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A FIRE HORROR. !
i
Flames Started in a Theatre
Destroy a Town.
A Score of Lives Lost and Great
Pecuniary Damage.
For the fourth time in its brief history the
mining town of Hurley, Wis., has been visited
with terrible fire, this time resulting in the
almost total destruction of the town and the
loss of nearly if not fully a score of lives.
Only a few weeks ago two blocks in the business"
center were burned to the grouud in as
many hours at a cost of $100,000.
The fire started on the stage of the Alcazar
Theatre at eight o'clock p, M.. and within an
hour the entire business part of the town
was in flames, while eleven persons
had perished in the theatre. The
loss is fully $500,000. The Alcazar was
a variety tlicatre, chiefly frequented by
miners, and was one of the resorts of unsavory
repute associated with the notorious
dance houses of the mining regions. Only a
small andienoe had gathered when the "fire
broke out, and they scrambled out in a
hurry. Several of the actors, however,
rushed up stairs to save their wardrobes, and
when thej* sought to escape found that they
were hernned in on all sides,the flames having
spread through the wooden buildiug with in- I
credible rapidity.
How they struggled to escape will never be J
known, as none of them except Sailie Wells
and Mabel Powers were seen again. The former
appeared at a second-story window and
called piteously upon the crowd outride to
save her. Before a hand could be raised the
flames reached her and communicated to her
clothing. She made a frantic effort to jump
through the window, then with a piercing
shriek fell into the furnace below. Mabel
Powers had reached a third story window.
She jumped, and was fatally injured.
Among those who perished in the theatre
were: Frank Young, Sadie McCabe, and
Jackson, colored comedians; Tillio
Moore, song and dance artist: Mabel Goodrich
and husband, Sadie Wells, Mrs. Fenton,
and two or three others whose names are not
known.
Nor was this the worst. Like all mining
camps, Hurley swarmed with the tin-horn
gamblers and roughs, long since banished
from more civilized communities to
such as these. A public dis:ister was
a private feast. They contributed
to the spread of the destruction,
carrying brands of fire into buildings not
touched and takinir advantage of the panic
to loot at large. Cozens of these scoundrels
were seen in the street boldly replacing
their worn garments with
suits of clothes snatched from
. the shelves of burning tailor shops. Nothing
escaped their hmds. They seized bottles of
liquor from the saloons and drank till some
of them fell down unconscious in the midst of
the devastation and were burned to death.
The Alcazar was in the very heart of the
city. It was a mass of flames in a short time.
The fire seemed to lean from building
to building until several blocks became
a roaring oven. It was not long be'
fore every business building between
Third and Fifth avenues was in
flames. All efforts to get the fire under control
seemed futile. The Fire Department, reenforced
by scores of volunteers, sent its puny
streams against the advancing walls of flame,
but had to retreat as the fire swept resistlessly
on. It did not stop until material for it to
feed upon was lacking.
All that remains of the town is the Burton
House and another smaller hotel, the Lake
Shore denot and two or three new i-evidences
on the very summit of the sloi>e, whose detached
position saved them. There is 110 insurance,
as all the companies canceled their
policies immediately after the late fire. The
Western Union Telegraph Office was
destroyed, and there was no communication
with Ashland, forty miles
away, until the next morning. I
Conductor Jones, of the Lake Shore train,
which passed through Hurley at 7:20 the next
morning, reported the total destruction of
the town as described.
GKAND ABMY ACTION.
The National Encampment in St.
Louis?A Circular Issued.
Officials of the Grand Army of the Republic
have held a secret meeting at Madison, Wis.,
with Commander-in-Chief Fairehild, and arranged
a circular to be issued to all the
posts of the country. The circular declares
that a gross misrepresentation has been made
in regard to the feeling between the National
Grand Army headquarters and the
St Louis Committee of Arrangement, and
that the committee is in perfect
accord with the Commander-in-Chief
on all questions relating to the National
encampment next September. The circular
is General Order No. 15, and is signed by
"command of General Lucius KaircTrifti uj'
Adjutant-General Gray. It begins by promulgating
a letter ant! resolution from the
headquarters of the General Executive Committee,
St Loui?.
The letter states that "nothing has ocrurred.
or is likelv to occur, that will dampen
in any way the fixed purpose and desire of
the citizens of St. Louis to make the twentyfirst
annual encampment the most noted and
successful meeting in the history of the
organization of the Grand Army Kepublic."
The following is an extract from the minutes
?f the meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Council ot Administration held at Madison
.Wis., July 8, 1887:
"The Executive Committee of the Council
.Of Administration have considered the communication
of the Committee of Arrangements
0:1 the part of the citizens of St.
Louis, having in charge the reception and
entertainment, to the Commander-in-Chief.
Jr. view of the many gross misrepresentations
that have gone abroad
touching the action of that committee and
its relations to the Commander-in-Chief
and the Council of Aministrution, we recommend
that a generhl order be issued embodying
the communication. We suggest that
in said order the comrades be assure 1 that
the work of the committee and the officers
of the National Encampment have
been in full accord. We also consider it alike
dtip to th,? firand Armv of thn Ronnhlic and
the St. Louis committee that the Commanderin-Chief
s hall announce that all statements
which may have been made by any one
concerning the manner of conducting
the reception of the encampment or
of the contemplated presence in or
the absence from the city of St. Louis of
any particular person or persons upon that
occasion have not been based upon any
official action ou the part of the officers of
the Grand Army of the Republic, who alone
have authority to speak for the national
encampment when it is not in session.1'
MUSICAL ATO DRAMATIC.
Christine Nilsson has been engaged definitely
for an American tour by Mr. Abbey.
Patti's seventeenth farewell tour in
the United States will not begin until winter.
M. Gounod's "Joan of Arc" mass is to be
first sung in the cathedral at Rheims next
month.
Charlotte Wolter, the famous tragedi
enne ot v leana, is maKing reauy iur a ium
in America.
Mrs. Laxgtry helped the American e igle
to scream on the Fourth by reciting a patriotic
poem 111 San Francisco.
Mrs. Tom Thumb and her second husband
rrill make a tour around tbe world, under the
management of Messrs. Simtnonds & Brown.
Nicholas Crouch, of Baltimore, Md., has
b33n made a member of the London Society
of arts. He is the autlior of "Kathleen Ma
voumeen."
Commodore Nutt, who rivalel Tom
Thumb as a dwarf some years ago, is selling
tickets for a dinu museum in Bostou. He is
gray hairei.
" The Amber Heaht'' which was tried ia
Lridoa reco.icly tailed as a play, eventliujgu
it ha i Miss Terry in the caste, and is said to
to.' a very pretty tabic.
As Italian paper calls attention to the fact
th it, not with stan ling the flourishing condit!o.i
o:' injiio in Germany an 1 Austria, only
t'.Vi.ity-s.x new operas an 1 operettas wei"e
ai i lekjowu to those Empires during the year
!>>;. wailj tliirty-nine were brought forth in
Italy.
It is said that few debutantes have mide a
no.*e deeul *1 .sueee-^s in L~m lo:i than M ss
4..nelia Uvoil, of (Jle/eiaui, Uaio. When she
ippearel at Drary L iuj recently as Mxilaerite
in GojiioJs Faust," sin carried the
Aid.e ice by storm. Siia has a ia iz^o-soprano
loice ox' great volu:n3, notably strong in the
ipjer JiKister.
EXCOMMUNICATED.
I
j Rome's Blow at I)r. McGljun, the j
Xcw York Priest.
The excommunication of Dr. McGIynn, tho .
New York Catholic priest who refused to go to j
Rome at the Pope's request,has been formerly j
announced ly publication, according to directions
sent by cable from Rome to Arckbisfiop
Coirigan. The announcsmeut is as j
follows:
[Official.]
To the Very Reverend Clergy rnxcl the Faithful ;
and fteverend Laity of Ihe Archdiocese j
of Xew York.
Be it known that on tho 4th day of May, I
ISnT. the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda
admonished the Rev. Dr. Edward
McGIynn, late rector of St. Stephen's Church,
in this city, that he had a 1 read}' rendered
himself liable to ecclesiastical censure by disobeying
the positive command of" the '
Sovereign Pontiff, given Jan. 17.
Wishing, however, to deal leniently with i
him, the Sacred Congregation refrained from j
inflicting censure, ana, offering him a
further opportunity to lie neara in ins own i
behalf, gave him a final and a peremptory
order to present himself in Rome within
forty days from the receipt of the letter containing
such order, under pain of excommunication
to be incurred, otherwise, ipso fado
et nominatim.
This letter was duly delivered to the Rev.
Dr. McGIynn, and, as he allowed the days of
grace to pass unheaded, it became our" sad
duty to notify him that he had incurred by his
own act this penalty of excommunication by
I name, whereby he is cut off from thecommu|
nion of the Church, from its sacraments and
participation in its prayers, and, should he
persevere in his contumacy, deprived of the
j right after death to Christian burial.
It has become also our duty to declare to the
| clergy and laity of our charge, which we do
by these letters, that the Rev. Dr. Edward
McGIynn is excommunicated nominatim,
with all the penalties attached to this censure
by the canons of the Church.
New York, Julv the Sth, 1S87.
Michael Auguktixe,
Archbishop of New York.
C. E. McDonnell, Secretary.
On Sunday the day following the publication
of the above "announcement, Dr. McGIynn
received an enthusiastic reception at a
meeting of Henry Georges Anti-Poverty
Society in the New York Academy of Music.
The deposed priest attacked the Church from
the Pope down, declaring that the 'Roman
Machine" had made a great mistake, and
fhnt. it, had liberated him. Dr. McGIynn will
hereafter devote himself t* the labor "party.
THE NATIONAL GAME,
A Michigan base ball club has a clergyman
for pitcher.
^ Roger Connor of the New Yorks, was the
first League player to make 100 hit-!.
The New Yorks are the beft base stealei-s
in the League and the Pittsburgs the worst.
Kelly, Boston's ten-thousand-dollar prize,
is not playing good ball, on account of lameness.
Browning, of the Louisville*, leads tho
American Association in batting. He was
the. first player in the country to make one
hundred base hits.
The Detroit? have earned more runs than
any other League club. New York, Chicago,
Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, Indianapolis
and Pjtt#burg follow in order.
Dcnlap, the captain and second baseman
of the Detroits, is laid up with a broken leg,
received in a collision with Thompson, the
right fielder, while running after a fly ball.
Johnston, the Boston fielder, has not made
an error in twenty-two games. Hardee Richardson,
the Detroit fielder, has also not made
an error in eighteen games. This is great ball
p'.aving
Ex-Congressman Brewer, of Trenton,
has written President Young, of the National
League, asking that the League accept a
beautiful Parian trophy as an emblem of the
championship of the organization. President j
l?oe flia Griff, wit.fl fhjJIlllS.
* v""b "" * 0...
During the recent game between the Oshkosh
and liuluth clubs, played on the
grounds of thj former, the wind was traveling
at the rate of 47 mdes an hour. Of course
the dust was blowing nwe or less, so that it
was a difficult matter to p'ay under the circumstances.
During the progress of the
game no less than three flies were knocked
up in the air which should have fallen into
the hands of the centre fielder. When they
reached a certain altitude, however, the wind
caught them an I blew them back with such
rapidity that they were either caught by the
pitcher or one of the infielJers. The catcher
also had an assist in like way, catching a fly
with his back against a back-stop, which under
ordinary circumstances would have been
captured by the pitcher. In the face of all
this tha game was a remarkably close one,
Oshkosh finally winning by a score of 3 to 2.
THE NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD.
Won. Lost. Won. Lost.
Detroit 40 10 Boston 84 23
Pittsburgh 21 32 New York....33 27
Philadelphia. .20 32 Indianapolis...17 40
Chicago 34 21 Washington...18 33
THE AMERICAN' ASSOCIATION*.
H'on, Lost. WotK Lost.
St. Louis 4G 18 I Baltimore 38 21
Brooklyn 30 29 | Cincinnati....S8 20
Louisville 30 30 j Athletic 34 33
Metropolitan.. 10 44 | Cleveland 15 40
THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
iron. Lost. Won. Lost.
Xpwnrk 1-tA 14 I Svracusa iXi 21
Rochester. ...34 2-'i Binghamton..lit 22
Toronto 25 20 Hamilton 25 24
Buffalo 32 20 Jersey City...21 2
Scranton 7 24 Utica 10 2
southern' league.
Won. Loit. iron. Loitt.
New Orleans..32 IT Charleston...81 21 |
Nashville......25 10 Birmingham. 3 20 j
Memphis.....,34 IC
, eastern league.
- -v*
Won. Lout. Wort. Lost
Hartford. 28 21 I New Haven. ..23 23
Waterbury.. .26 24 | Danbury 17 3o
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Spurgeon, the celebrated London preacher
is fifty-three years old.
Dom Pedro has sailed from Rio Janeiro for
Europe and the Holy Land.
Frederick Douglass is expected to re- I
turn to this country in September.
General Simon Cameron has sailed for
Europe, to be gone until September.
Secretary Lamar is a Jersey cattle
fancier, and has a small herd at his home in
Oxford, Miss.
Queen Margherita of Italy, is a proficient
Hebrew scholar, and reads tlio old
testament in the original with ease.
Judge Hilton's park at Saratoga now
comprises 1,000 acres. It is said to be the
handsomest private park in the country.
Rev, James Robinson, of Money Creek,
III., has baptized over 15,00 ) persons during
his ministerial career of forty years.
U.nitkd States Senator Sabin, of Minnesota,
has no children of his own, but gives
paternal care to nine friendless orphans.
Governor Knott of Kentucky is passing
his vacation season by a sea voyage on a
coaster from Baltimore to Halifax and return.
Mrs. Livermore has delivered more than
800 temperance addresses. For many years
she has lectured five nights a week for five
months in the year. She travels yearly
25,000 miles.
Bonanza Mackat has just invested $230,000
in an Alaska mining expedition. It consists
of a vessel and a force of miners, with
tools and supplies. Linga Island is to be the
scene of oi?erations.
Mrs. General Logan is in very poor
health. She has been in Chicago arranging
some busness affairs of the late Senator, but
will return to her Washington home soon,
anu uiKe ;i lung rest.
Mker I3aboor Alliy, a Hindoo resident of |
San Francisco, has filed a declaration of his j
intention to be:-omea citizen of the United i
States. He is thy first of his race who, so far
as is known, has ever done so.
The Empress of Japan expects to visit the |
United States in October. She will land in I
San Francisco, come east Ly way of Salt
Lake, Omaha and Chicago, and return in two
months by the southern route.
Mrs. Levin a. Fillmore is the oldest
woman in Buffalo, N. Y. If she lives until
August lo she will celebr *ta her one hundrath
birthday, at the Methodist Church over
I which her lata husband presided for a quarter
| of a century.
Syracuse boasts of having the biggest dog
In the world. He weiglis 203 pounds and
measures six feet and three inches from no.>e i
to tail. He is nearly two jrears old and was
born in England.
CLINTON'S CENTENNIAL.
Celebration at President Cleveland's
Former Home.
Two Addresses Delivered by the
Nation's Executive,
President Cleveland, with his wife nn^
sister, Miss Rose Cleveland, participated on
Wednes<lay in the centennial exercises of the
village of Clinton, N. Y., the former home of
the Cleveland family. The procession
consisted of six divisions of firemen,
militia, societies, etc. Chiefs Skenahdoa
and Daxtater, descendants of the
[ndians who gave the site of the village to
the original settlers, and over 100 Oneidas,
with the Indian band from the Onondaga
reservation, were in the line. One Grand
Army post, that of Clinton, took part in the
parade. Several others refused to take part
in the procession.
The. exercises in Clinton Park began at 1:30
P. M. The Rev. Henry Darling, President of
Hamilton College, opened with a prayer. The
Rev. E. P. Powell made the address of wel come,
and President Cleveland spoke as follows:
"I am by no means certain of my standing
here among tliose who celebrate the centennial
of Clinton's existence as a village. My
recollections of the placs reach backward but
about thirty-six years, and my residence here
covered a very brief period. But these recollections
are fresh and distinct to-day, and
pleasant, too, though not entirely free from
sombre coloring. It was here in the school at
the footof College Hill that I began my preparation
for college life, and enjoyed the anticipation
of collegiate education. We had two
teachers in our school. One became afterward
a Judge in Chicago, and the other
passed through the legal profession to the
ministry, and within the last two years
was living further west. I read a little
Latin with two other boys in the
class. I think I floundered through four books
of the .Eneid. The other boys had nice, large
modern editions 01 virgu, wan ui^ [mnu imu
plenty of notes to help one over hard places.
Mine was a little, old-fashioned copy which
my father used before me, with no notes, and
which was only translated by hard knocks.
I believe I have forgiven those other
boys for their persistent refusal to allow
me the use of their notes in their boo'cs.
At any rate they do not seem to have
been overtaken by any dire retribution, us
one of them is now a rich and prosperous
lawyer in Buffalo, and the other is a Professor
m your college and orator of to-days celebration.
Struggles with ten lines of Virgil,
which at first made up my daily task, are
amusing as remembered now: but with them
I am also forced to remember that instead of
being the beginning of higher education, for
which I honestly longed, they occurred
near the end of my school advantages.
This suggests disappointment,
which no lapse of time can alleviate, and a
deprivation 1 have sadly felt with every passing
year. I remember Benoni Butler and his
store. I don't know whether hi was an habitual
poet or not, but I heard him recite one
poem of his own manufacture, which embodied
an account of a travel to or from
Clinton in the early days. I can recall but
two lines of the poem, as follows:
"4 Tarie Dill next came in sight,
And there we tarried over night.'
"I remember the next-door neighbors, Drs.
Bissell and Scollard?auu gooa, Kinu neignbors
they were, too?not your cross, crabbed
kind, who could not bear to see a boy about.
It always seemed toinc that they drove very
fine horses, and for that reason I thought they
must b3 extremely rich. I don't know that
I should indulge in further recollections ( hat
must seem very little like a centennial history*,
but I want to establish as well as I can my
right to.be here. I might have spoken of the
college faculty, who cast such a pleasing
though sober shade of dignity over
the place, and who, with other educated
and substantial citizens, made ur
the best of social life. 1 was a boy then, but,
notwithstauding, I believe I absorbed a lasting
appreciation of the intelligence, of the refinement
which made this a delightful home.
"I know that you will bear with me, my
friends, if I yield to the impulse which tho
mention of home creates and speak of my
own home here, and how through the memories
which cluster about it I may claim a tender
relationship to your village. Here
it was that our family circle entire,
parents and children, lived day after day
in loviug and affectionate converse, and here,
for the ! asc time, we met around the family
altar and thanked God that our household
was unbroken by death or separation. We
never n et together in any other home after
leaving this, and death followed closely our
departure. And thus it is. that cs, with
advancing years, I survey the liavoc j
deatli h:is made, and the thoughts of my early |
home bccome more sacred, the remembrance |
of this pleasant spot is revived and chastened.
I can oi ly add my thanks for tlie privilege of
being with you to-day, nnd wish for the village
of Clinton in the future a continuation
and increase of the blessings of the post."
Professor A. G-. Hopkins delivered the historical
address, Professor Owen Root the
oration, and Clinton Scoliard, of Clinton, the
poem.
At the banquet which followed the exercises,
in response to the toast: "The President
of the United States," President Cleveland
spoke a<;ain, referring to his office and its
responsibilities, concluding as follows. "If
your President should not be of the people and
one of your fellow citizens he would be utterly
unfit lor the position, incapable of understanding
the people's wants nnd careless of
their desires. That ho is one of the people
implies that he is subject to human frailty
ana error, but he should be permitted to
claim but little toleration for mistakes. The
generosity of his fellow citizens should alono
decree how far good intentions should excuse
his shortcomings. Watch well,then,this high
office,the most precious possession of American
citizenship. Demand for it the most complete
devotion on the part of him to whose
custody it may be intrusted, and protect it not
less vigilantly from unworthy assaults from
without Thus will you perform a sacred
duty to yourselves and to those who may
follow you in the enjoyment of the freest
institutions which heaven has ever vouch- I
sared to man."
After the exercises, Mrs. Cleveland pave a
reception, which was attended by many ladies.
At <i p. m. the Presidential party reached
Utica on their return, and was escorted to
the residence of Senator Kernan, where they
dined. In the evening Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland
pave a public reception in the Butterfield
House Parlors.
The next morning the President and wife
proceeded by special train to Forestport to
visit Mr. Cleveland's brother, the Rev. W.
M. Cleveland. The Presidential party, accompanied
by Secretary and Mrs. Fairchild,
spent Saturday on a tour down the St. Lawrence
River among the Thousand Islands.
SUMMER RESORTS,
Robfikries prem iturely agitate the cottage
people of Newport.
Music at the West End, Long Branch, for
eight weeks costs $5,0W?.
Ei-kctricai. illuminations of Niagara Fulls
have been resumed, and will be continued
through the season.
Horsepack riding i> indulged in to a
creator extent the present season than ever
before amid the Catskills.
There are more hotels from Sandy Hook
to Cape May than anywhere else in the
world for the same distance.
At most of the summer resorts the few re
maiuiiig tin rented cottages can now be nau ac
materially "reduced prices."
Braxdvwink Springs, Del., until the outbreak
of t lie war the most popular resort in
the country and famous for political or social
prominence of its guests, \s reopened this
season.
Thky are to have an "aquatic tournament''
at Lake George in August,with boat races for
maidens, and prizes worth winning. The last
night there is to be a "feast of lanterns" 0:1
the lake.
W. T. Herrick, of Winooski, Vt, has the
Tlistinction of being the oldest and most regular
visitor so Saratoga. His first summer
there was in and he has not missed a
season since.
Two United States Senators are now at
Long Branch. Senator McPherson is at the
West End Hotel with his wife, anil Senator
Blodgett is living in a modest cottage on
Third avenue.
On- Frkd Grant is a prominent figure :it
Eli .eroit He is at Mrs. Grant's cottage. He
drive* occasionally. Mrs. Grant, who is enjoying
good health, is frequently seen driving
oil the avenue. The district messenger boys
all know her, and raise their caps as s'.ie
passe?.
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.
.mrs. Isabel lyon, wire oi ur. nanaoipn
Lyon, who in a fit of passion shoe and killed
Rhode Moe at To wanna, Penn., a few days
since, and then committed suicide, took
strychnine and died in great agony.
John D. Van Gorde. of Dingman's Ferry,
Penn., was stung by a bee on the wrist, and
died in a short time.
Edward McDade, fifteen years old, was
struck by a foul ball and killed while catching
in a game of baseball at Mauayunk,
Penn.
Queen Kapiolani, of the Hawaiian
Islands, and her suit? arrived in New York a
few days since on their return from Europe
to Honolulu.
President and Mrs. Cleveland arrived at
Holland Patent, N. Y., on Tuesday, and
spent the day with Miss Rose Cleveland
During the afternoon the President held an
informal reception. On Wednesday Mr. and
Mrs. Cleveland took part in the ceutennial
celebration of the village of Clinton, and in
the evening they were the guests of ex-Senator
Kernan.. Later a reception was tendered
them at a Utica hotel. From Utica Mr.
Cleveland proceeded to Forestport, N. Y., on
ft visit to bis brother, the Rev. William JN. |
Cleveland.
An Orange procession in Paterson. X. J.,
was attacked twice and numerous heads were
broken. The polite arrested seventeen persons.
South and West.
At a mass meeting of St. Louis citizens
President Cleveland and his wife were invited
to become the city's guests during Fair
tims next October.
Petroleum has been discovered near Xacodoches,
Texas. Six wells have been opened.
Mrs. Lydia Wilson was married on Saturday,
July 2, at Lafayette, Ind., and procured
a divorce Tuesday, July 5.
Governor Gordon was hanged in effigy at
Daltou, Ga., because he commuted the death
sentence of William Holman, a wife murderer,
to imprisonment for life. Five thousand
persons had assembled at Dalton to witness
the execution, and when they heard of the
commutation theytook possession of the prison
and hanged the Governor's effigy on the gallows
prepared for Holman.
The Southern cotton crop is in an unusually
promising condition.
Millions of locusts have been stripping the
fields in portions of Minnesota.
A heavy tornado laid many houses low in
Dakota. Hailstones as large as hen's eggs
did much damage to crops.
ITltt.>. UUIl^ DAiiAiltAU (111(1 tuiot' LUimiCU
were struck by lightning whilu standing on
the veranda of their house near Opelika, Ala.
Two children were instantly killed, and the
mother and remaining child were fatally hurt.
Archie Martin (colored) was handed at
Rockingham, N. C., for the murder of Henry
McNeill (also colored).
Washington.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland left
Washington on Monday to participate in
the centennial celebration at Clinton, N. Y.
The President has appointed P. Stephen
Hunter to be Collector of Customs for the District
of Tappahannock, Va., and Jzander M.
Keene to be a CaDtain in the United States
Revenue Marine Service; a'so the following
Postmasters: Amos H. Kisner, at Cerro
Gordo, Ala.; Stephen Potter, at Delaware,
Ohio, and Thomas C. Medary, at Waukon,
la.
Ox account of the revolution at the
Hawaiian Islands the Pacific squadron of the
United States men-of-war have been ordered
to rendezvous at Honolulu. These include the
Alert,four guns.nowat Callao, Peru: Juniata,
eight guns at Panama, and flagship Vandalia,
eight guns, which has already sailed
from Peru. The Asiatic squadron, consisting
of six men-of-war, will be ordered to Honolulu
if found necessary.
r*r* S frn
Japan will build three new war vessels
at a cost of ?2,0!)0,<i0.) each.
A farmhouse at Ardnahoe, Scotland, was
burned, and Fovea persons?three women
and four men servants?were incinerated.
Russia is opposed to Princo Ferdinand of
Saxe-Coburg Gotha, just elected to the Bulgarian
throne, and rumors of a European war
are again rife.
A madman killed four men and wounded
two in a hayfield at Rathfrilartd, Ireland.
A revolution has broken out in Hawaii
The people assumed control of affairs, deposed
tho Ministry and demanded King
Kalakuua's abdication. Upon his promising
a new Constitution, the King was left upon
his throne.
The Liberal party, under Mr. Gladstone's
leadership, has made notable gains in recent
elections for members of the British Parliament.
Three midshipmen of tho British ship
Canada were drowned in Halifax harbor by
the capsizing of a sail boat.
Considerable excitement has been
1 "n i n tj?
arouseti in rranuu uetauw ucneiui uuulanger,
late Minister of War, has been sent
away from Paris. The popular French idol
is charged by the Prime Minister with meddling
in a recent election.
A new Cabinet has bsen forme! in Bulgaria.
Stout resistance is being made to the
wholesale evictions at Arklon, Ireland.
Several Italian soldiers were killed and
fifteen severely injured by an explosion of
gunpowder iu a magazine at Massouah in the
Soudan.
Firry thousand Orangemen celebrated
tin* buttle of the Boyne at Lurgan, Ireland.
At Belfast an Orange procession was stoned,
and numerous arrests were made.
Cholera is increasing in Sicily. There
have al -ca ly bee:i 200 cases of the disease at
Catanu., of which 140 proved fatal.
LATERJIEWS.
Thf. National Education Association has
b?on in session at Chicago. Teachers from
all parts of the Union were present.
Nine colored people, among them four ministers,
were struck by lightning while stand
i'.ig under a trea at Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., and
all were instantly killed.
JosErH. C. Kennedy, a prominent citizen
of Washington, was stabbed to death on
Wednesday by John Daily, a laborer. No
motive for the assassination was- assigned.
Mr. Kennedy was seventy-three years old, an
attorney and real estate agent, and an
intimate friend of Attorney-General Garland,
ex-Scnntor Conkling and oth *r noted people.
The first criminal trials in Limerick, Ireland,
for resisting evictions have ended in
the acquittal of all the accused.
A cyclone which passed over Quebec uprooted
trees fifty feet in height, leveled
chimneys and unroofed many frame structures.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The number of religious sects in r-ng.un i
and Wales now number -MO.
There is complaint in all parts of California
of a scarcity of harvest hands.
The Society of Christian Endeavor, only
six years oi l, now numbers memb-jrs.
Two years ago Findlay, Ohio, had 5,000 inhabitants;
now it has 20,000. Natural gas
did it.
Railway cars are now fitted up as chapals
in Russia,so that people iu.iy worship as tluy
travel.
A mitrailleuse is being tried in the
Austrian army which will lire 1,0 j J ballets
in ninety seconds.
The United States Fish Commissioners
have distributed i)l,OJO,OJJ shad in the rivers
of the country the past season.
_ A Vermont physician reports the recent
aeatu 01 a patient at sixty years ul >?uu
never possessed a natural tooth.
Sixty-two sheep huddled together under
ou3 tree in Oshtuino, .Mich., during a recent
storm were killed by lightning.
Hox. E. E. Jackson, of Baltimore, has
purchased 4(),(K)J acres of agricultural land i.i
Alabama. He intends to go to raising cotton
on an extensive s -ale.
Ex-Mayok Davis, of Tuscola, 111., has a
sand hill crane that gives a shrill call twentyfour
hours before every stor.il Tue crane is
fifty years old, and has never failed in its
prophecy.
i
A FRI&HTFULDiSASTm
A Yacht With a Pleasure Party
it .1 /1
on J5uaru lapsucs.
A Large Number of Women and
Children Drowned.
One man and not less than twenty-two women
and children .were drowned by the
capsizing of the sloop yacht Mystery, near
Canarsie, Long Island. The persons drowned
were part of an excursion party that had
been on a day's outing in the yachts Mystery
and Christina. Most of the women and
children were put on board the Mystery on
the homeward trip, while the husbands and
fathers were 011 the Christina. The Mystery
was in command of Captain Hendrickson, assisted
by Nicholas Scheldt: all the rest on
board were women and children. Henderson
was drowned and Scheidt was saved. A
vivid account of the terrible disaster is as
follows:
At the close of the afternoon preparation
began for a start, an early one, as the party
consisted so largely of women aud children.
Tlin Mvchivw wna cnlaofurl tic ttia cofflcf anH
best boat, and lier passengers were chosen entirely
from the ranks of the women and children.
The men were disposed of on the
Christina and the other boats. At 6 o'clock
the start was made. The Heet separated at
once, the little boats taking a channel that
the big ones could not use at that stage of
the tide. So tho Mystery and the
Christina stood off "toward Barren
Island, near which they could come about
and, clearing the tail of the Nova Scotia
Shoal, tack up the main channel to the
Cauirsie landing. The Mystery led, and the
women and children waved their handkerchiefs
to the husbands and fathers, and called
out:
" A race, a ra -e, we can beat you in."
A race it was from that moment, though a
race hail not been intended. The Mystery,
under a reef, conld not keep her lead, and it
was soon apparent that the Christina was
overhauling her. Capt. Hendrickson quickly
noted this and shook out his reefs. Some of
the women were a little timid about this, but
the Captain laughed as he said: "We must
not let the men beat us in. If she goes over
we can have a swim." Under full sail the
Mystery drew away from the Christina, and
had a good lead when she tacked to go up the
channel. Before she filled away on the other
tack si e got a knock down, careening until
the water came into her cockpit, and then
more s'owly until on her beam
ends. The women and children screamed
with terror, and some of the latter ran down
into thi cabin to get away from the water
when it came aboard. But the next minute
it was pouring down the companionway, and
these, with others that had gone below be
lore there was thought ot danger, were in a
death trap.
Those on deck had some little chance for
their lives, as the swamped boat sank slowly,
and must have afforded support to those who
could cling to her for fifteen or twenty minutes
before sinking below the surface. By
this time all in the cabin were dead, and
many of those who had struggled to
clutch the boat or some of its floating
rigging had been swept off by the tide
and tarred under. Captain Hendrickson
went dow n after he had been once safe on the
upturned bottom of the boat. He is believed
to have been trying to save some one and
to have been entangled in the rigging or
drowned in the death clutch of some sinking
person.
The Christina all this time was about
2?KJ feet away, and to those who looked on
from a greater distance the actions of her
crew were inexplicable. They seemed to
be making ?no effort to come up with
the distressed party, and suddenly took
in their sails. Captain James Williamson
says that an accident prevented
him from doing anything. Somehow his
anchor got overboard, and though he tried
to hold the boat on her course and drag the
hook, ho could not do it. The shrouds finallv
parted, and William Seaman, acting mate
and a member of the C. Y. CM cut the halliards
to get the strain off the mast
at once. Two of the men on the Christina
were unable to stand this inactivity.
Their wives and children were struggling in
the water before their eyes,and they plunged
in and swam to their assistance. Ihese men
wire John Booth and Mr. Schweizer. Whether
in consc'juence of their efforts or not, the fact
i-i that Mi s. Booth, her daughter and sister,
and Mrs. Schweizer and one of her children,
were among the saved. The women declare
that they were saved by their husbands, and
the men were picked up almost exhausted by
the tug It. C. Dean, when she arrived at the
scene of the disaster
Only one boat had reached there before the
tug, and that was the yawl of the schooner
Reaper, manned only by Andrew Robinson,
th3 colored cook aboard the schooner.
Ho is unquestionably the hero of
the day. He fearlessly rowed into
the struggling mass of drowning peoEle,
who might easily have swamped his
oat and dragged him down. After dragging
three into the boat he found that she would
not hold any more, but helping four others to
hang oil to the gunwales he kept them afloat
until the arrival of the tug Gr. C. Dean. The
latter ? as not far away when the accident occurred,
but had to steam around the tail of
the shoal to reach the spot, and was nearly
half an hour in doing it. The rescues made
by the Dean and Kobinson number eleven;
the lost are twenty-three or more.
THE LABOR WOKLD.
In Argentina, Ark., laborers work fourteen
hours a day for To cents.
The average yearly consumption of nickel
in the world is between i>00 and UOJ tons.
The builders in all sections of the country
will be kept busy until the winter holidays.
Drmxa June 10,000 men struck, against
70,(118 in May, and 10,000 the same month
l:ist year.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners issued nineteen new charters to local
unions during May.
One of the most successful co-operative enterprises
on record is the Knights of Labor
Co-operative Soap Company of Chicago.
It is stated that there arc from ii'J,003 to
500,000 persons engaged in the manufactuie
of shoes in the United States and Canada.
Seven* or eight New England manufacturing
corporations have passed resolutions to
invest money in uuucnng nous?s to sen or rem
to employes.
The German Ministry of War offers to native
saddlers and manufacturers a prize of
5,000 marks for the best model of an improved
cartridge box
It is said by a prominent labor leader of
New York city that 10,000 persons have been
permitted to laud during the last year in
violation of the law against contract labor.
Thb National Works, at Bristol, L. I.,
owing to the large amount of manufactured
goods on ha-'d, have suspended operations for
an indefinite time, throwing 1,200 hands out
of employment
Reports from different points in the Connellsville
(Penn.) coke regions show that the
strikers were returning to work in large numbers,
and it is believed all will be at work
within a few days.
The New England manufacturers of cotton
goods count up their six months' profit at ten
pjr cent, more than last year, and think they
see business enough ahead to keep every loom
busy until the holidays.
The General Executive Board of the
Knights of Labor has given official noticj of
the adoption of the new constitution, together
with regulations governing the formation of
national trades assemblies.
uf tue prisoners m rrussia or
srventy-five per cent., arc farmed out. The}'
are mostly engaged in the manufacturing industries.
The government gets from six to
twelve cents a day per head.
Numerous co-operative manufacturing concerns
are springing up all over the United
States backed bv the Knights of Labor. The
General Co-operative Board of St. Paul has
appropriated $40,000 to co-operative industries.
A Pittsburg dispatch says that discontent
is spreading among the Knights of Labor iron
and steel workers throughout the country.
They are indignant at th? general officers of
the order because they have not been granted
a charter for a National Trades' Assembly,
and already several assemblies threaten to
withdraw from the order unless a charter is
granted."'
Penor Romero, the Mexican Minister at
Washington, thinks that $10,000,000 worth
of American goods will go into Mexico every
year under the new mail arrangement.
A TREASURY FORGERY.
Aa Official Arrested for Passing
FqIca riaimo
Something of a sensation has been created
in the United States Treasury Department by
the discovery that a trusted official had been
guilty of a systematic attempt to defraud the :
Government. The officer was arrested in
Wilkesbarre, Pemi., where he had been
on a vacation, and his dismissal
from the service was ordered by
Secretary Fairchild. His name is Oscar J.
Harvey, and he has been employed in the
department since Junc,18so, when he was appointed
Chief of the Horse Claims division
of the Third Au<litor's office. It was while
he held this office that he perpetrated the
frauds with which he is now charged. On
June 2 he was transferred to the head of a
division in the Second Comptroller's office, a
division which has charge of claims of the
same nature as those in the division he had
left.
Mr. Austin H. Brown, of Indianapolis, succeeded
Harvey as Chief of the Horse Claims
division, and soon after he took charge of the
office he discovered the frauds, which consisted
of the passage of forty-three fraudulent '
claims for horses, aggregating $9,200, aud the
preparation of 1(>1 additional cases of a
similar nature, which were under consideration
in the office. Mr. Brown
reported the matter to the Secretary. 1
He said his suspicions were first aroused by a
peculiarity in the autographic signatures to
a number of claims for horses lost or abandoned
during the war by officers of Pennsylvania
and New Jersey regiments. On June
20 he discovered a palpable forgery in one of
these cases, all of which appeared to have
been prosecuted by W. W. VVynn, first of
Philadelphia and then of Washington.
The investigation lasted over a week, and
during that time Mr. Oscar J. Harvey "was
on duty at his desk in the Second Comptroller's
office, and there was every evidence
that he was concerned in the preparation
of all the suspicious documents.
The stamp of the mail room, Third
Auditor's office, and the stamp of theHorsi
Claims division had been forged, and
the dates arranged so as to bring them within
the limitation fixed for the filing of thes?
claims. The stamp of the Quartermaster-General's
office was also forged. In this way fortythree
fradulent claims, aggregating $9,200,
were paid. The drafts were regularly issued,
and an examination of such as have been returned
as paid shows that Harvey
and Wynn are one and the same
j ]>erson, and that although the
j drafts wf>iv> flrawn in fftvrtr nf
' the money, with one or two exceptions; went
; directly to Mr. Harvey or to some of his relaI
tives. He had procured their payment by, '
forging the signature of the payee and then
1 endorsing the draft with his own name. Mr.
1 Monfort, the Philadelphia notary, like Mr.
Wynn, the attorney, was found to be a myth.
Most of the notaries and persons named in
the claims are unknown to the department
In addition to ihe forty-three cases passed
. there have baea 150 similar cases adjusted,
! aggregating $811,000, and there are still pend(
ing and unadjusted sixty-three cases, amount|
ing to $13,(WO,making a total of 161 fraudulent
cases which might have eventually been paid
but for the discovery.
Harvey was brought from Wilkesbarre to
Washington by secret-service officers and
taken before Secretary Fairchild, to whom he
1 made full confession of h's guilt. He had
i been driven to it, he said, by pecuniary*
1 necessities, brought upon him by a man with
| whom he had been in partnership, and who,
ever since he received his appointment in the
| Treasury, had .goaded him on to make the
most of his opportunities. "My partner,"
j concluded the prisoner, ' told me I had a
good office and that I could raise the money
He wanted. I did it, and now sea what has
i come of it."
| Harvey was taken before the police court
in Washington and was committed to jail for 1
: the action of the Grand Jury, bail being fixed
[ at $12,000. He is described as a man orunusi
ual intellectual attainments, and as having *
! secured the unlimited confidence of his supe- 1
*ior officers. ___ ]
A boy riding a horse In a race at ]
Ogden, Utah, passed the winning post, j
and after running a short distance 1
turned sharply into a wagon which
was standing by the track with the ^
brake set. Tho foot-bar of the brake j
was on a level with the boy's ear, and 1
pon this bar the boy was caught.
The upper portion of his ear was pene;
trated and the iron ranged backward ,
J along the base of the skull. The horse 1
passed from under its rider, who was 1
left dangling in the air. He is expected
to die of concussion of the brain. ]
Maryland oystermen formerly (
' worked hard in the winter and early (
spring and lived in the summer on the
money thus earned. They had plenty
of food but very little money. The I
Maryland steamboat company built a I '
, wharf at Roaring Point and issued a
circular advising the men to cultivate j
their land and sell the products. The 1
advice was followed, and each trip of
| the boat from the wharf now carries 1
I (
away shipments from 150 consignors.
The oystermen at other pcynts are fol- i
lowing the example. i
1
A San Francisco butcher nas been
! notified that he and his immediate relatives
have fallen heir to an estate worth '
S30.000.000, which belonged to his J
great uncle, Leopold Mayer, in British (
India, aud was confiscated by the Brit- <
ish Government when he died twenty- '
five years ngo. It has just been re- ]
I linquished, and will go to the proper |
I heirs.
I i
THE MARKETS. I
NEW YORK. 28 <
Beef, good to prime 7J? ,
Calves, com'n to prime f
Sheep 4 *<?i 4% , 1
Lambs 7
Hogs?Live 5Jt@ 5yK i
Dressed 8 %(ck 8% i
Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 45 @ 4 55
West, good to choice 3 90 @ 4 9!)
Wheat?No. 2, Red *4 % 85%
Rye-State GO @ 02
Barley?State W @ 75 |
Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 41 @ 4~,% :
Oats?White State 3SjJf
Mixed Western 3> "@ 37 j
Hay?Med. to prime 75 @ 85 i
I Straw?No. 1, Rye 55 (& CO I
Lard?City Steam o ou ig i uu I
Batter?State Creamery.... 20 @ 20^ i
Dairy H> ($ 19
West Im. Creamery 14 @ 20
Factory 10 @ 14 i
Cheese?State Factory ' > i
Skints C<$ (>}.-?
Western
Eggs?State and Penn ? (? l(i
BUFFALO.
Steers?Western.... 3 75 @ 4 25 1
Sheep?Good to Choice 4 00 @4 3">
Lambs?Western ? (a; i; 50
Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 45 (To 5 55
Flour 4 75 (& 5 15
Wheat?No. 1 88 (<j)
Corn?No. 2, Mixed 42 (<i 42}4 I
Oats?No. 2, Mixed 31 (j? 31}^ <
Barley?State 04 (i$ 05 <
BOSTON. | ,
Beef?Good to choice 16
Hogs?Live S'V? ^ '
Nortlieru Dressed.... 0J.g?? 7)4 1
Pork?Ex. Prime, per bbl..12 00 (ii 12 50
Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 75 (a. 4 !K)
Corn?High Mixed. 50 (tp 51
Oats?Extra White 41!.j(# 42
Rye?State 00 (& 05 1
WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef?Dressed weight 0;\ 7
Sheen?Live weight ? @ 4%
Lamb i <? dh tihj
Hogs?Northern ? @
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour?Penn.extra family... 4 00 @4 "1
Wheat-No. 2. Ked 83%@ 84
Corn?State Yellow 4S}|(^ 4!?1?
Oats Mixe 1 !> >?<??S 37
Rye fctate ? (<% 53
Butter?Creamery Extra.. 19 @ -J:t
Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. ? 9;? <
, - r.> .
I
WORDS OF WISDOM, I
That cannot be a healthy condition in
which few prosper and the great mass
are drudges.
A proud man is seldom a grateful mant
for he never thinks that he gets as mucb as
he deserves.
A man must be excessively stupid, a? 2
well as uncharitable, who believes there
is no virtue but on his own side.
Real friendship is a slow grower, and
never thrives unless engrafted upon ft
stock of known and reciprocal merit*
Beauty is nothing else but a just accord
and mutual harmony of th$. members,
animated by a healthy constitution,
A snob is that man or woman who is 3%
always pretending to be something better?especially
richer or more fashionable
?than they are.
None can love freedom heartily but
good men; the evil love not freedom," raj
hnt xrliiWi notror hotli mArn crnnn
?/\iv uv<vu4v) <f m?vi* uv > vi uutu uiviv uvv^rv -'v"
or more indulgence than under tyrants. ."4
Love, whether newly born or aroused ^
from a death-like slumber, must always
create a sunshine, filling the heart so full
of radiance, that it overflows upon the -J
outward world.
To the untrue man the whole universe
is false?it shrinks to nothing in his >-5.hi3
grasp; and he himself, in as far as he V
shows himself in a false light, becomes ia
shadow, or indeed ceases to exist.
A multitude of eyes will narrowly in? -t>;
spect every part of an eminent man, considcr
him nicely in all views, and not be
a little pleased when they have taken
him in the worst and most disadvanta- i
geous lights.
4 Vinrmlpeo Tiilorifir nnrl o luinrant i?5$
cheerfulness are not iufrequent concomi- ^
tants of genius; and we are never more
deceived than when we mistake gravity
for greatness, solemnity for science an? J
pomposity for erudition.
Many fortunes are received which it
ought to be the first business of the heir -[
to clean up, to purge. A curse must ^
rest upon any home where indulgence- ?>-.
of the love of the beautiful has been ob- %3
tained at the price of honor.
After Fredericksburg.
After the great battle ot Fredericks- -J|jj
burg the Northern and Southern armiet- ^
wintered on opposite banks of the Rap- "v!
pahannock; and, though there were fre- *?
quent artillery duels between the Stafford.
and the Spottsylvania heights, a friendlier
spirit had sprung up between the- ^
antagonists. The courage with which
the Union soldiers had advanced to cer- r'-i
tain death at Marye's heights had commanded
the respect of the Southerners, -* 1
and contact with them in their helpless- 0,
agonies in Fredericksburg houses moved
their sympathy. The Northern soldier?could
not but rcspect a foe so v;iliant.
The Federal bands played beside the- '>*
river, and the Confederates sometimesheard
'-Dixie" follow "Yankee Doodle,"" , *
while hearts on both sides were touched
by the theme of "Home, Sweet Home."* ^
On an incident of this kind John R.
Thompson, of the Southern Literary Me?tenger,
wrote a pathetic poem. A friendly
exchange of coffee for tobacco and of" :i
newspapers went on across the river? i
little plank boats being used at low tide- - '*}
for the smuggling?and greetings were ; ..A
sometimes heard between the "Yanks'*'
ind "Johnny Rebs," aa they called each
other. Walt Whitman, the poet (whose brother
was wounded in one ?f the battles
at Fredericksburg), began his hospital
ministrations at Falmouth. He-1 ?
isked one of the soldiers who lay fifty
tiours on the field at Fredericksburg how
the rebels treated him. "A couple of 1 . "u
them who were together spoke roughly
ind sarcastically, nothing worse. One*
middle aged man, however, who seemed
to be moving around the field among the
3cad and wounded for benevolent purposes,
came to him in a way he would
never forget; treated our soldier kindly,
bound up his wounds, cheered him, gavehim
a couple of biscuits and a drink of *
whisky and water, asked him if he could'.
?at some beef," etc.?Magazine of Ameri-- .
mi History.
Preserving: Eggs.
We do not believe there are any secret
methods of keeping eggs superior to
those published in the Farm JournaT
from time to time. For the benefit of
new subscribers, we repeat some of
them:
]. Pack in salt, small end down, so- '
that the eggs will not dissolve each
other. >..?
2. Place in a pickle made by dissolv- ;?
ing a teaspoonful of salicylic acid in a
gallon of boiling water. L'se a stone or
wooden vessel and renew the liquor every
three months.
3. Slake two pounds of lime in hot . ^
water, add oue pint of salt and water
snough to make four gallons. Put the
:lear"liquor into a stone jar and add fresh
<>(? rl'iilv until nearlv full. Put a clean.
:!oth over the eggs and pour on this some
af the settlings from the vessel in which 1
the lime was slaked. Always keep the
pickle above the eggs. By using the ,
same proportions, sufficient pickle may
Ije made to keep any quantity of eggs.
4. The "Havana Method" aud "German
Process," which we presume are
"one and the same," is this: Water
twenty-four gallons, lime twelve pounds,
>alt four pounds. Put twenty gallons of
:lcar pickle in a whisky barrel. Pulverize
and dissolve in a gallon of boiling
water five ounces each of baking soda,
cream tartar, saltpetre and borax, and one
ounce alum. Add to .the pickle. Cover
ivith a cloth and settlings as iu No. 3.
rhis will cover 130 dozen.
5. Take llowcrs of sulphur aud enough
lamp-black to hide the color, put in an
iron vessel and set in one corner of an
lir-tight box and place a basket of eggs
in the same box. Set the compound on
tire, cover box tight and leave it so for
twelve hours. Those who like sulphured
Fruit should try this method.
In all cases use smcuy iicmi eggs, uuu
ind be sure none of the shells are
: racked.
It is said, though we doubt it, that unimpregnated
eggs will keep indefinitely
without any preserving process being
jsed.?Farm Jvurnaf.
Children's Shoes
There never existed a custom more objectionable
on the score of taste and
cleanliness than that of rigging up chilIren
in white kid shoes, it has grown
obsolete with the better judgment of the
people, and we only now and then see a
reminder of it. A shoe should be made
ivith reference to its liability to come
in contact with things which may soil
it. Resides, a light colored shoe magnifies
the size of the foot.
In some families shoes for children
that arc denoted "best" are laid a*ide
and kept for full dress wear. This is a
mistaken notion. The feet of children
are constantly growing, and if the shoes
" lit" at first they will soon become too
stni"- for comfort, and create pain and
possible deformities. It is better to let
the youngsters have the good of the
shoes before they outgrow them ?Shot
awl Leather Reporter.