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A NMAT INEW SW1NDLE. BLO(EN OF WOOD SOLD FOR BOT TLE$ OF MEDICINE. How a Clever Bogus Doctor Successfully "Works" the Country Towns-Philadel phia Detectives Looking for Him. PHILADELPIIA, September 26.-Green goods in medicine is the latest scheme worked by confidence men in this city. During the past week or two thou sands of packagegof a new remedy have been distributed among the residents of the outskirts of the city and of the sur rounding towns. "Mexican Bueno Med icina, the Great Malaria and Liver and Kidney Remedy and Blood Purifier," is the title of the new discovery. The price is one dollar "per bottle." The new remedy is enclosed in asolid looking package of the standard cubic dimensions of the ordinary high-priced patent medicines that are put up in quart bottles and encased in stiff paste board boxes. A thick, closely fitting and earefullly pasted paper of tlaring red covers the package and gives in bold, black type the virtues of the new medicine. The face of the package giving the title of the- cure-all is ornamented with a novel picture of anIu4ian camp. in which the medicine man, preparing his mysterious remedies in a boiling pot at the door of his tent, is a conspicuous feature. On the reverse side is a list of the af flictions for which the medicine is a sure cure. Almost the entire length of the package is occupied by this formidable list, which includes every known ill to which human nature is exposed, except impecuniosity. Among the hundred or more specifica tions of diseases which this remedy is guaranteed to cure are "blotches on the skin," "difficulty of breathing," "dim nes of vision," "fits," "fever and ague," "swimming of the head," "heartache," "loss of appetite,", "low ness of spirits," "pains in the bones," "rheumatism," "swellings," "boils of all kinds," "giddiness;" and "reduction of superfluous flesh." The list is surmounted by the an nouncement that Bueno Medicina is used by Mexican miners, cattlemen and Indians as the best known remedy for all complaints, and is followed by this announcement: "Manufactured by the Montezuma In dians of ' roots, barks, herbs, gums, seeds and berries. Address "Dr. . M. LINDSAY, "Elm House, Bridgeport, Conn." It requires some time to unwrap the tightly pasted paper cover and the inner pasteboard box. This done, the pur chteer discovers the most harmless sub stance ever enclosed in a patent medi cine wrapper. It is a plain, carefully sawed soft pine wood block, which gives the remedy the standard weight of about two pounds. Dr. D. M. Lindsay, who has invented '^--anLintroduced this extraordinary med icine'is a well-known figure in this city. His home is at 305 Bowery, New York city. He is a tall, slender man, forty five or fifty years old, with long, dark, curly hair, a black moustache and a florid, weather-beaten face. Dressed in a costume that is an imi tation of the garb of a Mexican ranch ero, he has been one of the most con spicuous promenaders of Chestnut t during the past two weeks. n his arrival here he registered at and advertised for "agents to -t special medicine in the ot been here a week before d more than one hundred 'th his pine wood Bueno n a tour of Pennsylvania e selected only such men as till of grit as a grindstone, and lausible address he found little ' ino't e 0 he I ness of Samn..Pateh's theory that so things can be done as well as others. He made his headquarters at the office of a well-known patent medicine dealer on Ninth street. His agents are now infesting the vil lages of Montgomery, Bucks, Chester and Delaware Counties. Even the in habhitants of suburban towns have been victimized. ADr. Lindsay was generous with his a'gents. He allowed them 75 per cent. ~pofit.. He took a vigorous hand in the rwork himself and he reaped a rich har -vest. His methods are not as original as his ~goods. A decoy bottle, containing. among other ingredients, enough bad whiskey to make the mixture seductive, has served to plaster country druggists with the bogus medicine. Another plan oNf the doctor and his agents is to drive -into the principal thoroughfares of vil lages and hamlets, discourse upon the valuable properties of the medicine to the, crowds that always cellect about 'such specialists, administer free doses Sfrom the decoy bottle and make a few --sales to cappers, whom they have dis tributed in the audiece. The first purchasers receive their money back and are told to keep the medicine. The crowds quickly become eager purchasers and the medicine man, -announcing that he can't afford to re turn money to every buyer, drives off 'with a well-lined poeket, while the pur e hasers take the pine block home to be .placed in the family medicine closet un til the symptoms of some fancied afflic tion rcqaire~s its use. In Seuwenksville, Ambler. Fort Wash ington, L:msdale and other towns on the Perkiomei and Bethlehem branches of the Reading Railroad, which have been flooded durmng the past week wit~h the pine goods, Dr. Lindsay's presence is now anxiously desired. Mrs. Mary' iunslinger, who lives at Line Lexington, in Montgomery County, *has had a warrant issued for the doc tor's arrest, and ' detectives in this city are now awaiting his re-appear ance.' Mrs. Hunslinger says that Dr. Lind say was at Line Lexington -for two days, and that she bought a box of his Bueno *Medicina to keep in the house for emer gencies. She had such confidence in the doctor that she went to him to have a *tooth pulled. After he had fractured her jaw she examined his medicine. The doctor quickly skipped out. Mother and Widow at Twelvi'. *A Huntington (W. Va.) dispatch to the New York Press says: "Mrs. Bloc del, twelve years old and a widow, has given birth to a well-developed, -healthy girl baby. A letter from her father, Samuel R. Jarvis, a South Carolina farmer, confirms her statement that she is but twelve years old. She looks no older. Mrs. Bloedel says her father em ploys a large number of men on his farm. Among them last year was a German, Jules Bloedel, seventeen years olde-wno worked about the house. The tw~o young people fell in love, aiid Bloe del asked permission to marry Agnes. It was refused, and Agnes was sent to an aunt in Columbus. Bloedel was dis charged. He learned of Agnes's where abouts, and started for Columbus. He met the girl, without her aunt's knowl edge, amT after a few days they ran away, - the girl selling her jewelry in order to get. money to pay her expenses. They were married and came to Hunt ingt'on, where Bloedel assumed a ficti tious name. He secured employment and they. were living happily, when Bloedel fell ill with typhoid fever and died in a iveck. The young widow was . very poor and suffered much. She was induced to acquaint her father (of her condition, and lie has forgiven her and will take her home." A NEW DEPARTURE. The Government Competing with the Country Job Printing Offices. At the recent meeting of the National Press Association at Desroit the lion. E. A. Snively, one of the oldest and ablest newspaper men of Illinois, in his address :trotgly presented a point of special in terest.to the country newspaper office. I;. held that the postal department was leedlessly interfering with a branch of their traffic in printing envelopes for business men with a virtual advertising feature. Under the present administ ra tion there is also announced a combina tion that includes the inside stationery. It is urged that the postal department. in its enormous business. cm do this work and furnish the stationery cheaper than local dealers sind country print ing offices. This is evidently true. If the government should go into the clothing busiress. and, by way <.f illustration, operate through W\anamaker. there is no doubt that it could undersell smaller dealers, and all the postmasters of the coumntry could be soliciting agents. This cut on t heir envelope business has been a matter of complaint by country printers and stationery dealers; and the present extension of the system to the varieties of letter and note papt:r will add to the grievance. It is well to be conservative in these matters and re strict the functions of the government to those essential to the public conven ience. There should be as little invasion as possible of the business activities of the citizen.-St. Paul Glube. . . The Kentucky Colonels. It is somewhat hard for the outside barbarian to understand why "Co lonel'" are so plentiful in Kentucky. In the first place, Kentucky furnished a great many soldiers, both to the North ern and to the Souther n armies, during the war, and naturally some of these soldiers are su-e enough Colonels by rank and service. Others, who were minor officers or perhaps high privates, are n )y dubbed Colonels by way of courtesy. A few Colonels hold over from the Mexican war. and there are Colonels of militia. The Governor of Kentucky has the privilege of appoint ing persons on his staff with the rank of Colonel. Some Executives have been more lav ish than others in the distribution of the:e gilded honors. That kindly old gentleman, Gov. Luke Blackburn, M. D., was fond of creating Colonels. During his term he made some sixty Colonels in the city of Louisville alone, if I remem ber the figure correctly. There are various reasons which enti tle a man to this Gubernatorial compli ment. Colonel Will Hays is a Colonel because he is such a gifted poet, while Colonel Albert Dietzman was given his title by Governor Knott because he was the greatest business manager on earth. But there are other reasons. Many prominent citizens are honored with this complimentary title simply as a recognition of their merit by the com munity. Thus every man who conducts a large distillery is ipso facto a Colonel; for instance. Col. John M. Atherton or Col. Tom Sherley. Every prominent railroad official is also a Colonel; for instance, Col. Milton H. Smith. Every Congressman is a Colonel, as Col. Asher G. Caruth. Every man with a govern ment office is a Colonel, as Col. George Du Relle. Every great editor is a Colo nel, like Col. Henry Watterson. The Chief of the Police Department is a de facto Colonel, as Col. Wood. Then there are other gentlemen who are Colo nels because no other title fits them. But the law on the subject is a little vague and has never been formulated by the Legislature. 'If a man has been a Captain in the war never call him Captain: call him Colonel. Hle is entitled to this promo tion twenty-four years afterth s? loe.Theph ineomoi r5 of Sof fire com and the offcers in a Salvation Army. The title of Major is compiratively rare, and, therefore, is really more of a distinction than Colonel. Only promi nent people who have seen actual ser vice wear the title: for instance, Major Ed Hughes and Major J. Washington Wann. But still if you call a Major a Colonel he is not likely to get mad at you. By the observance of these few rules 1 have jotted down the stranger can get aogin Kentucky without com mitting any serious breach of etiquette. Lou iscille Post. Sad Times for Civit-Service Reformers. Patriots who could not vote for Mr. Clevelanid last fall on account of his al leged laps.es from the spirit of civil service reform are having a sad life nowadays. They voted for the other candidate partly because the Chicago platform promised great things, and partly because Mr. Harrison, in his Ictier of acceptance, promised the ut most devotion to the letter and spirit of the civil-service law. They preferred the bird in the bush to the bird in hand, with the usual result. They find them selves laughed at for their simplicity in believing party promises made at elec tion time. They see the spoils idea again in the ascetndant. Offices are used to reward politicians, to muzzle the press and to buy political support. Cleveland's mot to, ."Public office is a public trust,." is ignored, atnd there is substituted for it the prineipile that pub lie office is private oifortunity. A test of the at itude of the administrations of Cleveland and liarrison toward the "spirit" of civil-service reform is found mn removals from office. From March 7, 1885, to June :30, 1885, there were 399 removals of fourth-class postmnas ters, while in the first tive months of the present administration nearly 10,000 were removed, it took the Cleveland aditinistratioti 28 months to remove 24 per cent. of the fourthi-class postmiasters, but its successor has removed 18 per cent. in five months. 'Ihis ought to be very depressing, of course, for those members .of civil-service reform clubhs who were so zealous a year ago. But it probably is not. One hears very little from them now.-Baltimore Sun. A Tragedy of the War. CHARLESTON, West Ya., September 25. -Mrs. Mary Pierson of this.County has just received a large penision,. which re calls ati unusual tragedy not noted at the time and almost iorgotten since. At the breaking out of the war her hus band was an ardent Southerner. She favored the Unioin, as did her childrerd Finally the oldest son, Harvey, joined the Union army. His angry father swore lie would kill the first Yankea soldier he saw. In 18~61 a squad of eighteen Union soldiers stopped in front of his house. The Lieutenant, not thinking of danger, climbed upon the fence and sat down. Pierson shot him dead. In revenge the soliers killed Pierson and three of his children. The son liarver was killed in battle. The mothier, 'with several children, has lived in poverty until now. She is 75 years old. An army of tramps has concentrated on the line of the Pennsylvania Rail road, extending along nearly the entire length of the Eastern main line, march ing into winter quarters towards Pitts burg and Philadelphia. The freeboot crs among them have so terrorized the Communities along the road that vigi lance committees are bois organized by the rural population to priotect their property and families from ruthless WILIE COLLINS. Sketch of the Career of the Late Famous Novelist. LoxNON, September 23.-Wilkie Col lins, the novelist, who has been se riously ill for some time, died to-day. William Wilkie Collins who died Tues day, was 'born in London in January, 1824. His parents were both artistic and his father a member of the Royal Academy and a painter of some emi nenee. Wilkie Collins received his edu eation at a private school, after waich he spent two years in Italy. When he returned he was articled for four years to a tea firm, but he left the business to enter Lincoln Inn, where be was stuly ing law when his father died. In 1848 he published the "Memoirs of the Life of William Collins." His first novel was in 1850, "Antonio; or the Fall of Rome-" ' In 1851 appeared "Rambles Beyond Railways;" in 1852, "Basil;" in 18:51, "Mr. Wray's Cash Box;" in 1854. "hide and Seek." "After Dark" (1856), and "The Dead Secret" (1858), were first enntributed serially to "Household Word.." In 1859 he issued "The Queen of hearts;" in 1860, "The Woman in White;" in 1862, "No Name." The two last appeared serially in "All the Year Round." "My Miscellanies" appeared in 1863; "Annadale," in 1866; "The Moon-Stone," in 1868; "Man and Wife," in 1870; "Poor Miss Finch," in 1972: "Miss or Mrs.? and Other Stories,' in 1873, and in the same year "The New Magdaien;" "The Law and the L:idy," in 1875: "Two Destinies." in 1876. Latr in the order mentioned, down to 1882, he published "The liauntd Hotel," "The Fallen Leaves," "Jeze bel's Daughter" and "The Black Robe." lie visited the United States in 187:3-74, and was much pleased with his recep tion. He wrote a few original plays. One, called the "Lighthouse," was played in 183 by Charles Dickens and al amateur company at Tavistoek House, Dickens' residence, for the benefit of the Guild of Literature and Art. "The Frozen Deep" had a similar representa tion in 1857. "Black and White," in which he had the aid of Feehter, appeared in 1869. Quite a number of the novels were dramatized by himself and were played with great success in England and America. Among these are "The Woman in White," "Man and Wife," "Annadale" (under the name of "Miss Gwilt"), "The Moon Stone" and "The New Mag dalen." Many of his novels have been translated into French, German, Italian' Dutch, Danish and Russian. Wilkie Collins was the undoubted master of mystery, and skillfully reserved the ,e eret of his story to the end. For a long time he has been in ill-health and a con stant sufferer. He was related to Dick ens by marriage, his brother marrying Dickens's (laughter, Kate, in 1860. THE OYSTER INDUSTRY. What Has Been Done with the Bivalves In North Carolina-A Prcpsition to Give the Industry a Start in This State. Commissioner Butler has received the following communication from Mr. Wm. Miles Hazzard of Georgetown, now stop ping temporarily at Asheville: BEAUMONT, ASHEVILLE, N. C., September 21, 1859. Colonel A. P. Butler, Commissioner of Agriculture. . D)EAR SIR: I have watched with great interest the efforts being made by this State to establish an oyster industry on its coast. Senator Ransom and others induced the United States Navy Depart ment to detach Lieutenant Windslow, an expert in oyster culture, to make a survey of the bays and rivers to deter mine the suitable ground for locating farms. The State paid salaries and ex petnses. In 1886 the oyster businoss of the Stato wa atbsointe~ljinsignificant, as ineiso as it now is in our ~State. In the past two year's 53,000 acres suitable for oyster culture htad been located and thousands of peoph are now being employed, and hundreds of thousands of dollar's will be spent all this of course adding to the taxes of the State and prosperity of her seaboard people. ~Now we need just such, an industry started on our seaboard. * * * A Lieut. Windslow thinks an out fit too costly to undem take the location of less than'4,000 acres, his estimate is this: Platnt.steamer and lighters for transporting seed oysters.. $10,000i Shore buildings..... ... ...... 5,000 Salaries of officers and wages of men.... ................ 4,000 Seed oysters, bedding andl plant ing. .. .. .. ... ... .. .. .. .31,000 Total expenses establishing 4,000 acres.... ............. $50,000 This docs not include the expense of surveying necessary to establish the ground suited to oyster culture. In a conversation with Lieut. Wind slow and upon examinat ion of the IU-. S. Coast Survey map of Winyah Bay, with its creek tributaries, lie thinks 4,000 acres may be found suitable for oyster cult ure in area alluded to. If your department wi'll give me the exclusive right to establish an oyster industry ini this area, I will undertake to have the ground surveyed and start the industry. This (lone successfully, your department will have no trouble getting legislative help to continue the industry, which industry will be a blessing to our people. I solicit an immediate answer, as I may make suitable arrangements with the Agricultural Department of this State for their surveying outfit, as they do not intend locating any more grounds at piresent, and the State Engineer of the Shell Fish Commission, who has been engaged in all the surveys, can be emlployedl to make the survey, if en gagred at onee. Parties in Georgia will empjloy him for that coast after Octo ber 1st. Respectfully, WM. MILEs HAZZARD. Colonel Butler has referred the letter to the Attorney General with a request for his opinion as to whether the h)epart ment of Agricultunre has the right to give exclusive control of any p)ort ion of the waters of the State for the purpose desired by Mr. Hlazzard, utnder the law which provides for the granting of li enses for the niining of phosphiate in thme rivers and streanms of time State. The Attorney General will no doubt give the matte'r prompt attention, and if what Mr. Hlazzard asks for is possible under the law it would seeni an excellent opportunity to have a new industry in the State created, or at least extenided andl greatly developed. CARRYING CONCEALTED WEAPONS. What a Georgia Senator :has to Say for His Bill to Repeal the Law. Senator Shannon said in reference to his bill to repeal the law against carry ing concealed weapons: "'Thte lav: is a deadl letter, and it might as well be repealed. It is inmpos sible to enforce it literally, and occa sionally it gets a good citizen into trouble. I have known instances where a member of thme grand jury would go iito a store and deposit a pistol he had been carryinig in his pocket, and then go up to thec jury room and indict some fellow who had been caught with a weapon. "Two fellows were out on a creek and saw a snake.. One said to the other: 'Got your pistol with you? If yor~ have, kill that snake.' The mvan pulled out his pistol and killed the snake, and the other fellow weiit straight to town and had him indicted, and lie was fined $100.,' friend," said Senator Harris. "He did," said Senator Shannon; "he went home the next day and met him in the road. Thereupon he pulled him across his horse and wore him out." "Then he ought to be satisfied," said Senator Harris; "he got his ioney's worth." "I am not specially interested in the bill," continued Senator Shannon, "but I would like to vote for it and I would like to see it pass."-Atlanta Constitu tion. The Cost of Good Roads. Th'- road making in this coun1ry is in its infancy. The demand for good country roads is imperative. and yet we are doing com paratively nothing. Every civilized country is ahead of us in this respect. Even in our older States the highways are inferior to those of every country in Europe. It is somewhat encouraging to find newspapers and thoughtful farmers agitating the matter. Mr. J. F. Pope, of Texas, has given the subject consid erable study, and some of his facts will attract attention. According to Mr. Pope, a good road, eighteen feet wide, with four feet margin on each side, can be constructed for $2,100 a mile, and kept in repair at an annual expense of $100 a mile. Such a road should be well drained and be covered with fine broken stone nine inches deep in the centre and four and a half inches deep on the sides. It is estimated that these roads would save their cost every ten years, and heir interest every six months. Now, all this is as interesting to Geor gians as it is to Texans. We waste enough on bad roads to build good ones, especially when we take into considera tion the fact that the highways described by Mr. Pope could be constructed here for between $1,000 and $1,500 a mile. This difference in cost is owing. to cheaper labor and nore favorable con dinions of soil. One more point about roads. When we make permanent public improve nents the entire burden of the expense should not fall upon one generation. When posterity is to reap the benefit of our work it should pay its share of the bill. The Counties should raise the money needed for a permanent system of good public roads by issuing bonds. and our successors should be taxed to redeem them. This is the common sense of the situa tion. We must have good roads, but it would be unjust to pay for them our selves and present them as a free gift to our posterity.-Atlanta Constitution. Fell Dead Beside the Pastor. In New York, Sunday- evening last, Miss Elizabeth D. McCormick, organist of the Mission Church of the Heavenly Rest, dropped dead while in the com pany of two intimate friends and of the rector of the church, the Rev. D. Par ker Morgan. Miss McCormick played the organs of both the church and mis sion for years. At 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening the organist called for her friends. Miss.Nellie Blanchard and Miss Williams, at No. 51 West Forty-fifth street, intending to attend service at the mission, No. 218 East Forty-fifth street. The three called on the rector of the ohurch on the way to the service. According to Mr. Morgan, all were ap parently in gay spirits. During the walk the rector remarked: "I am going to preach to-night on the text, 'The Precious Blood of Jesus.' What shall we sing?" "Well," replied the organist, "I think 'There's a Fountain Filled with Blood,' 'Jesus, Lover of My Soul' and -Rock of Ages' would be appropriate. I'll play them."- As she spoke the words she .atopped suddenly, and with a gasp, fell to the sidlewalk. A physician was summoned and found that Miss McCor mick had died instaLntly from hemor rhage of the brain. A Book Agent's Great Scheme. Said a book agent recently: "I was a book fiend ten years or more before the idea dawned upon me, and now I make more in a week than I ever did before in a month. I take out religious books only and never one that costs less than $5 or $6. On striking a town I get from the directory a list of the pastors not for the purpose of working them, for 1 don't go nigh them. Then I write down the addresses of the trustees, in case the directory happens to give them; but if it does not, I make a round of the janitors to get from them the names of the richest men in the congregation. I spend time enough in this preliminary labor to get a route comprehensivel3 laid out. "Next, I tell to one and another the same story-that his minister is dying for the book, but can't afford to buy it. I'be wives and daughters of the church pillars are easter to capture than the brethren. It's the biggest thing iL. che whole history of book canvassing; and the beauty of it .is that the trick seldom gets exposed. When the pastor receives the book he's tickled and i'm tickled and the donor is tickled and it'a all right." Thet Paris Exposition Overrun With~ Fieas. One of the remarkable features of the expositioni year in Paris has been the sc-ourge of fleas, which has taken un compromi.sing possession of all strangers arriving from parts of tbe world where fleas are not so previous. No Parisian can ever be gotten to admit that the fleas are born here. They may .come from Puy-de-Dome, fro. Boissy-les-Vaches, or be brought here by the Arabs and Algerians at the expo sit i1, but the fact that public vehicles and hotels swarm with them,is inconceiv able to him. In the United States '-the wicked flea when no.- mani pursueth" sticketh unto the yellow dog and va grant cat, but in Paris his fleaship dis dains any kind of game but a writhing human victim. The flea of 1889 is as agile as a chamoiN, and as he skips gleefully from one square inch of cu taneous territory to thbe next the flesh rises behind him in tall welts as big as 50-cent ime pieces. These wounds d< not heal with ime, but are red and an gryv for at least a week, and one small and active flea can produce them at the rate of one a mmnute. Paris may offi ially deny the existence of fleas within her walls, but a chorous of American sufferers at the exhibition and elsewhere will readily attest.- -Paris .Regis-ter. Mormons Whipped. Several years ago Mormon mission aries attempted to spread their belief in the Western section of this County, and they were warned to leave never to return. Since that titue none of them have made an appearance there until a few weeks ago. This aroused the good people of that section, and on Friday last they determined to give the sym pathizers a warning which they would not soon forget. About 100 masked men went to the house of a white wo man who had been guilty of harbor ing the missionaries and took her out andi gave her a severe wvhipping. Their next subjec:. was a white man who had been 'converted to the faith. They gave him a sound thrashing and awarn ing to turn from his evil way. This will doubtless end the work of this re ligious sect, in this vicinity, at least. Yor'k Enterprise. Suspension of the Daily Graphic. NEw YORK, September 24.-The Daily Graphic, which has for some time past maintained a flattering existence under financial difficulties, has ceased to exist. The last number was issued yesterday. Ap announcement of its suspension was HISTOlY OF DUELING. REMARKA3LE DUELS IN ENGLAND AND OTHER COUNTRIES. Eise and Fall of the Code of Honor and Its Influence Upon Society-To Satisfy the Offended It Was Not Always Neces sary to Dra* Blood. Authorities differ on the origin of dueling. Among the ancient Greeks and Romans dis putes were frequently settled by personal en counters, but there are no records of any meetings which resembled the more modern duel, with its elaborate code of rules as to challenges, seconds and so forth. Practically the first duel on record was to vindicate the chastity of Gunhled, daughter of Hardknut and wife of Henry III of Eng land. Accordng to Blackstone, the first le gal mention of duels is to be found in the laws of Gundebald, published in 501, and preserved in the Burgundian code. The "ordeal by battel" was to settle civil and per sonal disputes. BIGHTING A WHOLE DAY. On the day appointed, a piece of ground sixty feet square was inclosed with lists, and on either side was set a court for the judges of the.comnion pleas, who were present in their searlet robes. The court sat at sun rise, the combatants were bound to fight till the stars appeared in the evening. The cham pions were dressed in a coat of armor, bare legged from the knee, bareheaded and with arms bared to the elbow. Their only weapons were a target or four cornered shield of leather and a baton or stave of an ell long. Each swore two oaths, first as to the right of the issue and second against sorcery and en chantment. "1 have this day neither eat, drank, nor have upon me either bone, stone, ne gras, nor any enchantment, sorcery or witchcraft, whereby the law of God may be abased, or the law of the devil exalted." Then they were let loose to belabor each other with their primitive and harmless weapons until the stars appeared. And the conditions were such that if the tenant's champion maintained his ground and made it a drawn battle, judgment was given for him as being already in possession. On the other hand, if either combatant yielded he became infamous, and ceased to be a "liber et legalis homo." The ordeal could be refused by women, priests, infants, or persons over sixty, or lame, or blind; by peers of the realm on ac count of their dignity, and by citizens of London by charter; and also in cases of very strong prima facie evidence. In 160'J a duel was fought between Sir George Wharton and Sir James Stuart, both of whom were killed. During the last quar ter of the Seventeenth century dueling was in nall swing in England. In 10G2 Mr. (after ward Lord) Jermyn was severely wounded in old fall Mall by CoL Howard. In 1667 Sir H. Bellasis fought a close friend, and Pepys, iu recording the event, says: "It is pretty to see how the world talk of them as a couple of fools that killed one another out of love." The most trivial circumstances led to duels. Two doctors quarreled early in the century as to which was the better physician. They fought under the gate of Gresham college. One slipped his foot and fell. "Take your life," exclaimed the other. "Anything but your physic," was the answer, and the mot seems to have ended the dispute. Among American statesmen duels were by no means uncommon. In 1804 Aaron Burr, vice president, killed the celebrated Alexan der Hamilton in a duel In 1806 Andrew Jackson, afterward president, killed Charles Dickinson in a duel, and was himself danger ously wounded. In 1S2 Henry Clay, the well known statesman, fought with John Randolph. Clay had given his vote in favor of Quincy Adams for the presidency, which was denounced by Randolph as a "coalition of Puritan with blackleg," for which lan guage he was challenged by Clay. Two shots having been exchanged without effect, the duel was terminated by the seconds. Even Sir Walter Scott was quite ready to fight a duel with Gen. Gourgaud on account of some reflections he had made on that offi cer in his "Life of Napoleon." Writing to William Clark in 1827, asking him to be sec ond in case he is challenged, Scott says: "If the quarrel should be thrust on me-why, I will balk him, Jackie. He shall not dishonor the coungry through my sides, I can assure, hin." "PISTOLS AND COFFEE." Duels in England were generally fought with swords until the time when it ceased to be fashionable to wear a sword with plain clothes. Thea pistols were generally used. The French code of 18543 named fifteen paces as the proper distance for contestants, but Byron speaks of twelve yards, and this was the usual English distance. Another method was a v-olonte, when the combatants were placed at a distance of thirty-five to forty paces, and each allowed to advance to one of two lines drawn at an interval of fifteen paces. Another was called a ligne parellele, the combatants advancing along parallels traced at a distance of fifteen] paces. Occasionally other less orthodox methods were observed, such as a la barriere, in which the opponents were placed so many paces from a fixed line, to which they were compelled to advance, each firing when he chose. If one of the parties fired and missed, he was compelled to aedvance to the barrier and then receive his .dlversary's shot. A story is told of a duel of this kind, where a young officer was opposed by a notorious duelist, whom ho missed. His opponent, marching up to the barrier, brutally said, "I am sorry for youar mother," and shot the wretched youth through the brain. In Ireland, as may be expected, dueling throve. But, paradoxical as it may seem, reland had us much to do with the decay of dueling as with its rise. Hot headed, sensi tive and rash, irish gentlemen fought on every provocation. And the people, delight lg in a fight, and feeling that morbid pleas ure in a death which is their char-acteristic still, supported them with their presence, and made matters easy for them in the jury box. Men of the highest dignity and most responsible position were ready to eat fire or taste steeL Ridicule had a great deal to do with the abolition of dueling. The order of "Pistols for two and coffee for one" was supplemented by a message sent by a Mrs. O'Connell to two combatants: "Mrs. O'Connell presents her compliments to the two gentlemen and hopes the sur-vivor will come to) supper." Such re marks were repeated and quoted until duel ists earued more ridicule than honor. The practice dies slowly in Europe. In France there arc still dluels, but they partake largely of a farcical nature, and the alleged belaerants generally take care that they run no risks. In Giernmany the practice of dueling still continues, and although fatal re sults are guarded against and are very rare, wounds are frequently inflicted. At the uni versities, German students, bepadded, be gloved, and 6ev-isored, still switch at each other's noses and check bones with double edged rapiers, capable of slicing at least three inches of skin from the face of an opponent, and consider that they thereby maintain the honor of their families or their corps.-St. -Louis Globe-Democrat. EPISCOPAL TRIBUNAL. A Great Church Convention to be Held in New York Next Month. NEW YORK, September 26.-Prepara tions for the triennial general conven tion of the Protestant Episcop~al Church, in the United States, which will begin at St. George's Church, ill this city, on Oc tober 2, are now' aictively under way, nd the local comlmittee having them in harge promise every consideration of the comfort and convenience of the dep uties. St. George's is in Rtutherford P~lace, bet wee-n Sixteent h and Seven enth streets, a most cenitrzil and coil Venient situation. Besides the church there is a fine memouial building ad joining that can be used for committee md other convention wor:. Th~e nuIm her of delegates is expected to reach 400. Bishop Potter will entertain the ouse of Bishops, and the Diocese of New York will provide a simple daily luncheon for the co-ordinate branch represented. It has been decided to make this repast simple for the good ex aple it would set for future meetings. A number of distinguished visitors from the English Church are expected. The onvntion will probably la a month. Girdles. At a time when the staple food of the coun try consisted of oaten cakes it will readily be understood that the manufacture of "girdles," or iron plates upon which these were baked, formed a very Important in dustry, and that the monopoly of such manu facture by one small body of craftsmen would be a very valuable privilege indeed. Such a monopoly the girdlesmiths of Culros. for many years enjoyed, and, so far as Asa excellent quality of their wares is concerned, they seem to have entirely deserved it. [n the year 1590 James VI visited Cull-oss and there witnesed the process of girdle making. He was thereupon graciously pleased to confer on the girdlesmiths of the burg, by letters patent, the sole right of manufacturing such articles, though it is said that in doing so he merely confirmed an old charter already conferring the privilege. In the general prosperity which marked the condition of Culross from the dissolution of the monasteries to the commnencement of the great civil trar, the girdlenakers' craft seems to have shared largely, in common with the coal, boat building and iron trades. The process of making a "Culross girdle' seems to have been womewhat as follows: The master smith chose a lump of iron, and while he handled the tongs two sturdy apprentices wielded the hammers, beating the mass into the form desired, hoop and girdle being all in one piece; the test of a perfect article being that when finished it should ring like a bell. or like one of those eastern gongs with whicb we are familiar and which are manufactured in a somewhat similar fashion. 'Indeed, to this day to "gar yer lugs ring like a Culross girdle" is a favorite threat of the local mother toward her recalcitrant off spring. Sir Walter Scott, in his "Heart of Midlothian," makes Madge Wildflre say, with reference to this st.bject: "The hammermen of Edinburgh are, to my mind, afore the world for making stancheons, ring bolts, fet ter bolts, bars and locks, and they are na that had at girdles for carcakes neither, though the Cu'ross hamnmermen have the gree for that. My mother had ance a bonny Cu'rosm girdle, and I thought to have baked careaka ',u it for my puir wean that's dead and gamn nae fair way."-Good Wofds. A Human sStakeboat. A young and promising oarsman of New York was telling several friends at dianer last night that he just sent in his entry for junior honors in the coming big national re gatta of amateur oarsmen. "I shall never quite forget the first race that 1 rowed in,' he said. "I entered the Jamaica pond regat ta, and from the field of starters I felt reason ably sure that I would prove to be the win ner. That is from the time which I had made in the practice spins. Well, when it cane time for re to select a flag to be placed on the boat at the turn. I selected a white flag. That is just where I lost the race. I went ahead easily enough at the start, and set the pace for the rest of the oarsmen. I kept look ing over my shoulder, and in my excited state saw what I supposed to be the white flag. I kept rowing for it, and wondering why it was that the other fellows were drawing up so closely to me. I spurted in great shape, but still the other boys were coming up to me as though I was anchored. "Again I looked over my shoulder, saw the fluttering flag, and it appeared to me to be rapidly moving. By this time the other con testants had turned their bueys and were squaring for home. Despairingly, this time I began rowing for the white flag with all my might and main. I wondered why it was my ~lag .was so near the land, as I supposed it to be placed about in the center of the pond. A last spurt and I ran into the bank and al most frightened the life out of what I thought was my flag. It was a small girl who wore a white dress. Afterward they told me how I had rowed zigzag all over the course. The little girl became frightened and thought I was trying to catch her, and she kept run ning away until she had to stop from ex haustion. If her wind had continued good ] mightyoesibly have been rowing yet."-Bu: falo News. _______ A Pretty Scene. There was a pretty pathetic scene down at the Michigan Central depot one night last week. A group of aged men and women whc had been here partlc'jting in same religious meeting or reunion, w~ere parting from each other, and in all probability would never meet again on this side of the river. They had said "Good-by, brother," "Good-by, sis ter, God bless you," over and -over again, when one of the aged band remarked: "It is hard to part." 'The next moment a sweet, quavering old voice struck up in a tremulous soprano: .There'll be at' parting there! In a moment the whole group joined In. The old men swung i on the bass, and the "girl who sang alto, :he girl who sang air,' ffty years ago in the home choir, tested her feeble lungs to the utmost. The words came as by inspiration: . In Heaven above, where all is love. Th~'ere'l be no parting there. Then a chorus of voices in the next room struck In, as some traveling men caught the refrain. In the midst of It, "All aboard!" stopped their singing, and the little company parted in better spirits after their jubilee of song.-Detroit Free Pres. Interesting Relics. Amcong the original documents preserved in the interior department at Washington, the most interesting are the relics of 17910, about twenty-five of which, averaging about the size of an encyclopedia, are safely stored where lock and key protect them from the casual v~iitor. The most striking feature or these books is the remarkably legible writing with which the founders of the republic re coded the name of every head of a house hold in the United States. The census takere of that period did not use printed forms on which to tabulate this information, but ruled blakbooks for the work, and in many cases made the books from blank paper, which they bound .by inclosing within old covers of books the leaves of which had been cut out. However crudely these books are shown to be made, there is not one instance In which careleie work can be charged, and in no case was there any slovenliness of penmanship. - Chicago Tribune. The English Sparrow. The sparrow is no trouble to farmers, for he is not a field -bird. He prefers city life. His habit of making his home about the ouses of men instead of In the trees and ields is what has caused this mean and cow ardly war on him. Hik preference for roofs and eaves air thre houses of the city spoils the rain water, and this is the real and only rcson why the sparrow is being killed for a bounty of three cents a head in Michigan. It's the city chaps and not the farmers who have inspired this war on the brave and trusting little bird that seeks Iris home among en and alone of all his tribe refuses to fly away before the blasts of winter.-Grand Rapids Leader. The season orf Can. Young Housewife (p'roudly) -Just see, John; six dozen of tomatoes, all put up by my own little self. Dear John (sententiously)-Lovelyl How true it is that when a woman wills she wills, nd when she can she cans-Pittsburg Bulle NURDER IN YORK. All About a Woman-The Kurderer Escapes. A murder was committed near l'ick n's Cross Roads Church, in Ebenezer ownship, last Wednesday night, says the Rock Hill Herald. The murderced an was Alfred Barnett,' lnd the mur erer is Coot Pettus, alias Allen P'art low. The weapon used was a pistol. ettus and Barnett some time ago had difficulty about a woman, whicb was not set tieid. Last Wednesday night they met at the church named, when Pettus sed his rival to walk off wvith him a hort distance, to talk over- the trouble, ad while they were in conference two shots were' heard. A n inve'stiga ion int o the re-asonl disclosed tihe lifeless formn of 3arnet lying upon the ground, but his urderer was not to be seen. Bar-nett hd been shot through the heart. - It was developed by~ the Coroner's in ust that Coot crossed at one of the ferries on the Catawba River, and that while crossing hc told a colored man that he shot Barnett with Andrew Bar ron's pistol. -The jury therefore found that tile deceased came to his death by gunshot wound at the, hands of Coot etus, alias Allen Partlow, and that ndrew Barron was an accessory before he fact. Barron has been arrested and pl.aced in i.Pettu is still at large Friendship. There are few people, however worthy their lives, that have entirely escaped the venom of slanderous tongues. Sympathy, however, is foolishly expended when lavished upon those that are comatantly hearing all the ill natured remarks said of them. As a general thing we have all the friend ship and all the love we deserve, for we can not possess either of these unless we win them, and with what measure we mete it shall be meted to us again, and does not "love beget love!" Observe those who are most exercised by slanders. Are they not generally lacking in dignity? Are they not lacking in true friends, an. are they not generally prone to the very vice they so loudly deprecate in others! The proof that they lack dignity is that they are so easily approached by any one bearing idle reports. The proof that they lack true friends is that they listen to slan ders that are rife about them. If A approaches you saying "B tells me that he thinks you are eaten up with vani ty," does this ngt prove that B would not have thus spoken, had he not found in A a willing listener Surely the simplest person ought to learn this much of human nature. People seldom carry their wares where there is no market for them, neither will a dog fetch a bone if he cannot carry one back. Friendship's unerring rule is, True friends seldom hear evil reports, and if by chance they do hear, they never repeat to any one, much less to the friend slandered.-Fannie L Fancher in Ladies' Home Journal. Opinions Seem to Differ. The proprietor of a big cigar store near the city hall says that if the sale of cigarettes is falling off he hasn't discovered it. "1 think it is increasing," he said, "for big strong bearded men buy cigarettes now, and this makes it plain to me that cigarettes are now smoked by all sorts and conditions of men. For many years the sale of them was confined to boys and females, and men were given to scoff at them, but this has changed.' The dealer said that he found it remunera tive to sell cigarettes singly, and that many men who wanted a short smoke would run in and pay a cent for one. Perhaps the class of men who patronize this dealer are different from those who sup port a cigar store in the lower end of Broad way, whose proprietor said that it scarcely paid him to keep cigarettes now. "In so many of the big 'stores and business houses," he said, "notices are stuck up pro hibiting the smoking of eigarettes cn the premises that men are ashamed to smoke them. I think men object to them prin cipally on account of their vile odor, but the danger of fire from the burning stump has also something to do with it. Cigarettes are more dangerous in this respect than cigars, for the same reason that two burning matches are more dangerous than one. A man can smoke half a dozen cigarettes in less time than it would take him to consume a cigar. The boys are so given to the practice that if smoking them was allowed at all in the stores you wouldn't be able to tell a drug store from a tobacco shop by the smell"-New York Sun. . Leghorn Straw Farming. What is known as Leghorn straw-is raised on the hills which rise on each side of the rivers Pisa and Elsa, to the southwest of Florence, Italy. Its adaptability to. he uses to which it is destined depends principally on the soil on which it is sown; which soil, to all appearance, exists only in this small district, out of the bounds of which the industry is unknown. Any variety of wheat which has a hollow, flexible stem can be used for seed. The soil must be tilled and prepared very much as it is for dorn, but the seed must be sown five times as thick as is usual for other purposes, and this is done in the month of December or February. When the straw is full grown, and just before the grain begins to form itself in the ear, it is uprooted and firmly tied in little sheaves the size of a hand ful. Each sheaf or mrenata, as it is called, is spread out in the shape of a fan, to dry in the sun for threec days, after which it is safe ly stowed away in barns. Tlhe Itarvest being over and the iields empty, it is again spread out to catch the heavy summer dews and to bleach in the sun, dur-ing which process it is cau-efully turned until all sides are equally white. Herc tire wor-k of cultivaition ends and the manufacturing . begins.-New York Dispatch. ____ ____ Ried a Lucky Color. Red was con-idered very potent in ward ing off thajevil eve 1s'tie* % ""ouAc when the evil eye was especially triumphant, all the red tape in a certain county of Eng land was bought up to ward off itsabaleful influence. The remains of this superstition still reminn for nmany people believe that a red string around the neck is an excellent remedy for asthmia, measles and mumps. The preser-vation of faith in red still exists. as is shown in the great confidence which ob tains in the medical virtues of i-ed flannel and the belief that the milk of the red cow is bet ter than that of a cow of another color. The German peasant, if he cuts himself, thinks he stariches the blood better with a red ribbon. This may be accounted for not only because of tradition, but the fact that blood would not form so startling a contrast when wet ting a red ribbon as when wetting a white one. A southern friend tells me that the negroes make a (loll of red flannel, with the five needles sturck in it crosswise, and place it in side of a child's bed or mattress to keep off all of tire diseases to which children are sub jet-Dr. Grace Peckham in Momne Maker. Fireproof Houses. They build fireproof houses in Buenos Ayres and Montevideo without thinking of it, and while using all the wood they can afford to; and they use neither iron nor the arch. Trees are scarce in the neighborhood, and timber has to he brought down from the upper waters in hard woods. Being dear, a little of it is nmade to go as far as possible. The floors and the roofs are supported by joists of hard wood, as amrong us; across these are laid fiat rails of the samae, and the spaces he tween threse are bridged over by thin bricks thirteen inches and a'half long, with their ends resting on the rails; another layer of briclis is then laid with lime, -and generally on this a layer of flat tiles. The doors and windows have no boxes, but simply frames, which arec set up when tire walls are going up and built hn. There is no lathing or wainscot, or skirting of the bottom of the walls. A house thus built cannot be buraed. -Popular Sdience Monthly. He Guessed So. "Is your father comimngtochurch this morn ing, Henry C' asked the minister of a small boy whom he met in the su-eet. "I guess so," replied Henry. "Some~body stole his fishing tackle last night, and 1 heard him tell ma at the breakfast table this morning that his fun for today was s.poiled, and hre s'posed he might as well go to church."-Norristown Herald. Watch springs, piano strings and similar articles have been successfully tempered by electricity. The steel is wound on a spool, placed in an oil bath, and by the electric cur rent kept at tha exact degree of redness necessary for the temper reqiuired. A Nail in His Brain. BRIIDG EPoRT, Con n., Sepiembler, 24. ohn Stewart of this c-ly died at the ospital yesterday. About four months go he was beaten by a dissipated son ad afterward attempted suicide in jail >y beating his head against thre walls. is skulli was thought to be fractrured ad the operation of trepanning was >erfolrmied. There was a slight change for the better, but soon .nfter Stewart ank trpidly and dlied. At the autopsy here was discovered a Iwo-inchm wire nil (ldi~ri hr-ough 1 lie skrull and~ piere ng the brarin. Ilow the nall ceine there s a mynsteryV. A Farm Work~ed by Insane Labor. A,::)rdin to, I hre New Ylork Eringii~ Ainn, Long Vanm) can boast of a farm wlhich is operated entirely by the labor f insanre people. It is known ~ as the Islip larm, and 250 lunatics are em )lyed up~onl it. It was a wilderness a ew years ago, but has been brought to a high state of cultivation. Grain. ruits and flowers are grown upon it, nd the meni engaged in their production are said to take a dleep interest in their vork. They were sent threre from city instiltutions by the conmmissioners of haities and correction, and the expe-i.. nent~ is dleclaird to have proved a pro VI T S OF TE LASI:. . THE BAR AMISM OF PERSISTENT CRUELTY TO THE YOUNG. Children Whose Lives Are Darkened by the Assaulte of 111 Natured and Ill ' imed Chastement-A Scene Described Which Many ISiU Itecognize. With as much distinctness as if it had oc curred last night I recall an occurrence of almost. *alf a century ago. In a humble house, far in the country, just before darka boy About seven years of age tiptoed fear fully up the steep, narrow stairway leading to a small room directly under the slanting :oof. The boy was barefooted, with a rag ged hat, a coarse shirt, a pair of trouesrs and a single suspender. There was a loin, narrow bed into which, after hastily divestin- him self of his trousers, he sprung, and. getting under the single cover, pulled himself down toward the foot, being entirely buried under theblanket. For a little time shivers agita'ted the mass in the bed. Then it became quiet: its out lines rose and fell with a regularity that in dics V d sleep. A CRUEL AWAKENING. A couple of hours passed when suddenly the boy was aroused by the stripping from him of the blanket. There was a dim light in the room in which his sleepy eyes caught sight of a woman, and the next moment a storm of blows from a switch was raining on his naked legs and body. The switch cut like, a knife, and each blow seemed to reach his very marrow. Suddenly awakened from a sound and peaceful sleep, stung and lacerated by the whip, his pain and fright were inex pressible. He writhed, struggled, screamed, pleaded, "Don't! don't!" till it appeared to hin that he must die. Every nerve was shiv ering with intense agony; his voice, hoarse with screaming, was choked with sobs to the point of suffocation. His face was flushed to the redness of blood; his eyes protruding, glassy, and his face stained with floods of tears. After what was an eternity the blows ceased, the clothes were laid carefully over the writhing, tortured mass, darkness filled the room, the cries subsided into moans and these into spasmodic sobs which grew wider apart and then were heard no more. Once more the boy slept as before, 'save that now and then a long drawn breath or a slight shudder agitated the covering. What was the cause of this invasion in the night of this tired and sleeping boy? What crime had he committed that warranted the rude awakening and the frightful torture to which he had been subjected? At the house of a neighbor, during the af ternoon, he had undertaken to reach a glass tumbler standing on the shelf to get a drink from the well. It slipped from his hands and was broken in the fall. It was for this that ha sneaked to his bed pursued by the phantom of the broken vessel, and agahiat whose horrid and threatening mien he had covered hishead with the blanket. Word drifted after him as to his offense, and late at night a passing neighbor brought to his home the damning intelligence of his crime. Late as it was pun ishment must be at once administered. So far as is known, the beating of children is the outgrowth of civilization and alleged Christianity. The latter element secures its authority from a Jewish writer who centuries ago announced "that he that spareth his rod hateth his son, but he that loveth him chas teneth hin." This atrocity, originating when barbarism shrouded the nations, has become grafted on Christianity and controls the ac tion of innumerable myriaJs of men. It is a bastard combination of natural brutality and so called duty. Inspired by the one element the mother flagellates the tender bodies of her children, and actuated by the other the brute lashes them, like Mr. Squeers, for the mere pleasure of inflicting punishment. It is true that within a brief period public opinion has, in great centers, driven the beating of children from the public schools, but in the country places It atill prevails in all its hideousness. Throughout these homes where the gloom of a false interpretation of religion asserts it self, the infernal injunction of the Jewish babarian is reproduced in toe swish of the strap and the screams of tortured children. What can be more moving, lacerating, pa thetic, outrageous than the spectacle pre sented to the public of the barnt scene in which, in cold and silence, three little boys were found, one cf whose backs had been cut we ton n a aozen p1acenty cno rawhate of a stalwart drunken uncle? What more horrible than the hairy Pole beating with a strap shod with a buckle a little boy till his young life fled to escape the torture? What more abominable and revolting than the spectacles presented at the police courts showing the vjhite backs of tender girls cov ered with welts, sears, and blood, inflicted by the hands of drunken parents? The cases developed at intervals in the police courts are only suggestions, glimpses of the evil. There are innumerable families in which blows and abuse are an unbroken thing; in which they are as common as air. There are everywhere to be seen children on whose face theretsa look8asif one blowbhad just fallen. In tens of thousands of places hurt children are shrieking from the lash and their faces are wet with the tears wrung from them by pain. I speak on this matter as I do for the reason that I was during childhood the constant victim of the switch and the rawhide. My parents were people of profound piety, con scientons, Irreproachable, and yet imbruted by the conviction that to spare the rod was to spoil the child. This class of treatment never yet secured, reform in either bqy' or girL. It makes the bad worse, and often vitiates those who otherwise would grow up blameless. The boy who is constantly subjected to the lash be comes a coward, a liar and a hypocrite. Se learns to lie to escape punishment, and in thus doing cultivates cowardice and deceit. Emancipation is one of the developments of the later centuries. For thousands of years insanity, unbelief, heresy, witches were burned, hanged, eviscerated and imprisoned. Thought has since been relieved of its chains, slavery and serfdom have been abolished, feudatories no longer exist, and to a vast ex tent the domain of freedom has been en larged. . Largely exenipt thus far from the bene ficent work of emancipation are the children. For scores of centuries human slavery held sway, empowered by the authority of a Hebrew writer; after the same fashion, the children of the age are held subservient to the lash through the teachings of another of these lawgivers. It is time that these laws were repealed or defied as remnants of bar barous periods.-Poliuto in Chicago Herald. The Aaoany Journal says: "A business man anded inhis depoit at one of the banks the other day. One of the checki caught the teller's eye, and he expre.,sed a fear as to Its enuineness. The mer-chant telegraphed to> heparty bywhomit was signed. Ina little while he returned to the bank and said the hek was all right. In a short time he came tearing into the bank and exclaimed: 'Let e see that cheek. I forgot to compare the signature on it with the signature on the tele gram. " Big Soap Factory Burned. CINcINNATI, September 26.-A tele phone message received this morning from Ivory Dale says that flhmes broke out in Emery's big soyp factory and soon got beyond control of the department. The l'arge buildings were completely gutted, and it is estimated that the loss will be in the neighborhood of $123,000. Mutual Apologies. In the Georgia House of Delegates, Saturday last, Dr. Felton and Mr. Iumphrcys made mutual apologies to that body for calling each other liars ini debate on the previous day, mid are -vw as good friends as ever. The Rome iune I hiuks - this was so much bet ter than leaving thle Sta-te--md dodging the issue in search of reven.;e." Discouraging Results of Enterprise. In a vain attempt to get a better ac ount of the Brown hanging than his ontemporaries, Major Edwards of the Fargo Argus had one of his reporteris arrested and lodged in jail. The unfor tunate wight was made to scrub floors and perform other menial services (uring his incarceration, and when the bour of execution caine was removed to aitnt part of 1he init .