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The bee., 1895-10-10
ALL WAS LOST.

/ was riding along the path OF a
cyclone which had cut a vide
swath across the country the day
before, when l came to a settler
seated on block of wood in front
of the ruins of pole shanty. Ev-
erything had been taken away
down to the puncheon floor and
the dozen fruit trees around the
house we're lying uprooted.
elbow fur hev yo' cum,
strangerl" he asked as | rode up.
"From Scottsville."
"My old woman blowed away
in that direction and / thought
you might hev seen her."
"No, SIR"
"Mule went at about the same
time, guess. He was big white
mule"
al haven't seen him. Then
you have lost everythingi"
Everything, stranger-wife,
mule, dog, twelve hens, house and
furniture. One mint they was all
here next mint they was all
gone"
"Were you home at the timer
| asked.
"Ob, yes right here to home.
Sand you neither blew away nor
got hurt1"
"Neither one. Come through il
all as sound as a dollar" +"
"Where we're you when the cy-
clone struck the housea"
"Waal, the hand Of Providence
seemed to be in it, Me and the
old woman had a row out in the
garden and | chased her into the
house. She turned on me Like (
cat, got a good grip and heavec
me down the cellar through the
open trap door. Then she got |
rockln' cheer and sot on the traI
and rocked and hollered to m,
that couldn't git out till ]
knucklcd under. She was a,rockin
when | heard a boom bang and
got out OF the cellar to find thing
as you now see 'em. Wouldn'
you sorter call II the hand O
Providence, strangere"
"Well, perhaps, but what ar
you going to dor"
"Nuthin' nuthin' tall, 'cept {
be thankful that was pitche,
down cellar instead OF the old VIC
man. II I'd bin carried off and sh
left, they'd never got over blown
around how they made me tax
wings and fly away on the cloud
of the mornin Coin to George
town. Waal, take the fust roa
to your left. II you should mes
the old woman you'll know her b
her skeerd and humble look. -
ST, Louis Republic.
The bee., 1895-10-10
"And he called me by name ~

Anu ne CaiiSu me ny ndtneI
$50 can l. You are James II.
Johnson. There is your name on
your satchel. Is the man around
here, do you lhinkl"
We went to the door OF the depot
and looked around, but the "gov-
ernor" had vanished, as might
have been expected.
"You ought to have known bet
teri" exclaimed the officer, after
giving up the search.
"How had | orter known bet
ter7" demanded the victim. Didn't
he pick me out as a man who'd do
him a favor1 Didn't he say he
was Gov. Mortonl Didn't he
praise my confidence in human
natur' when made him take three
dollars1"
You'd better go and soak your
head"
"What fur1 What good will
soakin' my head dor"
The officer turned away with a
tired look, and the old man sat
down and thought it all over and
then said to me:
ayes, guess I've been swindled
and ! guess I'm to blame fur it.
It's good experience, though,
felt so mighty proud about lendin
the governor OF New York three
dollars that il a feller had come
along and said he was president
OF the United States I'd a-handed
him the other seven dollars and
walked sixty two miles to git
home"
The bee., 1895-10-10
A. M. CARROLL, Manager,
337 Union Street, Nashville, Tenn.
PlTHv PARAGRAPHS.

Good times are looked for at all the coke works
in Pennsylvania this fan and winter.
An effort Is being made TO have ihs Foord pit
at Albion mines. N. s. re-opened. $50 as to give
employment. TO The People:of that vicinity
The wrangle over the coal contracts OF chica-
20. Is coupled with charges Of 'boodling'
"a
A story sen, out from Philadelphia states that
the Reading Is experiencing change OF heart
and that the receivers are willing 60 submit the
diyessloa Of Anthracite coal tonnage 10 arbiira-
don al the hands Of experts. provided that tho
allo,meni OF business among ihe..several carriers
shall be bassdapon their demonstrated ability TO
control and handle the business as shown by what
has been done in the recent past.
".f
The Eneisl. government has a never ending
job In providing for lis poor Il goes on the psin-
ripls that !, Is cheaper TO hava a million on poor
rates. so that wages OF those employed can be
kept close to starvation limiisi In. order that It's
industrial supremacy 10 the world can be main
tanned This Is British policy. staseerai. and
charity 10 lis last analysis. The Unemployed
COMMITTEES that has been At work for a long time
desires to be continued 10 order to complete the
work So Car It's results are enumerated as fol-
lows: The replies from localities as regards the
distress last winter show that In gao localities, re
presenting Io.aos oo Of the population. there
was no exceptional distress in 47s localities with
population OF II, 7oa. s77. there was an excep-
tionaI distress, due solely 10 the severity OF she
weather Ia i7s localities. with a population OF
1907. .a67. there vas an ezcep,ionai distress ow-
log TO wan, OF employment, quite apart from
the weather. that Is. TO depression in trade.
These are the hard facts ..slieilod BY the
inquiry The committee have had memo
randnm drawn up as TO the powers Of the local
authorities iar dealing with dstress through want
OF sn,yioymsnf With the aged poor. and Cor ac-
quirine land Tor the purpose OF setting men TO
work thereon. alta given rate Of wages. This is
the climax OF hall century Of that syssem Of re-
fned barbarism known as free trade
The bee., 1895-10-10
CHESS ON THE BRAIN.
A Noted Player Who at Times Fancies
Himself Bishop or Knight

A chess champion, a German
gentleman whose name is well
known to all players and most
nonplayers Of that scientific game,
recently told the writer that the
intense mental activity which it
was necessary to display while en-
gagged in combat on the board
often led him to unconsciorsly do
ridiculous things when the game
was over.
"For instance" he SAID, sit is
not an uncommon thing for me,
when walking home IN the even
ing after several games of chess at
my club, to imagine that am one
of the pieces on the board. Quite
unconsciously, and probably while
thinking about something else, |
will take great care to plant my
feet firmly in the center OF the flag
stones and not step upon the lines
that divide them. Again, the
idea that l am knight will seize
me, and those who walk behind
me are convulsed with laughter to
see me take step forward, and
one to one side, which is not, to
say the least Of IT, dignifed
method of progress.
Sometimes | am bishop and
move in a slanting direction, till
forcible concussion with wal
brings me to my senses.
at is very foolish, l know, but
| cannot helpit. l suppose it is
that the game, its chances and
possibilities are so continually
running in my mind that chess &c
me is almost becoming a second
nature.
| The elder Roberts once, years
ago, told an interviewer that SC
complctely was his mind subju
gated by billiards that he woult
often lie in bed and wonder if he
could make a carom off the man
telpiece on to the washstand ol
'pot" the gas globe out of The
window with the bedpost. Lon
don Answers.
The bee., 1895-10-10
nE KNEW HER PERFECTLY,

The outspoken ways and Gauss
tic sayings oil DIR. Jephson OF
bennington, celebrated in the
forties and hities, have furnished
the kernel OF many anecdotes.
One day he was called on by one
whom Braptome would have called
.'une grande dame de par la
monde" the Marchioness Oh.
Having listened to description
OF her malady, the oracle pro-
nounced judgement;
San egg and cup OF tea for
breakfast, then walk for two hours,
slice OF cold beef aud half glass
Of madeira for lucheon, then walk
again for two hours; fish, except
salmon, and outlet or wing Of
fowl for dinAer, with single glass
OF madeira or claret; to bed at Ic
and rise at 2, etc. No carrIagt
exercise, please"
'But, DOCTOR" she exclaimed al
last, thinking he was mistaken II
his visitor, "pray, do, you know
who ! am1 Do you know--ahem
my positionf"
Perfectly, madame," was tn,
reply. al am prescribing for al
Old woman with a derangcd stom
ach. Nineteenth Century,
The bee., 1895-10-10
AROUND THE WORLD.

Japan exports matches.
immigration is increasing.
St. Joseph expects 81 gas.
Missouri has 386 coal mines.
Denmark has 226, 900 farms.
Baku people use clay as fuel.
New York boasts snake farm.
Eggs are hatched by electricity.
Brazil has 3Ioo-karat diamond.
We have 2o3, 946 acres of peanuts.
Stockton, CAL, has an Arab
colony.
A chinaman runs an Oregon
hotel.
France has goo cooperative So
cieties.
Californians use peach stones for
The South has 400 active cotton
mills.
The South has over ZOO blast
furnaces.
Switzerland's railroads cover
1850 miles.
Pompeii's ruins recently yielded
wire rope.
Marble is Vermont's most yalu-
able product.
The South's corn crop-6oo, 600.
600 million bushels.
Tobacco occupies 700, 900 acres
in America.
Newspapers circulate $4,000,
900, 900 copies annually.
Instead OF using train service this
year several Connecticut peach
growers will ship their fruit to inc
market by trolley cars,
Railway travelling IN Norway is
cheaper than in any other Eurog san
country.
The telegraph wire used in the
United States would go around the
world something like fifteen times
At the recent meeting Of railway
Presidents at Coney Island over
So, 900, 900. 600, 600 OF capital was
represented.
The bee., 1895-10-10
EASILY SWINDLED.
The Stranger Was Too Ready to Hell
the Powerful.

the Powerful.
| was sitting in railroad depot
in Buffalo, says writer in the De
troit treo Press, waiting for train
when a stranger approached me
and SAID;
"Its kinder queer how hard up
the best Of us may get sometimes,
eh9"
"How do you mean1" | asked.
/. "Waal, just met the governor
Of New York out here, Levi p.
Morton. and he asked me for the
loan OF two dollars"
f"You don't sayi''
.s1hat's what's the matter. Had
his pocket picked and wanted to
use two dollars right away. He
didn't know what to do about il
till he saw me-"
"You know him, thenl"
ssNeyer sat eyes on him afore TO-
day. He Jest picked me out'n the
crowd for man who'd do him .
favor. He only wanted two dol
lars but | made him take three
He'll send il back in day or two
Ever meet the goyernorf"
I've seen him several times"
. wonder how he got his moss
broker.
"His nose isn't broken, Wha
sort Of man was the chap yo'
lent money tor"
''Red hair side whlskers-brokeI
nose, and two teeth out in front.
"Gov. Morton is no such look
ing man. You have been swindle'
by some sharper.
s'lt can't bel He said he wa
The govesnosf'
III might say the same thing
The bee., 1895-10-10
COUNTRY LIFE.

live on farm
by the side Of the brook.
In a little barn
With many crook.
And isn's II fun
To live on farm.
Where The little sheep run
Add do you no barml
Go out 10 the meadows,
Where The Wild flowers grow,
And return IN evenings shadows
To the good farmers door
Hear The distant eattles low,
As. returning fsuln valleys green.
They are telling rs
The apring Is here once more,
Ahl my dear city chap.
You're missing halt your life;
You can do nothing
Bn, chall chall cha.l
-"sehoOl Boy"
Calhoun. La
The bee., 1895-10-10
A. S. FORD, Manager,
3a7 Upper Second ST., Evansville, Ind.
SOMETHING WORTH KNOWING.

Railroad traffic in general Is Showing pro-
nounced Improvement as a consequence Of re-
vival of activity in manufacturing and mercan-
tile lines. II is predicted that the revenues Of
the railroads for the last half Of 1895 will be at
least equal to those for the corresponding period
of.ISo3. and probablysbetter.
-
Coal mining is a calling that brings little sick
in its train. DIR. orgle the eminent authority
on mortality statistics. brings forward evidence
to show that. II accidents are excluded the NOR
taliy OF coal miners only slightly exceeds that OF
the most healthy class Of men, the agricultural
Iaborers
That hard coal is yet novelty. even in some
parts Of New FsT'e,--. is proven by the follow
ing item froA- paper printed in New Hamp.
shire town:-'R, G. Jameson has sold one car
load Of coal here this month. and c. s Ray
mond another Many who use both claim coal
is cheaper than wood for winter use, and such
has been ourexperience for the past two years .
How quaint it reads but even so large trade as
that OF coal must have beginning
The bee., 1895-10-10

In Norway a law provides that
no person shall be permitted to cut
down a tree unless he plants three
saplings in its place,
A hotel is to be built on High
Knob, a mountain in Virginia.
From its balconies guests will be
able to see in five States.
1t is said that locomotive engin-
GERS are far healthier and longer
lived, as a rule, than conductors,
in spite OF the nervous strain OF
running fast trains.
The bee., 1895-10-10

The Darlington, Wis, Journal says edi-
iorially OF popular patent medieine' I'VE
know from experience that Chamberlains
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoa Remedy is all
il stopped excruciaiing pains and possibly
saved us from an nntimely grave We
would not rest easy over night without il
in the house" This remedy undoubtedly
saves more pain and suffering Than any
should keep Il in the house, as Il is sure to
be needed sooner or later For sale BY
ST. Bernard Drug Store, darlington. Ben
I. Robinson. Morioaa Gap, and Geores
King, 81. Charles.
The bee., 1895-10-10

Licorice grows chiefly on the
banks Of the rivers Tigris and Eu-
phrates'
The bee., 1895-10-10

Now 10 the s'me 20 subscribe for
IHk BFe
The bee., 1895-10-10
@ST. BERNARD COAL COMPANY, ~
Nn@m%M shippers COAL AND COKE
E ~
IL Office, Darlington, Ky.
Brar1GI1 Oficee.

ffi-es ~
Manage r. G. Mmgab L Mange
New-York tribune., 1895-02-14
TIE DEATH or X. L. PfRSSOy.

The funeral OF Robert J.. Pirsson. the granite
dealer. whore death caused by attack OF
h!ccoughs was held yesterday morning AT the
Church Of Zion and ST. Timothy, In Ffty-seventh-
St. between Eighth and Ninth aves. His death re-
suited from peculiar complication of diseases
which was aggravated by severe attack OF hic-
coughing lasting for nearly three days Mr. PRISON
was forty eight years old and for long time had
been In bad health. In January last he was pros
irated with severe case OF the gr.p. and although
able leave his bed he regained his strength
and about a week ago again taken sick.
week ago last Monday he was seized with violent
hiccoughing. and for three days he hIccoughed al
most continually and suffered Intensely. Dr. Harold
". Hanford, his physician, was summoned. but was
unable 20 relieve his distress with ordinary
remedies. and the hiccoughing grew more Violent
and Intense until Thursday morning when choro-
form and pusatilla were administered and the hic-
coughing partially stopped. SO violent had
been the attack that his constitution already weak
ened and impaired. unable 10 stand the shock.
ana the long continued strain produced traumatic
peritonitis and Sunday night he died.
In the death certificate Dr Hanford gave the
cause az traumatic peritonis. and as that Is one
Of the causes OF death into which the Health Board
requires investigation. II refused to grant a
burial permit until examina ton had been made
ton and announced that death resulted from
perionitis with hicc )ughlng as the primary cause
and also that death had been fastened by con-
SUMPTION.
New-York tribune., 1895-02-14
ILBERT BIERSThDTS SCHEDULES.

THEY SHOW THAT THE ARTIST HAS LIABILITIES
or S.9.37o AND ASSETS or $G7.@'"
The schedules OF Albert Bcrstadt, the we'll
known artist whose studio Is at No. l.27l Broad
way were fled Yesterday by Nelson s. Easton. the
assignee. and Judge Pryor. Of the Court Of COM
mon Pleas fixed the bond OF the assignee at $1,000
They show liabilities s39 73O: nominal assets, s2l.
s3s: actual assets. $61. 80.
The creditors are the Lincoln National Bank.
$liH1. on a judgment which has been assigned to
Theodore T.. Hicks; National Shoe and Leather
Bank Sl3i2 Judgment assigned TO MIR. Hicks;
John Is. Alley. Boston. $1,000; jerome carty. 5000;
Theodore f. Hicks. so 7OO for money advanced: note
10 the order OF James i. SIlo. delivered to Mr.
Hicks $500: B. l.. Warner. Washington. D. C.,
100: W. G. Chaplin. San Francisco. $3.50 taxes
due the city. s337 There Is also contingent
liability Of $50 deficiency foreclosure Of a
mortgage.
The assets are az follows: Real estate. twenty
acres near Lake Minnetoski. MINI. nominal value
5000 actual value $1,000; twelve lots near Mime
apolis nominal $1,000 actual $500; twenty -four
near Irvington- on he Hudson. nominal $685.
900. mortgaged for $500. net nominal and actual
$1,000 two acres near Orange. y. j.. nominal
$2c0c. actual 81 OOJ decided to III. VI. Munsel.
collateral security for note Of $4,000 Stocks and
bonds: Twcnty-four bonds OF Sovereign Mining
Anderson coke Gas Manufacturing Company
nominal SSO,"p actual none; nifty snares
Telautograph Company; nominal S0o. actual
500: rights 250 shares Brown Scgmcna
Tube-Wlre Gun Company. nominal $500, actual
s2o. Pictures. Equity In five pictures. now in
Lincoln Safe Deposit vaults valued at $1,000
$35S9. actual $4,000: equity in five pictures in the
White House at Washington. valued 1t $4,000. sub.
New-York tribune., 1895-02-14
pASSAfC.

Mrs Michael Wasel, Of Wellington Killed h"r
bah,, q girl Of eight weeks while in an insah"
frenzy last night She woke np h'r h"'''"' ~ !
o'clock screaming that there was a big man with
lon,, hair N the room trying to kill her child Then
She ran around the room hugging the infant 10
hcr breast Her husband could not restrain hrr
and ne called IN his brother. Bnth men na' 20 20
exert their utmost strength to take me phpy , "u'
of nor pr1sp When they succeeded IL was r"hn
The mother had squeezed II 10 death and driven
her nngernails into its aesh IN her Struggles one
is 10 be sem 10 insane asylum. -.
The Young Peoples Society OF the tlrst frespy-
terian Church, fifty strong. went on slclghille
tn Iackrnsack on Tuesday night. on" oi the
sleiphs unset I'm a snowdrift on the way th'r". hhl
George Mcqueen fell on the side of the wagon and
hroke two of his ribs. Two of the young women
tainted and were carried to "A farmhouse Mcqueen
was nut the sleigh. driven To iitckehsark ana
1oreottcn In tho. confusion and had to walk two
miles To Hackensack with their escorts. mere wds
some misunderstanding about the supper arrange
ments and the party had luncheon on crackers:
Finally. the way back another seiRh upset ana
fourteen pcoplc were thrown out. They fell on
hard ice. and Miss Belle Jeweu and Miss Ida Tot
len had their scaps and faces cut The date Of the
next sleighridc has not been announced
New-York tribune., 1895-02-14
NEW ARK

\ lamp in tho house of John Lnd"ig I'Nf' anu
Broome sts exploded al ! a. m y"si''''F i'''
uie is a o.iIoWcr with ihrc" children ann NV.
80, ,,,,,.t noo, of ,hc hou-. Iie was a~ascn"i
by The noise ana founi The kitchen inll ot "sIr AM
ana smoke Driven back. nr fastener q" we ~, -
~ ~a"' -. a. ,niiIrsn wcr. -lccping AM iounl
me door ochoi lie hurst j. open. 49, ms NlI, N
the ;re hai made great headwaN ana cut on 's'iP,
hv ihc hallway The Other tenants on .lf ,,
- mad h.en aroused and escaped from inc nous
Iu.i, .cct,r.I a clothes line and. opening the WIN
dow lowered hs children. one aitcf NC o,"e,; y, ~
,bc prouul Then ne slid down the iop"; a't.I
t,s,o,ine inc onI 10 the bcis;ead. lis h"nis Neir
b,diy lac.ratcl hut H. escaped othcr ihgi'g. m
dremen confined the flames @ the iop ho'T' Inc
loss WAS about ~ =. ,,e ,r,,los, uhn
- t,,,r,i and scslled hy the explosion OF u ianSe
hoiIcr nn February g. died yesterday. she Mas s"'-
eniy-clght years oll .-,hott,-s -, tho
The annual meeting ~ the stocknollcr-, OF n
American Tobacco company MAS ID Dc n'' a., q, ~ w.
ndire Of The company IN tho Pruienuai h.i1lhs :
at Newark ycsf.T lay. but Was Ai)oHih'l n" NHtJ -
- -, fhc II s0n shares constituting quorum "nS
IN, o1 sharos were represented -Four directors arc
ia be elected. ana the name pr'S'ntrI H' 'i"t s
Arents George " Gall. Benjamin Duke ana JOSIAH
Browne.
New-York tribune., 1895-02-14
HOME NEWS.

WHAT IS GOING ON TO-DAY.
Normal College Anniversary celebration.
Dock Commissioners meeting.
Meeting OF the Rapid Transit Commissioners
Union League Club meeting. evening.
Thrty-eighh-st.. p. m.
XXVTIIth District City Vigilance League. Church
OF the Puritans. y. M.
Pilgrim Congregational Industrial School ami
versary 7:30 p. IN.
Committee on Revision OF Canons OF Protestant
Episcopal Church.
XNIXth District City Vigilance League, One-hun-
dred- nd sixty -ninth-s,. and Frankn-ave. p. m.
our Council No. 252." Royal Arcanum ball. Lenox
Lyceum.
St Valentines ball in aid of Brooklyn Day Nur-
sery and Infants Hospital. Pouch mansion. evening
Subscription concert. Calvary Choral Club, Cal
vary Church. S:Ij p.
Paint OIL and Varnsh Club annual meeting
broadway Central Hotel. p. m.
Ninth Regimen, Drum and Fife Corps drill and
reception. armory p. m.
Academy OF Medicine. No. q West Fortythird-
St. SIS p. m.
Readings by Locke Richardson In aid OF East
Side Chapel. Sherry's. D. m
Jockey Club subscription dinner. Hotel Waldorf.
evening.
Authors club removal to its rooms in Music
Hall i,uildng.
Hudson Literary Society meeting. No. 2os East
broadway. 2. m
American Purity Alliance annual meeting. No. 1lo
Second-ave.. p m.
Antl-Tammany Democratic primaries, evening.
New-York tribune., 1895-02-14
NETWORK CITY.

NEW 1OKk ClI1.
LAFAYETTE Posts reception for Commander-in-
chief Thomas q. Lawler and staff is to he held to-
morrow evening at Masonic Hall. Twenty-third-st.
and Sixth-ave.
Five lectures on myths and fairy tales are to be
delivered by Mrs Mary H. Peabody, under the
auspices Of the Brooks Aumnae. at the Teachers
College on Mornlngside Heights. on successive Mon
days AT 2:3o p. m. beginning next week
The North side Board Of Trade has arranged
r1azs-mee,ing OF citizers OF the rwenty-thrd ana
Twenty fourth wards for Saturday evening at the
Melrose Lyceum. Third-ave. and One-hundred-and-
nolehs,. In the interest OF rapid transit for the
North side.
Music a dehl,e on the Power OF Removal bill
and an address by ~ A. Lesser the study OF
polltical science Will be the features Of the meet
ing OF the Hudson Literary Society at No 200 East
broadway tonight.
The American Purity Alliance Is to hold It's nine
tccnth annual meeting at the lsnac T. Hopper
-, =, ,,o c.cord-avs this evening The
speakers expected ex-Judge Noah Davis I'll
bridge T. Gerry Dr. Emily Blackwell. the Rev DR.
William r Sabine, the Rev. Antonette Brown
Blackweu the Rev Dr. b. F. De Costa and Samuel
&. Blackwell.
A meeting will be held this evening Of the City
Vigilance League OF the XXTXth Assembly District
Al the Second Church of the Disciples or Christ
one hundred and sixty -nin,h-st and Frankn-ave
The Rev. Dr. ParkhurSt ana frdnh HloSS are aho"b
those announced to speak
There viii be a meeting in the interest Of Barnard
College AZ the home OF Mrs. George lsham, No. 3
East Slxty-nrsi-st tomorrow AT II a. m.
After recess yesterday in the Court OF oyer and
Terminor before Judge Williams. the District-A
torney announced that the hearing OF the case In
which Michael Consdire ~ charged with shooting
and killing John Malone in front OF the 81 James
Hotel weeks ago would be held on Monday.
General Booth will hold large meeting In Cooper
Union IN the night Of February %. His hnal meet
ing before sailing for Europe will be held the fol-
lowing evening In Music Hall
The Society OF the Cincinnati will hold Its annual
dinner on February g. at the "Iauren-the- Pines"
Lakewood. y. ].
The Produce Exchange Bank has made application
for membership In the Clearing House Association.
Among the passengers who arrived here on the
steamship Seneca. from Vera Cruz. yesterday. was
W. H. r. Hughes. formerly agent OF the Ward
steamship line.
A fury In Coroner Dobbs court yesterday re-
turned a verdict that Mary Francis Shannon died
at No 3ps East Seventy eight h-st on February
from septic peritonits. resulting from an unlawful
operation performed by Mrs. Frda Harsh II also
found that George Harsh and Gilbert NJ. Weed were
accessories tosthe crime. and censured Dr. Richard
Mullenhauer OF No 24s East Fifty third-st for
not informing the authorities OF the girls con-
dition.