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GOAL PUT ON THE FREE LIST' ^ Ccrsrrcss Passes a Bill Suspending the Duties on Fuel. i INQUIRY INTOCAUSEOF SHORTAGE A fTcaolulioo iMklac to tho Mi?r? and OprnlkM af th> Caal Klaaa latro- t i1?m4 ? It U Befcrnd la tha Com* a mlttN on Bfclaa ? Hot Likely That It t WUl H? Acted vpom. j Washington. D. C.?Coal provides the overshadowing issue In Cougress. Re- r publicans acted with Democrats in en- * acting a bill which puts anthracite coal on the free list and provides rebate of || duties on all coal for a year. It was a passed by the House by a vote of 258 ? to C. and was rushed through the Sen- v ate with only enough time to observe p fonnatitles. The House quickly adopt- J; ed the Senate amendment, making autbrsclte free for all time, and the bill *, was sent to the President for his slgua- ' ture. J Chairman Jenkins, of the Judiciary >. Committee, Introduced a resolution di- t reeling his committee to Investigate . and report to the House on the feasibility of seizing the coal mlues as suggested in the New York State Democratic platform last year. It reads: t "ItooilrMt That thi> PommlttiH* on Judiciary be and is hereby directed to Investigate and report to this House with all convenient speed the opinion of that committee as to the power of . Congress to declare that a necessity ^ has arisen for taking possession of all coal, coal beds and coal mines in the Ignited States, and all lines of trans- 0 portatlon, agencies, instruments aud 7 vehicles of commerce necessary for the . transportation of coal, and that If in g the opinion of that committee the t power exists and a necessity for the exercise of such power baa nriseb. that b that committee forthwith report to tbla House a bill declaring the necessity, providing folly and in detail tbe occa- * aions, modes, conditions and agencies , for said appropriation that will fully t - ? AvK?na? Ka nAtvoi* nf OilU WUi|MVWB/ vAuauoi ?uv i"/ ?v? v Congress la that regard." The YCMtatkm waa referred to the t Committee oo Rules, which consists of _ the Speaker, Messrs. Grosvenor and Dalxell, Republicans, and Richardson ? 4ml Underwood, Democrats. Mr. Jen- j. kins will try to secure Its early con- t) slderation. Congratulations on his reso- t] lutlon hare been wired to him from .? New Tork and other cities. j In discussing the resolution Repre- j. entat Ire Jenkins declared that he luul t( recently Investigated the right end j. power of Congress to act on the lines suggested in bis proposition, and had bc'-ome thoroughly convinced that Con- ^ gress had the right to take the coal Q mines and operate tbem to avert a great public calamity, such as ; . the present coal famine. The tariff j legislation and the various resolutions ^ of inquiry, he believed, would amount C] to nothing so far as giving the people ; d, com. I Tlie resolution does not seem to be ! 1( taken seriously by other members of ; }) that committee or by Repablican lead. n ers In the Honse. They declare that j, It will never again be beard of after It goes to the Rules Committee. The I a Democrats, on the other hand, are ' tj jnhHant over the resolution. | jj Still other action on the coal question ; was taken by the House. The Committ v on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, ; vhlch hat been authorised to invest!- r< gate coal transportation, held a meet- j in# and decided that in order to con- , duet the Investigation properly It j,, would be necessary to divide iue com- S1 mittee Into sections and send sub-com- f0 mlttees to different localities to ob- : tain evidence. This aedslon was re- |c ported to the House later in the day m by Chairman Orosvenor. and a resolu- t ej Inn mntlnir Ihn inthnrltv nqkpri was ! , agreed to. In the debate on the Grosrenor resolution it was shown that the tt committee expects to be able to report 5 on eoal transportation before the end of (be session. ID tc MIDSHIPMAN NOT NA2E0. til fcartaa'i Jaw Broken la a Fist Fight, 1 Captain Brnwnaen Says. ? Washington. D. C.?Captain W. H. Brownson. the Commandant of the Naval Academy, has reported privately to the Nary Department that after M an investigation in the case of Midshipman Pearson, of New Hampshire, who Is suffering from a broken jaw, a fee has found nothing to Indicate that 5^ Pearson received his injury as a result tl of basing or "funning," as they call It j cj at the academy. j t] * ? av. ?u-. a w. 1 .. rAII me IUCU1T ouuiutu t>jr \.?|nmu II Brownson tended to show that young w Pcarwon was hurt In an ordinary list ai . battle. ' d! PAID $5000 CONSCIENCE MONEY. J Elderly Kaa Otmd 21* Baplaaatloa, Bat ? Fat Don the Cub. Jj i . New York City.-Employes In the City Chamberlain's office gasped for u breath when an elderly man. of genteel appearance. Inquired for the cus? todlan of the conscience fund. On the ppcarance of Deputy Chamberlain g Campbell the stranger laid down lire $10f)0 gold certificate*, which he said be wanted placid In the fund, i lie offered no explanation, and, after n feting down the money, walked out. T?fl to Stay la tk? Philippine*. Judge William II. Toft has decided to remain Civil Governor of the Philipi for the present, and President r U ltooflevelt will not appoint him an a*- ), & MM-iate Justice of the United States t 8 Lu^rcmc Court, as had been Intended. r Noted La?|tr Vrosea ta Dealt*. ' William D. Bcckett. a noted lawyer ^ [ of Omaha. Neb., was found on the j u * roadside Ave tulles west or we city, i n I Ircxeu to death. Beckett bad been ill j \ I for scv.T.ii ilayg, and be In believed to i c 1 have wandered away and to bave ( K fallen exhausted where be was found <] m by i dairyman. Tbe body was frozen . ft atiff. 1 H Ilka* Markat htwHi Sea Mat. Ba Th" ahoe market Ih between Reasons, j cS us*? there h; an ahutcir.cnt in the call i fin for gcocN. * H| OMi and Clovemakers will form an internaKgM tlonal union. J Sew Haven (Conn.) linkers will inToice tbe aid of tbe General Assembly to wcQK' legialatlon which will result ' - with nlsrht worli. J unn ID UO;js ??v n? fl M Ir'n :rJ important lines of Industry and ' 1 R B In commercial affair* the outlook la j Ifl B mm promising for Maine, and labor }c H HA was r ever so fully employed aa now. 1 MffiSfl 'The eenaaa ttowii that each, wage 1 ea. yev la our manufacturing establlsbH^^HSMenia produces wealth to the amount; J B Bp,f *3 75 a day. and receives H37.50 a ' 11 'LAN TO AVERT DISASTER | I' l Wonderful Apparatus For Trains 1 Tasted in^Germany. I t Appai ?a?ly UUm CollUloa oa Railroad* ImpoMlblo? A Ball to TOaka . Nodding KiRlaMr. 1 Washington, D. C.?A full doscrip- 1 iou of the operation of a new safety pgllance for trains has been sent to be State Department bj Prank H. lason, Consul-Genera 1 at Berlin. Albough Intended for use on steam railoadx the devices are operated by < lectrlclty and require a third rail In 1 f be track. Mr. Mason says: I < "Midway between the roils is laid a I ? tght third rail, the joints of which ~ re ho connected an to form a continuum conductor. Midway under the forward part of the engine is hung the rorking instrument, an electrical aparatus Inclosed In a square case or acket occupying a cubic foot of space. "The Instrument is connected with contact shoe, which slides along the > bird rail und by wires with a tele- j hone and electric alarm bell in the ab of the engine driver, and a red icaudescent lamp which is lighted by tie same impulse that rouses the alarm ell into action. "A further improvement of the deice sets the electric brakes on the nglne and on the entire train simulaneously with the alarm signal which riunds the bell and lights the lamp, 'be apparatus is so adjusted and arauged that the engineer cau at any loment, by touching a lever, satisfy imself that It is in full working couJtlon." For a test of the apparatus two loomotlves. numbered respectively No. 00 and 1420. had been equipped with tie new device. Engine No. 200. drawag a special train and approaching lachsenhausen at full speed, received he danger signal and came to a full top. ine driver 01 ->o. men an*t-u y telephone the cause of the signal I nd received from the keeper of a rade crossing, half a mile in front rord that a wagon had broken down f a crossing the track and obstructed fl be line. I After ten minutes' wait the engineer t f No. 290 received word by telephone t hat the obstruction bad been cleared e way and thereupon resumed his trip. A mile farther on the signal on No. |, DO again sounded, and the driver was j, iformed by telephone as before that r lie semaphore round a curre and more u lian half a mile distant was set at j Halt" Thereupon No. 290 slowed t owu and proceeded cautiously, sound- g lg its whistle at short intervals, the c ?lephone bell in the driver's cab ring- Q ig continuously until the curve wits Minded, when the ringing ceased, noti- t ring the engineer that the semaphore ? ad changed to "track clear." There* $ pon No. 200 resumed full speed. % In the test to prevent a collision Xo. c 120 came up rapidly from behind and ? a the same track as Xa 200. which g ad slowed down and was proceeding q lutiously in consequence of reported anger in front The moment that 1420 enme within XK> yards of No. 290 the signal on g, oth eiurines be ran to rimr and their ?<1 lights to glow. Thereupon No. 420 baited, the driver inquired of No. . W in front the cause of the alarm. ' nd a complete understanding between ^ le two trains was immediately estab o VENEZUELA F0RC?S A LOAN. J >rolcu?r* Exempt, Bat " Court eau?1y Aiktd to jCaitTlbito." D Willemstad. Island of Curacao.?It 01 is been learned here that the Vene- " tielan Government has ordered a ? ireed loan of $82,400, being one-quar- * ?r of the total loan contemplated. The * >an Is obligatory on all Venezuelan Bj erchants. traders and banker*. ForIgners are exempt, but they are tour wisly asked to contribute. 1 The Government proposes to repay * >ls loan, when the country Is at peace. n F permitting the subscribers to it w i reUlm ten per cent of the import 81 uposts levied at the La Guayra an- oi >m bonne upon goodfc they Import unI they shall be reimbursed. Owing > the scarcity of money in Venexuela. is not believed here that this loan * in be subscribed. TMQFF DDOIMMFn. M trryaakm Bmk Thtooih Tc? la th? 7 Potomac at Wuhliitoa. b Washington, D. C.?While a large rowd was skating on the bathing c isin near the Washington Monument. H ic ice suddenly gave way and pre- C pitated twenty or more persona into I He water. Three persons lost their f res. Miss Jessie C. Thomas, a young ii oman. twenty yearn of age. employed i> 1 a clerk in the Bureau of Ethnology. I led at the Emergency Hospital. The i< ames of the two other dead persons t' re Arthur Wesserbach, an employe e f the Bureau of Engraving and Print- C ig. and Henry C. Harnill, a clerk in ii be War Department. Eight other persons were treated in le Emergency Hospital. 3 BOY SHOOTS HIS AUNT. Ii* Was Choking tta. d Hoy's Mother. * Hopklusrllle. Ky.?In defense of his j lother. Thomas Whltmau, aged thlrOAAM41 uKa? in*lnA irUK ?ft Tiiwtnl tXU J CHI r?t Pin/I ivvsw ?* I>w i? Q nd instantly killed his aunt. Miss May a 'hipps. aged thirty-live years, at their ^ ouie here. J, Miss Phlpps. who had been insane ,| everal years, in a fit of anger began j, lioklng her sister and probably would t ave killed Mrs. Whitman had not j ho boy shot her. a Krpt From Ham* bjr Father's Wilt. 1 Edward Ciould Peters, living in New fork City, maiy now return to his taiire State, from which he was kept iway for several years in accordance . vith the will of his father. His lu- , ome from a trust fund of ?1HUW0 j rented by liin father's will was con- , litlonal upon his living outside of .Wasachnsetts. Jndice Mi-Kim, in the I'ro - * -4 ?i?1 Mill* luuri ill liUMUM, nan lusuuLini i ( In* trustee not to In* governed l?y the | , irorlsion. holding It agaliMt puhlie < MilU-y nnd void. Tin* son has kept , itrsctly within thi* letter of Hit* will. | , i 1 Minor Mention. The i>etrothal lias been announced if the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weiuiar to 'rincess Caroline of Reuiu. Sir Hiram Maxim will visit the Jnitod States snoruy. <o ruiuuiu iwu ears and ens^ine in experiments with lying mat-blue*. Garment workers at Boston. Mass.. ?n strike for a nine-hour day, have imicnbly adjusted differences with heir employers. Plunging on the turf Is almost as Injurious to the beat Interests of true port aa naked, unabaahed swindling ms eftr been or Is ever likely to be. ?- I SULTAN OF MOROCCO FLEO Imperial Troops Defeated by the Pretender's Army Near Fez, MR MINISTER MENEBBI KILLED rfc* Population of Tangier Alarmed. 4ik*d For Warships ? All or the Conaula Kxcept Iht Crltlah Ha*a Loft Ik* Capital?The Moorish Government Incapable of Maintaining Order. London?The Tangier correspondent >f the Morning Lender reports serious Ighting outside of Fex. He sm.vb Hid iultan has been defeated and that he neaped to the westward. War Minis, er Menebbi.. one of the Sultan's itrongest pillar*, was killed. All the Consuls, excepting the British repre tentative. Lave left Fez. Fighting among the tribes is also >roceeding near enough to Tangit r for be sound of sbooting to be beard in be city. Tbe population of Tangier la tUrmed and baa asked for tbe protecIon of warships. A loeal Pasha took out a foree to retore order, but he found it impossible o proceed, and returned to Tangier. In a dispatch frout Tangier, sent on he previous day, tbe correspondent of he Times says: "A serious fight occurred to-day eloso o my residence two miles outside of rangier. Several hundred tribesmen ittacked a village defended by only ilxty men. Tbe attackers were remised and four of them were killed. "Tbe fighting may be resumed at any noment. It does not involve any dan;er to Europeans, but it shows that the Moorish Government is paralyzed by he rebellion and incapable of mainaining order." PORTO RICO IN GOOD SHAPE. Cd?aillo> Advancing aid Treasury in Excellent Condition. San Juan, Porto Rico. ? Governor lunt personally delivered bis message it tbe joint session of the Legislature. Ic recommended little legislation and K) rauicai cuan^ro, bo wucr aim aore fully to test the laws now in opration. The Governor reported that the insuir telegraphs, which formerly result ! a deficits, now are yielding a small evenue. doe largely to extensions. Edication is advancing. There are now 126 teachers and 55,000 children, and be Government has already expended 102,890 on new school houses and aore money will bo invested in tbls aanner. The treasury ia in excellent condllon. as follows: On hand from the lunlar revenues. $378,070; trust funds. 885.035; due from tbe United States. 431.128. The Governor advises no inrease in direct taxation, and recommends the granting to the United States of titles to the San Juau and lulebra naval sites. SHORTHAND WiLL DISPUTED. [ aographlc Copy of Millionaire'* Testament Contested In Court. Cincinnati. Ohio.?A peculiat contest egan in the Probate Court when the rldow of the millionaire John McCordele Gibson, who died in Ashevilie. X. .. a few months ago. preseuted a copy , F his will made from stenographic otes alleged^ to have been preserved y Attorney \\ ens. or AHiieviue. The original will. It is asserted. has ever been found. It bequeathed bis ntlre estate to bin widow, to whom be 'an married n few bourn before his eath. His legal heir*. bin mother and brother, content the probating of tbe rill, and a legal argument is in prores* on the question whether a will of tali* description is valid. Mr*. Gibson. the widow, was Miss ecillla Wolf, of Providence, R. I. She 'as called by a telcjrrani tc Ashevllle hen Mr. Gibson was critically ill. and ran married on her arrival. Mr. Gibrm's first wife was one of tbe victims f the Windsor Hotel fire In New York: CHIEF JUSTICE M'lVER DEAD. ?oth Carolina Jurist's r?rw Ended In Hit 8?T?nl|-MTckth Tear. Charleston. 8.C.?Chief Justice Henry [elver died at his home in Clieraw, S. !. He was seventy-six years of age. wo sons and one daughter survive 1m. t The Chief Justice was born near Sonin a n oAn?^.MkA. 1 Q+yn it"ij" xiin, 0. v., uii fw|m'iuiicr ? >, ia.li, [e was educated at the South Cnrolin.i !ollege, receiving lib* decree in 1840. n 1840 he mnrried Miss Caroline owe. flavins begun to practice law \ Clieraw in 1S48 be became Proseoutig Attorney for tbe district from 1S53. luring the Civil War be was :in officer a tbe Confederate Army, and was wice severely wounded. He was electd an Associate Justice of the Supreme Jourt In 1877, and made Chief Justice 11891. DOC CAUSED <3400 DAMAGE. dfinfit Finally Ktadtrrd Araiast Zalata mt Rathe rfard k. Hbtm. Columbus, Ohio.?(Jaribaldi. a bull* og owned by tbe late Rutherford B. layes. will cost tbe Ilnyes heir* $5400, judgment for that auiouut being ren* ered agaiust them a few day* ago. Garibaldi many years a go frightened horse driven by Mrs. Addie M. Smith, nd a runaway resulted in which Mr*. Iiuith was thrown from the buggy and everely Injured. She sued fe- $?>.000 lainage*. and tbe lower <*oui*is gave ler The matter has been before he Supreme Court three times, but the udguient has been finally atlirmed. ind tbe damage must be paid. PRANSVAAL TO J?AY^ $150,000,000 ;ti*iub?rlaJi? Also Obtains < uaraate* For Lmh of Uk? kun. Johannesburg. Soutb Africa.?Colonial Secretary Chamberlain and the etiders of tbe mining community Ik*re ? :?--1 ?* *?? fi'.utnuiiil Sit liivi' irrittu iii itu ui *u o a Unancial settlement. Under lliis agreement tin* Transvaal ivar contribution will amount to$l."?o.njo.inki. A guarantee also will be given j for an Imperial loan of $ir?lUKHUHll?. | which Is to be expended in reprmlue- i live public works in the Transvaal ami in the Orange Kiver t'olouy. New* of the Toiler*. All the electrical workers in Indian npulis, Intl., arc on strike for higher wages. Telephone girls In Des Moines. In.. tiu.ir utrikp for :iu advance lu wages. The Lake Carriers' Association, meeting in Cleveland, O., bas decided to reorganize. Street railway employes at Bloomiugton. III., have secured a ten i>er cent. Increase in wages. The switchmen's strike on the Iowa Central Railroad bas been settled bj giving the men more pay. . * ? ISyru| It is pore. It is gentle. It is pleasant It is efficacious. It is not expensive. It is good for chiidr It is excellent for la It is convenient for It is perfectly safe v It is used by millioi Eft, .'] It stands highest, a: E31 If you use it you ha fc ] produces. LovMlckneii U RtaL It 1* a dreadfull thing to be loveiilck, aya the Philadelphia Press. That la what an authority on the subject says: "I know I used to think that such a thing was only the result of an overworked Imagination on the part of our fiction and love utory writers, but 1 saw one last summer. The fellow was handsome and sensible, bat it went hard with him. He was madly Infatuated with a young girl, and she was equally daffy over him. Parental consent could not be secured, but all :he arrangements were made for an elopement. "The hour came, but the bride-to-be came not. Soon a note came from the girl She loved the fellow, and all that, would surely marry blm, but could not elope. She could not so dls- | obey and abuse her parents, who hud | always been good to her. i "Well, the fellow grew pale, staggered across the room and fell. A doctor was called in, and the diagnosis was Moveslckness' in its most malf.gnant form. "The man had a fine position, but for two weeks he eould not go to the | office. He had dizzy spells; he wns unable to sleep; be ate nothing; just | sat around uud moped, and looked? j well, he looked fierce. He bad ft doc- i tor regularly, and may still have one, , for all I know, as It got so bad I decided to get out of the* town for fear | It might become contagious. , 44 'A mighty weak fellow; no force , of character or will power/ you say. The doctor doesn't agree with you. , He says such cases happen frequently ( ?a susceptible constitution or something of that sort. But, at any rate, don't get lovesick." lists LmvI*c Ship. "The old superstitious Idea about rata tearing a sinking ship," said a sailor, "has nothing of truth In It. It arose, I believe, out of the fact that rats are strong and swift swimmers, and take readily to the water. "When I was a boy I visited the Orkneys. and on a certain marning, while walking with my father along the shore of one of the islands, w<? saw an Immense number of rats proceeding In orderly file down from the bills toward the sen. When they came to the water they plunged into it and swam off, and several hours later ttrrlved at another of the islands, two miles distant. Now if they had left a ship in this fashion a dreadful fear would hare seized bold of the hearts of all on board. "Once a dozen rats jumped overboard from a ship of mine when we were a mile from land. They circled about for a momq?t and then pushed for the shore. Some of the sailors wanted to Jump after the rats, but I locked them up till they promised to stay with me. "I uest' rais una leu me snip ucvaiinc we had a half doz>?n pigs running loose In the bold, and it seems Incredible how these pigs would root out and deTour the rodents. To escnpe the pigs they left, but of course sailors thought that the ship would Infallibly go down. She Is afloat to-day. that ship, and j there are lots of rats aboard her. worse i luck."?Philadelphia Record. < Hicrialnit. , Th<? man who takes life studiously I laughed several times In quick sueces- I lion. The friend with him seized his ; arm and exclaimed apprehensively: < "What's the trouble?** ; "There's nothing wrong." wns the < answer. "1 was merely laughing at all i those ladies' new hats." I "But there is notning extraordinary j about them." c "That is how It shmbj to you. But I i look ahead. If they are as funny ten i years from now as th'? hats of ten | years ago are to-day they will be sim- I ply excruciating. I may not be here ten year* from now. and I don't want I to miss the opportunity." He laughed on?e more and then relapsed Into gloom. -Answers. The higher a man climbs up the ladder of sun-ess the more people lie! has to look down upon. Ildlj'i <'liln?>*0 MlnUter. Italy now has for the first time a Chinese Minister to herself, residing at Kome. and not accredited to auy other power. This diplomatic manda rin Is more ornamental tnan usciui. for be Is fresh from the Celestian Empire, and speaks only bis mother tongue. When tomalhlii'i Wrong. There is something mighty wrong with a six-foot man who can't be twisted round a mite of a woman's little linger.?Ner* Tirk Press. 'rifr ** ii uulT, T Pjof n?s Family lax&tivt en. dies. business men. mder all circumstances. is of families the world over. i a laxative, with physicians. lvc tbe best laxative the world now XtcrobM A re Fr*Mr>ed bj Cold. It is popularly believed tbat cold hits the effect of destroying those microbes and disease germs which are the greatest enemies of life and health. This belief has lately tieen demonstrated to be entirely mistaken. As a matter of fact, cold acts as a preservative of disease germs. It keeps them inactive for a time, but alive and ready for activity at some future favorable opportunity. It saves them from the natural death they might die if exposed to an ordinary i temperature. The London Lancet, the leading English medical Journal, calls attention to this fact, and many prominent scientists are engaged in studying the subject. As a general rule, a marked degree of cold, somewhere in the neighborhood of the freezing point, renders the microbes Inactive, but does not kill them. In a few cases the air a degree slightly below freezing point will kill them, but, on the other hand, there are many deadly microbes which continue to live at an extraordinarily low temperature, such as that of liquid air nnd other substances, which- can only be produced by chemical action. Experiments conducted by the scientists prove that it is useless to seek in low temperature methods of sterilization as distinguished from preservation. Dr. Marcet. a French physician, points out that low temperature is Itself the cause of the continued vitality of microbes by arresting chemical action and preventing the loss of oxygen contained In the chemical constituent* of the cells. An Inetalln For Boring. Mrs. P. A. Ebmer. of Sunnyside, Yakima County, Wash., has hoed out $33.?i from her garden. She was weeding cabbage when her hoe struck a hard, shiny substance. This was raked out in the sand and proved to be a sll ver dollar. Then the woman dropped on her knew, raked carefully about, and goon brought forth a $20 gold piece. A few more scratches and she had a handful of silver and gold. She hurried to the bouse and washed the money. On counting It she had a $20 and a $10 gold piece and several small silrer pieces, the total amounting to $33.25. An investigation led to the belief that the money bad been lost by a former r?*sldent of the place. She inquired of the neighbors, and Anally located a man who bad lived there two years ago. He was J. T. Baird, a pharmacist. employed In the Sunnyside drug store. The woman felt the money did not belong to her and was uneasy. She searched for the druggist and returned the money to the loser. He staled that be lost the coins two years ago. lie kept the $20 piece and gave the woman the remainder. She returned to her home a happier woman, and carried $13.25 as a reward for honesty. Other gardens are being weeded in anticipation of finding buried treasure.?Chicago Inter Ocean. The PiMlaf of th? Noon Hoar. "There is no noon hour iu the lower part of Manhattan," mi id an old restaurant man, who has supplied luncheon for business men and clerks for >ver a score of years. "We used to Jo Keren-eighths of our business between noon and 1 o'clock, but now ' ?? ?- II f.x > 'lit' luncueon uour mruus iiuui u i?| after 3?to after 4 in the Wall Str?et; section. I can remember well when Ln ill olHecs and business houses work j eased at the stroke of 12, ami was i resumed at 1 o'clock sharp. Now the , noon hour is observed only in shops | md factories. In offices and couimerI'ial houses work goes on continuously iinder the present day pressure ot business. and the elerks and otlmr employes no out for luncheon in relays, j ln*%'innins as early as 11 o'clock, and; with this change has conic a shortenIns of the Iiiueheon hour iu most cases j lo three-qmtrters of an hour- some times to half an hour. The chiefs and tiie employers as a ride eat late? most of them about 2 o'clock, and iluwn iu Wall strift tlit* broker* fceid< in gi't luiirliiMin nr.Ii| after tho Kxrhuuyivt i j-isf." -New York Times. | Carbolic An<l?lotr. There are many Huieides, accidental I deaths and Merlons burns and disfigurements due to carbolic arid. It ought ! to be Generally known that strong eider j vinegar is a quirk antidote for it. ex* terually and internally. ? New York Press. Em; In Combination. "Dey tells me," said Uncle Ebt.n. "dat contentment is better dan riches, hut I 'spielous dat wlf de proper facilities I could hab bof of 'em at once."? Washington Star. BecaMJ Its component parts are all whole* It acts gently without unpleasant It is wholly free from objectionab It contains the laxative principle* It contains the carminative princi] It contains wholesome aromatic agreeable and refreshing to the All are pure. All are delicately blended. aii ... oV;i1fti1lv anH urieitificalll All CUV. bii . 4 Its value is due to oar method of a the orginality and simplicity ot To get its beneficial eftects - tray Manufactured bj (AUTORfflA San I'raAoNO. C Loultvillt, Ky N *<j* SALb bit ALL LMALlJtU i Ooo<l Stationery and Genius. One of the curious problems of life la the irreconcilability between art and stationery. The greater tbe genius the worse the stationery, as a rule. Tbe real genius never has a pen that is fit to use. unless be borrows it. On tbe other band, tbe commonplace person has a writing table appointed in proportion to bis or her commonplaceness, and culminating in tbe bore's perfect paraphernalia, witb scaling wax, long envelopes and everything else. The genius never buys a pencil. lie picks up bis neighbor's. 'As for buying blotting paper?to buy It requires a peculiar moral efTort. He rarely buys It. As to stamps, tbe genius usually buys these from her servant, one at a time. She rarely writes letter* and consequently only requires stamps on rare occasions. Of course, the genius is not stingy and must not he confounded with the one who is unable to spend more than twenty-five cents at a time for paper and stamps. This unfortunate person is usually wealthy and a woman. She will use the half sheets of other people's letters and has the cruel trick of crossing and recrosslng the lines in her own. She has a passion for postal cards, and hoards old and disused pens, rubber bands, old engagement books and pencil ends, simply because "he finds It Impossible to throw away anything connected with stationery. When forced to use the telegraph wires she will sit at a desk littered with silver trying to condense a message for the sake of a few pennies, until it is de void of meaning and politeness.??.oieago Record-Hera Id. Clarence Wu Hangry. Passers-by the Reading Terminal tbe other afternoon were amused by a rlclily dressed small boy, who, despite the protests of bis fashionably gowned I mamma, insisted upon eating a bot frankfurter sandwich and several waffles served from the wagon of an old man who supplies the craving ot newsboys and other street urchins. But the little man of wealth was hungry. and as he descended the steps of the station his eye fell upon the wagon. "Mamma. I'm going to have one of those cakes." he said, pointing to tbe waffles. "No. Clarence, dear, come on over to the hotel; yon won't eat here on tbe street; you can't have anything from that wagon, dear." But Clarence proved that he could and would, for be stepped right up and ordered some of the "cakes." which the man supplied smoking hot Tbe frank, furter sandwich tbe lad downed with equal relish, although his preference for the waffles was evidenced by hl? taking a second order of them. The mother stood by expostulating with the l>o*\ her handsome cloak floating loosely in the wind, but Clarence was boss and had bis own way.?Philadelphia Re?*ord. Window* Nwlt of Puiir. Surgeon Captain Iv. Tamura of the imperial Japanese army, addressed a recent meeting of the military surgeons of thin country. niid in the courm? of his rem-irks Dr. Tamura called attention to the use of pajter for windows in j Japan in place of glass. Tt is shown that where no veutilation can trfke place through glass, tbe air passes through the paper quite freely. More-, over, the texture of tbe paper is such j that while admitting air. it prevents in | some degree the passage of germs . through It. This point was determined by eounting the number of colonies ??:' j bacteria developed on media inside and outside the house. It was thus found : that ninety-seven per .-en:, of the bac-j teri.i of the air were removed. The j speaker summed up in the adroit Ori-j enfal way: "It is well known that a citizen of Paris inhales bacteria j g'-rms in a day; one in Berlin, ??f them. We Japanese, who live in stir containing three times as ni::av as Berlin and twice as many as I'ar.s, inhale onlv ', <??) bacteria germs in a ilny. simply Iknuusw w?? usi? pap??r Tor tlic will'lows of our houir*."- I'iiil:!delphia I.i'iliiT. rnnnlril I lie llulm of |h? IIrml. A scientist with a vast amount of patience has counted the hairs of tin* human head. The results of this Invest Ration are curious. Iilundi's, for Instamv. liave th?? greatest numlier. and those with red hair hove the smallest. Light-haired j?eople have between and llio.tMX) hairs. ^ average only about iDu.uuu bairn. Red-haired people do not bave uiucb more tbaa 30,000. . 3e. M after-effects. le substances. .. r j 3 i of plants. ll|lf| 1 pies of plants. LfjjiN i fl liquids which axe &1IP S 1 - :j - 1 * ir compounded. , . lanufacture and to | | the combination. . j i| Jj \ the genuine. i.jjS ! (ij lew fork, N. Y- U [ j jhogguu*. f !:j Trials of I'vainu. j Strange demands, that are for tb* 1 most part unknown to tbe general pub* j lie, are quite commonly made upon postmen, this being especially tbe case in rnral districts. However widely education may bare spread there are hnndreda of poatmem who. e**ry working day of their Uvea, are asked to read out aloud for the re- * cipients the letters that these same postmen have delivered. A postman in the North Riding of Yorkshire as- " mired the present writer that one really extensive and prosperous rarmer <m | bin ronnd regularly paid bfm a penny , each for reading oat aloud tbe letters , delivered. And In hundreds of cases | the woman recipient will appeal to the if postman to do tbe reading, alleging fl that her eyesight fa defective snd that 3 her spectacles are mislaid or broken. w Tbe postman referred to above had, I too, many records of strange questions | put to bim. One of tbe commonest of J there Is: "Are there any mourning fl stamps to go with black-edged paper 8 and envelope*?" Another question of fl the same kind deals with "wedding 19 atampa." It la q"ult<> common, In tbe fl case of country gentlemen writing to fl old servanta, for the envelope to bear Q the direction: "Will Mr. ?, tbe post- fl man. kindly read the enclosed to tbo fl addressee, who ia unable to read or fl write?" Tbe writer l<as spoken to post* ?9 men who, during Ions periods, hsvs flj regularly earned tips by following such jfl directions. One of the cotnraoiicat happenings as regard* all postmen U for some man or woman, generally a lodger, to inter* oept them and say. "Do not deliver any letters addressed to iu?* except Into my own band; my landlady regularly 'trams open my letters." Of come, all that the postman can do Is to advise the person to get a reliable address or landlady. And the opinion Is con* gtantly being asked of the London postman as to whether envelopes, produced for bis inspection, have not teen tampered with.?Tit-Bits. Mother "My raotncr vu trouaica wmm consumption for many years. At la* #he waa given up to die. Tbea A he tried Ayer*a Cherry Pectoral, wffl aad vaa apeedily cared." E|| D7 P. Jolly, A voce, N. T. n No matter how hard |n your cough or how long H you have had Ul Ayer's I Cherry Pectoral is the M best tning you can take. H It's too risky to wait 9 until you have consump- H ! tion. If you are couching B today, set a bottle of 9 Cherry Pectoral at once. B ITW** dw: tku, Wc.. tt. Afl<wgW?. ? <W CoMmtt romr doctor. If Is* ?*y? tok? lt. B raH thro do M ho MJ*. It km Mil* yoo not | H u> toko It. Dm tat Mto Ik knows. I U Southern Pacific Co. I CALIFORNIA I Two Xom Dmtiy Train. Wj Sunset Limited I (OoMt oo Wb?l() fffW and Pacific Coast Express I I Nnr Pa?*i??r Mrtarrn Mow York to E >cw OrlrHM-footTlwr ?ui?rrfc BaB ttervlco?Kxrcllcnt H For Tr?* Ilhv?tr?'?l PamphltK Mm?v Tim* MM T*lj|o?, (UllruoJ*a<l St?*.ii lick*:*, B?rth Bjjfl i:>-?-rv4tli>n*. Biwv* Ch?vt>?j tj >11 LVntin*- ^Hf York -34P |lm*>lir?v. or I n??l*rr M?i*o jMS ujiton, W???. -17j \V*?hli rt.?b N Y. -tJ> S. franklin *tr?*t. ^H9 Lrmi?., r?.-iura. * iUi4 I V The l)ffMMil U Ki?rjti??u. jWB Au old acquaintance, John i-reer. M died aud was Wuried at Mctamora last WIM'S. I'urillg Ulir rCMIiJi-uif ai AVW- mbv mora .Mr. Freer was out* of our bitter- |gj| est enemies, and the publisher seored jjgg liiui without Htlut. lu the shadow of^flH tho tomb all is forgiven. Deceased badflgl his faults. We all have them. etvr. the Rood traits of deceased grea^BRw ly outuumbered his faults, aud in U^Km| great beyoud it is hoped that his w^HH be au unbroken family, Kest In pea<^HHH ?today City (Mich.) Times.