1 l 1 l ‘ berless Chinese, Indians, ind opium yields a solace all its own, ‘ Poison as 'P‘ick-liIe-Ups. It, seems funny that whole races of» men should thrive on poisons which, to common folk unaccustomed to their use, are absolutely deadly. ' For instance, the mountaineers "of Styria chew lumps of arsonic .as ig ashazel-nhts, and say it refreshes tagem; while, as is well known, num- and Turks Then Peruvian miners take verdig‘ris as a stimulant The people of North- ern Siberia eat a peculiar toadstool, which with the uninitiated results in madness or death. A Curious Stone. One of the most curious stones in the world is found in Finland. It is a natural barometer, and actually fore- tells probable changes in the weather. It turns black shortly before an ap- proaching rain, while in fine weather it is mottled with spots of white. —New York World. . n‘ . \ Must Mean Business. Old Harding—Well,’ I guess that young Dabsley’s determined to. marry our Lib, in spite' of everything.” ' Mrs. Harding—Why do you think so, Jeremiah? ' Old Harding—Way, you know, she zsang. to him and played the piano night before last, and. here he! is again. 'All Depended on Him. ‘TVill you think of me when I am gone?” he asked. “I shall be glad to ”_ she replied with a sigh, “if you will make it pos- sible.” , ' Then he went—Chicago Evenipg Post. ‘ Going to the Dogs. “Terrible th’ way these yere furriners ' is gettin’ control 0’ this kentry!” “Yep?” . “Yep! Jes, be’n readin’ a list 0’ fel- lers that’s be’n naturalized, an’ every blame one wuz a furrincr!”-—New York Journal. ~ a Cruel Old luau. lie-Did you tell your father that I would kill myself ‘if I couldn’t have you? ‘ She—~Yes. He—--What did he say? She—He said that settled 'it. You ;.ou1du’t have me.—-Chicago News. I $8,000,000 in Gold at *Dawson Now. Cheyenne, Wyo. ., Jan. 17. —-Ex- Sher- Eff Ira L. Fredentbal arrived here yes-- zerda‘y from Dawson City. He left there‘ on December 2, making the trip to Dyea In thirty-two days. The journey 'was made without. hardship, althohgh the thermometer was often 72 degrees be- low zero.- Fredenthal says there is $8,- l00, 000 in gold dust 'stored at Dawson, and that this year’ 5 output will be $50, - I00, 000. Governor Griggs’ Promotion Anticipated. Newark, Jan. 17.—Colonel Henry E. Potter, of East Orange, has resigned from the staff of Governor, John W. Briggs. The other members of the staff, it is said, will take'the same ac— tion when the Governor retires shortly, to become. Attorney-General, in ordera 10 give Foster Voorhees, who will be toting Governor, an opportunity to se- lect a personal'staff of his own. Father of Commons Dead. London, Jan. 17 —-The Right Hon. Charles Pelhama Villiers, Member of Parliament for South Wolverhampton, and known as the “Father of the House, 11f Commons,” having sat continuously in the House since ,1835, died at 9 p. m. lastnight. President Dole Arrives! San Francisco, Jan. 17,—The steamer Peru, from China and Japan, via Hono— Eulu, passed in Golden Gate at 9 o’clock last night. President Dole, of Hawaii, is believed to be on board on his“. way to’ Washington. . NEWS IN BRIEF. Mexican cable advices state that Chill is preparing for possible war with Ar- gentina. Gray Gables, ex-President Cleve- and’s Summer home, was ransacked by burglars. Music Hall, the largest auditorium in Cleveland», 0., was burned to the ground Saturday night. The loss is $150,000. ' Surgeons removed the stomach of a man in St. Louis and of a woman in Milwaukee. Both- died, but the sur- geons declare, the operations successful. 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If it had been yours and Others had read it, how much I good it might have done - and We will ad: the rest. Send in year adv Rates on appltcatiOn. BBBBBBBT BB BBBBB Addresses the Senate on Bimefal- lip Commission Work. mom’s AWFUL CONDITION Closing of the Mints, There, He Says. Cre- ated \‘t’ide DissatisfmtionuThe Fam- ine “'us of Money Rather Than Food-- To Retire from commission. Washington, Jan. 18.-—In the Senate yesteiday Senator Wolcott, of Colo- rado, chairman of the Bimetallic ,Com- mission, made a speech upon the work of the commission. He was accorded the closest, attention by his auditors, among whom were many members of the House. Mr. VVolcott introduced his subject by saying that he was glad to make a. statement respecting certain phases of the work of the recent Bimetallic Com- mission,'but that in doing so he spoke unofficially “not‘committing his asso- ciates in the slightest degree either to his opinions or deductions.” “Later in the session,” he said, “we are certain to have ample discussion on the sub- ject of silver, and, it will probably be acrid and bitter enough.” In his re— marks, he continued, he meant to avoid, as far as possible, anything which might give rise to controversy. Mr. Wolcott gave an account of the appointment o‘f the commission, saying that all three of it's members were bi- metallists. The Commission had, he said, in its six months’ stay abroad visited only London and Paris, and he added that u hatever measure of success Or failure had been meted out to the Commission, “it had been hampered by no lack of authority or sanction or administrative 5support.” Summing up the favorable conditions under which the Commis- sion operated, Mr. Wolcott said; “We have had a. law broad and full in its'power; we have been free to act under its provisions; our views have been identical and earnestly favoring an international agreement, and we have had the hearty support of our Ambassador at the Court of St. James. Further' than this, from the day of our first entrance upon the fulfillment of our duties until now the President has extended to the mission his unswerving support in all its efforts to bring about an international agreement. There has been no. moment that we have not known that back of our efforts was the earnest resire of the Chief Executive to carry out its integrity, the provisions of the platform of the Republican party, pledging it to every effort to bring about an international bimetallic agree- ment.” ..The failures of former international conferences, he said, made it evident that unless some prior understanding was arrived at with some of the com- mercial nations another failure would be the result of any international con- ference at this time, and as France, Germany and Great Britain had within a year made declarations'favorable to silver it was decided to‘bring the sub- ject to the attention of these various countries and naturally the first turn was made to France'for many reasons, but above all because of Premier Me- line’s belief in bimetallism. In France, he said; the question-of bimetallism was regarded as strictly an international question, and it was agreed that France and the United States should unite, in presenting the question. to Great~Britain. He con- tended for the importance of. the pre- liminary understanding with France because of the large percapita circula- tion of that count Had England even adhered toher assurances of the 17th of March, 1896,” he said; “countries 1epresenting more than one- -half of the total of Europe and the United States would have agreed, prior to a confer- ence, that upon terms to be settled at such conference they. would reopen their mints to the unlimited coinage of both gold'and silver.” Mr. VVolcott then detailed at some 'length the- joint negotiations, on the part of the American Commissioners and the French Ambassador in Eng- land. “To us,” Mr. Wolcott continued, “the" ,India situation is inexplicable. Mill- ions of people, most of them extremely poor, have for years invested all their savings in silver. These accumulations a few years ago were worth a thousand millions of dollars and more. To- day they are worth less than h‘alf that sum. By the closing of the India m. nts and the artificial gqld value given to sil- ver, India is at a great disadvantage with the neighboring countries, the ex‘ ports of which are stimulated by the higher premium on gold, and they are robbing India of much of her manufac- turing and export trade. The present ,policy inflicts upon India, as well, the evils of an insufficient and steadily lessening currency, evils which the vicissitudes of that dependency during the past twelve months have served to emphasize. “The world has heard much of the faminein India and of the great funds :subscribed for its victims. It has not been, however, generally known that the famine was one of money, rather than food; that the contributions were chiefly forwarded to India in the form of money and not grain and that dur- ing the whole period. of the fa11~""e. rice was. abundant where 'men \----1-€ ”starving, and its price was but a trille over a cent a pound, less than the pri c of wheat in England. For all ”12:"; evils we offered what we belie cl to be a remedy. Our offer was 1e‘;"":.C: and the refusal must be consider.o final until the failure of the evipcri12‘°“‘ upon which the Indian Government ha: entered shall be demonstrated." Mr.‘ W’olcott summarized the prwaElt situation by saying that'it is aprarm that for the time being it is use-lee count on any co- -operation from ; Britain toward a bimetallic agreemer‘. t and that while France actively (165221 to ewe silver restored to its old “posh tion as a. standard of value equair with gold, she insists that the problem is one which demands international ac- t1011,and the co— —operation to some ex- tent of other leading commercial 1121-. tions of the world. “Questions of possible future negoti- ations between France, the pnited States and» other countries, and the .question'of change ‘of ratio, are for the moment held in abeyance, While-11's hope for continued joint action, France owes no further duty to us,’ Mr.- ‘vl'olcott then announced his in- tention 1;. retire from the Commissmn. . \ I massages DUTY! 21: “Sheriff Martin'anvd Deputies Must An- swer for the Shooting of Miners. ' Hazleton, Pa., Jan. 17.—Information has reaChed counsel for the defense here that .the trial of Sheriff Martin and his deputies for the shooting of the riotous strikers at Lattimer on Septem- ber 10 last would be called at Wilkes- barre next week Tuesday. January 25. Both on account “of the social and ' business standing of many of the eighty deputies under indictment, and the questions of law and fact ln'.volved the trial will be the most notable ever held in this State. The counsel on both sides are themost eminent that can be procured; and Judge. Lynch, who SHERIFF MARTIN. will probably preside, has the reputa- tion of being a very able jurist. Law- yer Troutman, of the defense, in Speak: ing of the case to your correspondent, said: “It is impossible to tell how long the trial will last. We have only a panel of sixty talesmen to draw from. Besides the challenges for cause we have twen- ty peremptory challenges, so you see the panel could be easily exhausted, be-_ fore a jury was found.” “In that case, what would be done?” “We could'go out among the specta; tors in the court room or anywhere else for jurors, until we found a jury.” Asked what he'thought the outcome of the trial would be, Mr. Troutman re- plied: “I do not see that it can possibly be anything but an acquittal. You see the version of the deputies of the af- fray has not as yet been heard, for .by my advice they have kept their. mouths shut. - “The duestions of law involved are of great importance to the legal mind. Many‘ will crop up that have not as yet been satisfactorily passed upon by any legal tribunal. ” As Mr. Troutman is an old lawyer of great and varied experience, his most notable case probablybeing his con- duct as prosecutor of several of the Molly Maguire trials, his opinion is en- titled to considerable weight. -§ome of the questions which will have to be passed upon are those in- volving the rights and powers of a sheriff in a strike, the rights of strikers to march about from place to place and an adjudication upon the question what does and what does not constitute a public highway. ' The latter point is regarded as being perhaps the most important one The strikers contend they were 011 a pulfltc highway when they were fired upon. and upon this point Judge Lynch laid considerable stress when charging the Grand Jury that indicted the deputies. BENJAMIN BUTTERWORTH DEAD. Commissioner of Patents Had Gone to Georgia. for His Health. Thomasville, Ga,, Jan. 17.——Major Benjamin Butterworth, Commissioner of Patents, who came here several weeks ago with-a View to recruiting his health 'after having been taken serious- ly ill in Ohio,‘ died at 3.15 p. m.’ yester- day; Mr. Butterworth’s wife and chil- dren were at his side when he died. He had been suffering ‘from pneumonia, but death was due directly uraemic convulsions. '1 By the death of. Maj% enjamin But- terworth one of the yet-conspicuous characters is removed ~social and official life at the na l capital. He was born in Warren‘j Cdu’n-ty, Ohio, on october 22,1839, of parents who were members of the Society of ”Friends. He studied law in Cincinnati and was ad- mitted to the bar in that "city. In 1883 he was appointed Chief of the Patent Office by President Arthur. Al- though the? greater portion of [Major Butterworth’s time during hzs latter years was:spent at VVasningfiru, where he had built up a large law practice and owned much property, his appoint— ments to political office have been cred- ited to Ohio. ' He was known throughout the United States as an able 'pafeut lawyer and a stanch Republican. His first appearance at Washington was as a. member of the Forty-sixth Congress from the First District of Ohio.) He served during four more Congresses —— Forty~seventh, Forty- ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty—first. In September last a sensational and erroneous report was printed to the ef— fact that Major Butterworth, while on a visit to‘ Atlantic City, had been as- saulted and robbed by thugs. At the time of the alleged assault the stalwart Ohioan was at W'ashington, and the publication of the rumor caused him great annoyance. 1. Mr. Gladstone on Strikes. London, Jan. 17.—‘-Mr. Gladstone con- tinues well and cheerful at Cannes. An eminent perSon who was lunching re- cently with him .asked Mr. Gladstone What was the greatest danger threaten- ing Great Britain—was it France, Ger- many, Russia or America? “None of them,” was the reply of the statesman; “the only danger I foresee is from the trades unions and their attendant strikes,” ’ | Profit in Football. New Haven, Conn, Jan. 17.—Playing football games on college grounds is a big success. Yale and Harvard made $13, 000 apiece piofit off their game at Cambridge, the total receipts being 'about $35,000. The figures for the Yale- Princeton game here show the total re- ceipts were $28,396.77; the expenses, $1,- 231.35, leaving the netreceipts $22,165.42. Each college; will 112mg $12,082.71 as its share for the game. Bismarck’s Health Irnp1oving. «Berlin, Jan. 1".—Prince Bismarck 2. steadily improving in health. He i again good humored and has express =.e his approval of the seizure of Kia Chou- Bay in a letter to the grand dukes of Weimar and Mecktenm m ' If} L’l‘ .) "AND . 0 mos '
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