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TOO HOT OR TOO GOLD.

Conclusive Proof That Neither Venus
 Nor Mercury Are Inhabited.
 The careful observations recently made by Prof. Percival Lowell, of liar yard, at Taeubaya, in Mexico, prove all most conclusively in the minds of as- tronomers that no human life can ex- ist on Venus or Mercury, or if there are people there they must be altogether different from those of the earth and those who are now believed to inhabit Mars. It has been demonstrated that these planets rotate only once in the full course of orbital revolution around the sun.
 The faces which these planets thus turn toward the sun enjoy perpetual day,while the further sides are wrapped in endless night. The planets have, therefore, intense heat on one side and intense cold on the other.
 On one side Venus is always glowing in the light of the sun. Night and darkness are there unknown. Aheat far greater than any known on this earth prevails over this half of the planet. On the other side there is perpetual night. No sun ever shines here. The place is covered with ice and snow, and vegetation is unknown.
 The same conditions prevail on Mer- cury It is, therefore, apparent that if there are human beings upon these planets they must be either hardened kind of Eskimos or veritable salaman- ders. Prof. Lowell does not say what is the nature of the neutral zone that intervenes between the dark and the light places of these planets.
 The presumption 1a fiiat here, along the edge. there must be territory of some thousands of miles where there is kind of twilight and where the in tense heat of one side fades off into the intense cold of the other. These con ditions would, it is thought, make hu- man life possible in a restricted dis trict, where vegetation might spring up in ring around the planets;-N. Y. Journal.
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PLIGHT OF A REPORTER.
Fathers Load Up a Helpless Scribe
 with Child Stories.


 A reporter without noticing where ho was getting found himself the other day in the company of several fathers of interesting and witty children.
 By the way" said one of the fathers in a casual, unoffending sort of way, If you want something good to print in your paper I think can give 1t to you"
 The reporters ears breeed up and his senses quickcneess,
 "0f course, wsnt it." he said with truth.
 Well, it's about my boy Harry" The reporter saw where he had made his fatal mistake, but it was too late. '.Yesterday was talking about that amendment to the Dingley tariff bill, and was saying something about ex post facto legislation. Half an hour later my son come into the room where 1 was reading and spoke to me. asked him what he wanted, and he said: I wish you would tell me what you mean by exposed fact of legislation. Is it that kind that somebody has found out the truth about and give it away? Now what do you think of that"
 What the reporter may have thought was lost in the rush by the other fa- thers to tell what their children had said
 'sThe other day." remarked the next man who got up to the window, s'I was growing about paying the bill for cleo 4,;a;4xy r., y,oy1 I,o,4co op5 ,,,xy I;44Ia how and girl were playing in the room, and at the same time their sharp little ears were not shut. Finally the little girl asked me what was the difference be- tween electricity and lightning. Real ly, I would have been staggered at the question, as parents often are by the questions of their children, but the boy came to my relief. Wy, sister, he put in promptly, don't you know thatf You don't have to pay anything fo1 lightning
 That wasn't so bad, and the reporter almost smiled, but before he had much chance to enjoy it another father got the pole and went away down the track
 Yesterday morning" said he, T was 1 going out with my little girl Tor . walk, and I could not find my gloves though I had only a few moments be fore taken them from my overcoat pocket. had laid them down some where and forgotten where, and I was provoked. Its odd where you put them,' said my wife, joining in the search. Why isn't it even, mamma? inquired the little girl, innocently, and the answer to that question was more difficult to find than the gloves were, for we did find the gloves, but we haven't got the answer yet. Washing ton Star.
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the Goulds; but they have enough to keep 50 employees, herd of cows, q flock of sheep, stable of horses, many sorts of carriages, dozen bicycles, and to entertain a housefui of guests.
 In wages alone it costs nearly $2, GOO month, or $7o day, to run such Q home, for the head farmer and his as- sistants draw bigger salaries than most doctors and lawyers. Just the monthly butchers bill of the household, regard less of the farm annex, amounts to more than it costs bookleeper's family to subsist whole year in relative com fort.
 Of course, in some instances the farm is made to yield something above the cost of running it. This is true. how ever, of very few of such Westchester and Long Island country places. When farming is conducted as Havemeyer conducted his, it is source of income; he got yearly dividend of from seven to ten per cent. out of the Mahwah es-
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have meant all she said, but she had just returned from Sunday in Westchester. where the butler and his assistants and the maidseryants had wheedIcd big tips from her
 Country house tipping is getting to be more of q nuisance here than in Eng land, because the practice hasn't been regulated yet. In England men fee the men servants and the women fee the maid servants, and all is understood. But here both male and female servants look for haellsheesh from every visitor.
 As these estates are isolated. it be- comes q necessity to do a lot Of enter taining, as life on them would otherwise not be bearable to their masters md mistresses. That is why in the subur- ban correspondence printed in newspa- pers Westchester is always gay" The round of entertainments is interrupted only twiee--irst when the lords and ladies of the manors are invited to New port or Bar Harbor by persons whom they have entertained, and again when the lords and ladies of the n1anors come down town or go south to Aiken for tiIpll tli 9R lNfO Ill Nlii1ef ttlfd tNAc pti t- ments. All the time they are at home they live in formal pomp and ceremony, there is none of the oid-fashioncd do- as-you-please and s-to-suit-yofir- self. Domestic life is as conventional as. in a city house, for servants are even more numerous and ubiquitous
 Your luggage is talSen to your room ahead of you and there unpacked. If you value the esteem of the servants you will have it contain nothing that hints Of eheapness. In the morning breakfast is served in your room (there is hreakfast-room where you may go if you are q man); lunch is from oile to 1:30; afternoon ten, an important event, comes between five and six, and dinner is served at eight with great solemnity. George Nanderbilt's habit of having a light tea al six and the heaviest meal of the day at 0;3c is gaining vogue, be- cause, as he argues, diuner spoils an evening if 1t comes at seven o'clock
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OFFICIAL SPANISH PAPER
It Is Published Daily in New York
 City.
Finds No Friends Among the Lovers of Cuba Libre-Cuba Forms the Principal Topic for News
 and Editorials.
[copyright. 1897.

There is one daily newspaper in the United States to the editor of which the news from Cuba is second only to the news from Washington pertaining to the attitude of the United States re- garding Cuba. The name of this news paper is Las Novedades Gin English the News), and it is published in New York, where among scores of newspa- pers and periodicals in every civilized tongue, and some that are semibar- barrie at the best, it is the only au- thorized organ of a monarchical gov ernment.
 By Cubans Las Novdades and its editor, as representing and yoicing Spain in free America, are held in the highest disfayor. They speak of the pa per as dirty rag" and are ever un- complimentary in their alIusions to it's editor. There is no reason, they say, why the paper should be allowed to live, nor why the editor should be accorded the slightest consideration. But to the loyal Spanish residents of the United States, most of whom live in New York and it's immediate vicinity, Las Nove- dades and it's editor are precious links, binding them to their beloved Spain.
 Naturally the patronage of Las No- yedades is almost exclusively from these loyal Spaniards, and it's eircula- ton in the United States is therefore limited. It's foreign circulation, though not large, is undoubtedly extended, reaching most South American Spanish ports, Spain itself, and the Spanish pos sessions in the orient. It is published daily (edicion diaria) and weekly (edi cion semanaD. The weekly consists of 24 pages of about the size of Harper's Weekly; the daily of four pages of the ordinary newspaper size, each page car
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acquainted with. But of late we have fancied that some of our best friends have looked askance upon us and have wondered if it were true that the Span ish nature is as invariably cruel and bloodthirsty as pictured by the corre- spondents who describe the alleged cru cities in Cuba.''
 Regarding the end of the war and the probable outcome of any interference by the United States, Senor Garcia was reticent, but he let drop a few words that seemed wonderfully enlightening regarding the Spanish viewpoint in spite of his evident desire not to be drawn out.
 ''The United States" he said, should be extremely conservative in it's atti- ute and action towards Cuba. A very large percentage of the total American shipping nearly or quite half in fact has in the past been engaged in the trade of Cuba. Now it is idle, and the vessels that previous to the outbreak of the present war were plying con stantly between AmeGican and Cuban ports are mostly lying idle at their 
 docks, and the capital locked up in these vessels is entirely nonproductive. This, of course, must cause a great loss to Americans, but it is not by any means all for American merchants who have dealt in Cuban tobacco, sugar and cof- fee and the goods sent to Cuba in eX- change for those things have lost two profits, and the aggregate deficit in their coffers must be something enor- nous. Add to this and the amount lost directly by the idleness of the capi- tai invested in the ships, the loss of customs duties, and doubt not that the American loss to date has been al- most, if not quite, as great as has been the cost to the Spanish government of prosecuting the war. Now, if it should finally happen that Spain should re- linquish control of Cuba, then, for the benefit Of all concerned, the United States should surely exercise some sort of protectorate over the island. But it would be an exceeding great pity if there should be any unpleasantness of a serious nature between the United States and Spain, and all true Span
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rying six columns of a wider measure than is common in American newspa- pers.
 The Spanish love for tale is abun- dantly catered to by "Folletin de Las Novedades, which regularly fills the lower portion of the first page. Nearly all the remainder of the page of re- cent issue is taken up with various ar ticles and paragraphs bearing upon Cuba, though there are telegrams in brief, de todas partes del mundo''- (from all parts of the world) short par agraphs of Spanish news under the head of sNoticias de Espana" and brief ar ticle about tobacco. The second page is mainly given up to editorials about Cuba and filled out by news paragraphs with side heads, such as aElectricidad en los ferrocarriles elevabos," ''Incen- dio en Hoboken," etc.
 The remaining two pages of this paper are given up to general advertising and .Annuncios Especiales."
 Senor Garcia, the editor and publish CT of the paper, is slight man with DlOnu na1r ana uluStdCuS d1id DiuC eyes. of quiet demeanor and tasteful dress. He speaks the English almost as fuently as the Spanish, though with slight and rather engaging accent. Al though he is thorough-going Span iard and intensely patriotic, in his talk about Spain and the United States he is very guarded and diplomatic.
 ..The insurrection in Cuba" said Sen or Garcia day or two ago, "did not, strictly speaking. originate with the Cubans themselves. Cuba lies hardly more than a stones throw from the American shore. Cubans do more busi- ness with Americans than with all the world besides. They come in contact constantly with men from the States; they sell their goods for money from the States; they send their young men 70 the States to be educated. Naturally they regard the United States as the greatest country on earth and they de sire to emulate it in every way So 1t has come to pass that among certain classes i,i Cuba a desire to throw off the Spanish allegiance and to come in un-
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OVER COUNTRY ESTATES.
Houses of the Wealthy Classes of
 This Country.
Some of Them Are vast Modern Man ors-FeXv of These Estates Pay-- Theodore Havemeyer's school
 for Farmers.
TCopyrlght. lS97 ]

America is rapidly producing a leis- ure class like that of England. 1t used to be said that we had no leisure class except tramps"-but that condition has passed, as one may know from the increasing number of vast country es- tates, where our rich families live in something like feudal grandeur and maintain little armies of retainers.
 Westchester county, Long Island, and parts of New Jersey contain most of the great country estates of New Workers. English country life as it was in the Georgian era is reproduced at these places, but on a more splendid scale. Virginia, in the days of Elizabeth, Anne
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parent of the powerful sugar trust guiding some humble Jersey farmer about the place, discussing the best methods of feeding solid food to calves with as much earnestness as he would give to eorralling q senate. To run his farm, his villa at Newport and his man sion in Madison avenue cost much more money than the duke of Marlborough
 or, rather, the duehess-spe upon Blenheim palace.
 In Westehester county there is a still newer variation of the English country house. No one who owns less than S1,- 100000 can afford it. The Harrimans. the Iselins, the Storys and others pos sessed of similar incomes compose the | Westehester set. They have model farms of considerable acreage and houses of elegance and capacity which they use as permanent homes. Oliver Iselin's place at Premier Point is, in n general way the pattern of all the rest. His house is situated near the sound; i;
 back from it is his dairy farm, run by a head farmer with saTaried assistants and score of farm laborers. English landlords let their. property out nova
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WASHING vs. WORKING.
A Tramp Makes pest of Class su-
 pcrstitton.


 perstitton.
 The drummer who secs his trade ;n the northern neck of Virginia by go- ing down the Potomac on a steamboat and doing the rest of it via q blackboard, was talking the other night on the steamer bound for tie field of his la- bors.
 -Four weeks ago he said. lon one of those warm days, I was driving ia toward Kinsale, and when about three miles from town I ran upon eeln- it was nnaccountable. About 50 yards ahead of me saw 6 trainp sitting in the shade, on the bank of brook that babbled softly through D fence. and slipped quietly across the road. He was gazing at something US if spell-. 1 bound, which, upon coming nearer, I saw was his travelling companion wlsh- ing his dirty face in the stream and 1 spluttering like porpoise It WAS evil dent that the spluttering had awakened the tramp on the bank. and the sight that met his gaze had fascinated him as a basilisk might charm. The road was so sandy that was within speak l ing and hearing distance of them and they had not heard me.
 'Hully chee, Mugginsl' calculated the one on the bank, when he had re- covered sufficiently from his astonish-g ment to speak, but what on de cart CT yourse doin' dere?'
 It's like dis, spluttered the other, as he rose, dripping like Venus from the sea, and blew the water out of his mouth, I hears somebody a-sayin' in de noospapers dat dere wasn't nnttin' worse'n work, an I'm jis seein fits de trut'."
 By this time was discosered, and the two of them dropped all abstract matters and questions and came down precipitately to the concrete proposi- tion that I contribute nickel Or 50 to- theiremaciated exchequerp- Washing ton Star.
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iards, and am sure all Americans whc are fully conversant with the facts io the case, are agreed as to this"
 1t is more than probable that th4 Spanish residents of New York are il full accord with Senor Garcia. They are not so numerous as the Cubans living Tn New York, but they are much wealthier as rule, and their interests lie in the direction of peace and not war, for most of them are merchants engaged in the Cuban trade, and they have suffered severely by the practical destruction of their business.
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der the American flag has arisen, and the present war is the consequence But Americans should not misunder- stand the character of most of those who are engaged in the insurrection. hoping to make it a revolution. They are not stand-up fighters. They run away when hard pressed. The island of Cuba is largely covered with woods. and the Cubans, knowing all the ins and outs of the forest, are able to elude the Spaniards whenever hard pressed. That is why the insurrection has not been ended long ago.
 But this point seems to be forgot ten by the critics of the Spanish captain general. They forget that the British once had an almost exactly similar up- rising to deal with in one of the West Indian islands belonging to England. and that the tactics of the islanders were exactly like the Cuban tactics to-day. Whenever the insurrectionists Were crowded they ran away, and in tllis way they managed to keep up the fight for 70 years or more How did the English finally subdue the upris- ing? Why, as fast as they caught the active participants they hanged them until at last so many of them had been dune to death that the remainder were glad to throw down their arms. And yet there are Englishmen who cry out at tue alleged cruelty of the Spaniards in Cuba"
 Senor Garcia did not care to discuss tlle conduct of the Spaniards with re- gard to the Cubans, but he was quite ready to speak in detail of the com ments thereon appearing in the Amer iean newspapers.
 T am sure,' he said, "that some of these comments are unjust, and that some of the pictures which illustrate the news from Cuba are greatly exag- gsrated. I cannot tell you how much these things affect me at times. have many friends among the Americans who have invariably in the past been extremely kind and courteous both to myself and the members of my family Mine is the only Spanish family living in the neighborhood where I reside, and I feel certain that we have always been considered a respectable, law-abid- ing family and not undesirable to be
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tablishment. But the lesser places are not run with such science and economy; they are kept up for convenience and for amusement at cost that one who has seen some of the accounts declares to be not less than $40 for every 24 hours. That is the net expense of the place, not counting the bills of tailors, milliners, clubs and money spent in travelling or for opera and other inci- dentals.
 Even to visit these houses is more ex- pensiye than some who get invitations can afford. For instance, one must be prepared to leave at. least ten dollars among the servants after an over-Sun- day visit. That would put one up at the sweIlest hotel in town-and you'd have better time for your money said a woman the other day. She may not
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Historical.
.ar was soliloauizing::

Caesar was soIlloqulzlng:
 Let me have men about me that are fat"
 Sire interrupted drummer from Antioch, "I have with me some samples of fesh-producing food that will fit Cassins to pose as the fat girl in mu- scum, if you make it the court diet"
 At sign from the general, thelictora haled forth the drummer, and the fish in the Tiber dined heartily that day.
 Caesar disregarded the voice of the advertiser and was knifed-J lester.
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-
 4 Christian Spirit.

"Janet, look at our neebor's bairns enjoying thensel's on the Sabbath day! Go an set the dog on their hens; the Lord must have vengeance one way or anither. Illustrated Bits.
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As Good us Ills Word.

Seribbler-W When is that review of my novel coming out, Scather?
 Scather professional critic) We'll. to tell the truth, I have not read it yet. Scribbler Yet, when I brought the book to you. yeu assured me that xon would lose no time in reading it.
 Soather--So I did. We'll, have lost no time in reading it yet. Tit-Bits.
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A woman thinks man who looks around the room is planning burglar
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-05-06
DESIRES r1R. MONTdO1ERY,
BY A Vote Of II8 to the Membership
Passes Upon the Oiivet Church Trouble.

If the congregation of Olivet Prosby.
terian church has anything to say as to
who shall be their pastor. Ruv. 7. L. Mont.
gomery will remain. At the largest con.
gregatlOnal meeting ever held in the
church last night that intention was de-
clared by a vote Of llS to &, and Professor
O, +. Eastman, James Brown, William
German. W. II. Oliver, 5. S johnson, J.
G. Smith and Bon njamn Hopkins appoint.
cd commissioners to show cause before
the New Castle PrGSbytery why the re.
lations Of the pastor should nov be dlssolv.
ed.
Pastor Montgomery presided at tho
meeting which began at o'clock. Soon
afterward the object was announced and
member of tho congregation read the
following letter:
"The Rev Theodore E. Montgomery
having asked the Prcsbytcry of New Cas-.
tie to dissolve the pastoral relations exist.
ing between himself and the Olvct
Church, Wilmington. 1t was resolved,
that the Presbytery cite the said congregn.
tion to appear, by their commissioners, at
an adjourned meeting to be held in vii.
mington Central Church, June Is, 1897,
at 2 O'clock D. m, to show cause, If any
they have, why the Presbytery should not
accept the resignation. Attest, n. Y Mil
Ter. stated clerk
meeting Is held by order of the session of
this church to give response to the citation
OF Presbytery that you have heard read
A combination Of circumstances caused
me to ask the Presbytery, at its last meet.
Ing, to release ne from my pastOrato with
you. / mado this request rs the shortest
way ofsettiing difficulty that was forced |
upon me.
by that request did not mean toindl. |
la, /
with you or my present relations with |
you, That reqac5t was made that you |
might act on the question which | now |
present to you: Shall be retained as |
your pastor CT shall lenvof"
George Ronmel was the first member
TO speak ana he motonod that tho pastor
be retained. Professor C, f. Eastman
then took tho chair and Hfter acknowledge
ing that he was an outsider III one sense
be saw matters as others did not. The
matter for consideration involved mora
than Shall the pastor be retained" The
Prosbytery plainly over ruled the spirit Of
the church. Another potAt connected
with this is that the congregation has
never appeared The Presbytery hardly
knows You"
He said the Prcsbytery would not realize
what hard. working congregation 1t was.
All desire peace and harmony and peace
and harmony would not follow II Mr..
was allowed to go. The
same parties would continue ilghJng "In /,
voting upon this question, "Pr6tas5ur
Eastman declared, I'VE are voting for
liberty and peace and it Canuot DO actcd
upon CG,elessly,"
James B"o~n said tho professor had
voiced his opinion and after sonO other
c1;cluded by declaring that to
.cmovc tho pastor wrlld not settle the
liIfgTpuCe Of Orin!Ou existing in the