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IE STORM STILL ON.
CALIFORNIA'S BLIZZABD OXLX TO
THE DANGER POINT.
Terriffic Winds Driving the Snow
Into the Valleys. and Over
the Tracks.
Several Isolated Mountain Habitations
Visited and the Inmates Found
Dying of Hunger and Cold.
Prospects for Eesumption of Eailway
Traffic Very Discouraging "Water
Passage the Only Means of Com
munication Between San Fran
cisco and Portland The
Record of Casualties.
BRUCE GETS AN OFFICE.
Washington, Jan. 29. The president
today sent to the senate the following
nominations:
Blanch K. Bruce, of the District of Co
lumbia, to be recorder of deeds in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Supervisors of census: Thomas A. Hub
bard, Fourth Kansas district; Eugene F.
Weigel, First Missouri district; Eugene
Baucher. Second: Wolbridee J. Powell.
Third; William N. Davis, Fourth; John
McCall, Fifth; Arthur P. Merry, Sixth;
Hobart G. Orton, Seveuth; William II.
Miller, Eighth.
TO BE REPORTED FAVORABLY.
Washington-, Jan. 29. The senate com
mittee this morning instructed Senator
Collum to report favorably the bill intro
duced by Senator Spooner to confer upon
the interstate commerce commission au
thority to regulate the classes In com
merce befcwedn the United States. The
bill, in effect, applies the law relating to
railroads to telegraphic and telephone
companies. It is substantially the bill
passed by the senate last session.
AN IMITATOR OF ABELARD ARR ESTED.
Buffalo. N. Y., Jan.29. ShooUmaster
Frederick Freund, who left. tliis caty last
week to escape punlsliinentT'for.seducing a
14-year-old girl pupil' was arrested ia
Toronto yesterday. He pxpresse&.a wil
lingness to return to Buffalo.
A UNION'S .TREASURER "DEPARTS.
Kansas Citt, Mo., Jan. 29. Christopher
D. Woods, treasurer of Switchmen's" union
No. 4, of this city, has disappeared'with.
$1,000 of union's money. He was a,
switchman in the employ of the Atchison,.
Topeka & Santa Fe.
Jau.
WEATHER BULLETIN.
Signal Office, Wichita. Kan.,
29. The highest temperature wa3
the lowest was ol, and t3ie mean 49
with light to fresh east winds, warmer,
cloudle.-.s weather and nearly stationary
pressure.
Last year on January 29 the.-highest tem
perature was SI , the lowest 24 o aud the
mean 35 c.
Ff.ed L. Johnson,. Observer.
Waf. Department. Washington. D. C,
Jan. 29. 8 p. m. Forecast until S p. m.
Thursday:
For Missouri Generally fair weather,
louthwesterly winds, warmer in southern
jind stationary temperature in northern
portion.
For Kansas Fair, warmer in northeast
and- stationary temperature in western
portion; southerly winds.
THE DAY IN THE SENATE.
Washington. Jan. 29. Mr. Ingalls offer
ed a long preamble and resolution as to
debts due by the southern states on Indiau
trust funds and on the direct tax of 1SC1.
The resolution directs the secretary of the
treasury to furnish the senate with full in
formation on the subject. Agreed to.
Mr. Mitchell addressed the senate on the
bill for the free coinage of silver. He op
posed the bill.
THE STOSM UNDIMINISHED.
A Violent "Wind; Drifting the Snow Moun
tauuHighjin California.
San Fhancu-jCO, Col., .Tan. 29. Informa
tion received 'in this city this afternoon
shows that the s:reat snowblockado on the
Central Pacific 'is still unbroken. A vio
lent wind stornv commenced in the moun
tains last night and there is danger that
snow slides wiH block the track. The
barometerus falling at Summit and hih
winds aro rising and sweeping over the
biiow clad-mountains with driving fury.
The situation in the northern part of
this state on' the liueqf the California &
Oregon roackremainsvunchanged and there
is no hope of opeuaig the road for
some time tb'come. Xiaar Orrville several
parties have been formed in different por
tions of the mountains to visit persons
living in out of the way places who have
not been heard from since the commence
ment of the storm In1 two or three places
tlie people searched for have been fouud
dying, and several discovered who needed
relief. It is feared that many moro old
miners who lwrve lived aloue in the moun
t tins for years Lave fallen victims to the
terrible winter.
A NEWSPAPER BURNED OUT.
NEVADA, Mo.. Jan. 29. Fire broke out
in the building occupied by the South
west Mail at 2:30 o'clock this morning.
The total loss is S1S.O00, or which Schultz,
Snyder & Co., the owners of the Mail, suf
fer to the extent of 512,00ft, and Joseph
Isipp, the proprietor of the building, incurs
the other JG, 000. Both carried fire insur
ance. The Mail will bo obliged to sus
pend publication until the damage can be
repaired.
COMMUNICATE ONLY BY STEAMER.
San FllANClSCO, Cal., Jan. 29. The
blockade on the California & Oregon rail
road still continues, and there is little
prospect of breaking it for a week yet.
There is no communication north except
by steamer, 'lho levenue cutter Rubh
took a large amount of mail to Portland
last, evening, the regular line of steamers
rejusiug the regular compensation offered
by the government
HATEF.UL BLOOD RELATIONS.
Hateful kindred aro those sprung from
the parent stem malaria. They are chills
and fever, bilious remittent fever, dumb
ague and ague cake. These foes to bodily
peace are ail blood relations, as there is no
doubt that these endemic complaints are
produced by contamination of the blood
by the miasmata existent in both air and
water in malarious regions. Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters expels from the blood the
virus wijh which miasma infects, but it
does more than this, -it neutralizes the at
mospheric and aqueous poison and its
germs before thep have been permanently
lructified in the system, and thus effectu
ally protects against it the fierce inroads of
this diabolic brotherhood of diseases.
Thus it is not only a reined y, but also a
preventive, prompt in relievin;, lasting in
effect, perfectly efficient. Nervousness,
biliousness, dyspepsia and kidney troubles
also succumb to it.
PsAns' is the xmrest and best soap ever
made.
DR. PETERS NOT DEAD.
ZANZIBAR, Jan. 29. A number of French
priests have arrived at Malindi. They
state that they recently met Dr. Peters,
the German explorer, concerning whose
death many conflicting reports have been
received at Koki. He was in good health.
LOmOFS ILL GMf!E.
THE GREA- ppOSlTORY OF TES
TAMENTARY LITERATURE.
Carious People Who Visit It and the
Questions Thejj Ask Mighty Volumes
Made or Parchment and Bound in
Xeather Searched by Fortune Seekers.
OHIO'S SENATE IN DEADLOCK.
Columbus, O., Jan. 29. The senate is
in a deadlock today in the Marquis-Lamp-son
contest for thelieutenant governorship
and the Democrats are holding the senate
in session to await the arrival of Senator
Howell, who is awav on indefinite leave.
For a disordered liver try Beecham's
Pills.
A NEWSPAPER IN THE ROCKIES.
HARD 01T THATFJCALS.
A BEREAVED MOTHER INSANE.
St. Joseph, Mo., Jan. 29. Thomas Jen
uor, aged 10 years, was accidentally shot
and instantly killed today Frank Sullivau,
it playmate, with a target riile. The boy's
body was immediately taken to his homo
and when Mrs. Jenuer beheld it she be
came violently insane and has been kept
under lestraint ever since.
THREE PERSONS KILLED.
UlNGHAMPTON, N. Y, Jan. 29. A collision
occurred on the Erie road at Oswego at 12
o'clock this evening. Au east bound pas
senger was standing at the station aud the
Wells Fargo express dashed into the rear
bleeper, wrecking it. Three persons aro
reported killed.
KILLED BY A COW.
WAVLT.LV, O., Jan. 29. Mrs. Bogus, of
this county, while returning home through
a field last evening was attacked by a vi
rions cow. lleforo assistance reached her
Uie was so horribly mangled that she can
not recover.
THE NATIONAL BUILDERS.
St. Paul. Minn.. Jan. 29. The National
Builders association today considered the
eight hour question. A resolution was
adopted leaving the hour of labor to the
to the local organizations which are ad
vised to be governed by the conditions and
tircmnstances surrounding them. All
associations of builders aro urged co adopt
the system of pajnunt by the hour. A
ommuuieation was read fiom the Inter
national Brickkuors association recently
in session in Kansas City, asking that the
association endor-e arbntration in case of
strikes. Kesolut ions were adopted recog-
iizmg arbitration and furtheractiou was
ufeired to a committee on arbitration.
Officers wore elected as follows: Preu
aent, John J. Tucker'of New York: Sec-
etar, W. II. Say ward, Boston; treasurer,
eorge Tapper, Chicago A resolution for
the organization of local and state so
E eties and a national society composed of
"mployers and employes of all trades and
"allinss was unanimously adopted. Ad
journed. THE GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT
ENDED.
Chicago, 111.. Jan. 29. The interstate
commerce railway association, better
known as the "gentlemen's association,"
Las at lat reached the end of its rbpe. It
received its death blow yesterday, formal
notice beinj; given by the Union Pacific
and the Chicacgo& Northwestern railway
companies of their withdrawal from the
tame.
Chairman "WalKer made public the of
ficial notices of the withdrawals todav.
President Charles Francis Adams, of tlie
Union Pacific, in his letter to Chairman'
Walker says that his road was forced to
withdraw by tho decision that the traffic
arrangement entered into bv the Union
Pacific and the Chicago & Northwestern
was a violation of the presidents' agree
ment. The letter of President Hughitt, of the
Chicago & Northwestern, is to the same
effect.
A BOXING MATCH AT BOSTON.
BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 29. Last night
Jimmy Conley of Cambridge, and Dick
Cronin, of Baltimore, met here in a twenty
round boxing eoutcst before members of
the Bay state club. A sharp battle was
seen in which Cronin showed gameiiess
although no match for Conley, to whom
the contest was awarded.
Several Companies Delayed and Made Sick
by the Snow Blockade.
NewYokk. Jan. 29. The main subject
of interest among theatrical people is the
great snow blockade on the Central Pa
cific which has kept three compauies snow
bound in the Sierra Nevadas and closed
several theaters on account of the
failure of these companies to
meet rtheir dates. The actors and
actresses are reported to be actually
suffering from want of proper food and
the cold and the effect of their experience
is likely to remain with some of them to
the end of their lives.
The Howard Specialty company has been
the longest sufferer from the blockade,
having already been snow bound in oue
car at Shady Run, Cal., for fourteen days.
During this time the company has lived
principally upon what is known as "pack
ed food," salt meats and fish prepared for
winter consumption at the smaller towns
along the railroad. Arrangements have
been mado with the railroid to get the
company back to Sacramento, as thero is
no probability of its progressing towards
the east for the present. From Sacramento
the company will go over tho Southern
Pacific to Kansas City, where it is hoped
to reach tonight. A dispatch to Mr. Har
ris, one of the proprietors of the company,
who is now in this city, says that the com
pany is completely exhausted and suffer
ing from want of nourishment.
The "Shenandoah" company is still
snowed mahout nine miles from Wads
worth, Nev. Al. Hayman telegraphed to
Charles Frohmau yesterday that possibly
the company may be dug out in time to
reach ban 1 rancisco 1 rulay. The Baldwin
theater has been closed all the week and
will continue so until Monday, when
"Shenandoah" will be produced, if the
company is fortunate enough to get there.
Roland Heed and his company aie also
lost in the snow somewhere on the Central
Pacific, but nobody seems to know where.
The opening of the new Markham opera
house in Portland, Ore., has been post
poned for a week because the Emma Juch
company has been unable to get to Port
land. The "Pearl of Pekin" company has
escaped tho perils of the snow but it is
blocked between Fresno and Los Angeles
by a washout. Taken altogether, the
players' pilgrimage to the Pacific coast
this season can hardly ba regarded as an
overwhelming success.
ONE COMPANY GETS AWAV.
KANSAS Citv, Mo., Jan. 29. The Boston
Howard Atheueum company, which has
been snowed up in the western mountains
for the past nine days, arrived hero this
evening. The members of tho company,
although thej- suffered no severe hard
ship?, aro unanimously pleased at being
able to experience tho luxuries of civili
zation after their long imprisonment in
t lie snow. Manager Thacuor lays all the
blame of their delay on the railway com
pany which insisted in the futile attempt
to send the snowbound train east lrom
Shady Run, Cal., when a comparatively
clear track west would have permitted
them to reach Alta and thence a freo route
east. In the matter of food tho snow
bound passengers were compelled to take
pot luck with tho Chinese shovellers or
provide their own means of subsistence.
They preferred the latter.
Constitutional or scrofulous catarrh,
sore eyes, etc.. surely cured by Ayer's
Sarsaparilla.
CHANGE IN STOP-OVER RATES.
Kansas Citv, Mo.. Jan. 29. After Feb
ruary 1 on grain arriving here with stop
over privilege which is forwarded with rea
sonable promptuess.ouly the western road's
proportion of the through rate will be col
lected. The present custom is to collect
fully local rates on all grain arriving and
to allow a rebate when a proper division
of the through rate can be made between
the east and west road by the joint agent.
Ayer's Bherry Pectoral cure; colds and
coughs; an unequaled anodyne expectorant.
IIow an Enterprising Unslness Manager
Got His Specials for Nothing.
In tho winter of 18S-8j I was managing
sditorj city editor and the entire reportorial
corps of a little daily -paper in a Colorado
mining town. Wo nisodiad throe printers, a
business manager and an office boy, who act
ed as mailing clerk antL carrier. Tho business
manager filled in his leisure time running a
cattlo ranch and a coal mine.
Tho town had a "booni" a year or two be
fore, but the "boom" wasgone and the plac
was loft with two daily newspapers and hard
ly business for one weekly. It was hard sled
ding. Associated Press dispatches wero out
of the question. We had to depend upon tho
Denver papers, which reached us the same
evening, for our telegraphic news. Ourread
ers didn't liko this, of courso, but it was'tho
best wo could do, and as wo'wcre all ho&ling
on liko grim death for tho return of the
"boom," which was'ahvays six monthsahead
of us, nobody cared txvsay too much.
But occasionally thaitrains got snowed up
on the Pass for a week'ormore, and then'we
were in a box. On oneof "theso occasions'wo
hadn't had a mail for four days, and things
were looking blue. There wasn't any local
news to speak of. Thorbnsiness manager sug
gested a chapter fronrihoJiiblewith a "scare"
head. Ho thought it woukl bonewsout?there,
and I guess ho was right.
Tho town had gas and water works and a
big hotel as reminders of its departed boom,
and it also had a telephone lino which con
nected with another little-town, thirty miles
further up in theimountains, on a branch of
the samo railroad. The telephone in tho sta
tion thirty miles away was connected every
night with tho ono in our office before tho
central office- closed, so'that in case of an ac
cident in tho mines we-could get-tho nows.
Several times, wlrilo using this telephone, I
had noticed that, lato at night when all was
still, the clicking of the telegraph instrument
imthe station up in tho mountains could bo
distinctly heard over tho wire. This suggested
an idea. The railroad wire was used as a
news wire lato at night. If wo had anybody
with an ear acute enough to read that faint
ticking m tho telephone instrument we could
learn what was going on overthe wires. The
business manager had been an operator, and
a good one, back in tho States. Ho tried the
instrument and found that the-schemo would
work. Tho next morning wo had a column
of "specials," including two or -three items of
Washington nows, which wero of special in
terest just thon, as evorysecond man in tho
town was a candidate for soma office under
the incoming administration.
Tho editor of the rival paper rusbed to the
telegraph ofllco to inquire' what .it meant. Ho
was told that we had received nothing over
tho wire. With the train snowed up on top
of tho pass "faking" from the Denver papers
was out of tho question. Yet thero were tho
dispatches, and unmistakably genuine, too.
Tho wires had been tapped, that was certain,
but where, when, how? Tho railroad people
ordered an investigation, but discovered
nothing. Nobody thought of tho clicking
instrument in the closed railroad station
thirty miles away and the-marvelous carry
ing power of tho telephone. in that clear, still
mountain air.
Our brother editor on tho rival sheet
thought it was a "dead cold fake," but ho
was afraid to say too much about it, as ho
had run out of paper and wc had him at our
mercy, at least until a train got in. Of
course tho secret was jealously guarded in
tho ofllco, but the "specials" wero kept up
until tho train gotf through. Then we quit.
Tho business manager was a conscientious
man, anddidn't behove in stealing nows when
it could be obtained in any other way. Be
sides, ho objected to do the work. M. G. il.
in New York World.
CONDUCTORS WILL BE "FIRED."
Kansas Citv, Mo., Jan. 29. 1$ is stated
that twenty-eight freignt and passenger
conductors on the Haunitial & St. Joe rail
way :ik to be discharged at tue end of the
month by reason of tho revelatious made
recently in the reports of their "spotters."
CHICAGO'S BID INCREASED
Chicago, 111., Jan. 29. At a meeting of
the executive committee of the world's
exposition this afternoon, Mayor Cregier
was instructed to send the following tele
gram to George R, DavK at Washington:
"'By action of the executive committee of
the Chicago world's fair committee it is
proposed to increase the fund to ?10,000,000
by the issuance of $5,000,009 in bonds.
D. C. Cuegier, Chairman."
A SLICK YOUNG SWINDLER.
Knoxville. Tenn., Jan. 29. A gentle
manly appearing young man giving his
name as C. L. Paton has swindled banks
here out of $15,000 or $20,000 by forged
checks, letters of endorsement and intro
duction. A reward of fc.oO is offered for
his arrest.
ALAAMERICAIN.
PARIS, Jan. 29. The Republican mem
bers of the chamber of deputies have or- j
cnniacu a council on the American caucus
plau. The c iuciis today adopted a plau of
proceedure to govern the partv in the
futurerr "
Gambling anil Jlurglins;.
Gambling and burgling always occupy a
good deal of public attention during the
courso of a year. Thero is not a very obvi
ous connection between tho two, j-et tho
subtlo moralist may find an association.
Both aro pursuits of men who ought to bo
otherwise and more profitably engaged.
Both are the expressions of a desire to ac
quiro riches at one stroke or, at tho most,
two strokes and to avoid tho monotony of
continuous labor. And both are tho results
of radical misconceptions on tho part of the
individual practitioners.
Nobody ever gets rich by gambling: but it
is open to demonstration that, if tho samo
amount of skill, of cerebral energy, of mental
dexterity, and of acute perception, were ex
pended hi productive work of soino kind as is
expended on games of chanco, tho rewards
would bo substantial and certain. Again, the
burglar who burglcrs on a largescale is play
ing against fearful odds, and is certain to
come to grief sooner or later; while, if he
burglers on a small scalo, he can but snatch a
precarious and insignificant pittance, con
siderably below what he might ensily earn by
legitimate industry in lawfnl hours.
There is, perhaps, a charm of excitement in
burglary which fascinates the professional
outlaw, even as the excitement of the turf or
of cards enthralls the professional gamester.
But to take a plain, practical view of both
pursuits, and one apart altogether from the
ethics of tho matter, is to lead one to the con
clusion that neither game is worth tho candle.
The law, of course, takes other views of
both. Tho burglar indulges in his exciting
career at the expense of th community, and
injures everybody, including himself. The
gambler indulges m hu habitual excitement
without injuring din-ctJy anybody but him
self and those dependent on him, who, from a
social point of viorr, may bo regarded as
part of himself. The burglar, therefore, is
objective in his existence: the gambler, sub
jective. To put it otherwise, the liarglar is a
conimou enemy, and the gambler nobody's
enemy but his own.
The great fact which the community has
to consider, and the law to provide for, is
that tho burglar is one who is in permanent
rebellion against society, and is, by the vy
nature of his employmsur, both degraded aad
desperate. All the Year Round.
H you enter Somerset house through one
of the arches in tho Strand, and go straight
across tho court yard to tho other side, under
tho cupola in what was formerly tho navy
office, you will find the will office.
We stop to read the notice exhibited at one
side of tho entrance, that the officials in their
several departments will give all necessary
information for the guidance of the public,
and in case of any assistance being required
in searching for and reading wills it will be
provided on application to the record keeper.
Passing through two pairs of swing doors
you enter into the public hall, and see at
once arranged on the shelves at tie sido and
smder the desks the calendars containing the
lists of the names of the testators whose wills
have been proved, 3nd also the names of
those persons, dead intestate, of whose per
sonal estate letters of admistration have been
granted.
LOOK MKE BIBLES.
Thero aro also mighty volumes made of
parchment and bound in leather, with strong
brass clasps, containing tho registered copies
of wills. It was in respect of these big books
that the country visitor Inquired of the at
tendant whether they were Bibles, connect
ing them m her mind with the big Bible in
the pulpit of her old parish church. Tho at
tendant promptly replied: "No, ma'am,
they're the testaments." Only a few of tho
most recent of these books are in the public
hall; tho others are kept on a lower floor,
whence they are brought up when required
to be seen. The volume is placed beforo you
on one of the strong desks, the attendant
finds tho will you have previously searched
for, and you stand thero and read it. All tho
original wills are kept in the strong room,
which is also on a lower floor. You do not
read these in the public hall, but go a littlo
way down the passage, on the left, to a room
called the reading room. Tho will yon have
bespoken is brought to you, and you sit down
to a long tablo comfortably to read it, but
always in view of one or two argus eyed
officials, who -watch carefully that you do
not damage tho document or tako surrepti
tious extracts "beyond the permitted notes.
There are many persons who believe that
if they had their rights they would be pos
sessed of considerable property, and that
their anceartorsinoraor loss remote have been
unjustly kept out'of great estates or large
sums in chancery. This belief is the cause of
a constant flow of visitors to tho will office,
who delight in reading the will, perhaps 100
or 150 years eld, wherein something has been
left to ono of their forefathers, or at least to
some ono of the same name, and, sublimely
oblivious of tho statutes of: limitation, thereon
build castles in the air. Undoubtedly, if the
money is in tho court of chancery, and if,
notwithstanding the length of timo it may
have been there, a person can show a good
title to it, ho will bo able to get it; but tho
adventurers in search of property begin at,
the wrong end. They ignore the Baconian
system of philosophy, and, starting with tho
family tradition that thero was once consid
erable property in tho family, look up a lot
of old wills and waste their timo-and money
on a speculative possibility of discovering
something they can lay claim to. The pro
fessional finders out of heirs to unclaimed
property begin at the other end. They start
with tho property or fund in the court of
chaucery or elsewhero wanting an owner
and work back until they find tho person
whoso claim to it can be supported. Then
they go to him and mako a bargain that if
they succeed in putting him into possession
they shall receive a proportion insomocases
as much as one-half of tho money or estate
retrieved from the court or wrongful pos
sessor. THE FOHTTOE HUKTER&
Because a person has been advertised for,
perhaps, 100 years ago or more, with the sig
nificant addition that if he will apply as di
rected ho will hear of something, greatly to
his advantage, it does not follow that if his
representatives now apply they will find
there is something to claim. Tho advertise
ment may have been issued in respect of
somo small dividend under a bankrupt's es
tate, or on te winding up of some company,
or even to find some person who was a wit
ness to a will or other document for the pur
pose of obtaining his evidence; the man him
self may have como forward at the time and
received his money or given his testimony;
but tho advertisement still remains in the old
newspaper, or in tho published books of tho
collectors of these things, who have no knowl
edge that the object of its being inserted has
long since been satisfied. Tho unhappy f or-tuno-seeker
buys tho book and finds thonamo
only; he then has to buy a copy of the adver
tisement, then to expend his money and time
in making various searches to prove his de
scent from the person advertised for, and
then to trace the people who inserted the ad
vertisement; and after all he may find that
the whole matter was settled years ago. In
some cases years have been epent and small
fortunes wasted in these-scarches.
Wilis sometimes pass through strange vi
cissitudes before being'adinitted to probate,
and testators are often themselves to blame
for it. They either hide them away so care
fully in such secret repertories' that at their
deaths they cannot 'bo found, or leave them
about so carelessly that they get converted to
other purposes or gathered up with tho waste
paper and rubbish. The great Lord St. Leon
ards, who had for several years tbongfctfnlly
considered how be chonM dispose of his prop
erty, had left a will, that was certain, out it
could not be found at his death ; it ha1 been
kept locked up m a box, but when the box
was opened the will was not there. The
court, being satisfied by the evidence of Miss
Sugden of the contents from her recollection,
granted probate of the will as contained in
her evidence. In one case, a boy seeing his
father's will lying about, and finding it was
written on good, strong paper, cat it into
strips and made it into a tail for his kite.
These were afterwards carefully placed to
gether, the patchwork state of the wiii was
fully explained, and it was then admitted to
probate. In another case, after having been
lost for a long time, a visit from the dustman
led to the will being found at the bottom of
the dcsthole. One case that we know of was
not the fault of the testaior; the executor, at
a public dinner, handed the will to his proc
tor to prove, bet tho will could not after
wards bo found. The proctor was snre he
gave it to his clerk, who was just as snre he
never received it; the safes were Jearched,
the bundle of paper were endone and shaken
out, and all the drawers were turned oat, but
the will was not forthcoming. The legatees
began to clamor for their money, when luck
ily tho proctor went to another dinner, and
on petting hb hand into his dress coat pocket
palltjd out the missing wilL London Illus
trated News.
rengfhwise witthroadmoderately fnETke
& shnftJe. i ,
'jTo begins ndet,jin a foundation loop
faaVtxacnion'ofe9jfover." What you
want'is a firm starfngpoint. This may be
dispensed with afterVh'e work is sufficiently
advanced. Tie tho end of tbffwprkine thread.
thafwound cn'the neeaVfast to tho founda
tion loop and'take ihe a& stick in the left
hand, holding"it between fV"-o thumb anefcfore
finger. Tae f he needle "iV the rlgHKhand,
pass the thread downward cotker thestick.and
tho extended fingers ;. bring V up over the
outsidM)f tb fingers, then forward between
the ihnmh and forefinger, betrweya which tho
loose loop thus made is held tig tly for tho
present.
Now throw the thread down again over the
outside of the hand, bring the needle f-o wards
you, pass it upward through the lcP held
over the fingers, under the mesh tick,
through the foundation loop and in froVt of
the thread proceeding from the thumb. A ow
gradually draw the needle through, so asto
form a knot and a loop over the mesh stick.
The stick regulates the uize of the loop. Only
practice can teach you just how to do this.
Mako-anotber loop just like the first in the
foundation loop. Then draw out tho stick;
make another row in the same way, making
one more loop in each row. Work in each
loop of the preceding row, just as you did in
the foundation loop. The work tbus-proceeds
diagonally, but the meshes pull outsquare.
II desired netting can be started on a long
string, instead of a foundation loop. Variety
can be introduced by using sticks or'tbreads
of several sizes in alternation. In wool or
silk several colors may bo used and beads
tacked on the knots or narrow ribbon runin.
Netting is frequently used for shoulder capes,
tidies, babies' caps, etc. To make thecrown
of a baby's cap do about thirty loops inaxrow,
then run a thread through and draw np hn a
circle. Around this work as many rowswf
loops as may be desired. Netting is of tew
edged oiE with ornamental crochet stitches.
With stout twine, likemacrame cord, any girl
or boy might net a fishing nefcor a hammock.
Filet proper is coarse, square meshed net
ting of linen thread. To mako gnipuro d'art
the filet is first mounted on a frame. A suit-
able frame can bo made by bending a wire
into the shapoof square or rectangle, joining
tho ends carefully and covering the wire
smoothly with old silk or muslin sewed-over
the wire like-tubing. Over thisopen parallel
ogram stretch out tho filet, sowingor lacing
tho edges firmly to the covering.
Tho Slot is to be filled in with lace stitches,
some of which you already know. You know
that point do Bruxelles, or Brussels point, is
a loose buttonhole stitch, so loose that tho
stitches .hang down in loops-or-picots.
Now, if you mako two rows of this, cross
ingeach other so thatiho-loops arotumed in
opposite directions, you bavo mada point
d'esprit. If yout examine a piece of antiquo
laco you will see that its ground is largely
covered with this-stitch.
Another common stitch is plain in and out
darning. But dono evenly and carefully, it
becomes an art stitch, known as.point do toilo.
Point de feston is also a ldnd of darning, but
it is dono over tho-cornerora square, with a
succession of loops over tho U'-mdation
threads. Point de feston and " t do
Bruxelles can be grouped or co -l in
various ways, to form blocks, stara aud other
patterns.
Point do reprise is used chiefly in making
leaves, petals, etc. Stretch two or three
threads over ono or moro squares, then darn
in and out over these threads. All of these
stitches are exceedingly simple. With tho
present hints, all that you need in order to
learn them is to examine -a piece of antiquo
lace. Wheels are sometimes introduced.
These aro tho verj- same as-used in point lace.
Lace-stitched done in silk are sometimes in
troduced into art embroidery. I have seen a
pattern imitating antique lace, tho squares
cf filetoutlined upon a( plush foundation-and
Ihen worked ovor with pointde feston.
The edgo of antiquo lace isfmished off with
close buttonhole stitch. The scallops aro cut
out in square points, f ollowing, of course, the
character of tho meshes. Netting may bo
cut any iength or width convenient, as it
does not ravel out. Margaret B..Harvey in
Phdadelnhia Times.
An Uncomroon Itoyal Spectacle.
Apropos of grand dukes, it may bo inter
esting to ctate that the czar has recently
given tho raro spectacle of an autocratic sov
ereign freely renouncing somo of his privi
leges.and reducing tho amount of moneys at
tributed to members of his family out of the
state 4xidgct. Tho empress, who-rcceived an
nually 600,000 rubles a ruble is nearly equal
to eighty cents will get only 200,000 here
after, and in case of widowhood her dowry
will boa-educed by one-half, if Eheresidcs out
hide of "Russia. Instead of 300,OOOTables, tho
csarowitz will havo only 100,000; and his
wife 60,000 instead of 150,000, as now. On her
husbands death sho would get a pension of
100,000 rubles instead of CO0.CO0, if she re
sides within the empire, and only 50,000 in
case of her residing ubroad. Tho grand dukes,
brothersof the roigning czar, who received
100,000 rabies as a pension untillnow, will get
no hmtq than 8S,000. The daughters and
granddaughters of the emperor will receive
from tho state a dot of 1,000,000, .and nothing
more. Eech son of r.ho czar will get at his
majority appanages bringing a determined
incomo and 1,000,000 Tubles toward tho build
ing and .furnishing of a palace. Similar re
dactions have been ordered by tho czar in re
gard to money appropriations-made to other
members of the imperial family. New York
Tribune.
Tlie TJrakeman'H I.oa.
There is danger that tho modern passenger
brakeman will dio of ennui. On the Fort
Wayne road there is now in process.of testing
a device which is to be operated by com
pressed air from tho engineer's cab, and
which is, in effect, a noiseless annunciator,
qnietly informing the passengers, through
their eyes, not their cars, of the name of the
next stopping place. This, if generally adopt
ed, will rob the brakeman of the dear joy of
shocting in an unknow n tongue. Ose by ono
this officials dntics liavo paaswl away. A
decade ago he twisted the hand brake ai -vigorously,
and of tener, than did his co-worker
on the freight train. Air and the engineer
now perform that arduous duty. Now comes
the silent, air operated rtation annunciator.
There are a few privileges, however, left to
STUDIES ASTRONOMICAL.
How a Western Toath. Combined Scati
BM3itaBd Science Sasceaafiuiy-.
It was at Spirit lake, at the Wry limit of
the pier. They -were all alone. There was
no moon, but the-fitars wero big and bright,
and"sb"fnUofseaco3icelt-thatrthoy-Iooked at
themselves in the water and winked. Par
out a boat slid noiselessly along. In a neairer
boat a fair tenor voice carelessly half
hummed, half sang a common love song.
From the hotel came now and then tha
twang of the strings of the-orcfaestra of. man
dolins. On such a night as this did Dido
stand upon the wild sea bank and wave her
love to come again to-Carthage. On such a
night .as This did Jesska bnt a truca to the
bard! It was the sore of night on which a
man could make loveto his own wffe! and
those two, Edouard and. Alicia, d not yet
bespoken their tender vows.
4Do yon know anything about the stars H
Inquired Edouard, in a voice liko the mur
mur of the wind in summer trees.
"A little," answered Alicia, tenderly, "I
know some of the constellations the Great
Bear the"
"Yes," interrupted Edouard, -"I know all
abVtit tho big bear and I can find tho North
stai: bnt eight over there is a group. Do
yon know tihe name-of thatf And Edouard
threw iris arm across Alicia's shoulder and
pointed4o a. cluster of shining-worlds in tha
east.
Alicia leani?d toward him. "I don't know
wiiat that is," she breathed, as ono who did
not care.
4,And there is another constellation just
over our heads" Edouard passed bis arm
around her neck, and placing his hand under
her chin so tilted' it thatiit would bo-easy for
her to see. And then to Alicia's eyes tho
heavens becamo-ono grand carnival of con
rtollations. Shooting stars chased each other
lthwari tho firmamoat, comets played riot
ous games among the planets, and finally
there coma a-suf t and radiant blur-wfrich hid
them alL
Edouard had kissed Alicia. ScattlAPost
Intelligencer.
Treasurer's Quarterly Statement.
Trsa.ocres'4 Ofticx,
Wichita." Kansas", Jan. 27, JS90. i
I do hereby certify that the following state
meat of funds remaining m my bands as treas
urer is correct to the best or my knowledge
and belief:
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Sedgwick County .Building fund $62,103 51
State of Kansas 9.QC339
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County Bond fond , lO
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I heard a funny story aboutWillLanUnenry
Hurlburt tho other day. It seems ho has
been in tho co. untry incog., aud somebody
recognized him Vown in the park staring up
at tho new WoWd building with dreamy
Amazement, and a usbed up to him heartily.
"LTo! my dear Hurlburt, glad to sco you
back."
Tho astonished ex-journalist drew himself
up. "Confound it, sir," he said, '-I am not
Hurlburt, and I am not back, sir."
Then ho drew his mantle about him and
hurried away.
But ho waanot tc-escape-ihus; asho turned
into Chambers street his old friend Simpson
met him. "Why, Hurlburt! how do you dof
What aro you after nowl"
"After a blasted fool, and Pre caught up
with him!3 Truth.
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Driving over the hills of western Jersey
last week, a reporter stopped at a lonely lrttlo
cabin, in front of which an old man was chop
ping wood, and inquired the distance to An
thony. The lank and aged citizen straight
ened up and attempted toircply. Ho ot aa
far as:
"T-t-t-t-t-ttt," when his face grow red and
his grimaces became distressing. Ho stop
ped, took a full breath and tried agidn with
no better success. Ho was thoroughly miui
now, and his distortions were really sugges
tive of an attack of apoplexy. Tho-old fel
low suddenly gave it up, ond.broke-out with
out any difficulty:
''Darn ye, driveon and yolligit tbero afore
I can tell ye."
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you hear
about Gosh'nj,-,
Simeral-Cumao?
Cumso No; what's tho matter?
Simeral He was arrested for kissing a
Boston girl; bnt he escaped a fine.
Cumso How did he manage
Simeral He pleaded temporary insanity.
-Muusey's Weekly.
Queer Heller.
Tbo Fijian cannibal's emotions havo refer
enco for tho greater part to food, so ho wor
ships tho god Matawaloo, who has eight
stomachs and is always eating.
Tho Tongans have a very curious dogma to
account for a day and night being twenty
four hours long. It used to be less; tho sun
used to go down too quick. So ono day a man
caught it with a nooso, and it had to go
slower thereafter.
The ancient Peruvians believed that the sun
onco canio down to the earth and laid two
eggs and then went back again. From thcte
two eggs men sprung.
Tho American Indians had a dogma that
tho tun was the ono eupremc god, und the
moon was his wife. One tribe inhabiting n
fearfully hot district worshiped tho moon
alono, saving that they had no Uio for tho
sun.
In the days of Columbus scientific dogmas
asserted: If a ship fhould reach India she
could never get back again, because tho ro
tundity of the globe would present a kind of
monntam, up which it wouid beimpoible to
sad even with tho most favorabiu mud.
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No Other Oigar has Such a Eeoord as
How to .ar ti iii tleflt.
''This prejuuict cga.- nih hevla is a mis
take, remarked a sh' maker, aa he prepared
to place an addition "lift ' upon tho heel of a
shoe whih ho held m his lop.
"It dependrf entirely upon the natural
Bhapo of the foot. People with a high instep
require high hLt, and it Li only tho flat
footed who feci easy with low heel.
"Slippers are positively injunoU3 to most
persons, especially if thf-y attempt to do any
unusual amount of walking in them. Thi
low bevls give no support to the ankles and
cause the ankles to break down.
"Anv pw)a who finds in br-akin:r in a
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pretty girls to help on and off, fat women,
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will at tunes sigh for the days when he could
relieve his feelings by putting wroo passen
ger's ear drum, and omitting a language that
Max Mnller himself could not interpret.
Pittsburg Bulletin.
GUIPURE "D'ART.
Oar
Couldn't Do It.
She Oh, Henry, it's very easy to see why
you didn't enjoy the erpoition. You would
n't enter into what was going on. Yon
wouldn't leave year Htive yrejwfcces c ! pkuwets are a netting aeaaie and
iiu'.s w. iiiu ucatoo you. "r , wu o c in
Paris vou should have done as the Parisian
did.
Henry Good heaven?, -how could 12 A
man can't swindle and roo himself, caa he?
Pretty and Uiefal edlework That
GirU 3Iay Easily Leara.
Guipure d'art is that spines of needlework
commonly known as antique lace. This lace
can be purchased so cheaply that it would
scarcely pay any girl to make it. But it
would pay her to learn the stitches, as they
are of u?e ia other kinds of neiiewcrk
Guipure d'art is generally made of hnon
thread, but siik or other material may b
snbsnreted. It i worked en a foundation of
netting, nasally called 2!c
j.eitujgueaiuvisaae. ar necKtaarv rm-
nieyh
ick. xne mc?i stiei is of ivory, round or
flat 3at is better for antique lace. The cat
ting needle may be of steel for Imen icreatd
or silk, base for wwjL Th needle is straight
H krJ botfaii. Jx ?hcnj iw.id
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"ixre How I Do It."
A contributor to Tfaturo recounts the fol
lowing instance of animal sympathy and in
mctive example: Some years ago we had
two cats, a tabby and a powerful torn, per
fectly white all over. One dav I happened
to be in the attic, and noticed tham go oat I
on the slates, when Tom jumped acrot? the
yard on the neit roof. It appeared to me a j
splendid leap, considering the width of the 1
yard and the b-ignt of the roof. Whf-n
Tabby came to the edge of the dates he 1
courage failed, and she uttered a cry of dis- j
tress, whereupon Tent turned round and !
leaped baci:, and, giving a cheerful xaew,a J
much as to fay, "Look how easly it can be j
done." jumped across again, Uu time fol- j
lowed by Tabby, to my great delight. I
of the shoes are too low. I am lAtufled that
children suCer a great deal from this coumx.
Every individual should learn by experience
how high the heels of bL- fcboei hon!d b, and
tekct accordingly." Kansas City Globe.
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sir.
ilr. Slowpay with dosp ezsotioe -I p
pose yon teard of the failiir o Safe, Cafa &
Co. bank this morninl
'Tk. a report'to that e3ci was aroend, j
bat it was all a mistaie. A check oc that
bank i a good as gctd. j
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In. a virr hrsCTTic Co., Atfiaa, Gx.
JrttLtttC a UxtttU
An amaaias Sry ewsi to t&S.U a -rag
who accepted, a caaScc-, to 0i.iadL On
ifce cpjwisvd Jij j., .. msrcr to jfv.
eit to cklk. on a bord aa stlte ot hit
tv cfcaJJenjjwi jxurry'i, fia?, aad tf t
ebailsicr hit it fco vcH cwsriar kfesa
Ottsdi or dead, a Um c- tmjiz. b.
Tht nxjsrj ZBA.J p&t&Aj i orlaated
Ires one laid la la "KmSott of Hartfcrd,
Vt ,- cf Ccad-r Brawll, aa lrskabie hs.
kwprr ct that una.
Ks wrj cJtes at ruiacce w his cafgb
bcrs, aa4 oae be aad a cueeS, avmj qoar
rwd, ;rtd to Cgct a iL At tin tj
pointed bscr t adTtrry appeared, ars"
wul- & Histn. Bwda Vjved a j&k, "-f.
brnZ rrf bny. zzi V )Om:
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