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The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

In the supreme court of the United
States the other day Justice Harlan
handed down an opinion in case in
volving the question whether the heirs
of man who committed suicide when
in sound mind can recover on an insur-
ance policy. He said that when an in
surance company entered into a
contract to insure mans life
neither party to the contract
could be supposed to have suicide
in contemplation. Concluding. he said
explicitly that the heirs of no insured
person committing suicide and found
to be of sound mind could recover upon
his policy.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER HAB
Low was recently before the senate
civil service investigating committee
and presented some interesting state
ments and suggestions in reply to
questions on the subject by the com
mittee. He said that if all the gov
ernment employees in Washington were
required to work the full seven hours
a day, as required by law, it would
mean a gain of 1900 extra hours a
day, with saving approximately of
over $500, 900 year for clerk hire.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28
AT LEAST FIVE DEAD.
Gr.a. Eastern Hook :. spos.n. burned

Great Eastern Hook IT SPOKANE Burned
and Several People Lose Their Lives.
SPOKANE. WASH, Jan. 26..-The Great
Eastern block at the corner of Post
street and Riverside avenue, six stories
in height and constructed Of brick,
caught fire last Eight and in three
hours was destroyed. All Of the upper
two floors and part of the third floor
were used for lodging purposes and at
least 80 people were asleep when the
fire started. While most OF them es-
capped with their clothes, IL is thought
at least five people perished, but no
one knows who were lost
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

GEN. Roy STONE, special agent OF the
department of agriculture in the good
roads" movement, says that the amend.
ment proposed by Representative
Stone, of Pennsylvania, to the postal
savings bank bill will be the chief
topic for discussion Mt the next meet
ing of the National League for Good
Roads. The League OF American
Wheelmen also proposes to make .
crusade in favor OF its adoption. The
amendment proposes TINT deposits 10
postal savings banks shall be invested
in county bonds issued for meeting ex.
penses Of highway improvement and
guaranteed by the government
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

A BILL introduced at Albany provides
for an appropriation by New York city
to establish an institution to be known
as the Farm Colony of Migrants. A
board OF five managers is to manage
the colony, which can be located in
any county in the state. Persons CON
victed of vagrancy or habitual drunk
enness in the city courts will be com.
mitted to the vagrant farm under an
indeterminate sentence. with power OF
parole vested in the board of managers.
The earnings of the cooperative col
ony are to be divided among the in.
mates, and penalties are provided for
in the shape of fines.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28
SHED FOR MACHINERY.
An Investment which Pays more
Than OrfIlnury Interest.

Select site canvenien: to the lanes
leading TO the Hlrious fields and at
proper distance from the other Dui'u-
ings, to insure slfety in case OF hre.
| find 2Ox4O feet q ;iconvenient size on an
average farm. Divide into three spaces
two of - feet each and one OF u ieet.
Inclose these spaces on three sides ana
on the fourth fit double doors. VIM
d5ws can be placed where desired.
Common lumber will answer, using
good shingles for roofing and pine
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28
CURRENT COMMENT.

ACCORDING to statistics at the treas
nry department, the value Of exports
by the United States for the calendar
year 1891 aggregated 81 100 600, 600, an
increase of s28, 100000 over any preced-
ing year.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

LEO NIlI., as II TO disprovc all re-
ports current concerning the alleged
failure of his mental and physical
powers, has just issued Il dainty volume
of Latin poems entitled Gamma
Novissima," which may be translated
Us --latest poems
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

IL 1898 ~ railroad companies, with
29.SfO miles OF road and Isl 900. 900
of bonds and stock dcfauItcd in their
obligations, while in 1897 only IS roads,
with mileage of !, j37 and capital
ization of $4,000, 600, did this. The
earnings of many Of the roads in 1897
were the largest ever gained.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

RAPID strides have been made in ar
ranging the details of the great coal
mining, carrying and selling combina.
ton, of which j. Pierpont Morgan is
the presiding genius, by which the
capitalists will be in close touch with
the miners of the states affected, Penn
sylvania, West Virginia, Indiana,
Ohio and Illinois. The interesting
feature of the new combination is the
profit-sharing plan for the miners, the
Importance of which will be seen when
it is stated that 5000 men will be
affected and it will be to their per.
sonal interest TO cooperate in the new
arrangements.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

A NEW YORK court recently acquit-
ted a man OF the charge OF assault and
battery upon his wife on the ground
that the husband and wife are one,
and that one the husband, and that II
man could not commit assault and bat.
terry upon himself.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

A BILL was recently introduced in
the Virginia Legislature providing that
the state shall sell for 81 the life title
of colonel to any Virginia gentleman
who shall take the oath Of uilice and
the anti-dueling oath.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28
A New cr..y Sect 1. con.ect,..,.

A lot OF IdHdlIeS IN tIfe Etdpe fec&ntfY Im--
merscd an old rheumatic woman bodily =
the water to heal her" as they said. Sbe
ter ii would have been to have treated ~.
poor old woman for her infrmity with HoS.
letters Stomach Bitters, which not onlv
cures rheumatism. but prevents kidney com.
plant and remedies dyspepsia, constipation.
liver trouble and nervous prostration. Civ.
it a systematic trial.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

IS the public schools OF Brooklinc,
Mass, they have introduced new
idea Alternately the girls, as well as
the boys. are taught the use of the
ordinary tools for working in wood,
and the boys are taught how to do
simple cooking. such as making coffee
and broiIing steaks and chops The
plan has been notable success and
other schools are adopting it.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28
When TrnxeIiux

Whether on pleasure bent or business: take
ON eyery trip bottle of Syrup of Figs, q Il
acts most pleasantly and effectually on the
kidneys, liver and bowels, preventing fevers,
headaches and other forms Of sickness. For
ss,le in 50 cent bottles by all leading drug
gists. Manufactured by the California Fig
Syrup Co. only.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28
Al II WAa

Jack-so after you satisfied her father
to be your wife!
Nack-Yes. First he viewed my shar..
and then she shared my views.-N. 7. Jour
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28
nicaI.

willy-Pa, what kind Of plants are.
widows weeds:"
Papa-ohl sort of mourning glory, in
most cases.-Puck.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

SENATOR CoCKRELL recently secured
statement Of the aggregate num-
Der of war claims filed in the war
department under the act of July 4,
1864, ana their aggregate amount
The records show that there have
been received at the war depart
ment rs $40 claims, amounting all told
to $40, 25G, SIS %. The number of these
claims still Enacted upon are 81, the
amount involved being sl2O, ,66s.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

Piso's Cure cured me of Throat and
Lung trouble of three years standing.-E.
Cady, Huntington, Ind, Nov. II, 1884.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

Tom-It takes an Irishman for ready Wit.
Dick (who has Just visited his uncle
And a jew for ready cash.-Up To Date.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

Fits stopped free and permanently cured
No fits after first days use of DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 81 trial bottle 4
treatise. Dr. Kline, 933 Arch ST.. Phila.. Pa
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

When you are prepared for an emergency
it hardly ever ashington Demo
crat.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

Some people are great because they have
an accumulating instead of q spending
sense.-Atchison Globe.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

A party at the house is all right il II
doesn't disarrange ones things.-Washing.
ton Democrat
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

As it certainly cures it, st. Jacobs Oh y
The Master Cure for rheumatism.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28
Rncial Cbaracteristics,

To Cure . Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. &c
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

Nobody is too worthless to have some con-
genial associates Washington Democrat.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

Sudden cold brings soreness and stiffness
St. Jacobs Oil brings a cure.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

WASHINGTON, Ian. %. s.-Assistant Sec.
retary Davis, OF the interior depart.
ment, has rendered decision holding
that there is no law providing a pen
sion for the widows Of soldiers who die
of disease contracted in the service in
time of peace prior to March =, 1861
The law applies only to cases where
the death cause was incurred or con-
tracted while in the performance OF
military service. during certain wars
specifically named and designated in
the several acts granting such pen.
SionS
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

u forfeit to fight either Corbett or Fitz.
simmons for the heavyweight cham
pionship Of the world.
FIFTEEN Cherokee convicts, includ.
ing some desperate characters, escaped
from the national prison at Tahlequah,
|. T., by tunneling through the base
mcnt wall the other night The sher-
itf was absent.
DIR. Nj. o. TERRY, surgeon general of
the national guard of New York, ad.
vocates the use of cathartics and sweet
oil in the treatment of appendicitis,
and declares that of 81 cases under his
personal supervision 40 were success
fully handled without operation.
IN the trial of the whitecaps at De.
catur, Ind, in which James Parrish,
a constable, was whipped almost
to death last September. evidence
brought to light the fact that Parrishs
wife was one of the persons to make
the arrangements to have her husband
whipped, and visited the whitecaps at
secret meetings to accomplish her pur-
pose.
For the first time in five or six years
membership Of the house of represent
atives is complete, and when Sergeant
at-Arms Russell draws his requisition
for money it includes pay at the rate
OF So. 600 year for every congressional
district in the country. 1t rarely hap
pens that the membership of the house
is not broken somewhere by death or
designations
or the nearly 100000 federal soldiers
who lost their lives during tho late
war one-sixth of that number fell on
tennessee soil, nearly GO,OO0 being
buried at Nashville, Murfreesbor
Shiloh. Chattanooga Memphis and
Fort Donelson.
The times., 1898-07-17
Mors, Morituri Te saIutamus.

l hate thee Death
Not that ] fear thee-more than mortal sprite
Fears the dark entrance whence no soul re-
turns.
For who would not resign his seauty breath,
Unreal joy, and troublesome delight
To marble Golfer or sepulchTal urn's
Inviolate keeping?
To quench the smoldering lamp that feebly burns
Within his chamber 10 procure sweet sleeping,
Is not 2 madmans act. And vet I hate thee,
Swift breaker OF life's poor illusion,
Stern ender OF loves fond confusion!
And with rebellion in my heaTt await thee.
Like mariners we sail, Of fate unwise,
With orders sealed and only 70 be read
When home has faded in the morning mist
And simple faith and innocence are fed!
Oft we neglect them, being much dismayed
By phantous and weird wonders
That haunt the deep,
BY voices winds and thunders,
Old mariners that cannot pray nor weep.
And faces of drowned souls that cannot sleep.
Or else our crew Is mutinous, arrayed
Against US, and the mandate is delayed.
But when the forces that rebelled
Are satisfied or quelled;
When sails trimmed 10 catch the merry wind.
And bllows dance before and foam behind;
Free, free al last from tumult and distraction
Or pleasure beekoned and OF pain fepelled-
Free from ourselves and disciplined for action
We break the seal of destiny, to find
The bourne venture for our cruise designed.
Then, at that very moment, harki cry
On deck; and then silence. as OF breath
Held. In the ofing, low against the sky
Hoyes thy black flag. : = Therefore
! hate thee. Death.
F. B. Money Coutts, in Literature.
The times., 1898-07-17
The Making of "A Soldier.

Joe Jerry hoed in a stony field,
Under sweltering sun
The boy and the rock and the native weed
Fought for the life in a battered seed,
And the struggle was just begun.
Get out Of the mud and follow me-
Said the man with the better clothes
Against you are yermin and drought and frost
You will anger nature with labor lost
Come where fair wind blows
But the boy digged on in the stony field,
With the struggle barely begun
81 put the seed in this ground. said he;
81 think had better stay and see
Whatever may be done"
Joe Jerry quarried and placed the stones.
And fitted the timbers true.
Then his neighbors came, with feyered eyes;
"Gold!-pans OF gold-just there il lies.
Shall we wait a day for your
a soft voice rifted the evening calm,
Singing the death of day.
A tired child came and went with a kiss.
have wife and home-and this;
think had better stay"
War! On to war!''-and the cry came near
There is honor, fame. for allt''
Il have a dying wife and these;
! shall stay with them if God 50 please
But he went at the second call.
Come on they cried It's death to wait!''
His face was bleeding and grim:
He picked rife out of the dirt
And answered simply: The captains hurt;
New York sun
The times., 1898-07-17
The skipper,s Wife.

So the skipper he slammed his cabin door
My God, but tongues were rifei
And he bit at his nails to think it DER
But the bo's'n he sat nigh the foe'sle-head,
And the bo's'n he spat when the cook had said
And he damned the mate and the captain
wife!
But the skipper got hold of a marlinspike-
My God, but his wife turned blue.
And the mate he yelped like u terrier tyke!-
But the bos'n got lead to tie to his feet,
And a sack for the wife for a winding sheet,
And into the we sank them two!
So the ROYALS were set, and the souWest blew;
And the bos'n and cook that night
Spoke every OF the captains crew.
And every man lifted his hand and he said
That his tongue would be tied like the tongue o
the dead,
And they sworc by Christ and their honor
And the sou'west blew, and the b0's'n he
Piped nigh the Golden Gate
And wench came off from the shore, and she
Said she the wife o the mate. And we
Were damned if We knew what next might bel
But the captain was kind and the log was
straight
God rest the dead in the Southern Sea,
Black and White
The times., 1898-07-17
Heart o. Beauty.

o, where are thy white hands, Heart O. Beauty?
Heart o Beauty
They are as white foam on the swept sands,
Heart O Beauty
They as white swans T the dusk, thy white
hands.
Wild swans in fight over shadowy lands,
Heart O. Beauty
o, lift again thy white hands, Heart O. Beauty.
Heart o Beauty
Harp to the white waves the yellow sands,
Heart o. Beautyi
They viii hearken now TO those waving wands,
To the magic wands of thy white hands,
Heart O. Beauty!
From the white dawn till the gray dusk.
Heart o Beauty
l hear the unseen waves Of unseen strands,
Heart O. Beauty
| see the sun rise and set shadowy lands
But never, never, never, thy white hands, thy
white hands.
Heart o. Beauty.
Fiona Macleod, in the Spectator,
The times., 1898-07-17
News.

When the low west falls suddenly shining
At the end OF a sunsetting shower
All its beams long and amber untwining,
Furled close under cloud for an hour,
Ger wet woods, Ger green meadows Tain-scented
The waft of wind goes by
To the patient, poor souls and contented.
With a word, with & call, a cry
For il says In the Land Of the Faeries
Every day. every hour. every minute,
pleasure that freshens and varies
Is waiting Tor Us 10 begin il,
And before could where il beckOned,
Lo. more thronging bright in a band,
So that no one has time-not a second
To be patient in Faery Land.
And it tells how this blithe Land OF Faery
GToweth wilder and stranger and sweeter,
Because dewed are its ways bright and airy
With promise of bliss sttll competeT;
Star by star il sets and il rises
Sees maryels just dawning al hand
So that no one, for joys and surprises,
Is contented in Faery Land.
Jane Barlow, in The Athenaeum.
The times., 1898-07-17

lations. Then comes a brief and con-
else history of Cuba, and it's relations
with the United States, and sketches of
the various leaders concerned in the
present war. There is also a description
Of Sgpa fF2n a geographic point Of View,
and the last few pages are taken Up With
letters from various correspondents at
the front, among them Frederic Reming
ton, Julian Hawthorne and Grover Flint.
There is not very much In the book
which has not at one time or another,
appeared IN the newspapers, and much
of the material is taken from the New
York Journal. But most people do not
keep war scrap-books and information
which is floating about IN the newspa-
pers instead of securely anchored in an
encyclopaedia is notoriously hard TO get
at AT time hike this it is very con-
venient to have all the facts which are
important in the war situation gathered
in small book of reference, and Cuba
at Glance is a book of that kind.
(New York: r. II. Russel)
The times., 1898-07-17
Recent Fiction.

Poor Max Is story by ''Iota' author
of "A Yellow Aster." and Is a much bet
ter book than the latter novel, though it
may not make so great sensation. 1t is
not exactly inspiring in it's theme, but it
is well constructed and well written, and
ones sympathy is enlisted for the hero
inc. 1t may seem mysterious TO the aver
age reader that this heroine, whose name
is Judith, should be afflicted with purple
eyes, her husband not being In the habit
of beating her, though worthless enough
In other ways but she has them and the
art of the author is shown in making her
a charming and pathetic creature in spite
of them. The girl readers OF the book will
yearn for little consolatIon in the last
chapter but though the unreiieved trag-
edy of the thing is rather depressing and
possibly unnecessary, it is unquestion-
ably better art than weaker but hap
pier climax would have been. The book
IS published by the Lippincotts in paper
covers.
"The Making of Saint" by William
Somerset Vaughan, Is a story of Italian
life. published by L. c. Page & Co, Bos-
ton, beautiful in print and binding, but
with the fault that il is impossible 10 get
TO the author, but ii does not seem so 10
the reader.
LAS Having Nothing" by Hester Cald-
well Oakley &C. p. Putuam's Sons, New
York; is a tale of New York life. with
a Gibson girl in it. il is a pretty and
daintily-told story, and the heroine Is
happily drawn. She is a maiden of aris-
tocratic connections. but slender purse,
who begins in the first chapter TO make
a great success IN illustrating books. In
the course of making drawings for tall
ented but impecunious young mans mag
azine article on Darkest New York. she
falls in love with the man, and he, OF
course. falls in love with her There Is
a good deal of innocent and pure and po-
etical sentiment in the book. and, while
1t is not strong novel. it is. as whole
some as good sugar plums. and good
reading for a girls leisure hours.
Cast Thou the First Stone is an inco-
herent novel in paper covers, with some
reflections in IL which are supposed to be
moral philosophy. A line on the cover
proclaims 1t TO be "A story OF Spanish IN
trigue and treachery, involving our Mexi-
can boundary line" but, as a matter OF
fact, the book has nothing TO do with
Spain. or the Mexican boundary line, ex-
cept in the most casual way. This scheme
of catching the eye of the public by put
ting a Spanish war tag on books which
have nothing about the war in them, and
no literary merit whatever, ought 10 be
stopped. The tag has appeared on sew
eral very Indifferent works of fiction and
other books of late. and the thing is dis
honest. Chicago: Charles II. kerr)
The times., 1898-07-17
MCubn Mt a GIance.v

Cuba at Glance" is a little collec-
tion of letters, documents, biographies
and information, edited by Emma Kauf-
man and Anne O'Hagan, and making al
together a book of a little more than a
hundred pages, with a map. Every page
is packed with interesting things, and
there could be no better way of inform
ing ones self on the history of the Gu
ban republic than to read this book care
fully. There is an introduction by T. Es-
trada Palma, with a fac-simile of his
signature, followed by fac-similes Of
letters of Gomez and Maceo, with trans
The times., 1898-07-17
Toward the Deep.

Let the lilies faunt their graces,
Since the golden hearts which bide
In the folded buds embraces
VIII adorn richer tide.
Statelier swans will sweep the lake
When the cygnets quit the brake
Where the Undines lave their faces,
Unespied.
More melodious Junes are sleeping
In the lingering linnet's throat,
And brighter dawn is peeping
Where the sunset aureoles float;
When the plaintive minor dies
All the grand creseendOs rise,
Deeper rapture onward sweeping,
Note by note.
And as Sulas rebel minion
Vaunted more the rising sun,
Love may turn on listless pinion
When the zenith we'll is
Spelled BY some diviner glow
Which affection yet may know
Since through even hearts HeTcynian
Danubes run.
Hence / wait, till through the bushes
Which thy latent passions keep,
Like some rosy dream that bushes
On the russell bough of sleep,
Love shall leap and greet my own
| With an ardor yet unknown,
| As the deep-born river rushes
Toward the deep
! Charles j. Bayne, in the Bookma
The times., 1898-07-17
CURRENT VERSE.
Loves wfsaon

have seen what the serapfs have seen
AS they gaze through the limitlsss air,
Thro' the wind and the clouds to the lean
Pale face OF the moon, and the bare
Bright fame OF the SUM- Unaware
| have seen what the seraphs have seen
Thro' the linitless spaces OF air
The brave mists that and wane
Are pailid and patient and fair;
| have fathomed the pride and the pain
OF the SHOWS and compassionate rain
Thro' the limitless spaces of air
l have known them-the brave mists that wane
And the glory and peace Of the skies
Where all strife and impatience are vain
And a-hush are all passionate sighs
For gazed in the deep Of Loves eyes,
And know what no seraphs shall gain
Pail Mall Gazette
The times., 1898-07-17
"a Cane Cod Week,

"A Cape Cod Week" is a pretty little
book by Annie Eliot Trumbull, author
of white Birches," "A Christmas Acct
dent" and some other sketches of a
bright and interesting character. Her
latest work is of a sort which has been
rather prevalent of late years, and on
The times., 1898-07-17

Can you publish a successful way to make
sorghum molasses? T. l.
We cannot directly. But in these bull
ietins of the Agricultural Department
you viii get much information On the
subject: Chemical Bulletins No. 20, 26.
-. "a ana 81
The times., 1898-07-17

are Secretary Gage, Rev. Teunis Hamlin,
Dr.. Paul Carus, and many other prom
inent men, in and out of the pulpit. The
book is published BY the Womans Edd-
cational Union Chicago
The times., 1898-07-17
LITERARY NOTES.

A volume of tho correspondence Of
James Russell Lowell when he was min
lister to Madrid Gs77 to 1880 has just
been published, under the title of Let
ters of James Russell Lowell" 1t is
edited by Prof. Charles Eliot Norton
Lowell said in a lerter to Mr.. Howells
that Spain was ''as primitive in some
ways as the books of Moses-and as
Oriental
The times., 1898-07-17

Morgan Robertson's first novel, "Fu-
tility" is a sea tale like his shorter sto-
res, and in it the hero is drugged and
nearly shanghaied. Mr.. Robertson seems
10 have made 1t his business to expose in
his writings the cruelties and injustices
which sailors suffer on board many
merchant vessels.
The times., 1898-07-17
NOTES AND QUERIES.

No attsatdBn VIII be paid 20 questions
which are not accompanied by the name
and address of the quesIioner-
The times., 1898-07-17

Please give the name, title and address OF the
present ambassador from France. T. l. j.
j;onsuIt the Washington City Direc-
tory. We cannot waste space in answer
ing trivial questions of this sort.