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MORTON CHOSEN: c,ka gets a cabinet po sition. . uiprlin* Morton Twiderrd tka ■TjMP ot Agriculture—Hl» Ao officially Announced A 8r "That 1* creditable to Mr. CI.v. judgment—The TronMo In 'M seem* to be Over and Fence - Mere rretmll*. i.mitka Man for Secretory of Agri culture. kewood, N. J.. Feb. 18.—Mr. •aid announced last evening that i r'iuff Morton of Nebraska, who h! him at his request, was tendered etaxyship of agriculture, and tied it. vbVi pan Lamont, Mr. Cleveland’s t -v of the navy, came out on the : aiii from New York and had a • He with the president-elect. • had departed Mr. Morton ar il c- was driven through a blind .,... storm to the cottage. After a •;,!k Mr. Cleveland asked him to ;i'-'tor the department of agricul '.;[ Mr. Morton accepted. This . . uly the navv and attorney gen ; . t.‘ be provided for. Thisafter v Carlisle arriveil and went to „'-YiUfe. He will be Mr. Cleveland’s [, v1 • r night. n ui r Berry of Arkansas came out Y • rain with Mr. Carlisle and had ;,..'ialk with Mr. Cleveland. He v, main at Lakewood hotel over .' |i,. said his presence here was l, purpose of attending the kin iii‘t,"a entertainment, of which Y;'. veland was one of the patron ami that a party of friends ac laticd him. u iio. 111., Feb. 18.—Joy Morton, sterling Morton of Nebraska last night confirmed the report v- father was to enter Cleveland's : in reply to questions by a re Mr, Morton said that Mr. Cleve u:--. Wednesday telegraphed Mr. ;,ir <o proceed to Lakewood. Mr. ;,,(, ame here and asked his eldest i*,, ,il, to accompany him east, nip-lit Joy Morton received the fol io- ilisnateh: ikfwood, N. J.. Feb. 17—Joy Mor idcago: Offered and accepted, k made public immediately. J. Sterling Morton. r. Morton added that whUe his it had not sought the honor he felt tly pleased at being asked by Mr. eland to a seat in the cabinet. J. STERLING MORTON. St- ding Morton was bom in Ad liffersou county, N. Y., April 22, ! i is ancestry was of Scottish birth Pinitans. Removing with his par ti Michigan at an early age, Mr. tor. was educated at Ann Arbor and r.ion college. New York, gradu p from the latter institution in 1854. i< studying he had shown predilec • toward newspaper work and con T--u to the Detroit Free Press and r journals of reputation. On Octo >- 1854, he married and started t. arriving at Bellevue early in No ber. After a few weeks at Belle ti> > oung couple moved to Nebraska . where lie started in to edit the newspaper. In 1855 he was t'li to the territorial legislature; >: candidate in 1850, when he was a1--- by eighteen votes in conse t - of his opposition to chartering M at” banks. He went back a year r. however, and took an active part 1 ■Uer struggle attendant on the of the legislature to Florence. M- rton succeeded Thomas B. Cum '-■I'refciry of the territory in the : - i f 58, and within a few months iin- active governor on the resigna Governor Richardson. In the of .860 the democrats nominated ha'congress, but he failed of elec ■ kx years later he aspired to be 71 ruor of the new state of Nebras ka :ie failed of election, but David secured the honor. Mr. Morton appointed to represent Nebraska at ' : exposition, and was one of the m.-loners at the Centennial. He ■ n actively and usefully inter , lr agricultural and horticultural - aving served as president of the , . *n charge of these indus j. 1 "'1 claims the honor of being the m.i . or of Arbor day. In economics h''r: out-and-out free trader, and - ics of Cobden and the “Man J - school” are to him the “last !. 1 ? t!le subject, having all the \'Ll^ Power of a divine revelation. s. campaign in Nebraska 1 i su m the minds of the reud -i. ( nominated for governor 11 niocrats. and made an earnest, .canvass of the state. Diooasned substantial victory, but then iv.-abuw® t*di?»8,ar* received b3 ;>•'l:nrT-„{’ ?.r’i°r-lovmg- citizen; In .. n?BOf rehef. s|u riff s nA=aVeibeen ordered home >InnfSe las been disbanded under tiin a 1 districts to do l •iicau parties*5 °f theP°Pulist or re Itical affiwJ according to theii mhations, are leaving: ft 1 their ’ ,,a, “ Helens Once More. ,A’ Kan., Feb. 18.—Grim visaged ,l;0Dr 1’0'-ers with threatening ; er the fair capital of sunny Kan •we has been no bloodshed, i> JjO- * ni-ij vohmt ilas,been disbanded, fn -m t floek«d into the the rural districts to do bat l^wea^ and*' othe lav.- no inn S °f warfare, and mar are. S?xt *°“.ger rules on Capitc "■ith the offieewr rfUtbliC1!* lefflsla1 a's^tantsern-ers.°* tke house, ani ,!:'"I'mentofrfilntS;at'arm8’af ter ai Native hin' fift-y'two hours in rer *««• as free°“? more breathe th ih real and last ni^h ''^akfasted1 thk4^ °f °D theflo01 oithelandhLrS morning on th “ ' -P of coffnn1ad on a ^ndwicl « the end ”f ,hauledt,£ a hundre °f a rone Bv.n_:_ ; at the end „f , auIedt,P a hundr, terms of a,T,,.a rope. Following irst—it entered into, the housc^ nnderstanc has SeSd!doy?rby_ t'ffi're has l.Pres'ded over hy 1 the hou^l>’Ured- a haU in wh >^s shau^f prasided over by 1 mativ-e Wnam ,a Possession r-ted. “a11 undisturbed . ’’-fismo're shain P??sided over ,,s: irhed an.) ad ln hWe manner «l the hall whU^f it'll *** ^ P n,l‘ V if i+ ,,'ynich it has secui ;ta--e house "*** a room 'ta>-e house "*** a root U&ntative haUmeetiD<r8 ° if-r 0 arrests to U house ot ,to he made other. 01 member* or officer ourth-Ti. mtlita to be imm ately relieved, including the sewn* cruits sworn in and the sheriff’s posse to be immediately. Fifth—Militia companies now enroute fov Topeka to be immediately tele graphed to by the governor to return to their homes. The developments of the day are re* garded on all sides as a decisive victory for the republicans. Even the popu lists, with chagrin and openly expressed indignation at what some of them call the governor’s weakness, admit that the republicans have triumphed for the time, at least. Rejoicing at Home. Nebraska City, Neb., Feb. 18_Ne braska City is jolifying over the ap pointment of J. Sterling Morton to the secretaryship of,agriculture. Interviews with prominent democrats and republi cans develop nothing but satisfaction. All unite in saying it is a fitting tribute to the father of Arbor day and an honor to the cabinet. Arrangements are be ing made for a royal reception upon Mr. Morton’s return from Chicago. The Tice President-Elect. Bloomington, 111., Feb. 18.—A fare well reception was given last night by the Bloomington club, of which the vice president-elect is a member, to that gentleman and his wife. The af fair was a delightful one. The club rooms were elaborately and beautifully decorated. # The national flag was draped across the. end of thtf reception hall against a background of potted plants and flowers. Mrs. Stevenson wore a simple and beautiful gown of lavendar silk, and diamonds as orna ments. Five hundred persons from Bloomington and vicinity were pres ent. There was dancing after 9:30 o’clock, and an elaborate lunch just before midnight. This is probably the last social event in which Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson wiU participate prior to their departure for vvashingtdh on the 87th The Annexation Treaty. Washington, Feb. 18—The president’s message accompanying the draft of a treaty for the annexation of the Hawaii islands, transmitted to the senate, says the provisional treaty does not attempt to deal in detail with the questions growing out of annexation. The Ha waiian commissioners have consented to leave to the future and to the just and benevolent purposes of the United States the adjustment of all such ques tions. The president says it has been the policy of the administration not only to respect but encourage the contin uance of the independent government of the Hawaiian islands so long as it af forded a suitable guarantee for the pro tection of life and property and main tained a stability and strength that gave adequate security against the do mination of any other , power. The overthrow of the monarchy was not in any way promoted by this government, but had its origin in what seems to have been a reactionary and revolution ary policy on the part of Queen Liliuo kalani, which put in serious peril hot only the large and preponderating in terests of the United States in the is lands, but all foreign interests and in deed the decent administration of the civil affairs and peace of the islands. It is quite evident the monarchy af fects government so weak and inade quate as to be a prey to designing and unscrupulous persons. The restoration of the queen to the throne is undesir able, if not impossible, and unless actively supported by the United States would be accompanied by serious disas ter and the disorganization of all busi ness interests. The influence and in terests of the United States in the islands mist be increased, and not dim inished. Only two courses are now open—one the establishment of a pro tectorate by the United States, and the other annexation full and complete. The president thinks the latter course, which has been adopted in ‘ the treaty, will be highly promotive of the best in terests of the Hawaiian people, and the only one that will adequately secure the interests of the United States. These interests are not wholly selfish. It is essential that none of the other great powers secure these islands. Such possession would not consist with our safety and the peace of the world. This view of the situation is so apparent and conclusive that no protest has been heard from any government against the proceedings looking to annexation. Evex'y foreign representative at Hono lulu promptly acknowledged the pro visional government, “and I think,” says the president, “there is general concurrence in the opinion that the de posed queen ought not to be restored. Prompt action upon the treaty is very desirable, if it meets the approval of the senate peace and good order will be se cured in the islands under the existing laws, until such time as congress can provide by legislation a permanent form of government for the islands. This legislation should be and, I do not doubt, will be, not only just to the na tives and all other residents and citi zens of the islands, but should be char acterized by great liberality and a high regard to the rights of all the people and all foreigners domiciled there.” s The Pension Bill. Washington’, Feb. 30.—The pension bill has passed the house, but every amendment affecting' the administra tion of the pension laws and every amendment proposing, changes which were designed to cut down the rolls were stricken from the bill. As it fin ally passed the committee of the whole the bill contained a paragraph provid ing that no person having an income of $1,000, or capable of earning that sum in gross, should be permitted to draw a pension under the disability act of 1380. But through the efforts of Mr. Pickier of South Dakota this was stricken off, as was the clause providing for the abo lition of the pension agencies. Prac tically the bill, as it went through the house, simply appropriates $104,000,000 for the payment of pensions during the fiscal year of 1804. and nothing else. Shot HU Wife’s Guardian. LaMars, Iowa, Feb. 18.—Nicholas Lang, ex-Mayor of Remsen, shot his wife's guardian, John Neishwander, a wealthy farmer, yesterday at Remsen. The murdered man was opposed to the marriage. Mr. Lang eloped with the girl about a year ago. Both are wealthy. Neishwander had threat ened to kill Lang on sight. Lang sur rendered to the sheriff and claims ha acted in self-defense. , Hv1 CLAIM IT A MIRACLE. A Mala raw la a Nu'i HaaMwaa Ala (Mara on a Pillow Naar aJSiek Child. Nkwpoht, R. I., Rah. 18.—This city has a most extraordinary religious sen* aation, many claiming it a miracle. In A plain garret room, without even a picture on the walls, in probably the most humble home in the city, a little child, the son of cMr. and Mrs. M. J. Malloy, has been lying for several weeks unable to move, suffering with water on the brain, its lower limbs paralyzed and its stomach congested. Last evening the mother, while watching her little one, was terrified to see a face appear on the pillow next to the one on which the child lay. The news spread like wildfire and hun dreds of people—Methodists, Baptists, Episcopalians and Catholics—visited the room and came away astonished! Lights were shifted into every posi tion, but there on the pillow was a male face, in . nun’s headdress, the forehead, nose, eyes, mouth and chin as plainly outlined as if chiseled out of pure marble. The more minute the' observation the more' striking did the features stand out. The face gradually faded away at 3 a. m. Large crowds be sieged the place, but were refused ad mission by orders of priests and doc tors. The child has taken a turn for the better. DINNER TO CARLISLE. rile Coining Secretary of the Treasury llanqueted by the Senators, Washington, Feb. 18.—The parting dinner given to Senator Carlisle by his late associates in the Senate at the Arlington Hotel, was a memorable af fair in more ways than one. The din ner itself was the best that could bo served, and the company included al most tlie entire Senate. f-j President pro tem Manderson of Ne braska, presided in the absence of Vice-President Morton (who later in the evening appeared and made a liappy speech). At Mr. Manderson’a right was Mr. Carlisle, the guest of the evening. Air. voornees oi Indiana, in response to the toast, “The 1'resident of the United States,’’ eulogized President llarrison, saying that he had known him about forty rears; they ha&„ practiced law together, and he admired his industry and courage and integrity. He believed his foreign policy would pass into his tory and challenge the admiration of the world. He closed with some pa thetic allusions to the President’s be reavements, and with the statement that the President retired from office with the sincere well wishes of the American people for his future suc cess. _ ‘ 1 1 ANOTHER CABINET CERTAINTY Ur. Cleveland Bare Hoke Smith Will Be Secretary of the Interior. Lakewood, N. J., Feb 17.—Mr. Cleveland has announced the name of the fifth member of his Cabinet. It is that of Iioko Smith of Georgia for Secretary of the Interior. In making, the announcement Mr. Cleveland said: “I met Mr. Hoke Smith of Georgia in my office in New York yesterday. He called at my request. I offered him the position of Secretary of the Inter ior. He accepted. I wish to say that I have not written him or received any letters or other communications from him and that yesterday was the first time I have seen him since election.” Mr. Cleveland went to New York on the 8:30 a. m. train. He remained at his office in the Mills building all day and saw only those who called by ap pointment. Mrs. Cleveland accompa nied him to and from the city. The selection of Hoke Smith, with that of Gresham, Carlisle, Bissell and Laraont, fills all of the positions except the portfolio of the Navy, the Attorney General and Agriculture. SHOULD HAVE PAID HIS PARE Kansas Elopement Spoiled by a Ride la a Box Car, ' Kansas Crrr, Mo., Feb. JO.—James Moore, a coal miner at Weir City, KaD., arranged yesterday to elope with the wife of James Hennessy, an other miner. Moore gave Mrs. Hen nessy money with which to buy a' ticket to Kansas City and arranged to meet her here. Moore thought he would save the price of hia transporta tion and broke into an empty box car to steal a ride. - In the meantime Hennessy found that his wife had disappeared and j learned that she had bought a ticket •to Kansas City. He determined to fol low, and to save the expense of the railroad journey decided to steal a ride on a freight car. As fate would have it he got into the same car with Moore. The men had never met be fore, and in their conversation Moore told of the elopement. Hennessy held his peace until they reached here. Then he had Moore arrested, and go ing to the lovers’ rendezvous found his wife and took her home. Tried to Protect the Pinkertons. ■ Pittsburg, Pa., Feh. 17.—The de fense in the O’Donnell trial attempted to show that O’Donnell was a corres pondent and was at Homestead the day of the riot acting in that capacity. A number of newspaper men were called as witnesses, and it was shown that previous to the riot he had been doing work for several Pittsburg papers. The general trend of the testimony of the newspaper men was to the effect that O' Donndll interfered to protect the Pinkertons. ’ Will or Mrs. W. C Whitney. ; New York, Feb. 17. —The will of the j late Flora Fayne Whitney, wife of Ex Secretary of the Navy William (* Whitney, was yesterday filed for pros | bate. The will was executed Jan. 31, j 1393, and leaves all of her property, | real and personal, to her husband and makes him sole executor. The per sonal estate is valued in the petition of Mr. Whitney at £.‘.300.000 and the real estate at 9730,000. « ■■ IT LOOKED WARLIKE. —... ! BUT' FORTUNATE!.V NUBLOdD WAS SPILLED. ; , ? / llellteoM Preparation! Carried On and j Both Side* Exhibited a Determination Not to Yield—How the Kepnbllcana Btreaatheaed Their Foeltloa—The Gov ernor Powerlem Beeanee Troops Fall to Obey Bis Orders—What Senator Peffer Bays of the Bltaatloa. .| | ;■ . ’ - , Ths Bltaatloa In Kansas. Topeka, Kan., Fob. 17.—The only thing1 needed to make war In Kansas Is fighting. The conditions of war are all present. Opposed bodies of armed men, something to fight about and the dis position to fight are all evident, but the war does not open. Bellicose prepara tions were carried on briskly by both sides all day, but the governor by offer ing to compromise the difficulties which are keeping the two houses-apart, tem pered the crisis into a very tamo armed truce. The proposition for a compro mise was offered to the republican house at S p. m. by the governor's pri vate secretary, Ben Close, who stated that the governor proposed it as a last resort to avert bloodshed. If the re publican house declined to accept it then the governor would be forced to drive the republicans out at the point of the bayonet, and he added: “Their blood be on your heads.” This threat had been made so often that the repub licans received it with jeers. They re ceived the proposition, however, and it at once became the subject of earnest consideration. .After debating it for three hours, the republicans finally amended it to suit their ideas and re turned it to the governor. The com mittee charged with that duty was in structed' to inform the governor that' the blood of innocent men slain by rea son of his refusal to accept the amend ment would be on his head. The committee had been out but a few moments when it returned and an nounced that it had performed its duty,: that the governor desired time to consider the amended proposition and would give the committee his answer the next morning at 0 o'clock. He pro posed that in the meantime an armed truce should be established and neither side should make any hostile move be fore that hour; that the republicans should be allowed to come and go as they pleased. This, struck the republi cans favorably and they agreed to it wilHnnrltr The republicans hit upon a plan this morning to strengthen their position and that was to bring to their aid the authority of the sheriff of the county, backed by a posse of 1,000 men. The sheriff issued his proclamation summon ing a posse at 10 o’clock. By noon the 1,000 men had been BWorn in. Not car ing to take the risk of arming the re cruits with fire arms, the sheriff decided to arm them with clubs. All sorts of clubs were pressed into use; clubs made from broom handles; clubs made from feather dusters with the feathers pulled out; clubs made from chair legs and clubs made from mop sticks. Still not enough clubs could be improvised to arm the entire posse and the sheriff finally bought all the base ball bats in town and placed them in the hands of those unarmed. It was at first the object of the sher iff to take possession of the Capitol and make the troops members of his posse. That plan was abandoned as unneces sary and dangerous, and the sheriff de-. cided to take no action with his posse until a fracture of the peace should oc cur. He concluded that he would re gard an attempt to eject the legal re publican house, as he regarded it, a dis turbance of the peace, and then would interfere to maintain order. This ac tion by the sheriff deprived the popu lists of all armed support, except the three provisional companies of militia and Hie assistant - sergeant-at-arms. This condition determined the governor to seek compromise and to, at least, gain a little time. More telegrams were sent to the populist strongholds through out the state advising them of the situ ation and Informing them that the pres ence of jfepulists wonld be a great sup port to them both physically and mor ally. In the meantime hundreds of populists, to whom telegrams had been sent last night, began to arrive, and to night the populists are strongly rein forced. The governor may organize these into provisional troops, who can be depended upon to obey his orders. It is not believed, however, that he will take such extraordinary action. The injunction proceedings to restrain the anditor from paying the salaries of the populist members under the legisla tive appropriation bill passed by the populist house will come up in the morning at 9 o'clock in the district court. Whatever the decision of that court will be, an appeal Will bo taken to the supreme court. The prospects are that the populists f will decline to accept the compromise : as amended by the republicans, and that the situation will lapse back into yesterday's conditions. In that event i the onl^r resource left the populists will ; be reliance upon provisional troops. 1 The general feeling at present is one of renewed uneasiness, and predictions are ; freely made that tomorrow may see the i 'ong anticipated war inaugurated. PefTer Takes a Hand. Washixgtox, Feb. 17.—Senator Pef fer has taken a hand in the Kansas troubles, and yesterday urged the gov ernor to stand by his colors. “In the first place,” said the senator in discuss ing the situation, “a great wrong has been committed by the state canvassing board. That board is a body composed of state officials for the purpose of can vassing the returns which come up to it from the counties as concerns the elec tion of representatives, senators, judges and other state officers. The board wilfully gave certificates of election to two persons whom it knew were not le gally elected.” • '«£ : The Anti-Option Bill. ITasiiixotox, Feb. 17.—The commit teeon agricultural 'matters met with nearly all the members present, and by a unanimous vote adopted a resolution 1 asking the committee on rules for a special order giving one or two days for the consideration of the anti-option bill. Cloture is not asked in the resolution, but will be moved on the part of the bouse. The committee then waited on Speaker Crisp and laid tbs resolution before him. The member* expect a de cision to be reached by the rule* com mittee on the request within a few days, but if they don't hear aoon, will en deavor to force consideration, or tie up the house. There has been a practical abandon ment of the plan to send the bill to con ference where tills amendment might be examined, and it is proposed to move in the house whenever the bill is taken up to concur in these amendments sc that the bill may be sent immediately to the president. The plan of procedure ia lagely left with Chairman Hatch. Mr. Hatch said today that he did not care to make any threats, but he Intended to have a vote before the 4th of March. A resolution for the anti-option bill, he added, had been before the rules committee for three weeks. If it did not act soon he would call his committee together and if the itstruction was given to him he would carry it out if an extra seession became necessary. lie asked for a day for the bill, and if given he would see that a vote was obtained. He would yield gracefully to a squarq vote against the bill by a majority of the house, but did not Intend to be beaten by flllibus tering. President Harrison Pavers Annexation. Washington, Feb. 17.*-Tlie president sent a message to the senate recom mending the annexation of the Ha waiian islands to the United States. It is accompanied by a treaty of annex ation concluded between the secretary of state and the Hawaiian coinmisiou ers and a mass of correspondence re lating to the question at issue. The treaty is brief, providing merely for the annexation of tho islands under the present provisional government and leaving the details of the permanent form of government, etc., to the action of congress. The correspondence is voluminous, going back many years, and gives a complete history of the isl ands, so far as negotiations with the United States are concerned. Contrary to general- expectations the senate in executive session declined to make the treaty public immediately, but decided to lirst have the message and documents printed for the confiden tial information of senators. Tho pa pers were accordingly sent down to the government printing office to be put in type for confidential use, with the prob ability that the seal of secrecy will be released tomorrow.. ,,i j " .me message oi me president ana me correspondence were received in legis lative session with an attention such ns no message from a president has re ceived in recent years. There was no debate beyond a few questions directed to the chairman of the foreign relations committee, but every word -was careful ly weighed and the message and the treaty met with almost general approv al. Among the detailed dispatches re ceived at the state department from Honolulu is one from Minister Stevens giving an interesting account of reasons which governed him in assuming con trol of the islands. It is os follows: “I have time before the mail steamer to state briefly the' additional reasons which caused us to assume a temporary protectorate of these islands. The pro visional government must have time to organize a new policy and to diseipline a small military force, for when the monarchy died by its own hands there was no military force in the islands but the royal guards of about seventy-five natives, not equal in effective force to -twenty American soldiers. "There are now 40,000 Chinese and Japanese on the islands and evil-dis posed persons might stir up some of them to disorder. But the chief ele ments of evil are in Honolulu, where are the renegade whites at the head of the lottery and oplufn rings, and a con siderable number of hoodlum foreigner* and the more vicious of the natives. Jerry Simpson on the Situation. Washington, Feb. —Representa tive Jerry Simpson was seen in regard to the riotous condition of affairs be tween the two factions of the Kansas legislature. He said he had not re ceived any official information from To peka, his only information being de rived from the reports seen in the pluto cratic presB. Mr. Simpson said he did not intend to send any word of advice to the populist party, as he thought the people knew the situation thoroughly ’ and were aware of the best methods to pursue. His party was the represeta tive one in Kansas, he said, and it should do everything to uphold its j rights, at the same time keeping within the bounds of law. The. governor was vested with power to see that the peo j pie's wishes were carried out. :mc! hav j ing the machinery to do it, it should ! done. The primary cause of the trouble, j said Mr. Simpson, was that the railroad | corporations had been robbing the peo : pie of about $4,000,000 each year and ' they wanted to continue it. i A Leper in Washington. Washington-, Feb 18.—The liawaiin commissioners last evening- spoke of Senator Vest's allusion in his speech about the introduction of leprosy into the states in consequence of annexation as not well founded. “Why.” said Mr. Castle. “I saw a leper walking: the streets of Washington yesterday. There was no mistaking: the symptoms, with which I am familiar. Son such a thing- as that would be im possible in the streets of Honolulu or any other city in the Hawaiian islands, under the laws for segregation which is a feature of government here. We keep the lepers together and if the present efficient system is not disturbed the disease will in time be wholly erad icated. The number of unfortunates in the se .tleinent has been reduced from about 1,300 to slightly in excess of 1,U00. “The situation in tiie I'nited States is not such," continued Mr, Castle, -as to warrant opposition tomunexation lie cause of the fear of the importation ol leprosy from Hawaii. There has been leprosy in Louisiana for 300 years, and Wisconsin is cursed with the disease brought from the countries of Northern Europe, in neither of these states u there any such effective laws against its spread as are in foree with us. Why, in a New York hospital there is a lep er's ward. The disease is not new nor strange in the United States, and there is no danger of it spreading here be cause of the annexation of Hawaii. Advocates of the repeal of the Sher man act will make one more effort to accomplish their purpose. builders in convention. IapwU>t Katlesal Gathering laga ' Loala—Plaaa far tha Sail , Expos It loo. ’’isVfl St. Louis, Feb, 17.—The convention of builders, which has been In session - here this weak, has been closely watebed by architects all over th* $ country. The convention brought f something like a thousand pedpla to the city who were interested in arohl- f teoture and build ing. All of the dele- j gates spent an afternoon going through the big business buildings of St Louis, 4 and examining from carriages, as they rode along the boulevards, the hand somest private residences of the clty.j The convention took very strong ground against the National policy of! I trusting important public work in the handa of “political architects,” an ' ’ Charles Dudley Warner calls them ini his artiole on the World’s Fair., bulld-i ‘i® ings in Harper’s, protesting that it en couraged extravagance, and gave the country ugly and unworthy govern- ' ment buildings. A'^X For some time work has been atopped on the comprehensive system of boule vards planned for the city last year, and it has required legislation authorising an additional taxation of \ the property that would be benefittedf to get the money to carry out tha plan*. The property owners affected were willing enough to pay the small! extra cost the boulevard building would have Imposed on them, but the 7 law would notallow the tax to be col lected, and so in this legislature the unique spectacle was presented of the owners of land begging for the imposition of a greater tax on their ground in order that its value might ' be increased. Now, the money being I ; i; seoured, work on the new boulevards - will be pushed vigorously as soon as spring fairly opens, and by the end of summer it will be possible for a man to > drive over smooth asphalt and telford '* paving for twenty miles without get ting out of the city. , 1 * The managers of the St Louis Expo*, altlon hare just made an arrangement ‘ ''j with the World’s Fair directors by I; which the art gallery of the great ex hibition here will get the benefit ot. the finest ot the pictures sent to the 77 Fair by painters in this country and cthera Paintings will be exchanged .7 between 8t. Louis and the gallery ot £ the World’s Fair. The arrangement Is « a very costly one to the exposition, but £ it promises much better results than ’ the old way ot borrowing a tew plot- . nres here and there trom private gal leries in different cities, anil , then • ; filling up the rest ot the space with paintings that were tor sale by the artists. By the new plan visitors to ..7; the Exposition here will be able to see the very best works of art from the galleries of all the great cities of the United States as well as Europe. ' From this time till the end ot the '77 year, the Health Department of the city and the Citisens’Sanitary Com mittee will spend over halt a million - dollars in carrying out the sanitary plans that were made last year. It is ' ’ intended to make the streets, alleys and vacant lots of the elty so olesa that not only will it be impossible for ;t any epidemic disease to break out here >7! during the summer and fall, but more, than that, the intelligence of the. wholesome condition of the city,going i abroad, will reassure timid people who 7 have not yet recovered from the cholera scare of last season in Hew York, and will convince them that in St. Louis they will be protected against any sort of danger to their health. The widest publicity is to be given to this 7 sanitary campaign, and it will be sure to leave St Louis the' best guarded city ' in the country, in the event that any ’ plague from foreign shores comes this way. ___ . ■ ;7:v It Isn’t Ke«r. Those who imagine that the care of 7 the teeth and the replacement of the 7 natural grinders with false ones is "something new under the sun” may 1 be surprised to learn that artificial . ; teeth were made of ivory, placed oa 7 plates of the same material and held , together and in place by gold wires and jfi rivets 500 to 1,000 years before Christ. : Herodotus, "the father of history,” tells > us that the Egyptians of the fifth dy nasty understood the diseases of tine teeth and their treatment. There are - several passages in history to lead one : to the belief that both Cmsar and An tony wore artificial teeth. The date of the introduction of false teeth into 7 Europe is uncertain. They were known in England os early at least as the dis covery of America. "The Mathemsti- 7 cal Jewel,” published In 1585, contains : , an account of Sir John Balgrave, “who caused all of hys teethe to be drawn# out, and after had a sett of ivory teethe in agayne.” The visitor at the centen- ■ nial of 1876 was given a chance to view the false ivory masticators which once served the immortal Washington. The Faley. People suffering- from palsy are now ■aid to derive benefit from railway jour neys, and, on the principle of like cur ing like, the greater the shaking the . more complete the cure. For the use of patients a certain doctor has invented an oscillating chair in which those af flicted with the terrible disease may be rocked and racked in a most terrible g manner. Another health-giving appa- , ratus is a vibrating hemlet applied to the head by a number of metalic strips, to which a trembling motion is im parted by an electric motor in the crown of the hemlet, and we are assured that , it gives relief to sufferers from nervous headaches by inducing lassitude and sleepiness._ ' ,, A Spanish Money Changer. The street Cambists or money chang er is an interesting character in Span- & ish cities. He stations himself at a 4; principal street corner early every morning, and exchanges a bag of cop pers for silver. By 10 o’clock his hag la exhausted and he goes home. All the servants on the way to market get their money changed by him. as they are not skillful in counting and afraid of false .v coins. He gives them full count, his coppers being obtained from the hank ers, who get rid of their coins at a dis count. Cambistas are also found seated : in the markets with a tray of coppers before them. ‘ '-J. ,, ;vy