The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 10, 1899, Page 2

° ° en ne THE SEATTLE STAR E, H, WELLS & @ hers Every aftomoon except Sunday +. uM, WELLS BF CHASE Rhuvoa Biwusnes MANA “One cont pet copy) KIX Conte per Wee or twenty-five. conte poe tianth delivered by carrier, #lways th mdvamcn NO Lr ropies Telephone Pike 180 eC Thint Avenue Entered at the postoffice at Son tile. Wanting The latest deapatches from th Philippines indicate an early col lapse of the organised resistance to American authority in * anda, The shadowy fabric of Kov ernment established by Aguinalio at Malotos has fallen to pieces lik house of carts, while the Mehting forces of the Filipine without are & base of supplies, discouraged, and shattered by repeated reverses and practically dis ne the foot hills along the coast of Luaon Ietond Insurgents in large numbers are r turning to thelr homes in the towne and villages adjacent to the former Filipino capital, and the considerate treatment of the vanquished by our troops has proved a practical in- Vitation to surrender and pacifiea Uon, There has been at no time during the brief period of hostilities with Aguinaldo's men, any reasonab! doubt that the Filipino ¢ on would be dissipated quickly when the people of the islands should be come convinged of the determination of the United States to control them But the dilatory course ef events after the signing of the peace proto col in August fast afforded to the ambitious {#liniers an opportunity to measure strength with their new masters, and at the same time accumula, of war for a regular campaign. Th. campaign is now practically ended. Buch further resistance as may be Offered to American authority on Luzon Island will partake of the na- ture of guerilla warfare and bric andage rather than of orterly and Menacing movements in strong force. Even these demonstrations of fitful disorder will become fewer and few- er ae the true meaning of American Occupation shall dawn upon the in- habitants, It has not been a peculiarly glor- fous or complete victory, this break- ing up of a desperate coalition of | by Spanish wrongs through centurtes past. The Filipinos are residents of American territory, and their mistaken revolt enkindies in the American mind no thoughts of triumph over a hated foreign foe. Pacification, not punishment, ts the true keynote of public sentiment and Of official action as to the future atti. tude of the United States toward | the territory swept by the flames of revolt. We have already paid dear- Jy tn Dlood and treasure for the Phil- tppines, and the account ts not yet | fully settled; but !t seems clear that the climax of sacrifice has heen pass- ed. With no strongly organized and Well equipped force to confront our troops, the task of guerilla hunting may weil be intermitted while the) Philippines commission shall take up ‘anew the task of negotiation which ‘Was so summarily interrupted earty in February last. ————— Astronomer on Mars: “Felix, my six-legerd friend, what can those buge ungainly spots be that are Spreading all over the earth?” Felix: “Professor Doublehead says that they are monopolies. He has Just detected their through the use of his wircless cop- ber comprehender.” Astronomer: “Well, I'll be blowed! ‘That's just what the people on the moon did in M27 — gathered every- thing up into trusts, One fellow sharper than the rest, monopolized the atmosphere. and then all others died. It does seem as though one such experience in the universe ought to have been sufficient.” Feliz: “Perhaps the bipeds on earth never heard the facty Astronomer: “So much the worse for them. When they get their wireless telegraph machines In good supplies and munitions | [hie my, eluded islanders, stung to madness | tion at all. He w. significance | the| ° stoneoutters, 2000 in marble, stone 1 slate quarries, In all 6,600,000 . n earn thelr Hving tn trades and professions. Mise Sprulos, of Surrey Janda, ji a lavender distiller Mies FF Rh. Wilkingen, of London, }lo @ landacape gardener, | ome | Mine Amy BE. Bett ts an san has taken up brok Engiioh stock Misa ( airl, Mods goat raising a profitable lnductry Mies Leigh Spencer, of Hritiah Co- fumbia, ls a mining broker Mra, Eimer yraythe fs en. gaged in the of mother-of-pearl jat New Britain, an tstand tn the Southern Pacific Th Berlin women guides are em ployed by the city In Austro-Hungary about 3,000, 000 wormen are engaged {n Industrial pursuits. ANOTHER PIONEER DEA William M iieon morn Mrs. Fulton died yesterday at the home of hia daughter, Georgia Campbell, 2506 Jack- von street, of pneumonia, Mr, Ful- jton ts a pioneer of Seattle, and for over forty-seven years has been en- jsaged In the lumber business, Un- tt recently he has resided at Port Hiakeley. He leaves the following taughters and sons: Mra, Georgie | Campbell, 2606 Jackson atreet, Be- jattle; Mra, Linate Case, Seattle; Mra. | MacRae, Seattle; Charles Fulton, 'Whateom; J. BE. Fulton, Seattle; Fred A. Fulton, Seattle. Not Distinguished for Feeding | “I #uppose.” murmured the man |with the overcoat which had faded (nto a purptiah tint, “that I've got |the wrong idea, but I can't correct lmyeetf. 1 argue and I try to con- vinee myself that I'm all wrong, but T can't do it.” “What's the matter now?’ asked the friend whom he had stopped on the street, “Tam afraid that there has been some misapprehension about Thom- ae Jefferson.” “O, of course. His opinions are quoted In support of arguments on both aides of the question. That hap- pens In the case of almost every great thinker.” “Tt ain't that, As you say, such things are to be expected. But these celebrations are worrying mo. ll admit that Tam one of the easiest worrted men in the world. But I can not help that. I have my doubts if | Thomas Jefferson, if be could have nt any celebra @ plain wort of a man, whose idea of a good time was to get away in a quiet corner and play the violin. Put I like to see ‘em. TI approve of showing honor | where It is due.” “Then what are you complaining about?" “The method. When people get up something in honor of a famous mu- wictan they assemble an orchestra land play his works, don't they? “As ® rule. “Or if It's an eminent Hterary man they give lectures and print things jin the paper, don't they?” “Ordinartly.* “And in the case of a great mill- tary nran they fing the starry banner out and shoot off fireworks?” “Thi the custom. “But when Thomas Jefferson ts the subject of thelr homage and ap- plause, what do we do? We send dinner Invitations to all parts of the country. with the assessment any- where from $1 to $10 @ plate. Itea mistake. Somebody has gotten the wrong impression. Thomas Jeffer- son was a statesman, not an ept- cure."—Washington Star ‘HUMBOLDT FOR ALASKA Steamer Humboldt sailed at 2:0 jo'clock yesterday afternoon for |Skagway with a big cargo of freight, and the following passengers: Capt A. MeNeti, D. MeDonaid, A. Behul- singer. Charles Frey, J. Wolff, C. 0. Birney, H. M. Whetherbee, Mrs. P. J. Drew, R. M. Henrigson, A. Alm, BP. RK. Beaburg, A. 8. Heaths, 8. Hal ver, 8. J. Wilson, William Turnbull, would j&. J. Blum, J. C. Jacobson, G. Har- | mon, C. A. Harrington, J. A. Ritchie, J. Daly, T. EF. Muenter, J. Reid, L. Durkett, W. L. Richards, F. Er- icksen, P. MeHeth, C. Brakenbush, lc. B. Kinnieh, B. L. Miller, George | Ritchie, Capt. C. E. Rowdeen, T. E. |Forynt, Chew Fing, J. A. Willock, |G. F. Willock, KE. Metzyer, Capt Dixon, L. 8 Adama, A. R. Goode, lw Conner, W. J. Stebbt Re Goode, J. Suthertand, Georre . W. F. Shedd, running order, just send them word |. C. Templeman, C. Brown, W. H tg siew that: Seek gauss, . Rivery |neser. W. Neloos. 5. RUE 7. areee. ‘World that tries it wit! go br | Loulanant, A. MeLean, C. 1. Nix. C. — a | 7 MeDonald, A. MeDonald, G. Frazer, Even an ostrich must stand az ‘i, 1, Stratton, J. W. Smith, H. B. at the digestive attempts of Italy, | Witsen, Charles Krelling, C. Flush- which is trying to assimilate a plece | man, Otto L. Olsen, F. D. MeNaugh- of China. }ton, Mre. F. W. Chapman, Mrs. De- —— ved, C. EB. Davis, Capt. Eliott, Capt In olden times they spoke of con- | MeKenaie, is A a =P be A Sow we “ ‘* key, BP. A. Dolan, Mra Cc. Duffy, bay seed ae Mra. P. Laurin, Marie Laurin, G. H WOMAN'S WORLD. ‘Women in Great Britain are well and Tepresented in the professions trades, and about 4,000,000 « own living. There a teach, 10,009 are be 209 are printers, nearly Mors and compliers, 1% ed in photography, clerks numbe Oo, nv engaged in medical work ing and %7 women are blacksmiths. are nd nurs- The oldest banker in the w rid is &@ woman, aged 98. She is Deborah | good Powers, the senior partner in the Wh rely you wouldn't go to a firm of D. Powers & Sons, Lansing- | theater so soon?" her friend said in berg, England. » tone that told that her sense of —_ propriety had been outraged, “Why Miss Conn is an alderman of the| you are still in first mourning. London county council. What would people say?” - Oh, T forgot,” replied the woman A successful fir hants |in black #adly and humbly, “and 1 in London {a cor 1 en y want to see that play so much.” women, The blenders, tasters and It's te isn't it? was the packers are also women. lily sympathetle reply of the oth- = er. “I'm #0 worry.” There are nglish women prac-| “I'll have to send the tickets back ticing medicine in India to him, I guees,” the bereft one re- _ marked Miss Constance Taylor, of London, “1 wouldn't do that,” sald the oth- ia a dob fancier oth rdera one quickly. “If you can’t use come from Centr A them mother and I might go; she lom gets any place, you know." In Germany thre 7 em and her mother went, and the ployed as chimney swe 7 an gun n to whom .ae tickets were amiths, 19 as br and bell found nt spent the afternoon tn her ers, 147 as coppe a asf cheerleas home t ng of the dead riers and nallers, 1B siand the pleasure she mis Si kl ta ab ie Shi eid dirs sicBtisan Sitcas aba alii i Whitney, C. F. Sennis A Victim to Custom. Fiveryhody ikes to get Into a show free, So when a woman who was tn mourning for her brother, who died wo or three months ago, got two tickets for a th ho thought th r from a frienu, visit to the play- house would take her mind off her ent, she was delighted. She Irenned and went to call on her dear- st friend. Hob sent me bereay two tickets for the matinee tomorrow,” she said. “Will you go with me? I'm Just dying to fee t show. I heard it was so netance Hlydes, an Enetish | DEATH ENDS — A ROMANCE ee je of a Rich Uncle and F cinating Niece. SAN JOBE, Cal, April 10.—A lo romance, in which @ rich old unc a oinating niece were ¢ | Homeo and Juliet, ended here this morning in the death of John P Conlon at the Grand Lodging house, sorner of Second and Ban Fernando streets. Mra, Abble Kinnem in the bereaved, and t# left about half a muliion dollars in New York proper- Several years ago John P. Conlon retired from the pursuits of busl- |tune, Me bad no other relatives but Mrs. Kinnes and a nephew who had hia name, The latter was a spend> thrift and by his wild career had dingraced his uncle's na About | this time Mra. Kinnes® husband died. She was young and attractive, She took up her abode with her uncle, and the mutual relationship soon turned Inte love. The rich old un cle at once legally adopted Mra Kinnes, The law prohibited the marriage of persona of their ree of relationship. Conlon at once di- vided his property with his adopted daughter and fixed the remainder so his nephew could never come tn for any of It. Mra. Kinnes was given jeverything she wished and the cou- |ple enjoyed themecives to their heart's content. Several trips to Bu. jrope 4 a trip around the world was made. It is said Mra. Kinnes generally passed for Mrs. Conlon. On January 10 last Mr. Conlon and Mre. Kinnes left New York for California by way of Panama, arriv- ing in San Francisco about a month ago, they started to make a tour of the state awheel. fan Jose was reach- ed a week ago, Last Friday even- [tng while dining in the Mercantile restaurant Conlon was stricken with apoplexy, He was removed to his apartments and Dr. Frasce summon- He ri lied for a while but yer- began to sink and passed rly this morning. New Ideas for Card Parties. Card parties are so much the rage nowadays that the uptodate hostess must have her wits about her to/ devise new and catchy idear for her numerous entertainmen It is not so much @ question of primes, for the vartety of these to be found tm the shops is so varied and attractive that it is only a ques tion of madam's purse. What is more worthy of thought lt how get the touch of originality which ts going to make one’s party the very | smartest which has been held tn the club, tation of from four to «! cards, and then cut the cards diag- onally in two and distribute the halve to the questa. One girt varied this by writing or- iginal verses on her caris, the verses all having reference to the game. ‘The picking out of partners caused no end of fun, as the verson being strange to the players, there were no familiar combinations of words to help them. Another way fs to cut hearts, dia- monde, Apades and Clubs out of card board or celluloid, if the company be composed of both sexes. Give the spades and diamonds to the men, the | hearts and clubs to the women. Each set of hear, diamond, spade ts of one color, and a bow of ribbon or other device of correspond- ing hue is fastened to one of the tables. The player holding the red heart le the partner of the one hold- ing the red diamond at the red table. The red club and spade are also paired together, and so on. GOING TO DIG GOLD. G. Werltnickoff, @ secondhand | dealer at 5 Second avenue south, [reported to the police yerterday j thet his store had been burglarized Saturday night, and shovels, a re- volver, and some men’s clothing had been taken. The burglars entered through the back windo: ‘A MYSTERY SURROUNDS IT Woman Shot by a Man Who Refuses to Explain Cause. NEW YORK, April 10.—Farly this morning Ldasie Murphy, a pretty young woman of Green Point, L. L., }was shot and fatally wounded by | Ernest BE. Glover, whom #he had | met, either by accident or appoint- . at the Webster hotel, in Wil- Namaburg. Much mystery surrounds the af- fair. It was late last night when Miss Murphy appeared at the he She was followed shortly after by Glover. The two entered the parlor and engaged tn a quarrel, Suddenly the hotel employes were startled by the report of a pistol. | Rushing into the room, they dis- | covered the young Woman uncon- acious on the floor with a bullet wound in her head and arm. Glover stood over her with the smoking r volver in his hand. He was arres ed, and Miss Murphy was removed to a hospital, where tt Is #aid she cannot recover, Glover refuses to give the police any information. Woman's Hotel. ‘The Woman's hotel, as proposed in w York, has recelved a great Im- us during the past week, Over 000 worth of the atock has been en by women. Capitalists who |formerly would not put a dollar into the enterprise are now subscribing to the atock ‘The Woman's Hotel company, to be incorporated at Albany, has Iasu- ed a revised prospectus. The cap. ital will be $400,000, divided into 4000 shares, The object of the company is to provide one or more hotels for the exclusive use of self-supporting women. It is intended that the first |hotel should be fireproof, with a leapacity for 500 guests, and to cost about $800,000, carrying a mortgage of $400,000. Stock amounting to $100,- 000 has been taken, largely by wo- |men, in the proposed hotel for bual- nessa women, The shares went rapid ly last week after Miss Grace Dodge presented the plans and scope of the venture before the League for Poll tical Education The Margaret |Loulsa home has for years been |r | nese in New York to enjoy his for-/ Weycles were procured and) club and nave prought my little dog here, and | managed much on the plan of the THE SEATTLE STAR, It ina n proposed hotel for women. house whieh was bullt by a we jit I* offleered 1 run by women, and suppor y them, for it Is | self-aupp and every part of | ene manageny mA thousand women dine there every }day, and New York has no more at tractive wight than its drawing room and library in the evening, with thelr beautiful furnishing, fine pletures on the walla, coatly bite of bric-a-brac the open plano and bookcase full of | good books, and throngs of Wor jeither resting in some of the lor improving their minds | Dorothy's Question, | Dorothy haw a baby brother who | ently been Il, cutting his first iteeth, The baldness of the baby's |head had caused Dorothy great an | xlety “at the mother's j Hittite h 4 ie Dorothy.” you know ther ie dil. He is out ting hfin teeth Dorothy patted the bald head re- fleetively “Mame him tl whe BOARD OF EDUCATION. WwW. J. Me perintend: she said, “Will It make he cuts his hair?” 1 ith, county #ehool su nt, has received notice of @ special meeting of the #tate board of education to be held at Ellen» }bure on April 29. State Superin- tendent Frank J. Brown announces that the subjects to be considered } and regulations of xamination olghth | ns and | ton of state course of | applications for state certificat diplomas nd general The meeting of the state board of [higher education has been called for | April % at Ellensburg, to discu | * concerning the govern ft achools, as pasted by th last legislature. QUEER ETIQUETTE. Peculiarities of Customs of the Chinese. When @ Chinaman takes his little boy to school to introduce him to hin teacher, it Is done as follows, ae- cording to a missionary writer When the Chinaman arrives at the school he is escorted to the re |eeption room, and both he and his |teacher shake their own hand: bow profoundly, Then the te asks, “What is your honorable |name?” “My mean, tnsignificant name ts w Tea and pipe are sent for, and the teacher says, “Please use tea.” The Chinaman sips and puffs for « quar- jter of an hour before he says to the teacher, “What i» your honor- able name? “My mean Insignificant name ts Pott.” “How many Httle «tems have you sprouted tT This means, “How old are yout” | “I have vainly spent % years.” “Ie the honorable and great man lot the household Nving?” he i ask- ed after the teacher's father, “The olf man is well.” “How many precious little ones have your’ “I have two little dogs." These are the teacher's own children. “How many children have you In your iustrious Institution?” “T have o hundred little | brothers.” Then the Chinaman comes to busi- news. | “Venerable master.” he says “I broth- | Worshipfully intrust him to | charge.” | The little fellow, who had been standing in the corner of the room, comes forward at thin, and kneels before the teacher, pute his hands on the floor and knocks his head on it. The teacher raises him up and sends him off to school, while ar rangements are being made for hie sleeping room, ete. At last the Chin- ese gentleman arises to take his leave, saying: "I have lyou exceedingly today.” the teacher responds, dishonored you.” towant the door he requires the teacher to repeat, as long ax be t# in hearing, |"Go slowly, co why your tormented to which I have A. Strange Mishap. Two small boys were playing choo- choo in a back yard In Chicago the lother day, when one of them swal- jtowed his whis Tt was a very little one for a cent, but he mise ea it fust the «ame, and meant to ck. So he began to cough | have it very hard. “Where's 00 whistle lie'n playmate “1 thotllowed it.” sald Willle, and as he took a long breath the whistle, away down In his throat, gave a long asked Wil- toot Willie and the other boy Inughed; it was so funny to be able to blow whistle without trying. Bo Willie ran about tooting, until who happened to be out all the fan was about arned that he had ewal- lowed his whistle did not seem to think it much fun, for she hurried him off to the doctor, his mother. axked what When #he who thrust a long wire aown his throat and pulled the whistle out. And now when Wille war ‘ t on his whistle, he has it, ANOTHER HOLD-UP. Aman giving his na . residing at 1610 F rth rted to the lant night that he had be of $2 Pine street, be ‘ourth Fifth aven mpson describes the two r being tall and short. The tall man went through his pockets whil vhort man held a revolver to his face. A Royal Message. WET SEASON — IN PHILIPPINES Will Prevent Any Milit Movements. WASHINGTON, April 10—War q nt offclals look upon the lapproach of the wet on in the | Philippines aw a decisive factor determining the character of the | military movements during the next |six months, The Unt States troops were In the trenches around Manila through much of the worst {part of the wet season last sum- |mer, Major Bamp ehlef of t | bureau of military inf: then on the staff of Ge learned from ex n 4 the health and and retarded of the military operat He saya men were up to their knees in mud and water during July and August, whe our trenches were drawn around Manila, but it did not cause any ma- terial Increase in the sick rate. The stretches of quagmire ma ute military a large neale. | ‘The wet season does not begin, as ja rule, until June, so that it is near- ly two n ‘ore its effects will |be sertously felt. ‘The presenta months, April and May, generally lcome under the head of the hot season, which just precede the jdrenching raing beginning in month of June. The hottest weather i# in May, al- though it never goes above 100 de- are Gradually this mer into the heavy rains and violent storms of June, the wet season lasting for six months, The season 4 not jeome on abruptly, but Is a gradual | transition until everything is in a condition of soak. United States troops landed about July 1 and by that time the wet season was well under way, the men were sent into trenches for 4 hours and then relieved. In thie way the regiments would be moved up every morning and for that day and night would stand in knee-deep rain and mud, But it would have been dim- cult, if not impossible, to have kept | troops exposed to such conditions for any extended tm ‘The Astor batt was one of the bodies serving during part of the rainy season. Capt. March, one of the officers of the battery, was here recently, and aaid the sick rate dur- ing the wet season was kept down to 4 per cent. Major Simpson says that at no time did malaria or ty- photd assume an epidemic form. It is the general belief that Gen, Otte will complete his present cam- paign before the wet season opens. PIONEER DEAD. Amos Brown Succumbs to Cancer of the Stomach. Amos Brown, a wealthy pioneer of Beattie, died in Ban Francisco Sat- lurday afternoon. Mr. Brown went there about three weeks ago to un- dergo treatment for cancer of the stomach. He was tn « private san- {tartum, and on Friday morning, March %1, he war taken into the operating room, but on account of his weak condition the operation was deferred until it was thought he would be stronger, From that time he began to sink and Gnally expired at 2.40 o'clock Saturday afternoon. lumberman of Washington. jhad been In the state for over forty years. The family home at First avenue and Seneca street was built in the early ‘70s, of lumber shipped |from Ean Francieoq ‘fortune tn estimated at fully $290,000, | The remains of Mr. Brown will be | brought to this city tomorrow, and lthe funeral will be held Thursday | morning at 11 o'clock at the family jreaidence. Mr. Brown leaves a widow and five children — Alson Brown, Mra, Richard M. Kinnear, Miss Ora Brown, Miss Anna Brown, and Helen Brown. Value of Public Documents, A clever swindler has been work- \Ing a successful game upon a large ‘number of senators. His plan was to address the senator in familiar terms and then to request a certain number of specified government publications, naming those which have a fixed value in the second- hand bookstore |_ Although the senators could not remember the name of the corre- when they read his letter cordial t of the communica- tion and the apparent sincerity of the Inquiry regarding the health of the senator's wife and family con- vinced the reciptient that the writer was an old friend, and in many cas- es considerable trouble was under- gone in the effort to compiy with the request. It would have been discovered but fe the act that yesterday a senator showed the letter to one of his c leagues, made a request for pme of the vollumes asked for by the swindler. “Why,” said the senator ndent »f whom the request was made, “T h received a letter identical with yours, and I have sent the man all the publications he wanted. | Inquiry showed that the same let- ters had been sent to nearly all of the senators, and that in many cases documents had b hey were undoubtedly disposed of at current quotations.—Washington Post. SUN ECLIPSED AT MIDNIGHT A Phenomena Visible Nowhere | on Earth. King Menelek of Abyrasinia thinks | ‘The ordinary almanac gave for a great deal of Queen Victoria, Not |December 13 a partial eclipse of the long ago she spoke a friendly mesa-|sun, invistble at Greenwich, And age to hin yn a phonograph and the | indeed, the expression as to Ita in- little wax cylinder was carried away | visibility might have been put much over the sea to the still half-s age |atronger, for it is to be seen in no king and placed in another ph inhabited region of the earth, An graph, when, after the machine h ntarctle expedition might possibly been put in motion, he listened to |have sailed within its sphere of in- rds of the English queen with |fuence, but as it was it passed un- great delight jwatched by human eyes, says the Over and over he had the words|London Times, This being so, and repeated, first listening to them by |the eclipse one that was necessarily use of the trumpet of the machine | wholly unseen, It would seem as and then with the tubes to his ears. |if nothing more could b sald about At last, when he had heard tt often |it, and as if it might be passed with- enough, he stood up, and, taking his |out comment Hut, unseen as it turban from his head, dered a sa was, the eclipse was by no means jute f 17 guns to be fred in honor | d nid of interest First of all, it of the Queen of England joffers us an example of what seems | pean - 1 paradox—an eclipse of the sun | While Dr. Albert J. Forrest te in| taking place at local midnight. It New York, hia dental practice will be jis, moreover, the first of three ec Ups. attended to by Albin & Smith, den- [es falling within a period no longer | Usts, Room 10, Sullivan Block, act lk is Wa as ARN earl vk be 8 ON than a single calendar month, Dev- L panies in| the | 1 He. ht ti | “hoom” bil! investigation was on in conservative business man and his|the is doubtful if the dea | en furnished, | ember 27 brought a total eellpae of |the moon at Greenwieh; Jan, 1 a partial eclipse of the wun, And the three are very intimately connected with each other, The latter in ly all ite characteristics stands in | trong contrast to the eclipse of Dec~ jember wa lar partial eetipwe which will be seen Just outside (he |borders of the arctic regions, at their midday and in their midwinter Nor in this sequence accident A similar triplet of eclipses—the fret partial of the #un and meen neer the |south pole, the second total of the moon, the third partial of the sup and visible near the north pole curred just eighteen years ago, all three eclipses falling in Deoemer | 1880. Going back yet another leighteen years, we find the sam |thing repeated some ten days cariier in the year, and #o on right away backward tl! 1664, when, while the |nouthern eclipse was a large parila) ne and fell nearly in the midwinter of the southern hemisphere, the |northern was a mere graze taking place at the midnight of the regions |from which it was visible, Lov ing forward we find in like manner that eighteen years bh her similar triplet of eclip ‘at the turn of the year, lother eighteen years lat ends the series of the eclipses of the aun in th regions, for January 196 |marked only by a total eclipse of the moon, THE CHURCHES. mn and yet r wtill foi Special meetings will be conduct- ed at the Madison street M. E. church every evening thin week at 7.80 o'clock by Evangelist Stuart L. Noble. Rev. FE. M. Randall jr. gave a special lecture to young men in hin lchurch yesterday afternoon, taking for his subject, “The Turning Point Last summer the first expedition of | of Destiny.” Rev, Elmer E. Thompson, of the Third Cumberland Presbyterian church, was confined to his room yes- terday on account of sickness, and Rev. R. F. Powell Milled the pulpit. Special evangelistic services will be conducted at the First Baptist church every night this week. The pastor, Rev. L. 8. Bowerman, will | be anninted by Rev, Alexander Black- D. D., pastor of the “White at Portland, His Excuse. A very subdued looking boy of 12 years, with a long scratch on his nome and an air of general dejection, came to his teacher in one of the Boston public schools and handed her a note before taking his seat become deeply absorbed in his book. The note read as follow “Mise Bo: Pray excuse James for not being thare yessterday. He play-_ ed trooant, but I geass you don't need to Iiiek tim for it, as the boy he played trooant with an’ him fell out, an’ the boy licked him, and a man they sassed caught them and licked him, and the driver of a sled they hing onto licked him allso, Then his pa licked him, and I had to give him another one for sassing me for tell- ing his pa, #0 you need not lek him Until next time. I gees he thinks he better keep in school hereafter.” SAVED HIMSELF By Affirming Instead of Swear- ing to His Testimony. Some lawyers were talking about the protests against kissing the Bi- Mr. Brown was one of the pioneer | bie in courts of law that are being He | made tn other states. That was abolished In Allegheny county and in nearly all of Pennsylvania a long time ago. A story was told of when it was generally done. The noted Pennsylvania legisiature. An |trish member of the lower house was summoned one day to appear before |the investigating committee. He met Tim O'Leary on the street. “How are you, Tom?” asked Tim, “Sure and it's fn throuble I am,” replied Tom, “in dape throuble, an’ may the divil fy away wid me ay I know fot to do. “What's wrong?” asked Tim. “Wrong is it?” replied Tom. “Sure and it's all wrong, so tt is. They've aint for me to testhtify befoor th’ |boom bill comitay.” “You don't know any thing about the boom bill do you?" he was asked. “That's the whole throuble.” he answered. “I know all about !t, too |danged mooch fer me own good, an’ av they shwear me, I'm roon'd. I can't go home at all, to face me con- stituents.” “Don't swear, then, O'Leary. “How'll T get out av tt, O1'd lolke to know?” asked the man In trouble \“Ave they gits me befoor thim, they | will make me shwear an’ me con- science'll make me tell th’ troot. I couldn't slape wid th’ mortal sin o' shwearin’ t' a lol on me sowl, No, sor, I'm in f'r it. I'll have to take the oath.” “The law allows you to affirm if you don’t want to swear,” O'Leary informed tim. “Does It now, with the eagerness of a man grasps at a straw. | “Sure,” replied O'Leary; “ask the | committee.” | O'Leary met the legislator com- ing out of the room of the Investi- | gating committee that night, with a smile spreading over his fa “Dkin't shwear to a danged thing, | Tim," he replied, with his smile ex- panding. ‘The comitay didn't ask |me to, T says ‘I'll afform,’ and they \aays, ‘All rought.’ So I afformed an’ they didn't git a danged thing out av me that was th’ troot.” | | | advised Tim Tim?” asked Tom who | Every Pair FITS. COEN'S NERVE IS MARVELOUS 5 Only Equaled by Credulity of Cuban Generals. WASHINGTON, April 10.—~As the | facts concerning the transactions of Mr. Coon with the Cuban assembly come out there in great amazement lat his audacity and the credulity of lthe Cuban generals, Onty the other | day Mr, Coen telegraphed to General Manuel Banguilly that he has ree jeelved personal assurances from the | President that he would give author. lity for the lesue of $20,000,000 of § | per cent. bonds with the guaranty of the government and well th lnyndicate represented by | $12,000,000, which money \turned over to the members of the |Cuban assembly. When Villalon and the other delegates who came to thig city to inquire inte this telegraphed rir associates in Havana that the sident declined to see them, but t they had been informed b co lretary Hay that no loan w be authorized under any circumstances, Coen calmly contradicted them ang |nent another digpatch stating that they had been misled by Becretary |Hay while he was in consultation with the President. The assembly believed him in preference to thelr own committee. Coen has never been near the White House nor the state depart. ment nor the war department, and no offictal of the government hae ever communicated with him direct+ ty or indirectly by letter or word of mouth, so far as known. He has not even attempted to obtain an officlal indorsement of hin scheme, nor even an interview. He has never propose od it to anyone, and the degree of his ignorance and audacity ts indie leated by his declaration that the President, on the part of the gov- jernment of the United States, “will guarantee the payment of these bonds,” when a schoolboy might tell him that he has no such authority, | If Coen could carry out his scheme |he would make a very handsome | profit. He would have $8,000,000 in & per cent. bonds guaranteed by the — government of the United States, and with such @ guarantee he could [sell them for at least 25 per cent. premium and make a clear $10,000,000 on the transaction, Valueless Titles. Millions and millions of our Amere fean-earned money have crossed the Atlantic with our American giris, hitched for life to dissolute foreign 4 swells, Searcely any of these mar- |riages have proved happy ones, Our American women don't seem to know that civil titles in Europe are just as common 4s military titles in thie Republic after a big war. Some star gazer says that on @ clear, moonless night we can count some 4200 starw with the naked eye, And yet, since hii began, there have been more kings than that, not to mention the emperors, czara shahs, beys, archdukes, grand dukes, princes, earls,. lords chancellors, lelectors and sirs. Royal orders decorations among the nobility Burope and Asia began with piety and war. b. ‘They have all ated now im ribbons and button! ish knights of 500 years ago wom their garters and crosses by killing some other knight with a broad sword, but the knights we have oficial life in Washington are the stale and insipid type. ‘The most of them won thelr decors ations as ancient captains of wortt out majors, or have had their dise charge from public trust smootheg over with the cheap ribbon of @ chevalier. France alone has issue@ over 18,000 of these international vanities. And thousands of our rich Amere tcan giris, who should have adorned American homes and raised up worthy sons and daughters of thie Republic, have been caught in tha gaudy meshes of supposed royalty, and found neither homes nor hape piness, The Cat Is a Fraud. All the people who heve ever had much to do with cats, say that they cannot be trusted. A dog will do as he has been taught, but a cat will only mind while it Is watched. A lady who owns one has often whip- ped it for coming into the parlor, where, with its sharp claws, it teard up the curtains or anything else that flutters. While the lady is in the house the cat will never g@ into the parlor, but when she ha@ been out she always finds pussy's black hairs on the parlor sofa cushe ‘The other day, when she cama me from a call, she saw pussy int the parlor window lazily watching the people go by. When tt saw her coming it Jumped and ran up stalray where she found it pretending ta be asleep. Lightning Smashes a Clock A singular freak of nature was witnessed last Mond. night by the family of Mr. Andy Divine, eays the Harrodsburg Sayings, During the torm the lightning 5 chimney and come pletely smashed the clock, doing no other damage. The lightning must und its way down on the out- f the chimney, as the clock n the mantel was the only object injured. 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