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SECURE THE CONTRACTS.
Two japanese War Ships TO He Built b,
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Two Japanese War ships to he Built BY
American Firms .Lf'f
"A New York Herald dispatch from
Washington says: The two. Japanese
naval constructors who have been il
this country for several months exam
lining plans and specifications for two
new cruisers for the japanese govern
ment have, it is understood, reported
favorably upon the bids submitted by
Messrs. Cramps and the Union iron
works. The formal award of the con-
tracts will be made to them within y
few weeks. The vessels will be about
1000 tons displacement each, and, the
contracts will call for a speed Of about
e knots.
i The. navy department. it is under
stood. has decided to convert one Of the
1.oo0-tnn gunboats now building. into
practice ship for naval cadets. to take
the place OF the Bancroft. The 5Ban-
croft will eventually find her way to
Chinese waters
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NY friend has declared his preference
for Mr.. Mckinley. I want to ask him
which Mckinley he is for, the Mckinley
of 1880 o rthe Mckinley Of 1852 Great
applause and long cheerings Mckinley
said. But all agree that we must have
a larger volume OF money and that the
added volume shall be silver or Its equiv
3alent, based on silver. At that time we;
were putting into circulation about $24,i
ON, 900 a year under the Bland act and
Mr.. Mckinley advocated the Sherman act
on the ground that It would increase the
amount of money to be put In frcula ton
at1non9, the people. Vzeapropose to give
II q Yso,,ld \ !,
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WHAT ST, LOUIS WIND. DID.

Lifted Bodily u Forty-ron Engine Rnd
Stopped All Clocks.
The transfer, of 4o-ton engine from
one track toeanother by the tornado at
St. Louis occurred in the Big Four yards
at the trestle and was Witnessed by the
whole yard crew. including Mr.. Bridges,
the yardmaster. The engine was car
ried about ten feet from track 6 and
some of it's wheels were placed on track
4. The remainder of the train was
thrown down an embanhment and
many OF the cars we're almost totally
DESTROYED sa 49,
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{ RED CIR ISIS ] 3 OH ClB
Miss Barton Has Not Yet Received
Request for Assistancgs
D0ubtful WhSthsr the Society ~ Mercy
Would he PsRmistsd or AblssAse j i
Work i1 That Land Of Sgszsss5 j.
&&s Spanish Cruelty. IL 4t

Miss. Clara Barton, who has been visit
ing friends at Newport, r. l., to mem
bers Of the G. A. X. posts. who called
upon her in q body, said that the re-
ports Of the trouble and distress in Asia
Minor are not exaggerated, and in her
opinion nothing less than the united
charities OF. the world could prevent
shocking starvation there next winter.
Miss Barton stated that she had re-
ceived no application from Cuban clubs
for Red Cross assistance for the Cuban
army, as reported, but it is possible
that If such a request has been made. it
has been sent to Washington, where her
mail was held. She wired that it be for
warded to Meriden. Conn, where she
now is and where she expects to COM
plete her reports upon the Armenian
distance to Cuba she did not care to dis
cuss until she should receive official
knowledge upon which she could speak.
Another Red Cross worker, though, i'll
speaking of the cruelties in Cuba. says
it is not apparent wherein the Red Cross
could work there. The society acts fo7
humanity and sympathizes with no ma,
ton or portion of such. For the Fed
Cross to act under the recent attitude
of the United States toward Cuba would
necessitate their first receiving conces-
sions from Spain, and from certain hap
penings in the past it does not appear
probable that Spain would listen to any
arguments concerning the humane treat
ment Of the Cubans or their wounded.
If feasible plan can be devised where
in the American Red Cross can be OF
assistance to the sufferers Of either
side. the society undoubtedly will be
only toe glad to do it. WA
Volunteers have already offered them-
selves, but the reported request has un-
doubtedly been made without a full and
correct understanding Of the situation.
Because certain valuable work was done
in Turkey it does not necessarily follow
that similar work can be done in Cuba,
though the cruelties there be as severe
or even worse.
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TING Coronatto., Spoon.

Among the crown jewels OF Eng
land. which are kept securely lockcdin
great iron chest in the tower Of Lon
don. is the celebrated coronation
spoon 1t is of pure gold, richly set
with gems, and dates back to the time
Of Edward the Confessor. in 1866. It is
used to receive the "consecrated OIL"
so indispensable ut coronations. This
same relic Is sometimes called the
'sroya amounting spoon, : s
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,Claiaas Is Have ProAucsA = hottie That
4 Il. Cannot 30 Rented.
IA bottle which cannot be filled after it
has been emptied has just been invented
and promises to be OF great Importance
to the entire bottlng industry. The
great bottling houses have for years
looked in vain for such an invention. to
render It impossible for swindlers to re-
fill their bottles with fraudulent prepa-
rations, practice which has become q
lucrative business.
Empty bottles, branded with the
names Of popular drugs, liquors, Bit
teas and chemicals have been filled with
cheap and worthless. substitutes, and
the original manufacturers have suf-
fered in consequence. ..s,f35g
Three years ago a large prize was
offered in England for an invention
which would successfully overcome this
kind of fraud, and hundreds of attempts
have in consequence been rnadc, but,
until now, without success.
It has remained for an American to
fiji the emergency and prevent the re-
filling OF bottles. lie is Joshua 1. van
Name, of Staten Island, and the princi-
pal feature of his new bottle is a Pc
culiarly constructed valve, which works
on substantially new principle. IT
is at the end Of sinuously constructed
passage, and works automatically. The
moment an attempt is made to
force any liquid into the bottle the
valve instantly closes. A point of inn
portance is the extreme simplicity OF
the device. The valve is located at the
very shoulder of the bottle and is espe-
cially constructed to prevent the inser-
ton of any instrument
The device may be fitted into bar
rels, casks, or denijohns as we'll as
bottles. 1t has already been patented
in this country, and applications have
been filed in Europe.
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4 4


A special to the New York Herald
from Washing on say 4 Secretary Her
bert will soon take up the question Of
selecting names for the gunboats and
Y torpedo boats to be launched in the fall.
Also, in anticipation of the anthoriza-
ton of the battleships, several congress
sional delegations have, recommended
that the name Of their respective states
be selected for one of the vessels of this
type. The present secretary Of the
navy. however, will hardly christen any
of the battleships to be authorized at
this session, unless, as in the case ct
the Kearsarge4 and the Kentucky, he
names them when their keels are laid
down. taas
Under the law battIeships shall be
named for states; cruisers for large
cities; gunboats for small cities, and tor,
pedo boats@in honor of distinguished
characters in the nations history.
The department has al ample number
Of names suggested for the six gun boats
under construction. such cities as Chat
tanooga. *Wheeling, Kenesaw, Birming-
ham, Germantown. Chelsea, Lexington,
Gloucester, Tacoma, Bridgeport, vicks-
burg. New Bedford. Marinetta and Al
legheny being aspirants for the honor.
There is good reason to believe that Sec
rotary Herbert desires to select purely
American names, such as Chattanooga,
Kenesaw, Marietta. Allegheny and tn
coma. TX o.
The only difficulty that will be ex-
perienced in selecting names for the
torpedo boats will be to make choice
among so many. Those which meet
with the most favor in the departments
are the names of naval heroes, such as
Jones, of Bon Homme fame; Lawrence,
of the Chesapeake; Perry, hero Of Lake
Erie; Porter, of the Essex; Farragut.
of the Hartford. and Wins]ow, of the
Kearsarge., Names Of scientists, OF
statesmen and of others who gained
claim to recognition at the hands OF
grateful country by their deeds will
also be considered.
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Resd. Zoo .Mucin

Justice Pratt often SAID that there
We're too many law books. Meeting q
young law student who had just offered
himself for. the admission examination,
Justice Pratt asked him what he had
read In preparation for the ordeal. The
youthful limb OF the law named about
all the elementary treatises from Black
stones ''Commentaries" to date. Be-
sides these. he had studied the codes,
read N,,oolsey's Political Science" Lie
ber's Code ct Political Ethics and, he
said, sail the leading casesSc'ted. : MY
heavens, iboy!" exclaimed Justice Pratt,
! you've read enough to ruin your
chances as lawyer for life"
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Tiee lin BIS Turned to Stone.

Hee Limbs Turned to stone.
Mrs. Freeiand Dustin is dead at Hol-
land, near Buffalo, ". II. She bad been
i'll for several months. during which
time her limbs gradually haraened. Tn,
til at the time Of her death they tRera
nearly as hard and heavy as stone. 8
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Bix Sale Of minnows for Bait.

Big Sale Of MinnOws Tor Bait. ::
The men who sell n,innoWs. to tho
fishermen on the lake shore at; Chicago
have done an unusually good business
this spring. They catch the minnows
in seines near the shore and put them:
in barrels, from which they are sold
to the boys and men who line the piers
every pleasant day.
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the. BOY ORATOR.. /.
He Gives the Hawkeyes a Talk ON the
SSt',.Y CurrencY. f3ss ..ss

X - ! .
Currency.
Burlington. Iowa. Oct -Te..ssanclud
ing ceremonies today of lsBurfi fgt on,s.
celebration OF Iowa's semi-centennial had
wm.J. Bryan as their principal attrac-s
ton. The city was profusely "a ecorated
and great crowds of visitors filled the
streets. Mr.. Bryan arrived from, Chicago
at 6. a. m., on the special car which he
will have at his disposal for the, rest of
the campaign, and took breakfast ak the
house of John j. Seerley. At9 O'clock Mr.
Bryan was escorted to the@conrt t. house
where he held short reception, A parade
In which brass bands and mounted and
,nnmounted Organization sipslu ding a,
number of ladies on horseback S took part
escorted the candidate throughnthe Eprtn-
cipal streets to the coliseum in Grape
park Here he delivered his principal
adresss to an immense crowd az people;
John j. seerley who presided I'D tr6t4ced
him. Several other stands had been,
erected in the park, and from these Ms
Bryan and others made short speeches.,
Mr.. Bryan said: IN, ~
Mr.. Chairman and Fellow Citizens
We are passing through al campaign
which means a great deal to the Ameri-
every day is of equal length OF -sxery.
other day yet into some days vast i'm
portance is crowded, and in.o the s33fd sof.
Novem Der vast Importance Will be
crowded. Upon that day the American
people chose president who shall oc-
cupy the White House. Cries OF Bryan,
Bryan" and applause) for four years.
On that day they select house.of Rep
resentat.ves, and on that day they Sc
lect leg. slatures which will choose United
States senator's. Much depends upon the
result of this election. 3s T. I. 4
4 For the first time In the history OF the
United States party appears which de-
clares that the gold stan lard I must pc
maintained in this country until ign
nations join us or permit US 70 abandon
1t. Never before have the American PEG
pie been asked TO declare in favor OF q
gold standard. Every step that the gold
standard has taken heretofore has been
taken in the dark, and without the con II
sent of the American eople, and row for
the first line, the advocates OF gold ask
the American people to- endorse the gold
standard at the ballot box. If II is right
(cries Of No, No.. IL it, issg good for; thet|
American people 1t ought to be end orsed. !
+ This Is the question submitted to- the
]. American people I stand upon Ia plat 1
from, yes, i stand upon three III forms
which agree that the gold. STANDARD shall
be abolished. 4 WA NH sisss .s5s
$sg Our platform has driven from ds some
Who have acted with us In the past We
;fannpt help It.. We might have retained |
their co operation had we. been Hing
IT'D pay the price they asked. e4 might |
have been able to- keep these men
a1l Ind We been wi Il sng lat ZEN al
tic pa ty should be made the ingkrurl
gslsnts &c pint ocracy 10 s,S t,oyissa sof5l
esnInent a3
slett INT apl SF sosa ss
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Substitute for ivory

Another wonderful substitute Tor
ivory has Just been discovered and put
on the market by Norweg ian chemist.
It is called 'actite. and is suehsa perfect
imitation Of real ivory that nothing;
but an elaborate chemical analy VIII
discover the difference. It $ maGs o.
ground bone and sllimimed milk
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Longest steel Plate.

A steel plate, said to, be the longest
ever made, has just been turned out by
Stockton, tEngland) iron company:
1t measures. after shearirg. rs feet 3
inches bys5 feet by Clio Of an incl, il,
thickness. weighs 51s tons and is with
out flaw. t& :s@, .,
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impeachment in England.

:. The house of commons, when it passes
resolutions or articles Of impeachment,
does so as grand jury or inquest Of
the whole nation. The house OF peers
cannot try . cornmoner for a capital Of.
Tense. but q peer can be tried by his
,peers Or equals according to magma
charts. whether for misdemeanor or
my higher crime. =, 1893 '3 Il s vi
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s, vs. il;,i i z
3 ma 4 9Cs llsd = fpir itna
ina l;ault, the lay
ct Julius Gault, who lives near q d
/ burg, Mich. has recently develop hi
!: great sp alistic 1nanife statf ons
! is q handsome and intellig gent cir, md
her father believes she has received
divine call md will not allow her tx Te-S
ceiye money for taking messages from
departed friends. u, s, II! sSsss
:1 Several months ago Mr.. Gault bonghts
his daughter planchette board To playSi
/ with. One evening, after his mothexS
died, he was surprised to see the boartls
spell out his mothers name. lima
took, q pencil and wrote: 4.
SEQ to the pantry and you will find y /!
q paper containing an article on spirit
ualism, |
Mr.. fGault treated the matter ~ u
joke, but. finally found the article. ltl
was a. poem. Mr.. Gault. says the writ 'tt
ing was his mothers exactly. Ina day
or two the girl found herself writing
on a copy-book at school, and was str-S
prESeU W See lila o.GAlS pea was AOsrS1
ing the thoughts in her own mind, but
something quite foreign.
Since then there have been many
communications Alma will frequent~
1y sit. down in broad daylight, with
sheet Of wrapping paper in front OF
her. She takes the pencil in an unnat-
ural position and in few moments
will be writing, the words being upside
down to her. At the time she may b
looking out the window. While under
control her arm and hand. become cold
as ice and powerless to do anything
but write. Sometimes she uses the right
hand, some times the left, and often
both. writing two distinct messages, ons
perhaps in mans hand, the other IN
woman's, at the same time.
Everything is done in the light and
in the full view Of everyone. AS a re.
suit of the girls work many hereto-
fore orthodox church members have
embraced the spiritualistic faith.
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An old Di.ease.

Z One of the oldest OF actual specified
diseases would probably be smallpox,
which. on the authority of Masudi, att
tackled the African tribes who nade ex-
.cursior,s into Arabia and laid siege to
Mecca in the latter half Of the sixth cen-:
tury, A. ID.
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Strnalsat Sea,

The flags to be hoisted at one time
4 IN signaling at sea never exceed four.
1t is an interesting arithmetieal fact,
that, with IS various colored flags. and
never more than four at time. DO
fewer than 1862 signals can be given
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HORRORS OF LIFE IN LIBERIA.

ReturntnE Negro Co1onists Ten Of Fear
80, - full 'sufferinEs and Death.
The steamship Waesland, which ar
rived at Philadelphia. the other day
from Liverpool, brought back six of the
negro colonists who went over to lii
IBERIA early in the spring on board the
famous steamship Laurada.
They tell horrible tales of suffering
from disease and restitution by the un-
'fortunate people who gave up their
homes in this country to journey to
that distant republic to accept what
appeared to be liberal offers of the au-
thorities there.
forty members. of the Laurada's ex-
petition, consisting of 315 people, are
already dead, while the entire number
taken out, previously on the Danish
steamship Horsa have been carried of
by what is known as John Bull fever.
Among the party returning is Tay-
lor Smith, Of Forest City, Ark. He
says the country, is unfit for civiliza-
ton, and that those who went on the
Laurada are now penniless and almost
naked. They have not sufficient money
to get back to the states, and certain
death awaits them. The fever is carry.
ing them off rapidly. Several times
they joined together and called on The
president OF the republic for help, but
he gave, them none.
When the expedition was made up it
was represented that beach married man
would be given plot Of ground and
a house, and other grants were to be
given the single men. Strips Of land
were given them, but no houses. and
they hid no shelter for months after
Their arrival. Provisions command such
high prices that they cannot be Sc
cured by the poor creatures, and there
Is, absolutely no way TO earn aliving. J.
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sUaa klsERlc

ssssss WeddtnR R1ohoHss s5 5#gs
!. From those who have recently re-
turned from abroad there has been sumo
decided comment concerning the max-
ner - which they have been treated By,
| the Marlboroughs. hen the young
duchess was married last year many
wealthy and fashionable friends sent
her handsome presents, and others also
entertained her aud her fancs. So
ciety always expects some quid pro quo,
and the travelling friends OF the young
duchess looked for . slight acknowl-
edgment Of their politeneas to her.
s. But the duke is averse to Americans,
and very few have been entertained at
either the town house or Blnheim. In
the choice of the guests who are to meet
the prince Of Wales at the famous house
party there Is not one who has any
American affiliations. During his short
stay in this country the young duke
did not interest himself in the slightest
in either New York or Newport So
ciety. He never paid dinner calls, nor.
in fact. did he return any civilities
shown him.
MISS virginia aL Lbs peeU ohc VI eA0
very few TO whom the Marlboroughs
have shown any attention in London.
Hon. Ivor Guest was very much taken
with her, and she was asked for week
at Blenheim. So far even the Oliver
Belmonts do not seem to have enjoyed
much Of the Churchill hospitality. But
all this may possibly come in time. At
s,raunnH the v1,,nr f7nkA IN decif1edlv
anti-American, and he has removed his
duchess to new world and has sur
rounded her with new people.
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Occur d.Aie.nue.

.f= ARGENT estimate places the output 81
the mines IN the Occur "a Alers country;
in northern Idaho, for the current YEN
at SIS, Oo0. 900. 1T Is
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First Length 81 tho Ell
The ell in use in cloth measure was ut
hrst the exact length Of the forearm ct
Edward III.
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An Idiots Brain.

The brain OF an idiot contains m,ch
1ess phosphorus than that Of q person
of average mental powers. !.
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20 FORT LEY san IEuO..
Disappearing Gums and Mortar Bat
tories viii Defend the Harbor.


San Diego (Cal.) harbor will be FORTH
fed by the government as soon as work
can be inaugurated in accordance with
the provisions OF the bill passed by tho
last congress. in which the sum OF
.s4oo, 600 was appropriated to San Diego.
Maj. Charles Z. NJ. B. Davis, of the United
States engineers, has arrived at San
Diego with corps Of engineers and the
work. Of surveying preliminary to the
placing Of gums has already begun. In
an interview, Maj. Davis stated that
four ten-inch gums on disappearing car
riages will be placed on Ballast Point,
Immediately inside the harbor. under
tile brow of Point Iona. There will
be 1s Pinch mortar batteries placedon
/ Sand Pit, one and one-half miles south
Of Hotel Del Coronado, and possibly
mortar batteries on North island and
Point Luna: Two Of the four ten-inch
guns will be placed in position immedi-
a aitely and the work of placing the others
will be prosecuted with diligence. As
the government owns Q reservation OF
two acres at the extremity OF Point
i Iona, the most commanding position
on the coast for miles northward from
the Mexican line, it Is considered very
probable that the most important forti-
flea tionfwil be erected there, although
upon this point Maj. Davis refuses to
speak.
y Now that the governments Is getting
big guns for coast defenses, the ques-
ton OF how to handle them SO as to
get the best results is receiving the
earnest attention of the army authori-
ties. TO train the artillery to the same
degree Of experiences with large guns
as the infantry OF cavalry attain with
the rifle is now the aim Of the war de-
pertinent.
! In this connection an important order
has just been Issued from army head
quarter 1t prescribed the method ct
conducting the technical instruction
Of artillery troops and new regulations
for target practice and artillery compe-
titions. The practice with the big guns
will be continued under the old rules
until the beginning of next year.
The general scope Of the new regu-
lations oontemplates cornpeti tion first
between men of each battery, then be-
tween the men who have attained the
best averages in their respective batter
les, and finally a general competition
in which men selected from regiments
will take part: Eventually it is hoped
that the expert shots with the. heavy
guns in the army will be brought into
competition with the gunners Of the
navy.
y The quarterly reports of target prac-
.tice with bug guns. from the various
ships show marked improvement over
the, work of last year. Lieut.. Purcell,
of the Amphitrite, is understood to have
the highest record. In the last report
from that ship he is given credit for
three hull's-eyes consecutively with y
ten-inch gun. 80