HIND OF DEATH. It Stills the Heart and Brain of Calvin S. Hriee. WAS ILL FOR FIVE DAYS. Made Himself Noted as a Poli tician and Railway King. A SKETCH OF HIS CAREER. ila., and was born September IT. 1545. He was the son of a Presbyterian minis ter. Three years before the civil war he entered Miami university, but in 1361 he enlisted in a university com pany for the war. He served in West Virginia in the Kighty-si\th Ohio in fantry. In lie graduated from the university and after teaching school a few months he became cap tain of a company in the One Hun dred and Kighth Ohio and served to the end of the weir, lie then went to \nti Arbor (Mich.) law school and afterwards was admitted to the bar i i Cincinnati. CALVIN S. BRICK. IT® took an active interest in poli ties and in the campaign of 1870 he was an electoral candidate on the Til den ticket and again on the Cleveland ticket in 18S4. In ISBB he was a dele gate-at-large to the democratic na tional convention at St. Louis, where the Ohio delgation chose him as a member of the national committee. He was chairman of the executive committee during the l.sss campaign and on the dnath of W. H. Harnum was elected elmirman of the ilemo cratiie national committee. In the winter of ISO!) Mr. Hriee was elected I'nifed States senator to succeed Henry H. I'ayne and took his seat March 4. IS9L In the senate Mr. Hriee became a prominent figure, lie was soon made a member of the democratic steering committee and became also a member of the committee on appropriations. Mr. Hriee seldom spoke in the .senate, but was a close observer of everything that was going on and W;LS ahvuya deep in the councils of the party. Mr. Hriee served six years in the mm ite, being succeeded by .J. H. Kor al, er. In \\ :ishingti •• lie occupied the ( ireoran house and gave lavish en tertainments. Since his retirement from the senate he occupied himself for the most part with business af fairs in New York. I'ntil the democratic party adopted free silver as i cardinal principle Mi-. Hriee was the leader in his party in Ohio, but after that lie did not take in active part in polities. He was admired for his business and political skill and for his ahound illgood humor, which never left him on any occasion. He was largely interested in railway enterprises, was rated a millionaire and of late had been one of the chief members of a syndicate with large railroad and other concessions in China, lie leaves a wife and several grown children. Knitted l>y It's Ft rot her. Abilene. Kan., > Dec. 16. .1. W. Hil led. hardware and implement dealer, has turned over his business at Wood bine to his creditors. (lillet't is a brother of (irant Gillett. the abscond ing- cattle king, and iicld SIOO,HOC \>«*-th of cattle pap/■ r issued by hi; brother. The cattle which J. Gil lett supposed he owned has been fci'- y . u> have be.n mortgaged ti nhc"s. His assets ar> placed at $50,000. MUSICIANS AND THEIR HAIR. Wind instrumental, especially the cor net and trombone, are fatal to heavy lulids of hair Certain music prevent* the hair from falling, according to one scientist, while other kinds have a disastrous ef fect. The violoncello and harp keep the linir in pretty well, but the flute cannot be depended upon. A number of pianists, including Paderewski, are rited by a scientist in confirmation of this theorv. POISON IN THE SWEETS. Damaging Kvldt'iicr I.lien In the Hot kin Trial- « licml»t» and ItriigKitti Tell Their Slorlci. San Francisco, Mrs. Hotkin is becoming more inter esting. Wednesday was cold and stormy, but a large crowd was in court. Thomas Price, the tinalytical chem ist of this city who examined some of the candy sent to Mrs. Dunning, was the first witness called, l'rof. I'rice stated that he received eight samples of the candy from Chief of I'oliee Lees on September 25 and that his analysis showed an aggregate amount of I>S grains of arsenic in the candy submitted to him. lie described the different forms of arsenic. Dr. Wolf, the chemist from Dover, Del., was re called and asked if lie hail ever heard of arsenic being used for bleaching straw hats, lie replied in the negative. This question was asked for the reason that Mrs. Hotkin admitted shortly after her arrest that she had purchased some arsenic to bleach her hat. Frank Gray, a druggist, furnished important information regarding the purchase of the arsenic by Mrs. Hot kin. lie said that on June Ist Mrs. Hotkin, whom he knew slightly, called upon him for some arsenic and averred that she wished il. for the purpose of bleaching a straw hat. (iray recom mended several other articles. Hut Mrs. Hotkin said she was familiar with arsenic and preferred it. Gray made the entry on the poison book indicat ing the use to which it was to be sub jected. -He entered the name on the book as "Mrs. Moth in.'" David Green, a druggist employed in another store, failed to positively identify Mrs. Hotkin as the woman who purchased some arsenic from him, though he said she was short and stocks . This description tits Mrs. Hot kin. Mrs. Sylvia lleney, a saleswoman for George Haas A Sons, candy makers and retailers, was the most important witness. She identified some of the candy sent to Mrs. Dunning as being from the stock of her employers. She identified the box and explained that she did not quite fill it. at the request of the purchaser, who saiil she wished to add some to the box. Mrs. Heney identified a seal used by the firm and said that the purchaser appeared ex tremely nervous during the whole transaction. Mrs. lleney's identifica tion was not positive, but she qualified it by saying that she believed that Mrs. Hotkin was the person who bought the candy. THEY GO SCOT FREE. Officer* U li<> Shot < iilianx In Huvana'* NtreH» arc >'<>l Arretted. Havana. Dec. 15.—American observ ers of the violent scenes enacted here on Sunday night sympathize with the Cuban population over the killing of three persons and the wounding of 15 others by Spanish soldiers. Neverthe less the American military men are un able to do more than they have done in securing safe transportation for prom inent Cubans to Marianau and in pre venting all arrests excepting those of three youngsters who. however, were afterwards released. The shooting was nearly all done bv Spanish officers. Some of the shots were fired during the conflict at ag gressive Cubans, but most of them were fired at retreating Cubans. None of the officers implicated have been brought to account by their superior... It is asserted that the feeling in the Spanish army is one of pleasure that the Cubans gave the Spaniards the op portunity to kill a few of them. The first arrivals of American troops and dissolution of Spanish sovereignty on all sides in Havana increase the Spanish bitterness here. The only safety of the Cubans is in their re maining patient for a week or two longer until the Seventh army corps shall have arrived. The American offi cers urge the Cuban leaders to counsel silence and self-suppression for awhile, as tire brand Cubans cannot be pro tected, even by the moral influence of the American representatives. FULLY EXONERATED. t'harge* Ma.«■ 11i11tr for $14.75 at Pittsburg, but until the middle of November sold at .$10.1(1 this year. It has since risen with enormous demand and sales to $10.55 there, but the Chicago market is also strong, with sales of 100.000 tons, besides 25,000 tons of billets. With scarcity of pig iron feared, both east and west, there is as yet no rise whatever in finished products. Steel rails are quoted at $1" per ton at the east, although the Lackawanna Co. has taker, orders for 100,000 tons at the west, both the Pittsburg and Chicago works being sold far ahead, while Chicago has [lending a bid for 200.000 tons deliverable in two years in Asiatic Itussia. In other lines the demand for finished products is of the same surprising magnitude, especially in plates and in sheets. The woolen industry also conies to the front with very extensive pur chases of wool, helped by material concessions at Uostein. so that sales at the three chief markets have been 17.W55.700 pounds. A much Improved demand for goods has started many mills long idle, and the prospects for the next season with wool at more reasonable prices 'have improved. No man can say that the- advance iu cotton, with a strong milling demand iit home, due to orders for goods which lift prices generally a little, is not warranteIIOCN ol' Vlrdcn KIOIH. Carlinville. 111.. Dee. 17. State At torney Vaughn is arranging Ian IIOIINC. Poughkecpsie, X. V., Pec. 17.- There was a terrible explosion in tIV gener ating depart ment of the Poughkecp sie gas works last night. Louis 11. Maurhyte was killed and James Me- Comb was fatally injured. %o I.ai li ol" Candidate*. San Francisco, Dec. 17. The steam er (Jaclie has arrived from Honolulu and brings the following news: Three candidates are mentioned for the gov ernorship of the islands. They are S. M. Damon. Harold M. Sewall and President Dole. A petition is Icing circulated among the native* praying President McKinley not to appoint to the position of governor any person connected with the recent revolution in the island. Another petition is about to be circulated asking France to interfere with the present govern ment and to restore iiic wouu;v.i;y. REV. LYMAN ABBOTT. An Example of the Freedom of tha American Pulpit. I'#r Ten Years He Succeeded In SuMtalnlnK the I'reMtlKe of Ply mouth Church, Made Fainuni by Henry Ward Heecher. For some 40 years the most famous pulpit in America was that of Henry Ward ISeecher in Plymouth church, Brooklyn. For the last ten years Dr. Lyman Abbott has ti'led that pulpit, and to an unexpected degree lias main tained its distinction. And this has been the more remarkable from the fact that during all this time he lias ulso been the chief editor of one of the fore most religious newspapers in the coun-< try, formerly the Christian Union, now (lie Outlook. Dr. Abbott is no doubt wise in his decision not to attempt longer to carry the two-fold burden. It hardly needed the doctor to explain to him that, at his time of life, he was using up liis vital energies faster than nature supplied them. Dr. Abbott, says the Chicago Tribune, liJis been a conspicuous instance of the freedom of the American pulpit. What ever anyone's religious views no one can quest ion the educational and moral, as well as religious, power of the pulpit in this country. It is not the power of llic priest, but that of tin- preacher. In this respect our country has been total ly different from Spain, for instance, or Italy, or even France. From the begin ning of American history the preacher lias had his place; a place on the whole well at (lie front along all the lines that make for progress. There have, it is true, been some spicy heresy trials now and then, and yet these have often been more 111 the interest of honesty than of bigotry, on Ihe score that the church or congregation preserved some rights and might claim some freedom of its own as well as the preacher. Plymouth pulpit under Beecher was n power in the land for freedom, for justice, for humanity, which the his torian of the period will be sure to REV. DR. LYMAN ABBOTT. (Pastor of Plymouth Church and Edltot of the Outlook.) make much account of. If there was i» square rod of freedom in America where genius, the genius of incom parable eloquence, gloried in its liber ty, and in its opportunity, and its occa sions, it was in that Brooklyn pulpit. That Lyman Abbott lias been able to sustain for a decade longer the prestige of that pulpit has been greatly to his credit. Ardent enough in his loyalty to his predecessor, he has been content to be himself and try to do his best iu his own way. For purity of style, sim plicity of manner, virility and lucidity of statement, his. utterances, whether by pen or voice, have been excellent mod els. Some may think his judgment not infallible, his logic not always con clusive, his orthodoxy sometimes mixed and intermittent, but his gen erous sympathies, his alertness to the opportunity and the duty of the hour tnd withal his fine fearlessness in ad vocating whatever course seemed to him to be right and for the time most urgent, have made for him innumerable friends in al! parts of the country. Oei>oi>ulntl»n of France, The returns of the census for France which was taken in March, 1897, have now been published and compared with the statistics of the previous census, taken six years before. A year ago the number of people in France was ?5,258,9f>9, and at the 1891 census it was 38.095,150, so that in the six years the population of France had only in creased by 133,819 persons. And even this trifling increase is more apparent than real, for it has taken place en tirely in the large towns and is due to the influx of foreigners, such as Bel gians and Italians, who are to be found in increasing numbers among the ur b.in population of France. The Women of Helßlnm. Xo one can travel in Belgium with out being struck by the extraordinary activity and prominence of the women. Over the doors of shops of all descrip tions the name of the owner or owners is frequently followed by "Soeurs" or "Veuve." You find them proprietors of hotels and restaurants. They are often custodians of the churches. They are employed to tow the boats along the canal banks. They cut up the meat in the butchers' shops, and they are even to be noticed shoeing horses at the forge. I'oinoIIOIIM finr«l«»I» I'liant*. Among garden plants commonly in vogue which possess a poisonous nature botanists mention the jonquil, white hyaeintßi and snowdrop, the narcissus being also particularly d'adly-—so much so, indeed, that to chew a small i-crap of one of the bulbs may result fatally, while the juice of the leave* is on emetic. WORRYING IS A VICE. II In lteN|ioDNtlilf for More Wrinkles on the Knee Than Slckne»M or Hard Work. A famous actress once .said: "Worry is the foe to all beauty," and she might have added: "It is also the foe to all health." .Nothing will bring lines and wrinkles so soon to a face as worry. There are people who worry and worry over a thing for years. It may be some thing they wish that they bad not done, or it may be something that they long to do. The thought of it is with them the moment they open their eyes in the morning, and it is the last thing they think of before falling to sleep; it. may even happen that they dream of it, and very, very often it will keep them awake for hours. Now, what is the good of it? Will worrying remedy what is past, or will It bring the future one day nearer? Is ony good to be obtained by it at all? No, it is not, and you know it is not. "But," you say, "the thing is on my mind and I can't get rid of it, however 1 try." It can be done, though, if you try really hard enough. Here is one remedy, and you must say it is a pleas ant one. The instant the worry takes possession of you, think of some pleas ure you have had at one time in your life. The worry will try to poke its way between, but you must take a firm hold of it and put it out. Heeall one pleasure after another, antl as it brings it smile to your lips and a light to your eyes your face will slowly but surely assume a different and very much more pleasant expression. (let into the hlib it of pondering over the pleasant things which happen to you each day and for get all the unhappy ones. An old lady once kept what she called a "pleasure book," and in it she made a point of recording each day some pleasure she had had. "No matter how dull or tire some the day has been," she said, "I can always find something to put into my book." CURTAIN DRAPERIES. A tirnecful lleKlgn 'Mint Hnft the Ad* vantage of Not Obstructing Much l.iisht. Now that summer is over the winter home becomes the important ques tion, and curtains especially call for attention and renovation. Window drapery is always a difficult matter for an amateur to handle successfully, but nothing adds more to the charm of a room than a pretty window. The ac companying design is graceful, and has the advantage in a dark room of not CURTAIN FOR A DARK ROOM. obstructing much of the light. The curtain is a combination of chintz and china silk; the latter is fastened in plaits, one over the other to the right hand corner of the window, and then is el raped down in a loop and thrown over the right hand end of the curtain rod, with the graduated ends left hanging.as in the sketch. The enel is trimmed with a band of guipure or eastern embroid ery. On the other side the chintz i«s draped and tied with ribbon to match the pattern. Under this drapery the muslin curtains are hung.—N. Y. Trib une. The Mlnnlltellnce of Color. Women should study the meaning of color when they choose their gowns. There is a morality in color as there is iu perfume, anel some of us are learning to make our costumes psychic. The great Duse expresses every degree of emotion, passion, hue and evil by the coleir of her gownn and the luster or the dullness of the perns she wears. Bernhardt will put no diamonds in her hair or on her throat. She says they take tire from the eyes, fairness from the skin and brightness from the hair and lips. Women of the twentieth cen tury will choose their gowns with a m jre intellectual appreciation of what is expressed in brown and gray an*l black and blue, which color a great artist once said was the most beauti ful thing in the world. A Company Dcnnert. Company dessert is difficult; you want something thavis easy to prepare, quick to obtain and very decorative. and at the same time new. Here is some thing which only the epicureans have tasted. Five minutes before your des fct n goes to the table open a jar of pre served pears, whole and sweet, (let a quart of vanilla ice cream frozen very hard. Lay a spoonful of cream on an lee cream plate, bury the pear in the h e cream and cover over with another scoop of cream. The pear will be out of sight until it is discovered in the cool recesses of this (Miglitful dessert. BRIGHT YOUNG WOMAN. Hun «hf Procured » Fine Variety u0 \\ Inter llelt* at a Itldlc uluu N I y Small Eiprsie, An economical young- lady gathered! together last week all the white beltid which she has worn all summer; therai were white ribbon belts, white sating belts and white leather belts. Wheq| she had collected tliein she found thalj they numbered exactly nine. "Xow.l said she, "I can have nine handsomeJ new belts." Laying in four packages of dye for* which she paid five cents a package, sh l A REJUVENATED BELT. proceeded to make her dye stuff. r 'fi weakening the dye she could produce light shades and dark shades, such &■ light blue and dark blue; pink and redj sage green and leaf green, lavender ainj purple. One by one she dipped the belt* in the different dyes and hung them upi to dry. The next day she had the prew tiest assortment of colored belts to b« found anywhere. Finally she attached! handsome clasps, some of which weri preserved from the summer, and she is now prepared in the belt line for thfl( winter season. MANICURING AT HOME. How to Keep the Hand* and >nll» In Perfect Condition All the Tliue. i I Oct a small bowl or finger glass an