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The leader., 1897-12-29
The Motorman,s Pie

Here is a melancholy story of a motorman
and his luncheon: The car was nearly ready
to start at the beginning of the route, when
a woman got on and took her place on the
front seat along with the driver, stern,
married-looking man." who had basket be.
side him, and was somewhat hurriedly eat.
ing his luncheon. The woman began ask.
ing questions, and the man, as she left him
opportunity, continued to snatch now and
then a bite. By and by at the ring of the
bell he let on the power and the car started,
while he held in one hand great slab Of
cherry pie" A few blocks down the street
an impish child danced across the track
suddenly so near the car that the gripman
put on the brakes, and the woman with the
inquiring mind rose to her feet in alarm.
abe danger passed, she sat down again heav.
lily. The stern-faced gripman had ceased to
eat his pie. "You don't have much time for
meals, do you?" asked the woman wi, With the
man, sadly. Where's your pie?" went on
the woman with the inquiring mind
You're sitting on it," he said.-Washing
fop Post
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TELEGRAPHIC NOTES

Steven Spellen. who killed Michael
Roher in Dubois. Pa, Wednesday
night, was shot dead while attempting
10 escape his pursuers.
The statements recently published
about the shooting of political prison.
ers in Guatemala are without founda.
ton, according TO reports received by
the Guatemalan minister at Washing.
ton.
1t is alleged that up wards of 80, 900
persons have been swindled out of
fully 81, 900, 900 by the defunct "E. s.
Dean Company" of New York city,
within the last six wears. A number
of arrests have been made.
Charles S. and Mary Charlotte
Chapman. husband and wife, died in
South Bend, Ind, Wednesday, lie first,
and she but IS minutes later. Apo
plcxy caused his death, while Mrs.
Chapman died from pneumonia.
james A. Nolan, a lawyer OF To-
peka, Kan, who escaped from the
Kansas state asylum for the insane
about two months ago, was arrested
III DuhdlO, ~. L., yCottiuhy gnu 10 cS-
ing held for the Kansas authorities.
1t has developed that the big coal
selling combinatio of the anthracite
railroads, whereby that product is to
be doled out by a supreme head, is
only part of a vast project for the cou-
troll of the entire coal industry in the
east.
The Bengal chamber Of commerce
has sent an address to the Indian gov
eminent, in which it says that the
time has arrived TO adopt the gold
standard, pointing out that it is four
years since the minis were closed,
leaving India without a currency sys-
tenn.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
THE commissioner OF pensions ap-
peared before the senate committee on
civil service, which is conducting an
investigation into the operations of
the civil service system, and gave testi-
mony adverse to the system. He
thought some reform would have to be
enacted or the country would have the
infiiction of civil service list
THE house committee on currency
will have something more to consider
besides the financial scheme of Secre-
tary Gage, every member having plan,
which will be perfected during the
holidays, and all phases of the cur
rency problem being treated.
JOSIAH NJ. QUINCY, democrat, was re-
elected mayor of Boston on the 21st.
THE civil service law was considered
at the cabinet meeting on the 21st and,
while no definite policy was outlined,
it was determined to maintain the
principle of the law.
DELEGATES of the Cherokee and
Creek Indians at Washington held a
conference on the 21st and decided on
course of action on January /, when
the tribal courts are to be abolished.
They will instruct the tribal courts to
sit as usual and if they are stopped by
the United States authorities the case
will be carried to the supreme court
for decision as to the constitutional
ity of the law.
The president has determined to
carry out his original purpose of nomi-
| mating Charles F. Bryan, of Illinois, to
| be minister to China. The nomina-
| ton will be sent to the senate after
the holidays.
Miss Ida HERBERT, the daug tier of
ex-Secretary Herbert, committed sui
eide at Washington by jumping from a
window. She was respondent because
she had met with an accident by fall
ing from her horse which promised to
cripple her for life.
GEN A. b. CAMPBELL, ex-adjutant
general and ex-chaplain of the states
prison of Kansas, committed suicide in
a hotel at Chicago by taking morphine.
SENATOR WoLCoTr spoke at the fes-
tival of the New England society at
New York on the I'D. The keynote
of his speech was that the west was
not decadent and that westerners were
as honest, virile and patriotic as east
erners.
Mrs. DARLINGTON BOOTH, wife of the
commander of the American Volun-
tecrs, was lying in New York hos
pital very sick on the ED and her con-
dition was reported as alarming.
PRESIDENT SAMUEL SLOAN, of the
Delaware, Lackawanna e Western
railroad, will be given by the employees
of the road $4,000 gold table service
as token of their esteem. He is the
oldest railroad president in the country
and has served for so years as the exec
utive head of the Lackawanna system.
CHARLES A. PILLsBURY, of st. Paul,
Mimi, who is reported to have made
$4,000, 600 in wheat this year, has re-
signed the management of the English
syndicate mills.
GEN. PANDo has written to Capt.
Gen. Blanco that all of the commits
sioners sent to the Cuban insurgents
camps proposing peace with autonomy
have failed and therefore no other
course is open than to finish the war
| with war.
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thought so highly of him ssto select
him as their representative In congress.
II is the general belief OF his colleagues
that Mfr. Jett will justify the wisdom
of his electors.
The youngest man In the house TO
have attained high judicial honors be-
fore coming TO congress is Judge James
NJ. Briggs, who represents the Second
Georgia district. When barely 30 years
of age he was appointed, by the gov
ernor of his state, judge OF one OF the
circuits, and he was twice elected TO
that Office by the legislature. On the
bench, Judge Briggs record was ex-
ceptionally satisfactory, and there was
considerable surprise when he resigned
to run for congress. He had been one
of the original silver democrats OF
Georgia, and in the democratic ma
tional convention OF 1892 he voted for
straight, unequivocal declaration on
the money question, and his candidacy
for congress was in response to the
wishes of the silver democrats Of his
district.
Judge Briggs has, since he came to
congress, proved to be one OF the most
popular of the new men on his side OF
the house. As a wit and story teller
he easily takes the front rank, and his
good humored countenance is an in
dex of his genial and kindly nature. He
is now So years Of age.
Though Utah is the youngest OF the
states, she is one of the most progress
sive. Her people are active, industrious
and intelligent. They believe in young
men, and selected Hon. w. X. King as
their representative in congress. He
| is "a years old, is a Utah boy, but on
his fathers side came from the old
King and Hancock families of New
| England. He is lawyer and graduate
of the University of Michigan. He has
had considerable experience in pub
lie life, having filed numerous posi-
tons in his native state. He served in
| three sessions of the legislature, and
was president of the state senate, and
has also been associate justice of the
supreme court of the territory of Utah.
Judge King has always been DEM
ocrat and is regarded as pronounced
and uncompromising in his views. The
Chicago platform received his hearty
support, and leaving his own campaign
he stumped in the east for Bryan. He
was elected to congress by a majority
of nearly 10000 over his opponents, one
of whom was a republican advocate of
| CT Il
came to Washington a stranger, but
The leader., 1897-12-29

CONVICTED OF MURDER,
Tho Murder OF Mate william Wallace on
the High Seas to be Avenged.

NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 24.-John Ander.
son was yesterday convicted of the
murder of William Wallace Saunders,
mate of the schooner Oliver Pecl1er, on
the high seas, on the sixth of August
last, and under the sentence of the
court must be hanged on the 18th day
of March next unless the supreme
court Of the United States in the mean.
time interposes.
At the conclusion of the argument OF
counsel Wednesday evening the jury
was excused from deliberation until
yesterday, and shortly after ~ o'clock
the verdict of guilty, as indicted, was
brought in. Anderson received the
verdict unmoved.
A motion for a new trial was made
and argued yesterday afternoon. The
court oyerrued the motion, after a
brief argument in reply by the district
attorney and Judge Golf sentenced the
prisoner Anderson hardly moved
muscle while the sentence was being
made, but cried little while talking
to his attorney afterwards.
The leader., 1897-12-29
MOTTO ON THE DENTISTS wa,
Enrnged the Suffering Patiep, ~.
Pleased the Tooth PuIt.r

"I tell you what it is" the infur;a,.d
tient. was saying to the dentist. ~ Jopp ~.
mind SO much the way in which you yants5
out that tooth, nor even the fact az ~ Ie So
ing the wrong tooth, nor the price % We oe.
asked for paralyzing my nerve, nor any yo ~
the d,sagreeable thing. you've said TO me "
nor the insinuation that a ten.veorn nj
child would have stood it better; no I LOG
say that care for any Of that racke, ' 4.
something else that barbed the iron tbss
entered my soul-I mean my Jaw" 'ua'
II suppose you didn't like the mann0- .
said the dentist. N"dir!
at wasn't that" continued the man Vial.
the fractured jaw. II was in the arm. W.T." au
am used to being shot out of cannon N Slo
it wasn't the pain when you took the ton ,'o Os
my head off. No, sir, it was none of tbp.o VI
1t was that framed and emblazoned n r,,ose.
on your wall which aroused in me the feeGn',
that insult had been added to injury. . ''Hs
a, Inc dentist smiled as his eyes followed
those words: N''N 'eau
The leader., 1897-12-29
YOUNG MEN In CONGRESS.
An Unusually Large Number Was
Elected Last Year.
Representative Kitchen, of North
Carolina, Aged Thirty, Is the Baby
of the House-Other Juve-
nile Leaders.
tsnec,al Washington Letter.l

For very many years, If ever before,
there have not been in the national house
of Representatives so many young men
as there are in the Fifty-fifth congress,
which is now assembled for its first
regular session.
This fact is almost wholly attributed
to the political unrest and uncertainty
which overspread and overwhelmed the
country in the early days of 1896, when
political parties were splitting TO
shreds and the air was as full of theo-
ries and vagaries as the Atlantic coast
atmosphere is full of mosquitoes in
July and August. The older politicians
The leader., 1897-12-29

cided to order special issue of stamps
commemorative of the holding of the
Transmississippi exposition at Omaha,
Neb., next year. This is done at the
request of persons prominent in the
management of the exposition. They
will be of the denominations of one
cent, two cent, five-cent, ten-cent and
81. There will be no attempt to with
draw from sale the regular issues with
a view to the exclusive use of the new
stamps, as was the case during the
worlds fair, when almost all postal
business was transacted with the Co
lumbar stamps.
The leader., 1897-12-29

SECRETARY WILSON is greatly inter
ested in legislation for the establish
ment of postal savings banks because
he believes they are necessary to the
prosperity of the farmers. The bank
ing facilities in the agricultural dis
tricts are SO limited, he says, that the
farmers and their wives are compelled
to conceal their savings in teapots and
other things around the house and
these hoardings represent millions
of dollars He says it is an all
days job for a farmer to go to the
county town where the nearest bank
is situated. while there is post office
in every village.
The leader., 1897-12-29

ACCORDING to the chief of the Penn
sylvania state bureau of railroads the
bicycle is hurting the business of rail
roads. He says: ''In cities like Har-
risburg and many others it cannot be
gainsaid that the bicycle has become a
most serious competitor of the rail
way. To reinforce this view of the
case an observation was made in that
city covering two days. During that
time 6,07s persons passed given point,
1869 in the cars and 4, i16 on bicycles;
67.7 per cent. on bicycles and 1913 per
cent. on the cars, or more than
two to one in favor of the
wheel"
The leader., 1897-12-29

were hesitant about hunting nomina-
tions, because they feared the POSSIBLE
tiles and probabilities of defeat. The
real cunning politician always wants
"the other fellow" nominated in off
years.
But, in spite of this fact, it is grow
ing more and more apparent that the
young men of this republic are forging
to the front. Men advanced or advanc-
ing in years are not always philoso-
pliers and do not delve into the mys-
teries of causes and effects. Cohse-
quently they have not noticed that the
The leader., 1897-12-29
AT the sixth annual jack rabbit hunt

At the sixth annual jack rabbit hunt
at Lamar, Col, which recently took
place there were 100 registered hunters
in the field and 4,756 rabbits and III
wild geese fell to their guns. The
hunters came from everywhere, Bos-
ton, New York, England, Chicago,
Kansas and one man from Kansas City.
eff it wasn't for the annual rabbit
hunt in Colorado" one of the hunters
said, 1.-THE little beasts would eat up the
state, body and bones, to say nothing
of grain crops and fruit"
The leader., 1897-12-29

THOMAS j. EDISON, Jr., has photo
graphed a thought. At least he
feels so confident that he has done
SO that he is going on with his ex-
pertinent. BY means of the Roent-
gen rays applied to the back of a
mans head he photographed round OBJ
jects, which Edison believes to be the
quarter of a dollar upon which the
subject had, according to directions,
concentrated his thoughts. This i'm
age was secured on an extremely SEN
sitive plate, the making of which is
Mr.. Edison's secret
The leader., 1897-12-29
A BIG SAVING
To the Government by Reduction of Wages
at the California Mint.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-By direction
of the secretary of the treasury the
compensatiOns of the employees Of the
United States mint at San Francisco
have been reduced in the aggregate
s41, las per annum. BY this re.
duction the compensation to
be paid will be practically
the same as at the mint in Phila-
delphia. There are about 1913 en-
ployes at San Francisco and the pay
of all but So will be cut. AS a rule
men getting Sc per day hereafter will
receive SIS, and corresponding reduc-
tions are made in the lower grades.
The reductions in the general depart
ment will aggregate $s,919, in the as
sayer's department $2,504; in the
melter and retiners' department SO, 693,
and in the coiners department $40, O32.
The new arrangement goes into effect
on January /.
The leader., 1897-12-29
Thirteen Portuguese Soldiers Massacred.

LISBON, Dec. 24.-An official dispatch
from ST. Paul de Loanda, Portuguese
Lower Guinia, says that the natives of
the Humbo plateau, in the Portuguese
colony of Angola, have nassacred a
Portuguese officer, a sergeant and IL
men. Reinforcements have been sent
from st, Paul de Loanda.
Angola is south of the Congo Free
state. The colony has been held by
the Portuguese since 1886. and they
have a number of forts and CONNER
cial establishments at different places,
in some instances several hundred
miles in the interior. 1t long possessed
an infamous notoriety for the extent
of its slave trade, but this traffic has
been greatly abridged by the Portu-
guese since 1887, when the colony was
enlarged by treaty with the Congo
Free state.
The leader., 1897-12-29

An "act for the relief of INDECENT
peers" passed by Mr.. Gladstone's gov
eminent, win be applied to aid the earl
of Midtown, who, after occupying
small places under the government, is
in great distress in India. Two of his
daughters are married to employees on
the Indian railroad.
The leader., 1897-12-29
Gibbons Not Chilly.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 24.-The jury in
the case of Samuel c. Perry, local
pugilist charged with manslaughter in
causing the death of Edward j. Glib
bons, during boxing bout last May,
yesterday rendered verdict of not
guilty. The men We're to box and in
the third round Perry's nose was bleed
lug. the bout was stopped by the
referee. Gibbons went to his room
and became i'll. He died later in
hospital. The doctors held that his
death was due to hemorrages.
The leader., 1897-12-29
BIG PENSION TO AN ALIEN.
A Norwegian Widow to Receive Four
Thousand Dollars.


WASHINGTON, Dec. GA pension has
been granted to the widow of Knud
Knudsen, soldier in the late war, the
back pay of which aggregates over
81, 600. The man was a native of Nor
way, and was married to the woman
who now gets the pension in April 1858.
Knudsen emigrated to this country in
1861, enlisted January 81, 1862, in Co.
ii. fifteenth regiment, Wisconsin VOL
unteer infantry, and died in service
October IS, 1868.
In connection with allowance of the
claim, the pension Office makes the fol-
lowing statements:
ION August 81, 1894. 81 years after
the soldiers death, the widow, who
has never left Norway, applied for
pension. Under the present laws the
claim must be allowed"
The leader., 1897-12-29
Tremendou. Exodus to the KIondike,

Despite the warnings of those who have
been on the spot, and predict suffering in
the Klondike region, thousands of adven'
turous Americans are vending their way
thitherward. All of them should be pro.
vided with that medicinal safeguard, Hostel.
ter's Stomach Bitters, which warns and
nourishes the system, and prevents malaria,
rheumatism, kidney trouble, besides RENE
dying liver complaint, dyspepsia and consti'
nation
The leader., 1897-12-29

In 1897, according to the Statesman's
Year Book, 1,273, 2s4, 463, or four-fifths
of the inhabitants of the earth, were
under the sway of the following pow
ers, in the proportions indicated:
China, 400, $50, 600; British empire, 129,-
$4,000; France, 70,467,775; United
States, 62,929, 766; German empire, g.
$4,000; Austria Hungary, 1855, sS6:
Japan, H,s1S, 215; Netherlands, $685..
z51; Ottoman empire, 80, 2l2 900. Among
these powers the United States holds
the fifth place as respects population,
and has about 1-25th of the population
of the earth. The population of China
is really unknown.
The leader., 1897-12-29

A COMMITTEE at New York is nego-
tiating for the purchase of building
material for a great temple of labor in
that city. 1t will be built on the CO.
operative plan. No money will be
needed. Non-interest-b bearing scrip
will be issued to the various workmen.
to be redeemed by labor. Each man
taking part in the building of the
temple will be a part owner. Goods
will be exchanged in the stores of the
temple, after the manner of transacting
business in the international Labor
exchange at Orange, n. Y, which has
branches all over the country.
The leader., 1897-12-29

Found Dead In His Chair.

CLEVELAND, o., Dec. CIV. w. An
drews, an attorney aud the head OF
one of the most distinguished families
in the western reserve, was found dead
in his chair in his office in the Society
for Savings building yesterday after
noon. He had been afflicted with
heart disease. Mr.. Andrews was 81
years old and was born in Cleveland.
The leader., 1897-12-29

COMMITTEES from a number of pa
triotic, non-political and non-sectarian
societies met at New York the other
afternoon to take action to secure con-
gressional aid in regulating the public
use of the American flag and to pre-
vent old Glory" from being desecrated
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Power of Portrayal.

"Why, man, I've had whole audiences fall
to their knees in terror at my description
of the day of judgment" The other ex'
horter smiled pityingly. "Ah, yes" he re,
piled. "But the other night l portrayed
power that man came up after the services
and asked me whom he should see about
the kinetoscope rights. "-Detroit journal.
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have been invited to occupy the pulpit
of the Central Christian church by its
pastor, Rev. Mr.. Frank G. Tyrrell, who
says that newspaper men understand
human nature and should be well fitted
to appear as teachers of morality.
The leader., 1897-12-29

CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-An explosion sup
posedly of liquor occurred at 4:l5 yes
terday afternoon in the basement OF
the Tosetti cafe on Madison street be-
tween Clark and Dearborn. Seven
persons were injured.
The leader., 1897-12-29

COL SAMUEL SIMIsoN, who made a
record for bravery at the battle of
Chickamauga, starved to death at
breckenridge, Col, the other day. He
was too proud to make his condition
known
The leader., 1897-12-29

TIE plan for a combination among
the anthracite coal companies of the
east is a monster piece of finance. The
total profit annually to the combine
by the new scheme, it is figured, will
be 81, 100000. The plan is to organize
. sales agent. which will dispense en-
tirely with the middlemen and save
their profit to the producers. This new
company Is to buy from the coal roads
their entire product, pay them ade-
quate rates for transportation to the
markets and sell to the retail dealers
direct The law of supply and demand
will nc longer enter into the economy
Of this commodity.
The leader., 1897-12-29

THE Minnesota law, providing that
all oleomargarine and butterine offered
for sale in that state must be colored a
bright pink, has been decided to lie
constitutional.
The leader., 1897-12-29
Ready for Him.

did you tell that western customer OF
ours that you would draw on him if he didn't
pay?
eyes, and he wrote back that if thought
l could draw any quicker than he could just
to come out there with my shooting tackle
and make settlement. Detroit Free
Press.
The leader., 1897-12-29

Scrofula and
All other blood
Diseases are promptly
And Permanently Cured
By Hoods Sarsaparllla.
If you suffer from
Any form of Blood
Disorder, you should
Take Hoods and
Only Hoods.
The leader., 1897-12-29

A PAPER watch has been exhibited
by Dresden matchmaker. The paper
is prepared in such a manner that the
watch is said to be as serviceable as
those in ordinary use.
The leader., 1897-12-29
Death of Wilhelm Joest.

BERLIN, Dec. 24.-The National lei
tung yesterday announced that Will
helm Joest, the explorer. died recently
In Australia
The leader., 1897-12-29

CHICAGO will have an underground
system of pneumatic tubes through
which packages of every description
can be shot to any part of the city.
The leader., 1897-12-29

THERE is likelihood that American
and English unions may amalgamate.
Probably $4,000, 900 men would be in
the union.
The leader., 1897-12-29
New Bank Authorized.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 23.-The Alma
national bank of Alma, Kan, has been
authorized to begin business. Capital
stock, $50, 900.
The leader., 1897-12-29

A MAP of Jerusalem in mosaic, over
1880 years old, has been found at
Madaba, Palestine. 1t was discovered
in uncovering the ruins of an old
church about to be rebuilt.
The leader., 1897-12-29
PEACE! BE STILL.


my wife designed that suggestion bs
said: 81 think it was clever of her" And he
handed back enough money for car fare ana
put another sound tooth in his collection "
Chicago Times Herald.
The leader., 1897-12-29

1t is pretty safe to bet that a boy whose
environment doesn't include freckles will
never amount to anything. -Atchison Globe.
The leader., 1897-12-29

THE Chicago Times-Herald says:
And now some scientific sharp has
eolemnly warned q microbe-frightened
public that the handshake must go.
( " says that ''staphylococci" and all
Irdz d. horrid things of that sort Turk
teee6 the human hand. ready to com
Nrico<e diseases 70 whomsoever NAV
eone - eontact with them.
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Promised the appointment OF Minister ia
Liberia.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-Representa ia
tive White, of North Carolina had an
interview with the president yesterday
with reference to the appointment OF
the minister to Liberia. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. White obtained the
presidents promise to nominate Rev.
Owen l.. w. Smith, of North Carolina,
one of Representative Whites constitu.
ents
The leader., 1897-12-29
Botanical.

Wiliy-Pa, what kind of plants are
"widow's weeds?"
Papa-Oh! sort of mourning glory, in
most cases.-Puck
The leader., 1897-12-29

We presume there are many women with
pretty necks Observation-Disclosures Dem
ocrat.