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attempted to burn a mill EFFORT OK .% WOILD-BK IMKNDI ARY FRISTRATED. I'. J. MrDooald'n Sammill Is Two Miles From Liberty City, the Scene of the Recent ltnce Troubles—lt Was Set on Fire, but the Flames Were Extinguished Citizens of Liberty City Will Tolice the Town I'ntil Ilanner Has Passed. Liberty City, Ga., Aug. 19.—A determin ed effort was made to burn the saw mill of C. J. McDonald, about two miles west of here, this morning, at 1 o’clock, but the Are was, fortunately, discovered in time and was put out. The watchman mw the would-be incendiary running away. The effort to bum the mill was the un dertaking of a dare-devil, as four men •were there on duty at the time. As soon as the fire was stopped a search was made for the man who started rft, but he has not yet been discovered. Citizens will t continue to police the town for some time until the danger is passed. V Allen Colley, one of the negroes plared jp jail in Htnesvllle, suspected of being connected with the murder of Curtis, was lifceharged from custody this morning by slleriff Brewer, as the evidence was not i ulHcient to hold him. Sheriff Brewer i,loing ail he can to apprehend the mur < Jers, and will ask the Governor to of- I j a reward for their arrest, to-mor 11>. as it is now reasonably certain that t ley have left the country. The reports printed in the. Morning News have met with almost universal commendation, while the reports In ail other newspapers reaching here have been denounced as unfair and unjust. I I . ■ ■ 1 CUBANS LEFT WASHINGTON. Forty Will Board Transporti for Home In New York. Washington, Aug:. 19.--With cheers for Cuba, the United States, President Mc- Kinley and last, if not least, their hosts, the people of the District of Columbia, The 1,400 Cuban school teachers left the city at 1 o’clock this afternoon, over the Pennsylvania Railfoad for New York. After the greater portion of the week spent there and in Philadelphia, the en tire party will embark on transports for Havana. To-day the visitors* programme was a short one. After an early breakfast, most of them attended a solemn requiem mass at St. Patrick’s Church. After church they returned to the hotels, whore they were grouped in squads and taken to the Capitol, arriving there about *0 o’clock. The building was thrown open to tliT visitors, and a detachment of guards was on hand to escort them. After viewing the Capitol, they boarded three special trains for New York. The Chiba ns affectionately greeted Gen. < "lsnerofl, the former president of Cuba, who is Ui the city. Many of them threw their arms around the old veteran’s neck and covered his gray-*bearded face wi h kisses. The mention of his name was a signal for a vociferous demonstration, ending in cheers for the “future president of Cuba.” The whole party are delighted with their experiences in ail the American cities they have visited and with their recep tion by the President yesterday. WILL BE ENTERTAINED. New York lln Prepared for the Visit of the Cuban*. New York, Aug\ 19.—Jhe Cuban who. after spending some time in an;l about Boston, passed through this city Friday on their way to Washington, reached Jersey City this evening on the return trip. Ferry l*oa's were in waiting, and the teachers went on board them and started down the river for the transports on which they came from Boston. The teachers will r* main in the trans por s over night and in the morning come up to this city, where elaborate arrange ments have been made to entertain them. KILLED BY A LIVE WIRE. Colored Fireman Nlet Hl* Death While Flighting- Flames. Columbia, S. C., Aug. 19.—Henry Johni ken. a colored member of the Aetna Fire Company of Newberry, while working with bis oojnpany at a fire, early this morning, was killed by a live wire, which fell In the streets. Comrades who at tempted his rescue were severely shocked. Apropos of the proposed “scratching" of Senator Tillman in the coming pri mary State Chairman Wilie Jone<? an nounces that such scratching will not invalidate the ballot. It has been sup posed by many that it would, and Col. Jones was asked for a ruling. Senator Tillman says if he does not receive a majority of the votes cast he will not serve. PROM HYDROPHOBIA. Mother anil Son Died Prom the Rile, of n Playful Puppy. New York. Aug. 19.—Mrs. James Strath rle of Atlantic Highlands, N. J., 1* dead after suffering for a week from well de fined symptoms of hydrophobia. A month ago Mrs. Strathrle’s sou died of the same disease. <* Both mother and child were bitten by a playful puppy. It was not unlil the son's death that the dog was killed and found to have been diseased. The mother was token 111 a week ago. and In spite of the best medical treatment she died at noon to-day In awful agony. MAXI SAW THE R ACES. flVlierlmen Interested the Crowd li> Tlielr Good AA'orU. I Providence, R. 1., Aug. 19.—'Two thous and persons witnessed the races at Hill's fir ove track this afternoon. The features [were the work of Cadweli, in the one [mile handicap, from scratch, and the two mlle tandem, which was won by Cod- Well and Turgeon. Nelson easily defeat ed Burns Pierce by nearly three laps In the fifteen-mile, motor-paced race. Nel son's time was 25:19 3-5, lowering the pre vious record of 27:04',i, held by Pierce. CALLED OX BRYAN. Ken. Wearer AYns Among the Nomi nee's Sunday Visitors. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 19.—Gen. James B. Weaver of lowa arrived here to-day on his way to Kansas, where he will make several speeches. He visited Mr. Bryan at the latter's residence this evening, and they discussed the campaign at length. Gen, Weaver expressed himself as much encouraged regarding the outlook. Mr. Rryan attended church In the morning and went driving in the afternoon ROOSEVELT EXPLAINS. The Governor Shown What He Did Not Say at St. Paul. New York, Aug 19 --Gov. Roosevelt, at Oyster Bay. L. 1., to-day gave out for j publication a letter which he had writ ten on Aug. 9 to Gen. John M. Palmer of Springfield, 111 , relative to the St. Paul speech made by ihe Governor, in which he tad been quoted as making derogatory remarks concerning Democrats. The let ter says, in part: “1 notice that in your recent very manly interview sating why you could not sup | port the Populiatic-Democracy and the Kansas City platform and nominees you allude to a statement 1 was supposed to have made, attacking Democrats general ly in my St. Paul speech. "\ou have evidently seen a report which was n °t merely garbled, but falsified. I stand by this speech absolutely, and have nothing to explain in connection with it, but I do wish to point out where its mean- I ing was deliberately inverted. ‘ln my speech I began by saying: ‘We appeal not only to all Republicans, but to all good citizens who are Americans, in fact as well as in name, to help us in re-electing President McKinley. “I ended by saying: ‘Study the Kansas City platform and you cannot help real izing that their policy (that policy of its makers and sponsors) is a policy of infa my, and that their triumph would mean misery so widespread that it is almost unthinkable and a disgrace so lasting that more than a generation would have to pass before it could be wiped out. They stand for lawlessness and disorder, for dishon esty and dishonor, for license and disaster at home and cowardly shrinking from duty abroad. We ask the support of all Americans who have the welfare of the country at heart, no matter what their political affiliations may have been in the past.’ VYou will see here that I most explicit ly draw the line between the men who support and ask for support for the Kan sas City platform and all other citizens, whether Democrats or Republicans. I feel, that ns a matter of fact, the great est possible credit is due to men like you. my dear sir, and to other Gold Dem ocrats. who. four yenrs ago. stood and now stand for national honor. “I hold up the policy advocated In the Kansas City platform as a base and cow ardly policy, to emphasize our right to appeal to the countless thousands of high minded Democrats who abhor baseness and cowardice, and are quick to see and disown them." t IRELAND AT ROUE. The \rclil>f shop Delivered an Ad dress That Took Well. Rome, Aug. 19.—T0-day being the feast of St. Joachim, the Pope’s patron saint, there was a large gathering at the Vati can of cardinals, bishops and presidents of societies. The Pope, who was in ex cellent health and spirits, spoke at some length regarding matters of Catholic in terest, and then with a complimentary in troduction. invited Archbishop Ireland to address the assembly on matters in America end the relations of the outer world to the Holy See. Mgr. Ireland, who was frequently ap plauded during n speech of twenty min utes. spoke glowingly of the fidelity of American Catholics to the Roman church and the Holy See. He described liberty under the American flag and set forth the necessity of the Pope, as the head of Christendom, being free and independ ent of any one civil power, “so as to be in fact, as well as of right, the sover eign teacher and ruler of all nations and peoples, without special dependency on any special nation or people.’’ The address gave visible satisfaction. Mgr. Ireland had a final audience with the Pope on Friday. He will leave Rome this evening. WAS BEATEN TO DEATH. Voting Woman Was Killed in X™ York AVith a Hammer. New York, Aug. 19.—Catherine Scharff. aged 22. was beaten to death in her rooms on the second floor of No. 671 Second ave nue some time between 7 p m. and mid night Saturday, the body not being found until early, this morning. Her brother made the discovery when he came home after midnight. The woman's body lay in a pool of blood, face downward. Nearby on the floor was a bloody hammer, and the rooms had been, ransacked of everything of value. It is the opinion of the police that a thief entered the house and was surprise! in his work by the girl and that he killed her to prevent Identification. CAMPAIGN TEXT BOOK. Ilcpnlillcnns Have Received Sample Copies of It. New York. Aug. 19.—The Republican campaign text-book, issued at the begin ning of each presidential campaign by the Republican National Committee, has been completed, and sample copies have arrived at national headquarters. The topics discussed in the book are na tional prosperity and its effect on the bus iness elements, the manufactures, the far mer and the workingman, the currency question, the subject of trusts, conditions In Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. The latter part of the book is devoted to a defense of the subject of so-called impe. rialism. REBEL KORIES SURRENDERED. Dispatch From Socorro Announces Their Action. Colon, Colombia, Aug. 19, via Galveston. —Gen. Alban, civil governor and military commander of the Department of Panama, telegraphs that he has received a dispatch from Socorro, announcing the absolute surrender of the rebel forces under Vargas Santos, Focion Soto and Uribe at San Vl cente. Gen. Uribe escaped to Barranca. NO ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE, The Report About tlic Shnli of Prrsln Was nn Error. Paris, Aug. 19.—Dispatches from Ostend assert that there Is no foundation for the report published this morning, that an at tempt had been made there on the life of the Shah of Persia. gf \Af men A Mother’ Frfond rightanoleft They want RxJ all other women to have a* ear §Bk and painleti* a time aa thev had. IB As widely as liniment is Cff known, and ar much as it ha* MM been used, ther* in IV' nne tn sav KP 3P9 a bad word for i‘. Thwreisnoth- Kffi Wtl ing but praise to be heurd about HL£g jSj it. It is to bo used externally. Wm HI and it reduces the terrors of motherhood nine-tenths. CRB? <ie* Mother’s Friend at the dru* J J Bto ‘ c * !*1 per bottle. A Kg TUt RUftFlfcLl) EWirUTi'il • . UlanU. (.u 11||| Write our fr** tl!utrt*4 *>"*. b* to r* Km HII H*t>y • Born " jH| THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1000. *2.1,U00 IS HISSING. The Money \Vn Sent From Chicago. Destined for Burlington. Chicago, Aug. 19.—Somewhere between Chicago and Burlington, la., an express package, supposed to contain $25,000, is alleged to have gone astray. The Com mercial National Bank of this city sent the package to the Burlington agent of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail road a few ilays ago on orders given from the Buriington headquarters in this city. The money was sent by the Adams Ex press Company. When the money was expressed from the Chicago bank it was wrapped in the us ual way by which money is transmitted. In due course of time the Burlington agent of the railroad received a similar package, but it contained nothing but brown paper. The wrapper containing the worthless paper was returned to Chi cago and the bank officials are certain it is not the one sent out by them. Representatives of the corporations in terested in the matter spent a busy day to-day investigating the mystery of the missing package and laying plans for toe arrest of the robber, if the money was stolen between Chicago and Burlington. VOYAGE OF THE CANADA. Hard Luck Story of a Trip of Nearly an Entire Year. Sen Francisco. Aug. 19.—News was re ceive to-day from Australia that the ship Canada had made another start on her memorable voyage to Manila. The Canada left Norfolk. Va , with a load of coal for the United States war ships in Manila Bay on Aug 27, 1899. Ap proaching the Leeward Is’ands, bad weather was encountered, which was fol lowed ly ad ad ca'tn. A waterspout, came sailing along and took the mizzenmast out of the ship. Early in .May of this year, the Canada put into Melbourne. Australia, to rtfit. As soon as she docked, the coal was- found to be on fire, and the vessel had to be flood* and. On May 23 the Canada s tiled cn e more. On June 26, she was towed into Freemantle, Australia, partially dit mas - ed and in a generally dilapidated condi tion. DROUGHT IN KANSAS'. Lack of Knin In Playing Havoc With the Corn Crop. Kansas City. Mo.. Aug. 19.—Two-thirds of Kansas. west of the three eastern most tiers of counties is experiencing one of the most severe droughts in the his tory of the state, and 1 the general opinion is that the Kansas corn crop will be the smallest, in proportion to its requirements, for feeding that has been raised in many years. In 1899 it was 225,0(10,000 bushels. Secretary Coburn’s report of conditions on Aug. 4 indicated a yield this year of about 145,000,000 bushels. Since then there have been two weeks of hot, dry weather, which has materially further re duced conditions, and the most liberal es timates of well-informed men on ‘change do not exceed 100,000.000 bushels, while many place the crop at not over 75,000,000 bushels. FOR ST. LOUIS’ FAIR. Plan* Are (unin Afoot for Getting Up t lie St. Louis. Mo., Aug. 19.—Plans for the r sumption of work on the World’s- Fair fund of $5,00,000, which has so often been interrupted, are under daily consideratio i by Chairmen Francis and Tnompson of the two principal committees. Etx-Gov. Francis expects to sail for Paris about Sept. 15, and hopes to have things in su *h shape by that time, that the fund will be practically completed. The traveling men, who have been among the active workers' for the fair, have asked permission to locate their spe cial building first. Communications from United States Consuls at different points indicate the interest that is being mani fested in the Louisiana Purchase Centen nial abroad. ‘•KING OF THE COWBOYS” DEAD. He Wan One of the Mont Famous of the Rough Riders. Washington, Aug. 19.—Sergeant “Buck'' Taylor, known as "King of the Cowboys,” a cavalryman, and one of the beat known of the Rough Riders, wh9 was at the charge up San Juan Hill, and accom panied Gov. Roosevelt when he toured New York during the last gubernatorial campaign, died at Providence Hospital today of consumption, the result of ill ness contracted during the Cuban cam paign. Taylor’s correct name Is said to have been Berry F. Tatum. He was a son of a former merchant of Montgomery, Ala. KILLED DY A CAR. Eleven-\f ar-Old Blanche Skelle Dead mill Others Hurt. St. Louis, Aug. 19.—A Sixth street car ran into a barouche at Broadway and Itasca streets at 9 o’clock to-night, kill ing Blanche Skelle, 11 years old, and injur ing more or less seriously Herman Wilse bach ami George Skelle. Blanche Skelle fell under the car, the wheels of which passed over her neck, sev ering her head from the body. Wllsehach was also struck by the wheel of the ear, and the top of his skuil was crushed. Hts recovery is doubtful. Skelle's injuries are not serious. A CALL FOR SEPT. 10. Pi pnlfste of Colorado Will Meet Then In Denver. Denver Col., Aug. 19.—A call has been issued for the Populist Slate Convention to be held In Denver, Sept. 10, which is the date also set for the Democratic and Silver Republican State Conventions. A strong effort wilYhe made to bring about a fusion of the three parties on nomina tions for state officers, as well us for electors. PRODUCTS OK GERMANY. Figures ' That Show the Extent of the Empire's Hrsnureea. Berlin, Aug. 19.—Germany produced 1,- 580,060 tons of raw* sugar during the twelve months ending July 31, as against 1,520,00 ft tons for the previous twelve months. Germany's exports of war ma terial last year aggregated 8,150,000 marks, as against 3,430,000 in 1898. First Car ot Kiefers. Thomasvllle. Gg., Aug. 19—The first carload of Kiefer pears for this season wus shipped from Thomas county last night by J. H. Anderson. Thomasvllle Is about full of people. It Is difficult to get a dwelling now, and yet the fall demand for houses has not yet set in. The telephone exchange here has over 200 subscribers. Luring the New f able. New York, Aug 19,-Ttie Commercial Cable Company has Issued the following notice: "The cable steamer Anglia, laying the new German cable, reports at noon. Aug. 19. that 875 nautical miles ot cable have been paid out. 1 * , MORRIS WAS A NEW YORKER. He Wan After a Job in a Georgia Town an a Rlacknmlth. B. Morris, the man who jumped to his death from the steamship Kansas City off Cape Romaine last Friday morning, was a New Yorker. He was bound for Savannah or one of the interior iwlnts in Georgia, with the view of securing work at his trade, that of a blacksmith. Hhis information was secured from one of the passengers aboard the Kansas City at the time the leap was taken by Mor ris. The mail had shown his fellow-pas senger a letter from either Savannah or some other Georgia place, stating that ho could get a position by coming for it. This was Morris's mission and the reason for his voyage. SHOT TWO BROTHERS. Till Is Killed J. \V. Prevail and Wounded J. F. Prevatt tn Florida. Orlando Fla., Aug. 19.—Deputy Sheriff VV. L. Taylor of Buda came in this morn ing and reported a tragedy w’hieh oeeur ied in the Geneva district last night. It seems that for several weeks dissen sions have existed in that .community, growing out of the work of the Christian Alliance. This culminated in bitterness between J. W. and J. F. Prevatt, on one side, and W. A. Tillls on the other. All of the parties are white, were neighbors, and were accounted good citizens. Yesterday evening, just before nightfall, the two Prevatts went to Till!*' house and called him out and began an assault upon him. Tillis secured his gun and kill ed J. W. Prevatt and seriously wounded his brother. The deputy sheriff was Pot able to say just how seriously the wound ed man is injured, as at the time he left home the physician had been unable to make a thorough examination of the in juries. The parties have resided at Geneva for years, and have borne good reputations. Tillis has a snug home, and has a wife and four young children. No arrest has been made up to this time. FLORIDA HBP I BLI CANS MET. The CoiigrcMKlnnal Committee Con vened at Tallahnssee. Tallahassee, Fla., Aug. 19.—The Repub lican Congressional Committee for the First Florida District met at the capital yesterday. The chairman. Hon. J. N. Coombs, haviqg. been called to the bed side of his sick son at Colorado Springs, was not present. Hon. John Efigan of Pensacola acted, as chairman and Hon. IT. F. McGourin of Chipley as secretary. Resolutions were adopted strongly pro testing against the declination of Hon. J N. CoOmbe, recently nominated for governor; requesting George B. Patter son of Key West, the nominee for Coti gress from the first district, to indite his letter of acceptance, define his position, and let the party know whether he will take the stump and wage an aggressive campaign; urging Repuolicans to pre pare for an old time campaign, pay their poll taxes; register and vota. The attendance was quite large, much enthusiasm was manifested, and aii were decidedly in favor of a vigorous campaign throughout the entire state. AVAS SHOT ON THE STREET. George Holmes, a Negro, Received a Charge In the Arm and Side. Augusta, Aug. 19.—George Holmes, a negro about 45 years old, while walking along Lincoln street, was shot with a gun by unknown parties at 10 o'clock to night. The load struck him In the arm and side. He was carried to the Lamar Hospital and his wounds were 'dressed. The shooting is a mystery, as Holmes was an inoffensive negro. The police are at work on the case. William McDade was found dead in bed at 10 o'clock to-night by Mr. J. B. Carr, his employer. McDade had been unweli for several days, but ate supper with the family. An Inquest will be held to-mor row. The deceased was unmarried. Considered n Pretense. Cape Town, Aug. 20.—Gen De Wet’s demand for the surrender of the British force at Commando Nek Is considered ns a pretense for the purpose of gaining in formation. Finding that Commando Nek was strongly garrisoned, De Wet resum ed his march northward, shadowtd by Baden-Powell. How the French HLIn Eels. From the London Globe. Writing to a humanitarian journal, a correspondent living in Paris tells an ex traordinary story of French barbarism in the matter of diet. He had occasion re cently to descend to the kitchen of the woman from whom he rents his fiat, and he discovered her in the act of preparing a dish of eels. A live eel was nailed to the floor and a cut had been made round the neck in order that the unfortunate creature's skin might be peeled off from the head to the tall. He exclaimed ,'n horror at such barbarity, very much to the woman's astonishment, whereupon she explained that every one skinned eels In the same manner, that unless skinned alive the flavor of them was spoiled, and that, when skinned, they go alive into boil ing water. Turning away, the correspond ent's attention was attracted by an extra ordinary noise to a large pan on the floor. He had the curiosity to lift the lid of this pan. and there he saw a large eel covered with salt and pepper writhing round and rounfi In hideous agony. On asking the reason for this cruelty, he was Informed that when eels are too big and strong to be nailed down they have (o be allowed to run themselves to death, to further which end plenty of salt and pepper are strewn over their bodies. "I do not know how eels are done to death In England,” he con cludes, ■' but trust It is in more merciful way.” We believe that there Is no such needless torture an this in England, hut the R. S. P. C. A. might well Investigate the mdnner In which dishes are prepared at foielgn restaurants in lanidon and make a report on the subject. —lt has leaked out that ex-Presldent Benjamin Harrison has become enamored of the gome of golf. At the links In the vicinity of Indianapolis, he Is a famil iar figure. A recent visitor t<T this re sort expressed great surprise at behold ing scampering and cantering over the field after the evasive white ball the pud gy but still dignified form of the former Tresident of the United States. It |s re lated that Gen. Harrison weors a suit on the links that Is Jhe envy of every l>e holder. A Jminly cap. knee breeches, gorgeously colored stockings—in brief, the complete paraphernalia of the golf play er. He “puts” and "drives" and does all of the other things of the game with the enthusiasm and vigor of a youth, though the visitor who saw him at the sport d'*- clnres that In his golf togs he looks like a brownie. —Bid Paher Abdul Krlmm Tazzl, the new Barbu of Tangier, Is a fine looking man. and has made a very favorable im pression on the diplomatic corps.* Horsford s Acid Phosphate For Dyspepsia. Strengthens the stomach, assists dt- ? [nation, relieves distress and the feel* ng of exhaustion and dizziness. Oenaitra ban pans Hotaaoso’s oa wrapper. FARO BANKER FLEECED. Gamester* Marked Ills Cards and Took f 1 ,200. Fro-m the Washington Post. Admirers of the scenery of the Upper Potomac, as revealed from the k of an electri# car on its swift-flying voyage to Cabin John Bridge, have noticed a quaint little cottage perched on the side of the hill, between the car tracks and the river, some four miles beyond Georgetown, which bears the modest legend. “Curtin's Club House.” This unpretentious structure is only a few feet beyond the District line, but these few feet are as good as miles, for they put the place wholly within the scope of Maryland Ju risdiction. and it is far better for some purposes to operate inside the borders of Maryland, my Maryland, than within the District of Columbia. For Instance, gen tlemen of sporting proclivities fee! safe from the minions of tho law’ when engag ed in bucking the tiger or any other game of fortune if upon the soil of the com uonwealih presided over by the Hon. John Walter Smith, while there is more o' less nervousness and apprehension con nect u with such matters when transact ed inside the District. C u rUn’s Club, therefore, had become quit* a rendezvous for Washington bloods who prefer poker and faro to other forms of excitement, and of late weeks there have been some pretty stiff seances, many of which exceeded in lateness the last t ar from Cabin John to the city by several hours. The majority of the patrons of , the place were young in years but vete rans at gaming, and they won or lost wiili equal impassiveness. Everybody was treated well by the good-natured and pop ular young man who managed the estab lishment; tin re was no complaint from any source, and until last Sunday nothing happened to mar the serenity that hovered in huge chunks about this miniature Monte Carlo of the Potomac. Broke < ondiiit Road Bank. But on Sunday last something did hap pen, and so far out of the ordinary, too, • hat the local sports have not yet ceased discussing it. On that particular day of the week the faro devotees are given a chance to reduce the house bank roll, or separate themselves from whatever cash they may choose to risk. On the 12*n Instant the game was better patronized than ever, and the playing vap so spirited that at its termination the house “turned up the box” in token of its complete and crushing defeat. A quartette of towr\ gamesters, having “busted fhe bank. ’ went merrily off with $1,200 to be cut in four parts, very fair proceeds for a mid summer night’s ploy. Had they won this coin by ordinary methods there would have been no resultant feeling of soreness on the part of the easy-going proprietor, nor would this story have ever been |>en ned, but the cold facta are thn! the “kill ing'' was the result of about as clever a piece of rascality as- has been worked in local sporting circles in many a moon. On the part of one of the principals in the villainy, the act was base and treach erous in the extreme, as low-down in fact as any piece of double-cross crookedness known to the fraternity. This fellow had access to the room of the clubman, and by burglarious method* got hold of the Identical puck of cards with which the faro game was dealt. At this particular point some fine work was done in the way of punching very minute pieces out of the edges of each card. As fine as these were they would escape ordinary observation, and yet to persons cognizant of their existence, they were sufficient to enable the player to down the dealer every time. Yards Cleverly Marked. Fr-tn these barely visible marks, the eagle eye cf the chief conspirator could tell the character of the card that lav next under ihe one shown, the cards be ing dealt face up in faro, and a he het on a sure thing his colleagues In the p ot following him. the break ng of Ihe bank was only a qu( s lon of a limited number of deals. This particular bank was not capitalized In excess of the $1.2'0 limit, and when that was reached the lights were turned cut, and melancholy claimed the losers for Its own. It may be asserted here and now that had the house dealers been very ancient ;tnd seasoned In tln ir craft, instead of ap prentices, no svieh skin-game would ever have been handed up to them. Your past master in faro science would have grown sufficiently suspicious to change decks or to find out the secret of those pin pricks. Instead of a bunch of successful sharp i rs there wou and have gene back to town four discomfited and beaten tin horns. Three of the perpetrators dreading, per haps, the ire of the ill-used proprietor, immediately shook the dust of Washing ton from their feet, and are now standing the dollars thus illegitimately gained by tile sea w aves, and luugh no doubt every little while as they think of their exceeding cleverness. As for the unlucky loser, he hardly hrpes to get back any ofxhls capital, see ing that the law does not recognize faro as a legitimate proposition, so the lest he can do Is to raw wood, say nothing, and find solace if he can in these lines of Lord Byron, which tell us that: There is no power on earth or heaven Which can evade, if unforgiven, The patient starch and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong. MOTHER'S FIGHT WITH RATS. Hail Great IHlficulty In Saving five Life of Her < lilld. From the Philadelphia Times. Returning after a half hour's absence from her home, in the rear of 310 Chris tian street, yesterday morning, Mrs. Mary Richardson found her 3-year-old daughter. Matilda, In on unconscious and almost dying condition upon the floor of her kitchen, and swarming abou4 the lmby’s body, gnawing viciously at the pretty little face, half a hundred great, gray rats. Hastily grasping a poker, the most con venient weapon at hand, Mrs. Richardson attempted to drive the vicious rodents off. Again and again the ereofurea returned to the attack, and it was only after ten of their number had been killed by the mother that they desisted. Even then, after Mrs. Richardson hnd picked up her child. ar,d wns starting for the front door, they swarmed about the room, biting at her feet and filling the air with their squeaks. Little Matilda was In a bad condition. Blood was pouring from a score of wounds on her face and neck, and one of her fingerw was completely eaten away. Without waiting a moment or calling for assistance Mrs. Richardson pick'd the child up in her arms and started for the Pennsylvania Hospital. She ran ail the way and arrived at the hospital well nigh exhausted. The injuries of the little one were ex amined, and countless punctures were found where tho rapacious rodents had torn the baby's flesh. Her face, neck and arms were one mass of bites. The bit ten finger will probably have to be ampu tated. The hospital physicians say that there is a strong likelihood of blood poisoning setting tn, with fatal results. Only the a'rrlval of her mother saved Matilda's life. A few momenta more and she would have been literally bitten to death by the rats. It is supposed that the rats came upon the baby while ehe was sleeping upon the floor and their numbers speedily overcame her feeble at tempts at resistance. Where the rodents came from Is a mys tery. Mrs. Richardson says that allhough a rat was occasionally seen in the cel lar. none of n size approaching those whlrh she killed yesterday had ever been discovered about the bouse. It Is suppos ed that they tunneled their way through from a nearby stable, although their size and number passes the comprehension of the residents of tha* vicinity. leaves no dirt behind Rapidly Moving I Parlor Suits, Reed Rockers, Refrigerators, /VXosqulto Nets, Matting, Rugs and Portieres, Window Shades, arid all seasonable Goods At Very Low Prices in anticipation of our trip to 112 Broughton street, west, Oct. 1. LINDSAY & MORGAN, Old Rost Offfoe. | HYPNOTIZED BY % SNAKE. Tlic Peculiar Experience of n Milling Prospector In Colorado. From the Chicago Inter-Goran. “'l4 is a fact that a snake can hypno tize. He can hypnotize a grown man just as easy as he can a child,” says Perry Brigham, au old mining prospector. “I shall never forget an experience one morning whn out on the plains not a giejt ways from Denver. 1 was plod wing over the prairns, cr rather Buffalo grata, afoot. I’d been walking a couple I of hours. 1 guess, and I kinder casually happened to notice what appeared to be a stout stick with the end of it knotted ami rising tip a little over the giass. 1 paid no particular attention to it until, for some reason, 1 seemed to bear all my thoughts on to that stick. As 1 looked again f found I was looking straight at a monstrous big rattlesnake, lie hadn't rattled, nor giv*n any w.lining, hut there lie w as, with his la ad raised up there, like a pick-1, kinder survey! g things, and especially me. “My, but he was a tremendous big feller! 1 don’t want to exaggerate or anything, but, honestly, I believe be was fully as long os this billiard table. He was running his old tongue out and seeming to nay: ‘Well, what are you going to do? Want a fight?’ I Just stop ped stock still. Didn’t Jump or nothing, for I’d seen too much of reptile* and things to let 'em excite me any. I stood there, with my hand* at my sides and merely looking at him. 1 thought, ‘Well, I don’t know, old fellow, whether I warn to tackle you or not. I don’t know.' IB kept a darting out his tongue and looking directly at me. “There wf was for, I should think, fully five minutes, each of us sizing the other up. Each no* afraid of the other, yet neither eager to open bottle. The longer I looked the more it seemed as If I win pcw’erleas to move or do anything. f wasn't very much scared, but I seemed to be attracted somehow. My eyes were fixed right on the snake’s eyes, and I <ion't believe that 1 could have taken them off of him. The old feller won’t making a move to attack me. If he had I think I'd been all right and could have fought for all I was worth. “It was not. I tell you. the hypnotism or magnetism of fear. It was n feeling that I cannot explain further than to say I couldn't take my eye* off of him. If I'd been closer I’m actually afraid I shouPl have had an uncontrollable impulse to reach out my hand and touch him. Then I’d got bit. sure’s blazes. We. kept look ing at each other until something stirred off In the grass near by. and, my! that snake turned and went like a streak. They can go mighty fast when they're minded to, though it’s generally suppose ! (hat rattlesnakes are. slow and sluggish. “Well, Ihe minute he stirred, #ee? I was .all right. Been brought hack to my senses as it was, and I run after him as fast as I could, but I cowin't keep up with him, and he reached a hole a few hundred yards off. prairie-dog or rabbit hole. I don’t know which, and when he went into the hole I got close enough to see him, and he did a very peculiar thing. He didn’t go in head first, ns you’d naturally expect, of course, but it seemed as if he wiggled into it or around in such a fashion that he always put his head toward me. He sorter doubled, you understand, and got himself into the hole so that he could be ready for me if I made for him. I watched him for several minutes more, and there he just so you could barely make out his ugly three cornered head, laying there at the en trance, waiting for all visitors. Now, I want to confess that -that there dirty brown rattler had me as much under the ‘spell’ as any mortal ever was by all the artrt of the professional human hypno tist. Some folks claim it’s aii bosh and imagination, but I assure you a snake will hypnotize any creature that will keep perfectly still and watch the var mint. “I shall never forget, by the way, being down in Florida. I was visiting a relative who had a place there, an orange grove. Out back of his house there was a sort of a bowerllke, a summer house, I guess you'd call It, lattice work, ond over It was trailing vine, honeysuckle, and such. I put away a big dinner, and feeling kinder djoway, I thought I'd go out to that sum mer house and read or doze for u while. I pi .iked up a book that whs laying about the. room and kinder fell to reading. It was one of them sleepy, dopey, yaller novels. Well, I reud on for a spell and then 1 grad ually began to get snoozish. Suddenly something fell kerthoop! squash right down from the roof, and not a foot form me. 'Twas a rattler! I’m pretty bald, you see, but what little hair 1 did have stood right up straight,now don't you for get It. Got me? Oh. he'd got me easy 'f he'd meant to fight, but. by George, he was for getting away os quick as he come. He started off like a flash and I after him. I chased the critter a hundred yards and killed hlrn. He was about three feet long. "Florida 1* nothing much hut snakes. There ere thousands of these water moc casins. You go out flehkug and you ctn see 'em on the bonk coiled on the over hanging limbs of trees and tn the shal low water. They lay in near the shore with their body all In the water, and only their head out. resting on a twig or log. It’s too snaky a country for m<-. Why. they were going to paper a room In the house, and It seems they had some extra wall paper laid away In a closet. One of the young women stepped In there and picked up a roll. She suddenly let a screech that stirred the whole house, nnd when I ran In there was a young rattler nicely • oiled In the center of the room and ready for trouble. I killed him quick with a broom handle, and when we got the girl calmed down so that she could talk we found she'd taken the snake from the closet In that roll of paper. "It takes a black snake to trim a rat tler, A black snake'll whip a rattler ev ery time, and a rattler knows It. He'll get out of the way and run from a black snake If he possibly can. If he gets at tacked he colls himself and sounds hD rattles as savagely us he can and keeps his tongue going, but If you know any thing nhout snakes, and should happen to get a chance to watch a battle, you'll have an impression that the rattler ads as If he knew It was likely to be all day ■With him. The black snake keeps going round and round him, just as a pugilist in the ring Keeps moving around hi* man, waiting for an opening. The rattler gets more and more worried. All of a sudden, quick's lightning, the black snake spring# ut the rattler. He aims to ge him right under the head, at the small of the neck, If the black snake can get his (oil round a root or something that will hold.so he can get . purchase, it’s gOA>d-bye rattler in a very short time. He just squeezes the Ilf# out of him. “There’s u little rattler they have out on the plains tltut is as poisonous as the big fellers. I don’t know of any special names for ’em They don’t belong to tho s.tmc variety as • lie common kind. They’ro only from Sto 12 Inches long They hav# the flat head, and are lively and spry as tan he. You take It where they’s a camp of cow punchers or something, and in the morning you can go out round the wagons or outfit and you’ll hear ’em go ing zip! zip! all through the grass every which way. They’re as deadly as the others, so they are. I’ll never forget once I was out prospecting, and 1 saw one of those little chaps scooting along the trail, and I caught him—caught him e.ey-and carried him by the tall ail the way into town. Jolly, but didn’t I drop him when they told me he was a rattler and poisonous as he could be!” CHIN A'S WTIHI K CALENDAR. A Very Good One Notw Ittintnndlng It* A are. From the New York Tribune. The sojourner in the Far East is some time* driven to wonder why the Chinese have a calendar at all. They view the passing of time with superb Indifference; punctuality. If such a thing were ever to nter into the Celestial calculation, would be regarded os undignified. Neverthe less, they have a calendar which is by no means a bud one, when one considers Its immense antiquity. A wise monarch ; named Yao some time about 2300 B. C. re j vised th*' calendar in u*e before that date j to the form in which it is found u 4 pres ent A volume would be needed to ex ! plain all its peculiarities, hut now that j dispatches are mentioning Chinese dates, j it is well to hnve some idea as to where in the Celestial calendar differs from fhe Gregorian. The Chinese year is lunar, and therefor# consists of 354 days. Before the time of Yao tradition has it that the year consist ed of 360 days, and that confusion had re sulted. Thar ruler decreed tha time should l>e measured by the moon and that every nineteen years should contain seven add it lion a.l months—almost one extra month every three years. This reckon ing is excellent—it varies only about nn hour every nineteen years from the true lime. Although, the year Is lunar, Its begin ning la regarded by the sun. Thus the new year comes between Jan'. 2 and Feb. 9, unlike the Mohammedan new year, which Is regulated entirely by the moon, and comes at any time, winter or sum mer. The year is divided Into twelve lunar months, called by numbers, at first, second Hnd so on. The extra month that comes about every three years, Is not add ed at tho end, as one. would suppose, but Is inserted anywhere, probably according to some system 100 subtle for Western minds. The months are sub-divided Into three parts, which are not again sub-dl vtded, so that a Chinaman may speak of an event without mentioning the exact time within ten days. Thp days are also numbered, so that exactness may be se esured If a Chinaman should ever hap pen 4o want such a thing. There Is no week, hut foreigners are gradually teach ing the meaning of such a division. The Chinese hour is 120 minutes long, but In this Instance again the foreigner Is mak ing some Impression on the ancient cus tom, and the Chinese In and near the treaty parts are familiar with the West ern method. It may be added. Incident ally, that Pekin Is just about twelve hours nhcad of New York In point of time. The Chinese gather the years together In cycles, as Occidentals do. but for >ora extraordinary reason the cycle cpnslsts of sixty years. This cycle Is very ancient and probably has something lo do with old astrological superstitions. Another method of numbering years Is by the regins of the Emperors. The present year Is the thirty-year of the seventy-sixth cycle, or the year 4536 since the adoption of the present chronology. Each year has a separate name, formed by some com bination of ten "stem” characters Joined with twelve "branch" characters. These are used in an ingenious way that could be described only by a lengthy article, and would probably then be not quite In telligible to the Western mind. To go straight to anything Is impossible to the Oriental, and the complicated system of naming the years Is proof of Chinese In genuity. Of late years It has been supposed that tho Chaldeans and Chinese had some In tercourse at the time when Yao reformed the calendar and that the two countries worked together In making the change. Certain tt is that a similar event occur red In Chaldea about the same time. But whenever the calendar was adopted It 1* likely for a long time to withstand the march of progress. It is correct enough, and the Inconvenience does not worry the Chinaman In the least. —Of the late Chief Justice Russell, the Ixrndon correspondent of the New York Tribune says: "Lord Russell was a curi ous mixture; he was a Mery Radical, and yet one of the favorites In the smart set of West End society, where the onlv orthodox L'berallsm Is that of the mild, nnaggresslve ty|>e professed by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. He was n devout and sincere Catholic. Hnd belonged to a family which ha given several of Ita members to the service of the Church of Rome—his only brother |s a Jesuit priewt, and one of hts sisters Is Mother Mary Baptist, the well known Superior of the Sisters of Our Ixtdy of Mercy a: San Francisco, while another Is In a convent In Ireland; but tvith nil his piety and his zeal for rlghteounness. Lord Russell contrived to enjoy this material world very romfortably. He was something of a hon vivant and a aportsmon. and an ardent patron of the turf; he was also a kindly humorous man In private life, a stanch friend, and one of the beat of companions. 5