2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Ceir year •* JJ tits ID advance I M ADVERTISING RATES Advertisement* are published at the rat® oi tag Collar per square for one insertion and fifty Hits per scjuare for each subsequent insertion Rates by the year, or for six v.three months are low and uniform, and will be furnished on af plica ton. Legal and Official Advertising per square Biree times or less, J 2; each subsequent laser •i, SO eents per square. Local notices lu cents per line for one lnser lertlon: 5 cents per line for each subsequent sepsecutive insertion. Obituary notices oyer fire lines 10 cents per |i»e Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be inserted free. Business curds, five lines or less, 15 per year, ever live lines, at the regular rales of adver tising No local inserted for less than 75 cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. Tbe Job department of the Piuss ts complete loi i.ff'.rds fue lilies fordoing the best c.&ss ot ■rork. PA H I ICILAII ATTAIN I ION PAIDTO LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued nttl arrear fijcs are paid, except at the option of the pub- Isher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in a ivanee "Ever since I have been in Santiago," says Maj. Gen. Wood, "I have prescribed liberal doses of the United State's con stitution, and the treatment has been remarkably efficacious." It is good medicine and warranted to keep in all climates. Boston has been celebrating Hunker Hill day and recalling the facts that the British loss at the battle was 1,030 and the American loss 450. The muzzle loaders of other days had a short range and fired slow, but it was dangerous to get in front of them. A chemical and pharmaceutical la boratory has been established at Ilaj kotc, western India. Its object is to im prove the practice of native medicine and to make known to western science the valuable Indian remedies, as well as the possibilities of yet unfamiliar na tive herbs. The editor of an lowa paper must have received an unusually poor collec tion of bad manuscripts and poems, for he exclaims: "While Mark 1 wain is writing a book that will not be pub lished for 100 years, other writers are wasting their energy on matter that will not be published any sooner." Queen Natalie, late of Servia, will, it is said, "devote her saddened life to lit erature," and is now said to be compos ing an autobiographical romance—sad, of course. Headers of romance would be glad if all persons, royal and other wise, who are moved to embalm their woes in print would experience a change of heart and goto raiding vegetables. The Yellowstone National park is jealous of the active volcanoes, earth quakes and cyclones produced by other sections of the world, and a dispatch from there tells of the breaking out of a new geyser. Just north of the noted Fountain Geyser there is a crater which lias always been considered nothing but a pool, but it awoke from its sleep and for an hour spouted a column of water 250 feet high. A Cincinnati paper comments on a re markable coincident in the famous Baker-i ioward feud in Kentucky. On June 2, 1859, 40 years ago, Gov. Owsley ordered out the state troops to quell the feud between the linker and Howard factions. On June 2, of this year. Gov. Bradley ordered out the state troops for the same purpose. Forty years is long enough for any family row, and it is hoped that the end is in sight. Strangely enough the price of horses is steadily rising, notwithstanding the bicycle, the automobile and ot her rivals. When this advance began a year ago it was accounted for by the outbreak of Hie war. but certainly the war has nothing to do with the continuance of the rise. There must be some other ex planation, and the best one available is that the horse is too good a friend to man to be lightly thrust aside in favor of the new-fangled machines. It. is the horse's turn to laugh. The famous Sclienck chain letter has at last been broken. Since May, IS9S, Miss Nathalie Sclienck, of Babylon, L. 1., has received from one to twelve thou sand letters per day, each inclosing a dime, and all in all she has turned over $23,000 to the IJed Cross society. Miss Sclienck began by writing a letter to each of four friends, asking them to send her ten cents for the purchase of ice and luxuries for Ihe sick soldiers. She asked each friend to write similar letters to four friends, making similar requests of them. That was the begin ning. The growth of the United States in the important element of iron produc tion in the past 15 or 20 years is one of the marvels of the age. In lsso this country's output of iron was ;i,535,- 191 tons. It was 11.77:!,9114 tons in IS9S, an increase of 207 percent. Great llrit ain produced 7,721.53.'! tons ol it in ISBO mid *,631.151 in I SOS, i he gain in her case being 11.7 percent. Germany produced 2,729, (i5:; in the first-named year and 7,215,927 in the last, her increase being 104.4 percent. These countries are the three leading iron producers of Ihe world. Amidst the hue and cry the world over against that large but more or less unfortunate portion of humanity which does not wear shirt waists it is encour aging to find some woman endowed with intelligence, courage and charity who asserts, with a positiveness born of conviction, that then; is some good in man. Such a woman is Alme. Antoi nette Stirling. who dec red in the wom an's congress in London that she thought the speeches were too severe upon the opposite sex, and that a wom an, to realize the true value of a man, had only to lose him. A HOPELESS STRUGGLE. The Silver Cauxe lln» l.»»t SiTcnuth Slrudil) Miner- I In* First Free Colliui&e Hill. On November 5. IST", in the first of President Hayes' two extra sessions of congress, Representative Kiclinrd P. Itlami moved to suspend the rules and pnss a bill directing the. coinage of".-li ver dollars ol' the w< ight of 412' grains vf standard silver, as provided in t In- aet of January IS, lsliV," the coins I<> be a "legal lender, at their nominal value, for all debts and duec public and private, except where otherwise provided by contract." With this motion -Mr. island became a national character, and the silver question became an absorbing issue in Amariean polities. This was the original island bill. It provided for the unrestricted coinage of silver dollars, then wort h seven or eight cents less in ititrinsie value, as indicated by the market price of silver bullion, than gold dollars. The house in which that bill was introduced had a demo cratic majority of 20. Samuel ,i. Kan da II was speaker. Bland's motion was agreed to by a vote of Kit (97democrats and l>7 republicans) to :u (24 republic ans and ten democrats). As reported in the senate by William H. Allison, from the committee on finance, the bill was changed from tin- free coinage form to a limited coinage measure. It provided that not less than $2,000,000 nor more than $4,00o.C()0 of silver bul lion should be bought each month and coined into dollari. of the weight pre scribed in the house bill, the profit from the coinage, however, togo into tin treasury, and not, as in the house bill, into the pockets of the owners of the silver bullion. The bill passed the sen ate in this shape by a vote of 48 (24 re publicans,. 23 democrats and one inde pendent) to 21 (14 republicans and seven democrats), was accepted by tlu: house, was vetoed by President Hayes on February 28, 1878, in one of the strongest state papers ever penned by an occupant of the white house, but was passed over the veto on the same day. Silverism on the day when the modi fied Bland act was passed over the veto of President Hayes touched its high water mark. At that time the silver bullion in the dollar was worth 92 cents. There was only eight cents of fiat in the silver dollar. Many republicans voted for the Bland bill at that time be cause they supposed that the creation of an enlarged market for the bullion by making the government a purchaser would send its price up to a point at which the silver dollar would be worth 100 cents in gold. They quickly found themselves mistaken, and then they abandoned the silver side. The repub licans did, indeed, pass tin' bullion de posit act of July 14. 1800, called the Sherman law, but this was a far safer measure than the Bland act which it displaced, and it was enacted to head off the passage of a free silver measure. Three years and a third afterward, find ing the accumulations of silver cur rency of the various sorv-- a menace to the financial stability of the country, the republicans helped to repeal the act, and thus stopped silver absorption in every shape by the government. Ihe Bland faction continued their tight for free silver, however, and at the Chicago convention of 1896 they secured control of the democracy, and, for the first time in a presidential canvass, the* contest was specifically between the gold and the silver standards, the gold standard gaining a sweeping victory. It is now 21 years since liichard P. Bland intro duced his lirst free coinage bill. The silver cause is to-day distinctively weaker than it was then, or than it has been tit any time since then. How long is the deocratie party going to keep up its fight against fate?—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. CURRENT COMMENT. tr~Mi\ Bryan says he stands just where he stood three years ago; but this is a progressive country. —Cleve- land Leader. IWlf you don't know that wages are advanced somewhere in this country nearly every day, you don't read the newspapers.- Kochestcr Demoeiat. (C?The business outlook throughout the country is continually growing brighter, and the reports of each suc ceeding week continue to be most grat ifving.—lowa State Register. crJ"A good many gold democrats are perfectly satisfied with Bryan because they look upon him as an easy victim for McKinley; just as easy, in fact, as a gold democrat would be. — Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. P"Mr. Bryan insists on making the mastication of Mose Wet more s tobacco an issue of the coming campaign, but not a word does he say about Coin Har vey's cigar. Is there to be another split in the party? —Louisville Courier-Jour nal (Dem.). ITT - The party that yokes its faith with anti-expansion in 1900 will never know what happened to it. Mark Ihe predic tion, the a..ii-imperialists will clear the track when the bell rings for the presi dential struggle next year. —Chicago Times-Herald. tTTOur exports of manufactured ar ticles have increased in the sum of $ 15,- 000,000, thus showing that we are not only holding our foreign trade, but are actually extending it. The situation could not be more encouraging or the prospects brighter, and tow hat, if not the republican administration, is the credit due? —Philadelphia Inquirer. ICThe Bryan organ in Omaha, Neb., having declared that one of the results of prosperity is a large reduction in the number of traveling salesmen, the l!ec, to ascertain if there were any basis for such complaint, canvassed 2.'! firms in that city. In June, IS9'!, these firms employed 174 traveling men; in June, 1898, they employed 245, an increase of 71. During the same period the gen eral employes of these firms were in creased from 500 in 1890 to sSO in IS9S. —I adianapolis Journal. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1899. STATE ELECTIONS NEXT FALL The < a m|»i lk lis of |s:i!> Will Not He Liirkinu in Interest— .Some Si tun t ion n. The political situation in the It states which arc to hold elections on November 7 is naturally attracting more than local attention. Though an "off year" politically, the campaigns of 1899 will not be lacking in interest and importance, and their effect upon the national campaign of 1900 is likely to be decidedly advantageous to the republican party, which is well in trenched in eight the eleven states. New York lead.-: off with the party strengthened by wise legislation for the assembly elections. The Poosevelt- Ford franchise tax act, the last of a series of republican taxation meas ures, has increased the confidence of the people of the state in llie ability of the party to deal fairly with the problem of adjusting the burdens of government, and it is reasonably safe to say that the voters will see that there is no change in the political com plexion of the legislatlire of next year, which is to act upon a revision of the taxation laws of the state. Neverthe less, though there are neither state iior national issues upon which the dis cordant elements of the democratic party can make a fair fight, vigilance w ill he the price of republican victory. Ohio, lowa, Massachusetts and Mary land will elect republican governors. In Kentucky a scramble for the governor ship has just begun, but republican en thusiasm has not yet been wrought up to a winning pitch. Mississippi will, of course, choose a democrat ic governor. New Jersey will testify to the perma nence of its reclamation from demo cratic control by choosing a republican legislature, the party going into the contest on the merits of its record in the last four years. In Nebraska the followers of Pryan are endeavoring to make such an ef fective demonstration in favor of the Chicago platform and free coinage as to force that diseartled old lumber upon the democratic party in 1900, but the rank and file of the fusionist forces pre fer the idle cry against "imperialism," while the republicans will stand as firmly by the administration at the ballot-boxes as the state's volunteers stood by the Hag in the Philippines. The opposition to Senator Quay will not affect the fall campaign in Penn sylvania. where the regular organiza tion will name and elect its candi dates. The interesting feature of the cam paigns in the democratic states of Vir ginia and Mississippi is the purpose of the voters to express their prefer ences for I'nited States senators at the primaries. This is the first step in an organized movement looking to the election of I'nited States senators by the direct votes of the people. It is noticeable that harmony and enthusiasm prevail among lhe repub lican forces in New York, Ohio, lowa, Massachusetts, Maryland. New Jersey, Nebraska and Pennsylvania. In Ken tucky the ill effects of Gov. Bradley's opposition to the administration have begun to wear off since the governor decided to keep out of the contest. With victories in eight, if not nine, of the eleven fall elections, the party will be in excellent shape for the great bat tie of 1900.—N. V. Tribune. Hack-f'n i> Itrjuu. "One of the most curious things about Mr. Bryan's candidacy," said Mr. S. F. Williams, of St. Louis, "is that a good many prominent democrats who osten sibly are his supporters do not intend to help him in the least. I know sev eral men who wish to be thought Pry:*- ites, and yet who will vote for MeKin lcy on the quiet. In talking with one of this sort not long ago lie said as an ex planation of his conduct that lie wished to remain in the democratic party, for he thought that eventually the party would abandon free silver and other populistic notions. He did not believe the change would come by 1900, and, therefore, as lie wanted Ihe present prosperous condition to continue, he would repeat the ballot he east for Maj. McKinlev in 189(i. lie had kept that fact a secret, however, and all his associates supposed he had voted for Pryan. The case of this man is by no means exceptional. Thousands of busi nessmen who like to see prosperity be fore party success, and yet who li*te the idea of going over to the opposition publicly, will talk as 1 hough they meant to vote the democratic ticket, and when the time comes will vote the other way."— Wasliington Post. lioud-Siieakini; Facts. Significant signs of good times are found in K. (i. Dun & C'o.'s weekly re view of trade. The fact is made public I that failures in April were the small est ever reported in any month. Those reported in May are smaller than those previously reported in any month by ! nearly $2,000,000. Their total sum is ' onlv G~.B per ci lit.of the smallest total ! previously reported >n any month anc" | only 114.3 per cent. the total for last j May. The ratio of defaults to solvent j business lias never been so small in | any other month as in the May just ! p:u>scd. These are facts which speak so ! loudly for the condition of American ! trade and industry that no comment I could add to their force. Tliev «re sulli ! cicnt to take away the calamity howl- I cr's breath and cause him to stand gap ' ing and gasping in si I at amazement. — Albany Journal. tr?Tf the republicans run the pros ; pcrity issue next year the democrat a i will have a hard time getting round it. !As the New York Kvening Post re marks: "The idea has got abroad gen erally in all parts of the country and j among all classes of people that a re ] publican administration at Washington means 'good times' and a democratic ' administration 'hard times.' " And tlif | idea is founded on fact. Baltimore ' American. HAS GONE TO HIS REWARD. Itishup John I'. Newman, a Lradlnjf .Tlctliodist, llira, Saratoga, N. V., .Inly 6.—Bishop John I'. Newman, of the Methodist Kpiscopal church, of San Francisco, died yesterday afternoon. He had been in failing 1 health for a year past, but it was only a week afro that his condi tion really alarmed his friends. Since .'lnly t he had been sinking rapidly. 'I lie immediate cause of his death was pneumonia, and myelitis. At '2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon his pulse was liardly perceptible. The physicians BISHOP XEWM \N. in attendance recognized that the end was near and relatives and immediate.* friends wen summoned to the bedside. The bishop bcame conscious shortly liefore his death ami recognized hiM wife. Mrs. U. S. Grant, Mrs. P. IX (■rant and others arrived ill the scene a moment or so later. Mrs. Newman is almost crushed by her berea' ement. Tnasmnch as she is in comparatively feeble health it is feared that she will not long survive her husband. Telegrams and cablegrams are lie ill}? received from all quarters express ing'sympathy. The funeral will take place at the First .Methodist Kpiscopal church, this city. Saturday afternoon. A WOMAN'S SORROW. <;sipf||£ Crowds at Prison (iatc* Seem l<> Itejolce ill tlio Oislrossol .llailauir ■ Ire) Inh. liennes .Inly 6.- Madame Dreyfus, accompanied by her parents, drove to the prison in a carriage yesterday. Her parents were not admitted, lint she re mained with her husband an hour. On leaving she showed, for the first time, signs of distress. Her eyes were swollen and red, as though she had been weeping'. She is still in deep mourning and is determined to remain so until her husband regains his lib erty. A larger crowd than usual watched lier arrival and departure and dis played utter lack of manners and con sideration for her terrible position, leathering' around her, rudely staring her in the face, and pressing one an other aside in their eagerness not to lose a single detail of her inward nirony which might be reflected in hei countenance. Iler visible distress wa> a feast for these ghouls, who. however were speedily dispersed by a squad of gendarmes. The latter finally barred the two streets leading to the portal of the prison. Paris. July <>. —The municipal council of Paris has adopted an order urging the prefect of police to dismiss M. ller ti I lon from the directorship of the an thropometric department on account of the mistakes in his evidence as a handwriting- expert in the Dreyfus case, before the court-martial and dur ing the revision proceedings'before tin court of cassation, when he gave the reasons which led him to regard Drey fus as the author of the bordereau. TEN NEW REGIMENTS. The President Approver an Order fo» Their formation Commander lor One in 4 hoscn. Washington, July 6. —The order di rccting the enlistment of ten new reg iments of volunteer infantry \\»is com pleted Wednesday afternoon and will be issued to-day. The order was draft ed after a conference between the president and Adjutant (jeneral Cor liin and directs the recruiting officers to enlist men under the law passed March ~. 1899. These regiments arc to be numbered from -•> to thus re tabling the continuity of the present infantry organization. , Mai. Kdmiind Kice, Third Infantry, was appointed colonel of the Twt nty sixth, the first selection made by the president.. Col. Pice was appointed lo the army from Massachusetts as a captain of the Nineteenth Massachu setts volunteers of 18(11, and served throughout the rebellion. He was brev eted captain, major and lieutenant colonel for gallant services during the rebellion and at Pit close became a first lieutenant in the regular army. Col. Kice became well known to all the vis itors at the world's fair in Chicago, where he organized and commanded the Columbian guard. ll«b» Attack Churches and Priests. ' Pareidolia. Spain. July . The proposed strike ai the Homestead plant of the Carnegie Steel Co. has been aban doned. At a meeting of the local lodge at Homestead Tuesday night it was de cided that the present is an inoppor tune time to strike. A («lovc Trust Proposed. New Vorl», July Pi.-—The World says: "Orrington Pes--, of Chicago, has been in this city for several days negotiat ing with prominent glove firms for the options on their business, the inten tion being" to form a glove combination with a capital of $1.*.0(10,000." UNI)Ell CANVAS. CJbristian Endeavor Convention Assembles in Detroit. Ten Thousand People Attend the Wel coming IC all v in Tent Kndeavor A .'lessajfe from President McKinlcy Old O dicers Are It ■••elected. Detroit, July C>. —The afternoon of the preliminary day of the lsth annual international convention of ( hristian J'.ndcavor was sliowen, but toward evening the sun broke through the clouds and travel from all parts of the sity to the Christian Kndeavor grounds began. At sundown long lines of young people wended across the green fields about the white tented city, all converging toward Tent Kndeavor. be neath whose broad canvas the welcom ing rally was held. The crowds poured in through the four entrances on eith er side and down the six broad saw dust-covered aisles, until the great tent's capacity of 10,000 was filled; after that, a crowd of outsiders ob tained sight and hearing through drop ping' of the lent walls at cither side. The Christian Endeavor red and white was suspended in hundreds of broad streamers fromjlie lofty roof to the caves. Flags of all nations, draped with the stars and stripes, hung overhead at intervals. The coats of arms of the states were attached to the tent poles. The Christian Kn deavor monogram shown from large red and while electric globes above, the speakers' platform. Higher up, the union jack and stars and stripes intermingled. A thousand white capped young men and maids com posed the choir on the liig stage, the front of which was occupied by the officers and clergy. At ~::i0 the comparative silence was broken by strains of"The Son of (Sod (iocs Forth to War." followed by "There Shall be Showers of Piessing,"' "Onward. Christian Soldiers," etc., in all of which the great crowd enthus iastically 'joined. Devotional exer cises were led by Hei. J. ('. Putler, of Washington. 'lhe welcome of the local committee was extended by William 11. Strong', its chairman. Pcv. Charles P. New man eloquently welcomed the conven tion in behalf ol Detroit pastors. Mayor Maybury also welcomed the Kndeavorers. There was enthusiastic applause when Secretary Paer read the follow ing telegram from President MeKin- M-: "Pcv. Dr. Francis F. Clark, Detroit, Mich.: On the occasion of the 1 -ith international convention of your soci ety I desire to express my cordial in terest in its work, my best wishes to those assembled with you in conven tion and my earnest hope for the con tinuance and increase of the great re sults which the efforts of the Chris tian Kndeavor society have achieved." Next on the programme came re sponses from foreign lands. As Rev. William Pat terson, of Toronto, cam • forward to speak for Canada, some one struck up "Cod Save the Queen.'* '•"he Canadians on the platform too'' up the strain and in a moment the hHire tent was reverberating 1 with the chorus of the Pritish anthem. The friendly relations between Canada and the I'nited States, particularly with reference to religious matters, formed the burden of Dr. Patterson's address. For Australia response was made by Jiev. .T. 11. Walker, of Queensland: for China by Pcv. Klwood (1. Tewksbury, a missionary in the vicinity of Peliin; for Turkey by Pcv. Lyndon S. Craw ford. for many years a missionary in that country; for Japan by Hev. Otis Carev; for Mexico by Pcv. Scott Will iams, and for the I'nited States by Pcv. Arthur J. Smith, of Georgia. At the close of the meeting the crowd thronged to the plat form to be presented to the mayor and the officers of the society. This closed the first day of what promises to be one of the most notable gatherings in the history of the organization. Pcv. Dr. Francis K. Clark w*iis re elected president of the I'nited Society of Christian Kndeavor at the meeting of the trustees. John Willis Paer was re-elected secretary and William Shaw treasurer. IJcpresentatives on the board of trustees of the I'nited Society were elected from each state, territory and the provinces of Canada. The trustees of the I'nited Society of Christian Kndeavor held their an nual meeting at the Hotel Cadillac. In vitations for the 1901 convention were received from Denver and Cincinnati, but in accordance with a resolution adopted last vear. it was determined to defer act ion on this matter until after the London convention of 1900. Tin si Isc Malic in Wheeling. I'oston.. July 0. In the circuit court \csterda\ Judge Colt decided that stogies bearing the name of "Wheel ing." or "Wheeling stogies," could not lie manufactured in Poston. or else where than at Wheeling. W. Ya.. and sold as "Wheeling stogies." The de cision is the result of a suit brought liv a West Virginia stogie manufactur er against Joseph Kngcl. of this city. An injunction v.-is issued restraining the defendant from manufacturing or selling "Wheeling- stogies" not made in Wheeling. This decision will lie far-rcaehiin .o.Vect in the tobacco trade, inasn uch as it can be applied to Key West cigars not actually made in Key West. Hallway < ommission knocked Out. Lansing, Mich., July fi. The Mich igan supreme court yesterday decided the ease brought to test the validity of the McT.eod law which authorized tin* appointment of the Detroit street lail way commission, whose object was the purchase and municipal ownership anil operation of street railways of De troit. The decision is that the law is unconstitutional; that there is no such office as the "Detroit streef railwav coin mission.." t hat (iov.Pingrce and t lie other commissioners have no title therein ;.nd that judgment of ouster must be entered against them. y'He Thai Stays j Does the Business/ j All the 'world admires " staying pcrco ♦ er." jnthis quality success depends. S The blood is the best friend the heart has. I Hood's Sarsaparilla is the best friend the j blood ever had; cleanses it of everything, | gives perfect health and strength, THE HORSE'S GRIEF. A Faithful Animal that I>clibcrately Committed Suicide When Neglected. "Speaking of the grief that some horses will exhibit when left in a strange phice and neglected for a short, time by their masters," said an old miner to a Star reporter, "1 recall see ing a horse deliberately commit sui cide in three feet of water because he had been deserted for three days. "The horse was owned by a man named Jim Kelly, a well-known pros pector, who, in Juty, 18'J7, came into (irand Forks, 1!. C., after an absence in the mountains of several weeks.] The animal was nothing but a eomm<«n I cayuse, on which Kelly sometimes I rode and sometimes packed his outfit when the trails were steep and diffi cult. Naturally, the man and horse became attached to each other by their close companionship and the little marks of kindness shown in their lone ly camps when lvellv would pet the tired cayuse and perhaps give him a handful of sugar before he fed him for the night. It was remarked by those who met them that the cayusel showed an uncommon attachment for Kelly. Well, on arriving in town Jim staked out his horse and betook himself to' the Cosmos hotel and proceeded to sample all kinds of liquor, prolonging his spree until Sunday afternoon. All day Friday, during pjriday night and until late Saturday afternoon the cay use waited, whinnying when anyone approached, but viciously resenting - , any attempt to feed liim. About sun set Saturday, his master not return ing, the horse strained at his picket rope till he finally succeeded in pulling the picket pin. and, trailing the rope behind him, he trotted up to the Cos? mos, keeping up a prolonged whinny, lie walked up the steps to the porch nnd peered anxiously through the win dows in search of his master. Tor 15 or 20 minutes he walked up and down tHe porch, whinnying as though ia great, pain. Then, after a long look in to the windows, he left the porch and. with head hanging near the ground, hewalked into a stream of water,about three feet deep, lay down on his sida and buried his head under the water, "The act was witnessed by me and bv a number of others who Mere at tracted by the horse's strange conduct. We followed him clown to the creek. There is no doubt lie deliberately com mitted suicide. When Kelly came oft his spree on Sunday a fid learned of the cay use's death he secured assistance and buried the faithful animal."— Washington Star. HIS BUSINESS ABILITY. Aa Hauler On Youiitf Mr. Illaztli Was a Gritty and Glorioui Success. This fair rnaid will have a handsome dot some time, and it is the ambition of her father to have her marry one whose fortune will at least equal her own. "1 want you to stop that young Blank call ing here," he remarked, recently, in the au tocratic way that some fathers have."He has no prospects worth speaking of, there is nothing to show that he has any business ability, and I don't want him hanging around here any more." "What is business ability, papa?" "Why, you know. Everybody knows, of course. Let me see. Why, it's the ability to see the main ehanc-e, to grab it, and hang on till you get the money. That's what it is, and there's plenty of young men in Detroit that have it. Blank lacks it woefully." "Oh, he does? I'm afraid, papa, that you're speaking without proper information, lie knows that I'll have SIOO,OOO seme time. That is a main chance worth looking alter. Mr. Blank saw it. He reached out and grabbed for it. He's hanging on, and he s going to get it. Do you happen to know ot any other young man of his age and limited opportunities whose business ability has as sured him so handsome a fortune?" The old gentleman's answrr sounded sus piciously like smothered profanity, and it was fully live minutes before the bewitching creature could bring the sunshine of a smile to his face. Now he tells a few confidential friends that young Blank has the making of one of the best business men in the city.— Detroit Free l'ress. SELFISH MAN PUNISHED. A Little Train Incident That Gav« Jiiatice-l.MviiiK l'annenKcra Much Joy. Passengers on an Atlantic City train a few evenings ago were treated to a spectacle of retributive justice that tickled them fa mously. The car was crowded, and, as the dust was flying pretty thickly, all the pas sengers save one had their windows down. This unpleasant exception was a disgruntled looking party, with a plentiful growth of weedy-looking whiskers, and these he al lowed to sway in and out of the window with the gustv zephyrs. Of course, he got none of the (lust and cinders, for these always blow in the seat directly behind. Iwo nicely dressed women occupied these unfortunate quarters, and, after suffering martyrdom for about 'JO minutes, one of them asked the "open-window liend" if he would ni.r.d put ting the window down. "No! ' he replied, gruffly. "It's too warm. If you don't like il change your scat." In front of the man sat a traveling man, who took in the situation aba glance. Quick as a flash he raised his window, and instant er the flowing facial appendages of the man behind began to perform a most fearful se ries of gvrations. I lie dust speckled them, and the wind twisted them. Their owner, after a few moments ot such violence, got red in the face and then put his window down. A few moments later he leaned over and asked the other passengers to shut off the draught in a similar manner, but, to the intense amusement and gratification of the balance of the people In the car, who had watched the little comedy all the way through, the drummer, without so much as a twinkle of the eye, replied: "No! It's toe warm. If you don't like it change youi seat!"— Philadelphia Record. The pleasure in talking too much i« aj short lived as that of eating heavily on t weak stomach. —Atchison Globe.