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IMPRESSIVE GLITTER.
The Metallic Splendor of the Diplomatic
Corps on New Years Morning,

Ine metallic SpiendOr OF the OtpiOmhtic
Corps on New Years Morning,
Washington's most picturesque fea.
ture, the diplomatic corps, never gets
into action until the reception at the
white house on New Years day, says
the Indianapolis Journal, although the
individual members will be seen out in
society for month or more before the
recognized social season. AT the New
Years reception, however, the diplo'
mats come out strong and the process
sion of the members of the foreign le-
cations and embassies from the white
house to the home or hotel of the secre-
tary of state, where the diplomatic
breakfast is served, is one of the gala
sights of the year. Many of the popula-
ton of Washington stay up all night in
order to get place on the white house
fence where they may see the process
sion pass as soon rs it has been re-
ceived and properly attended to by the
president.
After the reception the entire organ
ization lines up and puts out on foot
for the home of the secretary of state.
AS they pass from the white house
grounds in their glittering raiment
they are the showiest things in Wash
ington and. worth coming miles to
see. The lowliest attache in the crowd
will give cards and spades to the most
showily drum major in the
country, and will win out with ease.
They have gold lace and bullion strung
all over them, while the aigrets, plumes,
epaulets, cords, tassels and ribbons of
any one legation would stock mill
1inery store. Such is the effect of this
aggregation of beauty and valor on the
great American crowd gathered with
out the gates that every man in it utters
at some time while the procession is
passing, with contemptuous emphasis,
the remark which occurs oftenest in the
narrative of the adventures of Chimmie
Faddeu
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TELEGRAPHIC.
HALF NOT YET TOLD.
Many Horrors Connected With Massacret
Suppressed.

Many Horrors Connected With Massacres
Suppressed.
BOSTON, Nov. 26.--The following
| letter has been received in Boston
from a reliable person in CONSTANT
| nople:
"The Turks have induced some of
the subsidized European papers to
speak of these crimes as Armenian
| outbreaks, etc., but the ambassadors
have full reports which they ought to
publish that refute these, and show
conclusivelJ that within day or two
after he signed the order for reforms
the sultan ordered the Armenians to be
massacred in order that there should
be no question of an Armenian major
ity in any of the provinces. The people
sought all the spoils obtainable, and
did not execute the sultan's wish to
the fullest. But the loss of life has
been awful.
Moreover, there seems to be no
way OF preventing more massacres of
the same sort. 1t is the most awful
crime of the century. because it is per-
sistently falsifed by its author. Every
where the story is the same; deliber-
ate preparation and then story sent
to Europe that the Armenians attacked
the inoffensive Turks and were reduced
to order after few had been killed.
"Worse times are in store for US.
Europe is divided in council, and the
Turks finding that nothing is done for
this crime, will go on to extremities.
The highest and most solemn court
has declared that the sultan cannot
lawfully be restrained in the exercise
OF his will, since he is the representa-
tive of God for the whole earth. From
$1,000 to 10000 people have been
slaughtered during the last month, and
in consequence no less than 100000
persons heretofore dependent on them
for their food are now in want. The
coming winter will witness a vast
amount of suffering. This is the case,
not alone at Sassoun, but all over the
land where the occurrences have taken
place"
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OFFICERS OF THE NEXT HOUSE
A Slate Has Been Made Up, But the
Southern Republicans VIII Bolt It.

A Slate Has Been Made Up, But the
Southern Republicans VIII Bolt It.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S.-The con.
test for house Offices was practically
ended when the Ohio and Indiana dele
cations held their caucus and decid.
ed to support combine ticket. The
next officers of the house will therefore
be:
Clerk, Alexander Mcdowell, OF
Pennsylvania; sergeant-at-arms, Ben
jamin Russell, of Missouri; doorkeeper
W. ]. Glenn, of New York; postmas.
ter, Major McElroy, OF Ohio; chaplain,
Rev 81. D. Fisher, of Kansas.
Eleven of the twenty-five representa-
tives of the south, exclusive of Mis-
souri,. met in caucus tonight to deter
mine on their action respecting the
choice for the officers of that body.
Some dissatisfaction has been ex-
pressed by them at the slate already
made up, which leaves the south with
out any representation in the elective
offices of the house. After consider
able discussion it was resolved by the
caucus to stand by General Henderson,
of Illinois, for clerk, and the surmise
is that W. S. Upton, of Tennessee, will
be supported for the position of SER
geant-at-arms. The members of the
caucus are rather chary of talking of
the results of the meeting. Senator
Pritchard of North Carolina, and the
Hon. Clay Evans were present for
short time.
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OUR NEAR NEIeHsoRs.

ONE-HALF of the population Of Mex
leo are full-blooded Indians
In South America boy who wants
to own pet animal gets monkey in.
stead of dog.
In Cuba etiquette requires that a re-
quest from one smoker to another for
q light must always be honored.
In the last ten years, 100000 resi-
dents of the province of Quebec have
emigrated. Most of them have taken
up their residence in the United States.
In some parts of Mexico, the party in
power maintain their positions by
throwing into Jail their political op-
ponents on the eve of an election.
When the election is decided, the dis
franchised are released.
THE little town of Newport, Hants
county, Nova Scotia, has population
of about 1,4o0, and there are among
them forty persons, twenty of them
women, whose united ages amount to
s,seQ years, an average Of 81 years each.
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Did Il. shave or shake III:

In a discussion on the factory bill,
one member, according to report in
one OF the provincial papers, urged its
acceptance on the house, in order to
put stop to the practice of shaving
factory boys to death" During the
last parliament Mr.. Gladstone indulged
one evening in some genial banterinp
OF Lord Harting ton, and the following
appeared in one of the provincial re-
ports OF the speech: "Such is the mod
esty OF my noble friend that he shaves
his head. But must insist upon plac.
ing upon his head the crown which he
is entitled to wear" A reference to
the report published in the London
Journal shows that Lord Harrington
did not shave his head, but only shook
it.-Macmillan's Ma~azir,.
Near Augusta, ILL.,, there are two
peculiar wells, each of which deserves
special mention in a department de-
voted to accounts of things out of the
ordinary. The first is 'bottomless
well"-one which was sunk down until
the immense running underground river
was struck. The second is a well in
which the water remains frozen winter
and summer. These two wonders, each
of which may properly be referred to
as combined natural and artificial
curiosities," are located at distance
Of about mile and a half apart. The
frozen well is only about ten feet in
depth, that Of the other not stated.
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HE WAS WILLING.
rime Had Tempered His Grief for HIS
Iameuted Partner.

zine Had Tempered His Grief for Hi
Lamented Partner.
There was an old man with big anc
bulky satchel at his feet and weed or
his hat leaning against the Griswold
street front of the post Office the other
day, says the Detroit Free Press, when
a wag who had been hanging around for
the right sort of man to appear ap'
preached him and said:
81 see that the grim destroyer has in
vaded your hearthstone?"
"The which?" asked the old man.
1.-THE grim destroyer-the angel Of
death. 1 take it your wife has gone
hence"
"Yes, gone hence"
ALLOW me to extend my heartfelt
sympathies."
.Yes, you kin extend 'em."
''You must be lonely
''Yes, purity lonely"
II have lost the partner of my own
bosom and know how it feels. You
seem to be all alone in this great
world"
"Yes, that's the feelin'."
Life appears 10 De desert TO you!
"Yes, regular desert, with sand
foot deep"
ssBut in your loneliness-in the seem
ing emptiness of your life-has it not
occurred to you that you could do some
thing to add to the happiness of your
fellowman?"
"Yes, it has"
Sand will you do it?"
81 will. It's leven months now since
my wife was taken away and if you'll
point me out a woman abore <c-ty'
years old who wants to get married I'll
pop the question SO quick that 1t will
make her heels lift up. You betcher
life want to do something for my
fellerman and I'm waitin' right here to
get another sight of woman whom
I've follered fur three miles and winked
at over dozen times
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murdered both his parents and visi-
tor at their home. 1t is case of
wayward boy with an ungovernable
temper, possible whose waywardness
had not been curbed at the proper
time. Still his crime is so unnatural
that the position he Is placed in can
elicit no sympathy from an usually
sympathetic public, and if the death
penalty is inflicted, which it no doubt
will be, there can be no regrets.
At Cleveland Ohio, 1900 prayers
will be offered by the members of the
Christian Endeavor for the convention
of Col. Bob Ingersol. The result will
be watched with interest. Kentucky's
going Republican did not change In
gersol's belief, therefore the Endea-
vors have difficult undertaking.
There never has been time in the
past thirty years when laborer could
buy more with days wages than he
can at the present. Food, cloth
ing, fuel, in fact all the necessaries OF
life have come down in price. The
suit of clothes that under the McKin-
ley law cost him S20 he can now buy
for $3.50, the blanket that then cost
him SO can be purchased for Sc, and
all other necessaries have fallen in
proportion. If the new tariff has
caused this reduction in the price of
necessities, has it not benefited the
10000, 900 wage earners of America?
Although General Harrison still re-
mains silent, there is no question
but he will enter the race for the Re-
publican nomination next year. His
candidacy will meet the opposition OF
the bosses, Quay, Platt, Clarkson, Man
ley and Carter, but his friends recog-
nlze that this is time of turning down
the bosses, therefore they feel en-
couraged that Harrison will either get
the nomination or be able to say who
will. Should the ex-president select a
candidate it will not be Mckinley or
Reed, as he believes they were not true
to him In the minneapolis cOnVentlOn.
The sheritrs OF Oregon who are COM
planning of not receiving sufficient
compensation for their services, owing
to Governor Lord having vetoed the
mileage bill, certainly have remedy.
It is their privilege to resign and
allow the different county courts to
supply sheriffs who will perform the
service for the salaries provided. But
their complaint comes with i'll grace
at this time. They accepted their
different offices with full knowledge
of what the salaries were, and by their
acts agreed to perform the services
thereof for stipulated price. If they
are not content to fulfill this agree
ment let them step down and out.
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AN INDIANS AWFUL FATE.

His Alcoholic Breath Caught Fire and He
Was Burned to Death.
The manufacture of distilled spirits,
locally known as hoochinoo, has been
carried on by the natives of Alaska for
long period, and at times during the
early days of the Cassier excitement it
was freely purchased by the white min
ers as the only liquor obtainable, owing
to the strict enforcement of the prohibi-
tory clause against the importation of
liquors into the territory, says the
Alaska Mining Record. Hoochinoo is
nothing more or less than raw alcohol,
being distilled mainly from brown su-
gar or molasses and corn meal. Undi-
luted the stuff has a double proof
strength, makes drunk come" freely
and but few swallows of it will set
man bowling in demoniac glee, and
nothing but an Indian, with his copper
lined stomach, can stand a protracted
spree on it.
The Kalso Indians probably lead all
others in the manufacture of these
spirits and as proof of their knowledge
of the art of making a double proof
article, we give the particulars of the
awful fate OF an expert Kako distiller
which happened recently on that island.
1t seems that this Indian, while en-
gagged in the manipulation of his little
coal oil can still, imbibed too freely of
its tricltlings and in drunken stupor
lay down by his fire of cedar logs aud l
fell asleep, with his face uncomforta-
bly, near the fire and his breath fan
ming the flames. Through some reason |
known only to the medical fraternity |
gas accumulated in the stomach and |
the breath of the sleeper reaching the |
flames the alcohol gas ignited. The |
sleeper suddenly leaped to his feet |
with terrifying scream and fell back
writhing in agony. The man was burn
ing internally. Smoke and even flames
were issuing from his mouth and his
agony was something awful. His loud
screeches brought the members of the
camp about him, who looked on in
silent, terror-stricken awe, unable to
do anything for his relief. The COM
bustion continued until the Indian was
consumed inside and for some |
time after the spirit of life had fed
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ARE NOT YET FORTHCOMING.
Firmins Promised the Powers Have Not
Been Issued.

Firmins Promised the Powers Have Not
Been Issued.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Nov. q, via Sofia,
Nov. 2S.-In spite of the assurances
the Turkish minister of foreign affairs
gave the ambassadors of Great Britain,
Russia, Austria and Italy, yesterday,
that firmins allowing the passage of
the Dardanells would be Immediately
issued by the porte, the necessary doc
uments have not been forthcoming.
Many conferences between the am
bassadors have taken place in the past
"a hours and there have also been many
consultations between the Turkish
ministers and the sultan at the palace.
The answer of the powers to the re-
quest of the porte that they refrain
from pressing their demand for extra
guardships, was that they could see no
reason why they should not support
the demands of ambassadors for more
effective means of protecting foreign
residents of Constantinople in an emer-
gency In view of this unanimous
reply it is considered in foreign official
circles that the sultan has no alterna-
tive but to yield, especially as the
powers will have extra gunboats con-
veyed through the Dardanells by battle
ships if the sultan persists in his dila-
tory tactics.
1t seems highly probable that the
ambassadors have already determined
not to wait for firmins beyond a certain
time and therefore it may soon be an
nounced that the gunboats are coming.
A portion of the British feet, which |
has been at anchor in Salonica bay, is
to have left those waters
for Smyrna, and should now be quite |
near the entrance to the Dardanells. |
All forts about the straits are fully |
and supplied with ammunition,
and in the highest state of efficiency
compatible with the circumstances.
are worked nightly over
the waters. 1t is understood the sys-
tenn of submarine mines and torpedoes
has been practically completed as far
as the resources of the government
will allow
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Criminal Cases at ALBANY.

ALBANY, Nov. 2S.-Mrs. Emma G.
Hannah, on trial for the murder of
Mrs. Lottie Hiatt at Jordan, Septem-
ber 26, was convicted of murder in the
second degree. The grand jury re-
turned three indictments ae nstLloyd
Montgomery charging hin with the
murder of his father, mother and
Daniel McKercner. His attorney
stated that insanity would be the de-
tense If any was made.
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QUESTIONABLE PROSPERITY

The period from 1880 to 1892, the
time when protective tariffs were the
highest, is pointed to as having been
the most prosperousperiode ever known
in the United States. In some re-
spects that period was marked with
apparent prosperity. Many industries
were inaugurated and grew to inn
mense proportions. Steel, iron and
wooden manufacturers increased their
output nearly fifty per cent. The
area of land under cultivation was in
creased almost twenty-five per cent.
The mileage of railroads was more
than doubled and that of telegraph
lines was increased nearly two fold.
The population of the United States
also increased over 5000. 900 from 1880
to 1892.
All this seems to bespeak great pros
perity, growth in wealth that was
never equaled in any other time or
country. But when viewed from
different standpoint, it is questionable
if the people of the United States were
really prosperous during those years.
Statistics rather prove the contrary.
Fredrick Waite, the statistical expert
of the department of agriculture,
makes the statement that during the.
twelve years from 1880 to 1892 the total
net private Indebtedness of the Ameri-
can people increased nearly S13,000,-
100000. In 1880 he says it was S6, $780,
600, 900 and in 1892 it had reached the
enormous sum of $40. zoe, ,0OO,O 900. Thus
it appears that the prosperity of that
period was built up largelyon borrowed
capital, and not from the development
of the natural wealth of the country.
Had the capital that was used in build
ing railroads, telegraph lines and fact
cries and in improving city and agri-
cultural property during that time
been owned in America, the fact of its
being borrowed would not necessarily
be bad showing. But the fact is,
that at least one third of this vast in
debtedness of s19, ,00O, 900, 900 is owed to
Europeans, and the payment of the in
terest on it is such drain upon the
wealth of this country that it is very
questionable if our seeming prosperity
has not been the reverse. If it is sign
of prosperity to build up industries on
capital that is owned in foreign
country. on which the interest pay
ment alone would require balance of
trade in our favor amounting to over
5000, 900, 900 annually, then America
was prosperous from 1880 to 1892, if
not that period was detrimental to
American people.
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If it is true that the tariff |

If it is true that the tariff law is of
such great benefit to English manufac-
turers and SO detrimental to the manu-
featuring industries of America, why
is it that the factories of this country
are nearly all running on full time,
and during the past six months have
been enabled to make advances of
10 to 25 per cent. in the wages of opera
tives This increased activity in man
ufacturing is perceptible all over the
world, and in no country is it more
striking than in the United States. It
is general revival of business from
the depression that begun in 1890, and
the American manufacturers no longer
by exorbitant tariffs on raw
materials are enabled to keep pace with
those Of other countries.
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The following statement published
in the American Wool and Cotton Re-
porter of Boston on the 9th, and given
in the dispatches in yesterdays Ore
gonian, indicate that American wooden
manufacturers are still in the business
and are consuming reasonable
amount of raw material: "Wool sales
in New York, Boston and Philadelphia
have amounted this week to 6,182, 300
pounds, of which 4,206, 800 were domes-
Vic and 1,497, 500 pounds foreign wool.
Although there is a large and more
general inquiry. trade is still compar-
atively dull, which is natural enough
when one considers the immense
amount of stock that this market has
furnished to the mills since January,
an amount which at this date exceeds
by more than $4,000, 900 pounds the ag.
gregate in this market in the CORES
pouding period of 1922
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la rERR1nLE Acc1pENr.
Many Lives Lost by an Explosion of Pow.


Many Lives Lost by an Explosion of Pow.
New YORK, Nov. PA dispatch to
the Herald from Barcelona says:
A terrible accident, resulting in
great loss of life, occurred at Palma,
the capital of the island of Majorica,
13 miles south of this city, yesterday.
Eighty persons, most of whom are
women, were employed in emptying
old cartridges outside of the walls of
the town, when one of the cartridges
in some manner exploded. There was
large quantity of powder that had
been taken out Of the cartridges lying
about over large area and this was
ignited by the discharge of the cart
ridge. A tremendous explosion fol-
lowed, which shattered the masonry
of the town walls, which were ex-
tremely thick, and did much damage
to buildings. Thirty-seven women and
IA men were instantly killed, and 35
women and five men seriously injured,
and of this number 20 have since died.
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IN PALESTINE.
Grave State of Affairs Exists There and In
Syria.

Grave State of Affairs Exists There and in
Syria.
LONDON, Nov. 2S.-A dispatch to
the Daily News from Beyrout, dated
November II, confirms the reports of
a grave state of affairs existing in
Syria and Palestine, and the repeated
danger in which the American mis-.
sionaries have been placed by the
riotous demonstrations of the Mussul-
mans. The dispatch adds that the
whole of Syria and Palestine are
flooded with Turkish soldiers, and
states that in the country between
Jaffa and Jerusalem there are $4,000
troops, all raised within 20 days. The
Daily News correspondent adds:
t'Troops arriving here bear the sig
nificant green flag of the prophet, in
stead of the Turkish flag. Jerusalem
is crowded with soldiers, and troops
are being stationed in the tower of
David, Pilates palace, and in the
wilderness outside of Damascus gate.
The ostensible purpose of the troops is
to subdue the Druses."
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There is one curious fact respecting
the animal creation with which you
will never become acquainted if you de-
pend on your text books for informa-
ton. 1t is this: No living representa-
tive of the animal kingdom has more
than Eve toes, digits or claws to each
foot, hand or limb. The horse is the
type of one-toed creation. the camel Of
the two-toed, the rhinoceros of the
three-toed and the hippopotamus of
four-toed animal life. The elephant
and hundreds of other animals belong
ing to different orders belong. to the
treat five-toed tribe.
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Death of Knifone.

LEBANON, Or, Nov. 2S.-Coroner
Jean held an inquest over the body OF
John Knifong the nightwatchman at
the Waterloo woolen mills, this morn
ing. After hearing the evidence of 10
witnesses, the jury returned verdict
that he came to his death by violence,
inflicted by some unknown person.
There is no clew as to who committed
the murder.
Most of the evidence went to show
that he was murdered, and especially
that of both doctors, who swore that it
was next to impossible for man to re-
ceive such wound as he had from a
fall,
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WHAT WILL THE POLICY BEs

The New York World has asked
prominent Republicans all over the
country for their views as to what the
policy of the party would be in the
next congress with reference to tariff
legislation, and what they favored
making the issue in 1895, also for an
Interpretation of the recent election
results. Very nearly all of the leaders
questioned regard the result as de-
mand for higher tariffs, but they are
widely divided as to what the people
really want. Few of them, however.
throw any light upon the mystery of
what method or course the Republican
congress will pursue.
In interpreting the voice of the peo-