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HARRY’S CABINET.
BY MARJORIE BURNS.
•’What in the world does all this
mean? Aro you a summer Santa
Claus, Harry?”
Mae Thorndyke’s dark eyes added
their laughing inquiry to this ques¬
tion as she glanced from the thick
packages, thin packages, and pack¬
ages of every size, shape and color
that strewed the grass at her feet to
the handsome boy, who had just tum¬
bled them from his bulging pockets.
Mae was the prettiest teacher that
ever queened it in a country school
house, and she was idling away one
ef the last sweet afternoons of sum¬
mer vacation in the apple orchard
when Harry Freare, her fellow-hoard¬
er at the brown farm-house on top of
the breezy hill sought her with his
bulging pockets.
“My exchanges,” he explained, sur¬
veying the packages at Mae’s feet
with an air of proud possession.
“You know my offer of exchange
came out in Golden Days a little
while ago—‘Petrified wood from the
Indian Territory for miscellaneous
curiosities.’ A star-fish, a sea-urchin,
a piece of the Atlantic cable,” he
continued, keeping up a running com¬
mentary as he unwrapped each pack
~age. “And here’s fun!” he ex¬
claimed, as he finished reading a let¬
ter. “A Boston boy wants me to get
him a tomahawk from some of the
neighboring tribes of Indians, and to
tell him about some of the buffalo
hunts I’vo had. The idea of buffaloes
and Indians in Southeastern Kansas!
I haven’t done with that boy yet,”
he concluded, mysteriously, as he
■went away to arrange his curiosities
in the empty cabinet, which was a
late birthday present, and the motive
of his sudden craze for curiosities.
Left alone, Mao took up the zephyr
that was dancing into pink foam un¬
der her swift fingers, and tried to
fix her attention on the volume of
Rossetti; but tears came thronging
to her eyes, and at last she gave up
all attempts at self-control, and bow¬
ing her golden head on her folded
arms, sobbed unrestrainedly.
A single word is sometimes the
key, that unlocks a whole world of
recollections, and "Boston” had been
that word for Mae.
The past came surging back upon
her—the golden past of two years
ago, when she was one of the hap¬
piest girls in Boston, with a brother
in whom she, at least,- could see no
fault, and a lover whom all the world
agreed in calling as manly and honor¬
able a fellow as ever lived.
Then the crash came. John Thorn
dyke had speculated with his em¬
ployer’s money, lost it, and on the
eve of exposure had cut the dark
knot of impending fate and his own
thread of life at one stroke.
It was only one more item in the
lengthening list of crime and suicide,
but it changed the face of the world
for Mae.
She slipped away, severing all con¬
nection with her old life; and for
two years had been teaching a little
prairie-school, near which an old
nurse of hers lived, at whose home
she boarded.
“Dear old Phil, with his heart of
gold, I am so glad be was traveling
in Egypt when I went away, for I
know he wouldn’t have given me up
if wild horses had been tearing me
away from him; but I love him too
much to stain his name with my
brother’s disgrace, and he shall never
know where I am hiding,” she said
to herself, with loving resolution, as
the storm of sobs abated.
“Is that boy gettin’ crazy, I won¬
der?” said Mrs. Dean, taking an ap¬
petizing peach-tart out of the oven
one Saturday morning, and looking
from the open window at Harry
Freare, who lay on the grass-plot
reading a letter, and bubbling over
with suppressed merriment, “He
never seemed overly fond of writin’
till about a month ago, and now he's
always scribblin’ and chucklin’ away
to himself, and mumbiin’ a string o’
stuff about Injuns and buffalers, and
yaller-haired gals. I)t> you think his
brain can be a little mite teched?”
she inquired, anxiously, of Mae, who
was whisking a dozen eggs into the
airiest yellow froth.
“Perhaps he has been writing a
story, and has just received a letter
of acceptance from the publisher,”
laughed Mae, as a wild, exultant yell
rang out, and Harry rolled on the
grass in a paroxysm of mysterious
delight.
“See here, now, sir, you’ve just got
to tell us all about this! Air you
crazy, or hev you got a fit, or hev
you been writin’ a story?” demanded
Mrs. Dean, swooping upon Harry,
and tugging him into the kitchen.
“It’s the greatest fun I ever had,
and I’d have told you and Miss Mae
all about it, only I was afraid you’d
want me to stop. You remember the
Boston boy who wanted me to get
him a tomahawk?” queried the mirth¬
ful culprit at the bar of justice, as
he faced Mae. “Well,” he continued,
as she nodded, “I’ve been writing
him the greatest string of Btuff you
ever heard about the Indians and
buffaloes, and of course I had to have
a pretty girl in my yarn, so I took
you, aud wrote him a lot of stuff
about your riding over the prairie,
with your hair flying loose, and jump¬
ing six-foot fences, and said that the
Indians called you Sunshine-of-the
Plain. Well, the Boston fellow takes
it all in; but the funniest of all the
thing that I was roaring so over, out
on the grass, is that a boarder of his
mother’s takes it in, too. Jim—that’s
the Boston fellow—has been telling
him about my letters, and gave him
the pne to read where I wrote ail
about you. Well, the upshot of it was
tho hoarder made up his mind to go
West in a hurry, and Jim thinks he’s
fallen in love with you, and Is com¬
ing out to propose. Maybe that’s
him now,” Harry suggested mis¬
chievously, as a determined knock
sounded on the half-opened door.
So the exclamations, reproofs and
laughter that Harry's story had
called forth were hushed, and the
stranger bade to enter.
He appeared to be a fine-looking
man, so far as his features were dis¬
cernible through the cataract of red
whiskers that overflowed his face,
whilq a pair of enormous green spec¬
tacles concealed his eyes.
He wore a huge Panama hat, lined
with green, and carried a small wood¬
en box and a geological hammer.
"If you lend me—aha! vat you call
him—a tin-cup, if you please, goot
lady get me some vater from your
veil,” he said, bowing elaborately to
Mrs. Dean.
“Water? No, indeed—you shall
have milk!” said Mrs. Dean, her hos¬
pitable soul in arms, as she waved
the stranger to a chair.
And she brought him a brimming
goblet of milk and a fragrant slice
of gingerbread.
“You vas so goot and your home
vas so lofely, all covered up mit
roses! It must be so shveet in the
mornings to hear the leetle birds
sing!” he murmured, gratefully, sip¬
ping his miilt and staring senti¬
mentally at the late-climbing roses
that thrust their pink faces in at the
window.'
“Law, what a nice man!” said Mrs.
Dean, in an appreciative aside. “Now,
my Joshua don’t know a rose from a
cabbage, and don’t care a mite more
for a bird than he does for a June
bug.”
The stranger was evidently encour¬
aged by this admiration, and held
out a cai’d, bearing the name, “Herr
von Schneitzenberg.”
“If ,1 could lodge at your lofely
home!” he pleaded. “I have—vat you
call him?—references, and I vould be
out all the day, looking for fosseels
in your coal-mines.”
“Oh, let him come!" begged Harry.
“As he’s a geologist, he could help
me label my specimens.”
“What do you think about it, Mae?
He might have the north room,” sug¬
gested Mrs. Dean, who had taken a
great fancy to Herr von Schneitzen¬
berg, and, besides—transplanted Yan¬
kee matron that she was—she was al¬
ways ready to turn an honest penny.
So the bargain was sealed, with
the stipulation that Mrs. Dean should
be allowed to call her boarder Mr.
Smith. “For if I called you that
name every time I spoke to you I
shouldn’t have any time left to do the
work,” she said.
Toward sunset Mae was sitting on
the front porch making some prepar¬
ation for the next week's lessons, for
it was September, and her school had
begun again, when Herr von Schneitz¬
enberg came out and took a seat near
her.
"This is as it should be—lofe,
poetry and lofeliness,” he said, beam¬
ing sunnily through his green glasses
from the little book of poetical ex¬
tracts which Mae held to the sweet
face bending above it.
“No; love and I have nothing to do
with each other. I am merely pre¬
paring a parsing lesson for my schol¬
ars,” returned Mae. coldly, as she
moved her chair a trifle farther from
this sentimental Teuton.
“But you surely haf lofed? Vas he
tead, or a schamp?” he demanded,
fixing his goggles upon her face, with
quiet insistence.
“Philip Earle a scamp? Never!”
said Mae, rising abruptly, with in¬
dignant crimson flushing her cheeks.
“Stop! I only wanted to know
whether you loved him still,” said a
mellow voice, from which the foreign
accent and guttural tone had strange¬
ly disappeared.
Mae turned, flushing and paling—
fear, hope, delight, each struggling
for mastery in her wide, dark eyes.
In a second the green goggles fell
to the ground, the red wig and whisk¬
ers following suit, and the transfor¬
mation of Herr von Schneitzenberg
into Philip Earle was complete.
“Oh, you ci-uel little thing!” he
said, folding Mae in his strong arms.
“When I came home from Egypt,
alarmed at hearing nothing from you
after that terrible report in the news¬
papers, and found that you had dis¬
appeared as completely as the bride
in ‘The Mistletoe Bough,’ I followed
up rumor after rumor, only to find
them delusive, until at last your
young friend's letters to Jimmie
Brown gave me the correct clew. I
assumed a disguise, fearing that you
might have learned to love some one
else, and thinking if that was the
case I could go quietly away without
disclosing my identity; but your
pretty burst of indignation a moment
ago showed me that my Mae was still
my own.”
“But I forgot,” said Mae, struggling
away from his encircling arm; “1
cannot marry you and disgrace you.”
“Don’t talk of disgrace and your¬
self in the same breath, Mae! I tell
you that you shall marry me! So you
might as well accept the situation
with the best grace possible.”
Somehow Mae’s resolution melted
away just then, and she accepted the
Htuation with so good a grace that
when Mrs. Dean came to the door
her golden head was resting on
Philip’s shoulder, and the two were
cooing lovers' sweet nothings to each
other—surely the happiest pair un¬
der the pink sunset that night.
“Well, If I ever heard of the like,
Mae! I wouldn’t have believed It of
you and Mr. Smith, if I didn’t see It
with my own eyes!" gasped Mrs.
Dean, sinking to the Btep and fanning
herself with a highly-scandalized air.
Mae laughed, and explained the sit¬
uation.
“Well, I thought if Philip Earle had
the spunk of a man, he’d find you out,
by hook or by crook,” beamed Mrs.
Dean, much relieved, "But 1 can’t
help feelin’ sort o’ sorry that that
sweet Mr. Smith has gone,” she
mourned, with a rueful glance at tho
discarded goggles and red hair, the
sole remnants of the courteous Teu¬
ton who had completely won her Soft
heart.
But she was partly consoled for the
non-existence of “that sweet Mr.
Smith” by the present of a red-plush
parlot-set that she had long coveted,
and Harry Freare and Jimmie Brown
also rejoiced in many new posses¬
sions dear to boyish hearts.
No need to ask If Mae was happy,
as she and Philip steamed across the
prairie lit by the cloth-of-gold of
acres of wild sunflowers. The dark
gulf of disgrace and loneliness was
annulled, and past, present and fu¬
ture seemed all one rose-lit unity.—
Saturday Night.
QUAINT AND CUR10U&
The greatest elevation ever attained
by balloonists was 37,000 feet, about
seven miles. The ascent was made
by James Giaischer, F. R. S., and a
Mr. Coxwell, at Wolverhampton, Eng¬
land, September 5, 1802.
Nearly all tho snakes in Samoa are
harmless. It is customary for the
native girls, when about to attend
dances, to adorn their necks and
arms by winding live reptiles around
them.
Beds are comparatively scarce in
Russia, and many well-to-do houses
are still unprovided with them. Peas¬
ants sleep on the tops of their
oVens ; middle class people and ser¬
vants roll themselves up in sheepskins
and lie down near stoves ; soldiers
rest upon wooden cots without bed¬
ding, and it is only within the last few
years that students in schools have
been allowed beds.
The ashes of Dante, inclosed in an
iron urn, are about to be transported,
with great ceremony, to the library pa¬
lace of Florence. The urn was long
ago stolen from a church in Ravenna,
and secreted in the outer wall of a
chapel. It seemg that a sculptor named
Pazzi has for years possessed this ex¬
traordinary treasure, and has recently
handed it over to Florence, where
Dante was born, and whence he was
exiled.
One of the most extraordinary
civic customs that still survive is that
of “ weighing-in ” the corporation of
High Wycombe, England. After the
election of the mayor is concluded,
that functionary, the aldermen and the
councillors proceed to the borough
office oti weights and measures, where
.they are weighed and their correct
weights duly entered in a book. The
policemen on duty are also included,
and last year provided the heaviest
man in the person of the senior ser¬
geant, who scaled 18 stone, the
light weight of the corporation being
the town clerk, whose avoirdupois was
barely nine stone.
A notable instance of liberality in
high quarters is that of the English
Earl of Dysart. who, being himself a
musical enthusiast, and a good land¬
lord, recently made a visit to all the
tenants on his estate, and arranged to
present a piano to every family where
he found any of the children showed
an aptitude for music, Another sin
gular case of thoughtfulness for the
poor comes from Paris. There are
few Paris windows where plants grow¬
ing in pots are not seen. A rich phi¬
lanthropist has had the queer idea of
opening a free hospital for sick plants
in the Faubourg St. Antoine. There
are big greenhouses, with plenty of
gardeners whq look after the plants
that are brought in till they recover,
and then return them to their owners,
A Gong- Whacking Competition.
A strange ceremony, indicative of
the hold which the old superstitions
still have on the Japanese people and
of the queer manner in which their
different religions mix, took place re¬
cently in the town of Wakamatsu on
the thirty-third anniversary of the
battles of Aizu, where the star of the
last of the shoguns was forever
quenched in blood. The ceremony was
in commemoration of the Japanese
who fell on the wrong side of those
fatal .fields and was attended by a
crowd of Shinto priests, near whom sat
another crowd of Buddhist bonzes, in
the full glory of purple silken cloaks.
A big post in the center bore an in¬
scription inviting the souls of the de¬
parted to the feast, and at a signal
given both sections burst simultan¬
eously in to prayer and chantings to
which they kept tune with their gongs
and bells, As Japanese music is a
terror, and as each sect tried to outdo
the other in creating noise, the scene
was not one of pastoral calm and the
spirits did not, so far as any unpreju¬
diced observer could judge, come back.
—Correspondence Chicago Record.
A Ml tl Encouragement,
“ Do you think that there is as much
chance now to make a good living out
of literature ?” asked the youth.
“ More chance than before,’’answered
the man with glasses; “especially if
you know how to set type and correct
proofs.”—Washington Star.'
GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Brief Summary of Interesting
Happenings Culled at Random.
Now “Tourlut” Train.
The important announcement has
been made that, beginning Jauuary
15tb, the Southern railway, in con¬
junction with the Big Four, Monon
and Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
and Pennsylvania lines, will operate
via Atlanta daily through trains be¬
tween Chicago and St. Augustine. The
new train will be known as the “Chi
cago-St. Augustine Special,” and will
be in point of equipment and other
respects the finest passenger train op¬
erated in this territory.”
Georgia Reports Issued.
The one hundred and eleventh vol¬
ume of the Georgia Reports made its
appearance a day or two ago, following
iu qlose succession the one hundred
aud tenth volume, which was issued in
the early part of December, both vol¬
umes having been put in type simul¬
taneously. eleventh vol¬
The one hundred and
ume contains the last of the decisions
rendered at the last term of the su¬
preme court.
The one hundred and twelfth volume
is now being set up, and most of tho
decisions of the present term are al¬
ready in type.
Prof. Glenn Honored.
Prof. G. R. Glenn has been elected
president of the Southern Educational
Association, which was in session at
Richmond, Va., for two days the past
te^
The other new officers are; Vice
president, Chancellor R. B. Fulton, of
Mississippi: secretary, Hon. P. H.
Claxton, of Greensboro, N. C.; treas
urer, Hon. F. L. Stuart, of Knoxville,
Resolutions appealing to the people
of the south to make greater efforts for
educational advantages were adopted
and at 12:35 o’clock tho convention
adjourned sine die.
JSJocationJgtB In Convention.
Elocutionists from all parts of the
south gathered in Atlanta the past
week to attend the first annual conven¬
tion of the Southern Association of
Elocutionists, which convened in the
Universalist church. The association
was organized little lc3s than a year
ago, and now includes in its member¬
ship practically all of the professional
elocutionists in the south.
Atlanta’s Police Docket.
During the past year the police of
Atlanta made over 14,000 city cases
and nearly 1,600 state cases. Last
year the total number of city cases
was about 13,000.
Of this enormous number of arrests
fully 75 per cent were for disorder,
and 90 per cent were due either di
rectiy or indirectly to whisky.
Of the 14,000 city cases at least
10,000 were against" negroes, and as
many more negroes again were impli
eated in some way with the cases
which were under trial, the total num
ber of negroes in Atlanta who have
appeared before the recorder for drunk
euness and rows is somewhere in the
neighborhood of 20,000, or about two
thirus of the entire negro population.
The amount of money paid in cash
for police court fines will reach this
year*to nearly $40,000, or over double
what it was two years ago; and to this
must be added the thousands of cases
in which the fines were worked out on
the streets.
New Bricljfo Accepted.
The new Roswell bridge connecting
Fulton and Cobb counties, Las been
formally accepted by representatives
of the two counties.
Judge E. B. Rosser, chairman of
the board of county commissioners, ac¬
cepted the structure on behalf of Ful¬
ton county, while Judge J..H. Stone,
present ordinary of Cobb county, did
likewise for his county.
The final payments were made by
the two counties for the work of build
ing the bridge. The structure cost in
all $6,180, of which amount Fulton
county paid five-eighths and Cobb
county three-eights. Fulton’s share
of the expenses was $3,862.50, and
that of Cobb county, $2,317.50.
It was also agreed that in future
both the Johnson and the Powers fer
ries would , . , be operated jointly , by the ,,
two counties without charge to the
public. Heretofore these ferries have
been tnll toll Wioo ferries. Each Ford, county is f fo r ,
bear its pro rata share of the expense
of operating the ferries^
State University’s Greeting.
The University of Georgia has sent
to its friends a neat Now Year’s greet¬
ing, in which it is announced that the
institution will celebrate its hundredth
birthday June 12 to 19, 1901. The
university was founded in 1801, and
at the centennial commencement next
June will celebrate with all due cere
modies the fact that it has lived one
hundred years.
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Col. Burk En Iloute Home.
Republican circles iu and about
Georgia have been thrown into a state
of nervous excitement by the informa¬
tion contained in a cablegram to
Colonel O. C. Fuller from Colonel A.
E. Buck, minister to Japan, stating
that the latter is en route homo. The
cablegram merely contained the meagre
information that the minister sailed
December 28 for America and expects
to reach his native haunts about one
mouth hence,
Colonel Buck, who has now been
absent from the United States several
years, was, previous fo his appoint¬
ment to the foreign office, the leader
in Republican circles in this part of
the country. Ho was chairman of
the state 'central committee, which
office gave him great power and which
power he exerted to advantage. On
Mr. McKinley’s eleotion to the presi¬
dency, he was appointed to the foreign
office, hot it is stated that ho was
called into consultation before his de¬
parture for Japan by the president,
who followed his advice in the distri¬
bution of slices of the big pie in Geor¬
gia.
While the impression prevails in
other political circles that Mr. Buck
has been called home by tho president
for another consultation, local Repub¬
licans profess to know nothing of this
whatever, though no denial of the
probable correctuess of the surmise is
attempted.
The minister’s term of office expires
next May, and it Jb not unlikely that
his return has something to do with
his reappointment as minister to Ja¬
pan. It is hinted that he may ask for
a different plum, but there is no au¬
thority for the statement that he wiil.
Over Fourteen Million* Increase.
The clearings of the Atlanta banks,
members of the Atlanta Clearing House
Association, for the year ending De¬
cember 31st, 1900, show an increase of
over $14,000,000 as compnred with
the clearings of last year. This is the
largest increase shown since the clear¬
ing house association was formed. It
is over $3,000,000 iu excess of the in¬
crease shown last year.
LAST OF LOAN COMPANIES.
Receiver Takes Chare® Of 111® Interstate
minding and L.mn Association
The Interstate Building and Loan
association, the last of the corpora¬
tions of the kind in Atlanta, Ga., was
placed in the hands of a receiver Mon¬
day morning by Judge Don A. 1 ardee,
in the United States circuit court. W.
H. Scott was appointed receiver on
the application of J. William Flynn
and A. R. Heywood, Jr., of Richland
county, South Carolina. Ilynn has
S3,500 in the concern and Heywood
has $500. the
The petitioners allege that
scheme of the Building and Loau as
sociations has practically failed, and
that while the assets indicate solvency,
yet there is no reasonable hope that
the stock can be matured during a
reasonable time, and it is best for all
stockholders that the corporation be
wound up and a reorganization take
place, in which the plans may be so
changed that it will bring about the
organization of a new corporation
where present difficulties may be
avoided. The assets are to be collect¬
ed and distributed among the stock¬
holders pro rata.
SAMFORD AFTER LYNCHERS.
Alabama’s Chief Executive Urge* Judge
to Call Special Term of Court.
Governor Samford, of Alabama, in
a letter to Judge Johu Moore, of the
Fourth judicial circuit, speaks out in
very plain language what he thinks of
the two disgraceful and unwarranted
killings recently enacted in Henry
and Perry counties, and urging the
judge tc use all means in his power to
bring the perpetrators to justice,
The cases to which the governor re¬
fers occurred in Perry and Henry,
I The one iu Perry was lynched for
alleged burning of a barn of a farmer.
The one in Henry was even worse,
where the negro was tried by a magis¬
trate on the charge of stealing a bunch
of keys, and was acquitted, but was
taken by a crowd of drunken Christ¬
mas revelers and shot to death.
VON WALDERSEE KILLED?
Reported In Paris Tl»»t Count Has Been
Murdered fn China.
Le Journal (Paris) reports, under
reserve, the death of Count Von
Waldersee, the rumor being that he
was killed liv an officer of the allied
troops, the circumstances not being
related.
It is said that the rumor is current
in Berlin, where it is not confirmed.
ATN LATA MA R K ET.S.
„ „ ,
Groceries,
ji 0 n*ted coffee, Dutch Java $17-60. Gold
Star, $16.60. Arbuckle $12 80. Lion $11.30
su?a^ta II ! dgrS.ulfted. <’my en e .°““ e Ymf o>
j r New 5%c;
I n ua r
New Orleans granulated 6%c. 25rm40c; Syrup,
New Orleans open kettle
“xed choiee 20 ® 23c South Geor
gia cane #i.30@# syrup, 1.40;do 3b<®38 obis,bulk cents, $2.60: salt, aery 100s
sacks
#3.00; ice cream #1.25; common (0®70.
Cheese, full cream 13 ®1 3^ cents.
Matches, 66s 45%@56c: 200s #1.50@1.75: 300s
?5 Soda> tlOX „, Be. Crackers, soda G1C“
cream 7)4c; gingersnans &){<•.. Canny,
common stick 614«; fancy i0n)i4c. Oysters,
f. W. #2.10@#2.00; L. \\. #1.20.
Flour, Grain ami Meal.
Flour,all wheat, first patent, £4.75; second
patent. #4.25; straight, #3.90; extra fancy
#3.70; fancy, 13.E0; extra family, #3.20.
Corn, white, f,8c: mixed, 57c. Oats, white
40c; mixed 86c: Texas rustproof 40c. Ityo,
Ga., #1;Western 10c. Huy, N'o. 1 timothy,
large bales, #1.00: No. 1 small bales, 95c;
No. 2, 90c. Meal, plain, 57.- . bolted moal 52c.
Bran, small sacks #1.00. Shorts #1.10.
Stock meal, #1.10 per one hundred
pounds. Cotton seed meal $1.15 per 100
pounds; hulls #7.00 per ton. Grits #3.00
per bbl; #1.50 per bag.
Country Produce.
Eggs dull, 23<S24*’.. Liu tow, dull sale.
Fsney Jersey, 17)4@20:: choir*' 13®14. Live
poultry, receipts light; hens 20@22)4c; fries
12ffll2)4; Ducks, puddle. 20 ® 22)4<J; Pek¬
ing 25®30c. Dressed poultry, hens per
pound ~S®10c; fries 12:® 18c; broilers 18®
14c; ducks 12)4 ® 13c: cocks 7c. Turkeys
10@12o. Game—Rabbits, each, 9@10:
squirrels 7©8o; birds fO@12J4c; o’possum
35(6 40. Irish potatoes, northern stock,
90 @ 95c per bushel. Honey, strained
B(ffi7; in comb 8 ® 10*. Ouio ns, $1.10
ffl #1,20 per bushel. Cabbage, green,
fair sale, l)4@l;!4c. Dried fruit, apples
.8(23)4; peaches 7®8c. prunes 6®7; Cal¬
ifornia peeled peaohes 14® 15.
Provision*.
Clear side ribs, boxed 714*1; half ribs
7J4c: rib bellies 8V<®9; n<—cured bel¬
lies 1054®. Sugar-enreu nains 13. Lard
leaf 8>4@8, best 8)4.
Cotton.
Market closed steady; middling 9,Vo.
PRESIDENT RECEIVES
New Year’s Reception at White
House Gorgeous Affair.
SCENE WAS A BRILLIANT ONE
Distinguished Throng Extends
Greeting to the Chief Exec¬
utive of Our Republic.
In tho long line of New Year’s re.
ceptions at the white house, which
each year inaugurate the social season
at the national capital, nono, perhaps,
was more brilliant than the one which
Tuesday ushered in the twentieth cen¬
tury.
The day bad dawned dull and gray,
•ot the air was soft and balmy. To¬
ward 11 o’clock, ^vhen the reception
opened, the sun burst through mist
and cloud, brightened tho walls aud
pillars of the historic old mansion un¬
til it shone like alabaster aud touched
the stripes of the glorious American
flag that floated over it into streaks of
flame.
Promptly at 11 o’clock the bugles
sonnded the approach of the presiden¬
tial party and led by Colonel Bing¬
ham, the master of ceremonies, and
Major McCauley, of the marine corps,
the president and Mrs. McKinley de¬
scended the main staircase followed
by the members of the cabinet and
their wives. As the party passed along
to the receiving room the president
bowed repeatedly to the crowds as¬
sembled in the corridors, greeting
many of them with well wishes of the
day.
When three sweet-faced children
near the front chirped a ‘‘Happy New
Year” to the first lady of the land she
took a handful of buds from her ex¬
quisite bouquet of white roses and
leased them to the children. The
party passed into the blue parlor and
took their places, while the marine
baud played “Hail to the Chief.”
After the receiving party bad taken
their places the long line of guests be¬
gan to move. First in line came the
ambassadors and ministers from for¬
eign courts accompanied by their full
staffs. At the head was Lord Panuce
fote, British ambassador aud dean of
the diplomatic corps. With him were
Lady Pauneefote and the Honorable
Miss Pauneefote and the ambassado¬
rial staff. Following them came Baron
Fava, the Ialian ambassador; Dr. von
Holleben, the German ambassador; M.
Cambon, the French ambassador;
Count Cassini, the Russian ambassa¬
dor, and Senor Don Azpirez, the Mex¬
ican ambassador, each accompanied by
his staff and ladies. The Chinese min¬
ister, accompanied by Madame Wb,
attracted much attention.
After the ambassadors and minis¬
ters came the chief justice and asso¬
ciate justices of the United States su¬
premo court, the judges of the court
of appeals, senators and representa¬
tives in congress, former cabinet offi¬
cers and ministers of the United
States.
From the state dining room the
guests passed into the red parlor,
where the rich red furnishings, tap¬
estries aud walls were set off with a
wealth of foliage and flowers. The
blue room was the center of attention,
for here the presidential party re¬
ceived, surrounded by the members
of the cabinet and their ladies and
those invited to assist in receiving.
From the blue room the line passed
through the green room aud then irfto
the spacious east room.
At 11:40 o'clock the officers of the
army, navy and marine corps, brave
iu gold lace, appeared in the order
Darned. This contingent was headed
by Lieutenant General Miles and Ad¬
jutant General Corbin, each in the
uniform of his rank. The naval sec¬
tion was headed by Admiral Dewey
and his staff and the marine corps by
Brigadier General Heywood.
At noon the regents of the Smith¬
sonian institution and other publiir
officials were received and at 12:30
o’clock the general public was admit¬
ted.
About 5,000 people had been receiv¬
ed up to 1:30 o’clock, tho hour set for
closmg the reception, but the crowd
still stretched, four abreast, beyond
the outer gates and the president
directed that the reception proceed
that all might come in.
ENGLAND READY FOR “BOBS.”
Reception to Lord Roberts Will Be Must
Elaborate and Grand Affair.
A London special says; At the en,T
of the year, ag at the beginning, a
single figure catches the English eye
and fills the stage. Lord Roberts was
then going out to South Africa, carry¬
ing with him the hope# and prayers
for deliverance of the empire from the
gravest danger since Yorktown, and
he is now returning to a grateful coun¬
try, which can never do enough for
him. The arrangements for the re¬
ception of the commander-in-chief
have been completed by the court and
the war office, and it will be a stately
fl.ff.iii.
OPERATED BLIND TIGER.
South Caroline! Maid Goes to Prison For
Four Mouths.
Miss Mary Odom, a girl about twen¬
ty years of age, Whose father is pro¬
prietor of a boarding bouse in Ben
nettsville, S. C., has been convicted
of being a “blind tiger” and sentenced
to four months in prison. The gov¬
ernor has refused a pardon. The girl
sold liquor in defiance of the dispen¬
sary law.