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thorities the circular issued by; the United
States Governmen. during the civil war de-
claring Confederate privateers pirates.
A TELEGRAM from Havana Of the 21st gives
the following from the Diaro "We do not
consider 1t within the bounds of justice or
reason that war should result from the cap
ture OF the VlrginIus and It's legal conse
quences. But if conflict comes, let US
emulate the examples of Carriage, Numanca,
and Saguntum, and make the Spanish race in
Cuba the admiration of the American hemi-
sphere The Vose de Cuba believes the
question will be settled by diplomacy. Never
theless ii praises the activity of the artillery
and engineer corps in repairing the fortifca-
| tons, which will in a short time be in perfect
| condition.
! PLOT to surrender Cartagena to the ma
tional forces was discovered in that city fe "
days ago, and all the military leaders except
Contras were arrested. Gontras and Gavez
are now the sole rulers. a terrible cannonade
and fusilade were progressing atlast accounts,
| aud it was believed the military mad made eff
| forts to lberate their commanders and were
shelled by the forts, which are now manned by
| convicts. The national forces bessie eing Car
| tagenia remained passive during the firing.
IT is understood that the new French Cabi-
net will be organized with the Duke De Brog-
Minister Of Finance, and De Seliary Minister
of Public Works. It is also agsel ted that the
members of the old Cabinet have withdrawn
their designations, rendered a few days since
TIE reports that violence has been offered
| by the Madrid p0pulace to General SIckles
are pronounced false
THR idea of submitting the case of thr yrr
| ginius to arbitration is much talked OF
Should this course be agreed to, the German
Emperor Is indicated as the probable agbjla
tor.
PRESIDENT CASTELAR, had long conference
with Leyard, the British Minister. The re
suit is favorable to the continuance of good
relations
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(iraHdfather,S Barn.

Oh ! don't you remember our grandfather's
barn,
Where our cousins and we went to play
How we climbed on the beams and the scat
fold so high,
Or tumbled at will on the hay?
How We sat in row on the bundles of straw.
And riddles and witch stories told
Aud the sunshine came in through the cracks
in the south,
And turned all the dust into gold
How we played hide and seek III each GRANNY
and nook,
Wherever child could be slowed
And we made us coach OF hogshead of rye,
And on 1t to & Boston" we rode
And then we kept store, and sold barley and
oats,
And corn by the bushel or BIN
And straw for our sisters TO braid into hats,
And haX TOR our mothers to spin
How We played We were biddies, and cackled
and croWed
Till grandmother in haste, came to see
Ii the weasels were killing the old specked
hen,
Or whatever the matter might be
How she patted our heads when she saw hei
mistake,
And called us her " sweet chickens dear ?n
While tear dlmmed her eye as the scene re.
called
Inc scenes or her vanished years.
How we teetered and swung, and played meet.
IN and school,
And Indian. soldier and bear,
While up On the raiters the swallows KEPT
house,
Or sailed through the soft summer air
How we longed to peep into them curious
nests,
But they were too far overhead,
So we wished we were giants, or winged like
birds.
And then we'd do wonders, we said
And don't you remember the racket we made
When selling at auction the hav?
And how We wound up with keel-over leap,
From The scaffJld down into the hay
When we went to supper our grandfather saiC
If he had not once been boy.
| He would have thought the Hessians were
sacklng the town,
Or an earthquake had come to destroy.
How the years have gone by since in grand
fathers barn
To play with our cousins we met !:
| Our eyes have grown dim and our locks have
turned gray,
| The golden, the brown, aud the jet
| Yet still n my heart there's an evergreen
| nook,
Where childhoods sweet memories stay
| And no music TO me has charm that car
| thlilI
Like the voices of children a: play,
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NEWS OF THE Week
The East.

NEW YORK celebrated the Goth anniversary
of the evacuation of her territory by the
British troops on the 25th of November At
sunrise the stars and stripes were raised over
the old fort in Central Park. At noon the
veterans OF 1912 assembled at the Sixth Reg
ime8t AImory, with whom they dlned.
Flags on the City Hall were displayed, and the
Mavor reviewed the Seventh regiment IN front
Of the City Hau.
TIE suspended Bank of the Commonwealth
of New York viii pay dividend to depositors
Of thirty per cent. in December.
The Catholic churches in the province OF
New York, includes thirteen dioceses, will be
dedicated in the name OF the "Sacred Heart
Jesus" on the approaching feast-day of tie
Immaculate Conception.
JoaN E. IRVING. the self-accused murderer
of lIr Nathan, pleaded not guilty TO the IN
dictment charging him with burglary in a
pawn-shop in the Bowery and stealing $50, 000
worth Of property.
WM. NJ. TWEED, of New York, has been
found guilty Of all the counts in the indict-
mept, 81 in all, and has been sentenced &c
y years in the county jail and fine OF
s12. $50.
lHE people Of Huntingdon L. l.. offered q
reward for the recovery of the body of Chas
G.. Kelsey. who was tarred and ieathertd, and
soon afterwards half the body was found anc
now the people say they can pay only half tho
IT ward.
ADDITIONAL particulars of the suppresset
report Of the accountant who Lately examined
the condition Of the New York State Treasu
ry, shows the grossest mismanagement of thu
State finances.
IMPORTATION has been made by several o
the Plftsburg papers against strikers for con
splracy. ! number of them are under arrest
The papers are determined that they vii
never, under any circumstances, permit uniol
men to control them. Old citizens, who for
merly worked at the business, are taking
hand at the case. The offices are all payin;
union prices and are getting on well.
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g'iae West

IRE MENDOZA elevator on the st. Paul and
Sioux City Railroad, about three miles above
st. Paul, wes entirely destroyed by fire, with
it. contents, on Sunday afternoon. The ele.
vator was valued at about SIS, 5000, on which
there vas no Insurance. About Is, 600 bushels
If wheat were destroyed, on which there was
an insurance Of IS cents per Iushels
LtEUT. CHS. SHERIDAN left Chicago fo1
Washington Wednesday. It is understood that
hc goes in obedience to official summons. to
confer IN regard to military affairs In case
Of war Gen. Sheridan would have the CHEZ
command.
The bridge Of The Milwaukee ana St. Pau
Railroad across the Mississippi River at Prai-
lie du CHEN IS n running order
I9H ALLEN, Arthur Chambers and Tom
Kelley, who were arrested at St. Louis, on a
requlsitIou from GOV. Beveridge, OF Illinois.
fer participating in the prize-fght between
Allen and McCoole on illinois soil, last Sep
TENDER, were taken to Evansville. Madison
county, Illinois. by Sheriff Cooper, where 1t is
probable they will be bailed An effort was
made to procure their release from arrest by
habaas corpus, bat while their attorney wac
preparing he writ Sheriff Cooper quietly put
eEn III carriage, and took them off across
the river.
Jas-PH GILLESPIE, farmer Of Washington
Township, Marion county, Iowa, was robbed
IF i 400 las, Friday evening He had gath.
cred up the money from different parties oyy-
ing him, and then went home, arriving at IL
ocioea in the evening. he let down the b trs.
lea his horse through. and turned to put up
the bars, when he was accosted by three men.
Who presented revolver, rifed his pockets,
ma then fe3
a PRAIRIE fire on last Tuesday. in addition
TO destroying much farm property in the
nel@h6crhood Of Usage, Kansas, burned the
% p ot OEFct, with the exception of two OF
three houses. No lives lost.
IIRrRAL contributions for the suffering Deo-
Pile n northwestern Iowa, are being received
at Dcs Mones. from other portions of the
State and being forwarded as rapidly as pos
fble. The refusal of the Illinois Central Rail
road Company to carry them gratuitousiv, $
de aging them considerably.
MAJOR joins q. FELL. an old citizen OF ST.
Loms, and Union officer during the war.
died from an overdose OF morphine admin
is,cel by himself. Misfortune is said to he
fne cause Of The act. lie has brother in
Phlad lphia.
THURSDAY last in Adair county, Iowa, a
mail bag was picked up containing draft No.
: ~, from Lees & Waller, San Francisco. in
favor Of T. H. Rochester, New York: also
about eighty gold rings. The bag is in
Charge @. the postmaster at FontaneI,e. Il Is
undoubtedly ore Of tn Sc taken by the ban
dts who robbed tie train on the Rock isis nd
Road some months ago.
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EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES.
Our Record for the Past Fiscal Year

Our Record for the Past Fiscal Year.
The Boston Advertiser has prepared
from the last monthly report Of the
bureau of statistics a table showing
the values of exports of manufactured
articles during the year ending June
~, 1873, as compared with the values
Tor the year preceding. 1t is not easy
to draw the line between manufactured
and manufactured articles but in the
list following no articles are included
that do not properly come under the
head of man ufactures.
The result is a total value of $685.
400, o26 In the fiscal year 1928, against
500, Ol9, 600 IN the year 1912, or an
increase OF 239 per cent. on the list as
whole. Taking it in detail there are
thirty four articles and classes of arti-
tlcies that show an increase, and eleven
showing a decrease. The latter are
mostly Industries of secondary impor-
lance, the exceptions being sewing
machines, n which there was loss OF
about IL per cent, ordnance stores,
winch are not IN steady demand. III
which the loss is 40 per cent, aud
dyestutfs, in which the loss is 3t
per cent. On most of the i'm.
po1tant articles there is a large gain.
Thus agricultural implements show
an increase of 66 per cent, railroad
cars 10 per cent, cotton goods 26 pei
cent, drugs and medicines 80 pei
cent, iron and manufactures % pei
cent, steel manufactures % per cent.
leather and leather goods A per cent.
refined sugar 1O3 per cent, and WOOD
manufactures 20 per cent. The pro
portion of the enumerated articles tC
the whole value of exports has also III
creased from about 81 to more than II
per cent. 1t is to be remem oered tha
during three months of the past yea
our expectations were decreasing, anC
that 1t was only IN October that VIZ
began the great increase that is still
| increasing.
Value of eSDQrtG
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wa SnIngton.

TREASURER SPINNER has b,en in bad health
fer some time, and il not able TO attend tt
official duties. He suffers much from low
ma'alial fever, and has had several chill;
lasoIy.
SENATOR MORTON has bill which he pro.
poses TO introduce Immediately on the meet.
lag OF the Senate TO repeal the bankrupt act,
aAd TO make its repeaI cover all cases under il
since the financial troubles commenced in Sep
sember He pronounces the involuntary
clsuse in It. as now being used, to be an in
famous provision, and antl-Repubhcan in its
character. He expects to carry the repeal OF
the bill without opposition.
Tar following are the official demands of
the United States upon Spain That the Viz
ginius must be surrendered that the sur.
living members Of tbs passengers and crew
must be restored that the United States
Hae mnst be saluted il the port where it has
been outraged hat suitable indemnity must
b. made 10 the families of the American citi-
zeas nassacred.
i REPORT was currentin Washington Monday
taat orders had been issued from the Navy
- artment to stop all work of fitting out YES
sis Of war, ana caused feeling of intense ex-
element to those who favor war But it is
said at the Navy Department that instesd of
stopping work, the preparation of vessels is
hurisd to the fullest extent of the yards
some vessels having been sent to private
Yards. There are 300 men employed at the
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Philadelphia yard. 1t is reported that all the
monitors at League Island Will be put in order
at once.
Hon VIM. Nj. EvERTs, of New York, tele
graphs to Washington from New York the
following important dispatch I" have re-
ceived to-day private dispatch, written in
cipher, from Madrid, which is SO startling in
It's character that | communicate it at once.
The Republic Of Spain, or rather the form of
a repu bic under CASTELAR,. is to be overthrow
by combination of ruling Spaniards
too strong for him to resist. The
plan includes the establishment
of Marshal Serrano as regent for the
young Duke Alfonso, who, at a certain time,
is to lie proclaimed king, his queen mother, Is
| abella, advocating her claims to the throne in
his favor. The quick succession OF events in
Spain have proved the insufficiency of Caste
lar and the government he assumes to con
troll to cope with the disaffection In his cabi-
net, characterization IN the army, and the
struggle OF the Cariist forces.
TIE War Department has issued a general
! order requiling all dIsbursing officers so far
as practicable, 10 keep the bulk OF al public
funds advanced 10 them in the INDEPENDENT
treasury office, and limit deposits IN local
banks to such amounts only as may be neces-
sary for small local payments
IT is understood from official sources that
Col. James B. Fry and Gen. Phil Sheridan
have been ordered to New York, the former to
take command OF the Department of the At
lantic Sheridan is said to be strongly in fa-
vor OF war. While he Spanish army occupy
| lug Cuba is reported at "a 600 men, men who
| are in position to know, and who are per-
fectly stworthy, say that there are not
more than 5000 effective men in the field
SPECIAL dispatch has been received at
was made to assassinate Minister SckIes, and
/ 900 troops now guard the American Lega-
ton at Madrid. but this has not been con.
frmed, and it is likely canard.
Mrs. MoRIARTY. of Washington. and a wood
sawyer, colored, quarreled about the payment
for saving wood. The sawyer shot her dead
The murderer escaped.
IT il understood that the objection of Spair
to orr demands are as follows:
Kirst-That the Virginus is not an Amer
can ship, as she was owned by Cubans anC
registered in the name of Patterson, residing
III New York.
Second-That she had forfeited even th
false registry by subsequent sale to other par
ties.
Third-That she has frequently sailed dur
ing the past year under flags of other coun
tries.
Fourth-That Gen. Ryan was not citzel
of the United States.
Flfth-That the Virginius, at the time 0
her capture, was engaged in an unlawful ex
petition against friendly power.
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Foreign.

President IMAGINATION has accepted the res
lgnatlous OF the members of his Cabinet. they
having again been rendered,
STEAMER from Liverpool to Boston tool
100000 bullion Monday.
THE Spanish Cabinet has considered note
TO be sent TO the Government of the United
States.
Ii is denied that the Spanish Government
is disposed to submit the yirginius affair to
the Emperor of Germany for arbitration.
An inuma;ion OF a probable change of ad
ministration in Spain with Serrano as dicta-
tor, comes through British official sources. A
story from another quarter says that the Cas-
telar Government is to be Overthrown BY a
combination ct ruling Spauiards. The plan
is said to include the es establishment of Serrano
as regent for the young Duke Alfonso. Our
Government has no official advices on the
subject, nor does it consider the report trust
worthy.
TIE Ignaldon newspaper justifies the exc
cution of the VirginIus captives, aud cites as
precedent for the action of the Spanish au-
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One Thing Lacking,

A clergyman at the hotel has been
seriously i'll for q few days past. A
kind hearted nurse, in the person of an
old pioneer of this state, '49er, has
been patiently waiting on the sick man
and ministering to his physical wants.
The nurse was full of sympathy for his
charge, and determined to leave moth
ing undone that he could do TO make
his patient comfortable. Fearing that
the sick man was backward in making
known his wants, the nurse addressed
him as follows Ask of me any favor
that you want, and l Will be delighted
to DO it. Don't be afraid to ask" The
clergyman family responded, Pray
for me-" The '49er stood aghast, and
replied " [ can whip grizzly bear,
play poker, drink gallon of lightning
whisky, and swear a blue streak, but
/ haven't seen the inside of church for
twenty-five years, and can't pray.
Don't know where to begin. what to
say, who to talk to, nor when to let M.
I'll go out on the street and whip the
biggest man in town for you-anythink
but make prayer. The minister
entertains high opinion of his nurse.
and is getting better-Neuada Enter.
prise
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An Enchanted Isle.

In Lake Maggiore lie the islands be-
longing to the Borromean family,
among which is "isola Bella" an en-
chanted ground well worthy OF its
name. Two hundred years ago the
island was barren rock; to day,
thanks to the freak spendthrltt no
bleman, it is ca JOY forever" Ten
terraces, built on massive stone piers,
rise out of the water; earth OF suffi-
cient depth to grow the largest trees
was brought there, ana these many
' ears it has been a little forest OF
luxuriant vegetation from every cline.
There flourish the camphor and india
rubber trees, the bread fruit and the
banana, the black bamboo and the
American aloe, the cedar of Lebanon,
the magnolia, the date palm laden with
fruit. and camellas fifteen feet high.
Every step brings one into contact
with new beauties, while statues and
wondrous work IN stone mlngle every
where with the living green, ives,
honeysuckles, trumpet creepers, and
wealth of ferns and creeping plants.
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An EpIcuFe.
From the Detroit Free Press.

A cadaverous Old fellow, dressed in
bear-skin coat and hailing from Ne
vada, sat down in a restaurant and
told the water that he guessed he'd
take "briled" fox. The astonished
darkey admitted that the establishment
was just out of that kiud of meat.
Gimme piece of fried wolf, then, -
said old Nevada The waiter replied
that wolf meat was also gone. ''Oh,
wal, sling along chunk o. mule if We
ar little pinched for grub" co1tin-
ued the stranger. The waiter replied
they We're also out of mule. ''Then
what IN thunder's a man gwine to
eat!" shouted the stranger, as he NOV
ed back. II | can't get squar'
lunch in the States I'll leave for Lara
nile afore the snow flesln He was
afterwards seen devouring a hunk of
Washington pie, which closely APP
proaches chunk of mule 2" in taste.
and perhaps he'll winter with us.
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The new Indian agency between
Grand River and Fort Rice, called
Standing Rock, derives its name from
a large boulder standing out upon the
prairie about three miles from the
river. Many years ago a powerful
band of Indians made that section
their camping grounds. The chief of
the band deserted his old wife Tor a
young squaw. This SO grieved the old
Queen that she went back from the
river, sat upon the ground and mourn
ed for several days. Upon the ninth
day OF her grief she turned into this
large boulder. The Indians at that
agency all believe that story to Ghis
day, and worship the boulder as a god.
The rock has been decorated with rib
bons, pieces of red flannel, and every
high-colored piece of cloth they have
been able to get hold of since time out
of mind. These decorations are replac
ed rs often as they become decayed or
blown away by the winds. At the time
of our visit it was trimmed in the most
gorgeous trapplngs imaginable. Every
portion of it was covered with either
ribbons and rags or paint. Within a
rev lHCtltS Oi Tue Sdclei SUOue Is pan
Of water, which is never allowed to be.
come empty; for it is the belief of
those ignorant people that the old
Queen Of their ancestors frequently as
sumes the form of a squaw and drinks
the water. In former years she drank
much more than at present, they say
but that is easily explained. Then
there was more game there, which, in
wandering to the pail, drank the water.
To disturb this bucket or any portion
of the trimmings of the petrlfied squaw
is considered. a great offenso against the
Great Spirit, and is punishable by
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Black Jews.

Nearly two thousand black Jews
have home in the city of Cotochin,
Hindostan, and it's neighberhood.
While they are not as dark-skinned as
the Ethiopian negroes, their color
places them under a ban, for despite
the fact that they are Israelltes in the
full sense of the word, and faithfully
worship TIE God of their ancestors,
neither the Israelites of Bagdad nor
the white Jews of their own locality
will intermarry or otherwise associate
with them. Their statement Of their
origin is that when the conquest of the
East Indies by Europeans opened a
road to unlimited wealth, into which
were attracted adventures from all
parts of the world, many young Israel
ties from sBagdad, Bassora, and Ye-
men started out to seek fortunes. Es-
tablishing themselves in Hindostan
they purchased female slaves from the
natives, number of whom became
converted, and were married to their
masters. From these intermarrlages
the present population of Cotochln IS
descended.
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THE South.

MASS MEETING OF farmers and Patrons Of
Husbandry was held at Atlantis, Ga. Monday.
They resolved to plant only one-third of their
q. next ear, IN cotton; to favor cash paw
mentS, and declare their right to control the
pdco Of cotton.
LAST Friday, o. the Kentucky Central Rail
load. an extra freight train from Lexington
ran INTO the rear Of regular freight tram.
and demolished the caboose, killing brakeman
Wa. Cook, ana slightly injuring several pas.
stngeys.
IHREg WHIT aud three colored men were
whipped at Newcastle, Del; the former TWEEN
~ lashes each, and the latter ten each. A
seventh man got one hour in the pillory and
SIX lashes. Blood was drawn from two of the
whites
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MARSHAL BAzAINE, before he enlisted

as a private soldier, was rejected from
The military school of St. Cyr. When
he had become Marshal, and was one
day examining some cadets who We're
preparing to enter st. Cyr, he made a
grimace at the weakness of their re-
plies. Noticing that one of the youths
was annoyed by his partial failure,
Bazaine said, "Bah! don't torment
vonrself about that They would have
nothing to do with me at ST. Cyr, and
vet here | am all the same"
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Meaning III the Hands.

Profound study has led Mr.. OAR
pentigny to the conclusion that the
hands represent three types. Those
who have fingers with pointed tips are
possessed OF a rapid insight into
things are extra sensitive aud pious
impulsive. To this class belong the
poets and artists. To the Square
tops belong scientific people; sensi-
bic, self-contained characters, profes-
sional men. The spade-shaped tops
thick tips, with little pads of flesh on
each side of the nails-are materialists
commercial, practical, with high ap,
probation of all that tends to bodily
ease and comfort Each finger. no
matter what the kind of hand, has also
one joint-that which is nearest the
palm-representing the body another
the middle-the mind and the ton
the soul. Each of these divisions cor
responds with one of the types above
given.