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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JULY 1G, 1893.
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HEAVY SUIT FOE DAMAGES
Insurance Company Comes Down on
Auditor Henderson lorLibol.
Wants ?1CO.COO Ur Being blacklisted
Cigar Makers Again Alter Ejder Vari
ous Hatter in tba Courts
Auditor of State Henderson and bis chief
deputy. George W. Duke, vers yesterday
made defendants in a libel suit for 100,0- 0
damages. The plaintitia in tho action aro
one hundred underwriter of New York
city. wLo bare been operatine in this State
aa the "Guarantee ana Accident Lloyds."
The plain tit s allege tbat they are not a
corporation, and are not, . therefore, re
quired to comply with thelawsof the State
regulation corporations, for the non
compliance with which they were put
npon the blacklist. The "Lloyds" sys
tem of inaurance, they allege, is an
old and reliable system inaugurated in the
city of London about 16-3. and under
which the underwriters conduct tbe busi-net-a
in their individual capacity, and not
as a corporation, each underwriter or in
surer being Individually and personally
liable for a certain designated pro rata por
tion of the total insurance. Inaupportof
their ability to meet all obligations they
allege that they have deposited with the
New York Security and Trust Company the
sum of 8100.000. and that they are indi
vidually worth &400.000.000.
The suit is based upon the aotion of the
Auditor in placing the "Guarantee and Ac
cident Lloyds" upon the blacklist in March
of this year and the publication of that
fact in the daily papers of this city. The
plaintifis allege that prior to the blacklist
ing they carried on a large business in this
State, which has been materially decreased
since the publication of their blacklisting.
They ask judgment in the sum of $1,000
each, making a total of 9100,000.
tydr unit the Cigar Makers,
The local lodge of the Cigar Makers'
Union is again after Joseph M. Ryder,
a cigar and whisky dealer at No. 145
West Washington street. Yesterday after
noon David Lowrie, an officer of the looal
union, 'went before Justice Daniels and
made affidavit upon which a search
warrant was issued authorizing the
search . of his premises for bogus
union labels. Armed with the search
warraut Constable Sorters, about
4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, went to
Ryder's place and. reading tho warrant;
asked to be permitted to make a search.
llyder offered objections at first, but when
the officer threatened to open the drawers
of a cabinet by force if they were not un
locked, the keys were produced aud the
drawers opened. Inside the drawers were
found 175 bogus labeJa and a counterfeit
anion stencil, which were taken possession
of and turned over to the court
Kyder was arrested last summer for hav
ing in bis possession bogus union labels
and was prosecuted by the local union, lie
was acquitted UDon trial on accouut of a
defective law. The last Legislature modi
fied the law so as to cure the defeot, and
since that time the looal union has been
keeping a close watch on his business,
feeling confident that he was still
using bogus labels. A few days ago
Lowrie went into the store and
purchased a box of oigarsfrom the boy in
charge of the place during Kyder a absence.
When the cigars were produced Lowrie
noticed that tbey were not stamped witn
the union stencil and refused to take them
without the stamp. "Oh 1 can fix tbat in
a little wbilt" replied the boy. and. reach
ing Into a drawer, he drew out the counter
feit stamp aud stamped the label in
Lowrie'a presence. Lowrie took the cigars
and turned them over to Henry Spaan, at
torney for the local union, and upon his ad
vice the search warrant was procured.
nt to tn Iteformifttory. '
Lizzie Gale, on the petition of Lovina
Btreight, widow of the late Gen. A. D.
Etreigbt, was sent to the Reform School
for Girls by Judge Brown, sitting in cham
bers yesterday. The girl is thirteen years
pf age. and was born in, the Huntington
county poorhouse. from which institution
she was taken by General Streight when
she was six years of age, and indentured
to him by the Huntington county orphan
age. The petition of Mrs. Streight alleged
that the girl was unmanageable and incor
rigible. Iliii Qaeer Hallucination.
Harry Carlisle, a laborer thirty-two
years of age, was declared insane yester
day. Ho has a peculiar delusion that bis
dead mother's spirit has appeared before
him and ordered him to marry and reform
certain womau of the town, and he
has threatened to kill her because she re
fuses to be reformed.
Jane Carter was also deolared to be of
unsound mind.
Given to the Hoard.
The sheriff went to Lawrence township
yesterday and took into custody!. Ethel,
Grace and Gertrude Wildenner, under a
decree of the Circuit Court, taking them
from the custody of their father, Samuel
Wildenuer, and giving them into charge of
the Hoard of Children's Guardians. They
were taken to the heme of the board by the
sheritf.
Thomas Ware lleteaneri.
Thomas Ware, indicted for petit larceny.
was released upon his personal recogni
sance during good behavior by Judge Cox
yesterday.
mam
"CALLING THE COWS."
A Little Girl's Description cf th Picture and
the Mory She Evolved to Fit It.
The following was written by a little girl
at the time of the last art exhibit in this
city. It was suggested by the famous pic
ture. "Calling the Cows," which was so
universally admired. The descriptions are
perfect, and the story woven out of the
picture it certainly very poetio and beau
tiful: In Miller's crock, near Wake's farm, three
cow Trade laxilr. A lew birds, startled by their
piwiutr, Mre llyiufr toward the setting sun. To
one. sido 1 the tlis'uro of a youmr Jrl leaning
Sk'atim a cow. Her pretty head h turned west
ward. Ler white walt U low, and her sleeves are
rolled up. showtmc plump neck and arms. ibo
has on a Muck bodice and oversktrt. with a gur
net skirt showing beneath, Hf r bare feet are
half bidden In tho tall grass In w hich sbe stands.
On her arm she carries a wooden milk pall.
Nancy Wake Is tbe adopted daughter of the old
couple wbo occupy the neat white cottage be
Uhthe elms aud oaks, liver since the June
rofe.i began to bloom la the quaiut old-fashioned
garden this year, a young jMH-t aud bt mother
ave been boarding with tho Ulake9. The poet's
name 1 Keuneta lilatie. Nancy's light-browu
hair, gray eyes and girlish wayju.t suited this
young man's faucy and he decided to woo Ler,
wondering all the time what hi is city "slters"
would think when tbey beard of it, of hia desert
ing them for this country maiden. Much to John
Jones's unhaipine3, Naiiov liked the poet no
less than he liked her, for there was something
In his great brown eye, curly bl.ick hair, pleas
ant manner and fashionable attire that was Mica
a chaugo from John's prickly red hair,
bright blue eyes and turkey-blue Pun-
Cleve to that which is pure,
Cleve to' that which is sure,
Cleve to that which stands the test,
Cleve to that, both pure and best,
Cleveland's .3akine: Powder.
day suit. There was a time, which Nancy
can recall, when she. lived la a beautiful houao
lu New York, and where everything was done to
please her. the only child. That Is what she is
thinking of now while the early dowls failing;
and L l- wlhlnr to be a tine lady.
Two years have passed. In one of tho field
hospitals at Gettysburg a tired nurse bends ten
deny orw the lody of a dying roan. Ills eyes
opeu. They look vacant until they fall on that
worn face, which is Nancy's. Then a smile
lights up hia countenance, and. ciaspintr her
Lund in his. be sleep to wake no more. Nancy
never loved another man. John Jones found
and loved another woman, though, and married
rer, who aa more suited to him than Nancy.
The old couple stilt live In the neat, white cot
tage, but they know nothing of Nanoy. Some of
the people In her village Bay that. In the early
autumn, every evening, just at sunset, Nancy
fctands near the creek, betdde her cow. In her
olden dreftn, with her face towards the setting
sun. "Calling the Cows."
The tory U about a picture, by L. DelUser,
named, "Calling the Cows.
TI1EY TOLD A FA1UI TALE.
Willie and George F&ber Relate a Remark
able Mory of Abdcctlon.
Last Monday morning Willie and George
Faber, residing with their mother, at 'No.
228 Prospect street, disaopeared from their
home in a strange fashion. Willie is
twelyeyars old and his brother ten. On
account of the extreme youth of her miss
ing sons, Mrs.. Faber grew greatly
alarmed, and notified the police
of the matter. A sharp search
of the city was made for tho
youngsters but they were not found and
until yesterday noon nothing was heard of
them. Yesterday, as the Faber family were
about to sit down to dinner, the younger
members of the household uttered a glad
shout as Willie and George walked in
and took possession of the vacant ohairs
without a word. Mm. Faber, after the
first joyful excitement bad passed,
importuned the lads for an explanation of
their conduot, but for some time both re
fused to speak. Finally, by dint of coaxing
and threats. Willie Faber proceeded to un
fold the details of a most remarkable fairy
story. About 10 o'clock last Monday morn
ing. while he and George were engaged in
some light work at the barn
In the rear of their borne, they were
approached by a strange man wbo
walked leisurely up the alley and stopped
to talk to them. In a few momenta the
man called the younger brother to one side
and o Jnversing with the boy in a low tone,
turned to Willie, and in a fierce voice
ordered him to "come on." The frightened
youth was not inclined to obey, but the
stranger, catching him by the
coat collar, and serving George in
a like manner, dragged the boys
out of the alley and into the street. Here
the abductor drew a revolver aud a knifo
and informed bis captives that if they did
not obey his commands be would kill them.
They then followed the strange man by a
cirouitious route to a railroad which the
boys describe as the Uig Four. A train
was on the eve of starting and
the man grabbing both of bis prisoners
tossed them upon the pilot. They were
afraid to ory out and the movement was
unnoticed by the trainmen. The train
slowly made its way out of the city, the
frightened youngsters clinging in terror to
the head end. Once out of town the en
gine increased its speed and the boya de
scribe their ride as something terrible.
They claim that their trip did not end
until snnset Monday evening, when they
arrived in Chicago and climbed down from
their uncomfortuble perch. Their peculiar
actions about the railroad station attraoted
the attention of another strange man.
who, when they stated to him
tbat they lived in. Indianapolis,
found them a berth on a lreight
tram and they were brought home. Uoth
boys relate the same experience, but Mrs.
Faber. in light of the fact that her pooket
book, containing C-J. disappeared at about
the same hour as her sons left her, is not in
clined to place much confidence in the kid
naping story. Willie Faber was brought
down to police headquarters last night and
was closely questioned by the officers, to
whom he told the story with apparent
truthfulness.
PROGRAMME OF THE ENCAMPMENT.
Commander-in-Chief Wetssert Visits the
City and Approves It.
Commander-in-chief Weissert, Adjutant
general Gray.. II. S. Dietriob. of Chicago,
and W. H. Armstrong, of the council of ad
ministration, had a conference yesterday
morning with Colonel Lilly, Director For
tune and other members of the executive
committee, and Department Commander
Johnston and stall'. The commander-in-chief,
who has just returned from a tour
through the East, reports the attendance
will be larger, so far as veterans are eon
tcerned, than at any previous encampment.
Many matters of Interest were considered,
and a programme arranged whioh embraces
the following:
Friday, Sept. 1 Reception of the naval veter
ans on the Kearsarge.
Saturday Parade of tho naval veterans.
Sunday Naval veterans at divine services.
Monday Arrival of the (i. A. 11. and escort to
quarters. Meeting of the Naval Veterans Asso
ciation at Masnmo if all. At night, electrlo and
natural-gas displays and camp-tiros nt Tomlln
son Hall; Governor Matthews's reception to the
commander-in-chief und department otliccrs at
tho fctatehoueo.
Tuesday G. A. K. parade. Line of march:
Form in rieventh and adjoining streets north aud
south, ceur Illinois and Meridian. At 1:30 tho
head of the parade will move south 111 Meridian
street to New York, east In Now York to Penn
sylvania, south to Market and east In Market to
New Jersey, south in New Jernev to Washington
and west in Washington to Missouri, whero the
parade will dlnbaud. The parade will bo about
seven hours lu parsing a given point. The navy
veterans and 8. of V. will act as guards of honor.
Reunions will be held after the parade. At night
the w. it. c. will hold a reception at Tomllnson
Iiall and a display of fireworks will be held In
tho eastern part of the city.
Wednesday National Encampment G. A. R.
meet at Tomlinnoa Hall. The W . It. C. meets at
Roberts Park Church. Ladies of the f. A. K.
meet at Y. M. C. A. Hall. Daughter of Vet
eraDS meet nt tho Second Presbyterian
Church. The N. T. C. C. Guards meet. Army
oorps, division and brigade reunions will be
held. At night catnpllres and receptions will be
held.
Thursday Meetings and reunions will be con
tinued. At night the war pageantry.
Friday Tho t esslons of tho national bodies will
continue. At night the farewell reception will
be held.
The commander-in-chief annouueed that
Sept. 9 had bn set aside as G. A. H. day at
the world's fair. An etlort will be made to
have the far open on the Sunday following.
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Grand Anuv Notes.
Alvin P. Hove Post, of West Indianapo
lis, will give an entertainment at Spencer
Opera House. Thursday evening. July -Jo.
Commander-in-chief Weissert had not
heard of the declination of ex-luartermas-ter-geueral
Taylor to be a candidate for
commander-in-chief, but presumed that the
report might be true, as Captain Taylor is
actively engaged in local politics in 'Phila
delphia, Post No. 271, at Valeene. Ind.. recently
adopted the following resolution by a unan
imous vote in a meeting at whioh nearly
every member was present:
Resolved, That we pledge ourselves not to vote
for any candidato for tho Legislature who will
not pledge himself to uso his influence and vote
to have the figures 1S1 and removed from
the upper astragal of the Mate soldiers' monu
ment. "I am watching." said a G. A. R. man
yesterday, "to see if a person recently ap
pointed postmaster in one of our suburbs is
awarded a pension from our present au
thorities. He was employed at Camp Slor
ton at least two years as a carpenter on
full pay. At the very last he eiilisted and
got the bounty and remained drawinir full
wages as a carpenter until mustered out.
He has made application for a pension."
STKANGE LIGHT IN THE U EATEN S.
A. Flashing Column in the Northwest Causes
Considerable Speculation.
There was a strange column of light in
the northwestern heavens, last night, from
0 o'clock nntil after 10. and many people on
the streets thought it was the tail of the
recently discovered comet. From tho
Circle it seemed to be directly over North
Indiananolis. People at North Indianapo
lis telephoned into the city to ascertain
-what the light was. but they could get no
satisfactory explanation. It seemed like
reflection of some huge electrio Hash light.
tomo pronounced it one of the northern
lights, although it was not in that part of
the heavens where the northern lights are
usually eeen.
CITY NEW 8 NOTES.
Marriage licenses were issned yesterday
to Albert Braun and Anna Burkert, Theo
dore Mellinger and Mary C. iScott, John K.
Teal and Mary Miller.
Coroner Beck yesterday presented to the
County Commissioners a bill for 422."0.
The billhss not yet been allowed by the
commissioners.
A sneakthief entered the residence of E.
A. Parker, on Twelfth street, on Friday
night, and made way with the pocketbook
of a guest and several small artioles.
Governor Matthews has been unable to
visit his office for the past two days, hav
ing contracted an acute attaok of neu
ralgia. His illness is not of a serious
nature.
Pawhuska Tribe, No. 122, Improved Or
der of Red Men, was incorporated, yester
day, and artioles filed with the Secretary
of State. The lodge will be located at
Riley, Vigo county.
The members of the fire department are
startiug a subscription list, headed by
Chief Webster and members of the Board
of Safety, for the benefit of the families of
the Chicago firemen killed in the cold-stor-age-houso
tire.
Jacob Heed's Family Troubles.
Jacob Reed and wife, of No. 13 Oriole
street, are not on speaking terms. The
estrangement between the Reeds began a
fortnight ago, and enlminated last night
by Jaoob presenting his wife with a pair of
black eyes. The trouble between the
Reeds, it' appears, all originated in
the cnlinary department of the
house. Some time since, when be found
that Mrs. Reed was not disposed to cater
to r.f sinner man, he took nmbrage and lu
vitcd his daughter, Mrs. Lilly Beaver, a
young widow, to take up her residenoe at
his .borne, thinking tbat by this scheme he.
would be able to get his meals cooked
occasionally. Here was the greatest
error of Jacob's life. Instead of
poring over the kitchen stove. Lilly
spent her time with her books and other
accomplishments. Last night when Reed
went home and found a cheerless larder he
flew into a rage, and addressed a remark to
bis daughter tbat caused her to say some
very mean thing. The upshot of the mat
ter was that the irate father slapped
Mrs. Beaver's jaws until they partook of
the color of the June rose. Then Mrs.
Reed took a hand and was batted about
the room in a most ungraceful fashion, and
the general domestic quiet of the bouse
took on the form of a riot. Officers Shafer
and Hoover arrested Jacob on a warrant
sworn out by his wife, charging him with
assault and battery on herself and daugh
ter. Flke New Gam.
A man giving the name of George Fike
called at the boarding houso kept by a
Mrs. Burns at No. 32 North Mississippi
street yesterday, and claiming to represent
the electric-light company stated that he
desired to contract for board for ten men.
After a satisfactory rate had been agreed
upon Fike produced a bill as payment in
advance. Mrs. Burns took out her pocket
book to get some change, when Fikd
snatched a dollar from her hand 'and fled.'
He waa arrested later by patrolman Duty.
A Small Fire.
The tiro department were called to No.
549 West Washington street yesterday
evening to extinguish a blaze in the roof of
a cottage at that number, Tho fire com
municated to two adjoining residences and
did slight damage before the department
gained control. The bouses are in charge
of the Metzger agenoy; loss, $200.
Hun Over bjr a Ileer AVa'on.
A boy, whose name oould not be learned,
was run over by a brewery wagon late yes
terday evening, on the South Side. His
injuries are of . a serious nature. He was
sent to his home at No. 73 Harmon street.
THE SNAIL'S MOUTH.
A Naturalist Says It 1 Welt N liig Wild
lleast Has One Like It.
New York Bun.
"It is a fortunate thing for man and the
rest of the animal kingdom," said the nat
uralist, "that no largo wild animal has a
mouth constructed with the devouring ap
paratus built on the plan of the insignifi-cant-looking
enalT? mouth, for that ani
mal could out-devour anything that lives.
The snail itself is such an entirely un
pleasant, not to say loathsome, creature to
handle, that few amateur naturalists care
to bother with it, but by neglecting the
snail they miss studying one of the most
interesting objeots that come under their
observation.
"Any one wbo has noticed a snail feeding
on a leaf must have wondered how such a
soft, dabby, slimy animal can make such a
sharp and clean-cut Incision In the leaf,
leaving an edge as smooth and straight as
if it had been cut with a knife. That is
due to tho peculiar and formidable mouth
he has. The snail eats with his tongue and
thereof of his mouth. The tongue is a
ribbon which the snail keeps in a coil in his
mouth. This tongue is. in reality, a baud
saw, with the teeth on the surface instead
of on the edge. The teeth aro so
small that as many as 0,000
of them have been 'found on ono
snail's tongue. They are exceedingly'
sharp, and only a few of thorn aroused at
a time. Notexaotly only a few of them,
but a few of them comparatively, for the
snail will probably have four thousaud or
live thousand of them in use at once. He
does this by means of bis coilod tongue.
He can uncoil as much of this as he chooses,
and the uncoiled part he brings intoserv-'
ice. The roof of his month is as hard as
bone. He grasps the leaf between his'
tongue and that hard substance and,
rasping away with bis tongue, saws
through the toughest leaf with ease, al
ways leaving theedge smooth and straight.
"By uso tne teeth wear oil' or become
dulled. When the snail finds tbat this tool
is becoming blunted he uncoils another sec
tion and works that out until he has oome
to the end of the coil. Then be coils the
tongue up again and i& ready to start in
new, for while be has been using the latter
portions of the ribbon the teeth have
grown in again iu the idle portionsthe
saw has beeu tiled and reset, so to speak
and while he is using them the teeth in
the back part of the coil are reuewed. So
1 think 1 am right in saying that if any
lare beast of prey was fitted up with such
a devouring apparatus as thesnallhas.it
would go hard with the rest of tho animal
kingdom."
All Tnrned Out Well.
Atlanta ConstltaUon.
"AH yonr boys turned out well, did
ttay!"
j"Yes, I reckon tbey did."
"What's John doing?"
"He's a-curin' of lever in Texas."
"And Hick?"
"He's enlargin' of a country newspaper
an' a-collectin' of subscriptions."
"And Wiiliam what's he doing!"
lie's a-preachin' of the gospel an split
tin rails fera livin."
"And what are yon doing!"
"W ell. I'm a-supportin' of John, an Dick,
an' William!''
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An Artist's First Thought.
Harper's WesklT.
The Johnson family visit the great White
City. Paterfamilias (entering the cat at
the head of the procession Great lan'.
Gloriah! I'd a giben dnt spotted mule ob
mine for the contrao' ob whitcwashm' dis
jcr place!
DID I1F. POISON HER?
Death Near Doston of a Wman Who Lived
with the Notorious Dr. Meyer.
Boston. July 14.The notorious Dr.
Henry Meyer lived in Newton about two
years ago. He lodced on Washington
Street The Doctor was liberally supplied
with money. He spent most of his
earnings in Boston and would return at
noon with elaborate dinners, prepared
and packed in a tin case at a Boston hoteL
After the first two weeks the Doctor
brought a woman with him, who, he said,
was his wife. The supposed Mrs. Meyer
was a woman of line presence and
was beautifully dressed. She wore
a great number of jewels. After
a residence of a few months m
this place Mrs. Meyer became ill, and a
Ehysician announood that there was no
ope of her recovery. On the day before
She died Mr. Meyer brought a man and a
young woman to the houso. and took them
to the room of the dying woman. From
.conversation which was overheard it
was interred that the woman who had
been living with Dr. Meyer was not his
wife, and that he bad brought her real
hnsband to visit her on her death bed. The
jewels which the woman wore were given
to the visitors. Soon after the death of
his companion Dr. Meyer left Newton.
SOME FIN HE S1CCLH FIGUitES.
Interesting Facts About Dates Which Fall
on the Same Dy.
Boston ITerald.
The year 1000 will not be a leap year sim
ply because, being a hundredth year, al
though it is divisible by four, it is not
divisible by four hundred without a re
mainder. Thin is not the real reason, but a
result of it, the real reason being the estab
lishment of the Gregorian rule made in
15S2. The nineteenth century will not
end till midnight of Monday, Dec
SI, 1900. although the old quarrel
will probably again be renewed as to what
constitutes a century when it winds up,
aud thousands will insi&t on a premature
burial of the old century at midnight of
Deo. SI, 1800. But as a century means 100
years, and as the first century could not
end till a full 100 years had passed,
nor tho second till 200 years had
passed, etc., it is not logically clear why
the nineteenth century should be cur
tailed and broken oil before we have
had the full 11)00 years. With wheat and
such commodities there is sometimes
more or lees dealing in shorts, but
not with time. In Massachusetts, espe
cially, short sales are prohibited; we are
entitled to, and shall need, the lull meas
uro. and we turn no sharper corner wben
we start on a new century than when we
wake in the morninu. The 1st of April
and the 1st of July in any year, and in
leap years the 1st of January, fall on
the same day of the week. The 1st
of September and 1st of December in
any year fall on tho same week day.
The 1st of January and the 1st of Ootober
in any year fall on tho same week
day, except it be a leap year. The 1st of
February, of March and of November of
any year fall on the same day of the week,
unless it be a leap year, when Jan. 1. April
1 and July 1 fall on the same week day.
The 1st of May, 1st of June and let of
August in any year never fall ou the same
week. day. nor does any one of the three
eyur fall on the same weekday on which
any other month in the same year begins,
except in leap year, when the IbI of Febru
ary and the 1st of August fall on the same
To tind out on what day of the week any
date of this century fell: Divide the year
by 4 and let the remainder go. Add the
quotient and the year together, then add
three more. Divide the result by 7, and if
the remainder is 0, March 1 of that year
was Sunday; if 1, Monday; if 2, Tuesday,
and so on. 'ihe day can easily be found by
the old couplet. "At Dover dwells," etc.
For the last century do the same thing,
but add 4 instead of 3. For the next
century add ii instead. It is needless to go
beyond the next century, because its sur
vivors will probably have some shorter
method, and find out by simply touching a
knob or letting a kuob touch them. Christ
mas of any year always falls on the same
day of the week as the 2d of January of
that year, unless it be a leap year, when it
is the same week day as the 3d day of Jan
uary ' 'of that year. Faster is al
ways the first Sunday after the
full moou that happens on or next after
March 21. It is not easy to see
how it can occur earlier than March 22 or
later thau April 20 any year. New Year
(Jan. 1) will happen on Sunday but once
more during the century that will be in
ll'dD. In the (next century it will occnr
fourteen times only, as follows: 1005, 1911.
lt2A 123. 1133. 1&J0, ltoO, 1050. 1161. 1V67, iy78,
1U64. and 191)5. The intervals are regu
lar 0-5-6-11. u-5-6-11 except the interval
which inoludes the hundredth year that
is not a century, when there is a break
as 18W3, 1673, 1105. 1911 when three inter
vals of 6ix years come together; after tbat
plain sailing till 2001, when the old inter
vals will occur in regular order.
ACCIDENT INSURANCE FOH WOMEN.
Some Diflicultles In the Way of Their Real
ization of Heneflts.
New York Sun.
A woman who is by no means strong
minded, in its unpleasant popular ac
ceptation, was talking to some friend the
other day.
"1 wonder." she said, "if it will surprise
you as mush as it did me to find that
women are only partially eligible to ben
efit by an aocident insurance policy.
"A woman may take out such a policy;
in fact, she needs only to hint that she
meditates suob an act to be hooded with
circulars and besieged by agents.
"But the rules of the companies in re
gard to a woman are fearfully and wonder
fully constructed. Suppose that a woman
oneof the army of self-supporting women
who earn their own daily bread and, in
many cases, that of their families sup
pose such a woman to have an insurance
policy against accideut. And suppose still
further, that she is in soma kind of a dis
aster, has a leg broken, and is thus dis
abled and incapacitated for work.
"Does she receive the stipulated weekly
sum scheduled as the payment for her par
ticular injury?
"Not u bit of it.
"If ehe had been killed her surviving
hoirs would have profited to the extent ol
the policy, but so long as the breath of
life can be kept in the mutilated body the
woman herself gets nothing.
"Two points are advanced in explanation
of this course. In the first place it is pre
sumed that accident insurance is only for
people who are deprived of a whole or part
of their income because of injury roceived,
aud it is also presumed that women are not
self-supporting, aud that their income is
not ntieoted if they are hurt. This would
iuipIv that no one who is not a money
earner would be eligible to weekly pay
ments in case of injur).
"But it isn't so. Any man is eligible,
even if ho never earned a cent and never
w ill. Then, too.it certainly ought to be
tho case that a woman who does earn her
living could have the same protection
against the loss of an income because of
aocident as a man. But, no! She may
earn thousands of dollars a year, but she
is a woman, and, therefore, 'presumably'
not self-supporting.
"Tho second point and I just want you
to lrsteu to this! is that more women are
injured than men. I was talking with an
Insurance man about this, and he admitted
that there are more men hurt in the aggre
gate than there are women. 'But,1 he said,
'women are so much more liable to injury.'
"1 just stared at him.
"'Vouhee.'he went on, if a car comes
along I jump right on, while a woman
stands on the corner ana just waves her
umbrella
" 'Yes.' I said. Yoa try to jump on tho
car and you slip and go under the wheels.
The woman stays in safety on tne side
Walk, waves her umbrella wildly, and puts
out some man's eye with it. The men both
get ever so many dollars a week. The only
person unhurt is the woman, on whom the
company declines to take risks!'
"Pshaw!" and the lady looked triumph
antly at her hearers, who agreed, to a wom
an, that she was quite right.
New Yorkers Learn Something.
Harper's Weekly.
Thero is no question about the enthusi
asm felt by those wbo have visited tho
Columbian Exposition, at Chicago. It pre
vailsone might almost say that it rages
among ail classes. Anyone who has not yet
"done" the fair, and particularly anyone
who navs that he does not intend to do so.
is bound to pass a bad uuarter of an hour if
he talis among the actual visitors. The en
thiiHiiiini i u limit hi and the nitrs thar is
i of it the better, it la not boastful, as a
rule. Tb usual visitor, on the contrary,
is generally in a condition of excited
humility. He feels that he has learned
much, but he feels even more keenly how
very much be needed to learn, and seems
to regard with a certain ahauie the depth
of ignorance in which he would have rested
bad he remained at home. This is espe-
cially.trne of the Now York men. and more
especially true of the New York women,
some of whom return from Chioigo with a
half-rueful, hitlf-coinloal ienso that their
great city is a Utile "provincial." So far
as that implies inditlercnce to things out
side the life of the city, there is eome ex
cuse for the feeling; but tben it should be
said, in mitigation, that your true New
Yorker is apt to be just as inditlerent to
things within the city life. There is no
doubt, however, that a few weeks in Chi
cago just now is an excellent remedy for in-
diUerenceof all kinds.
MORE THAN l'ATUIOUSM
The Veteran Helaf-s an Incident of the
War.
Detroit Free Press.
"As a rule." said the veteran, before the
Old Soldier Club, "the confederate soldior
was as loyal to his cause as he was brave
in defense of it. But toward the last some
of them begau to weaken. One uitf ht, when
we were before Richmond, where we hitd
our breastworks so closo to thosn of the
other fellows that we held frequent ex
changes of visits, a big, long, lean cbao
call, d aud asked if he might drop in on us
for some tobacco, aud wo let him come.
When he landed among us we had a pot of
cotleo boiling, some hot bread, made in a
skillet, and some mighty juicy bacon done
to a turn.' The amoil of it was fine, evou to
us blneooats used to good livinir. and to
the hungry gray back n must have been
powerful. Anyhow, when he got a sniil of
it he jumped us if be had been shot,
"'What's thutl' he asked.
" 'Victuals,' said I, lilting the lid of tho
coffeepot.
" 'How ofTen do you git 'em this a-way
says he.
"'Kvery day says I.
" '.horel' nays he.
"'We'll Hwoiir to it.' says I.
"He looked at it with his eyes stock ont
like saucers, and his mouth was watering
like a sugar tree iu spring.
"'Kin I have some!' s;iys he.
" 'All you can hold.' says 1.
"'Hold on a minute,' says be. and with
that he climbed up on the breastwork and,
sllncmg his auu and accoutrements bacK
to his own side, he sunu out:
"'Here, boys, take them government
traps, and good-bye. I've struok some
thin' that's worth linbtin' fr, au' fightiu'
bard.' and then he dodged down where tho
supper was, and from that timo till tho
close of the war he stuck right by us, aud
when the war was all over he went back to
his farm in the North Carolina mountains."
AN EARLY SNAP.
Baby Was Photo raphed Hefor It Had
Much Experience In tho World.
Boston Globe.
I saw yesterday the most remarkable pho
tograph ever made of a human being. It
was a photograph of tho younest person
that ever had a picture taken. The subject
ia Clare May Kivlan, of Leominster, who
was born May 20, and seven minutes after
her birth her photograph was taken. The
happy father was the photographer. Mr.
Kivlan is the proprietor of a gallery, and
his family live on the same floor.
As soon as the bit of brand new human
ity could be wrapped in a llannel and
placed in a little basket, the doctor, acting
upon a thought which came to huu sud
denly, called to Mr. Kivlan. who had just
stepped into an adjoining room:
"Come. John, hurry up, I've got an idea
for you."
"At this Mr. Kivlan returned, when the
doctor said;
"Now. if you want to break the xeoord in
taking voung children get out your cam
era. I'll hold the baby and you can snap
her."
No sooner said than tho father rushed
across the hallway and soon returned with
his apparatus. Atiaiu he rushed out, aud
this time returned with a cloud back
ground, saying:
"We'll use this; it will look as if sue just
drooped from them."
The result of these hurried preparations
is an excellent portrait of the child when
only between seven and eight miuutoa old
or young. The picture shows little Clare
takiug the first yawn of her life.
VICISSITUDES OF A DIAMOND.
The Story of Its Adventures Before It Came
to the Austrian Treasury.
Jewelers' Circular.
The imperial treasury of Austria con
tains the Florentine diamond. This is one
of the finest diamonds of the world, and it
is noted for its luster and brilliancy. It is
worth 150.000 and has a romantio history
connected with it. It ono belonged to
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, who
seems to have been rather careless in
gnardmg his treasures.
He went to battle one day with this dia
mond in his pooket, and tbe result was that
he lost it. The diamond lay on the road
and a 8wiss soldier picked it up. He looked
upon it as a piece of filass and threw it
down again, but as it fell the sun's rays
caught it, and the eoldiar thinking it a
pretty trinket, concluded to carry it aleng
as a pooket piece. Shortly after this he
showed it to a priest. The priest admired
it and gave him a coin amounting to about
60 American cents for it. Tho priest sold
it to a jeweler for 00 cents, and a rich mer
chant paid tbe jeweler 2.500 for it. The
merchant sold it to an Italian Duke for
1.000 advance on his price, nod the duke
sold it to one of the popes, who paid 60,00J
for its possession.
After a number of other similar ad
ventures it came into the possession of a
grand duko who married the Empress
Maria Theresa of Austria, and through her
it came to this imperial treasury. It now
belongs to the royal family and basils
place iu what is considered one of the fin
est collections in the world.
lloscon Conktlnu's Generosity.
New York HcmM.
Col. Kobert G. Ingersoll sat In the snrro
eate's ofiice the other day. Mopping his
hltth forhead be said:
"1 never enter this room without having
my thoughts recur to lioscoe Coukling and
his tactful manners. It was during the
tune tbe lloyt will was being contested. 1
had occasion to pay frequent visits tp this
place, and was somewhat annoyed by a
poor fellow who used to standout in the
corridor and lay for me each morning to
ask for a small loan. He was one bt that
vast class who exist in the flickering littbt
of former aiiluence. On one particular dav
I was not in tho happiest of moods; so when
my impecunioos customer 'bored' me for
another loan I said to hitn:
"'What! here again. What did you do
with that two dollars I gavo you yesterdayf
GonealreadyP
"The fellow mumbled some apologetic re
ply, to which 1 said:
'"I'm getting tired of yonr making a
steady target of me. Why don't yon give
some other man a chancel'
"Conklingoame along and seemed to take
in the situation at a glance, for he said,
with bis most engaging smile it was soft
and sweet as a gentlewoman's:
"'It's my ohanoe to-day. Colonel,' and
diving down into his waistcoat pocket ho
fished ont a crisp bill. As my bewildered
pensioner took it and shullled offConkliug
said gayly: '
"'Now remember. Colonel, it's your
chance to-morrow.'
"Do you know, ho made me feel down
right small. Conkling was a great and
good man," added the eloquent lawyer
musingly.
German In tha Soiiouli.
Chicago Journal.
The Journal has often pointed out tbat,
valuable as a knowledge of German may
be, it is not practical to teaob it in the pub
lic sohools. If jt were taught properly it
would occupy too much time, to the disad
vantage of more important studies. On tbe
other hand, the smattering a pupil gets
now is worth absolutely nothing. &ome
day thesM orude educators may penetrate
the hot' that obscures their vision, when
they will see that hostility to the study of
German in our public schools is based npon
its futility. Tbey will also reoognize that
seven-eighths of tbe pupils leave school be
fore they get to the point where the valne
of German as a developer of knowledge be
gins. Th Reduction In Kate.
New York Mail and Express.
The fair marks a new era in world exhi
bitions. The one-fare rates mark the be
ginning of a new period in railroad history.
We nay the betcinninicof anew period, for
no new thins ever introduced in the way
of cheapening the cost of travel hun b en
put aside after it served a temporary purpose.
TO HKDUCE THC WEIGHT.
Chopped llefteak for I'ersons Overbar
rimed with Flesh.
NVsxrilocb n Star.
Men and women who suffer from over
weight, and who have worried with a score
of unsatisfactory expedients that promised
to reduce uncomfortable adiposity, will
surely be interested in the methods of
treatment which were employed in the case
otthe latebenator Stanford; treatment that
would probably l.ae been completely suc
cessful had not tbe fatty defeneration of
tho heart gone beyond thestage wherediet
etic inlhicnces were of any avail. None
of the kuunu varieties of medicine are
really lalutable, und all the courses
of tteattneut so far discovered are more or
less irksome to those whose healtn needs
repairs, and the course which the enator
was reiigioublv adherintz to when he died
was most distasteful to him. Fried hashed
beet, three times a day, washed down with
water that was hot as drinkable water can
bo, was the only food that entered the ben
atorV stomach lor the last seven weefcsof
his life. This change of ,retfimen was one
against which the patient inwardly re
belied he had lived as he pleased, and
he pleaded to live well but he had
placed himself in the hands of a phy
sician who was an expert in the prolonga
tion of threatened men's days, and was
faithful to the instructions given. Tempt
ed continually to mdulge in the food on
which others who sat at his table feasted,
tbe benator consumed ouly the moderate
quantity of finely-chopped beef, fried un
til cooked through, and the evet-ecooinp
uying glass of hot water. The primary
result of this diet was the loss of tbirt)
uue pounds ot llesh in fifty days and tna
departure of that apoplectic iloridlty
which had lor the past two or three years
been one of the Senator's most
marked facial characteristics. How
much longer the treatment would
have be5ii conttuued, und what the
ultimato results might have bceu iu this
particular case cannot be guessed, for the
fatty defeneration of the heart suddenly
reached the point of fatality and the diet
ing cme to au end. Medical experience
would suggest, tbouitb, that everything
would bavo been well had the most vital
of organs been uuaUected; that the mere
bulk could easily have been removed and
future growth controlled. It is question
able whether the speed of reductiou was
not -too grat. and. although in the case
under discussion the rate probably had
nothing to do with the disease, still tho
best of the authorities are satisfied that the
loss exceeding ten pounds a month is too
much of a drain upon ordinary vitality.
The principle of the reduction is easily un
derstood. Lean meat being nitrogenous,
forms muscle and not fat. Lean meat ei ten
by a very If au person would be difficult of
assimilation, for fat is necessary to the as
similative process, but wben swallowed by
oue who is oleutifu lly supplied with fat
the combination supports liie. and, of
coarse, diminishes the encumbering tissue
considerably.
The usefulness of hot water as an anti
dyspeptic beverasn has long been assertedj
it helps digestion as no other pertectly
harmless Unid cu. Food tbat is starchy
or fat is dige.itod in the small intestines,
but leau meat distributes its good quali
ties from the atomuco. and in that work a
eutholeuoy of hot water materially assists
the frequently ineffective gastric juice.
Altogether the ' lean meat remeay" seems
to be tbo best yet known for the removal
of superfluous lat; and it has the advan
tages also of being obeap and easy of ap
plication. m
oinebodj's Father.
Blue and Gray.
I think that one of the saddest incidents
of tbe war which 1 witnessed was alter tho
battle of Gettysburg. Oil' on the outskirts,
seated on the ground, with his back to a
tree, was a soldier, dead. His eyes wera
riveted on some object held tightly clasped
in his hands. . An we drew nearer we saw
that it was au ambrotype of two small
children. Man though J was, hard
ened through those long years to carnage
and bloodshed, tie sight of tbat man who
looked on his children for the last time in
this world, wh6, away off in aseoluded
spot, had rested himself against a tree,
that he might feast his eyos on his little
loves, brought tears 4o my eyes which I
could not restrain had I wanted. There
were six of us in the crowd, and we all
found ureat lumps gathering in our throats,
and mist coming before our eyes which
almost bliuded us. We stood look
ing at . him . for tome time. I was
thiuking of tbe wife and baby 1 had left at
home, and wondering how Nsoou. in the
mercy of God, she would be left a widow,
and my baby boy fatherless. We looked
at each other and instinctively secerned to
understand our thoughts. Not word was
spoken, but we dug a grave and laid the
poor fellow to rest with his children's pic
ture clasped over hia heart. Over his
grave.cn the tree against which he was
sitting, I inscribed the words:
Homebody's father,
July 3, 1803."
Mrs. lArjgtry's First Appearance,
Boston JonrnsL
"I will tell you something funny that
bappensd to me at my first professional ap
pearance, which was in January, 13:2. I
was to play Blanche Hay, and. If you re
member, she has a song in the second acs.
1 do not sing, consequently it was necessary
to have some oue behin 1 the scene to sing
for me while 1 played the accompaniment
and imitated all the movements.
"Tbt first night it was a vreat success,
so much so that one crltio insisted that I
was doing all the singing, but the second
the aiutzer had either gotten 60 Intoxicated
with her own melody or had lorgotten ber
cues that long after the time for her to
stop she kept on singing, aud, thouxh 1
was doing nothing but standing with my
month closed, my music still Kept ou."
And this reminds oue of an incident simi
lar In character, which happened in 1 Jos
ton not so very long aso. Aa actress on
the staifA protended to plav tbe piano,
while the real inus'o came from another
piano behind the icnei, backed up against
the stage piano. b t was encored, and was
i'ust starting to return to her piano when
ter double, supposing by the dying away
of applause that the actress had reached
the piano stool, started up the melody
again. And there was the woe-begona
woman only half way aororn the room aud
her musio troing by itcli! There aro come
dies of errors evrry whore.
Tlu Gootl-Niuht Mory.
New York Times.
"Kvery night when I watch my little
daughter working oil tho big thoughts that
sweep over her brain as her tired body begins
to relax, while her inentitlty seems to be
brielly and proportionately" stimulated, I
tremble to think of the harm that oould bo
done to her or any child for Mabel is not
an abnormal child in any way by an
ignorant nurse or thoughtless parent.
"i he fact that every normal child cjiei
ont for a bedtime story shows that its men
tal nature needs it just as its physioal ua
tnre craves sweets. You want to
givo your child pure eandy, so
give him the unadulterated story.
Leave out tbe fearful personalities, the
grim and gigantio figures these, even it
they are properly vanquished by the gal
lant hero, are too distinct for tho crib-side
tale.
"bit down by your little one's bed and
peak low and evenly. Weave a fanciful
but oniet story tbat tells of pretty fairies,
and birds, and flowers, and (droning bees,
and loving little boys and girls
these woo sleep to the weary
but still active brain, not with the
suflocating pressure of the gathering storm
lit with lurid flashes, but with the soft
clouds of the sunset horizon that change
from rosy pink to tender enveloping gray,
and gradually deepen into restful gloom.
Herbert Spencer on Gambling.
New York Press.
In one of his lately pnblished volumei
Herbert Spencer says that tbo English peo
ple are "given o7er to gambling through
out all grades from princes down to pot
boys." Ho adds that among inch a
people it is impossible there should
be any noticeable manifestations of
that degree of altrnistlo feeling on
which alone rests the progress of the race.
He points out tbat every thing which, either
in form orellect is of the nature of betting
is gambliug. whether it be which card will
come first in a pack, which horse will win a
race, or what will be the prico of wheat or
ot a given stock thirty or sixty days hence.
Kvery kind of transaction In which
whatever is gained by any one is lost by
some other whether it be "business" or
horse racing- is gambling. In its demoral
izing elieet it is only surpassed by straight
out larceny, iu which tho victim is not
given a chance to win.
Mr. Spenor is not orthodox in religion,
but ho is in the right in his detestation and
contempt for the gambling spirit that, in
this country as lu England, baa so largtly
taken ioajc3iioa ol society.