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The Washington times., 1894-05-09
Bu Mutual C0ns8nt.

Mr. and Mrs. Messenger were simple, un-
affected people. devoted to their children
and to Nancy, Mr.. Messinger's young step
sister.
One sunny afternoon in early Summer Mrs.
Messenger sat at the open bay-window of the
drawing-room reading. The door opened
presently and Nancy came in rather slowly.
She came over to the window and seated her
self in low basket chair with the air OF con-
etraint.
Il have letter from Jim," she said.
Does he say when he is coming?'
Yes; he came by the same steamship as
the letter. He will be here tomorrow, sup
pose"
Nancy! really?'' asked Mary. looking al
most excited. "Are you nor delighted?"
''I-I-have a confession to make" said
Nancy nervously, looking out over the sea.
81 thought loved Jim when he went out to
India five years ago, but was only II then,
and did not realize what love meant. We had
known each other all our lives, and mistook
our friendship for love-
II have felt it dimly for year or two. but
what made it all clear to me was Jim's last
letter. saying that he was coming home. 1t
filed me with dismay and fear felt that 1
simply could not meet him as his betrothed
wife. SO wrote last mail and asked him to
release me from my engagement
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'sWhy. Jim, is it really you?' asked Nancy.
regarding him with surprise. How you
have grown When did you come? and how
did YOU find me?"
II came two days ago." he said reddening
slightly in irritation at her first words. ..hut
called at the Ness this afternoon and Mrs
Messenger told me where i should find YOU -
LET us go home now. and then you can
see them ALL she said turning back, "You
will hardly know the children; they were such
mites when you eft
Il certainly shall not, il they have altered
as much as you have done. / scarcely knew
you.'' he said. looking down at her with in
tent gray eyes and inwardly comparing this
beautiful. graceful girl with the gauche school
girl Of five years since.
81 am older she said. her heart sinking
strangely ''He might disguise the fact that
he finds me disappointing failure" she
thought. rather bitterly.
..Of course we are no longer boy and girl. -
he said. "But l hope We shall always be
friends, Nancy! We have been that all our
lives. haven't WEI?
''Yes. let US be friends" she said. And
thinking that he was eager to impress upon
her that they were to be nothing more. she
added .'And it was very wise to break off
that childish engagement before you came
home, wasn't it?"
"Y-yes,' he said, doubtfully. "Those boy
and girl engagements never answer do they?
People develop so differently from what one
would expect. Judging from your letters. 1
should have thought you utterly different
from what / find you
You are equally different from what 1
should have expected you to be-" she an
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"Shall we go into the garden?" she asked,
| thinking that anything was preferable to sit
ting stiffiy in the drawing-room.
Il should like it immensely" he answered,
rising and opening the door with alacrity.
.'Will you take me to your old favorite seat?
have so often thought of those days when
was feeling homesick Nancy
81 thought you were very happy in India "
she said. unresponsively.
$50 l was. but was homesick sometimes,
especially when l first went OUT
''hIr Penstone and / always quarrel over
this view." said Nancy, anxious to prevent
any embarrassing pause.
''Who is Mr.. Penstone?" asked Jim. knit
ting his brows
HE is our curate." she answered. II al
ways say that this is the finest view in the
town, but Mr. Penstone maintains that the
view from
HE must be an idiot. then" burst in
Jim, hotly. 1.-The views are not to be COM
pared"
''You might have waited until had men,
toned the other" said Nancy, raising her
eyebrows.
IL beg your PARDON he said. in utter
confusion. Il thought you must mean-in
fact, 1 understood you to say-that-that the
view from the Beacon was finer than this"
''Yes, that is what Mr.. Penstone declares, ~
she said.
.what hideous name the man hasr' said
Jim, irritably. .Of course you are devoted
to him. Nancy"
..Yes; he is so very good and clever and
pleasant" she said. surprised at his vehe-
mence
You are going to marry him. suppose?''
he said, with ili-concealed anger.
The Washington times., 1894-05-09
TOYING WITH SUGAR SHORTS.
The POOL Would Have Them Get In with
Larger Lines.


NEW YORK, May s.-Were 1t not for the heavy
transactions in Sugar to-day's stock market
would have been tame What little of activity
there was was confined to st. Paul, General
Electric and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy.
At the opening of business Sugar was heavily
pressed for sale and quickly declined 3Ixc The
break was credited to manipulation by the
sugar pool with the view OF inducing shorts TO
extend their lines, and the bears did help to
send the price downward by adding to 1t the
bulk Of the sales
When the low point was touched buying or
ders came in, which caused n rally of or per
cent, but renewed selling sent the figures back
to within Is of the bottom price of the morning.
Later in the day a recovery of " was made, on
which per cent. was subsequently lost, with a
final rally of Il, the closing sale being at de-
cline of 13s per cent. on the day. Sugar pre-
ferred lost Ia per cent; ST. Paul, after decline
of 1s, rose u per cent. Then a drive was made
on the stock on the reported bond sale, but 1t
was very firmly held giving way toward the
close is per cent, with n rally Of 1s and closing
u above yesterday.
1t has been learned that the St Paul company
did yesterday at private sale dispose OF $2,0O0-
600 OF per cent general mortgage bonds to re-
imburse the treasury for Outlays for equipment
and to retire maturing bonds There are still in
the treasury 81 735, 600 of these bonds available
as the occasion requires. Burlington and Quincy
receded II in the morning but rallied promptly,
selling on which 3E was lost at the close. Rock
Island is unchanged on the day and Northwest
y higher. General Electric was sold for the Bos-
ton account at top figure and receded u per
cent then on fairly good buying, advancing H
per cent. In the late afternoon another selling
movement developed in the stock and u
break OF Ia per cent. was made, the closing
price being only Il about lowest made
The general market moved sluggishly and
with irregularity the prevailing tone being dull
ness and the fluctuations as rule being con-
fined to narrow limits. The speculation was
heaviest during the last hour and closed weak.
The only changes In price exceeding fraction
were declines of per cent in Michigan Central,
IL in Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic, s19 in
Evansville and Terre Haute, and per cent in
st. Paul and Duluth preferred. Common stock
Tunnel advanced lc
The railway and miscellaneous bond market
generally fair throughout the day and
closed irregular. The principal changes are:
Advances-foledo Ann Arbor, Crank Trunk
lists, 40: do Mount Pleasant 6s, 4; Mob. q o. Us,
3Ii; American Cotton Oil IS, IA; Louisville and
Nashville, and do. n. o. & NJ. lists, each per
cent
Declines-Pittsburg & Western Is, 9; Chicago
& Erie incomes, ile: Atchison 2ds, l; Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre consols assented, Northern Pacific,
3ds and Ohio Southern Is. each per cent; Gal
veston Harrisburg and San Antonio 2ds, at 100
against 95, the last sale on December 81.
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DIED.

ChEW-On Monday, May7, 1894, at 43O p. m,
WASHINGTON PINKNEY CHEW, aged 46 years
Funeral from his late residence, 66 h street
northwest, to-day at o'clock p. m.
CONDIT-In Centralia, Ill, May Z, 1894, FANNIE
CALVERT COSDIT, wife Of T. T. Condit daugh-
ter Of the late X. A. Calvert, OF this city.
DowNs-on May, 1894, EDWARD WILLIAM, aged
10 months and II DAYS.
Funeral to-day at o'clock from SOC A street
southeast. lnterment private
FLETCHER-Suddenly, on Tuesday, May s, 1894,
at l30 a. m, LINCOLN FEM, only son of Chris
tine p and the late Cyrus d. Fletcher, aged q
years and months.
Funeral from his mothers residence, 3l9
Spruce street, lie Droit Park, "Wednesday, May
3 at o'clock p. m.
GRIFFIN-The remains of FRANCIS L. GRIFFIN
Will be taken from the vault at Mt Olivet cem-
etery and placed in their final resting place on
Wednesday, May9. 1891, at o'clock p. IN.
Friends and relatives invited to attend.
JENkINS-On Monday. May :. 1891, at Z. 30 p IN.
CHARLES STEWART JENKINS, aged % years
Funeral from chapel of j. William Lee. UNDER
taker, 33i Pennsylvania avenue. to-day at p. IN.
louisville, Gettysburg and Nandalia, Ill, &,
papers please copy)
LINDSAY = On Monday, May Z, 1894, at her
mothers. Mrs Coats, Prince Georges county,
Md, ANNIE LINDSAY, wife OF James Lindsay.
Funeral will take place from Mrs. Coats to-
day at = O'Clock.
NALLY-On sunday, May G. 1894, at rs p. m,
JOHN +. NALLY, the beloved son of the late
George and Annie Elizabeth Nally-
Funeral TO take place from his late residence,
+ street northwest, Thursday, at O'Clock p m.
Relatives and friends are cordially invited 10
attend. baltimore and Rockville papers please
copy)
SYSTEMATICALLY evening" May Z. 1894, at 30.
CHARLES X. NEWMAN, aged months and Z
days, infant son of Charles K and Abbie c.
Newman
VANDOREN-On Monday, May Z, 1891, at p. m,
at his residence, 1898 Fourth street, THEODORE
VASDoRES
Funeral private.
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.To 1ndiap At onceq O, whyq" she asked

"To India? At once? o, why?" she asked
him with frightened eyes.
"Do you care, Nancy?" he asked eagerly.
"Would you rather I stayed?''
my wishes have nothing to do with the
matter" she said rather bitterly.
Indeed they have" he said, very earn
estly. "Nancy, tell me, would you rather I
stayed?"
III say yes, would you stay?" she asked
quietly.
"Only If you loved me-" he said. 81 cannot
stay on and see you day after day, and feel
that you will never care for me. May stay,
Nancy?''
..If you like" she answered shyly.
sThere is one thing want to Know" he
said presently, looking down into her eyes;
'.when did you begin to love me, dear?"
"when did you begin to love me9" she re-
piled, blushing under his gaze.
81 don't. have loved you all my life, " he
answered.
II don't know, either" she said; "when
was about or 5, I think
"But, my darling. you broke off our en-
gaeement," he said. wonderingly.
"Yes; from your letters thought did not
love you. They were so stupid-I-I
mean"-
"Yes, they were stupid, but yours were
silly, too, and thought that was the kind Of
thing you liked" he said, intelligence dawn
ing in his eyes.
II thought you were terribly boyish, so
wrote very young letters, thinking they
would interest you" she said, beginning to
laugh.
ave both fell into the same mistake, them"
he said, laughing, too.-Waverly Magazine.
The Washington times., 1894-05-09
pliladelpnia Mint Site Chosen.

Philadelphia Mint Site Chosen.
The question of a site for the new mint
building at Philadelphia at last seems to have
been practically settled. The old site at the
corner o; Broad and Cherry streets hns been
abandoned and an entirely new one selected
This new site is bounded by Bn.tonwood.
Spring Garden, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth
streets.
The Washington times., 1894-05-09
New york Stock Exchange.

Furnished by Silsby i Co. bankers and
brokers, Metropolitan Bank Building Fifteenth
street, opposite Treasury, Washington. ID. C.
The Washington times., 1894-05-09
Some Of the
Best People In Town
have found our
Equitable Credit System"

a great convenience. Every
body gets a little pinched
financially sometimes, and
the help that we can be to
YOU is considerable.
You and any OF h e r
straightforward householder
can buy FURNITURE
CARPETS-MATTING-
DRAP E RIES-BABY
CARRIAGES S-REFRIG-
ORATORS, etc, of us-on
time-without being under
obligations to anyone. It's
better than going without
it's better than borrowing
the money.
Pay as you promise is our
only requirement. Little, +"
that's the watchword here.
The Washington times., 1894-05-09
MIR. BisseiI Cannot Go.

Postmaster General Bissell has received an
invitation. handsomely engraved on silver
plate TO attend t he exercises of the letter ear
riers of San Francisco at the Midwinter Fair.
May 26. The Postmaster Genera! will be un-
able to accept.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-13
PAIN IN ANIMALS.

Prof. Penberthy, at the twelfth meet
ing of the National Veterinary Associa-
ton held this year in London, read a very
thoughtful essay on Pain; Its Indica-
tons and Significance in Domesticated
Animals. " He first considered the true
meaning of the word pain and the re-
lation of painful and like stimuli to ac-
ton. In man, the sense and variety of
whose nervous energies are SO wonderful,
the stimulus of sensations of pain or APP
prehension has -seque out of all
relation to those in lower animals.
We can not, therefore, measure the eff
fects of pain in lower animals by the
intellectual agitation in man are incom-
parably more painful than those which in
animals result simply in motion, as in
the flight of a hare, for example, though
a superficial observer may regard the
latter as more pitiable. at is as natural
for a fox to run from his enemies, and
to exercise all the faculties necessary to
escape, as 1t is for a man to go to his
home and lock his door at night" In
tensity or amount of pain depends, the
writer adds, upon the power of r~ealiza-
tive; this intensity is, therefore, incom-
parably higher in man han in animals,
in whom the same material of mind does
not even exist.
- 49, AoS(Nt u u HllIS
most horrible contemplation to admit
that the lower animals have the same
sense of pain as highly civilized man."
Prof. Penberthy goes on to show that
without pain to lower animals, and to
men also, there could be no advance in
civilization. THE cost must be animal
and human suffering" To say that a
knowledge of physiology is not essential
to the prevention and treatment of dis
ease is absurd; and it is equally as abb
surd to point to individual experiments
as useless because their value is not
patent to certain men and women of
limited minds and education"
If it be urged that experiment on ami
mails leads to no direct knowledge of man,
Prof. Penberthy well says that veterinar-
ians, though challenging the statement,
of course, are not concerned to give any
answer to 1t. The essay is a singularly
thoughtful, temperate and broad-minded
contribution to a very important and try
ing subject, and one which is highly
honorable to the veterinary profession of
the day.-British Medical Review.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-13
CHEAPER THAN GOLD CURE.

sIn Missouri we have a much more
simple jag cure h your Northern BIZ
chloride of gold injections said Colonel
lures own remedies-merely a ripe toma-
to and salt. AS to it's efficacy / can refer
to a dozen people of my W personal
acquaintance. The cure is fast becoming
known all over the country, and soon
every man will be his own jag physician.
1 don't know wherein the curative prop
critics of a ripe tomato and a ~spr1nkltng
of coarse salt lie, but they have been
too thoroughly demonstrated to make me
skeptical. One case in particular l know
of clinches my faith in the cure. In a
little town in Southwestern Missouri
there lives today a man named Jack Nor
risey, who was one of the worst sots l
risey owns a small farm, n in a patch
of ground near his Shanty raised enough
garden truck to supply his table. To
be truthful, Morrisey didn't raise any
thing except hades, his wife n daugh5
tiers doing all the work. The man had
the jim-jams fourteen times in one year,
and when he didn't have them all his
energies were bent on securing the stun
to bring them on. This fall the crops
were a failure on the Morrissey farm,
vegetables there was absolutely nothing
to eat about the place. Tomatoes, how
ever, were plentiful. After a weeks to-
mato diet the family noticed that the
head of the house had remained sober
four days out of the seven. Mrs. Nor
risey was a woman of quick perception
and lack was dosed with the garden pro-
ducts When l saw him three weeks
ago he was a changed man and he wasn't
posing as a horrible example in a to-
strictly to business now and doing we'll"
Enquirer.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-13
GROUND ORGANS,

A singular phenomenon occurs on the
borders of the Red Sea at a place called
Nakous, where the intermittent UNDER
ground sounds have been heard for an
unknown number of centuries. 1t is stu
ated at about half a miles distance
from the shore, Whence a long reach of
sand ascends rapidly to a height of al
most 300 feet. This reach is eighty feet
wide and resembles an amphitheatre,
being rallied by low rocks. The sound
coming up from the ground at this place
recur at Intervals of about an hour.
They at first resemble a low murmur,
but before long there is heard a loud
knocking, somewhat like the strokes of
a bell, and which, at the end of five
minutes, becomes SO strong as to agi-
tate the sand. The explanation of this
curious phenomenon given by the Arabs
is that there is a convent under the
ground, and these are sounds of the
bell which the monks ring for prayers.
Scientists attribute the sounds TO sup
pressed volcanic action. probably to the
bubbling of gas or .vapors underground.
Chambers Journal
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-13
WANTED HERE FOR BIGAMY.
A New York Merchant Who
His Wife Dead. i'm TrOuble.


Nayor Lawrence Pagan of Hoboken IN
September, 1891, married at the City Han
in that city Frederick Basch, a well-to-do
furrier of New York City, to Miss Ella
Siegel, and in consequence of that cere-
mony Detective John p. Feeney yester-
day arrested Mr.. Basch in New York
City for bigamy, his former wife pc
ing alive.
Basch,it appears married Lillian Dwyer
in New York on October 10, 1889, and the
wedding was a society event. They lived
happily together for a few years, when
on account of a marital storm they
separated.
Mrs. Basch after the separation open
ed a furrier's store at No. 81 Mercer street
New York, next door to her husbands
place, but they never recognized eacn
other. -
In 1880 Basch received a message from
his wife telling him if he wished to see
her alive once more he should call on
her at once. He paid no attention TO
the message, and hearing nothing fur-
Their concluded she was lead. He met
later Miss Siegel n they were married;
Mrs. Basch No. l hearing of this lad
the facts before the last Grand Jury,
which found a bill against aim.
Detective Feeney went over to New
York, and with Detective Ivanhoe, OF
New York Police Headquarters, placed
Basch under arrest. The prisoner will
fight any requisition to bring him over
to Hudson county. His lawyer yesterday
applied to Judge Grady of the New York
Courts for a writ of habeaS corpus
and the return is set down for December
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-13

Sealed proposals will be received by the
Board of Street and Water Commissioners on
Monday, December II, 1894. at IL o'clock A. NJ,
for the labor and materials necessary to the
paving with macadam pavement Of Mont
gomery street, from a point eighty feet east
Colgate street, in accordance with s~pecifca-
tions on file in the office of the Chief Engineer,
corner of Jersey avenue and Mercer street,
where blank forms of bid and agreement of
sureties must be obtained.
Payment for work herein advertised for is to
be made of license monies.
Time allowed for the completion of the
work, ninety 800 working days.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed en-
velopes, endorsed. Proposals for Improvement
of Montgomery street" directed to "John ENC
Arthur, Esq, Chairman of Committee on
Streets and Sewers and handed to the Clerk
of the Board in open meeting when called for
in the order of business relating to sealed pro-
posals.
No city official will be accepted as surety,
nor will a substitution of sureties be allowed.
The Board reserves the right to reject any
or all bids if it considers that the best in
terests of the city can be conserved by so
doing.
The attention of bidders is especially called
to Section Z, Chapter 134,of the Laws of 1891, un-
der the terms whereof no contract shall be bind
ing upon the city or become effective or opera
tive until the bondsmen offered by the contrac-
Board, and as to form by the Corporation
Counsel, the President of this Board having
power to examine the proposed bondsmen under
oath.
BY order of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners.
GEO. T. BoUToN,
notad Tarea,r Cg+r n,oanobar = 1901
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-13
Sale No. 1859

TO ELIZABETH FARLEY. JAMES FARLEY,
her husband, Mary Hogan. Minnie Hogan,
Anna Kirwen, John Kirwen, her husband,
John j. Hogan, James Hogan, Elizabeth Far
rigan, William Harrigan, her husband. John
Hogan, Mary Hogan, his wife; Anna Hogan
Lawrence Mccormack and John Nelson and
Mary Hogan.
Yo6 are hereby notified that at a public sale
made by the City Collector of Jersey City, on the
18th day of April, 1894, The Mayor and Alder
men Of Jersey City purchased for the sum OF
three hundred and thirty-hve dollars and
seventeen cents ALL the land ard real estate
situate in Jersey City, in the County of Hud-
son and State of New Jersey, fronting on St.
Pauls avenue, which is laid down and desig-
mated as lot eighty-ive (s5), in Block num-
Der five hundred and sixty-seven t5SD, upon
on assessment map annexed to a report num-
Der seventy-nine (79), made by the 'Commis-
sioners of Adjustment" appointed in and for
said city by the Circuit Court of the County
and map was filed in the office of the City
Collector of Jersey City, on the 18th day OF
an act of the Legislature of New Jersey, passed
March Both, 1886, entitled
IAN Act concerning the settlement and col
lection of arrearages Of unpaid taxes, assess
ments and water rates or water rents in
cities of this State, and imposing and levy
ing a tax, assessment and lien in lieu and
instead of such arrearages and to enforce
the payment thereof, and to provide for the
sale of lands subjected to future taxation
and assessment"
And the several supplements thereto.
And you are further notified that you appear
to have an estate or interest in said land and
real estate, and unless the said land and real
estate shall be redeemed, as provided in said
acts, before the expiration of six months from
and after the service hereof. a deed for the
same will be given conveying to The Mayor
and Aldermen of Jersey City the fee simple
Of said land and real estate, according to the
provisions of the said act.
r4 Pste MA Jsrsey A eify =; - Rassm6 Der 4iER Rsst;
F, F. wANsER.
(Seal.) Mayor.
Attest, JOHN E. SCOTT,
City Clerk.