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A SUSPICIOUS MAN.
why He Would Not Hire Out His Team TO
Stranger.

Why He Would Not Hire Out His Team to
From Texas siftinss.
A young man in a southern town applied to
the keeper Of . livery stable for horse and
buggy.
'who is going along with your" asked the
latter.
~ am going to take my wifs's mother out for
ride. She is not well, and want her to have
some fresh air. wish you would put spade
and Ratchet in the bottom Of the buggy"
'what do you want them for?'
II want to dig up some young cedar trees to
plant in the cemetery"
81 don't think can let you have . buggy"
'sWhy not?''
'.Because don't want to be hauled up as
witness every time court meets. have got my
business to attend to-"
81 don't understand you"
"Maybe you don't, but understand you. You
have been married some years and when mar
ried man in this town wants to take his mother
in-law ont for Q ride for he. health and wants
q spade and Ratchet, and talks about planting
things in the cemetery, that's al ] want 70
know"
s'But, my dear Sir"
take any risks. When your trial comes 81 Won
win swear there h . prejudice against you in
this town and you can't get . fair trial, and ees
change Of venue to some county away Oh and
I'll have TO 60 there e. . witness every time the
case Il continued or be fined go. II You want
TO get rid Of your wife's mother you 60 to Q
drug store and get some rough on rata and
It VIII be case Of suicide or accident but am
not going to be mixed up In Il By supplying
You with spades and hatchets and horse and
buggy e carry OF the corpse 70 hide. No, sir-
rec! Why don't you AK me to pnt coffin in
the buggy bestdss2 No, sir, am not that kind
Of livery stable man. I'm not in that line Of
businesa Isympathizs with you, but for the
mere hire Of . horse and buggy can't afford
70 taxa any such riak.'
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BRIG ARMSTRONG's HEIRS,
Mrs. Josephine E. Miller Waiting for a
Check From Washington.

MRS. Josephine 4. Miller waiting Tor q
Check From Washington.
From the Philadelphis Press.
Mrs. Josephine E. Miller, an elderly woman.
temporarily living in French's court Camden,
is waiting for check from Washington as her
share of the appropriation made about four
years ago for the descendants of the gallant
crew of the privateer brig General Armstrong.
which did brilliant service in the war of 1912.
Her father, Joseph Metz, was powder
monkey on the brig. While cruising for prizes
with the Atlantic the brig was ordered by the
United States government to attack the British
Notifications on the island Of Fagal, in the
Azores.
The attack was failure, the vessel was re-
pulsed, and British man-of-war was about
capturing the Armstrong, when the Yankees
concluded to destroy the brig in preference to
being taken. slow match WAS applied to the
magazine, the men took to the small boats and
started for the mainland Of Portugal, which
was then supposed to be a friendly country
Under cover of the darkness they eluded the
man-of-war, and, after undergoing great hard
ships reached a Portuguese port. Instead of
being protected, as they expected, they we're
given anything but friendly welcome, and for
some trifing offense Young Metz was con-
demned to death.
YOUNG METZ LIBERATED.
Before the execution word reached this
So.,...",l ,.:s - 80 VIZ men hVea In
SOUTHWARK. Mia the matter before the suthori-
ties in Washington. The young man was
liberated and subsequently the Portuguese gov
eminent paid into the hands Of this govern
ment an amount of money to reimburse the
crew for their detention. This was divided
among the crew. All this happened in Sep
TENDER, 1914.
About four years ago Congress appropriated
Armstrong and the members Of the crew for
their descendants for services rendered during
the war. The bulk of this sum, Of course. went
to the owners, and the balance is now being
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A FINANCIER IN SKIRTS.
Illustration Of What . Woman Don't Know
Of Business Methods.


OF Business Methods-
The knowledge that some women possess Of
business and finance IL astonishing, ssys the
Kansas City Times.
And then again the knowledge that some
women do not possess on the selfsame topic is
still more astonishing
There is one peculiar thing about q womAn's
business tact and talent. however.
1t doesn't seem to matter how bright she may
De. as soon as check gets into the transaction
she is in deep water.
had occasion this morning to pay q bill of
$780, and, with the air Of a man proud Of the
fact that thinly clad collector did not have 20
wear ont four pairs Of shoes chasing him.
walked into the store and handed out q check
for the amount Of the bill.
The young woman looked nj both sides Of the
check and studied il carefully. reading IL as If
II were continued love story. She finally
glanced up and remarked;
Il don't know about this"
Thinking that she meant TO cast some reaec-
myself into shape 10 retaliate when a smile
came over the young woman's face rs IL she had
at last reached land, and she said:
Il haven't handled many checks, but guess
Then she Endorsed the check. receipted the
BILL handed them both back 10 me and said in
a very sweet way:
Thank you very much"
This left me with my bill receipted and a
check for ESQ. In other words was 81 50
ahead in the transaction. 1explained the sit
uation TO the young woman. but from the va
cant look on her face it was easy to see that she
couldn't grasp the mistake. The check was
too much for her.
told the story in part few minutes later 20
cynical newspaper man and he remarked:
That shows What a woman knows about
business. Did 20. give the check backY' be
asked.
''Yes"
We'll, It seems 70 me that that shows what
you know about business" Was his next re-
mark, made in a disguised tone
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Padding Ink No Longer safe.

From the Chicago Mail.
II had an experience the other day which hss
interested me more than anything Of q similar
nature which has happened TO me in al my
business experience. A young lady who moves
in the best society brought me three letter. and
photographed them for her and at her request
destroyed the negatives. The letters we're the
most tender and ardent love missives imagine
BILE. They were addressed TO the Young lady
herself and were signed by q name which Am
sure You would recognize instantly were 70
mention it. i viii confess that curiosity rot
the better Of my Judgment, and finally said.
usual. isntit?
is itf she said smiling.
% 1t strikes me 90, replied Z don't 80
Why you want photograph Of those lefesss
since You have the letters themselves.'
Don't your Well, do. Suppose the let
tiers we're TO be lost or burned OF destroyed in
some other wayr
Wouldn't the photographs be destroyed
just As easily ~ the ietterxy
Perhaps not; ESPECIALLY N they were not
Kept In the same place with the ietsss. But
m not afraid Of losing them by fire or In any
such way that. The fact Is the ink 10 FADING.
and in short time it viii be illegible.
sThere 10 . girl for you who won't take 90
chances In the breach of prosaiss baaiassA"
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He Cot Out Of Il.

= rom too New xork sun.
middls-sgsd gentleman who was crossing
Union Square the other afternoon with his
wife, pulled his handkerchief out Of his over
coat pocket and with it dainty letter. A boy
who noticed the circumstance ran after him
and called:
.'Hey, mister, you dropped this letter"
letter. Asked the man - he stopped.
'Yss, and it's directed in . womau's hand.
writing, too"
''Givs il 10 me-" aid tho lady.
boy, you 60 onr' warned the man. 81
know you, sir, and IN put an ofacer on your
track! Come, Lucy, lie The old freight bin
dodge Xoavs read about % often in the
papers."
They walled On and ths lad uttered q
whistle Of surprise, made mp noes after them,
and was psrhaps mile away when the gentle
man came hurryins bsck and asked Of an idlss
who wa walking aEoand:
Have you sssa anything Of . boy shout q
TN, drssssd in - hreva ssit Win . latter q
Ms hAaaF'
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From the 81. Louis 0lotse-Democrzt.
The new Argentine Pacific railroad from
Buenos Ayres to the foot Of the Andes has on
1t what is probably the longest tangent in the
world This ID $40 kilonessrs (2Il miles) With
out curve. In this distance there il not q
single bridge and no opening larger than an
ordinary culvert, no cut greater than one meter
in depth and no All Of . height exceeding one
meter. There is almost an entire Absence of
wood on the plain across which the western
end of the road 70 located. This has led TO the
extensive use Of metallic ties, which Win be
employed on nearly the entire road.
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Little Boy Gin crowded street car 10 prssty
little girl, 'Fu give you my ssat Il yon'fl take
f."
obliged, but you shouldnI olsr your seat until
you are ready 70 get q, cause psopls uill think
yoa ars from he country. "-6ood Gtss.
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KIPLlNG ON AMERICA.
Keen Satire and Generous Praise for
People and Customs.
WITH THE BOYS IN FRISCO.

Political Workers at work-A whoIe-souIed
Tribute to American Maidens-Diamonds
and observation-disclosures on Life in the
wsst-A Go at the Negro Problem.
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TAXI GOOD CARE Of your beard and Keep Il clear
OF gray hairs 20 as TO retain your young looks by
uxng Buckingham's Dye for the wkiskefn
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ffom tAs SonGviile Journal.
Tia bachelor thinks that the baby u blot
On tAe landscape, and The baby's no<hsr knows
that ths bechslor +.
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But this has nothing to do with San Fran
cisco and her merry maidens, her strong,
staggering men and her wealth of gold and
pride. They bore me to a banquet in honor Of
a brave lieutenant-Carlin of the vandalis--
who stuck by his ship in the great cyclone ct
Apia and comported himself as an officer should
On that occasion-'twas at the Bohemian Club
heard oratory with the roundest Of o's, and
devoured a dinner, the memory Of which will
descend with me into the hungry grave. There
we're about forty speeches delivered and not
one OF them was average or ordinary Il was
my first introduction to the American eagle
screaming for all IL was worth. The lieuten-
ants heroism served a peg from which the
slyer-tongued ones turned themselves loose
and kicked. They ransacked the clouds Of
sunset. the thunderbolte Of heaven, the deeps
Of hell and the splendor of the resurrection
Tor tropes and metaphors and hurled the
result ut the head Of the guest Of the evening
Then. according to rule, they produced their
dead, and across the snowy table cloths drasgsd
the corpse OF every man slain In the civil war
and hurled defiance at ''our natural enemy
England, SO please you) with her chain Of
fortresses across the world" Thereafter they
gloritied their nation afrssh from the begin.
ming, IN case any detail should have been over
looked, and that made me uncomfortable for
their ~kes. How in the world can white
man, q sahib Of our blood, stand mn and rlaster
praise on his OWE country He can think q
highly a. be likes. but this open-mouthod vche-
mthee ot aaornuon Struck me Almost - tndolt-
cate. My hosts talked for rather more than
three hours and at the end seemed rssdy foe
three hours more.
But when the lieutenant, such Q big, brave,
gente giant, rose TO his feet he delivered what
seemed to me - the speech Of the evening. I
remember nearly the whole of 70 and ID ran
something in this way: "0sntlsnau. it's very
good OF you TO give me this dinner ana 10 teil
me all these pretty things. but what want you
TO Understandable fact IL, what We wat and
what We ought 10 get at once II Q navy--morv
shiPs-iots OF EN-" Then we howlsd the
earlin on the spot WallAh! He Wa 3 nan,
ONLY roe RHTKcr.
The prince among merchants hels ne tks
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PENsACOLA's MONUMENT.

A Memorial to the Confederate Dead Now
Being Completed in This City.
The record-union., 1891-11-14

cult Court by Thomas Grief to restrain
the Mayor or police from entering upon
his premises or interfering with any
meetings held in his hall. The case will
come up Tomorrow
Both Mayor Washburne and Chief Nc
Claughry advance the belief that the OBJ
Ject OF the meeting last night was not TO
commit any direct acts of violence, but
to keep up the anarchistic agitation, to
convince foreigners that Chicago will not
be a safe place to come to in the Worlds
Fair year.
Mayor Washburne said these incendi-
ary utterances must be stopped, for they
are likely to do Chicago incalculable in
jury, giving the city bad reputation,
and possibly keeping millions of capital
away, besides seriously damaging the
Worlds Fair. The Mayor said his policy
will be TO suppress with firm hand all
meetings held to advocate anarchistic
principles. The anarchists, he said, made
remarks in their speeches recently which
Justlles the conclusions that he has
drawn. They all hate Chicago, and cry
for revenge on it because of the execu-
ton of their leaders here four years ago.
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KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
Resolution Adopted TO Settle the Diff
culties With the Federation

Resolution Adopted TO Settle the Diff
culties With the Federation.
TOLEDO (O.), Nov. 13.-The knights of
Labor Convention this morning adopted
resolution to settle the difficulties be-
tween the Knights of Labor and the
American Federation Of Labor. If this
resolution is accepted by the Federation,
it means over 100000 laboring men will
be united in organized labor assemblies
or unions. The proposition is embraced
in resolution, and is as follows:
First-In future all knights of Labor
working at trade or calling shall recog-
nlze and respect the working cards of all
unions of the same trade or calling at
tached to or affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor or connected with
any labor organization who are parties
to the agreement when such unions and
their members shall in like manner recog-
nize and respect the working cards OF
| such Knights of Labor.
Second-All labels, property of the
| Federation or of any body attached to it,
or of any of the labor organizations who
| are parties to the agreement, shall be
officially recognized and indorsed by the
| Knights of Labor, and all Knights of
Labor labels shall be officially recognized
and indorsed by the Federation and other
parties to this agreement.
| Third-No person who is suspended
or expelled member of any union in
affiliation with the Federation, or of any
other body party to this agreement, or
who is in arrears for dues or assessments,
or in any other way indebted to such
union or organization, shall be admitted
10 membership in any assembly of the
| Knights of Labor without the consent OF
such union or organization in writing.
| and in like manner no person who has
been expelled or suspended by an assem-
| bly, of the knights of Labor, or who is
| indebted or in arrears for dues or assess
ments to such assembly, shall be admitted
to membership in any union affiliated
with the Federation or any of the organiz-
ations parties to this agreement.
Fourth = The provisions here made
! shall be promulgated as soon as practical
bic and go into effect on and after Janu-
ary l, 1892, and be it
ReSOtUed, That no local or other assembly
of the Knights of Labor shall form an ALI
ance or atiliation with any body or organiZa-
tion that shall refuse to enter into the agree
! ment as above with this order; and be it fur
| ther
ReSolUed, That should the American Feder
| alton of Labor at its coming annual session
| re1us TO enter into the agreement as outlined
| above, it shall be the duty of the general Off
GERS of the Knights of Labor to issue an adj
dress to the workingmen Of America setting
| Ierth all the facts.
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DEMOCRATIC sPECTLATIoNs.
THANKSGIVING DAY
Thursday, November Goth, Set Apart
by Presidential Proclamation.

Thursday, November Goth, Set Apart
by Presidential Proclamation.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-The following
was issued this afternoon by the Presi-
dent of the United States:
ut is a very glad incident of the mar
velous prosperity which has crowned the
year now drawing to a close that its help
1ul and reaSSuring touch has been felt by
all our people. 1t has been as wide as
our country and so special that every
home has felt its comforting influence
it is too great TO be the work of mans
power and too particular to be the device
of his mind. To God, the benevolent and
all-wise, who makes the labors of man to
be fruitful. redeems their losses by his
grace and the measure Of whose giving is
as much beyond the thoughts of man as il
is beyond his deserts, the praise and graf
itude of the people of this favored nation
are justly due.
Nov, therefore, /, Benjamin Harri-
son, President Of the United States of
America, do hereby appoint Thursday,
the 26th of November, to be a day of low
ful thanksgiving to God for the bounties
of his providence, for the place in which
we are permitted to enjoy them and for
the preservation of those institutions of
civil and religious liberty which he gave
our fathers the wisdom to devise and
establish and us the courage to preserve
Among the appropriate observances of
day are rest from toll, worship in public
congregation, renewal of family ties
about our American firesides, and
thoughtful helpfulness toward those who
suffer lack of body or Of spirit.
I'm testimony whereof, l have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal OF
the United States to be affixed. Done at
the city of Washington, this 18th day OF
November. in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-one,
and of the independence of the United
States the one hundred and sixteenth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON, President.
by JAMES CT. BLAINE, Secretary o1
State -
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banking and exchange firm located at
Charlottenburg, suburb of Berlin, has
surrendered himself to the police, con-
Tossing that he misappropriated securi-
ties deposited with him by various Gus
toners.
Later in the day it transpired that the
story was absolutely true. The Chariot
tenburg banker, who robbed his custom
ers, was named Mass. The money ap-
propriated by Mass to his own use in
cluded 10000 marks, which had been sub
scribed toward fund for the erection of
church in memory Of the late Empress
Augusta, the grandmother of the EN-
peror William. Ten thousand marks
which were to be devoted to the Prince
Frederick Charles Institute, also disap-
peared. In addition to these 80 900 marks
Mass succeeded in making away with
100000 marks deposited in his bank by
150 artisans and small traders. The liza
bilities are estimated at 1,750,O0O marks.
Mass appeared at the Central Police Sta
ton in Berlin this morning and delivered
himself to the authorities there, after con-
Tossing his wrong-dOing.
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BANK OF MADEIRA.
1t is Said to be at Present on Sound
Footing.

Footing.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13.-Cashier Nc
Donald of the Pacific Bank said to-day
regarding the Bank of MADEIRA and the
John Brown Colony in Fresno County,
that the MADEIRA Bank had been reorgan-
lied, and is now distinct from any con-
nection with the colony.
"We reorganized the Bank of MADEIRA
about six weeks ago." he said, ''and it is
now on safe financial footing, with as
sets and liabilities balancing at SIOO. 900.
The bank was organized and the John
Brown Colony was started by w. T.
Baird and John Brown about three years
ago. The colony consists of 5, 200 acres of
good land, and there are about three
hundred settlers on it. Baird and Brown
put in great deal of money into cultiva-
ton of the colony, and we were finally
obliged, owing to an overdraft on the
Pacific Bank, and in order TO protect our
interests, to make an Investigation. We
found number of irregularities due to
close connection between the bank and
the colony, but nothing of a sensational
character, and secured ourselves by hav-
ing the overdratts turned into bills re-
ceIvable and securing an interest in the
colony. The bank is now reorganized,
with Roberts, a wealthy capitalist OF
L
with the colony having ceased, no further
complications need ensue. The colony
lands are valuable and have been well
improved, and we do not intend that the
settlers shall suffer any loss by reason of
any transaction between the Bank of
MADEIRA and the Pacific Bank through
the operations of Bairdn
BAIRD's TRANSACTIONS.
FRESNO, Nov. 13.-The rascally trans
actions of w. P. Baird, late Presi-
dent and Cashier of the Bank of MADEIRA.
continue to come to light While there
was originally about $50 shares of bank
stock issued, there has already been pre-
sented over 1000 shares of fraudulent
stock. The over-issue is held in this city,
Los Angeles, and by the Pacific Bank in
San Francisco. Major Bonebrake of Los
Angeles holds eleven thousand dollars
worth of notes hypothecated with his
bank by Baird. Several notes have been
found which Baird raised from $40 to
81, 600 and from SIS to 81 ,500. The Consol-
idated Bank of Elsinore may yet suffer
severely on account of Baird rascality.
BAIRD ARRESTED.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13.-W. F. Baird
was tonight arrested at the Palace Hotel
on telegraphic orders from MADEIRA. The
charge is forgery. Baird refuses to talk
on the subject.
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NATIONAL w. c. II. u.
Large Gathering at the Opening of tho
WOrld'S ('nnNnntinr,

Worlds Convention.
BOSTON, Nov. 13.-Four thousand peo-
pie packed fremont Temple this morn
ing, when the Worlds Convention of the
National w. c. 7. U. was called to order
by Miss Willard. Miss Willard, in her
annual address, paid glowing tribute to
the individual and collective work of tbo
members.
Following an eloquent account of mag
l nltuue ana tar-reaching results of
woman work in temperance, Miss VIII
lard said there remains much 10 he done
me chQfch itself must have new crr-
sade LIS doors of gospel grace n1nst
staid opell-open night and day. Itmust
not De a huge lookup. a cube of masonry
curing SIX days of the week, for such can
not pe the twentieth century exposition of
| the church of Him who went abont doirg
| good. We must draw the people to thu
| church by having something thor4 fnr
them which will lead them up to the per-
ceptlon and love of spiritual bIessin0s.
Ihat party which Enthusiastically declares
lor pfonloltlon OF strong drink in their
| political platforms of 1892 is the only ona
tts@t Gssti hope for the good will. gooC
words and prayer of the w. c., II. II. We
nalled that banner to the mast in 1884.
ana SINK or swim, live or die, survive or
PERISH, we will keep it waving.
|
scientific temperance institutions. litern-
ture medal contests, the temperance
press, labor questions, Sabbath obsery-
ance, evangelistic work, work among DO
lcemen, social purity, marriage and di-
Norce, purity in art, woman's temperance
temple, National temperance hospital,
etc. es She was followed by Lady Henry
somerset, who made brief address.
Inc report OF the Treasurer showed the
receipts of the year to be S25, ,259, and the
expenditures 81, ,2I7.
AT the afternoon session Corresponding
| Secretary Mrs. Bull of Connecticut read
her report. AT the first convention i'm
cleveland in 1874 seventeen States were
represented, and at this convention fifty-
one states and Territories are repre-
sented. At the time of the second CON
ventIon there were 4, ,45S members in the
union. This year the membership is
1870, gain over last year of 10, ,369.
The introduction Of delegates to the
Worlds Convention and various reports
completed the afternoon session.