Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1891 — Page 20

20 THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL SUNDAY OCTOBER 11. 1891.

IS LILIUOKALANFS KINGDOM

Sir. Conde's Interesting Observations During aStay in the Hawiian Islands. The Leper CoIodt SeclndeJ Vast Sngar Industry Decreasing Population Spreckeli'ili Enterprise. Henry T. Conde, the agricultural implement dealer, has returned from a visit to the Sandwich Islands, or, more properly, the Hawaiian Islands, the group taking its came from Hawaii, the largest island, which contains 4,010 square miles. There are a number of islets, hat the larger islands are Maui, containing fCCrquare miles; Kanai, ZZ7; Oaha, 522. and Molokai, ICO. The total number of square miles in the group is 0,100. about one-fifth the area of Indiana. "My visit was taken chiefly on account of my health." said Mr. Conde to the reporter, "but I had another reason for going there, for I was born on tho island of Maui, where my father was a missionary for twenty years, and I had not 'seen the island since I was five years old. "Did you visit the colony of lepers on Molokai!" inquired the reporter. "The lepers cannot be seen without a government permit . The colony is located on the north side of the island, and they are cut oil from approach by land by a chain of mountains, leaving the only access to the settlement from the sea. These mountains are about two thousand feet high, and the leper territory is a spot of great natural beauty, ono of the most charming and picturesque localities in the inland. The remainder of the Molokai is l'iness XiliuoJcalanu occupied by sugar plantations and sheep ranches, the tapers, as I said, being completely isolated from the remainder of the island population." "What is the extent of the rugar interest in the island, rind how is it affected by the the McKinley bill?' "Tho sugar interest is by far the greatest in the group. The sugar production last year amounted to 375,000 tons put that into pounds and yon may better comprehend its vastnes. This was shipped to the United States. The plantations are chieily owned by Americans and descendants of Americans., bomo of the children of missionaries have grown very rich in sugargrowing. Tho labor used is Chinese. Japanesonud Portugueses Thcrelsqnitoalarga number of Japanese there, and they sem to be preferred for plantation labor. The Chinese are not as numerous a they were a few years ago. The Chinese there, however, are as well treated as any nationality. Many of them do gardening and tno work of house servants.'1 POPULATION DIMINISHING. 'How about the nativo population!" 'Asia well known, it U diminishing. Of full-bloods there are now about twentyfive thousand; half-castes, about twenty thousand. The population is about ninety thousand, and it is said that half or more is foreign. Tho sugar interest is vow very much depressed. It is being sold at less than cost of production. Before the McKinley bill went into effect the reciprocity agreement with the islands save the planters there an immense advantage over very part of the world in providing a market and assuri n g a high price. They were then selling us their sugar at 7la cents and 8 cents which they are now glad to get 8ls cents for all the result of McKinley. This has brought about a great deal of talk about annexation to the United States. Everybody on the inland want annexation or else some treaty with the United States that will put them on the name footing an sugargrowers as our home planter?. That is. they want u bounty and thiuk the only way to get it u by annexation. The laat United States Congress came near passing a bill for a cable connecting this country with the inland, bnt it failed in the Senate. Instructions were given to make a survey between San Francisco and Honolulu, and a United States vessel has lately been ordered on that service. Tho Ha xaiians are greatly interested in this surve3" 'Vou say, do you not, that the feeling in favor of annexation isstrongP "It certainly is. This feeling is prevalent among the best class of people, natives as well as American and decendants of Americans. The Americans and children of American missionaries control the government of the islands and they lead in this desire for annexation. I read a lot of rot in the newspaper the other day that the Queen was about to die and England was trying to get hold of the islands. This is very ridiculous to any one at all familiar with Hawaiian affairs. Kngland, with the present feeling In the islands, has not the lightest show in the world to add them to her possessions. Tho Englnh pedple there are few in number and without inilnence. Our American minister. Mr. Stevens, enjoys great popularity. I was told that he is the nrt really good representative that this country Las had there for many years. The man sent there by Cleveland was said to hve been an utter failure, apparently favoring the English more than his own eountry and countrymen. As to tho Queen's illness, 1 saw her three weeks ago. She was well and hearty and looked as though she might live twenty-live or thirty years, fche is about fifty years old and a very large woman, tleshy, but not pursy. The natives are of tine physique, and when they get fat have the adipoo tissue distributed all over them and are not greasy." SritECKKLS'S P.IG IXDUSTUV. MIIow much money is invested in sugargrowing!"' "Over thirty-three million dollars are in-' vested in the production of sugar. The largest plantation is that of tho Hawaiian Commercial Company, of which Claus Spreckels owns the irgo interest. This is probably the most perfect sugar plant in t lie world. The cane is all irrigated, and . on this plantation the water is brought in a main ditch forty miles along through iron sipes fortv-two inches in diameter. The engineering to accomplish this was wonderful piece cf work. In some placed the pipes crosi chasms a thousand leet deep between the mountains and wind about in a wonderful way. The irrigation . ditch- and Humes are on tho surface, of courts. These fields are upon an uneven territory, upon the sides of mountain, where the greatest skill ha been required to lay out the srsteni of irrigation so as to be able to bring the water to Vill parts of the cane-ncld. In many places it looks as if tho water is actually running up hill. The water used by this commercial plantation is raincrater brought from a lalion the mountains. Thin company has forty thousand ucres, of which thirty thousand is in cane." "Is land expensive!'' 'It is very valuable. I Lave seen land.

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which in any one of our States would be pronounced absolutely worthless, without a thing growing upon it so far as the eye could see, held there at from $10 to 15 an acre. Sugar land varies in price from &10 to 50 an acre. Land not sufficiently good for eugar cultivation they put cattle upon. Where cattle cannot subsist they put sheep, and where too poor for sheeo they put goats. The sheep industry, is not very iare. Most of the sheep are raised on the island of Molokai. These large plantations are run with the greatest discipline. The plantation owners own the houses in which the laborers live, and in many cases furnish their entire subsistence. Many have from 1.5CO to 2,000 head of cattle which they use for supplying their own plantations with meat. AH the beef used on tho islands is from tbefre. There are no boss but wild ones and this gives Kingan's product a chance. The pay of laborers has been 815 a month, and some have to pay their living ont of that. There is nn attempt now making to cut wages down to $11 or (12 a month to meet the sngar cut. The Hawaii Commercial Company has a capacitv of eleven thousand tons of sugar a year. They bring all its own cane to mill by a narrow-gauge railroad which runs through the fields. This plantation employs about lour thousand hands." LIKE SLAVE LABOR. "How do the planters manage their laborers?'' "Very much as slave labor in the South was managed. They are worked in gangs with overseers on horsebacg. The only difference is that they are paid for their labor. They are humanely treated. Women work in the fields just the same as tho men, and the Japanese women are the best laborers. It seems as though the people had gone wild on sugar. Tho profits heretofore have been enormous. Some plantations have paid as high as 103 per cent, a year, and the average did not fall below; GO per cent. This has produced an immensely wealthy class, and among the millionaires are the children ot American missionaries. There are about seventy-five different plantations on the islands, with an investment of 000,000. These are probably the richest islands on earth, and Uncle Sam can have tbern almost for the asking. The cable to connect this country with the islands should go down at once.''

MILLIONS IX lSAKISKD WIRE. The Humble Way in Which Inventor Ellwood Ilegan Ili Great Fortune. L'orresponGence vt the Augnnta Chrcnicl. Ihe saddest thing I saw in a Journey to the West was tho old-fashioned rail fence in Pennsylvania, Ohio, eastern Indiana and southern Michigan. How cruel of fate not to permit the wire fence to be invented two hundred years before It was. Probably enough labor and timber have been wasted in the building of the old "worm" fences in the past to pay otf fifty national debts like ours. It makes ono almost weep to think of the backs that have been broken, of the hand worn out, the energies sapped, the boys kept from school in felling trees, splitting logs, driving posts, laying rails 'for those thousands of miles of rail fence! When our Western farmer wants a fence now he buys a few posts and a lot of barbed wire. Three men can put up half a mile of fence in a day. A rod of fence costs complete labor, posts and all 25 cents. A mile of fence costs $S0! If the farmer had plenty of growing timber of his own he could not hiro a man to cut out the posts alone for that rnonej-, to say nothing ot the rails. T)id you ever hear how Kilwood, the barbed-wire man, of DeKalb, III., made his money!" asked one of my train acquaintances. "Well, you see, twelve or fifteen years ago he was making a little wire in his blacksmith shop, pntting tho barbs on with a pair of pinchers. One day a couple of young men stopped in his shop to get out of the rain, and as they thought the wire looked like a good thing, they asked Kilwood to send them out oh the road selling it. After a week's trip they came in and compared notes, Both had found the wire a great bit; everybody wanted it. tint they were pretty shrewd boys, and they fixed it up between them to fool Kilwood. When he asked how business was they allowed him a few orders and shook their heads dubiously. 'Not much in it'. 'Better try again,' said Kilwood. Well, if you'll give ns a live-year contract on Missouri, southern Iowa. Arkansas and Texas we'll go out and see what we can do.' "Kilwood agreed, and oue of the young men started for Texas. In a week he sent an order tor a car-load of wire. Kilwood was astonished. It would take him a month to make a car-load. He carried the letter over to his bank. 'Must be some mistake,' he said. 'No,' said the banker, 'it's plain. He wants a car-load.' 'Impossible.' replied Kilwood, 'I'll telegraph him.' The reply came: 'Yes. a car-load, but make it three car-loads. Ship Juick.1 Again Kilwood went to his banker, le was puzzled. It seemed like a hoax to him that any one should waut three carloads of wire. Preposterous! The banker finally convinced him the order was genuine. Mr. Hnnker,' said Kilwood, T'm a poor man. I'm worth two or three thousand dollars. How much can I draw on this bank for on my reputation and my prospects!' 'Fifteen hundred dollars.' 'Good. Give me $5C0 now.' In an hour Kilwood was on his way to Chicago. In two weeks he was making barbed wire by machinery. In ten years ho was worth fcH.OCO.UXX LIKE TO UK A HOY AGAIN. SIghful Itecollections that Spring; from Memories of an Autograph Album. UlcncaiM i: Journal. Among the things that have been, now laid away among the dust and ribbons, is the old "autograph album' of post-bellum days. It was a fad of our motheis and fathers, and it numbered many of us among its devotees in our salad days, lint it is an outgrown fad, and one that deserves an early demise, for thetender sentiments that clung to its finger-marked pages wero hot-house fiowers of a very foroed growth. Hut one does not forget the stub-nosed, freckled-faced boy, with copper-toed shoes, who wrote: ".May your life have just clouds enough to make a glorious Nunst,' and daubed the page with ink and molasses candy a sort of impressionist view of thesunset. The stub-nosed boy is now an attorney in Kanfas city, and was married the other day. I remember once he put a chew of gum down the back of my neck, and one 1 ourth of July he blew up the widow Nason's hitcu-ing-post with gunpowder. Then there was the boy whoso father cut his hair by putting a bowl over the toi of his head, following the edges with his shears. He wrote: In memories casket drop one purl for me. I find the "purl' is there. In my very, very youthful days 1 could "lick'' this square-headed boy. and otten did to. hut he took a sudden sprout, nnd one day when 1 tried it he gavo me an unmerciful thrashing and dragged my plumes in the dust. It was not so much the hurt, for I didn't care for that, but the humiliation of it. I went out behind Mrs. Dole's barn and wept for the departed glories of Israel. Then then was the dear little girl witn cnrls, fiho wrote: Forvct me not, forsret me never. Until the sun shall set forever. A feat in mnemonics that; I fear is too much to ask. I kissed her once on the door-step of her papV house, and I remember the "wild thrill" Steudman speaks of. Hut she married nomebody in hoapville. and their progeny is whittling the public school deska this very day, I doubt not. 1 would like to he a boy aain for a few days, wouldn't youf How Hen llntler Learnt History. Nw England Mtcazitc. There was another part of my education which was thoroughly instilled tho traditional history of the revolution nnd its battles and events. Two ot our neighbors were revolutionary pensioners, and our kitchen fireside was a very pleasant resort for them, as the cellar was furnished with nn unlimited quantity of cider, which was drawn for them in a tall, yellow earthen pitcher with an overhanging lip dropping away from each side. To till it three parts full and then bring it up from the cellar was about the extent of my physical ability; but that I wa to do. 1 hen they would take down from the mantel-tree some red poppers which hung on a string under the gun, and cut them up and put them into the cider. Mext they et the pitcher down on tho hearth beiore a blazing fire held tin by n fore-fttick a stick about four feet long and eight inches through so that tho cider would get very much heated; and then it was drunk and they told stories of the openiug of the revolutionary war, tho massacre nt Lexington and the battle of Hunker Hill: And so talked on until I had as deep-seated a prejudice against a redcoat as our turkey gobbler exhibited to a red petticoat when ho drove my sister into the house.

TWO FAMOUS ECOLESIASTS

Bishops Esher and Dowman the Interesting Men of the Conference. Their Lives of Late Have Been Anjthincbnt Flacid Brief Iiistorj of Their Work for the Afpcciation. Two important personalities are in attendance upon the sittings of the German Kvangelical Conference held at the southeast corner of Kast and Now York streets. The first of these is Bishop John Jacob Ksherandthe other Bishop Thomas Bowman. Bishop Ksher is a fine-looking elderly gentleman, sixty-eight years old, who was born in a email village in Alsace, at that time a part of France, now one of the Khine provinces of Germany. He came with his parents to this country when a small lad and settled near Warren, Pa. His parents were farmer folk who, wishing a newer country and cheaper land, afterward removed to Illinois and settled upon tho prairie near l)es Piaines. He had no advantage whatever in the way of education, but. having learned to read, he seemed to have found the key to all knowledge and soon became marked as an indefatigabio student. He worked upon the farm assiduously nntll about twenty years old. when, leeling himself called upon to preach, ho entered the ministry, as did most of the pioneer preachers of that day, in tho Methodist church and in the German Kvanselical church, which is much the same in its tenets, without a college education. USIIEIl'S FIUST WOKK. He preached to German congregations and settlements where German colonists had gathered through Illinois and Wisconsin, these settlements often being 100 miles or more apart. His labors in tho beginning were of a missionary character, and as tho traveling was almost wholly br horseback and through a wild and thinly-populated country, the work was exceedingly arduous. He was made presiding elder for the district of Wisconsin, and, by his indomitable energy, largely improved the work and brousht many into the church. He exhibited a special talent for literary work, and was elected editor ot the Sunday-school and tract department nt Cleveland. In this capacity he also edited, for a time, tho Christian Messenger, the church paper. Previously to his election to this oiiice he had started the movement to establish the Northwestern College at Napierville, 111., a thriving institution which looks upon him as its father. .In 1S3 he was elected a bishop. In this denomination tho bishops are elected every four years, in this respect ditlering from the Methodist Kpiscopal church, in which tho bishops aro elected for life, lu 18C7 he was re-elected, lltscolleague, HishopLong. died soon after, and he was sole bishop of tho church until 1871, when ho was again elected, his colleague being Bishop Yeakel. He labored with great success in this otiice. In 1603 he wenttoKurope und reorganized the work there, nutting the churches abroad upon a solid basis. In 1875 Bishop Ksher and Bishop Yeakel were again elected and given as colleagues Bishops Dubs and Howman, the General Conference of that year being held in Philadelphia. At this conference Hisbop Ksher stronaly advocated the establishing of missions abroad, and tho result was tho Japan mission, in which the church takes great pride. In 1S7J he was nzain elected, together with Bishops Dubs and Bowman. Bishop Yeakel stepped out. having been elected president of the Hibliral Icstitue at Napierville. The college at that place consists of two institutes, one of which is theological and tho other scientific. Bishop Ksher has been re-elected quadrennially ever since up to the present time, a have also Bishop-i Dubs and Bowman, though Bishop Dubs is no w suspended under charges. j Biihop Ksher was sent in lb$5 to Japan to inspect the mission. This he did, and established tho work thero on a satisfactory basis. His executive ability is unquestioned in the church, and lie is acknowledged to be clear-headed and far-sighted in all matters of church policy and administration. As a preacher, he is considered profound, and also eloquent, his eloqueuco boiugnaturaland wholly without artibce. His force in the pulpit has always been acknowledged to be very effective. As a presiding officer his practice of nearly thirty years has made him almost infallible, ns scarcely any question can arise with which he is not familiar. He and Bishop Bowman preside alternately oyer the sittings of the present conference. His home is in Chicago. BISITOP THOMAS BOWMAN. Thomas Bowman, the second bishop of the German Kvangelical Alliance, was born in Carbon county. Pennsylvania, and is now, a little more than fifty years old. He is of a tlorid complexion, lively In temperament, genial in disposition and forcible in manner, being in these characteristics entirely diflerent from his colleague, who is slower in his manner and less eager in speech. Bishop Bowman has had, so far as schooling is concerned, no more than the public schools could give him. This apparently was enough, for upon this he has acquired a (elf-education that bus given him admirable equipment as a preacher and administrative officer of bis denomination. He begun life upon a farm, nnd as a young man was for a time a store-keeper in a little village m his native county. It was at this time that he began to take a deop interest in religious matters and felt called upon to preach. He spoke readily in both Kuglish and German, and not only spoke but wrote with equal facility in both tongues. Under the itinerary system he preached in Pennsylvania over'a great area of conn try, and with much success. Later on he was noted as a preacher in Philadelphia. Allentown and other prominent places. He was made a presiding elder, and in that ofiiee served with conspicuous ability, bis work in the coal region bomg of a specially gratifying character to the church. lie was elected bishop in 1S75, and has been continuously re-elected overy four years. As a preacher lie has always been popular. His language is plain but forcible, while his delivery is eloquent and impressive. He made a great reputation in Pennsylvania when that State was invaded by the confederates. At that time he spoKc at many places to assemblages of Germans, aud stirred the ashes of patriotism into llanie. thus giving ellective aid. when most needed, to tho cause of the Union. He has been trequeiitly in Kurope looking after the allairs of the church thero. Ho has just returned from a visit to North Germany and Switzerland, in which places tbo denomination is strong and growinsr. Tho position of the church in Germany is somewhat peculiar. There are over ten thousand members who maintain a quasi-reUtiou with the statu church of Germany, while an equal number have separated from that relation. Bishop Bowman is looked upon by the clergy and the lay members of the alliance as having the qualities that go to make a successful general, and his eminent capabilities as a leader make it safe to follow wherever be leads. He is at present a resident of Chicago. Hramly Conitimieil In Norway. rsllMaU Gstetto. TherMs lamentation aiid woa among the advocates of temperance in Norway. The oilicial report concerning the consumption of alcohol in Christiana during the laot twelvemonth i just out. aud show that the consumption of brandy in that town has been larger during the tlrit six months of the present year than has been thn case for the same period for many years past. In 1MH) Christiana had been drinking 17J.t;.' liters of alcoholic drinks by the end of June; this year tho figure ha risen to lbtbC0 liters. With regard to tho whoje country tho report is almost as bad, tor it shows that more 'braendevin' has been consumed from January to July, lttd, than nt any equal period during the last decade. In it the severe winter which has to answer for thfse facts or is it that the revival of interest in their own poets has caused Scandinavians to act upon the advice of so many of their skalds, ancient and modern.

whose drinking songs belontr to the gems of tho poetry of the north! Who knows but that good Bishop Franzin. with his inspired drinking songs, is really as much at the bottom of the mischief as the publicans and sinners themselves?

XAroLEoys war horses. They Were Nenrlj All of Them Either White or Gray Charger. Minnearon Tribune. It appears that nearly all Napoleon's war horses were either white or gray. The most famous were Marengo, the charger that he rode at Waterloo, Austerlltz, Marie. Ali and Jatla. Marengo's skeleton is at E resent in the Military Institute of Whitoall, London, and one of his shoos, mado into a snuli'-box, is in the mess-room of the oilicersof the guard in St. James palace. Upon tho silver cover of the shoe, the gift of Colonel Angcrstein to his comrades, is the following inscription: "Shoe of Marengo, the war horse thct belonged to Napoleon, and mounted by hiui at Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena. Wagram, In tho Knssian campaign, and at Waterloo." Around tho shoe there is this inscription: "Marengo was wounded in the left haunch when his master rode him at Waterloo on the sunken road at the outposts." Hut it appears that he wan also wounded in the preceding battle, and here the Figaro remarks that if the above inscription is correct in its statements Napoleon must have ued that horse for fifteen years from Marengo to Waterloowhich seems doubtful. Thero is no doubt, however, that Marengo was the horse that Napoleon rode at Waterloo und that carried hiui to Charleroi after tho battle, but how the horse came to end his days in Kngland has not yet been fully revealed. Tho supposition is that he was taken there along with Jatla by the Frenchman who leased some property at Glassenbnrg. in Kent, and who was once a great friend of Napoleon's, but whose name is now forgotten. The greatest care possible was taken of the old horse, who died in 1820 at tho venerable ace of thirty-oeven years. In the park on the Glassenburg property thero Is a little column with the following: "Under this stone lies Jall'a, the celebrated war horse of Napoleon. Aged thirty-6even years." Thero is some confusion, and probably exaggeration, in regard to the names of the horses mounted by Napoleon in the different battles. "But," says the Figaro, "it is quite probable that the two horses, Marengo and Ali, wero ridden by Napoleon the same day." According to Mine. DoBemusat, Napoleon often tired out fonr or live horses a day, which perhaps explains the contradiction of the legend which gives Marengo the honor of carrying Napoleon at Austerlitz, in the memoirs of General Vandarnme, which speaks of a steel-gray Arab horse as the one that he rode at that time, and which was baptized "Anstorlitz" immediately alter the victory. It is certain that Napoleon had a horse of that description, aud a portrait of the animal is at present in the residence of Lord Kosebery. As for Mane, her skeleton is at present in the old castle of Ivenach. where the heirs of the Haron Von Plessen preserve it. A NEW WAY OF EARNING A LIVING. A Frenchman Who Gains a Livelihood by Tatting Dlihei for Other People. New York Mall and ExpreM. The fact that by many little devices Frenchmen will contiiyo to make a very comtortablo living is something well known to most people. The race is nothing if not original. A rather extraordinary and original method by which a Frenchman is able to possess himself legitimately of a great deal of other people's money came under the observation of a reporter the other day. He was chatting with the manager of a fashionable uptown resturant. recently, when his attention was called to a gentleman who had ari6ed from a table at which ho had been discussing a dainty little repast. The waiter proil'ered him his hat, and he in return banded the waiter bis pourboire. As he passed out it was noticed that he was tastefully and neatly dressed. In the lapol of his frock coat he wore a bontonniere. and as he sanntered leisurely lu the direction of Murray Hill he pulled a cigarette and twirled a licht cane. Kverything about him was so thoroughly Parisian that one would think he had just stepped otf the boulevards "Who do you suppose ho isf asked the manager. The reporter hazarded the opinion that be was some French count or other. "Well, you came pretty near it, bat the fact is he is a French cook. At the same time, I would sooner have bis custom, although he is not an extravagant spender, thau that of any other gentleman who comes here." After a little questioning it transpired tho distinguished looking foreigner ir as well known to fabbicuabledinner-giversas the people who supply the dowers or furnish the music. Wbenadinnerieto bo given about which the host is very particular he is the first person consulted. He composes the menu, and, until the night of the Party, has nothing else to do with it. Then he calls at the house while the dinner is in coutso of preparation. He tastes the diflerent dishes, aud o tiers suggestions for their improvement. These may be slight in themselves, but as a result tne dinner is a success from a gastronomic Rtand-point. It is net an unusual thing for him to call at three or lour houses iu the course of one evening during the season. His summers are spent at Newport and Saratoga. During his vacation he will only deign to perform his duties for the roost exclusive of his patrons. His income is easily $10,000 a year. UOW TO COOK OYSTERS. He Thought He'd Tell Her, but She Resented If, as Some Wives Will. Columbus Post. He took home a quart of oysters last night, this North-end man, and concluded to have a stew for supper. "Now, my dear, yon know how to cook these as well as I do," he observed to the good wife. "Well, I should say I did. What does a man know about cookmgf" "We'll uot discuss that matter, my dear, but I'll be fcatisded with your cooking. I leave it all to you. Just let them come to a boil, and boil five minutes; add a little" T thought I was to tfo it." "Certainly, my dear do it to snit yourself. He fcuro and don't get too much pepper in, and put the celery sauce on the table" "Don't I know how to serve oysters?" 'Certainly you do. Go ahead and do it yourself. Just drop a little rolled cracker in. and" "Look here, if I'm ito do this, keep your month shut." "Certainly. We agree perfectly. Letthem boll five minutes "Vou don't boil them nt all. They just want to touch tho boiling roint." "What! Not boil oysters? I 6ay boil 'em!" "I say not." "You boil 'em!" "I won t." "Here, give them tome. then. If yon haven't senso enough to boil a quart of oysters, 1 can do it" He reached for them, but there was a quick dash out at the back door, and the unending oysters were consigned to the chicken and dogs. After looking at the woman for a moment, the husband said: "Well, you have simply removed the cause of the disturbance. I don't know but that is the best thing to do, after all." If he wasn't a cook, he was a philosopher. About Advertising. Arizona Kicker. We firmly believe that advertising pays. Herein this town it would be a dead loss to advertise in our contemporary, because he would bavn to use shingle nails in place of type to tet it up, and because no one bnt his uncle and bis wife aud himself read his ul!ej:ed newspaper, and they are too poor to buy anything. But advertising iu the Kicker i boind to pay. We do our best to make it pay. When a tenderfoot comes here from the Kat we nteer him into nuch establishments as advertUo with uh, aud a great many of them have lei t their boodles here Through our t-ttbrttj. Wo accent all ort- of advertising, from tho Louisiana lottery to tho latest gospel hymn-book, and we never deviate from our schedule rate?. There aro several establishments in town not represented inour advertisiugcolumus. Wo want them to come in. Wo don't say we shall look up their respective record nnd communicate with sheriffs hern and there if they don't, but we feel that advertising w ill pay them a nrotit, and that they won't feel half as nervous when the stage comes in with a stranger who looks as if he 1 was in the detective business.

CAREER OF WILLIAM WOLFE

Otherwise Known as Uncle Billy, ExChief of the FamonsTrisco YigilanteF. Living in Want and About Heady to Die of Old iffe Deserted by Leland Stanford, IlisQuandom Friend Hair-Raisins Adventures. San Frac Cisco chrouicle. In a dingy little room on the top floor of a cheap lodging-house at the corner of Sacramento and Lcidesdoril streets there lives a poor old man, alone and neglected, whose name will go down in the history of early California as that of one of the bravestand boldest of the pioneers. William Wolfe is his name. In the days of the vigilantes he was known as Col. Billy Wolfe, and later as Undo Billy Wolfe. In those days his very name was a terror to evil-doers, and it was known all over the coast. Now he is deserted, moneyless and friendless; is sick and in want. Few men have had a wilder or more adventurous life than that of Uncle Billy Wolfe. He wa9 born in Washington county. Pennsylvania, in 1810, and received a fair education. In 1SG7 he was lieutenant of Morgan's spies in the war with the Seminole Indians. He fought under Gen. Zachariah Taylor, and fired the first gun at the battle of Ocheechobee. when the great Chief Osceola was defeated and his followers were driven into the everglades of Florida. When the war was over Wolfe went to Carrollton, Mo., where the Mormons, under Joseph and Hiram Smith, held fnll away. He was made colonel of the local militia, and when the Mormon war broke out Colonel Billy was in the front ranks. The Danites and their followers were driven into Illinois. Colonel Billy gained their hatred to such an extent that a price of $l,00u was put on his head by the Mormons. Wolfe returned to Pennsylvania and for several years was first mato on a steamboat that ran between Pittsburg and New Orleans. During this period of hit life he married, and two daughters were born to him. In 1S50 he started overland for California, taking good care to make a wide detour to escape the Salt Lake Mormons, who were still searching for him. On the 1st day of Jnly he reached Placerville. "It was called Hangtown in those days' says Colonel Billy, "because they had just hung four men on one tree." BECAME A STEAMBOAT RUNNER. At San Francisco Wolfe met an old acquaintance, Captain Whitney, who advised him to become a runner for the Sacramento steamers. At that time runners made all the way from $100 to 8400 a day. The fare from Sacramenta to San Francisco was $15. There were two competing steamers, the Senator and the New World. Runners were allowed $1 a head for each passenger. Colonel Billy made a sensation in the business the first day. Ho pounded a huge gong, and this was his rallying cry: "Kuu here, you ends of the earth. The dead's alive and the lost is found. Here is Col. liilly Wolfe. If you've got no money come to me and I'll pass you free. I lay my treasure in heaven, where thieves cannot steal nor moths corrupt." Colonel Billy had a powerful voice in those days, lie was tall, erect and had muscles of steel. He was a unique character, and his absolute fearlessness of man or beast soon gained him much fame and with the fame came wealth. His first month's work as a runner netted him over Si, 000. He remained in this business, with but few interruptions, for over seventeen years. His wife and children came to San Francisco in lSTil. Two years later he 5ave his wife 610,000 for a trip to New ork, her old home. He has never seen nor heard from her since. When the vigilance committee was organized, in 1S!0, Colonel Hilly was made chief of its detectives. If there was a dangerous errand to do or a dare-devil criminal to capture Colonel Hilly was selected for the task. It was ho who arrested Yankee Sullivan, the great prizefighter and ballot-box sturler. an well as that other notorious character, liilly Mulligan. Then tho vigilantes suggested that he should be sent after James Cusick, the notorious tough and saloon-keeper, who was wanted for tampering with the ballotbox. Cueiotc bad taken rofugo at Mokellumne Hall, about sixty miles from Sacramento. Wolfe protested that as everybody know him in that part of the country he could not be sent. "Oh. you're afraid," said the president of the vigilantes, Kicbar.i Jessup, "It's a lie." shouted Colonel Billy, and after that he would go whether he was 6ent or uot. He disguised himself well aud set out. At the Union Hotel in Sacramento the gamblers and thieves scented him. He sat cn the hotel porch, waiting for the stage to Mokelumne Hill, when oue of the gamblers dropped a handkerohief in front ot Colonel hilly. Then as he stooped to pick it up he looked Wolfe squarely in the face. "My God. it'a Colonel liilly Wolfe!" cried the gambler. WAS TO QUICK FOR THEM. A dozen hands wont down into as many pistol pockets, but the Colonel was too quick for them all. He had his derringer out and cocked in a twinkle. Til take your pistols, gentlemen." he said, and every man iu the crowd hauded over his gun without further ado. That night the gamblers got together and appointed a committee to administer one hundred lashes and a coat of tar and feathers to the "strangler." as the vigilantes were called by their enemies. Hut the "strangler" learned of tho plot in time to elude it "Liverpool Jack" was a terror in his day, and so bad did the vigilantes desire his absence from tho coat that they promised to inake Colonel liilly marshal of an Francisco for ilia arrest. Wolfe found his man at Marysville, going boldly about tho streets, no one dariiu to lay a hand on him. When they met both men reached for their pistols, but Colonel Hilly was the quicker and had the drop on "LiverpoolJack'' before the latter fairly realized the situation. In 1S75 Wolfe, who had now come to be called Uncle liilly. went to Pigeon Point to take popsepgion of a piece of property for Itoodall, Perkins (k. Co. Alexander Kay, who stood six feet two in his stockings, was tho bully of the place and had driven otf all other agents sent by the company. To make a long story short, Bav tried to shoot Uncle liilly. but he wasn't quite quick enough. A few months later Uncle Billy stood trial at lied wood City charged with the murder of Alexander itav. He was acquitted on the ground of solf-defene. Uncle Hilly Wolfe ia a M.itou of biurh degree and an Odd-fellow. In the old days fin fought manyabattlo for Leland Stanford, and was one of bis stancbeat adherents. Ayearugonis health began to fail, and he enmo to San Francisco from Calistoga to sro Stanford, who had promised to eccuro him a situation whenever he needed one. "In the presence of Marcus D. Horuck, not more than a year ago," said Uncle Hilly to n Chronicle reporter yesterday. "Stanford attain told me that he would get me a place. Hut on one pretext or another, time and again he has put me otl'. I had 400 when I came here, bnt as 1 found no work it eoon went. Then I asked Stanford for a small loan. He knew he would get it back. Uncle Billy Wolfe never owed any man a dollar. Stanford knew that. too. but ho refused me." Uncle Billy' sitnation to-day is really f itiable. He has been too proud to beg. le is sick, aged and lacks proper food and medical attendance. ( No More rtificial Teeth. Mnlical Pia. Old ago is robbed of half its terrors and much of its deformity l3 the brilliant diac overj' of a Moscow dentist. Or. Zuamenttky, who, accordingto a possibly over-fan-guine l'uftsian contemporary, has i;iii:l.ted ' thecivilizfd world by his skill In making teeth grow in tuothltsn gums. Alter experimenting on dogs he tried the etlectaof lu method in human bciui. and tht surcei wan complete. The teeth aro mado of tfiittn-percha. porcelain, or metal, as mav bo dt sired. The root ot tho false tooth Vim honw boles bored m it. Holes are now bored into tho jaw, and into the bole tte fulae tooth ia stuck as is a nail in wood. In a short time a tender growth starts up the cavity of the false tooth, aud this growth hardening the tooth becomes lixed in position. These new

teeth can, according to the inventor, be placed in the alveolus of a natural tooth, and thus when a diseaaed tooth is pulled out a metal or porcelain substitute can be inserted in its place without incurring any risk of transferring disease, as happened in Hunter's days, when the apparently sound teeth of poor persons when transplanted not infrequently conveyed disease. There are eeveral minor inconsistencies in this statement, but it wonld be ungracious to look euch a noble gift in the month, especially as, according to dentists of good au thority, onr race is destined eventually tl become edentulous.

AN KMMtCSS'S IMLACn. Elliabeth of Austria's Magntflrentlleildencf at Corfu and IU Flower Gardens. New York Recorder. "Achilleon"is the name which has just been given to the magnificent palace which Empress Elizabeth of Austria bat built at Corf n. and which is certainly the tuostperiect and luxurious dwelling imaginable. Achilieon lies in tho olive valley of Gasturi, surrounded by superb grounds, which are all the year round u mass of fragrant biogsonif, and shaded b v dense rows cf palm aud blue-gum trees. The house looks like a huge jewel glittering in the golden light of the eastern sun. It is constructed in Pompeiian style, the walls of pink l'errara marble are adorned witn beautilul mosaics, and the fiat roof is inclosed by an elaborately-carved balustrade. Behind the villa is a field of roses, comprising 25.000 diilerent varieties. A trellised walk, coveted with climbing noisette, baskian and niphetos roses iucloses this unique collection. The gardens and park descend in sloping terraces to the very edge of the sea. where a flight of steps, made of pink marble, leads to a private harbor. A lighthouse, also built of marble and provided witn an enormous electrio lamp, throws its dazzliug rays over tho waters and on tho surrounding woods. A sea wall of piuk marble, crowned with vases of majolica filled with aloe plants, separates the grounds from the rippling dark blue waves. The villa, or rather the palace, contains 128 rooms, and the stables nave accommodations for fifty borate. From the windows of her Majesty's sleoping apartment and boudoir the view is ad mirable, reaching far away to where the mountains, ot Cyprus and Albania tow er into the sky. All the rooms aro fnrnished with the exquisite taste ever displayed by the Empress in all interior arrangements. Almost all the carpets, rugs, tapestries and lamps wero bought by Elizabeth in Morocco and Tunis, whilst the marvelous frescoes with which the walls are decorated are tho work of the celebrated Italian painter, Scanni. Paliorti and Pastiglione. This delightful and trnly imperial abode, of course not includes the treasures of art which dorh the spacious -picture-gallery, Las already cost over S3,OOO.OuO. and the Empress has just sailed from Miramar, on board her yacht, for the purpose of taking np her residence in her new and splendid abode. LOV: AND Git A 1131 Alt. Affection ar.d Proper EnglUh Too Much to Kxpeot or a Pretty GlrL London Tid nits. "Darling." he said softly, and at tho same time with acertain degreo of firmness, "1 enjoyed your letters greatly while I was away." "O did you, GeorgeT" cried the beautiful girl, her face glowing with pleasure. Ves, Ethel, I did," he said, "despite tho fact that I could hardly approve of some of the phrases you used." "Oh, I know 1 can't write well, George," 6he said, penitently, while she toyed with his silken mustache, "but you know what 1 meant." "Yes. I know what you meant," ho Haid, patronizingly, "but it was, nevertheless, open to misconstruction, and one cannot be too careful. 1 am somewhat of a stickler in that line, you know. Wow, in your last' letter you began, My Dearest Darling.'" "Oh, George'." And the beautiful girl tried to hid her blushes in his shoulder. Tut, tut," he said. "Don't be foolish. That would indicate, yon see, that you had several other dariiugs. Of course it gives me the preference of being the dearest, but then it doesn't look right for a girl to hare too many darlings. One ought to be sufficient, especially when be is engaged." "Why, George." She had her head on hie shoulder now. "O of course I know what you mean," ho went on in bis superior way, "but ono might as well be correct. Now, in another letter yon called mo your 'owuie own.' That doesn't make any sense. 'Ownieown conveys no more meaning than 'own.' " "George!" There was a menace in her tone, but he was too busy with his little lesson to notice it. "Another time" he began. Never mind the other time," she interrupted. "Why, my dear, I was only giving you a little instruction in the uso of English." .'Oh, yes; my use of language doesn't x suit." The beautiful girl was a triile excited. "My dearest " 'But I'll improve; I'll do better. I sap- ' pose if I called a man Mr. Jones it would indicate that there were other Joneses who were not to be called Misterf" "Um well " "Urn. well, yes. And if I ever meet another man named Jones. George Marion Jones, Pll take paius to call him Mr. Jones, Good night." As George Marion Jones walked slowly home he resolved oever again to tind fault v.-ith the wording of a love letter. The next feminine heart he captures can roam at will in or out of the dictionary and the grammar. . How They Began. Nw Ynrk Prfts. Daniel Frohman was an errand boy. Kuf us Hatch raised and sold garden trnek. Thomas A. Edison began as a teletrrapU operator. Henry E. Abbey began as a cornet-player in a theater at Akron, O. Senator Matthew Stanley Quay earned hia first money sawing wood. Senator Arthur P. Gorman was once a page in the United States Senate. Senator Proctor's first step into official life was as a village selectman. Jay Gould was a surveyor and schoolteacher and onco peddled moufte-traps. Koswell P. Flower was a clerk in a corner grocery. B fciill supplying sugar to the Tammany brave. ' Adams, who founded the Adams ExpreNS Company, was a stable helper and bartender in Boston. An old lady took pity on the boy and got him place io a grocery. Tho daughter of that old lady now 'owes many of the comforts of her lito to Waldo Adams, the won of that onco friendless boy. Senator C.N. Burton, of Fort Bend connty, Texas, was born a idave, bnt now owns his old master's plantation, and three other valuable farms in the Mtate. while Milton Sterrctt, of Hotston, formerly a waiter on a steamboat, has made" SJOd.oX) by real estate, and lives like a prince on one of several plantations he has acquired. Kansas l'liilusopliy. Atchiion Globe. Every man ought to endeavor to associate with men who know about ten times as much as he dcen. What useless tear and troubles might be saved the world if a sou could bej;in where his father leaves oil. If you want a man to admire you cultivate a thirst for information on tho subjects be likes moat to talk about. Every man believes every half hour of his life that the straw that broke the camel's back has just beeu placed on his shoulders. Most nu n upend too much time in aigbiug for the earth and too little in cultivating the little patch that legitimately belongs to tbt-m. What a pity it is that some singers can't take their voice out and have them tuned occasionally. 'I ho public would be willing to help p ay lor tho tuning. If Homebody would invent a bi-eblorido of copper or something that would keep a youth iron; falling in love until he arrives at years of discretion, tho bi-chloride ot gold treatment would not be in as great demand as it is now. No Pai titular Cho!ee. II ari i ri na;t r. The poor Young Man Mr. Crorsna, I would like to marry your daughter. Ud Cm-Bun Ah! von love her ir! The poor Wiinc Man Madly. Old Cm-sus-WiMch oiief The Poor Voting Man Oh, citberof thorn. The f t tlou Aimirred. Customer (at bird store) Is this parrot over lure a talkerf Owner of More le he a talkerf Madura, we call thut bird Jo CookJ