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AN OLD MAIDS EpITAPH.
Old Abigail Henderson Had No Con-
fidence in Mankind.

From the Buffalo Courier.
One of Depew's stories at the Buffalo
Club dinner, which does not appear in his
reported speech, was one told by his friend
Mr. Bishop, for long time president of
the New Haven road. He is now" said
Mr. Depew, resting in his old age in hon
orable retirement and reflection upon the
sins which are frequent with a railway
president He told me the other day that
when he visited, for the first time in sixty
years, the place Of his birth he began to
inquire about the old lady and old maid,
Abigail Henderson, who was his teacher in
his early youth-before he went to the
academy and thence to Yala-and finding
no record of her among the "reminiscences
of the town, went to the churchyard and
there discovered that she had erected a
Renaissance of herself. 1t was a nor u
ment, on which was inscribed: Abigail
Henderson, died aged ninety-six. Put your
trust in the Lord and have no confidence
in man. If Abigail had been the recipient
of the honor you have showered on me to-
night she would have reversed that YER
dict. She might not have expressed her
doubt as to the Lord, but she certainly
would have been treasured about man"
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People Leaving Newfoundland.


Among the passengers whom the steam
ship Portia brought to this city from St.
Johns was Andrew J. Thorbourn, son of eX-
Premier Thorbourn of Newfoundland. Mr..
Thorbourn said yesterday that Newfound-
land is really in deplorable condition.
"People are leaving just as fast as they
can get the means and transportation,
said Mr. Thorbourn. When the Portia LETT
St Johns she had board one hundred
girls who were bound for Halifax to 90 into
service there. Every steamer that leaves
Newfoundland is crowded with people. The
chief cause for the lack of devclopm@nt OF
the resources of the island is the lack Oh
capital
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Had to Stay Home.

From the New York Weekly.
Husband-'I thought you were going t.
the meeting of the Society TO Rescu,
Chinese Women from the Cruelty of Foo
Banda ging% ~
Wife, couldn't get my dress on"
why not?'
1.-THE cook was out, and there was no on,
in the house strong enough to lace my cor
sets"
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VICE IN PHILADELPHIA.
Evidence of ClerSymen Before thu
Investigating Committee.


There has, perhaps, never been an occa-
sion in Philadelphia when the prevalence
of vice, immortality and crime has been
Sc prominently brought before the public
as at yesterdays session of the senate in
vestigating committee, when Lawyer Pet
tit resumed the inquiry into the police bu-
reau.
Evidence was given in general way.
indicating that houses of ill-fame, speak
easies." policy shops and opium Joints
flourish in the police districts in the slums,
and under the very eyes of the patrolmen,
The condition of affairs was similar to
that in New York, against which Rev. DR..
Parkhurst waCed war.
Rev. DIR. Gibbons, a Presbyterian clergy
man, living in the slum district Of the fifth
ward. drew a narrowing picture of the
condition Of things there. immortality in
all shapes and forms was openly visible,
and had defied the efforts of the hes: citi-
zens TO stamp it out. The police, he said,
We're we'll aware of it, and had said they
were unable to do anything. The vicious
class, he said seemed TO be protected by a
powerful political influence that controlled
all elections. The police openly election
eered on such occasions. He knew of po-
licemen who had made efforts to better af-
fairs who were discharged from the force.
The same kind Of testimony was given
by Rev. Fl. Phillips, a colored Episcopal
clergyman, as to the slum sections of the
fourth, seventh and eighth wards
A general idea of The condition of things
in chinatown on Race street. above 9th,
was given by John Duke, janitor of Red
Mems Hall. Opium places We're abundant t.,
gambling everywhere, and Cinnamon con-
sorted with the most DEGRADED of white
women. All this under the eyes CT the po-
Ice. At one time, he said, twenty two
gambling tables were operated in this
small section, and s15 from each of them
was laid aside each week for the police, he
understood.
Eugene Lyon, a private detective, told the
committee of an investigation he made as
to the number of houses of ill-fame he
had found in thirteen police districts. They
amounted to $40. Two hundred and eighty
were in the eighth district, and one hum
dred and fifteen in the sixth district. These
two comprise the Philadelphia Tender
loin." He said Margaret Langdon, one of
the keepers of a house in the eighth dis
trict, had admitted paying a special officer
money for protection. The woman, being
placed on the stand, denied ever paying
any money.
Annie jackson, colcred. said she paid
Constable Jones SO when she was ar
rested recently, and s24 to one of the Roop
brothers for going her bail. The commit
tee adjourned until today.
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STEAM CARPET CLEANING

AMMONIATED STEAM CARPET CLEANING;
Works - Carpets cleaned in the best manner.
Mattresses made to order. Address office, 1920
Pa. ave-, or phone S04. Works. 1O65-67 2Sth st.
mol If NJ. NEWMIER, Manager.
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PIANOS AND ORGANS.
PIANOS AND ORGANS.
PIANOS AND ORGANS. PIANOS AND ORGANS.
q. Open Evenings Ti19
Visit; $$the Bradbury
Christmas |: Reduction
Sale of Pianos.

Everybody seems to be buying pianos for gift giving this
Christmas than before and the grand Christmas
Sale mg1ated by few days has led the conclusion that
of will buy this Christmas made
right We have tremendous stock of piano embracing several
loads of Bradburys direct from the factory besides pianos
OF leading makes and going make great big cas the
stock before Christmas quoting prices giving
you the easiest terms which pianos sold.
Below but partial list of the bargains which
are being offered by during this sa but they will show
how far down the worth of the piano going; how low
manufacturing firm like piano:
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ATTORNEYS

CAMPBELL CARRINGTON, ATTORNEY
Webster Law building, sos d st. NV, Washing
ton. DC. Residence No. Mount Vernon Flats,
New York and 9th ST. sells
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The Hudson at Catslill, N. Y, is frozen
over from shore to shore and navigation
has closed. Last year the river remained
open until December 25
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FOR RENT-HOUSES.

FOR RENT-RESIDENCE 435 0 ST. NV:
rooms and bath: kitchen in of dining room
excellent condition. S25 large front and bach
yards, cellar and rear alley; can be bought cheaI
on easy terms. Apply to owner, K. W. FEN
WICK, 602 st. NV. de13-3t
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EUK
Columbia Heishts-The best bargains on the
Heigh:s-New houses: handsome; well built, aud
complete in all respects. Will be sold cheap for
cash easy terms.
JOHN SHERMAN,
no6-tf Real Estate. Cos 14th st.
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RAILROAD NOTES,

1t Is STATED that the Toledo and Ohio
Central Railroad company will soon
be In the market for 100 or 200 coal
cars.
The Erie Car works, OF Erie, Pa,
have an order from Fl. w. Wick & Co.
Cncorporate0 for fifty drop bottom
gondolas.
The receiver of the Duluth and Win
nipeg Railroad company has applied
to the United States court. at St. Paul,
Minn., for authority to buy 100 ore cars.
The bloomsbury Car Manufacturing
company has received an order for 200
cars for the Leh!gh Coal and Naviga-
tion company. and another order for 100
for Frick e. Co.
The Canadian Pacific officials state
that a large number of cars will be
added to the company's rolling stock
to handle the grain crop of the Cana
dian Northwest.
The Chicago Boston and Liverpool
company. and The Swift Packing COM
pany are reported to be In the market
for refrigerator cars, the former for
twenty-five and the latter for 10O
Contracts were awarded at Ottawa
recently for the construction of 100 plat
form cars. seventy-five box cars and
forty hopper cars for the Intercolonial
road. Rhodes & Currle. of Amherst,
N. s., will build seventy-fve platform
cars. forty box cars and forty hopper
cars. The Ra.hbun company. of Des-
eronto. Ont. secured the contract for
the rest.
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NEWS OF OUR INDUSTRIES.
Happenings Of Interest to the Stapel
Trades aud Particularly to the Trade
in Iron. Steel and Anthracite Coal.

1t is stated on good authority that the
Pennsylvania Railroad company has
possession of the right of way or the
old South Penn, and will. in snort
time, complete the line on the original
survey.
Statistics from the United states
railway service show that one passen-
/ ger is killed for every 100000 passen-
gers carried, or every 4,lOo,22S miles
| travelled One is injured for every
4,7G9771 miles Travelled, or one out or
every 2O4, 24S passengers carried.
| The Huntington and Broad Top Rail-
| road company reports coal shipments
| for the past week amounting to 55,452
| tons. an increase of 7,4O9 tons. The to-
tai shipments for the year to date
amount to l,696,906 tons. an increase
over the corresponding period last year
of 2l4.9S3 tons.
| In 1920 this country produced 22,4OO
tons of pig iron. and Great Britain pro-
duced In the same year 100000 tons !;
in 1860 the produce of this country had
risen to 1910 tons. and that of Great
Britain to 3,S26,752; in 1890 the United
States produced 9,2O27O3 tons, and
Great Britain 7.904.2l4 tons.
The Pennsylvania railroad reports
that the quantity of coal and coax orig
mating on and carried over its lines
| east OF PittsburE and Erie Tor the year
thus far has been 15.776.2S9 tons. COM
pared with 1O.S95,716 tons in the corre-
spending period of 1894. an increase
of 4SS0,573 tons. of which 1853 1l5 tons
were coal, an increase of 2,976,279 tons,
and 40S3 ia tons coke, an increase Of
| 1904 294 tons.
A ShamOkin dispatch says: The En-
terprise colliery. which has been idle
several months on account of the break
er having been destroyed by fire. will
resume operations on Oct. 10. The Luke
Fidler mine, which has been idle dur
ing the past year owing to the disas-
trous fire in which five men lost their
lives. will start again about the middle
of the month. These two mines will
furnish employment for I 600 men and
| boys.
| The three tered cloce-down of oil the
| tinplate factories in the country for an
| indefinite time as soon as the supply of
billets on hand is exhausted does not
amply to the American tinplate plant at
Elwood. Ind. 1t has enoue h steel bille.s
| contra cted for at the old price to run
| 1t until the new steel mill which the
| company Is going to erect to manufac-
ture their own steel billets. is In opera
tion. and this insures steady run for
this Dlant, which is the largest in the
world.
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The world OF BUSINESS
STOCKS AND BONDS.

New York. Oct. 1.-Speculation at the
Stock Exchange was quiet again today,
but the tendency of prices was upward.
After a period of hesitaTcy at the OPEN
ing, prices moved up briskly in the
case of the anthracite coalers on the re-
iteration of the old reports of a COM
bination of the companies for the bet
ter maintenance of rates hnd for the
regulation of the output. The steady
advance in the price of prdduct of late
strengthens the belief of an early con-
sumation of the deal, and i'd is stimulat-
ing purchases of the stocks. Today
Lackawanna jumped 4 to ia: Delaware
and Hudson, | to IA; Jer$ey Central,
~ to 114A, and Reading, to 22. Sub
sequently Reading ran Off as to PISS.
The general list moved up in sympa-
thy, although the Industrials were also
favorably influenced by sptcial causes.
The market closed firm with prices any,
where from 4 to per ceI|t higher on
the day, the latter in Lackawanna. To-
tai sales were 159,525 shares.
The range of tOday's prices for the ac-
tive stocks of the New York stock mar
ket are given below. The quotations are
furnished The Tribune by G. du b. DIM
mick. manager for William Linn Allen &
Co.. stock brokers, 4l2 Spruce street,
Scranton
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possible danger. he drew from his
pocket the blue official envelope which
] had once before caught sight of,
and said with a triumphant smile:
This Is one of my surprise pack
ages"
Indeed" I said. "and what is the
value inside?''
Perhaps a CROWN he answered
srandloquently.
Then he returned 1t TO his pocket. but
no. before I had Noticed two things
about It, The first that 1t was fastened; :;
the second that there was no writing
upon it.
had now to devise some plan to get
possession of this envelope. and 1t was
not long before / hit upon one.
left lie Grand and went into an
other cabin. Here ! opened my valise
and took out "a precisely similar enve-
lope. Then folded sheet of foolscap
Paper and placing ut inside fastened the
envelope. now had a dummy package
not ito be distinguished externally from
the one in lie Grands pocket.
Allahis was simple enough. The diff
Guilty was how to effect the exchange
but had my own scheme.
The custom house officers were as
usual on board, and I went UP to the
chief Of them, and told him In conf
dence that there was a passenger on
board whom it might be well for them
ito search for cigars or tobacco. "Of
course" added. II de- not wish to be
, mixed UP with the business. just give
Iyou the hint for what 1t is worth. You
'canct mistake the passenger in ques-
typn, he is'so immense, and can hardly
bslleve t. rah all his bulk Is genuine"
1lhe official was much obliged to me
for\ th'. hint, and 1t was arranged be-
TWEEN US that the search should not
take place TIL just as we were reaching
Dover. and that should then place
r.iyself close to the suspected passenger
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New York Producc Market.

New York, Oct. .1.-Flour--Quet. firm
Whe2t-Qu.et, weak: No. red store ard
elevator, sc; ahoat, 674a67ssc.; f. o. b..
67AaGl2sc.; No. northern, 66c.; options
closed weak at 2lsc. loss for the day; Jan.
uary, 6Sl.c.: March. 70hc. May, 7Ossc.
October 65c.; December sc. Corn-Low.
er: No. 2, SIC. elevator: CSC. afioat options
closed steady: October, 36Ac. November
36a.c,; December. 35s4c.; May. 35hc. Oats
-spots DUH. eas,er: October. 23Ac.; De.
cember. 24c.: May 25iac.; No. 2 white. Oc-
tcber, &c; spot prices, No. ., 24a2il4c.; No
white, 25iac.; No. Chicago, 25a25hc.; No
3, 23lac. No. white. 24s4c.: mixed west.
ern, 2ia26c.; white do, 25a30lac.; white
state, 25aS0iac. prov.s.ons-Steady. quiet
unchanged. Lard-Qmet. easier; western
steam, S625; city. $Ga605: option sales
none: refined, weak; continent, S6.65: South
America. s695; compound, 5iac. Butter
Firm: state dairy, 12a2Oc.: do. creamery
22c.; western dairy, 9iaalac.; do. cream.
cry, l3a22c.; do. factory, Sal2iec.; Elg.ns
&c; .mtat.on creamery. llalCc. Cheese
Firm steady, unchanged. Eggs-F.rm
state and Pennsylvania, lSalsl.c. western
fresh, l6 1Sc.; do per case, sl.5Oa4.75.
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Dress Goods S @ s

rate 1t was a good opportunity OF put
ting his boasted science 10 the test.
When | brought the subject before
him, ne smiled little sarcastically.
so the scoffer has come to pray, ne
said
Then he carefully scruunized the
writing, at first. with the naked eye.
and afterward with pocket-lense. AT
last he said:
Now | think / have mastered 1t.
Pray ask me any questions you IKE.
| will not undertake to answer them
all. but If l do not know, Will say so
frankly"
VERY well, then. First.-Is this hand
writing natural or disguised!
Undoubtedly disguised"
"Second.-Is 1t a mans hand or a wo-
man's?"
"A MANS
"Third-Is the writer educated, or un-
educated?'
Highly educated"
Can you fix approximately the age Of
the wrter?"
"Only in the toughest way. He is
certainly not a child-not even youth
for the hand is perfectly formed. And
he cannot be very old. for the writing
is quite firm. But he might be any age
between, say, twenty-five and hfty or
even sixty
could think of only one more ques-
ton. AS yet Graham's science had
done but little to help us.
"Is there any peculiarity about the
writing which enables you to give any
further information respecting the
, wr,ter?"
"Ah." he said, that is crucial ques-
ton; the rest was mere ch,ld's play. !
answer it by saying that there Is some
thing very peculiar about the writing
which does enable me to give piece
of Information about the writer. Only,
you will not believe me when tell you
what it is
Tell me, nevertheless" l said
"The writer is blind in one eye"
How can you possibly know that?
"Oh. it is easy enough. If you only
take the trouble to observe. l know,
too, that it is the left eye of which he
is blind and that the sight of the right
eye Is not good"
1T is very remarkable. II true"
'It is perfectly true. You can judge
for yourself. Did you ever see rs
dotted as these are?'
81 do not know What Is there pc
culiar about them?'
perhaps you have never noticed how
people generally dot them. No one ex-
cept. perhaps. schoolboy over his
round hand, ever dots an Il at the time
he forms the letter; he always waits at
least until he has reached the end of the
word. Well. now, a man who has lost
the sight of his left eye, and whose
sight is generally defective, bends over
his paper. and his nose gets in his way
when he wants to dot his 'fs.' The con-
sequence is that 1t Is all done hap
hazard. Now look at the dots of these
rs; they are here there and every
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Z GT G@Y Tgb6ER
ILopyright 1895 by Irving Bachsller.l

No doubt lie Grand saw at once that
It would be impossible for him to main
tain his incognito, so he made virtue
of necessity, and said:
What. are you running away. too"
"Only for day or So" | said.
THAT is just my case. want little
change, ard really there Is nothing to
be gained dancing attendance on the
congress. Never was there such col
lection of dumb dogs"
If | had still doubted that lie Grand
had obtained some valuable informa-
tion, | could have doubted no longer.
Nothing else wculd have justified this
turning of his hack upon the con-
Eress whilst it was still in the middle
of its sttings. l determined to stick
close to him in the hope that l might
gain some defininte information. How
ever. during our long journey he was
very reticent. and 1T was not until we
were actually aboard the steamer
which was to convey us to Dover that
ne allowed his habitual boastfulness to
overcome his caution i'm even the small
est degree Then, Judging himself. no
doubt, to be beyond the reach OF any
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in order to avoid the possibility Of a
| mistake.
All came off as we had arranged. AS
the steamer was on the point of enter
| ing the harbor, | went up to lie Grand
} to fetch my valise. which l had prev
iously placed beside him. Then the
revenue officers came UP and asked him
if me had anything to declare.
Nothing" said lie Grand impa-
tiently
"Please to open your packages
These We're duly examined, but moth
ing cortraband was discovered.
"And now, SIR" said the chief official.
II must trouble you to turn out your
pockets
"Whatw exclaimed LIE Grand, swell
! ing with indignation.
"Cuty, SIR
But 1t is unheard of. Do you know
who / am?'
THAT doesn't matter, sir; we have
the right ITO search any passenger"
"You VIII hear more of this" said lie
Grand
But he had to submit, and he laid a
motley collection of articles on the
table. Amongst them was a blue enve-
lope. This was my opportunity. ! felt
very nervous. but in reality the risk
| vi utltCllCIi was SliSllt, dS NNSiy ciiS 9
eyes were riveted on lie Grand. In
fine | made the exchange without diff
Guilty. Then / quietly withdrew and
went on deck. The sangrlank had al
ready been placed in position. AS was
crossing it, lie Grar1, foaming with i'm
potent anger came UP behind me.
Did you ever hear of such inso-
lence?" he said. II shall have the mat
ter brought forward. in parliament
let him pass when he got on shore,
and then made my way, not to the
Lord Warden, but ITO much smaller
hotel where / knew | should be unmo-
Tested by enemies or friends. Here
opened the packet. True enough, II
contained the dIaft-treaty in French
with THE thirteenth clause obtrusively
marked with red ink.
$50 the prince was right in his sus-
ricions," I said to myself. But how
on earth did lie Grand manage to get
hold of it?''
knew that though had secured the
draft. which might be useful for the de-
lection of the traitor, whoever he might
be. lie Grand was much too sagaclous
to allow himself to be dependent on any
document l did not doubt that he had
learnt off the principal clauses by heart
and that we should. in spite of his loss
see the provisions of the treaty In mex,
days Dial. So I sent the following
telegram to the prince:
81 have recovered the missing parcel
but am pretty sure that most OF Its
contents have been forwarded to Lon
don"
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Buffalo Live Stock

Buffalo, 'Oct .tle-Rece.pts, so
head; on sale, G5 head market opened dull
end weak; Indiana bulls, 81 4ca2s5; Hight
butchers steers. s3.75a3S5: l.ght state
steers. Hogs-Rece t,ts. 1900 head; on
sale. $50 head; market eds.er; Light to good
Workers, A.9Ca4.95; mixed packers. A.75a
4s5; good medium weights, s4.S0ai.s5;
heavy hogs, A.45a4.55; good smooth heavy
ends, s4a4.25; roughs. s3,5Oa2,sO; stays, saa
$50. Sheep and Lambs-Rece pts. $3.50
head: on sale, $3.50 head: market steady
for native lambs and steady to easy for
sheep; choice to prime lambs, $l.iOa4.6O;
far to good, $3.S5ai.90; Light to fair, .i0a
S.75; culls and common. S2.25aS.25; Canada
lambs, $4.i0a4.65: mixed sheep. good TO
choice, s.. 5Oa 9. 80; Light fat wethers. $3a3 25
culls and common sheep. sl.5Oa2.25 ex-
ports So 15a425
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where; sometiines-but rarely-before
the letter; more often behind It; some
times too high up; sometimes too low
down. You can see at once that 1t
is all done by faith and not by sight"
! looked more carefully at the writ
ing; 1t was indeed as Gresham had said.
l thought at once Of Count Shrieval-
jeff. Every one knew that he was
blind of the left eye. He had acted as
secretary to the congress. If. as seemed
certain, 1t was one Of the plenipOten-
tiaries who had betrayed the secret.
Count 'Shrievaljieff must be the man.
hastened with my new piece of infor-
nation to the prince. but had to wait
till the evening before could see him,
as he had just gone back to the con-
gress.
When we met. told him what Gres-
ham had said about the handwriting.
The prince was no great believer In
graphology. and said so.
'HStill." I said, lust consider the ac-
tual position of affairs. Some one has
divulged the main provisions of the
treaty. That some one must be one Of
the plenipotentiarles, for no one else
has had an opportunity Of knowing
them. And II 1t is one of them. the cui
bono question arises. Which Of them
mas the greatest interest IN upSetplnS
the thirteenth clause?"
"Undoubtedly." said the prince,
"Shrievaljieff is the man mcst interest
ed In upsetting that clause. So much
must be patent to everybody. Stlll, I
cay again. 1t is impossible that he can
haye betrayed us. He may net be over
scrupulous. but. still. he would not vio-
late the essential principles of diplo-
macy"
"But consider again." said. 1.-THE
count Is the man to whom the cUl homo
test applies and he Is also the man to
whom my friends description applies.
A man between twenty-five and sixty
that is nothing: but also man blind OF
the left eye-that Ia really significant.
Ia there any other OF the plenlpoten-
t.aries blind of the left eyer"
ut Il very strange" said the pr
0nnar1 iI5nA head mournfully.