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The Exeter Advocate, 1890-1-23, Page 2.0A *LAWS ABE At. Pretty Girls and Alode.st Palatr011.16 Who Promenade s Thougb. Fresh from the Highlouds. A New York despatoa peer B The Sqaden ropnlarity, of tartan germients ef every eort and thaoription is traced of. couree to the Wife marriage. The fashion which began in London in the laminar WaS aken up on the other side of the ciaannei, And all through the autumn end terly in. ter French women have been wearing 'Auntie gown e and cloaks, both in wool for daytime and in eilk or poplin for evening. Thief being the caee, it was to be expiated lama dee whine would cross zlie .A.tianiio, and that Amerioan women should be inter - laded in nothing so much es Scotland, having the names of all the clans at their ringer tips and recognizing instantly the difference in the thetde of a outer or the width of a etripe which to ordinary eyes 'would be quite imperceptible. The laet and brightest novelty is the tartan cloak, and it is always amusing to see what an amount of attention one of these, with he broad blue and green plaids, with narrow lines of white, red or yellow, will attract on Broadway or in any place of public gathering. That there are preferencee is certain, tend the Douglas is about as popular as any tartan. I saw a. highly successful gown at the theatre the other evening in ite mingled dark blues and greens, with a relief of nar- XOW white lines crossing this ground. In -the tight fitting bodice the etripee and checks were wonderfully well matched, though it is to be doubted if the most care- fully erose -out bodice, which a little while ago nobody would have tolerated, can ever satisfy the eye as well as a little plain waist. However, the way in which this corsage was arranged to button over on none Bide was especially becoming to the Sore. The skirt was out in a severely aimple style, but one which suited admir- ably the design of the tartan. " For the street I have seen a number of tartan gowns in poplins, with tartan muffs to correspond. A very smart one stopped a Fifth avenue stage one morning and allowed fumedged boots as it was climbing in. The colors were a new moes-green plaid, with blue and brown cross -bare. The straight front and princess back opened over a side -plaited skirt of dull rose poplin, • edged with a woven border of lynx fur. The bodice had a vest of rose velveteand was draped with a soft rose silk not wholly bidden under the short jacket, whosefronts had not been closed in the warmth of the winter day. A Direotory hat was worn of moss -green velvet, trimmed with pink ribbon. and brown feathers. A HARD LIF 811tV°7 111 ,.!ie.14111-tea %MSS Dia Not End With theNivil War - .0.1110G ZHU' GIRL WEAVERS, " At the toe; Of niy prefession ?" ;said the tired -looking woman, as she nippea with her picker at the knot that had appeared OH the emooth eilken surface before her; 44 I ehouid hope SO, after working in this very factory for half a life.time. I was put to minding a loOra when 1 VMS that small I had to be hustled. out of eight eviien the inspeotors came around, looking after unlawful child -labor, and here I am still, I that have a child of my own big enough to wash our rags and cook our ba of dinner. I thought when I married that I bad left the factory behind me, but illy old man's work ein't steady and there s lour mouths to feed. at home, and I don't understend no kind of work except weaving. It comes hard, though, at nay time of life, to be at thet door )(ender, eunarner or winter, ram or shine, when the 7 o'olook whistle blows in the morning or else be locked out: Long hours? Yee, as long as the law allows, and twenty minutes longer. Here I stand, bothering with this warp, from 7 o'clock till 12 and then from twenty minutes to 1 till 6. If I was to stop long enough to go to that sink yonder and wash my hands, BOYS IN HILTS. At some of the holiday gatherings in country houses a fine old clannish air was .given by some families by having the little ones wear kilts in the plaids affected by their mothers and bringing out the small girls in silk sashes and handkerchiefe to correspond. One might have thought, if the whim were not a shade too eccentric, that the idea was to imitate the heads of Mouses in Scotland, where this winter on all festival occasions on the estates both bast and hotees appear to the tenantry wearing their own tartan. Some of the newest tartans are in neu- tral colors. A handsome one which I saw this morning was a rough gray cloth plaided in brown and darker grey. It was made up with a petticoat of gray velvet, over which fell long pieces of cloth at the baok and on the sides, the velvet showing in front. The bodice had a velvet vest, and the sleeves were of velvet from the ahoulders to the elbows, where they were caught ander long tight cuffs of cloth This gown was made for a qniet, nun -like little woman, whose taste in ber own soft colors is perfect, and who wears with it long coat of gray cloth of artistic out, lined with pink broche and with cuffs and high =liar of chinchille. The costume is oom pleted by a "Puritan cap" bonnet of gray velvet, with a simple bordering of gold braid. HE INTEHFERED In a Matrimonial Quarrel and Now Gains Some Notoriety. A Chicago despatch says : The name of Robert T. Lincoln, Minister to the Court of St. James is associated with the ciivoroe suits of juretta A. Cater and James M. Cutler, a prominent real estate broker. The husband filed hie bill kat week charging his wife with cruelty and attacking him with a loaded revolver in one hand and a hammer in.the other. Mrs.Cutler entered a sweeping denial to -day, and brought suit herself accusing him of desertion, cruelty and numerous attempts upon her life. She was a young widow with two children and 110,000 when Cutler married her fifteen years ago. She has the children still, but not the money. She took her husband to Texas when he was ill, and woke up one night to find he had gone to Quincy, Ill., leaving her with five cents in a strange city. Their home here was next door to Minister Lincoln's residence on the fash- ionable Lake Shore drive. One night last year the cries of Mrs. Cut- ler, who was being beaten by her husband, reached the ears of Lincoln. He called a policeman, and sent him to the Cutler re- sidence with the advice to have the wife. beater arrested. This was done and Cutler was convicted, but spent only three weeks in jail owing to his wife's interceesion. She claims to be penniless while her husband leas an income of $5,000 a year. THE STARVING MINERS. Pinkerton Men Employed to Drive Them Out of Their cabins. A Punxsutawney, Pa., despatch of Fri- day says: Only three families of the striking miners were evicted to day. After the Sherif, accompanied by 33 Pinkertons, armed with Winchesters, had thrown out an Italian family at Walston, 300 Italians collected and began yelling and firing into the air About 200 shots were fired. Mae. ter Workman Wilson arrived on the scene ' and quelled the crowd. He told them not to break the peace or they would ruin the cause. Wilson says nest had be not ap- peared when he did there would have been cam of the bloodiest riots ever seen in this oountry, as the Italians were terribly excited. There will, it is thought, be a great =thy more evictions to -morrow. Wilson says every effort has been and will be made to induce the foreign element to respect the law. The evioted families are being taken in by friends. Another war- rant wee SWOrll Out to -day, charging a Pinkerton man with assault. • Probably a Murder. An Elrnire, N. Y., despatch of Friday slight Foie's: The abarp crack Of a pistol was heard in the house onoupied by Mrs. Mary Eilinberger, at 502 East Church street, at 4 o'olock tide afternoon. 'When efficient entered the house they fotind Mrs. Enlarger hysterically weeping, and in the laell leading to the front door the body of _Wen. It Edwarria, better knoven as " Bill " redsitardri, a wellacnown eporting man, laing in a pool of blood. An investigation liketeed life to be extinot, death having riteulted from et pietol shot in the back of titto heid, the ball entering near the base of 4011 brides The Weenatt Sestested. , I'D BE FINED A DOLLAR. The bose has to be strict on account of the loafers. You see that girl aoross the alley 2 She is looking as mad as a wet hen, and no wonder, for the last One the superinten- dent came round, he caught her reading "The Fireside Companion," and fined her a al for it. Another was catight doing up her hair that had fell down, and he was lined too. We come here to work, you hadbetter believe that. Benches to sit on when we are tired? Not ranch 1 There is only one factory boss in New York city who is Christian enough to have benches at his looms, and he is a Jew. Crowded for room? I should say I was. The girl that stands back to back to me (she is gone off now t speak to the loom -fixer), well, that girl has on a ragged oalioo skirt and an apron that looks as if she had been wiping the stove with it, but for all that my lady needs wear a bustle as big as a bushel, and it takes up eo much room that I cannot move without jamming against it. SCANTY EARNINGS. "How much do I earn a week? Well, that depends on the loom and the goods. We are not paid by the week, but by the cuts, as we take them off. A CAL is sixty yards, and there are four cuts to a warp. When the warp is out, the weaver goes home, and waits, sometimes two days, sometimes a week, for a new warp to be put in. For eatin we are paid 7 cents a yard; for the best Jacquard silk 14 cents. A first-rate weaver will do her twelve garde a, day if the loom is in good running order, but there's where the trouble comes in ; one thing or another will get out of gear about a loom, and that keeps one back. The loom fixers cannot be everywhere at once, if they wanted to be, and some of 'em don't want to do anything more than they oen help. They'd relher loaf around and talk and laugh with the girls. There's many a weaver here that don't earn a5 a week. A good many of 'em earn about six, and some few may go as high as ten. If they were smart enough to earn more than that ,prices would be out down right away. TERRIBLY SUGGESTIVE. 4 STORY ow THE DAT, Great Destruction Caused by a Deluge oe Feat. "How do I like ray company? Well, I don?t say nothing againet the weavers in this alley. They'll lie like fury, but they are good, respectable girls, and if there was nobody here but them, I could leave my apron, or my shoulder shawl, or even my shoes under my loom at night, and ex- pect to find 'em here in the morning; but with them thieving divils at the far end of the room it ain't safe to leave nothing around that they can lay hands on. They would steal the eyes ont of your head if they could do it without being caught. No, it ain't strange that such girls should be employed in a respectable factory ; it is the respectable faotory that helps to make 'em what they are. Lots of them girls don't live with their own folks—in fact, they ain't got no folks of their own to live with —and what one of them could pay her board and dress decent on 04 a week The folks they live with are poor like themselves, and can't afford to keep 'em for nothing. Drink Yes, some of 'em drink like fishes. ,It's in the blood, and they can't help it. There was a girl here yesterday so drunk that she couldn't do a stroke of work all day long. She was paid for her out the evening before, and that was what ailed her. She is a good weaver when sober, and so the superintendent took care not to see her as she stood jerking her loom this way and that way all day long. She is SLEEP/NG OFF HER DRINK to.dity, and to -morrow she will be here without a penny in her pocket, and the girls will all be poking fun at her, for thet Beams to be the way with women; they are an awful lot, harder on one another than men are. "Swear? My, yes 1 Some of 'em can't open their months without swear words coming out 1 I'll tell you jast how it /6. You know that one rotten apple will in time rot a basketful. Well, there may be a whole lot of respectable young girls, none of 'em over 17, working together and be- having just as well as you could ask; then another sort of girl, older thanthe rest, will come in, and if she is sociable in her manners and sort of stylish in her dress them young °nee will do just what she does, and end by becoming as bad as shale. No care taken to keep welch creatures out? There's no care taken to keep anybody out that can mind a loom. a he girls ain't even known by name in the office, but are called by the number on their looms, and the only notice the boss takes of us when he comes down is to shove US aside if we happen to get in his way as he passes along the alley. He has made it fortune out of his loorne, but the weavers, unless they are steam engines, have all they can do to keep body and soul together."—New Yorlt The Shifting of peat -bogs in Great tri. tain ft= 0110 plaCG to another es pot a rare oecurrenoe, On the 3rcl, of January, 1853, a bog at Enagh Mournore, Ireland, nearly rails to circumference, and Beveled feet deep; began a movement vebioli lastea about twenty-four hours. It etopped when it bad made an advance of about a quarter of a mile. Pennant describes another affair of this kind. The eaolway moss in Scotland was an expanse a semi-liquid bog, coveritag 1,600 aoree, and lyilig some- what higher than a valley of fertile land near Netherby. So long as the moderately hard crust neer the edge was preserved the MOSS did not flow over, On ono occasion some peat -diggers imprudently tampered with this drust, and the , roma, . moistened by heavy rains, burst its bounds. On the night of the 17th of November, 1771, a farmer who lived near by was 'alarmed by an unusual •noise. He aeon dieoovered that a black deluge was slowly rolling in upon his house, and carrying everything before it. He hastened to give his neigh- bors warning, but be could not reach all of them. Many were awakened by the pais made by tbe Stygian tide, while others knew nothing of its approach until it had entered their bedrooms. Pennant says that some were surprieed with it even in their beds. These passed a horrible night, not !mowing what their fate would be until the next morning, when their neighbors came and rescued them through the roofs. Abota 300 sores of bog flowed over 400 acres of land during the night, utterly ruin- ing the fanners, overturning buildings, filling some of the cottages up !to the roof, and suffocating many cattle. The stuff flowed along like thick black paint, studded with lumps of more solid peat, and it filled every nook toad crevice in its passage. It is said that a cow stood for 60 hours up to her neck in nand and water, but was finally hauled out. When she was resoued she did not refuse to eat, but would not touch water, regarding it with as ranch terror as if she were enffering from hydrophobia. IN THE LIONS' DEN. .a. Woman norribiy Mangled to Gratify Popular Morbidity. A Paris cable saye : Miss Sterling, who was attacked by the lions in their cage at Bazierai Monday night, entered the den again last night with Redenback, the tamer. On both occiaeions the girl was hypnotized and was ineensible to her dan- ger. Last Mat a terrible scene was pre- sented to the large crowd present at the exhibition. One of the largest of the animals • pounced upon the girl and dragged her around the enclosure. Redenbaok attacked the animal, who drop- ped the girl and sprang on the man. A terrific struggle then ensued, vehicle again ended in the escape of both the man and woman, but suffering from fearful wounds. The speotators had been wrought up to a terrible state of esoitement, and many women fainted. It was found that one of Miss Sterling's lege was so badly mangled that amputation Was neceseary. She hae not fully recovered consciousness, and it is feared that the shook will oause her death. The action of the authorities in allowing such exhibitione to be continued is inexplio. able. The Rise and Fall of aicointy. Anoient hietory had ita Jahns Ctesar, ite Antony, it Pans. Modern hietory has its McGinty. The pathos of Virgil, tbe heroio fire of the Iliad, and the bacohenalianisra of Horace are coMbined in the epic which narrates the midden rise and fall of Mr. McGinty. From the aim of night this full-orbed oheracter him fleshed upon the world. lino the depths of oblivion his meteoric comae has gone cloven—down. Like 6 thunderbolt from Jove the McGinty phantom hat sped on the wings of lightning 10 destroy his mien:dem Like a annenner night after a storm, Mr. aloGintyat Mallet supposed to be peace.—Ohicage Hews. The Mannerigme of a 'man or of his speeds are apt to become a weariness to the &eh when we deceiver neat there ie nothing behind the manneririnia. 118W much More Agreeable the men who ea_ ee very get, wesguuJg Weal to erell timn the man Who Want@ to u"a"''' " ' THE CRONIN JURY. IS THIS END e CRONIN'S MURDERERS Mrs, Colin Campbell and Fred. O'Connor, Charge Thirty-nine 017•01'5 of Ruling and of Ottawa, Arrested in Boston, Mass., Ask a Now Trial. Charged with Adultery. • - ie—rm• ,•• • A ay, Camago despatch flays: Wade A Lawrence, Mass., deepatab op: The seneatioeal Ottawa elopemeet case, wbieh caused such surprise throughout Canada six weeks ago, had its eequel here yester, day morning, when both of the parties concerned were ;Arraigned in the Police Court on the charge of adultery. They were Mrs. Colin Campbell and Fred. O'Connor. Both were represented by Col. John P. Sweeney, and both waived exam- ination. The court bound them over to the grand jury in the sum of $500, and not being able to furnisie this man, they were committed to jail. he elopement occurred in Ottawa about Deo. lat. Mre. Campbell was the wife of an official of the Militia Department, and O'Connor a well-known young man about town. Mr. Campbell went to New York about Thankegiving Day for medical ad- vice, and when he returned gave a party to a number of friends at hie house, O'Connor was one of the gueste, and when he rose to depart, Mrs. Campbell accompanied him to the gate. She delayed her return so long that her husband went to look for her, and reaohing the gate was made aware of most unpleaeant proofs of affection between O'Connor and his wife. What be learned confirmed the suepioions he held beforeamt, oontrolling his anger, Mr. Campbell merely apprised Ins wife of what he had learned and implored her to save his name and her honor. Two days later, however, the couple disappeared, and it seems they came directly to this city. Here they remained almost all the time since Deo. 1. They registered at the Essex House its Fred. O'Connor and wife. Soon, from newspaper despatohesat became noised about town that " Fred. O'Connor and wife" were none other than the missing couple from Ottawa. After they had remained at the Essex House three weeks the proprietor put in hia bill, and the man affected surprise' that it was presented under a month. He was told, however, that the money was needed and must be paid. It was then ascertained that neither the man nor the woman were overburdened with money. After repeated demands, the woman offered to go back to Ottawa, where she claimed to bave Money, in her own right. She promised to send it to the hotel proprietor'while O'Connor agreed to remain at the house. She went back to Canada, but with a double purpose in view. She went baok to throw herself upon the generosity of her husband and beg his forgiveness, or at least that is said to be the fact. She was received coldly and told to go Instead of coming baok to Lawrence she went to Boston. In the meantime her companion, Mr. O'Connor,' had quietly departed, leaving belaind two trunks belonging to Mr'. Campbell. She sent on appeals for her trunks and wearing apparel, but the hotel proprietor refused to give up what property he held. Finally the matter was placed in the hands of Die. triot Officer Batchelder, and yesterday the' couple were arrested in Boston. They now stand in a very fair way of going to jail. Culver in Bad Odor—His Libel Suit—.The • Motion for a New Trial. A Chicago despatch of Wectnesday says: The State's Attorney witakaked yesterday what effect it would licife alpleathearsoent verdict in the Cronin case should it be shown that one of the jurors had been bribed. Ho replied that it would be ren- dered null and void. 44 Would that apply to Beggs' case as well ?" he was asked. ' "1 never thought of that," he answered, "and hence couldn't say." A fierce fight is now in progress between ex -Juror Culver and the Chicago Herald, the latter doing ite best to find proof to substantiate ,the grave charges it brought against Mr. Culver for his action as a Cronin juror. Culver sued the paper for $25,000 damages. The motion for a new trial will be argued next Monday. In the meantime the ,four prisoners, having recovered their equani. mity, are reeting quietly in jail. Sullivan, the iceman, is suffering less than usual, and says he feels better. Crushed Under His Engine. A St. John, N. B., despatch of Friday says: The express for Quebec, left Moncton early this morning with two engines and a snowplough ahead. When at a cutting about two miles west of the Jacquet River an immense pile of snow caused the plough to jamp the track, taking with it the two engines, one of which went almost com- pletely through the other. They rolled over on one side, burying beneath the debris Driver James McGowan and Fire- man F. Gandet The latter soon got out, • badly scalded, bruised and wrenched, but will recover. McGowan is still bnried under the wreckage and no doubt is dead. The baggage and other oars left the track, but no passengers were injured. The driver and fireman of the other engine were slightly injured. Prejudice Against Will -Malting. One of the moet unreasonable supersti- tions is that possed by so many people that deters them from making their wills, trust. ing to good luck to have time when the candle of life is flickering out. A lady of unmated culture and strength of charaoter, it leader in a wide social circle, and active ire movements for the advencement of her sex, died not long since of a third stroke of paralyeie. She bad a good deal of property and many articles of rare value that she designed to leave to a cherished young lady companion, but even after the second stroke, and she knew that a third would be fatal, she could not bear to thinkof making her will. She dropped off suddenly, and her friend is without anything, while re- ruote relations get all. The mamas is familiar to many in this city, but is not eingular.—St. Paul, Minn., Globe. Lighting the Eternal The eleotrio light is to supersede gas in Rome. The motive power will be derived from the waterfalls at Tivoli, and the station for the distribution of power will he near Porta Pia. Rome does not in thie Case loose in pictureequenese what it gaine in modernizeition, for the few electric lights &trendy establiseed—a9, for instance, on the Quirinal Hill and lathe Piazza Colonna —lend a eirigularly new and beentiful aspect to the Eternal city as Seen in the evening from the neighboring hills of Feasoati and the other " Castelli," Tbe apecteole of Rome with its mighty overhanging cupola, illnitainea by the electric' light, ae peen itOrtlea the wide Campmates, Will be remarks able. —Men's weton guerde are Out VerY ahert. Yon eleotild have only endugh length to go between the buttonhole and pocket. Thee° nr, frorisiiin toi twelve petinywe g 0. i t A NEW ENOCH ARDEN. How an Englishman Was Supposed to be Drowned and Turns III) Thirty Years After. The Montreal Gazette eays : When Tennyson wrote bis immortal "Enoch Arden," he merely put in verse one of those chapters of accidents to which humanity is prone, and which crop up in the most unexpected places. An instance of this oame to light yesterday. Thirty-three years ago an Englishman, William Henry Parker by name, Bailed with his newly wedded wife from Liverpool for Canada. The ship was the William and Mary, and Parker secured work before the meet in order to pay the passage of himself and wife, that they mighthave the more money with which to begin the battle of life in the Canadian backwoods. The passage was a long and stormy one, and many times was the good vessel threatened with destruc- tion. During one of these leurrioanes Parker was swept overboard. The ship WAS put to and every effort made to save the unfortunate, but in vain. He dis- appeared and was mourned as drowned His wife was brokenhearted and came on to Montreal, where ehe settled down, seonring is position as domeetio servant. For two years ehe was true to her bus - band's memory ; then, as in most of such oases, time proved it consoler, and she married again. Her seoond venture proved happier than the first Her husbena NM a model sponse, and several children "blessed the union. In fact, their married life was a semen', and they grew old together. A few days since a stranger called at the house. He was elderly and apparently wealthy. He asked for the wife. ahe responded and recognized him as her hus- band returned from the dead. Her snrprise and consternation may be imagined Parker told a romantic etory. He had been car- ried by the sea for it time and resoued by a Portuguese ship, which had lanied him in South America. He could not get a pas- sage home, and determined to, go into the interior to seek his fortune. He did so, writing to his wife at her parents' home in England. Those letters she never got. He, of course, received no reply and believed her lost also. Time went by and bronght with it wealth and prosperity, bnt the thoughts of her would not down, and at last he de. termined to search for her in Canada. He came on here, and, after many inquiries, located her at last, only to find her the wife of another and the mother of another's children. A long consultation took place between them. Fixedly, Parker left. Before doing so he gave his wife a cheque for a large sum and his blessing for her future happiness. He is understood to have gone beck to South Amerioa. afternoon Attorneys Wing, poLaboe Mid Forrest filed a motion for.a new trial in the ceees of Coughlin, Burke, 0 Sullivan and launze, convicted of the murder et 1)r. Cronin, The motion was filed in accord- ance with the order of Judge McConnell, beforcawhom the argurnente will im made on Monday. Mae motion assigns thiety. nine case of error in the Whigs of 'Judge IlloCqpnell during the trial. These grounds of alleged error emlarace every point con- tested by the attorney s for the defence, and range from an objection to the court's over- ruling tbe naotion to quaela the indict- ments up to the aseertion that the defence has einoe the trial discovered new evidence which entitles them to a new trial. The first erroralleged is that the court erred in •overauliog,the motion o quaeh the indict- ment made on behalf of each of the de- fendants. The denial of Coughlin's mo- tion for a separate trial is made the basis of four alleged errors, there being a separ- ate count for each defendant. The refusal of the court to permit the defence to show that Messrs. Mille, Ingham and Hynes were employed in the prosecution by private parties, who were actuated by improper motives, is alleged to have been prejudicial to the de- fendants, The court allowing these three lawyers to Beget in the prosecution is said to be an error. Mr. Hynes is made the subject of a speoial count in the motion, in which hi is said to have been moved by et spirit of personal hostility towards Coughlin, Burke and O'Sullivan, and was pot fit to act as a prosecuting attorney. The over -ruling of the challenge for armee preferred by the defendants to a long liet of jurymen whose names are given in the motion, is said to be an error. Side _remarks made by the State Attorney while examining jurors are charged to have been improper.Judge Longenecker's opening' statement to the jury is cited as an error and characterized as improper and illegal and prejudicial to the rights of the defend- ants. Another alleged error was the failure of tne,cotirt to enforce the rule etoluding witnesees for the State from the courtroom during the trial. It is oharged as an error that the proimoution was _permitted to in- tredieee eis evidenoe and exhibit' to thesjury • the clothing, instruments and hair of Dr. Cronin, the false teeth in the trunk, and all material evidence in the case. The intro- duction of Dr. Cronixestriives after the State had closed ite case is said to have been an error. Objection is made to a num- ber 'of, the instructions given to the jury by the pout. The verdict is pronounced con - Wary to law, andnot justified by the evi- dence, 'and finally it is' saia "The de- fendants and each one of them have dis- covered evidence which entitles them to a new trial." • Waiting Room Philanthropy. It must be that the discomforts of travel- ling awaken a resp.onsive feeling of sympa- thy for a fellow being in distress, for I have noticed that an unfortunate on his way to somewhere and without sufacient money to get there never appeele to the crowd in the waiting room for assistance that it is not forthcoming, if after investigation, a police offioer announces that the cam is one of genuine distrese. Let some poor woman with children be found in the room need. ing a few dollars to melte up the fare to her destination, or a little money to buy their food or sleeker, some one has only to an- nounce the dory and get an officer to pees (mound his hat, and the pennies, nickels, dimes and qaartere cornneenne to chip right in, and it is all the more surprising, for the class of people who are found in a waiting room are not, as a rule overburdened with oash.—Policeman in St. Louis Globe•Detno. crat. Jules Verne says: I am now at my 74th novel, and I hope to write ise many mere henna I lay down my pen for the least time. I write two nevelt' every year, and helm chine so regularly for the last 37 yettria I do much every morning, nearer minting a day, and get throngh myyearly task +with th . FOURTEEN KILLED. A Bridge Caisson Celli/Pees While Eighteen Men Are in It. ' A Louisville despatch of Thursday night says: The most appalling accident known here in many yeare occurred this evening about 6 o'clock. A caisson of the new bridge now under construction between Lonieville and Jeffersonville gave way, and the workmen employed on it were cruel:led to 'death by stone and timber. Only four of the eighteen men in the 'ninon esoaped. The ninon was one hundred yards from nee Kentucky shore. As the workmen of the pumping station veere looking for the men in the caisson to put off in their boats, leaving work for the night, they suddenly saw the low dark structure disappear in dashing white waves, and heard the roar of a furious maelstrom. A runner was dis- patched to the life-saving etation, and three skiffe pulled to the scene of the wreck. A equad of police was also sent to aid in the work of recovery. The coroner was called and went with a corps of physicians. The site of the bridge is at the upper end of the city, just below Towhead Island. Within an hour from the disappearance of the oaisson 3,000 people were on the shore, and strained their eyes trying to see something of the wreokage. Dozens of boats were plying about over the spot where the cais- son had stood, and lights danced to and fro with them, but there was no trace of the massive structure of stone and timber. The water rolled eullenly but smoothly down from the cofferdam above the pumping barge below where the caisson had stood. The grieastricken wives and mothers of the victims were among the spectators. The bridge officials ordered the reporters off the pumping barge, and made it as diffi- milt as possible to get information. A BEN1UCKIAls113 WEAPON. A Handy Knife Worth Much More Tliaro, a Pistol. •`,A.a between a knife and a pietol ae an offensive or clefeneive weapon, give me the knife every time," remarked Congressional Delegate Marcus ,A. Smith, of Arizona, the other day itt the Palmer House." 1 have seen both used a good deal in ray tittle, and I never knew the man with the pietol to get away Witlythe mall with the knife. The lat- ter is a terror." Dlr. Smith was diecumieg the Swope- Goodloe tragedy in Kentucky, and re- marked that Col. Swope was a fool to draw it revolver on a man who he linew habttu- ally it knife "You see," and here - Delegate Smith creased leis legs and lighted a fresh cigar, "a man, unless he is a dead shot and quick as a flash, bas businese to carry a grin anyhow. Many a good men has been killed becatme, having a gun, he didn't know how to use it, whereas, if he had had no gen at all he wouldn't have been hurt. Down in my country people don't shoot a man who is not armed. Hence, unless a man knows how to Lae pistol with prcrapt effect, he'd better not carry one. Now, Colonel Swope carried a , pistol, didn't lenow how to use it, fired at his man, missed him, and then, before he could fire again, the man with the knife was at work on is person with the fury of a tiger. p, pace, e " I tell you," continued Mr. Smith as he pushed the bell button, 44 I am not afraid ) of a man with a gun, but I'm in raorta dread of a man who carries a knife. A good many people think a knife is a coward's weapon and eo it is when used to stab a man in 'the back; but it is the most con— fidence-begetting arm that a man ever carried. Most ;Kentuckians carry e, knife of some kind. It isn't a bowie a its a dirk or a dagger. The favorite knife among the Kentnokiens—or when 1 Was a boy and lived in that State—is the double-edged dagger. It is carried in a eheath and the sheath is ettached to thp left suepender. It is the fashion, you linow, in the South to. wear low out vests and the knife, there- fore, can be reache'd in the fraction of a second, as it requires no preparation, aims, or anythiugate possessor can rush upon an opponent with the quioknees and force that is irresistible, and there is no escape. 1 have seen a number of allele between men armed with knife and pistol, and I never knew the pistol man tb escape but once,and he shot the niart with the knife before the latter could reach him. If a table or any other barricade can be interposed, the e man with the pistol has a great advantage, but in open ground, unless he is a, . quick and dead shot, the man with the knife is ,going to kill him—provided, ofs, course, he has the nerve. I have seen in Milton Joyce's saloon in Tombstone one slender fellow with a six-inch blade bold a dozen desperate fellows at bay. All of them were armed with gnus, and most of them dead shots, but the sight of that glis- tening steel in the hands of a man who - they knew would use it, seemed. to paralyze• every nerve. Nor one dared to shoot, lest before the smoke cleared that awful knife would be in his vitals. Ugh I" and Dele- gate Smith shuddered at the mere thought. "The knife, however, was not popular With any but Kentuckians. The late Judge• - Terry, of California, was more feared be. cause he was known to carry a knife than from any other cause. There was once a gentleman a lawyer, in Nevada—General- T. H. Williams his name was --who elwaye • carried a blade in a sheath faetened to hia suspender. The General was sickly and feeble, and ill-tempered at times. but yon can bet nobody in Nevada ever dared tackle • him in court or out of it, He ran for the United States Senate in 1874 against Billie Sharon, and made a boa canvaes, but , nobody ever insulted the General.' He was ft Kentuckian and his knife never left hire saspender.—Ohicago Herald. Youthful Humorists. While her mother was taking a fly out of the butter, little Daisy flaked: "Is that a butterfly, mamma 2" A little girl suffering with the mumps declares she " feels as though a headache had slipped down into her neck." A little girl on Long Island offered a rather remarkable prayer a few nights ago when she said, "I do thank thee, God, for all my blessings, and I'll do as much for you some time." " Johnnie, what are you doing up stairs 2" said Johnnie's ma. "Oh, nothin' much, "But, sir, I want to know." " Oh, well, then, I'm skinning a freckle to see what she looks like inside." " Mamma," said a little boy, "1 gave Carrie a pretty good hint to go home, to. day." "What did you do, my son 2" said his mother. "Oh, I filled her month with mustard and oalled it apple sauce, and she took the hint." As little Edgar's mother was about to punish him for some miedemea,nor, he begged that be might be allowed to say his prayers before the chastisement. When upon his knees be remained there so long that his mother finally relented. A little girl having found a ehelless egg under a bneh in the garden brought it in, and showing it to her aunt said: "See, auntie, what I found under the currant bushes. I know the old hen that laid it and I'm just going to put it back in the nest and make her finish it." interesting for the Bloods. A London oreble of Tuesday says: In the trial of the persons charged with con- spiracy to defeat jnetioe in commotion with the West End scandal, a boy ,witness to- day referred to two arietocrate who fn. quently visited the honse in Cleveland street. The court ordered that their nernes be 'suppressed for the present, and that they be indicated as "Lord C. and Lord L.' Mr. Parke, editor of the Vorth Lon- don Press, now awaiting trial on the charge of criminal libel made by the Earl of Buster( in connection with the affair, has placed at the disposal of the court twenty. Aix letters arid photographs to be used in • tracing the criminals. King Canoe of Portugal, who posseses sixteen Christian panne, while his younger brother answere to no lees than tbirty* personally one of the most amiable of monarchs. He is a handsome, blonde yonng man, who carries hiniself with a He Had Made the Round Trip. "1 have taken my last order. I am going home," he said, as the clock struck the midnight hour. The nurse looked at the doctor with a significant glance and whispered : " His mind wanders." Presently he lifted his feverish head from its 14 Any letters from the house ?" he inquired. " There ought to be letters , here." Then he slept, and in his sleep be was a boy again, babbled of fisbing streams, where the trout played, of school hours-, and romps with his mates. At 12 he sud- denly awakened. " All right !" he exclaimed in a strong. voice, " I'm ready." He thought the porter had called him,. for an early train. The dootor laid a sooth- ing hand on him, and he slept. In hiss sleep he murmured: "Show you semples of our goods. I'm going off the road now. Vale order clues out. The house has called me in. Going to have my first vexation, but I shall lose time—time—time!" He drowsed off, and the doctor counted his pulse. Soddenly the sick man started ups 44 Give me a letter from home. Ellen always writes to me here. She never dis- appointed me yet—and the children. They will forget me if my trips are too long. I have ant), a few more towns to sell—pro- mised to be home Christmas—I promised to be home—promised—" He slept again, and again awakened with a start. "No word from the house yet 2" He was going home fast now. The doctor bent over him and repeated, in a comforting voice, the precious words of promiee " In my father's house there are many mansions, If it were not so I would have told yon." " Yee—yes," said the dying traveller faintly. "11 is it clear etatement. It is a good house to travel for. It deals fair and square with its men. The obill December morning dawned— the end was very near. The sick man was approaching the undiscovered land from whose bourne no traveller returns. " I have changed my route," he mur- mured faintly. The hones ie calling roe in—write to Ellen and the children that I'm—on—my—way—its in my sample case —without money and without prece—a good home—fine all its orders as agreed. Call me fur the first ttain—I am going to make the round trip and get home for Christmas." They laid his head back on the pillow. He had made the round trip. He bad gone home for Christmas.—Detroit Free Press. , ' The ropes railing A despatch from Bowe !says : The rope,. notwithstanding the contre,Oictione of game paper, is iii very delicate Ilealthe He is - not allowed to hetet,'" windeve of his rooms opened, nor to *einem& stabditig, end if he.? has to pees from one ream to another he is - carried into sedan chair and covered with , aleake as if be Were going ont of doors Be is 'col on the i3trongest consomtnee,13ordeaux_4,,?, 'Mid champagne, gte ie iitienevehet irritateit tIte,se preottritions, but Dr. decoareill is end don' ziot leave him for an boar*. to **that his pr,eseriptions are followed. ' 4, ,4# 11 • hi tr 2( 814 a/ jtD" at of re ea en fr 'fo , SO WI re 4th -oh th th -00 re ash err 'Se • va ,da bu TO wc tie be far ;in 1114 da :8,1( th( an, Wil pei can SSC as: