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AN ABSURDITY.

The effort OF any firm to attract
and retain trade, with price 81.
alone as an inducement is GJEsA
ridiculous. IaSsk
Merit must be the corner M#
stone of any lasting bust M
ness success, and it is this STI
quality (quite as much as ~
low price, that makes our TV
youths and children's suits SO popu-
lar.
HACKETT, CARHART
AND COMPANY.
Two Stores:
Broadway and Canal Street
Broadway below Chambers Street.
OPEN THIS EVENING.
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Henry A. Daniels. NJ. D..

"Narketta" T. & W. "Odpna.
The collar The cuff
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OUTGOING STEAMERS.

Vessel For Line Malls close Vessel sails.
La Champagne Havre. Frcnch....... 200 m 500 N
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q
Dtseases OF he Nervous System. Gen.to-U Urinary
rams Impotency and sterilty Hours. to I. to
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SAILED
THE MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.

e,e,mers Niagara New Orleans: Fl Mar New-Orlea
ruc.rna CRr) Dover. for orders Banan iNorp, iuan
namo - Jago and Cienfuegos: Asaua tBr)' Medi'
ranean ports: Chattahoochcc. savannah
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at the same time let the approaching
vessel know o,lr Whereabouts
The words had scarcely passed his
lips when there was a sharp crack Of
fifty rifles, a scream of pain, and the
pirates galley. drifted helplessly from
our sight into the darkness. Our rescue
was nearer than we had supposed. She
proved to be the Alert, a British cruiser
of ten good guns and some half a hun
dred sharpshooters. ..-..% .
She had somehow got word Of our
disaster, and, allowing for wind and
tide, had come fairly close to us, when
the flash of our first voney showed her
where we were. ...--... .....s. r..s...'
But she wasn't bit too soon, for
even If the pirates had not returned
to the attack with increased numbers,
our cable was well-nigh chafed through.
and another fifteen minutes would have
seen our complete destruction.
The brave little woman whose pluck
and presence Of mind had saved us now
put on her fenlininity once more and
promptly tainted. On our e-7iva1 at
Gibraltar, whittier the cruiser towed us,
she was taken down with nervous pros
tration, and it was not until she set
foot on her native shore again that
she fully recovered from the shock OF
her terrible experience.
That was the way In which passed
the New Year Of 1864.
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Some Noted Bachelor Artists.

1t is remarkable fact that the great
er number Of most distinguished paint
e1s have lived and died free from the
thralldom Of HymeD. Take, for exam-
pie, the presidents Of the Royal Acade-
my. Sir Joshua Reynolds was a bache-
lor: Benjamin West, his successor, was
a bachelor; SO was Sir Thomas Law
renee; 50 too, Sir Edward Landseer,
for he, be it remembered, was elected
president and his refusal did not take
effect until thirteen days afterwards;
50, also, Sir Francis Grant, and, as ev-
erybody knows, Sir Frederick Leigh
ton Naclise, too, who was offered the
presidency and Il knighthood and re-
fused both, and no more au,enable to
the idea of marriage. Then Turner,
E+ty, Sir David SWilkle, Sir William
Boxan, Sir w. Gordon and Sir w. C.
Ross, all of them regarded matrimony
with the same aversion as Reynolds,
who, when he heard of F1axman's en-
gagement, exelaimed: Then he's ruin.
ed for an artist" The celibacy Of Ra-
phael and Michael Angelo was to him a
sacred example, as sacred as it is to
the priestho od.-West Gazette
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A FIGHT WITH PIRATES.

January 1, 1864, is oalendared in my
memory SIS the day on which oceLrre<l
the most exciting experience of my adj
venturous life. I was at that time
mate Of the Bertha May, a stanch little
brig of some 16O tons, which had sailed
from Boston mouth before, bound for
Naples, with a general cargo.
Our vessel was commanded by Capt.
John Perry. She carried a crew OF
eight, besides the cook, and there was
on board also the captains wife, a good
looking lass of some 26 summers.
On December % we found ourselves
in q perfect hurricane off the coast of
Spain. When it had -abated we were
minus our bowsprlt and foretop, be-
sides mourning other minor damages
So the captain put into Cadiz for TEN.
porary repairs.
But that was only the beginning OF
our troubles. We had managed, In
picking UP our Boston crew. to get to.
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willing to rescind the opinion that they
should suffer the death penalty In the
second interview ]. 0. Garter stated that
he had urged the ex-queen to accept the
conditions imposed by President Cleve-
land. He had pointed out that the presi-
dent of the United States was powerlcss
to act without her cooperation. Mr..
Carter continued:
'"Then | went on to remark that she
feels unsettled and unsafe with these peo-
pie i'll the country. l am bound to repeat
what her majesty said to me, although
it may not be in accord with my own views
that she feels that these people should
leave the country or peace and good gov
eminent cannot prevail. She thinks any
third attempt at revolution on the part
of these people would be very destructive
to life and property; that her people have
stood about all they can stand of this in
reference with what they consider her
rights. I have gone into the matter of
the constitution with her, because l know
our views are not as fully in accord as
majesty that think that she can safely
put her cause into the hands of the presi-
dent Of the United States and say to him
I will follow it,
Then turning to the ex-queen Mr.. Car
with this statement I have made? Is it
revolutionists she added: '"Their property
should be confscated to the government
and they should not be permitted to re-
main in the kingdom, Minister Willis
structions that he should cease I'LL in
reference in her behalf if she refused
assent to. the condition of absolute am
nesty. He stated that he understood
that you are of the opinion that under
the state of things which existed. at the
of no n
there could be no permanent peace in the
islands,"
On the same day that the above inter-
view was held Minister Willis received
closed Liliuolzalani's pledge to grant am
nesty which has been already published:
''Since / had the interview with you
this morning l have been in most careful
and conscientious thought as to my duty,
and l now, of my own free will, give my
any of my people. If I am restored by
the United States must forget myself
and remember only my dear people and
my country. I must forgive and forget
the past, permitting no punishment OF
any one but. trusting that all will here,
after work in peace and friendship fol
the good and glory of our beautiful and
once happy land. Asking you to bear tC
the president and to the government he
represents message of gratitude iron
me and from my people ana promising
with Gods grace to prove worthy of the
confidence and friendship Of your people
] am. etc, -Liliuokalani.
In his dispatch dated Dec. 20 Minister
Willis reports his announcement to the
provisional government of the decision by
President Cleveland against their RICH
to exist His speech on that occasion wa
published by the Associated Press upol
the arrival of the Warrimoo at Nancouve
early i'll the week.
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Transient Islands of the Pacific

Transient Islands Of the Pacific
The western Pacific is a great place
For islands that emerge from waves IN
expectedly and as suddenly disappear.
Sometimes they come up an stay, but
more often they have an existence
merely temporary. The wondering skip
per misses a familiar landmark, by
which he has been accustomed to get
his bearings. and perhaps the next day
he runs his vessels nose upon brand
new piece of territory that has sprung
up out Of the water since he last came
that way: The region south Of Japan
Is 50 given to this sort Of eocentricity
that ships avoid it. Volcanic action is
responsible for such phenomena. Re-
ports of them will be noted on the pi-
lot chart in every case, though they are
not always reliable, because backs Of
sleeping whales and schools Of fislres
running along the surface are frequent
" mistaken for islands and shoals
San francisco Examiner.
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Another Kind of AIedusa.

Most people have heard OF the
Gorgon Medusa, a sight of whose face
and snaky locks turned mcn to stone,
but comparatively few inlanders
know anything Of a fish of the same
name which is often seen along the
sea coast. 1t is shaped like mush-
room. except the stem is divided into
o number OF snaky tentacles, covered
by thousands Of suckers. The body
of the. medusa is sOmtimes quite
small, and sometimes yard in
diameter. Sometimes it is clear as
crystal, and sometimes beautifully
colored, but SO fragile that when
washed ashore it melts in the sun
aim lost like a soap bubble. During
their life these creatures swim along
the surface of the sea in vast num-
bers, but when anything touches
them they fold themselves like UNI
breAas and sink out of sight. The
tentacles are SO poisonous that the
strongest men become paralyzed
when touched by them. and it is be-
loved that many so called drowning
accidents are due to their attacks.
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SPEAKER cRIsP's BEST BOWEL

His Boyish-LOOking SON AN Immense
Help to the Presiding Officer.
When Speaker Crisp occupies the
chair in the house Of representatives
his son Charles stands always at his
right hand. The young mans official
title is speakers clerk" and the du-
ties Of his position are Of peculiar
nature Any one who has occasion to
deal with the father soon finds out
how much dependence he places on his
son. 1t is also easy to see that the
speaker is devoted to the slim, boyish
clerk who Is his memory, his prompter,
his congressional directory and his daily
programme rolled into one. There is
40 young man in this country to-day
who holds a more Important and ardu-
Gus position than young Charles Crisp.
He looks like a school boy. so young
and fresh is his face. don't know
when or for what reason this Office was
created, says writer in Kate Fields
Washington, but in the way young
Crisp fills it 1t has come to be an i'm
portant one, not only to the speaker
himself, but to the whole house.
When the house is called TO order he
appears at his fathers right hand. The
! speaker doesn't need q lot Of memoran-
da; his son takes their place. The
business for the day has been laid out
by the committee on rules and the
speaker. Charlie Crisp has seen the
chairman Of the committee or his clerk
and has the programme in his memory.
He knows just what business has been
arranged for the daily session and In
just what order all bills are to be taken
up He also knows which members are
to be recognized to introduce bills, and
every man who is to speak on every
measure to be discussed He knows in
what order it has been arranged to
recognize them and he keeps his father
appraised of the order. Young Mr.. Crisp
IS the one person in the house who
knows the name of every member
When the new ones come 1n he studies
" them up till he has them all In his head
He knows what committees they arc
assigned to and frequently the subcom
mittees as we'll. 1t is one Of his duties
to be ready to prompt the speake,
with names Of members, for in the rusl
Of business confusion reigns around tht
speakers chair very frequently, but thu
speakers clerk always preserves hi
serenity.
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A. traveller in the Himalayan noun
cain region has discovered that the
natives of that country cultivate a
grain hitherto unknown in civilized
agricultural operations, which has
something the look of wheat but has
very much longer ears, and which
has q peculiar inward curve. The
shiny, brown grain. unlike wheat,
is, on the other hand, much smaller
than wheat grains should be for so
large all ear. But the interest is
that a cereal OF this character should
yield such heavy crops in SO high an
altitude, where the seasons are neoes-
sarily short and the temperature
low. The natives call the grain
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-01-18
FOUND AN EASY ONE.
The Bunco Man saw That He Had too
Many Names to Tackle.

The Bunco Man saw That He Had too
Many Names to Tackle.
'Isn't this my old friend, Gabriel
Comstock, of Franklin Furnace?" said
the smiling young man approaching
the stranger and extending his hand.
Ono SIR replied the stranger.
.'My name is Thomas Easley, and
I'm from Wheelersburg.
81 beg your pardon" rejoined the
other politely, "but the resemblance
is SO extraordinary, that thought
could not be mistaken -.
That's all right. There's no
harm DONE" said the stranger, pass
ing on.
A few minutes later he was &C.
costed by another smiling young man
who met him at q street corner and
stopped in great apparent astonish-
ment
''Why, how are you Tom? Bless
me who would have thought of see-
| ing you hereP"
Guess you're mistaken, young
fellow"
*'Mistakene Not much! I'd know
you mile off. You're Thomas Eas-
ley of Wheelersburg. Used to call
you Tom when we were boys to-
| geth--''
mo you don't My name isn't
Easley and I don't know where
Wheelersburg is.
you're not Tom Easley?"
mo. sir. I never heard of Tom
Easley. My name is Absalom Rein,
hart. and live in Greenup.
The smiling young man withdrew
in evident perplexity.
"Must have got switched off on
some other fellow" he muttered, as
he turned another corner. ssBut it's
all right. Mr.. Reinhart will do just
as we'll"
Meantime the stranger pursued
his way leisurely down the street,
and five minutes later he was con-
fronted by third young man with
an engaging smile
''Hello! Why, this is my old friend,
Absalom Reinhart How are you
Alb? How are things in Greenup?"
Il don't know you, sir. My name
is not Absalom Reinhart, and don't
know anything about Greenup
Never heard of it in my life"
Say, who are you, anyhow"
The stranger handed him his card
1t bore the following inscriptions
EVANGELIST,
| REFORMED CONFIDENCE MAN
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His Last Night u Merry One.

St. Louis, Jan. 13.-Sam Welsor, the
murderer of Clementine Manning, spent
last night in eating oysters, drinking
beer and talking with the two deputy
sheriffs who formed the death watch.
He was escorted to the scaffold, and
when asked if he had anything to say,
he simply replied, without tremor:
"Go ahead" The drop fell and his neck
was broken. In twelve minutes the body
was cut down and prepared for burial.
After the execution Of Welsor his body
was taken to the morgue,. where an au.
tcpsy was performed, five surgeons be-
ing present The condition of the brain
was found to be such as to lead two OF
the surgeons to believe and state posi-.
lively that the man must have been
insane. The others took neutral ground.
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<'The Portuguese Had Crept Silently
up Behind the Captnin.'
firmly, and the brig was brought up
with such q jerk that we were all
thrown to the deck.
The wreckcrs on the shore were get
ting impatient, and a number Of them
had hauled loag boat from some hid
den, cave in the cliff. Another soon fol-
lowed, and both were rapidly manned
Each Ritfian was armed to the teeth,
and little r,ercy might be expected
from them if we should fall into Their
clutches
"Stand back there yelled the cap
tain, suddenly. ,-.. r.. : 80 -
We turned to- find him leveling his
musket at som ething to the forechains.
Happening to glance forward he had
discovered the Portuguese fellow ell
| deavoring stealthily to cast off the
board end of our cable, so us to send
us on the rocks.
The rascal saw that he was covered
| By the captains gun and sneaked scowl
ingly into the forecastle. The old crew
/ were now called aft and detailed to
stand guard, two near the windlass
and two beside the long boat
During this interval our eyes had
been turned from the shore, and when
we looked again the two boats were
well under way. Sweeps were got out
two on each side, and manned by great
muscular barbarians.
Fortunately for us, their clumsy fire
arms and the tossing Of their galley
made it almost useless for them to at
tempt to do us injury at any distance
So we thought 1t wise to wait unit
they came well within range, when, a
the shippers command, Jennie fired.
It was splendid shot. The foremos
boat waved visibly and skipped {
heavy wave. One of. the oarsmen drop
ped his oar as though the handle Of /
was live coal.
Nevertheless, they quickly recovered
and came on again, whereupon the cap
tain and put the contents Of our wea
pons at their disposal. AS far us ",
could see, however, little damage wa
done by either Of us, yet it suficed t
make them change their tactics. Th
hindmost boat now started on detou
to take us on the opposite side.
'This won't do, Tom,' said the car
tain. We've got no powder to waste
we must wait until they get closer still
Jennie you had better go below"
: But the lass had tasted the intoxiea1
ing spirit Of adventure, and insiste
upon remaining on deck, 50 we stowe
ourselves behind the bulwarks an
: waited
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HOGS, Cattle and Corn.

Chicago, Jan. 13.-Mallory, Son Il Zim-
norman company have issued their jan
urry crop report on hogs, cattle and
corn. The summary of the states of
Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota,
Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Indiana, Michigan and Ohio indicates 10
per cent less old hogs to be marketed
the first quarter of 1894 compared with
the last quarter Of 1898. In the same
states these reports show an increase of
3 per cent of pigs for spring and sum-
mel market compared with 1898, 8 per
cent less cattle for the first half Of 1894
and 8 per cent more corn on hand now
than at the same time last year.
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vers who ever put out from Salec.
There were stories of yachts bccalmed,
and disabled ships which had escaped
these savages only by a miracle.
The Riffs, as this portion of the Mo-.
rocco coast is called, extends from
Tangier on the west to near the west
ern frontier of Algiers, having u length
of 21O miles.
50 great at one time were the injuries
inflicted by the Rittians on passing
merchant vessels that most Of the mari
time States pa:d an annual sum that
they might go unmolested Austria
and Spain declared war against the
Sultan Of Morocco, and succeeded in
obtaining compensation for losses.
The Sultans authority in the Riff re-
gion was not strong, however, and pi-
ratical depredations still continued.
What prize would be our brig, drift
ing surely into their clutches and half
manned with fellows as villainous as
themselves, and willing to share the
spoil. --. ~ -.
For nearly an hour we had been
pitching and rolling and drifting, until
now we could discern through the dark
ness the breakers tossing their white
foam not more than quarter of a
mile away, and besides them the
threatening cliffs. -,'..-
Let go the dragv' yelled the cap
tain, and the anchor shot over the. bow,
but at full cable length, and failed to
touch bottom. by George!" he ex-
claimed, 1--WE been in tough places be-
fore, but this beats them all. We're q
goner, sure" -
Nearer and nearer we drifted, with
nothing but the chance Of our anchor
gripping between us and death. Pres
emily the captain, pointing shortward,
shouted: "Look there!'
The moon shining out for moment
between the scudding clouds, revealed
the shore swarming with Riff savages,
eagerly awaiting our destruction.
'Tom," said he, run below and see
| what you can raise in the way of fire.
arms. and bring them on deck at once. u
Little" use, I'm agraid, sir, against
| these rocks"
"Wel1, there's bare chance Of our
anchor biting yet, and, besides, DOM
like the looks of that knot of fellows
forward there. There's only one boat
aboard that's good for anything in sucI
a sea AS this, and we must at all haz
ards prevent those scoundrels from
taking it,
went be1ow,and rummaging around
I found couple Of old muskets and q
fowling piece. These, with suficien
ammunition for dozen rounds apiece
I carried on deck. had awakened the
captains wife while below, and she fol
lowed me up.
"Oh, john she cried, when she saw
the threatening rocks toward which W.
We're rapidly drifting, this is terrible
terrible!
Cheer up, lass, we must hope TO
the best. Here, you take this, Jennie,
said the husband, offering her the fowl
ing piece, "You have done well with !
against sea birds, now try it on SCI
savages.'
She hesitated.
NAY, lass!'' he continued, somewha
sternly, there's no place here for VIC
manly scruples; when the time come
you must shoot, and shoot to kill. TAX
it, say!'
With an effort she controlled herse1
and accepted the lighter weapon, Will
he and took each a musket.
OF sudden the anchor bit and hel
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Child ltnrDed.

La Grange. KY, Jan. 13.-Ben Bryson,
who lives near Westport, came here and
related horrible story to Detective Hit.
He claims that after short absence he
returned home yesterday and found his
wife, who had been confined only six
days ago. missing. He instituted u search
and found the baby in the stove, cooked
to q crisp. Brysou claims the woman
eloped with James Evans, Snowman,
and says the last seen Of them was at
Tweiye-,nile island, making their way fox
Louisville
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Artillery During tho Crusa des.

8 --..One .ofsmy ancestors won a battle
during the crusades by his skill in
handling his artillery" said the
baron. But my doar baron" said
his friend, ''at the time of the cru
sades gunpowder had not yet been
discovered" II know that as we'll
as you do. and SO did my ancestor
..How did he win the battle then?''
''He brought his artillery to bear on
the Saracens, and the stupid fools,
seeing the guns. supposed that pow
der had been discovered and fed in
dismay. Texas Siftings.
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India's Population.

The census of India just published,
gives the population as 287, 900, 600,
about one-fifth of the entire popula-
tion Of the earth. Nearly three
fourths of the inhabitants are en-
gagged in agriculture. The birth
rate is higher than that of any Eu-
ropean country. except Russia,
reaching forty-eight in thousand,
and the death rate forty-one per
thousand. About twenty-six per
cent of the children born die during
their first year,