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The Firs, Postage Stamps.
Ladies Home Journal.


Fifty years agq-in July. 1sl7-uncle
Sam issued his first postage stamps. In
England, seven years before Ron land Hill,
father of The penny post introduced the
sticking plaste,s,'' as the stamps were con
temptuo,,sly called. John M. Niles, our
Posimaster-General at that time, tried
heroically but in vain, to move Congress to
authorize stamps for this country. His sue
cessor, Cave Johnson, was more. fortunate,
and the bin desired was approved on March
3, 1S47, the stamps not being issued, how
ever, till August, though the time appointed
WAS July /. Only two values of the new
stamps were intfodnced i'll 1874 s and
a 10 cent stamp, btaring, respectively, the
portrait OF franklin iii bronze tint and
Washington in black.
The first purchaser of stamps in the
Uni!ed States was Henry Shaw, the father
OF Henry Wheeler Shaw DIETER known as
" Josh Billings" the humorist). Mr.. Shaw
WAS in HE ostmaster-General's office on
Aug. 9. 1917 when Mr.. johnson entered
with the printer from whom he had Just
received sheets of the new stamps. Mr..
Johnson passed a sheet 10 Mr.. Shaw for in.
spectioD. After giving The stamps a hasty
glance, Mr.. Shaw, perhaps with an eye 10
future fame, took out his wallet, counted
out Is cents, and purchased one of each
variety. The !" five he kept as a curiosity,
the :" ten !" he presented to Gov. Briggs, as
an appropriate gilt.
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THRIFT Now IN EFFECT.
After the Bill Was Signed by the
President Congress Adjourned.

The Tariff Bill passed the Senate on Sat-
urday afternoon, July "a, and at 4:O4 o'clock
p. m. was signed by President Mckinley.
After week OF debate in the Upper House"
the measure became a law, and Congress
adjourned.
Following was the vote:
Yeas-Aldrch. Allison, Baker. Burrows,
Carter, Clarke. Davis, Deboe Elkins.. Fair
banks, Foraker, Frye, Gallinger, Gear,
Hale, Hansbrougb, Hawley. Hoar Jones
New, Lodge, Mcbride, McEnery, .McMil-
Ian. Mason, Morrill,, Nelson, Penrose, Perkins,
Platt Comm, Platt On. ", Pritchard, Proc
tor, Quay, sewell, Shoup, Spooner, Stewart,
Thurs.on. Warren, Wetmore-40.
Nays-Bacon, Bate, Berry, Gallery, Chiffon,
Clay, Cockrell. Daniel Faulkner. German,
Harris, Jones ark, Lindsay. Mallory. Mar
tin. Mills, Mitchell, Morgan, Murphy. PaSco,
Pettus, Roach, Smith. Tillman, Turey, Turner,
Turpie, Vest, Walthal, and White-30.
These pairs were announced, the first for
and the last against the bill: Chandler with
Cannon, Cullom with Gray, Wolcott with
George. Hanna with RawIins Wellington
with McLaurin, Mantle with kenney, and
Wilson with Heitfeld.
The Senators present who did not vote
were: Allen, Butler, and Teller. Two Sena-
tors, Kyle and Pettigrew, were absent and
| not paired.
| Shortly before A o'clock Representative
Dingley and Representative Hager, Chair
man of the House Committee on Enrolled
| Bills. made their appearance ut the White
| House with the BILL In the Cabinet Room
| were President Mckinley, Secretary Gage,
| Attorney General Mckenna, Postmaster
General Gary, and Secretary Wilson. The
| Presidents Secretary, Mr.. Porter, placed the
/ bill before the President. Mr.. Dingley pro-
| duced mother OF pearl-handled pen. Mr..
| Mckinley affixed his signature, followed 6y
the words = July "a, approved"
| Meanwhile in the Senate, the currency
message had been received. The message was
referred with the Stone House bill in line
with it. lust received, TO the Committee on
Finance. Before this the message had been
presented to the House also, and special
order was adopted providing that after 90
minutes debate the House should vote upon
a bill authorizing the appointment OF a
! commission and appropriatng 100000 Tor
| its expenses. When the hour expired the
/ bill was passed by vote OF 12i TO SO, only
| two Republicans, Messrs. M.,hany, OF New
York, and Linney, of North Carolina, vot-
ing in the negative. Tie Democrats and
Populists voted soi:diy against the bill
| This was the bill sent to the Senate.
Congress adjourned az o'c.0ck p. M In
| the Senate only 16 Senator'S were present.
| In the House comparatively few stald unbh
| the Speakers gayel Tell.
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CHAPTER Y.

Thirteen-thirteen Clark street." said
the superintendent; why, that is right
under our very noses. ! know something of
the place. Some time ago the owner had a
great deal Of trouble in getting tenants on
account of peoples supersttions- double Is,
you know We have superstitions even in
this wide-awake, 19thcenlury city of Chi
cage. People complained that it looked
bad On their cards. They said they didn't
mind it, but others might. Then a man
rented it who laughed at superstition. Be
| fore year his wife and child died The
doctors said that it was from typhoid fever,
brought on during the hot weather by drink
ing great quantities of water from an old
well that the Board of Health afterward
ordered Fl led up, and we came near having
riot with the neighbors, who priced the
well very highly, and drove off the men
sent to fill it up. The husband and father
became so depressed over the death of his
wife and child that his mind became affected
He accused himself of being responsible for
their deaths, and finally shot himself in the
house to give it so bad a name that nobody
would ever live in it again. l haven't
heard anything about it for n year or two.
| Suppose you go to the instrument call up
somebody at the Arnory, and ask what they
know about 1913 Clark street"
Kent felt 4 little nervous at his first at
tempt at telegraphing but he succeeded
fairly well in calling up the Armory and
making his inquiry. The answer was
slowly spelled out:
1913 occnpied-except- rheu-
matte - old = plug = one -eye-&
mashed = nose, = who = is = caretaker. =
Sleeps = in-day t;me-&- gets-drunk-
night. Generally pretty-quiet."
After reporting this 10 the Superntend-
ent Kent asked:
Hadn't better 60 up and take look at
the place."
Yes; but be careful. It is altogether
likely that our man will turn up there in n
few days. But we must be careful not to
scare him off. Saunter past the house once
or twice, and take in as much as You can
without appearing to notice it particu-
larly."
Kent walked briskly along Clark street
until the numbers began to approach 1900,
and then slowed down to q very moderate
gait
No. 1913 was three-story and basement
brick, with stone trimmings 1t had de-
cidediy uncared-ior look, showing that it
bad long lacked tenants. The sh"ters
were tightly closed, and even by the light Of
the street-lamp it could be seen that they
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WEEK IN WASHINGTON,
Events OF General Interest in the National
Capital.

TUESDAY. July 20-Commissioner Hermann.
OF the General Land Office. stated that he
will recon- mend the establishment Of two
land districts in Western Alaska. the two
Offices 10 be placed on the Yukon River or
its tributaries, in anticipation Of great num-
Der OF contentious over mineral land loca-
lions in various sections where gold dis
coyeries have been made. As that region
is practically without law, especially as to
the settlement OF contests, the Local Land
Offices viii be OF much valuc TO the land in
ierests, aud indirectly 10 the preservation oil
law and order. The offices, il is probable
will be located at Circle City and Dawson
City.
hEDNEsDAY. July 2i.-The Senate Commit
tee on Foreign Relations discussed the
bill introduced by Senator Morgan for the
annexation Of Hawaii, but decided to post.
pone further consideration Of il While the
annexation treaty is still pending. The bill
is only Intended to be acted upon in its prrs.
ent shape in case of the failnre of the treaty
10 secure ratification i.y the Senate. The
committee expects 10 ask the Senate to take
up the treaty Immediately upon assembling
next december. The COMMITTEES also de.
cided TO investigate the status Of the Clay.
ton Bniwer treaty, and appointed sub com
nitiee. consisting VI Senators Morgan, Lodge
AND euiiom, for this purpose
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VETERANS IN THE CITY.

Capt. w. P. Guynes. Pollock, La. was !
caller last week. Capt. Guynes is q native
Mississippian, aud one of the very few natives
of that State WHO entered tho Union army.
He had three brothers in the rebel army
From his earliest youth he had taken strong
interest in political principles, and when his
State seeded he at once took the Union side
He came 10 Washington, and enlisted in Co. 6,
list Conn. Cav, and was prom oted TO Sergeant.
Later he was commissioned as Captain in the
lst Ind'p't U. s. Vols, and sent West to fight
the Indians. He returned to the South after
the war, and engaged in farming. He became
a stalwart Republican, and without ever being
a candidate for any Office did an immense
amount of the hard, dangerous work of main
tanning the organization there. He now feels
less vigorous than OF old, and would like an
appointment under the Government. He
Seeks TO be Special Agent Of the Interior De-
| partment TO look out for the Government's
| timber interests in Louisiana.
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When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them CastOria.
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CHAT OF THE CORRIDORS.

Mr. Hatch, Hawaiian Minister. will soon
leave Washington for Honolulu on leave of
absence. expecting to return in three months
time He has notified the State Department OF
HIS intention to sail on Aug. 10 from San Fran
CISCO The fact iii at nothing can be done to-
ward the ratification of the Hawaiian annexa-
ton treaty before the next session of Congress
will afford the Minister ample opportunity to
confer with President Dole respecting any
notifications that may be desirable before
ratification.
No confirmation Officially has been received
of the report that Japan has agreed to a pro-
posal of the Hawaiian Government to arbi-
trate the question at issue between the two
Governments, but State Department officials
from unofficial information, say that the prof
fer was made and is under consideration at
Toxic.
A certain Senator afflicted with badness, as
some Senators are apt to be- has been SO worried
about it that he has seemed to lose interest even
in the Cuban situation and the tariff. The
Senator in question is very averse, however to
the loss of his locks, and made deep and long
researches into the matter of hair restorcrs,
making practical tests of such as recommended
themselves to his Judgment. but they did not
have the desired effect. He was overjoyed
therefore when brother Senator told him of a
marvellous hair restorative. One application
would make the hair sprout and several appli-
cations caused it to come forth in rich, luxuri.
ant locks.
The Senator's mouth fairly watered at the
description of that hair restorer. He begged
the happy posscssor OF this Joyous fujd to let
him have bottle, and the Senator replied that
it should be delivered 10 him on the next day.
But il didn't come that day, nor the next, nor
the next and the Senator, grew sick at heart
with the hope deferred. Meeting the possessor
of the regenerating elixir in the Senate clcva-
tor the other day he at once bntfonholed Him,
and inquired when he could expect that hair
restorer.
"Oh, I'll send it down tomorrow" was tile
reply.
We'll, now, look here" said the Senator.
earnestly, i want to get it inst as soon as pos
/ sible. This thing is getting serions-very
serious. Why, Great Scott, I'm losing hair
or two every day and can't spare them"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-16
SPAIN BACKING OUT.
Will Send Home Troops From
Cuba-What the Insure
gents Say.

WASHINGTON, April 16, 1s97.-Accord-
ing to information received from trust-
worthy sources here, the withdrawal Of
at least a part of the great army th4e
Spain has maintained for several years in
the island of Cuba will begin when the
rainy season sets in, within few days.
The initial movement. will be the de-
parture of 10000 Spanish troops from
Havana for Spain and within a short time
after that thirty thousand troops, 1t is
understood, will follow.
Whether this movement is to be con-
strued in favor of or against the insur-
gents is not possible now to say. The
Spanish insist positively that it means
only that little or nothing remains of the
insurrection; that Gomez has only about
fifty or a hundred follows and that to
watch these under the conditions in
which the campaign has been necessarily
conducted a few thousand men are quite
as effective as the. army of 1S0,UU0 men
which has been maintained in Cuba.
The Cuban contingent on the ether
hand insist that the Spanish financial re-
sources are exhausted and that the troops
are to be withdrawn because of lack Of
money to keep them in the service.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-16
GUNBOATs DELAYED.


-
BATH, Me-, April 16, 1S97.-From pres
ent indications it seems hardly possible
that the gunboats Newport and Vicks-
burg, which are being built at the Bath
IRON Works, will be completed by May
l, the date to which the contract time
was extended last February, and it is
expected that the contractors will be
compelled to ask for further extension.
The work has been pushed with all pos
sible speed, but owing to changes in
specifications and other details requiring
attention, the completion of the vessels
cannot be accomplished for several weeks.
While work on the Newport, which is
to be fitted uD as a practice cruiser for
the cadets of the Naval Academy now
mainly consists on the adjustment of the
engines and getting the boat ready for
her trial trip, much Of the inside work
will have to be changed. She will prob
ably have her trial trip some time in
May or June, and will then be sent to
the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. H, to
be fitted with a rigging spars sails,
boats and electric plant: It probably will
is ready for the reception of the cadets.
On the V1cksburg work in some respects
is further advanced than on the New
port, and in others it is less so. She
was intended to be a sister to the New
port and will be so in description of hull
and engines only. Her interior work and
possibly some of the deck fittings will
differ.
The Bath Iron Works have on hand
also government contracts for two light
ships and one lighthouse tender and the
yard is lively at this work. Besides this
they have the contract for two 30-knot
torpedo boats. but their keels are not yet
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expire until twelve o'clock noon of the
first day of January next succeeding the
date at which his term of office would
otherwise expire.
4. Every municipal officer heretofore
appointed in and for any such city for
any term, and holding office therein on
said first Monday in May, one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-seven, shall
continue in office and his term of office
shall be and is hereby extended from the
time when his term would otherwise ex-
pire until twelve o'clock noon of the first
at which his term of office would other
wise expire.
5. No person vested with sole authority
to appoint to office in any such city,
whose term of Office is extended by this
act, shall. during the period for which
act, make any appointment to any Office
now provided by law, except for the pur-
pose of filling a vacancy which may be
occasioned by death or resignation, and
the aDDointee to fill such vacancy shall
hold office only until twelve o'clock noon
of the first day of January then next
succeeding the date of such appointment.
6. Hereafter in any such city the annual
organization or first stated meeting of
every elective board, where the term of
office of any member thereof has been
extended as heretofore provided, shall be
each year, except when said first Mon
day in January shall be the first day of
January, in which case such meeting
shall be held on the next day succeed
ing.
7. All acts and parts of acts inconsist-
ent with the provisions of this act are
hereby repealed.
s. This act shall take effect immedi-
ately.
Approved March IS, 1897.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-16
TURK BROUGHT TO TIME.

WASHINGTON, April 1e, 1Ss7.-The
United States Legation at Constantinople
has advised the State Department that
it has secured the release of Padaras,
a naturalized citizen who has been under
arrest at Mitylene since February s, on a
charge of homicide. When notified Of the
arrest Minister Terrell demanded that the
prisoner be turned over to him for trial,
in compliance with the treaty stipulations
which confer jurisdiction on the United
States Minister in cases in which his
countrymen are, concerned. The Turkish
government resisted, claiming that be-
cause the man had been naturalized
since 1862 when the Turkish government
had given notice that it would thereafter
recognize the right OF Turk to ex-
patriate himself his naturalization as an
American was void. Mr. Terrell, how
ever, sent his secretary of legation to
Mitylene with the result that the Turk
ish government surrendered Padaras.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-16
TWO MURDERED WOMEN
Their Escort Badly Wounded
Accuses the Husband Of
One Of Murder.

WATERFOWL, N. Y, April 16. 1884,
special to the standard from Sack
ett's Harbor says that a horrible crime
was committed in the vicinity of that
village where the Ninth United States
Infantry is stationed about ten miles
from this city, some time last night.
During the afternoon or evening George
Allen, a steward at Madison Barracks,
hired horse and carriage at the livery
stable in Sackett's Harbor and took two
panions was a young lady of Sackett' S
Harbor. May Daily, and the other was
divorced woman, Mrs. Crouch.
At 2:30 this morning the horse came
back to the livery stable drawing the
carriage, which at first the livery man
believed was empty, but on going up to
the carriage he found the bodies OF the
two women in the bottom of it, He at
once notified the authorities About this
time Allen came staggering into the bar
racks in a weakened condition and he.
too, is expected to die. He has made an
ante-mortem statement to the effect that
crouch, husband of the divorced woman.
assaulted the whole party murdered the
TWO women and threw him (Allen) into a
creek Crouch is under arrest.
Mrs. Crouch and May DAILY were
two domestics employed by Lieutenant
Anderson. They drove about the village
and surrounding country nearly all
nlght. Between three and four o'clock
THIS morning, they were coming on the
road leading from this village to Brown
vile. when, according to ALIENS story.
Crouch leaned from tha roo o<7s;7es 49, -,
ean firing = 49, 4,,uaa .sosloe anu pe-
20 ~, eAs ~ occupants OF ,ne
carnage. All three were the recipients
of several bullets. The horses becama
frigb+anaa a - 80,
e-'seeu anu ran pacK TO the livery
Darn IN the rear of the Everleigh House.
Ernest Allen Soule was ,,nbitob;ng .n8
ottax 80, "es a.
oeAte1 'eaii winch mao peen out Wnen the
team Allen had hired rushed into the
yard. A horrible sight was presented to
him. One of the women was betueen
tba dasbbo,.a 80 90
.ne uasnpoafo and the wheel, with her
iieau hanging on the ground. The other
was lylng on her side. The clothing of
os M .nS IL. WoLaehs was burned along the arm,
conci,,e;vn maS 81 ner nesa, Whicn makes 1t
short ranpe .nas es,si,ee sme nI1ns was cone at
come ianifed 's tne ciolliiiS 70 pc
In the rie mas fo,,n5 81; La4 90
calibre revolver. with four 11oadeG Coz r4-
ridges ana two n,,,1+ 49, 1odi ~ IEaueu l cat III
revolver is the property of Allen. Aie
Coroner A. J. Dick, of Watertown, and
Jhe Undertaking firm of Northam and
Gullfoyle of the same place. were notified.
thg Athecorulng to Aliens statement, he was
hr;dea ushior - a. .Ie po99!g5gy near the iron
thrown into the watar teri III S,sen. ne was
Gated himso,f tu o,,d "aSea, pul soon extri-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-16
CHINESE FINANCES.
New Treaties which Will Afford the
Empire M ore Revenue

WASHINGTON, April 16, 1S97.-China is
to have new set of treaties with the
great nations of the world which will in
some measure emancipate her from the
onerouss restrictions she is now under
and enable to adjust her own revenues
to the nations needs.
Much of the credit for securing the con-
sent of the commercial powers to the me-
gctiation of these treaties is due to Ii
Hung Chang, who employed to the best
advantage the opportunities afforded by
his tour of the world. Still the change
would have been long deferred had not
the war which China waged unsuccess-
fully with Japan so involved the former
in debt as to oblige her foreign debtors
to recognize the fact that China must
be given powers to raise additional rev.
enues.
At present the percentage of duty that
may be collected on goods imported into
China from any of the, great commercial
nations is limited by treaty and the
amount of revenue thus derived is en-
Ilreiy insufficient to meet the present en-
larged expenses of the Chinese govern
ment. Efforts have been made to in
'Lek1n' taxes or duties collected on for
eign goods passing from one Chinese pro-
vince or district to another. These taxes
however, have always been bitterly re-
sisted by foreign merchants and have
given rise to SO much trouble that on
both sides there is a disposition to abol-
ish them.
The only recourse apparently is an in
crease OF the tariff rates and this can
pc accomplished only by consent of the
powers which have treaties with China,
fixing the maximum tariff rates 1t hap
pens that the first of these treaties to
run its course and require renewal is
that between China and Spain, and this
VIII serve as the model upon which the
other treaties will be fashioned as they
are renovated. Already negotiations
have been initiated between the two gov
ernments and because the interests of
the United States are similar to those Of
Spain the department Of state is being
consulted at every, step.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-16
GREEK BAD FAITH.
Evidence That the Government
Backed the Irregulars' Raid
into ThessaIy.

by Cable. Copyright, 1897, by the Asso-
ciated Press
ELASSONA, Headquarters of the Turk
ish Army in Macedonia, Thursday even
ing, April Is, 1S97.-(Delayed in transmits
sion.) 1.-The representative of the Associat-
ed Press at the Turkish Headquarters
has just seen a prisoner who was cap
tured by the Turks during the fighting
which has just taken place at kraliia
With the Greek irregulars The man was
dirty, and had on his head helmet upon
which was the badge of the Ethnike
Hetalria, the National League of Greece
He declared he belonged to a band of
irregulars which left Trikhala, after re-
ceiving an ovation from the inhabitants
OF that place, under the command of a
captain and two Heutenants of the Greek
regular army, and accompanied by a
medical officer, who was wounded. The
expedition, the prisoner said, was or
ganized by officers of the Greek regular
army and was openly ordered to invade
turkey, not to harm the villagers and to
hight the Turkish troops only.
After these statements it is difficult to
deny that the Greek irregulars were
organized with knowledge of the Greek
authorities. This confirms the Inquiries
made ON the subject by Seyfoulah Bey,
an officer on the staff of Edhem Pasha.
the Turkish Chief, for
merly an attache of the Turkish Lega-
tlon at Athens, and consequently familiar
WITH the personal appearance of many
Greek officers, some of whom he recog-
nized among the insurgents.
The whole matter appears to form the
basis for a grave accusation against
Greek good faith
The representative of the Associated
Press has visited the greater part of the
frontier line in this district. and after
inspecting all the passes, is convinced the
Turks hold such strong positions that the
Greeks will never be able to enter Turk
ish territory in force. In fact, the COR
respondent cannot even imagine the
Greeks will make an attempt to do 50,
while, on the other hand, the Turkish
Chief could send a mass of
troops into Greece by several routes and
easily capture Larissa.