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augury. The Car and Czarina had a
short rest before 6 o'clock, at which
hour magnificent banquet was spread
In the dining room.
1t was the original intention that the
imperial visitors should traverse the
streets of the city. but the unpleasant
state of the weather forbade this and
at o'clock the CZarina and their
suites boarded the special train that
was waiting them at the arsenal, a
track having been specially laid there to
and from the railway station, and start
ed for Paris. President Faure. the min
listers and other high officials proceed
ed for Paris on the train on which
they travelled to Cherbourg last night.
Taken altogether the reception to the
imperial visitors here was one long to
he remembered, and must have i'm
pressed the Car with the great friend
ship entertained for him by the French.
not alone of the official class, but by
all the people.
Paris. Oct 5.-The boulevards this
evening presented a remarkable sight.
1t had been stormy early in the day
and this caused the greatest discom-
fort to the thousands of visitors who
had been unable tn secure lodgings in
the city or vicinity. Towards evening
the weather that had given promise of
clearing in the early afternoon, became
fine, and then the principal streets be-
came fairly jammed with people.
Ii is estimated that there are fully
Il million strangers in the city. The
crowds are remarkably orderly.
Tomorrow will be general holiday
In honor of the visit of the Car. Every
precauton has been taken for the safe
ty of the nations guests. The entire
route of the procession through the city
was lined with troops. who will keep
the line with the stFictest discipline.
Behind the troops will be stationed
policemen. who will face the crowd,
thus being i'm position to seize any
seditious shouters or offenders against
his ma jesty, the Car.
1t is said that number of known
anarchists have been expelled from the
city. while Others who are suspected Of
having anarchstic tendencies have
la.
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THE NEWS THIS MORNING.
Weather Indications Today;
Fair; Warmer; Northeaiy Winds.


Encouraging Reports at Republican Ma
tional Headquarters
Frenchmen Are Frantic over the Car.
Mckinley Addresses Young Voters,
2 Bryan Talks to Tennesseeans.
. LocaD-Met Death by Suffocation.
Supreme Court Decisions.
Editorial.
Relation Of Labor to Law.
QocaD-Big Christian EndeavOr Con-
ventiOn Begins Today.
Delaying the Mulberry Street Pave.
G c. r. Convention (Concluded.)
-.
Suburban Happenings.
Wall Street Review and Markets. !
Sports Of a Day. -
~.
8 News Up and Down the Valley.
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REPUBLICAN GAINS.
Returns from Connecticut Towns
show n Marked Increase.

Hartford. Conn. Oco. 5.-TOwn cleo
tions were held i'm all the l6S towns in
the state with the exceptions of Hart
ford. New Haven, Bridgeport. Ansonia.
Derby and Naugatuck. Returns show
that the Republicans have made large
gains over Il year ago. the Republicans
having nearly doubled their number
of towns from 1893. In Hartford county
in 1898 the towns stood:
Republican II: Democrats 4: divided
T. Returns show that the Republicans
have gained three towns and the Dem
Ocrats have lost one, five being divided
MiddleseX county complete shows -
Republican towns against eight last
year. In two towns, National Demo-
cratic tickets We're voted for. 1t is
probable that the complete returns will
show that the Republicans have gained
at least fifteen towns.
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NO BRYAN men IN PLAINFlELD.
Informal Ballot in q Wisconsin Town
shows 226 for Mckinley.

Plainfield. Wis, Oct. 5.-lf there are
any Bryan votes in this city. they are
under cover. An informal ballot ON
president. which has been In progress
here for three days. ended today.
Ii showed 22G votes for Major McKin-
ley. | for Joshua Levering. the prohi-
bition nominee. and none for he stand =
ardbeurer of free coinage of silver.
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CANDIDATES RESIGN.
POpul sts Of Illinois Are Ready to
Nominate u Fusion Ticket,

Springfield. III. Oct. 5.--Chairman
Taubeneck. of the Peoples party. state
central committee has received the
designations of the candidates of that
party for congress and Legislature in
the territory composing the eighteenth.
nineteenth and twentieth districts.
The Democratic candidates for the
same offices in that territory will hand
i'm their designations. Both parties will
then get together and nominate a
fusion ticket. BY these means the Pop
ulists hope to secure fusion man as a
successor to Senator John NJ Palmer
in the United States senate.
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Steams ship Arrivals.

New York, Oct. 5.-Arrived: Fulda, at
Gibraltar Sailed for New York: All-r
from Cherbourg. Oct. t. Sighted: Mas,
dam, from New York for Rotterdam.
passed the Lizard. Arrived: New York,
from Southampton: Friesland. from Ant
wept. Sighted: Fnrnessia. from New
York for Glasgow, passed Tory island.
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POLLING OF MICHIGAN.
Republican state Committee Predicts :
sound Moneys Victory.

Detroit. Oct. 5.-The Republican state
central committee claims that McKin-
ley will carry Michigan by plurality
of between 10000 and $1,000. This pre-
diction is the result of !; careful poll of
the state.
General Harrison carried the state by
about 22.0O0 and the outlook Is that
Major kinley may get twice that
plurality. according to the confident
headquarters reports.
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HeraId,s Weather Forecast.

New York. Oct. G.--ln the middle states,
today. partly cloudy to fair. slightly
warmer and fresh northerly to easterly
Winds will prevail preceded by cloudness
near the coast. ON Wednesday. partly
cloudy, cooler weather will prevail. with
fresh variable winds. followed by local
rain in northern districts.
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COnnnfOrtables

With our regular lines
we offer this week 20
dozen Silkoline COmforta-
bles, best cotton filling,
size 7OxSO, plain edge,
$l.29; with ruffle, SLAP.
They are extraordinary
value, as the material it.
self could not be bought
at the price.
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Two
Tome
Taffeta
Waists

THE HDEMAND HAS BEEN
GREATER THAN WE COULD
KEEP PACE WITH. But WE.
ENPECT THE BROk EN- SIZES;
AND MISSING SHADES WILL
Bt. MADE GOOD BY TOMORROW.
WHEN THE RANGE WILL BE,
Up TO THE FORMER HIGH
STANDARD.
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TIiFSf. ARE MADE Up IN FINE
BLACK TAFFETA SILKS, WITH
SHIRT YOKE BACKS AND TUCK
CLUSTER FRONTS, THE NECK
BAND Is FITTED FOR WEAR
ING A LINEN COLLAR OF ANY
SHAPE. AND THE SLEEVE Is
FASHIONS VERY LATEST, THE
PRICES ASKED (3.9j AND $4.95)
ARE MUCH UNDER VALUE,
AND AS THE QUALITY AT
THESE FIGURES Is LIMITED
TO THE NUMBER WE HAVE IN
STOCK. EARLY LOOKING MAY
BE TO YOUR ADVANTAGE,
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FLANNEL
Waists

FOR STREET WEAR ARE,
MUCH IN DEMAND. WE HAVE,
a FULL LINE IN SOLID COLORS
AND FANCY PLAIDS. THEY'RE
RIGHT AT EVERY POINT.
YOU'LL SAY SO WHEN YOU SEE
THEM.
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York Mills Resume

Saco, Me-, Oct. 1.-The York mVs, which
have been idle three months. resumed
operations today. The operatives haze
been Informed that wages will be slightly
less than those received last spring, but
the extent Of the cut down has not vet
been announced.
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Australians Defeated.

Philadelphia, Oct. 5.--Philadelphia de-
feated the Australians in the third and
last game Of cricket by an inning ard sixty
runs, the score being: Philadelphia tone
innning). 2Ss; Austrsuaas Qwo inningsl.
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Liens Against the Rendinr.

Harrisburg, Oct. 5.-liens for state taxes
were entered In the prothonotary's office
today to the amount of nearly 100000
against the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad company for taxes for 1896.
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FIN LEY'S
Blankets
and
COnn1fOrtableS

1914 Diana Blankets White or tan.$ ~
1914 Plaza Blankets White or Tan. .9S
ia Alpine Blankets, White or
'Ity ........ l'fJ
11-4kingston Blankets, White or
Grey .................. l.9s
ia Bulgaria Blankets, White CT
TREY .................... 40
1914 Chaska Blankets, White or
Grey .......................... 3. e5
1l-4 ChaSka blankets, White or
Nrty .............. ............ o'oJ
ia Siberian Blankets, White or
S'tiItl 80
1914 California blankets. White.
Ia California blankets, White.
iVNo2 .................. a.so
Il California Blankets, White,
'1Nof ................ .'.....' C.'V
Extra fine qualities in Californi.
Blankets at s745. $s.25. 1915. s!i.0o
Sl35O. SLATE, $l6.45. Also Crib and
Cradle Blankets in all sizes.
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PUDDLERS INDIFFERENT.
They Refuse to Work at Reduced
Wages.

PottstOwn. Pa, Oct. 5.-The puddlers
employed by the Ellis and Lessig Steel
and Iron company held Il meeting this
afternoon and decided not to accept the
offer made by the company of $2.15 II
ton for pudding. This rate prevailed
from April l, 1894, to July L. 1895. when
ii was advanced to $215. 1t was the in
tention of the company to start the
works tomorrow. as they have been idle
for some time.
The action of the puddlers will doubt
less prevent this.
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Christian Associa,;on

Harrisburg, Oct. 5.-The stat, convention
Of the Young Women's Christian associa-
ton will be held here Oct. 1896. Some
prominent workers will attend,
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The
--latest
Novelty

NEW WAISTS WITH TIGHT
FITTING JERSEY CLOTH BODY
AND SILK TAFFETA SLEEVES
NOT IN YET But WILL. BE IN A
DAY OR TWO.
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j lqst
Added

A COMPLETE LINE OF BUT
TERICk'S FAMOUS PAPER PAT
TERMS; AS COMPLETE As
THEY CARRY IN THEIR NEW
YORK OFFICE.
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QUEER DRINKING CUPS.

custom OF Using Skulls for This Pur-
pose an Old One.
The barbarous custom of converting tho
skulls OF enemies into drinking cups was
a common one in ancient times among the
herce tribes OF Northern Europe, and was
not unknown TO the people of the more
civilized regions further south. The Ital-
ian poet, Marino, causes an assemblage of
friends to quaff their wine from the skull
OF Minerva, ana in his Wonder of a
hlngdom Torrent makes Dakker say:
Would had ten thousand soldiers, heads
helr Skulls set all in silver, to drink healths
10 MS confusion who first invented war.
Thomas Middleton, a dramatic writer of
the early part of the seventeenth century,
is believed to be the originator of the
phrase, "a soldiers drinking-cup, as ap-
Piled to human skull. In 1.-THE Witch, -
one OF his most celebrated plays, the duke
takes bowl, which he is told is a human
skull, whereupon he exclaims:
Call it a soldiers cup.
our uucness, know, will pledge US, though the
Wa Mas once her fathers head. which as trophy
Wen keep till death.
One OF the delights of the immortals, as
represented in the old Scandinavian sagas
is that OF drinking to drunkenness from
skulls OF vanquished foes.
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in peace. for he called up recollections of

in peace for he called up recollections of
painful facts.
81 had an experience" said another
gray, 'that explains why some officers
found it so easy to be elected to Office after
the war; how they happened to be so very
popular with the home folks was acting
Provost Marshal at Granada, Miss, and a
supposed spy was brought in. l asked him
to identity himself whereupon he in
formed me that he belonged to the COM
handing generals engineer staff. 1 re-
piled that | was personally acquainted
with all the engineers in that wing of the
department, and that l not only knew he
was lying, but that he was spy; further
more, | charged him with being drunk.
He looked at me full minute with what
| thought was q most devilish grin. |
wanted him shot to death right then and
there. After permitting me to work N.Y.
self into rage he quietly said: i insist
that belong to the generals engineer
staff, but it is his biographical engineer
staff. L am the correspondent of the Mobile
Register and am up here making great
generals-on paper [ found his state
ment to be true, and also found out how
1t happened that SO many small generals
are so great and distinguished at home"
A good many pathetic incidents were
then recounted by both sides until the wee
small hours had come, when an old and
battle-worn blue arose and said: Com
rades OF the gray and the blue, l am proud
to say that America, my country, gave
birth to so distinguished, so great and so
pure man as General Robert E. Lee"
Because he said that, and because he is g
representative soldier of the army of the
worlds greatest general, q. S. Grant,
am glad that the roster of the United States
army will again bear the name of Lee.
ARMOND.
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in "The Bells" in Jonathan Bradford, ;"
in Eugene Aram" and in all those old
English murder novels and plays, and l
thought "What likely place is this for
another murder mystery tonight" OF
course, l struggled against these harrow
Ing visions then as 1 always do, but for all
they were very vivid as pushed open the
door and stood ready to be surveyed by
the ill-visaged, roughly clad men that l
was surprised not to see in the barroom.
In their stead l saw kindly faced, gray
haired man, dressed neatly, though far
from fashionably, all alone in good sized
room with big, old-fashioned open crate
and high bar and it's furnishings as its
most distinguishing features. He took
my luggage, put it away in an odd corner.
then led me to tiny Mushroom where the
towels were really clean, the soap plenti-
full and the comb quite possible for even a
far more fastidious traveller than myself.
l wanted a meal and bed for four
hours and the surety of being aroused in
time to catch the very early morning train
to Fresno. How delicious that meal was,
how tender and juicy the steak, how
perfectly cooked the potatoes, what delight
ful lack of sogginess there was TO the bis
cults. how clean that little dining-room,
Its table, its knives and forks and spoons
and plates, how welcome were Mrs. Macs
words of solicitous inquiry concerning the
palatableness of her several dainty vet
homely dishes. cooked and served by her
own hand-all of these things can never be
appreciated by one who has not served his
apprenticeship at the side stations in the
San Joaquin Valley-or at side stations
and crossroads in some part of the globe.
Two drummers supped at the same table
with me- They spoke affectionately to
Mrs. Mac" and at intervals when her
back was turned, they generously gave me
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cities, is what the police were told yester-
day by 16-year-old boy, who admits that
since he first played the role of cripple
in this city he has been collecting money
steadily, sometimes as much as So in q day.
This young fellow was arrested on State
street. He says his name is James Fox
that he comes from Buffalo, n. Y, and
that he ran away from home more than
ten years ago. Only part of the boys
story OF his subsequent adventures is be-
lieved by the police. He says he obtained
work last summer at some of the reestau-
rants at Coney Island. and that after the
close of the season he went to New York
looking for work. There he met 'mau
who said he was a commercial traveller
but who proved to be Brooklyn Billv."
well known as professional beggar, who
had made cripple of himself by placing
lime on his hand and leaving it too
long. By this man, the boy says
at Deggars, who took his right shoe
to a cobbler and had the heel raised
several inches. They made the young
fellow wear that shoe so he saws. and
walk as if crippled. They also provided
him with cards on which was printed the
"Cripple's Appeal" three stanzas of poor
verse intended TO affect the sensibilities
of the tender-hearted. The boy took
these cards to the ferries, to Of
nces, or TO railway stations, and
there distributed them, collecting them
after the holders had had time to read
them, with whatever money people were
willing to give. brooklyn Billy" always
followed the boy, to take charge of what
ever money was collected.
When the police had heard the bows
story telegram was sent to the address
he gave in Buffalo. and awaiting the re-
ceipt of reply from the persons supposed
to be the boy parents, he was locked up
Boston Transcript.
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AN APOLOGY TO MRS. MAC
Containing a Brief Account Of
Some Human Ambitions That
Have Changed for the Bet.
ter and a Further Proof
That External Ap.
pearances May Be
Deceptive.

| have hablt-the growth of some ex-
| perience at side stations-of automatically
passing napkin over my plate as turn
it up and listen to the formula repeated by
the fresh and sometimes pretty country
| girl who stands beside the table and says
in one long breath, acknowledgements
muttonroastbeefcorn beefandca bbage!"
And l am writing this now with con
trite spirit and in the hope OF assuaging
somewhat the pang | may have caused
Mrs. Mac one evening last week when she
stood beside me and repeated the usual
formula in words pleasingly tinged with
"reminiscences of the land that is famous
for stews and baked potatoes.
Mrs. Mac was neither a fresh nor a
pretty country girl, but good. motherly
soul and connoisseur of neatness and
cleanliness. 1 may not have wiped her
plate with my napkin-certainly it needed
no further polishing-but may have done
so unthlnkingly; therefore this apology.
Who is Mrs. Mac?
Ask the question of any drummer who
travels the San Joaquin ValIey-and he
VIII argue from it your own obscurity. He
may also tell you that she is the plump
and hospitable little woman who cooks
the best steak in California-he NAV say
sin the world"-for drummers are prone
TO exaggeration. He will probably be shy
about telling you where to find Mrs. Mac,
however, for drum mers are jealous of their
treasures, and then, too like those unac-
qualnted with the nderful aroma of the
'Arcadian mixture" you may not be
worthy of knowing
But l am not jealous and have decided
to take risks on the latter point, trusting
to the fate which guards choice secrets from
fools, that only the worthy will read these
lines. Know, then, o reader, that
Mrs Mac is part owner and part ruler OF
the tiny and sole hotel at Goshen juno
ton, and that Goshen Junction is on the
main line, about midway between Han
ford and Visalia. neither of which enjoys
Goshen's distinction of being on the main
line. The other partner is ]. F. McLaugh-
lin, very worthy and elderly gentleman,
who has, aside from his half interest in
the tiny Goshen Hotel, also life interest
in that jewel among all the side-station
hostesses of the universe-Mrs. Mac
l have an evil genius. perhaps a bad
Karma inherited for evil thoughts in a
past incarnation, that prompts me 70
dreadful mental pictures and thoughts
when l have the least use for them 1 am
trying hard, by righteousness and early
piety, to live down this evil karma and
its narrowing suggestions. for 1 believe
that mind can rule not only matter, but
these impalpable things as we'll. 1 am also
believer in-but l will tell that another
time. The task now in hand is to explain
the trepidation with which pushed open
the outer door of the Goshen Hotel last
Tuesday evening. My mind was filed
with midnight robberies at lonely road
houses. l thought of the murder of the
rich traveller at the roadside inn as told
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count OF fogs and treacherous cur
rents this locality has always been con-
sidered dangerous one to navigation, and
during the last fifty years about twenty
vessels have been wrecked there. Most of
the disasters, however. happened before
the Government erected a lighthouse on
the point in 1872.
Pigeon Point is the only cape of any i'm
portance on the coast of California with
an English name, but when, why or by
whom it was christened is not matter of
record in the lighthouse annals. There is
certainly nothing about the place to sug-
gest such a cognomen, nor are pigeons
generally seen in the immediate vicinity,
Old residents of Pescadero say that it got
its name from a carrier pigeon station that
was on the point years ago. The birds
were used to carry the names of ships to
San Francisco as soon as they were
sighted. OF this there is no record.
but it is known that the Merchants
Exchange had a semaphore signal station
there in 1865. In weather when the soma
phore could not be seen the dispatches
were sent by horseback riders. If pigeons
ever were used for the purpose, it must
have been for very short time, or many
years previous.
The first work done by the Government
engineers on Pigeon Point was to put up
the fog signal. This was used for the first
time on September 10. 1871. The work of
building the lighthouse tower was being
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A BOUT midway between San
~ Francisco and Santa Cruz Pigeon
~ Point projects its jagged reef into
4 N the waters of the Pacific. On ac-
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slept very soundIy and quite fearlessly
that night for three hours under the
modest roof of the only hotel at Goshen
junction. There was no book in which to
register, and no one asked me my name.
The score had to pay, found. was very
modest, yet Mclaughlin asked me to
have another cigar and something warm to
drink before / went out into the darkness
ana coldness of 2 A. NJ. and caught the
Train Tor Fresno. LUKE NORTH.
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quiet tip that "Mrs. Macs table is the
best on the road"
The tip was appreciated, but superfluous.
l had already forgotten all my stock of old
English roadside murder tales.
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PLAYED THE CRIPPLE.

Young Impostor Who Earned So Day
by the Work.
If there really are more than hundred
professional beggars in the city who are
trying to obtain money from credulous
residents by pretending to be crippled or
manned the police have a good deal of
work to do before they can rid the city of
the impostors. That the professionals are
present here in large numbers, from
Brooklyn, New York, Troy and other
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-24

The dromedary parcel post service in
the German territories OF Southwestern
Africa has given results better than were
expected. The dromedaries are adapted
to the climate, are not affected by the
prevalent cattle diseases, are not made
footsore IN stony regions and do not suffer
extreme thirst when deprived OF water for
a week. They travel, each CARRYING a
weight of $50 pounds, as fast as an OK
team.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-08-20
Four Ride steaiers Crushed to Death,

Topeka, Kan, Aug. 2O.-Slx cars of a
Rock Island stock train were derailed five
miles west of here and four white men
riding in the feed box underneath one of
the cars were crushed to death The head
and limbs We're completely torn from one
of the bodies and the other three horribly
crushed. In the clothing remaining on
the dismembered trunk nothing was found
to identify the person. Papers found ON
the clothing on the other bodies identified
them as II. H. Mendenhall of summer
vile, Mich. B. H. Miles of Onyx, O. r.,
and George T. Garfield of Jacksonville,
His, or Kansas City, Mo.