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The Job department of the PKKSK IS complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of WI rk. PAKTICUI.AU ATTENTION PAID TO LAW FKINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must bo paid tor in advance. Although there are hundreds of thousands of women occupying posi _ „ . tionsof trust in the A Unrlty Among , business world, in "er Sen. stances are ex ceedingly rare in which they have vio lated the confidence reposed in them. %Vhat had almost become a happy tra dition under the new business condi tions by which women have been so generally admitted to equal competi tion with men in many of the vocations of life has had rude disturbance. A news item from Philadelphia relates the fact that a young woman, for five years confidential bookkeeper for a prominent firm, has been found short in her accounts SIO,OOO, and has disap peared. So far as can be recalled, this is the most serious act of dishonesty yet charged to the account of the busi ness woman. So successfully has she f;tood out against the temptation to emulate the conduct of her male as sociates in this direction that the world had come to regard her as safe against the embezzlement habit. The Philadelphia incident will, it is to be feared, tend to shatter this fond be lief. Consolation may be found, how ever, in the reflection that the Phila delphia "embezzleress" stands conspic uously alone among the thousands of honest women who are faithful to the trust reposed in them amid a deluge of bud examples set by the stronger hex. A well-known woman of a large city received the following note the other Heailli.R Off a " I), :,r Mad ' am: I take pleas- Xuisuucc. . , • . ure in shipping to your address a rug valued at .SSO, for which 1 shall be glad to receive your check, if you do not desire the rug, please return it.""The idea!" she exclaimed. "I never knew such im pertinence." Then she sat down and wrote the following: "Dear Sir: I have ordered no rug from your estab lishment, and I see no reason why I should goto the expense of returning that which I do not want, and which was sent to me unsolicited." To this she received the following answer in due time: "Dear Madam: I will send lor the unsolicited rug, and I trust you will»do me the favor to send for the unsolicited charity entertainment tickets which now lie, with about 23 others, on tny desk: "The discour teous boor!" she exclaimed. An American who was in Peking re cently says that nobody made any suggestions to Gen. Chaffee about "picking up" rare bits of plunder in that city after the unpleasant experi ence, of a wealthy American who thought it well to get a share of the treasures for America. This gentle man intimated to the general that he would gladly bear the expense of transporting two magnificent temple bronzes to New York as a gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art if the general would overlook their removal. Ihe answer he got was conclusive: "The American caught looting will be eliot on the spot!" John Allen, cook, "{jot religion" at a negro camp meeting- in the suburbs of hi I'a.so. It affected him .so pe culiarly that the police ran him in and locked him up, pending an ex amination as to his sanity. Elder lluggins called at headquarters and remonstrated. "He ain't drunk or crazy," said the elder to the chief; •lie's just chuck full of the spirit. He has been a very bad young man, a crap shooter and a vazor toter, and now the spirit has at last taken hold of him." In Montgomery county, Indiana, a fesv farmers bought a switchboard and tt'li phones fur their own use, pav ing three dollars initiation and cents a month. Tolls from nonsuli scribers met the salary of the oper ator. This system has been extended until it serves 40 towns with 6,000 tel ephones. In a Massachusetts county 200 farmers provide their own tele phone facilities for six dollars each u year. When asked by his wife for money to buy some flour, a resident of a western town handed her a ten-dollar bill. She refused to give him any change, saying that she was a mem ber of the liuft'aloes. The husband bad her arrested, but the local jus tice dismissed the case. MODIFICATION OF TARIFF. Kriniinniilp Policy tit HIP Miiiiufac turrm H<'eiir• Drprivm lie Ind eral a of One of T1i«»lr I.ouilcxt lIiMVKfIKM. Tn language singularly calm and definite for a paper of the weightiest state moment, President MeKinley has put an extinguisher on the silly third term talk such as Senator De pew and Congressman (irosvenor have been recently indulging. While expressing doubt as to whether their foolish talk should be dignified with notice, Mr. MeKinley justifies his course in repudiating any concur rence in it on grounds of the lTighest public policy. He justly concludes that silence in the presence of flic reiteration of the charge that he cherished an am bition for a third term would ex pose every act.'of his second term to misconstruction and suspicion. To relieve himself and his administra tion of the faintest imputation of ap proaching the grave problems of to day with an eye to renomination in HlO4 the president has decided to speak lest his silence might be misin terpreted. And, having seen that his duty to himself and the country demanded a prompt- repudiation of any thought of a third term, he has stated his po sition on the subject in such unmis takable terms as to leave no ground or excuse for the revival of the bogey. There is no loophole or am biguity about such a statement as this: "I will say now. once for all, expressing a long settled conviction, that 1 not only am not anil will not be a candidate for a third term, but would not accept a nomi nation for it if it were tendered to me." The only "if"' about this is ex pressive of the creditable doubt of the possibility that the republican party, in view of its acquiescence in the traditions of the republic, could be so unwise as to tender a third term to him. The wording 1 of this declination in advance of an unsought and unacceptable honor is at once happy, self-respecting 1 and conclusive. It leaves nothing for Senator De pcw to joke about, nothing for the. superserviceable Grosvenor to grow garrulous over. It strengthens the traditions of the republic against the third term idea. It anticipates the harsh croakings of tlie anti-imperialists, in whose eyes a third term would be a step ping stone to nn imperial throne. And "once for all" it permits Presi dent McKinley to serve out his second term mindful solely of its effect, upon his own fame and the continued prosperity of the American people. I!y a few strokes of his pen Mr. McKinley has exorcised the specter of a third term for at least ten years. Before it can lie revived we may have lengthened the single term to six years and made the occupant of the white house ineligible to succeed him self.—Chicago IJecord-Herald. HAS NOT CHANGED. President Meliiuley IteninliiN Firm In Hl* Former I'unllliin on the Tariff (lueNtioii, The democratic newspapers are making much of the recent statement of M. .lules Siegfried, a former mem ber of the ministry of France, that President McKinley had told him he was 110 longer an ultra protectionist; that it was necessary for the United States to fight for foreign markets, and that a modification of the pro tective tariff would be necessary to accomplish that purpose. While the president cannot be ex pected to make a public statement concerning the utterances of M. Sieg fried, republican leaoers who are fa miliar with Mr. McKinley's views have promptly expressed doubt that he ever made the statement attributed to him. Senator Hanna says he knows the president is in favor of protection: that he is opposed to ma terial modifications of the Dingley law: and that if any concessions are to lie made to European nations in the matter of the tariff they shall be through reciprocity treaties provid ing for mutual concessions. A mem ber of the cabinet has made a similar statement to the Leader's Washing ton correspondent. If that is where the president stands, and there can be 110 doubt that his position has been stated cor rectly. he has not changed within the past ten years. The McKinley law, which was enacted in 1890, for the first time gave force and effect to the theory of reciprocity, and reciprocity lins been one of the cardinal prin ciples of republican policy ever since. Of course, the free traders are anx ious to see the Dingley law broken down, and they will doubiless attempt to bring about that result at the next session of congress.—Cleveland Lead er and Herald. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. CTlSryan says that McKinley is an emperor. If William J. had got enough votes he would have reigned as the sil ver king.—Ottawa (Ont.) Citizen. E7"Mr. Bryan's last outcry is intend ed to notify the many thousand demo crats who would ignore him that they cannot lose him.—lndianapolis Jour nal. C 'Evtry issue which the democrats have taken fondly to their hearts has i it her 1. ltd or made its esc a pe. .111 st at this time the denmcracyis an issueless organization.—Cleveland Leader and Herald. Cl?" The movement in the Arkansas democracy to turndown Senator Jones ought to be combated by the repub lican p:.rly. I'lie senator has contrib uted a good deal to the gayety of poli tics. and incid; ntally he has been the means of incre -Aing the republican vote in 1 lie country at larg<:.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A POLITICAL BABE. It romm Into the World at Kanu> City und 111 Purrnti Kiprrl tUut by 1110-1 It Will Heroine a tilalit. Kansas City, Mo., June 20. —The al lied third party movement, which its promoters hope will result before 1004 in a national organization strong enough to name a presidential nomi nee, was launched here Wednesday. It was the outcome of a conference of reformers from the ranks of the old parties, and its principles are said by some to have been adopted wiu» a view to fitting the views of William J. Hryan. The conference was called by Lee Merriwether, of St. Louis, who, with other St. Louis leaders in the public ownership party of that city, came to Kansas City on Tuesday from a visit to Mr. Hryan at Lincoln, where the intentions of the delegation had been laid before the Xebraskan statesman. Mr. Hryan, it was stated, had ex pressed sympathy with the move ment, if he had not gone so far as to support it. At the conference there were represented populists of all per suasions, public ownership was ad vocated, and free silverites, single taxers and llryan democrats were in attendance. It was stated that it was proposed to form a third party in Missouri, which should finally be taken up by t*he dissatisfied in the old parties from other states. A committee, which represented each element present, submitted the fol lowing set of resolutions as the oew party's principles, and they were adopted: "Public ownership of all public utilities .as railroads, telegraph, etc. While awaiting the legislation neces sary to secure public ownership thi-re should be rigid control of freight and jvisse tiger rates and severe penalties for rebates and oth er discriminations by railroads. Tax ation of railroads and other public utility corporations in the same pro portion as the value of farm ana other property. Direct legislation by the initiative and referendum, to the end that the people may initiate good legislation and veto bad legisla tion. A graduated income tax, to the end that wealth which receives government protection shall bear its just share oi the cost of the govern ment. That whatever is used as money shall lie full legal tender, is sued by the government in sufficient volume for business purposes, and that volume fixed in proportion to population. Just- election laws throughout the state. Home rule for citizens and abolition of the pres ent system of using the police as a standing army to carry primary elec tions in the interest of dishonest poli ticians representing still more dis honest special privileged corpora tions. Election of I nited States senators by popular vote." The committee decided to call a state convention for some time next fall. Headquarters -will be estab lished both at Carthage and St. Louis and the committee will appoint a chairman of each county in the state, whose duty it will be to enlist mem bers and organize them into county clubs. Mr. Merriwether, at the conclusion of the conference, was asked: "Will not your movement only result in turning the state over to the repub licans? ' "1 do not know, but I would rather the republicans would win than the present organization of democrats. As Mr. Hryan said to me last Monday, I like an enemy under his own col ors better than one who steals my colors." Atlanta, Ga., June 20.—'1 he At lanta Constitution, in response to an inquiry, has received a dispatch from W. J. Hryan denying that he is af filiated with the third party move ment. THE RED MEN'S MEMORIAL. Tliry Afck (lie President to Delay llie IftKiianer or a Proclamation Opening Their Land* (o Settlement. Washington, June 20.—Ex-Con gressman Springer, who is counsel for the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indians in their suit. to enjoin the secretary of the interior from open ing up to settlement their reserva tions in Oklahoma, has filed with the president a memorial praying that he exercise his discretion under the law and withhold the issuance of his proclamation for six months after the final allotments to the Indians are made, and thus give congress an opportunity to repeal the present la w. The memorial says that Lone Wolf, one of the chiefs of the Iviowas, is a Haptist minister and that others of the Indians are Christians and prays that the president will not send these men back to ten the members of their tribes that a Christian country •would defraud them «>f their lands. Mr. Springer says that if the lower court refuses an injunction the case will be carried to the supreme court •of the United States. A Gre»t ! clieme—on Paper. Denver, CoV, June 20.—The Times says: A gigantic scheme is under way to transfer the railroads of the 1 nited States to the government. A western financier declares that with in a few years the Rockefeller, llar rinian, V.mdcrbilt, Gould and Mor gan interests would turn over to the government every line of the rail ways in the country, the government to pay the total value of $10,000,- 009,000. struck Oil. Xiles, Mich., June 20.—A copious fi»w of crude petroleum has been dis covered on the farm of W. W. St ev ent, about six miles northwest of this city, during the sinking of an arte sian well. Dudley Shirley, a South Bend, Ind., prospector, at once se cured leases of (500 acres of land, in cluding the Stevens farm, and will begin drilling for oil. The flow of crude oil from the Stevens well is steady, and indications point to an inexhaustible supply. The discov ery of the oil has excited tho funn els in the vicinity. IN A DEATH TRIP. Fourteen People are Said to Have Perished. FIREWOItKS EXPLODED. Ail Appalling Catastrophe at Paterson, N. J. TENEMENT HOUSE ABLAZE. Ten FamllieN Occupied KOOIIIK in tlin Itiilldinu UcMtroyed—VlctlniM Were SCitlier I rcmated or Sulfuraled- Fire men Injured b> a Falling Wall. Xew York, June 22.—Fourteen peo ple are believed to have been killed and a number injured as the result of a fire following an explosion among a quantity of fireworks in the store of Abraham M. Hittenburg, at l'aterson, X. J., on Friday. The cause of the explosion is not known and the property loss will not ex ceed $35,000. The killed were: Mrs. Lucinda Adainson. Mrs. Charles Williams, burned try ing to rescue husband. Charles Williams, a cripple. Harold Itittenburg, is months old, son of the keeper of the fireworks store; Henry Hlsasser, six weeks old. Mrs. Hert Hamber. Mrs. Annie Lannigan. Josepit Klvin. 2 weeks old, child of Mrs. Andrew Klvin. Those missing and certainly dead are: Charles Hamber, (5 months, child of above. Mrs. Andrew Elvin was in the house and has not been seen since the explosion. Mrs. Mary Elsasser. Mrs. Hums, not seen since the explosion and known to have been in the house. Clarence burns, (> weeks old, son of above. Mrs. Ann Fcnterman, not seen since explosion and known to have been in the house. Two nephews of Mrs. Lannigan were with tier wtien she entered her rooms. The explosion occurred shortly after noon and many of the occu pants of tin- building were out at din ner. The building in which the ex plosion occurred was a frame tene ment, four stories high, with stores on the ground floor. The middle store was occupied by Kittenberg. Ten families occup'ujd flats in the building. So groat was the force of the explosion mat a boy playing in the street naif a block away was lift ed from his feet and hurled against an iron fence. One of his legs was broken. A trolley car was directly in front of the building when the ex plosion occurred. The burst of flame blown out into the street scorched the sides of the car and singed the hair of the passengers. A number of those who were on the upper floors of the bunding when the explosion took place were either stunned and then burned to death, or found escape cut off and were suffo cated. After the first explosion there was a series of smaller ones and then came a second big explosion which was muffled and probably oc curred in the cellar. Every window seemed to be emitting flames within a minute after the first explosion. A woman, her clothing on tire, leaped out of one of the windows and fell to the yard below. Her dead body was dragged out of reach of the flames, but the flesh was roasted and dropped from the bones. She proved to be Mrs. Williams. Mrs. Williams* husband was a crip pie. llis wife is supposed to have remained longer than she could with safetv in an effort to save him. He was found burned to a crisp on his bed. Some of the occupants of the rooms dropped from the windows and were bruised. Others hung from the windows until the firemen came and 20 persons were taken down in this way through the fire and smoke by the firemen, while others dropped into life nets. Daniel Dooley, who was in the yard when the explosion took place, saw the two Kittenberg children in the rear room anil rushed into' the flames for them. He got one of them and carried it out and tried togo back for the other, but the room was one mass of fire and he was too late. 11c was badly scorched in rescuing the first child. While the rescues were going on the firemen were fighting the flames. Cap:. Allen led with a hose line in an effort to keep the fire from the upper floors, where it was said many were pinned in. The men had hard ly taken their positions and begun on the sidewalk to throw water into the upper floors when, without any warn ing. the whole tipper part of the building above them sagged outward and feli. The captain and two of his men were buried under the blaz ing debris. One of the men is badly hurt. The building is entirely de stroyed. Kittenberg was arrested pending an investigation. In the debris was found the head <>f a man or a woman. The hair is burned off and the fea tures unrecognizable. The remainder of the body has not been found. The bodies taken out thus far are al most unrecognizable and are burned and torn by the fire and the collapse of the timbers of the building. A»NuN«liia ted. Yokohama. June 22. Hoshi Torn, who was minister of communication in the last Ito cabinet, was stabbed yesterday at a meeting of the city assembly and died shortly after wards. Hoshi Torn was at one time .Japanese minister at Washington. The assassination is supposed to have been due to polities. ImprpNiMMl I'pnn iria Notice. The various features for -which the Lacka wanna Railroad has become noted are in voluntarily impressed upon the notice of the passenger, who realizes the luxury of hotel or club appointment in the electric lights; the smooth-running journals of the wheels; the extraordinary cleanliness made possible by the use of anthracite coal, avoid ing all dust and nauseating smoke; the consciousness of being always on time— which comforts force an ease of mind and body most favorable to the enjoyment of the unsurpassed scenery through which its lines pass. It is but the natural sequence that the Lackawanna is prosperous in like degree to its excellence of service, and its warm friends are equal in number to its whole list of patrons, for once to test its service means an ardent admirer and friend earned for the road.—Van Ktten iJreese. Colli K 'loo Far. "This reckless speculation must be stopped," said the earnest citizen to the trust magnate. "Indeed it must," agreed the latter. "In deed, it must. Why, yesterday two or three fellows who are not in our crowd at all made several thousand dollars by taking flyers. That sort cf thing wol'C do."—i'ul tiraore American. Help Wanted. When we cannot find what we need close at hand, we must carry our research fur ther afield, nor must we hesitate to insti tute an inquiry for same where we i.ope it may be found, but act as did Mr. I'. T. Mc- Kenny, of Newton, Indiana, who wrote: "One-half bottle of your Lotion has done me great good for a bad eruption on one of my ankles of nearly three years standing. Nothing I had before tried had benefited me. In what nearby town can I find it'!" If your own druggist hasn't it, send at once to Solon Palmer. 374 Pearl St., New York, for samples of Palmer's Lotion and Lotion Soap. I)nniter In Old Saylnjgn. "What a fine head your boy has," said an admiring friend. "Yes," replied the fond father, "he's a chiy of the old block—ain't you, mvboy?" 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