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THE INOVEMBER GALES. A SUMMING UP OF THE RESULTS OF TUESDAY'S CONTESTS. d C How the Elections Are Regarded in Ad- 2 ministration Circles-Efforts to Explain 3 the Unexpected Republican Defeats By a Everything But the Real Reasons. h (From the Philadelphia.z Times.) The adverse winds that so often chill , a new administration have blown this f year with unexpected violence. Penn- C sylvania is about the only Republican State that stands unmoved, and even here it is to the Democratic failure in . Philadelphia more than to the votes of the Counties that the Republican major ity is mainly due. Ohio has gone Democratic, electing Campbell Governor over Foraker by some 8,000 majority. The Democrats have ap- ( parently elected their whole State ticket, as well as a majority in each branch of C the Legislature, thus securing the United States Senatorship. Even more surprising is the result in c Iowa, where a Democratic Governor is elected for the first time since the Re publican party was organized. The Re publicans retain the Legislature, having districted the State for that purpose, but the popular verdict is emphatic. Mahone's defeat in Virginia is over whelming. The majority for McKinney is at least 35,000 and the Democrats will have three-fourths of the House of Rep rentatives and two-thirds of the Senate. In Maryland the Republicans made some slight gains, but the Legislature is still strongl' Democratic. In the East there have been no such startling changes as in the West, but the gains are all on the Democratic side. Abbett is elected Governor of New Jer- i sey by at least 12,000 majority, and the Democrats have a safe majority in the Legislature. New York gives some 25.000 plurality to the Democratic State ticket, though the Democratic gains are not sufficient to change the Legislature. Massachusetts, on the other hand, elects the Republicau candidate, Brackett, Governor over Russell by less than 4,000, against 28,000 for Governor Ames last year. Such is a very brief summary of the November elections. The record is not flattering to the administration. But fortunately the warning has come early and there is time to profit by it. "LOCAL CAUSES" TO BLAME. The Administration View of the Elec tions. (tpeciaZ to New York Tnes.) WASBINGTON, Nov. 6.-For an "off year" in politics there has rarely, if ever, been so much interest shown here in an election of any sort as that which has been exhibited in the result of terday's contests. This it cen tred on Oh- *' Iowa. New ; assacusetts and New Jersey have each had its fair share of atten tion, but the results in these States were generally expected, and the ques tion has been one more of majorities than of the successful party. Last night the Republicans would con cede nothing, and were troubled. To day they concede everything, and are dazed. Some of the more prominent Republicans declined to talk about the1 elections at all. Others take their cue from persons high in administration1 circles and gravely attribute the defeat ~to "local causes" and to the apathy ~jich they saythe successful party ~I~id tti 1 year always suffers in the next suede- lig State e ios President Harrison is ot submittmng to" interviews on the subject, but to those1 to whom he does talk he declines to; accept the idea that the national ad ministration was on trial yesterday and that it received a vote of want of con-1 fidence. Opposition on general princi-1 ples to a third term he regards as a1 sufficient reason to put forth for For aker's defeat in Ohio, and if he is shed-4 ding any tears ovsr the blotting out of a rival for the Presidential nomination in 1892 their traces are not to be seen on his countenance. The loss of the State of Ohio is another thing, and the ex pressions of regret at the White House appear to be genuine. Whatever private consolation Mfahone may receive for the crushing defeat Vir ginia las dealt out to him, it is evident that he need not expect any public de monstration of sorrow from the Presi dent. Gentlemen who have called on G'eneral Harrison to-day have been told -that the President was not responsible for the candidacy of Mahone, and by the President's friends it is declared that such assistance as Mahone has had has been no more than any Republican nomninoe has received. Had the: result been different, the little ex-Senator would probably have been called upon to divide the honor of his election witb the Chief Executive, but Mahone de feateti must take all the responsibility. Outside of'the White House there is a general disposition on the part of de cent Republicans to regard the political b-irial of Mahone as deserving of very mild grief. They would have been glad if by his help the solid South had been broken, but thbey would have been better pleased if it could have been broken by -abetter man. In Iowa also the President finds local causes for the surprising success of the D~emccrats. Personal opposition to cer tain candidates on the part of the farm ers and the introduction of the temper ance issue into the campaign are some of the local causes which he thinks ac count for the result. By pretty nearly every one else in Washington the defeat of the Republican ticket in Iowa is re garded as by far the most significant and important incident ot yesterday's elections, in their bearing npon national politics. It is realized that in the Iowa contest the tariff was almost wholly the issue, and thinking Republicans confess to-night that the farmers of that State, at least, have learned something about the tariff since one year ago. The effect of Iowa's vote upon the taiff legislation to be proposed by the Republicans at the approaching session of Congress is already being discussed, and predictions are already heard that the next Allison Aldrich tariff bill will be far less radical than the last. Amid the general gloom which pre vails at the White House in spi-e of the anuouncement that the administration was not on trial yesterday, and there fore has not been rebuked by the peo ple, Private Secretary Halfold presents a cheerful smile to all comers. Like his chief, he sees "local causes" at the bot tom of yesterday's defeats. He has also discovered that "once in four years the people must find a vent for their personal prejudices against certain can didates," and this is one of these occa sions. "During a Presidential elec tion," says Mr. Halford, "there are sins of omission- and commission, andl when party principles are not at stake the voters consult only their own feelings. They go out into the back lot, as it were, and kick themselves for what they- have done in the past. The elec tion~s are not evidence of additional Democratic strength. On the contrary. thbe Democratic vote has been cut down considerably in many important places, notably in New York." 'Jhe President's private secretary adds, for the comfort of~ Republican callers, that "the prin ciples of the Republican party were not A WOMAN EXCOMMUNICATED. 8 It .rchbishop Cleary Rules Out a Divorced ti Wife Who Married Again. MONTREAL, Nov. 3.-There is a great tI cal of excitement in Roman Catholic ti rcles over the stern action taken by h rehbishop Cleary in a case of divorce. ? [s. Hugeman, a handsome middle- F ged woman. living at Westport, near C ingston, procured a divorce from her a usband some years ago and subse- d nently was marrieLby a Protestant I inister to a well-to-do farmer named li ,uinby, with whom she has been living n ver since. Archbishop Cleary, in con- c rining a number of applicants, took c ceasion to denounce from the pulpit in iost vigorous terms what he termed a ii rievous public scandal. S He said a married woman, baptized d nd confirmed in the faith, has been no- a :riously defying the laws of God and I e holy Church by living in adultery b ith a man not her husband. There was o such thing, he declared, as divorce uder the Christian iaw. God, said his grace, had peremptorily laid it dowa ( hat Christian marriage can exist t ly between "one man and one roman," and be excludes all right and ower of any State or any government n this earth to dissolve the matrimonial ond on any pretence. The offending woman was then form lly excommunicated by his Grace, who x>lained the penalties attaching there a. It is said that several more excom anications of a similar nature will lhortly follow. ABOUT THE PLANETS. ome Interestin- Events During the Present Month. The sun for November continues his outhwvard coursealthough not with the amie rapidity that he traveled in Oc - ober, the change of declination for the nonth being only seven degrees, and f he speed slackening perceptibly toward t he month's close. If the sun had never been examined with any other instru nent than the telescope, or totally clipsed by the intervention of the moon, e should not have formed any idea of he nature of the operations going on at tis surface. It is remarkable that nodern science has shown us more mys eries in the sun than it has explained, L, notwithstanding the researches of cientists, it must be said that the real ase of the solar system still defies t nalysis, and that the mechanics of the egregation of a planet from the sun, or r f a satellite from a planet, if, indeed, uch an event ever happened, or of the nechanies of an evolution of a solar ystem from countless meteorites, are till far from being clearly made out. 'he mathematical theories of the earth dready advanced and elaborated are by to means complete, and no mathemati al Alexander need yet pine for other vorlds to conquer. The converging ights of many lines of investigation are tow brought to bear on the problems expected from the new astronomy, vhieh looks for the secrets of the earth's >rigin and history in nebulous masses or n swarms of meteorites. The moon presents four phases dtring he month, being full on the 7th, last uarter on the 15th, new moon on the 12d, and first quarter on the 29th. On he 1st the moon was in the constella ion of Caoricornus and on the 30th it ill be in Pisces. On the 8th there is a onjunction with Neptune, on the 16th vith Saturn, on the 18th with Mars, on he 20th with Uranus, on the 21st with genus, on the 22ud with Mercury, and on e 25th with Jupiter. . - Jupiter will continue alone in his ~lory as evening star until toward the lose of the month, when he will be oined by Neptune. He begins,the month n th onse Archer. On he planet and the moon will be in con unction, and, although not as close as ast month, the crescent and the star vill in the cool, clear atmosphere of his season of the year present a celes ,ial picture well worth seeing. During he month Jupiter grows smaller, as is distance from the earth is still in reasig.. Venus, the queen of the morning tars, ranges under ;her banners all the >ther lanets with the exception of Ju iter.~-One by one they have succumbed o er 'superior attractions until her rival is left to shine alone in his glory. Venus is in conjunction with Uranus ou he 9th and with the moon on the 21st, aither of which events will be visible to the naked eye. She rises about two tours before the sun. Saturn attracts more than ordinary ttention this mo'ith from the profes sional star gazers, as on the 1st, at 8 'elock Greenwich time, there occurred a remarkable conjunction, that of lapetus, its outermost satellite, with another satellite called Titan. These two, mov ing in different directions, passed within two seconds of each other. Shortly after this close approach lapetus entered the shadow or the ring system, and, as Sa turn was then near quadrature, the en tire passage of the satellite through the shadow was clear of the planet as seen trom the earth. The satellite's path traversed the shadow of the rings on both sides of the planet and the clear space between the planet and ring on RC side. It was a matter of great in terest and importance to note if the atellite shone out when crossing the rojetion of the Cassinian division, and if it was at all visible when in the shadow of the dusky ring or crape veil. This rare and interesting oceurrence was much better observed in extreme South ern latitudes-about Australia. Saturn itself is in conjunction with the moon on the 16th and in quadrature with the sun on the 25th. It is the second in importance of the morning stars, and its size is gradually increasing as it gets nearer to us and approaches a con venet position for observation. Mercurv, another of the morning stars, rose about 5 o'clock on the 1st, and gets lazier as the cold weather in creases, not appearing on the horizon on the 30th until about ten minutes before sunrise. To-day he is in conjunction with Uranus, as the latter is movitng Westward from thbe sun. Mercury, Mars, Uranus and Venus are to be found in the con stellation of the Virgin. Mars is a morning star, and one of the few whose size is increasing, as the lainet is slowly approaching the earth. Mars will make his appearance earlier and earlier as the month aidvances, ris in at its close at about 2:15 in the mornig Uranus, also a morning star, meets both Mercury and Venus as he increases his distane from the sun. He is in conjunction with the former to-day and with the latter on the 9th, meeting the moon ou the 20th. He rose on the 1st about 5 o'clock in the morning, and on the 30th will rise about two hours ear lier. The progress of stellar photogra phy is well exemplised in the case of the inner satellites of Uranus, which. although they are among the most diffi calt of all, have during the past year been successfully photographed. Neptune, the last of the morning planets, continues to be ranked as one of that remarkable galaxy of brilliants only until the 25th of the month, when, being in opposition to the sun, he leaves the fair geeen of the morn ig skies to serve under Jupiter. Although nearest the earth at the time of onposition, Which is the most in teresting period in his course, he is too far away from us to be seen without artificial aid, although his general loca tion is fairly well defined by Aldebaran, th his position is still easier to ascer tin, as on that date he is in conjunc on with the moon. Of the constellations for November, ie Dipper is well placed for observa on in the Nortbern section of the eavens. In the Southern portion we nd the ruling constellation to be the 'ishes, below which is the sea monster etus. In the East the stars of Orion re rising. Above the head and shoul ers of the Giant are the horns of the ull, and above these again the constel tion Perseus. The Milky Way runs early vertically along the left of these nstellations. All the original bird onstellations are to be found in the lest. The Lyre was one of these, be ig called the rising bird, while the wan was called the falling bird. The ividel portion of the Milky Way is now tell seen in the West, it being partieu rly bright to the right and growing !ss so as it gets nearer the horizon. The Shah and His Minister. When the Honorable Hadji Hassein lhooly Kahn arrived in Paris he found hat his august master, the Shah of 'ersia. was there ahead of him, enjoy ag the sights of the city and going up he Eiffel tower three times a day'. When ir. H. I1. G. Kahn called at the hotel t which the Shah of Persia was staying nd was informed that his Tremendous rightfulness was in he salaamed clear own to the ground and spread his Lands horizontally three or four times end then ventured into the awful resenee. "Well, Ghooly," said that potentate, 'how's things? I thought you were over a the States." "Your most august tremendousness," .nswered the minister, salaaming again, 'I have just come from there." "Ah, ha," said the Shah, poking him ocosely in the ribs. "You heard what time I was having over here, did you, ,nd you wanted to come and enjoy it or yourself for awhile? This is a great own. Beats London all to pieces. it Tew York is anything like it 1 am going ever there on the first steamer." "Alas, your sublime mightiness, you ouldn't like it over there. I came way in sorrow because of the items hich the papers had been publishing, eferring in common, every day lan ;uage to your most potential highness." "What did the villains say about me?" "Here it is, your gracious majesty. ere is an item from a vile Detroit pa er, which says: 'His majesty the Shah as 3,695 wives, and every Monday being rash-day, he never shows up in the egal residence at all."' "And does the varlet who wrote that till live?" "Alas, your gracious awfulness," re lied the trembling minister, "ne does." "Why did you not have his head tricken off?" asked the Shah, with a aim that was more terrifying to the ainister that his previous rage. "If you please, your gracious ma esty, such is not allowed in that bar arous country." oneeense," 4'ied -the Shahd, "you an't stuff me that way. In that paper rou sent me over it says that his ma edithe President of Harrison had the Leads of his officeholders in a basket, Lnd that his mightiness Wanamaker tad beheaded nearly all of the post nasters belonging to the former govern nent. Is it not so?" "Your majesty," cried the terrified ninister, "it is so politically, but not )ractically." "What care I," shouted the Shah, how it is done, politically or with the >road-age or a sword, it is the same to ne. I care not how the heads are horn, so be it they are shorn. Ilast hou more' of that stuff in your scrap >ook?" "Aye, your most gracious awfulness, t is, indeed, full of similar extracts." "And thou hast dared to bring it in ny presence," cried the Shah, now horoughly enraged, "while the authors ;till live?" The trembling ex-minister made no reply. The Shah turned to one- of his retain rs and said: "Just oblige me by taking this man the bath-room, where it will not make :oo much of a muss, and take off his iead." This was accordingly done. A cable lispatcha to the papers records the un fortunate occurrence thus: "PRIs, August 1.-The Honorable ex-Minister Khan died suddenly at the Grand Hotel this morning. He was ill ut a few moments with throat trouble, but by the time the court physician of Persia arrived nothing could be done for the un fortunate man."- Detroit Free Press. How to Stop a Runaway Horse. A policeman, who has distinguished bimself in stopping runaway horses, gives, in the 3fedical Classics, the fol lowing poipts as to how to accomplish that end with the greatest success: When you see a runaway coming do not try to cheek him by a rush from the op posite direction or the side, for you will be immediately knocked flat by the col lision; but, instead, prepare yourself for a short run with the horse. Measure with your eye the distance, start for the run while he is yet some wvay off, per haps ten feet in the ease of fuar to medium runaways. You may depend upon his keeping a straight line, for a really frightened horse is half blind and would not veer for a steam engine. He will go straight ahead until be s.mashes into something. So do not get close to the line on which he is rushir.g, and as he passes you grab the reins near the saddle. Gather the reins firmly, and then, leaning backward as you run, give them a powerful yank. You may be ahle to brace yourself somewhat as you give this jerk. half sliding on your feet. The strong jerk on the bit tells the horse chat he again has a master and prepares him for the final struggle A step or two forward after the first yank, d'o it again. This is the finishing stroke. It never fails when given by a detertuied man. Keep a firm pull on the reins till you grasp the horse by the nostrils, and nold him so till be is pacified. Deprived of His Pound of Flesh. There was an interesting scene in Judge Tuthill's Court in Chica~go a few dass ago. Asburni Lazarus, an unfortunate man who, with a wife and seven hungry children, had been sent to prison by a magisitrate for his inability to pay a butcher's bill of $36. Lauzarus sought re li-f by habeas corpnw proceedings before Judge Tuthill and was promptly reler~sed The Judge was very severe on the a* torney who attempted to prevent the luckless debtor from gaining his free dom. Addressing that attol ney Judgec Tuthill said: '"I don't wvant to hear a word from you, sir. Your clients ought to be proceeded against criminally as well as civilly. This is an outrage, and the process of courts cannot be used for any such purpose." The attorney hung his head abashed as the dlebtor. who had p;reviously declared to- the Judge thazt the earthly possessions of hiimself and family consisted of the elothes they wvore on thei- backs, left the court accom panied by his weeping wife end five of his seven children. A deliberate attempt to burn a block of business houses was made Monday night at Anderson. Fortunately it was discovered in time to prevent a great conflagration. This is the third incen diary attempt to burn the samte block within two months. .The block is known as Brick range, and situated in the very heart of the city. It seems as if some one is determined to lay that part of the town in ashe DEATH IN THE BLIZZARD A SNOW STORM AND FREEZING WEATHER IN NEW MEXICO. Thousands of Cattle and SheeD Perish On the Plains-A Number of Cowboys Fro zen to Death-Others Suffer Terrible Hardships and Privations-Passenger Trains Snow-Bound. DENvER, Col., Nov. 8.-The Republi can's special from Dayton, N. M., says: Unless the snow storm which has been raging for eight days comes to an end soon, next summer will show the coun try covered with dead bodies of animals as thickly as was the old Santa Fe trail in the sixties. The depth of the snow is now not less than twenty six inches on a level, and in many places it has drifted seven feet high. When the storm struck this ace tion seven large herds of eat tie, number ing from 400 to 2,000, were being held near this place, awaiting shipment to Eastern markets. The rain of a week ago was followed Thursday morning by blizzards of snow and sleet which sent the heids in a Southerly direction In vain did the already halt frozen eowboys try to check the march of the herds, but on they went, through the increasingstorm, until, finding it utterly impossible tc hold the cattle, the cowboys rode aside and let them pass, and when nearly dead rode the exhausted horses into canyons or partially sheltered places, where they passed many hours of misery, with.ui food or fire. Two cowboys drifted into a canyon, where they found a cedar tree with a rat's nest in it. They managed to light a fire with this. During the second night one of their horses died fron; cold, and, having nothing to eat. the men rut pieces of flesh from the dead animal, which they warmed and ate without salt. After being here over sixty hours, they started out, and after much suffering and hardships from their weakened condition, managed to react a ranch thirty miles away, where they were cared for. .ive cowmen are known to be frozen to death. Two Mexican sheep herder have been found frozen to death. Two men coming in this morning report drifts in some places seven and eight feet high, in which there are hundreds of dead stock, many with horns and heads above the snow. In one drift thirteen were counted, and in another ten. Some of these were alive, but un able to move from their frigid prison. Herds of sheep are completely wiped out of existence, and the range for thirty miles from town is covered witb dead carcasses. It is estiiiated that 20.000 sheep have perished in this part of the territory. The hay supply is nearly exhausted, and- to-day $100 per ton was offered by stockmen. At.Texline, ten miles below Clayton, two passenger trains have been snow bound for a week. Provisions are run ing out and passengers are compellet to venture out in the storm a'd kil cattle, quarters of which are taken inte the cars and roasted for food. It i thought a snow plow will reach the im prisoned trains to-morrow and releast them, and that the road will b opened in a day or two The storm is by far the worst ever known in New Mexico, and the exacl loss of life and property cannot at pres ent be estimated. THE WIDOW WILL GET ThE $10,000 A Decision of Interest to Those Inter ested in Mutual Benefit Insurance. PORT JERvIs, Nov. 4.-When Jame Shay, formerly a mperchant here, died a Canandaigua in 1886, he held a pohe; of insurance on his life forl $10,000 written by the National Benefit Societ; of 187 Broadway, New York, a compan; doing business on the co operative o assessment plan. He had been a mem ber of the society in good standing fo two years, paying assessments and due promptly, but finally permitted aii as sessment of which he bad due notice ti mature unpaid, thereby, under his con tract of insurance, forfeiting his clait upon the society. It is usual, however, for companies o this character, when a member is "il lapse," as it is termed, to send him second notice, stating that if he will pa; the overdue assessment within thirt days after the default, he will be rein stated in'full membership in the cow pany, hut with the strict proviso tha ie company shall not be liable to th delinquent or to any beneficiary name' in the policy for any claim of benefit that may have accrued while lie was i: lapse. Shav received a second notice an< paidl up arrears under it within th thirty days specified, but~ not until afte ie had been taken sick with a malad that proved fatal. The policy was writ ten for the benefit of Afr:. Shay, hu when the widow asked payment tb sciety declined to respond. TherE upon 'the widow brought suit to recovem her leading counsel being ex-Senate Elbridge G. Lapham. The case came on for trial at the Or tario County Circuit in November las before Justice F. A. Mfaconmber and jury. The plaintiff's counsel argue that the effect of the thirty days' notic was to extend the period of insu-ane for that length of time without ri gar to the delinquent's state of health. an that if payment of arrears was mad within the specified time it would bin the society, even if made by the bemn ficiary arter the delinquent's deat The society's counsel, on the other hant] maintainedl that the delinquent cool only obtain reinstatement under th original conditions of membershipn regards health, and that the paymer of arrears by the delinquent under knowledge of the precariou4 and excel tional character of the risk he was in posing on the society was a transactia tainted by fraud, which invalidated thi policv. Th'e court held that the society, bi issuing the thirty days' notice, an accepting p)ayment of arrears, continue the policy in full force for the- perio fixed, andl directed the jury to find verdict for the plaintiff for the $10,00 claimed, and interest and costs. A apeal from this ruling was takent the general term of the Fifth Judicia Department, which tribunal has no banded down a decision afnrming tb judgment of the lower court. A Girl Horse Racer. A pretty incident of the Ivy City rac( of last week is being told among the get tieen riders at their clubs. It recal] the romantic days of the period befor the war, when the Southern chivahr was supresme in the affairs of the tur. The story is idyllic. After Modoc ha mae his famous vietry~ andl won tb silver eupI that was worth $1.50 and th golden opinions worth very mouch mor in value, there wvas a strong desir among the gentleman riders, nmembei of the Dumbhlane Club and others, t meet the owner of the winner, who is n other than Miss Carter, of the illustriou: house of the Carters, of Virginia. He hom is in WXarrenton. Va. Miss Carter consented to meet som of the genileman at the club house t the close of the day's sport. The ride of Modos, Mr. Jimmy Maddox, was als resnt. The newly wo cup, whic holds a gallon, was filled with chan pague, and the ladies antd men presex drunk from it in the old loving-cu fashion, pledging the future successu A WONDERFUL COTTON PLANT. A Spartanburg Farmar Raising Cotton Seed Without Lint. News comes from Spartanburg of a r ew cotton plant, which, if it is as claimed, will make a wonderful revolu tion in the agricultural and cotton oil interests of the nation. T. Fergnson, an experienced cotton planter, claims to have a cotton plant which will produce nothing but cotton seed without the lint. His statement is briefly as follows: lie claims that there is a male and fe male cotton plant-the male being de signated, he thinks, by the red calks. The seeds are vari-colored, the shades being generally blue, green and white, and of course cannot be distinctly speci fied. Given this fact, Ferguson com menced, some time ago, to pick out the male plants, and with the seed extracted from them planted another patch separ ately. When the crop was ready for picking the male plants were again se lected and the production of seeds planted separately again. This process of selecting the male plants was kept up until at last the lint refused to germiu ate, and nothing is left in the boils save a large amount of seed. The amount of seed contained in the boll is more than equal to the weight of the lint and seed found in the average sized boll of cotton. Ferguson claims that he can produce four hundred bushels of seed to the acre by this new discovery, where only thirty-five bushels are now gathered with the lint. He has been very careful in producing the re eults given above-to obliterate all ves tige of lint from a boll of cotton-and has succeeded in a most remarkable manner. Other experienced- planters have been shown Ferguson's new dis eavery and are much struck with it. An expert who was shown the plnt and bolls said the boll has the appear ince, both on the exterior and the inte rior, of a regular boll of cotton after the lint has been picked out. The seed are a little larger than the common seed and are perfectly free from any semblance of lint. The bolls are filled with these seed, which are as numerous as okra seed in a pod of okra. The revolution that will be effected by this new cotton plant, if it can be cultivated success fully, will be beyond calculation. If Ferguson's calculations are correct, the cotton oil business will be entirely revo lntionized. The planters who now raise cotton are fortnate if they can make 200 pounds of lint cotton to the acre. Counting the value of cotton seed at $50 an acre is considered a big return tc planters in this State. Ferguson claims that his new cotton seed plant will yield at least $90 an acre. This amount he says will be obtained from 400 busheh of cotton geed at twenty cents pet bushel, that being the present price paid for the raw seed. The State agricultural bureau will investigate the matter. HOW TO AVOID WRINKLES. Repress Your Emotions, Smile Pleas antly and They Will Not Come. You realize that a wrinkle is coming: says a writer in the Philadelphia Times. You don't understand it, and you like il less. How did it get there? Like t1 rest of your sisters, you are of a nerv ous temperament, and even when yot are not speaking you are moving youi mouth. Nothing se entirely tends to the form ation of wrinkles as a continual biting of the under lip, a moistening of th< lips with the tongue or a drawing th lip up at the sides. which causes an ugly super tihtous look, and which is the bes friend for the cultivation of wrinkles. Learn the art of repose as far as you face is concerned. You can look int'elli gently at things, and all the expressioi desired may be in your eyes, but thatr no reason why any other part of you race need move Laughing and crying alike are said t< Scause wrinkles, while a pleasant smili never will, and the moral of this would seem to be that it's wisest to repres; one's feelings, or, as the darkey mam mies have always taught, that "lout Slaugh bespeaks a vulgar mind." Avoid ing this, you are stamped well-bred, ant the wrinkles do not come.. The Civil Service Law. Baltimore American Washington cot resoondence: New young Congressmei Sas they come to Washington take goot care to have themselves interviewed and they take equally good care to sa: things tiat are popular. Their .stronges Shold is, of course, civil service law,.an< Idue after another they dlenounce it, an' d (emand its abolition by the comin, Congress. That kind of stuti is pat donable in new men. Nobody know; Ithem, and the'y must say somethin, epopular in order to be readl. But whei ra man of Congressman Payson's repu tation and standing comes along an -fulminates in the same absurd style. li best friends regret it. Not that the; ,may not fully agree with him. Bu -every sensible nian knows that, fot tunately or unfortunately, nothing wil rever come of all this anti-civil servie law agitation. It has come to stay -It needs improving and will be imt tproved; but one thing can be de Spended upon absolutely - no Congres Iwill ever dare to repeal the civil servic Slaw. It is all very welt for Congresst Sswear at it, and for them and their cot lstituents to "demand" its abolition. Al Ithis is the mecrest talk, and every Con Sgressman knows it. There have bee jannual bills offered to ao away with it but the very men who offered the bill knew perfectly well that the bill wout never even come back out of committer The sim ple truth is that the Congressme eof the Fifty-first Congress, like those a Spreceding Congresses, however mue t they may dleclaim and talk to reporters aand however much they may hate th present law, the same Congressman wi -never dare to vote for its abjhtton. And Sfurthermore, no President of the Unite eStates will ever sign any bill, granlin for an instant that Congress would pas .it, whilch will abolish or eveni serious] Shamper the operation of the law. So the jall these rab)Id interviews might as wel cease. The law can be and needs to I. avery much improved, b'ut it never wi 0be abolished. Madame Boulanger. vNo more pathetic spectacle now (eor fronts the eves of the world than that Madame Boulanger. wife of the ihmght) fancied general, who for so long he lived alone with her two daughtersi retiracy in Paris. iens is a sad thong 5 handsome face, in which pain has ci -more lines and grooves than time; whil telisten to her low, sweet voice is t ewonder how the General can endur passing any of his danys bwyond th reach of its sub:le music. She is a get tIe, little heart-broken lady, from who, the iron hands of ambition have clutche all hbat she found best in love. CAndI she h:as not even the satisfactio: of knitnmg that the man who tur-ne the sunhine of her earlier days into th: bleak desolation of the present eve > gives her a single thought. Still sh does not condemn him. "It is not fc r mec to judge him," she sometimes say wvhen some one accosts her concernin him; "we loved each other once! Som davil." she usually adds, "lie will nec my love again. I do not wish to be d vorced from him, because I want to re 1tain the right to care for him when a -the world forsakes him-when, save hi t wife, lie has no friend." H-istory tell > us of few more beautiful characters tha s hers. How unworthy of her is thJ roystering, blatant demagogue to whom she remans so true.--Boston TraceUn THE COTTON OIL TRUST. Plans Adopted for Changing It Into a Corporate Concern. NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-The committee appointed at the last meeting of the cer tificate holders of the Cotton Oil Trust to examine into its affairs and suggest a method for changing the trust into a corporate concern, met this afternoon, T. P. Alcott, presiding. The report presented and adopted, after consider able discnssion, was on the basis of changing the present certificates into stock which would be assured by a de posit of all securities owned by the trust with the Central Trust Company. The new stock will consist of $27.000,000 common and $15,000,000 6 per cent. non cumulating preferred stock. The committee reported tha.'t through errors oif judgment a loss of $277,110 had been sustained and hid been charged off on the books of the com pany. The report of the trustees for the fiscal year ending August 3d. 1889, was found to be correct. The extraordinary loss of $277,110 is accounted for by the fact that the president and treasurer of the :rust had for the purpose, as they state, of maintaining and strengthening the credit of the concern .used its funds in supporting the price of certificates. These transactions entailed a loss of over half a million dollars. Mr. Hagler, the president, contributed $100,000 toward making up the deficiency. The company will be reorganized on the plan recommended by the commit tee. A Valuable Domestic Invention. 'ers. W. A. C'ckran of Shelbyville, lud., has placed her nanes on the roul w irh the great inventors of the world, the result of her genius being a practi cal disa-washing machine. Say bgan experimenting len years ago. Her hus band, the late W. A. Cockrau, was then Circuit Clerk of Shelby County, leaving her financially unable to complete her undertaking. By the aid of friends, however, she finally succeeded and has a maehine designed to do the work now done by the thousands of girls and wo men the land over. The machine is wonderful and intricate. It is made in different sizes for families and hotel purposes. It is also made for both hand and steam power and it is capable of washing, scalding, rinsing and drying from five to twenty dozen dishes of all shapes and sizes in two minutes, the number, of course, depending on the size of the machine. Mrs. Cockran has recently disposed of her machine to an Illinois manufacturing firm for a large sum of money and will receive a good royalty on all machines sold.-Kansas City Star. Captain and Wife Drowned. The schooner Flora Rogers, which rescued the mate and four of the crew of the water-logged schooner Jennie Rosaline, from Savannah for Provi dence, October 25th, was off Charleston bar Sunday norning and the rescued mariners were taken to Charleston. Their names are: Mate Frank Maxson ot Baltimore, James A. Runney of St. John, A. A. Pinckney, New York; M. Heffron, Birkenhead, England; George Smith, Norway. They report that the gales caught them on'October 25th North of Hat teras. They were driven to the Gulf -Stream and main and mizzenmasts were carried away. Captain Bartow and wife were swept overboard and drowned. She was in his arms and said: "My dear husband, kiss me good -bye." The mate and three of the crew were washed over the side, but caught ropes and saved themselves. The col ored steward was crushed to death be neath the main boom. He belonged to Savannah. The captain and Mrs. Bar tow were from Long Island. The rescued nmen praise the coolniess and courage of the officers and crew of the schooner Flora Rogers, who rescued them at great personal risk. Boulangists in Conference. LoN~DON, Nov. 7.-A conference be tween the leaders of the Boulangist party was held to-day at the residence of General Boulanger on the Island of IJersey-sixty of t be prominent members of the party were present. The authorities of the Island of Jer sey had a conference to-day, which re stnlted in the landlord of the hotel at Iwhich the Boulangist conference was held being cautioned that he would be held responsible, in the event of any over-demonstration arising from the conference. It is stated that the Bouw langist leaders debated a proposition -for important alterations in the pro. Igramme of the party. Ladies Who Use the Polls. IThose who understand and enjoy the art cf fencing, says a London letter to thbe Pniladelphia Telegraph, are becom ing very numerous nowadays. Indeed, it is said it will be quite the fashion it the coming winter. Now that ladies have taken up the ex ercise in earnest, it will no doubt be the rage for . while. Graceful figures are n tever seen to greater advantage that -when practicing the art of swordsman ship. The Prince of Wales's daughters are all expert with the foil, and many of the ladies who weary themselves with every variety of exercise ih the Summer arc taking to fencing as a suibstitue ir the winter. IT GAVE HIM A VALUABLE IDEA. The Rear Elevation of a Lady's Hat as a jDesign for an Eifel Tower. g"Pardon me, madam," said the stu dious looking man in the sixth row of seats next to a Chicago Tribune repon er, tas he leaned forward at the, fall of the 1curtain on the first act and spoke politely to the lady sitting in front of him, I"but I beg you will not remove youm hat." "Sir!" she exclaimed, flushing with' indignation. "I fancied from the motion of your hands," he resumed with the utmost fsuavity, "that you were about to re move it. Please do not Oblige me, my dear madam, by keeping it on." n"You are grossly impertinent, sir!' said the lady sharply. L"I beg your pardon, madam," ho re plied with great earnestness. "I am only a poor inventor and I am making drawing of your hat as a design fora World's Fair tower." - Killed in a Gin. SA sad accident happened hast Satur day at 1 o'clock at Mr. H. T H~arllee's gin house. Mrs S. M1. Carter, who was running the gin, thoughtlessly put hid hand in thegin to brush away the seed, when his arm was caught and before hi coudehe extricated it wasfearfully man gled. He also received several severe wounds on his head. Dr. Covington, of this city, was sent for at once and when he arrived saw that the arm had to be amputated; the man's condition was such that he could not standa second shock, so amputation was de ferred. Instead of improving, the man's condition grew worse and at 10 o'clock Saturday night he died. He left a wife and three children in an almost destitute cnit in. -Ro rnce Timzes Popular SUperstitoN. Faith in the power of the sun, moon and stars to act on the health has, of course, been held for centuries. That great personage of olden time, the astrologer, would not fail to impress upon people this idea of the influence which the heavenly bodies possess over health and disease. Very few of these have sur vived up to the present time. It is natural that the sun should be consid ered the great restorer and life giver. There is an old Jewish proverb to the effect that when the sun rises the disease will abate. This was founded. on a tradition that a pre cious stone was hung on the neck of Abra ham, and that to lodk upon it was to be healed. When Abraham died God placed the stone in the sun. The remnant of thi superstition is found today in the saying that if an invalid goes out for the first time and makes a circuit, this circuit must be with the sun; if against the sun there will b. a relapse. The universal belief that the moo.i ha' power to make a person crazy has given u> the word lunatic. That the soul which ha: till then hovered between life and deati finds its release as the tide goes out, is gen erally accepted by many. A great prejudice exists against the night air, especially in ventilating sleeping rooms the night air is by no means so unhealthy a: many people suppose. In those places where the soil is impure, or near waters that are stagnant, the change occasioned by the with drawal of the sun's heat gives rise to exhala tions that are unhealthy, but in the majority of instances, the prejudices that exist agains night air amount to a superstitious dread. When an idea crystallizes into a proverb it carries an axiomatic weight with it, and n' one for a moment stops to.question its truth One may rebel against it, but in doing se there is always a feeling of having taken the law into one's own hands, and if evil is es caped it is miraculous. As a rule the popular superstitions inflict but little actual bodily harm, neverthelee the state of apprehensive dread and discom fort which they sometimes entail, both upot the believer and upon his friends, makes it essential to refrain from their indulgence and especially from teaching them to chil dren, upon whom they make a lifelong un pression.-Dr. Grace Pereiham in Home Maker. Thermometers. The earliest account we have of an instru ment for measuring the heat or cold of the atmosphere is that noticed by the "Spiritalia' of Hero, about 150 B. C. The use of mercury in the tube was suggested by Halley, about 1007, and first practically carried out by Fahrenheit, a native of Dantzic-at the time his invention was completed an instrument maker at Amsterdam. He divided the space between the freezing and boiling points of water into ISO degs., and commenced the graduation of his scale at the point to whick the mercury fell when the bulb was treated to a mixture of salt and pounded ice. The salt and ice made the lowest degree of cold known to the experimenter or any of lir scientific friends, and was, on this account termed "zero." It is a generally received idea that the zero point on the Fahrenheit thermometer was so named because of its cor responding to the lowest degree of cold known on the shores of the Baltic sea, the native home of Fahrenheit, but this is as erroneow as several other popular ideas respecting the temperature scale. It is simply, as already related, the lowest degree of artificial cold known to the inven tor of the useful little instrument. The freezing point of water was marked at 31 degs. above zero, because it corresponded t< 32 of the 180 equal spaces marked by the in ventor on his scale before any of the pointy had been named. About ly30 Reaumur, of France, used spirits of wine and adoptedthe freezing and boiling points as the two standards of his scale. The space between these was divided into 80 degs The freezing is the zero point of the Reaumu thermometer, the graduations extending each way. The Reaumur was the standard thermometer of France until the time of the revolution of 1789, when it was superseded by the centigrade, the invention of a Swedisk astronomer named Celsino. The centigrade thermometer marks 100 degs. between the freezing and the boiling points of water. It is used to the exclusion of the others men tioned throughout continental Europe, the Fahrenheit being almost wholly confined t< Great Britain, Holland and the United States.-Exchange. Ideas of a Ititure Life, The Iroquois and Hurons believed in a country for the souls of the dead, which they, called the "country of ancestors." This is to the west, from which direction their tra ditions told that they had migrated. S'pirite must go there after death by a very long and painful journey, past many rivers,, and at the end of a narrow bridge fight with a dog like Cerberus, and some may fall into the water and be carried away over precipices. This road is all on the earth; but sever~u of the Indian tribes consider the milky way tc be the- path of souls, those of human beingi forming the main body of the stars, and their dogs, which also have souls, running on the sides. In the next world the Indians dc the same as they customarily do here, but without life's troubles. The Israelites believed in a doubling of the person by a shadow, a pale figure, which after death descetnded under the earth and there led a sad and gloomy existence. The abode of these poor beings was called sheol. There was no recompense, no punishment. The greatest comfort was to be among ances trs and resting with them. There were some very virtuous men whom God carried up that they might be with him. Apart frm these elect, dead men went into torpor Man's good fortune was to be accorded a long term of years, with children to perpet uate his family and respect for his memory after death. -Garrick Mallery in Popular Science Monthly. Cutting Back Plants. Many people have an idea that plants must not be cut back, no matter how straight and branchess they may grow. I read in a pop ular periodical a protest from one of these people against cutting back fuchsias, saying that "it was altogetL~: wrong and injured the plants." I knew better. For several years we have cut back all fuchsias that did not of themselves grow bushy. Abutilons are generally disposed to grow tall and branchless, and so when they are about ten inches in height we behead them about three inches. Directly two branches start out, and whent sevora. inches grcwn we Cut them back. Two. .'metimes threas, branches start forthwith. Thetn we allow the plant to grow and bud until quite large, when we frequently do a little pruning. It is then that, by cutting back plants, we delay the blooming period, but, when it does come we have flowers on hal' a dozen or more branches, instead of one mi stalk. Most plants grown in the win dow during the winter are apt to be tall and fragile and need to be severely cut back in the spring. March is the best time, but, if neglected, should be attended to as soon as possible. Cuttings can be rooted in a large mouthed bottle filled with water and placed in the window.--Practical farmer. A YOUNG MAN IN PET TICOATS. e Was Preaching Mormonism While Masquerading as a Woman. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 3. -A party of Mormon elders created considerable excitement in the Northern part of Fayette County. last week, and narrowly escaped lynching. A young woman was going through the County preaching Mormonism and made a number of con verts. Shte was accompanied by two elders, who kept in the background and had little to say. A few days ago it was discovered that the eloquent preacher who wa~s teachingf Mortmanisni wats not a womxan but. a young mtian disguised mi feual" atire. This discovery caused great excitemienlt among the country people. especially those who bad enter tained the disguised preacher at their homes. On Tuesday night a committee of citi zens waited on the three elders, and some wanted to lynch them on the spot; others proposed( a coat of tar and featers. The elders were badly fright ened. Cool heads ruled the anigry mob, an the elders were allowed to depart on their promise to leave the County within twecnty-four hours, never to re turn. They~ were warned that they would meet with summary punishment f they visited that locality again. SHERE IS A GOOD GOOSE STO Flowers Destroyed, Chickens Killed. Upset, and r School Depopulated. Mrs. John Waller, who lives on the cent hill road, bought a gray gosling of the female gender some time ago and placed it is her small back yard. During its adolescent period the gosling behaved itself well, but re cently, when it developed into a full grows goose, the spirit of mischief enteral its soul. It is a well known fact that a goise has a great taste for grass, and Mrs. Walle s back yard was soon swept clean of vegetation The owner clipped the goose's wings to prevent it, flying, and fed it with bran and me L But one night it got out into the front yard. ate hall the grass, and destroyed all the flower beds. A sympathizing neighbor told Mrs. Waller she had better kill the goose. but she could not make up her mind to do so She loved the goose in spite of its waywardness, and she confined it again in the back yard. Twc days later her 4-year-old girl, while playing in the back yard, was attacked and received several severe blows in the faco from the sharp bill of the goose. This decided Mrs. Waller. The goose must die. licr 14-year old boy Jim captured it and attempted tocut its head off with an axe, but the goose man aged to escape, and its wing feathers having grown out again it flew over the fence and out of sight. This, it was thought, would he the last of the goose, but it had an affection for the neighborhood of its youth and returned tc plague the people. In one night it devastated three front yards, and when the indignant owner of one of them on the following morn ing detected the goose in its work of vandal. isn the bird gave a squawk and flew across a common to a place of safety. The afternoon of the same day it entered the dairy shed of Pat Welch and overturned cans containing at least fifty gallons of milk. One of Welch's children saw the. goose and attempted tc drive it away, but it flew at the child sc fiercely that the latter fled in terror. The last outrage committed by the goosc aroused the neighborhood, and the people do termined that it should be exterminated: They hunted for it individually and collect ively. A man named Washburn saw it enter his back yard and gave chase. The goose did not fly, but confined itself to running. There was method in its flight. It wanted to have fun with Washburn. The retreat led across a ditch four feet deep, and Washburn in his haste stumbled into it, spraining hisan kle so severely that he is still unable to walk without crutches. He says that when he fell in the goose came back to the ditch and looked at him. In the quiet 'suburb whor aller's goose made its habitat tl g people on washday were in t of hanging out their clothes on a line in the back yard tc dry. At least they did so until the goose concluded that the custom should be broken up, and invested itself with plenary powers to accomplish'that purpose. It pulled all the clothes off the line in one yard, dragged them in the dirt, and tore some of them to ribbons. A second yard was served in a similar man ner, and a third was attacked, when a party of indignant women rescued the clothes and drove the goose away. A reward of $10 was offered for the capture of the goose, dead or alive. It was subse quently raised to $20, but this goose had more lives than Snarleyow. It was shot at a dozes times, but was never touched. It seemed tc scorn its pursuers. It was never in any haste to get away from them, and tantalized them by keeping in sight, but just out of reach. All the small boys were after that goose, and many of the men joined them in the chase. The man Welch, whose dairy had been entered, shot at the goose and killed hit neighbor's calf, which was feeding in a back lot. It cost him $18 to pay for the calf. Immunity made the goose bolder. It at tacked the poultry yards, and in a week slaughtered more than a segre of young chickens. Its beak was against all species of man and beast. It had no respect even for its own kind, and killed a half dozen gos lings. A small public school with a young woman in charge is taught about a quarter of a mile beyond Mrs. Waller's house. It is attended chiefly by small children. The other morn ing the goose flew in at an open window of the school building. It perched on the back of a desk and took a philosophical survey of the room and its inmates. AUl recognised the terror of the neighborhood. The teacher seized a ruler and threw it at the goose. The zoosefle atbertand ve her alongscratch across the forehad The children in nffrihf7 ran out of the room and the teacher followed, leaving the goose monarch of all it rvra The alarm was given, and soemrien returned to captu naei~tr~lr. The goose was gone, but whiat a scene of desolationl The floer was covered with books. Most of them had their leaves torn out Nearly all the win dows were broken. While they were looking at the ruin the goose flew by the window with a squawk. Two hours later it pecked to death a little' pet pu~g dog which had in cautiously wandered out of the house. This completes its outrages to date, but others are expected.-Louisv'ille Cor. Chicage Tribune. _____ ___ A GIrl's Art Work. St. Louis has another prodigy, says a letter from that city, and she may be seen at any hour during the day dressed in a brown blouse skirt, jumper jacket and a little round hat, frescoing the walls of the southern hotel. Her name is Carrie Meyers, and she resides with her father at 106 South Fourth street. Though only 15 years of age Carrie has, un aided, designed and execut the frescoing for a large number of the finest rooms in the hotel, and is regar(det. by her employers asan able and. accomplished fresco artist. She is very pretty and giraceful, also exeedinly shy. Under the protecting presence of her father she escorted the reporter to her studio. where all sized canvases of as many different 'subjects graced the walls in charming confu sion. Luscious bunches of fruits and flowers hung beside and over meadow and wood scenes, and an old fashioned water mill, lively and dripping, contrasted with landscapes and portraits, all executed with remarkable skill. Carrie is not only an artist, she is also a musi cian, and has scattered around her room a number of instruments, which she plays just to while away the time. A bass fiddle occa pies one corner and an organ another. On the center table lay a flute and a piccolo and on the organ a violin. She plays all of them well-Chicago Times. ited Bain. Red rain fell recently in the province of Lubin, Russian Poland. TlW shower lasted for about ten minutes. The peasants, who mistook the red liquid for bleed, became panic stlicken and crowded the churches, where they were quieted by the priests. Sey eral bottles of the red rain were sent to chemists in Warsaw for miicroscopie exami nation. For several days after the shower all the surface water in Lubin was of a dark pink color.-~vchange. It is reported in Paris that the Princess do Sagan has sold her f:nous Reu-brandts to the Chicago Art imu-ieumi for- ?-l000l. The portraits represenet thaei of th ypyiif who are promuinut fipires in P.,.na: !it' - a the jagtue SEE!COST HIM $100,000. It Took ,Tust that Sum to Procure a Beau tiful Wife fo-r Aged Mr. Fove], ST. Louis, Nov. 3.-Mamie Isdell, 22 years of age, a dashing beauty, has just been married to Jesse Fovel of CalhoUnl County, Ill. Mr. Fovel is 79 y'ears of age, and before the ceremony took place he was compelled to place $100,000 in securities and money in his bride's name. The story leaked out at the Re1 corder's office, where the girl's siing bauty caeused comment. The old gen tleman said to the clerk in a oW'Voice: "She's a miighity purty gal, anti cost me just $100,000., The clerk doubted. "Yes," continued Mr. Fovel, "$100,000 is what she cost." A reporter went on an investigating tour, and learned that Miss Isdell had been educated in a convent, and was re ently employed as a governess in the family of Isaac Fovel, a nephew of the bridegroom. Isaae Forel said his unceo was the wealthiest man in Calhoun County, and be placed a big sum in his young wife's name. lHe was very in dignant at the story about the marriage. Jps Fovel is a widower, and has grand children older than his new bride. The ouple left for Calhoun County last ni4t