The Washington Bee Newspaper, October 12, 1895, Page 7

THE EIGHT-P A THE NEWSIEST AND BEST JOURNAL PUBLISHED. The Washington BEE is no doubt the newsiest and best journal published by an Afro-American in this country. The Bree contains more news than any two weeklies published anywhere in the United States. Here is what our exchanges say : Tue Bee Hive Dumpep. [From the American Star.] Washington newspaper publishers are getting up in the world. Friend ae Sei bs has apres the Colored : +. : ‘ merican’s 0) at and put on a regu- 1 vays talk most who never lar “‘ Dunlap”’ headgear, while Broth- , er Chase politely dumped the “old - rest woman is not the one|hive’’ and procured a brand new hive ¢ - least, but the one who|with artistic cells, and of course the most. Bee is humming. Both papers are canofie ba Sune lot Sree beautiful. We like to see it, if we can’t. -tter memory than people 5 possess. “BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.” tter to do well than say well. {From the Texas Freeman.]} omises can never bemended.| We are just a trifle late in saying so, 1] should study instrumental but the Washington Bee has made me- xcept she has a_ gift for it. |Chanical changes that improve its ap- wn art, and the girl who has | pearance and reflect credit on the man- r it, is quite out of it, agement. ~w women realize that novelty ty are as attractive to a man irriage as betore. :an who is careless in her ap- n her husband’s presence miss the nice little compli- never fail to please a PSeSaT Res FEGSEPT RS gry Fee /f [From the Appeal.] The Washington Bee recently made considerable improvement in its ap- pearance and enlarged its size to a quarto. Since his late little unpleas- antness Chase seems to be ‘“‘stronger than ever.” o'd gown or the style of r hair day after day, will not ease the taste of a devoted . It will cause him to cease miration for yon. [From Newspaperdom.] The Washington (D. C.) BEE has been enlarged and substantially im- proved. The general tone and char- acter of the Bee sustain the place and a name it has made for itself under the n finds one who desires her to] editorial management of William Cal- best atall times, she should] yin Chase. t opportunity pass by not ac- = , him, or try to please him. [From the Fourth Estate] Men who glory in their wife’s good] THe Bre BusIER THAN Ever. fter marriage are very scarce ioe generally happens that aman of], The Washington (D. C.) Ber has such a disposition gets a wife just the been enlarged and substantially im- proved. It is now an eight-page pa- si a " per. The general tone and character ition in the estimation of} of the Bee sustain the place and name re peculiar beings and when a Jooks a - Bp ould be what we are and not} it has made for itself under the edito- - Ft e claim to be. rial management of William Calvin 7 What a good man needs is a neat Chase. ae and a wife that is pleasant. t this he will soon go to the yward path. en a woman excepts a man’s es- of men and the doing of life, he e sure to think with her upon asions. home [From the Southern Forge.] The Washington BEE comes to us this week in great shape. It hasanew head and twice the size. Brother Chase is going ahead. And if you bother the Bee you'll get ‘“‘stinged.”” ree nan is inthe wrong he rarely it in words, but if given a little .d_silence, he is sure to show it tions. nue wife always holds her husband lis very best, and without flat- ikes him feel that she loves him all others s not quite the fair Sia a girl use to become a man’s bride until s bought a house or accumulated If there is ever a time in a s life when he needs the encour- nt and cooperation of a wife, it ime when he is striving to gain r benefit. Nothing can come in the memory {either man or woman that is more jous than the remembrance that e had the opportunity, we did ould for our aged parents who eceded us into the greater life We should not expect more of per- sons than they are capable of realizing. e: A failure in a young man’s nnot always be attributed to (From the Alexandria Leader.] The Washington BEE has purchased an entire new outfit. The Bee will be issued as eight-page paper. May suc- cess attend the Bee. [From the Evening Star.] ENLARGED TO EIGHT PaGEs. The Washington BEE appeared Sat- urday, enlarged and substantially im- proved, as an eight-page paper. It also presented many illustrated fea- tures, including portraits of Major Moore, Commissioner Ross and other Districtofficials and prominent citizens. The general tone and character of the Bee sustain the place and name it has made for itself under the editorial management of William Calvin Chase. The leading editorial Saturday pledges support to Gov. McKinley’s candidacy for President. [From the Western Optic.] The Washington, D. C., BEE is out in a new dress of type, and with its improved make-up now ranks with the foremost Negro newspapers in Amer- utat times to erroneous parental ica. May the Bee improve each shin- tion, hence you should not be so ing hour. k to find fault with the young man ae m you referred. [From the Athens Clipper.] People talk so much swage one The last issue of the Washington cat f children until they al se or-| Bex presents a very pleasant appear- - “t there is such a thing as aduca-| 4c¢ to the public. It has eight pages : parents. wantfng in the house-| 4 ounding in rich reading matter. Ed- itor Chase has lost none of his old time vigor in wielding the pen. The Clipper congratulates the Bee and hopes it and its editor may live many years to sting the enemies of the race. NOT ONLY TALK, BUT DO — WHAT WE SAY! [From the Baltimore Standard.] The Washington BEE comes to us this week in an eight-page form, and Editor j much improved every way. THK EL ] fail Chase is to be congratulated. 11 Lil | [From the Chicago A. M. E. Record.] The Washington BEE came out last week, considerably improved. It is now a six-column quarto, and has the lé) SINTH STREET N, mother’s love is deeper and eerthar any love extended to a appearance of property stamped upon all of its departments. —————— STATE oF Onto, City OF TOLEDO, | .. Lucas County. i. FRANK J. Cr makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY & oS doing business in the city of Toledo, Ce n : : ‘ | State afor and that said firm will pay the ! Portraits in Cray ON, | sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each Oo. | and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured ‘ | Pastel, enlarged to any | by the use of Haus’s Caranen Cones NEY, Si ‘9 -, - Sworn to before me and subscribed in my pres- 8 mm Card and Tintype. | ence, this 6h day of December, A. D. 3886. 7 {seAL.] A.W. ASON, * Notary Public. Likeness Guaranteed. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, Send for te: , free. FE j.c CO., Toledo, O. Monthly and weekly payments laken. Reduction for cash. &B™ Sold by Druggists, 75c. ainting and all kinds of Portraits restored. j & < Frames at lowest prices. ut S | S Orders received at office of the | FOR TORPID LIVER ] ‘ - Aterpid li deranges the wholesys- ers by mail promptly tom, and produces ta Sick Headache, Dyspepsia, Costiveness, Rheu- matism, Sallow Skin and Piles. There je discases than ‘Tut's Liver Pills, as a trial will prove. Price, 25e. here. Advertise in the BEE. THIS WEEES . NEWS. | A Summary of Current Events—The Werld's Doings for the Past Six Days Gathered and Condensed for Our Readers, General. Snow fell during the past week in the Catskills. Spain, it is reported, will shortly send twenty-five more battalions to Cuba. Many vessels were wrecked in the recent heavy gales on the great lakes Ex-Police Justice Solon B. Smith, 2 prominent New York politician, is dead Peary, the Arctic explorer, says he will never again attempt to reach the Pole. Full settlement. has been reached by the conflicting interests of the Whiske3 Trust. A great gale in England has been attended with loss of life and shipping disasters. Gen. Mahone, who suffered from a recent paralytic stroke, is somewhat improved. The Prince of Wales denies any con- nection with the Rose challenge for the America cup. Harry Wright, the famous baseball manager and player, is critically ill at Atlantic City, N. J. Capt. R. D. Evans, “Fighting Bob,” has been assigned to the command of the new battleship Indiana. Father Wagner, of St, Joseph, Mo., is charged with abducting a fifteen- year-old girl of his parish. Formal orders placing Major Gene- ral Nelson A. Miles in command of the United States Army will be issued. The Democratic convention of Che- nango county, N. Y., endorsed Presi- dent Cleveland for a third term. The crack American steamer St. Louis cut down her time four hours in her last trip across the Atlantic. Corbett, the pugilist has left for Tex- s, although the probability is that the Eee will pass a law prohibiting prize fighting. The baseball season ended on Mon- day, and the Baltimore club is cham- pion of the National league for an- other year. Dr. Parkhurst, in New York city, has written a letter, asking for a new Com- mittee of Seventy to inaugurate a new reform campaign. The new American line steamer St. Paul made an average of 21 knots an hour in a run up the coast from the Yelaware capes. John C. New, ex-President Harrison's closest friend, reports that he favors Robert T. Lincoln as the Republican candidate for President. Charles Lynn’s filibustering expedi- tion, which carried 2,500 rifles and am- munition to the insurgents, is believed to have landed safely in Cuba. The new French torpedo boat Le- forban made thirty-one knots an hour on her trial tPip, the fastest time ever recorded for a steam vessel. The Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon has been wrecked, and is probably a total loss. This is the third Spanish warship wrecked within a year. The Durrant trial at San Francisco is now in its tenth week, and will last probably three weeks longer. The de- fence continues its effort to prove an alibi. China has responded to England's demands by degrading Viceroy Lin, of the province of Scz-Chuen for his sym- pathy with the recent Chengtu mission outrages. The police commissioners of New York have directed a resumption of the use of the night club by the police, and the Good Government Clubs denounce the action. Thomas A. Lynch, whom the New York police locked up as a common drunkard, died in Bellevue Hospital from a fractured skull, and there is evidence of foul play. A meeting of different religious and civic organtzations in Boston passed resolutions of thanks to Gov. Culber- son, of Texas, for his splendid efforts to prevent prize fighting. The monthly statement of the public debt issued by the Treasury Depart- ment shows the debt on Sept. 30, less cash in the Treasury, to have been $941,089,686, an increase for the month of $1,834,687. M. Lebon, the French minister of commerce, announces that a contract has been signed for laying a subma- rine cable between Brest and New York, and for a link between the French cable system and the Antilles. The United States Geodetic Survey has established a line between the Golden Gate at San Francisco and the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, which will be of use in forming exact lines of longitude and in determining the precise shape of the earth. Wm. Patche went into Thornton’s deer park near Varna, Ill., on Sunday. The animals are known to be ferocious, and danger signs warn trespassers to keep out. Yesterday Patche’s torn and mangled body was found dangling form the horns of a large deer. Life had been extinct for hours. The State Department in Washington has been advised of the payment in Lon- don of the Spanish draft for the Mora claim, and the deposit of the net pro- ceeds to the credit of the Secretary of State in the New York sub-treasury. The draft called for the payment of $1,- 449,000 in gold. The Good Government Club Conven- tion in New York nominated a county ticket of its own. The tents of the Barnum & Bailey show were torn into shreds by a cyclone at Burlington, Iowa,. The animals, the fat woman, the giants and the lving skeletons and the circus riders were all exposed to the storm. Hail broke the windows of Press Agent Hamilton’s car and cut some of his advance notices. Loss $12,000; nobody hurt. The fiat has gone forth from police headquarters that all news stands and bootblacking stands on the sidewalks in the city of New York must be re- moved. A _ delegation of bootblacks waited upon President Roosevelt of the police board. He referred them to Act- ing Police Superintendent Conlin, who imparted the information that he had no discretion in the matter. There was the law in unmistakable characters, and he had received orders to enforce it. THE WASHINGTON BEE. | Yale defeated Cambridge on Manhat- tan athletic field by winning eight of the eleven évents. The Cleveland baseball club defeated | the champion Baltimores in the series for the Temple cup. The fourth annual convention of the Commercial Travelers’ Home Asso ia- tion of America is in session at Buffaio Erastus Fuller, one of the wealt farmers in Western New York, killed on the tracks of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in Middleport. John D Farden, alias T. J. Frankin, formerly a clerk in the Adams Express office at Terre Haute, Ind., was arrested at Baltimore, charged with the theft of 316,000 from his employers. A fire which is supposed to have been of incendiary origin totally destroyed two barns, completely gutted a dwelling house and seriously damaged the Trinity Methodist Church on Ida Hill in Troy. A fire that started in the warehouse of the old stock yards at Cincinnati, 0., destroyed thousands of bushels of corn. There was no water at hand, and every- thing in the vicinity was at the mercy of the flames. Foster E. Swift, a well-known hotel man and a Knight Templar, of North! Adams, Mass., was shot by John B. Hol- man, a traveling salesman for the East- man Kodak Company, of Rochester, N. Y., and narrowly escaped with his life. The business men of Guthrie. Okla., held a big meeting, canvassed the law and decided that the Corbett-Fitzsim- mons mill could be held there without any legal complications. They will tele- graph the managers of the fighters to come there. Capt. John Barr, skipper of Howard Gould’s twenty-rater Niagara, which has won such signal victories in British; waters, has returned to this country. He says the Niagara will race next year. Out of the fifty-two races she had sailea she had won thirty-one first prizes, eight second prizes and one third. In the races were two Herreshoff boats, the Isolde and the Dakotah. Dispatches received at Athens from the island of Crete show that many murders have recently been committed and’ that robbery and other acts of law- lessness are of frequent occurrence. As a result the Government of Crete has offered to resign. The Cretans have presented a memorial to the representa- thves of the Powers against the Turkish | administration of Crete. ANOTHER SPANISH WARSHIP LOST. Cruiser Cristobal Colon Wrecked on the Cuban Cuast. Havana, Oct. @—Another Spanish warship has been lost. The cruiser Cristocal Colon has been wrecked near Cape Antonio and, it is believed, will prove a total loss. The Cristobal Colon is a second class cruiser of about 1,200 displacment and 1,600 horse power. She is estimated to have had about 300 officers and men. The disaster occurred off Cotorado Point, in the Gulf of Gauadina, south of the town of Mantua, In the province of Pinar del Rio, near Havana. he Christobal Colon appears to have encountered the severe weather off Cape Antinio, and to have put into the Gulf of Guadiana for shelter. There she tried to ride out the flerce gale und heavy seas; but was slowly driven towards Colorado Point, off which there is a dangerous ~ own as the Colo- rado reef. W? mander of the cruiser sv~ id not make head age .e attempted to anchn: stories told here; bu. id not hold and the c shore. BOY BURN. - TAKE, Fatally Injured by Yu ‘s Who Were Playlug Te’ East Liverpool, Oct -The six-year- old son of Andrew Vandy was burned at the stake yesterday by five com- panions and so badly injured that he cannot recover. Some men happened to see the performance and tried to rescue him, but his clothes had taken fire and he was terribly burned. A Wild West show exhibited here about a month ago, and since that time the boys of the town have been playing Indian. } nsy-Made Money. Toledo, O., Oct. 7.—This city is flooded with counterfeit five-dollar bills. Dur- ing the last few days they have been thrown out of nearly every bank in town New York Produce Market. New York. Oct 7 «noon).—Fiour—Receipts,. 19,400 bbls; sales, 2.400 pk, e and Western dull and weaker to sell. City Mill patents, M.20@4.40: city mill clears. 33.95@4. Minn. patents, 3 do backers, #2.800)3.10; win- ter patent 1003.70; do straights, 38.25@3 40; do extras, & 95: do low grades, 82.002 s spring wheat low grade, $1.90@2.60.. Wreat—Receipts, 184.0%) bush; sales, 450.000 bush. Market dull and weaker on lower cables, big northwestern receipts and reported free Russian offerings: May 68@99e. Fy >—Receipts ; track white state and western @50-. Corn—Receip Dull and weak under tine w uther, big receips; October 36'4¢@38%: November 3te; December 35 1-10G3at{e. Vats--Receipts, 113.89) bush; sales. 10,000. Market dull but steady. Track white State and western. 257,30¢. Barley and barley malt, nominal. Beef—Steady. Famii 10. 0012.00. Pork—dull. New mesg. 310.00@10. Lerd— Prime western steam. $8.20. Nominal. Butter — Receipts, 8197 pkgs. Firm; State dairy, 12% @ 2t4sc; western dairy, 10 @13c; elgins, 2c; state creamery, 2%4@23c; western do, 164.@ 17% Cheese—Receipt: state, large 6@8 skims, 2@7c; full . Eggs—Receitpts, Market firm; State and Pennsylva Bi 2le. Sugar—Market strong; retining, 3%c: cen- trifugal. 96; test, 3%c; refined strong; crushed, 534@S 7-16c; powdered, 44%@5 I-16c, granulated, 456@4 13-16e. Petroleum—Market auiet. Coffee—Market dull: No. 7, 6c. / Lead—Marxet firm; bullion price, $3.15; exchange, 33.35@3.37%. Potatoes—Market steady; sweets, 31.62@2.75; Long Island, 1.00@1.12; Jersey, 90c@31.10; New York, %e@81.12. Tallow—Market dull; city, 43c. Hides—Market steady; Buenos Ayres 20to24 Ds, 2ic: Texas dry, 24 to 30 hs, te; California Market steady; 54@sKe; part 1 pkgs. small. ‘ ary 21 to 24 lbs, 16@18%e; Galveston dry 20 to 25 Ibs, 16@17 4c. Hops—Market weak. State, common to choice, 1894 crop, 3@7c; 185 crop, 7@10. Pacific coast, 1904, 344@7c. - a - RETURN FROM HUROPE. “=~ ' It was the night before we sighted land, | ‘And silently: the brilliant sun went down. | The broad Atlantic touched by magic | hand | Sent up a glow as from some jewelled | crown. ! | From out the eastern waves the pale moon rose, As if to lure anew the traveller’s eye Back from that cherished spot of sweet repose, The pss Hemisphere close drawing nigh. Long upon deck I stood that tranquil night, ‘Watching the ship’s smooth cut along the waves, : Turning from Dian’s silver, shimmering ; light | To where laves the distant, crimson water The banks of home. What holy memories | rose Sweeping out thoughts of great, imperial Rome, Her Caesars’ those, Her gladiatorial fights, and Peter’s dome. | | Palace, and the scene of Sweeping aside those pictures vague yet clear Of Paris, one vast, sad, historic spot,— , Napoleon’s tomb, imperial as dear,— i ae dda statue veiled to hide its Drowning the hum of London busy still Within the weary brain, her noisy ways Haunted by Dickens’ tread, her Abbey’s thrill . Of august presences and ancient days; Cologne’s cathedral, that grand prayer in stone, Venice amid her MNquid thoroughfares, From Rigi’s dizzy height, from swift, blue Rhone ! I turned, and to my lips came unawares: America, my country, who would prove The patriotic impulse in his breast Needs but to feel the mighty ocean move Boundless between him and his heart's true rest. There fs no object in that foreign land ( ®o lovely as—no matter where he roam— Bartholdi’s statue with her torch in hand Lighting the wanderer back to Freedom's home. —Joanna R. Nicholls. J A CASTLE IN SPAIN. * i i I had mounted an omnibus on the Boulevard Rousseau and comfortably seated myself in a corner of the dimly, lighted vehicle. . A pale-faced girl sat at my side, and her marble cheeks glistened with tears. Sympathy is not my strong point. When I was & young man distress dissolved me like the sunbeam pierces the dew- drop and translates its vapor to the sky. Misery always made the wings of my soul flutter, and I felt at once a struggle to rise to the heroic. But now I amold and the frost of years is on my feelings like the locked lid on a family chest of silver. But those tearful eyes rolled in their liquid loveliness, and their light shone like a shaft of burnished metal. | ! | “What ails you?” I asked kindly. “Me? Nothing. I weep for my broth- er.” Her unselfishness robed her in the garb of a heroine. I wanted to know more. : “Where is your broth “At home. Very sick.” She had asked the conductor to stop at the Place Moliere, and was about to alight, when I carried a small bundle te the street and asked to be allowed to go to her brother. Across this wide esplanade, dedicated to the memory of dramatic genius, there is an abrupt turn in the street that leads to a large building of stone. It is a dreary structure, the fitting abode of present misery, as it had been of past crime. Here the phoenix of the Revo- lution expired in the fires of its ferocity, to rise again and again from its ashes and spread gloom and rapine and eter- nal wrong. i The girl’s footfall seemed a signal for a light at the upper window, which cautiously opened. ' “Who is there?” asked a trembling and an aged voice. cha: “Only Clarette, mother.” I felt easier when I heard that golden word. Wherever is a mother the angel of mercy is with her. She is never alone. We entered a room at the end of the hallway. The brother, pallid, weak, seemed to be fading from the earth like a beauti- ful flower that a rude wind had with- ered. It was Youth in the embrace of Love, passing to the arms of Death. | Never a strong child, a fever had sap- | ped his strength and was now loosen- | ing the ties of life. 1 scrutinized the fading features; gen- tleness of a woman blended with a mas- | culine look of purpose. Ambition was | graven on the broad brow, and the lips denoted purity of thought. All is not yet lost. I will save this boy. Ambi- tion, hope, faith, that are imaged in your noble face, shall be for thee and for the waiting world, to bless it. I, who for all these years had lived for myself ; alone, whose life had been an air-bub- ple floating with the mote in the sun- beam, realized that I had been a blank page in a volume of fifty-seven chap- ters. Philanthropy seized me like a fever. I wanted to do good at every turn. A young doctor, poor and struggling, gladly and promptly answered my call. ‘A druggist who was striving to own his store filled the prescriptions. There was hope, the doctor told us. When he left in the gray of the following dawn his words of cheer were more glowing to our hearts than the reap- pearing sun. ‘A few weeks’ constant care had re- stored the ebbing strength, and the boy brightened like a tree fed by the waters of a brook. My visits were daily. I forgot my- self. 1 did not quarrel with the waiter that the Burgundy was too warm. My dyspepsia had disappeared. In the streets, at the table, by my bed, I saw a trinity brighter to me than the thenlogist’s glory—goodness, gratitude and love. I who laughed at day dreams dreamed on when the noonday beam gilded the obscurest corner. I could see that boy, so fair to look upon, winning laurels, gaining fortune. I could see him walking with his sister in cathedral alsles to link her life to the youth she had loved when poverty made havoc of the hope and despair had burnt her soul till its inner shell’ was like a char- red and ashen tree, ooo The mother, too, rested at their side, with a loving child at either arm sup- purting the fading form now worn with the strife for those she loved. When the summer days warmed the air and filled it with perfume from the wild flowers and golden radiance from the blue sky, the dimness and the still- ness of the winter’s woe, and all was joy where had been tears, the light and | love of their hearts shone like a torch in the dark and empty corridors of my dreary existence. A violent shake of my arm aroused me. I looked around. Dierbon, my old companion in cards and cheer, wanted to know what ailed me. ‘ “You have been ina trance.” * se really dreamed that I was doing “Thank God it was only a dream!’”* was the reply. _ We went down into the gay streets, into the wakeful world. . A flower girl offered a bunch of blush- ing roses for only fifty centimes., “Don’t bother us: “Kind sir, I have a child dying at home. A little—a littie—help.” The voice seemed to be dying, too, ‘ | with the spirit of the child. “Oh! I never hear them.” oak, We crossed to the Eden Theatre,! “There's Clotilde Passevert.” “Did she acknowledge your diamon@ nosegay?” Cae “She never thanks.”—Edward Lande, {n Peterson’s Magazine. eo “What did that woman want?" {| fi The New Style of Shell. The use of solid shot in warfare has been given up practically. The projec- tile of to-day is a conical shell of ste¢t, hollow and sometimes loaded with pow- der so as to explode on striking or by a time-fuse. It is wonderfully different from the shell of twenty-five years ago. in those days one could watch the pro- jectile as it sailed through the air in a graceful curve, at length bursting. There was even time to get out of the way under favorable circumstances. But the new style of shell moves at the rate of a little over half a mile a sec- ond. On striking a metal target, its en- ergy being transformed instantaneous- ly into heat, it becomes redhot and 2 flame is actually seen to burst forth from the point struck. Such a projec- tile moves, one might say, in a straight line, and its impact at a distance of a mile seems almost simultaneous with the discharge of the gun. Such a shell, passing near a man, will tear his clothes off, merely from the windage. If it comes very near, though, without hit- ting him, it will kill him. He drops dead without a sign of a wound. Where- as an old-styled shell would burst into a few pieces, the modern projectile flies into a myriad of small fragments, each of them moving with tremendous veloc; ity. It may easily be imagined that a half a dozen six-pound Hotchkiss shells finding their way into a vessel would scatter death and destruction in every direction. Protective armor, owing to its great weight, can be placed only over the ship’s vitals—that is to say, along the middle part of the hull near the water line, sq as to cover the machin- ery. In future naval battles gunners will direct their fire against the unarmored ends of the opposing vessel.—Rene Bache, in Boston Transcript: A Marderer's Fortune, If Parker Pearsons Valentine will come forward and be hanged, or take his chances of it, he can have $300,000. Valentine is wanted in Minnesota for murder, and they want to give him his big estate, bequeathed to him in the will of his mother, Mrs. Lucy A. Val- entine. Mrs. Valentine died in Colum- bia county, Wis., two years ago. She had considerable property of her own, and she inherited about $35,000 from the estate of her half-brother, Hiram A. Pearsons, the capitalist, who was drowned in Lake Michigan. A portion of the property is in San Francisco. A twenty year trust was created by the will of Mrs. Valentine, the property to be held during the period of the trust for the missing son. If the son does not appear the estate is to be given to St. John’s Home, Milwaukee. When young Valentine was 12 years of age he had a quarrel with his mother and left home. He went to Chicago and worked as a clerk, but soon spec- ulated and made $60,000. He then went to Minneapolis to study medicine. There he married, much against his mother’s will, and a few months later ; he killed a man whom he found in his house. He fled, and soon afterwards he visited his former home,and a few months later he went away, and since that time nothing has been heard of him. A former business associate of the son claimed to have heard from him in Colorado a few years ago, and when Mrs. Valentine died she believed her son to be still living.—Philadelphia Ledger. or A Grand Prix for Bicyclists. The Paris Town Council proposes to found a Grand Prix de Paris for cy- clists, but it will only be of £400. Our Paris correspondent says: “Cycling seems to advance in arithmetical progres- sion. There are cycling-dress depart- ments for ladies and gentlemen in all the great shops like the Bon Marche and at the Merchant Tailors’. The Velodrome, at the Champ de Mars, makes a fortune, though the city receives from it a rent of 30,000 francs and 6 per cent. of all the money taken at the doors. This royalty last year brought in 20,000 franes. The last census, taken with a view to taxa- tion, returned 50,000 in the Department of the Seine. There are perhaps double the number now, as women are taking up the eycle as a means of enjoying cool country air in the evening. Every one who cycles is delighted with the exercise and the sense of freedom that it gives. It brings townspeople into the country without any of the town conditions. I have friends who cycle to Dieppe on Sat- urday and back to Paris on Monday.”—- London Daily News. A Bulwark Agsinst Mosquitees. Speaking of feet makes me think of the amazing ingenuity of a girl I know. We were all sitting on the veranda of a house in Tacoma the other night, and it was a night when the mosquitoes were out in full force. All the women were wearing low shoes, and by the way they twitched and wriggled you could tell whenever @ mosquito got in a telling blow. The ingenious girl alone of all the party was plainly not troubled. At length I asked her how she managed it. “It’s very simple,” said she. “I simply wear one thickness of newspaper inside my stockings.” You see the power of the press is really, something you can’t estimate —Washe ington Post. a + 7 ae ee = as em vag