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would go no further. used to print it in
the Clear Lake Herald
August came and the melons were ripe
Also Will Taylor. the head of the gang,
was TO go with his father to Marseilles for
four years. Byron felt first rate. He
gloated over his melons, and decided to
give one to VIII as the tram pulled out
He did so. 1t was a good melon. and as
the juice ran up Wills sleeve he looked re-
proachfully at Mr.. Price.
'Well, I've got the best of you this
year" said Mr.. Price, as the train moved
away. Il don't mind whispering in your
ear, VIII, that planted them in the mid
die of the corn field"
The next morning there was not left a
watermelon in his vineyard so large as a
walnut. Years afterward it leaked out
that the following telegram was received
at Hudson the day before the calamity:
EAU CLAIRE, Aug Is.
Pagan Starr. Hudson: PRICES melons in mid
die Of corn field. Mostly ripe now. For good
melons keep 20 the right Citrons on other
side.
CD coll) WILL TAYLOR
Mr.. Price was greatly saddened by this,
and it was years before he could even look
at a dish of preserves made of watermelon
rinds without sobbing. Now he raises a
few since Will Taylor is in Washington
City, and the only precaution he takes is
to put up notice reading as follows:
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4 special car. Every year he goes over
every mile of railway in the United States
as commissioner, and when he gets back in
his special car 10 Washington City
1t IS sale 10 say that over all
that great mileage Of road not q
saTdine can or an empty beer bottle
is left to offend the eve. He is one Of the
most careful and painstaking railway COM
missioners that We have ever had. Some
charge hIin with being over nice about his
railroad. and two iiunjcky and pernickety
about always having the road bed made
up with the head toward the engine, but
he is 4 careful and conscientious man a1d
his heart Is in the work.
Judge Humphrey lives here also. l do
not lay down any rules of conduct for my
boys at home. Just III general way tell
them To be like Judge Humphrey. The
man who goes into Wisconsin and criti-
cIses Judge Humphrey is generally ar
rested on suspicion and held til! they find
out what his record IS.
IL was Al Hudson that We used TO bet on
the date when navigation would open in
the spring. There were no railroads then.
When the first boat wh!st!eI IN the spring
people left their business, and sometimes
broke Oft in the midst OF an eloquent
prayer--fu.l OF statistics and timely gos-
sip and mere mention, news summary,
baseball news and household hints-in
GrGcE 10 run GOWN 10 l44c l%44C4I5 ana see
the first bOafcome in.
Nessers Coon & Piatt kept a gram
warehouse then on the land ng, and one
dav. in winter they made het on the
date when the first boat would come IN
the river to Hudson. Il consisted of a
pair of fifteen dollar boots. One day in
early spring Zeph Plat. was alone in the
warehouse. and he thought he would go
up in the cupola and with his glass take
q sau.nr down the lake on the sly. lie
was i lat man, and when he got up to
the top Of the stairs he found that he had
arrived there two or three minutes ahead
Of Ms breath. Finally he secured il,
however, and hastily cunning mis- hi
nocuIar tube along the horizon he saw,
lust below Catfish bar. the dark smoke
and gray steam OF the Erst boat.
II meant pair Of boots on him. or
rather on Coon at his expense. He turned
slightly pale, then he started up town to
ma Coon and hedge, which he did by
paving HIM ten dollars. Bat he smiled
wien lie thought how he had worked II.
But the boat did not succeed IN getting
mp that day. nor for q week atterward.
She struck ice at Catfish bar and had TO
stop I. ere. so that Zeph lost his Ten dol
lars. 70 saw nothing OF the cigars and
sa-saparil!a which he bought Tor those
whose silence be so dearly priced.
Byron J. Price, the pr-sla-ns OF the
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thought at one time that he was very
anxious to secure for himself the title of
1lonseigneur. That was before Capel had
run his career, and / am inclined 10 sus-
pect that the recalcitrant tendency
on the part of Father Tom" is
traceable to the fact that his ambition has
been fore-shortened. There is not better
ttory.teller in town than Father Tom. &"
He reminds me very much OF those roll
licking. good-natured Irish priests for
whom We are indebted TO Charles Lever.
Ee is n capital story-telier. Not long ago
had the honor TO serve as Judge OF a
literary society debate in Chickering hall.
Father Ducey was on tho jury also.
Nhile in the anteroom outside the good
htaer told two or three delightful stories,
hot one of which could we'll have been
printed outside OF French newspaper.
aad ne was altogether 50 entertaining that
the literary proceedings of the evening lost
some OF their charm Tor me. At tins time
| 1t is not known how. Father Tom" will
|egs rye from his difficulties or how he Will
l satisfactorily explain hIs part III the secret
Imarr.age between young Blaine and Miss
|Ncyus. 1t looks now as though
the entire responsibility would he cast
opOa him. and il would not be At al
surprising 10 me II yhe affair eyentuated IN
ms separation from the church. Father
Tom hiss a peuchant. II seems, for quiet
and shady Transitions. When John {.
Euo. the giddv and speculative president
OF the Second Naijona! bank. found it de-
srable ! few wears ago 70 take up his
h9olc in Canada he departed from this
city with something more than respectable
privacy. In TACT lie ciuded justice, who
had Just opened one eye on h.m. Accord
Ing 10 ye-aciuus chronicles OF that period
M Emo was last seen moving steaithily
Spon the Grand Central depot in the early
tsihght leaning upon the arm OF the Rev.
Thomas J. Ducev. And they DO saw that
Father Ducey generously carried has grip
| sgr
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IN NO MANS LAND.

Two shapes were walding on the strand
One staFiit light in no mans Land;
Two shapes that during mortal life
Gave hate for hate, in deadly strife.
They met Swift forth their iGichions few;
Each pinned the other through and through
Yet neither fell. Again they strove
For uastery, and either dove
To right and left their falchioas bright,
Nor sound nor cry profaned the night
Through corselet, cssque, aud visor, too.
As through the air taelr swirl blades dew;
Until. amazed. they stood aghast,
And on the sands their weapons cast
Then laughed they both at mortal strifa,
TIE passing dream Of earthly Lie,
And clasping each the others hand,
They wax the shades OF no mans land.
james clGyeHcs Harley.
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Points From CIubdom.
New York Letter.


The mania for club and club buildings
in this city is still raging. 1t is an indi-
cation that the masculine end of the COM
munity is growing richer and more lux
urious in its tastes. Clubs are oniv SER
viceable to gentlemen who have both time
and money. | took a look yesterday at
the new building which the Colonial Club
is Just finishing on the Boulevard, near
Seventeen street. 1t is a magnificent
stru ;ture-more commodious and elegant,
indeed, than the famed Algonquin Club
house in Boston. Meantime, the Fellow
craft Club, which was founded about five
years ago by newspaper men, magazine
writers and artists, has sold out its effects
at public auction and retired from
business. The organization had splen-
did membership, SO tar as material IS
concerned. but it only had about a dozen
members who could afford to lounge about
the place habitually, eating and drinking
for the benefit of the bar and restaurant.
The monthly dinners of the club were IA
nous, but they would not pay the rent of
the Twenty-ninth street house, and so the
doors are closed. The st. Nicholas Club
which has an abiding place in Fifth ave-
nue., near the Manhattan and the heart of
clubdom, is in fair way to make an as
signment. Since its president. Mr.. David
Banks was driven out by the hoodlum
element the club has lost in tone and re-
spectability, and many members are drop
ping out. Tradesmen are bringing
suits tor deferred bills-the unmis-
taxable evidence of dissolution-and
the Astors have declined 10 release the
premises. The st. Nicholas was intended
10 be "blooded" institution. No man is
eligible TO membership who cannot boast
OF an ancestor resident of New York state
prior TO 1855. 1t was quite Dutch and
Knickerbockerish in the outset, but its
chief support comes now from young men
OF limited means who never did days
work in their lives and who are best de-
scribed as 1.-THE sons of decayed gentility."
This is one of the clubs in which news
paper reporters are habltuahy snUbb ed
and sneered at by blackguards who do not
pay their tailors and who cannot be 'trus-
ted with the funds received by hat collec-
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4 Great Matrimonial Event.

The mex, great social event for this city,
unless Butler McAliister springs some
th!n- new and startling upon US, viii be
the marriage Of Nine de Barrios, the beau
tlful and wealthy widow Of General de
bar!,os. AZ one time president Of Gnate-
maIa. Nine lie Bsrrios has made her
home III this city FOR seven or eight years.
She has a pala,.al residence on Fifth ave
nue, where she euteTtains IN N gnInCent
>siy.e, and uow she Is 10 we'd . Spanish
MON named Jose Martinez de Roda. Mime.
! ae BarrIos was married at the age Of
"a anu is not now more than IS years
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4 snuth ATLANTIC Resort.

We hear considerable nowadays about
Jekyll island new milIonaire's paradise
near brunswick. Georgia. \ few years ago
number Of rich conference.-the Lorii-
lards. Astors, Nauderbilts, etc, IN this city
and along the coast selected Jekyl island
as q sort OF winter resort. Their theory
was that they could establish a gilt-edgcd
Miluona're's Club there and use their
steam yachts in the winter time. They
erected q magnificent club house and fitted
up the place in luxurious style, but until
within the last TWO winters the place has
nor been particularly well patronizei. The
month of March is the most wrelChed OF
all the winter months on the Atlsnuc
coast in this latitude. ana recently quite
number al our rieA invalid people have
been vegetatnc at Jekyll island. Mr..
Pulitzer. az ;he Hpr'2, vas there the other
dav. and M Henry b. Hyde, the presi-
dent of the Equitable Assurance Society,
whose health Is not OF the highest order at
present made a brief stay on the island.
In this instance there was q striking com
ing together OF Jekyl and Hyde, so 10
sneak.
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Decadence of the Rich Widow.

The marriage of Mrs. Marshal o. Roberts
and Nine. de Barrios removes within a
very short period two prominent names
from the list of rich widows of the coun-
try. At the same time there are many of
them left. A gentleman who makes a
study of widows, as it were, informs me
that he can name thirty-eight widows
whose combined fortunes represent more
wealth than that of. any thirty-eight men
in the United States, barring the Astors,
Rockefellers, Nanderbilts, Jay Gould,
John W. Mackay, Senator Stanford and
Mr.. Carnegie. The lump sum of the value
of the country's widows is, of course,
measurably increased by the widows in
the Astor and Vanderbilt families. Like
Sallie Hargous that was, and a few other
people prominent IN society. some of the
very rich ladies of New York and else
where have been SO much exploited in
the newspapers that the public has
grown slightly blase on the subject. We
are falling upon sad times when the men,
ton Of ten-mi.lonalresS creates no more
OF thrill than the news that member of
congress has come to town. And yet such
is the melancholy fact. Take the report
er's old standby, Mrs. Hetty Green. She
is worth $40 100000. or if she isn't, she has
been told 50 often that she is that she be-
heves It herself She has been written up
ahundred times, and the last reporter 10
write her up does not scale down her for
tune a single dollar. So there 1t stands,
like an untinching and financial Glbral-
tar. at $40. COO 600. The tax man might tell 4
different story, but that IS neither here
nor there. In fact, any slight discrepancy
between the reporter and the tax man in
matters of that kind is not for US TO pry
into.
Mrs. Paran-Sterens is another veal thy
widow whom age cannot wither nor many
Write-ups stale. Her fortune Is usually
placed, for convenience IN writing. al So
100000. | understand however, that Mrs
Stevens would sell out at 4 less figure even
if she lost money by il. 1t isn't matter
of much consequence, but the late Mr.
Stevens left his wife. by Will, the use of
his New York and Newport houses, $780,
600 in cash to be paid As soon Is possible
after his death. and trust fund Of 81 &C.,
600. Recent litigation before Judge In
graham developed that these requests
had been paid, with the exception of
a balance of $3.50 90 of the trust fund,
and that Mrs stevens was indebted
10 the estate to the amount of $S3, 81.
Still, Mrs. Stevens is a very rich woman,
and the impression is that she IS shrewd
enough To keep right on getting richer.
There Is quite a long list of these excess
ivelv rich widows. hut the public has had
such 4 surfeit Of the subject that II has
not only ceased TO be thrilling, but pro-
cessIon of rich widows on Broadway
would create scarcely more interest than
q passing street car. 1t goes 10 show that
the public Will in time tire OF its choicest
blessings.
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cutting short of his career. One of the
humors of the last campaign in this city
was the publication of list of names of
wealthy and influential women who were
opposed to the prohgate and corrupt TAM
many hall government. This document
was gotten out by the Mugwump sup
porters of Mr.. Scott for mayor. Prominent
among the names of the ladies pleading
for honest and refined government was
Nine. de Barrios. The probabilities are
that the little woman signed the petition
with that thoughtlessness with which
most people attach their names to public
documents, but the comment at the time
was that it would be a pretty difficult mat
ter to establish form of government in
this city which would compare with the
one that General de Barrios manipulated
in Guatemala, and which resulted in his
creation OF a personal fortune far beyond
the dreams of the most avaricious Tam
many sachem. OF course the Roda-de
Barrios wedding will be gorgeous func-
ton, and unless McAiIister can secure an
engagement in connection with ii in some
capacity it is likely that he will be cast in
eclipse.
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le.>.-N kee,l.--At

Bsckache IS almost Immediately relieved By
wearing one az Carriers smart heee and besls-
donna Backscas P.Asters- Ivy o1e and lie zee
from pain Price - cents
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10 Please do not pick these water
melons without permission. for God sees
you, and il possible l will see you myself.
B. j. PRICE.
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Country Board.

MOTHER. AN EXPERIENCED NURSE, WILL TAKE
IA INFASlS AND SMALL CHILDREN; GOOD CARE
AND THE BEST REFERENCE GIVEN.
,,,,,,..n -, MS; /. p.
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OscnSrRnR slOuse.
short dsRnce from station: by
free: accommodate. 40: ndnts S. to 81: children.
- "a to 80: transient. $50: discount for season
guests: good hshlng on Hudson: also tine boating and
bathing: beautiful walks. Address GEO. VREDEN.
HI KG, Jr. Proprietor.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-12-31
FIGHT DECLARED OFF.
Coney island Athletic club withdraws 1T
245, OuO Purse.

Coney island Athletic club withdraws Its
S45. 600 Purse.
New York, Dec. 27.-The $40, 900 figh,
between Jack McAuliffe and Dick Burge
for the lightweight championship of the
world is Off.
Judge Newton, president Of the Coney
Island Athletic club officially withdrew
the princely offer Of the club tonight
The announcement astonished not only
the fighters and their hackers, but the
entire sporting fraternity Of New York
as well.
Judge Newton gave as his reason that
he did not believe McAuliffe and Burge
would ever come to an agreement
Their constant squabbGug over the
minor terms of the agreement had fore
ed this action upon him.
And so the largest purse ever offered
for a lightweight championship Of the
world is withdrawn Burge was the
lightweight champion of England and
McAuliffe Of the new world.
McAulifTe tonight is mad and offers
to fight Burge for nothing. Philip
Dryer says he viii back McAuliffe
for $4,000 a side. There is a strong
belief here that the Crescent City club
wont Offer more than $4,000, they
having no competition
Ry declaring the contest off Newton,
has won the admiration OF all the In.
terested sporting men In New York.
They declare that his action was proper
and that It was the club and not the
pugilists who should dictate terms,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-12-31
Mammoth Five Story Continental
Block Destroyed BY
Fire.
0lh@r buildings Burn Loss
Nearly Half n Mil
lion.
). 5. Orchard a Heavy Loser
Most Picturesque Scenes
Witnessed.

Omaha, Neb., Dec. 26.-About 900
fire alarm was turned in from small
building on South Thirteenth street and
shortly after a second alarm drew
another attachment of firemen to a small
blaze on north Sixteenth street.
While these fires were in progress. a
policeman passing along the alley in the
rear Of the Continental block at Doug
las and 18th, heard muffled explosion
and looked up to see an immense tongue
Of fire leaping from the top of the ele-
yator shaft on S. S. Orchards store
The block is five stories 132 by 100.
Orchards occupied the east 90 feet
on Douglas street with a stock of fur
niture and carpets. In thirty minutes
this store had been Quilted and the fire
was working ON the west half of the
building.
The ground floor of this was occu-
pied by Freeland, Loomis d company.
clothing, and the other floors ~ offices,
lodge rooms, etc. In this part of the
building the battle was stubborn, but
inch by inch the iiremen were driven
back.
one Of the most picturesque sights
was the tail clock tower, enveloped In
flames, the fire lighting up the four
dials with great brilliancy. While
streak of flame mounted the fifty-foot
flagstaff that smmounted the tower,
leaving it like a pencil of light against
a background of dense black smoke.
the old clock ran along steadily until
seventeen minuets past II, when the
tower fell.
1t is impossible tonight to figure the
loss completely. Freeland, LOOMS &
Co. had stock amounting to $4,000,
insurance $4,000; Orchard, worth $12O,-
coo with an insurance of $4,000. The
building was valued ut $4,000 and
was insured for $4,000. The loss
OF the smaller tenants win swell the
total to half million dollars.
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There is No Doubt That it
Was the Work of y
lnCendiarlPs.

MILWAUKEE, Dec. 27-At O'Clock
this morning fire started in one Of the
wooden additions of the tannery Of
the Becker leather Company and
quickly spread to the tanncry OF Com
rad Bros, adjoining The fremen
saved the main building of the Becker
plant but the establishment of the
Conrads was reduced to ruins. Two
fremen were killed and three others
injured. The Inst Of victims follows:
THOMAS SULLIVAN, pipeman, killed
by the fall OF a brio wall.
GEORGE HICKMAN q member Of the in
surance patrol, su1oCated on the third floor OF
the Conrad tannery.
julius HURBSER, back broken
JOHN ZOE, pipeman, slightly hurt
THOMAS MAHoNKT, policeman. slightly
hurt
The loss by the fire will foot up
about $3.50, 600 with fair amount
of insurance.
The flames were discovered a few
minutes before o'clock, bursting
from the second story of one of the
Becker Leather companys taunery
buildirrs, When the firemen arrived
the main building Of the Becker plant
was enveloped in flames and a general
alarm was turned in. Famed by
fresh southwest wind the fire burned
brisIly. The frcmen were seriously
handicapped by the fire in the rear Of
the building, from which they were
shut off by the river. The fire tug Cat
aract had a difficult time in blowing
through the thick ice, and its progress
was SO slow that by the time it arrived
the fire had gained a fatal hcadwav.
The flames leapcd To the buildings OF
the Conrad Brothers plant and so
quickly did they spread that
the fremen at work in the upper
story were cut Off Many of the fire.
men jumped from the windows BE
yond few who were bruised none
was severely injured save those mem
Toned in the list above. Thomas Sui
Ivan attempted TO find his way through
the dense smoke To the entrance, but
was obliged to retreat Reaching the
window he was overcome by smoke,
but managed to draw himself up and
fell to the ground outside He died
almost Immediately
The source of the fire is mystery
The Waterman atlrms that he had
visited the place where it started few
moments before and that all was welt
There was nothing in the room 10 give
rise TO the spontaneous combustion
theory and nothing from which itcoud
possibly catch.
There is no doubt said MIR Bccker,
the president "thut it was inccndiary,
an opinion in which all the members
of the firm coincided.
At % O'clock the fire was un ser con.
troll
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vals and ready, with their clothes ON,
to take boats in the event of an acct
dent
The waves tossed their icy foam on
the decks until the lower rigging itself
was like a skating pond Capt Nickels
and his officers and crew spared no
pains TO secure the safety Of the ship,
and the hardy sailors never shirlled an
order however perilous or painful
The Nordland labored along success
fully until Thursday evening. 1t was
a bitter cold night and the passengers
were congratulaung themselves on
gradually nearing the end of their
stormy voyage. The steamer was in
latitude 1852 west, and longitude 50.15.
when at 20 minutes past nine in the
evening a tremendous crash was heard.
and the vessel quiyered from end to
end.
Passengers who We're sitting up were
tossed about like nine-pins, several of
them being thrown to the floor Three
terrible blows resounded one after an
other, as if the vessel was being struck
by n gigantic hammer, which indeed
was the fact The fright Of some of
the people was pitif,l to behold They
rushed hither and thitAer, delaying
officers in their efforts to get at the
cause and extent of the danger of the
disaster
Capt Nickels knew wei enough what
the sound meant, and with a reassur-
ing word to the passengers he fastened
to investigate prsonally The engines
We're raised seriously while the broken
shaft, for that proved to be the danger,
seemed about to crush the ship at every
conclusion. Water rushed into the
tube menacing the stoke hold and en-
CINE rooms and the panic striker passen
gers thought for awhile that the vessel
was about TO sink. Several minutes
elapsed before word was given for the
engines to stop.
The Nordland lay helplessy tossed
by the gale, and as the water rushed in
there seemed imminent danger of sink
ing Pumps We're manned and put to
work. very man of the crew being sum.
moned to duty. For "a hours continual
ly the pumps Were kept at work and
water prevented from gaining on the
vessel. Excited passengers finding they
were not in instant peril of being swal-
l0wd up by the water, regained courage
and patiently waited for the steamer
to tow them into port. At the time OF
the accident the Nordland was 400
miles west Of Queenstown.
The crippled steamer was sighted
by the steamship Ohio which left Phil
adelphia on the same day that the Nord
land left New York. and rendered as
sigtance at one.
The voyage to Queenstown In tow was
attended by much difficulty and the
Storm weather made it necessary to
navigate with caution, but she arrived
without further accident.