I i l i rh.¢l’l JERSEY Til-AMPS COLLABED. Illsabeth Police Take In Thirtysflv. Ho- bbs at Upper Bel-way. ‘ ELIZABETH, Dec. 11.—-A squad of the Elizabeth police made an exciting raid on freight trains on the Pennsylvania railroad at the Grant avenue signal house, upper Bahway, and captured 35 tramps who were on the cars. ' " The police were accompanied by Deteot- ‘e McN ally of the railroad and a number ' special men, who, with drawn clubs and rpvolvers, boarded the trains, which were pped for the purpose, and seized the en, some of whom were in box cars and others on gondolas. Many of the tramps resisted and attempted to escape. The tramps, who range in age from 16 h‘ 40* years, were driven into the signal station and held under guard until a spe- cial train was made up from Amboy J unc- tion, and they were brought to Elizabeth an ‘ looked up in police headquarters. _ evolvers, knives and a miscellaneous collection of other weapons were found on them. When formed in line, they present- ed a formidable appearance. They hailed from allparts of the civilized world. Not a few of them were defiant and dared the police . to d anything against them on which th y could be held. They will be held until the railroad officers make spe~ clflc charges against them. The raid was made in order to capture the men who— recently attacked a freight train crew and robbed them between Rah- way and New Brunswick and beat the conductor.- It ..is expected that the men who at- tacked‘Mrs. J. E. Febrey near her home Mary street last night and after throw- % her cape over her head robbed her of . pocketbook and fled are in the lot. Mrs. Febrey had just alighted from a trolley car and had reached within 50 feet of her gate when her assailants, who had followed her, grabbed her by the tllroat; clicking her almost into insensibility. Sid was thrown to the ground. One of the men rifled her pocket and. secured her pocketbook, while the other told her that he would choke her to death if she did not stop her struggles. ‘ The men then fled, leaving their victim nearly dead. As soon as she could Mrs. Febrey pulled the cape from her head and called for help, when neighbors arrived and carried her to her home. .Her assail- ants escaped. The pocketbook contained but $1.50. The front door key of Mrs. Febrey’s house was in the pocketbook, and a guard was placed about the house all night. MBLODY’S LUCK. Irish Nationalist. Having Become 3 Pan- per, Falls Heir to an Estate. CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—Patrick Melody, an Irish Nationalist who served 11 years in an English prison for participation in the famous-Manchester rescue of political pris- oners, was found to be an inmate of the Cook county poorhouse at Dunning after a search had been made for him in St. Louis and this city to apprise him of the fact that a Dublin estate was his by the death of an uncle. John Melody. The es- tate consists of a carriage factory and sev- en buildings. Melody has been at Dunning since :Au- gust» last. He came to America early in the sixties, but returned to Dublin in 1867 to assist in the rescue. Twelve years after- ward he'went to St. Louis and opened a restaurant. He was a delegate last year to aconvention of Irish Nationalists in In- dianapolis. Edward Noyes, a partner of Austin Bidwell, the famous Bank of Eng- land forger, recently received word that Melody, whom. he knew in Ireland, was heir to the estate, and he started the search. The Trouble In Madagascar. PARIS, . Dec. 11.-—Dispatches received from-Antananarivo, capital of Madagas- car, announce that the insurgents during the night of Nov. 18 looted Ambohimanga. The insurgents captured 40 prisoners and all the cattle. The English residents had a. narrow escape from being massacred. Ex-Senntor Gear Acqnltted. COLUMBUS, 0., Dec. 11.—Ex-Senator William Gear was acquitted of the charge of soliciting a bribe from ex-Senator Gaumer. Gear represented Wyandotte county. - Herr Nobel Dead. S‘AN REMO, Italy, Dec. 11.—-Herr Nobel, the celebrated inventor of explosives, died here last evening. The Weather. Generally fair; slightly cooler; brisk Westerly winds. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL Closing Quotations of the New York Stock . Exchange. NEW‘YORK, Dec. Ill—Money on call easy. Prime mercantile paper. 4@5 per cent. Ster- ling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers‘ billsat $4.86}§@4.86% for demand and “.W4.83%.,for 60 days. Posted rates, $4.84@ 4.84% and [email protected]%. , Commercial bills, $4.82”. Silver certificates, 65%@65}§c.; no sales. Bar silver. 6534“ Mexican dollars, 60%0. Government bonds firm.- State bonds dull. Railroad bonds flrm.-. Closing prices: Amhison" . 14% N. J.‘ Géntral.....102% Bur. & Quincy ..... 77% North American. 0;, C., C. & St. L.. 20% Northern Pacific 1 Chesapeake & 0:. 17% Do. pref ......... . 28% Chicago Gas ..... .. 74 N. Y. Central.... 95% Cordage.... ....... 6% Omaha ........... 49 Cotton Oll......... 13 a Del. & Hudson.. "125% Erie.. .............. 151,4, General Electric. . 33 Hocking Valley.. . 18% Ontario & West. ;% Pacific Mall.. 4 Reading.......... 28 Rock Island. . . .. . Silver Bullion. . . . Lackawanna......l58}fi St. Paul ....... Lake Shore ........ 15% Sugar Refinery"! 4 Lead ............... % Texas Pacific.... Louisville & Nash. 50% Union Pacific.... 1 Missouri Pacific.. . 21 Wabash pref. . . . . 16% Northwestern ..... 103% ' Western Union. . General Markets. New YORK. Dec. 10.—FLOUR—State and western quiet, but steady: city, mills patents." [email protected]; winter patents. 84.9W.15: city mills clears, [email protected]; winter straights, $4.70 @430. WHEAT-No. 2 red opened steadier on ca- ble news, declined sharply under realizing. but recovered at noon on continued strength of English markets; March, 87M®879fic.: May c. . . C RN—No. 2 dull, but steady; May,81%@ 1 Ac. OATS—No. 2 ruled dull and featureless; track. white, state. 22@320.; track. white, west- ern. maze. PORK—Dull: mess. $8.25E8JS; family, $10.50 911- . LARD—Bteady: prime western steam, 34.15, nominal. BUTTER—Steady: state dairy, 110201;; state Greenery. 1W. CHEESE—Steady; state, large, WNW; Imell. melee. . , EGGS-Dull: state and Pennsylvania, 21@ ”0.: Western. 1%. ,SU AR—Raw quietza fair refining, 2%@ 8 16-1 .: centrifugal, 96 test. 3%@3 5-1604 re- fined quiet: crushed, 5c.; pow cred, 4%c. TURPENTINE—Quiet at 27 c. MOLASSESJQuiet: New Orleans, 2622.340. for new crop. RICE—Steady: domestic. 37/562360; Japan, 4% 0494c. .. . TALLOW—Dull: » city, 240.: country, 314m wanker - Nonwank’goszn'r-rn. ... 'i .. - is“ - - HHIAPAIBN :: f‘: 1a., . .‘ - «Us NOW is he iIME , To Subscribe for the Both Pacers Sent, to one Address . for $|.OO a Year 1 RUBBER IN AFRICA. ""‘““"“ A. W'oma‘n Missionary Tells How the Na.- ilves Collect it. . In the months of March and April during the rainy season one sees busy life in the native towns of the French Congo. The men are preparing to go to the bush to cut rubber. Every wo- man and child seems to have some- thing to do, and even the men do not lounge about as usual, but are sharp- ening their knives and machetcs and putting their guns into proper trim. The rubber in central Africa is not a tree, but a vine, often three or four inches in diameter. This vine gener ally climbs up the tallest trees and the natives often use one of the vines to ascend the tree. After the branches are reached, which in most cases are at least fifty feet from the ground, the men proceed to cut away at the top, leaving only one for their descent, and this one, if possible, not a rubber vine. It seems strange that the natives cut away the rubber plants and so destroy them instead of tapping them, but they are too lazy to learn any othei way. . After the vines have fallen they are cut into lengths of three or four feet. and the juice is collected into iron pots. This is a tedious job. The piece oi the vine is held over the pot, first by one end, then by the other until the juice ceases running. Then the piece is cut again to get at any juice which may have been left in the middle. Af- ter a pot is nearly full a rest is taken. and this juice is boiled for nearly twc hours, and, during the boiling process, is mixed with the juice of other vines and some lime juice, so that the mix- ture is more sticky and easier formed into balls. ~ As soon as it cools down sufficiently to be handled, the hardening rubber is shaped by winding it at first around a stick. After a bit the stick is pulled out and the ball is re-wound to finish it off. In some places these balls weigh three pounds or more each; in others, five of them make a pound. The purity of the rubber depends much upon how much other juice has been added. The best and purest is :hat obtained from the juice without coiling. This is only found in the shape of bracelets, because the natives wind the juice as it runs out around :heir wrist and let it dry there. XV hen perfectly dry it slips off easier. This nwould be transparent rubber if the skin and fingers of the natives were not so very dirty. The natives often used to put for- eign substances, such as small stones, palmnuts, and little balls of grass into :he rubber ball to make it heavy. They were soon found out, and every ball .s now cut through the centre to reveal .ts mixture. Often the rubber is buried for some days because it draws the moisture from the ground, which adds :0 the weight. Cheating is resorted to because the pay is so poor. It takes 1 party of eight or ten men and boys six to eight weeks to gather from eighty to one h'undred pounds of rub- 3er. The value of this, if all is first. :lass, is from 200 to 250 yards of col:- :on cloth or forty gallons of rum or :hree or four flintlock guns. Surely :his is poor pay for this kind of work. ~New York Sun. Entomological Enthusiast. In the Agricultural Building at Washington, Miss Lillie Sullivan revels among insects. She has two leeks—one where she keeps her paints and pencils, and the other bearing a nicroscope of the latest pattern. Here are such entomological treasures as the off. hind leg of a flea, a wasp’s ‘busincss end,” a baby mite and a si- ler‘s head. I-Ier business in life is painting bugs. in order to paint them well she has to iissect and study them. It is said that :here is no one in this country who can iepict insects so accurately and so Jeautifully. Miss Sullivan, who is a \Vashington girl, studied art and painted portraits mtil one ‘day she saw a friend paint- .ng insects. She become at once in- fatuated with the study and began de- voting herself to it. She has been in :he Government service for nearly fourteen years. One of her recent drawings is of a family of curious little mites that have men damaging the pineapple crop. The Deadly Stamp. One of the newest diseases is the postage stamp tongue. The credit of iiscovering it is due to English phy- sicians. It appears that the mucilage itself is injurious. and that. further, it is in excellent cultivating medium for germs of the worst character. In the ailment called postage stamp tongue the latter is sore and covered with .‘cd spots. A bad sore throat is likely to follow if great care is not taken. Apart from the specific disease of the tongue, any contagious disease may be acquired through the medium of the mucilage. Never lick a postage stamp with your tongue. say the physicians. It shows 1 great lack of cleanliness and hygienic knowledge. QUIRKS. A Small Seat—The milking-stool. Always Behind Time—Back of a clock. _ People All Wool.—Those who shrink at nothing. _ . Better Game Than Backgammon.— Quail on toast. ' A New Definition of “Footnotes.”— Danciug tunes. Extends From Pole to Pole—The un- veracity of anglers.- The Cleverest Thing Imaginable.— . An accomplished fact. . For Arithmetic Readers.-—If four quarters will make a yard, how many will make a garden? The Truth, But Notrtlie Whole Truth. “1‘ will write you a good recommen- dation as to your working ability,” said ‘Rastus’s employer. who had been forced to part with him because, of the mysterious disappearance of sun- dry articles, “but I am afraid I can’t say much for your honesty." “Tell you, Mr. Blackwell,” sai-‘ ’Rastus, after a moment’s thougln. “yo‘ might put in de words dat I is as honest as I kin be, kain’t you?"—C_in- cinnati Enquirer. ' ‘ . The New York Mail and Expicss says: We congratulate the Seventh Congress District of Kentucky on hav- ing elected \V. C. P. Breckenridge to remain at home, or wherever his in: l stincts may take him, away from the House of Representatives. And we con- gratulate Congress on the sentiment that evidently prevails in the Seventh District of Kentucky. A free silver Democrat, a Bryanite candidate, is to occupy the seat that Breckenridge so dishonored; and he is the only man placed in nomination by thatvparty whose success creates in us no regret. The attitude of this administration on the Hawaiian question is recalled by the news that full pardon has just been extended to cx-Quecn Liliuoka- ,lani by President Dole and the Ha- waiian Council of State. No greater stigma can attach its odium to the Cleveland administration than that of having abandoned and reversed the Hawaiian policy of the Harrison ad- ministration by deliberately conspir- ing to throttle the young republic, to restore a broken—down pagan throne, and prop it up with American bayo- ncts. This program was only frus- trated by the firmness and courage of the liberty party in Hawaii and the in- dignant refusal of the American peo- ple to give countenance to such an in- famous policy.- The tone of the newspapers in all parts of the Union, both Democratic and Republican, has been generally commendable, and even admirable, since the late election. We do not re- member any previous time when the disposition to reasonableness and fair- ness in the discussion of political ques- tions was so marked and so prevalent among them. This creditable spirit is manifested even by Southern journals and it adords good ground for hoping, if not actually expecting, that ques- tions once rancorously disputed will now be settled by reasonable agree- ment, provoked by a general and genu- ine desire to remove causes of partisan difierence which have tended to the disturbance of the common interests. Let us have peace! November 12 last will be remembered by crack wheelmen all over the world. On that day every living cyclist who held a record for from two to ten miles, inclusive, was compelled to acknowl- edge his inferiority to the little 100- pound champion, Jimmie Michael. Michael covered ten miles in 18:33 1-5, thereby lowering the best previous re- cord for that distance by eight scc- onds. At the end of two miles 1 3-5 seconds had been clipped from the highest mark reached previously;__ at three miles 7 seconds had come off; at four miles, 6 seconds; at five miles, 4 4-5; at six miles, 8 2—5; at seven miles. 6 :5; at eight miles, 6 3-5; at nine miles, 6 4-5, and at ten miles, 8 seconds. If the pacemakers had been fast enough to satisfy Michael, who called to them repeatedly to increase their speed. the records would probab- ly have been lower still. Ten miles in 18:33 1—5, though, is a flying gait, and is quite sufficient to stir the blood of ambitious racing men for some time to come. crews at Henley and elsewhere. When Robert C. Lehmann stepped ashore from the steamer Majestic he stepped upon the present methods in American college oarsmanship, and bore aloft the promise of new and greater things... Mr. Lehmann is justly - celebrated as the English amateur coach who has trained with such rc~ markable success many of the winning His system is one against which our men of Cornell and Yale have recently com tended in vain, until the opinionhaé become general that they “do these things” better at Henley than we do them here. The significant thing about Mr. Lehmann’s visit is that he Comes to coach. the Harvard. crew. ..""‘. In the work of organizing a new'ad- ministration public interest as a rule centers chiefly. and in about equal de- grees, upon the selection of men for the important portfolios of State and of the Treasury. This will undoubt- edly be true with regard to the admin- istration of President McKinley. 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