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we are now prepared OMPTLY. antity of Sash, and the differâ€" ng marriage? ess? Our Now Method r you. Consultation mion Free of Charge. ted), on Discases of omen‘" Free, o medicine sent %fl. D. Ust and cost of Treat. FOR aAa CASE WE CANNOT CURE OF sI0NS, YaARICOâ€" DRAINS, STRICTâ€" HILIS, STUNTEP HOOD, IMPOTENâ€" BILITY, UNNATâ€" ETc. | reatment is the ry of the Age SE DigEAsES ouvres 1t for over,. ndulged in the folltes system. You feal the you are not the man K. Will you heod the C 13 n easuy . ec hout unde 0o late. Are you nerâ€" ith dark eircies under bashful, dreams and low cheoks, careworu atrength, tired mornâ€" d orgaus and promaâ€" want to a promature ESS I isb Almshouws go so that all orders 00D DISEASES. it T BLOOD DLSSASE, Across utside sheeting. SHELBY ST OIT, MICH,. esp lwa Nn ED MEX EARS. ‘ NO PAY ! O an d OR J Lath always cKECHN Ge Factory y. i6 Km ikimmn MJ T H U 1lly ‘s wete takâ€" ng the fronâ€" could walk dergeing oxâ€" ger growth is this ab= makes fire agent. The At M n# limber the effectâ€" pruce forâ€" «~ Sald to Ameerteam it Syraâ€" harterâ€" € a‘lmsâ€" k. to terâ€" ral ail hey an estate comprising 26,000 acres of the best shooting and fishing district of Suther4ndshire. Princs Alexander of Teck, who is stayins at Belford hall, Northumberâ€" At the Trades Union C::i‘x;en in Birâ€" mingham ec{estex'dly a Fr tion _ was passed declaring in favor of the naâ€" tional federation of all trades and inâ€" dust ries. t in 354 Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburg milâ€" lionaire, has purchased Skibo Castle, Bir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett has writâ€" ten a book on The Battlefields of ‘Thessaly, which will be published shortâ€" ly.lin which he is an apologist for the Sultan. Great excitement has been caused in the financial world by the announceâ€" ment that the Bank of England intends ho‘diag oneâ€"{fifth of its reserve in silâ€" cial support to the, striking engineers A passing steamer regotu that the Circassia, of the Anchor line, is disabled about seven hundred miles off the Irish coast. Tugs have gone to her rescue. The Trades Union Congress in session at Birmingham, on Tuesday, passed a resolution pledging moral and finanâ€" Bir Everett Millais is dead in Lonâ€" don. He recently succeeded his father, the late Sir John/ E. Millais, president of the Royal Academy. The Earl of Cadogan, Viceroy of Ireâ€" land, has issued a statement to the efâ€" fect that the reports of famine prosâ€" pects in Ireland aro unjustifiable. A test case is to be made of the right of the vicar of Shakespeare‘s church at Stratfordâ€"onâ€"Avon, to exact a toll from visitors. The British Government has instructâ€" ed Sceotland Yard to notify the United States of the departure of Anarchists for that country. The Duchess of York havin% acceptâ€" ed a red fisher cloak from Father Dooâ€" ley‘s home in Galway, that article has become very fashionable. clmirmanshigsol the Royal Commission for the Paris Exposition of 1900. eE ETLE BE JERION B PRA ATA Bir Lewis W. Cave, judgo of the &E- lish High Court of Justice is dead. He was seventyâ€"live years of age. _The Prince of Wales has accepted the port this year. GREAT wheat crop of Manitoba, he says, will exceed the first estimates and he thinks there will be between‘ twentfl-two and twentyâ€"three million bushels for exâ€" are meeting with great difficulties in the White Pass, they are in the best of spirits, and are confident of success. Mr. T. 6. Shaughnessy, viceâ€"president of the Canadian Pacific railway, who has returned to Montreal from a tour of inspeciion, gives a glowinevdeacri tion ofiJusine@s_ip the Northâ€" West. '1'1‘1: News has been received of one of the parties which left Montreal some weeks ago for the Klondyke. The members of the party are all well, and, while they There are more than four thousand men at work on the several sections of the Crow‘s Nest Pass railway, and there is nodoubt the whole line will be comâ€" pleted well within the time first estiâ€" mated by the Canadian Pacific railway management. The largest sale of sole leather ever made in Canada was made at Monâ€" treal by Shaw, Cassils & Company to James McCready & Company. This transaction involved the trans(er of 25000 sides for aconsideration of about $75,000. Whe plates of the jubilee stamps and rostal cards were destroyed yesterday n Ottawa in the presence of the Postâ€" master General. About thirtyâ€"two milâ€" lion st&m(ra were printed from the pla:’os and about seven million postal cards. Montreal is threatened with a water l.mifn owing to a brt;):k int the ‘t])ig supply pipes carrying t water under the Lu-gine Canal. X dredge employed in deepening the canal tore up several w(‘tionlef two 30â€"inch pipes CDD .00 0R O CC2 E2CE CCHT APCUZCT REVHCâ€" real, as Miss Warner, of New York, was found dead in bed, with two empâ€" ty bottles that had contained carbolic acid by her side. Iwo more smallpox cases were reâ€" moved to the City Contagious Diseases Hospital at Montreal, the patients beâ€" ing the wife and threeâ€"yearâ€"old daughâ€" ter of a street railway motorman, who lives in Fullum lane. vorolg burned by her clothes catchâ€" ing fire that death took place in a few hours. On Thursday the steamer Merrimac took from Montreal for the London market, a quantity of Canadian tomaâ€" toes, pears, and peaches in ccld storâ€" age as an experiment. The Ontario Government has decidâ€" ed to sent Prof. Willmott to the Michiâ€" picoten district to investigate and reâ€" rort to the Bureau of Mines concernuig he report that there are new go finds there. Eighty new %::in elevators and thirâ€" teen flat warehouses have been conâ€" structed during the present year to asâ€" commodate wheat along the railway lines in Manitoba and %ha Northwest Territories. A wellâ€"dressed young woman who reâ€" gistered at thg__&tdill.o Hotel, Montâ€" ing fire t few hours. On Thur took from market, a . toes, pears age as an Miss Frances E. Willard announces that the conventions of the WCTU.at Toronto and Buffalo will protest agâ€" ainst lynching. The building of a railway from Junâ€" eau to Lake Teslin is now assured, which will lessen the route to the Klonâ€" dyke very considerably. The daughter of Mr. George R. Hoimes, of St. Catharines was so seâ€" verel{ burned by her clothes catchâ€" ing fire that death took place in a few hours. fail CANADA. Mrs. Tomkins, of Hamilton, was faâ€" tally burned by the explosion of a lamp. A youth named De Mutusky was faâ€" tally crushed in an elevator at Branâ€" don, Man. us The safe of the Ontario Tack Comâ€" r&y at Hamilton was forced open and 103 stolen from it. A Mycrolo*ical Society has been fi'mad in Berlin, which, it is claimed, the first of the kind in Canada. h-u..n.-.»... Great Britaim_ +s .2'.‘".0'_! Country ME VERY LaTEST FPROM ALL THE WORLD OVER, Great Dritain kess "thals .. S * All Parts da:..g...’"“ States, and Assevied for Easy Renarng *""*"**" **4 Since the alliance between France and Russia was announced the tome of the German press has changed, and there is now a disposition to court the friendship of Great Britain. The President of the Ar&e):t'mo Reâ€" fllbl.'m has submitted to ress a riff which is prohibitory “?mglmt all articles of American manufacture in retaliation for the Dingley Act. It is reported at Simla that the Afâ€" ridis are collecting in the Bazan Valley for an attack on either Bara or A despatch from Uganda states that a mutiny has broken out among the troops of the Congo Free State, and that the mutineers killed fiftyâ€"nine Belgian officers and men. Herr Krupp, the German ironmaster, bas withdrawa his offer to eqtuip the next expedition of Dr. Peters to Afriâ€" ca, owing to the sentence recently passed on the latter. sonment Barril, the Anarchist, who attemptâ€" ed to assassinate the Chief of Police and Assistant Chief of Barcelona, has A despatch from Barcelona says that the present Government will not last two weeks, and will be succeeded by a Liberal Administration under Senor Sagasta. Among the gifts which President Faure took with him to Russia were three dolls for the Grand Duchess Olga, which can talk and sing in French. Jose Ventre, the French anarchist, who recently arrived in Mexico from Epain, will be expelled from the counâ€" try as a pernicious foreigner. The admirals in command of the {leets of the powers in Cretan waters have decided to raise the blockade of the island on Friday next. The Indian frontier reports are more favourable. The spies say the Orakzais appear to be disheartened, and the Swatis are submitting. The Spanish Government is taking steps to prevent all newspaper comâ€" ment on the conduct of affairs in Cuba and the Philippine Islands. * The Conservative and Agrarian papâ€" ers in Germany have renewed their agâ€" itation for a tariff war against the United States. Another large filbustering party is reported at Havana, to have landed arms and ammunition for the insurâ€" gents. The Swatis up to the (‘)resent have surrendered two thousan guns, one thousand swords and seventy breechâ€" loading rifles. * The king of Siam arrived in Paris on Saturday and took up his residence in atmansion provided by the Governâ€" ment. An Austrian priest claims to have discovered a certain oure for cancer by means of eating lizards. The big mining strike is practically over, the men having accepted the comâ€" promise terms offered by the oXerat- ors, but unfortunately the last day of the struggle was disfigured with blood, the sheriff‘s deputies having fired upâ€" on marching miners near Hazelton, Pa.. killing eleven men and wounding many more. Drought is said to have destroyed the crops of a large portion of Southâ€" ern Russia. There was a headâ€"on collision yesterâ€" day a mile west of Newcastle, Col., beâ€" tween a Denver and Rio Grande pasâ€" senger train and a freight of the Colâ€" orado and Midland, by which twentyâ€" five persons were killed and many mere severely injured. There is a steady advance in the moveg;ent of trade in the United States accor l.ni) to the commercial advices of Mesers. Dun and Bradstreet. There is a noticeable increase in production, in employment, and in the demand for all seasonable goods. Thomas Kennedy, about 60 years of age, fell from the second storey winâ€" dow of his residence in Troy, N. Y. while walking in his lleeg on Tuesday morning. His neck was broken. Abraham Rosenthal, aged 18, at New York on Monday ni,rbtgdranl! a flask of whickey on a wagar, and then faâ€" tally stah‘ed himself, imagining bimâ€" self a tragedian. i6 Thomas Thompson, one of the prinâ€" dfids in the fight near Minden in which W. H. Sawyer was fata.lblig inâ€" jured has been brought back to Minden in charge of the; pofice. An explosion of nitroâ€"glycerine at Cygnet, Ohio, on Tuesday caused the death of six persons whose names are known and of several persons whose names are not known. Wild horses have become such a nuisâ€" ance in Northern Arizona that the Atâ€" torneyâ€"General has been asked if they may be legally slaughtered. ; A negro woman suspected of havmg mllYox created a panic in a churc at Columbus, Mis§., on Sunday. Her body was found later in a field. Customs inspectors at Larado, TeXA8, have found an unclaimed grip OM . & train containing $200,000 worth of diaâ€" monds, jewellery, and other valuables. Henry W the young white man lf{nch"? lt‘li"rlond'{;' Liission,. near ichmond, Va., for alleged criminal assaiult is now said to hare been innoâ€" D i2 C PR CR td ll‘!lll';lfl ‘{;::nk“; convey to the Irish peop! er for the loyal and ki:nf‘:neptwn acâ€" corded to her grandchildren, the Duke and Duchess olF York. "_ UNITED STATES. isoaned .tA&:andants of k. hKerd olfavgm'r::l‘ ca near Topeka, Kan., C ll:yu become ‘infected with tubercu is. d Scott and Reuben Gray, brothers an note! desperadoes, have been CBPt“"'t:g at Bardwell, Ky., and are held murder, t prisons on charges of lese majeste. The Duke and Duchess of York at Glasgow received the civic authorities and opened the new Prince‘s dock. The city was profusely decorated in honor of the visit of their Royal Highnesses. Reports from Ireland say the crops of cats and potatoem nave been ruined in nearly ali sections of the country. Famine is inevitable, and it is feared the hard times of fortyâ€"seven will be L.’â€"' DEZZRE MNORS WIRICUON UO CGBHC JIU Lieutenant of Ireland, asking bim 20 *Nose T ons. __Lord Saliz%lury'n latest pro?oul,that the Greek finances be control ed by the powers for the benefit of all the credâ€" itors of Greece har been accepted by the powers. In a booklet written in cxphel' by a minor royal ersonage and recently published in fondon it is asserted that over 8,600 persons are in German state BrisONS OB CBAFPIAR ~f Laaa ma ineatn oll“(tl.fi:t’rtedk t}lat uneither h; nor “?:y eck fami intend . vis America, . g & The Queen is said to be taking fimt interest in the reports from the Klonâ€" dyke, and is anxious to know if thers ;: a.tdequat.o protection for her subjects The Quren has sentenced to forty years‘ impriâ€" GENERAL. written to the Lordâ€" Of all vanities and fopperies, the vanâ€" ity of high birth is the greatest. True nobility is derived from virtue, not from birth. ‘Titles, indeed, may be {:ur-, chased ; but virtue is the only coin that makes the bargain vnflid.â€"(%urton. ‘A cheerful temper, joined with inâ€" nocence, will make beauty attractive, hnow‘ledf\e delightful, and wit goodâ€"naâ€" tured. It will lighten sickness, poverâ€" ty and affliction : convert ignorance inâ€" to an amirble wg. and render deformity itself ag e.â€"Addison. i Nature lovem truth so well, that it hardly ever admits of flourishing. Conâ€" ceit is to nature what paint is to beauâ€" ty ; it is not only naedf;ls but impairs what it would improve.â€"Pope. Nothing is so great an instance of illâ€"manners as flattery. If you flatâ€" ter all the company, you please none : if you flatter only one or two, you afâ€" front the rest.â€"Swift. (A firm faith ds the best divinity ;. a good life the best philosophy ; a clear conscience, the best law : honesty, the best policy ; and temperance, the best physic.â€"Franklin. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper ; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumâ€" stance.â€"Hume. Deference is the most delicate, the must indirect, amd the most elegant of all compliments.â€"Spenstone. There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a disâ€" pute worth a passion.â€"Sherlock. The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure is to correct ourselves.â€" Demiosthenes. Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.â€"Py thegoras. Doing good is the on}l{ certainly hapâ€" py action of a man‘s lifeâ€"Sidney. Ma’bâ€"-;linn why do you scratch out 7 mh 1 Papa, after a paugeâ€"To please your The Valdez were Cubans employed in a cigar factory near where the fire occurred. The fire was witnessed by several â€" hundred Eémureâ€"seokers at Picnic Island and the inn. HIGHER ORITIOISM. Ethebâ€"Papa, does God tell you what ment Compazt{ mwere burned, there be'mtg no fire gmtection. ‘The deâ€" partment from Port Tampa turned out, but could do no %)(?d. there being no water on hand. Loss about $2,000. The house cm:fiht from the flames and was destroyed. A small boy was burned in the house. His body is not yet recovered. _ bay 1 The fire asrea.d rapidlgiLa and â€" five houses og;m by the nt Investâ€" ment mpo.xt{ were burned, there being no fire protection. ‘The deâ€" Mrs. Vaidez at once went to her“ daughter‘s assistance. While she was attempting to extinguish the flames | ber own clothes caught fire, and the ‘ two ran screaming from the house.| Both were burned to a crisp. _ MR Little Girl Used Kerosene to Start a Fire â€" Caused the Denth of Three Persons, Marie, the 14â€"yearâ€"old daughter of Mrs. Frances Valdez, of Port Tampa City, Florida, went to the kitchen to start a fire the other afternoon. She poured on kerosene, and instantly there was a deafening explosion, followed by the girl‘s agonizing cries as she ran from the room. P a move was being made in some mysâ€"| ‘"But some terious and unkiown ofl,uarter for the widely adver minting of such dollars on a large that a newe scale, the coins to have the same had been op amount of silver as the genuine, and the White p to be in exact similitude of the coin that during bearing the stamp of the United States nineâ€"tenths « mints. Thus far the department has the new dir not been able to locate ung' of this at a moderat illicit product, and it is not believed 000 men, 8,0( any of the bogus dollars of that sort ly bloâ€"ked are yet in circulation, but that is no between the guaranty that the country may not at the pass. TJ any time be flooded with them. At ampled horr the present price of silver bullion there worthy of tt is a margin of 60 cents on every doillar is blazed out privately minted. [derelict bap IOTT Lag s Nh sa +d CE PRCIOOCCIRE AMRPC O 17 Government detectives have â€"been inâ€" this way mauch of the hardsh?p com structed to be on the watch for bogus Plained of at present woluld have bee silver dollars, the tiBe having â€" been ; @Vioided. given the ‘Treasury Department that| HORRORS OF THE WHITE PASS they were not wrong in their proâ€" phecy. As works of art these certifiâ€" cates may be very fine, but for purâ€" poses of money they were shockingly deficient in many of the safeâ€"guards which the department bhad provided against counterfeiting. _ y : U. 8. Officials Struggling Against an Avaâ€" lanche of the * Queer." The United States secret service buâ€" reau is struggling with an epidemico of | counterfeits. Hardly a day passes i without the arrest of from one to half | & dozen persons detected in pa.ssing' spurious notes or silver coin. It is eviâ€" ‘ dent that there is a large volume ot; counterfeit silver afloat and that the ‘ circulation is continually being diluted | with that sort of material. _ When these certificates were first put out expert engravers predicted that counâ€" | terfeiters would be tempted to mumef activities, and the result shows that say if this is a fact there will be no necessity for the construction of the Nicaragua canal, as English cagital and engineering skill will carry the Panaâ€" ma enterprise to a success{ul conclusâ€" * rench oo aipany to build the Panama canal. _ The Washington authorities Baron von Bebrader, a lieutenant in the German army, who has been at Ostend during the entire season, comâ€" mitted suicide on Thursday evening, having lost a fortune of eighty thouâ€" sand pounds in gambling. , The French, Government is belng.pe- titioned to pass a law reducing taxaâ€" tion in proportion to the number of children in the family as a means of ret‘l:uci.ng the shrinkage in the birth rate. toum, has been occupied by Soudanese who are friendly to the British. It is stated that the British Governâ€" ment has acquired the concession of the French company to build the Panama that There was an explosion of. dynaâ€" mite near Johanned!;urg, gin South Africa, yesterday, by which five white men and twentyâ€"five Kaffirs were killâ€" hat Berber, the next important town n the Nile in the advance of the Anâ€" ‘lo-Eg{ptia‘nA _expedition upon Kharâ€" ENDED IN A CALAMITY. special despatch from Cairo says LOTS OF COUNTERFEITS. GRAIN3 OF GOLD. a wedding present!? °_ i’hn:llopeâ€"l:.‘_% fl:fl- I supposet % . e ware, I su; Paulineâ€"Noâ€"a necklace. basis, and I know of no field more proâ€" mising for the prudent capitalist." | AN INIQUITOUS HARVEST. ; ! " They are of course reaén(')gg a goldâ€" en harvest, and at least $6,000,000 have been spent this summer in the rush to the Yukon. More has been spent in steamboat fares wlom&han all the flold ‘yet taken out of the Klondyke, and so far it has cost more than $10,000,000 to | extract about $2,000,000 from this new | | region. I have invst:fiatod the above figures very ciosely, and have absoluteâ€" | ‘ly reliable information as to the |amount of gold taken out, and the tales that have appeared in the press about tons of gofi’d dust and barrels , of nugieta are ridiculous exaggeraâ€"| tions. ‘In the course of my investiga-‘ 'tions I have interviewed a’large nuimâ€" ber of the most trustworthy of the reâ€" | 'turned and successful miners, and they are unanimous in sta;t,insl that there is nothing whatever in the preâ€" ’sent gituation in the Klondyke to justiâ€" fy the present excitement. Nine of ieve,ry ten who decide to go there must | ’ face almost ceriain disappointment and | the risk of destroying their constituâ€" tion from the terrible hardships of the | life. To all who think of going Tcanâ€" | not say too strongly ‘Stay at home.‘ THE KOOTENAY GOLD FIELDS. | "Since my roturn from Alaska I| have been maj:‘..«& a tour of the Kooteâ€" nay gold fields, also in the interests of | the fiily Chronicle, and here the outâ€"| look is most promising. Both the gold and silver mining industries have there | settled down to a parmanent paying | 1 to condemn the action of interested parties who are playing upon the imâ€" aginations of the people, and luring them to disaster mere‘y to get their doilars before they start. I regard the whoie business as an ini(luitioul conâ€" s~pi.r:m£v1 between the outfitters, transâ€" mta ion companies, and the press of Parific coast, and they have unâ€" scrupuously combined to push the boom for all it is worth, regardless either of the truth or the conseâ€" Penelopeâ€"What did he send you for wedding Mt*‘ "ecween the sea and the summit of the pass. The scene is one of unexâ€" ampled horror, and there is no trail worthy of this name except that which is blazed out by dead animals, piles of derelict baggage, and the scores of duped and disap‘fointed men. Suicides are frequent and there is more human misery to equare inch on the Skaâ€" guay trail than to the cubic mile in most other rtions of the earth. The route is blocE:d by enormous Lboulders, preâ€"ipices, mountain â€" torrents, bog holes and the almost constant rain and snow have greatly emphasized the difficulties and damgers which already existed, There is no possible chance of oni+tenth of the parties now on this trail ever reaching Lake Beinett, only 40 miles distant and even those that reach that point wiil be unable toget tothe EKlondyke this year, asthe Arcâ€" tic â€"winter has already set in. COLD, STARVATION, SUICIDE. **"What will be the fate of these thousâ€" ainds of men, and even women, who are thus doomed to spend the long winter in camp in this terrible region I hesitate to predict, for fear of being suspected of hysterics. There is no posâ€" silble doubt thiat the death roll from coid, starvation, and sulcide will be a yery ‘ong one before the spring. It is impossib to find words strong enough Mrs. Tenspotâ€"They say that Mrs. aggers has driven her husband to . ut some two months ago it was widely advertised by interested parties that a newer and much easier trail had been opened from Skaguay over the White pass. ‘The result has been that during the past ten weeks at least nineâ€"tenths of tg: travel bas gone in the new direction, and there are now, at a moderate computation at least 71â€" 000 men, 8,000 park animais, hopelessâ€" ly blocked in the eighteen _ miles between the sea and the summit â€"of vnc Uyea, in company with a large crowd of goldâ€"sgekers from British Columbia and the United States. _ The trip was an exceedingly uncomfortable one. I slept on the deck as the vessel was crowded to fully three times her capacity. Skaguay and Dyea are two semall bays, about three miles apart, and from the former runs the trail over the Chilkoot pass, which has been the high road to the Yukon for the past twelve years This route is diffiâ€" cult, but quite practicable for, determâ€" ined men, and some 3,500 goldseekers have passed over it since fn.st spring without ex riencing amy very serious block. If nYle goldâ€"serkers had gona hy ton on August 5th," said Captain Lee, "going by thr Canpdian Pacific railk way to Victorin, B. C., and thience to Seattle, Wash., the focus of all the exâ€" citement over the gold discoveries in Alaska. I went by ship to Skaguay swer was couched in graphic terms, and gave no uncertain ring. "I left Kingsâ€" A reporter interviewed him, aind askâ€" ed him to give his Impressions regardâ€" ing the route over which he had trayâ€" elled and also with respect to ‘the truth or falsity of the reports conâ€" cerning the discoveries of gold in the now famous Klondyke region. His anâ€" for the London, Eng., Daily. Chronicle, returned to Kingston on Wednesday night amd will resume his professional duties at the college forthwith. The air of Alaska seems to have agreed exâ€" ceedingly well with this captain, and he looks hale and hearty. Capt. A. H. Lee, RM.C., who has Por some time past been investigating. the overland route to the Klondyke in the capacity of special commissioner for the London, Eng., Daily. Chronicle, Cold, Starvation or Suicide Await the Unâ€" fortunates in the Dread{ul White Passâ€" gnpt. Lee Advises People to Stay at REPORT OF CAPT. LEE. OF ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE. EORRORS OF THE YUKON. AN ENVIED MAN. ver it since last spring encing amy very serious oldâ€"seekers had gone by h of the hardship comâ€" would have been TORONTO Yosi ’ The sixth or seventh policeman they met was a smallish man. and they took particular pains with him. They yellâ€" #d, whistled, sang "Guoodâ€"might, Laâ€" dies," anii marched four times around him in sxjemn &_rooe-ion He -impliv thanked them the entertainment. ‘‘Why don‘t you arrest us?" one _ of them cried. ‘ ‘‘Where‘s been a general alarm sent all over the city," replied the peace , "to the effect that if they met Zu men wid m pole, don‘t molest ‘em, as they‘re barmless lunatics on de way to de asylum to start a barber| Again and again they were escorted to headquarters until they began to feel quite well acquainted with the serâ€" conuld pou believe thieves on a quesâ€" tion of property?" replied the students. And they started once more for home. ‘"We will not carry the pole," said the students; "but if you want to we‘ll swear not to run for it." The officer believed thiem after they had repeated it in Latin, and, being a large, strong man, from the MNipperary regions, just about managed it. He was soon Lefore the same sergeant menâ€" tioned above. "It‘s their pole," sghouted the serâ€" geant as soon as he saw them. Take it back where you flt it," "Wh}v didn‘t you tell me ?"grumbled the officer, between breaths, on the WC1 UUNAICOS: Bang the boys. ‘"Your business seems to be the thicf business," said the officer. _ "Come with me to the station." i e e Pn AERTVY We had thought so," meekly replied the stukent. ‘"Yolung men," sail the sergeant, "you are discharged. Officer, go back to lwur beat." » ‘"Will you kindly instruct him to take the pole where he got it?" inquired the student. ‘"Certainly," replied the sergeant, ‘"that is your right," and the eatriped stick of timber was tugged back u?ain by the disgusted myrmidon of the aw. The students again shouldered their teaper loa1i and started down another street. Soon they met another policeâ€" man. This time they didn‘t attempt any evasion. ‘"What‘re you doin‘ with that beam o‘ wood?" shouted the officer. "Our business!" sang the bovse "Why," exclaimed the sergeant, readâ€" ing the bill of sale, "here is an awkâ€" wa:x"(‘iy mistake. This is your pole." _ ‘"Never mind," growled the policeâ€" man, "I‘ll get it there," and he sumâ€" moned help and conducted the whole procession to the police station. ‘"Boy®" eaid the sepgeant, after they had ranged themsklves in front of him. "I‘m sorry, but this bit of fun will cost you $5 apiece." "Perhaps before we are fined you would like toloo kat this strip of paâ€" perf" inquired the lall kicker. \ and bring that pole with you." ‘"We cannot afford to carry it away from its proper destination," said one of the students. ‘"‘That‘s our bugine the football player. "It is also mine" : ‘Here‘s the money," said the student, who was a member of the winning footâ€" ball team that season, and had only to write home any time for a check. "Sign this" and he drew up a bill of sale. ‘"Boys, assist me home with my load." And thes little cavalcade went down thie dimily lighted street with the sinâ€" gular bunden upon their shoulders. "Hn, there!"" yelled a policeman, whiom they had tried to pass slyly ; ‘"what are you doing with that barâ€" smilingly. sign Only a General Alarm From Meadquarter Checked the Game. Five wicked students were in the barber‘s shop getting their bair cut and parted in the middle. All this took to quite late in the night, and then one of them said: "Barber, what will vou taka foar vanr He said the ten days clause was an outrnf'u.nd an effort to please a few dissatisfied men. His plea for immediâ€" ate resumption was so «loquent that the resolution went through with a rush, only four voting against it. A wage scale was agreed to and the conâ€" vention adjourned. The resolution adopted by the miners creates a Scale Committee for the aar ;. requires mines to close down on tober 1, where the company refuses to weigh coal before screening; deterâ€" mines to continue camps at mines of New York & Cleveland Gas Coal Comâ€" pany, assigning workmen 5 dper cent, of wages for the expense, an heartily endorses the uniformity agreement, The principal resolution allowing the miners to resume work at once was debated until late in the afternoon, when President Dolan took the floor It is estimated that the strike, which lasted sixtyâ€"five working days, cost the peopib pf the Pittaburg district from $5,000,000 to $7,000,00 _ Of this amount the miners lose about ‘$2,250,000 in wages. The strike against the De Armitts will continue indefinitely, arâ€" ra‘ having been made to asâ€" Mwm'lnng' miners 5 per cent. of their wages todefray the exgene. of keeping up the fight unti) the 65â€" oem't)pt_l; ?mn.dp uniform throughout all mines complying with the provisâ€" fons of the scaie of 65 cents adopted at Coltimbus. ‘The remainder of the 23,000 miners of the district will be at work before the cose of the week. on ‘Thursday, in accordance with the action taken at the convention, authâ€" orizing the men to return to work in Resolution to Resume Work Carried With a Rushâ€"Strike Against the De Armitts to Continue. A despatch from Pittsburg says:â€" After near.y fhree months‘ idJ;ne- between 15,000 and 18,000 coal miners in tbo Piflfl‘nrg district went to work COAL MINERS‘ STRIKE ENDED IN THE PITTSBURG DISTRICT. COST ABOUT FIVE MILLIONS also mma' rejoined the policeâ€" FOOLING THE FORCE. dollars," replied the artist we were thieves, and how business," grimly replied will you take for your to the station » There, said the teacher, as she conâ€" cluded the demonstration of a matheâ€" :lz:itic:.l problem ; do I make myself n Â¥uhb, don‘t have tuh, mum, gallantâ€" ly replied little Willie Bigg. \o2 â€" m 4ous victories A blind e that does not ree de%ll better than two good eyes tha to recognize * You know, Foley, 1 bave only one eye. I have a rflt to be blind someâ€" times." Putting his glass to his blind eye, he exclaimed: "1 really do not see the signal 1" _ ue Oy _ He went on Yighting, and the Battle of the Baitic became one of England‘s be said in a quwick, cager vouce, _ Do you know what is shown on board the commanderâ€"inâ€"chief ¢" * No," said the Colonel. " Why to leave off ection !" exclaimâ€" ed Nelson. " To leave off action!" he rog‘utpd. "Now shoot me if 1 do!" hen turning to Captain Foley, he remsa rked : This nummber signi{ied * for close acâ€" tion," and the mailor wwho answered " yes" was greatly surprised to hear the little admiral say : ‘ Mind you keep it so1" The stump of his right arm began to show the strong agitation be was nnâ€" der; whenever Lord Nelson was worâ€" ried, he worked his " fin," as the sailâ€" ors called it. Turning to Colon«l Stuart About one in the afternoon Sir Hyde Parker, â€" commanderâ€"inâ€"chbief, howted from his fiagâ€"ship the wignal for the action to cease. ‘Whe signa. heutenant reported the wignai o Neilson, who seemed not to bear him. The jeuvenant waited for him o make a fresh turn of the deck, and subd : * Shall 1 aepear it, my lord i" Neson answered : * No, acknowledge it," and asiced in a minute, " is number sixteen still hoisted ¢" An Incident of Lord Nelson at the Battle of Copeuhagzen Clark Russe!l give a spirited account of Lord Neson at ihe Buitle oi Copâ€" enhagen. Aithough the Anglish ships met with a variety of disasters car.y in the fight, for three of them had bouched ground and one had been swe »t astern by a counterâ€"current yet Lord Neison still kept his signal to " bear pown" flying defiantly. them to take a pretty good aim. Genâ€" eral Jeffreys is iytracing his steps to punish â€" these tribesmenr ; Lut iue invident will not interfere with the plan u[” operations against the Moaâ€" The correspondent of the Times at Simila saysâ€""The enemy who atitacsâ€" ei the force of Gen. Jeifreys at ihe foot of Rawat pass on Tussiay nisht were not the Mohmands, but the Moâ€" munds and the Salarza: trilss nen, who are bholding th esouthern part of Naâ€" jaur. They did not attempt to iusk the positicn, lbeing content to fire at some «Lstance from the she ter of the rocks, the bright moonlight ena ling A small force of cavairy pursuad the trilesmen who attacked the punitive force at the foot of the fawat pa s comâ€" manded by General Jeffreys, and killâ€" ed twentyâ€"one of the insurgents The remainder of the enemy took up an inâ€" accessible position in the hills ani the cavalry were obliged to return a ter having suffered siight loss. _ The entire British loss in the Saâ€" mangd operations including that of the garrison in Saragari. is 80 men killâ€" ed and 59 men wounded. The number of casua‘lties among the officers is due tothe men being entrenched while the officers moved about uncovered. When this was done, the garrison of Fort Gulistan had beem at their posts for thirty consecutive hours. The casualties of the British forces were two men killed and thirtyâ€"eight woundâ€" ed, The women of the garrison atâ€" tended the wounded under an unseas ing ‘heavy fire _ _ 7 ¢ It is reported that the Afridis and Orskais have left the Samana terriâ€" tory for their homes. 6 two â€" Silkhs, dashed to the resoue of a wounded comrade, cut their way through the ememy and brought him salely into the fort. . There was similar â€" bard fifbting throughout Monday last, and until the artillery of General _ Yeatmanâ€"Biggs fina‘lly scattered the Afridis EEPRTTTTTTCIE E2OAE E2C C AUAUREQ TV EDAE ten men, rushed out to help the first party when the laitter was nard pressâ€" ed by the enemy, and before returnâ€" ing they captured three additional utandxnd’;. f k _A subabhdar (native captain), with A havildar (native sergeant), with sixteen Sikhs, charged into the midst of 300 tribesmen and eaptured three standards: _ Another hbavildar, with freys, reached the foot of the Rawat pass on Tuesday last. During the night the British troops were attackâ€" ed by the enemy, who kept. up a heavy fire for six hours ljeutenants Tomâ€" kins and Bailey were killed. Lieutenâ€" ant . Harrington was â€" dangerous} wouinded, two privates were killed,and five wounded. Twentyâ€"five bhorses and mules were also killed. The garrison of Fort Gulistam made a most gallant defence ‘The enemy appeared before that place at noon on Sunday last, and by one o‘clock the water tanks were filled, and other preparations were made to resist a siege. The garrison was comâ€" posed of 165 Sikhs, communded by Maâ€" jor Des Voeux and Lieut. Pratt. 8urâ€" geon Prall, Mrs. Des Voeux, her four children and two nurses were alsoin the fort. At four o‘clock in the afternoon the enemy closed around the place to within ten yards of the walls and, at times, rushed up to them. The garrison repeatedly repulsed the tribesmen at the point of the bayonet, and there were some remarkable exhilitions of bravâ€" ery. Some British OMcers Killed â€" At the €Cauns for More Than Thirty Mours â€" Daring Deeds of Rravery Done. iA despatch from Simla says: â€" The leoonq brigade of the Mobhmand punâ€" itive force, A DESPERATE STRUGGLE, HARD FIGHTING ON THE FRONTIER OF INDIA. COULD NOT SEE T4E SiGNAL 6HE WAS HOMELY. anded by General Jefâ€" ®! .'j