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Ws^L EU-fcyi ". ts„ it !f !f a I I Vr fJ »k fc is I •i U' f.T-. I ?1 I II 4 iH 'iiliCii'' i/vfj I 4 it tr Vi /t .f VjV sHi 11 I "T .,... fH 1 1 t*? *k lh I 1 1 i-iO The Pioneer Express. ^vvv*^ y£VV'- ^f '-V- V: XjOOEtl- t, From Saturday's Daily. CITY council meet on Monday next THE County Commissioners meet next Monday. MRS. Dr. Booker is quite ill and con fined to her room. 1 r„, DAN O'Connor of St Thomas 'was a visitor yesterday. AL. SMITH, the cornet artiste from Hallock, was in the city yesterday. WILL Felson got back from the Graiid Forks Street Fair yesterday. G. HALLSON of Akra, was in the city yesterday and made us a pleasant call. THE usual services at the M. E. church on Sunday. A cordial welcome to all. H. C. KINNEY of St. Thomas came in with States Attorney Miller and Coroner J. C. Suter last evening. DID you notice that Johnson & Holmes' advertisement in another column to sell all their ranch stock on Oct. 9th. FREEMAN Walters went to Winnipeg yesterday to|prepare|for.his removal|there. He expects to return on Monday. DON'T forget that Thos. Roadhouse's sale is "postponed" five days sooner, from the 12th to the 8th, next Thursday. C. P. LAWRENCE of Minto, formerly of the customs force in this city, was in town to-day. Looks just the same al ways. OLE Patson of this city, who has built two churches and dwelling in the Akra neighborhood this summer, is home again. OCTOBER first was a warm day for the season, almost oppressively warm, and the September that closed was more like August than September. REPUBLICAN convention at Neche next Monday. S. J. Sigfusson is men tioned as a nominee. He is a good man for the job and if nominated would make a GEO. Peterson of Gardair Is in the city to-day. Mr. Peterson is one of the thoroughly Americanized Icelanders, a stalwart republican, and a progressive, public spirited man. COLONEL LOUNSBERRY, editor of the Record, and special agent of the U. S. Land office, was in the city on govern ment business yesterday, and incidental ly luoking up some old settler records for future publication. U. S. MARSHAL Hanna came in cn the N. P. this mbrning with subpoenas In his pocket for G. W. Ryan Chas. Atkinson and A. M. O'Connor who are wanted as witnesses at the term of U. S. court that meets at Grand Forks, Oct. 5th. THOMAS Roadhouse wishes to an nounce that he has changed the date of his sale of farm and personal property from Tuesday, October 12th to Thurs day, October 7th, week from yesterday Everybody notice the change. Miss Kit Booker has returned from India where she went in the missionary service several years since. She is now visiting at Grand Forks. She was delay ed about two weeks in New York on her way home by a serious attack of typhoid. She expects to return to India next fall. DK. AND MRS. J. P. BRENNAN are ex pecten back from Winnipeg to-day or tomorrow and will remain- here during the next week and the doctor .will be in attendance at his o'ffice during that time. They will be at home to their friends in Bathgate on Oct 6th. IT seems quite natural to see Charley Parker oh out streets again as he was so many years a resident of this place and connected with Various, business enter prises irom Kelly, Parker & Foster, ma 'chinery dealers, down tifthe time when he ran a bank—Pink Paper. WE would state ta-our silver friends that A. P. T: Suffeliseditor-iu-chief this week so if the Enterprise should make its appearance in a goldeu hue, don't think any thing bf it—it is only bronze and will soon wear off.—Hallock Enter prise. THRESHING is getting pretty well over in many localities. C. J. LUTES of Crystal registered at the Winchester last evening. WEATHER—High south changing to northwest winds and cooler Sunday. FRANK Hinkle, of Howard City, tMich., is in the city looking after his fa ther's interest. MISS LILLIAN NIXON came in from her Ernest school, last evening to spend Sunday with her folks. GiSL'i Gislisph jn moving the house formerly occupied by ]. E. Ashley' to the lots opposite the M. E. church. THE man J. B. DaVis who was held here for shortage in his post office ac counts at Normand, concluded to return yesterday witnput waiting for extradition. Sheriff Bit&b went on the train with him until they crossed the line and then de livered him to the custody of Chief of Police Emrnojns of Rat Portage. The Chiefihen pfor'ueed a pair of hand-cuffs and placed them on the prisoner, who begged hard to be spared the disgrace. At the intecession of Mr. Brown, leg* irons were substituted as they were more out of sight Davis has hitherto occupied a prominent and respectable position in his home town, and was a member of die church and a regular attendant at Sunday school. Last spring he was a prominent candidate for mayor. He feels his position keenly and lays the blame to. ofiw%^|o enticed him into gambling. it it A Miss Emma Bouvette returned from Hallock to-day where she had been "taking care of Joe's new baby boy "for a few days. Two bootleggers were arrested at Drayton Tuesday, and will be taken to Grand Forks to-dav by Deputy Marshal "i 'af-TSiiawtfcSr? rl Hanna. G. A. BOOKER of Williston was a "pas senger on the N. P., this morning. He will visit old friends here, for a couple of days. MARLO Fadden pit first prizes for his horse "Fountain" at the Grand Forks Street Fair, and Mario and the horse hold their heads just so proudly high.be cause of it. Mr. Fadden will be back to' morrow. ATTORNEY M. Brynjolfson of Cavalier came in yesterday from Grand Forks where he had been getting stipulations for the settlement of a case in which J. K. Musselman, P. Jennings and Security Trust Co. are involved. CIVIL service examination is. in pro gress at the school house this afternoon, conducted by Deputy Collector of Cus toms Robert Morrison. There are three candidates viz: C. J. Lutes, Geo. Pet erson and W E. Coats. AN interesting coincidence of the Brennan-Harris wedding on Wednesday was the fact that it was the tenth anni versary of the wedding of Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Harris, to whom we are sure all our citizens will be glad to wish with the PIONEER EXPRESS "many happy re turns." From Monday's Daily. REV. Mr. Robertson, Presbyterian minister of Emerson, was a caller in the city this morning. THE Northern Pacific depot at Little Falls was burned last week and several cars. Loss about $40,0CO. WARRANTEE deed transfers for month of September at county auditor's office, amounted to $38,659,00. NELS Swanson, the rustling merchant of Bowesmont was in the city yesterday. He was looking for a "skipper." HINES writes that he has about re covered and expects to be released soon and return to his farm at Hannah, Cava lier county. SESSIONS of court convenes tomorrow. Judge Sauter will be here, but we un derstand there is but little business to come up. DR. AND MRS. J. P. Brennan returned from their bridal trip to Winnipeg on Sunday and left the same evening for Bathgate. MRS. E. W. Conmy returned from Grand Forks on Saturday where she had been visiting her daughter Lucy who is at school there. ERNEST Branchaud was in from Hal lock, yesterday and to-day he and Geo. Leibinger are off for a bicycle trip via Cavalier to Walhalla. MRS. Geo. Thompson and daughter Alice, left for Brandon, Man., to visit with George Thompson, son of George Thompson of this city. COMMISSIONER .Taylor came over from Bathgate this morning on his bicy cle in one hour and twenty minutes and did not look very tired either. THE Catholic Bazaar at Ernest Pari seaus' at loliette on Saturday evening, was a grand success, both in attendance and finance. Over $75 were realized. DR. HARRIS says, it is a nice little girl baby and Herbert Defoe is the delighted paternal, and it all happened on a beauti ful, October Sunday in this year. MRS. ED. Florance of Grand Forks went through here yesterday en route to Northcote to visit with relatives there and help to take care of the new twins. THE Willow City Eagle says that B. S. .. iv mHiaiS) xiidii* ivnieni Brynjolfson, formerly deputy treasurer of this county and of late with the McCor mick Co. at Grand Forks,* is making ar rangements to move to Willow City. D. C. SHEETS, who will be remem bered as a former mail agent on this from Larirnore to Langdon is reported ill at his home in Larimore with typhoid. GEO. Ryan, Charles Atkinson and A. M. O'Connor are leaving to-day for Farf go, where they will tell the truth and nothing but the .truth before the U. S. court Which convenes .there tomorrow? A MERKY party of a dozen ladies irid gentlemen came in on the G. N. from last night Donaldson, Minn., on Saturday and ex cursionized the city between train* -v best loaf of bread plishment is in the sphere of women. bread. It is the foundation of all good house-keeping. A.E. THACKER and Jas. Williams drove through Pembina Sunday en route to visit friends near Dominion City. Mr. Williams who has been here since har vest looking after his farming interests, leaves in a couple of weeks for his home to Tilsonbury, Oht MRS. S. E. Slauffer of Langdon died last week from the effect of arsenic taken by hqsell with suicidal intent The stor ies are conflicting as to the cause. Tem porary insanity resulting from leligious excitement, and ill treatment and be- '•ML*.*- sVi9 They took dinner at the Pembina House. Heimsltringla will appear next Saturday. TYSON Mclnnes came over from Cav- He confirms the reports of the terrible •her and spent Sunday with friends in prairie fires in Manitoba, as stated in our :Emenon,'returning Monday morning to telegraph columns, and tells of the Cavalier. Tyson will be employed by stories of terrible sufFering^and log* by Hottwookift Co. tMs-WHiler «s clerk iir fugitives coming to Winnipeg. *ieir new store in Walhalla. MR. Swanson of Bowesmont who was MRS. ASKBW of Neche, took the first here yesterday looking for a man, went prize at Grand Forks street fair for the over to Emerson to find him but did No greater accom- not succeed. However, he ran across another man of the same sort who slip than the Ability to bate ft good loaf of P«d out last fall, and made him settle s. a Ipayior- of thy busban^ betng bpthal'eg- that-no mistakes may occur.—Emerson eA 'journal ... „•*. {/ty WM. MCBRIDE now owns arid opefy .its the St. Thomas HouirmiU. THE verd ct of the cororierfs jury at the inquest in the .case of Lera Gud' mundssou was not given out. The jury did not close its labors until late Satur day evening. The witnesses Examined were the parents and Dr's. Harris and LeBarge and F. C. Warner. Frohi the fact that the verdict is not made public, it is very probable that some one will be accnsed as the cause of the death." Fur ther investigation will doubtless occur in Walsh county as the crime, if any, wns committed in that county. A YOUNG man by the name of Maurice Thompson was brought to jail yesterday by Marshall Newans of Drayton. He is accused of forgery. He was working for Mr. Ferguson and received a check of two dollars and some cents inpay. When the check was presented for payment another two had been added and made to read for twenty-two. It is said that another party is implicated and is likely to be arrested to-day. The young man is said to be the son of respectable and well-to-do people in Winnipeg, his fath er being a prominent undertaker in that city. The penalty for forgery is very severe and means a term in the peniten tiary. The forgery occurred about two months since, and Thompson was sup posed to .have left the country, but a brother of Mr. Ferguson recognized him at Grafton where he was working in a restaurant Thompson is only 21, and has an excellent education. TOM McFadden of Bathgate, was over yesterday. HON.J. LaMoure left for Walhalla yes terday afternoon. C. H. Asselstine of Hamilton was In the city on Saturday. THE county commissioners will be in session this afternoon. TOM Connell and his son William, came in from Hamilton at noon, on business at the court house. DR. Ed. Collins, the well-known and successful veterinarian of Hamilton, is in the city to-day. J' THE steam heating apparatus* of the Winchester House will be repaired this week by an expert. JEFF Douville and W. S. Harvey of Neche, stayed over night in the city and eturned home on Sunday. From Tuesday's daily. '. SAM Edgerton of Neche, was in the city yesterday. ATTORNEY N. C. Young came over from Bathgate this morning. DON'T forget Thos. Roadhouse's sale is on Thursday of this week. HON. J. D. Wallace feme in from Drayton onthe N. P. this morning. R. A. WILLIAMS of Bathgate, register ed at the Pembina House on Monday. NICK Hoffman brings in two big su gar beets, each of 'em ought to make a sack of sugar. 'f'\ LEROY Wilkins leaves tomorrow for St. Thomas', to a cept a position in with Mr. Flath as druggist. J. H. ANDERSON left yesterday for St Thomas where he will be employed in the State Bank of St. Thomas. MRS. Gram of Sheldon, Illinois, who has been visiting" at Mr. F. M. Kings', returned to her home yesterday. ANDERSON, the photographer, came down from Hallock this morning and will be found at his studio over the drug store. :per.is EDITOR F. A. Willson of the Pink Pa- casting a roseate hue about the court house this mining. AMOS Purdy and James Wardwell go to Marais, Man. to-night to assist in a churqh entertainment there. THIS running a daily is like Finnegan's telegram. "Off agin! On agin!" A good deal easier to get off than to get on too. CHAIRMAN of Township Supervisors o™, ing looking for a market for ICO bushels of fine potatoes. SVEINBJORN GUDMUNDSON of Akra was nominated by the democratic con vention at Mountain on Saturday for can didate for county commissioner. Mr. Gudmundson.is a bright, intelligent man. R. H. Grandy, of Bathgate, was over FREEMAN Walters returned from Win nipeg this morning. He says the new iuv»wii|t miw says uie new 11c l.« up a little account he'had failed to pay Mr. Swanson returned home believing with Longfellow that life is not altogeth er an empty dream, besides he had a pleasant bicycle trip too. THB agricultural exhibition of Btner son Electorial Division will take place on the114th and lftth of October, instead Of 7th and 8th as was advertised at first The change was on account of the Mor ris and St Vincent shows coming on the same day, and it was thotvbt the turn- era would have more time weak, later ««y «*d the weather is as likely to' be fair. Let all keep wis In mind so nr-wv hhv Rfm HHP' HIWW M91 THE freight traffic on the Northern Pacific is taxed to its utmost these days. There is hardly an hour of the day* but there is some train in sight. But like in former years, they take care of the busi ness in good shape. Cars can be had by shippers on a few hours notice. NOTWITHSTANDING the PIONBRR EX PRESS yesterday gave Mrs. Thompson and Alice a good "send of!" to Brandon they didn't go. But it was because the prairie fires had burned out several ties under the two streaks of rust that do du ty for a C. P. R. Railway between Emer son and St. Boniface. They will start again next Friday, if the section man can get the new ties in by that time. It is a great railroad over there. Sometimes it runs twice a week. PEMBINA is to have a rich musical treat soon. Manager Short has, at con siderable risk on his part," secured the famous Schubert Symphony club and lady quartette from Chicago, for Oct. 15th. They are accompanied by Master Tomma Purcell, the #-year old child violinist and Mr. Louis McPike, elocu tionist, making a very strong company Their entertainments are clean, bright and sparkling and are endorsed by press and pulpit everywhere. ry IT is said a question may arise as to whom the persons damaged by the break ing of the bridge at Bathgate some time since, shall apply for damages. Under our statutes the county builds the bridg es, but the township board have to keep them in repair. According to this it would look as though the township was liable, but it has been stated that the township is not liable for damages anyway, the idea being that every man takes his own risks. If this is good law then it seems to us to be bad law. It would look as if it were the duty of anybody to do some specified thing tor the public, and it wasn't done, and any mdividualfsufTers, the neglect should be paid for by those who neglect. F«MNI F»r .11 Fmr Thowud. VICTORIA, ii. C., Oct. 2.—William Ogilvc. Dominion K»vernmenr. surveyor thin Yuiiv.n couutiy, has arrived iu Vn it im. Hu nays tuero arc prwvisiuus 011 u: I) IN\s 11 ov 4,Oi)o ipio lor «IH- v. I ti.T. Wm lio ie 1 Dawsou, July 15, 1. w'i! w- re 8,utA thtie, bui if, as lepu. led, uiauy liuve since left, then ilib ituaUini w.lt uot be so u.ui as i'JiOVU. sit.1i Treasury Statement. kim.Wn, 0*'t. 2.—Thy uionthiy .it- ifii: .i. tiio t.t vuiumeni mxuiji* iX" U'i.tuies r.iig S'jptouujt'i, .'i. .v \v* ivce.pi to iiavo oei-t. and tue rxp'.tuditnres iij,- :i \t\5ss ul oxpeudiiures ov« 'ti -*%j .,717. vV aud nuilrcsses Liar the Ty, .-i:ip!iii iu uuioii iabel and lii^i uu «fii« c. u- lic-s nd jTinmi )n r.icr uir tlii 1. llO:y Sll UiU Jib li-V i.r- l'UCl.t the 'iji'", Ja -iin ai iaU-. p»-r:-n i-i-r-i'. siiirt cr-. yk.yi: .-. .iu. ii. •i,.ii ii.. uu.oi. iauir.' The i. 1. v.m jjuet nt'xi ywu at Dcii'I'Ufi ., at a dale to Le f}.r:0 by liie bouru 11 i.usues. BWWW.WtWitrW.- •r3 LA1S0II. 'i. itiun o. io 1 n\i" i.—Amviiift tli in ma fl(i ii)ir lilivutiou 01 Ule ...s- w..!«?r «iu was '. ny Ai'lei'tuiiii Lowry o£ in, ii. Y., lUviorsiu^ is 11 nx.anized l:.bor iii:. that n.vj "ijUlili.slK-d sue ljagueV proceeding's i's. luu una rep. 11.11k SI, D- TH, Oei A WKKAT-' nsh So. a .id, 8!3io Xo. 1 N..i- :vr.i, vt\%o: iiNortlieru, Xo. spiiiij. r-jeot&i 70@.c *.»urrivo, N.i. haid. tSb/4 -7 No 1 North ern. Outobor Xo 1 Northern,80^0 Deojiuuer 1 Northern, May No. .Northern, H79iu. Poultry, Baiter and SCgKl. CH CAtiO, Oot. 8. Live poultry, easy. Turkeys. VQloo ehlokens, 7iie spring ohioaena, 7^fo dueka, 7Jo. Butter, steady. Cream •rlea, @*2c dairies, 180100. Bgga, steady fresh, 18Me. Kt 1'nnl Uuion Htock Y»rda. SOUTH ST. PAUIm Oct. 8. HOOS—Market 491O0 lower. Bange ot prices, V.0 Jufi. 16. CA'i'iLn.—Market for good eat tie dull! common stuff very iull. Sales ritiwe at •6 /13.00 for stookars W.W tor i».i l. tor cows: (i.W .or ... BUKif- Market steady. Muttous, t&HO iMinb«. $4.00. Haweipta: Hu^n, 1W «*WU, 00] ealves, Ms ohMit &>. l'ki«nii« lit.YnrtlM. y/- OHioAoa Oot4 HOCkt '^Urfc* slow, 0010 Mirer than yesterday. bales ranged at HUUiO tor light} 98LM44. 4 lor mixed: 18 704)4.So for heavy IKUiiklMuriroagh. CATTLE Market quia* .and un changed. flatea ranged at $8,110 Aft. 40 for beevast for oows and halfars 18.854 lor Taxas steer* 98.fO4jM.8O for west* it |8LUiAt.8ft for stookars and faadsrs. SHKKP Market steady. ranged at |K40as.00 for an»ttve 18.8098.80 for Wasterasi 18.889 MO for lambs. Bees! pi 4: Hogs, 1*000 tattU tUUi sheep, iMuX Chlaac* Ovate aa oLosnerB.cxs. Caioaao, Oei 8. 'WHBAT-Ootobs* STJffbi Oeeember, oM. January. 87^0 M«y, MMn, ^GOltN—Oetobsr, 8T*B|Deeembw WHl Hh T. ». QAiS^-Oetobec l8M»t POBK—Oetbber, l»J*-Jaw*Mgmvv.,... i-l' ii?! HP* Mi HAD TO TURN BACK Steamer Portland Will Betorn Without Miners, Naggets Or DUSt. River Steamer Hamilton Cafinot Possibly (Set Beyond Bam part City. Bepbfts of the Prospective Fam ine at Dawson City Are Confirmed. •A TACOIIA, Wash., OCT 4.—The steamer Northfork from Alaskan- ports bririga the news vthat atMttig For th* Klondike. VANCOUVER, B. O., Oot. 4.—Hon. Clif ton, Dominion minister of the interior, and Major Walsh, administrator for the Canadian Yukon, have arrived, accom panied by a number of Indian guides and several mounted police. The gov ernment steamer Quadra is in the har bor to convey the whole party np to Skaguay. Carried No Pasaengars. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—In order to re lieve apprehension caused by the notice of. the loss,of one of thoir ships bound for the £1 ndike, the Northwestern Transportation company has tele groplied the war department here that the lost vessel, the schooner Hueneme, did not carry any passengers, Hrougbt No Gold. SEATTLE, Oct. 4.—The schooner North Fork passed here on her way to Tacoma lrom St. Michaels, Alaska. From pas sengers who teft the schooner at Port Towiisend it is learned that the North Fcrk brought down a number of pas seugers but no gold. DESTEOYED RAILROAD TRACKS. Insurgents Cat Off Communication Be tween Havana and Flnar del Bloi... HAVANA, Oct. 4.—The insurgents at tacked Santa Maria de Rosario in Ha vana province and routed the Spanish columns. The Spanish troops were ad vancing at the time to attack General Castillo. The railway bridge was blown up and the track destroyed for a considera ble distance to prevent reinforcements being sent from this city. Thus all connection on the Western railway joining Havana and Pinar dei Bio is cut off. A meagre dribble of supplies, chiefly milk and eggs, from the distriot around Bt juciti, upon which the people here are mainly dependent, cannot be brought'in. Cattle are now nearly extinct, and great pressure is being brought upon General Weyler to allow beasts to be imported from abroad. Heavy and continuous rains during the past week have entailed terrible suffering upon the reooncentrados and Spanish soldiers in the interior. Hun dreds hove died from exposure. CARLISTS READY TO RISE. Expected the Klgual for a Revolt Will Be Given. LONDON, Oct. 4.—The Daily in its special article on the Spanish situa tion says: "The symptoms of Qarlist agitation are every day becoming mora ""«IM and attracting the attention pf the Spanish government Oarlist emissa ries are visiting the provinces of Na varre and Oastellon, where the party' has its strongest supporters. "There is tho best reason for believ ing that the signal for rising will soon be given. The revolt wilt probably oc cur in Navarro or Castellon, and the population of the Basque provinoes is alto ready to rise." Say Weyler 'Baa Been Recalled. LONDON, Oot. 4.-^A uadal dispatch rpecived here l|Om Captain General Weyler has been re called from Cuba. His successor, it is added, has not yet been offleiaily an nounced. Troops As* ass erf to i. the steamer Portland, which sailed for St. Michaels with a Maxim gun on her bows to ward off pirates, is on her way home again with out having accomplished the objeot of her voyage. She got as far as Dutch Harbor only. There a portion of her passengers and freight were disem barked and she is now homeward bound, having neither miners nor nug gets, nor company gold aboard her. The latest news in regard to the steamer Hamilton is to the effeet that she cannot possibly get beyond Bam part city, but that 20 of her passengers were making an effort to pull up the river to Dawson, with little chanoe of success. Thirty-five passengers who have given up all hope of reaching the Klondike this season returned on the Northfork. All reports coining from the mining district confirm the reports of a prospective famine this winter. Prevent WASHINGTON, R. 4. Secretary Bliss has requenieu 6ecretary Alger to order troops to proceed to Tuskahoma, T., to avert threatened'trouble dur ing the sessions of the Choetaw council. Both Governor MeOurtin and Indian Agent Wisdom fear an outbreak be tween the political factions and urged that troops be sent to presemthepeaee and prevent riots. It is probable that a troop of cavalry will be sisnt from Fort Gibson. Big B»ttle NBW YOB*, Oot. 4.—A special ^O The Herald from Guatemala via Galve*l.u says: The situation in Guatemala is practically unchanged. The rebels |n oeutered in Quesaltonatno, which city is now tvlnost. surrounded by M,O government troops, and a big battle it then. •.. A Stndy of Benin. Berlin is almost as discouraging in its other landmarks of its notable Ger mans as in its publio statues. It is al most as bad as New York, where lew houses now stuid that were in existenoe when Franklin and Washington were elite. London Is rich iu buildings as sociated with graat men, and an Ameri can can hardly walk from Westminster to St. Paul's without recalling a dosen names of men whose, lives are dear to him. Berlin has, however, been almost built anew since 1870. I can remember whole streets that were different when I WAS a' boy. There are, to bo sure, a few instances of memorial plates being affixed to houses where notable Ger mans have lived, but even in these cases the hofases thelnselves are an uninterest ing portion of an uninteresting street The Prussian kings adored uniformity in street architecture* as well as in the dressing of soldiers, and that may be the reason why today the most beautiful streets of Berlin furnish less.interest to a stranger than the grimiest alleys of London, with their charming diversity of djbrty fronts. The nouses here are all equally high, equally broad, equally gaudy on the outside and equally devoid of individu ality within. The Anglo-Saxon owns his house and makes it comfortable for himself and his family. The Prussian lives in an apartment house, along with perhaps a dozen more families, all of them subject to the petty tyranny of a porter whose duties are dangerously near to those of a police agent Thus the individual taste of a Berlin artist, writer, actor or other notable resident finds no expression through his architec tural surroundings. A Helmholtz, a Mommsen, a Menzel or a Virchow is in Berlin aa little identified with his house as a soldier with his barracks.. This form of living has its conveniences, particularly to a bachelor, but is not oonducive to interest in those who sedc the literary landmarks of great capitals. —Poultney Bigelow in Harper's Weekly. Domestic 8errloe on the Kongo. "Cruelty In the Kongo Free State" is the title of a paper.made up from the journals of the late E. J. Glave in The Century. Mr. Glave says: Toyo, the boy I engaged of Sims, is more differ ent kinds of an ass than any one I have met for several moons. The other day, after cooking something in the frying pan he placed the sooty side on the drum of my banjo. I do not understand his language very well, but from ges ture and disgusted look it ought to have been clear to him that I objected to that sort of untidiness. When I threw off the frying pan, he took it up carefully, wiped the sooty part with a cloth I had given him to clean plates with, and then put it back on the banjo. He has made tea in my coffeepot without re moving the coffee grounds. He walks 'into my room without taking off his hat or removing his pipe. He is ugly, slow and has no more intelligence than a rock. I found him wearing a hat which I had given him to carry, and wiping his sweaty face on my towel. What service he could have rendered Sims' mission I do not know. ~f s/J.i" Sorry He Spoke. On one occasion when a well known' wit was listening to the band on the pier at Brighton some medical students who happened to be there thought they would have a joke with him, and ac cordingly, one of their number went up with outstretched hand and said: "Ah, good morning, Mr. —. How do you do?" "I am quite well, thank you," re plied he, "but I really have not the honor of your acquaintance." "What!" said the student "You don't know me? Why, I met you at the aoa" "Young man, accept iny apologies, but really I saw so many monkeys there that it is impossible for me to recognize them all again. ,"—Pearson's Weekly. They Are Sensitive. The sensitiveness of the famiiion of distinguished men as to. the early oc-' cupations of their ancestors is some what remarkable. Recently an anthpir was asked to write a brief history of the life of a man who had done service to his state. Like Lincoln, thin man hail been a woodchopper, a, fact to which, his historian g^ve prominence^ "Don't say UB vto'asweodchopper,'" said'* the Spokesman of' the fatnily. "That will-never do. '•. What shall I say then?" asked the author. "Say—let me see now. just say that he was connected with the lumber busi ness. "—Atlanta Constitution. i, i' "Mamma, didn't the conductor say Blue island?" "Ye*'dear "Why, it ain't blue at all." "No, dear i'4iammarv Wi a ,y:. '-w. A 'Itain'tAn,ijdatid«ithfiB" "No, dear." "Mamma, what made the say Blue island, when"— "Hush, dear." "Mamma, if I was the railroad' I'd have conductors that knowed"— Whaekjr-GhicNB !Mbjwe u. sr.T 'it 1 V*"? InfkntUe Way. Mr. Newpop—£^y, 4octo«:I wish you would fix np.. epthething to make my wife sleep nights. The baby has just begun cutting its teeth, and— Dotttar—Oh, it's the baby you-want the opiate for, is it? Mr. Newpoj—No for. my wile. Yon see, every time the baby sprouts another tooth she isso ti?klod that she -t' A a W to is of It If tiicre were no men in tbe wortd, secrets woeld be better kept Mora than half the. time when a woman betrays •*c*®t aoai wiar is to blame for it—