ox BACK DOWN !EADY fob war and UST HAVE IT. inJ( England or China Will jjtu« Dlfferonca—Bang 1(ltd—Battle Ship* to tlia New** AIMS, JULY 28.— l'runce means busi ness in Siam. The 1/ebats says that I I ‘l,M •* &/AH i 01 ^ AASfcll and they don’t I much care who their opponents are. Of course Germany would bo acceptable, but Germany is keep ing mighty silent just notv. That England means to protect her inter ests in Siam, there is no longer any doubt. To-dav Lord Dufferin noti fied Minister De v^lle that four ships from the Mediterranean squadron had been dispatched to Bang kok. As these are heavy ships of war it looks as if Eng land anticipates the worst. The French fleet at Bangkok will at once be strength ened. Bangkok is now under effective and so far undisputed blockade, but this will not be sound ed officially until after the arrival of the French men-of war now on their way to that point. Hostilities against Siam will be begun not later than Fri day. The French minister to Siam is now on board the Inconstanee and will remain ‘Until hostilities are over. The Debats, after noting that the re gion south of the twenty-second par allel, to which France hopes to ex tend her territory in Siam, includes the provinces ceded by Great Britain to Siam after the Burmese war, makes these com ments: "This, we be lieve, is what the marquis of Dufferin was charged to represent to M. Develle, and what China will also direct attention to. It's useless, there fore, to shut our eves to the fact that, beyond cer tain points, we no longer have to deal with Siam,but perhaps with Eng land and certainly with China.” With the horrors of war so close at hand it would be well to make an unprejudiced in quiry into the causes thereof. '1 he origin of the quarrel of France with Siam grows out directly from a question of in demnity for the murder by a Sia mese mandarin of M. Grosgurin. a French military in spector, of Annam, who was endeavor ing to expel the former from terri tory which is in dispute between France and Siam, and, indirectly, from the demand of France for rec ognition of the rights of Annam and Cambodia, both under the protec tion of France, on the left or east bank of the Me kong river. The second demand is the outcome of the t Pavp „ "pporiuntty of the ice of.si. ^chanue to acquire a • ; 5 ^se territory,amount “lti'm°l!?uare mlles- Th« br bothl>,m ,demand* jurisdic m indemn^^* °f t*le Mekong a«r “n; y of 3,000,000 francs 181 fruar»t,*,r0s«^urin' and the gooi faith, to uiouth nf ill a __ the Y* ^ooa uutn, tc otherwiin 0,the Menam river, i* .lse ls forbidden by if this , ui forbidden by Ki within u ^'™atum were not “ • - m a (nven time Bang atnT .. fnven is py,.. aid under ts eIt)ip^ under siege. The 'w&tum isa^„t 8ia*’a rePiy to _jc -° bU e0chi?oveyn 1 8Btisfactory to yjziTt t °«s'noiTler as Prorfsedby ot a?_ree with tSat >? PrinL **"• with tfiat pro Paraiui « f,ormer fl«a the aliel of latitude as the northern boundary of Cambodia: the latter fixes it on the twenty-third par allel. In other' words, Siam la reidy to concede only about one-half the French demand. As to the money indemnity the Siamese government thinks 3,000,000 francs too much and offers 2,000,000. This, accompanied by an expression of regret on the part of Siam, is the substance of its answer, . T,ls neither regrets nor money that I ranee specially cares for so much ** " the extension of French ter ritory. The tax collections In the new district are worth a good deal more than the proposed indemnity. In the settlement of this difficulty France must reckon with England rather than with Siam. England's in terests in Slam are so considerable that she cannot permit France to dominate that country or to wreck it Siam ad joins liritish territory in India, is with in easy sail of liritish ports, and 80 per cent of its trade is in liritish hands, oiam is in debt, and its creditors are mostly liritish. The Kiameso princes have been as frequent borrowers in the London market a4 the Irish land lords used to be. and a recent writer says: -‘There are thousands of pounds (sterling) in London unpaid at this moment, as several Bond street trades men could testify." That England will protect its interests and those of MAP OP SIAM. (Shaded portion (bows territory claimed by France.) its merchants and moneyed men there is no doubt. Lord Roseberr v is oa eager on this score as Lord Salisbury or Lord Beaconsfleld ever was, but Lord Roseberry is diplomatic and cautious, and not disposed to provoke a quarrel. Labor Troubles in Kansas. Topeka, July 27.—The strike situa tion in the Cherokee district is regard ed as so serious by Governor Lewelling and his advisors that eleven companies of militia have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to move on three hours’ notice. The orders were telegraphed by Ad jutant Genera] Artz, by direction of Lieutenant Governor Daniels, who is the major general of the Kansas mili tia, after a conference of three hours .with Governor Lewelling. The lieu tenant governor arrived from the scene of the strike early last evening and was immediately closeted with Gov ernor Lewelling, to whom he made a full renort of the situation as he view ed it The governor decided that troops would probably be needed and turned the command over to Major General Daniels, with instructions to act as his judgment might direct. Accordingly General Daniels issued the orders plac ing the eleven companies under arms. By noon word had been received from the captains of all the companies in cluded in the order that their men were under arms and ready for the march. Governor Lewelling, in order to be more fully advised and to be posted as events progressed, last night sent F. J. Close, his private secretary, to Weir City with orders to report from time to time by telegraph. Lieutenant Governor Daniels stated this morning that he regarded the situ ation as very critical and that it might break out at any time into violence and bloodshed. He hopes that Sheriff Arnold will be able to preserve order with his force of armed deputies, but they are so few, compared with the strikers, that it would be an unequal contest should the two forces come to gether. Lieutenant Governor Daniels submitted his report in writing to the governor tonight. He rehearses the differences between the miners and operators which caused the strike and says that the dispute now hinges on a difference without a distinction. The miners say they are willing to go back to work at the price per ton regulated by the pay they were getting before the change in the screen law. The opera tors say they are willing to pay the same price per ton that they were pay ing before the change in the law. Lieutenant Governor Daniels says this difference ought to be arbitrated with out difficulty and recommends that the governor take steps to bring about ar bitration. Continuing, the report says: “At the same time, as the situation there is so critical as to render a conflict in volving serious consequences liable at any moment, I would suggest that a proclamation be made to notify all par ties that the state administration will not condone the violation of law by either side; that the sheriffs are ex pected to protect all interests as re quired by law and their oaths; and whenever the forces at their immediate command are not ample for the pur pose the state authorities are ready to respond immediately to their call for aid.” The report discourses upon labor troubles as general and says they are due to vicious legislation, inspired by capital and against labor, and con cludes as follows: “But the methods by which these wrongs must be right ed, by which labor must be restored to its constitutional rights and to its God given position, must be by constitu tional ones, or our institutions are not only ready to crumble, but republican governments in the world, for the pres ent, at least, are doomed.” Sloped with HU Hire. Elwood, IncL, July 29.—Pleasant Weddell and his wife have eloped. They .were married last spring and ahe tried to commit auicJde because of bad treatment at his hands. They afterward separated and she went to live with relatives who would not allow her to see him. The couple planned an elopement, succeeded in eluding her relatives and are now in Cincinnati. PUNCHING OF HEADS. FRBS FIGHT IN THB HOU8B OF COMMONS. twit Day Of tho Homo Role Debate Marked by a Bl«(raw(d Row—Mom bora Cursing, riiktlni and Yelling— Sill Through the Committee. London, July 29.—On the govern ment program 10 o'clock last evening hour set for the closure of the committee on the home rule Dill. Ooscure members continued the debate until 9:4.1 or just fifteen min utes before the closure was to be ap plied. Then Joseph Chamberlain rose to de liver the final broadside of tho op position. tie was still smarting under j the lash which Mr. Gladstone swung on Tuesday evening, and spoke with corresponding bitterness. After a few scorntul and biting words as to the oonduct of the ministers he began giv ing his opinion of the closure, os ap plied by the government The mem bers, he said, were about to witness the last scene in a discreditable farce. The debate on the financial clans* s had been a mere sham. Tho govern ment has stood over friend and foe alike ready to let fall the guillotine ! without regard for justice or conetitu- i tional riirhta. Jeers from the Irish, cheers from the unionists and counter-cheers from the liberals interrupted Mr. Chamber lain at this point, lie waited two or three minutes before the confusion abated sufficiently for him to speak without effort. He then proceeded thus: “The prime minister calls ‘back’ and his adherents say it is' good: the prime minister calls 'white' and thev say it is better. (Unionist laughter). It is always the voice of God. Never since the time of Herod, lias there been 6ucb— Mr. Chamberlain got no further. Immediately after resuming his speech he had been warned by mutterings from the Irish benches that a storm was gathering. He could hardly have expected the suddenness with which it broke, for with his half-flnished refer ence to Herod there came from the na tionalists such a roar of indignation as has not been heard in the house 6ince the days of Parnell. Mr. Chamberlain plainly was startled but he tried to talk on. His voice Was inaudible to the members on the next bench. He turned toward the na tionalists and shrill yells of execra tion sounded above the uprbar. T. P. O’Connor sprang to his feet and lean ing toward Mr. Chamberlain Bhouted “Judas" so loudly that the epithet could be heard throughout the house. The rest of the Irishmen seized upon the cry and for half a minute shouted “Judas" in chorus. Meanwhile the clock struck 10. The chairman tried to put the closure, but his voice could not be heard am d the shouts of the Irish and the unionists. Then came a scene unprecedented in parliamentary history. Mr. Mellor gave iii a weak voice the customary directions. The conservatives, how ever, flatly refused to quit the house. Vicary l. ibbs, Gibson Bowle3 and William Ilanbury shouted to the chair man that he must first call Mr. O’Con nor to order for having called Mr. Chamberlain names. Mr. Mellor pro tested that he had not heard the epi thets m question. Nobody told him what Mr. O'Connor had said, so he sat helpless and unenlightened before the house, while members crowded for ward in excited groups, Bhaking their fists and shouting their demands. Gibbs, Bowles and Hanbury got to gether,and to make themselves heard, shouted in chorus at Mr. Mellor: “Will you direct that those words be taken ‘down?*’ Lord Randolph Churchill and Sir Edward Clarke got hold of Mr. Gibbs and started him to ward the front bench {hat he might elucidate the cause of the row to Mr. Mellor, who was making strenuous, but vain efforts to learn what the grievance of the tory tribe was. Mr. Gibbs tried to go forward, but in the general jostling and shouting he was sc pushed about and confused that he gave up his purpose and Mr. Mellor re mained uninformed. Meantime half of the unionists had climbed to the benches and were shouting: “Gag," “Gag." Others were struggling in the aisles or between the benches with radical, liberal or Irish antagonists. Curses, yells of pain and gross insults were beard on every side. John Logan, liberal, ran down to the first opposition bench and began up braiding Edward Carson, a tory. As he shook his fist under Mr. Carson’s nose, George Wyndham and William Fisher jumped to the assistance of their party colleague, seized Mr. Lo gan by the neck, threw him to the floor headfirst and then bundled him under a bench. Somebody smashed Tim Healey’s high hat down over his eyes. Healy tore off the hat and sprang into the aisle in full fighting posture, just as' Hanbury, still shout ing that the chairman must name Mr. O'Connor, was trying to get by. Mr. Hanbury was knocked over a bench by the force of the collision before Mr. Healy got in a blow. A free fight then broke out in the gangway. The center of it was Will jam Redmond, Parnellite, who had taken advantage of the. general license to push over Col. Sanderson, the champion of the men of Ulster. San derson was rescued and led an attack on the Parnellites. Blows were struck right and left. Members fell and were picked up by their friends to fight again. The'whole space between the front benches was filled with a strug gling, cursing mass of members strik ing, clawing and upsetting each other. Manful efforts were made to separate the combatants Both sergeants-at arms forced their way through the thick of the fight, but as fast as. one group was pacified another came to blows. jsventuauy rar. uiausionc oeggea Edward Majorlbanks, a sturdy lib eral. to do something to stop the fight ing. Mr. Majorlbanks dug his way through the tangled mass of belliger ents, and by repeated appeals in the name of the premier succeeded in stemming the conflict Col. Sanderson emerged first from the crowd of fighters. He was hold ing a bunch of keys to his black eye. Others followed in more or less dam aged condition. Just as peace was as sured the dojr leading to the lobby opened and Dr. Tanner, who had been out aide and had heard of the fight but a minute before, came down the Louse, leap'ng over benches in his haste to get in o the melee. A sergeaat-at »■ S» t . *rms entight him half wav from the aoor to the flret bench and restrained him until he conaented to keen the peace. Mr. Balfour had been absent during the. riot. Mr. Gladstone. sit. , € .uPrl»ht* h*d watched the scene with V nfiamed face and an expression of sorrow, indignation and astonish* ment which will never be effaced from the memory of those observing it. Chairman Mellur sent for Speaker Peel as soon as order was restored. When the speaker entered several con* servatlvea rose, and, pointing to Mr. Gladstone, exclaimed: ''There sits the author of it all.” While Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Balfour and Mr. Mellor conferred as to what should be done the combatants were comparing notes. Not a few of them showed the effects of rough handling. Tim ilealy had received a hard blow in the face and one cheek was badlv swollen. William Redmond also had a bad spot on his face. The hum of voices died out as Speaker 1‘eel, stern and dignified, took the chair. A s ight cheer was given for him, and th u Mr. Mellor, as chair* man of the committee, reported to Mr. P03I. as speaker of the house, what had occurred. Mr. Mel. or spoke in a low. sorrowful voice, but the members had become so quiet that not a word was inaudible. au icapuuac iu mo HpeuKer s renuesi, Mr. Gibbs then made his complaint in regard to Mr. O’Connor’s calling Mr. Chamberlain "Judas,” Timothy Henly, amid loud cries of order, interpo ed to ask whether no attention would be paid to the refusal of members to enter the lobbies for division. This, he said, was the real reason wliy the speaker was summoned. Should it not. then, be considered first? The speaker at once appealed to the party leaders to tell him what had oc curred. Cheers and calls for Mr. Gladstone brought the premier to bis feet He said: ‘‘I regret to sny that neither my eyes nor ears enabio me to give a very clear account of the affair.” He then gravely described the events as they had been reported to him by his lieutenants, and eventu ally expressed the opinion that the diyision should be taken before the "Judas” incidentshouldjbe considered. Mr. Balfour recounted the version of the fight given him b/ his coileagcues and at Mr. liealy's request Mr. Mollor again told what he knew of the trouble. Mr. Meilor repeated that he Had not heard the offensive express on, but had ordered that it be taken down and then had summoned the speaker. Mr. Peel thanked the leaders and Mr. Melior for their assistance. lie added: "I have arrived at the conclusions that the expression alleged to have been used was the original cause of the disorder. I feel certain that the gentleman who usod the words did so in the heat and irritation of the mo ment. If he were simply to sav he re grets having used them, I am quite certain it would be my duty to take no further notice of the affair.” Amid conservative cries of “With draw” Mr. O’Connor humbly apolo gized to the speaker. The new clause was adopted by a vote of 312 to 291. When the committee rose and Chair man Melior reported to Speaker Peel, presiding over the house, the home rule bill as amended in committee; cheer after choer was given and all hats were waved for Mr. Gladstone by the liberals and Irish, who were an swered by the unionists with counter cheers. The report stage was fixed for Aug. 7. One Fare Pine »S. Chicago, 111., July 27.—Western lines have agreed to make World’s fair rates on one fare for the round trip, plus 82, from all points, the only except ions to this blanket rate are from short dis tance points where the 83 added would make a higher rate than now in effect. From such points present rates will be maintained. Tickets sold at reduced rates on and after August 1, will be first-class in every respect. They will take the place of first-class tickets at far as Chicago is concerned and will be good returning any time within thirty days of purchase. This rate is the lowest blanket re duction ever made in the western terri tory. There is uo present likelihood oi there being a further reduction in western rates. CHOLERA MAY BE HERE. Authorities at Kaples Refuse to Permit Retention of Immigrants. Washington, July 27. — Surgeqn General Wvman has received the fol lowing cable dispatch from Assistant Surgeon G. B. Young of the marine hospital service, station at Naples. “Cholera • prevails. Condition is worse. A large number of emigrants are preparing for America. Isolation on shore is impossible. Authorities refuse to permit detention on beard. Passengers are transferred from train, to ship and lsoiation on the way im perfect” To this dispatch Dr. Wyman has sent the following answer: “Refuse bill of health unless all regulations are complied with. In form companies full tine will be im posed without the bill.” HELD FOR TRIAL. Ainsworth and Others Indicted for tha Ford's Thoator Murder. Washington, July 26.—The grand jury has found a true bill against CoL Frederick C. Ainsworth, chief of the record and pension division of the war department; George W. Dant, the contractor employed to make the ex cavation fur the electric light plant; William E. Covert, superintendent, and Francis Sasse, engineer of the building, holding them responsible for the old Ford's theater disaster of June 9 last, in which twenty-three persons lost their lives and a large number of others wefe injured. Desire No Substitute. New York, July 29.—The committee of five appointed by the New York Lumber Trade association to demand the repeal of the hherman silver law haa prepared a petition to congress, which will be circulated throughout the state for the signatures of all en gaged in the lumber business. The document, in addition to urging the repeal of the Sherman act, asks that no substitute be enacted at this session of congress but that an expert commission be appointed to consider and recommend a scientific plan of currency based on the experience of other countries and adequate to the requirements of a great commercial nation. , MONEY FROM SILVER. THIS 18 THE WAR CRY FROM COLORADO. Ei*ltnlor Tabor of that State Faints a Gloomy Picture Unless the White Metal Is Given Due Prominence—Comptroller Eckels Shows How Senseless are Soma of the Bank Runs—Charles Loekstaedt Beats Chicago Banka out of a Largo Bum of Money—France Beady for Ac tion In the Slam Question—A Bank's Silver Scheme. Tnbor Talks on Silver. Omaha, July, 38.—lion. II. A. W. Tabor, ex-United States senator from Colorado, was in the city yesterday on a flying trip pertaining to private busi ness matters. Ho was seen by a news paper representative, who asked him to talk about the situation in Colorado in particular, and the silver question in general. "ii s reauy too onci to talk about, said the senator sadly, "and It looks as though nothing we can say will do any good. Look at the condition wo are in at present. Thousands and thousands of men leaving Colorado to find work, most of them tramping it out or going by the box ear route, thoso who have families leaving those families behind, for the most part, to trust to fortune and charity until their natural protoo tors provide means to caro for them. Between 10,000 and 30,000 men are em ployed in metalliferous mining in Colo rado alone, and most of these are now out of employment, while all are affec ted disastrously. The same condition of affairs obtains in other mining states. "What are we going to do? The Lord only knows, unless something is done very soon. With the sources of their chief maintenance shut down, what can the mining states of the west do? "They can go under, that's all, with every industry that belongs to them. It is only a question of a short timo when all of - Colorado's industries aro likely to be in the same position tho silver interests now occupy. No, there have been few failures among Denver’s big jobbing houses, but they ure likely to come ut any time. Collections are at a standstill, and it is now only a ques tion of the survival of tho strongest, those, especially, which have not made a practice of carrying on a too extens ive credit business in both sales and purchases. "As to the means of relief, there is only one way in which it can be found, and that is the repeal of the Sherman law and further legislation by the way of leaving us a substitute that will make money out of silver. The failure of congress to enact such a substitute or the adoption of a gold standard means acsolute, complete ruin, and the forcing of the silver interests and many others into their present position can not be retrieved by tho repeal of the Sherman law. The law is bad enough, heaven knows, but its flat repeal with out further recourse for tho advocates of free siiver would be infinitely worse. "We want silver made into money. This statement is so moss-grown that it sounds like a platitude, but it is our war cry and cannot be too much re peated. We want a ratio of at least 15% to 1. That is the ratio of Franco, and it would put silver in this country where it ought to be.” How Charles C. Lockstaedt Beat Chicago Banks Out of a Large Sum. Chicago, July 28.—It appears that the man who is alleged to have swin dled Chicago banks out of 8JO,000 is Charles C. Lockstaedt, a manufacturing electrician. The amounts secured by Lockstaedt are said to be approximate ly as follows: Metropolitan National bank, 820,000; Chicago Trust and Savings bank, 815,000. The story is that Lockstaedt was one of the bidders for lighting the World’s fair. He bid 8400,000, while tho Westinghouse com pany bid 81,500,000. The management, not satisfied with his ability to carry out the contract, let it to the Westing house company. Lockstaedt assigned his bid to that company. Lockstaedt gave it out that he got 850,000 for the assignment and when he presented notes signed by General Manager Lem uel liannister of the Westinghouse company, explaining that they were the outcome of his World’s fair light ing contract and the Westinghouse company had given them because it had not yet collected from the World'* fair, he found no difficulty in getting them discounted. Here's a Sliver Scheme. St. Louis, July 87.—A prominent banking institution of this city has re ceived a letter from a correspondent in the silver regions who writes among other things: "1 think that the east could do one thing which would do a great deal to conciliate the west. It is simple and one which all the rest of the world has long since adopted, viz: To abolish all bills of smaller denomina tion than 85 and use silver in their stead. This is done in England, France and Germany. It is done on the Pacific coast. If it were done in the east it would make a market at once for the entire body of silver bullion locked up in the United States vaults, and would give us a limited but steady market for silver for the future. On such a line as this a compromise can be effected which will bring about the repeal of the Sher man law immediately.” Dead of a Madman* * Cleveland, Ohio, July 37.—Word haa just been received'of the terrible suicide a week ago last Saturday of a grape-grower named Fred White at hia farm three miles east of Euclid creek. With his wife and child he was visiting his parents, who live a few rods from his house. Without warn* ing he suddenly seized his aged mother and hurled her across the room. Then he grasped his old father by the throat and choked him until he was black in the face. Ilia wife pulled him away, and, seizing his little daughter, he started ior neut shotting tho exact condition of tho twenty-tour banks tthioh hits membership in It Tho statement haa bean prepared with great care and shows that deposits payable on do* mand at all these banks amonat to (42,383,000, The cash on hand amounte to *18,*33,000, or considerably In ex cess of 40 per cent of (he total. Under ordinary conditions *5 per oent la con* sidered a safe margin and It la fell that with nearly 43 per cent on hand almost any kind of a run could bo easily met There has not, how ever, been a breath of suspic ion against any bank, and although a very large number of small deposit ors are said to have withdrawn and to have placed their money In safe de posit vaults, there Is no evidence to prove that this Is so, and the faot la not generally credited. The banka have tlmo deposits amounting to near ly *14,000,000, while they have out standing on demand and time loans, excluslvo > f bonds deposited to secure circulation, *03,010,000. The eapltnt stock aud surplus funds of these banka total *33,104,000, and experts are of opinion that the figures as returned by them indlcsto an exceptionally healthy condition and go to prove that there Is very little foundation for the dole ful forebodings which have appeared In some eastern papers. If the banka of all the large cities are as well equipped as those of St. Louis, there will be very little financial stringency when the faot becomes generally Ifnown. uuuaing continue* with imi activity in the city. The new Union depot and the new *>,000,000 hotel aro boih being pushed toward* comple* tion a* rapidly a* possible, and the fourteen-story office building on Oliva street, six blocks east of the exposi* tion, will soon be out of the hanoa of tho contractors. Tho site has also been purchased for another hotel near \ \ the Union depot, and there is also much activity In the way of bridge building. Up to within three or four years ago the Kads bridge was practi cally tho only means railroads had of crossing the Mississippi river in this section; now the merchants' bridge 1* in general use, and bridges which will be of great importance to railroad* are being constructed over the Mis souri river at Itellefonralne and over the Mississippi at Alton. Both tne ' bridges are within easy unviag distance of the city and they will be used by tho Burlington and other roads for obtaining access to the city without wasting time at the relay depot in Bast St. Louis. ‘fho distaned between St, Louis and Alton will be reduced by V these bridges to sixteen miles, short ening the time distance between St, ' Louis, Chicago and eastern point* from thirty to fifty minutes. A new passenger depot will bo erected for tb* Convenience of friends using theso bridges, which can also obtain aceesa to the Union depot by means of a new belt line. ; The first shipment of hay ever mad* , from St. Louis to Europe has Just been completed, at. Louis is the center of an immense hay district, but th* cost of shipment and the difficulty in keeping hay in good condition through a long ocean voyage hav* kept shipments to Burope back. There bjing, however, a large shortage in the French hay crop an experimental shipment was made to France th* other day and if It proves a sucoea* another important export business will be built up. The hay wt* shipped via New Orleans. A Coffee Drunkard. A good citizen who was once what the boys terra a considerable lusher re marked recently: “When I drank whisky I felt that it was Incumbent upon me to take as much of it as pos sible, but when I quit I qnit for good. I saw that I had enough of it. Now, strange as it may appear, I was about as confirmed a drunkard for six months after I quit as I was before, but 1 was * coffee drunkard. It appeared to me that I must have Btimulant, and I drank coffee, sometimes as many aa fifteen and twenty cups a day. There could be no doubt that coffee was doing me more harm than whisky, so I gave it up. , I was a coffee drunkard—-just as bad as a whisky drunkard.—Washing ton Post. TO THE WORLD'S PAIR. Meat Monday is Your Day. . Th* Qheat Rock Islahd Route has mad* great reductions in fare, and on this low rote you can go on Monday, July 81, or An gust 4, snd return the following Friday from date of purchase, or one week later. V Ask your nearest ticket agent for particu lars. Jons Hehastias, (J. P. A. Some of the devil's best work is done by careless people._ The Cresent of an Emblem. The cresent has been known sine* time out of memory. In ancient my thology it decorated the foreheads of Diana and of Astarte, the Syrian Ven ice. In the _ days of Rome's greatest gloVy the ladies wore it as an ornament in their hair. Since the foundation of Constantinople (the ancient Byzantium) it has been the emblem of the city, and as such adorns its walls and public buildings, besides being stamped on its coins and postage. The legend which accounts for its universal adoption In Turkey, and Constantinople in particu lar, is aa follows: Philip of Macedoa laid siege to the city in the year 340 B. C. He chose a night of unusual , darkness for the proposed assault, bat was foiled by the moon suddenly break ing from behind a cloud. In commem oration of this providential deliveram* the cresent was adopted as the symbol of the city. The Mohammedan Sultana were slow to assume this emblem until someone mentioned that it was th* symbol of increasing greatness, pow*r changing as rapidly as the phases of the moon.—SL Louis Republic. The oldest industry of the Atlsntia coast, the fisheries, is the newest of the Pacific. Until a few years ago the fishermen on the northern coasts of California paid no attention to the vast quantities of sturgeon and halibut there, regarding them as worthless,, and it is only within two or three years that the majority of places fur ther north and down the southern coast now making money in fish hare paid any attention to the industry. Last year 6,000,000 pounds of sturgeon were taken from the Columbia river, and shipped east, and altogether 100 or so carloads of this one kind of fisK west east from that region.