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THE PLAINDEALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. McRENRY. ILLINOIS ' 1 --r I SPAIN IS MERCIFUL. CAMPOS ISSUES A PROCLAMA­ TION OF MERCY. " When the Devil Was Sick, the Devil a Monk Would Be; When the Devil A Got Well, "the Devil a Monk Was He." v. Spain in a New Role. Gen. Campos lias issued a proclama­ tion to the Spanish army in Cuba for­ bidding the summary execution or^ 511- treatment of prisoners. The,placing of Cuban women and children and prison­ ers in front of the "Squadron of Death," Spain's heartless- convict company, as well as the atrocities of other Spanish, leaders, who look upon Cubans as shakes and not as- human beings, has excited the disgust of the world. The Spanish Cabinet, cognizant of the effect such cruelties would hare in exciting sympathy for Cubans, has instructed Campos td is­ sue the proclamation^ order to appease an international wrath that might de­ velop into the recognition of' Cubans as belligerents: "We do' not hope that Span­ ish cruelty will be any less Vengeful than it has been, but it Will be more secret,- more discreet than in the past," said the Cuban wh^ brought the "news to Jackson­ ville, Fla. "The day I left Havana scores of prisoners were taken from Moro Castle, pitiful, half-starved specimens of human­ ity, burdened with chains, and carried on board ship to be transported to Spain's prisons in Africa, never to be heard of again." • Death of a Famous Woman. .Mrs. Clara Doty Rates died Monday morning at Chicago. She was born in Ann Arbor, Mich., Dec. 22, 1S3S, and was the daughter of Samuel Roseerans Doty, a cousin of General Roseerans, who traced back his ancestry through Ethan Allen to the iirst Doty of the Mayflower. On her mother's side she was descended from the Lawrence family of Virginia, and she inherited the sturdy moral fa her of the Puritan with the graces of person of the cavalier. She was married in 1 StK) to Morgan Rates, a well-kno.vn trade paper publisher, and since 1877 they have made their home in Chicago. . Mrs. Rates was always a close student of the best literature and a continuous, though not a voluminous, writer of poetry and of stories and sketches, chiefly for the young. Her first verses were published before she was eight years old, and since then she had written constantly for tin- best publishers. It is said of her that since the death of Louisa M. Alcott she had a wider circle of friends and rtd- • mirers among the young and among moth­ ers who have grown up to rear their chil­ dren to the stories of hers that they read themselves in childhood than any other Woman in America. It is, said of Mrs. Rates that she was a Puritan without be­ ing a bigot. Her character was beauti­ ful and lovable. quarter of a mile but was^rescued. Street car traffic was blocked. Hundreds fae-i tory gigjs crolsSedTiieTinth=~o£ tliewater" a few iwbments before the break. For the third time in thirty days a cen­ tennial celebration was held in Washing­ ton County, Pa. In all three cases the observances have been held by United Presbyterian churches. Four weeks ago the Mount Pleasant Church celebrated its hundredth anniversary. The Paris Church observed a similar occasion a week later, and Thursday the members and pastor of the Peter's-Creek Church held services in commemoration of the completion of the first century of exist­ ence of their-phurch organization. One of the features of the"day was the reading by the present pastor of a history of the church, including biographies of all its preachers, since the year 1795, WESTERN. One Man Killed, Seven Injured. *• Two converters at the'American iron Works of Jones & Laugblins at Pi-'ts- burg overturned Monday morning and sixteen tons of molten metal poUr*d in­ to the pit below, where t score or more men were at work. One man was fatal­ ly burned, three dangerous :y and forr others sustained serious injuries. The injured were removed to the hospital, where everything possible was done to al­ leviate iheir suffering. The responsibil­ ity for the accidenr nas not yet been placed, but it is said to have been un­ avoidable. The damage to the mill was not very heavy. The acidenc occurred while the men were raising converter No. 1, which contained over eight tons of molten' metal. It is elevated by com­ pressed-air power. Samuel Love and John Tunney were working at it, and be­ fore they got it raised the men work­ ing at converter No. 2 starved to raise it also. The metal ran out of converter No. 1, and the men became so excited over the possibility of an explos.on that they let go of the compresed-air maehine and allowed the converter io drop. The metal was thrown in every d'recrion and en­ veloped nearly all the men employed in that portion of the mill. Lion Lashes His Tail. A telegram from Para, Brazil, has been received in Rio Janeiro, stating that an armed Rritish force is marching through Rrazilian territory to that part of Vene­ zuela claimed by the Rritish Govern­ ment. The news will create a tremen­ dous sensation when it shall become gen­ erally known. Officials of the State De­ partment believe Great Rritain has defi­ nitely decided to refuse arbitration of the Venezuelan boundary dispute. This be­ lief leads to an uncomfortable feeing that serious trouble is in store for us. and" that Great Rritain is likely to show stub­ born resistance to the efforts of our gov­ ernment to apply the Monroe doctrine to this case. The President and his cabinet are in favor of enforcing the Monroe doctrine. - The National Library Association de­ cided to hold its next convention at Cleveland, Ohio, Sept..!. 1896. The Strauss harness-shop, belonging to the Jefferson City, Mo., penitentiary; was 'destroyed by fire, with most of its con­ tents^ Wednesdav forenoon. Loss. $55,- 000. W. H. Gehorn, editor of the Willows, Cat., Journal, fired three •shots at and killed .L E. Pufmiin, druggist and presi­ dent of the municipal board of trustees, Tuesday morning, in an.altercation over a disputed account amounting to a' few dollars. ' ' Jameg Stinaman, a farmer residing fourteen miles east of Greenville, Ohio, died Tuesday. His house and outbuild­ ings caught tire and were consumed, and' the exertion in trying to save the. contents resulted "in heart, failure. Loss $(>,500: nil insurance. A four-story • tenement house at Cin­ cinnati. Ohio, burned at midnight Tues­ day. Mrs. Mary Holmes was killed. Five were fatally, and several less seriously hurt. Thomas O'Flaherty jumped from the fourth story Window into a net held by the police without injury to limb. The Green County Rank, of Springfield, Mo., one of the oldest in the State, did not open for business Thursday, it having been placed in the hands of receivers by the Secretary of State on advice of the State bank examiner. The deposits amount to $00.<H)0 and the assets tp ^130,- 000. The bank is closed to protect the stockholders, its business having been de­ clining for some time. All debts will be paid. It is expected at the Indian office that Agent Reck, at the Omaha and Winne­ bago reservation in Nebraska, will take steps at once to remove settlers on the lands leased from the Flouruoy Company. Acting Commissioner Smith says that the men occupying the lands are not entitled to symraflijMin account of their crops, as they stvre notified to get off or make new leases before the crops were plauted. It is irossible they will be given an oppor­ tunity to make new leases now in cases where the lands have not been leased to other parties. A novel "accident" insurance ease was decided in court at Detroit, Mich., Fri­ day. E. L. La Rossiere held a .$,{.000 policy of the American Employers' Liabil­ ity Insurance Company. In March, 1893. he was in Toledo. One of his teeth com­ menced aching in a vicious way. and March 21 he had it drawn by a Toledo -dentist. In the operation La Rossiere's jaw was broken, and he died March 31 of blood-poisoning. The heirs brought suit against the company for the amount of his insurance policy, the contention being that his death was caused by the accident in the dentist's chair. The court told the jury that toothpulling and the i resultant evils are not accidents within the meaning and liability of insurance companies, and directed a verdict for the defendants. Deductions drawn from data collected by the Mallory. Son & Zimmerman Com­ pany of Chicago and embodied in the an­ nual report of that company, show that hog cholera is so widespread as to amount almost to an epidemic. The annual re­ ports of this concern are considered bv the trade as the best of authority, and the subject of this year's report is of unusual interest. Commenting on the advices re­ ceived the report says: "Farmers in Iowa and Illinois feel panicky on the situation, and are selling their droves of pigs before the cholera reaches them in order to get something out of them. This is one of the principal causes for the liberal receipts of hogs at the principal markets. The continued .shipment of these pigs to market can but result in a shortage of hogs for the late winter and spring months. Every car load of pigs that goes to market now means'a short­ age &f three cars of hogs later, and with the unprecedented crop of corn in the farmers' hands the prospects for them look anything but encouraging. The ad­ vices show that the greatest amount of cholera reports come from the two larg­ est hog-producing States. Illinois a ml Iowa. This fact is significant." one privates of the army for promotion to lieutenants was held at Fort Leaven­ worth, Kan. The result of the examina­ tion was sent to "Washington' to be ap­ proved by the Secretary of War. The men ill the class are from aIIparts of the country. Nearly every regiment in the service is represented.' Seven of them are relatives of officers, and three of them, ^Sydenham, Rytlier and Turman, are men who were students at West Point, but were dropped at that place after examination. Of the class, four failed. The same men tried and failed last year. One of them, Meeklein, a son of an officer, tried ..twice under the old and twice uiider the h.ew army law. MA HONE IS NO MORE. FAMOUS SOLDIER AND STATES- MAN DEAD AT WASHINGTON. BREVITIES. SOUTHERN. Franklin Leonard Pope, of Great Har­ rington. Mass., the noted electrician, was killed by a shock of electricity. Along the Nova Scotian coast a heavy storm raged. The American brigantine H. C. Sibley went ashore at Rlack Rock. At Jamestown, N. Y.. it is reported, that detectives have traced the murder of Mrs. Sherman and Mrs. Davis in Rusti last December to Emmet Rittles and three others who are in the Pennsylvania penitentiary for another crime, Mrs. Lillie J. Krepp and her son of Bancroft, Wis., were arrested at Den­ ver on the supposition that they were to meet John Krepp, defaulting cashier of. the Bancroft Bank. He did not appear and the woman and boy were released. By the explosion of a thrashing en­ gine near Mountlake, Minn., Joseph Schumacher, Jasper Malette and two other men, names unknown, were killed. At Cincinnati, Ohio, \ictoria Ivillner, 15, was found guilty of passing counter­ feit money. Sentence was deferred to await a decision from Attorney General Harmon because of her youth. * National Guardsmen will be interested in the case of -Jose Ryan of the Iowa militia, sued by his captain for $14 for seven days' absence from camp. Two courts decidedforRyan and the case will go to the Supreme Court. News comes of a tragedy that occurred in Pike County, Ga., in which eight or nine children lost their lives by poison ad­ ministered by their father. It seems from the best information Thomas Speer. tak­ ing advantage of his wife's absence, and being prompted by jealousy, administered the fatal drug to his children. The fiend is now behind the bars. & There is no doubt at Austin, Texas, that the grand jury will return indictments against Corbett and Fitzsimmons for con­ spiring to violate an article of the State penal code. Rut it is intimated that the State officials do not care to prosecute the pugilists further than to secure indict­ ments which can be held over their heads to keep them out of the State. This method is taken as the easiest way by which the State of Texas can avoid com­ plicated legal contentions. Wednesday afternon a terrible explosion occurred in the Merchants' Opera House, Corsieana, Texas, where the "Devil's Auction" company was preparing to play. Harry Cooleridge, master of» transporta­ tion and manager of the fjalcium. lights company, was testing a cylinder. There arose some doubt as to whether or not it contained black gas. and a bystander sug­ gested that he try it with a match. He struck the match and touched it to the cylinder, and the explosion followed, Wrecking the scenery and tearing out two windows thirty feet disthnt.' Ode man was instantly killed and several hurt. FOREIGN. Edgar Saltus, the author, was married at Paris to Miss Elsie Welsh Smith, granddaughter of John Welsh, of Phila­ delphia, formerly United States minister to Great Britain. A dispatch received at Adelaide, South Australia, from Coolgardie, the center of the new goldfields, announces that a whole block of buildings there Was burned by a fire which started through the upset­ ting-of a lamp. It is estimated that the damage done will 'amount to §1,250,000. The Treasury Department has re­ ceived through the Secretary of State and the Spanish minister t lie substance of a telegram "from .the Spanish consul at Key West stating in effect that another fili­ bustering expedition is fitting out at Pine Reef, one of the Florida keys; Leaders- and a number of men have left for there. The Cincinnati is said to be at Key West. Assistant Secretary Wike has sent tele­ graphic Copies of the Spanish minister's. notes to the collectors of.customs at New- Orleans, Key West and Tampa, with in­ structions for tItem to consult the United States attorney and the officers of the nearest revenue cutters with h view to preventing any violation of the neutrality laws of the United States. Gonzales de Quesada, secretary of the Cuban revolutionary party, with head­ quarters in New York, has been in Wash­ ington recently on private business. He did not see Secretary Oluey, nor were any steps taken toward securing the recogni­ tion of the Cuban insurgents as belliger­ ents. The policy of the Cubans in seek­ ing recognition of the United States has been outlined substantially as follows: No application will be made to the execu­ tive branch of the government until Con­ gress assembles. It is the feeling- that even if the executive authorities were dis­ posed to recognize the Cubans, the action would involve such grave responsibility that the executive branch would desire to have the co-operation and support of Congress. Care will be.taken also to see that there is uniformity in the steps pro­ posed to Congress. In this-way the. mis­ takes made at the time of the last Cuban uprising will be avoided. At that time there were no less than forty different Cuban resolutions referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, proposing recognition, arbitration and many oth^r plans, all intended to favor Cuba. In the end this diversity of proposals prevented an agreement on any one course. IN GENERAL The Green County Rank at Springfield, j Mo., has gone into the hands of a re- I reiver. Depots, §00,000; as,setsf t $130,- 000. Commander-in-chief Walker, of the Grand Army of the Republic, has an­ nounced the following appointments: Ad­ jutant general, Irwin Robbins, Indianap­ olis; quartermaster • general, A. J. Bur- hank, Chicago; inspector general, William M. Olin. Roston; advocate general, Al­ fred Darte, Wilkesbarre. Pa. An American baby has been born on II ersehel Island. Its mother is the wife of Captain A. C Sherman, of the steam whaler Reluga. Ilerschel Island is a barren spot in the Arctic Ocean. It is the extreme northern portion of Alaska and of Rritish North America. The whalers, most of whom had been away from home for more than eighteen months when the baby was born, were greatly interested in the event and sent many presents to the happy mother. There happened to be a clergyman of the Church of England at the camp, and he christened the child Helen Ilerschel Sherman. The baby has taken very kindly to the mild but perpetual daylight of the summer at Ilerschel Island, and bids fair to thrive there through the. long, dull, winter months. Its playthings are made from whalebone, and its cradle was cut from pieces of wreckage by a ship's carpenter. Private dispatches received at San Francisco say that La Paz, Mexico, has been completely destroyed by a hurricane. The storm was followed by a tidal wave, the waters in the bay rising to an un­ precedented height, invading that portion of the city fronting on the bay and carry­ ing out to sea men, animals and debris of wrecked buildings as the tide subsided. Mexicans in San Francisco say that they had dispatches about a severe storm which prevailed all along tlio coast early in the week. The loss of life is reported heavy, but details of the disaster arc meager. La Paz is the capital of Lower California and situated on a bay of the same name. The port is well sheltered and easily defensible against attack from the sea. The city had a population of 3,000, a cathedral, a government house and a town house and the place was once the abode of luxury, as evidenced by the handsome dwellings of the wealthy class. The city was also once the seat of exten­ sive pearl fisheries, silver mining was ex­ tensively engaged in and the commercd of the port was not inconsiderable. Was a Favorite in the Southern Army and -Saved Peterebure When Appar­ ently Defenseless After the Great Mine Exptosion. Picturesque Figure Gone. General William Mahone died at his home in Washington Tuesday afternoon. He had foeen failing steadily since he was stricken'"'with paralysis nearly a week ago, and it was known that death was only a question of time. The veteran, however, showed remarkable vitality and made a strong fight against the grim an­ gel. . , ~~ Tfhe country will long remember Gen. William Mahone as one of the most pic­ turesque characters in public life during the last thirty years. Exceptionally slight in stature and frame, lie has been a marked man in great assemblages. I-Iis peculiar style of dress, ami especially his hat, attracted attention to him. ; This broad-brimmed, soft "felt headgear skein­ ed out of proportion to the tiny form be- iieath.it But beneath this shade spark­ led a pair of the keenest eyes ever pos­ sessed by man. •• V - . Gen. Mahone marks- an epoch in the history Of the United States since the late war. lie has : been during thte last GEN. MAItOX'E. quarter of a century the central figure in Virginia politics, and at one time he was in the center of one of the most violent political storms ever waged in Congress, lie was in his 09th year. His favorite sobriquet was "Hero of the Crater," won by his wonderful courage '.n the attack on Petersburg, when the Federal forces sprung a mine beneath the Confederate defense. He fought like a tiger, and later historians give .to him almost alone the credit of keeping Petersburg from the Union hands by repairing before sunset the shattered Confederate lines. He had joined the Confederate army at once after the secession, participated in the capture of the Norfolk navy yard in 1801, and raised and commanded the Sixth Regi­ ment of Virginia. He was commissioned a brigadier general in March, 1804, and six months later became a major general. At the close of the war he returned to his original work of engineering, and became president Of the Norfolk and Tennessee Railroad. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1879. He was like a firebrand cast into a mass of dry tinder, and from the peculiar attitude that he at once assume, he caused one of the most bitter controversies and stub­ born deadlocks ever known in the history of that body. Mahone at last acted with the Republicans and gave them the organ­ ization of the Senate. His course brought down upon his head the wrath of the Democrats, but the Republicans received him with open arms, and the Federalpa't- ronage in Virginia was turned over to him. Since that time he has been the Re­ publican leader in Virginia. He served in the Senate until 1887, when he.was de­ feated. MARIA BARBERI'S APPEAL. Alleged Discovery of Evidence Which May Turn Sympathy Against Her. Among the cases which the New York Court of Appeals will be called upon to de­ cide is that of Maria Rarberi, recently convicted of the murder of her lover. Owing to the great provocation under which the crime was committed unusual sympathy has been enlisted in behalf of the prisoner, who is an ignorant Italian girl of nineteen years, unable to speak the WASHINGTON. EASTERN. At Philadelphia a meeting is to be held for the relief of Henry Craemer, a Ger­ man-American who is under sentence of death for murder at Seattle, Wash., but who is declared innocent by a German paper in Philadelphia, which has inves­ tigated. o * At Scran ton. Pa., a storage reservoir containing 2,500,000 gallons of water and owned by the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company, burst Thursday night. It filled the repair yards of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad with wreckage »and washed away a portion of Mattes street. r A girl was carried a Judge Bradley, of the District Supreme Court, Washington, ordered the discharge from custody of Captain George A. Armes, who was arrested on the order of Lieutenant General--Schdfield just prior to the latter's retirement from command of the army for having written him an insulting letter. Judge Bradley scored the action of the late general of the army, characterizing it as unlawful, tyrannical and capricious. Another crank turned up at the White House Tuesday in the person of Owen Jones, hailing from New York State. He had previously addressed a threatening letter to tlje White House, so the officers were on the watch for him. In an in­ coherent and rambling fashion that plain­ ly showed a disordered mind he announced he had come for employment as the Presi­ dent's boy. He was promptly removed to the nearest police station, where it is probable that he will be examined as to his mental condition and pla;ced in safety. The examination of a class of twenty- MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, §3.75 to- .$5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 59c to 01c; <5??irn. No. 2, 28c to 29c; oats. No. 2. 17c to 18c; rye. No. 2. 41c to 42c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 18c; potatoes, per bushel. 20c to 30c; broom corn, common growth to fine brush, 2Vic to 4c per pound. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; Wheat, No. 2, 01c to 03c; corn, No. 1 white, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2'white, 22c to 24c. St/Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 02c to 03c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 25c to 27c; oats, No. *2 white, 17c to 18c; rve, No. 2, 30c to -88c. • . , Cincinnati--Cattle, $3,50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, 07c to 09c ; coru, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c; oats,,No. 2 mixed, 20c to 22c;.rye, No. 2, 44c to 40c. .JDetroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep,,,$2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 04c to 05c; corn, No. 2 yeliow, 3ic to 32c; oats, No. 2 white,"21c to 22e; rye, 42c to 43c. • Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 05c to 07c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 43c to 44c. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 08c to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. ., Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 58c to 59c; corn, No. 3, 31c to 33e; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; barley, No. 2, 39c to 41c; rye, No. 1, 40c to- 42c; pork, mess, $8.00 to $8.50. . - New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 08c to 09c; corn. No. 2, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; butter, creamery, 10c to 24c; eggs, West­ ern, 17c to 20c. MARIA BAKBERI. 6-if lite GERMANY'S PRINCES. •i \ Their Daily Routine of Life at ii Hotel. . . The princes i-IsoTt 7 o'clock and it 8 appear with their attendants in the swimming "bath of the Hotel Konstanz, where,-they don short linen trouser^ and jump in with the rest of the guests. At 9 fpllowg a rowing excursion on the lake; the princes do the rowing, while their govfcrnoj looks after the steering. After lunch all rest for an hour. In the evening the princes attend the open air concert in their boat on the lake. They would like to mix with the crowd, but fear to attract undue attention. The princes occupy at the hotel four bed­ rooms and a parlor , and--dining-room combined. Tliey sleep in the same room in two brass beds; each of their attend­ ants has a room for himself. From the balcony of the dining-room an enchant­ ing view can be had of the lake and mountains. The apartment hasia.sep-, arate corridor, and the balcony is pro­ tected agaiUst observation by awnings. The boys plan their own menu, which generally contains only bourgeois •dishes, such'as rare roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, veal cutlets and lamb chops, with beans or peas, rice pudding and potato pancake. - Here fol­ lows a menu written by Eitel "for Sat­ urday evening; •' , V Peilkartoffein wait butter. Sell weinscot ele t ten, Apfel coinpot. •. V , - " Markgraeflor. In the Queen's English: Potatoes boiled in the jackets with butter, pork chops and stewed apples. Wine'; Marlc- graefier. " ' - - . The hotel-keeper told me that the boys never were content unless they had stewed potatoes for dinner. For breakfast coffee, cold meat and eggs were served; for luncheon, cold meat, bread, potato salad, fruits and a light white wine and seltzer water. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon the boys had coffee and cake, German fashion. The dinner was always a somewhat stately affair, and was served in a saloon next to the public dining-room. The princes seemed to be well up in the German art of drinking wine. They had plenty of it with their dinner and very frequently the Crown Prince brewed a "bowl" in the evening con­ sisting of white wine, champagne, su­ gar and fruits. Everybody in the hotel is in love with the princes, who are as modest and as unassuming as if they were chil­ dren of the proprietor. Col. von Deines pays the hotel servants 500 marks per week as a douceur, and the cook re­ ceived from the Crown Prince a dia­ mond pin with his_i initials.--Roston Transcript. The "New Child" Horror. "A is not an e article," remarked a child the other day to her "mother, who was helping her with her school lesson. "Fancy your not knowing that it's a distinguishing adjective!" We asked a small school girl the other day if she learned astronomy. "Astronomy! Of course not! That's an infant's sub­ ject," she answered, with great con­ tempt. "Have you read Pope's 'Essay on Man?' " we inquired lately of a girl of 13. "Pope! Why, nobody thinks anything of him nowadays," she re­ plied. "Do you know Milton's 'Paradise Lost?' " "Oh, we got beyond that long ago." The worst of a childish dictum of this sort is that you feel yourself so abso­ lutely quenched. There is no getting any further in the argument, for no pigheadeduess equals the pigheaded- ness of the very young person--in fact, of the New Child. And then he--or she --is never amused with the simple games that used to delight us. Modern children are willing to play, if only to please their elders; but they are mildly and politely bored. ' They are bored with most things. They have twenty picture books where we had one--none of your garish, crude illustrations, but aesthetic designs; and yet they don't seem to care about them. There is a good story of how an old gentleman, with much toil and trouble, manufactured a large kite fof his small grandson. He and another old friend, with the boy-i : went out to fly the kite. The two old men were deeply engross­ ed, but the grandson got so bored that he quietly absented himself--and after some time the two old fogies found, to their disgust, that they had been lark­ ing about all alone with a kite, much to the amusement of the passers-by. And another story--of a little girl of 8 who said to her mother (an authoress): "Oh, mumsey, why not call your new book 'The Rod of Love?' "--does not ring quite pleasantly. Ah! There is something terribly unchildish about the "New Child."--Good Words. BANDITS ROB* A OAR. CHICAGO ELECTRIC PATRONS BOLDLY PLUNDERED. English language. -Over fifty thousand names have been affixed to a petition for executive clemency, but Governor Morton cannot legally interfere in the proceedings until after the Court of Appeals has taken action. Although public sentiment is almost unanimously in favor of mitigating the severity of the decision of the lower court Assistant District Attorney John F. Mc- Intyre claims to bo in possession of evi­ dence which, if well founded, would place the girl beyond the pale of sympathy. Holmes has just finished his life--one of them; will justice finish the other? Holmes says that the suspense is kill­ ing him. He probably will be killed that way. 'T- It strikes us that the bidding on the Duke of Marlborough is altogether too slow. Look -him over, girls. . V Yachting costs Willie K. Vanderbilt $160,000 a yeur, and it is said that the yacht isn't his most expensive plaything, cither. , -- Do Not Fidget. Don't fidget. That is one of the car­ dinal points of etiquette. If inclined to be restless, girls should never admit that they are nervous. Avoid rocking chairs when you are entertaining or being entertained. Keep your feet still and never call attention to them by crossing your knees and thrusting the foot forward. Hobbledehoys belong ex­ clusively to the male sex, and a girl need never be at a loss to know what to do with her hands and feet. Don't play with the tassel of a shade, a table cov­ er or an ornament lying close to your hand. When at table, learn never to touch anything until you are served and the meal has fairly begun.--Brook­ lyn Eagle. Glass Is Porous. Professor Austen, of the Royal Rrit­ ish mint, has recently made some elec­ trolytic experiments showing that glass is porous to molecules below a certain weight and volume. A current was passed through a vessel containing an amalgam of sodium separated by a glass partition from fnercury. After awhile the amalgam was found to lia ve lost a certain amount of its weight, while the same amount had been added to the mercury. The same result was obtained with an amalgam of lithium, but with potassium, whose atomic weight and volume are high, the glass could not be penetrated. Van Jay--"Miss Meeks called me a fool: Do I look like a fool?" Millicent ---"No, you do not I-don't think she judged you by your looks."--Brooklyn Eagle. : • - Stranger--I would like to see your bill collector a moment. Editor--C^r- tainly! John, hand the gentleman that shotgun.;--Atlanta Constitution. Murderous Brutality Shown by the Darius: 'Marauders--Passengers As­ saulted, Money, Watches and Dia­ monds Taken and Thieves Escapl. Bandits Shoot to Kill. Four masked and armed men held up a street car on the Evanston electric line at Edgewater, a Chicago suburb, Mon­ day night in true Western style. They succeeded in carrying off between $200 and $300, besides several gold and silver watches. Of the twenty-three persons aboard the car onlyothree offered resist­ ance, and one of these was shot and the other two badly beaten. The highwaymen stopped the car in .Evanston avenue at the corner of Bor- wyn. Evanston avenue between Mont­ rose boulevard and Edgelvater is a lonely place at night. The street is not paved, except in the car tracks, and there is no travel either by teams or pedestrians. When the men stopped the car two of them jumped, on in front and two behind. The front men were masked, with white handkerchiefs tied over the lower part of their faces,While of-the two in the rear one had a black mask and the .other a red one. They ail carried revolvers. .The maii evidently the leader, a tall, slender, fellow, with deep sunken eyes-and wear­ ing a light overcoat, ordered the motor-] man, J. O. Merriman, into the car, threats enmg to shoot him if he disobeyed. M erri­ man, however, obeyed promptly, and the, robber ; following him in, immediately, commanded everybody in. the car to give up whatever of value he or she had in his. or her possession. In the meantime the two robbers on the rear platform had also driven the con­ ductor, W. G. Okborn, inside, and then a robber stood at each door, threatening to shoot any one who attempted to get out, while the other two went down the aisle, grabbing watches from the men, searching their pockets for money, and seizing what­ ever women's poeketbooks happened to he in sight. After that the robbers had things their own way, and robbed the pas­ sengers' at leisure. More than $500 in personal property and money was secured from the passengers. Some of the ladies had ear-rings torn from their ears. Passengers Are Dazed. For a moment nobody attempted any resistance. The men in the car seemed' dazed and the women, of whom there1 were seven, did considerable screaming.; Finally, when the robbers came to N. 0- G. Johnson, of Galesburg, 111., who is in Chicago visiting friends at Edgewater, and whose wife was with him, he strong­ ly objected to parting with a valuable- watch and $00 which he had in his poeke*. The robber grabbed him by the shoulders and Mr, Johnson struck at him with his fist. The robber replied with a heavy blow with the butt end of ?.is revolver,, striking Mr. Johnson under the left eye and at the same time his companion beat him badly over the head. Just then A- E. Westman also offered resistance and was set upon and also badly beaten. lie had a cane in his hand which he at­ tempted to use against the robbers, but one of them took.it away from him and used it against himself. Just then Tho*. P. Nesbitt made the strongest fight which had yet been made against the robbers. Mr. Nesbitt is a man fully six feet tall, with broad shoulders, and built like an athlete. He jumped up from the rear end of the car, overthrew one of the rob­ bers who was in his way, gave another one a blow which knocked him against the side of the car. The robber in tin* light overcoat, who seemed to be the leader of the gang, leveled his revolver at him and fired one shot. The bullet took effect in Mr. Nesbitt's. left thigh, and, while inflicting only a flesh wound, still brought him to the ground. The whole affair took five minutes. When the robbery was completed the highwaymen all got off the front platform, taking with them the lever with which the motorman controlled the motor. They also swung the trolly, off the wire and cut the rope, leaving the car in darkness and stationary on the track. UNCLE SAM'S MITTS ON. Captain Genrve A. Armes, The retired soldier who was arrested in Washington recently for sending an in- sulting letter to General Scliofield. Prize Fighters Will Not Be Allowed to Meet on Federal Domain. Commissioner Browning of the Indian office has taken prompt and decisive ac­ tion to prevent the Corbett-Fitzsiminons prize fight taking place in the Indian Ter­ ritory. He has prepared a letter of in-i structions to Agent Wisdom at Muscogee, I. T., directing him to see that the laws are enforced and to eject forcibly any in­ truders who may enter the Indian coun­ try for the purpose of creating a dis­ turbance or engaging in anything that may be detrimental to the Indians. Thq commissioner states that the statutes of the United States are ample to cover the situation and to prevent ,the fight. The agent will have at his back not only tho Indian police but all the United Statesj troops necessary to eje«;t the fighters. 1 The statutes give the United States authority to keep out of the Indian Terri-' tory all persons whose presence would be detrimental to the peace and pros­ perity of the Indians. The commissioner says there is no doubt that the presence of the prize fighters and the gang that would follow them into the Indian Terri­ tory would be very detrimental to thq Indians and that it is therefore the duty of the Indian office to keep them out. He says that the agent at Muscogee has not as much authority as the agents on reservations, but nevertheless has enough to prevent the fisht taking place in the Territory of the five civilized tribes. The commissioner intends also to notify all the governors'and head men of the fivo civilized tribes that they must not allow the fight to take place and must assist tho United States authorities in preventing it Sparks from the Wires. ^ At Be] mo re, Ohio, the stave and head­ ing factory burned, throwing 200 men out of employment. Loss, $75,000. People of Washington. and California discredit the report that a schooner is being- fitted out in Dakland Creek for piratical purposes. > "Venezuela and Monroe Doctrine. The English ,pi>ess seems disposed to -ridicule the Monroe doctrine. But Eng­ land may soon learn that it is no laugh­ ing matter.--Boston Globe. The question now for Great Britain to consider is whether it shall be a Dun- raven fluke, an arbitration-of the. bound­ ary dispute or irpnclads and coffee.-- Washington Times. . The St. James' Gazette wants to know" "what the blessed Monroe doctrine is?" When it actually finds o.ut it will probably use a "harder" adjective to describe it,-- New York Journal.. If, however, there be genuine ignorance •'on this subject among intelligent English­ men, we are inclined to believe that they stand in the way of receiving ample in­ struction on this point, in the near future;- --Mail and Express. Though there is-no indication that our diplomats.have done anything in particu­ lar the people have prepared an-ultimatum ,aud arc ready to enforce it. It .is that England shall, never control the mouth of the Orhioco or any other American river south of the Canadian line.--New York World. . .. i To Americans generally it seems" plainly 'evident that the British Government's •claim rests on a small foundation; and if the British Government should send !an army fo invade Venezuela, the -justice «nd propriety of the Monroe doctrine would be brought in question.^-Boston Advertiser. ,. The American people are weary and ashamed of the immunity that these for­ eign marauders have so long enjoyed up­ on the western hemisphere. They want it withdrawn, once for all, and they want the United States to come forward as the champion and the protector of free gov­ ernment in the world. There is no desire here to have Mr. Olney insist upon arbi­ tration with England. What we desire is that Mr. Olney shall draw a dead line and' then put a man there with a gun.-- Washington Post. What Peary Accomplished. 1 Though he returns without laurels from his Arctic explorations, he has evidently left no effort untried to accomplish what he undertook to do.--Boston Herald. Peary says he will make no more Arctic 'explorations. A wise decision. He has .accomplished nothing, and should retire from the field.--St. Louis Globe-Demo- [crat: ;-•- Peary's disappointment over the un­ satisfactory termination of the expedition is unconcealed, but all admit that he is not responsible for the failure.--Grand Rapids (Mich.) Herald. It will require a reading of the detailed Story to understand what these explorers went through, but not uiamy will under­ stand why they were willing to go through if, and to go again.--Terre Haute (Ind.) 'Express. Lieutenant Peary has returned to civili­ zation in safety, bringing nothing with him but a sheaf of excuses and complaints of dreadful hardships; but as no more than could have been expected of him, there need be no disappointment felt that he comes home empty-handed and forlorn.-- Philadelphia Telegraph. A But Lieutenant Peary in what he rep­ resents is magnificent. If you stop to think how many of the great and useful discoveries in the history of the world have been incidentally made by fervid ex­ plorers of the unknown who sought either the impossible or the useless, you get an idea of the value of the spirit which is in Peary.--Detroit Tribune. Some of the institutions of the eountry will be the richer by the deprivations and labors of Peary and his Arctic fellow tourists; the general fund of knowledge about "Greenland's icy mountains" will be increased throughout the civilized world, and Mrs. Peary will be rejoiced to find her long-lost, self-expatriated "hus­ band safely returned, to the land of civili­ zation, good food and rapid transit.--Al­ bany (N. Y.) Journal. Summed up, the results of Peary's two years' work are the information that Greenland is covered with a thick iee-eap, that traveling in that country is extra hazardous and tremendously difficult, that the snowfall is phenomenal, the storms terrific and the general tendency of the weather abominable, that game is scarce, tho cold excessive, and that if one does not take with him a large supply of pro­ visions lie suffers horribly.--Philadelphia Bulletin. --: Recognition of Cuba. The United States by'good rights ought to recognize the Cuban belligerents.-- South Bend Tribune. The United States has not yet recog­ nized Cuba as a belligerent. Yet Spain -nceorded the Southern Confederacy that recognition in 1801.--Denver Times. The position occupied by our govern­ ment with reference to Cuba is not in the slightest degree representative of the sen­ timent of the people of the United States. --Scranton Tribune. All they ask for is munitions of war and such encouragement as Spain made haste to give the Southern Confederacy in 1SG1, and we hope they will get what they want.--Providence Telegram. This country should instantly recognize the Cuban patriots and take measures to protect them against a horde of outcasts who, unrestrained, might turn Cuba into an Armenia. This is Spain's crowning disgrace.--Albany State. This state of affairs is not likely to strengthen the Spanish position in Cuba, and will eventually cause our government to permit this country to become a re­ cruiting ground for insurgent armies which will soon crush the power of Spain on the island.--Scranton Times. Spanish efforts to prevent the recogni­ tion of Cuba indicate a belief that such action would involve something more than moral support. What the oppressors do not want is a pretty good thing for Uncle Sam to do, and the Cubans will ap» preeiato when it is done.--Pittsburg Dispatch -r - Keir Hardie, Socialist. J. Keir Hardie has come to this coun­ try to preach socialism.' He/will soon find out that he cannot get a congrega­ tion.--Cincinnati Tribune. Keir Hardie says he has come to this country -to lea^n. This nails down the lie according to which the object of his Visit -was to talli.--Milwaukee Sentinel. James Keir Hardie, tlie British social­ ist, says that Chicago is responsible for his visit to America, and Chicago has apologized to the rest of the country.-- Fond du Lac Commonwealth. Keir Hardie is disappointed with New York. Judging' from, the limited amount of space accorded Keir's doings and say­ ings by the newspapers New York is also disappointed with Mr. Keir Hardie.-- Pittsburg Dispatch. The presence of Keir Hardie "in our midst' is pne of the picturesque excres­ cences of the labor movement in this country and in England. The time has jjbne by, when any talkative person posing ** an apostle of labor or ii champion o£ the workingmarv is received .seriously.-- New York J^ail aUd Express.