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Would the Board of Public Safety of its own motion have deposed Splann and appointed Colbert chief of the detective force? If not, it was cowardly and contemptible for them to do it at the request or dictation of Mayor Taggart. A sound-money Democrat, speaking in Baltimore, said: “If Thomas Jefferson should come back and get a smell of Gorman’s Democracy he would drop dead.” If that didn’t do the work a few whiffs of unadulterated Bryanism would finish him. The Pullman estate is about one-third as much as those who knew all about it before his death estimated it, which is another case proving that the very rich are mot a half or a quarter as rich as estimated by those wno cluim to know but do not. Now the New York Journal claims that It and the other silver-mine owners’ organ, the San Francisco Examiner, forced the President to demand full value for the Union Pacific. The brazen impertinence of the yellow newspapers is something phenomenal. Wheal the Atlanta Constitution declares that "the silver sentiment is growing” recalls the fact that things usually happen the reverse of the predictions of the Georgia paper. Even a well-paid agent of the silver mine lobby could scarcely bring himself to make that statement now. While Mayor Taggart should commend the North New Jersey-street saloon keeper for getting a half-dozen noisy persons into his place last Sunday to keep them from desecrating the Sabbath, he should suggest that when In the saloon they should not have been quieted by the use of razors. By designation of ttye Governor this is Arbor day, and there is reason to believe It will be appropriately observed In many localities throughout the State. He who plants a tree that grows has an 'nterest in nature which may bring him s go and dividend in pleasant reminiscence, >t nothing more. The New York World has taken the jail vote in Greater New York. Os 385 prisoners 188 declared a preference for Tammany's candidate, 66 for the Republican candidate, 63 for George and 52 for Low. The remaining seventeen were divided among the small parties. Thus it appears that the two Democratic parties, Tammany and George, have Ssl of the 385 jailbirds. It may be said that the will of the late George M. Pullman shows a liberal disposition and a true sense of justice. The bequest of $1,200,000 for the endowment and maintenance of a free school of manual training in the town of Pullman is an exceedingly liberal one, as is also the bequest of SIO,OOO each to thirteen charitable institutions in Chicago. The bequests to his relatives are distributed in such a way as to show the testator’s desire to do justice to all and that he had no thought of building up a great family fortune. The secretary of agriculture made a very ust ful suggestion to those who are engaged in hog raising when he called attention to the fact that the bacon of Canada and Denmark sells in England for twice as much per pound as doe* that of the United States. This is because, according to the British idea, the American bacon is too fat. There is reason to believe that a leaner article, & series of streaks of fat and lean, W’ould be generally preferred at home. There is no doubt that such a result can be attained

by those who give the subject close attention, because wool growers can, by the mixture of bloods and feed, produce wools to meet the requirements of manufacturers, and dairymen are able to secure breeds of cows which will give the best results In butter and cheese. The time has passed when consumers can be compelled to take whatever the producer takes to market. The producer who is to profit by his industry musd study his market in order to adapt himself to the wishes of consumers. A LOW CONCEPTION OF PUBLIC DUTY. The removal of Dr. Ferguson from the superintendency of the City Hospital does not surprise those who ere familiar with Mayor Taggart’s political methods, but It must be a disagreeable revelation to those who have imagined that he had some political conscience. To fairly estimate the moral quality of the act let us review a little. One of the strongest arguments In favor of the present city charter was that It would tend to remove the city government from party and personal politics and place it on a business basis. That is the spirit of the charter from beginning to end. The same object was sought to be further promoted by fixing the date of the city election at a time when no other election is held and when municipal interests could be considered apart from all others. This is a growing demand of the times—the entire divorcement of municipal elections and municipal interests from national, and their settlement on strictly local lines. The importance of the movement was recognized in our last city campaign, which was made almost wholly on business lines. Mr. Taggart’s supporters studiously avoided all reference to his record on the money question and pointed with pride to his “business administration.” This was the Republican line of attack and the Democratic line of defense. Mr. Taggart’s alleged “business administration” was very much in evidence, and it was promised that if reelected his second administration would be better than his first—more businesslike, more conservative of the public interests and better in every respect. Largely on the strength of these promises and assurances he was re-elected, receiving the votes of many Republicans who, by some sort of mental and moral hocus-pocus, brought themselves to believe that he was a disinterested patriot in politics, and that the chief aim of his life was to administer the city government in the spirit of the charter, and, above all things, to give the people a business administration. The time seems appropriate to ask these people how they like the evidences Mr. Taggart is giving of his sympathy with the spirit of the city charter, his single-hearted

devotion to the public interests and his firm determination to give a business administration. The Journal ventures the assertion that in every appointment Mr. Taggart has made since his re-election he has placed party politics and his own personal interests above public interests. We defy any person to point to a single case where merit and fitness alone have been made the reason for the retention or appointment of any person. He is giving anew definition of a business administration. In managing the affairs of other great corporations merit and fitness are the only test of retention in office. Mr. Taggart makes Taggartism, and free-silverism the test. A fellow like Bill Flynn, a saloon keeper and brawler, is appointed to a sinecure at S9OO a year, because he was a noisy shouter for Taggart during the campaign, while a competent and experienced official like Dr. Ferguson is removed from the superintendency of the City Hospital because he is opposed to free silver at 10 to 1. It is not to the point to say that the new appointee will make as good a superintendent as Dr. Ferguson. That may or may not be, but even if it should prove true the fact remains that Mr. Taggart has removed an experienced official, against whom no charges were or could be made affecting his competency or faithful performance of duty—simply because the free-silver faction demanded his removal. In this act there is not the remotest trace of regard for public interests. The same motive runs through every appointment Mr. Taggart has made—personal service or partisan politics. His conception of a business administration does not rise above the creation of a political machine with his hand on the throttle. He is showing a very low conception of public duty. A STRIKING CONTRAST. The outcome of the Union Pacific affair illustrated the difference between the methods of two administrations. The sale of the government’s claim to a syndicate of which Mr. Morgan was the head was the tion of the Cleveland administration. If it had been concluded the United States would have lost at least $20,000,000. It is safe to say that If Mr. Cleveland had continued as President the sale would have been made. He recommended it, and his attorney general and other advisers deemed the offer of the syndicate a fortunate one. Who would have got the $20,000,000 is not known, but the reorganization committee representing the stockholders came to the conclusion that it could not afford to let the Morgan syndicate take the place of the United States at any such figure, and finally began to make bids tor the government’s claim. Its last bid was equal to the government’s investment in the Union Pacific. It was made because the parties in interest knew that the administration was determined to get the full value of the investment. Long since the Cleveland administration would have sold the property to the Morgan syndicate. It looked for no other offer. It was persuaded that the government s claim was of little value, and It was bound to regard the offer of the Morgan syndicate as a bit of rare fortune. No fair-minded man will accuse President Cleveland and his Cabinet of any unworthy motive in the proposed transaction; it was simply a case of what may be called business incapacity. The McKinley administration was persuaded that more money might be got for the government’s claim upon the Union Pacific, set about getting It and succeeded. The McKinley method has saved the government $20,000,000. It may be said that the improved times enabled the McKinley administration to make the better sale. Suppose the better times did cause higher bids to be made—whence came the better times? The evil times came with the election of Mr. Cleveland. When he came to the White House in 1893, 873,602 employes were paid by the railroad corporations; a year later the railroad employes numbered 781,034—a falling off of 89,550. Railroad earnings shrank fearfully and values in railroad properties shriveled. When the country was satisfied that the Republicans would carry out their pledges In reghrd to the tariff, business began to revive and values in all railroad properties to Improve. If, therefore, the better bargain of the McKinley administration is due to the improved times, the Re-

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publican party can claim a double triumph in the better times and the more advantageous sale of its railroad property. In dictating the appointment of sub9rdinates and employes in the different departments of the city government Mayor Taggart violates the plain spirit of the charter. Thu charter creates the departments of finance, law, public works, public safety, and public health and charities. It gives the mayor power to appoint the heads of these departments and members of the boards, and that is all. The charter plainly implies that all subordinates shall be appointed or employed by the respective boards without any dictation from the mayor. It says: "Subordinate officers and employes not herein provided for shall be appointed by the heads of their respective departments.” Again: “The officer or officers at the head of any department may appoint and remove any of his or their clerks or assistants.” Neither expressly nor by implication does the charter give the mayor p jwer to appoint any subordinate in any department, and the provisions above quoted show that any attempt on his part to dictate or control such appointments is contrary to the spirit of the charter. When that instrument says that subordinates in the various departments shall be appointed and may be removed by the heads thereof, it plainly implies that they are not to be appointed or removed by the mayor or at his dictation. It follows that in making or dictating such appointments, and in calling for and accepting the resignations of subordinates in different departments over the heads of the boards, the mayor is acting in direct contravention of the charter. Tlio Dingley tariff imposes a duty of 25 cents a pound on the shoddy which came into the country free under the Democratic tariff and made us the wearers of European rags. In 1892 only 343,000 pounds of shoddy were imported, but during the fiscal year which closed last Juno 49,000,000 were imported. The American Wool and Cotton Reporter, in a recent issue, said that “it is a notorious fact that our markets were Hooded in 1895 and 1896 with ‘rotten’ foreign goods.” It goes on to say that "goods were made in England and rushed into this country, which, frankly speaking, were ‘a disgrace to humanity.’ It is a wonder that the refuse from which the yam was spun held together during the process. It is pretty certain that it did not hold together long after it was on the wearers’ backs.” The worst of it is that the wearers who are thus cheated will be told that the goods which thus fall to pieces are American when they are foreign shoddy. The effect of the tariff act will be to give the American people sound woolen goods. Clothing may cost a little more, but it will wear much better. Hereafter those who desire to purchase woolens free of shoddy will inquire for American made goods. One nqed not be an admirer of Senator Hanna to admit that he has made a good fight to retain his place in the Senate. His enemies have been unscrupulous and unsparing. He has been assailed as a rich man who has oppressed labor and as one of the champions of the sale of the Union Pacific to the Morgan syndicate. In short, everything that such a foe as McLean can inspire to create prejudice has been used against him. He has met his foes. He has proved by hundreds of employes that he has been a considerate employer, while the collapse of the Union Pacific affair has shown how absurd such charges were. In the city in which he has lived so many years and where he has been the leader in so many industrial enterprises the people have given him unusual evidence of approval. Then he has had prosperity on his side, the doubled price of wool in a wool-growing State being an important factor. Furthermore, Mr. Bryan’s visit seems to be turning to his advantage.

Mayor Taggart should understand, as few have understood, the high demands that are made, the great expectations that are held. He should, and, w r e believe, will respond to them and meet them without disappointment.— New’s of Oct. 13. He does understand and he has responded. The silver “push” is having all its demands met and its expectations fulfilled. But where, oh where, are the mugwumps? The Loyal Legion has purchased and will ship as soon as notified five hundred volumes for the library of the State Soldiers’ Home. These books have been selected with a view to the tastes of the veterans and their wives by Capt. John E. Cleland. It is a list of books which any intelligent reader would be glad to have placed in his library. In addition to this purchase, for which the Loyal Legion furnishes the money, Colonel Cumback has received from Indiana authors donations of about sixty additional volumes. The committee of the Legion will be grateful for donations of books from any source. These will be credited to the respective donors. Such books may be sent to Captain Cleland, at Cartheart & Cleland's, this city, the headquarters of the Loyal Legion, No. 69 When building. In addition to its donation of books, the Loyal Legion has subscribed for several of the popular magazines for the home. It is intended by the Legion committee to put a thousand volumes into the home library at an early day. Who is responsible for the appointment of “Bill” Flynn as inspector of sprinkling at $75 a month during the winter? According to the charter he is an employe of the Beard of Public Works. Did that board discover Mr. Flynn’s eminent fitness and appoint hinfi to this sinecure, or does the board exist merely to give effect to the edicts of the mayor? What is the board for, anyhow? Human nature is much the same under all conditions. The New York papers are as full of local politics now as those of Podunk ever were, and the Bungtown Bugle never roasted its contemptible contemporary across the way more vigorously than the metropolitan dailies are now doing. The mayor seems to have rejected the favorites of his afternoon organ and put in their places persons who are specially objectionable to it. All this so soon after he promised the organ to be very good is unfeeling in Mr. Taggart. He should have waited a month or so. The News on the day after election: “Mr Taggart is not likely to forget that his constituency is much wider than the Democratic party.” Alack and alas! he has forgotten it before two weeks have passed, and the unhappy News is trying to find out “where it is at.” The decision of the Georgeite “push” not to permit Bryan to take part in the campaign means that they have troubles enough already, and that it would be literally flying In the face of Providence to take on any other handicap. Is the fact that Henry Geonre spoke in the ice palaea an omen that he will be laid out cold? Officeholders who wish to retain their places under the city administration would

show wisdom by getting injunctions restraining the mayor’s afternoon organ from urging their retention. The time has come that when any man is reckless enough to make the statement formerly supposed to be characteristic of David B. Hill he must accompany it with an aftidavit. The condition of is almost pathetic. He hasn’t time to stop and find out which branch of the Democracy he represents. Georgia citizens have resolved against the President for appointing a colored postmaster at Hogansville. They fear blackmail. The humors of the late city campaign Kre becoming more (jonspicuous every day. BL RULES IN THE AIR. The Cheerful Idiot. “Which reminds me,” said the Cheerful Idiot, as the sausage was brought on, “that I once owned a dog when I was a boy that could chase rabbits from sunrise to sunset and never turn a hare.” Pla usihie.. Watts—Do*you believe that story about turning silver Into gold? Potts—Perhaps you didn’t read it aright. Are you sure it wasn’t something about turning silverites into goldbugs? Made Ridiculous. Mrs. Wickwire—This is simply making politics ridiculous. Mr. Wickwire—What is the matter noware the women taking a hand? “It appears so. At least I find in one of the New York papers an advertisement of the “new Low corset” Full Apology. "Colonel Blood,” says the current Issue of the Weekly Battle Ax and Loyal Mississippian, “has called at this office and demanded a retraction of our remark that he was a famous liar. We retract cheerfully and fully and do so by hereby stating that the esteemed colonel is an infamous liar.”

PRINCESS’S THORNY PATH. Snubbed by Victoria, Wedded a Licentious Man und Once a Bankrupt. London Cablegram to Sc. Louis Globe-Dem-ocrat. Known in her younger days as “Pretty Polly Cambridge,” and during the last two decades as “Fat Mary,” the Duchess of Teck was far and away The best-known and most popular of the royal princesses of the reigning house of Great Britain, and her suuden death to-day, following a serious operation, cannot fail to create widespread regret among the people, and to leave an irreparable void in society. For some reason she was the only member of the royal family whose English was entirely free from any trace of foreign accent or idiom, and less affected than any of her relatives by the German influences which throughout the present reign have played so important a role at the English court. She was always regarded by the aristocracy and the people as the most thoroughly and entirely English member of the reigning house. Indeed, the remarkable popularity which she enjoyed was often a source of jealousy and annoyance to Queen Victoria, who likewise resented the conspicuous beauty of Princess Polly as compared with her own homeliness, and the consequence was that from the time the princess was presented at court as a seventeen-year-old girl until a few years ago she was constantly subjected to . slights, snubs and to unfriendly treatment by her cousin, the Queen. Before she had been out a year Princess Mary was warned by her Majesty that, as a princess of the blood, she was making herself too cheap in society, and that her conduct betrayed an undignified desire to fish for popularity. Several suitors from abroad, as well as some great English nobjes, who offered their hand and their fortunes to the princess, and were accepted by her, were subsequently rejected by the Queen in her capacity as chief of the family, among the number being Napoleon 111, his cousin, Prince Napoleon, SeVeHH'Tlerman princes, and last, but by no means least, the Prince of Orange, eldest son apd heir of the late King of Holland, who 'HvaS so seriously in love with her at that time that when Queen Victoria broke off the match, after the official announcement of the engagement, he took to dissipation and drink, and died from the effects thereof at Paris, to all intents and purposes an outcast, and an object of pity and contempt. In 1866, Princess Mary, having meanwhile reached her thirty-fifth year, fell in love with a handsome Austrian officer, who bore at the time the name of Count Francis Hohensteln, who was th£ issue of a morganatic union between a royal prince of the house of Wurtemberg and a Hungarian countess, and who had greatly distinguished himself by his bravery in the wars of 1859 and 1866. The princess, indignant at the way in which she had been treated by the Queen, boldly declared that she would submit to no further interference on the part of the latter, and that she would marrv the count, who was several years her junior, with or without her Majesty’s consent. The prince consort, who had been particularly hostile to Princess Mary in consequence of her anti-German sympathies, being dead, the Queen showed herself more yielding than theretofore, and not only gave her consent to the marriage, but likewise induced the King of Wurtemberg to confer the title of Prince of Teck upon the count. But the marriage was treated as a purely private affair, took place, not in any of the royal chapels, but at the parish church of Kew, and was made the object of no pomp or ceremony. Devoted to her handsome husband. Princess Mary was much tormented by jealousy, for which the prince gave his stately but somewhat stout wffe ample cause. On two separate occasions l.e eloped with the governess of his daughter, and his wife’s brother, the old Duke of Cambridge, was wont to declare that as generalissimo he experienced Infinitely less trouble In keeping the British army in order than Brother-in-law Frank Teck. With no fortune beyond the allowance of $200,000 a year, which she received as a royal princess from the government and which now terminates with her life, she experienced the utmost difficulty in making both ends meet, and about twelve years ago both she and hes husband came to financial grief. Their furniture, effects, even their family treasures and relics were sold at public auction at their residence in the tumble-down Kensington palace for the benefit of their creditors, Queen Victoria declining to move a finger to help them. For several years after this they were to all intents and purposes put out to grass in Germany, and suffered from a social eclipse as far as English court and society was concerned. But better times came for them when the old Duchess of Cambridge died at the age of ninety-three, leaving all of her fortune to her youngest daughter, Princess Mary, whose husband had meanwhile been promoted by his kinsman, the King of Wurtemburg, to the rank of Duke of Teck, and their sun recovered some of its brilliancy when their only daughter. Princess May, became engaged to the Duke of Clarence, eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, w T hose father and mother. as well as his grandmother, the Queen, vehemently opposed the match, but had in the end to yield to his obstinacy. The prospect of having an English-bred .girl, who had been brought up among the English people, as their future Queen instead of a foreign Princess, gave rise to such widespread and universal demonstration of national satisfaction that when the Duke of Clarence died shortly after the announcement of his betrothal it was considered by the Prince of Wales and by the government of the day that inasmuch as it was necessary for dynastic reasons that the Duke of Y’ork should marry at once, he could not do better than. wed. Princess May, and the marriage eventually took place, although strongly opposed by the Princess of Wales, tolerated rather than approved by the Queen and merely submitted to by the Duke of York himself, whose heart was already engaged in another direction. Princess May. it may be added, had, prior to becoming affianced to the Duke of Clarence and to the Duke of York, been jilted by the present Marquis of Bath for the sake of Miss Violet Mordaunt, the girl whose inopportune and unwelcome birth gave rise to the great Mordaunt divorce suit of 1870. tn which the Prince of Wales was cited as one of the corespondents and another corespondent, the present Earl of Eddiskelen, declared by the court to be the father of the girl. Since the marriage of their daughter the Duke and Duchess of Teck have enjoyed considerably more prestige and importance than heretofore, the Duke being promoted from the rank of a mere volunteer colonel to that of a full-fledged majop general of the regular army. Recently there have been rumors that he and his wife have been once more In financial difficulties, the Duke having become involved In some unfortunate Yukon gold mine speculation—difficulties which would have rendered the marriage of their youngest son to Miss May Goolet a particularly welcome transaction.

TORTURED BY DACOITS ♦ - HORRIBLE SUFFERING ENDURED BY A BRITISH ARMY SURGEON'. ♦ First Nailed to a Tree, Then Hung: Up by Thumbs with Companions on the Ranks of the Irrawaddy. Ernest Forbes, in San Francisco Chronicle. Mandalay, the capital of King Theebaw of Eurmah, was occupied by the British and Indian troops on the 27th of November, 1885. Theebaw surrendered as a state prisoner to General Prendergast and was shortly afterward sent on to Madras. That arch-fiend and schemer, Soofayah-Lat, Theebaw’s wife, accompanied her husband in his exile, no doubt to his intense disgust, after having been cunning enough to parcel out most of the very valuable crown jewels among her relatives. These were nearly all recovered by Mr. Bernard, who was made commissioner of the upper Burmah, and are now to be seen in the jewel room at the Tower of London. At this time the whole of upper Burmah was in an intensely lawless condition, no man’s life being safe from the wandering bands of dacoits, or banditti. The bohs, or chiefs of the different tribes, levied blackmail on all the villages in their district, and on a refusal to pay generally razed the village to the ground and put to death most of the inhabitants. So terrorstricken were the people they sent their head men to place the matter before the English general and he decided that as the country had been annexed it was time to attempt its pacification; so on the Bth of December we were ordered to resume our march to the north. On the 4th of January, 1886, w r e entered the town of Bhamo, the most northerly town of any consequence on the Irrawaddy, but not until twenty-seven of our poor fellows had been sent to the land of spirits. There were plenty of half-breed Chinese, Shans, Kachins and other ruffians gathered together in the town, and altogether they made a pretty good fight of It. But they could not stand the big rockets being fired through their stockades, and when a shell went screaming over their heads they bolted for dear life. When the native troops charged through the breach which had been made in the stockade the Burmans stood their ground, even the women, and these last inflicted many an ugly wound on our men as they were busily engaged giving the coup de grace to an adversary. At last, however, it wat; all over, and the head men of the town begged for an audience with the senior officer in command in the hope of being able to make terms The only were, of course, the absolute submission of the Burmese army and the complete surrender of the town, with its adjacent fortifications. This they at last agreed to. as they were powerless to avoid it, but they did not do it with a good grace. For some days afterward there were constant little emeutes at night time, and we lost a considerable number of rr.en in suppressing these outbreaks. SENTRIES STABBED IN THE BACK. Our sentries w r ere brought in, night after night, having been stabbed in the back or decapitated by the enemy, until at last four sentries were posted together to prevent this happening. Such heavy guard duty told severely on the troops, and the dreaded enteric fever began to make its appearance among them with appalling frequency. Deaths from this awful scourge were of daily occurrence, and at last, as chief medical officer in charge, I decided to move nine convalescent cases to the town of Shweego Myo, about thirty miles from Bhamo, trusting that the hill climate would hasten their recovery.

We started on a Saturday morning—howwell do I recollect it—as the sun was rising and casting his beams on the gilded spires of the pagodas and monasteries. As W 6 passed down to the wharf we met a long file of phoongyees, or Buddhist monks, who had been to the river to perform their matutinal ablutions. Their curses were both loud and deep, as they no doubt did not know that I understood their language. At heart they were all dacoits. and so far as their appearance went, they would have done credit to any rogue’s gallery in the world. As we embarked on one of the big country boats I heard their abbott consign us to the tender mercies of the great Ye oh Nat—one of the terrible spirit powers or ogres whom they worship Looking back on it all, I am half inclined to believe that the Nat did hear the abbott’s prayer, for it was not long before he began to look after us in his own peculiar way Wo dropped anchor in the stream on Saturday night, intending to reach Shweego Myo by 11 o’clock on Sunday morning. It w r as the old, old story. Man proposed—but the Nat disposed of us this time. We got under weigh at about 6 o’clock on Sunday morning, and were about six miles from our destination when, as we rounded a small promontory which jutted out into the river we were covered by about one hundred Burmese rifles and promptly ordered to come ashore. This I at first refused to do, and it was not until two of our boatmen had been shot dead and I saw a big boat full of Burmese soldiery shoot out from the other side of the promontory that I gave the helmsman the order to steer the boat inshore. When we arrived within talking distance of the shore a boh, or chief of the Burmese dacoits. came down to the water’s edge and asked me who I was and who gave me permission to bring white devils down the river in a boat. I tried to parley with him, but it was of no use. We were ordered to come ashore as quickly as possible if we did not wish to be shot to pieces in the boat. Many a time during the day did I wish that I had chosen the boh’s alternative, both on my own account and on account of the sick men of w-hom I had charge. TO INTERVIEW THE BOH. The boat drew too much water to come close into the shore, so I was obliged to jump into the w-ater and wade ashore to interview the boh. I exhausted all my powers of persuasion in trying to induce him to allow the sick men to remain in the boat, but it was to no purpose. Some Burmese waded into the river, boarded the boat and dragged the sick men ashore, and were by no means gentle in the dragging process. At last they were all ashore and the Burmans crowded round us like flies round a honey pot, some of them demanding the men’s accouterments, others clamoring for their clothes. The boh at once relieved me of my sword and revolver and strutted about with them, thinking himself a field marshal at the very least. All this time I was on tenter hooks as to what our fate was to be. The men, sick as they were, seemed to have no idea of what was in store for them and kept up a pantomime of gesticulation with the Burmans. I knew that we would not be allowed to escape Scot free, even if we delivered up all the arms and stores we had with us, but thought that we would probably be kept as hostages for'some of the chiefs in the hands of the British. We were certainly detained—but not as hostages. The Boh and the head men now drewaway to some distance from their men and appeared to be holding a council among themselves as to what was to be done with their prisoners. This council lasted about half an hour, and at the end of that time two men advanced toward me and ordered me to strip. Most unwillingly I divested myself of coat and vest, but this did not satisfy them, and I had to give them every artiele of clothing which I was wearing. Some more men then came up and fastened my hands and arms behind my back with rawhide ropes and then dragged me up to the place where the Boh was squatting on the ground. He then informed me that he had decided to make an example of the prisoners and myself—an example which he hoped would be a warning to any and all other Englishmen who came prowling about the country where the illustrious Boh was chief. The men then escorted me to a very fine betelnut palm, at the foot of which was a log of wood. Upon this log of wood I was ordered to stand. During all this performance I had earnestly endeavored to appear as calm and collected as possible, for I did not think it probable that with our troops only thirty miles distant the Boh would dare to carry out any sinister designs he might have against our safety. But when I was told to stand upon the block of wood I must confess I had severe qualms about the Bob’s good Intentions. NAILED TO THE TREE. I stood up, as ordered, and immediately a rope was thrown round my body and another round my legs, and I was tied quite tightly to the tree. A Burman then approached me, holding some iron nails in one hand and a small mallet in the other. He immediately seized my right foot, and, placing the point of a nail in the center of it.

proceeded with all the pleasure ir. the world to nail me down to the block I was standing on. This done, he arose from his squatting posture and surveyed his handiwork with quite a critical eye. He evidently did not think that I was quite safely nailed, for, again stooping down, he selected a long, slender nail, and this time nailed me through the fleshy part of the ankle to the tree trunk. This appeared to satisfy him, for he left me and went off to report progress to the Boh. Although 1 was suffering most dreadful agony at the time, I shall* never forget the hopeless look of despair upon the faces of the sick men. Their hands and feet tied, they were utterly helpless to assist me or themselves, and with only the prospect of a horrible death before them they yet raised enough courage to shout to me: “Cheer up, sir; we’ll soon be with you.” They were with me. but not in the same punishment, for the Boh'evidently had changed his mind about the nailing business, and his men were busy erecting triangles of bamboo. Across the tops of these triangles a large bamboo was fastened, and I imagined I saw preparations for crucifixion on a large scale. But I was mistaken. The gentleman who had nailed me now came to unnail me by drawing the nail out of the ankle and knocking off the block of wood from the bottom of the foot, still leaving the nail in the flesh. They then invited me to step across to the bamboo arrangement they had fixed up. Never, as long as 1 live, shall I forget the agony of that walk. I taunted them, their wives, sisters and mothers, in the hope that they would finish their w-ork by a swift blow from a dah or a prod from a spear, but they only smiled. As I limped, hopped and stumbled across the rough earth, each movement giving me such agony that I was tempted to break down and make them carry me, they only smiled. They knew, and I did not, what was in store for us. At last I was at the triangles, ahd they released my arms and hands. Now the nailing gentleman was standing very near me, and I was suffering, and in a moment of agony I treated him to a good stiff punch square between the eyes. The next instant I regretted it, for I received a crashing blowon the side of the head (whether it was a right or left “hook” which did it I have never been able to discover), and the nail, which was srill sticking out a few inches underneath my foot, caught in the ground, and I went down—and was kept down. My arms and hands were again tied, this time in front of me, and, seizing my thumbs, the brutes began tying them together with deer sinews. Into these sinews, between the thumbs, they inserted a piece of bamboo, which they twisted until the thongs cut into the flesh. They then tied a long rawhide rope to the sinews, and, having lifted me on to my feet, the rope was thrown over the bamboo, which rested on top of the triangles, and I was drawn up until only my big toes touched the ground. HUNG UP BY THE THUMBS. The other men were treated in like manner, and in fifteen minutes or so the whole ten of us were hanging by our thumbs to the bamboo. The time was now about 9 o'clock, and by 10:30 or 11 o’clock the sun had become almost unbearable. To make matters worse, the man hanging next, to me had become delirious, and to have to listen to his ravings was almost worse than the punishment 1 was undergoing. At about 2 o’clock he died. Oh, the agony of it all! Hanging there by the thumbs and feeling as if every nerve of your body was being drawn out by mi-hot pincers, tongue and lips swollen and almost bursting from want of water, almost blind from the sun’s terrible rays and hideous grinning Burmans taunting and laughing at you. Could any punishment be more horrible? Before 4 o’clock two more men had died and their heads had fallen backward over their shoulders. Their glazed eyes, wide open, the swollen tongues hanging out from their mouths and the look of agony on their dead faces almost drove the rest of us mad. Water, water, was the cry of all. But there is no mercy in a Burman. Once, and once only, did I think that we should receive a little mercy at their hands. Soon after the man who was hanging next to me had died a stalwart Burman strode up in front of me, and, swinging his dah round his head, he made as if he were going to cut me in halves. But it was only playfulness. He simply had a slash at the poor dead fellow and disemboweled him. It was about 5 o’clock, as near as I could guess, when the Burmans retired to some distance from us and began to cook their evening meal. They were enjoying it after their day’s pleasure, when suddenly a volley rang out, followed by the peculiar rattling noise of a couple of Gatling guns, and many Burmans who had that day had their fun with us were sent to their last account. A couple of loud cheers rang out and a company of Ghoorkas and a detachment of the Somersetshires charged down upon the astonished Burmans. The nailing gentleman was making his way past the triangles at a very good pace, when he took it into his head to stop and give me a very nasty poke with a spear. That sealed his fate, for a little Ghoorka was on him in an instant, and in another had severed the nailer’s head from his body with the terrible Ghoorka ltookri. Not many Buremese escaped that night, and I am afraid not a few were treated by the Ghoorkas to a little entertainment the very reverse of pleasant. Os course, we were very promptly cut down, and everything that could be done to ease our pain was done. The nailing gentleman’s head was placed upon a stick, which was stuck in the ground outside the door of my tent by the Ghoorka whose trophy it was. It was there until it became unbearably unpleasant, and then it was buried in an ant hill, where those industrious insects cleaned it thoroughly. The skull afterward ornamented my study in Rangoon. Our rescue was a matter of luck. Spies had proceeded to Bhamo two or three days before, and had informed the commanding officer that there was a band of marauding soldiers in the Shweego Myo district, and the troops who rescued us had been dispatched to attend to the band who had attended to us. One of the officers of the force had seen us hanging up through his field glasses, and had made a detour with his men and had attacked the enemy on both flanks and in the rear, and most certainly made a great job of it. After all, annexing countries like Upper Burmah Is not all beer and skittles, is it?

OX THE WHITE PASS TRAIL. A Hard Root! to Travel for Both Hctraca and Men. Harper’s Weekly. Heaving the river, the trail leads on for some two miles. Tents have been met with scattered along the way, and one is never out of sight of men coming or going. Now suddenly a sight meets the eye. The space between the tree trunks has been cleared away, and the whole place is tilled with tents, on both sides of the trail, side by side, only a few feet apart, and extending back the width of the valley, which is here quite narrow. The men have set p their stoves and hung out hundreds of pounds of bacon, and the air is laden with the savory smell of smoking meat and the camp fires; for it is evening, and the men are returning from the trail. Weary horses are eating hay and oats alongside tarpaulin-covered piles of goods. There are fifty or sixty tents in all, crowded together in a small space, and the roadway between is packed smooth hundreds of feet. There are more women here, and one is baking biscuit, and selling them hot for 25 cents a dozen. Every one we talk with is cutting down weight. Or.ce through the tents, the wagon road stops, and then what seems to be only a foot-trail makes a sudden turn to the left and boldly climbs up the steep mountain siie. We hitch our horses here and proceed on foot. This is the trail. This is the hill, and the crowds of tents and men make the town at the “foot of the hill.” It is the icsting spot before the struggle. To convey an idea of the hill one must have recourse to illustration, and I can find none more apt than that used by one who has been over the trail: ‘‘lmagine a mountain of gocds boxes, some of them being bigger than the rest-the size of tents.” Imagine them piled in a rough mass, cover them with moss and black loam and trees, with rills of water trickling down among them. The goods boxes are granite bowlders; their outer surfaces protrude from the mass, hard and bare, but nature has covered the rest with rich vegetation. The path—if indeed it can be called one—twists and turns and worms its way from ledge to ledge and between the masses of bowlders. Here a tree has been cut down and we clamber over its stump. There a corduroy bridge lifts one over a brook. Men with stout alpenstocks and wdth packs painfully struggle upward, stopping now and again for rest. It has been comparatively dry for a day, and the trail Is said not to be so bad. Between the bowlders It has packed fairly well, and, but for Its steepness, would be called a good path. We ascended a distance of several hundred feet—not quite to the summit, we are told. On every ledge and bench tents are set up or piles of sacks, so near the path that ono can reach out one’s hantl and touch them. Men in from the day’s work are cooking or reclining beside their goods. Their rifles are in easy reach. Pilfering has been going on here too, and the men who are lying by their goods will shoot at sight. A string w horses and mules is returning down the hill, and we see now the difference in horses. The lank, big, clumsy horse is in danger at every step. He comes to a drop-off, lifts his head in air. tosses his fore feet ahead with a groan, and trusts to chance for his hind feet to tind a footing. He strikes a sloping rock, flounders for a foothold, and down he goes sideways and rolls over. A string of several dozen went past, but none did actually fall. The little cayuae, however, or Indian pony, like the mules, ’ooks where every foot Is placed. One cayuse got out of the train and came to a pitch-off of ten or twelve feet; we looked to see it break its neck, but it simply put its head down,

f-lid over the face of the lwHer. and land., squarely and lightly as a* o a. Xnothe.- w Jus. heard of went down f r tv-foot bank, and was back on the trail orting next day. %\ e set out down the hill when we were near the bottom we et a small train C °At n th U ? r c . ha {'k e to m en. At the foot of the steep sa , nt the train stopped, and one horse we ahead When he baine to a step-up of o. r two feet he got his fore, feet up. gave uesp<-rate lunge to get his hind parts up. a nd fell, his whole weight and that of{ s j oa d square on top of a sharp stump. w,, re he floundered and kicked pitifully. bu ie j p iess. We helped cut the load off. rolle. n j m over on his back off the stump, and qped him to his feet, and he got up wit scarcely a. scratch. That was one fall, thirst we had seen. We were told that fiftv orses a dav fell there. No one thought anydng about it. The other horses were )ed ip one bv one, the men choosing each ste for them. This seems to be the only way 0 do with horses that are not. like goat used to looking where a foot goes dowt Most of the falls come w-here two smoot surfaces of rock come together In a notel furnishing no foothold. If there is soft rud in the notch, and the sides are wet andsfippery, the horse goes down with a smas, and It is lucky if a broken leg does not rsult. THE LUETGERT CASE. How the Evidence Would Seemto an Insurance Company. Northwestern Advocate. Seme readers of the papers w-ho se that his wife's wedding rings are said tohavo been found in the vat In which Luetgrt is accused of dissolving his wife’s body, airly thurder their conviction that the man should be hanged. Yet the burden of roof is upon the state. So long as there i, “a reasonable doubt ’ that a crime was ommitted, so long must a juryman absain trom a convicting vote. The real issue low is: “Is the woman alive or dead?” If she had insured her life for *IO,OO, would the life insurance company cash be policy In the absence of proofs of dealt ether than those which have been present'd during the trial just now closed? If such a company should demand more proofs, aid insist upon further time, delaying paymert meanwhile, would it lose the confidence cf. the public, and would its business suffei thereby? If Mrs. Luetgert had been a millionaire, would a judge of probate order the distribution of *IOO,OOO each to ten heirs, in the absence of proofs of the woman's death other than those presented at the recent trial of the husband for her murder? In a word, wouid the prudent doubts of the woman's death indulged by the insurance company or by the judge of probate be considered unreasonable? We are persuaded that the insurance company and the probate judge would insist upon further time in which to test the alleged fact of death, and that business men would sustain both the insurance company and the probate judge. If the death were clearly proven, the company would cash the policy, and the judge would order the estate to be distributed according to the terms of the will which we have predicated. The results of a misjudgment with respect to the fact of the death of the woman, and the payment of the insurance, or the distribution of the property to heirs would be quite different from the results had the jury in the Luetgert trial agreed that she is dead. It is conceivable that the woman is now really dead, and that she died a natural death. So far as the defendant Is coi cerred, it is conceivable that the woman may be dead, but has died a natural death, and that her husband is not responsible for the death. In the Luetgert issue it would appear that if evidence should prove the fact of the woman’s death, the terms of the Indictment must ctn pel tlm consequent conclusion that she died by the husl>and s hand. If, therefore, the insurance company or the probate judge must be sure that the woman \h dead, much more must the jury be careful that the death is clearly proven, since the demonstrated death of the wire includes the condemnation of the husband for her murder.

Why Chinamen Profess Conversion. Washington Post. “It is a well-known fact that craftyminded Chinamen have put on the semblance of desire for conversion to Christianity and have become regular attendants at Sunday school merely to further an ulterior purpose,” said Mr. H. B. Lossing, of Boston, at the Riggs. "That purpose was nothing more nor less than to Induce some Anglo-Saxon maid to commit matrimony with Sing Lee or some one of his almond-eyed brethren. Not one Celestial in a million ever really gets converted, for the simple reason that he can t. At heart a Chinaman thinks no more of our religion than we do of his. It is to him. as a gambler would say. deuce high In a dirty deck, but he conceals his genuine sentiments in order to win a bride. If he fails. Western civilization is a fraud. “But that’s only one side of the story. Wise as are the knights of the flat iron and washtub. they have by no means a monopoly of cunning. Crafty in their generation also are many of the modern daughters of the land. In my own town of Boston, though it shocks me to think fair woman wodld have so much guile, pretty girls of good families tolerate and even encourage the visits of Chinamen. “Why do they do this? Do they really enioy the company of such visitors? Not a little bit. The reason is that Mr. Sing isJ so enraptured by the civilities shown him that he makes presents galore. Lovely silks, handkerchiefs of finest quality, tea that can’t be bought here at any price are among the gifts that are showered on his entertainers. And I want to say that Boston isn’t the only town in the Union where such arts are practiced. The custom prevails In New York, and if it hasn t reached Washington yet it surely will in course of time, for girls are migratory in these days, and when they get hold of a sood thing)-m one town their sisters in other cities are , not slow in hearing about It. The Doctor Was Mtsreported. Philadelphia Press. Dr. Edward Everett HaJe is having a lather unpleasant time of it these days owing to a ridiculous report sent out rrom Boston to the effect that he advocated the study of the Indian language in the schools. The doctor writes that ali he asked of the public school was that New England boys should “know the meaning of the words Massachusetts, Connecticut, Shawmut, Winnisimet and other words which come into their local life as one ought to knowwhy the Tulleries were so called If he lived in Paris.” The doctor also denies that he repeated the Lord’s prayer In Indian. He used the two first words of the prayer to illustrate the formation of Indian words, and adds: “In fact, the two first words of it are all that I know, except the amen at the end.” By the time Dr. Hale’s little talk had filtered through several sources until It reached the newspapers it had beioome a lecture in which the most extraordinary position was taken, which surprised his admirers everywhere. Midnut u inn. The glad sun points again with gentle rays To westward sloping pastures, strewn with flocks, Where meet the waters from their highland way* And go together down between the rocks. Beyond the meadow’s width of even sod Where yonder yeasty sea of thoroughwort Breaks on its tawny beach of goldenrod In graceful groups the willow trees resort. Hung here and there upon the forest wall Are arabesques of vine In gold and brown, And from the walnut gables, steep and tall, Gray mullloned windows, newly wrought, look down. Bright are the hues October’s hand has laid Upon the woodland with a brush of air. The redblrd dreams amid the maple shade And Is not redder than his leafy lair. Spencer, Ind. -Jethro C. Culmer. The Methodist Luymen'i Agitation. American Citizen (Boston.) The stir In the Methodist circles to which we referred last week, for equal representation of clergy and laity in the conferences, is extending with marvelous strides over the country, under the leadership of such men as ex-Governor Cumback, of Indiana. Clem Studebaker, Hon. R. W. Thompson, and others equally well known. Many are In favor of an equality In numbers in both the general and nnnual conferences, while others Insist upon the general only. Not n Bit Leas. Kansas City Journal. It might interest Mr. Seth I.ow and hi* mugwump followers to know that the Republicans of the country wouldn’t think a whit less of President McKinley If he had spoken a good word for General Tracy. I*loun Hope. Washington Post. We hope Mr. Cleveland was thoughtful enough to mail to Mr. William C. Whitney a marked copy of his recent remarks on the self-made man. But She Mil) Be Urusy. Philadelphia Times. Supposing that Mrs. Luetgert Is still in the land of the living, her keeping silent so long knocks an old charge against the sex in the head. Higher than Wheat. Washing an Post. Mr. Bryan Is In great luck that he didn't happen to select the price of potatoes as the traveling companion for the price of silver.