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Now that Holmes is locked up he is committing some m'ore murders with Ills pen to show that in the hands of an able liar the pen is sharper than, the knife.

£Tt (l)0g!ins to look as though the Democrats Wiho still vote if or Andretw JaJckyon will Qia/ve as Have ai candidate as the ot/her {Demioicirats., or one that can run is well.

It is all very well for t'he administration to deny sending any message to Spain, while waiting to find out what the (people think about it, t*ut It is hard irni eniter^risin correspondents who are luaaused oif writing faikes.

There will be more reason or sense in congress taking up the Waller case than in spending 'the time over Mrs. Maybriick. or, if it is rlghit in considering the latter it will be its duty to take up the oither, but no good can be done in either case.

if IMr. Cleveland .has offered! to mediate Ibetiween Spain and Ouiba he Will tuave to stipulate for an American commission to see that Spain kiioes what it promises. The proibaibili'ty is, however, that Spain will •not promise aior the Culbans acicept.

Hon. Mr. Tal'beilt,

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congressman, sa'id he would prefer a resurrected Judas Xsicarjot to John- G. Carlisle a's a candidate, which, is another painiful evidence o«f the scarcity of presidential fiimlber among Democrats, and their partiality to deaid men.

Although itihere was a lot of steel rails eol'd (to Japan, recently, iwiben trade was very dull, the im(portatio.n of rails in the erven moriths ending February 1st was 210 per cent, greater than (for the same period in 1895 and the importation c(f pAg iron increased six (fold. "We cannot shut, out those (foreign ifellolws (by coaxing them. in.

Colonel Jatok. Chinn, "Happy Jack," according to his friend Blacklburn, and "Fiig'htii'nig Jack," laiooording to others, Was shut O'Uit Of the ^Kentucky legislature during the late difficulty to pravent disorder. He is talking of coming out as a pandldate for the next legislature to get inside. Ha relies on th« ballot as well as on th.e bullet.

It is not unusual for one who thinks he has* thoroughly mastered a subject to feel competent to handle all other subjects With equal aibility. This may .account for the use of senators' and governors' names in certificates af the ail-healing properties of the paJbenlt medi'cine's. It may also account for the tendency of the prohJbition party to add to its oardinal principle free silver and various other divergencies. The New York Sun happily suggests that the only free coinage for the Prohitos to advocate is the free coinage of bichloride of gold.

IA aufcfiCtoe extojodiuon of cheek is an tLifcOeSe in a Democratic paper claiming Jhe Wilson law as a benefactor o'f the 'Atoerican tin plaite induvstry, but the claim corutadrts aK2m£ssions to the efiftefcft that tiin pd'ate mOis were established under a protctcfi/.ve tariff, are mairatiaiineld and graw'ing under a protedt'vve djuit'y, .whli'ch tlhe Wilson bill coailici not wii(pe out, and are transferring a large business from Great Britain to America. Every sheet of tin toonit'atins an e.loquenft argument for

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that trade in wool is virtually at a standstill. A year and a. "half of the Wilson lanv finds wool at a standstill because there is so little manufacturing. There was, however, one movement last wee'k. A ibig lot of Texas twool was sold in the East, for Belguim, at 7Vi cents, which means still less in Texas. At that price no Eastern manuI9a^rer could use, it, 'but the Belgians will, and will send t'he goods back ih^re. We do not hear any more about shipping dress flannels and carpets to (England which was talked of a" yeiar ago. The mills that make thorn are tshui down.

The United Staiteis silver dollars an'd \pt_vpor money are tatk-en at par value on t'he Oana Jian Paeitfiic Railroad from lHaiidax to A'arJcouver, and on the Oirttifclh steasm^fs''.between ^-apan and Ch aa and Mexican and towiian Sflwr ooiitiiauge -is t'a-ktn at its •^commercial 'Sfejl'Ue. Th^vpre&iderit of Mi* railroad in an interview with Eli PftTkiiite explained the^jiilterence bettween the money by saying that the 5G35.000,000 of United States sillver TOoh'&y is gmarante^d '^f*'r the governaaent, *ffle tihe M«x3^|^aud Indian taioney 'ciibuiaites a's sfilver only. The United a!btes money is not dfimonettlizt'd. The president is willing to continue to take AimeriSsan money untiil Yree ccinagte is declared. He knows aic«\v just haw jnulch the government egreets to keetp at par with gyld, but if (free co^na^e is adopted he wiM not fen aw. He will know that then silver MriU not be wo-nth as much as gold fwJjfich 5s the money he has to use in

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hSs s^tttflecneritfa, to pay tnteredt on Ibwnds, divSdend!s on stock and In buying naiiita.

Wlhen^free coinage ait 16 to 1 goes into effacit tih« UmSted States guarantee on the dollarB now coined will go ouit of effedt. iPree coinage will demonetize a Jar®e per cenlt of value out otf tfoe silver dollaie that are now In tire pockets of tihe peoiplfe.

The Roeatgen ray 4s tlhe "What is in !Jt?" oif science. EJdfison declares that 5ft is a sound wave. Two Chicago physicians say it is a germicMe or bacterfia anniihiHator. One mhrst aidmire t'he ortg--InaDiity oif the men who fitfet thought of •using the rays-tb desfonoy bacteria, iblu/t t'lrey hla.ve tb ought off it, amd as. far as a week's experimenting on bottled germte can dedide tihe mlalignant germe at dholera, diphtheria, anthrax and five other dfeteroyers have been kdlled by it he rayis, twit some more days are yet •required to ccmplefbe the inquest mpon t'he bacteria to make the verdict sure. We oannot venture to deny in advance the exfiistence of the cla'Lnued miag'net'ifo ipower in t'he won'de,iiful rayis, nor to is ay mare than "i't is too good to be It'nue."

The 'horn igoods (business has (been one oif importance In the maniifacturinig town of Leominster, Mass., 'but the (country IMUS been flooded witJh foreign good© at prices with which the manufacturers oif Leominster cannot compete and continue to pay present wages, says an* iitem in the Boston iHeraJdi, (Ind.)

So much attention is paid to iwoolen, sillk and cotton goods and other very \hearvy interests ithat scores of smialler dnidtistries are lost sight of to the general wrebka'ge but when the Wilson bill cut down the duty on horn buttons 60 per cent, it struck an industry 'that kept Many little factories! Ibusy. When: the full rate was paid the American 'horn button ,was a very ©heap article and being constantly improved in styles anl qualities. It is now a very dull article and there is no incentive to improve or to miake it-

Holmes' confession was not needed to prove tha't he is a murderer and his apparent fraud upon the newspaper syndicate is not needed to show that he is as na'turally a swindler as a murderer. As the development of one vice saps the power of resistance to others the existence of any vicious trait in an abnormal degree will account for another. This man may have been a born murderer, but, as seems more probable, a desire to gelt money at any cost, or sensuality was the beginning of 'his career of crime. T'iie phenomenal murderers of old times, su'c'h as the Borgias and Brinvilliers were ruled by sensuality. We have had a number of striking confirmation's in the last few years of the fact that men w"ho are willing to destroy the moral nalture of others, and to degrade and ruin their earthly careers, will not shrink from murder.

There can be no benefit in rehashing the story oif Holmes. There may be danger in showing that a man can with impunity kill a large number of people in the midst of a crowded city and escape conscience and law. and it is well that the seekers of sensations Should become known as the last dupes of a cunning villain whose closing lie is the last mocking gibe of a callous, conscienceless wretch.

LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE. The statistics of present prices and wages indicate that the workingmen have the l^east interest of any class in the arguments offered by the free silver faction for a change in the currency. The commissioner of labor, Carroll D. Wright, who is called the best authority in the country on wage questions, has issued a report showing that the average rate of wages, on a gold basis, in 1880, was $347 a year, and in 1890 it was $445.

A table published iby a large Western groiceryhouse, comparing the '.prices of twenty-ifour articles, which includes all that an average family buys at a grocery, shows that $16.71 in 1896 buys as •m'.uidh of those twenty-four articles, as $24.43 boulg.ht in 1891. There would be as mulch, and more, difference in, 'comparing prices of 18S0.

The average of wages has not declined in gold, and the wage earners as a body .have not lost in that way. The*pri'ces of nearly ali that they consume has declined, and we have the authority of the silA'er men fojwthat. The silver men insist that the free ooinaige of silver will restore prices to the old high rates, wihich means t*hat the cost of living would advance at least 50 per cent. The wage earners may well dou)b/ !if he can get his wages advanced 50 per cent, as easiiy as he will be made to pay 50 per cent, more for w'hat he uses. There is one reason why he cannot under free coinage for it is not promised that the silver dollar will buy any more than the gold. The $445 •gold value, cannot (be replaced by more than 445 16 to 1 silver dollars, sines th-ey are to (be c'f 'the same value, accosting to the silver men. but they promise that all t'he products of the farm, and cotton and wool, will return to old values.

If, however, money will be depreciated by free coinage, as we think, and the higher price of produce is only due* to cheaper money, the laborer will still be short as bis wages will be in depreciated money. The everlasting difficulty of getting the employer to increase t'he nuitalber of dollars per month will still exist, and ?f lie does succeed in getting the monthly rate increased in proportion to the depreciation of money he will still (be where he started from, his wages (bearing the same relation to lH-ingthat they did before. But, ft must be remembered, that not a silver country in t'he world "has raised wages because silver has gone tfawn. If they have been raised in any line it was because there had (been a development

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ABOUT PEOPLE.

IMhinBsJaeisy's laibea't painting of scenes ffiroan the Blfle otf Chutist, wthidh is destined for the ii»bernatlonal exhibition at Bu)da Peetlh this year, is now on •viielw, in his stiudio in Piaiiiis.

The Frenfdh Diutdhess d'Uzea is saiid bo reipair every Friday morning, in mtean clothes, to a oanieer hospital, wlnere s(he reipQaces an inflitoary servant till laite in the evening.

Gearg-e Merteidtiitih, t!he novelist, sayB in a reoemt JelBter to an in'tfoMate filienld: 'ISUmioe the bienignanit conclusion of the greatest oif civil wteLns I have looked uoion the Airoertloan people aua •tlhe lead•eutu oif our c'rvilizatlion."'.,

Thomas W. .HaH, wfao has Just died dn West Chester, Pa., at the age of 101 years, was never ill a day in hie life, and died from a general breakdown on odoount off oM' aige. A brotlher 99 yeans old and a aistter of 97 years surviv# him. .. /.

At Oo&hodton, O., County Treasurer Sbqpfli'en Oaweon eniterd his safe and Wad the djors closed on Mm to avoid, •tlhie solfci'JKt'iOns of a life insurance a@ent. The caller waited for him an "hour and a half, and when Mr. Dawtsn w(as releaised. he was nearly unconOiouB and is ndw eeniouSly ill.

The woman tennis dhiattnlpdon of Netw Zealand is one-ailme'd. Hea: arm is th'e lei!Jt one. In three flmgeits she holds the •racquet, and betiween the remaining ifiiniger and thuimib sihe graaps t/he balll. A sKlghit oss of the "ball, followed "by a iftmart tap with the recquet, resullts in aifast, low servifce which is anyitWii^p tout eaisy to taike.

A|t Hatfield House, in the James ipljcture gallery, there is preserved- t'he giarden hat worn by Queen Eliizafbetth, and a pair of her majesty's silken hose. The room iis also reim!arflcalble for beauitl.lfiuii alalbaster aau Hplbures, and it is the rule for every royail vlis'itor to leaive ibeMmd a photogrtajph to wlhiiclh is adldieid an aultogr'aiph oif the donor.

This E'mlpeiror of CMna lias two 'niaimies—a patfvate, or personal, name, "Ttsai-Tien," wtiOah, however, a'dcording ito the demianid's oif Cfhinese etaqueititie, is never apOken. It may be written, but lin readlinig the reader (must uise a isynonym in pron'Ounic-feg it. Tlhe Eimiipero'r's pcjIbUJo naimle Js KvwangJSu, ,w(h'idh means "illuidtriouls successfion."

Uiuly is the favorite month fo-r royal iwelctanigis. Ht se-emfe to be decided thait iFirincess Mauid is to be marriied early 'in Juily. Other marr.lbens of the Bnilt'is'h royal faimily w"ho dhose it were tlhe tote Prfncesfe APbe, on July 1, 18&2 tPriimcieeis Christian, July 5, 1866 her id'aulghlter, Prineesb Victoria, July 6, 1891 Pi'inceiss' Beatrice, Ju3y 23, 1887 the Dutdhei?s of Fife, Juily 27, 1S89, and t'he Dluike c(f York, July 6, 1893.

When Queen VildtoriSa travels she carries not only her own ma stresses, but also her bedidtead'. The mattresses are (prcfoalbl'y nnlique in the^r way. Instead of the nvimlberaesis li'.ttle buttons that Vidorn 'tlhe ordiinary mattress, the Queen"s ha.vie nu\rrlbC'Pie33 little loops t'ha't can be t&ghiteneld or looseneid ait iwilI'1, and t)hat aire thus loosened every imorninig and tiglitened at night, the hors'^htaiir stuffing haVing been- thc^S oughily vewtiiated meanwhile. ji

SKY-SCRAPERS OF ANTIQUITY.

Ten and Twelve-Story Buildings Were Not Uncommon. Peoiple of t'he preisen.t dixy seem to have a very erroneous idea of the Life in the large cllti-es of anltiquity. It to generally believed thalt there were no terige coties of our modern type in antiquity, biu/t this is a greiat mtetake. For iif tihere have at all existed in the loujJivalted lufe oif the ancle mils certain 'feltjuires in w'hEcih, follaw'iinig our historic researic/hes, we recognize prototypes of our modern lilfe, we must notice first of all the tirr.lporairy a'Ciaulm/ulation cif b-i-nig's in Darlgio diltlias, whtfob, in point of ti':ze and poiphl'ation, of contrasts b?.Uween sipl'endor and squalor, of wealth and unmitigated misery, differ but little from the 1 a.r1ge ciltles of our tiime. What we knoiw of the structure, the general aapadt and the life i'n the Targe dittos of the Roman empire co.unitis aimon the m'osit interesting examples oil ancient culture.

Prominent in this respect is the heig"rjt cf the houses. We are inclined to imagine that the ancient houses, as fa .rule, had only one, or at most, two stories, while in the middle ages the narrow, hi'gh-gabled structures ih the commercial cities, and in recent year3 the ridiculous ten and twenty story, tower-like building's, raised by American speculation, are a type of the time. We are, however, strongly reminded of the inevitable and viokvue circle, when we read that the Roman empire had its sky-scrapers or tower houses just as we find them" now in New York and Chicago. Babylon contained a number of four-story houses some cities in East In'4'ia carried many of t'heiir houses to a height of seven eiorie'3. In Carthage there were nv bui!clinxrs six s'orifs high while in Rome the police authorities, under the E.n..peror Augustus, limited the maximum of houses to a height not exceeding twenty metres, which, considering the low studded rooms of the Roman's, was equal to six or nearly seven stories. In or about 500 A. D. Constantinople allowed the construction of houses to a thirty metres, wholly indifferent to their depriving the neighbors of both light and air—In fact, there were at that time quite a number of ten and twenty-story houses, such as we see in New York in our day.

There were then, moreover, two (points which made these' high buildings far more reimarkalyle and more dangerous than in our day—the manner C? construction and the narrowness of the street Private houses in anient- Rome were in many instances so iUadly b(u.i1t that their collapse was a •matter of frequent occurrence, rendered aia .the more dangerouis from the Pact hat they were cWiefly buil't of wood, wrriih would easily produce a conflagration, and be all the inore destructive cif life and limto. as there staircases, the com— iiMuin'icatlon between the different stores boing kept «p by sdtrlple ladders. For th'ils reason the Roman fire brigade wtae condtaritly infipeicting- the Mt! lhens, as the most vulnerable parts •:»f the hwiisets and most Fikely to cauee fires, which, once "broke® out, it was aKirost iencpossKble to put out.

The streets in Rome and in nearly all t'he Jange cfttles oif aritiqudity were •so naorrow tfliat no vehii'cles could pass ("hem. The faTgeet sltreerts in Rome had a willt'h of se\-«n meters, most of the others baredy four or five meters—'the wtdilh of t'he sidewalks in many of the

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"Pa-Jfee cities of tie present day. Two of the great artferies of Rome were t'he Viacus Tu^cnrs and the Vlotfs In®arlus —(the former fsour and one-flialf and the latter five an'd one-hialf meters wdde. If we contrast theise wdth some of our modern s/treets oif from twenty to fifty tmeitem in widitlh, with houses of a hefiglut otf ten Hneitera on eacfti side, an (idea may be foruraed af the apipeararuce of fhe narrQw lanes in ancient Rome Iwttth the'ir three and four-^tory houses, iwhfloh ait tames mWst have looketd like a hfeve of swarming bees. If we flur'thenmore take into consdd'eration the 4rre®ute.r mode of construction of the anteien'tB, wtoo "heid no ildca or dsure of a pro(per alfifemmen't of their houses, Tvfhiitdh either receded from o^ projedtenj beyond that at theiir neighbors, and finally the indifferent pavements of the etreeltfs, if any pavement att all—it will irea®ly ble seen fh'at the large dtaes of an'tlcguiilty must hlave a/KP^ared aa p®citiuirelBqiue as tihey diki unclean and disorderly^

RACED EIGHT THOUSAND MILES.

Record of Two Sailing: Vessels From I«ondon to Sydney and San Francisco. (One of tihe miost exciting an'd olbse^t ofcean: races ever engaged in was that (beitiween the British shJps Arctic Stream and ICromdlale, now 'in San Francisco. They left the starting point within five minutes of each other and, aft-er battling against contrary winds for over 8,000 miles, there was only a difference otf 'two hours between them at the finish, ®ays the New York Telegram.

Al(ihouigh a much smaller vessel, the Arctic Stream held her o:wn throughout and on a tonnage allowance would have wore hands d'own. Captain Bowen is well satisfied with the showing miade iby hia vessel and is of t'he opinion that if t'he race was run over it *wouldl be his vessel that would be two hours ahead at the end of the voyage.

The CromdaLe and Arctic Stream, left [London on August 1st last. Down the channel the vessels scudded under lower topsails and reefed iforesa.il. As they disappeared from view there was not 100 yai*Qs betiween them, and 'the tug-

years, and that it would require fully that length of ttme for their eyes to reach their present State of degeneracy.

Catch of these four animals represent a specie entirely new to science." The snow bu@s, or pill bugs, as they are someftiimea called, aTe small crustaceans apparently of a genus asellopsis, which "belong in the gTOtip called lsopods, according to the report submitted on these creatures by the scientists otf the national museum. This snow bug Is a near relaitive of the aonip'hipods', a gbod example Of which is the gamnxarus, a small crustacean abounding in many fresh waiters and constituting one of the chieif food articles of fishes. The Sea fleas are also amp'hipodis.

Tihe particular species Which tihis well furnishes seems to "have lost its bearings at some time in the past and have become -stranded in fresh water, and in a cave. This shrimp is another crustacean, belonging to the group of longtailed decapods. It is a member otf the genus .palaemnetes, two or more species o'f (which are known zo occur in the freSh waters of Texas- These shrimps are only a/bout half an inch in length, but their^bundance makes up for their lack of s^, and blind shrimp salad is one of the possibilities of San Marcos. (Hector "Von Bayer of tbbe fish commission was the first to notice these shrimps comiing up and to recognize their scdentiifllo interest. This was early in FetoFuary, and they were then oomlng up rapidly. Since then they have increased until inoiw Che daily shrimp output exceeds half a pint, according to reports furnished by Jacob Beidler, who is the ag'ent otf the commission in charge of the well. •But the salamander is by far the strangest and most interesting of this •lot of curious ammals. Salamanders are distant relatives of the frog, toad and nrudpuppde. They bear a superficial resemblance to t'he lizard, /but At is not raal, and indicates no blood relationship. These San Marcos salamanders are from 4our to six inches Ibng they are blind an:d colorless, breathe iby means of external gills, as do the young of all salamanders have long, slender •legs, and possess a broad, shovel-ii'ke nose, which looks like the fender on a street car. Dr. tSteyneger of the .na-

EIGHT FEET FROM LIG*»«. SIX FEET FROM LIGHT. FOUR FEET FRUIRT LIGHT:

EDISON'S WOKDERFUL PHOTOGRAPHS. Inventor Edison recently succeeded, in penetrating the human body with the naked eye. Ho looked j^to me heart atjd lungs and examined the arteries, the blood vessel a and mrtstiles of one oFhis assistants by means of the Roentgen photography, sayH the New York Journal.

Iboat captains remarked to each other thait it 'was going'to be a close race. Bath vessels were bound for Sydney, N. S. W., and Captain Andrew and Captain Bciwen si'ghted each, other three 'times during the race. After getting clear of the channel they ran across each other when fourteen days out. Then they lost sight of each other ifor a month and a half, and then on the third occasion when they wereiboth making t'heir casting' from Tristan d'A'cunba. "During the entire run of 8,403 miles the vesse-ls twere Ipearly all the time under two or three topsails and res.fed (foresail, yet, nevertheless, the average was 240 miles a day: The Cromd'aJe and Arctic Stream both came to San Francisco from Sydney,'^N. S. W., £he former 'With 3,111 tonS/yf'^ooal and the latter wiUh 2,312 ton(^"'jh (ftis occasion the Cromd'ale won easily, as she made tl:e run in seventy-fourulays, while the Arct'i'C Stream took eighty d'ays to cover the distaince. This was not a test of the Sailing qualities oif .J:, he two ships, however, as light and baffling winds prevailed nearly all th^way from Australia. to San Francisco. They are not liHtely to meet aig'ain^for some time, as the Arctic Stream is going back to Sydney. N. S. W., with a load of wheat and the Cromd'ale remains here.

All competitors 'have been compelled to give way to Dr. Price's Baking Powder.

FOUND AT BOTTOM OF A WELL.

Sicbtless Fish and Other Cnrlons Crentnres in a Texas Hole. The United Sta/tes fish commission has a we'll at San Marco, Texas, whi'tfh, to the zoologist," is the most remarkable well in the world. It was recently sunk in order to get a suipply of water for the fish cultural station which the commission is establishing at •that place. When the drill reached a depth of 181 feet it dropped four feet, indicating a cavity of at least that thickness. A good fio'» of water resulted, which, after casing the well increased to about 1,100 giallons per minute. This enormous flow has continued now for several weeks and show3 no signs o»f diminuish-, ing. But this is the least remarkable feature of the well, says a Washing*.on letter to the Brooklyn Eajgle.

The marvelous fact conn&dted with it is that large numbers of animals of various kinds have been coming up ih t'he water. Not a day has passed since the well began to flow without several animals having1 been brought .up. At first Some small shrimps were noticed, then a salamander, and a little later snow bugs and sea flees were added to the list, anJ the well is noW furnishing a more or less constant flow of salamanders, shrimps, snow bugs, sea fleas, etc. Up to today fourteen specimen of the salamander, afeput a dozen each of the snow bug and sea flea, and about a pint of the shrimps have been sent to Professor W. B- Evermann of the Unitde States fisli commission here. AM of these animate are toallly blind and colorless, a.=j is always jthe case of animals living where there Js no sunlighft. Living a3 they did in the dark subterranean waters, they liad no use for eyes. and the only evidence that the animals ever possessed sudh an organ are two tiny dark speoWs, situated one on each side of the nose. Professor Evermann says that from the color and appearance of these salamanders he presumed that this certain species had lived in these underground waters HOT hua*-~"*,°J-

tional 'museum, to whom they ihave been' referred for critical study, says these salamanders are totally* unlike any known flpecies. They do not even possess -any near relatives among known living 'things, and seem to represent an entirely new and very distinct family. It looks more li'ke tlhe remarkable proteus, that .has been known to inhabit certain carves an'd grottoes in Austria, near the Adriatic sea, 'but even between these the relationship is remote.

The three species of crustaceans have been referred for study to James E. Benedict and Miss iMiary J. Rat'hlburn Of t'he national museum. Professor E.vermanni is sure that such abundant life in this subterranean stream indicates the presence oif yet other species, and he is 'confident that blind fishes will come up soon or later.

An iulfallJble guide to ideal results in cookery—Dr. Price's Baking Powder.

FOUND HiS COLLAR BUTTON.

It Bad Traveled Three Feet Under His Skin. Lyons, April 13.—Edward A. Cummings is 51 years of age, healthy and robust, and by occupation a stationary engineer. On the morning of June 7, last, Mr. Cunmmings overslept himself, and upon getting up noiiced that he had bv| a few minutes in .which to get to work. To make matters worse discovered that the rear collar button to his shirt was gone. He looked around and espied a common sewing needie, the eye of whith he had broke:: off in in sewing on a button a few days previous. With this eyeless needle the shirt ends were pinned together, the ••needle doing duty as a button.

The needle stayed in position all right until evening without attracting atten tion. In the evening as he was about to go to bed, Cuimmings reached behind his head to remove the needle from the shirt and was surprised to find that it was gone. Ke looked carefully in the bed for it. shook out his clothing and looked on the floor for fear of stepping on it. He was unable to find the needle that nighlt or in the morning.

Two days later, Mh Cummings says, he began to feel excruciating pains in the fight sfroulder and down the right aide. These pains were so severe that on July 15, 1S95, he was dbli«ed to quit work and consulted with Dr. Myron E. Cai'mer, who, thinking that rheumatism was to blame, prescribed linimen'ts and mustard plasters, both of which were used with good effects, and at the end of the week Mr. Cummings went to work again

As soon as he went to work the pains began bothering him again and seemed to keep moving down the -right side, lower each day. It yas with great difficulty. that Mr. Cummings was able to keep his position until March 28, when he resigned, giving as his reason that, he must leave the place as it Was damp. A'pril 1 Mr. Cuimmings was seized with sharp pains below the TTght hip, which bothered him so much that he began an investigation, which revealed a little bunch about the size of a pea. The spot was very milch inflamed and applications of Mnannenit did not allay the pain.

At last Mr. Cummings went to Dr. M. A. Veeder's office and submitted to an extaminiation. A^ter asking a numfber of questions and examining the inflamed spot, Dr. Veeder prescribed same liniment and hazarded the opinion that a carbuncle av.gnt be forming. m« «wo rro irt wflPr bonfil

and got to Ms room on the third floor of t-ha Republican block, wben he was seized with pain more iatensi than ever before. iBt seemed as If bis clothing was irritatinrjfesomethlng and was driving It into STs fleaih. Upon removing hia clo(thin®r Mr. C?usranings found the red spot and sametfhiitg protruding from it wjtiph looked blax^k. He grabbed hcrld of t5ie black Object and was surprised to pun out the headless needle, which was discolored but not rusty. The next morning Mr.' Cuzntmingis visited Dr. Veeder's office and showed l*|ua the needle, ait the same time recalling the instance when he used the needle to do dufty in place of a button.

THE STAGESTRUCK MAID.

Julia Marlowe Tabor Gives Some Sage Advice. (Recently JlQ&a Marlowe Taber^was taskeki by a Statfe&tnucac fair maiden whetiher she would advise a young girl to adopt acting as a profession. "If s!he bas abfHWty,* aim/biition, determination and (pa/Hence aod has her mind Ibemt on 'her ant, I tmhtesita'tlngly say yee," said the IjeautHCul Juliet and the winsome Prince Hal. "There is no profession more honorable, there ds no other ailt more exalteid. The mediaeval (prejudice ag-aiii^t th$ players

IFjrcit, I should say study, (study, •sttiuJdy! Ndiih'ing else will avail no i&diventJtiouis a0d3 of good looks or graiocljul ibfearlnga, nothing but Incessant o'i/1 over her pailt, plxucfking out the (heart of its mystery. "As we have nothing in tWis country answering to the Paris Conservatoire, leit the beiginner, when she has learned the alphalbe/t of her part, see-k an enlgiaigemient witih a oomipany pljtyInig cl'a'Siailoaa plays. No other means •df ini^trutetion open to her will be so vaiualble. She Will learn, then, if she •is observant and stu-dious, the requirements of acting, and wherein she and others fail to meet tlhese requirements.

Around th.e wo rid go the praises o'f Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder.

EXCHANGE EWES.

Kansas G'ty Journal: ©etereitlary Carlisle's recent letter is so heavy and platitudinous in gtyle as t'o create tihe suspic. fi,on tha't Che pres^denitls messages were comipoasfcl in t'he treasury departavettit. (St. Lou'Jj GBcbe Dem'oicralt: One business d'l'^iurtlinK flaatcr present In nine out of ten prei?fdnVal yelars is absent now. That 'is, there is no uncertainty as to the result of the election in 1S96.

Oincinna/ti Oottrwrnercvlal Glaze'tte: Oarii'sle sal's he dloefenlt want it, but he dares t!h'3 Drimocrial'lic national convention (to t'hruBt i't uipbn Tiiim. mcJTl'ia Eiagle: The New York "World mfta the feeling against third terms in tihii's country "an unreasonable prejudice. If it is a prejirdice, it has jagged teeth 'and a rotary moiti'on.

S'prins'fleC'd (MJass.) Union: It is President Cleveland's liurn to move in. the Cuban game.

Springfield (Mai-is.) Republican: Eng-'.and foum a secret alldan'ce with Spain against 'fhe Unlived Situtefe? Never. The history of Bri'tteh diplomacy, whatever else may be said of it. dtoee not indicate that BritliBh statesmen are fools.

B'Mt'on Heraid (Dem.): The Republicans dk) not apear to have made any gaiins in Rihod? Island. Poasibiy miay be explained by tlhe circumstance (What there was not much left for tht-im to gain.

Flhdtedelphia Rcoord: The prince of Wales has bean iihr©wi from hta tricycle, but he can't biame tiie h'oodoo on the Thirteen cMifb.

New York Press: Because Mr Cleveland was deitected in the acft of whistling he is regarded by hte friends as le.nu, in a very eihecrful and contented fraane if mind. Wrong again. Keeping up his ccur&ge.

New York MVM and Expretes: Here Is anolh.er su?

?^t'ion

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(passed away. '•The young woman sacrifleces neither dignity, position nor self respect iwihen she befcomes an actress to appreciative minds there can be no satisIfactiion so greajt as attempting to portray in actual life the characters drawn Iby grelaA dramiatA&ts and poets the art ooatlbSnes something of all the other arts, and, in a way* transcends them all, and, lastly, the woman who masters ht is greater ttoan a queen. '*Iif anyone cares aaso to consider the (practical and commonplace aspect of the matter here is this fact for conttamipla.'tiion, tfhiat while success on the stage is won only by incessant toil and devotlion. when it is won, even meas(Ufnatffty won, no other profession open to women affords equal rewards. 'The practice of Ihe art is essentially intellectual, and if necessity involves a growltlh of intfoniwat'ion and ideas. To adequately bring upon tne stage any (play of What is dalle'd the legnlt'iimate xltfaimia, involves tihe caroful stuidy of the h'irftory, manners, customs and peoullaTt'ties of the tiim«es in wh'ich the scene otf t'he ptfay is la'Sd. Incidenitail reading and reseailch become indisIpensaMe. So, when the yourng actress ihas aid^qjuately prepared henselif for a SWaikeefpearean paiit, lett us say, she has gait/he red. a fund of intformation of an unoiaual amd interwRilnig sort. "Niciw for thie nTelans. "iSiuinpose a yooinig woman with the iprerequi®3tef9 I have suggested is desirous oif betcom'img an ajctresis. Wlhat ijs the couTise t'hat wi'Sl, wiSth opiportun'iity and aibility, lead her to success? Hard question!

for tihe pamocracy.

For pmrfdenlt, David B. HS11 of New Yorit Plaitfonm: "I am a« Desnocrat. All otilers are imMt/ations."

Did Ton Ever Think

Of thie evil effe^cit^ of coffee and tea, and Uhe enormous quantity used, is iJt \any wonder so many s'ufCer from headache, nervousness, dyspefp^s*a, constiipation and many other ailments and ifind no meidixiine th'at cures. Mrs. Elizalix'ilh Dice of ETkhai-t, Ind., states. ''Many yfcurs I suffered with severe •sttomaiCh and hcai^t troui'ole, nervousness and sleriplc'fiF.net-s. I had taken ix(U/ 'h mfcMcine, but could not be oured. A titer u£ing one package of Dr. Martini Nervine Coffee I find my stomach Itroulbie gone and I feel like a new person." One pound 20 cents. Sample, •ntrnWing tiwe-nty-tive cues, 10 cents, by mall. Address Dr. Martin. Health Food Co., Elkhart, Ind. Sold by Grocers.

A CARD TO TKE LADIES. Mr. Gafferty, representing T. B. AuJt & Co..*will be at Schluer & Foulkes, Thursday, April 23d. with an extensive line of samples for^adies' shirt waists, which he will be pleased to show to all who are interested in that line. Very truly, Schluer & Foulkes.

BASKET BALL.

A hot g^ame will be played at Old Asbury CJrtjrch Tuesday. April 14th—Indianapolis vs. Terre Haute. Admission 25 cents. -Maine & Brower for pciper cleaning and roof painting. Drop postal for bids and prices to the Wilson upholstering house, 117 North Fourth street.

Tho Welsbach lighting at Cox's drug ^tore attracts the attention of passers-by.

Attend (Mme. "DeVzlbung's cutting otfvhrMii rodaoensarv.

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EXPRESS PACKAGES.

BaaatUal Trees'.

The green trees Wh3spered low and mftd: I't Was a s*umd of ay "7^ my playmates when a dbiK, ?!?ck'd me in thrair arms so wftM Stall tfeey looked at me and smUed. •A& I were a boy

And even Whispered mild and tow ^™le, be a dbiid ooce more a 25 ?"avr?i {(heir Kng arms to arrd fro. Ana beokton Solesmnfly and skxw t' .L not chose but go

Into the woodlands hear

bKtfhe aad breaithlng air,

^iaro rne salemm wood, SoleAWii aaid sHent everywhere NSubure w&tfh foidad haiwfs seomVi there, Kneeling *ut her evening pnayer

Iitke one in prayer I stood. B®ftre roe rase an avenue Of tjall and somlbrous pines Abroad fhe&r Unlike braniohes grew And, where ttte gunahlne darted thrbiaeh. Spread a vap*r soft artd blue.

In toflg and sfloping lines. And failing on my weary brain. Lik6 & Cast lulling shower. The dreams of youth came back araln* Low lispingts of the sunnm'er rain, dropping: on the ripened grain

As once upon the flower.

—Longfellow.

Jean D. Arte is bflldd as a skirt dancer •at a cheap muSeRim in New York. The books In the British museum would !Llawrence

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^rarn Kansas Oity to

Topeka, the capital of Kansas, is probably tihe only city in the union in Whiieh conductors are required to pay for- toweia TO cleaa the oar windows.

El Cajon, a town in Southern California keeps an old codger who bias been on deck 107 years, paradfng about the streets as an advertisement of its climate.

An Aitohiiaon young woman who coma J? ,K^.naaf. Oity to see "Oartmeri" rauys ubiat Che Netbersole kiss wouldn't be regtarded as airythting remarkaibla among the girls in her adt.

Padereiwskl has discovered thfa't tSiere is a great deal of beaaily and artistic merkj an Chinese m.usflc, though of course ha deprecates the heiathertiah custom which prevails among the Mongolians of shiivdna their scalps.

Robert H. I\lger, wiWo wfas re-elected justice of the peace in MassiMon, O. las weeflc, has served in that office for tiha last tweflve years. He is So years old and has been practicing law for nearly etirty years, longer than any other man in Ohio.

It. wSM be Just as well to make a clean jab of tihe measles at the WMte House now and be done with it. The children Willi never be in any better shape to take 'tlhe disease than at present. The earflier a person Was the measles the better.

A good ctbureh Woanean on tihe Wesst sffde was heard tb Observe at tlhe Auditorium, one nigihit laslt week, t'h®t it was a wide leap from Lent to Carmen. Nevertihefless a number of persons who are reckoned la® devotional cleared the dbasm with evident enjoyment.

One of tfhe public sdhloote at Miarmouth, Me., has thiirteem pupils, tlhe oldest being 13 years, and this is the teaJdher'a tWrteemfth term in tlhe school. All of the pupffis of (tlhe school are wefl and d'Oing1 weil'l, and tihfe sdhool is makAnu a m'ore than usrua'Uy good record, notwithstanding the superstiitiion about UMrtteen.

Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, according to •the te-^tftmony of a friend wh'o was present at her marriage, was never so happy, butt was not too eostaltic to lose Interest in her back hlair. Thiis is a ftocitiunato omen. General Harrison himself is completely self contained, and It is an assooraton of oongena'l temperament Which offers the moot ceultaffin pledge of conjugal bliss.

The pastor of the Methbditst Church atf Steven,svilie, Milch., being sadly in need of seme new clothes, made an earnost application tto the Alml'irMy, and the next day recived a handlscone Prtwce Albert oca't from a frJend in DaWoita. The theory of the effl'cacy otf prayer i3 s3mew3iat weakned in this case by the diroufm'stlanies tlhiait the coat was on the Way wihen tin preacher put in hi£ suppi'Ji'Caitlon to the tlhrone of grace.

The lilac is the. favorite fihrub where-vei it Will grow, and it iis abundant In Kansas City, psruciciialliy in :tlhase cornflortable, old •fla^hiioned yardls whicih, hlave'"not been made to look tola well behaved by the landscape gardener. The new leaves, when crtr&hed, are-silmostt as fraffnaret as "tihe ftowers and the sweet scented purple pluimes are eloquent *of a'ssociatiions to llhose dwellers in the crowded city whosa tlhoisghltei go back to country homes far •from the diin and competition of commerce.

It'is going to be easier to keep house in Kianstas Cilty t'his summer than it has evei been before. The cc«n»peltflon between th« E^a's oomipanies has furnished a 'large number of household's WEt'h free gas stoveis, and will make giais popular for fuel. IH will be pO'SSi'Me, under these conditions, to keep the hcoises so coOl and to do away Witlh so muicih of the usual hardsh/ip oi evoking tlh.'at St will be 'hardly wortli While for people to leave town durfr.g th hot weathr, unless thtey donTt.know What else to d'o with their moneys

There is an unusual demand in Kansas City thfe spring for all kinds of flower bulibs, tulips and hyacinths taking bhi Selad. lit has become fasihiionable to plan) croouises among Itlie grass, ami nothing clan be prettier than tlhese modest llittl« flowers when they come flortfh to greet 'tihe first warm rays of the spring sunshine. The daffuM is also popular ohis season, and is easy of cu'JMvattton. There is everywhere a great floral reviival. so td apeak. There are flower® in the yards and pi3Td'3ns, on the women's hats. In fchfl fabrics of Whitfh they make their gowns, and it is ar.l very sensible and just as it oucht tto be.

The peacfii trees ar* beginning to array tlh-emiseives in their daln.ty garments of p/ink. The early bees are buzzjuip around "the swecit, fm=fti WossJoms wihich cover the twips and branche5. In a little while the apple blossoms will come and truvr delicate frairrance will fMl tdie air. Out in the woods I'lhe Wild plum tree* will send forth a heavier eder. suig-ges'tive, almcjst, of Southern flowere. These blof^oms precede tihe fuHmea- cf fOiSige. and tihey offer t.he first trustrw.rrlfhy ipl€di?e of the awakening of nature frem

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winter

aieeip. On many a slieihitiy eminence in KarKsHas C-Sty now, wrt'hin the populous sfieWon-1* are tihe remaurw of oranarrts which flourosihed on strbufb-in farms twenty and fihirty years ago. Theyarebnautlfui liti^i'S sfcits on tihe romp of tlhe town, and when they put forth thrill- tender bud3 and burst- into blc^m tiiey rival in loveliness the (fholc&st flower gxirclGn.

A T?oStbn man Who a'tte.rodc'l a pu!W|^c receptton at tftv? WMte Hrnt^e the other day flaw: "I was much surprised at the fit range lick of pywtem and potitenew in rfihe u-thers. If the nKaj-or of my city Boston, were tto hold a oufhlic rncrpttion (it would be nUariatred w't'h far more dismitv tibmn was t.he occa^on yesterd'ay There was no line forme:1 until fhe crwi was witihiln a frw f«"t ef the pm«ridnnt, and a'l th'e Wid talk and noise Incident •to forrrting the large crTwd in line wis irding' on w3.Tfni.n a f* of rhf prr^idt ttf The bowtehnc*^ of rfmf4 of ttie iianer? did hc*t of w^id in formtfmr t'hr Hne sn^utto a very polite fr:-nd of mine: rv up! Dan"t he wwr'n?

Wl7!V^

This WTi tlhe reward mv fr:erta re'eiyea •fter tr\Hng to avoid rn^hiwr s:mc ladi^ aftc'ad. and n^tj^hg f^-r-x»(aTd as violently tihe u^her r- 1. Thfs and .many slnt'lar ele«ir(f expr^s.,vnr,q were rot only plainiy auf»We to be heard Ml ovw the rocm. While I believe In T»:wrv. I a' -o beln'eve t'ha't were mn a« mi:^ Astern and oncSlrtary r^tencas t^ed by at these ruWIc rece.^.w at "he VWte Hctk a« am n.-ri'^Krrnrd to .. hv the ftrear cinrtuctcws or •RiiJSton. a rrvuch to be tie red change for tlhe better would r^ul t.

A model household "is incomplete withautc Ir. FrScCS Baking Powder.

KvnrTthlnK

"Wr. Clerk," sa'id the pressing officer r.he joint assembly of the Kentucky !«^r•tetature. "are a,:i^the members presemt. 'They, are, Sr. "Have the two houses gone thrcu.~ft tm usual procwKire of unseating mesnbers?' "Is^every roefbt-r's revolver loaded and to

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^'"Then we wl« call the roll a^ the kteen hundredth and TJnit^d Sta-tes senator. Pittsourg iclo Telegraph-

Reserved seats for DeWitt Talmaga now on sale at Buntin's drug store.

^Children Cry fo»

Pitcher's Castoria.