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WE PRESENT TO THE PUBLIC THIS wFHK xrrrH
FURTHER BARGAINS.

SUPERIOR QUALIFY sTEks sLs sttk saos GRAIN SILK
sIcEirss n'; UsD1LIrIEs q 81. 81 as 81 So s, rs
CASHMERE SILKS the bss. makes 81 a. g as q 50
q sfFh LIZ s Z y ss.,s ssl Sin:
..hEcsSr AucfioS a s''.' 'a'''-''a q ''' prices
BLACK CASHMERE ALL VOL. SO inches wds only
VERY ExcELLEET QUALITY .. 7Sa, worth eoc.
EVERY LANCE AND coMFIsrE MOURNING DE
sskEs Fa wSo sfs less .
grades 65c 75c S5c., ~; guaranteed to DO worth 81
' sEy f y LOTS @' DAxAssE cLoru FASHIONABLE
We fAncy Morca uisths st $780, sold early in ssa
' "sSscf ~ CLOTHS ros SUITS. sAoeuEs AMI
szyGGS dSss !. u.s. s sHs s
, ss. ..; s;:y a..
ONE CASE scorix sUMfSds At I7e. worth asaL
FAYE :.s Vt: %
Also few cashmere and coorsdssrxo Wrappers trimmed
asSS 81 s, sf''b 1sy s.
SO susGs iSs? sss ~ 81 isf ''''''
f EskS g oasasft sS2 ss worth 5,
ssaSHs ssas; :|s-.. SO
sis SIS ssss J vks S s4s
1Ys M1 s .sa
oer large assortment ofevsryshing necessary ~ voiy
Chdrens su,s all ages, from 81. So. s. s.. So S. $40
Mssss Suits with silk in plain fancy closns
s % 81 S RI Fl surs, from 8. so 81 s. So 81
Misses, cLoAKs .ssi Is, 81 Is. sa up to $la.
ALHkaE 1ssoRTMENr Of ehiidienS worssed Hood
" sS sii' ii'' 81 Al , sss.~ns
skoT 1L w. %ooi SINGLE sHAwLs rom q
DOUBLE sHAwLs HANDSOME DESIGNS At IS so,
ALSO T oNE LOT BRocHE sHAwIs a. $40. worth $50
ONE LOT BkoCHE siiAwI.S At SIS, worth $40,
HOSIERY
E E1DIEs H HfssED M SEiNS os 1884,
JOB LOT. in Gil wool. $50. worth SOC.
One all wooi regular made Hose. 23c to Sle. worth
Mems shaker Half Hose - $780, 2oc. $780, sou mp -
LARGE LOT Of CHILDRkN's wool MITTENs and
Gloves i2Hc 49, Isc worth fully 80 per cent moro
FULL ASSORTMENT Of ladies' cloth Gloves very
SEN,s EXTRA HEAVY SHIRTS 81 $50. soo. CSC,
MEMS DOUBLE BREASTED, REGULAR FINISH
sHiETs al xso shirt; a s9S yssa 81 s,,r.
5 GAZE SESSsn SHafSS s scr 81 sS ESQ.,
Diks XIII M Sso 20 s &
NUBlAs. cOMFoRTERs. LEGGlNGs &c.
sp1oI. Y sXRsEs !, s. q g g
FELT sKIRTs u Great VARIETY;
cskrE IL cF3shs PsTSW sH rbH
CURTAINS, Mats, &c.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-11-25
',HRISTMAs GIFTS.
ARNOLD. CONSTABLE 4 co.
ARE OFFERING A CHOICE SELECTION OF
RICH AND MEDIUM PRICED GOODS
mold, CONSTABLE 4 co,
FoR TnEAoLIDAYs.

I FOR TnE2oLIDAYs
sAHEf e uAsDxsnoArrrs
'sSE "a 3,
PLAIN AND HHesss cSfgSTFs for DREssEa
sRooADEs, pAassss GPfo sis ,SSoSSSoHEp FABLES.
Elder AND A SSSEs' De Po SsAS SssHHsTs.
.A0lss asS sSi$ $SHsSSa as suox
@ II ais he ssSsS
'44 sdSyf; sa's LAMBS
BRoADwAy. consEn 18th ST:
T e BourhLIER BROS,
., t sSs D;s;'; SsEss s4 asoDs
::s ~: =: sssSSs
surrrsas rs s;okk sisa s ss'si A:sh cent.
and Ss r. Wit %SSEa ,s
ia never
.f S. s e: WELL wSsfi s.. FANCY
ss i sss 81 g: 6: 'A''
s;T ri BLACK SILKS
from - ExTHSS fAL Eo% 'h fsicET
snwe have made >,.,.
In the prices Of MOURNING GOODS, CASHMERES,
AkMvkEs. ALrACAs &C.. and INVITE PARTICULARS
THE ABOVE GOODS ARE PARTICULARLY SUIT.
ABLE FOR HOLIDAY PREsENrs. AND VIZ WOULD
URGE AN RARLY INSPECTION WHILE THE AssoRr
nExr Is STILL COMPLETE
0-
LIZ BUUTILLrER BROS.
~ kass 18th u.
INLEGANr SHETLAND SEAL sACQUR NRw; HAS
Lnevsr been worm 36 inches In lengtn; sacrifice
JEW kLLEk 7s3 9th Az
| For Other Dry Goods Advertisements See
| First Page.
| DENTISTRY.
| 4 SET or fELTH IL THREE H0GRS Al Dr. ".
l hNkwBkOUGH'S, ST 9Th door above 23d r-
opposite Masonic Tcmplc: rubber ceulod. gold plans
Ac and thing dentistry with dcspath
/ A KrIrIClAL TEETH SPECIALITY RUBBER
Asets. - upward; single Teosh, 81 upward; suostsn'
italy made carefully nss'd ;.usiasSn m sscd a.
| DR LAKE DENTIST 200 GRAND sT.-PARTIAL
Dsets Gum Teeth. "a best -. ! tos r NJ
| llR WAIT. SIR. IS EAST 23D sT.-FIRsr CLASS
| Two 4kxe BgvKL BILLIARD TABLBs nut LITTLE
4 nsed; CArom and Pool complete including Gas
rooms rooms iSs BresaSS. - = 80
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-11-25
BETWEEN a4rH AND 2srH SITS.

We invite the special attention OF every lady shopping
for dress goods and silks immense stock onered TINS
$50 cases OF FINE QUALITY DRESS GOODS. marked
Is per less than the ua cost Of production.
DRESS GOODS.
25 cases KNICKERBoCKEk CLOTHS, Ioc., l2fc. ana
10 cases ENGLISH CASHMERE. 2oc and 25c. same %
odd last week for 3lc and 45c per yard .,-,<
20 cases REAL FRENCH NOVELTIES. 3lc and o115c.;
selling Broadway for soc. ana 62ac per yard
80 cases ALL WOOL CASHMEREs, 45c., b2c. and 75c.
loc. per yard less than ever offered before.
10 cases Ga DRESS GOODS. Soc ana zoo; mstkeo
dow from &c. aud 81 -.
MOURNING GOODS.
20 cases OF good qualities BLACK CASHMERE. 57hc.
and soc well worth 2oc. per yar,i moro = =.
Is cases FRENCH CASHMERE. very wde 75c and u !;
30 eases BLACK ALpACA 2oc., o5c. and aic, recently
10 cases BLACK GRAPE CLOTH. 37hc. and Coo. ;
wholesaie price 2oc per yard more
BLACK SILKS AND CoLoRED SILKS
the best Lyons snufacturers and
guaranteed IRON Doe Toe yard less than ever
80 pieces beautiful quality black silks jc aud Toe ysrd
so nieces EXTRA HEAVY BLACK SILK, 81 and 81 81
recently sold Tor 75c per yard more.
so pieces GCINE1rE'S BEST BLACK SILK, s. and
81 so, to import 75c. per yard more.
100 cases GOisoHED SILKS. In evening shades. from
- CLo,Ks AND SUITS.
800 BEAVER AND MATELAssE CLOTH CLoAkS
TO 100 LACK SILK VELVET cLoAKs from $50 to $3.50
500 CASHMERE AND ALPACA SUITS. from SO to SIS
$50 BLACK SILK COSTUMES, from SIS to $3.50 each.
100 CULORiD SILK COSTUME rs. from So 81 80 each
Tho prices above suits guaranteed TO be ~
cont less Than cost OF msnuf acture. a.t.
WALLER McsoRLEY.
243 Grand ST., near Bowcry. New York
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-11-25

Will oner Cioaks this week At retail-same prices
Wholesale Them in lots Of thousand TO the largest
This opportunity before
offered BY inufactnrng house. You can buy one
Cloak the price sell them by tho Thousand
desire establish retail trade In connection
with wholesale business and consider this Quick
IS so; Cioaks So worth $6 Coaks, SIS, worth $22t
CIosks So worth $40 Childrens Coaks u 90 and mp
ward
Entire stock Of Suits be closed out u half cos
shall entire building for Coakx Suits S. cost $lOt
Suits $40, cost S2u: suits. SIS. cost $50.
Black Cashmere Suits, handsomely trimmed with silk,
$12 worth SIS.
Best quality Waterproof Cloak. lined with flannel and
trimmed with braid "a rs. worth s.
Ladies viii please remember shall sell any Cloaks or
Suits prices advertised.
BUYNTUN CO..
$50 9th sv.. I'D and 3d.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-11-25

TouyIy KID GLOVES VIOLET rERFUMERy, At J.
81 q GKODEH 4 90 -, late T. Bruo 50 East 18th 81,
near Broadway.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-11-25

t,EAL rURs DYED TO LOOK LIKE NEW, LENGTH
Hcnsd ana msae over present shape lined and tr'n
mad Mink ana sable Furs dsrkcned permanent natural
nslss j. D. WILLIAMS $50 Fulton 81, Brooklyn.
The National tribune., 1877-10-01
Plain Words About Justice.

Last session, when General Logan was en-
deavoring to persuade the Senate to consider
the bill to equalize bounties he uttered the fol-
lowing words:
81 desire say the Senate that this bill has passed
the House since the year 1868 five different times and the
Senate and is before the Senate again, having
passed the House by great majority at this session.
deem Just the soldiers of this country who de-
frauded of their bounty that this Government should
pay it at time and think that they have waited
long enough for it. feel that demonstrate TO the
Senate any other body that there is asking
bounty by this bill except those who entitled to it,
and who ought to have had long ago. give notice now
that will call it up every morning. and will call the
yeas and nays to whether it shall be taken up not,
until the country shall fully understand whether
these TO be longer deprived OF that to which they
are justly entitled"
But the Senate refused to take up the bill, by
a vote of twenty to twenty-five, as follows:
YEAS-Messrs. Allison, Boutwell,, Cameron of Wis
consin Conklng, Dawes, Ferry Hamln. Harvey Hitch
cock, ingalls,, Key, Logan. Mcmillan, MITCHELL Morton,
Paddock, Wadeigh. West, Window, and Wright-20.
NAYS-Messrs. Anthouy, Bayard, Bogy, Booth, Ca
perton, Christiancy Cooper, Davis, Eaton Edmunds.
Frelinghuysen, Gordon, Hamilton, Kelly, Kernan Nc
Creery Maxey Merrimon, Morrill, of Vermont Sargent,
Saulbury. Sherman Wallace, Whyte, and Withers-25
Cameron of Pennsylvania, Clayton, Cockrel Conover,
Cragin Dennis, Dorsey. Godthwaite, Howe, johnson.
Jones of Florida Jones of Nevada Mcdonald, Morrill, OF
Maine, Norwood, Oglesby, Patterson. Randolph, Kan
son. Robertson Sharon Spencer Stevenson, and Thur
man-2S.
The National tribune., 1877-10-01
COMMISSIONER seNTLEY's NEW PLAN.

We can give the heartiest approval of the
manner in which Commissioner Bentley has con-
Quoted the affairs of the Pension Office, but we
must take issue with him over new plan he
has proposed to abolish the present system OF
examining surgeons and establish another, which
we think will not be as advantageous to the Gov
ernment, or to the pensioners as that at present
in operation.
In his last report to Congress, Commissioner
Bentley describes his plan as follows:
'sIn place of the present system, under which the
claims are established by parte afdavits generally
framed by the claimants attorney of persons unknown
the Office and by the certificates of examining surgeons
whose relations to claimant the neghborhood prac
TONER constitutes powerful temptation 10 unduy favor
him. system should be adopted which viii give to the
office opportunity closely question both the claimant
and his principal witnesses and secure medical cNna-
The National tribune., 1877-10-01

The soldiers of the rebellion and their families
have warm and active friend in Adjutant Gen
eral Townsend of the Army. He appreciates, as
fully as any man, what is due to those who are
entitled to pensions, and makes it a labor, not
only of duty, but of love, to secure their rights.
Much of the clerical labor and investigation Incl
dent upon pension matters is performed in the
office of the Adjutant General, and we take
pleasure in acknowledging, in behalf of the pen
soners of the Government, the unremitting atten-
ton which General Townsend always devotes to
his duties, in this particular He has been of
great service, too, in aiding the passage of laws
by Congress remedying the defects in the present
system of paying pensions.
The National tribune., 1877-10-01
PENSIONS NOT A eRATUITy.

1t is a common mistake, on the part of pen
sioners and the public, to suppose that pension
given by the Government is mere gratuity to
its patriotic soldiers. This is not So To give a
pension to soldier disabled by wounds, injuries,
or diseases, or the family of dead soldier, is
merely the fulfllment of CONTRACT made by the
United States with every man who enlsts in its
military service.
The National tribune., 1877-10-01

to secure its passage even without the aid of the
new members, many Of whom will no doubt be
in favor of the bill.
The National tribune., 1877-10-01

1SeuldLlVeS Oh the Il OTly-ultn CONGRESS-,
leets on the 18th of October, were membe
le last House, and voted, on the goth of
S76, for the passage of the Bill to Equ
counties. The soldiers will remember then
ATKINS, Democrat, of Tennessee.
BAKER, Republican, of Indiana.
BAKER, Republican, of New York.
BALLoU, Republican, of Rhode Island.
BANKS, Republican, of Massachusetts,.
BANNING, Democrat, of Ohio.
BLAIR, Republican, of New Hampshire
BLAND, Democrat, of Missouri.
BURcHARD, Republican, of Illinois.
CANNON, Republican, of Illinois.
CAswELL, Republican, of Wisconsin.
CLARK, Democrat, of Missouri.
CLYMER, Democrat, of Pennsylvania.
Cook, Democrat, of Georgia.
CUTTER, Republican, of New Jersey.
DANFoRD, Republican, of Ohio
DENNIsoN, Republican, of Vermont.
DIBBRELL, Democrat, of Tennessee
DUNNELL, Republican, of Minnesota.
EAMEs, Republican, of Rhode Island.
EDEN, Democrat, of Illinois.
FINLEY, Democrat, Of Florida
Fort, Republican, of Illinois
FOSTER, Republican, Of Ohio.
FRANKLIN, Democrat of Missouri.
FREEMAN, Republican, of Pennsylvania.
FRYE, Republican, of Maine
FULLER, Democrat, Of Indiana
GLOVER, Democrat, of Missouri
HARRISON, Republican, of Alabama
HAprvrrr nayo0oro+ l<>FT Tll,,1,o
HATCHER, Democrat, of Missouri
HAMILTON, Democrat, of Indiana.
HENDEE, Republican, of Vermont.
HENDERSON, Republican, of Illinois.
HEWITT, Democrat, OF Alabama.
HEwITT, Democrat, OF OF New York.
HUBBELL, Republican, of Michigan.
JONES, Democrat, of New Hampshire
JOYCE, Republican, of Vermont.
KELLEY, Republican, Of Pennsylvania.
LANDERs, Democrat, Of Connecticut.
LEVY, Democrat of Louisiana
MAcKEY, Democrat, OF Pennsylvania.
MASH, Democrat, Of Pennsylvania.
MCMAHON, Democrat. of Ohio
METcALF, Democrat, Of Missouri
MONROE, Republican, of Ohio.
MORGAN, Democrat, Of Missouri.
MORRISON, Democrat, of Illinois.
MUTcHLER, Democrat of Pennsylvania.
OLIVER, Republican, of Iowa.
O'NEIL, Republican, Of Pennsylvania.
PAGE, Republican, of California
PHILLIPS, Republican, of Kansas.
RAINEY, Republican, of South Carolina.
RANDALL, Democrat, of Pennsylvania.
REA, Democrat, of Missouri.
REILLEY, Democrat, of Pennsylvania
RICE, Democrat, of Ohio.
ROBBINS, Democrat, of North Carolina.
ROBINSON, Republican, Of Indiana
SAMSON, Republican, of Iowa.
SAYLER, Democrat, of Ohio.
SINNIcKsoN, Republican, of New Jersey.
SMALLs, Republican, of South Carolina.
SMITH, Republican, of Pennsylvania.
SoUTHARD, Republican, of Ohio
SPRINGER, Democrat, of Illinois.
STRAIT, Republican, of Minnesota.
STENeER, Democrat, of Pennsylvania.
TURNEY, Democrat, of Pennsylvania.
VAN VOORHEES,, Republican, of Ohio.
WAITE, Republican, of Connecticut
WALSH, Democrat, of Maryland.
WILLIAMS, Republican. of Wisconsin.
YEArEs, Democrat, of North Carolina.
The National tribune., 1877-10-01
THE ROLL or HONOR.

The following members of the House of Rep
resentatves of the Forty-ffth Congress, which
meets on the 18th of October, were members of
the last House, and voted, on the Goth of June,
1876, for the passage of the Bill to Equalize
Bounties. The soldiers will remember them:
The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-06-21
Islern Water.

In our climate, where rain is abundant
during a considerable portion of the
year, the water falling upon the roof Of
any house, il properly collected and
stored, is ample for the whole supply Of
the family which that roof shelters. This
water as il falls is ordinarily free from
any impurity that can affect ia taste,
and from every source Of serious foul
ing, though after a long-continned
drought il is well TO divert and discharge
upon the surface Of the ground the arst
ten minutes how Of a showcase that
the impurities of the air. and the dust II
the roof NAV be first removed After
this first dash, lead 10 the cistern all that
follows. Even with this precaution the
water viii be more agreeable for use il
filtered There are numerous systems
for making filters in cisternE, but No
other il 10 simple, nor 80 dunhle and
satisfactory as the separation nf that part
~ the cistern from which the suction
pipe leads by wall Al brick and cement
ID in simply necessary 10 build n wall uf
brick set on edge two and half inches
thick. so as to include about one-quar-
ter of the area Of the bottom, Eloping IL
back SO as 10 terminate against the side
of the cistern at height of from four 10
six feet This wall should be 30 well
cemented at its joints that water can only
pass through the material of brick, and
Tor strengths il form should be slightly
bulging. A wall Of this sort. measuring
say six feet at its base and rising 10 q
height of SIX feet at its highest point,
will transmit an amount Of water suf-
iicient 10 supply the demand Of the most
constant pumping that any domestic use
can require.
The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-06-21

Sultan-The sovereign az The Turkish
cmpsre-the recognized organ of all cx-
cCutye power IN the State. His head.
quarters agc 40 Cous.ant3uople.
Por,c-Ihe goyeruEen. q the Turk
ish empire
sublime Porte--The official name OF
the government, ss-callei from the gate
of the fuliau's palace.
Gran Ni1icr-Tho chief minister OF
the Turki.h empire.
piyan-Ihc Turkish council 81 State
the cabinet.
Grand Muiti-Chief interpreter Of the
Mohammciau law and head Of the ''wise
mea"-iur.sts, thcologians and iitcrafi
who assemble for c nsu tation on his
onier lie is mostly styled the chbi of
the faithful 4 writer saws fCfsrd or
decree from him would summon around
the standard of the prophet all the IA
uatical hordcs 81 Islam 80 fight to the
death against the iniidcls, in the firm
belief that death on the battlefield is a
SURF passport 10 paradise -
PAshn-tiuveTnurE, vlccruyF, COM
manders. civil anu military rulers Of
provinces.
Deys-About the same rs pasha.
Sh.ik-lhe name given the heads Of
Arabian tribes or clans. II means elder,
or eldest in dignity and authority.
Osmandi-T Turkish Official.
I~lam-Thc religion Of Mohammed.
Islams- -Mohammcdnns themselves.
Mussulman-A follower Of Moham-
med
Ottoman Fmpire-Auo,hcr name for
the Turkish empire, aud derives its
name from Osman, its founder.
Osmanlis-The Turks proper.
The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-06-21

That the dead should kin the living
seems a paradox yet nothing in more
true. Indeed we venture to say that
every year in our land eorpses murder
more people than asaaasins do. Not
only have intramural interments poison-
ed whole blocks and quarters, not only
Ans drinking water contaminated by
grave yards yearly spread disease and
death through country hamletH, but be-
fore the process 0f decomposition eon-
menees there ~ often n great aud press
ing danger from infections disease. We
quote a recent instance
DR.. Goldie, the medical officer Of
health for Leeds, England, in his report
10 the local authority, states that every
one II thirty people who attended the
wake of an Irish girl who recently died
in that town from typhus fever were at
tacked by the disease and 10 fewer than
uine of the cases ended fatally.
So strongly have the needless dangers
Of exposure at funerals impressed the
medical mind, that the health board of
New York have issued d circular recon
mending that no public or church fune.
rails should be given 10 persons dying Of
either diphtheriA, scarlet fever, measles
or who0plng cJngh.
In Chicago als0, where scarlet fever
and diphtheriA have been severe this past
winter, the recommendation 0i one hum
dred medical men ia council was In these
words
"Ihere should be no public funerals
of any patient who had died Of amy in
fecti0us or contagious disease. ReTnEm-
ber that the separation Of the sick person
from the well II the most certain means
Of preventing the spread Of the disease
A writer in the Baltimore Physician
aud Surgeon, last December, went so
far as 10 advocate the passage Of Law
on the subject tthe average American
man looking upon ''law a. q curc-all
ON every occasion). He thought il
should eInbody the following provisions:
]. Whenever any one dies Of contagious
disease, the publication announcing the
death should state cause of death.
2 No person except the immediate
family should be permitted 10 attend the
funeral, and the handling and burying
the body should be intrusted 30 persons
who devote themselves 90 that business.
8. A sufficient number of carriages
shonld be kept for the special purpose
of attending these funerals, and the
hiring them for other purposes should
be prohibited, under the seyerest penal
ties.
These are good suggestions, but peO-
pie should learn and obey them out Of
natural sense of sanitary propriety. not
out Of obligation 30 a statute. Medical
and Surgical Reporter.
The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-06-21
A Nnrdcrer GnIllotIned.

Billior, the man who killed his mis-
tress, cut her body into pieces, and threw
them into the Seine, was gullotined on
the Rond Point oi the Rue de la
Roquette, Paris. Thousands Of people
must have been anxious to witness the
execution. According 10 the observance
in such cases, however, the authorities
kept the date Of the event strictly secret,
and only those who were adventurous
enough 20 remain on the famous place
all night, in the hope of seeing some
thing at daybreak. were privileged with
the melancholy satisfaction of witness
ing the horrible sight. Billoir to the
last was confident that his long service
in the army would have influenced the
marshal. On his last afternoon the
prisoner ate his dinner quietly and with
good appetite, and in the evening
played few games at cards with the
keeper who remained in his cell. At
one o'clock in the morning the fatal
truth was made known 10 the convict by
his companion nj cards, whom the muir
derer regarded at all times with special
disfnvor. Billoir's answer was simply a
sneer. 81 thought it would be You who
would convey that information. Then
he retired 10 bed, and slept TRANQUILITY
until the arrival of the public execu-
TONER. Roch. About half-past two the
crowd was cleared or the spot wher, the
scaffold stands, and the gloomy machine
was wheeled ont and fixed. A small de-
tachment Of gendarmerie on horseback
were stationed below the guillotine.
The prisoners last words before stepping
on the platform OF the guillotine were !:
" Goodbye, my father" addressed to
the priest. Death seemed 10 be in
Simultaneous.
The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-06-21
Getting Even with an India Prince.

A curious story, hy the way, comes TO
MS from India, says a correspondent
The viceroy had received some offense
from Scindia. and could not Ryenge it
openly: whercupon he meditated and
took the following deeply dehberated
method Of retaliation When large
number of native princes came up before
him 10 make their obeisance, no sooner
did the offending Scindia enter than the
viceroy sprang forward with unwonted
effusiveness and kissed him on both
cheeks. Such contact from an alien and
a Christian is the EXTREMIST taint ma
tive can receive. Scindia's own wives
would not come near him in one mo-
ment he sank in the eyes Of all India
from prince to a pariah, and ever since
the poor man has been undergoing puri-
flying ceremonials, costing large part
of his fortune to cleanse him from the
yiceregal kiss by which he was betrayed