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Some one has said that feieignei:
wcgc iccsin-g their love for Ame: icar
politics Such is not the case in New
1'01": if we may judge of May01 Var
‘1"3ka’ 5 ofiicial family. We find among
the most important members thq
names of - \‘Vhalen, York, Holahan
Clszisen, McCartney, Fei-tner, Straus
Nagte, and in minor positions the 0’s
the Macs and the Vans almost with-
on: number. Croker’s plans for playing
an active and important part in nation-
al politics during the next three year:
are developing rapidly. He has gout
to work with all of his old-time energy
and cunning to make the minimum.
tion of W. J. Bryan by the next Demo-
cratic National Convention an impos
sibility. Croker believes that the Dem
ocratic party can elect the next Presi~
dent on a platform less radical than
the Chicago production if a strong and
conservative candidate is Domino cited
He regards Bryan as a. weak man ano
weaker candidate.
Mr. Croker was in Europe all
through the campaign of 1896. He re
turned a few weeks after the election
A number of his political friends and
several reporters met him down tho
bay, and had a. long talk with him
while the ship was coming up to thg
city. He asked many questions about
the campaign, and seemed especially
interested in Mark "Hanna and Bryan
When told that the Boy Orator hac‘
turn-ed lecturer Mr. Croker smiled, and
said, quietly but firmly: “That will bl
the end of him in politics. He ha:
talked too much already.”
The Forty-Second Street Reservoir.
The water has been let out from its
enclosures, the night guard has been
withdrawn from its parapet, by othei
channels Tt'he floods of the aqueduct
seek the down-town district, and tho
old Bryant Park Reservoir at 42nd
street, its occupation gone and its glory
soon to depart, has been surrendered
to the Park Board for demolition. Th1
twelvemonth that saw the grim Egyp‘
tia'n front of the VTombs taken down.
stone by stone, will see the even stern-
er majesty of this other’Egyptian land
mark of the old New York banishec
by the unreverencing hand of change.
The reservoir was completed in 1842
at a. 00st of about $500,000, and the cer-
emony of letting the water into it wa‘.
celebrated on Independence Day of that
year. A salute of forty-one guns was
fired at sunrise, one gun for every mile
between Croton River and the reser-
voir. In the civic and military parade
15,000 persons marched.
When the reservoir was first con-
structed complaint was made that it
was too far away from the main popu~
lation of the town. But in the halo
century the town has pushed far be
yond it, and it is now near the center
of the district which includes The clubs
the churches, the great hotels, the no-
ted restaurants and some of the most
ornate private residences. The library
which will succeedit will «be more ad‘
vantageously located than the Astor 01
the Lenox, and will fill that place in
the wants of the immediate neighbor-
hood which the removal of the Colum~
bis Library to Morningside Heights
has made.
Starving in New York.
A man and woman of refinement and
genius came close to starvation in tho
great city of New York last week. Both
are educated,.'both talented, both an
energetic. The tragedy developed in
six weeks.
“I'came here from Montreal,” said
Mr Barry. “My wife had been here
two weeks and confidently expected a
theatrical engagement. I am an expen
accountant and have never found it
difficult to get employment hitherto.
“We have walked these streets oi
New York all day on our different or-
rands to save car fare. I have walked
across and up and down and " back
home again. My wife has walked too
And then we came home at night to
look to each other for comfort, but we
wouldn’t give way. Neither wanted ‘tc
- bleak the other’ 3 courage.
“But our money gave out and we had
to let ou1 position be known.”
The newspaper stories brought the
Barrys no end of sympathy. Mr. Bar-
ry has gained a good position, and Mrs.
Barry is likely to do the same, as she
has had several offers. Letters poured
in on them from people who wanted to
help. one man, a. street-ear conductorI
came with a basket his wife had pre-
pared with home goodles-——two stuffed
chickens, home-made bread, fresh but-
for and jelly. The conductor said he
had "‘been there himself.”
“People have been awfully kind]-
said Mrs. Barry with tears in ‘her eyes.
“And it is not so much what they did
as the kind way they did it. This ex-
perienCe has taught us both that tho
world is full of kind hearts if one car
only reach them.” CYRUS Tuoar.
' Ci ludiaL—l fear you are stony-heart
eel . '
Meluott c—But‘ your face is chiselled
611 it. - ~ '
1 have too strong a hold upon me.
‘_ prisoner,
to be addicted to. opium, was allowed
HIRED TO DO HIS .WORRYING.
Man from Missouri Made a. Bargain, for it
. Cost Only 86.
He looked tired and worn out. His
eyes were red and swollen from weep-
ing, and his sunken cheeks plainly
told of ceaseless care and worry. A
man not more than 40 years of age, he
looked every bit of 60. He had been
arrested last week and arraigned be-
time Justice Martin charged with dis-
orderly conduct.
“I don’t know what to make of hiin.
your Honor,” said the ofiicer who
made the arrest. “He is hanging about
.the banks in the central part of the
city and seems to fear some impending
doom. He refused to give his name,
and as a last resort I thought I
would bring him before you.”
Your Honor, sir,” meekly spoke the
prisoner. “I am worried, just as the
officer says. The frequency of bank
troubles and loan associatin best-ups,
coupled with the stringency of the
money market, have well-nigh driven
me crazy. I have done everything
possible to overcome my trepidation
and nervousness, but my recent losses
Sew
eral days I met a man who seemed
to appreciate my condition. He in-
formed me that he would case my-
mind and cause me 'to recover my
buoyant spirits. Eagerly I grasped
his outstretched hand. He directed me
to a place on SOuth Clark street where
I was told I would meet a person
known as Professor Ongwee who was
the sole owner and pioprictor of a
worry office.’ .
“A What?” ,
“A ‘worry’ oflice, sir. I met the pro-
fessor, your Honor, and on looking
over his price list learned that he
would worry for me for $2 a day in
ordinary cases or $6 a day in serious
THE MAN WHO WORRIED.
or extraordinary cases. In desperate
ones he would sweat blood for $25. I
paid him $6. For the time being I felt
comparatively at ease. I left his of«
fice as happy and chipper as a soul-
lilting bird. Not a care on mymind,
and I really felt sorry for the poor pro~
fessor who was doing all my worrying
so cheaply. But it lasted but a short
time, and I soon fell back into the old
trough of despair, and perhaps have
acted a bit strange of late. I don’t
blame the officer, sir, but if I could
get back to my people perhaps I could
fOS get n
On his promise to leave the city the
who was afterward learned
to go to his home, which was said to
be in Warrensburg, Mo.——Chicaga
Times-Herald.
TH E FATHER’S SHOT.
flow England's Postmaster General. Hen-
ry Fawcel, Lost His Eyes.
The fill seal is a land animal ,of per-
vcitctl t.istcs,\ who, living at sea, has
had his paws changed into flippers
very like the long black kid gloves of
:1 woman. His heart, liver and kid-
neys are exactly the same as those of
:1 sheep, and just as good to eat, but
his flesh, although just like fat mut-
ton to look at, is rank and distasteful
from his habit of eating fish. The
whole package is put up in a parcel of
thick white fat to keep the body
warm. white from the skin grows a
heavy crop of beautiful grown fur,
protected with large flat oil-bearing
hairs. making a glossy surface which
slides tluough the water without fric-
tion. Perfectly fearless, overflowing
with fun, a perfect little athlete, mar-
velously st 1-0112". the fur seal is the
most delightful of all wild creatures.
But although they live at sea the
seals, being heavily clothed in fat,
skin, fur and hair, find the temperate
latitudes much too warm for comfort
du1ing the summer months. Since
they cannot shed their garments lik.
ouxsclx es, they mig. :are to a sub- arcti.
climate. gathering in‘ immense multi
tudes where there are fisheries to sup
port them. Their ration is fifty
pounds of cod every day, which for 1
neuritic the size of a sheep is con
sideiablc
When the little pups appear thell
motheis go :1— fishing to feed them, and
likewise teach them to swim. Tho
pups bowl with fright when, first
thrown into the water. Now, outsidi
the seal city, with its regular streets
and harness, assemble the young buck
clors not yet grown enough for tort
or we 1'. Here man steps in, driving
the poor bachelors away inland to Ill
clubbed for their precious fun—Chi
mgo Inter Ocean.
Ilisvipliue.
“Do you have strict discipline in you.
rs..¢~
"1’est’n0body dares to laugh unles
l.-'. s: does."—Chicago Record.
:1": Clarence—"Pals there really
. w m .1 .nung thieves?” Mr. Calllpen
, .- No, my -:son thieves are just as but
as other unanlaflsm - ~
ll 02) HEN PUBLISHERS.-
’\ REMARKABLE DIKILY NEWSPAPER
HAS APPEARED IN PARIS.
Made by
Marguerite
Ln Fronde Is Managed and
Feminine Brains—Mme.
' Dul‘énd the Head of the Project—C ele-
brated People on Her Staff.
The latest development of “femin-
ism’e”—a word having no exact equiv-
1lent in English, but which means the
issertion in arnatural, unaggressive
way of feminine independence—takes
oractical shape in the appearance of
1 Parisian daily newspaper entitled Lo
Fronde, which is edited by women for
women. Not a solitary male being is
employed on La. Fronde in any capa-
zity whatever. The office “boys” and
‘printer’s devils” are active ,young
maidens, smartly attired in simple
dresses and coquettish aprons. The.
"pressmen,” machinists, compositors,
:elegraphers, photographers, litho-
graphers, proofreaders, clerks, adver-
tising agents, delivery and circulation
agents, the “foreman” of the press-
room, the “foreman” of the composing--
Poom, reporters, artists, foreign cor-
respondents, dramatic, musical, and
literary critics, society writers, medi-
cal writers, scientific writers, fashion
writers, cookery writers, novelette
writers, leader writers, the day editor,
the city editor, the financial editor,
the night editor, the business manag-
er, and the editor-in—chief are women,
one and all of them, and as in Paris
111 the newspaper stands are kept by
women, it may fairly be said that La
Fronde is even sold by women.
To realize the importance of the
present movement it should be remem-
pered that the women of France have
hitherto refrained from joining to-
gether in any organized association to
attain by steady, systematic persever-
rluce @113 degree of freedom enjoyed
by their English—speaking sisters.
There has been plenty of individual
energy and disconnected effort—a
great deal of guerilla warfare—but
this is the first time that feminisme
has been marshaled and united under
one banner, With one common object
In view. This centralization is due to
Mme. Marguerite Durand de Valfere,
who, at the Women’s congress at
Brussels, was made a high commis-
sioner, intrusted with the task of col-
lecting and classifying the most ur-
gent needs of modern woman, and
bringing them in the most effective
manner before the proper authorities.
As can readily be imagined, the step
from these duties to the founding of
a. newspaper was a very natural one.
Mme. Marguerite Durand has been se-
lected by her ‘countrywcmen as the
editor-in-chief and manager of La.
Fronde. Belonging to no pronounced
sect or faction, and having no entan-
gling alliances of a political character,
the was able to group about her wo-
special fads or fancies might other-
vise have kept them apart.
Mme. Marguerite Durand, who has
gathered together this brilliant staff
of writers, is one of the most charm-
ing and intellectual women in Paris.
There is nothing about her, sugges-
tive of the “blue stocking” or of the
popular conception of the “new wo-
man." She is essentially feminine in
all her ideas and tastes. When quite
a. young girl Mlle. Marguerite Durand
entered the Paris conservatory, and af-
ter three years’ hard study was grad-
uated from the dramatic department
with a first prize. She received an en‘-
gagementv at the Theatre Francais,
where she made a series of debuts in
the classic and modern repertoires
with marked success, and M. Palller-
on selected her for an important role
in “Le Monde on You s’ennuie.” Mlle.
Marguerite Durand was regarded as
one of the most promising of the
younger artists of the Maison de Mol-
tere. She is remarkably pretty and
graceful, and her sylphlike figure, her
[air hair, and sparkling, light—blue
eyes were greatly admired. Owing to
a. sudden caprice she abandoned the
stage. Although still young enough
to resume her theatrical career, she
prefers to devote her life to the fem-
lniste movement, and it is with in-
tense earnestness that she is now pur—
suing her duties as founder and edi-
tor-in-chief of La Fronde to which she
has been called .by her colleagues.
In the course of an interesting con-
versation with the writer Mme. Mar-
guerite Durand said:
“I hope that the present movement
will not be misunderstood in America.
It is not at all a revolution, as some
tion, which we are resolved to carry out
with tin-tiring perseverance and Wt 111
that ceaseless vigilance which can be
most effectively insured by a daily
newspaper. It is by combined action
that we shall succeed. French women
have now attained an intellectual po-
sitlon far in advance of the degree of
Independence accorded them by law
and" cuStom."‘Publlc opinion is al-
ready alive to this; but the Legisla—
ture in France, as in most other c0111)-
tries is essentially an automatic in-
strument, and, like an eight-day clock,
has to be wound up otherwise. it come:-
so a standstill. This winding up will
be done by La Fronds when-etc.- nec-
essary and the Senators and Deputies
Will not be allowed to forget that the
women of France have their eyes 111)—
)n them and expect them to net. We
are, however, not going to be aggress-
ive in any way, but, of course if
we are attacked then La Fronds may
“be implicitly relied to ‘talk back,’
;0 use an American expression, and
will do so most vigorously. ”——Cor. \cs
York Tribune.
A few grains of salt splinklcrl on 1 «11‘-
fee before adding the water Mbrings
LXI ant and improves the» flavor
of u Bowery lodging house.
men of undoubted talent, but whose .
people seem to suppose, but an evolu- .
ELz'titi SURNEO TO Ll: ATH.
4: New-York Hotel Remus in 1
shocking Loss of Lil}.
N: .c1k, March 14. ——E.e.- cu b1: ck-
3nec'. 1.1.119 lying at tl .c lvloiguc bsai
muta- cs-stimony to the combustib.lity
Most of
are mutilated beyond re cognition.
::e men lost their l;ves .r. a the,
which staited after 2 o ’ciock yes tertiay
morning in the Bowery blissun and
Young Men’s Home, conducted by the
Christian Herald. The Mission is. a
five—story brick building at No. 105
Bowery. Its four upper floors were
filed with “rooms,” box-like compart-
ments, thirty to a. floor. These boxes,
three feet by six and running up to a.
height of six feet, contained each two
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Tnattresses ranged one above the other,
'ike the berths in a sleeping car.
More than two hundred men were'
asleep in these beds when the cry of
fire rang through the building. There
was a wild, brutal stampede. Men who
:ould not distinguish the path to safe-
ly fought aimlessly forwaid. Men
were trampled down and lay still. Oth—
ars shrieking, attained the fire escapes
it the front.
Thus the firemen found it. Within
ten minutes after their ariival the
house was cleared of everything living
and the brave rescuers were carrying
out those who had died. Many of the
rescued ones were helpless from smoke.
Others were’ blinded. Many were stu-
oefied by Bowery whisky and fought
their savers. All were without cloth—
-ng except that in which they slept.
The Bowery lodger does not indulge in
:he luxury of special night—gear.
Only five of the bodies have been
identified. They are:
Sodam, William, faimer, thirty-eight
yeais old, of Spottswood, N. J.
Ellias, Buddah, cook, twenty-nine
years old, of Ft. Brenton, Mont. Doubt-
ful.
O’Rourke, James, plumber, forty-
three years old, of Philadelphia, Pa.
Doubtful.
McDermott, William, painter, twen-
ty- six years old, New York. Doubtful.
Foran, John, machinist, twenty-eight
years old, Stapleton, Richmond Bor-
ough.
It is probable that all the dead will
never be identified, for they belong to
a class whose friends are few, and.
many of the bodies are now only char-
red and blackened masses.
LATTIMER WITNESS BEATEN.
Suffers Violence Because He Gave Tes-
timony for the Defense.
Hazleton, Pa., March 14.—The ill—feel-
ing which a. certain element in this dis-
trict harbors over the acquittal of Sher-
iff Martin and his deputies, who were
charged with murdering strikers at
Lattimer, was illustrated again at Mo-
Adoo Saturday night, when Paul Din—
dorfer was expelled from- the foreign
branch of the Miners’ Union and after-
ward beaten by unknown men.
’Dindorfer testified for the defense in
the trial at Wilkesbarre regarding his
experiences in the numerous marching
raids. At the meeting of the miners
Saturday night he was expelled from
the union and a. committee was ap—
pointed to bring him to the hall to ap-
prise him of the action. The man ac-
companied the committee ignorant of
the purpose for which he had been
summoned. When announcement had
been made of his expulsion he retired
at once from the meeting.
He no sooner was outside the door
than two men sprang upon him, felled
him to the earth, and beat him. Some
persons passing answered his cry for
help, and his assailants fled. Dindorfer
is still suffering from the effects of the
heavy blows rained upon his head.
Two Plttsb urg Murders.
Pittsburg, Pa., March 14.——Two mur-
ders were committed here yesterday.
Zenas Anderson, colored, recently re-
leased from the penitentiary, where he
served eighteen months for shooting his
wife, called at the house where his wife
was staying, threw her to the floor, and
held her down while he shot her five
times. He was arrested. three hours
later.
William Bricks entertained a. party of
male friends at his house Saturday
night and gave them beer to drink.
When the party broke up , Albert
Thompson wanted more beer, 0 and
Bricks refused to give it to him. Bricks
walked to the gate with Thompson and
staggered back to the house. As the
men walked out Thompson stabbed
Bricks in the stomach.
Girl Held for Murder.
Fayetteville, Ark., March 14.—Myrtle
Storrer, 16 years old. is in jail here
charged with the murder of her father,
M. V. Storrer. Oscar Messer, her affi~
anced lover, and her mother have also
been arrested. Her father was much
opposed to the match. While returning
from town in a. wagon Saturday the
father was shot and. instantly killed.
The shooting occurredat an isolated
point in the mountainm and while the
girl says it was done by some one in
ambush,the evidence is strongly against
her. .
, To Search for Andree.
Washington, March 14.——The State
Department has received from the Gov-
ernment of Sweden and Norway King
Oscar‘s conditional acceptance of the
offer made through the United States
Government by Walter Wellman to
carry free of charge upon his North
Polar expedition steamer Laura, to sail
from Tromso, Norway, June 20 a party
of Swedes to search for their country-
man, Prof. Andree, in Franz Josef
Land.
Germany Will Not Aid Spain.
Berlin, March. 14,—The Berlin For«
sign Office has instructed the inspired
press to deny emphatically that Ger-
many will aid Spain in case of war with
the United States, and has instructed
these newspapers to point out that the
United States are an excellent customer
.of GermanyLand that Spain, since the
Carolinas. squabble, has repeatedly
shown unfriendliness to Germany.
A_ Divorce in Five ’Mlvnutes.
Chicago... March 14.——Mrs. Lizzie K.
Spanning; wife. of .former Bank Presi-
lent Charles W. Spaulding, now under
sentence for. embezzlement, was grant-
ed a divorce Saturday in less than five‘
r-ninutes aftei she. had filed a cross! bill'
Iisb .. (1's, application for din
one was 31 eluted on the;
who“, had been con-_
:0 berth
VOICE: The}
zliarge that
:icted Of a felony." ‘
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Work which canbe Inspect-
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By Report.
Its the daily work of the Little, Con-
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The workings right hei e in N orwalk
. Lifting burdens from helpless backs.
B1inging sunshine to many a home.
It’s deeds that count.
That bring the never ceasing sounds
of praise.
The public are learning fast.
Learning to appreciate merit.
Learning to distinguish between
claims: and proof.
Home proof IS the best proof.
Doau’ s Kidney Pills are endorsed by
N orwalk people.
Read what a citizen says:
Mr. C. A. Owens, No. 190 Main
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by trade. Like the majority of men
who follow this occupation he was
troubled with disordered kidneys. The
requisites to his calling, benzine, tur-
pentine and other diyeis excite and
inflame those organs, and late in the
fall of 1895, he found himself ~sufiering
with a retui n of his old complaint.
Mrs. Owens, ever mindful of her hus-
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of Doan’ s Kidney Pills at Hale’s drug
store (now Glendening & Co.’s) and
he used them. Mrs. Owens, says: “M
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“o L WIZARD” WAS RIGHT.
Imnzhml at for His Discoveries Twenty
Years Ago, He Triumphs Now.
Jacob Long, the famous “Oil Wiz-
11-11" of Indiana, has come into prom-
uencc again through locating, by his
)eculiur method, some extensive oil
:ountry recently, and his predictions
have been in almost every instance
311c1101nennlly successful. Twenty
years ago, when Long was in his
11-11129. he was called the “water witch."
\V'hsnrvcr :1 sawmill or residence was
‘0 1:0 built 110 was called on to ascer-
ruin if the place was provided with
water. Long was enabled to detect
:hc presence of water by means of a.
Jorkcd stick which he carried close to
:hc ground. He held 3. prong in each
hand so that the third prong pointed
upward. He claimed that as he
passed over the water the prong
would invariably point downward.
Scientific people laughed at his moth-
)d, but his judgment proved to be so
good that no one‘ thought of putting
down a well unless Long was con-
sulted. .
Some years ago while Long was
tearcliing for water, his stick began
:0 perform very curious antics by turn-
ing inward and outward. The phe-
nomena puzzled Long at first, but
in the natural course of events, the
time has come for him to step down
1fter investigation he announced that
large reservoirs of oil and gas lay
under this land. The theory seemed
so absurd that he was laughed at,
1nd his sanity was questioned. Fail-
.ng to convince his neighbors, he left
mine and tried to accumulate enough
money to purchase a part of the land.
in this he has been unsuccessful.
A short time ago he heard that oil
oad been discovered by accident where
he had located it twenty years ago.
He has 1eturned to his old home and
his piediptions since then hays been
so accuiatc that he is again beginning
:0 enjoy local fame. ——New York \V’oxld.
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Their Fixed Tastes,
The circulation and distribution of
books during the last century may be
illustrated by the following anecdote
of the Scilly Islands-there are.365, out
of which four or five ._ only are inhab-
ited. The library consisted of two
books, a copy of the Bible and the
“History of Dr. Faustus. ” The latter
book was handed about from house
to house and was dropping to pieces
by continual thumbing, until at last lit—
tle was left either of his wonderful en- ~
chantment or at his terrible end. ‘
This being made generally known, a
meeting of the inhabitants was called,
and it was resolved that as soon as
the season permitted any intercourse
with Cornwall a fresh suppply of
books'should be sentfor. ,What books, '
however, were to be ordered? ; The
meeting considered this-question [very
earnestly. At last it was unanimously
agreed that the Penzance bookseller
should be ordered to send. them, at
once, one new book, a new copy of
“Dr Faustus.” -
An abandoned railroad tunnel, about
a mile long, under Edinburgh streets,
used as a mushroom farm and flll~
ntshcs an ample supply f01 the city
market. , .
‘Hands .and hatpinsnp!” 'ster‘n‘ly
commanded the up-to-date robber; as
he entered the, door of the street car
, with a revolver 'lli each hand. —Chica_«
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