Italy tin given tip her scheme fot building $IO,noO,000 worth of war ships. Hhe had unfortunately over loukeil the Important fart that she lin1 n't the price. Tlie average yielil of , wheat per acre iti Frnnre linn been steadily in creasing for Keventy y.'nrs, until now it is one of the highest in tlie world. There in n lesson in ngriculture which evcu the United Slates might hoed with profit. (Steadily Aiiiericim ideos of liberty are invading the sacred precinct of Orent Uritnin. Mill operatives in Lancashire, Kngland, struck because they were not permitted to shut up hop mid attend the liiirnnm circus, which in touring (treat Uritnin. lly the launching of the new buttle ship Illinois one of the Hve warships of )lie same displacement of lJ2 tons is placed in the water, to ho fol lowed by the Wisconsin, there having been already Inunchetl the Kenrsarge, the Kentucky and the Alabama. The Illinois exceed the Iowa by some score' of ton, and tho Indiana, Mas sachusetts and Oregon by over 1200 tons. The armor of the Illinois w ill not be quite as thick as that of our first three battleships, tint it will be of better quality aud of a greater re sisting power. It w ill be seen, there fore, that the Illinois forms a splen did addition to the navy, and will add matorinlly to its eflicieucy. The lack of education which pre vails iu Hpnin is something astonish ing. Any knowledge of modern lan guage and of contemporary history is extremely rare among even statesmen, courtiers, politicians and journalists. When the government of Hagasta in troduced the censorship of foreign telegrams, it could find no censor who understood (lermaiv, and hence it de cided to transmit (ierniVi messages without examination, while identical mossages written in French were often suppr.ssed. This lack of education, particularly iu the meu who hold the destinies of the nation, could not fail to have its ill effect, and it is to this source that those terrible calamities Tnay be traced which have reduced the Spanish people from being the greatest empire of Europe to their sad condition of todav. Tho supreme conflict of the nations in the twentieth century is to be one of trade, observes the New York Mail and Express. A people incapable of keeping pace with the new era of com mercial expansion and colonial gov ernment must sink steadily iu influ ence. Spain has lost her colonies, and her commercial importance has dwindled vastly iu consequence. France has displayed the limit of her colonial aptness in Madagascar, and it is ho discouraging as to promise little of lasting value in either Cen tral Africa or Southern China, when compared with the accomplishment of other powers. Italy's fiasco iu East Africa, iu her Abyssinian ambition, dealt a death blow to her foreign pros pects'. Iu the similarity which ex isted iu the intellectual influences governing the early literature of France, Italy, Spain and Portugal is found the root of deterioration which these nations experience in common today. Present decadence runs not in a national stream merely, but in a current which is Latin, and, therefore, all-embracing iu Southern Europe. A fire, with its consequences, iu the courthouse at Enston, Md., recently, furnishes a hint for the novelist or the dramatist. To counteract the damp ness in the vault of the probate court an oil stove was lighted. It was neg lected, with the result that fire was communicated to some unfiled aud un recorded papers, which were charred beyond recognition. One of these papers was the will of a late resilient of St Michael's, who, for reasons not disclosed, bad "cut off'' his only ehild, daughter, with $10, bequeathing the bulk of bis small estate to the Methodist Episcopal church in bis village. By this accident of fire .the condition,' according to the law, wes the same as if the St. Michael's cjtizen had neglected to make a will, and all of his property will revert to bis next of kin, the daughter, who is traveling in the fur West, as the rap resentative of a commercial firm iu Baltimore. There is au uncle iu the oase, who deposited the will iu the court, and who was by the will, made heir to the favorite hirse of the de ceased. This nnule cau eas ly be cou verted by the novelist into a wicked and scheming relative, the modest e ' tate au be multiplied inauy fold, the quality of attractiveness can be giveu to the daugbtor, the once necossary bouest wooing cau be added, aud the ; book is ready for Ike publisher. BEFORE IT 13 TOO LATE. jf you're s gray-haired mother In the (Oil huins fnr away Kit down ami write the littler Ydii put oil ilny by ilny. Hunt wait until her tired steps lli'in'li heaven's pnnrly until li lt Minn- her that you think of her llntiire It Is ton Into. If you've n tcmlnr messn, Or n loving word tiisnv, Don't wait till yoiWnrui-t It, lint whisper It today. Who knows what bitter memories May lianiit y jii If yon wait Bo itui k your loved out's happy before It Is loo Into. " Wn live lint III tlin present. The future Is unknown-" ' Tomorrow Is n niystry, Today Is all our own, The rhnnen that fortune lends to US May mulsh while mi wall. To spend your life's rich treasure lli-Iore It Is too late. Tim terfder words unspoken, The letters never pent. The long foritotten llicssilirns, The wealth of love unspent. For these snmn hearts are tHenklni?, For these some loved one wait Ho show them that you euro for them llefore It Is loo Into. Ida Goldsmith Morris. JforloyeoFher mother. I M ! f Tht Sdf-Sarriflct ef Kaomcuna. A Q j Hawman Flcww Girl. g -v-. -v -v s The usual Honolulu crowd was ilown at the dock when tho steamship Australia, seven days from San Fran risen, pulled alongside the pier on a brillinut, balmy afternoon iu January, 1H1I5. American women, trim, groomeil, wholesome to look upon, in summer afternoon costumes, such as happy feminine exiles iu the subtroplcs con trive so prettily and effectively; a few ICnglish and a few (lerinnti women of society, arrayed also for the steamer day (which is a Honolulu function), but lacking iu the elusive distinction and that indefinable "last touch" that characterized the appearance of the American women these leaned back languorously iu their carriages and phnetotiH, under the shade of parasols, listening to the lazy, complimentary talk of the duck-clad, lei-enwreatheil young business men who- combined duty with pleasure iu thus wailing for the great steamer to laboriously slip into her measured berth beside the pier. The usual groups of silent, ex-pectaut-eyed Kanaka men stood iu tho shade of the pier sheds, humble iu attitude, chary of words, and yet not sulky vour onlmarv Kanaka in no is ! the sweetest-uatured human auimul iu all this surly world. Some of the men wore shoulder leis (wreaths of flowers) over their lubor-grpned hick ory shirts. All of the Kanaka women (there were perhaps fifty iu all at tho dock) also wore leis iu cross belt wise over their flowing white mother bub- bards. In trutb, the flower wreaths were everywhere. Stnid, middle- aged merchants among the whiles wore tliem about their helmets and straw hats,and all of the white women in carriages had bolts of Hawaiian j exotics. All of the Kanaka wo-.ucn wore Iu , their bare foot, They stood about in little groups, ns silent as tho men of I their raco. There was no envy iu the j glances the directed toward tlie female occupants of the carriages, even if there may have been some wonder ment over the liivishiiess of the Ameri can and European women's costume. A few of the Kunaki women carried tiny brown babies silent also. Posi tively, Kanaka babies do not cry. N'o mother of children will ever believe this until she has lived somewhere iu Hawaii. The kanaka women, young and old, wore the flowing mother hubbard. The young women were of varying degrees of prettiness, even of beauty tlie countenance of no Kanaka young woman is actually homely. The figure of no Kanaka young woman is ever anything but genuinely excellent the forms of most of them are i simply beautiful. - One of these Kanaka womon at the dock on this brilliant January after noon was as beautiful in face and form as au empress iu a wuy of primitive uess, of course. She was chid like the rest of the women of her race. Yet she was stately, even iu her bare feet which wore small ami- perfectly formed. She was fully five feet ten inches iu height, aud tlie white silk cord with which, unlike tho other Kanaka wouien, she drew her , white dress about her waist, emphasized the splendid, heroic proportions of her figure. (Her glistening, raven-black hair hung .straight dowu below her waist. Her features were of the aquiline, classic mold, ber skin a dark olive, with a film of rose under her great bluck eyes. Kaomonun, who had been oue of King David Kala kana's flower girls, was a woman such as ni any a jo.ing student, day-dreaming iu the quai tier Latin, would have given worlds to see famous painters did see her, and portray her. Kaomouna, surpassiugly beautiful, seemed quite unconscious of her beauty on this brilliant Jauuury after noon. The young shipping clerks, burryiug to aud fro on the dock, with their peucils behiud their ears, stopped suddenly when they caught sight of her, aud then stole off be hind bales of goods, in order that they might observe ber carefully, un observed themselves. The women in the carriages who had not been long dowu from the States or from Europe, saw Kaomouna, and tisked the women of longer Honolulu residence. "Who is that glorious creature?" Kaomouna, with u.very sad face, spoke only an occasional word to oue of the Kanaka women. Her voice was a deep cou tralto, like the harmonious monotone of palms aud the son, heard from a distance. The Australia was uiado fast to the plnr, and tlie passengers began to troop over the gaugway. There was one man with his pretty young wife and tliree-year-old little girl. The little girl was the first to catch sight of Kaomouna as she reached the bot tom of the gangway. She quickly freed her 1 a id from the grasp of her father's and ran toward Kuciiionna with baby words. Kaomouna smiled at tho little girl, but did not ofl'er to tuko her up. Instead, slio folded her arms, looking down at the little pink faced child pleasantly. The child hung onto her skirts, and was thus found by her mother. When the mother had taken the little girl, she raised her eyes to look' at Kaomouna, She gave a start a, indeed, nil men and women did, who first gazed upon this woman, w ho had beoii kii(J David Kabiknita's flower girl. ."I lid you ever iu your whole life see such a perfectly beautiful woman?" nskod the young w ife of her husband in a w hisper when he came up. "And Titn seemed to take to her inimodinte ly. If we could only hare her for a nurse for Tita!'' Kaomouna heard her. "Kaomouna would love to be that," slio replied in a soft Kanukn-acceiited speech, smiling. Theu a look of pain ilarte.l across her face. "Hut it may not be it may not be - "and with her bauds on her eyes Kaoinomiii turned suddenly and disappeared among the departing men and women of her rncp. Three months later the parents of tho little girl they had como from tho Stutes to settle in Honolulu w ere at the dock together to witness, for the first time, the saddest sight in this world tho departure of tlie topers from the Island of Molokal. The Kiluuea Hon, the leper steamer, was out in the stream, and the lepers were being carried out to her in barges. A litter was borne through the roped in closure for the lepers. On it lay a very old Kanaka woman, loathsome, iu tlie final stages of the disease. At the side of the litter walked Kno inounn, still ns beautiful ns ever, with no tear iu her eyes. Yet her face was very sad. The parents of tl e little girl wondered. They spoke to au ollliial of the Hawaiian board of health, who was busy iu the task of embarking the lepers. ".Surely," they said, "slio does not accompany the lepers?" "Who, Kaofnouna?" replied the" health official. "Oh, yes, she does, but it 1 her own choice. Kaomouna, you know, has been secreting her old mother, who, ns you perceive is a leper in leprosy's' advanced stage for a number of years. Ve always knew there was something mysterious about Kaor. otua that is, we have kuown it for tho past five years. Slio had made queer visits to a palm hut fur over iu the Nunnnn valley. Last week we followed her wo felt thore was leprosy in it. We found her mother'in the but Kaomouna had had her iu biding, trying to savo her from Molokai, ever since tho disease becamo evidont, Kaomouna is not infected in the least she has been careful. Hut she elects to follow her mother to Molokai, and she will be a. lepor herself after a while. Extraor dinary? Why, not nt a'l! Yon do not understand the filial dovotinn of Kanaka women men, too, for that matter. Such cases are common enough." The parents of the little girl looked at each other. There were tears iu the mother's eyes. "That is why she folded her nrms end would not touch Titn!" slio said. "In this world of God, civilized or uncivilized, could there be anything more noble?" All was ready, and the Kilauea Hon, with Kaomounu and her mother tm board, slowly started down the har bor, tlie Kanakas on the dock setting up the weird, wild chant of farewell which is always sung when the leper ship sails, Tim I'nsslun for Wraith. No iusanity is more complete than that which unreasonable craving for sudden wealth often produces. Tho gri'ftt Duke of Marlborough used to walk twenty furlongs through the ratu and sleet in t lie middle of the night to add one English sixpence to his fortune of more than a million pounds ster ling. A celebrated Fronch niis&r picked bones out of the streots, gnaw ing them like a dog, while his iucome was over $51)00 francs u day. Olio of the most remarkable chapters iu the eui ly Dutch history is the reference to the tulip man ic. The impression was that fortunes were to be obtained iu the trading in tulips. The bulbs were bought and sold by weight, each fraction of a pennyweight counted as carefully as jewel merchants count their diamonds. , The trade of the nation was tui'ned iuto this single channel aud ordinary industries suf fered almost complete paralysis. So high at length did the fever rise that over $r0Di) was offered and refused for a single bulb. At last the bubble burst. Men once rich became poor, people of the middle class were re duced,; to' pauperism, and Holland hardly recovered from the blow iu i huudred years. Detroit Free Press. Only On XV sy. Someone tells a story of a judge who could not control bis temper and so could not control other people. Oue day there was unusual disorder in the court rootn.uud nt lust the judge could endnro it no longer. "It is impossible to allow this per sistent contempt of court to goon," he exclaimed, "audi shall be forced tu go to the extreme length of taking the one step that will stop it!" There was a long silence; theu one of the loading counsel rose and with just a trace of a smile inquired: "II it please your honor, from what dute will your resignation take effect?" Youth's Companion. NEW YORK THE LATEST DESIGNS . v 'ic n I inw iokkuiti inpeciaij. iiseems (o lie n foregone conclusion that the model skirt is to fit absolutely glove- like about the hips, defining the figure in an astonishing manner, and widen- IADIES)' SKIBT WITH POINTED FLOLNCB. Ing out at the bottom. The pointed flounce, as shown in the accompanying design, is very popular, but the uress tnakeis advise flat trimmings that do not destroy the contour of the figure. Embroideries and novel braidings will be much nsod. The panel skirt will be chosen by those who wish some thing distinctive. The panel is usually the front breadth, narrow at the top aud widening out toward the hem. Among the new methods for achiev ing the flare at the bottom is plaiting the lower fulness separately around tho bottom of the upper skirt. The effect of one skirt draped ahovo au other so as to show the under one only in part by raising it an inch or two all round, and at one side raising the drapery after the Greek manner, WOMAN'S or opening tho sides, to show the under petticoat,, aro all charming models, which show off two distinct shades of ono fubrio admirably, the under pottiooat always being of the lighter shade. Polonaise motifs will abound in trimmings, and entor iuto separate parts of skirt by tho addition of a contrasting material to the polonaise forming the length and fulness of the drapery. There is no good reason why the old sty A of double skirt should not appear later, since the way has been so well paved by it, unless the slendorness now required for the upper part of tho figure remains as fixed as it now is. A Charming Waist. Fancy ribbed poplin in willow green and gray is the material chosen for the charming waist that matches the skirt, shown by May Mauton in the large en graving. The fnll front, yoke, collar aud revers are of silver-gray satin, the trimming being of open bands of in sertion, under whioh willow-green ribbon is placed, silver passemen terie studded with small mock eme ralds is used to decorate the. low-cut neok extending to the revers in front, the wrists and lower .edge of basque waists. The waist is arranged over fitted linings that olose in centre front. The yoke with full vest attached closes at the left shoulder, or the fulness may be sewed to the left front and olose invisibly in centre, while the yoke eloses over the gathers at top edge. The fronts, shaped with single bust darts, are laid in small side and box pleats at the shoulders that taper to the lower edge, the prettily pointed revers being joined to the front edges from the yoke down. Single bust darts cause a smooth adjustment at the sides and very slight pouoh ef fect is caused by the fulness in front. The seamless back ia arranged over tegular baok and side back forms, email overlapping pleats in centre ad; justing the fulness at the lower edge. Smooth under-arin gores join fronts to baok, and the lower edge is finished in graoef ully rounded outline. The close fitting sleeves are topped with puffs of fashionable fulness, tho wriabj be ing finished with chiffon plisse to match that at neok. Separate waists may bo made in this style in charming combinations of vel vet and silk, plain and embroidered taffeta or satin, figured and plain satin or silk with lace, net or mousseliue over satin for yoke and vest. Plain woolens, such as cashmere or elotb, 13 IPfe FASHIONS. FOR WINTER COSTUMES' may have front and revers of fancy silk or satin, while fancy mixed wool en fabric ore In better taste with solid colors in combination, To make this waist for a woman of medium size will require two yards ol material forty-four inches wide. Stylish Skating; Costnmm. Pretty skating costumes from Paris are resplendent with fur or fancy braid aud gay with silver buttons that are in reality tiny bolls, jingling out fairy musio nt. every wotioii of the wearer. The skirts of such suits are out close at the hip and somewhat full below the knees, enabling the wearer to move with freedom nnd adding nrently to the sum of grace. Turbans of astrakhan, broadtail and Persian lamb are whnt the smart skaters wear. These aro round cap shnpod things with a tuft of bright feathers like a shaving brush stuck up in front nnd held by a pin of Russian silver. A Color Srlimns fnr Wedding. One of the prettiest weddings re cently oocurred in the Church of the Heavenly Post, ft to the spectators because of the ex quisite ooior scuemo wuicu prevailod. The bride, very naturally, wore white; the maid of honor wore pink, and the seven hridomaids glimraerod in silvery sreeu satin. Tlicv senniH1 lib i;..i..'.. flowers a white rose and a piuk oue wnu nuiuiug green leaves and the eneci was womionuiiy beautiful when they passed down the aisle botween I tall standards filled with .. ,. pink nnd of white roses. Harper's 1 (Jems lo Match Cnatmnes. Women now spend much thought in arranging their gems to match thei costumes. Amethysts and all shades BASQUE WAIST. of violet and purple stones are fash ionable. Oreon is a color much worn, and women who do not possess emeralds indulge in the inexpensive olivine. Tho imitation stones are now manufactured in such perfection and they are arranged in such fine settings that it is often difficult to dis tinguish them from the genuine gems. They can be obtained in every shade to match various frocks. The J Ills' Slnavt frocks. Many smart frocks for 'little girls are braidod in straight and zigzag lines around the skirt above the hem. The majority of tho bodices end at the waist in a band, aud jacket bodices usually are held in places by a belt. Yokes are frequently eloborate ly braided and supplemented by cape liko trimmings on the shoulders, unit ing in the epaulette, with a point fall, ing on tho fore part of the arm. Military Costume For a Girl. ' Tim ,ni. tnv anlAiav -lrttlina ltrtl spread to the young folks and some of the designs are very striking and quaint looking. The accompanying drawing is from a recent costume made aiBla MILITARY COAT. for a patriotic little miss iu New York Oity whose father has just returned from the war. 1 ' (TpiU' TMI MARKETS. F itt h una flrsln, finer and VhmI. wheat-no. i wi No. II rml ,,,, t'OKN-No. t T-llnw, ssr No. 3 vnllow, slisilsil. ........ Mfxsif r, OATH-No. 1 white No. 8 whits , IIVK-No. I fill' Ml S4 M 8 I SI SIM Ml OH Kl 111 79 ST M SO Hi Hi HI IM 4 10 it no 4t SJ 7ft n oo 17 00 PI AO in oe s oo 0(1 s oo 1 w FI.oCIl- Whilst fiatetit. ...... Fanny strsl(lit wlntnr. . , , . . ., Ityn lliiiir HAY No. I timothy , Clovsr, No. 1 ' " FCM-No. 1 while mlil., ton., I'-rnwii irililillhiKS Ilrart, hulk.... Bill AW-Wheat , "nt SKF.IiH Clovsr. 60 It.i Timothy, prims , ftl m m 7 Ml 7 60 tf) Ilslry I'riMlnela IlfTTF.II-KlKln emsninry....., Ohio ornsmery. Fsm-y country roll CIIKKHK-Ohiii. new New Vork, new frnlls anil Vrgetalilei. flF.AKR T.lmsVqt I'OTATOKM Ksney White, V bu fAIIHMIK I'er bhl ONIONS Choice yellow, bu. I'oullry, Kte. f IIK'KKNH Ter pair, smaiL.. 1'1'llKKVrt Per F.OUH-Pa. and Ohio, frejh.... CINCINNATI, Ft.otn a t WtlK.AT-No. a red IIYE-No. 3 CO UN- Mlied OATH.. E'Klf . ... liLXlEll -Ohio creninery.. ... it -a It II l 10 10 11 119 M 41 48 75 sr. 85 40 4V 51 it r i ai if a so 69 70 f 85 87 m 1 !i0 PMII.ADKLI'IIIA. Fl.Ot.'ft S 8 60 8 8S WHF.AT-No. 3 red 71 7i COHN -No. a mixed 7 as OATH-No. 8 whit 81 83 BU'lTEIt Creamnry, extra.... EU08 Pennsylvania firsts.... 21 it Nf.W VOKK. Fl.OUIt ratent t 3 OJi 4 10 HF.AT-No. a red .. 7l( COIIN-No. a 89 OA'l 8 -White Western 39 UL'TTEIt-Creamory. 15 84 tOdru Htstu of I'eno .. H LI VIC STOCK, tenlrul Siorlc VariU, Kail Liberty, Pa, CATTLB. Prime, lHOOto 1400 4 1 8 0 Good, 100 to 1H00 n. 4 4 7 TMv, 1000 to 1160 Hps 4 81 4 50- Fair light steers, 900 to 1000 Itn 8 70 4 ao Common, 700 tu IKK) lts 8 41 8 70 Boos. Medium 8 65 Heavy 8 ID Houghs and stags 8 73 8 00 SHEEP. Prime, 05 to 101 II. 4 4) Good, H5to!'0 Itif 4 2 Fair, 70 lo 80 lbs 8 si Common 8 0) Veal Calves 6 5) 4 '.0 4 3i 4 10 8 II) 7 80 tAMIIS. PprinRer, extra 6 35(S 8 6) springer, gooil to choice Ill OBJ Common to fulr 8 50 F.xtra yearliiiKs, light 4 (15 Good to choice yeurltngs 4 40 Mediam 4 00 loinmon 3 00 5 10 4 75 4 65 4 40 4 00 TRADE REVIEW. Olass Workers Resume Operations Woolen and Iron Manutacturers Oaln In Orders. It. (. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade reports as follows for last week: The situation Is clearer and the Im provement In business which was ex pected nfter the election has begun. Payments tliroush clearing houses are far the largest ever known, f.ir the week 3T.3 per cent, larger than Inst year and 3 per cent, larger than In Wl. The glnssworkers have resumed, the nnthruclte coal output is heavy und much beyond the present capacity of markets, the troubles in Illinois cnul mines have been settled, and the new strike of shoemakers In Marlboro. Mush., is now the only labor hindrance of consequence. It Is noteworthy that In spite of all changes the price nf spot wheat tins but slightly changed. The exports for the week, Hour included, have been 1. liTB.OOO bushels from Atlantic ports, hgalnst '2,191, 334 last year, making In all for two weeks of November 9.312.- ... .':!1 bushels, against 9.939,304 last year. Corn exports also exceed last year's, amounting for the week to 2.993.i2' bushels, against 2,722,457 last year, and fir two weeks of November have been U.O.VS.oril bushels, against 7.19T.0!)S bush els lust year. Such shlpmentu after the middle of November go far to wur mnt th belief that the foreign trade demand for this grain is destined to be greater than has been expect.-d. Cotton crop prospects appear so good that even at (lie-, extreme 1-nv prices luotd there Is, little encouragement for advance. In view of the heavy stocks held here and abroad. Under the arrangement between the mills" si-veral have stopped, while others hav? started this week, and the pro duction of goods has not materially changed. A break in bleached goods breaks previous records, but in gen eral the demand Improves. "v- The woolen manufacturers have gnjjied In orders for the coming season, which justifies the heavy buying of materials recently seea. and there are also better orders for speedy delivery, but th demand is not large, and much machinery Is still waiting idly. While sales of wool at the three chief mar kets are heavy. 2S.234."iK) pounds In three weeks, against 20,865,902 last year and 17,103,100 In 1S92. they Include two large sales for export, covering 3.000. 000 pounds of Montevideo and Austral ian wool at 18 and 18 cent respective ly, which make clearer the fact that prices asked by holders here are re latively high. Iron is In bigger demand all the time, and yet production steadily Increases, and at Pittsburg bessemer pig is slightly lower at 110 10. the new asso- ih 1 1 r 1 1 1 nt, nv iinnAr.nin . .,.. r.t- plates are beyond all precedent. In cluding material for cars, bridges, ves sels and work of alt sorts, and struc tural work Is seasonably quiet, though the mills have much ahead, while In bars the demand Is considerably better at Pittsburg, with orders for material of 6.000 cars at Chicago. Some works at the East are short of orders and: prices are held back.. The expectation is that the proposed vail association will meet an extremely heavy demand for the next year, especially for trollev -lines, but it is stated that prices will not be advanced above 820 at, the East and 821 at Chicago. In Iron 'products the next will probably be a record- breaking year. Failures for the week have been 223 In the United States, against 267 laut ' year, and 26 in Canada, agulnst 32 lust year. The chief of police of Norfolk, Va., fears smallpox. He baa given order that witnesses will hereafter not be required to kiss the Bible but only to raise the right band when being sworn.
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