Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 24, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1901 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. CEO. B. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - • INDIANA.

ONE SOLDIER SLAIN.

TWO OTHERS ARE WOUNDED IN SHOOTING AFFRAY. Fatal Bow in Barracks at Fort Meade, 8. D., Caused by Acte—The Burial of the President Causes a Lull in Trade. Private George Lynch of M troop, Thirteenth United States cavalry, who was discharged from the guardhouse at Sturgis, S. D., after serving a sentence __*s the result of his having been held in confinement by the city, returned to his barracks and began shooting promiscuously about the room. The guard rushed in and began shooting at Lynch. In the skirmish that followed Sentry McAitch was shot through the liver and Lynch through the flesh of the thigh, the same bullet passing on and cutting open the sole of Private Caldwell’s foot. The wounded men were all taken to the hospital, where McAitch died from his wounds. The others will recover. PERIOD OF BUSINESS REST. All but Necessary Activities Suspended Out of Respect for McKinley. R. G. Dun's weekly review of trade says: Universal sorrow placed a calming hand on the rush and turmoil of the market place. Everything that could be conveniently postponed was put aside out of respect for the man whose life was devoted to developing the wonderful activity in all branches of trade and industry. Exchanges suspended operations for two days, and the distribution of merchandise was in many cases limited to immediate requirements. Mercantile payments continue prompt, but it was to be expected that bank exchanges would not show the customary heavy gains over previous years. At leading cities outside New York there was a gain of 8 per cent over 1900 and a loss of 7 from 1899. Yet prices were stronger and there were many indications of great latent power that may be expected to appear as normal conditions return. After two months of controversy at the steel mills a settlement has been reached, although the terms are not entirely satisfactory to the Amalgamated Association and there is much complaint among the men regarding the conduct of the strike. Managers are confident that the outcome means no further interruption to work for a long period. Failures for the week numbered 157 in the United States, against 211 last year, and 26 in Canada, against 33 last year.

PROGRESS OF THE RACE. Standine of League Club# ia Contest for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...81 45Boston 65 63 Philadelphia 73 54New Y0rk...51 75 Brooklyn ...73 56Chicago 51 80 St. L0ui5....67 59Cincinnati ...47 76 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....82 49Baltimore ...62 64 Boston 73 55Washington. 59 69 Detroit .....70 58Cleveland ...53 76 Philadelphia 68 61 Milwaukee . .47 82 Wavertree Stock Farm Sold. The Wavertree stock farm, located near Heron Lake, Minn., and comprising 6,500 acres, has been sold to members of the Wisconsin Land Company of St. Paul. The price paid was about $200,000. The land was owned by an English syndicate with headquarters in Liverpool, England. CznlEOsz Not Insane. Insanity Experts put Assassin Czolgosz through a rigid examination, and declare that he is not insane. Chemical analysis of the bullets fired into the President’s body failed to disclose any trace of poison. Attempt to Assassinate Lonbet. It is rumored that an attempt was made to assassinate President Loubet while he was on his way to Dunkirk. A shot was fired at the special train which followed the one containing the President. Rule Aeainst Hotel-Keepers-The sovereign grand lodge, I. O. O. F., has decided that where a saloon is run in connection with a hotel the proprietor of the hotel shall be regarded as a saloonkeeper and not eligible to membership in the order.

McKinley Funeral Exoenae*. The expense incurred by the death of President McKinley, including medical services and the funeral, will be met by Congress through a special provision. Add will also be given Mrs. McKinley. Wrecks Waterworks Plant. One of the boilers in the city water works and electric light plant at Willmar, Minn., exploded, wrecking the plant. The damage is estimated at $30,000, insurance SIO,OOO. Dual Alliance Reiffirmed. . Csar Nicholas 11. and President Loubet, speaking at a banquet after a grand military review on the plains of Bethany, publicly reaffirmed the dual alliance. Armen’an A treaties Must Stop. 'Hie Cxar says 'nirkish atrocities in Armenia must atop; that the people must accept Russian protection or be extermi nated. Four Injured and May Die. The gasoline ferryboat A. C. Barney was destroyed by an explosion on the Little Kanawha river, not far from Parkersburg, W. Va., and four of those on board were probably fatally burned. The rest of the passengers jumped into the river and escaped with slight injuries. K*lla a Woman nnd Hitnaelf. At Del Rio, Texas, Michael Woods ahot and killed Miss FoMtte because, it is claimed, she refused to marry him, and then stabbed himself fourteen times, inflicting wounds which proved fatal.

SHOT DEAD IN TRAIN HOLD-UP. MM* Oae of Three Bobber* I* Killed at Mount Dalia* Md. Three masked men attempted to hold up a Pennsylvania Railroad train, Bedford Division, at Mount Dallas, Md., and one (a negro, whose identity cannot be established) was shot dead. The other two escaped. At Bedford W. F. Souder, paymaster for the Colonial Iron Company, Riddlesburg, and R. H. Kay, manager of the Morrisdale Coal Company at Six Mile Run, boarded the train with about $25,000, which they had secured from banks to pay off their employes. While the train was standing at the Mount Dallas station, where the engines were being changed, Mr. Souder, who, with Mr. Kay, was seated in the back of the rear car, was startled by a bullet whizzing through the window. The tire was returned and the robbers retreated: The men with drawn revolvers entered each door of the car. The third man who fired the shot at Souders stood on the outside as a guard, but Souders was too quick. .Drawing his revolver, he fired at the man who had just missed him, rfhe bullet entering the top of his head, coming out under the chin. Souder was elevated above the man and shot almost straight down, the bullet tearing clear through the head with terrific force and the man fell dead in his tracks, his hand clutching his revolver. The other two bandits, frightened by Souder's shot and a shot from Kay's revolver aimed at one of them, escaped. OFFERS $50,000 FOR KILLING. Cleveland Man Arreoted on Suspicion of Plottine. Frank Idings is in jail in Cleveland because he said he could give any comer $50,000 if he would kill Presideht Roosevelt. He says he was drunk when the startling promise was made. “Sure, 1 said that I could get any one $50,000. to kill Roosevelt,” said Idings to the Coroner. “But I was drunk and so was the other fellow who was with me.” Idings is said to have made his statement in Reynolds’ saloon on St. Claire street. Several men were in the saloon discussing the death of President McKinley. Chas. Finneran of 108 Slater avenue was there and Idings engaged him in conversation. “I can get you $50,000 from the society I belong to if you will shoot Roosevelt,” Idings is said to have remarked. Finneran wanted to see what there was in the alleged offer, and so Idings is said to have taken him to another man just outside the saloon. The two men are alleged to have,told Finneran to come back at midnight and they would take him to the room of the society. Finneran then went for a policeman.

FRENCH CENSUS SHOWS INCREASE Republic Now Has a Total Population ot 38,641,333. The whole of the official returns of the census taken throughout France on March 24 last have now been received and classified at the ministry of the interior in Paris. The figures show a more satisfactory situation than had been expected. The total population of the country was at the date 38,641,333, as against 38,228,969 in March, 1896. The increase during the last five years was therefore 412,364, whereas in th/ preceding period of five years from 1891 to 1896 the increase had been only 133,819. Three Masked Men Get SIOO. Three men whose faces were covered with black masks and who were armed with revolvers, entered the saloon of Michael King in Chicago and after compelling the proprietor and six inmates to stand facing a rear wall, relieved them of their valuables. Nearly SIOO and a number of gold watches and chains and two revolvers were taken. '• Sailors Saved in Midlake. The four members of the crew of the schooner G. Ellen of Racine were rescued from their craft in midlake by the steamer Nyack just before the Ellen broke up. When the Nyack came in sight of the imperilled men the stern had split, the schooner was waterlogged, and parts of the hull were being broken off by the seas.

Consigned to the Tomb. President McKinley’s mortal remains now rest in the tomb in Westlawn cemetery at Canton. The final stages of the journey were from house to church and thence to the graveyard, and city and State, nation and the world at large-vied with each other in paying the last tribute. Effect Fusion in \ebr’»ka. The Democrats and Populists of’Nebraska effected fusion at their convention in Lincoln. Judge Conrad Hollenbeck of Fremont, Democrat, was nominated for justice of the Supreme Court. The Populists were given the two regents of the university. Royal Guests in Canada. The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York made their formal entry into the Dominion of Canada at Quebec, and were given a royal welcome by the people whom they may some day rule as King and Queen. Thousands of their loyal subjects assembled to greet them. Chicagoan to Manage Fair. At a meeting of the committee on organization of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company Frederick J. V. Skiff of Chicago was appointed to direct and supervise in all departments the exhibits at the World’s Fair to be held in St. Lonis In 1903. Panic at McKinley Funeral. Fifty persons were injured, several possibly fatally, during a crush in front of the capitol at W’ashington, when the doors were opened for the public to view the remains of President McKinley. Misunderstanding between police and soldiers was the cause. Death of Bishop Whipple. Bishop Henry B. Whipple of the Protestant Episcopal Church died at his home in Faribault, Minn. He had a severe attack of angina pectoris about a week before, but seemed to recover after the first few days’ illness. Dedicate Shaft to Gettysburg Heroine. At Gettysburg, Pa., the Jennie Wade monument was dedicated with appropriate exercises by members of the Woman’s Relief Corps of lowa. Jennie Wade was the only woman killed during the battle of Gettysburg. Pekin Regained by Chinese. The Chinese troops re-entered Pekin Tuesday. The Americans and Japanese simultaneously handed over the Forbidden City to the Chinese authorities. The evacuation was picturesque.

TERROR IN ALTOONA.

THE PENNSYLVANIA CITY SEES A LIVELY BATTLE. Six Desperadoes Make Hard Resistance to Capture by Police—Business Man Shot and Killed in His Home by Neuro Burglar. Altoona, Pa., was terrorized the other day by six desperadoes, who fought a fierce battle with the police, one-of the bandits beihg shot in the face by Chief of Police Sedenburg. The trouble started in the Franklin Hotel, where one of the party of six grabbed a roll of bills from W. F.-Dunn, a restaurant keeper. Dunn snatched his money from the man, who started out to buy revolvers for himself and friends. When he returned the bandits wanted to search the hotel for Dunn, but were prevented. The police were called and the men fled. A posse of officers and citizens followed them. A ning fire was kept up for two miles, in the streets and through alleys. The men were caught and will be given a hearing at once and held for trial. The man who was shot gave his name as Bill Nye. He is not seriously hurt. It was only by hard work that a lynching was prevented. BOYS WOULD KILL ASSASSIN. Four from Minnesota Stopped En Route to Buffalo Four boys, ranging in age from 10 to 13 years, were taken into custody at Oregon,Wis. They were on their way to Buffalo to avenge the assassination of President McKinley. They were armed with a 45-caliber revolver and had planned to shoot their victim and cut out his heart. The boys hail from Pine Island, Minn., and left home with sufficient money to carry them as far as Oregon, where they became stranded and applied to the police to help them on their mission of vengeance. They are proud of their undertaking and the action of the authorities in holding them is a great disappointment. Money was telegraphed by their parents and the youngsters were sent home.

KILLED BY NEGRO BURGLAR. Cincinnati Business Man Murdered in Hia Home—Wife Wounded. At South Gate, a village near Newport, Ky., J. H. Badger, credit man and bookkeeper for the Robert Clarke Publishing Company of Cincinnati, was shot and killed at 3 o’clock the other morning by a colored burglar. Mrs. Badger was shot in the back, the revolver being so close as to set fire to her clothing. She is not dangerously hurt. Mr. and Mrs. Badger heard a noise and started downstairs with a lighted candle. The negro fired the fatal shot from behind a door and escaped. Fortune Offirei for Violin. Lyon & Healy of Chicago have offered $20,000 for the violin of the great Paganini which is now jealously guarded in the municipio of Genoa, the famous musician’s own town. The offer has been refused and a better price may be proposed. Collision Near Toledo, Ohio. A head-end collision between a special passenger train and light engine occurred in the C., H. & D. yards two miles from Toledo, Ohio, Seventeen persons were more or less’ injured, but only four of them were badly hurt. New Battleship in Commission. The battleship Illinois, the fastest ship of its class in the world, has been commissioned in the United States navy, Captain G. A. Converse assuming command with all the ceremony required by naval regulations. Sixty-five browned at Sea. Sixty-five and possibly more lives have been lost through the sinking of the British torpedo-boat destroyer Cobra in the North Sea, as the result of an explosion. Bank Robhe l of $5,000. The safe in the bank of J. C. Brainerd & Co. at Blooming Prairie, Minn., was blown to pieces by cracksmen. Between $4,000 and $5,000 in currency was taken.

To Pl-cs Bonds Here. The Kobe Herald says the Japanese cabinet is discussing the placing of Japanese bonds to the value of 50,©00,000 yen in America.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime,$3.00 to $6.20; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $7.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 2,55 cto 56c; oats, No. 2,33 c ■to 35c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 16c; potatoes, new, 80c to 90c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.30; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $6.90; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2,69 cto 70c; corn, Na. 2 white, 57c to 58c; oats. No. 2 white, new, 36c to 37c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.25 to $6.35; hogs, $3.00 to $6.60; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 69c; corn, Na. 2, 56c to 57c; oats, No. 2,35 cto 36c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 57c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.70; hogs, $3.00 to $6.80; sheep, $3.00 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; coin, No. 2 mixed, 57c to 58c; oats. No. 2 mixed, new, 36c to 37c; rye. No. 2,56 cto 57c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $6.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 56c to 57c; oats. No. 2 white, 85c to 36c; rye. 52c to 53c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 56c to 57c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; rye, No. 2,50 c to 52c; clover seed, prime, $5.37. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 3,55 cto 56c; oats, No. 2 white, 36c to 37c; rye, No. 1,52 c to 54c; barley, No. 2,58 cto 59c; pork, mess, $14.65. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.80; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $7.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.50 to $5.40. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $5.85; hogs, $3.00 to $6.65; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn. No. 2, 60c to 61c; oats, No. 2 white, 39c to 40c; butter, creamery, 17c to 20c; eggs, western, 15c to 18c.

LOSS BY STEEL STRIKE.

Effect* of the Great Industrial Battle Are Far-Reaching. The effects of the strike in the steel and iron rolling mills are so great and far reaching that they can hardly be computed with any reasonable degree of accuracy, because the bad results at£ felt as far away as the ore mining regions of Duluth, and through the network’of trade from the manufacture of clothing and shoes down to the small shopkeeper in the strike-affected districts. The losses of the constituent companies of the United, States Steel Corporation have been very severe in the Way of trade lost that cannot be made'up, cost of maintenance of plants during enforced idleness when nothing was coming in, in interest for several months on a vast investment lying idle and loss of profit that •would thave been made had operations continued as in normal times. A tonnage of upwards of 250,000 tons of tin plate, pipes and tubes, sheets, bars, cottpn ties, puddled iron and finished products has been lost by the steel trust. An average of the selling price of the articles mentioned is S3O per ton, or $7,500,000 —a terrible price to pay for a victory over a labor union. The workingmen have lost millions in the strike and gained nothing; in many cases their families are living in straitened circumstances with the winter at hand; the resources of all but a very few of the higher paid men have been exhausted and their bank accounts depleted. The brunt of the trouble is borne by workeqp not concerned in the matter one way or another, such as machinery men, clerical forces, millwrights, shippers, transportation men, and the host of middle class labor that goes to make up the personnel of a steel strike. As to the matter of wages, averages taken of the earnings of the skilled men, unskilled and artisans affected show that the aggregate is close to $7,000,000, or nearly equal to the amount lost by the trust by reason of product not manufactured.

A summary of the Amalgamated losses is as follows: In funds, $150,000; a fourth of the mills, if those of the American Tin Plate Company have been made nonunion, and the association in that branch lost 1,300 members; a fourth of the strength in the mills of the American Sheet Steel Company has been lost, and 800 members have been lost in the sheet branch; in the National Steel Company 200 members have been lost, and 700 have been lost in the mills of the Illinois Steel Company. This is a net loss of about 3,000 men, reducing the membership from 13,800 to 10,800, most of which is in the mills of the Republic Iron and Steel Company, and in important tin plate, sheet and hoop mills. The losses in 'the individual companies are about as follows: American Sheet Steel Company, 25,000 tons; American Steel Hoop Company, 75,000 tons; American Tin Plate Company, 1,250,000 boxes; National Tube Company, 40,000 tons; Illinois Steel Company, 50,000 tons. The general economic results have been disastrous to the trust, strikers ang unconcerned public. PLAN TO CONTROL ANARCHISTS. Immigration Bureau Now Working; on a System. Foreign anarchists will, -be excluded from the United States if law’s are adopted in accord with the ideas now being worked out by Mr. Powderly, the Commissioner of Immigration, and several members of Congress. The head of the immigration bureau proposes a scheme which, if adopted, will exclude foreign anarchists, and if they develop anarchistic tendencies after reaching here they can be deported at any time before they are naturalized. The idea under consideration as outlined by Mr. Powderly contemplates naming certain ports in Europe from which immigrants will be allowed to land in the United States. At those ports officers of the immigration bureau will be stationed. When a person desiring to enter the United States presents himself he will be required to give a certificate of character from the time of his birth to the day of sailing.

SHOTS AT THE ANARCHISTS.

What deeds are done in thy land, oh, Liberty!—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The lives of a million such worthless reptiles would not compensate for the loss of one noble, upright, useful public citizen like McKinley.—Kansas City Journal. The nation demands Czolgosz’s exemplary punishment and a stricter surveih lance over anarchist clubs and all threatening enemies of the government. —Chicago Record-Herald. The anarchist exclusion act prepared in 1894 by John G. Carlisle, and which, after passing the House in the Fifty-third Congress, was amended by the Senate and was finally overlooked in the rush and confusion attending the passage of the Wilson tariff bill, might be revived when Congress meets. —Troy Times. The death of a thousand cuts, as described by Minister Wu, is not a pleasant subject to dwell upon. It is the punishment that is inflicted upon the person who attempts the life of the Chinese Emperor. In addition to this expiation his entire family—all of his blood—is exterminated. China evidently is not a healthful country for the blatant anarchist. — Cleveland Plain Dealer. The assassination of McKinley was an attempt to destroy the form of government which they had chosen for themselves and given their blood and devotion to maintain. Is it not time that this foreign riff-raff and their domestic fellow conspirators, who take refuge under our free government only to plan and direct destruction of all government, be crushed?—Louisville Courier-Journal. If Czolgosz is an anarchist, the fundamental law of the land, which forbids cruel and unusual punishments, should be suspended, and the most cruel and unsyal punishment that human ingenuity can devise, should be relentlessly' applied to deter the devils from the pursuit of their inhuman lusF for blood.— St. Louis Republic. Send Czolgosz to death, imprison Emmn Goldman and the other anarchist leaders, and a great step will have been taken to rid the country of the cowardly tribe that believes in government by the stiletto.—lndianapolis Sun.

Growth of Spotless Town.

Near Brilliant Hill a city’s found, Where Washing River meets Scrubbing <■ Sound, And Gleaming Falls sing loud and late, in Sparkling County, Shining State. They call it Spotless Tiwn. you know, And guide-posts read SAPOLIO. Of course so bright a place could not long escape public notice, and as the advantages of Spotless Town became known, it dawned upon the whole country at once that, for so attractive a town, the population was decidedly slim, and with one accord men, women and children sent In by every mail applications for citizenship. To give an idea of the widespread appreciation of Spotless Town as a residence, we repeat one day’s list. From Kansas City came a minister; from Brooklyn new married couples and some tradesmen; from Chicago more ministers, drummers, a milkman, a sil-ver-plater, and a bugler who was accompanied by his eat; St. Louis, Middletown, Ohio, and Louisville increased the population by druggists and lawyers; a town crier and a sheriff came

from Toledo in company; a drug clerk and a street cleaner, the latter not disposed to work, came from Minneapolis; a judge and a priest, the latter sent by a Rabbi, came from Richmond, and the Borough of Bronx sent a cobbler and a painter; an aiderman and a golfing crank came respectively from Nashville and Pittsburg, and Cincinnati contributed a poet. The Golf Expert of Spotless Town Is always “Up” and never “Down.” His Drives are long', his Puts are true, H did the eighteenth hole in two. He tees a ball that’s white as snow, And cleans it with SAPOLIO. Indeed, it would be difficult to And a corner of the United States from which people did not flock to Spotless Town. The most beautiful parts of the South and the forbidding North alike furnished citizens.

Of course, as is the case with settlers in a strange land, there was at first more or less trouble. There were invasions of evilly disposed persons from Smoky Range, but a militia was soon formed, drills instituted, and the invaders repulsed. This Captain bold, from Spotless Town, Is now with laurels weighted down. He headed men so strangely bright, That dszzled foes sought instant flight. This brilliant charge you’ve guessed, 1 know. Was due to old SAPOLIO. In the course of a few’ months Spotless Town has passed from the conditions of a boom town to a thoroughly settled municipality, one in which happiness thrives for all and domestic troubles are minimized. This Husband lives in Spotless Town; Come Spring, Come Fall, he wears no frown. By charwoman ne’er put to flight— His home is clean, his smiles are bright; .Housecleaning terrors stand no show Where housewives use SAPOLIO. The servant question is unknown, housework is a delight. Down on our knees we merrily go. We maids of Spotless Town, To scrub the boards that long ago Gave our good town renown. Tables and floors are as white as snow. And the magic all lies in SAPOLIO.

Arts and sciences nave followed, pleasures of various types are and a good stock Company has been Wr ganized. These are the actors of Spotless Town. Whose plays are the cleanest that cun be found. They’re “all the rage,” for both acting and plot Are bright and sparkling, without a blot ; A stranger once wanted to see “Sapho,” But they cleaned his mind with SAPOLIO. Of course we have our own troubles—notoriety seekers cannot always be kept away. It once happened that A western woman of great renown, One day did come to Spotless Tojvn. With glistening axe she'd clean and clear The town of liquor, wine and beer. They promptly told her. “You are slow; Don’t use an axe. but SzV POLIO.”

Immigration, of course, does not cease, but is less commented upon than before: people are too busy being happy *6 pay much attention to the unloading of furniture trucks. The babies as mucir as any one benefit by the conditions, and are freed from the restrictions usually inseparable from city life. Here are the babies of Spotless Town, Of the purest white is each tiny gown. They can plsy in the streets without soli or hurt, , , „ For this wonderful town Is quite freo from dirt.

With gleesome laughter and prattle slow. They shout “Hurray for SAPOLIO!”

THREE COLLECT FOR CHURCH.

Curious Proceedings by Primitive Holland Village Congregation. A Sunday among the staid burghers of Holland gave Clifton Johnson an opportunity to see three church collections taken up in rapid succession. He had asked to be directed to a characteristic country church in arf outlying village. As a result, he went by train from Leyden to a little place where there was a church as severe in its -simplicity as the meeting-houses of co- ' lonial New England. It resembles them, too, in its chilliness, for there was no attempt at warmihg it, and the people were dependent upon foot stoves of the old-fashioned type that was beginning to go out of vogue in American 100 years ago. Several scores of these little boxes stood in the church empty, neatly piled against the wall, ready to be filled with smoldering peat and supplied to the worshipers as they came in. When the time for the collection arrived a man started out from the ralledoff space before the pulpit, which space was occupied by the.elders, and with a black pocket at the end of an eight-foot pole proceeded to his tank. With this accessory he could reach to the end of a pew, only he had to be careful not to hit some worshiper with the butt end while making his short reaches. Everybody In the congregation put In something and the collector made a little bow every time a coin jingled in the pocket. He had gone about halfway round when another elder started out with another bag and pole. The writer wondered he had not started before. His purpose, however, was not to help his fellow collector finish his work. Indeed he started just where the other had begun and passed the bag to the same people, and everyone dropped in a coin as faithfully as he had done the first time. Nor -was this the end, for the second collector had no sooner got a good start than a third stepped out from the pulpit front with bag and pole and went as industriously over the ground as the two others had done. He was just as successful as his predecessors. Things were getting serious. The stranger had put silver in the first bag, but fearing that the collection might continue indefinitely he dropped copper coins in the second and third bags, and was not a little relieved when he saw that the rest of the men in the elders’ seats kept their places.

Later he learned the secret of the process. The first man collected for the minister, the second for the church and the third for the poor. As each member of the congregation contributed one Holland cent to each bag it seemed as if a little calculation might have saved much collecting. The sum of the three deposits would, in our money, be about 1 1-5 cents for each person. At the moment when the bags began to pass the minister gave out a hymn, but the congregation finished singing it long before the collection was over. There did not, however, ensue one of those silences during which you can hear pins drop and flies buzz, for the minister ignored the collectors, who were still making their halting progress through the aisles, and promptly began his sermon.—Youth's Companion.

Thumb Signals.

Specialists in nerve diseases by an examination of the thumb can tell if the patient is affected or likely to be affected by paralysis, as the thumb signals this trouble long before it is in any other part of the body. If the danger symptoms are evidenced there an operation is performed on what is known as the “thumb center” of the brain, and the disorder is often removed. The success of the operation can be told, too. by the changed condition of the thumb. No matter how carefully the Individual may attempt to conceal incipient Insanity, the thumb will reveal it infallibly. It is the one sure test. If the patient in his daily work permits the thumb to stand at a right angle to the other fingers, or to fall listless into the' palm, taking no part ip his writing, his handling ,of things, his multiform duties, but standing isolated and sulky, it is an unanswerable confession of mental disease.

Sure Proof.

When France and Germany were at war an Englishman was arrested by the French and accused of being a German spy. A letter dated “Berlin," and signed by his mother, was found upon him. He was tried by drumhead Court-martial and condemned to beshot. x On the way to the place of execution he said that he had left something behind, and Insisted on going back for it. "You ctA’t go back," was the reply. "You are about to be shot.” “I can’t help that,” said he. “I have left something, nnd I mtist gpt it.” “What have you left?" "My umbrella.” That settled it. He was released. Noone but an Englishman, said bls captors, could be such a thorough going imbecile as that.—Youth’s Companion. Every known language contains such names as cuckoo, pewit, whippoorwill and others, In which the sound emitted b- animal is utilized as the name.