OVER $2,560,000 8UNE. Orars for Epec and Overcredul- ity Have Brought Sorrow to Yens of Thousands, ae Philadelphia Beoord.) The recent short term endowment craze which swept over this city and surround. country, and vialy collapsed when the break ag rapidly as it sprang up, was one of the most remarkable Rec marvels of the age, and well :)lustrated the speculative and gambling propensities of mankind. It was remarkable from the fact that men without the sus of finance; men illiterate and in some oases goarcely able to read or write ; men from the shoemaker’s bench, the paint shop, the barber shop and other. artisan trades easayed the role of financiers, and . in the brief space of three months handled hundreds upon hundredo of thousands of rs. Remarkable because of the glitter- and allorin romisea of fin encouragement to a scheme which was bound to end disastrously. The magnitude of this most gigantio Swindle cau only be comprehended by a reference to the figures, which by a very conservative es\imatsshow that in the space of a little over three months over two mil- lions and @ half dollars were paid into concerns, of which the Univeraal Order of Co-operation received about ,000 ; the Harness Workers, $650,000; Benevolent Endowment, $250,000; _ mwonthly Endowment Society, $130,000, and the balance of them fully $1,000,000 more. Of this vast sum lesa than $600,000 was returned to oertificate holders, while about $300,200 is locked up in Receiver- ships and Assigneeships, Of this amount abcut $107,000 belongs to the certificate holders of the Earnest Workers, $60,000 to the Universal Order of Co-operation, $60,- 000 to the Bi-monthly Endowmens Society, $75,000 to the Benevolent Endowment Association and $7,200 to the Aotive Workers. In conncoticn with the above a considerable sum has been or will be re- turned to ocertifioate-holders of organiza- tions that have gone into voluntary liquida- tion, but the arsounts returned will be out of all proportion to the amounts paid in. Of the $309,200 tied up in receiverships and ass:gneeships s considerable part will disappear when the fees of the receiver assignees, counsel and othor expenses inci- dent thereto are deducted. Under the lew the aseignee is entitled, as compensatian _hi ieee; to & OOMMiasion on the total colleoted of from 24 to 5 per cent. the exact amount, which is regulated by the oonrt, depending upon the magnitude of tha estate. In connection with this commis. gion, to which the assignee ir entitied, are the expenses of ent: cing and rding the aseignment, adver.ising ax printing, counsel fees for the assignee, auditors’ fees and other Court expenses. In conneo- tion with the above charges’ and oosts to reduce the amounts left for distribation to the unfortanate specnlatora there are a» number of tho certifioate-bolders of the Earnest Workera and Benevolent Endow- ment Aggociation who, in the excitement of the crash and through ignorance of the duties of sn assignee or receiver, have, at the solicitation of Lawyer Samuel Evans Maires, reigned an agreement to give up to him $2 of the insignificans amount to which under the law they will be entitled to when the distribution is made for collecting their money. It 18 highly probable that in a number of instances they will find themeelves in the attorney's debt, as the amount he wil reoover will not pay the $2 called for in the agreement. If the scheme of Lawyer Maires is a success he will receive the biggest slice of the award to be made by the receiver or assignee in these two organ- izations He has the power of attorney from over 10,000 Earnest Workers, which at $2 per head represents $20,000, and fally §,000 Benevolent Endowment people, which represents $10,000 more, or a grand total of = To Bridge the Whirlpool. An Ottawa despatch says: Mr. Ger- man's bill presented to-day is for a charter to constract a bridge across the Niagara River st or near the whirlpool rapids, for electric or steam railway purposes. The ides is thet an electrio railway be con. structed from the American park down the river bank to the whirlpool, across the proposed bridge and up the Canada side to the Canadian park. This is the principal‘ object in view, but the bill is wide enough to include steam railway. A Fomale Mark Tapley,. New York Press: Wite—I've just hada at all. I know your ay never happy except when sbe's miserable. Rhea, in s casual conversation the other day, ae herself in the following brief and naive manner concerning three cf the When I see Prominent actresses Mrs. Kendall I take a lezson. Ellen Terry I am charmed. Sarah Bernhardt 1 sm electrified. Kendall is an actress, Ellen Terry an en- ohantresz, Sarah Bernhardt a goddess.” A telephone line is shortly to be opened between London and Paris. e@ total distance between the two cities is 271 miles, 21 miles i: ae is the dis su core, surprising if the next thing in order be an Atlantic Ocean telephone. —There are no cats in Peor People’s Bavings in the Short- __ Orders—A Bi on of it Lost—The ulation icion of a knowledge | © d | of the western wing of the ems. TET JUMPED TO DBATH. ‘Little Sarah Little's Unhappy Break for Liberty _ She is Still Living, but Death Promises er Eternal Liberty. at the formatory on Monday | morning last. It is feared that the unfor- eae girl who endeavored to her ties. Meanwhile the unfortunate victim of ia lying in the hospital of the institation hovering between life and death, with the latter probability. Sarah Little on April 15th was brought up from eville to serve a term of one . | year for receiving chickens knowing them to have been stolen, At the Mercer she gave her place of birth as Toronto, but could not give any address where friends might be found. On admission she was detailed to work in the laundry, and her dormitory was located in the fourth story nilding. ) allappearance the girl was tractable and worked hard. She had very little to say to anyone and.quickly gave the impression to those in charge that she was only too will ingto accept the roles of the reformatory and be guided by them. About 4.30 o’clook on Monday morning the night guard, who makes the round of the’ dormitories every two houra, was startled by hearing piercing screams com- ing from the dormitory inthe third story. Horrying there ehe found that the women had been slarmed at seeing a dark body slidg quickly down from sbove, imme. iately in front of one of the windows. Whatever it was lookedin for a moment Bi.}®nd disappeared with a shrick. They per- sisted in their story, and it gained contir- mation when the guard, on going to the window, saw a rope swaying in the wind, proving conclusively that the prisoners had some ground for alarm. While this was goirg on inside, an out- side watchman was attracted by ories for help which came from the sidewalk front. ing the west wing. Hurryiog to the spot be found a woman lying on the brick path- wey uttering ejaculations of pain and feably calling for assistance. The alarm once given the woman was epeedily carried into the building and medical assistance summoned. It was discovered that the unfortunate was 17-year-old Sarah Little Her spine war found to be broken. her right knee fractured and an anklesp C) Was conveyed to the hospital ward, where she now lies between life and death. He story as told Miss O'Reilly, the super- intendent of the Meroer, is as follows: On Sunday night after retiring to her bed, which is separated from -the-others by & wooden partition,she took the ranz of a chair and pried apart two of the bars, making an opening sufficiently large through which ehe could squeeze through to the outside. This oocomplished sbe took her blanket and cut it into strips. This she tied together and twisted itinto a rope of sufficient atrength to bear ber weight. This was fastened to one of the bare, and getting outside on the window ledge she began to let herself down to the ground below. Everything went all tight antil she got opposite a window in the third story. There she was noticed by geome of the women, who nm $0 scream. This frightened her as badly as her appear- ance did them, and shelet go her hold in her terror and fell to not been forthe other women she would bave undoubtedly anoceeded in getting olearawsy. As it is it is probable she will never be able to werk again, even if it is possible fcr her to recover. 4 Helpfal Suggestion. ere was ® row in the church and the disxffected ones had gathered in a turbulent crowd outside, while two policemen guarded the door on the inside. “What is to be done with all theze people collected out there ?” eaid the policeman, appealing to the pastor. “Why,” he oooly replied, “we expect you to go ont and take up the collection.” And they did and quelled the disturb- anoe. She Was the Umpire,} Tommy—Mamma, the boys all say that if I handle the stick in the ball game this afternoon we'll beat the Leather-Bangers four to one. Tommy's mother—That's all right, my son, bat you are going to stay at home this afternoon and handle the stick for me, and we'll beat the carpet worge than that. No Dessert, ‘* Them chops was good, mum,” said the tr emp, “ But I allus likes to finish a meal with eweets. Yer ain't got any cakes, have yer?’ ‘I have cakes of soap.” “ Thank yer hearty, mum ; bat I never touch ‘em.” —Itis estimated that five-scevenths of the young men of the United States seldom see the inside of a church.—Troy Press. — Does position effect sleep?” asked a medical writer. It dces not when the man holds the position of nightwatchman. IDYL OF A HORSE GAR, Jostle 'em, Poke in the back. Slat women, Tom, Dick and Jack. Hang on, She Lost Her Nerve and Fell Sixty Feet— ‘ A desperate attempt to escape was made | h ercer y will dio asa result of the miscar- | ch The chances inclining. to the} the earth. Had it} P° jamped into fore In twenty years there has been no/| Phe THE WIZAEDS LarmsT. _ ace s <cesiaametac enteric Fadlson will Exhibit Several Astonishing Inventions at the World's Fair, us electri- department of the Exposition, whioh, b the way, I am fully convinced, will be 4 great buccess. Two of these inventions are not yet ready to be desoribed,- or even . The third, however, is so nearly perfected that I do not hesitate to say something abont it, I hope to be able by the invention to throw upon a canvas a fect picture of nybody, and reproduce words. Thus, should Patti be singing yas to distinguish every feature and ex: pression of her face, see all her actionsand listen to the entrancing melody of her peer- | leas voice. The invention will do for the eye what the phonogrsph has done for the voice, and reproduce the voice se well, in fact, more clearly. I have slready per- fected the invention so far as to be able to picture a t—the two men, thering, the inteneely intereated faces of th rounding it—and you can hear the sound of the blowa, the cheers of encouragement and the yells of dissppointment. And when this invention shall have been perfected,” said Mr. Edison with the trace of enthu tisem's glow in hi able to sit io his having electrical connection with the theatre, see reprodnced on his wall or a piece of canvas the actors, and hear any- thing they say. I oan place one s0 it will command a atreet corner, and after letting it register the passing sights for a time, 1 oan have it cast them on a canvas so that every feature and motion of the passers,- even to the twitching of the face, can bs seen, and if a friend wed during the time, you may know it, This invention will be oalled the ‘Kine. tograph.’ The first half of the word signi- fies ‘ motion,’ and the last ‘ write,’ and both together mean the portrayal of motion. The invention combines photography and phonograpby.” r. Edison occupied nearly an acre with his exhibit at the Paria Exposition. As he wishes to show at Obiosgo all that he exhibited at Paris, snd numerous other things becides, be is desiraus of being ac- corded greater space in 1893. The elec. trical exhibit is expected to be the wonder of the Exposition. face, ‘s man will be Temperance Netes, The fourth convention of the Dominion W. O. T.U. meeta at St. John on June 19ih to 23rd. Mise Willard will attend. Quebec City tem ce people ara ingisting that the police force shell do its duty in the enforcement of thé liquor laws. The Weleh Lecsl Option Bill, was carried by 4 clear majority inthe House of Commons, A tem nos scholarship has been founded in the Magee College, London- derry, for stimulating interest in temper- nos work among the students. The Lord Provost of Glasgow has refused to grant a wine and beer license to the re- freehment contractor of an exhibition to - opened shortly in the enst-end of the city. The peerageof England owns 1,538 liquor sbops, and at the same time the Honse of Lorde has about 1,300 livings at their dis. sal in the church. It is a charitable supposition that they give a man a church and then license a grog shop near bim to keep him buay. Great Britain has at least three military commanders who are total abstainers, viz. : Bir Roberts Thayer, Commander.in Chief of Her Majesty's armies in Bombay; Sir Henry y, late commander of a province in India, and Sir Charles Bernard, oommander of Bhrmah during the late Burmese war. The thirty-filth annnal session of the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of Good Tem. plare will be held in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, commencing on the 26th day of May. This isa the second time this great international body haa been oalled to meet o Great Britain. The seesion is a most important one, and will probably hold a week or ten days. Obtaining Good Kisses, ‘“‘ Jimpson is to be arrested for kissing Cora, although she was willing.” ‘ How can he be arrested, then ?” “ Is wee after dark and she thought it was Simpson—the obarge is obtainin goods under falae pretences.” A Pertinent Question 7? Rochester Herald: S¥ather—If paid more attention to cooking and less to e8, my dear, you would make a much better wife. Daughter—Yes, father. Bus who wonld marry me? —Dr. James Cunningham Batchelor, of Pike as Illustrious Soversign Grand Com- mander of the thirty-three degree Masons, was born in Oanada, Joly 10,1818. He went to the South when quite young. —The British novelist Blackmore is a hearty and well-preserved man of 65 years. a typical back-country rarely ar in society, pre- ferring to live the life of a literary recluse. He is an O. graduate and a lawyer. —Mr. Wanamaker told his Sunday school in Philadelphia last Sunday that he was gratified and surprised nearly every day of his recent trip to meet some one formerly connected with his olass in the school, A Rat Portage despatch says a strange oase of suicide occurred there. A laboring man named Francis Garneau, becoming despondent through excessive drink, the water near the falls, but ‘or’ so carefully removed his clothing. A letter was found in one of the the reasons for commit- ting the rash act. That was a terrible thing angle, wasn't it? While his ing tothe dressmaker com- mitted suicide in the next room. G: ve they found out the cause ? overheard counterfeiting of Unole stamps. - Bam's postage Ww Briggs—Itis supposed that he shed the drummnahar said. thoss eur- and , P liorary st home, and, g | oF five ordinary New Orleans, who succeeds the late Albert | °° ‘THN NEWEST GAME OUT. How the Wideawake Girls Now Quiz the Young Men. Over in Brooklyn « short time ago, says the New York Sun, a bright young married woman introduced an abomin is the echeme: Ten virtues, or ristios or qualities, are set down in a row, like this : Honesty, Affability, Tac uty, Politeness, Modesty, Intelligence, Generosity, Sobriety, Consideration. Then the names of the persons present sre set down, and they are taken one at The maximum is ten for every virtue, and then the per cent. awarded is added up and the pereon whose total ia nearest 100 is considered the nicest one present. The appalling brutality of this only be sppreciat one who bas taken partinit. Imagine yourselfin the oom. pany of a dozen gitla whoas chief obaracteristic ia bluntness, who consider froth the crowning virtue. Suppose you have only recently been introduced to five of tha girls, and are not on intimate terma with the men present, and are selected sa the first victim of this horrible scheme? The question of your honesty is broached, ev girl instantly bends her brows upon you, and after deliberating for a mo. ment conolades that you are not any too honest, and that 7 1-3 per cont. is all that a are entitled to. This thing recently appened to the writer, and this was the er cant, he got in spite of his own frenzied assertion that be had never swindled a man out of a cent. Then the merciless young ladies the got down tothe same enbjeot’s tact, and gsve him 6 1.8, while his politenees was estimated at 623. He got 8 for intelli. genoe, however, which was a comparative pleasure, and then he got 6 1-3 for sobriety and 7 for affability. Then the trying moment came when the question of his beauty was to ba de- cided. He is sure that he never sppeared #0 ungainly and homely in his life as he did atthat moment while sitting with his hands out of sight and hig feet na far under the chair as he oould get them. There were several whispered conferenoes and many minute examinations of his per- son, and then he got only a stingy 5 per cent. This ranked hia beauty among the avorage, and it makes him ho: in the collar even now when he thinks of it. He felt at home, however, when the question of modesty was resched. didn't care how low h3 was ranked in tbis respect, for he always believed that modesty was & stumbling-block in the path of any man. Bat those terrible girls almost instantly agreed, on the suthority of ons whom the unfortunate man knows a!most well enough to ask for a kiaa, that his per cent. in this respeot wag, at least, 8 2-3, or mighty noar-the-msximum. This made the man think, and if the reeult of this thought doesn't astonish the girl and make her sorry she didn't put the per cent down to one, why then it’) be a funpy thing. He got 7 for generosity and 8} for con- sideration, in epite of his own conviction that these figures should be reversed. His total was 703, which he was assured was mighty high for a new man. ~ He got square though by taking an active part in the per oent. of the other members of the company, andthe way he insisted that a man he never saw before made many bitter enemies for him. 'vhe horrible game went on until the girls were resched, and then it was a shameful thing to see those down-trodden and abject men vote in chorus for the maximum every time. How to Pack Dresses for Moving. Moving gowns is almost as troublesome as moving entire suites of furniture, and yct to the woman who knows how to do it the right way their very moving résulta in pleasure. How ? ecause when the new house is ccoupied, when the chairs and tables are all in their proper places, then, when she is ready to assume her gown, she knows that she oan open the boxes in which they have been encased, select any one she wishes, and put it on at once because it is aweet, thoroughly olean and fresh. n packing the gowns be liberal with tiseue paper, putting it between all trimmings, in the sleeves and between the bodices. How to pack them? Well, the best way is to go to aboxmaker with the measurement of your oekirta and, allowing a quarter of a yard more they are, have him make you four or five deep, strong boxes oovered with either black or green heavy paper. Four gowns oan be put in each box, and with them osn be any little ad- junots belonging to them. Two evening gowns, with all their belongings, have plenty of rcom in anch boxes, and are not in the least degree orushed. For my own part, I oannot ssy enough in favor of these boxes, not only for moving the f 8, bus for holding them after one has moved. Oover them well with paper before the lid is put on, tie them up securely with strong and Iet the boxes gointo a room where they will not be disturbed until you are really at home and take out your gowns with a certainty that nota loop or a hook is missing, that they do brushing, and that they are absolutely aa fresh as the daisy in the fields.—Ladies’ Home Journal. A Disappointment, New York Press: “So you have been abroad ?" as Yes.” “ Did you visit Paris?" “Yes, but we stopped only one day there. We went there to improve onr- awfully disappointed.” “ we =i ' ak the French “ y, on’’ spe e Fren there at all like we do.” Co., at Minnea feet, was burned yesterday morning. Loss, $228,000. The report is confirmed that Nat Whit- tle, a miner on Blue Oanyon, Arizona, was killed by Indians. The Indians are headed towards New Mexico. commentary on human mournfal vanity to gee the mourners were p Sanco ne pro- jon turning the corners, to see cession is worthy. of the corpse. * | stra time and picked to pieces by their friends. game can}. 4 ®lanese carpenters saw and was a confirmed drunkard, liar and thief, windo not require a} stimula selves in the French language, and were pla Se a The entire lumber stock of J. W. Day & , aggregating 19,000,000 | shousand KATIE GOF THE BOOK, No One will Deny that it was the Reward of -» Good Story. Katies was going to bed. “Mamms,"” she said, ‘' I want Johnny's picture-book—that with the lambs.” “Hash, Katie,” said her mother, the least bit wearily, for the litsle fees and the little tongue had never ceased going one moment all day. ‘‘Now we will go to -" “« Bat, and the big syes pleaded earnestly, ‘‘oan’t | have Johnny's picture-book this onst ?"” . . ** Not to-night, dearie : it is too late.” “My, Katie! And what killed her so uick ?" 2 ** Because,” said Katie, with oonviction —‘“ because ahe didn’ get the book.” She got it and in five minutes was asleep ‘with it in her arms.—Harper's Bazar. A Perverse Generation. Japanese books begin at the end, the word finis coming jast where we place the title page, nor must it be forgotten that the reader alwaya places his markor at the bottom instead of atthe top. At table the guests always commence with wine, which is followed by what we would oconeider dessert, after which come the more sub- stantial dishes. A Ja: always mounts his horse on the right side, 1 portions of the harneas being fastened on the same side, the mane hanging that way aleo. en the ani is brought home to the stables his head is put where his tail ought to be, and he ia fed from a tubat the atable door. Boats are hauled up on the beach stern foremos}, and Jarger vessels are docked in li on. Thess topsy-tarvy people do not gay north- east or south-west but east-north or west. south. They carry their babies, not ag we co, in our arma, but on their backs. address a letter the reverso way to us, p'acing the country and city first, and the name last, going from the general to the (aegge see and in place of writing Mr. ohn Smith, they pnt Smith John Mr. Japanese keys turn in instead of out. Jap- lane toward, not away from themselves. In keeping ac- counts they writethe figures first, the item correspondin to them subsequently. Politenesg prompts them to remove, not their head-covering, but that of their feet. The Japanese girls usually rewon cuffs and frills in topsy-turvy fashion, snd, ag» rale; wrong side out. Ino love making it is the females who do the billing and cooing. Here, ag well as in Europe, bachelors an married men occasionally are sometimes captivated fascinating sotresses. Whereas, in Japan it is the ladiea who are hopelessly smitten with agreeable sotors, and not infrequently compel them toacoept sheir hands and hearts.—Drake's Magazine. Teo Enticing. Fliegende Blatter: Jadge—How came —_—»_—— Don't Scare the Devil, Ram's Horn: The devil is never scared by # handsome Bible on a parlor-table. a ae: —Olsra—I have been out shopping all the morning. Maude—Did you see any- thing yoo liked? Olara—Oh, yer. I saw your olerk, and he promised to be down to South Beach this summer for two weeks. AN UNCOMMON GIRL. She knows no Latin, she knows no Greek, can ak; laces of I and me, words to tell can use them well ; thout pretence the proper And She doesn't use yet some people claim the MoKinley Bill is not against labor.—New York World. —OCleveland has for years hada deaf. mute on its police force. He has the record of having been a thoroughly efficient officer, and as he cannot hear a sound he is obliged to be more than usually watchful, Colore! Taylor, commandant of tho Schcol of Infantry at Winnipeg, was seized with « fit of apoplexy on Wednesday and died from ita effects. The second sale of Canadian cattle in the Old Country took place in Glasgow on Wednesday, at rates which are decidedly unfavorable for the exporters. Tae tenth International Christie&® En- deavor Oonvention w be held in Minneapolis, Minn., on July 9th, 10%h, 11th and 12sb. The firat object of the conven- tion is to weld into a whole all the elements that go to © the Christian Endeavor organization. The second is to $e in an al degree in the daca 9 djstriot where it ia held and in the region contiguous. Most. | elaborate oo are being made by quota, no doubt a will find their way thither as well. The Brazilian Government has decided that in future all customs duties must be paid in gold.