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REV. JAMES D. MOFFAT MODERATOR OF THE PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY The Rev. James D. Moffat, elected moderator by the Presbyterian as sembly at Winona Lake, Ind., is presi dent of Washington and Jefferson Col lege. Washington. Pa. He has been at the head of that institution since 1882. Previously he had for eleven years been pastor of the Second Presbyte rian Church at Wheeling. Pa. Since 1893 he has also been assistant editor of the Presbyterian Banner, of Pitts burg. Dr. Moffat was born at Lisbon. O, in 1846, and was graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1869. Dr. J. Addison Henry, the retiring moderator of the Presbyterian general assembly, is a veteran minister of Philadelphia, having occupied a pulpit in that city for forty-five years. He is the only moderator elected by ac clamation. HEAVY READING FOR JAPS. Little Demand in Country for Lighter Literature. The Japanese are serious-minded people, as their literary habits show. They take life seriously and devote their time to the reading of what would be called in America solid books. The recent report of the li brarian of the imperial library at To kio shows that there is little demand for light literature in that capital, for fiction of any sort, contrary to the ex perience of most of the popular li braries in England. France and Ameri ca. The Japanese mind runs to sei | ence, mathematics, medicine, language and to what may be termed the graver forms of literature. More than 40 per cent of the works taken out of the im perial library are of this character. The Japanese are very fond of history, in the making of which they are ex tensively engaged at present in the ^ eastern war. Engineering, military and naval science receive much atten tion. The interest in these subjects has been greatly stimulated by the ■war. VALUE OF SMALL COLLEGE. Best Institution That Young Men Can Attend. Complaint has been made that many college professors nowadays are more interested writing learned treatises on their subjects than in teaching them to their classes. It used to be said that Mark Hopkins, with a class of boys on a log, would make a college; but that time seems to have gone by. The modern professor in a big school is a reader of lectures and a preparer of examination papers. The real in struction for the student who desires to get simply an all-around education, before taking up a professional course of study, is rather the small college with a good faculty. Better than cost ly buildings, better than big libraries, better than elaborate apparatus and ingenious appointments, is a live teacher, well informed and intelligent ly sympathetic with the mind and tem per of youth.—New Orleans Picayune. Mayor Breaks City Ordinance. Major William B. Harp, of Pitts burg. is coming in for vigorous con h demnation on account of the manner f in which he deliberately violated the ordinance governing the speed of automobiles. The river and harbors j congressional committee was in town and the members were taken for a Fpin around the parks. Mayor Harp ; was in the automobile with Congress- : man Burton and when the party start- j ed his honor told the chauffeur to “cut j loose.” The speed ordinance was shat- ; tered in a minute. Park policemen tried to stop the procession, but wert waved back by the mayor, who is now the object of general condemnation. Dean of Patent Office Force. Prof. A. G. Wilkinson is dean of the patent office examining corps in Wash- j ington. having been in charge of a di- j vision since 1868. He graduated in i the Yale cla^s of '56 along with Jus tices Brown and Brewer of the Unit ed States Fupreme court. Senator De pew and Gen. Wager Swayne. Mr. Wilkinson first went to the patent of fice on July 1, 1864. During his term | of service the patents granted have W increased from about 43.000 to more than 700,000. The examining force has grown from less than fifty to 320. Crushed Indiscreet Guest. Many are the stories told at Oxford university of Dr. Jewett’s formidable wit. On one occasion at one of his | own dinner parties, after the ladies i % had retired, a guest indulged in some | indecent talk. Dr. Jewett looked at ! the offender and said with decisive ; politeness: “Suppose we continue this conversation in the drawing room.” Whereupon he arose and led his guests into the presence of the ladies, thoroughly annihilating the indiscreet guest. STATE CHOOSES GOOD MAN New Connecticut Senator Won Spurs in Lower House. Frank Bosworth Brannegee. the • United States senator chosen to she- j ceed the late Orville H. Plait of Con- | necticut. has an inherited gift of ora- * tory, his father. Augustus Brandegee. ! having for years been the chief spell- ■ binder of Eastern Connecticut. He is j foreeful, witty, has a genius for ept- I grams and his subject matter is well ' thought out. He is retiring to a de- j gree hardly expected of a man whe has been in the public eye so much for the last few years, and gives the impres sion at times that on the whole it is rather a bore to be a public mau. Sen- • ator Brandegee is one of the numerous senators who won their spurs in the house of representatives. Among the others are Hopkins of Illinois. Hale and Frye of Maine, Lodge of Massa chusetts. Burrows of Michigan. Alli son and Dolliver of Iowa. MeCreery of Kentucky. Newlands of Nevada, Diek of Ohio. Bailey of Texas, Carmack of , Tennessee, Latimer of South Carolina. | Long of Kansas, Burkett of Nebraska, i and Hemenway of Indiana — APPALLING WASTE CF FIRE. Tsx on Nation Amounts to $25 Per Family Annually. One thousand million dollars, said ! President Washburn of the board of ; fire underwriters at its meeting in this ; city, is the county's loss by fire in six ! years. The loss for 1904 surpassed ali j pr/vious records, reaching $229,00u,- i 000, of which $50,000,000 disappeared t in the Baltimore blaze. But that is not the real total destruction. It does not include all lonely, uninsured farm- ' houses of small value burned. It does not fully cover the losses of household goods in general less adequately in sured than buildings. It takes no note , of forest fires, the most irreparable of i all calamities. The figures might a! most be doubled without exaggeration. The true annual fire tax of the nation is doubtless $25 per family. No other civilized nation knows such an appall- I ing waste—New York World. Underwriters Fear for Czar. The czar has been the roost active recent risk in English companies, say? a writer in Leslie’s Monthly. Up to a week before last Christmas the rate on his life was 5 per cent per annum. On December twenty holders of Rus- j sian bonds, who insured him with ; Lloyd's for some tens of thousands of pounds, had to pay 15 per cent for r. policy running only ten months. After the assassination of Grand Duke Ser gius and the terrorist threat to wipe out the imperial family the czar sud denly retired from activity as an in surance risk. Nobody wanted him at the price the underwriters placed on his life. Loubet Forgets Gallantry. Mme. Patti (Baroness Cederstrom) has received from President Loubet ; the ribbon of the Legion of Honor in ! recognition of her charitable work in j Paris. In signing the decree confer- ! ring the decoration President Loubet i is said to have uttered a remark so j undiplomatic as to make every other Frenchman blush. “I do this.” he is reported to have said, ‘‘with as much pleasure as I experienced long ago. when I had no gray hairs, and when I heard Mme. Adelina Patti sing in Lucia’ and in La Sonnambula.’ ” Marriages in Germany. There were 463.150 marriages in Germany year before last—7.91 jn every 1,000 of the population. Ninety per cent of the grooms and 91 per cent of the brides had not been mar ried before; 44 per cent of the grooms were between the ages of 25 and 30; 56 per cent of the brides were under 25; in 95,577 cases the bride was older than the groom. The number of births in Germany year before last was 2.- * 046,206; the number of deaths was 1,234.033. SHREWDNESS OF J. P. MORGAN. Sent Valuable Present in Way to Escape Attention. George C. Thomas, one of the lead ing figures in the Philadelphia house of the Morgans, tells a story which illustrates the shrewdness of J. P. Morgan. Mr. Thomas’ daughter was married not long ago and a day or so before the ceremony there came to her father's office a pasteboard b*x wrapped in coarse brown paper, brok en at two of the corners, tied merely with twine, but distinguished among its fellows by the address, which was in Mr. Morgan's own bold handwrit ing. Investigation brought to light that it carried a pearl necklace for the bride-to-l>e worth anywhere from $1,500 to $2,000. The sender had properly thought that the unnoticed was, after all, safer in transit than the parcel advertised ns valuable by registry and wax seals. FEAR GOMEZ IS DYINC. Family of Cuban Patriot Gathers at His Bedside. The family of General Maximo Go mes. whose illness from nephritis is considered serious, has arrived at San 'K/A' Gen. Maximo Gomez. tig go to be with the- aged leader in what may be his last hours. The gen eral's extreme age and the results of the many wounds he received in his campaigns for the liberation of Cuba complicate his trouble. HAS FUN WITH STATESMEN. Fine Vc:n of Humor Developed by Ex-Senator Chandler. Since his retirement from the Unit ed States senate William S. Chandler of New Hampshire has devoted part of his spare time in having fun with former colieagr.es and other distin guished iner.. Recently he wrote iden tical letters to Vi* e President Fair banks. Secretary Shaw and Senatoi Foraker, pledging support to each oi these presidential aspirants and tell ing each that he had written the same letter to the ether two. Secretary Shaw and Senator Foraker sent hu morous replies, hut the vice president apparently overlooked the fun of the situation, for his answer was stately in its grateful tone. Mr. Chandler also called at the white house and as sured the president of his support in case the Democrats should nominate him in IPdg. MAY TAKE NAVY PORTFOLIO. fTTIOP It lias been decided in Washington that Paul Morton, secretary of the navy, will leave the cabinet within six weeks. The portfolio tray be offered to Victor H. Metcalf, new secretary of commerce .iiici labo.'. Not a Lover o' Omar Khayam. It had been soegested that th< Omar Khayam society of London would do well to elTo: the loaf of bread and flask of wine «c Sir Edward Mor timer Durand. British minister to the Untied States, who is now on a visit to his native lend. The idea fell intc disfavor when memory revived an ex perience Sir Edward had while min ister to Persia, the home of Omar. Certain admirers of the ancient poet wished to repair his tomb in fitting fashion and induced the British minis ter to interview the shah on the sub ject: ‘‘Not a cent,” said, in effect, his most puissant majesty. “IT Omar Khayan is so dear to them let them erect a memorial themselves. We have many better poets in Persia ” Tamed Youngster's Exuberance. The Duke of Argyll w as once visiting a school at Ascot and noticed a small boy running as hard as be could around the cricket ground. When he had been round it three times and stopped the duke asked the headmaster why he was runring alone in that extraordi nary way. “Oh,” said the master, “that’s Lord Randolph Churchill's son. When he talks too much we make him go three times round.” The truth was that Winston Churchill had just been indulging in chatter and had just been sent round the field to silence him. Slaughter of Alligators. The quantity of alligators has great ly decreased in all the southern states, and it seems only a question of a few years when it will be impossible to obtain the hides at a price that will justify their general employment. Thousands of the animals have been slaughtered merely for sport, no use whatever being made of them. It is estimated that the number in Florida Louisiana at present is less than 20 per cent of what it was twenty years ago. MEANT DEATH TO SLEEP. Alaskan Traveler Followed Night and Day by Wolves. A grewsome tale is told by the Pittsburg Dispatch of the bringing of the body of the late Mayor of Seattle from the interior of Alaska. M. A. Mahoney, who had charge of the body, started alone from Fairbanks to draw the coffin over the snow road by sledge. Two days out of Fairbanks he was crossing a level bit of coun try over which the trail made way through forests of giant pine and fir. With the first shadows of right there came a long, low wail. It was followed by another and another, each unmistakably nearer. The man. standing on a lonely Alaskan trail, hundreds of miles from the nearest habitation, and with a burden on his hands that he had sworn to bring safely to civilization, knew what it meant. It was the cry of the wolf. Mahoney realized that if he remain ed on the trail he would never live to see another day. He knew that three long days and nights must pass before he could hope for human help. He had covered a vast stretch of ter ritory that day, and he was exhaust ed; but he must not think of sleep. He turned off into the woods, and under the shelter of the pines built a big fire. It was well he acted quickly, for he had scarcely fed his dogs and snatched a morsel of supper himself when the wolves arrived. All night long that lonely camp was surrounded by a row of gleaming eyes. Mahoney sat alone, the coffin for his seat, with every nerve strain ed. Once nature took revenge, and his heavy eyes drooped. White? he dozed the fire died dow-n, and Mahoney woke with a start. A gaunt gray wolf was poking his nose very near to him. The man hastened to throw on more wood, and the beasts slunk away until only the gleam of their eyes told that they were keeping watch. With the morning sun the w-olves vanished, and Mahoney or.ce more took up the trail. Not once all day did he see a sign nor hear a sound from the pack that he knew was sil ently following. With the sunset, however, came the long, bloodcurd ling wail. The second night was a fight against sleep. He tied a pine knot to his right hand. As he dozed off. the flames w-ould burn and waken him. As the day before, the wolves de parted with the dawn and gave no sign until evening. Then for a third time Mahoney went without sleep. The wolves, their hunger increas ing. grew- bolder, and crept closer and closer. Every now and then one would jump forward and snap at the feet of the silent watcher. Then Ma honey, with a blazing brand, would strike at the glowing eyes and drive back his foe. When niorn:*tg came, the man, half-crazed with fear and loss of sleep, once more «ook the trail and at noon came to a road house. where he was cared for. He slept steadily for eighteen hours, then resumed his journey. KING’S THREAT TO SULTAN. Move That Seriously Imperiled the Peace of Europe. King Charles of itoumania. gave the sultan until May 23 to release two JZW& arjPou7Z4W& Roumanian citizens under arrest in Turkey, creating a situation that threatened the peace of the Balkans, became prince regent of Roumania in 1866 and has been king since 1881. His consort is Queen Elizabeth, cele brated as “Carmen Sylva,” the au thor. Decries Sunday Desecration. Bishop Frederick Burgess took up the question of Sunday observance in an address at the recent convention of the Protestant Episcopal church, diocese of Long Island. He spoke with displeasure of the house parties held in the homes of the rich, saying they were made up for the most part of young men who had no regard for Sunday, but spent it in golfing, ten nis playing, yachting and, some of them, in gambling. Fear Rich Man Will Wed Abroad. A disquieting rumor is pulsing along Fifth avenue. New York. James Henry Smith, the $40,000,000 bache lor, has gone to Europe, and rumor has it that he has gone for a wife; some say one in whose veins run the bluest of English aristocratic blood. Mr. Smith is the owner of the famous home erected by the late William C. Whitney and a great many New York mothers have felt that it should have some other tenant than himself. Secretary a Sunday School Worker. Secretary Leslie M. Shaw, for more than twenty years, and prior to going to Washington, wras superintendent of one and much of the time of two Sun day schools and he has represented Des Moines conference three times in the general conference of his church. Well-Earned Retirement. Dr. Thomas Opie. one of the found ere of the College of Physicians and Sureeons of B»!tir"r-o ard who for thirty-three years has been dean of the faculty and professor of gynecol ogy, has resigned. LITTLE DISEASE ON ISTHMUS. __ • Retiring Governor of Canal Zone Tells of the Situation. Gen. George W. Davis, retiring gov ernor of the Panama canal zone, and his two daughters have arrived in New York from Colon. Gen. Davis has been suffering with malarial fever, but declined to leave the canal zone pending the arrival of his suc cessor, Gov. Magoon, until formally ordered to do so by Secretary Taft. On his arrival in New York, Gen. Davis said he had received great benefit from the* sea voyage. The ma laria had practically disappeared and he believed that after a short rest he GZY 6ZO&GF-W&&Z5 would be fully recovered. He talked freely about conditions on the isth mus. He said the accounts of sick ness there during the last year had been greatly exaggerated and added: ‘‘I can safely predict that by the end of July, when the water and sewer age system have been installed, there will not be a case of yellow fever ox the isthmus. I also believe that with in a month Panama will see its last case of yellow fever. The people of Colon are now satisfied with the American occupation.” TIPS GIVEN BY MONARCHS. Crowned Heads Dispense Large Sums on Their Trips. Some of the European monarchs give very large tips whenever they travel, and others, on the contrary, are quite niggardly. Emperor Nicho las of Russia is the most liberal in this respect. During his brief visit to France three years ago he spent IIC.GOO on tips to servants and almost as much on presents to officials and others. King Edward of England is not quite as generous, but as he trav els a good deal, both within his own realm and abroad, he is obliged to lay aside each year $32.GOO as an allow ance for tips. Emperor William of Germany is much more generous in a foreign country than at home and dur ing his recent visit to Cowes, Eng land, he spent not less than $10,006 on tips. Of the remaining rulers some spend reasonable sums and others very little, but probably quite as much as they can afford. Eccentric British Lord. “M. A. P.” lias some gossip about Lord Grimthorpe's eccentricities. “He hated new clothes; he disliked collars and ties. His favorite hat was the Panama, and this in summer he would place under the pump, souse it with water and then place it on his head. Once the late Lady Grimtr.orpe com plained that the drippings spoiled her mantle. ‘Never mind, my dear,’ he replied, 'I shall have to buy another. He never wxire a watch chain that was visible to the outside world, but a long thin one which went round his r.eck and came through the armhole of his waistcoat and was attached to the watch in the topmost rest pocket. He never carried a check book, but wrote his checks on odd pieces ol paper.” American Wins Recognition. Rev. Putnam Cady, pastor of Em manuel Presbyterian church. Amster dam, X. Y.. has been chosen to fellow ship in the famous Royal Geographical Society of England, an honor con ferred on but very few Americans. This highly complimentary action was taken in recognition of Mr. Cady's geographical discoveries in the land of Moab and on the east shore of the Dead sea. Mr. Cady was the first man to photograph the region men tioned. which be explored under great difficulties, and tke first man to ascend the Arnon river, a tributary of the Dead sea. Orientalists and biblical scholars regard his discoveries as of the greatest value. Tomb for Chinese Empress. The empress dowager of China is feeling the weight of her years and is anxious to have her last resting place made ready before she is “invited to become a guest of heaven.” The Shanghai North China Herald says that something like $5,000,000 has al ready been spent on the proposed mausoleum, west of Pekin, designat ed “the happy land of a myriad rears.” . Feared Taxing Commission. • When Flatumarion, the great French astronomer, left England re cently. his parting words were: “They have named a spot in the moon after me, but pray do not men tion it, as the commission may want to tax it as being landed property." Italian Consul Transferred. Gustave Tosl, consul general of Italy in New York for some time, has been transferred to Boston. He has contributed much good matter to sci entific periodicals in this country and abroad on social, economic and psy chological questions. Brain of Whites and Negroes. Dr. Bean, a well known specialist, states that he has succeeded in estab lishing the fact that the brain of the negro is at least 20 per cent less than the white man's in will power, ethical sense and aesthetic feeling. Inherited Literary Ability. The son of Anthony Trollope, the novelist, has apparently Inherited literary aptitude. He is about to pub lish a careful biography of Moliere. | PLEADED A DUAL PERSONALITY | AS EXPLANATION FOR MURDER r_ _._ - . C-ECRGE H. WOOD AS HIMSELF AND AS THE OCCASIONAL EEiNG WHO COMMITS MURDER. The first picture shows George H. , Wood, sentenced at Somerville, N. J., to thirty years imprisonment for the murder of Williams, as he appears when he is in normal condition; the second as he looks when memory leaves him, when he forgets all about , > person No. 1 ard becomes filled with a desire to kill. When the period of at tack has passed he again becomes his normal self, forgetting in the trar.s ition every act of the fiend, person No. 2. His strange claim seemingly had little effect on the jury. I 'liir fifty-first anniversary cl tho first treaty math? by Japan with the United Stans, which was also the first treaty which it made with any foreign country occurred March 31. This treaty, which *.vas negotiated by Commodore Ferry, opened Japan t' commercial intercourse with the Unit ed States; and is still remembered there, with the date of the first land ing of the Americans as the first step in the development that changed Ja pan from the "hermit nation” to what S Uehida. consul general for Japan ai New York, calls now the “Yankee nation of the Far East.” William Speiden of No. I N East Seventieth street mow employed in the New York custom house), one of the few survivors of the famous first and treaty visi-s to Japan under Commo dore Perry, spoke yesterday of his memory? of expeditions. “This treaty,” he said, “was signed on the second visit which Americans ever made 10 Japan. The first oc curred the year before, when our na val forces landed at Gorihama under Commodore Ferry, on the 14th of July. 3 8 ">3. We entered the Bay of Yeddo with four vessels, prepared for an emergency. In other words, every thing was got in readiness for action. Several days of great excitement were passed amid >he preliminaries for the grand landing. In the end Commo dore Perry cariiPf] ashore the presi dent's letter to the emperor of Japan. The commissioners appointed to re ceive it were informed by the commo dore that lie would return the next year to receive the emperor’s answer, and that he would firing with him the escort of a large fleet. This piece of information was not agreeably re ceived. "lu the opening of the next year— 1854—we spent nearly a month in the Chinese port, to which we had retired, in perfecting arrangements for the second visit to Japan. Drills bv day. drills by night, were held both ashore and afloat, and. order to afford the commodore ar. opportunity for review ing his forces <>i>. shore a visit to the prince repent of Uoo-Choo at his pal ace at Sheudi was arranged. Soon af ier this tne commodore inspected every vessel and pronounced them sat isfactory. Sr. early in February everything was ready for our depar ture for Juoan. Monday, the 13th of February, eom mereorp.te? the second entrance of the Americans into Japan It was a beau tiful. cold day. Away on the port hand stood the noble Mount Fusi-Yama. covered with snow. Early in the morn ing everything was astir. The flag ship signaled the order for moving up the bay. and with the United States steamer Susquehanna in the lead we steamed up with all flags flying and the bands or board every vessel play ing national airs. As we passed Gori hama, where the president's letter had been delivered the year before, a wave of enthusiasm swept through the men. The bay was crowded with junks and every description of native craft, and the Japanese on board started with astonishment and terror as the war ships steamed majestically on. “About 3 in the afternoon the ves sels anchored at the ‘American an ehornge.’ 12 miles south of Yeddo. the capital. On the 8th of March the sec- j | ond great landing .of Americans was j effected. The commodore, as ambassa dor, with about 5b officers, lt>b ma rines. 24b sailors and 3 bands of mu sic in ail about 500—iormed the par j ty, filling 27 boats. On this occasion i "5he answer to the president s letter i to the emperor of Japan through th* imperial commissioners’ was deliv ered. This letter was a remarkable i one, in view of the exclusiveness which these people had hitherto main tained. It contained the following | passage: But for us to continue hiz otedly attached to the ancient laws seems to misunderstand the spirit of the age. and we wish to conform rath er to what necessity requires.’ “Contrast this with the sentiment i expressed in the following inscription i repeated on tablets of w ood and stone all over the empire: ‘So lone as the : sun shall warm the earth let no Chris i tian be so bold as to come to Japan and let all know that the king of Spain himself, or the Christian's God or the great God of all. if he violate this command, shall suffer for it with his head.’ It was an exciting day, when that little band landed and faced more than 7.000 well-equipped soldiers, both cavalry and infantry “During the next three weeks the : time was occupied with frequent meet ings both on sea and on shore, and everything was done toward hasten ing the making of the treaty, which was signed March 31. 1854. When the Americans met the Japanese for that final act it" was before a pavilion gay ly decorated by the Japanese with colored clothes and flags ’’ The following quotation from a let l ter which Mr. Speidon wrote home i immediately after the event will serve to show what Americans of that day thought of the treaty: “I truly be | lieve.” he wrote, “that the new era which is now about to take place in the history of the Japanese empire w-jll be one in which far greater ! changes will occur than we have at i this time any reason to anticipate. ; and that. too. before many year- i ave 1 passed.”—New York Evening Pc=t. EX-SENATCR A MILLIONAIRE. William F. Viias Makes His Heme at Madison, Wis. William F. Vilas, former United 1 States senator from Wisconsin, former postmaster-general and afterward sec j retary of the interior in the fir-t Cleveland administration, lives in Madison, Wis. He is a millionaire now. One of his holdings in his home town is a hotel building of an ancient type of architecture. Madison is a city of pretensions. In summer it is a re sort. In winter the legislature holds sway. On several occasions some of the other capitalists of the towm have agitated the proposition of erecting a hotel building commensurate with the state capital’s pride. Whenever the proposition has been made Col. Vilas has met it with a counter propo sition to erect a finer building for hotel purposes. The patronage of the town is not sufficient to warrant two big hotels, consequently it has none. Col. Vilas is master of the situation and the old hotel continues to do the buiness at the old stand. Col. Vilas heing the beneficiary. — Chicago Chronicle. Crossed Ocean 300 Times. Chief Engineer Carl Baum, of the North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wil helm II. arrived in New York a couple of days ago. having just completed his three hundredth trio across the At lantic. Forty years ago he began as assistant, engineer cn one of the four single-screw vessels which constituted the North German Lloyd fleet. He has trave’ed in that time 2.046.832 miles by sea. enough for about five round trip'-- to the moon. Mr. Baum was horn in Lamsrforf. Bavaria, sixty-five years ago. Morgan Dines With the Pope On his recent trip to Home J. Pier pone Morgan and his party spent Eas ter Sunday almost entirely in the pope’s company, as they went to his ; eariy morning mass and dined with | him in the middle of the day off a Venetian dinner. The fish had been sent as a gift from Venice, the wines were Venetian and the other dishes were from Venetian recipes, while the company was also Venetian—his sis vers, a niece, Monsignore Bressan, his private secretary and two noblemen. Leaves Pulpit for Forge. R®'- M. E. Bachman, a popular clergyman of Millersville. Pa., has for saken the pulpit ami will go to work at the blacksmith forge. The rever end gentleman's father is one of the best edge-tool dressers in the section and taught his son tbe business be fore the latter was ordained a preach er. Nowr the younger man. finding that the small salary paid by his church is not sufficient to support a large fam ily, will return to the forge, being a skilled mechanic and sure of good pay. Would Close All Schools. Prince Metcbusky, proprietor of a Russian newspaper, has made the more or less Interesting discovery that Gen. Kourcpatkin's defeats in the far cast, the famines, the strikes and the massacres in Russia are all due to an “intellectual microbe,” which germinates in the brain and causes people to become dissatisfied. He in sists. that schools should be discoun tenanced as breeding places of these noxious microbes, spreading discon tent against things as they are.