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p<V TX*t ^ Johnston1} JtdVeotdre. ; IN l$reat*el by Tills X1 New itonl'i notable den into M'.thr _r th« roturn if • ftffcfeMriMM* W.V£ -V " ' '•" Htt wwEHt+K*. »rt4 »>*. mu mu »>I*»><mi +m <*U.*M » i :Ste \f 1 >' # <: '>>' î i'S •}. & v T-f KNOW this story Is true, for John­ ston told it to me himself, and lie has not imagination enough to In­ vent an untruth. •r He told m* that if yoa should at­ tempt to enter into conversation with a leilow-pass^nger In a Chicago train he probably would present you with the asrd'in question as a delicate hint that b*1 wanted to be left in peace. M "1 wn going down to Warwickshire to-morrow,r I aaid"--continued John- *to spend a few days with Sco- aad 1*11 take this card with me. If Otoe insists on talking to me whea j m reading my paper I'll try what nding him the card will do.' . "I took the train at Boston* traveling Hp&ond-class. , C- *'My fellow-passenger waa a fue- tsofcliig woman of about 30. The heat «f tiw daj and the excitement of catch­ ing Die train had given her a florid col- it, -tfwrt I could see that the desire of eaademning the weather and exposing fe wickedness of a cabman was strong ithln her. "Presently the woman caught my «$re, and said: 'I beg your pardon, but willyou tell me the exact time? My cabman--' • "But bere I "banded the woman the Chicago card fl had received the day before. "She read it and then said, 'O, indeed! Bo sorry. Pray excuse me,' and then in silence, wbile I resumed my per and congratulated myself {flit efficacy of the American plan of Itea^ng with railway bores. "It is true that my conscience did •Ire me aa occasional twinge, for the distinction between telling a lie and h«i»itlBg a person a ready-made lie printed on a card was not very percept- Ibis. I asked myself whether in giving the woman a card with the words, 'I am deaf and dumb,' I had not been guilty of lying as certainly as I should Have been if 1 bad told her the same Wing In so many words. ^"At Willesden Junction another pas­ senger got in. This time it was a young lady who was evidently expected by ibe elder lady. "By and by my attention was arous- *g in spite of myself by hearing the Itier lady mention my name. 'You se?,' •he said, 'I had to come down to-day because It wouldn't do for me to be ^fcray.' ±: " 'Bat. auntie." said the other,' how ip you knowtbathe is tiresome if yoa bavenever seen himT- €•> 'I know it, for one thing, because John's friends always are tiresome. It dMtMem as If he deliberately selected Wi-mott stupid men he could find and iui^f'lbem down to Greencroft, just toilikiii life a burden to me. And then, for another thing, I tried to detestable Johnston's books. J0Mng more stupid and silly you; cpn*t possibly Imagine.' "So I was actually traveling in tbe •«ne carriage witb Scoble'* wife and g|ece, and tbe formervwas dreading my •irival at her house and looking upon 4*0* a tiresome nuisance. two ladies talked on, but happily SM&nedto forget the existence of the UK^rtp«t« Johnston. Once Mrs. Sco- to the window where I was sitting, to point out something to her Hece, and the swaying of tbe carriage •early threw her on my lap. "Just then the elder lady began one if those nervous and hurried searches vgfbr her purse which women when trav­ eling are so prone to make. ' "'It is gone!' she exdalmed; 'and I Am sure that fellow In the corner pick- ad my pocket When I was looking out , ff bia window.' "'He could not have done that,' re- flied the niece, 'for I was looking at - iim at the time, and he never once took bis bands or his eyes away from his #*w*paper.' " ~Hy dear child! Do you suppose you •re quiet enough to watch the motions #f * professional pickpocket? That loan has my purse, I am perfectly sure • "~#f it; and' I shall give him in charge the moment we get to Bugby.' ' r-4- "it was clear that I must bolt from r - 1 pie carriage the instant the train ' feached the Bugby platform, and be­ fore a policeman could be called. The '" 7 train was already slowing, and I hast- ; lly gathered up my rug and umbrella t and prepared to move toward the door. . «l" " 'Ko, you don't, my manT said Mrs. Scoble, rising and taking possession of fl'} the door by the simple process of > % ^thrusting haU of her ample person "I gave him my address as soon aa I >S!|P could get away from the carriage. ftndf™5 at the same time I gave him a surrep­ titious five shillings and asked him not to give my name toMrs, Scoble. "I saw Scoble on the platform as the train drew up at Greencroft, but he did not see me, for I had concealed myself behind the curtains of the carriage. I watched him until his back was turned and then sprang out and bolted Into the cloakroom, which was close at hand. I had hoped to remain there until Seoble 1 had left the station, but I was disap­ pointed. The porter in attendance, finding that I had no particular busi­ ness with him, immediately suspected me of deslgfes upon the property under his charge and told me that I must not stay in tfcie cloakroom. I tried bribery, but the action only confirmed his sus­ picions, and he roughly ordered me to go about my business or he would have me iirre»t̂ d. u Jnat then Seoble spied me.' ' * ' " 'Why, bere you are, after alir he exclaimed. 'Where on earth have yon been?* "The niece had returned, and was standing looking in bewilderment first at me. and then at her uncle. Sudden­ ly she took "in the full meaning of the situation, and, after saying-to me, 'Is this Mr. Johnston?* burst into uncon­ trollable laughter. "There never was anything so con­ tagious and Irresistible as that laugh since the world began, and the flash of the. girths mischievous eyesrwould hare made John Calvin smile even In tbe act of burning a heretic, I could not help It, but in another moment I found myself joining in the girl's laughter, while Scoble stood and gazed at us with an almost frightened expression. "Tbe nieCe was the first to apeak. 'Uncle,' she said, 'there has been a mis­ take that would have been perfectly awful If Mr. Johnston had not been a real humorist and seen the funny side of it Auntie has dTlven home, for she could not wait any longer, and we will all three walk home together, and yon shall know all about it.' "I hesitated for a second, and then said to myself that I would meet fifty aunts sooner than say good-by to the niece before I had convinced her that I was not always stupid, and that I could sometimes be other than a nuisance. I not only walked home witb her and faced the dismayed and repentant aunt, but I stayed my full week at Green­ croft. When I came away I was en­ gaged to be married, and bad already began to call Mrs. Scoble 'aunt,' part­ ly to show her that I bore no malice and partly by way of-emphasizing the triumph that the man whom she had called stupid had won."--Pall MatL Botfciosreompared to tbe reception given this quiet American citlsafc name Is enshrined in tbe beir|M^& 4«weeo&ti , >i i i t i fe . : - " Tbe decoration* will be the most elab­ orate that New York has ever seen or will peabably see for geateations to come. Ev­ ery decorating e«taMishift«tit in fcbf city la overwhelmed with orders for #wk for the occasion. It is estimated that no less than 16,000,000 will be expended for dec­ orations by day, illuminations by, night and festivities in general. Some' firms will expend as high as $10,000 for deco­ rating, while about every dwelling in ail tbe boroughs will be draped in the nation­ al colors or some other ornamentation. The great demand for bunting has sent, the price up 20 per cent, and has kept the mills down East unusually busy turn­ ing out the cloth. The makers of Sags are running night and day in order to supply the demand, Dewey day will be a veritable Fourth Whife shbta the mob the road «y «c •a abS the girl's inced he had fired; the their sister. Vinson - stating he had it tbat it was an acci- ter'tl*e confession the iraittd to his home and were : their tearing the man turned, picked up a is throat. His family and officers' posse witnessed the suicide. FEVER AT NEW ORLEANS, * |iS & • U % w * i through the window. "I saw at Mice that the game waa op. " 'That man has picked my pocket,' said Mrs. Scoble, as soon as tbe police­ man opened the door. 'Search him and youH find my purse in his possession. It la marked: 'A. D. S.' and has four five- found notes, two sovereigns, and some I change in It, besides my ticket' f " 'What do you Bay to this?' the po- •} tlceman asked me, evidently impressed , with the certainty of my guilt. | " 'Simply that it isn't true,' I replied, w nothing of the lady's purse, can easily convince you that i respectable person.' UessT exclaimed my accus- «r. iWMff the fellow isn't deaf and dumbidmt all! Constable, he pretend­ ed to be deaf and dumb. That abowa what a scoundrel he is? "I rose up to follow the policeman, and my foot struck against something that waa lying on the floor of the car­ riage. I stooped and picked it up. 'You must have dropped it when you were looking out of my window.' " 'I wouldn't advise bim to play that game any more,' said tbe policeman, se­ verely. 'Let me tell you, sir, that if you travel under false pretenses yon aeedn't be surprised If yon And your­ self in trouble. You'll have to give me your name and address, in case any­ thing mora comes of this.' r ? The TM*'t§&-taster Is king af Mlffiowf' China, for the six weeks of his exclu­ sive reign, and whatever he amy do during the remainder of the year, he is a most rigid total abstainer during the high season, when every faculty of his keenest senses 1a on tbe alert Although he wver swallows a sample sip, the tea-tsRer's nerves and diges­ tion are impaired at the end of tea or twelve years, even the stimulating ef­ fect of the strong, volatile aroma in the tea-hongs sometimes giving retired tea-tasters attacks of that tea-tremens which tbe Chinese and Japanese recog­ nize aa a disease; while temperance re­ formers, usually green-tea drinkers, seem ignorant of the fact that other stimulants than alcohol may be abused. The professional tea-taster at Hankow Is said to drink only soda or mineral waters during the scorehlng weeks of his exacting season, and when word goes round the settlement that sucb a one of the great experts was seea to take sherry and bitters at the club* it is a signal that tbe great tea season la declining, that little choice tea is being brought in, Then the tension relaxes, and a certain section of Hankow gives itself over to a jubilation and indul­ gence that are a scandal and byword of the other ports. Although the tea firms are all Russians or Siberians now, the tea-tasters are Englishmen, and for reasons not flattering to Russian char­ acter, it Is said that the tea-tasters will always be English.--Oatury. > y *, JSelli? and tbe Qsmu, London papers repeat an anecdote about Nellie Grant daughter of Gen. U. S. Grant which seems worth re­ calling. Miss Nellie Grant, when a schoolgirl, visited London nnti was asked to luncheon by the Queen. After the meal was over and the American guest had gone tbe Marchioness of Ely, the Queen's secretary, who was of the party, expressed her great surprise at the perfect self-possession and freedom from embarrassment of the young girl from the States. "Yea," said Queen Victoria, smiling, "indeed, It was 1 who was embarrassed."--London Cor. Balti­ more Sun. - Tallow Jack Caosei Pouthern Citlaa «• SatablUh a Quarantine. The Texas State health department Friday ttigtat received informafion of on* death from yellow fever at New Orleans. State H«aith Officer Blunt at once or~ dered a rigid quarantine against New Orleans on passenger and freight busi- titsa, "to continue indefinitely, and all bor­ der stations were notified to refuse ad- :: UNCLE SAM TO DEWEY "HURRY UP; WE CANT WAIT! of July, if fireworks can make it so,. The toy stores are clamoring for Dewey can­ non, Dewey crackers and Dewey every­ thing else. Young America intend# to celebrate aa never before, /for George Dewey has no more ardent admirer than the small boy. The wholesale dealers in firecrackers now regret that they did not foresee this big demand for their goods and lay in a bigger supply, as they will apparently run short of the demand. Another branch of industry that: is reaping a harvest through the celebration are the lithographers and others who print and paint portraits of the admiraU Thousands and thousands of likenesses are being run off, enough, it would, seem, missiott to any person: or freight1 from that port . i Owing to one death by yellow fever in New Orleans and two other cases declar­ ed there,. Mobile city authorities proclaim­ ed a quarantine against persons, baggage and freight from New Orleans entering Mobile County. Quarantine is also pro­ claimed against Key West. Owing to the yellow fever at Key West, the Navy Department has decided to withdraw the force at the naval station there. The army garrison w-ill go to Fort McPher- son, Ga. Tbe Indiana State Board of Health-re­ ceived; a report of the death of a man> in Knox County from yellow fever. The jmau had lately returned from Cuba. The .case is pronounced certainly yellow fever, the patient having all the symptoms, even to turning yellow and having the black vomit. Doctors sajr there would be no danger whatever of the spread, of. yel­ low* fever in this latitude if tbe- disease were introduced. THE DICWRT ABCH. PnbUo Fountain* Well Patronized. One of Boston's municipal officials, who is especially interested in the es­ tablishment of free ice water fountains In that city, hired a man to watch one of the drinking places the other day from 6 a. m. to 10 p. m., for the pur­ pose of ascertaining whether or not It was well patronized. Between the hours named exactly 9,335 pemona drank at the city's expense. Thg fpnp. tain has four faucets. -- ' ?"' 'Pi When a woman visits retlBVM^sbe thinks she is paying board if she walks down town once a week, and pays foi a melon. to give oae to every man, 'woman and child in New York. The building of the arches, stands etc., is giving work to thousands of carpenters and laborers, while the work of putting up the decora­ tions will give employment to thousands more. The greatest crowd that New York has ever entertained will be there from all parts of the Country to enrich' the coffers of the hotel and business men. Altogether Dewey day will J»e a great boon for the metropolis. As Dewey makes bis triumphal entry into the city millions of tiny pieces of ted, white and blue paper, known as con­ fetti. will be showered upon him. This feature is new to Eastern cities, but the custom is followed at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the Venice carnivals. Millions of these pieces are being turned •ut and Dewey's path bids fair to be-car­ peted with the beloved red, white and blue. •. WORLD SHORT OF WHEAT. Hungarian Miniatrjr Saya tile Demand' Will Exceed the Supply. The- Hungarian ministry of agriculture has issued its annual estimates ot the world's harvest. This points to a con­ siderable deficiency. While the stocks re­ maining from last jt>ar are much smaller than, was generally supposed, the wheat yield is 110,000,000 hectoliters below, last year's yield and about 34,000,000 short of the entire world's demand. The estimated yield of rye is 5,000,000 less than that of last year, of barley 23,- 000,000 less and of oats 35,000,000 less. The total deficiency in all cereals is about 97,000,000 hectoliters. Following are the estimates of tba wheat harvest in millions of hectoliters: „ COUNTRIES. r • *.1 ^ . Annual i . U ' >7C.. comsumo- Pell- "S "X Fruuc* ....115 180 10& 5 Germany 89 60 ft .. It Austria 16 84 Is lB #BEEN GOODS MEN mm™* couWi*rfc Annual consuiup- Sur- Crops, tion. Stock, pins. E"ssta .'. .,..130 105 8ft 28fc Hungary ... 52 35 2 19 Uftited State# ....176 185 30 71 India 81 T5. % Canada 28 b A u s t r a l i a . . 1 9 1 4 0 * 0 Argentina ........ 2& 2J> 0 •> When a family can afford to.bl** a man of all work, half of hit time la taken up in carrying thing* back to *4,.,,. ....... '•k\ v tbe dry goods stores, Trying to Work Their Game oa Cubane and Porto Kicana. Green goods men have broken into Cuba and Porto Rico. For the past week or two these new possessions have been flooded with the alluring circulars of the men who wish to sell bad money for good to gullible citizens who hope to get rich without working or saying. The officials of the secret service have pounced upsra several of the green goods circulars and are now shadowing the men suspected of sending them oat. Allentown, Pa., seems to be the work­ ing headquarters of the gang who are now invading the West Indies, or at any rate that town is the place of delivery mentioned in the circulars. The "corne­ ous" are to fetch their good money to Allentowc and are there to get their bo- X&Ht WM Pw^HK .Osv.iwvimpi . e*a::.JBksUin other aaPprtbitTlii^f^ee land tbe modern trust had and baa attained fe l̂ts m^pt To-dly, 'myl'M informed writer, "thtere are combinations to the aqttare inch In ISngland than hi the United Btatee, and It wlH not be long at tbe ft*«a£nt rate before every trade In the tight little Island will be In a position to regulate competition." In spite of tbe fact that tbe tendency toward monopoly In England in tbe last. year has been significant and al­ most startling, the average EngMibmas will tell you, "We have no thrtts in England. Sir. Havemeyer evidently had that Idea when he declared thai "tbe customs tariff is tbe mother of trusts." How mistaken Is tbia belief, and bow flrmly the trust movement, un- dea another name, has taken bold upon Snglteb commercial life, may be con- vtncingly learned from the facta set forth In detail by the Press corre- sf^adfent. According to thla well-in- fonned writer, organization* which in tfvpta now control in England the fine tivttou spinning, the dyeing, screw manufacture, salt manufacture, news­ paper manufacture, cotton thread, cbemieaia, the crushing of oil need, bed* atead .making, gtaps bottle making, manufacture of electrical fittiu ̂ and < the cfesed tube1trtU9e. There is ng open mtnrket in pe4wrfeum, nickel, riwkiory,' artatlmony, lealf pipe and fish. Th« Na­ tional Telephone Company now has a monopoly, and tbe number of trades bt which the leading producers have combined and have begun to squeeze tbe smaller producers to the inevitable end of establishing what is tantamount to a trust i» almost infinite." In one respect the trust Idea has bee» carried in England to an extent thus- far unknown in the United State*. The combinations operating separately In different lines are engaged in com­ bining tliemeslves into sum larger and more comprehensive trusts. At last accounts the dyers were thinking of go­ ing into the- chemical manufacturing business, making their own drugs and dye stuffs, and establishing what would amount to a practical monopoly in that direction. Likewise the retail chemists, themselves combined into as­ sociations which regulated prices in many district*, froze out tbe manufact­ urer of mineral waters by building a factory themselves, and practically controlling the market. One of the latest combinations is that of tbe oil-seed crushers, whose chair­ man Is Hugh Culien Smith, late gov­ ernor of the Bank of England, and tbe manufacturers of tbe paper used in making newspapers are said to have formed a monopoly. TWenty-four lead­ ing firms in the engineering trade have consolidated with a- capital of $70,000,- 000. Vlckers & Co., armor plate manu­ facturers, have been buying up compet­ ing firms until they control the trade. The Belfast linen yarn spinners were lately reported .to be organizing and also the Scottish floor clof.h manufact­ urers, also the bleachers, who are re­ ported to have a capital of $80,000,000. All this in free-trade England, where, if Mr. Havemeyer and His Demo-Pop admirers are correct In their conten­ tion, trusts do not and can not exist. It appears, however, that they can and do exist, and that they thrive won­ derfully well in that non-protected country--thrive all the better, It would seem, because of the absence of protec­ tion and the active and always increas­ ing competition which protection pro­ motes and1 insures. Sucb, it will be found, is the truth concerning trusts. They flourish with or without a pro­ tective tariff--rather better without tban with lt. ̂ ; WW The cotton duck trust will soon bate the swim. ^ It may be some time before they are known as'the Yaquiet. France can loose Paty de Clam, baft relentless fate won't let her lose him. In perfecting its organization, tbe win­ dow glass trust will take a^l the panes possible. A Philadelphia man proposes to man­ ufacture ice at 40 cents per ton. This is enough to make the trust shiver. Hetty Green's new suit cost more thaa Russell Sage's, but then Hetty's was a lawsuit.--Pittsburg Telegraph. j Manila's Fourth seems to have been very creditable, considering that it was 1 " " a/ > [&rge -orders.*: Ait prices, early buyers heavily in order to take a< ^rarket conditions, and jobblro bay* laid In large supplies. * And yet Mr. Bryan and Mr. Belioonft profes*.to thlnkjlwt.u ĵî ;;̂ !̂ ! errantry are laboring under beavy btt£ dens. If these talkative genfleitten would give their tongues and their («ns a rest for a few days and would fire even a cursory attention to the actual state of affairs in the country they would perhaps realti* tbe folly and tbe nonsense of their blatherskite talk about the present All Stnat At tbe present moment, as Douglas once said, there are only two sides to this question. Every man moat be for the government or against it There can be no neutrality in the war that our bojs are now carrying forward In tbe Philippines no more than tbere could be two sides to the eonflic^ referred to by Douglas. The great masse* of tbe American people will be on tbe side of the ' government and the American army regardless of political leader* and political platforms^--Des Molne* Cap­ ital* y SstfL-it. . *v • **•-- Cora X * ' " Proaperitr Pointa.',, I ^ i Kansa* thls year wiu win over caljuaity by tbe largeat Bmajority ever knerwn.--Topeka tDapitsd. It Is gratifying to observe the stead­ ily increasing volume of our transac­ tions with all of our Latin-Aasericaa neighbors.--Troy Times. Even tbe numerous - strikes are lop- dices of^ the Wuptry'a prosperity. Workmen ^now better tban to strik** when the tlme» are- b«rdl--Buffalo Ex­ press. J; ^ ' Tbe Kaama eorn crops is ewtlmated^et 300,000,000 bushels, and the most wf- dent ot Populists concedfe a Republic can victory in the State tor at least two years. Good times- and Republicanism! go hand in hand in> Kausa*-.--New York Press. Prosperity is evidenced In tbe, earn" lngs of the railroad, which for June and' the first half of July increased from 14 to 16 per cent, over the' corresponding period of last year. These la no better gauge of the improved business condi­ tions.--Syracuse Herald. Pennsylvania '^papers announce that marriages in the State have Increased decidedly during the last two year*, and one editor remarks that "there is an intimate relationship between mar­ riages and tbe markets." Another pleasing result may be credited to pros­ perity.--St. Louis Globe-Democrat Where fa JTobaittor We have beard from feryanf from Croker, from Aitgeld, from Jo Black­ burn, from Henry Watterson and from Athens. It is plain that, apart from cer­ tain retraction and fine, hearty crow- eating, all these leader* are in favor of the Chicago platform for 1900, and for the regular machine, however, sadly it may have dislocated. Harmony, long time moulting on a withered perch, bas apparently resumed Its ancient roost The renegades and traitors of 1896-- all at least wbo have not been provided for against tbe chilling blasts of ad­ versity and neglect--ape slipping back again by various tortuous and shabby wayts. Tammany looks solid. The By numa and the Buekners have become palpably as they always were really, insignificant There seems to be a love feast whereat tbe prodigals have been welcomed with much veal and wassail. But far away in southwest spit, where everybody worth mentioning chews tobacco, we discern a lone but chicken-breasted form--tbe form of our gifted and our only Jobailey--from which we have not yet beard a sound. He stands there in tbe trackless chap­ arral, unresponsive, noncommittal, si­ lent as the desert he illumines and adorns. What he thinks of all this, what furious flatulency he corks up, we do not know and cannot guess. The constitution is his pillow by night and his inspiration by day. The winds pass by unheeded. His shirt front breasts the elements undismayed. The thrill­ ing note of Bryan, the flutelike music of Blackburn, the resounding bray of Watterson, the shrill pipe of Aitgeld-- all these noises, borne upon the bosom of tbe wind, float past him unregarded and unknown. He staya there, planted In the Texas sands, his trousers flap­ ping to the breeze, his eagle egr* turned la upon himself. He doesn'i say a word. Wfeat tragic consequences blag* uĵ - Political Pointa. , V, . * • Every time Mr. Bryan declares for free silver he makes it more certain that a million Democrats will not vote for hin^-r^ansasjgity Journal. The greatest mistake of Aguinaldo's life is in placing reliance upon what the Democratic party in the United States will do.--Milwaukee Sentinel. It isn't to be wondered at that the Democracy is inclined to have such a pessimistic view of everything, with so many troubles of its . own.--Council Bluffs Nonpareil. "Graphter says he will run his office in the interest of neither the rich nor the poor." ">Vell, you know Graphter is neltber ricb nor poor."--Kansas City Star. At least two Republican papers of Denver are printing caricature* of Bry­ an on the front page. Nothing could better illustrate the change that ha* taken place in Colorado toward silver. --Indianapolis News. A rich man has a right to bay a* many useless things as he pleases, but no man is justified in such wanton ex­ travagance as the purchase of the Democratic nomination for Governor of Ohio.--St. Louis Globe-Democrat. There Is little danger that the mug­ wumps will flock together by them­ selves this year. They are not anxious to expose their weakness, which ha* thus far been hidden by working with one or the other of tbe old parties.-- Cleveland Leader. •Can't the Democrat* of this town get together?" inquired the political ex- horter in Kentucky. "Get together!" answered tbe man with court plaster on his ear. "Why, Jt takes eleven dep­ uty sheriffs to- keep 'em apart!"-JWash- ington Star. * The fact that more than three time* as much gold will be mined this year as in 1886, and nearly twice as much as in 1896, convinces most intelligent men that there is enough gold for the standard money of the world at th* present time, and that three or four years hence there may be too much. The Republicans have kept progress with the years; the Bryanites have marked time with their faces toward the past--Indianapolis Journal. M knownte wait' ' " appear* « tO"be t*l«^ in r-, _ teries or in chemical eiectrtdijl'; ttaie. Compressed jur is a*t» Suppose, a new thing, and there Is new to report in that field. InveMM* • tried for a while <6 perfect Sal* g«*» ' cesses for compressing acetylene, b*t they have abandoned that idea ea se* - ,• count of tbe prejudice against it. . ^ An interesting story cotaes from Indian Territory regarding a United States eoatt, . tfee?«, jndge, attorney, clerk, she»ME..*ad" 1 marshal, with aH necessary assistant* and paraphernalia, which travels place to place over the territory, forth as occasion demands. This aovel institution is in tbe northern secfle*. ei" the territory, where the towns aw few « and far apart, and where it is cheaper for the court to go to the people thaa for the people to go to the court Muah., money is saved the people each ^ the movable outfit There it s sw*fty. bouse oa wheels, resembling a mover+i wag*a» in which the court travels, and i£,. which tbe court records are kept. Here/ • alsoy la towns where there are no be^et5; accommodations, court is held and just3ee» j '* dispensed. With the court is a complete "'y cooking outfit, presided over by a first- class" culinary artist, who sees to it thatr - J the court does not want for food evea if -;, it does want for some of the other thingi^vv which are esmmon in-' civHfated^ communi ­ ties. About 200 young women are at presf a « ent employed by the United States in'-;,, the business of nursing soldiers in. the...' camps- in the Philippines, Cuba,. Porto»' Rico and in. this country, and of thi* number 58 are in the Philippines, or unfe : der orders to go tbfre. In. all likelihood, the Government will be compelled ,"• make a considerable increase of its fore*.' of nurses, and steps in that direction wii|t" - be taken very soon. It is no easy thing,, h however, to secure one of these posfc, tions, and young women who are think* . ing of trying it would be wise to count . H';: the difficulties in. the way and estimate' their ability to overcome them. One** appointed, however, a nurse signs a. cons- tract for a year. She iB paid $40 per' •" month for service in the United States^ and in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philip^ pines $50 per month. • The Masonic ceremonies Which are to* __ take place at Alexandria and Mount Vernon on the one hundredth anniver*' sary of the death of George Washing* ton have practically been agreed uponi: , The affair will open with the assembling i "• of the grand lodge of Virginia in Alexr •• «, andria on the evening of Dec. 13. Early - 1" the next morning the grand lodge, ac*^ ^'1'; companied by various local lodges, int?'^ eluding the one to which Washington beff longed, No. 4, at Fredericksburg, wilj,' proceed to Mount Vernon, where th^j^g funeral services of Dec. 18, 1799, will b«r duplicated as nearly as possible. Invi* tations to prominent Masons in all party v of the world are to be sent out, and it is*, "*• believed that the event will be the mosfl; I; important the Masons In this count have been connected with for a numt of years. . • -ft'* The Department of Agriculture has es^ timated the flood losses in Texas at seve^l and,a half million dollars, and says thai 8,100 farms were submerged, with a total | acreage of 1,380,000. About half of this area was under cultivation at the time 2r; the Aatonialied "Kubberneelr." J -U WEACTH HAPPINESS 125,000 in corn, 11,000 acres in suga, corn, and the rest in smaller crops. Abouff; 90 per cent of the loss came through th& destruction of crops, but damage to farm ^ ; stock, etc., aggregated about ^850.000^, The loss to the land by washing an<||;fe; gulleying is estimated at $350,000, bufc- ! part of this is offset by the increased fui» ture productiveness resulting from allu-^ vial deposits. The loss represents about : 74 per capita in the flood district, which ; has a population of 100,000, mostly o groes. • After » reoent improvements North Capltbl street had been, made i| ". was discovered that some of the works-- rrien had thoughtlessly made away witb; the historic corner stone set in place bj - George Washington at the time of th*. original surveys to mark the norther*^ boundary of the city. The stone cannojjfe';^ be found, but a committee of citizens hafyS been appointed to prepare a suitable pi lar or tablet to mark the spot where " stone stood for so many years. A new-style domestic money order ha| been issued by the Postofflee Departments/ The new form is somewhat smaller thaa "V the one previously in use. Its dimension*, are about those of the ordinary bank, mv draft The color of the order is bluey with a ground of very light blue. ; tints and tbe Intricate lathe-work, it i« <. said, will render counterfeiting very diffl* ' I cult, but as an additional safeguard *,A"( t horizontal watermark, composed of the t initials U. S. M. O., in broad capital leti/T' ters is wrought into the paper oa whicb*" the new forms are printed. j ' • State Department officiate decline i*,. the most emphatic manner to say what Consul Bedloe's actions were which of| j fended the Chinese and caused his sutt^" ' pension, but say that the consul's integfej rity is, in no way involved. Assistant Secretary Cridler said that the granting > J of an American charter to the Abbe^ .* which is now being held by Rear Ad-?' • miral Watson, had nothing to do wit%- the suspension of the consul, although ia granting aa American charter to thafK i vessel, ia the opinion ot the officials berqk . Dr, Bedloe exceeded bis authority. I - Within tbree months the Government^, will have in operation two large fac^'. • tories for tbe manufacture of clothings for enlisted men ia the navy. Cougres|| has set apart $150,000 for the work, and. the buildings would have been conn plot*. ed a year ago but for the war with Spain. ^ One factory will be situated in the navy ' ; yard at Mare Island, California, and th#: sS other at New York, in connection witb' tbe small factory already ia operation^ f 'h Mv! file - ^ ' aKS.i-.s$f.Sis!