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.». * > V. •« THE LEDOEK: GAFFNEY, S. C., 30, 1800. 3 !HIE CANDIDATES. ays tho Issue Is on Prlnol- on, Not on Persons. tmonnol Af th® Two Tlchol* Will Sot frnrnUh l.roond for lUfformro— All Diiicont«nted Men Wnnt » Chnnse. Goldbuppory ami hiiph tnHfr hnro for their candWate Mnj. McKinley. 1-rce silver unci low tariff have for their cun- j didate Mr. William J. Hryan. The isenc in clearly drawn. The personnel of the two tickets will not furnish frmnnd for difference. Maj. McKinley is a thought ful, sensible, clean-minded man. I.rtan Is much younger, but a man of wnse, | a born orator and a gentleman In every sense. Tlve issue is dearly ma«le on principles, and not on | erstms. Pat riotism will cut h*»> figure In the com- | Ing election than i»orhups In the his- , tory of tho country. In this campaign we will get down to personal interests. This will be the most selfish jiolitlcel scramble in the history of our country. | Party limw w ill be broken up and most men will vote in line with what they j lielieve is the l>est for their own per- | sunnl interests, and then the l>e«t In- i terests of the eountry. Most m«m think that whatever is best for them j>erson- allv is l>est for everybody else, MH* lions of men will sit quietly down and think over the matter, and settle the question from a Belftsh standpoint how they will vote. All discontented men want a change —and they arc many. Most men who | arc in debt want a change. Most men who arc Issinling with their wires | want a change. It is a question now If all these classes combined will make a majority, for discontent is pretty w ide. spread, and debtors outnumber cred itors by the hundreds of thousand*. Most goldbugs whom I have heard r|M'ak on tlie question say they can st a ml anything that the other erowd ran stand. Most silver!ten say they must have a change. I had a talk with a farmer this week in northern Louis iana. He was a rabid free silver man. and said there must be a change in the financial methods of this country. He raid: “I work late and early. J have two farms and a dairy. I work six days in the week and most of the sevenm day looking after my dairy. fs hard for me to get along at all. We must have a change.” 1 remarked to him: “You say you have two f-rms and a dairy?” “Yes, sir," he replied. "Have you plenty to eat at your homer* ”0h. yes, sir," he replied. “And your wife and children dress comfortably ?” “Yes,” he said. "Well," I said, “my friend, the only trouble with you in the world is with your mouth. You K»‘em to l*e doing well. You are a comparatively young Tuan and have accumulated two farms ami H dairy, got plenty to eat and wear find getting along very well except your pioMth." 1 pdvised him to go home ppd get down on fiis knees and ask Hod to forgive him for being a growler, and go on about his business with a irrute- fiit heart, lie is a fair sample of the fellow s who want a change. The cry is that the goldbugs want to rob the country} that they are In eo- pnrtiierslUp with Knglnnd, and noon. Generally the goldbugs are the buslnews men and property owners in theeitb-w. I/ook how they have Buffered from the atringeney. Kent* gone down 50 per cent.; projierty gone down until there Is scarcely any profit* left at the end of the year. This class are mostly gold- bugs. And yet they say this class are roblxrs and traitors. Passing down the line of the fotton Pelt road a few days ago a large sow- mill owner boarded the train at the station where his sawmill was situated. 1 got in conversation with him. I n*ked him how much lumber he wu* shipping now. He said ten cars -i day on nn average. I asked him what be got for lumlier now. He replied: “Six dollar* and a half a thousand." I remarked to him that about the time he sawed up all hi* timber lumber would go up no he tould get a fair price and he would be lorry he had cut up all hi* timber and got nothing for it. Ilesnid: “Mr. Jones, ! have been running a sawmill for ilO years. When I began 1 got $40 a thou- innd for lumber. I only get $0.50 now, and I pledge you my won! I am making more clear money to-doy than I ever (nude in life.” “I said: “I* that true?” He said: “It I* true. I work 700 jiapds a day," he said. “Tbe highest- pricc men I hqvc are two at nloe dollar* a diy. The next to that are at six dol lars;' Minic | pay four do|lani; *ome |hrcj: dollars, bqf I pay a piajqrlty pf then f 1.25. | pay iiq hand Icmh fhan fl.?5 o day. Sinte lumber ha* fallen from $40 a thousand to $0.50 a thousand I have cut their wage* five jier cent. from first to last. In tbe lust three years lundier ho* gone down 45 jier cent. I have only cut their wage* five per cent. I have stood 40 jier cent, of the lows of shrinkage in the prleepf lupiber. They have Iwnie five jier cent, only." I then asked him: “You say you sre making more money now than you ever didr “Well,” he said, “from start to finish I have paid rash always. 1 owe no man anything. 1 have the best Improved ma chinery. The dollars I get to-day go farther than any dollar* 1 ever had; ami not ouly i* that true of me but it I* true »f every man I have. At the mill to-day the hands gathered around me and told me I hud always been their friend and asked me how it w as that I could tie for ■ound money when they were all for free silver. I told them I wa* their friend in thi* a* well as other thinga. I told them: “I know ycu men. You are in bet toy condition to-day than you have lieen in 20 years. You have more comfort* at your homes; you have more of everything: and you are drinking less whisky to-day than ever Wfore." I jsibited to one of th^m and aaid: "I know I gave you a check on tb' lat day of July for y »ur accumulated w ages for $7,1.00 and you asked me to write in the chock ‘payable in gold." I did so, and you are a rabid free-silveel man, want the hank, to my own knowledge— for I am a director of the l ank—and draw out $7.'i00 in gold and have got It hid nwny in an old boot somew here now —nolswly knows where hut you. An other one of your fellow-laborers there drew his back wages and followed me out of the office and asked me if he could ge* the cheek cashed in gold. 1 told him yes; but I said: ‘You are a free-silver man, ain't you?* ‘Silver,’ he said, for the other fellow, but gold for me.’ '* I then told the men that when money de preciated and they began to pay eight and ten dollars for n barrel of flour, and 12 cents for meat tin t I pledged them I would not increase their w ages and that they would Iw much more discontented than they are now. T hen* are thousnnd* of <11. contented tailoring men to-day w ho want a change in the financial policy of our country, but their wages will never go up a* nieney goes down, if the free nnd un limited coinage men get in their work. Hut they will never get it In, in my can did judgment. I believe Mr. ( arlisle said there are 400.<M>0.(><;0 of coined sil ver dollars In the treasury and sub- treneuries now. Not a bank will have It, though he proffered to pay the ex- ja-esH charges on It, He tells us again flint if all the mint* of this country were to run day nnd night they could not coin one-half the product of the mine* of America, and if we had free find unlimited coinage of silver we would soon have silver enough In our vaults to bankrupt the eountry. And these free and unlimited coiners are packing all the gold they can get Into their socks and boots and refusing to take silver. Very few men want more than fiv** dollar* In silver. Most all men want sliver In the sense that they ran get sixteen dollars in silver for one dollar in gold and then go to the treas ury nnd swap sixteen dollars In silver for sixteen dollars In gold. "Sixteen for one when It is coming my way sixteen to sixteen when It is going the other way." The common sense of this country and what patriotism we have left will rrh'gate the Chicago platform and can didate* to the rear; not because it Is McKinley on the one »ide and Hryan on the other, hut because the American dollar must lx* as good as anybody** dollar ns long as tbe American pco] b* are as good a* any people. With the kindliest feelings toward* both eimdb date*, and with the settled purjwise to vote for Levering nnd .Tolicson. the can didate* of the national prohibition par- tv, I will watch the procession nnd re joice over right consequences Mid be- moan evil consequences, with the solid conviction of mind and soul that I can stand anything anylxxl.v else can stand, and stand it as long and say as little w-hlle I am standing it. PAM P. JONHS. DILI i ADD ON DU VAN. Saro of Bartow Predicts Demo- crfttlo Success in November. MALE AND FEMALE OAKS. l*t«rMtl*a Ke*e*rrhes Made by • l’*- mona Kncltsli I’otnnl.t. Mr. Knight, th« epiinent Knglish Ixvt- apist, has puide. some curious and In teresting Investigations on the pro- liuetbui of flowers of different sex in tin* various specie* of the oak tree. He allows that it* a rule that species of tree bears the male and female flowers <>n separate Ipdividnitls, but that, these dif ferent individuals may lx* made to pixe duee flowers of either sex at v. 111. In forcing the main oak to pnduco male Cower* and vice versa. Mr, Knight em ployed light and heat, regulating the supply of Ixvth to suit himself, and ac cording to the end in view. This rematk- nble scrle* of exjterimont.s proved that If the heat wa* excessive as eonijuired with the light, male flower* only ap peared, On the other hand. If the light wa* exeetwlve, nnd the tenijxTature comparatively low, nothing but female flower* were produced. In other spreles of trees which lx-ar the male and female flowers on separate Individual* tb»* ex^xTimcnts of tin* bot anist were not so conclusive a* in the cooe of the onk*. However, It is lx*- lleved that these Investigations will finally lead to the conclusion that In the majority of tree* ami plants th<* culti vator will 1» able to produce se.xf* at will. Many curious investigatiom, an* now Wing made along those hnc*nnd we may expect surprising results.—Bt. I.ouin Kepublic. Poisoned by Snake's lirc»t;i. T. K. Cox, a young farmer living four nillfH south' of Columbia, Mo., had a narrow escu|x‘ from snake poisoning, yet he was not bitten. While In the harvest field Cox captured a monster rattlesnake. The reptile had 11 rat tle* nnd a button, ind'eating that it wa* 15 years old. Cox offend the Minke to tbe state university museum, but the museum authorities refused to accept it unless it* fang* wen* removed. »Vlth a forked stick Cox pinned ijn* snake to the ground, and w ith the aid of tw*o other men, set about to remove tlie reptile's teeth, lie bent down and wa* alxmt to get ludd with a pair of fpreeps w hen the snake libscd and blew it* |x>i*onoUH breath full in his face. Instant I v Cox became deathly sick. His Ixxly lx came bloated and sho-ved every indication <>f snake poisoning. Tlie lilxral u v e of re medic* restored him to consciousness in three hours, He is now pronounced out of danger, The snake was killed. Original l.lfr o-i Knrth. The very first living thing to appear U|W)ii the surface of our gloW in other words, the earliest distinctly organized animal whose fossilized remains are found in the rock* which go to make up the earth'* cru*t—wax a thrcc-lobcd worm called n trilobite. According to the gcologint* it was the first created Wing that had a distinct animal organi zation. Maxlmnm Oresn ('opine*)). TW ocrun water* reach their innxl- muin degree of coldnnr* at, a depth of alxmt three-fourth* of\ mile* below tbe surface. j l Axe 1* Not u Drsuback iiold I* *• Ko*rre Ttint lln Kanm HI* (jol VVedtllnK " HI He n Failure. Never it) our recollection has national politics been in such a tangle as it is now. Never such bitterness and ir reconcilable differences in the pr<-ss concerning a plat form ami a candidate. Some of their utterances are shameful, intolerant, disgusting. They sp'sk of lli<* Chicago platform as born of an archy anti repudiation ami use all the odious adjectives the.) can 1'.ml in the dictionary. The New York World is es- pcciully bittcrngaJnst ixit ii platform and candidate, ami because it cannot find a blemish in Mr. Bryan's life or record 1 tries to WlitUc him ns the boy orator. | When Job'* three aged friends chat god him with self conceit anti rebellion against his Maker a young man listened and at la*t ventured to s|x!ik. He ' apologized for itis youth, but added: "Great men are not always wise, nor ! loes old age alw ays understand judg- I merit." The Lord was wroth against j Job's three frieuus, but had no word of , condemnation for flihu. 1 don’t know how • M these beirigvr- i t nt editors are w hodcr.o.; :••• Mr. Hryan | for his youth, but they seem to have forgotten that Jefferson wa* only 33 years old when he wrote tlie declara tion of independence, Madison was only 40 when he and Hamilton wrote and published thv federalist, which is still said to W tin* greatest, treatise on |x>- litieal science that' has ever appeared in the world. John Marshall w as only 33 when apjiointed attorney general by Washington, Patrick Henry was but 2‘.i w hen he ninth: the s;:<‘cch that first made him famous, ami was 3'J when George Mason said of him. “lit* is by far the most jxiwcrful speaker I ever heard. Your passions are no longer jour own when he addi'. scs them. He is the first man t:|x)ii this continent, as well In abilities ns public virtues." Janies Monroe* w as ta nt to e-ongress wlie-n he* v as but. “ i vi 'i sold, ami when he was but. 23 Bancroft • ays lie was the most e'otispietious repre-sentat've upon the* floor of the* house. Henry Clay was ''out to the Cniteel States senate when he was 2!>. John Knndolpli was lender of the house In 1S00 win n he* was only 24 year* old. One tiling is certain. Mr. Bryan is old enough *o capture ami leml the old am! the young who are* so fortunate* us t<» h<*ar him; nnd Alfred Lewis, of the New York Journal, who has heard all his speeches, says he has never made a failure or a mistake; t! at he is a stu- il<*nt of all history and Linns tlie mid night oil. Kvcry new spape r corn spon- dent at ( hieago accoid to him <*xtraor- tllnary abilities and Irava elared to si y so even to the elisgust of the old slagswho stayed at home. As to the platform I es.nnot se-c any thing in it that should arouse such eh*- iiuneiatinn. Omi platfonn is for gohl airl the other for silver and gold. Greet nnd goexl nun differ honestly about that anil they have a right to differ. The best editorial I h.iv<* seen from n gold standard paper was in the l,’i< li- tnond Dispatch under the <*aptii:n <<f “Don’t Kxaggenite*" tin* sprit of which was‘'Don’t try to alarm the peo ple with predictions of ruin ami panic and national distress should silver be restored to it.s for im - r condition. Wii !e we are* for a single gold standard yet v.<* cannot predict ary smli evils. I'he transition will <*oiv,<* gradually if it Come* at all, and our bnr.l.i rs and eom- inerelal men are* smart i *;ongh to | r<- pare for It ami let it e ome by degrees. Don't exagg-Tatc the situation.” That Ir the way to talk and to write. I/)*t everybody <1o like* my frierd Lnira- pore, who has all the time b*een a g >!<!-. bug, but *a v* he* shall support Bn an »nd the platfonn. I tried, said he, to keep them from putting that silver pirn!; In the platfonn. hut they would dej It. on I now I am going to stand on it tuitil It breaks dow n, ami Mien I can ti ll the boy** “Mold yon so." A nd then he whlapereel tei me: “And. beside*; be'nga democrat from away ba<*k, my mother was a Biynn and her fatlmr was fiom Culjiepper county, in old \ irginia, don’t you see." “Of course, of <*ourse*,” said 1, “you are right; you arc always right." Th<*re are bigger things than tin* cur rency and the country ha* survived them. I haven’t Keen t *n elollars in gold in five years ami have survive d that, it furely has eeaseel to be the* coniimm ftirreney of the <*ot’.ntry. In two years more my wife ami I are* to have a golelen weeldiug, if we live, ami I’m afraid there* won’t be enough gold in the country te> make the* event n ‘••p<*)*1:tb!e*. The hankers keep it all locked up ami out of sight, exce'pt w h<*n they have to *hlp it to Knglaml to pay our gohl coupons. History tolls of the time in this country when coonskins am] <l<*er- ikins ami toba<*<*o were* tlie currency, anel the* |**oph* got along am! tlmrc is still some remains e,f the continental mon<*y that circulateel eluring tin* rev olutionary war, line] kept on getting worse* and worse just like* our c<jnf<*<Ier- ute money elid. Hut v.e got along finely w ith <*onf<*de*r:iteinon •> ns longa* there was anything to trade on. The higher tlie price of things the* more niemey there was te> buy •.vlt.h nn<l a irian fi*!t. sorter rich with a big red! of it in his pocket, even If It. did take* $200 to buy a pair of cotton <ar<ls. In Gn>'*s of trouble the* |K*opl<*, have to get us<*d to thing*, you know, and eeiffce niaele of parched rye or goolx r* v\as be*tter than ao eoffe*e. It Is all in getting usee I to thing*. The* w nr was so much worse than Uie currency that we ciidnt complain nlxiiit the kind of moiie'y. Town <*oun- cil* and <*or|x>rati<jaH ami railroads anel even ineliv ielualx iiisueel their own shin- pla*tcr*. ami everylxxly took them. 1 have* a dozen different kinels now and look at them oner in awhile*. We* oM veterans can’t lx* scieresl to death about currency, and all we w ant U enough of it, whether it be silver or gohl or green backs. But wc do wautsomet lung clone to re vive our industries nnd put the w h<*eH in motion ami incre*a*o the \alm*s of our lands and products. We want our boys to have something to do nt home and not have logo away in search of em ployment. Wc have* six boys, ami they arc (■■cattercel from New York to Mexico There is another lamentable conse quence <*f the present distre* s. The marriage () f young men ami maidens has almost ccnseel to lx* A young man who is working for $ :<• or$IOn month can’t afforel to get mr.rriexl. I’areuta will ‘ train tlienn elvos to give their boys a collegiate* education, and when they get t’:' ir diplomas t!ie*re is nothing for the in to do. The girls who graduate eome home rofinetl anil eiiltun*<l and v oulel marry if they<*ouli! selc<*t a mate, but t liey e*an't,nnelso t!i<*y just live* along In a state of innocuous e!**su<*tuele. There are at least 25 of enther *■;**■: in this town who ought to mate and marry, but they will not. When I was a young man there was no trouble* about marrying. Hverylxxly got nmrri<*el. I eoulel hnv® man it el three* or four girls, anel my wif® bail elioioe* of half a eltizen young mcB. There* was somedhirg fe>r every Ixxly to elo. Now. we* don’t expect Mr. Bryan tore- form all the evils that have* befallen the country, but. v.e* elo ex* <*<*t. him to v<*to all the* extravng'in<*e of e-ongress. The reform must begin r'rht there. This last congress sj:i*nt at least $200,000.- 000 more than wrs r.ee*'s-arv. and it w as s[x iit on the* ’og-roll'ng principle of you vote for ny bill and I’ll vote* for yours, ronsidcring tho hardness of the times, these appropriations were* ontnigeini*. \lc want. Mr. Bryan there* to watch them and curb them l'k«> Anelrew Jack- son elid. That he* will b*» triumphal tly i lifted wo have no < 1 cul t. It is in the air. Y)’e feed it nnd breathe it. My great, iegret is tb.at I was no* in Chicago to hear l.'m and feel g;x>d all over •mil have a littb* hysteria myself anel fe**l the turkey bumps rise on my spinal * ol- umn and sheel a. few tears of eleligh fill e*n;olion as I elrnuk in t he thrilling elo ; quene * of tin* boy orator, as they <*all him. I wouldn’t eveheii"’*' bin t v liny for all tlie* edd pdit’e'nl hacks Ip the natiim. I re*ail all that Barrett anel* Adamson wrote to my familv iipel f all the* e.xtraeis from tin* pre* . anel | it. elid ns all gooel that a goe 1 ami ; great, man lied sue’di nlv arisen and would redeem the ration from its ells- j tress and its corruption. Hurrah for rynn. of Nebraska. I*\** got a toue*h of hysteria right now.—Bill Arp. in At lanta Constitution. THE JAfl 07 HIDING. ItZitny novle*** to I*.-c»i‘iit It llnvo llrrn l*»fciitol UepenMy. The* treml of the most recent eh*ve*lojv n:< nts toware! inechanieal iniprovi'ineiit of the b icy cl:; upjxars to be* in the* eli- re’etion of <l<*vi<*e*s for lessening the jar of Ihe roads. InvcKtigator* all ov<*r the country who are* work in‘gem wheel* seem to have picloxl this line* as tihe most uei'c-'.-arv and profitable in lm* ! proving tl,« picrcnt funi of tlie bl- e-ych*. As the* iesnlt of tb.is labors th<*renre at lens* a e’ozcn de v ices of this kinel n- ccntly I'ate'iit-. <1, and probably a liun- dnel at prcse'iit in the* pat<*nt otV.ee*or lx*- Ing cxjHTinienteel upon. Of those* al ready in use* air cttshionH and sp.rings are* l(><• principal ineiuis < inoloyi-el to | main* it easier for the* rieh’is. The*ii*are several varieties of the* so-cu I b <1 eush- lon-fia.me muchiiicsjii which springs or pneumatic <*ylin<h*rs take up the vl- brntion of tlie frame iff the bieyeh*. This type, ajipcars to work fairly well, but its opjxtn'.'n's <*lairi that, the* inser- tions of the cushions vvi akens the* stni'*- tur:* of the* w !ie»'l. The* rame objection is found with the* pne umatic hub bi cycle. but as in the othi*r typ-’s, ease of riding is frequ<*ntJy ciihnm*cd. I’ei;(|.*s these* varie1;e*s t!u*re* are n number of ele-vie <*s vv!:ie*!i have the* merit of lecing easily applicable to the or- f!inary v. !'*** l as at prcsTt <*onstrii<*tc(l, w ithout the* m eessity of a change* In tlie framework. The*y consist of tlje$meu- matie* saddb. s. the new spring ia<lille*s, the spring seat poids, or.el th** pneu matic hanelh'-barn. All of 1 he*se* appe*nr to lx* improve'ments in tip; right, eli lec tion. A FUNNY MISTAKE. meteorite falls in Kansas. BngllBh Paper Ropor n r\ Drunlr- ards* Colony In Amorioi. TIi® Fart lx Ttint It I* th® Onnharel® \T lie Aro Orunnl/lne- nnd Tlie/ Arc NHtlier Tlpplm Nor Drinker.. The gross bluuelers about the Cniteel Ftntes and its jieople*, once so eoininon In even the best-informed Bnglish new s- l.n|x*rs. nre rarely n:e*t with nownelays. One*e in awhile we* hear something nbout the* "stnte of Albany” anel occa sionally Mint the Indian savage* threaten Chicago, but ns n rule Knglish eeiitors avoid se*rious e-rrors, though they vonwtlines iimke laughableon»*a. Of this latter ebarncter is the follow- ( lug, says tlx* Chicago Timcs-Herald, 1 which we e*lij> from the Inst number l of the Westminster Gazette. It e'er- tninly ought to have a startling effect ; whe rever It is renel: a rot/)ny or Tirrmns. One of the most rurtous rolonlea that have ever tie en entAhllsheel on the Amert- I run ronttnent ts, we le'iirn from the Ixvnelon Amerlrnn. atiout to s**ttle In North Ds- . Votu. It I.; a colony of elrunkard*. Twenty- ' <lie* etrunkare.s ami their tamllieH are alxvut : to move from Indiana to tak® up their shoele uixm the virgin soil of North Da kota. They say they will entablUh A “model drunkard colony.” Already they , have* purchase<1 l.fOU ae-rex of land, and each family will receive an rllotment of about i 10 acres. The* colony will be watched with mue-h Interest. It begin* operation* this month. Very likely all the colonist* will j want to stun suloonM, nnd *hcn the *pie*- tlon arise n, who will be ready to till the eolIT We fnne*y we cun sex'John Hull devot ing bis eyebrows at this paragraph anil ! exclaiming: “What n very remarkable people!” The joke, if there* is otic In thlsnmu* lug mistake, is on our esteemed fellow citizens, the* Dunknrels. who nre neither tipple-rx norelrinkers, anel look not iijxin ; the wine when it is real. A colony of Dunbnrds front Indiana luive reerutl.v establisiieel themselves in North Dakota, n fact that was slot eel a month or two ago. It was the misreading of this piece of news by our Knglish ront-mpo rnry Mint made* them out a "e*olony of tipplers."* They are*, in fact, n ndigiotts sect, of German origin uml are* nVknnmeel Dunkers <;r Tniikers—“elipp-rs"—be cause* of their nioeV of baptism. They ct.il thi*ti!se*lves “Tin* lire tbren." Weight Over tOO l‘< unit. an<l I’low.'l p th® (iroand a Dl.tanro of Twenty I- e®t. Kffinglinm, a country tov. n 12 niilc* west of Atchison, Knn., line! a recent vinitation from a meteorite.v hich mens- ureel In length two fe*et, in w Idth from a foot to a foot nnd n half and which weigheel about 250 pounds. It fell from u cloudless sky about 11 o’clock at night, nnd Its contact with the* e-nrth was occoinpnnled by n loud report. Ds course wn* from east to west, anil it* pnssnge* over the city was ol*«e*rved by a number of people, ns it left in its wake a luminous tail fully .V O v an!* In length. The meteorite itself was an Intense white ball, throwing out an occasional streak of reel, but the* tail varied 'n color from white to ginrirg reel. It plowed up tbe ground after it struck the enrth n distance of 20 feet, nnd finnl- lj- half burieel itself in tbe* ground. It was rough nml jnggeel. exe*ept that part nl>ove the ground, ami hnel tbe gt'nersl appearance of nn Immense cineler. When, the meteorite was eliseovered It was broken by a sledgehammer. A great ninny pebbles were foiipel on the inside, firmly imbedded in a i*oripnet mass of what appeared to lx* iron ore. Some of the pebbles were white nnd clear, but the majority were black anel brown. Tlie jx»bi>les hnel the npi>enr- rnce of having been i , oolvel off suelelenly liter being Kubjeeteel to intense heat. Speedniens of the meteorite* will lx* sent to the state universltv r.t Hiwrenee. PRISONER Joker IN DEPOSIT VAULT. i i LEADING LIBRARY Or WORLD. .Morn IIooU. Clri'ulutcd In ( hlengo Than in Anv Ollie-r ( It>. The rejxirt of the ( liicago public li brary bonrel f.*r the* fiscal year <-n<1:*il June 1, just |.re*seiiie*(l, makes u very Ml tie fae* tory si low ing. It Is set fort!i that the i unit e'l* of books teiken to home's from the* library nrd sul>- llan. at lllglt Specel to Har® a Woman II® Hud Imperiled. Miss Kosa Caudill, einughter of ex- Se*nator W. J. Caudill ouiiie* near liv ing of suffocation In her father’s de*- pexeit vault nt Hnrbouisvillc, Ky., the other day. Mr. Caudill is deputy in ternal revenue <*ollector for tills dis trict, auel liis daughter seta ns his clerk. He left the office early to take a train out of the city. He left Miss Caudill and her friend, J. II Byerly. in the office. For amusement Mr. Byerly had the young Inely go In the vault anel let him close the door. When he elid so the combination was unintentionally turned anel the vault locked. It was then train time, the station almost a mile away, anel Mr. Caudill nt the dc- |x>t with the secret of the e*oinblnntion to the vault. Mr. Hycrly ran for his life, anel happily the train was reneheel as it was leaving the station. The com bination was secure*)! r.nel flic vault opcncel after the expiration of about 15 minutes. Miss Cnuelrll was fouml to 1m» unconscious, hut unelcr the core of physicians is slowly recovering, TUNNEL BENEATH A BANK. stations eluring tin* year. .5SH vol- I’re*icne e «»f XIIn I. i’atri •!< was lying in U-e] in a hospital. He liae! I cen lirouglit in a few elays liefore after a S4*\er<* fail Irom tlie top story of a building on w hich he had been woik- ing. With all liis Ktiffc ring he never lost his cheerful soil its, ami livened up many of tin* ether patients with liis bright re- njarhs cnel short stories. Tlie doctor hnppeueil along, ami asked liow In* fedt. “Fairly well, eloetor; this right leg of moim* Is a very ungrateful spal|x-eu coiiKitheriu’ that it wuz only broke in wan place whin it moight have lk*i*ii finashe J in a eiozen.’* “How elid you fall. Fatried:?’’ 1 nskcel. “Di<l you lose your hejul?” “Faitli no; sure it was me footin'Oi lost.” \\ hut time* did it happen V" “Well, Oi w uzn’t so sure Iwfore I fell, hut I wuz thinkin* coinin’ dow n that if wuz near dinner hour, an’ Oi wuz con vinced of that same us Oi pasxril |ho sec ond story, fer Oi saw the people in there atin* dinner,"— Harper's Bound Table. Too Good a Kulijee-t. "Gentlemen,” raiel the professor of hypnotism, in an oratorical manner, "you will observe that the subject be fore us has bee*n in a de*ep hypnotic (Jtep for sewn ehjys, hut with a few sinijile j»iissi*s I will now restore him to full activity.” * But, ilespite tin* professor's efforts, t!;e* subji*e*t Hlumbe*re<l on, nor elid he rwaken until tiie rusli of spring truele was over. Hy a fatal oversight the professor had si*l<*cted a dry goods merchant who »iev<*r advertised.- -N. Y. World. nines, is greiiter than in t!ie e*a;ie e»f any similar institution in the* world. Man chester, Knglai'il, is not a e*Iose* *<>i‘on<l, with !»75.!*:i volumes. I’xiston. Mass., 4*om<s next with Ki7.32l votniin**: Iffr- Rilnghnm. Knglanel. being the fourth, with a record of FTS.3I2. In the* report it is hown th'' total niiinlxT of volumes Indel liy the* library is 217.2:;::. \i*<*essions for tin* year equaled fit. 1‘5. The aggre gate nunil;er of books, p*'- rioelie'als. e*t<*.. in use during the* year, incluelirg bool.s of n*fi*re*iii*e*. was 2.512.- 214. nn inereave* of .'.7.1!>2 over th * pre vious year. The atti'n<lane*e at Mie <*e*ntr:*.l r<*ae.- Ing-rooni anel at tlie substations was materially gr<*atcr than for the* pr**- mllrg year. A great <1 ‘maud is noted for aelelitional riMiling-rooms tiirougli- out the city, notably in those districts of elcnse* population where tlie jwtoriT |x*oplt* live. Lack of funds has pro- ventcel extension to as great a elegree *s is elcslrablc. For the* r<*n*nn that spa»*c is limited, as well as money, com paratively few volumes were purehnseil during tin* year. All tins will be change el atter January 1. when tlie move will lx* made to tlie n**w bu’leling on tlie lake front. More r*oney will lie available, while space* w ill lie ample. A feiitun* of tin* year just ent**reel upon vv ill be the e*stabl : shni**nt of a 1- elitional substations, to e-outn’ii renel- ing-rooms, and for tin* elistrlbiitiou of books. Ito’el*®-* Dltj Over On® Hnnelreet Feet ts a l.ew Ang-I®* (Cat.) Vonlt. The lw)lele*st attempt at bank robbery ever innelc on the Facific coast lias just ; eome to liglit. Tlie object of tlie at tack was the heavy s»e*cl vault of tlie First national bank of Levs Angeles,Cal., one of the largest financial institution of it* kinel in southern California, nml to reach it the* roblx*rs elug a tunnel 1U2 fe*rt in length, runri'ig from a street aeljoining tlie First national.anel thenr» under the e-edlars of three other hank*. Thi* tunnel had j»rogies‘’<*<l tev n polrt directly beneath th.' vault, when Mr* police authorities were apprised of it* existence*. \Vh‘*n the scheme was diseovereel the burglars hnel begun to remove the brick masonry sup|vorting the steel vault. Th'* work is Ivedie'veel to hav>* be*en elone* by a gang i f at le*nst five er six persons, but only one* suspect—■ James K. Stevens—has thus far been arrest eel. KILLED BY REMORSE. IneGun i Man rinil* llrlli'f fr®m HI* Keif- frrina In I>e*lh. George Limas, of Walton, near Hoke tto. I nil., is dead of rentiers'* nnd fear. JHk life has he'e*n a sad one. ami <h*ath was ne* eloiiht wedeonnel as a redie*f. In 1S64 Mr. Limas, who wa* an anient and uneomproxnlsing unionist, k : lle*il two Ktldier boys that wen* home on a fur lough, Mmy being Byron anel Georg.* Knight, sons of a near neighbor. Some pne as a joke told Lucas Mint the* Knigi't Ixiys line] elesertcel r.nel we*re plotting against the* government. Luca* trieel tev 4*on»pe 1 t!ie* Knights to re*tiirn to the rervlee. and in tin* fight that followed he shot Ixvth of them fatally. When matters were* explalneel Lucas we-nt rav ing mad, iinil from Mint hour he was a mental wreck, and for 30 years ha* be en a great cnri* to Ids f imily. Te* the* liour of liis ih*ath he wa ; tortureel by tl».* fear tliat the* ili*iie1 ineii’n fiii’nels \vi*n* see-king Ids ii'i*. FLIGHT OF A FL. .RHIf JG METEOR. Strlkr® th® Fsrtli will) n llt.slm; Honnel Ni»i Huttlv* Wivielows. V.'h'li* Thomas THehnrds, a resident of Gnskill street. Alliance, < was standing on his porch duringTi heavy rainstorm, he was startleel by a I right flash nnd a hissing ronnel. The next instant he felt a eou<‘U**ion which shook the ground anel rnttleel the windows of hi* <lv\idling. Hielinrils '•iiiie to the con clusion that his home had Lee*n virlte -I l y n meteor, anel has L<*e*n hunting for If ever sin<*<*. '1’iie </»lier nfte*rnoon he funnel a hole in the* ground within four fi*e*l of his house*, arcunel which th; tall grass liael bee*ii hurneil. Tllchn^ , * ibig elow n Into the earth and wlfh’n a fexvt of tlie Rtirfaee struck ids meteor. Th® nerolile I* in the sh qx* <»f a rpherotil anel weighs aivout nim* jvouiiel*. It i* very hnnl. blows from vleelge hammer failing to erai*k it. Local scienti*t* **y it is mostly meteoric iron. | GOTHAM’S BEST DRC3SZ.1 DIES. Ixvrillitril Kl*v, <>roHt<*nt Artist In tii® Art e*f Wporing I let lie*. Lorillard Kip has jus* <Iie*e1 nt the ,-esielenee of Ids father, Co^ Lawrence Kip, 452 1’ifth avenue. New York. He was Mn* real Beau Bniinniell of New York, no matter w’.iat the reputation of Berry Wall and the other weH- eir<*sse*e| men alxvut town. In IHt»4 he was ehamotertzeel us the* greatest artist in the art of wearing clothe*. Kip wn* a ron of Col. Lawn nee* Kip. the w<*ll- I now n horseman nnd e lul-inemlx*r, uml was himself a club member nml cotillon leaeler in fasidonable semiety. Ill* Iii<». Mauele- Don’t you think bicycling is intoxicating? ( yuicus—That’s nccording to liow many road houses you stop at.—Up*to- Dutc. Dox Druvrn* l.al*. Jerv* Barthdt. of Gareliner, Me*., owns n dog that can be <*h.sr«*el : niong tin* in teiligeut one**. His master <*at<*he*s a great many i::ts in a trap, are! is in the habit of taking the* rodents in n «*ag.* to a ni*ar-hy rtn-am. | lacing the ••ag'* : n the* water, thus elrowutng thi*m. Be- <*i*ntly Mr. 1'artlett v« as aw ry. nuel. after waiting until It oVlix*k :.nd lt<> i of re - tiiridi*/. tin* i!og ici/iel tin* e n"i* in hi* tevth. l ore it to thev.lre.i , .mnr.iielroppi‘'l it In. It wn- a big bind for him. but he got ''..e*ri* Oil lin e. Irrl^iitoo In < iiieis. Fii*)*;* live* veiir 2<'?7 ll. C. t n ye«r* after l!ie nriirVon to live* throne of lloangli - or 4..'2.1 ye ars ago. t heCldnes** .ire known to have* irrigatee! M»Hr land* for agricultural puiprvura. Iliibber Swll*. A proposition i* «t pre-rent in the wirel to make the sails of ships of rub- lx*r insteae) of eanvas. It is Mipjxtrnl that if rojieel rtrongly along fexit, luff inel |e*ne h. th<* result will lx* superior to tlie I'anvnx rail*. Surely, however, n suehlen inerense of winel |>owe*r wouhl i*\) a mi the sail too much anil cause 'Oinc e’dV.eiilty In governing the <*otiriwi of tin* boat. Faper pulp is again sug- gesle*<l as l,e*i:ig .m a<l<*<|iiat<* Mibstituto ■ »r canvas. When pve * jx*el into sheet* .Miei stitclie el togi’lhe r it v oulel make a liglit a*iel < iTective rail. i;is i®*t < olipwe. The Fniv<*r«ity of Cide'iittu is rail? to tve tlie largest exlueationtl <sir|M>rnti<(0 In tlie vvorlel. Kvery year if examine® over 10,000 students.