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but conditioned upon
good behavior, is an
emincntly sensible
and practical one.
They think Congress
should provide b yleg-
islation for such con-
troll by the board Of
trustees Of the bows
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A $4,000 Fire.

Lafayette. Ind. Dec. 1I-The Bald win
Wpodenw ware factory burned yesterday.
Loss, $4,000, insurance, $4,000.
The evening times., 1896-12-11

CUYLER Is UNDER ARREST
Alexandria Abduction Case May Develop
SenSatiOnallv.
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400 HOMES UNFIT FOR HUMAN BEINGS
List That the Board of Trade Did Not
mt
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ALLEN SAW No FOUL BLOW
Sharkey's Assistant Trainer Describes
the Recent Battle.
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GEN. SHERIDAN'S TWINS
PRESENTED To SOCIETY
Distinguished Assembly Welcomed the
Two Buds
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SPORT IN TIL f ANTIPoDES-
Jennings Daily Fight at Melbourne
Fluke
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CHAIRMAN RELL'S BUSY DAY
Personnel Of the Inaugural Committees
Practically Completed.
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EARNINGS OF RAILROADS
Reports Show General Increase over
Last Year.
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LITTLE GIRL TRIES SUICIDE
Anna Mansfield. of Rutherford, n. J.,
Tired of Life.
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200 LOST ON THE SAILER-
German Lloyd Steamer Lost Off the
Spanish Coast.
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PRISON CONFRONTS BUTTON
Found Guilty of Swindiing Mrs. Godfrey
and Daughter.
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BONA FIDE CIRCULATION.

The circulation of The Times for
the week ended December i, 1876,
was as follows:
Saturday, November 2S..--- 36,Aoo
sunday. Noyember 23 24,O5O
Mondny November 3O $4,000
Tuesday. December l.. $500
Wednesday, December - 3S, 20
Thursday, December 81. 36,4O5
Friday, Dece mher l.. 36, 10
Total copies printed. 242, 10
Less damaged copies, copies
unsJld in office and copies
returned unsold from
news stands and branch
offices ............... S,733
Total ..............,...... 2I3,9S2
/ sclemnly swear that the above
IL q correct statement of the circula-
ton of THE WASHINGTON TIMES
for the week ended December 4,
1896, and that every copy wGs
mailed or delivered for u valuable
consideration.
}. WEBSTER MAGERS,
Manager of Circulation.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 5th day of December, A. ID.
1896.
(SeuI.) EDWIN S. CLARKSON,
Notary Public.
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PARTY HAS COME TO STAY
National Democrats Preparing to Con
duet Active Campaign.
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To SELL BY WHOLESALE
Excise Board Passes Favorably Upon
l4l Applications.
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LETTERS TOLD OF A MURDER
Strange Correspondence Found on John
henderson.
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MACEO'S DEATH DENIED
Cuban Junta RECEIVES Word That the
News Is False.
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ThetIIounger.

~ EN-. GEORGE p. HARRISON, Repre-
" sentative from Alabama, Is occupy
ing ROOMS at tue Riggs. He did not
stand for reelection this year, as he bolt
Ell the Chicago platform, and therefore
stood no show whatever in his State.
They call us boilers, he said last night.
''but l say, as / said when L stumped the
State this fall, that the real bolting was
done in the Fifty-third Congress, when
the Democratic party repudiated the policy
recommended by a Democratic President
and framedin in a Democratic caucus. When
the Democracy of the House voted that
down they cast aside the declared policy of
their party and boltcd.
but wnat proved much m moreimDortant
issue than the money plank in orr State
was the ancient problem OF negro domina-
ton. This proved more efficient means
Of keeping the Southern Democrats in line
than any other put before them.
Had 1t not been for that l feel certain
that the State would have gone for sound
money, or, at any rate. the fight would
have been mach closer. AS 1T was. over
$4,000 Democrats stayed away from the
polls, and know, personally of very many
others who were really for gold, but who
voted for Bryan on tue negro issue"
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AGENT LEWIS AN ABDUCTOR-
Mrs. Sturges Says He Took Her Adopted
Child.
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I>HOUGH one would scarcely suppose
so. even the drug trade is AFFECTED

1>HOUGH one would scarcely suppose
l 50, even the drug trade is affected
by hard times, as was explained in
the lobby of the Raleigh, by Dr. c. Craw-
ford or Detroit, Mich, who is the repre-
sentative of a large Western drug house.
In times or business depression, sald DIR.
Crawford, his business falls Off nearly
as much as does that OF persons in other
lines. The poorer classes, and, in fact,
many people who are comparatively well
tn DO, always seem to place the services
OF physician IN the category of luxurics,
and when hard times cone this is one OF
their first economies. They Consider that
there is not only the Doctors fee but the
expens" Of the prescription afterward.
therefore they put off consultation with
n doctor as long as possible, and often 90
without II altogether. Instead they buy
either a patent medicine, or try 10 cure
themselves with some standard drug.
This one OF the effects of bad times is
to increase the safe of drugs which people
feel safe in taking without i prescription
as Rochelle salts, nuX vomica, Guininc, etc.
DR.. Dawson said that al other observation
to be made In the drug trade is the great
increase in the sale OF anti-toxiue re-
Gently, especially ia the Iast few months
This drug is Sold almost exclusively to
doctors. as the fact that it has 10 he
injected, hypodcrmically. makes ii DIFF
ficult and dangerous of administration.
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QUEEN LII COMING HERE
Former Ruler of Hawaii Now in san
Francisco.
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WITHOUT PAPA'S CONS ENT-
Miss Sha Tcuand Mr.. .SteelBrayed Parents
for Love
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20 ROHIBITIoN. according to George p
Craven, OF Portland. Me, is prac-
tically dead letter in his state
II either party bad the courage to place
the repeal OF the prohibition laws and the
substitution OF high license in its plat
form. lac thinks il would carry the state by
large majority But such q change is
strenu"usiy opposed in all the conventions
by two diametricaiiy opposed parties. It
is combatted, on the one hand. by the
straight-laced total abstinence people. and
on the other by the most corrupt saloon
politicians For there is not a single town
in the whole State where liquor is not
sold, eitber openly or sHrrcptitiously.
Portland, especially. has had an cx-
perienoe in saloons. Several years ago tie
Democratic lCCai ticket was elected on a
dispcnsary platform. The most aggres-
sive crusade was instituted against the
salcons. They were raided twenty times
day, Unnecessary. but they were all finally
closed and whisky was procurable only
at the municipal agency. The string OF
people at the agency was often half a
block long, and they stood there from morn
ing till night The agency was able at
tie end Of the year to turn $4,000 into
the school fund, while the men in charge
feathercd their own nests nicely.
But the people Of Portland very soon
We're tired OF this system, and voted it
down so that to-day there are dozens OF
saloons running openly in the town. One
effect OF prohibition, said Mr.. Craven. is
bad business. The moment a prohibition
law Is enforced business falls as flat as
ones hand The reason for this is that
Farmers from the outly wing districts cease
10 come To the town, while the citizens Of
the town themselves take their money to
other places where they can get liquor.
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BIG JOB FOR CIVIL SERVICE
Preparing the Examinations for the En-
gineering Service.
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COOLEY. sunerintenLIent or

! the departments Of history and fin,
arts Of the Nashville Centennial Ex-
position, which is tn be held nex. year. is
registered at the St James. He is in
Washington IN the interests Of the exposi-
ton While here re VIII consult win the
officials Of the city and National Govern
m"nrs with regard to their respective ex-
libitS
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Choice of $50 boys, = to15 years,
suits which have been selling for
IL for
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RLINGTON-Gustave II. Martin. New
\ OrE: Joseph Ta!bert, 81 Paul: william /.
Llkins Plaladelphia: Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie
Warner. Nashville: " :. Kirkpatrick. Eas-
ton, L a..
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Take these special offerings
under family consideration.
They tell of big valueS-big
SavingS-big satisfaction for
Tomorrow's buyers at the "big
store"
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SI.OO each.

Finest Boys aIl-wool ch4nchilia
reerers. 3 to Is years, which have
Deem Sc. 80, reduced TO
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The circulation of The Times for
the week ended December 4, 1896,
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Bah
HOW HE LOST HIS GINGER:

An old soldier who bears the sears OF
several wounds received n the la,e I'M
plasaucness was speaking to the writer
about odd incidents Of the war, and
among other Things said:
Courage S so differen. n different
people that I have been often surprised
20 see exhibitions Of bravery in unlock
editor quarters. There is a man who
used to live in Marion, Ohio. who has
The index finger of his right hand miss
ing, and f asked the manner OF rs loss
VIII simply say that ne lost il in the
civil war. The story OF the affair $ pc
culiar. though | am told that there are
Instances of he same nature that have
occurred. He was married few mon rs
when the call for volunteers was issued,
and he yearned to respond TO his coun-
try'S invitation HIS wife put her foot
down at once and said that he should not
80. Two months passed. and as tne
q cries came from the front of the roar
ing OF cannon and Of blood beng split
William. for that was his name. vowed
that he would 90 to the scene Of battle.
One night his wife saw him get up in
his sleep. and, putting himself in he
rec attitude extend as hand as though
i- clU-ched a swcrd. and cry: Forward
This proved en- her mind so hat the
u. ght ai,erward she asked him If he
fully intended to join the army. He
replied emphatically that he did.
That night when William slept she
arose. and with steal,hy step and deter
mined look took a Ratchet from under
the bed and came 10 the side Of her
sleeping husband She noted the calm
ness Of his cOuntenance and bent and
kissed his forehead as a tear coursed
down lec cheek Then she took the IN
deX finger of his right hand. and, sep
ara.ing It from the. others, laid It upon
The side rail and brought the Ratchet
down with such force as 10 sever the
digit. William awoke, and what he said
is no. recorded, but he was made Of
s-erner stuff than his better half
thought When the smoke CT battle
rolled upon the field of Bull Run and
union hearts beat wildly n the first
greer encounter. the martial sound of
Williams drum urged on to glory many
am Ono man. He could not handle a
musks,. but he Went 20 war."-Colum-
bus Dispatch.
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that means the PCr. Of a Hair. The
Venezuelans are sentimental people,
and that must be the reason why they
named their principal port such an
emotional name. You can tie your
boat with a single hair Of your head.
the water is so smOo.-.," they tell You
in very good English when you ask
about the larbCr.
There 5 no dock at Puerto Cabello.
The banks are steep and the vessels
can ride up anywhere and. after tying
fast. begin TO unload. / should think.
if one were to Jump off the dock in
Puerto Cabello one would 60 down 300
feet,
At Porto Caballo I took little steam
boat. as one steams from New Yo.k
TO Roston. and next morning l was IN
La Guayra. the seaport by which one
goes 70 Caracas. the cap tai OF NeneZu-
Ella. Caracas IS only fuT miles back
from the cca:,. Il IS SIX miles, as
The crow flies. bu. as he railroad tr1v-
els It 5 thirty niles, for there IS a
mountain o be travelled up.
Caracas is the most remarkable place
for the capital OF a country that YOU
ever imagined. In tine Of war :, would
be impossible 20 AXE It. One modern
Leon,das could mold ,he pass" against
John Bull and all his warrior sons.
I, les upon the side OF a mountain
La S.lla. Back Of It raises peak 5000
feet high and in front Of it is one
5000 feet hg1 Tall mountain spires
are all around it, and in between the
peaks here flow l.rie rivers thar keep
the valley green and fertile. The Cast
Amarillo, home of President Crespo,
doomed up tall and waite far away.
When you get into the city of Car
acss You find yourself IN q town about
the SIZE of Buffalo. n Y. or smaller.
Now i has much over 100000 .nhabi-
tanjs, but in times Of peace there are
fewer I. IS a spreai-Ou, city with
stone houses of many colors. all trim
med with vines A man must build
his house the same style here by law
A woman wants always 10 see all
there . in the first day. I directed the
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sugar groves and buy mp coffee o.
Chards and send the fruit north. IN
return they are agents for every sort
of thing that is made here. They buy
up everything from an egg heater TO
patent rocker. and they send north all
the fruits that are p2rt OF our Northern
dinners all the year round.
Just now the air in the hotel was
subdued one. Everybody was afraid
to speak and q dOwn-cast feeling pre-
vailed in the hearts OF the merchants
boarding there Their wives crochetted
and tatted all day and the children
played about bun / noticed that the
men fingered over their hands OF cards
and talked. with intervals between, as
though greatly distracted.
The trouble is here just as il was IN
New York when the war message hrst
went forth Trade is paralyzed. The
Venezuelans have got an idea there 10
gong to be war. and they are all de-
termined 10 be either idlers or war
riors and not 10 work any more ior
their daily bread They won't work.
and Won can't drive them to work.
Just now is the annual harvest OF
Venezuela. The coffee crop is ripe ana
the season is as important as the wheat
crop north. or the orange picking IN
Florida. The people earn enough now
to last them all through the year.
The coffee trees are ripe now. Their
dark. rich. lus.rous lengths Of foIiage
lie scorching in the hot sun. The Der
ries are ready for the picking. Inc
steamers stand In the ports ready 10
carry the berries north. But the pick
ers-whera are they? Echo answers
where, They are gathering in the re-
eruiting stations and talking war. You
can't ger a man to work for love or
money. 4 few feeble women are on
in the fields picking basket full OF
coffee berries for some good customer
who has told her that for every bag o.
coffee beans she brings him he VIII
nav her three times more than be mas
ever paid any other season; but the
men end boys-thOse who know how
10 thrash the trees and climb from
limb to limb, gathering great hand
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diver Of the carriage. a low, broad,
dark vehicle, to take me to the best
hotel.
Net the best," he replied, but the
hotel where English is spoken.
rs not that the best?"
Not if you love the hot fruits CT
South America he said, rolling his
tongue and looking at me questioning
~
q don't. Take me where they speak
English.
will you tell me, " asked as step
ped from the carriage in front of a
how you came 10 speak such good
English?"
"Certainlee, replied he, showing his
first trace of Venezuelan. Il am by
profession d doctor. Times are hard
in Venezuela Trade is paralyzed.
There is no money to pay. drive my
horse and carriage for a maintenance.
In this country all who belong to the
professions are obliged by law to know
two languages beside their own. I
chose English and French. Parlez-
vOus Francois, AIademoiselle?'
Non" said l. "nothingbut English.
But remain, and l will drive with you
around Caracas | want TO see the
home Of the President
Impossible Mademoiselle, impossi-
bic"
Why impossible"
Because you are unchaperoned.
The etiquette of Spain prevails here.
You would not be pairmitted None
but women dynamiters go alone in Car
acas."
TO come TO Venezuela as a citizen of
the United States is to come as It's
most honored guest, but to come, as
purposely did, without introductions
to the American minister and without
credentials is to invite all the suspi-
cipn with which Venezuela is filed.
COSMOPOLITAN HOTEL.
In the "English-speaklng" hotel Of
Caracas l found many people | little
thought OF seeing. There were Eng
lishmen. Germans. Danes, Spaniards,
Italians and Americans They are all
here for the South American trading,
and for their convenience eight or ten
ocean steamers arrive at the Puerto
Cabello-the port | first landed at
every week. The vessels bring down
manufactured goods and take away SUI
gar and coffee. The Americans hire
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temptations To-day, as l tore the page
Off my Dickens calendar | read tbs:
May l tell YOU why It is a good thing
for us 20 remember the wrong that has
been done TO us? That we may forgive
IT," And that l believe s the judgment
that VIII be given to many woman
who has not s.nned, but wlo has been
judged by the Vehmger,cht OF the world
and received from it as her verdict
The Benefit of the Doubt God help
her who receives this judgment. l do
no. need to ask God to punish them
who give it upon her, and yet you and
her ne.glbor who are women. may well
ask tnat in your innocent, the verdict
of the worlds, that damnable verdict,
the benefit Of the doubt" may never
be given to your child, or her child, or
10
Bah.
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fuils of coffee beans-they are not

fuils of coffee beans-they are not
there.
WON'T PICK THE COFFEE.
Coffee beans are not always the dry,
hard things you grind in the draw
ing room with pssIe and mortar. Once
upon a time they are scft and perish
able. II coffee IS not picked N time IL
falls to the ground and ro;s. and the
crop is lost; God pity those Venezue-
lans next spring, when peace is sure
and there is no money 10 fall back
upon. They will be in as bad q STATE
as the cotton growers were after the
war. No crop, no money, nothing to
dc, Just starvation waiting Tor them.
But the Venszuelans VIII lave only
themselves to blams. They ale TOO IN
fiammable by far. The best way Of
settling them is to let them figh It out,
and in ting ths country would be
empty, for those TO possess II who
would. That IS a woman's opiniol OF
the Venezuelan!
In ths hotel it was very pleasast.
There were electric lights and push,
bells Course dinners Of American
dishes we're served. and in front OF the
door stand carriages
saw Crepe next day. But, oh, brief
was the glimpse Crsspo was afraid OF
his shoes and his head. The former
may be taken away from him by the
leader of the Opposition, and the latter
may be removed or shattered by almost
any chance bandit Recently some one
they think il was q woman, planted
dynamite bombs under the House and
Senate, and left, as an evidence OF her
regard. bomb under the front stoop oil
each house occupied by government
official Somebody ''fessed' and tbs
bombs were found, but Crespo hasn't
forgotten it,
| saw him from a distance, twenty
feet away. He was standing upon the
+ balcony Of his house He is thick-set
man, with "billy-goat whiskers" and a
red face. His skin is dark, but his cast
Of countenance $ not displeasirg.
Crespo IS very rich man. engaged in
many trading operations and judging
him with the bird s-eye comprehension
of a woman. | should say he was very
fair-minded sort of man. | do not
think ne is very anxious for war. But
he certainly does want TO be popular
He IS appointing political opponents to
PAGES in the Government, and he Is
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VIRTUES OF WINNER FRuIrS-

/
Sac has just returned from a foreign
! grape cure, with a bloom On her cIoeA
/ -nu iglt in her eye worthy OF q HoUe.
/ II IS the eSiheic. Of med.ca. ue1,,r
meni, sac said. "faere j. none OF tle
! p3rsphernalia OF a bat0e TOR heath;
out sunshine, fresh air and grapes Ona
can live on them from mounting Ull
nigh;. At-liTsI I Gould - po,-~
Day, but before long / progressed TO
tn pounds and even beyond -laL
Fancy t.
Although We cannot all yi.i, fo;e'gl
cures, still, az this time Of the year
grapes are abundant and within the
reach of mos: persons, who would un-
dcIb;e1ly find a pound a dly good
economy. We must let our magma
tons furnish the surroundings CT the
cure-',he vines laden with purple cius-
ters the pleasant hotel. the higl pure
! air-and devote ourselves % me prlc-
teal details Of eating all 'de grapes
; possible
Very few people are aSre Of the me-
d.cinal qualities OF grapes, bur these
they possess The pup IS nutritious
and the juice contains sugar fannie
acid, bitartrate of potassium. tartrate Of.
calcium. common salt and e.phate Of
potassium.
Without doubt tn woman who cuti-,
Yates the habit CT eating a great dea' OF
fruit IS the gamer in health and appear
ance5.
Tn grape fru.t or sladdock. call
& I
or, 10 mention !ts slft Chinese name
Dumel0, is highly Dr.z by those who e
live in mal1rial localities It's CHARM
ing rival to Quin,ne AM Boa al1 Is
driving them from the field Sac wlJ
eats her grape fruit with q spoon from
the natura. cup or relishe' !, served as
a salad may gladden. her b arr with ta'
reflection that she Is not .Qply pleasing
her palate but beueft.ng her healtn
Like oranges and lemons. the grape
fruit has great medicinal virtues NJ
you are Of 4 bilious Temperament
grape fruit. if fevers threaten ear gIiN
fruit: but, in this latter case do So Oily
at the advice Of phys.ci111.~ 1./a,r'
may BE- cerlslRse>Idencia R1iI the
grape frulS%ould only agr - TIE
complaint is often made that l's fruit
IS extremely bitter and unpleasant; y
is only the white inner r'nd NNc1 r
so, a3d this shou,d always bo feiu.y
removed.
To refer to eating" cu-o quite on
Of the prettiest salads have '7 lately
was a green pep1ar sl'al Ile large
peppers hs1 been c0ensl and 'ae seeds
removed. then a Russian salai com
posed of various voge.8b.c was lelp-
within the shells AMI covered WITH a.
delicious mayonnaise These prefy
green boats lay on bed of lettuce.
leaves. and about the base - Oh no. anl
through the curlei .e7yes saone y.Vil
flame-lke nasturtium blossoms
How very pretty and artistic. ] e1-
Gained
THE cook does no. thing o.. rsp'- ~
my hostess with smile, '1eiiaNF s,e
nor | knew that the peppers mus. Dr.
cut or the seeds taken ont 1no'r W'.sr'
consequently she burned 5e- 1ln9.
NANCY MANN WADDLE.