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TIME IS ESTEKEED
For Final Ratification of the
Hay=Panncefote Treaty.
goes over until next march
The Question Considered and
Agreement Is Reached In Ex
ecutive Senate Session.
A Washington special says: The
friends of the Hav-Pauncefote treaty
occupied nearly all of the time of the
senate in executive session Tuesday,
Senators Foraker and Morgan being
the speakers.
Previous to the taking up of that
treaty the senate, for the purpose of
clearing its caleudar, disposed of sev
eral other treaties of comparatively
little importance. Five conventions
in all were latified.
Among thedocuments thus disposed
of was an agreement supplementary to
the Hay-Pauncefote treaty itself and
extending the time within which it
may be ratified. Uuder the terms of
the original treaty the time for ratifi
cation expired five months ago. The
agreement favorably passed upon
Tuesday extends the time until the
4th of March, during which the treaty
may be completed.
The other treaties which w ere rat
ified were as follows:
Extending for one year the time
within which the commercial treaty
with Argentine may be ratified.
Extending for a year the time with
in which the treaty with Great Britain
for reciprocity with Jamaica may be
ratified.
The new extradition treaties with
Bolivar and Chili.
When the Hay-Pauncefote treaty
was taken up attention was given to a
resolution offeied in open session earl
ier in the day by Senator Tillman,
calling for the correspondence between
this government and the government
of Colombia relative to the right o? the
United States to construct a canal
across Colombian territory. The res
olution was agreed to after it was
amended at the instance of Senator
Morgan so as also to call for all the
correspondence with the Panama Canal
Company, including all offers on the
part of that company and all negotia
tions ■with it concerning the Panama
canal.
Senator Foraker’s speech from first
to last was a defense of the Hay-
Paunceforte treaty. He praised iu
high terms the services of Secretary
Hav. Any fair-minded man, he said,
must recognize that in negotiating the
pending treaty the secretary of state
had accepted conditions as he fonnd
them, and that in falling into the
policy of neutrality he had only fol
lowed historic precedents. Every ad
ministration since 1850 had given
some recognition to the Clayton-Bull
wer treaty, and that document was to
he found in the government’s latest
treaty compilation.
Mr. Foraker also contended that
there is an implied reservation in the
treaty as it came to the senate to pro
tect the canal from enemies. The
treaty guarantees its neutrality in
time*of peace, he said, but we reseiwe
the right to do with it as we see fit in
time of war, except that we caauot
fortify it. He also contended for the
safety of the canal, even though it
should not be fortified, for it was ab
surd, he said, t.o suppose that any en
emy would attempt to sail its ships
through a canal 175 miles long owned,
controlled and policed by this country
when actual hostilities were in pro
gress. In this connection he called
attention to the fate of the Maine,
which was on a peaceful mission and
had been anchored iu a harbor of the
country with which at that time we
were at peace.
Senator Morgan covered much of the
grouud he had covered in his previous
argument in support of the Hay-Paun
c dote treaty, until he referred to the
proctoc.ils existing between Nicarauga
aud Costa Rica regarding the canal,
and said that the ratification of the
Hay treaty is a debt we owe to them.
Those countries, if they see fit, might
rise up and refuso to allow- us to do
anythiug; hence, we could not afford
to do anything that would offend them.
For this reason he would have the
ueutrality of the canal assured aud the
pending treaty ratified.
RACE RIOTS IN JAMAICA.
Ulack Soldiers of British West India
Kegitnent Mutiny and Attack Citizens.
Terrible race riots have occurred at
Kingston, Jamaica, led by several
hundred negro soldiers of the British
India regiment, supported by natives
of their own color.
They attacked civilians in the street
and maltreated them so badly that
many were taken to the various hos
pitals and placed under treatmeut.
Colonel Allen, who commands the
regiment, endeavored to control hi.r
men, but was unable to do to. Ke
then organized the police and swore in
citizens as .special officers.
NEW DISEASE !N 7CVV?4.
ft >* CaPed “Grocers’ Dyspeosia.” and
Buyers Who Sample Are Victims.
Hundreds of men in this cltv are gof
fering from a most insidious and
energy-sapping form of indigestion
known as •‘grocers* dyspepsia.” Buy
eis for grocery houses and commis
sion merchants are the ones who suf
fer from this peculiar aliment, which
:s caused by their inevitable pro
pensity to taste the crackers, fruits,
spices and other tempting forms of
food which are displayed by the whole
salers.
“Do you see that tall, lanky,
cadaverous fellow over there,” asked
a prominent wholesale grocer. “Well,
what would you say was ailing him?
Dyspepsia? Well, sir. you have hit
the nad on the head. But It isn’t any
common, ordinary sort of dyspepsia
from which he is suffering. Not a bit
of it. It's what we in the trade call
•grocers’ dyspepsia,’ and it seems to
me the name fits the case exactly.
Now just watch him.
“You see the first thing he does is to
make for that open bag of roasted cof
fee beans. There go some into his
mouth. Now let us see what the
clerk is going to show him. If it is
anything softer than a coconnut, you
can wager ho will sample it. Prunes!
Well, he is good for about an eighth
of a pound of those.”
"Now- that fellow—he’s a well-known
buyer ror one of the largest grocery
stores up town, by the way—probably
visits from eight to ten wholesale
houses in the course of a forenoon. In
every one he will taste of something,
a cracker, a cinnamon stick, some dried
fruit or, worst of all for the state of
his health, a handful of cloves. It
doesn't seem much, to be sure, but he
gets the habit, and day after day he
goes through the same performance,
and then wonders why he is troubled
with indigestion.
"I was speaking to a doctor about it
only last night. lie said that eating
continually, a3 many of these buyers
and commission merchants do, is
enough to ruin the best digestive ap
paratus provided by nature. The
stomach can’t stand the wear and tear
of always being obliged to work. Then,
much of the stuff that these men can't
seem to resist Is bad enough, even
when taken with other food. When
taken alone they prove most pernicious
iu their effects. Take spices, for ex
ample. They continually excite the
secretion of the glands of the diges
tive organs, and in time succeed in ex
hausting the gastric juices. Then the
glands themselves become abnormally
large, with the result that they are
unable to perform their proper func
tions.
“The punishment for these indiscre
tions seems bad enough, doesn't it?
l'et I like to think of it as a sort of
divine retribution, for there is another
side to the story. You can readily
realize that the loss to us is consider
able when I tell you that some fifty
first boss did to me,
of these men come In every business
day in the year, and that fully three
quarters of them indulge, so to speak.
I know no way to cure buyers of the
habit except to do with them what my
first boss did to me.”
“What did he do?” was asked.
“Well,” said the grocer, with a
slight chuckle, “when 1 was a lad, my
first position was with a wholesale
grocer. The morning I started in the
boss said to me: ‘Y’ou see a lot of nice
things around here—raisins, fruit,
crackers, cinnamon, etc. —don’t you?
Now, I want you to eat all you feel
like eating. Understand?’
“Being a most innocent and unsus
pecting youth, I followed his direc
tions literally. I didn’t do a thing to
those raisins. I also dipped into the
coffee and sugar, and polished off
about a half pound of crackers.
“The next day I stayed at home with
mother. When I appeared again, and
was greeted with a knowing wink from
the boss I tumbled to his scheme. It
was successful, for I never cared to
taste of the dainties I saw around af
ter that.”—New York Mail and Ex
press,
The Largest Toy Factory.
The largest toy factory in the
world is In New York City, where
playthings iu tin are manufactured
literally by the million. It stands five
stories high and turns out 1.C07 dis
tinct varieties of tin toys. The out
put of circular tin whistles is 20,000,-
000 per annum.
The extent to which the fruit trade
has been developed may be judged
by the fact that the Admiral Schley,
one of the four modern built swift
sailing fruit steamers now running be
tween Jamaica and Boston, recently
brought to Boston 3(5,053 bunches of
bananas, to say nothing of 208 bags of
cocoanutß.
La,Cre oI& Hpj%Reji-^yer is a Pei-fec
FORTRAIT CAMEO CUTTING.
Only One Exponent ef the Art in This
Country.
Chicago claims the only portrait
c meo cutter in the United States.
There may be other cameo cutters,
but portrait cameo cutting is as far be
yond ordinary cameo cutting as is por
trait painting beyond photography. It
is an art in itself.
The only portrait cameo cutter is A.
TTylen. a native of Sweden, where'he
learned the art of engraving on metal,
which Is the basic art of cameo cut
ting. He learned cameo cutting in
Vienna. Like other fine arts, cameo
cutting requires infinite patience, be
sides artistic sense, and It was not
until Mr. Hylen had worked for some
th mk like 40 years that he considered
himself a competent portrait cameo
cutter.
Cameo cutting Is one of the oldest
fine arts. It probably originated in
India, but was carried thence to Egypt,
where It flourished before the time of
Moses. It was carried from Egypt to
Fersia. In those early days it is be
lieved that the art of cutting precious
stones was a part of the literature of
the times, rather than a means of ex
pressing the artist’s sense of the beau
tiful. and it was not until the art was
taken up by the Greeks that It at
tained that perfection which has since
distinguished it. With the decline of
the Roman empire it became n lost
art, but was revived in the Renais
sance and became more prominent
than over.
Up to that time the art had been
one of engraving on precious stones,
but the artists of the later period not
only discovered that it was possible to
put pictures and portraits in shell, but
they carried it to such perfection that
shells are now universally employed
for the finest work.
The shells used are the large conch
shells found In the Bahama islands.
Only one or two pieces of shell suit
able for cameos can be cut from one
couch. The pieces are ground to an
oval surface and then are examined
for flaws and bad coloring. If the least
flaw is discovered or a color which
would destroy the value of the cameo,
the piece is rejected. If the surface
shows pure white, the cameo cutter
sketches an outline of his portrait or
figure on the surface and then exam
ines the thickness of the white part.
He removes the superfluous parts of
the white surface outside of his out
line, and then gradually works out his
design, taking care to work uniformly
so he can compare his figure with the
photograph from which lie works. The
work is so trying on the eyes that the
most powerful magnifying glasses
must be used, and even then the cut
ler can work, only ten or fifteen min
utes at a time. After those short in
tervals of application he has to rest
his eyes for an hour before taking up
the work again. Considering the slow
ness of the process and the long time
required for the artist to become com
petent for his work, it is easy to un
derstand why genuine cameos are ex
pensive. Many fraudulent cameos are
made in Europe and sold in this coun
try as genuine. Most of them are
made of opaque glass, which is ce
mented to a background of onyx or
other stone. Ivory is sometimes used
in the making of spurious cameos,
but it soon becomes yellow,—Chicago
Times-HeraldL
A Gloomy Tragedy.
It is a dark night. It is also a dark
kitchen. The kind-hearted man in his
stocking fc-et is after a drink of wa
ter for his fretful youngest. He
thinks he can find his way iu the inky
darkness. He is mistaken. He turns
to the left instead of to the right and
falls down cellar.
Another good man gone wrong!—
Cleveland l’lain Dealer.
Our Nation’s Wealth.
Gold and .‘direr are poured abundantly
into the lap of tho nation, but our material
wealth and strength is rather in iron, the
most useful of ud metals, just as the wealth
of a human being lies in a useful stomach.
If you have overworked yours until it Is
disabled,try Ilostetter’s Stomach Bitters. It
will relieve the clogged bowels. Improve the
appetite and cure constipation, dyspepsia,
biliousness, liver and kidney disease.
Full Blown.
lie called her mouth a rosebud then.
But, - h. ltmaUes him wince
To think the>’ro married now, and lt'B
Been blowing ever since.
To Cure a Cold In One lav.
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The l’lot That Falle I.
•‘Arabella doesn't look at all happy.”
“No; she married a man younger than herself
under h • Impression that he wouja be more
manageable than an older one.
A Colonel in the British South African
army says that Adams’ Tutti Frutti was a
blessing to his men while marching.
A Youthful Observer.
Mamma—Don't lounge that way, Tommy.
I Sit up 11 .e n little man.
Tommy WUr. mamma, m< n felt down; It's
only dogs and things that sit up.
A Noble Porter.
A correspondent writes: “A g.rl
belonging to a Sussex village was en
tering the service of a lady living at
Arundel. Arriving at the railway
station, she engaged an outside por
ter to carry her box, and having gone
a short distance she mention, u she
could not give him more than three
pence, as the box was quite small.
Thereupon, after the manner of so
many of his kind, he set it down in
the road and walked off.
“A homely-looking man. wearing a
coat greeu with age, chanced to over
take her. In spite of old clothes, he
looked very respectable, she thought,
and thinking he might he glad of a
few pence, she offered him the Job.
He picked up tue little box and walk
ed with her, but on reaching the des
tination. he set it down on the door
step. and hurried away without
waiting to be paid. She mentioned
the fact to her mistress, and from her
description of the man, the lady s
amused suspicions were aroused; but
she said nothing until a few days later,
when the Duke of Norfolk happened
to pass the house.
“That’s the man that carried my
box,” the girl said promptly, about to
rush out forthwith and pay brim, for
the duke was wearing the identical
green garment. Her confusion may
be Imagined on hearing that the
erstwhile porter was the first peer of
England.”—M. A. P.
Court Stopped tho Discussion.
At Hoisington, Kan., iu the middle
of a six days’ debate over whether
Saturday or Sunday is the Lord's Day,
the Rev. E. T. Stewart was taken be
fore the probate court and adjudged
insane. The local papers fail to state
the manner in which the other party
to the debate made his escape.—Kan
sas City tMo.) Journal.
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“In't this a lovelv pi “an picture?"
“I s’.ouhl sty* not! Look at that puritan
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(..•legs "liat mnk*feyou think 8‘ ?
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“What Is this social struggle we hear so much
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“It is partly getting In yourself and partly
keeping other people < ut.”
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“Well, r.ow we can settle down and think
about * hrlstmas."
“Settle down? Got stirred up. you moan.”
Uncle Sam’s Soldiers
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dinner. Ihe L T S. Government has Just pur
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