Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1883, Page 3

MBER 12, 1883-DOUBLE SHEET. JESSE JAWEY GAN Confession of One of Hix Confederates —A Long Career of Crime—train Captured, Stages Plundered and Banks Robbed. or. New York Herald. Se Li The recent trial of ed 1s, Mo., Sept. 9, 1883. Frank Jan at Gailatin, ion of the entire and its features mment in all the The history serve stand had a thrit of a well-drawa romance, ‘as it read that vi was only per, some of ea ‘nore re to ther ell, the man trayal otorious band, was printed this It would fill seven’ columns of the like a romance. his real name is James Andrew Liddell, and that he first met Jesse and Frank James in 1872 or ; Where he was ewp! deal of cenealos history of no intere-t w ever. Liddeil drops inte s of the scenes nding the robberies perpetr: ted by the James gang. “Dick” did not join the nz until alter the robvery of the bank at Nortitleid. The James be with him at Hudspet & proposition to him to. join him in rol Chicaze and Altua train’ at Glendale. tells how it was don THE GLENDALE TRAIN ROBBERY. “We were all to meet at the school-house lendale. I did not know at sham was, and we did not know bis re e until aiter he was arrested. They catied him Kansas. The next evening, about sundown, Miller and I started for the school use and Arkansas was to follow. The school-house is about one mile from Basham’s house. We met at the school-house and all went to Glendale together. We arrived there between and seven o'clock, on October 8, 187%, and hitched our horses about thirty yards due south of the station. Basham, Ryan and captured Joe Mott’s-store, and fifteen or men who were in it, and Jesse James, Ed Miller and Wood Hite captured the depot. Jesse, who was the leader, then sent word to us to bring our prisoners over to the depot aud guard them. I think Jesse tore the tele- graph apparatus to pieces. Basham thousht that it was a sewing machine, and wanted him to stop, as destroying it would do no good. A little east of the depot obstruc- tions were piled upon the track to stop the train in case flagging failed. When the east-bound train came in sight we made the operator signal the train to stop. The train stopped. Our plan was this: I was to capture the engineer and fireman, Bill Ryan Was to uncouple the express car from the train #0 that we could, after backing the train, run the engine forward again, and leave the passen- | ger coaclies to themsely Basham and Hite | Were to keep the pa rs on the train while Jesse James and Ed. Miller robbed the express ear. The cars had a patent coupling. so that Ryan could not unfasten them, so he helped Batham,and Hite to keep the passengers In. We carried out our respective parts with the above exception. Fifteen or twenty shots were fired in all, most of them in the aif and a few of them at a man with a lantern near the rear part ofthe train. : he fired three times at this man. Ed. + got a sledge hammer out of theensine and struck the door of the express car several times before the express messenger would open it. They went In, and I think the Messenzer tried to get out and Jesse struck him with the pistol. After the car was Fo! we were all standing on the de pot platform together when some one fired a shot from the train which went through the drawers and pantaloons of Wood Hite, betwe kie and knee of the right | leg." Jesse r they are firing upon us | and we had be - We then went to our | horses, carryins the plunder in a common meal | sack. We mounted and rode about 6 or 7 miies | south to a little eid tog eabin which was unin- | habited, where we dismounted. Ed. Miller car- | Fed the plu Here we divided the plunder i getting $1,025. There were a bonds, ete., and these were all de- S We left’ there all together and re- traced our steps several miles, when we began to break up. The gang ther went to various places in Kansas. Missouri and Kentucky, finally Tendezvousing at Nashville, where they were Feceived and housed ‘as friends.’ Frank was engaged at the time in hauling sawl We all went up to Nashville very frequently, and made no attempt at concealment, apprehend- lng no special danger.” STAGE ROBBERIES. Then the gang dida good deal of hiding in the woods until they were ready for another effort. Here the confession relates how stages were robbed: “We left the same night, taking Bill Ryan With us, starting out to rob the Mammoth Cave stace. It rained so hard, however, that we gave up the idea after getting within one mile and a haif of the place, and we came back to Hite’s fain. We stayed in the woods that mzht, and hext morning I lett for Jesse’s place near Nash- ville, leaving Bill Ryan and Jesse, who said that they would Knock around the country and see what they could rob. In about ten days Jesse ve and told me that he and Bill Mammoth Cave stages. This il of ISSO. The stazes were robbed | got the watch | ‘y Was inscribed | or Knott and Mr. Round- has the watch yet. Miss Lizzie @ fine diamond ring, which J T, so got from her | which he gave to Millie | Ryan got | . Jesse ‘e me. ING A STORE. it home about a week Jesse left for Hite’s again in order to get Ryan, so we three might go up into Kentucky and | store abont sixty miles from Adairsville. | were two days in getting there. On Tues- | day tember 15, 1880, I left Jesse | n in the woods and went into John | “s store to recounvitre. Tean’t recall the n, but tt was some railroad were mining coal. I came ime and reported, and we then her I was to guard the door | out, and Jessie and Ryan We carried out the pro- La gold watch and ng, Se Jackson Ryan got the chs did with it i can get it at any time. and I don’t know what he | nine and We left and went " untry ina bee line tor Hite’s, get- ting there the following night. LOTS OF SHOOTING, BUT XO MONEY. rt of the gang then came back to Missouri ed to rob the Gallatin stage. On the wn we overtook two young men, at- ed to rob them and bad a shooting scrape. nan saw me drawing my pistol, when he i st and shot at Jesse, who was a little ‘The other man started to draw I shot him through the right leg. He 1 d off. The other man 8, and Jesse took : run about thirty d the young man and I ed his last shot and then of. Jesse tired two shots is and four before running ‘ee Umes. We did not | of m his whe 2. plans and we went back ved at Edgefield, near dgefleid Jesse tried Summings killed, but Cummings left, and ve, fearing that he would inform on us, seat- tered. I went to Hite’s. Jesse's family moved over to Frank's house, and Jesse, Frank and Bill Ryan left for Alabama, where they robbed United States Paymaster Smith, at Mussel Shoals. They got about $5,200.” THE BLUE CUT ROBBERY. Then followed the Winston robbery, for which Frank has just been on trial. after giving the up our Frank I ald not agree to it. ry whieh | a | Sears will fi particulars of the Winston affair, which, he said, netted the gang $136, the story goes on: bout the Biue Cut robbery. It was the night of september 7, 1831. Our program was this: Wood Hite and Charley Ford were to stop the train by swingingared light. This light was an ordinary lantern, with a fine piece of red cloth around it. We had piled rocks upon the track so as to obstruct it. After the train had stopped Charley and Wood Hite were to cap- ture the engineer and fireman and then rob the express car. Jim and Clarence were on one le of the train upon the bank, and Frank and elf upon the other side. Besides our pistols we had a breech-loading shotgun and Frank had a Winchester rifle. Jesse had @ breech-loading shotgun and Clarence had a Winchester rifie. The train came along in due } time and was stopped by the red lantern, after which the fireman and engineer were captured. The fireman was made to take his sledge ham- mer and attempt to beat down the door of the After he had struck several blows. T opened the door. Wood in and Charley struck the eral times and made him open the h tiey then robbed. Very little was we safe and Jesse suggested robbing arley and Wood commenced vod carrying the bag king the pass i sid orm of the rear car when some \ down the track with a lantern one start and we tived a number of shots at him; but when told that he was going to flag a [freight train we stopped shooting. No icipated in this robbery except us six. was in siztit when we stopped the train | besides oursely Before the train started again we had all ted toward Independence. About half a mile from the scene of the robbery we stopped in the woods and divided our booty. This consis of a breastpin, a set of earrings, five watches, three chains, two rings and some money. Everything in the jewelry line was put up and sold to the highest bidder, except two rings. Jesse got one of these and I kept the other. The prices bid were turned into a com- mon fund as so much ecash. This fund was divided equally among the six. We got $150 | apiece, as near as I can remember.” Liddell next yave a ist o1 banks that had been robbed by tie gang, but the incidents are not worth giving. This remarkable document ts signed * Liddell.” The signature is attested by Com oner Gray, of Kansas City, and by W. 0. Huckett, secretary of the Kansas City board of police commissioners. | o-—— The Lawn Tennis Championship. From Harper's Wee For the third successive year, notwithstand- ing the objections of a considerable section of | tennis-players, the annual lawn tennis cham- | pionship has been held at Newport. The desire to change the venue to some ground in the near neighborhood of New York was a praiseworthy xpression of local pride, but any one who has attended the Newport tournament, and who has had an opportunity of contrasting the conven- iences offered by the Casino with those provided by any club in the New York district, would in candor be forced to acknowledze that the com- mitte@of the National Association was right in withstanding the desire forchange. Apart from the conventences of the Casino for piayers, it would be difficult to imagine a fairer scene than the lawns presented during the four days on which the tournament was hela. Lawn tennisis a pastime enjoying a social prestige higher than that bestowed upon any other same or sport which may be indulged in without great ex- pense; and this prestige should be maintained, if for no other reason than that it is almost the only out-door game of merit in which both ladies and gentlemen and children can take part. It can never, probably, be as popular (in the ex- act sense of ‘the word) as base-ball, but it does not need to be so. ‘The two games are entirely distinct; and while New York, Builalo, Chicazo, and.other large centers of population are the natural centers of the game of base-ball, lawn tennis finds its most sui headquarters at the beautiful city of cottazes on Narragansett bay. Althou:th the tournament of 1853 was a_thor- ough suce there were some elements of dis- appointment, chief of which was the compara- tively small number of entries for the two events of the meeting. This may be in part ex- plained by the absence from the country of | some of the best players, and partly by a feel- ing that the winners of last year are still so. far ahead of their rivals that real competition was out of the question; and it seems hardly possi- ble that more than a fourth of those who took part in the games could have entered with any expectation or hope of winning championship honors. Still, though only one can win, the beneiit to each individual contestant, and 80 to the game itself, can not be measured only by the chance that" only one person has of win- ning the prize. The champions of years to ~ | come are among the younger of the defeated competitors, while those who are older in the game, and whose day is now passing, should be credited with a fine pubiie spirit in encouraging the younger players by their presence. But, notwithstanding the small number of en- tries, the standard of play wasso high as to promise well for the future of lawn tennis in this country. Mr. Farnum, of Philadelphia, is young, and gives every indication of becoming @ more than usually good player, even among the best. Mr. Foxhall Keene is still younger, and is already a first-class player, with an ease and grace of style that promise well. Mr. Howard Taylor, although defeated in the tour- nament by Farnum, has already won the cham— jionship at Harvard University—an institution rom which not only Mr. Sears, the champion, but also at least two of the next best players have come. These young men, not yet out of their teens, are the coming champions. On the other hand, come excellent players, among whom may be mentioned Messrs. Van’ Rensse- laer, Conover, M. Post, M. Paton, A. Newbold, G. M. Smith and H. Powel, play as well now as itis probable they will ever play. In such a game as lawn tennis youth isa factor of su- preme importance. For three successive years Mr. Richard D. Sears has held the lawn tennis championship of the United States. He is a young man, twenty- two years old, and graduated in the class of "88 at Harvard University. His record as a tennis- player has not been approached in this country, he having suffered defeat only once where a prize or an honor was to be bestowed. This was in the match for the Harvard championship of last year, which was won by Mr J. S. Clark, one of the two brothers who lately faced the famous Renshaw brothers, the English cham- pions, across a net, and were thoroughly and honorably beaten. It is not probable that Mr. are as a tournament player after the present season, except to defend his cham- pionship. nor is he li o improve much in his y, although this form shows a marked advance over that of last year. His game is particularly graceful und accurate, his judgment excellent, and his facility In recovering appa- rently hopeless returns wondertul. It is diffi- cult, in view of the fact that he 1s actual y the best American player, to say in what respect he is weak; but if he were matched against the best English players it would probably be seen that his piay is not sufficiently aggressive to prevail in the best company. In this respect, indeed, he seems to be inferior to his closest competitor, Dr. Dwight. In the final match for the championship Betaveen these two gentlemen was a noticeabl act that while the latter played mainly from about the service-line, de- pending almost entirely on his skillin volleying, Mr. Sears took up his position nearer to the base-line than to the service-line; and although the ereater distance from the net gave him a better chance to make sure of his returns, the position of his opponent, about midway in the court, enabled the latter to playa severer game. If the two players were equal in other respects, the aggressive attitude of Dr. Dwight would probably be the means of reversing their respec- tive positions as victor and vanquished. Dr. Dwight isa physician practicing at Bos- ton, and is about ten years olderthan Mr. Sears. In addition to being the second amateur tennis- player in America, he is the popular and hard- working president of the Nationat Lawn Tennis Association, under whose rules and auspices the Newport tournament directly, and indirectly all other open tournaments, are’ held. To his energy the success of the recent meeting was mainly due, and it is not too much to ray that to him the game of lawn tennis owes much of the success that has attended its adoption in this country. It was a matter of regret chat the work officially devolving upon him in connection with the Newport meeting naturally rendered him less fit than he would otherwise bave been to maintain the great effort which his match with Mr. Sears required. Not, indeed, that the result would probably have been dif- ferent, put the fight would have been closer. As it was, the first two sets went to Mr. Sears easily, his opponent winning but two games out of fourteen. In the third set, however, Dr. Dwight played brilliantly. the score of and the score was called *‘ deuce games” again, The fifteenth game of the set was also won by Mr. Sears, but so determined was the play of Dr. Dwight that it was only after a game that lasted several minutes, during which no less than twenty-four aces in all were scored, that the match was decided in favor of Sears, by three sets to none. In the last set nine games fell to the winner and seven to the loser; and in the last game of the last set Mr. Sears won thirteen aces and Dr. Dwight eleyen, “deuce” having been called nine times. In the first set the winner scored twenty-eight aces against the loser's twenty-three; in the second, twenty- nine against thirteen; while in the thiraset the winner made fifty-five aces against fifty-three for the loser. A closer set than this could hardly be possible. But though such stern antagonists for the single-handed championship these two gentle- men play together as partners in the double- handed game, and at Newport they had little difficulty in sweeping everything before them for the second year in succession. Their only American rivais are the brothers Clark, who are now abroad. Had they been able to take part in the Newport tournament this invincible pair of brothers would have made a hard fight with the actual winners, and would very likely have beaten them, seeing that they have already done so twice. As it turned out the final match in the doubles was the hollowest of defeats, for the losing pair, Messrs. A. Van Rensselaer and A. Newbold, ‘won only four games out of twenty-two. The circumstances under which they played. however, were such as to modify any adverse criticism that might be made on their display on that occasion and their pluck is worthy of allcommendation. A voyage of ten miles across Narragansett bay in an open cat-boat, and with a rougher sea rolling than had been known on the coast since the March gales. was sufficient to have upset the mental as well as physical equilibrium of even the strongest men; but as the weather prevented the Narragansett Pier boat from run- ning onthe day set tor the final match of the doubles, Messrs. Van Rensselaer and Newbold were obliged to make this hazardous and incon- venient trip or torteit the match. No wonder, then, that in such astate of disquietude they were unable to push the winners. But even had they been in the best condition, the final result would hardly have been different, for the win- ning pair played a stronger game than they have ever before exhibited, and in fact it is doubttul if even their late conquerers, the Clarks, could have won against such play. In this match, at least, Dr. Dwight played more brilliantly ‘than his. partner and subsequent victor, and showed himselfto be second to none as a double-handed player. Ifthe apprenticeship is long and the contest stern, the rewards are both handsome and cost- ly. Mr. Sears, by winning the singles, acquired a handsome silver cup given by the National association; a bronze plaque given under con- ditions by two Philadelphia gentlemen; a silver cup presented by the governors of the Newport Casino, to be plaved for as often as the Na- tional Tournament is held on their grounds; and the “Horsman Trophy,” a full-sized lawn tennis racquet, ornamented with jewels, and strung with harp strin handsome trophy was presented last year by Mr. E. I. Horsman, of New York, and is to be played for every year until it has been won three times, not necessarily in succession, by the same person. Mr. Sears has won it twice, and there seeins to be a-strong probability that a year hence he will be justified in proudly re- garding it as his own perso oe Making Love in the Chorr, From Puck. ‘She sat on the steps of the organ loft Just after the second hymn; And through nave und choir to the coed gray spire ‘The sound rose faint and dim, As they settled themselves in the church below For the sermon that followed next, And I seated myself at the alto’s side AS the parson took als text. I marked the tender flush of her cheek, And the gleam of her golden hatr, The snowy kerchlef ‘round her neck, And her throat all white and bare? A throat so white that indeed it might An anchorite entice; And I faintly heard the parson’s word ‘As he preached of Paradise. My arm stole gently around her walst Until our fingers met; And a filtting blush made the tender flush Ot her check grow deeper yet. Snowy and fair the hand beneath, And brown the palin above, And the brown closed softly over the white A$ the parson spoke of love. Ah, who fs wise, when deep blue eyes Meet his and look coyly down? Who would but drink, nor care to think Of envy’s jealous frown? °Twas but to bend til I felt her breath Grow Warm on my cheek, and then ‘My lips Just softly touched her own the parson sald Amen. ————— Making a Reputation, From the Waterbury American. There is a story, at his own expense, which the late Prof. Moses Stuart Phelps used to tell with great glee. In the days when he was a graduate student at New Haven, he took a walk one morning with Prof. Newton,a man who lived in the world of mathematics, and simply exists In the common world of ordinary things. Prof. Newton, as is his habit, started off on the discussion of an abstruse problem. AB the pro- fessor went deeper and deeper, Mr. Pheips’ mind wandered further gnd further from what was being said. At last Mr. Phelps’ attention was called back to his companion by the professor's winding up with: “Which, you see, gives us ‘x.’” “Does it?” asked Mr. Phelps, thinking that In politeness he ought to reply something. “Why, doesn't it” excitedly exclaimed the pro- fessor, alarmed at the possibility thata flaw haa been detected in his calculations. Quickly his mind ran back over the work. There had indeed been a mistake. “You are right, Mr. Phelps, you are right,” almost shouted the pro- fessor. “It doesn't give us ‘x,’ It gives us ‘y.’” And _ trom that hour Prof. Newton looked upon Mr. Phelps as a mathematical prodigy. He was the first man who had ever caught the professor tripping. ‘‘And so,” Mr. Phelps used often to add, with his own peculiar smile, in telling the story, “I achieved @ reputation for knowing a thing Ihate. It’s the way many reputations are made in this superficial world.” sed ek patter wet ‘The Drumming-Out of the Stock Ex- change, Amsterdam. During one week in every year the Stock Ex- change of Amsterdam is—after business houfs— handed over to the schoolchildren of the town, who are permitted to invade itssacred precincts, and to romp and make as much noise therein as they please. The amount of noise they please to make may be easily conceived from the fact that every child entering the building has to bring with him, or her, a ticket of admission in the shape of a child's toydrum. To the tourist anxious to inspect this famous plece of architec- ture, it isan amusing and somewhat bewilder- ing scene to tind this temple of Mammon thus handed over to troops of Maxen-haired children drumming with all their might and main; the knowledge that they are within their rights— rightssolemnly granted and decreed by the bur- gomaster and town council—seeming to lend energy and rapidity of movement to the drum- sticks. The origin of the custom appears to have been as follows: Rather more than s century ago some evil-disposed persons conceived a plot for blowing up the city of Amsterdam, and dyna- games standing at the close of the tenth game “‘five all.” Then ensued the closest game that has ever been witnessed in an important match, for, Leos | & final match, with the games at ‘five all,” two games had to be won in succession by the same player before victory could be clafmed. The eleventh game was ecored by Mr. Sears, his opponent counting only one ace ; but the next game was called for Dwight, bringing the score back to ‘deuce es.” Again the latter playeradded a game; Mr. Sears, playing tly, won the next, mite not having then been thought ot, they pro- sed to caper gunpowder for their purpose. The Stock Exchange of Amsterdam stands in the center of the town, on the bank of one of the innumerable canals which intersect It; and a barge laden . with ot the dangerous explosive, being taken up the canal, was moored oppositg to the Exchange. The moment prearranged for the explosion was at hand when a schoolboy, playing about in the neighborhood, allowed his ball to fall into the canal, and on going down to the water after his plaything the powder barrels caught his eye, perhaps also other circumstances roused his suspicions. At any rate, he tried to get some of the bystanders to listen to what he ad seen ; but in vain, every one was too intent, on business to pay any attention to him. How=- ever, the little fellow was determined to make his discovery known, so borrowing a drum from one of his ayicllows he marched into the hall of the Exchange and there proclaimed the dan- ger which threatened the building, and indeed the whole city, by beat of drum. His object was now gained, some of those present tollowed the boy down to the canal, where his tale was found to be true, and the powder was removed toa place of safety. In gratitude for this timely warning, given by @ schoolboy, the burgomaster and town council- lors of Amsterdam decreed that for one week in every year the school children of the city should have the right of entering the Exchange bullding —after business hours—drumming and romping there to their heart's content, which custom has been handed down to the present day, and is termed “The drumming-out of the Stock Ex- change.” —_—_—_+e-______ Prairie fires are annoying ranchmen in south- western Texas. Incendiarism is charged, cer- tain persons having been offended by the ranch- y in their pastures. nocus Ebb BIRDS, Sparrows Trapped in Large Quantitl and Sold to Ieestaurants. eas THE POLICE OF THE NINETEENTH DISTRICT DIS- COVER TWO MEN. SNARING BIRDS ON THE IVY- COVERED WALL, @F THE, FIRST UNITARIAN cHuRcH. ! ’ From the Philadelphis A policeman of She nineteenth district, while standing at the gorner of 10th and Locust streets, last night, observed two men moving about in mysterious’ silence in the yard attached to the First Unitarian church. There was just barely light rast hin to distinguish some sort of a bundle which they appeared to be carry- ing. The officer’s first impression was that grave robbers were seeking an entrance to the church vault, but upon second reflection, not being quite certain whether there was any vault in the church, he grasped his club and crept across the street to reconnoiter, prepared to shout ‘‘fire.” *‘murder,” or “burglars,” as the developments of the occasion might*warrant. Taking a position where he could see and yet not subject himself to observation, he watched the two men. They both carried nets similar to those in which professional sportsmen catch reef birds. They approached the ivy-covered wall of the church circumspectly, and with their nets enclosed fully forty square yards of its sur- face. Having attached the nets so that whatever birds might have been in the ivy could not es- cape, they began to scientifically baz their prey, which was not a difficult task, as the affrighted birds betrayed their presence by plaintive chir- rups, which gave way to shrill peeks,” as the two men stuck long, sharp-pointed steel skewers into their bodies. Probably three of the poor birds had been thus dispatched when it suddenly occurred to the policeman that they were killing sparrows. He emerged from his post of obser- vation, and striding toward the church, said: “Hil there; get out of that now, right away!” The two sparrow killers tore down their nets and scampered away down 10th street as fast as their lezs could carry them. Over 100 spar- rows, thus released, flew out from amid the ivy and settled in the tree tops, chirrupping at a great rate. The policeman picked up three dead sparrows at the bottom of the church wall, They were quite dead, having been stuck through the breasts. They were still bleeding. TRAPPERS AT WORK. Several nights previous a prominent lawyer, who is a devoted reed bird shooter, was passing the same church and saw two men, probably the parties afterward seen by the policeman. He stopped and asked them what they were doing. They replied: ‘Catching sparrows.” “What for?” asked the lawyer. “To sell for reed birds,” was the answer. This is not the first’ time sparrows have been killed and palmed off as reed birds. The police are cognizant of a number of cases where the imposition has been practised. The great simi- Igrity, not only in the outward appearance of the birds when plucked, but also as regards the flavor of the flesh when cooked, helps the decep- tion, which finds its origin, of course, in the high price and comparative scarcity of the reed birds, which are regarded as a great delicacy by epicures, who say, however, that the sparrow is really as ‘good eating” as its more aristocratic, blue-blooded cousin, except for the prejudice which prevails against it. The sparrows are caught in nets, as are the reed birds, plucked, cleaned, strung temptingly on a stick or string, and sold to unsuspecting restaurateurs, who dispose of them, on toast, as the genuine arti- cle. These sparrows can be found for sale in many cheap basement hostelries along Sansom, Lombard and South streets, and in many places inthe lower quarters of the city. There are men who eke out a comfortable subsistence during “reed bird’ days” by shooting, trapping and catching the! sparrows in nets. The two species of birds fatten about the same time. The habits of the birds are not dissimilar. They* both fly low. DECOY BIRDS. The sparrows, like the reed birds, are sus- picious of ordinary devices for their capture, but have not yet inastered the mystery of the “decoy bird,” which consists of a live bird attached by a string to the nets, which are two in number, so stretched as to fall tozether upon the birds when pulled by a long string held by the sportsman, who fs often two squares away. Usually several sparrows are used as decoys. As many as 300 sparrows have been caught at a time. There are a number of hunts, in and around the city, frequented by the sparrow hunters. ‘They seek ivy covered churches, and houses and willow clumps. The manner of preparing the sparrow does not differ from that in the case of the reed bird, except, that the sparrow meat is somewhat tougher, and requires a little more careful cooking. The sparrow, when nicely browned, flavored and_ mounted on toast, is so deceptive that old sports are frequently unable to discover the traud. Many of the sparrows are sent out through the adjacent couutry and sold in the restaurants and hotels for fancy prices and at enormous profit. Experienced cooks say they are frequently at aloss to decide whether or not the birds offered for sale by a suspicious dealer are really reed_ birds or sparrows. They profess, however, that the flesh of a reed bird is a little whiter, the veins a little bluer and smaller and the legs’ better shaped. There are other characteristics which enable them to tell the difference, but_they are often simulated, and not to be relied on implicitly. Preparing to Celebrate Luther’s Fourth Centenary. From the Athensum, The celebration of the fourth centenary of Luther's birth is producing a crowd of books, pamphlets, photographs, oleographs, and en- gravings upon Luther and Lutheran subjects in Germany. The hymn “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott” has been adopted as a fete prelude, and choruses and part songs innumerable are being issued for the singing unions by various com- posers. Medals have been struck with the words, “Dr. Martin Luther, 1483-1546,” and on the reverse his words, ‘‘Here stand I; I can no other. God help me.” One artist has produced a portrait which is being printed in oil colors for the million, and he claims that the likeness is entirely new and original, shunning the antique and crude paint- ing of Cranach, but retaining entirely the true portrait! Many of the books are issued for the colporteurs to sell amid the masses at nominal prices, but studies of Luther's Ilfe and work of a higher and more expensive character are also very numerous. Statuettes after the various Luther monuments are also largely manufac- tured for “hut and palace, school and _house,' poor and rich,” and even lanterns for illumina- tion with Luther's portrait are announced. ace tae st Unlike Any Other Bicycle. From the New York Sun. An exhibition of a new style of bicycle, called the Otto, was given ina hall in 14th street yes- terday. It has not the slightest resemblance to an ordinary bicycle, but may be described as a Columbia tricycle with the small front wheel re- moved. The rider sits between two large wheels and, as in the case of a tricycle, there is ® backbone extension behind which prevents him from going over backward. This extension balances the pedals, which swing free in front. The pedais work two extra wheels supported on arms extending from the axle. These wheels do not touch the ground: The rider must bal- ance himself on the saddle between the ee or he will fall forward. Ina fall his feet woul reach the ground first, and he would escape a header. Steel straps carry the power from the extra wheels to tlie hubs of the large wheels. The steering handles loosen the steel strap on one hub or the other, and the loosened wheel stops while the other continues to revolve. A beginner soon learns to balance himself, and is greatly assisted by the pressure of his feet on the pedals. The machine ran easily and at con- siderable speed. It is an English machine, and it coats about the’same as a tricycle, ——___-2- An Armored Train. ‘From the Liverpool Courier. ‘The successful use by our troops during the Egyptian war of some hastily armed rallway trucks, drawn by an iron-clad engine, has in- duced the Spanish government to order the im- mediate construction of a specially designed train, which in time of war will be available,not only as @ means of rapid transport for men en- gaged in cutting and repairing of railway lines, but also as a depot of engineering stores, and as @ movable fortress. The train will consist of 26 trucks, upon which will be placed Dalles teogt carpenters’ shops and forges,magazines for food, implements, ammunition and explosives, some Se a col lete el ic-I » oft h Tan es several field a The tracks be provided with high will be fi and loop-holed, and motive power will be n sopplied Ne tee Reevily eematnod engines, one at each end of bovel man-of-war will have a crew of 8 officers and 166 men, all of whom will, in case of need, eat and |-burned to d sleep on d arrangements will be made neceasary, of for the farther accom: another 100 CHINA’S MILITARY FORCES, A BOCKY MOUNTAIN GLACIER, Her Preparations for Attack and De-| Discovery by Professor Puampelly’s femse Both by Land and Sea. From the St. Petersburg Gazette. China has two separate armies. The imperial army proper is known under the name of the Army of the Eight Banners. It is divided into eight corps, each being distinguished by a pe- culiar banner. This army almost forms a mili- tary caste, for it is composed exclusively of the descendants of the Mantchus, Mongolians and Chinese rebels who in 1601 invaded China and dethroned the old imperial family. During peace the men of this caste are allowed to conduct any common business, being forbidden only to leave their city without a permit from the command- ing officer. The officers excel their men only in gymnastics. According to the Chinese notions no man is fit to be an officer unless he is an ath- lete. This army numbers 210,000 men, of these over one-half are stationed in Pekin; and the rest in a few large provincial cities. This mili- tary caste can by no means be regarded as a reg- ular army. The second or provincial army is called the army of the Great Banner. Esch of the eigh- teen provinces of the empire is obliged by iaw to keep a certain cumber of soldiers, and their aggregate, according to the official statistics, is 650,000 men. There are eighty generai and over seven thousand officers. The provincial army Is composed chiefly of mercengries, while the majority of the officers are of the military estate. These two armies, amounting on paper to 760,000 men, are all the force the celestial empire has to rely on in case of war. The Imperial Guard, about 18.000 strong, is the flowerof the army. Of the Guard Infantry, 5,200 men are provided with muzzle loaders, presented by the Czar of Kussia; the rest are armed with flint guns, lances and shields. Half of the cavalry, about 2.000 men, are armed with Chassepot rifles. The artillery has thirty-two bronze guns, bought in Russia, and a few mor- tars. There are 1,750 educated artillerymen The army of the gov@nor of Chjily, about 70,000 strong, is also reorganized. The men are instructed by English and French officers, The army has breech-loading rifles and Krupp steel cannons. According to German writers, up to 1879 Krupp had sent to China 150 heavy guns and 275 field guns. The army of the governor of Khan-Zn and Shan-Zee, 40,000 strong, is said to be supplied with all the modern arms. and to be drilled according to the principles of Moltke and Manteufel. This army fought successfully zainst Yakoob-Bes, and, indeed, proved itself ‘he best disciplined army in China. It 1s obvious, then, that in China there are only about 120,000 men properly armed and drilled; while the rest of the soldiers can be regarded only as undisciplined and unarmed re- serves. As to gunpowder and arms the China- men apparently have an abundant supply ot their own. There are eight excellent arsenal: ected chiefly by E Jian-Zin, for instance, 600 pounds of powder. At the arsenals of Nankin and Shanghai the American guns of Remington and Spencer are manufactured. At the Fu- teheu-fu arsenal subinarine inines are prepared. At the Lan-tcheu-su arsenal cartridges and arms are manufactured. The forts are found at the mouths of the great rivers Si-kiangt Min, and Yang-tse-kiang, to protect the great cities Canton, Fu-tcheu, and Shanghai. In the interior of the country all the large cities are also defended by forts. The capital city gf Pekin is, of course, the most strongly protected. It is defenaed by Fort Daku, amply provided with Krupp cannons, and is surrounded by stone walls from forty to sey- enty feet thick, and about forty feet high. Nine gates lead to the city, and these are defended by cannons mounted in the numerous towers. China has three separate fleets. The Canton fleet comprises twelve gunboats, of which nine were made in England, and are in charge of English officers. The Fu-kiang fleet is com- posed of six gunboats and a few transport ves- sels; these were made at Fu-tcheu under the supervision of Frenchme This fleet is in ex- cellent order, and is in ch e of Chinamen. The Shanghai fleet is composed of nine gunboats, two frigates, and several transport vessels. All of these were made by tie Chinamen them- selves, and are rather insignificant. Recently China has got from England eigat irenclads, arined with cuns of the largest caliber. The stronyest and most effective part of the chines fleet is made up of thirteen small oats, ters of th acement. Ti propelled by twin screws ines of toxether, 2.600 named after the | t, of 1,350 tons dis; teel,and are driven by compound e1 Indicated horse-power. They eaci carry two 26-ton 10-inch breech-loading guns, mounted upon center pivots, one forward and one ait. Each of these heavy guns commands a neariy all-round fire. The charge of the gun is 180 pounds of powder, the weight of projectile 400 pounds, and the 'penetrative power equal to pleremg eighteen inches of solid, unbacked iron plate. “They carry besides in each four 40- pounder breech-loading guns, two 9-pounder reech-loading guns, two Nordenfeldts and four Gatlings, and, furthermore, two steam cutters fitted with star torpedoes. “The vessels are also armed with a formidable steel knife-ed:zed spur or ram. Without claiming too much for these vessels, says the London Zimes, it should be re- marked of them that the penetrative power and range of their guns, measured by the ac- cepted official standard, exceed those of any gun yet afloat, except those of the English In- flexible and the Italian Duilio. No unarmored ship that carries guns can be compared for a moment with them, and no armored ship equals them in speed. His Wife, From the Arkansaw Traveller. Dat’oman? W’y, she is de 8: See her prance jes’ like a hoss, p Ai De likeliest gal in all de bottom— An’ good? yer ax: dat’s jes’ wav’m Gwineter tell yer. She wouldn’t take A pin what she kain’t call her own. An’ cook? Yer oughter see a pone Ob her bread, an’ as ter meat De whole worl, boss, ain’t got her beat.’ At fust I met her at a shuckin’, Mixed wid a spree an’ apple duckin’, I sorter gin my foot a shake, An’ tuck her from young bow-latg Jake, seed her often airter dat, An’ her an’ Jake soon had a spat. Den I knowed my way was clear, An’ den I smiled from year to year. See her prance, jes’ like a boy! De ’oman ts so tilled wid joy Dat when I'm ’roun’ she haster dance. Jes’ look at dat carap-meetin’ prance! Uh, huh, now! Did yer heah her holler? Pir'bet myse't a haffer dollar *At seein’ de way sue shakes her dress, Dat de ’oman got in a ho’net’s nes’. ‘When I seed her eaperin’ so, In a way dav’s neber slow, drunk at oncet de ’celvin’ foam— ‘Thought ’twas ’cause I had come home, ————_-e.____ State Regulation of Corporate Profits Judge Cooley, of Michigan, in an able article in the North American Review on the subject of corporate profits and their co-*rol by the state, uses these words: . “It is not alone in the matter of railway regulation that law-making js likely to be ill- advised and detrimental to both pablic and private interests. The supply of public conve- niences to cities is commonly a monopoly, and the protection of the public against excessive charges Is to be found, first, in the fact that low prices generally extend the market, and,second, in.the municipal power of control. Except in very large cities, public policy requires that for supplying light or water there should be but one corporation, because one can perform the service at less rates than two or more, and in the long rnn will be certaiu to do so. But scheming men make periodical attacks upon corporations existing for these and similar pur- poses, and with a popular ery for their watch- word, they can always enlist local interest in their favor. Ifthey succeed in obtaining a rival franchise, the snbsequent history is commonly this: A war of rates fora season, and then either a sale of one franchise to the owners of the other, or a division of the territory, or an agreement upon The final result is that the two supply the market at a-greater cost than the one, and the additional cost is paid by the public. Whoever expects that a de- structive competition is to be continued in- definitely must have a faith in the integrity and public virtue of local boards which expertence scarcely justifies. The ae whi on ex- Poses a great cEsetz, vested in a public en- tem] stati = to spectral crooked ion lings. Ifmen solicit from a city cot a tranchise which they cannot legitimately make prattabie © is 1 core caine that ae pose either to use it as some way to find their profit in ‘he ache lation of future councils.’ VENGEANCE ON A BLACK Brurs.—A party of three or four men to the house of Steve , col a farmer pin dod Party. From the Helena (Mont.) Independent. To Professor Canby, a member of Pumpeliy's Northern Transcontinental Survey party, we are indebted for the following account of the dis- covery of a glacier by the party, and a descrip- tion of the country around the Upper Marias Pass, between the headwaters ot the Flathead river, west ot the Rocky mountain range, and Cut Bank creek, east of the same, The locality is about 150 miles north of Missoula. Professor Canby says that on the Ist of August the party, after having left the Upper Flathead river (about $9 miles above the lake), entered the gorge that leads up the mountain to the Pass. This is walled in by steep mountains, which are crownea hy ruzged_ precipiees thou- sands of feet in height, sometimes terminating in knife-like edves, and sometimes running up into sharp, rugged cones, which make the sky lines of the mountains most varied and picturesque. At the summit of the Pa: ether. . From the Pa welve high 7 three main amphi- are nearly horse- s there are in full aks, often running co wtenor t up into regu Some ten ¢ ing tothe | westward, a great mass ot “covered moun- | tains were in view, and below these was seena true ¢ least a mile, and in some pi: at 500 feet ia height. From underneath this er fiows a stream of milky-colored glacier water. Professor Pumpelly, with the Indian guide. penetrated the amphitheater in which this glacier lies, and counted twenty-two cascades over 500 feet in heizht. besides seein ler ones. The sides of the mount amphitheater are covered with deep b snow, which are the sources of the many streams flowiag into the valleys below. There was but little snow on the Pass, and with care It wasnot difficult tocross. In descend- ing the eastern side of the mountains the gorge presents some remarkably lofty and stupendou: ipices. Those gentiemen of the party who sited the Yosemite Valley consid scenery of Marias Pass to be of a mor¢ character and grander in every respect. The summit of the Pass was found to be 7,800 feet above the sea level. We shall wa much interest for a more thorough and complete survey of this new and wonderful mountata dis- trict of Montana. ———+e2_____ KILLED WHILE DANCING. Miss Roxie Wilson in a Fit Auger Stabs Mer Aunt. Jealous In a little settlement called Cowhouse, on the southern edge of Pierce county, La., one night last week, country belles and beaus were enjoy- ing the pleasures of adance. Among the ladies present were Miss Roxie Wilson and Miss Smith, each of whom had a train of admiring attend- | ants, As dance succeeded dance the rivalry, which wasill-concealed, increased and an open Tupture occurred between tie parties. Miss Wil- son’s young brother, who was present, sharp- ened a knife, and, rushing into where his sister was just taking her place in the final break- down, handed it to her, with the advice not to be run over. Miss Roxie thereupon sprang at Miss Smith with the fury of a tigress, giving her several frightful plunges with the knife. One cut partially disemboweled the poor girl, and another made a huge gash across her breast. She fell fainting to the floor, and cannot live. Miss Roxle was taken away by her friends, and has not yet been found by the officers. The butchered woman was an aunt to her as- sailant. This case will revive the interest which swaved the state during the Kate Sothern ex- citement, which was almost similar in its nature. Kate killed her rival, Narcissa Howart, was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. great was the outery against the e: of a woman that the governor commuted her sentence to imprisonment for ten years. S was sent toa convict camp owned by’a relat and kept house for him, being accompanied by her husvand. In three years the soft ted governor pardoned her out entirely. While in the so-called penitentiary she had two children, one of whom is named Alfred H. Colquit: The southern public sentiment is now more disposed to let the law take its course, even it the crimi- aal is a woman. —__——-e.—___. Female Mashers, From the London Truth. She was inevitable: and she hascome. The “female masher,” dimly foreshadowed during the last Lundon season, has become a very un- comfortabie fact at the seaside. She is to be seen in ail the glory of her shame and the sub- limity of her impudence on the Spa at Scarbo- rough, on the pler at Ryde,on the Lees at Folke- stone and in Devonshire Park at Eastbourne. Woman delights in contradiction, and conse- quently the female masher is in all her charac- teristics the exact opposite of her male compan- ion. He, poor fellow, takes a conscious pride in his effeminacy; she, silly soul, is masculine trom the crown ot her billyeock hat tothe point of her laced-up, double-soled boots. The masher male is washed out and walks delicately; his linen is spotless, his manners feeble, his demeanor limp, his jewelry resplendent, his appetite un- wholesome, his thirst satisfied h lemon or milk, his smoking confined to cigarettes ot the mildest brand. his conversation “‘yea, yea,” or “nay, nay.” He has lost all desire for exercise, and is a stranger to activity. At the seaside he does not walk desperately as his forefathers did, or boat, or fish, or play cricket, or even lawn tennis. He never earns a health meal by honest exercise or healthy perspiration. He dresses and he dawdies. His costumes are contained in half a dozen trunks, like those ot a Saratoga belle. It is his fancy to vary his attire at least three times a day, and to display change even in his variet: The coat, trousers and vest, according to seasid etiquette, are never of one pattern. He is in colored waistcoats, like the young Oxford undergraduate of a quarter of a century ago. If it were not for the pier, or the esplanade, or the spa, or the winter garden, themasher male would | die of self-imposed fatigue. healthily out to bathe these lovely mornings from a boat off the beach. The bathing boat- men complain at the various watering-pluces that their trade is gone. He does not get sun- burned and browned, but carefully preserves his complexion under the shade of a huge hat with anabnormal brim. It is hisfancy to walk the seaside world in order to be admired. He poses for admiration on the morning pier; he courts applause for his distinzuished folly on the afte noon parade. He puts on a mixed—always | mixed—medley of evening dress and cutaway | Jacket, and dawdles away the evening looking | ‘on while others sing, or appearing stupid while others dance. The intervals he fills up at the var of the seaside hotel, which serves him as a convenient club lounge, and where once more he attitudinizes for admiration, careless of the humor he provokes, and too dense to appre- | ciate the cynical sneers of the philosophizing barmaid. ‘So He does not go! Conscious of the presence of this strange in- dividual, the masher female has apparently determind to take upon herself the duties and Inheritance of a lost manhood. She has be- come a little swell in petticoats. If she only dared she would appear at the evening seaside dances in the knee-breeches and black silk stockings. Saving her petticoats, retained ap- parently out of respect for the law that pro- hibits interchange of costumeby the sexes, the temale masher is alittle man. She is stiff and starch, well set up and all over buttons. Her hat is made at a man’s shop, go is her trim little Jacket, 80 are her innumerable waistcoasts,so apparently are her boots. She is essentially tailor-made trom head to foot. When the weather is gusty she covers all with a tailor- made, Uy anes} ~~ gegen ®& certain swagger is im) the use new pre- Pao crinolette. —S leous swaying manners oft proclaims the man, costume while a set fur a dance was being made up. She | at a seaside railway station. A female masher of a pronounced type, after swaggering about @ railway station, walking like a dragoon and flourishing a stick instead of a parasol, was anxious to enter a train from which an eiderl; gentleman was handing bis gray-haired wife with her innumerable Impediments. The pro- cess was too ted us for Miss Masher, who observed far too audibly to her companion: “Well, L suppose when these people have got out we shall be allowed to wet fa." There was & malicious sneer in the delivery of this sarcasm which would have frightened @ younger man. But the old gentleman was equal to the occas siof. “My dear young Indy,” sald he, “a little patience will do you no harm. In fact, If y practice patience it is possible that some day you may get a husband, though | should venture to jer that It was no desirable event!" Then Mf Lis hat. he retired with his wife and But Miss Masher was far too ydermatous even so much as to notice oF Appreciate the rebuff. She entered the care riage in which T happened to be sitting, and pro- ceeded as tollows: She first took up the newse papers which happened to be there, “nf her pact them fnto another seat, occupying, why cannot conceive, the seat opposite to me. don't know what these papers are, or whose they are, and I don't care,” was her first ree mark, althouzh asI was the only other occu- pant of the carriage It would not have been dif ficuit to solve that problem. The conversation” she indulged in with her triend was the reverse of edifying, being a coarse mixture of slang and somewhat vulyar repartee. I am not naturally over scrupulous or over modest, but I was oblized to stare out of the window in order to Pretend not to appreciate the brazen conduct that, had It been recognized and laughed at, would have been rewarded with a sneer or @ scowl, for Miss Masher, although she takes enough liberties herself, never allows one. Dare ing the remainder of the journey my edifying companion employed herselt by whistling popular airs and by rucking up her dress in order to pull up stockings—an occupae tion harmiess in itself, but scarcely In ao- cordance with the decorium of a public convey- ance. Now I was curious to ascertain the hi tof this young lady. Whocould she be? To what class of society could she belong? She was evidently a lady bora, if not a lady bred. She was no frequenter of the music halls raaly such manners are applauded assomething vastl udge of my surprise when she stopp ay station close to the abode of a man and was driven off in the private nibus attached to the mansion. If, then, such young ladies set so anenviablean example, It is stoall wonder that the masherdom of so- ciety in its most pronounced form should be Imitated by other girls and women equaily are rogant and, equally vain. Miss Masher, of Folk- estone and Eastbourne, is reproduced in a still more masculine fashion at Margate and Yar mouth. —— ———— Frog-Exting Americans, From the Manchester Fxaminer. The Americans, if not great Innovators, are the most skillful imitators and adapters of other people's innovations. Like other apt pupils, | they soon learn to surpass their teachers, These well-known national characteristics are receiving atresh fllustration in the adoption of | frogs as an article of food. In Europe those tasty amphibians have long been esteemed @ great delicacy, and years ago Englishmen med- Itatiny a visit to France regarded the possibility of feasting unawares upon frozs as one of the gravest dansers of their expedition. The peril was not great, for no restaurateur was likely to | supply any of his guests with such a bonne | boweke without duly notifying the fact and making & corresponding charge in the bill. Still, the frog-eating Frenchman was @ byword on English lips. It apy however, that. frogs are regularly “served in all the first-class hotels at Boston, and are greatly esteemed as delicacies in private tamilies. “In fact. the catching, breeding, reat= Ing, fattening and sending to market of frogs has become a great business, in whic reds of persons are employed. towns in the neighborhood of Boston, Cape Cod and Maine are the chief districts where | creatures arecaught and prepared for the mar= | ket. One frog extcher lone sends from 50 to | 100 dozen per week to the New Orleans market, | where the demand Is so great that the supply | fails far short of the requirements of the pu and the price is correspondingly high. We | sume that in America, as in France, the hind quarters are alone eaten, and as the cost of frogs is from 30 cents to 50 cents per dozen, the dish | must be a tolerably dear luxury, and is Ukely to become more so as frogs beconie fewer and their admirers more numerous. American connois- seurs prefer the speckled frog to all otherspecies, but more catholicin their tastes than the French they eat all kinds, What is still more interesting to Britons, they are already¥meditating a large | export trade in this new luxury to E ccihetoccertti haat Storm Sounds From Engineering. | A correspondent of L’ Engenien Conseil, sign | ing himself with the initials “E.B.,” occupied | hlnself during the violent thunder storm which | occurred at Brussels on June 20 in listening to | the storm sounds in the telephone wire. It was, | Of course, furnished with good lightning con- j ductor, and, under such circumstances. he is | convinced that theexperiment was not attended. vith danger. During the height of the storm , there was a continuous noise, which could only ; be compared to that of frying. From time to time it would grow louder; sometimes ti would be a little popping sound, like a bubble bursting; sometimes the series of crackling noises which follow the fall of a drop of grease, onared-hot Iron piate. This last noise came abruptly and loud with each flash of lightning and seemed to precede it. The observer was | satistied that his ear was surprised by the sound | before his eye was surprised by the flash. The | same noises were often produced when there was no rey ms flash, but then they were less loud. Their force seemed to have no 20n- nection with the peals of thunder. On the 600 lines of telephone wire which focus | at Brussels, not one apparatus was damaged by A | the storm, its effects being altogether expended upon the lightning conductors and storm-warn- jing apparatus. This security may encourage other observers to follow the example of°E.B..” ; who considers that in tnis manner it is possible | to obtain valuable contributions to the study of atmospheric electricity. He is of ofinton that the constant noise heard in the wires proves the existence in them of a current of atmos- pherie electricity flowing into the earth, and thata network of telephonic lines overspread- ing a town would be its best possible proteo- tion against lightning. —__—re-_____ A Flying Macnine. Mr. H.C. Linfield, the inventor of a flying machine, has conducted an experiment with his invention between Colnbrook and West Dray- ton. The apparatus, which is described as a steam sailing machine, is constructed of light wood, and is shaped like the frame of a four- wheeled carriage, with two large wheels in front and two small ones behind. Motive power isto be obtained by steam, which will work a nine-bladed screw, and the inventor's idea ts to propel the machine by steam on land until ft at- tains a speed or thirty or thirty-five miles, a ve- locity which he calculates will be sufficlent to lift the machine into the air, when St will be navigated by means of the sails with which it is fitted. From the result of his experiment he is confident that it is possible to fly in the air at the height ofa mile. By-the permission of the Great Western Railway company the experi- ment was made on the newly finished portion of the railway to Staines, between Colnbrook and West Dreyton, and the inventor was accom- panied by Mr. Trevithick, the locomotive sup- erintendent of the company at Paddington. The machine was placed on a truck and connected with an engine, whence the steam was derived, and the gearing was manipulated from another 0] succeeded in getting the from the truck into the air, and expressed himseif fully satisfied with the result of the trial. He aE Hite i g nt toyk itary tactics. He was foally cap- tured and sent to an asylam. TomaTogs are being shi ipped London clubs. As they are aremedy for biliousness it is to be oo will imes that vation is someti