The Syracuse Register, Volume 7, Number 4, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 5 December 1895 — Page 2

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. A small planet, the tenth discovered this year and the 408th in the list, was recently discovered by Prof. Mak Wolf, of Heidelberg. "v ' ' ■uummsiMm*wm*mmmmmmmwmmmsumro Twe.nti millions qf meteors are said to fall upon the earth every day. their aggregate v. eight to something’like two tons. ’ I RnonK Ist AKb is shown by a recent I census bulletin to hate 10?000 more women t: an a woman suffrage movement is very aggressive. I lx ease of a .war Untile Sam has a •pretty long 'l-ne of sea coast to guard • The facts are. the enemy would probably be allow rd to land! Thou Uncle. Fam's . boys’ would proceed to make them permanent citizens. SftOEs are now made of lace- —the thick guipure description very dainty ami vet strong, Good leather shoe* and ’ boots are ventilated in Mich a manner -Ms tint to expose the foot to wet or damp. This is an excellent move, :»• ' thick leather is apt to heat the foot uti J duly, causing dmo’iiiforft to the.ivearer. To ask the legislatures of the land to pass a law closing ' he'factories And t he | shops ot. election-■ day. to make it a punishable offense for business men tol keep their offices and places of business! open .on that day. to cause the w heels and machinery of industry to stop on that day. is a suggestion made by po, lltical ai Ix a recent let Jure on, the progress of the te'ephone in Germany. State S< c Xetary Dr. Stephan stii’J that the l>er of towns joined by telephone has »ow reached 4 I. with IW.W subscrifo ers. Thu y ear telephonic communication with Vienna and: < openhagen Was opened. The former line >s 418 mile* in length, the other about MX) miles, with 18 miles of submarine cable. A SvANtsn gentleman of prominence, lately visiting in Philadelphia, tn conversation with an American formeriy occupying a diplomatic pGkition, said that Spain. being greatly in need bf -money, had been negotiating with England for the «aie of Cuba,.and t»a<l ifereived assurances that if the island could be delivered without trouble with the United State* the sale could lie effected Thhee years ago Prof. .J J. McCook, a writer on social questions. estimated. , after a careful study of statistics, that there were 45.545 tramps in the United States, and that their direct annual | coat to the country was $9.ooo,0('o. He j bow states that in January.-1895. the number of tramps had increased to 85,- I 768. and their annual coat'o the country* Sl7.dpO.obo, not counting the loss Sustained'by their failure to produce ; anything. : Jt'lHiE lUm:r. of the United States circuit c ourt at CheVenm . ha* decided that the treaty with the Bannock Indians, givng them the right to hunt on the unoccupied government lands in Wyoming, is of full force and effect an J Is sujK'iior to the game laws of the state. Secretary- of thi' Interioir I Smith tn his annual report commends I the peaceful course of the Indiana at I Jackson MojVdnder circomstances aw extremely aggravating on the part Os the whites. TBB whaft'ng season now closed has been the! worst ever experienced by the arctic fleet. The total catch was 26 whales, the smallest in a number of years, and comjiarvd with the number of vessels in the fleet the smallest ever known. Hie steam whaler Orca caught only one w hale, and was out the w hole season. Only 40.000 pounds of whale- | bone was secured, anil the price of the article is ex|n-cted to double before the sale of this irsr's product begioi At present it aehs Tor $2.75 » pound. - A FOREtox i pbleman who advertises in a New York paper makes an an- I , nouneem.ent which should afford much satisfaction to those American citizens i who have a hankering for title. The I ad vertiser assures the American’public a that wing to bis intimate relations I with several foreign-courts he w ill b>* able to secure, for a money consideration, titles for ajl who have wealth enough to pay for them, How this will j simplify matters! Titles can now be bought without having to purchase an expensive son-in-law at the same time. , This news should be spread far and wide. > Tub South Carolina constitutional convention adopted drastic measures to put nr. end to lynchings in the state It passed an amendment pro* idiug that any officer who permits a prisoner under his care to lie lynched shall be removed from office and be ineligible to holding office in the state. The amendment further provides that in all cases of lynching where death ensue* the county where the lynching takes place shall, w ithout regard to the conduct of the officer, be liable to exemplary damages of not les* than $2. 000 to the legal representative of the person lynched. A Mku-hs.x (loun.j man has rigged an ingen.ous device to break one of hi* horses of the habit ot pawing and keeping the men who’ sleep m the stable a w ake at night, tie has placed a movable board on the the stall tn such a position that when the horse strike* out with hi* foot hr moves the board. From this board runs a rod that passes over the Lome, ami to the end of «be rod is fastened a whip Every time the board -• moved the rod deweud* upon the horses's back. After one or two di»tiu'bii*wcß the animal settled down and kept *tiU- Thoaa tooaeolwit ptopU hi»r»

Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. FROM WASHINGTON. In December the president will appoint more than 130 postmasters to offices in the presidential class. The chief of the bureau of statistic.*, says that the imports of articles freeof duty were about $2,000,000 less in 1895 than in 1894 —the figures for 1895 being $378,800.1(8). The chief of ordnance in his annual report calls attention to theinsufti ciency of the appropriations and suggests that congress should permit thfc ordnance bureau to replace .old arirx now in use with weapon* of serviceable type and uniform character. In his annual report Secretary Hoke Smith of the interior department calls : attention to the .strict enforcement I which has been given to civil-service reform; estimates the amount of public lands undisposed of to*be 600.000,000 acres and says the total receipts during ■ the year for public lands amounted to over $2,000,000; says an. intelligent i treatment of the Indians will make them self-supporting; and upon the Subject of forest says that 17.0<M).0-*' acres arc now included within forest res«Tves,.the object being to preserve j them for future use. , The secretary of 1 war in his nnnuni , tcjiqrt gives the expenditures for the : fiscal year endetl June 30 last as $52.2*7.780.41. The appropriations for the snine |>eriod .were $43,466.571.75. He «rivs the vear has been undisturbed by Indian outbreaks, domestic violence or troubles' on#the Uirder. awl that the r.rtnv is lifter fed. housed and clothed | than ever before. Ihe total force of I the- army is 25,705. The total expenditures for the improvement. of- rivers or* was $18,812,517. He sajps that the condition of our seacoast and the lake frontier should lx- strength- i >l. - . .’ . . ■ ■ Exchanges at the leading clearing : houses in the United States during the week ended on the 29th aggregated 8-7:'.lst.l*.’, '..-rt’-.'st sl.i-2 -.k.'■’/ - "the ‘ prtviov.x week. The increase, com)u»r<tl with the corresponding week in l-t-4. was 8.0. . In.the United State* there were 188 business failures in the'seven daysended on the 29th, against .320 the week [jifrviou* and 523 in the corresponding time of 1894. THE EAST. For no cause known Herman Ilattcnhaft, a physical instructor.rkilled hi* two children and himself inHirooklyn.. . N. Y. ■ In New York (.’ooprr’s Union was crowded by a large and enthusiastic audience of •ympathizeni with the Ctflmu insurgentsand severaladdresse* were made. The firm.of S. J. Clevering•<£ Co . c<>m- ! mission merchants in Philadelphia, faded for SIOO,OOO. Harold S. McCormick, of Chicago, was married in New York so kliss Edith | Rockefeller, daughter of Joh| D. llook- < feller. , ■' ■ i -. At Arlington lleights. N J., Thomas Colt, a photographer, si V M(tn Carrie Plate and then hilled i. roseif. Jealousy was the cause. Earth and rock fell at a mine ngar C armel, X. Y., killing 14 men. : WEST AND SOUTk On the Santa Er road near Shoe maker, -X. M.. an express and freignt • train collided and 12 passengers were more or less seriously injured. David B. Hill, of Xew York, inaugurated his lecture tour at the Academy !of Music in Milwaukee. Personal liberty was hi* thrmc. and he made * plea j for more genuine Americanism. He • ,ud our government should not be cut ! after the English pattern. lie - also j s|ioke good words for Hawaii. Score* of coal-laden barges along the ' Ohio river were torn from their.moor- j ing* and carried down stream to de-j rtruction and consequent loss to the owners in the recent blizzard. At Frankhn. lnd„ the city hall was blown down. At Mont|>elier; Ind., score* of oil derricks were raxed and many houses were unroofed. In the Ohio oil tields a damage of ss ! Xl,'jou w’asdoue. In Illinois. lowa. Michigan and Wisconsin property was also destroyed. Al Dartfotd, Wis-. E. A. Long, of the I -Green Luke County lte|<orter, shut himself fatally because of business t%ou l.ics.”* ■ Al, the age of 73 years Henry Snapp •tied at Joliet. HL He served a term in •-ongress. being elected from the bid Sixth district in 1871. In < bicago eight Berry detectives, implicated in the shooting of innocent Frank W hite, vv bile seeking his ertm inal brother, wefe indicted by the grand jury on counts charging mur j der.. ' Because Nora Beilew, a 14-year-old girl, refused to marry him. Thomas ' Lewi*, aged 70. <d Bell county. . committed suicide by hanging. | Cheyenne Indian* were Slaughtering I cattle near Hutton. Wyo., and were sam t& have killed several settlers. Over a 54-niile course for purses amounting to $5,000 the motorcycle contest in Chicago w as w on by thcUharies so I Duryea gasoline motorcycle of SpnugI held* which made the distance in : ten hours. , Th« United States ,Hag was raised over the city hail and all public school buildings in Birmingham. Alas, for the ffrst time in the history of the city. A bill was passed by the Cherokt-e Indian legislature making it impoe sible hereafter for any w hite man to ob- | tain property rights by marry mg Indian women. McGeoch.aged 61 years, the millionaire speculator, whose deals and a', tempts to corner the prov isiou marketi at • arous times startled the worm, committed suicide ip-Milwaukee because of family trouble*. In Chicago footbuil games resulted as follows; x University ot Michigan, l’.'; University of Chicago. 0; B< sten and Chicago Athletic association.a tie.4to 4. At Kansas City - University of Missouri. 10; University of Kansas. 6. A report that Harry Hayward hart confessed in Minneapolis to the murder of Catherine Ging was said to be untrue. Advice* from all over the Unitei State* noted a general observance of Thanksgiving day in the usual manner. A. Arcola. Ind., Homan Bohrer and Sn.*!’.- Henschen. who were soon to oe married, were both kilieff by the cars while going to a dance. In Cleveland over .3.uOO’o4embt:s of Christian Endeavor iieietjwi'prayed,*: noon oa Thank*fi* lug day tor IM itliou pt tM «oul 9t (aH* Ugewoij,

The loss to the oil interests in Ohio and Indiana by the recent blizzard will amount to over $1,000,000. ■ The ossified man, S. C. Martin, who hud lain on his back for seven years unable to move a joint, died near Bryan, Tex.' , In Cleveland the first-case on recon! of a perfect cure of a broken neck j was perfected by Dr. C. B. Humiston and Dr. 8. E. Kaestlin. Erwin Keidel, | aged 14. was the patient. A mob shot to death Tony Sutton, a j negro, ht .Montezuma, Ga., 'for killing W. T. Sangster. The discovery was made that Gar-» land Stemler and Louis Mureno, vyho j were lynched by a mob at Yreka, Cal., ! for murder, were innocent. Vast gold fields were discovered at : Mercur, about 65 miles south of. Salt ; - LakeX'ity.At Platte City. Xeb.. Rev. A. Henrich > and wife were asphyxiated by gas from their coal stove. David Rose and John Williams, two prominent and wealthy stock traders at Hazel Green, Kyi, fought over a trade i and both were killed. Philip Slayman and Sadie Poorman * and Harry Poc.rm'an and FloreneeSlnyman vvere marrjed at Canton, O. The brides and grooms of both weddings ■ were brothers and sisters, and twins : at that. At Decatur. 111..* Charles X. Smith, •videly know n in the baseball world as “Pacer” Smith, was hunged for the hnurder of‘his daughter fooutae, aged 6 wars, and Mis* Edna P.nehvyt. aged 18, l is sister-in-law. on: September 28 last: ' lliTi wreck on the Norfolk & WesU-rn railroad at Cantcrberg. W. Va.. three inen were fatally hurt and several seriously injured. John S. Johnson lovvered the one- I mile flying start bicycle record nt X'ashviile. Tenn.', from 2:16’ to 2:10 1-5. The two-mile flying’start record was lowered ,by A. F. Senn, of Ilion. Ky.. I from 4:49 2-5 to 4:48 3-5.? I The largest woman in Indiana, Mrs. I I David I;an:b. was buried at her home in I New Middleton. She weighed 509 pounds. • ° The doors of the Chattahoochie national bank at Columbus. Ga., .were closed: I (Vias McGahey and Joseph Robinson, ’•<>th negroeA" ere taken from the jail at Fayetteville, Tenn., and hanged by a mob. The colored men were charged with an attempted assault upon a white girl. x [ i FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. At Palma, capital of the island of Majorca, an old cartridge exploded kill- , ing 17 persons iHid wounding 40 others : At Havana Gen. Gonzales, the Cuban insurgent leader.was tried by court- ; martial and sentenced to death. Others of his followers were sentenced to 20 years'imprisonment. ' * i While taking his esjiedition across British New Guinea Otto Ehlers, th-' German traveler, was drowned, and 20 . i natives belonging to his escort were a Iso drowned. CRT Rio Jcncirfl the Brazilian crui«ei Uranus was . w recked, the commander and five of the crew being drowned. Yellow fever caused the death of .lames C, Fox. the United- States consul al Antigua. Colombia. The death of Alexandre-Dumas, novelist a,id playwright, occurred in Paris, at the age of 71* years. , The Hawaiian government would, it was sAid; make a strong effort to bring the annexation question before the next United States congress. The Stratlincvis, a Northern'Pacific steamship en route from Victoria. B. C., to Yokohama with about, 125 Chinese : passengers, a crew of 50 apd 3,<XX> tot s ' of general cargo, w as given! up as lost. insurgents wrecked a train carrying Sjianish soldiers near Cien Rojah, Cuba, and the engineer, fireman and,3l soldiers were killed and 50 others were injured. some fatally. The Knights of Labor in, Montreal, I Ontario and Quebec decitied to secede' ! | fromkthe general assembly and form a purely Canadian order. At the secret consistory in Rome the pcjie presided* and create<| nine cardinals, among them being Mgr. Satolli, | the papal dejegate to the Roman Catholic church in the United States. LATER NEWS. H. H. Holmes, who was convicted in Philaderph.a of the murder of B. F. Pitzel, wa- iv-ftisi.i a new trial and setitgneed to death. Gov. Hustingswould fix the day of execution. Joseph Reimean and his daughter and Ernst Neiver were killed by the cars at Air Line Junction, O. In Dooly county. Ga.. Tony Sutton and his-brother Henry, why* killed an I Officer aent to arrest them, were lynched by a moly During a dance at Shelby, Ind., John and Frank Lattey yvere both shot and fatally Abounded by Frank Fuller. I A. W. Wayman, senior bishop of the African .Methodist church in the United States dropjied dead from paralysis at his home in Baltimore. Thomas Brackett Reetl was notninatetl for the speakership of the 54th j congress by the republican caucus in Washington anti t he democratic caucus renominated Sjieaker Crisp. ■ During severe storms in the vicinity of Odessa. Russia, 500 persons were either drowned or frozen to death. I’.y the upsetting of a skiff in the Monongahela river between Browns- I vilie an.i California, Pa., losepb Mcln- j tosh aud Mrs. James Stevens were : dtowned. On the steam railroads in Pennsyl- j vauia 1.538 persons were killed and Bk- | 605 injure*! during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1895.. Margaret .Mather Pabst consented to n divorce from her busivand, Gustav . Pabst, of Milwaukee, and she will re- ' turn to the stag*. For her consent she i received SIOO,OOO. ] Maximo Gomez and his army of insurgents utterly failed in their attempt to reach Villas, Cuba. Hi* forces- sustained great loss, his ranks were broken and his men were dispensed. In round figures the government deficit for November was $1,000,000 and the expenditures $27,000,000. The deficit for the five months of the current fiscal year stands at $17.500.000. A passenger train ran into an open sw itch at Preble. N. killing the en- ; gineer and fatally injuring the fireman. Prof. Enoth, an aquatic performer at Detroit, accomplished the feat of stay- | ing under water four minutes and t eight seconds, breaking all previous rex-ords in that line. Senator David B. lecture tour ! in the northwest proved a foiiure. and the senator while In Minneapolis canceled all future eufafflueots returped to New York.

THE U. 8. ARMY. Annual Report of Secretary ot War Lamont. Condition of the Regular Army and the National. Guard Reviewed—Seo Coast Defenses — The lira Ina Re Canal— Records and Pensions. Washington, Nov. Sl—ln the annual re- , port just Issued of Daniel S. Lamont, secretary of War, the total expenditures of his department for the year ending June 30,18Sj.are stated a5552.987.750.44. the ap- ■ propriations tor the fiscal year ending June ! so. ISSS, are $43,466,571.75; and estimates for ‘ the fiscal year ending June 30; 1897, are placed at $51,945,643.45 Following are the more interesting portions of the retort: i The full strength of the army author- ; ixed by 'aw is now given as L 126 total ofll- ; cers and 25.706 total enlisted mem Changes established In the method of recruiting during th- past two ytars have considerably reduced the c<»t of that service, while peiceptibly Increasing the effective < strength of the army. The Post Exchangee: The receipts from the 73 post exchanges In operation were $1.515.<55. the expenses 51.1b9.233. leaving a balance of of which $2m.‘.837 were returned as dividends Many of the exchanges n<w have i.braries. . gymnasiums, and appliances for out-of-doors sport*. The receipts of the canteens ! have been reduced from 75 j.-er cent, Six years ago to 40 per cent, durln.t the present ! year. ’’ I By far the most essential need of our army to-day Is the adoption es the.three- : battalion formation.' The reasons for this ! change and away to provide it were stated j In the report of the d.epu: tment for 1>94. The toini cost of the publication, of the offk-tal r-cords of the rebellion from 1874, when the work was begun, to the close of I the last fiscal year. Was K-1»8,i'T3.2t l . ot j which $1.“:5,95a.39 was for printing, and the balance for the expense of compilation. The actual product by this expenditure Is ! 11,506 set-4 of the 96 books in print and the ; accompanying maps and plates, also a large mass of uncompleted wo-k In connection w ith the books yet to be printed. State Troops- ■/» The efforts of recent years to bring the j army Into closer relations with thenation- ! al guard ol the states may now be regarded | as having established a i>ern anent union between the two fortes, to both. During the year 33 officers, six more than In th \previous year, were permanently detaikxfoat state hea Iquai ters. and 43 states secured for temporary duty the I services of army officers State encamp- I tnents of troops were held by 22 states, to | w hich 25 additional/officers w-ere assigned as instructors and-inspectors. The number of pupils at schools and colleges receiving military lnst>-uctlon from officers of the arrpy has more than doubled within the last four years’, and the steadily increasing Interest of the youth of the land in military affairs is apparent. Last ! y ear 99 otlicers. a larger number than in a,ny • former year, were detached for this duty. The stuuents attending schools and colleges at which military instruction was Regularly imparted during ttie year numbered 55.G5, of whom 23,723 v ere capable military duty. - Hea-Coast Defeuses. ‘ j’ In you.- annual message transmitted to . congress in December. Its 6, attention was directed to the urgent necessity for seacoast ■ defense in these words: ‘ The defenseless : condition cf our seacoast and lake frontier is perfectly palpable; the examinations : made must convince us all that certain of our cities thould be fortified nod that work un n.cst important of these fortitlca- : tlons should be commenced at otice. The absolute necessity, Judgea by all standards of prudence and foresight, of our preparation for an effectual resistance against the armored slops apd steel g..ns and mortars of modern construction which may threaten the cities en out coasts is so ap- . parent; that 1 hope effective steps will be taken in th*t direction immediately," Since that time the condition of these defenses lias been under grave considepv- ’ Uon by the people »n* by this department. Us inadequacy and impotency have been ’ so evident that the intelligence of the country long since, ceased to discuss that : humiliating phase of the subject, but haa k addressed itself to the more practical undertaking of urging more rapid progress in the execution of the plan of:defense devised toy the Endicott board m 1886, with subsequent slight rnoditicattons. At only three of the 18 ports under consideration have completed features of defense been established. ,New York has two 12-inch guns and 16 12-inch mortars. San Francisco has one 12-inch gun and 16 12fneh mortars, and Boston lias 16 | mortars in position. ; . The report of the chief of engineers, for- ' warded herewith. ■ exhibits, in detail the condition of the various river and harbor ! improvements ordered by congress. The total expenditures for these purposes during the year ended Jun( 30 last, exclusive of those made by Mississippi and Missouri river commissions, were $15;440.994.9? and the unexpended balance of available apprO- . priativus on the nrst day ot September last was $12,686,880.59. I he Chicago Drainage Canal. The completion of the drainage canal of the sanitary district of Chicago, which is expected in the near future, and its probable -effect upon the depth of water in the take harbors having caused much apprehension, the importance of the matter led to its reference to a board ot engineer officers for investigation as to ‘‘the probable effect of the operation ot the Chicago drainage canal upon the lake and harbor I levels, and upon the navigation of the great lakesand their connecting waters." In the judgment o f the board the only way to ascertain the approximate discharge of the lakes is to measure them for periods long enough to eliminate accidental fluctuations and to Cover ail stages, and for that purpose it recommends a series of gaugings as important, to be carried out as soon as practicable Record and Pension Office. The records of the peroonnelof the revolutionary army, on which work was begun in * September. ISH. have been indexed, and arranged for use. The progress made in indexing and arranging similar records ot the war of 1812 insures the completion of I this work by the end of the year. Inquiries requiring reference to these records are Increasing, as patriotic associations have revived interest in the early wars of the republic. The total number of cases of all | kinds disp-xsed of,wa* 211.129. of which 152. ■ i «75 were pension cases. The approaching ! completion of the index-record card system his permitted a reduction of 50 clerks in the force of the office this year, in addition to the reduction last year, the total annual saving in salaries being $400,600. The ’otal number of military cards j available for ready reference on June ». was J'.,567,123. and of medical cards 6.-t03.255-in aU. 43.55.40 g. Kesnltkl is Death. Janesville, 0., Nov. 30 — Mrs. Zell* Sharon, residing 29 miles north of this city, was toe victim of a horrible aceiI dent Thursday which resulted in her death. Her nepbevva, Bruce and Charles Cooper, wtrv arranging tp go hunting, and in so ne manlier one liarrel of the I gun exploded. The load of shot took ’ effect in Mrs. Sharon’s limb and death resulted in a few hours. Fortune for an ladlaniaa. Elwood, lud.. Nov. 30. —Joe Sheridan, formerly of thi* city, ha* fallen heir to SBO,OOO by the death of his grandmother at St. Louis. e Compromised. Little Ruck. Ark, Nov. 30.—The suit of negro residents of.the Cherokee nation to establish their rights ns citizen* ha* been compromised. The settlement makes the negroes citizens of the Cherokee nation and entitle* thegi to $1,300,jDOO of the money received from the strip and their interest in untold land*. bent to Prison. Berlinu, Nov. 30.—Dr. Ferster, editor ol the Journal Ethical Culture, ha* been sentenced to three months' imprisonment iu a fortress, having been oooviotod of lese rnajesw for aruoje* prifitwi In that paper-

MONEY OF THE BANKS, rs - — — * Comptroller fcekels Makes Bls Annual Report. Washington, Dec. I—The annual report of Comptroller of the Currency Eckels borrows Interest from the uncertainty regarding the financial affairs of the country. 31 the 5,023 national banks organised from the beginning of the system, 3,715 were in operation October 31, 1895. The total capitalisation at that time aggregated $664.136.915, divided among 35.195 stockholders. The total amount of circulation outstanding on the date named was $213,867,630, of which I 3190.180.961 was secured by United States | bonds, and the balance by lawful money i deposited with the treasurer of the United ! States. During the year covered by the report 43 banks, located in 20 .different i states, were organized,. with an aggregate I capital stock of 34.890.000. Os these. 28. rep ' resenting 32,530.000. are in the north, and 15 with a capital of 32.360.000, in the south i The circulation was Increased 317.102.137 Thirty-six banks were put in the hands of i receivers during "the year, the aggregate ' capital of which amounted to $5,235,030. and ! the circulation to 31.W37402. Os these, two. with a capital of $450,000. were reported la-?’ ! year as In voluntary liquidation, and nine I representing $2,750,000, were of thenumbc- ' of banks which closed their doors in 1893 I subsequently resumed business, but were ! unable to maintain their standing. ! On September 28. 18'->i the date of the last report of the condition of the 3,712 banks then reporting, their total resources were £>,423,629,343.63, of which $3,069,408,402 27 rep- ; resented their loans and discounts and ■ thoney of all kinds in batik. , Os their liabilities. 11.701.653.021.-S repre- • -tented individual deposits. $336,888,350.86 I surplus and net undivided profits and $13?.481,610.50 outstanding circulation secured by bonds. . The comptroller recommends several amendments to the banking laws, among I t>em being the following: . i “That upon a day In each year, to be des- ! ignated by the comptroller, the directors of national banks shall be required to make ■ an examination of the affairs of the bank and submit to the comptroller a report j thereon upon blanks to be furnished for 1 such purj>o»e. • ■ "That the comptroller be authorized to issue to national banking asgbciations ciri eulating notes to the par value of the bonds by them with, the treasurer of the United States to secure such notes. “That the kemi-annual tax levied on ac- | count of the circulating notes of national banks be reduced so as to equal but priefqurth of one per cent, per annum. With reference to the increase of cirri: i lasting bank notes, the comptroller says: "At a time when the desire is so frequent- ■ ly expressed that there be a larger issue of hank notes and complaint is made that . >- tional banks are indifferent to the riote- j Issuing function vested In them, it may well be considered by congress whether it would not be wise to do that which w‘l ' make it of sufficient interest to the national I banks to pay: greater attention to note issues.. The profit of banking in the United States Is now largely in the deposit feat O'", of it. and thus it is of greater concern unj.existing circumstances to the banks to s > cure deposits than it is to issue notes upon a return so small as to scarcely justify tip expense and trouble entailed thereby. "Hanks are not eleemosynary institutions. and therefore engage-only in that which promises a margin of profit. While on the one hand entitled to no more favors than are granted to other corporations or enterprises carried on by associated individuals, on the other they should not be denied any privileges which they may justly claim and for the denial of w hich no possible .be given. Il is unquestionably true that national banks would largely Increase their note circulation II the embarrassment arising from the heedless locking up of a large part of their capital. available for other purposes, and the lessened profit through excessive taxation now imposed did not confront them. They certainly would do so if the legal tendei Issues of the government were paid and canceled and the > rrannel now dogged by them freed for bank note circulation. “The experience of this and other countries conclusively demonstrates that t.h< best and most rational note issues art' those put forth by banks. It likewis. demonstrates that .issues made direct by governments are always expensive, and under every circumstance a" source'of ‘danger to such: governments and loss toit heir people’s business interests. No clearer proof of this could be had than that furnisti'ed by the difficulties which we Have '"’witnessed on the part of this govt-ramen' in its efforts to maintain the full credii i of its practically limitless amount of dej mand obligations.” Continuing, the comptroller states that the substitution of bank notes for treasury notes would obviate the necesstty.of main-, tainipg a gold reserve, and the treasury' department could then return tpjits legitimate function of collecting and disbursing the revenues of the government. Relief would also come to the business Interests of the .people, whose operations would no longer be harassed by uncertainty. ,It would afford a better guarantee of meeting the varying wants of trade. The comptroller further suggests that aa necessary’ element to the security of proper elasticity of issue In our bank note currency section nine of the act of July 12, IS®2. regulating the retirement and issuing of circulation to banks within a fixeu period of time, should be repealed, and alsthat such .amendment should be made to the law aa-will necessitate the bahks keeping in the office of the comptroller of the currency a sufficient amount of bank i,.>t- its will enable them to secure cir emulation at once instead of after a period of 'delay. frequently of a sufficient duration to make the issue unavailable to relieve the pressure existing at the time of ordering ’the same. VETERAN FROZEN TO -DEATH. Caught in the Keceot Storm and Perished Miserably. Eldora, La.. Dec.2.—An old man about 60'wars of age was found tn East Gruu dy county frozen to death. From pajxirs found on his clothing it was learned that his name was Frank Brown and that he eanie from Murray, la., but hati later lived at Marshalltown, feeing an inmate of the soldiers’ home. The old man had got caught out in the recent snow and frozen to death. PERISHED BY STORMS. |. Handreds Drowned or Frozen to Death In « Kusaia. Odessa, Dee. 2.—About 500 deaths are recorded us having resulted from the severe storms w hich have prevailed rerecently in this district of Russia. The victim in nearly all cases was drowned or frozen to death. Greal distress-pre-vails throughout the storm swept coun try. QUEER AND QUAINT. An old gentleman of Odessa has left ■ million rubles apiece to four nieces on condition that they work for 15 months as chambermaids, cooks or [ farm servants. A St. Louis man, having failed to ! persuade his wife to discard bloomers, ; arrayed his hens in tl&t style of gar- ! ment. Whea she saw the fowls thus, i attired, she solemnly .vowed never to I wear bloomers again. v A" newly-made grave in a cemetery 1 of Lancashire. England, was decorated . with a unmber of floral tributes. One of them had attached to it a card bearding these written words: “With Mrs. ’s deep sympathy.” and, printed in a corner, “At home on Fridays.” A Hindu who stammers has found ont that he stammers more on moonlight than on dark nights, and that when he sleeps in the moonlight he stammers more on the days succeeding the full moon, and not at all on the lay before and the day after the new moon. Nature says this agrees with other observations. Good taste U tiw flower of good sense —Potawtot

HERBEET’S HOBBY. i It Is the Further Strengthening of Unole Sam’s Navy. < .’ , l The Secretary Tells of the Operations His Department During the Year, and Makes Some Important I Recem tneuda tlons. Washington. Dec. 2.—Advocates tff eon- i tlnuing the increase in the new navy will find satisfaction in the annual report of ] Secretary Herbert to the president. The secretary recommends the construction of two battleships and at least 13 torpedo boats, and he prefaces his recommendation with the statement that "an inspection of the tables herein given, showing the relative strength of navies will furnish. it is believed, all the argument now needed for the continuation of the building program.me heretofore indicated by the action of congress. We are not in want of ordinary iUuarmored cruisers or gunboats, but we are lamentably deficient in torpedo boats, and we certainly need more battleship*. A* inspection of the budding programme of other hations will demonstrate that the lessons taught at Yalu and Wei Hai Wei have tended to confirm the belief of naval experts throughout the world in the efficiency of these two classes of vessels.” That gunboats and tprpedo boats may be built cheaply, the secretary points out briefly. The gratifying progress made by our manufacturers of steel and our shipbuilders and the competition among them has enabled the department during the past two years, he says, to contract for gunboats and torpedo boats at a very large reduction from former prices. Toward thia proposed increase of the navy Mr. Herbert estimates that $9,635.353 is necessary, and. inclusive of that amount his estimates for the complete expenses of the naval establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897. aggregate $29,311,166. Out of the appropriation for the current fiscal year, amounting to $14,212,801. there reixtadns st-42.2*>. With the exception of tbe appeal for more ships, the most important topic treated by is that of a reserve sys tern. He prefaces his suggestion that such a system be established with sojtie com merit on the necessity for having more enlisted men, and recommends that the enlistment of 1,000 more men be Giving" figures to show how small ofir enlisted force is and how large those of European countries are. he makes.! compar > ison of our 13.460 bluejackets and marines wira Germany’s 21,487. Germany’s available men, while not alt at one time in actual service on board ships, would, in case of war, furnish no lack of trained and drilled material for the imperial navy, "and. ’ says the secretary, ‘in case of a naval war, readiness, other conditions . being equal, means victory. ’ In the emergencj of war coming quickly, what should we de ■ for men? he asks. All allowed by law an enlisted, and all enlisted are already or ships. ;» ; ’ We have, he says, a magnificent squadron if armed and manned: but. he adds, we have not a man to put upon one of them and no authority of law to accept the services of a single one of the thousands; who. in case of war, would volunteer to serve Mr. Herbert says: “All this ought not to be. It is the height of unreason to pay heavy subventions to swift ships and call them our auxiliary navy unless we have the means of arming them: it is folly to maintain these ships and procure arms for them if we are never to man them, and certainly it is unwise and shortsighted to defer making any provision. by' law for procuring the men who are to utilize these vessels until after the emergency of an always possible war shall have arisen. “There is no other nation that has so much of the material of war that is so little prepared to utilize it; that has so much of personnel available and that is so utterly without authority” of law to employ it. The department needs present authority 5 to enlist the thousand Alien asked for, and this number will be sufficient. if the policy herein outlined be approved by congress, to. answer all tl?e necessities of the government -wHile we are so fortunate as to be on a peace footing it will certainly suffice for years to come.” The secretary follows these a rcr»mpn«» with a statement aS to the necessity of keeping always a portion of our fleet in Preserve’ He shows iii' tables that of the total number of vessels belonging to Great Britain, France. Germany and Italy 55.5 per cent, are in reserve and 43. J in commission. and says that as a rule bur battle, ships, coast defence vessels and torpedo, boats, after theyTlave been "broken in." should be kept largely in reserve. I’.olicing the seas could be done better and more economically by cruisers of lighter draft carrying smaller crews and by gunboats. The wonderful efficiency of the rapid-fire gun was strikingly illustrated, in the battle off Yalu In 1894 between tne Chinese and Japanese fleets, and a gradual conversion of the older six-inch caliber guns to tbe rapid-fire principle will be undertaken The secretary asks Jjrt.OOO to carry out this and other suggestions relating to ordnance matters and emphasizes the necessity for furnishing armament for the auxiliary cruisers of the American line, the St. Paul and St. Louis. The department, he says, is exercising every power vested in it by law to secure guns and ordnance material, but it is much hampered by want of specificauthority- and necessary appropriations congress having failed to give $300,000 asked fcr the purpose last year. In this connection he incorporates in his report some extracts from his report last year, one paragraph.of which is so interesting that it is herewith given: "Under treaty pro visions neither the United States nor the English can keep more than one small naval vessel upon our northern lakes So far the two countries are matched. In • a e. how> war should Un:ortunat"ly . break outlet ween them. Great Britain could promptly furnish guns and gun mounts to her merchant marine on the lakes, and. though their marine is far inferior to ours in strength, the British might master those waters and do inc-il-culabfe damage to oqr lake cities. If we had a reserve of ordnance and ordnance stores we could dominate those waters without question/’ OFFER QF AID WITHDRAWN. LoaisvUle Banks Think Generosity to t’neie Sam I nappreciateU. Louisville, Kv., Dec. 2.—The banks 'f Louisville had gathered together $700.000 in gold which they offered to the United States government to keep up the surplus. They received a reply Saturday through National Bank Examiner Escot that the treasury would not return light weight coin, but would de duct at the rate of four Jpents a grain. The Bank of Kentucky and the American national contributed $150,000 each, the Chiion national $65,004>, the others from $25,000 to $50,04X1. To join a New County. St Paul, Minn., Dec 2.—Seventeen tow nships of Cass county, oom prising in population more than half the county, have seceded anti will be annexed to Crow Wing county. This is done under a new law and the governor will shortly issue the proclamation announcing the new deal. The seceders opposed a bond issue which Cass county officials had ordered. Hence the secession. Broke His Neck. Quincy, 111., Dec- 2.—Leander Brown, 70 years old, was killed by falling from his wagon. His neck was broken and he died instantly. . ExoduK of Swedez to TmneMM. Eagle, Wis., Dec. 2.—Preparatioris are being made for the exodus of 1,000 Swedes from this (Waukesha) and Walworth counties, with a view to forming the first Swedish colony in the United States. The present intention is to settle on a 1,000,000-aere tract of Tennessee lands. . Panama’* Celebration. Colon, Colombia, Dec. 2.—Festivities in celebration of the independence of Panama are on a more lavish scale than ever before. The newspapers deem the occasion opportune to pub* iish arttcleiWoJX-tSWunigtof Cuba. e

To Juliet. She trips across the dewy lawn, with sweet, uneven grace. The innocence of summer dawn "Is In her wild rose face. To gout am I a hapless prey, and lonely days I see: do, just to pass the hours away, she cornea and reads to me. • She weeps with gentle Juliet’s Ills, and •sighs with Romeo’s sighs. Who could but love the light that thrills . the summer of her eyes? O. little maid of 17. my flower so fair and fine: r tfo gallant Romeo's woes, I ween, were eVer matched for mine. How would I give the hoarded gold, locked In my vaults away. If that young head I might but hold against my heart to-day! If it were 40 years ago, when I was 23, No Romeo should win, I know, jny Juliet from me. She scans' the pages of her book with . bright and eager gaze. While past the little maid I look, and into other days. And in the lovely picture there, which fancy’s fingers trace. Lo! I am young and she is fair, and love smiles in her face. Ring, ring, O bells of yesterday! Shine, shine. O stars of youth. ’ Though I have wakfned, old and gray, to spectacles and truth! O, that I might be young again, or that I might forget Life holds for me but gout and pain—and love for Juliet! —Anna Tozier, in Brooklyn Life. I.et Summer Die. Let stimmqr die, sweet love, for we Can live as well when winter blows His frosty breath o’er land and sea. It thou art only true to me. 1 care not for the whelming snows. If thou art true. I’ll sing forjhee. From wakening dawn Vd’iTaylight sclose, A song whose burden all shall be. Let summer die. ... » a I care not for the red, red rose, for the pale anemone: Nor for the laughing stream that flows Through meadowy fields in still repose. If thou art only true to me. Let summer die. —St. George Best, in Good Housekeeping. Slumber Kiver. Low croons the mother's tender lullaby As blue eyes close And lisping voices cease. The nursery harbor lights grow dim, then 'die Away till lost amid the twilight peace. Adown the waters of slow-widening stream XVee cradle barges drift toward the sea. With curtain's furled ana passengers that cream Os flower-decked mead and gold-bejew-elled lea. ■ Os buttercups\hat smile as cradles glide Past banks where rushes bow thbir brown-tipped heads: Os mossy slopes where bashful violets —: hide. r ’And shyly shrink ’mong purpled foxglove beds. Os yellow daffodils that dance in glee As gold-curled babes, deep .slumbering, float by. , . , Nearing the margin of the moon-kisse<l Wl>Bre wind birds nest awl perfumed pine trees sigh. But Slumber river now has wider grewn And mingles softly with the Sea of Sleep: The cradles drift, by angeFwhispei sblown. While baby dreams upon the silver deep. _it. N. Wilson, in Peterson’s Magazine. Only a Lock of Softest Gold. Only a lock of softest gold' secured with tended care. And hid the Bible lids—a sweet deud baby's hair. The lonely years have come and gone since she was laid away, And yet the chliaish rorm comes t-ai-n wefore my eyes to-day. • While pressing kisses on the curl, as I was wont to do,’ a 1 see her little face once more, and little eyes of blue. Only a lock of silken hair, with faded ribbon tied — The only thing esave mem'ry left of her who early died: And yet it has a potent force to turn rny -J yearning gaze From sordid pleasures of the world to where my darling stays. And keep alive tbe hope that when my soul from clay is free. I’ll see her where she holds the gates of Heaven ajar for me. —W. T. Hail, in Memphis Commercial-Ap-peal. , , . Hau's Catarrh Cure Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 75c. A nanss docs not n ako a woman, but often breaks a man. Texas Siftings.

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