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THE PITTSBURG PRESS, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 11, 1S95L answer to the citation, statin that an in COURTHOUSE GOSSIP. llifi while those who have paid were charged $, although both are for the year 1695. Can those who paid the $0 have $1 returned to them? If the new ordinance has taken effect since the payment of the greater amount, unless tt provides for such return, you cannot collect. A. D.

Vise. If a man belongs to a society whose by-laws read, "Dues payable In advance," and resigns shortly after the beginning of a new year, can the society by legal measures collect the dues for that year? 2. Having refused the resignation tendered, and not notifying the member of such action until the year following. In case they collect dues for the first year, could they collect for the second year also? They could collect for the first year. I cannot see how any society can refuse to accept the resignation of any member, nor how they can collect for the years succeeding the offer of resignation.

A J. M. Will you please answer the following: 1. Last April I went to a real estate agent and rented a house, and now I wlih to leafe tt, as It Is situated too far out of town. In renting It I was the only one who signed the lease, and my mother moved her furniture Into It.

I am of age. Can the real estate agent follow and attach my mother's furniture? The rent Is paid in advance until September. If the agreement Is for a year, then you are liable for the rent. If your mother did not sign the agreement and her furniture is out of the house, it cannot be attached for the rent. On the other property found In a house Is liable for rent.

Inquirer. Will you kindly answer the following question and oblige a widow: A man died, leaving both personal and real property. An administrator was appointed, who divided the personal property, and a guardian was appointed for the' three minor children. I am allowed by him $35 a year for the clothing of the children. The widow la not afole to make enough to support herself and children.

sho sell a part or the whole of the real estate to support them? 2. Can she not have something out of their share for their keeping? 8. One minor has since married. Can she draw her share front the guardian? Go Into the orphans' court and secure an order for an allowance for the support of the children, and then you can get an order also either to sell or mortgage the estate. 2.

If the court allows It. It Is discretionary with the guardian whether the married minor can get her share. Reader. Please answer in you Legal Nuts 'column: If a man owns a grocery, and the stock Is reduced very low, can he claim any exemption from execution? 2. Can a man doing business- on his wife's money assign to her or make over the business to her, she being the heaviest creditor? If a man owes you a grocery bill and has property for which he has only partly paid, can he be compelled to pay up? He can claim the $300 exemption, unless his creditor holds a Judgment note or a landlord's tight lease.

2. The better plan Is to confess judgment to the wife, sell the property and have her buy It In. 8. Get Judgment, upon which Issue an execution and sell him out. Constant Reader.

I own a piece of property with a clear Mtle. I had two offers for the property. I positively refused the first, but the second was so persistent that I consented to give him a 10-day's option, and he had his agent close the deal. He gave me no consideration with the option. While I was making this deal two of my children closed a deal with the first party, selling their Interest.

There are live children In the family, one of whom Is a minor. Can my children make such a deal without my consent? 2. I should also like to know if they could sell my Interest, particularly as they sold It at a great loss to me If you own the property with a clear title the children have no interest. Unless there is a consideration, an option la not binding. If the children sell their Interest It appears to me that the property belonged to a deceased wife.

If this surmise Is correct, without a will, the husband has only a life Interest In It, and the children cannot sell It until they are all of ago, R. Allegheny city has a new vehicle cense which cost less than the old onr Those who are delinquent now pay $5, I Th government crop report for August was issued at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and from the speculative standpoint bows few surprises, perhaps only one vlZy a greater reduction than the bearish element expected Ifl the condition of sprtng wheat, Washington, Aug. 10. The report of the statistician of the department of agricul- ture, issued this afternoon, relates to the conditions as they Btood on the 1st of this month. Thus understood, the returns show an Improvement in the condition of corn about three points during the month of July, or from 99.3 to 102.5 per cent The averages for some of the large and principal states are: Ohio, 89; Kentucky, 113; Indiana, 100; Illinois, lOGr Iowa, 107; Missouri, 115; Kansas, 80; Nebraska, 70; Virginia, 102; North Carolina, 98; Georgia, 106; Alabama, 99; Mississippi.

93; New York, Pennsylvania, 00; Texas, 113. The condition of spring wheat has fallen since the last report 6.3 points, being 05.0 against 102.2 for the month of July. The conditions by states are as follows: Michigan, 69; Illinois, 63; Wisconsin, 78; Min-' ne60ta, 102; Iowa, 111: Kansas, 60; Nebraska, 79; South Dakota, 01; North Dakota, 104; Washington, 75; Oregon, 94; California, 73. The condition of oats has advanced 1.8 points since the last report, being 84.6 against 63.2 July 1. Spring rye condition Is S4 against 77 in July last, while barley has fallen to 87.2 from 91.9 in July.

Tobacco to 81.7 against B5. at that date, ana i.v in August, 1894. Rice is 84.1. last year 91. Apples, 72.2 against 44 last year.

Peaches, 88.3 against 22.3 last year. The report on 'corn Justifies the prevalent reports of a tremendous crop. The condition August 1 was 102.5 against 90.8 a month ago. This condition indicates an average yield of 29.2 bushels per acre. As the government recently estimated the total corn acreage for 1805 at 81,990,800 acres, the Indications are for a corn crop of bushels.

The total corn crop of 1804 was only 1,212,000,000 bushels, and of 1893, 1,619,494,000 bushels. The spring wheat average of 95.9 indl-i cates a yield of 14V4 bushels per acre, the condition of 100 being taken as representative of about 14.8 to 15 bushels per acre. In June tne government estimated the spring wheat acreage at 11,807,000 acres. On this basis a condition of 95.9 indicates a total spring wheat yield of 161,124,750 bushels, against 133,868,000 bushels in 1894, and 120,000,000 in 1S93. As the gov- ArnmAnt hnsi nlrpflrtv ftfltlmntAri thA win- ter wheat yield at 217,928,000 bushels, its estimate of the year's total wheat crop is 879,052,750 bushels, the shortest for 10 i years.

The total crop, as estimated by the government, was 460,267,000 bushels in 1894, 890,131,000 in 1893, 515,000,000 In 1802, 611,000,000 in 1891, and 899,000,000 in 1890. The following reviews are supplementary to the closing market reports in last even- New York, Aug. 10. Money on call, 1 per cent; prime mercantile paper, 444 per cent; sterling exchange Is steady with actual business In bankers bills at $4.89 for 60 days and for emand. Posted rates, Bar silver, 66.

Mexican dollars, 53V4, Government bonds firm; state bonds steady; railroad bonds better. Silver, 0660. As had been expected on account of the absence of many brokers -and speculators from the street quiet condition of affairs prevailed at the stock exchange to-day. The transactions aggregated 77,105 shares, and Sugar, Tobacco, Reading and Western ITnlon were the only stocks that figured for as much as 5,000 shares. Despite the dullness, however, a strong tone characterized speculation, the comparatively small shipments of gold to Europe and the expectation of a very favdrable crop report for August stimulating purchases for the long account as well as to cover short contracts.

The Grangers Improved about Vi a potitf, and quotations current were the highest of the week. The same is also true of Missouri Paciflo and Louisville Nashville, Manhattan was the only railway stock that displayed weakness, selling down l'i to 117. Among the Industrials American Tobacco rose 2, to lt4V4, U. S. Leather preferred 1, to 85 and American Sugar to 115.

There was no reaction of importance outside of S. Leather preferred, which finally yielded 1, to 84. In the specialities, Big Four Jumped lVs, to 49U. Speculation closed strong In tone. Net changes show gains of VilVi Per tobacco leading.

Bonds were quiet and firm; sales footed up $538,000. Messrs. Sproul A western corres- pondent wired: "It Is not very easy to write an inter-eating letter about a market that has not done anything and In which there are no Important factors apparent at the moment. There are a great many people here who have had wheat on hand during the past two weeks and have sold It out because the market was so dull, and who are inclined to look for a little decline. Any improvement Jn the prospect of an advance would thus find a great many men ready to come Into the market as buyers.

Clearances continue smalldisappointingly so not being over half what they were last year. Receipts are increasing a little. They naturally will, as the weather gets better so that winter wheat moves more freely and movement of spring wheat starts. We get the government report on wheat this afternoon. The expectation is that it will show about five points from last month.

There was some demand for cash wheaf here again to-day we think about ouo.iwu Dusneis nave oeen boiu. "Corn has been weak and about a half cent lower than yesterday. Neither frost nor drouth were on hand this morning, good rains having fallen through the western country again yesterday. The only activity in the market was when there was some corn for sale. Since then the market has been dull." Baldwin Fornum.

"Our wheat cables came firm and high er, with reports of no shipments from Argentine, verifying statements that ship ments from that quarter are over ror the present. This market has enjoyed the novelty of a large cash demand to-day, and something over 300,000 bushels of wheat are reported taken from this point for shipment, 125,000 bushels of which Is for direct export. Late yesterday 200,000 was taken from Duluth, part for Montreal and part for Buffalo and millers, and 000 more is reported tanen y-cmy ana aoout 600,000 for shipment In Se-f'-Stnber. Winter wheat markets were strossi Toledo being 6 cents over this market for September, from mills of Minneapolis, Duluth and Mil waukee has been so great that during the past week 270,000 barrels more than their output nave oeen soia, sometnmg unparalleled In the last two years. Dull trade.

notwithstanding which we say, buy wheat on any weakness." F. U. Logan Co, Henry Clewes says In his weekly letter: "The general Investment and speculative situation has changed little since my last advices. The attitude Is still more or less hesitating, and the drift of the moment seems to preponderate in favor of those who incline to a waiting and cautious poh-cv. The crops develoD nothlnz new.

far as respects wheat, the general conclu. slon is that we may calculate upon some. thing less than a good average yield, though the farmer seems likely to be compensated by higher prices than those of last year; while, in regard to corn the balance of western estimates favors a very large increase of output over 1894. In the industries at large, there Is no abatement of the sanguine expectations that have developed within the last six months. The rise in raw materials and the continuance of the remarkable recovery in wages from the decline of 1893 and 1894, shows conclusively that manufacturers are anticipating a material Increase of consumption; and it is to be presumed that their expectations are baaed upon facts existing in the conditions of trade.

"All this is satisfactory and naturally In-duces a large measure of public confidence. And yet there Is unquestionably some with-holding on account of certain factors In the financial situation. As matters now occcccccocccocoo 57 I 72 Electric Traction People's Traction United Gas Improvement 65 65i 79y 79- ffew York Stocks. i a 8 tock. a Am.

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VINCENT BEER. WHY CATHOLIC TEMPKRAJrOB AD VOCATES ARE OPPOSING IT. Want the Terms of the Pope's Grant Rigidly Enforced An Immense Revenue Derived From the Sale to Outsiders. i The crusade begun by the parish priests of the Pittsburg Catholic diocese and the Catholic Total Abstinence union, against the manufacture of St. Vincent beer for publlo consumption by the Benedictine monks at Latrobe, has aroused general Interest in the question, and also in the beverage itself, among others than those who patronize the saloons.

St. Vincent beer is widely known for Its alleged purity of manufacture. The Benedictines brew similar to the old plan. There is none of the hurry In the religious breweries at Latrobe that is shown In the larger breweries of the present time. This, In a measure, is what is said to give the peculiar qualities to the Benedictine brotherhood beer.

In Jhe larger establishments the malt is brewed in immense quantities in great tanks. It Is put through a hurried cooling prooess, In pipeB surrounded with salt and ammonia, and when It gets to the tanks, from which It is immediately barreled and shipped, It Is full of generated gases from the artificial cooling process. The brotherhood article Is claimed to be different. Malt and hops are all that are used in Its manufacture. The malt Is roasted to a dark brown hue, which gives to the St.

Vincent beer its dark color. The tanks are filled with the malt, which Is stewed but once. The fluid is drained oft from the tanks directly Into the great vats, where It is allowed to cool in iced atmosphere; the vats are sunk at the base of Monastery hill, below the abbey and industrial establishments. The beer is left In the open vats for months at a time, sometimes for a whole year, until It has reached Its maturity. Then It is barreled and stored away in caves in the hillside until ready to be shipped.

The "heaviness" of the brotherhood beer Is said to be due to the lnrtnense amount of malt and hops used, and to the natural cooling method, which allows all possible gases to escape. St. Vincent beer Is very heavy and Its effect upon the jion-drinking man Is very prompt; he not being allowed to put away more than a couple of glasses. To the regular drinker, who may safely store away a dozen glasses of ordinary beer at a time, the brotherhood beer will call a halt at the third glass. It also acts more quickly and with more decisive effect than lager, and it la this quality of the religious beverage, designated as a "nutritious drink" by special grant from the pope, is maue ior me consumption only ot the priests and lay brothers of St.

Benedictine. Under the grant the Catholic Total Abstinence societies base their right to have the outside sale suppressed. They claim that this "religious beer" will intoxicate a man quicker than the regular stuff, and that, while it Is alleged to be "pure," or free from drugs and chemicals, it tends to Increase rather than diminish drunkenness. The St. Benedictine brewery, at Latrobe, Is much larger than Is generally supposed.

It contains three large tanks, and four lay brothers are emnloved In the manufac ture of the product. There are a half score ot storage vats, with a capacity of several thousand barrels. The brotherhood realizes a large annual revenue from the sale of the beer, which Is applied to the maintenance of the "community" and the carrying on of the educational work of the Benedictines. It is said that the monks merely sell the beer to oblige a few rnenas oi tne Drotners in nearby towns, and not for the revenue ealned thpre.frnm. It is a well-known fact, however.to travel ers it is soia in niiadeiphla.

New York ana ana throughout this state. It is stated that the yearly output of the brewery for outside sale is from 4,000 to 6,000 barrels. When lager beer is selling at $5 or $0 per barrel, St. Vincent's brings from 17.60 to $9 per barrel, and the revenue thus realized by the monks, which the Catholic Abstinence societies expect to cut oft by the action of Monslgnor Sa-tolll, or through an appeal to the pope, direct, is about $35,000 to $40,000 per year. MAY BE SHOWERS, But Not Enough Precipitation to Cool the Hented Atmosphere.

Yesterday was one of the most trying days of the summer, and the Indications given out by the local weather bureau last night gave little promise of more comfortable weather to-day. At 8 o'clock last night the temperature of the air 15 feet above the roof of the government building was 79 degrees, a little hotter than in the early morning. Chicago suffered from the heat until the afternoon, when a heavy rain set, in. The recorded precipitation was half 'an Inch, but there Is little hope of there being anything better than a small shower here to day, not enough to cool the air. The storm that visited Chicago, while heavy as lone as it lasted, was of small area, and In the words of Observer Glers, was "almost played out." There Is a possibility of cooler weather to-night, and those who were kept awake last night by the heat may get some rest.

All the scenes Incident to a hot Satur day night were enacted on the streets. Including the crowding of (Jrug stores where soda water was sold. Confectioners did a rushing business in Ice cream and the saloons had all the business they could attend to. LAKE ERIE II. H- THE POPIXAR CHAtTACQUA LAKE LIXE.

1Tf.iir4nn tlrlrata tt All nkant.i,.... Lake points on sale daily. On Tuesday, Good 15 days. Three fast trains daily. uau at enj ucnei omce, no.

oi irm avenue. Phone 2077. 8111 Indianapolis Traction ventory of the estate showed It to be worth $27,060.78, with debts encumbering it to the amount of IBO.OiW, which Includes a mortgage of He thinks that if he is allowed a little more time it win en able him to discharge all the debts. BULDING ASD LOAX TROIBLES Another Salt Pending; Against the Twin City Association. Attorney W.

C. Stillwagpn has a suit to' be entered at the proper time against the Twin Cities Building A Loan assocla Hon, In behalf of Miss Ellen Hughes, of McDonald. The plaintiff alleges that on August 1, 1893, she took stock In the association to the amount of 1715, which, when it would mature, would yield her 100. In February, 1S94, she was notified that her shares had earned between July and December, 1893. In August, 1894, she put $05 more in the Institution, which, on maturity, would amount to $100.

Since she placed the latter Installment she had oeen notified or no earnings, and Miss Hughes placed the matter In the hands of her attorney to recover the whole amount of her deposit. Mr. Stllwagon found that James S. Mc- Kean had been appointed a temporary receiver of the association's affairs, and he went to him about the matter. Receiver McKean had received notice to meet the bank examiner at Harrisburg next Tuesday, and Mr.

Sttllwagon determined to hold off proceedings until the result of the conference Is made known. The receiver's bookkeepers are going over the accounts now, but no one yet knows how they stand. Mr. McKean does not think It a bad wreck-Miss Hughes states that when she was approached by the agent of the association he represented to her that the concern was all right, and that Mrs. Paulson, the wife of the president, was worth and had assumed security for the association's conduct.

THE CASH. Mrs. Margaret Davidson Objects to Being Paid With Checks. A peculiar petition was presented in the orphan's court yesterday by Margaret Davidson, widow of the late James Davidson, of Plum township. She says that James Lamont was appointed guardian of the estates of the minor children of the deceasd In May, 1895.

She has charge of the children and some months ago the court ordered Lamont to pay her $15 a month for the support of the children. Lamont has been In the habit of giving her a check on the Western Bank of Pennsylvania, in LaWreneeville. It costs her $1.25 each month to go from her home at New Texas to the bank to get the checks cashed. She has Insisted on Lamont paying her In cash, but he refuses. She declined to accept the check for July and wants Lamont directed to pay her la cash, because the expense ot coming to the bank Is a hardship she Is unable to bear.

A. citation was awarded directing Lamont to show cause why he should not pay Mrs. Davidson in cash Instead of checks. STRAINED RELATIONS Through a Question of raying a Police Court Fine. It Is that strained relations exist between Mrs.

Enright, of Thirty-fourth street, and her friend, Mrs. Power. Mrs. Enright and Mrs. Owens each sued the other before Alderman Kerr yesterday for disorderly conduct, and the former was fined $5 and costs or 10 days to Jail, It did not seem probable that she would be able to raise the money, and it was thought that she would be committed.

Mrs. Power volunteered to try and raise the necessary funds, and while she was away the prisoner escaped from Alderman Kerr's office. When Mrs. Power returned, the alderman asked her If she had got the money. She said she had, and placed It In his hand.

On paying the fine sho naturally inquired for Mrs. Enright, and the alderman said that, knowing her fine would be paid, he did not care to detain her any longer, and sent her home. Mrs. Enright is mad at her friend for parting with the money, end refuses to make It good. Execution Issued.

Two executions were filed yesterday as follows: Behrhorst Fichtel vs. W. E. Boyd A Son and Boyd, Edward McCafferty vs. A.

L. Walter, $081.45. Must File an Account. An order was made In orphans' coprt this morning removing J. S.

Craft, as guardian of Helen P. McCieery and requiring him to file an account. 1 JOH.WY CAME MARCHING nOME, And the Soldier Boys Have Again Roofs Over Them. After an absence of eight days Battery and the Fourteenth and; Eighteenth regiments returned to the city yesterday from the encampment of the Second brigade at Glencalrn. Battery In command of Capt.

Hunt, left Camp Greenland at 6 o'clock yesterday morning and arrived at the union station a few minutes after 8 o'clock. The battery men promptly proceeded to unload the field pieces and horses, and an hour later had arrived at their armory, corner of Forbes and Gist streets. The balance of the day was spent In unloading and storing away the battery equipage. Thoug-h scheduled to leave at Vi o'clock, It was almost 1 o'clock when the Fourteenth regiment left for the city. The eight companies composing It promptly "fell in," headed by the regimental band and In command of Col.

Glenn, marched to their armory on Market street by way of Liberty street, to Smtthfleld, to Fifth avenue and thence to Market, where they unloaded and were dismissed. The Eighteenth regiment, in command of Col. N. M. Smith, did not arrive In Pittsburg until a few minutes before 6 o'clock.

The Eighteenth regiment or brigade band accompanied The troops marched to their armory on Diamond street along Liberty street to Wood, to Fifth avenue, to Grant, to Diamond and thence to head quarters. As a result of their hard and tedious week's work at Camp Greenland, the most of the time beneath the scorching ravs of an intensely hot sun, the soldier boys were consiaeramy tannea, ana wore a weary look. Each and all, however, seemed pleased with their week's outing. Negro National Convention. Washington, Aug.

W. Pbe, president of the National Republican Vigi lant asslclatlon, which has Issued a call for a negro national convention; to meet at Baltimore, In October, is receiving encouraging reports from different states. New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia. West Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina and Georgia will be represented. The Indications erre, he says, that the convention will be very largely attended.

President Poe will Invite a number of prominent colored men to deliver addresses. Health Bnrcau Report. Th bureau of health Vesterdav rnnrtod three new cases of typhoid fever, two in Thlrtu.tonnnrl nnil nna in tViA fifth wards; two new cases of scarlatina, one each In the Fourteenth and Twenty-ninth wards, and one new case of diphtheria in me imiuh iu. Felonious Cutting Charged. John Pedire' was committed to jail for court yesterday by Squire Thomas Dren-nan, of 'Collier township, on a charge of felonious cutting, made by.Tony Zuptey.

New Board In Omaha Wins, Omaha, Aug. 10. Judge Hopewell decided the fire and police board1 case at 2:30 p. m. In favor of the new hoard, re fusing the injunction.

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TiSoytvo SO rod LEFT, it I i Aiiinr Hp HH ITEMS AXD rXCIDESTS PICKED fP IX THE CORRIDORS. An Ahle Debater and Lawyer-Poli tician All Contracts Median les Liene. Most he Filed in the Prothonotary') OOce. Georre Shlras TIT wan hum In the city of Allegheny January 1, 1S59. After a thorough preparation for college he took the' full course at Cornell university, graduating In the course of history and political economy.

Upon the completion of this course he attended the Yale law school, where he had a brilliant career, displaying the most 'marked ability by bis oratorical and debating powers. His wonderful ability and success as an exponent of the protective tariff won for him a conspicuous place among the able debatersof that subject throughout the country. During his senior year he was unanimously elected to the presidency of the Yale Kent club, the great debating so ciety of the university. Mr. Shlras has had an exceptionally successful career as a mcmDer or the Allegheny county bar, having been retained in many of the very Important cases which have been tried In country.

He Is now enKaeed in the practice of his profession with his ratner. In politics Mr, Shlras has always been an ardent republican, and Is known in his party as an Indefatlgible fighter and worker. He was elected to the assembly In 1888 and during the session of 1889 he was a valuable member of the Judiciary general committee, in ltwo he was a can dldate for congress against Col. Stone, but after a brilliant tight was defeated, The question of the filing of mechanic's liens has always been a perplexing one to courts and attorneys alike. The contracts In which are incorporated the lien has proved the stumbling block and notwith standing that many acts have been passed noptng to errect a solution or the trouble and many decisions of courts have been made, there yet existed an evil which an act of the last legislature is intended to cover.

In many of the innumerable cases the contract agreed upon between the con tractor and the owner was not known to the sub-contractor and consequently when the lien was filed exigencies of a kind arose which proved most tantalizing to everyone concerned, and in many cases the sub-contractor was leit without the least protection. It must be said, though, that the courts nave, in as tar as possioie, thrown their protection around them and saved them many losses. The present law will, at least, place all the Interested par ties In such a position that they may, If they take the trouble, see precisely what agreements and covenants have been made In the contract for the erection of a bulld- Inc. The act is entitled, "An act to regulate building contracts where such contracts have as part thereof either incorporated or separately made a stipulation that no mechanics' Hens shall be filed against the building, whether by the contractor or by any sub-contractor, materialman or other person, requiring tnat sucn stipulation shall be In writing, and shall be recorded In the prothonotary's office In the county In which the land lies. Section 1 Be it enicted, That no contract for the erection of the whole or Dart of any bulldins: hereafter made, and no stipulation separately made as part of any such contract, whereby it is sought to deprive or hinunr a contractor, suo-con tractor, materialman or other person from filing or maintaining a Hen, commonly called a mechanics' Hen, for work done or material furnished to Buch building or to any part thereof, shall operate to de feat the right of any suo-contractor, nia terialman or other person to file and maintain such Hen, unless such contractor or the stipulation shall specifically covenant against such Hen by sub-contractor or other person, and unless said stipulation shall "be put in writing and signed by the parties thereto prior to the time authority is given to the principal contractor to pro- ceea with eaia worK, ana unless saia con tract or said stipulation shall be filed with the prothonotary of the county where the land lies for record within 10 days after its execution.

Section 2 The prothonotary shall record such contract or stipulation in the docket provided for mechanics liens, shall in dex the same, making the contractor plain tire ana ine owner tne aerenaant, ana snail receive ior nis service the same fee as for tiling and recording a mechanics' lien. The act was approved and signed by the governor June imw. Prothonotary McQuitty has In course of preparation the required books and records necessary for complying with the terms of the act. "It is curious and rather monotonous to see the same set of witnesses examined tnree times in one afternoon." said an at torney, "yet that Is what I saw done on one occasion in one of our courts. I was defending a young colored man charged with burglary.

The evidence on both sides had been heard, when it appeared that the persons who owned -he store that had been burglarized were three men, while the Indictment alleged the ownership to be In only one. I moved to take the case from tne jury, ana the court sustained Then the prosecution asked that the court noiu tne aerenaant to the erand inrv objected to that, pointing out that there was nothing before the court to warrant any proceedings, the sviiionz-o given having been rendered void by the flaw in the Indictment. Then the court called back all of the witnesses and heard the same evidence repeated, and the prose- cuuuii Hsawi asitea mat rne prisoner be neiu 10 me grana jury. 1 objected again, saying that the evidence heard was for the purpose of deciding whether a warrant should issue for the arrest of the defendant. once more, the court called Dacit tne nera or- witnesses and made them repeat their testimony all over again.

Then, when the technicality of the law had been thus strictly complied with, the prisoner was at length held to the grand Jury. He was iflnally tried and given two years in me penitentiary." 1 "Now, Mr. Breeves," asked the chairman of the investigating committee, "Is It not true that you took fhe case of Jones vs. Brown on a conditional fee that you agreed to accept a part of the amount recovered as your fee?" "It Is not true, sir," replied the lawyer. "I stipulated that I should have all of tt, and $500 besides." "Gentlemen," said tffe chairman, "I fall to see where Mr.

Breeves has been guilty of unprofessional conduct at all." A lawyer was cross-questioning a negro witness in one of the justice courts of Georgia, the other day, and was getting along fairly well until he asked the darkey his occupation. "I'se a carpenter," sah." "What kind of a carpenter?" "They calls me a Jack-leg carpenter, sah." "What Is a jaek-leff carpenter?" "He la a carpenter who la not a fust-rate carpenter, sah." "Well, explain what you fully understand by a jack-leg carpenter to be," Insisted the lawyer. "Boss, I declare I dunno how to 'splaln enny mo', 'cept to say It am Jes the same difference 'twlxt you an' er fust-class lawyer." Ex-Dlstrlct Attorney Clarence Burleigh has returned from a few weeks' visit to the seafhore, and Jils appearance Is Indicative of the many hours spent in the water. He Is an enthusiastic bather, but says that his greatest amusement this season was In piloting his successor, Mr. Haymaker, about the points of Interest of Atlantic City.

Law Lfbrarian Percy Dlpby, accompanied by his family, left last night for a sojourn at Thousand Islands. He will also spe-nd a short time In the various Canadian cities. James Francis Burke, who, with his wife, has been sojourning at Mackinac, Is now ti Detroit. They win return home next week. Hopes to Pay Cp.

Some time ago a citation was made In the orphans' court directing James D. Cal-lery, administrator of the John D. Howley estate, to show cause why ha should not file his final answer. Yesterday filed an 8 () () () Readv 8 For Fall Saturday, Aug. 10th.

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The proprietors have so much faith In its curative powers. they offer $100 dollars for any case that it falls to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. J.

CHENEY Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. FLEMING'S CALIFORNIA WINES ARE MMl 10 THE IMPORTED. Don't pay fancy prices. You will bo surprised at the quality we sell.

We know they are pure, as we purchase direct from the makers; Nature's tonic for the delicate and weak. Twelve varieties to select from. Full quarts, 50c 12 quarts, 5.00 Old Export Whisky Is now the standard In this community for medicinal and soclnl purposes. Fl'LL QUARTS, IL00 We prepny expressage on all orders of $10 Aud over. Complete I'rlce Lists mailed free.

JOS. FLEMINGS SON Wholesale and Retail Druggist. 412 MARKET STREET. RSotc ADVERTISE IN THE PRESS. () to Show You.

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The thousands of suffering people who have lost faith and hope, and been the victims of old-fashioned fogylsm and quacks, who cared more for their money than their health, will And the great mecca of health at this association, who strlHe at the root of those evils by uivlng the best and latest treatment for the universal charge of $1 a week, Including all medicines. This relieves ths poor sufferers from the horrors of big doctors' bills, and the abomination of badly compounded prescriptions by penurious druggists and their youth, ful assistants. They guarantee to cure paralysis, rheumatism, fits, catarrh, deafness, tumors, skin diseases, diseases of men, aliments of women and children, stomach, kidney, liver, brain, nerve and heart troubles. Benefit is experienced the first dav. You get fhe best, latest and most scientific treatment at this Institution.

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m. Patients treated by correspondence. Remem- ber, only $1 a week Is charged, It Will Pay You to Buy Now! 0 stand, there is a clearly denned mlrglv- Seventh Avenue and New Grant Here is Your Chance! lng as to what may De the stats of the treasury gold reserve after the 1st of October, when the obligations of the loan syndicate to the treasury will cease. If, after that date, the relations between the banks and the treasury remain as they have been for the last two years, the treasury will have to supply all gold required for export, and yet it will have no gold Income from the custom house or from any other source. It Is hardly necessary to say what that menas." Philadelphia Stocks.

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