Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1895 — Page 4

4 THE INDIANAPOLIS J OURNAI, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1895.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY. OCTOBER 15, 1595,

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Till: IDIAAPOLlS JOLll.VAL , Onto found at tb' follor, tng ilare J'AKls AmerKua ti.rLa.HK-t U Varts 'M BoulerarU de . 'aj'iM ine. - ,Dv YOKK tllly Houe, Windsor Hotel and Aster JIilLAIi;Lll!A-A. P. Kerable, cor. Lanater are. and Barium r. ' l)!l; 1-almer l!in", Auditorium Uotcl and 1. . Co., VI A(lan: kin-et. CIMINSATI J. K. Ha l-y to.,' 154 Vina street Let is VI LI J! ' T. Ierin;?, notthwut corner or '1 fclrd and JHerJii and LouwtrUle Book Co., 3x6 1 nrth are. hT. LiL"lS L'niou Nri Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON, I. C irljrar House, fcbbltt Hoitse, W illerd's Hotel and the Waxtilnrton Newt fcxchanj e, 14ib tiieet. U-t. )nn. ate. uim! Irett. Mayor Taggart seems to have got his trolley on the old Sullivan wire. - - The Journal Is not a great admirer of Don Dickinson, tut his characterization - of Lord Saekville meets Its hearty approval. If the Mayor goes on as he has begun. ex-Mayor Sullivan may assume that the result of the election was a vindication of hin administration. Those who are yet writing pamphlets on the silver question doubtless believe that they are filling a long-felt want, but fortunately for the American people the want ceased io be felt some months ago. The fact that one of the subordinates of the Sullivan regime has declared that he will not, accept any position In the Mayor's gift relieves Mayor Taggart of the necessity of providing for one of the old set. If we have no wheat that we can sell in Europe and it is Impossible to make Europeans take large quantities of corn, how are farmers to pay for the woolen Roods made abroad and for the wool imported to take the place of their wool? t It Is said the managers of General Hardin's campaign in Kentucky have abandoned all hope of carrying the State on legitimate party Issues and have determined to begin a bloody-shirt, negrodomlhation campaign. That alone ought to Insure their defeat. The correspondents In this city who invent fiction regarding Republicans for Democratic and assistant Democratic papers abroad must be green with envy, if envy gives that color, when they read the story In the Cincinnati Enquirer about Republican purposes in Indiana which comes from New York. When Governor Matthews goes to Ohio to make speeches for the Brice-Campbell combination he will be careful to omit from his speech that unpleasant allusion to the Brice-Gorman clique of Senators which "queered" the Wilson bill. This allusion was made in the Democratic State convention over which he presided less than a year ago. The Louisville Commercial publishes a list of those who gave Mr. Tate, the defaulting State Treasurer, due bills for money they owed him when he fled with the cash. The first name in the list is that of the -Democratic candidate for Governor, who acknowledges a debt of $293 which is counted as a part of the defaulting treasurer's deficit. One of the 'principal subjects of 'discussion by the American Rankers' Association, which met at Atlanta yesterday, will be the propriety of forming a new national organization composed of delegates from "each State association. Such an organization ought to be able to exercise a conservative Influence In money affairs and financial legislation. Senator Co?grshall. of New York, deserted his party last, year in the Senate and helped Tammany, Imagining that his reputation during several terms in that body would insure his re-election. He went into a contest and was beaten. Now he , has accepted the Democratic nomination. He is one of a class of men who stick to a party as long as It gives them position and who go to the opposite party when discarded by the first. They are the men who 'are the servants cf the lobby. During the nine months which ended Oct. 1 sixteen lines of railroad, with a mileage of 3.C96 miles and a capitaliza tion ftf 1173,001,000. were taken out of the hands of the owners upon jetltion of the bondholders and put into the hands of receivers because thy could not earn sufficient money above running expenses to nay . the interest on the money borrowed. This Is a little less than half the mileage put under receivership during the corresponding period of 1834. In many cases the bonded debt represents nearly the entire cost of the roads, the ctock. being chiefly water. Still, a railroad that would warrant construction chould pay 5 per cent, interest on the bonds with which it was built. Mayor Taggart's selection for city engineer Is as had as he could have made from the ranks of those who call themrslves civil engineers. During the Built van administration he made himself con cplcuous for his unfitness for the position. His unrrofes?ional work has involved the city in suits for damages, and, while he was paid a full salary by the .city, he was engaged a considerable portion of hiss time In outside work- in short, he was considered the chief Incompetent of the collection cf that brand with which ex-llayor Sullivan was forced to surround himself- about the only exceptions belnr the Board of Public Works and the controller. As a contractor the past tr;o yara he has been notorious for bad rrorii and' poor material. If he does not cood work and material from bad t:? la certainly unfit for the responsible p;rit!o:i to trhlch he is called. If he does L C-d rorlt and ccod mateiil, end

furnished the city bad, he is not a fit man for any position requiring absolute Integrity. It begins to look as If Mayor Taggart is bound to surround himself with all of the conspicuous incompetents of the Sullivan regime. THE DEFICIENCY" IV REVEM'E.

Will the President and Secretary Carlisle repeat the folly they perpetrated when CongTess met a year ago? The Boston speech of the Secretary indicates that they will. A year ago It was evident to most people who gave attention to the matter that the Gorman tariff law would not supply the treasury with the required revenue. Senator Gorman made such a prediction in effect in that notable speech in which he assailed the adminis tration. Such men as Senators Sherman, Allison, Cullom and Aldrich showed by demonstration that the Gorman law would not afford the needed revenue. A year'3 experience has demonstrated that they were right, and that the confident predictions of Senator Voorhees that it would produce a surplus were those of a man who has no more Idea of the sources of revenue than the alleged man In the moon. When Congress met last December there had been a deficit in the revenues at the end of every month for nearly a year and a half, and yet the attention of that body was not called to the fact. It appeared in the official figures, but the President and his Secretary treated it as a matter of little or no importance as a sort of natural result of a Democratic President and Congress. Instead of urging the importance of legislation which would insurea surplus Mr. Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle pushed theircurrency plan to the fore. With revenues short of expenditures six or seven million dollars a month, the administration induced the managers of the House to take up a measure the most conspicuous feature of .which was the repeal of the tax on State bank notes ,under conditions which would have forced the retirement of national bank currency. Six weeks or more of valuable time wrs devoted to this measure in committee and the House before it 'was brought to a vote and beaten. Did the President and his Secretary imagine that through some mysterious avenue the new Issues of State bank notes would reach the federal treasury and banish its monthly re curring deficits? It seems that they did. When Congress shall have assembled in December the monthly deficit will have occurred every month of the preceding year with a single exception. The aggregate of such deficits will reach and probably exceed $60,000,000. Judging from the Secretary's Boston speech, the administration will recommend Congress to devise some plan for the retirement of the greenbacks and treasury notes and ignore the df Melts. .There are rumors that the President will recommend an increase of the tax on beer o as to derive thirty millions from that source. It is hoped the rumor will come true, but It must be evident that thirty millions are not enough. To put the treasury on a footing to resist the raids upon the gold reserve a surplus of thirty' or even fifty millions may be needed. But, whatever the President recommends or does not recommend, th? Republican House should be prepared to pass a bill , at an early day which will put fifty or seventy-five millions of money Into the treasury a year in excess of the present receipts. This, while it cannot check the outflow of gold to pay for foreign merchandise rushing into the country under the Democratic tariff, will stop the deficits and afford a means of protecting the gold reserve. ' ' AXOTIIEIl IXDl'STRY HEARD FROM. However opinions may differ as to the operation pf the Wilson-Gorman tariff law in this country. Its beneficial effects in Great Britain are beyond dispute. The trade papers of that country have reported a great revival in the tin-plate Industry and a large Increase in the sale of woolen and worsted goods, and now comes a report of a remarkable revival in the pottery industry. The British, Clay Worker, the organ of that Industry in England, says it is "emerging from a long' period of severe depression into piping times of progress and developrcent." The principal foreign market of the British potteries, says the Clay Worker, is the United States, "where for many years a strong effort has been made to build up a rival native industry under the artificial stimulus of protection." Those who know the magnitude of the pottery Industry in this country will "admit that it was fairly well developed, though, of course, it required protection. The Clay Worker says the McKinley law imposed duties of "a highly restrictive character" on British pottery, but that it has now been replaced by a more favorable law. As to the operation of the new tariff it says: S!nce the reduction of the duties, which took effect in January, the exports of china ani earthenware, chiefly made in North Staffordshire, have Increased enormously in volume, though not correrpondingly in value. The number of pacKages shipped from tho Mersey for United States ports in the week ending Aug. 3 was 3,109, as compared with 1,473 packages in the corresponding week last year. Tne exports for the seven months reached the satisfactory total cf 72.679 packages, as against 37,718 in the corresponding period of 1S94. - i The article goes on to say that durlng the early part of the year British pottery manufacturers were a little cautious for fear the American market might be glutted, but by careful management they had avoided doing thK Indeed, it says the export in the last week of August was probably the largest ever recorded, and all indications seemed to show that the year would break the record. "If the average export of the past seven months should be maintained till the end of the year," says this organ of British pottery Interests, "the shipments will reach 120,000 packages. The highest previous records were 104,934 packages in 1869, 103,663 packages in 1871, 104.1S5 packages in 1S72 and 107.322 packages in 1883. Only five times in twentyfive years have the year's shipments from the Mersey exceeded 100,000 packages." This revival of an Important manufacturing Industry in Great Britain affords a marked contrast to the condition of the game Industry In this country. The extensive potteries at East Liverpool, O., and Trenton, N. J., and smaller establishments elsewhere are having a very different experience from that of the British potteries. The chief features of this experience are diminished trade, lessened output and reduced wages, and, in spite of all they can do, the American potteries are being forced to the wall by competition with foreign cheap labor against which they have no protection. That cannot be a wise or a patriotic policy rhich teSea business

from American producers and money from American workmen and gives them to foreigners. A SOritCK OP COXTGXTIOX.

There is reason to believe that the policy of stopping all street improvements for a time would cause quite as much dissatisfaction on he part of those who have already bee compelled to pay for such improvements as would a reasonable extension of the system of improvements. A less rapid pace may be wise, but no pace whatever will be sure to cause dissatisfaction. To illustrate: On the North Side two years ago a street was paved with asphalt nearly its whole length. The street east of it was paved with brick, but no other streets east have any pavement whatever. Until late this season" the two streets west of that street were not paved, and now the one next west is not. The bricks on the street paved with that material were not good, so that It is not so desirable for travel as the asphalt. The result is that all the travel and traffic of five streets have been concentrated upon the street paved with asphalt. Now that it has been intercepted by an asphalted street running west, a residence street has become the thoroughfare for all the trucking coming into the city and passing from the business center In that direction, filling it with all sorts of wagons and carriages from early in the morning until late at night, to the great and constant annoyance of those who have paid for the improvement. In addition to the noise and dust which it has brought to the residents of the street, they complain that the asphalt will be worn out in a few years by the traffic which should come over four or five streets, rendering another levy upon their property probable in four years, when, if all the streets were equally well paved, it would last a dozen or fifteen years. In another cao a section of a prominent street nearly three-quarters of a mile in length has been able to resist all efforts to have It improved. The upper part has been asphalted and the section connecting with Massachusetts avenue and t Washington street has; been improved with cedar blocks. The next street west has been blocked or asphalted, and that still further west has been asphalted. Property owners already loudly complain that not only does all the travel of the two streets east of them come over their street,' but that those who resist Improvement come through the nearest alleys and cross streets to get upon the street for which they have been heavily taxed. These people are already protesting, and if those unimproved streets are not improved during the next two years all of them will be even more Indignant at the apparent injustice of taxing them to maintain streets for those who prevent the improvement of those on which they live, and there will be as much indignation as there was dissatisfaction when they were taxed for asphalt , or block streets. At best, the matter of improvements is certain to be one of contention. A recent decision of the Supreme Court In regard to allowances by county commissioners to county officers may Involve important consequences. The case came up from Huntington. county. Whose commissioners, sued the auditor to recover moneys claimed to have been illegally paid him as constructive fees.- The Circuit Court of that county decided against the commissioners on the ground that as the suit was not brought within the statutory time for an appeal the allowance was final. The commissioners appealed, and the Supreme Court reversed the decision of the lower court, holding that an illegal allowance by county commissioners was not binding on the county, and suit to recover the amount thus allowed could.be brought at any time. It now remains for the lower court to decide whether the fees were illegally allowed, and, if so, they will have to be re funded. The Huntington Herald says the auditor against whom the suit was brought never received a dollar in the shape of fees that was not allowed his predecessors for years before, and if the allowances were illegal in his case they were equally so in theirs. As the same condition probably exists in many other counties the decision of the Supreme Court may open a wide field for litigation against county officers and ex-officers. ' ' ' The British Ministry seems to assume that the present is a propitious time for pushing its contention with Venezuela regarding its claim for a portion of the territory cf that government. A. more positive administration at Washington would probably Interfere in a manner which would make It unpleasant for tie British government. The contention is an old one. It is a claim for a piece of territory which on the maps is a part of Venezuela, but which Great Britain insists is a part of British Guiana. Venezuela has repeatedly offered to submit the dispute to arbitration, and .several outside nations. Including the United States, have at different times tendered their good offices in that relation. That Great Britain has steadily refused to accept this method of adjustment has tended to discredit her claim and to justify the conclusion that her real purpose is one of conquest regardless of the principles of justice and equity. Great Britain is always ready, to arbitrate when the dispute is between her and a nation her equal in resources and power. In the case of feeble governments, force, when threat will not accomplish her object, is her policy. In such a case as this, where the British government justifies the suspicion that Its course is not a good one. Great Britain should not be permitted to play the bully on this continent. , General Harrison's present visit to Washington furnishes another illustration of the quiet dignity with which he accepts the position and performs the duties of a private citizen after having filled the highest office in the world. Whatever his hand finds to do he does conscientiously and thoroughly, whether it is delivering law lectures, acting as trustee of an agricultural college, seeking health In the Adlrondacks, voting an unscratched Republican ticket In a city election or arguing great cases in the Supreme Court of the United States. In hts case the question what to do with our ex-Presidents solves Itself. - Washington city has 600 cases cf typhoid fever, the. result, no doubt, of bad drinking water and poor sewerage. Washington's water supply is drawn from the Po tomac river and polluted with surface drain age, while, the city swert-5, la rpite of very favorable natural ccnSItisr.s. Is very

defective. For these conditions Congress Is mainly responsible. A New York paper, commenting on the approaching: marriage of the Vanderbilt young woman, says: "The idea of an American girl becoming a duchess has siezed on the public Imagination." The public imagination outside of New York flunkcydom is not excited. IIUIIIILES IN THK AIR.

The Cheerful Idiot. "This is a sad world," said the pessimistic boarder. "Isn't it, though?" gurgled the Cheerful Idiot. VEven the heavens get blue over it." " The Prlmnl Cause. Oh, were it not for the sporty gent Who likes to put a bet up. The fighter loud and pestilent .' Would very quickly let up. Her Error. "I sec that you have been buying a bicycle," he casually remarked, as they sat side by side on the sofa. "Yes." "Cash or Installment T' "Two dollars a week," she admitted. And thus it was she unknowingly caused him to postpone his proposal for nearly a year. , From Patriotic Motlven. "You scoundrel! You fiend! You you rnouted the defeated senatorial candidate, at the chief of the men whom he thought he had bought. "I know we throwed you down," admitted the unfaithful one, "but we done it for the good of the State. We thought a man who was fool enough to pay for his votes in advance was too big a chump to even go to Congress." ABOUT PEOPLE AXD THINGS. Senor Canovas, one of the most prominent figures in the Spanish Cortes, is reputed to be the homeliest man in Spain, and to have the most beautiful woman for a wife in that country. Sir Henry Beasemer, the "steel king." eighty-two year3 of age,, continues to take a keen Interest in scientific matters and keeps himself up to date. His peculiarity is that he will not give any one his autograph. - Under a resolution passed by the Columbia College trustees, the three young sons of the late Prof. H. H. Boyesen. who are now. attending the Berkeley School, are to become wards of the eollege, and will be educated free of cost. . One of the largest dairy concerns of northwest India Is in Alahabad, and is owned and managed by MI?s Frances Abdulla. the daughter of. a well-known Arab chief.' She also carries on the "All Abdullah stables." and .the VZoe Memorial Institute," a temporary home for gentlemen seeking employment. .: ' The Rev. Robert Coflyer, while at the breakfast table of one of his friends in the country near Boston, was asked by one of the family: "Mr. Collyer, do yoa enjoy as good an appetltie as you have in years past?" To which he replied: "My dear, if I lose the appetite I now have, I hope no poor man will find - It," . "Awaked by Sinai's Awful Sound" is the only hymn knowrTtd'havc been written by an American Indian. It. is the work of SamsQn Occum, an Indian preacher of great ability. He visited England in 1766 to raise fundo for n n Indian nrhool. and secured 10,000 for the institution that afterwards became Dartmouth College. It is stated that the.cost of entertaining the German Emperor on' his visit to Westmoreland was $150,000, which includes the cost of special trains, no fewer than ten of wMsVi aro imf.l r,n . the occasion of his visit. It is' further stated that the cost of decoratirfg Lowther Castle in preparation for the Emperor's visit was over $250,000. Benjamin Riley, a colored man who died the other day at San Augustine, Fla.. left an estate valuedvatMfloa.X), all made by his own efforts. Southern papers assert, as they have a right to do, that such an onmniatifin evidence of the opportuni ties that 8outhern negroes have of working out their own ruture in tne piaco wnere they were born. ' In speaking of his ,lect're experiences, Opie P. Read says: "I have addressed the smallest audiences In the world, but the most remarkable audience I ever met with was at Sterling. 111.,'iwhere I spoke under the auspices of the Switchmen's and Brakemen's Benevolent Association. My auditors were one-armed and one-legged men, who could not applaud my impassioned utterances. It was pathetic to see them fanning the air with-their single hands whenever my eloquence aroused them to the pitch of uncontrollable enthusiasm." The clothes don't make the man," she sighed In language pat; , , He saw her bloomers and he cried, "I'm glad of that." - ' - Judge. . . IMPREGVARLE FOR AGES. Gibraltar' Roclc Has Ileen Regarded na Impoanlble of Capture. Charleston News and Courier. Gibraltar is almost an island of rock, its only connection with the mainland of Spain being a narow causeway known as the "Neutral ground." This Is patroled up to a certain point by English sentries looking neat, trim and businesslike tn their short re J coats and white helmets. Just beyond the line of the sentry boxes the Spanish territory begins and another relay of mm ni a nlnttiArl in the vellow and red of , Aragon and Castile stand ready to see that the realm ot nis .ua.iesiy, AJiontn XIII, are not to be encroached upon and that no one crosses the border without first passing through the little Spanish custom-house. For nearly 209 years, night and day, these two sets of sentinels have watched and challenged and glared at each other and seem likely to continue go doing for a good many years to come. The fortress stands at the end of a rocky piomotory extending about three miles into the sea and about half a mile In breadth. The north end, which overlooks Spain, springs up nearly perpendicular to a height of l.SfiO feet. The east and south sides are steep and rugged and extremely difficult of access even if they were not fortified: so that it Is only on the west side, fronting the buy, where the rock declines to the sea and the town Is situated, that it could be attacked ith the faintest hope of success. Here, however, the strength of the fortification is such that the place may be eaid to be impregnable. The lower batteries are all casemated and masked bv bushes, while higher up vast galleries have been excavated in the solid rock and mounted with heavy modern artillery. The damage which might ensue from the explosion of shells is guarded against by open traverses, . and a network of passages gives communication between the c.ifferent batteries and protects the gunnprs from the enemy's fire. Looked, at from below there is nothing save an occasional porthole to Indicate the deadly character of this huge martial monolith, but if it could be looked down on from above it would be otund to present from sea to summit, a perfect labyrinth of stone, tunnels bristling with cannon and stored with chained lightning sufficient to shake the earth to its very center. According to the historians Gibraltar has been besieged no Uss than thirteen times. Its possession rested alternately with the Moors and the Spaniards until 1 04. when it was attacked during the war of the Spanish succession by the English and Dutch fleets and surrendered after a short resistance. The Spaniards during the nine years following vainly endeavored to recover it, but In 1713 Its possession was securedto the English by the peace of Utrecht. The last and most memorable siege was in 1.J. when General George. Elliot and his gallant band of 6,000 half-starved men successfully held the place for four years against the combined fleets of Spain and France. That was a close shave for the English, but they have provided agalns its recurrence in such a manner that U seems certain that nothing short ot an earthquake will ever dislodge them from the rock. It is said that the fortress Is always kept victualed for a siege of seven years. Aerial railways, telephones, telegraphs, electric searchlights and a perfect code of signals have united Ihe garrison practically Into a fighting machine. The blue waters of the bay are said to be treacherous with sunken torpedoes, and even the elements arc guarded against by means of position or rangeflnders whereby the guns above, although enveloped in clouds or mists, can be electrically pointed and discharged from half a mile below and the enemy made to think that Great Jove W hurling clouds at him from hlsh heaven Itself.

A NEW BONANZA KING

St'IlDKX RISK OF TIII5 KAFFIR" SPECULATOR BARNEY BARXATO. Once a Street Fakir and Clrens Performer, He Una Made Million in South Africa's Mlnlnnr Iloom. New York World. His . name is Barney Barney Barnato and he is one of the very richest money kings In the world. Barnato is the Kaffir bonanza king, and his fortune to-day is estimated at J300.000.000. That's the figure today; what it may be next week no one can tell, for Barnato Is the central figure In the most gigantic and reckless speculation since the famous South Sea bubble. This speculation has plunged Englishmen ani Frenchmen and Germans who have a dollar to risk into a feverish and unprecedented craze to buy and sell "Kaffirs." On the London, Paris and German exchanges "Kaiflrs" is the name of a confusing multiplicity of south African mining stocks, the lively ups and downs of which have for the past few months been making and unmaking fortunes. This wild and insane craze has led to the unsettling of financial values in all American stocks, and has caused Wall street to hoU Its breath, as it were, pending the anticipated bursting of the Kaffir boom. Barney Barnato, the man who has really launched this unprecedented speculation, has himself made millions out of It, and when the crash comes, if come it must, it is believed that he will still be an enormously rich man. Most of his fortune is said to be on paper, but he holds the upper hand in all the big deals and he is not the sort of man who has let the "lear public ' In on the ground tloor without making them pay him a profit; Of his origin as little is known as of the astonishing rise or the boom he has created. It is -believed that he was a London street arab. He is still young-not yet forty slightly over five feet in height, fat, squat and short-legged. His appearance Is altogether ugly. All sorts of vague stories are told of his early career. He is taid to have been a barber, a second-hand clothing dealer, a bagman, a broker's clerk, a messenger, a street fakir, a tumbler, circus preformer, contortionist and prestidlgitateur. He has dealt in South African diamonds, and about their spuriousness nasty stories are recited by his enemies who knew him . in the mines. He left there when he was about eighteen years old. Three years ago, penniless and .mknown, he appeared in London. Not long after there sprang up among speculators and investors great interest in South African mining- stocks. Companies were formed to develope these mines, and European capitalists, big and little, were Invited to take stock. It was easy to find money backings for . these enterprises. Africa was a name to conjure by. The Dark Continent was a mystery aot unmixed with Vom?nee. Its resources were uniimitable. its possibilities incalculable. New strikes of rich veins were reported. With each strike sprang up a company to work It. Kaffir's stock were in every man's mind. The English newspapers helped cn the widespread interest by publishing long leters and dispatches fiom the scene of actlvitj. Conservative English journals Inveighed against It, but the people gave no heed. GETTING A 'FOOTHOLD. Barney Barrfato got into the Kaffir swim. He plunged deep. His natural daring and cool effrontery stood him well. He won enormously. Then he branched out independently and drew about him his own following. It ' was another case of the lucky gambler leading the way for the unlucky. He organized companies to float "Katflrs." Tlere were Barnato "ccmpaiiles," Bainato "groups," Barnato "shares," but there were never any Barnato losses. He made money even more rapidly than the great l,cnan7a kings of California in the palmiest days of the Argcnauts. Shrewdly he made a conquest of Sir Edgar Vincent. Sir Edgar and Barney became financial bosom friends. Sir EJgar gave the plunger position which he never had in spite of his fortune. Barnato had been blackballed at the London clubs. The rich turf set cut him. in spite of his heavy support of races and his fine strings of horses. Sir Edgar first of all made sure that Barnato and his South African enterprises were "safe." He went out to south Africa with Barney as Barney's guest, and was accompanied by his wife, the beautiful Lady Helen Dunscombe, sister of the Duchess of Lelnster.' What Sir Edgar saw in Africa convinced him. He took up Barnato, gave him financial and social prestige, not in London, but in Paris, and by clever maneuvering secured for him the ear of the great Parisian financiers and boosted him forward In Parisian society. Sir Edgar now shares with him the title of "King of the Kaffirs." Barnato's latest coup was the creation of the "Barnato Bank, Mining and Estate Corporation, Limited." It needed no prospectus; the mob were only too eager to tumble over each other getting "on the Inside." By the mere stroke of a pen Barnato created an enormous capital out of nothing. The nominal capital of this bank was 2,300.000. The shares were ft each, and on the morning of the Issue there were 1.500 brokers, wih orders to buy hundreds, and in some eai's thousands, of shares at the market. Thb shares opened from 3'4 to 44 premium, and the capital of the bank is now valued at nearly 9,000.000. At the last settlement, when there was talk about difficulty in carrying over stocks. Barnato announced that he would lend 10.000,000 on the stocks of companies In which he was interested. The trading In these shares developed one of the most exciting scenes ever witnessed on the London market. For a time there was an almost indescribable, frenzy, and the shares were bid up to more than four time their face value. They subsided later, but the confidence of the public is well attested by the fact that they are still quoted at over three times their face value. rtTBLrO FAITH . IX HIM. The blind faith- of the English people In this modern Midas upsets all theories of their national conservatism. It is estimated that not less than J130.000.000 has -been subscribed, a large part of it by small investors, in the schemes and enterprises of the plausible Barney. He was and Is to-day the speculative foe of Cecil Rhodes, and resembles the latter in the scope of his enterprises and nerve with which he back them. Rhodes companies and Barnato companies are' rivals for the favor of capital wherever VKafhrs" are quoted. Barnato resorted to the familiar method of working a number of mines under the same capital. From this union of workable mines came the name "groups." In London Barnato Is spending a million on a palace' In Piccadilly, which he will occupy when it is finished. Meanwhile he Is occupying: Earl Spencer's house. HJs name was mentioned as a possible challenger for the America's cup. He i 2 lavish spenJer, and among his luxuries, so it is reported, is a bath of champagne. Alfred H. De Montgomery, a mining engineer of New York, who was in K;mberly ten years ago. said he saw Barnato at that time walking the streets peddling watches, matches and all sorts. "His fortune was made by an accident, which nobody had foreseen. Shortly after the mines of Kimberly were discovered there were about twenty thousand diggers working the surface of the mine. About one hundred feet down the ground suddenly changed from yellow sand to solid blue ground hard as granite. All the miners gave up their claims, thinking the mine worked out. Only one digger went down about two hundred teet. but he was stopped by the rainy season which set in. He left about two hundred tons of solid blue earth lying on the floor and left the country. "After four months 'Barney walked over the mine and found a thirty-carat bluewhite diamond lying right on top cf the soil which came out of the two-hundred-foot' shaft. With the action of water and air the ground got pulverized and a small fortune was looking on Barney.' He sold the stone and pegged all the mine out In his name: there were several thousand claims, worth at least Cl.000.0uo sterling at that time. Lot after lot he sold out to different companies for cash and interest, and through this streak of luck he was possessor of about 2,000,000. "In 1S92 all the companies amalgamated wirh the De Beer company, which is the sole possessor of th fields at the present. Cecil Rhodes, the Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, Barney Barnato and Toel brothers are the biggest shareholders in this company. "Long before the amalgamation. In 1SS6, 'Barney went to Johanncsberg gold fields, in the Transvaal Republic, where he bought several mines for a son?:, as the diggers 'ould not afTord to ry tha heavy licence ccney cash rr.cr.t!i to tr.2 c'Vtrnment. The

mines turned out' trumps, as everybody knows, and 'Barney Is now the Gold King of South Africa, ruling the Kaffirs. Although he Is the richest man in South Africa, except Cecil Rhodes, his manners are not up to the standard.. Through his bad language and msulllng manners to the leading members he was expelled from the Kimberlcy Club, and eight months afterwards from the Rand Club, In Jocinnosberg..The Rand Club is the leading club of South Africa. "I don't think that 'Barney' is proud of his ancestors, as he was born and brought up in Whitechapel. in London, This I positively know to be truth. But In London society mones washes many sins and bad reputations out." A FRAIDILEXT XEWSPAPLU.

Good Result Growing: Ont' of it St. Louln Newspaper Wranstle. Washington Post. The wrangle which has recently broken out among the stockholders of the St. Ixwis Post-Dispatch is to be credited with some good results. It has at least let the public into the secret of the manufactured "circulation," by means of which several newspapers of a certain class obtain patronage from the public. The St. Louis Republic makes this comment: - "A familiar proverb is strikingly confirmed by the disclosures the unseemly wrangle between the stockholders of the Post-Di-pateh has brought out. Honest men are getting their. dues. Advertisers are gathering information of exceeding interest concerning the true circulation of that paper. "In an aflldavit filed In the Circuit Court last Monday the present business manager of the Fost-Dispatch, Mr. . W. Jones, gave a statement 'of the paper's circulation at three, specifled periods ;that is, the weeks ending Sept, 16, 1S94: Feb K 1S93. and Sept. It, ISA?-,-and. referring to his figures, added: Wfliant further states that a large part of the circulation shown bv ,iid statement of Feb. 16, 1S95, was unprofitable, and, in fact, fictitious.' The Post-Dispatch of yesterday editorially repeats tills ver interesting disclosure, saying: The circulation obtained In January and February following the cut in price was in large degree bogus. It was Impossible to say what was and what was not bogus. "This is probably the moat shameless confession of misrepresentation and deceit any newspaper has ever been forced to print in its own columns. It is an open admission that lies have been backed up with affidavits and foisted on advertiser as truths, a confession that the facts sustain fully and completely." "The circulation affidavit" has been greatly overworked, in and out'of St. Louis. Advertisers have been defrauded and fleeced not only by means of figures that were bogus, but by means of figures which, even though they might be accurate in themselves, did not represent advantage to the merchant. A newspaper might, fcr instance, have a circulation of 100.003 among the Chinese, and yet it would not be a valuable medium for a-dealer in American clothing. It might circulate largely among the Sioux 'Indians, and yet not be Important to a publisher of a cookery book. It might be read by every Anarchist in the country, and yet be worthless to a manufacturer of soap. . What the advertiser really wants Id direct . communication with his customers. He wants to reach the people to whose tastes he caters. First-class merchants seek the patronage of first-class buyers. It is nothing to them to lay their wares before people who are not likely under any circumstances to trade with them. This case of the Post-Dispatch, however, is a very different matter. Into this the element of wisdom and discrimination on the part of the advertiser docs not enter at all. The question is one of fraudulent pretense, pure and simple. The Post-Dispatch's circulation, upon the faith of which St. Louis tradesmen patronized the paper, was fictitious. It did not exist. The business manager of the paper now admits it under oath, and the confession Is confirmed editorially. The advertisers were not deluded as tothe character of the circulation. They were just swindled. Nevertheless, we maintain that .nerchants would save themselves a great deal of money and withdraw from dishonest and disreputable newspapers a great deal, of temptation by adhering to the very simple rule of giving their patronage to the publications that notoriously go to the houses of Intelligent. industrious and well-to-do people. Those are the people who deal with them the only people whom it is their interest to reach. THE MODERN DRAMA. It Would He Grently Improved if Its Cjnlelsm Mere Ellin in uteri. Philadelphia Record. 1 With another theatrical season comes the tediously trite question regarding cynicism in American life. Why !s It that the modern society drama should go to such exasperating lengths In its criticism of the most sacred subjects, and rlve itself' systematically to dispelling the pleasant illusions that make this workaday world endurable to those who have: to live In It? Why is It that to be successful the dramatist must needs saturate his lines with musings morbid and morose, and phlosophizing unhealthful and contemptuous? If it be true that the picture given is accurate In outline and comprehensive in detail then, of course, there need be little objection either to its propriety or Its necessity. But Is the dramatist a faithful artist? Lkcs he give us a. sj-mmetrical, evenly toneJ picture, or one with merely a clcv?r combination of color ani a happy adaptation of form? To believe that the society drama of to-day truly represents American, or even lihiglish, life Is to be skeptical of the virtues and graces of all highly cuhivuted men and women: It is to tear off the" veil not only of. Illusion, but of delusion, and. like the characters In the play, to rfveal the fool's head and the death's head beneath the comely exterior of t Aver or gold. And Is it true that the representative home life of our people is no better than this disappointing picture that It is led along lines no more stimulating, r.o more elevating, no more ennobling than the severe limitations circumscribed by the average society drama? Now, we do not intend to answer these questions immediately or comprehensively. We are content, rather, to let them answer themselves. Yet it is only right to say that the less artistic melodrama is in its peculiar field Infinitely more faithful to the life it represents and far more healthful for the people who watch It than Is the more aesthetic dramatization. For, whatever may Yu said of particular uncouth features in the melodrama, there yet remains the gratifying, assurance that In the less elegant ar.dlcnce every one loves the hero and hates the villain: while In the "risk." play, and we are now speaking onlj of plays where thf dramatist seeks to skate on extremely thin ice there are comparatively few, tVv r?n have either sympathy with th oii t Me or with the other, for sympathy Is: a natter of the soul far more than of tl. mind, and must be awakened by tr-ral rnther than Intellectual appeals. "pf- sojd. sweet maid, let other girls be clevrv' Klngsley's Injunction on a different C and it might well serve for writers pt the drama. Have a firm and abidin moral purpose, and let the Intellectual varieties ro by the board. If that should b.- the aim of the dramatist there would ha little of the unwholesome eyeniclsm vhich we have lately learned to look for the stage. There would be more of SC.itixe feeling, spontaneity and enjoyment, Votl. before and behind the footlights. The worli I fond of ingenious novelty: It Is still d.elved with ornament. . But of these it tires In time., and comes hack with never1'illlng legularity to the stern truth that morality and sincerity are forces yet alive ii 'society. How long is It to be before the strictly "clever" shall cease to entertain Us and abiding "good" in life, literature end ai t svatl assert its Instructive power? - TERRORS OF THE RED SEA. Dreary Prospect for France Sick nnd Wonnded Soldiers. New York WorlJ. "The veritable hell of our earth." remarked the Calcutta representative of a New York firm, homo on his biennial vacation, the other day when he raw a rable dispatch stating that the invalid solJitrs of France's Malagascan campaign would be returned via the Suez canal instead of oyaging around the Cape of Good Hope. "It is a sea that Is literally infernal in its heat. It does not look large on the maps, but It stretches for nearly fifteen hundred miles between th lncanlescant shores of Egypt and Arabia, and its greatest width Is less than two hundred. . "I have traversed it six times, and I have been on the verge of collapse every trip when we reached Aden or Port cajd. eo l think It likely that many of the French sick anl wounJed solilers will not survive the journey. "This heat Is terrible. For nine months in the year the mercury remains at about ninety-eight degrees In the ihade. ani when there Is a breeze from the torrid deserts to the west or east It is hot as the breath of a furnace, A year frequently goes by without a drop of rain falling, and 1 have heard incredible stories of the heat which the desert sands along its banks seem to store up. 1 have never cared to land to verify any cf them, but an Englishman told me that he put a thermometer in the sand once and the mercury slid up to 178 degrees. "The water of the Red Sea, a may b Imagined, Is also very warm, and I have heard it assorted that it loses by evaporation each year enough to make itself an aqueous blanket twenty-three feet thiit. Naturally it i one of the saltiest bodies of water on the globe. It is really a sort of an arm to the Indian ocean, you kno, and receives no water to rrci cz frcn gny

other source. It has bet n estimated that if its supply were cut Off by closing the Strait of Bab el Mandfb and the Suez f ' canal It would take only a few years for l the fierce sun to dry it up entirely. "It takes the I. & O. steamers about a j week to run from Aden, at the soutcem end. In Arabia, to Port Said on the canL t and going either way the boats always stop at one or the other of these two ports to take on "a gang of Arab firemen, for no other race has been found that can stand the awful heat of the furnace room In thia f ' torrid climate. These Arab are thin. rr.u- . cular fellows, almost as dark as negroes, and it is worth running the ric of faint ing to get a glimpse of them whevt they are I at work stark naked down la the boiler room of the vessel, looking like x band of 1 devils feeding the Infernal fires." THIS WAS AX IWEXTIOX IMlEED.

Hovr n Woman Skill Revolutionised n Great Industry. New York Times. Among the Inventions of women on exhibition at Atlanta Is one inteiestlng for two reasons the first that it dates from a ptriod before women wre accounted ict!vr in any but the domestic world: and tho second that It deals with a compartment of Industry into which women always venture at the risk of being suspected of scant knowledge and less experience that of mechanics. This Is the st.-aw-sewing machine, Whkh Is entered by the committee on invention by pcrmislon of its Inventor, Mrs, Mary P. Carpenter Hooper, of this city. Altho-jsih Its patent has now expired, and Its usefulness In part done away with, this little machine, not as big as a typewriter, worked a revolution m a great Industry, and to-day there Is r.ot one Inch of straw braid sewn into hats by machinery anywhere in the world that does not employ a part of Mrs. Hooper's Invention to accomplish the work. Mrs. Hooper is the daughter of a former New York lawyer, whose fingers itched with InventJve skill while he kept them bound with the red tape of his profession, so the source of Mrs. Hooper's Inventive faculty is not hard to find. It was while she was still Miss Carpenter that she learned through some interested friend of the curious state of affairs In the straw sewing trade. Up to that time, 1&7L there had been but one practical straw sewing machine invented, which machine was controlled and used by a combination of three or four firms engaged in the manufacture of straw hats and bonnets. It was called the Bosworth machine, and was immensely valuable, although the operator had to bs an expert before she could make a hat. as the sewing had to be done backward, from the brim to the crown, and when done, the hat was wrong side. out. a condition which often resulted in breaking the straw while It was being turned right. As Miss Carpenter had shown herself possessed of pronounced Inventive eklll. of which the Patent Office already bore record, these facts were pointed out to her by some of the leading manufacturers, who were obliged to eew all their straw goods by hand, and ,she was encouraged to attempt to make a new machine which could be generally used. In 1S72 she received a patent for her first model of a machine, but it was not satisfactory to herself, and no second mnchlne was built from iL A second attempt, a year or two later, did not yet fulfill all the requirements she strove for, but in June, 187... Miss carpenter com-, , Dieted a machine that could make a hat f;om Its tip or top to the outer edge of the Vrim without taking it from the machine, and when It was finished It was right side out and did not have to be turned, and, moreover, concealed the stitch, a result., heretofore unaccomplished. . SMIGGMXG WITH SXOWUALI.S. Clever Rumc of Russian Soldiers to Hoodwink the Custom Oflelnl. New York World, trntll within recent years the ' Russian - frontier on the German boundary wr ruarded In a surprisingly weak manner or a nation to completely under military rule as the Czar's great empire. But now there Is a strong cordon of garrisons only a few miles apart., and a careful patrol service between them. Th chief duly cf thse garrisons is to prevent smuzzling and -the introduction of Nihilist llteritur ln:o Russia. The duty Is hard and mohot- : onous, and the Czar does not like to have -,bls best trained and most effective regiments sent out along the boundary line For the most part these garrisons crmsls: of young recruits from th. eastern and central provinces of Russia. They are seldom expert soldiers, and the lax discipline thev are under Is further weakened by tttir excessive drinking. Their small pay, in doled out to them twice a month, and every kopeck of it Is Immediately expended in . vodka. After the vodka is gone they emplov their spare timo In making i$M across the boundary line into the German . farm yards to supplement their meager rations.- . .. 1 . Along the entire boundary line betwren these two countries there Is a series of great open plains. Over these an icy east . wind blows in winter, and, .the only way the soldiers can keep alive on their patrol is by the building of wood fires between the posts. Even then the patrols frequently have their limbs frozen In thir. monotonous marches to and lro. Hpnr It Is not at all difficult to smuggle acros the boundary, and. indeed. It is suspected that the soldiers often add to their smalt rav by making dean witn me unuspiTs and turning their heads the other war 'when they pass by. . V Two very novel attempts were made Jat spring by the smuEgling fraternity, both of which proved successful. In one case, late one night a band of men In Germany, began snowballing some villagers oni Russian territorv, and the Russians retprnca the attack. In the snowballs thrown from Germany, however, yards of fine Brussels lsce were concealed. This method proved most successful, for even the recret police did not discover it and the guard of the frontier certainly had no Idea of what was going on. Quite as efficacious was the bringing of thousands of Nihilist proclamations through Sileala under the very eyes of the garrison. These proclamation were in the hollow staves carried by a body of mn who passed themselves off as rlous pilgrims entering Russia on a sacred journey. WITHOUT A UOTTOM. - Rnllrond Laborer limbic lo Fill a Hole In Connecticut. . New York Herald. - Along the line of the railroad track. 4 little way out of the settlement of Tow antic. Conn., is a seemingly bottomless rut. which' Towantic folk fancy may h the main gateway to the kingdom of Pluto. Not long ago the railroad company undertook to fill in the pit. which threatens the roadbed. For several months a Mg gang of workmen has been try Ing to fill up tho insatiable hole with carloads of fand nd gravel, and with the rrsu'.t that it is apparently not a whit less hungry for -and and gravel than at the outset. Old abandoned freight cars are used for fillers. Thee are stuffed full of earth and dumped Ir.to th greedr. fathomless abyss. . 1 be first lonMgnment of sand-loaded cars, fifty n numter. went ker-?p'.ah Into the liquid chaim. which sucked them dow n like Qu rkVand. but very flf-. ?l waters heaved and swayed with thick, "heavy waves, dimpling and bubbling like a porrldre, for a long time thereafter. Thrn Fpeedllv more cars were dumped J"they were no more than rabbles. Right in (he wake of the cars the workmen dispatched Ave hundred carloads of looi earth, then more cars and more gravel ar. I and Up to date over five hundred car have" been cast Into the bottomless pit. ad nobody knows exactly how many loads of rainhcarrylng on the work th? company used two special freight trains of thirty cars, which made five trip dny earh and had dumped 7.KI carloads into the hoi ud to the time the workmen test count of the number or loads. A far a anyone knows, all the w of stuff that ha ev-r been thrown into It has had no effect whatever in the wav of stuffing it maw. huh tho company is inclined to think the undertaking is a hopeleM one Howe ver. it 111 keep on dumping two hundred loads o. earth' dally. Said a roan. rJ.nf. .f Wtedlv Into Towantie Mack. shaUn-. j.cTruy "'.,. ..iim.,.. i this stun!. dirt and cars has gone to. Warned If I know . The companv has alreadv sp-nt prett nearly rr Wtrylr to fill It. but a'.l of u Sow lfieve It rVally Is bottomless." Srrs of neighbors vblt Towantic each we ind gai Aith awe at the pot where the car dlfappearM. lleer and. Flnwera In German. Westminster Gazette. f irma nre .i nrovf rhlallv thirsty I ration. This faet ha Jut been strtktnarly Illustrated In tne i;irm:ns-oui vi hklous departments of a new theater to t erected !n Berlin. Tlf- rem for the refreshment department in thl theater Is ! per annum, whiic that for the cloak room is CUjU). for the plav bill at.d fen the florist ft.WJO. U r as been .-rtalnel that in a theater with 1.40 seats a thousand Ue of ale are sold on the average during a performance, but that tho sale of sandwiches and other light refreshment Is of no consequence.' It I r first and foremost that "pys the piper." and after the beer the flowers.. Tins al Is characteristic . ' - What PopulUt Are God Fcr. Louisville Courier-Journal. About the only thins that the PcT'iiU'U aro food for aeems to be :o "combir.?' r.i:!j other rartir. and the parties thst c ' with them ere r.ot C'-l f-r rr.uca to be tci:?-.

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