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' :>•> AS SUMMER GOES. Slrw summer all her golden treasures Matore us, smiling that her Work is done; And aswe take .the gift--lo, she is pone! "Withdrawing from us with her harvest days, ' Nor stops to hear our gratitude and praise. And tvhen I see her go, then I entreat Tbat it may be with me when I com­ plete c Tb« task Life sets, and vanish in the haze, ' « 6<»- let there.be no parleying at the fast, But ,take the harvest, be it "large or small Assured, oh, friend, that it is my great all, let me join the summers of the past As f&seefully as drops the harvest moon . Ado wn the sky lulled by the west.wind's tune. • •--Womankind. GHARLIE CLIFTON, of Pan-gal Cavalry, had bought two opal rings of a wandering peddler. What did he care about the supersti­ tion regarding the stones? His fellow- officer, Allonby, was only laughed at for warning him against the purchase. Clifton rode off with the rings, while &ia friend strolled over to where the peddler was tying up his pack. "See here," he said, "here's a rupee Jforyou. Now tell me about those rings. The sahib has bought them, and you •can tell me the truth now." ""Master promise not to tell the other sahib, and I will tell him," replied the old man. Allonby gave, the required promise. "Those jewels very unlucky jewels," tsegan the ancient vender. "They mak­ ing very bad, luck to different peoples. First sahib who bought them was Ma­ harajah of Karospoor. The sahib knows what happened to him. Then Fortes- -cue, sahib at' Rotibad, bought them. That poor gentleman killed out riding very next day. After Rotibad mer- -ehant buying those jewels, and his house burnt down next week. Then all the people saying: 'These very bad Jewels,' and all very much afraid to to buy them. That merchant wanting to sell them to me; but I too much afraid to buy. Then another man told me--those jewels only "bad for three people. You buy and then sell them, and next purchaser will have good luck. That's all, sahib. I tell sahib whole truth. The sahib who has bought those Jewels will have good luck, if God wills." The old man took his departure and Allonby continued to muse over his <jueer story. After all, he thought, it inay simply have been a coincidence that those three people should have come to grief. Anyhow, I hope old Clifton won't have bad luck. Mean­ while the subject of Allouby's thoughts had reined in in front of a pretty little imngalow half way up the Kharpur Hill, where most of the residents of the •station had their bungalows, and where what breeze there was in the place could be enjoyed by the jaded plain dwellers. At the sound of his horse's hoofs a young girl who had been re- 'Cfiaing at ease on a deck chair in the veranda hastilj- rose. Nettie Vernon was a pretty sight that afternoon, with her golden hair and the English roses still in her cheeks. So thought Clifton, and he thought, too, what a lucky fellow he was to have won her. "Why, Sir Officer," said the young lady, with the Sight of laughter in her eyes and its •dimples In her cheeks, "what brings you •here so early this afternoon? Have •you been promoted? Are you ordered to the frontier to fight the Russians, or what? Do tell he, and don't--oh! don't look so serious."* The young offi­ cer looked down at the bewitching up­ turned face, and then: ! "Did you come all- this way to do that"?" asked Miss Vernon with mock reproach. "Oh, how foolish and hot­ headed the young men of the present day are. Now, when I was young--oh!" The sentence was not finished. "Look raese, Nettie," said her lover, "what do .you think of this ring? That's what ihrought me here. Isn't it a beautiful vopal? And the most beautiful girl in Pangal shall wear it if she likes." "Oh, Charlie, what a dear you are!" cried the young lady, in delight, "But aren't opals dreadfully unlucky?" "There you go," said the discomfort- -ed lover, "you are as bad as Allonby, 'who has been croaking on the subject aike Edgar Allen Foe's 'Ra^en.' " ""£ didn't say they were unlucky," pleaded Miss Vernon; "I only asked if they weren't. I am sure, Charlie dear, soothing will be unlucky that you give me," she added sweetly. In another moment the ring was on, and the two lovers, comparing their jewels, thought "them quite the nicest in Kharpur. „ A few days later Charlie Clifton was driving to the Kharpur station. It was the day of the Sawarbad races. Sawar- •bad was some forty miles" from Khar- .pur, and a large party was going over. The railway station was a Couple of •jaiiles from Clifton's bungalow. He had •driven about half way when be discov­ ered liis famous opal ring was not on v Ms fiager. "Confound it!." he.excLai;»- cd. 4,I must have taken it off when I washed my hands. I must bare it. 1 proailsed Nettie never to take It off; beside^ it might be stolen. I shall have •to go, iWA." He* turned his horse's '.head and drove rapidly home. He found the ring; and he found *also when he got to the railway station that the train had gone without him. Poor fellow, how sick he felt as he walked out of the station, Nettle must have gone (without him: ahd he had been looking tOrwftxd so much to the outing. A Areadtul feeling of desolation took pos- --r--: --• -- ~V-- : session of htm. It seemed to him mat1, iie wasT?epatated forever frbjn; hSs^be- loved. He cursed the opal ring which had been the cause of his misfortune/ Was It really going to bring htm 111 luck after all/liewondered? A sound, of wheels approaching made him look up. \|yras ,it possible? He knew the* cart, He knew the driver. Miss Ver­ non drove up looking the prettiest of pictures, i$ a new straw hat and a most becoming frock. After all, there Is not Always a great gulf fixed between Paradise and the other place! "We must be quick, Charlie," cried the young lady, as she threw down the reins. "I have run it yeryjine^ I know.'* "Don't hurry /darling," was her lov­ er's reply, given in a calm and leisurely manner--he could afford to be calm ancl leisurely now-^the train has gone with­ out us." " "Oh, what a pity!" cried Nettie, clasp- her hands, "btit never mind, dear, we have got each other," and she looked at the young man in a way that more than consoled lii/ii for all his disappoint­ ment "Ana now," said the young lady, "I daresay you'd like to know how It is I am-so late. Do you know, sir, it is really all your fault? Yes, it was. It's no good denying it. It wa§ that opal ring of yours that fell off--you know it was rather large for me. Well, I spent no end of time looking for it. I thought I should never find it; but I did, and here it is. But what on.earth, makes you stare'so? Don't do it, dear; you look so ugly, and you are really not-such a bad-looking boy in your normal state.1 ' Poor. Clifton explained the cause of his own delay, which he had been try­ ing to %o for some time, but" his fair lady had hot given him a chance. , "Now, dearest,'"' lie concluded, "doesn't it strike yoii as very curious that we should both of us have been de­ layed on account of our opal rings? I wonder what it means?" "Yes, I wonder, too." said Nettie, nod­ ding her golden head reflectively. But they both of them knew an hour or two later, when the terrible news of the breaking down of the Patharpar bridge under the train tuey would have gone by reached the station. An# in the days of grief and desolation that followed for Kharpur they found time to wonder why they two should have been saved. Charlie and Nettie are old­ er now, but they still wear their opal rings--those rings which, instead of bringing them ill luck, saved them from an* awful and sudden death. At least, they so regard the matter. And so do I. also, for I, too, am superstitious, and not ashamed to own it.--Great Divide. : • • > • • -u o, v L ' V. KILLS THE ta'tra-<^s* MACHINE THAT SLAUGHTERS _ 8,000 BUSHELS A DAY. Minnesota Scientists' " Tackle " the Farmers'Terror in a'New Way- Canvas and Kerosene Send the Pests to Death. "Hopper-Dozers." Minnesota scientists have tackled the grasshoppr pest in a new way. Canvas and kerosene is the combination, before which the tiny hoppers go down to their death. Out there it is known as a "hop- A Reconstructed World. We all think we could remodel this disjointed old world greatly to the ad­ vantage of humanity at large and our­ selves in particular, if we only had the power to exercise our ability. If you had your way every poor girl should marry a rich man, and he should love all the family, and sot up all the boys in business, and see that all the girls were comfortably fixed in life. If you had your way there should be work for everybody, and good wages should be paid. There should be no famines. Coal should be cheap. There should be no more rainy winters. You should have all the days sunshiny, and let it storm nights when honest people weru in bed, and it would be no bother. Bur­ glars and stock brokers, and abscond­ ing cashiers of banks should be con­ verted, and sent beyond the seas to im­ prove the condition of the heathen, either spiritually or physically, as could be mutually agreed upon. You would have, if you had your way, less waste of public money, less taxes, less fat government offices. Oh, if you had your way, you would bring about a great many changes, and everybody would find fault with them, just as we do with things now; and nobody would- be suited, an(l you wouldni$.be suited yourself, but you don't think so, and you never will, because the chance to convince yourself will never be offered you. per-dozer. te pays the -expenses of the slaughter, and the slaughter is terrific.. Tlii«k, if you can, of 8,000 bush­ el baskets packed with hoppers. That wag the average record in a day of killed and wounded insects at the height of the scourge. • ' \ ' ! •' Dr. Otto Lugger, Minnesota's expert on bugs, is the man who utilized the cu­ rious "hopper-dozer," says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Why he calls it by that riame it would be interesting to know. Perhaps it is because it sends the hoppers to their last sleep. He was invited to do something to rid the -• farms of their voracious brigades of hoppers early this summer. He found evidences of enough of them to kill all the crops in Minnesota. The rains helped to kill off; some of them, but science had to. do its share iu the extermination. In the neighborhood of Taylor's Falls Dr. Lugger found a grass­ hopper-infested district covering fifty or sixty squire miles. The insects were de-; scehdantsi he thought, of a previous gen­ eration which had made trouble in l'S90. They were of the so-called pellucid or California variety. ' There happened to* be a State appro­ priation for killing hoppers, and this was tiirned over to the executioner. "I had 200 hopper-dozers. built after the most approved fashion," said Dr. Lugger to a correspondent, "andr. purchased sixty barrels of kerosene oil. All we asked of the farmers was that they run the ma­ chines. That they were anxious to do this is shown by the fact that there was a fight for the machines. Every farmer in the section wanted one and wanted it at once. We could not get them built fast enough to supply the demand. The same thing was done at Rush City, Duluth and other points, although there were not as many of them furnished at these places. I estimate that these machines killed about 8,000 bushels a day during the time that they were all running. I do not think that this is exaggerated in the least, as there were over 400 of the machines, and at the end of a day's work from three to ten bushels could he taken out of use both.if nececisary oil any person Who insisted on his right to' an approach to piers in navigable waters,, aud, in carry­ ing out the instructions, they compelled a score of - women, to iuiperil'stheir lives Wednesday night. ~ i , This climax of the contest between the corporation aud the , municipality was caused by the action of the company in retaliation for the order to tear down the Van Buren street viaduct. Special Offi­ cer O'Keefe was called into the general manager's room and ordered to secure a large force of assistants. He was in­ formed that at sundown the people wero to be taught they had no right-to a pass­ age to the lake front lie Was told to'fur- nish his assistants with weapons and to arrest peacefullyin all .cases where a beating was not necessary, any plan, woman or child wlio tried to enter Chi­ cago from the steamboats. This order, said to* be without precedent in the his* tory of maritime' matters, was put into working force at the time when the people were returning'from Lincoln Park and Windsor Park Beach by boat. TAYLOR HAS THE MONEY. South Dakota's Defaulting Treasurer Has Raised the Cash He Promised. W. W. Taylor, the defaulting treasurer of South Dakota, has been in Chicago the past three weeks'. The purpose of his visit , was to collect $100,000, which, be­ sides all his other property, he will turn over to South, Dakota. He said he had been entirely successful in his mission and the money now in hand was ready to P TAYLOR, be paid into the treasury. It has been a question of considerable doubt in the minds of the citizens of South Dakota whether Taylor would be able to raise this $100,000. Now that he has raised it a much easier feeling will prevail. "I am going to Pierre to plead guilty add be •few" m THE "HOPrER-DOZER," BY WHICH 8,000 BUSHELS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN ONE DAY. When Irving Was Hissed. Sir Henry Irving recently told the following story about his early expe­ rience: "In my early days I accepted a stock engagement at a provincial the­ ater, and did not know until I got ther that I had been put into the place o an actor who was locally .very popular. had not left, I believe, on to­ gether good terms with the- manage­ ment; so the audience vented their spleen upon his successor. I was that unfortunate person, and for a whole week or more Iwas hissed every night; not fotSmy bad acting, but out of love for my predecessor. I remember how every night I walked to my rooms, some two miles out of town, very wretched, and walked iu again the next night no less miserable. To this day I never pass the place by railway with­ out a shudder." each machine with a shovel. Just about one hopper in ten that dies does so in the machine, so you can see that my estimate is not a large one by any means." "What is the nature of the machine?" he was asked. "It is something of the nature of an overgrown dustpan, and is made of tin. It is about eight feet long by two feet wide, runs on three small runners, and is drawn over the ground by a horse. At the front of the machine is a trough filled with coal oil, and behind this, at right angles, a piece of canvas rises to a height of three or four feet. As this ma­ chine is drawn over the ground the hop­ pers jump into it, the canvas preventing them from jumping over. They fall into the oil and that is the end. "Some of them strike the oil head first and die instantly. Others only touch it with their feet or bodies and ire able to jump out again. It makes little difference in the end, however, as they cannot live over three minutes if they have even the sentenced," said Taylor, "and I am anx­ ious to be serving my time." CROP CONDITIONS. THE CiRASSHQPPKT!, Cobwebs. Since Annie has been big enough to take carc of her own room, she has had a rage for neatness and orderliness very encouraging to see. Not long ago she said to her mother: "May Bridget brush down that hor­ rid cobweb in the corner over my book­ case?" "Yes," said her mother. "But don't call it 'horrid.' It's only because it's in the wrong place. In itself, it's very beautiful." "Oh, I don't see how any one could think a cobweb beautiful!" said the fas­ tidious maiden, with a shrug. "Except, perhaps, the cobs."' And why not? If a spider's web is built by a spider, why shouldn't a cob­ web have been spun by a cob? smallest drop of the oil upon their bodies. The fact that only those which get into the oil head first die instantly is the rea­ son that such a small percentage of them are found in the pan at the close of the day's work. "Of course the hopper-dozers are only a makeshift. I am conducting experiments now which I hope will show me a much better way of getting rid of the pests than the very clumsy one of gathering them up on a dustpan. A little while ago I read in some paper that in certain coun­ ties in Colorado the hoppers were dying in great numbers with some sort of a dis­ ease. I seat to the postmasters of a num­ ber of towns in that State asking them to send me some of the insects that were diseased. I received a large number, and there is no doubt in my mind that they are really affiicted with a disease that is contagious in its nature. We are trying to find out if the insects which we have in this State are liable to this disease. If so we will then know how to deal with them in a scientific manner." Bicycles as Revenue Producers. An ingenious idea lias been hit upon by the president of a Canadian railway for creating travel on the company's cars. Along the railroad, running some distance out of the city, the company has allowed bicyclists to construct a cinder path, for their, own convenience as well as giving the company better ballasting on the road. The only rev­ enue the company expects to derive from the path is from the fares of tfee wives and families of the riders who take the cars to watch the wheelmen prac tice. As the riders of the wheel in To- routo numbey about 10,000, the enter­ prise of the railway company is likely to be well rewarded. r Magnilicent. The North,British Railway Company is building a station at Edinburgh at a cost of $1,200,000. BARRED BY A RAILROAD. Illinois Central Refuses to Allow Chi- cauoans to .Cross Its Tracks. Actual conflict between citizens and armed officers of the Illinois Central Com­ pany on the. Chicago lake front because passage to and from the lake front was denied to the people has brought the question of rights to a decisive issue. Mayor Swift declares the crisis has been reached. He proposes to protect the peo­ ple against a repetition of the outrage of exclusion. John Dunn, assistant to the president of the company, announces he will not budge from the determined stand taken-by- force of uien with revolvers- He says dtizens were denied right to cross the (ji^fcks out of regard for their lives and -rajomates the corporation will fight any opening of streets. In shor,t, the company's position is construed by city officials to be a determination to stick for alleged vested rights. This earnestness on the part of both contestants - makes any more conferences and consequent agreements impossible. ° Chicago's lake front on Wednesday was in the possession of fifty armed men, hired by the Illinois Central Railroad Company to blockade passage to the har­ bor from Randolph to 12th streets. They had clubs in their hands and revolvers in General Outlook for Corn Is Flatter* injj--Much Sain in Places. The reports as to the conditions of the crops throughout the country and the general influence of the weather on growth, cultivation and harvest, made by the directors of the different State weath­ er services, say that the general outlook for an exceptionally fine corn crop contin­ ues flattering. Except in the Dakotas and Minnesota where it is somewhat late and in Indiana where it is maturing slow­ ly. the crop is generally in advance of the season and early corn is now practically made over the southern portion of the corn belt. Kansas and Missouri report much of the crop made, and in Missouri the largest crop ever raised in that State is promised. Six hundred Iowa reports, all counties being represented, show the condition of corn as much above the aver­ age in sixty-one counties, above average in eight counties, while thirty counties promise a crop below the average. In Ne­ braska corn is in excellent condition in the southwestern part of the State aud in the eouhties along the Missouri River; but has been much injured in the south­ eastern section, except in the river coun­ ties. In Indiana, while corn is maturing slowly, it is in good condition. In Ohio the outlook is less favorable, being poor in the uplands and on clay soils.^Ken­ tucky reports corn prospects unprecedent­ ed. No unfavorable reports respecting corn are received from the Southern States except from portions of Texas and the Carolinas, where in some counties drought is proving injurious. In Texas cotton is needing rain on upland; and the south­ west portion of the State, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louis­ iana report improvement in the condition of cotton over the previous week, while the outlook in South Carolina is less favorable. In Missouri there has been too much rain for cotton and the crop is grassy and the outlook unfavorable in Arkansas. Spring wheat harvest has be-, gun in North Dakota and continues else­ where in the spring wheat region. Tobac­ co is in good condition iu Virginia and growing rapidly in Kentucky and con­ tinues in excellent condition in Mary­ land, but in Ohio it is not doing well. Light local frosts occurred in Northern Indiana and in Northern Maryland and in the mountains of West Virginia. No damage reported except slight injury .to corn in Maryland. Drought continues in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Southern Texas and in portions of Maryland and the Car­ olinas, where crops are being injuriously affected. „ TWO SHIPS &0#§WN. AT LEAST TWENTY-SIX AR£ LOST. LIVES f British Vesse l Prlncc Oscar Strikes I an Unknown Boat--In Ten Minutes Both Go to the Bottom--^ne^Entire Ci-ew and Six of Another Lost. Horror in Mid-Ocean, ^ The British steamer Capae, from Val­ paraiso. brought to Philadelphia Thurs- dojfc night seventeen shipwrecked mar­ iners and the news of a terrible dis- istor that occurred on July 13 a short distance south,of the equator. The mar­ iners are the survivors of the crew of the British ship Princg Oscar, which was sunk after collision with an unknown ves­ sel, which also went down, but with all hands op board. Six of the Prince Os­ car's 'crew were drowned soon after they left the sinking fd;ip by the capsizing of the small boat into which they scram­ bled. From the size of the unknown ves­ sel it is thought she carried a crew of at least twfcnty men. The seventeen sur­ vivors were huddled into one small boat, With neither food nor water, but were fortunately picked up by the British ship Dharwar, from Melbourne, Australia, for London. From that ship tliey were trans­ ferred to the steamer Capac and, with­ out money or clothing, they were landed. Captain Clipperton, the-English consul, will cafe for them until they can be sent to their homes. • Midnight Disaster* The disaster occurred shortly after mid­ night in latitude 9:80 south, longitude 28:20 west. The Prince Oscar, which was bound from Shields, which port she left May 27 for Iquique, laden with coal, was going at a clipping gait oil the port tack before a brisk wind and with all canvas set. It is estimated by the crew that she was making about six and a half knots an hour when suddenly there loomed up directly under her bows a four-masted vessel. The mate asserts that the stranger had no lights burning, and after she was sighted it was impossible to alter the course of the Prince Oscar. The iron hull of the latter struck the unknown full amidships, knocking her almost on her beam end and crashing through the woodwork until her prow was more than half buried. The stranger went over almost on her beam ends as the Prince Oscar backed away from the rebound. As the crew of the Prince Oscar stood peering through the darkness they saw the stranger partly right herself and then she rapidly began to sink. They listened in vain fot' some signs of life, but.not a cry#for help nor a word of com­ mand came from the stricken vessel. The pumps were manned, hut there was no hope from that source. Life boats were ordered cut adrift, and the men were told to jutnp_and swim for their lives. They all went overboard and with the exception of two unfortunates reached the small boats. Captain Henderson, who was the last man to leave the ship, went over in his night garments and swam fully two miles before he was picked up. Three Days of Hardship, Both boats hovered about the scene of the wreck until daylight came, when they headed they knew not where. Twenty- four hours later a heavy sea struck the boat commanded by the mate and cap­ sized it. The occupants, eight in num­ ber, were thrown into the sea, and the already overcrowded craft which Captain Henderson commanded put quickly to the rescue. They were successful in getting four of them aboard. The rest were drowned. There were now seventeen men in the small lifeboat, with nothing to eat, noth­ ing to drink and barely room to stretch their weary limbs. The sun was broiling hot, and their hunger and thirst were al­ most unbearable. Toward evening of the second day one of the crew discovered a small cask of fish oil stowed away in the boat. This was dealt out to the survivors in small doses, and they used it to moisten their parched lips and tongues. For three days and nights they floated thus on the bosom of the South Atlantic, and just as they were about to abandon hope they sighted the ship Dharwar from London, bqund for Melbourne. JThey suc­ ceeded in attracting the attention of those on board and were soon on her decks. SUPREME JUDGE DIES. Justice Howell K. Jackson of Ten­ nessee Passes Away. Howell Edmunds Jackson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died at his residence at. West Meade, six miles west of Nashville, Tenn., at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the G4tli year of his age, of consump­ tion. Judge Jackson was appointed by Presi­ dent Harrison in 1S90. He had been in failing health for the last four years, but it has been only in the last eight or nine months that the progress of the disease began to cause his family and friends un-. easiness. Quite lately he seemed to im­ prove slightly. lie went to Washington H iSTG RI GAL RELIC. {Links from the Chain Which Barred the River at ^West I^oint. No ylsltor to West Point falls to no­ tice the few links of the irdn chain that •He around the monument up near the •hotel; They are the remains of the great chaln whlch was stretched across the Hudson river during the Revolu­ tion, to prevent British warships from sailing past the forts and landing an army or marauding parties. Few peo­ ple know that Just above the entrance fto Tjixedo Park, on the east side of the railroad track, are the ruins of the building in which that chain was made. They are known as the old Augusta forge. The western gable and,the south wall are all that are Standing/ It was pever anything but a low stone build­ ing, a few feet square, and built by a country mason. It was called a forge because there Irton was reduced from the ore by the old-fashioned charcoal fcnethod, and Its counterparts were com-, tnon all over the country within the last thalf century. It was owned by the (Sterling Iron Mine Company, one of the large iron manufacturers of the day. Here was reduced the iron taken from the mine, four miles west, and the linl^s hammered out'by hand. When it became apparent to the Cori- tinental War Department that a chain was necessary to prevent vessels going above the neutral ground, Secretary Pickering consulted Mr. Townsend, one of the iron kings of the day and an own­ er of the mine^and shortly after Gen. Putnam gave an order for the chain. In less than six weeks the links were delivered to the army engineer at New Winscfr, just west of Newburg, ready to put together. The carting was done by the neighboring farmers with their ox teams. The links Were 2 feet long and £*4 inches square, each weighing about 150 pounds. When pu/ together the chain had a swivel at every hundred feet. It wasabout 1,500 feet long and weighed 180 tons. It (Was buoyed up by lG-foot logs, pointed' at each end, so AS to offer as little resistance to the tides as possible. It was put in place in 1778. The part which is preserved was fished up from the bottom of the river in 1855, but the greater part was sold for old Iron to the West Point foundry years before. .JUSTICE HOWELL E. JACKSOX. A Bundle of Contradictions. At the storming of Loftsha, during the Russo-Turkish war, Gen. Skobeleff ordered an officer to lead a battalion to a certain point. The men marched on as long as there were buildings to Shelter them from the Turkish lire, but when they came to the open ground they halted, for an advance, apparent-i ly, meant the annihilation of the bat­ talion. Just at that moment the men saw Sko­ beleff riding calmly at a walk across the fatal space, while round hiin shot and shell whistled furiously. In a fight after the passage of the Balkans, the painter Verestchagin says that the rain of bullets was the most murderous that he ever experienced, though he had been several times un­ der heavy fire. In spite of the danger he watched Skobeleff walk slowly along, his hands buried in the pockets of his overcoat. The whistling bullets did not cause him to bend his head once; his face was quiet, and his eyes restful. "Now, we know what running the gauntlet means," said lie to the artist, as a turn in the road sheltered them from the bullets of the Turks. "Tell me honestly," said the artist, "have you really so accustomed your­ self to war that you no longer fear danger?" "Nonsense," replied the Russian gen­ eral. "They think that I am brave, and that 1 am afraid of nothing. But I have made it a rule never to bend down under fire. If you once permit yourself to do that, you will be drawn on farther than you wish. Whenever I go into action I say to myself that this time there will be an end to me." But though courageous under fire, the Russian general was a coward at headquarters. Before his troops be always appeared in a full-dress uni­ form, "with his hair neatly trimmed and scented. But in-4.be presence of his superiors he wore an old coat, a cloak hanging all awry, and a cap crushed down at the back of his head. He seemed embarrassed, as if afraid his elegance might give offense. This hero of many battles was super­ stitious. He believed in lucky and un­ lucky days, refused to sit down with thirteen at a table, jumped from his seat at the spilling of a littie salt, and left a room in which three candies were burning. Philip llauffman bnd Michael Snyder were arrested at Coney Island, New York, charged with running an illicit still at Neptune avenue. The men rented the house one year ago, since which time they have lived in it and carried on their work. The whisky was stored in a cellar under the- rear extension of the house; Sir T. F. Wade died at Cambridge. He was horn about 1S20 and entered the army in 1838, serving afterward in China and elsewhere. lie was advanced to the rank of K. C. B. in 1875 for his e»er-» tions in negotiating important treaties With the Chinese Government and ob­ taining treating facilities in that empire. Louis Stern, of New York, was sen­ tenced^ at Kissengen, Germany, to two Weeks' imprisonment for insulting a pub­ lic official and to pay a fine of 600 marks for resistance to the authority of th® state. " " , - • to sit in the second hearing of the income tax cases. He stood that trying trip only fairly well, and after his return home ap­ peared to lose strength rapidly. Judge Jackson was twice married, the first time to Miss Sophia Malloy, daughter of David B. Malloy, a banker of Memphis, who died iu 1873. To this un­ ion were born four children, as follows: Henry, Mary, William II., and Howell Jackson. Henry Jackson is at present. Soliciting Freight Agent of the Southern Railway, with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga.; W. II. Jackson is District Attorney of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at Cincinnati; Howell E. Jackson is mana­ ger of the Jackson cotton mills at Jack­ son, Tenn. In 187G Judge Jackson mar­ ried Miss Mary E. Harding, daughter of Gen. William G. Harding. A Slight Mletak,e. A gentleman who has recently re­ turned from England regales a report­ er with this bit of gossip: "There was an Englishmen who prided himself upon his ability as an amateur plumber. He decided to put gas connections into his house, and do it himself. He went ;to work with a great flourish'; hammer­ ed and soldered and fitted away, and at last came the final hour of triumph. He called the family into the parlor, beneath the great chandelier. He turn­ ed on the taps, with taper in hand-- and vigorous showers of water gushed forth over them all. He had made the mistake of connecting with the water- pipe instead of the gas-pipes." Not Interested. Starting from her sleep, she seized her husband convulsively by the nose and one eye-lid. "John," she cried, "there's a burglar going through your trousers!"- "What do you wake me for?" irrita­ bly demanded the head of the house. "Settle it between yourselves."--De­ troit Tribune. Sjiarks from the Wires. Twenty residences were burned at Ber­ lin, Md. ' Loss, $200,000. Miss Stella Dye was burned to death in her father's house at Arlington, Iud,i, N. C. Narramore, a well-known Los Angeles statesman, was. killed by rob­ bers on his California ranch;- Charlotte Neilson, well known to the American stage, was,quietly married at the chapeToTth'rChurch of the Heavenly Rest in New York to. Joseph)H. Neill, a wealthy planter of Guatemala, Central America. A Hereditary Talent. Bellefield--Young Halfback gets his atheletlc tastes legitimately. He comes of a very athletic family. Blpojnfield--Is that so? Bellefield--Yes; his father once held up a train. He had an aunt who did some shoplifting aud an uncle who was quite noted for jumping board bills.-- Exchange. BABB FOR (JO vEENOB; IOWA DEMOCRATS CHOCSE THEU? CANDIDATE State, Convention at Marshalltown ( Reaffirms the National Democratic Platform of 18913-- Lively Contest Over Silver. .L. B. Parshall ..... G. Jenkins .. .T. G. Harper Just What He Wanted. Steamship Clerk--Do you want a sa­ loon passage? Col. Winterbiossom (from Kentucky) --Well, I should say I did. You didn't suppose I would go any other way, did you?--Detroit Free Press.' To live leisurely without getting lazy 4s a fins art The Ticket. Governor. .............Walter I. Babb Lieutenant Governor. S. L. Bestow Supt. of Instruction... Railroad Commissioner Jtidge, Supreme Court, . The Iowa Democratic State convention was called to erder by Ghairman Howard at 10:30 O'clock Wednesday morning in Marshalltown. The convention was held at the Odeon Theater, and the handsome auditorium had been prettily decorated with bunting. The delegates left little room for spectators,' Prayer was offered by Rev. Feather Leniman. ~F. G. Pierce, the youthful Mayor of Marshalltown, made a brief speech of welcome and put the convention in good humor by saying he extended the freedom of the city, espe­ cially to the Scott County, delegation. Temporary Chairman French, who was received with applause, attributed the special invitation of the Mayor to the known modesty of the Davenport dele­ gates, and then launched upon his speech. He dwelt fully upon the prohibition ques­ tion and scored the mulct law unmerciful­ ly. He then took up the seyeral vital State issues in detail,, together/With na­ tionalquestions, strongly approving Presi­ dent Cleveland's .course during the panic, Mr. French thought silver monometallism would cut-wages worse than during the war and demonstrated how free coinage would decrease the value of the working-' man's earnings in savings ba.nks fully 50 per cent. The volume of money, he de­ clared, was sufficient for business de­ mands. Low prices, including thedecline in wheat, were next considered, and Mr. French closed with the hope that neither the gold nor silver monometalism would drive the other coin from circulation. The convention reaffirmed the financial plank of the Democratic national conven- tipn of 1892. The silver men made a strong fight, but they were beaten. They had been claiming from 700 to 800 of the 1,179 delegates, but when it came to the test they were able to muster few more than half the number claimed. They fought for the permanent chairman arid were beaten by a vote of 060 to 417. They fought for a silver plank in the platform and went down under an adverse vote of 652 to 420. Ex-Judge Walter I. Babb, of Mount Pleasant, was nominated for Governor without opposition. Mr. Babb is a bimet- allist and indicated his position in a short speech before the convention. There was •io candiate for Lieutenant Governor./ Mayor Vollmer was too young and Joseph"' Eiboeck, of Des Moines, would not permit " the use of his name. W. A. Groneweg, of Council Bluffs, ex-State Senator, had been mentioned, but without consultation with him, as he was not present. It had been designed by the old party leaders to name a r^presentaive German for the place, but when the silver men, smarting under their defeat, sprung the name of ex-Lieut. Gov. S. L. Bestow, of Chariton, the opposition saw a good opportunity to soften the asperities of the fight and heartily joined in nominating the man who had been beaten a few minutes be­ fore for permanent chairman of the con­ vention. Thomas G. Harper, of Burlington, was named for judge of the Supreme Court in a contest with E. E. Hasner, an old lawyer of Independence, but Lyman B. Parshall, of Maquoketa, for superintend­ ent of public instruction, and George Jenkins, of Dubuque, were nominated without opposition. It was a large and enthusiastic convention, with a bitter fight on the silver question, but the result was accepted with a show of grace. The Platform. The Democratic party of Iowa, in conven­ tion assembled, reafiirms the national plat­ form of the party adopted in Chicago in 1892 points with satisfaction to evidences of the wisdom of that convention, in results ac­ complished according to promises, to evi­ dences of returning prosperity, restoration of wages and the re-estahlishment of indus­ try upon a prosperous basis--conditions which have extorted congratulations from even the Republicans of Iowa. We declare the rescue of the finances of the country from the baleful effects of the Sherman law the repeal of the un-American Federal elec­ tion law, and the uprooting of McKinleyism works worthy of the history and the pres­ tige of the great Democratic party, and of a courageous Democratic administration. We reaffirm the following portion of tlie seventh plank of the last national Demo­ cratic convention: "We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to coin both gold and silver without discrimination against either mettrl or charge for mintage; but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, or- be adjusted by international agreement or by such safeguards of legislation as shall Insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times, and we demand that paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable in such coin." We insist upon this policy as especially necessary for protection of farmers and laboring classes, the first and most defenseless victims of unstably money and fluctuating currency. We condemn the cowardice and trickery of the Republican party of Iowa in failing to meet fn its last State platform any of the issues important and 'vital to the interests of our State. We believe the mulct law falls to meet the requirements of a good ex­ cise statute. It is unfair as between com­ munities and imposes hardship upon prop­ erty owners, and compromises the honor of the State In declaring the sale of liquor a crime and condoning the offense for a money consideration. We repeat our demand of the last five years for a local option, high license law, and, on behalf of the commercial In­ terests of the State, we favor a law permit­ ting the manufacture of liquor. We favor the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. We favor just and liberal pensions to all de­ serving veterans, reiterate our unflinching opposition to all monopolies and trusts and call for enactments which will abolish com­ bines of all kinds. We demand that State institutions be governed by a single non­ partisan board of control, which can intelli­ gently comprehend their relative wants and economically and justly apportion among the whol6 that which their just require­ ments demand. We favor the speedy com­ pletion of the Hennepin canal and the deep­ ening of the waterways from the great lakes to the ocean, to enable ocean vessels to pass through. Notes of Current Kvente. The Good Citizenship League of Wich­ ita, Kan., has taken steps to start a daily paper. Plows are being operated by electricity in Germany more cheaply than they could he by steam. ^ Twenty-two prisoners wore injured bv a falling bridge in the penitentiary at Jef­ ferson City, Mo. Lee Thomas \vas hanged at Corsicana, Texas, for the murder of J. M! Farley. The murder was the result of a game of card 3. • ' - The proprietor of a family hotel in New York, who was arrested by Roosevelt's minions, is going to test the excise law. Tile largest stockholder in the new bank at Guatemala, it is stated, is President Barrios, who is reported to have $250,000 invested- in- it. Two precocious burglars, May and Helen Petersoni'aged 11 and 7 years re-- spectively, were arrested at Denver and a houseful of plunder recovered. a The work of the assistant attorney gen­ eral's office of the Interior Departmcwit is about a year behind in the land cases to be decided. There are about 1,700 pending. .» > <?j .*^4.