COST H. O. ARMOUR SIOOO. A ltot Made wltli a Ileporter Which Wall Promptly Paid. Some years ago a despatch was re ceived by a New York editor from the editor of a Chicago newspaper which had not a reputation for spot lessness, but which frequently pub lished some startling truths. The des patch gave the outlines of a reported Wall Street scheme in which the Ar mours were deeply concerned, and it asked the cooperation of the New Y'ork editor in ascertaining the facts. A reporter was assigned to this work and he called upon the late H. O. Ar mour, who was in charge of the Ar mour interests in this city. When the reporter's errand was stated Mr. Armour was furious. He denounced the story of the receipt of such a despatch from Chicago as | a lie, and the reporter's errand as part of some malicious stock-jobber's scheme to affect the Armour proper ties. The reporter replied that when he said that such a despatch had been received at his office, he meant ex actly what his words indicated; and ho requested Mr. Armour again to tell him something about the story the despatch contained, or to say whether that story was false. But Mr. Armour wouldn't do it. He only inveighed against the reporter's chief and repeated that that gentle man had not received any such tele gram. "I'll bet you $1000," Mr. Armour ex claimed, "that your editor cannot show me such a despatch, and you tell him so!" "Mr. Armour," was the reply, "I do not carry SIOOO or a check book, but if you will hold that bet open 15 minutes I will go out into the street and come back here and take it up with cash. It will only be necessary for me to see one of my nearby freinds." Mr. Armour mellowed somewhat af ter looking intently at. the reporter for a moment. Then he said: "Your word for it. The bet is good." The reporter went back to the square of the printing houses and recited his experience. He also made a strong request to be permitted to teach Mr. Armour a lesson, as he put it, not by printing anything about his experience, but by showing him the telegram and forcing him to pay the bet. The request was granted, and when Mr. Armour saw the des patch he turned and wrote a check for SIOOO forthwith and handed it to the reporter. Then he said that the despatch lied. And at any rate the reported scheme did not materialize in Wall Street. From that, day Mr. Armour was a constant friend of the reporter, and in turn had a friend in him; but no fiery denial of the genuineness of his errands ever again met the newspa per man in Mr. Armour's office, and he had often to go there. —Sun. t An Encllnh Club Woman'* Story. In the State Federation of Women's clubs at this morning's session Mrs. Hugh Reed Griffin of London was in vited to address the convention. Mrs. Griffin, whose husband is an American, formed the first American women's club in London. The club has become very popular, has attracted widespread attention in England and has had the effect of establishing a better under standing between English and Ameri can women. Mrs. Griffin told about the formation of the club and its work. She stated that there was some prejudice in Eng land against the American clubwoman, and that she, herself, shared that prej udice to some degree. "The American clubwoman is so ter ribly busy that I often wonder, and so do other people wonder, if slic finds any time at all to spend at home," said Mrs. Griffin. "I heard a story ► once which aptly illustrates this fault in the American clubwoman: Three little boys were together and their childish talk finally drifted to the ques tion of where they were born. One lit tle boy said: "'I know where I was born. I was born at 38 Washington street and 1 know where the house is, too.' "And one of the other little boys said: " 'And I know where I was born, too. It was at 50 Pennsylvania avenue, and I can take you right to the house.' "The third little boy hesitated and then finally said: "'I don't know where I was born, but 1 know when I was born. I know there wasn't anybody home at the time but me and grandma, 'cause mother was at the club.' "—Buffalo Commercial. 1 A Novelty in Cnrpet Clrnning. • The American Embassador remarked at a banquet the other night that many good ideas which had benefited man kind had their origin on the other side of the water, anil if cleaning carpets without either taking them up or fill ing the surrounding atmosphere with dust comes under tne same category, our American cousins have benefited the human race once more. A ma chine which deals with carpets in thi3 manner was used at the Empire the atre of Varieties. Compressed air is used to blow the dust out of the car pet, and the machine is so contrived as to imprison all the dust in a bag. When the carpets are thoroughly cleaned the compressed air current Is Cnarged with disinfectants, which thor oughly impregnate the whole floor. The machine was afterward used for the purpose of cleaning the chairs and lounges of the theatre.—London Chron- I icle. M The Queen of Roumania is a suc cessful lecturer, as learned as elo quent. M V N E WSY CLEAN IN CS. Two of Chicago's aldermen are blind. Co-education on American lines it growing in popularity in England. An unnamed Pbiladelphlau has given SIOOO to the library at Freeport, Me. Governor Otero, of New Mexico, pleads for statehood in his annual re port. The Oriental Hotel, in Yokohama, the handsomest in Japan, has been de stroyed by fire. A Russian officer is at Kieff seek ing $-1,000,000 reported buried there In the monastery. Officials iu the Chinese Court are said to be more rapacious than ever, demanding fees for every courtesy. Some of the Missouriaus and many Southerners urge that Missouri should uo longer be classed as a Southern State. Peru is sadly iu need of a new coin age system. According to a lately pub lished report, eggs are the only circu lating medium iu one province. The Canadian Pacific Railroad has surveyed a new route across Maine, which will provide a through line from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Germany sent only 505,152 immi grants to the United States in the years 1800-1000, whereas in the pre ceding decade the number was 1,152,- 870. Iu the list of diseases reported as accountable for deaths among the sol fliers in the Philippines, it is shown that more men succumbed to dysen tery than to any other malady. It is officially estimated that if the waters in our Western States now un used were utilized for irrigation pur poses, a population of 80,000,000 more could be sustained in those States. Philadelphia lias in its treasury more than $75,000 belonging to persons who never called lor it wlier. their bonds matured and became payable, or who left uncollected coupons on their bonds. SPORTING BREVITIES, The Yale football team earned $28,- 800 over expenses. Tlie University of Pennsylvania crew lias been invited to compete at Henley. The Queens Couniy Jockey Club lias increased Us capital from 850,000 to $400,000. Cask or and .Tauowski have played a drawn chess bat lie at Manchester, England. A world's championship pool tourna ment will be held In Syracuse, N. Y„ during the early part of February. Robert P. Korean, of Alder Creek, N. Y„ has been elected captain of the Harvard football eleven for next year. Sebaett'cr, the swimming champion ot Aineriea, may go to England and try for world's records against Brit ish swimmers. Marksmen mot at a banquet in New York City for the purpose of devising some plan to revive the civilian iuter est in long range shooting. Peter Golden, the Irish champion, won the six-day go as you please walk ing match, at Rochester, N. Y„ with a record of 352 miles and ten laps. It is charged that some of the Amer ican athletes who recently competed abroad asked for and obtained ex penses for their appearance at games. Jooob Seliaefor won the internation al billiard championship by defeating George Slosson by a score of 400 to 355, in a tournament at New York Pit.v. at eighteeu-iueh balk Hue, one shot iu. It is reported that Henry Spencer, until recently regarded as one of the greatest jockeys in America, will have to abandon the saddle and go to Ari zona to light a bad case of incipient phthisis. New York race-goers paid the enor mous sum of $2,571,030 to see the races last year. Consequently the six rac ing associations paid a five per cent tax. or $128,581.50. to the State. Agri cultural societies benefit by ibis tax. The largest east bronze statute In the world is that of Peter the Great, at St. Petersburg. It weighs 1,100 tons. IS WKy Bec&vjse I 111 Svr\in P I Its component parts are all wholesome. jillf^ gj 111 j Ansr jj J Va 3j 111 * % m W. It is wholly free from objectionable substances. i I'fe ll fkt-best family Saxativr , ,„ , , § .j!j| T,| J It contains the laxative principles of plants. Ij |l Jfc '|| i jjj It contains the carminative principles of plants. J !! : jSj 0 |j;j j j It is pure. It contains wholesome aromatic liquids which are jj l jj' % I: _ . agreeable and refreshing to the taste. Ml gjj It is gentle. b ° j; j! 1 jjj IS It is pleasant. 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Tho Stool Trust lias instituted a civil service system for its 2000 lake em ployes. An increase in the number of unions in New York State for the past year is reported. Electric enb service in Paris lias proved n failure. It is said the loss so far is $900,000. Organized labor at Cripple Creek, Col., litis declared against the admis sion of all Asiatics. The American Federation of Labor convention adopted resolutions urging the exclusion of Chinese. The Protective Order of Street Ilail way Employes of America was incor porated at Columbus, Ohio. Owing to a scarcity of workmen, two of the Glass Trust factories at Muncle, Ind., will be consolidated. In the large cities thousands of un employed persons found temporary work on account of the holiday rush. Striking silk weavers at South Man chester, Conn., found they were under a misapprehension and returned to work. Organization of department store clerks is being talked about in New York City. It is not, however, con sidered in a favorable light. A number of increases in wages, affecting in the aggregate nearly 500,- 000 workers, beginning with the New Year, have been announced. One of the large express companies gave a Christmas present of $lO iu gold to every one of its employes of more than a year's standing. Shipping clerks in New York City desire to form a union, but so far they have not been able to agree upon the objects for which they should organ ize. There are more than 1,000,000 men employed on the railroads of this coun try, receiving over $557,000,000 per year in wages, or an average of $577 each. PROMINENT PEOPLE. General Baden-Powell has returned lo South Africa. Senator W. A. Clark, of Montana, is said to have paid $300,000 for tlie ITeyor collection of pictures in Vi cuna. Charles M. Schwab, President of Iho United Sin s Steel Corporation, in tends to uii.iv.' a three mouths' visit ! to Europe shortly. Edwin Charles Madden, the Third j Assistant Postmaster-General, is a na tive of Michigan. It is said that his great-great-uncle was Lord Nelson, the j hero of Trafalger. I Among the title bearers not desti tute of other honors is Lord Kinuaird, of England, who-is not only an author - I ity on football, but a duly ordained preacher of the Established Church. Professor Alexander Agassiz is in charge of an expedition to the Muldive Islands in the Indian Ocean, which has recently been sent from the Agas siz Museum at Harvard University. Professor F. F. Mertens, of Russia, who has just returned home from a visit to America, says the thing that impressed him most in this country was the National Library at Wash ington. Former Senator Peffer, of Kansas, lias prepared a topical index of all the debates in Congress up to 1801, and proposes to make the work complete to the present time, and will try to sell to Congress the result of his labors. Miss Lisi Carlo!ta Cipriani, the first woman to take the doctor's degree at the University of Paris, has been se lected to take charge of the new course in medieval literature literature at the University of Chicago. She is a Florentine. Mrs. C. X. Wliitiunu owns the larg est much of any woman in the world. It is located near Tascosa, Texas, ami is called the "L. S." ranch, from Lucieu Scott, its first owner. The ranch is tiiiriy miles square and hundreds of cowboys are. employed upon it. Hungarian vineyard owners are re joiced at the routing of the phyllox era, and they expected soon to be ship ping their fiery wines to all parts of the world again. There arc 250 clocks In Bucking ham Palace, and It is a work of no small importance to keep them all go ing. Some of them are as old as the time of L/ouis XVI., and the works are still in good ord\r. The King does not like a useless clock, and when the works of an antiquo timepiece are worn out ho has them replaced with new cne3. 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Most things grow smaller as they are contracted except debts. Jerusalem's Ancient Water Supply. The aqueducts and reservoirs of Jerusalem show that there was ] abundant provision for running water i in the ancient city. Within the last few weeks they have brought again into the service of the city, which for many centuries has been dependent upon small accumulations of rain water. The water is piped from Sol omon's pools, nine miles south of the city, drawing water from the sealed fountain mentioned In the "Song of Solomon." It is a deep subterranean spring, which flows through an arched channel to a distributing chamber. A Christmas I>lnner That Wan Not Eaten Boenuso of indigestion! This sorry tale would not bavo been told if tho system had been regulated and tho digestion perfected | by the use of Nature's remedy, Garfield Tea. \ This wonderful Herb medicine cures all forms oi' stomach, liver and bowel derangements, i cleanses tho system, purifies tho blood and lays the foundation ror long life and con tinued good health. A friend in need is a friend—who usu ally wants to borrow a fiver. How's This? Wo offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F.J. Che- j ney for the last 15 ycatv, and believe him per fectly honorable in nil business transactions . and financially able to carry out any obliga tion mado by their firm. WEST SC TBUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. WALDINO, RINNAN V MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Kali's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act ,fng directly upon tho blood and mucous sur faces of tho system. 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They will occupy a site a mile and three-quarters long and three quarters of a mile wide in the heart i of the mountains. The grounds will be laid out by a landscape gardener. Sugar exists not only in the cane, beet-root and maple, but in the sap of 187 other plants and trees. 1 Bronchitis \ |(iiUßasaaaaaraHUßnußiaem% | "I have kept Ayer's Cherry Pec- if | toral in my house for a great many 9 years. It is the best medicine in $ the world for coughs and colds." ts J. C. Williams, Attica, N. Y. E _ H All serious 1 ung fj troubles begin with a | tickling in the throat. | You can stop this at first | in a single night with | Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. I Use it also for bronchitis, ijj consumption, hard colds, | and for coughs of all kinds. | ? Three sires: 25c., 50c., SI. All drogEltta. fj _J Consult yonr doctor. If ho says take it. H then do as lie says. If he tolls yon not n to tako it, then don't take it. Be knows. £ ' Leave It with liira. Wo are willing. W i J. C. 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CHLESEBROUGH MANUFACTURING CO., 17 Stite Btreot, New York City. The Beet Sugar Industry. A most Important article Giving Messrs. Oxnard's and Cutting's view* on the beet sugar Industry In this country appeared on the editorial page of the New York Evening Post of De cember 12 last, and as every house* hold in the land is interested in sugan the article will be of universal Interest. THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY. The Evening Post bids the heartiest welcome to every American industry that can stand on its own bottom and make its way without leaning on the poor rates. Among those self-support ing industries we are glad to know, la the production of beet sugar. At all events, it was such two years ago. We publish elsewhere a letter written In 1 SUP, and signed by Mr. Oxnard and Mr. Cutting, the chiefs of this indus try on the eastern side of the Rooky Mountains, showing that this was tho happy condition of the trade at that time. If parties masquerading as beet sugar producers are besieging tho President and Congress at this mo ment. and pretending that they will bs ruined if Cuban sugar is admitted for six months at half the present rates of duty their false pretences ought to be exposed. The letter of Messrs. Oxnard and Cutting was probably written for the purpose of inducing the farmers of tha Mississippi Valley to go more largely into the cultivation of beets for the sugar factories. This was a laudable motive for telling the truth and show ing the large profits which awaited both the beet grower and the manufac turer if the industry were pei'sever ingly and intelligently prosecuted. To this end It was pointed out that farm ers could clear sfif> per acre by culti vating hoots, and might even make SIOO. But In order to assure the euiti valor that ho would not be exposed to reverses by possible changes in the tariff, they proceeded to show that the industry stood in no need of protection. The beet sugar industry, these gen tlemen say, "stands on as firm a basis as any business in the country." They point out the fact—a very important one—that their product comes out as a. finished article, refined and granulated. It is not, like enne sugar grown in tha West India Islands, a black and off en* sive paste, which must be carried ini wagons to the seaboard and thence byl ships to the United States, where, af ter another handling, it is put through! a costly refinery, and then shipped by; rail to the consumer, who may possi bly he in Nebraska, alongside a beet sugar factory, which turns out the re fined and granulated article at one felt swoop. Indeed, llie advantages of the producer of beet sugar for supplying the domestic consumption are very great. We have no doubt that Messrs. Oxnard aud Cutting are within hounds when they say that "sugar can he pro duced here cheaper than it can be in Europe." The reasons for this are that— "The sugar Industry is, after all; merely nil agricultural one. We can undersell Europe in all other crops, and sugar is no exception." It follows as naturally as the making of flour from wheat. If we can pro- I (luce wheat cheaper than Europe, then | naturally we can produce flour cheap er, as we do. But the writers of the letter do not depend upon a-priori reasoning lo prove that they can make sugar at a profit without tariff protection. Tlie.v point to the fact that under the MeKinloy tariff of ISDO, when sugar was free of duty, the price of the article was four cents per pound. Yet a net profit of $3 per ton was made by the beet sugar factories under those conditions, not counting any bounty on tho home pro duction of sugar. They boast that they made tills profit while working under absolute free trade, and they have a right to be proud of this result of their skill and Industry. Many beet sugar factories had been started in bygone years, back in tbe sixties and seventies of tho nineteenth con tury, and had failed, because the pro jectors did not understand the busi ness. Since then great progress has been made, both here and abroad, in the cultivation and manipulation of,the beet. What was Impossible thirty ' years ago is now entirely feasible. Tho industry is already on a solid and en during basis. There are factories in the United States, these gentlemen tell us in their letter, capab'e of using .'150,000 tons of beets per annum at a profit of $5 per ton, and this would make a profit of $1,050,000 as the in come to be earned under absolute freo trade. It must be plain to readers of this letter, signed by the captains of tho beet sugar industry, that tho people in W asliingtou who are declaiming against the temporary measure which the President of the United State* urges for the relief of the Cuban peo ple, are either grossly ignorant of tho subject, or arc practising gross decep tion. The tenable ground for then! Is to say: "Other people are having pro tection that they do not netC. and therefore wc ought to have more than we need." This would lit, consistent with the letter of Messrs. Oxnard and Cutting, hut nothing else is so. |fENSIONSSE^itf&* ■ iii lucivil war. 15 adjudicating claims.att.v since DROPSY cars* Book of teatimnnislH and lOtlavs' treatmaut Frwe. Or. H. B. QXEEH'U BOMB, Box B. Atlanta, Ox. Gold Medal at Buffalo imposition. McILHENNY'S TABASCO ■lsimnF4 Im Best Tough Syrup. Taatea Good. Use M Lr in tlrno. Sold by druggist*. BM j wi ri * d M ? if^i