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A BAPTISM OF BULLETS I Rebels Open Fire on the Pal ace at Havana. JiO SERIOUS DAMAGE WAS DONE Unsuccessful Attempts Hade to Rescue General Hi vera and to Capture a Notorious Spy. New York, Nov. 29. On Sunday morning, for the first time in the his tory of the Cuban war, rebel bullets sought the pahice in Havana, says a dispatch to the Herald from Havana. The shots came from Casa Blanca, 600 raids across the entrance to the harbor, and while no one was hurt, the palace, with its electrio lights, was a shining mark, and must have been hit. The Spanish authorities attempt to make light of the affair, but at the same time a reporter for La Lucha who wrote up jind attetmpted to publish the facts in the case, was put in prison. The attack on Casa Blanca was made by Brigadier-General Cardenas and 50 rebels. They entered the town shortly before midnight on horseback, and at the end of an hour each man led out of town a horse with one extra head ap propriated, laden with clothing, pro visions, silver plate and money. Bofore they left they sent two volleys across the narrow harbor entrance at the pal ace, then oooly went to a friend's house inside the Spanish lines and took sup per. All this was under the guns of Cabanas and Moro. It is learned from an inside source that the object of the rebels was to re lease General Ruiz Rivera, and hang n citizen named Fumiro who is known as a spy. They failed in the first object only beoause of some misconception of the appointed time on the part of con federates within the prison with whom .arrangements had been made to admit them into the fortress. Fumiro man aged to esoape acrosB the harbor. The whole affair was well planned. General Cardenas came in the early evening with two columns along the seashore, and at 10 o'clock the men followed. They first visited Cabanas. Whey they saw that the arrangement lad failed, the rebels went after Fu miro. He fled across the harbor and the rebels did not dare to follow. Then the rebels went to Casa do los Fiailes, the priest's houBe, where they took blankets, silver plate and money. This house is close to Moro castle. The priest made a great outcry, but no soldiers came. Then the rebels sacked the store or iumiro, securing some gold. They also looted other stores. Working as quietly as possible, they approached a oavalry outpost, securing several horses. For two hours they enjoyed them selves, then rode to the harbor and fired two volleys at the palace. This aroused the Spaniards for the first time, but by the time troops turned out the rebels had gone. The authorities made every effort to suppress the details of this raid, though an official report admitted that six rebels entered the town. The rebels approached and fired upon Mariana last night. There was great excitement. The volunteers were called out, and with the troops returned the rebel fire. The residents were panic stricken and locked themselves in their houses. The rebels did not succeed in entering the town. The lines have been strengthened all about Havana. Correspondence received from the east states that General Gomez is mass ing men near Sagua, and is preparing to inarch westward to strike a potent blow before congress meets. Unusual activity of the rebels is reported ftom '. all quarters. The Spaniards are also making preparations for action, but as yet each avoids the other. Where and in what manner the blow that is com ing will fall cannot be predicted, but it is more surely coining than autonomy. General J. M. Rodriguez, command-in-chief of the western ' provinces, is out in a manifesto stating that he will accept nothing but independence. Ho contrasts the treatment of Cuban prisoners with that of Spanish prison ers, and says only the Spaniards under arms are considered as enemiee. He promises equal rights to other Span iards if independence is gained. General Blanco's general shake-up of the police force throughout the island is causing some excitement. The heads of departments of police were nearly all ehanged. Wherever fraud or undue eruelty was discovered drastic measures were taken. Secretary-General Con gusto's knowledge and experience gained in America are of valuable as sistance in this direction. Special re ports from the Herald correspondents in various parts of the island state that the Spanish soldiers are as badly off as the pacificos and concentrados. In many places the troops have been forced by circumstances to beg from door to door. General Blanco is making every effort to relieve their condition, and to reform the hospital service. Vienna, Nov. 29. -The unparalleled violence in the lower house of the reichsrath yesterday is about the only subject of conversation throughout Au stria today. The German progressist party has published a note expressing regret at the outbreak, and disclaiming any responsibility for it. . Made a Clean Sweep. Chicago, Nov. 29. The three re maining buildings spared by fire, which devastated the little town of Willow Springs two months ago, were totally destroyed by fire last night, while the members of the fire department were at a dance. The comparative isolation of the buildings prevented the blazo from spreading, and what now remains of the town was saved. The loss is esti mated at $20,000. It is spread around uong a number of small retailers. THE AMERICAN NAVY. Its Fresent Condition Summed Up by Secretary Long. ' , Washington, Nov. 29. The report of the secretary of the navy was made public today. It shows that the pres ent effective fighting force of the navy consists of four battle-ships of the first class, two battle-ships of the second class, two armored cruisers sixteen cruisers, fifteen gunboats, six, double turreted monitors, one ram, one dyna mite gunboat, one dispatch-boat, one transport Bteamer and hve torpedo- boats. There are under construction five battle-ships of the first class, six teen torpedo-boats and one Buomarine boat. There are 64 other naval vessels, in cluding those used as training, receiv ing and naval-reserve ships, tugs, dis used single-turreted monitors, and some unserviceable craft. There is, further, the auxiliary fleet. This consists, first, of more than 20 subsidized steamers, which comply with the requirements of the postal act of March 8, 1891, with regard to their adaptability to naval service, an:l to an armament of main and second batteries; second, of a very much greater number of large merchant marine steamers, which can be availed of at any time of need. These auxiliaries, ranging from 2,000 to 12,000 tons, will, if occasion re quire, form a powerful fleet of ocean cruisers, capable of swift and formida ble attack upon an enemy's commerce. Their great coal capacity will also en able them to remain a long time at sea in search of the whereabouts of hostile vessels. The country is congratulated upon the results obtained in the rebuilding of the navy. While its ships are not as many and it is not necessary they should be as those of some other great powers, they are, class for class, in power, speed, workmanship and offen sive and defensive qualities, the equal of vessels built anywhere else in the world. Five additional battle-ships are un der construction, which should be com pleted by the end of the year 1899. One gunboat and 17 torpedo-boats are also under construction. The first cost of the gunboats was about $250,00 each. That of the cruis ers nearly $2,000,000 eaoh. Bids for the torpedo-boats were from 16 firms, covering a variety of designs. The contracts of these 80-knot boats were awarded to the lowest bidders"as follows: To Harlan & Hollingsworth, one 840 ton boat, at $236,0000; to Gas Engine & Power Company and Charles L. Sea bury Co., consolidated, one 235-ton boat, at $210,00; to Wolff & Zwicker iron works, one 247.5-ton boat, at $214,500. It is of interest to note the naval programmes of. the principal foreign powers which show the great activity prevailing among them in the matter of naval consturction. NITROGLYCERINE EXPLOSION. Nearly Wrecked an Entire Town In Indiana. Andersonville, Intl. , Nov. 29. Ches terfield, Ind., was almost wiped off the map at an early hour this morning by an explosion of 80 quarts of nitrogly cerine in an oil field half a mile from town. James Gol's house, about 300 rods distant, was torn to pieces. The explosion tore a hole in the ground down to the water line. A three-ton engine was torn to fragments, and ev ery animal in the neighborhood was killed instantly. The little-town of Chesterfield is a mass of ruins. Every house was moved from its foundation, and windows weie shattered, doors smashed in, every light put out and the plastering shaken from the walls. Several people were shaken out of bed. At Dalesville, two miles away, and at Yorkiown, five miles distant, the damage .was almost as great. Many people were injured, and it is miracu lous that many were not killed. The shock was felt 15 miles away. The damage cannot be estimated. Will Hasten Dimmit's Execution. San Francisco, Nov. 29. Acting Attorney-General Carter has received word from Attorney-General Fitzgerald that he will advise Warden Hale to carry out the execution of Durrant, re gardless of any legal proceedings that may be instituted by Durrant's attor neys, after the present legal quibble has been decided. Durrant will be re sentenced as soon as the controversy now pending is settled, after which the attorney-general of the state believes no legal step can accomplish further Vslay in the proposed execution of the prisoner. Marshal Blanco' Assurance. Madrid Nov. 29. Marshal Blanco has cabled to the cabinet an assurance that he will be the arbitrator in con nection with the customs tariff, -and that the interests of the peninsula shall not suffer thereby. An excellent effect has been pro duced in official circles by the publica tion this morning, in the official ga leae, of the two decrees extending to the Antilles the universal sufferage law of 1890, and applying also the laws in scribed in the rim chapter of the Span ish constitution. There is a white ette, Ind. sparrow in Lafay- The Concord Ketnrns From A lank a. Fan Francisco, Nov. 29. The gun boat Concord arrived from Alaska to day. She will go to the navy-yard for an overhauling, after which she will be sent to China to take the place of the Yorktown on that station. Maxim's New Oun Teated. Portsmouth, Nov. 29. Hiram Max im's new quick-firing gun was tried here today with remarkable results. With 25 pounds of cordite it showed an affective range of 16,000 yards. M'KINLEY IN GOLD. A Statue to Be Expiliited at the rails Exposition. New York, Nov. 29. Ada Rehan in silver is to be outshone by William Mc Ifinley in gold according to the Herald of today. The added fame which the actress aoquired by posing for the Mon tana statue of solid silver exhibited at the world's fair is to be approached if not eclipsed by the president of the United States who will furnish the fig ure for a life-sized statue of solid gold. This will be the most costly lump of precious metal the people of the mod ern world have ever seen. So says F. D. Higby, of Chicago, who . has been retained by Western millionaires to furnish such a statue for exhibition" at the Paris exposition in 1900. Mr. Higby was in the city yesterday on his way to Washington to get the consent of President McKinley to pose for the figure. As Mr. Higby took a prominent part in the headquarters management of the late campaign, and has asked for no office he is confident of success in this mission. "You know," said Mr. Higbv "that I designed and built the Montana statue at the world's fair for whioh Miss Rehan posed. I suppose it was beoause of my experience that I have been retained to build this statue, which with the Txise will contain bul lion to the value of $1,050,000. "While it will be designed primarily to first exhibit the statue at Paris in 1900, the directors of the pan-American exposition to be held in Cayuga island, in the Niagara river, in 1899, are anxi ous to have it completed in time to ex hibit there first. It is likely that this arrangement will bo made. "I cannot say yet who the capitalists are who are back of this projeot, but there are a half dozen of them, and everything is ready to begin work on the statue as soon as a design is com pleted." ' OREGON LINEN MILLS. Reported That Flax Will Be Made Up Into Wares at Salem. Salem, Or., Nov. 29. There are prospects that the "Scotch Mills," in Salem, which have long'stood idle, will be oonverted into an important manu facturing plant. It is understood that Mr. T. B. Wilcox, who' owns a control ling interest in the mills, has submit- ted a proposition to Dr. Deimel, the importer of linen goods, whereby a linen , manufacturing establishment is to be located here, and Mr. Wilcox is to be I one of the stockholders. The details of j the negotiations, pending between Mr.J W'ilcox and Dr. Diemel, have not been ! given out, but assurance is given that the prospects for the establishment of a large linen manufacturing plant here : are very bright. Mrs. Lord received a letter from Dr. Deimel last night, stating that he sailed for Germany Tuesday. He further says: "I have now more offers for shares in our present company that I am able to accept, and if $500,000 or even $1,- 000,000 should be required tb organize a company mr me spinning oi yarn anu the weaving of linen, including linen mesh, it can be had, on the showing that you can grow and will grow flax of ! a quality equal to the best, and that : your people desire the locating of our ' industry there by offering us such ad- ' vantages as you mention in your let-1 ter." I Legislation for Alaska. 1 Washington, Nov. 29. The presi- . dent in his message will recommend speedy legislation to insure the best possible government for Alaska. He will point out the difficulties which the people living there are undor, and will urge that something be done to protect j the property of the government. He will allude to the fact that the govern-'; ment is losing large sums because there I is no way of protecting timber from j indiscriminate use. A better system of ! permits for the cutting and inspection i of timber, not only for the mineral ' states of the West, but also for Alaska, has been presented to the president, I and he will endeavor to have legisla-1 tion speedily enacted for the better pro tection of the forests. bearing- a Settlement. Washington, Nov. 29. Hawaiian Minister Francis M. Hatch, who has just arrived in this oity on his return from Honolulu, expressed the opinion today that the trouble between Japan and Hawaii has been smoothed over, i andean be Bettled now without diffi culty. The Japanese government seems to bo disposed to have the matter sot-1 tied in as amicable a spirit as possible, j Canada's Itepljr. i Ottawa, Ont., Nov. 29. A reply has been prepared by the Dominion govern-1 ment and forwarded to Washington in respect to the negotiations which are going on between those countries. The government will not say what the reply is until it reaches Mr. Foster, at Wash ington, but it is understood that it is a refusal to stop pelagic sealing for one year. j Chicago, Nov. 29. The Luetgert case will be called for a second trial to morrow morning, in Judge Horton's court. The state will announce its readiness to go on with the trial at once, but it is very probable that At torney Phalen, for the defense, will ask for a contiWnce or a change of, venue. A Four-Handed Fight. Mandeville, La., Nov. 2. From Bayou Lacombe, a small settlement 11 miles east of here, news has been re ceived of a desperate light between Ar thur and Edward Jolie, on one bide, and Laurence and Edward Cousin, on the other, in which all concerned were killed. Shotguuns and pistols were the weapons used. A long-standing family fend led to the fight. To every 192 persons in the United States there is a telephone. NORTHWEST BREVITIES Evidenfe of Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST From All the Cities and Towns of the Thriving Sister States Oregon. Willamette valley fall-sown grain Is looking fine. Several Oregon towns roport "not a vacant house." .The late storm was the severest known in many years in Clatsop county. Last week five carloads of wheat and five carloads of wood were shipped from Sheridan, in Yamhill county. A Modford man has ,sold 10 carloads of Ben Davis apples to a New York firm for 75 cents a box, f. o. b. A Buck Hollow rancher raised $300 worth of silver-skin onions on one acre of land in Sherman county this year, and sold the crop for cash. The run of steelhead salmon in Coos bay has commenced. Quite a number were brought from Coos river to Marsh field last week, and were sold for 50 cents each. Three steamers now ply between Ya quina and San Francisco, the Presi dent, Truckee and Scotia. The latter carries only stone, while the others carry all kinds of freight. , The finanoial condition of Grant county shows some improvement. Treasurer Hazeltine has funds on hand for the redemption of outstanding war rants bearing date of registration prior to January 24, 1891. State Treasurer Metchan s account with the several counties of the state shows that Baker, Benton, Columbia, Coos, Curry, Grant, Jackson, Klamath Lincoln, Umatilla and Wallowa have paid their taxes and interest in full for 1896. A Grant ceunty paper says more i wheat has been threshed in the sur rounding country this year than ever before, and that enough of it will be ground into flour to supply Grant coun ty with fiour until next season.' Usual ly it has been necessary to bring in flour. The apple crop on Burnt river is re ported to be three times that of last year and of good quality. The price, also, shows a very material advance over last year's. Last season's yield brought 40 cents a box, which this year has advanced to 75 cents, nearly double. Both dwelling and business houses are needed in Vale, Malheur county, says the Advocate. Every available room in town is occupied, and the great demand for more is increasing daily. Little three and four room oot tages that can be built at a cost not to exceed $200 each will bring from $5 to $3 a month rent. Samples of Eastern oysters that wore , planted in Xaquina bay Have been on j exhibition in Newport. The oysters j have increased very much in Bize, and have improved much in flavor, oyster experts Bay, but whether or not spawn discovered on mussel shells and other objects near them is the product of the foreign or native oyster cannot yet be determined. Samples were sent East two weeks ago for settling thiB point, but no report has yet been received. Washington. There is a good demand for logs on Gray's harbor. The lumber shipments from Wash ington in October by rail were 750 cars. The shingle shipments from Wash ington in October were 1,806 cars, or 298,560,000 Bhinlges, notwithstanding the car shortage and drop in prices. A Gray's harbor fisherman says that the falling-off of the catch in silverside salmon there this season is fully 50 per cent. The pack of the cannery at Aberdeen is only 10,000 cases, against 21,000 last year. The new hatchery on the Chehalis river will, it is expect ed, check this diminution in supply and restore the industry. Washington has a law against alien ownership of land in- that state. A Scotch company is desirous of building a beet-sugar factory near Spokane, and this law stands in the way. There is a case in the supreme court of Washing ton at the present time which will de termine whether the law is constitu tional or not, or whether aliens can own land in the state or not. By the breaking of a sheer boom at Stanwood, in Snohomish county, tho other day, between 5,000,000 and b, 000,000 feet of logs went out into the Bound, and that of this amount prob ably 500,000 feet will go out to sea through Deception pass. The boom company expects to be able to save all except those carried out to sea by the tides. The state auditor has had printed in pamphlet form the opinions of the attorney-general relative to revenue and taxation. These pamphlets will be for warded to the different county treas urers throughout the state. Ho many inquiries were received by the stato auditor relative to the construction of the revenue law that this step was deemed advisable. The famous Rnby creek, over which there was so much exictemont 15 years ago, promises to furnish the state with another rich district. A resident of Burlington was in Mount Vernon last week and brought with him and sold to the bank a little over $1,000 in coarse gold taken out of placer claims on Can yon creek, a branch of Ruby creek, j W. A. Woodin and others, who were contemplating building a shingle mill in Fairhaven, have changed their minds, and will put up a salmon can nery with a oapacity of 20,000 cases. ;, WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. Office of Downing, Hopkins & Co., Chicago Board of Trade Brokers, 711-714 Cham bur ot Com merce BuikUng, fortUiul, Oregon.) The event of the week in the Chicago wheat market was a jump of 4o in one day in the price of December options. The sentimental figure of $1 was reached for a moment. The bulk of the wheat in Chicago is in the hands of a powerful clique, who are in a posi tion just now to dictate to the short sellers of December. These people keep on declaring there is to be no cor ner, but a squeeze is almost certain. The outcome of the May price de pends altogether on the world's statis tical position. Europe would not be taking 6,500,000 bushels of wheat and flour from America in one week if there did not exist extraordinary necessity for it. But no one knows how long this demand will keep up or whether the prioe fairly discounts the situation. A good illustration of how little can be decided with exactness about so vast a question as the wheat supply is the conflict of two respectable authorities in the mere interpretation of an official Russian crop report. The Corn Trade Newe declares it shows a shortage of 102,000,000 busfiels, compared with last year, whilo Beernohm makes the shortage only 1,000,000 bushels. The profession of crop statistics is like the ology. It is so big a field as to permit of all sorts of differences and to enable each teacher to pose before those imme diately around him as the only really authoritative one. Nothing would affect the sentiment at Chicago quicker than a falling off in Northwestern receipts. But on this comparatively simple problem there is no unanimity. Pillshury a . fortnight ago predicted confidently that the car lots at Minneapolis and Duluth by No vember 20 would be down to small figures, with not over 20 per cent of the crop left in the hands of the farm ers. There has all through November been perfect weather for marketing; but the authorities at Minneapolis are now predicting another two weeks of free movement. The weather is to count a great deal on the price between this and Decmeber 10th. It will make eaBy or difficult the continued move ment of wheat between Duluth and Chicago; it will keep open or close up navigation between Chicgao and Buf- alo, and will influence, too, the move ment from the spring wheat farmer into Duluth and Minneapoiis.N Portland Market. Wheat Walla Walla, 70 77c; Val ley and Bluestera, 78 79c per bushel. Four Best grades, $4.25; graham, $3.50; superfine, $2.25 per barrel. Oats Choice white, 34 35c; choice gray, 82 33c per bushel. Barley Feed barley, $1920; brew ing, $30 per ton. Millstiffs Bran, $15 per ton; mid dlings, $21; shorts, $15.50. Hay Timothy, $1212.50; clover, $10 11; California wheat, $10; do oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9 10 per ton. Eggs 22,'625o per dozen. Butter-Fancy oreamery, 50 55c; fair to good, 4045c; dairy, 80 40c per roll. Cheese Oregon, H'c; Young America, 12$c; California, 910o per pound. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $1.75 2.50 per doezn; broilers, $2.002.5O; geese, $58; ducks, $3.004.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 9 10c per pound. Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, 8540o per sack; sweets, $1.40 per cental. Onions Oregon, new, red, 90c; yol low, 80o per cental. Hops 814o per pound for new crop; 1890 crop, 46o. Wool Valley, 14 16a por pound; Eastern Oregon, 7 12c; mohair, 20 22o per pound. Mutton Gross, best bheep, wethers and ewes, $3.00; dressed mutton, 5c; spring lambs, SJ-c per pound. Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.50; light and feeders, $3. 00 4. 00; dressed, $4. 50 5. 00 per 100 pounds. Beef Gross, top steers, $2. 75 3. 00; cows, $2.25; dressed beef, 45)o per pound. Veal Large, 4)j5o; small, 5Jg 6o per pound. Seattle Market. Butter 1 ancy native brick, 27o; ranch, 16 18c creamery, Cheese Native Washington, 13B'o; California, d',2c, Eggs Fresh ranch, 80 32c. Poultry Chickens, live, por pound, hens, 10c; spring chickens, $2.50 8 00; ducks, $3.603.75. Wheat Feed wheat, $22 por ton Oats Choice, per ton, $120. Corn Whole, $22; cracked, per ton, $22; feed meal, $22 per ton. Barley Rolled or ground, per ton, $22; whole, $22. Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef. steers, 6c; cows, 5,'c; mutton sheep, 6c; pork, 7c; veal, small, 7, Fresh Fish Halibut, 45c; salmon, 8 4c; salmon trout, 7 10c; flounders and sole, 8 4; ling cod, 45; rock cod, 6c; smelt, 24e. Fresh Fruit Apples, 60c$1.25 per box; peaches, 75 80c; prunes, 85 40c pears, 75c $1 per box. Han Francisco Market. Wool Nevada 11 13c; Oregon, 13 14c; Northern ll12o per pound. Hops 10 14c per pound. Millstnffs Middlings, $2022; Cal ifornia bran, $17.50 18.00 per ton. Onions New red, 7080c; do new tilverskin, $1.401.60 per cental. Eggs Store, 182c; ranoh, 40 41c; Lastorn, 1724; duclc, 25o per dozen. Cheese Fancy mild, new, 12lcj fai to good, 7 8c per pound.. THREW HIS MONEY AWAY. Was Bich Once, but Died Fcunileaa and a Morphine Fiend. "Tom" Coffin, a mysterious spend- : thrift who lived near Wlnthrop, Me.. Is dead, ills end was In keeping with, the strangeness of his life. He di?d iu the little town of Lovell, Me., from tha effects of the morphine habit and leav ing uo friends or money to bury Mm. The selectmen of Wlnthrop have received word that Coffin has been buried at the expense of the town of Lovell and that Wlnthrop would bo looked to to make good the costs. How " Coffin got bis money no one seems to kuow. His life away from Wlnthrop Is a mystery. Some say he got his money as a bookmaker at the New York race tracks; some say lmlnted mine and land enterprises. But this Is known: He was there twelve years ago with money with heaps and stacks of money. Cotftn was a Wintliroa boy find lived there till nearlng young man hood. Then he got Into trouble and had to leave town. Nothing was heard or thought of him for years, when sudden ly he reappeared In the community at that time a mau of middle age, medium size, agile, hearty of manner, with a strong, intelligent face. But soon he began to paralyze the community. He was an opium fiend at the time. IIo bought horses, and when he got angry at them he had them shot. IIo bought a fine house and Immediately began to mutilate the grounds by tearing away a fine bank wall of granite, lie hud his front stone steps torn up and carted away because some young people sat upon them, nnlnvlted, one evening. He bought carriages and furniture an I then more carriages and furniture anil made a bonfire on his lawn of the first Installment. If he had an end In Ufa it seemed to be to dazzle and astonish the acquaintances of his youth. Ha bought expensive earpeting, to bo spread from his front door across tho street so that the woman he lAtrodueed as his wife might go to an entertain ment without soiling the soles of her slippers. Sometimes he had his tantrums and bad spells. Then there were shrieks from the house, from Its female In mates, and the good people of Wlnthrop held their breath with thoughts of mur der and other crimes. It Is estimated that Coffin must have spent $200,000 at lcnsMu the four yearn he was In Wlnthrop, and several per sons in the place were left the richer for his having come. He distributed his money among his friends with lav ish hand. He seemed utterly careless In regard to the keeping of his money. At one time he left a basket containing; $100,000 in currency In the house, tii plain sTght, In a room, with no one left to look after It but a few women. He carried about with him a grip stuffed with $110,000 In bills, and onct? absent-mindedly left It In a store and did not think to call for It until the next day. It is nlso related that one time lie had the grip full of money, and, being alMHit to start on a trip to Boston, he did not wish to be bothered with si much money, so he emptied It upon tho floor of a closet In his house and start ed on his way without further thought. He left Wlnthrop after these escapades as suddenly as he came. When he was there again, a short time ago, he was a hanged man, only the ghost of his for mer self, emaciated, unsteady In gait a pitiable wreck. YOUNG MARRIED PEOPLE. Bad MlBtuke for Them to Hcifln I.lfo In a Kourdluu Hoime. t Edward W. Hole, editor of the Lad lea' Home Journal, always a stanch and un compromising advocate of the home, asserts, lti u lute Issue of his magazine, that a home, however humble, Is a mil lion times better place for young mar ried coupleo to live than Is the most lux urious hotel or best boarding house lu the land. "It Is olways a sad thing," he says, "when a young married couple begin life In a boarding house or hotel. Sad because they start life practically outside of theniBelveH. The furiiltiiro around them Is not their own. Tho young wife may bring with her oil tlit trifles she chooses; she may add a touch of her own hero mid another touch there. But the things In the room aro not theirs, and sooner or later she real izes It. 'During the day the wife Is alone. No duties call her. Nothing .s there In her life to exercise her Ingenuity nor devel op her womanly talents. She cannot prepare any little pleasuro for Ur young husband, for things are prepared for her. When her husband leaves for his office she turns back Into the room. ' and wonders wnat she tun do (lining the duy; how she will employ herself, where she will go. There Is nothing lu her room to appeal to her to stay there. No home duties confront her. So shu goes out and shops, perhaps, for a while; runs around to her mother's; calls upon some friends; goes back to her room to practice a little, If she Is musical and has a piano; or, If she Is fond of books, she reads. There Is nothing In her life; two-thirds of herself lies dormant. She Is glad when tho time copies for her husband to come home; glad to feel that she has some one to whom she can talk; glad of com pany. And he? What can ho do to express himself to his young wife? Nothing around him Is his; everything Is by lease, his for a time, for so much money. And utter he Is through pay ing for It ho leaves It behlnib The end Is the same ns tho beginning. That Is why boarding house or hotel life Is so Injurious to young married people. It makes them practically homeless." Your Chance. The usual odds iiild by an accident company ore 1,000 to 4 that you do uo diu from an accident In a year. Oil Wells of Japan. Native and foreign investors now ar studying the oil wells ot Jnpiiu. Tua field bj considered promising.