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Chemist and botanist, is "a phrase
that forms part of a sign of druggist
here and there about town. The word
''botanistr as :hus used indicates that
the druggist deals in herbs and roots.
the '-simples~ of an earlier day. There
are wholesale drug houses that make a
speciality of medicinal herbs and the
demand for them is large. though per
haps not increasing. Many of these
have a recognized place in the materia
mcdica of the schools, but many 9TH
ers are old women's rcmedics, the cure
alls of herb doctors. and even the in
gradients of philters described by for
tune tellers, astrologists and the like.
One herb doctor and clairvoyant ha;
nearly two hundred and fifty prescrip
tions a week compounded by the drug
gists that are also ''botanists." Al
sorts of odd prescriptions of roots anC
herbs are sent in 10 the botanists by
every species Of quaek, great or humble
There are few common herbs that arr
constantly called for. and there are
elaborate prescriptions handed down by
tradition and known TO a few families
Doubtless traces of voOdooism could be
discovered among the prescriptions OF
the botanists. Many of the herbs pre-
scribed by all sorts of irregular practi
TONERS contain the active principles o1
well-rccognized drugs.-N. Y. sun.
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MOQUI SNAKE DANCE.
The Weird Performance of a Tribe of ArI-
IONA Indians.

The Weird Performance of "A Tribe of ArI-
IONA Indians.
Il was the first man to penetrate the
mysteries of the snake dance" said
Capt. L. J. johnson the ofher day.
The snake dance is a religious ccre-
mony. The Moquis believe the snakes
and toads are the gods of the rains and
clouds and brooks and wells, and wor-
ship them on that account. They have
a secret order among themselves like
the masons. They include the Order of
the Bear. the Order of the Wolf. the Or
der of the Coyote. and finally the Order
of the Snaks, which is a sort of thirty
third degree among them. All the par
Elephants in these rites are bucks and
they array themselves in the most fan
tastic costumes Imaginable. Their legs
are decorated with rattles made of turtle
shells and each warrior is armed with
two or three immense snakes. These
wind around the arms and necks of the
dancers, and many of the men hold the
snakes in their teeth with their heads
darting about in the very faces Of the
dancers. Then the dogdogs are beaten
and the dance begins.
1T is a most repulsive. but at the
same time a most remarkable scene.
have seen the snakes fasten their fangs
in the nose of the Indians or in their
cheeks expecting to see the victim fall
dead in his tracks. They did not do so,
however. Tie Moquis have discovered
perfect preventive from snake poison.
What it is no one knows. The seer is
1Atrrr f.a1 : hot
like ink. the men go through a per
feet diet bcforc hand, abstaining from
all m at and living on cornmeal entire,
ly. have seen their arms after the
dances. where there would be hole
punctured IN them as though an avn
had been run through them. There
was very little swelling. however.
These Moquis are not a blanket In
dian. They dress like us and cultivate
the land They are exceedingly thrifty,
pcaceable and provident They always
keep two years supply of corn in
their villages. 1t is piled up like cord
wood in front of their houses. Many
years ago they suffered from Il devas-
tating famine that carried off scores OF
their Graves. and ever since it has been
a law with them to lay up corn for the
future. The tribe is one of the oldest
in America. Coranodo speaks of find
ing them here in l520. They live on a
high plateau. four hundred and fifty
feet above the plain. and their homes
are of solid rock. There is a pathway
leading from one village to tac other
worn in the solid rock from five to SIX
inches. When you think that this has
been worn by moccasins and hare feet
it is hard to tell how old the tribe is
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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LATER NEWS.

THE boilers in the Wells. Mimi, roll
Ter mills exploded with terrific force
the 10Th, demolishing the engine room,
contiguous buildings and badly wreck
ing the entire plant. Engineer George
Baer was killed.
AN unknown disease is ravishing the
country around Paris, Ark. One ply
stefan has 81 cases.
TIE commonwear army under com
mand of Gen. Jumbo Cantwcll arrived
in NJ lwauxee, Wis. the 10Th having
forcibly boarded fast stock train at
La Crosse
THE Missouri river rose 50 inches at
Omaha, Neb., the 10Th.
THE town of Penn Valley, Pa, was
struck by a cloudburst the night of the
18th. The downpour of water was ac-
companied by severe electric storm.
Three boys, William and Eddie Lose
and Charles Hunter, who took refuge
under a tree, were struck by lightning.
Eddie Lose and Hunter are fatally in
jured. William Lose viii recover.
The American Railway union, in ses-
sion at Chicago the 10Th. defeated the
proposition to admit negroes to the or
ganization.
THE engagement of 81 500, 600 of gold
in New York the 10Th from the state
treasury for export reduces the treasury
gold to $50, 9s4, $40. the lowest point it
has reached since the gold reserve was
strengthened. Feb. l last, by the $780,
900. 600 bond issue.
A CYCLONE the 10Th badly wrecked
the towns of Calender and Moorland
| in Iowa. A farmer named Goddard, re-
siding between the two places was
killed.
AT late hour the 10Th. the Fedora
tion of Labor at Ironwood. Mich, de-
cided to inaugurate general strike
throughout the Gogebie range.
a CLoUDBURsT struck Mulvane, Kas.,
early the 18th. The lower part of the
| town was under water TO s depth of
/ eight or ten feet, and many houses
were moved off their foundations.
/ Boats improvised from wagon beds and
RATS made of lumber, were launched
/ and the work of rescue began. Proba-
bly, 20 families were taken out by this
means. There we're NO casualties. but
] the property loss is heavy. The water
subsidized rapidly after doing much
damage.
WM. THOMAS. of Lake Benton, Mimi,
disappointed in love, attempted suicide
the 18th by cutting his throat. Not
succeeding. he threw himself into the
lake. but the water cooled his ardor
J aud he crawled out. The doctor sewed
his throat up and he will get well
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John Wight. foreinan. was nangled
to death by machinery in the Empire
lumber mill at Eau Claire, Wis
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LARGEST IN THE WORLD.
The New National Library VIII Hold -Four
Million Volumes.

In round numbers the national IL
brary of the United States contains
1000 bound volumes and 200, 600 pam
phlets. all of which are at present
crowded into a room in the capitol-a
room which was fun fifteen years ago.
Yet the accumulation has gone on I'M
til there is barely room to walk about
in the library itself. while dozen rooms
elsewhere in the building are filed
with the overflow With the need in
plain sight it took congress several
years To make up its mind TO erect a IL
brary building, but finally in April,
1856, decided To do so.
A site was chosen on Capitol hill.
directly east of the capitol itself, and
$4,000 was appropriated for its pur-
chase. Forty or fifty buildings had TO
be removed before excavations could be
made for the foundation. 1t 10 k 200
feet of fencing II feet high to inclose
the ground, and it was nearly four
years after the fence was built before
any part OF the building was visible
over its top. There is great deal of
the library-i70 feet long by $40 feet
wide. 1t covers III. GOO square feet of
ground and will be 40 feet in height
from the ground to the top of the dome
when finished That is, next to the
capitol, it will be the largest edifice in
Washington aud the largest library
building in thc:world.
When congress did decide % do the
work it was pleased to have il done
well. The utmost care was used in
securing a firm foundation, and the
best of material has been put into the
superstrueture. All the material is
of home manufacture except the
white enamelcd brick. When the con
tract was made in lsSS no enameled
| brick were made in this country-cer-
tainly not in sufficient quantities. Sew
eral states are represented in the con-
struction of the library building. New
Hampshire and Maryland furnish the
granite; the structural iron work came
from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Indiana; the ordinary brick are made
wi. in the District OF Columbia. and
the floor thing comes from Massachu-
settles and Vermont. The new IL
brary building" declares Mr. Spofford,
will suffice for $50 years TO come.
Whel it is finished ii viii hold 4 900 600
enthusiastically 80 per cent more than
are now embraced in any library in the
world" In national libraries France
now leads the world. Hers contains a
full million more volumes than that of
Great Britain, the next largest Ger
many is next in rank, and Russia is
fourth. The United States comes next
in order.-Kate Fields Washington.
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THE EAST.

AT Middletown, Pa, James II. Car
penter was hanged for the murder of
his father on December II. 1898.
BECAUSE of poverty Johann Kauff-
mann. of Cramp Hill, y. J.. murdered
his wife and three children and then
killed himself
THE frm of Vernon Bros, New York
paper dealers, lost stock valued at
100000 by fire.
1t was shown in the state senate in
vestigation that New York police gave
protection to green goods swindlers,
ana that millions of dollars were re-
ceived by them for protecting" sa-
lOOnkeepers, thieves and other disrep-
utables.
FIRE ruined the Dodge roller mill,
valued at 100000, at Williamsville, y.
V, and Henry Dodge, one of the own
ers, persisted in the flames.
IL New York Erastus Wiman was
found guilty of forgery and remanded
for sentence. Clemency was recon-
mended by the jury.
II the national league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the
week ended on the 10th were: Balti-
more, 49,; Boston. .667; Philadelphia,
go; Cleveland, 600; Brooklyn. .5P5;
Pittsburgh, .59l; New York. Dds; st.
Louis. .442; Cincinnati. BAL; Chicago,
.32e. Louisville, .Sl3; Washington, 81.
II Tie annual boat race on the Della
ware Cornell beat Pennsylvania. The
Ithacans led all the WY and won by
five l. .gths.
The distinguished statesman and
diplomat. William Walter Phelps, died
at his home near Englewood, n. J.,
aged 81 years.
FIRE destroyed the Central Stock and
Transit company's abattoir in Jersey
City with 5000 sheep and lambs. The
loss was $1,000 900.
II a fit of dependency Thomas
Bayne who retired from public life at
the end of the Fifty-first congress.
after serving eight consecutive terms
from the Twenty-third Pennsylvania
district. took his own life at his home
in Washington.
The noted landscape painter, VIII
liam Hart. died at his home in Mount
Vernon, y. Y, aged ~ years
JOHN 5. JOHNSON rode a mile on a
bicycle, on the Waltham (Mdss) track,
in 2:O3 3-5, breaking all previous rec
Ords.
AT Paterson. y. j., an express train
ran into an electric car and three
of the passengers were fatally and five
seriously hurt
THE firm Ga Goodwin & Swift, OF
New York, electric railway builders
and promoters. made an assignment
with liabilities of SI50.000.
UNDER command of Henry g. Bry-
ant the expedition for the relief OF
Lieut. Peary left Philadelphia.
NEARLY $1,000 of the 10000 idle min
ers i'm Pennsylvania resumed work.
JAMES +. FoRsHAY, of New York
crazed with grief at the death of his
wife. shot and killed his son Walter
aged IL, and then ended his own life
with a bullet.
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A PENuRlous RICH MAN.
Travelled without Baggage and Did Not

Travelled Without Baggage and Did Not
kss Wish n Berth In the sleeper.
81 have a friend" said an out-of-
town coal operator TO a Pittsburgh
Dispatch man, who is worth nearly
five hundred thousand dollars, and yet
is the most penurious man ever saw.
The other night we We're going on to
Chicago on business. We went into
the sleeper together, and as l was quite
tired / suggested going to bed.
where's your berth?' / asked .Berth?'
repeated my friend; why, I'm not GO
ing to take berth. l shall sit up in
the day coach. When told him there
was nothing but sleepers on tho train
his face fell and he seemed worried.
i knew what the trouble was; he was
thinking of the few dollars he would
have TO spend for bed, so said: L
guess you'll have to hand over to-
night He appeared much distressed,
and suggested that we double up and
both sleep in one berth, for he said.
1T viii be cheaper for both I laughed
at the idea, and informed him that
did not care TO make myself uncom-
Portable for the sake of few dollars.
wen, ne resigned nlnSeII To MS rate,
and ! noticed when a berth was as
signed him he was without handbag
OF any sort. As he was going TO stay
in Chicago but ay l said: Where's
your bag? Surely You didn't bring a
trunk for one day?' He then sat
closer to me, and. crossing his legs.
began in a most earnest manner:
That's just where You fellows make n
mistake. You carry bag with you
as sign that you are good subject
to beat. Now, i carry nothing not
even SO much as u package for my
night shirt, for l have that on now.
under my other shirt-and you see
that / dress shabbily. Why, if | carried
a bag hotels, haelSmen, porters and
everybody would charge me double
what they do now. I've got too much
common sense TO lay myself open to
high prices lie seemed satisfied with
himself after he had given me this ora
tion. AS 7 crawled into my berth
wondered for what object some people
with five hundred thousand dollars
lived, anyhow"
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Corner stone Laid.

NEW YORK, June 16.-The New York
Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution laid the base stone of a
monument at Dobbs' ferry, des gned To
mark the spot where Washington had
his headquarters in 1888. The monu-
ment will stand in front of the OLD Liv-
ingstone house in which the York town
campaign was planned, and in which
the American and British commanders
arranged for the final evacua ton of
American soil by the British and OPP
posite which the British sloop of war
fired the first salute ever given by
Britain to America. Vice President
Stevenson made the principal address.
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THE INVESTIGATION ENDED.
Results of the Work of senator Gray's
Committee.

WASHINGTON, June 19.-On Saturday
the examination of the senator's was
completed Senator Gray was the
only one that admitted that he had
specialized in sugar. lie said he had
been dealing in stocks more or less all
his life, and for the last twenty
months had bought and sold sugar
stocks. The day before the vote was
taken he sold all he had at loss, so
that il could not be charged that il i'm
fluenced his vote. He said that he had
not been furnished with any informa-
ton as to what the finance committee
would do with the sugar schedule and
that formed no part of his basis of
purchase or sale. He saw no reason
why a United States senator should
not avail himself of plain business
proposition and he intended to trans
act any such business in the future as
he had in the past.
A number of other senators were ex-
amined during the day, but none of
them gave any testimony beyond the
denial of the categorical questions
concerning the purchase and owner
ship of sugar stocks or knowledge
of any purchase by anyone connected
with them either officially or domestic.
ally. The list includes Senators Cor
don, Jones (Nev.l, Kyle. McLaurin,
Henderson, Mills. Mitchell wis. J,
Morrill,. Murphy, Palmer, Pasco, Per.
Iins, Platt, Proctor, Pugh, Roache,
Sherman. Shoup. Squire, Stewart. Tell
er. Turpie, Vest. Morgan. Power, Villas,
Voorhees, and White.
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Columbus
VIII Not Go to Work.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, juno 19.-The
delegates to the convention of Indiana
miners Saturday afternoon, by 6s votes
to 81, decided IN favor of contin-
uing the strike until they re-
ceived last years price of 20 cents
A resolution was also adopted
calling for the resignation of
State President Dunkerly, who
signed the Columbus compromise agree
ment for go cents. The designations
of the national officers is also de-
manded.
The convention reassembled in the
evening to receive President bunker
ly's resignation, but it never came
He promised il, and claims to have sent
it, but the convention got tired and
declared the Office vacant, electing to
the place George Purcell, of Daviess
county, who was vice president, and
who is counted as radical among the
strikers. Miller, of Brazil, block coal
man, was elected vice president
Refused to Ratify.
MAssILLoN, o.. June 19.-The 1000
pick miners of Massillon district have
refused to ratify the Columbus agree
ment and will continue on strike. Be
tween 200 and 500 men attended the
meeting in the rolling mill green Sat
urday afternoon and by a substantial
ly unanimous vote reached this decis-
ion.
Cost of the Strike.
4 II 4
said in an interview that the strike
had cost the miners in loss of wages
about $500, 900 day or over SIC, ZOO, 900
for the entire period they have been
idle.
la Sale Miners Willing to Work.
La SALE, ILL.,. June 20.-A mass
meeting of the miners of this vicinity
adopted a. resolution favoring going to
work at the price agreed upon at Co
lumbus, providing there is general
resumption of work in Ohio and Penn
sylvania. The resolution passed by a
small margin.
Twenty-six Arrests.
MOUNT OLIVE, Ill, June 2O.-United
States Marshal Brinton with a dozen
deputies arrived here Monday armed
with warrant from Judge Allen, of
the United States district court at
| Springfield, for the arrest of those taxi
ing part in releasing the prisoners last
Saturday. Aided by the Seventh regi-
ment of the militia the marshal sue
ceeded in making twenty-six arrests.
Ohio Mines Resume.
BELLAIRE, o., June 20.-The attitude
Of the miners in the Sixth district of
Ohio is encouraging. Nearly $500 peo-
pie have found work in the mines in
this part of the Ohio valley. The
Others, about half of the miners in the
district, viii await The result of the
conference at Columbus. All the sol
diers have gone home.
MARTINS FERRY. o., June 20.-The
miners at Laughlin Nail works, Gay
lord, Long Run, Bellaire and other
mines returned to work. A general
| break is expected.
CINCINNATI, o., June 20.--All the
| Hooking valley miners except those at
| Straitsville and Lost Run returned to
work on Monday. In the Sixth dis
trict nearly $500 people went to work
situation More Hopeful.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 20.-The set
Element of the great coal strike and
| the return to work of $4,000 of the 20,
600 miners in this district has given an
/ impetus to all kinds of business and
the situation is more hopefuI than at
any time for many months.
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The News Condensed
important Intelligence From All Parts.
HFTYTHIRD CONGRESS.
Regular Session.

WEDNESDAY, June IL. - The wool
section of the tariff bill was discussed
IN the senate. Senator Sherman (O.)
making vigorous speech against free
wool. In the house a bill TO disap-
prove of the treaty heretofore made
with the Ute Indians for their removal
20 the territory of Utah was passed.
The Indian appropriation bill was fur
Their considered.
THURSDAY. June IA. - Bills were
passed in the senate to authorize
the appointment of women as pull tic
school trustees in the District of Co
lumbia, and for the Development and
encouragement of silk culture in the
United States. The tariff bill was fur
Their discussed. In the house the time
was occupied in considering the Indian
appropriation bill
FRIDAY. June Is. In the senate
an amendment TO the tariff bill to
leave the duty on wool the SANE as in
the Mckinley bill was defeated by a
vote of 20 to 81. The bill providing
for the deficiency in the appropria
tiOns for the government printing Office
was passed, and the post Office appro-
priatiOn bill ISL, 236, 500 was reported.
In the house the Indian appropriation
bill was again considered. At the
evening session private pension bills
were discussed.
SATURDAY. June 10. = The wooden
and silk schedules of the tariff bill
were disp sed of in the senate, the
republicans being successful in secur-
ing notifications in the former. In
the house the Indian appropriation
bill was passed after striking out the
clause providing for the removal of the
warehouse from New York to Chicago.
MONDAY, June Is.-The senate eu-
tered on the twelfth week of the
tariff debate. The paper and book
and miscellaneous schedules of the bill
were completed. Senator Hill failed
in an attempt to have coal and coke
placed on the free list. In the house
the deficiency bill (s4.s9O. 1881 was re-
ported and the anti-option bill was
discussed
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The large return tide of Scandina-
Wan emigration from this country to
the peninsular kingdoms is exciting
remark. The race is frugal and in
dustriOus, and a few years residence
in the United States enables many of
them To accumulate enough to main
tain themselves in affirence in their
old homes. where the cost of living is
low They can live like princes there
upon what would be regarded here as
barely comnetence.
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MANY PERISHED.
Terrible Disaster Occurs on the Coast
of Ireland.

Terrible Disaster Occurs on the Coast
of Ireland.
CASTLE BAR ISLAND, Ireland, June
16.-Dispatches from Westport Quay,
about IL miles from this city, an
nounce a terrible disaster to party
of harvesters who We're on their way
to Scotland. A passenger boat
returning to Westport Quay from
Achil island, having on board
eighty harvesters, who were
to be shipped to Scotland
from Westport, capsized. According
to the first reports of the disaster.
thirty out of eighty passengers were
drowned, but later adviees say that it
is believed that fifty OF the harvesters
lost their lives. The boat capsized off
Armagh Head
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1T seems almost incredible to the
present generation that slavery once
existed in Connecticut The fact,
however, is recalled to memory 10y the
recent death at New Haven of an old
negress who in ls25 was sold at public
auction in that city. Slavery was
abolished in that state shortly after
wards, but the majority of the slave
owners. with true Yankee shrewdness.
had disposed of their chattels To south
ern planters before the emancipation
act went into effect
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PHELPS IS DEAD.
The Ex-Minister to Germany Succumbs
After a Long Illness.

AFTER a Long ltintss.
Kew YORK, June William Wal
ter Phelps, the distinguished states
man and diplomat, died Sunday morn
ing at LAS o'clock at his summer resi-
dence, Tea Neck Grange, near Engle-
wood. n. j. He had been unconscious
for many hours, and, in fact, practical
ly for several days, even the arrival
Saturday of his only daughter, Baroness
Won Rottenberg, from berlin, not
serving to arouse him. Death was
caused by pneumonia, complicated
with other diseases. chief among
which was consumption. Two years
ago, while minister to Berlin, he
underwent painful operation, from
the effects of which he never recov-
cred. AT his bedside at the time of
dissolution were his two sons and his
daughter, together with his wife, who
had been unremitting in her care of
her husband for the last three weeks,
from which time the dangerous period
of his illness dates. Mr.. Phelps leaves
an estate valued at $40, 200, 900.