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RICHARD OLNEY FOR BRYAN. Dlk (MCtI'XIMIH MCtRKTARY IIF STATU TO HI miHT Hitt. 'think* Triumph of thr !>*■■,nrrntlr Tlrkrt ttnnld Itr fhr Hrl Oulrnnat* nl Ibr I'rralUrntlal Inainl-Hr I rillrlar* thr Tnllrf nt (hr 'l. klu. |r> Atlaalnlatrallon la Ihr I'hlllp ,ilnr*. and l.nnka (nr Kara llltiarr Troahlr In hlaa. {jnr York. Sept 'Thr World to-mor row will print he Inter from Richard olney. . rotary of Mite during the Clevriaihl .idmlnlstration. in which Mr Otoe) declare* hi* intention* of support ing Mr. llryan for ITosldom After saying that Mr. llryan Is har.Hy the candidate. ho nould choose, if ho liiml hi* way In the manor, him! that ho entirely dlnonto from part* of tho Kau nas City platform, Mr. Otnoy rays; "Bo tt uilmlttod that the Democratic party. It* platform, and Hs candPl ito nro open to much Juat criticism, yot all things considered. would not Its triumph bo the host outcome of tho present presidential contest?"' Mr. Olney then crltleUro the policy of the McKinley a.lnilnlstration tiga dlng the I'hlltppfiics. ami thinks Itiat the country will soon And Itself In the tolls of a Chi nese problem even more costly and mcn u .ns titan the rirtllpplnrs problem Itself. IttU Tit IMt thy; DITIBS. Ytealthy t lliclnnall alun llrnaahl Hack Yaluablr Dreaaes. New York, Sept 5 —Wallace Shllllto. a wealthy man of Clnclnnat. and his wife, had rather an unpleasant tlmi with the customs people on the pier on their ar rival to day on the Teutonic, with the result that Mr Shllllto paid *OO extra duty before he was allow and to take his trunks On the ship coming up the bay be made the usual declaration as to the goods he was bringing Into the country When the ship reached her pier he secured the services of an Inspector, and the trunks were passed Another spe cial agent ordered the trunks re-examln cd. This time dresses were found which were appraised at Mr Shllllto ex plalned that the whole affair was the re. null of a misunderstanding and he paid the money before leaving the pier. DBfTITITB 1% AI.*K . 'transport l.awtnn AAIII Bring Hnmr Bankrupt Miner*. Washington. Sept. The war deport ment l* arranging to send the transport Lawton to Nome City. Alaska. for the purpose of bringing hark the destitute Amertean cltlaene at that place Report* received at the war department Indicate that there one a great many men who have been unable to make a •’strike," and that unless the government take* the matter In hand, great eufferlng •ol narration I* likely to result A report from Cap! Tuttle of the reve nue cutter Dear ray* that a crutee along the Alaekan count and lelaod* shows that the native* are In a pitiful condition Many nf them have died, great number* ore nick with tneaele* and pneumonia, and starvation al*n threaten*. Rome relief ha* been afforded, but the destitution I* worse than at any time within fifty year*. Fur ther relief will he extended. MAY IYA FAT IY AMERICA. Inglleti capital Likely to fio Into Colorado Mlnea. London, ftept 5 —John Hay* Hammond. he American mining engineer, sailed for Boston on the Cunard Line ateamer Rax cnlu from IJverpool yesterday. On the result of hi* vlalt hang* the Investment cf a large amount of British cnpllal In American mining proi>ertles A* the rep resentative of a syndicate, composed of Wehrxter. Belt A Cos . and J B. Koblhsou the South African magnate* and J P. Morgan and other capitalist*. Mr. Ham mond has gone to examine group of mine* In Colorado. If he report* favora bly. It Is said the syndicate will purchase the mine*, the price being postofficr ci.kbk meet. They Mam Work Hara wad till rlsa Fixed by Law. Atlantic City, N 3 . Sept &-The Con vention of IVwtofflce Clerk* to-day order ed a hill drafted to be presented to Con greas, fixing eight hour* a* a day'# work, and limiting forty-eight hour* to a full week’s employment. This I* the earns privilege a* railway clerk* and carrier entoy. Th bill pending at Washington. <No IASI). to fix salaries at. from ***> to II fhft. was Indorsed Indirectly. The convention aked to be taken In un der the civil service law by adopting a report of the special committee express ing the belief that the civil service should be extended through all branch#* of the department. PYTHIAN* Know n:tu*o, lorMlIfKlI"* o( latrartlra of Hole* by I rroln I.n4ir>. Detroit. Mich , Bept S—The Supreme lolp, KnUrfit of Pythta* <n-<liy, after on tmestlxavlon by committees formally icdorsed th* action of Supreme Chancel lor Sample In bringing • number of the Pennsylvania lodge# before the court of the order. charged with Irregularities chief aniontt which woe the initiating of new member* for n le** fee thon the con witullon of the order permitted The char*** hove produced much feeling In the order. roilßCncrT RKFIIUCAII. )‘it Oat ■ Kioto Ticket nnd Indoree.l President McKinley. New Haven, Conn.. Sept s.—The Stale Republican Committee to-day nominated * atate ticket headed by George P Ilf lean of Sumsbury tor Oovernor; treas urer. H H Gallup, Nfcrwleh; comptroller. Abram 1 'tmmherlaln. Meriden; eecrctary of state. Charles O. R. Vlnal. Middletown The platform IndoraeeePresident McKin leys administration and hi* course In for eign affaire; condemn* truet* which rale* price* of necessarlee or decrease wage* last Woe Not n Kotelde. Richmond, Vo , Sept S —J. William* Taei la not dead. Thle Information cam* this morning In a letter to Mr* Eaet, the y ning man’* mother. The letter wa* dated ■nd appareotly wr lien yegterday and mailed at 1:10 o'clock the same day In a city not far from Richmond The tele graph operator and other* at Haruee'a Terry who Identified the aulclde there a* Mr. R**t by descriptions and photograph * nt from here, evidently made a mistake In llentiflcatlon. trchblshop of Itshsqtf. Rome, Sept. 5 —The Pope ha* sent Mgr Keane, former rector of fbe Cath olic University at Washington, a bull or papal dcrea. formally conferring upon hltn the rink, title and authority of Arch bishop of Dubuque. ■ iedaeeit U nsrs t nosed Strike. Southington Conn.. Set* S-tme hun dred and fifty men employed by the Aet * a Nut Company are out on a atrlke a* * result of a 4 *•*' ■' reduction In their Magi a *THI<K THE rUWIIH UIHT. Telegraph Wires Are Pom n South of hi. Augustine. Jacksonville. Fla., Sept. 5,-lt Is bailee-, ed the storm forecasted to-day by the weather drpaitment has struck the Flor ida const. The Western Union Telegraph Com pany to-night nt 10 o’clock lost all Ita Atlantic coast wlreß south of St. Au gustine. It Is not known how far south of Bt. Augustine the storm has struck. In Jacksonville It has been raining hard for eighteen hours. THHH ATF.TKU I II AI. STHIKE. Anthracite Operator* Issue n stntr ment In Miners. New York. Sept, s—The onthrartie coal operators, nt u conference In this city, discussed the threatened strike among their employee and appointed u commit tee to draft a stub ment selling forth the views of the operators and refusing to rceognixe the l/nlied Mine Workers of America. A statement given out to-night from the operators headquarters assert that ihe United Mine Workers and their lead ers are composed of soft coal men not fa miliar w'ih the conditions of anthracite mining and the association of Ihe anthra cite men with Ihe soft <oal district I* be lleved to be antagonistic to the best In terest* of the men .and the mine owners. The slat. m*nt declares that wages have not been ut In the anthracite mine* for tweqty >e*r-*. but have b.eti raised In many eases, says that the Increased cost of powder hay been more than made up m other ways and that as to company stores no big producers run them hut only a few small mine owner- at Isolated point* where other stores are Inconvenient. i HASH OE A TKA-TIH UIRDRIt. One Alan Instantly Killed and Three Hndly Inlured. Richmond. Va., Bept. A ten-ton cross girder strained the heavy slxty-flve foot wooden boom on the temporary traveler just at the river's brink. In use in constructing the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway viaduct ai the foot of Uelvldere street, and with a sudden crash the heavy boom fe;| „t * o'clock this morning, kill ing one man and injuring three others employes of the contractors. The dead and injured: Glenwood Seay of Maidens Adventure. Goochland county, aged 25. Instantly kill ed. John Hanson, formerly of Philadelphia, legs badly bruised and face cut. A C. Dobbs of Richmond, severe shock, struck on head, right knee badly cub John Mi-Dean, arm knocked out of place and had bruise* on body. He was formerly of Bath. Me. LETTER CARRIER* AtKI'.TI\G. Indorsed the Pending lull for t nt fnrnt gl.giai Salaries. Detroit. Mich . Bept 6 —The lytter Car riers* Nation tl Convention to-day passed a resolution Indorsing the hill pending In Congress providing uniform Jl.jnt) salaries for carriers President Gorrpers of the Federation of Labor, in a brief address, urged that the association would be a great gainer In strength If It would affiliate with the American Federation of Labor After considerable opposition, a resolution was passed for appointment of a committee to negotiate with the Railway Mall Clerks' and Postofflce Clerks" Assorts tlons with the object of joint action In the Interest of legislation favorable to postal employes Many delegates opposed amalgamated action IIHi BALK OF SOI TiI KH A COAL. Pennsylvania < onipnitles t noble in Supply Items nd I pun Them. Birmingham. Alt.. Bep'. s—One hundred and eighty thousand tons of real were •old yesterday to New Orleans agencies to supply the demand In that city which ha* heretofore been supplied by the Penn sylvania product. Thirty thousand ton* go to a Pennsylva nia company wbl-h I* unable to get stiffl clene coal from Its own mine* That will be delivered by the Southern Railway and It* barge lines from Greenville, Miss- MAYYA BAY* ME C.AYYOT APEAK. ••Oat nf the f|netlnn'* for Him to Ac cept Any Invltattous. Chicago, Kept S—Senator Mark Hanna to-dav wired Secretary Perry 8 Heath of ths Republican National Committee n* follow*: "II I* out nf the question for me to ac cept any Invitation to npeak." Thl* message was In answsr to a num bsr of tslrgiam* Inviting Chairman Hanna to make addrerse* In the West Secretary Heath said that Mr. Hanna may make a few speeches In Ohio, but that he positively would not speak In other states TO CAT IIWI.Y OF apiRITS. Distiller* and Mist rlhntnrs Have Reached an Agreement. Cincinnati. 0., Sept. 5 —The spirit* dt tlllera and spirits distributors of the coun try reached an agreement 10-day, and probahiy will conclude their labors to morrow. The Indepen den? distilleries' representa tive* and Allgel O. Meyers, representing the Standard Hist tiling and Distributing Crmpany. reached an amicable agree ment by which the capacity of each dis tillery is to be curtailed to an agreed proportion, and an organlx.itlon perfected. Joyce Yarned for t nagreaa. Charlotte. N C.. Sept. The. Republi can Congressional Convention for the Fifth District to-day nominated J R. Joyce of Rockingham county for Con gress A plan w* on foot to name a (Hold Democrat, but the lark of orgnnlxa tion on the purl of the latter la aald fo have defeated that proposition. AN OLD EDITOR Foand *2.000 Worth of Food. W. 6, Gilliam, editor of th Capitol of South McAleeter. I. T.. said: *'Yee. li l* true when I got hold of Grape-Nuts food It wa* worth more than a C/* doctor hUI to me. for It made me a well man. I have gained iwenty-flve pound* In welgth. my sirvnglh ha* returned ton fold, mv brain power ha* been given back to me. a tel that I* an ahaolute essenll.il. for I nm on editor *nl have been for ihlrly-flve year*. "My pen shall always he ready to sjoak i ~i ward tor • r>>- potturtW nutritive food I had of course often read the ad vertisement* regarding Orape-Nuta. but naver thought to apply the food to my own use. until In my ex I r crony and sick ness the thought came lo me that It might hi my case The statement* In re gard to food are absoluiety oorreet. as I have proven In my own rare. On* very fortunate tbtng about the food la that while It •• the moot sclent Ideally male .nd highly nourlahln* <one*nlrat*d food I hav ever known. It ha* *o delicious a taste that It win* and holda friauda." THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER fi. IlstO. jy*j ttrength snd great medicinal value. Don't take the weak, watery KM !||J Bg '*"ch Hazel preparation* represented to be "the tame ai" POND'S LSI Mfl j(sj jjhl EXTRACT They generally contain " wood alcohol." which krttatei lyj ' ‘ AVAR*: rot STY TA* RAT*:. Or. linesman In lleilleate Trinity. \\ ■!! Inu at U lorroM. Wsycros*. On., Kept s.—Prof. K. A Pound hns return*d home from his um* m*r viratlon. The public school m ill be opened Kept. 24. A their meeting yesterday the t’om niDstoncrs of Ware county ordered thut the num of $4 be assessed on each worth of property for count ypurposea, for the year Thin added to the elate tax assessment of $5.20. makes taxes in Ware county $lO per sl.Ah* thia year. It ha* been deflnbely decided that Dr. C. E. iHmman, prealdent of Emory Col lege. la to dedicate Trlnty Church Bun day morning. MaJ. H. P. Bird la In re celpt of a letter from I>r. Dowman. In which he states that it mill afford him great pleasure to dedicate the church. At night Dr. Dawson mill present the cause of education. Mr. L,. R Alkin. who was injured ao **- verely at Mount Plmmik n fern days ago, la Improving and he will. In all probabil ity. recover. L>r W H Liu honor, and Miss Resale Reach took their friends by surprise this afternoon and mere married about 430 o'clock by Rev. E M. Whiting at the dis trict parsonage Ml*# Resale la the ac complished daughter of Mr W W. Reich, ar.d Ihe groom la the youngest son of Mr C. C. Ruch.tnan He graduated last April from the Raltimor* College of Dental Surgery. The young people are being con gratulated by their many friends. JOHN PEARS I* ME All. Etllplaaa I ut Off His Ynar and Ears M ttb a Awnrd. Kenosha. W!*.. Sept, 5 A letter woa received here to-day from Joseph Mn kowsky. serving with the army In the Philippine*, announcing the death nf John Pears of the Forty-seventh Regi ment. About the. Fourth of July Pear* am* se lected as a member of a special detach ment of six men for skirmish work Re. turning *o the camp the party wo* am bushed by the Insurgents and Pears waa mortally wounded, but the olhera man aged to escape. The Insurgents captured the wounded man and the leader of the hand cut off hla ear* and nose with a sword He wo* then left to die. Two day* later five of the men supposed to have been among those who killed the wounded aoldler were captured and the member* of the Forty-seventh attempted to lynch one of them, but officer* Interfered. HE AA A* EVIDENTLY t’RAIY. Man Smashed Thing* In ArehhMhnp ( orrlgun’a Mnnae. New York. Sept 5.-John W Hanley ran* the doorbell of Archbishop Corrigan’s rrsktence to-night and rushed down the hallway Into the dining room, where he began throwing the contents of the side board about the room, smashing glass against the wall and hurling silverware against ths celling The butler rttmmo"- cd two policemen, who. with assistance of the Archbishop, succeeded In overpow ering Hanley. He was taksn to the sta tion houss. where he kept repeating over and over: "If the Archhlshop can afford to do time to get a red feather In hi* <wp he can afford to fix up my brother * grave In Calvary.” Conference on Freight Itatea. Si Louis. Sept. 5—A conference of freight traffic manager* of the lines In terested hi the adjustment of rates from Louisville and St Louis to Bhreve;iort was held to-dov at the office of Chairman Cole of the Southwestern Freight Bureau Incidentally the Texarkana rate situation was Involved In the discussion The sev eral Interest* were fully represented. M’ralthr Chicagoan a Bnlplde. Chtcago Sept A—Frank H. Ho|lan*be. e*.Bldetman and a wealthy real estate owner of Chicago, committed suicide to night by shooting him* If He had heen *|ek several month*, and for Ihe past Week had beer kept olive by the use of oxygen gar During hi* nurae* absence he procurrd a r volver and fired two bul let* Into h * brain. Ilayttt s' Hotly IdentlSed. Chicago, Sept. B.—The body of the man found In a room In Ihe Stafford Hole! ha* been IdentlSed from leper* found In his possession a* lhai of Archibald C. Ilaynes. Jr . son of Archibald C Haynes, general agent of the Equitable Life In surance Company In New York. darker to Make 1 ampnlnn Tnnr. Cincinnati. Kept. s.—Wharton Rark*r. nominee of the People's pariy for presi dent. will rmike a tour of the Southwest, beginning next week The last two week* in September wUI he spene In Texas. Aia lama. Georgia ttnd Tennessee. Ktlnson Makes Neve Nee-trd. Boston. Sept B—After a series of mis haps to the rider*. Will Silnson won (he two hour* "Golden Vase" race at Charle* River Park 10-day and established a world's record for two hours, riding 67 mile*. 1.467 yard*. Knleltlr of American A lollnlsl. Berlin. Sept S— Arma Senkehr. an American vlollnlat who was a Mis* Hark ness and who married Herr Hoffm in In Ualy. and who wa# practicing al Weimar rommltti-ed suicide yesterday. No causa Is assigned. i ■a i I. Steel Work* Resume. Munlce. Ind . Kept S -The Whitney Malleable Iron Work* resumed In the ateel works' deparimenf this morning, with a hundred men lo All a big "rush order ' for the government. Professor of Dancing. Saratoga. N Y.. Sept. S-The Ameri can Society of Profeasors of Dancing yea terday began their iwenly-lhlrd annual meeting here. storm Dontoge In Jamaica. Kingston. Jam . Sept. A—Rains and high wild* have done serlou# damage to lh banana and tabgcco plantation* on the north eld* of the Island. To Resume Work Mouduy. Joliet UL. Sept S—After an all-sum mer abut down the Phoenix Hors* Shoe Work* employing I-'tween 200 and ) men will resume werk Monday. Pipe Friers Advanced. Pittsburg. Pa.. Sept. S.—The National Tube Company has advanced prices on merchant and wrought iron pipe Ova per gent, to take effect at ettca BRYAN’S SPEECH AT KEYSER. (Continued from First Tag# I Uua to dtsrur* the money question la that the Republican lead# r* are familiar with the argument liny used In JMki. and they A.nnot think f any argument to uae in defer.*# of the trusts, the large standing army and the imperial policy. tfllfnde Imtnrft Wealth. Mr lirvan continued by defining the at titude of the Democratic party tow.inf* wealth. Thr sc remark* m ere brought out by the presence of ex-Senator Henry O. 1 a\K ind hla brother H *• Thomas C. Davis, on the pi it form “The Democratic party makes no war upon the honest accumulation of wealth.'’ he said and continued by the declaration that objet tlons to the poll* lea proposed by that party were mt ie by predatory wealth hiding behind honest wealth. “The Democratic party.'* he went on. "Is no menace to the man who manta to eat the bread that he earns Its only menace is lo the man mho wants to eat the bread that someone else earns, with out paying for the bread. Since 1W all the evil tendencies then noticed In the Re publican party have been Increased an.l to-day people see what is going on. mho did not realise It In l*t% Many mho dl l not understand the money trust are un able to understand the industrial trust Many who did not real!*** shat It meant to have a namopoly given to one kind of money now find out what a Standard OH monopoly or a barlred wire mono|Kd>. or a sugar trust monopoly means Men who did not see that they would soon be the victims of this concentrating spirit. If con tinued. have since become the victim* of it Trnaf* and Traveling Men. In this connection Mr liryan made the following reference to the traveling men and the effect of the trusts upon them “Why. In 18%. there mere a great many traveling men who were deluded and led to believe that all we needed was a Re publican admlnls'ratlon. and they went up and k>wn the land and preached for tho Republican party. Rut since the elec tion no class has suffered more than the traveling men. I wonder if It mould not be proper for the traveling men who have lost their places since the last elec tion because o fthe trusts to organise an excursion to go down to the President's home again and let the band play the Dead March of .Saul. The raveling men are roallxing . that the trusts are reaching them. and if any of you In this audience have not realised what the trust mean*. It 1* only a question of time when you wlil If the Republican party stays in power." • • • “What Is the chance for the young man? If he got* out upon the farm, he that the farmer is not having hie share of the Messing* of the country, nor hi* share of the government’s protection If he becomes i laboring man. wha* are hi* chances, by manual labor to acquire h competency? If he becomes a business man. how does he know that some truat mill not step to hie store door and give him a chance to choose between iank ruptcy him) Joining a conspiracy against his fellows? You mill find that a* wealth concentrate* the small man will he driven out. the independent cltlsen mill become n clerk. nd the young lawyer, who enters upon his profession with hope and ambi tion. will become merely a clerk 111 the office of some lawyer for the trusts. AA hat Militarism Menna. ’’But If you are not able to understand how economic condition* are affecting you. let me ask you. can you ignore the tendency toward militarism atwit ha* been manifested In thl* country under this ad ministration. Has the floor man any rea son for granting a large army? Ha* the furmer any reason for desiring a large military establtehment? Ha* ths country merchant? Has the ordinary man? These profile do not profit by a large standing army. The large standing army Is In tended In this country for the extension of our trade by force and violence. The poor men wtll furnish son* for the army, but the contractor* and Ihe exploiter* will reap the profit*. ’The rolon'al policy,” he concluded. ”1* not carried on for education or for sup port of Chrtsxlanlty. It was undertaken under the mask of benevolence but the Inspiring motive was the almighty dollar and if we enter upon an Imperial policy. It will not be to educate the Filtpkm* It will not he to Chrlstlanlxe them It I* the Christian portion of the Philippine Island* that Is now In revolt against us, and It I* the Mohammedan portion that I* most friendly to us Our flag Is most secur as It float* over the palace of the Sultan of Hiilu and the Republ'can administration pay* the Sultan no much a month to let tt-e flag float there. And If you Hepuhll enn* think that your party s and* for the doctrines It used to stand for, I want to remind you that a treaty ha* been made Ay the Republican *dmtnl*ratlon with that potentate whereby slavery I* rcc ognlxed under the American flag The same tregty that provide# that the Star* and Stripe* shall float over the ftultan'a palace recognlxe* slave* a* an exiaMng In stil illicit,” LETTER OF HOY. V. L. WILSON. Kteongly Opposed to Colonial, or Im perial Fuller. Morgan's Grove W. V*.. Sep! R,—Fol letwlng I* a portion of the letter of lion W. L. Wilson, read before Ihe Democratic meeting here to-day; ••The condition of my health la. I regret to say. such as to make even a Journey to Jefferson nnadvlsable and public ape ik ing beyond my physical capacity, tong before It became an Issue dtvkllng politi cal parlies I took strong grounds In ad dresses before students of this university and In a eel speech before the legislature of Georgia, against any colonial or Im perial policy on Ihe part of our govern ment a* a result of our war with Bpaln. My view* are stronger than ever against such policies, and did opportunity i>ei. mil. I should be glad lo express those views on Ihe platform at Morgan's Grove.” Mining Title* In IMapute. Tacoma. Wash.. Sept ln five case* Involving the title to and the possession of the moat valuable mining claims In Nome. United Stale# Circuit Judge W W Mor row has reversed the recently appointed District Judge- A H. Noyes, has reversed the receiver, Alex McKenxle. Ihe receiver appointed by Judge Noyes, hae granted an appeal from Ihe order appointing Ihe receiver nnd hat directed that until the tnu'tera at Issue are decided there shall he no Interference on Ihe part of th* court In Alaska of Its appointee*. Grand f uuuell of the Y. M. 1. Louisville. Ky , Refit. A—The Grand Counc'l of ihe Y. M 1. adjourned to-night after electing officers for the ensuing year. The* principal huefneaa transacted was the adoption of a number of amend ments to th# council. The following mem ber* of the Grand Council were elected: W J. Hamilton. Bt. Louis; J. J. Barry, £iew Ilavta; W. Hoffman. Memphis. w 11 TO W IKK OLD WHI*KY. It Can be Made TANARUS% leara Old In §■'•• r Hours hy an Enaltah Pra eeas. From the Ijnndon Express At f*lverpool the other day a special commissioner. rpp*!iid bv the Express, Dr. T W Drlnkwater, lecturer on chem istry In ih- Edinburgh M**llral Rchool. witnessed the ilrt.ill* of a proc**s Invent ed hv Mr It C K orf for the put|oVe of maturing mhlaky, or. rather, for cleansing It from certain element* < .upetdally fusel oil) mhl.-h lend to rentier new whisky es pecially objectionable a* a beverage. Before now |i has Men proposol I hut all whisky should In* kept in bond for a • ertain p rio I of year* before being con sumed. This *pln!nn 1* a wise one, but there nre obvious difficult!#* in the way of It* udoiKlon |tractIcally. The locking tip of w hisky in# an* the L king up of motley, and the |MM)r r consumers cantuu affor#l lo pav the price that their rl*her brethren are charged for whisky that. 1* safe to drink. The lt*-klug up of whisky. It ta further proved, means |o* In strength and In <)uniif!iy. this lo** de|# tiding ihi ih temp# ratute and moisture of the air In th** bonded cellar 51 r It. (\ Kcott of tdverpiKil Is the man aging illrector of the Rrltirh Spirit l*ro cea* Company*. I.intlied an#l he |* the In ventor of the meth*l Dr Drlnkwater has tnvcMigarrd and examined The chief Impurity In all whiskies Is what people term “fusel oil." This 1* not a simple substance, but a complex mix ture of what are termed "higher alcohols ** The best known m*mber of this scries la known a* “nmylle alcohol " Now. several investigator*. notaMy Dr. Hell, late of Somerset House, and Mr. A H. Allen. F C. H . of Sheffield, have taken amvllc alco hol without experiencing any hod effe ts Mr. Allen guts the miner fairly when he says that it Is not the atnylk* alcohol It self which injure* the whisky drinker, hut th# chemically bad com pony which It kee|*s All spirits contain thli fusel 041. but when they are "aged*’ In cash*, some Is absorbed by the wood, and so much I* ox idised or changed into compound* whicht give ihe bouquet and character to whisky A perk*! of five years may el a pee before this process of maturing Is completed In the case of many whiskies. Mb R. C. fu-mt propMue to effect in a few * hour*- four hog* what nature ac compli*** In the whinky cask I may sav that Dr Drlnkwater confirm* the opinion that In four hours Mr Bcott** pro-es# converts new whisky Into a quality equal to that of a 2-year-old sample taken from a cask His process consists In pumping ftlr through n 11l er Th*- air l* cooled by n freealng mx* hlne. so that all Its moisture Is deposited In ihe form of actual snow The Spirit Is also cooled below the free* tng point of water by the same machine The dry. cold air and cold spirits are then mixed in the form of a spray under a pressure of about twenty pounds. Thl* process goes on continuously for four hours The air one* used and charged with x number of the Impurities of the Whisky Is allowed to pass away This proce?** differs from all others of kindred nature, first in having th* spirit and air kept below fr**x!ng point, and n disposing of the air, an that th* impuri ties have no chance of again entering th# whisky Th* cold, dry air doe* not remove any >f the spirit. Moist air woud re move a certain proportion or quantity of the alcohol. The practice ha* leen brought twforo th* Society <*f Chemical Industry, and lws received the approval of some of the best analysis In the kingdom It ran bo al tered to suit the character of eo. h kind of spirit. It Is found that different whis kies demand different treatment; but all th* process** are conducted by means of the same apparatus Dr Drlnkwater saw fifty-nine gallons of patent still whisky at twenty-five over proof treated with the apparatus for four hours His analyst* waa performed on samples taken by him before and after treatment by Mr Rcott's process. Before treatment the whisky gave the following results: Strength. 25. J over proof: ether* In grains per proof gallon. 14*. higher alcohols ditto. MB grain* After treatment Strength. JAM over proof; ether. 23 grain* per proof gallon, higher alcohol*. An At grain* Practically, therefore, we see that In four hours the higher alcohol* which we noted to constitute the object lona Ide ele ments In new whisky wsre diminished hy twenty-eight grains per proof gallon One highly Important point to be noted also Is ths ether* which give the bouquet to the whisky are not practical ly diminished, the character of the whis ky. a* whisky. lielng perfectly retained The Scott pro ess could remove the whole of these higher alcohol*, but the spirit, tn place of being whisky, would simply lie rectified spirit without flavor Mr Rent I look a six-year-old whisky and subjected li to hi* process The re sult was that the whlskr was chemically unchanged On a pot-still whisky Ihe ef fect would he more mark'd than on a patent-still whl*ky. which Dr Drlnkwa ter saw treated because the former la far more Impure spirit It Is svldenl. therefore, that Mr Scott ha* Invented a process which no# can not hut regard a* of extreme Important'* from the scientific nod social etandpoln' If whisky can he so saslly robbed of ths very Impurities which madden those who consume It, we may reaaonahle hope that even If the consumption nf alcohol may not he diminished. Ihe people will be sup plied with a safer stjmulant A* the Highlander remark'd: ’’There Is nothing so bad In ths world a* bad wht*y " Minister Coming Home. Lima. Sept s.—The I’nlted State* min ister to Peril will leave for the I’nlted States to-morrow via Panama, —Force of Habit —"Olve up the keys of the city!” demanded the commander In-chlef of the allies. ‘ You got chsc kee?” asked ths corporal of Ihe guard at Pekin -Philadelphia North American earns. Every other physical . traction it second ary to it. We have a book we will gladly send you that tells just how to care (or the hair. If your hslr is too thin or losing itar us _i *'- AVOf t Growth be- 1 comes vigor- “ ous and all 1 A Mto, ■ M dandruff is jp® P r removed. w w ■ * visor or faded hair - Retain your youth ; don’t look old before your time. HR a ksttle All gngfttts. “ I have used your Hair Vigor me for I shoot M year* and I has* fouad It splea , did and satisfactory la eeary way. I be lieve 1 have recommended this Hair Vigor to hundreds of my friends, and they all tell the same story. If any bitty wants tba best kind of a Ilalr Vigor I shall cer tetnly recoeunend to tham Just a strong Is as I can that they get a bottle of A oil Hair Vigor." Mrs N, K. Haniatok, Nov. S, UN. Norwich, N Y Write Mm Doc foe. If yaa 4s not obtain all th* beaetts yen a*.ir from the ua f the Vigor, write I the Doeter atmet It. Addras*. Da. J. C AYER. Lewell. Mau ] r The dictionary says aa z success means prosperity; good fortune; //m a wished-for result. The success of —x Pearline means more. It means Pearline has proved itself I th e easiest, quickest, safest, most .. : and cleaning. It means that women have found this true, and hu.-en't been slow to tell others the truth about it There s nothing odd about- the success of Pearline. It does so much ..nd :ava ao muen. - m• *\ Cleanliness is next akin to Godliness. How yhll KUUft %HE NKIM HKD. I krale Derlaed at I . k. Flab I nut iMlaalwn Tell* to a Nleelf. From lb*- Washington Htar. A hundred time* . day on an average Ihe quentlon l **ke#l by visitor* at the building of the I’nltad Htatrs Kish Com mission ll#m In thr world Is it possible to tell with any degree of certainty how many #*ggn are piad In any given blp meut or .ire <ontalnel in the Jar* where they are usually k#*pt? And the quea tknier Is much surprised mk# n h* Is ln forme#! that by mean* of a scab . devised by one of the attache* of the Aiimmisslon. It is possible to tel to a itlcet) Just what Is desiffil to te known on the subject, whether It b#* concerning the eggs of th* Kq#iintih mackerel, whi'h are * email that a etaiuDrd ITnlted Hate quart meas ure of 67.7$ cubic Inch**, will contain 1.3*7.725, or of land-locked anlltioti. 3.3ft> eggH of which will All a similar meas ure. The measuring sc*ie Is a light square made of wood, not ao liable to break the Jar as metal The long leg of the square Is fifteen Inches long, half an In ti wide and a quarter of an Inch thick The short leg is of the same bre*lth and thickness and half the length The Mig leg is graduated to read from the bottom upward The flist grade Is at a hltht cor responding to th# level attained In th#* Jar by a mei*ur*d half pint of water. ih* sue veiling grades are determined by the Intnsluetlon of additional half pints of water. All measurement* are mad#* with a feed tub* in |.Uc e. the water shut *ff and the eggs allowed to thoroughly settle The abort leg of th#* square I* placed over Ihe top of the Jar. the long leg hang ing down an#l the a#ale read from the point where the top layer of egg* shows In the Jar It I* possible t obtain by measurement an aim **t correct esttma * of the numler of fish produced by a Jar of worn!-buoyant eggs Just before the time of hatching all dead eggs are <te fully drawn off It Is an ascertained fket that scarcely any semi-buoy ant egg* die under proper conditions after hatching out has comment ed In connection with the scale there ! used a Jar w h rh presents an easy, quick ar.d safe nieana of ascertaining the knowledge sought. The measurement* In all case- are made while th- egg* ss m the Jxr. and with the cap scrawed • low i, How to a seen an the number of •ggs lost or hatched or are on hand I* a question -<n*tant|y arising It would be cumbersome and tedious were It romnul sory to open the Jar and m a sure the •gg* In a graduate every time such lh fo-motion wt n*ed#d The question of measuring the eggs 1* a mo*t Important one to the fish etiltur- Ist. and yet, to Judge from the various ways of mnaurlng eggs. It Done that has revived little att# ntton. Every branch of trade hw a s'sndard measure, but n*h culture ha* remain and without standard or iatlonal unit each workman estab lishing fbr himself a system of determln atbrn. and varying that system from yenr to year as the exigenc es of the season ftemanded. There has not only been a want of harmony In h#' various so-called measures used, but the measures them selves have lacked the alt ment* of relia bility. being In many cases the most ar bitrary and Irrational. The records of result* of work In tne earlier days of n*h culture were hut wild guessing, and. sad to sey, many record# are yet made in the same manner. A Yet* anil Better Way. The practice of arriving at the numl>er ~f on ti.'tj •>' t e-i** b\ e-tlmatlng , .idi parent tlh to contain an tinvan ,uy quantity of egg* and multiplying thl* quwn tty by the number of female* spawned ha* Justly gene out of existence How various and how far wide of the mark eileh mtlmatea were are *hown by the following: One flsh culturlat esti mate# a shad to contain from 3rum> to pmi egg*, another put* the number at kttsn Ir. H C. Yarrow estimate* a *had to ronla n from Hit *> to UMBO eggs, and an emhryo’.oglat of the ITnlled State* fish i omml** on aay* a female of the same specl'* may have In her roes at ono tlm rd.flffi ova In preces* of matur atPn These statements are made to show the aheurdliy of the old method of determina tion There I* no dealre to attach odium to any one, Ihm the wish I* earnest to call ths attention of all Interested to the necessity of some recognised standard of measurement to tw known anti used by all flsh rulturlsts. Not Infrequently ha* It happened that a consignment of egg*. When estimated by the recipient, ha* fal len short of Ihe Invoiced number, and sometime* these occurrences have ted to accusation* of fraud White flsh and shad eggs, and possibly others, after sev eral hours In the parking crate*, undergo a shrinkage amounting to nearly 12 tier rent of their bulk After being several hour* In the Jar*, the egg* rfchsorb the water and resume thslr ttomal elxe But the main reaaon for Ihe discrepancy In the measurement* at the receiving and shipping point* I* to be found In the want of harmony In Ihe method* of nruasuilng. I alcnlntlona HMfienlt. In many halrherl**. especially those batching heavy egg*, the system of deter mination I* b*d on the diameter of the egg. It will be found very difficult to establish by calculation based on the di ameter of Ihe egg It will he found very difficult to establish by calculation baaed on the diameter a standard for measuring sgga on tray* and the difficulty amount* to almo't Impossibility when It I# attempt ed In Ilk* manner to drier min# the num ber of egg* In a given hulk. A syatcni which Mr W F. Page d-vl*. nl of measuring flsh eggs and fry I* ap plicable to all olaaees of seml-buoyrnt and heavy egg*, and la. he believe# hatted upon rational prlnclpler The baste of this system I* the number of egg* in a stand ard quart of the rutted Stale* <57 75 cuMo Inches, determined by the actual count of the egg KING KOMIMONtK MINES. Have They Been Dlecovered, sad Are They Hick f Prom Ihe Icndon Mail This I* a alory quit* on the modern lit erary tinea, for It end* with a note of tn tsrrogatloA. It begin* with th* scene of Dr. Carl Pe ters. Ihe German explorer, rummaging about In an ok! German caatle a few year* back. In thl* ancient Teutonic echloaa Dr. pe lere came upon a musty volume, together with a quaint old map. published m France In ITI> or thereabout. Thl* work and map. according o one of Dr. Cnrl Petera' associates, dealt with tha doings of the Portuguese 3 year* ear lier. in the country hordrrtng on the Aim heel, and are to form the ky to the where abou>s of gold mines in the heart of Africa. The course of the Zambesi waa shown on the map roughly, but ac curately, and on Ihe south bank of the rl\er ap|#.ird Mount Fur*. Now. con cerning Mount Kura a thirst for science and a thirst for gold had already bred in th* good doctor certain suspicion*. Ko he set lo work. It Is recorded. In sya etna th fashion to get all the works ha could find *n the subject. He la redlted with |sis.-es*ing a wonderful memory, and of being capable of recollecting nlnult details for >#*ars af’erwrard. Home of the old writing* thus hunted up went back lo the seventeenth century, and for two years was the trail followed tip. soy* so admiring chronicler, through the dim and dust-strewn realms of centurles-okl book la hd. The receni tvork* were studied, too. and at the end >f two years, in July. lsh*. !hc Herman traveler promoted in Ind*n a rompuny-the Dr Dari Peters’ Eetntes net Exploration Company. I>l ml ted— for the ptir|io*e of put chasing proi*ertles anl tights which bad Iteeti acquired by him In hc.istrrn arwl Central Africa, and for the conduct by Dr Deters of a well equtp|ie) ami wrefully selected expedition to the district where he hoped to discover Mount Kura, ami to test hie irmlsea ithaut that mvsterlous locality The vendors took 7&.<W <1 shares in part payment, and the exjienses of this expr llt|oti hihl suffl* lent working capital would lie provided, said Ihe proapectus, by the Issue of ft.QflP ah ires Well the exi*ditlon. with Dr. Peters at It* head, tmd the clues afforded by the old writings amt the old map in constant use. duly dt*cvcre<l the mountain of Kura, by the middle of I*o. and Dr Pe ter* ws convinced his cherished hopes were w# II founde#t Thoee hope# were nothing more nor less than that Fura saw Ophlr the Rtbllcal laml of gold, uts source if Holomnii ii fabulous riches. Kura, the good doctor con ended. was th* native corruption of the word A fur by which name the Arabs of the sixteenth century knew the district. Afur waa the Soi*aeau, or flnurh Arabian, form of the Hebrew name Ophlr As Dr. Peters afterward assured a represent at Iva of Reuter’s Agency, for the Information ##f the work! at large ho had ample proof that the Furs which hla expedition had discovered and explored in the summer of Md*. the Ophlr of the Old Testament. the ophlr wrh*#e* |ncal*ulable wealth la referred tn In the first Rook of Kingw. In Imth Hooks of Ohronicie*. In Job. tn the Psalms, and in Isaiah A chief, the doctor atd, gave htm val uable Information regarding Hke position of ancient mine and working*, which ha at one* Invesrigatnl doing io the spot Indicated he found ancient ruin* of un tfcmhied Hemlllo type Fura llaslf he bumd In pnasese a formation of quartsltle elite and dkirlta, between which gold reef, were rurmlng The ancient working* which he found were not only eorfac* working*, hue there were alo. he de clartd. *hafta and road* hewn Into tha rock How the shareholder* must have pal pitated when they read. In a report. Dr. Peters preaented to the director*, that when the Portuguese arrived In F.ast Af rica about the year 1500 the Arab* called the district Afur. and told the Portu guese ft was the Ophlr of the Old Testa ment For a glance al I Chronicle*, chapter xxlx, verse four, would show them that David gave lo overlay the wall of the temple I.nnt) latent* of gold of Ophlr, nnd upon the authority of F W. Madden. M It A. S . author of ‘’History of Jewish Coinage.” etc., they would know that a falrnt of gold waa worth la.nno. Here. then, was llx.oin.nm worth of gold from Ophlr, and the Inexhauatlble nature of the supply would he apparent when thr? pursued their Biblical researches to And. In I King*, chainer I*, verae twen ty-eight. that there wa hroughf from Ophlr to Solomon 43> talent* of gold, equal to n modern value of 12.120.000. and that, again. In II Chronicles, chapter vllt, verse eighteen, mention I* made of an other dip hy Solomon Into Ihe Ophlr mlnaa to tin- extent of 4W> talent* of gold, or £2.70. non. But by now cold ahlver* of doubt may have succeeded to the drat warm thrtlla; for a year has passed since fhe wonder ful discovery was mads, and two ya are since the company was formed, and no million* of pound*, nor hundred* of thou sand*. nor thousand*, nor hundred*, nor ten*, nor even unit* hav* yet name ths way of the expectanx shareholder* Hut Instead come unexpected whisper* that what purported to he King Solomon’s mine* are not work* thousand* of year* old, hut Just a mere ordinary collection of sand and rock hills. Is It veritably Ihe I-and of Ophlr, and If *o. have David and Solomon left much gold for Ihe sareholder* In Dr Pegsre’ Estate* and Exploration Company? Deserted rifles of China. Guy SI Walker In Leelie'e Weekly. Owing to the peculiar superstitions of th* Chinese people, the greatest earn muat he exercised In the treatment of ci ties after they hav* been captured, and It will he unfortunate If the allied force*. In capturing Tien Tain, have wrecked any considerable property or done an unnec essary bombarding or destruction of Ita walls The Chinese locale rttle* Juat a* they build house# or dig grave*, accord- Ing to the dlrccllofk, of their geom* o< ‘‘earth doctor*.'' as they call them Be fore they will hulkt a city or bury an an cestor these geomancera must, with a great deal of rigmarole, ness upon the luck or favorahteneea of tha spot select ed. and If the selection of a spot originally declared to he lucky should be followed by had lurk to the one aelerting It, other geomancera will he called In. and If th* spot Is pronounces] by them lo he unlucky It will al once he abandoned The entire city of Pekin woe moved by the first emperor of th* Mongol dynasty because his earth doctors told him that had luck waa associated with the old ett*. and that If he wished lo eetabllah hi* dy nasty he muet build anew capital. Th* modern city of Pekin wae the result. Tha ancient wall* of the old city are sill! to ha seen on the bank# of the Hun rlvatr, about eight mile* southwest of the present city, although It was abandoned over seven cen turies ago The Gilea ravaged by the Tel Ping*, fifty years ago. have nevar re covered. because the Chinese believe that their luck had been spoiled. When th* elite* were occupied and plundered by th# rebels tha population abandoned them, and they have built new town* and new cttle*. rather than tempt fate by rebuilding th# old one*. The Chinese will ahendon houses almost new If convinced that th*4r geomancy t* wrong, and In almost every city you will And some quarter lacated end abandoned because It I* said to be un lucky. -The denlh of Capt. Wellhy. Eigh teenth Hussar*, ef wound* at Paarde kop, on the Bth Inst . remove* from the British army llat ihe name of an ofneer who seemed to hare a considerable fu tuie h*f re him. B<*ld # h-lng a soldier or acknoal dged capacity. Cap! Wellby hnd established hi* repp i Hi as an ex plorer He was Ir Kr# and w ten the war br<k out In South Africa, acd at once took psaaage 11 Durban to Join hie regi ment the Eighteen h Uusaaia at Lady smith 5