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Deadlocked Democrats. Kentucky's Warring Factions Settled Into a battle of Ballots. Louisville, Ky., June ;24-Busi ness moved rapidly for few boors today, -the several reports and their adoption, the permanent organization, the adoption of a platform re affirm ing the Chicago platform, and for Bryan and free silver in 1900 and the battle royal over nomination pressing each other in rapid sequence. /Gen, Hardin's withdrawal from the / governorship fight was made in aa ! affecting speech, which did more to I strengthen his following in the con vention than all his political workers have been able to accomplish since the delegates assembled. This was ' ehown on the first ballot, when after William Goelbel had to his credit within lesa than a score of enough votes to give him the nomination, there was a spontaneous outburst of Hardin enthusiasm which lasted for naif an hour and came very nearly developing into a stampede. As it waa Hardin, who-had received only a little more than 100 votes on the first Toll call, had upward of 300 when, after a recapitulation of the vote waa tSBOunced- This strength be retain ed during the early evening. It increased OB the sixth ballot to 3U, or within ll votes of Stone. liiere waa a decided drift in favor of Goelbel early in the veting, but it was cheeked by the Stone people throwing enough strength to Hardin to eves matters up This is significant in showing the inner workings of the 8tone Goelbel combination and the evident purpose of the Stone men to prevent Goelbel getting the long end of the bargain, or, at least, until Stone had a fair test of bis strength Succeeding Ballots sp to the eleventh showed scarcely any change. It is anybody's race, and at present there is no sign of a break from the deadlock The voting proceeded monotonous ly for hours.. There was no material change in the strength of any of the candidates. At 10 o'clock a motion to adjourn was defeated by a deafen ing viva voce vote. Lt was then mered that at midnight the conven t os adjourn until Monday morning, but this proposition met a similar fate. The delegates were getting decidedly tired, though they held on tenaciously. Between roll calls they amused themselves with songs and pranks Thinge began to look like an all night session After a week of excitement the Democratic State convention passed today in a tiresome deadlock. An adjournment was had tonight until 9 . o'clock Monday morning, without any nominations having been made. 4 CHANGES IN FRANCE. Paris, June 25-At the cabinet council ioday M. Loo bet, the pres i dent signed orders making the follow ing changes : M. Bertrand, procura tor general to thc appeal court, and M. Fenilloley, public prosecutor, are both removed M. Bal ot, advocate general, appointed public prose cutor M . Lombard,whose dismissal on account of the Deroulede trial bee been much criticised as unjust, is appointed advocate general. . M: Bertrand's successor has not yet been appointed. Gen. Harubmidt. Gen Roget, Col Saxe and Gol. Cubertin are transfer -red to other garrisons. The premier, M. s Waldeck Rous sean, read a draft of his speech in parliament tomorrow, which will be very brief, merely announcing that the new ministry has no aim bat to follow out the order of the day voted on June 12, on the motion of Joseph Roan, Democratic Radical, represent . lng the Second district of St. Guan dens, which was as follows : "The chamber is determined to support only a government resolved to defend vigorously Republican institution and to secure public order, and passes to the order of the day.'* M. Lombard, as advocate general, resumes his old post Gen Roget ac the representation of the general staff before the court of cassation Col. Coubertin ia credited with having advised his men at Long Champ on Grand Pre Sunday to fire if they beard the army insulted in their presence. With the exception of Coubertin, all the transferred officers have received equally impor tant positions. The fetes in the memory of Gen. Hoche, at Versailles, passed off quietly M. Ribot, in the conree of a speech at a banquet last evening, and probably with a view to another min isterial crisis, said : *'It would be madness to wound the army's feelings or to doubt its right spirit " Madame Dreyfus bas obtained permission to visit ber husband in prison at any time between sunrise and sunset San Diego, Cal , Jone 24-Word baa been reoeived here that a part of 20 miners boood for tbs Sierra Pinta de Piaoers lost their way io the desert and wandered around a long time, fio al ly dying of thirst. The informa lion esme in a letter received by J. R Cantin, one of the charterers of the schooner Thoa J. Neg&s, which took a party of 60 prospectors to San Roqoe landing. More Trouble in Cuba. MILITARY MEN COM PLAIN THAT POLITI CIANS GET ALL THE OFFICES, Habana, June 25 -The society of veterans of independence, organized by the leaders of the former military assembly, continues growing and enlisting all who are willing to work unitedly. It is composed of three classes-members of the army, civil ians who acted as agents in the Cuban cities during the war, and those who were deported' by the Spaniards. Headquarters will be here and in Santiago, and central committees will be established in the capitals of the various provincee. At a meeting held today at the Union club, an important organiza tion including some of the best peo pie of Habana, political matters were discussed Among those present were several appointees of Gov. Gen. Brooke, but they took no part in the discussion One speaker, a Cuban officer, who took up a good deal of the time of the meeting, said Gen Brooke was following a wrong course io giviog politicians government po sitions, while military men, were getting nothing "This method," be declared, "will eventually lead to trouble Those who defended the country deserve recognition sad will tire of beiog coostaatiy igoored " Another speaker said : "Only those having infiaeoce with Secretary Alger through Washington connec tions are able to secure appointments, and there are some of those who were not ic Cuba during the war." A meeting was held today with regard to the organization of a permanent jockey club and also of an exclusive social club of English speaking people, the existing club not being natisfactory. No lio al de cision was reached as to whether the jockey club and the social organiza tion shall be combined or conducted independently, but the latter will be formed first. A committee was appointed with instructions to try to buy the fran chises of the present American club If the jockey club should be joined in the enterprise it is proposed to offer prizes large enough. to attract good hones from the United States, starting the racing season here in stead of at New Orleans. The idea would be to have a seven dsy meet iog, with prizes aggregating $35, OOO, the highest being $10,000 on the last day. THEIR UNIFORM DIS GRACED. Cieofaegos, Coba, June 25 -Three . American officers who had been cre ating a disturbance in a house of ill repute and bad resisted arrest, entered a carriage and began firing their revolvers, wounding Policeman Ortega. Other policemen returned tbe fire sod were joined by a mob wbo pursued tbe carriage to the railway station where the American pickets were guarding wagons and a safe containing money. The troops, mostly recruits, oo seeing that the officers were io daoger, en trenched themselves behind tbe wagons and began ehootiog, wounding two policemen and three civilians A wealthy planter, who was passing in a carriage with his children was struck by a Krag-Jorgensen ball, receiving a serious to jury. Senor Fr as, tbe mayor, the Cuban Geo. Esquerra aod M j. Bowman, com manding the American, rode through the crowd fceggiog the people to restrain themselves and ordering tbe troops te stop Their attempts were finally tue cessfal Tbe corporal ia charge of the pickets says be did not give ao order to fire, bot people who were near insist that they heard bim give soon a com maofi. Indignation rans high, but there is so far no fear of further troc* hie. The offended officers have been locked sp. His Body Cot in two Charl te, N. C., June 26.-A white man named Parsons, whose home was at Lenoir, N. C., was run over by a Southern railway tra llate last night 30 miles north of here. He was brought to Charlotte and lived about 30 minutes after reaching here. His body was entirety severed just below the waist and while lying on a stretcher talking to a physician, the unfortunate man saw the lower half of his body removed to sooth er part of the room aod commented upon it. He told his name, and talk ed rationally, and in a few minutes said to the doctor that he had only a few minutes to live and asked that be be given something to stop the pain. The doctor administered an opiate and Parsons became quiet and died in a few minutes. The man was about 21 years old and was beating bis way on the train when killed. Negroes May Lynch a Mur derer. Hawkiosville, Ga.. Jane 26-Bill Collins and Monroe Washington, both colored, became i o vol ved in a quarrel last night near here. Washington was kilted as a result A possee, includ ing many negroes, is io pursuit and Collins will be captured tonight. The oegroea declare tbat there will be a lynching. AGUINALDO'S MEN DEMORALIZED. Active Operations of Ameri cans Suspended for Rainy Season. GEN. OTIS BEPOBTS ON THE SITUATION. Washington, Jane 26 -Gen. Otis in reply to a cable from the war department asking for information re garding tbe situation and conditions in the Philippines, today cabled a loog reply as follows : Manila, Jone 26. Adjutant General, Washington. Raioy eeason ; little inland cam paigning possible in Luion We occupy large portion Tagalog country ; lines stretching from Imus sooth to San Fernando north, nearly 60 miles, and to eastward ioto Laguna provine*, insurgent armies have suffered grea losses and are nattered ; only large force held together about 4,000 io Tarlao province and northern Pam pin ga. Their scattered foroes io bands of 50 to 500 io portions of Luzon ; io Ca vite and Batangas provinces cdold assemble possibly two thousand, though demoralized from defeat; mass o' people terrorized by insurgent soldiers ; desire peace tod American protection ; no 'longer flee on approach of our troops unless foroed by insurgents, but gladly welcome them ; no recent barning of towns ; population within our lines becoming dense, taking up land ; cul tivation extensive ; kept ont of Manila as much as possible, as oity populatioo is becoming too great to be cared for. Natives southeast of Luzon combining ; te drive out insurgents ; ooly hope io6urgent leader is United States aid. They proclaim near overthrow of present admioistration ie to be followed by their independence sod reeogoitioo by the Uoited States. This is the influence which enables them to bold ont ; mach contention prevails among them and no civil government remains; trade with ports not in oar possession -former source of iosargeni revenue, now interdicted ; not certain of wis dom of this policy, as people io these ports are without supply of food and merchants suffering losses ; meditate restoring trade ptivileges al tb on gb. in surgent reap benefits. Courts here io successful operation under the direction of able Filipinos. Affaira in other islands comparatively quiet awaiting resolta in Luzon. AH anxious for trade and tepeated calls for American troops received. Am giving atteotioo to Jolo archipelago and Palawan islands. Our troops have worked to limit of endurance. Volunteer organ izations bave been called io ; replaced by regalare, who now occupy salient positions. Nebraska,Pennsylvania and Utan ow takiog transporte and Sixth infantry seot to Negros to relieve California. These troops io good physical oooditioo : sickness among troops bas iooreased lately, due mostly to arduous service aod climate infla - enees. Nothing alarming. Of the 12 per ceot. of the oommaod reported sick. Dearly 6 per ceot io general hospital of whom 3 per oeot. have typhoid aod seventeen malarial fevers ; 25 pei- cent have intestinal troubles ; remaining 55 per cent have various ailments, four teen of whioh due to wound injuries. Maoy officers aod meo who served io Coba break ander, recurrence Cuban fever, and regular regiments received are inadequately official. Otis. The inadequaooy of tba officers men tioned io last part of above cablegram bas been remedied by the sailing of the transports Zelandia aod Sheridan carry* iog a number of officers for regiments io the Philippines Adjutant General Corbin says that all officers belonging to regiments io the Philippines who are not absent on aooount of a surgeon's certificate are under orders to join their regiments at once. Forty-four officers have sailed on the recent transports going to Manila. Secretary Alger said today that no action would be taken for the enlarge ment of the army or sendiog troops to reioforoe Geo. Otis uotil the return of President McKinley. He also said that Geo. Wheeler would reoeive co assign meet uotil that time. Revolting Crime in Lexing ton. Batesbnrg, Juoe 26.-James Atta way, white, was arrested here this afternoon by Sheriff Caoghmao of Lexington on the charge of rape. The sheriff is lookiog for Ed. McLoud on the same charge. The affidavit io the warrant is made by L H. Leitch and David Meetze, obargiog the assault on the persons of their wives, Mary Ann Leitch and Liora Ellen Meetze. mm twa - Baltimore, June 26.-Cornelius Gardner, Charle. James and John Myers, al) colored, were sentenced to be banged today by Judge Wright in the orimnal court for crimnaliy assault ing 13 y.ear-oid Annie Bailey, also colored. Gov Lowndes may sec Joly 28 for the execution of the trio and in that event there will be a quartette of negroes to pay the life penalty oo that day. Jcs. Bryan, who was recently convicted aod seotenoed to bang for the morder of Mary Pack, his common law wife, will be banged oo that day unless the governor intervenes. FREAKS Of MEMORY. QUEER PRANKS FOR WHICH THERE IS NO ACCOUNTING. Some Instances of the Singular Ef fect Produced Upon tlie Mind by Goring Steadily at a Crystal-For gotten Incidents Recalled. The queer freaks of memory are a constant puzzle to those who study psychical phenomena. Who has not been driven to the verge of distraction by the total inability to recall a name when an effort was made to do so and when the occasion for snch remem brance was past had the missing name flash into the mind apparently of its own volition ? Great minds have wrestled to find an explanation for the pranks that memory plays and have had to give up tb* effort In the course of a systematic afp tempt to arrive at some nnderstanding with regard to the wonders of memory a very valuable and unique body of testimony has been obtained. The fol lowing questions have been put to 200 American university students and pro fessional persons, 151 being men and 49 being women. The answers are here given with the questions: Question 1.-When you cannot recall a name yon want, does it seem to come back spontaneously without being sug gested by any perceived association of ideas? To this ll per cent answered "No" and 81 per cent "Yes." Qnestion 2.-Does such recovery ever come during sleep ? To this 17 per cent answered "No" and 28 percent ' Yes. ' Some examples given : . 1. This morning I tried to recall the name of a character I had read of the night before in one of Scott's novels and failed. I taught a class, and walking home in the afternoon all the names re- i curred to me without effort 2. tried to recall the name of a cok. Gave it up. Half an hour later, while talking of something else, blurted if ont withont conscious volition. Qnestion 8.-On seeing a sight or hearing a sound for the first time, have you ever felt that you had seen (or heard) the same before? Fifty-nine per cent answered "Yes. " The action of unconscious memory during sleep is illustrated by further queries: Question 4. -Do you dream ? Ninety four per cent answered "Yes. " Question 5. -Can 3fou wake at a given hour determined bef ore going to sleep withont waking up many times before? Fifty-nine per cent answered "Yes.' Thirty-one per cent .nswered "No. " Qnestion 6.-If you can, how about failure? Sixty-nine per cent seldom failed; 25 per cent often. Question 7. -Do you come direct from oblivion into consciousness ? Sixty-four per cent answered "Yes" and 16 per cent "Gradually." Examples: 1. I had to give medicine every two hours exactly to my wife I am a very sound sleeper, bnt for six weeks I woke np every two hours and never missed giving the medicine. 2. I am always awake five minutes before the hour I set the alarm. 3. I had had little sleep for ten days and went to bed at 9, asking to be called at midnight I fell asleep at once. I rose and dressed as the clock stack 12, and could not believe I had not been called A strange phenomenon has come to light in the course of the inqniry into the mystery of memory. It has been discovered that by gazing steadily at a crystal consciousness is partly lost In to the void thus produced those who have practiced crystal gazing find that there enter unbidden forgotten incidents and lost memories. To give a few in stances: A lady in crystal gazing saw a bit of dark wall covered with white flowers. She was conscious she must have seen it somewhere, but had no recollection where She walked over the ground she had just traversed and found the wall, which she had passed unnoticed. Sh took out her bankbook another day. Shortly afterward she was gazing at the crystal and saw nothing but the number ona She thought it was some hack number, but, taking up the bank book, found to her surprise it was the number of the account. At another time she destroyed a let ter without noting the address. She could only remember the town. After gazing at the crystal some time she saw "821 Jefferson avenue " She ad dressed the letter there, adding the town, and found it was right. A lady sat in a room to write where she had sat eight years before. She felt her feet moving restlessly under the ta ble and then remembered that eight years before she always had a footstool It was this her feet were seeking. Psychical research brings to light many cases of similar strange tricks of memory. It is easy to find instances that serve to deepen the mystery. It is not so easy, to give an explanation. The cleverest men who have attempted to do so have had to admit defeat.-Wash ington Post. Wanted Something Qa Icker. Somo few years ago I issued a policy on the life of a man who was far from being a model husband. I called for the premium every week and rarely got it without a grumble from the wife The last time I called she said. **I ain't going to pay you any more. There's Mrs. Smith only had her old man in M. 's society three months, and he's dead and she's got the money. I'm going to put my old man in that, sq you needn't call again. "-Liverpool Mercury The Time It Worked. Little Johnny always wanted to sleep in the morning, and finally Papa Mc Swatters wondered how he would ever get the boy up betimes. At last he struck upon the following "Johnny, the furnace fire is all fixed, j ahu the ashes have been carried out and the leaves raked Breakfast is al- j most over and only three pancakes left" Johnny forgot his ablutions in his hurry.-Syracuse Herald I BOILED T DOWN Thc Sign a It Was Designed and as It Appeared. A journeyman hatter, a companion of Dr. Franklin, was about to set np in business for himself and wished to have an appropriate sign to pot over his door. He designed ene that bore the fol lowing inscription: "John Thompson, Hatter, Makes and Sells Hats for Ready Money." Following this was a picture of a hat. But he was not quite certain of the suitability of his sign, and he de cided to submit it to his friends for their criticism. The first that he showed it to object ed to the word "hatter," because it was followed by the words "makes hats," which sufficiently explained that he was a hatter. The word was struck j out ~" The next said that the work "makes" was useless, because the customers would not care who made the hats so long as they were satisfactory and the price was not too high. He struck that out also. The third man said that the words "for ready money" might as well go, as it was not the custom to sell hats on credit ; every one who bought expected to pay. These words taken out, and the inscription read, "John Thompson Sells Hats." i His next friend said "sells" might as well come out, because nobody expected him tb give them away. What, then, was the use of the word? "Sells" was accordingly struck out and "hats" was all that remained, following "John Thompson." Even this, short as it was, was fur ther diminished, and the sign finally stood, "John Thompson," with the fig ure of the hat following it.-Harper's Round Table. Is Your Same Beret A contributor bas been amusing bim* self by trying to answer the question or series of questions, What man in tho history of the world whose name began with A-and after that every other let ter of the alphabet in order-exerted the greatest influence upon the thought and conduct of mankind? Of course there are some letters which are not very prolific in the names of great men, bot we think most of our readers will be surprised to see how many of the most illustrious name io history are included and how few are excluded. In some cases the compiler seems to have selected names quite as much with a view to comprehending in the list men of many countries, as because the name given was that of the greatest man of his time. The list follows: Aristotle, Baco, Confucius, Darwin, Ezra, Franklin, Goethe, Homer, Isaiah, Justinian, Kant, Luther, Mohammed, -Newton, Ossian, Plato, Quintillian, Rousseau, Shakespeare, Tasso, Uhland, Virgil, Washington, Xavier, Young, Zoroaster.-London Globe. Dangers of Langhter. It is surprising to learn from the highest medical authority in England that laughter may be injurious. Laughter in itself, says the British Medical Journal, cannot very well kill, but it may do harm. Hysterical girls and boy s with kindred nervous affec tions are often given to immoderate laughter, which tends to increase nerv ous exhaustion. Dr. Feilchenfeld relates an instruc tive case in which a little girl suffered from very definite cardiac symptoms after immoderate laughter. The patient was 13 years old and had previously been free from any sign of heart dis ease. After laughing on and off for nearly an hour with some companions she suddenly felt stabbing pains in the chest and was seized with fits of conga ing, followed by cardiac dyspnoea, very well marked. Feilchenfeld believes that the cardiac disease directly resulted from immoderate laughing. Defending; His Profession* "Now," said the attorney for the de fense, "let us take up the bill present ed by the plaintiff in this case for al leged services rendered to my client I say alleged services, gentlemen of the jury, because these figures show every Indication of hating been doctored." "Would it not be better to say law yered?" asked an indignant physician who was serving as one of the jurors. Chicago Tribune. Scotland' Strange Birds. From the small island of St Kilda, off Scotland, 20,000 young gannets and an immense numbor of eggs are annual ly collected, and although this bird lays only one egg per annum and is four years in obtaining its maturity its num bers do not diminish. Obviously such birds must reach a great age, or they would long ago have been exterminated. The deserts of Arabia are specially remarkable for their pillars of sand, which are raised by whirlwinds and have a very close resemblance in their appearance to waterspouts. It is said that so difficult is the art of cutting gloves that most of the prin cipal cutters are known to the trade by name and by fame. Froze tlic Q.ulcfc*and. "When I was ont among the hills of northern India," said the major, "I had an experience that I wonder didn't turn my hair gray. I was camped all alone on the side of the Ganges and had occasion to go for some water. Be fore I knew where I was I had stepped right into a quicksand. I knew what was. up at once and knew that I was gone. As I stood therewith that horri ble sand dragging at me like some liv ing monster I terned colder and cold er. Do what I could my teeth would keep on clattering, though I knew that every vibration of my jaw was shaking me farther down into that ready made grave. Suddenly I noticed that I had stopped sinking." "Struck the bottom, eh?" "Certainly not; I had grown so cold from horror and fear-I may as well admit-that I actually froze the water in the quicksand." \ WEALTH IN CORNSTALKS Some years ago Mr. Edward At kinson, of Boston, in talking of the cotton plant remarked that if the Yankees had it they would make money out of toe stalk if they didn't make a cent from the lint, bat we do not know that any one bas said that the cornstalk would ever reach such commercial importance as tc be a leading factor among the products of the farm, in this respect resembling the cotton seed, which for genera tions was looked up as a sort of nui sance on the plantation. The corn stalk has heretofore been practically of no value, simply being permitted to rot and turned under when plow ing time The following, which we clip from the Savannah News, shows bow the cornstalk is coming to the front as a thing of value and some of the various uses to which it is adapted : "Our farmers have reason to regard with aversion our numerous tariff protected trusts, but the farmers on the prarie lands of the west at least will probably view with favor the fifty million-dollar cornstalk trust which is being organized, it is stated, to make a market for the 250,000,000 tons of cornstalks that go to waste every year. "Tbe cornstalk is to be developed by the new trust into a commercial com modity, as cotton seed were a few years ago, and it r is believed that there are "millions in it." According to the New York Commercial, om? farmers have hitherto been thro wieg away $900,000,000 a year io stalks. The yield of stalks averages three tous to tbe aere, the acreage averaging 80, 000,000, and but a fraction of this is utilised as fodder. Durieg the last 20 years our farmers have destroyed, it is estimated by the Commercial, $18,000,000,000 worth of their pro duct-a value equal to the sum total of their mortgages plus the public debt. This sum the new taust proposes to enable the farmers to put io their pockets daring the next score of years. "Six different commodities are now being manufactured from cornstalks, namely, cellulose, worth $400 a ton, used by the government as an auto matic hole stopper for battleships ; excellent eardboard, a fine grade of paper, an uneqaalled foundation for dynamite, a patent cattle food and a superior glue. The value of the cellulose lining for warships is well known. When a leak develops the cellulose swells tn such a manner as to automatically dose it. With 15 tons of stalks, worth $90, one too of such cellulose is made, for which as already stated, the government is DOW paying at the rate of $400 a too. Two facto ries, one tn Rockford, ill., and another in Oweneboro, Ky , are now making cornstalk cellulose, together with other products of less value. As respeots the cornstalk cattle food, it. is stated that the stalks when ground to a ooaree meal, cooked, . sweetened with molas ees and pressed into cakes, form one of the most nutritive and valuable foods yet placed on the market. The absorptive power of cellulose dust fits it admirably for the manufacture of dynamite by mixing with nitro-glyce rine, such dust being superior even to guocotton. Five factories, says the Commercial, are to be at once erected, io addition to those already io op ration. Tbe more the better. It is the good fortune of the proposed oombioe that it will, if successful, have for its object to enlarge, or. Io fact, create, ao iodos* try; pot to stifle it." mmm ? t ? 1 Tbe Coming Black Sheep. The Btv. Dr. Meredith, a well known Brooklyn clergyman, tries to cultivate friendly relations with the youoger members of his flock. In a recent talk to his Sunday School he urged the children to speak to him whenever they met. The next day a dirty faced urchin, having a generally disreputable appear ance, accosted him in the street with : "How do, Doe?" The clergyman stopped, aod cordially icquired : ' Aod who are you, sir?" "I'm one of your little lambs/7 replied the boy, affably. "Fine day." And. tilting his hat to the back of bis bead, be swaggered off, leaving the worthy divine speechless with amaze ment. Tbe dog is baviog his day io South Carolina. The supreme court reoeotly decided that a dog was property. Io another decision, however, it sustains tbe lower court and declares that a rail road company is not liable for damages when a fool dog stands on the track and points a train under the impression that it is a covey cf partridges io spite of whittle, bell and escaping steam - Augusta Cor nide. Chicago, June 25 -A special to The Times Herald from Columbus, O., says : Io a letter to a Columbas friend Mayer S M. Jodes of Toledo sn o oun ces himself ready to stand as a candi date of an independent movement for governor and adds : "I have nothing to concede and I am more than ever convinced that the day of political partiot is passing Parties and party machines will find themselves oat of a job, so to speak. They are expensive and frightful bardens oo the body politic. They are positive menace to liberty and stand directly athwart the path of progress. Call, see and boy, em bos ged or toral Cr^ps Paper. H. G. Os teen k Co.