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OUR FOREIGN COMMERCE.
AN EXCESS OF EXPORTS OVER
IMPORTS FOR OCTOBER.

Facts Taken From the Report of the
United States Treasury Depart
ment's Bureau of Statistics-The
Exports of. Gold and Silver-Im-
ports and Exports for Ten Months.
The Bureau OF Statistics Treasury Depart
ment, has given out for publication the ad-
vance statement of the imports and exports
Of merchandise and gold and silver for tho
month of October, 1893. The exports OF
domestic merchandise were valued at $685..
913,so2, as compared with sS6,s29,.
621 in October, 1892, decrease
in value OF aho 1v s1g9ss
being 81, ,772, ,013 In October, 1898, and ST..
OBJ, ,29S in 1892. The increased export OF
foreign merchandise nearly made good the
decreased export of domestic merchan-
disc. bringing the total for October, 1893.
to SS7, ,6S5,815, as compared with $751;
$50, ,919 in 1892, the difference in favor
of the latter being S175,104. Imports
OF merchandise show great falling of, be-
ing $51, ,641, 1882 in October, 1893, as compared
with S71, ,999. $50 in the corresponding month
of 1892, decrease OF $20, ,S57, 76S. The ex-
cess of exports over imports in October,
1886, ,O44, ,033.
If the exports and imports for the ten
months ending October 81 in the two years
be taken, the conditions arc very different,
there being much less excess Of exports In
1898 than in 1892, Sl3, ,995, 724 in the former
year and $45, ,OG5, ,459 in the latter. The total
exports, foreign and domestic, for the ten
months in 1898 were valued at $500, ,9O7, ,6SS,
and in 1892. for the corresponding period,
S75S, III ,018, q difference OF S62, ,263, $50. In
the same periods in the two years the i'm
ports were s7os, 1O5, $50 in 1892 nnd S676,97l,-
964 in 1893, q decrease OF $31 1873 ,595.
The exports OF gold were $505.918 in
October, 1898, as compared with $4S4, ,25O in
October, 1892. The imports in October,
1898, were 81, ,5S3, 1887, as compared with $S,-
lis, $50 in October. 1892. The excess of i'm
ports of gold in 1892 was 50, ,GS4 ,0S0, and in
1893 of S1.07S,019. For the ten months end
Ing October 81 the excess Of exports OF gold
was $40, 1s0, 1856 in 1892 and s9,239,S6S In
1892.
The exports Of silver were 3,507, ,422 In.
October, 1892, and $S,472,768 in October:
1893. The imports OF silver in October OF
the two years were Ss,4s4 ,s5s in 1892 and
s1,418,O6G in 1893. The decreased i'm
ports of silver were suf3cien to make
the excess OF exports over imports $2,054,
699 in 1898, rs compared with $12, AGA
in 1892. For the ten months the exports OF
silver showed a marked increase, this
increase being almost entirely OF the domes-
tic product. The total exports Of foreign
and domestic silver for the ten months OF
1892 were $27, 1866, ,42O, and in 1893 $50, ,892.-
482, On increase OF s9,527 .062, Of which $9,-
024s78 were Of domestic silver. The excess
of exports OF silver for the ten months OF
1892 was $40, ,911, and in 1898 500, 46s, 159.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Rolls of old flannel should be ready
for sudden demand.
To remove egg stains from spoons
rub with moist salt.
Open canned fruit an hour or two
before it is needed for use. 1t IS lar
richer when the oxygen is thus restored
to it.
If the rollers of wringer are sticky
or covered with lint pass cloth
dampened with kerosene between
them.
Gum arabic and gum tragacanth. IN
equal parts, dissolved in hot water,
make the best and most convenient
mucilage you can keep in the house.
Handkerchiefs too much worn for
ordinary use should find their way to
the "hospital drawer" as old, soft
cloths are always of use in the SICK
room.
Persons who travel will find that
cold cream or vaseline will remove the
stresks of CRIME on their faces with
much greater ease than soap and
water.
When wine is spilled on table linen
sprinkle salt over it thickly before it
is dry. If possible. Vaseline or machine
oil should be washed with soap and
cold water first.
If an umbrella is wet never stand /:
ferule down to dry, but open 1t ana
lay it handle down until quite dry.
If it must be closed, stand it ON the
handle rather than the ferule.
The fashioned butter knife has
been for some time replaced ny u
butter spear or lance, the point OF
which is thrust through the tiny balls
of butter, in which form butter is now
served.
To cure white canker sores in the
mouth, get at druggists five cents
worth of gold thread and steep y
warm water, and sweeten with honey
or loaf sugar; wet the canker spots
with q swab dipped in the tea every
half hour and give little Of the tea.
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Z Flower SHOWS In India.

The display Of flowers aat flower
show in India is naturally very mag
nifcent. In one recently held in
Poona and opened by Lady Harris,l
the chief interest was attached to the
arrangement Of cut flowers and to
table decoration. Lady Harris com.'
peted in the latter, and, Of course, be.i
ing so devoted to cricket, had two
cricketers supporting the three branch
lamp ID the centre Of her table, which
was an arrangement in scarlet and
green. The first prize mas awarded to
Mrs. Whtworth, for q blue and white
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POISON IN THE PORTER.
Mother and Daughter Die Of 1t, the
Father Dies From Shock.

Father Dies from SuoCh.
The wife and daughter, Margaret, OF John
J. Toole, OF South Boston, Mass, drank part
of n bottle OF porter and dropped dsad almost
instantly. A pos:-nortem examination re-
yealed the fact that they had swallowed
enough cyanide of potassium to have killed
ten persons.
Two sons and daughter have been arrest
ed charged with the murder, but the eTi,
dence which the police have thus far secured
against them is not strong.
That night Mr.. Toole learned for the HIST
tire O., the death Of his wife and daughter,
and in few minutes he, too, was dead. Inc
shock killed hin!.
The scene Of the tragedy is SS West Third
street, South Boston. Mr.. Tooe is piano
pollsher, and had lived in that house. nearly
thirty years.
He had reared family Of five sons and
three daughters, and had acquired property
worth about $40, 900. He wus one OF the most
respectable citizens in that part OF town. His
wife had been Ill for some time, and IN ac.
cordance with her physicians orders had
been in the habit of drinking glass OF
porter every night before retiring. Last
night she asked her daughter Mary to give
her son Michael some money to purchase
bottle Of porter The lad went to George
Walkers liquor store and procured IT.. Mary
Toole met him at the 'ot Of the stairs ana
carried the bottle to her mothers room. 1t
Is q mystery how the poison got In tnA
bottle.
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AWED BY TRAIN ROBBERS.
Successful Looting of an Express Car
in Kentucky.

successful Lootfng OF an Express Car
in Kentucky.
Tires masked robbers held up nortn-pounu
train Nc. % on the main line Of the Illinois
Central early in the morning at Msyheld
Creek trestle, two and one-halt miles north
OF Mayield Junction, Ky. The express car
was robbed OF two money packages, one con-
tanning S35, addressed to J. s. Titus. Chi
cago, and the other containing $1,000 in
sranster from Memphis to Chicago. The ex-
press messenger saved the remainder OF the
contents Of the safe.
Aboh3 o'dbck, while the train was leaving
3ardwelI, fhree men climbed over the tank,
aud one OF the robbers said to Engineer
Clark. "Pull out as soon as you can"
At tue same time the robber grabbed
the left arm Of the engineer, and one OF
them pushed revolver under his ear,
ordering him 10 do as he was told
uS be Killed. Tho fremun dropped out
ef sight and so. on the pilot OF the en-
gine. where he remained Ill hiding. Tha
Passengers in the two sleepers and three
.osches which made up the train were in ig-
Goae 10 arouse them. The engineer wanted
20 :t. down an put some coal On the fre,
bu; the robbers refused to let him leave his
seat in the cab. One OF the robbers did the
firiES :or him from BardTell 10 Port Jeffer-
SOD, md ord-red him to stop the train on the
Hayeld trestle.
TIE seli-possessed engineer insisted that
the robbers should let him put the flaSman
of 10 protect the rear end of the train
and the lives OF the passengers, because
they had passed freight train at Bard
we'll wnich might run into. them. This
the robbers agreed to, and Nhen the train
was stopped by their orders at the
Irestle they forced tho engineer a: the
point OF their pistols to go in front of them
TO the express car door and open it. He
shouted to Express Messenger Mcneil 10
open the door and not to shoo1, as he was in
front OF the robbers. One Of the robbers
went into the car and came out with several
bundles, which he put into 4 sack. They
then oriered the engineer to take the train
to Port Jefferson. The robbers got off and
went behind some piling. They shouted to
the engineer. "Pull out fast, old man." All
the ROBBERS Wore soft hats and masks OF
black cloth completely covering ther heads.
Holes were cut for tho eyes and mouth.
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FIGHTING IN RIO HARBOR.
Many Of the Rebel Shells Fall in the
Business Quarter

The London Times has this despatch from
Eio do Janeiro, Brazil:
Thers was heavy firing on Sunday and
Nccday by the Government forts on the fort
on yilIegaigron Island. Tne outside walls
were much damaged, but the interior was
lett intact Two were killed. and seven were
wounded. TIE troops at,Mt. CASTILLO opened:
. musIetry FIRE at 1900 yards on Monday.
The insurgen. forces at Fort Tillegaignon
and on the var ship Aquidaban replied with
machine guns, killing and wounding twenty
soldiers and four spectators.
The FIRE continues night and day. There
is an immense waste OF ammunition. Two
guns at Castillo fred upon Fort Eillegaignon
en- Wednesday. The Aquidsban replied and
many OF her shells fellint the business quar-
ter OF the city. Several were wounded.
TIE bombs-dmen., 1t is said, resulted from
the Governments firing from the town in
ecntra7ect:on of tGe agreement with the
foreign representatives..
There ars continued skirmishes at Meth
Grey. A torpedo launch was sunk on Wednes-
day. "ne casualties on the whole are slight.
Sc2e houses have been burned and gas
EoCse has been DESTROYED.
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South and West.

The work OF destroying the buildings in
Jackson Park, Chicago, has begun. The first
blow was struck in the New York State Build
ing. A suit was begun against the Ferris
Wheel Company by the Worlds Columbian
Exposition to secure payment OF percentages
amounting to $4,000.
Four Hooking Valley train hands were
killed in collision near Rising Sun, Ohio.
NATURAL gas has been struck near Grand
Junction, Col.
A CRANK with dynamite bomb and re-
volver in his hands, who called on Myron L.
Herrick, of Cleveland, Ohio, and demanded
$50. 900, was promptly knocked down by that
gentleman and forced to beat retreat after
firing an Intellectual shot.
TIE Chief and Executive Council OF the
Usage Nation have just issued an edict Or
dering all colored men to leave the reserva-
tion in thirty days, and notifying them that
any colored man found in the country after
that time will be given fifty lashes.
WHILE J. D. Davis was cutting the coal
away from around a standing pillar In the
Crozier mine, Welch, w. Va, fall Of coal
struck him, breaking his back. A Gozen
men were working to rescue him, when
suddenly the slate roof began to slide, and
before they could get out James Block,
colored, was instantly crushed to death.
John Jones had both legs crushed and died
in about an hour.
EIGHT lives were lost, several persons were
injured, and half million dollars worth OF
property was destroyed by a fire in the Wet
ter Block on Main streer, Memphis, Tenn.
c. II. VAN, an advertising solicitor, and
his wife retired at Memphis, Tenn, in fold
ing bed. The bed, by some movement, began
to close up. Mrs. Van started to leap out,
but was caught. and Van was crushed 80
badly that he will be cripple for life. The
wife is also badly bruised.
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HOW 10 MAKE HosnMApE Z, CAKE.

! In large cities the making Of cake is
almost lost art. There are many
reasons for this, first and foremost Of
which is the bakery Then there
are the women's exchanges, where peo.
pie fancy they can buy just such cakes
as dear grandma used to make, but oh,
what a delusion and a snare they
proved s'The test of the pudding is
in the eating" but the test OF bought
cakes, either at bakeries or at ex-
changes, should be left entirely to
their appearance, for there alone is
their merit. i have q friend who makes
the most delicious cake I ever tasted.
One of the best and easiest made OF her
almost endless variety Of cakes is what
she calls luncheon cake. This is how
it is made,
One cupful of sugar, half cup OF
butter, worked to''aD fine cream; one
egg; one cupful of sweet milk; two
cupfuls of -four; three tablespoonfuls
of baking powder. Flavor with grated
nutmeg. Bake in a shallow pan well
lined with buttered paper.
Sometimes she frosts the top of thia
cake and decoratEs with English wal
nut meats. Then she calls it a recep-
ton cake. Another of her cakes is
what ell children love. She calls it
sponge cake:
One large cup of sugar, four eggs
beaten to foam, three tablespoon
fuls of milk, two teaspoonfuls OF bak-
ing powder, one large cup OF flour;
flavor with lemon.
This makes small cake. 1t should
be baked in shallow, square pan,
and eaten fresh.
Another of her cakes is rich and de-
licious; she calls it wedding cake:
Two pounds of butter, two pounds
of granulated sugar, twelve eggs. BeaS'
whites and yokes separately. One cup
of New Orleans molasses, three table
spoonfuls of cloves, one tablespoon
full of mace, two tablespoonfuls OF all
spice, one nutmeg grated, four pounds
of dried currants, two pounds OF flour
and one heaping teaspoonful of baking
soda. This must be thorougly beaten
and mixed and baked four hours in
slow oven. To frost it heat up the
whites of four eggs to o stiff froth,
add powdered sugar as long as you
can blend it nicely; also add the Juice
of one lemon. Spread this over the
top of the cake nearly on inch thick
and around the sides that thickness.
Here you have a cake tit to set oe'
fore king. 1t will keep for months.
New York Herald.
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Washington.

TIE annual report Of Captain N NJ.
Brooks, Superintendent OF Foreign Malls,
Postoff1ce Department, shows that the total
cost Of the service for the last fiscal year was
81 .141 ,659, OF which sum S646, ,030 was paid
on account of vessels Of American register:
and $492, ,629 to vessels Of foreign register.
SECRETARY GRESHAM and Minister Grip
exchanged ratiflcations Of the Norwegian
extradition treaty.
HUNDREDS Of aliens made pauper5 oy the
business depression have asked the Govern
ment to deport them.
THE United States have given Admiral
Mello, o! Brazil. to understand that his fight
ing up to date has not raised him above the
level of common rebel, and refuse to recog-
nize him as belligerent.
L. H. DEWEY. Assistant Botanist OF the
Agricultural Department, acting under Or
ders from Secretary Morton, left Washington
for the Northwest to make an Investigation
into the extent Of the damage done to the
crops during the present year by the Russian
thistle.
HONDURAS has apoloSiZsd to the State De-
partment for the conduct OF her officers in
firing on the American flag, carried by the
United States mail ship Costa Rica. In their
over-an1ety to obtain possession OF politi-
cal opponent. General Bonilla, who was on
board the mail sterner.
A GOLD medal has been presented by the
War Department to General julius Stahel, OF
New York, who at one time commanded the
cavalry OF TIE Army Of the Potomac and also
the Eleventh Army Corps. for distinguished
Salanrry displayed at the battle OF Pied
mont, June S. 1864, while commanding the
cavalry under General Hunter.
The United States Supreme Court paid
tribute to the memory OF Assoclate-Justce
Blatchford: Atorney-General Olney and
Cnief-Justice Fuller made addresses.
DURING the past year there were 4o3 acci-
dents to railway postoftices, in which ten
clesss were killed, six5y-six seriously and
lis slightly injured. says Superintendent
james A. White in his annual report.
TEE President declined to approve the re-
port of the Examining Board which recon-
mended Paymaster Frazier Of the navy for
promotion.
Mrs. PLATT, wife OF Senator Orvi!le H.
P!att. Of Connecticut, died in her rooms at
the Arlington, in Washington, OF >paralysis,
aged si1ty-three.
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Breeding Blue Foxes.

On the island of st. George, one OF
the Pribylof group in Bering Sea, the
breeding of blue foxes has become
very profitable. They generate very
rapidly, and when an island OF good
size once becomes well stocked it is
impossible to deplete it, as the law
provides that they must not be shot,
but trapped, the restriction being inn
posed mainly to keep them tame
Chicago Herald.
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One and Two Cent Pieces.

There are 119, 1000, 900 old copper
pennies somewhere. Nobody knows
what has become of them, except once
in awhile single specimen turns up
in change. A few years ago 1000, 600
bronze two-cent pieces were set aEoat.
Three millions OF these are still out
standing.
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HANGED, SHOT AND BURNED.
A Colored Murderer Lynched by
Others of His Race.

Tremendous excitement reigns at Warner,
q station on the Iron Mountain Railway,
twenty miles south OF Pine bluff. Ark, over
tho lynching, shooting and burning OF COL
ored man named Nelson, who, q week before,
Lad murdered another colored man.
A mob consisting exclusively OF colored
men broke down the jail, hadged Nelson TO
a tree, ridiled his body with bullets and then
set fire TO IT.
Next morning fragments OF the body were
still found dangling from the limbs. It had
been raining hard all night. 80 the fire did
not complete its work.
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4 TRIPLE MURDER.

An Old kansan Kills His Wife, His
Daughter and Himself.
At about noon Z. p. Bernard an old and
highly esteemed citizen OF Toronto, Kan,
shot and instantly killed his wife, his daugh-
ter and himself. He lett letter to his son
Stain; he had ontlived his usefGlcess and
would be better out OF the way. He was
eighty years OF age, his wife sixty-three urd
his daughter thirty-six.
No other cause than that in his letter to his
;on can be ascribed for :he deed. Bernard
oought lot in the cemetery some time ago
aud left written directions as to the dispo-
sition Of his property.
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AMERICA THEIR HOME.
OF tho 5,406 October Immigrant
Many Could Not Read or Write.

Many Could Not Read or Write.
The total number OF immigrants landed a
Ellis Island, New York. during October wa
1906 OF these newcomers 1916 could NO
read; 1887 could not write, while 1726 could
neither read nor write.
Classified according to occupation, 102 Inn
migrants belonged to the learned p-ofes
sions; 294S were skilled laborers 5SS1 be
longed to various trades, and the rest had ne
occupation.
The total amount Of money brought her,
hy these future American citizens WAS 5000,
38S. The number OF immigrants returned
was ninety-four. Of whom seyenty-two Wer,
contract laborers, twenty-one were paupers
and one WAS convict.
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KILLED HIS BROTHER.
He Was Afraid He Would BE
Whipped If He Told.

While hunting near Peoria, H., Rudolph
Bomhoz, aged fifteen, was accidentally
killed by his young brother Harry, who told
q story about the fatal shot harinG been fired
by stranger without cause. The country
was secured by 4 posse in search OF the sup
posed murderer. The boy finally told the
tt9 fanciful story on the ground that he vas
ufrsid OF whipping.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

FRANCIS PAnkMAN. the historian Of the
colonial days of North America, died at his
home in Jamaica Plain. near Boston, Mass,
of peritonits. He was born in Boston, Sep
tember 16, 1928.
A MEETING of citizens Of Brooklyn, n. Y,
representing many clubs OF Democrats and
Republicans. appointed committee to call
a mass meeting to decide upon the line OF
action to be pursued in the prosecution OF
John 7. McKane. the "boss" Of Gravesend.
THE Sheriff, Under-Sheriff and Superinten-
dent OF Police of Buffalo, N. Y, have been
subpenaed to testify in an Investigation OF
illegal acts By public officers on Election Day.
WARREN T. PUTNAM. President of the Ma.
tional Granite State Bank of Exeter. N. H.,
was arrested on the charge Of embezzlement
from the funds of that institution. 1t 1s said
that the amount OF his embezzlement Will
reach S3O 900.
THE Yale eleven defeated the University of
Pennsylvania at football In New York City
by the score Of fourteen to six.
A MAss-MEET1NG was held in Brooklyn, n.
T., and a committee appointed to push the
work OF Furnishing those responsible for elec-
tior frauds in Kings County.
AMERICAS greatest comedian, Joseph JEFF
ferson Italy's greatest tragedian, Tommaso
Salvini, and the leader of the English stage.
Henry Irving, were the principal figures In
the Edwin Booth memorial services held in
the Concert Hall of Madison Square Garden,
New York City. With these were Joined
hundreds of the players Of this country and
others distinguished in other professions, In
art, in commerce, in society. It was the an
niversary Of Edwin Booths sixtieth birthday.
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LYNCHINGS IN THE SOUTH.
One Taken From Officers and Shot
and the Other Hanged.

Henry Bogue, one Of the colored men who
admitted taking part In the murder OF W. J..
Duncan at Lake City Junction, Fla. was
taken from sheriff's posse at midnight at
the doors Of the town jail. He was carried
off quarter OF d mile and riddled with
bullets.
A Spartanburg IS. CO. special says q
colored man, Bob Kennedy, about twenty
years old, ;sslultoi woman at dusk ut
GaH1ney. NeiShbors OF the woman tracked
the man to house from whence ne was taken
and hanged.
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THE BUSINESS OUTDOOR.
Encouraging Reports From All Parts
Of the Country.

of the Country.
The New York Sun, in its financial col
umn, says that 1.-THE weekly reports OF the
condition OF business throughout the coun.
try which have come to hand are the most
encouraging that have been received in sew
eral months. They tell Of an improvement
in both mercantile and manufacturing lines.
The most favorable advices are received
from Southern points, suggesting the posi-
bility Of an earlier recovery there than else
where from tho prevailing prostration of last
summer. The reason for this may be that
liquidation In the South antedated the con-
traction of business in the Northern States.
Still, u gratifying degree of Improvement Is
reported from nearly every important centre
throughout the country"
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LYNCHINGS IN TIE SOUTH.
One Taken From Officers and Shot
and the Other Hanged.

Henry Bogue, one OF the coiored men who
admitted taking part in the murder OF W. J.
Duncan ct Lake City Junction. Fla. was
taken from Sherifrs posse at midnight at
the doors OF the town Jail. He was carried
Of quarter OF mile and riddiod Eith
bullets.
A Spartanburg IS. CO. special says q
solored man, Bob Kennedy, about twenty
years old, assaulted woman at dusk at
Gaffney. Neighbors OF the woman tracked
The man to a house from whence he wastaksn
and hanged.