BRAZILIAN TROUBLES A MOVEMENT TO OVERTHROW PRESI DENT MORAE3' GOVERNMENT. fhm Quarrel With Eranr Over Possession of the Amapa Territory RrnrniblM la Rom Betpects th Venesuelaa Contro versy. BIO Ml JAVETRO, March 8. Since the revolution of 181)8-4 the polltlcitl situation In Braill hae not beon no critical aa nt present. Nothing but stormolouds ere to be seen coursing across the sky of politics of thli, the youngest American republic. There are two powerful reasons for thl disturbing state of affairs. In the first plane, the .Tncobinos, or Nntlvlstle, as the party of the lnte Marshal President Florl no Pelxoto Is termed, become more pow erful day by day and threaten to over throw the moderate government of Pres ident Prudente de Moraes. In the second place, the relations be tween France and Brazil grow more trained as each day passes, and It Is an ticipated that the Brazilian government will shortly bt called upon to faoa the PBBSTDEXT DIE MORAES. landing of French troops In the Amapa country, the territory which has so long been In dispute between this country and France. To eitlzetis of the United Ptates, who have the welfare of this republio at heart, the present crisis should be particularly Interesting, especially In view of the ex eltement growing out of the Venezuelan question, whtoh, in some respects, is simi lar to the Incidents which have caused so much ill feeling between Brazil nnd France. Taking np the first question which dis turbs the country, It should be explained that the .Tacobinos, with FranclROo (Jlyce rlo and Quinttno Boeayuva at their head, re held responsible for the troubles at Sao Paulo a few weeks ago. during which a great number of Important stores, etc., belonging to foreigners were destroyed. They are also said to have Instigated the disturbances at Hantos, whore the editorial and printing offices of the newspapers were entirely demolished, and they are al so he'd responsible for the troubles at Ouro Preto, where two men were killed and many were wounded as a result of the rioting which broke out there. Briefly, the .Tacobinos are opposed to all foreigners In Brazil, and Its members take very opportunity of showing their dislike (or the foreign population. But they are already very powerful In congress and throughout the country, and there Is great danger that they will be able to overthrow the president and his government. The Qnarel With France. PARTS, March 8. M. Berthelot, the minister for foreign affairs, gave an audi ence to the Brazilian minister, who Is armed with power to arrange for arbitra tion of the matters in dispute regarding the possession of the Amapa territory. The Brazilian minister submitted a proj ect for a mixed commission to control the disputed territory pending a definite set tlement of the dispute. A LUMBERMAN'S FRAUDS. Stupendous Swindling Operations Success fully Carried on by Joha Cowan. PlTTSBURO, March 4. One of the meet stupendous swindling operations that has occurred In this city within recent years bas been brought to light by the disap pearance of John Cowan of the lumber firm of W. 6. Cowan & Sons) who left this city last Saturday morning and whose whereabout Is unknown. His defalca tions, It Is said, will aggregate between 100,000 and 1160,000, the most of which be Is supposed to have carried away with btm. The vlotiros Cowan has left behind him Inolude lumbermen In every section of the country, salesmen and employees of his office and bis stepmother, the widow of his father, whom he ha left financially ruined, ber little fortune of about 1 15,000 and property valued at about t 30, 000 be ing entirely swept away. The largest oreditors are U. A. White, a lumber manufacturer of Corey, who places bis lose at almost 120,000, and William Ahlers of the A biers Lumber company of Alleghany, whose loss will be about f 18, 000. Other large oreditors who say they have no hope of realjzing anything on their claims are M. D. Rowland of Coropolla, 10,000; Samuel Crawford of Pigeon, For est county, 3,&00; Daniel Holwlok of Brookvllla, 17,000; D. Wheeler of Key Doldsvllls, 10.000, and Mrs. John Duncan, stepmother of Mrs. W. G. Cowan, (0,000. There are about 240 others who are out In unis ranging from t40 to $4,000. Cowan Is .8 years old and has been mar ried about a year. All the money he left bis wife was $14. W. Q. Cowan, the fa ther of the missing man, died about six months ago, siuoe which time all of the TookedneM charged has been aooom pllshed. At the time of the elder Cowan's death the business was earning about 10,000 a year. Creditors say the young man has been enabled to accomplish his ends by trading on hii father's good name. One of the means used by Cowan is cited by L. A. White of Corey, Pa., who ays the manner In whlob be was taken In was by giving Cowan accommodation paper for various amount. These notes be would raise to two, three or four times the original amounts, discount them and put the cash In his own pocket. On the night of his father's death young Cowan told his stepmother that unless she would sign articles of copartnership with him, placing the management of the busi ness In his hands entirely, the firm would go to the wall. She did a requested and Is now Impoverished. A number of suits have been entered gainst M. D. Rowland of Coropolla to recover on notes which passed through Cowan's hands indorsed by Rowlaud. Ahlers & Co. have been oompelled to ask of their oreditors an extension, and many other troubles of like nature arc expected to follow soon. Ex-CeofrMnM Bloe Dead. W0BCK8TBK, Mass., March 8. Ex-Congressman William Whitney Kioe died of heart disease at bis home here. He has bees an Invalid fur three years and has been oounued to his house slnoa early In Deoeinber and most of the time to his bed. For the last k4 hours he has been unoon - Tr T NICARAGUA REVOLT. fteported Billing of Bebel flencrals Can Armed The Alert at Corlnto. MAHAortA, Nicaragua, March 4. The report of the killing of the rebel generals Kscalon and Barquero Pedllos In the last battle about Negarote is confirmed. The United States warship Alert arrived at Corlnto on Friday In response to the representations of United States Minister Baker that there was need of protection to American Interests there. It is learned that the revolutionists have fortified the town of leon In antici pation .if an attack from the government forces. Theonthedral Itself has been turned to account for defense, and cannon have been placed upon It. The government forces, together with the troops sent by Honduras to aid them, are advancing toward Leon and will soon storm the rebel capital. A Big Mill Resumes Operations. PnovTDEKrB. March 8. The Ann and Hope mill of t e Lonsdale company start ed np with l.lliiil operatives. A disastrous explosion closed the mill three weeks ago, and the operatives were given free rent and a week's pay during the enforced Idle ness. Murder In the First Degree. Johnstown, N. Y., Feb. 28. The trial of Josef Zlanml for the murder of Teresa Komorna closed yesterday morning, and at 9 o'clock In the evening the jury, after deliberating ten hours, found the prisoner guilty of murder In the Drat degree. To Crash the Com! Combine. Albany, March 4. By a unanimous vote the assembly passed the two antl oumbine bills. One of the bills inserts a new provision In chapter 71fl of the laws of 18113, making It a misdemeanor tomake any contract, arrangement or agreement or to enter Into any combination or con spiracy for the purpose of restraining or preventing competition In the supply or price of any article or commodity In com mon use In this state. The other hill Is an amendment to the executive law and gives the attorney general power to Issue subpoenas for any such persons and to re quire thein to bring books and papers. If they refuse, they may be adjudged guilty of contempt of court. The bills will pass In the senate. fjord Dnnraven Expelled. New Yohk. Feb. 28. The New York Yacht club, at a meeting held last even ing to take final action on the charges made by the Knrl of Duuraven agulnst the Defender syndicate and on the report of the special committee of the club which Investigated those charges, voted to drop the earl from membership In the club. Suur Shipped From Egypt. PnTI.ADl,PHIA, March 4. The British steamship County of York, Captain Mad drell, with 11,000 pounds of Kgyptian sug ar, the first cargo of the kind that was ever landed at Philadelphia, arrived here from Alexhndrla after a passage of 83 days. This cargo, which comes In bags, Is of the highest grade. THE QUEEREST TOWN. A Michigan City Built on Ice Where Six Thousand People Live. The most remarkable city in the world is Fish City, Mich. In a way it suggests the touted towns of the Arabs of the desert. It may be folded and carried away in a night. It is not built on land, nor yet is it a city of boats. It has no existence in summer, yet in winter it is a teeming, thriving place. The ice of Saginaw bay is the town site. The same sheltered cave is need every season. As soon as the bay is frozen over the city springs into exist ence. The houses are bnilt of rongh pine boards, well chinked and protected from the winter blasts. The population varies from year to year. In 1893 4 it was 8,000, and iu 1894-5 it sprang np to 8,000. This year there are 6,000 son Is ehel tered in the pine oabins of Fish City, every one of whom is engaged in the catching, cleaning and packing of lake trout for the market. , A mayor Is elected for the season, who has the support of the town conn oil. There is a fire engine, a Roman Catholio chapel and a nnion meeting house and the necessary stores and liqnor shops for the accommodation of a bnsy population. Lighting a Buoy. A life saving buoy, which when thrown overboard displays an incandes cent electrio light, standing well np from the surface of the water, is the latest in the line of life saving appli ances. The light is furnished by a small storage battery. As the bnoy reaches the water the bat tery swings into a perpendicular posi tion, and the light is also put in action. A man overboard at night has a remote chance of seeirg a floating buoy, but with one of this character he is at ones directed to the point of rescue. NOVEL HEADACHE CURE. Which Frovas That It's an 111 Wind That Blows Nobody Good. The latest "cure" suggested fur the relief of headache is a hair cut. A cer tain physician in London has met with great success lately in bis treatment of persistent cases of "nervous" headaches, and he has finally disclosed the secret. In each ease, he says, after the patient had laid bare a long tale of woeof sleepless nights and miserable days be prescribed, briefly, a simple hair cut. It is not necessary that the hair should be cropped off short, after the fashion of convicts. The enrative property of the treatment is based on the fact that the tube which is contained in each single hair is sever ed in the process, and the brain "bleeds," as the barbers say, thereby opening a safety valve for the congested cranium. A commentator in the Loudon society press, in referring to this cure, says: "Try the cure when next attacked by headache, aud if the result be not satis factory rest assured that it is not the fault of the prescription, but that the head is so wooden that it ' wooden't' act " Al Error Corroded. We are authorised to state in the most einphatio terms that there is absolutely no troth in the report of an engagement being possible iu the future between Mi Bend and Mr. W. K. VanderbilL Our reporter was entirely misled as to the information which he provided for the issue of this paper on Sunday, Feb. 9. We very sinoerely regret that we gave pnblicity to this error, and we take the earliest possible opportunity of con tradicting the report, which we do upon the highest authority. New York World. . ELI PERKINS ON NYE. ONE GREAT HUMORIST TALKS OF HI3 RELATIONS WITH ANOTHER. How Bill !ye Started Out When He Took Vp nis Norn de flnine English and American Humor Rome Good Stories About Liars and Others. I first met Edgar Wilson Nye 15 years ajto while passing through Laramie, Wy. Mr. Nye was thrn practicing law and mnking his first reputation as a humor ist through editorials and paragraphs in his weekly Boomerang. These editorials were irresistibly quaint Every one was reading his newspnper and every one loved the genial writer. He never had but one enemy, and that was the editor of the Democratic newspaper across the way. This man Baw nothing funny in Nye. He wasted columns weekly call- ins Nve. to bis great amusement, "an idiot and a crack brained rattlesnake ; editor from iMooschead lake. Bill Nye was then, as ever after ward, a delicate and retiring man. When I asked him why the rival editor called him such names, he said : Well, be is a Democratic editor and has to be precise in bis statements. I was born on Moosehead lake, in Maine, and grew np among the Indiana and rattlesnakes of the west " 'I see yon are a lawyer as well as an editor," I said. .- Yes, I practiced law abont a year, but," he added, without changing a muscle, "nobody knew much abont It here. I kept it very quiet. I have been a justice of the peaoe in Laramie for six years. ' Did yon ever marry any one?" Oh, yes, I married my wife, and after that I used to marry others and then try them for other offenses " Noticing that the hnmorist bad very white teeth, I remarked upon their reg- nlarity and whiteness and asked him what kept them so white. "Oh, that s natural," he said. "All teeth remain white if tbey are properly taken care of. Of course I never drink hot drinks, always brnsh my teeth every morning and evening, avoid all acids, and although I am 85 years old my teeth are as good as ever." And this is all yon do to keep yonr teeth white?" I asked. "Well, yes that is, barring the fact that I put them in a glass of soft water nights." The attention of the publio was first called to the humorist's writings on ac count of his vigorous English. His lan guage whs of the wild west order. For example : The professor of rational psy chology of Bonlder college wrote to The Boomerang and asked the editor the question, "What is literature?" "What is literature?" exclaimed Bill, pointing half contemptuously at the col umns of The Boomerang. "What is literature? Cast yonr eye over these logio imbued columns, yon sun dried savant from the remote precincts. Drink at the never failing Boomerang springs of forgotten lore, yon dropsical wart of a false and erroneous civiliza tion. Read our 'Address to Bitting Boll' or our 'Ode to the Busted Snoot of a Shattered Venns de Milo,' if yon wont to fill np your thirsty soul with high priced literature. Don't go around hungering for literary pie while your eyes are oloeed and your capacious ears are filled with bales of bay." Years after Bret Harte's "Truthful James" poem was written Edgar W. Nye commenced signing his artioles "Bill Nye. " Mr. Nye always considered the best joke ever perpetrated by an English newspnper was when the London News came out with a serious editorial say ing that "Bill Nye" was a real char acter. Then Mr. Nye got ont his scrap book and read this serious editorial from the London News : If ever celebrity were attained unexpectedly, most assuredly it was that thrust upon Bill Nye by Truthful James. It is )ust possible, however, that the Innumerable readers of Mr. Bret Harte's "Heathen Chinee" may have im agined Bill y. ye and A h Bin to be purely myth ical personages. Bo far as the former la con cerned any such conclusion now appears to have been erroneous. Bill Nye is no mors a phantom than any other Journalist, although the nameof the organ which he " runs" savors more of Action than of fact. But there is no doubt about the matter, for the Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune tele graphed on the 20th Inst, that Bill Nye had ao oepted a post under the government. He has lately been domiciled in Laramie City, Wy., and la editor of The Daily Boomerang. In ref erence to Acting Postmaster General Hat ton's appointment of him as a postmaster at Lara mie City the opponent of Ah Bin writes an ex tremely humorous letter, "extending" his thanks and advising his chief of his opinion that his "appointment is a triumph of eternal truthover error and wrong." Nyaeontlnnes: "It is one of the epochs. 1 may say, in tha na tion 'a onward maroh toward political purity and perfection. I don't know when I have no ticed any stride In the affairs of state which has so thoroughly Impressed me with Its wis dom." In this quiet strain of banter Bill Nya continues to the end of htv letter, which sug gests the opinion that whatever tha official qualifications of the new postmaster may be, the Inhabitants of Laramie City must have a very readable newspaper In The Dally Boom. rang. On one occasion Mr. Nye sent ma the following note, which gives a true his tory of bis family : Daa Eli You ask me how I earns to adopt the nom deplume of Bill Nye, and I can truth fully reply that 1 did not do so at all. Mr first work was done on a territorial pa per in the Rocky mountains soma 14 years ago. and v,as not signed. Ine style, or rather the lack of it, provoked some oorament and two or three personal encounters. Other papers be gan to wonder who was responsible, and vari ous name wure assigned by them as the prop er one, among them Henry Nye, James Nye, Bobert Nye, etc, and a general discussion arose. In which 1 did not take a band. The re sult was a compromise, by which I was chris tened bill Nye, and the name bas dung to we. I am not esitecially proud of the name, for it conveys the idea to strnBera that I am a law- leas, profane and dangerous man. People who judge me by the brief and bloody name alone lnuunctively euuddt-r and examine tuulr fire' anna. It BUgvt-Mts daring, debauchery and de tlauoe to the law. Little children areoalled in when I am known to be at large, and a day of fautmg is announced by the governor of the state, btranguru seek to entertain me by show Ins me the choice tniuuitice of their town. E'uincnt criminals auk me to attend their ex ecution and auaUt Ihom iu accepting tbeir re- spuctiveuuonia. Amateur criminals auk me to revliH) their work and to augguat improve ments. All this is the cruel result of an accident for 1 am not that kind of a man. Hud my work Deen the same, dune ovvr the signature of "Taxpayer" or "Vol Popull," bow different might have been the reaultl Becking as I am. In my poor, weak way, to make folly appear fooiuh and to make men bettor by speaking diarcHuectfuliy of their errors, 1 do not deserve to be regarded even by strangers as a toutrh off a terror, but rather as a plain, law abiding American citizen, who heps leave to subacribs hiiusuif yours for the public weal, tixiAB Wiiaoa Nrm. In politics Bill Nye was a Republican, bat be never lot bis political creed show Itself in his writings. Iu faot, Demo crats are the largest readers of his books. On da I aa.ed him what be thought of the Democratic pV'ty. "The Democratic pitrty," he repented, "the Democratic part;- Why, a Demo crat keeps onr drng store over there, and when a little girl burned her arm against the cook stova, and her father went after a package of Russia salve, this genial drng store Democrat gnve her a box of rongh on rots. What the Demooratio party needs," said Mr. Nye, "is not so much a new platform as a carload of as sorted brains that some female seminary had left over." An Englishman was talking with Mr. Nye in Lnramie abont English and American humor. "Iu my opinion," said the English man, "the humor of the United States, i with bated breath, expecting every mo il closely examined, will be found to tnent to be dashed to pieces on the depend, in a great meosnre, on ins as cendency which the principle of utility has gained over the imaginations of rather imaginative people." "Just so, " replied Bill, "and, accord ing to my best knowledge, the humor of England, if closely examined, will be found just about ready to drop over the picket fence into the arena, bnt never quite making connections. If we scan the English literary horizon, we will find the humorist np a tall tree, depend ing from sharp knot thereof by the slack of his overalls. Be is just out of sight at the time yon look in that direc tion. He always has a man working in his place, however. The man who works in his place is paring down the half sole and newly pegging a joke that has re cently been sent in by the foreman for repairs." - 4 On the occasion of my visit to Lara mie Mr. Nye introduced me to my Lara mie audience. Bis introduction was like this: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am glad that it bas devolved npon me tonight to announce that we are to have an inter esting lecture on lying by one of the most distinguished (there was a pause, for Mr. Nye's inflection indicated that be had finished, and the audience roared with delight, so that it was some time before the sentence was concluded) lec turers from the east." Mr. Nye continued: "We have onr ordinary country liars in Laramie, but Mr. Perkins comes from the metropolis. Our everyday liars have a fine record. We are proud of them, but the uncul tured liars of the prairie cannot be ex pected to cope with the gifted and more polished prevaricators from the oultnred east. Ladies and gentlemen, permit me to introduce to you Eliar Perkins." "Ladins and gentlemen," I said in reply, "V feel justly flattered by your Laramie humorist's tribute to my ve racity, but truly I am not as great a liar as Mr. Nye," and then I seemed to falter. The audience saw my dilemma and applauded, and finally I couldn't finish the sentence for some moments, bnt continuing I said, "I am not as big a liar as Mr. Nye would have yon think." A day or two after this I picked np The Boomerang and read this para graph: "When Eli Perkins was passing through Laramie, he said he was travel ing for his wife's pleasure. " 'Then yonr wife is with yon?' sug gested our reporter. " 'Oh, no.' said Eli; 'she is in New York. ' " Melville D. Landon in New York Sun. HILL AND NETHERSOLE. . The Statesman Said to Ba Kngagod to the Great Kissing Aetrais. If Dame Rumor is correct in her de ductions, David B. Bill bas really made np his mind to give society something to talk about, Iu other words, I have it on good authority that the dark eyed statesman from the Empire State is en Raged to marry Miss Olga Netbersole, MISS OLGA KETHERSOLR. who, yon know, is the tall and good looking English woman who is at pres nt earning fame and a fair number of dollars in a dramatio tour of this conn try. Miss Netbersole is a very clever act ress, and I nnderstand that the senator hag' been paying ber more or lesa de voted attentions ever since their first meeting, which was a year ago in New York. The wedding is said to be fixed tor June and will be solemnized at the bride's home in one of the aristocratic suburbs of Loudon. I give yon this news for what it Is worth, bnt it was given to me by a man who both from asocial aud official point of yiew is in a position to know what the senator's ulans are. for both the present and the future. Washington Town Talk. A WHITE HOUSE SCHOOL. Bath and Esther and Several Cabinet Chll dren tha Fuplls. Aa administration kindergarten baa been establiehed at the White House. The teacher is Miss Frieda M. Beth maun of Boston. The president's two little daughters, Ruth aud Esther, are to nuderao a course of iustructiou, and several of their youug playmates of the oabiuet circle will be permitted to at tend the school. One of the sunniest rooms in the White House has been sot apart for tbeir use and fitted np wiUi every requirement of a schoolroom. The plan is a novel one in the execrt' tive niunsiou. President Harrison em Dluved a Uerman teaolier for the cbil dren of Mrs. McKee, and Baby McKe once surprised his grandfather by form. ally delivering his Christmas greeting in German. Mrs. Cleveland also em ploys a German nursery governess and is herself studying that language with ber little ones. Our Consolation, Never mind; the south pole li itlU left to as. Philadelphia Press. A MARVELOUS ESCAPE HOW IT FEELS TO FALL DOWN SIX 8TORIE3. Miss Krelger's Wonderful Ezperleaee the Troy Ft- Missed Ber Bold and Tumbled LVeelared She Caaaa Dew With Contort and Knee, Falling through space is the most common of all nightmares. It is doubtful if there is person living who has pass ed his youth without having dreamed that be bad dropped from a high build ing and was falling, falling, falling. round below. There is also no more dangerous nightmare than this; indeed, it may often prove fatal. Physicians of high standing declare that if the dreamer fails to wake np at the critical moment, just before, in imagination, ba reaches the ground, he wilj actually die. We remember those nightmare sensations, , and can describe them vividly. It issel dom that a person actually falls from lofty position in real life, however, and lives to describe the sensations attend ing it Suoh a person Is Miss Lillian Kreiger of Troy, N. Y., whose escape during the fire in Btetheimer's collar shop the other day, where ISO girls wore near to death, was most remarkable and sensa tional fcbe fell from sixth story win dow and received bo injury save sprained ankle. Miss Kreiger is of Ger man descent, and possesses much of the strong power of self control which is characteristic of ber race. "When the fire broke out," she said, 'I mounted window gill on tha sixth floor, thinking that tha flr would either be put out speedily or that I woald be taken down on fire escape. While I sat there I saw three women fall, bnt I did not lose my praaenoa of mind. Fi nally the smoke came pouring through the open window, almost rufrooatinf me, and I turned and attempted to eatob hold of a wooden sign which was imme diately under the window. 'As I lowered myself and attempted to grasp the sign I missed my bold on the ice covered wood and went tumbling in space. Ob, will I ever forget it I" she exclaimed, closing her eyes and shuddering. "1 did not even cream. I could not 1 was choking. I was sure that I was going to my death, bnt I did not lose consciousness, not even for a second. My mind worked clearly ; in deed, never before in my life bad I thought so rapidly. My eyes must have been closed. I was of the opinion that I had re mained in a perpendicular position dur ing the entire fall, and was surprised to learn from persons who saw me that I had tnmed completely over several times. When I strnck the awning, I tbonght, 'Well, this isn't the sidewalk,' and when I slid off the awning into the firemen's net, I was surprised that any one should ask me if I was hurt. All dnring my awful descent, which seemed to take many minutes, I bad felt that I would surely be killed when I strnck, and I wonder that this terror did not continue after I lit in the net Bnt it was dispelled instantly. Looking aronnd for my bat and coat, which I bad thrown from the win dow, I saw them suspended from a sign on which they bad caught and calmly requested a bystander to procure them for me. Then I walked away none the worse for my fall save for a slightly sprained ankle. I felt no other ill ef fects. Why, I didn't even have head ache." New York World. NO WOMEN SINGERS. Barred Oat of Catholic Churches by a Re cent Tatloaa Order. Women are no longer to be permitted to take any official part either aa soloists or as ordinary choristers in the musical portion of the services of the Catholic church, an exception, however, being made in favor of the chapels of con vents. A pastoral letter to this effect hat just been addressed by Cardinal Rich ard, archbishop of Paris and metropol itan and primate of France, to the bishops and clergy subject to bis eccle siastical jurisdiction, and he bases his directions in connection with the mat ter npon explicit commands lately re ceived from the congregation of rites at Rome. This congregation Is a committee of cardinals specially appointed by the pope for the interpretation of canon law on the subject of the conduct of the Tart- ions ceremonies and functions of divine worship. Being furnished with plenary powers, its decisions have to be taken as though given by the holy father him self. It is to the scandal created by the no tion of certain French elergy in Intrast lng the solos of the most solemn por tion of the high mass toaa opgrailo star who is Just at the piesaa kUne arousing a considerable amount of unpleasant comment, even in the pablio press, by reason of ber moral shortcomings, that tbe promulgation of Cardinal Richard's pastoral is attributed, fie appears to have consulted the pontiff In person on the subject before issuing it Contrary to popular belief, even among the clergy, this decree, which bids fair to revolutionise the methods of publio worship that have been in nse in the Catholio church in every part of the world, except Rome, for ages past, is not a new law, bnt merely the re vival of a very old one, which either intentionally or unknowingly bad be come altogether a dead letter, few of tbe American visitors to Rome who have listened to the thrilling notes of tbe male sopranos of tbe so called Sis tine chapel choir at the Vatican have known that their enrollment by those prelates in charge of the musical por tion of the services at St Peter's is due to the existence of a law observed only in Rome, forbidding the nse of women as choristers and soloists. New York Journal. Te Keen lion Wladows Eroaa Erase! ag. Storekeepers were skeptical when as sured a year ago that an electrical fan, kept in constant motion in a show win dow, would prevent the formation of frost on the windows, thus rendering useless the elaborate displays of goods, which they were often st great expense to make. A single trial proved that the device was effective, and daring the re oent cold weather the little fans were noted bazalug industriously in tbe clear windows of many Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street aud Broadway stores. New York JooraaL SEEKS AFTER TRUTH. DENVER WATCHMAKER TO DWELL WITH NATURE FAR FROM CROWDS. Will Travel In a Movel Wagoif Hlddea Secret will lie Fathomed 8nch the Eastern Mystles Have Learned on Tibet s Lofty Heights. Elisha Lane of Denver bas Just started out on an expedition so novel that the paltry quest of Diogenes for an honest man is child's play compared with it Mr. Lane's mission is "to wrest from nature her secrets," and he philosophic ally proposes to go abont this task by "putting himself in harmony with na ture." To this end he has had built a bonne wagon In which he will travel from Denvor clear through to southern Cali fornia, halting by the way wherever the lisp of leaves, the brawl of mountain streams or the soughing of winds in primeval forests soeinB to be tolling the secret of which he longs to become pos- sensed. This latest seeker after trnth will not, however, travel alone. He will be ac companied by his wife aud three little children, aged 6 years, S years and 10 months, respectively. The itinerant home for this family cost $750, aud it will be drawn by two homes. It is 12 fect long, 6 feet wide and 6 foot high, and is rnado of pine boards 8 inches wide and threo-quar-ters of an inch thick, placed vertically. Under the driver s sent is a tool box, tbe space beneath the body of the wagon is to be used for storing household goods, and at the rear is a feed box for the horses. The entrance is at the rear through a door of polished oak with glass panels, and the interior in quite in keeping with this handsome entrance. Tbe floor is handsomely carpeted, the portieres are hung on bronze rods, the walls and ceiling are artistically pa pered and the two windows, 20 by S 4 inohes each, are provided with dainty lace curtains. Across tbe front end of the wagon an oak seat runs which becomes the sup port for the head of a bed, wbioh is re leased by a spring from its position in tbe wall. A bed similarly devised is at the left of tbe door. By careful economy in space this room also contains a tiny chiffonier, a plate glass mirror, a washstand, a fold ing writing table with drawers and pigeonholes, and a stove, the ashes of which will be dropped to the gronnd through a sort of fnnnel. Every detail of this conveyance was planned by Mr. Lane himself, who is a man of about 81 years and a watchmak er by trade. He was born in Bowling Green, Ky. He married Miss Carrie MacFarland of Leavenworth, Kan., and lived in Kansas City nntil July last, when he removed to Denver. In appear ance Lane bears a striking resemblance to Schlatter. He is entirely self educat ed, not to say uneducated, for by his own confession only two years ago be was unable to read Shakespeare with any appreoiation of his meaning. The sum total of bis philosophy as ex pressed by bim is: "I claim that there is some secret force, some hidden power in nature, which men have not discov ered. A few men have caught faint gleams of this occult force, and thereby they have become wise beyond their generation. Luther was one of these men and Schlatter is another. To gain this knowledge a man must follow na ture, and it is for that reason that I al low my hair and beard to grow. When I reach the mouutams, I shall hope to touch that higher state which has en abled the adepts of India in Tibet to ao quire their mystio power." In order to sustain the material man on the way to tbe wellsprings of "Hid den Trnth," Mr. Lane will halt from time to time in mining camps and in small towns, and take heed of time by mending watches and selling eyeglasses. New York World. OUR FOREIGN TRADE. Tbe Way la Which Our Export of Mann- facturee Should lie Built Ip, To work up a demand and properly to Introdnoe our manufactured goods in foreign markets require greater energy and aptitude than in selling cereals, provisions and raw materials, for the reason that it becomes necessary to cater to the tastes and overcome the prejn dioes of consumers, while in the oase of raw materials the exporter deals only With wholesalers and manufacturers, who themselves convert the products in to manufactured articles suitable to the wants of their people. Hence a macn factnrer and exporter must expend much time, labor and money to introdnoe his wares abroad, requiring a large prelim inary outlay and careful study of the Wants of the different markets, ooapled With untiring energy and perseverance. Returns and profits are necessarily slow That frequently discourages exporters In tbeir first efforts, and causes them to abandon the attempt to introduce tbeir goods, in competition with others al ready, well known and established in the market they seek to enter. The prejudices of foreigners are diffl cult to overcome, bnt the energy and Ingenuity of our business men who go abroad to cultivate new markets should be equal to tbe occasion and capable of overcoming all obstacles. With onr in exhaustible nataral resources, improved machinery and inventions of all kinds, and an increasing supply of skilled la box every year, this country is capable of making rapid strides in the expansion of its foreign expoit trade, provided our capitalists, manufacturers and mer chants give it the tbonght and attention that it deserves. If only one-half of the capital, energy and attention that is now absorbed in manipulating stocks, trusts, questionable mining companies and other inflated schemes was devoted to the development of legitimate man a featuring enterprises, and to seeking consumers for their products abroad the country would become more and more prosperous each year, and be able to provide employment for ber skilled artisans, whose labor is the foundation and mainstay of her wealth. "Our Foreign Trade," by Feuton T. New berry, in Outcry. Marked "CoundentiaL That the X rays can pierce letters is another source of terror to politicians. Still, however, there is nothing surer of publication than a communication marked "couflduutiaL" It is given out with great ceremony every time it is re ceived. Philadelphia Press. SWEET CORN A3 A FARM CROP. Some of the Advantages Derived Eroas Growing the Bweet Varieties. It is matter of surprise to American Cultivator that the sweet varieties of corn are not more generally cultivated. Following is what this authority says on the subject: The grain yield of sweet corn Is as large as that of other corn, for thongh the ears are generally small, most kinds of sweet corn will bear two, three and occasionally more ears on a stalk. For those who merely grow corn to feed, the sweet variety has great advantages. Its stalks are richer and sweeter than ordi nary field corn, if (hey are cut, as all corn should be, when the grain has just begun to burden. Besides this, sweet corn generally brings a considerably higher price in the market than other corn. There are some difficulties in proper ly drying sweet corn, because of the ex cessive amount of moisture it contains, which, with its sweetness, makes its especial value. Bnt wnon a sweet corn begins to dry it dries ont more quickly than any other. If always cut and husked early, the ears can be placed for a day or two in an evaporator, which every farmer should have. In this time they will dry so much that the corn can then be put in large cribs without dan ger of becoming moldy. But a large portion of the sweet corn crop is sold In its green state and for much higher prices than ordinary corn brings by the bushel. Twelve to 1 5 cents is the price which green corn usually brings early in the season. This soon runs down, but even at tbe lowest rates corn sold by the dosen ears brings more than ordinary corn will after being busked, cared for nntil dry and shelled. Tbe price paid by canning factories is still lower than that sold to grocers and private houses. Bnt tbe farmers near a canning factory have always found sweet corn one of their best paying crops, and tbey have learned to grow it to the exclusion of ordinary corn, feeding the surplus on their farm. Sweet corn when thoroughly dried can be ground and makes a light, palatable and easily digested meal. Ground with the cob, mixing a little common corn and oats with it, so as to make the cob grind more finely, gives a feed that will be eaten by all stock and that will be less likely to cloy them than ordinary grain meal. Bnt there is a still more profita ble nse for sweet corn if cut while very green and its grain sliced from the green cob and spread tlnnly'in nn evap orator. This, if pnt when fully dry in bags in a cool place, will keep in good condition for using after being soaked in water a few hours to regain its orig inal freshness. Corn so prepared is quite as good as canned corn and is less trou ble to prepare. It is easy in almost any locality .to create a demand for this dried sweet corn by leaving some at stores to be sold or giving a little on trial to those who will be likely to be come customers. Wherever this evapo rated corn is once tried it will soon create a steady and paying demand for it. Irrigation In New England. J. H. Hale is authority for the state ment that "the time will come when the streams of New Kngland will be of more valne to agrionltnre than they ever have been to manufacturing. " In the Hartford Conrant he describes a project for using a little brook that runs among the bills in a distant part of his farm, to help out his crops in time of drought The main features of the plan are a res- -ervoir up among the hills, whioh forms a sort of pocket for a lively brook wbioh has never been known to dry, and a line of pipe, a little over 5,000 feet, with a fall of 107 feet from the reser voir to the house. Instead of carrying the main by the shortest and moat di rect route, as soon as tbe grade will permit, it is turned off and follows along the ridges of the farm, which form a sort of backbone all the way down. About every 300 feet hydrants it pnt into the main, and from these water can readily be carried on the snr f see of the gronnd. An enterprise of this kind is an expense for a single farm, bnt, through neighborhood co operation, much larger pipe could have been pnt down and tbe stream made to Irrigate balf a dozen or more farms in Its immediate vicinity. Baas Destroying Fruits. Beekeepers and fruit growers do not ajrree on the qnestion of bees destroying traits. Meehan tells in bis monthly that "honey bees destroy grapes, raspberries and other fruits." He explains the whole method as follows: Tbe bees are not able to bite the skin, hot, In the grape particularly, they start near the attachment of the berry with its stalk where it requires scarcely any force to thrust the tongue through. There are some beekeepers who keep bees without taking the slightest interest in provid ing Sowers, and who line their pockets out of the predatory pract ices forced on the industrious bee. There is nothing left for those troubled bnt to hung np bottles of sweetened liquid out of which ti a little thieves cannot escape. It is be hoved that bees would not steal fruit if the bee owner provided flowers for them. It is easier to gather honey than to suck grapes. Chemung Talley Tobacco Growers. At the annual meeting of the Che mung Valley Tobacco Growers' associa ti u President Furnham reported that "ibe value of the valley district crop over $750,000 three years ago has shrunk one-bulf, owing to various ad verse conditions. From New England to Vi itcousin the acreage of 1896 tobacco b; s been reduced from 40 to 75 per cent Now then are slight signs of improve ment " Groat Tribute to the G. O. M. Mr. Gladstone may have some special reason for proposing to return to parlia ment, but it cannot be to obtain a hear In . The old statesman has only to take the floor anywhere and the world comes to order. St. Louis Globe-Democrat Making Capital Out of It. Chicago is beginning to call that off ool r snowstorm a seal brown affair and to be proud of it Washington Post t
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