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The age-herald., 1898-02-27
SHE SAYS IT IS SERIOUS.
New Jersey Bride Won't Take Her Husbands
 View of Wedding.

From the Chicago Chronicle
 A remarkable difference of opinion con- corning recent marriage ceremony exists in New Brunswick, N. J. One party pro- fesses to regard the marriage as a farce, but there are others who regard it very seriously. Of the latter there is the pretty bride, Mrs. William c. Robinson who was Miss Bertha Richards; the others are her parents. They very indignant over the young husbands version of the affair and say they will see to it that he lives up to the obligations he assumed before the min- ister. Opposed to them are the young benedict and his parents. They are talk ing care that he shall not meet his wife. It does not seem. however, that he is over anxious to. His mother said that the "chiidren'' were not living together and were not likely to. In fact, the young husband had left his wife directly after visiting the preacher.
 .The idea," said the bride when she was told her husbands version of the affair. "Our marriage a jokei My husband saying he was led by jokers to marry me is all foolishness. I'll admit he was Abashful enough with other girls, but he wasn't too bashful to keep company with me for over a year and to ask me to marry him. Why, for the last four months he has called to see me every night.
 'He was insanely jealous of me and
 
 else One day in December last he went to fortune teller and was told man with black hair and eyes would come be- tween us That night he asked me to marry him. I refused, because I thought both of us were too young. But he plead ed so hard that relented a little.
 "sYou don't really think enough of me to love me all your life,' said If we be- come engaged you will grow tired and will never marry me. i4
 xlt1 @ooIr .laa or, 10 vS0r nf the house. He didn't say anything, but he marched into the parlor and got the Bible. Then he put his hand son 1t and swore he would never love anybody but me and that he would marry met really liked him a great deal and when he did this why, of course, consented to become his wife, We announced our engagement and told everybody. But when, Short time ago, he manifested an inclination to shirk his promise to me, told my parents and they agreed that in justice to me he should be made to keep that promise. When he called to see me my fGSser insisted1on an explanation. That was when h1s{ bash fitness came in, but after . timeShe de- clared he wanted to marry me andSwould marry me right away. Then we Aitched up the wagon and went to the Bapust par sonage. I thought there was no time like the present and Willie evidently thought so too.
 strangely and not at all like a man should treat his wife. He bade me good-by at inc stoop after returning from the par sonage and went right to his own home. Once after that he called to see me and got from me all of the letters he had ever writ ten to me. Many of them were signed. Your loving husband and Your. husband that is to be- He also wanted the mar riage certificate, but hN Would not tell me why he wanted it. did not give that to him, however"
The age-herald., 1898-02-27
E MISSING

The hours of detective are as uncer- tain as those of doctor And therefore was not surprised, when, one morning at 6, was awakened by a loud knock on my door.
 and eager.
 "Get up. sir" he said. "get up quick. Mrs Potter's coach is in front of the door and the footman has got word to bring you at once"
 "Who the deuce is Mrs. Potter?' I ex- claimed before I had time to recognize the name of the wealthiest society woman in the town.
 But Jenkins was gone. He had hurried down stairs to tell Mrs. Potter's man that was dressing as fast as I could.
 ''What in the world could have happened to Mrs. Potter?"
 could only conjecture.
 The ride was short one, around the cor her expensive one; and in ten minutes af- ter had been called from my comfortable bed to go out into the cold bleak morn- ing, found myself in the presence of a superbly handsome woman, elegantly dressed as for a ball, and fairly trembling with her weight of jewels.
 Her drawing room was brilliantly lighted end in the halls a few servants stood at their posts, but all the guests had gone. Then, and not till then, did I remember beading that on the previous evening Mrs. Van Dyck Potter was booked for the great sst ball of the season.
 For @ minute Mrs. Potter stood eyeing me closely, as though scrutenizing me,
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!hen, speaking to a servant who drew Dhut the great drawing room doors, she notioned me to be seated.
 'I asked you to come here, Mir. Boyle" she said, because it Is here that it hap pened; and it is here that you should hear about it"
 I nodded attention
 First" said she, '1et me be sure that what I am to tell you will be wholly con- hdential; because if-from its nature-'. slightest doubt exists in your min-''
 Your pardon! I will proceed!'
 Hast night I gave in these pariors the greatest ball of the winter. It was to be the last one before Lent and spared noth- ing to make 1t grand one." she hesitated.
 "Yesw
 "And this is my reward" as she spoke she laid her left hand upon my arm and pointed to 1t. The fingers were bare of jewels. Then hes laid her right hand be- side 1t. Each finger glittered like the cave of Golca.
 Until supper last evening wore as many jewels upon my left hand. But after supper. when my gloves had been removed, hand and, though I searched for them, they were gone"
 Where did you look?''
 Upon the floor. I called nay trustiest servants and told them to keep a lookout for the rings. They know them at sight. :" "Do you suspect anyone?" "No but in so large an assemblage there are many" frer
 Many who might be suspected"
 spoke the words with the inhospitable Infection which Mrs. Potter would have hestated to utter.
 And you still suspect no one?" "No one"
 'And your husband. Does he know of your loss?"
 Q ''Yes, and he is prostrated by it.'
 ha Inn x-nr, hoU Ifadr By no means. He would fear publicity md scandal Almost overwhelmed at the theft, for I must confess to you, that we can ill-afford to lose such valuable securi- ties at this time. He retired immediately the company had departed"
 "Was there any stone of special value?" I asked, for began to suspect more than she had told me.
 .Thcre was. The solitaire ring that was stolen from my third finger contained the thousands. When my husband bought it for me he said; this contains a fortune. Remember it in time of need.'"
 "And you missed the ring?"
 "As was walking with him after sup per. For a minute he would not believe that 1t was gone. Then it's loss staggered him. "One hundred thousand lost in Wall street today" he said, '.and now the Es- terhazy gone!"
 "Is there any more to tell?"
 "Oniy that ono of my dearest friends told me. before she left. that she had lost her diamond bracelet just before dinner which preceded the dance She was our guest of honor and sat at my husbands right hand"
 The plot began to thiclsen and wanted tmo to think about 1t; so, rising, extend- cd my hand to her and said: Promise me on your honor, Madame. that you will not tell person that you have consulted me. Not even your husband"
 ''IIe would he tho last one In his nerv- ous condition 1t would irritate him beyond expression"
 And so beds her good morning, for 1t was now sun up and the city was growing noisy with the carts
 When a detective does not know what to do he plays trumps. He watches the fam fly In which the trouble has occurred.
 So, after breakfast, I betook myself down town to the hotel which Is frequented by
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bleeding produced sanpoos with and frequent dressings with mot and stimulates the hair 6es nourshes the and make
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made MT. Potter so nervous that we came

made MT. Potter so nervous that we came home."
 The next day I took walk in a part of the town where there is located a diamond exchange; and what I saw there made me resolve to act quickly and without cau- tion. But how should I go about it? confess that here was the difficulty. was only partly sure.
 But chance, the detectives best friend, saved me.
 I resolved to consult MT Potter and with out delay.
 But when he came in to lunch at the ho- tel, where I still acted as clerk, one glance at this troubled face made me hesitate. This time l was sure I could see the words on his lips: ''If I could only find that dia- mond." Of course he meant the missing Esterhazy. I held his coat for him that day; and as lifted it for him to slip his arms in, I felt something strange in the back of the
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The age-herald., 1898-02-27
MozLEY,s LEMON HoT DRoPs

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The age-herald., 1898-02-27
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The age-herald., 1898-02-27
East Lake

East Lake
 First attraction of the season at East Lake. K. P. Speedy. the worlds famed high diver, will dive from a tower 100 feet high into East Lake, commencing Wednesr day. March 2. afternoon and evening Pefs formance begins at { in the afternoon and 6:3o in the evening Don't miss the great feat Other attractions next week. Taks Eaat Lake cara 2-26-t-S-k
The age-herald., 1898-02-27
M0ZLEY'S LEMON ELIXIR.
APIeasant Lemon Drink.

 pr. H. Mozley's Lemon Elixir is prepared from the fresh juice of Lemons, combined with other vegetable liver tonics, cathar- tics, aromatics stimulents and blood puri- hers Sold by druggists. soc and S1 bot ties.
 For billousness and constipation. For indigestion and foul stomach. For sick and nervous headaches. For palpitation and irregular action of the heart take Lemon Elixir For sleeplessness and nervousness. For loss of appetite and debility. For levers, malaria. and chills take Lemon Elixir.
 Ladies, for natural and thorough organic regulation, take Lemon Elixir. Fifty cents and S1 dollar bottles at drug gists
 Prepared only by Dr. H. Mozley. Atlanta, Ga.
 Lemon Elixir will not fail you in any Of the above named diseases, all of which arise from a torpid or diseased liver, stom- ach or kidneys.
 AT THE CAPITOL. have just taken the last of two bottles of pr. Mozley's Lemon Elixir, for nervous headache, indigestion, with diseased liver and kidneys The Elixir cured me. found 1t the greatest medicine ever used.
 J. H. MENNICH Attorney,
 1925 F. Street, Washington, D. c.
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Evening star., 1898-12-08

1873 and 1874 no increase is found, the fig
ures Of 1872 being 1.333. 104 and those of
1873. 1906, 4S4, while the tons passed from
United States ports to United States ports
through the Weliand canal fell from 74S 557
in 1874 to 653,2 in 1895.
The New York canal tables show a steady
decrease since 1880 in the tons of merchan-
disc carried to tidewater. The number of
tons of freight carried to ridewater on the
New York canals in 1850 was 4,O67 4O2: in
1890, 1924, 765. and in 1897, 1,S79,21s, while
all other canals mentioned, as above in
dicated, show large gains in business mean
time.
The reduction of freight rates. especially
on the great lakes and by rail in competi-
ton with the lakes and their canals, is
also shown by a series Of tables These
show material reduction in freight rates
between Chicago and New York, whethe
carried by lake and rail, lake and canal or
by all rail, though the reduction where car
ried by the all-water route of lake and
canal is greater than in cases where a pa rt
or all of the transportation is by rail- The
average rates per bushel for wheat from
Chicago to New York by lake and canal
were, in 1877, 11.24 cents per bushel: in
1897, S.5 cents, and in 1897, As cents. In
the combination of lake and rail freights
the rates fell from 15.S cents per bushel in
1877 to Il cents in 1887 and I37 in 1897
while the all-rail freights fell from 2O3
cents per bushel in 1877 TO 1914 cents in
1887 and 1872 cents in 1897.
Evening star., 1898-12-08
CUBAN VIEWS OF MESSAGE.
Havana Press Divided as to the Presi
dents Intentions.

A dispatch from Havana last night says:
The local press shows a sharp division in
the comments upon President McKinley's
message to Congress. Ell Pals and La
Lucha find analogy between the mes
sage and the joint resolution of April last
constituting. in their opinion, proof that
the United States government Is really de-
termined to carry out the promises SOL
emnly contracted before the world
On the other hand, FL Diario de la Mar
ina, La Union Avisador, El COmercio, La
Union Iberia, and El Leon Espanol, see in
the message a yelled admission that the
Presidents policy is to occupy the island
for an indefinite period, with a view of
ultimately anneNing it, These papers loud
ly denounce the passage In the MESA ge
which urges cooperation and assistance in
every possible form for the social and
moral reconstruction of the island, in order
to enable the people of Cuba to govern
themselves.
The idea of qualifying the Cubans to ad
minister their own affairs is represented by
this section Of the press IAN insult and
an ominOus warning
From Cuban headquarters the announce
ment is made of the successful result of
the visit to Washington of General CaliXto
Garcia and his colleagues. composing the
special deputation from the Cuban assem-
bly,, recently in session at Santa Cruz del
Sur. 1t is also announced, as a further
outcome of the commissions efforts, that
the Cuban troops are soon to be disbanded
with at least one years pay. This solu-
ton of the military problem is hailed with
satisfaction, affording those who were
made poor by the revolution an oppor-
tunity to get funds enough to return to
their labor in the fields and to lay the foun-
dation of honest livelihood.
Mr.. Gould, who has been distributing the
Bratten'S relief supplies, returned last night
from his trip to MatanZas. Cardenas, Sagua,
Calbarien, Santa Clara and Santo Domin-
go. He reports great suffering and want
all over the island. While the distribution
of the present supplies will relieve distress
in certain quarters for time he deems it
imperative that further shipments should
be made at once.
\ dispatch from Trinidad, province of
Santa Clara, announces the landing at
O'Clock yesterday afternoon at Casilda, the
port of Trinidad, of General Snyder and 700
United States troops.
All statues Of Spanish royal personages
now in the public parks win soon be taken
down for shipment to Spain.
General Castellanos has officially inform
cd the American commissioners that he has
assumed the charrnanship OF the Spanish
evacuation commission
The United States armored cruiser New
York, which left Newport News on De-
cember 3, arrived off the harbor at 800
pm.
Immediately after her arrival, the New
York saluted, and Captain Chadwick paid a
visit to Admiral Manterola and General
Castellanos a naval lieutenant promptly
returned the visit on board the New York.
Evening star., 1898-12-08
PASSED BY THE HOUSE.
Adoption of the Bill to Prevent
"Ticket SeaIping"


The bill to prevent traffic in railroad tick
cts by ''scalpers," which has been vigor-
ously urged by many railroads, passed the
House yesterday, after four hours debate
by vote of 119 to 101.
The interstate commerce commission first
called attention to the subject in its report
OF 1888, and it has been before Congress
ever since in one form or another. During
the last session extensive hearings were
given both to the representatives of the
railroads and the Scapers, and Mr. Sher-
man Of New York secured I74 pledges for
the measure. 1t was, however, deemed in
advisable to bring the measure forward
until the present session. No amendments
offered were adopted, and the bill passed
as reported by the committee.
The bill requires railways to provide each
agent authorized to sell tickets with a GER
uhcate setting forth his authority, and it
requires the posting OF such certificate in
conspicuous place in the agents office.
1t makes it unlawful for the officer of a
railway company, whose duty it is to supply
tickets to its agents, to supply tickets
for sale to any person other than it's au-
thorIzed agents, and also makes it unlawful
for any person to sell transfer tickets or
evidence of the right to transportation
without the authority given by the COM
pany, except a purchaser in good faith of
ucket for personal use.
A violation of these provisions will be a
misdemeanor.
The bill requires railways to redeem un-
used or partly used tickets and provides
the procedure for such redemption, and also
provides redress to the aggrieVed party in
case of failure to redeem.
1t makes it a misdemeanor for any Off
GER of any railway TO fail TO comply with
the preceding sections in reference to re-
demption, and provides a punishment there
for.
1t provides that the forgery, counterfeit
ing, altering knowingly selling or dis
posing of such interstate transportation
tickets pass so forged, counterfeited
or altered shall be punished by fine and i'm
prisonment in the G,enitentiary for a term
not exceeding two years.
This bill is limited in it's operation to
Interstate transportation, and 1t has no
laton - transportation wholly within any
one state:
Evening star., 1898-12-08
AMERICAN TRADE IN CHM.
Significant Facts Stated I'm a Report
From Consul General EnwIer

with a good deal of pride Consul General
foWier at Chefoo calls attention Of the
State Department TO the phenomena,
strides made by American trade in that sec
uoh OF CHINA in the past year. He saws
that when The books for 'aS are closed the
value OF American merchandise imported
tAere will lead all others. 1t will possibly
equal, II not exceed, the values for all E,u
rope.
The American flour imports for six
months of this year were S4l 3q3. which
was almost as large as the value of the
imports OF Hours for the whole four wears
preceding. American ginseng also made ito
hrst appearance as an article Of import
which the consul regards as truly remark
able.
In the case of drills the imports for ,he
first six months Of this year exceeded those
of the entire years of 1893 and 1894 and ma
imports Of all our goods in 1897 were four
times as large as they were in 1898
The value of imports into Chefoo in 1897
specified as American. were almost ten
times greater than those from Great
Britain.
that the value Of the American imports
into the single Chinese port of Chefoo ex-
ceeds the entire value Of our exports to any
one OF forty-one separate countries which
he names, among them Guatemala Perm
Dutch Indies, Portugal and Switzerland
and, in the consurs opinion not more than
twenty of the eighty-siX political divisions
OF the worlds commerce would show a
greater value of our exports than this
Chinese port of Cnefoo. He said il is also
true that the value of American exports to
three North China ports, Tien Tsin. Much
wang and Chefoo Iast year exceeded our
combined sales to all the Central American
states. We sold more cotton goods in Che
foo than We sold all Europe
Evening star., 1898-12-08
WARNING FROM COPENHAGEN.
Vice Consul Biom Condo Amer
lean Inspection of American Corn.

Vice Consul Blom at Copenhagen reports
to the State Department that serious COM
plants have been made against the Amer
lean inspection of American corn arriving
there and upon personal investigation he
found that the complaints were well taken.
July and August shipments were not sat
isfactory. and some from Baltimore. Phiia-
dephia and New York. ranked as No. ,
grade, were especially bad, with as much
as , to j per cent of dust. dirt and sand.
Aside from the loss of weight, this Sc
riously Injuries the sound corn. AS Den
mark is an enormous market for American
corn, the consul feels called upon to sound
this warning.
In speaking of the extension of the Dam
ish merchant marine, he says that there
are indications that there Will be an IN
crease of that part of il devoted to the
American trade during the coming year
Nearly half of the increase in 1898, whicn
amounted 10 forty-nine steamers, was
placed on the steamship routes between
Denmark and the United States.
Evening star., 1898-12-08
CANALS OF THE WORLD.
Growth of the Business Passing
Them.

The great canals of the world and the
growth of the business passing through
them are discussed in a series of tables just
published by the treasury bureau of stat
istics i'll its latest issue of the summary of
commerce and finance. The business of the
Suez canal. the Kaiser Wilhelm canal, the
St. Mary's falls the Weland and New
York canals and incidentally the commerce
passing through the Detroit river are given
in detail for a term of years. and thus pre-
sents statistical data convenient for those
desiring to study the question of ship ca
mails connecting great bodies OF water
The Suez canal shows a net tonnage of
6,576 tons in 1869. its first year 436, ,609 in
1870, over a million in 1872. more than two
million in 1878 and a steady increase until
1891 when the figures reached S,69S, III,
since which time there has been compare
lively little change, the figures for 1897
being slightly below those of 1896 but 33
per cent in excess of those of 1887 and more
than three times those of 1877.
The Kaiser Welheim canal, which has
been in operation but three years, shows
an increase of 50 per cent in that period
in the tonnage passing through it, that OF
the first year after its opening being 1,505,
9S3 and that for the fiscal year ending
March 81, 1895 2,469, 195.
The ST. Mary's falls canal, connecting
Lake Superior with the lower lakes, shows
a more rapid gain than the Suez. The
freight tonnage passing through the ST.
Mary's falls canal in 1881 Is given at l.
56T,7 ,741, reaching more than 100000 tons
in 1855, more than 5,0G0oG0 in 1887 more
than 100000 in 1889. more than 5000 900
in 1890, more than II ,oo0, coo in 1892 more
than 100000 in 1894 and more than 49,
100000 in 1897. Incidentally the freight ton
mage passing through the Detroit river.
which connects Lakes Superior, Michigan
and Huron with Erie and Ontario. is shown
to have increased from 9,0o0,o0O tons in
1873 to 2390o. $40 in 1896, an increase in
-
crease in the registered tonnage through
st Marys falls canal alone in that time is
from 204. 446 to 1853, 933.
The Welland canal tables show that the
quantity OF freight passed through that
canal in 1880 was sf9,93I tons and in 1896
1.279,9S though comparing 1856 with 1872