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Newspaper Page Textw . I ... , . . , ... I . - - t Arclibisliop ; Reveals It VM to Gen. Otis. REBELS SENT HOME will Firm Under Agninaldo'a Orders More Wartbfps Sent to the . rhilfppinea. MANILA. Oct. 5. The archbishop of Manila notified General Otis that there wti a plot to burn the residences : of tha governor general and the archbish op, together with several government bull lings and, banks, but the plot fail ed to materialize, possibly because of the distiuy ojf force. y The United, Stales gunboat Wheeling ffion Vancouver March d, via Hono lulu, while pat King St. Vincent in Northern Luzon, shot, down a Filipino flag. The Filipinos fired a volley at tho Wheeling's men, j who were slp nig on deck, and the Wheeling bom barded the rettlom-ra t. ; t ' - Aguinsldo, according to a rnrt brought to Manila today by a Dorrinl can friar, from the tcrth, has Issue! orders to the Filipino soldlurs in the northern provinces to return to thcilr towns and to resume farming. This story lacks confirmation, but the ru mmay be In accordance with Agul naldtt's policy of keeping the country as productive 'as possible, using his men in alternative rtifts on the farms or under arms. ;. D.igupan, San Fernando and Delict nlcet, which are under the guns of the I'm led States warships, are supposed to bo evacuated. It 4s alleged that the evacuation order calls upon, the male inhabitants to be orderly. In rase of the arrival of Anrican troops, and expresses the hope that the Americans will protect the towns.. , rr rkinforce watson. . Wellington. Ort. 6. The navy department- was bu?;ly ecgagvd, to lay. in arranging to reinforce -tha fleet lit the Philippiner suggested yesterrtay by Admlial Dewey at hi eenfeionca with th - president Vi Th crtile-rs Brooklyn. New Orleans and Nashville havi been ordered to pre-it-d via the Su z canal, as soon as pottlble. a id the Unltvd ; States ship : Badger his been ordered to go from San r'ran.ls- DEWETTK AI'VICE. ( h't ngo, ;.ct; T,A VnVcl-.l ' to the Ti-rt?-UeiaM ftom Wafh.rton, says: Admiral Eewcy hac' given' Mh unquall fiol approval of thetJ?c!aratIon mad by the president yehUrday that' ther shall be ' no fattorirg In mMlntatuing thw v lctory won by hrm at.Mardla.liay. llo has gone further; and urgently re commended that tho caval force In the Philippines be materially Increased and that all troops 'possible bo utilised In rdr- to finish the ttb-Hion. ' Thlr de velored during an Va tended tonfenmce between tlie1 president and Almiral lewey. ; - Concerning s this conference. Actlrg Secretary Alien said: ' The president had an extended cm ference : with .Admiral Deey, - who earntly recommended - that the BMoklyn and some; other veils b sent at once to the Philippines. By direction of the president the secre tary of the navy has issued an order to that effect and such vessels wltl'b put In readme at once." j ; , OftViaily thua la all that Is sail con cernlg the Interview.; There Is gKd authority, however, for Ihe statement that In making his i recommendations. Admiral Dewey supported them with these reasons: - 1 j . Beller.g with th pwa'dent that a Tigortu policy should be pursued in suppressing the Insiirrectlcn, ' he Is of the opinion tht hy ; Incieaslng the force on the Asia-tie static n It will be practicable to enforco stricter blockade and to prevent suppilft and munitPms ot waf from reaching' the Insurgents. TIkj moral effect of ucr a formidable force as w 111 be attached to t he Asta tic station when the vessels se.nt reach thore will be undo-ibledly id convince the inaurgehts of our intentlen to com pel their recognition of the sovereign ty of the United State. Undoubtedly the admiral f urtheri ecnaidered the ef fect of such a. forn ltfeble squadron up on the world at large, though perhnp he old not advance this as a reason for Increasing ' tho commanad. and there is .certainly , nothing In - the interna tional arena to Indicate that any na tion contemplate! recognizing the b-;l-Jlgerency of Agulnaldo's government In adtBilon to 5 three At-tsela desig nated, several other veels will go. Th4rNew Orleans, attached to ! Ihe North Atlantic Mttadron: the Albany, her sister ship, near g completion in England;' the Monocacy, In China, which Admiral Dewey says Is eea wirthy, and ? the ; Nfcjshvllle; " now In Santo Domingan ,wters may. be as signed. Thera axe ateo atnllable for atvlce in the Philippines, should It b decided to send them, the Atlanta, which has bfien male over at the New Tork navy yard; the Bancroft, awalv commlsslcnlng at. Bcston; the Scorpion, now at New York, and the 'IWB, at Blue fields. All these YtsSiU will not !.e sent, but It la iitendel to give : Admiral WaUon fr.rn-.ldahl 'fleet an! ihe hlps to fc tent him will rn frnm . . .. ... av.. ,'', . i :- 1 ! j i ' Including- two ertDlr xhlmi an colliers and the Utile gunh-ut captured ..rum me Spanish government. Ad mr- fi Yaion uad w coru, . thirty-two -vt-ow vvi . v, i foroements arrive at Mat 1 La he will probably transfer hJs flay to the Bruok-lvn.- H.ft will Uen hive command of one battleship,-one armored cruiser, two monitors, two protected cruisers, and twenty-four gunboats, . besides supply ships, etc. THE FIRE LOSSES. Insurance Business In the United StKtcd-an Unprofitable Business. New York. Oct. 5. The fire loss of the United States and Canada for Sep tember, as complied from the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin i f cords, amounts to 112.778 jaw. !, Th total less for the first nine months of J859 was 99,608.650. as compared with 189,164,000 for the same period of or an excess of over $10,,0C0,0Q0.; ' Iho paper 'comments: r i i , - "The statistics confirm the opinion. reiterated in the t columns earlier In the year that tt-e Are Insurance busi mti in the United States is in an un healthy and unprofitable baals and the year 189u will result In a net lore on actual? underwriting for a laige major ity of the fire companies doing a gen eral business throughout the field. The rate have rapidly fallen and a fires Lava become heavier and more fre-' qucnt, and the expense ratio has been seriously advanced by the action" of tho Western Union, which fixes fire in turanco ccmmJssoh and ral In tha Wett. That body advanced agents commissions xery heavily. ; We huve" a decrease of income. Increase on los- payments Jand greater coal of dclng business, so that the Important factors In fcre insurance are adverse to the nope of protit. - - AN AMERICAN UNION. A Venezuelan Advises Concerted Ac tion Against European Aggression. Paris, Oct 5. Sehor Rojas, the Vene zuelan agent here, in the course of an interwlew on the subject of the decision of the court of arbitration in the Vene zuelan boundary dispute, eald: C "" , ' "The award was not what I hoped, but we must make the best of It.' What can you expect In a contest between an elephant and an ant?. One thing win result from It. America will accept no more arbitrations with Europe. You will see America lay down a fresh Inter- natfnnal fwvl. ur,hlOv h will annlv tn the Old World whether the latter likes It or not. The South American states, tnMiidt tifl? RfjiII will r11v .rniind tha United States for the -purpose of effect ing an economic union. We shall try to establish a monetary union 'On ' the basts of the gold standard. These pro jects need not Imply a hostile attitude toward Europe, but It muet be borne in mind that Europe sttnda in much great er need of us than we of her." r . . t a.finkVbecorp. BUSINESS OF THE COUNTRY STILL. EXPANDING. Remarkable Monetary Changes Are Noted English. German and French; ' Banks Raise Rates. : NEW YORK, ; Oct. . R. G. , Dun St Co., , In their Weekly Review . of Trad, will aajr. tomorrow: ... .. ,t- The grand demonstration In honor of Admiral Dewey effectually stopped bus news of most kinds for two days at the chief city of the country, and yet the remaining transactions of the week would have excited wonder a year ago. At New York, where the interruption was the greatest, the payments through the clearing housea exceeded 1, 009,000, 000 in four :. business days, a record never before approached and, ; outside of New York, the gain reflected the great expansion In volume of that kind of business which does not depend on exchanges.. : -' 1 has been a week of remarkable monetary changes here and elsewhere. The Bank of England raised, it rate from 1H to S per cent, with the hope that the outgo to New York might be checked, but the Bank of Germany lost alao. and raised Its rate to per cent, and the Bank of France lost heavily. While high rates were paid here, for money required in speculation, no stringency embarrased any branch of legitimate business, and the stock mar ket has held up surprisingly. , LIGHT. FAILURES. - j New York, Oct. . BradstreetV to- nukfnnw kITI aa K t n.t lat ir-a tt failures j point to continued trade Improvement, I . a. fill AtvHlna. ttAm fviiain!! mortality. " Failure reports for the first and second quarters of the year left lit tle to be desired, showing as they did. fewer failures than in any but the most favored years. Return by months ! showed failures and liabilities In June ' only about half what they were In Jan f nary, indicating that failures were well ; down to the minimum possible when . . . . .. .1. . . kii.tn.. llf me irictioo ia vruiu , i w considered ' The present report of business fail urea Is, however, even better than any that has gone befdre It la recent years in, Ha iiayt nnarti fit the vear 1S99. j appropriately enough, shows the fewest failures, the smallest liabilities and the 'smallest proportion of assets to liabili ties of which there Is any recent record. 'As Indicative of this good showing being representative ' of existing conditions. it Is to be remarked that failures and JiaDinues alike found their minimum this year in September, and correspond ing totals of previous years near to, if not actually possessing the record -of the smallest business . embarrassments and liabilities. . .t . . There were only 2026 failures, involv ing 1550,65 in liabilities and $6,340, 286 in assets, in the third quarter of 1899. a decrease of 16 per cent in num ber and of 48 per cent in liabilities from the same' quarter of last year, which, it is hardly necessary , to add. was a very good one for business gen erally. Compared with the second quarter of 1899. labilities are IS per cent smaller and compared' with the first three months of this year liabilities are less than half as heavy. This tendency is practically universal, though a slight Increase In number and liabilities of failures in the West over those in the second quarter is noticeable. Against this, however, it is to be recalled that comparisons with a year ago are satis factory .through business conditions last year in - the West and Northwest were. highly favorable. 1 ? - . Perhaps the most satisfactory show ing of all is that made by the Southern states, which have at last apparently begun to share in the prosperity earlier noted in other sections of the country. Confirmation of reports from "time to time of improving Southern trade con ditions, partly, of course, the result of better cotton prices. Is found in cur rent failure returns. Growth In popu lation, : and, consequently, in the num ber of traders. Is apparently mainly responsible for the Increased number of failures throughout the territories, A FAMILY OF GOVERNORS. The Remarkable Career cf the Rich ardsons of South. Carolina. ' The record cf govc-rntrs furnished by the Richardson family cf ; South Carolina probab.'y surpe ssn that of any family in any state. '.The facts are recalled by the recent death of John, Peter Richardson, the lat gov ernor of the ''old regime He was a nephew cf Flizabcth Peyre M inninff. nee Klcl-ardson, the only woman who was the wife tf a governor, the sUiei of a governor, the niece cf a governor the mother of a governor and the aunt and foster-mother of a. governor. Shft was also the half first cous'n of hr husband. Gov. Richard I Manning. ? Gsn. jemes H. Richardson, . the grandfather, was-, governor, from 180 to lS04;tJ9hn Peter , Richardson, , the father, from 1S40 to.1842, and John. Pe tr Richardson, the t n from- lw to 1890. Gen. IUch.irdson was also th; gntndfathcr of 'Richird I' Manning? governor, 18TMK54.-: .-. And if .' there is such a thing as lat-ing amcesior-in law. thoro are two more gcvernors to-bo added to the family tree, bcth Rluswi ou Ocorfce irM:ruffle and l'- Wade Hampton.1 McDuffic marrk d a great grand-daughter - of Gen. Richardson, while . Gov. 4 IlatHpton s second - wife MtDume'a daughter, ws a great great granddaughter. " "" '" There is a coincidence in that th- lata Gov. John Peter Richardson and his father bore th tame name, ere governors of the same state and both succeeded goveruois . who wei e nit elected to that trfflce but were Ailing out the unexpirel terms. DIED ON TRAN3PORT. Heavy Iss to the Government Many Mules Expl ted. . Wtshlngton, Oct. $. A cable mes sage from General Ctls 'to' the war de partment j brings wArd of the loss cf several hundred horses nr.d mules on the transiort Slam. ..The lncsage fal lows:;':: "V. "I . - ; "Manila, Oct. 6. The steamer Plam, which left San Francisco August Mth with 45 horses and 326 mules, encoun tered a typhotm on SpTember 21st ft Northern Luzon, In which all but six teen mules' were lost. The animals were killed by the pitching of the ves sel, and the lack of Mr from the necs sary clong of the hatches. r There were no nisuaitts among the passen gers." ' ' '"' ' It is" stated at the ' quartermaster's department that the mules which wire lost on the Flam were trained rack mules, which were cc-nslckied the most valuable rent to ihe Philippine. MASSACHUSETTS JtEPUDUCANS. A Harmonious and Enthusiastic Con vention Names Its Ticket. Boston; Oct. . The state republican convention today was exceedingly en thusiastic and harmonious, and nomi nated the following ticket: " .Governor. Wm. Murray Crane, of Dal ton; lieutenant-governor, John L. Bates, of Boston; secretary of state, Wm. M. Olln. of Boston; attorney-general. IL M. Knowlton. of New Bedford: auditor, John W. KJmball. of Fitchbarg; treas urer and receiver general. Edward 8. Bradford, of Springfield. , . PRAIRH5 FIRES. Panal n, Oct. . Prairie fires three miles ,veit of here y;terday destroyed hundreds f acre of meadow and torn 4 thousand ions of bay, fence and buildings. The fire U atlU raging.. al though heroic efforts are being made tc stay Its progress. The lots will be many thousands . of . dollars. PIED SUDDENLY. Amos Steele, sen of Robert Steele, of Suver, Polk county, died at an early hour on Thursday, the Eth Inst. , Ilia illness was of short duration. . - II. Gill 111 Drives Eebels from the Imues River. THREE MEN WOUNDED The iDggrg-euU' Loti Reported to Be Ten Filipinos Retire Before v Imeriean Troops. MANIL.. Oct. , 6:50 pm. General Fred Grant, with three companies of the Fourteenth Infantry and a band of scouts attached to the former regiment advanced from Imus this morning, driving the insurgents from the en tlx west bank Of the Imus river. Three Americarfi were wounded. II Is esti mated tl&. ten Filipinos were killed. Companies C. and H., with the scouts crossed the river, at he big bend, and advanced westward in the direction of the Blncayan road, the insurgents firing voLTys, but retiring :, Twenty Filipinos were discovered In trenches at the Blncayan church, about mid way betwen Bacoor amd Cavlte Vl'ou. Thoe were routed, - e4x being killed. Riley's buttery f the Fifth artillery, made an effective sortie about a anile "uth of Bacoor, and shelled the west bank of the river at clore range. That bank is now. held by the Americans. VOLUNTEERS DECORATED. San Francico, Oct. Governor J. R. Rogers and several members of his Staff,' besides a number- cf ladles, vi- Ued - the general hrspltal today In search cf any Washington men that might be there, to they m'ght decor ate the stitTeters with the state med.il to be presenlel to the men tf the reg iment t when it hs returned. " There wero seven Washington nen in the h-.'Spltalf Nelson ' ChurcMH, Louis E. Brlttson nnd C. If. Hovey. of company H:-otjeri E. Bncklln, of company K. and Jesse Arnold and Robert T. Gold en, of ompany C."Golden nm w 111 riih typhoid tht nox-ne buT the gov ernor was allowed to whj him. but the others were all anxious to tee the del egation, and in each ward mhere there was a Wabhingtrn man, quite a 1-vee was' held.' Goi'prncr Rogers hlruself decorated each man, at tne rame time acknowledging Ills service in the name of the state. - j A BIG CONTRACT. ' Portland, Cct.' 6 The ' government today awarded to Wolff & Z wicker the contract for remodeling the transport Lc-anox, vhich i to cairy mule and supplies' to the Philippines. The con tract price. is f30,000. " , .1 , BOUND FOR MANILA. New York, Oct . -A special to the Her. Id fr.m Washington says: The verstl' which have thus far received order for Manila are: Armored crubr Brooklyn,' en roule to Hampton Kcads; proceed to New York for repair a,id fitting out and charges in personnel. Protected cruiser New ; Orleans, -en route -to Hampton Ttoads; proceed to New York for repairs and changes In person tieU - ' ' ' " Gunboat NashvIUe, now .:';at , Santo Domingtj; proceel to, Manila without delay via Sues canal, and stopping at San Juan for coal and needed repairs. Auxiliary cruiser Badger, now . at Mare, island; prepare for orders' to proceed to Manila. 1 , . The other vessels which will be sent to Manila are the protect! cruiser Albany and the " gunboats Marietta, Machlas and Bancroft. Qt these the Albany Is now befcg completed In England. Her officers and crew will be sent about January 1st, and she will proceed at once to Manila. The Marietta Is now at Warbington under orders to proceed to the mouth of the Orinoco. She will probably carry out the orders, ret urr I r.g when relieved to prepare to join Admiral Watson. . The Bancroft Is at Bostcn and prob ably ready for service. The Machlas is now at Washington, and after need ed impairs she can leave with tittle de lay. With tha exception of the Al bany and the Marietta ill these ve sels can leave, for Manila, within a month. The admiral ' has Impressed open the author Hie the Beef of haste, nnd they are proceeding accordingly. The department may later decke to send : add t local teasels of the auxil iary gunboat class. The admiral baa pointed out the desirability of large vessels, saying there is danger cf small gunboats being captured, When the eight vessels named reach Admiral Watson he will have under his com mand one battleship. - two monitors, on armored . cruiser, seven protected and auxiliary cruisers and T gunboats, Including; the vessels bought from Spain by General Otis. Tha Unitsd Stabs will then e super ler th naval strength In the Pacific to. Russia, which stands next to G: eat. Britain. AGE OF WOMEN. Women have a more favorable chance of nre before reaching their 5oth year than men, but a less favorable one af ter that period. . . HIS MOSfTJlTO-FftOOr ROBi: Tien He Wasn't Enveloped in It It Reposed in the Crown of His Hat. "While I waa over In Montgomery the other day,- said a drummer, I saw a most ingenious contrivance put to a very practical ue. I had re paired to the sidewalk in front of the hotel after supper, but found the usual curbstone chairs almost untenable on account of the ferocious, rcan-ftlng mcsqaltcs. Everybody was ebipplng. myself among the number, when out walked a tall, cool lcokirg gentleman wearing a linen suit and c straw hat with a mlde stiff brim. He took oT thrf hat and reached Into the crown and extracted a mosqnlt$ n-t mid-i on the principle of a very ample Mother Hublurd wraprer without sleeves. It was attached at the top to a steel hoop about the diameter of the hut. He tupped this A-er the crown and the netting fell down all around, like a small baloon. All he had then to do was to insert himself at. the ' bottom and put the hat' on Ut htad. The br ad brim kept the bar away from his face, and as he b.ok a chair and gathered the bottom fullnvrs around his legs I noticed that he wore a tuifr of blcycla guards on his trousers. In other words, he wes armed cap'a-pie, and when he calmly Ut a cigarette aud cross d his hands on his abdomen I was last in admiration. , lie tol l me h had been using the device for a couple of years, and found it invalu able. The hoop held it sscurely in; side his hat when not in srrvice, and. as the whole thing' weighed only a few ounce, tt was no trouble to carry. On the railway train, out driving and loafing around hold aud depots, h declared it was onh Ha weight in diamonds. I rked him whether he wasn't afraid of setting . hlms-lf on fire, and he explained that the nettlnz was r-on-Inflamniable. As I, understood him. it has been treated with sme sort of a solution f ptah." New Or leans .Time-Democrat. . HETTY GREEN AND MONEY. She Will Soon Confide Her Enormous . fortune to Her Successful Son. , V Thursday night there was . noticed among the men who threnged the cor ridors of the Waldorf -Astoria a figure that te wered above all the rest, says the New Journal It was that of a ycung man, six feet fonr inches ard weighing something like 5C pounds. Tho man was Edward H. R. Green, president of en Important Texas rail road, chairman of the Texas republi can executive crmmiitee, presitent of the famous Tarpon club, which has almost as many millionaire- members as the Union Leagne dub. and a di rector in a dozen or more Texas banks. He Is also the only son of Mrs. Hetty Green, 'the richest woman In the woild.' which is a very ' important matter, just at this - time. Age and hard work are beginning to tell on Mr. Green's rich mother, and the will do something (hat la not V'ual for her that is. take a rest, and during her vacation her Texas son will conduct the business whl-h hns rarely, been In trusted to any one else. fche is now giving him the finishing touches of a business education com menced 11 years sgo. so thtt he if ill bo thoroughly equipped to handle the vast Interests which she will t on con fide to him, an estate which, at a fair valuation, approximates the ei c ta ble Pgure of ido.OC-v 0T0, and which Is now increasing at the rate tf several millions a yeai.. - Mrs. Green had in Texas a "couple of irraks of rust cn a right of way" that ran from Garrett to Rotftts, a distance of some 65 miles. The road was a scrap of the old Hourton 4f Tex as Central system which was shed af ter the receivership as worthless, a It went from iiuwbcre to n-iwhere. Her ton took charge of this In 189J. Today that road is twice as long as it wrs when he took h-Hd, and It Is said by those who ur familiar with the facts that It is net enly the finest piece of road in Texas, but It Is one of the best equipped in the United States. Its termini are in Funis and Paris, two of the most prosperous towns of the state, and its equipment equals the best to be seen on the Pennsylvan ia or New York Central. ' -Young Green has oien-d up rich ter ritory, founded thriving towns, equip-' ped them with banks, electric lights, water works, etc The peeple wh) live along the line think he is the big gest man In "the "country. He , has never hd a strike, hs know all hit employes personally fcnd be sees to it that n me of then, suffer if m'tfortune happens jlo come along. In 1596 Green became Interostd in politics. - At th state convention he was chosen chairman of the executive committee, ' and commenced to organ ize the state just as If Texas hadn't always p.ld up a six-figure democrat ic maJoiJty. His ambition was to carry Texas 'republican. - Well hs didn't Uo it, He accon plisbed wonders, . however. ; Up to that year the banner republican vvte of the state was cast for itlalne in 184. W.0C0. In 1852 this hnd dropped to less than 0,00X By oiganizing ev ery county in the state and lifting the standard cf republican ptltks out of Use naire he managed to get out. for McKlnley neatly 170,000 rotes, an In crease of over 100 rer cent within four years, and the largest vote McKlnley got in a southern ttte excepting the border states of Kentucky and Mis souri. ' .. ' ' " - Green was reclscted chairman two years ago. and 1 now slated for, the national committee frjm Texas. Wjt patty ft lends hive been anxious for nun to stand for the tT'venvrh!p, but he his refrained from" going out into politics o utrp, owing to the epposi tKn cf his mother. . PAY FOR THEIR SMARTNESS. What It Cost Two Drummers to As tonlsh the Natives. "Ita sad story.-, said the drummer to a Detroit Free Press reporter, as he counted up his available cash. , . "My idea was to say nothing about It. but I understand that the other fellow Is nrana xeuing tne story as a Joke on me, and I might as well give my side of the story, for the truth Is bad enough without aving It exagger ated. . ' "One night last week I found myself obliged to put up for the night at a little country hotel some miles west of here. It was a chilly evening and sev eral loungers were, loafing In the bar room matching pennies to kill time. They were as much interested over it as though millions were at stake, and It gave me a tired feeling to watch them. There was another drummer, a friend of mine, who was doomed to pass the night at the place, and sudden! ly I was seised with a -bright Idea. I uiu wiirvicu m. wti iui 111 uuc oji $50 and. had chanced to be paid In $3 gold pieces. I got my friend aside and said: ... . " See here, let's wake this morning up and show them where they swy at. I have 10 $5 gold pieces. I will gtvyou half of them and we will start a fake gambling game and astonish the na tives. "My friend agreed to the plan and we started matching $S gold pieces on the bar. while the loungers gathered, about and breathlessly watched the game, with their eyes fairly hanging out of their heads. "We had een at it only a few min utes when the village marshal came up and arrested us both for gambling. I tried to explain that it was noly a Joke, but he wouldn't listen, and show ed his determination to take us te jail for the night. We prevailed upon him to send for the Justice of the peace, who saved us from the lockup by holding us on our own recognizance to appear, be fore him next morning, at which time he gently fined us $25 apiece and con necated the evidence to pay the fine. "If I ever try to be funny again I hope someone will kick me!" THE EM IN INT OBSERVER. Diplomacy Is the art of lying artisti cally.' ' A person can write soft nothings with a hard pencil. Praise from even the humblest is a stimulus to greater exertion. The more bitter me-lcine tastes the greater benefit we think we derive from It. ? . " If we were to know now uy would turn out we wouldn't get up in the morning. --' The horseless carriage -does not seem so at tractive, when it is obtained in a runaway. When a man has a great deal on his mind he generally has very little on his stomach. . . The reason many men tire of women is because so few women realise that they ever can get tired of them. We have grown so lazy that a book loses Interest for us as soon as we dls- All the gorgeous French animal toys are as nothing in the eyes of a child compared with a mangy puppy that tags at jits heels all day. When we grow reminiscent we dis cover that the happiest hours of our life were those that at one time made tne least impression upon . us. i uu deLpbla Times, -t HEAVr BANK CLEARINGS. All Records "Broken By the Fiist Nine Months cf 1839. . .New York. Oct. S Bradstreets will say on Saturday. ! , The September bank clearing returns confirm the early advices of the main tenance of the country's general trad- and productive industry in An exceed ingly large volume. . The total clearings for the nine months of th yesr aggregate a sum greater than the entire !& total, al though there are three months yet to elapse before the year ; is complete. The annual report of Manager Fherrer, of the New York clearing house, shows that the aggregate bank clearings, in the year ending with September, were ihe heavlowt evpjr known, jj ' LOG RAFT ARRIVES. ! Towed into San Frandtco, Hartdf AfttS Being, Lost at Sea. ' San Francisco, Oct. 5. The Immense log raft, which left Seattle a few weeks ago in tow of the steamer Czarina, and. which was lost off the coast and found a few days ago oft Port Harford, was towed into port today, not much the worse for wear, and practically Intact. BY ORDER OF ROOT. Washington, Oct. 5. The secretary of war has Issued an order discontinuing the military department of the Gulf, and making it Into the department of the East, under the command of Major General tMerritt. with headquarters at. New York. DRETBIjrS INNOCENCE. London, Oct! 6. The Farts corre spondent cf the Dally ' Mall says: I learn that' Germany Is ebout to hand ovr documents which will lead t- th quathlng of th. preyf U9 verdict.