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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."
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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.