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MOTHER M'GAREY'S INDUSTRY The Old Lady Is an Accomplished Pickpocket and Prefers to Ply Her Profession at Funerals ■ ■ "Mother" Mary E. McGarey, one of the shrewdest old rascals with whom the police of this city have to deal, Is again at her old business of picking pockets. It Is not known that she ever ceased plying her trade, but of late the detective department has heard little of her. A number of cases has been reported which savored of the old lady's skill, but the of ficers have been unable to trace any of them directly to her. The woman Is a pickpocket, and a good one, if such an adjective may be applied to such an industry. Many a person in this city who has had occasion to attend more than one funeral during the past year, at which a large number of congregated, may have noticed an Innocent-looking old woman, who ap peared to be a friend of the bereaved family, mingling among the crowd at the house or church, crowding into a carriage, and following the fun eral party to the cemetery. He will, perhaps, recognize the accompany ing picture as a likeness of that old woman. If he does recognize the likeness and again sees the old party, it may be to his financial interest to watch her closely, and It is his duty to notify his friends of her prox imity and predilections. Funerals furnish for Mary her favorite field of operations. With the cunning Ixirn of long experience and many successes, she well knows that the average person would least expect to find a pickpocket at a funeral, and she profits by this to an extent that will never be known. Her plan of operations Is a simple one. Dressing habitually in black and wearing clothing of such quality as would make her appear to be a re spectable woman of the middle class, she goes to a funeral, preferably of some member of a wealthy family. Those who do not know her think some of the family do, and she is seldom interfered with The larger the crowd the more certain is her presence, and once in the center of a crowd, her nimble fingers are certain to make somebody the loser by her presence. On numerous occasions the detectives, all of whom know her, have caught her In such places, but recently have not been able to detect her In actual stealing. They can, therefore, only order her to leave, and, to prevent a scene, this has to be done quietly "Mother" McGarey ha« served one term for picking pockets. That time she became overconfident and was caught in the act, but it did not prevent her resuming her old tricks when she was released. "That woman." said Chief Glass yesterday, pointing to her picture in the rogues' gallery, "is positively the worst of her kind that we know of. She knows we are watching her, but she still plies her trade, and how much she gets only she knows. I wish I could make every man and woman In the city familiar with her face, so that she would b« known to them by sight. We can do nothing without positive evidenoe of her guilt. I saw her yesterday in a crowd at a funeral, trying to crowd into a hack to go to the cemetery, and ordered her to leave. Just before that Detective Auble ordered her away. She works the 'old woman sym pathy' racket to perfection. She is an arrant old fraud and ought to be in the penitentiary." FALSE ALARMISTS Warrants to Be Issued For the Arrest of the Rascals Harry Neath, A. H. Brown and Walter Brown are to be arrested as soon as war rants for their arrest can be obtained tomorrow. They will have to answer to charges of malicious mischief, disturb ing the peace and turning in false alarms of fire. The complaints will be sworn to by Chief Moore and Assistant Chief Smith, who, on one of the charges at least, have enough evidence to convict two of the men. Neath Is a former member of the fire department and was dismissed from the service for cause. One of the Browns claims to be an electrician. The three were together Friday night, and, it is believed, turned in the two false alarms of fire and afterward caused the fire bells to strike. Two of them went to the quarters of the No. 3 chemical en gine company shortly before the first alarm and yelled "Fire!" When the firemen sprang from their beds and "hooked up," the men laughed at them.: Soon afterward, when an alarm sounded, the same two men appeared at the first ■troke of the bells and yelled: "It's your . go. We know What box it is. You' needn't count it." Brown, the alleged electrician, who was formerly In the fire department service, was with them, and is supposed to have turned in the alarm. Later a second alarm sounded, and after that there were numbers of blows on the Are bells, keeping the firemen awake most of the night. The penalty for turning In a false alarm of fire Is a line not exceeding 1100. Paid For the Milk , John McAvery and Charles Moore, who were arrested on a charge of petty larceny, for stealing a small quantity of milk several days ago, were released yes terday. They stated that they were drunk at the time and did not know what they were doing. They wanted to pay for any damage they had done and as the loser of the milk did not desire to prosecute them, the court allowed them to settle the case in that way. Coat Thief Jailed Joe. Williams, who was arrested for petty larceny Friday night, pleaded .guilty in Judge Owens' court yesterday and was fined $100 with the alternative of 100 days in the city Jail. He chose the latter of necessity. He stole a fine Klondike coat worth $B0 and at the time of his arrest was trying to sell it. Beggars Growing in Number During the past week fourteen beg gars have been sentenced to various terms, of Imprisonment in the city Jail, but there is no apparent diminution of the number infesting the city. James Butler, was the last to be put away. He MOTHER M'GARET admitted his guilt of the charge against him before Justice Owens yesterday, and was sentenced,to 30 days' imprison ment, with the usual chain-gang accom paniment. IN THE PUBLIC EYE The estate of the late Neal Dow will amount to }450,000. Professor Charles W. Kent has been named president of a committee that Is now at work raising funds to place a suitable monument to Edgar Allan Poe in. the library of the University of Vir ginia. Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., has present ed to the Yale library a valuable collec tion obtained during his recent trip around the world. They include views in India, China, Korea and Slam, and are accompanied by valuable Buddhist manuscripts. Mr. Gladstone Is the owner of the larg est lead pencil in the world. It Is the gift of a pencil maker at Keswick, and Is thirty-nine Inches ln length. In place of the customary rubber cap it has a gold cap. Its distinguished owner uses it for a walking stick. When a child of 5 years, John Wana maker assisted In making bricks, get ting a few cents a day. His first step to ward fortune was in the days when, as an office boy, he saved money enough to start in business for himself. .He worked as assistant in the office until he had climbed up to $6 a week, and then, seeing that he could get no more, he bought a little stock of cheap furniture and started to be a merchant. The Sherlock family are noted horse traders In Tennessee, Mississippi, Ar kansas and Alabama. They Intermar ry, and one of the characteristics of the family is the largeness of the mem and the diminutive size of the women. Whenever a member of the band dies his body is shipped to Nashville and placed in a vault. Every year, in the month of Maj, the family meets in that city, when the dead are removed from the vault and Interred with appropriate services. John Saul, F. E. Grover and A. Hen doy were arrested yesterday on war rants issued at the instance of the health department charging them with violating the milk ordinance. All of them are dairymen and they are accused of having sold milk which was below the standard required by the ordinance. Bought a Fire Damaged Coffin O — — ">* AruaMMQVW WUUUi Wes Hall is the name of a Smith county, Kansas, farmer whose; 17-year old daughter died last Tuesday. He came to town after a coffin, and found one, It is said, that had been badly dam aged ln a Are that he could buy for 13. Loading the coffin into his wagon, ao the Sold Poor Milk LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 6, 1898 story goes, he drove around to the dif ferent carpenters of the town ln search of one who would repair It. Knowing that Hall was well off, the carpenters indignantly refused to do the work, and he was compelled to take the casket home and repair it In the kitchen of the house where his dead daughter lay. The local papers took up the affair, and it la believed that the county will be made too warm for Hall by his scandalized neighbors.—Kansas City Journal. CALIFORNIA OPINION Too Tough for Los Angeles A fakir Is in Ihe city with what pur ports to be a phonographic reproduction of a negro lynching and burning affair at Paris, Tex., some years ago. Al though Los Angeles will harbor almost anything, this exhibition was a little too tough for even that city, and the fakir was chased away. It is hardly neces sary for the officer to wait for this fel low to be Indicted by a grand Jury.— San Bernardino Free Press. A Confiding Came Two armed and able-bodied Los Angeles county ranchers shot and killed an old man lately, no other witnesses be ing present, and were promptly released, when they gave themselves up, on their own statements that they slew their victim ln self-defense. Justice seems to be a confiding sort of dame ln some parts of Los Angeles county.—San Fran cisco Bulletin. The Mote and the Beam A San Francisco paper comes to our desk with the illustrated accounts of two murders and a suicide adorning Its first page. And yet this same periodi cal has often come out with a vigorous tirade against "yellow journalism." About the only distinguishing difference we can discern is that the ordinary daily paper lacks the attractive bright colored covers of its rivals.—Whittier Register. No Gold Legislation It is useless to attempt to minimize the significance of the vote taken in the sen ate yesterday on the Teller resolution, it means that the upper house of con gress, as at present constituted, will not enact financial legislation on the lines of the Reubllcan platform and ln accord ance with the well-known wish of Pres ident McKinley.—San Diego Union. Puckers in Public Schools Whistling is encouraged In some of the public schools of Philadelphia. In the Zane street school, where the board of education has Its offices, shrill notes from the classrooms above float down upon the committees In the midst of their deliberations. The repertory In cludes "Yankee "Star Spang led Banner," and "Home, Sweet Home." Strang* as It may seem, the girls, after a little practice, make better whistlers than the boys. They en'Jff it immensely, and when engaged in these "recitations" twist their little mouths into the sweetest of puckers.—Philadel phia Record. Salmon Hatching on the Pacific The work of collecting salmon eggs at the California fish commission hatchery on the Sacramento river at Anderson. Cal., has just closed. The results of th. season's operations are most remarka ble. Forty-eight and a half million eg«s were collected. This exceeds the pre vious records made at this station by 22,000.000, and Is 28,000,000 more than were collected at the other hatcheries on the Pacific coast this year. These eggs will be hatched and the fry planted In the waters of California, with the exception of 3,000,000 that will be sent to Oregon and 6,000.000 that will go to the New Eng land states. The Abuse of Bryan The abuse of Bryan still continues. But It will be noticed that there is a cer tain falling off in the flippancy of these attacks, and a corresponding increase in their savagery. It is no longer the boy orator in knickerbockers, with a bellows full of wind who is being ridiculed into the political graveyard. It is a power that must be reckoned with —a power that is growing daily and hourly, and that threatens to scatter the tents of the Republican host so widely in 1900 that their number shall pass into a hazy tra dition, and their status In history a mooted point among chroniclers.— Riv erside Enterprise. Correct! School Director Webb, of Los Angeles, charged with blackmail and extortion, has been white-washed but the mixture was lamentably thin and the men who applied it are regarded as a disgrace to their city and a menace to the public interests. —San Diego Tribune. Persia's Date Industry The date Industry is in Persia the most profitable of all agricultural pursuits, about 50,000,000 pounds being grown an nually. About one-half of this goes to India. Europe, America and Africa, val ued at the local custom houses at about $415,000. Brothers Long Unacquainted In Delaware two brothers lived for forty years wtihin eight miles of each other, attended the same church and frequently traded with each other, with out knowing they were related. Water works disinfection on a whole sale plan was tried at Maidstone, Eng., according to British Journals, which state that Dr. Sims Woodhead treated the reservoir and mains of a district of that city with a heavy dose of chloride of lime. About ten tons of the lime were mixed with 240,000 gallons of water in the reservoir, and the solution allowed to flow into the mains. At a certain hour it was turned into all the house connec tions in the district, and what did not escape in this way was eventually blown off through hydrants. The disinfection was done to destroy typhoid germs. Reports of the American Bible society show an Increased circulation of Bibles In South Africa and an increased de mand In Bohemia, while the circulation in South America is not falling off. "The late Miss Caroline Talman of New York city bequeathed $165,000 to religious %.nd charitable institutions in that city, chiefly of the Protestant Episcopal church. PERSONAL Mrs. J. M. Erdman will leave for New York Tuesday. L. D. Atkins of Los Angeles registered at the National hotel, Washington, D. C, Thursday. Among the Angclenos at San Francisco hotel* Friday were Herman Silver, W. Nichols, W. Walsh, W. White, D. Parder, J. Pleasance, L. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. JC. «. Tedford and H. H. Raphael. FRONTIER WEDDING "There ain't no accountln' fer tastes," said Silas, thoughtfully, " 'specially when it comes to marryln.' " Silas had been ruminating for an hour or more in perfect silence, chewing a straw, and sitting with his back against a stump, his stretched out on the grass, his hat tilted over his eyes, and a look of contentment upon his visage. fie selected another straw with great care, and as he cleaned the stem of his short black pipe with it, looked sagely over at his crony, Bill, who reclined in the shadow of the great oak tree, hia arms crossed under his frowsy head, and his gaze directed upward through the flickering leaves to the lazy clouds floating ln the blue sky. Bill turned upon his side and looked at Silas, who settled himself back for his smoke and continued: "Now there's Mary an' me. There ain't one person in a thousand who'd a thought it a good match, and when 1 popped the question Mary tol' me her self, pint blank, that it want. 'You're as shlf'less as shif'less can be,' Mary said, 'an' I'm a fool, Silas Martin to lis'en to you a minute.' Mary didn't un derstan' me yery well then, you know, an' fer a fact don't yit, fer she some times thinks I'm idlln' when I'm workln' my mln' at a perfectly exhaustin' rate." Hill disguised a grin by a prodigious yawn, and Silas meandered on. "Well, as I was sayln', Mary said 'you're shif' less, but I'm forehanded myself, an' if you go an' marry some woman that's jus' as shif'less as you are, mischief's boun' to come of it. You'll be sure to do Jus' that, if I don't have you; it's my plain duty to take you,' an' she did, fer Mary ain't one to shirk duty. "You see in the five years I'd been courtin' of her she had come to believe that it was a chance whether I knowed how to look after myself or not, an' had got used to bossin' me. Now my gran dad, the one that rode from Vlrginny to Illinoy a horseback through the Injun country, way back In the thirties, he didn't believe in courtin'." "Didn't?" drawled Bill, with just the proper show of interest. "No," Silas replied, drawing his legs up and clasping his knees for greater comfort In leaning against the stump, "and grandad 'lowed that courtin' was 'gainst nature and bad fer character." Bill stared at the speaker In some sur prise and encouraged by this sign Silas explained. "He looked on it just as honest folks look on lawln' and 'lowed thnt lovers is Just like lawyers. They ealn't be hones' and win their case. They jus' bring forward all the facts and ar guments that are in their favor, and keep back all that ain't, even if they don't lie outright, and most of them does." "That's human natur, anyhow," pro tested Bill, "and so your grandad was wrong." "Yes, maybe, but he 'lowed that court in' was lnvestin' a lot of time and some times money, and gamblln' on the out come. He used to say there wuzn't any more reason why a man and woman shouldn't make a match of. it without any nonsense than that birds should fool around half the season and lose their resit at night singin' und twitterin' afore they mated and built their nests. The best way. he thought, was to mate first and get in the habit of courtin' after ward. It makes marryln' more satis fyin' if it was understood that the court in' was to last a life time, and no gamb lln' on the result of the sparkln'. I do just believe there would be fewer un hltehin's and breakin' away from the married traces if there wuz more court in' afterward and less before. Now. grandad had experience, and experience counts for something, don't it?" "Never been married myself," grunt ed Bill, "so I can't say." "Grandad was a great believe* - in first impressions. He said that folks has a kind of Instinct, like cattle and horses, and it guides us in first impressions, and if we'd only remember that, there would be fewer mistakes ln manryin'. Now. when he was makin' that ride from Vir ginny to IlUnoy he fell in with a circuit rider, camped with him that night and traveled on with him. The next day they came to a settlement where the preacher was goin' to hold quarterly meetin'. It was down in Posey county, lndiany, in a clearln' ln the woods, and all the houses was log cabins with puncheon floors and stlck-and-mud chimleys. They was the llrst houses grandad had seen In four days' travel, and they looked mighty invitln'. "The preacher went to one house and tol' grandad he'd better go to another that he pinted out, for it might not be convenient for one family to entertain them both. Backwoods folks was mighty clever, but sometimes they was scarce in the matter of plates and spoons, though they always had plenty to eat, such as it was, and were glad to have company. The men folks et with their huntin' knives and silver and pew ter was not so common that they was used every day and in every house. "Well, as grandad was goin' in at the door of the cabin where he was to ask for his dinner, he saw a girl standln' at the fire place fryln' fish, the clearln' be in' near the river where fish was plenty. She was about 17, wa.s barefoot and had on a blue llnsey wool dress. Her hair was yaller and her cheeks wuz like red apples. Grandad he walked up to her and give her a look. She looked at him, blushin' a little and her blue eyes danc in' with mischief. " 'How-de-do,' said grandad. 'You ain't the woman of the house, I know, for you ain't married.' The girl laughed and blushed more than ever as she said she wasn't the woman of the house. 'My, you're purty,' grandad said. 'I'm migh ty glad you ain't married, but you're too purty to stay single.' " 'Maybe you're lookin' for a wife," said the girl, laughln' as though It were a mighty good joke. "Now, grandad hadn't a notion of gettin' married till that minute, but something seemed to strike him alkof a heap just then. His legs shook under him like a green hunter's does when he sights his first buck. Great drops of sweat come out on his face and his mouth felt as dry as though he had a tech of fever. This passed off in less time than it takes me to tell it, then he braced up and come a little nearer to the blue-eyed girl. He give a sort of gasp, as if he had been runnin* hard then said quite steady and earnest: 'Yes, I am lookin' for a wife, and you suit me first rate. Will you have me?' "The purty girl didn't laugh any more, for she see that he was In earnest. " 'Have you?' she said, so astonished she could hardly speak. 'You must be crazy! I don't even know your name, and you don't know mine.' 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" Mane Smith.' she answered, taking up the fish and putting some more in the pan. " 'Well. Jane Smith, I like your looks and I like you. Will you have me, now or never?' " 'Well, I don't mind,' said Jane, think in' it over until the last piece was ln the pan and the grease sputterin' away at a great rate. I don't mind, and I don't care if I do.' "Now, I guess you think grandad put his arms round her and kissed her and said something soft, for that's what folks always do in storybooks when a girl says she will have 'em, but he didn't. He knowed better. The chance was that Jane, bein' proper brought up, would have clipped him side of the head with the fryln' fork. So he just went to the door and sung out to the circuit rider to come there. The preacher he come in a hurry. Grandad told him in a few words that he wanted to be spliced to Jane Smith, then and there. He didn't ask no questions, the preacher didn't, but told them to Jine hands. Jane's mother had been to the spring to fetch some water and Just now come up. Her father and brother had been In the stable givin' the horses their noon feed, and they happened in; then all stood starin" as if they were daft, while Jane laid down the fork she's been turnin' fish with, give her hand to grandad, and they were man and wife in less than two minutes. Then Jane went on fryln' fish for dinner. "That evening they had a big supper, for word had been sent all round the settlement lnvltln' people to come, and after supper there wuz some whisky drunk, for in those days preachers and deacons took their dram regular and never thought of doin' any harm. There was dancin', too, and the young men wore moccasins they had made them selves, and most of the girls was bare foot. The bride borrowed a pair of cow hide shoes and a tuck-comb for the par ty, put on her best llnsey gown and danced with the rest. "Grandad stayed three days with his new wife, then went on to Illlnoy, laid his claim, cleared ten acres, and built a cabin. He didn't see her nor hear from her for six months; then he went back and fetched her. They rode back to their home on a load of household stuff and young fruit trees. They lived hap py together for fifty years and raised a family of seven sons. The oldest, 'Lias, he " Here a loud snore interrupted Silas, for Bill had succumbed to his narration some time ago. The historian turned his pipe upside down, blew out the ashes, slowly arose, picked up his Ashing rod and ambled out of sig.ht, leaving his crony to the mercy of a hovering yellow- Jacket preparing for business. LOU V. CHAPIN. Difficulty of Crushing Stone It is easier to crush the hardest stone known than steel. Corundum was chosen for the stone in a recent experiment. A weight of six tons smashed the corun dum, but forty-two tons were required | to crush the steel. With a loud explosion i the steel flew into powder, and sparks i are said to have bored minute holes in the crushing machine. Neal Dow's Libby Prison Speeches | A man with a specialty is never at a loss for a subject for conversation. | When the late General Neal Dow was in L.lbby prison during the Civil war he would stir up his fellow prisoners with patriotic addresses. ' In the midst of his eloquence, if any of the guards appeared, he would quickly take up temperance as his theme, much to the delight of his hear ers, and the guards would only hear the familiar remark: "Yes, gentlemen, we must put down the grog shops with a strong hand."— Youth's Companion. Remarkable Magnetic Development Recent French experiments have de veloped the curious and unexpected fact that certain persons possess a magnetic polarity—that is, they act as magnets, having north and south poles. Such a person, when completely undressed and placed near a sensitive galvanom eter, will, when turned on a vertical axis, cause a deflection first In one direc tion and then ln the opposite, Just as a magnet would. All persons do not pos sess this polarity. Professor Murani, an Italian, upon whom the experiment was tried, exhibited this phenomenon, and it was found that his breast corresponded to a north pole and his back to a south pole. Found a Target Ready A resident of Sherman place made his young son a present of a revolver. It was pretty cold for accurate target prac tice out of doors yesterday, so the lad betook himself to the cellar. There he found a nice target, three white disks on a black-background, and began practice. He landed three bullets in the target be fore practice was interrupted. But he had done the business for the gas meter, and a new one was ordered. The cost of the lad's revolver practice is placed at $16, exclusive of ammunition and kindly counsel as to the selection of tar gets.—Utica Morning Hearld. Bardstown's Year of Mumps BARDSTOWN, Ky., Dec. 23.—Mumps have been prevailing in Bardstown for nearly a year, and it seems there is to be no abatement of the disease. It be gan on the colored population, and up to this time it is reasonable to believe that two-thirds of the negroes have had the malady. Having run its course with them, the present ailment has now struck the white element, and at pres ent there are at least twenty or thirty cases in town.—Louisville Evening News. Early Adjournment Improbable There is radical difference of opinion among leading representatives of the majority party as to monetary reform, civil service rules, Hawaii, Cuba, rev enue and other topics, while each fac tion upon each question has the courage of its convictions and the ability to ex press them at length. And yet there are those who predict a final adjournment In May!—Manchester, N. H., Union. More Than 1,000 Hogs Raised in a Tree W. T. Harmon, living on the Days Mill turnpike near Tilton, has in use a very curious but convenient hog pen. The pen is nothing more than a huge sycamore tree, which is hollow, and furnishes sleeping quarters for at least twenty large-sized porkers. The tree has been used for itß present purpose for over ten years, and during that time over 1000 hogs have been raised in it.— Flemlngsburg Gazette. If angels fear to tread where fools rush In, they should use their wings.— Chicago News. . > The Second Week OF THE CONSIGNMENT SALE . Remember that these goods have got to be sold. Prices cut no figure. One dollar will do the work for two. Come early and make it. ..—•••>.. Regular Consignment Price Sale Price 5c Simpson's best grade, dark and light colored Calicoes 3Xa light and dark Teazle Down . 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