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KITES ALOFT ~ THE MIST.
Dark Day Iutcrfered with Eddy's Expert
mrnis at the Honmnn House.

The kite experiments conducted BY William
A. Eddy and II. l.. Allon at the Hoffman House
yesterday were only partly successful owing to
the mist. The wind WAS variable and weak and
the day SO dark that, had the camera been sent
aloft, nothing valuable would have resulted.
Tie first kite was sent up Mt 1880 \, NJ. and was
soon followed by two others. The two highest
kites disappeared In the mist. leaving only tho
lowest ono visible. a flag was sent up ~ about
noon, and IL was maintained Mt n height of
about 700 feet most of the time until 3 =. Nj.
when the topmost kite collapsed IN n sudden
gust.
The broken Kite vas dragged to pieces on
some wires. and the tag, which dropped into
Twenty-lith street, was saved with dltllculty
after the kite line had been purpo-e,y broken.
A new line OF two kites was sent IN later, but
II was soon found that tho wind was failing.
Mr.. Eddy says the experiment WAS Interesting
al showing that kites Of very light construction
can be maintained In the mir in spite Of tho fact
that BOTH strings and paper were soaked With
the mist or very iow-running clouds. The flag
and kites attained an estimate altitude OF
LOO or 1900 feet. The wind died out at 4
l.. NJ. thus ending the e. experiment.
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1nANKsGIVING IN BERLIN.
13O Americana Attend the BANQUET at tho
kuiHerhOE

BERLIN, Nov. @6.-Thanksgiving Day was
observed by Americans here in the usual man
ner. In the evening IA banquet was given at the
Kaiserhof, at which 230 guests were present.
Ambassador Uhl, who presided, made n brief
speech, in which lie testified to the Importance
OF the part German-Americans had played in
the history OF the United States. He Then
called for three cheers for Emperor William.
which were given with hearty good will.
Mr.. Chl warmly eulogized President Cleve-
land. He called for three cheers for Mr.. Cleve-
land. and the guests responded with enthus!-
asm. the cheering lasting for about two min
utes. Finally. the banqueters gave three cheers
for President-elect Mckinley, whose name was
greeted with deafening applause.
Mr.. William :. Carroll, American Consul
General at Dresden. gave the toast, Tho Day
We Celebrate"
Cable dispatches were sent, one to President
Cleveland and the other to Mr.. Mckinley, say
Ing that. the ,Americans assembled Mt the
Thanksgiving dinner in Berlin sent patriotic
greetings TO the President and President-elect
Dancing began At IL O'Clock.
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MADE LOVE TOO FUR1ousLY.
He Annoyed n Girl First bv HI. Elusive.
ness and Then by HE NuIs

Edward Jones. middle aged. tall. dark aad
rather good looking. was arrested in Newark
yesterday morning and committed to jail for
sixty days by Judge Eggers for annoying a
youn: woman by his lovesick attentions.
Jones says that he is a Boston reporter and that
his brother. A. l.. Jones, is an editor in Ottawa.
He was arrested by Patrolmen Johnson and
Eckerlein at the request of Mrs. Carrie Nichol-
son of 81 Warren street, because he
refused to leave the house and became
turbulent when ordered to go. Miss Kate
Jcnkinson, a niece of Mrs. Nicholson, lives
with her. and she is the one who
found Jones' attentions oppressive. She met
him a year ago and he fell. in love with her, but
his affection was not reciprOcnicd. she says.
Since then he has written f:lly fifty letters to
her. and those which she received recently be-
came vulgar and abusive. 1t was a surprise
when he presented himself at tho honsc yester-
day in view Of the indecent character of the
letters.
Jones seems sane upon every other subject
but his love for the young woman. He says
that he is an abused man. In spite ~ the fact
that he has been committed to jail for sixty
days. he will be brought before n United States
Commissioner to-day and arraiGned for send
ing indecent matter through the mails.
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THE PApAL CoSsIsToRT.
A Gable Message Received Saying That II
VIII BE Held ON Dec. d.

PHILADELPHIA Nov. 26.-The tdth"iir Stand
ard and Times in It's issue tomorrow will say:
A cablegram from Rome to the Cdttuiic Stand
ard and Times names Dec. 3 az the date for
holding the public consistory. This is official:
An authoritative announcement on this point
has been looked for since tho opening of tho
present month. and from unofficial sources
came information naming various dates be-
tween Nov. 10 and Nov. 30.
The Cardinals who will receive tho red hat
on Dec. 3 are Satulli. J%acObini. AGliardi, Fer
rata. and Di Petro. who were absent from Rome
at tho time OF their appointment. Ia addition
10 investing the Cardinals already appointed, it
Is said that the Pope will confer the honor OF
the Cardinalate upon two other distinguished
ecclesiastics. The first OF these Is y. Pieretti,
master of the sacred palace. and the second il
Canon Frisco OF the metropolitan chapter of
OF ST. Dominic, and the latter ia the most dis
tinRuished theoloGian in Naples. Other i'm
portRnt appointments are expected.
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PREACHED AGAINST TR ISIS.
The Rev. Mr.. Eisdon Says Look Out for
Brpnuinm In 1890.

wArERBUR Conn, Nov. 26.-The Rev. VIM.
P. Elsdon. q former pastor of the First Baptist
Church. in a sermon at the union Thanksgiving
services to-day IN tho First Methodist Church.
declared that II no legislation against the COM
bination of capital is accomplished during the
next four years. Organism will triumph in 1900.
He asserted that multiplying trusts and
monopolies. in which bands of capital join
wealth to wealth TO buy up industries and to
control the markets. are organized conspiracies
for public plumber. Wheat speculation, the
high price OF coal. and the proposed consoliua-
ton %f New York gas companies were bitterly
denounced.
"Our whole system Of doing business needs
forming he asserted. He thought that the
hope OF the future Of the American Government
lay IN the individual voter. and he expressed
Its convictions that the refusal OF the nation. TO
go into voluntary bankruptcy and to discharge
his obligations on tho basis of 53 cents on q dol
lar, was O reason for profound thankfulness.
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DIR. DIGS TRANSPORTING.
Three Causes for Gratitude Found In th'
Result OF tho Election.

Result OF tho Election.
At Trinity Church yesterday morning. DR..
Dix, the rector. said that the country at large
had much to be thankful for in escaping the
danger which threatened it for months prior to
election day. and compared the conditions eI-
listing prior TO 1851 to those which confronted
us until the last election was decided.
I'VE never thought he declared, after the
troublesome times between 1851 and 1865 that
we would ever be obliged to face a similar dan
ger again, vet here in 1896 we have seen process
sions OF stern visaged men, not armed, 1t is true.
but just AS determined as the men Of thirty
years ago. marching through our streets bound
TO save our country's honor"
Three things especially, he explained. the peo-
pie had to be thankful for as a result OF the
elections: First, the saving of our national
honor: second, its rescue from financial wreck,
and third, its deliyerance from sanguinary class
conbats. Glasses, he declared. were a neces-
sary product of civilization, and wherever
classes were found there were bound to be nate,
contention and strife.
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PARTY IDOLATRY BROKEN.
One Reason why tho Rev. NJ. HenShnw
Celebrates Thanksgiving.

At All Souls Church. Sixty.sIxth street and
Madison avenue. yesterday morning, the Rev.
a. n. Henshaw. assistant pastor. delivered an
address on the causes fer which We should be
thankful.
I'VE owe Thanksgiving to Almighty God
for the outcome Of the recent election" he sad.
when the honor ana integrity OF our country
wers preserved. If this Government IL To
stand. the. people must be enlightened In the
use or the ballot, and must make conscience the
down the old blind idolatry OF party 10 some
extent, and We should be thankful for II, Tho
interest of the whole world is centred In tho
action OF this country"
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SIXTY DAYS FOR nEPENriNcE.
Two Bowery Characters DO n Good Turu
In Jcrney city.

Richard Burke of lO5 Bowery and John
Dooley of 1914 Park row, this city. were arraigned
yesterday before Police Justice Potts OF Jersey
City on n charge OF being disorderly persons.
1t was said that they had attempted to kidnap
Michael Powers. u years old, who lives Mt lsl
Morgan street. The two men had been drinking
on Wednesday, and they got in company with a
negro. who displayed considerable money.
Robert Shaw overheard them planning TO rob
The negro. and warned him. The negro boarded
n trolley car Fand got away from them. The
suspicion that they were trying To kidnRp tho
boy arose from the fact that he fell in the
street. and they picked him M. They were
taking him home when they wcr" arrested on
the boys aunt, appeared in court 10 press tho
charge OF kidnapping. but Judge Potts did not
think there was anything in il. He committed
the prisoners 10 the prn.tentiary for sixty days
on the charge of disOrderly conduct,
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SANTA FE IMPRoVEMENTs.
A MILTON and n Hair OF Dollars to he
spent In n Few Months.

CHICAGO, Nov. 20.-President f. p. Ripley OF
tho Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Company. who has been in Topeka several days
attending tho hearing OF the receivership case
In the Federal Court, said in an interview in
that city last night that between this time and
next July tho company would expend a million
and a half dollars for improvements.
"The road" he said, has been greatly i'm
proved during the past three or four years, but
more especially during the past year. In the
past year nearly a million dollars has been ex-
pended for improvements. We are practically
putting the money into the road alone, replace
Ing wooden bridges by substantial iron struc-
worth of new steel has been contracted for,
which will be laid IN the spring; The majority
OF this rail will be laid on the Chicago division.
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HoRw1cH,s BARREL BoxFIREs.
ThanksEivInE Celebrated In Oid-TIme Style
In the Connection CITY.

NORWICH, Conn, Nov. 26.-In this old Puri-
tan town Thanksgiving was celebrated with all
customary quaint and unique Colonial cere-
monies and practices peculiar 10 the place and
OF immemorial usage. Tonight since dusk the
heavens have been aglow with tho ruddy SPLEEN
dor OF more than u score of barrel bOnfres on
all tho tall hills about Norwich. The boys were
busy since, August gathering about 1900 bar.
stacks from iifty to eighty feet high. some of
the barrel burning gangs had as many as $50
barrels.
The practice is @ local one. and so great 10 its
antiquity that no knows about It's origin. In his
youth Benedict Arnold. who was born and
dwelt in Norwich town, was one OF the most ar
dent barrel burners OF his day. The Norwich
girls burned etiigies or notices and other SYM
bols In spools strung on thread In their house
yards. At the current price the bcys burned
about $3.50 worth of barrels.
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Mrs. +. ". Vanderbilt Makes 4SO News
boys and Others Happy.

NEWPORT, K. l., Nov. 20. Four hundred and
fifty newsboys. messenger boys and bootblacks
were made happy.to-day by Mrs. Frederick w.
Vanderbilt, who gave them a Thanksgiving din
ner. 1t was Of an elaborate menu. hnely pre-
pared and served by young women Of Nina Cir
Gle of Kings Daughters, to whose care the donor
entrusted the entire management OF the affair.
when IL came time To open the doors there were
nearly twice AS many seeking admittance as the
hall would accommodate. But none was TO be
turned away, 30 800 were fed first and the rest
later.
The exercises consisted of music by a full or
chestra and addresses by Mayor Boyle and the
Roy. Is. u, BoRrdman, who eulogized Mrs. Van
derbilt. The boys sanR and cheered their host
candy.
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Thanksgiving for s~ound-Aone Triumph.

RIDGEwooD, Nj. Nov. 2e.-Nearly all tho
people here are sound-money folks. and they
were greatly elated at the success of the sound
money ticket To-day there was q union service
OF tho Baptist Dutch Reformed and Methodist
congregations at the Baptist house OF worship,
at which the people reJolced earnestly, while
Christ Church wRs adorned with all the fruits
and farm products common to the county.
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Willie Thompson, the 2.year-old baby. who
was shaken up so badly and had a portion of
his scalp torn out by n II. Bernard dog In front
OF his home In Wyckofr street. Brooklyn. on
Wednesday, night, was said Yesterday to have
recovered from the shock. Tao doctors who
sewad M his scalp regard his escape as marvel
lOus. They apprUhcnd no serious consequences.
unless erysIpelas should set in.
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JoTTlNGS ABOUT TOWN

Michael Burns, the fireman who was sealded
wednesday by the bursting OF a steam pipe In the
Hotel savoy, died In the Flower Hospital yesterday.
The faotlonal dimculties OF the organization Re-
publioRns In the Twenty-Seveneh Assembly dis
that William Nicholas HoEg shSl be the leader or
the organization men.
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Prominent among our better
overcoats is one made from q new
fabric that has all the warmth and
wear of kersey, yet is soft and
yielding to the touch.
A rare combination, and a rare
good coat it makes.
All the style, finish and appear
ance of the very expensive oyer
coat.
Yet our price is but $40.
Needn't spend $40 though to get
a good coat.
Rocppc prE,r e. %
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ROGERS, PEET & Go.

Prince and Broadway.
Warren and Broad way.
Thirty.second and broadway.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-12-26

II am sure of it. Last night they
were in the back room till II o'clock.
and they would not let me go in there
to-day. / guess they have cut a hole in
the floor"
For three months after the bank
opened a watchman had been kept in-
side. Then some one growled at the x
pense and he was changed to the out
side and given the whole block to pa
troll. For a minute or two, as Uncle
BILLY looked so confident, the president
wondered if there was not something in
it. Then he felt amuseda the idea 0nd
said:
~Nell, Uncle Billy, yon are our bur
glar catcher, you know. Perhaps you'd
better sleep in the bank here for a few
nights"
"Tn do It, and I'll catch burglars,
too;" exclaimed the delighted old man.
It was arranged that he should be
left in the bank at night, and he was
given an unloaded double barreled shot
gun for q weapon, and received many
cautions, To give you a fair idea OF
what thesrobbers were after, / must ex-
plain that the safe, which stood out
side the vault, was only for day use. AT
the close Of Business each day every
thing was deposited in the vault, which
was of brick, withsa heavy iron door,
and supposed to be burglar proof. AS
Uncle Billy couldn't get into the vault,
and no burglar inside could get out, the
bank people laughed as they asked each
other how he was going to work it to
capture anybody. Further, he was ID
be locked in the bank, with no way Of
getting out.
ON the second night of Uncle Billy's
guardianship, something happened
which Parkville is talking about yet
That day the firm of White s. Gregg
drew out their deposit, claiming they
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-12-26
BOW tha Arnhn sloan.

AH
The act that in Algeria there are very
few maladies of the nose, ears and
throat has caused DIR. Madeuf, an emil
nentphysician, to inquire into its cause,
and he has found it due in a large meas
ure to the practice of Arab mothers,
who train their children to sleep on a
hard bed with one or two ~coverlets for
bed clothing, and to lie on their sides,
not on their backs. 1t can easily be
shown that the right side is preferable
to the left for q person to sleep on. For
one thing, the action of the heart or
liver is not impeded in any way by the
pressure of the body when one lies on
the right side. DR.. Madeuf seem to
think that sleeping ON the back is the
worst of all. If there is any irritation
Of the mucous membrane of the nose, it
is apt to extend to the ears and throat
when one sleeps in this position. More
over, one is very prone to breathe by the
mouth, which is. neither a healthy nor a
seemly habit. The doctor, therefore,
counsels all mothers to accustom their
children to hard beds and TO sleep on
their sides. The habit formed in in
fancy will be useful to them in their
way through life, and probably save
themfrom more than one illness.-Lon-
don Public Opinion.
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BLIND TOM.
DsautIful Musical Soul in q Repulsivo
Body.

ABeautiful Musical Soul In q Repu1siv0
Body.
IN the spring Of 1891 he came to OK
ford, Miss. 1 was then teaching in the
state university, and Blind Tom and
his manager, Mrs. Bethune, / suppose
* was-Had their quarters at the same
hotel at which I was boarding. 1 thus
had the opportunity Of making several
discoveries in regard to him. One was
that he aras not totally blind, When.
Andy, the hotel waiter, would bring.
Toms meals to his room Tom would
bend over the plate and scan it eagerly
s0nd was sure to let himself be heard
from if anything he wanted was not
there. And / tested Tom in his room
and found he could tell where j was sit
ting.
Another discovery was that lie was
not altogether the idiot I had heard be
was After his musical exhibition was
aver I went up to talk to him. n COM
rany with our professor Of physics.
who wanted to see whether TOMS
memory for sounds retentive for other
than musical sounds. So ] repeated 10
Tom the fmperfect active Of 4 Cree
verb. To u surprise Tom looked at
nme and said, somewhat stammerlpgly.
Th-that's Greek" We were informed
that he could tell many Of the modern
languages in the same way. And in his
DOM at the hotel he repeated the whoie
~ the lords prayer in Greek with per
sect accuracy,
A / watched this great. hulking fell
A0w with thick bands and gtumpr
fingers and thought Of his power Ia
make tho pinno boom like a cannon OF
sroar 4iKe mn express train or initiate
the kentlest notes that the tenderest
4oteh could evoke. the incongruoua
union OF bis musical soul and his re-
p~ulsirelooking body suggested the
delicate mechanism s0f wonderful
shusical instrument incasad insa rouga
board box rudely knocked together By
clumsycafpentsr With addul Ratchet
md r could not help remembering ID
what an ugly case the same maker had
ncloaed the sublime and beautiful Sorl
~ soerates.-N. x. Post
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-12-26

That has always been the mainest
doctrine preached forth on the earth
Ind amongst men by Elder Eewberry:
"Let the other fellow do the frettin."
Life is too mortal long and time is
too tleetin, Rufe, for a man to wear
himself out worryin and frettin." the
elder has been wont to tell me. "Let the
other fellow do the frettin. No mat
ter how much money you owe
whether the price Of cotton goes up or
down-no difference who is elected
take my doctrine and let the other ha-
low do the frettin."
Well, ON last Monday mornin the
elder was up and out by time. The
chimney was about to falldown-which
Of course they win need the fireplace
In durin of the winter-and he had took
me job and lit in TO Ak It. With his
erubhin hoe in one hand and a spade IN
The other he went undar the house "a
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me DlviaIons "a Her 49,.

Young Klinger-Can I see your sister
Rodney?
Little Rodney-I guess 50. but I don't
s'pose youTl enjoy It very much. She's
meditatin' now.
"What do you mean2"
"Why, since she's got engaged 20 Mr.
Higgins her time Is divided into three
parts-one for prinking, one for spoon-
ing and one for maidenly medication.
When she's having the first spasrn she's
too savage to talk to. during the second
she's too silly and during the last she's
too darned stupid."-N. Y. World.
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stairs. I'm going to keep an eye on
'em."
He was encouraged to do so, but so
trihing did the president consider the in
cident that he did not speak ofitt any
one, and in half an hour had forgotten
all about it. Not 50 with Uncle Billy,
however. On two occasions he was
sent to the express office by White &
Gregg. and brought them small, but
heavy parcels. Two or three times,
also, he saw "a stranger in their office
whose looks he did not like and whom
he set down for a conspirator. For the
first; two months, the two men, who
boarded at the hotel never returned to
their Office after supper. After that
they were frequently there for an hour
or two, and as time passed on they
stayed later. Uncle Billy watched all
these things, but kept his own counsel
for many weeks. One day again he
asked for . private interview, and when
the president began laughing at him
said:
tTt.won't be long now before they
will try to rob the bank. They have goi
all the tools they need, and to-day J
found a satchel to put the money in"
~so you think they r bank rob
J bersY Yves asked
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So then and there, right out in the
middle Of the Big road, in front Of the
Williams place, Blew and Andy they
halted and hailed and called for old man
Mike. They wanted to see him, and
they had to see him right away imme-
diately, If not sooner. They whooped
and they hol1ered and went on at such
a scandlous high rate till I reckoned
old man Mike lowed somebody must be
killed or crippled unto death.
The truth is they kicked up such a
tremendous big excitement out there
in the road till the old man didn't take
time to make his appearment in full
dress. He jumped out of his nice, warm
goosehair bed, sorter flung his clothes
at himself, and come Dustin out to the.
road in his sock feet, with only two
or three garments on his body. He
wanted to know, in a loud voice, what
in the round created world was the mat
ter, and who was hurt. Blev and
Andy they fumbled and fooled around
for q long time tryin to make the old
man think that somethin awful had
come to pass.
In the mainline, you understand,
old man Mike he was standin out there
in the cold draft, shivcrin and shakin
like a leaf in a storm, whilst the vim
ter wind blowed through his whiskers,
fore and aft, at the rates Of go miles o
minute. Finally at last Andy he went
down into his s~add4ebags, came forth
with his bottle Of white ink" and went
ON to say:
"We wouldn't do this only in a plain
case Of pushency. But the weather is
most hellatious cold tonight, Uncle
Mike, and we lowed it maybe mought
be best for your general health to git
up and come out and take a little thin
one with us, and then go to bed right"
Well, man sir, unto this blessed day
every time l think about the trials OF
that winter night / give thanks that
old man Mike didn't have his shotgun
handy when he found out what was
what and who was who. OF all the drag
gin and cussin and villifyin you ever
heard tell of. we took it then and there.
And as we rid of three abreast in a
gallop up the road it did seem to me
like the midnight winter air was blue
and hot for miles and miles around.
The great wonderment to me is that
old man Mike didn't pick his time after
that and name his man to ride feet fore.
most and head a funeral procession in
the settlement. But he eve did.
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slirhtlv Muddled.

who is that ine-looking woman next
to your wife2"
"That isn't my wife"
(which enc do you mean?"
''Why, the one next to the Ane-look.
ing woman"
1T didn't ask you anything about her"
"No, but you alluded to her as my
wife?"
'Any harm in that?"
There might be If the ine-looking
woman heard you"
"What has she got to do with it?"
"She's my WIFE"
"Heavensl / don't believe you know
which one I mean"
"All right, let's go back to the punch
bOwl."--Cleveland Plain Dealer.