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Our prices are all right—same as the goods. , H. 11. WILLIAMS 17 Main St. \ a. D. Jennings. j UNDER’I‘AKER 4 Knight street. opposite retreat Railway Depot 1 a BILL ATOFFIG‘E. ’ . A "CENTURY HENCE. W EE Samples of Items That May 'I'hen Appear In the Papers. . A horse, an animal said‘to have once ’ been quite common in our city streets, was seen in this city yesterday. .. He at- tracted much curiosity and he was fol- - lowed wherever he went by immense - crowds. It is almost impossible to be- ' lieve that our ancestors could have trust- ‘ed their lives to so formidable a. crea- ture. It is understood that the animal "escaped from the Equine Focd abattoir In Brighton. , i An almost unprecedented event hap- ‘ pened in this city last evening, when Mr. and Mrs. John Brownsmith cele- brated the anniversary of their mar- riage. The Brownsmiths were married a year ago. It is quite remarkable for a ' couple to live so long together in the . state of wedlock, and their celebration ‘ naturally drew to their residence a dense throng of admiring friends. Con- - gratulations were poured upon the hap- l py pair, with wishes that they might continue together long enough to ob- serve the second anniversary of their wedding. The directors of the Euripides Manu- facturing company have been convicted of the charge of failure to examine into the accounts of their treasurer, and have severally been sentenced to imprison ment in the state prison for a term of five years. Their counsel argued that, inasmuch as the treasurer’s accounts, as shown by expert examination, were faultless during his ten years of service and that no suspicion had ever fallen upon him, the sentence should be light- er, but the court very justly remarked that the offense was the same as if the result had been severe loss to the stock- holders. It was curious to see a pedestrian in Washington street today, the first one that has been seen in the city for many years. He occasioned no small amount of vexation to the unicyclists. in whose way he was getting continually. There can be no objection to people walking in their own houses or in the country, where there is plenty of room. but it is clearly out of the question that theprac- tice should be permitted in our crowded city streets. The death of Solomon Strongmind, which occurred this morning, calls to mind the remarkable fact that during his long residence of five years or more in this city he has never mysteriously disappeared for even once. Undoubted- ly Mr. Strongmind was somewhat ec- centric in his habits generally, but in this especial matter the controlling cause must have been something far more po- tent than mere oddity. A man appeared on the street dressed in trousers and cutaway coat yesterday. He was promptly arrested and carried to the station house. When he next made his appearance he had donned the petti- coats and other garments appropriate to his sex—Boston Transcript. WHAT NORDAU HAS DONE. Professor Lombroso nos High Praise For the Author of “Degeneration.” In “Degeneration” he has the great merit of combating certain dominant iflfluences, particularly that of mysti- cism, which, recrudescent in these lat- ter days, thanks to certain errant ge- niuses, has led astray a vast throng of talents. In this book, too, he is ever the man of our century who has most felt the pulse of his times, and he has not only put his finger on our most open izing our moral sense and rendering us cruel to one another—but he also has succeeded in finding its explanation in the special tendencies of the degenerate; whether it be the higher class degener- ates who invents the strangest freaks to catch the public eye-as weddings in a balloon or Cardinal Lavigerie’s cru- sades—or the imitative'degenerates who deem themselves original in simply copying. Finally he has had the supreme merit of applying psychiatric research to liter- ary criticism. He has carried this reform to its utmost applicability, seeking, with that audacity, intrepid even to in- solence, which be exhibited inhis “Con- ventional Lies,” to demolish the repu- tations most firmly established. And thus he has been able to overthrow the work of the French and German Sym- bolists and Decadents, who proclaim science untrue because in 100 years of toil she has not given them the key to all the mysteries. These pages of his are among the most splendid written in this century, such 'as could be wrested from an artist thinker by the sight of fouo idlers, who insult the legion. of tireless workers busy in searching and researching nature. even into her inmost recesses. And very just is his diagnosis of them—that they have for their char- acteristics a nebulosity of mental repre- sentation, a confused and motley idea- tion, too much eroticism, an abnOrmal demotional fabric and an exaggerated egotilm which causes them to observe things only in relation to their own selves.—“Nordau’s ‘Degeneration,’ Its Value and Its Errors, ” by Cesare Lom- broso, in Century. , ' He Approved the Recipe. “DO you know, dear, ” said Mr. Hun- nimune, “that I like the way you make a Welsh rabbit?” , “Why, Charley,” she exclaimed, “you know you couldn’t eat the last one. ” “Yes. And I want you to make ’em all just like it. Whenever I eat Welsh rabbit, I have indigestion. ”—Washing- ton Star. Villain once meant the serf who be- longed to the farm and was bought, sold or exchanged with it. . Abgut Girls. “Girls,” remarked the small boy in his composition upon the subject, “is of several thousand kinds, and sometimes one girl can behave like several thou- than some other kinds, but they ain’t any of them up to boys. know about girls, and father says the less I know about ’em the better.”— New‘ York Advertiser. fl: . wound—on that egotism which is steril- ' sand girls. Some kinds of girls is better, This is all I. ‘I-HIOW‘TCEIS” LOADfifi.‘ METHOD IOFI CONVEYlNG IT. FROM HOUSE TO SHIPBOARD.‘ Ingenious Elevators and Burns Employed bythc Large Penobscot River Concerns. A Great Deal of Labor'Accomplished by a. Few Hands. An interesting operation is the load- ing of ice from the mammoth houses on the banks of the Penobscot into the large freight carriers that ‘are almost constantly going up and down the river bearing heavy cargoes of frozen Penob- seat to faroff ports. From the top of the house the ice comes down in a most ingenious man- ner. An elevator is rigged outside the building, and on it the ice comes down by gravity. There is a counteracting force in a big weight that goes up when the load comes down, and vice versa. To the casual observer it looks as though the thing worked automatically. Two large blocks of ice are pushed out upon the elevator and they descend. As soon as they slide off, back goes the elevator for another load, and this thing is kept up hour after hour. Careful observation, however, shows a strong wire that leads ofl" some distance, and at the end of it sits a man, and the secret is out. True enough, the thing works itself, but it needs a guiding hand so that it won’t work too fast. The movements of the elevator are controlled by a friction pulley. When the ice reaches the bot- tom and one cake slides 011’, the eleva- tor would take a run up before the other came off were it not that the man on the end of the wire pulls alever and the friction pulley acts at the top, and the elevator waits until the cargo is all off. Then the man releases the pulley and back goes the carriage, the heavy weight at the other end carrying it rapidly to the top. From the elevator the ice slides into a run. In the center of that is an end: less chain that it fitted with prongliko attachments at certain intervals, and as they come along they come up behind the cake of ice and carry it to its des- tination. A short distance up the run is a plan- .er, a simple contrivance that removes the snow ice and evens the blocks so that they will pack nicely in the hold of the vessel. The cakes of ice pass serenely along, and when they come to the planer pass easily 1:. ler it, but at the same time they lose two or three inches of their height. There is a provi- sion in the contracts that provides for this, and they read that only an inch or inch and a half, or whatever the amount is, of snow ice shall be left on the cake, and therefore the planing. Just beyond the planer is a man who gives the cake a quick pull that brings it ahead of :he prong for a moment. A second look shows why this is done. By this quick movement the cake of ice is brought, upon a pair of scales, and in the second’s rest that it has before the prong on the chain gets along it is weighed and the figures placed upon the record that is being kept of the cargo. It is no small job to weigh the ice, for the cakes come along in rapid succes- sion, and the weight has to be ascertain- ed in the ordinary manner and the re- sult put down before the next cake gets along. ‘ From the scale the journey to'the ves- sel is uninterrupted. The run is arrang- ed so that it extends over the vessel to the hatchway, and the rise and fall of the tide are provided for by an arrange- ‘ ment that permits of the rising and fall- ing of the run to correspond. Perhaps the most ingenious thing of the whole system is that by which the ice is put in the hold. At the end of the run and directly over the hatchway is a strong frame, and in that there works a platform that goes up and down some- thing like an elevator at the house. Two blocks of ice are slid upon it directly from the run, and the man who controls it releases a friction lever, and down it goes into the hold 'by its own weight, the speed being controlled ' by the man with the friction lever. The platform is suspended by four ropes that unwind from a cylinder as it descends, and at the same time another and larger rope that appears from a distance winds upon the cylinder. When the load is off the platform in the hold, the friction lever is again loosened, and the rope that comes over the side of the vessel gets 'in its work by turning the drum the other way and quickly bringing the- platform into its place. Out on the wharf at the other end of the big rope is another large weight, that does the work of pullin‘g back the platform. . Away down in the hold the work of stowing the ice was progressing rapidly. The ice is simply packed together in as small a space as possible, and nothing is put around it,’as many doubtless sup- pose. At the hatches, after the cargo is all in, a little hay is thrown,but with the exception of that there‘is nothing put about the ice to keep it from melt- ing. Under the improved order of pack- ing only from 10 to' 15 per cent of the ice is melted, and at times not so much as that.—Bangor Commercial. The Salts In the Ocean. The salts of the sea have fed, through- out all time, countless living things which have thronged its .water and whose remains now form the rocks of continents or lie spread in beds 'of unknown thickness over 66,000,000 square miles of the 143,000,000 square miles of the ocean’s floor. They have lent the substance to build the fringing reefs of the land and all the coral is- -— lands of the sea, and there are at pres- ent, on'the basis of an average salinity of 3 }5 per centin the 290,700,000 cubic miles of water which make up the oceans, _ or 10,173,000 cubic miles, of salt. This is sufficient to cover the areas of all the lands of the earth with a uniform layer of salt to a depth of. 1,000 feet. —Popu- lar Scie\nce Monthly. FAdvertise in the Gszn'r'rs. ‘ 90,000,000,0_00,000,000 tons,- QUEER JAMAICA WAYS. ‘ How One Woman Failed In Rome to no no the Romans Do. “When in Rome, do as the Romans do,” says the old distich, but in these days of universal travel it issomewhat necessary to know beforehand the man- ners and customs of the native inhabit- ants of the countries that are visited. “I, have eaten with chopsticks with a mandarin’s wife and daugll'ter in Chiia and sat cross legged with the Persian ladies in Tehera‘n and smoked nar- giles,” said an American woman who was nothing if not cosmopolitan, “but I never failed to adapt myself success- fully to the customs of the country un- til I reached Jamaica, in the West In- dies. I had letters to one of the mag- nates there, and upon delivering them . I received a prompt invitation to break- fast and to spend the day. The hour was not mentioned, but as the people were French I supposed of course it was 12 o’clock, a la fourchette, ,at which time I presented myself. only to find that I had been expected at 8. However, my entertainers were most hospitable, and their usual frugal luncheon of cake, wine and fruit was evidently supple- mented by more substantial viands for my benefit. Afterluncheon I was asked if I would like to take a nap. As I had just arrived I assured my hosts that I never slept in the daytime and proceed- ed to make myself as agreeable as possi- ble. My entertainers endeavored to be cheerful, but there was something in the atmosphere that *made me aware that I had committed a solecism, and that I had guessed rightly was very ap- parent in the relieved looks of the fam‘ ily when I said that I thought I did feel tired and would be glad to repose my- self a little. I was immediately con- ducted to an apartment which had evi- dently been arranged with the expecta- tion that I would go regularly to bed, and wishing me a good rest the lady and gentleman of the house left me for the whole afternoon. . “About 5 one of the daughters came to fetch me in a fresh toilet, looking very nice and making me feel very tumbled and untidy in consequence. So after I had been shown the gardens, which were really lovely, I began to make mes adieux. ‘But you must stop to dinner,’ they urged; ‘we quite expect- ed you.’ But I thought they had had enough of me and persisted in my refus- al. I thought they parted from me rath- er stifliy, and in“ driving over the long avenue which led up to the house I met a number of smartly dressed people, who, I afterward learned, had been in- vited especially to meet me. So I miss- ed it all around and gave no end of trouble and olfense, all because I did not just know Jamaica habits. ’ ’—New York Tribune. THE CODE OF HONOR. Dueling no It Was In France In the Time of Richelieu. The passion for dueling, which had cost France, it was said, between 7,000 and 8,000 lives during the 20 years of 'Henry IV’s reign, was at its height when his son came to the thread. The council of Trent in 1545 had solemnly condemned the practice of single com- bat, impartially including principals, seconds and spectators in its penalty of excommunication. In 1602 an edict of Henry pronounced the “damnable cus- tom of dueling introduced by the cor- ruption of the century” to be the cause of so many piteous accidents, to the ex- treme regret and displeasure of the king and to the irreparable damage of the state, “that we should count ourselves unworthy 11) hold the scepter if we de- layed to repress the enormity of this crime. ” A whole series of edicts followed to the same effect, but it was easier to make edicts than to enforce them. Deg- radation, imprisonment, colifiscation of property, loss of civil rights and death were the penalties attached to the in- fringement of the laws against dueling, and still the practice prevailed. In 1626 Richelieu published a milder form of prohibition. The first offense was no longer capital, at third only of the Of- fender’s property was to be confiscated, and the judges were permitted to recog- nize extenuating circumstances. A few months later the Comte dc Bouteville thought fit to, test the minis- ter’s patience in this direction. The Place Royals had long been a favorite dueling ground, and De Bouteville traveled from Brussels to fight his twen- ty-second duel here, in the heart of Paris, in deliberate defiance of the king’s authority. The result was not encourag- ing. Montmorency though he was, the count went with his second to the scaf- fold, and the marked decrease from that time in the number of duels may be at- tributed either to the moderation used in framing the law or to the inexorable resolution with which it was enforced. -—‘Macmillan’s Magazine. ' A Dog Purse Snatcher. Pointer dogs can always be trained to steal. Many of them are natural thieves without training, and any of the pecies can be taught. There is a dog f this kind in northwest Washington. He will pick up anything he can find around a yard or outside of a store, but his spe- cialty is ladies’ pocketbooks and hand- bags.» When he sees one of these, he grabs it and runs, always succeeding in getting out of sight before. he can- be captured or followed. No ownei“ has ever been seen, hence no complaints have been made at police headquarters, but there is but little doubt, if it were possible to follow the animal, that' it would be found that he has been care- fully trained as a purse ‘snatcher and that he takes his booty home to his master. He seems to be aware that he is doing wrong, jumping fences: and dodg- ing around houses when running away. —W.ashin2ton Star. ' A Jealous Husband’s Act. SPOKANE, Wash, Jan. 8.——Fra.nk Deni- son of Rockford unexpectedly returned home and found his Wife with Patrick Hickey. Hickey escaped. Mrs. Denison was about to follow when she received- the contents of both barrels of a shotgun ] t ——Advertise, in the Gamma.- In the back, killing her instantly. m ,question to ask, dear !. sexism THETENOR I And Enrich A BIT OF GIRLISH ROMANCHWITH AN UNROMANTIC ENDING.- 'An Impressionnblc Maiden and the Singer Who'nad Seen Much of the World—She Got the Autograph, but After It Wu All Over- Felt Very Foolish. I have heard this about a romantic young girl who became infatuated with a certain famous tenor last winter: She saw him in a favorite role, and hisdashing appearance and superb sing- ing made such an impressiozé upon her that she became “opera .ma ,” as she ’ told her friends, but “tenor mad” would be nearer the mark. . All her pin money she saved and turned into seats for the difi'erent per- formances. ‘ She bought every photograph of her favorite that she could find and grew wildly jealous of the sopranos and con- ;raltos who sang the opposite roles to 1m. ' Of course she couldn’t go on like this without having a confidant so she se- lected a school friend and told her all. There. wasn’t much “all” to it, but the friend thought it was delightfully romantic. “Has he ever noticed you, Katie?” “No,” replied Katie, “I don’t think that he has. There was one time that I thought he was looking at me over the footlights, and, oh, Laura,_I became so faint that I was afraid I’d fall oif my seat. But I think he was looking at the conductor. ’ ’ ' , “Yes, they look at the conductor a good deal, dear. I wonder why?” “Oh, I suppose they’re fond of him. " Well, they went to three more per- formances, and by this time Katie was a case of “clean gone. ” “Laura, dear, if I could just take his hand and look into his eyes and ask him for his autograph, I think I’d be willing to die right there l” “I don’t see any harm in that. ” “In my dying?” “No, goosie! In your just shaking hands with him and asking him for his autograph. You take his best photo- graph, and I’ll get a fountain pen, and we’ll 0, after the matinee tomorrow.” “T the theater?” _ “Why, yes. You couldn’t go to his hotel.” ' So this plan was agreed on, and a nice flurry poor 1. tie was in. She went and heard the opera the next day in a kind of dream, and when it was over rose in a white heat of ex~ citement. - “We must give him time to dress,” said the practical Laura. “SO we’ll go and have a cup of chocolate.” They dawdled over his refreshment for 20 minutes, and th started for the stage door. A stout, coarse man barred their passage here, and asked: “Well; young ladies, what can I do for you?” Katie was simply speechless, so Laura spoke up. “We wish to see Mr. —. ” “He won’t see you. He’s gone to his dinner, anyway. But he’s got no time to see anybody unless you have an ap- pointment with him.” Then Laura tho brazen told a whop- r. . “We have, ” she said, pining. “I don’t know how we missed him. " . “Well, he’s dining at the H— House,” said the doorkeeper. “He said some people might call for him. You can go there and send in your card.” So this they decided to do, and to the hotel they went. They sat all a-tremble in the gayly decorated reception room after they had launched their cards, and presently they heard a manly tread. Nearer, nearer, nearer. Katie seized Laura by the hand and shock with emotion. ~. Then a tall form appeared in the door- way, ‘and the tenor stood before them. A little older looking. not so romantic in appearance, and holding a napkin in his hand instead of a truncheon or a sword—but still the tenor. He advanced cOurteously and bOwed as he looked at them and at their cards. “I do not think I have the pleas- ure”-— he began. ‘ Then Laura burst in with what they wanted. He frowned a little and then smiled wearily. _ “I 'am at dinner,” he said, “and I have friends dining with me, but I will do what you desire. ” So they produced the pictures. There were four instead of one, and he signed them in a bold hand. “Will you pardon me?”>he queried. “But I am pressed for time. I am glad to have met you. ” Then he turned to go, and Katie found her voice. “Will you—will you—l-let me shake hands withyou?” she stammered. He smiled. ‘ “Certainly,” he said, and he gave her a strong band clasp. The poor, silly child bent forward, kissed his hand and half fell upon her knees. He raised her instantly and said: “I thank you for this tribute to the artist. It is not for the man. My dear young lady, I am 56 years old, and I have seen too much of the World to en- courage the impulses of young girls like you, who are often not in their right minds regarding stage people. Goodby and good luck to you. ” So away he went, and the two dep- tees trailed out into the gleaming, feel- ing a little ashamed of themselves and wondering whether operatic and thea- trical people hadn’t found brave Ponce de Leon’s fountain of perpetual youth. —Polly Pry, in New York Recorder. Might Have Known. Young Wife—Hubby, dear, do you love me better than your pipe? 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