The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 27, 1897, Page 5

- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 1897. BARELY ESCAPES EURIAL ALIVE, Former Portland Man’s| Experience in South Africa. His Wife Becomes a Maniac When He Emerges From His Coffin. She Had Had a Presentiment That | Enemies Sought to Entomb Him Liv.ng. PORTLAND, Or., June 26.—Harvey McClellan, a mining engineer of Cape- | town, South Alrica, who has been here the past few days visiting relatives, tells & startling story of the hairbreadth escape from living inhumation of an ex-Port- lander st Cavetown. This person was Harold Schmithoff, employed in a large furniture house here up to eight years ago. Schmithoff contracied jungle fever in Cajelown, and after being sick about five days he apparently succumbed. That was on the 29th of March. His wife, whom he | Dad married in Berne, Switzeriand, five | years before, would not allow her hus- | band’s remains to be taken from bher home for two days after he was pro- nounced dead, despite all the reasonable argumentsindulged in by McCleilan and otber friends of the family. it was fortunate that Mrs, Schmithoff's resolution in that respect prevailed. On the third day the funeral took place with her consent. she enigmatically saying: My presentiment was a silly one, after all'” On reaching the cemetery, and while the casket was being removed from the hearse, one of the pallbearers remarked that Le balieved he heard a noise in the casket. His fellows suggested that he must be suf | fering from mnervousness. The parley did D .t continue more than ten seconds, when the rest of the pallbearers heard a faint noise in the casket. They asked the sex- ton of the burial-ground to hurriedly un- screw the lid of the casket. It took him sbout half a minute to procure a screw- driver, and meanwhile the widow and | other mourners were standing about the grave. *I shall never for-et the succeeding scene,” continued MecClellan, with a per- ceptible shudder as he spoke. “The mo- ment the lid was removed from the casket, Behmithoff, with much effort, arose and siepped ous of it, but he immediately feil prostrate in a swoon. On benolding the resurredtion of her busband Mrs, Schmit- hoff screamed in tones never to be forgot- te of Joseph H. F.ickinger, the pioneer fruit- grower, took place this afternoon from the family residence on South Eleventit street and was !argely attendea. Toe de- ceased was a native of Germany, aged 70 years. e SANTA FE CONSOLIDATION. Offic als Who Wi/l Have Charge of hs Coast D vision Are An- neurnced. LOS ANGELEZ, Cav., June 26.—Official circulars were 10-day issued from tne Los Angeies offices of the Santa Fe system an- nouncing the consolidation of the western | lines to take place at midnight of June 30. At that hour the receivership of -the Atlantic and Pacific will terminate and the new oraer of thines under the re- | organization go into effect and that line will again be owned by the Santa Fe. The expected consolidation of the offices | of the Atlantic and Pacific and Southern California is confirmed by the official an- nouncements, one of which signed by President Ripley reads: The Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company, having acquired title through forec'osure sale 1o the property and iranchises of ihe Atiantic and Pacific Railway, will take 1 ihe same at midnight of June 30, 18 The following officers have been duls sud will assume jurisdiction on that date, namely: A. F. Walker, chairman of the board; E. . Ripley, pr Morton, ird Vice-presia v weneral anager; H. C. Whitehead, general auditor; 5. Holtérhoff treasurer aud assistan. secretary; L. C. Deming, secretary; H. W. ardiner, ant treasurer; J. P. Whitehead. atrolier; Victor Morawetz, general coun- sel; E. D. Kenna, general soiicitor. Supplemental to this general circular, a division order has bzen issued by W.G. Nevin, general manaver, in Los Angeles, naming appointive officers of the con- solidated Santa Fe Pacific Railway, as the Western division is to be called, as follows: A. G. Wells, general superintendent, Al- buquerque, N. M.; E. Chambers, general freight agent, Los Angeles; John J. Byrne, general passenger acent, Los Angeles; C. N. Sterry, solicitor, Los Angeles; C. E. Crary, auditor, Los Anzeles: C. W. Kouns, superintendentcar serv ce, Topeka, Kans. P. Walsh, genera! baggage agent, Topeka, Kaas.; H. Isaacs, division baggage agent, Los Angel Except in the case of Auditor Crary, all are reappointments, with some changes of headquarters occasioned by extension of jurisdiction. 2, T o MILL FALLEY'S GAKDEN PARTY. Large Number of Fivitors Titumination. MILL VALLEY, CaL, June The garden fete xiven by the ladies of Mill Val- ley came to a successful couciusion this evening. The thousands of Japanese ian- terns that flickered in the great redwood groves in the Corte Madera avenue canyon made the scene like a glimpse of fairyland. The programme, which bad previously been arranged by the ladies, was carried out without a hitch, and during both aft- ernoon and evening the grounds of George E..Billines and Morris Marcus, where the fete was held, were crowded. The afternoon was devoted 1o an enter- tainment prepared especfally for the amusement of ihe children, weo flocked from all directions, the early aiternoon trains from San Francisco bringing quite a number. Among those interested and taking part Witness the My God, my presentiment was true! Were “they going to bury my darling alive?—the devils'! » McClellan added that from thst mo- | ment Mrs. Schmithoff was a raving maniac, with little nhope of her ultimate | recovery. Schmithoff was taken back to | the city, and strangely enough, in ten | day be was completely restored 1o health, | with the exception that all his teeth fell | outand his adipose tissue was reduced | from 200 to 110 pounds. He will remain | in_Capetown until it is posiuvely deter- mined that nothing can there be done for his wife, and in that event he will take | her to Europe. i | DUNHAN'S SAN JOSE ESTATE, Cash and Notes to the Amount of About| $2500 Found by Sherff ‘? Lyndon. ‘ | SAN JOSE, Caw., June 26.—In levying upon the property left by Murderer James | C. Dunham to satisfy the $8000 judgment | obtained against him by Jucob Schessler | and wife for the murder of their daughter, | Minnie Schessler, Sheriff Lyndon to-day | ai:covered $570 belonging to the fugitive | in a box deposited with the Garden City B.nk and Trust Company. In there was | als0 a $1250 mort :age against the Penni- | man Fruit Company and an unsecured | note against the same firm for $250. The value of the entire proper:y recovered, in- cluding interest, is about $2600. It is ex- pected that about $2000 worth of property belonging to Dunbam in the southern portion of the State will also be recovered. The $970 is a part of the $1000 Dunham drew out of & bank shortly before he com- mitted the McGlincey murders. About that time he claimed tie had been held up 2nd robbea of the money, but the story was discredited. It seems that Dunham simply withdrew the money from the bank, spent about $30 and deposited the rest in a box and left it with the bank, atE i in Aanta Clara Pionerrs Moet, SAN JOSE, CaL, June 26.—There was a large attendance at the reunion and pic- nic of the Santa Clara County Pioneers at Alum Rock Park to-day. After luncheon dancing and games were enjoyed by the vounger people, wuile the old Pioneers formed little groups and related reminis- cences. RS TR A Funeral of Joseph H. Flickwnger. SAN JOSE, Car., June 26.—The funeral | NEW | covering_from TO-DAY. in the festivities were the fo lowing: Mr, and Mrs. Morris Marcus, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Billings, Mr. and Mrs. Toomas F. Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Ceffin, M Captain ‘Ankers, Mrs, Hugh McCram, M-, and Mrs. 8. H. Roberts, Mrs. A. W. Bush, M.ss Jennie M. Graham, Mrs. C. E. Cline, Miss Leata Frese. — - LOST IN THE IKIMVITY HILLS, Two Redding Men Lose Their Bearings While on a Journey. REDDING, CaL, June 26.—News has jnst reached this city that Chief Con H. Goldberg of the Reading Fire Department and Charles Jones, agent of the New York Life Insurance Combany, were lost in the mountains of Trinity this week. They left Redding for Weaverville, intending to first visit Hayfork. After traveling over anumber of new and strange roads they landed at Trinity Center, forty miles from here and in an opposite direction from Hayfork. They left the Center for Hayfork and became lost in the moun- ins. They wandered hungry and cold for twenty hours, when, after having almost given up in despair, the light from a window about a mile away at- tracted their attention. They hastened to it and found they were almost within hailing distance of Hayfork. After re- their fatigue they con- tinued their journey, having lost about two days on the road. ZUART Y Barbeeue on o Watsonville Farm, WATSONVILLE, CaL, June 26.—A number of wholesale commission men of San Francisco arrived on this evening’s train_as guests of Trobock & Bergen of San Francisco, owners of one of the largest berry farms in the valiey, who an- tertained them at a banquet at the Man- sion House. To-morrow the firm's an- nual barbecue and picnic will be beld at the farm, which is situated about a mile from town. The visitors are: Charles W. Cochrane, E. N. Trobock, R. 8. Solast? and wife, Oakiand; A. Meloos, San Jose; . W. Joy ana_wife, 8an Francisco; A. Bergen, W. G. Hurst, C. W. Nessly, Oak- lana; H. C. Vaberg, C. Ahlerst, Phil Sei- bert, San Francisco; D. W. Fiela, William Schrive, J. B. Campodonico, J. 8. Holli- day, G. Dablisch. Rainstorm at Redding, REDDING, CAL, June 26.—A heavy rain and wind storm broke over tnis city this afternoon at 4 o'ciock. Considerabie | damage was done to small frait and ber. ries in the vineyards and orchards here- abouts, v/ Pronounce It! "Taint hard—easier after the first time, and then it’s said all the time. A big demand is required to make some good cigars good. Not so with r | fos They are strictly Cuban CO0C00C.0COC000 Jackson Square 5 Cent Cigar. CoC0COOC] KNIGHTS TEMPLAR VISIT FERNDALE Enjoy a Drive Through the Fertiie Valley of the Eel. Find a Banquet Awaiting Them at the End of Their Pilgrimage. Ohe Guest Declares the San Fran- ciscans Have at Lzst Found Their Utopia. FERNDALE, CaL, June —The Sir Knignts of California Commandery Ne. 1 and Eareka Commandery No. 35 accom- panied Grand High Priest Pierce of the Royal Arch Masons to Ferndale to-day. There a new chapter of the Royal Arch Masons, to be bereafter known as Fern- dale Chapter No. 78, was instituted. The party leit Eureka at 1:30 o'clock on a special (rain and proceeded to Singlevs station, whence its members were ferried across Eel River. On the opvosite bank they were met by a sufficient number of conveyances and conducted through the rich and prosperous valley of the Eel. One after another smiling pastures dotted with grazing kine and cozy farmhouses were passed. The creameries were all visited and the process of converiing the milk into delicious butter noted. One sir knight exclaimed: *‘Well, this is a city man's Utopia, where the cream shows little water and the buttermilk is unadulterated.” Ferndale was reached at 3 o’clock. Most of the party were disappointed at the early termination of the ride. Others, who had been unfortunate enouzh to be placed in wagons devoid of springs, considered that they had had a slight overdose of rusticity in the jolting they had experienced. At Ferndale a right royal reception awaited the pilgrims. They were taken in hand by the members of the craft and treated with murked courtesy. At 5 | o’clock the valiant Sir Knights escorted tbeir ladies fair to the beautifully deco- rated banquet-hall with ali the chivalric couriesy of ye olden time. It was here that the resident Masons outdid them- selves. The hall was a bower of loveli- s. Banks of ferns and evergreens, en- twined by brilliant flowers, were heaped up all along the sides. Smilax and ivy ‘were entw:ned around the pillars and gallery supports. Over 300 persons sat down to the spread. There was an abun- dance of everything, Dr. Ring, in the name of Chapter 78 Royal Arch Masons, welcomed the knights and their ladies to Ferndale. ot California Commandery veing called upon spoke of the gratitude which the visiting drill corps felt for the magnificent treatment accorded it everywhers. He said that bis only wish was that the memories left belind would be as pl-as- ant as thoss carried away. His address was a zem of after-dinner oratory. Sir Knight Smith spoke of the natural resources of the county and ended his ex- travagant praise with a eulogy on the excellence of Humbo'dt cream. His speech.was very wiity and put his listen- e’s into an excelient humor. The dnll corps of California Command- ery and Eureka Commandery formed an escort at 7 o'clock this evening and con- ducted Grand Hiegh Prie:t Pierce and his aids and the officers and members of the new chapter of Roval Arch Masons to | Pythian Castle, where the ceremonies were to be performed. The grand officers appointed by the grand high chief of the State of California to assist in the institu- tion of the new chapter are: T. B. Cutler, deputy grand bigh priest; J. B. Ric son, king; Thomas Morton, seribe; A. F. C E. N. Deuprey, sec yle, cbaplain; F. W. Titus, captam of host; J. & Young, royal arch captain; 8. A. McDonnell, guard. The new cbaner will contain thirty-two members, with the following officers: Wilham Dinsmore, high priest; F. W. Lutner, king; 8. Swift, scribe; F. W. Oliver, capt C. A. Doe, royal arch captain Williams, princpal sojourner: E. A. Pearson, master of third veil; Delamere, master of second veil; L A. , master of first veil; J. A, w, ‘treasurer: J. H. Trost, secretary; . Stillings, guard. Alter the' exercises were concluded the Sir Knights were driven to the station and departed for Eureka, thoroughiy de- lighted with the splendid entertainment provided tor them oy the members of the craft and their efficient assistants, the ladies of the Eistern Star Lodge of Fern- dale. To-morrow morning the Sir Knights und their ludies will attend divine services tn Eureka. At4P. M they will board the Pomona for the return to San Francisco. REPAY> 4 PH(E IX GAMBLER, Dishonest Winning« Returned by & Con- vert to Chyistianiy PH@ENIX, Ariz., June 26.—What is looked upon as a very good showing for the efficacy of the revival meetings that were beld in Phownix some weeks ago is contained in the surprising letter recently received by the proprietor of a Yuma gambling-house from a penitent in Los Angeles. T.e letter, which is dated June 15, from Los Anceles, reads as follows: Mr. Jaeger, Yuma, Ariz—DEAR S;: In De- cember, 1896, while T was in your town I won sixty-eight dollars out of & faro game in your snloon. You thought the game was “thrown off,” and you were right in that conclusion. 1 coniess that I disbonestly won tne above mentioned amount. and now I ask you to for- give the wrong 1 cOue you. 1 have no money now, but i1 God prospers me so that I can, I promise to return the amount which you lost at that time. 1 went to Pheenix after I left Yuma and while attending a revival meeting 1 was con- verted to God. 1 quit the old sinful life and am doing all that I can to make right the wrongs I have done 1o others in my past life. 1 wouid rather be right with God than to have all the pleasure, wealth, or favor this world sffords. Hoping you will forgive, I am re- spectiully yours, JAMES M. JONES. P. 8.—The uame of J. W. Williams, by which I was known for over twenty years, not my true name, and shortly after 1 was saved 1 made open confession and resumed my right name. JAMES M. JoNES. Louis Jaeger, to whom this letter was addressed, says he always thought “Wil- liams” was an odd character. —_—— ARIZONA’S POLITICAL WAR. Anti- LeCord Faction Sends & Petitbon to the Fresident. PH@ENIX, Ariz., June 26,—A telegram bus been sent to President McKiniey by Pierce Evans and eight other members of the Republican Territorial Executive Committee, asking that in the choice of a Governor for Arizona the President assent 10 the calling of a convention of repre- sentative Territorial Republicans, such convention to recommend & new man for the office, The telegram is a leagthy one, d recites that the committee feeis that the situation has reached a crisis, and thatdecided action in the interest of the hand-made by Cuban work- men, and full Caballero size. RINALDO BROS. & CO., 300-302 BATTERY ST, SAN FRANCISCO. COAST AGENTS. party should be taken. In a spirit of fairness toward the President and Me- Cord (whos : nomination is now bung up in the Senate) such action is deemed ad- visable. The telegram has stirred up a hornets’ nest among the McCord supporters, and a batch of counter-telegrams on behalf of McCord was added during the day to the After the banquet Sir Knight Deuprey | vast pile of correspondence already sent to Washington upon the subject. iy | RAILWAY TO WHITE HILLS, Aew Line to Be Built to the Arizona Mining Districr PHENIX. Ariz., June —The pro- moters of the railroad tax exemption bill— a measure designed to encourage the con- struction of transportation lines in tne | Territory—which passed the last legisla- | ture not without arousing a good deal of | opposition, now point with considerable | satisfaction to the preparations being | made for a new railroad in Mohave County, which will probably tap one of | the richest silver mining districts in the | Territory—that of the White Hills, that ! were recently sold by Mr. Root of Denver | to an English syndicate. | Kingman, on the Atlantic and Pacific | main line, 13 boping that the White Hilis road will make that town its siarting- | point, but Hancock, also on the main line, has the same aspirations. John Denair, division superintendent; F. T. A-pinwall and W. R. Hulman are | now oun the ground and are making a tour | of investigation over the proposed route | us far north as the Colorado River. The | route wiil probably pass north of Beale | Springs, skirting the mountain along the | ravine over Coyote Hill and then alongs the foothills of the Sacramento Valiey. | It will pass close to Cerbat, Todd Basin, Mineral Park, Cnlorite and White Hills. | The opening of this country will enable many big low-grade gold properties to be worked to advantage. .- Blow at the Salmo. Industiy. VANCOUVER, B. C., June 26.—The | news that a health officer at Liverpool | lately condemned as unfit for human food a consignment of canned salmon bas crected consternation among the British Columbia csnning men. If the British buyers grow afraid of canned | salmon, the loss in trade to British Columbia and Washington and Oregon | | wil amount to $2,000,000 a year. The | canneries here, lacking further informa- | tion than this mornin.’s cable, are per- plexed as how to account for the trouble, the most cleanly methods have been | opted. —_—— Brings Gold From Alaska. PORT TOWNSEND, Wasn., June 26.— The steamship City of Topeka arrived at | midnight from Alaska with few pas- | sengers and little freight, She brou:ht $10.0 of money found in the hull of the | schooner General Siglin, from which | craft all on board were lost while en! route from San Francisco to Alaskn two months agzo. Tbe Topeke brought §70,000 in bullion from the Treadwell Mining Company. LT ST Shooting Affray at Juncaw. PORT TOWNSEND, Wasit.,, June 2 William Atkins, known as “San Jose Bill,” whose record is notorious along the coast from California to Alaska, is in the hospital at Juneau, Alasks, where be lies with a number of bullet wounds in his body. He was shot by Harry Howard, | who conducts a variety theater in Juneaa. Howard claims he acted in self-defense. | Atkins' recovery is doubtrul. | fi bnd o i Smelter for Stcovton. | STOCKTON, CAL, June 26.—According to P. A. Buell, who has been working up | the proposition to erect a smelter here for | the reduction of gold-bearing ores, the | success of the project is reaconably cer- ! tain. The money has beea promised, and representatives of Eastern capitalists | wno are to sdvanee it will arrive in a few days to look over the fiol THE SULTAN ROUGES, | Abdul Hamid Paints His Faco to Hide His Pallor. Turkish laaies of quality and of no qual- ity paint their faves. The painting ap- paratus is formed with a row of small bottles containing the paints and set in a little paa or cushion, says London Truth. The cushion is adorned with s network | and friage of many-colored beads. The | practice of painting, however, is not con- | fized to the ornamental sex. Itisresorted to by the Padishah and those Pashas | forming bis inner circte. His sublimity | hasa thick coat of rouge oa his cheeks when he goes on Fridays to the mosque. | It 1s to hide the pallor to which the fearof assassination gives rise. The Grand Vizier and Ministers, to keep him in countenance, rouge aiso and dye their bair and beards. Hair dyes, however, are not a new | | fashion. They came in during the reizn | of Abdul Aziz. The Circassian mother of Sultan Mourad could not endure tne sight | of his premature gray bairs. She per-| suaded him to use a hair restorer, which, itis said, helped to make him mad. It gave him violeat headuches. His Nea- politan doctor foliowed the Sangrado treatment. Whenever Mourad com- | plained of the aches he gave him a de- | pressing hot bath, and leecued him on the | temples and beuind the ears. He some- times applied as many as seventy without stoppirg. Dr. Ludersdor! said the cephal- | alyia was due to nitrate of silver and litharge in the bairdye. As the Sultan's hair and beard are still | jet black, he doubtless uses a hair restorer, | which may affect his mind. He is very cunning, very patient in *pipe-laying’® and bas managed to become vastly | wealthy and to shelve the Sublime Porte. But he 1s not of sound mind and is af- | flicted with any number of manias that | counflict b each other. The terror of as- | sascinatior never leaves him. He issues | irom the Yildiz on Fridays so blanched with fear that the rough parts of the vis- age seem by contrast of the deep rea ot the peony. SOUTHERN WOMEN. Put on a Pedestal and Worshiped by the Men. All plantation life is to a considerabla extent patriarcnal, except that instead of the women being subordinated to mascu- line pleasure snd aggrandizement, as with the patriarchs of old, they are set on a vedestal and practically worshiped, says Lippincott’s. It makes little difference to this modern patriarch of the cotton belt if his cuffs are frayed and his coat rusty, so long as bis wife and daughters wear suits to church that are as stylish as his crops can pay for and their village dressmaker can devise. Itisa feature of the day iu the South, as well as elsewhere, that women are being better educated than men. In the northern States of the Union this higher culture is tending manifestly to celibacy, but in rural localities through the South the giris come back from acad- emies and colleges and accept the young men who stayed at bome to work the plantations, the same ones they would have married had they not gone away for the education the parents sacrificed so much to bestow. They know what splen- did material these men are made of, and in the attraction between the eternal womanly and the elernal manly the ques- tion of book-learnine counts for little. To lead a patriarchal life without a vatriarch would be dull indeed, and it must be said that it requires courage of a superior order to remuin single in & sitna- tion which would offer little aim and stimulus outside of wifehood and matern- ity after youth has waned. For this rea- son youth is considered the high prize, the valuable capital and stock-in-trad. The women fade no earlier than their Northern sisters, but, owing to an in- herited habit of thought, the label of de- cay is respectfully fastened on them by the popular mind while they are still in their prime and in the Northern and East- ern States wou'd be accounted capable of all things, even of marrying well. M tus-it. e ey The Himalayas have been seen 224 miles away. R ADVANCES made on_furniiure and pianos, with or without removal J. Noonan, 1017-1023 Mission NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. THIS WEEK! PSS TSRS B SATURDAY NIGH We Close Our Doors Upon the G Bona Fide Sacrifice Sale of Fine Clothing Ever Held in This State, reatest NEXT SATURDAY NIGHT THIS GREAT SALE! POSITIVELY COMES TO AN END. ber. A grocery firm has leased our “Temporary Quarters’’ over our heads. Our new stores will not be completed before Septem- Finding it an impossibility to secure suitable salesrooms in which to conduct our business, we are obliged to slaughter our | Mammoth Stock of Men’s and Boys’ Fine Clothing in bulk to dealers or close the same out at auction to the trade. worth and loss is a secondary consideration to us. The Goods Must Co! Now in “Dgad Earnest!”’ Price, the highest bidder. this season’s make. g="A WORD TO DEALERS! Our entire stock and fixtures are now for sale in bulk to Bids are solicited for the same. chance for the Clothiers, Hatters and Furnishers to close out our fine goods far below manufacturers’ cost. —="TERMS CASE.—— We will sell the above mentioned stocks either separate or collectively. An inspection of same can be made by the trade any day this week. Positively no bids will be received after 10 A. M. SATURDAY, July 3. Seventy-five per cent of our stock This is a great chance for dealers and wearers of high-class clothing to purchase the very best of goods at a big loss to us. A great TS Qi B CHARLES KEILUS & CO., Proprietors. TEMPORARY QUARTERS: 220-224 SUTTER STREET, THREE DOORS WEST OF KEARNY STREET. PROFITS FROM CONVENTIONS. Benefits Decived by Railroads and Citles From Nutionui Gatherings. The National board of the American Turnerbund has completed an cccounting of the expenses and receipts of the recent turnfest held in St. Louis. The receints were $32500, and the expenses $27.000. The guarantee fund raised by the different local societies will not be used, and it even be possible to send $1,000 to Milwa kee to reduce the deficit of the turnfest held there. The Turners have ramifica- tions throughout the country, and are particularly strong in those ciies in which the German population 1s consid- erable. Butin respect to totsl member- ship the association does not rank with other organizations Laving annual con- ventions. The Free Sons of Israel are to hold their convention in Chicigo in June. The Grand Army of the Republic holds its an- nual encampment at Buffalo on August 23. This is the first time in more than thirty years that the Grand Army men have made Buffalo their convention city. I connection with these conventions or encampments the fact is to be noted that they represent to the city chosen for their meeting place many thousands of doliars of unu-ual revenue. The first gainers by such a convention are the railroads, and since by competition among the various lines more favorable rates are secured, the cities reached by the greatest numbver of roads are the faverites. Chicago, Pitts- burg, Philadelphia, indianapolis, Omaha and 8t. Louis are therefore much in de- mand, and Boston and Baltirore are at a di-advantage 10 a cousiderable extsat. One thousand delegates, accompanied by their wives, other members of their families and friends, represent perhaps 10,000 visitors to a convention or an campment. The rule of the railroad: to issue an excursion ticket good toth ways for one price. or one-half of tne usual charge. At $10 a h which is the average, $100,000 addit’ evenue is turned into the ofiices of the railroad; nor is this the maximum amount, for at Ma- sonic conventions and those of the Chris- | t ian Endeavorers anda of some of the larger benevolent orders as much as $2: | 000 is sometimes divided by the allied { raiiroads from the sale of tickets. Accorling to the usual computation, | about $5 a head is expended in hotels and boarding-houses, representing an addition irom this source of about $50,000 to a city from the convention. Then there is to be added the increased revenues from a con- vention of the theaters, the streetcar lines, the saloons, the local newspapers, which sometimes publish special editions, and always bave an increased demand for | copies, ana tue_retail dealers and shop- keepers. New York has never been in much demand for convention purposes, | for the reason that the population is so large and the interests of the city so many t at a convention which in other cities would be of greatlocal 1importance would amount to little here.—~New York Sun. —————— No Chance for the Little Man. All hands had been telling long stories of what they had done or would in the event of a smashup on the railway with the exception of cne littie man, who had listened attentively to the narratives and taken them all in without a word. “Ever been in an accident?” asked the patriarah of the party, noticing the little man’s silence. *No,” replied the little man, quietly. “Then you have no idea of what vou would do in the fracas?’ continued the patriarch, “No, I haven't,’”’ replied the little man, sldlz. “With all you big heroes blocking up the doors and windows in your hurry to get out I don’t exactly know whatshow a man of my size would have!” Aud then there was a deep silence, so deep you might have heard a couzh drop, and the littie man was troubled no mcre about the possibility of accidents.--Tit Bus. e SR An | ceontric Traveler, J. Theodore Bent, a wealthy English- man who has achieved some notoriely by visiting out-of-the-way pluces and writing books about them, has just died on hus return from the island or Socotra, from the consequences of a fever contracted there. H:s firs: book was on the republic | of 8an Marino; he then visited the Cy- | clades and the Greek towns of Asia Minor, the ruins of Zimbabwe in Mashonaland, and mcr: recently the south coast of Arabia and the shores of the Red Sea. — . . It a mateh is he d to a celluloid billiard- . ball t' e ba ill catch fire and burn. KEW TO-DAY. FREE 0 EVERY HAN THE METHOD OF A GREAT TREATHENT FoR WEAKNESS OF MEN. WHICH CURED HIM AFTER EVERY- THING ELSE FAILED, Painful diseases are bad enough, but when a man is slowly wasting away with nervous weakness the mental forebodings are . ten times worse than the most severe pain. There isnoletup to the mental suffering day or night. Sleep is almost impossible, and under such a strain men are scarcely responsibie for what they do. For years the writer rolled and tossed on the troubled sea of sexual weakness until it was a question whether he had not better take a dose of poison and thus end all bis throubles. ~ Bui providential inspiration came to his aid in the shape of a combination of medicines that not only completely restored the general health, but enlarged his weak; emaciated varts 1o natural size and vigor, and he now dec aany man who will take the trouble 10 send his usme and address may have the method of this wonderful treatment free. Now, when I say free I mean absolutely wiihout cost, because I want every weakened man 1o get the beaefit of my experience, | Tam not a philanthropist, nor do I pose as an enthusiast, but there are thousands of men | suffering the mental tortures of weakened manhood who would be cured at_once could they but get such a remedy as the one thas cured me. Do not try to study out how I can afford 10 pay the few postuge-stamps necessary to mail the information, but sead for it and learn that there are ‘a few things onear:h that, although they cost notbing to get, sre worih a fortune to some men and mean a life- time of neppiness to mostof us. Write to Thomas Slater, box 2283, Kalamasoo, Migh., and the information Wil be mailed in & plaig goaled envelo