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DEATH TOE INSURED.

INSURANCE PLOTTERS MURDER MANY FOR GOLD.

A. number of Prominent Mississippi Men Aro Accused of the Awfal Crime The Chief Conspirator Now Offer* to Betray

His Former Accomplices.

Details of a gigantic insurance conspir'-" ecy in Kemper county, Miss., were recently. told 'by W. D. .Robinson, a newspaper 'pjftblishej qf:. Meridian, Miss., wbo for several days yast bad been in New York oity in consultation with prominent Insurance men. »&!: The accused are: Dr. W. H. Lipscomb, practitioner, of Scooha, under sentence of death for murder by poison Guy Jack, merchant, indicted for -murder by grand injury and out on hail A. A. Hammack, merchant H. Rosenbaum, merchant J. 3*vH. Duke, business man, of Scooba, and

Kramer, business man, of Soooba. Robinson's estimate of the operations of the crowd is: Policies in which the mem-s^-ibers appeared as beneficiaries, 100 numIffiber who died by disease, 30 number who died by poison, 12 number whose lives ,(ivore attempted, 15 policies now canceled, ?f»«^60 amount olearod and divided by the plotters, $76,000 still to be paid and divided, $15,600.

Guy Jack, a ringleader in the murder plot, now seeks to save his own neck by turning state's evidence.

In a letter to Charles W. Camp, secretary of the Mutual Reserve Fund association of New York, Jack offers to divulge pll the secrets of the plot.

Those alleged to be implicated in the '•work are among the wealthiest and until recently the most respected residents of Scooba, Miss.

One of the gang is now under sentence of death for murder. Had there not been an interposition of an appeal he would have been hanged in May.

Another is under indictment for murder, but is outon $10,000 bail. Stillothers are involved in the conspiracy, bxit they will only be known when the light of a searching investigation has revealed them.

Mr. Robinson has gone over the risks taken by the New York Mutual Reserve, the New York Life, the Equitable and the Mutual Benefit of New York. He has found scores of policies issued to men wbo, owing to physical disabilities, disease or extreme old age are considered very hazardous risks.

These policies have been canceled, or will be speodily. For several years the people of Scooba were puzzled by the frequent mysterious deaths that oocurred there. There were suspicions of foul play, and these sus"piclons were strengthened when it became known that the dead people carried life insuranoe polioles entirely out of keeping with their limited means, and that almost

Invariably a few citizens, prominent socially and in a business way, were the beneficiaries. These prominent citizens appeared to be growing rich out of the proceeds of the deaths of their poor neighbors.

At length a case seemed so bold that an immediate investigation was demanded, ki «nd the plot was laid bare.

C. T. Stewart, a poor truck farmer, died in June, 1896. Ho had $20,000 insurance in several New York companies whioh was assigned to Guy Jaok as beneficiary to Becnre an alleged note of $10,000. This was on the same day the polioles were issued. In December the officers of the Mutual Reserve, in which Stewart was already insured for a large amount, were surprised to receive applications for two more policies for $5,000 and $2,000 each.

It was noticed that the regular medical examiner of that seotion iiad not signed the application. Instead appeared the name of Dr. W. H. Lipscomb. *5 Soon word was received that Stewart was dead. Before this time the farmers of

Scooba had become suspicious. An autopsy was held, and it was discovered that strychnine had cansed Stewart's death. The authorities had a .bard time in gaining information, but at last Dr. Lipscomb was arrested on the charge of murder. He was subsequently sentenced to death. He appealed and is now awaiting the October term of the supreme oourt.

Guy Jack seeks to eave himself by betraying his former oomrades.—New York Journal.

NOT WHOLLY IRRELEVANT.

At Least to Her Womanly Eye, but It Made Him Wax Sarcastic. "Everything seems to be out of proportion," she was saying. "Why," he replied, "the pioture that the architeot drew looks first rate. I was going to frame it and hang it up whether we build the house or not." "That shows your idea of consistency. Of course the bouse is very well, but you jroalize, don't you, that it will have to stay exactly where we put it?" "Unless a oyclone comes along." "But you muse take the locality into consideration. What I have doubt6 about Is the propriety of putting a $15,000 house on a $4,000 lot." "Well, we've got to do the best we can. It would be just as hard to move the house afterward." "Of course. That's just like you. Nothing makes you so comfortable as to wear on overcoat that cost $75 with a suit of clothes for which you paid $15." "Have I been doing anything like that!" he inquired apprehensively. "Of course you have, and the arrangements you have been making for the stable on this property show precisely the came spirit. You know that our horse is a fine animal, and you have arranged the shelter for him as he were the commonest sort of a beast of burden. It does seem out of all reason to me to bouse an animal with a pedigree in a cheap stable of that sort." "Maybe it is a little unusnal." "Yet it is nothing more than was to be •xpeoted from a man who put a $4 frame I around a $2,000 oil painting, as you did."

He maintained a thoughtful silence for aome time, and she exclaimed: "I hope you are not pouting?" "No. I'm just holding my peace. I don't want to make any comments for: fear you will think I am sarcastic." "You needn't be afraid of hurting my I ieelings. Of what were you thinking?" "Of your new dress, for which the maferial oost $8.50 and the lining $27."— Washington Star.

CZAR'S MAN FRIDAY.

ribly embarrassed, whereupon the czar commanded him to leave it on bis desk. Uchtomskl received the appointment in question, but held it only for a few days, resigning it in order to assume the presidency of the newly organized Russo-Chi-nese bank at St. Petersburg, to which he bad been nominated by the czar, and which is intrusted with the management of the extensive financial relations between the two government*. The czar likewise authorized him to. become the editor in chief of the now important daily newspaper, the Viedomosti, which derives its importance from the conviction that it reflects the personal views of the czar, and which distinguishes itself for its championship of Russia's interests in the orient.

The prince holds the appointment of chamberlain and master of ceremonies to the czar, so that he is able to obtain access to bis imperial friend and patron at all times.—Exchange. •v_

WEST POINT.

The Radital Defect In Uncle Sam's GwjV Military Academy. The military academy was founded not so muob for the purpose of furnishing officers to fill the vacancies in the regular army as to create a kind of reserve of officers which the government would be able to draw upon in case of war. Congress has not carried out this intention of the founders for a variety of reasons. Economy was one, but as the military aoademy costs little more per annum than a full regiment of cavalry this reason is not sufficient. Another reason (B the jealousy of West Pointers as a favored class, who in time of war are selected for high command over the heads of men lacking military education or experience^ But these reasons are supplemented by another and a stronger one, and that is that West Pointers, as a class, have not favored such an increase in ths number of cadets graduated as would make it difficult to provide all graduates with commissions as officers. In this respect they may be said to have lost sight of the paramount needs of the country in their anxiety for the interests of their associates.

The cadet at West Point has a great prize in view—a commission. It is a stimulus to a tremendous effort. The instructors at West Point have been fearful that this stimulus onoe removed the standard of education there would be lowered. The officers of the

army

have not combated

this view. While they prize above all things the training received at West Point, while as professional soldiers they 6ee more clearly than any other class the danger the country runs in having so few educated officers, they so strongly sympathize with the desire of the.undergradunte to obtain a commission that they havenotseen their way to recommending a policy that would possibly exclude some graduates from the army. And thus it-ipippens that the military academy, failing, as it dots, to furnish a body of officers of respectable size for the emergency of war, or even an output sufficient for the ariny, seems to be conducted not for the glory of the republic, but of West Point.—Captain James Parker, U. S. A., in Harper's Magazine.

SALADS AS A DAILY DIET.

Most Wholesome Food and Should Be Baton Every Day. "The beauty and wholeBomeness of the salad should commend it to every American housekeeper," writes Mrs. S. T. Rorer in her cooking lesson on "The Making of Salads" in The Ladies' Home Journal. "I do not refer to those highly seasoned combinations of hard boiled eggs and mustard, but to dainty dinner or luncheon salads, made with a dressing of olive oil, a few drops of lemon juice and a light seasoning of salt, garlio and pepper. "The salts neoessary for the well being of our blood are bountifully given in these green vegetables. Then, too, it is a pleasant way of taking fatty food. All machinery must be well oiled to prevent friction, and the wonderful human engine is not an exception to the rule. Look carefully to it that you take sufficient fatty food. "The Americans do

not

use enough oil

to keep them in perfect health. While butter is served in some families three times a day, and is better than no fat, its composition is rather against it as compared to a sweet vegetuble oil. Fats well digested are the salvation of consumptives or those suffering from any form of tuberculosis. For these reasons a simple salnd composed of any green vegetable and a Frenoh dressing should be seen on every well regulated table 865 times a year. Those who live out of town can obtain from the fields sorrel, long dooks, dandelions and lamb's quarters for the oost of ploking. Where desserts are not used, and I wish, for health's sake, they might be abolished, a salad with a bit of oheese and bread or wafer or cracker, with a small cup of coffee, mo/ dose the meal. Where a dessert is used the salad, oheese and wafer are served just before it, to prick up the appetite that it may enjoy more fully the sweet. At a large dinner' the salad is usually served with the game course."

ABOUT DIAMOND DRUNKARDS.

People Who Become Infatuated With the Scintillating White Stones. "D* you know that there are thousands of men and women in this country who are viotims of the diamond habit? They are known in professional circles as 'diamond inebriates.' "You will find them bargaining in the shops of the fashionable jeweler. Outside, others, with pinched faces and cheap clothes, crowd about the show windows and feast their eyes on the diamonds displayed behind the glass. Let one of these drunkards get possession of a valuable stone and he will sacrifice almost all of his earthly possessions before he will part with it. "I've known aotors, athletes and gamblers to positively suffer for the lack of food when big diamond studs adorned their shirt fronts. Thn men are as bad, if not worse, than the women in this respect. I knew a broken down actor of the old school. In his «lay lie acquired tho diamond habit and invested the bulk of his earnings in diamonds and emeralds. When the dark days came, he was foroed to part with his expensive collection. A year ago all that was left to him was one choice solitaire, worth at the lowest estimate close on to $2,000. "I have seen times in the last six months when that, man has lived on one cheap mesl a day, but the beautiful stud still adorns his weather stained bosom. Every day he saunters up Broadway, stopping tot 30 minutosor more before the windows of the diamond shops that line the way. His only amusement is ,to make a mental inventory of .the stones,displayed and his own. If the result proves satisfactory, a gleam of triumph kipdles in the eye, and he moves on with a springy step and a light heart. IS on the other hand, his diamond fails to compare favorably with its rivals, he hoaves a sigh and shambles off with the air of a thoroughly broken man."—Jewelers' Review.

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Prince tchton»kl Is tlie Friend and Confldant of Nicholas. Prince Uchtom'ski is perhaps the most' intimate friend and associate that Nicholas bas among his subjects. He«ocompanied tho ciar on l)is memorable trip to China and Japan and was able thoroughly to ingratiate himself with the yi5th who was "destined so short a time after to become his sovereign. Uchtomski was at the time an official of the ministry of the interior, but was not liked either by his immediate chiefs or by the.minister himself, M. Dournovo, and consequently had seen many of' bis juniors promoted over his head. No sooner bad Nicholas succeeded to the throne than the minister, anxious to curry flavor with the new czar, submitted to him memorandum proposing Prince Uchtoraski for promotion and for the appointfeient *9 chief of a new department. The ^ciu read the memoir, and then, with a sar•'castic smile, remarked, "Oh, you are suddenly appreciating Uobtom6ki's merits." jPQaxnoYo. beoina perplexed and ter-'

ITS NAME IS NAMELESS.

How a Georgia Town Came to Get Its Oueer Title. •T. R. Sliepard, a prominent cifcinsii of Nameless, Laurens county, Gn., was in the city yesterday, and while here told how his town got its queer name. "After the postoffice .authorities at Washington decided to give us a postoffice," said Mr. Shepard, "the question of naming it arose. I bad Intel «•ted-myself in getting the office, and, therefore, it was by common consent left to*me to suggest, a nam & to th».eutbarltiee. A«qp"iia^ I# ml _9» A mmJbst I

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 30.1897.

beauty, and while awaiting a reply I pl°* tared how some day that same, name would be known all over the country and that the town would grow and blossom as a rose, for I beliove that there is ranch in a name. Finally the answer came back that, while the name I had suggested was a good one, it was too similar to another postoffice in Georgia. "Then I put my brain to work

on

anoth­

er name. I just knew they would accept it, but the game answer came back as before. Still another*and another name was sent, and each time the authorities would write back that there was either another postoffice in the state by that name or that it was so much like some other name that if it was adopted there would be confusion in the mails. At last I sat down and wrote out a list of several hundred names and told them if they could not find one in the list to suit them the office wouldremain nameless, for I had--suggested ev-. ery name I bad ever heard of. In due time the answer came back. 'Let it remain Nameless,' and ever since then it has had that name, which, while a little odd, is not such a bad name after all."— Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.

Education In Tor key. 'a.

In civilized countries the influence of a boy's mother and sisters upon him is, as a general rule, of incalculable value. It is purifying and ennobling. In Turkey, just at the age when a lad needs most guidance and moral strengthening, the women of bis family consider it good sport to put the very temptations in his way against yrhich he should be guarded and fortified, and laugh with amusement and delight when»he succumbs to them. They must not be blamed too heavily. They have no education themselves, no ideals. From early childhood they are taught that they oount for nothing in social existence. But the result is that at the outset of life Turkish manhood is sapped at the base and its moral strength destroyed. Again, drunkenness and unnatural vices, especially the former, are practiced among the higher classes to an extent of whioh I believe few foreigners have any idea, even after they have lived for years in the country. To know this you must en^er intimately Turkish life, and that is exceedingly difficult for a foreigner to do.

Poetry, often exceedingly beautiful in expression, but of the most degrading ideals, completes the moral ruin, by not only admitting, but actually extolling, the vises to whioh I have alluded above, poetry which is placed in the hands of quite young boyhood. It is on literature of this sort that the yoxithful Turkish mind is reared, it being considered the only kind safe by the powers that be. In fact, every 6ort of healthy mental food is absolutely denied to tho Turk—history, philosophy, science, romance—everything is dangerous, for it might incline minds required to be kept in complete submission and unquestioning obedience to inquiry and discussion.—Fortnightly Review.

The Wife In Russia.

"This is a curious custom yon Americans huva of referring to your wives by their husbands' names," observed Glanvock Kaplon, an intelligent Russian traveler. "I suppose the American holds his wife in as high esteem as the Russian holds his, but if at home I should speak of my better half as Mrs. Kaplon my friends would at once conclude that my domestio relations were not as pleasant as they should be, and that I was thinking of a legal separation. When I first heard an American speak of his wife as Mrs. Jones, for example, I felt almost like presuming on my acquaintance by intruding into his private affairs and asking him what the trouble was at home. Yet I soon learned that the custom was universal over, here, but still I cannot get used to it. 'My wife' is the plain, blunt way I spe&k in Russia of the lady who, I suppose, Iwouid have to call Mrs. Kaplon in polite»society in Amerioa. In some of the more fashionable circles of St. Petersburg this American social custom has been adopted, though I was told by a prominent government official not long ago that the czar disapproved, uf it."—St. Louis Republic.

Well Up In Slang.

The late Professor Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen is said to have had a remarkable knowledge of slang. Although henever wrote in dialect, it was not from want of familiarity with it. He was well up in the bobo talk of trampdom, ho knew something of the gypsy patter, and from the pigeon English of Chinatown to the thieves' slang of the dock rats, there was not a slang spoken in New York of which he had not a basic knowledge. When he was professor in Cornell university, two juniors out driving one day over: took him walking along a country road, near Ithaca, in company with a most tattered and disreputable tramp. As the col-, legians drove slowly by they overheard part of the conversation. To their great surprise, they discovered that the professor and the tramp were indulging in a hot and heavy slanging match, and, from what they oould hear, the tramp was comlag out second best.

Peter's Record Broken.

A good fishing story—not quite In the asual acceptation of the term—used to be told of himself by Sir Algernon Borthwick —to wit: Seven days' fishing with his sou, Mr. Oliver Borthwick, at Sir Algernon's Aberdeenshire plaoe, Invercauld House, resulted in the big kill of 55 salmon. Tho information was sent to The Morning Post, and an enterprising subeditor, in acknowledgment of the receipt of tho news, telegraphed to Sir Algernon that it was intended to give tho item tho heading: "Miraculous Draft of Fishes! Peter's Record Broken I"—Westminster Gazette.

PERSONAL POINTS

Professor Clement L. Smith of Harvard is fo be the next director of the American School of Classical Students in Rome.

Congressman George S. White of North Carolina, tho only negro member of the house of representatives, is not a full blooded African. Ho is said to have both Irish and Indian blood in his ancestry.

Herr von Bulow, the chosen successor of Prince Holienlohe, the German chancellor, is the son of the German statesman of the same name who was foreign secretary under Prince Bismarck from 1873 till his death in 1879.

A. R. Spofford, the librarian of congress, who bas been relegated to second place, was a war correspondent during the war of the rebellion. At one of the Bull Run battles he had for colleagues Murat Halstead, Villard, Boynton and Whitelaw Reid. He was appointed librarian by President Lincoln, and for 35 years held the office.

& D. Smith, a manufacturer of Menesha, Wis., has given to the town a tract of land worth $25J)00 for a publio park and $25,000 for a public library. ,,

Miss Bertha Stonenaan, a student In the botanical departmenbof Cornell university for several years, who reeefved the degree of doctor of pbifciaapby there in 1896, has been appointed prefeesor of* botany in the Huguenot college in Cape Colony, South Africa. iSS ip!

The Russian committee oharged with the eretnios of a monument to Ivan Tnrgeniefftat Orel has made a pwblic appeal for fmKte. The csar bas opened the subscription, and the project ie osier the patroaage of the Grand Dote Constantia proHeot at the Im-

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FROM JAWS OF DEATH

A STORY OF ENDURANCE AND SUF-

BERING

ALMOST INCREDIBLE.

Miners Freed James Stevens After He Had Been Almost Two Weeks In Shaft. During Almost the Kntire Period He

Was Without Food and Water.

James Stevens, long imprisoned in the Mammoth gold mine, Phenix, A. T., is again free.

Thirteen days and 10 hours had he been without food and 11 days without water, constituting a record for endurance probably never equaled elsewhjere. Nevertheless he is alive, and, if his physician may be believed, stands an excellent chance for complete recovery, though convalescence will probably be slow.

His body is extremely emaciated, with every bone outlined under the wrinkled skin, and from a stockily built man of 160 pounds he has been shrunk by hunger to not more than 90 pounds.

The

rescue

was made the other morning.

All night long the miners had heard Stevens below signaling with his hammer on the drift timbers, and at last they could hear his voice as he implored them to make haste. "I am burning, up with thirst," hereiterated.

The'Second morning shift, composed of Miners Danielson and McGran, had just taken up its work when a stoutly delivered blow drove a pick through the talc side of the drift. "Work here!" shouted Stevens, aiding the miners from inside, and within five minutef) he had grasped their hands and was lifted

into

the shaft and the good news

shouted to the expectant throng gathered at the pit mouth. Dr. Hart and Superintendent Hall were quickly lowered with stimulants and water. The rescued man was taken back into the drift and there nourished, to bo made comfortable till tho physician shall deem him fit to be taken .to the surface.

Lying backtm a mattress at the bottom of the narrow drift, in what he declared was wonderful comfort, Stevens at intervals pieced together his story of his awful experience. "I and another man on a lower drift were the only men working on the night shift the Fourth of July," he said. "Tho rest were oelebrating. I heard the timbers oreaking back of me in the old slope, but that was nothing unusual. After I had eaten my luncheon, however, about 10 o'clook, the noise Increased enough to scare me. I grabbed my empty lunch box and my canteen and started for the Whim shaft. I hesitated a moment. That moment saved my life, for down came the rock, filling up tho slope, knooking the shaft into smithereens and sending a regular wave of sand toward me. The stuff seemed to half fill this 80 foot drift. "I appreciated that I was in for a long stay, if not forever, and all I had to make it on was a gallon of water and two short oandles and mighty little air. "As soon as the dust settled I commenced working toward the slope to hit an old air shaft that comes up from the lower level. I couldn't reach it, though I cleared away 35 feet of the drift to the Whim shaft. There I found fresher air, and there I staid most of the time after that. My candles and matches gave out just as I found the fresher air, and my water gave out a few hours afterward."

S!"Well, I got rather weak after tho water gave out, and all I could do was to listen to the men working overhead and answer their signals. I believe I heard every blow tbey struck. I heard them when they tried to reach me through the slope. I knew they couldn't mako it that way, and then I heard them commence on the hanging wall in the solid rock. I knew they would reach me that way, but I couldn't tell whether I could hold on till tbey did. They seemed fearfully slow on the last few feet. "I don't think I could have held outanother day. I worried during the last two diiya, and if I had done as I liked I would have killed myself. But I have the family. Tho pain in my stomach was frightful. I didn't seem to mind the lack of food so much."

Stevens appeared to have retained possession of his senses and was passive in the doctor's hanos. His pulse when the drift was entered was 112 and his temperature 104. In an hour the one had fallen to 84 and the oth-r to normal, and the man, murmuring something about a drink of ice water and a wish for a "smashing good dinner," had composed himself to sleep.

The cave in occurred in the southern workings of the famous Mammoth mine, one of the riohest in the went, the property of Hall & Sullivan of Denver. The slope that caved in had been known to be dangerous, and a large force had been at work filling it with waste. The slope—70 feet long and 200 feet deep—lay between the main south shaft and what is known as the Whim shaft. The larger 6haft was unhurt, but it was impossible to drill through the loose rooks and timbers to Stovens on the 125 foot level. An attempt was made to sink a shaft through the debris, but it was abandoned after a depth of 41 feet had been reached and 60 hours wasted. Then the shaft was started on the ledge matter on solid ground and the work prosecuted to completion.—Chicago Times-Herald.

^SURGERY WITHOUT PAIN.

Important Operations Done While the Patient Is Fully Conscious. A rpcent meeting of the Philadelphia County Mcdical society was rendored particularly interesting on account of the presentation of a paper by Dr. T. Parvin on tho new method of abolishing the pain of surgioal operations without the necessity of employing ether or chloroform. This is the system suggested and practiced by the well known Gorman surgeon Schlelch, who, by its use, ha6 been able to perform practically all of tho minor and many of tho major operations of surgery without the slightest pain to tho patient and without depriving him in any other way of his consciousness.

By the method of Schleich thoro are propared three solutions of common salt, in which aro dissolved ifferent quantities of muriate of oooaine and morphia. The part to be operated upon is thoroughly cleansed with an antiseptic solution and tho surface brought to a low temperature by a spray of chloride of ethyl. Into this area of tho skin, which, by tho action of the spray, has been deprived of all sensation, the 6alt solution containing the cocaino and morphine is injected by means of a special hypodermic syringe, numerous punctures being made in all directions. This vendors the deeper structures insensible to tho surgeon's knife, and for a period of from 20 minutes to half an hour the patient is not conscious, so far as actual pain is concerned, of extensive outting and sewing.

The new method differs in an important degree from the ordinary employment of hypodermic injections of cooaine. The strength of the drug which has been used in ths past is about one part in each 25 parts of tha solution, while ia the Schleich method there is often employed a strength uf only Ho 10,000. In the former, bowever, only a few drops of the solution are employed, While in the latter the tissues surrounding tbfry&xt to-be operated upon are thoroughly'inffifcratetf with the eolation. With tho small quantity of the cooaine employed by Dr. Schleich, it is apparent that something more than cocaino is responsible for tea local anaesthesia so perfectly obtained. Ia the opinion of Drs. Keen, AshhuwsUand Morton, who discussed the xuer£» of the new system, the infiltration of tbo tissues with the solution and the distension and consequent* pressure

a large measure for the absence of pain when the incision by the knife is made. To indicate the manner of employing the method of Schleich, and to show the entire absence of pain, one of the surgeons had the solution inserted benoath the skin of the arm and an incision an inch long made and sewed up before the society.

In tho discussion it was generally conceded, both from the results achieved by tho German surgeon and the experiments made ia a number of cases in this city, that a decided advance had been made in the field of anaesthetics, and that for a large number of operations the infiltration method would entirely supersede the general anaesthesia by ether and chloroform. —Philadelphia Record.

READY WADE CtOAKS.'

from the One Pattern Kind to the Present Assorted Sixes. It was only about 25 years ago when the manufacture of women's ready to wear oloaks was in its infancy and the trade was just beginning to be looked upon as a staple industry. The business at that»tlme was carried on in a very crude and comparatively ineffectual monner. All garments were out over one pattern, there being then no such thing as different sizes. The graceful lines which ara to be found in the creations of the present time were not known. The slender and the stout woman alike were obliged to adopt the same Bize cloak and be satisfied with the fit or alter it.

The first cloaks made in assorted sizes were the productions of a firm consisting of two enterprising brothers of the name of Walter E. and Seth Corwin. The sizes Introduced by this firm were distinguished by the names of "large," "medium" and "small" and were about what are known now as 43, 88 and 34 measurements. This departure from the method of cloak manufacturing then in vogue not only created a sensation among manufacturers, but aroused condemnation as a foolish innovation. They argued that they already had trouble enough in making the one si£e only.

This disposition to throw cold water on the new method did not for a singlo moment affect the determination of the Corwin brothers. They went right along manufacturing assorted sizes, and in a very short time it became evident that they had unmistakably won public favor. The firm's business grew rapidly, and their orders soon became so large that they far exceeded their output.

The enterprising cloak buyer found it necessary to his Interest to call upon the firm daily and sit in the shipping room, which was also the showroom, and wr't there for the garments to come down for shipment. They would literally fight for apart of the day's production, each trying to secure the lion's share. Naturally tne Corwin brothers made money rapidly, and it was not long before other manufacturers fell into line and adopted the new method of assorted sizes.—Dry Goods Economist. iFf*

A VENEZUELAN JAGUAR.

It Attacks a Hunter, and Both Are Shot to Death. In The Century is an article by William Willard HowarJ on "Hunting the Jaguar In Venezuela." The author sayS:

There is no recognized way of bxmting tigers with guns. Sometimes the hunters go outon horseback, particularly in- the cattle districts of the Orinoco llanos and the valley of the Amazon, witli dogs and Indian servants to drive up the game. Oftcner the hunter lies in wait f^r^the tiger to approach a tethered oalf.

When several hunters with guns go out together, there is serious peril, as an incident I have in mind will show. A Venezuelan man of affairs whom I know well went to visit a friend on a coffee plantation, and incidentally to try a new rifle. The host called in two neighbors and arranged a hunt. When the hunting party left in the morning, the host's two young sons remained at home with three servants. Late in the afternoon when the party returned neither boys nor servants were to be seen. As the hunters roamed about the plantation looking for the boys they heard a crying in the top of a slender tree. The boys were in the tree white with terror. "What is the matter?" called the father. "Why are you in the tree?" "The tiger! The tiger!" shrieked tho boys. "A big female tiger is at the bottom of the tree!" The tiger had been unable to climb so slender a tree.

The father pushed his way quickly through the bushes to shoot the tiger before it should escape. His friends followed slowly. In a few moments a shot was heard, and then a wild scream. Tho hunters rushed forward. Their friend and a big tiger were rolling on the ground together. They fired 12 times, as rapidly as they could work their magazine rifles, and then tiger and man lay still.

Four bullets had entered the tiger and eight had pierced the body of the man.

From Shirt Sleeves to Shirt Sleeves. In America it is the custom—very nearly the universal custom—for parents to spend upon the luxuries and pleasures of the family life the whole income. The children are educated according to this standard of expenditure and aro accustomed to all its privileges. No thought is taken of tho time when they must set up households for themselves—almost invariably upon a very different scale from the one to which they have been used. To the American parent this seems only a natural downfall. They remark cheerfully that they themselves began in a small way, and it will do the young people no harm to acquire a similar experience, forgetting that in roost oases their children have been educated to a mwh higher standard of ease than that of their own early life. They do not consider it obligatory to leave anything to their children at death. They have used all they could accumulate during their own lifetime—let their childron do the same. The results of the system are crystallized in the American saying, "There are but three generations from shirt sleeves to shirtsleeves." The man who acquires wealth spends what he makes. His children, brought up in luxury, struggle unsuccessfully against conditions to which they are unused, and the grandchildren begin in their shirt sleeves to toil for the wealth dissipated by the two preceding generations.—Elizabeth Bisland

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Luminous Centipeds.

Lizard, snake and natural electric light plant all rolled into one. This is the luminous centiped, one of the most interesting creatures in nature. It is about lJi inches long and covered with short hairs. Its body is very narrow »ad appears to be in sections., In consequence of this peculiar formation the creature appears to move sidewise except when frightened. Then the natural electric light plant featore appears, and, with an almost instantaneofis wavelike motion, beginning at the tail, the color of the reptile changes from orange to a greenish phosphorescent •bade. Then, sparkling with a tiny streak of green light, the creature darts away to place of refuge. When one of the pair is in search of its mate, the color grows a bright yellow, but at will the centiped can resume its darker ooltir, and then, if lying close to the grain of a piece of wood, is hardly notioeable.—Chicago Record.

Not a Mending Outfit.

"This man slashed my clothing into shreds," said the complaining witness excitedly. "I have nothing to do with that," said the new judge. "If ho had slashed you, it would have been different, but I want it distinctly nnderstood that this is no repair shop."—Detroit Free Preas.

AMONG THE MISSING."

The Many Disappearances That Are Never Satisfactorily Explained. "He walked out of bis house at the usual hour Red has never been heard of siooe."

This announcement, with variations, appears in the daily papers wKh absolutely astounding frequenoy. The missing person is searched for, advertised for, inquired about, queried over and finally goes into a past along with other sad memories and sorrows. What becomes of the missing people Is a question that the world long ago gave up answering. Sometimes they drift away from uncongenial homes sometimes they wander away with minds disordered and footsteps leading them they know not whither sometimes they are:, waylaid and sent to their long home by silent and speedy conveyance, and again they are held as hostage for their own or the sins of others.

Not many years ago a man of position, intelligence, wealth and high culture wal missing. No one oould account for bis absence. He left a happy home, his financial affairs were all right, his relations ia life in every way, so far as could be discovered, were precisely what tbey should be, and the most minute research failed to bring out any reason why tho man should disappear.

Time passed, and on one fatal day it came to light that a rather disreputable relative bad been for some years carrying #', on a course of conduct that was almost certain to land behind the bars. His sudden death by a most frightful accident brought to light the fearful state of things. In a secret compartment of his desk wag found a watch, jewelry and other articles which his venerable and wealthy relative: was known to have had in his possesslonon the day when last he was seen by hia family. Tho appalling secret was never known—only thus far. That the vicious young man by some means put an end to ,. his benefactor's life was a foregone conelusion, but wben, why or bow will never be known until the day when the judgment books are opened.

It would lie a marvelous tale oould the story of all of these disappearances be told. If it were alone those of evil life who: met such a

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some consolation in the contemplation of such facts, but it is frequently the inno--cent, the unwary and the kindly disposed^ who are the victims of such a fata—

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Thinks the Turk Is Behind the Times cause He Drinks Water. The sultan understands French, but of course the official language of the palace isln. Turkish. Many strange stories are heard^ of his conferences with the foreign embas-|J sadors. On one occasion the Dutch min-i-* ister was just going on board ship to make^ssal a visit home when a messenger came, do--5*-" siring his presence at the palace. Tbei.c fy' Dutch embassador explained his case and^- ^J^ said that he would prefer to bo excused" unless an immediate audience were given, so that he might still catch his boat. This was arranged. "I have noticed, began the sultan,i-s'sp when the formalities of the greeting were -X fvM over, "that in the other countries of En-' ijrope there is progress. Things improve. Here in Turkey we are the same, year after' ,.v. year. What is the reason?"

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have been resolved, in a sudden fit of pes-^isspsff simism, to seek real help from tho envoyljy^Safe-t of a small and noncombative nation. Atrf any rate, the Dutchman hedged. i--.-v.-j!. "Truly, your majesty," said he, "I have not given to tho subject such close attention as your majesty must have done. Indeed, I was not aware that the case was as stated, but I cannot doubt the accuracy of your information and would greatly like.,, to know what you yourself consider the tfp reason for the difference." "I fancy," said the sultan, "that it iSiiaMjs^ because my people drink too much water. In wostern Europe men drink wine." "Your majesty is doubtless right," agreed the man from sohnappsland. Here the interview terminated, and he made a 'in dignified, ministerial bee line for his boat.-.. As a matter of fact, drunkenness is rapidly increasing among the Turks.—Philadelphia Press.

Uncle Sam's First Postage Stamps. "In July, 1847, Uncle Sam issued bl& first postage Ptamps," writes Fannie Mack" Lothrop in The Ladies' Home Journal. "In England, seven years before, Rowland Hill, 'father of the penny post,' introduced the 'sticking plasters,' as the stamps were contemptuously called. John M. Niles, our postmaster general at that time, tried heroically, but in vain, to move oongress to authorize stamps for this country. His successor. Cave Johnson, was more fortunate, and the bill desired was approved on March 3, 1847, the stamps not being issued, however, till August, Plough the time appointed was July 1. Only two values of tho new stamps were Introduced in 1847—• a 5 and a 10 oent stamp, bearing, respectively, the portrait of Franklin in a bronze tint and Washington in black. "The first purchaser of stamps in the United States was Henry Shaw, the father of Henry Wheeler Shaw (befrter known as Josh Billings, the humorist). Mr. Shaw was in the postmaster general's office on Aug. 6, 1847. when Mr. Johnson entered with the printer from whom be bad just received sheets of the new stamps. Mr. Johnson passed a sheet to Mr. Shaw for. inspection. After giving the stamps a hasty glance Mr. Shaw, perhaps with an eye to future fame, took out his wallet, counted out 15 cents and purchased one of each variety. The '6' he kept as a curiosity, the '10' he presented to Governor Briggs as an appropriate gift."

Treatment of Tuberculosis. In the Black forest in Germany Is ft sanatorium devoted to the treatment of tuberculosis patients. Reports from this place say that feeding and fresh air with carefully regulated exercise are the means upon which much of the cure depends. The patients declare that the eating is simply stuffing until they are as lazy as oner can imagine. There are raw meats, fat, honey and some fruit, with quantities of milk and butter. Meat is given three times a day, and between meals if the patients will take it. In faot, the general" idea seems to be to build up and brace up and fatten up as much as possible. The rooms are comfortably heated, but the' windows are open, so that there is a constant supply of fresh air. The patients plod:, about in the sun and in all sorts of weather and seem to flourish with the treat- }, ment. Any amount of pork is included in the diet, and eggs, custards and sweets also• F,: are provided in abundance. The patients gain and write home to their friends that a they are wonderfully Improved. Tbey, however, agree that the same treatment would be impossible aft home, as the pa-.: tients would not prepare for themselves the": diet that the doctors prescribe for them and Insist upon their taking. While ad-, mittlng that there is much in this disease that has never bees satisfactorily explained, the physicians are confident that by building up the system tho patient is ablo to successfully resist the encroachment of disease and finally to throw off disease,. germs or became practically immune.— New York Ledger.

fet Ther# is a Class of People. Who are injured by the use of coffee. Re*. cently there has been placed in all the gre- ^-J eery stores anew preparation called GRAIN O, made of pure grains that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it with out distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over ooe-qtiarter as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15c and 25c a pack* age. Try it. Ask 'w GRAIN»0.

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