Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1891, Page 12

12 ON TWELVE HUNDRED How a Young Bachelor Can Live in Comfort on That Salary. HIS WINTER EXPENSES. ‘When Both Ends Won't Meet—What Will the Extravagant Man Do Then?—Comfort for One Poverty for Another—The Cost of Living in This Country and in Europe. ° 667 END ME A DOLLAR, OLD MAN.” “What? Do you take me for a Jay Gould? Sorry, but I've just got back myself and I'm broke. ‘This conversation was overheard by a writer for Tux Stan the other day. These two young feliows who had been “on leave” had come back to the city without so much as a single dollar in their pockets and they were, it | was afterward discovered, running in debt for their cigarettes. Why a man should be poorer in summer than in winter is a hard thing to ex- plain and yet it seems to be a fact. The expenses of a man in winter, if he isa young fellow with a fondness for ladies’ society, re not very light. He has to pay for bis dane- fing clubs; ho may sometimes send his best girl a bouquet; he has his regular clab dues to pay, and last but not least he must buy clothes. His ordinary. every-day living is not by ar ‘the heaviest drain upon his purse. Now. let us see what it costs for a winter in Washington to an ordinarily careful young bachelor. WISTER EXPENSES. Ip the first place his dancing club takes, say, €90. Them hisown club for half a year is about $25. To live for six months at a mod- erately expensive boarding house in a sinall room is to ® month, or #240. He emckes exgars and cigarettes smoker this will amount to about $50. Sup- osing him to be a moderate club man, his club for “sundries” will be about $10 a month. | or $60. Now-for bis clothes. He may not neod @ new dress suit, so that can be left out, but he will be quite certain to buy two good snits and hats and shoes and various other adornments. Of course he must go to a good tailor and these two suits will cost 2125. He must have, s three pairs of shoes. and, not being overcx- travagant, will get them for €21. Cravats, gloves, hat, shirts, collars and cuffs may be cs- timated roughly at £106. ‘To add up, thea, giv what may be terme: necessary living. Of the $417 the dancing clab the social ciub and the club bill for “sandries" are purely unnecessary. The smokiug, if he uses. pipe, and only smokes moderately, need not cost more 0, and the clothes’ could be bought, together with the cravats, &c., for Jess than £100. If he chose to do it, therefore. he could live for $110 outside of his board, and together with his board a winter would not cost up more than 2550. ‘THE ENDS WONT MEFT. How on earth does @ young bachelor who only gets $1,200 a year make two ends meet at the end of the year? The estimate given aBove 4s a very moderate one an Of the winter ha’ taking into ace tor or a single a total of $417 for luxuries and $210 for without he thea- ‘There is only one way to account for the expenses and receipts | fu this case. It is simply to say that the bache- lor doesn't make two ends meet, and that he Funs into debt. When his debts become pressing he stops short, does not spend anything except for his board for a few months, wipes out all his in- Gebtedness and then begins all over agaim and €ontracts more debts. This mode @ctually goes on with many ¥ fter year, unless their fortunes improve or ey sober down, get married and proceed to rai GOES ON LEAVE IN THE SUMMER. 200 a year swell is not really such a Mystery, after the above explanation, nor is it Strange that he should be ina state of abject poverty after taking asummer vacation. In the summer it is true that bis clothes do not cost kim as much es ther do in winter; that b: has no dancing elub to join, nor any bouquets to send, but if he goes away on leave he spends enough to make up for all his econom: while he stays at home. When he reaches the hotel of the summer resort he must his money in small change or in large bills all day long. The result is that Le spends all he | -s home has, borrows all he can and finally cc “flat on his back,” so far as hi sare concerned. He arrives at the summer resort ina drawing room car, but he comes home in the smoker, and thanks bis stars that be was able to borrow the money that brought him COST OF LIVING HERE AND ABROAD. ‘Twolve hundred dollars a year is a great deal of money to some men and hardly anything at ail toothers. It means comfort and plenty in some places and a hard living in others. The writer recently met an American who lives in Scotland and asked him whether living was not e there than here. Strange to suy he re- plied in the negative and declared that a mod- erate salary would do more for a man in Amer- fea than in Scotland. Actual living, such as the poor people are obliged to put up with, is cheap enough, but what Americans regard as ‘Recessities Scuichmen regard as luxuries and barge for accordingly. In point of fact there is a general misappre- hension "pon the subject of the cost of living sbroad. It is true that a moderate income goes further in many of the small cities of Eu- Fope than it does in the large cities of Ame Dut the cost of comfortable subsistence large European efty is not very much less th ia thiscountry. A millionaire can certainl; live for less—or rather get more for hi in London or Paris than he can in New York or Boston. A workingman, on the other hand, paye more for the necessaries of life in Europe than he does here, and our workingmen regard es necessaries many things that are entirely be- Youd the foreign workingman’s reach. But taking the body of the people who are neither rich nor poor and their incomes earry them as far bere ax they would on the other side of the Atlantic. There are plenty of Amer- ieans, with small incomes, who prefer to live 4m Europe and who maintain that it costs theta Jess there than here, but if you inquire closely {OU Mill find that they don't live 40 well. ‘They we suffered pecuniary loses, for the most and bave gone to foreign ‘lands beca were unwilling to reduce their scale of living at home. WASHINGTON AS GOOD A PLACE AS ANY. On @1,200 4 year a man can live as well in Washington as he can in London, or, indeed, sehbecananywhere. If he is a swell with a fondness for clothes and clubs he will have to inch. If he adds to this a love of horses he gimply swamped. The thing cannot be done He may keep a horse if he wishes to, but to buy the clothes and pay the club dues and to @ horse, too, is too much and is beyond the power of $100 a month. WHEN MARRIED. Canhegetmarried? Why not? That depends Upon the man and upon the girl, too. Ii both are satisfied with love in a cottage and definition of a cottage is not an estate Harbor or Lomax they can hve on 1. n't wiarve on it, and | one thing can be depended upon—if anything in the world is going to make a man bh: and get more than $1,004 year it is the con- sciousness that some One besides himsest will be the better for it. . single, alone With tastes that are riot extravas=nt, may g Bray on $1,200 a year, unless he happens to be 0 situated that calls ‘upon bis purse which he ad not foreseen before arise. Then he goes te work and makes more. IN NEW YoRK. A middle-aged man who lives in New York Was encountered ina hotel lobby a few even- | ings ago and in the course of the conversation the cost of « bachelor’s living came un. “A single man cannot live in New York,” said he, “‘on less than £10,000 a year “What! Can't live on less than $10,000 a year? ‘You must be joking.” es “Lam not,” be said, seriously; it Ihave tried it.” What nonsense he talked! But the speaker fea man who lives only at the most expensive apartments, never dines without « boitle of wine and keeps s horse or two. To live on bis scale requires at least $10,000 » year, aud he ‘aust be careful how Le spends bis mouey in @rder not to run into debt. ‘THE SECKET OF TRE WHOLE THIXG fs the scale of living that you may adopt. Given 1.200 e year mapout a mode of life that it will Do not attempt to live on a £2,000 scale. Given $10,000 a year and you will be as badly off if you attempt to live ona 15,000 a year basis ai the $1,200 man who lives at the rate of $2,000. ‘There are thousands of men in Washington who get €1,200a year. Some are single, some are married, some run in debt, others save some are quiet fellows and others are Sioa pe Others will soon get less, and still others will Remain stationary all their lives. The besis of ‘you can't do means | nd if he isa goncrous | of life | ang men year | d out | oncy— | living that the sum requires ia not hard one and a sensible man THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, S Soiichimaroe eer! T) GATHER PLANTS. ee ——___ ONE MORE DEFEAT. The Senators Again Downed in Milwaukee— ‘Other Games. GAMES YESTERDAY. American Association in the West, Athletics, 4: Columbus, 0. St. Loni, 13 Milwaukee, Baltimore, 6; Louisville, 1. National League in the East. Philad ow New Yor Boston, 2 1 (10 innings.) ; Cincinnati, 3. Brooklyn, 5, Pittsburg, 3. ‘The championship record to date stands as follows: National League. wk Pe 73 44.624 Brooklyn Cleveland. 46 570 | Pitteburg. 54 522 | Cincinnati. American Assocation. wok Fe Ww... | $1 34.704 Columbus. ..86 67 .455 \s 5 619 | Milwaukee. .50 67 54 4 £42 | Louisville. .39 78 .333 DOWNED AOAIN. It made little enough difference how mneh better the Nationals played ball in Milwaukee yesterday, they lost just the same. — The score | was but 5'to1, to be sure, and it was not an overwhelming defeat, but the game went to the Brewers nevertheless. ‘The Statesmen played some very nappy ballin the field, but their batting was weak, and they had hard work to prevent a shut-out. ‘The batteries were Carsey and Sytcliffe and Dwyer and Grim. Sutcliffe caught three balls, the third one hitting his thumb and forciu: him to retire to right f MeGuire went b hind the bat and exploded a fallacy by eatch- ing Carsey’s curves galla Es 5 e 3 & A 5 Es 2 E 3 The field work was very good, the in- field being especially clever. Sutcliffe made a play by shutting off arun on his return ‘o-bagzer. But Dwyer could not be hit effectively, while | Carsey was found just often enough to pro- duce 3 comfortable lead. Milwaukee started off by scoring twice, with Jone out. Shoch bit for two bases and scored when Canavan placed a single into right. A r ball gave Canavan a chance to tally. in the third, after Shannon had gone out on aily, MeGuire hit to left for three bases and «cored when Sutcliffe sacriticed by fying to Burke. INCREASING THE LEAD. In the fourth Milwaukee increased the lead by one. Earle made a hit, Carney sacrificed himeelf at first, and Dwyer made a single. ‘Thus the score stood’ until the seventh in- ning, when Burke, Shoch and Dalrymple each | bit sufely fora base, two men scoring. This ended the tallying. Washington made siz hits and two errors and Milwaukee ten hits and one error. OTHER GaMEs. Baltimore beat Louisville once more, 6 to 1. Stratton and Cahill and Healy and Townsend were in the points. The Orioles made eight hits and one error, and the Colonels four hits and two errors. Ihe Browns played a remarkable game and whipped Boston hands down, 13 to 4. Buiin- : ed out of the The batteries and Boyle, and Builinton, Grifiith, Murphy and Coller. St. Louis made sixteen hits and three errors, and Boston nine bits and tour errors. ‘The Athletics failed to make an error and failed to makea run. The score | was 4to@. Weyhing and Milligan cfiiciated | against Knell and Donobue. The Athle made ten hits and np errors and the Buckeyes five hits and one errBr. NOTES. In Columbus tomorrow. ‘That was an improvement. Philadelphia league has released Shindle. ‘The Colonels are still twelve points behind. McCarty and Comiskey made a triple play ¥. ire made a single and a double, Curtis ingles and Sutcliffe and Dowd a single Shannon took five of his six chances, Dowd seven of eight and Hatfield all of his five. The bienchers are called “sunset seats” in | the sout Jobu ie -¥ Ward will resume the study of law in this winter, he saya. jer Ale is after Jini Davis’ acalp. He je 4 miserable showing in St. Louis and agrees with “Der Boss.” Tom & Tages compiled ao far place Columbus at the foot of the club batting list and Washing- ton in the same place in the team field work. W. J. McLaughlin, an umpire of the Illinois Towa league, will take the place of Jim Davis on the association staff. In batting Brouthers leads Boston, Sutcliffe leads Washington, O'Neill leads St. Louis, Donovan leads Louisville, Wood leads the Athletics, Van Haltren leads Baltimore, Duffee is Columbus and Sateliife leads them all. The Douglass Base Ball Club, colored cham- pion of the i istrict. will play the Mount Pleas- ant Brown Base Bail Ciab, colored, at the National park ou Tuesday, September 15. ——— EASILY DEFEATED. ‘The Columbia Athletic Club Victims of the New Jersey Team. The New Jersey Athletic base ball team defeated the Columbia Athletic base ball team | yesterday afternoon on Analostan Island by the | very one-sided score of 8 to 1. Quite a crowd of base ball enthusiasts were present and the grand stand contained many ladies. The Columbias presented Leach and | Wright as their batteries and Westervelt and Currie occupied the points for the Jerseyites. Both clubs had out their strongest teams. Wos IN THE Finst. | The game opened with Columbia at the bat, but with the exception of Fuller, who was hit by a pitched ball, no one reached first. The Jersey boys were more fortunate in their haiz, and when the third man was declared out | had piled up five rans. This is how it oc- | curred: Carey displayed a good eye and troticd to first on balls and scored en Wild's rattling | three-bagger to left ficid over the fene: hit to Spricman, who made a be tiful pick-up and threw home to catch Wild, but Wright dropped the bail and the winner as safe, Chauncey ses ing to second on ‘Then Mack hit saiely past second and aneey made a dash for third, but Fuller ficlded the ball in. tine shape, and by a magnificent throw cut him off. Mack | went to sccoud on the play and took third on h. Currie hit a slow bounde i wildy to first and on theerror. Leach dwhen he got the d. Spaulding sae- scored. Wester- ur bad balisand was presented He siole second in good style and Green's fumbls of De Gum- scoring @ moment later on Smith's ver short. De Gumiones made a dash for the plate. but Sprigman threw him out. Columbia fared no better in the second, but one man getting to first CLINCHING THE victory. ‘The Jersey boys clinched their victory in the second by adding three more runs. Carey all rolling by gaining first on balls. ndand made a dive for third on bit to Leach and was safe, although the decision was close, Chauncey in the meun- Mack struc y scored on Cur- rie’s hit tocenter. The latter stole second on ‘© poor throw to Green and tallied on Spaulding s hit to center, the latter in an at- tempt to gain second going out on E. Wright's assist to Leach and i. King. Leach settled down alter that and for seven innings be pitched in excellent form and the Jerseyites were unable to tally again. THE ONLY SCORE. Columbia made its only run in the seventh, and the magnificent base ruuning of Phil King prevented the goose-egg presentati®h at the | end of the game. Piil King opened the inning | by reaching tirst on Smith's error, and stole | second amid the applause of the’ spectators. | His big brother struck out. and Phil, realizing that something had to be done, ran like a deer | for third. which he gained after a long, daring | slide, and when he brushed the dirt off was | calmly surveying the scene from that position. | Wells sacriticed to short and Phil King scored the only run of the game. Columbis made two hits and six errors and Jersey seven hits and one erro ‘The same clubs will play toda; ‘The record now stands: New Jersey won two, lost one; Columbia lost two, won one. If New Jersey wins today they will be champions of the east, and will then battle for the eham ship of the country with Detweit Shea Co- Jumbia deciding game played on neutral grounds Green and Curr d for | with a base. do He stole se | while before one tries to mount them. Hints to Amateur Botanists Offered by the Smithsonian Institution, WHAT SPECIMENS TO COLLECT Gentle Maidens in Pursuit of Seaweeds--Fresh Water Weeds—Going After Land Plants— The Tools One Needs—Portfolios and Prese— ‘Written for The Evening Star. T THIS SEASON OF THE YEAR RO- mantic damsels, unaccompanied by swains, whose presence would supply a keener object of interest, wander along the shore of the loud- sounding sea und gather sea weeds for pressing. Harvests of beautiful specimens are afforded by tangled masses of eel grass thrown up on the beach by storms, or they may be profitably gathered between tides from uncovered rocks and in the tide pools. A gentle maiden hands, however, are ill adapted to the rougher work of this sort, and so the algw hunting virgin who is not foolish provides herself with a shallow net six or eight inches in diameter on the end of a stout rod. TREATMENT OF THE WEEDS. If the seaweeds are of a fleshy or slimy growth they should be exposed to the air for a It for the shorc-haunt- would be well worth whi ing maiden to know in d¥iail how to_ preserve these interesting water plants. So, fair 1 having fetched your specimens home ia a pa of sea water or a wide-mouthed botile wash them fret in sea water. Fresh water will not do. For thix purpose float the plints in a basin of sea water. Pluce under the flosting vegetable a card or paper of the requisi on which ‘the plant Tio be mounted. or card is uniformly wet practicable. faite up the eur on it and distribute and urran; in as natural and seperate a manner a8 may be, the purpose being best accomplished by the water as it flows off from the card in raising it out of the sop. Let each specimen drip a mo- ment, then press it undera i between, newspapers or sheets of absorbent p: FRESH WATER ALG. It is worth mentioning, by the way, that fresh water algw are quite as interesting as the weeds of the sea and may be preserved in a similar manner. One finds them in ponds, quict or sluggish waters, cascades, ravines, shaded and dripping rocks, shallo'w, quiet angles of lakes and even im rapid-tunning Drooks and ri A dip net is the best thing with which to collect them. Among the most interesting of tiese aquatic forms are the little vegetables culled which are #0 beautiful under the microscope. They are found in abundance in pure water, stich as pools fed by spring: is. "Myriads of them may be got by rubbing them off from the stems and leaves of larger water plants, PROPER METHODS FOR COL LAND PLANTS, To instruct people in the proper methods for collecting land plants as well as water plants the Smithsonian has this week issued a most interesting pamphict on the subject. To begin with, the pamphlet informs the amateur botanist as to the tools und apparatus ri quired. One needs in pursuing thix gentle iudustry a strong pocket kuife, whici is useful inagreat variety of ways, euch as cutting hes of trees, trimining *pecimens, re~ fungi and lichens from bark and even for digging up emall plants. For digg however, one ought to have a small tro: But the first thing to be decided upon is the receptacle which 13 (0 hold tue plants while they are being gathered. perience has shown that a portt: orm 1s most serviceable and admits of bemg used under a greater variety of conditions and for a greater diversity of objects than any other form of receptacle. A great many modifications of the portfolio have been used and recommended by various botanists, but the simpler it is the more satisfactory it will usualiy prove to be. HOW TO MAKE THE PORTTOLIO. A very serviceable and convenient portfolio may be made by taking two pieces of thick pasteboard, twelve inches wide aud cighteen inches long, and fastening them together running two strings or straps through the bottom and top. These strings or strape should with the plant be long enough to tie or buckle at the top so as | toapply a slight pressure to the contained plants end also to prevent the plants i falling out. By this process the thickness of the port! y be varied at any time, rong rubber bands may be used in place of jeather straps. ‘ihe covers of an old boo when of suitable size, may be made into portfolio that will do good service. THE PAPER OF THE INSIDE. Having made the portfolio, it should be filled with four or five quires of light but strong pa per, which may be fastened into the covers or | left locee. It is x absorbent, for th as fresh us po: and put in t t desirable that this paper be 3 to keep th Pp @ portfolio n ally within. it has been well tilled a few times with moist plants and muddy roots all the fancy paper that is pui into it will have lost its charm. Any paper that is put iato it is destined to get wet aud torn and to require newal several times a seavon, aud it should therefore be ei ly thick and firm manilla paper is The it er 0 have a special planis which A long iron the end is ; ° amatcur ed with a pair of thick, y , for use in getting cucti and other thorny and spiny growths. THE PRESS REQUIRED. The next important thing isa press for the plants collected, which is best made oat of tw inch planks, each a foot wide by a foot and # half long, with layers of blotting or oth: sorbent paper between. Such p got cheaply dealer in bo: erial, the ployed for putting und each two sheets of ed two sheets of thin white these latter the specimens arc T betweea is bibuious paper ure per and 'twixt ad. f TO COLLECT PLANTS PROPERLY off a slip isanart. It is not suflicient to br from a tree or bush in order to sect: factory specimen. Every part of a pla chacacter of its own. Ieaves of most he in form at mt points of the dead leaves x: the base are distinctive should be preserved. No part of a plant is e characteristic 2 ite root. The: wherever it is po: both shouid be securce plants this is hai Various parts of togethor as cifectively as po: Dined, a picture of tue growtl as found in na- ture. It is well incidentally to carry a note book along and jot down with relation to each speel- meu ebtained certain observations whi not well be entrasted to meuior. mus (necessarily nd tho insects tound b as the pride in securing good speciraen the plants are gathered they shoul: between the leaves of the portfo! ting two differ be placed never put ts in the same inclosare, lest they stick togetner. MOW To PUY Viz YLANTS IN THE PRESS. The next operetion is to put the plants in the press already described. They are carefully placed between the layers of thin white peper, the leaves and flowers spread ont in the shape they are destined to retain, and tinally the two flat boards aro strapped together hard enough to give the requisite degree of pressure. After twelve hours they should be wastrapped, #0 as to take out the pieces of blotting paper and put in fresh. ‘The same operation ought to be performed at the end of twenty-lour hours, after which it should be repeated every day for four days. Never must the thin papers be dis- turbed to look ata specimen, because cess of air deadens the lively natural: tints which are so desirable to retain. ‘ READY FOR MOUNTING. ‘Thus prepared the specimens are ready for mounting upon clean white cardboard. Thin is done with glue in as neat a way as may be. In order that they may be preserved they should be Felimfoarily by dipping thea into a solution of corrosive sublimate and alcohol, otherwise they will be attacked and ruined by insects, Plants may be uicely kept without santing ty plostag teees ta dot sheets of ordinary paper. ‘WHAT TO AVOID. ‘The woody fungi found growing from the sides of old logs, stumps and trees not be avoided by the collector, since are the easiest of all specimeus to collect. Many of the brauches | iy Y | from whore the tr m, che stem. | tlowcrs, | fruit, leaves and so on —so a6 to give, thus cor: | the small imens of this sort found on dead sticks may it in along with other plants and tied up in the same packages. With moister and more fleshy fungi the diffi- culties of tion are very great, eo much to that with most of the fu: spore: larly as mushrooms and it is simply impossible to make satisfactory herbarium specimens. Some of the specicsare gelatinous, thers break down intoa jelly few hours after maturity. With all these extremely fleshy species the only way to preserve their form and color is to make colored sketches soon after collection. These with the spores saved on Paper will help make up the deficiencies of the specimen. PARASITIC FUXGT. ‘The various kinds of parasitic fungi known commonly under the name of ruste, smuts, mil- dews, blights, &c., are important objects for the collector. While many thousands of spe- cies have been described from various parts of the globe, new ones are continually being found even in the best studied regions. Ex- tensive collections in almost any section are seen to yield returns in new species and new forms. ‘THE NUMBER OF SPECIES of these tiny plants, spoken of under the vari- ‘ous names of parasitic fungi, microscopic fungi and leaf fungi, often nearly equals that of the flowering plants in the same area. The great bulk of the species are sound on flowering plants, but afew occur on ferns and mosses, and some are found parasicic on other parasitic fungi. Some of the species, on account of their unusual size and abundance on their host plant or their unusual destructiveness, are ru ciently obtrusive to- Le secn by everybody. Such are the orange rust of blackberzies and raspberries, the so-called cedar apples and thelr alternating forms, the rusts on thorn ap- ples and crab apples, the smut on Indian corn and many others. Other speci¢sare easy enough to find a soon asthey are looked for, but micbt readily pass unobserved. Such are most of t rusts and mildews. Again others are 80 i cons} was to be seen only by the experi- enced mycologist. SOME NECESAARIFS. In starting out onacollecting trip one should provide himself with a good hand lens of rather | high power, a pocket knite, some wrapping paper and string, and either a portfolio or a | tin collecting box, according to whether it is desired to press the plants in the field or after return to quarters. One should also carry some envelopes and a few pill boxes. = DEADLY AIM. cuRTIS' The Comedian Tells About the Shooting of a San Francisco Policeman. Actor Curtis gives the following accoant of his doings in San Francisco Thursday night: “Iwas at the Grand Opera House last night with my wife to sce Bernhardt in ‘Camille.’ left the theater about 10 o'clock to go to the ‘Tivoli Theater with Wm. Kreling, one of the proprietors. We hndadrink together and I left him to return to the opera house for my wife. When I reached the corner of 3d and Mission streets I. was suddenly tumbled into the gutter and after that I remember nothing only somebody pulling and jerking me about until {found myscif in a wagon with hand- cutis on my wrist, When Curtis was taken to jail that night he appeared to be under the intluence of liquor and incoherently told of his doings during the night, protesting that he bad no weapon and that Ke ocent of murder. ‘The place where the ofiicer ed Curtis is some blocks |trom the sition Lonse, but the shocting oc- curred within half a block of the station and Lin hearings ot a number of policemen. ant was killed immediately, the bullet enter- ng the middle of the forehead near the hair aud penetrating the brain. He was thirty. | eight years of age and hnd beea on the polic fore ars. He was much | his brother officers, many of whom w: | able to control their grief when be was br to the station dead.’ Curtis, who is known |throughout the United Sixtes, from the | cha: mucl of Voscn,” in tl d for bin, hay resided foc s at Berkele: i e property through success af an actor Berkeley, which the ps had acquired cons ruing cted a lar, been ec 1 life as ac Theater in working his way up through miuor rol position of e recognized actor in comer he pistol with which Curtis shot the j olice Officer was found in the strect a short diswnce edy oceurred. tas he sat in the honds in despair, 1 to nnother (0 provest | Curtis was stati this doings durin a it I could only reeail the lust | four hours of my life. I am no murderer, gea- | tlemen; 1 had no pistol. I shot nobo haven't an enemy in the world.” Vainly he protested his innocence of any offense and wanted to go home to his wife. rambling way ue told the story of bis . saffairs, He came to’ te ¢ eley on the 7:30 o'el Dr. Cook and his iamily He hui purchased a box for the ardt pertormance aud icft his wite and we with her at the Grand Opera House, ‘Then he went to th (he met Win. Kreling, the proprietor, and a per son whore name he could not recvilect, but French and represented himself to drummer for a liquor Louse. ‘Lhe trio re- nained iu the Tivoli undi the end of the per | formance. ‘Then Curtis claimed that he knew nothing more. Ile broke of story to tell about his proper a vaiie and its ten ant i d his narra- tive « int ana raid that after leaving the Tivoli be wet to | Op House to me While | street he was caught in a crowd. some one rtruck him in the beck of the neck and he out tothe street. There be » hands of Odicer Grant. did not kuow, but he ‘ith the otticer without e Grand in the e ho went w opposition. i “Why did you draw your pistol on him,” was asked. “Thad no pistol,” he exclaimed, “and I did not shoot any one. Tam so sorry it happened, | L wanted to Lave a good time, and never harmed | a man in ion depot the | other night who bad jast returned from Kear- ney county, He said: “f took ap aclaim three weeks azo and built my shanty with more care | than is usually taken them. I built a bed- ad of boards in the corner and laid in a swail stock of eanned goods and dried meat. |Whe first night after it was completed | Lerawied into bed und fell into a deep sleep. | ALout iaidnight I was awakened bya halt dozen , some one cracked a whi 11 straightway felt the m wagon. Iwas but half awake, but ad ibat my bed was tippe: to an angle of | forty-five cegrecs and that everyting was mov- ing. Lrealiced that my shonty, supposed to be | unoccupied, was being’ stolen with me in it. I my revolver and emptied it at the f wcatter- ing feet. Lerawled out of the suail window i drove back about a hundred yards io the ite of the house, where 1 made the uorses fast and posted myself under the wagon. The next day drove two miles to my nearest neighbor and soon bad his opiuion aud that of several other farmers, Tuey all snid the horses and wagon were mine beyond doubt, as no one yelled mn of | walls ard in answer heard the sound would ever claim them.” famine Something New to Eat. From the Portland Oregonian. ‘Anew vegetable is about to be introduced to the people of the United States through the Department of Agriculture. It is the root of the calla lily, which resembles somewhat in ap- pearance the ordinary Irish tuber, with tho ad- dition of a few whiskers that have nothing to do with the qualities of the article as an cucu. font. Itis more elongated, and when eut ihe interior isa trifle more viseld, But a section of it is so potato-lixe you would not be likely to distinguish any diference. In cooking it hus first to be boiled in order to. destroy certain acrid properties, after which it may be fried, Fonsted, baked or what not, according to teste, Farmers in Florida hav to raise these calla roots for market. ‘The plants grow readily fn swamps, and so thickly that the yield of & single flooded nere 48 enormous, re. produce themeclves by the multiplication of Their bulbs underground, so that the grower Sea pereel So pemsees come wee oadeoe ots ane’ ‘or cent the Egyptians bave cultivated a siinilar during the seasons of the Nile overflow, and the present time calla lily bulbs are a common in Japanese markets. So prolific and ‘are. they that their ia inany parts of the United States, condi tions are favorable may forward to asan cgriodignal tndlonty of j 1! , | mile—Tringle, - | 2. 1) Time, 1.44 3-5. ‘Ten Million Dollars te Aid the Persecuted Hebrews. Special Cable Dispatch tothe New York Times. Loxpox, Sept. 10.—Tomorrow will be pub- lished the articles of association which will formerly launch Baron Hirsch’s munificent scheme of benefaction to the poor and op- pressed of his race. It takes the form of » limited liability company, called “The Jewish Colonization Assogiation,” registered, the office of which will be in London. Its nom- inal capital is £2,000,000, in 20,000 shares of £100 each. Of these Baron Maurice de Hirsch sub- scribes to 19,990. Seven Hebrew gentlemen are named in the articles as owning one share each, Lord Rothschild, Sir Julian Goldsmid, Ernest John Cassel. F. D. Mocatta and Benja- min Louis Cohen, all of London, and Solomon Reinsch and 8.’ H. Goldschmidt of Paris. ‘This leaves three shares unaliotted and doubt less these will be offered to representatives of the United States and Germany. The objects of the association areas they have been generally understood, that is, to as- sist the emigration of Hebrews from countries in Europe and Asia, where they are subjected to special taxes and’ dinabilities, to other parts of the worldand estabiish colonies in North and South America for agricultural and commercial pEYPowes. No colonies will be attempted in | Europe. The association takes to itself full | rights to carry on trade, commerce and all in- dustrial operations which may facilitate the ob- jects of the company, to purchase property, negotiate securities, &e. ‘The whole property of the company and the income arising irom it are consecrated solely to the work in view. None of it can ever be taken, dircetly or indirectly, us a dividend or Douus. If upon the wiuding’ up or dissolution of the company any property remains, it is not to be disiributed among the members, but transferred to rome other Jewish iustitutions with similur objects, to be uscd for the benefit of the Jewish community residing out of Eu- rope and needing pecuniary aid. In the event of such dissolution all persons who at the time hold lands granted them or their predecessors in title by the company shall be released from | further obligation of annual or other payments to the company, and the same ia true of those to whom advances have been ma Not nore than half of the capital is to be ap- pied to acquiring property, buying lands, erecting buildings, &c. Ihe’ rest is to be ap- plied to expenses of transport and o:herwise to axsistiug emigrants. Moneys not in active use wul be invested in public securitics of England, France, Belgium, Holiand, Germany or the United states. ‘The governing body will be a council of ad- Miuistration, consisting of from tree to six men, who need not necessarily be members of the company ana who will be elected for five yeura. ihese will have no saiarics, but will ave their actual expenses. ‘ibis council will appoint directors, three or less in nuraber, who wili get saiarics and be required to Lave no l- terest whatever in any business aud devote their whole time to the work of the company. ROSSA WANTS PROTECTION, | He Asks for a Passport Guaranteeing Safety in Irelan O'Donovan Rossa publishes in his newspaper, the United Irishmen, this week some remarka- bie correspondence he has had with the State Department relative to a passport that he wanted guaranteeing him freedom from arrest in Ireland, and which was refused bim. In answer to Rossa’s first letter Assistant Secretary | ofState Wharton sent # passport in the usual | form to Rossa, incloved in a letter in which he id: “The Department cannot furnish you with a passport inany other form, and cannot rantee against arrest in foreign inal charges.” to Secretary & | laine that he between the in Which stipu- ‘an citizen couid not be ut Britain for any politi- States and Great Hated that an Am held in prisoi that he wanted to know whetin izen or not. lowing reply trom the “have to state that there is uy kind in force between nd Grea: Britain on thesub- your letter relates.” +o. ject to which Results of Yesterday's Racing. At Sheepshead First race, one mile— Kingstock, 1; Folsom, 2; Flav | 1.45 1-5. Second race, 3¢ mil | stone, 2; Worth, 3. Tim | the autumn selling sta Third race, es, for Q-vear-olds, 3% 1; Rex, 2; Fourth race, the 8 | old fillies, 13 mies—t . 3. “Time, 2.08 2-5. Kaceland, | Three starters. mile—Watterson, 1; Sent fifth race, 13-16 Pessara, 2; Ban Chief, 3. 06 Sixth race, 1 3 Eric, 2; Lady Pulsifer, 3. st race, 63¢ furl e, 2; Flagrant, 3. 1.2484. Lrace, 41 ruriow; Peer- Disoppornment, Third 3; mule —itoxe Howar ore If, 2; Vlemington, Time, 1.1 Fourth race, turtongs —Thad Kow James A. AL | Carlow, Tim | Cornelia, 1: ¢ ‘Tivol Opera House, where | Fou . “ime, 1.4594. net, 1; Keveal, 2 Time, 1.43. ‘Third race, 8 Sir Artiur, 2; Day Fourth race, mile ‘ttle Minch, ‘iwe, 147. Hero, 1; Fakro, 2; . Sixth race, 5 turiongs—Ps 1; Judge Hu,les, 2; Annorean, 3. cae ards— Lill Annic, cago, Gurficld Park: First iaylord, 1: ti Bail, Second r: | Kimini, 1; Martin Russeil, 2: i ‘third race, mil-—-Hazelhurst, 1; Touzem, a : Fourth race 1: Guido, 2 Fitth race, Qaeen Olivia, 2; Kegs Sixth race, 6 furiongs— Veteran Movement Against Jones, A strongly defined iccting aguinst Lieut. Gov. Jones and his candidacy has eropped out among the New York veterans during the ‘The comma Jones is a nounces Jones der of the post of ember unhesitatingly charging him wizh using the ‘ons and reunions as stepping stoues to political honors. a A Bloody Duel in Delaware, Word has been received from Delmar, the southernmost town in Delaware, of a bloody imprompta duel there Thursday night be- tween two well known young men of the town. They were at a religious meeting that night and had a quarrel about a girl. One of them drew a knife end cut the other a terrible gash on the throat from which he was expected to die at any time. The man who was cut then drew his pistol and fired five times, hitting his adversary twice, inflicting fatal wounds. As he fire.t he threw up his arms to ward off a knife thrust and put a bullet through Lis own arm. ——_—_+or Plotting to Release Almy. A special from Manchester, N.H., says that it is tho opinion of some of the state ofiicials there that some of Almy’s (or Abbott's) old time con- federates are plotting to aid the murderer to escape from the county jail. Harry Preble, who was recently arrested for several small forgeries and who now occupies a cell in the same building with Almy, is thought to be ono of those most interested in the plot. Preble though he can easily secure bail, which would give him his freedom, makesno ‘attempt to do 80. Since his imprisonment ho has scnt tele- rams to mon in Springfield, Montreal and ton. These telegrams read: “Trouble, come at once.” ‘The theory which is substantiated by reliable information is that rege tes not coming for the purpoze of relieving Prebel, but to avsist him in carrying out plans for the escape of Almy. Fatally Burned by an Exploding Lamp. By a fire at Ashland, Wis., yesterday morn- ing Mrs. Zoilkowski was fatally and several other persons seriously burned. Mrs. Zoilkow- oki was on a machine by the light of lamp. Her three-year-old child, in attempting to crawl up where she was ‘upset the lamp, which exploded. ————$_<or —___ Makes Them Keep Late Hours. ‘From the Middletown (N.Y.) Argus. ‘The electric light, which is now in full oper- ation on Fulton street, appears to have had the effect of causing the residents of that quict thoroughfare to forget their usual retiring cal words or acts of his in this country, and | the ve | ER’ 12, 1891-SIXTEEN PAGES. GIVEN TO McAULIFFE ‘The Fight at Hoboken for the Light-Weight ‘Champtouship. ‘The managers of the Granite Association of Hoboken were greatly pleased yesterday after- noon when they heard that a car load of sports hed come in from Troy, another from Phile- delpBia and a third from Boston toece the fight between young Austin Gibbons of Patterson, N. J., and Jack McAuliffe of Brooklyn for the light-weight chympionship of America. Tho signs betokened a profit out of the fight, and that is something the club had not yet seen. Alittle later the crowd began to come to the club house and then tho Granite people felt more joyous still. McAuliffe, accompanied by Jimmy Carroll, Con. McAuliffe, Ed. Stoddard and Jack Shee- han, reached Hoboken at 4p. m. and went to the Occidental Hotel on 14th street and re- mained there until time to weigh in.. The Gib- bons party did not come in until 7p.m. Aus- tinand Jim Gibbons, Charley Norton and a couple of assistants ecmposed ihe group. ‘They entered the Granite club honse at almost the same moment, and when they got on the scales Gidbons weighed 190; pounds and McAclifle Biy.7 o'clock the big space in front of the building was packed with people and a line of men formed from the doors several hundred fect away. There was no chaace to get in until 7:20, however, and when the crowd was al- lowed to find its way as best it could to the en- trance the jam was tervitic, for the doors were narrow. _ The long stream poured into the big build- ing, wich will seat 3,200 persons, and it was filled Lefore 8 o'ciock. ‘The prices of admission Were £10 tor the S00 seats that were immedi- ately surrounding the platform and $6 for the others. The fighters went to the hotels, where they were rested until weighing-in time. According to the articles of agreement the men were to Scule at 135 pounds five minutes betore enter- ing the ring, and they were to be in their cor- nersat9 pan, As isknowa, the Granite Asso- ciation gavethem a purse of $4,000 and. there Was astake of $1,500 a side. The whole amount was to go to the winner. All the well-kzown sporting men of the vicinity were present. ‘There has not been such a represeniative crowd of sports at a ring- side since Sullivan and Kilrain fougut is Mis- sissippi. ODDS ON M’AULIFYE. There bad been little betting on the result, for the reason that Gibbous was an unknown quantity and carried a lot of doubt with him. It was expected, however, tha there would be some fierce wagering at the ringside. McAuliffe Was the pronounced favorite at 0 80 and 100 to 70, but the bets made were in small amounts up to last night. Among those who were present were the Dwyer Brothers, Mike and Phil.. who never miss a good ‘scrap;” Frank Stevenson, Gus. ‘Luthill, Jack Dempsey’s old backer; Char! Johnson, Hugh Melaughlin and Robert Furey, Ridge Levein, Rod MeMahon, Davy Johnson, Billy Connors, Al. Adams, Lon Myers, Jobu Flood, aa Kane, Fred. Walbaum. all the best nown jockeys, inc MeLanghlin, Taral, Barnes, Garrison and George Taylor, 1 It was just 9 o'c on the stage plat brother Jim, Charley TGLTERS APPEAR. ck when Gibbons stepped rm, accompanied by his orton and a couple of assistants. He got a rousing reception, but it was nothing to’ the cyclone of appiatise that d McAuliffe, who was tive im 1 s equires we OM, th MeAulitfe and he limit, 135. pounds, pons was very cool when he wot and underwent the fanning process and even offered to bet friend who sat close 4 urre notified that in . ier the mill would be an told that to the crowd. MeAuiit: Was calm-faced av usual, He looked to be in best condition. After ten minutes or so of fussing over the men Jimmy Carroil protested to the rete hat Gibbons hada bandage on his Left wr Tt was only alinen rag, but Carrolt wanted it o “If you show me anything in the Quec berry rules that forbids wearing it,” said Gil bons, “Fil take it off; otherwise 1 li keep it Carroll had to go away without complished his pury During this dela: crowd was letting off cheers, tirst for one testant and then the other. ' The yells for Me~ Auliffe showed that he was the favorite with the populace. ike ‘Thompeon now offered to bet $1,000 on McAul to 3700 on to 9790, but there wa: no tak tor either. thousand to £800 also went begging. A THE FiguT oPEXED. At 9:27 the men were ordered to shake hands. They both wore knee breeches, but were bare from the waist up. The gloves they wore weighed 2 good four ounces. The clock used to time tne fight was an electrical automatic afiair that was used for the firct time. W started it caused a red light to burn over the center of the stage for three minutes to indicate the time of fighting. At the expiration of the three minates a heavy gong sounded, the red light went out and a white hight appeared. When aman was knocked down tht timekeeper pressed hand and « smaller gra until the fai arrival of man to rem: other words, made known by a lo Was’ arring? d buzz fromanother iece of apparatus. "The timekeeper bad nothing to do but press the b ‘The lock w: bt first cam vom the very outse cAuitte forced matters. He went over to Gibbons’ 1 smashed away there. He showed «speed and power, but Gilbons countered @ coupie of times on the Brooklynite’s taco and Lody, and when the first round was over it Was about even. Liven Gibbons’ friends were surprised that he shouid do so well at the start. FIRST PLOOD FOR M'AULIFTE. In the second round McAuliffe had the best of it. He got in a coupicof his noted straight- arm right-inders and cut Givbons badi under the left eye. Gibbons did not stop to wipe away the blood, however, and he re turned a tine right-binder on Jack's cheek. McAuliffe felt the blow and kept away from a repetition. Wien Gibbons came out for the third round he was looking all right, but oue more dash at his left cheek reopened the cut and sent the blood fiving again. The Paterson lat was faze, though, and he went back at McAu- iffo with a dash. Mac's shifty tactics. were here shown to great advantage. He jumped away from his opponent's rushes with the nim- bleness of acat and would come back at bis man with a look ou his face that meant busi- nes, ‘His right went out with viciousness and it could be seen that he wanted to end the battle bricfly. He was up against some hard flesh, however, and had to take back some stiff raps on the face. There were several clinches in the fourth round, and it seemed as though Mac was as willing to rest in them as Gibbons. When he broke’ away, though, he renewed his attacks without any sign of weakness. His two hands were flying on Gibbons’ body fast, but the lat ter succeeded in dodging two of the Brooklyn man’s leads for the head. Gibbons also planted a rattling right hander on Mac's cheek. Me- Auliffe hud much the best of the round. In the fifth round McAuliffe had his man fairly dazed. lie delivered two right handers on Gibbons’ jaw and Austin tottered a littie. McAuliffe thought he had him then, but Gib- bons was not done yet. ‘armpoxs stors aac. As McAuliffe came at him over in his own corner Gibbons let go his right in a swinging blow and caught McAuliffe full on the jaw. Me- Auliffe feil back two steps, and for a moment it jon wher saThe nem lectri clock hed Break or hitch: done its work per- not having been a single 15 of 100 to | in McAuliffe | more the bruised check and « clinch Rie ‘THE POLICE STOP THE FionT. They were pounding each other at close quarters at a vigorous pace when Police Cap- tain Hayes made his way through the ropes and declared that the fight must end. There wasa great hullabaloo and the men went to their corners. Everybody hoped that ® peace might be patched up with the authori- ties, but it was no use. captain said it must stop. Then the house expected to hear the referee say he would have to make it @ — apa did not. He shouted xo loud chet on eard almost y that “Moduli had woos ™° feet a¥AY GIBPONS ANGRY AT REFEREE DUNE. When the news was communicated to Gib- bons he was about as madman as ever was seen ina ring. He ran over to McAuliffe’ corner and cried out that he had been cheated. Of course McAuliffe did not think 60, so the Paterson man jum, the 4 Foapereeny Jumped to the ropes near several “This decision is givenazainst me,” “because I have a little blood on my face. an outrage. Iam not defeated. I could fighting this way for two hours, and I'm to do it.” Later in the evening Gibbons songht out Referee Dunn and protested tobim. Dunn suid he could not change his decision and that it had to go, and that settled it. oo EVENTS OF THE DAY ABROAD. The Story of Sophie Gunzrberg’s Suicide Discredited---Foreign Notes. A Russian refugee in London says that the Fecent report from St. Petersburg of the death of Sophie Gunzberg, the nihilist, is fictitious, is good cause to believe the woman gent any public expression of sympathy and that the present report has beon given ear- rency in order to dispose of troublesome. in- qurics. ‘This, at least, is the general belief of the refugees. dispatch from Monaco says that the princi- nda Was the scene of great rej general jubilee on Thursday on the the second anniversary of the accessiop h ing prince, Albert. Monte Carlo was gaily decorated, the litth spection and rehg The French nificent album as a eouvenir of their servation of the great French fete J) Upon the cover & Tibed in letters the legend: “From the French people if in Assumption, Paraguay, to the pr | of the French republig.”” The albu an aco ress to the chief of state, which is signed by 145 of the most prominent Frenchmen of Assumption. M. Carnot communicated iis thanks for the beautiful gi to its donors, The Emperor of Germany and the regent of Bavaria, irinee Lui:pold, started yesterday for the scene of the bavarian army maneuvers. The Times referred yesterday to ths Aso- cinted Press correspondent’s letter treating of inley law to embark in indus: Uin-plate cause puts dhe rin a nut shell.” The Paris correspondent of the Times ferring to the action of the French poli | searchin Pan in the houses and offices of promoters the government to invite Christophele to e the Panama enterprise, be being er of the chambe: mittee ign! | petitions on the grounds that compliance would the po ition of the Credit Poucier, and | to guin time invented the idea of proposing ai international cans Lord Esmae Stewart Gordo | Marquis of Huntley | was yesterday deci: | secured debts to th dasets ure placed at ¢ r nt of $81,900 and u his 630. ‘th sin commenting om the Jewish colonization association, says: This colossal scheme is the most one of the kind © remarkable sunched by pra jowever, not io entel tain misgivings as tite future. "The fitness of Jews tor the proposed carcer may be doubted, | while if it is worked | mught refuse to 1 very name ‘The creasing the wages of dock yard employes will involve an additional expenditure of £100,000 year. Liberal leaders denounce the move as a bribe to the workingmen to vote the conserva- | tive ticket. ‘The sacillation of the trades union congress on the subject of an eight-hour working dar has cansed unpieasant surprise among the wor! ing classes, emong whom the sentimant in [favor of shorter hours is stronger than the | Wish for higher wages. The English authorities fines yeste gathered in many a result of the riots at East in connection with the Salvation Army. ieved that hereafter there will be less disorder. shitferstadt, in Rhenish Bavaria, has been nearly destroyed by The disaster origin- ated in the ea d notwithstanding all efforts the flames spread rapidly, cou verung a flourishing town to ashes, — Playmates Buried Under a Sand Pile. Sadie Shaw, aged five years, and Johnnie Souders, about the sume age, were playing on a pile of sand at Bridgeton, N. J., Cuurs- day when iteaved in, completely burying them. ‘They were prompidy dug vat, but jittie Sadie was dead and the as $0 badly injured that is doubizal, Senor Pasos Dies From His Wounds A special dispatch to the New York Herald from Granada, Nicaragua, says that Senor ph Pesos, who was wounded in the 2, when the crowd attempted to a ncmaber of opposition leaders who had arrested by order of the government, ‘om the effects of his wounds. of th opposed the pre: Weavers Will Not Submit toa Cat Wages. The Weavers’ Progressive Union of Fall River held a meeting Thereday, night at which the proposed reduction in wages was the Principal topic of discussion. ‘The sentiment was in favor of running the mills a iess number of days per week rather than to subuit toa re- duction of wages. If the cut in wages is made the weavers wil strike. They were instructed to prepare all weavers’ unions and the National Union for a strike. ——_+e+ —___ Increasing Ratlroad Taxes in Indiana. ‘The state board of tax commissioners of Indiana have completed ite forty days’ session. It made enormous increases in the assessment of all kinds of property. The greatest increaso was made on railroads, which Fe asses-ed at $X),000,000 more than in 1890. The 1800 assessment was $69,762,676. ‘This Year's assessment is fixed by the-board at '$160,803,575. neal Buried in the Coal Bunkers. The story sent out on Thursday that the body found at Montreal on the steamer Fremona, from Newcastle, was that of a woman was a mistake, The body was that of aman, a coal trimmer, which was found at the bottom of one of the coal bunkers ina very decomposed state. He is supposed to have been smothered by the coal when they were filling the buakers in the Tyne river. ry privately executed in prison in order to pre-i the effect of the new American tariff us most interesting and comments upon it at length conclusion the “The Mehanle law has in, some Europ industries sated by any age to the Ameri- | can consumer. p too skeptical of e Woxt prominent leaders who | Deautiful, as the French say. inexorable fashion among those an! In that country a young man who desires to take a wife must first submit himeclf to ‘ightfal ordeal. He draws over each arm up the shoulder @ loose armlet woven of palin leaves. under supervision by his elders, be harms as far ashe can into ® nest Of fierce devouring ants. ‘he insects at once attack the intruder, of course. and, accordin to the terms of the trial, be must stand without moving for an hour, «ubmitting with absolute stoicism to, the enraged creatures. It he endures the otherwise he must undergo it again. o uded from the cl the heads of their children so that they mea conical form. Funnily enough, the does not seem to sufferany injury from this treatment, — 200 ‘The President Goes Gunning. President Harrison, George W. Boyd, Cone Sressmon John E. Reyburn of Philadelphi and Gen. Lewis T. Michener of Indiana lef pe May Point yesterday morning for @ | three hours’ gunning trip after reed birds at | Port Ehzabeth. They were on the Pallman [car Newport and were accompanied to Mill- ville, N.J., by Maj. Wm. Warner of Missouri, who had ‘come to see the President. Di her was served on the way. President Harri- son wore his usual slouch hat, neglige shirtand gunning suit. ————+e+_—____ Determined to KN Mimeseif, Georgy Herschberger, thirty-two years old, suddenly became insane at his home in New York on Thursday and attempted np from the window of bis room, which tories from the ground. His sister- @ small but plucky young womai bt him by the back ‘of his vest and | screamed for help. The madman fought des- | perately to releaso the woman's hold, but she } 4 on until be beat her into insensibility. | Herschberger then jumped to the ground, re- ceiving fatal injuries. american Prefers to Saffer for Conscience Sake. Rey. John Van Wagoner of Cedar Springs, Mich. is repenting an error of judg- ment in the county jail. Van Wagoner cwused the arrest of « young man for dis- | turbing ® revival meeting. The young man ¥as not convicted and brought suit for dam- capias and secured @ verdict of $55 with £67 costs. The refused to | pay and was putin jail. He bas bis prayer | beok and hyimnal with him and is getting up @ revivalin the jail until his tormenters get weary of paying his board. ——_~co-—___ Railway Strikers Show Vielence. The striking yardmen of the Lake Erie and | Western railway had a conference with General ‘asa intendent Hill at Lima on Thursday. cir refusal to return to work at the com- | pan the strikers were discharged. Au Sttempt to switch cars im the yards resulted im an asswult on Engineer Fisher by the strikers and warrants were issued for their arrest. A | feight train was started out, but the etrikers puiles ali the coupling pins.’ Later the train | Was sent out un Relieved to Be a Train Wrecker. | Lewis Remel has been arrested on suspicion ef | having attempted to wreck atrain on the Lebigh ) Valley railroad Thursday. Ina trunk belonging | to the prisoner wes founda quantity of dynamite | and other evidence which will probably cou- vict him. Remel has a bad record. He caused &u explosion on the Damel Drew on the Hudson in 1879, and after serving @ seven * sen- wrecked @ Delaware and Hudson train at Vlattsburg, N. ¥., killing several Hie is also well known as a contidence man. ——_+e- —____ The Value of Lemons. From the Chicago lierald. A writer who secks to mitigate the suffering caused by excessively hot weather by describ- ing Low to make simple and cooling drinks suitable for the summer season incidentally pays a tribute to the great virtue of the lemon, and a medical authority has promptly written letter confirming this commendation of the | cooling fruit, and urging its more frequent uss | in leu of ‘strong medicines, which often do more harm than good. He says that, although Most people know the value of a glass of lomon- ade betore breakfast, few know that the benedit is more than doubled by teking another at night also, A better way tofight a bilious at- | tack than powders or quinine is to take the juice of one, two or three lemons in os muck water as will make it pleasant to drink without sugur before going to bed. In the morning om Tining, at least half an hour before breaktast, take the juice of one lemon in a tumbler of os dinary or soda water. ——E Queen Victoria’s Private Car, From Frank Lesite's Weekly’. An oficial of the Midland read took me inte the queen's carriage as it stood in St. Pancras station. The walls of the saloon are of satin- wood, highly polished. The cushions are of white silk, embroidered in gold thread. A | garter containing her motto, “Honi soit qui mai y pense,” surrounds her initials, V. K. Her large chair—and it takes @ large one, too— | is at the back of the curriage and faces the en- gine. At hr hand isa silver plate, m which are ectrie aununciators, pressing which she can al Ler different atiendants, who oceupy nother compartment. ‘Three othereasy chairs ro it her compartment, besides @ sutinwood | table about cix fect long ‘aud three feet wide, |Mpon which were piied the latest English, French, German and American periodical, ‘The carpet is of velvet and in a good state of | preservation, considering it has been in nse | over fifteen years. ‘The curtains at the windows | and a portiere are hung on silver poles. The door handles are solid silver, and the-whole | saioon has the appearance of solid lexury Victoria herself selected the furnishings, whic are said to pattern after the white drawing | room at Windsor Castle. ‘The whole saloon, with fittings, cost between €30,000 and 35,000. A Disappointed Homesteader, From the Denver News. Peter Jay, the clerk of the Windsor, bas just ‘returned from a trip through the Ute Pass and new spring house on the bank of the stream nd hud just finished painting it « bright green Te of the building that he invited the for miles around to come and view his work. The invited guests were all present to | inspect the house on the afterncon of the cloudburet, and were ranged along the bank of the stream when the storm came up. No sooner had the stream commenced to swell than it carried away @ bridge, which came down ata fearful speed and, striking the new spring house fair and square, carried at about two miles down the stream. "The disgust and forcible exclamations of the old man will hardly do for publication. ANOTHER OF THOSE FRENCH DUELS.