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Tlio first appropriation bill to be intro-liiicod at the approaching session of Con-jr.-i.ss will lie one to carry forward the expenditures on account of the war with Spuin. By tlio explicit terms of the bills passed a I the last session, making provis­ion for tho army and navy, authority to expend the money appropriated expires on Dec. SI, so that it will be necessary to prepare and enact, before the holiday re­cess. logislalion extending the period to Juno :S0 next, the end of the fiscal year. This is the view of Chairman Cannon of the House Committee on Appropria­tions.

The President and Secretary Alger have agreed to make the same recommenda­tion in regard to the proposed increase of the regular army. Secretary Alger, in his annual report, and the President in turn, in his annual message to Congress, will recommend that the standing army be placed on a permanent peace basis of 100,000. The President's decision to ad­vocate an army of 100,000 is taken as an indication that he thoroughly appreciates the necessity of properly garrisoning the new possessions and dependencies with United States troops.

In his annual report the Secretary of War will recommend an increase of the numerical strength of the military acad- \ cmy to not fewer than 500 cadets, and he j may decide to ask an increase to 700, j which is the maximum capacity of the building. The number of cadets at West Point now is 370, but if the army is dou­bled in strength it will be necessary to double the number of officers, and for the same reasou the number of cadets.

The Government has decided to investi­gate the race troubles in South. Carolina in respect to the interference with the duti s of Federal officers. This is the only extent to which the Government can go, as it is considered that the other difficul­ties are merely local, and therefore not within the province of the national gov­ernment. The investigation will be con­ducted by the Department of Justice.

A heavy and continued demand exists for American corn in south Africa, ac­cording to United States Consul General Si owe at Cape Town, who has made a special report to the State Department on the subject of American trade in that sec-lion. Corn is quoted at $3.52 per hun­dred pounds in Cape Town and $4.44 in Johannesburg, and the supplies do not sat­isfy the demand.

President MeKinley has practically completed his message to Congress, for while it is not all written the remainder is carefully outlined. It will deal almost exclusively with the war and will give the reasons for the pronounced advocacy of expansion by the administration. Atten­tion is also called to the necessity for an increase in the regular army.

According to a ruling made by the Post-oflico Department the postmasters throughout the country are prohibited from passing out mail matter to children while going to and from school. The de­railment made this ruling on account of the numerous complaints made of mail matter lost by children.

i he positive statement by Chairman Dingley of the House Ways and Means Committee that there will bo 110 revision of the existing war revenue law short of a year, renders it certain that the Govern­ment will have an unusually large amount of cash to expend during the next twelve months.

There are evidences that the influential people behind the monetary commission will bring pressure to bear on the Presi­dent to call an extra session of Congress in the early spring. They want the cur­rency reformed on the linos laid down by the Indianapolis conference.

Attorney General Griggs has rendered a decision that a person may draw money on a chock without a revenue stamp pro­vided the check be payable to himself from his own funds.

The first state dinner of the season was given at the White House Wednesday evening, when the President and Mrs. -McKinley ontortainc-d fifty guests in hon­or of the Anglo-American commissioners,

THIRTEEN MEN KILLED.

Pennsylvania Train Runs Into Cans Twenty Workmen,

T hirteen Italian and Polish laborers tvere mowed down and killed on the Hackensaek Meadows just west of Jersey

® °'c|°ek Friday morning by the Millstone mail train on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Engineer John Van Nostrand was in charge of the train. Eleven of the laborers were killed outright. Two of the injured died within an hour after the ac­cident.

ike killed and wounded were laborers at work repairing the Pennsylvania Kail-road tracks. They were in charge of Section Foreman William Cork. The gang consisted of twenty men and nearly all were either killed or injured. The Millstone local train's engineer did not see the men on account of the fog and the smoke of a west-bound train which had just passed the gang in an opposite direc­tion.

As Engineer Van Nostrand's locomotive struck the men a fearful cry went up. It startled the engineer and the passengers of the train. Just then the smoke lifted and the engineer saw a shocking sight. All along the track for a distance of 200 feet lay bodies and fragments of bodies, some of the victims were breathing their last, while others had been cut into pieces. The cowcatcher was covered with blood. When the train stopped many of the pas­sengers fainted at the sight. The corpses and the wounded were placed in the freight car of the Millstone train and tak­en to Jersey City.

CONVICTS KILL PRISON GUARD. UNC' RASTUS' POSSUM YARN.

THANKSGIVING DINNJ^ ON THE OLD FARM.

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it is ft-aid that the bookmakers at Chi­cago th»; past season los4 $250,000.

iiliey Grauiian lias been beating the hookies at the California race tracks.

'^'he percentage of tine Chicagos this year is tho best since the twelve-club league started.

It has liHaii figured that during the Na­tional League season 173 fciuies pitchers «oie driven off the slab by <njpposing bats-ilH 11.

•Jockey Dick CLawson will get a. salary trom "Whitney & Paget of $7,5SO, besides t'eing paid the regular sum for winning Mil losing and outside mounts. A few ->('ars ago Dick 1 houglit he had a gViod job when ho was picking strawberries* at 50 c'"uts a day.

J he total membership of the Leagve of American Wheelmen is 78,077. Penttsyl-^taut has 17,792 and New York 17.&S6. Massachusetts is third.

James Daly of Buffalo, who was Cot4

sparring partner several years ago, '•is been appointed boxing instructor of he Buffalo Athletic Club, and will retire

from the ring. 't is generally agreed that it was a

intake to abolish the fining system in the - "tionul League last season, and in 1890 «i(.'V^P* t0 cast a P'n-ver a bit of his sti-j eini ]f i)C dares an umpire to put him off

field.

Attempt to Shoot Their Way Ont of Ohio Penitentiary.

Frank O'Noil and George Atkinson, two convicts from Cleveland, serving fifteen years each for highway robbery, attempt­ed to shoot their way out of the Ohio State prison Friday morning. C. B. Lau-terbach, a guard from Knox County, at­tempted to stop them and was shot dead instantly.

Guard Woods then presented himself in the path of the prisoners, and fifteen shots were fired by the guard and the prisoners, none of which took effect. Having emp­tied his revolver Guard Woods attacked the man with a club, crushing the skull of one of them and breaking the shoulder of the other. One will die.

While the fight was going on several other prisoners were seen to have guns and a general alarm called the guards to the walls with their carbines. As soon as O'Neil and Atkinson were apprehend­ed, however, all signs of trouble ended. Warden Coffin has no idea how or where the guns were procured.

PRIZE OF WAR LOST.

Wrecked Maria Teresa It Beyond All Hopes of Rescue.

It will be impossible to savp the Maria Teresa, which lies stranded on a coral

•reef off Cat Island. This unfortunate news was communicated to the Navy De­partment in a lengthy cablegram from Captain McCalla, dated Nassau, N. P. Captain McCalla says the warship is stranded in from sixteen to twenty-one feet of water, with her head to the north­ward. She rests on a rocky reef covered with coral sand, interspersed with boul­ders. The reef extends outside of the wreck both to northward and southward, and it would be impossible, he says, for anything but a light draft boat to ap­proach her.

Captain McCalla sums up his report by saying that the ship is telescoped and that as the rivets are sheared by the constant working of the ship the telescopic process must continue. In addition to turret guns there are four 0-inch guns on the Teresa taken from one of the wrecked ships and remounted in Guantanamo.

MORE RIOTING AT PANA.

Whites and Negroes at the Spring-side Shaft Fight Battles.

Union white minors and negroes employ­ed at the Springside coal mines, Pana, 111., fought two brisk battles Thursday, but nobody was seriously hurt. Troop B of Bloomington turned out immediately with a Gntling gun, but firing had ceased, so the soldiers remained in waiting at the barracks. The second battle broke out in the same section of the city thirty minutes after the first encounter between strikers and negroes. Fully 500 shots were ex­changed. Shortly after the second battle a squad of troop B made double quick to Springside, but it arrived too late to make any arrests of participants in the battle. The citizens and property owners of Pana have made a plea that Gov. Tan­ner retain the troops of cavalrymen in Pana indefinitely or send more to replace them.

HURRYING TROOPS TO CUBA.

Uviited States Will Take Possession on New Year's.

The War Department is rapidly perfect­ing means of transporting the army of oc­cupation to Cuba. The transport vessels in the Government service will soon begin to assemble at Savannah. The War De­partment is making preparations to push the work of garrisoning -the island rapid­ly, and the United States will be ready to declare its formal possession of the island on the first day of the new year.

Great pains will be taken to transport the garrison troops safely and comforta­bly. Three transports are well advanced in repairs at Philadelphia, and each will carry comfortably about 2,SOU men.

LET LEPERS RUN AT LARGE.

Criminal Negligence of Former Span­ish Millers of Manila.

The New York Journal's Manila cor­respondent says that 200 lepers are at large on the island of Luzon, many in the city of Manila, and others in the adjacent country. They have been roaming about unknown to the American officials, which fact has aroused the greatest alarm, now that the discovery has been made. The American authorities are hastening to make up for the criminal negligence of the

, Spaniards-by ordering that all lepers shall be arrested and sent to a small uninhabit-

I ed island on the southeast of Luzon.

LAFAYETTE FUND GROWING.

School Children Have Contributed Over $530*000.

Contributions from tlie school children of the country to the fund for erecting a monument to Gen. Lafayette in Paris it is thought will reach $1OO,00& Pennsylva­nia and Ohio hare each contributed $20,-O00 and Illinois over $10,00(1. No contri­butions from New York State" £iave been received, as the superintendent of the schools forbade a collection. CXptmis-sioner General Peck says the monument will probacy bo unveiled July 4, 19^0,

thanksgiving Story Told by the Old Negro for the Children.

N Old Unc' Rastus Pettibone's homo, a very modest lit­tle four-room es­tablishment, great preparations were being made for the Thanksgiving fes­tivities which the next day was ex­pected to usher in.

The morning came and Aunt Patty took the opossum which Unc' lias' had caught and placed him in a broad pan and put him in the oven. After the opossum had baked for a while she opened the oven and put in the pan a lot of sweet potatoes which had previously been boiled and split and let them brown in the 'possum fat.

When the animal was done brown the family and their friends gathered around the festal board and the middle-sized girls and the big girls, the old folks and tike young folks pitched into the dish and made merry over the arrival from the South.

After the dinner they had some music, and wound up with a dance. When the dance was ended the visitors, to the num­ber of seven or eight, left with a chorus of good-bys and jokes and the family were left by themselves.

"Put on some coal on dat fiah. you Bona-pnlit," said Unc' Rastus. ''My law, dat 'possnm remine me of ole Ahkansaw, yas-sab, it sholy do."

"Tell us 'bout it, pa," said Ca'line, and the other children clamored for the story.

"Well," said Unc' Rastus, "down dali in de Boston mountains whah I'ze bawn we dun liv' in one dese heah cabins, log cab­ins. Dey chink up twix do logs with mud, an' buil' a chiiuley on de outside. We all had nine dogs an' fo-toen in de family. Da wuz er smoke-house.an' chicken coop an' er ash-hoppah by de cabin an 'er cawn crib. We wuz in de valley an' a mile down de road live Eph Baker an' his family. Long 'bout dis time de yeah Eph an' me

we git ovah do fence an' dah by er big 'sinimou tree dah's music. Bose, Venus an' er lot de othah dogs. Tigc, he ain' dah. Olo mist' 'possum he up in tip o' de 'simmon tree, and I climb de tree an' soon I ketch Mm, he give up an' play ho daid. Yassah, he doan show no sign dat he liv-in'. Den we sets de dogs goin' again, an' mebbe we hoar off in de aidge o' de woods boo-woof. boo-woof, oo, oo, oo, an' if dey is ernudder dog go wah-ah arp-arp-arp kiue o' high, den das music an' das 'pos­sum. Den we clar de fences an' run throo

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de broom-sage an' when we find ole music dey's 'possum dah.

"Well, suh, when we git all de 'possum we want we go home, an' den 1 take big olo 'possum an' dress him an' stretch him out ou do roof of de smokehouse. In de mornin' day takes 'im an' day pa'bile 'im to kit out da wile taste, an' den day puts 'im in old oven. De fat jes' bile out, an' when de 'possum gettin' bake awhile yo ole mammy take dose yer long yams dat been bile already an' put in de oven with mist' 'possum.

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an'Wash Adams an' de Boazely boys, we'd staht out early in de evenin' aftah 'pos­sum. Tain' no use fow to go twel de 'simmons is ripe an' de fros' ripe de 'sini-mons. Yessah, de fros' it ripes de 'sim­mons an' den de 'possum he gwyne come out in de moonlight. Dey wuz mons'ous woods dah. Dey wuz red oak, black oak, pos' oak, gum tree, ellum, sycamo' an' a lot othuz.

"Well, suh, we'd have 'bout fohty dogs mo' er less an' one de Boazely boys he'd fotch 'long ole musket. Das all de gun we got. De moon he light up de valley, de old 'broom sage' fiel's dey layin' round, an' at de aidge de fiel's wuz mos' oftenest de 'simmon trees. Now, de 'possum love 'simmons. He eat berries, yassah, au' buds an' roots, but, my Lawd, he fine 'sim­mon tree do darkest night evah blowed.

"De boys dey off in de woods chasin' 'roun' de fiel's an' tarin' up de groun' look-in' for 'possum. Da jus' three kine o' dogs in d country. Da is de houn' dog, de cur dog an' de fice dog. De cur dog, dey mos'Jy call 'em mungrel heah, dey bes' foh 'possum. We lissen to dem crazy dogs hollah an' bark. Den Eph Baker he say, 'Das Tige, de triflin' scoun'rel.'

"Den we heah another bark an' ef we Jieah dat dog hoilah all de boys dey say, 'Das music. Das aho.'y 'possum.' I gwyne itell you we rar over de broom-sage an'

"Yo' ole mammy got turnips an' back­bone, cabbage an' hambone an' lye hominy an' pone, corn pone. Well, suh, dey all bus' deyselves eatin' 'possum, an' gen-ally has a little o' dish yer apple-jack an' dey sweetens it with 'lasses. Yo' kin eat a heap o' 'possum, caze it doan' hurt yo'. When de 'possum all gone, all de sop cleaned up, de taters an' de cabbage, de hambone an' de backbone des out o' de way, den dey clears away all de dishes an' de table an' dey 'gins to pat juba an' git de fiddle an' de banjo down.

"Day doan dance dose yer waltzes in my time. Dey dance one at a time or maybe dey's a boy an' a wench dey dances to-gedder. But dey dance. Doy doan slid Dey buck an' dey wing an' dey double-shuffle an' puts in de fancy steps an' de res' dey pats an' hollers. De fiddler he got de fiddle way down on de lef arm, an' he sawin' away on 'Chicken in de Bread-tray,' 'Cottoneye Joe,' 'Soapsuds Ovah de Fence,' or some o' dey hoe-down tunes, an' de banjo keepin' time. Dey loose de chinkin' out de logs. Oh! my law, all de dishes jumpin' in de cupboard an' de pick'-ninnies dey jumpin' up an' do^vn—yo kain hole 'em down. Ole Mammy Jupe—de real oie mammy—she sit in de cornah smokin' one o' dese yero rod clay pipes with one o' de cane stems dat dey cuts in de cane-btalce. De dogs dey outside

breakin' de 'possub bones an' growlin' ovah de hambone.

"When one boy got tialid dancin' ernud­der boy he step in an' dey dos keep dancin' an' singin' an' pattiiv all night—yassah, twell do ole red sun he showin' dat be gwyne come ovah de mountain. Don doy all slip away an' go whah dey can sleep foh all day."

Mr. Rastus reached for his pipe. "Git along to bed now, you chillen," he said, and there was a general scampering. Th« old man puffed away remiuiscently.

Our Thanksgiving. We'd thought on tills Tliauksgiviu' day

To ent our pimkln pie With dear old mother at the farm,

A9 in the days gone by.

But greater Power than we had willed That mother shouldn't stay,

An' then we couldn't bear the farm, When she had slipped away.

So brother John, lie sent me worrl ' Ter visit him a spell,

An' eat in style Thanksgivin' day Up at his big hotel.

Well, scch a bill o' fare as that I never see afore,

With all the things I ever eat, An' several dozen more.

I labored hard to do my part At talk an' etiquette;

Though John was hardened to this world, Sometimes his eyes wuz wet.

I knew that though his purse could buy The costliest kind of dish,

Fer mother's rare Thanksgivin' treat He often felt a wish.

An' when I left him fer the night, I couldn't help but say,

"It ain't the food ner yit the style That makes Thanksgivin' day."

—Detroit Free Press.

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KEPT THE GOBBLER.

Farmer Bnlton Finds He Has Many Keasons to Be Thnnkful.

LAMED if I quite agree with this here way of rega-latin' bur givin' ol thanks by law an' p r o c lermations," said Farmer Bol­ton in a meditative way to his "wife, "It looks too much like setitin' a stake an' a servin' notice that when you

roach it you must bow down an' make your acknowledgment, no matter what your real feelin's is. I can't see thai we've got much ter be thankful fur this year, Liddy."

"O, yes, we have. - We " "Hoi' on, now, hoi' on, Liddy. That's

a way you have of rushin' me with argy-ments an' downin' me afore I gets rightly started. Jest wait till I git through. Oui crops was mostly a failer, owin to too much rain. What we did harvest didn't really pay fur th' raisin'. That two-year-old colt was killed by lightnin', most of our standin' timber was destroyed by fire an' a good many rods of l'once went th' same way. Now you can't honestly say, Liddy, that we're as fur along as we was this time a year ago."

"I didn't know you were so worldly, •Tosh. You talk as though wo ought to rebel against Providence whenever the credit side of our bank book doesn't have a steady growth. We're both in th' prime of life with good health. We've been given more time to pay off the mortgage. None of the great disasters we read aboul has touched us. There is plenty in the cellar and the granary to live on if we were without a dollar. That state of af­fairs would be a godsend to tons of thou­sands this winter, Josh. And you knov! that Jimmie pttHod through after the doc­tor gave him up and is as hardy as a knot!"

"So lie did, the blessed little imp of mis­chief. But I won't dispute with you, Liddy. You don't give a feller no fail chance. I was goin' to sell that 20-poun<i gobbler, but we'll jest keep him fur « center piece Thanksgivin'."

Our Own American Day. No matter what its obscure origin, the

American Thanksgiving is our own Amer­ican day now, and, set in its thoroughly American surroundings, it is a chief among all the happy days of the year. Maj we all have opportunity and reason to ap­preciate and share in many of them.

Circumstances Alter Cases. Pa gives John a "little dressing,"

Without asking, when he's late, But John has to ask l'ir "dressing"

When he passes up Lis plate.

The Night Before Thanksgiving.

POOR OLD SPAIN.

Her Navy Now Ranks Seventh Among Kiiropenn Fleets.

Spain emerges from the war witii s% fleet which is on paper at least a re­spectable one, but this is merely tie-cause her ships were unready nt the outset of the struggle, and unable to take their place in the line beside Cer-vera and Montejo. As it stands to-day the Spanish fleet is the seventh in Eu­rope, coming after the British, French, Russian, German, Italian and Austrian fleets.

It now includes the battleship I'elayo, which is a fairly good and modern ship, armored cruiser Carlos V., and three armored cruisers of the Yizcaya. type. These last two are all unfinished. There are two ironclads, the Victoria and Xu-mancia.

The protected cruiser squadron la, represented by the Alfonso XIII., Le-parte and Rio de la Plata, but of these the first two are badly damaged and unable to go to sea without great al­terations.

Of torpedo gunboats there are eleven, of destroyers four, and of large torpedo boats twelve, to say nothing of a sub­marine boat.

Of older vessels, which are for all practical purposes of no lighting value, there are a host; two old wooden cruis­ers similar to the Castilla, which was burned at Manila, head the list, and a large number of small gunboats, hither­to employed on the Cuban and Philip­pine coast line, bring it to a conclusion.

Spain has one large cruiser of the Cristobal Colon type, building in Italy. It was to have been delivered this year, but with the bad luck which waits upon Spain was not completed when the war began.

Practically all Spain's large ships which were ready to go to sea at the beginning of the war have been cap­tured or destroyed. Santiago has ac­counted for seven vessels, Manila for ten, and about as many more small craft hare been wiped off her list in the minor actions of the war.

If the whole Spanish navy were col-: lected and dispatched into American waters, it would be greatly outmatched by the fleets of either the Argentine or Chile. To such depths of humiliation has Spain, the old-time mistress of the sea, fallen.

"Mr." Hetty Green. All the world knows Mrs. Hetty

Green, richest and most eccentric wom­an of America, but few know that there is a Mr. Green, and yet there is, and this Mr. Green was once, before the war, known as "Spendthrift" Green. In those days he was in the China trade and he made a fortune in Hong Kong. In 18G6 he went home to New Bedford, Mass., and met and on July 11, 18G7, married Hetty Robinson, daughter of a rich whaling ship owner. Wall street broke Mr. Green completely and he be­came a dependent on his wife. Mrs. Green entered Wall street and mada money and she makes a small allow­ance to her husband, who is . now 77 years old. He can be seen each pleas­ant morning on the porch of Mrs. Green's house In Bellows Fails. Vt., reading the newspapers, his sole relax­ation. The tradespeople rarely do bus­iness with Mr. Hetty Green. They know Mrs. Hetty Green only, or rather, think they do. Sometimes they win­der whether they are not mistaken. A woman who deals in millions must look on a shoulder of mutton or a veal cutlet as the Olympic gods, after a draught of ambrosial nectar, might sniff a suutr from a skin of Libyan wine. But ti.e same determination that Mrs. Hetty displays in buying a block of Chicago. Burlington and Quincy is visible in the way she takes to herself a pint of sug.ir beets or a box of August huckleberries. If the beets are 6 cents at one place and 5 at another fourteen blocks down the-street, she takes the other kind and profits by the exercise.—New Yoiic World.

"Follow Your Leader." Average men and women are very

like sheep in some ways; they follow a leader blindly. It is easy to prove this. When you are passing a store before which uo i me is standing, stop and look intently at whatever Is there. In a moiment some one will be beside you, not because he is interested in some­thing there, but because he is curious to know What you find that is so ab­sorbing. In five minutes the walk will be obstructed by tihe number of per­sons who have followed your lead,, most of whom do not know what they stopped to see. It is said, by tihe way, that looking in shop windows has be­come a business, and men and women are hired to stand before an attractive window and thus to draw attention ;o it. That may be true or not, but it is certain that no one person can stop' io' look at anything without others join­ing him.

Military Use of Balloons. During the Napoleonic waiis, more,

than a century ago, the balloon wn-» first tried for purposes of reconnoU-sance. Since then; great improve­ments have been made in the construc­tion of balloons, their material: 'ind: equipment, and the mehods.of man­aging them. France has .souglvtito sup­ply means of horizontal propulsion, and Germany has so combined the kite with tlie. gas-bag that the airship "will1' rise, instead of failing, under a puff of wind when held captive by a rope. But as the record stands, prior to tiha • summer of 1S98 the only practical Use of balloons for observing an enemy's 'position and strength belongs to the closing decade decade of the eighteenth century.

Men say the greatest fun in getting married is the wedding trip; womea say It is getting presents.

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