Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1893, Page 2

2 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES. A ROYAL VISiTOR.| The Austrian Prince Will Soon Visit Washington. HER PRESUMPTIVE 70 THE THRONE. Archduke Franz Ferdinand d’Este and His Suite. SKETCH OF HIS CAREER. Oo THE SELF- elected gentry of our sreat and glortous republic this year of our Lord and the Columbian exposition will ever be one of precious memory. Princes and poten- tates galore have visited our shores. Noble lords and gen- tle dames of bluest blood have gracious- ly smiled upon us, and now as the season wanes comes a Prince, the most distinguished of all, Arch- Guke Franz Ferdinand d’Este, heir pre- Sumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, ‘whom destiny seems to have chosen as the future ruler of 40,000,000 people. ‘The prince and his suite are now making ® tour of the world, for purposes of educa- tion and enlightenment, no doubt, quite as ™much as for his royal pleasure. and wiil soon reach Washington. They seiled from rieste last December in the Austrian man- of-war Kaiserin Elizabeth. Passing through the Suez canal they have visited the several countries of the orient, the archduke travel- ing as the representative of his imperial and royal kinsman, Emperor Franz Josef. At Yokohama the distinguished party was transferred to the Canadian Pacific Steamship Empress of China, in which they eyed to Victoria, B. C., where they September 5. They’ will travel Jeisurely to Chicago, where the world’s fair ‘will afford them amusement and entertain- ment. Archduke Carl Ludwig is the pat- ron of the Austrian division, and presuma- Bly his son will take especial interest in thetr exhibit. Washington will be the point of attrac- tion to the regal visitor and his attendants after Chicago. Since the visit of the Prince of Wales during President Buchan- 0's administration the nation’s capital Bas not received as guest a prince of such Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Prominence. He comes to us, ever, a8 count, and not as archduke, it wing been determined that his visit to the United States should be unofficial. Since 1867 Emperor Franz Josef has enter- tained a feeling bordering on resentment toward the United States because of their Ron-intercession with President Juarez of ‘Mexico to prevent the execution of his un- uunate brother, the Emperor Maximilian. bly to that sentiment is due his desire that the heir presumptive to Austria's throne should travel incognito in this coun- ary. ‘The imperial party Is in charge of Count Leo Wurmbrand-Stuppach, a member of one of the most distinguished families in ‘Austria. In fact, the house of Wurmbrand- Btuppach is one of seven whose eldest member is privileged to claim the title of *Erlaucht,” most tilustrious count. The Pulte also includes two chamberlains of mobile birth. who are a compantonable age for the archduke, and a train of officials Bnd lackeys. Prince Rudolf. It ts possible that destiny is coquetting with the handsome archduke. Although born of a race of kings, Franz Ferdinand's early youth held no promise of a throne ‘end scepter. The line of succession fell to kis gay and gallant cousin, Crown Prince Rudolf, whose boyhood days were so filled ‘with mirth and gladness that it seemed Bearcely possible that the cruel shadow of death could lark tm his pathway. But to the merry chimes of Rudolf's wedding 2 echoes gave back the low sad tones of a funeral dirge. In May, 1881, the crown prince fulfilled Due of the conditions of his royal estate Emperor Francis Joseph. by wedding the daughter of a king, Princess Stephanie of Belgium, and very soon there- after the merry-hearted prince began to Tealize the truth of the old song that “when @ man marries his trouble begins.” jtephanie was young and fair, was always loyal and would have been a loving wife had her liege lord permitted. Unfortunate- ly she did not find favor in his eyes, and from the first he persisted in regarding her aly as his “official wife.” The dashing crown prince was by no means insensible to the charms of the fair sex and the romantic dreams of his youth- ful consort were soon dispelled by his nu- merous gallantries and liasons, which he took little pains to conceal. Her jealous upbraidings only served to increase the estrangement. Ill health was added to the misfortunes of the unhappy princess, and when, after the birth of her daughter, the Princess Elizabeth, her physical condition Was pronounced to be such that all hope of an hel to the throne must be abandoned, her cup of sorrow seemed full. There yet remained another drop—the Baroness Vet- sara. ‘There 1s little doubt that the love of the crown prince and the beautiful bar- oness was profound and sincere, not- withstanaing It was unholy. Life frowned pon them, so death received them. Over Archduke Cart Ludwig. thelr open graves Archduke Franz Ferd! Band stepped to the foct of Austria’ throne. The Crown Prince Rudolf was the only son of the Emperor Franz Josef. Accord- ing to the pragmatic sanction which regu- Antes the succession, there being no direct ie heir, the titles descend to the Arch- duke Carl Ludwig, the next younger brother of the emperor. His Chance for the Throne. As there is but a very slight difference in the ases of the two brothers, the emperor being but three years the senior, and as he is by far the more robust, it is quite prob- able that he will surviveCarl Ludwig. In any event, the younger brother cannot hope to reign for a long period, and to avoid the complications and disturbances of @ frequent change of the head of state he has renounced his claim to the succes- sion in favor vf his eldest son, Archduke Franz Ferdinand d’Este. As it was “the unexpected” that opened Franz Ferdinand’s pathway to the throne, | So, also, “the unexpected” may again divert his footsteps. Since the death of her tdol- ized son Rudolf the health of Empress Elizabeth has given serious cause for anx- fety. In the event of her death it is quite within the limits of possibility that the Emperor Franz Josef, who is but sixty- three years of age, would find some young and charming princess who would delight to share his regal responsibilities and cheer his declining years. Such a “happening” might result in giving to Austria-Hungary a baby emperor and king. It would be per- fectly in accord with the traditions of the family. Archduke Carl Ludwig has taken Arehduchess Carl Ludwig. unto himself a third wife, the beautiful Duchess of Braganza, who is but a few Years older than her step-son, Franz Ferdi- nand. The Princess Maria Annonciata, the mother of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was the second wife of Carl Ludwig. She was the daughter of Ferdinand II, king of the Two Sicilies. Franz Ferdinand was born in 1883 in Gratz, Styria, Carl Ludwig being at that time governor of the province. Early Life of Austrian Princes. Austrian princes are taught to “carry arms” a3 soon as they can stand on their baby legs. Thetr nurses early give place to martial tutors and their lullables are songs of the camp. To be a prince of the house of Hapsburg-Lothringen means to be a soldier. Archduke Franz Ferdinand received the usual military training, and very early in life was commissioned a iieutenant in the Fourth Dragoons. His regiment was sta- tioned in garrison at Wils, Upper Austria. The officers of the dragoons are selected from the sons of Austria's highest nobility, and a jollier set of young lordlings never wore sword and spurs. The fun runs fast and furious, often treading closely upon the Umits allowed even to royal rioters. Arch- duke Franz Ferdinand and his brother, Archduke Otto, kept pace with the merriest, and showed a princely indifference to pub- Ue censure. ‘The misdeeds of Otto, involving as they did the peace and happiness of his charm- ing wife, a royal Saxon princess, quite over- shadowed the wild pranks of Franz Ferdi- nand, ara the latter escaped in a measure the serious condemnation that was visited upon his handsome, but unworthy brother, His youthful frivolities caused a ripple of solfcitude, however, when he was brought into prominence by the death of his cousin, the crown prince. Apparently he realized the gravity of the changed conditions of his life, for since that time his conduct has given no cause for reproach. The political views of the Carl Ludwig branch of the Hapsburg - Lothringens are decidedly conservative. They are firm believers in the divine right of kings, and the absolute power of the reign- ing monarch. Emperor Franz Josef is far more liberal in his opinions, and he has surrounded Archduke Franz Werdinand by wise tutors In state craft with the hopes: that under their tuition and influence his cobweb theories may give place to the more advanced spirit of the times. Rapid Promotions. In less than five years the archduke has been advanced from the position of eutea- ant of dragoons to be a general in the Aus- trian army. He also holds commissions as general in the armies of Russia ani the German empire. The crowned heals of Europe have vied with each other in be- stowing upon him decorations of royal or- ders, and there seems but one title .eft for him to win—that of majesty. That appears to be well within his reach. Yet nistory demonstrates that in royal as well as other lives “there is many @ slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip.” ‘The archduke ts not yet married. It ts highly probable, however, that the choice of @ bride will have been ‘made for him by the time that he returns to his native land. His royal expectations quite curtail his in- dividual inclinations in the matter. His future consort must be a member of a Catholic reigning family. The youngest daughter of the King of Belgium would answer the requirements, but Austrian al- Mances have thus far proved fatal to Bel- gium. princesses. Carlotta, the widow of Maximilian of Mexico, and Stephanie, the widow of Crown Prince Rudolf, are sorrow- ful witnesses to the sad results of Austro- Belgian marriages. —_——+eo___ The French President Abroad. From the London Globe. With regard to the movements of Presl- dent Carnot an interesting pamphlet has just been published, in which a curious comparison is drawn between the luxury of former times and the simplicity of the present, as far as concerns the travels of the chief of the state. During the last few weeks M. Carnot has been going backward and forward from his country residence lke the commonest of mortals, and will shortly make another provincial tour, pro- vided his health does not prevent him. His traveling paraphernalia is always the same, and consists of tnree dress coats, with waistcoats and trousers to match, twelve shirts, three grand cordons of the Legion of Honor—for the rain changes the color of the ribbon—four pairs of boots, four hats, twelve pairs of white gloves and a box of white neckties. The whole of these articles are placed in two trunks. The great point of M. Carnot ts to be ready for all even- tualities. He knows that punctuality, if it has not always been the politeness of kings, ought to be that of a president of the republic, and he therefore misses no opportunity "to display his urbanity and courtesy. The rain may fall in torrents, or the wind may blow great guns; as~eoon as he reaches his room he changes his cloth entirely, and never fails to arrive at a ban- quet or a reception at the hour fixed and in irreproachable dress. An example of his punctuality took place when he went to Marsellles. It rained cats and dogs as he entered the town, and he had barely five minutes to change in time for the banquet. His clothes, however, had been prepared be- forehand, and, thanks to this precaution, he was able to enter the banqueting hali as fresh and dry as if he was entering his asl oth-hoftp,offifuerl-e anirmfrmhcfhmre salon at the Elysee, while all the rest of the company present were forced to appear drenched to the skin. ‘M. Grevy was even more simple, his bag- gage being confined to the smallest of trunks. It must be stated, however, that he never made any official journeys, prefer- ring to put his salary by for a rainy day. He went every year to his humble seat at Mont-sous-Vaudrey, where he spent his couple of months” holiday in shooting and Dillards. Marshal McMahon, in his travels, always wore his uniform, and his baggage consisted of three suits of clothes, but he rarely used them. The only thing in which he took special pride was his gloves, which he changed two or three times'a day. As regards M. Thiers, he was in the habit of packing up his own trunk, and superin- tending everything connected with his jour- ney. He always took his bed with him—a small tron bed, with a mattress and a blanket; he would not sleep in any other bed, and the care taken of it can there- fore be easily imagined. It was on {t that he died at St. Germain, after catching cold on the famous terrace. He always wore a long black frock coat, which he buttoned up to the chin, and which became almost as celebrated as ‘the redfngote of Napoleon to whom he believed he had some likenes: ‘To swallow tails he had the greatest ave sion, and seldom wore a white cravat. He was ‘equally an enemy of gloves, which he considered feminine. He never traveled without his books, the care of which he in. trusted to his secretary. He was not, how- ever, so punctual in his engagements as M. ‘arnot, and on many occasions kept his host waiting; but, being such a distin- guished guest, he was readily forgiven. = | Post Office Clerks Elect Mr. Parkhurst | ‘The convention of post office clerks at | Chicago, Thursday night, completed its | labors by selecting Benjamin Parkhurst of Washington, president; W. E. Crumbacker of Chicago, ‘secretary, ‘and T. A. Lewis of | Boston, treasurer. ‘The next convention will be held in Boston. SOME PLEASANT RUNS Trips That May Be Taken by the Wheelman, GETTING READY FOR THE FALL SEASON Local Clubs That Have Been on the Road. CURRENT WHEEL GOSSIP. OW THAT THE summer season is over the fall cydling season has fairly opened, —_ although many of the wheel- men are still out of the city. With the approach of the cold weather comes a cor- responding amount of enthusiasm = among the road riders, and wh the consequence is ae that the number of ‘wheelmen appearing on the road has shown @ steady increase during the past few weeks. The membership of the clubs has also largely increased, and it is probable that there will be more road riding than ever between now and Christmas. The watermelon season has about ciosed, so that melon runs are over until next year. But there is plenty of fruit about the country, and, ag the late apples are plentifui, the wheelmen expect to enjoy fruit in, the or- herds until long after the appearance of Many of the wheelmen have been away this summer and have enjoyed rides over the beautiful limestone pike through the Shenandoah valley or the smooth roads in the west, where many of thi ao of the wheelmen visit concrete pavaments, ugh many of these roads have toll gates, there are few where toll is collected from wheelmen, and they are permitted the — of the highly improved thorough- As most wheelmen know, many of the railroads carry bicycles free of charge, but the owner has to look after them, the com- Pany taking no responsibilty whatever. On these trips it is recommended by some of those accustomed to taking them that the Pedals be removed and the handle bar turned, in order to mak, and less Mable ce them more secure Some Pleasant Rides. Saturday evening and Sunday trips on the good roads about the mountains have been popular this season, and it is this way that many riders Manage to make up their summer outing. The most enjoyable of these trips are made by taking the train to Fredecick or Hagerstown on the Satur- day afternoon train, and from these points there are numerous pretty rides to be taken, prettlest sections of the Blue Ridge moun- tains. Near the road 1s the place called the bear’s' den,” overlooking the picturesque nen iver, and a ride through that lon of Virginia giv Senuine farming.» “Ye* One Gn Idea of There is still another pleasant trip in Vir- Sinla, and one which has not often been enjoyed Py ‘wheelmen. It is @ ride from to Washington over a good road through the historic Bull Run battlefield and other places of interest. From Lees- burg there is a road extending south, which leads to Haymarket, on the rallroad be- tween here and Strasburg. This is a Dleas- ant ride for a Saturday evening, giving the rider @ fresh start Sunday morning and plenty of time to see the sights about the battlefields and at Manassas, By leaving Manassas after dinner the pone prog og eoeeeant ride ahead of him, ing at a comfortable pace may be reached in rs ery enjoyable trip. Some parts of the cou: it is true, have not roads such as wheelmen Would ordinarily enjoy, while in other parts tere bee no fault to be found. nm particular occasion the trip wi made through the Mattawoma. ewamape where there is a path for several miles and where in the heat of the day the sun’s rays reach no further than the tops of the trees. Along this path pedestrians are seldom met, but gecasionally ducks, chickens and other fowls are to be found feeding about the clear water, while occasionally a large turtle or frog will be heard to fall overboard and make a splash in the water. On this trip between Port Tobacco and Marshall Hall it is necessary to climb a few fences, but even then the novel experience more than repays the wheelman for his trouble. The distance between these points is less than twenty miles, so that if the wheelman de- sires to make the ride longer he rides down to that section known as “Cedar Point Neck” over a clay road, and then enter the swamp after retracing his road a few miles, and then reach Marshall Hall in time for the afternoon boat. pes ae through the swamps and forest iovel one to many riders here and it is equally enjoyable in dry weather. Plans of the Racing Men. In wheel circles the racing men are still planning to capture a few more prizes. The last racing event in which they participated was the meet at River View two weeks ago, when the Singer Road Club showed up its racing material in great shape and cap- tured more than one prize. On Wednesday and Thursday of next week there will be races in Baltimore and a number of local men will compete for the prizes. Several of them are already in traiaing for the events and some record breaking will be at- tempted. At the last race meet in Balti- more six out of seven first prizes were cap- tured and it is possible that the visitors may again give the Baltimoreaas and their friends an exhibition of “how to do it.” While some training is being done for the Face meet several wheelmen are getting in trim to tackle the 24-hour record, which is held by Wahl of the Washington Road Club, who made such a good run over the Conduit road two weeks ugo. J. C. Wood of the same club, who was ¥o severe- jy injured in Baltimore at tne last race meet, and J. J. Fisher of the Tecovery and will in all probability make the start this afternoon. Messrs, Ed. Terry and W. J. Espey of the Arlington Wheel- men may also be in the field for the honor later on. Following the races in Baltimore will Probably come the races of the Washing- ton Road Club, to be neld here the latter part of this month or some time in Octo- r. Racing until a short while ago was con- fined to the membership of two clubs, but now the other clubs are falling in line and it is thought that every club will be repre- sented on the track in event of the Wash- ington Road Club’s holding a meet, as is expected. Heretofore the Georgetown Cy- cling Club has confined its movements to the road, but Capt. Cook has had some of his men in training for racing this summer and they captured a prize the first time they figured on the track. Clubs on the Road. Last Sunday several clubs were on the Toad despite the threatening weather in the morning, which was followed by a downpour of rain in the afternoon. ‘The Arlington Wheelmen had arranged a novel trip for the day, no one being permitted to participate unless he rode a high wheel. The result was that all the high wheels in the city were in demand and an attendance of at least fifty was promised had the weather proved good. As it was, however, more than half the number expected turned out, many of them being members of the Washington Road Club. Each member was supposed to be in costume and was expected to his own lunch, besides a tin cup for coffee and a spoon. George Atwater gave a prize, a round- trip ticket between Washington and George- town, for the most comical costume, but the judges were unable to determine to whom the prize should go. Mounted on the high wheels,*many of them being old wrecks of various kinds, the wheelmen started off in the morning for Cabin John bridge, but before their arrival at the bridge they were greeted by the rain. This did not change their plans in the least, for they reached the bridge and built a fire beneath the wide span of ma- sonry, and there they cooked coffee enough for a regiment. Each man made the other @ target, and the affair was greatly en- joyed by all who participated. One rider ‘wore a pair of white duck pants, a spotted stocking taking the place of one of the trousers legs. When dinner was over one of the wheelmen thought that the white suit looked too well for such a trip, and the wearer of snow white trousers was rolled in the mud. On the return trip the mud and soot from the coffee pot about covered the faces of the riders, so that as they pa- raded down Pennsylvania avenue in the rain but few if any of them could be recognized. The Georgetown Cycle Club made a short tour on Sunday. The members of this club have enjoyed a number of pleasant outings this summer, which were arranged by Capt. Cook, and several melon runs were on the Program. Recently the club went to Ben- ning, where the members were entertained by Mr. Hunt. Members of the Capital Bi Club were also on the road Sunday. They started for the Great Falls, intending t6 enjoy dinner at Dickey’s, but on account of the rain they stopped at the Anglers’ club house and got under shelter. “It's only a passing shower,” remarked ‘one of the members, but the storm increas- ed_as the time passed by, the wheelmen concluded not to wait for the appearance of the sunshine, and so they rode home through the pouring rain. Most of the clubs will be on the road to- morrow, weather permitting, and a large crowd is expected on the Conduit road, where Mr. J. C. Wood will probably be seen attempting to break the twenty-four- hour record. Century Ran of the Cycle Club. The Victor Cycle Club makes its first century run to Baltimore on Monday. This club, which started out only a few months ago with a membership of only six, has Row over forty members on its register. They have some of the fastest pushers of the steel in the District, and in the coming Norfolk races, September 18th, they will send two or more of their members down to participate in those events. eee WILD BIRDS’ EGG! How the Collector Gathers Them Un- der Difficulties. Wild and uninhabited regions are poor Places to collect eggs, according to the testi- mony of ornithologists. Mr. Ernest Inger- soll, a well-known expert in this branch of ‘science, calls attention to the fact that birds generally are to be found near to the abodes of man. In places not far from human hab- {tations there is usually a good supply of food, as well as shelter from enemies. So it happens that the smaller feathered creatures particularly make themselves neighbors of mankind; building their nests, rearing their young, and obtaining their sustenance in and about the roadside, orchard and garden, instead of seeking the lonely shades of the forests. Of course, exceptions to this general rule are to be found in the sea-fowl, the wild and flerce hawks, and some marSh birds, the last by nature exceedingly eremite und solitary. ‘Thus it happens that the collector of exes does not have to explore the deserts and other lonely lands in order to supply mater- jal for his cabinet. The birds whos nests he seeks to rob are mostly discovered near at hand. True, he must often exert much ingenuity to find certain varieties. A meth- od sometimes adopted is to put in some Place where it can be easily seen a bunch of hay, or straw, or cotton, watching It to observe whither the fowls of the air which come to it for nest making stuff wing their flight. But in many instances the nests | when found are very difficult to reach. This 1s the case with some of the sea birds, which make their homes in the vertical faces of cliffs. Usually these cliffs overhang the surf or some deep chasm in the mountains, so as to be hopelessly inaccessible from below. ‘Then it ts a question of getting at the eggs from above, which is often a matter of great difficulty and danger. Quite a number of egg collectors have lost their lives in trying to rob nests in the faces of lofty staward cliffs,. Commonly a rope is employed for making the descent from the summit of such a crag. To at- tempt that sort of thing alone and unassist- ed 18 extremely perilous. The rope is apt to be frayed through by the rock, so as to precip- itate the adventurous climber to the bottom. ‘The best way to get over this difficulty is to rig a sort of pulley at the edge of the cliff through which the rope may run. This is troublesome, but it pays when valuable specimens reward the effort. Any one who understands the business’ will make sure to have at least one companion with him, and the person lowered should always be secure- ly fastened to the rope, lest a fit of dizzine such as may attack the most experience individual, should render him helpless and unable to’ hold on. Oologists nowadays usually take the nests as well as the eggs. The former are deemed important as exhibiting the work of the birds. In thelr construction the ingenuity of the feathered creatures is chiefly exhib- ited. Besides, the structure of them 1s most interesting. “What can surpass,” says an ornithologist, “the delicacy of the humming bird's home, glued to a mossy branch or nestling in the point of a pendant leaf; the vireo's ken hammock; the oriole’s grace- fully swaying purse; the blackbird's model basket in the flags; the snug little caves of the marsh wrens; the hermit huts of the sly wagtails, or’ the stout fortresses of sociable swallows?” Nests that are buflt in trees and bushes are best secured by sawing off the branches to which they are attached. For this pur- pose the collector carries a knife with a saw blade. The nest should‘never be detached from the branch on which it has been built. Nests of other kinds, such as are constructed on the ground, may have to be tied together with string before they are taken away, lest they be broken. The swallow and the phoebe bird make their nests of mud, and these must be fitted tightly into boxes, to keep them from crumbling. In order that nests may not be destroyed by insects or decay, it is very necessary that they shall be sub- Jected to a process of disinfection before they are put away. One way to do this is to put the nest In a box perforated’ with a, few pin holes, together with a small'sponge saturated with carbolic acid. Another meth- od is to blow the nest full of Persian insect powder, which may be blown, out again after a'few hours. E ‘The eggs, if they are fresh, should be emptied of their contents as soon as they are taken. They can be carried more safely when empty. If they contain embryos, however, this should not be attempted. In old times eggs were commonly blown by breaking a hole at each end, taking out the contents, and stringing the shells for orna- ments. The oologist does not approve of depriving birds of their eggs for such a frivolous purpose. Moreover, he makes only one hole in each egg, and that on the side. ‘Thus the egg can rest on that side in a box or on a tray, appearing as if whole. The tools employed to make the hole are little steel drills such as are used by dentists, After the contents have been taken out, the shell ts rinsed thoroughly and dried by lay- ing {t, hole downward, on a blotting pad or folded towel. Simpler methods will serve if pains be taken. Mr. Ernest Ingersoll says: “Scores of times I have sat down under the tree where I have found a bird's nest, and have blown the eggs nicely with no better instru- ments than a needle and a hollow stem of ripe grass, the latter making a very good blow pipe. Small, fresh eggs I do not ob- Ject to sucking directly, lying on my back and letting the egg rest between my lips, guarding it with care against contact with the teeth. Whatever bad taste remains in the mouth is quickly got rid of by a morsel of candy or spice, which can be earried in the pocket for this purpose. “My remarks apply to fresh eggs. Those containing embryos present difficulties re- quiring the help of instruments to empty and preserve them. Eggs long sat upon are more easily blown by being kept a few days, but the operation must not be deferred too | long, or they may burst violently on being} punctured. Egg shells grow more brittle toward the time of hatching. Well formed embryos cannot be got through any hole that can be made in the shell. They must be extracted piecemeal by means of minia- ture scissors’, knives and forceps, the un- hatched bird being cut to pleces before tak- ing it out.” a Proclamations to the Dead. From the St. Catharines Star. ‘There have been delivered to certain per- sons through the post office during the past week notices which, aside from their solemnity, are somewhat ludicrous. Here is one of them, addressed to a former citi- zen, who is now, it is hoped, in a better land than this. “You are hereby notified that pursuant to the statue in that behalf, a court of revision of the voters’ lists for tne municipality of the city of St Cathar- ines for the year 1893 will be held by the judge of the county of Lincein, at the court house, in the city of St. Catharines on the Sth day of September, 1993, at 10 a. m.; and you are requested to appear at the said court for that—hath complained that your name 1s wrongfully inserted in the said voters’ list, because you are dead.” -s0<— Benj. Folsom, United States consul at Sheffield, Engiand, arrived yesterday at New York on the Britannic. = |Faised unusually high by the work of the ST. LOUIS. : ay ae 23 106 33 30 W 34 it lr 22 33 ij ; 88 33 of 30 | ever Pittsburg it is hardly probable that WHERE THE BLAME LIES.| Review of the Base Ball Season in Wash- ington. Whose the Fault That the Club Did Ne Better—Disappointment of the Pa ic. Only two weeks more and the base ball season of 1893 will have “finis” written af- ter it. It has been a particularly disap- pointing season for Washington. It is true that the local team has finished so often in last place that the public should have grown philosophical enough by this time to expect nothing else, but hopes were club in the spring and the confident as- sertion of the manager that the team would finish among the first six was eagerly be- Meved. There was the same hope last year, but the public was partly consoled, for the team finished the first half of the double Season in seventh place. It was seen then that Washington was not altogether a “Jonah” town and better things were ex- pected this year, It is the favorite pastime of disappointed base ball patrons to hold “post-mortem examinations” on the cause of failure. The usual post-mortem has been held on the Washington team. All sorts of witnesses have been admitted, many doubtless that Were biased and prejudiced. Now that the bitterness of defeat has somewhat lost its edge a fairer judgment may be given than has been rendered in many instances. First it should be borne in mind that When Mr. O'Rourke was given the man- agement of the club he was given full con- trol, This he has frequently asserted and in fact has claimed that he would not otherwise have taken the position. Nor would he have r ae retained it if he had been ‘This he has the hearty co-operation of the proprietors. There has been the best feeling between them and him. They speak in the highest terms of his fidelity and earnestness and he Speake ii” Correspondingly high terms of Once there was an attempted interference with him. Secretary Wok, Wagner at- tempted to release Pitcher Duryea, but the owners promptly disavowed the act and notified President Young that the act was unauthorized and “Willie” Wagner was de- Posed and Earle Wagner succeeded him. There have been differences of opinion be- tween owners and manager, but the man- ager had his way. The owners would like ionere had Joyce, but Mr. O'Rourke loesn’t like Joyce's si Aisapproved of getting hime “7'® for he Mr. O'Rourke was much pleased with the team in the spring and he de- playing the would with ily base ball patrons also agreed with him. Everyone remembers the dire failure of last summer and fall, when so many new Players were engaged in hopes of strength- ening the team. From the first doubts were held regardin; the pitching talent, but it was hard to see where any better could be obtained. All pitched excellently at times and even when Duryea was first released as the poorest of the lot there were several clubs eager to snap him up. It is now admitted that Kil- Jen should have been retained and pald what he wanted, but at the time general approval was expressed at trading him for Farrell. ‘The pitching talent was soon strengthened by the signing of Esper, the star pitcher of the Philadelphias the season before. Then John Stricker, who was well known as a remarkable infielder, was signed to use in an emergency. Both of these steps were initiated by the Messrs. Wagner, but were approved by the manager before they were finally taken. They received the unani- mous approval of the local public. Neither player has strengthened the team as was sapected, though they have worked faith uly. The club, however, played good ball and won a fair number of games until the Chi- cages and Louisvilles came. With the loss of those games came a general “roasting” of the club. The spectators turned against them and rejoiced in the visitors’ success. Whether that took all the heart out of the team and all desire to win cannot be said, but it 1s certain that the players were very angry at their treatment, which, they de- clared, was undeserved. They rejoiced when they left town. ‘Then came the disastrous western trip in which all the eastern clubs but Boston and Philadelphia suffered severely. The other clubs, however, began to win on the home grounds, but the local team failed to better its position. Whether it was because the local public was indifferent to its success or not can only be surmised. The atten- dance fell off. The club seemed to put no life in its game. Last place was assured. Possibly the club could have been strengthened at times. But it did not ap- pear so to the manager. Doubtless he e:red, but he ts willing to acknowledge his mistakes and will not make someone else shoulder them. He did what he thought was best. He has had a thankless job and is glad to lay it aside. He will not shirk the blame and is the last one to claim that the owners have been indifferent to the suc- cess of the local team, > BASE BALL, This Time Stocksdale Was Pounded Hard and@ Washington Lo: Errors by Crooks and Werden enabled Washington to take the lead in the first two innings of yesterday's game at St. Louis, and matters began to look blue for the Browns. In the fourth inning, however, Capt. Quinn’s men jumped on Stocksdale and pounded his delivery all over the field. Before they stopped seven runs were made, and the result was out of doubt. Score: Score by Innings. 29171120 2-13 Washington 2210000111-6 Earned runs—St. Louts, 4; Washington, 3. First base by errors—St. Louls, 2; Washing- ton,»6. Left on bases—St. Louls, 1; Wash- ington, 2. First base on balls—Off Breiten- stein, 2; off Stocksdale, 5. Struck out—By Breitenstein,2; by Stocksdale,l. Three-base hits—Shugart, Wise, Stocksdale, Sullivan, Frank. Two-base hit—Hoy. Stolen bases— Crooks, 3; Stocksdafe, 1. Hit by pitcher—By Stocksdale, 1. Umpire—Hornung. Time of game—Two hours. ‘The scores of the other games were: Philadelphia, 4; Chicago, 0. Pittsburg, 9; Boston, 2. Raltimore, 7; Cleveland, 6. Bal- timore, 9; Cleveland, 2." Cincinnati, 8; New York, 7. Louisville, 6; Brooklyn, 3. Four of the seven games played yesterday were won by the western clubs,Philadelphia and Baltimore being the only eastern clubs to come off the field victorious, ‘The two victories of Baltimore at Cleve- land practically placed the latter club out of the race for third place,as the Phillfes are more than holding their own against their western opponents. Boston appears to have struck a losing streak at last, Pittsburg taking another game from them. The record of the team from the City of Culture on this trip is one victory and four defeats. ‘There are only thirteen more games to be played before the close of the season, and as Boston has a lead of nine games the latter team will get near enough to the Ieaders to give them a scare. ‘The following table giv of the club: the percentage THE FOOT BALL SEASON. College Elevens All Getting in Form for the Coming Contests. The elevens of the leading football colleges have gone to work and from now to Christ- mas foot ball will have the call in the ama- teur sporting world. George W. Beals, T. F. Scanlon and W. P. Wightman, the foot. ball committee of the Amateur Athletic Union, have issued the following circular: “The committee having foot ball in charge recommends to the associations of the Amateur Athletic Union that they should institute a foot ball championship open only | to team residing within Uneir territory, and whose schedule shall be decided by Novem- ber 10. ‘The foot ball committee of the Amateur Athletic Union will then arrange @ series of games between the champion teams of each association for the cham- Pionship of the United States. If any one of the associations of the Amateur Athletic Union does not announce on or before Oc- tober 1, 189, its intention to hold such an association championship contest the foot ball committee of the Amateur Athletic Union will receive entries from any foot ball team in the territory of such as- sociation and arrange a schedule for them. If only one team should enter that team will be declared the association chau pion without a contest. All details con. cerning the final series of games for the championship of the United States will be announced later. For further information address George W. Beals, Chairman, [os- ton Athletic Association, Boston, Mass. A dozen candidates ‘for the Wesleyan eleven have begun training at Middletown, Conn., though college does not begin till | September 28. Of last year's team Capt. Smith, Cutts, Page, Newton and Fordyce will not play this season, but Capt. Gor- don ts hopeful of an unusually fine lot of freshman material. A new idea has been put into execution by this year’s manase- ment—engaging a trainer to look after the team’s dieting. Capt. Hinkey preserves the same sphinx- like silence that has made him an object of curiosity. No Yale foot ball captain has ever been so brusque in his manner or 60 | thoroughly non-committal. Ordinary ques- tions are answered with a grunt or a hake of the head that conveys the impres- mn that the great end rusher is in an un- 8 happy mood. Possibly Hinkey may have recelved instructions not to talk, which may explain his silence. On the field, how- ever, he is all animation. He coaches his men carefully and doesn’t hesitate for a moment to call attention to their weak ints, And, above all, what he says goes. le is obeyed as religiously as a regular army officer, and he issues his commands like @ major. Ramsdell and Wagenhurst of last year’s University of Pennsylvania team will play with the Camden Athletic Association's eleven this year. Harvard's schedule as arranged so far is as follows: September 30, Dartmouth, at Cambridge; October. 4, Exeter, at Cam- bridge; October 7, Amherst, at’ Cambridge; October 11, Bowdoin, at Cambridge; October 14, Williams, at Cambridge; October 18, Tufts, at Cambridge; October 28, Chicago Athletic Club, at Cambridge; November 4, Cornell, at New York; November 7, Boston Athletic, at Cambridge. Hickok, Yale's big left guard, has taken on flesh’ and is much stronger than last fall. He will be instructed to run with the ball as Heffelfinger used to do. Garfield, the celebrated Williams Collese half back, may enter Harvard, in which event he is reasonably sure of a place on the crimson eleven. ‘The Chicago Athletic Club eleven will make an eastern tour. The team includes “Snake” Ames, Donnelly, Vic Harding and other well-known college players. These members of last year's Princeton eleven have been training at Newport, R. 1., under the direction of Capt. Trenchard: Lea, Hall,Vincent, McCauley, Brown, King, Taylor and Allen. Pennsylvania will_lose the services of Full Back Thayer, Half Back Camp, End Rushers Scho and Simmons and Reese, and Thornton, Mackey, Vail, Oliver and Knipe are the only veterans left. Coach Woodruff is hard at work developing new material. “Shep” Homans will not play on the Princeton eleven. His place as full back will be hard to fill. ‘The Yales will be coached by Heffelfincer, “Kid” Wallace, McClung, Rhodes, Knapp and probably ‘Walter Camp, when he is needed. ‘There is talk of Harvard and Cornell, in the Intercollegiate Foot Ball Association, | making a six-club circuit with Yule, Prince- ton, Pennsylvania and Wesleyan. Butterworth, the Yale full back, has vast- ly improved in his drop kicking. Princeton regards the “undergraduate rule” as a dead letter, and will play King, Balliet and Symmes, ‘who, under the law, would be barred. The foot ball team of the Camden Ath- letic Association is under the coaching of Martin Bergen of Princeton. Princeton will play Cornell in New York this year. Practice by the Yales at New Haven be- gins September 18. The 100-Yard Record Broken. John 8. Barnes yesterday afternoon at Kittsondale, Minn., broke the world’s rec- ord in 100 yards, making the distance in 9 3-5 seconds. There were three time keep- ers, John Sodint of Minneapolis, Eugene Sandowe and A. R. Federmann of St. Paul. Barnes ran against Charles Davis, a pro- fessional sprinter, who has been defeating the country hereabouts, and beat him by three feet. Barnes was for years a professional sprinter, traveling with Cuckoo Collins, Steve Farrell, H. M. Johnson and others, but quit the business and took charge of a base ball club at Portland about four years ago. He is a professional all-around ath- lete, and at present owns the Phoenix Ath- letic Club in St. Paul and the Twin City Athletic Club in Minneapolis. A few years ago he made a record of 7 seconds for 75 | yards, which is still the fastest time for that distance. Barnes has defeated Quirk, Collins, Johnson and several others of the cracks, and offered to run Morris when the latter ‘won the handicap at Goshen, Ind. ‘Two of the timekeepers registered 9 3-5 and the other went 9 4-5. WHAT THE FLESH CAN STAND. Horrifying Tests Applied by a Fakir of Morocco. From the Westminster Gazette. The management of the Aquarium at Westminster has the laudable ambition to Secure novelties, but that ambition has overreached itself in engaging the “inyul- nerable fakir,” This young man’s performance is entirely unsuited for a public exhibition, however interesting it may be to scientists. Soliman is a pale-faced, muscular, French-speaking Arab, twenty-eight years of age, and he is said to be a priest of the Aissa sect of Mo- hammedans. Yesterday he gave an exhi- bition of his powers to a body of medical | and press men, and Mr. Ritchie made no Secret of the fact that the salary paid to Soliman is one that some cabinet ministers might envy. The general appearance of the man in his Arab costume was picturesque, and his cast of countenance is ascetic. A brazier filled with burning charcoal stood on a table, and Soliman, sprinkling some mysterious powder over the embers, inhaled the incense-scented fumes. He then went through the fakir dance, which consists of throwing the head backward and forward with such rapidity that it needs must be screwed on_ well. Telling his audience in excellent French that he was now insensible to pain, he ran @ long needle through the muscles of each rm, through each cheek and through the throat below the Adam's apple. No blood came except at call, and the Arab did not wince in the least. Then a more abjectionable “feat” was ac- complished. Soliman ran a dagger into his abdomen—about the zmiddie—fully three inches deep. This was enough for some of the audience, who left the hall. But there was more to follow. The Arab with a thick needle pierced his tongue, the tongue being, of course, one of the most sensitive parts of the human body. The fakir next drew out his left eye, as far as it would go, with a dagger. A medical gentleman declared afterward that it was done by dislocation. ‘The eyeball is an unlovely thing—at least those parts of it which a merciful Provi- dence keeps concealed—and the “feat” is as disgusting as it is, happily, uncommon. The curious thing about it was that there was ho running of water. After this It seemed quite tame to see the man take out half a dozen vipers, brought from his native Morocco, and allow one of them repeatedly to bite his hand. The ven- omous creatures were a little larger than those one often encounters in this country. Finally Soliman put his bared arm over a fire till the limb blackened and the audience cried, “Hold, enough!” The flesh did not seem to scorch at all. Then there was a Tepetition of the dance, and the man went at such a pace that he fell forward. He dashed water over his head, breathed hard and groaned, and made an exhausted bow to the audience. @ medical committee was unanimous that the “performance” was genuine, but no one attempted to solve the riddie. The most probable explanation that occurs is that the powder fumes serve as an anaes- thetic. The anthropologists of Munich seem to have been delighted with the exhibition, | but the general public of this country, who raised an outcry against the affair last week at the Chicago exposition, are much more \ikely to be sickened than ‘satisfied. ————-+0+ English Miners Refuse to Yield. The miners of Yorkshire and Lanca- shire, England, have voted unanimously against both accepting a reduction of wages and submitting the dispute with their employers to arbitration. A small minority was in favor of resuming work at | the old rates pending a settlement of the question of wages. ——_—+eo_____ ‘The jury in the trial of W. H. Shattuck, at Albany, N. Y., for the killing of his child wife, returned a verdict yesterday of | murder in’ the second degree. Shattuck is twenty-two years of age. Corbin, Bull, | Hadj Soliman ben Aissa. | ABOUT ABNORMAL MAN. } Something of the Effects of Alcohol in the | System. |= Treatment as a Phystological | Question—It Does Not Aid Work and Retards Digestion. ] The actual effect of alcohol upon the | human system is a subject which has ex- cited considerable interest of late years mong physicians, and has attracted some | attention from mankind at large. The average man is probably aware, or has | been aware at some period of his life, of certain “effects” of pleasant forms of alco- | hol upon the system, and may contend with | himself that alcohol in moderate quantities 4s not only geod for his health, but neces- sary for it. Whether this be true or not he may learn by reading the opinion of scientists appended herewith. From a publication entitled “Abnormal Man,” issued by the bureau of education and ‘compiled by Arthur MacDonald, the specialist, are gathered the opinions ex- pressed below, being from the pens of a | number of the most celebrated writers upon sociology in the world. It is not designed to make this chapter a temperance lecture or to dwell upon the sociolozical effects of alcoholism, but simply to tell what science has found ‘in its investigations of the phy- siological result of introducing alcoho: into the human system. A Physlological Question. ‘The alcoholic question is above all a phy- slological one. We know that alcohol is consumed in our body, that it source of living force; but it does not follow that it is food until this power is shown to eid the working of normal functions. We .o not know whether the muscular fibers and nerve cells can utilize alcohol as a source of power. / ‘cohol lessens the heat of che body by working an enlargement of the blood vessels in the skin, in consequence of which more warm blood flows through tke | cold surface and more heat is given wut. The enlargement of the blood vessels comes |in this way: In the walls of the blood ves- | sels there are small ring muscles, which | are in constant contraction. The caure of | this contraction comes from certain nerve | fibers, which run to the ring muscles, and | | they ‘all have a common center in the | brain. Alcohol paralyzes this center; the nerve irritation ceases, the ring muscies re- | tax, the blood vesselssare widened and the | skin becomes richer in blood (recognized | by the color). The reddening of the cheeks | after drinking wine, which is the effect cf alcohol, {s a pathological phenomenon, The ordinary man says alcohol warms him in cold weather. A Self-Deception. This is a self-deception; he feels simply the warm blood streaming out to the skin in greater quantities. As a matter of fact he loses heat. The deception comes per- haps In this way: The brain centers, which mediate the feeling of cold, are stupetied by paralysis. In general It can be proven that | all effects of alcohol which are generally designated excitation are in reality only | paralytic phenomena. The psychical ef- Tects are especially so. The brain furction, which is first weakened, is the clear judg- ment oF critical faculty. In consequence the emotional !ife prevails, freed from the chains of criticism; the man becomes open- hearted and careless. Brt above all the paralytic effect of alcohol shows itself: this, that every feeling of discomfort and pain is benumbed, and especially the bit- terest pains, the psychical ones, as sorrow and anxiety, wherefore the merry feeling in a drinking company. A man never be- | comes clever through drink. This wide- spread prejudice is ogee ame likewise a symptom of para’ a | where, as self-criticism sinks, self-suitl- ciency rises and self-control is lost. It Does Not Aid Work,!"’ He who becomes accustomed to take sl- cohol regularly is in fact better capable of working than if alcohol was suddenly taken away from him. But this is the case also with other poisons. When morphine is taken away froin the morphine eater he cannot work, fleep mor eat. He ts “strengthened” through morphine. But he who is not accustomed to narcotics is not made more capable of work through nar- cotics. But of still more weight are the thousands of experiments that occur in | the case of soldiers; that in war, In jin all climates, all ‘hardships of the most wearisome marches are best endured when the soldier abstains wholly from all aico- holie drinks. These facts were verified in the English armies in Caffraria, West Africa, Canada and India. And aditioaal Verification is the fact that thousaals of sailors are not allowed to touch a drop of jalcohol on board, and this in tropical, tem- perate and especially in polar regions. Most (whale fishers are total abstainers. That which is true of bodily exertion is as true of mental. Alcohol strengthens no one; it simply benumbs the feeling of fatigue Does Not Ald Diges! ‘The error of poor people in this regard is especially unfortunate, as they spend much for alcoholic drinks to strengthen them in- stead of buying rich and salutary food. ‘The advocate of beer claims that’ It ds ni tritious. True, beer contains a conslder- able quantity of hydrocarbons, dextria and | sugar. But there is a surplus of this in | food already; and there is no reason, also, why it should be taken in a more costly form. It is claimed that beer and wine aid digestion, but many experiments have been | made on animals and men, and especially |on men with the ald of the stomach pump, | which show that moderate doses of beer |and wine lengthen the time of digestion and disturb it. Direct observations on per- | sons with stomach fistula likewise indicate | the same effects. Alcohol as medicine ts a mild anaesthetic; |t should only be used for acute sickness, | but never for chronic troubles, for the same | reason that morphine and chloral hy@rate should not be employed. A Perverted Taste. Many drink because of the good taste of liquor and not for its effects. But taste ig made perverse in this way; the appetite tends almost wholly toward meat; sugar- ripe fruits and sweet food in general are | distasteful to the drinker. Physiology has established that sugar is the source of mus- cular force. When the sweet Is no more agreeable to us signifies an abnormal con- dition. A drinker finds himself in this con- dition; and he is a drinker who does not feel himself at ease unless he takes beer, wine, or alcohol in any form. Alcohol in passing into the digestive tube produces a warm pricking sensation, which propagates itself from the mouth to the pharynx and stomach. Concentrated or large quantities of alcohol acts as an irri- tant in the stomach; this action is much more energetic if the stomach is empty; in this case diluted alcohol is injurious ‘be- cause it acts directly on the mucous ves- sels, exciting a viscus, when stimulation has’ no use, but if there is food in the stomach, a moderate dose is still more di- luted and mingles with the ingesta and se- cretions; here it is not an irritant, but a stimulant of the digestive functions. It i absorbed especially in the stomach, in the duodenum and in the beginning of the in- testine, if the quantity taken is large enough. It penetrates the blood either directly by the veins or by thg chyliferous vessels. ‘Total Abstinence. Alcohol causes an acceleration of the heart beats followed by a corresponding decrease, in such a manner that when the doses have been increased a little and not repeated, the average pulse physiological influence of alcohol resembles that of the influence of age. The functions at first excited are enfeebled by an tnevit- less quantity and the temperature of the body is lowered. Alcohol does not remain long in the organism. The kidneys are a constant source of elimination of alcohol: the guantity eliminated from the lungs is very little: the skin is an important source | of elimination, producing a dilatation of the | periphical vessels, so that a larger quantity of blood ts carried to the surface and the the physiological dose to the pathological is only a step, and special circumstances can rendez the former dangerous. Temper- ance is a lure; total abstinence is neces- sary; these are conclusions to which we are almost tempted to come. An Acquired Taste. ‘The accustoming one’s self to the use of of need for it; alcoholism is not, therefore, an inborn Instinctive need, but an acquired one. Experience teaches that the longer this vice exists in a nation the greater the vice becomes. Persons who misuse alco- holic drinks, especially whisky, often be- come sick and die sooner than the moder- ate drinkers and non-drinkers. When alco- hol is taken habitually, and when misused, it injures the whole constitution; all tissues and organs, and especially the blood, suffer sooner cr later a pathologi- | uncontrollable. within the | twenty-four hours rests without change. | Large doses diminish the frequence and | energy of the heart beats. The simple | able reaction; muscular forces are diminish- | | ed, urine and carbonie acid are excreted in | fnscnaible transpiration Is increased.” From | alcohol causes, sooner or later, a feeling | ———— cal change, with which susceptibility to dis- ease is increased. Alcohol intoxication net only calls out diseases and dixturbances that the non-drinker does not have, but it Elves rise to a greater morbidity. Jt is an old experience that in epidemics of cholera, dysentery, and smallpox drinkers are st- tacked in larger numbers, and with greater intensity, than non-drinkers. The bad cum- stitution ‘of the blood, the weakness of the changed heart muscies, the sanken energy of the nervous functions, and the frequewt eccompanying disease of the brain, give @ bad course to every disease, and a high mortality. All Forms of Insanity. The clcse relation of alcohotism to in- Sanity is shown by the statement of @ Specialist (Krafft-Ebing) that all forms @f insanity, from melancholia to umbecility, are found in alcoholism. It is artificial; ft begins with a slight maniacal excitation; thoughts flow lucidly, the quiet become loquacious, the modest bold; there is need of muscular action; the emotions are mani- fest in laughing, singing, and dan-ing. Now the aesthetical ideas and moral imp ilses are lost control of, the weak side of the in- dividual is manifested, his secrets revealed; he is dogmatic, crucl, cynitai, dangerous; he insists that he is not drunk, just os the insane Insists on his sanity. Then his mind becomes weak, his consciousness dim, i- lusions arise; ‘he stammers, staggers, and like a paralytic his movements are uncer- tain. The principal character of these mental disturbances consists in a moral und intel lectual Weakuess; ideas become sax as to honor and decorum. There is a disregard of the duties of family and citizenship. Ip- ritability is a concomitant; the slightest thing causes suspicion and anger which i There is a weakness of will to carry out good resolutions, and a con- Sclousness of this leads some to request to be placed in an asylum, for they are moral- ly certain in advance that they sannot re- | sist temptation. ‘Thus one has becn krowh | to have his daughter carry his waxes home, as he could not pass a saloon on the way | Without going in if he had any money with | him. Now it is a weakness of memory, a | difficulty im the chain of thought and Weak perception,until imbecility is reached. Mental and Bodily Degeneration. ‘There may be disturbances in brain cir culation, causing restless sleep, a1xious dreams, confusion, dizziness, headache. Such circulatory disturbances in the sense- organs can give rise to hallucinations There is a trembling In hands, face, lips, and tongue. In short, there ts a graduad mental and bodily degeneration, in the past, wine was used almost whol ly by the weil-to-do classes, and beer was of such @ nature that harm was ovt of the Question. Excessive use of alcohol first be- gan with the art of distillation, the obtaining of strong concentra ky from corn, poatoes, and the like. With the universal izing of ‘the use of, whisky, @ series of phenomena have appeared, Which are designated by the word “alow | hotism.”” The -climate is an important factor Prunkenness is more frequent in cold tha in warm countries, and is more brutal and injurious in its effects as we go north. Yet this is not always true, for within ihe last ten years alcoholism has greatly de- creased in Sweden, and increased in south- $ra, France and northern Italy. In tropical regions At present spreading f. with great injury. “6 esl NOT A PRETTY GRovr. English View of House of Lords Which Throtiled the Home Rule BI, London Cuble to the New York Sux. The parliamentary news of the week i# not the rejection of the home rule bill by | the house of lords, but the physical revels. tion made by the assembling at Westmin- | ster of the peers of Great Britain and Ine jland. The number of noble lords who sat in the magnificent chamber when a division was called this morning exceeded by more than 100 any previous gathering of the high- ‘est court of the British empire. To those who looked down from the galleries the | sight can only be described as appalling, ‘There have been assemblies that compared with it, but not here outside of jails, alms: houses or hospitals for the insane. ‘The im sue of the hour, the formalities of the de= setting of the memorable scene, all were lost in the shock wihich’ the |Dersonality of the actors made up jon the observer. No one studied | the 400 figures sitting upon the plush benches | below without suffering almost a death | blow to his faith in human nature and with« out feeling his admiration of British insti« tutions throttled by a new born contempt. It was to be expected that the feebleness of age would be prominent in such a house. It was not that, it was the sentlity of youth, | the wreck of middie life, the tottering im: becility of dissipated age that stood out all over. Picture the presence of such intel- |tectual giants as , Rosebery, Play~ | fair, who served but to furnish the contrast Jority of of inherited jJority of puppets Would excite no emotions beyond pity ame disgust if encountered anywhere suve im such grotesque masquerading as thie. Eng- lish and American readers are familiaf with the current caricaturing of the aver: age British peer, as « repulsive creature | with sloping forehead and retreating chin. | No general opportunity was ever aif ‘of putting the indictment to the test un | proved. A te those | members of the house of lords who hold ‘seats by inheritance, not by appointment, would be the personification of weakness— | mental, moral and physical, sel?-indulgence, selfishness, bigotry and intolerance. The opinion has sometimes been expressed that ‘the English people were too firmly attached to the existing institutions of aristocracy | to sweep away the house of lords if it op- posed the popular will persistently. The only safety for the great prerogatives en« joyed by the 400 persons who rejected the home rule bill lies in the mysterious seclu- sion from which they emerged this week, If their faces and forms should be once jeted fore tl Engl people their po tical doom wouka be sealed, ——or—____ Imperious Drag Clerks. From the New York Herald. It requires some nerve and the display of an acute presence of mind to enter a drug store and inquire for a particular thing and to take no other thing in place of 1, Nobody understands better than the aver- age drug clerk the feeble character of the human will, and nobody than he better ap- preciates his own superior position. If & should go into an eating house and want frogs’ legs and no frogs’ legs were to be had there nothing would be thought of the circumstance if I should move on to some other pice for what I wanted. Nobody would ‘call out the rest of the force vw stare at me. Nobody would tell me I really didn’t mean frogs’ legs, but wanted to get a wholly different thing. Nobody would | sneeringly remark that they never heard of such a thing, that it wasn't down on the bill of fare printed for their house, and therefore frogs’ legs were not in the market, Nobody would, when I told them that I had seen frogs’ legs in another res- taurant, not far away, insinuate that I was either mistaken or was lying. Not at ali. They would merely permit me to go away and hunt up my frogs’ legs and enjoy them wherever I might find them. ‘The average drug clerk is a very different sort of an individual to deal with. Not to be too sweeping in this remark let me say some of these licensed practitioners on the public credulity are a trifle too smart for common every day mundane affairs. £ have had them not only subject me to all of the above copditions, but absolutely go so far as to further relieve me from the | strain of thinking to the extent of putting up something unasked for and by them pro- nounced just as good or better. And 1 never found that peculiar method of doing business in all my varied dealings with my other fellow men. There ts food for philo- sophical reflection in this” Now it is said that certain patent medicine firms of a competitive character offer pecuniary tn- Aucements to dealers for pushing goods on the market, and this will account for some of the peculiarities of the business, but it ‘will not account for all of them. Only the All-seeing One who graciously stands be tween us and morphine put up as seidlir~ powders can do that. To na A Siamese Spectacie. From the London Globe, ‘The King of Siam has a fine idea of the picturesque. On the night of the fighting at Bangkok he ordered out his chair of state, and shielded by the gigantic royal umbrella made a midnight inspection of the troops, followed by his body guard and making an imposing show. As they marched along barefooted—we read in the letter of a cor- respondent et Bangkok—their footfails | scarce disturbed the quietness of night. One flaring pine torch cast its light upon the figure of the king and added to the sol- emnity of the scene as its light faded into the distance, growihg fainter and fainter as the troops, silent as death, passed in long Ines. soe Excused. From the New York Weekly. Judge—“Have you formed any prejudice against the prisoner?”