Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1897, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1897-14 PAGES, — Tae | We give Trading Stamps with each cash purchase. We promised to let our many customers know when we got in an- other shipment of these mar- velous little Sewing Rockers. We have just received 50— made to our special order. You must speak quickly if you wish one. : Very neat and pretty little |) Sewing Rocker, hardwood— =| with reed seat. They should - bring $1.25. As long as they last— 59°: {| “Your Credit is Good.” Z | | Another Bargain. . j Large High-back Arm Rocker, made of highly pol- ished hardwocd—excellently | made and finished. "Twould = |. be a bargain at $2.00. | As long as they last— | $11-19- “Your Credit is Good.” Lansburgh — Furniture Co., 1226 F St. N.W. Painless Best Extracting, Teeth, 50c. *8.00 Cheap things are usually bad. Cheap dentistry is not only bad, but danger- ous. It fs full of pain and disappoint- Deat with a dental establishment that hes a -eputation—that is a credit to Washington—that does all work abso- lutely without patm, and—tlast, but not least-charges fair and honorable prices. U. S. Dental Ass’n, Cor. 7th and D Sts. N.W. OPEN SUNDAYS 10 TO 12 O'CLOCK. n03-50d Small fuel bills only what you pay for—clean fuel. Use Coke—and save money! 0000 ooo e000 eooo 40 bu. Uncrushed Coke. . .$2.90 40 bu. Crushed Coke. ....$3.70 Washington Gaslight Co. 413 Tenth St. N.W., Or at the following places: East Station, 12th and M sts. s.e. West Station, 26th and G st: Gas Appliance Ex., 1424 N. mame POSITIVELY CURES RHEUMATISM. DR. HERNDON’S: 7 + “Gypsey’s Gift. An absolnt: CRE for RHEUMATISM in all its dorms. Relieves quickly & eradicates the uric acid. 6 Gast? “Gypsey’s Gift. An Internal Blood and Kidney Medicine—prepared after the preseription and processes of Dr. Hern-lon, @ celebrated Specialist im Blood Diseases. 2, rf 99 “Gypsey’s Gift. Is peculiar to itself. Has no equal. In order to allow those afflicted with Rheumatism to give it a trial, we will for the next thirty days sell a FOR _75e. $i BOTTLE a Kolb Pharmacy,Gen’l Agts. Bot-3m 438 7TH ST., COR. E N.W. Great Reduction In Hair. Switches, $2.50, formerly $5.00. Switches, $6.00, formerly $10.50. Gray Switches, $3.00, formerly Fa ). Gray Switches, $4.50, formerly $6.50. First-class attendants in 'Hairdrcssing, mpooing, Imperial Hair Regenerator for restoriug gray hair. Never fails. S. HELLER’S, 720 7th Street N. W. apl6-20a PPPSSSS SCOOT EPS TOO it Cleans : The Teeth. e e 2 ° That why “LISTERS DENTI- 2 FRICE™ keeps the teeth beautifully ° white. It removes stains and deposits e —preveats decay—and keeps the teeth e clean and white as long as you use it faithfully. It's perfumed—pleasant to nse — a of any harmful sub- W.S. Thompson, eeeseeees PHARMACIST. 703 15th st. PCCD OS A Word to Printers! small closet or niche in the cellar wi held all the electrical apparatus necessary to run a big printing plant. This tus will require no engineer and no fuel—all the power being furnished by us. ——— You simply turn on the switch and start up your machinery. U. S. Electric Lighting Co., 7. ‘n06-20d 213 14th at. nw. "Phone 100 Doz. Hair Switches, Consigned to us for the pur for a New York Hair 0SSSHS0 000000000 mone; importer. We sell you's very fine Seite fora paths Exactly same rticl for elsewhere. - $3.50 ‘$5 dos. Gray and White, from........ re Just half of their actual vaise. AT THE Louvre Glove Store, ecld-tt e NO. 919 F ST. Artificial Teeth $—.00 Till Jan. 1,’98, This offer is naturally one that brings returns. A momentary departure from the regular rates for Evans’ Dental services does not often occur. Evans’ Dental Parlors, Sie 1309 F St. N. W. #| NEEDLESS SUFFERING. Why Will People Endare So Much ‘When It Can Be Easily Avoided, “The great American trouble is dyspepsia.” No one realizes this more than the miserable tufferers who drag cut paipfal existences. ‘The body requires help, strength and assistance. It calls for nutriment, but meets no response, because the stomach is unable to digest, resimilate and turn into blood food that is forced into it. What then can the poor sufferer do? It 1s useless to take more food because the broken-down stomach cuLnot take care of what it already has. There can be but one answer to this question, and that is to assist the stomach to properly do the work for which It was created. Do you ask how? ‘The answer is simple. There can be but one way, and that fs to help the stomach to help itself. Not by drugs, not by mineral washes, not even by massaging. but by constant and healthful etimulation. In this way alone can the overworked stomach be restored. ‘There is but one pure, healthful and medicinal stimulant now known to the public and the pro- fers ion, @ that is Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey. This whiskey should be taken either before, after or with the meals, and you can readily see how by gettly stimulating the stomach when the foud is taken, it enables the stomach to digest the food and thus prevent dyspepsia and the troubles which fellow in its wake. It will be well fer every reader to remember these truths and also to remember that it is the enly medicinal whiskey which can be depended upon to accomplish just whut you most require. CHARGE OF BIGAMY. Edmund Spiner Held to Await Action of Grandi Jury. Edmund Spiner, colored, was held to await the action of the grand jury this af- ternoon by Judge Kimball in the Police Court in $1,000 bonds on a charge of big- amy. The case was one of more than or- cinary interest. The complainant is Anza Spiner, an old colored woman. It seems that long before the war Anna, then a slave, was married to a slave named Mitchell. The latter was sent away with a chain gang, and three weeks later Anna was informed that he bad jumped into a river and was drowned. She was sent to New Orleans and lived ther2 twelve years. December 28, 1864, she was married by an army chaplain to Spi- ner. They came to Washington prior to the elose of the war and lived together un- til last February, accumulating some prop- erty. Spiner in February announced that he was not legally married to Anna, and married a young girl named Ella Davis. Attorneys Peyton and Frisby, who repre- sented Spiner in court, argued that the cer- emony performed by the army chaplain did rot constitute a legal marriage under the laws cf Louisiana. Assistant District Attorney Mullowny took the stand that under the act of 1866 eclored people in the District of Columbia who at the time of their actual emancipa- tion were living together as husband and wife were considered married. In reply the attorneys for the defendant contended the proclamation of President Lincoln in 1863 set Spiner and Anna free at that time, and therefore the act of 1866 aid not apply to them. Juége Kimoall, holding that the case in- velved several questions that should be set- tled by the higher court; took the action stated. ——— MONUMENT TO LOVEJOY. Nixety-Foot Shaft Erected Memory at Alton, Il. The Lovejoy monument at Alton, Il., was formally dedicated yesterday. It was | sixty years ago Sunday that Lovejoy was assassinated in that city because of his outspoken and fiery editorials against the slave trade. Lovejoy’s remains would have been lost had it not been for Thomas Dim- mock of St. Louis, who had the grave lo- cated by an old sexton, the only person who knew where his coffin was buried. The coffin was placed in a vault until a suita- ble lot could be secured, and here a modest scroll now marks his resting place. Two hundred yards to the south is a ninety-foot shaft erected to his memory by the citizens of Alton and people of Iili- nois at a cost of $30,000. The exercises yesterday had to be changed on account of the heavy rain. Instead of being at the monument, the exercises were held at the Temple Theater in the presence of a large audience. to His cos John A. Logan, Jr.’s, Dressing. From the Chicago Tires-Herald. General Manager Logan found time to charge lus costume twice. This enabled him to appear in three separate and dis- tinct modes of garbing during the day. In the morning he wore a doeskin box coat with pearl buttons nearly as large as alarm clocks in two rows on it. His spats were olé gold color to match. In the afternoon he wore a dark plaid coat and trousers and a saffron colored vest. The vest was garnished with maroon-colored inch-and-a- quarter checks. He wore an ascot scarf, dark blue, with lavender polka dots. His scarfpin was a gold whip four inches long, and set with a half-inch turquoise in the middle. He wore ox-blood shoes in the morning and ox-biood gloves, and in the afternoon his shoes and gloves were buff- colored. In the evening he wore full dress nearly the same as on former evenings. “7 George Francis OO Os a thee Ta mous sage of Madison Square, who — has for thirty years de- clined the companion- ship of any one but children, says, “I am ja child my- ‘self.’” If a man will live rightly and take proper care of his health dur- — @> ing youth and maturity he may live to a green old age, and still be able to say with absolute truth, “I am a child myself.” Youth is not a matter of years. Happiness is not a question of experiences. Youth is happiness and health is youth. The healthy person, young or old, will be a happy per- son. Itis a simple matter to get the body into a healthy condition and then to keep it there. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis- covery is the greatest of health makers and health savers. It is the great blood-maker and fiesh-builder. It makes the appetite keen, the digestion and assithilation per- fect, the liver active, the blood pure, the muscles strong, the brain clear, the nerves steady and every vital organ in the body healthy and vigorous. It makes firm, healthy flesh, but does not make corpulent pore more corpulent. It does not make labby flesh like cod liver oil. It purifies the blood and drives out the poisons of malaria and rheumatism. It is the best remedy for blood and skin diseases. It cures 98 per cent. of all cases of consump- tion. Grateful patients, who had been given up to die, have permitted their experi- ences, names, addresses and Photographs to be reproduced in Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser. The sufferer who wishes to investigate may write to any of these. The ‘Golden Medical Discovery’ is sold all medicine dealers, and only unscrupul Rone dealers will to ii customer to take some worthiess substitute for the sake of a few pennies added profit. Send 21 one-cent stamps to cover cost of mailing only, for a of Dr. Pierce’s 1008 - page illustrated $ Sense Medical Adviser,” in Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, ie : j a ¥, i t i B l i i iy i nF bs z a 8 ’ & HIS MIND AFFECTED Arrest of James Henry Rockett at the White House. WAS ANTIOUS 10 SEE THE PRESIDENT Claims That Mr. McKinley is His “Uncle's Aunt.” HIS ACTIONS CAUSED ALARM A mar who gave his name as James Henry Rockett, his age thirty-two years and his residence as on 4th street southeast was arrested at the White House this morning by Policeman Andrews and locked up, his peculiar conduct leading to the belief that his mind is affected. His anxiety to see the President and the man- ner in which he tried to get into the build- ing caused the Police to believe he intended to do some harm. He was taken to the third police station and searched, but noth- ing but a small amount of money and a bottle of whisky was found on hirh. The bottle was a half-pint flask, and only a small amount of the liquor had been taken from it. Just what time Rockett reached the Ex- ecutive Mansion is not known, but he was seen loitering about the grounds a short time before he called at the door. Then he entered and walked hurriedly toward the steps leading upstairs. He would have gone to the upper floor had not Policemen Austin and Ardrews stopped him. “I must see the President,” said he. been badly used, and I want to righted.” To all appearances the man had been drinking, and the officers paid no special attention to him after they had driven him out of the building. But Rockett was not satisfied, and he returned, saying he want- ed to be directed to the elevator. There was by this time a wild look about his eyes, and his laugh was very much like that of an insane man. The officers concluded that he should be arrested, and started toward him for this purpose. Rockett seemed to understand what they were going to do, and made haste to get ott of the building. He ran from there to the tool house in the rear, and Policeman Andrews found him there in hiding. Makes No Resis The patrol wagon was called and Rockett was taken to the third precinct station, where he was locked up. He was qulet and offered no resistance. Upon reaching the station he gave his name, age and ad- Gress, and was then put in a cell to await developments. Soon after being placed behind the bars he was found in a nude condition by the stationkeeper. He gave a reason for re- moving his garments, but when told to do so he again put on his clothes. When a Star reporter called at the sta- tion, Rockett was sleeping soundly on his iron cot and seemed to be in a stupor, as if he had been drugged. It was with grea difficulty that he was aroused, and even he was not very communicative. haven't worked any for a long time,” he said, wher questioned, nd 1 live at home with my motrer.”” He said he could not tell when he. was at home last, for, really, he had forgotten. He was also unable to tell when he had cailed at the White House, although he said he had a good reason for going there. He had some business with the President, he said, but he objected to disclosing the nature of it, because, he said, he believed every man should bear his own dispatches. “One reason I went there,” he voluntcer- ed, “is becavse the President is my uncle's aunt.” “Has anybody ever harmed you’?’’ he was. d. “T've get mee. “and harm me if I can help it.” Says He is Insane. ,_ indeed,” was his quick response; I don’t’ intend that anybody shall Mrs. Rockett, mother of the prisoner, called on the police during the day and said she wanted him cared for at the insan2 asylum or a hospital. For some days, she says, he has been acting peculiar- ly and she feared he would become violent. She had noticed that he talked and laugh- ed in his sleep. Her son had been a mem- ber of the last grand jury and since the jury was discharged he has been drinking, but not to any considerable extent. Sanitary Officer Frank has the case in charge and will have the prisoner exumin- ed by the surgeons. = MANITOBA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS. Pope Leo Will Soon Issue an En- cyclical Regarding Them. The pope granted a lengthy audience yes- terday to the archibishops of St. Louis and Montreal, the Most Rev. John J. Kain and Paul Napoleon Bruchesi. His holiness informed the latter that he would speedily publish an eneyclical, ad- dressed to the Canadian episcopate of Manitoba on the school question, in order to vindicate the right of Catholics in that provinze to religious teaching. — TO PROHIBIT FOOT BALL. Bill Passes House of Georgia Legigla- ture by Big Majority. Representative Cole’s foot ball bill pro- Libiting match or prize games of foot ball, where admission fees are charged, came up in the house of the Georgia legislature, with a favorable report from the general judiciary committee, with an amendment striking out “games of like character.” This was adopted, and the bill passed with- out discussion by a vote of 91 to 3. —_——_-e-—_____ She Was Miss Cisneros’ Room Mate. From the Galveston News. Miss Blanche Noteman of Fort Worth, who recently came from Michigan, is an intimate friends of Evangeline Cisneros, the young Cuban woman who Is just now more talked about than any other person in the United States. Miss Noteman at- tended the St. Evangeline Seminary in Havana, Cuba, and while there became ac- quainted with Evangeline, and they at ence became fast friends. So close was the attachment that they became room mates for a period of over three years. Miss Noteman says the little Cuban girl and she often went on pleasure trips together, und as evidence of this showed numerous pho- tographs of the two on their outings, Miss Noteman received a letter from Miss Cis- neros, written on the second day after her arrival in New York, in which she briefly narrates the particulars of her sensational escape. The facts given are substantially the same as given in the dispatches. The letter to Miss Noteman was, of course, written in Spanish. In it she said that it was the intention of her rescuers to have her star in a play founded on her mirculous escape. Miss Noteman while in Michigan also received a letter from Miss Cisneros while ir priscn. The letter was a curiosity and was literally covered with prison stamps, showing the various departments through which it had passed. ——+o+_____ American Bids Wanted. From the New York Tribune. Railroad supplies to.the extent of $1,000,- 000, comprising machinery, rolling stock 4 and rails, are required by the Norwegian state railroad department, and tenders are about to be asked for. Any American firms wishing for the contract and requiring de- tails connection therewith would well to communicate, without delay, the United States consul Christian! POISONED BY MUSHROOMS ‘Taken to Hospital. The fact that a good “deal of discrimina- tion sould be used it the selection of ™mushitwms for edible purposes was shown this morning by the effects of a breakfast in which that delicacy figufed prominently. One of those who ate heartily of the mushrooms was Dr. Daniel J. Kelly, an assistant examiner in the United States patent office. No ill effects from the meal were shcwn until 10 o'clock this morning, as Dr. Kelly sat at his desk in the patent office. He was seen to be in a partial stupor. He rapidly became worse, but when questioned said he felt no pain. Med- ical assistance was sent for and about noon the patient was moved to Providence Hos- pital. Dr. Kelly lives at 1625 19th street. After his family had been notified of his con- Gition word was recetved at the office that others who had partaken of the mushrooms had been affected by them. Col. Achilles de Vecchi, who was pol- Scned at the same time as Dr. Kelly, was said this afternoon to be in a very danger- ous condition at his temporary residence, No. 1635 10th street, where he was attended by Drs. Bayne and Stone. Col. de Vecchi’s @avghter, Mrs. St. John Cordery, who lives in New York city, was telegraphed for and is expected to arrive here tonight. At Colcnel de Vecchi’s house a Star re- Porter was informed that the colonel, who is said to be very fond of mushrooms and prided himself that he knew all about them, had invited Dr. Kelly, who is one of his most intimate friends, to breakfast with him today. Both men, it was stated, ate liberally of the mushrooms, Colonel de Vecchi particularly so. About two hours later, however, boih were taken ill. Dr. Kelly, who had meanwhile gone to his Office, was quickly removed to Providence Hospital, but Colonel de Vecchi’s condi- tion became so serious in a little while that it was considered unwise to attempt to take him away from home, and the Physicians named were summoned. Colonel de Vecchi is well known in New York, where during the last presidentiat campaign he labored among the Italian voters in the interest of the republican can- didates. Elect Officers, The Jvnior Equal Suffrage Club, at a meeting held Friday afternoon, elected officers for the ensuing year as follows: President, Miss Henrietta ©. Morrison; vice president, Mr. Geo. A. Warren; secre- tury, Miss Jessie Presnell; treasurer, Mr. Louis H. Stabler; auditor, Miss Patton. ee eS Baptist Young People. The annval meeting of the Baptists Young People’s Union of the District will be held this evening at the Fifth Baptist Church. The principal address of the oc- casion will be delivered by Rev. Curtis Lee Laws of Baltimore. ——— Effect of Gravitation, on Plants. From Tid-Bits. fa}: 0 A botanist named Knight’ in 1806, demon- strated that gravitation influences the downward growth of-;roats. He exposed seedlings to the continued action of cen- trifugal force, by submittitig them to rapid rotation either in the terti¢al or horizontal plane. It was shown. that the growing rcotapioes behaved exactlysas if they werd simply projected from’'thé-center of rota- tion, like the weight of a,pendulum made with a thread and swung rapidly round in the hand, while the shot of the scedling behaved in exactly the cpntrary manncr und grew toward the center of rotation: Avother reason for the dgwnward growth is the greater amount of moisture received from that side. The root stows by develop-/ mient just within or abavé the apex, and the muftiplication of the cells in that situa~ tion fs dependent on a free supply of mois- ture. The pressure of the superincumbent soil also acts in producing downward growth. Again, the soft, yielding extremity of the young root penetrates the inter- stices of the soil, and is pushed down by the dilatation and expansion of the older. portions above. The downward direction of the root hairs, when present, would .also facilitate downward growth, and prevent the root from being pushed up. As show- ing the amount of perspiration of some plants, it is estimated that an acre of cab- bages (in rows one and a half feet apa: with one and a half feet between each plant), will perspire in a day considerably over twenty tons. see. Her Corsets Stopped Sixteen Shots. Frem the New York Herald. Miss Lavigne of Shohola, Pa., had a nar- row escape from death yesterday. That she was not killed is due to her corset stays Malven Bigley and Artemus Braffet were on a hunting expedition in the woods near the village, when Miss Lavigne came along the road. The hunters caught a glimpse of her headgear; and mistaking it for the plumage of a pheasant, both took deliber- ate aim and fired. One charge hit Miss La- vigne about the bre&st and abdomen, while the other struck her limbs. * The hunters, seeing their mistake, and that the woman was quite Badly injured, gave her a handkerchief to stop the flow of blood and disappeared into the woods. The woman, after much exertion and very weak from the loss of blood, finally crawled to her home. Her corset stays had been struck by sixteen shot, but the shot did not penetrate any further. Had it not bee? for her corsets, the doctors say, she wouid have been killed. As it is, her condition is sericus. o+— Large Bear Killed. From the Winchester (Va.) Star. Mr. Amos Hinkins yesterday afternoon killed a large black bear near the Cedar Creek bridge, several miles north of Strasburg. He shot it five times with a 32-caliber Remington rifle. The bear did not see Mr. Hinkins when he first fired at it and tried to get away from him. Mr. Hinkins followed the bear up and killed it. This is supposed to be the same bear which has been seen around Strasburg junction several times lately. It weighed 365 pounds. Yesterday evening and this morn- ing a large black bear has been seen sev- eral times on Round Hill, which is be- tween Fisher's Hill. and Tom's Brook, Parties are now out bmnting his bearship. —- e+ 2__. Cat in a Bprio} Box. From the New York Timés. ; :ti While the election bédr@ of the fourth district of the thirty-fifgt ward was count- ing the ballots Tuesday"ii#ht a cat jumped into the large empty alldt box and went to sleep. The cat was ‘u#noticed by the counters, and the worls continued. When the count was fin#Shed the ballots were thrown In and ‘the ‘box was locked and sealed. In the course of the night, Alderman Fritz, while hunting for his cat, discovered she was in'the ballot box. The election officers were sant for, but fearing reat of the law they; refused to open 199 do ‘Wednesday, after jultation with legal counsel, it was decided tuat the box should this done. The cat . most fastidious taste. Hecht For cash or on easy payments. For cash or on easy payments, For cash or on easy payments, Let us emphasize this fact--- —There is but ONE “HECHT’S LIBERAL CREDIT SYS+ TEM” in the world—and it is the only one that really accom- modates. Unlike the others—you pay nothing to enjoy its’ advantages—and the terms of payment are just what you care to make them—just what your income affords. Just see these four values, ladies! They came in that purchase we made a few days ago when we took a maker’s entire stock. 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Hecht and Company, 515 7th Street, bet. D and E. RACED WITH A WATERSPOUT. Thrilling Experience of Passengers on a Mexican Train. From the Mexican Herald. Tuesday afternoon there was a race run between a passenger train on the Inter- oceanic and a waterspout. The race was declarel a draw, as the train escaped from the immediate effects of the waterspout, which burst against the crest of a moun- tain, but the immense volume of water poured down the mountain side, along the readbed, and finally caught up with tke train and inundated it so that the passen- gers had to be taken off in handears. The particulars of this unique race are highly interesting. It was the daily passen- ger train from Puebla to this city and a large number of passengers were aboard. About 4:30 o'clock the sky’ became sudden:y covered with masses of black clouds. An inky waterspout culebra, as it is called by reason of its resemblance to a writhing serpent, hung from the heavens and ad- vanced rapidly in the track of the moving train. There was great excitement among the passengers. The people in the third- class coach, who had the best view of the phenomenon, went down on their knees in Prayers for deliverance. One lady had a nervous attack and faint- ed. When the engineer learned of the panic aboard his train he decided to show the culebra his heels. Then began the pret- tiest race on record, with the lives of a load of passengers as the stakes. Up grade, dcwn grade, around sharp curves, across bridges and over the leveis flew that pa: Senger train, with the waterspout just be- hind and gaining just a little. The train entered a canyon, turned a curve, and at the same moment the chasing cilebra came to grief high up the moun- le. The water poured down the slope in raging torrents, and as the train emerged from the other side of the gorge a vast sheet of water, bearing trees, rocks and all ‘kinds of debris on its bosom, threatened to jergulf it. Wider the engineer threw the throttle, endeavoring to escape this new danger, and all would have been safe, but another sherp curve intervered and the en- gine jumped the track. The engineer saw the danger and reversed the lever and ap- plied the brakes. The engine rolled down the embankment, but the rest of the train, including the tender, remained on the track. The next moment the mass of water struck the now stationary train and flooded it to the level of the platforms. The pas- sergers and crew were helpless to do more than look out to see what had become of the engineer and fireman, supposing them killed. But they both scrambled, or rather swam out of the window of the overturned cab and clambered back on the train. This happened in the vicinity of San An- torio Capulalpam, state of Tlaxcala. A re- lief train was dispatched to a point as near as it could get. and the passengers and crew of the shipwrecked train were trans- perted in hand cars and brought en to Mexico, arriving here only four and one- half hours late, and with an experience which none of them will ever live long enough to forget, and which, had it rot been for the presence of mind of a nervy ergineer, none of them would, in all proba- bility, have lived to remember. z —___-+ e+ —___ Wanted Them to Clip Her Whip. From the New York Herald. “Can I get the mayor to clip the end of this here whip?” asked a colored woman, who presented herself at the door of Mayor Strong’s office yesterday afternoon. She handed a new rawhide whip to Po- liceman Kennell, who is stationed at the door to protect the mayor from curious visitors. “Why do you want the mayor to clip it?” asked Kennell. “So’s to make it lawful. I’m no law- breaker, but when a woman flirts with my husband and then sasses me when I tell her that she’s carrying on her tomfoolery with a married man, I just want the mayor to clip my whip so’s to make it lawful for me to use it on her.” “You cannot take the law into your own hands. You should go to court and have the woman summoned there,” said the po- liceman,- with a glow of dignity. “Shoo! Don’t talk to me as though I d‘dn’t know anything. I don’t want to take the law into my own hands. I want the mayor to clip the end of my whip.” “Who told you that the clipping of your whip by the mayor would give you a law- ful right to use it?” “I heard that down in Maryland years ago. The law says if a woman shines up to your husband after you have warned her, just get the mayor to clip the end of your whip and then go at her.” “That's not law in this state.” “Ain't It? Then just ask the mayor to terminate this here contract,” and the wo- man handed over her marriage certificate. It showed that William E. Smith and Ce- la Bell were married at Baltimore in 1877. When Mrs. Smith learned that she would have to go to court to obtain a divorce also she said she might be forced to take the law into her own hands. ————-+ e+ ____ Practiced Law in Jail. From the Chicago News. . Charles George, whose name has been connected with many complaints from the prisoners in the county jail, is charged with obtaining nearly $500 from various DIVORCE UNKNOW: Regarded With Horror by the People of Middle Georgia. In a government pamphlet on “Early Educational Life in Middle Georgia,” Rich- ard Malcolm Johnston gives this picture of courtship and marriage among that people: “Among a people whose educational op- portunities and the periods of using them were within such narrow limitations, early marriages must prevail. Two or three years’ schooling, strung along as it usually Was in several installments through five and six, was; in general, the limit. After this boys of seventeen and cighteen and girls of fourteen and fifteen went to steady work on their several lines. By the time the former reached legal majority they were married cr, as was generally decided, they ought to be before very long. By this time, often two or three years before, that matter, provided parents assented, had been settled. Indeed, silent understandings to mate were often had during school time between lads of fifteen and lasses a little younger. Every boy and girl within a nar- Tow circle knew every girl and boy thereIn and none besides, and so their mating, Ike birds in the wood, began with attainment of puberty, and all, of whatever property condition, must have public solemnization. None other than runaway matches took place at other hour than candlelight. Car of invitation were never or rarely ever sued. When the date was agreed upon (a most always a Tuesday or a Thursday) it became known to everybody in the neigh- borhood in a day or two, and the bride's father or mother, on occasions of meeting such of their acquaintances ey wished to attend, gave verbal invitatiuns that of- ten included the whole family. From the date of the engagement to this tne interval was brief. The universal sentiment of the community favored this. re xing to marry, marry,’ were the words of friends and relations, ts, with additions such as thes dangling along until people get tired talkin of about you, and you get tired of talking about yourselyes and each other.’ The bridegroom was always for an carly 4. To the bride it often seemed more d-lica to have to be persuaded. With all of the romance, all, old and young, reco;snized- the serioustess of the business part. for the couple, no matter in what condiiion born and reared, were expected after chirty-six hours to go to work like other people. “Before sunset guests commenced to as- semble. Ladies after alighting went into the house, and some busied themselves with assisting the bride to rove and the The mother in preparing the supper t-ble. men, after tying their horses to hors swinging limbs of trees and fence « assembled in the front yard and di: neighborhood topics and the prosp: the couple. Lighting of candles was the signal that the great eventful moment was approaching. Outsiders hurried in without delay, each with aim to get as nigh the couple as possible, with special intent to see how the bride 8 stancing the ‘rack- et.’ Of course, they were sure the bride- grcom was all right, and, as they often ex- pressed it, ‘bold as a sheep.’ The first to enter were two little girls bearing (andies in candlesticks burnished to «ll possible brightness. These were for the preacher to read clearly the license authorizing his part of the business. As they approached they separated, turned, and he arose and stood between them. The ceremony was brief in the midst of solemnity as prcefound as that at a funeral. At ihe close the preacher bestowed a few words of counsel, generally, if he were not wholly without humor, ending about thus: “Th times when a married woman o 2s! z y at home—one is when her husband fs away from home.’ Waiting a moment er so for her to take this all in, he added: “Ti is when her husband is at hone.’ Then rose laughter from all mouths, for the je @esprit, although old as the oldest, w. ever new for the :nany thins it was meant to let go. All, oldest and youngest, hizhest and humblest, shook hands and spoke hear- ty congratulations. When these, over an over aguin repeated, were passed, then supper. From houses » eud mile: around had been horro' forks, glasses and croc’<e labub stands. If tables could groan, s some poet imagined, the grief of those he neath old-time wedding suppers must bave been wholly disconsolate what time they were made to stand and cndure. The strongest (indeed, if it could be called strong) drink was syllabub, x froth made of sweet wine and whipped white of exgs. With those experienced in grog and sweet- ened dram, it required tumblers on tumblers to help down the quantities on quantities of good eatabies. At furthest, by 1) o’cieck guests were de} and in a few minutes longer the family, with its new sddition, retired. “Yet in all this gay assemblaxe of coun- try folk usually, at least quite often, there was one whose feeling it was touching to note; one who not always, mdeed, who rather seldom, appeared elsewhere than in the dining room, and not always there un- less there were not another on whom with entire trust she could devolve superint.nd- ence. To her the loud, merry chattings end laughter imparted sadness whose relicf was silent prayer anJ tears. Consent to the match, however unreserved, hopes for the bride, however abounding, her prospects, however bright in the seeming, che addition of the bridegroom, however welcome, were 5ge isl [ : ? i i : | i i 2 i | ride, EE for this task, mar- = From the Clteago Times. Herald, A silk hat, crushed and battered by re- Joicing democrats the night of November 7, 1884, when Grover Cleveland was first elected President, has just proved the means of giving to a despairing widow at Wilkesbarre, Pa., a snug fortune and prov- ing that she was married legally, ‘The hat is the property of Alderman Don- chue Donohue was one of the most cn- thusiastic of Cleveland's supporters during Presidential campaign, and he bet -avily and worked hard for him, Electioy day, in 1884, Donohue won a silk hat on the id Cleveland vote poli lonning the hat, he w; ited for the returns from other places, Cleveland majorities came piling in, the alder n celebrating ach bulletin in the approved manner, Amidst the glad news Donoh lin his ward, and, was sum- moned hastily to the Bristol Hotel to marry porge Baunds and Miss Mary Rogers. Eager to get back to the bulleté jetin boards, he galloped through the ceremo: kissed the bride, and, having no paper, hastily a note of the marriage in th white silk lin. ing of |his new hat, promising to send a narriage certificate to the happ: oO marriag nappy couple Among the incidents of th: E cidents at night of which the squire has no clear recollection os te a heated argument. When ! ed hom in the morning the bat looked very much as if it had been througa a foot b: a and Mrs. Donohy it away Donohue a y Mrs. > depths of stter from stating on the nd had he been was em s brakeman, and t before si mul wet the amount of the insu: i by her hust a s oduce her marriage fi ed Donohue to forward the long-de ed paper. The alderman examined his books and found ne record of any such marring replied to that effect. Then Mrs. } came on and recalled the circumstan the case, but Donohue could nothing except that Cleveland w The widow returned to Montana in despair. Mrs. Donohue, about six weeks ago, in cleaning house, ransacked a closet and dis- covered an old and battered silk hat—th ; uttered si at—the same one put away there thirteen years be- fore. She dusted it and accidentally saw the writing on the lining, legible dis- tinct. Then the alderman remembered, and the next day the hat and marriage certifi- cate sped westward. Donohue has received a lett r fri letter om the gad peace Baunds, saying that the court had accepted the evidence of that hat and had decided in her favor. r : SSE ROOTED: Cat That Eats Snakes. From the New York Journal, A handsome Maltese cat that eats garden snakes is cwned by George Murray of Kearny avenue, Arlington, N. J. The cat found its first snake last fall in the thick grass in the unoc upied lots adjoming the Murray residence. Mrs, Murray’s attention was called to certain strange antics on the cat’s part, when she found that a snake had coiled itself about the animal. The cat soon killed it and then it carried it to the lawn and Played with it for some hours. When Mr. Murr: y that night, in order to verify bis wife's won- erful story, searched in the bushes on the lawn, he found that the cat had eaten part of the snake's head and body. Less than a week later the cat caught end ate another snake, and soon she lost her appetite for the ordinary food provided for her by Mrs. Murray and hunted snakes in earnest. According to the record Mrs. Murray has kept she captured sixteen be- fere the heavy frost came, all of which she partly ate. One of ber captures was an unusually large and strong snake, fuily two feet long, and the fight made by this reptile was a fierce one while it lasted. Twice the cat was thrown from her feet and half a dozen times the coils of the spake were wrapped about her body be- fore the serpent was killed. As all snakes disappeared after the sharp frost of late October the cat has been forced to return to her usual and natural diet. So far as local naturalists know, she is the first cat to take up snake hunting and cat- ing as a regular busines: atches an@ From the New York Tribune. A unique conveyance, resembling a house on wheels, which, in March, 1894, started {rem Port Angeles, state of Washington, for New York, reached Sing Sing on Thurs- day night. The proprietor is M. E. A. Las- ley, who describes himself as a “tourist, traveler, miner and western pioneer.” In the three years and a half he has been on the trip he has used up twenty horses. He has also had two chiidren born to him end his wife, one in San Francisco and the other in Buffalo. He has not traveled in severe winter weather, and has not hur- ried at any time. His dog “Nig” is with tim, having footed it all the way. ‘The house-wagon is berited She received best medicices, and used various external appll- cations, but they had mo effect whatever. 8. 8 B& was foally given, and. it prompt- ths diosase, "os that she ts cured sound and well, ber skin ts perfectly clear and pure, and she ‘has been saved from ee ber ever.” E. D. Jen- ‘Akins, Litboota, Ga.