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8 = THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, MAY 22, 1893—TWELVE PAGES. THE NICARAGUAN SITUATION. ‘What Ex-Minister Shannon Says of the Condition of Affairs. Mr. Richard C. Shannon, recently U. 8. min- ister to Nicaragua, has closed up his business with the State Department and has gone to New York. He submitted his final report to Secretary Gresham and has ended bis official connection with the government. Mr. Shannon left Managua April 29, having placed Mr. Newell, the U. S. consul, in charge of the lega- tion. Mr. Shannon met his suecessor, United States Minister Baker, in Colon. Mr. Baker was accompanied by his two daughters, and ‘Was just about to start for Panama on his way to Managua. Mr. Shannon told him about the situation in Nicaragua and also gave him valua- ble information for his guidance in matters concerning the business of the legation. THE sITUATIOY. In a recent interview in regard to the sitaa- tion in Nicaragua Mr. Shannon said. “I can say that President Sacaza always acted promptly and fairly in any matters relat- ing to American interests which I had occasion to bring before him. I have never had the | least occasion to complain of his conduct to- ward our interests. Personally he is = most agreeable gentleman. He is not at all the bad man or tyrant isthe case. For instance, the stories it bis having caused children to be shot in | the street and similar atrocities are false. The faet is that he is only disliked politically; the country 1s discontented with his administration, ‘that is all. “The chief difficulty which will be encoun- tered during the armistice will be to find s man for the presidency who will satisfy all the po- litical parties. Santiaso Morales would not ac- the place. He is the wealthiest man in and does not care to assume the re- sponsibilities of the office. Zavala is a good man, but he bas been president once, and may Rot care to fill the office again. Men of his own might him. No doubt the entire will be taken up in trying on an acceptable candidate. reparations for this revolution, by the way, have been kept surprisingly quiet. They have been going on for twenty months, and not- withstanding the expressed dissatisfaction of the people it was not expected that the blow be struck so quietly and without warning. NO DANGER TO CANAL PROPERTY. “As to there being any probability of danger to the canal company’s property, Ido not be- lieve there is any. All Nicaraguans, irrespec- tive of party, want to see the canal finished. It ia the great work of Central America and all people in those republics are looking forward to its completion. “The people in Nicaragua are especially friendly to Americans. I have had Nicara- gnans come to me and ask if there was not some way whereby their country could be brought under the government of the United Staten In. railroad car filled with intelligent Nicaraguans not long ago vote was taken to find ont how many favored their country being brought under the domination of the United Staten’ Out of twenty-five, pase- engers there were only two adverse votes. Of course this state of feeling may have been due to their desire for some other government than —- ——-e--_____ ADMIRAL GHERARDI’S VIEWS. It Would Be Better if Naval Officers At- tended to the Work of the Navy. Rear Admiral Gherardi was recently inter- viewed in New York in regard to Secretary Hervert’s policy with reference to granting leave of absence to naval officers to allow them to engage in private business enterprises, There were two classes of private business, or, rather, two sets of conditions, under which it was sometimes undertaken by officers in the navy, he said, which were separate and dis- tinct, One required leave of absence and took , about all the time of the officer: a pape ayeet ‘8 portion of the offi- ¢er’s time and could be done without interfer- of se curing leave of absence to attend to outside affairs?” Rear Admiral Gherardi was asked. “I cannot say precisely,” he replied, “but doubtless there have been many cases where fficers of the navy have been given leave of absence for considerable lengths of time and have devoted this time to business concerns for which their training in the navy had, 7 fitted them. The order of the Secretary will naturally cause a discussion of these — No secret has been made of the fact that has been going on.” you know of any instance?” ‘I think of several in which officers have been given protracted leaves of absence and have been emplored by private business con- cerns. I would not care to specify the officers, the facts are well known in naval circles. And, mind, I do not say that any wrong is If @ naval officer is given leave of ab- ue form and by the proper author- ities, his time is then his own, and if he sees fit toenter the employ of a private concern dur- his leave there is no power to stop him, and ‘does no wrong in doing #0. The question however, on the advisability of giving naval absence. instance, suppose a shipbuilding firm comes to me with’ plans and wants advice or comes to me and asks for plans of a ship which will pos- qualifications and says: ‘Give us it me from giving my services if by so doing my duties to the navy are not in- terfered with.” “Do you think that the custom of granting leaves of absence has had «bad effect on the effictoney of the navy?” “It seems to me that it is not the business of ‘an officer to engage in private business while he is connected with the navy, except as he may do so without securing leave of absence for the | or interfering with his regular duties. | ‘edo not enter the service to carry on private Business. It would be better if naval officers attended to the work of the navy.” SUCCESS OF THE REVIEW. Admiral Gherardi’s Good Opinion of the American Representation. Admiral Gherardi is enthusiastic over the success of the recent naval demonstrations in American waters. The effect, he says, will be tobroaden the ideas of the people of the United States respecting the need for a navy and to give them confidence in the ability of the United States to build vessels equal to those of the great naval powers of Europe and to provide competent officers for them. When asked how the United States cruisers eompared with those of the other nations, Admiral Gherardi sald: “Our raisers are equal im every way to other vessels of like elas, We have made some mistakes, to be sure—I am inclined to think, for instance, that the criticisms of our vessels for their high free- boards is weil taken—but not more mistakes jonately than any other nation has ; rather loss, I think. In this country all deficiencies and faults are freely and openly told." In most foreign ‘countries such things sre seldom mentioned or known by the public. ‘When I entered the navy in the forties we had as fine a class of vessels as any other nation. ‘The high standing of the nary was maintained ‘Until after the civil war. Then the national {interest in the navy laj and our navy be- came the laughing stock of foreign nations and finally of ourselves. The interest has now been ly awakened again. and the American Flople, mar be sure that the ships which are ing turned out of our yards are the equais of any afloat. The latest built, the New York, is a splendid vessel.” Admiral Gherardi said that the Russian ad- miral had told him that one of the principal | Feasons for taking the Russian fleet to Phila- delphia was to give the officers a chance to see the ship yards of the Cramps, which, the ad- wiral had said, were the most complete and in- structive he had ever seen. The Russian ves- sels, Admiral Gherardi said, would not go to Annapolis in June, as they’ drew too much water and could not get with seven miles of the city. ae ee Net Room Enough for Both. Ex-Congressman Timothy E. Tarsney, who represented the Saginaw, Mich., district in the | Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, was seen st the Riggs House. Mr. Tarsney, who is a brother of John C. Tarsney, the Missouri Con- greseman, will be remembered as having de- feated and succeeded the famous wit, i. G. Horr, who represented the district for several | terms. Business before the Treasury Depart- ment brings him hereon a flying trip. The | two brothers, Tim and John, as they are familiarly called, had a narrow escape from serving in Congress together. all that prevented 3t being Tim's defeat for the Fifty-tirst Con- gress by Col. A. T. Bliss, and so,as Mr. Tars- Rey expressed it to 1 T went ont | ‘ef Congress by one door the same day Joha entered it by another. But then,” he added, | “that was ali right, for there isn’t room enough which his enemies try to make it | ‘be, im Congress for both of us at the same time.” THE EPWORTH LEAGUE. A Convention of the Fourth Conference to Be Held Here. OVER TWO HUNDRED DELEGATES EXPECTED TO ASSEMBLE IN THE METROPOLITAN CHURCH OX WEDNESDAY—THE LEAGUE IDEA—HOW IT ORIGINATED AND ITS DEVELOPMENT. A meeting of the executive committee of the District Epworth League, which has charge of the arrangements being made for the conven- tion of the fourth general conference, District League, to be held Wednesday in the Metropoli- tan Chureh, corner of 43¢ and C streets north- west, was held in McKendree Church to com- plete the arrangements for the convention. ‘The indications point to a largely attended and interesting convention. Already upward of 200 delegates have been heard from indicat- ing their purpose to be present, and naming the time when they Ge ey to arrive. and it is expected that many of them will bring friends with them. ‘TRE LEAGUE IDEA. ‘The league idea has gained a substantial foot- hold and is received with enthusiasm in Metho- dist circles everywhere. It is represented in V pagpeswerd all the churches in Washington, and the membership in most of local societies is increasing. The local societies are known as chapters. for which the following constitution is recom- mended: Name: This organization shall be known as the Epworth League of the Methodist Episcopal Church of —., and shall be subordinate to the quarterly conference of said church. and a chapter of the Epworth League of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church. Object: ‘object of the is to pro- mote intelligent and loyal piety in the young members and friends of the church; to aid them in the attainment of purity of heart and in con- stant growth in grace, and to train them in works of mercy and help. Membership: Members shall be constituted by election of the chapter on nominations by the president, after approval by the cabinet. ‘The pastor shail be ex-officio a member of the chapter and of the cabinet. THE ACTIVE MEMBERS’ PLEDGE. Whenever a chapter so decides there shall be two classes of members, active and associate; active members shall. in addition to election as provided for, subscribe to the following pledge: “T will earnestly seek for myself and do what Ican to help others attain the highest New Testament standard of experience and life. I will abstain from all those forms of worldly amusement forbidden by the discipline of the lethodist Episcopal Church and I will attend, so far as possibie, the religions meetings of the chapter and the church and take some active part in them. In such cases active members only shall be eligible to election as officers of the chapter. Associate members shall be entitled to all other privileges of membership. Departments: The work of the league shall be carried out through six departments, as fol- lows: 1. Department of spiritual work. 2. De- partment of mercy and help. 3. Department of literary work. 4 Department of social work. 5. Department of correspondence. 6. Department of finance. The distribution of Jrork under each department shall be as fol- lows: DEPARTMENT OF SPIRITUAL WORK. ‘This department shall arrange for the regular Prayer meetings of the chapter. It may also plan special revival meetings and neighborhood outdoor and cottage services and the like. It sball look after the spiritual welfare of the | members of the chapter. inviting those who are interested to join the classes of the church. It may conduct’ children’s prayer meetings or de- Yotional meetings for special classes of persone, as sailors, railroad men. &c. It shall help the superintendent in building up and strengthen- ing the Sunday schocl. It shall also endeavor to interest the young people in the missionary enterprises of the church. To it shall be com- mitted all the evangelistic and devotional ac- tivities of the chapter. Where the work of the league is so divided that the different depart- ments interweave their efforts the department of Christian work shall arrange for the devo- tional work in sociables, lectures and all such meetings. DEPARIMENT OF MERCY AND HELP. ‘This department shall arrange for the #ys- tematic visitation of the members of the chap- ter, the sick of the neighborhood, the aged and new comers to the community. It shall in- terest the league in the charities of the place and plan to give aid when needed. It shall have charge of temperance, social purity work, tract distribution and the like. The junior Iaague shall be under its care when not or- ganized separately. All sorte of home mission work when undertaken by the chapter, such as Visiting hospitals, nursing. distribution of flowers, starting industrial schools, running employment bufeaus, coffee houses, day nur- ies, &c., sball be under its care. DEPARTMENT OF LITERARY WORK. It shall be the aim of this department to encourage the study of the Scriptures, to in- struct the membership of the chapter in the doctrines, policy, history and present activities of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the other denominations of the church universal, and to give stimulus and direction to general Christian culture. It shall have charge of all the courses of reading and study pursued by thechapter. It may open, wherever practicable, libraries, reading rooms, art rooms, night schools and the like. It shall arrange for literary gatherings, when members of the chapter and others shail present essays, papers, talks and debates. It shall endeavor to extend the circulation of the books and papers of the church, and do what it can to quicken the in- tellectual life of its members and the com- munity. Department of social work—This department shall be on the outlook for new members and be ready to receive them and introduce them atall meetings “of the chapter. It shall have the charge of the social part of all gatherings. The music of the chapter and its entertain- ments, other than the literary programs, éhall be under its care. It may provide flowers for the pulpit, ushers when needed attend to procuring badges, emblems, banners and deco- rations and be the custodian of all such effects betonging to the chapter. Picnics, excursions snd the like shall be under its care. Department of correspondence—This depart- ment shall keep a complete record of the mem- bership, of all the meetings and of all the courses of reading and study pursued by the chapter. It is desirable that it keep copies of all programs, newspaper and other notices of its affairs and all memorabilia relating to its do- ings. It may carry on correspondence with absent members and other chapters. Department of finance—This department shall present plans for meeting the financial needs of the chapter. All matters involving an ex- penditure of money shall be referred to it for consideration before the final action of the chapter. officers are president, first vice dent, second vice president, third vice presi- dent, fourth vice president, secretary and treas- urer. The president, who shall be a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, shall be elected by ballot ona majority vote. ‘The other officers, who shall be members of the Methodist Episcopal or some other evangelical church, shall be elected in the same manner. All officers must be approved by the quar- terly conference or the official board, and the president upon approval becomes a member of the quarterly conference. ‘THE WASHINGTON DISTRICT LEAGUE. ‘The Washington societies are embraced in the local grouping known as Washington District League of the Baltimore conference, which covers the territory embracing the District of Columbia, Montgomery, Prince George's and part of St. Mary's counties, sided over by Kev. Henry R. ‘The officers of the District League a dent, George W. F. Swartzell; first vice presi dent, Fred E. Tasker: second ‘vice president, George E. Tyler; third vice president, A. A! Chapin; fourth vice president, Mr. Warren; secretary, Miss Fannie A. Meeks; treasurer, Jonn T. Meany; executive committee, Rev. H. R Naylor, D.D., W. A. Wills, J. A. Edgar. There are in the city eighteen chapers, namely, Douglass Memorial, Anacostia, Twelfth Stree:, Fourth Street, Waugh, Gorsuch, Met- Topolitan, Wesley, North Capitol, Fletcher, Grace, Hamline, McKendree, Ryland, Foundry, Fifteenth Street, Union and Dumbarton. repre- senting a total membership of about 1,500. The ‘District League holds once a month ® consecration prayer meeting conducted by one of its own young young people. Re- cently a feature waa introduced consisting of the presentation of « paper upon some subject relating to league work, which for twenty or : receding the regular prayer meeting service was open for discussion. During the past season the chapters in four more of the churches have at different times | entertained the members of the chapters of the other churches in the city. These gatherings have been helpful, in that they have promoted the feeling of fraternity betwcen the members of the different societi Much interest 1s being felt by the Epworthians for the success of the convention next week. ‘The program tobe presented embraces addresses and papers, with discussions upon the leading subjects relating to Epworth League work, by some of the best league talent in the general conference territory. WILL MARRY HER DOCTOR. Marie Nevins-Blaine to Become the Wife of Dr. Bull of New York. From the New York Herald. Young Mrs. Blaine is to change her name. She is going tobe married to Dr. William T. Bull. There have been many rumors of an en- gagement, but all these have been denied until now, when the announcement is authoritatively made. Ever since Dr. Bull was called in to at- tend Mrs. Blaine professionally when she was lying ill with rheumatism at the New York Hetel, almost at the very moment when she had hoped to make her triumphal debut ou the professional stage, there has been a suggestion of romance about their association. They only recently became engaged. The wedding will not be long deferred. According to present arrangements it is fixed for early in June. It will be quiet one and may be followed by a trip to Euro) ‘The bestowal of her heart and hand on Dr, Bull entaila only one sacrifice on the part of Mrs. Blaine. In marrying him she will be obliged to virtually renounce her faith. She is Catholic, and the Catholic Church inexorably \d without exception forbids the marriage of a divorced person while the former husband or wife is living. The ceremony will not, there- fore, be performed by a Catholic priest. Marie Nevins Blaine obtained a divorce from Foune James Gillesple Blaine a year ago Inst february. She went to Dakota for that pur- pose and her husband put in no defense. A REGULAR LOVE sToRY. At the time of her illness physicians of high rank pronounced Mrs. Blaine’s case practically incurable. From the moment Dr. Bull was called to her bedside he brought words of e couragement and hope to the young woman, Nor was that all. Dr. Bull's first diagnosis of the case and his opinion of what he could do for the sufferer were fully warranted by what he succeeded in doing. Mrs. Blaine is not a well woman today, but she is very far from being the stricken, help- tess cripple she was when she first saw Dr. Bull. Since Mra. Blaine’s convalescence what Dr. Bull has done for her has often happened to many people, and probably on the old prin- ciple that heroines in love stories always marry the man who saves their lives, people havo often half jokingly and half seriously connected their names. THE BRIDEGROOM-ELECT. The bridegroom-elect, Dr. William Tilling- hast Bull, is forty-four years old, but does not look it, He is a well-bred man of the world and of fine figure, which bespeaks the athlete in every movement. His face is clear cut and his head well poised on his shoulders. Hishair is tinged with gray just enough to give added dignity to his appearance. 1 cailedon the doctor last night, and while he admitted the correctness of the Herald's in- formation he me to excuse him from going into the details of either his engagement or his future — The doctor was glad to learn that if the enga~ement were to come out it was to be announced through the columns of the Herald. Mrs. Blaine, like her fiance, ted that the news was to be made public. She expresved | herself as having recently allowed the belief to enter her mind that she would no longer bea ject for public discussion. In Mrs. Blaine’ it is not the announcement of the engage- ment and approaching marriage, which mean so much to her,has suffered so much, which sho regrets, but rather the dread of seeing re- vamped much of that which she has learned to put out of her life forever. OF OLD COLONIAL BTOCK. Dr. William Tillinghast Bull was born in Newport, R. L, May 18, 1849. One of his an- cestors, Henry Bull, settled in Rhode Island with Roger Williams and was twice governor of the colony. ‘The large landholding allotted to Henry Bull in Bull street, Newport, remains in the possession of his family to this day. -For 250 years six successive generations have added honor to the family name, and the seventh Henry Bull, the present incumbent of the family homestead, is the father of Dr. Bull,who is his second son. Dr. Bull's studies have been long and thor- ough. He is « Harvard man, where he was = an A.B. in 1869. His degree of D. he received with honors from the College of Physicians and Surgeons three years later. After this he studied with Dr. Sands, went by merit into Bellevue Hospital for year or two, then devoted two more years to study in Europe, and, after this lengthy preparation, began the Practice of his profession in Ne York city in 1875. * & BRILLIANT OPERATOR. Dr. Bull was for two years in chargo of the New York Dispensary. For eleven years he had charge of the Chambers Street Hospital, and for four years he was attending surgeon in St. Luke's Hospital, where he is still consulting physician, and for several years be has prac- ticed at the New York Hospital. . Bull has not only won from his profes- sion this thick crown of laurels, but he bas also advanced his profession. ‘His brilliant operations in laparotomy have brought about a revolution in the treatment of gunshot wounds in the abdomen, and his improvement in the surgical handling of such cases has largely re- duced the percentage of mortality from such wounds ‘To complete the list of Dr. Bull's honors in his profession it should be added that he is con- sulting surgeon in Manbattan Hospital as well as in the Orthopmdic Hospital and Dispensary, urgeon in charge of the Hospital for Ruptured and Cripples and is a professor of surgery in Columbia College. In regard to social honors, Dr. Bull is member of the Harvard Club, a founder of the Zeta Pai Club, is on the committee for admis- sions in the University Club and is a member of the Century Club. The doctor has never been married. : —————— A PROCLAMATION REQUESTED. Representatives of Boston Churches Tele- graph the President Regarding Sunday Closing. Just after midnight this morning the follow- ing telegram was sent President Cleveland: President Grover Cleveland, Washington, D. Boston churches in union and separate meet- ings earnestly request executive proclamation to allay damaging and dishonorable suspense in regard to Sunday opening, ordered in violation of national law by the directory, encouraged to such action by the commissioners’ refusal to de- clare the law of Congress final. Debates and divisions and delays of the commission have destroyed confidence in its decisions, which neither side will now accept as decisive. In this serious crisis we rely on the national gov- ernment to prevent nullification, through its executive or its judiciary. "| Wo stiggest procia- mation that opening will not be allowed except on mandate of federal court. (Signed) C. L. Gocdell, pastor Winthrop Street Methodist Eviscopal ‘Church; A.8. Gum- bart, pastor Dudley Street Baptist Church; F. B. Webv, pastor Emeritus Shawmut Congroga- tional Church, and W. E. Barton, pastor; A. A. Berle, pastor Brighton Congregational Church; W. W. Ramsey, pastor Tremont Street Metho- ‘Church; Arthur Little, pastor Second Church, Dorchester. The telegram had been acted upon by the seven churches and was passed by a standing Yote at a meeting of the Massachusetts Sunday Protective League in Shawmut Congregational Chureh yesterday afternoon, ——__+-e+_—___ ‘The Women’s Meeting at Chicago. The attendance at the various meetings of the women’s congress at the Art Institute, Chicago, was véry large yesterday afternoon. Great in- terest was taken in the meeting in Hall No. 3. Mrs. E. B. McGrannis, president of the Social Purity League, presided. She gave several illustrations respecting organized practical work done by women in the line of church union. Mrs. Isabella Lake of Chicago discussed tho subject of the need of social purity in the city of Chicago. " Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson spoke on “Moral and Social Reform.” Arthur Smith spoke in general about the morals of humanity. At the labor experience meeting in Columbus Hall Mrs. Brown presided. The first speaker was Elizabeth Lyle Saxton of New leans. Mrs. Florence Kelly read a paper prepared by Mrs. Laura Kieler of Denmark. ‘The paper treated chiefly of the condition of labor affairs among the women of Denmark. Neeritta Keyser of New York spoke on “Christian Economics.” Clara Faltz of San Francisco spoke briefly on the same subject, after which Mrs. Stevens of this city took the stand to advocate labor organizations among women. in Washington Hall a mass meeting under the auspices of the Women’s Christian Temper- ance Union was held. ‘Mr. Jony C, Wercaxpt, a clerk in the gen- eral office of the Richmond aud Danville Kuil- road Company in this city, recently accepted a more lucrative position with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in the relief association in his own city (Baltimore), and previous to his leay- ing this city the twenty-four voung gentlemen in the tonnage department, where he had been employed. presented him with a testimonial of the regard in which he was held by them ina typewritten manuscript to which their names were attached, EUROPEAN WAR CLOUDS. Only Compulsory Military Service Has Thus Far Averted Hostilities. While I would not have the readers of the Herald consider me a pessimist or a bird of bad omen, says Jacques St. Cere, the Paris cor- respondent of the New York Herald, I am again compelled to say the situation of Euro- Pean affairs is far from reassuring. Signs of coming storms may be seen on all sides of the political horizon. There is not single country in Europe ac- tually without interior or external turmoil. GERMANY'S ARMY BILL. In Germany the situation is particularly bad. The conflict between tho crown and the people is assuming an aggravated form, and it can be brought toan end only by some unconstitn- tional act on the part of the emperor, who wishes an increase in the army, which the peo- ple ave refused to sanction." Now deputies, tile to the imperial plan, will be elected. Grave news comes from Austria. There is an internal crisis, resulting from the constantly in- creasing ill-feeling between the Czechs, the Mag- yare and the Germans, ENGLAND'S TURMOIL. In England the home rule troubles are in- creasing, not to mention certain recent hap- penings in the royal family, on which it were Detter not to dwell. France, hardly out of the Panama crisis, is to have next September general elections, which will upset public life. French statesmen also have to deal with sev- eral troublesome colonial matters, including Siamese incident, which may result seriously, not to mention many complications with England. ITALY'S CRUSHING LoaD. Italy is passing through a financial crisis and also has a ministerial crisis since yesterday. The internal situation is not auspicious and her foreign relations are weighted down by the amount of the military expenses. Spain and Portugal have financial crises which are leading them surely and quickly to bankruptey. Belgium’ has not come to the end of its con- stitutional crisis, NORWAY MAY SECEDE. Sweden and Norway are in open conflict that may result in forcible division. Servia’s coup d'etat and little king have brought no quiet, Bulgaria is in the throes of a long-standing crisis and there exiets a tacit hostility between the people and Gen. Stamboulof. TWO COUNTRIES SERENE. Inall Europe only Switzerland and Russie are in their normal condition. It is fortunate that Russia is regularly de- veloping at home, which is the best guarantees of peace. jut in any event I can boldly declare that if war were fought as it formerly was, with armies composed of professional soldiers, we should have already had a war to get rid of all these internal troubles. DARE XOT TAKE THE STEP. With obligatory personal service no country dares to take the initiative. It is interesting to note that Switzerland, the smallest and freest country in Europe, and Russia, the largest and most tyrannical, are alone in their usual condition. This leads to the conclusion that in politics only extremes restlt in the happiness of tho people, WHAT WILL BE DONE IX GERMANY. Th» Berlin correspondent of the Herald sends the following cable dispatch from that city: T have no reason to change my opinion, given last week. to the effect that when the new reichstag meets it will reject the military bill with more decision than the last one. This judgment has grown to a conviction since I have been traveling about the country and have heard what people sa; CLASSES AGAINST THE MASERS. Itis apparent that the classes will vote for the government or will abstain from voting. while the masses will vote against it. In the towns where I have been, such as Cologne, Cob- lenz and Dusseldorf, and in the southern states the center party are going to hi it all their ewn way, while elsowhere there are signs which point toward the success of the Volks- partei, with Engen Richter and thesocial demo- crate with Bebel. ‘A POPULAR LEADER. Richter is doing the giant's work of the cam- paign, Heisa man whose herculean person- ality, stentorian voice, knowledge of popular feeling and forcible, rugged, oratorical effects and unfearing utterances make him the most b ithe and the most striking figure in this erce struggle. He has been the most persistent antagonist of the right, to whom, with his pile- drivi forcible manner of attack and light- ning-like power of repartee, he has been a per- fect terror. He is swimming with the tide of German popular senfiment in the stream of demoeracy, one we shall probably find him navigating into the swift going current of socialism. le ie very near it now. WHAT WILL HAPPEN. The question the people are now asking is, “What will the kaiser do?” Here is the reply given me: On the 28th of next month—unless the date of the reopening of the reichstag be changed—the kaiver will address the lower house in person and will state that he con- siders the military bill necessary for the safety of the country; that he counts upon the loyalty of the members of the reichstag to himself and on their patriotiom to the Vaterland to pass it delay. without With this will be made an intimation that if they disappoint him he will take into his own hands the guardianship of the honor and safety of the country, as he will consent to no oppo- sition on such a vital matter. DEFEAT AND DISSOLUTION. Then the kaiver will retire and we may ex- pect a scene in the reichstag similar to those of the famous days of 1863and 1870. The vote may be adjourned a few days, but when taken the bill will be rejected.’ Chancellor von Caprivi will at once dissolve the chamber, ithin forty-eight hours the kaiser will issue 8 proclamation sa¥ing that in the face of the unpatriotic attitude of tho members of the reichstag he, in his imperial right, declares the military bill a law. Where the appropriations will come from will be a matter for the astute finance minister, Dr. Miquel, to solve. He will do it, us he has always found resources for new taxation up his sleeve. WHAT WILL THE PEOPLE Do? ‘What the country will do then gives room for much speculation. An extraordinary appeal has beon mado through the Cologne Gazette for private subscriptions to pay the cost of the military bill indepondently of the reichstag. ‘This excites some indignation and much merri- ment. It has been stated by the government that the southern princes all favor the military bill. The Grand Duke of Baden, however, is not that way of thinking. In a specch he uttered the follow- ing words, which were carefully omitted in the report made by the official Wolff agency: “You were with me in the war of 1870. There you gained experience. One obtains more from the excellence of an army than from its quantity. Asmall number of troops has often accom- plished more than large masses, That the war of 1870 taught us.”” This speech, made by the grand duke at the military fete ‘at Heidelber~, reflects what the most experienced men here believe. THE RESELVES WILL VOTE. Some of the opposition papers have been in- sisting that the chancellor has decided to cail out the roserves and the landwehr, numbering 16,000 men, to prevent them from voting. That isnot the’ case. They will not be called out till July, after the elections, cee Military Attache at Paris. Lieut. Wm. A. Glassford, the young signal service officer who has been on temporary duty at the United States legation at Paris, has been ordered to report for duty in Washington not later than July 1. He was sent abroad ex- pressly for the purpose of securing the French military balloon which has just arrived at the world’s fair, but he has also rendered service as an attache to the legation in the place of Capt. Borup. No one has yet beon selected for the permanent detail at Paris, but it is said that Ambassydor Eustis favors Second Lieut. Andrew Hero, jr., fourth artillery. ‘That officer is thought to be ineligible on account of his short service. Changes in the attaches of the American legation at London, Rome, St. Petersburg and Madrid will also’ soon be in order. es Russian Vessels Going to Philadelphia. The Russian admiral Kosnakoff, now at New York, bas accepted an invitation from Mayor Stuart, tendered on behalf of the citizens and in the name of the city, to visit Philadelphia,and expects to go up the Delaware with his flag- ship and another vessel of his squadron tomor- Tow. Several prominent citizens have been in- vited to meet the mayor today to make ar- rangements for the entertainment of the dis- tinguished visitora, A DESPICABLE PRACTICAL JOKE. How s Harvard Society Annoyed an Esti- mable Boston Lady. ‘From the Woreester (Mass. ) Spy. Many older graduates, especially of Harvard, will recall the formerly much-talked-of “Med. Fac.”—s corruption of medical faculty—and how at the doors of this mysterious association of sophomores and upper classmen the com- mission of by far the great majority of college id. The club, it is just as its greatest rival, the Frozen Pudding Club, was entering afield upon whose broad expanse deeds of daring and of doviltry were done which brought a blush of youthful envy to the cheeks of aspiring emulatora The Frozen Pudding Club, or Phi Pi Kappa, to use the Greek symbols which adorned all its belongings, is, equally with the “Med. Fac..” a thing of the past. To the credit of Harvard be it said that such associations do not take strong and lasting root in Cambridge soil. In the club's secretary's books no name a peared; simply the Greek letter initials of the members’ pseudonyms, and all transactions were written up in such a manner and in such terms that to the uninitiated all would have been the veriest jargon. Upon the same officer's desk stood the seal. This is the first public explanation giving the reasons of the change of the seal of Harvard some twenty-odd years ago from oval toround. ‘That the change was compulsory will readily be seen. The seal mentioned had been the college seal. A member of the society, who had one day been summoned into the august presence of the college president (then the late Rev.Dr. ‘Thomas Hill) to receive a “warning” for some slight misdemeanor, slipped it into his pocket and gave it to his club. In addition to the functions it performed in the esoteric rites of the society it added weight and importance to many fictitious degrees issued in the name of the college. Among these degrees were those eagerly accepted by Daniel Pratt and “Count Joannes,” as well as others sent to men of prom- inence in this country and abroad. The fact y and college using the same seal some. confusion, the alma mater, as many a dear mother has done before, yielded to her youthful scion, and, while retaining ber time-honored motto, changed the shape of her seal from oval to round. ‘The initiation attendant u membership in the Frozen Pudding Club or Phi Pi Kappa followed in many respects the curriculum exemplified in the oldest literar society of the college—the Hasty Pudding. It continued six days, ‘Mrs. Otis, whose husband had competently filled several political positions, among others that of mayor of Boston, had done heroic work upon the sanitary fair commission during the war and was known throughout the loyal north. She had achieved a recognized position and her friends were legion. For some time things had been rather dull in the ranks of the Phi Pi Kappa, and it was finally proposed by one of the club members that the giving of a bogus party or reception be undertaken, It was decided that Mrs. Oti owing to her prominence, should be the inno- centdonor. There was no animus whatever against herself, andshe and a vast number of her friends were known to various members of the club. The day was set. Some fifteen hundred invi- tations were issued, not only to personal friends, but to men in public life and to women of note by reason of social and literary renown, One invitation begged the honor of the presence of the state legislature, of which Harvey Jewell was then the speaker. It was town talk, as had been anticipated The first intimation Mrs, Otis received of the contemplated gathering was ina letter from Speaker Jewell regretting that the legislature could not as a body accept her kind invitation, but promising that as many as could possibly attend would do so. Mrs. Otis was, to say the least, astounded. Calling upon Mr. Jewell, she was shown the invitation beautifully engraved, which indi- cated t\t she was to hold a reception at her home, 14 Mount Vernon street, upon the speci- fied day from 1 until $ o'clock. What to do she did not know, but at least that invitation was made null and void. That the existence of other invitations had not, and apparently did not, come to her knowledge is inexplicable. It is possible she thought this missive to the legisinture tho only one. At all events no steps appeared to be taken to frustrate what was impending. On the day before the “reception” several members of the club went to every store of prominence in the business part of the city and ordered articles sent to Mrs. Otis’ residence the next day between 1and 3 o'clock. They ordered furniture groceries, barrels of flour, vegetables, coal, hacks, furniture vans used for moving household impedimenta, pianos, sew- ing machines—in fact, they ordered pretty nearly everything that could be ordered, doing much of it by messenger, both to save time and to save their appearance in person, In tho Boston “Herald” of the morning of the fateful day appeared the following aaver- tisement: “WANT! cat. Any one having a fine ES street today at 2 orclock.”" As the family of Mrs, Otis was about sitting down to lunch a furniture van drove up to the door and the bell rang. In answer to his in- quiries the driver was assured he had made a mis He had hardly gone when the door bell rang again. Standing on the curb was a truck, aud on it. securely incased, a grand Piano of famous make, With fear and trem- ling Mrs. Otis bethought herself of the episode of the Capitol and her interview with Speaker Jewell, Going to the door herself—upon the sidewalk were barrels of—nobody knew what! Three sewing machines, already. Far as the eye could reach came rolling carriages, trucks, carts, furniture vans, vehicles of every de- scription. Loads of coal were dumped along the curb. Boxes, casos, market baskets, furni- turo, blocked the way; and struggling through this’ wilderness of confusion came, panopled in full array, the guests who had been bidden. ‘A man was stationed at the front door to turn all away with a hurried explanation, and an- other at the back to repel the fast invading crowd pouring along the alley in the rear, The police were notified and responded with a pla- toon of uniformed men, who kept comparative order, but that was all they could do. Those invitations had been issued, those orders given covering the time from 1 o'clock until 3, and the people came. At 2 o'clock a delegation of boys and women, bearing the desired gray cats, lent vigor and caterwauling to the scene. For blocks the streets were impassable. Drawn by the uproar, by the crowds of car- riages and other vehicles, all striving toward the samo point, thousands of people assembied | and kept assembling, and it was long past dark on that eventful day before Mount Vernon strect enjoyed the aristocratic quiet of its nor- mal condition. By some it was thought to be a ruse of pick- pockets and thieves to draw a crowd that they might have a grand opportunity to ply their nefarious occupation, A reward of $1,000 was offered for the discovery of the perpetrators of the severe practical joke, and the detectives went to work. : Ina few days a magnificent basket of cut flowers was sont to Mrs, Otis, with a note ex- pressive of great regret for the trouble she hud incurred, ausuring her that there was no per- sonal spite in the affair, that it had been simply Intended as a harmless practical joke, and that she had been chosen as a medium solely on ac- count of her highly deserved prominence. This note, together wsth the floral offering of peace, was given to the detectives, and apparently they hada simple case. But with that bad Inck or blindness which sometimes mars even the best detective skill, the officers met with no snecess, Indeed, they went so far as to fasten the responsibility for the affair upon a nephew of Mrs. Otis, a gentleman who was per- fectly innocent and who had no knowleage whatever of the hoax until it had been accom- plished. ‘ 3 Reporting this “discovery” the detectives were immediately withdrawn. As in duty bound. the club presented to Mrs. Otis irre- fragable proofs that neither her nephew nor any other relative had been even remotely concerned in the matter, and shortly afterward the fraternity, which had never really lost sight of the lofty sentiment which permeates Harvard, disbanded. +00 Court Room Tragedies. Caleb Brown, president of the Lebanon Nat- ural Gas Company, shot and killed Samuel Wes- ner, one of the most prominent lawyers in In- diana, in the court room in Danville, Ind, directly in front of the judge's desk. Frank E, Johnson shot himself dead in court in Spokane, Wash., Saturday, when arraigned on a charge of threatening to shoot his wife. a variety actress, who had sued for a divorce. Burglary’ tools were found on him. (eee yn admission to The Bering Sea Fleet. ‘The Bering sea fleet, the Mohican, Ranger, Bear, Corwin, Petrel, and the fish commission steamer Albatross, will start upon their sum- mer’s work early this week. ‘The fleet, with the exception of the Petrel, is now coaling at Seattle and Port Townsend. The Petrel left tho Asiatic station for Alnska last weck, and will join the fleet there on their arrival.’ The final instructions to Capt. Ludlow, commanding the fleet, were sent to San Francisco some da: ago, and are practically of the same tenor those of last year. CHARMING A SNAKE. The True Secret of the Reptile’s Apparent Obedience. From St. Nicholas. A snake charmer can, by a simple motion of his hand, make a moving snake stop instantly. A snake & most timid animal. His eyes, while dull to color and form, are quick to mo- tion, especially if it be rapid. If any large thing moves very quickly near him he gets frightened and scurries off, while at certain distances the motion stops him if he be moving. He stops from astonishment, fear or the wish to see what it is that moves. Hence he glides on, unconscious of the charmer's presence near him so long as the latter remains perfectly quiet ; the snake doesn’t know him from a tree or rock. In India and Africa the charmers pretend that the snakes dance to the music, but they do not, for they nover hear it, A snake has no external ears, and perhaps gets evidence of sound only through the skin when sound causes bodies in contact with him to vibrate. 'P-| They hear also through the nerves of the tongue, but do not at all comprehend sound as we do, But the snake's eyes are very much alive to the motions of the charmer, or to the moving drumsticks of his confederate; and, being alarmed, he prepares to strike. dancing cobra (and no otber snakes dance) is simply cobra alarmed and in a posture of attack, He is not dancing to the music, but is making ready to strike the charmer, It happened that a few of us wer: one day in a field near my own house, saw a black and white along. It took refu: bunch of grass an: weeds about fifty yards away. “Don’t kill him,” said I, “and I will show you something you never saw before. I'll that snake follow me into the house without ever touching him.” x They waited wnileI ran in and hurriedly changed my dress, reappearing in » moment clad ina navy blue dressing gown reaching down to within an inch of the ground. Now it is necessary to mention that it was very calm day. “The sun was shining overhead and not a cloud was in the sky. I approached the ake and took up my station about twenty ds from where he was hiding. I stood Still as a statue, with my hands banging mo- tionless by my sides and my face toward him. Ithen asked them to go to the bunch of grass by the farther side and_to chase him out 80 that he would make his exit an the side next tome. But before they came near he had ai- ready glided off and made directly toward me. I was gazing straight at him as he app me, and without turning my head or moving my'arms I began to move gently backward. Still he followed. I turned to the left; he still followed. He was not angry—he did not want to attack me, for he glided on very gently. If I moved to his right, he did so too; I went to his left, he did the same. Lallowed him to come within a yard of me and then asked the others, but still with my eyes carefully on the snake, to direct me in my backward route, since I could not turn my head to direct myself, as I had to keep facing him. They sent me by a very winding route, buthe followed every turn till I got to the joor. When finally I sat down gently on the ste he glided in boneuth my dressing gown. an coiled himself on the toes of my shoes. They lifted the skirt of the dressing gown to look at him, and he was frightened, and shot past me into the door, taking refuge among the furni- ture, | 1 picked him up and added him to my already large collection of live snakes. Now, they didn’t drive him toward me, for they had remained afar off, nearly as far from him as they had been at first, “How did you do it?” they inquired; and I, in answer. asked them to explain it. One believed 1 had some food about me to attract him. Another thought I hadrubbed on my dressing gown some drug of which he liked the odor. On being assured that these guesses were wrong, they remembered that I had kept my eye on him all the time and never once turned from him. They asked if that was a necessary part of it. I said “Yes, otherwise I could not keep control of him.” Then they said, “It is magnetism or hypno- tiem, Jt ia by the power of your eye that you ie < standing ben we “No,” Tanswered, “it was not my eyes that drew him. ‘The attraction was more general; but yet it was neither food, nor drink, nor odor of any kind, He was attracted toward me very powerfully, indeed, but cause was neither chemical nor electrical. “Six words contain swer; six more the explanation, He wanted hide beneath me, as the shadow was tempting, and he didn’t know that 1 was a living thing.” THE SOUTHERN GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Greeting Sent to the Gathering in This City. The Presbyterian general assembly south convened in its second day's session at Macon, Ga., yesterday morning at 9 o'clock, Moderator J. W. Lapsley presiding. The presbytery at Memphis asked that the assembly formulate a deliverance on the evil of newspaper publication on Sunday. The four points to be considered should em- brace deliverance from spending the day in athering news, purchasing papers, furnishing advertisements of news and giving sermons in by synopsis, The matter was referred. An overture for a training school at Ching- Kiang in China was referred to the committee on foreign missions, ‘The report of the committee on organizing acolored synod was adverse, The members thought the colored people were not ready for it. Reports of the Columbia Theological Semi- nary ut Columbia, 8. C., and the Union Theo- logical Seminary at Hampton City, Va. were received and referred to the committee. ” Each showed un encouraging condition. Letters were read from the Pan-Presby- teran Alliance proposing the formation of a federation. 4 William C. Deland. representing the Seventh- Day Baptists, wanted the assembly to co-oper- ate with them in observing Saturday as the Sabbath, The matter was referred to the com- mittee on foreign correspondence. ‘The sate committee was directed to prepare a letter to the Reform Duteh Church in re- sponse to aletter received from them extend- ing cordial greeting. ‘A telegram was sent to the northern as- sembly, in session at Washington, expressive of kind feeling. Last year a committee w: vive the directory of wors! it today pre- sented to the assembly ® directory prepared under their care. The ad interim committee on a new bymnal recommended the adoption of a book entitled “Hyms of Ages,” prepared by Rov. R. T. Kerr of Richmond. Dr. W. U. Murkland of Baltimore led in prayer. ——+e--—_____ ‘Working For Their Children, From the New York Times. “I have come to the conclusion,” remarked a man the other day, “that the shibboleth of most Americans is thechildren. Parents strain every nerve, deny themselves, alter their mode of life that the children may have every ad- vantage of an age of opportunities, “Yesterday I met a friend I haven't seen for two years, He loc'sed pale and ill, ‘I'm vroken down,’ he confessed to me as we talked together. ‘I've been in the house ail winter, and now I'm trying to arrange my affairs to go away for a couple of years, not to do a stroke of work or to think even if I can help it in that time. It’s my only hope, the doctors say; and it’s hard on my family. My oldest boy is a freshman, but wili_ have to give up his college course, and my girls, who are fine private schools, will have to finish at the public bigh schools.” We've rented our house and taken a flat, and put everything on a close margin in order that I may take this respite, It'sa choice of two evils—my complete and permanent collapse or this sharp curtailment to give mea chance. You see I'm overworked. T've been too ambitious for my family. I've done in ten years what I should have taken lifetime to do.” “And I thought as I watched him walk on with slow gait and hopeless mien—a wreck at forty—that he had done as thousands just like him are doing on every side—killed himself to Keap his children abreast of the world, “When I paid my rent last month I noticed the agent took the receipt out of a big pile of such slips, ‘So I'm not the last,’ Ieaid jocu- ‘No, indeed,’ he replied, ‘the brownstone most of them to hear from yet’ 5 3 by that?’ I asked. ‘Why, the folks who can't afford their houses but must be ina brownstone. They are the laggards always. living as they do, quite up to or just beyond their means all the time.’ “And a few days ago my own little girl ran into the house with the word that Sarah Smith, alittle neighbor, was going to move ‘off the block, papa, into'a flat, just think!” “Do you sce the relation of these incidents? I have put them the wrong way. I should h my daughter's false idea of life, their equaliy wrong conception of living, to the climax of my friend’s breakdown, It’s all one sermon and the text of it is—‘the chil- aren,’ | forms of men on through the laggard tenants with | LOSING CONSCIOUSNESS. How = Man Feels When He Has Been Knocked Out. From the Breeder and Sportsman. Did you ever lose consciousness? Of courso you have often been to sleep, but I mean were you ever “‘put to sleep” by a blow or accident of any nature? I have, and I was so impressed by the new sensations to which I war intro- | duced that I am persuaded to note them down before the accumulating days shall have effaced the faint and subtle delineations made on my mind at that time. Peculiar state of affairs and somewhat paradoxical, Iam impressed you will think, when you read the preceding sen- tence. Did I lose consciousness? Let me state my experience and then you may judge whether I did or not. Some weeks since, when attending the field trials conducted under the management of the Pacific Coast Field Trials Club, I met with an unusual ex] Three gentlemen and myself were riding out to the grounds in a surrey. The morning was unusually cool; a damp, thick fog lay over the valley, rendering the drive somewhat chilly. the monotony of the drive, and give ex to the great amount of animal spirits ‘A | Possessed. an impromptu boxing match, with- ont rules or referee. was indi and another, the “other” being a “gen- tlemanly Jim.” Several rounds were enjoyed, in by myself when I was caught with a strong blow “an the right Senate ae ” put it, im the region of the heart. ssicalhes Immediately I felt a warm, sickening sensa tion in the region of the stomach, and the wave of heat seemed to sweep upward. I im- mediately realized that I was going to faint. make | The next instant I had passed into entirely different environments—into a new state of being. a state of chilliness I became warm, and, while retaining my power of sen- sation, in so much that I can now recall every object as it then seemed to me. yet I was en- tirelv diferent in feeling from the sensation experienced in my normal condition. The sky and atmosphere seemed of roseate tint and I lay at ease, floating unconcernedly through the air, What seems strange to me now is that [saw myself, was watching myself floating slong, Tn ail the luxury of unefforted progress, as if I, the observer, and I, the ob- served. were two separate and distinct beings— ‘® segregated duality. I have heard of this sen- sation being very common in dreams, but this my experience of the impression. Below me I could see but indistinctly the the ground, houses, trees, ‘The sensation changed slowly and the music that had 80 cl tne died eohy away in the distance, and then I began to feel « shud- der pass over my body, then I heard faintly the sound of voices, and next I could make out but dimly the forms of those about me: then lakes and rivers, ceased action for quite a minute and a half, and that two minutes of ‘was the limit to which it could have extended and any rational hope have remained of my recovery. Some good whisky and exercise brought me —- all right ‘There was no indication of any pain whatever. I had no thought of fear. But the “other fellow?” “Well, ‘Sam. never refers to the subject without growing pale. ———-o-——__ ABOUT HOODOOING. If It is a Superstition How About That Case at Kock Island? From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “When some one says hoodoo and refers to ill-luck’s following the curse or wish of some one’s that evil may fali upon some one else, I invariably feel like eaying superstitious,” said Gilbert Woodward, who is at Hurst's. “Hoodooing people is something I do not believe in at all, because I have never been hoodooed myself. There was a colored man who died not long since in Rock Island, Ill, while Iwas there, who claimed to be hoo- dooed. His case was certainly remarkable. This negro was shot in the back and also in the left knee by some one whom he claimed he had never seen. The way he explained it was that he long before secured the enmity of a negro woman there who was a fortune teller and neo- romancer by profession. The woman threat- ened him with punishment if he did not retarn certain charm that he had taken from her, which consisted of seven hairs of various col- ors from seven different animale. Upon his failure to return it within a specified time he ‘was shot by some one whom he did not see, and seriously wounded. The fortune teller also visited him and threw a wine feed at him. which be did not hear fall tc the t “He insisted constantly that his would never get well and that the jortune was piercing his right arm with needles, Ass matter of fact his leg grew constantly worse, although the wound at first was small, and was finally — The right arm became poisoned of something, and after a short siege of inflammation the n died. protesting up to the last moment of his fe that the fortune teller—Big Annie—had hoodooed him out of the world. The attending physicians, while protesting that the negro must be demented, could not explain the constant decline in the | 8°" man’s health. Annie was also found. and would say nothing, except that the ought to die.” victim THEY GOT THEIR DRINKS. Giddy But Respectable Ladies Who Had No Eecort to See Them Through. From the New York Herald. A mild sensation was caused the other even- ing in a well-known beer hall, not far from Fourteenth street, by the entrance of seven young women, who, with utter unconcern, walked through the long hall and selected a table at the rear. Every eye was turned upon them, but they did not pay the least attention to the curious glances directed at their table. “Isn't this a lovely place?” said a pretty blonde, who was conspicuous among the party. Then they began discussing the play which they had just witnessed. ‘The proprietor of the place, a stern, excit- able German, was in a quandary. He nerv- ously surveyed the women from every point of ‘iew, all the time muttering to himself. For a time the patrons of the establishment derived much amusement in watching the proprietor's nervous antics. Presently the owner held « consultation with his head waiter, the result being that that ob- sequious gentleman politely told the ladies that it was agninet the rales to sell them drinks The bion became indignant and angril; bcokeuedl bo sks preprtinar as ‘hat does this mean?” crid she, a iy dear mada: “Arn’t we respectable?” “Of course, but—” “Don’t make any excuses, my dear sir, Wo came here, where I have often come with my husband, to get alittle refreshment, and you refase it to us because we are ladies, because we do not happep to have a gentleman as escort, It's unjust and unheard of, sir, to treat respect- aida yeopae sn Sale way your— ‘Oh, never mind doing that, Just give usa little to drink, please, and we'll say no more about it.” They got their drinks. Gen. Dodds Suubbed. Gen. Dodds, who recently returned from Da- homey, was received at the Palais d’Elysee in Paris Saturday by President Carnot. The fact that the reception was held in the private apartment of the palace, coupled with the gen- eral’s rance in plain clothes at the request of the pea ident, emy the t's feonlve ‘sok so eliow ‘Gen, Doda fo dovelep into another Bot . ———_+e2—___ In » Prison of Flame. A forest fire destroyed Louis Sands’ lumber camp near Lake City, Mich., Saturday after- noon. Outof a total crew of sixty men only forty-nine escaped uninjured. One, Edward Sullivan, was seriously burned and ten are dead. Of these cight took refuge in a well and were cremated there by the timbers and curb- ing falling in on them and burning. Two tried to run the gauntlet and were burned to a crisp. The property loss consists of three horses, forty hogs, camp tools, &c., also eleven cars loaded with logs, owned’ by the Thayer Lumber Com- pany. Another of the Lafayette Rioters Punished. William Mackessy, the third man tried on the charge of conspiracy to murder George E. Ru- dolph, the ex-Roman Catholic priest, at La- fayette, Ind., was found guilty and his pun- ishment fixed at two years’ imprisonment, ————_+e2—___ A Quaker’s Sudden Madness. Samuel Worth, a wealthy member of the So- ciety of Friends of Westchester, Pa, suddenly became insane Saturday, broke a mirror and | cut his wife's throat with the pieces of ginss. Itis feared she will die. Worth was chioro- formed and Friends’ Asy FIRE ON THE ROANOKE, The O14 Dominion Stesmship Has a Pert. ous Experience. The steamship Roanoke of the Old Dominion Line backed into her dock Inst night with a fire burning fiercely in ber bold. At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon ns thesteam. ship was passing Long Branch smoke was soem issuing from ber shaft tube, and an investiga. tion showed that the vessel was afire. Capt. John G. Hulters and his officers to the passengers and quietly informed them that there was a fire smoldering in some ¢ot. ton stowed in the after hold of the ship, bat that there was not the Jeast danger, and evem, if there was the vessel was so near to Innd thes everybody could be landed in safety and with | ttle difticuity. seventy-five passengers behaved admin ably under the ciroamstances, not oue of them, according to the purser's story, even taking the trouble to pack a valine. When the vessel reacyed quarantine Capt, Huiters reported the fire and started on up te the pier. Word was telegraphed from quatay tine to Fire Chief Bonner of New York. and when the vessel arrived the fireboat New Yorker was lying off her pier to moet her and Chief Bonner and a truck company were on the pier ready to render assistance. It was found that the hatches opening intoafterhold were covered in with freight,which would have to be removed before the New Yorker could pour a stream on the fire. A boendred men were set freight and the New Yorker steamer ready to turn on the water as soon the hatches could be opened. “ The steamer left Newport News Thursday and had aboard a gencral cargo, mostly fruit, In her afterhold. where the fire originated, was large quantity of cotton, near to which were stored 130 barrels of turpentine. Capt. Halters said that the fire was evidently due to spontaneous combustion. ——_-eo—__ NO SUNDAY OPENING. The Attorney General States the Law in Re gard to the Fair. Attorney General Olney is reported to have said to Mr. John Willis Baer of Boston, the see retary of the Christian Endeavor Society, in me gard to the opening of the world’s fair on Sun- ay, that as all appropriations were made upoa the condition that the exposition should not be ‘open to the public on Sundas, it would be the duty of the world's Columbian commission to make such rules as chould require the closing of the ion on that dny. Mr. Olney said he had informed the district attorney that he expected him to act in the matter of restraining the exposition managers from opening on Sunday by erforeing the law ¥: | if their attitade at any time should require such action. | The district, attorney ao x} once that he had expected to act promptly in accordance with instructions, aud would ate vise the Attorney General of any move on the make such a step necessary. The Attorney General, it was learned, bed given an opinion that the law prevented either ‘the government exhibits or the cp ece that it was enforced in case the national commission should at any time decide to opem the gates on Sunday. The government would Proceed by injunction or otherwise, and ame ticipated no unusual delay in the courte, ——_ 20s SPOILING 4 ROMANCE. And It Was = Miserable Goat That Did the Mischief. From the New York Herald. Acertain young Indy who lives in the am nexed district has had her romance spoiled by the uncalled for and gratuitous interference of a gluttonously inclined goat. This young lady hada bean who had proposed to her. Her pa Tents objected tothe match and forbade the young man to call on his heart's idol. The young lady was desperate, as eligible beaus arp not easy to find in the suburbs. They resolved to elope. The young man was to be under his lady window at daybreak and signal by means of acord It is almost neediess to state that the other end of that cord was attached to one of the large members of the maiden's pedal ex tremities, The goat did not rest easy that night and was wandering around the yard atam unreasonably early hour in the morning. After ‘masticating all the sardine boxes and == tomato caus be discovered the pendulous and resolved to take it in as a dessert, Pp low it up the side of the his efforts were unavailing and be gave a dee perate jerk. Then the trouble began. The maid awoke, The goat gave another violent very suddenly from her conch and heroically smothered a ery of pain, She to de- tach the cord and at the same ‘the it ve another tk. The maid los ° her supposed lover: “Don't pull so, Augustus, T'll come down.” Then followed another attempt to unfastem the cord. Tho goat was persistent, howe and did not notice the appeal save by sev vicious nods of his head that were accompanied by a feminine cry of pain from the upper re gions, Crazed by the pain she again called down inte the darkness: “If youdon'tstop pulling like that, Augustas, I won't come down at ail.” Another savage jerk and a wail of bitter anguish burst uncontrolled from her ruby The cry was heard by her mother, hastened into the room accompauied by an ofl lamp and look of fright. The maid fainted, the elopement was killed in the bud, the maiden's tos was sore for s month. but the goat escaped, a re will be no cards seat out, as the youth and the maid never speak now as they pass by. ———__cee_____ BOSSED AROUND BY HIS BAKBER, An American Confesses Why and HS Friends Don’t Grow Beards. From the New York Herald. “Come now, Jawkins,” Tsaid, “why don't you wear a beard? You know that a fellow with a ‘absurdly squat face like yours would look mudi better with a tuft on your chin.” : “I know it,” he replied, shaking bis head with a sigh of despair. “I know it, but the truth is, Slobber, I'm afraid. “Atrai: Texclaimed. “Who on earth a you afraid of?” ‘My barber,” said Jawkins in « low, terrified whisper. I repeated the words with some astonise ment. “Yes,” he explained. “That's exactly it The reason why most Americans wear mustaches is that they're scared of their bar ~Every time I bogin to grow a beard I gow the barber to have it trimmed. ‘The barbet doesn't say anything, but his whole demeano? ix s0 sarcastic and suecring that I can see B® thinks I'am having a beard oniy because it cheaper than asmooth face. As I sit in the chair Ifcel more contemptible every ming and when I leave st is as a craven wretch most beyond the pale of humanity. I think® barber can do more sneering without saying anything than the most bitmg orator. “Once I had a ten days’ growth of beard. £ wanted it clipped a little. I knew that barber wee wraiting tor me in this den as & awaits apless fly. I grew desperate went and drank cocktails. “At length, in a fighti mi of tquor, I braved him in his Init. myself in a chair I bid him groom me, ag auy back tall short, sharp and decisive My drunken violence was twonkees inet the Fapier like thrust of im an barber. [left the place thoroughly hairless “And that’s why I don't grow a Slubber.” concluded Jawkins, “Bat needn't tell the whole town about it,” Child and Aged Woman Fatally Burned. Maude Roberts, the eight-year-old daugh@t of H. L. Roberts of Naugatuck, Conn, wa caught fire. She rm the protection of Mi of Waterbury, wh bed. wet on fire and both were burned to death. ———+ee. ~ Terrific Hall Storm at Pittsburg. ‘Nearly all the windows on the sonth sidee? buildings in the east end of Pittsburg and upper wards of Allegheny were broken by® jerrific hail storm Saturday afternoon. SKY- green houses were riddied. Eietie cable cars Were topped and twenty norwe® | killed, and two men wore injured in the scree™® | Two funerals caught in the storm were p and panics were narrowly averted i» @® beaters,