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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1893)
VOL 5. HOOD UIVKK, OREGON, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 16, 1893. NO. 16. 3(ood Iiver Slacier. The Glacier PublLshlng Compiny. luaciiiPTioN rnioa. On. yr tl month ThtM miiiillx "(' ool'J I m c THE GLACIER Barber Shop Grant Evans, Propr, l.aond HI., near Oak. . Uo4 Elver, Or. ftlitvlng ami l!ilr cutting aeatly dona. Satisfaction Ouaraiitead, (M'CIDlOTAIi NKWS. Minister Sues ilis Conjjn'trti tiuii lor Iaiiiiiy;'H. Ai'ACIIKS OFF Til KIR KKSF.RVK. More CiiiiiliriitioiiH in t Ii Fa i It'll City Hank nt lam AugelcH Aii (til-SI!: Suicide. A coiilcut iH on ut Olympia for title to S(c:iinli(iiil Inland. 'I he I'Viiscr river Hiilmon pack is the largot ever put li. Tin' Ajpik Ik m arc again oil" th'ir rcKer valioii. i'lit- Hewn Iium jiiHt Im-cii brought t TdiiiltHtoiic, A. T. Tillamook (Or.) 1 1 h 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 h nut in their ' fii i 1 1 yn cutting tin1 legs Mini tails from ems ami enjoying llieir miserable dentil. '1'lie four i nt 1 1 1 1 ii 1 hanks at I'trtlainl which closed their iloorn recently arc de clared solvent, and they may soon re- Mlllll' hll.silieHH, The Succor mine in ( iold Hill (Nev.) district has discovered that the J lint i" mine liui lieen taking ore from its ground, and a heavy nut for damages is, likely to follow . I!ev. 1 av hi S. Taylor. ex-minister of the I'irst Congregational Church at Sau salito, ('ni., has. brought unit against li in former congregation (or damages amount ing to ili.'Jii'-'.oil. The (ilive Orchard Company at Sacra mento iH going in the Iuihi iichh on a large scale. A font nut to place 11, 000 trees on the ground the coming season Iuih been entered into. More complications are tleveloped in tin- allairs ot the failed City Itank at a Angeles, and a eompliiint diargitig fraud Iuih heeii entered against parties con iieeteil with the hank. At Victoria, It. C. , tint Printers' Union lia.t reduced the scale of neVHpaier work 10 percent. Machine hands will net per week; hand compositors, night, 15 per 1,000; day, -10 centH. William Young, who threw a lighted oil lamp at Irene Mansfield at lxs An geles, cuuMng death from the frightful liurning she received, has lieen found guilty of maiiHlaughter on the third trial." The Washington National Hank atTa ttnna has heen placed in a receiver's hands An Attempt wan being made to get it, out of the Comptroller's lunula when the latter checkmated the bank officials. The present progrt'HH of the Southern I'acilic exteiiHion justifies the expecta tion that the road will reach San Luis Ohispo in six months and makea through route to the Kant in six mouths after that lime. Sacramento lias voted to nee well wa ter instead of water from the Sacramen to. Nearly ;!,000 votes were polled. The water comt'H from a subterranean dream, the Hource tif w hich apparently is Homo mountain lake, and in known to have carried live trout in it an far as the wells flint of the city. Seven San Francisco Chinamen, know ing Tiieomu was anti-Chinese. became frightened while being driven from the J 'ml land train to a boat at the wharf at Taconia at. the sight of crowd assembled At a lire. Without waiting to consult the driver of the gurnev thev cut the .straps on the doors and, breaking them open, ran back to the tlepot and hid. T hey left their baggage behind. Another at .tempt may yet be made to rescue thesteain collier Sail Pedro, which went ashore near Victoria nearly two years ago. This time the Moran Bros, of Seattle have tifken the matter in charge, and if they find that it will be worth while to try and save the San Pe dro, t hey will make one limit ell'ort to do so. The Southern I'acilic Railroad Com pany, which is the owner of the San Pedro, has, it is said, been in correspond ence with th Moran HroB. for some time. The company is anxious that the San Pedro shall be saved. She cost nearly $250,000, and it will bo a heavy loss to the company if she is not recovered. However, the company does not caro to spend a lot of money in removing the collier from her present quarters and then find that she has been down bo long aa to become absolutely worthless. In order to determine her value the Southern Pacific has arranged with the Moran Bros, to make a personal inspec tion of her. IMJNINKH.H ItllKVITIKH. wver iiju kiiiuh oi wine are malo in Australia. An aluminium bridge over Gibraltar is proHMcd. J'here am .'17,000 lady telegraphers in llio tinned Mates, New South Walcn has over 5,000,000 acres ol tin-ore hclds Belgium has 150,000 "HchhappN" Iioiihi'S aim 11,1100 schools I'.uropn has 5,.'!I5,000 acres in beets, ppMlllClllg III, iiityxHi ions. Wine clarillers in France use than H0,000,000 eggs a year. More than .J.000,000,000 cigarettes were sold in this country hint year. The soldering of ghiMs and porcelain Willi mi lalH is 11 novel I'rclich piocess. I he average wages paid in the Clyde ship yardH are reported at 7 cents per Hour. The State of North Carolina has mined nearly f IO.Oimi.imhi worth of gold since IH.7I. Aiiicni Hii cotton taking the place of in llayti. goods itre gradually the I'.nglisli product Il cohIh but 'St cenls to transport a ton 01 coal nv water Irotii I'.ullalo to u ill 1 1,0110 laileH. The weight of the rail n 'ed 011 tin 1 1 1 .xiiiericaii roieiH nas heen increasing slcii'lily during the last twenty years. Sixty million dollars' worth of leather is reiiuired every year to provide boots and hIkm'S for the inhabitants of Ureal Britain. The steam engines of the world repre sent the work of 1 ,000,000,000 men, or more than double the working popula tion of the earth. The three Northern States of New Fngland will receivo government lsinn- ues amounting to fdi.uoo on this year's maple sugar cr The cigarette smokers are doing their U'st to keep the government in funds They dropped $2.0110,000 into Uncle Sam's strong Imx last year. Chili is the most prosperous agricult ural country of South America. There are 7,010, onti acres under cultivation, of which 1,100,000 are irrigated. In the opinion of the Portland Oregon ian this is a good time to pav small debts, as "$00 will pay $1,000 ol 'debts in one day if kept moving actively." The total product of the Mexican sil ver mines from their opening by the Spaniards to the independence of the country in 121 was 2,:!iiK,!i52,(HHI. Hy the tenth census 2.1,010,000 inhabi tants of the United States were sup irted by agriculture, 11,520,000 by manufactures and 15,1120,000 by com merce. Homestead farmers in this country earn H per cent of the total earnings of the nation, and their farms and stock represent 7 per cent of the national wealth. Chamberlain, S. 1)., has the largest artesian well in the world. The (low is 8,000 gallons a minute. The well is eight inches in diameter, and the water is thrown fourteen feet above the top of the pipe. The French government, controlling the pearl islands of the Pacific, has re cently prohibited the use of diving ap paratus by iiearl hunters. This is lo calise there has been such a demand for the Is'iiutiful pearls of the Pacific tlnit the supply is being depleted, and in a little w hifo apparently there would be uu left. PURKLY PERSONAL. The Belgian King hates music, and whenever a piano is opened he vanishes from the room. Pinglcy of Maine, lollivcr of Iowa and Burrows of Michigan are seated side by side in the front row of the Re publican side of the House this session. Little Queen Wilhelmina of Holland is credited w ith the possession of a par ticularly intractable temper, which she inherits from her disreputable old papa. Peter Rossegger, the bard of Styria, as Austria's most popular poet is called, and who had a public or rather popular celebration of his 50th birthday recent ly, ia the son of the poorest of peasants. Miss Emily Faithful, the well-known English ajKislle of woman's work, lives in the dreariest part of Manchester. Slit is an inveterate smoker of cigars, which alone relieve the asthma from which she sullers. Mrs. Lucie C. Carnegie of Pittsburg, sister-in-law of Andrew Carnegie, liua given an order to the Maryland Steel Company of Baltimore for a steel steam yacht, w hich she will use in cruising in Southern waters. , William A. Pledger, the negro politi cian of lieorgia, is to apply for admission to the bar at the next session of the Su perior Court in Clarke county. Four teen negro lawyers have already been admitted to practice at the Georgia bar. Prince Victor Napoleon, w ho lives qui etly in Brussels, is a great student of works on the army, military tactics, con stitutional government and French his tory during the consulate and the two Kmpororn. The Prince is now 31 years old, and his demeanor is grave beyond his years. The Princess Maud, who has always been the favorite of her father, the Prince of Wales, has blossomed out into quite a beauty this season, the foreign correspondents state. The Princess Vic toria is the useful member of the fam ily, and plays the part of the peace maker always. The assertion recently made in an English periodical that Miss Braddon hiitl realized $500,000 from her novels was generally regarded as preposterous, but Henry Labouchere says in London Truth that he " is inclined' to think tlnvt th6y have brought in a good deal more than the sum stated." EASTERN MELANGE. IIiik Hailstones Fall in the Stitl of New York. RADICAL METHOD FOR RELIEF. Amount and Mileage of Railroads In the Hand of Receivers at the Present Time. iniNshophers art! doing great damage to crops in Iowa. ( A conference of Anarchists is to be held in Chicago September 15. A Kansas editor Isiasts of leing a graduate of the Keeley Institute. The rale of taxation just fixed in New York is the lowest ill thirty years. Active measures are being taken to enforce the health laws of Kansas. Another gas well with powerful flow has been struck at Stronghuist, 111. I iovernor Turiiey of TenneHsee is out ill a proclamation denouncing lynching. About 12,000 men who were idle in ) Pittsburg two weeks ago are at work again. During this year 71 Ui.'K! silver Treas ury notes have been redeemed in silver dollars. Senator John Sherman has decided to say very little at present upon the money question A sea turtle, weighing 1,000 pounds, was captured near Portland, Me., tin other dav. Frick, the Carnegie manager at Pitts burg, has bad bis salary of $50,000 a year reduced to $.i.r,000. Senator Pell'er has asked that the sal aries ol all government olhceru above $1,000 a year lie reduced. Atlanta is alsiut to celebrate her fif tieth anniversary. Her population is in close neighlsirliisid of 120,000. Much dissatisfaction is found with the registration requirement bv intending settlers in the Cherokee Strip. The counties of Western New York rtqwirt a plague of grasshoppers that is loiug much harm to the crops. Last vear the total valuation of the railroads of Kansas was $50,01 10,000. This year it is increased $10,000,000. R. D. Kathrens, Secretary of a large oil company, says that the supply of pe troleum in Wyoming is inexhaustible. Railroad Commissioners of Kansas have not vet been able to secure seed wheat for the western part of the State. F'rancis Murphy, the well-known tem perance advocate, claims that the exces sive use til intoxicants is on the decrease. But 1,000 men are now employed in the Santa Fe shops at Topeka, Kan. I-ast vear at this time 2,000 men were at work. There is an organized kick all over Kansas alioiit the celerity with which the State Board of Pardons is letting out criminals. Secretary Hoke Smith has declined to execute asplialtum mining leases on the Indian reservation in Utah. He says it is illegal. Railroads with a mileage of over 10,- 000 miles and capital of $1,01)0,000,000 have gone into receivers' hands in this country tins vear. The Javanese village in Midway Plai- sance at the Chicago Fair is unable to meet the exactions of the management of the fair, and will close. The city of Cleveland lias filed a claim to land on the lake front occupied by the Pennsylvania, Lake Shore and Big Four railroads and worth $2,000,000. Rome, N. Y., reports a fall of hail stones weighing one quarter of a pound. l'.verv exposed window was liroken and roofs damaged. Rain fell in torrents. riie New York Sun has been making a study of the debts of the various States, and liuda that in the last ten vears there lias been a total decrease of $10,000,000. W. W. Ogilvie, the milling king of Canada, estimates the yield in wheat in Manitoba and Northwest Canada this year at about twenty bushels per acre, or a total yield of about 10,000,000 bush els. The recent " hunger riots " in New- York had their comical side. Cue of the loudest clamorers for bread, who was taken into custody bv the police, was searched, and was found to have $;i5 in his pockets. New York's Dock Commissioners have built on several different piers people's mvilions. In these structures iron pil ars support the roof, the building being open on each side to let the breeze enter. lie pavilions cost $3,500 each, and are to serve as public promenades. Dr. Warner's corset factory at Bridge port, Conn., employs 1,000 women. It now is running only part of the time, but for all of the workwomen who do not make enough to pay their living ex penses Dr. Warner furnishes the meals until the factory shall be running full time again. A movement is on foot in South Caro lina to have John C. Calhoun's body, with the sarcophagus erected over it by the State Legislature some years ago, removed from St. Philip's neirlected graveyard in Charleston to Fort Hill, where was his home and where the col lege he wished for has lately been estab lished. Typographical Union No. 16 of Chi cago, including all the large English pa pers of that city, adopted a radical method for the relief of the unemployed in the shape of a rule, to hold good for live weeks, that none of the regularly 1 em ployed shall work more than four ' aavs eacn wees, putting on " suds " the , other three. UIIICAfiO EXPOSITION. In the Oregon display is an exhibit mat attracts much attention. It in clinics a working model of a gold place mining outfit. A large amount of gold bearing dirt is at hand for demonstrat ing the w hole process of panning out the gold, and at stated intervals the plant is put into operation. This exhibit is not surrounded with glass, and it is an ainus ing sight to see people hunting over tin sand and dirt for particles or appear anecs 01 gold. Near the north end of the forestry building are show n cross sections of trees from Oregon. There is a yellow fir log six leet in diameter. 1 lie yellow fir grows all over tin? Northwest Coast Range Mountains. It is of superior ex cellence for ship-building and spars. It ranges from two to ten feet in diameter, A cross section of a trunk of tide-land 'spruce is shown. It is nine feet nine ; ... I...U ; .. .1 ; 'ci... 1 : .. 11. n 11, iiiaiiM iri, 1 in 011 11. w as six teen leet in diameter, the tree being .".05 feet high and 300 years old. (ireat slabs of noble li r, spruce, lovely fir and yellow lir are show 11. Baron de Maraja, Commissioner from brazil, and . Suwa, Secretary of the Jap' anese ( 'oiniiiis-ion, have through O. S H hilmore, editor of llardwisxl, offered lorestry exhibits at the orld s Fair to to the city of Chicago for a permanent museum. Said Mr. Whit more the other night: " Both the collections are com- 1 plete and large, the former being one of the largest in the forestry building. Mr Suwa's is large and exceptionally well arranged and perfectly classified Dr. Niederlein, Commissioner from the Ar gentine Republic, and Dr. Massler, Com missioner from Paraguay, IkiIIi havt splendid collections, which they havi given me to understand thev would pre sent to the city if thev could be assured thev would be appreciated and cared for as they deserve. No such collection of forest products has ever liefore lieen shown as is now in this exhibit, either from domestic or foreign sources. I have discussed the matter with others among foreign exbihiters, and am satisfied the hulk of the foreign exhibits can be se cured by the cit v. American exbibiters also are prepared to make handsome do nations. 1 think the Jessop collection can be secured and some other private collections. Dr. Charles Millspangh, the botanist who lias charge of the W est lr ginia collection, intimates that a largt; part of that exhibit can be secured. It is one of the finest shown, is complete and thoroughly classified. Kentucky, Oregon, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michi gan, W aslnngton, Missouri and others have complete, well-arranged and well classified exhibits which thev would gladly donate in whole or in part." FROM WASHINGTON CITY. All the members of the administration took the greatest interest in the vote on the uson bill; Secretary Carlisle espe cially so. He received in his office in the Treasury Department official an nouncement of the several votes as soon ns they were flashed across the wires. When the first vote was received, which showed that free coinage at a ratio of Vi to 1 was beaten by 102 majority, he said the majority was greater than he had anticipated, and that he would have been satistied with sixty majority. At the conclusion of all the" votes Secretary Carlisle stated that he was very much gratified at the result and felt that it would do much to restore public confi dence. He expressed the hope that the Senate would take speedy action on the silver question. The Secretary added that the present stringency was not due to want, of money, but to hoarding it and withdrawing it from business n ac count of this lack of confidence. It has been decided impracticable to let the tariff" question go over to the reg ular session by adjourning Congress as soon as the silver question is settled; so work on the tariff bill will soon begin. Chairman Wilson of the Wavs and Means Committee hopes to have "the bill ready t'r consideration bv the House bv November. Another urgent question mav have to be considered before this. The monetary stringency has caused such a falling oil' in receipts from internal revenue, customs and other sources that the daily receipts of the government are now tailing $300,000 short of the com pulsory expenditures for nensions nml the ordinary expenditures of the govern ment. Already there is a deficiency of $10,000,000 to $11,000,000 in sight. The situation cannot be met by economy, as these expenses are obligatory under the law. The alternatives before Congress to meet the situation are limited to three a new issue of government bonds, an income tax or some such new impost, or an increase of the rate in some of the existing forms of taxation. Secretary Carlisle has ordered that the United States mints at Philadelphia and San Francisco be fully manned and the full capacity of both mints utilized in coining gold bullion. The Treasury De partment possesses from $80,000,01)0 to $00,000,000 in gold bullion, which is part of the gold reserve of $100,000,000. Gold bars cannot be used as currency; so it has been decided in the present need to coin the bullion on hand. The bullion will be coined into $10, $5 and $2 gold pieces, preference being given to the first two denominations. The coining capacity of the Philadelphia mint, it is stated, will be between $5,000,000 and $0,000,000 per month. The San Fran cisco mint will also be utilized, but fortu nately nearly all bullion possessed by the government is in the East. There is $20,000,000 of gold bullion in the Phila delphia mint, $15,000,000 of it being in one vault, where it has remained un touched for fifteen years. Acting Di rector Preston visited Philadelnhia the other day, and completed arrangements with Superintendent Bosbyshell to begin work' at once. The Treasury Is now pav- ing out gold coin all over the country, ana as a consequence stands mor in need of gold coin than heretofore. FOREIGN FLASHES. Trade Greatly Demoralized in British India. WOMAN MURDERS AN ATTORNEY France' Vineyard In a Healthy State-Czar Tarns IIin At tention to Railway. The verv first pvinnnumrn ti-r ..ii-lu ;n erinanv will Ik- rifiwu! at !urn - "J ' v vir;i uiiTi iiurj A writing thl u-liirh to Ird Byron was sold the other day in lmdon for $55. Permission has 1 piione wires 111 Manchester, England. V) be placed underground. lhe reduction in price of the rupee low 1 shilling and 4 pence has greatly lemorali.ed trade in India. Birmingham, England, has been suc essfully operating a storage battery treet railway system for over a year. The Emperor of Russia is giving earn st attention to the making of the rail way Is-twceri Moscow, St. Petersburg ami Siberia. A gun exploded on tin. French Dnguav Truin dnrinif tnnret r.i-i,r.;,. , Sydney, N. S. W killing four men and illj-ll ill) 1IIUII The first effect of closimr Trillion t,,i., to free silver coinage was to cost English holders ol Indian securities $150,000,000 by their immediate fall. The lierinan Anti-Slm-prv fVimmiitiui which started on its career with a capi tal of 2,000,000 marks, has ended in total and irremediable collapse. On inanv of tba railwava in 1 ;,.rm.i,,,- the practice of starting locomotive lire's with gas instead of wood has been adopted, and proves economical. Baron Alriert IJnthmhiM l. given the Iron Crown by the Emperor of "or ma pari in carrying out the Aus.tro-IIungarian currency reform. A new loud-speaking telephone has been invented in England. The receiv ing instrument, is uniM tr .nn.lr l,.,i enough to be heard all over the room. The Turkestan Gazette says that the Ameer of Bokhara has broken uith Mo hammedan tr.-ulitinnu onil XX ill til lirr iai-. n 111 iiuuri open his country to Eurojiean civiliza tion. An Englishman, whoop u-ill lion in of been probated, left fAO.non tn varinna charities and the remainder of hi s es tate $375,000 to Sir Henry Thompson, the scientist. The newest fashion ininno fho lorlino - -..w.. 1 lVH J at St. Petersburg is to arm themselves wiiii long canes wnen they go abroad. Some of these canes measure six or seven feet in length. The diadem nf the Russian Fmr.rooo contains 2.530 lart?e diamonds anil a sin. gle ruby valued at $400,000. The private jewels of the Empress of Austria are worm i,ouu,ooo. The London Times never nrints ures or uses scare hpads. hut nn tha How of the recent royal wedding it had a nowery poruer a quarter of an inch wide around each page. France's vineyards b nvp nnnorpnflir completely recovered from the phyllox era, and this year's grape crop is report ed to be the finest that has been gath ered in thirtv-five vears. The Olieen of Ttn.lv is tnkinr lint 11 anal annual holiday among the Alps. She is attended only by two of her ladies in waiting, and with them she proposes to make an ascent of Monte Rosa. The Italian government is likely to order the suspension of the rnthnlii-'nil. grimage to Rome in the event of the cholera in b ranee, Hungary and other countries continuing next month. MlSS Thornton. Onpen Victoria's old est servant, who has been state house keeper at Buckingham Palace, has just resigned at the aire of SO vpars film i.n been forty years in her Majesty's service. The occurence of two pimps of ,.iir,iori at Xorthafen, on the canal fed by the Spree, leaves little doubt that the river is infected. The German (rnvui-mmmi has ordered the closing of all nver baths. At Montnelier. Fr 1.11 pp. fin rim inia an elderly lady entered the pew of Jean jouissant, a prominent lawyer, and shot mm lour nines, Killing nun. Mie claimed he had refused to return a sum of mnnpv intrusted to his care. The Infanta Eulalia's snnn-c-lass dress of which an American manufacturing company made her a present while she was the nation's guest, has aroused great curiosity among the ladies of the Span ish Court, who very properly regard it as something very remarkable in the way of feminine attire. TjOndon is to lisivp a inhaoonahnrvfrrm-i fipnfpinhpr 17 tn Oitrhpr 7 a doVilirt nni1 . J-.. . . W N.. , . 'UllliU, .till. gladiola exhibition for three days in the beginning ot September, three chrysan themum shows, one in October and iha outers m uie iwo Hucceeuing inontns ; a cage bird show the last of October and . i ii j .i a ouu-uog snow in ioveuiDer. Rigjit Honorable Henry Chaplin holds the English government mainlv respon sible for the failure of the Brussels Mon- ..A 1 P . 1 ..... ciary vonierence, ana cnarges that it willlully threw away an opportunity for promoting a settlement of the silver question affecting all parts of the world. The Russian Czarow-itz has nnn wnnd reason why he can never marry the Princess Victoria of Wales, with whose name tne gossips nave connected hie. It is that they are first cousins, and the marriace of first cousins is strict.lv nm. hibited by the canons of the Greek Church. SHE SPOKE AT LAST. A Rchooltf-Mher Who Wm Frtrc fcy "MMher" Turned on II Im. It wan one of those frosty, nippy morn ings when tho pavements were icy and winds piercing. A small, plump damsel by profession a schoolteacher), with rnsv cheeks, might have been seen tripping along tho slippery sidewalks of Ken wood. It was very early, not yet 8 o'clock, and the little Bchoolmarm hnr ried, followed by a middle aged man who had got off tho car obviously to fol low her. "It's very slippery, isn't it?" ho puffed Is he overtook her. The young woman's even flashed, hnt she only gave a little tug at her scrap of dotted lace veil, thrust her hands de terminedly into her muff and sped on. A calling card, one of her own, was sticking ont of her little jacket pocket, with only the first two words, "Mis Elizabeth," just visible and tho last narno obscured. The stout man saw it. "Your name's Elizabeth, isn't itr h said cheerfully. "Do you know you re mind me so much of Lena Morris? Sh was an old sweetheart of mine, and I was awfully fond of her." No answer from the young woman ex cept a quickening of her already Nancy Hanks gait. "Don't go so fast," paid her tormenter. "Yon might slip and fall. I really won der that you are not afraid to venture out such a bad day." Miss Elackeyes said nothing. Sho had about reached the drug store where she was to wait for her car. As sh went into the store with glow ing cheeks, the dapper young clerk said, "Don"t you want to come over by the stove and get warni?" "I want to know why I am a target f- every insolent man in town thia morn ing," she snapped as she glanced through the door and saw the Bhort, stout man patrolling the sidewalk and evidently still intent on pursuit. The drug clerk subsided, the car came, and on she got, with the man at her heeR lie sat down beside her. When she arrived nt hpr street corner, he arose and followed her out of the car. She had almost reached her school and was getting brave. Again he walked beside her and asked her if she wouldn't "say somethinir to him." Her voice had not a tremor, br.t wu deliciously clear and steady as she spoke ror ine nrst time. Certainly." she said. "Do von know. I was just wondering if a man ever lived to be your age before let me see, you must be 50 at least who was capable of acting so perfectly idiotic. Now, for my part, 1 can tolerate a young, empty headed masher, but as for an old fool like you" but the middle aged, short, stout man had ned. Chicago rsews. Letter to Dead People. Enterprising tradesmen in thia city, la the distribution of their circulars, an not backward in utilizing the lists of distinguished persons which are printed in the newspapers from time to time. Not infrequently do they get hold of the names of men who long since passed oTer to that "undiscovered country," and circulars and prospectuses are mailed to the dead as well as to the liv ing. It would seem that a name onc enrolled on a tradesman's mailing list is never erased. Circular letters ad dressed to "Samuel J. Tilden" are still occasionally left at the Gramercy park mansion, and mail matter addressed to W. II. Vanderbilt reaches the Grand Central station every now and then. Many clubmen have recently received from a shirtmaker what purports to be an autograph letter saying: "I am anx ious to have you for a customer, and I want to make you a sample shirt free of charge. Of course I cannot do this for every one, but for you it will afford me great pleasure to do 60." New York Times. Old Kales For Night Policemen. Old Boston is vividly brought to mJat by the following excerpt from tho "Se lectmen's Minutes," dated Nov. 1, 1769, containing instructions to watchmen: "In going the Rounds Care must be taken that the Watchmen are not noisy, but behave themselves with strict deco rum, that they frequently give the Time of the Night and what the Weather is with a distinct but moderate Voice, ex cepting at Times when it is necessary to pass in Silence in order to detect and se cure persons that are out on unlawful Actions. "You and your Division must endeavor to suppress all Routs, Riots and other Disorders that may be committed in the Night and secure such Persons as may be guilty; that proper steps may be taken next Morning for a prosecution as the Law directs. We absolutely forbid your taking private satisfaction or any bribe that may be off er'd you to let such go or to conceal their offense from the Selectmen." Boston Transcript. Beware of "Cheap" Canned Stut There is one great danger connected with preserved goods, and that is that the insane mania for cheapness at all risks which some women have has In duced dishonest people to put inferior goods upon the market, but if a house keeper is careful to buy none but the best and sees that they arepropeily pre pared by her cook she need have no fear but that her tinned vegetables are as harmless as the same substances in their raw and natural state, and she will have the advantage of procuring an infinit variety for her table at a very smaUout lay both of time and money.- "