Here’s the Idea
Of the Non~pull*out Bow
The great watch saver. Saves the watch
from thieves and falls—cannot be pulled off
the case—costs nothing extra.
The bow hn3 a groove
on each end. A collar
runs down inside the
pendant (stem) and
hta into the grooves,
firmly locking the
bow to the pendent,
? * that it cannot be
*T'U:*ccl or twisted oif.
Can only he had v-iiTi cases -jpsif/
shunned with this trade mark. ■jgjfjjl
Jas. Boss Filled Watch Cases lire
now fitted wiili this greet how (ring). They
look and wear like solid gold cases. ' bst
only aliout half as much, and are guaranteed
Sold only through watch
name
PHILADELPHIA.
f
A STRANGE CASE.
How an Enemy was Foiled.
The following graphic statement will be
read with intense interest: “1 cannot describe
i he numb, creepy sensation that existed in my
arms, hands and legs. Iliad to rub and beat
those parts until they were sore, to overcome
in a measure the dead feeling that had taken
liossession of them. Iu addition, I had a
strange weakness in my back and around my
waist, together with an indescribable ‘gone*
feeling in my stomach. Physicians said it
was creeping paralysis, from which, accord
* ing to their universal conclusion, there is no
relief. Once it fastens upon a person, they
say, it continues its insidious progress until
it reaches a vital point and the sufferer dies.
Such was my prospect. 1 had been doctoring
a year and a half steadily, but with no par
i icular benefit, when I saw an advertisement,
of Dr Miles’ Restorative Nervine, procured a
liottle and began using it. Marvelous as it
may seem, but a few days had passed before
every bit of that cneepy feeling bad left me,
and "there has not been even the slightest
indication of its return. I now feel as
well as I ever did, and have gained ten
pounds in weight, though I had run down
from 170to 137. Four others have used Dr.
Miles’Restorative Nervine on my recomen
dation, and it has been as satisfactory in their
cases as in mine.”—James Kane, La Rue, O.
Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine is sold by all
druggists on a positive guarantee, or sent
direct by the Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart,
Ind., on receipt of price, SI per bottle, six
bottles for $5, express prepaid. It is free from
opiates or dangerous drugs.
t * d >>
0 C 3 s- M
—
« a e 3 •>
£ “ •c o X
B g « O "«
5»S5 5d
3 T3 03
“■ r ^ C O
0 <»*C >» Uj
£ u u u
o ,c p o •*
i- — t; •
~82:a O
0)
5 *“ 5 m
® h 2 ^ rr
5 W J I vJ
j- V H >Tr
0 O 2 0i (C-.
sssi W
' sr CQ < c U*
DJ Id z .0
o-*g: 20
58°-; J
Z*CJ <
2°qo ^
oi£ < 2 m
o < o .5 “■
s^m- G
■o o a o
■; =^5
s s ft a
o 6“ E 2
^ S a g-5
** £ 06 3
" ‘“£51“
Q 0 —
., w ® J £ "
*J C Id 5r
m au o.o
5 = Sh 2
-r
i 'C
s§ £
71
EXPERIMENTS
ARE DANGEROUS.
DEI/AYS ARE 1
DANGEROUS.
TRY NO
experiments.
^ MAKE NO
DEE AYS.
VISE
QREGGA1 S<SDiNEYyEA,
IT WtUL. CURZ YOU
Of Back-ach<\ Iml iramniion of the Bladder a
or Kidneys, Diabetes, I^ssof Flesh, Drcp=i- t
cal Swellings, Constipation and all comnlaints ’
arising from a morbid condition of t.;e L*::
nary Organs.
w -
if® - ,
-%\}
fo&ifc oJ-—
TJjSGEKTia&VSFB.'ENa.**^^
^^“ssrisrssrsJ^saSfS
Corel GOKOKBBSA ond OI.EET la O«o to Eoorn d»JS
A QUICK CUBE for LEUCOBHHIBAor WHITES.
Bold brail DBUQGISTS. Beni to OBJ A ddraM tor fluO.
(UUfioi MAHUEACT8MSO CO. bAHOKSH* OOUk
THE MAN YOU CAN HELP.
There are plenty of nu n who will grasp your
lmnd
With a pleasant, cordial smile;
There are plenty of men who will pass you by
In the most indifferent style.
You may be “cut” sometimes by those
Whom in boyhood days you knew.
Butxl man will always treat you well
When ho wants a favor from you.
How glad is he that you look so well,
And how do your children do?
Your wife is In good health, he trusts.
And your business prospering too.
He struck a new brand of cigars today—
By the way, just try a few!
Oh, yes, a man will treat you well
When he wants a favor from you.
When the favor’s done—alas! alas!
How suddenly he forgets
' How he loved you when he needed, perhaps,
Your help to pay his debts.
But the fact remains, and every one knows
That this assertion’s true—
A man will always treat you well
When he wants a favor from you.
—Somerville Journal.
A LIFETIME LOVE.
My sister once related to mo a love
story, which illustrates the peculiar in
tensity, especially in matters of the
heart, which marks the Breton charac
ter. The tale was related to her by one
of her friends, the daughter of the hero
ine, whom I will call Emma Rosilis.
She was not perfectly beautiful, but
her face had an indescribable charm.
Her eyes had the most exquisite softness,
and her delicate eyebrows almost seemed
to possess a soul, while her skin was so
fine that it betrayed the slightest agita
tion by fugitive blushes.
Little Emma Rosilis went regularly to
church with her book of hours, and the
truth is that toward the age of 16 or 18
there was no place in her little soul but
for one young man, of about 20 or 22,
whom she saw often, and whom I will
call Emilien.
Emma had known Emilien ever since
she had known herself. Moreover, she
dreamed what she did not think, until it
happened one day that she found Emil
ien was occupying the entire cavity of
her little heart.
The young man whom she loved had a
good, though not a strong, nature, but
his simplicity, his absence of all pre
tense, were most pleasing to Emma.
She had not known any young man su
perior to him, and indeed in the little
world where she moved she had not met
many young men of any kind.
This love of Emma’s soon became most
absorbing. During entire days she would
remain motionless, almost as though she
were in a trance, dreaming of her be
loved. Naturally she said nothing of
what she experienced either to the one
she loved, or to her relations, or to her
companions. Her discretion was so ab
solute that no one knew anything of
what filled her.
While Emma lived only in her love for
Emilien, he thought little of her. He
found her pleasing, as did all the world,
but he never thought of telling her so.
He was a commonplace and passive be
ing, and then, after all, was he to blame?
Emma was so modest that she could
scarcely be distinguished from her
friends—you would have said she sought
only to hide herself.
One day, while she was talking with
her c'ompanions at a little reunion at the
foot of the garden, many things were
| spoken of. The news which had a fresh
ness for all was of the approaching mar
' riage of Emilien to Anna M-. It was
spoken of as a certain thing. Emma
heard it all. Such was the control which
she' had over herself, however, that no
one suspected that a poniard had en
tered her heart. She was quiet, arose a
little while after and retired without
giving any sign of the frightful wound
which she had just received.
Anotner bit ot news was circulated a
few days after, in the company of the
same young people, assembled in the
same garden. Emma had entered as
novice into the community of Ursulines
of the little village of L-! As she
was very pious, this surprised no one.
Her secret had belonged so exclusively
to herst-lf that no one reproached her.
The idea occurred to no one that the
marriage of Emilien was the cause of
her consecrating herself to religion.
The convent of the Ursulines admitted
divers degrees of religious vocations. By
the side of the sisters bound to the order
by a perpetual vow there were pious per
sons wearing a costume which was like
that of the order, minus the veil. These
practiced the same observances without
assuming any permanent obligations.
The greater part took the vows at the
end of some years, but there was more
than one example of devoted sisters who
1 re-entered the world after years spent
in the convent.
It was into this class of sisters that
poor Emma entered. Everything was as
usual in her admission, in her novitiate,
' in her conduct in the convent.
I She became a devotee of the most per
j feet regularity, pious as the others, never
i in fault, esteemed by her superiors. Her
pale face in the white linen which sur
| rounded it had the beatific calm char
acteristic of the sisterhood. Assiduous
j in prayers and in all other pious exer
cises, she yielded quickly to the religious
habits of the cloister. At the end of j
some days the slow- and monotonous !
routine of the regular convent life had
dulled her sensibilities, and her ordinary j
. state became a kind of gentle sleep.
I Had she succeeded in driving from her
' heart the image which had captured her
1 whole being?
After a fashion—yet she had not even 1
tried. The suspicion came not to her for
an instant that her love was culpable,
j It was, as in the canticles, “a bouquet of i
myrrh in her bosom.” She would have
doubted God rather than her right to
; this sentiment which filled her. She
distinguished not her love from her
piety nor her piety from her love. She
even tasted in her austerities an addi
; tional charm. She found in wounding
' herself a sort of delight. She experi
I enced an intense joy in believing that
she suffered all this for the one she loved, j
and in saying that she saw no other
man but him. Such were the innocence
and purity of her imagination that never
a scruple came to her for her dreams ot
love. She was «o certain of being right
that she never felt obliged to accuse her
self to her confessor.
Thus five years rolled by without a
trouble, without a storm. Did the pos
sibility of recovering Emilien ever pre
sent itself to her spirit? Dreamed she
at moments that it was Emilien and not
the church that she had really espoused,
and that she whom he had espoused was
in very feeblo health? As nothing that
passed in the little town was unknown
in the convent, she knew that Anna and
Emilien had two little girls. Did Em
ma’s heart never whisper to her, “Thou
shalt be their mother some day?”
Anna had a sister in the convent, One
day, according to the custom at such
times, prayers were requested by the
women of the community for a relative
of their number, who was dying. The '
name of this dying person was repeated
that evening to Emma. She was Anna.
The two little girls, who soon had no
mother, were confided to the care of
their aunt, the nun. Emma assisted her
in attending to them. From this time
Emma experienced a change. She could
scarcely pray. She tried to reclothe her- i
self in her haircloth, and she found it!
insupportable. The austerities which i
were familiar to her became revolting, j
She denied herself the communion for j
eight days. Her peace was at an end; j
her profound piety extinguished. She i
believed herself morbid, selfish—almost
wicked.
At this time she felt obliged to tell all'
to her confessor, the chaplain of the con
vent. He was not a great man, but ho
was very sensible. He advised at first
that she should wait; then he saw the
gravity of the evil. After all, Emma
had pronounced no vows. She had not
worn the whole costume of the order.
The veil had not shadowed her forehead.
The chaplain had a benevolent heart.
The sacredness of the confessional for
bade him from consulting his bishop.
He formed his opinion from his own
reasonings. Convinced that it was for
the salvation of Emma, he confided the
two little daughters of Anna to her per
sonal care. He hoped also to give an
outlet to the restlessness which began to
disturb her. On these orphans she might
outpour the fullness of her heart.
The father came to see his little girls,
and Emma conducted them to the parlor.
The shock of seeing him again was ter
rible. She burst into tears. He was just
the same as she had always seen him in
her dreams. As for her, she was sadly
emaciated. Her excessive weeping de
prived her of what little strength she
had. Herself control entirely forsook her.
Gazing into her tear dimmed eyes, Emil
ien discovered there her love. The good
man, commonplace as he was, at last
comprehended the situation. He had a
very tender heart, and he was profound
ly touched.
Some months after Emma and Emilien
were united in marriage. What no one j
had suspected all the world now saw.
The entire community married them.
For the rest of her life Emma tasted
without a moment’s intermission the
most perfect felicity that one can dream
of. During 40 years she drifted, as it
were, in a Pacific ocean of happiness and
love.
Emma and Emilien had eight children,
from whom they never separated the two
daughters cf poor Alina. They brought
them all up well.
Some speak of the “storms of love.”
What childishness! Passion has its in
equalities, but true love has no storms.
The happiness of Emma after she had
won her lover was as a full sea without
tides. Even death was hardly for her.
Life went out because the hour of fin
ishing had come. She died at the age of
70 years, without sickness.
My sister found this a perfect example
of love as she comprehended it. She es
teemed Emilien the happiest of men.
For him an excellent woman had con
demned herself to a life of austerity,
giving to him the most complete guaran
tee of the exclusiveness of her love.
During five years she saw not a single
man. She had accepted with innocent
joy the expectation of an external exclu
sion. In all battles that come in life 1
there is a recompense for those alone
who dare. Happiness is like glory. To
obtain it, it is necessary to play high.
One day I hazarded the observation to
my sister, “It was a great deal of devo
tion to bestow upon a mediocre man.”
“Oh, that was no matter!” she re
sponded. “Emilien certainly did not
merit so much happiness, but who does?
See the false idea of the Parisian men of |
letters, who assume that great men only !
are worthy of being loved. What child- i
ishness! You will see some day the j
ridiculousness of all that. Ah, the heroes
who have saved their country—I acknowl- :
edge they may reward affection, but the
daubers of canvas, the blotters of paper, |
what have they for the heart? What is
a husband who belongs to every one?”—
Translated From the French of Ernest
Renan For Romance.
The Conscience Fund.
Every little while conscience stricken
individuals refund to the treasury de
partment certain sums of money con
fessed to have been ill gotten from the
government in various ways. It is as
tonishing that notwithstanding the thou
sands of dollars that have been sent to
the treasury on this account no special
record has been taken of them; that there
is never proof to those who have thus
“squared themselves” that the money
ever reached the proper disposition.
Treasury officials now recognize this
dereliction, and separate accounts will be
kept in future, if for no other purpose
than to enable public officials to vindi
cate themselves from anonymous assail
ants who may impugn their trustworthi
ness.—National Tribune.
Diplomatic.
Porter of Sleeping Car—Your berth is
the top one, lady.
Passenger—What do you take me for,
a bundle of old fashioned dry goods that
you want to put out of sight on the top
shelf?
Porter of Sleeping Car—No, madam,
only an angel, who ought to be as near
heaven as possible.—Boston Gazette.
AfAR IS IMMINENT.
The Grow ng European Crisis Greatly Af
gratated by ltaly*s Condition.
It is the Italian situation which most
directly threatens in this growing Eu
ropean crisis. France has shown sur
prising an<l most creditable restraint
during the past two weeks. Her ambi
tious purpose has not been misjudged by
those who have seen tho sinister designs
behind her protestations of peace, but
she is wise enough to know that the hour
for the execution of her plans has not
quite come. But if Italy assumes an ag
gressive part she will play into French
hands. France is ready, and with her
new ally at her back will rejoice if one
of her adversaries will assume the Re
sponsibility of making the attack.
The situation in Italy does not im
prove. It has become intolerable, and
some violent result of the crisis seems
inevitable. There is some truth in the
statement that the trouble is caused
more by moral than material decadence
Patriotism has waned. The country is
bankrupt—not because it cannot pay its
taxes, but because it will not pay. The
reply of the Marquis di Rudini to Pre
mier Giolitti is justified when he says it
is useless to impose additional taxes, be
cause they will yield no more than the !
old ones. The people best able to pay
will, the marquis asserts, evade pay
ment with more ingenuity and persever- J
ance.
Giolitti’s government recognizes the
truth of this observation, and it is this
fact which gives color to the reports
that the present ministry has been con
sidering a war with France as a desper
ate remedy for the solution of its dilem
ma. The people would willingly sup pi}'
the sinews of war, but they refuse long- 1
er to be victims of the thieves in high
places, whose guilt is notorious, but who 1
are protected by all the resources of the i
government and crown. If winter were
just ending instead of approaching, it
would be a question of days only, in the
opinion of many people, when Italy
would fire the first gun in the greatest of
European wars.
Meantime the crisis is a most embar
rassing one for the present rulers of the :
peninsula. It is difficult to see how the '
winter can be passed without a crash of
some sort. Already the popular discon
tent is at the point of revolution in some
parts of the kingdom. The government
continues to pour troops into Sicily, and
its newspaper organs virtually admit
that the aim is the suppression of sedi
tion rather than the extirpation of brig
andage, although the latter laudable
work is proceeding incidentally. It has
been ascertained that the Fasci or asso
ciations of revolutionary socialists have
a membership of 300,000, embracing all
classes in Sicily. Even some regiments
are tainted, and severe disciplinary
measures have had to be taken against a
regiment of artillery at present in the
garrison at Palermo. The Sun corre
spondent says that serious disturbances
may occur at any moment.—New York
Sun’s London Letter.
THE LAW’S DELAY.
A Persistent Boy's Fight For Personal,
Damages Against a Railroad.
The suit of Dennis Spillane against the
Missouri Pacific Railway company is
again on trial before Judge Slover. It
is the third trial. Dennis is a 13-year
old boy, who, in the summer of 1888, ;
while crossing the track at the foot of
Grand avenue, was run over by a Mis- ,
souri Pacific train. He was knocked to 1
the side of the track, his scalp was fairly ;
torn from his skull, and two fingers
were cut off his left hand. The boy’s
head was sewed up by Dr. Iuen, and to
the surprise of every one he recovered. ;
Ever since the accident, however, he
has been subject to epileptic fits, com
plains of pains in his head at all times
and is unable to attend school or per
form any work.
Dennis at once brought suit for $20,- !
000 damages. The cause came up for
trial in 1889, and the jury awarded him
$8,000. The case was taken to the su
preme court on an error made by Judge
Slover in his instructions to the jury and
remanded back for trial. At the second
trial the jury failed to agree upon the
amount of damages, and the case has
since hung in the courts.—Kansas City
Times.
Ise First of Its Kind.
The first wedding of colored people
that ever occurred in the gubernatorial
mansion of Virginia or in a similar man
sion in the south took place in the dining
room of the executive mansion at 1 o’clock
on a recent afternoon. Winston Edwards,
the governor’s chief butler, who has
served faithfully in his position under
both Governor Lee and the present ex
ecutive, and Jenny Leigh, an attractive
maid, who has been in the governor’s
service for several years, were united in
marriage by the Rev. Dr. Hunter of the
Third Street African Methodist Episco
pal church. After the ceremony, which
was witnessed by several of the gov
ernor’s household, the happy couple left
on a bridal tour, which embraced a visit
to the World’s fair.—Richmond Dispatch
in Baltimore American.
A Sign of the Period.
“Circumstances have changed in
deed,” said a down town merchant yes
terday. “I had a load of coal thrown
in front of my store this morning. Usu
ally I have had to hunt up a man to
carry the coal to the back part of my
cellar, but today that pile of coal was a
sign—like a want advertisement—which
brought no less than 12 men who wanted
to carry it back for me. When I told
them I had hired some one to do the
work, then they wanted to know if they
couldn't do something else—anything.”
—Pittsburg Dispatch.
A Novel Sight.
Our citizens were treated to a novel
sight this afternoon. Anderson Apple,
merchant at Helix, six miles southwest
of here, drove a flock of 1,200 geese
through town for shipment to the city
from Helix, and as they crossed the pub
lic square each particular goose seemed
to be squawking against time.—Paoli
Dispatch in Indianapolis Sentinel.
INDIANA WOMEN SLUMMERS.
They Visited Chicago With tlie 15est of
Motives ami Were Shocked.
The Indianapolis members of the Chi
cago “slumming” expedition have re
turned home. The ladies who joined in
the expedition are recognized leaders in
W. C. T. U. work in Indiana. All of,
them are reported as excessively cha
grined over the publicity given their
visit to Chicago slums, which was under-:
taken with the best of motives.
“There are some falsehoods which
should be corrected,” says Miss Ayres.
“We left our lodgings at 11 p. m. and
returned at 1:15 precisely. We did not
visit the worst resorts either. We1
aimed to inspect the more decent va
rieties, but the Lord knows for that
matter they were all bad enough.
The detective who guided us said it was
no uncommon occurrence for parties of
religious ladies to visit these resorts for j
scientific purposes, and our visit would j
never had leaked out if it had not been I
for a Judas Iscariot of a newspaper man,1
who gave the whole affair away.
“We had hut one simple, solitary and
laudatory purpose in making the visit,” !
continued the lady. “Wo wanted to
find some practical means of elevating
fallen women. Our object was to ascer
tain what relationship the tobacco and
liquor habits hear to this unmentionable !
vice which we are seeking to cure. If
we can strike at the root of the disease,
it will ho a comparatively easy matter
to cure the disease itself. We ascer
tained that there was a very close rela
tionship) between the three vices, and
that the latter is superinduced by the
tobacco and liquor habits. Now we
know whatever we do to lessen the!
amount of tobacco and liquor sold, by |
just that much will we lessen the vice '
which we are aiming at.”
Miss Ayres was asked if what the la- i
dies saw was calculated to lessen their
estimation of humanity in general.
“They were simpily shocking. 1 had
never dreamed that so much evil exist-1
ed. Most of the resorts were like gilded j
palaces and were always accompanied
by liquor and tobacco attachments
where the girls indulged as freely as the
men. I never want to see the like again.
We were not prompted by morbid curi
osity. We were working in the inter
ests of social purity, and our motives
were of the highest character. We be
lieve that we did a good work.”—In
dianapolis Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
CHARGED TO A WOMAN.
It Is Said That the American Wife of Bar
rios Has Caused the Guatemalan Trouble.
A woman again. We learn that the
prompter of the recent revolution in the
republic of Guatemala, through which a
dictatorship has been set up, was an am
bitious woman, the American wife of
General Barrios, a lady whose name Is
not unknown in New York. The ene
mies of Barrios in Guatemala declare
that it was she who induced him to pro
claim himself dictator, and who is the
author of the arbitrary policy under
which the country is ruled at this time,
and under which the deputies are kept
in prison and the army is held ready for
action and suspected persons are ban
ished, and the people are compelled to
keep as quiet as they can. The enemies
of Barrios say that he has neither the
pluck nor the brains needed for a dic
tator, and that he is merely the tool of
the determined American woman whom
he took to wife. *
She may yet rue the day in which she
conceived the dictatorship. The an
ti-Barrios Guatemalans are aroused
against her. They denounce her in
whispers. They condemn her in pla
cards, which are stuck up in the night
time on the dead walls and fences of the
city of Guatemala la Nueva. They get
out circulars, which are surreptitiously
printed and secretly distributed, in
which she is characterized as an “Amer
ican interloper.” There is no doubt that
she is in danger. If the Constitutional
ists who are lurking around the capital
and on the Salvadorian frontier, stealth
ily preparing to take the field against
the dictatorship, shall overthrow Bar
rios, we cannot say that she will not
suffer as hard a lot as she has been
charged with inflicting upon others.
We are surprised at her course. Amer
icans ought to be the champions of dem
ocratic freedom and republican institu
tions everywhere.—New York Sun.
The Oldest Soldier In the World.
Russia proudly claims the oldest sol
dier, if not the oldest citizen of anyrank,
in the known world. Her claimant for
this distinguished honor is Colonel Grit
zenko of Pottawa near Odessa, who, if he
lives until Feb. 7, will celebrate his one
hundred and twentieth birthday. Grit
zenko entered the military service in the
year 1789, 104 years ago, and received
from the hands of Empress Catherine
herself a gold medal for conspicuous
bravery at the assault on Ismail. This
trophy, of which the aged warrior is
justly very proud, bears the following
inscription: “For exceptional bravery at
the assault of Ismail, Dec. 11, 1789.”—
St. Louis Republic.
A Fortune For Mrs. Drayton.
Mrs. Coleman Drayton is once again
domiciled in her former home on Fifth
avenue. She has just engaged her serv
ants for the winter, and is.well equipped
as to comfort in regard to housekeeping
and ease in entertaining. For all this
present and prospective luxury she has
her brother, Mr. John Jacob Astor, to
thank, he having settled the house on
her for life, as well as given her .f1,000,
000 outright. Society commends Mr.
Astor for making this very liberal gift
to his sister.—New York World.
Testing a Ducking Stool.
An ancient ducking stool for scolding
wives is still preserved at Fordwich,
England. The other day some anti
quarians, anxious to test the apparatus,
found a youth who was willing to don
female attire and go through the ordeal.
The apparatus speedily ducked the lad
into the river, but refused to pull him
out again, and but for timely assistance
he would have been drowned.—London
Letter.
THE NEW CHINESE LEGATION.
Tlie Minister ami Klis Suite I.ive Royuliy
In Washington Regardless «f Expeitno.
The new legation has taken three
houses for which the Chinese govern
ment pays $20,000 a year. They now
occupy the ohl Sumner house, which is
an annex of the Arlington. The United
States paid $200 a day for the board of
the infanta while her suite occupied
these quarters. Yung Yu is paying $100
a day and says he thinks it is very
cheap. While the women are kept in
seclusion, the men have the run of tlie
house and make themselves thoroughly
at home. A part of the delegation were
once in England and speak the English
language fluently. They have the free
and easy manner of the westerner and
show a disposition to talk to any one
who will listen. The minister himself is
as dark as a sunburnt mulatto, In i rig at
least three shades blacker than the other
members of the delegation.
Yung Yu says he is very well pi'*oscd
with American cooking, hut ii has
taken the precaution to provide him It
with a Chinese cook and has ii. , d
him in the hotel kitchen. The legation
eat but littlo meat, dining chiefly on
vegetables. Yung Yu has never been
out of China before. He was not a man
of the highest rank in China, hut like
Ko-Ko, though in a different way, rose
to distinction. lie was an official in the
province of Cliiu-Kcnr.g which cr re
sponds there to the position of collector
of the U -toil port here. 1* was strictly
on his merits that he was chosen by the
prime minister to represent the emperor
in this country pending the delicate re
lations belwi: a the two nations in con
sequence of the Geary act. As long as
there are any strained relations existing
no member of the legation will bo al
lowed to accept tho hospitality of an
American, that being the law of the em
bassy.—Washington Cor. Boston Adver
tiser.
A CLEVER SWINDLER.
A Fx-enchmaii Wearing tlie Uosetto of the
Legion of Honor a Sharp Scoundrel
A really clever thief is engage.! jo--;,
now in robbing people in Paris v. i.o pos
sess securities payable to be,-ire-. His
plan is to <lo u little bia im ss with some
of the Parisian b ulks in order 1 hat lie
may have an excuse for hanging
tho counters. He then watches tho
bank’s customers, especially la.::- ,:al
when he sees one of them receiv.-from
the clerks any bonds or other scrip to
bearer he quietly makes a note of the
person’s name and tlie number- tin*
documents. Having .•.-vvit.uned i i-- ad
dress of his proposed victim, he <• 1
there later in the day or early the n.
morning, and representing that he is a
clerk from the bank, asks lor the securi
ties, alleging that there is some little in
formality in them that has to be recti
fied. As he is armed with the numbers,
in nine cases out of ten the customer
gives up the documents quite unsuspect
inglv.
So far this ingenious swindler lias
eluded all efforts to detect him. He is
described as a gentlemanly looking man,
who wears the rosette of an "officer'’ of
the Legion of Honor, the little bit of
ribbon of a plain “chevalier” apparently
being thought not sufficiently imposing
now that such decorations are so plenti
ful.—London Daily News.
His Last Fencing Lesson.
A dispatch from Lyons announces that
a sad accident has occurred at the Mili
tary Medical school there. M. Jourdan,
who was just about to take one of tho
highest medical degrees in the school,
was liaving a fencing lesson from the
maitre d’armes, when during a vigorous
attack by the pupil a short piece broke
off the end of the master’s foil. M.
Jourdan, who was making a lunge, liter
ally spitted himself on the blade. He
went up stairs to Ms room, fell on the
bed and died in about an hour, in spite
of all efforts to save him. No blame is
attached to the fencing master, as the
accident could not have happened but.
for the violence of Ms pupil's attack.
M. Jourdan took the first prize for fenc
ing last year and was training for a
coming assault at arms.—Foreign Ex
change.
The Kat3’did AVas a Ra’.tler.
There was a decided commotion at the
home of J. D. Wells, in East Sedalia, re
cently. For several days Mrs. Wells had
heard a peculiar buzzing in the closet
where wearing apparel was kept, and
was of the opinion that the noise was
made by a captive katydid. Several
times she was on the point of making art
investigation, but household duties dis
tracted her attention and she failed to
make the search. Saturday her husband
went into the closet to secure a heavy
pair of trousers which he intended to
don on account of the cool weather.
Taking them from the hook, he gave
them a vigorous shake, when out dropped
a rattlesnake 3 feet in length, the reptile
being what the occupants of the house
had mistaken for a katydid.—Sedalia
(Mo.) Dispatch.
Railroad Traffic During the Fair.
So far as the figures at hand go they
show that the numl -r of people brought
into Chicago by the 21 passenger lines
entering here during the fair period were
in round numbers 3,335,000. This allows
330,000 each for the five leading passen
ger lines, 300.000 each for the five next
following, loU.OOOeach for the next group
of five, and 50,000 each for the six weak
lines. Allowing each of these passengers
to have visited the fair five times would
account for an attendance of 16,755.000,
which would be a good proportion of
outside visitors. It would leave but a
little over 5,000,000 visits from Chicago
ans.—Chicago News.
Champion Cotton Picker uf Texa«.
The best day’s cotton picking by any
one in the county this year, to which
our attention has been directed, was done
on Friday on Turkey Creek by Will J
Daniel. On that day he picked 804
pounds. During the present season he
picked 9.514 pounds, and says an aver
age day’s work for him is 400 pounds. —
Taylor Dispatch in Galveston News.
