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NUMBER , VOLUME XXVII. I'M i VtT ifei -- . aM il l n IB M If 11 IT il 'o i $7.95 - OVERCOATS - $7.95 AT GANSMAFS. V.- :il.- - i!in-' u'lr l.:il'-'.- Stork of fluid, fl'.'.m. ! !.. ?1.V a ml f !'.. OVKROOATS mid TJLSTJCRS a i it.. i:'i i:i:m i:i.v i. i -i : t i: r iii.-i. u..-irr. u.-t of ail ;n :it i:;r- l- hi,- n.i ..ll.i.,i I,. II,. ..,l.- ..I Ait. h.m.i ami v.. iniiv. I ton I m-- H oP,h.j U.I..I y I,. . I .in t . i. ..i I i-i. i i. -.nil. of f.. r .n. .-. ii iIm'V iinit all i:.. for tin' Ml s ; sv i 1st: I-:- - TI T. r."- :n,.l ( l,i!.!nn - I vir. 0:1 1. I Nt'M .H..I .',.!. . I.. I- ...;.l .it .. U !..w -i . In I i. I . v, i am, I.- ill our Maiiiinolli i;-t I'm -Inn. 1,1 w ill - ! . Kt. !! I. .:!.'! I" ihin r i r Tin: ri..( K. IX (3- A 3ST S U. i ! it i;i lri,!i.r. IMn Kln'mh tir.. Um Pl at . K . . l--. "WANT A WAGON?" ' v.l I'll !iM ::' .n.!.': ,1 i'rr-t . ', v. i.r.iit.::, c.i. .u-. . cA ;v ,:i i i. .It.. , i".ii!l .-ii i.. -r 1-y i vr. 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"wonaertul lamp," for its mar velou3 li-ht is purer and brighter than jras lieht. i .it. uiau cn.v-i.iii ugni ana R.x-u'rr?u,rtVrir,TUBRoCnFSTFB-, "lan.pdealerh.isntthPCPfinlne ami , iend v mV?U ""vJ "s "-r "w illi.stratc.1 rataUwe. e y. ii fcrna ym a l:irao safrly bv eiprcsj-your choice ol" over iimi varieties from the LurKest Lamp Store tn the h arJ -a"'ce oi ovtr -i,OUU JtOClItsxtU lAiOP CO., 4i Park'riace, New York City. . aA . . TJ "The Rochester." THE tiO Ei ii M HAY- FEVER AND ft .y.i C rt.?ta Ti.ilinui n-t a lini,?, tnvff or frU r. Applifd into tie m-xtrils it is quickly aliMtrUd. J 'c ch ,tn .t the had, allny inf.immntinn, heal h 1 1 f t,,f drnnniU ir scut btj vi.nl on. rc-cipl f jri.v. C it m DUG ELY BROTHERS. 56 Warren 'Streat NEW YORK. DUG K L. .o.'.vs u. Af. J. HH K. A. U.hlt k. t-HTAHLIMMKI IS7J. tlohnston, Buck it C(.7 HAN 1 lilis, KIIKNMII'Kil, - - . I'KN.N'A. A. V. HI t Ii, 4 KNliler. -jtaiilihiiici Ihsm. Carrolltown Bank, It Id H.I.TIIWN. I'A. T. A. Nil tltlt II 4.II, 4 Hlll r. General fcillii Ensiaiss Transacted. TMe loll.iwInK are Uie i-rln.'i,;il leaturef ol tceuorjl tiaLKioar liui-loi'".-. : Keerlre.f (.ayaMe on ilrmnn.t. an.l Infrrect Lear In cvrubf-tes lni.ne.1 to time dHiitora. !.4N F.i'en.lnl tn rtitiitnero on f:ivnriMi tertnr ami a..ror. .K.pr .IH.-..unt-.l at all times. 4u.i.i rrioK Mule In the I.M'iility and o.on all the hHnklnn l"n In the I tutr.i'stafi. 'hitrues tuo.lcrnto I1KAKTS l-wiie.l neuotlnhle In -II purl of the I'nlte.i 1 Mill", mul lurciiin ex-'iianice iKKued on ill partj i ol huro a. i'r,Ts f merrlianx. Iiirmrrs an.l ottiern soilelte.1. to whom rea...i:ii.ie nrr.,ii!O.I.!lon will lie file, ,.!). fatrons are .s-ure.l that all tranwietlon hall e held a utru-tly ptivaie and -inn, ntlal. ami that they will l.e treated as liJ'tra,:iw u itoo.1 anklUK rules will Hr-uit. Kespeetlully, JOII T4. Ml 4 Ii o. T W. DICK. a A1T4IKNKY-AT-I.AW. I.IIKKr 111 no, I'KKR'A- S.,-ui attention to (riven i-UIihf ..r ivn eion Itovnty. ete eh"- 'vm A r.ire . . V. i '. - 1 I I - 1 I.. I...-. . ...1 'Villi I , !. ,f f-nr - ! ' ; , . , 1 1 . t . .. i . .: I J ... -. ii." t ii i: : wis. i i," . v j : -.; . , r. ; s-ainc s Gc.cry Compound , .-r. i ' i' ': t .1 :i it .ir-'to I . .. .: i r . i . . i Ii. i ii,,! i; I ! i ':: I It. I il- i . , : ' i i ..in !: i in , .1 . -r , . ,- v . -... i . r j . V if. . i w o lit .r, vt.lCr., 1 : .1 :r- . I : .-.-T.t v.: -. ' i.l -1 I . i -- -. i. Ii , I -1 . I I: .-. i i . : I . ,i. I .. .- If VMi it tlt . ,n tr. ; I : ," r tli rln iunni itu i, ui. . - r; ; -. . i ft f l KM. And a gocd lanrp .. v f v.- - " I1I1.9C see " I he Kochester " tr ",--,'t,l.. am . i vi-.fiL;y more cheerful than either. f ? v. LILLY BANKING : CO., LILLY, PA., J4. H Ml I.l. EX. 4ANII I .K. (!i;m;i;ai, i:.xKiri ursixKss TKAXS.M TKI. I IUH. IJI'K. AND A( 1DKXT IXSUII A XC K. AM. Till: IMMXITPAT, STKAMSIl IP mxi;s kki'Kfm:xtki nv us. Af ontit of miTcliants. fnrmors anl oth-'r- I'artii'si ly solicitril, asurin-ioiir pntroiis Hint all l.ii-in..s rni rii-t.-l to ii-s will r' rrivr ,i-i,iii an, I cur,. fill at iint ion. ami U i. l. I Mlirlly ronliil.-minl. t'lititini-rs will iH- tr.-af.il as lih.-raily as (ro.Ml banki'iir nil.-.- w ill H-i-init. MMiY ISAXKIXC CO., Lilly, lVnna FEES 8l MILLER'S Shaving Parlor, Main Street, Near Pest Office The nndrnlitne.! declres to InTorra the pnh ho ih.it Kiev have oit-ned a nhavlnic par or on Mum ureei. near I lie post olllce where liiirtriiiK In ml Its lirnm-he-H will ie earrie.1 on In the future. Kvervthitnc neat and clean. Your patronKe solidteil FKK8 fc MILf.KK. Dovounred Job Prlniln If so. KiTe tk f rnisis a trial order. 1 It' i Ua. . M IP is v W-. art rvaaasssr ar- vraw. k -ti THE SUNDAY SIDE. Tin- world t-.is many :i j.-y to : ivo, M:iny a t. I;i n of l-alm :in I I li.-s. tr ri lii-.-r a'ul i-:t for .ho troul.l.-d breast. Vt- "oliii.ll.v ini.-s-An.l ill l:ii -I. ii- ss a"'' dullnosH wo crop aloni? iiliu iit'!! rvrr thi II fJt ilrnit'il. Tlr.il woiil'l :-h.ii shim- in did t niu-o hot-in To walk throu'li lif.- on the Sunday side. Tlif wii'U-l:iy Iroul and wwk-ilav toil, I.ilct- a ihn !t mi-isma ol s.-on' llio mv, And tl.r r.Kls v.e lovr. as wc daily prove. Arr j.'ii.- f flay. Hut I t ti. r thin -a o may hoi- to ivai-h. If wc follow the steps of a U-ttcr iruule. For the lit.- N vain th it .lot-s mt coulain . A tilth- bit of the Sun-lay M.le The liorscs vce Imild may far cx-t Tin- c..-!lv i-ilan-.-i of t:i- cajit. An.l ji ui Is rare and bliauumut fair :a.v riai'e li:e frat. Hut it is not heme in the unit-test sense. If tl:.- !.i"-s :iri.t u in.l.iu s so l.nn? and wide. An.l the he:ir:s that within ihi-lr faucics piD, I is !! not out on the Sunday bl.le. For 'tis all n folly and all n waste To ! ud our lives, a-s it w, re. for naught, 1 In- food to shun, and U have not one I 'iii.iiiti" ; In .tii-lit. And li. re'i r in the world 'tis our lot to dwell, l:i riistic n.ttau'i'. or hails of pri ie, Tt ere's a i hatu e. I'm Mire, for us all to ftocuro A little hit of the Sunday side. Josephine Pollard, in lml.-s' Home JournaL THE DESERT TKA3IP. Incidonta of Nomad Life Land of Thirst. In the l'lenty of Feed lit Spit of the) Aridity liiutriieU-.l lii Applying fr Vra: tiot m lU-etsteak lu llarnh FwmIiIou. Althiniph tra:nis a-nlenty can lie foiiiitt in parts of the UniU'J States, Uie tK-oplo of the tk'st-rt ininiii t-antps tlial, liko Ilaprtrott, Calif. iiiia, ur 1 cateil on railroads, Ik'Hi'Vi? that tiirt-e times as many can le foiiii-l thoro in pruJkirtion to the population as in any otln-r purt of the country. Wn-tche.las tliis eoutitry is as a site for human hal itatioiu ilevoi.l of all human iiooessilies - -lc void, even, of water save at the stati.ms rind cursed with a eiiuiuU' all hut intolerable, a day never passes uitlinnt a trump com in to the l.Hrs of .some of the houses and l'rr--iio; for f.xnl. Nur i they online them selves t. iK-vo-inj. They lirowln-at an.l terrorize women found al.me in tneir homes and the Chinese cooks cmpl. .y-.l in restaurants and kitchens, very much as tramps do else where, and this, too, in s,itc of the reputation which ile-crt men have for tain the law in their own hands in dcalin0 v itli atich I'll' -s. Then, too, the reputation of the aver-:i-e ilc--rt man as a man-killer is unde served. There are desp-i-ii..-s on the d.-seit, an.l they ! the kilKnT. as a rule. The men who have wives and kitchens are not desperadoes. They are res-ctal.le t it !.c!is. wiilinr to cti- lnrc e-rcat privations in the h.- of a fill nr.- ...iiis t. neo. They arc like re-siH-et.il.e eitiens elsewhere in their slowness to t.ii.e a l.l.naly re venire f. .r a i s..ii.il injury. The tramp know s tiu i. rv well, and acts on hi-, Umi le.lt'e. In a journey that included the wildest towns 011 the Mojave desert the writer did not hear of a single trump who hail leen killed for hin temerity for did he tind more than one li.. use thai was at all free from their visits, and that h.use did not enjoy en tire immunity. It was left compara tively free, however, In-cause of the vigorous treatment which the nomad received at the hands of its master. Mr. .1. W. S. Perry, of Hapsctt, is the superintendent of a borate of li:rc iiiiiie ill tin Calico ninu itain , nine miles from there. II s olii - is in iii-, hou-.c there, w -here he lives with his wife, who, dnrinr most of the year, keeps no servant. When they first cunie there the tramps swarmed alxiut the house. Mrs. Perry ia a California eirl, and could not lK-ar to refuse a man w ho asked for food ill respectfui lan jjuarre. Put one la3' came a tramp to the kitchen door who was not respect ful. He walked lilit in without a word. As luck had it Mr. Perry lnip pened to walk in at the dining-room at the same instant. SuiK-riiitemlents of desert mines are accustomed to dealiiip; with all kinds of men and are particularly prompt in action. "What do you want?" said Perry to the tramp. "I came to see yon ahout gettinp; a job." replied the tramp, who was try in j to make the Iiest of a bad case. "And you thought the way to pet work was to come around to the kitch en door and enter without knocking, did you'.'" The tramp made no reply, and Mr. Perry continued: "I will conduct you to the oflice door and show you how to get in there in a proper way." At that Perry turned the tramp around, kicked him out the kitchen door, kicked him around the house to the otlice door and stood him up there and said: "Now knock on the door." The man knocked and Perry opened it an.l entered. tome in," he said, and the tramp followed. "IK1 you want work or have you got rather more than you wanted?" Perry cont iiim-,1. The man jrlanced up and then fleL Perry is a six-footer, who can kick like a desert mule. It was a long time liefore Mrs. Perry was troubled by tramps again; hut, of course, there was no escaping them al together. Kven the purchase of a won derfully intelligent anil well-trained dog did not kl-'ep them away alto gether. Mr. Perry had to drive to the mine, nine miles away, several times a week, and the wife was often left alone for several hours at 11 time. One afternoon something at the mine de tained Perry so that he could not reach 1 ie until after dark. Mrs. Perry un derstood the matter, and did not licgiii to prepare supper until after nightfall. She was going to broil a steak that night, and, having li rhtod the fire and a lamp, was putting the broiler on the stove when a tramp stalked in at the OjK-n kitchen door, having in some way escaped the dog. The frightened look that came to Mrs. Perry's face at once showed him that lie was master of the situation, anil, sitting down at the ta ble, lie bade her go on and get the steak ready In haste find to fetch out the lwst of evory thin? sho had in addi tion. The Waring of the man was so terrifying that Mrs. Perry did not I'are to refuse, and, greatly agitated, she brought the steak and put it over the glowing coals. The other work was also continued, the man meantime cursing her for lieing slow- so continu ally that he did not hear the wheels of a buckhoard that was driven up to the rear of the house, nor did Mrs. Perry hear them. The hiifklmard contained Mr. Perry, and he could hear the words of the tramp very plainly. Dropping the reins he walked silently toward the kitchen door just as Mrs. Perry ap proached the stove with a quart shaker full of powdered salt. She fioised the shaker, and by accident shook the cover off so that more than a pint of salt fell on the meat, glanced at the door and saw her husband coming, and then fell in a dead faint beside the sti ve. Without a word Perry entered the room. and. walking to the table, picked up the carving knife, while the tramp fell ou his knees and begged for life. That was the only move that could save his life. Perry could not kill a man who liegged for mercy, but he could and diil give him a frightful re turn for the misery Mrs. Perry had en dureiL For a moment he considered how he could punish the fellow, and then his eyes fell on the stove. The steak was bubbling on top and scorching below over the redhot coals, while the salt in a browning heap lay on the middle. "Hold out your hands flat, said Per ry. The tramp olieyed, and with the knife and fork Perry placed the steak iiixm them. The man shrieked with pain, but dared not drop it. "You ordered the steak 'quick, and you shall have it," said Perry. "Sow eat it" With the ready knife before his eyes the tramp choked it down, salt and all, and then disappeared in the night. The eastern reader may think that after such an exiierience the tramp died on the desert next day, but he didn't, and the chances are that by ex hibiting his burned bauds and telling some pitiful story about them he ! ta'uie.l more squ-ire meals during the next week than he had had in three months le fore. That Perry was justi fied in his treatment of the man no one doubts who knows the desert and its nomads. Although rarely it ever done to death by the citizens on whom they prey, more trumps die violent deaths in this country than elsewhere. 1 tec a. use the count rr is a desert thev must ride on the cars in the hot monthf. There is a curious rule among the railroads of the whole Pocky mountain region that works to the advantage of the tramjs. '1 he Indians of the region are allowed to ride f ree on the outside of and l twecn the car. It is "Vr-at vrraft" for the tramp w ho finds a group of Piutes or S!i. tshoiies on a train. The train men do not iiotits the addition to the irroitp, and the Indians are not unlike ly t sliart- their food with the tramp. Put Indians are tiot iftcn found on the railroads in this part of the desert, while tramps are as plentiful as sand storms. A train never g.es over the road w ithotit carrying trau:ls or with out a liiit ln-tween t'lem and t he train men. The utter recklessness of the tramps in stealing rides is enouirti to unnerve the ine Xcrieneed seet:itor. It is useless for them to try to lard a train that is standing at a station in the daytime, so they walk up the track and wait there till the train has started and attained a speed at which it would be dangerous for an ordinary man to try to climb on or even jump from the platform, and then, grasping the rods that brace the floor timln-rs of a car, they swing themselves under and land on the brake beams. This i:i done to some extent by tramps in the cast, but railroad men say that the tramps here can lioard a brake beam on a train going from twenty-five to thirty miles an hour. The tourist hears this told so often and so candidly that he is obliged to believe it. P.ut sooner or later the nerve or the muscle of the tramp fails and he drops under the wheels. So many tramps are killed by the trains that the local papers give no more attention to events of the kind than New York papers give to the maiming of children by recklessly driven trucks. The stories of railroad accidents on the desert are telegraphed to the east only when the lives of pas sengers have Is.-en lost, so eastern read ers do not hear about the killed tramps; but a railroad man told the writer that out of seven collisions involving freight trains, with the details of which ho was familiar, tramps had beeu killed in four. X. Y. Sun. I nhealthy Churrhe. The medical oflleer of health for the city of London has started a movement to compel all the churches of the city to remove the dead that are burh-d ln-neath their floors, and bury them at II ford. It is said that the condition of many of these churches is frightfully unhealthy, as they literally stand over a mass of tlead Wlies in various stages of decay, from which it is a wonder that a pestilence has not resulted long ago. The move has created great cons ternation among the vestrymen of the churches, as the process of exhumation will 1m? expensive as well as dangerous, the average cost per church being esti mated at ten thousand dollars. One warden jiositivcly refused to allow any interference with the dead, but when the health officer had the flooring of his Icw taken up, and showed him what lay lieneath him every Sunda.v, he quickly changed his mind. One man tried to block the proetHtlings by claiming the Ixxly of nis grandfather, which was buriisl in one of the aisles of the church some fifty years ago. lie was told that he could have it, of course, all that was necessary was for im to identify it. A C'nt Vhlppte) ly Uirda. At Farmingtoit, Me., the other day a eat captured one of a flin-k of martins which had their nests in a little house provided by the owner of the feline, and was niakingolT with the dainty mor sel. Attracted by the piteous cries of the bird, its mates came to the rescue, alighted upon pussy's back, and ps-ked, scratched and screamed so furiously that she was ffHtn (jlad to drop her prey and escape Indoors. Then tht purple martins held a great rejoicing, noisily chattering over the salvation of their mata, "1 Will" and 'I Shall. Asa guide to the proper use of the the words "shall" and "will," some one suggests the folluwing verso: In the first person, siuinly 'shall" foretell, Jti ill" a threat or ft- a promise dwells: ' Shall" lu the .-cend or the third doth threat; Will" lmply tbeq foretell the feat THE PANAMA SCANDAL. How tno Groat Lottery Loan Was Manipulated. The Primary Can of the Great Toenail Which Is Now Convulnlna; France I'romliieol 4m!la Iiirmc;cl ta Sharp l'nartleea. For two years prior to the lottery loan, writes the Paris correspondent of the London Economist, the public had befrun to manifest a reluctance to in vest more money in the scheme. In issti an issue of r00,000 bonds was made, but only 4."8,SO were suWriU-d. In 17 a fresh subscription of the same number w as opened, and only 2.Vs,S57 were taken. The source had almost dried up, and when money was required again in lsss some additional attraction to investors was necessary. M. de Lcsseps then pi oposed to raise a linal great loan of fWo.iHHj.ooO francs with lottery prizes, that sum Wing suf licient to terminate the canal. Put lot tery loans require the authorization of parliament, and a bill was presented to the chandicr March 1. M. de Lessens Wing, however, in immediate want of money could not wait for the bill to pass through the necessary stages be fore becoming law, and March 14 offered for public subscription :C0.(HK Umds of l.Oou francs, without lottery prizes, but which subscrilers could ex change for new bonds w hen the lottery loan was authorized. Of the O.oou I Knds offered only 112, 4s:t were taken up. The situation had beo me desicrate. and the undertaking could only lie saved by the passing of the lottery loan bill. The bill was passed successively by the chamWrand the senate, and became law- on June S. The events that are to lieeome the sub ject of the parliamentary inquiry oc curred lictwecn those dates of March 1 andune S, lsss. Parliament hal in creased the amount of the loan from WW.OiM.oyj francs to 7-M.OOO.OOO. in order that the additional 1'iU.OtHi.tXK) should W invi-sted in rentes in trust to insure pay ment of the lottery pri.-s and the re-dempti-m of the ltils in ninety-nine years, the company being only liable for the interest. T.ie l.ian was issued in 2.On0,0ou bonds at "(N frati'-s, but only S-l'J,-J4'j were sul scrilcd, including those taken in ex- hate'e. producing ruia.iKiO.Ooti francs, of w hich '.Vi.oxW.Oi'd were for the company and M.ifcM.UiM f..r the trust. The cost of the Usui' witi enormous, and are set down in the report drawn up by M. MoRchieourt, ot'ictal liq li.lator of the eo:.ir-:i.:iy ia ls'.m, at 0I,i"Mi,7sij francs, or over 1 iht cent- of the amount sub-j-crilxsl. Of that sum U.ooo.uoo francs Is entered under the head of "syndi cates." 7,:k)l,ini francs for the pres and Io.'.Hnj.s:;- francs for commission on the sale of the lnds. The remaining two millions went for the printing of the bonds and clerical work. The charges brought by M. Delahaye and some opjiosition journals against the deputies may Im? and probably are exaggerated, but they are so precise an.l in some cases are accompanied with details so circumstantial as to leave the impression that they are not alisolutcly unfounded. Take the story told of the vote on the loan bill in the chamln-r. The committee consisted of eleven moralK-rs, of whom five were in favor of the bill and five hostile. The eleventh, it is said, pretended to be un deeitletl. but went to the company and offered his vote for 200,000 francs. The proposal was declined, and the deputy then joined n bank for a War operation in Panama shares, with the intention of giving hi.s casting vote against the bill. The company, however, reflected on learning of the War operation in Pan ama shares, and sent to the chamWr its emissary, who called the deputy out of the committee-room and offered him 100,000 francs, which was declined. The deputy was sent for a second time and obtained his terms, and the majority for the bill was obta-iniii. P.ut the deputy licghcted to inform his i-iui-fisderate. v. ho continued to sell Panama shares, and as they made a sharp re lionnd on the decision of the committee W oming known the banker was nearly niine.l. A-: he has since W-cn quite ruinml and has absconded his name has been given, but that of the deputy is not yet revealed. The sudden death of Karon do Ueiiiaeh. who was the inter mediary employed by the company, is said to have occurred from a fit brought on by the discovery that the lxxik con taining copies of his letters had been stiden after he had destroyed all other documents of a nature to incriminate him, as he was to have lx-en made one of the defendants in the prosecution. Me, however, employed a well-known financial agent, who disappeared a few months after committing large forgeries to the prejudice of the. dynamite com pany, anil who now 1 masts from his hiding place that ho has in his posses sion the check-lxxik from which the deputies were paid. FAST ENOUGH. A Ru.lsii'4 llan for 1'rmu.lnr the At l:ill In TweiityMeht Hours. It is said that a new maritime inven tion, intondi-d to revolutionize the pres ent system of marine locomotion, is W ing perfected by Lieut. Apostolow, of the Russian navy. The other day a private exposition was given of the in genious nuxlcls Ik fore Admiral Van der Fleet, Karon Pistrom, Capt, Perelesehin and other naval ollicers, in the directors nx.mof the Kussian company's estaV lishmcnt at Odessa. Sufficient informa tion has Wen collected by the London Transcript to show that Lieut. Aposto low's new ship has neither screw nor paddle. There is, instead, a kind of running electrical gear right round the vessel's hull, under the water line, and a revolving mechanism, which will pro pel the ship fria Liverpool to Sew York in twenty-eight hours. This law over , is but one part of the Russian's scheme. Some unreasonably timid per sons, Lieut. Apostolow imagines, might object to the discomfort of W-ing swished through the Atlantic billows at the rate of one hundred and thirty knots an hour. To these he offeis the alternative- of a submarine passage "without rock, roll or vibration, and with a goixl supply of oxygen and hydrogen during the short voyage. Vt'hat tho oza.r'3 officers think of the Apostolow plans is not reeordod. AU that is known is that tho lieutenant has quitted Odessa for Moscow and St Pt'tersburg, where lu intends to exhibit his ni.xlcls Wfoye. he embarks with them fr that valhalla of invention the world's fair, ; BETTING ON ELECTIONS. Now Recognized as a Legitimate Branch of Brokerage. AVall Street Operator I'liu-e Iteta for Their I'atrona and lu-altze La.r-e I'rotita I'olltiral Sec. station Uroau. Iletting on elections has lieeome a recognized branch of the business of many Wall street brokers. Toward the end of the recent campaign the W-tting on the national election tiecame of such magnitude that the names of C leveland and Harrison might appropriately have Wen placed among the stK-ks and printed with the regular quotations. The Sun thinks it is likely that in future campaigns much more W-tting than ever w ill be done by recognized brokers, and that the election W-tting, like other big financial interests, will center in Wall street. As the majority of the Wall street bets were not made with the publicity which attended W-ttir.g in hotels, it was only when settling time came after the election that their gross magnitude Ut-ame somewhat known. The Wttors on the election in Wall street were greater speculators than those who mailt wagers at the lu dels or put up their money at some up-town p.xl rooin. Hundreds of men keep balances with their Wall street brokers to W available at any time in stock specula tion. These accounts differ from the ordinary bank account in that the Wall street account is kept for purely specu lative purposes, while the bank account is for business purposes. After a pros perous business season, when the mer chant has taken care of all of his own paHr ai.d obligations and has a com fortable surplus left, he is apt to go to Wall street to invent and usually to speculate, for he regards the Wall street fund as somewhat of the nature of fraruhlinir money. With such men speculation last au tumn txk for the first time a turn t. wanl elections, whereas In-fore it hud len confined to stocks, wheat, corn, Vil and other product with recognized quotations. None of th.-m uppoal to the business man as doe politic. Al most all business men jx-rsonaily have strong political prcjudici-. Even mar.y of those w ho will not take the trouble and tiuie to reU,ter and vote liave a strong feeling for one party or the oth er. Wall street brokers have not as yet charged commissions on election W-t, and this gave the speculative business man still more of a turn toward election W-ts, for he did not have to pay a quar ter commission. It al.so attracted him from the tip-town Wtting resorts, for any man going to a Ixxikmaker to place his money would do a little worse than if he could meet at once some man who was as eajfer to W t on the otlr side. The brokers Wgan by placing elec tion Wts to oblige their customers w ho hail balanc-s with them, and they smn found tliat the business was profitable. The money was always put up by the customer, and as the brokers making the Wt were well acquainted with each other there was no necessity of putting ttie money in the hands of a stake holder, and the respective brokers could retain the money wilhouL paying in terest. If the election Wls were inade a long time W-fore election tho profits to the broker were greater than if he had made a turn in stticks for his cus tomer, ami the Wther was much less. It is likely that in the aggregate these Wall street election Wts amounted to more than the Hoffman house Wts. A man could offer through his broker to place fifty or a hundred thousand dol lars on Cleveland or on Harrison, and the broker would parcel it out in lots in the same way as if he had unorder to buy or sell five thousand shares. New possibilities have been opened to the Wall street broker now that they have seen how easily they can do the business of election W-tting, which Plight W extended to cover any other event of uncertainly or great public in terest. There is now no W-tting piacv in New York corresponding to certain well-known W-tting establishments in London and Paris. There are any iium-W-r of pixil rooms, but it requires a man of some experience to deal w ith them; W-sidos, the associations arc not always pleasant and the sit-urity for payment, if one wins, is not so g.xxl as it might W. The per cent- against the player is high, as the expenses of the pxil rimius are large, ami there is not the open comjH'tilion Wtwceii tlu-iu which ex ist W-tween the brokers. It now re mains for brokers to take W'ts on horse races, as they have taken W-ts on the elections. They would get a dillerent kind of men in the horse race W-tting, and through the summer Wall street would not W so dull and profitless as it usually is during that season. The iJte of Nlnewre. Concerning the wearing away of Ni agara Falls, Prof, Le Coide says: The upper stratum of rock Is Niagara lime stone, a hard rock, but Wneath it is a Stratum of shale. It is the slow under lining of this shale that causes the lime stone to break oft from year to j-ear and the falls to recede. They are recoil ing now at the rate of tlm-e or four feet a year. What will W the final re sult? They may go back to the lake, but the limestone is growing thicker and thicker and may finally extend to the bottom of the falls In that case the rock would not break off, but would wear away and form a rapids. Iu any case, if the falls should roc4de to Lake Erie, at the present rate it would take at least twenty thousand years." He Tailed the Turn. On the morning of the last election day, says the St, laul tlW the school ma'am of one of tbe rooms of the Har rison sell ad asked for an expression of her children, who average alxmt ten years in age, as to whom they thought would W elected, Harrison or Cleve land. "I think Harrison will Ik? ole;-tod," said she. ''Now, all you who think as I do, please arise," Ever child arose except one little Ixiy of teq years. A'd when she called for the vote on Cleveland he alone jumped to his feet, "Why, Freddy, am, surprised," And this remark of the teacher resulted in every scholar making life m iserable for him the remainder of the day. Pat the next morning when the news that Cleveland was elected by an overwhelm ing majority bro ke, the exultation of Freddy, as he wal ked into sclixl, can be Wttcr imagined than descriWsJ. FOR EE All AN CE. Nay! W t it pit;' Twas Put a hasty uurj. I'nthink itT tittered n unwlllliut heard Although uixiu my ear II straiurely jarred. A lifeloui; friendship shall not thus be marred. Nay: let It pass: Nay: let ft pass! I will not answer so. Lest word on words to fr eater difference prow. Vnaruariicil momi'tits rome to all to me lift u.s-iis the trust of lovinp chanty; Then let It pass! Then let it pass. And not a thought r main To tKiin niy heart or cive another's pain: I-t hearts t- true, and let the friendship end That tx-ars not with the failings of a friend. Yes' let it pass: Jauios Kork. in t'tiumtx-rs' Journal THE ADJECTIVE VENDOR. IUustratincr tho Paet and Present Styles in Those Words. "Adjectives to sell! Adjectives to sell! Nice sharp adjectives! Sweet round ad jectives! Adjectives to sell!" The adjective vendor stood on a sun ny corner. His pack was slung across his back by means of a string. The striag w us made of long adjectives, and when the vendor sold one from it, he linked on another taken from his pack. In that way the string never grew too short to fasten alxtut him. 'i'lie adjective vendor was a wide-awake man. He had traveled far, and had friends in all parts of the world. He had now just returned from the Arctic regions, where be had W-cn to collect ixlditics with which to replenish his hUn'k. He w as glad of the sun on the street corner, and finally decided to take up his station there for the day. i;..l pw. pie ai: (.lie tii a cull'" he sang out, a he arranged his atock on a little counter by the side of the w a!k "Here's for young ladies! "Die latest goods for (rents! Just imported! Here's for the magazines! Fresh adjectives! tiivc us a eail!" th! the dear thing!," exclaimed a young woman who was passing. She looked longingly at the vendor's w ares. "I do love them," she inustsL "How much is that one w ith the frilled edge?" "Not mucli," said the vendor, with a courteous smile. "Put will it U-couic yo-i?" "May I take it Unit to try?" said the young woman. "Free of charge!" answered the ven dor, with a deep Ww. "Those showy g.Mxls hare all gone out, if she did but know it," he mur mured to himself. "She'll appear like a fool, but that's not my atTuir. An old man drew near, and, putting on his glasses, stoojK-d over the wares, "Pshaw!" said he, "these gimcrucks are nothing like the adjectives of my day. The world is growing foolish." and w ith a motion of disgust he moved on. "I mut look up something for him," thought the vendor. "It will pay." "Adjectives sir?" This remark was addressed to an erect, prim gentleman, who had not apparently- noticed the vendor. "1 never use them," said the stiff gentleman, without turning his head The vendor shrugged his shoulders. Put he was sKn consoled for the re buff. He spied a Wvy of schoolgirls coming down the street. He drew his feet together, ami down lie want in so deep a Ww that the cap in his hand swept the ground. "tiooil morning, ladies Those on that side are for gents," he added, hastily, as he perceived his customers flocking to the wrong side of the coun ter. "These are the thing, of course," sad a short, round miss with a prom inent chin. "Have you the latest from Yale?" "Yes," said the vendor, but he looked Ww ildered. The world, it seemed, had Wen marching on during his stay in the Arctic regions. Put he was a ready, shifty man. "If you like those rough goods, ladies, I can show you any varieti. The gents sometimes use them strung together, but you only want an odd one now- and then, I judge," "No. indeed," said the former speak er. "1 shall have mine strung together. What do you say, girls?" The girls pounced upon the vendor's goods, and rolled them over, and turned them over and talked them over. Such great, hard articles as they chose! Some of the gentlest of the buyers could hardly grasp their purchases, but that only made them laugh the harder. "Kittie's got the nobbiest lot!" they all exclaimed, as, laden with purchases, they departed up the street. Kittie was the short maiden, and she had truly chosen the longest an.l the most bizarre of the articles for sale. The vendor of adjectives was tired. He sat down upon the curbstone and wiped his brow, "Who would think it!" he murmured to himself. Put he was above all a man of busi ness. H is stock uoeded rearrangement. He must bring out goods from his pack, to take the place of those that were sold. While he was busily working, a group of young men lounged up to watch him. They were the gilded youth of the town. The vendor did not at onee, accost them. He was no longer certain what would please them, and he did not like to show his ignorance. Put he soon caught by the expressions of their faces that the latest novelties from the Are tic regions were the objects of their ad iniration. "Hang it!" cried one "these are stunners!" Thought the vendor: "I will put up the price." The vendor Wgan to be very happy Wfore night descended and put an end to his traflic His gains were enor mous. All uay the youths and maidens hail Wen flocking to his counter. He had tucked away the grave and solid goods, and had displayed only the most tempting novelties. When he went to bed that night he set his alarm-clock so that it might awake hira carl v. , , , "1 will liaue on some of those shop worn gorxls on the working people," he thought to himself. Alas! misguided man that he was! The sun rose bright and smiling. When the vendor arrived at his ixt the street was cleauly swept. The shop w indows were still covered with their shutters, and only a few wagons went rattling by. The vendor whistled cheerfully to himself. All of a sudden the sound of many feet attracted his attention. Confused cries of "Catch him! Catch him!" broke upon his ears He turned and saw a crowd of peo ple. Some had canes and some briMims. llere was a man with the fire shovel, there one flourishing the tongs. Some were without hats; some were strug gling into their coats. "Catch him! Catch him!" was the cry of alL "Gentlemen, gentlemen," cried the vendor, spreading out his arms. Put one of his own adjectives, w hizzing by his ears, warned him that expostula tion was vain. He seized his pack and ran. "Catch him! Catch him!" cried all the townsjxjople. I town the narrow streets he dixlgc.l, threw the broud streets he flew, pelted from Whind, panting for breath. Put the vendor was still a man of resource. He had now got fairly out of town. He spied a vacant marshy plot eaiso by the road. Into it he flew, and set his goods W-fore him in the inannci of a stockade, until only his head apts-ared alvove the top thereof. The vendor's conduct fairly took away the breath of the townspeople. How strange)- he looked in-cring over his adjectives. 'tientlemen," he sail, "lam a peace able man. In wluit have I offended?" There was a confused murmur, and then one man st.xxl forth to act as spokesman for the rest He was an erect gentleman and prim also, al though at present somewhat ruffled by his late exertions. "You have made a jabWruigg.xise of my daughter." sai-1 the gentlemau. "And of mine!" "And of mine," shouted Voices from the crowd and tin- vendor was obliged to d.xlge dow n Ix l.ind his st sadc to avoid the adjective that descended upon him. II gentleman wailed for Liuu to ap Iear. "And a jribWring maniac of uiy son. he continued Here tlic uproar a so great that the prim f.-i.licniau ;.-e.i a br.-,u and waved tt tow !n.j-..,:.. n,t- or.i. r 1 he vendor, lean.ng Lis head u-n his hkiuL observed the enemy with hi bright eyes. "How much will you taaeT' sl the vendor, finally. "Take l.:s head." sail one voice, 'Take bis money." suid .tiiotWr. "Take his pack." sasl a third. "His tongue," said a fourth, and ail the tow nsjs-ople spoke at once. TW prim gentleman l.est l.ia temtx-r. He luidalx.ut hitu with his br.x.ni. put for every blow Le gave lie got one iu return. The vendor saw his chance. He -oized the whole stK-kade with Wth ais hands and hurled it at the enemy. For a moment the sky was dai i.'eiie.l. "Catch him! Catch him!" cried the townspeople. Hut their v. .ices Wcamc niufUed and they were Wnt to the very ?arth; they were Wwildered and blinded by the shower of adjectives. It was some time Wfore the prim gentleman, passing his hand across his forehead, stumbled to au upright posi tion. "Where am I at? Where am I at?" he said, faintly. At his feet all manner of broken ob jects, false and true, fair, fantastic, sharp, blunt, curved, straight, short and long, lay glittering in the morning sunlight. Around his neck he found a twisted chain. "You-dcar-dailiiig-dc-lieious-daisy-papa," said the chain; "the.-e's the sweetest ham for break fast!" The prim gentleman turned stiffly in the direction of home, whither indeed the chain seemed to lead him. Once only he paused on the roiwi "Did we catch him?" lie questioned of a neighlKir. 'Did we?" said the neigh Wr. 'Did we?" cried another and another and still another, as the question passed on down the line of the return ing citizens. Xot one could answer, but a gay and mocking laugh rang through the air. The whole company looped up and then dow ii. and to this side and to that side, and even backward. Nothing was to W seen. "It is the wind blowing from tlie west," said the prim gentleman. "Why, breakfast hour is at hand," and so say ing he hastened home. As to the adjective vendor, whither he went, and how, 'twas never known. We know the wind was blowing from the west, and we know that whether by land or by water, whether on foot or wing, the vendor was a shifty man. Margaret Newcomb, in Springfield (Mass.) Republican. A UaUh That Speak. A Geneva watchmaker named Casimir Livau has just completed a watch of whu-h he is the inventor. Instead of striking the hours and quarters, it an nounces them by speaking like the pho nograph. The mechanism of the watch is based on phonographic conditions, the bottom of the ease contaminga pho nographic sensitive plate, which has reeoivetl the impression t l the human voice Wfore Wing inserted in the watch. The disk has forty-eight concentric griMives, of which twelve repeat the hours, twelve those of the hour and quarters and twelve more those of the hours and second and third quarters. If the hand on the dial shows t he time to W 12:15 o'clock, one of the tine noo dle points of the mechanism crosses the corresponding groove and the ilisk, which turns simultaneously, calls out the time, just as the phonographic cyl inder. The lower lid of the case is pro vided with a tiny mouthpiece, and when the watch is hold to the ear the sound is all the more plain. Jadce llsieni'l 1'roverhe. Thar's more pollitick in honesty, than honesty in tx.lliticks. Thar's a g.Kxl many more pollitishans for sale than is Wught. It don't do no hurt to watch the pul llc dolus of a statesman w hose private doins won't bare watclun. Thar's some things that men in polit ikle life docs, that wimmcn in polit ikle life wouldn't do. Public oflis is a public trust that's mighty on re liable fer lastiu' qualities. Politikle prefference skis some pow erful goisl material. A statesman fer glory gits tired quickern one fer emolimcnts. The Amerikin eagel d.m't draw- no sallery. This glorj-ons republic ov ourn is git tin to W the yuniversle disinfectant. letruit Free Press. I
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