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The evening times., 1899-01-05
IreIand's Demands on England.

London, Jan. 5.-A mass meeting OF Irishmen
was held here last night, at which resolutions
against the policy of over-taxation in Ireland
were adopted, on the ground that it had forced
the decline of agricultural population; also a
demand was made for share by Ireland in Brit
ish naval construction.
The evening times., 1899-01-05
Baby for Havemeyer,s Millions.

New York, Jan. "a has been born to
Mrs. Haveineyer, widow of Charles F. Have
meyer: the miilonaire sugar magnate. who shot
and killed himself eight months ago at his Long
Island summer home.
The evening times., 1899-01-05
Engines FntefuI Plunge TO River.

jefferson City, Mo-, Ian. Engineer Charles
Clawson and Fireman Zo were killed By the
overtulning of a Missouri Pacific passenger en-
gine, which struck a rock and rolled over into
the river near here yesterday. No passengers
were hurt.
The evening times., 1899-01-05
Cotton to the Mills Direct.

Providence, II. l., Jan. 5.-In order 10 bring
aw cotton to this chief distributing point CLYDE
Line steamers will make this regular calling
mort
The evening times., 1899-01-05
THEY STAND THE TEST
Eclipse BiCVCIes,
FOURTEENTH AND H SITS
THIS PAPER Is PRINTED

With Ink furnished by JAENECKE BROS. & FA
SCHNEENANN New York City. my2i-Jf-sD
The evening times., 1899-01-05

Try a case of Heurich's beer. Phone ssi.
The evening times., 1899-01-05
MONEY WANTED AND TO LOAN.

LOANS OF 500 10 81 900 made on collateral or
second trusts; no delay Apply early GEO.
r. ROBINSON I206 G. St NV iaj-iIno
The evening times., 1899-01-05

g-S-S S-S05
WALTERS HEADACHE POWDERS.
positive cue fof headache 8 powders,
doses, s cures 10 cents Sold by ali druggists
rn2O-2mo
The Winslow mail., 1899-06-01
MOUSE HEST II her COLLAR.
An Elderly Lady Passenger Causes
Excitement In Chicago
Street Car.

One mouse is generally enough TO
stampede an asscmblage of women,
aud the commotion attendant upon
the appearance of two or three ro-
dents is, OF course, increased in pro-
portion, says the Chicago Chronicle.
II does not matter that the mice nay
be young, as was shown in a street
car during one of the recent cool aft
ernoons. One of the passengers was
IN elderly woman who wore an old
fashioned fur cape with an immense
hearskin collar. Evidently the cape
had just been taken from a chest con-
tanning moth balls, for the odor of
these preventives was powerful. The
car was crowded. principally by wom-
en-, so the elderly passenger was com
PEELED to stand, and as the car jolted
or swung around corner she swayed
hanging to the strap, sprinkling he
glist ening particles of insect destroyer
on all who were near. AT length the
car gave particularly bad lurch and
some thing fell from the cape into the
Jap of q lady near by. This something
proved upon close inspection to be
a tiny mouse. Following closely came
several more, distributed with re-
markable fairness. on the nearby pas
sengers. 1t didn't take over a half
minute for every woman in that car
to grab her skirts and get on the
seats, the overflow taking refuge on
the platforms. Their screams attract
ed the conductor. who care in and
threw the little mice out or he street.
Meanwhile the innocent cause of all
this trouble calmly unfastened her
cape and shook out the remains Of
n nest, which had been snugly built
ny some motherly mouse in the long
fur. The owner of the cape then seat
ed herself as calmly as you please and
the other women finally subsided.
The Winslow mail., 1899-06-01
SQUIRREL SHOWED TREASURE.
Jersey Farmer Examined Hole Where
Animal Disappeared and Found
Chest of Spanish DOublOOns.

Harold James, farm laborer at Oak
Tree, N. j., is reported by the New
York Herald to have found a chest of
Spanish doubloons in a hole in the
woods near his home the other week.
He was hunting squirrels, and, follow
ing one some distance into the woods.
he fired at it.
The squirrel disappeared in hole at
the foot of an old oak tree. and James,
in his search for it, found the chest.
Only a corner of it was visible. 1t
crum bled at the touch, and disclosed
number of gold coins. James got
spade and dug around the chest. He
found it was about six feet long, and
contained, besides money. the skeleton
of human being, which crumbled on
being moved.
He concealed his discovery until he
examined the place thoroughly. Then
he got sack and began carrying the
money home.
He bas shown some of the money to
his friends. and rumor says that he
found anywhere from $1,000 to $4,000
He exchanged some in New York for
currency, and is overjoyed with his
good luck. He is industrious and of
a quiet disposition. and it was some
days before he mentioned the incident
10 anyone. James has sailed for Eu-
rope, but he says he is coming back to
buy farm.
The Winslow mail., 1899-06-01
MUST BE REDEEMED.
Some Valuable Information ADouf
Theater seats Not Gener"
ally Known.

The fact that ticket bought for
theater and not used on the date
stamped on it is always good for an ad-
mittance is not generally known, and
probably theater managers would take
very little trouble to spread knowledge
OF the fact; but it is nevertheless true.
says the New York Sun. "A man who
buys a reserved seat for theater,
said a theater treasurer who handles
more tickets every season than any
other in New York, may not use 1t
OH the evening for which he bought it.
Good for dis date only may be
stamped on the pasteboard. That
would seem to mean that the ticket
could be used at no other time. Prob
ably most of the public accepts that
as proving the impossibility of max
ing use OF the ticket, and therefore few
make any attempt to get the worth
of their money when they were pre-
vented by any cause from using the
ticket on the date marked on it. But
il could be presented at any time and
would be good for an admission. Any
theater manager would have to recog-
nize the holders right to enter the
theater. although that would, OF
course. car. with it no right to the
seat. 1t is that right which is limited
10y the printed date. For all other
purposes the ticket is Quite as good as
if used on the date it bears"
The Winslow mail., 1899-06-01
THE ORIGIN OF GRINGo.
1t Is the Name Given by Mextcans
to Americana Because of
a SONY

All the way from California comes
little story of the origin of "gringo."
the name given by the Mexicans to all
English and Americans. The writer,
who recently returned from Il trip
through Mexico, says:
while in Guaymas met sea cap
tain by the name of Bruce, then COM
mander of the schooner La Union. He
asked me if | would like to take trip
with him to small seaport village
called Ajiavampo, 65 miles down the
Gulf of California, near the mouth of
both the Mayo and Yaqui rivers. We
had been on shore probably half an
hour when we heard that the natives
were celebrating the anniversary of Il
saint, and were having great time. /
invited the captain to accompany me to
see it, and the host welcomed me cor
daily and told me to bring in my COM
panion, 'el gringo.'
1--WE were then intrduced to the heads
of the families, and were politely told
to make ourselves ut home. drifted
away from the captain and sat down by
an old lady. whose name learned was
Fabiana Murrieta de Farrell She stated
that she was "a years old and had beer
married to a 'gringo' 80 years. She then
explained why the Americans were
called 'gringos,' as follows:
About the year 10 (meaning 1901
she began, a great many of US, then, of
course. girls, were surpl ised to see q
great crowd coming ashore in some
ooats from buque (meaning a ship
IN the port of Guaymas and singing
song that my husband taught me to
pronounce. That was Green Grows
the Meadows" OF course, all we girls
could catch were the first two SEN
tences, green grows" Therefore,
when we saw them walking in group.
we christened them 'gringros," and
there you have the origin of the word"
The Winslow mail., 1899-06-01
RELIGIOUS CAT BACKSLIDES.
The Sensitive Animal Refuses to At
tend Prayers After Murder OF
Her OfspFing.

In Susquehanna. Pa, is a household
made up of an old man, his housekeep-
ar and their old cat Family prayers
are the rule each evening in the house
hold. and the cat fell into the habit of
regular and punctual attendance. No
other of the cares that proverbially
crowd a cats life was ever allowed to
interfere with this religious cat. AT
the signal for prayers she would even
leave a mouse half caught or give
doomed bird a longer lease of life and
decorousiy compose herself in the lap
of the housekeeper with an air of atten-
ton to the service that was highly edi-
flying. AT the first "amen" she went
briskly about her business.
But in an evil hour there came kit
ten that was deemed superhuous, and
sentence of death was pronounced upon
it. The head of the household under
took the execution of the sentence, and.
unknown to him, the cat was wit
ness of the scene. From that day the
cat refused to attend the evening serv-
ice and cannot now be induced to listen
to the prayers of one who has shocked
her sensibilities and murdered her off
spring. She faithfully performs all
other duties as before, and sociably
purrs for the family on all secular oc-
casions. but rigidly draws the line on
family prayers.
The Winslow mail., 1899-06-01
WARTS AND THE DOCTORS.
Excuse Their Incompetence by De-
clarfng the Nuisances VIII
Disappear.

The doctors excuse their incompe-
.ence Ey declaring that these nuisances
disappear as a child grows older, says
the pall Mall Magazine. l profess to
believe them. No one in the household
remembers the historic case CT Cronl-
well. fortunately His warts did not
vanish; you see them as plain as his
nose on the mask taken after death
preserved at Warwick castle.
And there is Cicero; not that he him.
self had warts to speak of, though /
have seen that statement in school
book recently. 1t was an ancestor of
his who won distinction that way, as
ton:sAing the Roman public with an
excrescence on the tip of his nose, of
trefoil shape. Wherefore they called
him Cicero, vetch, and the nickname
clung to the family.
1t was rather comforting than other
wise to learn that the heroes and sages
of old were afflicted with warts. Even
the "godlike Greeks" had them, as
Lucian tells us in passing, and their
mothers applied to old women for
charms. The doctors were as helpless
then as now. of course, with more ex-
2use,
The Winslow mail., 1899-06-01
WHAT A DROUGHT COSTS.
A bad One I'm New South Wales Means
. Loss OF Many Million
Dollars.

What the drought of the last few
years has cost New South Wales has
been estimated, and the estimate makes
up bit of very doleful arithmetic,
says Westminster Gazette. The focks
Of the colony have shrunk from 66.0OC,-
900 to 100000, representing a loss Of
20.0G0.oo0 sheep. If to this is added
the loss of natural increase the shrink
age amounts to 100000 sheep;
enough, that is, to equip considerable
sized colony. In addition there has
been loss of nearly 100000 horses and
10000 cattle.
That the colony has been able to
survive these terrific losses is a strik-
ing proof of energy and resource.
Translated into money the colony has
suffered loss of from IL, ,OOO,G to
6 e20,000,000. For so much, when ex-
pressed in pounds, shillings and pence,
do few inches more or less of rain
fall count! We are probably entering
on cycle of years, contemporary
thinks, when the kindly skies will pour
on the far-stretching plains their bene-
diction OF rain, and these vast losses
will quickly be made up.
The Winslow mail., 1899-06-01
WOMEN MAIL CARRIERS.
They Do Not Use the Reg ulatiOn Stage
and the Picturesque Four
fn-Hand.

There are two women mail carriers
in southern Berkshire who are doing
satisfactory work and appear to enjoy
the business. reports the Springfield
Republican. Miss Louise Marcome
drives the stage between Curtisville
and Stockbridge, making two trips a
day, distance of some four miles AS
there is no railroad station at curtis
vile she does quite an express BUSINESS,
and has number of passengers. Miss
Marcome is about 25 years old and
has been driving some four years. She
is noted for her promptness in making
the trips and her close attention to
business. The other woman stage
driver has been on the road Tor about
six months. She is Miss Olive Oakes,
of Egremont, who carries the mail
from North Egremont to Great Bar
rington. She is 21. and was learning
the dressmaking business when her
father, who has the contract for the
stage line, was taken sick and Miss
Oakes took his place temporarily. He
grew worse and died two months ago.
She has continued to drive the stage.
This is a hard trip for woman the
distance being some six miles. and she
makes two trips day, and, as she lives
midway between the two post Offices,
this gives her considerable extra travel.
These women do not use the regula-
ton stage that is seen in pictures but
light wagons. Their principal cargo
is the mail and light express packages.
The passengers do not number over
one or two on trip except on special
occasions
The Winslow mail., 1899-06-01
BABYISH BOYS.
Mothers Are Often to Blame for
TheiR sons Lack of Man-
illness.

No woman admires a babyish man.
yet one frequently sees mother train
ing a babyish boy. Ee comes in pou1-
ing and crying because some one treats
him unfairly, cr the fellows went let
him play, or he has met with fall, and
everyone is to blame but himself.
His mother coddles and pets him;
criticises the other boys; gives him a
piece of cake, and keeps him in with
her.
The boys don't like to play with him.
They call him mothers darling and
BABY boy, and they get rid of him in
every way as soon as possible. He is
peevish, selfish and oyerbearing at
home, but that is interpreted as Sc
quence Of his playmates spelling him.
This kind of boy grows up ar6 tales
his fretful, fault-fnding, unlov. b. dis.
position with him. He has nc luck in
the world. His mother only is patent
with him, but even she cannot be proud
of, nor lean lovingly on, such son.
How much better would it be for
mother kindly to show her little son
his fault! And in so doing she need not
lose sympathy for any real hurt or
childish sorrow.
AS a rule, mothers consider their own
offspring entirely superior to other chill
dren; they listen to one-sided tale,
ard harshly judge the ota~ r side, and
in consequence neighbors fall out and
children are encouraged to disagree
twofold injury.
'"The other boy didn't mean to hurt
you, Johnnie" was a wise woman's re-
ply to her complaining son. II have
seen you throw the ball in the same
way, and very likely you Go other
naughty things, so you really have no
right to get mad. Besides, it VIII only
make other children laugh al you and
call you Eames. Now you must put
stop 10 that by showing them that you
can be manly, and are willing 10 take
what you send. Go, my son; it really
hurts ,0auIna to see you babyish."
Sue course as this mother pursued
was aost sensible; it developed the
chill. sense of right, of justice and un-
selEaAness.
If you think it a slight thing,
mothers. you are mistaken. You take
the easiest way to rid yourselves of
the matter, really and metaphysically,
and caution him to "let those boys
alone"
If his playmates are really bad, it
is your business to know it, and guard
your >oE from contamination; but you
d. hi en- injury to keep him from the
corr2nr of other rollicking, sturdy,
good ured boys-boys in the full
est sens, CT the word.
Somc ire he must match his strength,
physically and morally, with his kind;
he must battle with life aid its prob
lens when mother is powerless to
shield him from the worlds hard
knocks.
Some time he and you must awaken
to the knowledge that it is only by
courageously meeting disappointments'
and discouragements that manly
strength natures Happy is the boy
who has had that wise help and that
sometimes wiser letting alone. when
occasion demands, which inures anG en-
mobiles his moral muscle!-Housewife
The Winslow mail., 1899-06-01
HOW DEVIL ANSE WAS FOOLED
Two Detectives Who Knew How to
Win Old Man Hatfield's
Hospitality.

when went with surveying party
into the Tug river country, in West Vir-
ginia, several years ago, there were
doubts as to whether the natives
would let us stay" said F. c. Albright,
civil engineer SIN general it was
taken for granted by the mountain
eers that any stranger who crossed
the dead line, where the mountain
district begins, was an enemy, rev.
enue officer or sheriff, whom it was
their duty to pot for the public safety.
But shortly before our coming the
United States marshals had made some
impression on the district, and in
spired a respect for government. The
mountaineers regarded our surveys
and railroad building as part of the
government, and accordingly did not
modest us.
"All are hospitable, and, like the
Arab, the mountaineer regards the
stranger who Las eaten his salt as be-
ing under his protection. This brings
me to a story of Devil Anse Hatfield
and two of our railroad detectives.
Devil Anse, as you probably have
heard, is the patriarch and leader of
the Hatfield clan He lives in his for
titled house on Island creek, with six
or seven armed men always there as
guard. Somehow the two detectives
had got the i'll will Of the Hatields,
and an ambush was laid for them. The
detectives got winl of it. They knew
the country and the people, and de-
cided on the only thing they could do.
Leaving the road they made a detour
behind the men in ambush, and rode
straight to the house of Devil Anse
Hatfield. AS luck would have it the
old man was away. perhaps superin-
tending the ambush, and they got to
the house and Within the door without
being fired at. They set their rifles in
It corner, hung their belts and pistols
against the wall, sat down, and asked
for something to eat. When Devil Anse
came back the women had fed the de-
tectives, and as they had eaten bread
the old nan to do but riaR hoar With
the best grace he could show He
"' J. " J -
Bt"ss Ho cOqIQ 4U0H' nc
made the best Of the matter gave the
men the best supper and breakfast
that the house afforded, and fed their
horses. The next morning he sent
them with guide by an out-of-the-
way path out OF the country
He'll see you safe said Devil Anse
at parting. IF you took the main trail
you'd likely meet some of nv folks,
and | reckon they'd turn their Guns
loose without stopping to asl, vhere
you've been Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Winslow mail., 1899-06-01
OUTBREAK AT L-Ar Z
An EnElish Lady Describe -
ribIe Treachery of til
Natives.

Extracts from the diary of
lish lady at Manila have. been Pu'
in the papers here. They give a
description of the situation
the outbreak of hostiiities a
ing of panic among the resi'
also tell of the scare in thS
middle of January. owing TO
rising inside the walls. The
packed their jewels, money and
ing, all ready to run. Under di.t.
January 8, she describes the prevlo"
Sunday, and says:
"a huge red balloon ascended from
the rebel camp as signal to attack.
and the firing increased steadily. 4
soldier came to tell US that the rsb-
els had burned the waterworks. ara
that we must fill everything we
as the supply would stop in
hours. The firing came nearer
nearer. We seemed to be in I y
center of perfect storm Of b.
around the house. AT las'
that the rebels were driven
saw the home troops returning
things. They were dead tea.
tramping along, dragging cas-
after the other, and behind se
the sad little procession of wor1a
stretchers."
On February 9, referring to the skir
mish at Malate. she wrote: "Nhen {
fire hot for the Is
put up white flag and si=o--zz
butt ends of their rifles. SO til --=-s-
m( GRQSM (NEU lMtm DoilD ,o
leans advanced, and. when quite c=ess
the rebels fired at them. Ia1s horI70ss
treachery met with just reward.
The Winslow mail., 1899-06-01
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

All He eAsked.-Dashaway-"There!
I've paid all my bills. and I'm going TO
start all over again!" Cleverton--
"WeIl don't begin on Puck.
DR. Erush-"I wonder why Bargnet
always speaks of his wife as dream?"
Mrs Brush-"I suppose because she
always goes by contraries." "-London
Tit-l5its.
Nv hat is d winter resort. Uncle Jim ?"
~ winter resort? Well. any place you
go w.sre you don't let. yourself think
it il a> cold as it is at home. ."--Detroit
Free Press
Well it can't get mnch colder than
his" remarked Henly, cheerfully "lf
ii does" groaned the Gisconsolate one.
''we'll all be too cold to feel it any
more philadelphia North Amer
lean
Parent-"So you really want to marry
my dauehter?" Suitor-"Well, | can
hardly say that; but there doesn't seem
TO be any other way to come in for any
of her money, you know. boston
Transcript.
\ Secret.-Di ~2n-"1Vhy is it that it
is usually unmarried women who write
articles on How to Manage a Hus-
band? Hixon-"Oh! you don't sup
pose married woman is going to give
her little plan away. do you?"-Boston
Traveller.
Harris-"Walters has been looking
pretty sad since his daughter got mar
ried, hasn't he?" Correll-"Yes, you
see. he had no sooner got his daughter
off his hands than he found be would
have to put her husband on his feet
Brooklyn Life.
Mike" said Flooding Pete. after
they had ridden a short distance in the
patrol wagon, we've got lot to be
thankful fur" "Yes," answered Mean
dering Mike; "tink of all de fozks dat1l
have to pull t'roo dis zero weather wild
out any nice warm jails to go to-
Washington Star.
The Winslow mail., 1899-06-01
HORSE OF THE UNDERTAKEN.
Circum stances In Which 1t Takes
on the BriskMess OF the
Living

The horse of the undertaken, drawing
the black and sober wagon, is common
ly driven, not al a walk, but trot,
though trot that is never fast. There
are times. however, when the horse
seems to take on an added touch of
briskness and animation. in keeping
with its surroundings, as. for instance,
when it is seen, as sometimes il may be.
with it's black wagon, in the busy quick
moving throng of vehicles that fills the
streets in the neighborhood of Broad
way and Thirty-fourth street, at the
theater hour at night, says the New
York Sun.
Here and at this time, in this constant
weaving of light and motion. of cars
running back and forth on the elevated
road overhead, and moving cars. cable,
trolley and horse, on the streets below,
intermingled with all sorts OF vehicles.
including carriages of all descriptions.
coaches, broughams. hansoms, electric
cabs, and so on, everything and every
body seems to be in hurry; or, if not in
hurry, to be going with rush. quick
ly, eagerly, with the anticipation of
pleasure. The cars are crowded as they
rush by, and every carriage is dawn
briskly.
Emerging from the busy traffic may
sometimes be seen an undertakers
wagon, its black, vanished sides glis-
tcning in the electric lights. its silver
plate shining and its horse going right
along smartly. The wagon is just as
black, just as decorous as ever, and the
driver the same, but it seems as though
the horse had caught the spirit of the