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Distress AM Zeitonn.

LONDON, Feb. 24-Lord Salisbury
communicated to the Armenian Relief
Committee a report from Sir Philip
Currie, the British ambassador at Con-
stantinople, in which he states that the
misery and sickness among the refugees
at zeitoun is considerable, and their
distress is added to by the bitter cold
weather that is prevailing. The Turk
ish officials are unable to assist the suf-
ferers, and there is nobody in the coun-
try to whom they can appeal for re-
lief. Moreover, these demands made
upon the Constantinople committee are
already so heavy that it is feared that
the committee will be precluded from
helping the Zeitounlis.
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CHICAGO CUTTERS STRIKE.
Trouble Still on in Full Force-No
Prospect of Arbitration.

CHICAGO, Feb. 24.-The strike of the
cutters and trimmers is still on in full
force, and there is no prospect of arbi-
tration. The manufacturers claim to
have many men at work, while the
strikers assert that as fast as men are
imported to take their places they are
captured by the union pickets and soon
after initiated into the order.
The Executive Committee of the strik-
ers has been corre ponding win the
unions in Milwaukee, New York and
Cincinnati with view of the protection
OF strikers interests. In the event of a
national association of manufacturers
being formed, it is claimed the unions in
those cities will order a strike.
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claim that the Malta had a hand in the
crime. No arrests have been made.
ANGRY INDIANS
White Settlers Fear That Trouble May
Soon Occur.

PORT TOWNSEND (Wash.), Feb
24.-Last Friday jury at Port Angeles
acquitted Henry Anderson, white, of
the charge Of killing Philip Brown, an
Ozette Indian. Since then the Indians
have held a pow-wow and decided that
justice having miscarried in court they
intend taking the law in their own
hands, and several white scalps must be
taken before their wrath is appeased.
The Ozette Indians number about go
and are located near the mouth of the
Straits of F'uca, south of Cape Flattery.
Trouble is feared by the white settlers
in that country
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viedendorf Explosion INQUIRY.

JOHANNESBURG Feb. 24.-Inquiry
into the causes of the recent explosion
of dynamite at Viedendorp, a suburb of
this city, has ELECTED the fact that
truckload of detonators brought from
Port Elizabeth was placed on a side
track at the Braamfontey freight depot
A locomotive in shifting cars came into
collision with the car containing the de-
tcnators, the contents of the car ex-
ploded, and the exploson of the deton-
ators caused the explosion of the dyn-
amite which was contained in cars
standing on a track near bY
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The Verdict Met with Approval.
Murder of Mrs. Platt.

LOS ANGELES. Feb. 24.-Deputy
Sheriff Marsh left to-day for San ia
cinto with Ventura Daceo, who is sup
posed to be the third accomplice in the
murder of Mrs. Platt, the school teacher
who was murdered and outraged on the
reservation near here. A telegram was
received by Sheriff Burr from Deputy
Aguirre stating that last night a squaw
named Louise had admitted being an
eye witness of the deed and the exami-
ration Of witnesses will proceed at San
Jacinto to-morrow.
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Tragedy at bakersfield.

BAKERSFIELD, Feb. 24.-Late to-
night Tomaso Valuenzela and Fran
cisco Quiltero quarreled over woman
to whom both were paying attention,
and in the gun play which resulted,
Quiltero received three bullets in the
body He will probably die. Valuenzela,
who is 10 years old and a native of
Ecuador, is now in JAIL
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Badly Injured.

GRASS VALLEY, Feb. 24.-George
Grant, pioneer resident of Rough and
Ready, 20 years of age. was blown up
by giant powder on Sunday afternoon.
He was using powder to blow up some
willows and leaned over to see why it
did not go Off One eye was blown out
and the other badly injured, his lip ter
ribly lacerated and his left arm badly
injured. Grant will probably survive.
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An Ohio Town in Flames.

NORWALK (O.), Feb 24-At IL
o'clock tonight fire started in the
village of Fairfield, ten miles south of
this city The place has no protection,
and the fire was raging fiercely at mid
night The whole business portion will
be a total loss
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EX-PRESIDENT HARRISON.
No Date Has as Yet Been Fixed for His
Marriage.

NIdFTIlI25.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-Ex-P President
Harrison stated to-day, through his
Private Secretary, Mr.. Tibbetts, that he
had not completed arrangements for
his marriage to Mrs. Dimmick, and no
date whatever has been fixed upon for
the ceremony. 1t was published in the
morning newspapers that he would be
married on April 9th. and that the Rev.
]. Wesley Brown of ST. Thomas Church
would of1iciate To a reporter Mr.. Tib-
belts said to-day at the Fifth-avenue
Hotel that neither the ex-President nor
he had written to the Rev Dr. Brown
fixing any date
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Gold in the Treasury.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-The treas
ury gold reserve at the close of business
stood at S106,749, 756. The Withdrawals
for the day amounted to 1851. 200 So
far about 100000 900 of the Sill, ,0OO, 600
for which the bonds were sold has been
paid into the treasury and the National
bank repositories. Up to to-day S65, =
100000 of the new bonds have been de-
liHar.ad
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EVIDENCE OF FOUL PLAY.
A Merchants Body Found Floating in
q Crock.

SPOKANE CWash.), Feb. 24.-The
body of Dominic PERI, a wealthy Ital-
ian merchant of this city, was discov-
cred floating in Hangmans Creek just
beyond the city limits, this afternoon.
The skull was fractured, and the corpse
bore every evidence of foul play. PERI
was last seen on Saturday night when
he was known to have a large sum of
money in his possession. But $40 was
=. und in his clothing. It is supposed
that he was murdered, robbed and
thrown into the creek. The murdered
man was the acknowledged leader of
the Italian colony here, and his friends
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Crushed to Death.

VALLEJO. Feb. 24-The five-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Russell was
crushed to death this afternoon by a
huge marble slab which toppled over
upon him while he was playing in the
stone-cutting yard of a local firm Of
granite dealers.
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The Case Again Postnnned.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 24.-The
case of the Southern Pacific Company
against the State Board of Railroad
Commissioners was to-day postponed
for one week in the United States Cir
cult Court by consent of both parties.
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Carpenters and Joiners.

There viii be a mass meeting at
Jacobs Hall March Sd, to which men
of all trades are invited. The meeting
is called by c.. l.. Malsbary, District
Organizer of Carpenters and Joiners of
America.
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BalnngtOn Booth and Ills Wife Retire
From Command In America.
The Ex-Commander Says He Will Re-
main in This Country.

A Cuban Rebel Leader, Who Claims
to be an American, Captured, and
a Court-Martial Ordered to Try
Him-Big Torchlight Parade at Key
West, Florida, of Sympathizers
With Cuban Insurgents.
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When the upper lid covers half or
more of the pupil the Indication is of
cool deliberation.
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TOPICS OF THE TURF.
Pesults of the Races at the Bay Dis
trict Track.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 24.-Weather
warm and track fast. Five and a half
furlongs. Model won, Rebellion sec
ond, Governor Eudd third. Time 0S
Three and half furlongs, selling,
two-year-oIds, Colonel Wheeler won,
Alma Dale second, st. Dunstan third.
Time-0:4315
One and one-siXteenth miles, handi-
cap, Wheel Of Fortune won, st. Lee sec
ond, Logan third Time-1 :474.
Five furlongs, maidens, Mr.. Reel won,
imp. Agrippina second, San Marco
third. Time-1:0115.
One mile, inside course, May Day
won, E. H. Shirley second, Red Root
third. Time--1 :46
Five and a half fur1ongs, Mollie r.
won, Laura F. second, Myron third
Time-10 0S12.
The Verdict Met With Approval.
SPOKANE (Wash.), Feb. 24.-At the
preliminary trial at Rockford to-day
of David Waterhouse, who was charged
with killing Henry Phillips in a sensa-
tional duel on Saturday last, the pris-
oner was acquitted. The verdict brought
forth loud cheers from the large crowd
which had assembled, and Waterhouse
was congratulated on all sides. 1t
would appear from the testimony that
Phillips went out looking for trouble.
and as he is now under six feet of earth
it is plain that he got it.
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ship a crew. A Vice-Consul innocently
went aboard and signed the crew on the
ship.
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What was real
Sodom Nv ayiand.
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The Fighting Swiss.

The year 1912 saw the Swiss mercenn-
ries ut the zenith Of their power, when
waving Austria and France alike away
from Milan, they installed therein the
ruler of their own choice In the same
year they met the Landsknechts at the
passage Of the Oglio and Ticino, and,
fOrding the rivers stark naked, beat
them back without waiting even TO
dress themselves. A few months later
they showed even more magnificent in
science when besieged by the French In
Eovara; throwing the gates open, they
begged the enemy not TO be at the pains
of making a breach, bat TO walk straight
in, "Donnez-vous done la peine len
trer " The French made no reply ex-
cept TO hammer away with their artil.
lery, whereupon the Swiss mockingly
hung the breaches with sheets as suffi.
cient protection against SO feeble foe.
Shortly after arrived achievements
from Switzerland, which, without paus-
ing 10 rest more than an hour after
long and hurried march, dashed out in
disorder against the encompassing troops
and dispersed them with terrible loss.
IF we could only reckon upon obedi-
ence i'll our men, said the Swiss lead
erS, 1--WE should march through the
whole of France. "-Macmillan' $ Maya
Hiue.
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Meaning of the Word "Omaha."

The name "Omaha" bears testimony
TO the long journey of the people, and
reveals some of the causes which brought
about this breaking up into distinct
tribes. 1t is composed of two words,
which signify going against the cur
rent, " or up the stream. The Omahas
were the people who went up the
stream, while the Quapaws, their near
OF kin, went, as their name reveals,
with the current, " or down the stream.
The traditions Of both these peoples say
that the parting occurred during hunt
ing expedition, each division finally set
ting in the lands whittier they had
wandered apart. This epOchal hunt
must have been centuries ago, for the
Quapaws bore their descriptive name III
1910, being mentioned in the Portu-
guese narrative Of De Soto's expedition
as then living on the Arkansas river,
where they dwelt until 1899, when they
coded their long occupied lands to the
United States. Alice C.. Fletcher in
Century.
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Vegetarian restaurants are by degrees
giving up the use of such titles for their
dishes as convey the idea Of meat diet,
but they still find the word steak "
Indispensable Otherwise their bill Of
fare is much improved and of more
inviting character than il used TO be.
Indian broth" reads we'll on cold
December day, and praised onion with
tomatoes" appeals to many. But what
is vegetable turkey"
1t seems 10 be rather a confession Of
weakness TO be dependent on the animal
world for names wherewith TO invest
the various preparations of vegetables,
cereals and fruits To America they owe
many forms of succulent and tempting
food, such as fried corn, maize with
plums and pineapple pudding made from
the timed fruit. The use of cheese, for
hidden by some Of the strictest follow
ers of vegetarianism. enables the cater
ers to offer such savory dishes as welsh
rabbit, cheese fritters and custards, and
the odors that are emitted are of the
most savory and appetizing description.
London News
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HOW INDIANS MEASURE TIME.
They Fix Their Dates by Sleeps and Moons
and Winters

Our Indians measure time solely by
days, by sleeps, by moons and by win
tiers. The Indian has no name for any
subdivision of time less than "a day.
When he desires to indicate a shorter
period, he points TO the heavens, and
measuring off space says. 1t was as
long as it would take the sun to go from
there to there. A day is from daylight
10 darkness, sleep" or night, from
dark TO daylight. He has 10 name for
any day, nor has he any subdivision of
time corresponding to our week. A
moon commences with the first streak
of the crescent in the west and lasts IN
til the next one appears, but the days OF
the moon are neither numbered nor
named. From winter to winter" Is
the nearest approach he has TO our term.
The year commences with the first fall
Of snow. An Indian will tell you he is
so many winters old. but having no
months or days he never has birthday.
The Indians who formerly inhabited
the southern part Of Texas, where there
is no snowfall, are said 20 have fixed the
commencement of the year at the first
"norther, "a furious and chilling wind
that sweeps from the north and is of fire.
quent occurrence during the winter
months.
No year has any name or number fix
ing sequence or point of reference, but
each band will designate "A year by its
most prominent occurrence, as "a fight
with hostiles, death of a chief, preva-
lence of disease, abundance or scarcity
of food, or failing anything marvellous
or striking by the name of the stream on
which was located the winter camp
But these are mere remembrances, and
excellent as is the Indians memory
they, after a few years, fade into
tumble of disconnected facts without
sequence or usefulness. Cincinnati En-
Qulrpr
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HitchCOCk-WilmOt.

The Anglo-Saxon suffixes "kin" and
'cock" were used as diminutive or en-
dearing forms of personal names, just
rs the Normans used the suffixes set, "
cot, Zen" and ION. Thus from Hitch
itself a diminutive of Richard, we get
the surnames Hitchkin, Hitchcock
Kitchens and HitchisoD. Any common
baptismal name affords number of
such variants, which became fixed as
patronymics or surnames. There are,
for example, at least 10 different forms
of William available for that purpose.
English forms William, giving Will
liams, Williamson, MacWilliam, Fitz-
william Will, giving Wills, Wilson
Bill, giving Bilson; Willy, giving Will
lisOn.
Anglo-Saxon forms: Wilkin. giving
Wilkie, Wilkins, Wilkinson Gilkin,
giving Gilkinson; Wilcox, giving Will.
cox.
Norman forms: Guillaume, giving
the surname Gillom; Guillamot, giving
Gillamot; Guillon, giving Gillon Gull
lot, giving elliot. Gillotson; GULL, Civ
ing ellison. McGill; Willett, giving
Willet; Williamot, giving Wilmot Will
len, giving william, Willing New York
Times.
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Wordsworth and Burns.

A friend writes US from England: We
visited the simple tomb of William
Wordsworth in Grasmere churchyard.
The old church stood near it, among
the ancient trees The rapid Rotha
passed the graves and the grand hills
lifted theI, green domes in the cloudless
sky.
We had ridden past the poet tuned
lakes of Windermere and Grasmere,
with memories of Coleridge De Quin-
cey, Christopher North, Mrs Hemans
and Harriet Martineau, and had rested
by Rydal Water in the shadows of Ry-
dal Mount
Wordsworth, said one of our par
ty, calling TO mind the author of the
Excursion, - seems 10 be the soul Of
all these scenes. He made himself the
ever prevailing spirit of the English
lakes. -
Burns was his teacher, a" said anoth.
er.
How was that" we asked
There, unuer the grand trees lifting
their solemn tops to the sun, our friend
repeated q single verse from Words
worth ; poem on the death of Burns:
mourncd with thousands, but as one
More deeply grieved, for he was gone
Who's light hlilnd when first it shone
And showed my youth
How verse may build princely throne
On humble truth.
Youths Companion.
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Likeness Of English and Americans.

As respects character, the British and
American publics are strikingly at one
The tone of popular sentiment is much
the same. The attitude toward ques-
tions OF general human interest is often
identical Political ideals are, at bot
tom, not so unlike as superficial observ-
ers fancy. Party spirit manifests itself
in very SINH lar fashion. Both are sensi-
tive, though in slightly varying degrees,
to the same appeals. The same national
spirit aDimates both, showing itself in
quite characteristic fashion when the
jealousy Of one is aroused against the
other. Indeed it is in their mutual rival
ries and ieaIousies that their spiritual
kinship Is often most manifest. Their
diversity is superficial and provincial;
their unity fundamental and racial
The American who can divest himself
Of provincialism in England and the
Eng who can lay aside his in
sularity in America each finds himself
at home Edward NJ. Chapman in
Century.
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LONDON OMSl5USES.
Interesting Statistics of Transportation II
the Englis.- Capital.


Some interesting details have appear.
ed in a report on the omnibus and tram
car service of London. The tramways,
which correspond TO our car lines, are
all of feet 5 y inches gauge except two
lines, which are only feet 6 inches.
There are III the city II distinct routes,
Of which IS are in use. The mileage of
the worked lines is given as $40. The
average speed Of London tram is g. As
miles per hour that Of a London omni
bus is o. miles per hour. The average
tram fare is 67-l00ths of penny q
cents) per mile. The average omnibus
fare is 92l00tbs of a penny per mile
There are $40 cars on the lines, which
among them run II, $50 single journeys
during their days work, which lasts on
the average Is hours and "A minutes.
The omnibuses are more than twice a.
many. There are 2,130 of them, and
these are run 80, 900 single journeys in
the course of day that averages 10
hours and 32 minutes. There are IL
London tram companies. In the course
of year their cars run %, 7S7, 900 miles
and carry 225, 263, 900 passengers. The
London omnibuses run 49, 7S3, 900 miles
a year and carry 1926, 900. 900 passengers.
To work its tram cars London re-
quires 10, 092 horses TO work its omni-
buses it has 25,573. A summary Of
these figures shows that there are 3, 229
vehicles employed, worked by 80, Go
horses, travelling ~, 500, 900 miles and
carrying 551. 345, 900 passengers in
year. 1t is calculated that each Of the
800 omnibuses which pass the Mansion
House in an hour will travel ga miles a
day, carrying 420 passengers as its days
work and earning 3s. sd. during each Of
its 3 journeys. st. Louis Globe-Dem-
Ocrat
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GIRLS VALUE PURITY IN MEN.
The Exceptions, Who Wed Men OF the
World, Always Repent of 1t.

A yOunlc man writes To Edward w.
Box inquiring why SO many girls seem
to prefer the company Of young fellows
of slightly blotted character-men who
have seen the world--and in many cases
MARI them, in face of the fact thar
their past lives are known 20 them. In
The Ladies Home Journal Mr. Box, its
editor, makes this reply; "Girls-that
is, the right kind of girls-do not prefer
the company Of young men of this sort.
Doubtless, You have come across in
stances where this rule has been other
wise; SO have l. But it is all in the
seeming, and not in the reality. Depend
upon one thing--girls have as high an
estimate Of purity III man AS men have
of purity i'll woman.
"There are, of course, cases 10 the
contrary, but these ale few. Where girls
marry men who are known TO have led
what Is called worldly life it il
more generally due to "A misunderstanding
ing of facts OF 20 ignorance than people
imagine There Is Il type of girl who
finds "a peculiar satisfaction in the con-
quest Of man who has seen the world
and then comes 10 her as the one woman
of all her sex who can make him happy.
This sometimes pleases her vanity and
love of conquest, but she is not many
years older before she discovers that she
has satisfied those feelings at very
high cost.
There is another type of girl who
rather fancies ID man who is what is
called fast. But that sort of girl is
painfully ignorant of what is meant by
that word as applied TO man. If she
were not, she would be very apt to
change the adjective to vulgar. And
as she natures she finds this out. 1t is
only young men Of upright lives who
can hope to win the favor and love of
girls of high motives, the girls who
make the best wives. If, at times, girls
seem 10 favor young men of another
kind, the glamour is simply transitory.
1t is rare. very rare, that girls better
instincts do not lead her to the higher
grade Of yonng men. An upright life
never fails of reward, and Of the highest
reward, from the hand of woman -
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An Error About Cats.

IAN error about cats, and truly vul-
gar one, is that they lie on young chill
dren's breasts and suck their breath or
suffbcate them. Cats like TO lie on the
breast of person they love, and are apt
to show their happiness by now and
then lifting their heads for kiss or
gently touching the face or neck above
them with their paw; this sort Of pat
ting or stroking beloved cheek or
throat is one of the more human habits
which dogs have not. Seeing one of our
cats lying on her masters chest when
he was asleep on the sofa, l understood
how the notion had taken root; then,
too, cats are luxurious and fond of
warmth, and may sometimes share
baby's crib or cradle for that reason, as
dogs certainly do. Temple Bar.
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The laws of nature are just, but terri.
bic. There is no weak mercy in them.
Cause and consequence are inseparable
and inevitable. The elements have no
forbearance. The fire burns, the water
browns, the air consumes, the earth
buries. And perhaps it would be we'll
for our race if the punishment of crimes
against the laws of man were rs inevita-
BILE as the punishment of crimes against
the laws Of nature-were man as unerr-
ing in his judgments as nature. Long
fellow.
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Lessons For schooIboys.

There is no question that our fore
fathers supposed that benefit might be
derived from causing schoolboys to be
spectators of the hanging of criminals
Sir Walter Scott had borne testimony
to this custom being not unknown in
Scotland. In The Heart of Midlothian :"
Mr.. Saddletree is represented, as saying {:
promised to ask half plaNday to the
schule. so that the BARNS might gang and see
the hanging. which Gamma but have a pleasing
effect on their young minds, seeing there is no
knowing what they may come TO themselves
Chapter 26
Sir Walter would not, we may as
sumo, have written the above had be
bot known that such things had actual
ly taken place. Notes and Queries