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Left his Money Behind

PARIS, Feb. ga banker in the
Rue Boiledieu. this city, has abscond-
ed. The police today found his safe
empty. His deficit amounted to
$l2O, 600.
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BUYS and Sells Railroads

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-Renry B..
Ives Is back on Wall street, buying
and selling railroads. He has just
sold the Herkimer and Newport mar
row gauge to the VAnderb ilts.
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Uncle Sans Proxy

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26-Advices
from Guatemala state that the new
United States minister, Ronaldo
Pacheco, was cordially received on his
arrival there.
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Bad Business.

NEW YORK, Feb. ga letter from
Buenos Ayres recites the deplorable
condition of business in that city.
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In Earnest.

NEW YORK, Feb. 20. "A London
telegram says, Slsvin and Mitchell
had quarrel and the former practical
IL mopped the floor with the English
slugger, and he Is now in bed.
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Approves his Efforts.

HAVANA, Feb. 28.-Chamber of
commerce approves Of the action of
the delegation sent to Spain and its
leader IL made an honorary member
Of the chamber.
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Not for the Stuffed Prophet.

NOt HOT tHC otuHcU TVPHCR'
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 26.-Senator
Black burn in letter to Col. John G..
Noble says, that there is not q demo.
cratic senator who favors Cleveland's
nomination and that If nominated it
would be impossible to elect him.
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Rest gned.

CHRISTIAN, Feb. 26.-The Norws.
gian cabinet has resigned; the Storth-
ing having adopted, by vote OF SO
to IS, o liberal motion censuring the
diplomatic action Of the government.
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Doodle Gases Busted.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. 26 Judge
White sustains the motion quashipg
the indictments against members OF
the council for bribery. This ends
the famous Doodle cases.
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Anti LIQUOR League.

CANTON, Ill. Feb. 26-The citizens
have formed an anti-license league
and will endeavor to elect a council
that will grant no licenses.
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Lockwood National
BANK.
EAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
y. 9. LOCKWOOD, President; }. MUIR. Cashier.
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.
The Capital Stays.

The Capital Stays.
SANTA FE, Feb. 2l.-The house vote
On state capital effectually kills the
scheme for removing the capital to
Albuquerque.
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An Empty Title.

NEW YORK. Feb. 28.-The badge
title Of "Chevalier" has been con-
fsrred on Inspector Byrnes of the
New York police force.
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LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.
.asoo,x1Ep PRESS DISPATCHES
AND STATE SPECIALS.

ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES
AND STATE SPECIALS.
upro THE TIME OF GOING TO PRESS.
All Serene.
LONDON, Feb 26.-Gernany and
Austria have assured the Italian gov
eminent Of their approval of the reap
prochemsnt between France and
Italy.
Anti Liquor League.
CANTON, Ill. Feb. 26.-The citizens
have formed an anti-license league
and will endeavor to elect q council
that will grant no licenses.
Left his Money Behind.
PARIS, Feb. ga banker in the
Rue Boiledieu, this city, has abscond-
ed. The police today found his safe
empty. His deficit amounted to
$l20, 900.
Uncle Sans Proxy.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26-Advices
from Guatemala state that the new
United States minister, Ronaldo
Pacheco, was cordially received on his
arrival there.
Approves his Efforts.
HAVANA, Feb. 28.-Chamber of
commerce approves Of the action of
the delegation sent to Spain and its
leader IL made an honorary member
Of the chamber.
Resigned.
CHRISTIAN, Feb. 26.-The Norwe-
gian cabinet has resigned; the Storth-
ing having adopted, by a vote OF SO
to IS, q liberal motion censuring the
diplomatic action Of the government.
Closed the Policy Shops.
ATCH1soN, Kss., Feb. a6.-Ths
metropolitan police have closed all
the policy shops. These were for
merly licensed, but under the ruling
of supreme court license was with
drawn.
Jones does not Care.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Feb. 28.-The
hanging of Gov. Jones In effigy has
created great indignation here, and .
meeting denouncing the act was call
ed but the governor objected to its
being held.
Named it sherman.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-The board Of
Aldermen yesterday passed . resolu-
ton naming the triangular space at
Seventy. third street and the Boule-
ward SHERMAN Place." In memory of
the late General.
An EccIestast's Residence.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. ga new home
for the venerable archbishop Of this
diocese is . certainty. The money is
all in sight. The building will he on
Lipdell avenue, near Cabanne. Plans
have been submitted.
Will compromise for 100000.
PoUGHKEFPsIE, N. Y. Feb. 90
The next OF kin of John Guy Vassar
deceased agree to accept $3.50, 900 and
not contest the 100000 bequest to
Vsssar College The proposition will
probably be accetped.
Rates Cut.
ST.. PAUL, MINI, Feb. 26.-It has
just been learned that the 1900" line
has made O reduction of 2 l.2c per 100
pounds on -four from At. Paul and
Minneapolis to points east of Buffalo.
The reduced rate goes into effect i'm
mediately.
For q Trade School.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Feb. 26.-R. Il.
Auchmuty, of New York, offers to
pay 81, 500 per annum. for three years,
to establish Trade school here under
the auspices of the Mechanics ex-
change, under the same conditions
as ru Q in the Philadelphia Trades
school.
Striking South-Americans.
San JANERIo, Feb. 26.-The labor
ers on the Central Railroad have
struck. Traffic has been stopped and
supplies of beef, which come in from
the country have been cut off, owing
to the fact that no trains are running.
The military forces are under arms
and are being employed In keeping
order.
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AdYiea tn tho Girls

Girls talk and laugh about marriage
as though it were jubilee, jolly,
gladstone thing, q rose without thorn.
And 80 it is, If it is all right, If they
go about it as rational beings, instead
of merry-making children. 1t is q
serious thing to marry. 1t is life
business, and that of heart and happi-
ness. Therefore never do it in haste !;
never run away to get married; never
marry for wealth, or standing, or fine
person, or manners, but only for char
acter, for worth, for the qualities Of
mind and heart which make On honor
able man. Take time, think long and
we'll before you accept any proposal ;
consult your parents, then some ju-
dicious friend, then your own iudg-
ment.
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Nervous Headache.

Nervous headache is, perhaps, the
most difficult of all to describe or to
treat, inasmuch as it Is not disease
but a symptom, the cause of which
may be in some remote part of the
system. One form of nervous head
ache, which is unmistakable, though
not always understood as such, con-
eists of dull grinding pain at the
back of the head near the base of the
brain, where the nerves of the spinal
cord enlarge and ramifv for the forma-
ton of the brain. Pain in this local
ity, frequently down the neck, is q
sure indication of impaired nervous
action, and should be treated accord
ingly. In another direction nervous
trouble produces violent headache
that is from tho medium of the stom-
ach. With many people any deep or
sudden emotion, such as grief, fear,
or even JOY may partially or entirely
paralyze the action of the stomach /;
there is an utter absence of appetite,
and the serious headache which re-
suits is simply the indication of the
trouble. When it is removed, and the
stomach resumes its accustomed 40
ton, the headache will disappear
Good Housekeeping.
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A Black Beauty.

An amusing story is told of we'll
known Russian woman who went re-
Gently to enjoy the sulphur baths OF
Tihis. On particular morning the
countess entered, as usual, one of the
bath rooms. The water had hardly
touched her body, however, when, to
her horror, she began to turn black.
She was so frightened at the trans
formation that, upon seeing her re-
Election in the mirror, she tainted. The
attendant, who was as greatly startled
as her mistress, cried for help. The
explanation was simple enough. It
was found that the countess was &C
customed to paint Der face, hands,
arms and neck daily with substance
containing zinc. On this fatal day the
poor woman had neglected to remove
the identifying coat. The zinc COM
bined with the sulphur and natrium of
the water and quickly made an African
belle out of the white-skinned bather
A considerable time passed ere the I'M
fortunate woman resumed her natural
appearance.
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the visitor q peep at the cold, malicious
eye Of old Davy's successor In possession.
Just after the British destroyed Wash
ington In 1914 cd Davy died, and true
to his promise he left Marcia the richest
woman In Virginia or Maryland Colonel
Vanness, heav ny a great sigh OF relief,
abandoned the d cottage, and with the
help OF Latrobe, the early architect of
the Capitol, began the construction Of q
mansion common urate with his Knick-
erbocker tastes and Marcia's vast
wealth. Old Davy was out OF the way.
snow lot us take our proper position,
suggested Colonel Vanness to his be-
loved Marcia.
They did. Colonel Vanness proceeded
to build the once splendid mansion
which to-day overshadows the old Burns
cottage. He took 40, 900 square feet OF
ground, and inclosed it by brick wall
Then he built, not moro than twenty
feet away from the old cottage where
he had spent his honeymoon, house
that cost $50, 000-an enormous sum in
those days for mansion. 1t was built
upon the colonial idea. There was q
grand Southern balcony in the rear and
ponderous port cOclere in front through
which carriages came and went The
portals OF the grand homestead were
solid structures in themselves. Every
uilding-mansion, stable, ice house,
and the portal houses-was built OF stone
and succeed. Broad enucs led to the
mansion, and they arc there yet, though
much disfgured by weeds and under
brush.
For years the Vanness mansion and
grounds have been given over to negroea
In summer they use the grounds for pic
mic purposes, and two or three families
occupy the basement rooms Of the old
house. Two or three cd scare-crow
horses occupy the once regal stables,
and small herd OF dirty goats dance on
the roof Of the Cd icc-house. Never
was the work of time SO pitjably re-
uaalad
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well-defined idea Of how he intended
to secure trade. This idea took the
form OF giving the grocer guarantee
that all unsold loaves would be taken
back ut their full Wholesale price.
This plan worked admirably, for many
grocers who had not heretofore
handled bread saw an oppor-
tunity for possible profit and
no loss. What the bakers origin
al idea for the disposition Of
his stale loaves was is not very clear.
but it did not appear to be the knead-
ing over of the old into new material,
as a great many suppose bakers are in
the habit of doing. Under the new
order of things grocers began to make
inroads into the trade of the small
bakers, and the man who started with
his owed-for barrel soon extended his
business until it occupied buildingi
half block in length. AS there is
scarcely product in the world to day
of which the waste cannot be turned
to some profitable use, so it is with the
bakers stale loaves. Many of the
poor people of the neighborhood got
their bread at a reduced rate becanse
it was one day old, but the problem Of
disposing of the whole stock each day
was finally solved by the Italians.
One by one they dropped into the
bread factory for stale loaves, until
finally there was a regular colony of
dealers, male and female, who took all
they could get at price which paid
the maker for its extra handling, yet
much lower than the price given gro
GERS. The large Italian settlements i'm
Williamsburgh and Brooklyn are fully
covered by certain of the dealers.
Others of them cover the Harlem dis
trict. The chief camping ground for
the stale-bread vendors. however, is
Mulberry street and it's intersections.
This is the quarter where the man
with the bag of bread can always be
sure of selling out. In fact, the sup
ply never equals the demand"
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Floating Gardens OF Cashmere.

The thousands of floating gardens on
the rivers of Cashmere ore formed by
long sedges which are woven together
in the form of q gigantic mat. These
sedge grasses, flags, stalks. lilies, ETC.,
are woven on the river or lake banks
while their roots are still growing in
the slime underneath; the required
amount of earth is then superimposed
upon the mat; the stalks are then cut
and the mat and its load is full
fedged floating garden" They are
usually about twenty by fifty yards in
extent, seldom larger, the full depth of
the mat and it's earthly covering being
about three feet.
A dishonest Cashmiri will sometimes
tow his neighbours garden away from
its moofings and sell the produce of
the others toll. The writer has fire.
quently seen one of the largest OF
these miniature gardens being towed by
two men IN q row-boat which hardly
looked larger than one of the luscious
melons serenely reposing on the float
ing truck farm.
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Tho Dlphthcril Bacillus.

The ardor with which the study Of
the causation of diphtheria has been
pursued among those who are engaged
in that branch of medical science has
been at last rewarded by the discovery
of the true diphtheria bacillus. The
most eminent psychologists in the
world with great unanimity announce
the fact.
Doctor Klein, the eminent English
bacteriologist, has published an elsb-
crate report in the nineteenth annual
report of the local government, in
which he enters into the details of his
methods of Investigation and his tests.
His paper contains several facts Of
prime Importance, knowledge Of
which should be generally known.
Among them are the following: Some
of the lower animals, particularly
COWS and house cats, are susceptible
to the disease, and instances are cited
in which the domestic cat has COM
municated the infection to the family
to which it belonged, with fatal re-
suits. He has also demonstrated the
presence of the infection in the milk
of cows previously inoculated with
dlpntherla Dacliil.
He takes occasion to emphasize an
other fact which is of great practical
Importance and should always be
borne in mind by health officers, to
wit: The contagion of diphtheria is
to be classed with those which can
exist and thrive outside the human
body. at is a matter Of common be-
lief" he says, "that room may retain
active the diphtheritic contagion for q
very long period; that milk may be
not only the vehicle but even the null
tiplying ground of the diphtheritio
contagion; that sewer air and sewage
may contain and be the means of dis
tributing this contagion." These
points are of much import in investi-
eating new outbreaks of this disease.
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used to invade the famous old cabin and
exert all arts to placate tho surly and
impolite Scotchman. They would bring
ga Ions of "usquebaugh" "a popular
drink in those days-and put the old man
to bed on it, each one striving mean
while for but one moment with the beau
tiful daughter.
1t finally came to the luck Of Colonel
John y. Vanness, OF New York, a young
member of Congress and a Knicker-
booker, gentleman OF fine qualities but
a notorious fortune hunter, TO carry off
the prize. When he was sober old Davy
would run everybody off the premises
but Vanncss. Him he liked because he
was rolllcking kind Of chap, who in
a mock way made fun OF the then politi-
cal leaders, whom Davy hated. The re-
suit was that Colonel Vanness and Mar
cia were married, and, with fine regard
for his father-jn-law and with eyes wide
open 20 the immediate future, went to
live in the little old cottage. One can
laugh at the self abnegation OF the for
tune-hunter when he looks to-day at the
rooms and the roof which sheltered the
courty Vanness and his humble bride
The old building has but little changed,
except from the work of time. IL had
four rooms-two below and two above.
They are still there. One of the rooms
on the lower floor, which was old Davy's
bedroom, is now the homo OF the most
ferocious bulldog that mortal eye ever
rested upon. Even the negro I'm charge
of tho premises will do no moro than
open the main door on crack and give
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buildings, etc. OF the remaining ground
facing on the streets ana avenues the
Government and Carroll and Burns were
to divide, each private proprietor to take
every alternate lot on his own holding.
For that portion OF the two farms re-
served for public uses Burns and Carroll
were to receive S25 per acre, Maryland
money, which was then equivalent to
SOC. 66 per acre.
The little hut where old man Burns
lived when he cultivated the present
site of the White House and the Treas
ury, tho State, War and Navy Depart
ments, the Corcoran Art Gallery, the
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A FAMOUS TREE.



Twice Struck by Lightning.
In conversation with some friends
at the Willard the other night, says
the Louisville Courier-Joatrnal the
Hon. John Young Brown spoke of O
famous oak tree In Webster County
that was from 1911 till 1860 the object
that marked the corner of Henderson,
Union, and Hopkins counties. The
tree has q history. About the begin
ming of this century two men and three
women came into Kentucky from North
Carolina. The mon were the brothers
Harpe, Micajah and Wiley. The elder
was q man of gigantic stature, raw
boned. muscular, and athletic; the
younger rather small in size, but very
agile in his movements, and hardy of
physical constitution. Both we're fiend-
ish in disposition, passionate, Zero
cious, and bloodthirsty. Robbery was
their trade and murder their amuse-
ment. The women who accompanied
them were their wives-"Big" Harpe,
as the elder was called, having two,
and Little" Harpe. the younger, one.
A few days after their advent into
Kentucky, on tho upper Green River
they murdered q man named Langford
for no reason That was ever discovered,
except their passion for shedding hui
man blood. They were apprehended
for the crime and lodged in jail at Dan
Vile, from which they managed to es-
cape. Soon after they murdered a
small miliboy in Adair County, son of
Colonel Trabue. Pursuing their way
to Western Kentucky, they murdered
in succession three men-Dooley, Gill
moro, and Hudgeon. Finally theNmur-
dered q whole family of women and
children, named Stigall, and guest OF
the family, one Love, and set fire to
the building. A posse, under the lead
of Captain Leeper, q powerful and
fearless man, pursued them, and a
shot from Leeper's rifle brought down
"Big" Harpe, near the foot of the tree
mentioned by Mr.. Brown. He was
desperately wounded, when Stigall,
the head Of the family murdered by
the misci eants, came up and dispatch
ed him. The young Harpe escaped,
and was afterward apprehended and
hanged for murder he had committed
in Mississippi. "Big" Harpe's head
was severed from his body, and some
one, ascending the tree spoken of, then
o slender sapling, severed the trunk
near the top, and, sharpening the
standing shaft, stuck the head Of the
miscreant on it, where 1t remained for
years. The tree was at or near the
point where the roads from Hender-
son, Hopkinsville, and Morganfeld in
tersect. and the place ia called
"Harpe's Head" to this day. Soon
after the head was gibbeted some one
assembled the tree and carved the head
of a man under Harpe's head, and the
effigy yet remains. About four years
ago the tree was struck by lightning,
and nearly all it's branches destroyed.
Some months agoit was again stricken
with lightning. and the current set 1t
afre, and all that remains Of it is q
charred trunk, a shaft twenty or thirty
feet high, with the carved effigy still
plainly to be seen.
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tious old Scotchman. Between them
these men owned nearly 1900 acres Of
the very choicest part Of the site selected
Tor tho new city. Their two farms adj
Joined. Carroll owned the ground on
which the Capitol now stands and all
that portion Of what is known as Capt.
tol Hill. Old Davy Burnes owned al
that tho White House and Treasury oc-
cupy and all that magnificent section Of
the city which is now the fashionable
residence quarter, His farm took In all
the area that is at this time the most
fashionable in Washington.
Daniel Carroll was gentleman as the
term implied in those days. He was edu-
Gated and was very intelligent man.
lie quickly came to terms with Wash
ington and tho commissioners for the
sale Of his property. Old Davy Burns
was just tho reverse. He was ignorant,
opinionated, cantankerous, and morbidly
suspicious OF General Washington and
his intentions. He first would not sell
at any price. He and Washington had
many stormy scene in which 1t is
feared that the Father Of His Country
was more than once moved to white
heated profanity. In fact, the two never
did come TO terms. One day, as history
has it, the General and old Davy sat un
der ciump OF trees In front of old
Davy's ramshackle cottage, and in the
midst Of their discussion Washington
dropped some remark which indicated
that he felt the humiliation Of having to
decker with a social inferior, when old
Davy bristled up and in the broadcast
Scotch replied: "Tut, mon, We need ma
carry yerseP so high. II ye had ma mar
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horse" The law compels the use Of
this horse until the summit of the hill
is reached, and there is heavy fine
for refusing to hire the extra, at small
fixed rate.
A placard by the roadside indicates
the point where the extra horse must
be taken on, and another, higher up,
shows whore he may be dispensed with.
All truckmen and other teamsters in
large cities pay strict attention to this
regulation, framed in the interest OF
toiiing animals.
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things because either they do not know
of their existence OF don't know where
to find them Whel people are tired OF
hooking at the great tapito with its
wealth Of marble; at the Treasury and
its treasures; at the great monument;
ct the many bcaut es Of the White
House, and tho myriad of other oh. ects
which the guide books lay down-they
would find an ab orbing interest in
visit TO the dilapidated landmarks OF the
old-time wealth and exc usiveness OF
early Washington. There are two OF
these that are conspicuous alike from
their former grandeur and old ass ocia-
tions and from their present decadence
and wrecliage. "Duddington Hall" is
one of these; "Vanness Manor" is the
other. Nobody ought to visit Washing
ton without seeing both these wrecks of
forgotten social supremacy, and before
seeing them their history should be care
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A physician, writing of rest as q
medicine, recommends q short nap in
the middle of the day, for those who
can take it, as beneficial addition tc,
the nights sleep. 1t divides the work
ing time, gives the nervous system q
fresh hold on life and enables one to
do more. than make up for the time SO
occupied. A caution is given against
the indulgence of too long sleep at
such time, under q penalty Of disa-
greeable relaxation. There has been
much discussion regarding the after
dinner nap, many believing it to be in
furious, but it is, nevertheless, natural
and wholesome.