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The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
Long Sentence.

There are many cOlOred justices Ill the South, and the airs they put on are sometimes amusing.
 negro had been convicted of steal ing chickens, and sentence was aDou' to he passed upon him. The old justice mi on his glasses, and taking great poins to look over the top of them, ID an impressive manner said:
 .T finds de pris'ner guilty, and l heah- by sentences him to hard work ln de iail fo' one year and nineteen months.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
More HolidaYs.

'I hope that we'll have that Miss Smartweed for teacher next year."
 "Why do you like her so much, Bob bie?"
 "'Cause she's so y."-Indianapo- lis Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27

Aunty J.-No; but I reckon they's mighty thankful 'tain't a pair-Hap
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
CeIerity.

"NeItheT. They 're bOth wrong. Credit is good enough for me- e"-Pick-M Me- Up.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27

RUPTURE and PILES cured; no pay
 nuntil cured send for book. DRs. MANSFIELD S PORTERFTELD, S3S Market St., San Francisco
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
OUR BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SAYINGS AND DO-
 lNGS HERE AND THERE.

Jokes and Joke1ets that Are Supposed to Have Been Recently Born-Sayings and Doings that Are Odd. Curious and Lauehab1e-The Weeks Humor.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
Tommy-Ain't it fine out here in the

Tommy-Ain't it fine out here in the country"
 Alley Salley-Yes, but when I go home I'll have the spots knocked out O me.
 Tommy-What do you mean?
 Alley Salley-Why, have me freckles removed, see?
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
Quick Learners.
returnIng

MT. Hiland-I see that many Klon- dike miners have got enough and are
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
ADVICE TO WOMEN.

You cannot have nerve trouble and keep your health. In ninety-nine cases out Of a hundred the womb. the
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
Hard to Part With.

aa ssna,
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
PreDared for the Fall.

Mamma Why, Johnny, how wet your hair is! I hope you haven't been in bathing, when told you you mustn't.
 Johnny-But I fell in the water, mamma. You can't blame me for that Mamma-But how does it happen that your clothes are dry?
 Johnny-I took them off just before I fell in. I thought you wouldn't like me to get them all wet.-Boston Tran script.
 Hard to Live.
 "On the contrary, it's not bit easy to get divorce in Dakota"
 "No?"
 "No; you have to live there three months. you know."-Detroit Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27

Piso's Cure for Consumption is the best of all cough cures. George W. Lotz, ta- butcher. La, August %, 1895.
 Try Schllling's Best tea and baking powder.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
Foundation.

.I want a higher geared wheel" ," said +he woman. "This is only 12, and l want an 84."
 "Tbis one was an S4," said the clerk, "but 1t is marked down.
 .T-Tl take t."-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27

-N eA2t'StlCe &hE-hiHu- Do you support the gold sJagOa-d.srs ar the bimptaIIiSr f'
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
LIned with Thanks

''I have proposed 10 seven g5rl7 this 7lmmer already said TLmmins, and I hgyenf bppn ghIa to rat accented
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
PACIFIC COAST JOCKY CLUB
 IngIeside Race Track
SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Five or more Running Races daily, rain or shine, from Nov. 1st to Nov. 18th, inclusive.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
Halket-Enough gold?
Preparations.

Mr. 15cr.-cs0ugh e<ycIiy-z- .PfttshUrg Chronicle Telegraph.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
Up Date.
Getting in Line.

Getting in Line. What does Biller mean by riding around every day in an ice wagon?'' --EI .-.. in -lnLn r-r. h.. -,-- -.L- . ..--
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27

dUy pIdCe ' 50gtOIi Star
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27

Free Press.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18
SATURDAYS CONGRESS.

The Arbitration Treaty-The Perrine Grant
 to Be Investigated-The Sundry Civil
 Bill.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-The senate spent most of Saturday considering the Anglo-Amerlcan arbitration treaty without making any progress. Mir. Pet tigrew offered a resolution, which was agreed to, authorizing the committee on public lands to investigate the issue of patents to lands embraced in the Perrine grant in Florida.
 The house considered the sundry civil bill and Messrs. Cookery, Savers and DeArmond spoke against the ex- travagant appropriations of the pres ent congress. Mir. DeArmond also in- cidentally scored the administration on its attitude towards Cuba.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18
TORY ISLANDERS.
They Are Robust Although Not Very Clean-
 ly in Their Habits.

They Are Robust Although Not Very Clean-
 ly in Their Habits.
 An old camper-out once related to mortified housekeeper his experience of dish washing in miners camp. 1t did not take much time, though the company was numerous and the uten- sils of the kitchen were in constant use. The reason why it took but little time he sufficiently indicated by the statement that the cook pot was not cleaned till it became too small to hold a pudding of reasonable size. Then somebody got hammer and knocked of the hardened accretions from it's interior, till it was restored nearly enough to its original capacity to rem der further service.
 In Tory island, an out-ofthe-way bit of an Irish islet, and indeed to less degree throughout Donegal, the na- tives are not much more dainty in their living, and their habit of letting the grounds remain indefinitely in their teapots has disastrous consequences.
 "Every day and all day long," says 8. recent writer, "the teapot sits stewing in the embers of the hearth, and at each successive brew fresh tea is thrown in, but the old is never thrown out until the pot is choked." The re- suit is an unusual and excessive rate of insanity. Little wonder, when a Tory island boy, who was questioned as to his usual meals, could reply:
 ''Stirabout for breakfast and tay for dinner; tay, av course, at anytime, and stirabout for supper. Whiles we have tay for breakfast instead and stirabout for our dinner, and then another sup of tay before bedtime"
 However, this diet, injurious as it is to the nerves, does not seem to affect the muscles. The Tory islanders are a robust and vigorous race, the men averaging six feet in height and the women unusually tall and strong. The women, indeed, have need of all their physical strength, since it is they who do the bulk of outdoor work, while the men stay at home and spin and weave.
 At Anagry Strand on Sunday morning." says the same observer, 'one may witness a strange sight. At low tide more than a mile of rounda- bout is saved by wading across a mar row bay. The men include in their Sundays wardrobe shoes and stock ings. The women, by courtesy and custom, wear 'martyeens'-footless stockings with loop passing over the toe. Each good wife takes her good man upon her shoulders, and the heroes are conveyed across dry-shod."- Youths Companion.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


 TIE civil service commission submit ted its annual report to the president on the Sth. UP to the sth the inaugural commit tee at Washington had not received an application for place in the parade from a single military or civic organi- zation in Missouri.
 MARION, the youngest of the three daughters of President and Mrs. Cleve- land, was christened at the white house on the 1lth. Dr. Byron $. Sunderland, the pastor of the First Presbyterian church, officiated
 COMMISSIONER WRIGHT, of the bureau of labor, has transmitted to congress, in obedience to a joint resolution direct ing the investigation, report relative to the employment of men, women and children in the United States.
 THE postmaster-general has issued an order establishing the house-to-house mail collection and sale of stamps by carriers to patrons at Omaha, Neb.
 PRESIDENT and Mrs. Cleveland gave their annual reception to the army and navy and marine corps at the white house on the night of the 11th. It was the final state reception of the official term of Mir. Cleveland.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18
STATE OF Ono, CIrY OF TOLEDO, %
 Trraa CpgrNrv oos

Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co.,, doing business in the city of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said lars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Halls Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY.
 Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 9th day of December, A. D. isS6. A. w. GLEASON,
 [Seal] Notary Public.
 Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY X O., Toledo, o.
 Sold by druggists, 75c.
 Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18
A BRUTAL CRIME.
A Sedalia Tough Commits 8 Murderous
 Assault on His Invalid Wife.

A Sedalia Tough Commits a Murderous
 Assault on His Invalid Wife.
 SEDALIA, Mo-, Feb. 15.-William Phenix, tough character, made most diabolical effort yesterday to murder his wife. Mrs. Phenix, who had been sick in bed during the day, was sitting by the kitchen stove drinking cup of coffee when her brutal husband arose as if to leave the room, but instead of doing so he grabbed fatiron from the stove and rained three blows upon her head, the iron fracturing the skull each time. The woman fell almost iifeless to the floor and Phenix fled.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18
GENERAL NEWS.

THE most malignant type of measles has been epidemic for over a month throughout Jasper, Clark, Cumberland and adjoining counties in Illinois and was reported on the 11th as growing more serious. The public schools at Toledo and many country schools had been closed.
 A DISPATCH from Canton, O., stated that Chauncey M. Depew, the noted New Yorker, had been practically de- eided upon as ambassador to Great Britain.
 MALVERN, Ark, has been almost wiped out by fire.
 LEWIS MILLER, living near Okmulgee, I. T., was cremated by his house burn- ing down. He had quarreled and sepa- rated from his wife and it was sup posed he had set the house on fire and shot himself. Others thought it was case of murder.
 TIE Wisconsin Odd Fellows Mutual Life Insurance Co. at Milwaukee, which was organized in 1869, made an assignment for the benefit of its cred itors. During the past year over 5, 1000 members dropped out. which crippled the company so that it could not pay its losses
 TIE Oklahoma live stockmen held a convention at Woodward and indorsed James Wilson, of Iowa, as secretary of agriculture and recommended r. D. Coburn, of Kansas, for assistant secre- tary.
 OWING to differences between the McBeth Glass Co. and it's employees 400 men struck on the 11th. The men claimed that the glass had been so bad for several weeks that they were great ly hampered. The company insisted that the material on hand was good.
 BRIGHAM CITY, Utah, was visited by heavy earthquake shock. It was so se- were that the bell in the courthouse tapped five or six times.
 ELECTRIC wires crossed in William R. Shaefer & Sons sporting goods store at Boston and set the place on fire. A supply of powder exploded with terrific violence, wrecking the five-story build- ing and blowing out the windows of adjacent stores.
 TIE British bark Mark Curry was burned in Port Iloilo, Philippine is- lands, with 1,20O tons of sugar on board.
 AT Homan, Ark, Sam Leigh, a 15- year-old boy, shot and killed Adam Cartwright, his stepfather. Court wright, in jealous frenzy, assaulted his wife with club, inficting fatal wounds, and the boy tried to protect his mother.
 THREE masked men held up two citi- zens in Huntington, w. Va., on the night of the 9th and Officer Alex Mo- Claskey gave chase and was fatally shot. Bloodhounds were put on the bandits trail.
 THROUGH the collapse of the scaffold- ing of a viaduct on a railroad in Corn wall, Eng, 12 mem fell distance of 15O feet and were killed.
 HoN. A. E. CLARK, formerly editor of the Newark American, and promi- nent politician, was killed on the 9th by Toledo & Ohio Central train near Granville. He was walking on the track.
 A NEST of boilers at the lumber mill of Simpson & Bagdad, near Pensacola, Fla, exploded on the 9th killing Paul Raymond and fatally scalding another man.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

THE international chess tournament at New York between Great Britain and the United States was won by Great Britain by Q score of 5]9 to AZ.
 FIRE broke out in the Roosevelt hos pital at New York on the 18th and did s2O, ,OOO damage. Two firemen were hurt, but the rigid discipline of the hospital prevented any excitement among the patients.
 THE New York Post denied that there was any combination between the Car negie Steel Co. and John D. Rockefeller in regard to iron and said that there was no foundation whatever for the report
 J. R. SOVEREIGN, grand master K. of L., has written letter declaring that secret revolutionary societies, known as the Iron Brotherhood and Industrial Army, are being organized in every part of the country, with their mem- bers leagued together to resort to civil war as a means of obtaining remedies for the populacc which they cannot se- cure by the ballot.
 SIX men were crushed to death in the Freeman mine near Gouverneur, N. Y., by a cave-in. Each left large families.
 MRS. JANE NgBY, aged 1O3 years, was found frozen to death on the 14th in her farm dwelling in Arlington town ship, Mich., where she had lived alone for 40 years.
 A REPORT comes from Salem, Ark, that an insane man in the asylum in that city is believed to be George Tay- Tor, the escaped murderer of the Meeks family of Missouri.
 TIE waste oil from the Alexander oil wells, which flows into creek pass ing through Elwood, Ind, was set on fire by boys on the 14th and the flames swept through the town and burned two bridges and an elevator, causing a heavy loss.
 Two Italians fought duel in Lake Front park, Chicago, on the night of the 14th and the challenger, Botiste Melleri, was shot to death by Joseph Bernasconi. The duel was deliberate ly planned, the men quarreling over the subject of anarchy.
 THE police raided the gambling dens of Chinatown, in San Francisco, and arrested 800 Chinamen.
 NOTICE of a ten per cent. reduction, to take effect March 1, has been posted at the works of the Pennsylvania Steel Co. at Harrisburg, Pa. It will affect 5000 hands.
 CHARLES BRADLEY, prisoner being taken to jail at Paris, l. T., jumped from the train while handcuffed and made his escape.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18

"Do you rectify mistakes here?" asked a gentleman, as he stepped into chemists: "Yes, sir, we do, if the patient is still alive" replied the urbane clerk.-Glasgow Times.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18

Nothing creates quite as great commotion as a woman who has lost her pocketbook. What was in it had nothing to do with the Washington Democrat.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18

The pain of sciatica is cruel. The cure by St. Jacobs Oil is sure. It penetrates.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18

Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe, l0c.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18

Bad feet from frost-hites are made sound by St. Jacobs Oil. It cures
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18

Generally, those who know the least are the ones who are always giving you advice 'just for your own good"
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18

Years of rheumatism have ended with cure by St. Jacobs Oil. Cures promptly.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18

Just try l0c box of Cascarets candy ca thartic, finest liver and bowelregulator made-
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18

We have never yet seen man too poor to own gun and dog.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18

The mountain had strangely found voice. "Mohammed?" it repeated, thoughtfully, "why, yes. l always regarded Mohammed as coming man, you know. Jour- nal,
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18

Some women buy books because they look pretty in the book case.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-18

FIRE at an early hour on the 18th caused loss of $1O0, 900 in the building 172 and 174 Madison street, Chicago. Schimpferman's wholesale liquor store and Goster's uniform factory were the heaviest losers.
 THE Pittsburgh and western selling agencies of the window-glass man. ufacturers will advance prices 2h per cent. beginning March in the central and western districts.
 JOSEPH HILDEBRANDT died at Chicago recently from cancer of the throat. He was formerly farmer near Marysville, Kan, and his wife poisoned her eight children and then strangled herself, on account of her husbands sickness, only one child surviving.
 MORTON SHEPPARD, residing near Muncie, Ind, had his barn burned down and 40 tons of hay, 73 head of sheep and lambs, IS head of hogs, two mules, 700 bushels of wheat, 1000 bush- els of corn and oats and all his farm implements burnod. The insurance policies had recently expired.
 TIE medical institute at Lancaster, O., burned on the 18th. Dr. Julius Simon, of Jackson, w. Va., lost his life.
 PAUL WAGNER and his wife were found asphyxiated by coal gas at Mill waukee on the 12th.
 LlNcoLN's birthday on the 18th was celebrated by republicans with ban qusts at Zanesville, O., Chicago, In. dianapolis, Ind, Grand Rapids, Mich., St. Paul, Minn., and many other places throughout the country.
 TIE safe in the Clearfeld, Pa., post office was blown open recently and S1, ,0O0 worth of stamps and $500 in cash stolen.
 WHILE freight train was running at high rate of speed on the Mobile & Ohio road car truck broke down near Poe station, O., and nine loaded cars were broken into kindling wood. Brakeman Purcell was ground into an unrecognizable mass under the engine and the engineer and fireman seriously hurt.
 FIRE early on the 10th destroyed a cottage at Detroit, Mich., occupied by the family of Stephen Rogulski. One child was burned to death, another fatally injured and five other members of the family were more or less seri- ously burned. The fire was thought to have been incendiary, as Rogulski was suspected of having killed man.
 THE Chadron (Neb.) steam laundry was destroyed by an explosion of gaso- line and John Morris came near being burned to death.
 INcENDIABIEs burned the school house at Coombs, Ok.
 Two cavalrymen fought a duel with sabers at West Point, N. Y., and one was slashed over the lips and had to be taken to the hospital. It was caused by a blacksmith's daughter favoring one more than another at 8 soldiers ball.
 GEORGE DAVIES, q commission mer- chant at Cleveland, O., was shot and instantly killed by his wife on the 9th after a quarrel.
 THE lower house of the Nebraska legislature killed the bill providing for a constitutional amendment for woman suffrage by a vote of 56 to ss.
 ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
 THE international chess tournament at New York between Great Britain and the United States was won by Great Britain by a score of 5}9 to AZ.
 FIRE broke out in the Roosevelt hos
The times., 1897-11-07
nemnrse WITHOUT Renentance.

The great beauty Of Henry Watterson as
his personality has been viewed in Ken
tucky. has been Included within the fact
that re was the SUCCESSOR OF that enor-
nous joke, MT. Prentice. The chair OF
the Jester, obviously could not lie occupied
Icy anything less. and so Henry Waiter
son was elected to the position. He has
filled it. during the short periods, when
he mas not been somewhere else with
degree OF credit that must be conceded IS
all LIS own.
lis position has not been without de-
struction. In the providence OF God he
was allowed TO act as Il kind Of political
wet nurse to Grover Cleveland, fresh from
his service as Il sheriff in Buffalo, and SO
innocent OF Democratic ideas that he had To
ask his mentoT, what in the = the tariff
was about anyway and he has made a
great many addresses to American audi
ences, In tha Course of which he has been
happy enough Ia observe that the Star
Eyed Goldess Of Reform can be found, on
application, in the main office Of the
KcatucAy whisky ring.
But Il is one thing to be Jester and an
orator or a certain kind, and quite an
other to he q Democrat. There was i
time when, if the proprietor of the Louis
vile Courier Journal had allowed it, Mr.
Watterson perhaps would have tried 70 be
one, but even so great and pure man and
patriot As he was must be subservfent to
the views aud wishes OF the business office
down stairs, and 50 he quit trying to be
one.
With characteristic zeal and vigpc he
went to tie other extreme and did all he
coulc TO turn his State over to Mckinley
in 1895. Since then he has passed the few
pleasant hours he has allowed himself Il,
devote to editorial labors TO the task or
impreSsing upon his fellow citizens the
idea that the Democratic party ceased to
exist last year. save liz the persons of a
couple of dozen boilers who lie fit.
It has taken Mr.. Watters0n some months
to realize that this was mistake; that 50
small a tail cannot wag so large a dog.
And so, at length, he has come out boldly
and nobly and confessed thatit will not pay
to have the Courier Journal outside OF the
Kentucky Democracy hence, that, while
seeing plainly that the party is going to
perditiGn. he Will go along with 1t, rather
The times., 1897-11-07
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER :. 1897.

Republican Prospects in New York.
No one can inspect the wreck which
bir. Platt has been permitted by an all
wise Providence to make of his party
the lesson Il the campaign TO heart.
1t becomes rhe more important and sug-
restive when We consider that Plat had
behind him the prestige Of the 1896 cam
paign, ana the patronage, power and, more
tlisn al, the money Of the Republican
na;iOnal organization The amount Of
the money raised and spent TO perpetuate
MS termination is treated abroad IS the
most ominous feature Of the contest. and
from an American even much more than
European standpoint, 1t is ominous.
Free institutions are doomed when the
power bribery comes 70 be recognized
as the chief element IN producing political
results. That Il failed in the State Or
New York tins year is an encoura ging
symptom Of the popular revolt against
the means and methods Of the Republican
struggle OF last year, and a harbinger Of
better things. It ought to be d warning
70 the sNpolents OF open and iuipadent
corruption in American elections that the
Empire state las been wrested firm the
control Of PIauisr1, which is identical
with Hanna!-rn, and that the people Of
tnst Commonwealth have defeated not
only the numerical forces HuminaHy adj
herent to the ideas and organization Of
bad government. but have overcome the
largest corruption fand ever used in any
State election
1t stands out very prominently crom
the situation that senator Platt has en-
countcred a moG terrible political dis
sster. The prospect would seem to be
that, Incidentally, he has lost control for
all future tIIuo over the Organization which
for years he has carried in his pocket,
and administered as if it were u piece
OF personal property.
Bat e,cn His encouraging outvfew is
rot a. marked as the pitiable exhibition
made by Benjamin. T Tracy in the late
Campaign. Starting in with the solemn
declaration that h would consider him.-
s,4r Peryerse if lac allowed his personal
candidacv TO stand in tbe way ola coalition
Of eli ant-TammaHy elements Of society,
bc did exactly the thing that, at first,
he denounced. Nothing but his candidacy
prevented The election Of a Republican
as Inayor Of New York lie is entitled
60 al the comfort derivable from his al
lance with Tammany ana his sub
scrvieucy to the discipline of his boss. All
the same, he IS eternaIly dead.