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' THREE CURIOUS PLANTS

 

One Whose Leaves are Strong Enough to

Crush the Life out of a. Man.

Three of the most dangerous of veg-
ctable plants in, the world are the
.“cannibal tree” of Australia, the
“death” or “grapple plant” of South
Africa. and the “vegetable python,” of
New—Zealand. -

The “cannibal tree” grows up in the
shape of a huge pineapple, and attains
a height of 11 feet. It has a series of
broad, boardlike leaves, growing ina
fringe at the apex, which forcibly
brings to mind a gigantic Central
American agave; and these boardlike
leaves, \' from 10 to 12 feet in the
smaller specimens, and from 15 to 20
feet in the larger, hang to the ground
and are easily strong‘enough to bear
the weight of a man of 1-10 pounds or
more. In the ancient times this tree
was worshipped by the native savages
under the name of the “devil tree,” a
part of the interesting ceremony being
the sacrifice of one of their number to
its all too ready embrace. The victim
to be sacrificed was driven up the
leaves of the tree to the apex, and the
instant the soicalled pistils of the men-
ster were touched the leaves would fly
together like a trap, crushing the life
out of the intruder. In this way the
tree would hold its victim, slapping his
vitality and life, until every particle
of flesh would disappear from his
bones. ‘

The “grapple plant” is a prostrate
herb growing in South Africa. Its
flowers are purple and shaped like the
English foxglove. Its fruit has for-
midable hooks, and by clinging to any
passer-by is conveyed to situations
where its seed may find suitable con-
ditions for growth. Sir John Lubbock

says it has beenvknown to kill lions.

The"‘vegetable python,” which is
known to the naturalist as the clusia.,
or fig, is the strangler of trees. The
seeds of the clusia, being provided
with a pulp and very pleasant to the
tropical birds which feed thereon, are
carried from tree to tree and deposited
on the branches. Here germination
begins. The leafy stem slowly rises
upward, while the roots flow, as it
were, down the trunk until the soil is
reached. Here and there they branch,
changing their course according to the
direction of any obstructions met with.
Meanwhile from these rootlets leafy
branches have been developed, which,
pushing themselves through the can-
opy above, get into the light, and enor-’
mously accelerate their growth. Now
a metamorphosis takes place! For the
hitherto soft aerial roots begin to har-
den and spread wider and wider,
throwing out side branches which flow
into and amalgamate with each other,
until the who-1e tree trunk is bound
in a series of irregular living‘hoops.
From this time on it is a struggle of
life and death between the forest gi-
ant and the entwining clusia. Like an
athlete the-tree tries to exp-and and
burst its fetters, causingthe bark to
bulge between every interlacing; but
success and freedom are not for the
captive tree, for the monster clusia has
made its hands very numerous and
wide. Not allowed expansion, the tree
soon withers and dies, and the stran-
gler is soon expanded into a great
bush. almost as large as the mass of
branches and foliage it has efiaced. It
is a tragedy in the world of vegeta-
tion—Les Angeles Herald.

Science of the Mosquito.

There are four truths respecting the
mosquito which modern science has
established:

First—A mosquito cannot live in air
free from malarial poison. Untainted
air has the "same efiect on him as a
healthy community on a doctor. It
deprives him of patients, and he must
go to less-favored localities to prac-
tise his profession.

Second—The lymph, which flows
through an automatic valve when it
inserts its proboscis, contains a modi~
fied gem of the malarial fever, and.
according to the well-settled law of
inoculation, the introduction of the
weak germ renders harmless a subse-
quent attack by the strong germ.

Third—The mosquito never swal-
lows human blood. It cannot. The
fact that its body becomes discolored
ind swells, while probing, is
caused by the discoloration of the
ymph in contact with the blood and
he muscular effort of inserting the
"robe. '

Fourth—A mosquito will never'insert
ts lancet in a person not susceptible
'0 an attack of malaria. In this re-
pect, its sense is more accurate than
he most skilled and experienced pa-
hologist. This also proves, not only
ts unerring instinct, but that it never
'ounds unnecessarily.
re those of a skilled and human sur-
_eon, and even more unselfish, for
lope of a fee never quickens him, nor
' oes the malediction of his patient de-

Its thrusts'

er him in the fulfillment of his duty. ?

Remember, then, that the presence
f a mosquito is an infallible sign that
nalaria is in, the air, and that you are
xposedto it, and when you hear that
en known but solemn note of warn-
ng, do not treat him as a foe but as a
fiend—Boston Transcript.

. Candleflsh.

Recent experiments by the curious at
’ortland, Ore., have revived recollec-
io:ns of a primitive light used in the
arly days of the settlements along the
‘olumbia River, when the residents
alled smelts candlefish. The dried
melts burn as well as candles, and
ive off an appetizing odor.——Chicago
liter-Ocean.

“No; sir,” said the physician, pomp-
usly, “I never lost more than half a
ozen patients in my life.”

“Well, I’m surprised,” answered the;
ynical man.

“Surprised at. What?”

“At your ability to make a living on
9 small a pracllec."—W.-tshington
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CFIE READ AS JOURNALIST.

Used Horseshoe Nails for Type with Great
Success.

Before Opie Reed wrote The Jack-
lins, in fact before he “went in for”
literature at all, he was a high private
in the ancient and honorable army of
journalists, and earned his‘ cordwood,
garden truck and other luxuries of life
by the sweat of the brow of the man
who “pulled” and old-fashioned hand
press for him. Then he used to tell
funny stories about himself, and some
people think he told better stories then
than he tells now, but he didn’t get paid
as well for them. This is one of the lit-
tle tales that linger in the memory of
many of his old—time friends: It seems
that he was printing a little paper in
a little town in Kentucky—or perhaps
it was in Arkansas—the state cuts no
figure. One day his printer came rush-
ing over to the grocery store, where
the editor was sitting on an apple bar-
rel, conversing with other great minds
on problems of state and other things,
and demanded an immediate audience
with the potentate of the paste pot. He
had news of a dire calamity to the
printing oflice. The only letter W in
the shop had been lost. Read hurled
all the powers of 'his gigantic intellect
into the breach, as it were, and after
a few seconds cerebration gave com-
mand that a sortie should immediately
be made toward the sanctum of the
village smith and horsesh-oer for the
purpose of capturing a horse shoe nail.
This order was obeyed. A horseshoe
nail was secured, cut so as to stand
“type high” and dexterously substi-
tuted for the lost W. So far so good—
very good, indeed; but other troubles
came. The Y was lost next, and
another onslaught was made on the
horseshceing academy. The W and Y
loomed up so well that it was decided
to throw away the M, which had be-
come somewhat decrepit, and use a
third horseshoe nail, and so the paper
came out that week. It was a trifle
spoiled. true, where the new W and
the new Y and the new M were used,
lat they were bright spots, and the
COIZZIlZClllS were commendatory. Next
week several more letters were lost,
and other horseshoe nails were put in
the tin can where the type was kept.
About this time the horseshoer bought
a new keg of nails, and then Editor
Read decided on an exhibition of that
wonderful genius that has since
brought him fame. He boldly threw
away all his old type, set the entire
paper up in horseshoe nails, and then
posed before an admiring public. That
week the postoflice of the town handled
more mail than ever before or since,
and the entire increase was made up
of letters congratulating the great edi-
tor on the improved apearance of his
paper.

DU MAUPJER’S .102": iPo‘rs‘.
Stories Sent bv His Friends of which He
Made Good Use.

Du Maurier has been much written
about in the press by men pretending
to be his most intimate friends,
though in one or two conspicuous in
stances .the family of the late lamented
were rather surprised at this presump-
tion. One of Du Maurier’s institutions
was a pair of vases which he called
his “joke-pots.” He used to receive a
large number of contributions from
English and American friends, all pur-
porting to be true, and worthy of an
illustration by him. I know at least
several instances where friends of
mine have sent him texts, which he
very soon afterwards used to good ad-
vantage. As these contributions ar-
rived he threw them into one of these
“joke-pots,” by way of filing—a new
kind of pigeon-hole. Then when a mo-
ment arrived in which he had to
scratch his head for a subject, he
would dip his hand —-or rather his arm
——into this lottery, and fish up one con-
tribution after the other, until he found

 

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. buer of war. We do not know exactly

 

one that might be regarded as a prize .

ticket.
In order that he might insure himself
against repetition, he observed the rou-

tine of never putting a contribution 3

back into the same “joke—pot” from
which he had extracted it, but depos-
ited it in the second vase until the first
one had been cleared. Then he
tacked the second one and emptied all
the lottery slips back into the first,
and so on, daily weeding out the worth-

lless ones, and refreshing his memory

as to those best adapted to his pur-
The fact that these two “joke-
pots” were kept so well supplied by
friends who volunteered their contri-
butions is in itself ample testimony to
the personal charm widely exercised

. by this warm-hearted master of black

and white—Harper’s W'cekly.
Rag Picker “'nrth $100,000.

Odd stories have often been told of
the chiffonniers of Paris, but even
more curious perhaps is the case of
Mother Carpio, a female rag-picker,
said to be worth $100,000, who went
out to America from her native Italy
when she was a. girl of twenty, and
hasfor the last. five-and-forty years
honored New York by helping to re-
lieve' it of unconsidered trifles. Even

. new this human beast of burden, with
' back bent by the accumulated weights

of countless sacks of rubbish, works
some fifteen hours a day—from 2 in

. the morning until 5 in the afternoon—

on the scanty support of two meals,
and she is said to have invested care-
fully all her savings.

The Sketch says that under such.
conditions life Would seem scarcely to
be worth living, but Mother Carpio
keeps on with the old routine of rag-
picking year after year, and the lucky
heir presumptive is a. young nephew
of hers, who will thus come into a

' not to say haggish, aunt passes hence.

—Harper’s Round Table.

His End in View.
“The Walter is very attentive. I
wonder what end he has in view.”
“His tip, of course."

 

 

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. Five others of the same type are now

at- "

CURRENT COMMENT;

 

Green Grass Coxey, of Ohio is organ.
izing another brand new pelitical par-
ty. This will be the third article of its
kind that Coxey has turned out since
last November. That man is a wonder
of several distinct varieties.

 

In abolishing slavery in his domin-
ions, the Sultan of Zanzibar has per-
formed a service of the most heroic
‘character. His predecessor wanted to‘
do the same thing and was murdered
by the slave traders, who forsaw that
any such action meant the destruction
of their inhuman traflic. Whether the ‘
'presen-t ruler will be able to escape the '
murderous vengefulness of the man
hunters depends largely upon the pro-
tection he receives form Great Britain,
,whose government maintains the pow-
er of ultimate control over his own.

4 Great Britain built up her colossal
shipping interest upon a system of dis-
criminations, bounties and premiums
which virtually excluded foreign ves-
sels from her carrying trade, and her
policy in that direction laid the basis
of her commercial greatness. Her rule
was that goods intended for British
consumers should be carried in British
ships, that British manufactures
should be sent to market in British
ships, that the interests of producers,
exporters and importers were identi-
cal, and that a commercial policy ’bene-

ficial to one would be equally so to all. I
I

Congressman Bailey’s conflict with
the dress coat question ought to be pre-
served in a marble as a sort of Texas
Laocoon. On'the whole, it was heroic,
and the Congressman won. It is safe
,to say that the Congressman who will
not 'change his coat wil not turn it, and
any man who takes the swallowtail by
the horns, so to speak, is worthy of
high praise. A man’s conviction, let it
be noted, can extend to clawhammers
and plug hats, two of the mightest so-
cial tyrants that make men miserable,
and the hero who can defy both is de‘
serving of a mission to France, where
his convictions would doubtless be
purified by fire. Nearly all men of our
time weakly consent to become mar-
tyrs for the sake of the dress coat, but
here at least is a man who consents to
be a martyr rather than wear one.

 

The passage of the Senate resolution
declaring it a duty of the President to
protest against the trial of Gen. Rivera
by a drumhead court-martial has had
the desired eflect. It seems to have pro-

 

duced an almost instantaneous change

announcing that Gen. Rivera. would not
be tried by drumhead court-martial,
but that he would be treated as a pris-

how this was accomplished, but it is
fair to infer that Secretary Sherman,
unlike his predecessor, was in thorough
sympathy with the resolution of the
Senate, and that he communicated it
promptly to Minister de Lome, who
kept the wires hot between Washington
and Madrid until the Spanish Govern-
ment gave the neccessary orders to
Gen. Weyler.

Rapid as the construction of the new
navy has been, it has not yet reached
the proportions which National safety
requires. This is particularly true with
regard to vessels of the larger class.
Capt. Malian, the eminent naval ex-
pert, for-,‘histance, gives it as his opin-
ion that the security of the country
against foreign aggression demands a
fleet of at least eighteen battle ships
of the first class. We have as yet but
four such vessels, the Massachusetts,
the Oregon, the Indiana and the Iowa.

under construction, namely, the Kear-
sarge, the Kentucky, the Alabama, the
Illinois and the Wisconsin, but none of
these will be launched for a year, and
it will be two years before any one of
them is ready for trial. The thing to
remember, therefore, is that while the
navy is making progress: it has by no
means reached the proportions essen-
tial to National safety.

The new Suppressive mania has in-

 

duced the librarian of the Carnegie Li- .

,brary to throw out the works of Mrs.
Holmes, Mrs. Southworth, Mr. A. C.
Gunter and the late E. P. Roe. Not
only has he done this, but he goes into
a current periodical to explain why he
does it, and if we understand him it is
because this class of books tend to
make confirmed fiction fiends, he de-
claring that youths who start with this
order of romance does not outgrow it,

 

but becomes habituted to it. This isa
confirmed fiction fiends, he declaring
that a youth who starts with this order
of romance does not outgrow it, but
becomes habituated to it. This is a
far-fetched and arbitrary conclusion. «
All readers choose their literature in
accordance with their condition of in-
tellectual development. They feed on ‘
milk and water and pap until they are
strong enough for meat, and to say
that the food which their immaturity
'raves prevents them from afterward
reaching a stronger diet is unwarrant.
able. It is a great deal better for an
intellectual infant to read Mrs. South?
worth and E. P. Roe than to read noth-

ing. br than to read what he does not .

assimilate.

THE CHICAGO MYSTERY

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Alleged New Evidence Against Laet-
gert, the Sausage Maker.

BONES FOUND IN THE VATS.

Bloodstained Clothes and Portions of a
BOdy Also Said to Have Been Dis-
covered Near the Factory—Ex-
amination Postponed.

Chicago, May 25.—New evidence has
been discovered which, the police say.
gives additional .proof that Adolph
Luetgert murdered his wife in his sau-
sage factory and then disposed of her
body by placing it in a vat of chemi-
cals. '

The police refuse to tell the exact
nature of the evidence which they have
found, but from what is known it is
said that they have discovered a. por-
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as well as some of her clothing, and the

garments worn by Luetgert on the
night of the alleged murder.

The evidence, whatever it may be, is
regarded by the police as of the utmost
importance. It was found in a small
frame building directly in the rear of
Luetgert's home, and about 300 feet
away from the engine room and the
vats in which the rings were found.

Police Inspector Schaack said today
that there are a. vat in the building and
several bins containing chemicals.

A quantity of clothing was also
found, and one of the detectives said
that some of this had belonged to a
woman and was believed to have been
worn by Mrs. Luetgert on the night
she disappeared.

Other garments are said to have be—
longed to Luetgert and to be spotted
with blood.

It is said also that concealed in the
vat are portions of a human body. The
police will not give any details about
this, but it is known that they have

of heart in the spanish authorities. In I had a. bdne WhiCh Was found examined

twenty-four hours after its passage :
Secretary Sherman had the pleasure of .

and that it is said to be a. portion of a
female skeleton.

The importance the police place upon
the find is shown by the fact that they
placed a guard about the building and

, will allow no one to enter.

It is also shown by the haste with
which the detectives who made the dis-
covery notified their superior officers.

The Examination Postponed.

The latter were attending the pre-
liminary examination of Luetgert when
they received wordxof the discovery of
the new evidence.

After a hurried consultation with the
coroner they secured a postponement
of the case and went at once to Luet-
gert’s factory.

Assistant State Attorney McEwen
went with them. and for an hour he
and Inspector Schaack, Captain Schu-
lettler and half a dozen detectives were
in the building.

When they came out, they carried
several bundles, and at once established
a. police guard over the building.

A witness has been discovered by the
police in John O'Connell. who, it is said,
will testify that he sayr Adolph Luetgert

 

MRS. ADOLPH LUETGERT.

about the sausage factory between 2
and 3 o’clock of the morning following
the night of the alleged murder of Mrs.
Luetgert.

On the morning in question O’Connell
was on his way home. His way led him
past the Luetgert sausage factory, and
his attention was first attracted by see-
ing smoke issuing from the tall chimney
at the rear of the factory.

O’Connell is said to have looked in the
basement windows and to have gone up
the stairs leading to the factory office
and to have looked in at the office win—
dows. .

Just what O’Connell claims to have
seen cannot be gained from the police.

~ but State Attorney McEwen vouchsafed

the information that by this witness he

' would be able to show Luetgert’s pres—

ence, about various portions of his fac-
tory at an early hour Sunday, May 2.

‘ Porter Sees Hanbtaux.

Paris, May 25.—General Horace Por-
ter, the new United States embassador
to France, was received today by the
French minister for foreign affairs, M.
Hanotaux. General Porter will have an
audience with President Faure on
\Vedne'sday.

 

Greeks Preparing a Defense.
~ Athens, May 25.——The Greeks have
formed another line of defense at Ther-
mopylae. j -

 

THE SPANISH CRISIS.

No Hope Apparently For the Continuum.
of the Present Ministry.

Madrid, May 24.—-The political situ-
ation here seems to be as follows: The
government, not wishing to yield to the
opposition by resigning, will appear be-
fore the cortes, but if the Liberals do
not attend the session a ministerial
crisis will be occasioned. Under the
cicumstances the retention of the pres-
ent cabinet does not seem possible. The
Liberals, who consider the formation
of a Sagasta cabinet inevitable within
a. few days, have abandoned all idea of
agreeing upon the formation of a. work—
ing ministry. .

The projected duel between the sons
of the Duke of Tetuan, Iminister for
foreign affairs, and of Professor Comas.
the Liberal senator whose ears were
boxed by the duke on last Friday in the

. lobby of the senate, has been abandon—

ed, the dispute having been amicably
settled.

The I-Ieraldo of this city says it learns
that high persons have asked Marshal
Martinez de Campos, the former cap-
tain general of Cuba, to come to Mad-
rid. '

THE TEA TAX.

A Rebate to Be Asked For on Imports to
Fill Standing Contracts.

Dubuque, 1a., May 24.—The wholesale
grocers of Iowa, who are interested in
the proposed duty on tea, have sent a
delegation to Washington to see Sena.-
tor Allison. With them have gone two
representatives of the Chicago houses.
Before the proposal to tax tea 10 cents
a. pound.was made public by the senate
committee these grocers sold for future
delivery in such quantities that one
Chicago house will lose $100,000 if com-
pelled to furnish taxed tea. Iowa. houses
will also lose heavily. The grocers have
tried to cover, with the result that the
demand for immediate shipment raised
prices of the Japan 71,4; cents.

The delegates will ask that the tarifi
bill be amended to provide for a rebate
of the tax on all tea imported to fill
orders taken before the senate bill was
reported.

 

Hanged Himself at Eighty-five.

New York, May 24.——Joseph M. Par-
ker, 85, killed himself by hanging today
at 808 East One Hundred and Forty-
seventh street. Parker had been com-
plaining of pains in the head. When
he did not come down stairs, Mrs.
Reed, one of his daughters, knocked
on the door. Failing to get an answer,
Mrs. Reed looked through an airshaft
and saw her father hanging by a. cord
which was fastened to the doorknob.
The head was only partly raised from
the floor.

 

Russians Studying Cotton Spinning.

Charlotte, N. 0., May 24.—-Some Rus-
sian visitors have come here to study
cotton manufacturing. They first went
to Boston, but were advised to come to
the Carolina. mills as best suited for
their purpose, as they can observe here
the planting, growth, cultivation, har-
vesting and baling of the staple, as
well as its manufacture into cloth.
They pin establiSh p'hemsélves abSpar-
tanbu‘rg, thé larges‘ cotton madufac:
turing center in the south.

Captain Taylor In an Asylum.

Boston, May 24.—Captain J. Henry
Taylor, past commander of the Ancient
and Honorable Artillery Company, has
been sent to the McLean asylum. He
is suffering from softening of the brain.
Mr. Taylor was born in Boston in 1853.
He was admitted to the bar in May,
1875. Captain Taylor received his title
in 1891, when he was chosen captain of
the Ancients. He was the youngest
man ever elected to the position.

 

Postmasters Appointed.

Washington, May 24.——The fourth class
postmasters appointed today were:

New York—Muitzeskill, P. S. Miller;
Pleasantville, T. B. Pierce.

New Jersey — Leonardville,
Leonard.

Pennsylvania—Bloomingdale, S. M.
Blanchard; Herman, J. J. Dittmer;
Joint, E. H. Speakman; Tylersville, F.
K. Miller; ‘Wcst Leesport, H. G. Len-
hart. '

E. W.

Caucus on Tariff.

Washington, May Zak—Immediately
after the adjournment of the senate to-
day the Republicans went in~to caucus
on the tariff bill, to settle their differ-
ences on the main features of the meas-
ure. For the purpose of passing the bill
as soon as possible the Republican sen-
ators were asked to make no set
speeches.

A Child's Horrible Death.
Syracuse, May 24. —-A boy named
Dinehart, 10 years old, while playing
with a. number of comrades, was killed
by a. live wire today. One of the young-
sters threw a. coil of small Wire over a.
trolley cable, the ends coming in con—
tact with the track. Young Dinehart

grasped the wire and fell dead.

Rebates May Not Be Given.
Washington, May 24.——The supreme
court affirmed the decision of the court
below in the case of C. S. Wright of
Pittsburg, charged with a violation of
the portion of the interstate commerce
law prohibiting disarimination. Wright

granted rebates on beer to pay for

drayage.

Charles Still Discharged.

London, May 24.—-Charles Still, the
ex—detective of York, Pa., who was ar-
rested at Glasgow on April 24 upon a
warrant demanding his extradition to
the United States‘to answer a charge
of receiving stolen money, was dis-
charged at the Bow street police court
today.

Death of a Pacific Ship Captain.
San Francisco, May 24.—The British
ship Stronsa, First Mate Henning in
command, has arrived from Shanghai.
Captain Brooks, for many years in
command of the Stronsa, died two
weeks before the vessel sailed.

 

'Vamlcrbilts After Naphtha.

St. Petersburg, May 24.-—The Odessky
Listok of Odessa announces the coming
arrival there of one of the Vanderbilts
who, according to that newspaper, is
about to start big naphtha works at
Baku, Russian Transcaucasia.

 

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A neliberutc Suicide.

Gasport. N. Y., May 2i.—I1’.arry Kit-
tridge, 52 years of age, committed sui-
cide \‘L'iile in a fit of despondency on
account of ill health. He entered the
barn and. standing before a mirror, shot
himself, expiring instantly.

The Cabinet Said to Be Divided on His
Cuban Programme.

FOUR. MEMBERS OPPOSE HIM.

Secretary Gage Fears That Intervention
and A‘Var \‘Vith Spain \Vould Force
Us to a Silver Basis—Democrat-
ic Senatnrs and the Tarifl'.

Washington, May 24.—-A serious split
in President McKinley's cabinet may
be the outcome of his policy regarding
Cuba. The president contemplates tak-
ing very decided action to settle the
war on that island.

Opposed to such a policy are Secre-
taries Long, Bliss, Gage and Alger.

Mn. Gage is the most vehement in ad-
vising the president to avoid all possi-
bility of a. rupture with Spain. Hi
reason is in order to carry on a war
the government would have to sell
bonds at the very start.

Consent to do this must be obtained
from congress, and while that consent
would be promptly given the kind of
bonds desired by the administration
might not be authorized. In other
words, Mr. Gage, while he will not say
so, fears if a war breaks out with Spain
the country will be forced upon a.
silver basis. The silver party is strong
enough in the senate to prevent an
issue of bonds, and it is believed that
the silver senators will do so and insist
upon the issuance of silver bonds even
in the grave emergency contemplated.

The arguments of Secretary Gage and
several other of the secretaries in the
cabinet meetings against action in fa.-
vor of the Cubans that might lead to
trouble with Spain are said to have
been based on the situation that would
thus confront the president.

It is even said that Mr. Gage will not
consent to remain as secretary of the
treasury on this account if the friendly
relations of the two countries are bro-
ken off.

The possibility of the resignations of
Secretaries Long and Bliss for the same
reason is also entertained. General A1-
ger, it is thought, will not feel obliged
to give up his portfolio.

Confronted with this situation, Pres-
ident McKinley is giving ,the problem
the gravest consideration. His inclina-
tion is to exhaust all friendly means to
put an end to the Cuban war and then
to interfere by force to accomplish that
purpose. Those‘nearest to him say that
he still believes this to be his true pol—
icy, and he is holding out against his
cabinet in spite of the financial picture
which Secretary Gage has painted for
him.

great popular desire for the interference
of the United States to secure the inde-
pendence of the insurgents.

A large majority of his party repre-
sentatives here are urging himon this
course. L er§ ails telegrams sire pour—

“0 is said to have remarked at

Cuba. A-
the cabinet meeting that he thought he

could count on the patriotism of even

the silver some tors in an emergency. '
Tariff In the Senate. 3-

Washington, May 24.—The Democrat-
ic senators Saturday held a. caucus to
discuss the policy to be pursued in re-
lation to the tariff bill. At the conclu-
sion of the caucus Senator Gorman,
chairman, gave out the following state-
ment:

“The conference of Democratic sen—
ators was held, and it was unanimously
agreed by them that, notwithstanding
the delay in furnishing the comparative
statements which would enable them
intelligently to consider the bill, there
would be no opposition to immediately
proceeding with the consideration with
the same on Tuesday, as they recog—
nized the business interests of the coun-
try require as speedy a disposition of
the question as is consistent with an
intelligent consideration of the meas-
ure. ' 3

They were further unanimously of the
opinion that the excessive increases in
rates on imported articles provided for
both’ in the Dingley bill and as reported
to the senate should be antagonized
only to the extent of exposing their
enormities. Recognizing, however, that
the Republican party is committed to
these increases, the Democrats will be
content with only a. fair discussion upon
these propositions.

The Democrats were further unani-
mously of the opinion that they would
oppose the increased tax on beer, tobac—
co, cigars and the other items embraced
in the internal revenue schedules. Nei-
ther party was committed to such in-
creases, and there is no governmental
necessity for such increased burdens
upon those articles.

Postmasters Appointed.

Washington, May 24.—The following
fourth class postmasters have been ap-
pointed:

Connecticut—Crescent, J. K. Parsons.

Vermont—Benson Landing, Victor
Falkenberg; North Calais, C. H. Bur-
nap; Plainfield, J. A. Foss, and Wells
River, W. G. Foss.

New York—Beaver, M. E. Gorton;
Petersburg, F. D. Nichols; Ulster-'
ville, Ira Moffatt, and Wolfhill, George
White.

Italy Sticks to Africa.

Home, May 24.—The chamber of dep-
uties has rejected by a. vote of 229 to
140 the order of the day proposing to
abandon the Italian colony of Brythrea,

ported by the government. approving
the colonial programme of the premier,
the Marquis di Rudini.

 

M'ehl “’as Tired of Life.

Erie. Pa., May 24.—Ex-Sheriff Wil-
Liam O. Mehl, one of the most promi—
nent Republicans in this part of the
state and corresponding secretary of
the state League of Republican Clubs,.
committed suicide YCStel‘dZ-ly by hang—
ing himself in the woods south of the
city. He left a note stating that he was
sick and tired of life.

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The “'hito Squadron. . _
Washington, May 24.——The Bancroft
has arrivedat Mersina, the Terror has
arrived at New York and the San Fran-
cisco at Piree. The Raleigh has sailed
from Porto Delgado for Gibraltar, and

 

the Detroit has arrived at the Vew York
navV yard. The Texas is'at Boston.

This is because of the intense public
' interest in the Cuban question and the

on the east coast of Africa, and adopted ,
' by 242 to 94 the order of the day sup-

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