Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1893, Page 14

14 WHO WILL Foor THE BILL! BISHOP NEWMAN'S LONG TRIP. ‘The Secretary of Agriculture and the Ex-| He Has Left on = Visit to the Churches in Penses of Government Employes to Chicago. South America. The Secretary of Agriculture recently com-| On board the Pacific Mail steamship Colum- municated with Assistant Secretary Willets bia, leaving New York yesterday at noon for asking for certain information regarding the Aspinwall, was Bishop John P. Newman of the exhibit of that department at the world’s fair. | Methodist Episcopal Church and his party, In connection with the employes to be sent| starting out on » four months’ trip through to the fuir the Secretary snid: ‘‘Letme suggest | South America. that ouly experts and men skilled and pecu-| It is the custom of the Methodist house of linrly fitted to properly establish, maintain and | bishops to delegate one of its members every explain the exhibit ought to be taken there | two years to visit the churches, missions and from this department. There is plenty of assist- | schools of the denomination in the continent to ance not requiring such qualifications to be had | the south of us. Besides this supervision the on the grounds, object of the visitation is to inquire into the “Tell me. also, whether it is your intention to | ecndition of the members of the church and es- send different individuals at different times | pecia to attend to the same duties at the world’s prreclice chadhory perio didinactiagtao Columbian exhibit. It seerpe to me important | aya teaveign, and his experience will make, bie that those who have transportation to the | £1, cao of more than Usual interess, as he ine orld's Columbian exhibit from the government | {7Ps0's study che goneral and. political omit shoald go there permanently, and that ander no circumstances should this ‘occasion be used | Someta nang mericam countries through so as to take employes of the Agri- cultural Department “to the world's | yy" Newman Reape ot Rae Seaatren Columbian exhibit to remain a fer te ~ % daysat the sovernment’s expense. The amount | M¢Knight Moses of Washington and Miss Wood, whose father is a South American missionary, will make up the party of five. BISHOP NEWMAN TALKS ABOUT THE TRIP. Bishop Newman gave a good-bye interview toa Mail and Express reporter. “We hope to reach Panama on the Monday afternoon after we sail,” he said. “We will remain there three days, until the $0th of this month, and shail have an opportunity to look at the canal if there is anythmg there. “There we take the Chilean steamer down | the west coast to Callao, the seaboard town of Peru, and then go up to Lima, where we have | both church and school interests, and will re- | main probably until about the 16th. “We next take a steamer and follow down the const, stopping at places where missionaries are for transportation should be limited, and I think, that subsistence should be for very good cause and in only a few cases. I cannot see the propricty of paving the regular salary, plus transportation, plus subsistence. But as desire to do noinjustice, [await full statement from you as to all possible expenses ” VIEWS OF ME. WILLETS. The reply of Assistant Secretary Willets was given out today. He reviews in a general state- ment the plan for the government exhibit and after referring to the organization of the body having charge of it. say “It became manifest at once as soon ax we had organized that we bad no assurance of any money, as the national commnssion had org: on such « basis as an the $1,100,000, and to be ordained. Quito and Gygyaquil will be the money with a zeal | vigited. ‘The chief point on tha@feoas: side will cathe pablt ‘perience 1D getling | be Valparaiso, but wre will make a lonj viait at a dae ‘ 5 ‘ tingo. where we have important institutions Ke ets +, £150,000. appropriated | of jearning attended by both males and females for the use of tment there remained id iarge!y patronized by the Chileans. | Donsderable time is required to be spent | e, for the design is ‘to make ® most thor- | | ough supervision of ali these interests. If the | on Mare’ 1,9, 2 1 obligations and eave of this amount a balance of | so, 1 for contingent expenses. _ THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©, TUESDAY. A LEGISLATIVE . PRAYER Which Was Criticised by Some Texas States- men. In the Texas legislature the other day the Prayer of the chaplain offered at the opening of. the pending day's session came up for dis- cussion. The following resolution as reported in the Austin Statesman was offered: Whereas the prayer which appears in the house journal this morning is an unjust and unwarranted reflection on certain members, therefore be it Resolved, That that portion of the prayer which reads as follows, “Oh, God, open the yes of those who have allowed the love of money to be balanced against virtue, that they may see that purity is above rubies, and that in their hands is placed the power to save | those against whom the false standard of societ} has closed the churches and all avenues for ormation,” be expunged from the journal of this house. Mr. Dills offered substitute that the printing of the prayers of the chaplain in the house Journal be discontinued. There was some discussion in keeping with the spirit of the resolution by Mesers. Rowell, Davis of Falls and others. Mr. Rowell * the invocation was aimed at the members, bat Mr. Davis was not satisfied that it either wapviied te caer et rrestit or ap] to eit em. {Applause ‘Mr. Moody—This matter has gone to heaven and is out of place on earth. Speaker Cochran—I haven't been there yet to know about that. ‘Mr. Fagan of Lamar said he the Preachers of this country dictating to the logis- ture and referred to it as an allusion to the action of the housé on the bill to make an ap- propriation to establish the home at Fort Worth or fallen women. ‘Mr. Turner stated that Dr. Pennington, who happened to be present, desired to make an ex- ein and moved that he be granted the privi The privilege being granted, Dr. Pennington stated In subsiance thar he intended ‘no relee- tion upon any individual member, though un- fortunate in the selection of the words used. It had been said that such matters as the salva- tion of such women was the work of the churches and preachers, but they could not " the employes the ly plan has been to detail from fsom time to time experts to take specific exhibits of said divisiona, persons to d will be so thor- the work of their to explain not to answer quee- with reference the charge of Te urers in ‘ople give their money there, they should | Visit the haunts of thete women. I should have fall knowledge of how it is expended and | have used some other expzossion than the allu- the results obtained. | sion to the love of money, but the remark was “It will be May 1 when we leave, probably, | 20t inteaded as a reflection. | and if the railroad over the Andes is completed, | , The matter was further diseussed by Messrs. | we will crose the peninsula by way of it. If i¢| Alston and Dilla, The Dills substitute was is not, we will take the steamer southward and | ‘abled, and the resolution of the representative through the Straits of Magelian and then up | from the breezy district of Nuesces was de- the eas: coast of Buenos Ayres, where are cen- | feated by a vote of 56 to 46. tered the eluef interests of our chreh. ‘There wehave large English speaking and native charehes, schools and houses of charity. The ‘erence of all oar ministers will probably be in Buenos Ayres. it will occupy a week or ven days. a “Montevideo will claim considerable time, forded salary, sub-| sna it is possible wo shall go into Uraguay and Paraguay. ‘Then we reach Mio Jane:ro, and later possibly Para, where Rev. Mr. Nel son was imprisoned for preaching against | Mariolatrs. It was claimed, you know, thas it | vas aguinst the constitation to speak ‘against | itand, although Mr. Neison was acquitted by je subsistence while on at they ought not te be sastence and iransportatic DON'T WANT THEIR LEAVE THAT Way. on 1 salary of ne case 1,800, who petent to represent the depart- is matter, with a family to support, | the lower court, be was sentenced to three | ‘d to pay for bis own subsistence | months’ imprisonment by a higher court. His monthe ot bis salary, a sermon was not offensive, bui was a vigorous sum which wouil be equivalent to running | discourse. : | & separat lishment. It would) “We shall give as much time to Brazil as detail bim with | we can. and expect to reach ther. aboat the first | aiready too emali. | or middie of August. se of ab-| “itis my purpose while away to give atten- hey would | tion to all the great interests of the countries leave an’ | we visit, the condition of religion, education, ek han they could in two mou aty hours. closely confined to the commercial resources and polities, and the out- look toward unifieation. ce. Gold in a Grave. From the St. Louis Globe-De:nocrat “A good turn will always turn up so that you | never get the worst of it,” said Frank Painter of Como, Col, at the Leclere Hotel to a re- porter. “How do you suppose one of the best fellows | that ever lived became a rich man? It isn’t o long story, but it shows to a finish that a| | square act never goes astray, even if it does take some time in finding its way around. ackson came out to Colorado in the | Without a cent to save his life. He d around for a year and a baif and lived | froni hend to mouth.” We all liked him and we knew that it wasn’t his fault that things didn’t | turn his way. and none of the boys would re- ion of chemistry is to have a well- and at least + not simply te results, but to show results are ‘obtained. The au is to be operated. ina small he same as the wea at re to be the paravhe the predictions om Ex-Acditor Day. was granted a divorce . ign county, LL, cirenit court ¢ afternoon. Day was formerly a prominent iawyer and mayor of Champaign, i, and became nationally promi- nent during the first Cleveinnd administration or ef the treasury. Mra, Day. accordi ace of herself and ser- vants of the Day household in Washington, ‘Was the victim of the most brutal and inzuman of her iusband who, on his is said to have started wssipation. general and with Mr. in partie While plodding along in art of the country a couple of days he came upon the dead body of a| lying in the road. “Poor devil,’ thought Jere, ‘I suppose that’s | how I'll feteh up “He started in to give the dead stranger the | that he'd like himself, and was soon | ga grave fora man he had never seen | Killed Her Husband at the Supper Table. AtT o'clock Inst evening in Kansas City Mrs. Laura Coleman shot and mortally wounded her busband, Frank E. Coleman, at their home. Mire. Coleman, who isa beautiful woman twenty- one years old, is of a jealous disposition. At! first one a rich A good turn, the supper table she accused her husband of €ven to a stranger, will never give you the paying attention te other women and a quarrel | WoT of it. n't dig far, though—hardly two feet. | He bad run acrows gold—good, solid gold. He his unknown friend in another hole and —-+e2—____ Making a Name for Himself. From the Detroit Free Press, ensued, during which she whipped @ revolver dQ shot her husband from her pocket through the body near man fainted when she re: done. She was plaeed under arrest. for five years and when he came to visit the old ——_—_<oo place again he was quite anxious to hear about king in Cireles. the people he had known. After many ques- Truth. | tions he came to the subject of those who had The fact that people lost on a desert o in ® | gone away abort the time he did. forest invariably walk in a circle is due toa «Where's Henry Bilker?” he asked. ‘Henry ‘light inequality in the length of the leg~. | left three month« before I did. I didn't take Careful measurements of « series of skeletons | much stock in him, but when he went west he have shown that only 10 per cent had the lower , “id be Ape make a name for himself, and I limbs equal in length, 35 per cent bad the right “°RT N' just what he did,” replied his com- limb longer than the left, while in 55 per e panion. é the left leg was the longer. ‘The result of “Well. well, I never would have thought it. | limb being longer than the other will naturaliy | tow did he do it?” be that « person will unconsciously take @| Signed it to a check. I don't know whose longer step with the longer limb, and conse-| name Henry took, but it was good for $500 and quently will trend to the right or to the left, | Henry is now on bis third year in the peniten- according as the left or right is the longer, | tigry.” unless the tendency to deviation is corrected by et eee ae eee ‘The Grocer and the Pretty Girl. the eve. ‘The left leg being more frequently the longer, | prom che Non York Hevald asevidenced by measurement of the skeleton, zr the inclination should take more frequently to| She is pretty and pert, and as she enters the the right than to the left. and this conclusion | STOcery store the eyes of the proprietor follow is quixe borne out by observations made on a | her around iy silent admiration, She asks for | | namber of persons when walking blindfolded. | celery, and while she is trying to make up her Furtner. on measuretuent of the arms it is | ind as to whether she will take a 10-cent ee the right arm is loUgeT | bunch or a 12-cent bunch che eats nuts out of « | | A terribie earihquake occurred and the wate: | time a | the 4 per cent the left arm is the longer. showing that a considerable ma- y of persons are right-handed and left-| ged. ‘The inequality in the length of the| Siuab is not condued to any particular sex or race, but seems to be usiversal in all respects. Herald, | y times been taught to per- | form tricks, and it would appear as if they had ethan is attributed to had two brook troat in a small aquarium in his Private residence that would jump out of the | Water and take flies held between the forefinger | and thumb and would also ring a little bell when they required food. They would also leap over little bars of wood placed about two inches above the surface of the water. It was a very simple matter to teach the fish | these tricks. At firsts little tower containing a tiny, sweet-toned silver bell was fastened to the iron work of the aquarium with a piece of string attached to che tongue of the bell ex- tending inte the water where the trout were. | On the loose end of the string an insect of other tempting morsel was placed, which the fish Wouldnt once seize, and pulling the cord the | bell im the tower would naturally tinkle. After | ‘this had been repeated for several days the fish | were left without food for some little time until they made the discovery that they could obtain it by pulling atthe string to which the delica- cies bad been attached. ‘This they never failed | to do ever afterward when they were hungry, | and as that was nearly all the time the little bell was constantly tinkling, as the fish were con- timually pulling the cord, and it was quite » pretty and novel sight. - — Many Made Homeless by Forest Fires. Forest fires have been raging for several days past in the Sierra mountains southeast of the City of Saltillo, Mexico. Thousands of acres of timber bave been destroyed and many families made homeless by the flames. —_—_-o-____ Lottery Companies in Mexico. Under the head “A grave abuse.” the Di- @rio Uficial of Mexico, the official paper of the government, gives a long list of companies selling lottery tickets in the United States un- der the fnise muse that tickets are issued » by companies in this country or have = legal here or are in some way connected With the Beneficencia Publica lottery or the National lottery, the only lotteries recognized | Afte¥ having nibbled at some dates, whose {him to murder them, and had divided the basket and throws the shells on the floor. The eyes of the proprietor still follow her, but ghere isadifferent look in their depth. stones follow the shells, she tries some crackers, samples some cheese and tinally decides on the 10-cent bunch of celery, which she requests the Sfoceryman to “send ‘round as soon as possi- With a final grab at = bandfal of nuts she makes her way out, leaving @ trail of shells, stones and cracker crumbs, The grocer orders the boy to “sweep up,” and spends the rest of the evening ia trving to caleulate how much he lost on the bunch of celery. ——_—--—____ Ancient Way to Force Confessions. From the London Daily News. In a remote village in Hungary a husband and his wife were found murdered on the 8th instant, and their man servant being arrested confessed the deed, but stated that three brothers— neighbors of the old couple—had persuaded spoils—-something like £500—with him. These three brothers were immediately arrested. ‘The judge, our Vienna correspondent says, did an unusual thing on the day of the funeral, He brought them iu chains to the churchyard, placed them near the open grave, and bade the priest in bis address praise the good qualities of the victims, and end with the startling words: “And here stand their vile murderers at their grave.” This was done. and the judge in the meantime watched the three brothers’ faces to — A RED-HAIRED CHINAMAN. Being Off-Colored He is Abhorred by His Brethren. From the San Francisco Examiner. Chinatown boasts of a great rarity ina full- blooded Chinese, who is probably the only red- headed one on the face of the earth. And what is more, the Chinese has a light complexion and blue eyes, and be is cross-eyed. Mish Go, as is the freak’s name, was born in China, of Chinese pareats, about thirty years ago and came to San Francisco about a year ago. He is sh and disiiked by the great major- ity of his cuntryime: “Sheep-eye” is one of the nicknames applied to him, because, from a Chinese standpoint, his eves resemble those of asheep more than those of a human being. Mish Go lives in one of the dens of Spofford alley and is never seen in close association with other denizens of Chinatown, excepung when he goes to certain stores to dispose of cheap trinkets, by which means be acquires a living. ‘The reason of the Chinese being held in such disfavor was explained by Wong Woh, # for- tune telier, wo daily occupies a portion of the sidewaik on Washington street abo “Very many years ago,” he sad, another red-eaded Chinaman in’ China, He lived there so long ago that no one now living had ever seen him. Chew Fut was his name and he was tall and fair of complexion. From some cause not pleasing in the eyes of one of the numerous gods Chew Fut was known of | all over Norta China, whege he lived and grew to manhood. “One Gay it was disclosed to a few of the faitaful tha: this particular Chinese with the red hair must die. But it was not explained by the deity why. It is not known to this day why the order was disobeyed, for no steps were taken to end the lite of Chew Fut, and so a feariul vengeance was wreaked on the people. the land, enguifing thou- who were carried out to sea by the recediug waters and drowned. ‘ihe red-haired Chinese was lost at the same d. it 18 believed, was transported direct to the infernal regions, where he must always suffer fearful torture."” ee The Woman Preacher. From the New York Ledger. ‘There seems to be no objection whatever to woman taking control of Sunday schools, benevolent institutions, churea fairs, festival and her means of caring for the flocks and filling the ecclesiastical exchequer, but when it comes to women in the pulpit there is trouble at once. This is only another of the relics of barbarism. In old times if the church could get control of the women and little children they felt pretty sure of their ability to manage the rest of the human family. Half century ago a woman doctor was scarcely recognized in reputable circles, and a women lecturer was a monstrosity. 'Con- trasting that date with the present and taking note of the change m sentiment from one de- cade to another, it is scarcely too much to. ex- pect that by another fifty years we shall see a most wonderful revolution in matters of this sort. It is safe to predict that before the end of the first decade of the next century the woman preacher will be no more of » novelty than the woman doctor now is. Woman is cially fitted for such work, and even were not so it would be only the strictest kind of justice to give her some of the honor as well as most of the hard work of the church. When ple of this generation that there is no sex in intellect or moral achievement, the first and most difficult part of this knotty problem will have been selve 1. By all means open the pulpit doors to women as well as those of the Sunday school room, the hospital and the executive committee. ——$_-o-—__ Blowing the Feather. From the Philadelphia Times. A new game for children is played with » feather. ‘The party is arranged in several groups of seven or eight each, seated in a ring |andas close together as possible. For each group is a feather. This is towed in the air in the players to keep the feather in the air by blowing every*time it comes near. The effort is so ridiculous that the children laugh. When they laugh they cannot blow and the feather is apt to settle in the lap of the merriest child. In this case she has to retire from the ring. It is, of course, her interest to make the other children laugh. As the rings decrease they are consolidated. and so the game continues until only one person is left, who, of course, is the winner. eee He Knew Her. From the Detroit Free Press. A 4th avenue man thought he would surprise his wife not long ago and he proceeded to pur- chase for her a wrap. At tho same time what be knew about wraps was so little that it shouldn't have been permitted on the streets without a nurse. The lady in the store where he made his wish known picked over a lot and handed him out something. ‘What's that?” he asked. He looked at it about a tenth of a second. “Show me something else,” he said. ‘From the Sheboygan Journal. On the farm of John McLaughlin, in Miteh- ail, this county, isa whistling well 200 feet At a depth of 140 fect there is « crevice in Panel work, through which the air rushes with by the Mexican government. fF once it dawns fuliy upon the minds of the peo- ; the center of the ring. It is the business of | That's a conceit, just received,” she an- swered, comewhat in the manner of shop ver- | macular. ———— of the Vessel. The Sarnia came up from quarantine af 9, @'elock yesterday morning and docked at the | | deep water terminus at Halifax. Capt, Coum | furnished the press with the following particu- lars of the accident to his ship: ‘ ‘The steamer left Liverpool on March 2, called at Moville for mail and passengers, and left there on the 8d. Nothing of any sccount occurred and fine weather was experienced up tothe morning of Saturday, the 11th, The | ship was then in latitude 43.54 N., longitude 55.W., or 478 miles from Halifax. At %90o'clock | the engines were slowed for hot bearings. At | 10 o'clock the chief engineet reported that the | | brasses in theafter crank were cutting away. The engines were at once ‘and the cap taken off the bearing, when it was seen that the shaft hada combination of fracturesand theshaft was tarned around. It was decided to discon- nect the engines and put the forward crank aft in of the broken shaft. At 11 p.m. the German tank steamer America jeame alongside. We si that we bad» broken shaft, but it would be ina few days. There wasa moderate southeast wind and the ship was drifting to north northwest, | making about three-quarters of a mile an hour. | On Sunday, the 13th, the crew were all set to work to assist the engineers on rigging for removing the shaft. We were then in latitude 44.09, longitude 55.13, west northwest 20, or 859 miles from Halifax. At 2 p.m. the engines were all clear for lift- ing, at 7 p.m. the broken crank was lifted ou and at 11 pum. the work of sliding the for- ward crank aft into the bearings was begun. ‘The wind was moderate, from south southeast, and the ship was riding easily, with a sea anchor out, On Monday, the i4th, the abip's position | was latitude 44.22 north, longitude 56.06 W.N. W. j 35. At5a.m. Monday the work of shifting the shafting was finished and the engineers began | the work of couphng the aftershaft, It was found impossible to break or cut the broken | | shaft, and it was decided to drill it through. | This ‘caused great delay. The weather re- mained fine, with a southerly wind, but on | Tuesday the wind increased and the ship com- menced drifting fast. We were then 332 miles from Halifax, having drifted 54 miles. On Wednesday, the ith, the | ship's position was latitude 45.18’ north, longi- tude 56.40. The engineers were still at work drilling the shaft, ‘The weather was foggy and | at noon a gale set in from southwest; rain. ‘The engineers were drilling an average of one hole every three hours at the broken end | to file on the eccentric straps. We were drift- | ing on the Newfoundland coast, being only sixty-five miles from St. Pierre, Mig. Thurs- day morning the shaft was broken, the crank was secured and the engineers began to put the engines together. At 5 p.m. on Friday the en- gines were’ started and the steamer proceeded slowly. At noon on Saturday «now began fall- ing and the wind hauled to the southeast, be- coming a gale by night. ‘The ship'was hauled | up north ‘by west, heading for Sable Island. | | There wasahigh sea running, which dashed | over the ship fore and aft, smashing gangway | raiis and doing other slight damage. At mid- night the gale abated, but there was still a | heavy sea running. At 6 o'clock yesterday morning wo saw a steamer, supposed to be an ontward Canadian | mail. At noon the weather had moderated and | at 2:30 p.m. we sighted the steamer’ Newiteld looking for us and told her we were pi ing for the harbor. —— see MORE BOM B EXPLOSIONS, ‘Windows and Furniture Broken ins Rome | Palace. A bomb was exploded last evening at the en- | trance of the Marignoli palace in Rome. The explosion was heard distinctly in the middle of the city, although the palace is in the suburbs. | The houses thronghout the neighborhood were | shaken by the shock and for 200 yards in every | direction windows were smashed and plaster was shaken from ceilings. In the palace every window was smashed, everything was thrown | from the shelves and much of the furniture was broken, ‘he stonesat the entrance were thrown out of place and a deep hole was driven in the | . ground. Hundreds of persons ran from the houses in the neighborhood and gathered at the entrance; until a company of soldiers ar- rived and cl‘areé the ‘streets. It was found | that nobody had been injured, although the damage to property had been considerable. see LIVES LOST IN A HURRICANE, Villages in Caledonia Swept Away. A hurricane on the 6th of March swept over | | the New Hebrides Islands and New Caledonia, destroying villages and causing great loss of life. Large numbers of tie natives are said to | have perished, and extensive districtsare devas- j tated. New Caledonia forms, with neighboring | islands, the most important penal colony of | France, and particulars are anxiously awaited as to the destruction of life and property at Nouraea and other points. The New Hebrides | have bu: few white inhabitants, but among | these are missionaries from America and | Europe. ‘The hurricane raged incessantly for three daysand the rainfall was enormous. Half of New Caledonia is flooded. In Tehio alone ten persons were drowned. The loss of property was at least £120.000. Most of the settlers were ruined. eS eas ANOTHER AL ‘GED UXORCIDE. Dr. Robert W. Buchanan of New York Charged With Wife Murder. Dr. Robert W. Buchanan was put on trial at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon before Recorder Smyth in New York for murdering his wife. ‘The dingy court room on the ground floor of the general sessions building had been scarcely cleared after the sensational scene at the sen- tencing of Carlyle Harris, when Buchanan's case was called. It was considered a remarkable coincidence that the last act in the one wife-poisoning case | should immediately precede the opening of the other. ‘The stories, too, were remarkably alike. Both men were familiar with medicine; both were accused of using morphine as the instru- ment of death, Harris in his trial tried to raise adoubt as to the cause of death, but in his supplementary affidavits advanced the theory that his wife was addicted to the morphine habit. Buchanan, on the other band, it is said, will allege that his wife was addicted to the use of morphine—that the drug was self- administered. Mrs. Buchanan had been an inmate of a dis- orderly house in Newark before the accused married her. Dr. Buchanan was a struggling young hysioian. Thre days before her mar- she had made a wi neathing every- ‘thing sho posscmed tober hisband, whe wes The couple did not live ‘She threatened to return to { | ten years her junior. | happily together. her old life. She was taken ill and died on April 28 at their | house on 11th street. The body was exhumed |later and the traces of morphine discovered. Buchanan was arrested. Meanwhile he had | Gone to Nova Scotia and married again his first wife, from whom he had been divorced. eee Indorsing Gladstone’s Bill, The general committee of the New York home rule advocates of the United Irish Socie- ties met at the Hoffman House in New York last night. John J. Rooney presided. Reports | of the different subcommittees were received and accepted. It was announced that the gov- ernors of all the states had been communicated with and that twelve of them had replied favor- ing the home rule movement. The secretary. J. R. Ryan, stated that a check for $200 had been received from Gov. Flower, with warm expressions in favor of the object ‘of the com- tee. At the mass to be held in the Acad- , omy of Music on Su: to indorse Mr. Giad- stone's home rule bill list of speakers will include Bourke Cockran, Chauncey M. Depew, ex-Judge Noah Davis, Rev. Dr. Henry A. Braun of St. a mae Dr. William B. Wal- to the home + ON BOARD THE NARONIC. Salled From Liverpool. The Naronic bad on board when she left Liverpool, on February 11, a crew of about fifty-five men and fourteen cattle handlers from Eastman's cattle yards, st the foot of West 89th street, New York. The officers were Capt. William Roberts, First Officer G. Wright, Chief Engineer Duncan and Head Steward J. ‘Taylor. The cattle handlers were: Timothy Connors, P. McEntre, James Shannon, James Kane,‘H. Larkin, P. Smith, John Wateon, Will- iam Shaffer, James O'Hara, J. Burke, Henry Beney, J. Statford, William Tobin and William Magee. These men were not regularly ployed by Eastman, but were other dimensions were: Lem breadth, 58 feet; depth of hold, She was fitted with two sets ‘of triple expan- sion engines, driving twin screws. On ber main deck she bad the most approved accom- modations for carrying 1,050 head of cattle. She carried six large lifeboats, any one of which would have been sufficient to carry all who were on board in case of an accident. The Naronic was launched from the ship- | building yard of Harland & Wolff, Belfast, May 26 of last year. ———_-e-+_____ RAISED THE BOYCOTT. Brotherhood Eagineers Handle Ann Arbor Freight. Chief Engineer Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, has raised the boycott on the cars of the Toledo, Anu Arbor and North Michigan railroad and the brotherhood en- gineers on the Lake Shore railrpad are hauling Ann Arbor cars, Provious to the raising of the Doycott seven engineers refused to take out cars and were arrested and arraigned before Judge Ricks of the United States court charged with violating an order of that court, issueda week ago, directed to all the railway companies, “their officers, agents and employes,” restrain- ing them from refusing to hafdie Ann Arbor freight. ‘The court alsogranted injunctions against each of the engineers and firemen of the Wheeling nd Lake Erie road by name against refusing to handle Ann Arbor freight. The order of Chief Engineer Arthur suspending the boycott will, of course, prevent any further trouble with Ann Arbor cars until March 27 at least, the date on which Arthur and Sargent are cited to appear in Judge Rick's court at the trial of the motion to make the temporary order perpetual restrain- ing them from declaring a boycott on Ann Arbor freight. Mr. Arthur is also ordered to file with the court “‘the law, by law or rule by which said brotherhood requires its members to refuse to handle cars of the Ann Arbor road.” Grand Master Sargent of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, speaking of the orders of ourt and the suit by the Ann Arbor Company | against him and Mr. Arthur for $300,000 dam- ages for ordering the strike, said: “I realize that both the actions in Judge ‘Taft's and Judge Rick’s courts are very import- ant ones and on their verdict depends ‘much of interest to future laws of railroad organizations. Yesterday I received a telegram that three | brotherhood firemen have been discharged from the Lake Shore for refusing to handle Ann Ar- bor freight. 1 shall expect the engineers to see that these men get back their places, as they got into the trouble through the engineers living up to this boycott rule, which drew the firemen into it. Chief Arthur is merely enforcing the Jaws of his order as he finds them, which he is obligated to do. Whether I can be sued for damages for ordering a strike on a railroad as the head of the firemen’s organizetion is one of the questions involved, and as soon as I am uummoned I shall appear to answer. The jnestion is one of the gravest that ever con- fronted our organization.” ee POLAR EXPEDITIONS. edad Three Being Organized to Suit Different Route Theories. From the Springfield Republican. x ‘Three expeditions, based upon different theories as to the best way to reach the north pole and pursuing different routes, are to set out for that destination this summer. Dr. Nansen is to sail along the coast of Siberia un- til he reaches a point off the mouth of the Lena delta near where the Jeannette was lost, and then go north til I locked in the ice field, which he expects will float him across the pole. Nansen’s ship is nearly ready, his stores and provisions are being prepared and his crew selected. His intended associates in the ex- pedition—among whom may be Mrs. Nansen— are already testing their endurance by sleeping in Norwegian snow drifts and a depot of wup- plies is being prepared far up on the Siberian coast. It is here that some time next June Nansen will take on board his dogs and sledges; for his expedition is to be well equipped’ for journeying over the land or over the ice, should it become necessary to leave his ship. Nansen has incidentally contributed to the equipment of the other expeditions. His researcnes and those of the specialists who have been em- ployed in his interests have resulted in several new methods of preparing food so as to obtain the most nutriment in the least bulk, and all future explorers will profit by this work. Ni ten gooe prepared to be gone six years, but hopes to be ficated across the pole and into n water off Greenland within three to reach the pole or near unto it over land. Lieut. Peary’s plans are familiar, but not so those of Henry Jackson, who is ing an expedition which is to sail from Liverpool in June. Jackson sails at once for Franz Josef land, which lies to the north of Nova Zembia and to the east of Spitzbergen. Its southern- most point touches the eightieth parallel of north latitude, and the sixtieth parallel of east longitude bisects it. How far it extends north- ward no one knows, Weyprecht and Payer discovered it in August, 1878, and went some distance into the interior. ' Peterman’s land and Oscar land lie to the north, in latitude 83 | and beyond, and measure the limit of ex- ploration in this part of the Arctic regions. Jackson thinks that Peary has gone north as far ae possible on Greenland. and that he will only cover the old ground in his coming at- tempt to go farther. As to Nansen, Jackson is confident that his ship will meet the fate of the Jeannette and the Tegethof by being crushed in the thick ice. His own theory is that Peter- man’s land extends as far north as latitude 85, at — This genera Qre 500 miles of = , & distance which proposes to cover ta if he finds an open eca or on #ledges if land or ice. Jackson's party will consist of ten or twelve, and be provisioned for three years, Mme. Nilsson’s Gift. From the New York "A pretty story is told anent Mme. Christine Nilsson’s recent gift of $5,000 toward founding @ hospital in France specially intended for the cure of diseases of the throat. In her poverty- stricken childhood the great singer was at- ‘War on King Alcohol in Kansas. A great whisky war Kansas. years, | against his fingers and @ portion of it ran d | ‘The other expeditions are both to be attempts ao and this blood. came ) See 21, 1898-SIXTEEN PAGES. els Story of the Long Trip Told by the Captain | She Carried Sizty-Nine Men When She | Their Growth, Their Health and the Time | The Members of This Family Can Stil! Feel "Hie philosophy of the" finger naile isa most | interesting study, simple though it may appear | at first sight. growth of the finger nail is 1-32 of an inch per | week, ora little more than an inch ands half per year. The growth, however, depends toa | greatextent upon the rate of nutrition, and | during periods of sickness it is undoubtedly Itis than in 3 is interesting to watch the history of a | of disease as recorded upon the finger ‘When we look at the patient's nails we see ao; of them a distinct ridge,showing that the portion of the nail which has grown since the acute at- tack is much thinned out. It a has broken his arm within | eighteen months the ridges on the nails of the | hand of the affected arm may be seen, while | ‘will be absent on the other hand. ] more acute the illness the will | be the ridge. Extreme anxiety and mental de- | | pression have the same effect on the nails as physical disease. | very enduring evidence F: The finger nail is a of disease. If there has been an acute rheu- | matism in the systems, with @ temperature of | 104 oF 105 degrees, the nail will be cut down | F | Tn typhoid fever, where the disease comes on | grndualis, there eno euch aarp eating of the nail. There are soveral well-known sayings with | regard to the paring of the finger nails, and among them are the followin, “Cut them on Monday, cut them for health; eut them on Tuesday, cut them for wealth; cut them on Wednesday, cut for a letter; cut them on Thursday for something better; cut them on Friday, you cut for a wife; cut them | on Saturday, cut for long life; cut them on | Sunday, you cut them for evil. for all of that week you'll be ruled by the devil.” UNLESS THE ARMY BILL PASSES. i The Kaiser Will Dissolve the Reichstag at | the End of April. | The Schiessiche Zeitung cf Berlin, organ | lof Chancellor Caprivi, states on author- | | ity that dissolution will ‘occur at the end of | | April unless the reichstag passes the army bill. | The kaiser has the mght to dissolve the reich- | stag after a vote by the bundesrath, and in that case the new elections must take piace within | sixty days and a new session must open within | ninety days. | ‘The utterance of the Schlessiche Zeitung is | as an indication that Chancellor | beginning to despair of the passage of the army bill and that both kaiser and tie chancellor regard dissolution as the only re- | source. | Caprivi is | | BRITISH FIRE LADDIES. ‘The Appliances They Have and the Causes of Fires. From the Chicago Herald. In 1691 the population of the city of Liver-| | pool was 517,951 and covered 5,300 acres. its | buildings are all of stone and brick. Five | | steam fire engines were in use and eight hand | engines, and there 256 men on the regular | jforce. Five hundred and seventy-eight fires | | occurred in 1890, 28 of them from lighted ‘ candles, 87 from lights thrown down, 22 from | children playing with matches, 30 from smok- | ing tobacco, 28 from children playing with fire | water supply in Hamburg uow comes from | and 30 from sparks from fire. Firemen in| Liverpool have the title of “constable” and have certain police authority. ‘The great city of London had within its cor- Porate limits in 1891 4,981,431 persons and | about 2,000,000 in territory immediately con- | tiguous; 557,134 is given as the number of | brick and stone buildings in 1891, and the city | bas no wooden buildings. The number of fire | alarms given in 1891 was 4,164, of which 1,029 | Were false alarms, 243 chimney alarms and 2,892 actual fires: 2,000 of these fires were confined | to the floors where they originated and 184 ex- | tended beyond such ficors, only 6 fires extended | | TIRED OF PRACTICAL JOKES. ‘Their Hearts Thump as the Result of One. | ‘From the New York Herald. There is one family in Btooklyn which bas resolved never again to play practical jokes. | peculiar way. The family is excellently con- | nected socially, and ite fair name has never | been soiled by the smoke of scandal. An innocent little joke a few weeks ago, how- | ever, threatened temporarily todo so, It was such a close call that every member of the ‘When one of the danghters was married a short time ago the rest of the family demon- strated their good feelings toward the young by playing all sorts of ‘on them. Leyes hy of bride followed the express- man who took the trunks to the railway station | and when he got around the corner tacked ro- settes of white ribbon all over them. They went to their destination decoraved in this way. ‘The younger sister of the bride added to the humiliation of the couple by sending a letter tied up in pink ribbon and addressed in large | im ten days return to the bride's parents, No. -- — street, Brookly: The bell boy who took the letter upstairs smiled snggestively wien the groom received it and lingered for something substantial, Which the groom was only too willing to give. ‘The brother of the bride was married several weeks ago and his sisters combined to “make him sick” They succeeded unintentionally in upsetting the eutire family. He thought he was very “foxy” and told his sisters they had his permission to do anything they pleased. He refused to tell where he and his bride pur- posed to spend their honeymoon, but the young women discovered it. They sent his bride « series of letters, and tome one (identity not kuown) sent telegeams to the varions hotel keeners, signed apparently by the groom's father, winoh read “If Mr. and Mra, Tegister at your hotel Please notify me at once street.” It was these telegrams which created the dis- turbance. The hotel clerks sniffed an elope- EVERY WORD TRUE! So Says the Writer of that Fa- | This resolution was brought about in a very) He Referates His Statements, Produces mous Letter. Additional Proof and Clearly Defines His Position. {New York Sun.) tt measure the tnterest @@@ say excitement, which the pub> Ushed letter of Dr. R.A. Gunn, which appeared 1B Papers yesterday bas occasioned. The prominenee Tt wonld be aim, | of the doctor and the anasual natare of the lattet We bord tended to add interest to the subject aad make it really the talk of the town. 4 upon Dr. Gt at his rosidence, No. 196 A witect, yesterday afternoon. I found the ton Toom crowded, and \t was only after an hour's waiting that I succeedec in obtaining @@ Intervie Dr. Gunn ts a distinguiahed looking man and tm- Pressed me at once by his manly bearing and aif Qi sincerity. I took the seat he eourteourly offered me, and xa Ary ow Aware, doctor, of the commotion your rer Nas caterd™ ‘vubn <miied and replied: “Things out of the ordinary 0 mon ting Tecommend ‘and courage to be is why the Bigbest skill of d with the this remedy, doo- jen years,” he rentied. called to the Sate Cure ment at once and toid the correspondents of | the New York newspapers. Ther sent the “ by telograph to their papers. The city edit noted that the name was good and the locality first rate, and reporters were immediately seut out to work up what promised todevelop into a rattling story. ten record of my Qhis desk and pro- furning over the leaves book. t cave of 8 gentleman who was a great The first man to call siated what his paper a nfamiation of the biadder of loug had received and asked for information of the He had uited @ number of phys | head of the house. That individual wus fairly Ht benefit. | When frst paralyzed. He called a convention of the family to order in the parlor and there was the liveliest kind of asession. Each delegate waated to ex- plain at the same time. CHOLERA IN EUROPE, Drs. Kempster and Irwin Investigating the Plague for the Government. Correspondence of the Mail and Express from Alex- aria, Eevpt. Dr. Walter Kempster and Dr. Fairfax Irwin of the United States marine hospital service arrived bere today on the steamer Fuerst Bis- marek. They avere sent out by President Harrison | before the national quarantine bill was passed to make a study of the sanitary conditions of ports of departure “for vessels bound for the United States and also to look into the methods of fumigation and disinfection used in order to be able to cope with cholera if it should break out this coring summer. ‘They joined the Fuerst Bismarck at Genoa for this piace, thence they go to Constanti- nople, stopping at Jaffa and Smyrna. ‘They have been in Hambarg, Bremen, Rotterdam and other cities, where they have minde careful investigations. They found cholera existing in many of the German towns and are convinced that the rivers are infested, but find that every precaution is being taken to crush the disease. Especially is this eo im Hamburg, where the officials are constantly on the alert. The entire wells and no water 18 used unless the vessel that holds it bears an official stamp. Work on the w water way is being pushed rapidiy and it is expected to be completed and in use by April 1. ‘Drs, Kempster and Irwin have found Rot- terdam in the most precarious condition on account of the surface drainage system in that city, Alexandria, Constantinople and Palermo are the greatest rag-shipping ports and the doctors will study the method of fumigation to see whether it is effective and whether clean ills of health and manifests from the officials at these ports are reliable. usual methods of ir * was y cured. ured afew pages further and then who as vo orming tn 1 had never Ueea able to prevent these formations, Dut after an unusually severe attack 1 recom> i> try the Safe Care, which he did, it is se She became fourta month «nddenly sions and finally fell into astate of coma, cause by uremic or Kidney poison. Several phvsici Who saw her said she could not live, and in | | I fully concurred. As she could still swallow I said, as a last resort, that they might tre Warner's Safe They did so, and t» the surprise of ie sbe recovered. Nhe has since given DIF *g child, and is perfectly well.” icity. I would consider it favor if you would give me their names. I Kk the Importance of the subject would fully ify it.” nthe interests of other sufferers I think you orrect,” Dr. Gunn finally observed after a thougtt. “Hoth the lady and her hus | tai yu } are | mom band are so rejoiced, so grateful over her recovery that [ know ale is only too giad to have others heat jot t. “The lady is Mrs. Eames, wife of the welle known cost: She was not only restored, but is in perfect heaith today.” 1 thauke: om impary is gemerone and hui mm feeling other than giad at seeing ew publisued Tor the benent of suffering CAN YOu SPARE A MINUTE? to adjoining property and oniy 3 extended be- | They consider the most effective method of | ‘There are a whole lot of thinss we'd like totalk to you yond adjoining property. partment consists of 47 land steam fire engines. | 95 land manual fire engines, 9 steam fire en- | gines on barges, 8 steam tugs, 105 bose carta, | 36 miles of hose, with Indders, trucks, fire es- capes and an abundance of alarms, telegraphs, telephones, &c., to render the service of its 706 firemen very efficient. Nineteen million gallons | of water were used during the year at fires, | one-third of which was taken from the riv. canais and docks. The causes of fire are curious: Fifty-nine came from airing linen, 150 | from candles, 39 from chiidren playing with | fire and 62 from their playing with matches; 61 | were caused by swinging gas brackets, 69 from | escape of gas, 37 from curtains or blinds com- | ing in contact with lights; 104 originated from | hot ashes, 290 from spirit lamps (206 of them | being from upsetting such lamps); 100 came | from sparks of tire and 38 from improperly set stoves, | ———_+e-+____ Squirt Blood Out of Their Eyes. From the Independent. Tthas been said that horned toads, when teased, sometimes squirt blood out of their eyes. This has been proved by Mr. O. P. Hay, | who to facilitate the shedding of the skin. tossed one into the water, when “on the side of the basin there suddenly appeared a number of spots of red fluid, which resembled blood.” | This was microscopicaliy proved to be blood. A day or two afterward Mr. Hay was hol | the lizard between his tumb and middle finger | and stroking its horns witn his forefinger. All | at once a quantity of blood was thrown ont jonthe animals neck, and this blood came directly out of the right eye. ‘This has been no- | ticed by others, and Mr. Hay states that more | than twenty years ago Mr. A. R, Wallace pub- | lished a letter from a correspondent in Cali- fornia who described this creature as from one of its eve “a jet of bright very much like blood. Devouring Affronts. ‘From the Manchester Times. | ‘The most miserable of lives, probably, is that | of the “barn-stormer,” or comedian who goes about with others ip a company, performing in | small towns and villages. Not infrequently | these people encounter audiences which express deserved contempt for them in ways which are | not kind. | “I suppose,” sida friend of one of these performers, at the close of one of his expedi- | tions, “that you get pretty much ever: | thrown at you! 2. ipally, and now and then tarnipe aed freduently potatoes” “And occasionally cabbages. I suppose?” « Uni hit by a cab- Jnfortanately? What do you mean by that! “Why, bless your soul, it was the best luck we had when people threw those things at us. ‘We had so little to eat that we were thoroughly glad to swallow their insults.” ——-e-—__ An Example of Mercy. From the Colorado Sun. red liquid supreme mark of approval has been given to ‘the four lines: Little drops of water, Littie arains ofeasa ™Bnd the betataoes Tena. ‘The plain lesson taught by this short verse, the ons which the have always is the Ereamens of the accumulations little Little influences. as they are combined. "But ite origin and history ‘there are won- f i 4 t i The London fire de- | fumigation to be steaming at 250 degrees | Fahrenheit, but this method ruins fine clothes and silks. “They also found that the cases of cholera in Marseilles were started by an importer who fella victim to the scourge. Dre. Kempsterand Irwin wil! continue their investigation in the Mediterranean ports unless ordered otherwise from Washington. -coe- “But Don’t Filibuster.” From the Chicago Tribune. “To come back to what I was about to say, Miss Quickstep,” began the rising young rtates- man, the honorable member from the ‘steenth | district, clearing his throat, “you must have | suspected that I" ‘“What a queer thing a cat is, isn’t it, Mr. Hackers? See how quickly pussy gets ac- quainted with one. Rubs her head against y and purrs as if she had known you all her life.” “Yes, neat is a queer animal, I haven't any great admiration for cats, I confess, but to return to what I was about to say, Miss Amanda, you will perdon me if ! seem too presumptuous when I teil you that I. . “Don't you think ‘Mr. Isaacs’ is a very won- derful story, Mr. Hackers? “Yes, it’s a great story. But what I wanted to say is that I——” ‘And are you reading ‘Benefits Forgot?” I always wait till a magazine story is finished before I tackle it. But listen to me just & moment, Miss Amanda, I—" “Doesn't it seem to you, Mr. Hackers, that the study of Dante is——” “Amanda Quickste exclaimed the young Congressman, impetuously don’t want to be my wife give me a chance to put the question squarely und then say no, if ‘eax must, but for heaven's sake don’t fili- yuster!”” —— Playing Tricks With Vegetables. From Meehan's Monthly. 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