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In Mexico at present free silver dollars are almost as cheap as blackberries.

There is beginning to Be a touch of real sadness in the heart of the calamity howler.

The assassination of Premier Canovas of Spain reveals afresh the hideousness of anarchy.

It is said to be very hard to fall out of love and yet lots of people succeed in doing it.

AH the evidence is to the effect that some scoundrel has gone and demonetized silver again.

McEnery got home he is happier

than ever that he voted straight-out for protec Uon.r

'.If Tesla'and Marconi get real mad at each other we shall doubtless have wireless tel-, egraphy to burn.

The railroads are prospering just now and no amount of argument can convince them that they are not.

John Bull is not so passionate a lover of peace treaties that he would weep to see us at war with Japan.

Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews, ex-president of Brown University, is understood to like the martyr business first-rate.

Dr. Cleveland says Ohio is going overwhelmingly Republican this fall. The doctor never said a wiser thing in his life.

When dollars are coming his way as they are at present it is absurd to ask the farmer to consent to a reduction in iheir value.

The Hon. William Jennings Bryan would profit immensely by making a careful study of the retiring habits of David Bennett Hill.

Senator Gorman does not believe in esaying politics without the aid or consent of forces that are liable to crystallize into a stone wall.

The Pennsylvania Democrats would be much happier just now if they were not confronted by the necesity of doing something with Bryanism.

Secretary Sherman and Jubilee Ambassador Reid appear to be on perfectly good terms in spite of the tumult in certain New. York editorial rooms.

Senator Gorman talks about retiring but if h& really intended to do so he probably would not have insisted upon that meaningless Maryland platform.

Ex-Queen Lil's royalty boom, so energetically pushed by her secretary, is in a state of sad and complete collapse. It looks a god deal like an airship after using.

Certain adventures have started for Klondyke on their bicycles. If any accident should happen to the wheels they are riding they will have no trouble whatever in extracting others from their heads.

The Hon. Champ Clark of Missouri expresses himself as convinced that the country could not spare him to Klondyke. It would be interesting to know what Congressman Cannon thinks on this subject.

Alaska, California, Colorado, Peru, Siberia and China are all discovering new deposits of gold. And as the basis of the world's money thus increases the basis of the principal free silver argument correspondingly decreases.

Colonel Henry Watterson has dropped on to the fact that the Maryland Democratic platform was "a straddle for Gorman only." It is not necessary to say that the colonel regards the Maryland performanft# aauseatingly whey-faced.

DEATH OF CANOVAS.

It must be universally regretted that Premier Canovas of Spain met his death at the hands of a feverish fool. He was a manor great accomplishments in many lines andt was a,n ardent lover of his country. It is notable that patriotio considerations were foretfiost in his mind, for the moment he saw that life was no longer to be enjoyed by him* his .cry was, "Long live Spain!" It appears that these were his only words although his wife was at hand and bent over him a few seconds after the assassin had performed his deadly and hideous act.

Nothing could be more deplorable than that a man so strong end gifted as Canovas should be cut off at a moment fraught with so many dangers to his country. He is not beloved in the United States by any means. His course in Cuba as viewed by Americans, and indeed as viewed by civilized peoples generally, has been one of unexampled ferocity and wholly beyond justification by any of the standards of humane warfare. But he was a loyal Spaniard. His overshadowing ambition was to preserve he integrity of the Spanish empire. He looked at Cirba and her effort to free herself from the standpoint of a devoted son of the Castillian monarchy and he was Conscious of but one duty—to suppress, the*rebeis and hold the fair island for the good,of Spain.

It is impossible to say what this most infamous murder will mean to the cause of Cuba. It may be of benefit to it and it may affect it not at ell. The matter depends entirely upon the character of the man who shall succeed the dead premier. It Is certain that no one can be found who will support Captain General W«yter with greater Re termination and ability than Canovas has always displayed, and $ possible that a chief of state may be sell|ted who will queslion Welter's methods Md insist" upon a change of plan in dealingwitb the insur- ,, gents. H-4s. not Ukel&.fcwoyq!!, tf** Canovae' Jea t^will result in footing more

favorably, or rather with less hostility, upon the Idea of surrendering to General Gomez. If there is any alteration at all, it will doubtless be in method alone and sot in purpose, .,.:,,

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Mrs. Allyn Adams' "National Flower" was given at Winona Saturday. The cantata was presented under the direction of Professor Miles with the assistance of Miss Jennie Scott, of Greenfield. Children from seven states took part.

These are the days of cholera morbus and colds. The hot days and cool nights are held responsible for the failure to digest the fruit in one instance and to chill the blood of the uncovered sleeper in the other.

A Chicago judge has held the bicycle license fee imposed by the city council to be invalid. The Record, commenting on the decision, says: "The court held that the ordinance imposes not a license but a tax, and that as many wheel owners already pay a tax on bicycles as personal property the proposed exaction of another payment would be in the nature of double taxation. "Judge Tuley further maintains that the city's right to impose a license is merely a right to license certain occupations such as those in which draymen, carters, expressmen and others are engaged. It has been held by other courts that wagons not used for hire, for instance, are exempt from payment of license. Judge Tuley is incited to believe that only bicycles and vehicles 'used for traffic' could be required to pay license. The city contended that the power to impose a license for the use of its streets was involved in the same power which gives it the right to regulate the use of the streets. The court answers that the power of regulation does not carry the right to impose a license for the use of( what is free to the people of the entire state. Regulation implies restriction of usages or practices injurious to individuals or to the community. Bicycling is not, an amusement of this nature, nor would it be contended that the restriction of ball playing, say, or kite-flying in the public streets should be 'regulated' by the imposition of a license. "The decision will be received with general satisfaction by the public and with distinct gratification by the wheelmen. That part of the ordinance regarding the carrying of lights at night is sustained, as it should be. But the rest of the measure has beeft, knocked out by what appears to be a very strong common-sense interpretation of law. The city announces that it will appeal the case, so that by securing a reversal of judgment the law may be put into effect either late this fall or early next spring. A better course, probably, would be to drop the ordinance altogether. Admitting the very doubtful point that a higher ,court might sustain it, the unpopularity of the measure, the cost of carrying on the case and the virtual impossibility of enforcing the ordinance, save at great cost, make it inadvisable to continue the contention further."

The wheelman has the right of way today and tomorrow. The wheelwoman has it at all times.

There is a rival for Hicks. Here is specimen: "The first ten days of August will be under the combined influence of Mercury, Venus and Vulcan, and there'll be a hof time, a hot time in the old town when the god with wings on his feet looks upon Mrs. Vulcan's cestus. Ice will fry Drown and salt will sour in the barrel. On the 8th a terrific storm will visit this locality unless it submits to arbitration before it gets here. Look out for it and put down the west windows. "The month of August this year will resemble the month of August in 1817. Same general features, same eyes, same hair. Our readers will remember that in August that year there were several hot days and the wind in the west a right smart. It will be that way this August.. Every once in a while the barometer will rise and then it will fall. Don't be alarmed. That's what a barometer is for. The moon will be full on the 12th, at apogee on the 19th, and on the 20th she will be coming down the last quarter at an easy gallop with no distance flag up. On the 27th the moon will protend to be new, but it's the same old mon. The farmer will wean his colts and begin to fatten his pumpkins for the fair about this time, while his wife will proudly inform her neighbors that she has 237 quarts of fruit put up. "The corn is ripening in the sun, the farmer plows for wheat, the housewife makes the table groan with everything good to eat. There's succotash and biscuits light and airy as a dream, with roastin' ears and pickled beets and peaches sliced with cream. There's apple sauce and cucumbers and onions for the breath, which somestimes cause internal strife and make .us long for death! There's cabbage boiled, tomatoes sliced, and mashed potatoes too, there's apple pie and lima beams and honey fresh and new. But these that have been mentioned are but some among the least. Fried chicken occupies the throne at every August feast."

WHAT DEFEATED MR. HITT\

A Reminiscence of the Senatorial Contest in Illinois.

A few hours before the adjournment of the house of representatives on Saturday evening Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, who had been rallied by his colleague, Mr. Cannon, because he wanted to obtain unanimous consent for the passage of a senate joint resolution to authorize the publication of a compilation of treaties, indulged in somo reminiscences of the senatorial contest of Springfield last winter, which ended in the election of Mason, says a Washington letter in the New York Tribune. Mr. Hitt was one of the more prominent candidates, and at one stage of the contest his friends were so confident he would win that they insisted on offering their congratulations on his splendid victory. But Hitt did not win after all, and one of the reasons was that while he Was strong and prominent he was not a sufficiently promising candidate. Among his callers at the most critical stage of the fight was a hard-headed granger member of the legislature who was said to have a keen eye for the main chance. He was not a personal acquaintance of the candidate, but he bustled in in a free-and-eesy fashion and remarked, as he took a seat: "Waal, Hitt, so you're a candidate for the senate?" "Yfs, a number of my friends are kindly doing, what they can in my behalf, and feel very confident of success," and then Mr. Hitt branched off into a general conversation about the weather, the immense material progress, of Illinois in the last twenty years, and so on. His caller began to grow nervous and impatient, for time was fleeting and he had not yet landed his vote, and he was in no mood to discusa Ae weather or anything else except the senatorship. After fidgeting for several minutes he broke in with: "I suppose you know this senatorship ain't goia' a-beggln' and that the vote is goin' to be mighty close." -r.y"Ah, yes, I've heard that You remember we've had several very close senatorial elections in the state, where one or two votes turned the scale in favor of the man who won," And then Mr. Hitt went on to recall the history of those close elections,

until the thrifty rural legislator became desperate and bounced out of the room with scant ceremony Once outside he muttered to a brother legislator: 'That teller Hitt will never be elected senator. He hain'Sfcot no business is him."

A CHECK FOR $10,434,404.62.

Vhe Largest Ever Drawn and Paid in This Country.

New York, August 9.—The largest check ever drawn and paid in America passed through the New York clearing house last week. It was for the enormous sum of $10,434,404.62, and was drawn by Vermilye & Co., the bankers, at 16 Nassau street, in favor of Anson G. McCook, the city chamberlain, in payment for city bonds.

It passed into the hands of the city chamberlain on the date of its face, and was by him deposited with the Importers' and Traders' National bank, which is the custodian of the city money. Mr. McCook's indorsement read: "Pay to the order of Importers' and Traders' National bank or order," and was signed by him as city chamberlain.

The money was distributed among fortyone local banks and trust companies, the Importers' and Traders' getting the larges/ share, $1,500,000.1 "C A

•3 Had Her Mother Arrested.

The Review of Reviews for August contains "The Real Condition of Cuba To-day," by Stephen Bonsai "The Chancellor of the French Republic—Gabriel Hanotaux," by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, besides the usual comments of the editor on current news.

The Chap Book is not sustaining its reputation for brightness and originality. The August number is nearly, not quite, dull. Of course it has been publishing "What Maieie Knew," by Henry James, but it can hardly be possible that this little magazine can be taking itself ser.ously. That would be too good a joke.

The August issue of Table Talk, besides its usual useful departments, contains a number of articles on camp life. These include "Cooking in Camp,' by Cornelia C. Bedford and a sketch, "Memory of Camp Life on the Plains," by Mrs. Grlnnell. It also contains the. story of "Strange Plants and Fruits for Jbood, by Edith Ramsey.

Outing for August opens with a paper on "Golfers in Action," by Price Collier, a well known authority on the game. The article is illustrated with numerous photographs of famous golfers. Captain Kenealy describes the new yachts and the freak-boat of the season, and ther&T is a finelv illustrated article on "Polo irtPlay," by A. H. Godfrey. The cycling department is large, lit contains "Coasting the Mediterranean Awheel," "Cycle Clubs and Their Sphere of Action," "The Cycle and Photography."

The International Studio for August includes illustrated articles on "Constantin Meunier, The Artist of the Flemish Collieries," "Some Glasgow Designers and Their Work," "George Chester: The Lust of the Old Landscape School," "The Home Arts and Industries Associations and the Royal Albert Hall, 1897," "Studio Talk." from Park, London, Venice, Brussels, Vienna and other cities. The New Gallery number of thl? publication has a reproduction of "The Vampire," by Phillip Burne-Jones, the picture which drew out Kipling's poem of the same name.

The Hon. James H. Eckles writes for the North American Review for August on "The Menace of Legislation," discuss-, ing the injury inflicted on the interests of the country at larg« by the tendency of law-makers to subject the undertakings of private citizens to legislative inquiry, and their management to statutory control. Edmund Gosse writes on "Ten Years of English Literature Prof. Abram S. Isaacs discusses the question "Has JuT dalsm a Future?" The Hon. Henry E. Ide writes on "Our Interests in Samoa:' Admiral Colomb writes on "The Progress of British Warships' Design," and there, are other long and short articles of timely interest.

The Century for this month has a portrait of John Borroughs for frontispiece. Among the table contents are "The Lordly Hudson," by Clarence Cook "A Journey in Thessaly," by Thomas Dwight Goodell "The Argonauts," by William Prescott Foster "The Alaska Trip," by John Mulr "Down to Java," by Eliza Ruhmah Scldmore "A Day in Norway," by Hjalmnr Hjorth Boyesen "Characteristics of Jenny Lind," by Henry Appy "What Jenny Lind Did for America," by Fanny Morris Smith "London at Play," by Elizabeth Bobbins Pennel "Controversies in the War Department," by Lieut. Gen. John M. Schofield "The Days of Jeanne d'Arc." by Mary Harwell Catherwood and other stories, poems and articles of interest.

Intelligence, the metaphysical magazine for August, has as frontispiece a portrait of Albert Ross Parsons, who has an article, "A] Nineteenth Century Musical Mystic—The Secret of Wagner's G?nius," in the number. Other contents are "An Astrological Prediction of President. McKinley's Administration," by Julius •Rrickson: "Life and Health in Metaphysics." by J. L. Hasbroucke: "Mental Illumination," by Paul Avenal "FJements of Character Reading,'" ry A. L. Stone "Thought Work." by Barnetta Brown, and other articles. In hi»' "Astrological Prediction on President McKinley," Julius Erickson predicts the death of Queen Victoria in November, the downfall cf Spain and the re-election of Major McKinley. This Is read from the stars.

Prof. W.

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Ripley has the lead In the

Popular Science Monthly for this month, with a study of the race types of France, •in his "Racial Geography of Europe," "The Despotism of Democracy." is a forcible. pregnant review by Franklin Smith on ocrtain tendencies which the author discovers among us, and which he thinks are destroying our individuality and persona.! independence. "The Tortoise-Shell Wild Cat," a new species. Is described and illustrated by William H. Ballou. from a single specimen collection of the late Professor! Cope. "A Lilliputian Monster." by Robert Blight, is a description of the fresh-water hydra. Other articles are "Number Systems," by Prof. Edwin S. Rawley: "Stones in the Head," by Dr.

A. M. Alfred Binet. The Forum for August Is an excellent number. Senator Hoar writes on "Statesmanship in England and in the United States," He is of the ooinion ihafjhe American state«snirn a arrestdisadvantage by reason of the shortness of their term of office. 8enator Stephen M. White writes on "The Proposed Annexation of Hawaii." He quotes Washington, Secretary "Frrlinghuysen and Secretary Sherman as deprecaRinr the acquisition of foreign territory. The whole tenor of the article is an argument against annexation. "A Ptea for the Army." bv Gen. O. O. Howard. Is a plea for the army's increase. He thinks that prestige Is passing from the fpiy. and that eit'.iens in nrivate life encourage desertions from the service. He thinks the army should he increased at- least onp soldier tn every thousand of population. "The Political Asnect of the plasnie in Bombay." is. an article by Prof. Washbnrn Honk'ns. of Yale, who wsts in Tndla during 'he winter

of ReMgious Tolerance 'n the States" bv the Rev. T)r. TA^man Abbott Kmerson'* "The Air.er'can Scholar* R'x-y Y»»irs After." bv Charles T.

Government *f Berlin." hv Frank W. *ll»ek!Tiar- "The Farm Connie* of tHe solvation bv F. De B^oth TMCVT ah*. "The of the Red Man." by Simon FoHagon.

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST iq 1897.

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Bertha Weese, a girl of 16, was cruelly whipped by her mother the other day. One of the neighbors, Arminda Jones, was so indignant over the ill treatment of the young girl that she had the mother arrested, and the mother was fined yesterday in Squire Brown's court for the offense. The evidence showed the father had also used the poor girl roughly. The cause of all the persecution was the fact that Bertha would not relinquish her sweetheart, who was highly objectionable to the parents. If. '-"V

'MAGAZINE NOTICES.

What to Eat for August contains many seasonatile recipes for summer drinks and dishes. "The Workers: an Experiment in Reality," is begun in the current number of Scribner's. It is contributed by Walter A. Wyckoff.

McClure's Magazine for September will reproduce a life-cast of the face of Henry Clay, made by John H. I. Browere in 1824, when Clay was 48 years old. It has never been published before.

Gun ton's Magazine of Practical Economy has articles on "The Money Question Next," "A Practical Remedy for Strikes, "Discrediting Richard Cobden," "A Jub.lee Retlrospectv besides editorial comment and short articles.

The New England Magazine for August contains "Old Quaker Days in Rhode Island," by Elizabeth Buffum Chase The Present Mood of England," by ^William Everett Cram "The Green Grasshopper, by Arthur Willis Colton, besides other articles and stories.

FIVE FULLS IN POKER

BEHAKKABLE UAHB OS AN OCEAN STEAM Kit WITH AX AFFIDAVIT.

Five Men Try a New Deck and Get Sequence of "Folia" From Sixes and AON to Tens and Fives.

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York, August 7.—A poker story, soberly authenticated and, as all concerned admit, needing so to be, came into port yesterday morning on the Hamburg-American steamship Columbia. It is attested not only by the signatures of the five players themselves, but nearly a quarter of the men of the first cabin passenger list, the hands, etc., and they are willing to stake their reputations on the facts in the case. And, finally, Captain Vogelsang, thought the incident of such importance that, he had a limited edition of the declarations of the players struck off on the ship's printing press, in order that copies of it might be put among the archives of the company.

It was Monday afternoon the big hands werje dealt. As he gathered up the cards Mr. Muller said: "These cards are getting pretty gummy here, steward, bring us a new pack."

The steward brought a new pack, still sealed, and handed them to Mr. Stepp.. He broke the seal and then shuffled the cards seven or eight times. Then he haaded them to Mr. Muller to cut.

Between him and Mr. Muller sat J. A. Filcher, secretary of the California state board of trade and publisher of the Placer Herald, of Auburn, Cal. He was able to seo all that was going on. Mr. Muller cut the cards and Mr. Stepp dealt them out. It was a quarter limit and the pot, which was a jack, was small. The eagerness of each player to top each raise, however, drew a big crowd around the table and the pot ran up to $20.

Finally Mr. Stepp, of San Francisco, said: "This is only a friendly game, and we don't want to get too much money in the pot, so I'll call."

Seligman looked sorrowful and laid down three sixes and two aces, and put out his hand toward the pot. "Hold on," said Wilde, and he threw down .three sevens and two deuces. There was a gurgle from Meyer. He slammed his eight full ton the table, exclaiming: "If this don't beat the devil, I don't know what will. I've won two steapier pools and I've got this pot. Look at that hand." ''What have you got, Muller?" asked Mr. Stepp, the dealer, "I've got nines full on fours," Muller replied, putting down his cards. "And I," said Mr. Stepp, "have got tens full on fives."

There was an expressive silence in the Saloon. All eyes were turned on Stepp, who was very pale and agitated. Finally he "spoke. "Gentlemen," he said, "I won't take the pot. I protest that the deal was square. You saw me break a new pack of cards and shuffle them above board. You 8aw Mr. Muller cut them and me deal tfiem. But such a lot of hands I've never seen in my life. I've never heard of anything like it. If I didn't see it with my own eyes I should call the man a liar who told me that such a thing had happened on a square deal. Therefore, in justice to me, we should have a new deal."

A storm of protest greeted this. Ndne of the players would listen to any such proposition. "It's worth $500 to any poker player," said Mr. Muller, "to be able to say that he, sat in such a game." ^Finally every man in the smoking room \jtas called up to see the hands as they lay on the table, and Mr. Filcher said: "I want you all to give me a statement in writing, signed by each one of you, because if I go back to California and tell this story without such a statement, I will be called 300 kinds of a liar, and may be run out of the state. And I want to say Tight here," he added, "that I was sitting at Mr. Stepp's elbow when he shuffled ar.d dealt the cards, and it was absolutely on the square."

The statement given above was then made. Each of the players and Mr. Filcher got a written copy and the copies printed by order of Captain Vogelsang were distributed among the men passengers. Following is the affidavit made by the passengers: "We, the undersigned pasengers on board the Columbia, while engaged in a game of draw poker, saw a new deck of cards passed to the dealer by the steward. The stamp was intact, and, after being shuffled, cut and dealt, the following remarkable fact occurred: The first man opened the pot, the second, the third, the fourth and the fifth raising in turn. Cards were drawn, one each by the first, second and third men, the fourth and fifth stending pat. On call the completed hands were as follows: First man, six full on aces second man, seven full on deuces third man, eight full on trays fourth man, nine full on fours fifth man, teji full on fives. Respectfully submitted to ihe unbelieving public as a truthful poker story."

The signatures appended are: J. De Witt Wilde, New York C. Seligman, Los Angeles, Cal. Alex J. Meyer, Richmond, Va. Louis Muller, New York Charles Stepp. San Francisco (dealer). The words "I was a witness to the game and certify'to the truth of the above" are attached by J. A. Filcher, publisher of the Placer Herald, Auburn, CaK

IN THE COURTS OF EUROPE.

Behind the Scenes With the Nobility of the Old World. 'The recent publication by Mr. Compton Reade of his novel, "Broken Threads," which is exciting so much attention in England, and the announcement of the impending appearance of his history of the Reade family, serve to call attention to the peculiar fortunes of this old Oxfordshire family which has so many affiliations in the United States, says the Marquise de Fontenoy in the Chicago Record. The present baronet and head of the house, the eighth bearer of the title since the creation of the baronetcy by King James I, is married to an American lady and has his country seat in the United States instead of in England.

This due to the fact that the sixth baronet, Sir John Chandos Reade, after losing his only son, his wife and two out of three of his daughters, toward the close of his life fell so completely and entirely under the thralldom of one of his menials, who had been first his page and then his footman, and finally his vfclet and butler, that when he died it, was found that, disinheriting his surviving daughter,, as well as his grandnephew, the next in line of succession to the baronetcy, he had left every stick of property, the ancient country seat of the family, the estates, the heirlooms, and, above all, the incomparable family portraits by Kneller and Romney, tp this butler, likewise authorizing him by will to assume the family name.

This servant, whose former, name was Joseph Wakefield, showed his gratitude to his benefactor or victim—one does not know which term to use—4?y putting up all the family portraits for public auction. Threa

... of the best fortunately were purchased by

oTiw-97." Others rtlcles are "The Growth the late Aemrican, General Meredith Reade. the descendant of that Sir James Reade who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth and whose 'son settled in America. General Meredith "Tho Evolution of rhe Edu^aHona' Tdeal," „„,A_h-r«»d was ITnitetf bv Dr Frederic* PanTse": "The Muricin-1 Reade, it may be remembered, was-unite*

States minister for 6ereral years at Athees.

Of course an attempt was made both by the grandnephew of thfc sixth baronet and

by the old gentleman's daughters as well, to upset this extraordinary wlil on the score of undue influence and terrorism. But the English courts declined to grant the plaintiffs a hearing unless they could give security for costs to the extent of |25,000, vhich in the case of disinherited heirs is virtually equivalent to a bar to legal proceedings.

So Butler Joe was left in undisturbed possession of that grand old country seat knowd as Shipton Court, and became ipso facto lord of the manor of Shipton and patron of two livings of the Church of England—that is to say, responsible for the appointment of the rectors of two important and densely populated parishes. He died last year and has been succeeded by his son, who hears the name of Joseph Reade.

The present baronet, Sir George Reade, is married to the daughter of Isaac Ray,, of Michigan, and makes his home at Howell, Livingston county, Mich. It may be taken for granted that his *ife has mora beauty than fortune, since if she had been possessed of the usual number of dollars that American wives bring to their titled foreign husbands he assuredly would have put up the money necessary to upset the preposterous and outrageous will of the si2:h baronet, and thus would recover possession of bis ancestral estates and possessions, which had '.been in the possession of the family since the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

Let me add in conclusion that Charles Reade, the novelist, was a member of thla family, and that the mother of the present baronet, like bis wife, was an American.

Princess Louise, marchioness of Lome, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria, after having achieved distinction with chisel and with brush—her paintings aa well as her sculptures showing that she is possessed of artistic talent far above that of the ordinary amateur—has now branched out as an architect, the picturesque hcstelry in course of construction at Roseneath, in Argyllshire, on the Clyde, being built according to her designs. The princess, who is staying close by, at the country seat wLich has been placM at the disposal of her husband and.herself by her father-in-law, the Duke of Argyll,' do^B not permit a day to pass without sup-jrvu-ing the builders, as if a professional 3.rch|tect, exercising the Utmost watchir.li^^ with regard to the execution of ber So close is the interest which she is taking in the work that she has promised- the bo*iface'that she herself will paint the dc-vics? on the sign that is to hang in old-time fashion above the doorway of the entrance to the building.

The interior decoration of the e6,.a£,'tehmcnt has been intrusted to the Chelsea firm of house decorators with which the Mar-quis-of Lome* is associated in the rapacity of junior partner.

The hotel keeper, who has been sufficiently enterprising to seicct his sovereign's daughter as his architMt and the qufen's son-in-law as his house decorator, is likely to derive consi'lera'ble pecuniary benefit from bis novel venture. Already he has obtained an immefise amount of adertislng, while as soon I as his establishment is completed and open, to the public it is certain to secure extensive patronage, not only from the numerous friends and acquaintances of the princes^ and her marquis, but also from those excellent people whose supreme felicity consists in contact, no matter how remote or indirect, with royalty.

In recording the decision recently rendered by the tribunal of judges recruited from the supreme courts of the German empire and presided over by the venerable king of Saxony, in connection with the Llppe-Detmold regency and succession controversy, no one seems to have recalled the peculiar fact that as recently as 1S63 Prince Bismarck obtained from a commission composed of eighteen o£ the chief judges and legal authorities in Prussia .an opinion or decree 1o the effect that the duke of Augustenborg, father of the German empress, had forfeltea all his rights to the soveignty of the duchies of Schleswig-Hol6tein on account of mesalliances of his immediate ancestors.

It may be remembered that the duchies of Schleswig-SHolstein in reality belonged to the kingdom of Denmark that Prussia made war upon the latter under the pretext of obtaining them for the duke of Augustentoorg, whose rights thereto Bismarck declared to be superior to those of the King of Denmark. Once the duchies had been wrested from Denmark, however, Bismarck secured the legal decision above mentioned, and, on the ground that the claims of the duke to the duchies were invalidated by his being descended from a morganatic ancestry, Prussia kept the duchies herself.

The judgment of the tribunal of the king of Saxony, which in the eyes of Germany has superior weight and importance to that of the commission of 1863, now declares that morganatic marriage and mesalliance constitute no bar to succession to sovereign rights. This is sufficient to set aside the decision of 1863, and if the present duke of Augustenborg, brother of the German empress, chooses to take advantage thereof he can put forward an incontestable claim to Ihe soveignty of the duchies and for their restitution by Prussia. His ffegal rights certainly are immeasurably superior to those of the Count Krnst of Lipps, which have been recognized judicially in the Lippe-Det-mold case.

Mothers, Save the Babies.

Summer complaint, dysentery .ami diarrhoea carry many babies to -the grave. Mtfthers, take warning ami use in time Dr. John W. Bull's Baby Syrup to regulate the bowels and allayinflammation. "We have used Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup for thirteen years with the best result. We would as soon be without flour or sugar in the house as this remedy. A. N. Burgess, Grove, Ohio." Ask your dealer for Dr. John W. Bull's Baby Syrup. Price 25 cts.

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Two Caxes of Wife Renting. George Evelo, an employe of the car works, was arrested yesterday for assault and battery upon Johanna Evelo. hi3 wife. Ha will be tried today. Mrs. Evelo swore out the warrant. The taie she told was a pitiful one. According to it, her husband drove her out of tho house, and when she returned, locked the doors to the room and beat her terribly, afterward throwing her out in the street. It is probable a divorce case will foliow. "Bunk" Lee. a husky laborer at the north rolling mill, also tried to see how near he could come to killing his better half without being arrested for murder. Bunk had taken oh a skinful of potations, and when he met his wife was like a bear with a sore head. Words were responded to with blows, ^nd his wife complained to the police. She bas a badly battered countenance, and he a chance of a few days at the rock pile.

VnU*d Ont His Stiletto.

Constable Wolf came near winging his man yesterday, and losing his official badge. For some time he has been &o occasion of much anxiety to his friends, as bis acts have led them to fear for his sanity. For months he hss been in very poor health, and this is thought to have much to do with his erratic actions. Yesterday, as Wolf was standing at the corner of Third and Main, Will Slusser incurred his anger by a remark be made, and the constable made a |*8s at his head with a heavy cane he uses. Missing his aim, be pulled an ugly knife and rushed at Slusjysr. Henry Ebrenhardt separated the two and quieted Wolf. il"

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THE NEW FtAfHOUSE

CONTRACTOR ritflMlinAW IT WI1A BE DOME BYiiOVIMtBEJB f.

Over Halt at tb» Bvtefc and Carpenter Work Is Already Completed and Oslj Six Week* Are Gone. ,,

Of late there has teta more or less talV on the 6treets to the effect that the new theater would cot ta, catspleted by the 4iai# named in the ccnt»4l—fcupteaoVr I*.. Thi* gos&ip etaried from tic fact thai the walla of tiis rising structure appeared to go up very slowly and the days to go by very rapidly.

Mr. August Fromue, the general contractor, declares that ail this talk is idle. "Von can state very flatly," said Mr. Fromme to a reporter for '.'.lie Express, "that the house vli! be dene by the iitee specified in the contract. Of course there might bo a long period of r»ia that would interfere seriously with our work, but i! we encounter ordinary circumstances we shall finish the joto oa time. Why," continued the contractor, "1 have been at work only six weeks—having loet eighteen days by delays—and I have more than half of the job finished. Hall of the brick work was completed a week eg® and half of the carpenter work :$ now done. The Srst floor of the auditorium is off our hands so far as the rough work is concerned. So is the family circle and the gallery will very shor ly bo in shape. We are getting along very nicely and with favorable whether I think we shall vacate the buiiding three or four days before th? expiration of the contract limit. The theater will certainly be ready for the, public by November

There is a large fores of men at Work now, and they seem t? be pushing things along rapidly. The walla are up to the third story and the hoisting machine®! are sending alcf li.td after load of brick. These lioists operate swiftly. A wbeelbarrowful of brick i? placed upor. theoi. the engineer above pulls a lever and the btrrow and its ton tents shoot upward with the speed of a Chicago elevator. Tfc? stop is sudden but gentle, and Jr. I»*3 Ut&«- than it requires to tell it tf:3 heir: te at tfce bottom and ready to take up another load. The hodcarricrs are kept very ?.««? getting brick enough to the hoist to furnish it with something :o do.

All about the new theater there are heaps of brick and piles of lumbtT. Workmen are dodging in and out. saws are tearing their way through bocrds, engines are puffing, hammers are clattering and all In all the place is a ecene of great activity. The auditorium is taking on the regulation form and one with a little imagination can standf at the entrance and fashion the uncompleted parts in his mind, BO that he has a theater finished, filled with people and resounding with the strains of an orchestra. If this person who is thus using his imaginatioof has been accustomed to the old Naylor playhouse, he may have some difficulty in thinking out the vertical rows of boxes ou either hand, and whether he succeeds or not be should know that they are there.

All the loungers are still sticking fo the federal building steps and watching the progress being made on the opposite side of the street. They do not venture over, for they know that the contractor does not en« courage the art vulgarly known as rubbering. They gaze abstractedly at such hospitable signs as "Keep out! This means you!" and hold their places OR the postoffios, stones.

DAMMING ARIZONA GORGES..'*

Plaii to Gather the Waters of Countrv' Where Rain fs Seldom Seen.

President Ripley of the Atchison, Topekk & Santa Fe railroad has let a contract for the construction of two big dams of masonry in the Arizona desert, a region wjjich is visited by rains but once a year, says the San Francisco Chronicle. These dams will be at the mouths of two canyons or gorges, twelve or eighteen miles distant from the railroad one of them the gorge in which the cliff dwellers of a prehisone age lived. One of the cuuyons is about 600 feei wide at it3 mouth and the other about 300, but the walls of the latter are more precipitous—the decline from the mountain is not #o *harp, and consequently it will hold nearly if not quite as much water. Each of these dams will hold 50,000,000 gallons of water—enough for the company's use along the Arizona division for eighteen months, Including iossts by evaporation and seepage. The dams will be forty feet high, constructed of sandstone quarried near by and laid in Portland cement. The outer face of the mssonry will be in the form of the letter S. thus conforming to the natural fail of the water from such a height and avoiding the wear and tear cf sudden precipitation.

Between the two dams of masonry, which will be a long distance sport, will be constructed a smaller dam of iron. The co*t of this dam will fcn iruoh less in proportion than the stono reservoirs, out it will not last nearly so long, md is to be put In as a comparative experiment. The stone reservoirs will cost about $290,000. The Interest on this aura is about 33 1-3 par cent, of the present cost of handling the vvctcr to the tanks which they will supply. The wuter will bo piped from the reservoirs to thf tanks on the line of the road. The enterprise ha* led to another experiment which may result in a discovery of even greater value. In the valleys and on the mountain sides where tho dams arc to be constructed are deposits of volcanic cinders, similar in color and apparently in ingredients to the lava cinders from Mount Vesuvius, from which was manufactured the cement in which was laid th^ masonry of the Colkeum, aqueducts and5 viaducts of Home, which have withstood the ravages of time for more than 2,000 year*.

Twenty-barrels of the Arizona cinder#:have been sfcnt to Denmark, where the best Portland cement in the world is made. This lo8 will be tried In the manufacture bf dement, and if it should prove valuable works will be established in Arizona. Chemists of the company will also experiment with ten barrels of the cinders at Topeka. A heavy portion of the expense, on account of long transportation by sea and rain, of the construction of the stone reservoirs in Arizona will ha the Portland cement, which goes from Belgium by sea to Galveston and thence by rail to the place of use. If equally good cement can be manufactured on the ground the expense of construction will be cheapened 50 per cent, or more.

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