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6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1896. MISSING MAN FOUND #ND LOST C. H. Lord, a Millionaire Merchant of Minneap- olis, Heard Of. Was Found Wandering Around the Donohoe Build- ing by a Policeman. He Was Detained In the Receiving Hos- pital for Some Hours and Erie County, was robbed, beaten into in- sensibility last night and placed in his from which he was rescued burning barn, He is so seriously hurt by a neighbor. that his recovery is uncertain. —_— Enters the Clearing-House. ST. ROUIS, Mo., Dec. 26.—The St. Loufs United States Sub-Treasury w.ll on Janu- ary 3 become a member of the local clear- ing-house association. approval of Secretary This step bas the Carlisle and will render unnecessary the transfer of about §100,000,000 between tne banks and the Sub-Treasury per annum. - Deeds of a Lunatic, NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. Becker, a waiter, this afternoon 26.—Max t and kilied his wife, Emma, and then shot and killed himself in their apartments. shooting was committed in a fit of insan- ity, Becker having been confined on one or two occasions in an asylum. The —_— Fatal Floods in Jamaica. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 26.—The Her- ald’s special cable from Kingston, Jamaica, says: Disastrous floods have occurred in Montserrat. It is reported here that no less than seventy-five lives were lost in the % storm and floods. Many houses and Then Discharged. bridges were destroyed. S C. H. Lord, the m from Minneapolis who disappeared from heard of. He is troubled with amnesia, a cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes is ¢ mes in place of those to employ. erday morning | W a man actiag nd the Donohoe buiiding on Taylor streeis. Thinking | a burglar Gibson accosted | nce saw that there was some- | with him as he did not| appear to be able to answer any questions. | 1 took him to the v Prison and n he wass a diamo. a draft for §166 07 | i 44, payable to his | ound uvon him. He was then vin_ Hospital and ques- ors, but he could not ve somewhat recov- and as he was nd the hospital rity to detain him ut half past 10 k. went to the Property Clerk’s office | watch and chain and other nce then no trace of him Detective Ross Whit- and it is expected | ble to locate him. | is on the c: he will soon be brother, F. J. Lord, arrived in the om Den Colo., yesterday morn- and is stopping at the Baldwin Hotel. x called at police on about his brother and was informed that a man bearing that name had been taken to the | City Prison yesterday morning and then | to the hospital, but had been discharged. | If a description of the missing man | had been read to the watches every po- liceman uld have known 1t, and when | 3 covered him all anxiety about | him would have been at an end. { F d, the brother of the missing | man, said last night that his brother was | demented, having become so while cross- ing the range to this co | He stopped over at sno and squan- | dered all his means there. Mr. Lord was | anxious to prevent any unnecessary no- | toriety and secmed confident that he | would soon recover hs brother. The missing ma; about 48 vears old. GLUE WORKS 1N ASHES, Martin Holge’s Establishment in | South San Francisco Dastroyed. Henry Hol ier, an Employe, Was Cremated in the G owing Ruins. $40,000 Lo:s. The Cahifornia Glue Works, owned by | Martin Ho'ge, Fifth avenue and Q street, | were ¢ destroved by fire last | night, and is ascertained that Henry | Hollier, an employe, was cremated by | the flames. i The fire was first seen breaking through | the roof of the establishment at 10:30 | An alarin was sounded through | it box 254, but when the department arrived the entire building was a mass of raging | flames. It was useless to turn a stream of water on the doomed structure, but nevertheless it was aone. The majority of the engines, | however, confined attention to surround- ing propetties in order to prevent a general conflagration, ana the fire Wus‘ Eept from spreading. At midni-ht the flames were under con- 1 trol, there being har any of the wooden portion of the building left for them to | feed upon and the smoldering ruins were drenched until the last spark was ex- tinzuished. The loss was estimated at $40,000, be- | lieved to be all covered by insurance. | About half an hour preceding the break- | ing out of the fire Hollier,who supposedly lost his life, was seen in adazed condi- ti d the glne works. 5 ante-room attached | to the builcing, and it is thought that he | was on his way to bed. These iccts were reported to the police after the flames had been extinguished and a search was insti- suted. i The looked-for man, however, was not in or around his usual haunts and the police and fire officials reached a conclu- sion that he had been cremated. Later the body was discovered and taken to the Morgue. ——————— Herying Pisking a Failure, ST. JOHNS, N. F.,, Dec. 26.—The winter herring fishery is a total failure all around Fortune Bay. All the fishing schooners whicl were waiting there hop- ing to secure cargoes have abandoned the place and sailed for Placentia Ba; All seine masters have given up tneir voyeges. This is the second year in suc- cession that the herring fishery has failea at Fortune Bay. The result means star- vation to thousands of people because the herring industry is the only possible occupation of the residents during the winter months. The Government will have to help relieve the suffering. sz AR Fisit of Prominent Prelates. WORCESTER, Mass,, Dec. 26.—His Grace Archbishop Martinelli, apostolic delegate to the United States, accom- panied by his secratary, Rignht Rey. Mgr. Sharetti, D.D., Very Rev. P. J. Garridan, vice-rector of the Catholic University at ‘Washington, and Rev. John Conway of Georzetown College, arrived here this evening. - The Buckners at the Banquet. BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 26.—General and Mrs. Simon B. Buckrer were guests at the annual banquet of the New England Free ‘Trade League this evening. The event was ceiebrated at the Hotel Brunswick and the occasion was zraced'by the jpres- euce of a large number of the wives and fair companions of the members. g —_—— Robved and Fatally Beaten. ERIE, Pa., Dec. 26.—Roscoe Finley, the Tax Collector of Greenfield Towaship, | Heather, dealer varieties in at that time 362 hotels, each with a restau- | one who has gone alo Murdered by Miners. LEADVILLE, Coro., Dec. 26.—Patrick Carney, a union miner returping with bis wife from a Christmas festival at 3:30 | this mornin -, was shot dead at his door- ep by four Missouri non-union miners. he four men were arrested. Confessed o Judgment. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 26.—George n dry goods under the name of Heather & €., to-day confessed ement for $22,883. The iiabilities are $50,000, nominal assets §$40,000 and actual assets $30,000. s e A el Exports of Specie. NEW YORK. N. Y., Dec. 26.—The ex- ports of specie from the port of New York for the week were $880,008, of which $786,806 was silver and $1440 goid went to Jurope ana $62,500 gold ana $22,262 silver 10 South American ports. RESTAURANTS INCREASING Number in New York Said to Ba 25 Per Cent Greater Than a Year Ago On January last there were, it was esti- mated, 1000 restaurants of all grades and ew York City. There were rant attachment, and there were in addi- tion 349 restaurants licensed to sell liquors with meals. This included the table d’hote restaurants, but not the dairies or the temperance restaurants, which two classes added, brought up the total to about 1000. In every pariof New York of late, and wmore especially since October 1, res- taurants have been starting up, and any za New York thor- oug fare with his eyes open has observed atsundry pointssuch signsas these: “New restaurant will open in a few days, “Closed for repairs; will open as a resta rant next week,” and *When alterations are completed will open as a restaura There are now, itis computed, at least 50 restaurants of ali kindsin New York 5 per cent more than the number at the beginning of the vear. What is the cause of the increase? This is a question which has been frequently asked during the last few days, and there appears to be no satis factory answer toit. Real estate agents report an increased demand for stores for | restaurant purposes, hut the reason of such increased demand they do not give. The sudden increase in the number of cheap restaurants in New York seems to be the more surprising because of the fact that through the hotel ciause in the Raines liquor bill many saloons which did not formerly do so now furnish sandwictes— Rames sandwiches—to their bibalous patrons. One reason offered in explan tion of the increase is that many New York men and women find it no longer practicable to go home to mezls. A more vlausible explanation is found perbaps that under the Raines law iree lunches have been done away with. Consequently, former patrons of free lunches have turned their attention to the regular restaurants when they are hungry.—New York Sun. —————— DON'T GO TO AFRICA. Why We Should Cultivate the Art of Content. A resident of Alrica cordialiy advises people to stay outof it. He says that prices are high, sickness frequent, sani- tary arrangements inadequate, liberty less than in our country, and altogether the inducements to emigration are small. It has been obvious for some time that the adventurous youth in our land does not better himself when he goes West, as Horace Greeley ouce advised all young men to do. for that advice when the Government had Jand to give away and before large hold ings were bou ‘ht and grabbed up by cor- porations, but nowadays a man is likely to make at least asmuch money out of a farm in this State as he is from one in Kansas, and while the mines of the moun- tain States do make fortunes fora few they reduce many more to poverty and the in fluence of their surroundings is unfor- tunate and immoral. We Americans are a shifting, uneasy, dissatistied lot, and many of us go through life alwavs believing that if we could be somewhere else or engaged in some otler calling we should make a lot of money. A little patience, a little stick, a little cultivation of the difficuit art of content, will produce surprising esults. If we cannot grow rich we can learn how to do without riches, and that is the next best thing, or a better one.—Brooklyn Eagle, Dificult =l The average height of Laplanders is under five feet. There was a reason | DR SALFIELD ADVISED FORCE Heo Would Take Summary Action on the Pest- house Site. Improvement Clubs May Form a Rival Company to Spring Valley. The Governor Asked to Interced:—A Wordy Communication From Mayor Sutro. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather about fifty members of the Pan- handle and Ashbury Heights Improve- ment Club congregated last night to dis- cuss the location ot the Pesthouse in the Almshouse tract, and other matters. The indiznation of some present took the form of such utterances as that the location of the Pesthouse in the tract | mentioned should be resisted by force if | | it came to th» worst, and that it was a “‘most damnable outrage.” Presiuent Salfield, who had resigned the occu- pancy of the chair to Judge Ait- ken even told of the man who lived in Sunset District and had said that he “had laid in a good supply of kerosene oil for the winter, as gas wasso hich- priced, and that if the Pesthouse was located in that region it might come in handy."’ Deeper in significance than this was a resolution that a committee be appointed | to exploit the region of tue Panhandle to see if artesian wells were a feasible propo- sition. In case the Pesthouse is finally lo- cated on the Almshouse tract they intend to use none of the Lake Honda water, but contemplate starting an opposition to the Spring Valley Water Company. Judge | Aitken st least expiained this as the real meaning of the resolution. Judge John K. Aitken, as chairman of | the committee, reported that a meeting had been held at room 515, Parrott build- ing, and that the committee advised that H street be opened from First avenue to Stanyan street. The report also dilated upon the benefits that would result from | such extensivn. It was adopted with no issenting vote. A resolution was also offered and adopred that the Park and Ocean Railroad | Company cea-e maintaining *‘those un- sightly platforms and fences on the Stan- yan-street sidewalk near the Haight-street | entrance to the park,”” and that no atten- tion be paid the request of the property- bolders that the Board of Supervisors be called upon to take action in the matter. | By resolution, also, the Park Commis- sioners were petitioned to light the streets | and Panhandle of the park with electric lights of 2000 candle-power each, The club put itse!f on record in opposition to light produced by the vaporization of kerosene oil and gasoline. Then came the reading of the resolution | condemning the locating of the Pesthouse on the Almshouse tract. Dr. Salfield acted as reader. The document was very long. It re- cited the fact that at the meeting held on September 1 weighty reasons were senu to Health, Mayor Sutro and Governor Budd why the location was undesirable; that the Almshouse tract is almost the geo- graphical center of the City, and that the waters of Lake Honda, which supply nearly three-fourths of the City, would | bein danger of contamination; that the thickly settled districts of AshburyHeights, Sunset Heights, Stanyan-street Heights, the park pannandle, the Western Addi- tion, Eureka Valley and the western por- tion of the Mission are in tiedirect line of the trade winds from the Almshouse tract, and that the on!y convenient ground by which the tract could be conveniently reached by ambulance lay through the vark and close to the children’s play- ground. After stating that the representatives to the next Legisiature had been asked to introduce a bill making the pesthouse a State institution, inasmuch as it was claimed it bad been used in the past by many from the interior suffering with varjous diseases, the resolutions were reached. They were to the effect that the presi- dent and secretary of the Association of Clubs sign the resoluticns and that a copy be sent respectively to the Governor, the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors and the Board of Health, and asking the Super- visors to rescind their resolution choosing the Almshouse tract as the site of the Pesthouse. In speaking to the resolution, Dr. Sal- field characterized the action of the Board of Health asa “most damnable outrage,’” and said the people should use force to prevent it. He explained that he spoke for him-elf and not for the club. He then spoke of the kerosene-oill proposition made by somebody whom he said for ob- vious reasons he did not care to name. In his opinion there were many small peninsulas along the coast that were per- fect sites for a pesthouse, and that if it were made a State institution it might be located in the hills of Contra Costa or San Mateo counties. His remarks were heart- ily applauded. Julius Frankel of the Sunset District spoke In the same strain and added that a sewer three miles long opened upon the sands nearJ sireet where the germs would CHARLES ALBERT ADAMS. Mr. Adams has besn nominatéd for The other nominations are: treasurer, George H. Stratton; captamn, H. vresident of the Oiympic Club Wheelmen. Vice-President, Douglass White; secretary, H. V. Scott; D. Hadenfeldt; executive committee—John F. McGlynn, Frank W. Fuller, Thomas Spillane, the Board of Supervisors and the Board of | be carried on people’s shoes all over the City. He was aiso applauded. A communication was received from Mayor Sutro giving substantially the ame objections to the location of the sthouse. It was brought forward by arna McKinne. It stated that the prop- erty whose value would be decreased b such location was equal to $96,000,000. It would be injured in his estimation at least 5 per cent, or to the amount of $480,000. The communication was added to the reso.utions. A resolution was here made—the most important of the meeting—that a com- mitteé of five bo apoointed to exploit the territory of this aistrict to make borings for artesian wells- ana canvass for reser- voir sites, If feasible, the intention as ex- pressed by the resolution was to form a company for that purpose. It was adopted. As explained by Judge John R. Aitken and Dr. Salfieid, it meant simply that the inhabitants of the district will not use Spring Valley Water in case the Pesthouse is located near Lake Honda, but will start a rival company. A Christmas Cantata. A Christmas cantata, *'St. Nicholas’ Visit to the School,” will be given by the choir and Sunday-school of the First Presbyterian Church, in Union Square Hall, Tuesday even- ing. December 29. Queen Winter will reign, and her attendants, the Four Winds, Snow, Hail, Ice, Jack Frost and Aurora Borealis, will be in subjection. The Storm King, Long Ago and St. Nickolas will visit the queen. To Address Commercial Men, Rev. Wilham Rader of the Third Congrega- tional Church will address the commercial travelers on Sunday evening, by invitation of the Christian Endeavor State Union. There will be a fine programme of Christmas music by the chorus choir. THACKED A BEAR 10 [T LAIR Mark Strouse’s Bruin Dis- covered Under Tallow Works. Two Men Make a Valiant Attempt to Capture the Brute. The bear that escaped from the Bay City Packing-house, San Bruno avenue, near Cortland avenue, Thursdav afternoon, was discovered on Friday, but it is not yet captured. Instead of roaming round the outlying districts of the Mission it crawled under- | neath Barry’s tallow works, about two blocks from the packing-house, and has remained there, refusing to budge. Mark Strouse, the proprietor of the packing-house, offered a reward for any one that would capture the bear, dead or ! alive, and several attempts were made | yesterday afternoon and last night, but without success. Charles Williams got a few glasses of liquor under his belt last nizht and with the assistance of Juan Alvarez, a vaquero, and several dogs, he attempted to capture | the bear. They crawled underneath the building and the dogs made for the bear. As it reared up Williams threw alariat round its neck, but in an instant the bear threw it off. Four timesthe same process was gone througb, the bear getting madder and madder all the time. After the fourth attempt the bear had got close to Williams and, rearing itself on its haunches, it struck at him with both of its paws, striking him on the fore- bead and cueek, tearing them open. Wil- liams, with a yell, crawled hurriedly away from the bear, and Alvarez was foolish enough to crawl toward the bear to find out what was the matter. Alvarez soon found out. The bear struck at him and he had the presencelof mind to throw his head back. The bear’s | claws grazed his left cheek, leaving im- | pressions as if some one hsa drawn a sharp fork down his cheek. He imme- diately crawled out alter Williams and the bear was left in undisputed possession of the basement of the tallow works. | Williams and Alvarez made their way | to the Receiving Hospital and Dr. Bun- nell attended to their injuries. Williams’ ¢ eek was swollen to twic2 its natural size and several sti‘ches had to be putin the wounds on his forehead and cheek. It was a wonder his eye was not knocked out. Both the amateur bear-hunters declared that nothing in the world would tempt them to try and capture a bear again in similar circumstances. TIP HATS TO THE FLAG. A Naval Ceremony Ordered to Be | Adopted by the Army. Army officers are not lacking in patriot- ism, perhaps, but they sometimes show a disposition to resist manifestations of the sentiment which would have a wholesome effect if shown with a fair degree of ear- nesiness, Secretary of War Lamont is nuot an emotional person, as any of his | acquaintances will testifv; but he bas some ideas about the service which highly emotional men and women will share. One of these has become a rule of the army. For ever so long, perhaps for as long as there has been an army, it has been cus- tomary to fire a gun at sunrise at allarmy posts, have the flag run up by a sergeant, and at nicht have it lowered again by a soldier, and all was officially done for the flag of the Unitea States that was consid- ered desirable to maintain regard for the National symbol. In the navy, on the contrary, ‘*colors’’” has been and is & ceremony reminding these oa board ship of the fact that the flag is a thing to be treated with distin- guished respect when it is raised and low- ered. At eght bells in the morning on board every ship in commission *'colors’ summons officers and a marine guard, and the band, if there is one, to the quar.er- deck, and the flag is run up to the sound of a bar of “Tho Star-spangled Banner,” the officers standing at salute until the colors are in place. At sunset the cere- mony is repeated, when the colors are lowered. < It is brief, but very pretty, and to the stranger to it an impressive pro- ceeding. Secretary Lamont thought that there was no good reason why the same cere- mony couid not be adovted, with certain modifications, for the army, which is as much in need of being reminded of the re- gard due to the flag as in the navy. Oddly enough the proposition met with objec- tions from officers of the army, but they did not strike the Secretary as convincing. At all events, instead of permitting the flag to be sent aloft every morn- ing with the mere salute of the morn- ing gun, which is touched off by a soldier without company, except a com- rade or two, it is now the order that, where there is a supply of music sufficient to produce “‘The Star-spangled ®anner,” the band shall turn out to piay a bar of it while the flag is being run up to the top of the staff, and while it is on its way the guard and the officers who have turned out to see that the ceremony is properly performed chall stand st salute. Ason board ship, the band is to render the like service at sunset when the evening gun is fired and the colors are lowered.—New York Times. ———.———— The Bavarians appeared, as a separal people, in 630 A. D., when they are me: tioned as having been conquered by the Franks. A RAILROAD WILL BE SOLD Final Foreclosure of At- lantic & Pacific Mort- gages. Judge Ross’ Decree Will Throw a Big Property On the Market. The Action Was by the United States Trust Co. to Recover Debts Long Overdue. The decree of foreclosure and sale of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad made recently by Judge Ross in Los Angeles was filed in the United States Circuit Court yesterday. This is an action in equity brought by the United States Trust Company against the Atlantic and Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the St. Louis and San Francisco and Aldace F. Walker and John J. McCook as receivers of the St. Louis and San Fran- ciscoand Atchison, Topeka and Santa Ke and against the Boston Safe Deposit Com- pany, holder in trust of the secondary mortgages of 1880 and 1887. As all of the property of the defendants does not lie within the jurisdiction of any one United States Circuit Court it was necessary to bring action in every district in which the railroad owned property. The Circuit Court of New Mexico was the court of vrimary decree, and last April it decreed the foreclosure and saie of the property within its jurisdictions. Similar decrees have been made in the Arizona and northern and southern districts of California. The sale will take piace in Gallup, New Mexico. Ail of the legal pro- ceedings since the New Mexico decree have been pro forma. Judge Ross in his decree tells the his- tory of the defendant corporation, whicu formed by an act of Congress in July, 1866. On the 20th of April, 1871, Congress authgrized the corporation to mortgage its property and francuise, in order to pro- cure advances for the purnose of complet- ing the road. On July 1, 1830, the Atlantic and Pacific, acting under the power given it by Congress 1n 1871, issued bonds to the amount of $16.000,000, and secured the debt thus contracted by a mortgage or deed of trust of its franchise and all its property. Thisis known as the Western Division mortgage, and is a first lien upon the property of the railroad. The deed was delivered to the plaintiff, namely, the United States Trust Compzny of New York, as trustee for the holders of tke bonds. The bonds are nearly all for $1000, bear- ing 6 per cent interest. Prior to the issu- ance of the bonds the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad had acquired con- trol of the Auantic and Pacific by pur- chase of the major portion of its capital stock. The bonds were, in fact, issued by the two controlling corporations to raise funds for the completion of the line from Albuquerque to Needles. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and the St. Louis and San Francisco entered into a compact with the Atlantic and Pacific and with the complainant trustees, the United States Trust (‘,omxsny of New York, by which thev agreed that if the earnings from the Western Division should prove insufficient to pay the coupons as they matured they, the Atehison and Topeka and the St. Louis and San Francisco, would make good the deficit pro rata. In 1880 and 1887 more bonds were issued and mortzages given, but those liens were secondary to the Western Division mortgage. The 6-per cent interest cou- pons became due in 1894-95-96, were not paid, apd the total interest unpaid now amounts to $2,666 666 66, less $83,823 50 paid to the trust company. Judee Ross’ decree orders the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad to pay the entire amount of interest accrued, $2,582,843 16, within thirty days from date. In deiauit of such payment the property of the At- lantic and Pacific will be sold to the high- est bidder. LIKE A VOLCANIC BUBBLE. An Extraordinary Freak of Natare Near the Mexican City of Puebla. The Rev. I. S. Bortain of Puebla writes as follows: *‘It may be of interest to some of the readers of the Herald who visit Puebla to know of one of the less visited attractions iu the vicinity of the City of the Angels. I refer to the ‘Coxcomate.’ Itis about twenty minutes distant from Puebla over the streetcar line to Cholula. Any streetcar conductor can point it out to the curiosity seaker. Itisto the right of the car line, about 500 yards distant. *It looks from the car winaow to bea pile of white stones or a well-bleached haystack. But upon closer inspection proves to be a tumulus of white caicareous stone, evidently of water formation, about 50 feet in height and 100 feet in diameter at the base. The form is that of a trun- cated cone. At theapex is an eliiptical- shaped opening about twenty-five feet along the minor and fifty feet along the majoraxis. It is a bell-shaped cavity, and lined with ferns of various descriptions. I should judge tue depth to be at least 100 feet, and at the bottom, so iar as is visible, the opening must be sixty feetin diameter. In the bottom, on one side, are to be seen some gorgeous ferns, and on the other side a pool of water. “‘Tradition says that the ancient Aztecs were accustomed to worship here the genius of the spot, and occasionally threw in a live victim to appease his subterra- nean majesty. It is also said that a few victims of the Inguisition were thrown down here toreflect upon the controverted voints of doctrine. At all events it is a most singular freak of nature, as it1sin the middle of a level plain, or rather a barley field. Itlooks to have been some volcanic bubble, of which tLe great Mex- ican upland is so full, and is well worth a visit on the part of the curious. ‘‘Although I have inquired among my Mexican friends, I have found no one who could tell me of the meaning of the name ‘Coxcomate.’ "’ ————— LAYING IT LOW ON THE BOYS. Strategy Used by Brooklyn Teachers Ag:inst Pupils With Beanshooters. Boysin Brooklyn public schools have recently had o trying time. Every fall when the leaves have dropped from the trees that line the city streets the young- sters have for the time forgotten baseball and marbles, and have turned to the de- lights of peppering English sparrows with beanshooters. There is a city ordinance forbidding the practice, but the boys have kept right on beanshooting. Teachers have told the boys not to shoot at the birds. The boys remembered this about as long as it took them to get out of doors. Hence it was that there was a consensus ol opinion at a meeting of the School- masters’ Association recently that the boys must be disciplined. 'he teachers have descended on the boys and taken advantage of their guile- lessness in a way that is shocking. The scrnes that have taken place have been after this fashion: Enter the principal; boys at their d-ks; boys see the principal looking sharply about the schoolroom; dead silence, bro- ken by indications of intense application; two pupils enter the room quietly. The principal, pleasan ly—Now, boys, in this basket that these boys have just brought in is a lot of beanshooters. I had to take them from the boss in the other rooms. Now you must take your turn. All come up here and take your shooters out of your pockets. 3 7 Whiie the principal is speaking thera is a_simultaneous movement among the boys, as though they w-re taking some- thing from their pockets and stowing them under their desks. So, when the principal says: I know you bave been told that you must not kill birds—and vou probably haven’t disobeyed—but I must see what you have in your pockets,”’ a gleam of joy, quickly suppressed, flashes along the rows of boys, and then their mouths distend in broad smiles. There is a scramble to see who will be first to get into line. They do not have to wait long for operations to begin. The next move of the principal 1s to rap with bis heel on the floor. The door opens and two more stalwart boys appear. They proceed without delay to the desks of the boys, and extract therefrom about a peck of beanshooters. The boys have been out- flanked. In one school on the Park slope a bushel of beanshooters was scooped from the desks.—New York Sun. The Humorist Has His Troubles. How wretched it is to acquire the repu- tation of being a humorous writer. Aside from the fact of always being sus- pected of turning everything you see into ridicule, you are made the especial con- fidant of everybody’s “jokes.”” | At every social function you are ex- pected to entertain the assempled com- pany with a continuous flow of choice witticism, and if you remain silent ior three minutes you are asked if you “leel | sick.”” Stories, so dry that if you were to bore a | hole in them with a gimlet sawdust would surely come out, are inflicied upon you with an air of I'il-give-you-this-instead-§5. And worst of all—even the editors laugh at your efforts to please them.—New York World. ———— The Great and the Small. These are the days when a woman gets A poem of a bonnet; An eplc for the theater, And for the street a sonnet. —Detrolt Tribune. o o The most healthy places frequently have | the highest death rate, on account ot the large number of invalids that visit them. A NOTED RIDER PASSES AWAYY Park Policeman Samue] A. Harper Dies at St. Luke’s. He Killed Contractor Henty de Greayer in the Park Four Years Ago. Park Policeman Samuel A. Harper died at St. Luke’s Hospital yesterday after- noon of blood poisoning caused by wounds he received two weeks ago, when his horse fell on him at the park. Harper had Guite a record as park police- man and vaquero. He was originally dis- covered by Park Patrolman Thomson, when the latter went to Montana to buy a buffalo. Harper rode so well thatThom- son had the commissioners send for him. On Jannary 50, 1892, Harper shot and killed Henry de Greayer, a street contrac- tor, under circumstances of self-defense. The case created a great deal of talk atthe time, De Greayer was out riding with a woman, whereupon Harper requested him to drive more slowly. The request was ignored and De Greayer drove away again rapidly. Harper again_commanded him to drive more slowly and sought to hold back the, horse. De Greayer then got out of hf buggy, abused Harper and drew his re. voiver. Harper then fired in self-defense and De Greayer fell, dying soon thereafter at his home. ! The trial was an interesting one, and Harper was acquitted very largely on the testimony of a wealthy lady who chanced to be passing, and narrated the event as Harper had explained it. NEW TO-DATY. EXTR BIG A GiftS--Free! Free! Teas, Correes, Spices. EXTRA BIG OFFER FOR CHRISTMAS. FTOUR CEHOICE FRED: 1 Sauce Boat, decorated. 8 Tea Cups and Sa ucers. 1 Large Majolica Pitcner. 1 Fancy Jce Cream Dish. 3 Water Gobiets, banded. 1Cake Siand, crystal. 1 Cheese Dish, crystal. B W ater Goblets, pluin. 1 Buiter Dish, crystal. 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