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l vumi. U) V , roller Eckels' Authority ComPtrolier . , i- Over National uuu. BISPOSITIOX1SMKI":W'AHVISOUT , .VilurfH-llowTbryAreOf- F" . .-ll.eron.i.trollerCauOuly I!" -llet au-t i:uforc HU Wl.Lc. ..abilities ml .Lin. 5.-.upeelal. The tuim-n-uabank failure in tho west rm,lit iu. u r n to th0 ,,nl)0r. tmco r tnu Mil comptroller .. ..i t int i-iu inn j - irh vfi Vcn Burcrvlslon of all the i.a ,iby L m tho country. His power tl0" " h n 7r.ot great enough to enable our UlC"i .rt.t n, to obey tho law, but Tea ami does exercise strong lull uence r thini As was shown In the case of BPD ;,i nf tho National Hank of at Chicago, tho comptroller bad 1 n warned the offlcors and directors U?.muon that they violating of that inM in officers prom- ft J wfori but did not do bo. They SSnSdt "diminish the .meant of loan, LCembers of their own directory, but in tern! increased them. ur course sucu banking method., such disregard of tho cank UK . niniitroller. could have 'ending, and that was failure, dls- honor and nun. want the Law Amended If the comptroller had boen 8,ven byAW . ..- mfnrca his demands, If he m p ,.Mn nmro than a mentor of the tanking officers of the country, perhaps thli 111 DOW ianure vumv . - "i" ;mnr,,iinr Eckels has time and Lin asked congress for greater power in dfJlnawltb national banks, for authority r . ." n ha demand, but congress has not ns yet seen lit to amend the law in the direction asked for. There can be no doubt that after some of the receni experi linnklmr methods, which have shown tho value of the comptroller's checks upon the operations oi uhhk unite, -nc. u moro Inclined than it ever was before to place power in tho bands of tho federal supervising ouieer. na. imrairtHiira of the office of comptrol lerof tho currency may bo Judged by tho fact that ha has supervision of 8,073 na tional bunks. Their shareholders number narw son o(io. Thev have notes In circu- laton to tho amount of $210,000, 000. Their total resources are 3,2GO,00O,OUU, unci their deposits amount to tho enormous sum ci 11,000,000,000, or twlco the national debt, less cash, In the treasury. This last item close are tho relations between the comptroller's office and tho business of the country. If a bank failure occurs, busi es inpii nro the chief losers. One falling bank pulls down another, and there la trouble throughout nn eiitlro community. It la the duty of the comptroller to 60 guard and supervise tho operations of tho hanks that failures shall not occur, if possible. He must givo warning when bud business methods lead to danger. - .. I.omcs In the 1'astt. But tho comptroller can only warn. Ho has no power to enforce hi wishes. Ho niny, it is true, blast thocreditof any bank bvn t iiblie unnouncementof Its weakness, but this would only serve to precipitate tho disistcr. wliith It is his duty to aert. There is no longer any anxiety concerning loss to tho holders of national bank notes. In thu old d;ivs of wildcat banking note holders never know whether they were wife ur not Often Lank failures subjected mem to meat losses. Hut under tho new na tional lank law, In forto since" 1803, no holder cf a national l ank noto has lost a penny. All such notes aro protected by deposits of United States bonds, which trecludo tl.c i ossibilitv of loss. The ti mi roller's chief duty now is to guard tho lights of tho depositors and of tho huinc-s cummunlty In general. This is a croat and ;t dulk-nto resionsibility. If he is lax in t nfnreinsr tho law. danger will creen in. If lm is too tyrannical, banks will bo forced Into failure when a llttlo more patience and tolerance might save them and all tho interests involved. It is apparent that much more depends upon tllH fiili'litv with wlilMi Ivinl nfl'miTa dis charge their duties than upon the zeal of tho comptroller. If they are prudent and honest, there will bo no trouble. If there Is trouble, it has been broueht about bo foro the comptroller can know anything of it, and despite all bo can do there may be no way of correcting the evil. that their officers persist in making loans to relatives and to porsonal friends who Aro encatrne! In ontnrnrlana rt doubtful valuo. In this way bank after bank has oeen wrecked. The temptation to help out orio's relatives or porsonal friends has been the undoing of many a flno reputation. TllPTM la nnunni!l .I.Ul, n.nr,al i.tb Ulcer must have if ho is to be a success, if tin 111 tn nr.. .1.1 I I II .. J .t .ll....n ,a mum iiuiuiuukiuu auu uiBgrntu. He must be able to say "No." The weak man. thn orrviil nut,iw1 iun thn llnilW bian. lino tin Kcinnod I. .. l,nnV other people's money and the prosperity of a cltv are lntrnctixl t.n him mm SlnPO thn nrnannt rnitnal hnntlno IaW was pnsped, in 1803, there have been report ed to the comptroller of the currency 1,153 national bank failures. That was up to Oct. 1 Lot fl'l A., t 11.1 Ml.!.... ..f jcar, Alio luim iiuuiiiiins ui thesofailod banks wqs tHJ(J,000, 000. When their aflulrs were finally fettled up, it was Idliml tlw.n ... I I . . r.,. wl I.. dividends, or uhout 47 per cent This is not a bad showing, considering that most f the bnnk failures have been in time of j'nmo, wiicn values of securities were full log fust. flunk fslliio. Wuw.a. Tho failures of national banks have lumeni waves. Uotweon 18G3 and 18 "r werooniy a failures, and their lla- Ollltlp Wm 11 11. , I.. . I... oltr ...m nuiuili JlUt ill 11IU tit.xw D J a years 1873 to 1878, inclusive there were -v luiiurcs, witn nubilities aggregating Rbout $70,000,000. That was tho punlc v-riu(i or 1873. Uctween 1878 and 1 893 thero were a g6od tviana . . lauures, aggregating 823 In number. iiUt. nan i.1 ii .Liii.i .. - ii --, tuio, tueir iiuuuuies wera bihuji. The second areat era of national bank lauures began in 1803. In that year 270 "ou8 "Hod. In 1S04 tho number was 7fc jn imt was 117, and in 1600, up to Oct. 1. It tvna 01 It will thus bo socn that tho panic of 1873 .mi uowniaii oi oo naiiKK, while tho Tianlri r,r ison f t.h fullnrn ' 628. The two panics, therefore, led to I?iv ,lurB cf rouch norethan one-half of ili w fa,larei ln the third of a century wMcn has elapsed since the law went into li mi. I Phaps two-thirds of all thu THE NZWS IN BRIEF. IV)VFtily thO M'Kt Wr.tnnn In l,'r..1 is Sarah Thonms, who. on Feb. 5 bo 101) yeuiH of iii-, M rn. Thomas baa Binokcd a clay i jo.- fur hixtv vtais. Mrs. Knima l'ulmer, a l'rankf.a t, Ky., divorcee, Khot ber.-i.lf l,((au!-e ISash I'lii n, a one. inn bunker, did not cnciihii love lm- l'.( i 1 11U HOW liuillsll :nn mvi.lnj at rails Is nn Ainerlcnn woman, formerly Mrs. Charles Moulton, iu-t; (ireenouyh, of Cambridge, Mhks. Jlrs. Ien1ani!n Lnrson of Afarthfiii.i wis., was assisting ber Husband to paw down a tree, when it fell, crushing her to death. Sho leaves four children, the oldest only 6 years. "Jack the Kipper" trasrediefl are In courso of perpetuation in Amsterdam, iionanu. j in' i.isi munierel woman, terribly mutllnted. was found the morn ing before Christmas. There are over TOO lannrlrlra In Vow York, the labor of which is carried on entirely by Chinese men and women Governor Sheldon of South Dakota denies that he either has or Intends to pardon "VV. W. Taylor, the defaulting state treasurer. It Is rronsed In Mlsourl to emnlov the state convicts in dralnine the Hwamns in the southeastern part of the state. A L.os Angeles (Cal.) Jury refused to deliver a verdict until the fees were paid One of the valuble relics intrusted to the care of the trrand master of Masa- chusetts Masons Is "the Washington urn," a pmall golden urn containing a lock of General Washington's hair. Two locomotives and three freight cars were demolished In a wreck on the Weyerhauser and Dobble logging road at Mlnnesung, Wis. One of the firemen received slight Injuries, while both en glneers escaped. Drunkenness decreases nearly 3 per cent, per annum In London Thirty-six employes of Milwaukee were dropped from the service as the result of the civil service rule that all employes of the city shall be citizens of this country. A Denver man says that Francis Schlatter, the "divine healer," will soon show himself again. He w ill appear in a wheatfleld. surrounded by cherubs; be will be eight feet in height, and his hair will be white. Iluch Hentchel's wife deserted him at Joltet. Ills., leavlne four children, llent- chel hanged himself to a door, having previously slashed his throat and sev ered the arteries In his legs MILLIONS. HITS AWAY Startling Report of Auditor Dunn of Minnesota. i:r.( osuilmiS ix.iai, r::o i:i:mn(;s I,pgilAtor Snowbound. Minneapolis. Jan. 5. Specials to The Journal from Red river valley points indicate that the storm that has been in progress there since Sunday morning Is more severe than that of Thanksgiv lng, though little snow has fallen. It is very cold, and the loose snow has nllfd In tremendous drifts. The onlv train that left Grand Forks Mon dav mornlnK was bound for Bismarck, and was loaded with members of the legislature. It Is stalled Just outside the city. There are no trains running in the Red river valley. Killed by the Cars Snrincfield. Mass.Jan. C A man sup posed to be Richard Uroulyette of Hay City, Mich., was run over and Kiueu uy the cars in West Sprlngneld Monuay THE MARKETS. New York Finnnclnl. New Yohk, Jan. 4 Mn nn cnll r.v at 2 per ceiii.. ,na. ,.nt il,. tminr '.'. 'it tl: per cent.: Kter !,.,. ..xI.mum w:ih steidv. with actual bul neas b banker' mm hi in'T'ij ii demnndand WWMWi for sixty days: ported rati s. 4SJij aw l 47; c.i.aiuorcuii on.s. -.' j. K lvrirt fkMtOH. (m1; no bitie-,, ihummui, J1?.'. Af ..vi,.!Hl I iilliil'S. rol.i. fi.itod States iroveriim-nr ixums i, i :....,l I'Ml,'.. .!. rir.i!i.i!H. ll'ii: IW i ..i iii. .i.,' ..,uii,,iiH. Ill: 4' ii i:itered imi- .h,. coHDiiis. Mi; -a re0'wiiT.M, w;m facile B'S of , l".''. ChU Aii fimln mid rro.liic C'iurA(io, Jan. 4 t-. 11 .. Oni imoMtiom oi too t. .. -i t,..,i, toii.'Lv: v ..('nr. jauu.u v, opened V.ir, cose I no.ulnal; M.iy. n) 4e, di .i.,ulMi i4o. ('urn-.ianuary. e-j. u u ";' , T , , . oi ... T ... i.tl.xl "'li I'UKWIl -J ii i 'JI i);ji;, jin .,.v..- . - ' , ...1 cli Mid H'-iO. (J.ll oauu.ii j, l'l11"" "'V I , 'i ..i. 'M...- .1VIT . oneu'd and closea ikmih. m, -... clos nal lei and losses. lVic; July, op.'iiod and cWl oini- TJ..-1, .lunillirv. lllKllOU !O.M, l n f... ,-.,,.h1 S 1.5. cWd 87.MU. llOlllilln'. , ' o-.. ..1....! ll. Lard-Januury, opor eu 5.p.k May.on.dSU.S). Produce: liuuer mw i - , - - extra dairy, 17o per in; irtmu vy etoock, 8c. Eg3-rro9u stocK. io doz. Poultry-Turkeys, Ulillo per ";chitk; (hens). 5U0c; sunn cnicL-m, v roosters. Mc; duefcs, u'lSioc, tsx PoUtcS-BarVanks. W&Sic per ha; Hebron l&aOOo. Sweet potatoos-llhnois. $1.110 SbbL Iloney-We clover, lO&UJo per lb; extracieii, ..-. 40c$ L60 per bbL ChJoago L1t Stock. PHifAoo. Jan. 4. - . . oii. n... f fhA TTniou Stock yar Js toSly ranged a. follows: HE-tlyaUj oAlntafortheday, si,""1; saies rum.. 3 60 pigs, J w o' "Kw Vi 'in 7 RS packing, $3.Xa. nI heavy packing and jhlpphu jot. . quotatl. ranged at 14 75.V10 choice to ,ex tra shipping steer. $tW- good ta choice d. 23 Mr to good, $ J.O. 175 common tomediumdo., $.).l:i75butchrrs' "tears, $-.60 SilIl heifers, f 1.7575 bu Is oxen and .VaKS. Kai-W Txas teers, and 6.4 veal calves. ..t . tnr Bhnn,, anil IjamDS C .liuaiiw - ern. I?.iU3.mTexns, f2.(XX34.uO natives and $3.U(Xa5.3U lambs. v . c. ni-rr i ut. V. Y.. Jan. A. . oon. T.li- iSt .ck Commission Mcr.ZE.BiKN.Y.,,aot.rul.-.: butchers'! kinds; common steady .t Btrs, r TTiur 5.7s Z rfd t Vrlm. Ut cowVf.:ve.sa.:t others, fl.ou&o.o'. uj-"-r-- - , ; ovmrn, C-" . ,;..i,r. Yorkers. lOOd tC TViStv ijht, $3 i()(.l; Pig". 13.78 foughs. pml "tags , ;;r pood to choice, 15H3.8; common tofalr. 1&.WI o and -commoa, I3.00OI.M bandy wetuers, Milwaukee urwo. nftt wArxii. Jan. i. Wbe.t-No,t spring. Wc; No. i nortbe IMJ190. Barley-No. 8. 4c samples, wh Bye No. 1, ?4C. .. . Detroit own. rtToiT. Jan. 4 ,.v vn uct cash red, Ibo Auditor S iv Tli it lr.i.tiU C laim 'iirly lla f the A;'c:t of t!ui Half, mid Th it ValuvbUi Ir i !,ndi Arc Now In I'oNHfhHlon f Hie K I.llt-r I uteri l All IhIi. Liii I-i Mu.t i:i S.tiil ut Public Auction. St. Paul, Jan. 5. The biennial report vt State Auditor Robert C. lHinn to the Minnesota legislature wua given to Uu press Sunday night and eontuins some startling figures and recommendations, drawn from a rigid interpretation of the law and a careful examination f the records of his olllce, which Includes the land department. He pays that he icallzes lully the Im mense benefit the railroads have been to the state, but In view of the immense grants of land they have received he has deemed It his duty to Interpret the laws rigidly and wherever there Is a doubt to cive the state the benefit of it. The general land department business shows that the grants of land to rail road companies by congress and by the state within the limits of the state of Minnesota to aid in the construction of the 3,200 miles of line have amounted to over 20.000.0CO acres. A reasonable val uation of these railroad lands Is $103, 000,000, or about $32,200 per mile. Of these lands the companies have al ready received over 10,000,000 acres, and under the swaniD act. from the state. they have received over 3,000,000 addi tional. Must lie Sold at Auction. He calls particular attention to the grant originally made to the Little Falls railroad and now owned by the Northern Pacific. It consists of 300.000 acres, and was clven to aid In the con struction of that railroad from Its east ern terminus to the western boundary ofthe state. For uncompleted portions on the line the land should revert to the state. The line was only built to Mor ris, altogether sixty-seven and one-half rn'ileH, and the auditor holds that the grant does not attach to the twenty two and one-half miles from that to the state line, making a difference of 130.000 acres in the grant. As the com pany has already received 200,000 acres, which Is In excess of what It earned, the legislature Is asked to take proper action to recover these lands, which are valued at not less than $5 per acre. The auditor s conclusions and recom mendations regarding mineral lands. hnwevpr. are more startling. He rec ommends that the legislature direct that action be begun In the courts looking to the recovery of lands already con veyed to the Duluth and Iron Range railroad, amounting to 200,000 acres, and that the remaining portion, 403,000 acres, be declared forfeited. These lands, con servatively valued, are worth $3,000, 000, being located exclusively In . Stj Louis. Lake and Cook counties, which comprise the mineral and timber por tions of the state. ItniU Should Kevert. Tie then calls attention to the consti tutional provision that all state lands must be sold at public auction. As the timber has been considered part of the realty, It has b?"n similarly disposed' nf In like manner. The Rockefellers and the Minnesota Tron company holds 00 per cent, of tie mining contracts on state lands, including the famous unver mine, with Its jcreat ore deposits, and these were all secured at private sale, so that If his contention be approved there would be n general shaking up in mineral contracts. The bind where the rich Mountain Iron mine is located was selected in 1883 by the then state auditor for indemnity schorl land. In 18SS the same official m.onrentlv throtsh an error or over sightexecuted a relinquishment back to the government. This land Is val ued at not less than $12,000,000. State Auditor Dunn takes the ground that possibly the state still holds title to these lands under the original selection, and that the relinquishment was null and void because the auditor had no power to execute such relinquishment. that power remaining witn xne kov-ernor. THE BLACK SNAKE. lie Is as Murli at Home In Tree Tops u on Terra J Iriua. Tbcr? has bt ou much difoussion nmnnj naturalists and in rportaiueii'H journal ri'ganling tho ability cf tho black snake, our ono const i ictor, to ' travel swiftly Bin id tho bruuehfrf. Ten thousand men have seen tho fcleck black fetreak f ropa ttfcoiuplith tho feat easily. Here is but cno incident: Tho black unako'a habitat includes Illi nois. Lasallo county is not far north of tho center of tho fitate, and perhaps U little west of tho center line drawn north, ami south. Thero aro some very pood woods iu Lasallo county, because through that county run two of tho Mississippi's tributaries tho Illinois and ono of its brauches, tho Vermilion. Bailey's creek is one of tho little farm land tributaries of tho Vermilion river. Alou2 tho creek aro reaches of woodland, or at least thero were awhile ago. In those bits of woods bits as compared with Michigan forests there nre and have been black snakes, great fellows, worthy of their renutation farther east. This is what happened one day when a young fellow went hunting. It is worth the tellimr. because it illustrates tha black snake's nimbleness among the tree tops : Wanderinc aloutr cautiously and qui etly, looking for a shot on either side, the young man heard suddenly an un common rustling among the leaves above him. He looked up and eaw some' thine that astonished him. A fox equir rel and a fox nquirrel is the biggest of the sauirrel kind was leaping from limb to limb, from tree to tree, in mortal affright, evidently fleeing from soma deadly enemy. Close behiud him, curv ing, twining and twisting, but with all details of ita locomotion invisiblo from below, bo swift its progress and so easy its passing from limb to limb and tree to tree, caino throe to five feet of black ness. It was a black enake pursuing the fox squirrel. Its chase was hopeless, but the ability and tho hungry earnestness of this one coustrictor of our northern woods wero demonstrated remarkably. As for the man underneath -well, ho was a vouuc fellow with a ehotguu. The young fellow with a Bhotgun is a reasonably good shot in the country, and he kills snakes. He poured a load of shot into that black streak amoog the branches, and it dropped to the ground, merely afoul, dead, moderately sized specimen ox Iioscanion constrictor. Recreation. Highest of all in Leavening Tower. Latest U.S. Gov't Keport. l; aut if Use ( ri n!e Women. "A you K.'O hi ia''" wriv Knth MfKnery Stuart in a:i artiiK (A tho erodes. 4,A JVnr-l'J V.'Ij j Live Amid lio- wnnec," in The Lr.diis' li ini" .Journal, "you will know t'.iat be tlm ereolo husband or father realizes thnt no flower upon tho Wy covered altar is half ko fair or so lit for tho tcrnplo'j perfect adorning as his blooming wife and budding daughters, who sit in line beside him. If he does not think these thiugs, he is a dullard or, maybe, only half Creole. Perhaps his mother was an American or Scotch. And then? Per haps he would not think them because they might not bo true. They would be other things, other things just as fine and good no doubt they might even have rare beauty of a different type but the creole woman is a flower. She is a magnolia or a jasmine occasional ly a camellia, or, especially when there is a good warm drop of Spanish blood in her veins, she is a red, red rose a rose too sweet to pass untouched but for her perfect dignity and a piquant hauteur that is as . protective as any thorn upon a rose's stem. "Properly speaking, or, rather, nar rowly ppeakiug, tho creolo is an Amer ican, born of French or Spanish parents or of both, and strictly both pareuts should themselves be foreign born, but the creole is often only the great-great-grandson of a creole, and some of their families of purest blood could not reach the mother country without going back through three or four American born generations." CURIOUS RELIGION; Koine VLIcte Costly rire at Nhvlllo, Tenn. Mochvlile. Jan. 6. About 3 o'clock Sunday the fire which originated in the immense dry goods store ot ieuec Bros, at 11 o'clock Saturday night, was under control. Nine stores and the south end of the city market house, containing offices of heads of city de partments, were destroyed. The loss Is about $400,00. The origin of the fire has not been ascertained. Several fire men were injured by falling wans ana Captain James Sullivan was caught by a falling wall and badly bruised, and when rescued was found with a broken leg. Charles Thompson, cashier, and J. B. Carr, manager or tne uei wr company, were badly wounded by fall ing walls. Notle of m Reduction. Masslllon. O., Jan. 5.-Notlces have been posted at all the mines In the Masslllon district of a reduction in the price of pick mining from 61 cents to 51 cents per ton. The notice says a rate of 60 cents has been agreed upon in Pennsylvania under the long estab lished system whereby the Ohio rate Is 9 cents less than that of the Pittsburg district, therefore the 61 cent rate will be maintained under existing condi tions. About 2.000 men are now out, but it Is thought they will resume work and continue till after the joint meet ing of operators and miners at Colum bus, Jan. 12. rugllUt Duffy IHrs. New York, Jan. 6. James Duffy, the Boston ruK"st' 'h0 cllaPsed at the conclusion of a ten-round boxing match with George Justus at the Broadway Athletic club Saturday night, died Mon flay without having regained conscious ness. Dick Roche, who acted m ref eree, and Tom O'Brien, manager of the club, are under arrest, also Justus. Murdered Her IIubnd. New York. Jan. 5.-Bell Smith, col ored stabbed her husband, Jesse Smith, aUo'colored. In the neck Sunday, sev erln his Jugular vein and causing al most instant death. Smith was beating hi. wife's 7-year-old child, by her first husband, when the wifs interfered and ths stabbing followed. Ths woman Is under airesL- .. ... . COOKS ON A PILLOW. Domett to Economy In Wong Seek's Tiny Chinatown Home. Th smallest residence in San Fran cisco is. of course, located iu Chinatown. It is not. however, at tho end of a dark alley in a damp cellar. In many of these are Borne very diminutive roostiug traces, but thev aro elegant homes and flats compared to Wong.Seek'a private residence on the corner of Waverly place and Clav street. Wong's home is about a bic 0.3 his skin a trifle larger, of course, to allow for his wooden shoes that go to bed with him. but tho difference is not material. Wons's homo is a box nailed to a brick wall over the fruit e taud where Wong mnk-pR n livinsr that would not keep n whito baby fat. Directly ormosite that is to Far, on tho southeast corner of "Waverly placo and Clav street there is another China man who has a residence similar to that of Wong. But hi3 is larger than Wong's whether owing to larger wooden shoes ur in -hist what is not known. But it measures fully a foot moro in length and is an inch or so moro in thickness Thn dimensions of Wong's private residence ho lives in it all by himself are 5 feet in length. 2 feet m width, with a ceiling height of 3 feet clear of tho gas fixture. For a pillow Wong has a 00 cent oil stove, and in the morn ins? he cooks hi3 breakfast on his pillow. Ho uses a ropo ladder to get into his home, and when ho has tucked himself in for tho night he pulls up his ladder nrl i.q Riifft. Wfini? is savins money and will some day take tho steamer for China and cart off 200 or 300 American gold dollars to tho slums of Hongkong, where he will live like a prince. San Francisco uaii. Utilizing nil College Education A tramp appeared at tho house of J. TT. Rarton. three miles south of Colum bia, Ma, one morning and asked for cold victuals in Greek. He stated that Via was a graduate of Princeton, sir. Barton, himself a Greek scholar, was inst about to start for Columbia, ana his horso was hitched in front of the hnnsn. Jestingly he offered to give the tramp thn horse if ho could recite the Greek alphabet without a mistake. The tramp looked at the horso and then at Air. TUrrnn. and then inouired if the bet in rinded tho saddle and bridle. Mr.. Bar ton said that it did, and then went into the houso to get a Greek book. Tietnruinff. ho found the tramp mount ml on tho horso. As Mr. Barton stepped from tho norch the traiun rattled off the alphabet without a mistake, and, turn ing the horso's bead, disappeared in a cloud of dust. Tho animal ou which tho Princeton pilgrim rode away was one of the best blooded horses in Boone county. noted for its blooded stock. Philadel phia Press. She Knew Iletter. "Chaste moon.' sang the poet. At that tho moon hid her face behind a cloud. "Alas, that I am unworthy of his nraisel" she sished. KhnrinnhtleM had in mind the notori ous fact that once a mouth she got full and staid out all night Uotroit 'iriD- noe. Same Old Way. Robert When I get into my new house. I mean that everything shall go HIta clockwork. Richard I see. The same as hereto fors tick, tick I Boston Transcript Theories of the Jack-o'-lantern. The scientists have put forward theo ries to account for the appearance of tho will-o'-the-wisp, or jack-o'-lantern lights. One of these is that they are doe to phosphnreted hydrogen gas, which possesses the peculiar power of sponta neous ignition ou coming in contact with dry atmospheric air. This gas couia tie ftnsilr rrenerated bv the decomposition of animal matter in marshy soil, and it wnnld bo especially liable to cause tne anpearauce of "phantom lights" if it should become mixed with the gas fmm dprnvini? roots, etc. Jack-o -Ian torns nf this variety eeneraliy receue on v,nin urmrnnohttd. and travel witn "r - nrnnt rnniflitv. 6"" " , ... . .. Li. ThH second theory is that sucn jignis nro due to licht carbureted hydrogen gas, such as might arise from decaying cruKS. leaves, etc. n . ' WhilA tlipsft theories have oeen aa- vanced they have never been proved to be correct; neither has the moving away phenomenon when approached or that of their spontaneous ignition ever been explained. The chemist and ex perimenters in general uro unanimous in the couclusiou that jurK-o'-iainerns cannot bo artificially produced. Other names for this light nro friar's lantern, grave light and fool's firo. M. L.ouis llepublic. The Fujr'.Uli Soldier. Tnmmv Atkins- knows of many ways by which he may add to hi-i rognlaticn ray of a shilling : Iy. Ho a Fhrowd in dividual, and kuow his worth, and fre quently realize qaito u mco littlo tarn by "doin-? a bit oui.-ide. Smoking coiKi i ts m public nouses are of almost daily occurrence in garrison towns. On tlicso ucca.Mous a pianist and a chairman aro independable, and tho landlord funis it well worth his whiw to induce a soldier to attend, for the presence of a redcoat is usually popular umong civilians. At theaters and musio lialis, too, Tommy finds himself appreciated. Ho can take a hand in the orchestra, while a man who can net the soldier to the life, and will bring his own uniform with bim, will find a ready wago await ing him. Many hotel proprietors employ sol diers as waiters and find that as smart serving men they are thoroughly appre ciated. In fact, Tommy Atkins can turn his hand to anything, even to helping bootmakers make boots. Jfoarson a Weekly. STt tlm ?J'mt' r Oar congress i.s : li i u:t l I y con Ftitotion ironi i-i:.iv.!. 1jvs it .-p t.tin;. religious vi"ws a'j J tluoii' H. Tins being the cae, fu::r;ti'-s ci all khids have tak en tho opportunity to impound their views and make an effort to-pread their doctrines. Within the prist nt centnry not U'ks than a half dozen deluded mor tals residing within the limits of the United States have claimed to be Christ returned to earth, and the queer thing in connection with the ministry of sucbt fanatics is the fact that they can per suade persons who aro supposed to hav a fair amount of braius to believe thaV they are all they claim to be. Since 1830 five different sects have' been founded in the United States the members of which claimed, the ability of either themselves or their founder tc live forever. Each of these queer com munities has been known by its neigh bors as "tho immortals," and each bas in the course of time come to grief, as all such visionary dreamers must The Inst delndod beint? to found a sect on- the theory that he himself, at least, was immortal was David Patterson, who war- known to his followers as "the eye of' Jehovah." The Patterson sect were known as "the children of 'Zion." Their- headquarters were mainly at Grand. Rapids, Mich., although there were up ward of a dozen brancn Organizations irr the different 6tates of the Union. Pat terson claimed that ho would never die,- and the great tenet of faith with the children of Zion was belief in the claims which their leader made. In 1888 this. self styled "eye of Jehovah" begauk crow dim in other words, to waste away with an incurable disease. Finally he went to France, where be died, jnrc as all other mortals have done or wilfc do. This cured the delusion or the jjiich- iganders at Grand Rapids, who socxa awoke to the fact that their leader hacl either been a crazy fanatic or a blas phemer. Sects founded on claims oi im mortality are not at all dangerous a it is only a question of time when the delusion will bo effectually dispelled. St Louis Republic. ratents In Japan. No patent is granted to a foreigner In .Tnn&n. No foreign inventor, by ap plying through a Japanese citizen, can obtain a patent except oy irauu. n nnfpnt wpro obtained by a false repre sentation that tho Japanese citizen was the inventor and it was discovered tnai ho was not, tho patent would bo at once canceled. It is precisely the same witn trademarks and designs there are no rocMntration and no crotectiou. The re sult is that all goods of foreign produce and manufacture, of which tne lauei is worth copying, can be bought all over Japan of Japaneso manufacture, and at a quarter of a fractional ran oi tne cost of the original and genuine foreign made article. ham's Horn. Ill Licom Insufficient. Th wittr remarks of Judgo Craig Biddle, if gathered together, would fill a i?nol sized volume. Here is a good one gotten off by him recently while sitting in the quarter sessions court: Auermau juryman asked to be excused from serv ing on the jury. Whv?" askprt the lUdSO. 'Well, your honor, I don't understand good English.1 ' Oh, you will do," replied me juage. "Ynn won 't hear much good English here aoy how." Philadelphia Record. An impudent youngster came very . . i .l V. ntlu, near getting his ears ooicu u night at a wedding party xor wismng tho bride "many happy returns oi w day.! THE GOLDEN THRO ATT Dell-ltke Tones Not Always a Gift of Wisv ture, but 3Iay 1 Acquired. The power of tho highest interpreta- l tion of mu: io in song is vouchsafed to but few favored mortals and is not to be acquired by any amount of endeavor," if the true "golden throat," with finely adjusted cbordie vocales, be lacking. A. voice of sweet and mellow quality iu; Fpeaking, however, is not always a gra cious gift of nature, but is a possible at tainment to persons of the most ordinary musical capacity. A prima donna spend." scarcely more time practicing her fales than an ambitious actress devotes to the cultivation of a ringing, bell-like into nation to lur sentences, ior public fpeak crs and peeplo of the theatrical profes sion liiid-rstatid thf value of viLrant . tones, cf tho "thrilling, solemn, proud, pathetic voice," whose echoes linger long in the memory cf tho inthrulled. listener. Among well I red proplo low voices aro the rule low. but not always music al, a tendency to falsetto mailing any effort beyond ordinary conversation, . which is simply an evidence of the luck cf proper training, or ci a fail uro-to practico those primary principles of elo cution that aro a part of the briefost. common school education. Lessens under a teacher are not an absolute necessity to the woman who' would secure tho grace of clear, sweet; accents. Deep breathing and chest ex pansion are the first steps toward the desired end, and a systematic course cf" throat strengthening, combined with enough discernment to decide between, a nasal twang and pure tone, is about alii that is needed to achieve a fair degree, of success. An excellent method of strengthening; tbe throat is gargling with cold salt water in the morning, bathing it at tha same time, first with very hot and there with very cold water. It thus pets a slight shock and is braced cp and per manently benefited. New York Jour nal. 3 African Blood Brotherhood. The method of making blood brother hood among the Galla and Somali ha its peculiarities. It is described by Wil liam Astor Chanler in "Through Junv gle and Desert:" Lokomagul, ou behalf of his people; and I, on behalf of my own, each seized in our right hands a round stone. Uport the stones we liberally expectorated Each then passed his stone to his fol lowing, who did likewise. We then ex changed stones, and each, holding tber stone in his right hand, with his left dug a small hole in the soil, meanwhile uttering words of supposed magio im port. In these holes we finally placed the 6tones and covered them with sand. We then grasped hands and assured each other that we were the best friend possible. Tit Tor Tat. The wits of Washington are suggest ing that this is a good time for Great Britain to give tit for tat and insist thak the Cuban question should be submittal to arbitration, just as the United Stat government suggested to England that such a course be taken with her troublss In Venezuela. Chicago Record. Wilts n Wellman.