Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 September 1896 — Page 3

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SAYS IT IS STEALING.

4EBMON OF EEV. THOMAS DIXON IN NKW VOKK SUNDAY.

-Again Addresses His Congregation on the Money Issue, and Uses Strong Language.

New York, Sept. 14.—It was a Btirrlng sermon the Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., delivered on "The Money Issue" in the Academy of Music today. This disorderly scene of the preceding Sunday was not repeated. The five policemen statioped in the galleries and lobby wefe not called upon to eject anyone.

The disturbers were evidently impressed by the warning of the pastor, who, speaking for the trustees of the church, declared would be arrested and prosecuted on the charge of creating a "disturbance in a place of public worship. "Thou shalt not steal" was the text cho Ben by Mr. Dixon. "For the first time in our history," said he, "a great party has, in dead earnest, opposed one of the ten commandments as its issue. The Democratic party asks that the nation shall, independently of the world, coin 53 cents' worth of silver and make it a dollar by the authority of its army and judges. That is a proposal, in plain English, to repeal the eighth commandment, "Thou shalt not steal." The ratio of 16 to 1, established by the silver mine owner, is false."

Inquiring voice from the gallery: '•Why?" "Why?" repeated Mr. Dixon, "because the price of silver today is 30 to 1. I won't carry on an argument with you here," exclaimed the pastor. "Put the question in the box and don't interrupt me."

Here the interrupter, who was a young man, subsided and stole from the gallery. It was the sole disturbance during the service. "Silver," continued Mr. Dixon, "has no Btability in the markets of the world. Is that a just measure and just weight to have in the house? The free silver men want the United States to go into the business of counterfeiting. I'm not talking politics. I'm talking religion, going back to Moses and Isaiah. George Washington was overtaken with pneumonia. While he was battling to retain his life's blood his physicians held a consultatipn and decided they would bleed him. They took one gallon of blood from him and his historian says he began to sink. Again the physicians held a consultation and they decided to bleed him once more. The patient sank more rapidly. A third consultation was held, and for the third time they bled him. Washington died a few hours later, to the great grief of his doctors. These r-ilver men have decided to bleed the country. The pensioners of the country receive $140,00,000 a year from the country. Bring in tree coinage, pay 50-cent dollars and you rob them of $70,000,000. Thou shalt not steal. "I am not discussing partisan politics. I grant all that they say of the money lenders of England and Wall street is true— that they are thieves and robbers. If we borrowed from the devil in our need, we flon't want to be meaner than the devil «nd not pay him back."

THE ARKANSAS OUTRAGE.

It Ought to Arouse tlie Conscience of the Nation, If there had been an election in Arkansas Monday the figures might be significant, says the Brooklyn Eagle (Dern.). There was, however, no election there and the country knows that fact very well. An ^innual form was gone through with, by which the political oligarchy in office perpetuated itself in power, through the process of appropriating, after a pretense of voting, all the figures which it desired for itself in the count and by alloting to a nominal opposition just enough other figures to sustain the fiction of a contest. All told, far less votes, even by this elaborate (system of fraud and humbug, were cast in the entire state than in the city of Brooklyn on a purely local occasion. Yet Arkansas is credited with Bix members of congress and two United States senators, who are turned in at Washington by methods compared with which a bell punch is a free agent and a kaleidoscope a marvel of system and of constancy.

The normal effect of this so-called "victory" in Arkansas will be exactly what good men wish and exactly the reverse of what the men who brought it about desire. It will arouse the conscience of the country to the conviction that the presidency of the republic must be decided by honest states, with an honest suffrage and an honest suffrage and an honest count, and that it must not be decided by elections which are a farce, by counts which are a crime and by politicians who accept the opportunity to falsify returns as adivine permission, to continue themselves in power.

One of the consequences of the arousal of the morality, the security and the enterprise of the nation for honest money is the realization of the wickedness of the political methods of uncivilized states and ot the danger to the country from the success of those methods in national affairs. An aroused North, East, Northwest and Southwest will yet secure a purified ballot in every part of the Union. We notice that the expert practitioners of predetermined results in Arkansas make their majority 60.000. They could as well have made it 60,000,000, butfor the fact that the number 60,000,000, but for the fact that the number a basis for their criminal calculations, is not sufficient to warrant so extreme an expression or indication of the purely mathematical function of declaring returns in that state.

SILAS HUFFMAN'S OATH.

He Swore to Stay In lied Until Uo Died, and He llid. Far Hills. N. J., Sept. U.—Silas Huffman, who obstinately remained in bed for more than fifteen years ia the old Huffman homestead, on the Bedmtnster road, near this village, is dead from senile debility, caused by his long, self inflicted confinement. To the last the determined man refused to leave his bed, except at Irregular intervals, when he would steal at night to the pantry and lay ia a supply of food. He was told that the open air and a change of residence might lengthen his life, but it had no effect. He war- buried on Thursday in the family burying ground:

Silas, before he began his long retirement, was one of the most popular men near Bernardsville. He owned fast horses and was frequently on the road, having for his companion some one of the village belles. He was a friend of R. V. Lindabury, then a village schoolmaster in an adjacent township, and spent a smail fortune left by his parents in a liberal manner, leaving himself almost penniless on his 33d birthday. In his extremity he mortgaed the homestead to his brother, who was methodical and saving, and for several months continued to lead a gay life. The end came when the interest was deman led

on the mortgage, and it was when his brother threatened to foreclose that Silas uttered this strange oath: "If you sell me out, by God, I will go to bed and stay there forever!"

The sale took place and Silas kept his word. He retired to the attic of the house and lived until his death in a spare bed, which he put in order in a corner of the room, to the discomfiture of hts family and the many friends who, later on, made attempts to induce him to change his quarters. When, ten years ago, he had become one of the celebrated characters of thp country side, extreme methods were adopted to cause him to leave his room or bed. He was told that his death was approaching, but he waved away his informants, not deigning to speak. A companion of his gay days was taken to him, and Silas was told of the many wonders taking place in the city of New York, a town that he bad formerly loved to visit. He was toid ot the opening of the Brooklyn bridge of the many handsome buildings in course o* construction, of the telephone, of the phonograph, of the recently perfected electric light, but to the recital of all these interest awakening mysteries he merely grunted in response. Cloth was burned on the lower floor and he was told that the touse was afire.

To all attempts to dislodge him he gave uniform and effective opposition. Force was not used, as he was still a powerful man, and it was feared that such procedure would lead to a tragedy. Besides this, Silas was now clothed in all the dignity of an exalted and celebrated personage, in whom the entire community was interested, and forcible removal would have meant a scandal. In the years that followed the changes that time brings about made rapid inroads on the recluse. His hair grew until it covered half the bed. His beard was more than four feet long and both beard and hair became as white as snow. His one time powerful and vigorous frame became emaciated, until he resembled a freak skeleton man. His ruddy complexion assumed the tint and texture of parchment. Five years ago his mind decayed in accord with his physical being. He lost all memory of former pleasures and friends, but still held fast to his determination to remain in bed. That idea was fastened by some power of his oath, and from it he never deviated.

APPEAL TO DEMOCRATS.

Address Issued By the American Honest Money Leagox. New York, Sept. 13.—The Democratic Honest Money League of America has is sued an address to Democrats throughout the country, of which the following is the substance: "A perilous situation confronts our beloved country. A bold, wicked conspiracy, ably organized, thoroughly equipped and ingeniously operated, has succeeded in securing a deep foothold among our people. So well has its true purpose been disguised that many are contributing blindly their sympathy and force necessary to its sue cess, to the irreparable injury of themselves and their fellow citizens. It is time or honest, patriotic citizens to counsel together and take a position in defense of their country. This conspiracy against our people was born of selfish greed, and propagated by the men and interests that alone are to benefit by this success—the silver producers and speculators of this and other countries, their agents and attorneys, who wish a forced market for their wares at enormous profits. It was craftily planned and has been craftily handled for some years, and every element and condition necessary for its success has been seduced to its support. Among the elements enlisted in behalf of this scheme of public robbery are: "First—The commercial and financial depression is being used in the most unconscionable manner to mislead and dupe the suffering people to excite them in their extremity to act from blind passion rather than calm judgment. "Second—Men have been shown an apparent opportunity to avoid honestly contracted indebtedness they should know that the adoption of a dishonest dollar would lesesn the opportunity *o earn any kind of a dollar by destroying .enterprise and driving capital to cover. "Third—Enlisted in this cause are the disloyal who would establish license on the lines of anarchy in place of liberty regulated by law—the Tilmans, the Altgelds and their sympathizers and followers, the element which dominated the Chicago convention."

KEPT FROM ERROR BY STUDY.

Why O. A. Click, a Kokona Democratic deader, is Oat for McKlnley. Kokomo, Ind., Sept. 13.—O. A. Glick, the Democratic leader and campaign speaker who a few days ago cast off his Bryan emblem and put on a McKlnley badge, today addressed a letter of resignation to County Chairman G. W. Duke of the Democratio committee. The letter is in part as follows: "Had I given a fair consideration to that plank in the platform which denounces the suppression of a mob as a 'crime against free instituions' by federal authorities, and had I given more thought to the protection of American labor, which comes into competition with the cheap labor of the old world, and less to the 'crown of thorns and cross of gold' I would not now be under the painful necessity of publicly admitting and confessing the error of my ways. "Before taking the stump in the espousal of the free silver cause I had given the subject only a superficial study. Investigation discloses that the Republican party has put into circulation hundreds of millions of silver dollars, where Democracy through a long series of years of free silver did not coin tens of millions. More than that, the Republican money is kept and circulated concurrently and on a parity. To meet these arguments the silverites can do nothing but shout 'Fight the British, kill the shylock, death to the gold bug.' You know how this and you know the class of men engaged in the work and their motives and their object. "For me there is but one honorable course to pursue and I follow that, hoping that with painful experience and added kuowledge I may be able to right whatever wrong I may have done. The success of the Bryan ticket will only increase the misfortunes entailed upon the people by the mistaken policy of the present administration."

Too Late to Mend.

There Is a point "beyond -which medication cannot go. Before it is too late to men-d, persons of a rheumatic tendency, intoe-r-ited or acquired, should use that beniginan't defense against the further progress of the suptenacious -malady—rheumatism. The name of this proven rescuer is Hoetetter's "Stomach JB.'titers, wiiich, It should also be recollected, cures dyspepsia, liver complaint, fever and a&ue, debility and nervousness.

In Norway a law has been passed which makes girls Ineligible for matrimony until they are proficient in knitting, baking and spinning. Certificates are issued and without them no

girl may marry.

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TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MORNING,

NO EIVAL IN CRIME.

DEATH OF FOLK WKIX'S,

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Noted Cowboy, Indian Flfbter and

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Bis Career.

!Anamosa, la., Sept. 13.—Polk Wells Is dead. The noted desperado, who has boasted of killing scores of his fellow beings who carried, at least twenty-eight bullets in his body as souvenirs of his lawlessness, and who acknowledged no rival in his par ticular line of dare deviltry, died last Friday morning in the Anamosa prison at the age of 50 years. His last hours were characteristic. His mind wandered back to the days when every man's hand was raised against him and a price was upon his head. As the shadow of death dimmed his eyes he stretched forth his hand toward one of the guards who stood beside the cot "Give me that gun! Give me that gun!" the dying man feebly muttered. "You have no sand! You

These were the last words of Polk Wells In his final moments of delirium he was ready and anxious to continue the warfare against mankind that he had followed so many years, but found in a foe that was invincible. His death satisfies the law, for he was serving a life sentence for murder. Tonight the body was shipped to Mrs. Nora Warnica, at Halls, Mo., who was once the wife of the desperado.

Wells told the' prison chaplain a few hours before his death that he was perfectly willing to die. He failed a year ago in his effort to secure a pardon and was converted soon afterward. He was very active, as far as within his power, in behalf of the church, and was a leader in the prison Sunday Bchool. In his few leisure nioments he de*voted himself to the study of religion and the writing of his biography. He became a modest prisoner in every respect.

His Career of Crime*

Polk Wells' career was more than up to the standard required for the ordinary hero of the yellow back novel. He was a "dead shot with both rifle and revolver, and it was in recognition of his marksmanship and courage that Kit Carson gave him a fine bucktorn handled hunting knife in the days when he was young. The last man he killed was a guard in the Fort Madison, la., penitentiary, where he was serving an eight-year sentence for robbery. Wells gave the guard some drugged liquor in carrying out a plan for escaping, and the guard died from the effects of the drug. Wells escaped, but was captured and sent up for life.

When about 14 years of age Wells ran away from his home in Buchanan county. Mo., and after winning some money at poker bought a cowboy's outfit and started for the wild west. There he roamed the plains for ten years. He won fame as an Indian fighter from the Rio Pecos in New Mexico to the British border, and from the Missouri to the Pacific coast. He was twice captured by the Indians, and had many narrow escapes from death.

Wife Married In His Absence. Wells returned to Missouri in 1872 and married Miss Nora Wilson .with the intention of settling down. He went into the grocery and liquor business, but through a legal technicality lost all his property. He then returned to his'wild life, promising his wife that he would conie back soon with a fortune. When he did return he found his wife had marrtbd A1 Warnica and his baby dead. In Speaking of this episode in his life years aftci'ward1 Wells said:

Warneca was a hard! wbrking young fellow, and I concluded tliat I wduld not interfere, for there had been no intentional wrong doing. I gave him $300 to buy a team with, kissed Nora good-by, mounted my horse and rode west."

It was May, 1879, according to Wells' story, that he committed his first.crimehighway robbery. In quick succession thereafter he engaged in an express train hold-up and three banff robberies. The reckless daring shown by Wells in the last of these bank robberies at Riverton, Mo., was his best protection in the chase he afterward led the officers. With two of his companions he rode in the same coach with three Pinkerton detectives from St. Joseph to Council Bluffs, and although the conduc tor pointed out the robbers to the officers there was no attempt made to arrest them. On another occasion Wells visited a judge in Savannah, Mo., to get a divorce case stared for one of his companions who was unhappily married. While'waiting for his lawyer to adjust some legal details in the case, Wells learned that the sheriff had received a telegram offering $500 for his capture. "If you need help call on me," said Wells to the sheriff, "for I have had some experience with desperate characters."

This cool effrontery staggered the sheriff, and while hesitating as to the best plan to follow, for the capture of Wells, the outlaw mounted his horse and got out of town.

Tried to Kidnap Jay Gould, In the fall of 1878, soon after Wells and his comrades had robbed a Union Pacific train at Big Springs, Neb., he joined a party of desperadoes at Medicine Bow station, on the Northern Pacific, in Wyoming, with the avowed purpose of kidnaping Jay Gould. The band would have been fully competent to carry out his scheme, but when Mr. Gould's train arirved at the station It was found to be heavily guarded and was allowed to pass unmolested. Then it was proposed by the captain of the band that when Mr. Gould's train returned eastward it should be ditched. The captain had been a New York capitalist, who claimed that Jay Gould and Jim Fisk had robbed him of his fortune In railroad speculations, and wanted revenge. Welis objected to the scheme, and after a desperate fight among themselves the gang dissolved partnership.

Wells had been keeping a hotel about two years at Randolph, "Wis., when Dan Ferrell, sheriff of Mills county, la., got trace of him, and went to the hotel with a wararnt for his arrest. The two men met in the dining room of the hotel, and both drew their revolvers at the same time. Ferrell fell to the floor and Wells sank with bullet holes in his head, lungs and wrist When well enough to appear in court Wells was tried and sentenced to eight years in prison. Had he not poisoned the guard In his attempt to escape he would have been a free man three years ago.

BOY EMBARRASSES MR. BRYAN.

Refuses the Acquaintance of the Candidate and Denies His Claims. The candor and ingenousness of childhood were responsible for a decidedly awkward situation during Mr. Bryan's recent visit to this city, which disturbed even the equanimity of the Popocratic candidate, and brought unutterable confusion upon a doting mamma and aunt, says the Chicago Tribune. ..

It occurred during one of those little informal receptions which Mr. Bryan oqea-

sionally gave in the parlor of the Auditorium Annex. On the occasion in question tie wife of a man formerly connected with Several of the big down town hotels, together with her boy, a winsome little fellpw of 5 or 6 years of age, with an exceedingly well developed bump of precocity, add' her sister-in-law, were among those present when Mr. Bryan entered the room and began his usual routine of handshaking and exchange of compliments. Both die- and her. sister-in-law were ardent admirers of Mr. Bryan, and wben their turn came they greeted him with much effusiveness, telling him how much interested they ^rere his campaign, and how they hoped

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successful.

He received these compliments in his t)sual benignant manner, and then chancing to

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the boy, who was standing just

behind his mother, and thinking, doubtless, to further cement the friendship of mamma and aunt, he bent over toward the boy, and assuming one of his 16 to 1 smiles extended his hand and said in his blandest tones: "Will you not shake hands with me, my little man?"

The mother was, of course, delighted with this notice of her boy, but the "little man," for some reason, showed no disposition to meet Mr. Bryan's_advances, and it was with anything but a friendly eyei that he gazed upon the former's smiling face. The mother quickly noticed the child's evident indisposition to grasp the hand that was extended to him, and thinking it was due to embarrassment said encouragingly and persuasively: "Shake hands with Mr. Bryan, dear. He will be our next president."

Little was she prepared for the answer which leaped instantly to the child's lips: "I won't shake hands with Mr. Bryan, and he ain't going to be our next president, neither."

The mother was so overwhelmed with astonishment that she gazed at the child In a state of utter and hopeless confusion. The situation was rather trying for Mr. Bryan, but thinking to relieve the mother's embarrassment, and perhaps inspired with curiosity as to the child's unwillingness to shake his hand, he asked pleasantly: "Why don't you shake hands with me?"

As quickly as before the answer came from the child, and It left the mother and aunt in a condition of hopeless paralysis: 'Cause papa says you ain't no good." "Why, Tommy, you naughty boy, your papa never said any such a tnlng," said the mother, almost ready to cry, so great was her embarrassment.

The stereotyped smile on Mr. Bryan's face had faded to a large extent, and a painful silence pervaded the room. Then he iiiade a heroic effort to pass the incident over pleasantly, and said with a smile to the mother as he turned to greet others in the room: 'The boy is all right, madam, but I fear you have neglected his political education." ,-The mother was unable to say a word, and taking the child by the hand left the room.

A LEAP YEAR INCIDENT.

The Young Woman 8hot a Wild Cat Under Difficulties. There was given on a recent evening at Black Lake, this state, a leap-year party to which Miss Kittie Carr escorted Mr. Frank Lupton, as we learn from a Callicoon dispatch in a contemporary, says the New York Tribune. The neighborhood of Black Lake is a wild region infested by all sorts of cruel, ravenouS and venomous beasts of prey. The bones of many an unfortunate traveler, polished .to-,an unnatural whiteness- by the fangs of these-scourges of the forest, lie in windrows along the lonely

the young man atj-ljer si^e that there was no danger, she drove rapidly home. Arriving at the house she got her father's rifle and announced to young Lupton fier intention of going back after the cat. "B-b-but," he returned, "I am no h-hunt-er. Why should we m-m-molest the animal? He has as much right to life as any of., us." "I shall go back and shoot that cat," answered Miss Carr. "G-g-good!" replied Mr. Lupton. "Sj-s-sjioot the b-beggar—that's what he needs.. S-s-shoot him till he can't wrw-wiggle. I'll stay here and hold the h-horse-" "Of course you will hold the horse—when we get there," said they oung lady, and she stepped into the carriage and drove away into the forest, the awful and ominous silence broken only by the chattering of the te^th of the man by her side. Reaching the spot Miss Carr first slipped a corner of the robe into the mouth of young Mr. Lupton, thus in a measure deadening the clatter, and then droped out of the vehicle. All was silvence, save for the wind making

traveler gone down before the spring of a' denizen of the unknown glades. The fierce vibration of the man's teeth, estimated at 3,500 per minute, were fast wearing out the corner of the robe, when suddenly his cheek was fanned by the shock of the wildcat's cry, now close at hand. His jaw was par-

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FISH FOR SARDINES.

A GRKAT INDUSTRY WHICH G1TKS EMPLOYMENT TO MANY. "f

Favorite Bait Is Called "Kofn#"—Why the Keti are Blackened With Smoke.

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The'sardine industry in the provinces of Brittany and Vendee employs a large population of men, women and children. Nantes is the most important center for the preparation of canned sardines, though La' Rochelle and several other maritime towns are able to rival the Brittany metropolis today, Bays the New York Times.

The sardine manufacturers of Nantes own over 100 important factories, scattered along the coast between Les Sables d'Olonne, St. Giles and Belle Isle. It is from the beginning of June that sardines begin to flock along the Brittany coast. Like cod, they are season fish, and their favorite abiding place is at great depths, among marine grasses, two or three, miles from the shore, where they assemble in great numbers. The sardine is fished in the same manner as the cod, excepting that the net is made with smaller openings. These nets are termed "manets" in Brittany.

Every year thousands of fishing smacks start out sardine fishing. The vessels are of light construction and only fit for a calm sea. If overtaken by a squall they often have barely time to seek refuge" in some friendly harbor. The average length of these craft is from twenty-five to thirty feat. They are fitted out with a number of large oars, the use of which is indispensable to manage the boats on their return to port. As a rule the captains of these fishing boats are the owners as well but in the past ten years many factory owners have started fishing fleets of their own. The crew of an average sardine boat Consists of between seven and ten men, only three of whom are professional sailors—the captain, his mate and one sailor boy. The remainder are peasants, Who make use of the fishing time to fill up the farmers' dull season.

The start for the day's fishing takes place every morning, the boats leave port at low tide and: sail to the spot where the sardines have been signaled. As soon aB the fish have been seen the nets, many of which are over 8,000 feet long, are thrown overboard. These nets have all been blackened beforehand with smoke, so as not to frighten the fish. At the same time the fishermen scatter bait around them the favorite bait is called "rogue,' 'arid is made of fish roe. Once the net is filled, it is drawn into the boat, emptied, and thrown out again. The sardine spoils very easily, and the fishermen are, in consequence, obliged to return early in the evening at high tide. As soon as the boats reach the docks, the "remandeuses," as the "sardine women" are termed, seize the nets, stretch them along the beach and mend them if necessary.

Meanwhile, the captains sell their fish

Once the boats are emptied and the fish cleaned the fishermen go to the neighboring "cabaret" to settle the day's pay the

highways. So it 4s.jiqt,.strange that* while first proceeding is to deduct from the day's returning from the .party,Miss Carr heard gross income the several expenses, such as the piercing cry of ,a, wildcat. Oddly cost of bait, the days food, etc. ^What rer lawyer cross-examining him was rather enough, she was imaged. .But, assuring

men are oftou in. distress, as they have no regular pay. The preparation of sardines in oil is as follows: The fish are first washed in salt water, beheaded, and cleaned. They are then salted and dried in the sun or in aerated reams, specially prepared for the purpose. They are then slightly dipped into boiling oil and when cooled off

alygpd and forgot to move, the wind ceased Buckner has weakened McKlnley very lit— to complain the last gurgle of the distant

A Mistake.

"You look melancholy," said tho bustling man. "Yes," replied his friend with the wistful lobk. ''I'm thinking sad thoughts." "About what?" "About the things that might have been." "I don't see anything sad about that. Our ancestors might have been subjugated by the American Indians, and where would we be tiien? Whenever I think of the narrow escape we bad from wearing feathers and living on government rations I have to Btop right in the middle of my work and say: 'Ha! Ha' We might have been run over by cable cars or arrested because our bicycle lamps weren't lit, or deluded Into buying gold (bricks if luck hadn't been on our side. And,you sit thflfre endeavoring to be sad! Why, you're trying to raise Canada thistles in a gold mine. You're doing your best to get the weeds of discontent out of a subject that isn't anything but a great big hotbed of hilarity!"—Washington Star.

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traveler died away and the silence could be felt. Then, again, nature shook with the [adoption of the Chicago platform, the great wildcat's shriek, his glassy, baleful eyes majority of sound money Democrats in this were seen between two rocks, there was the section, including the party leaders and sharp report of a rifle and the beast and the solid business men, almost without excepman fell forward—the one dead, the other tion, announced their intention of voting in a faint. The horse dashed wildly down for the Republican nominee. Few of them

the road with the limp young*Mr. Lupton hanging over the dashboard. But at the end of a mile he recovered consciousness, stopped the animal and drove bravely back. When about half-way he met Miss Carr dragging the wildcat behind her by the taill. She threw it into the carriage and again they drove home. The young man is still under the care of local physicians, suffering from shock, but Miss Carr has felt no inconvenience from the experience. "The wildcat'" says the dispatch. In closing, "was the largest ever secured In Sullivan county and Miss Carr will have the skin mounted and keep it as a memento.

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placed in tin boxes, which are macie in the factory. These boxes are filled with oil, hermetically sealed and dipped into boiling water to prevent fermentation taking place. This last operation finished, the boxes are packed in wooden cases, filled with sawdust, and are then all ready for sale.

Every factory employs on an average 150 .women, twenty children and as many men, these latter being tinsmiths for the most part. The women employes receive very small pay—3 or 4 cents an hour. Those employed In tiie boiling process receive a

moans in the tops of the overhanging trees slightly larger salary, this work being more and the distant last cry of some belated

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TO VOTE FOR M'KINLEY.

Attitude of Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska Sound Cash Democrats.

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Sioux City, la., Sept. 12.—In Northwestern Iowa the nomination of Palmer and

nomination of Bryan and the

will recede from their position and cast their ballots for Palmer. Bryan, on the other hand, is suffering seriously from the nomination of a rival candidate in his own party. The rank and file of the party did not follow, to any great extent, the example of their leaders in shifting their allegiance to the Republican candidate. Bryan, they declared, was the nominee of the party of which they were members, and, no matter how distasteful might be his financial views, they did not feel disposed to withhold their ballots from him. Since the nomination of an old-line Democrat, however, their opinion has materially changed. While they concede that Palmer has no chance of polling a large vote in the state, their consciences approve them in lending their support to a man whose views on both tariff and finance are identical with their own. Those members of the party who at first expected to remain away from the polls on election day will now largely turn out in support of the new ticket

In Southeastern South Dakota and Northeastern Nebraska practically the same conditions exist. McKinley has lost but little by the sound money Democratic nomination, while Bryan's forces are seriously crippled by it.

The Buttouhole Bouquet.

"People when once addicted to a habit,'" remarked a member of the Southern Athletic Club, find it extremely difficult to break away even if they would. A friend of mine, who is a prominent dealer :n bides and cattle products, doing business on South Peters street, is absolutely a slave to the habit of wearing roses in bis buttonhole. I have known him for a number of years, yet during the entire period of cur acquaintance I have never seen him wlth-

out the customary nosegay on the lapel of his coat. If he lose* one he hunts a florist's shop and buys another. Winter or summer, it is the same thing. Whin I twitted him about it he said that he had worn rosebuds so long tnat he could not transact his business or feel comfortable unless the posey was in his buttonhole. Hit father had done the same thing before him and, in addition to this, he, my friend, often found it impossible to sleep unless a vase of roses was on the table in his room at night. He is an absolute rosebud fiend."—New Orleans Times-Democrat.

THE FEMININE WORLD. The state librarian of Maryland Is a woman, Mrs. Jeffers. She is the daughter of a distinguished officer in the United States navy, who died in 1873.

The success of women as designers of book covers is becoming worthy of comment. Most of the books recently published with noticeably attractive covers show the result of woman's work. Prominent among these artists are Margaret Armstrong and Amy Richards, who are both becoming famed in the line. The striking cover of Mrs. Burnett's "A Lady of Quality" was designed by Miss Armstrong, and that of "The Master Craftsman" by Miss Richards.

Mandy, the Paris modiste, refuses to make bloomers for his customers. Asked to give his reason, he said: "The quantity of cloth makes the bloomers unbearable in hot weather and it is impossible to keep them clcan. The dirt and dust come in between the plaits and folds, necessitating incessant brushing, and they never look really clean, especially when made in dark colors. On one wheel they neither improve a bad figure nor show off a good one. The rider with small limbs and hips looks ridiculous in them, while the rider with large hips, who takes to the bicycle to reduce her weight, dressed in bloomers, is a bad advertisement for her tailor or dressmaker and the laughing stock of people of good taste. No woman with a good figure should hide it In bloomers and there is hardly a first-class tailor who would willingly undertake to make mem for good or bad."

STORYETTES.

The famous Scotch surgeon Abernethy, was a man of few w_ f*., but he once met his match. A woman called at his Edinburg office and showed a hand much swollen and inflamed. The following dialogue took place, opened by the doctor: "Burn?" "Bruise." Poultice." The next day the woman called again and the conversation was as follows: "Better?" Worse." "More poultice." Two days later the woman made another call and this is what transpired: "Better?" "Well. Fee?" "Nothing," exclaimed the doctor, explosive-? ly. "Most sensible woman I ever met."

Renan tells of a church service in Brittany where the priest delivered such a touching appeal that his hearers with one exception shed tears. This robust individual remained unmoved throughout the service. The rest of the congregation could not imagine how that man could remain untouched and one man, marveling, asked

either to fish merchants or to the sardine him the reason he, too, had not wept. "Oh,'* factories direct. Once the sales are made, the "sardine women" In the service of the factories flock to the harbor and clean the fish the scene then is most typical and has often been made a subject for the painter's brush. Conversation at once begins between these sturdy fishwives and the fishermen, and the relative merits of the day's catch are discussed and commented upon.

said the dry-eyed one, "I do not belong to this parish."

An eminent queen's counsel one gave the following advice to a man who proposed to swear an affidavit after having already sworn one in an exactly contrary senso of the law: "Never," remarked tho queen's counsel, 'swear an affidavit when your previous affidavit to the contrary effect is in possession of the court. Becauso, my young friend," he continued, "that would'be lying."

A young doctor Just starting out in his work was once on the stand as a witness and

mains is divided into a certain number of impertinent, making several sarcastic reportions of which the captain has generally marks reflecting on the ability of the doc-' two, the mate one-half or one-quarter and ^or understand his business. "Do yom the rest of the crew what remains. When the symptoms of concussion of the the fishing has been good the days profits brain?" asked the learned counsel. "I do," are considerable but on a bad day the answered the doctor quietly. "Well," continued the attorney, "suppose my learned friend, Mr. Bagwigs, and I were to bump our heads to gether, should we get concussion of the brain?" "Your learned friend

Mr. Bagwlg might," replied the doctor gently, and the conversation turned.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Be sure to place a well filled work has* ket In your guest room, containing cotton, needles, thimble, emery and pins.

If going on a journey be sure to take a light lunch with you, and plenty of it. Trains do not always reach the dining towns on schedule time.

If the voice becomes husky beat up an egg with sugar and the voice will become clear and strong. There is a great deal ot nutrition in this concoction.

When dish washing and potato paring have darkened the hands and stains adorn each finger, cut a tomato in two and rub the spots. They will disappear at once.

To save pieces of soap make a number of flannel bags, six or eight inches square, and put all pieces of toilet soap left on the* washstands in to them. They may be used in the bath and are particularly nii% for children.

Do not deny your family onions on account of the unpleasant odor. They are o$e of the best nervines and are exceedingly useful to tone up a run down system. The odor can be removed by eating parsley or drinking a little coffee.

Keep a bag hanging in the kitchen into which string from all parcels may be^ placed, and have one drawer of the dressor devoted to paper bags, etc. A hook sere .ved into the wall over the table for a pair of scissors is a necessity.

Be sure to have your mattresses not only turned daily, but aired for at least an hour. Each child as it becomes old enough should be taught to remove the covers from the bed daily and place them in a current of air, and also to upturn the mattress. If you do not require the child to make her1,, own bed, at least require her to air it.

For a children's party has a "Jack Horner pie." Place a large round box In the center of the table cover it with smllax or similar greens and fill it with simple toys, attaching a ribbon to each article and extend tho ribbon to the place to be occupied by the guest for whom the gift is intended. The children will thing the ribbons are simply decorative until the end of the feast, when each child can be instructed to gently pull the ribbon attached to his place, and will be delighted to find a gift at the other end.

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