Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1890 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1890.

valuable sympathy, but very little in the 'vravof contributions, and unless a considers ble amount of mon jy 6hall soon bo fortbconing the work of tbo league will be seriously crippled. Tho current expenses of the league in carrying on the struggle for homo rule and in behalf of the native tenautry are Tery great. New Tipperary has ecu and is costing many thousands of Collat. and upon the contest of i5mith-13arry tee result of tho battlo against oppre? sive landlordism largely depends. The landlords have their own plan of campaign, and that is a merciless one, supported by the Irish constabulary and the troops, and. as at the Bl&squet islands, by a ship of war. Where tenants cannot be found to take the farms of these evicted the land is to be given up to grazing. On tho Ponsonby place, near Tipperary, 1.400 head of cattle and ftix hundred sneep are feeding, where from 1,200 to 1,500 people but lately had their homes, and tho numbers of cattle and sheep are to be largely increased. English syndicates are being formed to stock other estates where the tenants have been evicted. The cattle are beyond tho reach of boycott, and find a ready sale in the English market. Such Is the fate of extensive tracts of Ireland now inhabited by thrifty farmers should the Tory plan be carried ' out. Her Majesty's troop ship Assistance has just taken the first battalion of Grenadier Guards from Portsmouth to Dublin, to give aid, when called upon, in breaking . down huts and turning aged, and, in many ' instances, half-starved tenants out on the roadside. The soldiers stationod in Ireland are mostly English and Scotch, and some Welch. It is to their credit that they do not take kindly to their duties as assistt.nt bail:0v and that tho military officers ' have more than once intervened to prevent acta of exceptional harshness and cruelty toward tho unhappy tanants. Mr. John Morley has written to one of his friends giving bis views of the prospects of famine in lrctand, and of the conduct of the police at Tipperary. The noted Liberal ays that the distress is both serious ' and pressing, and that it is impossible to imagine tho destitution which prevails among many of the poorer cultivators. He condems. in earnest words, the brutality of the constabulary 'and adds that his visit to Ireland has convinced him more strongly than ever that the Irish should have home rule and bo permitted to manage their own adairs. Ths opinion is gaining that there is more than politics in the present attack on tne Irish leaders, and that Balfour is punishing Mr. O'iirien for the tatter's scathing and insulting language concerning Balfour's uncle. Lord Salisbury. This month will see mi ny of the people on the western coast of Ireland deprived of even their wretched food of half-rotten potatoesat present absolutely all that many families have to eat. Unless assistance comes they may prolong life on sea-weed, until disease, with its inevitable end. attacks their enfeebled bodies. At present many already show the signs of insufficient food. Hunger is abroad, and cold is soon to accompany it. The papers are pleading for their pceple, and picturing their condition in language that ought to carry weight everywhere, if famine is to be prevented. 'It is a matter or life or death." writes the Eev. V. Molioy, "and now is the time now i tlin rm 1 eif time " XAtrirlf ViatanHiner

rTThe destitution - of the' tenants eviotions

continue, and families are ejected from their homes when, in some instances, actually dufTcring from hunger. GOEIIAL FOUEIGN NEWS. American Competition Befinniug to Make Itself I'elt in Belgium. " London, Oct. 4. A syndicate has been organized by prominent financiers of Brussels for the purpose of buying up various coal and iron mines of the Luxembourg district from their individual owners and bringing them under a single control and management. Tho prospectus of the new concern figures out a large profit to be derived from the economies and improvement of method to be irroduced into the operation of the properties. One of the arguments which has proved effective in bringing tho present owners to consent to the negotiations is the fact that American producers are entenng so strongly into competition with those of the old world that the only hope the latter have of preserving their foothold is to adopt more modern methods of production and financiering. This, it is urged, can only be done through the medium of combination as proposed. France and Italy at Oats. London, Oct. 4. The relations between France and Italy are far from happy. The French press has for a long time indulged in unsparing attacks on Italy, while the Italians, on the other hand, have main tained a friendly tone, until now they seem to be thoroughly aroused and ready for reprisals in word at least. The certainty that the triple alliance will be renewed and that a compact has been made to renew it undoubtedly adds to the bitterness of French animosity. The French papers do not even spare King Humbert, wiom they hold up to ridicule in caricature. This is said to be keenly felt by the King, who, while very democratic in his habits, is extremoly sensitive to lack of respect. He is also popular. He has no guards about him; he drives himself in bis own dog-cart, or whatever vehicle takes tho place of it, and is simpler in all his ways than almost any wealthy gentleman of his realm. This very simplicity is held up to jest by the cress of republican France, and, while there is no cause in siht for open hostilities, the situation is inflammable. Tipperary Trials Delayed. Dublin, Oct. 4. Upon the assembling of the court at Tipperary this morning Mr. Kedmond, of counsel for Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien, asked that couzt be adjourned until Tuesday in the case. Ho stated that he " and his fellow-counsel, Mr. Healy.had an important engagement which demauded their attention on Monday. Mx. Konan. prosecutor for the crown, opposed any delay in the proceedings. He charged the defendants with creating every possible obstacle to prolong tho case. Mr. Kedmond declared that one of the defendants, O'Mahony. was ill, and that it was impossible for him to attend the trial at present. The 'presiding magistrate announced that tho court would adjourn until the physician who was attending Mr. O'Mahoney could be heard from as to his patient's condition. The court resumed its sittincr at 2 o'clock. Vwben a telegram from Mr. O'Mahony'sphyc :., l i : i. - i that his patient was to ill to attend the trial. An adjournment was then taken until Monday. Russia's Overtures to the Porte. London, Oct. 4. Russia ismaking friendly overtures .toward the Porte, and "has thereby aroused more anxiety at Vienna than a hostile invasion of Turkey would have done. What there is in these overtnrM is not clear, but thev are beincr mada. and the purpose apparently is to delay the Sultan from his growing intimacy with Bulgaria by arousing his apprehensions of Bulcanan . power and. ambition. The de velopment of Bulgaria as a political factor is surprising, and tne principality is now in the held as a rival of Greece for the control and ultimate annexation of Macedonia, with the signs decidedly in favor of Bul garians. It is not thought likely, however. thatKussian blandishments will be more ctlective than Itussian threats in arousing the Sultan agaiiist the Bulgarians. Heavy Storms la Germany. ICepjrlcHt, uo, t7 tlie Nrw York Associated Preet. Berlin, Oct. 4. Terrific, storms aro re ported in Schleswi and the east sea prov icces. The hail ruined the crops and smashed thousands of windows at Elmshorn, which was flooded by the sea. Numcr ous houses were unroofed and many of the inhabitants -vcre injured. At Neustas a man was blovrn into a well and drowned. In the same town the tent and parapher naiia of a circus company were destroyed bv the storm. At Dantzio a tram-car was overturned and several of tho occupants were crn9hed to deatn. .Many shipwrecks, attended by loss or ine, are reported. William's Cold Reception at Vienna. CcyyrtsM, toy tlie New York AMOcitted Press. Heulix. Oct, 4. The North German Ga zette, commenting on the Kaiser's reception in Austria, gives a hint which appears to confirm the renewed rumors concerning a Ul treaty with Austria. Tha fact that the Austrian Ministers were not present at tho railway station in Vienna to jnet Kinperor William on his arrival there is ranch commented on in connection with th Dreibund. but it is oflkialJy declared CK.'it their abaco tz'-jio political eignili

canco. In consequence of Emperor William having ignored him last year Count Taafe purposely absented himself.

The Cruel "War Is Over. Paris, Oct. 4. Admiral Cuverville has telegraphed to the government that he has concluded a treaty of peace with the King of Dahomey and has raised the blockade. According to the terms of the treaty the King will respect the rights of the French as to the possession of Kotonon, and will also recognize tho French protectorate over Porto Novo. Death of General Booth's Wife. London, Oct 4. The wife of General Booth, commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army, died to-day. Cable Notes. The international copyright conference opened at the Mansion House. London, yesterday. Germany has ordered two gun-boats built from the latest approved patterns, and armed with quick-hring guns. The dockers congress adjourned sine die yesterday. The congress decided not to join in the eight-hour movement. The immense wheat harvest in the Don valley has had the ell'ect of reducing the price of the grain throughout the continent. Tho Schlenische Volkszeitung says the government is seriously considering the advisability of readmitting Russian cattle to Germany. The editor of the Mayence Volkszeitung has been arrested for ridiculing the celebration of the battle of Sedan and eulogizing France. Schroeder & Co. and a number of other leading lirms at Hamburg have been lined heavily for smuggling. The tines aggregate 150,000 marks. Disciplinary proceedings have been instituted against a judge at Kuuigsberg for belonging to a Freisinnige electoral association and denouncing the last military bill. Cardinal Hergewrother, the Catholic historian, aud the champion of the Vatican decrees against Dr. Dollinger, whose pupil he had been, died yesterday at the Mcheran monastery. The condition of the King of Holland shows no igns of improvement. He is constantly contined to bed. He suffers from insomnia, and can take no nourishment but milk. Paris has been crowded for weeks past with Americans returning from continental tourH. The outward-bound steamers are filled to their utmost capacity, and every berth is engaged for a month to come. A movement is on foot in Scotland to build a memorial to William Wallace, at Wallacentone, a point where the patriot is supposed to have viewed the approach of tho English army to the battle-field of Falkirk. . Intelligence has been received at Paris from Nouinai, New Caledonia, that sixty leper convicts confined in tho penal establishment there made their escape Jast June. The authorities have been uuable to discover thoir whereabouts. At the session of the British dockmen's congress yesterday, a resolution was adopted declaring it impracticable to limit the working day to eight hours. The delegates, however were strongly in favor of a proposition that forty-eight hours of labor should constitute a week's work. From Tonquin comes the news of a serious encounter between French military and a pirate band of Chinese. The French force, of about fifty men, was compelled to retreat after two hours fighting, losing their sub-commander. Lieutenant Margane, besides two others killed and eight wounded. The pirates cut the heads off the slain. A report of the German consul at Zanzibar concerning the recent massacre of Germans in Vitu says that the Saltan had the party brought to Vita because Herr Kuenzel, the murdered merchant, ignored his demand to produce a letter from the British consul at Lamu. The party attempted to effect a forcible escape, but were pursuod and killed. Castioni, the Kadical who shot and'killed Councilor Rossi at Bellinzona, Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, during the recent revolt there, was arrested yesterday at a house in Chelsea. England. Castioni was found in a shed in the garden attached to the house. He was surrounded by a number of his friends, all of 'whom were armed. The police seized 200 rounds of ammunition. ; r DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Local Forecasts. For Indianapolis and. Vicinity For the twenty-four hours ending 8 p. , Oct. 5 ' Light rain; clearing; cooler. okneuaL indications. Washington, Oct. 4, 8 p. m. Forecast till 8 p. m.. Sunday: For Indiana Fair, preceded in central and northern portions by rain; fair in southern portion; cooler, northwesterly winds. For Ohio Kain, followed by fair weather Sunday evening; slightly cooler, except stationary temperature in western portion; westerly winds. For Illinois Fair weather, except preceded by showers in extreme northeast portion; westerly winds; slightly cooler in northern, stationary temperature in southern portion. For Lower Michigan Local showers, followed by fair weather; variablo winds, generally northwesterly; stationary temperature. For Wisconsin Fair weather, preceded by showers in eastern portion; slightly cooler; westerly winds. For Minnesota Slightly cooler; westerly winds: fair weather. For North and South Dakota Slightly cooler; westerly winds and fair weather. Observations at Indianapolis. ISDIAHArOI-IS, Oct 4.

Time, llar. Then lull. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7 a.m. 30.03 CO 02 South ll'xy rain. 0.12 7 r. m. 20.93 t7 90 d west Cloudy. 0.71

GS; minimum ther mometer. 9. The following is a com para tivo statement of the temperature and precipitation on Oct. 4,' 1SU0: . - . Tern. Normal 60 Meau 03 0.10 0.83 0.73 0.84 11.72 Departure from normal Excess or deliciency since Oct. 1.. 4 Excess or deliciency since Jan. 1... 193 'Plus. General Weather Condition. SATURDAY, Oct. 4, 7 P. M. Pressure. The low area, central over Manitoba, is moving eastward with but slight energy. The area of high pressure centers from north Utah, eastward through Colorado aud west Nebraska. Tkmpekatcre. An isothermal lino of 70 extends from the Chenapeako bay southwestward to western Texas: C0 from the St. Lawrence across Lakes Krie. Huron and Michigan, thence southwest toNewMexico; .W from Lake Superior to north Montana, theuco southeast to Nebraska, to New Mexico, northward through Utah extending into Oregon; 40 forms an oval over Wyoming. Colorado and Utah. pjiEciriTATiox. Kain has fallen in the lower lake regions, the Ohio anrt Mississippi valleys, also in Colorado and Utah. Thrown Oat or a Hou and Killed. Wichita. Kan., Oct. 4. John Yaher. a Fredonia, Kan., merchaut. was thrown out of a window in the second story of a questionable resort yesterday morning, at 5 o'clock, and died last night from the ettects of the fall. In his dying statement ho said that he had been takeu to the place by a man who represented it to be a boarding house. All the hotels and lodging-houses were crowded as a result of the fair now in progress. lie claimed to have over $100, which was stolen in the house. One of the cooks at the house has given information that sho saw one of the girls of tho house take the money, and a short time before he was thrown out of the window she saw "Poker Dick," a notorious character, enter Yaher'a room. Yaher is sixty years old, has a family and is highly respected. His statement is believed to be true. Inow In Colorado. Denver, Col., Oct 4, The utorray season on the Kocky mountains commenced last night, and quite an amount of snow has fallen in dillerent places. The weather report received hero nhovr that snow is falling from Salida to Ouray, and it is also snowing at Silverton, Leadville, Aspen and (Henwood Springs. Six inches of enow has fallen at Aspen within the past forty-eight hours. This is the first general snow of the reason.

SOUTHERN INTOLERANCE.

Almost Miraculous Escape of Rev. L. G. Adkinson from a Democratic Mob. Madison Conrier. Kev. Lewis G. Adkinson, D. D the able president of the Methodist University (colored), at New Orleans. La., in pursuance of a plan fixed by Secretary Hartzell, spent the month of August visiting district conferences, speaking on education and seeking students. Dr. Adkinson was formerly pastor of Trinity Church, in this city, presiding elder of tho Madison district, and afterward president of Moore's Hill College, and ranks deservedly high as an educator and preacher. On this trip he went to Mansfield. La., and stopped at the house of a colored Methodist. Ono of his students, living in Mansfield, a young colored girl, guided him over town to visit tho-s anxious to confer with him about pending their children to his school. This was too much for Southern Democratic chivalry. Dr. Albert, in the Southwestern Advocate, tolls the rest: Brother Adkinson was driven off from the place by an infuriated mob of twenty-live or thirty men. They barely allowed the sun to go down when, armed with pistols, ropes and bullwhips, they ransacked the place wbere be was lodging In hunting for him. As the good Lord would have It, be xvas miraculously paved by belnc at church, where friendly advice reached him of the intentions of his enemies, whereby ho was enabled to Just make his escape. Ho was guided on horseback through the woods twenty miles, to Pleasant Hill, where he boarded tho first train to New Orleans and reached home in safety. Dr. Albert himself, being advised that under the circumstances it might not be safe for him to remain, when he reached Mansfield theThursday morning following, was taken by tristed friends to Grand Cane, where he barded the night train for Shreveport. Fnm there he took the train Friday morning, and was taken through to New Orleans Friday night in safety. As Dr. Moore, in l.st week's Cincinnati Advocate, sharply observes. "We always did admire chivalry when at its best." To tho Editor of the Indianapolis Joumah We know Dr. Adkinson intimately. He is a native of Switzerland county, and is now about fifty years of age. Soon after reaching his majority he entered the ministry and joined the Southeast Indiana Conference of the M. . Church, and has filled the leading appointments of the conference, served one term as presiding elder on the Madison district, and was for several years president of Moore's Hill College. A few years ago he was elected president of the Methodist University, at New Orleans, and this institution has so prospered under his management that now between five and six hundred colored students are in attendance and receiving instruction. Dr. Adkinson is a man of pure life and exalted character, and a Christian philanthropist of broad and liberal views a man among men. Hobkat N. Lamu. , Levi Kitten. Indianapolis, Oct 4. JUST A LITTLE GAME. Conductors Are Pretty Smart, but Occasionally They Are Taken In. Buffalo Commercial. 1 "Fare, gentlemen,'' euggested a conductor in tho smoking-car to a party of four cardplayers, who held on their knees between them a large atlas. Three of them quietly handed up tickets, but the fourth man near the window became suddenly embarrassed. "Fare!" again remarked the brassmounted official, rather sternly. The passenger addressed Teplied with a series of winks and tapped the back of his cards significantly. Conie, sir, I'm in a hurry," said the conductor. I haven't got any ticket," replied the passenger. "Pay your fare, then, with the usual slight advance." "Boys, will you allow him to take a rakeoff?" inquired the delinquent travelor. "Not much," answered the trio. "My money's all up," said the passenger appealingly to tho conductor. "Yon will have to gel oft', then," answered the official, reaching for the bell-rope. The man laid his cards face downward and said in a low tone to one of the other players: ' "What do you do?" "I raise you," was the reply, "How much!" "Twenty dollars." "The man by the window passed his hand up to the conductor. The latter gave it one glance. Then he released a large, fat pocket-book from inside his coat, took out two twenty-dollar bills and handed them to the delinquent passenger. "I see you twenty and go you twenty better," ho said. This complicated matters, and the original raiser of $20 shifted uneasily in his seat. Finally he said: "I raise you $10." "Call him," said the conductsr, handing over an X, "I'm in a hurry." The delinquent passenger did so. and was about to take in the money on four aces, when the other player showed a straight flush ana pocketed all the money, including the conductor's. The latter was dazed; the delinquent passenger meek and abashed. "Now, you will have to get oil'," snapped the conductor. "Yes, sir; stop the train," he replied. The whole party got oft. ."Know those fellers?" inquired a fat man on the opposjto side of the aisle. "No," answered the conductor. "Slickest quartet of card sharps on the road. How much did they do you for?" Hut the conductor raced himself down toward the' door, which he banged shut without replying to the sardonic inquiry. m m ii COST OF BREAKING A RECORD. While Passengers Enjoy Themselves Above the Stokers Relow Are Sacrificed. Clirlatian Union. Wo were sitting amidships, enjoyingjthe quiet sea and the cool breeze, yet half inclined to murmur because there was not more breeze, a livelier sea aud greater tonic in the air, when Jennie, whose eyes are always quick to perceive any unusual commotion, called my attention to a little group of passengers who had gathered about the sK3'light which opens into the engiue-room below, ana were looking down upon something which had attracted their attention. Knowing how little it takes to gather a crowd and arouse attention on an ocean steamer, whoso days aro monotonously uneventful. I questioned whether it were worthwhile to rise from my lazy posture and join the spectators, but a languid curiosity overpowered my inertia. Joining the group, I saw under the skylight, on an iron grating which serves as a rioor, and close by the side of the pulsating pistons, a poor stoker lying on one blanket, covered, despite the 6tilling heat, to his chin with another; his eyes half closed and his breath coming and going in short gasps. A comrade, grimy of face and rough of attire, was with tender hands putting an iced bandage to the sick man's head. Presently an official, whom I took to be tho doctor, came, looked at tho stoker, felt his pulse, gave some directions inaudible to us above, and went away. Tho poor fellow lay there on his iron bed half an hour or more, his breath growing shorter and moro convulsive; once or twice a spasm passed over his frame; passengers came and looked down pityingly on the one to whom they could render no help; then there was one short struggle, the eyes closed and all was over. His comrades took up the form wrapped in tho blanket which had been his couch, and bore it away to the forecastle That afternoon, a little before 4 o'clock, Jennie's sharp eyes again detected a gathering of passengers on the forward deck. We joined them, and, rinding that preparations were going on for the burial, weut down to the steerage deck and mingled with the sailors and the stoker, who had gathered to witness tho last funeral rites. Presently tho captain came and took his place at tho bulwarks which had been opened at the steamer's bow: then four sailors came, bearing the body, wrapped in coarse canvas and covered with the British flag. It was laid, feot toward the sea, upon a plank ready to receive it. The Captain reverently read the beautiful service of the English Church for burial at sea, and, as the committal words were pronounced, the plank was lifted on tho strong shoulders of the sailor pall-bearers, and. slipping from its retting-place, pluuged into tho welcoming sea. the weary and worn body of one of the children of God. Ho was an Englishman, having his home at liirkcnhead, a pavior by trade. He could lied no work in England; had heard that in America there was employment fox

all; left his wife and five children in their humble home and started across the ocean, hoping to find there a new and happier lot for those he loved. He had not much money, as one may well imagine. Landing in New York he found that there was paving work there to bo done, but ho could not do it unless he belonged to the union, and ho could not be admitted to the union until he had been in the United States for six months. He struggled bravely on, trying to lind some other employment till the time of probation was passed, but in vain. His last money was spent. He told a comrade on board ship that when he reached Liverpool ho would have to borrow a penny of some one to pay his ferriage to Birkenhead. He was too proud, too nobly and self-dependently proud to apply to the authorities to be sent back as a pauper. Instead, he asked the Cunard company to let him work his passage back. There is but one position in the steamer in which an unskilled man can

work his passage that of stoker. Y eakened by insufficient food, discouraged in heart, utterly unfitted by his outdoor labor to live in the stifling heats of tho furnace-room, he succumbed on Sunday, in twelve hours after the steamer had started from her pier; but he would not give up the unequal battle. Hjs returned to his work again on Monday morning, and remained until he was carried, a few hours later, from the ' furnaceroom to tho rough bed, which was to become his coffin. As we thought how this fellow, whoso face, despite the grime upon it, was a fine one, had loved, and hoped. And battled, and been beaten, and finally laid down to die, the tears of t)ity camo into our eyes, and into ono heart, at least, new resolution was added to tho vow, long since formed and registered, to take no ease of soul until some light is shed upon the problem, aTid some step taken toward its solution, how to save those below decks from being ground to powder while they are giving rest and ease to thosa above. WEEDED" OCT OF $46,000. Bold Exploit of Thieves on a Train Child Used as a Shield by an Escaping Robber. Kansas City Star. ' A band of pickpockets were one day "working" a train running to New York on the Hudson Kiver railway. There were four of them. The exigencies of pocketpicking require at least that number one pickpocket proper, 'who does the actual taking, and three "stalls," or assistants. The chief of the band was John Larney, alias Mollio Matches, than whom no surer or more expert thief ever "dipped a hook." They were not on this train at random. A man was going to New York who had fortysix crisp and brittle $1,009 bills in a pocketbook inside his vest. This man was occupying a seat near the center of the car. Two of the band were ahead of him on the other side of the aisle and the other two were disposed of in the next seat behind him. They intended to rob him the first time he left his seat. Miles were rambled off and sent to the rear by the train, but the man never moved. At intervals he cautiously pressed his hand to the breast whereon reposed the opulent pocket-book. They were within thirty miles of New York, but the man with the money never gave them an opening, but clung to his seat with baffiing pertinacity. We'll touch him as he gets out at the depot, then," said Larney, who was one of the duo in the rear. Suddenly the man arose and stepped into tho aisle. Anxiety parcLed his mouth and he wanted a drink. As he arose tho four thieves, as if by accident, all left their seats. This brought tho victim between the two pairs. They all came toward him. the ones to the rear apparently seeking the opposite end of the car to that sought by the ones in front. For a second the five blockaded the aisle, the victim in the center. Everybody was the spirit of politeness; apologies were muttered as the four well-dressed, quiet-looking rascals apparently attempted to geV out of evVry body's way. The victim rvas not hustled or jostled by these masters of their art, but with every touch he was placed and held in position while the deft Matches, that prince of light-lingers, performed the feat of "weeding" his long pocket-book wherein the forty-six 1,000-dollar bills were disposed lengthwise. "Weeding" is the name of a process in thievery which takes tho bills on occasions when the ends thereof project beyond the pocket-book, and leaves the empty wallet still in its owner's possession. ' The value of the process lies in this, that it is gener-, ally a long time before the victim discovers his Ions not until he opens his pocketbook whereas - if -thei-pockot-book itself should disappear he might note the fact at once. The viotim in this instance did not dis-' cover his loss at the time, as nothing occurred during his despoiliation which gavo him notice; but, having some reason for taking his wallet about ten minutes later, he found himself plundered. He made a great uproar. The conductor and trainmen were called, but, as he did not possess a clew or even a suspicion as to who robbed him, they could do nothing. One thing was sure, the money was still on the train, as there had been no stop. The conductor assumed the pressure. He halted his train out in the rural 'regions, and, tapping the wires, telegraphed to the New oik police. Meanwhile the train was guarded and no ono allowed to alight. Then the train was started for the run in. The four thieves were aware of all that was going on. They knew or the difficulties which beset them and that the entiro detective force of New York was now on the lookout. They secretly divided tho money, and it was agreed the word should be 'every man for himself." Larney was in a predicament. His face was as well known to the metropolitan Vidocqs as the Bowery. He knew if he was recognized he was lost. In his dilemma he went through to the Pullman car. There he found an old clergyman traveling with his daughter, and her little girl, a child of four years. An idea came to the pickpocket. Ho was quietly and faultlessly attired. Ho had a considerable store of religions knowledge. He could play the role and resolved for the nonce to be a preacher. He introduced himsolf to the old minister and his daughter. He described himself as from Hamilton, Ontario, and pastor of a Baptist church. The edideo which had seen his sacred ministrations had been burned to its foundations, and he was on his way to New York to see what help might be offered, as his congregation was very poor. Tho . old man and his daughter were very glad to see the pickpocket. They gave him all manner of counsel and sympathy and invited him to their. house. When any ono passed through the car, which happened once or 'twice, Larney turned his back and avoided notice. At last the train came to a stop at tho Central Depot, and they must leave it. Hero was the ordeal Larney foared. He knew that twenty officers would scan every one who stopped off' the train. Ho was alive to the fact that any one of them would know the celebrated Mollie Matches the instant ho set his eyes squarely on him. This must be avoided. As they rose to leave the car Larney caught up the little girl inhisarmsand so carried her, with his face buried in tho bloude jungle of her hair. In this golden disguise, roguery screened by innocence, Larney passed through a mob of officers and escaped recognition. No one looked for the alert eye and daring features of the pickEocket beyond the yellow tangles of a baby's air. Once outside Larney hastily shoved a solitaire diamond ring on tho little girl's thumb as a reward for the service she had unwittingly douo him, and whipping into a carriage was whisked away to safety, leaving the old preacher and his daughter aghast. "I was buried good and deep in half an hour," said Larney, "where detectives never come. I'd given the baby one of the 1,000 bills, but I was afraid it might help to turn me up." Agriculture in Ancient China. General Tchenc K. Tong. In Popular Science Monthly. In 1100 B. C. the Prime Minister of the Emperor WouWeng, Tcheou-Kung, constructed norias, or hydraulic machines of simple design and working, by which water was raise to a height to which it had never been carried before, and made reservoirs and canals for irrigation. Water was conducted, by means of machinery, from the wells to the dry hill-tops, and water pro vision was assured for times of drought. Agriculture, in consequence, flourished. Other measures of Tcheou-Kung comprised the promulgation of laws respecting the boundaries of properties aud the prevention of trespasses. The fields were divided into squares called wells, from their resemblance to tho Chinese character signifying a well, surrounded and furrowed by ditches so arranged that eight farmers. each tilling his own tract, united in culti vating the ninth, interior tract, which bolonged to tho state, and the produce of which paid tneir rent. The system succeeded to a marvel. Each teuuut was proprietor of about fifteen acres, tho whole product of which belonged

to him, while the state was reallv proprietor of the whole, and had, as a landlord, the income of the ninth tract. Besides this, each farmer had some 3,350 square metres of ground for his farm-yard and mulberry trees. Thus he always enjoyed a surplus of provision, of pork and poultry for food, and silk for clothing. No one at this time was richer or poorer than another, but a complete social equality existed, and every one, they say, was satisfied. TOE DUCHESSE D'UZES.

The Fascinating Woman Who Tried to Destroy the French Republic. London Queen. The lady who is the heroine of the extraordinary drama of Boulangism in France is the wife of tho first peer of the realm. She is a remarkable woman; her salon in the Faubourg St. Germain is delightful; sho is a splendid horsewoman; her hunting establishment at Bonnellcs, near Kambouillet. is one of the best near Paris. She follows the hunt with her sons, havingrented, for 13.100 francs, the privilege of shooting and hunting in the royal forest of Kainbouillet and the three or four adjacent woods. The love of society and of sport does not prevent the Dnchesse from having very serious religious and political convictions. She is a fervent Catholic and a monarchist. When sho gave her 3,000,000 francs (120,000) to General Boulanger to use in the interests of the Compte De Paris she did so to serve no personal aim, but because she believes that the ascent of the Orleans dynasty to the throne would unite France and reconcile parties. Bo a laager's charming manners fascinated his noble hostess when she received at her house in Paris. He begged her to see the Comte De Paris, and to tell him that he (Boulanger) dreamui of the French as a united people; that monarchy was the common ground on which this union of the nation could be effected; aud that the Comte De Paris appeared to him the destined sovereign. The Duchess met the Prince at Coblentz. and offered him the use of her millions for & Boulangist campaign in favor of the restoration of kingship in France. The Comte hesitated, finally accepted, and suggested the names of gentlemen to form an advising committee for the spending of the money. At narting he presented the Duchees with a bouquet of white roses de France, surrounded by pink carnations, Boulangefs flower. From that moment the campaign began in earnest. - The Duchesse d'Uzes won over, if not the cordial, yet the active co-operation of Louise Michel for Boulangism. The wife of the first peer of France and the petroleuse had met by the bedside of a sick woman of the people. The patient died, and Louise Michel wrote to the Duchesse: "Madame our poor friend is dead. I looked among her few belongings for a keepsake for you; 1 cho60 this little piece of braided embroidery. Accept it." Some,days after the Duchesse called upon Louise Michel in her extrnordmary home at Levallois. where forsaken animals are received, and where the poor are welcomed with kind words and fed with bread. From that day the mystic preach tr of anarchy and the "good" aristocrat became friends. When Boulanger presented himself for election, on the 27th of January, 1689, Louise Michel wrote to the Dnche&ne: "1 do not love your Boulanger, but for your sake 1 will not attack him. On the coutrary,ihe will have the suffrages of my friends. Louise Michel." The Duchesse d'Uzes is too brave a woman to escape from the consequences of her actions. She stands by what she has done. She is a conspirator, but she is a disinterested conspirator, actuated only by the conviction that France would be happier under an hereditary governments AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. How and through Whom Scientific Stndy of Farming Originated. James N. Kcene, in New England Magazine. The history of .the rise and progress of agricultural education in this country is a story of the enthusiasm and devotion of tho few opposing the class prejudice of the many; and though the former have gained the day, so that agricultural education is one of tho watchwords of the present generation, there still remain signs of what the opposition was a few decades since. The phrase that any fool can farm" has been repeated with endless and senseless iteration, and still sums up as well as anything, perhaps, the argument against agricultural education. Prominent among thoiie -who helped inaugurate this movement in the United States was the late Marshall P. Wilder. As lopg ago as 1849, in an address delivered before the Norfolk Agricultural Society, he advocated the establishment of a school where "scientific and practical agriculture should be taught." Mainlv through his exertions a bill was prepared the following year and submitted to the Legislature of Massachusetts, providing for the establishment of an agncultural college and experimental farm. This bill was passed by the Senate without a dissenting vote, but was rejected by the House. About the same time the Stato Agricultural Society of Michigan was considering a similar project, and in January, 1850, a Committee from that body memorialized the Legislature for the establishment of an institution where should be taught "those branches of education which will tend to render agriculture not only a useful, but a learned and liberal profession, and its cultivators not the bone and sinew merely, but ornaments of society." "While there was no direct result from this appeal, except the awakening of public interest in the movement, it may be noted here that this, and the subsequent increasing agitation of the subject, finally secured for Michigan tho first school in this country where the sole robject was intelligent investigation and application of science in agriculture. Other States followed closely in this lead, and the sentiment in favor of higher agricultural education was becoming so widespread that in 1862 Congress passed a bill which had been originally submitted by Hon. Justin S. Morrill four years previously, granting a largo amount of the public lauds to the respective States for the purpose of establishingcolleges "where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such a manner as the Legislatures of the respective States may prescribe, irr' order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes iu tho several pursuits and professions of life." il . . A WOMAN EDITOR. I She Calls All ner Staff Plain, Simple, Sweet, Short Iear.M New York WorlO. The editress of the Woman's Penny Paper, a London publication, is a true lover of her sex. She and her staff work together on the most friendly terms. Not only are all the articles written by women, but tho compositors are women, the office boy is a woman, and so are the janitor and telegrapher. Tho editress has but one name for her staff dear. Tho assistant editor is called my dear, but the rest of the help answer to plain and simple, but sweet and short, "dear." At home the Penny editress employs a maid-of-all-work. a woman cook and two "lady helps" in tho "preservery," who put up the jellies, jams, marmalades and fruit butters, from which she realizes half the profits of her journalistic work. Disgusted with the laziness and general worthlessness of her gardeners she advertised for female labor and an avalanche of horticultural loveliness swept down UDon her. Many of the applicants for the position of gardener were daughters of clergymen. IS be made her selection, and has since openly declared that women make the best gardeners in the field. One of the dreams of Edward Bellamy is about to be realized by a society of English people who are building in aesthetic Bedford Park a block of houses for the exclusive use of professional aud artistio people. There is. to be a common dining-room and one staff of servants, thus solvinor the domestio . problem at ono fell swoop. The tenant can ' have as many rooms as she wishes to sleep in, work in, bathe in or receive in, and when once established the kitchen will give her no more concern than her bath or study. Busy brain-workers will hail the scheme with delight, and the whole world of women will be interested in the results, for it is generally admitted that the real cause of so many marriage failures is to be found at the kitchen door. Try as they will, women can never make lovers out of dyspeptics nor harmony out of indigestion and disorders from which three-fourths of society is suffering. The Bedford apartment-bouse will be so managed that women of small means can be comfortably located and amply provided with fuel, light and wholesome food

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Fish Made Drunk with "Derll's Shoestring" and Then Slaughtered with Arrows. Antlers, I. T.. Correspondence St. Louis Republic. The Choctaws and all of the Indian tribes of the Southwest have a way of catching fish without waiting for bites. Their last great "catch" took, place at Antlers, a small town in the Indian Territory. The evening before the day set . for the sport fortyfive or fifty Indian men went to the river at its most shallow point and carried several great logs into the water, which were laid across tne stream, making a strong and high dam, blocking the river from bank to bank. A chant ov roon was then suns to insure good luck for the next day and the company broke up. Early in the forenoon of the day following the entire community proceeded to the river side. There were seventy or eighty people in all, including Indians and whites, men, women and children, most of whom traveled in wagons to tho sceuo of action, it being some distance from the little town. The men all carried bows and arrows. Arrived at the dam twenty-five or thirty of the men proceeded to cut up tho bait. This is a strange hard substance called by the Indians "devil's shoestring," and which had to be cut into pieces with axes. This done tho devil's shoestring was thrown on the water and the fish, hundreds of which had accumulated during the night, came to the surface after it. It was not long until it was plain that the devil was in it sure enough. It was not long until shoals of tish came to the surface and lioated listlessly about on the water. They appeared to be entirely unconscious. The Indians explained that the "devil's shoestring" had made them drunk, and that it was time to begin the slaughter. Shooting with bows and arrows began and for a time the arrows How so thick that one was reminded of the scenes of pioneer warfare. As fast as the fish were shot and brought to shore they were carried to the camp", where the Indian women, and the white women whohad been invitod, cleaned and fried them. About 1 o'clock a grand fish dinner was spread. All the afternoon, until G or 7 o'clock, the sport continued. Sometimes there would be twenty or thirty Choctaws in the water ot once. About 1,000 fish were cautrht. Four or five of these "frys" occur at Antlers every year. Street-Car Johnson for Congress. Cleveland, Oct. 4. Thomas L. Johnson was nominated for Congress to-day by the Democrats of the Twenty-first district. THE BOSTON STORE Three No. 1. Ladies Foreign Black Cashmere Hose, worth 50c, at 39c. No. 2. Misses' English Black Cashmere Hose, no seams, worth 38c, at 28c. No. 3. All our Broadcloth Suitings, black and colors, reduced from $1.25 to 90c. JACKSON.PORTER & ALDERMAN 26 and 28 West. Wash. St GRAND OPEMG i OF A. E. BURKHAKDT'S Seal-Skin Garments Mr. Stevens, from A. E. Burkhardt & Co., will be with us on Wednesday and Thursday of this week with their full lino of Genuine Seal-skin Garments. He will ' also take orders for repair work. JACKSON, PORTER & ALDERMAN

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