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Jr\of am isolated power Great Bri bairn 'to (have little 'trmi'ble in. picking •fip. frimiis that 'arte glad .to ©ha^re her iso{atilon.

DMjaiKy a imajra wlno dis miaw wondering ait

fthte rays dleoovery has eait ibehiind an Igver lessenxfinig staJck of checks and •'seen1" am na&se without wonder.

Kentucky, which was so noisy last iSveek as to seem very near, is now Ih-ushed and faraway. In fact iBlackiburn is the new 'Faraway M'oses.

The discreet explanation of the IP ranch govern'men/t once an'ore sbows thait 'the press and popular clamor of a country may 'be warlike, ibut far from figMnrg.

Senajtor IBiackburn ought to have iknown that .mixed classes won't do in Kentucky. The next time he plays politics Jve will not select a running horse etarter for a right-bower.

If General W-eyler intends to resign ihe wLM 'lose it.he opportunity of proving or disproving 'the oharaicter 'i.hat 'hai3 been ascribed to 'him. He has so far 1 done noithing as capta'in-geimeral to show thlat he 'is as much a m-am of bloody deeds as Of soundimg words.

Mr. Wilson, thinks '-tS^t he and the I groundhog should be dropped. The subterranean hog's corftraiot for six weeks

-weather is up and Mr. Wilson would like ito ibe relieved from blame for continued •poor trade and for the failure of three manufacturers in the East this week.

It will be amusing, if nothing more, to see 'Mr. Quay and Mr. Piatt playing Codlin and .Short to" General Harrison as best frien'ds. Probably they would help him even iif 'he would not promise them anything, but the next president is not going to be tied up to Piatt and Quay, whether his name 'is McKinley or something else.

'About the time ti'hait the iSt. Louis convention .nalmes the man who is most likely to be the inext president Mr. Cleveland wil'l protect his flock by flinging cSvM service protection around every pogiS'Lbl.e 'office holder i!n Washington. If mien wiill lose t'he incentive to work,' of getting those plaiceis, the men who are to will not be obliged to politically ihustle to save their posit'loous, for they will be safe.

Ivt is mot to be supposed .tihat Senator Vest .held a sprilg of miirst, from a laite julep, in his mouth, as he uttered 'hiis last diialtritoe agai'mst 'his fellow Detnocrait amd party leaider, Mr. Cleveland, land set a peculiar example of senatorial "courtesy towards Itihe president. There Us coniflnma'Ucm for the suspicion in t,he isaySn'g, "i'n vino verittas," ais Mr. Vest wals unpleasantly frank. •Still, Senator Vest reflects the sober judgment as well 'as the initelmpenaifce dislike of Mr. Clevetond by a large e'l-etnieint of the Democratic party, whSoft is. so

cra'tnc pmuy, wmwi ra.

stich irreo^ncilaMe groiinds a« to (make dt improbable that .ha.nmo-ny can toe r.?Btorad in the campaign oif 1S96. It (seams ^impossible that such as Vest coin support Mr. Cleveland, or his legatee, •Mr. Carlisle.

Congress wSll be called upon to vote for four men-of-war of 11,000 tons, and fifteen torpedo boats. This is a compromise between Mr. .Reed's desire for

the Venezuelan boundary and which is indifferent to the success of the Cubans, •this element can consistently object to an increased navy but the much larger body, which sympathized woth Hawaii, approved of the protection of Venezuelan rights and is inspiring by iis approval the Cuban speeches in congress, consistently must approve of a large appropriation for the navy. It

cannot egg on congre^E to a poi-n^ which

its consent to preparations fcr facing such belligerenty. but it will not oppose, and the naval appropriation 1! be popular.

It will be necessary to ho'.d the Democrats to their record. For some reason, not fully revealed, they are urging a larger appropriation, which must be remembered when, for campaign purposes, they attack the appropriations of the Fifty-fourth congress.

THE HEBREWS OPPOSE IT. A strong remonstrance will be made by the Jews against the proposed resolution to amend the contskution in order that the ulames of God and Jesus Christ may be mentioned therein. Valid arguments for the remonstrance are founded on the American principle of separation of church and state, the objection to d.'scriminat-

ferred to another in the constitution.

scienice of every one that is not a trin itaatan who should be required to ta an oath to support the constitution.

V* months 3.75 Many must regard with some curios-

Se w°^k $

lty the

well"meanms

U1CUS9L UUCO liVl wii-v* vww—-o-

(Bill Chandler M.U. Fourth «*. no, the xecent action ot.LCO*ijuly chaser. !He is just as apt to burn "ie Ihapd of his best friend as that of y°rk* la worst foe.

posed since!the

e(j over a

There is little to ad'mire in the Spanish AmerUcainiS of Central America, Venezuela a.n'd some other Southern coun'i'ries, but, though not congenial to the Nonth Americans, the Latin AmerHcams in M'exieo, Chile and the Argentine Republic have shown capability for busineii'S and government and have advanced without a'ngMcizin'g 'their iTustitutiions. The United Stal'.es will be on the right side in ©Bairading up for nontotepferewce with the Spanish Americans, as they try to govern themselves. They 'can do much to assist in their development and progress by improving tra:de-relationis under wise reciprocity treaties anid encouraging steamship lines.

IT REALLY MEANS SOUND MONEY. We have heard stories of men who never would answer a question without

large a's to 'first asking another, and with them

imake it very doubtful if the presiid&n't habit had become so fixed that they

ing on the ground of religious •b«lief reminded the bouse Ut&t "Under the gold against any citizen, and the danger of staxrdand Great Bifttsain, had made im- .. ,. paralleled progress that the depression allowing one dogmatic belief to be pr$- Jf

but

century ago, only nrteen or p0wer

the makers of the constitution who with misgivings and doubts, offered that great charter to tneir countrymen. We are usually on the safe side in saying that what is not in the constitution does not need to be put there —unless it is something to 'facilitate the election of senators.

DESERVE FAIR PLAY THOUGH DISAGREEABLE. A traveler, lately re turned from Venezuela, is much opposed to the Uni'teld States assisting that primitive state, as the result of his experience. He 'does not like the government, the people nor t.h.e hotel keepers, who charged him double rates. His view of the superior governtme.nit of Trinidad, owned by Great Britain, confirms his belief 'tihait Venezuela would be better off under British rule. It 4s very probable that the Venezuelans would be better-be-haved, more ecoinoirniloally-.governed ain.d more prosperous under 't£he rule of Great Britain still 'that 'does not make it rig'ht •to overturn the government of an inferior people or to foncibly set up a n'aw one over iaj race that .is satisfied wilbh its system, it 'the syisitean contaliinis the elements oif 'develoipment arad progress.

We camrrot in this country forcibly rer move people from interior conditions to better if they do not desire it.

We are not able to tell if in 'human husbandry races may not work out their own destiny by o^her tillage than the Aniglo-Saxo.n, ito arrive at better results and more fully preserve 'their race from decay and extermination thain if forced by either mild or violent pressure to graft the Saxon system on Laitin stock.

can expcot another nomination. The dl- never answered any other way. Poli- ^^STn^outh Africa"^'wife! vision iin the Democratic. party is on ticians, public speakers and platform writers acquire the diplomatic form of

speech and make declarations in full, round voice that seem clear and explicit until they are parsed or analyzed. This does not necessarily imply deceit or want of candor, .but rather a prudent reservation and respect for the many shades of meaning which a simple fact conveys to different minds.

We are assured the Wisconsin Re

a smaller appropriation and the Demo- publicans insist their financial plank got^ ,their

cratic demand for six men-of-war and adopted on Wednesday is a specific dec twenty-five torpedo 'boats. Mr. Reed laration fcr a singlee gold standard and lhas not lost his control of affairs but that anybody who seeks to find in it a 'it is well that the committee raised his straddle or to read another meaning (figures.

between the lines will be in danger of being called a falsifier. That settles it —then the Republicans of Wisconsin

There is one of two courses to be pursued, either to vote appropriations fcr a larger navy or to vot- none. The very have declared, virtually, "We are com limite'd element which protested against itted to the single gold standard. We •aid or comfort to the Hawaiian republic and the demand for arbitration of

•untry a depreciated or debased cur•ncy. We favo'" the use of silver as currency, but to that extent only and

un(

invites -belligerency and then withhold with gold can be maintained."

jer such *restrictions that its parity

Accompanied by the explanations and protestations of the Wisconsin people, this is not a plank that Senators Blackburn, Voorhets or Cockrell can stand on, but it can be accepted by the silver' producers of the silver states as promising as much use of silver as is possible ynder any stable financial system. A system that is not stable will be as ruinous to silver men as any other.

a&riou,iture,

The adoption of the proposed amend- Was due to competition and bettered merit would lay a -burden upon the con-

itaatan who should be required to take

iw««c:ousand

restless people who are always trying ito says the Chicago Times^Herald add something to the spirit of -the law

he must be a "Werb," because a "werb'

his experience. The history of consiitutional amend menst does not offer much encourage ment, nor noes xne 'recent acttun tw

S1LVRE

INTERNATIONAL FREE COINAGE. The British government has expressed itself upon the Idea of an international ratio for reopening of free silver coinage.

Debate upon a motion fcr ar.other conference—brought out from Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor of the exchequer, speaking authoritatively, a strong and comprehensive speech. He

the pretext oSTwhich de

Of agriculture, the pretext oSTwhich debasement of 'the currency was ought,

ca"Ia®!

^mm^ni^tloir

and that whale the house might, wltia

the approval of the government, adopt

resolution for a conference on the question, the country would not go to

'silv?rto

i. aaa aomewiing to tne spirit oi xne iaw -A. point which the Times-Herald made which canont bind the spirrt of man, few days affo constituted an to^tant ... ,, factor in .the address. Sir Michael

They are like Sam Weller who thougiit jji'clcs-Beach saftd, assuming the possi-

sta^^\WJ^consequencea®"

vroperly

sumed *be (the logfica.1 of

free cotoage of sMver by 0xeat

Britain,

Hi'cks-Beach saftd, assuming the possi bility of reaching an agreement about

was something that was always "a-foe- a ratio, 'the agreement would be liable .in' a-doin' and a sufferin'," whJoh was

broken in the event of political

convulsion of war. Those who advocate further waste of time in international conference upon i- this question seem wtholly .to ignore the

er exists among nations to enforce

gress on appropriations for sectarian .agreement upon an 'international ratio, work, to the amendment-writers,, should one be arrived at? What nation About 2,000 amendments have been pro- can foresee or forestall vicissitudes that posed since the constitution was adopt-

consmu,

litlical or monetary? What ministry has

which were accented. In this is a remarkable evidence of d.li LUIS UO the steadiness and self-control of the history, and that is that all conservative progress is toward, the gold standAmerican people and the vindication of

^ind its successors upon such

anL TJiere lg

,n0

Nor will the Un'iteSd (States,

Charles H. Hemming of Gainesville, Tex., who .has just given $20,000 for a monument of the Confederate dead, to be erected in Jacksonville, Fla., is a .native of that city and served in the Confederate army throughout the war. The monument is to be sixty feet high, surmounted by a heroic bronze statue of a Confederate private soldier, with life-size statues of Lee, Jackson, Albert Sidney Johnson and General Dickinson of Florida.

*Earl Gray, who succeeds- Dr. "Jim" as administrator of Rhodesia, is a tail, good looking man of 45. He was the nephew of the late earl, and succeeded lio the title less than two years ago. He is a quiet, rather reserved .man, but is

.reputed 'to be possessed of considerable

ability in

power to bind its successors upon such sometMng ls done to increase their rnima question? bers. There is but one fact fixed in finaiisjgP Not only fa 'the eating of lobster toy mankind on .tihe increase along -the gea

such

,thing as two

standards of equal vailue or corresponding stability, and the gold basis is the sole basis upon which solid and progressive nations can or will carry on trade with one another.

It is commerce, not politicians, that dictates the flaws of money. A few politicians in Great Britain, in Belgium, in Germany, in France, as In the United States, are stirring up agitation for another international monetary conference, but the government of each of these countries, acting steadfastly for the labor and capital, the intelligence and the commerce of all of them, declares that not one of the great group of producers will even consider the question of of resumption of free coinage of silver for itself. ,,

ABOUT PEOPLE

W. H. Mossman of Chicopee, Mass., is making a heroic life-size statue of General Grant for the Union League Club of Providence, in front of whose house it. will be raised. The statue, with the pedestal, will be thirty-two feet high and will cost $30,000.

Professor Alexander Agassis and several other scientists of Harvard University sailed from ISan Francisco a few days ago to explore 'the Great Barrier reef of Australia and the coral formations of 'the Pacific ocean. They will be absent six months.

The Marquis de Mores, renowned for his good 'looks, who killed a man in a dueil, kept a ranch In the United 'States, ran a railway in Tongkink, led the Socialists in Paris, and was deprived of the control of his fortune by the French courts, is now at work trying to prove that British gold is stir-ring up the Soudan against France.

It has been o'ften remarked that few noted American authors are university men, and yet one is surprised by the fact that such stylists as the late Mr. Curtis, Mr. Howells, Mr. Aid-rich, Henry James, and Bret IHarte were not graduated from any college. .Some of them, indeed, 'had no academic training, whatever.

business affairs. He has lived

.good deal in 'South Africa. His wife, who was a IMlss Hoi ford, has also seen something of 'South African life.

!A. Boston paper says that in early life the late Governor Greenhalge of Massachusetts was indifferent to .political honors. 'Same of his friends thought he should go to the legislature long before he was elected a member, -but they found it impossible to get Mr. Greenhalge to take a lively interest in the matter. He rarely went to a caucus,

UU1,

matter Jtie rfiici^ naLcuru auci* hut in' walking home one evening he

surprise. The Republicans

utrcu .man Greenhalge for representative out of his boots." Afterward Mr. Greenhad ge enjoyed telling this as a good joke upon himself.

are opposed to the free coinage of silver. We are in favor of the use of as much silver coin as can be kept at par with gold and paper." But the platform and specific form for such principles was as follows: "The Republicans of Wisconsin are unyielding in their demand for honest :i itnuiiis ui i-acix ueiiinnu iur •ijoaesi. vo seuu w.wu -havi oney. We are unalterably opposed ,^/h^txlye4ow° fe^Ve/Smf is oominl any scheme that will give to this

Cleveland Plain Dealer: If keeD5 on enlargtas her

Danvill'e News: It seems (that Mr. John Paimar is with tire Spanish in the stru^cle of Cuba for independence. Senator "Paimer go away behind the processkyn of progress thirty years ago, and will never'catch up again.

Cln.sinr.atl Cwmmrriirciait Gazette.: The Ital'.ars ar.^ negotiating for peace w.th the Abyssrrvlans. If there are any wise men '.n Spain thev will go and do likewise in Culm. Senators K'ca.r and Hale cannot dam v.i American indlgnajtlon kmg.

Nw York Re-corder: A Madrid dispatch says the press of that city expresses "angry Impatience" a't iths conCinuance of debate in the Amea-lcan senate on Cuban belligerency. Well, we ore a bit Impatient ourselves, too. The senate has talked en-jueh. Now it should act. Bui what is Madrid going to do about it?

Professor Edmondson, the optician, will remain at Bigwood's, 607 Wabash avenue, until Saturday night, March 2Sth. No longer. Call early.

TWRRB HAUTE EXPRESS, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 20.1896.

LOBSTEBS DYING OUT

SHELLFISH WILL BKCOME EXTINCT .V a. Artificial Invention Trfeg-rWhat the Pretl. dent or the State Fisheries Has to Sajr Abotlt 'It.

Dismal visions of (departing lobster salad are filling the minds of members of the state commilssitefets of fisheries with awe, says the York -Herald, and the visions are not born of imagination but) -resit on substantial facts that are of Interest to the Jpbeter-ioving people, whose numbers ©early include the census.

A visit'

city amongthe fish dealers £.nd on the state commissioners of 'fisheries develops the fact that, during the last few years -there has been a wonderful Increase in the consumption of lobs'ters, and. that eaxjh season (finds them becoming more scarce, until they are in danger of becoming practically extinct as a usual dish on our menus, unless

board, but far inlamd, where the refrigerator car makes possible to transport them in an edi'ble condition. This increase of consumption near the home of the lobster, and its extension abroad, have had the effect of not only greatly

t0 the suppiy.

ucus as Mr. Green-

halge was passing 'the door. To one h3.l€T6 'was .paB&'H'o

4"wv'

prove(

navv

the At-lan^c

ill soon have to be dred^rsd and widened. Svraeu?e Standard: Congressman Dollivar styles Cleveland a grotesque hallucinciticn. This is one of those phrases that Grover delights in.

Philadelphia Ledger: ©pain is preparing send 60,000 more troops 'to Cuba—not

Scranton Tribune: Is Senator Ho,a", wbo has reeemtly been so eager to de-uy atftton regarding Cuba, tne same Senator Hear wWo, a couple of months ago, wanted (to pitch into Turkey forthwith, because of Armenia? If so, Is *t distance tihat lends enchantment to his belligerent view?

Children Cry to*

Pitcher's Castorla.

tained at comparatively few tabl^fe, he affluent in ciircumiittances or posseteseid i- n,f tir'h aih .ein.mto, "TTln.o^THcih is now as much a requisite on a hotel a.n'd restaurant menu as potatoes and, •Ji'ke potatoes, ihe lis eaten the year round. There is no better material for salad during the stwnnier, or nothing more suitable for a delicious broiled di'sh in winter. The growing appreciation of this fact, while it has more .than doubled the number of lobsters consumed during the last year over the .number eaten seven years ago, has decreased the possible catch one-half. Then, seven year3 ago lobsters sold tor 8 and 10 cents a pound, 'while now they sell at from 15 to 20 cents. Another thing, this increased demand has decreased the average size of those that reach our table, and there are now more one-pound lobsters than ever before, though the average is slightly more than twice that weight. Occasionally one weighing twelve or fifteen pounds is caught, and Mr. Eugene G. Blackford of Fulton •market tells of one weighing nineteen pounds that passed through Wis hands.

Artificial Hatching Tried.

Mr. L. D. Huntington, president of the state commissioners of 'fisheries, who has just made his annual report, when spoken to about the great decrease in the lobster catch, said:. "There has been a marked decrease in the number and size, of the lobsters caught during the past few years, and something must .be done to protect and replenish their numbers, or they wiil be shortly classed wiSh terrapin and canvasback ducks as a luxury that none but the rich can enjoy. The destruction of the young, partially grown ones before they have deposited and hatched their eggs is most detrimental

We have realized, for

i_ T-» ....Ali/inns „.l USMM. KA /3 /\n A some time that something must be done

,me time that sometning must dc aunt

ise

the lobster

uxi KJL v"

of "them a stranger, he said: "What depletion of the lobster supply in *"ias been i^oing on in the ward room?" ioo.i ^crt-aMiRhpd a hatching: plant at

will disappear from

(most of our tables. In order to stop

1884 we established a hatching plant at

has been .going vu ±00* we -co The enthusiastic voter said: "We have Springs Harbor, but for a time it been holding a caucus, and we beat that

to be a failure. The great trou-

tlVO ALLT N-NT CTPT VITAL EFFFF S.

ble was we could not get vital eggs. We tried our best. We bought them from the fishing smacks and from the dealers, who kept the parent lobsters on iW but our efforts were almost a total failure, for the confinement of the boat and the coldness of the ioe destroyed 'the eggs. It seemed just impossible to get live eggs in any large quantities.

gome

Better Siwcess.

"In 1S92 we succeeded in making arrangements with some.of the lobster fishers along the sound, .and got more good eggs than before, but the result

was

not,satisfactory. The great trouble Was that the eggs would not stand the delay of transportation. During transportation if the hatching has not begun it is retarded, so as to aose power of sorting life, and If it has started it goes too 'far before the proper watet and other conditions are reached and the ese dies. "In 1893 we procured 1,000,000 eggs, and after the utmost care in ^3Ung succeeded in hatching, only 200,000 of. them The conditions must be exac what -nature requires -or. the labor -S lost. The eggs are extremely sensitive and the least accident or delay in cooling to low a point, or overheating, or absence of the proper ^ater wvn kill them The temperature of the water •s a very important factor, and it mus. be within oertain de€ned limits. Within these limits, if cool, it will retard hatching. and if warm, wiirhasten it. The hatching is done from the middle of May to the .middle of July. It strange fact that any eggs not hatched during those sixty days are carried over to the next season. "During the present yedr we have not been able to get as many eggs as in 1893, but we had much better results, as we hatched 500,000 lobstsw.

-'f j# •TsV'*

year we will likely do much (better than

UNLESS BOMETHDfO tt DONK THE* about the hatching if you can only (ct good ieggs. There 3ies the great difficulty that we have had to contend against, and its existence will make it impossible for artificial reproduction at points that require transportation of the eggs, to keep pace for the growing demand for lobsters. What is absolutely necessary is to have a supply of parent lobsters at the point of hatching. There is one way of accomplishing *lris, and! that is to toave the state supply the lobster catchers with hatching boxes and give them substantial encouragement to hatch ihe eggs that are caught during the tneu/bating season, and then to immediately plant the fry. •Then we must hare legislation Increasing the size of the Illegal lobster from nine to ten Inches in length, so that the law will not only provide for •them being older before caught, but will "W-urtfforqn with the New England law, which forbids a lobster less than ten inches in -length to »be taken. As It is now, illegal lobsters are caught in New (England' waters and shipped to this market, where they are legal If nine inches long."

There is really, vejy little trouble

WEALTH AND THE PRESIDENCY.

Money

Wot NeceMarlly An Element in the Success Or Failure. In onte of the vaiudieville eniterteinmiewts popular* a few years ago one df (the performers first used, with grealt success, this expression: "There is mo

PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES—WILLIAM McKINLEY. William McKinley, Jr., ex-governor of Ohio, ex-congressman and author of the McKinley Tariff bill, was born at Niles, Ohio. February 26,1844. It is said that he could have secured the Republican presidential nomination in 1888, bnt remained trns to John Sherman's candidacy and refused to let his name be need.

lessening the supply, buthaVe decreased ulse talking most of these rich per.so.rjs i.t IQ1V3 TIKA'QIH.VIV A ISTTMVLAT WNR»LII«IIAN the average size and increased the cost

While a few years ago the lobster was considered a great luxury, uto be obconsiaerea a great luxury, i,iu ue uu-^ --..aai.3

aine we'altihy." A similar conclusion was tang ago revalued by some poUiti w«is

,i|uin*5

,U «J uujru-Lcu ',-u

of What isom-a En.g"Iitsih movelistB hia-ve oalled "a modest 'compe/oence." In. the eiarly days o'f the Republic, when party feelinlg aia«n imuch htiig-toer than it dioies bod'aiy, and preis'ideri-iial calmpa'agns, pro•t'naiot.ed for six months o.r more, Were mad-e up largely of an iiriiti&rchan'ge of peireonalit'ies betiweeen' ifchie two pa i't'^es, the pois'seaston of wealth by a candidate wiais regarded aiS a sure iinid'itoation of his un.fitness, amd the a'tseinics of wffailith was by miany citizens looked upon as -a clear 't'iitle 'to- .their earnest and vigorous support. The claL'm wais frequently maide by excited 'adversa.i'.'ies that a partfculair cand'Ldlate, rumniimg on the opposition ticket, designed c.r tntended "ito buy himself toto the presidency."

A sii^n'^fican't reimiinder of tMs oldit'ifme

'Sityle

af .politics, wow ge-nerally ac

cepted as obsoleite in remote Populifet localities, w-a5 furnd&hed re.c^ntly by the letter of S'snialtar Cullcm cf Sprin'gfield, I'll., who 'as a candidate for the Republican mwnOnsi Mon for the presidency. In same outward 'points at leaiat, .'the career of Mr. Cullu.m bears some resemblance to thait of Abrahaim Lilcoln, the first Reipubli'can president. Mr. Cullo-m resides, as did Mr. Lincoln when nominated, at Springfield. Cullom, like Lincoln, wais born in Kentucky, and h'.s parents removed fI'^-m ithia.t state -to Illinois. Both were lawyers by profession, and both R?puibli'ca n3. Moreover, Mr. Cullom, who is now senGtor senltor from ini'.r.ois, bears 'a strong personal re^sesnbla.nice Co Mr. Lincoln, but there the s.'fmi'la-ri'ty end's. Mr. Cullom is a candS•daite Cor the preslfdenoy and in answer to a li&tit-er .sen*: him ithie othar day thr.s its w'halt he wrote: "I am very poor, having no money to spend in the campaign for nomination of election, and I would not solicit financial aid if by so doing I could secure the office."

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man when nominated, nor was Mr. Cleveland wheii put up for the first time in 1884, though he is said to be a very weatlb.y man now.. In the convention of 1880, the last Democratic •convention in which there was any serious controversy among the candidates, all three—Mr. Bayard, General Hancock and Mr. Randal!—were poor, and there is no present indication in either party that any candidate will be nominated on account of his wealth or because of his lack of It. The ex-penr-es of a presidential campaign are unquestionably very large: but very little, if any, of the burden falls upon the candidate, and the preliminary expenses are met usually by those of his supporters in their respective .states, who are financially independent.

Th* Cheater Cakf*.

It is in the famous plum loaves of Chester that we reach the top -pinnacle of wedding cake glory. Those marvelous confections are justly celebrated and have been for more than a hundred years, while there is scarcely a portion of the civilized world to which they are not sent, carefully packed in air tight, tin ined leases. West Indian. Australian. and, of course, American brides delighting to have them, as well as those wedded within the queen's domains.— London Mornine.

If you don't smoke Sweet Moments cigarettes you don't get the best

1p5|i|ig

PACKAGES.

Fortune Telling.

When on the 9r«jn mea suattmep's goQd, An£ tftne 4tas anunmer's sfcy, We weatt to banns our ikxtusMB fco-id,

A witdhln* ma44 aira I. The gypsy eByil SKedied uncouth Aam weftnd ito 5oo& upewv, A-nd jVft tfor «adh ioC us, to eooth,

A merry tate she spun.. Mtoe was a kindly horoscope I heard ray Mrth fiAwve Haid hung the ftvaippy star of hope,

The Sambeo star of love. The 4tur at fb«ve ithat Miss, I teairoe*}, etiifl. it» glow. Muah oKxre 'tihe tifoyl said, but •Ais

Was all I cared to know. Then intto Syflwia's sfepder hand I saw the gypsy peer. And words I longed to understand.

Were whispered In her ear •Wtifle on her oheek a Mush had birth TOVat spread In rosy tire, As when the winter wakened s&rtb

Feeds spring's divine desire. We left befhtod the gypsy eld, And 'oeaxn thus dusky pHie Again was Chat If air srary Wld

That ended, 'Sweet, be astae!'* Then SyQvIa, the «yed, Laushed in her Winning way "TtiarsNwilait," trinrmipliaotly she cried, "The gypsy said you'd say!" —OBnKxm ©cSollatrd In Harper's Bazar. The pastor Of the Methodist Church at Ruslaville, Ind., is the Rev. OTange Vandever Lemon Harbour. There is a man who ought to succeed in,establishing a fruitful ministry.

It ought to be some COOTS oil at km to the peopie of Kansas City to know Hhat 1,000 tons of soot settle monthly Within the 118 square miles of London. This town is not so .bad as tihat, anyway.

A French flonish has offered a prize of $6,000 to any one who can produce a plant whldh will yteid tolue roses. Now, what in the world is the use to plaice a premium on blue roses wfoee red roses are a thousand times prettier?

Cork Row, is ft/be horshoe section of Jersey City, is so called because it Is said that nearly ervery .man and woman living there was born in Oork county. Edward F. Kenmey, "The mayor or Cork Row," keeps a saloon on the corner and.is very popular. "La Tosoa" was recaSfled at St. Louis on Saturday night, on account of the illness of Fanny Davenport. And yet, to Jook at Famny, no one wouM suppose that sne ?iad ever been ill ifor the fractional part of a second in all her life,

Warren 8. BSale has been a compositor on the Boston Transcript for sixty-seven years. He atrtfibtes his good health and his ability to work to the faot that he takes a Matoation of two months every summer, and has never seen a professional game of base ball.

A sensible preacher—the Rev. Dr. Stackis:—has turned up at Galesburg, 111., who •relieves in fresh air and sunshine every day, Who 'favors Sunday excursions to the parks and woods, and who thinks that the laboring classes have a right to enjoy Sunday in the way that will do them the most good. He is the pastor of the UniversaMst Church, which is not only ciSspoeeti to allow its members to have some pleasure in this world, but Whi:ch insists on giving men a chance in the world to oorae!

Cars ten Borehgrevink, the Norwegian explore,r, claims that the continent he calls Autarkic a covers 4,000,000 square miles, and he values this discovery upon the theory that as a continent it can be colonized. He believes the area around the south magnetic pole is charged with electricity that the plaice l" habitable, and that the Eskimo could hye there as well as he can in Greenland. He goes so far as to saiy Chat there is enough electricity in the soil and air of Antartlca to furnish all the heait and Mght -tihat may be required by the future nation, and asserts that it will be comparatively easy for science to alter .the Climatic condi•tionis of 'the country aflmost art will.

There its in hiding in Gotham .it present a man named Thomas Lake Harris, a queer character and adventurer, who yearte go figured in more than one news--J/£VfrCli OCMOO-ClUtlx "-{j Oliphant denounced hilim to the worW for hlaviTHg striped her glifted son Laurence of hits fortune. Harris founded a. community having a quest for unending life on th.is earth. He anonunced the discovery of a law whereby i.t was possible for a human being to escape ttie pangs and penalties of death. He assured the world •that he* himself had mastered the law. and -would never die. That is something which must be lefit witih time to prove. He gathered -about him a number of persoms of considerable means, and fhpy all made over their property to him. Among these was a Japanese prince, who is now the manager of the property. Harris himself is at present living the life of a recluse in Gotham. Why he has deserted his community no one seems to know.

ct^xj tduuc'u uy Buixic QQJis go xigU r€\i xn mure tII^II i/iic ne ws" c'Jans who elbfe'eted -lo candidates, either paper sensation. Same years ago Lady OlIrihn nt rfpnuiii'nr-f.tl hi'im ,tf 't:hp world for

"HOBO" PHILOSOPHY.

New York Times: "What do you do when you are hungry?" "Work it takes away my appetite."

Philadelphia It'em: "I never give a cent to able 'bodied men." "And expect me 'to cut off my arm for a cent?"®

Sparta Herald Advertiser: "This here book w'ot I found tells erbout a sleepin' beauty wot slep' a hundred years. Do yer b'li&ve it?" "Course. I kin do it meself."

Answers: "I never give to beggars in the street," remarked a young man to a bfggar. "Will yer honor oblige me with your name and address and I'll call on yiou," was the prompt retort.

Adams Freeman: "Don't use poor soap," read Perry Patettic from the wrapper in which 'his "poke out" had been wraipp-dd. "E£ I had of been writin' that," he continued. "I think I would have left out thiait pord 'pore.'

Amusing Journal: Ragged Robert (at tramps' lcdgir.g house)—This is a-going to be a h-aird winter on gents like you and me. Mike. Meandering Mike—is it? Ragged Robert—Its a fact. Th' paper says time® are gittln' so good there won't be men enough to do till' work.

Washington Star: "My man," said the philanthropist, "I air. going to give you a chance to work." •Mister," replied Meandering Mike, 'ma|kld father lost half h'is fortune playin' ro-uletite an' the other half on boss races, an' almost the last advice he gamme was never to take no chances."

The (truth of the matter is that presidential candidates nowadays do not require any larger sums of accumulated wealth than did threir predecessors of .many years ago, and the question of a candidate's wealth or poverty has really nothing to do with his canvass. Governor McKinley, it is well known, has but recently gone through bankruptcy. Mr. Reed is not a wealthy man, neither, is Senator Allison. Governor Morton, on the other hand, is a man of very large wealth, as was Senator Shermam, .a conspicuous iflgure .in Republican conventions for many years. pUOllUaiJ L'uuvtmjviij j.v* Benjamin Harrison was not a wealthy guppER—Dried Bet'f In Gravy, Rice Crovim ts

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THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE

COMPANY OF NEW YORK RICHARD A. McCURDY PRESIDENT

STATEMENT

For the year ending December 31 1805

Assets $221,213,721 38 a it 1 9 4 3 4 7 1 6 7 6 8 S $ 2 0 8 0 0 6 0 3 75

Total Income

$48,597,430 ol

Total Paid Policy..holders in 1805 $23,126,72s 45

Insuranco and Anpaities in

force

$800,074,453 73

Net gain in 1895 $61,647,645 20

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I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same

be correct

C:XARI.ES A. PRELLEK Auditor

From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual Report of the Examining Committee

Office of The Mutual Lifn Insurance Company of New York February n, 1896 At a meeting of the. Board of Trustees of this Company, held on the iSth day of December last, the undersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual statement for the year ending December 3T, 1805, and to verify the same by comparison with the assets of the Company.

The Committee have carefully performed the duty assigned to them, and hereby certify that the statement is in all particulars correct and that the assets specified therein are in possession of the Company.

In making this certificate the Committee bear testimony to the high character of the investments of the Company and express their approval of the system, order, and accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in general transacted. (8IOHEO) H. C. VON Po«T ROBERT OLYPHANT

CHAS. B. HENCEBSOM WM. P. DIXON JAMES C. HOLOEN J. H. HERRICK COMMITTES

ROBERT A. GRANNISS VICE-PRESIDENT

WALTER R. GILLETTB ISAAC F. LLOYD FREDERIC CROMWELL ".'AIORY MCCLINTOCK

General Manager 3d Vice-President Treasurer

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