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THE EXPRESS.

GEORGE M. ALLEN. Proprietor.

Publication Office. 23 Sou Vh Fifth Street. Printing House Square. Entered as 8econd Class 'Matter «t the

Poetoffloe at Terre Haute, Ina.

SUBSCRIPTION TO THE EXPRESS.

fciiOn# year 1* HpSlx months

Mr. Curtis remarks that 95 per cent of the information telegraphed from Washington, in regard to Cuba, has been false and 73 per cent without any foundation. For example, the reported treaty for the pacification of Cuba, said to be negotiated by 01ney and De Lome, was published by the New York World, which printed the verbatim text of the treaty, in seven articles. It appears that this alleged new treaty wag copied from a treaty that was made with the Cubans in 1S78, by a young man in Washington, who is interested in the cause of the insurgents, and furnished to the 5press as something fresh, with the dates 5'^ .. '-changed to suit the times. A"' The press, public opinion and the cause jg.v".' of the insurgents each seem to be at tb£ mercy of the most active, ingenious and 1^, able set of liars that ever had access to V)* print. The majority of the press while deprecating jingoism and rashness editorially, Vr'"

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It!' FABRICATION OF NEWS. Some instances of news fabrication are H''igiven by Mr. Curtis, the Chicago Record's ^Washington correspondent, who relates that |te||the reported conversation between the Rus-

Bian Minister and Secretary Olney, in regard to the treaty with Great Britain, was entirely original with one of the young .^gentlemen who have been manufacturing !i Cuban news and war stories during the .winter. This last story has stirred up much .discussion in Europe and Amerioa, much to iP^f^the satisfaction of its inventor, no doubt, and it is said senators were shaping their 4^' policy according to its disclosures.

tb® same time makes such use of the

jr,V bogus or unauthenticated reports, by head lines, squibs and comments as to influence f'ls}, public opinion to results based largely upon fiction, and public opinion is inflamed, leadit ing to the giving of money to irresponsible agents or adventurers and the volunteering of young men in a cause which does not need or desire them. The insurgents them-, selves are injured, as Spain, alarmed by the prejudice stirred up in America, redoubles its efforts and adopts sterner measures of repression.

The most mischievous effect of the bogus

jf* news is to be seen in Congress, where Senators and Congressmen make speeches 'founded upon this ^iews. Senator Mills, ,'t -. however, went a little farther back, holding the Spain of to-day responsible for the '1 acts of the inquisition 300 or 400 years ago, although the Spanish government closed up the inquisition and repudiated it f-r over a century ago. Some Spanish Mills r?j' 7will be holding the present Congress responsible for the witch burnings of Salem and the African slave trade, with as much justice.

NOT TOO OLD FOR OFFICE. Senator Sherman has been continuously •in office for forty-two years, including the \,davs until Marck 4th, and then will begin another four years' term. He has been a conspicuous character since his contest for .the speakership in 1859 and though he was beaten then and a less positive man was elected, he was always a greater force than .,*Mr. Penningtou, who was elected in his •^place. In a great state like Ohio, with its i- ,,'many strong men, no ordinary man could have been returned to congress for six years and the senate for thirty-two years.

Others succeeded in being named as presidential candidates, and disappeared, while Sherman retaained ever the same dominating figure. In a country where office and •leadership are open to every aspirant, where forty-five states offer their best men for national honors, it is more remarkable that men of over three score and ten should hold the places contended for by multitudes of young and ambitious men than in guch a nation as Great Britain, where class distinctions and the expenses of political life narrow the competition to a much •smaller percentage of the citizenship than in America. Still, it was no luck or accident, nor lack of fierce rivalry that enabled

Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone and others to retain the leadership in British politic# until they had passed the septuagenarian mark. Sherman at 71, Morgan, 72 Hawley, 70 Allison, 68. and Hoar, 70, are men whose ripened experience and surviving power are valuable in the seuate, while an occasional flash from Morrill, the senator from Vermont, shows that even 86 years can be carried by a still useful statesman.

Economy of butter and eggs is secured by using Dr. Price's Baking Powder.

REDUCED PASSENGER RATES. The two-cent passenger rate has been up [or consideration in Illinois and will be reported on adversely by the state board before which it came. This is a subject of present interest in Indiana and to those who consider questions from both sides the following discussion- of the reduced fare by the Times-Herald is timely:

The Illinois state board of railroad and warehouse commissioners has decided, after careful and thorough investigation of the railway business in this state, to report igainst the proposed reduction of the passenger rate from Scents to 2 cents per mile. As this report is based upon accurate data from official sources it is safe to assume that the present legislature will not care to ignore a recommendation made by those who are authorized by the state lo protect the interests of the people and it the same time to deal justly with railway interests.

While it is important that the people should enjoy the benefits of the cheapest :ransportation that is consistent with good lervice, any legislation that is calculated to cripple the earning power of the railways to the extent that they will fail to yield a fair return upon the invested capital is clearly opposed to public policy. It is conceded by those who are familiar with the history of railroading for the past twenty years that the railroads have been the heavte*t sufferers from the widespread and often

'They rain truck tariff,

unreasonable hostility to corporations, had been seriously embarrassed by an a\ lanche of unfriendly btacbltc legislation many Western states, when they were st by the panic and the

Wilson-Gorman

law.of 1894. .The last three years has witnessed a perate struggle for existence on the part most of the Western railways. Accor to the report of the interstate commei' 'commission for the year ending June 1895, the railroad companies of the Uai States lost in their operations the sum of $29,845,241. Seventy per cent of stock failed tot pay dividends and there default in the payment of interest on per cent of the outstanding bonds.

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enormous the as 17

The twenty-fifth annual report of the Illinois railroad and warehouse commissioners, recently submitted to the governor, showed that the Illinois lines had suffered heavy losses from the business depression and financial uncertainty of the year. The report shows that only sixteen of the fortyfive roads operating in Illinois paid any dividends and that there was a net deficit for the year of $7,803,544. The passenger department shows a decrease from last year of $5 423,958, or 24.66 per cent in the receipts from passengers, the average passenger rate per mile being 2% cents. •_„_v

It is possible that some of the big trunk lines might stand the proposed reduction but it must be borne in mind that much of the railroad property in Illinois is bratic mileage, and any reduction in fare would inevitably result in a curtailment of transportation facilities that would be inimical to the interests of the traveling

As a matter of fact, there is no popular

demand

for reduced railway fares at the

present time. After three yeai of disas trous depression the

raiiways

variety ot as

are strug

Kling to get a new lease of life under administration that gives P""""?oi vival of prosperity in all the

P*d,*«tive.!°

dustries. The public interest would not be promoted by reducing the resources railways at this time.

THE CONCEIVABLE.

The New York Sim in getting together

"'pen

the resurrection oi Grover Cleveland, mentions curious possibilities ot greater prev-

iousness: Faith is a beautiful things

exce®S1^."®"

dumy ls no mark of intellectual distinction. The potentialities of the fut

unnumbered,

but they are ^msmbed

the limitations of reason and experience. Wise men keep their brains clear of cobwebs. This leads us to this remark of our esteemed contemporary in the Borough Brooklyn, the Eagle:

Tt is conceivable that the present president will succeed McKinley stranger things have

happened Mrs. Dominis will It is conceivable tnai m*succeed McKinley as Liliuokalam I. of Kingdom of the United States.

It is conceivable that the Washington Monument may put forth branches' °e^t spring and in due season bear peaches autumn pippins.

It is conceivable that, after Cuba is quered, the Hon. Eugene Hale may row up Niagara River from lake to, lake in a peanut shell, on an

after-dinner

wager with

Senor Don Enrique Dupuy de Lome. It is conceivable that the captain of the cruiser Columbia may hitch arable to Bermuda some dark night and tow that island safely in behind Sandy Hook.

It is conceivable that "Larry" Godkin may walk over to Ireland dryshod in the course of the present year ou a bridge made of the lies he has set afloat.

It is conceivable that the moon may tumble from the sky and hit somebody, whack! All these things, and many other things, are conceivable. They afford subjects for curious speculation. Another subject for curious speculation is the Mugwump or Mugwumpish mind in which there lingers yet the idea or the hope of a third term for Boss Cleveland.

A floating item in exchanges asserts that a man of Hartford City, Ind., as his first Christmas present to his wife in twenty-five years, gave her four yards of muslin to make a shirt for himself. Another item says that a Shelby County man left his home on Christmas eve, 18S5, and returned last Christmas eve with a fortune made in British Columbia mines. The first incident, of course, never occurred in Indiana, as the story is older than the State, but the second looks reasonable, in Indiana. If an Indiana man should start out to buy Christmas presents he would keep a-going until he got them if it took eleven years. The only trouble would be in gett'ing him to start.

A New York legislator has introduced a bill providing for the surgical examination of pugilists three days before, and two hours before engaging in a sparring match. Of this the New York Sun remarks: "Pugilism is one of the safest and most healthful of professions and doesn't need to be protected by new safe-guards. In fact, if it were a little less conservative and cautious, it might be more interesting," which is as interesting as the other views of the Sun, which always is ready for a scrap with blood in it.

It is said that ia Mr. Bryan's letter to a Georgia friend concerning criticisms of his Atlanta lecture, containing 300 words, there were twelve "I's", eleven "my's" and several "me's." That was natural, as Mr. Bryan was talking of the one he thinks comes first.

The Illinois people, or some of them, put up as candidates for senator, one man- who is called a disgrace and another, a crime. As one has been knocked and the other probably will be, it would be hasty to judgs either a state or a party by Madden and Lorimer.

Economy is heeded by the use of Dr. Price's Creani Baking Powder.

The postmaster at Rehoboth, Conn., after serving for fifty years, has resigned, and yet there are people who object to civil service, for fear it will keep men id office for life. Enterprising young fellows will look out for something better.

After their experience Waite' Ithe Colotiadf jpeop

with Governor Jmustjiav*

thoughtl$5 was^enbugVto spenJon thfc inauguration of another Populist governor.

ABOUT PEOPLE..

The late E. P. Whipple used to tell the story of Rufus Choate that once while addressing a jury he several times repeated a certain part of his plea—repeating in the same words and accent. .Certain that the great advocate had some reason for so strange a proceeding—a reason not obvious to others—Mr. Whipple took an opportunity to ask an explanation. Mr. Choate's answer in substance was: "There was a numskull on the jury who was paying no attention, to what I was «aying: I would have kept up the repetition until he listened if it had taken the entire a 1 Ja&s /,.*•»

The biggest Christmas present in St. Louis was undoubtedly the cheek Adolpbus Buscb received from his wife, says the Republic of that city. It railed tor $50,000 deposited in Mrs. Busch' b.ink to the credit of kus-

TEKRE HAUTE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 19,1897.

nd. The $50,000 represented the saving of her household allowance fctr a number of years.

Generel Weyler's name is Don Valeriana Wcylery Nicholan. Joese R. Grant, the youngest son of Ulysses S. GrjiPt ,is a fusion aspirant for mayor of San Diejo.

Jlolman of Indiiha declares that he has never been in Washington except an congressr man or congressman-elect.

F. S. Peer is on his way to Europe for the purpose of buying for George W. VartderbUt choice stock of various kinds to be placed on the estate near Asheville, f». U.

Senator Hoar wrote a magazine arUcle a few years ago, In which he observed Umt tne average of senators was in the neighborhood of 50 years. The senator would have to modify Ms statement somewhat, if he were Tirriting today. Within three or four years the youngest group of senators ever known has entered that body. Senator Butler of-North Carolina Is 33 years old. Senator Cannon of Utah is 37, Senator Prltchard of North Carolina is 39 and Senator-To-Be Penrose of Pennsylvania 3 6

The Russian academy at St. ^®tersburg has

elected

as honary

fed

herself and to wear clothes much too light for her.

ANCIENT AND MODERN ATHENS.

The City Is Nearly As Populous Now As Ever In Its History. Ancient Athens spread round the Acropolis, especially on the hills facing the south, which are now

uninhabited.

lies to the north of the

The new town

antique

citadel—

an extension of the cluster ot houses already existing at the foot of the rock when the war was ended. The main intersecting streets were laid

out—Aeolus

street, starr

ing from below the Acropolis and running northward, and Hermes street, leading from the royal palace toward the Piraeus. The capital was thus designed to lie in the vaj-i ley between the Acropolis on one side ai^d* Mount Lycabettus on the other. No ambition of future development is traceable in the original plan, writes D. Bickelos in the January Century. The ground chosen add the width of the main streets tend to sho|,v that the founders of the new city littje dreamed of its rapid extension. Squeezing, herself out of her narrow confines, the ci|y has gradually scaled the foot of Lycabetujs and spread beyond the valley on both sides, principally in a southwesterly direction. If the extension had been in a straight line toward the sea Athens would now be nearing a junction with the Piraeus but both towns, as if avoiding each other, extend in parallel lines, and one must look to a probable distant future for the day when they shall be connected by rows of houses, instead of the long walls of ancient days.

The fashionable quarters of the capital are to b6 found in the new additions to the primitive plan—the Neapolis, as it is called. Large thoroughfares have there been opened, fine buildings erected, both public and private, and Athens, already the finest city in the east of Europe, bids fair to become, If no stop be put to her progress, one of the handsomest cities on the Mediterranean.

Under King Otho's reign progress was comparatively slow. At the accession of King George, in the year 1863, the population did not exceed 45,000. The advance has been more rapid sincg then, especially during the last twenty years of material prosperity, which has lately been interrupted, let us hope' temporarily, by the financial entanglements of the Greek government.. In 1879 the census showed a population of nearly 46,000 in 1889, 114,000, and to-day, judging by the vital asid building statistics, the number of inhabitants, if it does not exceed, cannot fall short of 140,0000. The progress of the newly created town of Piraeus is not less remarkable. From 5,000 to 6,000 souls, which had already gathered there some thirty years ago, its population had grown to 34,dQ0 in 1889, and is now estimated at more than 40,000. Together the two towns number as many inhabitants as they probably possessed in the fourth cen-: tury B. C. .*

The sources of information as to the popur lation of ancient Athens are indeed vague but from a passage of Xenophon giving the number of families as 10,000, and from a passage of Athenaeus indicating the pro-: portion of slaves to freemen at the time of Demetrius Phalereus, it may be calculated that at that epoch the population of Athens, including that of the Piraeus, was about. 180,000. The area included within the walla of both towns seems'rather to confirm this estimate. The surrounding country was thickly populated—much more so than at any succeeding period but it is more than probable that the inhabitants of Athens proper and of her seaport never exceeded 200,000.

Food made with Price's Cream Baking Powder greatly relieves dyspepsia.

TRADE IN 1879 AND 1897

SOME OF THE POINTS OF 9IKSBHBLANCK IN THE TWO YEARS.

Doubt and Oncf rt»lnty la the B*nmptlon ... Year—The KmI Change Not Witnessed Before Jalf-

There are certain points in the present commercial and industrial situation which

have

members

Lord

Kelvin

and Dr. Simon Ngwcomb of Washington.

Representative Messenger, who New Hartford in the Connecticut legislature, is the largest man ever a member of tnat body. He Weighs 330 pounds.

Almost all the morning dresses worn by the German empress are made at home, ana ner majesty In this way is able to eoonomlze greatly. When in private she likes to be pressed as simply as possible, and her costume is a serge skirt with a pretty blouse and a simple straw hat. She has, however, one great trial, and that Is a tendency to grow stout. For herself she would no. mind, but the emperor has a horror of ££vinga fat Wife, and the poor empress

suggested analogies "with 1879, says tht New York. Evening Post. Among these points may be mentioned the fact that in 1896, as in 1878, the balance of foreign trade was enormously heavy in our favor that the steady outflow of gold has been succeeded by a rather continuous inflow that the wheat crop has proved deficient in foreign states while reasonably heavy in this country, and that the vote at the fall elections, in 1S96 as in 1878, was strongly confirmatory of a sound money standard for our -currency.

These analogies are suflJcient to show that the situation does bear some strong points of resemblance. Eighteen hundred and seventy-nine was a memorable year in the financial and commercial history of this country. It is remembered not only as the year of specie resumption, but as a period when prosperity returned in a flood to the United States, after five years of dull and stagnant trade In the fact that the present year follows another such period of liquidation, the comparison of 1897 is interesting. The year 1897 has, however, opened so disappointingly in nearly all branches of trade that the mere comparison with 1879 has been discouraging to business men. Most people suppose, in a general way, that the nation's commercial prosperity, eighteen years ago, began immediately on the fir Jit of January, When specie payments were by law resumed. Such people appear to have expected precisely such a return of trade prosperity immediately after the sound money vote of last November. Everybody knows how far such expectations have been disappointed as applied to .1897. It is not generally known, however, that the disappointment was equally great during the opening months of 1879.

After the resumption of specie payments hi January, 1870, the stock market opened with great buoyancy. The advance lasted kpout as long, and was about as great, as tile advance in stocks based upon the November election last year. Meantime there was no sign of favorable movement in general trade. During January, 1879, complaints of unprofitable business and trade Stagnation were general. London sold American securities to New York money in New York was a drug because there was absolutely no demand for commercial purposes. At the close of the month Ellison & Co's cotton circular described the condition of the cotton trade in this country aud in Europe as so bad that lower wages for Cotton operaitors were predicted inevitable. During the early part of January the Bani* of England's discount rate was high it ruled at 5 per cent until the middle of the month, as a result of which sterling ex

change

CHURCH-GOING IN ICELAND.

Back-Country Folk Who Travel Many IQiles to Divine Worship. Jessie Ackerm-an, in*the fourth of her articles on "Three Women in Iceland," in the January Woman's Home Companion, tells how she attended a country church in the northern part«of the Island. "The Sabbath day was full of interest for we had not attended service in the rural districts. In the early morning we betook ourselves to the front of the house to watch the countryfolk assemble. In the distance we saw them fording the river in a long line, and in the other direction men, women and children rode slowly over the mountains down to the farm. What the Sabbath day means to these people few can realize. Some of them never see a face besides those of the members of the family from one church day until the other. What wonder, then, that they began to assemble fully two hours before church time! A peculiar form of salutation prevails outside of the cities. With this we had not yet been made familiar, and our astonishment can well be imagined when we saW the men dismount, embrace and kiss each other. I learned later that this is the usual form of salutation among the meni in the inland districts.,

"The hour of service arrived, and, in company with the preacher, who wore a high silk ha,t, fi lposf, flovyipg gown buttoned from chin-to-hem, and a great white Elizabeth rulf around his neck, we entered the church. From the btffck seat we had full view of the congregation, and, not being familiar with the! language, the time was passed in meditation on the situation. "In the ptilpit'ftie pastor was assisted into a long, white robe which fell over the black one, and down hid back hung a large surplice of bright velvet upon which a golden cross was wrought. On the altar two great candles about a yard long and three inches thick shed a dim light. These were the especial charge of an official who gave out the hymns, and between times snuffed the candles with an old-time pair of "snuffers." After church the worshipers dispersed, and many of them did not reach their homes until night."

stood almost at the gold shipping

point from New York. It will be observed that in this particular, also, the record duplicates the experience of !897 government revenues were very

deficie

•,

the middle of February warnings appeared

might be looked foi. The Wheat-Situation Tf is well known that the world's wheat situation, at the opening of 18791, was similar to that of the present year, and that th nrosnerity of 1879/was largely based on the enormous foreign demand for ican gram. But it is an entire mistake to suppose that this factor in the

was operative from the year's °Pe°'"gwheat product of the world, at that time, was very much below the present average. The Argentine Republic, for instance, ^'as exporting hardly any grain

But it was not until this month of September, 1879, or until "very near it, that the true change in the financial situation was appreciated by trade and finance in general. As late In the year as June, sterling exchange advanced to [email protected] for demand, and half a million of gold was shipped to London. At that time the total export trade of the country, since the opening of the year, made a smaller record than it did for the corresponding period in 1878. The situation of foreign exchange had meantime caused great uneasiness at the treasury. Secretary Sherman wrote to the treasury's London agent to inquire if it was not possible in some way to arrange for the control of the sterling market by drawing on Europe through the establishment of a London credit an operation which, if it had been attempted, might have foreshadowed the experience of 1895. The real change ii^ tfie situation did not come until'the middle of July. Up to that time the same uncertainty was expressed by business men. As late as the opening of March, 1879, the Financial Chronicle contained the following erFitorial remark: "We have now entered upon our third month sfiice the resumption of specie payments. 'Where is the prosperity promised with that event?' is tb« question frequently coming to us. 'Wheat is no higher. Corn is no higher. There is bo money in any of the earth's products. Where is the promised prosperity?'

In other words, as late as March, discouragement was general, and as late as June actual alarm was felt over the situation. The stock market did indeed improve from time to time yet in February. London was a heavy sellec^of American securities in

March, the stock market brake repeatedly In April, only professional speculators were active, and they were putting up cheap and worthless stocks.

In the middle of July, however, the heavy outward movement of grain began to be foreshadowed unmistakably. After a trifling gold shipment, the sterling exchange market broke with considerable violence, aud at the same time there was great activity in securities at New York. The bank statements of that time showed continued increase of loans and deposits. In the opening week of August, sterling exchange fell to 4.83% for demand, and gold was engaged for import from tBe London inarket. Before the close of August, gold was coming In at the rate of two to three million dollars weekly. But what, was of much more importance, the export trade suddenly expanded to enormous proportions. It was by no means confined to wheat and com. Almost all other products of the farm began to move out In unprecedented quantity. By the middle of the year, the record of experts since the 1st of January passed that of 1878. In September came the memorable boom in stocks during the same month came the upward movement in the iron market. The year closed with a general .movement of prosperity.

It is worth reviewing this record in order to understand the real analogy between 1897 and 1879. Readers will draw their own inferences from the record. The important fact to' notice is, that the famous "year of prosperity," 1879, was a year of doubt, discouragement, and trade stagnation, until nearly six months after resumption of specie payments.

gl^THE JURY DISAGREED.^ V^

And This Because One of Them Had Ab- ^. sorbed the Entire Evidence. fiad been down in the mountainous regions of Tennessee for mjr health and made a great many pleasant acquaintances among the strange people of that section. Nothing of an exciting nature occurred until the earlier part of October, when one of the men of whom I had seen a good deal was arrested on the charge of selling moonshine whisky at a fair, says a Detroit Free Press writer.

There seemed no ch&nce of clearing him, but a bright young lawyer undertook his defense and handled it like a veteran. The case on the part of the government was made. A bottle of whisky that he accused had sold was offered in evidence, and a dozen witnesses swore that they had seen him disposing of like bottles.

The prisoner was not placed upon the stand and no one was called to testify in his behalf. I grew indignant at this apparent betrayal of his cause and ventured to whisper to the young attorney that he should at least make a showing. ®"th® knew his business. Solemnly addressing the court he said: "Your honor, there has not been one word of proof offered, aside from unsuoauiiK-^ statements, that the flask here in evidence contains-whisky, or that there.was whisky in any of the bottles my client is said to have disposed of. "The jury can take it with them and detemine for themselves," curtly interrupted

^"ThaMs entirely satisfactory, your hon-

°Though sent in time afid ^ain. the jury found it impossible to agree, and was finally

dI"wK?'was

ask

fust one to

Sltl,a^

Austr^'a

cut

no figure in the worlds ^P^t^rket. Nevertheless, the price of wheat, No. red at the opening of January was only 108 A cents per bushel in New York, and the January exports of bread stuffs, as recoi ed by the government authorities, were below the record for the month in 1878. In February and March the shipments .of grain were heavy, and the price advanced eight or nine cents a bushel. This waa based upon rumors of a deficient French crop and reports of bad weather in England.

But even while these reports were coming in the movement of the wheat market was exactly similar to the recent movement of this season's wheat market under somewhat similar conditions. After each advance in price, early in 1S79, there was sudden speculative selling, and the price once jpore receded. By April wheat wrs almost down to the January level. In J/ine came $he famous corner in Chicago wheat, when the New York price went up to $1.20 per bushel, and the news at this time favored such a movement for on the 5th of July people were wearing winter overcoats in England, and heavy rains were almost destroying the prospect of a harvest. Notwithstanding this fact, the price of wheat declined at New York City during the month of July, to a figure lower than its price at the opening of January. To this fact the trade reports of that time are sufficient witness. It was not until the last days of September that the wheat market really seemed to take fire it then advanced something like 30 cents a bushel within three weeks, the exports becoming simply enormous. The truth of the matter was that Europe had deferred as long as it possibly could its orders from America, in the vain hope that it might obtain its grain at easy prices. When the consumers could hold off no longer, the export movement began in quantity, and the rush of rising credit was felt throughout the country.

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BACK TO LIFE_AFTER 31 YEARS.

the clemency of formei^Gove

nor Morton there will emerge from priso walls into freedom next spring a man fhreA a living death for more than has suffere Albany Express, thirty-one years, says the Albany Tb first thought that naturally comes

ttoma^nibea.mo,to«ro.m.jItb

*''?,6 as to

content as be mu

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tbe

ST'JTJZX "e'Be5-

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the age ot 66 years he will be utterly afone fn the world, without resource without the physical strength ma way through what little of

TeinstH°l ftbe1'wife™ another.'for he was legally dead when the sentence had been imposed upon aim, and she ex cised her right to marry again those who were his friends, all those years ago, aie dead and scattered through the world. will be a stranger among strangers. There are none to whom he caa turn for sympathy, for aid, or even for the opportunity of making a living. Moreover, there will come to him, as never before, perhaps, the realization that his life, with a.l the opportunities which it might have held, oas all but passed away.

Governor Morton, before the expirac.on of his term, commuted the life sentence of George E. Gordon, now in Dannemora Prison to fifty-two years, so that he will be released on May 8-next, the time off for {rood behavior being allowed. Gordon was sentenced in this city in 1866 to life imprisonment, after conviction of the murder of a stock drover by the rame of Thompson in the West Albany cattle yard?. Gordon was a resident of Greenbush and was 33 vcars of age when convicted.

The application for pardon has been on file in the executive chamber for twenty years and was signed by some of the most prominent people and public officials in Rensselaer county. Gordon is at present the prison librarian at Dannemora, and his good conduct during his long confinement, together with the fact that he has always contended that he did not oommlt the crime, led the Governor's favorable action on the application for clemepcy.

Under tbe law at that time a person charged with murder could not testify in his own behalf, but he then declared his innocence. He was convicted on circumstantial evidence, considered strong.

Gordon's wife has married again.

Treble Cleft Clab.

The Treble Clef club will hoid 1ft V«gufa? meeting Tuesday evening. A full attendance Is desired, as special mucle Is ta be practiced for the annual concert, in whleb Mrs. Thicker of Chicago has been secured to ssaist,

Katharine Hualey, Secretary.

to Care a Cnld ia One Day

Take laxative Ureroo Qulalo* Tablets. A', drogitfeta refund the monw if falls t: enre. 28c.

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Love In Winter,

Betweelii "the berried holly-tnsh *.:• The blackbird whistled to the thrush "Which way did bright-eyed Bella go? Look, speckle-breaet, across the snow Are those her dainty tracks I see, That wind towards the shrubbery

The throstle pecked the berries still. "No need for looking^ yellow bill Young Frank was there an hour age, HsIX frozen, watting In the snow His callow beard was white with rime, Tchuck, 'tis a merry pairing time."

"What would you?" twittered in the wre*: "These are the reckless ways of men. I watched them bill and coo as though They thought the sign of spring was snowv If men but timed their loves as we, 'Twould save this inconsistency."

"Xsy, gossip." chirpcd the robin, "Nay I like their unreflectlve way. Besides I heard enough to show Their love is proof against the snow: 'Why wait,' he said, 'Why wait for May, When love can warm a winter's day?" —Austin Dobsoni^©?

The «ost ot a well-bred pack of fox hounds is about |5,000 and the annual bill to keep them abput as much.

A Parisian has devised a method by which '*r a -hair can be spilt Into thirty-seven strips. He must be a great lawyer.

They make their own bicycles in Japan now and call them jin-ten-sha, which means, lite.vally, man-wheel-vehicle.

The great diamond mines of South Africa' have yielded in the last twenty years $375,000,000 worth of diamonds.

It is reported that the Casino at Monte Carlo recently refused admission to Ellen Ter ry on the ground that she was too 111 dressed.

There is said to be a grapevine at Oys. Portugal, which bears a sufficient amount of grapes to make an average of 150 gallons of wine a year.

A colored man in Co"torada" "Claims to have discovered the original site of the Garden oi Eden. It is probably a good place in which to grow watermelons.

The suicide of a Sing Sing convict is attributed to melancholia, brought on by want of occupation. This ought to be a pointed for phenologists who oppose convict labor.

One British writer spent $1,000 In advertising his book, and never sold a copy. Another spent $50 in calling attention to a little $1 bcok. and sold 80,000 copies within a year.

Toledo, O., boasts of doing what no other city nas done. She has completed a fine oourl house and paid for it, and kept within the limits of the appropriation for that purpose.

Queen Victoria has contributed a sum of money to the Indian famine relief fund. This is so intensely practical an age that even monarchs are convinced that acute hunger declines to be appeased on telegraphed royai sympathy.

A bed of petrified oysters has been disc-v. ered in lower California not far from Knsenada. Here is a chance for some enterpming church to secure them. Petrified oyst"i ?t would be profitable at church suppers and similar festive gatherings.

The famous policy gig, 4-11-44, came out irj a drawing in a New York policy shop the other day and, as usual, it brought joy In L/lttle Africa, or the black belt of the Weft Side. Its arrival was celebrated with Ilbations of gin and unusual feasting.

Paderewski, it is said, can play fioni memory over 500 compositions. He needs to read or play a composition new to him only twice in order to memorize it, and, frequently after reading it over, can sit down at the piano, and play it without referring to the notes.

In 1875, when the last Cuban war had been" raging for seven years, the London Times expressed the common sense view of the struggle in the following passage: "Were Cuba as near to Cornwall as It is to Florida, we should certainly look more sharply to matters of fact, than to the niceties of international law."

William D. McHugh. the new judge of the federal court for the district of Nebraska, was a cobbler only a few years ago. He was born in Galena, 111..* thirty-seven years ago, and long worked at his trade, and subsequently at school teaching, to earn money to pay the expenses of his legal studies.

They had an ainseed hunt on Long Island the other day and the hounds followed a scent made by trailing a sack of that drug on the ground. Just as the chase got hot along came a live fox and away wen the hounds in full pursujt of Reynard ing the trailers of the aiuseed bag to tondign obscurity. $§?

Ecotfotiiy of flour is secured by Dr. Price's Baking Powder it spoils none.

GOSSIP ABOUT WRITERS. Richard Harding Davis is talking of a tin, to Egypt. At present he is dramatizing "boldlers of Fortune" and writing a new story, "The King's Jackal."

A sequel to "The Prisoner of Zenda" will be published serially by the Pall Mall magazine during the coming year. Anthony Hop_a is said to have dramatized "Phroso, wii.i the aid of Edward Rose.

Rudyard Kipling, though a journalist o(, almost phenomenal ability, was so moc^»\ when working on the Civil and Military Ciazette in India that he was filled with anguKi when a leading article was demanded trom him. Ho said it "was above him,'" and scarcely wrote a3 many as five editorials in as ninny vnars. After Kipling became famous and Knsrlish and American publishers were competing for his manuscript he continued to send n»lI!' of his best sketches to his old paper in Indu at the old low rate of pay.

Andrew Lang Is editing a new "Gad's Hill'' edition of ttie works of Charles Dickens. Thfl original Illustrations, by Cruikshank, Uab.ot

Brown and Seymour, are to be printed from unused duplicate plates In the possession of the publishers.

The Saturday Review had hysterics of joy over Stephen Crane's "Red Badge of courage but criticises "Maggie most unfavorably concluding its observations with the remark: "From the artists point of view the book is as badly done as one of Landseer human dogs."

The new woman, Mrs. Lynn Linton ravortte prey, is denounced only negative In that writer's last novel, "ttulcie EvertJ"The heroine has a conscience kepk scrupulously bright, yet not morbidly introspects nor afraid of splritual shadows: kuownig ltrtle of the sorrows of Hfe.audlesaof itspe nlexitles and sins not dabbling In filth on the pretense of searching for an impossible purity: not a propagandist of any half-cra^y faith whatsoever: neither the travesty young man in dress, nor his Pantiag in pursuits: neither a soul nor^ a good fellow': neither 'fast' nor 'earnest.

Nerves

Are the Telegraph System of the body, extendlns from the brain to every part of the system. Nerves are fed by the blood, and are, tli-.Mf'-fore, like It—weak and tired if t!u blood Is thin, pale, impureNerves are strong and steady, ^here is neuralgia, brain is unclouded—if blood is rich, red and pure. Nerves find a true friend in Hood's Sarsai rllla, because it makes rich, red blot* ., gives good appetite and digestion.

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Sir William Hamilton mentions a tailor. whose name he does not give, who wa3 blind from birth, and yet by sense of touch alone could distinguish the patterns of Scotch plaids, used in the kilts of the Highland cos- ,.:i. tumes matching the cloth with ail the exact- S^, ness that might be expected of having per.m,.»«*' feet vision.

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James Crichton, better remembered as "The Admirable Crichtou," could read, write and dispute in twelve different languages, lie was an expert swordsmafi, a civil and military engineer, a mathematician, a dramatist and, although only 23 years.old at the time of his death, was the master of all the science and learning of the age.

In some respects the most interesting contractor in the world is Lorin Farr, the man who has helped to build six Mormon temples— those at Kirtland, O.. Nauvtf, 111.. St. George, Utah Logan and Manti. and. greatest of all. the magnificent Salt Lake temple, which cost millions of dollars. Mr. Farr is 77 years old, a native of Vermont and a devout Mormon.

The Rev. Phoebe A. Hanford of New Haven has discovered how men wipe dishes, and incidentally that women ought not to be the sole occupants of the kitchen. She quotes bible authority for this in a verse from II Kings, xxi, 13, which reads thus: "And I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dl*h{ wiping it and turning it upside down."

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