Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1898 — Page 2

atEltmotratic&ntincl J. W. MoEWEK, X»ubUafa«r. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

A HUGE BUNKO GAME

CANADIAN ACTION IS CHARACTERIZED AS ONE. ProfeMor Dennis, of Princeton, Re- . tarns nnl Declares Stikeen Ronte Impracticable—Rich Syndicate May Become Owner of New Guinea. Fails to Reach Klondike. Prof. Dennis, who edited the Princeton Univarsity newspaper and is to return to Princeton University in the fall as professor of philosophy, has returned from the North, after a vain attempt to get through the Klondike by the Stikeen route. He said: “I have been three months in that wretched country. I speak for the good of humanity and hope the press will denounce the Stikeen route as impracticable and brand the action of those in power in Canada, who urge thousands of people to risk their all in an attempt to reach the Klondike via the Stikeen as a huge international bunko game. Thousands along the trail are eating their outfits up. They have no money. With packing to Teslin lake SBOO a ton it will take $1,500 in cash to get through. Only fifty people have reached Teslin. They got through last winter, but no one has passed in since. Sixty miles after leaving Telegraph creek is an awful bog. Two men who contracted to get the correspondent of the Illustrated Daily News through to Teslin lake have killed nineteen horses in the attempt. Horses and dogs are being killed by thousands, one Michigan outfit losing 119 dogs in a week by starvation. The Dees lake find enables some fifty men to make wages. The report that 500 men are taking out S3OO a day is a falsehood.”

SYNDICATE HAS AN OPTION. New Guinea to Be Owned by a Rich Corporation. An agreement has been entered into between the administrator of New Guinea by which all the best land of the British possession is at the option of purchase by the British New Guinea Company. The particulars of the transaction are of such an astounding nature that the widest and most unfavorable attention has been drawn to it throughout Australia. Australia contributes largely to the cost of the administration of New Guinea, and now that it is practically to be sold to British land-grabbers the feeling against the mother country is intense. All the colonies are appealing to the imperial parliament, and the Australian press is full of bitter denunciation of the scheme. Australian prospectors have located all the best agricultural lands and some sections are known to have rich deposits of mineral. These are all chartered and will in due time be handed over to the syndicate, 'jWhich has unlimited millions behind it. THIEVES UNDER A CHURCH. Alleged Robbers’ Roost Found in a Pittsburg House of Worship. John Black, Charles Fay, Julius Croquet, Charles Allen and Frank Wagner are locked up in the Allegheny police station, at Pittsburg, Pa., charged with being burglars. Black is the janitor of the New Jerusalem Church at Sandusky and Isabella streets. Three of the alleged gang were arrested while entering the basement of the church. They had just returned from Mount Washington, where they are said to have robbed a store. In a room under the church detectives found a mass of plunder. Among the stuff were some revolutionary war relics stolen from the residence of the pastor, Rev. H. Crowfield, Black is 25 years old. The others are boys. -They have been giving the police trouble for some time, but no one thought of looking for thieves under the church. Standing of the Clubs. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati ..34 18 New Y0rk...26 25 Boston 33 19 Philadelphia .21 27 Cleveland ...31 20 Brooklyn ....21 28 Baltimore ...29 20 Washingt’n ..19 33 Chicago ....30 23 St. Louis.... 19 33 Pittsburg ...28 24 Louisville ...17 38 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indian’p’lis .32 15 Milwaukee ..27 23 Columbus ...28 18 Minneap’lis ..19 81 Kan. City.. .29 21 Detroit 18 33 St. Paul 30 22 Omaha 13 31 Banker Is Acquitted. The trial ,of the case of J. B. Streeter, president of the recently closed First National Bank of Larimore, on the charge of receiving deposits, knowing the bank was insolvent, came to an end in the District Court at Grand Forks, N. D. The jury was advised by Judge Fisk to bring in a verdict for the defendant on the ground that the insolvency of the bank had not been proved, and consequently returned a. verdict of acquittal. Missouri County Deluged. A cloudburst in St. Charles County, Mo., caused thousands of dollars’ damage. Near the city of St. Charles the big bridge of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad was swept away. In the country many new iron bridges just completed were destroyed, while everywhere farms and lowlands were flooded, small streams becoming raging rivers. To Settle Border Disputes. It has been decided to hold the international conference between the United States and Canada at Quebec July 15. The Canadian representatives will be Sir Wilfred Laurier, Sir Richard Cartwright and Sir Louis Davis. Excelsior Plant Destroyed. The extensive excelsior plant owned and operated by J. W. Creager and Samuel Biredy, at Thurmont, Md., was destroyed by fire. While firemen were fighting the flames a smokestack crashed to the ground, striking Harry Root and killing him. The loss is estimated at $30,000. Cheated a Slot Machine. Judge E. P. Hammond of the United States Court sentenced William Nethercutt of Wellston, Ohio, to serve three years for passing bogus nickels on a slot machine. Railway Engine Blows Up. The Iron railway engine, the John Campbell, blew up on the incline above Ironton, Ohio. Engineer Robert Royer was killed, Conductor Charles Myers had his head cut- and was seriously injured, Fireman Andy Foit was terribly scalded and Brakeman Nobble was fatally injured. *- Three Trainmen Hurt. At Grand Forks, N. D., the engine and tender of the north-bound freight on the Langdon Line of the Great Northern jumped the track, fatally injuring Conductor Cohen and severely injuring Engineer Peterson and a brakeman. 'Ae engine tore up the track for some'distance. . Mayor of Brunswick a Murderer. John H. Helsel, Mayor of Brunswick, Mo., shot and instantly killed CUy Marshal Richard Ashby in a saloon fight. Mayor Heisel was shot twice by the marshal, one shot penetrating the abdomen and the other passing through his lungs. He will probably die. Drowned in a Shaft. An accident in the .mine of the Mount Vernon Company at Stotts City, Mo., resulted in the death of five men. They were on a raft pumping ojjt flood water g? LMj o! w* Wi WOB w»vw* W BMB

JOHN BECKER LYNCHED. Murderer of a Girl Meets Death at Hands of a Mob. At Great Bend, Kan., in the public; square a murderer was lynched the other evening by a mob of probably 500 persons. The victim was John Becker, a white man, 50 years of age, who, on April 8, killed Myrtle Huffmeister, the 16-year-old daughter of William Huffmeister, a farmer, living near there. Becker was taken from the jail at Hutchinson to Great Bend for preliminary examination. In the early part of the evening the mob was swarming around the jail. Evidently believing that he could outwit the lynchers by flight, the sheriff rushed Becker from the jail to his buggy, but he had no sooner done so than be and his men and the prisoner were surrouhded. Seizing the murderer, they bore him to the public square. There a rope was drawn around Becker’s neck, and after he had been beaten almost to insensibility the rope was thrown over a limb of a big tree and he was drawn up. , KILLED IN A CLOUDBURST. Artificial Lake’s Dam Swept Away and Houses Carried Off in Kansas. A cloudburst in the vicinity of Chelsea Park, a suburban pleasure resort about three miles southwest of Kansas City, Kan., is believed to have caused the death of at least five persons, and possibly more. An artificial lake had been made In the park by the building of a dam across Jersey Creek. The flood of water carried away this dam and a torrent poured out over the lowlands along the creek. Half a dozen houses standing near Jersey Creek were carried away. Mrs. Greenlee, living in 13th street, near the creek, was drowned, being swept away with her house. Robert Koknote, his wife and their two children are missing, and are believed to have perished. Their house was near that of Mrs. Greenlee. Three other persons are reported to have been drowned, but their names are unknown.

SCHOONER AND CARGO BURN. Crew of the Shenandoah at Norfolk Forced to Desert the Vessel. The British schooner Shenandoah, Captain Gibson, bound from Norfolk, Va., to Berbice, British Guiana, with 126,000 staves and heading, was burned to the water’s edge while anchored in Hampton roads, the cargo being a total loss. The fire was first discovered by the anchor watch, who at once reported to the captain. All hands turned out, and did everything possible to save the vessel, but. were compelled to abandon her in haste. The only articles saved were the schooner’s papers. Soon after leaving the vessel her masts went by the board and the hull was wrapped in flames from stem to stern. The loss is partly covered by insurance. Captain Gibson says he has no idea how the fire started. FIVE SERIOUSLY HURT. Santa Fe Passenger Trains Collide in Colorado. Passenger trains No. 5, west bound, and No. 6, east bound, on the Atchison,. Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, collided on a siding at Conroy, Colo. The engine on the east-bound train and the combination baggage and express car on the westbound train were badly damaged, and the wreckage delayed traffic ten hours. Express Messenger Travis had a leg broken and a score of passengers were injured. Four passengers were seriously injured, all of whom were from Lamar, Colo. Shore Signals for the Navy. How to signal from the land to a ship at sea has always been a difficult question. All devices fall short of requirements when it is necessary to carry on'a conversation between the land and ships. One Ardois has now perfected a device by which this signaling can be accomplished. The invention is known as the Boughton telephotos. One of them is now being set up to add to the already nearly perfect system of defense at Sandy Hook. It consists of an arrangement of lights on a high tower. Ry means of it the signal officer.will be able to sit In his little ca.bin at the top of the tower and by the use of a keyboard, not differing materially from that of a typewriter, carry on a conversation with a vessel far out at sea. The tower is about sixty feet high and is open, except for two cabins built in it, one threequarters of the way up and the other on top. The upper cabin is-slit by a narrow window the whole breadth of the side exposed to the sea. From this the lookout may sweep with his glasses the whole expanse of ocean from Far Rockaway to Scotland Lightship. Red and white are the only colors used in signaling, and the code Is easily indicated on the cover by placing underneath the letters of the alphabet a number of red and white circles, corresponding to the number of red and white lights shown, to indicate the same letter outside. Thus, under the letter O there would be, say, three, red circles and one white. On the outside of the tower are a number of arms stretching out at right angles to it. On these arms the electric lights are arranged all with red or white globes and of sufficient size to be seen miles out nt sea. The mechanism by which the lights are operated from the keys is a secret

Decision Against Trust Companies. In the Missouri Supreme Court, sitting en banc, an opinion by Judge Burgess was rendered granting the petition of Attorney General Crow for a writ granting the petition of ouster against the St. Louis, trust companies, which are doing a general banking business, contrary to their charters and the State banking law. The decision does not prohibit the trust companies from receiving deposits, but compels them to pay interest thereon. England Obtains Mirs Bay. It is reported from Shanghai that the Chinese Government has signed an agreement ceding to England a strip of the mainland opposite Hong Kong, negotiations for which have been in progress for some time. As the new boundary includes Kowloon and Mirs Bay, it may be necessary for American dispatch boats to find a new base in Chinese waters, in order not to offend against the English neutrality laws. Train Robbers Captured. There was a desperate battle in Sutton' County, Texas, between a posse of officers and the band of train robbers who held up the Santa Fe express train near Coleman Junction and killed Fireman Lee Johnson. Three of the robbers an<j two of their pursuers were wounded. Four of the robbers were captured, among the number being the one who was wounded In the fight with the trainmen at Coleman. French Cabinet Resigns. When the French ministers reassembled the other day Meline handed President Faure the resignation of the whole cabinet, which the President accepted, while requesting the ministers to continue the direction of affairs until their successors are named. Worden Escapes the Gallows. Salter D. Worden, convicted and sentenced to be hanged for wrecking a train which resulted in several deaths near Sacramento, Cal., during the railroad strike of 1894, is to have his sentence commuted to life imprisonment. Shot by a Stenographer. At New Orleans, La., Superintendent D. D. Curran of the Queen and Crescent Railroad was shot and seriously wounded by his stenographer, W. J. Reppert. Reppert is in custody. Lightning Causes Destruction. As harvesters were entering the 2,000acre field of wheat belonging to Geo. Adkins, in Monroe County, Tenn., lightning struck it, causing a total destruction. Lynching in Glasgow, Ky. Caleb Gaines, colored, was taken from jail at Glasgow, Ky., and hanged to a tree. Fifty men on horseback were the lynchers. Soldiers Fight Better When Well Fed. Jt is the intention of the War Depart-, went officials to furnish p competent cook for web comply, battery and troop in

was drafted at the War Department some days since providing for these cooks, and Representative Hull will endeavor to have it adopted. It is claimed by the department that more than half the illness of the troops is caused by ignorance of the culinary art, and it is for'the purpose of correcting this evil that they are anxious to have this measure adopted. The armies of European nations are supplied with first-class cooks, and as this new departure has passed the experimental stage this Government has decided to adopt the same plan. A practical illustration of the benefits derived from having well-cooked food was given at Camp Alger recently. One of the New York regiments, at its own expense, employed a first-class cook, and with his experience in handling the commissary stores in two weeks he saved the regiment $42, with which they purchased milk and other delicacies which were uot enjoyed by the other regiments stationed there. Besides this their meals were well cooked and palatable, and the men of this regiment were in much better health and spirits than those who were compelled to eat the food prepared by a novice who of that art. DEMANDS BLOOD FOR A LIFE. father of a Striker’s Victim Insists That Prisoner Be Execeted. Patrick Clarke of Central Falls, R. L, has engaged an attorney to enter objection to the commuting of the sentence of death on-Salter D. Warden to life imprisonment by Gov. Budd of California. Mr. Clarke’s son Patrick, a member of Battery L, Fifth artillery, of California, was killed in a wreck near Sacramento in 1894, the train which he and other soldiers were guarding being wrecked by the striking employes of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Certain strikers were tried for wrecking the train, among them being Salter D. ? Warden, who was convicted and sentenced to be hanged. Many labor organizations tried to save Wardeni and President Cleveland wrote Gov. Budd in Warden’s behalf.

JAPANESE FOR PERU. Subject of the Mikado Wanted by the South American Country. H. Furnkama, secretary of the Japanese legation at the City of Mexico, is on his way to San Francisco, whence he will sail for Peru, where he goes on official business. The object of his visit to South America is to examine a colonization scheme recently laid before the Mikado by the Peruvian Government. The South American country is anxious to Import large numbers of Japanese to be employed as farm laborers in Peru, and the secretary of the Japanese legation at the Mexican capital has been instructed to carefully investigate the agricultural conditions of Peru and report to his Government. If he reports favorably the laborers will be sent. Shoots a German Diplomat. While the first secretary of the German embassy in London, Count von Arco-Val-ley, was emerging from the embassy one recent evening a stranger fired two shots from a revolver at him. One of the bullets entered the secretary’s back, but the wound is not dangerous. His assailant was arrested after firing at and missing a policeman. He is an Englishman, but refuses to furnish any explanation of his conduct. Predatory Tramps in Kansas. A plague of tramps is infesting the districts surrounding Wichita, Kan. Every freight train that comes in is loaded with these opponents of hard work. Masquerading as harvest hands, they are going through the country in gangs. Pretending to seek work, they are looting the farmers in a wholesale manner, and having obtained what plunder they can they leave the neighborhood. Behring Sea Award Paid. The claims of Canadian sealers arising out of seizures made by the United States in Behring sea were finally settled by the payment to Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British ambassador, of approximately $473,000, being the full amount of the claims as settled under an agreement between the United States and Great Britain. Robbers Kill and Burn Three. Near Wotumpka, Ala,, the other night the house of William Gurden was burned, and with him his wife and William Curley, all white. Gurden had the reputation of keeping a hoard of gold and there, is little doubt that the three persons were murdered by robbers who set the house on fire. Earthquake Shocks Are Felt. Earthquake shocks were felt along the east bank of the Mississippi and in towns still farther east. Some buildings were shaken and crockery and glassware proken. In some of the smaller places furniture was shifted and flues fell, giving report to stories of buildings having collapsed. Professor Is Missing. Prof. L. H. Harris, professor of Gree"k at Emory Ga., disappear* ed from his home in that city. His friends have failed to locate him. His family fear he is temporarily insane owing to the strain of the commencement work just over and has wandered awfiy.

Seeking More Chinese Land. France and Russia, according to a special dispatch from Shanghai, are pressing new territorial claims at Foo Chow, capital of the province of Fo Kien, on the Min river, and at Kin Chow, in Manchuria, near the north shore of the Gulf of Liao Tong. Senator Aldrich Re-elected. United States Senator Nelson W. Aidrich was re-elected by the Rhode Island Legislature on the first ballot. The vote on joint ballot is as follows: Aldrich, 96; Benjamin Andrews, 3; L. E. Garvin, 1. Canyon City Burned Up. Passengers on a returning steamer bring tidings that almost the entire town of Canyon City, Alaska (population, 400) has been destroyed'by fire.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, 13.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to - Bic; corn, No. 2,81 cto 33c; oats, No. 2,23 c to 25c; rye, No. 2,42 cto 44c; butter, choice creamery, 15c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 11c; new potatoes, choice, 70c to 85c per b ushel.' Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,89 cto 91c; corn, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 80c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2,85 cto 87c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2,23 cto 25c; rye, No. 2,39 cto 41c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, SB.OO to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 83c to 85c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 82c to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2,41 cto 43c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50: wheat, No. 2,94 cto 96c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 80c; rye, 42c to 44c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 86c to 87c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; rye, No. 2,44 c to 46c; clover seed, $3.00 to $3.10. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 89c to 91c; corn, No. 3,32 cto 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 1,44 cto 46c; barley, No. 2,54 cto 56c; pork, mess, $9.25 to $9.75. Buffalo —Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, fair tq choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.00; l&mbs, common to extra, $4.25 to $6.00. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3,00 tp $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, Np. 2 red, 88c to 00c; corn, No. 2, 87 cto 89c; oats, No. 2 whits, 81c to Moi butter, creamery, 13c Uta; i.

HOBSON AND HIS LITTLE BAND OF HEROES.

These are the portraits of Lieut. Richmond Pearson Hobson and his gallant crew of seven who sank the Merrimac in the mouth of Santiago Bay, and who will live in history as among the bravest of the world’s heroes. The ninth picture In the group is that of Naval Cadet Joseph W. Powell, who commanded the launch that followed the Merrimac, braving death to rescue the forlorn hopers. Hobson, the leader and originator of the plan, is a naval constructor, with the relative rank of lieutenant, junior grade. George Charette was a gunner’s mate of the first-class on board the cruiser New York. He lives at Lowell, Mass., and is 31 years old. J. C. Murphy was the coxswain of the lowa. Osborn Warren Deignan was born in Stuart, lowa, and is 31 years old. He has been in the navy several years, and was one of the Merrimac’s original crew. Francis Kelly was also one of the crew of the Merrimac. He Is a Boston man, and is 28 years old. George E. Phillips is 34 years old, and was born in Cambridgeport, Mass. He .» enlisted on the Merrimac as a machinist soon after the collier was bought by the government. Randolph Clausen was coxswain of the New York, and smuggled himself aboard the Merrimac without permission.

SECOND CITY OF CUBA.

Matanzas Noted for Its Quaintnese and Superb Beauty. Matanzas is the second city of Cuba in size, wealth and commercial importance and is noted for its healthfulness, quaintness and beauty. Before the war the population of the city was 60, 000, but It dwindled to one-half, thousands of its best citizens having joined the Insurgent army, and other thousands having been scattered or killed owing to the exigencies of war. The province has always been noted for Its patriotism. The San Juan River divides the city Into two parts, the Pueblo Nuevo—new town—and Versailles, and the river Is spanned by several handsome stone bridges. Pueblo Nuevo contains the railway depot and one of the most beautiful avenues In all Cuba—the Calzeda de San Estevan. For two miles it is lined with Imposing villas, all with pillared porticoes in front, paved, like the terraces, with mosaic of black and white marble, or blue and yellow tiles. These casas of the old-time tilled gardens are colored pea-green, sky-blue, rose-pink, lavender, purple, crushed strawberry, and yellow, but the colors, which elsewhere would seem to stand eternally swearing at the landscape, here tone It so perfectly with the tropic sky and foliage that you fail to notice the violent contrasts. All the houses are set flush with the pavement, but each has its beautiful garden at the sides, filled with flowers and stately palms, surrounded by tall iron railings and stone pillars topped with urns. After the great conflagration of for-ty-three years ago, in which more than half of Matanzas was burned, the well-to-do losers rebuilt their homes on the heights above the city, where ocean breezes blow fresh and cool and the wide-spreading bay affords a charming picture. Unfortunately, perhaps, the old and uncomfortable public buildings remained untouched by the flames.

MATANZAS, CUBA’S SECOND LARGEST CITY.

The musty cathedral, whose corner stone was laid more than three centuries ago, is imposing by reason of massiveness and rude architectural beauty. The custom house, erected near the beginning of the present century, is long and low, with overhanging roof of red tiles and pillared inner corridors. Matanzas rejoices In the possession of a splendid new theater, which is said to be the finest in the West Indies, not even excepting Habana’s “Theater of a Hundred Doors.” There are several handsomely appointed club houses and casinos, too; for in Cuban cities, as in Paris, London and Madrid, club life flourishes, at the expense of domestic institutions. The view of the city from the summit of the hills above San Severino Castle Is magnificent and includes more than thirty miles of undulating shore line.

THE RIGHT OF MIGHT.

War in All Ito Horror Has Been with Us Since the Birth of Time. War has been defined as murder glorified. The scaffold replaced by a triumphal arch would perhaps be more figurative. A condition of things qualified as extra-legal would be more exact. War is the paradox of jurisprudence. It sanctions that which it has forbidden; honors that which it punishes, and rewards that which It reproves. Its criterion is the result There is no question of justice or of injustice. There is a question merely of victory or defeat. The Romans, who, whatever their faults may have been, were not casuists, summed it up in a sentence—vae victis—woe to the vanquished. War and humanity are congenital. They appeared on earth together. In the Old Testament the most ancient chronicle is a tale of murder. There two brothers are fact to face. Their ideas conflict. One kills the other. The brothers are succeeded by families, the latter by clans. There are tents and passions. There are races, nations, empires. But always the conflict of ideas, always the battle which ensues. History has the monotony of the infernal regions. It is made up of groans. The lesson which disengages from it is the right of might. There never has been any other, The early warriors had the whirlwind for ally. The moon was their servant. To aid them the sun stood 'fetill, The terror of Sinai gleamed from tblf SwMtpUtM, Sha wnt

their faces and live. They encroached and conquered. On the rock-bound hill they founded a line of kings. Presently Vengeance incarnate talked Assyrian. They were swept into chains and remained there until it occurred to Cyrus to change the Euphrates’ course. With Alexander, who chased kings hither and thither, came more might. When the Roman eagles pounced upon their prey there was more. There was always more. In history there is little else. Of justice or injustice never a word. Spain knows it. It is might that made her. But might is not eternal. Even Hercules is dead.

NEWS BY PROXY.

Young Woman Who Relates Current Events to Society Eadies. The secret Is out. It is no longer a mystery how the ladles of the official set of Washington are enabled to discuss intelligently all questions of national and state affairs, as well as all other subjects of the day, social and literary, without neglecting social or home duties. It has been noticed that at least one morning in the week the thinking aristocracy of Washington arose early, and, in fetching and appropriate costumes, gathered at 10:30 In the parlors of the Wlmondaughsis Club, on New York avenue. There, behind closed doors, they met a brilliant young woman, Miss Janet Richards, who, in a talk of an hour and a half, posted her fair bearers on all the current topics of the day. In a concise and interesting way Miss Richards, with a wonderful knowledge of current events, explains to them the happenings of the week and the matters likely to be discussed during the coming week. Beginning with European politics, she reviews the situation there, Interspersing her remarks with humor and sarcasm enough to make them Interesting. She is piquant and bright, so

her audience, notebook in hand, never wearies as she discusses subjects of gravest importance. The Sultan’s craft, King George’s political scandals and the impoverished condition of the Duke of Teck and the Prince of Wales, with comments on the means taken to Increase their fortunes, are clearly given. London gossip and fiction, the workingmen’s problem and what its solution is to be, Lady Cavendish and her opinions on the social life of past and present, also come In for a share of attention. Then home affairs are taken up, especially all questions of political and financial interest to be discussed by Congress; literary and social news. Questions are then asked by her auditors, so when they return to their homes they are ready to discuss any topic of the day intelligently with diplomat or layman. “You have no idea what a relief it is to come here,” remarked one of the ladles of the cabinet. “With all the social demands upon us it would be impossible for us to keep posted on all the subjects of the day. One could never read up on all these and have time for anything else.” A Senator, In speaking of Miss Richards, said: "For a long time many of us were puzzled to know where our wives got their Information, for when a discussion arose on any subject of interest they seemed to be better posted than we were.”—New York World.

Bigamy Common in Italy.

Italy is said to have more bigamists, than any other European country. This is made possible because the church refuses to recognize civil marriages, and the state does not regard a church marriage as binding. The result is that unscrupulous men marry two wives— one with the sanction of the church, the other with the sanction of the law.

Earliest Interview.

It is said of the Aberdeen Journal, which has recently celebratetHts 159th birthday, that in one of its earlier numbers, now unhappily lost from the files, a participant in the battle of Culloden was interviewed two days after that historic combat. It was about the earliest newspaper Interview on record. After a woman pas readied a WIM

PAYING THE PENALTY

THE SENATORS AND SILVER. Some of the silver Senators are easily satisfied, as they showed when they voted at the last moment for the war revenue bill as it came from the conference committee with the proviso for the coinage of the seigniorage stricken out and an authorization for the coining of a million and a half of silver dollars a month put in place thereof. This concession to the silver men amounts to very little indeed, for the mints have been turning out a million of dollars of the white metal every month under existing law, and the addition of a half million more a month, or six millions of them in the course of a year, is so small a matter as to scarcely be worth mentioning in connection with so important a measure as this bill, which provides for the collection of additional taxes to the amount of probably $150,000,000 a year, and for the increase of the interest-bearing public debt by the issuance of $400,000,000 more of bonds. Had the silver Senators stood by each other earnestly they could have undoubtedly secured better terms from the gold majority in the House. It was probably their desire not to delay action on the bill, but to put the Government in command at once of all the money it needs for the prosecution of the war that prompted them to vote as they did.—New York News. Right Kind of Men. Quay’s success in buying and bulldozing the Pennsylvania Republican convention and thus securing the nomination of bls candidate for Governor may prove the defeat of his party in the Keystone State. It is alleged that If the Democrats nominate the right man for Governor they will be able to elect him. This condition of affairs is not peculiar to Pennsylvania. All over the country facts are making it evident that this year presents a great opportunity for the Democratic party. The people are disgusted with the hypocrisy and dishonesty of the Republicans, and are ready to deprive them of the power which they have abused. But, as in Pennsylvania, Democratic success requires that the right kind of men be nominated by the Democrats. However, Democratic success with the wrong kind of men for candidates would be worse than defeat, for the effect of electing Incompetent or unsound men this fall would be to imperil the chances of victory in the campaign of 1900. This paper has urged cart* in the selection of Democratic candidates for Congress, because such care will Insure future victories. Let wise and loyal Democrats be chosen, and let the cranks and the men of one idea remain in the harmless seclusion of private life.—Chicago Dispatch.

Wanamaker Is Right. “In order for us to have.good times the people must not only have money, but they must also spend it freely. The two things are reciprocal. It Is the market that keeps the factories and the stores going and pays the wages.” This is what John Wanamaker said recently. Mr. Wanamaker is one of the few rich men in this country with a glimmer of economic sense. The average ediiorial idiot is advising the people to save their money. They must be saving it; they certainly are not spending much of it. Nothing will so quickly breed hard times as an epidemic of economy. There is a circulating medium of but $23 per capita, and probably sls of this is in the banks or otherwise idle. If the people save the remaining sB— is not much to becomes of our circulation medium? And yet the people are urged to save their money. You might as well ask a man to save his breath or dam up the circulation of his blood. Under our laughable system of society the spendthrift Is a benefactor and the prudent is an enemy to the public welfare. A New Definition. The word “plutocrat” does not necessarily mean a rich man. It is a strange fact that a vast majority of plutocrats are poor men—financially as well as morally poor—while many wealthy people are the most genuine of Democrats. A plutocrat is one who looks upon wealth as a warrant of respectability, and with the right of industrial and po- : lltlcal authority, and of government of, by and for the rich. The- toadies to wealth, the caterers to monopoly government, and the blind, unthinking partisan who votes and works for the party with a record adverse to the popular interest is the meanest, most contemptible and most dangerous plutocrat, though not worth a dollar.— Kansas Standard. Raising Money for the War. If ordinary common sense, instead of the desire to favor certain contributors to the Republican campaign fund of 1896, were animating the majority in Congress the war revenue bill would have been constructed on the lines suggested by the Democratic minority, instead of on those advocated by the agents of confederated corporations. The Democratic plan provided ample revenue for the expenses of the war without unduly taxing any portion of the community. It authorized a new issue of treasury notes—greenbacks so called—to an amount that could be absorbed by the business of the country with benefit to all excepting, perhaps, the professional money lenders. It provided for the coinage of a certain quantity of silver now lying idle in the vaults of the Government, and it levied taxes impartially on those best able to pay them. The Republican plan, on the other hand, is to increase the bonded debt of the nation enormously and to save all the big corporations and trusts that came up with liberal contributions two years ago to encompass the defeat of William J. Bryan for the presidency of the United States. Coal Miners Starving. There are reconcentrados in the United States. There are Weylers and Blancos, exercising their despotic power in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Hazelton miners are starving and have petitioned Congress to vote money for their aid. Will not Senator Thurston, whose heart was touched by the sufferings oLXhe Cuban reconcentrados, visit Hazelton? Will not the Republican President, who wanted to send bread to the starving people of Cuba, send a few crumbs to the victims of the coal trust Weylers of Pennsylvania? Sheriff Martin and his men taught the Hazelton miners that to strike meant death. That the rifles of the sheriff’s guard would blow the remnants of life out of the Emaciated bodies of starving strikers. Men who have faced the deadly rifles WFliO? tM MM UMMIM U)»

coal barons, and who have appealed to the courts of justice, only to be denied it, are not likely to demand their rights. The danger is too great Therefore these poor wretches are now begging Congress for assistance. Miserable as their lives are, still they want to preserve them, and rather than starve, and in preference to being murdered, they make mendicants of themselves. Truly this is a land of liberty! A land where the trusts are protected and the people starved.—Chicago Dispatch. Coining the Seigniorage. “Silver sentiment is dead,” shouts a Chicago administration organ one day, and the next day it mourns over the fact that the House makes a “concession” to silver In the matter of coining the seigniorage. If silver sentiment is dead, why is the House making a “concession” to it? What is the House afraid of? Ghosts? It is evident that the Government needs money. There is $42,000,000 worth of silver in the treasury, but that must not be coined, says the gold-advocating press. “Bonds are what we want. Gold bonds are preferred, but as we can’t get them we will take coin bonds.” But why bonds instead of the good money lying in the vaults of the treasury? Because bonds bear interest. Bonds make bankers rich. Bonds force the people to pay tribute to the plutocrat, and coining the bullion into money does not put any tax on the people to be paid into the hands of bondholders. Nevertheless the seigniorage is to be coined, and all because the members of the House of Representatives are afraid of ghosts.— Chicago Dispatch. Democrats for Congress. Great care should be taken in selecting the Democratic candidates for Congress. Those who have been mentioned so far are not strong enough. There are better men who should be brought to the front. This is not a time when the ambition of inexperienced men should be gratified. It is better to have one wise man to represent the Democrats in Congress than to have half a dozen cranks. Republican Congressmen have shown great ability In doing nothing. By pursuing a course qf masterly inactivity they have evaded exciting hostilities. This negative commendation is all that can be given to the Republicans. It is incumbent on the Democrats to secure aggressive, forceful, able and sincere men as candidates for Congress. This fact cannot be urged too strongly. It is evident that such men have not as yet been brought to the front. The leaders of the party owe it to themselves and to the Democracy to mend this condition of affairs. Reign of Trusts. With absolute unanimity the Republican Senators have voted to tax the people and not to tax the trusts. Solid as a Roman phalanx the Republicans presented an unbroken front to the Democratic attempt at reaching the hoarded millions of the plutocrats. Taxes on the necessities of life were favored by the Republicans. The poor man’s luxuries were gladly placed on the tax list by these patriotic and noble minded gentlemen; when a tax on corporations was suggested a howl of indignant protest was raised and the proposition was promptly voted down. When the Republicans could not argue they descended to ridicule, and pretended to see something extremely funny in the idea of taxing trusts. That is just the way the aristocrats treated the demands of the people before the French revolution Inaugurated a reign of terror. There will be no reign of terror in the United States, but, thanks to the intelligence of the common people, there will cease to exist the reign of trust.— Exchange. To Authorize Income Tax. Representative Barlow, of California, has Introduced a joint resolution to amend the Constitution by adding as the close of the first clause of section 8, article 1, after the words of “United States,” the following: “But nothing in this clause, or in this constitution, shall be so construed or interpreted as to destroy or abridge in any way the right of Congress, whenever in its discretion it may be deemed necessary for the public good, to levy a tax on incomes in excess of $2,000 per annum, and Congress is expressly empowered to levy such a tax, fixing either a common rate for all or a graded scale, according to the amount of income, as in its discretion may seem best for the welfare of the nation.” The One Exception. President Steyn, of the Orange Free State, is probably the only living ruler of a country who has publicly denounced the capitalist class. He warned his hearers against capitalists, who were sucking the lifeblood from the veins of the working men. Capitalists in the sister republic (the Transvaal), when they could not get their way, shut down. , the mines. This was simply taking the bread out of the mouths of the working men. Looking north there was a great Imperialist (no doubt meaning Cecil Rhodes), under the guise of philanthropy, calling the working men into the country to slave for him, for he had a monopoly in the country.—Justice. Labor’s Vain Appeal. Labor is whining around in Congress with a lot of petitions to its masters to give it a crumb of legislation. The votes of the workers made this Repubican Congress, yet their pitiable appeals are contemptuously ignored. When smooth and wise labor catches onto its power it w'lll not go to Congress with either a petition or a demand. Congress will listen with both ears to the tenor of labor’s wishes. Now It bows to capital, simply because capital, working through the ignorance of the enfranchised, makes Congressmen and legislation.—Coming Nation.

The Judge Is King. The government by injunction is the most absolute despotism and the most flagrant usurpation known to organized society. The power of the Federal judges, as construed by themselves, is greater than the Constitution or the fundamental rights of men. It suspends the freedom of speech and of the press. It destroys individual liberty. It exceeds In pretension and in performance the exploded doctrine of the divine right of kings. No greater menace to our liberties could be devised than the Federal judge’s arbitrary assumption of omnipotence and infallibility.—Ohio News.. A full-grown blgck ostrich Is seven feet high, and easily carries on its back, “ * twrM ' * *

CONGRESS

The Hawaiian debate proceeded in the House on Tuesday. Mr. Grosvenor (Rep., 0.) made the principal speech of the day. At the session of the Senate the resolution of Mr. Lodge (Mass.), directing fhgt an inquiry be made into the disposition nMde of the Methodist Book Concern clainf, which was paid recently by Congress, was adopted without division. In the course of the debate upon it Mr. Morgan (Ala.J charged that the resolution was insincere and had been drawn for political effect. This statement Mr. Lodge denie<r vigorously, saying his only purpose in offering the resolution was that all the facts concerning the matter should be laid before the people. The measure to incorporate the International American Bank was under discussion for hours, the debateeliciting some interesting facts concerning the foreign trade of Jhis country. Final action was not taken oh the bill. A bill to authorize a retired list fot* enlisted men and appointed petty officers 0 s ! the United States navy was passed. By a vote of 209 to 91 the House of Representatives Wednesday afternoo.r adopted the Newlands resolutions, pr<>viding for the annexation of Hawaii. T..e debate, which had continued without interruption since Saturday, bad been one of the most notable of this Congress, the proposed annexation being considered of great commercial and strategic importance by its advocates, and being looked upon by itsopponentsasinvolving a radical departure from the long-established policy of the country and likely to be followed! by the inauguration of a pronounced policy of colonization, the abandonment of the Monroe doctrine and participation in international wrangles. More than half $ hundred members participated in the debate. The Senate resumed consideration of the International American bank bill. An amendment was accepted by the committee and adopted extending the privileges of the measure to all citizens of the United States instead of restricting them to those mentioned in the bill. When the Senate adjourned consideration of the bill had not been concluded.

In the House on Thursday Mr. Dingley (Rep., Me.) called up the bill supplemental to the war revenue measure, designed t® supply some omissions and to strengthen the means of carrying out the revenue actIt exempts from taxation mutual, casualty, fidelity and guaranty companies conducted not for profit. After explanation by Mr. Dingley the bill was passed. The House passed a bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across Niagara river at Grand Island, and then went into committee of the whole to consider the general deficiency bill. In the general debate upon the bill Mr. Wilson (Dem., S. 0.) delivered a speech in support of the Lodge immigration bill, and Mr. Carmack (Dem., Tenn.) spoke upon the probability of the war ending in the inauguration of a policy of territorial aggression. The bill was not disposed of when the House adjourned. After devoting an hour to the discussion of the bill restoring the annuities to the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Sioux Indians the Senate resumed the consideration of the bill to incorporate the International American Bank. A test on an amendment clearly indicated that a majority of the Senate favored the measure. The message clerk of the House of Representatives delivered to the Senate the Hawaiian annexation resolution presented by the House the evening before. The Foreign Relations Committee, through Mr. Davis, the chairman, on Friday reported favorably to the Senate the Newlands resolutions for the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands. The bill to incorporate the International American Bank, in accordance with the recommendation of the Pan-American congress, which has occupied a greater part of the Senate’s time during the week was passed by a vote of 26 to 23. The conference report on the bankruptcy bill was presented and rend, but no action was taken. The general deficiency bill occupied the attention of the House. Saturday’s session of the House was devoted chiefly to eulogies upon the life and character of former Senator Harris of Tennessee-. Prior to hearing eulogies some consideration was given to a conference report upon the District of Columbia ap, propriation bill. The Senate was not in session. Discussion by the Senate of the question of Hawaiian annexation was begun on Monday in open session. The principal speech of the first day was made by Senator Morrill of Vermont, in opposition to annexation. The taking of a test vote (45 to 15) showed the opponents of annexation to be in a hopeless minority. The House passed the general deficiency bill, carrying $224,000,000. The bill occasioned little debate, and it passed practically as reported to the House from the Committee on Appropriations. The remainder of the day was given to District of Columbia business.

Ant Knowledge.

The president of the Agassiz Association, H. H. Ballard, recently caught an ant near its hill, shut it up in a box, carried it 150 feet away and set it free in the middle of a sandy road. What followed he thus describes: “It seemed at first bewildered. Then it climbed to the top of a ridge of sand, erected Its body as high as possible, waved its antennae for several seconds, and then started in a straight line for home.”

Growth of Palestine’s Population.

As one testimony to the rapid growth of Palestine's population, ft is stated on good authority that, while ten years ago there were not quite 15,000 residents in Jaffa, to-day there are nearly 50,000.

Too Much for Him.

“Sad about Joe Smith’s Insanity, poor fellow..” “What ailed him?’ “Well—he was janitor In a bank, and broke down his constitution trying to keep it warm enough for thin clerks and cool enough for the fat ones.”

Cloves for the World.

The two little islands of Zanzibar and Pemba furnish four-fifths of the cloves consumed by the world.

Flying Machines.

If a flying machine had power to vary Its Inclinations, when once launched into the mean velocity of the wind It could take advantage of the varying velocity and direction of the wind. Falling with the slower wind, it would accumulate the energy which It would have to expend In rising with the higher and thus become capable of indefinite sustainment or advance. It would require, however, an even more Intimate knowlquick perception of the currents of the air than a mariner possesses as to sea currents.

New Anaesthetic Discovered.

A new anaesthetic, which relieves at once the pain of deep burns, of ulcers, and of cancer, has been discovered by Drs. Eichprn and Heinz of Munich. It is a preparation of benzomethyllc other, in the form of a powder, to which the name of orthoform has has been given.

German Wines Equal to French.

Germany is exporting wines to America. Great Britain and Belgium that are •aid by connoisseurs to equal those ot the bait French vintage, and art ioty M»IWWHtW>