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in the senate tavors this plan, and the
house committee will probably be made
up to correspond in views with the
senate body. President Harrison fayors
the admission of these two territories,
and this is the real reason why they
have been selected and the other appli-
cants put aside. When congress con-
vened there was large number of
Utah and New Mexico boomers there,
ready to secure state government for
their respective localities. Their plans
had all been laid to pack the committee
in their favor, and they were confident
1 of success. But President Harrison
soon put an end to their schemes by
making even successful work on their
part fruitless. He declared that he
would veto any bill which proposed to
make states out of Utah and New MeI-
leo. His objection to Utah was that
that territory hau not yet enjoyed Tor Il
sufficiently long time, while New Mex
leo, he said, has not sufficiently large
number of American citizens within its
borders. This declaration put sud-
den end to efforts of the boomers from
these territories. The next move was
combination between Arizona and
Oklahoma. This was reported to the
President, and he ut once intimated
that such q statehood bill would be
satisfactory to him. The leading Re
publicans and Democrats haye declared
themselves in favor of this measure,
and there will probably be two new
stars upon our ''textile fabric" flag be-
fore the end of the session.
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A RAILROAD WRECK.
Tho Result of the Careiessness of n
station Agent.

The Result of the Carelessness of n
station Agent
A disastrous wreck occurred on the
joint track of the Denver, Texas and
Fort Worth and Union Pacific Rail-
roads few miles north of Granero's,
a small station midway between Pueblo
aud Trinidad, 200 miles south of Den
yer. The road had been blocked by
snow for two days, and when the
blockade was raised Friday morning
two double-header trains were started
one from the north and the other from
the south. The station agent failed to
deliver the dispatcher's order to the
Dorthbound train and the two trains
came together from opposite directions
with terrible crash. Fireman II.
Grub of Denver was instantly killed,
and Mail Clerks Wslcott, Erbeit and
Evans badly injured. The trains were
heavily laden with passengers, but as
far as learned they escaped serious in
juries. The -four engines were badly
wrecked, tie four mail cars are total
loss and baggage ear was nearly
demolished. The station agent disap-
peared after the wreck and has not yet
been found,
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TWO MORE STATES.
Utah and New Mexico Figuring on
Entering the Union.

The matter Is practically settled, il
reports are true, that Arizona and
Oklahoma are to have state govern
ments granted by the present congress
There is no written agreement to this
effect, but 1t is stated on good author
ity that verbal understanding has
been reached between the leading Re-
publican and Democratic members who
have been interesting Themselves d.
rectly in statehood matters since the
present congress came together. The
committee on territories as made up
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A PATRIOTIC WORK.

Every person who is opposed to FREQ Trade
Slavery and favors American Industrial Indo-
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Ne interesting ami instructive, and embrace
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The League publishes over 50 different docu-
ments, comprising nearly 90 pages of plainly
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are. Hon. James G.. Blaine; VIM. McKinley, Jr,
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pols Senator Joseph N; Doiph.. vi Oregon;
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ABOUT WEATHER VANES.
Carved Wooden Vanes Vent out With Figure
Heads in Ships.
fNetD YORK Recortler.

lHSD UTE ltecDTucT.I
When the Phnncian sailor stuck needle
through the stem of feather and held 1t ont
In the wind, he invented the first weather vane,
or feather vane. He was nearly equalled by
the Indian boy who was Taught to moisten his
finger in his mouth, and to hold that finger
aloft In the air. When that finger grew cold on
certain side, the Indan child knew that the
wind came from that particular direction. The
Ph9nicans, however, were probably the first of
all civilized people to put the vane Of feather
into practical use.
Since those early days weather vanes have
been used in every form and by all races. Mod.
ern vanes in their present shapes were first
made in wood by travelling carvers, and later
In copper by thinkers and smiths. They were
used on poles, churches, public buildings, ships,
and were placed ON rocky points of land along
the seashore. They are now made in every
design and pattern. Horses, cows, deer, eagles,
ships, ROSTERS and even pigs are hammered
out In copper, and used to register the direction
OF the wind.
The newer yanes have rain cups attached for
catching water during storm. The amount
of water that falls is measured by the square
inch in tube under the vane. Wind cages
are also attached. These indicate the speed of
the wind. The cages are small cups hung
sideways to the vane. The wind blows them
around in circle and the revolutions arc reg
istered by electricity. Nearly all the large
weather vanes in town are connected with
dials in the buildings below
The dial is round like the face of clock, let
tered like compass, and revolving hand
shows the action of the wind the vane over
head. Vanes are no longer set in sockets, as It
is nearly impossible to keep them properly
oiled They are hung loosely like a cap on a
pivot and the hollow stem Of the vane hangs
over the head of the pivot, covering it from
rain and rust.
One of the largest vanes ever seen in New
York was placed on the postofico about fifteen
years ago. 1t was so large that IL was consid-
cred unsafe and was taken down. A good
drawing of it is still in existence The arrow,
scroll and banneret seem to be hvorte shapes
in vanes at present. The fence e-jumping horse
and plow are yet found on the grounds where
country fairs are held, but they are not in
great demand. The tobacco leaf vane is found
largely in the South and in Connecticut. The
spread eagle and running deer are wind signs
in the Western States, the deer more particu-
larly in Canada. Malt barrels in copper are
placed on breweries throughout the country.
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A JEWISH WEDDING.
An Interesting Description Of that Religious
CeremeRy.
fCentury

An Interesting Description Of that Religious
CeremeRy.
tCentury.l
Admission to the floor of the synagog is by
card, to the galleries by favor. The reading
desk on the floor is covered by the chuppah !"
or marriage baldachino. 1t consists OF four
slender posts supporting q cover of richly lg-
ured silk with massive satin fringes. On each
side, except the eastern, is an arch OF smIiax,
evergreens, and roses. Ushers are in black frock
suits, and wear high silk hats. At 5 p. IN. tho
assistant reader of the congregation chants the
psalm of thanksgiving in Hebrew, to which re-
sponses are made by trained choir in the gal
lery. Next the ministers, chief among whom
is the venerable father of the groom, descend
from the platform and approach the door as the
bridal procession enters Returning to places
within the chuppah they are followed by the
bridegroom, supporting his mother on his arm.
The bride follows accompanied by her mother,
brother, and an old nurse, who, like those OF
her race in the West Indies, is faithful in
solicitous attendance to the last. Eight little
children, cousins of the bride, bearing baskets
of flowers, come last.
Pure white satin is the dress of the lady, who
is covered with diaphanons veil, and carries
bouquet OF flowers. Face to face with the BRIDE
groom she stands composedy while the ritua!
is read. The first cup Of consecrated wine, to
be slipped by groom and bride, is then presented
II INC oolISdbloH5 OI DltTluoHy are hol ho"
understood by the quietly happy pair it is not
the fault of the officiating rabhi, whose long but
sterling address in English is puactuated by apt
Hebrew quotations. Wifely and husbandly du-
ties are set forth with great force and precision.
The officiating minister then takes glass of
vino in his hand and pronounces the seven pre-
scribed benedictions. Bridegroom and bride
taste the wine, and thus symbolic participa-
tion in the joys and pains Of earthly life. The
weddingrng, plain and unaderned, as the en-
bem of simple contentment, perfectly rounded,
as signifying concord in endless union, is placed
on the brides finger by the groom, with the
words: Behold thou art consecrated unto me
by this ring, according tothe law of Moses and
of Israel" Reading the "kethubah or mar
riage contract, as formulated by the fathers is
omitted, for the sufficient reason that it has
already been subscribed in private. Now comes
an interesting performance on the part OF the
newly welded husband. The goblet from which
he and his wife have drunk is deposited on the
floor, and by his foot is crushed into Thousand
fragments, and that with vim that speaks elo-
quently of his resolve to put his foot on any
and all evils that may enter the family circle
until death skaters it. The first kiss under the
new relation Is then given, the bridegroom
offers his arm to his spouse, and with proud
air of responsibility leads the willing yokefelow
from chuppah to entrance, and thence home to
the wedding feast.
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Ito be contin,sed.)
Coallng Stations.
TLiuDincotrs


A most important matter, one of vital impor-
tanee in the rebuilding of our navy, is that Of
coaling stations. The policy of this Govern
ment has always been not to maintain outside
Of our own limits any colony or anything ap-
preaching to a colony. Our new navy will be
com posed of vessels dependent altogether upon
their coal supply to enable them to move at all.
Deprive one of our modern batteshIps of her
fuel, and she would be absolutely helpless, as
she has no sail area whatever. Even with
ships of the class of the Philadelphia and the
Newark, although they have certain amount
of sail power to depend upon il to any extent
would reduce their cruising radius to almost
nil and in time of war would annihilate their
effectiveness either in defensive or offensive
operations At present writing the United
States has q coal-heap at Samoa and the priyi-
lege of buying coal at Honolulu, but we are
entirely destitute of coafing stations on the
west coast of Central America. This lack of
facilities cost the Government $4,000 for coal
used when the Charleston chased the ltata.
The Baltimore paid $4,000 for one suppiT at
one of the Chilean ports. The English plan is
to keep coal hulk at all their principal coal
ing stations; thus a British war-ship cruising
from one naval station to another, no matter
at hat speed, i5 always sure of an abundant
supply of Welsh coal of the best grade. 1t is
proposed now to buy of Denmark the island of
ST. Thomas, in the West Indies, for the purpose
of establishing coalng station on our Atlantic
seaboard In 1867 Mr. Seward negotiated a
treaty for the purchase of st. Thomas and st.
John, but, although the people of the islands
voted unanimously in favor of the sale, the
United States Senate rejected the treaty, aud
there the matter ended. 1t is high time some
decisive action were taken in this regard, as at
present the edifying spectacle is presented of
our war-ships being compelled to barter for
their fuel from port to port, undoubtedly pay
ing an outrageous price for inferior material
such as would seriously interfere with the
fighting efficiency of the vessel.
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A Brave Soldier, but Not a Warrior.
Detroit Free Press.1

" The soldier is always more less brave,'
remarked the veteran, =" and even when he is
not at all inclined to herosm he will when the
tug of war comes rise superior to himself and
do great deeds of val0r 1t is funny to hear a
man you know who will go right up to can
mons mouth when it is loaded to the muzzle
aud man standing at the vent ready to pull
the string, expressh is feelings when the spirit
isn't moving him. Once when we were down
there before Petersburg, when the shot was
tearing up the ground in 40 places at once I
was lying in safe corner with man who
had only few hours before come through q
perfect rain of fire. carrying the flag to point
where be could shake it nthe enemys face. We
got to talking about war in general and this
sort of fighting and i said TO him:
If you had your choice would you have war
this way out in the open, face to face 2"
There's only one way I'd have war;" he said
sharply.
How's that?" asked.
Have it over, and that - quick" he re-
Piled and 10 minutes afterward he was doing
deed that won him his shoulder
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ormer, was made che fde 2 victim of Turner'S al

former was made che victim Of Turner'S al
legged hoax. car,%o
But am now about through with Messrs.
Crane, Geo. W. Libby ct ial., aud their Libby
history" and having shown some OF the
things that didn't happen, at Libby Prison and
in the rebel Capital in the Winter Of 1864.
shall now recDnnt some Of the things that did
happen. f54
powder mine am happily under no necessity
of seeking any further proof than that furnish
ed by the highest Confederate authority,
namely: Jefferson Davis and Special Com-
mittee of the Confederate Congress--the very
last of authorities To have acknowledged that
such hideous crime as the blowing up OF i 200
Union officers prisoners of war, had been de-
termined upon in Richmond. until ungovern-
able circumstances wrung the written con-
fession from its inventors
Tn he aIn
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Captured by a Phonogrnph.

. si Hassan Ben Ali, tho Moorish Chief who
left New York last Summer to collect rare ex-
hibits from tho wilds of Africa for the World s
Fair, has communicated with N. ]. Arbelleen,
of the Federal Immigration Bureau. The ex-
plorer states that he has arrived at Fez, where,
at the court of Manlay Ell Hassan, the Sultan,
he succeeded in creating most profound isn-
preston and enlisting the sympathy and aid of
the Sultan mainly by means of an Edison
phonograph. which he caused to play Yankee
Doodle, y" Down on the Suwanee River" and
to deliver a lot of Fourth .of-July spread -eagle
orations. The Sultan and court believed that
he controlled Spirits and furnished him with q
picked escort for his expedition.
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VANOUISHINGVICKSBURG
Continued from first pags.)

lection afforded by the bale, for the sharp
shooters of the enemy seemed to have a par
ticular spite against that cotton barricade.
More bullets were sent at 1T than any other
one point ON 0ur line for some time. OF
course l was only telling the guard what
had been told me by the officer in charge of
the line, reinforced by little experience
and observation of my own.
When had advanced UP the slope some
where in respectable distance of the bale, /
told the sentinel to go ON alone. / know /
disregarded one of the
EMOTIONAL TRADITIONS OF WARFARE.
/ know that it is much urged that the great
officer should say come" AMI not "go." More,
/ knew all this perfectly at that time. Iscorn
tc plead ignorance Of this widely-pre valent
opinion. But for all that I did say 60" and
not come" My own impression was the
guard favored the popular idea. Nevertheless
he obeyed, and silently and carefully crawled
forward, and / saw him safely located. The
fact is, it was safer for one than two to 60
ahead at the same time. Thus we placed
our picket-line, varying a little here and
there as to position, having no idea at that
time of the friendly intercourse that, it is
somewhat generally thought, became con-
mon afterward, and which in some places
did grow thus social. though believe mach
less 50 than is stated by some writer's. We
were sure Of the danger of death from a
rifle-ball at any time, and we were quite
willing TO kill the other fellow if we got the
chance.
During this night there was rife-shot,
followed by wild yell, at the cotton-bale.
There was the sound Of hurrying feet, and
the guard at that place struck the reserve
with bound. "Pm shotl I'm shotlD he
cried. Well, his case was examined, of
course. The blouse was torn away at the
elbow and the merest scratch indicated the
place where the ball struck. But the hurt
seemed so severe, the man so sure that some
thing serious had been done, that farther
examination was made. The conclusion was
that the ball had struck his crazy bone"
and given him the peculiar sensation.
1t seems that he was making some inves-
tigation himself az to the works beyond
him, and showed his arm a little too plainly
for the enemy 10 allow him to go unmo-
Tested. In the bright moonlight he received
their compliments and retired. Another
guard was put in his place. The reserve
pickets at this time-the men who did not
go on guard or who were waiting their turn
to go on guard-mads their rallying- place
in the trench, just next the battery.
Sometimes they went to sleep at once and
sometimes they stayed awake, watching the
shells from Porter's mortar fleet falling on
the city, and told anecdotes of army life or
other stories of fun and interest.
Of course there was guard kept where
these lay, to wake the sleepers if there was
need and to note the time to relieve the
guard, and the clock in the courthouse of
the city struck the hours. We had no
trouble in hearing it.
he coDtjo7,eGl
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The Army Ni,rses, Associalinu.

In the Issue of FeB Us was n notice of the
Army Nurses Association. Mrs. Harriet P.
Dame, the Presidential the Association. has in
formed us that there were several mistakes
made. She says thabthe Headquarters of the
Association will not be at the Grand Army
Hall, but in room, the use of which has been
kindly given by Col. l.. p Wright. Register of
Wills for the District of Columbia, and Chair
man of the COMMITTEES on Accommodations
This room will he used as Headquarters during
the Encampment. The Association wants to
have the old and favorite Army Nurses as
cheaply lodged and as well cared for as the
veterans will be who will visit the Encamp-
ment. Mrs. Dame is very desirous of securing
the addresses of all the surviving Army Nurses
Her address is 1911 l. street northwest, Wash
ington, ID. C..
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