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: A negro was killed near Glendale
by falling into we'll. 1t seems that
the we'll, which was very deep, had
been out of use for some time, and he
had gone down to clean it out. AS
there were poisonous gases there he
became dizzy and asked his compan-
ions to draw him up. Just before
reaching the top he became so faint as
to release his hold on the rope and
dropped back to the bottom. The fall
mangled his body terribly, killing him
instantly.
When YOU call for DeWitts Witch Ha-
Eel Salve, the great pile cure, don't accept
ANYTHING else. Don't be talked into ac-
c,pting su bstiiute, for piles, for sores,
for burns. Evans Pharmacy
= There will be no extra session OF
Congress, though the Senate will have
to be called together for the prompt
ratification of the treaty of peace, if
the present plans of the President pre-
vail. 1t is stated at the White House,
that unless there should be some e1-
traordinary development, the House
will not meet until it convenes in reg
ular session next December.
A stubborn cough or tickling in the
throat Yields to One Minute Cough Cure.
HARMLESS in effect, touches the right spot,
reliable and just what is wanted. 1t acts
at once Evans Pharmacy.
= The japanese are aocking to the
Sandwich Islands in large numbers.
From dispatch it is learned tina no
less than |, l76 entered Honolulu as
contract laborers in one day recently
Another batch is expected shortly. 1t
would be seen from this that the con-
tract labor law has been quietly pigeon
holed. Plantation managers are under
contract to import certain percent
age of white labor in proportion to the
number of coolies brought in, but the
contract is violated in almost every in
stance
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SURGEONS IN COMMERCE.
Some of the Points of singu1arity About
the Fish.

Some of the Points of singu1arity About
the Fish.
The sturgeon is naturally an, in
habitant of the large rivers and
brackish water of the north temper
ate zone, more particularly of Eu-
rope and America. The Sacrament
to, the San Joaquin, Russian river
and the Columbia on the west and
the Hudson and Delaware on the
east are very favorable to its pro-
duction in great quantities.
This interesting and curious fish
has many points of singularity. Its
armed exterior skeleton seems to
point to it's being one of the few de-
scendants of the ganoid, or armor
plated fishes of the prehistoric ages.
The position of the mouth is much
the same as in the shark family, but
it's form and function are rather
that of the remora, or sucker fam
lily. The flesh, too, is remarkable
as being a reddish and yellow and
part white. English fshmongers
call it "beef and veal" In that
country it is usually cooked by bak-
ing with a stutfing Of fine herbs.
There are several varieties Of the
sturgeon family, the sturgeon prop
er (Accipenser sturio), the beluga
and the sterlet being the principal,
the two latter kinds belonging to
the Russian waters.
Some 25 years ago there were mil
lions of surgeons in San Francisco
bay and tributary waters, principal
ly in the mouths of the Sacramento
and San Joaquin rivers, where they
lay on the muddy bottom, feeding
on clans and bottom fishes. The
Chinese, who have an inordinate
fondness for gelatinous substances,
such asisinglass, sea swallow nests,
trepang, ETC., imported from China
a very deadly hook for capturing
the sturgeon, which they caught
solely for the marrow in its peculiar
backbone. They stripped out the
backbone and threw away the rest.
Some of the backbones were sent to
China, where isinglass is made from
them and also a highly tenacious
glue. The principal use, however,
is for making gelatinous soup.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
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Growth OF the South.

Where the proud city of Birming-
ham stands today there were in 1877
only wornout fields. Chattanooga
was dilapidated village. Atlanta
still sat in the ashes of the war.
Florida was almost as much Of a
wilderness as in the days of Spanish
rule. Texas had made no impress
sion upon the worlds markets as a
cotton producer. The states Of
Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas
were in poverty and despair because
of the miseries of the reconstruction
period. The coal and iron mines of
Tennessee, Alabama and Virginia
were practically undiscovered and
unopened. There was no serious
competition by any southern port
with New York and Boston for the
export and import trade. With a
single exception there was not one
great railroad system in the south,
and that did not touch the south
eastern part.
Twenty years ago the manufac-
ture of cotton in the south was
wholly an infant industry, and cities
now known as textile working CEN
ters were mere trading posts at the
crossroads. The fruit and vegeta-
BILE business of Florida was so small
as to attract little attention, while
the fruit and melon business Of
Georgia did not exist at all. South
ern farmers then bought their corn
and meats instead of raising them
as they do now, and the cotton crop
of Georgia, Notwithstanding the
comparatively low prices and not
withstanding the cities have absorb
ed so much Of the rural population,
is twice as large as it was them
Macon Telegraph.
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THE wAIF.

Just lonely little maiden from the city
dust and heat,
a homeless, lonely little waif, with blue eyes
sad and sweet.
No fathers hand with thoughtful care the Lit.
tie life had blessed,
No mothers touch Of love had e'er the tangled
hair caressed.
Her ears, had heard sins blasphemies, he1
cheeks had felt its blows,
And in the wide, wide city she had lived, just
how, God knows.
But now, out to the country-kind hearts had
planned the way
Sho rode to breathe the summer breath fort
night and day.
Oh, joy of all that journey, and sweeter joy to
come,
When Farmer Stebbins took her to his pleasant
uplsnd homel
The wide, old fashioned wagon was chariot
with wings,
And the big house on the hillside looked
grander than a kings.
All the beaming bliss of sunshine, all the
woodland's IS song and stir,
All the bloom Of rural beauty was paradise to
her,
And the hum Of bees that wandered il the
daisy fields all day
was music OF another world that stole her
heart away.
She knew the spreading maple that the robins
loved the best,
She found the clump Of grasses where the
ground bird hid its nest,
And when the wind at evening whispered
through the orchard boughs
She went with Farmer Stebbins to help drive
home the COWS.
And when, at quiet bedtime, with touch of
tender care
Kind Mother Stebbins' gentle hand brushed
hack the tangled hair,
One little heart with happiness was full and
One little soul was filed with love till it could
hold no more.
Too soon the visit ended, the parting time
drew nigh.
She kissed kind Mother stebbins, bid the birds
and bees goodby,
And climbed into the wagon, with Its wide,
old fashioned seat,
Once more homeless little waif, with blue
eyes sad and sweet.
But when they reached the station and heard
the whistles blast
Around the farmers sunbrowned neck two
little arms clung fast.
sDon't sand me back! Don't send mel" the
sobbing creature said,
And Farmer Stebbins swallowed hard. then
bent his bushy head.
And soft unloosed the clinging arms and put
the grieved child down.
He stopped and kissed the tear stained face
and smoothed the hair Of brown,
And them tho long train sped away around a
distant hill,
But q happy brown haired maiden stays with
Farmer Stebbins still.
Sheldon C. Stoddard in Youth g Companion.
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The Pope and London Smoke.

Leo XIII is no stranger to the
English court, but it is by no means
generally known that the pontiff
once paid a personal visit to this
country. Such, however, is the
case, though the event occurred 80
years ago, when he was simply
Monsignor Pecci, acting as legate at
the Belgian court, and when he was
being consulted recently with re-
gard to the building of the new ca
thedral at Westminster he asked
whether any white marble was to
be used, adding laughingly: "When
7 was at St. Paul's cathedral, they
showed me some black marble and
said it was white. London seems
to be far too smoky for white mar
BILE. ."-Westminster Gazette.
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Curiosity.

Crowds representing innate hui
man curiosity gather easily in large
cities. A fairly good looking wagon
was driven hurriedly up to a place
on Diamond street one day recently,
says the ST. Louis Globe-Democrat.
In a moment two boards had been
placed across the top of the vehicle.
The six or seven men who stopped
to look on at the unusual proceeding
soon swelled to a throng when four
small pillows were brought out and
deposited on the boards. whats
up9" inquired tall, thin man, an
eager look in his eye, the remark
being addressed to boy who had
swiftly climbed pole. From his
vantage point the youngster made
laconic answer, Dunno unless a
mans sick or dead in there.
At this point the two men at work
brought out and placed squarely on
the pillows something which looked
very much like stretoher. Every
body craned his or her neck for the
next appearance of the quiet work
men. The latter were not long in
coming. Between them, walking
very carefully, they carried large
mirror, which they placed on the
stretcher and then covered with a
white cloth. In another instant
they had turned down toward Wood
street, and the most excited men in
the crowd looked dejectedly at each
other. A possible tragedy requiring
the coroner's presence, or at least a
DOCTORS, had been converted into a
furniture insurance precautlOn.
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The Industry of Fa11 River.

Fall River has more than one
sixth of all the spindles in the coun-
try, over one-ffth of those in New
England and manufactures over
three-fourths OF all the print cloths
made in the country. It has more
spindles than any state in the Unit
ed States except Massachusetts,
nearly as many as all the southern
states combined and more than
twice as many as any other city in
the country. Every working day
its mills weave more than 1,4OO
miles of cloth, OF more than two
miles every minute. 1t produces
every variety of cloth from rough
Innings for shoes to the finest and
daintiest fabrics for ladies' dresses
and from the coarsest threads to
the gossamer of the SPIDERS web,
pound of which will make strip
of lawn 80 inches wide and 60 feet
long.
There are 42 corporations, operat-
ing 80 mills, employing $4,000 per-
sons, earning $3.50, 900 per week and
producing annually from $50, 900
bales of cotton more than SOO,OOO,-
900 yards of cloth. It's people are
cosmopolitan, there being in the
city in round numbers $1,000 Of
American parentage, $4,000 of Eng
lish, $4,000 of French Canadian, 25,-
600 of Irish and 10000 of German,
Portuguese, Armenian, Russian and
Italian birth. The recent growth
of the city has been remarkable.
Founded in 1903, it had only 1000
inhabitants, but from 1870 the IT.
crease has been marvellous. In that
year it had 27,191 inhabitants; in
1880, 47,883; 1890, 74,918; in 1882,
100, ,OOO.-Textile America.
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ONLY A TOAD.
But Ee Proves Himself the Friend Of the
Thrifty Farmer.

But Ee Proves Himself the Friend Of the
Thrifty Farmer.
Many people view with disgust
and loathing this rough, uncouth,
leathery coated little creature, with
his distended stomach and squat.
ungraceful form, yet their aversion
is totally without reason. The toad
is not venomous or harmful, nor
can he be utterly ugly with his sin
gularly clear and brilliant eyes.
An old superstition says, "The toad
has a jewel in his head" If he has,
it must be the CLEAN Of the jewel
that flashes through his eyes and
lights up his otherwise unattractive
countenance.
However this may be, the toad is
jewel in himself from an economic
point of view. The farmer has no
better friend or ally in his warfare
against injurious insects. The toad
comes forth mostly at night, when
such insects as the cutworm are
abroad. WhenI am working in the
garden and inadvertently disturb q
toad, always feel like begging his
pardon, for, however queer it may
seem to some, I like toads. In this
Dakota land they are very abun-
dant, and I notice that insects are
proportionately few.
When following the breaking
plow, I have often been a reluctant
spectator of the last sad tragedy in
the lives of some of these benefcent
little creatures. They love to bur-
row down in the earth to just about
the depth that the plowshare takes,
and there they are sometimes sliced
in two. On these occasions when
examining the contents of their
stomachs I have been surprised at
the quantity they could hold. I
have also noted the prevalence Of
injurious species of insects, such as
leaf beetles, cutworms, grubs and
their larvae.
Once after victim passed under
the plow I took pains to note the
contents of its stomach, which con-
sisted of 4 large cutworms, 2 bean
beetles, II small leaf beetles, 8small
manure beetles, 3 flies, several lar
vac and about teaspoonful of the
small aromatic yellow ants. This
was only a medium sized toad, and
now just think how many such
meals he had taken in his life; then
think of his millions Of relatives
and the meals they had eaten in
their lives. After that remember
that in their pollywog state toads
clear out myriads of Larvae from
stagnant water and do much to-
ward lessening the great mosquito
pest, and you may imagine the vast
quantity Of injurious insect material
they must have destroyed.
| have domesticated and colonized
toads in my cellar and garden and
always felt amply repaid by the de-
crease in the number of the insects.
1t makes little difference to the toad
whether his meal be of cabbage
worms, mosquitoes or bean beetles.
Down they go, and as he rubs his
throat with one "hand'' he winks
his off eye and is ready for more
Our Animal Friends.
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NOTICE.

TN compliance with the recommends
i ton of the Grand Jury, all persons
who damage the public roads by the eres
tion Of dams on side of road which OBJ.
struct the flow of the water therefron., or
otherwise damage the roads by throwing
side ditcnas, will be prosecuted, unless
first day of April next. This is given 80
that guilty parties may have time to COM
ply with the law.
W. P. sNELGRovE, Co. Sup.
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The New York botanical garden,
planned for Bronx park, will be the
third largest in the world. 1t en-
braces $50 acres.
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the first thing l recollected clearly
was trying the handle of the door
at home and whispering eagerly,
"Chris, old man! Chris!''
The handae yielded-the lock was
broken. With an intense awe and
foreboding creeping over me, Istood
in the doorway and looked. Two
persons were bending over him. He
lay on the bed, his face damp with
sweat and his eyes
ooh, I'm glad you've come!"
whispered our landlady. II knew
there was something wrong, and I
heard him groaning and calling out
after you went, so fetched the doc
tor at last, and we had to break in.
Ills Why, Mr.. Marsh thinks it
spells brain feverl Oh, and he has
kept calling out 'Lottiel Lottie'
Who is 'I.ottiei' -
could not tell her just then.
What did was to rush down stairs,
seize pen and paper and, as we'll as
I could for the mist in my eyes,
write scrawl to the woman he
loved and deserved, telling her all
and begging her to come. For some
thing seemed to tell me that Chris
would never know of his triumph
by proxy-that he was going to die.
God spared me that. In a week
Chris was down stairs again, whittier
and thinner than ever, indeed, but
SO much his old self that he could
smile and press my hand whenever
I held it out. But it was not until
more through my scheming per-
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SPAIN WILL PRIVATEER.

Washington, May 19.--Under the guise
of auxiliary cruisers Spain proposes to
privateef upon American commerce. An
ticipating that it may be necessary to
throw off the mask she has donned she
has made official admission that she
may formally commission privateers.
These facts are set forth in the "War
DEGREES of Spain, !" transmitted from Lon
don by Ambassador Hay and officially
made public in the consular reports of the
state department.. In addition to an.
nouncing the abrogation of all treaties
between the United States and Spain. the
allowance of five days to American ships
to depart from Spanish ports from the
date of the decree and her observance of
the declaration of Paris, these two articles
are of Importance to the nation and to its
commerce.:
ARTICLE IV.-The Spanish government
while maintaining their right to issue
letters Of marque, which they expressly
reserved in their note Of May 16, 1857. in
reply to the request of France for the adj
hesion of Spain to the Declaration of
Paris relative to maritime laws, will or
gantze for the present a service of
auxiliary cruisers of the navy, composed
OF ships of the Spanish mercantile navy,
which will cooperate with the latter for
the purpose of cruising, and which will
be subject to the statutes and jurisdiction
Of the navy"
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labor disnutes compulsory and will put
himself in the line of fire from the LABOR
organizations want to say he Will need
a search warrant to hold funeral over
his political ambition.
Mr. Walker, Republican OF Massaohu-
setts, from the committee on labor, sup
ported the bill emphasizing the declara-
tion that all labor organizations desired
its passage.
After debate, confined to the proposit-
ion to send the bill to conference, IN
which members participated, q roll-call
upon agreeing to the Senate's amend
ments thereby effecting the bills passage,
was ordered, resulting in yeas 2l9; nays
An agreement to postpone considera-
ton of the Brown-Swanson electlon
case from the fifth Virginia district, I'M
TIL the next session of Congress, was
reached. Notice that the case would 1e
called up today, was given yesterday.
The Speaker announced the appoint.
ment OF Messrs. Hull of Iowa, Adams OF
Pennsylvania and Tate Of Georgia, visit
ors to the West Point military academy
and Messrs. Hilborn of California, Wag-
ner OF Pennsylvania and Wheeler of Ken
lucky, visitors to the naval academy. Inc
House agreed to adjourn today until
Monday, memorial addresses upon the
late Senator George, made special order
for Saturday, being made the order for
Wednesday, May %.
The rising of Mr.. Tongue, Republican
OF Oregon, to question of personal privl-
lege. to answer circular now being circu-
lated in his district. ainjected interest into
the proceedings. The.circular in question,
he said, was en- anonymous document,
attacking his record in the present Con
gress, and contained no statement that
was not wholly or in part false. He read
from the circular and replied to the
charges that were being used for the al
legged purpose of accomplishing his defeat.
Mr. Tongue asserted that the circularawas
beingksent sout with EJhel apparent same
ZION OF The Democratic congressional COM
m1ttee, and he supposed it was, therefore,
the deliberate work of senators and mem
bers of the House. He was proceeding to
crltlclse Senator White, chairman of the
committee. when the Speaker called him
to order. When Mr.. Tongue concluded,
Mr.. Handy of Delaware, and Mr.. Bruck-
ner, Democrat of Michigan, were upon
their feet. Being members of the conf
mittee in question they made an effort to
have the circular read in full in order to
get it in the record. A point OF order
against the reading was made and sus-
tanned, Mr.. Handy remarking meantime
ment Seemed like "a clear case of con.
fession and avoidance.
At this juncture the efforts Of the DEM
ocrats to make reply to Mr.. Tongue
was interrupted by Mr. Sherman, Repub-
lican of New York. with motion agree
ing to conference on right of way bill.
Immediately afterwards Mr., Haynes, Re-
publican of New York, moved to adjourn.
The Democrats united in chorus of
'noes," and upon the announcement of
the motion being carried, Mr.. Bailey,
Democrat of Texas, vigorously demanded
the ayes and noes, remarking tt those
about him: eve do not purpos. to be
cut off without registering ous protest.
The roll call proceeded and the House
at 2. So p. m. adjourned.