wanvand] 2 a AAA AAANNA ini 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 | | fee rains, either whole nk ch, 7 s a on- rich ood stitious at they nur ts, | | The great size often reached by this _ will enable you to get one large 10c. pack- E——————— “Nature Abhors a Vacuum.” Nothing in the world stands stil. If you are well and strong day by day the blood supplies its tide of vigor. If you are dl, the blood is avrong and carries increas- ing quantities of diseased germs. You can- not change Nature, but you can aid her by keeping the blood pure. Hood's Sarsapa- ridla does this as nothing else can. Be sure to get Hood's, because y O0UD- pa ever Disapooinis aig 3 m— THE BLACK WALNUT. Our European Cousins Are Paying High —— Prices for It. tree, the richness of the dark brown wood, the unique beauty of the grain sometimes found in burls, knots, feath- ers and in the curl of the roots, all conspire to make this the most choice and high-priced of all our native woods, says the Berea Quarterly. Twenty-five years ago walnut was ex- tensively used in the manufacture ot fine furniture and finishings in this country, but manufacturers adroitly drew attention to the beauty of darkly stained quartered oak and the use of the rarer wood has greatly declined. But all this time the search for fine black walnut logs has gone on system- atically, though quietly, the trade at- tracting little attention, though the volume of lumber handled has been large. Though found to some extent in the Atlantic states from Massachu- setts southward, the great source of supply has been the central portions of the Mississippi valley. The walnut is at home in the rich alluvial bottom lands of tne western streams and in the stony limestone soils of the hills and mountains and in such localities the buyers have left few trees unsur- veyed. Throughout eastern Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas, as well as the states along the Ohio and its tribu- taries, may be seen a few logs at this little station, a car or two at that, with carefully hewn sides and painted ends, ready for the market. If you ask where the market is you will find that the great bulk of this rare lumber goes to Europe. While we have been led into an enthusiastic admiration for fine oak, stained according to the de- gree of antiquity it is supposed to represent, our European cousins have been paying fancy prices for the rich black walnut that we have allowed to go “out of fashion.” “Acceptable? I should say so; they all say the same, too, when they get them. Who is there that would refuse such works of art when they can get them for almost nothing. Ask your grocer for a coupon book, which age of “Red Cross’ starch, one large 10c. package of “Hubinger’s Best” starch, with the premiums, two Shakespeare panels, printed in twelve beautiful colors, as nat- ural as life, or one Twentieth Century Giri calendar, the finest of its kind ever printed, all for 5e. Absent-Minded. It was an electric car, and a man wag sitting between two women. The man left the car, and as he passed out an umbrella slid from the seat toward the floor and woman No. 1, She caught it, rushed to the door, had the car stopped and told the conducter to call the man back. The man, how- ever,declined to take what was not his, and so the good Samaritan, leaving the “watershed” in the conductor’s hands, regained her seat. Meantime woman No. 2, who had seen and heard the whole performance, suddenly came out of her trance and exclaimed, “Where is my umbrella?” You can imagine the rest of the tale; but it was very funny to see it all.—Milford Journal. Dispcsed to Be Technical. “Did you say this was a comic opera war?’ asked the Filipino soldier who came into camp with a flag of truce. “That remark has been made.” “Well, our general says he's willing to take you at your word. He wants to know if you can fix up the show so there will be fewer marches and more dialogue.”—Washington Star. Nervous omen are ailing women. When a woman has some female troukie she is certain to be nervous and wretched: With many women the monthly suffering is so great that they are for days positively insane, and the most diligent ef- foris of ordinary treat- ment are unavailing. | Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound | comes promptly to the re- lief of these women. The letters from women cured by it proves this. This paper is constantly print- ing them. The advice of Mrs. Pinik= ham should also be se~ cured by every nervous woman. This costs noth- ing. Her address is Lynn, Massa / Try Grain-O! Try CGrain-O! Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. 1 the price of eoffee. 15 cents and 25 cents per package, Sold by all grocers. Tastes like Coffee Looks like Coffee Insist that your grocer gives you GRAIN-O 0. Accept no imitatio: COMMERCIAL SOUNDNESS UNEQUALLED SHOWING OF PROS’ PEROU3S CONDITIONS. Record of Basiness Failures For 1899 Shows the Smallest Average of De- fanlted Liabilities Ever Known in the History of the United States. In spite of the casualties among financial concerns in the closing days of the old year, produced by purely speculative causes, the fact remains, according to Dun’s Review, that the failures of 1899, the great year of Dingley tariff prosperity, were in amount smaller than ir any other year of the past twenty-five, excepting 1880 and 1881, while the average of liabilii- ties—$77.50 per firm—was smaller than in any previous year, and most important test of all, the ratio of de- faults to solvent payments through clearing houses, ninety-seven cents per $1000, is not only the smallest ever known in any year, but smaller than in any quarter save one, the third of 1881. The failures for $1090.- 000 or more in the past six years have ranged between $31,522,185 in 1899, and $98,503,932 in 1896, the decrease being more than two-thirds, but the small failures ranged between $59,- 356,703 in 1899, and 1$127,592,902 in 1896, the decrease being more than one-half. Bat for the nest of failures result- ing from the speculative collapse in Boston in the latter part of December, the aggregate for the year would have been about $21,000,000 less than it was. As the record stands, however, and including the failures incident to overspecalation in New England and the brief but severe panic in Wall street; the failures in 1899 are the smallest ever reported since 1881, with the lowest average of commercial liabilities ever reported, and with greater evidence of commercial sound- ness and industrial prosperity than has ever before appeared in au annual statement. Not only have failures been smaller in the aggregate than in 1898 or previous years, but they have been smaller in every section of the country. Suachuniformityof improve- ment throughout the country is ex- tremely rave, and would scarcely be possible unless business of all sections was exceptionally sound and prosper- ous. The Massachusetts manufacturing defaults, in spite of the influence of the late December banking collapses, were thé smallest in any year, as were those of the other New England States, New York, and the Middle and Cen- tral States. The New England disas- ter swelled trading defaults by $3,- 920,000 in five provision failures, be- sides two banks with liabilities of about $13,500,000, and two brokerage firms for $250,000. In New York the manufacturing failures were only about a quarter of those in two years of the previous five, and not half those of two other years, while the trading failures were also much less than half those of four previous years, but in brokerage the liabilities were nearly as large as in two other years, and in banking larger than in any previous year. Bat in other Middle States manu- facturing and trading liabilities pre- sented the same bright contrast, while in both other lines the failures would have been almost nothing but for that of a single large stock concern ab Philadelphia wrecked by crime, and in no way caused by business condi- tions. The Central States also showed trading defaults from $3,000,000 to $11,000,000 smaller than in any pre- vious year, though some brokerage and promoting failures at Chicago swelled the ‘other commercial” de- faults above the returns of previous years except one. The average of defaulted liabilities per firm is a test which serves better than most to show how the defaults compare with the extension of busi- ness, but this year that average is for the first time less than $80, the lowest in any previous year having been $93.63 in 1880. A much better test is the ratio of defaults to actual pay- ments in solvent business through the clearing houses. Here the ratio for 1890 is less than $1 per one thousand, namely, only nineby-seven cents, the lowest by more than a fifth ever re- ported in any year, and the lowest ever reported until this year in any quarter, save the third quarter of 1881. The failures for $100,000 or more were only 34.7 per cent. of the aggre- gate last year, 39.9 per cent. in 1898, and 35.0 per cent. in 1897, but 43.6 per cent. in the bad year 1896, and 42.2 per cent. in 1895, and 38.3 per cent. in 1894. The amount of such failures, and of the remainder for less than $100,000 each, are here sbown for six years and deserve especial at- tention: Large Small Total. Failures. Failures. 1899. ...$90,879,839 $31,523,186 ©59,356,703 1898. ... 130,662,899 50,875,912 79,736,987 1897... 154,332,071 54,005,987 100,326,084 1893.... 226,095,834 98,503,932 127,592,902 1895.. 173,196,060 73,166,109 100,029,951 1894.... 172,992,855 66,248,340 106,744,516 It will be seen that for four years there was comparatively little change in the small failures, but the decline of about a fifth in 1898, and the further decline of about a quarter in 1899, are highly significant. It is in such facts and figures as these that we find the truth regarding the phenomenal improvement in busi- ness conditions that followed straight upon the election of William Me- Kinley and the restoration of the American policy of preserving the home market tothe domestic producer. Everybody Should Be Satisfied. End of the year reports confirm those made earlier and show that the woolen business, which was in despe- rate straits during Cleveland’s free trade administration, and which showed only loss to those engaged in it, has quite redeemed itself under the more favorable conditions produced by the Dingley law. Business has been gratifyingly active, sale enor- mous, and, “for the first time in the history of the trade,” says a dispatch from Boston, ‘wool has been export- ed, and in large quantities, too.” The woolen manufacturers have profited, but the wage earners have not been forgotten. The American Woolen Company, which controls the produc: tion of worsted, advanced the wages of its operatives ten per cent., on January 1. And with all this the people in general have more and better clcthes than theyhad before the present tariff law was en- acted. There doesn’t seem to be any reason why everybody should not be satisfied with the state of things—the consumer, as well as the producer. Everybody is satisfied in fact, so far as appears, except those who must have all their clothes from ‘‘Lunnon.” Spiral armlets of copper form good protection for the arm in battle, and the king of Dahomey uses his as defensive weapons. There are fourteen Harvard graduates in the Fifty-sixth Congress, now in ses- FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS, Senate. TWENTIETH DAY. This was the last day of the debate in the House on the Roberts case. Mr. Sims (Tenn.) was the first speaker. He made a legal argument in favor of seat- ing and then expelling Mr. Roberts. Other members followed in the discus- sion which occupied the entire day. TWENTY-FIRST DAY. The case of Brigham H. Roberts. the | Mormon representative-elect from Utah, which has occupied so much of the attention of the house since the as- sembling of Congress, was decided to- day by the adoption of a resolution to exclude him, by a vote of 278 to 50. The exact language of the resolution is as follows: That under the facts and circumstances of the case, Brigham H. Roberts, representative-elect from the State of Utah, ought not to have or hold a seat in the house of representa- tives, and that the seat to which he was elected is hereby declared vacant. The urgent deficiency bill, carrying about $9,000,000, was passed without di- vision and practically without debate. Representative Jenkins, of Wisconsin, introduced a joint resolution providing for an amendment to the Constitution giving Congress the power to create corporations for the purpose of com- merce between the States, including railroad, telegraph, telephone, transpor- tation, express and sleeping-car com- panies, and giving Congress power of control over such corporations, applica- ble to all territory over which the Uni- ted States has sovereignty and juris- diction. TWENTY-THIRD DAY. . In response to the Senate’s resolution calling for further information as to his dealings with the officials of the Nat- ional City bank of New York, Secreta- ry Gage quotes in full the Senate reso- lution and adds that it might be consid- ered as fully answered by his communi- cation of January IO. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: Edwin N. Gunsaulus, of Ohio, to be consul at Pernambuce. Brazil; ‘Samuel Hurst, postmaster at Chillicothe, O. The Senate, in executive session, de- cided by a vote of 21 to 38 not to recon- sider the vote by which the Samoan treaty was ratified. TWENTY-FOURTH DAY. The charges against Senator M. A. Clark, of Montana, were resumed for further investigation. A resolution offered by Mr. Hoar, Republican, Massachusetts, was adopted directing the committee on rules to consider some plan for the enlargement of the Capitol. Mr. Bacon, Democrat, Georgia, spoke in behalf of his resolu- tion declaring that the United States should guarantee independence to the Philippines. The Senate passed a bill increasing the cost of the Cumberland, Md., pub- lic building from $75,000 to $125,000. Representative Mahon has introduc- ed a bill appropriating $2,000 for the purpose of enabling the Secretary of the Navy to have a thorough test made of the McAlister system of built-up armor late. Senator Warren, of Wyoming, injro- duced the following joint resolution: “That the rights of a citizen of the Uni- ted States shall not be abridged by the United Staes or by any State on ac- count of sex.” ® TWENTY-FIFTH DAY. Debate in the Senate, ordinarily calm and dignified, burst into passionate ut- terances and bitter recriminations. Sen- ators hurled denounciations at one an- other until the auditors quivered with excitement. The debate grew out of a phase of the Philippine question and no scene has been witnessed since the discussion of the war resolutions in the last Congress which, in sensational feat- ures, compared with that of to-day. Pettigrew, who has precipitated near- ly all the debate upon the Philippine question during the present session sought to have read a resolution em- bodying a document written by Emilio Aguinaldo upon the Filipino insurrec- tion containing his version of the al- leged recognition of the Filipino repub- lic by Admiral Dewey. Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, protested against printing the docu- ment in any form and read a letter from Admiral Dewey in which that portion of Aguinaldo’s statement relating to the admiral was denounced as ‘“‘a tissue of falsehoods.” TWENTY-SIXTH DAY. Representative Elkins created a big sensation among his Democratic friends by an out and out expansion speech, in which he not only defended the admin- istration’s policy in the Philippines, but also declared that the islands must be held by the United States forever. The Senators favoring action on the part of the United States to bring an end to the war in South Africa have agreed upon a new plan of action. They will insist upon an executive session every day until there is a vote on The Hague peace conference treaty. Sena- tor Mason, of Illinois, is to make the necessary motion each day. The Senate Committee on Military Affairs reported adversely upon the bill authorizing the removal of the charge of desertion from all soldiers of the Civil War who failed to secure an hon- orable discharge. The Senate committee on commerce has practically decided upon a favorable report on the bill creating a department of commerce. TWENTYY-SEVENTH DAY. The President to-day transmitted to Congress the first volume of the report of the Philippine Commission. It is a volume of 264 pages, including the ap- pendix, and is signed by Professor Schurmann, Admiral Dewey, Colonel Denby and Professor Worcester. The principal subject dealt with is the plan of government proposed by the Com- mission, which includes a discussion of the Spaish government existing prior to the war, the various reforms desired by the Philippinos, and the constitutions proposed by them, together with the conclusions and plans suggested by the Commission. The defense in the case of Senator Clark, of Montana, before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, to-day began the presentation of its side of the controversy. House. The House took up the Roberts case. The galleries were crowded and three- fourths of the spectators ware women. {an Allegheny { James E. Roderick, chief of the Bureau MINES AND MINERS. | Suit to Test the Validity of the New Law on Mine Ventilation. 1 Suit will be brought in the courts of Allegheny county, Pa., to test the law requiring that gaseous mines be pro- vided with 130 cubic feet of pure air per minutes for each person employed or | so much more as the inspector may | deem necessary. The question of the right of inspectors to require more than 150 cubic feet of air has been raised by | county corporation. of Mines, says the number of mines in each inspection district must be lim- | ited, or the number of inspectors in- creased. A Bremen dispatch says: A repre- sentative of the American Coal Trust | who has been in Bremen has been over- | run with orders, owing to the produc. | 1 which the Austrian strikes have produc- ed. The American producers, however, are unable to supply half of the quan- | tity demanded, because | facilities are lacking, and the American coal syndicate declines to furnish such | facilities. The unprecedented activity in mimng the famous brown hematite iron ores | of the Anniston, Ala., district continues | and increases. Over 1,000 cars a week | are now being mined, but the demand | still far exceeds the supply. Somers Coal Company, at Dennison, ., has purchased Union township | block of coal land, paying $25 and $30 | per acre. Tests of the No. 6 vein, which is four and one-half feet thick, increas- ing as it goes north, have been made. An eight-foot vein of coal has been struck in shaft No. 1 of the Ellsworth Coal Company, at Bentleysville, near Monongahela, Pa., at a depth of 280 feet. Shaft No. 2 is down 200 feet. Orrman & Williams are beginning the extensive development of brown- ore property recently purchased by them at Iron City, Ala. England's coal output last year was 222,000,000 tons. The miners at the Yorkville, Ohio, mines are on a strike. The operators just introduced electrical machinery and refused to sign the machine scale when presented by the men. No scale for the 70,000 miners in the competitive field is yet in prospect. This condition is brought about by in- ability to reach an agreement in the joint scale committee. That body clos- ed its deliberations Wednesday, without an agreement. The South’s New Light. Whether or not the administration is opposed to the carrying out this year of Congressman Payne’s propo- sition to change the system of repre- sentation in Republican national con- ventions, basing the representation upon the number of votes cast for the Republican candidates in 1896 rather than upon political “ivisions, the argu- ments which are said to inspire this opposition are certainly worthy of at- tention, It is claimed that such a change in the representative system at this time would injure Republican prospects in the South, which is be- coming a possible field for Republi- can success. The trade interests of the South, it is claimed, are opposed to any more tinkering with the standard of value, and that territorial expan- sion has become very popular, especi- ally along the Atlantic seaboard, where great quantities of goods are seeking an Oriental market. The South is beginning to look more favor- fably upon protection and high tariffs, and that the break up of the ‘solid Democracy in the South is approach- | ing seems certain. By constitutional devices many of the Southern States | have managed to disfrancise large numbers of negro:s, and as this in a | measure removes the race question | from politics it will tend to loosen the | | political ties which have held the | whites to the Democracy. Whatever | may be the weight of these arguments, | the persistent report that the South is abandoning its old position is highly significant, and if such is the case this complete transformation will be one of the most remarkable of the changes which have taken place in the past two years and an important result of the national policy.—Peoria (Ill) Journal. | i | Twenty five women have been hang- | ed in England during Queen Victoria's reign. There are as many shades of face | powder as there are shades of color, al- | most. i | | THE MARKETS. PITTSBURG. Mr. Taylor. Republican, Ohio, opened the proceedings with a speech in favor of the report of the majority of the com- mittee that Roberts should not be sworn in as a member. Senator Tillman, from the Senate committee on Naval Affairs, reported favorably the bill authorizing the secre- tary of the navy to permit the repair of the old frigate Constitution and to recommission it. = The investigation directed by the {ouse concerning the charges, that cer- «in Federal appointees in Utah were ,olygamists at the time of their appoint- nent was resumed to-day before the Jouse Committee on Postoffices and >ost Roads. The river and harbor committee of e House has decided not to report a iver and harbor bill at this session of “ongress as a balance of $30,000,000, pproximately, was already available for iver and harbor improvements. Elections and lynching in the south vere the subject of debate at one period n the House. Mr. Linney, of North ‘arolina saying that the fack of free lections is the only infirmity in our rovernmental system. He said that ince 1801 there has been an average of 40 lynchings each year in the south. In France and Italy it is believed that the maiden who buries a drop of her sion, of whom four are Senators and ten Representatives. blood under a rosebush will be reward- ed with rose-tinted cheeks. Grain, Flour and Feed. | WHEAT—No. 2red......... ...8 G@ 68] WHEAT—No. 1 new.... : 66 87 | CORN—No 2 yellow, ea ty AN No. 2 yeliow, shelled. . 37 873 | Mixed ear........- .a 89 3894 OATS—No. 2 white. 202% 39 No. 8 white. ....... 2 20% | FLOUR—Winter patent. 350 86) Fancy straight winters 340 350] Rye—No. 3 ....... 64 66 | HAY—No. 1 timothy 1410 14 50 | Clover, No, 1....... 13 60 13 23 ED—No. 1 white m 18 00 18 80 | Brown middlings........... 152 75 Bran, bulk. ..... 1625 1675 | SBTRAW—Wheat.. . 700 1725) 8 awss t vareassien 615 12; Dairy Froducta BUTTER—EIgin creamery..... $ 27 1h Ohio creamery..... ... 2314 24 | Fancy country roll... 16 17 | CHEESE—Ohio, new.. 10 12 ! New York, new. 13 14 | “ Poultry, ete. HENS—per pair........ 55 65 | CHICKENS—dressed 1034 113% | TURKEYS—dressed.. . 114 12 EGGS8—Pa, and Ohio, fresh... 1 20 Fruits and Vegetables, BEANS—Green ® basket......3 15)@ 2 (0 POTATOES Funcy Whites In 55 60 CABBAGE—100 heads. . 20) | ONIONS—per bu.... <0 5) | FLOUR.. 3 6>@ 3 8) | WHEAT—No. 2re 6634 67 | CORN—Mixed ..... : 87 a8 ATS 30 31 24 23 Ohl0£reamery.. «.. 24 80 YHILADELPHIA - ¢ 35a 875 71 8 . o 82 BUTTER—Creamery, extra.... 25 EGGS—Pennsylvania firsts.... 19 | NEW YORK. FLOUR—Patents8..oeeeeeuuaess $3 WHEAT—No. 2red. . BUTTER—Creamery.... EGGB—State and Penn. { Peru | ing hills, | its escape. | was in the room. | moment the | he wrote ton and Burr. | the incident into one of the chapters. | The book is out of print and has been | for many years. | wonderful personal magnetism. | a hero, | character. | the latter is represented as reading a | letter from Hamilton in which Hamil- | Washington during the reading of the | eur of his nature: | the manner you have, the only reply | boorishness. | ment. LIVE STOCK. Central Stock Yards, East Liberty, 7s i CATTLE. | Prime, 1800 tc 3400 lbs g54)1@ 5 70 Good, 1200 to 1300 Ibs.. es DUE 5 391 Tidy, 1000 to 1160 Ibs. ........ 47) 5 10 i Fair light steers, 900 to 1000 Ibs 4 0) 4 65 Common, 700 to be... 300 370 HOGS Medium ...suevenasasaennennes 510 5 12}4 | Heavy... ..... 503} Roughs and stags 435 4060 SHEEP. i Prime, 9510110 1bs...... 51055 251 Good, 85 to 90 Ibs. . 490 Db 10 Fair, 70 to 80 ibs. 425.47 Common. . 295.7851] Veal Calves. i 603 800] LAMDS. | Springer, extra. ..c.oevvueee crees 70) Springer, good to choice. 68 69) Common to fair... 50 68), Extra yearlings, iig a Good to choice year 4 50 "5 60 385 456) 260 27 LAKES FAR ABOVE SEA LEVEL. Mysterious Bodles of Water Found im |. the Cordilleras. : | From Crucero Alto, the highest town | in the world, the Southern railroad ot | drops into Lake Lagunillas, or lake region of the Cordilleras, where, group of large lakes of very cold pure water without inlet or outlet, | says the Boston Journal. They = ceive the drainage of the Surround. | and conceal it some- | where, but there is no visible means of | A fringe of ice forms around the edges of the lakes every | night the year round, yet they contain | an excellent variety of fish called the | pejerray, which is caught near fie shore and sold at Puma and in other neighboring towns. The two largest lakes, Sarachocha and Cachipascana, | with severz] smaller ones in the same | neighborhood, are owned by the family | of Mr. Romania of Arequipa, who wh just been elected president of Pera | He owns immense tracts of land in | this locality, with thousands of sheep, | cattle, lamas, alpacas and vicunas, ! which are herded upon it. A curious phenomenon about the lakes is that | 1 they keep at the same level all the time, regardless of dry and rainy sea- sons. No amount of rain will make any difference with their depth, which, | however, in the center is unknown. | And this adds to the awe and mystery | with which they are regarded by the | Indians. There are no boats upon the lakes except a few small balsas, or | rafts, made of bundles of straw, which | keep very close to the shore for fear | of being drawn into the whirlpools | that are said to exist in the center. | There is some foundation for this fear, for only two or three years ago a | balsa containing five men disappeared | in the darkness,and it was never heard | of again. Of course, it may have been tipped over and its occupants have been paralyzed by the cold water in an ordinary way, but their bodies were never recovered, nor did the balsa | ever float to shore. Therefore the peo- ple think the whole party was lured into a maelstrom and swallowed up by the mysterious waters. The whirl- pool near the center of Lake Popo, which receives the waters of Lake Titicaca, is well known, and hundreds of men have lost their lives by ven- turing too near it. Boats that are drawn into the current are whirled around swiftly a few times and then disappear. For the protection of navi- gators the government of Bolivia has anchored a lot of buoys in Lake Popo, and boatmen who observe them are in no danger. There is supposed to be an underground outflow from all these lakes. It is claimed that articles which have been thrown into their waters have afterwards been picked up on the seacoast near Africa, and careful ob- servers say that on the beach in that locality are frequently found corn- stalks, reeds and other debris which do not grow on the coast, but are found in great abundance among the interior lakes. BURR FOUND THE ASSASSIN. Famous Lawyer Once Cleared His ClI- ent of Murder. “I was particularly interested,” sald an old Washington lawyer the other day, speaking of the Manhattan’ well crime, “in the paragraph that describ- ed Aaron Burr's dramatic act in hold- ing a pair of lighted candles in the face of a spectator in the courtroom | and shouting, ‘Gentlemen, here is the real murderer.” I do not question this, but I remember that Jere Clemens, once a famous United States senator from Alabama, told of a trial in which Burr appeared for the defense of a man charged with murder. My recol- lection is that the trial was in the southwest. When Burr addressed the jury it was night. The guilty man He had been the principal witness for the prosecution. but Burr had learned that this witness was the assassin, and in closing his address for his client he picked up two lighted candles from the table and holding them in the face of the wit- ness referred to, he exclaimed: ‘Gen- tlemen of the jury, there is nature's verdict. Now write yours.’ At that witness fled from the | room. After Clemens told this story an historical novel called ‘The Rivals; or, The Times of Hamil- In that book he wove But it had a great sale, particularly in the south, before | the civil war, for Clemens was a typi- cal southern orator, and a man of The | object of the novel was tc make Burr and to besmirch Hamilton's In one chapter where Burr was high in the esteem of Washington, ton detailed some about Burr. scandalous gossip Burr was standing behind letter. Washington incensed at the contents of the letter, turned quick’ and saw Burr, to whom he said: ‘How dare you read my letter over my shoulder?’ Burr, as Clemens repre- sents, stung to the quick, drew him- self up and replied with all the haut- ‘When your majes- ty addresses such an inquiry to me in deceny can prompt is, Aaron Burr dares to do anything.’ This, Clemens avers, was the cause of the break be- tween Washington and Burr.” Wnen It Was Dark. The Cleveland Plain Dealer says an | educated colored man addressed the | students of Adelbert college the other | day. He told about his experience in | his chosen profession, that of a lawyer, peserting that on but one occasion had | he ever met with discourtesy at the | hands of white men during his legal | experience in his native state, Virginia. This happened in a backwoods hamlet, | { | where the general ignorance of the in- habitants was some excuse for their | In the course of his re- | marks he perpetrated an unconscious | 3 | bit of humor that brought a smile to | the students’ faces and drew a laugh | {rom the speaker himself as soon as he realized the suggestion in his state- “I started out in my profes- sion with somewhat gloomy anticipa- tions,” he said. “When I reached Alexandria, where there were 7,000 col- ! ored people, everything looked dark.” | It was at this point that the smile ran around. Jimmy—Yes; swiping jam! I got a licking for But there’s one good | thing about a licking! Johnny—What’s that? Jimmy—It makes you forget all about your conscience! —Puck. Dr.Bulls COUCH SYRUP Curas Croup and Whooping-Cough Unexcelled for Consumptives. Gives quick, sure results. Refuse substitutes. Dr. Bull's Pillscure Biliousness. Trial, 20 jor 5¢, | ture of the dervish. THE SIRDAR. Aots of Barbarity Due to Defects in Lord Kitchener's Character. From “The River War,” by Winston Churchill: Kitchener's wonderful in- dustry, his undisturbed patience, his noble perseverance, are qualities too valuable for a man to enjoy in this im- perfect world without complimentary defects. The general, who never spared himself, cared little for others. He treated all men like machines— from the private soldiers, whose sa- lutes he disdained, to the superior offi- cers he rigidly controlled. The com- rade who had served with him and under him for many years in peace and peril was flung aside incontinently as soon as he ceased to be of use. The girdar looked only to the soldiers who could march and fight. The wounded Egyptian and latterly the wounded British soldier, did not excite his in- terest and of all the departments of his army the only one neglected was that concerned with the care of the sick and injured. The stern and unpitying spirit of the commander was com- municated to his troops and the vic- tories which marked the progress of the river war were accomplished by acts of barbarity not always justified by the harsh customs of savage con- flicts or the fierce and treacherous na- Orange Free State. The coat of arms of the Orange Free State shows an orange tree in the mid- dle of the field; on one side stands a lion, on the other a lamb. The motto beneath is “Freedom, Immigration, Pa- tience, Courage.” The emblem of the lion and the lamb has a scriptural re- ference to the peace and harmony within its borders, and does not glance at the geographical position of the re- public between the domain of the Brit- ish lion and the pastoral Boers of the Transvaal, as an American joker might assume. 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