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ELECTION IN OHIO:

SECSETABY SHERMAN EXPRESSES BIS VIEWS IN A LETTER.

V, V.'Lookt Upon the Campaign ia Ohl« *i 5 Vs Retrial of the Iaaues in the Election of 1896. g^V

if-*, -C Washington, Oct. 28.—For the first tltnesince the beginning of the present campaign '-in Ohio, Secretary Sherman has published *jb is views in the shapeof the following Jetier 'addressed to the editor of the Cincinnati

V„f vvolksblatt: Department of State, Washington^ Qcf^JS, 1897.

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To L. Markbrelt, Esq., Cincinnati, Olfib.**^ My Dear Sir—Your note of the j^frf list, in which you request my view o£,tbe coming election in Ohio and in Hamilttm. county Jb received. I have carefully observed^ the progress of the canvass, with^inOTea^njg Interest as it advanced and can hard!y.express in language my appreciation of its'dmporiance. My chief regret is that' I'crfuld hot personally participate in it, by: a.iusage carefully from the days of Jefferson to tbis time, the secretary of state is "Ptetludefl from actively sharing in polUlcS^difecussion other than on foreign affairs,,,/ -n"I look upon the

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as a re-trial of the Issues involved in the election of 1896. State issues, if any, do not seem to.be the subject of debate, Naturally the first issue now is whether the administrtation of William McKinley-'thus far is approved by the people" of -O^io. Lpon this question, there

ought,

not. be any dif

ference of opinion, His prompt, calling together the congress of the United States to provide requisite revenue toe the support of the government and his recommendation of the prompt repeal of the feeble and indefensible tariff law known: as' the WilsonGorman law has met with general approval. The revival of all industries and the commencement of prosperity in all parts of tlfe United States was the natural and necessary result of the action of the president and a Republican congress^.'

WHAT TARIFF LAWS HAVE DONE. "The tariff laws have been the subject of discussion from the days of Washington to the days of McKinley. From the time I entered congrefis in 1855 to this hour, I have at every election heard both In and out o£ congress of the respective merits of a revenue tariff and a protective tariff, and upon these questions the two great parties have taken of$osite sides. The Morrill tariff passed in March .1861, is the test of the policy of protection to our American industries and though greatly changed from time to time to meet ney conditions, it still forms the groundwork of the policy of the Republican party in respect to the tariff. '"This act was passed at a period of development with light taxes and increasing population. The average yearly expenses of the national government from 1840 to 1860, including the expenses of the Mexican war, were about $50,000,000. The civil war changed all this. Its cost has been stated as over six thousand million. To meet this enormous demand, the duties on imported goods were greatly Increased and internal axes in almost every form were levied on domestic products end upon the income of individuals and of corporations. The ascertained national debt at the close of the.Wai* was ?£,740,OO0,00Q, butr.this, was.grefttly.enlauged by claims afterward presented and btfpthe most liberal pensiory f\$srtMWfeZ by law. In the face of these obligations and expenditures the interest of- the debt an'd every year from 1866 to 1893 a portion of the principal-of the public' debt .was paid,, thus reducing it to $961,431,766 on th.e. flrst day of July, 1893. ''In 1890, congress passed what is known as the McKinley tariff act, which was a careful revision of all existing revenue laws.

It largely reduced internal taxes and carefully revised the tariff laws then in force. IT it had remained on the statute book to this time, the policy of protection and debt paying would have largely-reduced the public debt and prevented the severe stringency that followed its repeal. "It Is the declared purpose of the Republican party to restore and maintain the policy embodied in the McKinley tariff, and the recent tariff act-known as ,the Dingley tariff. It is unfortunate that the beneficial provisions of the latter act cannot be in full operation for a year or more owing to excessive importation* under the Wilson-Gor-man act, but I cpnflaently'belieVe-that within a*year under the present law the revenue of the government will be ample to pay not only current expenditures but a large sum yearly in reduction of the public debt. To secure this desirable result the Republican party must be sustained not only in Ohio, in he it S a

SILVER STILL AN ISSUE.

"Another question of public policy of equal Importance to tariff is what is known as the free coinage of silver without regard to its market value or-the action of the great commercial nations of the world. Silver or gold have sin$e -the "fuming of the constitution been: the standard-softs of our country, but the rel&tjfve market value of -each has changed from tir^io time. The Tclrtage ratio of the dollar is one punce of

RQl#fias the equivalent to-'SixVeeh* Ounces of .jsllipfcMdn the coinage "6f parts of dollars ^Mfctfatmbf gold to silver Is ^about fourteen siuw^As onfciver to one of goTfl, biif the legal fender of ftch minor coins JL^Jimiteji t,o fen dollars. Wi"-'~ *v-

vate. worth about 41 cents. It would seejtt that this bold £id transparent proposition^ repudiation of more thane one-half of all debts, public and private, would strike the public sentiment of honest people and secure its prompt rejection. But. strange as it may seem, it is defended by so many that we are bound to consider their reasons before we denounce it as a fraud.

PLACE SILVER OCCUPIES.* "rt is said that free coinage would brife up the price of silver bullion to the^rtffto of 16 to 1. There is not the slightest ground for this opinion. Silver has gone down in price precisely as iron, tin, copper or indeed the price of all the metals except gold.' The levelopment in the process of minerology has. kept pace with the cheapening of nearly all the productions of skill known as manufactures. Even gold may decline in relative

value as the result of the recent de\ elopment of mines in several parts of the ikrth, but from its superior value in the smallest tpace, and being less effected by eorrosiotf* than any other money metal, it is now and will continue to be the standard of value In the chief nations of the world. Silver will be largely used in *11 countries for minor coins, and if limited ih amount and redeemeS at its coinage value, or made a legal tender 'or limited sums it will be largely absorbed fei£ '5

•fOf/Biinor transactions but Its free coinage for all who demand it, would at once make It ibe sole coin in eolation, prevent the coinage of gold and place our sfti&t and powerful country in finanpial operations among the, minor and poorer nations of the world. This is the issue that will largely control the vote of Ohio next week. Aside from this important measure the people of Ohio should bear in mind tllat one of the most eminent citizens of the state Is now president of the United-States. He is especially entitled to your kind and considerate Xavor and deserved praise for the careful selection and appointment of officers of the .United States. There has been no, abrupt, haste in making changes, and while from the nature of things he could not .appoint all who applied for office, yet the changes he did make met with and deserved the ap--proval of the Republican party. It is impossible for any executive officer charged 'with* the duty of appointment to meet the wishes of all. Many must be disappointed, but they will all concede that they have had a fair hearing, for po president could have •given applicants more kindly £nd patient attention, nor could any president have felt more keenly his inability to comply with the wishes of his friends.

PLEA FOR UNITY OF ACTION. "As to the issues of the-future I can say with absolute confidence that 5n the future as in the past the mode of levying duties on imported goods and -the free coinage of silver will be the dividing lines or the two great parties. It maybe that the benefits of protection will be**eo apparent that the South, now already becoming a manufacturing community, and the Wert- fiHed with mineral resources of untold valy& may: be converted to the policy =of"ii£bteyufeg^1heir nascent industries by ftrlffimws.^afl'lt may be that the manufacturing" IttdUstfiiSs Of the East may become so ^strong as to oppose duties on raw materials, thus reversing their positions. This would be a change of position in these sections, "but the issue would remain. As for the ticket that is presented *by the Republican party there ought to be no division of opinion among Republicans. Governor Bushnell has proved to be an able and excellent official, has performed his duties to the entire satisfaction of the people, has been honest and faithful and deserves your hearty support. The election of a. legislature in Ohio is always^ important. Its action more directly affects the people of

Ohio than even the action or congress. The election of a senator of the United States is involved in the election of a legislature. "The only Republican candidate who is mentioned is Mark A. Hanna, who is now serving out the remainder of the term to which I had the honor to be elected. His wide experience as a business man, his generous, kindly treatment of his employes, his sound judgment on all public questions of the day ought to secure for him the hearty support of every Republican member of the legislature. I will on Tuesday next, providence permitting, go to Mansfield and contribute my vote not only for his election, but for the election of the entire Republican ticket. Very Respectfully yours, "John Sherman."

SECRETARY BLISS' DISCLAIMER. __ Republican'"National Committee Made No

Ante-Election Bargains. Special to the Globe Democrat. ", Washington, Oct. 27.—So much has been

said in connection with the sale of the Union

As 'treasurer of the national committee I know whereof I speak and'defy anybody to say otherwise.^',. I*-: "And I will further say," "continued Secretary Bliss, "that that charge which is now being made by the yellow-'"journats- id New York that the funds of the National Republican committee are being1 usedJjo the New York campaign is a lie yes, la lie*."''

YELLOW.

There is No Preceptible Change, Jn -the Situation'. New Orleans. Oct. 28.—Today's record of new cases and deaths hasaiot worked any material change in the yeKow fever situation Which, while not as bright as it might be, is not regarded by the fcoprd ot health officials as alarming. In the.master of fatalities the unfavorable weather militates against the patients though, in comparison wHh the cases under treatment, the death .rate i» not considered excessive. Eerything is 'being done to isolate the ca%es. It is noticed that the disease has been spreading among children whose ages ranges from 4 to 14 years. The board of health is having more work than it can attpnd to and the disinfecting corps cannot fumigate premises as rapidly as is desired.

This Is today's record: Saivator Sunseri, Carrie A'.beir. Mrs. P. StumpT. H^ry Pa'.ts Mary Roche, unknown old man, Itfer Michael Gondolfl.

The board of health officiary reports: Cases or yellow fever today, 65: deaths today, total cases'^o-f fever to date. 1,386 total deaths from yellow fever to date, 164 total

cases

abso'ute'.y recovered, 683 total cases under itreatmtnt, 539.

Jackson. Miss., Oct. 2S.—The state board of fcAa'.lh. in it.v official statement tonight, chronicles one new case of yellow fever today

len dollars. Within thetwetfET^aVsWu^ «t Clinton, the market price of silver bullion las bgen ave new cases at Edwards and vicinity. reduced more* than one-half, s»~^hat. one and all but ounce of gold is now equal in vafli^Jp thirfynine ounces of silver. Notwithstanding, this wide diversity of the market valjje^of the two money metals the Unite^.'Si»tes %n^l aH the leading commercial natfaB6 worig have maintained their silve*j$®s._witfeQut. change. This was done by fimiting the use of cheaper metal and by coining only on government account. "It is now proposed as the cardinal ^riifci-. pie of scattered parties that the holdier of any silver bullion without regard to its market value may present it to the^jnint and have it coined into dollars and^uwdji. a legal tender for all debts, "public trt- j|^

and nve.new cases at "V, XUtavuma repovfs no cases /ina all out oiie patient doing wel:.

Montgomery. Ala".. Oct. 28.-N!n« new cases of. fever were reported today, and one death, Mrs. S.'M. Huyber.

BLACK (?OAL MINERS IMPORTED.

Cabel & Co. Determined to Reopen Their MinfS at Washington.

Washington, Inlv Oct. M.—After failing to Induce their miners to accept the scale price as fixed for Indiana, together with the former price of removing dirt, Messrs. Cabel & Co., have imported men to operate the mines. The jffi'nes have been closed for nearly six months, fourteen colored miners and six white miners

——o, h8ve arrived from Kentucky,'and are now

At present the silver in djllar^ is .^amping on the company's property at mme

1 nintc Tr -arrtniH coan tViat'Tj. fThey lire plWcing the mine In shkpe to tgke ou=t coal, an® will begin mining in a few days. No trouble is anticipated from the striking miners so long as the injunction hotds good. A motion is pending to remov? th# injunct!on, on which Judge Heffron will hear argument tomorrow. S&ou'.d -the injunction be 'dissolved, serious trouble may be apprehend d. The imported men. however, are determined to work, and they assert that they will not allow the striking miners to run

Jjiem Out.

Try tirslno! Try Graino! 'V 'tl.:''

H.ABk your grocer t«day to show you a package of GRALN-O. the new food drisk that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but Is*made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distr«ss- One-quarter the price of coffee^ 15e and 25c per package. Sold by all grocers.

A"Provided Bwr For HI* Knneral ,*3t:Louis, Mfc, Oct. 2S.—Tht will of Frederick Wllhelm Kaslaw, on record in the Probate court is a peculiar one in some respect". It is Sa German and makes one odd bequest- After providing for the distribution of h's e«ate, most of Which Is ia St. Mary, St Genevieve courtly. Mo., he inserts"the following provision: "It the Rock Springs s'ugere shall sing at my grave, they shall receive a half barrel of free beer from my w»ie.

M'LENNAN'S LECTURE8

•WHAT TO BEAD," WAS T^E TAKEN CP fc,ABT NIGHT*

There Are Many Good Bookt Bad

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It lifts us. above the commonplace in region of faith and hope. After poetry we should read history which tells of the triumphs of man and his struggles against animalism within him and materialistic forces without. After history

Pacific ibout an alleged .agreement to carry persons seem to see nothing good in print out bargains made by the Republican na- that has not .r cover to .lu Qn the contional committee before the election that tlie following statement by Secretary Bliss .is., interesting. The secretary said: ''I am in a position to say most emphati$yix',»nd.unreservedly that not a promise was made during the campaign either for favor, office gr privileges. No money fras contributed during the campaign by reason of favors after elections, nor were any offices promised or bargains made. The men who contributed to the presidential campaign with money or services did so knowing that the honor and welfare of the country were at stake. The men who gave money to the campaign fund did so knowing that their own rights and privileges -were as much, at stake as those of their country.

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TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 29,1897

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The Rev. W.' E. McLennan deitvomiilh© third lecture in the series cn Books end Reading in Centenary churcfi tist The theme for «.he »ci"rr ss was, What, tof Read." Mr M.jLsunan spoke iti paj*fcr?fi* follows

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"Let me relieve youV minds ,at the SUt-,

et"by assuring you that am not going to suggest a

of a hundred best books.' To

the average person such a, list Would mean about what the wars of Spain meant to a certain schoolboy who, when asked how many ^ars Spain had in the fifteenth century, answered, 'Six.'. 'Enumerate them,*, sai^ the teacher, 'One, two. three,, four* five.

"Books are not good because they aje books, just as men are not aH'mea because they stand on two* legs. We have -good men, bad men and newspaper men.. You are familiar, doubtless, with Channing'&memorable words: 'God be* thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and dead and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. In the best books great men talk to us, gfve us their most precious thoughts, and pour'f their souls'into ours/ And he might have added, In some book's' the arch-fiend who" dares not suggest'to the ear those thoughts that blast all noble aspiration, interprets them ta the eye through the pages of the modern society novel. An auctioneer of old books, holding in his hand" a dog-eared and worm-eaten specimen of the last century, said: 'Gentlemen here is a very valuable work. It has marginal notes1 by Alexander voil Humibbldt. The marginal' notes were as follows: 'This book is oofc worth the paper it is printed on.' Tone of the so-called literature of the day, which Is crowded upon us in Railway trains, 'ax stations, 'hotele, and even in booksellers^ shops ought to bo thus' endorsed. A great books are of infinitely more value a whole library of sickly, sentimental nbyvels, untruthful histories, doggerel and jingoes misnam& poetry or falsehood dignified^ by the high-sounding name of philosophy. "We should reject (1) Air books of low' moral tone (2) all books that are frivolous, carelessly written, or written merely to sell, containing a grain of wheat in a bushel '0f chaff (3) all books that -misrepresent tflan as to' his life here and hereafter (4) 'aH 'faddy' books, that treftt of theosophjf, christian science,, astrology, etc. "As to selection I should advise you .to^ choose first the best .poets. Poetry regards not the things that are seen aild mater.^^ but the things that are not seep and eternal.

yre

should read

science, and -after:, science, fiction and. philosophy. "Someone asks if yte should read newspapers and magazines. I, know it is the fashion to deride periodical literature. Many

trary, some of our best literature appears first in the. periodicals which are demanding more and more the services of our best it a

The speaker otoBejfclJSiMk** vtri^ute- to^the %ible, There/is-, nofipottry like- the Ps^htW, io historjadike thtf ge.WflJs, no flcUonJike the parables* no philosophy -iike the proyeR-bs and the letters of -St. Paul. •.

The address was-listened to with the greatest Interest .and seemed all too short to the audience.-' It was tfull" of artistic touches, racy humor, clean distinctions and excellent criticism* Mr. McLennan illustrated his methods of "tasting" a book for newspaper reviews or to. get at Its worth by taking & couple ot sample copies which were sent to him for review, and. going over them rapidly with the audience. It was very amusing* for the books were literary ventures of

bMh Gycling Glut if the most substantia* .wheelmen'*, organization in the .state. The "flret thing done last night was to eat oysters and there were oysters In abundance. Martin W. Twaddle, piano player of ability, was present and gave several beautiful selections during the evening. Then there was the famous jug band. After the supper and 'niusical entertainment card playing was enjoyed. Twenty-five tables jrtayed. The following members of the club #ere named as a confinittee to arrange for the «ocial season of the club. Sam Greenburg, Bert Prat?r,

William Myers, Fred Wittenberg and H. H. Dronberger

The lecture tonight at 8 o'clock will close the series: Its theme will be "How toRead." -The, following^is a• synopsis of-the lecture: *f-\. w-

None Prepared to Heiid Until Equipped With Certain Works of Reference—Spiritual effect lost if important words are not untfSr-' stood. Same result if mythological ahd Ifte^ torical references are not clear.

Concerning Attention—Its value irrespective of the good received from books/ A. Read slowly, b. Indicate thoughtful passages. c. Make -an analysis.

Reading With a Purpose—De QuiriCiy. Frederic Harrison. Time and Method In Reading—Fixed Ufate and spare minutes. Reading'aloud. ciation. Loss and gain in system.

CMRS^'S PERILOUS PLIGHT. ''*t

Young Woman Jerked Fifteen Feet Into the Air Yesterday Morning.

There was an incident connected with the putting down of the Canal street sewer yesterday not a part of the plans and spec* iflcations." It was about "8 o'clock that? a young woman came tripping aloflg and stopped at the corner of Tippecanoe street and Lafayett avenue. Here she was joined by a friend. The two girls wanted to get across the street but to do so- were forced to^ tramp over the pile of dirt thrown up by the excavators. There is a cable, wire running dowrt from the place -where the men are working to a point -nearly a block away. This cable carries buckets of sand and gravel to fill in where the s^wer has been completed. jAttached to the buckets is a wire rope and 'when at the place it is intended to •^hipty the buckets the rope Is allowed to fall to the ground. It was while this rope was on the ground yesterday that the two (girls in question started

-cr'bas 'the streetJ

One of them crossed safeiy, but the second, when half way over was caught by the wire and jerked into the air. She caught hold of the wire with both boards am^held on like? grim death, notwithstanding a he was turned over several times while going upwards: The engineer saw her arid Justus he was the act of reversing th4Jpver|the girt released her hold on the wire and fSll t6 the ground. She turned a complete summersalt in the fall, and when she reached the ground she landed on her feet and was uninjured.

SMOKED AND ATE OYSTERS.

Night

It is yet to be recorded thai Cycling Club ever undertook an entertainment of any kind that it was not a success in every particular. Last night the members of this club gave an oyster supper and smoked, and there cannot be found one of the 135 persons who sat down to the supper but Is ready and willing to testify to the thorough enjoyment of thp evening. T?hfi occasion of the supper was the opening of the social season. The Wabash Cycling Club has become famous for the delightful social gatherings it announces every winter.

Last night there were 155 members and friends of the club In thd beautiful rooms on Main street. It was a "stag", affair «n»: the members were there I«.lofc4. -Th®"h|fc. been a successful year wiflT thi clfsb. 33MS state meeting of the L. A. W. netted the organisation a neat sum and today the Wa-

MOST.«RECULIAR PEOPLE.

Some of the Bemark»b)« CewmmMi Southern tl»iV» Indiana. One at the most remarkable of the feetivfeds oelebrated by the Alaska Indians is a oarnival ghauts whibh 1b held each winter. It seems to be derived from a tradition that tells of a journey made by an adventurous individual to a region beneath the earth Inhabited by phantoms. The celebration itself is a mimical representation of the visit to, hades, aforesaid, and the performer who represents^ the submundfknft traveler w^ara a necklace and headdzess set round with skulls

This festival requires elaborate preparations. Speaking tubes of dried giant kelp

are laid under the foot of /he lodgehouee go as to terminate in the flteplace. "When the ceremonial is in progress, the performfcr disappears into a ditch previously dug behind the fireplace, and then many voices are hoard coming out Of the flames—really the voices of persons hidden In adJJlning rooms, who speak through the tubes. Later on an image representing a ghost is seen to rise out of the ground, carrying the performer.

Cannibalism is very conspicuous in tJ» myths current among these people, who have themselves been eaters of human flesh up to a recent period. Indeed, though the whites are supposed to have put a stop to such practices, it would seem that secret indulgence in them has not been wholly done away with.

Quite a number of strange demons are wovshiped as guardian spirits, among them a cannibal demon that lives on the mountains and always is engaged in the pursuit of huflian beings for his table. The smoke of his chinmey is the color of 'blood, and he his a female slave who gets food for him by catching men and collecting corpses. In his house is a fabulous bird with an immensely long beak which lives on the brains of person* whose skulls

It fractures with its bilL Anybody who is so unfortunate as to encounter the cannibal spirit may be transformed into a grizzly beat-: On the other hand, if he can aipleaae the demon, he may obtain power to ^handle fire without being burned. ,j Another guardian spirit is a fearsome warrior, -who lives in the far north. He travels constantly and never leaves his -canoe. By obtaining his protection a man

may

become invulnerable, or he may-

acquire power to catch the invisible disease demob. This demon is at all times flying about in the air in the form of a worm. The fortunate protege of the warrior spirit catching the worm can -throw it into- the body of an enemy, who will die bt once.

These 'Indians wear wooden masks in their ceremonials. Some of them are of enormous size and astonishingly grotesque. The mask worn by a performer ^vho represents the cannibal spirit, for example,--is a huge crocodilelike head. Another, representing the bird servant of this spirit, is like the head of a bird, with a bill four feet long. -By means Of strings, pulled by the wearer, the great beak is made to open and shut rapidly, producing a loud clapping -—St. Louis Bepublio.

EDUCATING MUSCLES.

:--jf.U -ifitn" linv. 'a New- Theory W Kegard to Thorn.

And iliiw comes a Russian professor with a book of his own'making, in which it is shown that muscular exercise does not develop muscular strength where there was iione before. In short, Professor Alexis fiorvath completely upsets the theory that the absolute strength of muscles may be largely increased by exercise taken for t-W. purpose, "says tie Washibgtoti Post.

He contends that muscles are a gift of .nature and that no amount of exercise can convert a congenital weakling into"an athlete, and a strong man may preserve considerable strength fbr many along year even ih the lace of abboltite physical exer

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tion. ?ie priheijpal difference between a outline of its manufacture, man V^ho'exercises his muscles and ono tVhoV, it is full orown and its leaves hav When it is full grown and its leaves have begun' to* &c®(uire a yellowish tint, it is gathered and" left, on the ground to be withorcil one ddjr or more in the sun.

twho does not lifts in the greater endurance the foriner. A regular course of gyitojiasties does, during the first weeks, increase the inusclo power by a little, but the improvement soon ceases, &nd the size of the muscles changes very little.

•greater staging power of_ the-I Biswan, lri Seetaporo district.

best means, Horvath tbinks, for per-

ffecting the inuscles and giving them thej

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rhythmical contractions. He gives as a Corroborative example of this theory the 'human heart, which, although it goes through these contractions consecutively during a whole lifetime, never tires or ceases its functions for a minute.

'v A Trade Secret. The teacher had been explaining to the boys on two or three occasions during the week the sources of our food supply and various processes connected with the preparation of certain products. At the end of the week he hold an elementary examination to see how much of the information his pupils had retained.

Now, White, how is coffee prepared?^

Then why don't you answer?" asked

tho teacher sharply. "Come, answer at once." "I mustn't," cried the boy desperately. "It's a secret of the trade, my father 6ays, and he will leather me if I telll"

He was passed over.—Pearson's Weekly.

ft- ^'--*1- 1* -. Kien Lone and Hia Physician*. There used to be related a curious anecdote of old Kien Long, emperor of China He was inquiring of Sir George Staunton the manner in which physicians were paid in England. When after some difficulty his majesty was made to comprehend the

afford-to be ill? Now 1 will inform yoh, said he, "how I manage my physlciana I have four, to whom the care of my

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short."—Harper

$ Helping Ont the I^fitlinate. Our folks is early rotirers. Yea, sir. We never had no luck at our opry house Jwith five ack piays, not until las year

Then a comp'ny come up from Noo York land played 'Hamlet.' Our managers a cute one. He knew he oouldn hold the people to the end of the play without somethin additional attractive. W"-5 do you s'pose he did?" "Give it up. "He put on a pie eatin contest rtgna after the fencin scene in the last ack-

Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Fmwlbla That

the Woman Mardered Her Hnibiad.

Sadie Crooksb*nks spent- her third consecutive nlght in jail lafit night. The grttod Jury S still forking on her case and there' seems to be no doubt, judging froia what, can be learned on the outside,-but that she will be indicted. Her 12-year-old "son was before the grand jury yesterday and told what he had seen and heard In connection with the death of his lather, Mra. Crookshanks hj* not tried the insanity dodge yet' and likely will not, as there appears to be no occasion for it. Her lawyers have.tbld her that all she has to do is to keep her tongue still and allow them to do the rest "The suicide theory will be fuliy proven," said one of Mrs. Sadie Crookshanks' attor-r neyB. "We will produce a leading merchant of Main street.to whom Crookshanks said, fifteen minutes before his death, 'I am tired of life and am going to kill myself. Within half an. hour I will put an end to my trpubles.' We will further substantiate this theory," said the lawyer, "by Crookshanks' remarks-to other .parties and by his actions, as well."

The prominent Main street merchant might have been Buff Kaufman. Mr. Kaufman said to an Express reporter yesterday that he did not see Mack Crookshanks the day he died. "My store was closed on Sunday afternoon," said he, "and I am positive didn't see Crookshanks." Mr. Kaufman cannot understand how his name has been) dragged into the case, as he declares that he never had any conversation with Crookshanks except in a business way, when going to the express office for packages. "There was plenty of cause for either suicide or murder. He and his wife, I believe, had violent quarrels, which was not to be wondered at, considering the character of the place where they' were living. Strange young women frequently dame to our store and made purchases which they would ask us to charge to Mrs. Crookshanks."

Coroner Payne has little to say in the case. Coroner Payne was called to the hduse immediately after the death of Crookshanks. A reporter for The Express was with him at the time and Coroner Payne from the moment he stepped into the room was not at all satisfied that Crookshanks had not been killed. He questioned Mrs. Crookshanks closely relative to' the revolver being under the bed, but as she stoutly denied having shot her husband arid as there was nothing to prove she was not telling the truth, the coroner had nothing left to do but return a verdict of suicidl This, however, Will have no great bearing In the trial of the case. A coroner is jtisl as apt to make .a mistake as anyone else, tie" might have doubts as to the^cause pf death and at the same time render a suicide verdict. To the best of his knowledge it was suicide, but now that the case his taken 'a different turn, a turn in which the coroner is not in evidence, the question is an open one. Tha witnesses against Mrs. Crookshanks, it is true, are not of the best character, but their evidence will weigh as much as that of Mrs. Crookshanks, who is of ill" repute.

BABOO TOBACCO SCIENCE/

Information »'n the Right Mlitor# F« Hlttdom to Smoke aad Chew..f[l As we see, it is a most amazing extent to which tobao§o has spread all over earth in these 800 years, when it was brought into England from America by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1586 A. D. In Turkey it is perpetually in every mouth. In China it is so universally practiced that a female of 6 or 7 has axpocket in her dress to hold her pipe and tobacc6. In Burma it is smoked by persons of all ranks, even a fchild of 2 or 3. In India all classes j^d feoth sexes eirioSR', cat and smell.

It grows in India, so vigSfhusly that we can scarcely find a town or village in Hindustan wljero tip plot of ground *Qiild be found covered by this perpetual plant. And ih th^samfe ifnanqer there wotild be ve?y few- of tfur readers wno know the processes in which 'tfie tobacco becomes suitable foT our usual smoking.' It would be not therefore but of place to draw before

Although we can have smoking tobacco from many different \vays it "would suffice here, to mention some prooesses, for

The beneficial cftect of gymnastics and ^ei^feilitableness," current in a most fawork shows itself principany in the

purposo in India

Boin it is

e]ed

wer to resist fatigue are oft repeated wliicfa is oallcd ruddee and mixed with sirup and alkali or impure carbonate of soda. It Is left In balls to be dissolved.

known'

Now a leavened or khamlra tobacco is prepared by the undergoing formula: 1. Cloven. 2. Cardamums. 8. Mace. 4. Nutmeg. 5. Allspice. 8. Cinnamon. 1. Dry rose flowor. 8. Filling aloes wood. 9. Filling Sandalwood. 10. Nakh. 11. Fan dree. 12. White card annum s. 18. Benxoin of each part a seer. 14. Amlllas one seer.

All these exccpt the last one, which is •boiled are cudgeled" and' made a powder. And a next preparation is now made: Camphor, two Chatak—Karpur salarus, quarter a seer betel, quarter a seer.

-isow, vmve, uun now five punsarisof ruddee mixed with White fidgeted about, but did not answer. 6irupare mixed with both the preparation! "I am rather surprised at you," ex-1

claimed the teacher. "1 thought you of rose or keorah, one tola musk, six would have remembered that, being the mashas, and 'saffron, three mas has, "beBon of a ^rocor! .How is it you do not jng grinded," are mixed, and the procest know?" I now ready is called khamira, a good one "Please, sir, I do know," replied the for the purpose, ever used ir India foi boy hesitatingly. smoking.—Calcutta New Age.

THE EL DORADO MYTHJ-

Kow the Term Came to B« Applied t« Sourooi of Uncommon Rtahet* El Dorado is the term now heard on every side in connection with the placet mines of Alaska and the l«orthwest Territories of Canada. Its derivation is of interest. In the fifteonth century it was rumored that there existed in the northern part of South America a city of great wealth called Manoa, whose king, El Dorado by name, was periodically smeared with oil or balsam and was then powdered with gold dust until his whole body had a

The ESspresSr is the only Sunday paper in It has Been* Supposed that the .o«Cn TeVre HauC, 15c a week. this

these occasions he threw gold, emeralds and other precious metals and gems igto a sacred lake, in which he afterward bathed.

Beginning in 16S2 the Spaniards sent many large expeditions to search for thi# phantom city, aud most of them ended

•, w-ii oo-ain. I phantom city, aud most ol them enow

R^und Table. 4

One explorer, Ore llano, averred that he found El Dorado in his voyago down the Amazon in 1540. This was disproved, but the search was continued down to the eighteenth century. Some of tie results were the conquest and settlement of New Granada, the making known to the world of the mountain region of Venezuela, the discovery of the noble rivers the Orinoco and the Amazon and the exploration oi the vast forests west of the Andes. About the end of the sixteenth century an Kng^ lish expedition either sent out by oi nnd«z the personal leadership of Raleigh pene trated into Guiana, thereby obtaining.« claim on that country which has resulted in the acquirement of the modern British colony of that name.

of tribe of Indians near Bogota, wW chief was oo these occasions gilded wit* gold dust, but this ceraanonjr was neveS witnessed by the Spaniard®, »nd the story may simply be another version of the 13 Dorado myth.

The name El Dorado was commonly used to describe the city er country w^ldr was the object of the search, ^ut a lafceJ usage of the term has been It?" igurativa "-ir iy zegtoxt 4

application with regard to any than common richness. El Dorads county, in California, was the soeno ot tha .famous gold finds of 1849, and since than the expression has been used to describe ^.many gold camps.—Pittsburg Commercial

Gac$te.

iMEN 'SIDRJOtrSl.Y rSWURBTD. -.'tso-: Caos«A by the Reckless Driving of a Stage v, Coach.

Denver,

!OoI.,

Oct. 28.—News has Just

reafebe& hiere that On Tuesday atternon a stage, .having eighteen passengers, arid drawn by sbc^g&lleptaig hones, was upset la rounding a curve' three miles from the new minin» town ot Grand Encampment, and as a result three men are now lying at the wolf hotel

JSaffttoga ai the point of death, and a dozen, ipore have summoned aid. The following Is a ltst of Injured:

Thotnas Saunders, foreman of the city engineering dejtartment of Af Grand Encampment ^Tow^eompany, head crushed and arm an4 ,ixroken not expected to recover.

Charts Cumming, driver, he^d and shoul,ders"V«ttiShed and arm linangled Ohder stage injuries thought to fee fatal.

Captain Charles O'Oonnell, of Grand Ktacampment,. sev€i« spinal injuries recoverj doubtful."

Fred 'h\ Ballard, of the firm of Tucker, Ballard ft'Co. ,»• stock brokers, Colorado Springs, interna) injuries not considered fatal.

Judge David N. Helser, Colorado Springs, shoulder dislocated. Ma joes Alers, capitalist, Providence, R. I., foot crushed.

W. W. Kirbyi miner and stock broker,'Cripple Creefc,. leg sprained. •W. P. Bock. caplt#list, Cripple Creek, head and heck slighfly braised.

Jv. P. Murray, of Midland sample works, Cripple Creek, severely bruised on neck and shoulders.

J. S. Luckraft. mining engineer, Cripp.a Creek, shoulder blade fractured. W. W. MeOilT, Cleveland. Ohio, representing a syndicate of Cleveland capitalists, trampled t»y one of the wheel "horses badl bruised, but not severely injured.

J. P. RSarddn, mining expert. Cripple Creek, hand bruised. W. C. Heniy, mining broker. Cripple Creek, ankle sprained and foot crushed.

M. C. Kuntiman, real e«ate agent, Dubuque, Iowa, hand broken. Joseph «anktri,~ Rarwlins, Wyo., slightly injured internally.

The accident was doe -to reckless driving.*

SCOTTISH RITE OFFICERS. .....

Supreme Council of Sovereign Orand Inspeo* tors General 'Elect Officers. Washington, Oct. 28.—The most important business transacted 4?y -the Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Insjpctors General of tha '_y Scottish Rite of Free Masonry today was the election ot officers for the ensuing year. With the changes made by today's election the directory now Is as follows: -,fi|

Major W. J. Bayllss, grand commander,' Washington, D. C. Willard Vanderlin. lieutenant grand commander, Boston Ale*. klnson, grand minister of state, Omaha David I W. Thomson, grand treasurer general. New York J. G. Barker, grand secretary genera!. Brooklyn Robert L. Wright, grand keeper of--the archieves, Now Yorbp Calvin W. Edwards, yA? grand master of ceremonies, AWany J. J. Stoddart, grand marslxal general, Columbu*. Ohio H. W. Morton, grand standard bearer, 1 Providence J. R. 'Wright, grand prior grand marshals of the camp: W. W. Carpenter. Waltham, Ma« s. ,D. N. Sperry, New Haven, Conn. E. J. Swerer, Columbus, Ohio. 1

The following to be commanders-in-onief ol grand consistofieb: George E. FUllerton, Iowa ,^ Edward Poster. Massachusetts: J. FranK Cai-^ houn, Minnesota J. J. Stoddart, Ohio.

To be Deputies—P. S. Lawson. for Callfornia Christian Boresker, for Indiana H. A. Haskell for Nebraska: H. W. Squires, for Michigan: X. H. Vandeman. for Tennessee,-., and R. J. Graham, for Washington state.

uQ IV« «l UraUAul* i"*-,

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brought to be cudg-

^th wbod so firmly as to become a

To He Member* of the Committee of General dmlnistration—Hopkins Thomson. P.O. Anderson- J. G. Barker, J. B. Harris and DW. Thompson.

IN SUGAR CRBEK?

Valuable Timber Land Has Been Burnfng foV Two Days. There is a big fire raging in Sugar Creek township. It has burned for two days and last night was burning go fiercely that there is no telling where it will end. It is believed •that aixitp acres of timber land have been destroyed find that the fire is gating its way southward through the woods. For the last forty-eight' hours tfip farmers have been fighting the flames and while they have saved some little property they have been unrtJte 'to check the flaws and they have spread to a- considerable ex-teni.

The first that was -Known of the fire was Wednesday morning when Reuben 1« ulmcr was notified that a. fife was homing in n.» woods. The fire was tttorted by campers along the road, it is suppoeed. Mr. Fulmer went ouit into the woods ahd fought the flames all day and all night, Other farmers came to bis relief and w^ile. here and there the flames were stamped out the farmers were unab.e to control (the Are and it spread to the south. The Kelle^y farm, which adjoins that of Mr. Fulmer, caught fire, and was burned through. The Ferguson woods next caught and iart night was reported to be burning fiercely. S« far sixty abres of "grtuind ha.s been burnes

Knows-Ho Will B« Umneil. Kansas City. Mo.. Oct. 28-William CanV the Inhuman father who conessed to having drowned his child, becsSuae he had too many children, Is the center of a throng of morb-d people at the police station much of the time. Carr says nothing of his murdered chl.d. save to upbraid her for Shaving brought me to this and appears troubled on:y about h.mseif' Now he se'etas'chore serious, and. notwithstanding there is a desire at Liberty to Ivnch him. teggel. the officials to let the Ciay county peoplo ,tak€ him. back. I. kfjoiv I'll have hang," he said, "and the qu.cker it is over the better." t«

till

All these being cudgeled are boiled, and Aclt^miS^oiesryf Newark, N^j. br^Coles

stirred with hand, and in this essence

PEOPLir',4 .1

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A bronze Mlet Ot Washington from Houdoa's original model, to be cast by Barbedienne o£ Paris, has been offered to the trustees of tha future f*ee library of Nw York by Dr* J.

ACKeTuiau wi .. proposes to add to this a pedestal of marble and' bron»e. eo.aoon as -he knews where the bust will be placed—waiting till then in order to have these accessories in keeping w.th th& architecture at that spot.

Rodman Wanamaier has settled down as ©no of the.orominent members of the American colony, Paris, where he has a handsome apattriiefat'% th* Champs EJysees. Last spring he received the decoration of the Leeion Honor from the French governmein. •Mr. Wapau^aker is the son of Jobu Wanamak^r„ ot Philadelphia, and is marned Mlw Parker. 'Who was born in America, but who long in ^ris. They have three cblldrefe.

xt ^Lejii'ltt, Who was at one time conn'deVen'onfe of the moat prosnxroun maffigers ifr America, has "ay of reverses which culminated the other oay in th* torectosure sale of all«bis real estate in New York city.

Vegetarians and to til .toatainers bega-

map, General Nal

inf^^r^-t, trtiile both Pitman and Newmaa we**-Vitet*Tians. B«rnard R. Green, who built the new li- j, ., 0^ co"«resB-

8a that

tner„e

whv

•or,ri4ihen#lMi in the newspapers as to why 'fbffime of Thomas Moore, the poet. was not Bscribed on the walls of the new build ng. was not left off because of Moore's youthful critfcisms upon the United States, bUk ^C-cauas'-there was no room for n.

V»hen Elizabeth Barrett m*rrled Browning the bride's father ex-pres»ed h.mthe subject with that cruel frankness whirti is too often heard hi the family circle^at he^»jected to." he said -^as m* her 'union with a

Billy

young poet, but hw mar-

trying at all at an age when P«Mns ol b«r vcari—40—should have their minds fixed exclusively on the next world.*

New York mayors are proveiWally ton*Uved. The only one who has died in offlca gintre 1834. when the peojlebegan fh^m by direct vote* was WtHiam F. Havemever wJho had served in the same poaluon TwJnU-seven years before. Ntoe "-mayors are now living, the oldest being Daniel F. ,, Tterhan. who served away backjn the. 50*. II? Is 92 year* old and will cast his ballotfcr the tiger. Z*

To Care Constipation Forever. TalvC f'aioarets Candy CatUarllc. 10c or 25b. It aGC i»il to cure, druggists refund aumey. 0