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Moving Big Libraries.

As the new public library building
in Copley Square nears completion
the question of how the 70O,ooo vol
umes composing the library shall be
moved from the old structure to the
new one becomes most perplexlng
one. When the removal is made tne
library will have to be closed, per-
haps, for two months.
If books were bricks the problem
would not be 80 difficult, but they
cannot be thrown into cart at one
end and dumped out in heap at the
other. First they must all be cleaned.
No one has any conception of the dust
on books that are not in constant use.
After they are cleaned they VII!
probably be put into boxes the size OF
the shelves (eight to ten feet on the
average) and all properly labeled so as
to avoid confusion. Then they are TO
be transported to the new building
unloaded, and put on the shelves IN
exact order. -
Moving a library is not an every
day affair, snd there are hardly any
precedents, not even one really prac-
ticsble precedent to go by. The
nearest precedent in respect OF size
was the moving of the great royal li-
brary at Berlin a good many years
ago. The library contained S0o,OOo
volumes and was moved in twenty
four hours by regiment of soldiers,
who carried the books, shelf by shelf
to the new building, marching in files,
keeping step to music by the regi-
mental band, all with military pre-.
cision. ALI the books as they stand
will be placed on the new shelves IN
exactly the same, corresponding posi-
ton, otherwise the library would have
to be recatslogued This would be
practi cally an impossible task, and
would be too costly besides. The Har-
ward library, containing about halt as
many volumes as the Boston Public
Library, began to recatslogue its
books in 1861, and the work wss fin.
ished only about five years ago. That
is to say, recataloging the Boston Pub
lie Library would take about nifty
years. s.-Boston Transcript.
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FFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
The Senate.

4lsr DAY.-The Vice-President came to the
rescue OF the Oklahoma Town Site bill, and
by his vote broke the tie and passed the bill
compelling the Rock Island Railroad Com
pany to stop its trains at the new towns OF
Enid and Round Pond. PETERS amend
ment providing for woman suffrage was de-
feated.--A bill was presented BY MIR. Hoar,
''To prevent lott ! practice" through the
National and fore. N mail service.
42p DAY.-A resolution was adopted call
ing on the President for the Dole letter.
The Senate spent the remainder OF the day
in executive session, discussing the Peck
ham nomination.
49p DAY.-Minister Willis's reply to Mr..
Dole's specifications OF alleged unfriendly
acts was sent in.-.Mr. Daniel spoke against
Hawaiian annexation Cleve-
land nominated Senator White, Of Louisiana,
to be Associate Justice ofthe Supreme Court,
and he was promptly confirmed.
44rH DAY-Mr. Daniel finished his speech
in opposition to Hawaiian annexation.
The House.
SD DAY.-The debate on the Bland seig-
niorage bill was continued.
SD DAY.-The day was devoted to an un-
successful effort to secure quorum to vote
for ending debate on the Bland bill.
54rH DAY.-The debate on the Bland seign-
orage bill was continued.
55TH DAY.-The House spent the day in
routine work and trying to get quorum on
BANDS seigniorage bill. Minister Willis's
answer to the reply of President Dole OF
Hawaii Vas sent III.
56rH DAY.-The day was spent in fruit
less effort to secure a quorum to vote on
the Bland bill.
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HELD UP THE COURT.
Daring Escape OF Prisoner Who
Was Arraigned In Buffalo.

Daring Escape OF Prisoner Who
Was Arraigned In Buffalo.
Leroy Harris, lame man with gun. held
up United States Commissioner, a United
States District Attorney, two Deputy United
States Marshals and two Postoflce Inspec-
tors In the United States Court in the Post
Office Building at Buffalo, n. y, walked out
of the room. locked the door behind him,
imprisoning the officials, and, limping tothe
elevator, coolly rode down to the street ana
made his escape.
It was Harris's plan to enter q postoffice
and represent himself as an inspector and
steal blank postoface orders, department en-
yelopes, and the form Of advices used by
postmasters to notify eath other OF the issue
OF postofice money orders. He was once a
clerk in the New York Postoff1ce, and had
sufficient familiarity with the workings OF
the money order department to enable MIN
to operate successfully.
The Commissioner read the complaint
against Harris, which charged him with
forging the name Of William d. Clark to a
money order for 3100, sent from Buffalo, and
cashed at Valparaiso, Ind. Then he turned
to the prisoner, whose handouts had been
taken off to administer the oath preparatory
10 hearing his testimony.
'.Hold up your hand" said the venerable
Commissioner
Hold up both of yours" was tine quick
reply, and Harris sprang to the door, put
his back against it, and covered the little
group with his revolver.
Deputy United States Marshal Watts:
Commissioner Fairchild and District After
ney Mackey. each with a revolver IN MS
pocket, threw up their hands:
"Keep them up or I'll fire.! SAID Hsrrls'
vojver. He then opened the door and coolly
Iocted II on the outside. leaving his victims
imnrisonsd. He was afterwsrd captured IN
Canada and returned without extraction
proceedings.
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RIOTS AND A PANIC,
Mob Of Anarchists Clamor at Bos'
toms State House.

Mob OF Anarchists CldmOr aC ooSs
toms State House.
About 1000 persons gathered on the Com.
mons, Boston, Mass, to listen to addresses
bv Morrison I. Swift, Herbert N. Casson and
other rSocialist-Anarchists, as they call them
selves. !,
After hearing the speeches the crowd
marched to the State House, where swift ana
Casson were made delegation to visit Gov
ernor Greenhalge.
They demanded, as they themselves put 1t,
that employment should be given 10 tne
crowd which they led.
The Governor intimated to Swift and Cas-
son that he would do all in his power to help
the unemployed, and that he had no doubt
the LEGISLATURE would do something for the
men. He consented TO come out and ADDRESS
the crowd. He said to the people that per-
sonally he would do all he could and that ne
would recommend action by the Legislature
After this Swift and Casson. followed by u
crowd Of unemployed, went up to lay their
petition. On their return Smith mace a
speech in Doric Hall. threatening the Gov
enment and Legislature. :.
Chief Wade, OF the district police, inmed1-
atelv telephoned to the Police Headquarters
for fifty patrolmen. and they started at once
for the scene. This was at $50 p. m.
Governor U[etuudlSo SoSSOh
Swift directly after Swift's speech IN the
Governors chamber. He told Swift the lat
ter's speech was utterly improper and oo-
noxious. The Governor said that lntlmlda-
tion would not be tolerated.
While the mob was surGing back Snd 1ortn
in the rotunda after CaSson's speech Gov
ernor Greenhalge came out OF the Executive
Chamber and went down upon the moor
among the crowd. He addressed some OF
| the leaders and reminded them that TINS was
| the State OF Massachusetts,, and that II the
demonstration continued the law would oe
enforced and the crowd would be dealt with
| AS q mob. His remarks were treated VIII
respect and had q quieting effect.
Meanwhile Doric He'll was jammed, mui-
titude pressing into every nook and corner
| of the building. Kisses, mingled with cneers,
were heard everywhere.
There were shouts Of, "Down with cap
ital xiii the police" at the capitol.
The legislators themselves were rusnlng
| about everywhere. although the proceedings
| Of the Legislature still continued. Every
| thing portended trouble.
The force OF police was sent from the Vari.
Gus downtown precincts and BY the aid OF
the patrol wagons arrived in time.
The police were in charge OF Lieutenant
Donovan. OF Headquarters. He reported 10
Sergeant-at-Arms Adams and Chief Wade, Oh
the State police. and after short consuta-
ton the finest of Boston took action.
At4 o'clock the crowd at the State House
had been driven back upon the Common and
order restored about the gilded dome.
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The Lowest Depression.

Mr.. Momson'is reported to have said
that the bottom of the valley Is the
lowest depression on the earth's sur
face. This is not strictly correct. The
lowest levels obtained in Deaths VAL
lev are about 430 feet below the sea,
whereas the surface of the Dead Sea In
Palestine is 1900 feet below. But the
hole which goes by the name of Death
Valley is pretty deep. The crust OF the
earth throughout the valley OF San
Bernandino and Inyo Counties must
be very thin. The travellers feet are
separated from the internal body OF
everlasting fire by slim sheet OF earth
and rock, which would offer but slight
resistance to seismic force. A few
miles distant from Death Valley there
is region which may be surveyed by
the eye, and which contains thou
sand active volcanoes-small of their
kind, to be sure, baby volcanoes, so to
speak, but still actively engaged IN
throwing up mud and water. And not
many miles away is the range OF gran
ite mountains, among which Mount
Whitney rears its head through the
clouds solid masses of primeval rock
which must have worn the shape In
which we see them now when the plain
at their feet was a seething, raging
csldron in which fire and water con-
tended for the mastery. a, II =
To see such marvels of nature people
cross oceans, spend fortunes and carry
their lives in their hand. Neither
Mauna Loa nor Hecia offers such Won
ders to the beholder as Death Valley
and the Colorado Desert. In January
and February the heat in the valley Is
bearable-not over ninety degrees IN
the shade. Excursion parties might
be fitted out with supplies of food and
water and in few days the visitors
might see enough to realize what the
world was like in the Plutonic age.
The contrast between the pleasant val
levs of the rivers, with their fruit trees
bursting into blossom, and these dread
full deserts, with their awful chasms
and their hideous inhabitants, would
be a thing not easily forgotten.--San
Francisco Call.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

PAR1s has 5000 union women.
TURKEY has only had two strikes.
Bosros has cooperative union.
PARIS has 700, 900 working women.
DETROIT teamsters get S1.S0 day.
THERE are AZ 500 union bricklayers.
OHIO has State employment bureaus.
SpR1NaFrELD, Ohio, has girl molders.
ITALY has III, 900 women silk workers.
NEW YORK has 5000 idle granite cutters.
CLEVELAND (Ohio) policemen get $1,000 a
year.
THERE are few apprentices in the painters
trade.
EIGHT hours rules in Indianapolis building
trades.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Is to have q labor
temple.
ARMOUR, the Chicago packer, employs 49,
900 men.
In Russia factory hands work from a. m.
to 8p. m.
OVER ninety per cent. Of Tennessee labor
Is native born.
ALL Pennsylvania Railroad employees must
get vaccinated.
A CAMEL owner and his beast In Palestine
are WOrtn Sl d uhy.
NINETY per cent. Of the milling capacity OF
the Northwest Is idle.
A WooSsocKEr (R. ~ firm has suspended
rents during the shut down.
TIE Metropolitan Police Commissioner Of
London employs 1908 men.
RAILROAD clerks In Germany are paid an
average Of flfty-two cents day.
GRAND MASTER WORKMAN SOVEREIGN, OF
the X. of L., Is on lecturiny tour.
A ROLLER mill was moved bodily from
Brown City, Mich, to Richmond.
DENT, ALLoaoFT & Co.. London glove man
ufacturers, employ $1,000 people.
PHILADELPHIA elassworkers are giving ten
per cent. oftheir salaries to aid the strikers
In the West.
PLANTERS Of the Lower Mississippi Valley
will import German labor to supplant the
colored hands.
The Smyrna porter eats only little fruit
and some olives, yet he carries with ease MS
load of 200 pounds.
TIE Salt Lake CUtsh) Relief Committee
gives dollars worth OF provisions TO every
head Of family who works day.
The Spanish peasant works every day and
dances half the night, and yet eats only DIS
black bread, onion and watermelon.
NEW HAvES's hardware factory. the largest
in Connecticut, is now running only an hour
a day below its usual winter schedule.
DENVER (Col.) unions are after clergy
man who pays bricklsyers 81 day. but COM
pels them to donate $2.75 q day to the
church.
The Textile World says that 172 new mills,
employing 1850 people, were starred in
1898, against 272 mills, employing $4,000
people, In 1892.
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All that He Wanted.

What do you want?" she asked OF
the tramp who had made his way
around to the kitchen door.
"Nothin' much, ma'am," he replied,
with a politeness that awakened ner
suspicion.
aMoney, suppose. We don't give
tramps money"
aNo'm. l don't want no money"
"Well, we have no victuals, except
for dinner, and they amt done yet. ;"
Il don't even ask for none OF yer
dinner, ma'am. AL l want is some
dry bread: jes' dry bread"
She was touched.
"Poor man" she exclaimed. Here,
III give you a piece of pie, anyhow. "
Nom. l druther hev the dry
bread
"Do you like it,"
"No, but you see me an the rest
OF the boys hez hustled aroun' TILL
we've got a turkey, an some celery,
an some cranberry sauce, an some
plum puddin', an all we want now Is
jes' the dry bread ter make the stuff
in of for a picnic. ."-Washington
Star.
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DOLE TO MINISTER WILLIS.
The Hawaiian Provisional Govern
ment's Burden Of Complaint.

The steamer Alameda arrived at San Fran
cisco, CAL, with Honolulu advices up to F, =
ruary 8. On the evening Of February Scn
important meeting was held by the Annexa-
ton Club, which was largely attended by in
duential citizens.
The business OF the meeting was to act
upon this resolution:
Resolved. That it is the opinion OF the
officers and Executive Committee that rep
resentative form Of government be estao-
lished as soon as possible, after II IS ascer-
tanned that the present Congress vii! take no
definite action toward annexation.
Dole's ''letter otspeciications" OF January
II was published in Honolulu on the6th inst.
The President is confident OF amicaoie reia-
tions with the American Minister.
In his letter to Willis Dole says: 81 have
made no charges against the President OF
the United States or its representatives. On
the contrary, in order that there might De no
misapprehension concerning the matter, 1
specifically stated to you IN my communica-
Iion of the 9th ultimo that do not claim or
intimate that this unfortunate situation mas
been intentionally created by yor. or the
Government you represent.
"Some OF the words and actions OF the
United States and its representatives IN TINS
connection, and the conditions and clrcurn-
stances attendant thereon, from which Es
intentions and attitude toward the Provl'
sional Government must be inferred, are:
"a treaty Of annexation had been neGotl-
ated between the Provisional Government
and the United States Government and pre-
sente1 to the Senate for ratification.
This treaty was Withdrawn by President
Cleveland Immediately upon his entering
office without prior notice 10 this Govern
ment or its representatives OF his intention TO
do so, or Of his reasons fo- such action.
II must also submit that an official COM
municaton from the Chief OF the Depart
ment OF State to the President, IN
which he charges the Government and
its officers with conspiracy. weakness.
timidity and fraud, and recommends
its subversion. which letter is officially
furnished to and published by the pup
lie press, without any Information
concerning the same being afforded
to this Government. is nota domestic trans
action, ard is pre-. eninently proper sub
iect Tor inquiry on the part of this Govern
ment, as to the intentions Of your Govern
ment concerning the subject matter.
Mr.. Dole. in q most prolific manner, then
goes over the whole Hawaiian controversy
again, but does not ''pitcn into Uncle San"
as previous dispatches had stated he might
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JOSEPH KEPPLER DEAD.
The Man Who Brought ssPuck" Into
Prominence Passes Away.

Joseph Keppler, one Of the founders OF
Puck, died suddenly at his home in New
York City. From the very start Of the
pioneer humorous lithographic weekly Dir.
Keppler's cartoons have been dominant in
its pages.
Some o. the most notable OF the political
and social pictorial arguments and satres
IN Puck have been his. He was a great ally
and admirer OF Grover Clevelsnd, and a
portrait drawn by him soon after the Presi-
dents first Inauguration was his masterpiece
IN por;rsiture.
Death was caused by spinal trouble. He
leaves a widow and three children. Mr..
Keppler was born in Vienna Oh February l.,
1898
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

EDISON Is an Ohio man, aged forty-six.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY Is a Cork man, born II
1880.
CHRISTIAN L, of Denmark, was over seven
feet tall.
ALL the grandsons Of Charles Dickens
bear the name OF Charles.
EmpsRoR WILLIAM OF Germany, has indi-
Gated desire to visit the United States.
CR1spr, the Italian Bismarck, Is worth S1,-
900, 900, amassed in politics and In thelaw.
SENATOR PERKINS, OF California, was a
whale fisher in his early days before he went
TO California.
IT Is authorItatively stated In Philadelphia
that the value Of George W. Childs's estate
will be little over 81, 100000.
MAYOR HOPKINS, of Chicago, has volun-
tarily given up ten per cent. OF bis salary 70
be turned into the city poor fund.
The Gar Of Russia has an income Of S12,-
00O, 900 year, derived from his own estates.
He receives no salary from the Government
SENATOR BUTLER Is the youngest presiding
officer Of the Massachusetts, Senate that BODY
has had for many years. He Is only thirty
two years old.
HENRY H. FAxoS, of the Quincy CMass. }
police force, is millionaire. He serves with
out pay, and devotes his energies to enforc-
ing the liquor laws.
PROFESSOR BARNARD, of the Lick Obsera-
tory. has been awarded the Arago medal by
the French Academy OF Science for discover
Ing Jupiter's fifth satellite.
The remains of Miss Constance Fenimore
Woolson lie in o Protestant cemetery In
Rome. Her grave is onlv shortly removed
from that OF the poet Shelley.
The Crown Prince of Siam Is among the
boy authors OF the world he has written
several stories for English children's maSa-
zines and can write nuently In three
European languages.
BRET HARrE, although past fifty and In
poor health, Is very handsome man. His
face retains an appearance OF youth, while
his hair is silvery white. He has slender
figure and an erect carriage.
GRAND DUKE GEORGE OF RUSSIA is dying
with consumption, a disease hereditary,
In the Romanoff family. The Cars brother
Nicholas. heir to the Russian throne, died
with 1t at the age oftwenty-ave.
THE companions Of MARK Twain's" boy
hood In Monroe County, Missouri, cannot
understand Marks popularity. They say he
was the dullest boy in the county school. AMI
the LATEST one in the neighborhood.
". D. HowELLs recently made one Of his
semi-annual visits 10 his fathers home in
Jefferson. Ohio. J. D. Howells, editor OF the
Ashtabula Sentinel, his brother. his sister,
an invalid brother and his father still live IN
the old homestead.
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ESTHER CHRISTENED.

Presidents Younger Daughter the
Principal in Pretty Ceremony.
There was pretty little ceremony in the
Blue Parlor Of the Executive Mansion, WASH
ington, when, in tine presence OF the Presi-
dent, Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. Perrin, DR.. Bry-
ant and q very few intimats friends, the
younger child Of the President was christ
ened as Esther Cleveland by the Rev. DR..
Sunderland.
The baby was five months and nine days
OF age, and stood the ordeal without crying
or fright Mrs. Perrins, who is bIrs. Cleve-
lands mother left Washington for her homo
In Buffalo after the ceremony.
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Foreign.

A FOREIGN Anarchist was blown up at
Greenwich, England, by an explosive with
which, it is supposed, he intended to wreck
the Observatory; the bomb-outrage by
Emile Henry at the Hotel Terminus, Paris,
Is said to have been part Of vast Anarchist
plot.
ADMIRAL BENHAM promptly made Brazil
Ian rebel captain at Rio apologize for firing
on q launch from the United States cruiser
Newark.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, OF Germany, caused q.
profound sensation at 8 state dinner In Ber-
lin by saying impressively ''If thetreaty is
rejected by US we may look for war with
Russia within three months"
TIE hurricane that passed over Northern
Germany a few days ago wrecked the school,
house at Fuckers, q little village in Pomer-
ania, and number Of children were buried
in the ruins. Seven lave been killed and
twenty injured.
The American Liner Paris returned to
Queenstown, Ireland, her rudder having be-
come disabled when she was about 800 miles
out from Southampton the steamer Is un1n-
iured.
TwESTy-oNE lives we're lost in Germany
during the recent storms.
YELLOW fever Is increasing at Rio, Brazil.
All the American warships, except the New
York. are to be stationed outside the harbor,
within easy call.
PORTUGAL is too poor to pay her debts to
the French, and is in danger Of falling into
the hands Of Spain. The French Minister
has been recalled pending an adjustment OF
the relations of the two countries.
A MEETING in Trafalgar Square, London,
adopted a resolution for the abolition Of the
British House of Lords, three Members OF
Parliament spoke.
TRADE in Paris Is crippled by the Anarchist
scare, and the hotels are deserted.
The closing ceremony in Rome of the cel-
ebration o: Pope Leo kills jubilee year
was witnessed by so. 900 people. The Pope's
physicians say he is much better.
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THERE are few boys who will not feel
sorry to hear of the death OF R. NJ. Ballan-
tyne. He wrote his first story for boys in
164S, when he was twenty-three years OF
age. and after he had been for six years
resident OF the Hudson Bay Company's ter
ritories. Before he exhausted that field he
travelled extensively in other countries, 80
that his numerous stories cover great part
Of the world.
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PLANTING BOMBS.

Scheme Of Property Owners to Pre-
vent Railroad Building.
b. NJ. Flagler. owner OF the Royal
Ponciana Hotel. Oh Lake Worth, Florida, Is
building a railroad to the hotel, cutting
through many Of the prettiest places on the
Indian River. =,
Tsirty of the properly owners, 1t is said,
have placed dynamite along the proposed
route of the railway through their Lands.
The bombs are placed so that they will ex-
plode at the stroke of the spade.
James Holmes, q banker, of Jansen, Fla;
and j. V. Wooten, tax collector, OF Brevard
County, have been arrested for compAclty Ia
tho dynamite plot.
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Washington.

CLAIMS for sugar bounty thus far aggregate
IS, 900.
SENATOR McLAURrN, of Mississippi, has
been sworn in to succeed Mr.. Walrhall.
TIE annual report OF the Director OF the
Bureau OF American Republics has been sent
to Congress.
The first half of February showed deficit
OF $4,000, 900 in Treasury receipts.
The new River and Harbor bill carries an
appropriation OF 81, 800 900.
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THE Mayor of Rochester, N. Y, has sent
teams with wagons through the city for the
purpose Of collecting secondhand clothing
and other material that can be used for the
relief of the unemployed.
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FRANK mussEs, young man 81 Lancaster,
Penn, who year ago had an arm torn or
by a broken cable Of the Lancaster Traction
Company, has been awarded $40, 500 dam
ages By arb!trators.