The Frontier. rUIH.IMlIKO KVK1SV TIIPltSlIAY 11V mu; fikin nru_rm nt:xr, co_ 6'K'E u.l;; • jj E11 HAS KaT The stool used by the United States navy Is recommended by the Austrian ■ocloty of engineers us the best known in practical science. A Florid a flsh story tells of a shad, some twenty inches long,which leupef from one stream to another,over a con slderable space of ground, in search o’ food. Mrs Hattie Day, of Fast Itucksport Me., sold $30 worth of braids inadt from hor own hair, and yot sho hat abundunt black tresses three fee' long. The town of Washington, Me., at iti annual spring meeting refused to ap propriate any money for a free liigt school, but voted to establish a liquor agency. - <►».. An experiment in weaving silk by electric looms has been made In Ger many and thu results oncourago a re turn to manufacturing in tho housei of the weavers. A traveler's pipe is an English inven tion, Tlio bowl has a hook attached to it which can bo inserted in tho but tonhole of tlio coat, while a tube com municates with the mouthpiece. The smoker thus has both huuds free to bo occupied as ho finds necessary. A Poston young lady at tho union station in Portland, Me., wanted tc buy a ticket for a way station, but had forgotten the name of the town, lle lng urgod to make a guess at it, she replied in blushing confusion that it sounded something like “cut’s whisk on*.” Sho got u tickot for Wiscasset. A number of Hoston women are issu lng a paper culled the Remonstrance, with the following' declaration of prin ciples: “The erreat majority of oui sex do not want the ballot, and tc force it upon them would not only be an injustice to women but would les sen their influence for good and im peril the community.” The Philadelphia Ledger states that for the first time in five years, Charlei A- Fretz, a Dolostown, Pa., farmer, Was prevented, on account of stormy weather, from planting an acre of po tatoes on St Patrick's day. Still it ii to be hoped that the Irish saint will appreciate Mr. Fretz’s good intention) and favor him this year, as for the last five, with a bountiful crop of mur phies A recent issue of the English edition of the War Cry, the organ of the Salva' tlon army, urges the duty of confession in general terms, and then asks: “Ii confession necessary In every case?” The reply is: “Tell your sin to youi captain, or find out some officer oi friend in whose heart or judgment you can confide, and tell it in the ear oi -that brother or sister; but It may be necessary for you to confess in soma form.” , Hicks pond, in Palmyra Me., is a strange body of water. It is only jtwelve acres in area, but is more than 100 feet in depth. It has no visible in let, although a fair sized stream flows from it into Lake Sebasticook. The volume of Its waters is not materially affected by either drouth or freshet, and the water is always cold. When Grant Allen, in his story ol “The Devil's Die," described his heroes as finding a wreck in midocean swarm* lag with rats, the critics said it could wot be. The wreckers who went aboard the Gottenburg Castle, off St. Mary’s Isle, recently, had just that ex perience. But the critics have nc doubt forgotten all about tho mattes by this time. C Probably the longest single span of wire rope in the world Is that now in use in the construction of the great Austin dam at Austin, Tex. The main cable is 1,350 feet long and 2X inches In diameter, and the hoisting is done by a %-lnch steel rope. The hoisting apparatus will lift a weight of seven tons and carry it the entire length of the span in about a minute and a hall If anyone is ill or annoyed in any way in Thibet the evil spirits are re sponsible, end the only sensible thing Is to go and hire a priest to frighten them off. For this purpose the lama reads aloud from his sacred writings, blows a horn made from ahumanthigb bone, beats a drum manufactured out of two human skulls, rings a bell and tells over a rosary of disc-shaped beads, cut out of human skulla Amos B. Carter of Elam, Pa, the father of twenty-one children, cele brated his 80th birthday last week. Be was married but once, and his wife died about two years ago. Upon her tombstone is this poetic inscription, placed there by Mr. Carter's direction: "Some have children and some have Cone; here lies the mother of twenty one." Mr. Carter is a very fatherly old man. --- ' There is a scheme afoot to create a greater Boston by Including sixty eight towns and cities in one vast metropolitan district, with Boston as the huh The author of the scheme, which his name is Smith, hopes to overcome local jealousies by letting each town in the metropolis manage its own local affairs. But Boston ap pears to be somewhat lukewarm in the matter, asking, with fine scorn, how there can be any greater Boston than is the Boeton that now is THE TARIFF DEBATE In C’ouj?ri>s*—.% Diliniiulitn Curried on Pare* ly for Ciiinpiilffii Purpose*. Last Wednesday, March 9, the tnriff debate opened in the house of repre sentatives. From the day on which it was first announced that an immense free trade majority had been elected to that body in November, 1890, the star of tariff “reform” has waned. The voters who, worked up to the desired degree of prejudice against the existing law by the infamon s “McKinley prices” conspiracy, sent the free traders to con gress, supposed, of course, that the days of the McKinley law were num bered. They have since been waiting for their representatives to make their promises good. lint as time went by it became ever plainer and plainer that the democratic majority had become frightened at the reaction in favor of the new tariff which set in as soon as the people discovered how shamelessly “reform” orators and papers had lied to them. The majority began to look around for some means of graceful re treat from the advanced free trade posi tion they necessarily occupied as a re sult of the prominence of the tariff in the campaign of 1890. The signal for retreat was sounded in the free trade press, which suddenly stopped talking uhout “McKinley prices" and began chronicling—as in its capacity of news purveyor it must do—the events accom panying the tide of prosperity which set in after the new law became oper ative und has since continued to rise con currently with the decline in free traders' hopes. The first effort to get under cover was made when that representative, par excellence, of free trade “reform," lloger rw wool mu, which nns already re ceived considerable attention in these columns, began last Wednesday. In the absence of Mr. Springer, who was ill, Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, opened the debate. His speech was reckless, dishonest and demagogic to a degree seldom attained in congress. As the voice of the ways and means committee representing the majority, it was a fit ting pronunciamentoof the spirit which pervades that majority, which would probably bo a minority but for the most stupendous campaign of lyiRgon record. The current debate was inaugurated for oratory only. The free wool bill or any other free trade bill cannot become a law. It will, however, serve the pur pose of pinning the enemies of protec tion down to something definite as to their intentions in regard to tho tariff. Hut their policy is one of deception. They will conceal their ultimate pur pose as much and as long as possible. They would avoid any discussion of the subject but that they fear their constit uents would not brook such a flagrant breach of faith after all the belicose threats against "McKinley ism” made before election. They are playing a losing game. They have no heart in their anti-tariff crusade and can safely be loft in the hands of Mr. Reed and his little band of valiant protectionists, Kll Perkins and Editor Hemphill. Mr. Eli Perkins, who has been mak ing a lecturing tour through the south, was in Nashville, Tenn., some time ago and was interviewed by a Nashville American reporter. Among other things Mr. Perkins told the following incident of his southern tour: "Well, the best political joke of the season happened at Charleston I found Mr. Hemphill, the brilliant free trade editor of the old free trade News and Courier, writing editorials in favor of a protective tariff on rice and sea island cuiion. “ ‘Why,’ said he, ‘the Egyptians shipped 40,000 hales of long stuple cotton over here last year for twelve cents a pound. They knocked down the price of our South Carolina long staple cot ton. And those cheap-lahor Chinese sent thou sands of bushels of rice, made by low-priced live cents per day labor to break down our well paid labor In South Carolina. Now,' continued Mr. Hemphill, ‘you Yankees have a tariff against corn, wool, rye, barley and wheat com ing from Canada, and why can’t we Rebs have a tariff against the Egyptians and Chinese.' ” Being a high protective tariff man myself I felt like hugging Mr. Hemphill. "At last,” I said, -the protective tariff Yank and the free trade Reb stand on the same platform. Arise and sing.” Referring to this incident related by Mr. Perkins, the Augusta Chronicle, which was always till the present time, a strong “reform” paper, remarks: Had this story been told a year or so ago Editor Hemphill would no doubt have appealed to the repututlon which the genial Ell enjoys for unncqualntunce wtth the truth as his surest defense, but he will not do so now. Editor Hemphill has taken the practical view that while protection is the policy of the country he had better try to get some of the benefits of it for his section and people. He wants to investi gate in a practical way the question: “Does Protection Protect?' If present industrial conditions in the south continue, protectionists will look for their strongest allies in the bourbon free trade editors and statesmen of slavery days._ Something Wrong—What Is It? Whoever contemplates, on the one hand, the enormous powers of produc tion in the United Kingdom, and, on the other, the misery which, neverthe less, griuds down masses of the popula tion, will necessarily conclude that the circumstances which insure or promote the creation and due distribution of wealth are yet unknown or mistakeu. He will see the science which assumes to teach these things discredited, help less and utterly at fault There must be something fearfully wrong or essen tially deficient in the prevailing system; there must necessarily be some error in theory. No adequate practical measures of relief can be devised till it is discov ered.—Sir John Barnard By lea. We are able to report progress in our work of reforming the “tin plate liar.” Not long since he would not admit that any American tin plate mills existed. Now he only contends that the Amer ican establishments do not make tin plate of certain kinds and certain sizes of a certain thickness in certain large quantities at certain low prices. This, we take it, is a marked improvement No case of total depravity hire, we fondly hope. FREE WOOL AND THE LABORER. Whi»t Mr. Springer's Hill Would Mean to American Workmen—It Would Clone I'p Hundred! of FnctnrJen Now Employed In Making Woolen Gooiln, and Thun Throw Many 1 hounandn Out of Work. It docs not require much thought to see the ruinous effect which the enact ment of Mr. Springer’s bill, abolishing the duty on wool nnd greatly reducing the duties on its manufactures, must have on American wool growing. The importation of 872,000,000 in wool man ufactures in addition to the $43,000,000 last year sent to this country (for Mr. Springer says that the decrease in rev enue will have to bo made up by in creased importations, and on the basis of last year’s imports, this increase will be at least 872,000,000), $115,000,000 in all, would simply be the importation of :J4.->,000,000 pounds of wool, though in a manufaucturcd form, to take the place of so much American wool in our mar kets. This quantity, increased by even the amount of raw wool now annually imported, 110,000,000 pounds—it would doubtless be more under Mr. Springer’s free wool measure—would give a total of 404,000,000 poundsof wool that would come in. Deducting this quantity from our total consumption of wool, 600,000, 000 pounds, we find that there would remain a market for only 180,000,000 pounds of the 303,000,000 pounds an nually produced in this country. These are the results which Mr. Springer him self admits will follow from his wool and woolens bill. IJut the farmer will not be the only one injured. The additional 872,000,000 in manufactured wool which Mr. Springer says would be imported under the lower duties which he proposes would, of course, supplant an equiva lent quantity of American goods, and compel American wool manufacturing establishments to reduce their output by that amount. Now, $72,000,000 worth of foreign goods at the undervalued prices at which they are imported would be equivalent to at least 8100,000,000 worth of domestic goods at American wholesale prices. American woolen and worsted mills must, therefore, make 8100,000,000 less in poods than they make now. That means that 60,000 mill hands which it takes to make 8100,000,000 in finished products must lose their places and $16, 000,000 in wapes. Foreipners would do the work and receive the pay. But 816,000,000 is only an insignificant item in the great total loss which labor would suffer from Mr. Springer’s $72, 000,000 addition to our present imports of wool manufactures. It takes account only of the wages paid for direct labor in manufacturing, about one-fifth of the whole amount of labor involved. Take a piece of woolen cloth, trace it back to its original elements before they were touched by the hand of man, commencing with the labor of shipping, handling and placing on the shelf of the jobbing house the finished piece of cloth, following it through all the pro cesses in the factory, not forgetting the labor of the engineers, firemen, watch men, clerks, overseers employed about the establishment, nor the labor in volved in producing the coal, wood, oil, belts, and the score or more of other classes of miscellaneous supplies con sumed in the factory; then following the raw wool as it is handled and trans ported from farm to factory, including the farmer's labor of tending and shear ing the flocks, raising hay and grain crops to feed them, not omitting even the salt they eat and the labor of pro ducing it—if all of these and all other elements of labor are counted, fully 80 per cent of the wholesale selling price of the goods, which we have placed at 8100,000,000, represents labor cost of production. In other words, Mr. Springer would take 880,000,000 from American labor in order that the worsted and woolen mills and working people of Bsadford and Huddersfield ana r-ngnsn ana Australian wool grow ers might prosper. To realize what this means to Ameri can industry generally, one has only to imagine what the conditions would be in any factory town if all the factories should shut down. Every tradesman, professional man, clerk, car driver, bar ber, cook and chambermaid in the place would suffer. The town lives on the wages received by the working people which are spent for household neces saries and general supplies, and are (kissed from hand to hand, imparting life and nourishment to all branches of Industry. The withdrawal of an an nual disbursement of 880,000,000 from the channels of trade would be like drawing a corresponding proportion of life blood from a healthy body. The results in both cases would be similar. Activity would give place to inaction, strength to weakness, health to lan guishing sickness That is what Mr. Springer's measure means to labor and its dependent interests. Protest Against the Bagging Pleeemeal BUL Democratic free trade “reformers" are hearing from their constituents in relation to their proposed piecemeal bills. Congressman Samuel Byrns, oi Missouri, received the following com munication from Warren, Jones & Oratz, a bagging manufacturing firm of St. Louis: Dear Sir—We wired you again to-day re questing you to vigorously protest against the Turner bill, putting bagging on the free list, be cause it would practically confiscate the bag ging mills in St. Louis. It cannot be just for a single industry, that has been built up under the tarifT, to be singled out and destroyed as the bagging industry would be if the Turner bill be comes a law. The bagging mills in St. Louis employ about 600 hands, and these people would be turned adrift shortly if this Turner bill is passed. For the past two years bagging has been lower than ever before in this country particularly during 1891, and surely the south ern planters have no reason to complain of the values of bagging. In fact, a number of mills have ceased manufacturing because of the ex tremely low prices. If the bagging industry lc this country is destroyed, then this country wll' have to be supplied with bagging from India where there has been for years a strong jute combination. In such a case the cotton planters of the south would have to depend on this jute combination of Calcutta for their supply of bag glng, and they would surely have to pay very much higher prices for their cloth than they dt now. Yours truly, Wahrem, Jokes & Gratz. What American industries and the people dependent upon them need most of all is to he let alone. There is • chance for the application of the free traders’ laitnz favre principles here, NEBRASKA. Tho Union Pacific is to build a new iepot at Grand Island. Ponca has a proposition for an electric light plant before the city council. Tho Wyomin'g hotel at York was de stroyed by fire. It will not be rebuilt. Four-year-old Nellie Hill, residing near Talmage, fell and broke her leg in four places. Jessie Dudek, of Wauneta, was severely burned by falling into a vat of slacking lime. Niobrara is trying to get the Short Line to build a branch through that town into Boyd county. A Bayard steer was found dead with his head firmly wedged between the spokes of a wagon wheel. F B. Stacy and J. W. Striker are in jail at Wayne, serving sentences imposed on them for gambling. Rev. L Piper, pastor of the United Brethern church, at Blue Springs, will shortly remove to Lincoln, i Hartington business men have been | victimized to a considerable extent lately j by the counterfeit coin fiend. I Columbus people are talking of doing ! considerable building this season. An i opera house is also talked of. Martin Morenrity and James Morrissey, two young men confined in the county jail at Columbus, made their escape. At a meeting of the Holt County Agri cultural society October 4, 5, 6 and 7, was the time agreed upon for holding the fall fair. The O’Neill Daily Tribune is soon to be launched by the O’Neill Printing com pany. C. S. Evans and sons are the pro jectors. Charlie Chamberlain of Fairmont, got a vicious kick on the eye from a horse he was clipping recently, but fortunately no serious damage resulted. Sheriff Holliday, of Custer county, went to Norfolk Monday, taking Mrs. M. A. Pile, an insane woman from the west part of the county, to the asylum. Mrs. Emanuel DeVoll. of Grafton, has sued Patrick Hammond, a Graftou saloon keeper, for 4200 damages for selling her husband liquor and thus depriving her of his wapas. The city of Ord report* that it is almost out of debt, and all the financial affairs of the town are in good shape. This condi tion is owing to its having had for the last two years a council of business men who have looked well to the interests of the town. There will soon be three vacant pulpits at David City. Rev. V. F. Clark has re signed the pastorate of the Congregational church, Rev. Mr. Crounse will go to In diana soon and Rev. Mr. Hands, of the Baptist church is about to leave for other fields. W. T. Bullis, at Valentine, says that curing the six months he has served as deputy sheriff of that county the jail has not had an occupant. This certainly speaks well for Valentine and Cherry county. Can another county in the state make as good a showing? George Johnson, & laborer employed in the quarries at South Bend, was seriously injured by a derrick falling upon him, striking him in the small of the back. He was brought to Ashland and med ical examination showed him to be quite seriously injured internally. Owen Green, a young man about 20 years of age, was struck and killed by an east-bound wild freight about half a mile west of Schuyler. He was subject to epi leptic fits, and while returning home this morning was taken with one and fell on the track. Mrs. Katharine Schneider, an Otoe county widow, is in dire distre»s because her cow waded iuto a mud hole and miser ably perished. The widow applied to the county commissioners for recompense but failed to get it, and now she threatens to sue for damages. According to the Goring Courier, Scotts Bluff county holds out better inducements to settlers—who have a little money espe cially—than any region west of the Mis souri. What you buy this spring for $10 or $15 an acre will be in a few years, likely only one, worth 130 to (75. As Editor Parks of the Norfolk Herald was about to retire to his bachelor’s couch he found his lamp empty and pro ceeded to replenish the same. After pour ing the liquid in he suspicioned that it might be other than kerossne, and pro ceeded to investigate. What followed is not definitely known, but it is certain that Mr. Parks' face is vory much disfigured. Rev. Mr. Button was at one time pastor of the Methodist church at Richland, Col fax county, but he isn’t any more. There was a little difficulty between the rev erend gentleman and some of his flock, and this is the way Mr. Button explains it in a card he has issued: “The official board did not seem to be satisfied with the very best Epworth league in the county, a growing and interesting prayer meeting, an increase in church members, but wanted the best and most faultless preacher besides. Because they did not have the latter seven men got their heads together and began to howl and the preacher packed his goods and made tracks for Omaha. Just who howled the loudest is a little hard to tell, but Brothers Nelson and Grover are entitled to the ban ner. Thanks, gentlemen I I am now1 located at a place where all the members are at peace with themselves. Remem ber God’s word says: ’All things work together for good to those who love Him,’ and I feel like a bird that has escaped its cage. Again I say, thanks I’’ According to the Clay Center Gazette Democrat, Rev. T. W. Spanswlck, a re vivalist who has been operating in that section of the state, is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. According to the paper named, Spanswick left Crafton “at the invitation of the officers of the church. The reverend gentleman’s general deportment was not as it shuuld be for a man in his position, and the church thought best to discard him. Since leaving here it has leaked out that he was, in several different in stances, entirely too familiar with the sis ters of his congregation.” The Herman Gazette, by S. C. Harris, is the most promising newspaper enterprise* begun in the state in a long while. Mr. Harris Is a honey cooler, in the diamond class, and he has the age and experience to properly shade these valuable qualifica tions. T he saloon of William Beneck, at Emer erson, was destroyed by fire, and a “vag” named Charles Smith was arrested for arson and burglary. Some bottled whisky, cigars, tobacco, etc., identified by Benecks ss his property was found in his posses sion. On his preliminary hearing he was bound oyer to the district oourt. EI6HI STUDENTS DROWNED A Sail Boat Capsizes Off the City of Boston. — An Instructor and Ten Bojri From the Boston Farm Scliool Thrown Into the Icy Sea—Only Two Oot Safely to Land. Boston, April 11.—Last evening' an instructor and ten boys connected with the Boston farm school at Thompson's island were capsized in a sail boat and the instructor and eight of the boys were drowned. The party were return ing to the island from City Point and had reached a point between Spectre island and Thompson’s island when their boat was struck by a squall and capsized. The victims were: A. F. NORBEKG, instructor, aged about 40. FRANK F. HITCHCOCK, aged lit H. F. THATCHER, 17. GEORGE F. ELLIS, 10. THOMAS PHILLIPS, 16. WILLIAM W. CURRAN, 17. C. H. GRAVES, 17. HARRY E. DOUD. 18. A. H. PACKARD, 16. When the boat capsized the eleven occupants succeeded in securing posi tions where they could cling to the overturned craft, but the ice-cold water and the exertion necessary to keep their heads above the surface overcame the unfortunates and one by one they were compelled to release their hold. Some of them endured the unequal contest for nearly four hours and it was 11 o’clock when the boat with its two survivors still clinging to it, but exhausted, drifted ashore. They were immediately cared for and are recover ing from the exhaustion of their expe rience. THINK “LUCKY” WILL RELENT Baldwin's Manner Taken as Meaning For giveness lor Oeorge and Anita. San Francisco, April 11. —So quietly did “Lucky” Baldwin return to town yesterday that no one discovered his presence till evening. The old million aire was as uncommunicative as u clam about his daughter's marriage, and all he said in response to queries was: “The marriage is legal as far as I am aware, and if 1 am satisfied with it the public will have to be. ” When asked if he would resume his relations with the runaways he said: “I have nothing to do with my son in-law,” but he said not a word against his favorite daughter. Inference from this is made by the friends of the young eouple that “Lucky” will hold out for a short time and eventually forgive the children. Meanwhile George has been promoted in the county clerk's office and gets more mone for household expenses, but his entire salary will not keep the fair Anita in caramels and corsage bouquets. TERRORIZED BY TRAMPS. The Knights of the Rond Take Possession of s Freight Yard. Corning, N. Y., April 11.—The Erie freight yard in this city was terrorized by a gang of the boldest burglars last night which the police have ever had to deal with. They broke into the freight cars and when the employes tried to drive them away they flour ished revolvers and put the employes to flight. An officer captured one of the burglars at 9 o'clock. An hour later the gang stoned a brakeman on an outgoing train, broke into the cars, stealing a quantity of ladies Bhoes. The police then cap tured three more of the gang, but only after some shontincr in whieli nna the robbers was hit. The others were chased a distance by officers on a loco motive, but they took the woods and escaped. The gang was equipped with burglars’ tools and were undoubtedly professionals. BORROWE Ts A COWARD. HU New York Club Friends Think He Is Afraid. New York, April 11.—New York clubmen are disgusted with Hallett Alsop Borrowe, and they think with Drayton that he is a coward. Mr. Bor rowe was earnestly advised by an inti mate friend, who is an official of sev eral New York clubs, that he must thoroughly whip Mr. Drayton at once. It was learned from Mr. Drayton's habits that Mr. Borrowe might at any time find his man and publicly thrash him. This being determined upon, Borrowe's club friends withdrew and awaited with no little interest the news of the encounter. Monday passed, Tuesday passed and Wednes day passed. Cn Thursday came the news that Borrowe and Milbank had fled on an ocean steamer, registered under assumed names: Mr. Borrowe’s club friends have ceased to defend his valor, and no longer try to deny the stories that Borrowe trembled at the tales of Mr. Drayton's accuracy as a pistol shot. PRINCE MICHAEL. The Prophet of the Flying Boll Appears in Police Court. Detroit, Mich., April 11.—Prince Michael, of the New and Latter House of Israel, and his spiritual wife, Eliza Court, were in the police court this morning for examination on the charge of adultery, but the case was adjourned until Monday next, owing to some legal technicality as regards the prince’s bonds Judge Chamlers has issued a warrant for his re-arrest and he will be taken into custody again this afternoon. No Escape fur Deeming. London, April 11.—The British au thorities have applied for a warrant against Deeming, the murderer, so that he may be brought to England and prosecuted for the Bain Hill crimes in case the prosecution in Australia ihould result in a failure to convict Killed by tlie Electric Wire. Boston, April 11.—James Hayes, a lineman employed by one of the elec tric light companies, was killed this morning by receiving a shock while trimming * light ERRATIC DUMAS. HI* Silly Quarrel with Mm. « , Under a abis, April 11.—The mo»t talked-** man at preaent is Alexandre Dm! flls. and the following story U heart only m whispera-for in view ? V fact that it concerns one of the est contemporary French celehrUi« no newspaper in France has vet fc a the temerity to print it. Some Italu! journals which are not distinguished for the same delicacy have outlined it in their columns, and II secalo ‘ Milan, has stated it boldly infull.onl! suppressing certain names, which sr> most easily recognized. 00 ar® ”f8t Part °* Btory. which I* the least spicy portion of the narrv tive, refers to the great row between Dumas, fils, and Mme. Meissonter Dumas, as is well known, was one of Meissonier s most intimate friends, and when the painter died he headed th. list of subscriptions for a magnificent statue for which contribution! p^ in from all quarters The memorial progressed rapidly, and all went well until the committee, of which Dumas was not a member, selected the loca tion at the end of the Place Male*, herbes, where the statue of Dumaa pere, stands This spot, it now a£ pears, had been selected by Duma* ills, himself, as the place for the statue which he thinks his admirers will be certain to erect for him as soon as he is dead. He accordingly protested against the situation. His protest only caused amusement, and in a rage he withdrew his name from the lUt on which it had been so prominent a figure, and Mme. Meissonier and he are now deadly enemies This would be trifling in itself but for the fact that it indicates the erratic conduct of the novelist The strange part of the story begins with the announcement made about ten days ago that he proposed to sell at auction his picture gallery and the whole of his famous art collection. The pictures are extremely valuable, nearly all being gifts of the great mod ern painters, and they are likely,there ;-* — wvvu num uicir assucia tion and their intrinsic value, very high prices. The art collection is al most equal in value to the pictures, and there is little doubt, according to the judgment of connoiseurs, that the sale will produce a minimum of 1,000, 000 irancs, and possibly the figures may run to even double this amount 1 be. reason for the sale is purely feminine, and is nothing more nor less than the desire of Mme. Regnier, the daughter of the famous Societaire of tlie Committee Francaise. Dumas fell in love with her six months ago, and has completely lost his head so far as she is concerned. Her st-iange power over him has caused a great deal of surprised comment, but there is no doubt as to his complete slavery or her wildly extravagant habits His handsome income derived from his own and his father's works has been quite insufficient to meet her wants She only laughs over the matter and speaks of him as her “amoureux sur le retour,'’ indicating that the power of love is bringing him hack to youthful ness This, however, is not the worst of the matter. Dumas’ two daughters are married and live in homes of their own. He has a wife, but practically lives alone, and it is now remarked that Mme. Dumas has not been seen in public for some months—not since his liason with Mme. Regnier was un der full headway. Furthermore, Du mas goes about meeting his friends with a melancholy air and whisper ing: “My poor wife; I shall be obliged to have her placed in a maison de sants ” It is declared on the other band, that Mme. Dumas’ faculties are not the least impaired, and her sorrow over the eccentricities of her husband, as well as his keeping her in retire ment, are sources of deep and poignant sorrow to her. FLOODS IN THE SOUTH. Twenty-Fire Families Said to Have Perished at Columbus, Miss. Birmingham, Ala., April 11.— Rain has set in again and much more dam age will be done by floods. No trains have run to Memphis over the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham road for a week. In one placa the road is washed out for half a mile and trains cannot be run for many days yet In Marion county large iron bridges across the creeks and rivers were swept away. Near Pearson's mill John Livingston and two children while crossing the creek in a wagon were swept away and drowned. Eight miles south of Carbon Hill two women were drowned. A man from Columbus, Miss, says twenty-five families are believed to have perished by the floods around that place. Near Greenwood 1,200 feet of the Georgia Pacific track was washed away. At Gadsden, Ala., the Coosa river is forty feet above low water and hundreds of acres south of the town are submerged. Many rafts of timber have been lost and damage amounting to thousands of dollars has been done. THE TREATY OF 1817. A Resolution Adopted In the Senate May Lead to Its Repeal. Washington, April 11.—Mr. MeMil* Ian's resolution in relation to the oper ation of the treaty of 1817 as regards the prohibition of the building wf war vessels on the great lakes by the United States were adopted by the senate today, Mr. Hale, who had previously ob jected to their immediate consideration withdrawing his objection after con sultation with the secretary of state and the secretary of the navy. The resolution will call up the genera question of the repeal of the treaty o 1817 in regard to the war armaments of Great Britain and the United State on the great lakes. City or Fitchburg Burning. New Bedford, Mass, April lb-—The steamer City of Fitchburg, of the o Colony freight line, which arrived he yesterday from New York, is burning Several tugs are now throwing strea of water into her, but it is feared will be seriously damaged. Died lu Awful Agony. Des Moines, la, April9.—Mrs. Ann. errs, wife of Adolphus Carrs, °‘ itv, was so badly burned by 8' . in*e Thursday evening that ah a great agony last evening. 7 years old.