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4 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20, 1898. Courier- Bournal. Published Daily, Sunday and SemiWeekly. Omice, Cor. Fourth Ave.

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Beckwith Special Agency, Tribune Building, Sole Agents for Eastern advertisements. TEN PAGES. 20, 1898 "Business." Wednesday Evening, Oct. 19-The stock market was a purely professional one, wholly without characteristic features today. Trading was insignificant, Money was easy at per cent.

on call. Sterling exchange was steady. Governments were strong and railroad bonds There were no Chicago grain on account of the Peace Jubilee. Cattle were steady to strong. Hogs were active and higher.

Cotton and leaf tobacco were quiet and caster. Fighting the Big Trusts. The trusts do not seem to be sharing the good fortune of other industrial en. terprises. New competition is springing up on every hand, and everywhere wars are breaking out between the giant concerns and their independent rivals.

Contracts have just been let in this city for the of a spirits distillery, with which to fight the spirits trust, which has barely succeeded in getting started in business. Another independent distillery Is being built at Frankfort and a third is under way at Terre Haute. Within three or four months some of these will be ready for production, and will probably be cutting prices in order to obtain business. From Boston comes the news that valued official of the Rubber Trust has resigned his position to take charge of a new factory which will fight his old concern. Six other Independent tactories are also in the fleld.

The trust has just bought out its most formidable competitor at an outlay of $8,000,000 to $10,000,000, but the uninterrupted possession of the fleld seems to be just as far off as ever. The American Tobacco Company, which has just acquired the control. of two new competitive plants, it is announced will have a fiercer trade war with the independent factories now than before. The resources of the parties engaged in this struggle are greater than those in the rubber and spirits distilling industries, and a long and costly struggle seems certain. The biggest of all the fights, the one whose termination is the most uncertain and the one likely to be longest protracted, is that just begun between the Sugar Trust and -the new sugar refineries.

Such large manufacturing concerns are involved and the article which they produce is such a necessity of life that the greatest publio interest attach. es to every movement of the contendIng parties. Already there has been a reduction of nearly 10 per cent. in the price of sugar, which probably deprives the refineries of any profits in manufacture, and there is no telling where the cut will stop. The first great war waged by the Trust, which began in March, 1890, lasted through two years.

The American Sugar Refining Company was then opposed by the Spreckels, the Franklin, the E. C. Knight and the Delaware, of Philadelphia, refining companies. The struggle was complicated with various new conditions, among others the removal of the duty on raw sugar by the McKinley act. When this went into effect all the refineries cut prices to cents a pound for granulated, but there came such an enormous demand because of increased cheapness that values were soon advanced.

In October, 1891, the cutting of prices began again, and was carried on through all the winter and virtually until March. The difference between raw and refined sugar for a period of two months was only forty-eight cents on the 100 pounds, and there was a severe struggle for existence. The settlement did not come until the American Sugar Refinery issued $25,000,000 in new stock and bought out first the Spreckels and then all the other refineries. The 1804 war with the new competitors that had again sprung up was settled by a trade agreement. The Sugar Trust is now in a very strong financial position, having a surplus variously estimated at $21,000,000 to $30,000,000 in its treasury, which by vote of the stockholders can be used nt President Havemeyer's direction in the fight.

In addition, it has a capitalization of $74,000,000. The Arbuckles are said to have a capital of $40,000,000, and the Dercher refinery is also backed with enormous wealth. The independents will, when a all the factories are running, have 50 per cent. of the productive capacity of the United States. The sugar fight is also complicated with a struggle between the coffee roasters.

Under the circumstances, it seems impossible that the Sugar Trust can 1 either buy out its competitors or make a new trade agreement with them. It has been suggested that ultimately there will have to be either a grand combination of both sugar and coffee interests, or else a Joint working agreement must be arranged between them. It would take a long time to carry out either of these plans, so no early settlement of the war can be expected. Altogether, the winter is likely to be a hard one on the big combinations that seek to monopolize production, Office-Seeking In Cuba. incidentally remarks that if you drive human nature out of the door by the persuasive influences of a pitchfork it is very apt to return promptly through the window.

This quotation may not be verbally correct, as we have no time to verify it, but it embodies the idea. There is a good deal of human nature in all sorts and conditions of men, and almost every day we have new illustrations of the fact. Look for example at the Dowager Empress of China, and see what a fine illustration she furnishes of the amount of human nature that may be found in one who was the spouse of the "Son of Heaven," as the Emperor of China is called, and how readily and neatly she can dispose of a later Son of Heaven, who does not happen to be her son also. We need not be surprised, therefore, if we find a good deal of the same quality in the men of Cuba. That the Cuban "patriots" were animated by an inextinguishable love of liberty we can not deny.

Indeed, we dare not deny it, since we went to war in their behalf with that distinct understanding. But we need not on that account deny that they had in them the usual amount of human nature, Including a hatred of work. Some of them were candid enough to say that they went into the insurgent army for the express purpose of avoiding work, and were unwilling both to work and to fight. In view of the number of our own people who are anxious to escape from work we need not wonder at the existence of the same disposition among the Cubans. Similarly, in view of the number of our own people who would like to have an office, we need not be surprised that there is a yearning of this sort in the Cuban breast.

It is a pretty sate guess that most of the discontent that is reported among the patriots is animated directly or indirectly with their prospects of getting office -or perhaps we should say with the prospect of not getting one. Those who think their chances of not getting an office be largely augmented by the American occupation are anxious that the Americans send no troops to Cuba, and that they shall soon withdraw those that are already there. This prejudice against American interference in Cuban affairs, however, does not extend to our still insisting on the withdrawal of the Spanish troops, even if it should become necessary to send half a million of men thither to enforce their withdrawal. Nor does any part of their prejudice extend to American rations, nor to the payment of the insurgent forces out of the Treasury of the United 'States. The latter is not claimed as matter of right, but the theory is naively put forward that if each of the insurgents was presented with a big wad of American money he would feel a good deal more like going to work than if he was discharged without money.

Unless he gets this money there is a fear among his friends that he may not be able to resist the temptation to become a brigand. As to the offices, 'there are various sorta of people who think they cught to have them. The Insurgents are disposed to claim them on the ground that they have fought for years for Cuban liberty. They are rather estopped from claiming that they achleved liberty by their unaided valor, but they may fairly say that if they had not taken the field the United States would not have come to their assistance and defeated the Spaniards for them. If they could have driven the Spaniards out of the island without help they would undoubtedly have taken possession of the offices and divided them among themselves as far as they would go.

Most of them, of course, would have gone to the officers of the ariny, and the spectacle of a private in a good office would have been a rare one. But the fact that American blood bought liberty for Cuba has not satisfied the office-seeking element among the insurgents that they ought not to have the offices, just the same as If they had conquered the Spaniards themselves. This was very clearly shown by the promptness with which the insurgents appointed a Governor for Santiago and the anger they manifested at not being allowed to take possession at once of all the other offices there. Some of them have found it difficult to understand what business the troops of the United States had in Cuba except to pull hot chestnuts out of the fire for their consumption. Of course, the insurgents are not alone in this feeling that they ought to have the whole benefit of the American conquest.

The Spaniards who are to remain in the island and that portion of the Cuban population that adhered to Spain are equally anxious to get a large share of the offices. They have been beaten in the fight, of course, but from their point of view that makes no difference. They lay hold of the declaration that Cuba must have a stable government, and they claim that they are the only element in the island that is fit to govern. Their leaders have, as far as possible, made a business of governing heretofore and they consider that the public safety would be endangered if the offices were put in inexperienced hands. Rather than see the government turned over to the insurgents many of them would be willIng to see it annexed to the United States.

With themselves In office, and the power of the United States to back them, they would feel that the safety and pros. perity of the island were assured, whereas if they were left out they would expect to see nothing but chaos. The proposition to discharge many of the Spanish soldiers and leave them in the island may not be wholly unconnected with the hopes of the Spanish and proSpanish element to have a large share of the offices. It is not the duty of the United States to contribute to the campaign fund of elther of these elements or of the minor groups into which they are divided. Whether Spanish troops ought to be left on the island or not may be a question.

But the real people of Cuba, on whichever side of the late conflict they may have been counted, will doubtless be consulted as to the making of a Constitution and the Alling of offices under it. It is not the business of the United States army that will go to Cuba to determine what that Constitution shall be, but it wilt be Its business to see that the inhabitants have fair chance to frame it, and to establish a government under it. The threats of office-seekers, on one side or the other, ought not to deter us from giving to Cuba tranquillity and a stable government. Having incurred so much trouble and expense on behalf of Cuba, the United States will not be disposed, we must assume, to stand much nonsense from ambitious individuals who insist that all the fruits of our sacrifices shall be turned over. to them, and that they be allowed to succeed the Spaniards in oppressing the island for their own It is reported to be uncertain whether Gen.

Brooke is to remain in Porto Rico. "He has stated," says a dispatch, "that, unless additional troops, sufficient to make an army commensurate with his rank, were sent to the Island he would ask to be relleved." "Commensurate with his rank!" One of the mistortunes of army life is that it begets in many officers an utterly false and absurd estimate of the flummery of "rank." Military rank is only val-. uable for the maintenance of organisation and discipline. When it 'is carried beyond that, even most punctiliously into one's personal and social relations outside the army, it simply marks the retrograde of the man and the Amerlcan toward the flunkey and the European, None of which observations may fit Gen. Brooke in particular, not indeed being offered as such.

But everybody knows officers whom they do ft. Secretary Alger talks glibly in wanting "it to be understood distinctly that any officer or man in the army may speak freely and unreservedly concernIng his observations of the war without the slightest fear of possible consequences. While I am Secretary of War no man shall be the sufferer for speaking what he believes to be the truth." Truly! But when Roosevelt, for the sake of his men, dared to tell Alger the truth from Santiago, it was this same Alger who not only made Roosevelt's private communication public, but did 80 in order to administer a sharp publie rebuke. Senator Foraker says that the objection to the Paris Peace Commission is not in the manner in which it proceeds, but in the tact that it was ever created at all. That la an objection which the Courier-Journal fled within twentyfour hours after the President proposed such a commission.

If Mr. McKinley had known his mind when Spain sued for peace and had had the courage to make Spain know it also, there would have been no Paris commission and the settlement with Spain would have long ago been reached. A report of a duel between two editors in an Ohio town, who fought over "personal says that the hand and arm of one were badly bitten and the face of the other was scratched. Teeth and nails are about the proper weapons for belligerents who indulge in "personal editorials." They seem to be gibbering in Madrid about referring to arbitration the differences between this country and Spain. It is too late for that.

Those differences have already been fully arbitrated. Spain will carry out the Anding, or we will carry it out without her help. We are importuned by Spain to assume the Cuban debt on the plea that otherwise Spain will have to repudiate it. That is none of our lookout, and it will not be the first time that Spain has shelved her "honor" long enough to repudlate her honest debts. Why all this clamor for the bestowal by Congress of appropriate honors on Dewey? Can any higher honors be given him? Has not an honorary degree already been conferred on him by a Pennsylvania college? "Measured by theoretical standards," says the London Engineer, "the marksmanship of American' gunners at Santiago was incredibly bad." It was, for the Spanish squadron.

Were those post-offices alleged to have been sold in Pennsylvania some of the fruit of Shaker Quay's plum trees? MATTERS IN KENTUCKY. Mrs. H. G. Petrie, of Elkton, has in her possession a valuable relic in the shape of a letter from Abraham Lincoln, given to her by a friend.

The letter was written In President Lincoln's own handwriting and addressed to Hon, Sam Haycraft, of Elizabethtown, who was for fifty years County Court Clerk of Hardin county. The letter bears date of May 28, 1860, and was from Mr. Lincoln's home, at Springfeld, Ill. By permission the Elkton Progress prints the letter in full as follows: "Springfleld, May 28, Sam Haycraft-Dear Sir: Your recent letter, without date, la received, also the copy of your speech on the contemplated Daniel Boone monument, which I have not yet time to read. In the main you are right about my history.

My father was Thomas Lincoln, and Mrs. Sally Johnston was his second wife. You are mistaken about my mother-her maiden name was Nancy Hanks. I was not born at Elizabethtown, but my mother's first child, daughter, two years older than myself, and now long since deceased, was. I was born February 12, 1809, near where Hogginsville now is, then in Hardin county.

I do not think I ever saw you, though very well know who you are -so well that I recognized your handwriting on opening your letter, before I saw the signature. My recollection is that Ben Helm was first Clerk, that you succeeded him, that Jack Thomas and William Farleigh graduated in the same office, and that your handwrit. ing were all very similar. Am I right? "My father has been dead ten years, but my stepmother (Mrs. Johnston) is still living.

"I am really very glad of your letter, and shail be pleased to receive another at any time. Yours very truly, LINCOLN." There are two towns in Marshall county where negroes are not allowed to reside. One of these is Calvert City, on the 1111- nois Central railroad, and the other is the comparatively new town of Hardin, on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis road, The Murray Times says: "A brother in black concluded he would like to reside at Hardin and moved his household goods in the other day, but they were scarcely unloaded when he received word to and he got, and was not very slow about it either. The climate thereabouts is not suited to any but Caucasians." Some museum manager ought to communicate with the man mentioned in this Item from the Glasgow News: "Mr.

W. C. Vance, who lives in the Cave City country, has been greatly annoyed for several nights past by a singing mouse at his house. The mouse beging to make humming noise just about the time the family is ready to retire and keeps it up -all night. The family had been greatly annoyed by the humming before discovering that It emanated from a little mouse that played about the room after the family had retired.

Any doubting Thomas can have his doubts removed any night by calling at Mr. Vance's and hearing the mouse himself." The Glendeane neighborhood is developing into the banner corn belt of Breckinridge county. The Breckinridge News says: "A contest was held at Glendeane last week, in which W. R. Moorman, Judson Owen, Priest Moorman and David Moorman vied with each other as to who could show the best corn.

Each contestant was allowed to enter three ears as samples, and the one that weighed most was to decide the test. Dave Moorman was fortunate enough to capture the first prize. He had one ear of yellow corn that weighed five pounds and two ounces. Priest Moorman was next best, and exhibited an ear that weighed five pounds. All the corn raised in that section last year is exceptionally Breckinridge county is also reaching: out in other lines, as the following from the News will indicate: Ridgley Cayce, general land and development agent for the Henderson Route, was in the city yesterday with a party of quarrymen from Bloomington, Ind.

The party came in on the and consisted of P. K. Buskirk, H. F. Perry, G.

K. Perry, Fred Matthews and J. B. Lyon. All are prominently identifled with the famous Perry-Matthews Stone Company, which controls some of the finest stone properties in the Indiana colitic region.

The gentlemen Inspected the sandstone quarries below town and were very favorably impressed with the ledge. It is probable that they will acquire the property and develop it on large scale." KENTUCKY NEWS AND NOTES. -The Baptists of Elkton have decided to build a parsonage, and plans are now deIng suggested. -The Flemingsburg Gazette is eighteen years old and, judging from Its appearance, has had a career of unvarying prosperity. -A.

J. Casey, long connected with the Kentucky press, is now publishing the Merchant and Manufacturer, a trade paper, at Nashville. -Mrs. Marie Moss Wheat, daughter of former Attorney General Thomas E. Moss, of Paducah, has applied for license to practice law at the' "Purchase" metropolis.

-Scarlet fever has broken out at Independence, and the spread of the disease has become so alarming that the Board of Trustees of the public schools called a special meeting Monday and dismissed the schools. -A. H. Wear, probably the oldest druggist in West Kentucky, rounded out his eightieth birthday at Murray last Friday. He has been book-keeper for his house nearly fifty years, and spent the day at work on the books as usual.

-A relic of the burning of the steamer Bostona in 1807 on the Aberdeen bar was found a few days ago, and is now on exhibitien at Maysville. It is the works of a gold watch of Elgin make, and is numbered 859,426. The works are in a good state of preservation. -Madisonville Hr-tier: Mr. J.

Rash stepped into our office last Saturday, pulled out a piece of home-made tobacco and presented it with his compliments, informing us at the time that it was eleven years old. It had been laid away, and was found the other day when he was repairing his house. -Hopkinsville New Era: Chris Moore, a young man of means and education who was sent to the asylum from Marion, Crittenden county, several months ago, died Friday night at the institution. Young Moore was a nervous wreck, and his condition was attributed by the asylum physicians to the incessant use of cigarettes. -The Dean Tie Company, operating In Breckinridge county, has secured contract for 500 cars of cross ties which must be furnished Eastern railroads during the coming winter.

The contracts the company already have on hand for cross-ties, ship timbers and wagon stuff have necessitated the operation of eight saw-milla, The company gives employment to about 300 hands. -Madisonville Mail: Jule E. Tefft, of Nortonville, well known in Madisonville and Hopkins county, has mysteriously disappeared. Jule was employed with the bridge gang on the Illinois Central, with headquarters at Paducah. The crew went into Paducah Monday night a week, and young Tefft has not been seen nor heard of since that time.

Every effort has been made to trace him, but up to the present time nothing has been learned. It is feared that the young man has met with foul play at the hands of Paducah thugs. BITS FROM THE NEWS. Zangwill In a New Role. Mr.

Zangwill possesses a whimsical taste in the matter of being photographed, and delights in assuming unusual poses before the camera. He has posed with a mummy's head in his hand; has had his fore- ISRAEL ZANGWILL AS A KITCHEN GENIUS. head and hair taken, minus the remainder of his head, and here we have him stirring the ingredients of a cake, in the kitchen, during a visit to his friend, Judge Sulz- berger, in York Truth. The Valley of Roses, Where Otto of Roses Is Made. The rose (Rose damascena) from which the famous otto of roses is distilled.

depends for its successful cultivation on cer. tain climatic and other conditions which exist to perfection only in Bulgaria to wit, in that delightful valley between the Balkans on the north, and the lower range of hills, called the Sredna Gora, on the south, which is known as the "Valley of Roses." Here there is shelter from the cold north winds, and a porous and sandy soil, and here also is an abundance of wa. ter and wood for distillation, Every year, from the middle of May to the middle of June, when the bushes are in flower, the Valley of Roses resembles one vast garden. Gathering begins at daybreak and cept the wage-workers, but they elected him handily. Mr.

Jones is a strong advocate of municipal ownership of public ser. vices, and the basis of his proposed reforms is Christian (Philadelphia Call. New French Telescope. An enormous telescope, which scientists believe will lay bare the secrets of Mars and the moon, is rapidly nearing completion at the astronomical observatory of the French Government at Paris, where It will form one of the features of the big Exposition of two years hence. So gigantic is this telescope that It is impossible to have It rest upon revolving pivots, as all other telescopes do.

It has been placed horizontally on a bed of ma. sonry, where it will lie immovable, the stars and planets being reflected upon a large circular mirror and from this through the lenses of the telescope proper. The telescope is 197 feet in length, and It has a diameter of feet. Its largest glass-technically known as its objectivemeasures 4 feet 1 inch in York telegram to the Chicago Tribune. King of the Klondike.

Alexander McDonald, the King of the Klondike, who arrived here last night, is worth over $2,000,000. He owns all or part of seventy-five claims in the Klondike district. Four years ago he left Tacoma with just enough money to reach Juneau. Later he went to the Yukon, determined to secure gold enough to make his parents and himself comfortable, He reached Dawson from Forty Mile too late to locate a claim on the El Dorado or Bonanza, but invested his savings in one which proved very rich, Gradually he has acquired his other interests by purchase. Last spring he sold part of his El Dorado and Bonanza holdings for $1,500,000, receiving half cash.

This summer an expert representing an English syndicate inspected McDonald's remaining claims, for which an offer of about 000 has been made. McDonald is en route to London, but appears unconcerned whether the deal is consummated. He is one of the most modest, unassuming men who has returned from the Klondike, Before coming out he gave $100,000 to a Catholic church hospital and other Dawson charities. McDonald's advice is that only healthy, young men should go to the Yukon. They will succeed, he says, if (Tacoma telegram to the St.

Louis Globe-Democrat. A Morse Watch. A new telegraph instrument, known as a "Morse watch," has been put on the market. Outwardly it looks like an ordinary timepiece, but, in reality, it is a transmitting and receiving telegraph instrument, a key and a sounder, inclosed in an ordinary watch case. This type of instrument is known to the telegraph craft under the general title of ROSE GATHERING IN BULGARIA, AN OTTO OF seldom lasts so late as 9 o'clock, for otto made from roses gathered in the heat of the day is always of inferior quality.

Women and children do most of the pick. ing, and are paid about a penny for every pound's weight of blossoms they gather. A garden of one acre will produce 100 pounds of roses every morning for three weeks or go. As soon as picked, the flow. ers are carried off to be distilled in rough sheds, with the simple apparatus shown in the photograph.

The first distillation produces only rose-water, which is again put into retorts and reduced to about a tenth of its volume of a stronger essence. This is set aside to cool, and finally a thin layer of a yellowish oily substance is skimmed off, which is the otto. Otto of roses sells for about $5 an ounce, but then It takes 1,500,000 roses to make a single pound of it. The total amount produced in Bulgaria in an average year is from 4,500 to 5,000 York World. Toledo's Curious Mayor.

Samuel M. Jones, the "golden rule" May. or of Toledo, is trying his best to apply the ethics of Christ to everyday business life. As Mr. Jones says of himself, he was "fortunate enough to be born of rents who were very poor." At eighteen he went to Pennsylvania, became interested in the production of crude petroleum, invented a clever apparatus, and now owns a big factory in Toledo in which the only regulations for the workmen 'are big signs on the walls bearing in print the words of the golden rule.

The way Mr. Jones modernizes the grand words of the Saviour is: "Do unto others as if you were the others." His employes work eight hours a day, with numerous holidays, on which he entertains them in splendid style. At Christmas he shares with them the profits of the past year. He says the present system of production and distribution is unjust, and he does all he can to equalize things between himself and those whom he employs. When he ran for Mayor he had all the saloons, all the politicians and all the machines.

against him. He had nobody with him ex- WEDDING Of Ensign Hines and Miss Mary Breckinridge IN THE SKILLMAN MANSION, WHERE BRIDE'S MOTHER WAS MARRIED YEARS AGO. OTHER KENTUCKY MARRIAGES. Lexington, Oct. Mary Dudley Breckinridge, the eldest daughter of Maj.

Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, and Ensign John Fore Hines, of the United States navy, stationed at Washington, married here to-night at 8 o'clock in were the identical room of the home of her aunt, Mrs. H.

M. Skillman, in which her mother was married to Gen. Breckinridge more than of a century ago. The stately Skillman mansion, located on North Broadway, the most fashionable street of Lexington, was decorated with palms and flowers. The ceremony was performed by the Rev.

Dr. Ratcliffe, of Washington, and, after the ceremony 4 supper was served by a Washington caterer. The bride wore a gown made in Paris of heavy white silk, cut high, sleeves long, trimmed with orange blossoms and rare old point lace, which was worn by her mother when she was married, and which has been in the Scott family for over one hundred years. The groom's best man was Lieut. Ethelbert Breckinridge, brother of the bride, and the maid of honor was her sister, Miss Lucy Hazel Breckinridge.

A fancy of the bride was to have all her younger relatives, twenty in number, follow her into the room, and stand grouped around the bridal couple while the ceremony was being performed. Among the guests were the officers of Gen, Breckinridge's staff, Gen. Sanger and staff, the commanding officers at Camp Hamilton and several friends from Washington. Johnson-Gaines. Eminence, Oct.

at noon the Baptist church was the scene of one of the prettiest weddings ever solemnized here, the contracting parties being Rev. Thomas A. Johnson, of Lexington, and Miss Catherine Gaines, the daughter of Norman Gaines, of Eminence. The wedding party entered the right aisle of the church in the following order: Miss Annie Johnson, of Virginia, sister of the groom, followed by two of the ushers, F. B.

Adcock, of Carrollton, and W. P. Stuart, of Thomson. Next came Miss Elizabeth Gatton, of Eminence, and Miss Lillie Thomas, of Shelbyville, followed. by the other two ushers, Rev.

J. M. Gurley, of Louisville, and William J. Calloway, of Eminence, and after them Miss Blanche Dorland, of Louisville. The bride, on the arm of her sister, Mrs.

Karr, advanced to the altar, where she was met, by the groom, who had entered from a door at the rear of the church with his best man, Fontaine D. Johnson, of Virginia, followed by the Rev. J. N. Gatton.

After prayer the holy vows were taken, and the party left the church In reverse order. At 4 o'clock Mr. and Mrs. Johnson boarded the Louisville and Nashville train for Washington, Baltimore and other Eastern points, After the wedding trip they will be in Lexington, until November 19, after which they will go to Hagerstown, their future home. Mr.

Johnson has accepted a call to the First Baptist church of that place. Graves- Saffarrans. Lexington, Oct. Elizabeth Saffarrans, of this city, and Frank Norton Graves, of St. Louie, were married here this afternoon at the residence of the bride's aunt, Miss Margaret Woolfolk, on East High street, by the Rev.

Alex. Hensley, of the Versailles Episcopal church. The bride wore white Paris musiin over white silk, with tulle vail, and carried bride's roses. Her mother, Mrs. Daniel Saffarrans, gave the bride away, and Miss Ada Meade Saffarrans, sister of the bride, was maid of honor.

The bride is one of Lexington's most beautiful young society women and comes of a distinguished family. Eloped To Jeffersonville. Versailles, Oct. O. Duncan, a well-known business man of this city, and Miss Tillie Burgin, the pretty eighteen-year-old daughter of W.

J. Burgin, eloped this evening to Jeffersonville, where they expect to be married. Miss Burgin left home this afternoon for the ostensible purpose of spending the night in the country. Instead she was driven to Lawrenceburg, where she met Duncan, and they boarded a Southern train for Louisville. Duncan is thirty-five years old.

Weddings In Tennessee. Nashville, Oct. Ridley Wills, Assistant Insurance Commissioner of Tennessee, and formerly of Brownsville, and Miss Jessie Ely, daughter of the late Jesse Ely, were married here to-day at noon. J. F.

Hagerman and Miss Ruby Dickerson, both of Bowling Green, were married at the Maxwell House this morning. Harold Kertley and Miss Nettle Jenking were best man and maid of honor, Lamb -Hamilton. Georgetown, Oct; K. Lamb, of Cincinnati, and Miss Bell Hamilton, of this city, were married this afternoon at the residence of the bride's mother, Mrs. Virginia Hamilton.

The wedding was a very quiet, one, only the relatives being present, The ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. O. Shewmaker. Miss Hamilton has lived in Louleville the past ten years.

Mr. and Mrs. Lamb left for Cincinnati at once. Bright-Maddox. Shelbyville, Oct.

Bright, son of ex-Representative Bright, of this county, and Miss May Maddox, daughter of the Hon. Joseph H. Maddox, were married this evening in the Christian church by Elder Hugh McLelIan. They left on a short bridal tour, ard in a week will be at home on West Cheatnut street, Louisville. Stark-Strickler.

Leitchfield, Oct, L. Stark, of Bowling Green, and Miss Lizzie A. Strickler, of this pince, were married at the M. E. church, South, at 7 o'clock to-night, the Rev.

George Cundiff officiating. The couple left at 7:35 o'clock over the Illinois Central for Louisville, and thence to St. Louis on a bridal tour. Married In Cincinnati. Stanford, Oct.

Bessie Woods, of Stanford, and 8. M. Allen, of Millersburg, were married to-day In the parlor of the Grand Hotel, Cincinnati, the Rev. A. V.

Sizmore, of New. port, officiating. Miss Woods is a daughter of E. P. Woods, a wealthy farm.

er. Mr. Allen is a banker in Millersburg. Lochridge Mayfield, Oct. 9.

Lochridge, one of Mayfield's leading bardware merchants, and Miss Cordie Frost, charming and popular were young married lady last of Wingo, evening at this the county, home of the bride's father, Rev. H. C. Roberts, pastor officiating. of the the Baptist church in Mayfield, Allen -Cockill.

Middlesborough, Oct, -The marriage of Miss Annie Cockill, daughter of President E. Cockill, of the Bryson Mountain Coal Company, to Hugh of the local Western Union Allen, manager telegraph office, was solemnized prominently here known today. The parties are throughout Kentucky. Layne Osvorne. Hopkinsville, Oct.

Layne Levy Osvorne were married at the home of the bride, near Laytonsville. Shaw, of Elkton, and Miss Liz. Thomas zie Allen, of Trigg county, eloped to Dover, were married. LawrenceShelbyville, Oct. Graham Lawrence and Miss Mamle Carrithers, daughter of Squire Adam Carrithwere married at 9 o'clock ers, the home of the bride's parents.

PATHETIC LIFE STORY OF A PATIENT AT WESTERN LUNATIC ASYLUM. Death of Miss Carry Cummings Recalls the Perfidy of Man Which Blighted Existence. New The death of Miss Carry Cummings, which occurred at the Western Asylum Friday night, after a brief illness of -pneu monia, recalls the most pathetic and mantle story associated with any patient of the institution. Thirty years ago Miss Cummings was one of Warren county's most beautiful and accomplished women. Her family had means and she and her younger sister, no less attractive and accomplished, had every advantage which wealth could bestow.

Then her ideal in the form bf a dashing and handsome young man came into her life. He woed her ardently and she gave her heart to him. The evening of the day fixed for the sealing of their mutual vows came on. The home was brilliantly lighted and the wedding feast was spread. The guests with light hearts and congratulations ready to be showered upon the bride and groom, had gathered, The bride, arrayed in her wedding gown, sat wating for her lover to come and lead her to the altar.

The hands of the clock pointed to the hour of the ceremony. Surely some unforeseen event had delayed him! Another revolution of the hand upon the dial. And still he came not. The lights in the house were just as bright but the joyous laughter had ceased. The guests tried to be merry, but the effort was very painful, The blushes had gone from the cheeks of the bride, and a pallor almost as of death had succeeded, Another hour went by.

Investigation followed. The groom had eloped with the bride's younger sister. They were never heard of by any of the family after this. The heroine of this pathetic story from real life swooned when the facts were made known to her. They nursed her tenderly; they brought her back to life; the mechanism of the body resumed its normal course, but that mechanism more intricate and mysterious, whose force is not supplied or revived by an "ounce of from earthly apothecaries, was irreparably shattered, When Miss Cummings recovered shock incident to the perfidy of her lover and sister, it was with the sweet delusion that it was still her bridal day.

Every evening she would array herseif in her bridal, trappings and gather fresh roses for her hair. Then she would sit by the window gazing out into the gathering gloom, waiting, waiting vainly for her lover's coming, Thus she would wait far Into the night, then disrobe and lay her wedding garments carefully by, to repeat the same operation on the following night. When they brought her to the asylum here, years ago, they brought the treasured trousseau with her, and placed it in her room in Eastern wing. And every evening at the same hour during all the years of her. confinement, she went through with the same sacred performance.

Attendants and patients felt for her the tenderest sympathy, In spring and summer they would bring her roses to wear, while she kept vigil at the grated window. The body of Miss Cummings was sent to Bowling Green Saturday, and Sunday was laid to rest in Fairview cemetery. Puts a Joke To Sleep. Gen, Henry's tribute to the excellent service in Porto Rico of the First Kentucky should silence for a while the historical joke that attributes to the grass country more Colonels than privates. DISTILLERY.

"secret sounder." The Morse watch is so constructed that the click of the instrument can be adjusted loud enough to be heard in any part of a comparatively large room, or be adjusted to a point where the click is inaudible unless the instrument is held in contact with the ear. The Morse watch is accompanied with a suitable flexible head band to fasten the instrument in place on the head over the ear, leaving both hands free for ing messages or other work. It also has A MORSE WATCH, very neat silk conducting cord, with specially designed terminals, so that the instrument can be conveniently and quickly attached to or disconnected from the ordinary instrument of a telegraph line, The employment of the art of telegraph. ing has so far developed at the present time that the telegraph operator is found in one corner of many brokers' as well as newspaper offices, police stations, and in such places it is desired to maintain for the transaction of other business as much quiet possible. The Morse watch secures that end by permitting the telegraphing to go on to all intents and purposes in perfect silence.

Probably the most important use, how. ever, that the Morse watch will serve is in connection with the military telegraphs and all offices where absolute secrecy is one of the first Defective Constancy. Free "Ten years ago that woman vowed she would love me forever." "Well "I called on her last night, and she asked me what my middle name was." Time To Buck Blanco. a long time, Questions Before the Presbytery. An adjourned meeting of the Louis.

ville Presbytery of the Southern Presby. terian Church will be held this morning at the First Presbyterian church. The regular fall meeting of this Presbytery was held some weeks ago, but so great was the press of business before the Presbytery that it was decided best to transfer matters of importance that could not then be attended to to the adjourned meeting to be held this morning. There will be about eighteen or twenty delegates present, who expect to complete all the unfinished business in the course of a few hours. Millions From the Klondike.

Seattle, Oct. steamer Roanoke arrived to-day from St. with about 500 passengers, and gold dust estimated at two million dollars, and of this the Canadian Bank of Commerce the Bank of British North America $750,000.. To Vote On Local Option. Somerset, Oct.

Judge William M. Catron today decided to hold an election in Somerset December 10 to decide whether or not the city shall have open saloons, Local option was voted in the county about three years ago. Mad-Dog Scare At Brannon. Richmond, Oct. Jessamine county, is afflicted with a mad-dog scare.

Earl Ramsey, son of George Ramsey, was bitten five times by a rabid dog, and the citizens of Brannon have inaugurated a crusade against canines. Lewis At Shelbyville. Shelbyville. Oct. Hon.

John W. Lewis spoke here this afternoon at the to on enthusiastic audience. effort was court made to get Mr. Gilbert to reply, but ha re did. not do so.

Thinks the Worst Over. Washington, Oct. Secretary of War received following telegram from Gov. Clough, of Minnesota, this afternoon: "I agree with Gen. Bacon that the Indian war is at an end.".