between mother Renouf •nd me, to inform me that my patient bad at last fallen-into a profound slumber, which seemed likely to continue some hours. The morning was more than half gone before mother Renouf opened the door •nd came out to us, her old face looking •aore haggard than ever, but her little •yes twinkling with satisfaction. "All goes well,” she said. “Your little mam'zelle does not think of dying yet.” I did not stay to watch how Tardif received this news, for I was impatient myself to see how she was going on. Thank heaven, the fever was gone, the delirium at aa end. The dark gray eyes, •penlng languidly as my fingers touched her wrist, were calm and intelligent. Bhe was as weak as a kitten, but that did not trouble me much. I was sure her natural health was good, and she would

By Hesba Stretton

soon recover her lost strength. I had to stoop down to hear what she was saying. “Have I kept quite still, doctor?” she asked faintly. I must own that my eyes smarted, and my voice was not to be trusted. I had never felt so overjoyed in my life as at that moment. But what a singular wish to be obedient possessed this girl! What a wonderful power of submissive self-con-trol! “I should like to see Tardif,” murmured the girl to me that night, after she had awakened from a second long and peaceful sleep. I called him and he came in barefoot, his broad, burly frame seeming to fill up all the little room. She could not raise her head, but her face was turned towards us, and she held out her small wasted hand to him, smiling faintly. He fell on his knees before he took it into his great, homy palm, and looked down upon it as he held it very carefully with tears standing in his eyes. “Why, it is like an egg shell,” he said. “God bless you, mam’zelle, God bless you for getting well again!” She laughed at his words —a feeble though merry laugh, like a child’s —and she seemed delighted with the sight of his hearty face, glowing as it was with happiness. It was a strange chance that had thrown these two together. I could not allow Tardif to remain long; but after' that she kept devising little messages to send to him through me whenever I was about to leave her. Her intercourse with mother Renouf was extremely limited, as the old woman’s knowledge of English was slight. It

happened, in consequence, that I was the only person who could talk or listen to her through the long and dreary hours. CHAPTER VI. My mother was lying on the sofa in the breakfast room, with the Venetian blinds down to darken the morning sunshine. Her eyes were closed, though she held in her hands the prayer book, from which she had been reading as usual the Psalms for the day. . Whilst I was looking at her, though I made no sort of sound or movement, she seemed to feel that I was there; and after looking up she started from her sofa, and flung her arms about me, pressing closer and closer. “Oh, Martin, my boy; my darling!’’ she sobbed, “thank heaven you are come back safe! Oh, I have been very rebellious, very unbelieving. I ought to have known that you would be safe. Oh, I am thankful!” “So am I, mother,” I said, kissing her. “You have come back like a barbarian,” she said, “rougher than Tardif himself. How have you managed, my boy? -You must tell me all about it.” “As soon as I have had my breakfast, mother, I must put up a few things in a hamper to go back by the Sark cutter,” I answered. “What sort of things?” she asked. “Tell me, and I will be getting them ready for you.” “Well, there will be some medicines, of course,” I said; “you cannot help me in that. But you can find things suitable for a delicate appetite; jelly, you know, and jams, and marmalade; anything nice that comes to hand. And a few amusing books.”

“Books!" echoed my mother. I recollected at once that the books she might select, as being suited to a Sark peasant, would hardly prove interesting to my patient. I could not do better thau go down to Barbet’s circulating library and look out some good works there. “Well, no,” I said; “never mind the books. If you will look out the other things, those can wait.” “Who are they for?” asked my mother “For my patient,” I replied. “What sort of a patient, Martin?” she inquired again. “Her name is Ollivier,” I said. “A common name. Our postman’s name is Ollivier.” ' “Oh. yes,” she answered; “I know several families of Olliviers. I dare say I should know this person if you could tell me her Christian name. Is it Jane, or Martha, or Rachel?” “I don’t know,” I said; “I did not ask.” The packing of that hamper interested me wonderfully; and my mother, rather amazed at my taking the superintendence of it in person, stood by me in her store closet, letting me help myself liberally. There was a good apuee left after I had taken sufficient to supply Miss Ollivier with good things for some weeks to come. If my mother had not been by I should have filled it up with books. “Give me a loaf or two of white bread,” I said; “the bread at Tardif’s is coarse and hard, as I know after eating it for a week.” "Whatever are you doing here, Martin?" exclaimed Julia’S unwelcome voice behind me.

“He has been living on Tardif’s coarse J fare for a week,” answered my mother; “so now he has compassion enough for his Sark patient to pack up some dainties for her. If you could only give him one or two of your bad headaches he would have more sympathy for you.” “Have you had one of your headaches, Julia?” I inquired. “The worst I ever had,” she answered. “It was partly your going ofiTin that rash way, and the storm that came on after, and the fright we were in. You must got think of going again, J shall take <fare~yoii don’t go after we are married.” Julia had been used to speak out as .ealmiy about our marriage as if it was no more than going to a picnic. It grated upon me just then; though it had been much the same with myself. There was no delightful agitation about the future that lay before us. We were going to set up housekeeping by ourselves, and that was all. There was no mystery in it; no problem to be solved; no discovery to be made on either side. There would be no Blue Beard’s chamber in our dwelling. We had grown up together; now we had agreed to grow old together. That was the sum total of marriage to Julia and me. I finished packing the hamper, and sent Pellet with it to the Sark office, having addressed it to Tardif, who had engaged to be down at the Creux Harbor to receive it when the cutter returned. I was in haste to secure a parcel of books before the cutter should start home again, with its courageous little knot of market people, I ran down to Barbet’s. I looked through the library shelves until I hit upon two novels. Besides these, I' chose a book for Sunday reading. Barbet brought half a sheet of an old Times to form the first cover of my parcel. The shop was crowded with market people, and as he was busy I undertook to pack them myself. I was about to fold the newspaper round them, when my eye was caught by an advertisement at the top of one of the columns. “Strayed from her home in London, on the 20th inst., a young lady with bright brown hair, grey eyes, and delicate features; age twenty-one. She is believed to have oeen alone. Was dressed in a blue silk dress, and sealskin jacket and hat. Fifty

“LOOK THERE, TARDIF.”

pounds reward is offered to any person giving such information as will lead to her restoration to her friends, Apply to Messrs. Scott and Brown, Gray’s Inn Road, E. C.” I stood perfectly still for some seconds, staring blankly at the very simple advertisement under my eyes. There was not the slightest doubt in my mind that it had a direct reference to my pretty patient in Sark. But I had no time for deliberation then, and I tore off a large corner of the Times containing that and other advertisements,' and thrust it unseen into my pocket.

In the afternoon I went down with Julia and my mother to the new house, to see after the unpacking of furniture. I can imagine circumstances in which nothing could be more delightful than the care with which a man prepares a home for his future wife. The very tint of the walls, and the way the light falls in through the windows, would become matters of grave importance, but there was not the slightest flavor of this sentiment in our furnishing of the new house. It was really more Julia’s business than mine. I went about the place as if in some dream. The house commanded a splendid view of the whole group of the Channel Islands, and the rocky islets innumerable strewn about the sea. The afternoon sun was shining full upon Sark, and whenever I looked through the window I could see the cliffs of the Havre Gosselin, purple in the distance, With a silver thread of foam at their foot. No wonder that my thoughts wandered, and the words my mother and Julia were speaking went in at one ear and out at the other. Certainly I was dreaming; but which part was the dream? “I don’t belfeve he cares a straw about the carpets!” exclaimed Julia, in a disappointed tone. “I do indeed, dear Julia,” I said. She had set her mind upon having flowers in her drawing room carpet, and there they were, large garlands of brightcolored blossoms, very gay and, as I ventured to remark to myself, very gaudy. “You like it better than you did in the pattern?” she asked anxiously. I did not like it one whit better, but I sh'ould have been a brute If I had said so. She was gazing at it and me with so troubled an expression, that I felt it necessary to set her mind at ease. "It is certainly handsomer than the pattern,” I said, regarding it attentively; “very much handsomer.” “Julia, my love,” said my mother, “remember that we wish to show Martin those patterns whilst it is daylight. Tomorrow is Sunday, you know.” A little tinge of color crept over Julia’s tintless face. We then drew near to the window, from which we could see Sark so clearly, and Julia drew ont of her pocket a very large envelope, which was bursting with its contents. They were small scraps of white silk and white satin. I took them mechanically into my hand, and could not help admiring their pure, lustrous, glossy beauty. I passed my fingers over them softly. There was something In the sight sf them that moved me, as If they were fragments of the shining garments of some vision, which in times gone by, when I was mfich younger, had now and then floated before my fancy. I did not know

any one lovely enough to wear eat neat of glistening white like these, unles*-~ unless A passing glimpse of the pur* white face, and glossy hair, and deep grey eyes of my Sark patient flashed across me. “They are patterns for Julia’s wedding dress,” said my mother, in a low, tender tone. (To be continued.)

ABOUT CIGAR BOXES.

Spanish Cedar is the Best Wood, hot Comes from Cuba. “There are something like 14,000,000 cigar boxes used in the United State* - annually, and about nine-tenths of that number are made in this city, where the trade rivals the clothing industry in point of capital invested, and the number of people employed,” said a leading cigar-box manufacturer in New York to the writer. “The material out of which the best boxes are made comes principally from Cuba, and Is known as Spanish cedar. The recent war with Spain shortened the supply and Increased the price of the article to such an extent that many box makers have been compelled to use a cheaper and less desirable grade of wood for the purpose. “One New York firm has been experimenting with timber from the unexplored Paraguayan forests, which are said to contain the finest cedar wood in the world. They have, however, experienced considerable difficulty in selling their boxes, as cigar manufacturers and connoisseurs insist that it spoils a fine cigar to put it in any box not made of genuine Spanish cedar. The latter wood always retains the flavor of a good cigar. Indeed, some people claim that it Improves the flavor. Tbe reason given Is that it grows In the same lx>calities as the best Havana tobacco. “Attempts made to use cedar grown in the United States for cigar boxes have not been very successful. The Florida and South American cedar contains a peculiar gum that melts when the wood Is exposed to the heat of a store or house, and thus the labels and sometimes the cigars in a box are spoilt. Of course, the smokers of cheaper brands of cigars are less particular about the quality of tbe wood used for their boxes, and a veneered cedar, made from a peculiar sort of cedar that grows in Mexico, is often substituted for the Spanish article. But it cannot be done without the cigair dealers finding it out, and the consequence is that even a good cigar when packed in such a box sells at a disadvantage.—Washington Star.

A DOUBTFUL STORY.

Too Good to Be True r Though a Sober Man Tells It. “Never had such, m shock, ini my life. I questioned for a few minutes whether I was in my right mind. I was sick, and good and sick at that. L called up ceentral, and was informed ini one of the most pleasant voices I ever heard that they were busy on the line of my regular physician. Just as I was going to cut loose on a string of profanity she said: ‘You’re sick, sir. L can tell from your voice. I’ll call, physicians till I get one. Meantime yould better lie down.’ “Say, nothing but a dead faint wouM have removed me from that telephone. I listened as I heard her ring for. one doctor after another, always quick, and pointed in her inquiries, but patient and not a lost note in that flute-like voice. I forgot that I was sick, and I was sorry wheen she finally found a physician whom she told to hurry to me. “A little later she called up to know If I needed a nurse. Of course I did, just because I wanted the pleasure of hanging on to that receiver while she routed up one number after another until the desired article was procured. It was great. When it came to getting drugs she was only one removed from a magician. I ordered; dainties that I never eat, just to hear her calL for; them, for I pretended a degree of weakness that would not permit of my standing too long at the ’phone. The whole thing was a startling revelation to-me. When I’m well the company is going to lose that girl or she’ll refuse what a good many mammas regard as a catch.” Then one of the most desirable ellgibles In the town went to the telephone and asked the time, though he had three clocks and a chronometer, all on duty.—Detroit Free Press.

A Queer Inscription.

A queer sentence closes the inscription on a tombstone In a churchyard in England. After announcing the name and other particulars of the lady there burled, these words follow: “A virtuous woman is 5s to her husband.” The explanation Is that space prevented “a crown” being cut in full, and the stonecutter argued that a crown equals ss.

A Fellow-Feeling.

Perambulating Pete—Boss, I ain’t an ordinary tramp. But every spring, ’bout April, my wife insists upon cleanin’ hou Mr, Boerum Place (interrupting him sympathetically)—My poor man! Don’t say another word. Here’s a dollar!— Brooklyn Eagle.

A Conservative Claim.

“I suppose you think you have the greatest climate In the country,” said the tourist. “No,” said the man who was suffering from a cold. “We don’t claim the greatest In that line. But we do claim the largest variety.”—Washington Star.

Cheap Enough.

“Isn’t It ridiculous to say ‘Talk is cheap?’ ” "Oh, I don’t know. I could take you to a place where you’d get dead loads of It and a shave thrown In for 10 cents.” —Philadelphia Press.

NEW STAMP TAX LAW.

Important Changes and Modifications Taking Effect on the First of July.

The stamp tax, to which business has been subjected for more than two years, will be greatly modified by the new revenue law. After July 1 no stamps will be required on telegraph or telephone messages, bank checks, bonds, certificates of deposit, drafts, express receipts, life insurance policies, leases, mortgages, power of attorney, promissory notes, money orders, protests, warehouse re- . ceipts. These are the” articles the tax upon which has been directly borne by the public. Many modifications have been made in the revenue bill which affect the manufacturers. The tax on beer, cigars, tobacco and cigarettes has been reduced. The tax on theaters, billiard tables, public exhibitions, has been retained, but reduced. It is estimated that the government receipts will be reduced from 140,000,000 to $50,000,000 annually by the revision of the revenue act. Bank checks with 2-cent stamps imprinted thereon are being received in large numbers for redemption at the internal revenue bureau. On and after July 1 no stamps will be necessary and the banks, which are loaded with stamped checks, are endeavoring to get rid of the surplus stock. It looks as if there would be a deluge of stamped cheeks pouring in upon the revenue bureau, just as there was in 1883, when rooms and corridors were filled with the accumulations, which came every day by express and mail. It is yet undecided whether the owner of stamped checks will receive them again after be has turned them in for redemption. In 1883 the stamped checks were punched for cancellation and then given back to their original owners, so that they couid be used. At the present time there seems to be a misunderstanding between the auditor of the treasury and the commissioner of the internal revenue as to the course to pursued", the latter believing that the auditor has decided that when a stamped check has been submitted as a voucher for claim it cannot be returned. This does not coincide with the informal statement made by the auditor, and it will probably require an official order from the Secretary of the Treasury to finally settle the matter. The demand for the return of the stamped checks is very emphatic, many business associations having taken the matter up in earnest, and insisting that if the stamped' checks are completely destroyed commercial houses will suffer great loss. The internal revenue bureau is already

In order to present the-changes in the law in brief form, the internal revenue bureau has prepared: the following statement, which will be found to convey all necessary information.: Repealed: Bank checks,. 2 cents. Bills of lading for export, in' cents. Bond or obligation by guarantee company, one-half of 1 cent on each, dollar. Certificates of. damage, 25 cents. Certificate of deposit, 2 cents. Certificates not otherwise specified, 10 cents. Charter party, $3 to $lO. Chewing gum, 4 cents each ft. Commercial brokers, S2O. Drafts, sight, 2 cents. Express receipts, 1 cent. Insurance —Life,. 8 cents oh each $100; marine, Inland, fire, % cent on each $1; casualty, fidelity and guaranty, % cent on each sl. Lease, 26 cents to sl. Manifest for custom-house entry, $1 to $5. Mortgage or conveyance in, trust, 25 cents for each $1,500. Perfumery and. cosmetics, cent for each 6 cents. Power of attorney, to. vote, 10 cents. Power of attorney, to sell, 26 cents. Promissory notes, 2 cents Iter each SIOO. Proprietary medicines, Vi cent for each 5 cents. Protest, 25 cents. Telegraph messages, 1 cent. Telephone messages, 1 cent. United States money orders, 2 cents for epdh SIOO. Warehouse receipts, 25 cents. Modifications have been made as follows: Cigarettes, weighing not more than three pounds per 1,000, $1.50 per 1,000; changed to, valued at not more than $2 per 1,000, 18 cents per pound; valued at more than $2 per 1,000, 86 cents pee pound. Bails of exchange, foreign, 4 cents for each $100; chanced to 2 cents for each SIOO. Beer, $2 per barrel and 7% per cent discount, changed to $1.60 per barrel, and 7% per cent discount repealed. Cigars, weighing more than three pounds per 1,000, $3.60 per 1,000; changed td $8 per 1,000. Cigars, weighing not more than three pounds per 1,000, $1 per 1,000; changed to 10 cents per pound. Conveyance, 50 cents for each $600; now exempted below $2,500; above $2,500, 25 cents for each SSOO. Legacies, law modified so as to exclude from taxation legacies of charities, religions, literary or educational characters after March 1, 1901. Orders for payment of money by telegraph, etc., Issued by express companies, etc.,

ILLINOIS BREAKS RECORD.

The New Battleship on Trial Averages 17.31 Knots an Honr. The trial of the battleship Illinois took place over the Cape Ann course Wednesday, and the new war vessel showed a sustained speed of 17.31 nautical miles an hour. This breaks all previous records and proves that the Illinois is the fastest vessel of its class in the American navy. The average speed Is better than was done by etiher of the other two in the same class, the Alabama and the Wisconsin, the latter built and given a trial on the Pacific coast steaming 17.12 knots.

High Birth Kates in New England.

The birth rate in Fall River, according to the census of 1900, is higher than that of any other city of over 30,000 population in the country, being 38.75 per 1,000. Holyoke comes next with 88.50. There is then a drop to 31.05 in New Bedford, 30.86 in Waterbury, Conn., and 29.29 In Cambridge. These are the five highest birth rates. Vice-Admiral Sir Edward H~ Seymour, who has been British commander-in-chief on the China station since 1898, has feten p room ted to the ranh of admiral.

preparing for the changes which are ta occur in the stamp law. The general public is most deeply interested in bank check stamps and stamps on telephone and telegraph messages. These are all repealed. All together, stamps are t« be abolished on twenty-six articles, and it is estimated at the internal revenue bureau that the revenues will suffer a reduction aggregating from $40,000,00# to $45,000,000. The latest circular issued by the bureau for the guidance of persons interested in the redemption of stamps states that the latter will be redeemed when presented in quantities of $2 or more faca value, and (*no claim for redemption will be allowed unless presented within two years after the purchase of the stamps from the government' Claims for the redemption of stamps must be prepared in the district where the claimant resides and forwarded by the collector of that district to the internal revenue bureau. The commissioner states that under the law and regulations all stamped instruments and all imprinted checks, drafts and so forth, presented for the redemption of the stamps thereon must, when the stamps are redeemed, be retained with the claim; therefore, no such instruments can be returned to the owners thereof.” But there seems to be a misunderstanding about the matter and it is possible that the checks will be returned. Next to the bankers, the makers of /patent medicines are most widely interested in the repeal of the stamp laws, the tax now being only % of a cent for every 5 cents' worth of value. It is said at the internal revenue bureau that by far the largest proportion of stamped medicines have separate stamps affixed, only about fifty firms having taken advantage of the opportunity provided by the law to' have special stamps prepared’ for their individual use. It has already been decided by the treasury official that if a stamp has been affixed to the proprietary package, it cannot be redeemed. The work of the bureau will therefore be confined! to the redemption of such imprinted labels and separate stamps as have not been' placed upon the package, but even' this will entail a very large amount of extra work. The remaining items upon which the use of stamps has been abolished will not give the internal revenue bureau much trouble, as in nearly every fase the stamps have been attached separately and not imprinted. This is true of certificates of deposit, leases, manifests, mortgages, promissory notes, money orders, warehouse receipts, etc.

ALL IN A NUTSHELL.

drawn in but payable out of United States, 2 cents for each SIOO. Passage tickets, $1 to $5; now exempted below SSO In value; flor each SSO, 50 cents, exceeding SSO, In addition thereto, 60 cents. Sales of products a* exchanges: 1 cent for. each SIOO retained, but sales of merchandise In actual course of. transportation exempted from tax. Tobacco and snuff, 12 cents per pound; now, discount of 20 per cent allowed. The taxes are retained as follows: Bankers' capital and surplus, SSO for $25,000 and $2 for each additional SI,OOO. Bonds, debentures, certificates of Indebtedness, etc., 5 cents for each SI,OOO. Bonds for Indemnity or for due execution, or performance of duties of any office or position, 50 cents. Broker, SSO. Brokers’ contract,. 10 cents. Certificates of profits, 2 cents for each. SIOO. Certificates of stock, original Issue, 5 cents for each SIOO. Certificate* oft stock, transfers, 2 cents for each SIOO. (Amended to include sales at bucket shops.) Cigarettes weighing more than thnee pounds per, 1)000,. $3.60 per 1,000. Custom bouse bookers, $lO. Dealers in leaf tobacco, $6 bo $24, according to sales. Dealers In tobacco, sl2, when sales exceed. 50,000 pounds. Drafts, time, or Mils of exchange, Inland,. 2 cents for each SIOO. Entry of goods at custom bouse for consumption, 25 cents to sl. Entry tor withdrawal, 50 cents. Freight receipts or domestic bills of lading, 1 cent. Manufacturers of Cigars, $6 to.s24i. Manufacturers of mixed flour, sl2 per annum. Manufacturers of tobacco, $6 to $24. Misted flour, 4 cents per barret. Pawnbrokers, S2O. Petroleum and sugar refineries, % per cent gross receipts In excess of $250,000. Proprietors of bowling alleys or billiard rooms, $5 for each alley or table. Proprietors of circuses, SIOO. Proprietors of other public exhibitions, $lO. Proprietors of theaters, museums and concert halls, SIOO. Sleeping and parlor car tickets, 1 cent. Sparkling or other wines, one pint, 1 cent; more than one pdnt, 2 cents. Ten, customs duty of 10 cents per pound. New taxes have been Imposed, in fores April 1, 1901, as follows: Broker, class 2, special tax In addition to all other special taxes, S6O. Bucket shop transactions, 2 cents for each SIOO.

Boston’s fashionable set now call a dance a “band.” The lime burners of San Jacinto, Cal., use crude oil as fuel in place of wood and coal. Phya Phetchada has been appointed Siam’s minister extraordinary to the United States. A large number of school teachers have sailed for the Philippines, where they will be employed. | It is expected that 8,000,000 boxes of citrus fruit will be shipped from California this season. Yavapi County, Arizona, has decided to assess Senator Clark’s copper propefty at $6,000,000. Heretofore a tax of $24,000 has been levied on the United Verde mine on a valuation of $600,000. Senator Clark’s Arizona property now will cost him $240,000 annually. Miss Sophronlsba Breckinridge, daughter of Col. W. O. P. Breckinridge, passed the Qhicago University examinations fo* the degree of doctor of philosophy. ShS had previously received there the degree of master of science. She was the first woman lawyer to become a member of the Kentucky appellate be*

This and That.