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1$H SLYKE, Editor and Pub ILLINOIS WHEN THE WOMEN VOTE. fUtM slgtent with their b*tjg|to doubt whether it wai ciinitent with honest possession of, at all events, the contents of the bag on the part of my late fellow passenger--the man who was booked for London, and who had been asleep when I left the train at Thurley. No... doubt he was awake and also altera of his loss by this time. What a state 0i mind he must be in, too. But jost^as I was trying to realise , WSk' sftriic" at 4hfrid n mimmif-df- -graft , ,..;J i ***** ana a KfcntHiru; o, n,>«vy iwt it, P|i ̂ ^(oae jdhctioB tt seemed to denote; J th® yard outside reminded me that it Bbt when it was read it proved but t» be j was time to pay the men. "V* I • « 1 r» j!# i4-circular came in the course of the mail, : A circular dainty and white; Jf&se printed in script and well gottenjyj. -•sA. brief invitation to vote. . ' ' , )i* She pondered it over and knitted brow; >vl; \J8he never had had one before; •^tjben studied the date for a 'her minute or •M'- / i i - tWO, r <1* , .And thought of engagements <a score, Atad could she find time? she asked of her- O' self-- V fehe'd a luncheon she knew for that day, ,'jLhd an afternoon tea she'd ought to at- > , tend; ,tThe outlook was pleasant and gay, • % new invitation was novel, of course, : sa And that had a charm of its own. But the joys of a tea s^e had tasted i>e- fore, x.. While those of the polls were Unknown. :|le wearily sighed, and she picked up her 7^,,- pen one whom a problem besets, the campaign committee received tht nextday Her daintily written regrets. ^. ?--Boston Graphic. . THREE BLACK BAGS. M: As I often say to my wife, when she .blames me for forgetting her little * commissions, it's a queer thing, is the mind, and great is the force of habit. I never forget to do anything I'm in the habit of doing, but as Tilly usual­ ly attends to the shopping herself I'm not in the habit of calling at the butch­ er's or the grocer's on my way home r r from business, and therefore--well, t therefore, I don't call three times out of five that she tells me to. Don't I catch it? No; not overmuch, anyhow. For one thing, we haven't been married very long, and Tilly agrees that it's only reasonable I should have time to learn to be more careful, and, for another, if it Wasn't for the hold a habit has on me, I doubt whether we should be married yet, or at least we shouldn't be living in our own house, with the furniture all bought at a large discount for cash. I am a clerk in the service of a firm of colliery and quarry owners at Ling- ton, and every Saturday morning I go out to Westerby, a village some ,thirty miles off among the moors, to pay the , quarrymen there their wages. The money (nearly 100 pounds, most­ ly silver) I always carry in a little black leather bag, one of those bags you see by scores every day, which may contain anything from a packet of sandwiches and a collar to a dynamite bomb, and it's my habit when in the train to put my bag on the rack facing me. I rarely keep it on the seat by my side, and I don't like to put it over my bead. ( If it has to go there because the op­ posite rack is full I am always uneasy about it, fancying I shall forget when I get out I never have forgotten it yet, but one Saturday in November, 1883,1 did something which might have been worse. I took the wrong bag when I left the train at Thurley. It happened in this way. On Friday night I went out with Tilly to a party, which broke up so late that I had only just time to change my clothes and get a sort of apology for breakfast before catching my train. Consequently I slept all the way from Lington to Drask, and at Drask I stumbled, only half awake, into the first third-class compartment I came to. I Three of the corner seats were occu­ pied and I took the fourth, though there was no room on the opposite rack for my bag. I couldn't put it on the seat at my side, cither, because the man op­ posite in the other corner had his legs op and I didn't care to disturb him. I ought, of eourse, to have kept it on my knees* but it was rather heavy atnd I was sleepy, so I just slung it over my bead, settled myself down and dropped off again almost before the train was * dear of the station. ., ^ / \ I didn't wake up untftwe stopped at pt(v" , Thurley, and even then l fancy •: i should have slept on if the two men at (A'r "• the far end of the compartment had * BOt wanted to get out "What station is this?" I asked, sit- Ij-V- ting up and drawing my legs from ip*/, * across the door to let them pass. "Ot- I";,", frrford, I suppose?" - . "No, Thurley," said one, and tip I ' Jumped in a hurry, took my bag, as I * thought, from the rack opposite me, jjfe( .' ' and got down on to the platform just * • -#s the guard whistled the train away. |« t v * "You ran it a bit line that time, mis- £ tor," remarked the man who had saved • v from being carried past my desti- , . :^iation. "I wonder if that other chap meant going on? He was as %t -Asleep as you." % "Oh, he's all right," said his compan- r. -'-ion. "He's booked for London. I ^ , ^beard him say so when he got in." t I felt much refreshed when we ar- '>--;Vfived at the quarries. After I had *9ad a wash and done full justice to a nd breakfast at the "Miner's Arms'* felt ready to face my morning's work making up the men's pay sheets. . , yv jFhen, as I felt in my pocket for my ibeyB, my memory began to entertain.a vague suspicion that that bag was gi-:./ v&omehow unfamiliar to it However, jp\ „iny key fitted the lock, and as I turned |yJ., |fvs „ it my suspicion vanished, but Only to ' ji-jfi be replaced a moment later by an as­ tounding certainty. Instead of resting upon the familiar brown paper packages of silver and lit­ tle canvas bags of gold, my eyes were dazzled by a many-colored iridescence, ^ V, which shrine forth from the Inside of ;--,^b»tbag as soon as I opened it 4, ... j crled „ , 1 Hurriedly summoning the foreman, and telling him that a mistake had been made in supplying me with money, I went down into the village, and, after some trouble, succeeded in collecting enough silver and copper to serve my purpose. Then, with that precious bag out of sight between my feet, I paid the men. As soon as I had finished my task I returned, per mineral train, to Thurley, and there I broke my journey. On calmly reviewing all the circumstance* of the case in the seclusion fit the brake van I had decided that the police rath­ er than the railway authorities ought to be first informed of my mistake, and the inspector to whom I told my story agreed with me. "I am very glad you came straight to me," said he, turning the contents of the bag out qn his desk. "If you can hold your tongue ?or a week or two it's just possible we may catch the gentle? man who put this nice little lot to­ gether." "You think they have been stolen,, then?" I asked "Think!" he repeated, smiling at my simplicity. "I know, my boy. And when and where, too; though, unfortu­ nately, not by whom. Run your eye over this." "This" was a list of jewels and$>ther valuables missing from Brlingthbrpe, Lord Yerbury's place, where, the in­ spector said, a well-planned robbery had been carried out on the Thursday evening. "You seem to have nailed a lot," he went on; "but we may as well, go through the articles seriatim." We did so, and found there was noth­ ing missing except the money I had taken to pay the men. "Now, look here, young man." he went on, eying me keenly, "I'm not in charge of this ease--yet--but, if you'll do as I tell you, I hope I may be in the conrse of a few days. There's a tidy reward offered for the Recovery of the property, as you see. That I take it, you've earned already; but are you game to help rare catch the man? There's a further reward for nabbing him, which, of conrse, I can't touch- officially--and don't particularly want. My aim is promotion. Dqvyou under­ stand?" "I think so," said I; "and I am will­ ing to help you all I can. What do you want me to do?" "Nothing," he^ replied; "just literally nothing. Go home. Keep a still tongue in your head and a sharp eye on the agony columns of the London papers, and wait till you hear from me. I'll take charge of these articles And give you a receipt for them, but don't be sur­ prised if you see them still advertised as missing." A few days later the inspector set his trap. It took the shape of an advertise­ ment begging the gentleman with whom "6. C." inadvertently exchanged bags to communicate with G. C. at the address he would find in G. C.'s pocket- book. - Personally, I didnrt think our fish would be foollsh-enoagh to rise to this bait but my friend, the inspector, was more hopeful. ."Luckily for us, Mr. Corner," said he, when I took advantage of my next visit to the quarries to call upon him, "there's always a sort of wary or twist in the mind of the habitual criminal which prevents him from believing in the honesty of other folks. Now, not a soul but you and I and the chief con­ stable knows those jewels are asgood as back on Lady Yerbury's dressing- table, or wherever she's in the habit of leaving 'em lying about Therefore the hue and cry after them's not likely to die away yet awhile, and there'll be a genuine ring about it which should per­ suade our unknown friend that you've got 'em and mean to convert 'em to your own use, as we say in the profes­ sion, but being an amateur, don't know how to go about tunjupe'em- into more cash than the rewwa comes to, and that consequently, you are anxious to come to terms with him. See?" For a month Lady Yerbury's dia­ monds jrere sought in vain and for a would be a pretty kettle of fi^h if we had to prosecute yon for unlawful pos­ session. woaldttt It?" In accordance with these Instruc­ tions I haggled with Mr. Hurst a llttl* while and then allowed him to have his way, whereupon he, having satisfied himself that the bag which I restored to him still contained his spoils, handed me £1,900 In what afterward turned out to be very creditable imitations ol Bank -nf Rnclnnd "i KiHVfKWf rmr ' ceipt?" he growled. ;v -V "No, thank you," said I,' "I think we may mutually dispense with that for­ mality. Good morning." I turned to leave the room as I spoke, but before I could unlock the door it was burst open from the outside, not unfortunately for me, by the police, but by the man whom the landlord had called Bill, a powerful ruffian, who promptly knocked me down and knelt upon my, chest "Quick, Ben, get out of this," h<s cried. "It's a plant No, no. The win­ dow, you fool," he added, as Mr. Hurst bag in hand, mado for the door. "The police are in the bar already." As Mr. Hurst opened the window he cursed ate with much volubility and bitterness, and as soop as he was out­ side on the leads hs did worse. "Stand clear, Bill," he cried, and hi* friend obeyed him. I scrambled to my feet but immediately dropped again' with a bullet from Mr. Hurst's revol­ ver in my shoulder. ' I am not at all sorry ithat Mr. Hurst fired at me, as Inspector Bland says it was much easier to convict him of at­ tempted murder than to prove he ac­ tually stole those jewels, and the In­ spector doubts, too, whether he would have got fifteen years If merely charged with receiving them, tint I do wish he hadn't hit me. However, even the pain my wound still gives me it not without its com­ pensation. It prevents me from feel­ ing any twinges of conscience when I reflect that my furniture cost Mr. Hurst his liberty, for Lord Yerbury took It for granted that he was the thief, and paid me the extra reward he had offered for his apprehension. ^Inspector Bland won the promotion he coveted, and is now stationed at Lington. His wedding present was characteristic. It was a black bag, with my initials on either ride in white letters about six inches toog.--Ail the Year Round. •' * --r mmm FOR YOU. 'ip#i i Oonftuing. English verbs are often a source of great confasion and trouble to- foreign­ ers who atempt to learn the language. A writer in an educational journal thus describes the-trouble a Frenchman had with the verb " to break." "I begin to understand your language better," said my French friend, Mon­ sieur Dubois, to me; "but your verbs trouble me still; you mix them up so with prepositions." "f saw your friend, Mrs. Murkeson, just now," he continued. "She says she intends to break down her school earlier than usual. Am I right there?" "Break up the school she must have said." - . .-' "Oh, yes, I remember; break ap school." " * * "Why does she do that?" I asked. , * "Because her health is broken into.**' "Broken dbwn.'r "Broken down? Oh, yes. And, in­ deed, since fever has broken up in the town---" "Broken out" "She thinks she-will leave it for three or four weeks." "Will she leave her house alone?" "No; she is afraid it will be brokeat-- broken--how do 1 say that?" "Broken into*.'* "Certainly;.!* is what I meant to say.** "Is her son to be married soon?" "No, that engagement is broken- broken " "Broken off.** "Ah, I had not heard that." "She is very sorry about It Her son only broke the news down to her last week. Am I right there? I am «o anxious to speak English well." "He merely broke the news; no prep­ osition this time." "It is hard to understand. That young man. her son, is a fine young fellow; a breaker, I think." "A broker, and a very fine fellow. Good-afternoon." So much for the verb "to break." r'; v Along with those' staple chestnuts about the tyranny of the mother-in-law and woman's Inability to financier comes the Inevitable winter^witticism on the gigantic theater hat Now, Just here we wish to remark that the wom­ an who wears a big hat to the theater and keeps it on is as greatly in the mi­ nority as $© pian who leaves the wom­ an he is with to go out between acts. Manners at places of amusement have so vastly improved that It Is only the , tradition of the humorist that makes the statements about the chapean and the entr' acte libations at all permissi­ ble. Certainly, in Philadelphia thea &rs, but a very feeble protest is neces­ sary against either of these nuisances, for women have learned that handsome is as handsome does in the matter of the 'wearing of suitable Madwear, and that a tiny crown piece oi\ a total ab­ sence of millinery makes them far more lovely to behold than if they were decked out In the smartest Gainsbor­ ough that could be bought for money Men, likewise, have gained in cour­ tesy, and if they do go out between the acts they are to be seen pacing in the lobby or corridor enjoying a whiff of fresh air or a brief smoke, and they do not return chewing cloves and painful­ ly redolent of spirits. The lady and the gentleman, using the term in Its correct sense, will not wilfully offend against good taste or good breeding. To hide the view of a dozen or two because a wld« - brimmed towering structure of millinery is becoming to the wearer Is not indicative of innate refinement, and the same censure mafy be applied to the man who crowds out over the laps of people who have paid to enjoy a play in peace, but who are obliged to be put to inconvenience by a thoughtless individual who not only disturbs them at the end of the act but after the curtain is raised as well, by his noisy exit or entrance,, accompanied by the balmy breezes from Bacchanalian beverages. . Tbe penny-a-Rner wbo is able to dis­ pose of his jokes on the theater hat or the between-che-acts masculine nui­ sance will probably go on forever writ­ ing about that which scarcely exists, fiction always paying better than fact, but the truth is that manners in tbe the­ ater have improved vastly since these time-honored jokes first made their ap- pcarsaasco in print, and if the humovists were not so busy writing about them they maght occasionally visit the thea­ ter and discover that the basis of their peculiar vocation had vanished into thin ahr. Sensible and Dainty. From England comes a new combina­ tion suid which is certainly unique and attractive, if such a garment can be thus qnaiffipd. The bodice i%Q0Cttpused secor - m ,%f n ^•.4- ."Diamonds, by jingo!' c/ '¥*tarted back amazed. I thought it best to keep my discovery ^^to'tnyself. The bag, I guessed, was probably the property of a jeweler's traveler--a • v, vtraveler In a large way of business, ^ ^ too, thought 1, as I peeredj into it in the least exposedfcorner of the office and found it almost full of what little jis I Ipl knew about precious stones, 1 felt cer- '.i tain were valuable jewels. Rings, brooches, bracelets, loose at least one necklace, a gold and chain, some bank notes and srable sum Qf sovereigns were tip'tsgethert*Ae&aotk; ooa- month G. C." continued to appeal to his late fellow traveler, also in vain, but at the end of that time his patience was rewarded by the appearance of an advertisement telling him, if he really meant business, to write to "B. H." at a given address. The letter I wrote at the dictation of Inspector Bland was more cautious than incriminating, but as it produced a reply which the inspector deemed satisfactory it was followed by others less carefully worded, until at last it stood pledged to personally deliver, for the compensation, of £2,000, the stolen jewels to one Benjamin Hurst, whom I was to meet at a public house in Chil- lingham. . Now, I don't pretend to be braver than the average man of peaceful and sedentary habits, and when I saw what sort of a house the "Spotted Dog" was I began to wish I had refused to have anything to do with Inspector Bland's scheme. The little company of disreputable- looking loafers hanging about the bar eyed me curiously as I entered, and when I asked the landlord if -Mr. Hurst was In, one of them raised a general laugh offering to carry my luggage up to him. "No larks, Bill," said the landlord sternly. "Mary, show the gentleman Mr. Hurst's room I found Mr. Hurst a detidedly surly rascal. He began by grumbling at the hardness of the bargain I was driving with him, and swearing at his luck generally. Then, being perhaps em boldened by the conpillatory manner thought it prudent to adopt, he tried 1o make better terms, offering me first Why a Top Stands Erect. A top, while spinning, keeps erect be­ cause it Is under the influence of anf& Is balanced between opposing forces. Its rapid rotation gives to all its particles a tendency to fly from the center. If the atoms of wood were not held together by the attraction of- cohesion, they would fly away In a circle outward from it, Just as the drops of water fly off from a mop while it isTMjigtwirled. A little sand, salt or dust thrown on a top while in motion, would be scattered In a circle, just as its own atoms would be If they were free to separate, but not with the same force, because the atoms of salt and so forth, are not in an active state of rotation, and so would only be Influenced by momentary contact wltli the rotating body. This tendency of the particles of a rotating body to fly out­ ward from the center is called the cen­ trifugal force. The other force influ­ encing a top is the attraction of gravi­ tation, which, were the top not spin­ ning, would draw It toward the earth. The motions of the earth and all the heavenly bodies are controlled by pre­ cisely the same guidance as that which keeps a spinning top upright. ' C "u ^ <>ur. tshoice jx lid tor U.65 to $2 The *2 kind Bold at $2 50 to $3 50. JV: " -iV' its of child's and misses' long •rice 3 to $5, choice, $2.50. ^ Lclceu, i«earlyail $7 quality, ts. aie high grade and latest [oioe for $4,95. this lot are garments having ' your choice " MDER FOR ONE OF THE APPRO­ PRIATION BILLS. nt sale is sti ue of lalies' sc*rl$t and gray Int discc unt: 0 jgurated. We bid you welcoi >QN k 0 1 l*»t (roods to be obtained in tbe ̂ arranging the immense stock noni Don't be humbugged with staler Injected worn-out stuff, when you^ I prices; ' [ge cafi ftiitopltin 7C !>d B. Powder, lb can...... ^..lOe •ge can Tomatoes 7c •ge box shreded Cocoanat 4c HOUSE FURNISHINGS, fee and Tea Canisters ......10c avy Range Kettle ........14c qt Flaring Pail 10c " rge Jap. Bread or Cake Box...45c 51 p. Chamber Pail 25c >per Rim Tea Kettle... "oiler {jiic n lid Steel Spider, never break.. .25c c od wood frame Wringer l)8c n it Granite Coffee Pot... 60c )t Granite Coffee Pot 60c It Geanite Kettle 89c >y's and Men's Skates, 29c, 39c and np a st Hardwood Sleds, 293, 39c, 49c, 59 >t steel point Snow Shovels,...21c !&8on streets. locks ot the Center ot the City. aisle her husband thundered from |;he pulpit: "Even Solomon in all his was not arrayed like one of ' He did not see the joke, but ^congregation tittered and the moth- was ready to cry.--Philadelphia Imes. \ sr cosmrsATiox entirely of lace insertions -entredeux. The garmbnt is $U| at the shoulders with ribbon finished with rosettes. --7, Wby Not a Medical Iietter of* Credit* "I went to a doctor about my throat the other day," said a gentleman trou­ bled with some bronchial difficulty, "and he made a careful examination of it He is an eminent specialist and charged me $10." " 'I am not quite satisfied,' said he, 'but you are going up to Boston soon?* " 'Yes,' said I, 'probably.' "'Well, I wish you would go to Dr. Blank and present my compliments and have him take a look at it.' "I believe I said I would, but I won't £500 less, and finally insisting that be j just the same. Do you suppose I'm go- ought at least to be allowed to deduct, tog to pay another doctor $10 to pass me from my £2,000 the sum I had used to pay the men. Inspector Bland had allowed me a quarter of an hour for negotiations. At the end of that time he proposed to make a raid upon the house. An£ mind," he had said in his jocu­ lar way, "we don't find the vroperty [ N. Y. Hemald. on to another fellow? Not much! These doctors make a pile of money. Think of a man getting $10 for looking down my throat!" * "But the advice.". - "To go to Boston and see another do? tor-yes, that'®., A Word to Husbands. and appreciation are to a wom­ an what dew and sunshine are to a flower. They freshen and brighten her whole life. They make her strong- hearted and keen-sighted in everything affecting the welfare of her home. They make her to cherish her husband when the cares of life press heavily upon him, and to be a very providence to her children. To know that her hus­ band loves her, and Is proud of her and believes in her; that even her faults are looked upon with tenderness; that her face, to one at least is the fairest lu all the world; that the heart which to her Is the greatest and noblest, holds her sacred In its Innermost recesses above all other women, gives her a strength and courage, and energy and sweetness and vivacity which all the wealth of the world could not bestow. iAt a woman's life be pervaded with such an Influence, and her heart and mind will never grow old, but will blos­ som and sweeten and brighten in per­ petual youth. Facts for tlie Fair Bex. Mrs. Gladstone "helps" her husband with his speeches by leaving him alone and keeping the children quiet Miss Helen Gould, daughter of the late Jay Gould, is devoted to bowling, and has a bowling alley at her home in Tarrytown, N. Y., which cost $10,000. Mrs. Cleveland is an expert sailor and manages her catboat as well as though she were a man. Mrs. John Jacob As- tor Is also an experienced yachtswom­ an, having Won in a catboat race at Newport this summer. At the big Paris shops like the Bon Marche and the Louvre, gloves are sold at a loss simply to attract people to tlie store. Once inside these would-be glove buyers are sure to become buyers of almost anything else. The latest thing in ladies' gaiters is laced up on the inside of the ankle with a single cord carried over and over through six pairs of eyelets and then zigzagging Over small studs until The Modern Woman. The woman of to-day, as we bear of her, belongs to a class for each-day in the week, and has every afternoon and evening filled up with gay functions.' She Is eager to know all about politf&s, to understand the great poets and writ­ ers of the day, especially those that are counted the most difficult to compre­ hend; she wants to belong to societies that will make the world better and that will permit her tb talk about them In public, and yet she desires as well to keep the position in life to which she was born. Speak to her suddenly and see her start That means overtaxed nerves. Get her to talking to you about one of her plans and see how she flushes, notice the unnatural brilliancy of her eyes, and watch the quivering of her lips and her hands. That woman is on the verge of nervous prostration. And why? Because she is permitting herself to be worn out to interest people who do not care in the least for her.-- Ladies' Home Journal. t Between Silver and Bond Ben- tors Is 80 Strong that It Will Be Impossible to Pass Any Independ­ ent Financial Measure. Xeve^ue Heceipts IncreaMfe : : fashiogton correspondence; . . * a possibil­ ity of'an effort to se­ cure financial legis­ lation in the Senate through an amend­ ment of one of the appropriation bills^o be acted upon by the Committee on Appropriations. A canvass.of the Sen­ ate. which has been nade during the past ten days or two weeks, has convinc- Tn«n""ni|u»'e<] the leaders on ra'»oth sides of the ]| Jiamber that the i || • conflict between the ^ silver and the bond en renders it neyt to impossible to he- re the passage of any independent finan- il or currency measure. They have, erefore, quietly taken up this scheme of curing legislation by adding the neces- vv-ty provision to one of the bills provid- g for the regular annual appropria- •.'m : ;It is understood that the Republican •nators would not oppose an amend­ ment which simply granted authority for Si issue of bonds. They say that if it 8^comes absolutely necessary for the lovernment expenditures and for the aintenance of the gold reserve, the emocrats can provide it by agreeing to a >nd amendment without weighting it >wn with other questions, and that a ajority of the Republicans will accept in this Bhape, but will not permit it to •> through if coupled with either silver gislation or the repeal of the State bank ;.x. Representative McMillan, Chairman of je Ways and Means Sub-Committee, j whom the beer tax question has been tbmitted, intends seeing Secretary Car- lie to learn whether the Secretary con­ fers an increase of the Government's rvenues necessary, Mr. McMillan says ne action of the swb-eommittee will de­ ad largely on the Secretary's views. In he meantime it appears to be accepted mong the tariff leaders of the House iat there is no present necessity for an icreased beer tax or an increase on any ther internal revenue tax or customs 'ity. lOavors an Arbitration Commission. The amended bill for the settlement of xbor disputes by an arbitration commit- *?e has been reported favorably from th$ <J!ommittee on Labor with a few minor taanges in verbiage. "The national and State legislative odies," says the report, "are not so eon- tituted as to be able to give proper time .• the examination of the industrial rnnt- ors presented in this bill, nor are th«y lade up equally of representative men, •ich as is proposed by this commission, or are they non-partisan. This comrnis- on can hear, consider and recommend i a shorter time and with less expense >r the best good of all than can be ac- i»mplislied by a legislative body or in uny ther way. Congress is the proper body > authorize the appointment of such a ('Mtmsskuvajf it is composed*xf members jiming from all parts of every State." Appended to the report, were letters of pproval received by the committee from amuel Goinpers, John W. Hayes, H. O. )enning and J. H. Sovereign. _ The Secretary of the Interior has direct­ ed the issuance of a patent on thirty aer.»s jf land embraced in the town site of Enid, pkla., and known" as "McGuire's Addi­ tion to the Town of Enid," to L. W. Me- jruire. When the town site becomes or- nized as a municipality and proper [proof is furnished to the department, a atent will be issued to the town for the jmaining ten acres, to be maintained •for public purposes. \ The Interior Department has called for jblds to be opened February 18 for fur­ bishing a sheet metal ceiling and new copper roof for the Pension Bureau Building. The present appropriation is $28,000, but Congress has been asked for an additional appropriation. Increase in Internal Revenue. A statement prepared at the Intern*1 Revenue Bureau shows the aggregate re* ceipts from all sources during the six mocrtfis ending December 31, 1894, were $81,847,560, which is an increase over the the same period of last year 1. The receipts for the last f 1894 and the increase-or ,e several sources of reveune ows: ;C,336; Increase, $7,735,- receip 7,049; increase, $1,193,- $16,600,377; de- decrease, d are S] 879. To 666. FermeRed liquors, crease, $117^166. Oleomargarine, $910,969 $161,54a Miscellaneous, $342,242; increase, $269,- m Of these last receipts $261,70S were from tax on playing.cards. ' The Secret Service officials have discov­ ered a new photographic counterfeit $10 silver certificate of the series of 1891, check letter B, J. Fount Tillman, Regis­ ter; D. N. Morgan, Treasurer; portrait of Hendricks, small scalloped carmine seal. OUR MINISTER TO TURKEY. and Naming the Baby. They talked of Medora, Aurora, Flora, Of Mabel and Marcia, and Mildred and May; 1 Debated the question of Helen, Honors, Clarissa, Camilla, and Phyllis and Fay* They thought of AlarceUs, Estella, and Bella, Considered Cecilia, Jeannette, and Pauline; Alicia, Adela, Annette, Arabella,,, Anil Ethel and Eunice, Hortense and Irene. * • One liked Theodora, another Leonora;^ Some argued for Edith, and some fo? Elaine, For Madeline, Adeline, Lilly, and And then, after all, they decided on Jane. --^feinankind. Here's a Good Example. In Manchester, England, the town council is about to put $1,500,000 into clearing the slums. An overcrowded and unhealthy space of five acres iu the center of the city will be taken, the buildings torn down and new model workmen's dwelllugs erected in their stead, with large areas for play­ grounds, and tre^andjaowera^lwtea He Wll| Not Interfere is tbe J|ra*en- ian^vestigation. Owing to tn$*#act that the powers sig­ natory to the Berlin treaty, principally England, are making inquiry Into the ftoites'told of Turkish atrocities la Ar- .! Scgradiss a French Officer Oattty df - Treason to His Constry. •' .The degradation of Ctapfc fas, convicted of being a traitor to hi* country, was one of the most iiapaessive ' and r e m a r kablfe scenes thstt Franc*: has witnessed «a many years. Dre: fus st 9nd h i g amonf the efficli of th» rrr* my. TTe was in artillery s e y y i cf-' gnd tva£ 6n duty $£% the Ministry War, Paris. Sev­ eral weeks ago !* „ _ _ r . was arrested on the phargo of havnf capt. A. jmKYFrs. befrsryeaIraJMrrtaj# military information to the German em­ bassy. This called forth protests fro: the German Government, but the pr tests were unheeded and a court martin,, t sitting in private, tried and found Droj fus guilty. He was sentenced to be de^ graded from all military rank and hoi^, ors and to be confined for life in a fort^ ress. . . The sentence was carried ont on th#-' parade ground of the Ecole Mttitaire iif,'; \;r^ the presence of 5,000 treeps and numcifc'J - ) ous civil officials and journalists. Drey* "I fus was taken before Gen. ftarras an|| other officials in the center of the square^ . where the verdict of the court martial w a s r e a d t o h i m . G e n . D a r r a s t h e n a d ^ i : : dressed him: "Dreyfus, you are oo» worthy to carry arms. In the name of^'i*' the people of France we degrade yeu.* ... '-i An officer then approached, toek DreyV 7 "5 ̂ fus* sword and breaking it cast it on ih#V.""-"xf ground. He then cut the buttons and ingr" signia of rank from the uniform of th#V",: condemned man. Dreyfus cried om£ "Vive la France" and protested that hf • was innocent. His voice was drewseu b^,', a roar from the crowd, 20.M0 streng, >% the Place de Fontenoy, shooting "Deatli t 1 4 to the traitor," and by an outburst fronfc. ' the officers of the reserve, crying, "Sfr >' \ lence, traitor." , After being stripped of the insignia ot­ itis rank the unfortunate man walkeifv around each side of the square which wa». lined with soldiers. The latter exhibited \ deep fmotion and many of them wept|f^ After the march, amid cries of "Death t|{ * the traitor," Dreyfus was taken to th# ^ barrack gate and given over to the civil*' ' "Jj authorities for imprisonment in some fortress. The degradation produced profound excitement in Paris, and, in- deed^jjgypH France. , , v*- ' • r- :p|#; NOTED LAWYER. A. 8. Trade, "Who Is to Conduct tbeChfa catco Police Investigation. A. S. Trude, who will conduct the com* ing investigation of the Chicags pollc#\ , force, is one of the leading lawyers of th# ;. Lake City. H« is 47 years of age rb<| A. S. TRUDE first saw the light of day on the Atlanti# , '• >A ^ Ocean. He was graduated from Union-. College at Schenectady, N. Y., at the age - . of 17 and then went to Chicago, whewf^i*^^ he studied law and was admitted to prac­ tice in 1871. Mr. Trude has been particu­ larly successful as a criminal lawyer. From 1873 to 1886 he defended thirty- four men and two women charged with - murder. Since then he has avoided that> sort of practice, and has been preminen|. - in the defense of railroads and of nevvspa^, le­ pers charged with libel. A year ago he - ^ was engaged as leading counsel for the State in the prosecution of Prectdergast ^ 5 for the murder of Mayor Carter Harri^W Wvj son. Mr. Trude is a fluent speaker, powp$*^||| erful in argument He was married 1868. , >" ' RUINED FOR YEARS. %- Tlie ST % ALEX. W. TERItfiLl* caught at the top with a Simpson clasp, | *n ***• °Pen 8P*CGS- '•£ :'-s ^ L. . .>» ). * - 1! "fjQ; 1 . A'. S » H'. " taenia, United States Minister Alexander W. Terrell thinks it is not necessary for him to make an independent investiga­ tion. Alexander Wilson Terrell is a ia- tive of Virginia, where he was born in 1829. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri, and his education was sup­ plemented by a special course at Heidel­ berg. For some years he was a reporter of the Supreme Court of Texas, and was later a State Senator. At one time Mr. Terrell was a candidate for the United States Senate. He was appointed Minis- ter to Turkey in 1SQ8. f ̂*** Hecent Frost an Awful Blow td) Florida Orange Growers. To fully appreciate the damage done by the recent frost in the Florida ©range belt a Jacksonville correspondent sayi|. that a personal inspection of the grovel is necessary. Dealers* in the North can­ not realize the extent of the damage, else they would not be sending, as they are, orders for supplies. The crop is practic­ ally ruined. Some fruit is being shipped , " North, but it is nearly all touched by the s frost I have been pretty much all ovee the orange-growing parts of the State since the frost, and I have yet to see the first grove that does not look as if it had > been parched "by a fire. The leaves 0%,, * > the trees are sere and yellow. An orang#< grove can easily be picked out from S long distance. The live oaks, palmetto^"'.<5s.»%f^ cabbage, palm and other such trees d^: ^ not seem to have been affected. . As the^* generally surround more or less the or»v ange groves, the yellow leaves of -the Iat»;,. ter, in comparison with the green of th#' others, make a striking contrast. Xa manyr of these groves few oranges had beea picked. In others nearly all. The total crop was estimated by experts at 5,000,r 000 boxes, half of which hod beea gatli» ered before the frost. The average price of these oranges to the consumers was a box. This would make a toss «f $5,000,# 000 on the 2,000,000 boxes that have bee#. spoiled by the frost. One-half of thi# ' loss falls op jthe growers, the other bal| v on the dealers and the transportation" ̂ companies. I have met a number •£ grows.% ers who offered to sell the fruit on th#v trees at five cents a box. But they wer#- ' unable to sell even at that rate. The $5,000,000 loss on oranges is no means all. The young trees and many" ef the^ld ones ha\^^een killed. HoW('v.'":;^^ great the loss will befn this respect will . >4; not be known until spring. H. S. Kidney, -V ; an old resident of Waitland, says that h#'* does not believe that more than ene-thir| - / ^ of the orange trees of the State will come out of the freeze alive. It will be possible, V to save time, he thinks, by cutting them - ^ to the ground and' letting thea sprougfe'V from the roots. But he expresses the be» j lief that the budded trees of the finer v»» ', , • rieties are killed to the greuad. As t# limes and lemons, he says that he doe#- not believe that there are aay lire tree# ' ; left. The pineapple plants >• iiu.- ern part of the State are also gene. To», ' matoes and other vegetables which --^ : raised in large quantities Ssr the Northern markets are also kiMed. j Told in a Few Lines. , j • -V John Ivilgore, aged80, a retired farmer, of Bloomington. died of pandyan. Bit : 1 > was born in Madison Oounty, Okie. Five people were overcome by gas New York. Two of them, Samuel < 22, and Jacob Scholtkey, 19,