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A Fire In Mexico.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. GA special 10 the
Globe. Democrat from Vera Cruz,
Mexico, says:
Another disastrous fire has occurred
here, destroying factories and business
blocks to the value OF 100000.
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MicroscOpical Society.

By order OF the president the next
regular meeting OF the MicrOscopicsl
Society OF Utah will be held on FRI
day evening, January %, instead OF
JsnuaryS.
The class in microscopy will b old its
regular session on next Friday even-
ing, Jan. 8, at z O'Clock.
q. A. WHITING,
Chairman program committee.
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THURsTON SEES n,KINLEY.
Hnrua aud the President-eIect Con
structtng u Cabinet.

CLEVELAND, o., Jan. Ex-senator
Thurstun, OF Nebraska was tue most
promi nent caller at Windemere today.
He arrived Ia the city on an early
train from the West and was driven
directly to the home OF Mr.. NJ. A.
Hanna, where he hal u long confer
ence with the Pfesldent.elect. The
senator left this afternoon for Wash
iDgtop.
II Is understood that Senator Shur1-
TOMS mission at Winuemsre was to
consider national legislation, part Gu.
larly the new tariff bill, to discuss
cabinet timber TO Do had In the West,
and also to talk about tho Cuban
question.
Msjor Mckinley will leave Clevt-
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SILVER AND GOLD.
Money In abe sau Francisco Sab.
trtasury.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. g. There
was SAL 246, $685. 30 IN the United States
suDtIeasury at san Francisco at the
close OF busil ess on the last day OF
last year, as shown by the report Of
the United States Treasurer q. z.
Perry. or this by lar the largest part
was In coin, slU, 1856. 343 being gold
and S24, 99O,59S STANDARD silver dol
lars. Or the paper money S2,336, sos
was In silver certificates. There WAS
s296, 300 IN gold certificates and tho
balance In Uuited States notes, treas.
ury notes OF 1890 national bank nO,es
and subsidiary and Manor coin. The
shipments OF silver coin during the
month Of December were curing the
month slS2,s3O, most in sta ndard
silver doliars. There was decrease
during the month in cash on hand OF
s4l9,s66.
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CLEVELAND. Ohio, Jan. 6.-Presi-
dent.eiect Mckinley left here on the 7
O'Clock train, this morning, for Can
ton, where conference Will be held
with Senator Allison, Of Iowa, which,
1t is believed, will have an important
bearing on the cabinet makeup.
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Missouri Legislature.

JEFFERSON CITY, Miss, Jan. g.
The missouri legislature convsced ut
noon today aud after a temporary or.
panizstion adjourned until tomorrow.
The Democrats have safe majority
In each house and will elect all the
officers and United States senator to
succeed Vest. Vest will have no OPP
position.
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Free uonssteah DESIGNATION.

WAsBIHGIoN, Jan. 6.-rhe bill pro.
viding for free homesieais TO bona fide
settlers in Oklahoma territory occI.
stoned lengthy discussion In the
Senate today.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The Presi.
dent today sent the Senate the fol.
lowing nominations: Postmasters-
Clara l.. Lawyer, Belt, Montana;
James Huges, Mercur, Utah.
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n.ybrisk Resolution Postponed.

WAsHINaToN, Jan. Ca Joint re.
solution Iequesting Great Britain TO
pardon Mrs. Florence e. Maybrick.
was indefinitely postponed in the
senate.
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CABINET MAKING.

CLEVELAND, Jan. 5.-President-
elect MCKINLEY anu Nj. A. Hanna
have at last got down to the serious
work OF constructing a cabinet for q
new minlstration.
There seems to be no possib'e doubt
that Cornelius Bliss OF New York has
been offered and accepted the secretary.
ship OF tue navy. Mr.. Bliss arrived In
Cleveland early on Monday morning
and was driven directly to Mr.. Han
mas house, where be remained in con-
sultaton both with the President-elect
and chairman until late in the alter
noon.
With the appointment of Mr.. Bliss
goes the ASSURANCE that Whitelaw Reid
of New York will be the next minister
plenipotentiary TO the court Of 81.
James.
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Madrid, Jan. 6.-The Epooa pub.
fishes a formal denial that the govern
ment has any inteniio OF superseding
General Weyier as captain general on
Cuba.
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BOMBAY. Jan. Cit is estimated
that go, 900 persons have loft the city
Ia consequence OF the spread OF the
Bubonio plague, scattering c1ntsgation
In The country.
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Copyriyht Act Signed.

WAsHINGToN, Jan. 6 Tho Pfeti
deut uas si. ned the act recently passeu
relative to dramatic and musical copy.
rights.
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MADRID, Jan. 6.--Ex.Minlster Ven.
| Rcio Gonzales ts ueau.
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New YORK, Jan. Ga copyrighted
csblegram from London TO the Even
ing Post sayt:
The drafts OF the Pacific cable com.
| mission were signed this afternoon on
behalf OF the British, Australian and
Canadian governments, after many
months investigation. The result,
which Is kept strictly secret
for the present is awaited with
keen Interest as the fret
tangible product Of Jos. Cham erlain's
aggressive colonial policy anu an i'm
portant step towards the establishing
OF British supremacy in the Pacific
and supplying the empire with i'm.
perial cables Tree from foreign interior.
enoe.
1t ia understood the report favors the
laying oil a cable at the ear lest posi-.
BILE moment bstween Vancouver
and Australian colonies and sub.
sldies by England, Canada, Ger.
tain Australian colonies and New
ZEALAND. 1t must touch none
but British territory, leaving Hawaii
10 be tapped by q branch i've. The
Laurier government made Canadian
support absolutely conditional upon
tue absence OF foreign stations which
would destroy the strategic value
OF the cable to the empire
in case OF war. The Canada delegates
strongly favored the construction
and operation OF the cable as a Joint
government enterprise by the Imperial
Colonial cable trust, England, Canada
and Austtalislpi yipg third of the
cost each. English official opinion
supported by some OF the Australia
colonies ami backed byI.trsDu jus OPT o.
sition TO the existing eastern Company
monopoly, favored subsidy to an in.
dependent company which course
will bs adopted, probably.
TIE cable Will cost about about Sl0,.
000,0 to put down and be ready In
two years. The project now awaits the
approval OF the imperial and colonial
cabinets anu the passage by the neces.
sary votes by tho various legislatures
The only difficulty expected Is In
Australia, where inter-cOlonial rival.
ries are certain to create opposition.
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Meeting of tho steering Committee.

WAsHINaToN, Jan. 6.-It Is xpec te
a meet ny OF the Repub lean steering
committee OF the Senate Will be LeII
as soon as Allison, chairman, arrives,
to accommodate the committee on
Pacific railroads, which Is anxious to
have an early day fixed for CONSIDERS
lion Of the Tetunuing bill. 1t is proba-
bls the committee also will consider
the general oruer OF business, rs sew.
eral bills ar, pressing Tor considera-
ton.
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State Finances.

State Treasurer Chapman has sub
mitted the following financial etate.
ment to Auditor Richards for the
month OF December:
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WAsH1NGToN, Jan. 6.-The Loud
mail bill passed the House today, LA.
les.
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DENVER, Jan. 8.-The eleventh BIZ
enniaI session OF the Colorado legisla.
ture convened at noon today. Popu.
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THE CUBAN WAR.
Gomez Takes CITY ana Kills the
Prisoners

TAMPA, Fla, Jan. GA letter re.
ceiveu mere from Cieba de Ayila,
Cuba, ON the old trocha, between the
town OF Jucarro and Moroon, says
that General Gomez attacked that place
tbs week.
General Gomez Grst demanded that
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-19

pay in coin Of his own for the haIf-soline
of his shoes, he'd probably have to go
barefoot"
Some of the men around the table were
beginning to regard Mr.. Witherby with
manifestly distrustful looks but he went
on:
4 guess about a million is the figure
this man has accumulated, and has got
the use of, although he doesen't now own
any of it any more than you fellows do
It belongs to his wife. No, he didn't trans
fer it to her in order to avoid the payment
of debts, or anything of the sort. He's
dead-square man, and his word has al
ways been as good as his bond. And ne
didn't marry a wealthy woman. either.
for, as 1 have said, he earned every peseta
of the pile himself. 1t is simply this:
During the last four years this man has
been playing poker with his wife and
she has been cleaning him out from the
go-off. She broke him in less than two
years after they started the game, and
she has kept him fat broke ever since.
He hasn't got Is cents worth of stocks
or bends in the world; he's got no Der-
sonal property except his clothes and his
watch and chain-his wife has won all
the rest of his jewelry, though she lets
MN wear IL ne OOeSnl now possess
much as an SXl0 rough-bOard shack ont
of the hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of real estate that used to stand
in his name His wife has got it all Yet
they are the happiest couple in the north
west, go everywhere together, and are
genuine sweethearts. 1t is a queer bust
ness I'll admit, and I'll have to give Won
the details before you'll be able to under
stand it,
up to about four years ago. as most
of you probably know, Butte was prob-
ably the warmest gambling town in this
country. There were half a dozen games
ON every block, and they weren't smothered
up on the top floors, either, nor perforated
with peepholes with a house man at every
hole to size up the proper people or the
dangerous ones that tinkled for admit
lance. They were run fun blast on the
ground floors, and the clatter of the chips
and the rattle Of the wheel marbles were
just as common sounds in the ears Of pc
destrians on the main streets Of Butte as
the moan of the tamale man is on the
streets of San Francisco. All of the Joints
were called clubs and there was a very
wide gamut between the best and the
worst OF them.
AT faro bank you could get anything
you wanted in Butte from two-bit limit
to no limit at all, and all the rest Of the
games, from mustang to Fly loo and stud
poker Were run on the same scale TO ac-
commodate the purses Of both punters and
performers. There was no municipal SUI
pervision OF the games at dll The only
exaction was that every layout should be
run strictly on the level, and this was not
a municipal exGcting. but it was a rule
that proprietors Of the big institutions
took IN hand and enforced. II the mana
ger Of a puuting game got caught IN the
most venial sort OF crooked work, or even
an attempt AZ crooked work. his place
would he clOeed up In a jiny by the chief
% police, and no explanation would be
given why this was done. But the bank
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proprietors would know why IL was done.
"Well. this wealthy man Of Butte. now
without a cent Of his own. was one OF the
most profitable patrons of the high-class
games until the reform administration
came along, about four years ago, and
swept about eight out OF ten banks out
of existence, and forced the surviving in
stitutiOns. the leading ones Of the town,
to carry on business strictly on the quiet.
He made most of his money in working
MOutana's gem fields, and he was
shrewd investor and a rafting good bust
ness man. But he was one OF those fel-
lows the like of whom you occasionally
run across. with an Irresistible mania for
gambling in all its forms, yet altogether
lacking in the temperament, skill and
experience required for successful gam
bling He went against all the heavy
games that were running in Butte under
the Old regime, and he got hit hard by
nearly all of them. lie lacked the will
power to let the tables alone. however,
and after awhile his steady losses began
10 prey on his nerves and to injure his
health. Although he never encroached
upon his capital, he sloushed away the
major portion OF MS very large income
on the green cloth. and il the reform ad-
ministration hadn't happened around Just
about when it did, there's no telling how
far he might have gone. Although he kept
az 1t for a few weeks after the beginning
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of the reform he was too upright TO be
able 70 stand for sneaking up back stairs
to be Inspected through a peephole by
hangers-on for faro hells. But his wife
was chiefly instrumental in his giving the
banks the complete go-by.
he mad gone back to New Hampshire
ana married the sweetheart of his bow
nood after he began to pile up money in
montana. lie got a prize, too, and he
knew y, and he did everything in the
world Tor her but the one thing that she
most wanted him to do, and that was to
quit gambling.
after awhile I'll let the banks go.
Ilmmy, he'd say to her I want TO give
EN- one good, hard welt and get AT lea 81
some OF 1t back, ana then you and ri
<speild our evenings playing checkers. and
You won't worry any more
Wen, you all know how it goes v-ben q
reno" stacks up against another mans
same Tor the purpose Of getting his money
pack The payer plays with desneration
ana imoeciity and he gets worse MIXED
an the lme. That was what was baDDen-
Ius 10 ms man when his wife got into the
game. SAe was and is pretty level-head-
eu ana accomplished woman and clever
enough to keep the smartest men on their
mettle on any subject.
rom said she 10 her husband very
carry one morning when he reached home
with a worried look on his face. Won know,
m no Mrs. Caudle. and I haven't sat ND
10 lecture YOU You've been at the bank
haven't you, Tom?
Tom owned up.
And you look as if you were hit pref
~ hard l suppose you were?'
Midd.ing hard. says Tom.
w ell, now she went on. I've been
hearing to-day that the frst-rate men
don't play bank any more, since they've
been compelled 10 go about 1t i'm a skulk-
m % nd Of
honor OF your acquaintance and your re-
gard ever since 1 was a little girl in short
frocks, il is clear to me that you belong
to the first-rate men,
Tom smoked his cigar and kept his
mouth closed
90 Tom Mrs. Tom went on. Z believe
that you just naturally love to gamble.
that you We're born that way; that YOU
have a passion for venturing your money
just for the excitement, the mental stiu1u-
lus of It. Am / rightT
Tom fiicSed the ashes from his cigar in
a way that said yes but he kept still.
We'll sad she. after pause, I've
got a scheme. Gamble with me"
Tom told me afterward that he thought
at the time that his wife was delirious
from anxiety and that he looked at her
pretty hard
E" You needn't stare at me IN that way.
Tom she said. I'm not crazy and /
maven got mysteries. ! know just what
I'm talking about and / mean every word
I say. Stay home and gamble with me,
I like TO gamble. too, although I've never
told you. ana J. N perfectly certain that /
can play just as good game Of draw po-
ker as you can. You might as well keen
all this money you are wasting at the pub
lie tables To- the family and let me have
some fun out Of It besides
q" Jimmy you're loony.' says Tom.
d" 40. I'm not. either replied Mrs. Tom.
You know I've got a lot Of money In the
bank that 7 really have no use for. You
gave IL 10 me nat, and it's really and tru-
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her. Her turrets and sides may be plated
thick with inches of steel and her great
guns may be able to send her foes seen
above water to the bottom, but beneath
the water she is unarmed and unarmored.
1t is there she is as helpless and as vul-
nerable almost as merchant steamer, and
it is to strike this vulnerable part of the
hull that torpedoes and submarine boats
are invented.
One of the desires of the naval design
er is to make the hull of his vessel under
water so that the least possible damage
will be done to it If bad luck should cause
it to be hit by torpedo or attacked by
a submarine boat. There is another OBJ
ject in paying particular attention to the
construction of the hull under water, and
that is to minimize the danger of sinking
If the vessel strikes a rock or submerged
wreck.
Until recent years the safety of the I'M
derwater body was sought to be guarded
by giving the vessel a double hull, with
a considerable space between the inner
and outer Skins" The theory was that
the outer skin might be pierced in several
places and still, if the inner skin remained
intact, the vessel would not be put out OF
action. This double hull with water-tight
compartments literally supplied was de-
pended upon to reduce the danger of a
ship being destroyed by blow from be-
low the water line.
The first ships of the new navy-the
Chicago. Boston and Auanta-were built
on this plan. Now, however, some thing
more is done than just to give the ship
a double bottom. The space between the
inner and outer skins is now divided into
many small compartments, making il
complete mass Of cells, like a honey comb.
and these cells are filed with a material
called cellulose. If one of these cells is
pierced so that the water gets in the ce-
lulose swells up and plugs the hole
Before the present system was put in
use. if the outer hull was pierced the
water would flow In and fiji the space be-
tween the hulls Now if the water rets
an, IN spite Of the cellulose il viii only
reach the cells which are ruptured. ana
the others viii be as buoyant as ever In
order 10 sink a man-of-war now A great
number OF cells would have TO be pune
tured
OF course, II the projectile. whatever il
was, torpedo or shot. went way throupb
into the hold Of the snip il would be the
Water-ught bulkheads which would b.
principally depended on 10 keep her afoat.
pul the mole In the ship would b. much
easier 10 repair because OF tho firr.-r--
serlDing OF the extent Of the injurv 1a-
cause OF the cellular construction OF the
null and the uninjured cells would si6
IN ouoying up the vessel.
aocl, one sees a man-of-war IN dry
Sock' or Is a diver ana sees be~ 49,
&c ~ walks below her On the bottom ~ ~
vesseI ne scarcely realizes how much ~ I,
come. ~ pelo| the Ester-llre Tha ~
Auantas ing picture shows hon TIE crt5.re-
"'uia look II ore mere belyg
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The Rev DR.. Goodman paused in his
discourse, leaned forward on the pulpit
and looked affectionately, at his assembled
mock i wish TO remark" he said, "in or.
der TO reassure the three or four friends
VINO nave just come in, that the compara-
i've lalehess OF their arrival-the sermon.
in point of fact is not more thar baIf
over-does not disturb me in the least
Ihelr entrance, on the contrary is most
opportune. 1t has aroused several brett.
rem who had fallen asleep. whose attention
l particularly wish TO direct to the portion
of the sermon l am now about Ia entor
upon. Resuming, therefore the considero.
ton OF The text, let us ascertain, If posi-
PIE, me meaning of the apostle when he
says" etc.-Chicago Tribune
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Washington Dec. 17.-This picture shows
the underwater body of the United
States cruiser which is now being repair
ed at the Brooklyn navy yard in order
that she may take her place once more
among the active ships of the American
navy. 1t shows the ship as she would
look in action with the guns of Spanish
or German fleet pounding her above water
and shows the part Of the vessel which
the hostile vessels would try to reach
with their torpedoes or submarine boats.
If they had any
1t is the underwater body of a man-of-
war which is the most vulnerable part Of
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was all his to manipulate and do business
with, as I've told you; but it was in her
name. 1t took her another year to break
him, but she made a mighty slick job of it
at the end. 1t was almost exactly two
years to a day after they had started the
game when the inevitable night came on
which this Butte man had to sail the
sponge and acknowledge that he was all
up. Each of them had on corner of the
table a list of securities, stocks bonds
and other properties, with the money val
ues noted, that they individually owned,
ana they had devised a system of check
ing the list off with a pencil as the Sc
curities were wagered in the progress of
the play. Then at the end of each week
they would have a settling day, and on
these settling days nine times ont of ten
the securities and real estate deeds would
be transferred wholesale from the hus-
bands to the wife's side of the safe de-
post vault. On the night that she broke
him fiat she had been blufflng so persist
emily that he concluded he would call a
matt to that sort of thing as soon as he
got good hand. His opportunity arrived
when he gave himself three Jacks and
then another jack on the draw His list
of securities beside him was pretty we'll
checked off by this time. but he thought
ne mad good enough hand to do a dou-
pie or quits turn, and so, when he saw
that his wife was inclined to raise him
IN the betting, he just fired the who'll LIST
in the middle of the table
If l haven't got you beaten this time.
Jimmy he said, I might as well 20
broke "
Well, that won't break you, YOU
know, she replied sweetly You've got
your diamonds yet, haven't YOU?
on, m too strong this time to let Won
bluff me out that way, Jimmy, said he.
If you have the audacty to think you've
got me beaten this time and will stand for
the raise by checking off an equal value on
tnat little list of yours over there. I will
put into the pot everything l own in the
world except my buds and this watch and
chain that was given to me at home when
l was boy.
And the value of what you've got
lettE she inquired, as cool as a cucumber.
Well, said Tom, 4 guess NV rings
and pins are worth $4,000. and Won can
appraise my wardrobe at about 81 600,
The little woman calmly took the nen-
ell and checked off $1,000 worth of secu-
rites on her list.
Il call you, said she.
Tom smiled as he spread out his hand
:" Too bad, Jimmy, he said -Four
Jacks Jul
Too bad, Tommy said she, spreading
out her hand. -Four queens. >"
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her in a divers suit or in a submarine
boat.
The fact that so many experiments are
now being made IN submarine boats, and
that torpedo warfare Is so much better
understood than it used to be, has made
naval constructors of late pay more at
tention to the hulls Of men-of-war than
ever before
The Atlanta is to have new boilers and
machinery, and her battery is to be brought
up 60 date She viii also have a new rig
Originally she was brigantine rugged, but
when she comes out of the navy yard
again she Will have only military masts
Workmen are now busy on her and an
appropriation has been asked for to com
plete her rehabilitation.
The Atlanta was built in 1884 by John