Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 June 1897 — Page 3

HE LIKES THE TURKS

GENERAL LEW WALLACE PRAISES THE SULTAN AND HIS RACE. **-.

fJ^r^ t' a The Famous Author Also Sajs Some New

Things About Ben-Hor Where He Found the Name President Garfield Was Fond of the Wonderful Book.

The recent authorized vonomjcement that General Lew Wallace would be a candidate for United States senator to succeed David Turpie again brings prominently before the public the famous soldier and litterateur.

In the oourse of a recent interview touching his prospective candidacy, the general wan acred somewhat from the subject of immediate inquiry and touched upon general topics is a very interesting way.

In speaking of the valor of the Turks, General Wallace became enthusiastic. "There are no finer soldiers anywhere," said be. "Just think of it! They go into battle to die, as their reward promised is 80,000 houris and eternal paradise. This not only to the generals, but to the commonest soldier in the ranks, and the reward comes even to those who die of wounds. There is faith for you! See the man fall from his horse, the blood spurting from a wound in his breast! Is there a shudder or a moan? Just the opposite. As he rolls in the dust and his steed passes on in fright the dying soldier sees paradise opening and thousands and tens of thou-, sands of beautiful women hovering about him. No fear thereof punishment, but with the swelling song of the dimly appearing multitudes he seams for the dissolution of this life. T^iink of such a belief and we oan know why the Turks are soldiers almost without equals. Then, too, the Christian subjects of the sultan are never drafted or allowed to go J» war for Turkey. The fighting is done Dy the Turks alone, and during the RussoTnrkish war in 1874, notwithstanding they were sore pressed, they would not permit Christians to help them."

As is well known, General Wallace is a great admirer of the sultan of Turkey, and he is never tired of talking of his pleasant relations with the Ottoman ruler during his official stay in the orient. "I was four years and six months the American minister at Constantinople, and when I resigned and came to take my farewell leave of the sultan he bestowed upon me a very great honor. After I had been presented to him he said he did not want ine to leave his country, but that he desired I should take a position in his service. I intimhted that such a thing would be Impossible. He at onoe^.said wiih some intensity: 'If you willy"remain, I will make you my field marshal, to have charge of my armies, at any salary you may name. Or, if you prefer, you shall be my minister at London or at Paris, just as you like best.' "Then he paused for my answer. I ascured him I realized the greqt honor he had done me and appreciated it with all my heart. 'Then you will remain with mel' he interrupted. 'No,' I answered quietly, yet positively. "He seemed oonfused and unable apparently to understand how I could decline. I saw he was disappointed, and I spoke up:

decline for your sake,' I said. If I were to enter your servioe, all would be agreeable for awhile and we should get along splendidly. But your subjects would soon become jealous of a foreigner and a Christian as your aid, and they would make you unhappy by all kinds of criticisms of me. You would bear this for a time, probably for years, bub it would break you down ultimately and you would have to let me go.' "He seemed impressed with what I said, and after discussing the matter a little it was passed by, and I soon returned to America."

When asked how he happened to be sent to Turkey, be said: "Well, ifr was a little strange just how I was selected. Mr. Garfield was president, and he had read my book 'Ben-Hu*' with some delight. One day he sent me a telegram to call on him. I did so,' and he told me he bad oonckided to send noe abroad, and that while there he wanted me to write another book.

laughed and asked:

'Mr. President, 'where are you going to send me?' 'To Uruguay,' was the answer,'but I •aid in all good humor, 'No, Mr. President, I will not go there.' 'Then/ he said, 'there is only one othei* place left open, and that is Turkey. If you will take that, it is yours.' "I accepted that gladly, and when my commission reached me down in the Jower left hand corner was written, 'Ben-Hur,' J. A. G.'

The mention of the title of the great novel suggested a question as to the origin of the name "Ben-Hur" and how it came to be used. "Well, in the first place, it was a short name. You know one of the most frequent criticisms of my book the 'Fair God' was beoause of the long, unpronounceable names it contained. I was determined to avoid this in my new book, and so searched for a short name that would answer. It was no easy task. In old works of fiction I looked. Into Jewish history I pored day and night, but no name came to me. Then I took up the book of Genesis, the earliest history of the world. I found it there. Hur, one of those who was with Joshua in his wars, a member of an old family, and onewhioh must have been of great respectability at least since Joshua had selected him ea mm aid, seemed the name I wanted It was short and of pleasant sound. It was odd, too, and by adding Ben, which means 'a son of,' there I bad it—a son of Hur—and hence the title 'Ben-Hur.' Chicago Times-Hera'id.

"AS A BRITISH M. P. SEE8 US

gajl a Revolution Will Take Place Within Ten Years. "Inside the next ten years this 3T*ntry will see the most awful revolution that has astounded the world of late. That is lny firm conviction, based upon more than one visit to the United States."

Tho speaker was W. Pritcbard Morgan, Liberal member of parliament for Mer-thyr-Tydfll, Wales, who is known in Great Britain as the "gold king" beoause of the magnitude of his gold mining properties in north Wales. Mr. Morgan bad just arrived in New York from a trip around the world. "There is not a thing wanting in this country," he went on, "to make it the greatest and the richest in the world, yet you choose to destroy yourselves by your infernal politics and your protection. You are so full of politics that you can think of nothing else. You make a tremendous to do over electing a president, and no aooner is he elected than you begin anew campaign to see who will succeed him. "You are so full of politics that you are forever making laws. You make laws to protect this branch and that branch of manufacture, but you don't make any to protect the workers. Now I am a radical, a red radical, a radical of the deepest dye if you like, but I admit that what you want is mere oonservatdsm you want to to stick more closely to what you have and not keep on making ohanges. For God's sake, what do yon want to change your president every four years for? Why not keep him for eight years? You would then give your country a chanoe. "All this changing of postmasters, of consuls, of embassadors every four years everything^ und«es aU tlje^good

that their predecessors have done. I would upset the constitution of the United States, would I? I certainly would. Why, we upset the constitution of Great Britain 20 times every year. I tell you that, radical though I am, I believe a good autocracy would be a good government if we could only get a good .fellpw for the autocrat. "The working classes are beginning to think that they, too, should be protected. These trusts and combinations that are being tried for conspiracy are undoubtedly lawless concerns, ancl yet the laws are all made for their protection and the unfortunate consumer has to pay the piper. In England such trusts would be punished. If some reformer does not rise up and alter things here Inside of eight or ten years, this country will be in a state of terrific revolution."—New York Sun.

\A L0M BICYCLE BIDE.

A Company of Begtdars Will Wheel From Montana to Missouri. Recently 24 men started from Fort Missoula, Mon.. on a ride of nearly 2,500 miles to Jefferson Barracks, Mo., which will be reaobed in abou$ six weeks.

At present there are no bioyole companies in the army, *and the officials at Washington are divided on the practical a86 of the wheel in warfare. The advanced faction is headed by General Miles, while the others are under Secretary Alger.

Upon their bicycles, under the handle bars, hanging over the front wheel, were the knapsacks, packed as regularly worn by the infantry in the field, and in the diamond frame Were suspended bioyole trunks. At the rear under the seat, attached to some of the machines, were skillet^ coffeepot, boiler fend small oven, for use in field cooking: The rations were carried in the haversack, and enough was taken to carry the squad from one supply point to another. Eaoh soldier carried one blanket and a shelter tent. The surgeon had his medicine chest fitted to his wheel.

Each member of the party wore the regulation field service uniform, with the single exceptions of bicycle shoes. Ten of the men carried their Krag-Jorgensen rifles slung to their machines under the left leg and .parallel to the top tubing of the frame. The rest of the party wore pistols, all b«ing supplied With 60 rounds of ammunition to the mah, with 25 additional itounds each in their knapsacks. Exchange.

TC) SAVE SANDY HOOK.

Congress Is Asked to Appropriate Money For Crlbwork. The war department is fearful that the proving ground at Sandy Hook, already disconnected at this time from the mainland of New Jersey will beoome an island permanently owing to the incursions of the Atlantic oc»:an. In order to circumvent the ocean, Assistant Seotetary of War Miokeljohn .has written to Speaker Reed, asking the passage of a joint resolution that will enable the department to protect the proving grolini and Fort Hancock by building a cribwork along the narrow neck that in danger of being washed away. This protectee Wall would cost $75,000.

Before the New Jersey legislature adjourned a request was made that the government be allowed to make the improvements, but the legislature adjourned without taking any action, and congress is now urged to take some remedial action.

The saving of Sandy Hook is a problem upon which arm? engineers have been at •work for many years. The Hook is connected with the Highlands of Navesink by a low isthmus or bar, apart of which is khown as Island beach.

During heavy northeasterly winds the water* ef tbe bay are frequently so high that, aided by the winds, they have forced a passage across the isthmus into the Shrewsbury river and gradually worn down the barrier, destroying a section of the military railroad.—New York Journal.

3teserved His Opinion.

"Little boy," said a man severely, "I wouldn't aot that way"— "Why?" "Because it's Wrong to flght, and "Yes, but wot did yer do at my age?" "Do? I obeyed my parents, brought Bmiles to the faces and joy to the hearts of my playmates"— "Never gob too sick t' go t' Sunday school"— •'Never!" "Never smoked grapevines in"— "Never, never, my poor boy"— "Never licked a kid littler'n you"— "No, sir"— "Ner stole a peaoh, ner melon, ner"— "Never, boy, never!" "Never lied t' git nuther kid whupped, when'twuz your turn"— "Nay, verily"— .. "Say!" "Well?" "How'd ye spend yer time?" "In study, in reflection, in application, in solemn meditation"— "Say master, you oughter run fer offlce"— "Ah, true and Wisely said, my dear little boy. You evince a wisdom beyond your years and environments. We have need of good men in office"— "Yes ye oughter run"— "Ah, my dear little"— "So'st th' fellers on th' other side could tell ye wot ye are. 'T wouldn't be per lite in me!"—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

He Knew Too Much.

A 6tory is told in The India Rubber World of a meek looking stranger, with a distinctly ministerial air, who applied for permission to look over a large rubber factory. Ho knew nothing at all about the rubber business, he 6aid, and after a little hesitation he was admitted.

The superintendent showed him about in person, and the man's questions arid comments seemed to come from the densest* ignorance. Finally, when the grinding room was reached, he lingered a little, and asked in a hesitating way: "Couldn't I have a specimen of that curious stuff for my cabinet?"

Certainly,'' replied the superintendent, although it was a compound the secret of which was worth thousands of dollars, "certainly cut off as much as you wish."

With eager step the visitor approached the roll of gum, took out his knife, wet the blade in his tnoutb, and— "Stop right where you are!" said the superintendent, laying a heavy hand upon the stranger. You are a fraud and a thief. You didn't learn ib a pulpit that a dry knife won't cut rubber."

So saying, he showed the imposter to the door, and tho secret was still safe.

First English Watches.

The first English watches had weights and were used as pocket, clocks. They had only one hand, and required to be wound up twice a day. The dials were of silver and brass, and the cases were unglazed, but opened at the baok and front, and were four or five inches in diameter—about the size of a common dessert plate.—'Kansas City Star.

Large Brained Horses.

The large brained horses are the cleverest. In the Household Guards the horses with broad foreheads learn their drill more quickly than the others. A gentleman measured the heads of all his hunters and found their intelligence and good sense were in proportion to the fewadth.—.^n Franciaeo Examiner. Tj

Ci I 'STVj* I

The true past departs not. No truth or goodness realised by man ever dies, or can die. but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endlese changes.—Carina.

FLAHEBTY ON (iUAED

STORY OF A YANKEE RECRUIT FRESH FROM THE OLD SOD.

A Scheme to Get by the Guard That XMdn*t Pan Out—Fat Held Up Nearly All the Officers of His Company and Even Then

Couldn't Get the Countersign.

City Messenger George L. Warriner always has a good supply of war stories on tap. In Mr. Warriner's regiment, whioh was recruited at Worcester and went to the front, from there, was a private who might have been named Patrick Flaherty, but wasn't, and who might have been Frenob, but was Irish. And he was an Irishman not only in name and hair, but in that national characteristic of witty retort and peculiar denseness in some directions.

While the company was in the barracks at Worcester it was the fashion for the men to run the guard and get out of the lines through a hole in the high board fence, made by aemoving the nail at the bottom of a wide board and swinging it to one side. After the men had got through they would let the board swing back and there was no sign of exit. The officers finally discovered this method of procedure and determined to put a stop to It. They selected as sentry at the crucial point Flaherty. He had impressed them as a man who would do his duty at whatever cost, even though it meant sticking a bayonet into some one's vitals or boring a hole through him with an ounce of lead. They also elaborated a system of countersigns which they proposed to have strictly enforced.

It chanced that one night several of the men prepared to run the guard. The password that night was "Ticonderoga." It was guarded very carefully, but by some means^he men got hold of it and planned to mall use of it in getting outside the lines. So a party of four or five started toward the point in the line where Flaherty was on picket. For safety's sake one of the piarty started ahead to experiment on Flaherty with the password, while the rest staid behind to watch the outoonie. If the advance guard got through all right, the rest had pretty good assurance of going through also. The soldier approached Flaherty in the dark and the latter brought his musket to charge bayonets and shouted: "Whobe yez?" "A friend." "Shure and yez can't get out o' this Widoutde countersign." The soldier approached the picket and whispered in his ear the word "Ticonderoga." "Phat did yez say?" "Ticonderoga," repeated the guard runner in a louder whisper. "That ain't the worrud," said Pat, and as the soldier made a motion to withdraw, he added, approaching the point of the bayonet a little closer to his body, "Don't yez move wan step, or by the holy mither I'll stick this inter yez." The soldier knew Pat well enough to know that he would do It in a second if he made a motion, and so he stood there passively while Pat yelled, "Carp'ral of the guard!" In a moment or two the corporal came running up to see what was the matter, but he was halted by Pat, who said, "Give the countersign." "Ticonderoga," said the corporal, and started to approach nearer. "Howld up," interposed Pat, "yez haven't got it right aytber, at all, at all." In vain the corporal protested that that was the word that had been given out. Pat would not let him move either way, but kept the corporal and the private standing there with his bayonet vibrating between them while he shouted for the sergeant of the guard. The word was passed along and finally toe sergeant arrived on the scene. Meanwhile the guard runner's companions began to edge away to await developments, remaining,- however, within earshot. "What's all this trouble?" demanded the sergeant/ looking over the group. "Give tho countersign," said Patrick. "Ticonderoga," replied the sergeant. "Faith and yez haven't got it right, aytber," Baid Pat, pointing his bayonet at the sergeant. "Yes, it is, you fool," answered the sergeant. That's what all the pickets have.'' "It don't make wan bit of difference," said Pat. "If yez don't give that countersign and yez move wan step, I'll put a hole through yez."

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 29,1897.

Pat was getting angry by this time and the protestations and threats of the sergeant and corporal did not move him awhit. Flaherty called this time for the lieutenant of the guard. He was by this time surrounded by a pretty respectable sized crowd of puzzled officers, all of whom he was holding at bay at the point of his musket. The hubbub soon reaohed the ears of the lieutenant, and he came down in a tearing hurry to see what the trouble was all about. Pat hrought him up short with his bayonet and demanded the countersign, although he knew well enough who the officer was. "Tioonderoga," said the lieutenant. "Howly smoke," sighed Patj "he ain't got it right aytber." And he pondered as to who be should call out next. "Ain't got it right?" said the lieutenant angrily. -"Why, you fool, I gave it to you myself." "Sure, thin, yez forgotten it," said Pat. 'Ticonderoga' wasn't the worrud yez gave." "What was it, then?" asked the.lieutenant, beginning to see the fun. "Bedad, it was 'Wroang kind of roguery,' said Pat, and a shout of laughter went up from the group he had standing around him. Flaherty, having recently come over and not being well up in American history, bad not. heard of Ticonderoga, and had mistaken the word, although they had drilled him carefully, trying to get him to pnamnion it. Not long afterward the regiment moved to the south, and with it went Flaherty, now rechristened "wrong kind of roguery." It stuck to him all through the war, and he got so used to it that he responded to it as his name.—Springfield Republican.

MINER'S STRANGE CAREER.

Xjost His Money In Mexico and Became a Hermit. An American, bent with age, with long, white beard and feeble step, applied at the office of J. N. Poston, United States consular agent at Torreon, state of Durango, Mexico, recently for shelter and flood. He introduoed himself as J. Nat Harbin and stated that fpr the past 19 yeare he had been living in Mexico. By degrees the old man told hie story, and it developed into a romanoe that is as interesting as it is full of pathos. It is the old story of a futile search after great riches, but in this instance the unfortunate person was at one time of great prominence in business affairs in California.

J. Nat Harbin was born in Jackson county, Tenn., 77 years ago. He went to California in 1844 and claims that he became associated with Senator Hearst in mining and business deals. He made considerable money and in 1878 went to Mexico as the representative of a company of California capitalists seeking mining investments in that country. He went to the state of Durango and located the St. Marcos and the Socorro silver mines for his company. These mines all proved rich and made^fortunes for the company own| ing tbem. After clearing up $200,000 Harbin withdrew from the company and located the Vaea mine for himself. He purchased expansive mining machinery in the United States and began the work of developing the property on an extensive scale. Just as he saw a big fortune in sight the mine was flooded with wrtter, and be met with a serious accidcnt which oon'flned him to h^g bed for many months.

The Water.could not be controlled, and be •oon lost all his wealth. This misfortune disheartened him so greatly that be thought ifrwould be better for his family to look upon him as dead, and the report reached Ms wife and two children in Fresno, CaX., that he had died of mimntoin fever.

When bis health had improved, Harbin Went into the heart of the Sierra Madre mountains, 200 miles from the railroad at Durango. He found a cavern, where he has lived the life of a hermit for the past 15 years, subsisting on wild game and vegetables which be cultivated. A few weeks ago an American ore buyer for the International Smelting and Refining company w&B makihg a trip to remote mining camps in the Sierra Madre, when he came across the abode of Harbin, by the side of the mountaih traiL He spent the night with the old man. and the latter, being in a reminiscent mood, told his remarkable story. The ore buyer urged the old man to give up his hermit life and return to his family and friends in California. This Harbin agreed to do, but he had no money. Returning to the City of Durango, the ore buyer telegraphed the news that Harbin was alive and wanted to return home to a friend in Fresno, CaL A quick response was received from the hermit's son, who telegraphed the money for the journey. A messenger was sent into the mountains for Harbin. He was brought to Durango and a through ticket to Fresno bought for hilfo. Being feeble, bis ticket was either lost or stolen near here, and he was put off the train. His son was telegraphed again, and the money for another ticket was sent, and the old man is now speeding on his way to California.—Special to St, Louis Globe-Democrat.

OLD WARHORSES STRIKE.

They Hear a Bugle and Break Away From Their Moorings. At long and infrequent intervals a car drawn by two horses orawls along Broadway, New York, in the northern part of the annexed district. It is run by the Union Railroad company simply to hold the franchiise for a road from Kingsbridge to the city line.

Until recently the history of the two old horses used there was a secret. They were hauling the car drearily along past Van COttlandt park, where the troopers of Squftdrctn A were cavorting through a spirited drill.

Suddenly the blast of a bugle was heard and the aged oar horses prioked up their ears, tftyen came the bugler's call to "Charge!" In an instant the horses plunged toward the crowd, pulling the old oar off the traoks and Dennis Murphy, the drivet,, over the dashboard. The traces broke Abd the team galloped up Gunhill rcttd ahii dashed upon the parade ground right the midst of the troopers of Squadrdh A.

The troops didn't know whether they were being charged by the enemy or not. So they brol»e ranks and fled until Dennis Murphy oante rushing up. Then the troopers reformed and swept-down upon the car horses And made them prisoners, and the trip to the city line was resumed.

A HEW ARMY FERRYBOAT.

It Will Ply Between New York and Governors Island. Secretary Alger has given directions for the preparation of plans and specifications for a military ferryboat to ply between New York city and Governors island. The new vessel will replace the Atlantio, purchased some 15 years ago. The old vessel has outlived her usefulness, and during the past four years the cost of repairing her and keeping her in condition has amounted to more than her original cost. The new boat: will be about 100 feet long by 80 wide and modern in every respect. She will be a double ender, which will avoid danger and delay in turning in the orowded waters. She will be able, in case of emergency, to bring the entire command stationed at Governors island to New York city on one trip.

The department has also decided to sell the two alco vapor launches purchased about a year ago. Their sale was recommended by General Ruger, who was o* board of one of them when she exploded. He reported them unfit for miliary service and declined to make further use of the one at his disposal.—Exchange.

Wine Prices Cat.

A heavy cut has been made in the prices of wines for shipment from San Francisco to New Orleans. Heretofore the price has been 26 cents a gallon without cooperage for all dry wines in barrels. The latest price list was announced at 15 cents, with ccoperage, which amounts to 11 oents without cooperage.

Tho average shipments monthly to New Orleans are 800,000 gallons. The cut means a loss to California wkiemakers of $45,000 monthly. It is the work of the wine dealers, who have antagonized the winemakers.

Ih this fight the dealers have been aided by the Italian-Swiss company, whioh has undercut the prioes of the association in New Orleans, Chicago and New York.

The outlook for California winemakers is bad, as th^ falling oft in the consumption of their wine in the east has been 40 per cent during the last year.

His Stomach Was a Jnnkshop. The stomach of Harry Wballen, the human ostrich, was out open recently by «urgeonft at the German hospital, Kansas City. Here is an inventory of what was taken out: A knife SH inches long, a four bladed knife4inchea long,a knife3Ji inches long, 2 knives 2 inches long and a knife an inch long 32 eight and tenpenny nails, a horseshoe nail, 34 sixpenny wire nails, 26 single shingle nails, 8 large screws, a barbed wire staple, 16 tacks and 3 oiiteces of glass. Whallen had been swallowing junk since he was 10 years old. He was a professional showman. His stomach was in an irritated condition, but not out. He died a few days after the operation.— Exobange.

Strange Collection of Newspapers. Aix-la-Ohapelle has a newspaper museum 40 years old and containing over 50,000 newspapers in 60 different languages. Gera has a similar museum, with 20,000 copies so far. It is believed that these collections will prove of inestimable value to historians.

Furlong was at first a furrow long, or the di9tanoe that a pair oi oxen would plow in half an hour.

Song of Dollars and Dimes.

'Dollars and dimes, Dollars aad dimes!"

That is tb&song of the times—orthe times I The riph maa, in mansions that glitter with light, In his dreams sees the gleam of the dollars so bright, AJUI in hotels of poverty still ring the chimes, "Dollars and dimes, -v.* Dollars aad dimes!"

X'A "Dollars and dimes. Dollars and dimes!" The aon£ of the wrong and the -ight of the times! And he that haik many-moans ever for more.

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the waves that shall toss the bright gold on the shore, And in black pits where poverty cowere rrom crimes— el a a

dimes, limes!"

Dollars and dimes!"

dimes. ilm

Dollars and, Dollars and dimes!"

And, oh, ftr the people, and, oh, for the times! But mH*y is bread, and the starving lips cry, And the ravens that fed ns are dead, and we

While love like a rose to the kiss of as climb* For "dollars and dimes, Dollars and dimes!" «»4.tlapt» Owwtitutto*.

MARK TWAIN TALKS.

HIS BRAIN IS AS ACTIVE AS EVER, BUT HIS HEART IS HEAVY.

Brave Straggles to Redeem Bis Iost Fortune—He lAnghs at His Poverty, bat Tears Dim His Kyes Characteristic

Jakes and Quaint Sayings.

"Of oouwe I am dying."

And Mark Twain smiled .grimly."But I do not know that I am doing it any faster than anybody else. As ftr dying in poverty, I had just as soon die in poverty here in London as anywhere. But it would be a little more difficult, because I have got quite a number of friends, any one of whom, I believe, would be good for a month's provision, and that would drag out the agony a fairly long time.

I could not help thinking there was something forced in the careless tone. His face was more lined and much thinner than when I saw him last. His hair is as bushy as ever and is dow almost-snowy white, ahd there was a species of hopeless resignation in his bearing that was in painful contrast to his one time easy going carelessness. And, in spite of his disclaimer, in spite of his assertion that he was perfectly well, I was convinoed that if his physical health were of the best he was nevertheless so disturbed by mental worries that the report of his failing condition was practically well founded. "No, I assure you," be added, "I am as well as ever I was. You see, you must not attach too muoh importance to my wife's remark that I was not in a condition to receive visitors. That simply meant that I was in bed. Now, most women think that if a man does not get ufr before 13 o'clock there must be something wrong with hfan, and as I never do get up before then my wife thinks I am hot in good health. As a matter of fact, when you were announoed I told her to have you shown up to my room, but you can never persuade a tidy woman to show a stranger into an untidy bedroom, and so that did not work. "I said to her: 'Show him ujfc

EBend

some cigars up. I am comfortable enough.' 'Yes,' she said, 'but what about him?' 'Oh,' I said, 'if you want him to be as comfortable as I am, make him up a bed in the other corner of the rootn.' That did not work, either, so I thought the best thing to do was to get up and come to see you."

Chatting in this way, I introduce^ as delicately as possible the subject of the reports published recently in the American press, to which he gave the answer that opens this interview.

As a matter of fact, however, I heard from other sources that since the death of bis daughter, some months ago, Mr. Clemens has been trying to hide his grief, trying to live down his bereavement, in complete isolation. Until a few days ago, ih faot, very few people were in the seoret of his whereabouts, and had it not been that a cousin of his here in Londdfi fell 111 Mark Twain's name would not probably have been brought up in connection with any such statement as that he was dying and in complete poverty, for, although bis losses with the Webster publishing firm have been so serious as to engulf the whole of his fortune, he is perhaps the last man in the whole world to let any one know of his flnanoial difficulties so long as be has strength to hold his pen or so long as his fertile brain can evolve thoughts.

His cousin fell ill, and, the names being the same, the two men were confused. The financial losses sustained by Mr. Clemens were well known, and the elements for the report that he was dying In povofty are there, all ready at hand.

From the same source I learned that, in spite of Mr. Clemens' sturdy disclaimer, he is overwhelmed with financial embarrassments, but there was only his air, which seemed dreadfully like that of a man trying to keep his bead above water and not succeeding too well, to support his assertion. "Poverty," he said, "is relative. I have been in poverty so often that It does not worry me very mqoh. A more serious matter is the money owing to other people, not by any fault of mine, and yet owing to them by me. But I do hot trouble about the rumors that go about in regard to me. Why should I? The rumor will die itself if you will only give it three days. Start any rumor, and if the public can go with its cariosity unsatisfied for three days something else will spripg up which will make the public forget all about the first one. Therefore, when people talk about my dying, or as really happened a few days ago, about my being, dead, I do not take the slightest notice. I know perfectly well that the public will forget all about it if I let it alone. I keep on plowing away and working and working and hoping and hoping, but the idea of being in poverty does not either trouble me or frighten me."

What are you working upon just now?" On my journey round the wor\d. Everybody has done his little circumnavigation act, and I thought it about tjme I did mine, so I have been getting it ready for the press since I have been here, and therefore, for the matter of that, the book is just my impressions of the world at large. I go into no details.

never do,

for that matter. Details are not my strong point, unless I choose for my own pleasure to go into them seriously. Besides, I am under no contract to supply details to the reader. All that I undertake to do is to interest him. If I instruct him, that is his fate. He is that much ahead

What is to be its name?" "I had thought of calling it Another Innocent Abroad,' but following advice, as the lawyers say, I have dbuided to call if The Surviving Innocent Abroad.' "Now, my wife said, 'But that is not true, beoause there's So-and-so in Cloveland and that and the other in Philadelphia.' But I said to her, 'I will fix that.' So I am going to put a little explanatory note to that title pointing out that, although there are still in existence some eight or ten of the pilgrims who wont on the Quaker City expedition some 28 years ago, I am the only surviving one that has remained innocent. "In faot, that title, 'The Innooents Abroad,' could only be strictly applied to two even at the time it was written, and the other is dead." "When do you expect the survivor to appear?" "Oh, about Christmas!" said Mark Twain. "Christmas is a good time to bring out a book. Everybody is thinking about Ch«*stmas presents, and the pious are praying that divine Providence, may give them some okw as to what to give for a present, and the book, if it comes just at the right time, is about as good a thing ns one oould desire. It must come jbst at the right time, though. In other words, the opportunity to secure the present must happen just at the moment when the impulse to give one is felt."—London Cor. New York Herald.

50T THE GUILTY LUS.

Though Innocent, He W«i Sentenced to Sing Sing For Twenty Tears. The case of William Jeffries, who Was recently discharged from Sing Sing.prison by Judge Lent of the county court at White Plains, N. Y., i« said by lawyers to be one of the most singular ha^fcnoes of mistaken identity on retard.

Jeffries had been senteooed thrte months previously to imprisonment for 20 years for an alleged theft of 40 cents.

It seems that two men entered the restaurant of John R. Garrison In Peeksklll and sat down to a light meal.

When all the other patrons of the p&oe bad gone, out tpd QaixtooiuPftAtcng with

them, the two men made a rush for him and threatened to kill him if he made an outcry.

Garrison, although decrepit from age, struggled to get away from the men, but did not succeed until after one of them had rifled the money till of its (gotenta.

The robbers then took to theft- heels. The till bad contained only 40 oents, which was the whole extent of the booty secured.

Several days later Jeffries was arrested and was positively identified by Garrison, and on the strength of this identification was sentenod by County Judge Lent to 80 years at hard labor in Sng Sing.

Jeffries' lawyer, William G. Valentin# of Sing Sing, was satisfied that his client was innocent. He left nothing undone to secure evldenoe to prove^ this belief, and lately presented an affidavit showing that if anew trial were granted he could prove conclusively that Jeffries was the victim of a mistaken identity. $£&

The new trlAj was granted, and as th result of it Jeffries was honorably dis« ^^f charged from custody by the same judge who bad imposed the long sentence upon him at the formertriaL—New York World.'

MONEY

THE WORLD. TJ.C

Coins and Bank Notes In Circulation I* the Principal Countries. Two very Interesting questions were recently offered hy one of our English oob« temporaries whioh are rarely touched upon except from tbe dryasdust standpoint of statisticians. They are: How muoh coin is there in circulation? and W!._t is tb« money appetite of different parts of th6 world?

Answering the first question tbe write* states that of the. three most valuable mediums—gold, silver and paper—there iJ^...j.trover $12,000,000,000 in circulation, dlvid-^" ed as follows: Gold, $8,776,000,000 silver, $8,975,000,000 paper, $4,400,000,000.' Copper coins are not taken into considera* tion.

The comparison of the gold coin held in different nations is shown by a table which places France in the first place, the United Kingdom second and the United States third. In silver ooin India holds first place, France second and the United States third, with England a poor fifth. This answers the second question.

In 20 years the speoie reserve in the •banks of the world has trebled, while the paper issue has only risen 83 per oent. Tha ratio of paper money in general use in _.. 1870 was 88 per oent and in 1890 79 pes. cent. It also appears that tbe amount of capital employed in banking has almost doubled since 1870. The checks paid in New York and London in one month aggregated $6,850,000,000.

CUBA'S FIGHTING- FORCE.

Dr. Danfortfe, President Cisneros* Phycl* clan, Estimates the Army at 35,000. Dr. H. W. Danforth of Milwaukee, whs .• for the last 15 months has been the personal physioian of President Salvador Cisneros of tbe Cuban republic, arrived in New York lately on the Ward line steamer V»lencia from Cuban ports. The doctor was on his way home on a six months' leave oi absence, having left Cuba In a small 1® foot open boat for tbe Island of New Providence. After muoh suffering and exposure be reaohed Nassau and there boarded the s. Valencia.

Dr. Danforth detailed the situation of j, affairs in Cuba. His views may be looked upon as being practically those of the Cuban president, who is now in the'prov-,. loco of Santiago de Cuba. Relative to tha .• strength of the insurgents Dr. Danforth said "It is somewhat difficult for me to make such an estimate, as you may imagine, but you can say that the Cubans, for a cer-'s* tainty, have at least 30,000 to 35,000 nie* today armed and in good shape. The Cubans have not been idle during the course of tbe last few years, and have been importing arms and ammunition right along. The Cubans are fighting a desperate fight and are in good condition to continue it. The Spaniards are also engaged in a desperate contest, but they are exhausted, at. almost so."—Exchange.

THE GRINDER PLAYED ON.

Hired Per a Wedding Reception and Befused to. Stop. Edward Luigard and Miss Rosa Geha were married recently at Beading, Pa., by Bev. F. K. Huntzingerat bis parsonage. At the reoeption that followed a hired^ Italian organ grinder performed in fronfr of the residence for 22 hours in a stretch.

He played one tune during the whole. time, "She May Have Seen Better Days.", The bridegroom tried to induce the manj to leave, and offered him more money than] he was paid, but he refused to go. The! couple left this afternoon for Old Poinfrj Comfort on a wedding tour.—Pblladel-Vr ,. phia Press.

Great Wealth and Longevity. The belief that the possession of greafc, wealth tends to shorten human life i? not! borne out by facts. The latest instance ofl the contrary is Joseph Richardson of New York, who died recently at the age of 83. The oldest living woman millionaire lsr the Baroness Burdett-Coutta, who was born in 1814, a granddaughter of-*he once celebrated actrcss Miss Mellon, subse-' 1 quently the Duciiess of St. Albans. Rlohard Arkwrlght, tbe cotton spinner, who left property worth $40,000,000, died when 88 years old. Other English, millionaires who lived to a good old age were Baron Lionel Nathan Rothschild and Slr/Benjarain Lee Guinness, the brewer.—New York Sun.

They Will Walk to California. F. E. Polk of Now York and Maurice J. Cohen of Jersey City started recently to walk to California. They expect to make «r the trip in seven months. Each man baa his kit in a wheelbarrow, and two setter dogs accompany them. The men are armed with guns, but they carry tbem more for, the purpose of shooting game than for protection, as they do not expect any trouble on the trip. They will stop at the principal oities and towns on the route and exhibit themselves and sell, photographs in order to make their expenses. They will write a hock giving an aooount of their travels.

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L. Trieads awl Enemies. Be assured that those will be thy worst enemies not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will "be thy best friends not to whom thou hast done gocd, but who have done good to thee,—Lavater.

Lobs Sheets of Paper.

Sheets of paper 4 or 5 miles long tiro now commonly made for the use of the newspaper press.—Seattle Poet-Intelligencer.

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