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HMe to Stoptp It Out In. It Should Be Brought Hers. :::.. ji&"$ New York, Jan. 21.—The country may

.rest aaured that the bubonic, or, as it is better known* the AMatic plague^ will not secure a foothold in New York, even sporadically. It has less chance than has the

Asiatic cholera. It can not attack the barriers which have been erected against it by modern quarantine regulations. Neither is it poBsibla to get throVgh the severe system of inspection which the United States surgeon-general's aids have established in all ports along the Mediterranean. Should this system of surveillance fail, by reason of the negligence of the agents of the government, then we may rely upon the precautions which Dr. Doty, the health officer of this port, has taken to keep himself informed of any advance of the pestilence in any of the more exposed Europena or subsidiary Asiatic ports.

The officers of the health department.have been instructed by President Wilson to make careful investigations, microscopically and by bacteriological culture, of anything which may teach the physicians of the bureau of contagious diseases how to enable them to determine by a swift diagnosis when they •encounter a case which may be regarded in any way, even very remotely, to indicate the characteristics of the plague.

Both Dr. Biggs and Dr. Prudden, who Is regarded! as one of the most thoroughly equipped bacteriologists in the country, and who is consulting pathologist of the New York health board, are already engaged on experiments which may have a very important bearing on the suppression of the pestilence in Bombery itself.

Frightful Condition of Bombay.

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At the health department it was announced that the British Indian government is beginning to send short circulars to the quarantis officers of all the trade ports, describing the phenomena of the disease and giving as well all the discoveries which have thus Car been made applying to the best methods of isolation and treatment. The physicians here believe that Bombay is demoralized, and that practically no attempts are made for a scientific control of the plague. The natives, as Dr. Doty has been informed, are uncontrollable, and leave their dead where they 'have fallen so thiat the pestilence grows by what it feedB on, and as the custom of the East Indians is to conceal their ill countrymen from the European physicians, there has been no way of adequately isolating the sufferers, either before or after death.

The arrival of the Pirrie, with the plague at Hamburg, as alleged, does not alarm the health officers of the port, for since the cholera epidemic in that city in 1892, the conditions for fighting contagion in Hamburg have become thoroughly modern and there is do likelihood of even sporadic cases occurring in the German free port.

Dr. Doty has taken the precaution in his instructions to his agents in the eastern Mediterranean ports to insist that they at once cable him in case there is a vessel from Bombay or any other adjacent ports on which there has occurred any manifestation of the plague, even in a way which would give grounds for a remote suspicion. The plague develops very rapidly and in the great majority of instances, illness or death would occur long before the ship reached Suez. But within ten hours of a suspicious craft appearing in one of the canal ports, Dr. Doty will be informed of its arrival and will be prepared to arrange such precaution as will effectually prevent the entrance of the vessel in this port. By an exchange of Information of this sort the health officers of all the Atlantic and Pacific coast cities will be prepared to refuse entry to the craft.

Disease Spread By Rats.

Physicians here admit that they know very little concerning the bubonic plajgue except from books. That it is contagious and not infectious they are certain, and that it has a strong partiality for small animals of the rodent family they are equally positive. Rats have been found dead by the millions "in arid around Bombay.

The pestilence is bred in those, iarts of dwellings where the food is usually prepared, and so the plague is disseminated. The fact that rats are attacked with the contagion makes the inspection of vessels the more imperative. If the plague has appeared on the Pirrie it undoubtedly was brought to her 'by these pests of shipping.

According to the information secured by the British authorities in India, Dr. H. L. Hanley of Washington, who is an aid o£ the surgeon general, and has been detailed to make a special inquiry into the plague, and who was today at the Windsor, said that it always prevailed in the East immediately after a period of famine, or during its progress. The peasants are put to what would •eem to the European the greatest straits for food. Not alone is the system weakened to an extreme degree, but the digestive organs refuse to perform their functions. The sufferer becomes the natural prey to any contagion. They are killed by ptomanis poisoning secreted by themselves.

The plagues in China in 1895 and 1896 proved that the household vermin, driven by the same horrors of famine as the householder, prey upon the dead, and then disappear, to 'take the contagion to some other spot before dying. The larger insects are also a means for the spread of the pestilence, so that unless the development of the plague is watched from its first appearance, there is no possibility of checking it until it has run its course.

Isolation, which would have put an effective Stop to the spread of the contagion at the outset, can not be of avail, for the physicians are unable to define the zone within which the pestilence is confined. The only effective way to fight the pest Is to use the torch and to destroy all buildings in which there has been an illness, which even resembled the plague.

Climatic conditions have little or nothing to do with the degrees of virulence of this disease. This is already shown in India, where the highlands are beginning to be affected. But it comes only after deprivation of food or where the physique is wasted from other cause. The local physicians are suffering from the contagion and lire dying at the side of their patients, but this special mortality, physicians in this city say, is undoubtedly due to the fact that what food there is obtainable has been contaminated by the vermin which have impregnated it with the germs of the disease.

To Fight the Plagaeii »"l

The possibilities of fighting the plague, should it ever reach the gates of this port, are admirable. According to Dr. Doty's statements, the appointments of the Hoffman and Swineburne, island hospitals are admirable. The possibility of using other points along the coast, as was done in 1S92, Is much greater -than it was then. Any ship having the contagion aboard could not fail to discover indications of the malady long before it reached New York, and tho attack upon the pest ship would be so prompt that it would he almost impossible for any one to escape to the main land.

In cases of national danger from disease «the government would institute a coast pajtrol, bo that no suspicious vessels could find pqpqoswho are ill »t any umreaueaied

harbor. Should a cas^^^Oli.^ ths frhole machinery department would be acttt*, and there would be quarantining of susP**** l8CtH0» Tdty has aaver seen .•

Already the health of the bacilli of the culture, for the teri^ogiats to study them. JThua far the observations have b^n especially productive. The shape of

angularf It is said to if not more so, than the coma baefllus. degree of heat 4. 8 troy it is not thoroughly but it is believed to be about I40 degre«s, Cold has little effect save to keep it ^nnahtTV inspection of rags, therefore, Will begta to become much more rigid than it haa been la the past, and it is

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PTheesymptoms

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by the Bombay authorities, ««.Jd* tot* flowed by rapid .wellingW*tlc glands, accompanied by severe footing pains. The gland most is in the femoral chain. Tae tongue is Usually coated with a grayish white or dark brown fur These symptoms usually eeeur

severe headache. The heart ahowa

some weakness, and excessive vomiting and purging are the immediate foreninna. of end. Death may occur• «t atoost auy time, even before the fever usually ensues three or first Bvmptoms. All ages and both sexes are equally sensitive to thee treatment is much the same as for cholera.

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SHE WOULDN'T RUB HIS BACK. Fanny Family RoTTT. Be* ldence Neighborhood.

Mr. John M. Witte, who lives in a big house at the corner of Forest Park boulevard and King's highway, suffers with pain, in his bask, and last Sunday moming at 4 o'clock he tested on Mrs. Witte rubbing it for him, says the St. Louis Globe-Demo-crat. Mrs. Witte "jawed" at her husband and refused, acording to his statement, that is how the trouble began.

Monday morning Mr. Gus V. R. Mechin, who lives next door, applied for and procured a police summons for Mr. Witte, charging him with disturbing the peace. He said that about 8:30 o'clock he had seen Mrs. Witte run out In the yard with her eon, crying for help, and that he had interfered. He told her, he said, that she should apply- for a summons against her husband and when she refused he decided to take action on his own account, gj

Yesterday Mr. Witte went to the' Four Courts and asked for a warrant for Mr, Mechin, for assault with intent to kill. He said that Mr. Mechin had pointed a pistol at him on the Sunday morning in question, and that he wanted to go him one better than a police summons. He did not get the warrant, but was sent to the office of Mr. Clover for a police summons, which he failed to get also, notwithstanding his tale of woe.

Telling his story, Mr. Witte said "My back hunt, and about 4 o'clock Sunday morning I asked Mrs. Witte to rub it for me and she refused, saying she would later on. Now, what sort of treatment is that for a married man to get?" And Mr. Witte gazed earnestly at the Assistant City Attorney, to whom he was telling tie story. "I don't know," answered the official, "I'm not married.' "You'd better thank fate, young man," said Mr. Witte. "I am and I know. This is my second wife. We've been married nine years, and they've been mighty long years, too. Well, now, my wife wouldn't rub my back until 6 o'clock, and then she wouldn't rub it long, so I told her she could not have the carriage to go to church, and told the man not to hitch up the horses— that was a little later in the morning, you know. Well, she dressed and put on her hat and veil and came to kiss me good-by while I was reading the paper in the dining room, but I pushed her off. 'No,' I said, 'you wouldn't rub my' What? Going to get a divorce! I wish she would. But as I was saying. I pushed her off and told her she couldn't go to church and pulled off her hat, and then the first thing I knew in comes her boy, 16 years old, and hits me over the head." Here Mr. Witte showed a very bald head and looked for sympathy to his audi-, tors. As he is an unusually large man, he failed to get much sympathy, io he continued "Then they run out on the back porch, you know, and I threw water on her, wetting her jacket, and then up goes Mr. Mechin's window and he points pistol at me and threatens me. Oh. I gave it to him good and I want a summons for him, too."

Mr. Witte then said that his wife had gone to church because he let her, adding. "I am a fool about women, you know a woman can do anything with me, and then said almost in the same breath that 6he had not been home since and he did hot know orcare particularly where she was. Mr. Witte failed to get his summons and left disgusted with the legal end of the Four Courts. s||p

Mr. Witte. who is 46 years old and a Retired merchant, lives in an aristocratic neighborhood, and the affair has stirred up no end ftalk among his neighbors. He no end of talk among his neighbors. He considers himself an ill-used man, and that therp, was anything out of way in his throw»ng water on, his wife he does not seem to und^rsT^dj His trial will come up in .police e&urt, today.

North and South in an Amicable Encounter

There was a remarkable meeting yesterday in the speaker's room at the capital. Colonel Fred D. Grant of New York, son of the great union general, and LieutenantGeneral S. D. Lee of Mississippi, one of the Confederate leaders, met for a common purpose. Grant and Lee are here both advocating the perpetuation of the battlefield on which Grant won his greatest lauTels as a strategist and a fighting soldier. ,• Colonel Grant represented the Army of the Tennessee and General Lee represented the Confederate Veteran's association They are tthe leaders of a commission, having for its object the purchase of the country surrounding Vicksburg, to be held by the Federal governm/nt in perpetuity, so that future generations may see how the great federal general maneuvered to capture the Gibraltar of the Confederacy.

The park commission, represented by Grant and Lee, appeared before the committee on rules, consisting of Speaker Reed, and Messrs. Henderson and Dalzell, to plead that a day may be set aside for the consideration of their bill, making an appropriation for the preliminary work of surveying and marking the lines of battle. As the bill carries an appropriation Speaker Reed would not make a positive answer, saying that the matter could not be considered alone on its sentimental

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Mall From India rumutated. Xew York, Jan. 21.—The mail from India which is being distributed today in this city and which arrived on the steamship Teutonic, from Liverpool, has been thoroughly fumigated by orders, of Health Officer Doty to guard against any possibility of danger from the bubonic plague. This fumigation marks the first official recognition of the existence of the scourge.

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CtKtauti, JUL Tbe BtttmrWa cial (tm Co—unit, O., says: Xh0 ynsoftt notortatr vfcicfc attaches to tfc*aasiM*C the PrlBcess de Cliimay recalls to many «f Che citizens of Connesuit ttuft tills was the home ot her motlier, Catherite L. Lyon, and the childhoed htpae of tfee pi In teas herself. Many stories of the early eccentricities of tbe little girl are current Mere.

Clara Ward was the second child and only daughter of Cayftsia JBber Ward and Catherine Lyon of Coiuieaut. The Lyon family was one of the earliest and moat prominent ftitwHlltr of Conneaut. Robert Lyon, the father of the princess' mother, was one of Connetut's most prosperous and responsible businen men, and his three daughters—CaJtlierlne, Clara and Paulinowere the belles of the county.

A story attaches t* the first acquaintance •f Catherine Lyon and Captain Eber Ward, father and motfier of the princess. Catherine's sister Clara, while on her wedding trip to Washington, fell under the notice of the wealthy Captain Bber Ward, who, tfitiugli n& longer you eg, and poasessed an invalid wife and the fattier of eight children, became deeply smitten with the charms of the young bride. Becoming acquainted with Mr. Ward, he ascertained that the fair woman was his wife, and then gallantly asked if she had any unmarried sisters, and, learning that Mr. Ward's wife was a daughter of his old friend, Bob Lyon, of Conneaut, and that there were other girls and unmarried, he lost no time in making his appearance at the Lyon homestead in Coaneant.

Captain Ward was handicapped in his suit for Catherine Lyon by his wife and childreh, but he possessed one important essential which was a powerful adjunct in his favor,, namely—wealth. The Detroit wife secured a divorce, and he marrie'd the Conneaut belle, and of thlB marriage the princess was born.

Captain, Ward took his youig wife to Detroit, and ft was there the daughter Clara was horn. Captain Ward died soon after' this, and his widow returned to the Lyon^homestead, on Main street, in Conneaut. Here she resided with her two children gber and Clara, until her second marria£e %ith Alexander Cameron of Toronto, on November 7, 1878. ACter this they re* sided at Toronto. ^r i" •-!.A ©»|wtei«ss Child.

Clara Was at this time between 6 and 7 years Of age, and old enough to give indications of what might be expected from her future. AM who remember her at this time unite in the opinion that she was not of the normal mental soundness. She was erratic, passionate, subject to strong likes and dislikes, without good, and sufflcientreason for either. One lady, an intimate friend of the family, and at that time a great favorite of Clara, when asked if she

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child said: "Do I remember her? t-er-tainly. ~Sfce was a witch of a child impudent,

Eccentric and flighty. She dieUked most people, tut took a great fancy toothers. She was a pronounced

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eyes, black hair and was decidedly hom^y. She had a harsh, discordant voice, which was said to have been caused by a serious attaOk of tlw whooping cought.

The same lady who remembers the little homely brunette, with the harsh is In a quandary how the Princess ^could now have light hair and be 1eautifuL

Clara was about years old when Alexander Cameron began to show attentions to

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mother, and she immediately took a irreat dislike to him, saying to a lady, Do you know what Bber and I call bid Cam? and being answered in the negative, she replied: "Why, we call him an old son of a gun."

The child had a nickname for almost every one, and was very pronounced in her antipathies, aud was equally demonstrative in her kindness to those she favored.

When the Ward-Cameron marriage was finally announced and the costly jewels and elaborate trousseau of the bride had arrived, Clara could not refrain her anger at her mother, and exclaimed: 'I wish you were dead! We'd just give you a one-horse funeral, just get a cart with one horse and haul you" Into the cemetery and dump you in without any flowers or preacher or anything." -When Clara- wanted something she had a very effective way of getting it. A lady who had been employed to make some dresses for the little girl was greatly surprised one morning to find her at the door with nothing on but a shawl which she had wrapped around her, and when let Inside she explained she had come to get one of her new dresses, saying: "I must have one of those dresses, as I haven't, a thing in the World to put on." She got the dress.. But a number of escapades of this nature made the mother of Cliyra exclaim: "What shall I do with her?" and caused many of the people who knew her as a child to say that they knew her future would not be free from erratic actions.

•y.'* Taken to Fr*noe.

At the age of 13 Clara was taken To France by her mother, and was educated in a convent. That she had not outgrown her early caprices was manifested at the time she renounced the.Protestant religion, on being af&ed by the priest if she did renounce Protestantism shfe replied, "You bet I do," and that with vim.

It Is said by friends of the family_that her marriage with the Prince was brought about by her mother, and that it was re* gard|d as a sacrifice on the altar of vanity.

The present scion of the house, De Rlquet de Caraman de Chimay, from whom the Princess has run away, is the only one of his family who does not speak English, and though his wealthy American wife had released his diminutive patrimony of the many incumbrances which had attached to It through his excesses, he did not take interest enough in her to learn to speak her native tongue. Prince Caraman's mother was very much opposed to the match at first, but even she was reconciled to the dilution of tho impecunious blus blood so long, as It was to be tinged with an effusion of gold.

Persons who knew the Princess as a litthe girl do not think it remarkable that she should become so disgusted with the mockery of her position as Princess de Chimay and the pleasnreless existence which it entailed, as to drive her to the equally extreme and foolish expedient of running away with a fiddler to get rid of her Bur roundings. The only thing not clear is the apparent attachment for Rigo, but this may be explained by the fact that from infancy she was subject to just.such meaningless attachments.

Duel Over a Girl.

Cynthiana, Ky., Jan. 21.—News reached •this city today of a duel fought in the lower edge of this county by two rival lovers over Miss Jenni£ filllery, a girl still in her teens.

John Daeey, aged 20, and Benjamin S. Dryman. aged 24, had been paying attention to this girl for the past year and a luif and in several occasions had hot words over her, but notliing a serious nature occurred. Last Sunday night Dacey accompanied girl to a country church. Dryntan was oo hand and claimed it wis his —-i-r-

EXPRESS, FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY

night for *m« pleasure. They agreed to setdo *tia matter on right. Today while Daeey Was in a bufggy with Miss HUlery, Zhyaan caltte along. Bath mea 4rew their J0ctefc« IDaeigr fired two shots, both taking sCeet tH Drymaa'a body, naar the heart, he dying in-a few minutes. One shot from Dryman'sr pistol pierced Daoey'a Mala,

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living buta-few hours.

The girl to wOd with grief over tie matter, and ft ta thougfcfc shvtaay lose her mind. Alt iftxtiM are of pratalaefet fsmniee.

THE WORKMEN'S MOTEL OPENED

UtMt fthllaa«fcc*ptc Veatfer* of the 8*1vttlM Amy la JV«w fork. The Wortanea'a Hotel. the latest charitable veature of the jUratUtt Army, was formally opened by Cotamaiubr Booth-Tucker at 21 Bowery Friday nig^t, says the New York Sun. Three floors of tha building at that number have been cenvertbd into a lodging hMae, and by means of cSean beds, airy rooms, good service and low rates the army hopes to win men away from the other lodging houses on the Bowery and in Park row.

Siimlar ventures by the Salvation Army in other cities have been very sucessful. There ire now seventy-eight of. them being run by the army and all of them have been patronized to their utmost capacity since they started. The new lodging bouse at 21 Bowery will accommodate 140 persons. Tfeere are twenty tingle rooms, which are models of neatness, and 120 bunks, fitted with leather mattresses, clean sheets, soft pillows and warn blankets.. The rates are to be 15 cents for rooms and 10 cents for bUhks, which is a shade lower than the prices charged by the average lodging house keeper. Meetings will be held ijn a large meeting room In the hotel every night, and while the lodgers will not be urged.to attend them, they will be invited to dojo, a&d they may suit themselves about xhe matter. There 'will be music every night, too, the army's intention being to try in every possible Way to interest the'patrons of the house in other things than saloons and 2% cent pool rooms.

Guests were not received at the hotel that night. Had they been the place would probably have been filled, as there were many applications for beds from men who thought that it was open for business. The evening was devoted to dedication meeting, which was presided over by Commander Booth-Tucker and addreued by a number of O he

Commander Booth-Tucker outlined other charities., which the army hoped to start One 9f thepe. is a home for waifs and stray at Fordha^ and another^what he called-the salvage collection department. The city is to be laid out in districts for the latter scheme and the unemployed are to go around and collect from stores and private houses the refuse which is generally consigned to ash barrels. Such articles as rags, paper, old shoes, bottles and broken furniture will be brought in by the army, and thus hundreds of men will be able to make a living out of what is thrown away by the more prosperous. The army will sell the stuff at a profit sufficient to pay the running ex-* penses of the charity.

MGR. CAPEL.

The Brilliant Ecclesiastic Now Growing Rich On a California Banch. Interest in the whereabouts and doings of Mgr. Capel has been manifested of late, particularly in the British isles, where he was once a brilliant and conspicuous figure in high social life and church affairs, says a correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial. He is the Catesby of Disraeli's "Lothair" and he It was who converted the rich marqtils of Bute and other members of the English aristocracy t6 the Catholic faith and his name was a familiar one throughout the united kingdom.

He got under a cloud, however, In some way and was sent to the United States in a sort of exile. The clergy in this country did not take to him much and he swung a lecturing tour circle, finally taking himself to California, where he has since remained in complete isolation.

He bought a large ranch and went in for raising fine horses and blooded stock generally. A young priest who knows him well and has kept lip With him informs me that he has grown riciiv Formerly the pink of perfection In dressf."he has grown indifferent to his garb and dresses and looks like a typical ranchman. He, is a man of rare culture and most elegjjjrit accomplishments. He is of a most imposing appearance and imperial bearing. f..j

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seemingly fathomless^depths and indicate a masterful mind. His hand is as perfect as Trilby's foot and he %is 'k way of laying it affectionately across his inanly and magnificent chest that fetched™ admiration of the ladles to an alarming degree.

It was at a brilliant jmd fashionable reception at LouiBville tivfen. by the late millionaire, Dr. Standifjcd, whose wife was a Catholic, that the cpjrrespondent met the captivating Capel complacently sipping his champagne and fascinating all about him with his wit and superb physique. He wore his smart-fitting robe trimmed with the purple denoting ecclesiastical rank. Whenever he laid that lovely hand across the purple above his heart the ladies sighed. He singled out one very attractive young lady and made her three distinct and pretty speeches in the course of the evening, all of which apparently touched a tender spot. I should like to see him now In his cowboy costume.

It was said that Capel is tutor to the son of a wealthy Italian widow, who owns an adjoining ranch. He and the widow may swap horses and chickens.

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ARGENTINA ANTS^ggi

Common Ways of Destryioc Them Is By a $*£} Fnrnace. common way of destroying the ants in Argentina is by means of a small metal cylindrical furnace half filled with any dry inflammable rubbish, and in the top a pan suspended containing flowers of sulphur, says Temple Bar. When lighted a lid is screwed down over this, so that the smoke can ouly issue from a bent metal tube, which conducts it to the ant hole. A pair of bellows, worked by a handle is attached to the lower part of the furnace, thus making the fire burn and forcing the sulphurous smoke along the ant passages. The whole apparatus is' suspended on wheels and can thereby be ^conveniently moved from part to part of (he quinta. With this Instrument such vcftumes of suffocating smoke can be produced that it will often be issuing thickly from holes 200 and 300 yards distant. So you may imagine the ants have a somewhat lively tiadfe of it—or perhaps, rather a deadly one.

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In spite, however, of waging war against them they multiply so rttpidly that it is only where the gardeners fl£ht them very energetically that they'tsaif'be kept down, and, the amount of damage they do is often very appalling. When up country, on the border of the Grand Ctaco, wtere of course, these insects work their o^n sweet will, the writer once discovered1 a deserted wooden hut. Incautiouslys leaning against the structure, hews surprised to see the whole of it collapse. But on examination he found the reason to be that every portion of the woodwork had been perforated und undermined by the ants and only required a very slight touch to crumble into ruins. $he n». v^bl been the cause of abandoning the fe&t

22, 1897.

ON BOARD CLERMONT.

F1UT TOT AG O* YOCWO BOBKBT fViTONV STiAMBOAft

Investor's Bngagemeafc Announced—PreMmd» By tkt Ctsswllor Received With Inerednilty.

Helen E'rerteon Smith, In the Century, has a paper on "A Group of American Girls Early in the Century" Which gives glimpses Of Chancellor Livingstone and Robert Fulton. The chancellor invited several of his fair cousins to make a trip from New York to his iiome In Clertnont in a new boat. Miss Smith says: 'j?'

The "new boat" of tM littfr'was now Ike celebrated Clermont, the steamboat of Robert Fulton, which hi August, 1807, made the first successful steam voyage up the astonished Hudson and demonstrated to the world that a new forte had been dlscdvered by which old methods in nearly all lines were to be revolutionized. "Very Mkely, with all their loving confidence in the wisdom of the chancellor, ttoe sisters embarked with some distrust of his new boat's making good its promise to get them home in less than three days, even if both wind and tide should prove unfavorable, but they were not afraid of anything worse than delay, though most of their friends feared for them. During the nine years that 'had passed since "Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton had first secured the concession to navigate the waters in New York state for twenty years, provided they should build a beat of not less than twenty tons, that would go not less than four miles an hour-against wind and tide,'* the subject had been so often talked over in their presence that the sisters were quite intelligent upon it and laughed at the fears of their timorous friends.

The embarkation was from a dock "near the state prison" (which was In "Greenwich village) on the North river) and was witnessed by a crowd of. "not less than 600 persons." Many were friends of the passengers who bid them farewell with as much solicitude as if they were going to Madagascar, especially trembling with apprehension at the "terrible risk run by sailing in a boat full of firo."

The adventurous voyagers, who were the guests of Robert Fulton and Chancellor Livingston, were about forty in number, including but a few ladies. Among the latter being our two young sisters and their aunt, Mrs. Thomas Morris, daughter-in-law of Robert Morris, the financier of the Revolution, were at least one of the chancellor's two daughters, four of the many daughters of his brothers, John R. and Col. Henry, and a young lady who was more interested in the result of thiB memorable experiment than any one save the inventor himself. In all the biographies of Fulton, Miss Harriet Livingston is called tho chancellor's niece, but she was really his cousin. She was a beautiful, graceful and accomplished woman and had long given her heart to Robert Fulton. The fair Harriet was at the time about 22 and "deeply in love with her handsome, gifted lover as any girl oould well be." There were many distinguished and fine looking men on board the Clermont but my grandmother always described Robert Fulton as surpassing them all. "That son of a Pennsylvania farmer," she was wont to say, "was really a prince among men. He was as modest as he was great and as handsome as he was modest. His eyes were glorious with love and genius."

A little before reaching Clermont, when the success of the voyage was well assured, the betrothal was announced by the chancellor In a graceful speech, dn the course of which he prophesied that the "name of the inventor would descend to posterity as that of a benefactor to the world, and that it was not impossible that before the close of the present century vessels might even be able to make the voyage to Europe without other motive power than steam. |||J

This hardy prediction was received with but moderate approval by any, while smiles of incredulity were exchanged between those who were so placed that they could not be seen by the speechmaker or the inventor. John R. was heard to say in an aside to his couBin, John Swift Livingston, that "Bob had many a bee in his bonnet before now but that steam folly would prove the worst one yet." But the chancellor's brother lived to see the ocean regularly traversed by steam vessels, but the prophet himself and the inventor passed away before the realization of their dreams. .-

ARTISTIC FURNISHINGS.

Bints For Brides and For Wives Who Like Pretty Things. China globes, spherical in shape and in plain colors, delft, Dresden or Japanese decoration, are very much newer than the umbrella shades of silk and all the latest ones brought out are of this kind, says th9 Philadelphia Record. The downfall of the silk ones was probably because they were so expensive and soiled so quickly.

The elaborate brass trimmings used for handles of drawers are quite passe, and severe simplicity is the word now. Old-time knobs of cut glass have been revived, too.

A new Idea, producing a very handsome effect in mantle decorations, is to have it of peacock feathers. One feather after another is sewed alternately high and low upon a piece of silk, close enough together to hide the foundation, and the upper edge is finished by a lapel border of single feathers run around it.

There is a great fad at the present time for having a border of plates in the dining room and a plate-rack is a necessity of the modern dining: hall. Old blue and white ones are considered essentially desirable.

Stamped leather squares for dining chairs can be purchased for a comparatively small sum, and can be used by a home upholsterer with good effect in combination with the fancy nail used for putting them on. They will modernize an ^oid set of chairs nicely.

The lelft craze has been largely overdone, and is slowly but surely going out, so if you have not already any furnishings in this fctyle, don't purchase them now.

If your wicker chair becomes soiled have it painted in white enamel touched with gilt and well cushioned in blue and white-cre-tonne and It will be dainty enough for the queen.

The newest center pieces and doilies are round, with a hem about an inch wide turned onto the right side. The scallop is worked at the edge of this, holding it in place. A new pattern in pine needles in greens and browns has caught popular favor. J,ivVw'

MURDER TRIAL IN GEORGIA.

Prisoner Is Kan Down Ji.r tlte Victim's Wife After a Loug.Search. Cartersviile, Ga., Jan. 21.—On trial today Is a case that excite* considerable Interest, William Jones is charged with a murder committed twenty-two years ago. Jones became involved in a dispute with John Green at a colintry frolic, and, it is charged, stabbed him^to death with a knife.. Making his escape, lie Went to Chattanooga, where be has been ever since, conducting most of the time a restaurant

The wife of his victim went on an excursion to Chattanooga last July, and in huntfor a suitable plnce to get a meal sauntered into Jones' restaurant. She did not make her identity knows, but proceeded at

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Mr. H. J. Heckiin, 948 South Fourteenth street, Terre Haute, Ind., says: "I had a very serere case, of la grippe for three week®. Was unable to obtain any relief whatsoever.

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MUNYON CURED HEX.

Elizabeth Clifton, 15 Sample street, says: "I was confined to my bed for weeks with bronchitis. Had most excruciating pains, pleuritic pains and high fever. My stomach was in an awful condition. .Did not think I could get well. Different doctors did me no good. I finally called In Munyon's Physician, and the remedies have made me a well woman..

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Mr. James McKeehan, 102 Pennsylvania street, Indianapolis, says: "A member of my family suffered for thirty years with piles. Could get so relief until using Munyon's Pit* Ointment. The pain and distress was so great that it had weakened the nervous system. Less than one bottle of Munyon's Pile Ointment removed the trouble. I think it ffiofft remarkable that 25 cents worth of remedies cured a disease of thirty years' standing after we had spent so much money trying to get relief. We have used Munyon's Rheumatism Cure and Dyspepsia Cure with the same great result#.

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Mr. P. E. Gfroer, inspector of joint rate, Inspection bureau, E. T. H. R. R., Terre Haute, Ind., says: "I was troubled with Rheumatism in my knee Joints for a long time. Tried all kinds of medicine without obtaining any relief. At last, I tried MUNYON'S RHEUMATISM CURE and experienced great relief after a fewj doses.

The pnblie receive the *b«st medical attention from the most skilled doctors, either at the ofllce, Fllbeck Hotel, or at their homes without a penny to pay.

once to bring the alleged slayer of her husband to justice. Jones heard of her movements, however, and evaded the officers for several weeks. Jii^t before Christmas he was captured.

Considerable 'trouble was had in getting the alleged murderer turned over to the Barlow county officers, and at one time pending the effort to have him brought to Georgia he was turned loose. The woman, however, had him arrested on a trivial charge so as to hold him until the necessary requisition papers could be had from Nashville, and in •wig way she succeeded in handing Mm over to the Georgia officers

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Such was Commander Booth Tucker's greeting to a reporter, an'd was Intended as an apology for being found quartered in handsome apartments at the West End Hotel. The commander appears enthusiastic over a proposition which he advanced to reduce crime in this country. Said he:"u "The rem^y which I advocate is to make the criminal classes assist the paupers and then help themselves. Confinement In a prison does not help a man. Neither Is It fair that he should be allowed to compete with the labor of honest men. My scheme is this: 'Secure from the government a concession of land antf place the criminals to work upon this, building houses and fencing off small farms. After one of the places Is finished let the criminal workmen move on to the next and turn the one just finished over to a pauper family from one of the overcrowded cities. Then this family, away from the grea£. centers of life, will be able to care for itself. "I think in this manner the country would be able in a few years io almost totally abolish pauperism and materially reduce crime. The scheme is at least worth trying."

MEDICAL COLLEGE BURNS.

Patient* In the Nearby Hoepital Become Excited By the Flame*. New York, Jan. 21.—Bellevue Medical college was partially burned this evening. The damage was confined mainly to the lecture room and dissecting theater. The college stands on the southeastern corner of the hospital grounds, near Twenty-sixth and Is not more than 100 feet from the main hospital building. Had there been a high wind blowing in the direction of the hospital the situation would have been extremely serious.

There were nearly 800 sick people in the hospital wards aad it was impossible to keep them all quiet. Those who were near enough to the windows to see the glare of the flames and hear the noises in the street became greatly excited and It required the strictest disciplinary methods to keep them under control. So^ far as could be ascertained this evening no dangerous results followed the unusual excitement among the patients. The fire broke out before 5 o'clock in the morning, while patients and attendants were- all in bed. Fortunately the patients were not aroused by any sudden alarm and few of them caught a glimpse of the flames. They were quietly awakened by the hospital attendants and informed in reassuring tones of. the proxmity of fire. Watchmen and nurse® were stationed in each ward and every taken to

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"A poital card will bring one of MUHYOlTj specialists to the bedside of any aufferttx. The doctor will write yon a pneecrlptlenr for the remedies von need, which can m' obtained from any druggist, mostly fo* 25 centa a vl«L

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allay excitement among the sick persons* The*® were some lively, demonstrations of fear, however, and a disposition was shown by many of tie ccnvalescents to get out oil the building.

One of the most damaging results of tb« fire was the destruction of about $4,00( worth of instruments, which belonged to ttu faculty, and-were used by them in theii lecture# and clinical demonstrations. Thp, students, who exceed 700 in number, la no property in consequence of the fire. '..v. -. 'TWILL COST ONLY $6

To Be In It at the Coming JnaugaJ ration. Washington, Jan. 20.—It will cost $1 td. get supper at the inaugural ball in addition to $5 that must be paid by everybody except President McKinley and Vice-Presf dent Hobart and their ladies for a ticket oJ admission. The contract for furnishing th« supper has, as known, been given to a Philadelphia caterer, Carl G. Essmau, who pays the inaugural committee a percentage of his gross receipts. This, as well as the sale of bail tickets, will be devoted to the payment of the expenses of the inaugura-

A guarantee fund of $50,000 is subscribed by the citizens of Washington. This is dona in order that all bills for the preparations far inaugural day may be met promptly. Then the receipts of the ball are divided among the subscribers to the guarantee fund, as far as they will go.

Four years ago the expense of the inauguration were about $6,000. which was all covered by the receipts of the bail, and a little over was given to the chanties of this city. This year the arrangements are on a larger scale and it is intended to expend about $50,000.

A temporary kitchen will be built in tha form of a "lean to" in the rear of the pension office. Thirty eoolcs and 200 waiters will be brought from Philadelphia on inauguration day, with all the china, silverware, linen, kitchen utensils and the food prepared as far as possible in advance.

The catercr has arranged for a special train over the Pennsylvania railroad. His plans and preparations are all under the supervision of the committee on banquet o: which Mr. George B. Williams of this city, is the chairman, and their estimate requires him to furnish 10,000 assorted sandwiches, 8,000 chicken cutlets, 7,000 sweetbread patties, 300 gallons of consomme soup, 300 gallons of terrapin, 300 gallons of eniclcen salad, 200 gallons of lobster salad, 2o hams, 8,000 oysters. 200 tongues. 180 boned turkeys, 1,800 quarts of ice cream, 100 gallons of Roman punch, 250 pounds of cakes, 100 pounds of game patties and of coffee. This is supposed to be sufflcie to feed 10,000 people, which is the ma imum attendance expected.

Blr °r AHeCed Libel. Fresno, Cal.. Jan. 21.-Suit has been commenced by Charles A. Schv^er. a ^arnes maker, against the San France Cali to recover damages in the sum of $100,000 for "tZTXi1. upon Which tie«... mmJ ,u sensational story to Schweizcr had hired John Barker, smc d£ ceased, to assassinate Solomon upon whose life Schweizer held

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