St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 45, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 June 1895 — Page 2

MEET IN PITTSBURG. GENERAL ASSEMBLY O” THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Reports Presented Covering the Work of the Tear —Matrimonial Swindler in the Toils—Silver Conference Adjourns—Damage by Frost. Churchmen in Session. The 107th general assembly of the Presbyterian Church was held in the Third Church in Pittsburg. There were nearly 600 commissioners present when the opening hour arrived. The preliminary services were begun by prayer by Dr. Robert N. Adams, of Minneapolis. This was followed by scripture reading by Dr. Win. N. Page, of Leavenworth, Kan. After music Dr. George Norcross, of Carlisle, Pa., read a passage from the scriptures, followed by prayer by Dr. W. 11. Roberts, the stated clerk. Rev. Dr. Robert Russell Booth was elected moderator. Reports of the various boards of the church were presented to the assembly. The report of the board of freedmen’s n’t KEV. M’EWAN, D. D. REV. BOOTH, D. D. BEV. KIDDLE, D. D. missions showed receipts from churches, iSabbath schools, societies and individuals exceeding those of the year before by $5,270.27. The debt this year is $22,351.56, which is $4,000 less than last year. The number of schools was decreased during the year and the salaries of teachers were reduced on an average about 10 per cent. The total contributions exclusive of $14,658.87 for insurance, was $173,050.16, and expenditures, $162,704.10. The board of publication and Sabbath school work reported contributions nearly $4,000 in excess of last, year. The board was enabled to keep in the field eighty-three permanent missionaries and to appoint twelve auxiliaries who labored during the last summer. Through the agency of its missionaries it organized 1,804 schools and reorganized 254, and by the stimulus and aid of its grants it effected the organization of 58 additional schools. Into these schools 5,455 teachers and 44,004 scholars are reported to have been gathered. It is also reported from the schools established during the last fiscal year 50 churches have already grown. It distributed gratuitously more than 17,357,r fwzWMnt THIRD CHURCH, PITTSBUKO. 000 pages of tracts and periodicals and 38.958 volumes of Christian literature (exclusive of Bibles). It closed the year with a balance of $25,961.92. The report of the board of relief for disabled ministers and the widows and orphans of deceased ministers shows a deficit of $6,526.81 for the year. The board of home missions received last year $*334. 259.75, exceeding last year by $33,193.13. The board of foreign missions reported that 43 new missionaries have received commissions from the board and gone out 1 to the several fields assigned them. The gifts from churches for the year have decreased $8,626.50; from woman's boards, $14,064.27. and from miscellaneous, sl.302.G6. The total expenditures for the year were $796,844.76, as against $995,921.70 for the preceding year, being $19,036.94 less than the expenditures for the year ending April 30, 1894. The board of education reports a larger number of recommendations receive! than during any previous year in its history. The total number of candidates recommended was 1,075, of whom 43 were declined. The church erection board reported that during the year there have been reported to the board as completed through its aid, without debt, 182 churches and manses, the total value of which is nearly $560,000. The permanent committee on temperance reported that during the year about 1,000,000 pages bearing on the subject of temperance have been distributer!. i and applications are on file for 400,000 additional pages. The report discussed the temperance question at length. CROP REPORT FOR THE WEEK. Exceptionally Cold Weather Brought with It Widespread Damage. The crop bulletin for the week issued by the department through the Chicago office says the exceptionally cool weather has been very unfavorable for most crops and widespread injury has been done by frosts which have been general throughout the northern ami central portions of the country and as far south as the northern portions of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. The damage to the grape crop has been especially heavy in New York and Pennsylvania, and fruits generally have suffered in all northern and central districts. Corn has suffered seriously; much replanting will be necessary, and where not injured by frosts its growth has been checked and the plant yellowed. Cotton has also suffered much from the unseasonably cold weather throughout the cotton region; its growth has been retarded and cold nights have killed a part of the crop, in the Carolinas and Georgia rendering replanting necessary. Spring ■wheat is reported in excellent condition and has not been unfavorably affected in North Dakota. Winter wheat suffered injury from frost in Indiana and Missouri; in Illinois the crop is less promising than heretofore, and no improvement has been -experienced in Kansas and Nebraska. More satisfactory reports are, however,

received from Arkansas, Tennessee and Michigan. Some tobacco has been planted in Tennessee and Kentucky; plants are small but plentiful in Maryland. The reports by States follow: Illinois—Frozen corn and potatoes slowly reappearing; garden truck permanently killed; fruit materially injured, except in extreme southern counties. Some corn replanting begun; wheat outlook unfavorable, heading short and uneven and damaged much by Hessian flies and chinch bugs. Indiana—Frost injured fruit to some extent; also wheat and other cereals on bad lands. Oats, grass, clover and timothy doing fairly; replanting corn in many places that was damaged by cutworms. Wisconsin—Grapes and cherries killed; apples injured; small grains in same condition. Crop conditions good. < Minnesota- Wheat, oats and pastnrage in excellent condition; other crops uior' or less damaged by frosts. lowa—The only irreparable injury by frost has been suffered by grapes and small fruits. North Dakota—Frost has badly damaged oats, flax, barley, millet, gardens and fruits; wheat or corn not affected to any extent. t South Dakota—Vegetables, fruits, vines and some early flax destroyed. Corn and potatoes damaged, but will recover with' rain and warmth. Kansas —No improvement in wheat, oats, rye or pastures. Corn, potatoes and gardens growing slowly. Michigan—Frosts have greatly damaged grapes, strawberries, garden truck, corn and potatoes. Cherries, plums, pears killed in many parts. Apples and peaches have suffered but little. Wheat, grass and rye are generally improved. Missouri—Frost did much damage to wheat, corn, potatoes, gardens and fruits in eastern and northwestern counties. Nebraska Small grains have declined in condition and need rain badly. Much corn up and but little aifocted by drought. BOGUS SIREN’S SNARES. Matrimonial Swindler Falls Into the Hands of Unde Sam. With the aid of matrimonial publications and the photographs of a pretty girl a dozen or more men who wanted to

marry were made the victims of a Chi- < ago bartender who has a record for this sort of thing. The swindler, w hose name is C. G. Ar\nold, was arrested 4 the other day by " Post Office Inspector George Christian. „He is a neat-looking fellow, with a light-

cow ARNOLD’S “DECOY.’

brown mustache, aged 31. and formerly tended bar at the Palmer House. His arrest was hastened by a letter received from 11. H. Warner, a dealer in groceries and farm produce at Sedan, Minn. Warner wanted to marry nnd inserted an advertisement in a matrimonial paper. Arnold answered it, representing himself as a young woman with an alwi emd aunt. “Clara S .AT’ rh ” closed a Photograph of a charum^ M »,L a copy of which >«<T*!Vr»n herewith. Th**#., pit tures Aiuohi is sni<! to have secured by the hundred from a photographer. The second letter from Arnold, witlj the photographs inclosed, brought back a promise of marriage. The third letter contained a request for S3O to pay car fare and some minor expenses incidental to a wedding in Sedan. Warner had been dealing in country produce too long to get caught in a game like that, ami he sent the letters he received to the Chicago police. Arnold had rented a lock box. nnd Inspector Christian watched it till he came to get his mail. Ho was taken before I nited States Commissioner Humphrey and sent to jail in default of SI,OOO bail. i Arnold is married, and has one child. Ho THE REAL “CLARA LE CLARE.” was arrested for the same offense five years ago and fined SSO. DEMANDS OF BiMETALLISTS. Silver Conference I-sues an Address to tlie People. The Salt Lake City bimetallic con vention has adjourned. An address was is- ; sued to the people of the country, setting forth the claims of the States represented, California, Colorado. Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming, and the territories of Now Mexico and Utah. The claim is made that the people of these States, irrespective of party affiliations, present themselves almost as a unit demanding the free coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of sixteen ounces of silver to one ounce of gold, with full legal tender functions accorded to each and no discrimination against either. The address continues: “The monetary system of the country was founded not upon gold alone, not upon silver alone, but upon both silver and gold, at a certain ratio to each other, with no limitation upon the coinage of either and each standing upon an equal footing before the law. The system was founded by Hamilton, sanctioned by Washington and Jefferson, its wisdom and justice questioned by no one until the year 1873. In that year, without notice to the people, the standard silver dollar was dropped from the coinage system of the country, and every debt therein existing, public and private, aggregating thousands of millions of dollars, was made payable in gold alone. Against this monstrous injustice the members of the new party are pledged to labor.” The following executive committee was chosen: Colorado, E. B. Light; Idaho, G. A. Bryant; California, 11. AV. Langenour; Montana, F. T. Merrill; New Mexico, T Bradford Prince; Oregon, Sydney Dell) Washington, W. C. James; AVyoming, F. AA , Mandell; Utah, R. 0. Chambers,

JUDGE LYNCH’S WORK? HE HOLDS COURT AT DANVILLE, ILLINOIS. Infuriated Mob Hangs Two Fiends— Jail Poors and AValls Wrecked with Battering Rams of Telegraph Poi eß and Railroad Iron. End of Two Brute.. Early Saturday morning a mob which at Danville, 111., had been In possession of A’ermillion County’s jail for several hours, succeeded in locating John Halls, Jr., and William Royce in their cells, took them outside and hanged them for assaulting Miss Laura Barnett. From midnight, when the crowd first made its appearance at the jail doors, until the.victims were reached, it was the determined, desperate struggle of a frenzied mob to mete snmmary justice, battling against heavy oaken doors and iron bars, and occasionally halted by the grim stand of a little band of defenders of law and order under the command of Sheriff Thompson. No amount of parleying on hts part and no amount of plea from hie wife could withstand the mob which had but the one object in view. AW HALLS. ROYCE. At 2 o’clock Sheriff Thompson sent for Judge Bookwaiter, of tho Circuit Court, who addressed the crowd from the jail corridor. He counseled them to peace and order, and for a minute, and but a minute only, his words were heeded. Then another desperate attempt was made to reach the cells where tho two men were secreted. Finally Royce was located crouching and shivering with fear. A score of hands dragged him unceremoniously from his hiding place underneath tho wooden bench which serves prisoners as their bod. Half dr urged and half pushed he was hustled into tho dining room and seated on the table. A rope was placed over his head, and while part of

H 18 f - ; BATTERING IN THE JAIL DOOR.

| ilio mob kept close guard over him the others coutinm d the search f<>r Halls until he was discovered in ano her ..J more remote portion of tho jail. At 3:13 o'ekx k the mob secured both of tho prisoners and started toward the bridge with ropes about their necks. They were hanged almost upon the scone of their crime. Citizens of Danville joined tho infuriated farmers in their work of vengeance. The story of the crime had beer^ho topic of dis ■ ;s-ion all day. Business was practically suspended and shopkeepers and their clerks gathered in knots on the street corners and disec-sed the affair with farmers who flocked to the city during the day. Shortly after nightfall ominous mutterings were heard and S une openly cams led the more quiet of their neighbors t - take summary vengeance on the perpetrators of the crime and not take the chances of tho law's delay or the technicalities which might arise and eventually free the men. As early as 10 o’clock the crowd congregated on tho main street, and it only needed a venturesome leader to proceed to the jail at once. That leader was soon found. From whispered threats the cry arose for vengeance,- swelling on rhe night air until it echoed and re-echoed from one end of Danville to the other. A rush was made for the jail, where, under fear of just such a proceeding, the guard had been re-enforevd, bpt constituted only a handful of men to face a frenzied, bloodthirsty., mob. wrought up to an indescribable pitch and bent only on having tho lives of the two cowering men witbin. the jail doors, the mob was met by Sheriff Thompson, who denied admission and, retiring behind the doors, locked and double bolted them. Kush for a Battering Kam. This action of the sheriff only added ' fuel to the already blazing tiro of indig- 1 nation. A hurried search was made for ■ some instrument with which to batter I down the jail doors. Part of the crowd I rushed away, returning in a few- minutes I with a hemlock telegraph pole, which will- । ing hands grasped as a battering ram. The I stout oaken doors of the jail were con- ■ structed to withstand any ordinary as- j saults, however, and the efforts of the ! mob proved futile until another party arrived with a steel rail. Sheriff Thompson and his men warned the storming party to desist, but were met with hoots and jegrs. The little band of defenders was powerless against the fast increasing mob, and when the furious blows, urged on with vengeful hearts, shivered the main door, they retreated behind the inner jail. The hallway was too narrow to permit effective work with the railroad iron, and a shorter piece was secured. With this the second door was attacked, and at 1:15 o’clock in the morning gave way before the impetuous mob which surged through the gap and demanded the keys of the cell in which tha prisoners were confined. / Halls gnd Royce were thoroughly

frightened and cowered In the darkest co?t. n ®r of their cells, shivering at the sound of the imprecations on the outside and the victorious acclamations of those who found themselves in possession of a hitherto impregnable fortress. They begged for mercy, but Sheriff Thompson was utterly unable in the face of the determined men thronging the corridor to afford them any relief. In fact, with him discretion had overcome valor, and he with his little band retreated still farther before the an-’ gry administrators of lynch law. But with their battering ram of railroad iron the mob quickly wrecked the interior of the jail, and the end was soon over. Thursday evening about 7:30 o’clock Miss Laura Bennett and a friend. Miss Lilllnn Draper, were returning from an eve|ing stroll. They were crossing tho Veijaiillion river foot bridge when they wear attacked by Halls and Royce. Miss Draper escaped and gave the alarm. Halls and Royce were both well-known .voting men of Danville, and for several years had borne an unsavory reputation. They were arrested on complaint of Miss Draper, and further identification by John Downs, an old man who met violence at their hands while endeavoring to assist the girls. Funeral* of the Fiends. ^Kte funerals of John Halls, Jr., and w/liam Royce, tho victims of mob vioiMee, occurred Sunday. Both were attended by more than a thousand friends of the families and neighbors. The services over young Halls were conducted by Rev. Mr. Griffin, of South Danville, at the Halls' residence, a modest fourroom cottage. The burial was in the Danville Spring Hill Cemetery. The services over Royce were held at 2 o'clock in tho afternoon nt the residence of his father. Sylvester Royce. Rev. AV. A. Anderreck. of the Danville Baptist Church, conducted the ceremonies. Royce was buried in a country cemetery, known as the Atherton graveyard, about three miles southeast of Danville. The citixens of South Danville, where Halls and Royco were born and raised, deplore the lynching, but say the boys received their just deserts. Royce was a carpenter, working with his father, who also followed that trade. Halls was a coal miner and addicted to drink. The evening of rhe assault on MBs Barnett he was intoxiented. At tho supper table his parents vainly begged him to remain home, fearing that he would get into trouble of some kind. Indianola, Miss Barnett's former home, praises tho work of the lynchers. The little passenger depot there was encircled by a dense gathering of people Saturday afternoon when the train steamed in

' ' bearing among its pa .-rng-r, the three 1 leaders of th<- mob which lym hod Halls > i and R <y> e. Fb«- app.-nram • of the men | was greeted with wild shouting and words f 1 of commendation. Excitement ran high s | and everyone was overjoyed nt the re- • ' veuge s.eur.d for Miss Barnett. The f leaders tasked freely of their midnight I ■ task ami told of the devising <>f plans ' , amt of tiie gathering of the . lans One I j of tho number who led the lym hers stated ■ I that he expected trouble nt the hands of | the State, but did Hot expert to be pun- • ished for the part he played. H«* was un- • der the impr>-ssmn that the grand jury * I would find bills against s .mo of the mob, , yet ho thought no jury could be found 1 i which would find the men guilty. The . ■ lynchers will pay the damage done the • i county bastile, which will not exceed s2<>o. > The amount will be raised by voluntary i subscription. Miss Barnett’s condition £ 1 ■ W k ■ \ Ti \ I ’ | THE LYNCHING. is improving and she has been removed to | her father's home in Indianola. Catches the Men, Too. The proprietor of a Fifth street house I yesterday told the new clerk to try his I hand at. window dressing. I want you to fix that window up so j that every woman on the street will i look into it,” he observed. The clerk was one of those clever little fellows that you read about in the city papers. He went at. it. lie made a curtain of solid black velvet and suspended it from the top of the plate glass close to the inner surface. "What on earth are you doing?” cried the senior member, happening to come along that way. “Making a mirror of the window,” complacently answered the clerk, as he shook out a fold very carefully. “If the women won't look at that then I’ll miss my guess.” The clerk drew $3 more in his envelope at closing Cincinnati Tribune. |

AFTER THIRTY YEARB THE BUCKEYE STATE CONTRIBUTES THE STORY OF A VETERAN’S SEARCH. Hom Fred Taylor, a Member of the G Hlant 180th N. Y. A’. I. Finally Found AA’hat He Has Sought Since the War Closed. (From the Ashtabula. Ohio, Beacon.) Mr. Fred Taylor was born and brought np near Elmira, N. Y., and from there enlisted in the 189th regiment, N. Y. V. 1., with which he went through the war, and saw much hard service. Owing to exposure and hardships during the service, Mr. Taylor contracted chronic diarrhoea, from which he has suffered now over thirty years, with absolutely no help from physicians. By nature he was a wonderfully vigorous man. Had he not been, his disease and the experiments of the doctors had killed him long ago. Laudanum was the only thing which afforded him relief. He had terrible headaches, his nerves were shattered, he could not sleep an hour a day on an average, and he was reduced to a skeleton. A year ago, he and his wife sought relief in a change of climate and removed to Geneva, Ohio; but the change in health cmne not. Finally, on the recommendation of F. J. Hoffner, the leading druggist of Geneva, who was cognizant of similar cases which Pink Pills had cured, Mr. Taylor was persuaded to try a l>ox. “As a drownig man grasps a straw so I took the pills,” says Mr. Taylor, "but with no more hope of rescue. But after thirty years of suffering and fruitless search for relief I nt last found it in Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. The day after I took the first pills 1 commenced to feel better, and when I had taken the first box I was in fact a new man.” That was two months ago. Mr. TayioY has since taken j more of the pills and his progress is steady and he has the utmost confidence in them. He has regained full control of his nerves and sleeps as well as in his youth. Color is coming back to his parched veins and he is gaining flesh and strength rapidly. He is now able to do considerable outdoor work. As he concluded narrating his sufferings, experience and cure to a Beacon reporter Mrs. Taylor, who has been his faithful helpmeet these many years, said she wished to add her testimony in favor of Pink Pills. “To tho pills alone is due tho credit of raising Mr. Taylor from a helpless invalid to the man he is to-day,” said Mrs. Taylor. Both Mr. and Mrs. Taylor cannot find words to express the gratitude they feel or recommend too highly Pink Pills to suffering humanity. Any inquiries addressed to them at Geneva, Ohio, regarding Mr. Taylor's case they will cheerfully answer, as they are anxious that the whole world shall know what Pink Pills have done for them and that suffering humanity may be benefited thereby. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain nil tho elements necessary to give new life i nnd richness to the blood nnd restore ■ shattered nerves. They are for stile by ‘ nil druggists, or may bo had by mail from i Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schen- ' eetndy. N. Y . for 50 cents per box, or six i boxes for $2.50. Remarkable. ! One of the most striking things In : the truly remarkable eastern war is ■ the success of the medical and surgical j treatment of the Japanese troops. The । general reports a death rate of Happiness In a Southern Man's How —TcU» About the Red Elag of Danger at the Railroad Crossing—Warning to America's Men. “For twenty-six years I have used tobni eo in great quantities and of late years toyk to cigarette smoking,” writes Mr. B. E. Simpson, of Lecompte, La. I want to go on record that tobwceo has r -bb I m<- of many years of life nnd a great deal of happiness. I realize it now 1 i as 1 compare my feelings and my condi- | tion with that of a year ago, when I was ' a toLae -o saturated cigarette fiend. Many | nnd many a time did I try to quit smokI ing mys.-if into eternity, but I could not p it through n day without suffering exI treme nervous torture, which would in- ' crease hour by hour till finally, to save j myself as it seemed, from almost flying i t pieces, I had to light the little, white Pi- stick and swallow the smoke. One i d iy I read in my paper "Don’t Tobacco i Spit and Smoke Your Life Away,” just i what 1 was doing. It came to me like the i warning of tho man who waves the red i flag of danger at the railroad crossing, j ami said that No-To-Bac was an absoj lately guaranteed relief from tobacco slavery. I did not believe it, but like a I drowning man grasping at a straw, I j conmu-,i -cd taking No-To-Bac. The ef- | sects were magical, it destroyed the nerve craving, and desire for cigarettes. Two boxes, would you believe it, made me v <ll and strong. I have gained mentally, physically, in vigor and manhood, and with the brain free from the nicotine and a breath no longer befouled with tobacco smoke I am so happy to-day to write No-To-Bac did it all a year ago. so the cure is time-tested and tried, not only in ray own case, but several of my friends who have also been cured. AVe have a baby boy now. My wife and I feel that all this happiness started from the time when I first used No-To-Bac, and in evidence of our appreciation and in order that the memory of the happiness may be perpetuated in a living form, we want to name our baby boy . after the man who wrote the line “Don’t Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.” No-To-Bac is popular here and all our druggists sell it. Hardly a day passes but somebody asks me about No-To-Bac, so I don’t want you to hesitate to use these lines in any way that you think will make known to suffering humanity the happiness that there is in No-To-Bac for the many men with nicotinized brains and weakened resolutions. If they will only make up their mind to save the waste of vita! power—to say nothing of the mone^ —now going up in smoke and out in tobacco spit. Father vs. Son. The elder Darwin wrote the prosaic falsehood that bees injure plants ly robbing them of their wax. The younger Darwin made clear one of the most poetical facts of nature—that bees and other insects “are the priests who wed flower to flower, lest beauty be barren and bear no fruit.” They Cure the Cause. Most of the discomfort in life comes from the stomach. You'll admit that without argument. The proof is in your own stomach. A great many seemingly different diseases come from the common cause—a disordered stomach. Coming from one cause, it is natural that they should all be cured by one medicine. Ripans Tabules not only cure the disease—they cure the cause. They are good for dyspepsia, biliousness, headache, constipation, dizziness and all troubles of the stomach, liver ansi bowels. Druggists sell them.

YOUR BREAKFAST CUP. Bone Remarks Worth the Attention of Every Housewife. Coffee has a romantic history. Its spread as an article of food, remarkable as it may seem, was steadily combated by various religious bodies. More than 1,000 years ago the plant was Introduced from Abyssinia into Arabia. Here the Mohammedans used it during their long religious services to keep them from falling asleep. AVhen the priests heard of it they forbade its use as an intoxicating beverage. But, ;n spite of tile dreadful penalties threatened, coffee continued to grow in favor. The same bitter fight was made against it by the religious orders of Constantinople, but even after they were abetted by the heavy taxes imposed by the Turkish government the coffee habit continued to spread In tho sixteenth century and coffeehouses at once sprung up all over London. Charles 11. tried to drive them out, as being shelters for disaffected persons, but the business refused to die. More than three-fourths of the world’s coffee trees are the progeny of a single plant sent from the Dutch East Indies to the Botanic gardens iu Amsterdam in 1690. Small plants from Its seeds were distributed all through the M’est Indies and South America, aud to-day not less than 600,000,000 trees are growing in Brazil alone. Coffee, like wine, increases greatly in value with age. The^oil seems to increase with the shrinking of the beri rics and the beverage derived from them is much richer and blander. There may come a time when the epicure will demand coffee of such a year’s picking, although at present no one seems to have time to draw such distinctions. One of the chief reasons why coffee Is not good is the inability of many housewives to prepare it properly. It should never be ground or allowed to stand long with the “grounds” in it. A coffee-pot recently placed on the market is made with a removable perforated receptacle inside in which the ground coffee can be placed. The amount used should be about one rounded tablespoonful for every halfpint of water, or six times as much water as coffee. AVhen the coffee has been placed in the receptacle, boiling water to the proper amount should be poured over It It must be kept hot I on the stove—just to the boiling point, ' but never reaching beyond it—tor about I ten minutes. The receptacle containing the grounds should then be removed and the coffee is ready to serve. The American continent produces the largest amount of coffee in the world, and the United States consumes more of it than any other nation. D uring the last eight or ten years the cultivation of coffee has been highly profitable to ■ Uj)C planters, because the consumption « mvitnMng mwh more d/n. -L 7"^,"^,,- - GOO, every year. Eiirop^^ff® $240,this amount about 6,500,000 bags amT i the United States and Canada 4,250,000 i j bags. He Was Puzzled. It is not surprising that courts should be perplexed at times by the arguments of opposing counsel, but such perplexity is seldom so frankly confessed as by a Western justice of the peace, who recently tried a man for the theft of a cow. The evidence was heard, and the lawyers made their arguments, each presenting the most convincing reasons in support of his own side of the case. The justice was anxious to do right, but was unable to decide, and after a long time the lawyers asked that bo give some kind of a verdict at once, so that they could go home. Thereupon the justice rose from his scat, motioned one of the attorneys to follow him, and left the room. The two men went round the corner of the building. “See here,’’ said the judge, “you lawyers have got me muddled. I first thought you was right, then I thought the other fellow was; you spoke again and I was sure you was exactly right, but after you set down and he come again I felt sure he was right. “Now I’ll deciare that I don't know what to do. I know you lawyers just talk anyway, but now’ I want to ask you as a man, not as a lawyer, w’hat you would do if you was me. I have a heap of confidence in you as a man, mind you, but wouldn’t like to take your advice as a lawyer.” How the case was decided we are not Informed, but probably the reader will be able to guess. Told It Twice. At a reading by George IV. Cable at Pittsburg the other day, in his conversational style he asked the audience, “Let’s see, when I was here before did I tell you the story of Solongadou?” Promptly came the answer, in a woman’s voice, from the middle of the hall, “Yes, sir.” The audience broke into peals of laughter, ar.d when the merriment subsided Mr. Cable said, apologetically, “But I want to tell that story again,” which be proceeded to do.—New York Sun. Must Ask “Hubby" in Portugal. AVomen writers in Portugal are subject to legal restrictions as to the disposal of the fruits of their labor. A married woman may not publish her literary work without her husband’s consent, which, should he unjustly withhold, she may supply the place of by a Judge’s authorization. It Is all right in books for a girl to have a lover who worships her from afar, but outside of books she wants him to come a little nearer.