Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1894, Page 3

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The recent earthquake at Constantinople, in which more than one hundred persons were killed, has revived public interest in that ancient city. Constantinople is one of the most interesting places in the world, 4s well as a natural seat of empire. Na- poleon Bonaparte is said to have declared that “the power which possesses Constan- tinople must be mistress of the world.” At any rate, in the twenty centuries and more since it was founded, it has stood more sieges than any other city, yet has been taken only twice—once in 1204, by the cru- saders; once in 1453, by Mahomet II. Stud- ded with numerous gardens, mosques, mina- rets, palaces, and towers, it is most pictur- esque when viewed from without, and the scenery along the banks of the Bosphorus makes a magnificent setting for the central gem. But, though it is cleaner than most oriental towns, its streets or crooked lanes rather are dirty, its dwellings are small and ill-built, while myriads of dogs offend the stranger's vision by day and distract him by their incessant barking at night. Most of the streets are deserted during the day—the population is nearly 1,000,000—ex- cept in the neighborhood of the bazaars, which are sireets roofed over, having at in- tervals openings, domes, or glass coverings admitting dim light—too much for the sell- er, not enough for the buyer. The Grand bazaar, with its numerous st: Passages and fountains, seems a city within a city. One long alley glitters with yellow moroce another is brilliant wit! India shawls, th! one with meerschaums, that with amber mouthpieces, others .n succession with mus- lin dresses, slippers, Damascus blades, fur robes and glittering gems. The seraglio, for- merly the palace of the sultans, with its gardens and groves, covers an area about three miles in circumference Just outside of St. Sophia, the principal mosque of the Mohammedan world and the finest example of the Byzantine style of architecture. Con- stantinople has twenty-four mosques of the Irst-class. Most of them kave colleges and almost all have charitable ‘astitutions and hospitals, ——_+-e+_____ The Egyptian Sun Year. Eugene Lawrence in Harper's Weekly. The division of the year into 365 1-4 days comes to us from the Egyptians. So far as history reackes back into the darkness of the early ages we are led to believe that the dusky brown people by the banks of the Nile were the first to study the mo- ticns of the sun and stars and make them the measure of time. And some recent discoveries in Egypt by careful students seem to show the way in which the early astronomers were enabled to count the days in the solar year. The great temples on the Nile were built with a long en- trance of columns leading from the river to the interior shrine—a. kind of tunnel; sometimes it was lined with sphinxes or huge granite figures. Its ‘mouth ~ was turned toward a certain part of the Méav- ens, where the light of the setting sun could enter it only once a year. It was either at the summer solstice, when the sun was farthest In the north, or at some ctber periodic position of sun or star. We may imagine the Egyptian astron- emer watching in the inner shri for the opening of the new year. The long line of columns served as a telescope by which he could catch the first beam of the setting sun. Suddenly the red light would flash through the tunnel up to the Holy of Ho- lies; the moment it reached the shrine the philosopher would mark the hour and know that another year had begun. From that point in time he could count day after day until, when the 865 days had passed, once more the red beam of light streamed into the tunnel, and another year had passed away. In this way it seems probable that our days were first counted and divided. Other nations, and even the Grecks and Romans, used the moon as their guide and divided the year into lunar menths. But it was found, as time passed on, that great irregularities crept in; the months no long- er corresponded to the seasons; April be- came June and the autumn months winter. The Egyptian sun year was then generally adopted. But even this was disordered and altered by the ignorance of the Roman priests; and at last Julius Caesar, who was ford of astronomy, resolved to correct the calendar; it is his year that we now use, and to his friend, the Egyptian Sorigenes, we owe our division of time. Astronomy was a favorite study with the cultivated Romans, and from Egyptian Alexandria, the scientific center of the time, they drew their chief masters and books on the stars. Caesar fixed upon the Ist of January as the beginning of his year—a season of feasting and joy wi‘h the Egyptians and all mcedern society. From the Philadelphia Press. “An expert on cable railways says: The violent jerks we often experience in the cable cars are due partly to the cable and partly to the gripman. When the cable happens to be a little slack and the train ahead has a heavy load, the slack caused by its stopping at a corner gives the next train behind a severe jerk. Then, again, when a splice-has been made in the cable the point of union is a little larger than the other parts of the rope, and if the grip happens to catch the rope at the splice the car is at once hurried on at full speed and the passengers are tumbled off their feet. But the unevenness of motion is not altogether due to the cable. The gripmen have instructions when taking the rope to catch it lightly, then relax a little, then take a tighter hold, and so by degrees drawing the car into full speed. “But to catch the cable tightly the first time involves much less work, and many gripmen do so simply to save themselves trouble, but not when the boss is around. I was riding in a cable car not long since that started off from the end of the line with a jerk that sent me half through the aisle. Two or three times this was _ re- peated, when a man whom I cine gah one of the superintendents boarded e car. No ox team could have started and stopped more gently than the train did after that man got on board. The gripman was on his best behavior, and I could not help wishing that the road had superin- tendents enough to put one on every car. —___ ++ —____ W. O. Wirt of Council Bluffs, who was shot in both arms when riding in Cripple Creek, Col., Tuesday night, will probably lose his left arm. He is a man of means and a nephew of the late James G. Blaine. He was mistaken for a sheriff. Castoria For Infants and Children. CASTORIA PROMOTES DIGESTION, and over- comes Flatulency, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarshoea and Feve-ishness. Thus the child is rendered healthy and its sleep NATURAL. Cas- TORIA contains uo morphine or other narcotic property. “CASTORIA 1s so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me.’* H. A. ARCHER, M.D., 111 So. Oxford st., Brooklyn, N. ¥. “For several years I have recommended ‘Casto- ria,’ and shall always continue to do so, as it has invariably produced beteficlal result EDWIN F. PARDEE, M.D., 125th st. and 7th ave., New York city, THE EVENING STAR, THE MAKING OF LA Some Features of Legislation Dis- cussed." ADDRESS T0 THE BAR ASSOCIATION Duties That Rest Upon the Citizen. MOOREFIELD STOREY’S VIEWS SARATOGA, N. Y., August 23.—The an- nual address before the American Bar As- sociation was delivered this morning by Moorefield Storey of Massachusetts, Moorfield Storey’s Address. ‘The annual address was delivered by Mr. Moorfield Storey of Boston, whose subject was “The American Legislature.” In open- ing, Mr. Storey said: “We Americans, enjoying as we have @ material prosperity beyond historic prece- dent, brought up with an abiding faith in our free institutions and the good sense of our people, and confident that whatever the ills of the present our future at least is secure, have cultivated a philosupiic in- difference ‘to every political evil, in the firm belief that whenever the situation gets bad enough we can easily apply the rem- edy. Yet it must occur occasionally to even the most confident American that certain tendencies have shown themselves with increasing frequency in recent years, and that certain changes are graduaily taking place in our theories of government, which we cannot afford to ignore. Whether due to the defects peculiar to our system or to forces operating alike in every civilized country, they deserve the most careful attention. “Every observer of our political history during the last twenty years must ve been struck with the change which has taken place in the attitude of our people toward the fundamental principles of our government. Free institutions rest upon confidence in the legisiature, respect for the law, obedience to the will of the ma- jority, and the recognition of cvery man’s right to labor ard to enjoy the fruits of his labor.” The speaker alluded briefly to the con- tempt of law evinced in the conduct of labor strikes, and to the conflicts of the last twenty years for the control of state legislatures, as those of Maine, when Carce- lon was governor of Kansas last year, and of New Jersey this year, which could but have the effect to lower the estimation in which the people held the lew-making pow- er, to lessen the public's faith in legisla- tive wisdon. “From the most august legislative body in the country, the Senate of the United States, down to the aldermen of New York, the citizen too cften distrusts, fears and is ashamed of his representatives,” said the speaker. “The business community throughout the country welcomes the adjournment of Con- gress as the end of a season filled with per- plexity and dread. If we applaud Congress it is rather because bad laws have been re- pealed, or bad propcsitions hi been de- feated, than because good laws have been passed. We congratulate ourselves upon our narrow escares, and wonder whether we shall be equally fortunate again. The citizen who seeks reform, whether he sits in Congress or stands without his doors, must be wonderfully persistent if he is not discouraged by the singular incapacity of that body to deal with great public ques- tions upon public grounds. Is it too much to say that we no longer look to Congress for the leaders of political thought, and that too often we fiid it obstructing rather than aiding the passage of wise measures which the people desire? “When a state legislature meets, every great corporation within its reach prepares for self-defense, knowing, by bitter exper- ence, how hospttably attacks upon its prop- erty are received in committees and on the floor. The private citizen, on his own part, never knows what cherished right may not be endangered by existing monopolies, or by schemers in search of valuable franchises. In Massachusetts, during each successive session for years, I have heurd on every hand, ‘This is the worst legislature we have ever had,’ but I do not believe that Massa- chusetts is more unfortunate than her sis- ters f New England, and if the old-time virtues still exist in Pennsylvania, or Mary- id, or California, or the great states of the south, the west and the northwest, I shall hope to learn from their representa- boas in this body the secret of its preserva- tion.” Distrust of Legislators. Toward municipal legislatures the speak- er found the same distrust existing. Bien- nial sessions of state legislatures he re- garded as an evidence of public distrust, also evinced in the constitutional inhibition of special legislation. The same distrust is reflected in the legislature itself, and no- where so strongly as in the federal House of Representatives, which, by its rules, has so fettered its own action as to have almost revolutionized its character. For the will of the majority has been, to a large ex- tent, substituted the arbitrary will of the Speaker. “Whether, then, we look at the constitu- tions which the people adopt and the rules of the House of Representatives, or listen to the common speech of men, we find that the faith in the representatives of the peo- ple on which our government was founded is gradually weakentng. “Loss of faith in the legislature is loss of faith in representative government, loss of faith in the people themselves, and this feeling really lies at the root of the changes in public opinion on fundamental principles already noted. More or less distinctly recognized, the idea that the corporations have corrupted the legislatures is dermant in the minds of many, and bribery is made the excuse for anarchy. The danger against which we guarc in constitutions, and which, in conversation, we recognize and deplore, is the danger that private interests can af- ford to pay for the privileges which they seek prices which the ordinary legislator cannot refuse.” The Lobbyist. Mr. Storey spoke at some length of the method by which lobbyists and corruption- ists pursue their nefarious work, citing various instances of the bribery of legis- lators in the interest of corporations or individuals. He explained, by quoting from utterances of a professional lobbyist, the ways in which the lobby sought to make itself indispensable to the promoters of legitimate as well as of predatory en- terprises. “When,” said he, “legislators of last year are making large incomes in the lob- by, are their associates in the legislature who have retained their seats likely to desire no share in their good fortune? Are the men whose votes or defeat meas- ures invariably willing that all the profits arising from their actions shall be reaped by men who simply talk to them? “When a bill is introduced into the legis- lature which gives to certain private indi- viduals the right to take their neighbors’ property without adequate compensation, to tax their fellow-citizens or to use the pub- lic streets for private purposes, the ordi- nery voter smiles and thinks that so ab- surd a measure cannot possibly pass, ‘even in our legislature.” When, however, after a period of incubation in committee, spent in ‘educating’ the legislature, the measure is reported the public awakes, and certain citizens whose interests are menaced or whose public spirit is exceptional bestir themselves, only to find a legislature too thoroughly ‘educated’ to be reached by ar- gument and determined to pass the bill which seemed tmpossible. “Great corporations secure or deface legislation at will and dominate the politics of whole states, and their power rests on corruption.” The same conditions exist in relation to legislation by Congress. The existence of the lobby system, said Mr. Storey, “threat- ens the permanence of our institutions. If a large body of voters desire a change in our monet system and think that Con- gress have been influenced against them by other than public consideration; if they de- mand relief from taxation and believe that the right to tax them has been sold to pri- vate citizens for money, whether paid to individuals or to campaign funds which are used to elect individuals; if they seek greater privileges from transportation com- panies and find themselves beaten by large expenditures on the legisiature; if they’ tind franchises of great value sold for money which the public does not receive, can they retain confidence in their representative system or rely on it for the redress of | grievances? The action of the legislature 4 THURSDAY, AUGUST in each case may have been right, but when a wise law is bough@\the injury done the | tye is far greater the most foolish l_can cause. : “Foreign wars, pestilence and disaste: unite and strengthen a people, but no gov- ernment can loi e insidious in- fluence of general coltupdon. The fall of the apple to the ground js not more sure than is the ruin of which ceases to care whether its What the Citizen Can Do. The remedy for ty ition described, a according to Mr. St in the citizen himself. “There are,” he said, “three possible points of attack—the-men who receive the money, the methods “by ‘which it is paid and the men who pay it. You must raise the character of your -legislators. You must strip bribery of every comfortable cloak. You must make men realize that they are themselves disgraced when they corrupt their fellows. _ “Our self-constituted political leaders,” the speaker said, “talk much about the public, but they fear nothing as much as the expression of its real opinion. Hence they resort to every device which can pre- vent or embarrass it. Premature caucuses and packed conventions, false returns of votes and stuffed-ballot boxes are familiar expedients, and the last, at least, have been made more difficult by recent laws. There is, however, one ancient wrong, na- tive, T et to say, in Massachusetts, but readily adopted elsewhere, which seems to grow with our growth and strengthen with Gur strength. I-refer to the practice known as ‘gerrymandering.’ “All political parties are guilty of this practice, or, to put it moré accurately, cer- tain men in each for personal or party ends perpetrate this wrong, and their associates acquiesce. When several persons are ten- ants in common of land and wish it divid- ed, the court will appoint commissioners to make partition, and when they report their conclusion to the court all parties interested are heard on the question whether the division is fair. “When the question is how to divide a state into districts or reasonably adjacent territory and nearly equal population, is there any good reason why the same pro- cess should not be applied? The question in itself is simple. The division can easily be made by any fair man with the map and the census. In such a case why should not the supreme court of the state, on the mo- tion of the attorney general, appoint three commissioners, distributed properly among the political parties, to do the work and make report to the court, which should have power, after hearing the attorney general and counsel representing each po- litical party, to confirm, alter or recommit the report. Gerrymandering cannot live in the atmosphere of a court room or survive a@ public argument before a judicial tri- bunal.”” Campaign Contributio: The subject of campaign contributions also came up for consideration as an ele- ment of legislative corruption. When a man makes such a contribution a basis for a claim for office, when on the strength of it he asks for legislative favors, he per- haps refuses to sce the connection between the payment and the equivalent. But while some men deceive themselves, more go di- rectly to their end and knew exactly what they pay for. The campaign fund of to- day not only furnishes the means of cor- rupting voters, but supplies a fair-seeming cloak for the more dangerous purchase of legislation. ‘The enormous expenditure which we now tolerate must be stopped, and perhaps no more efficient way cen'be devised than the English system, whict fofbids any improper payment by a candidgtegor in his interest, unseats the candidate.whp violates the law, and in aggrivated ¢; disfranchises the corrupted constituens tP he execution of this law has been cdiifided to the English courts with signal sutcéss, and they have administered it with aeekt strictness.. The manner in whith 'tontested elections have been decided in otir legislature is a standing reproach, and there is no remedy except to have these’casts tried by judges. While we cannot, without constitutional amendment, take from Our legislatures the right to decide ultimately as to the elec- tions and qualifications ‘of their members, we can, by proper ‘legislation, make the judgment of a court priina facie title to a seat, as well as the certificate of a return- ing board, and such 4 jufigment, after pub- Uc trial, would with @ifficulty be reversed. The “Referéndum.” As a means of procuring an intelligible expression of the public will upon the va- rious questions at tssue from time to time, Mr. Storey favors the separation of na- tional from state and of state from mu- nicipal elections. The so-called “referen- dum,” he said, may also become necessary as our political life becomes more and more complex, Mr. Storey took up again the relinquish- ment of its functions by the national House of Representatives to its Speaker, even to the appointment of committees. The Speaker of the House, he said, should have no power to deprive even a single member of his equal rights to take part in the pro- ceedings of the House; far less should he be able, as now, to defeat the will of the ma- jority. He should be powerless to keep the real leaders of the majority from their proper positions of influence by appointing to chairmanships inferior men reward for support in the speakership contest. The force of public opinion must be brough to bear upon the work of reforming the legislatures. The public must realize the truth that the man who knowingly employs a dishonest agent, gives him money to accomplish an object, and closes his eyes to everything but the result, is just as guilty of every corrupt act which the ageat does as if he did it himself. He is no whit more really respectable than the man whom he employs. Mr. Storey said in conclusion: “The fees which are paid for very slight legislative services are large. Their size often stigma- tizes the employment. The temptation is great; but we, who are the interpreters, and to a great extent the makers, of the law; we, whose consciences are educated in courts of justice; we, who should lead the community up, and who know that upon respect for the law rests our whole system of government—we certainly cannot escape the gravest condemnation if, through any act, advice or acquiescence ‘of ours, the fountains of the law are polluted. The honor of our profession, the future of our ccuntry, are at stake. The law is in our keeping, and our hands must never weaken their hold upon the people.” Reports of Committees. The reports of the standing committees were submitted. Reports were also re- ceived from the special committees on uni- form state laws; on expression and classi- fication of the law, and on the federal code of criminal procedure, Before the section on legal education this afternoon papers were read by Simon E. Baldwin of Yale University, on “School Libraries and How to Use em ;"" by Wood- row Wilson of Princeton College, on “Legal Training for Undergraduates,” and by John Henry Wigmore of the Northwest- ern University, Evanston, lll, on “Ortho- dox Legal Training.” “SNOW BALLS” Alleged Cause of a Philadelphia Gi Death. The funeral cf prétty, little May Potter Eiliott, the cause of whose death is as yet unknown, from the home of her parents, at 1326 South 13th street,”Philadelphia, yes- terday, was a notablé ofte. Over 1,000 peo- ple attended the services at the house. While the direct cause;of death was un- doubtedly peritonitis; what produced the malady is not known even to the physician who attended tiis popular little girl in her jast illness, d Relatives and neighbors of the dead girl attribute the sad occurrence to the little girl's eating so-called “snow balls.” ‘These are the littie balls of scraped Ice, colored with alleged fruit syrup, which are being sold on the street for a penny apiece by the former venders of hokey-pokey. Au- thorities on the manufacture of genuine fruit syrup say that they are too costly to make it possible to sell this cooling morsel for any such price. It is the belief that in @ large majority of cases these syrups are either entirely mechanical chemical mix- tures, or are so mixed with other ingredi- ents as to make them very injurious. May was in the habit of spending her spare pennies for these street luxuries quite frequentiy. She generally had one a day and frequently more than that, and a large rumber of people believe that her death was either directly caused or aided by their vse. Dr. Kevin, the physician, said that there was nothing in the case to point to this theofy any more than another. He was rather disposed to discountenance the idea, although he said that he had come across cases in his practice where cramps and pains had been the result of the use of “snow balls.” But whatever the belief of the medical fraternity on the case may be, the children in the neighborhood of May’s late home are not using “snow balls” now. ARE BLAMED. 23, 1894—-TEN PAGES. MYSTERIOUS BUGGY No Explanation of the Dead Horse Found at Wheaton. ANIMAL HAD BEEN SHOT Scraps of Paper in the Abandoned Vehicle. THERE IS NO OLUE YET —»———_. The mystery surrounding the finding of the buggy and dead horse in the woods in Montgomery county some distance above Wheaton, as published in yesterday’s Star, hes by no means been cleared away. As the investigation progresses the mystery orly deepens, and the county officials, as well as the local officers, are unable to give any idea of the circumstances leading to the killing of the horse and abandoning of the buggy. Yesterday afterncon Detective Rhodes went out with Deputy Sheriff Sam- uel Jones to assist in the investigation. He had been there only a short time when he discovered that a pistol shot had ended the animal's life. With the county official De- tective Rhodes made a thorough search of the vehicle, examined the horse and gained information which may eventually lead to the owner of the team. Detective Rhodes, who is well versed in the qualities of animals, says that the dead horse was undoubtedly a good animal and was about six or seven years old and fifteen or sixteen hands high. Where the animal was found was in a thicket, and in order to reach the particularly secluded spot it was necessary to drive over and through thick urdergrowth. When the undergrowth be- ceme impassable the animal ae apres and was then detached from the vehicle and led a few feet ray to be killed. Blood on a tree shows almost the exact position of the horse when the shot wes fired. In its agony the mare had managed to move about ten feet, when death relieved its suf- ferings. The mare was a dark bay, with a black mane and tail and three white feet. On its front feet were comparatively new shoes, which Detective Rhodes thinks were put on in a city blacksmith shop, while cne of the back feet had no shoe, and had been worn almost to the frog. On the other hind foot there was only a plece of the shoe left. The animal had, no doubt, been driven a long while since its hind feet had been shod. Whether or not it was driven almost to death before it was shot is not known, but the officers are inclined to think it was not, for a citizen living some distance up the road is certain that he saw this partic- ular horse and buggy pass his house one morning about a week ago just at day- break. A heavily built man, with a round face, was seated in the vehicle, and the horse was moving along in a slow trot. It was an unusual thing to see such an outfit at so early an hour, and that was why it attracted this citizen's attention. Having made a full examination of the horse, Detective Rhodes then searched the buggy. He saw in the yehicle in rear of the seat the bag containing wheat for the horse's feed, and then he found an empty snell of a 32-caliber cartridge. This was probably the empty shell taken from the weapon after the horse was killed. There was also in the buggy a piece of paper, on which was written “J. F. Taylor, Elkton, Virginia.” Then there was the lap robe mentioned in yesterday's Star. As stated yesterday, there was a hole in the robe indicating that a monogram had been cut out, and the robe had also been patched. On the ground near the buggy the officer fourd a piece of paper on which was writ- ten the names “George Bartlett” and “C. Cothers.” Scattered on the ground were pieces of a telegram, which had been so completely de- stroved that the fragments could not be put together by the offieers so that they could make anything out of the writing. These pieces of paper the officers are cer- tain were put there by the occupant or oc- cupants of the buggy, for the thicket is an out-of-the-way place, where no one would ever go in search of a horse or even wild flowers. Had it not been for the appearance of buzzards and a strong odor from the de- caying horseflesh the horse and buggy would probably not have been found for some time. Mr. Lincoln, whose house is not far from the spot where the horse was killed, made the discovery in the manner in- dicated. In looking through the woods yesterday afternoon Detective Rhodes said he smelied an odor not unlike that of a decayed human body, but on account of the thickness of the undergrowth he was unable to pursue the investigation last evening. Arrangements were made last night to have the county in that particular neighborhood thoroughly searched, and the searching party started out today. The officials are inclined to believe that J. F. Taylor, whose name appeared on the newspaper slip found in the buggy, may be able to tell the story of the drive into the woods and the shooting of the horse. As stated above, his address cn the paper is given as Elkton, Va. This place is in Rockingham county, on the Norfolk and Western railroad, about eighty miles from Shenandoah junction, where the Norfolk and Western and Baltimore and Ohio roads connect. Elkton is a smail town and is said to be a favorite summer resort. Inquiry among railroad men here this afternoon failed to elicit any information concerning the identity of Taylor. It is probable that the animal was driven to Wheaton from the Virginia town, so the officials think, but they have no idea of the motive of the person in killing the animal. If the animal had been stolen the thief would hardly have killed it, the officers think, and if the owner wanted to follow the example of Philip Haviland, the miller, and disappear he could not have expected to cover his tracks by killing the horse. It is probable, so the officers think, that a woman may have figured in the case. Probably an eloping couple drove there and abandoned the horse and buggy, although this theory seems incredible, because the spot where the team was abandoned is too far from the railroad for them to have walked to the train. The torn telegram, it is thought, may have played an important part in the affair had it not been so completely destroyed. It 1s possible that the officers may com- municate with the authorities at Elkton and ascertain what they can about the man mentioned. eS THE PHILADELPHIA’S RETURN. Rumors of a Plot Against President Dole’s Government. The United States cruiser Philadelphia arrived at San Francisco yesterday after- noon from Honolulu, bringing the follow- ing advices: Honolulu, August 12.—Six days ago it was announced that the cruiser Philadelphia was to leave here ,and about the same time the captain of the British ship Champion stated that his vessel was about to leave on a two weeks’ cruise; ostensibly to look over the route of the proposed Pacific cable. On the day following these annourcements a petition was circulated by the British resi- dents asking that the Champion remain. The petitioners professed be in fear of trcuble if they were left without armed protection. The Champion’s commander agreed to remain in port, whereupon Ad- miral Walker announced that he had changed his mind about sailing with the Philadelphia, and that he, too, should re- main in port. This unexpected change in the pians of the naval commanders caused unusual com- ment. The royalists professed to believe that had the Philadelphia left there would have been an uprising against the govern- ment. Men high in the government coun- cils, however, declared that they were anx- fous to have the Philadelphia leave, as it would give them an opportunity to show the royalists that the government needed no outside protection. The wishes of these confident supporters cf the governmen: were gratified yesterday when the mail from San Francisco age ey ‘itive orders to Admiral Walker for the Philadelphia to proceed to Mare Island at once. ‘The war between China and Japan threat- ens disturbances of a more or less serious nature on these islands. Reports have received of one fight between Chinese an: Japanese laborers, and outbreaks are feared on some of the large plantations. ——_—__ +e —___ The three children of Dr. Weeks of Rose Blanch¢, N. F., reported some days ago adrift in an open boat, were picked up by a vessel and brought into North Sydney yesterday, all well. AMUSEMENTS ATTORNEYS Saansaadasaand RET tettttt) acer TeTe ET PIANOS AND ORGANS. itt ttt et ert ita i IN HOTEL CORRIDORS “I was out in Springfield, Ill, recently,and saw Abraham Lincoln’s tomb,” said N. M. Curtis of Portsmouth, N. H., at the Riggs House last night. “It made my blood boll to see the way in which the last resting Place of the greatest American ever born is kept. Decay and dilapidation are visible everywhere, and if some measures for im- provement are not shortly adopted the tomb of Lincoln will soon resemble the ruins of burial places in Europe. There is a long flight of terraced steps leading up from the roadway to the monument, and I found them broken in numbefless places and oyvercrown with weeds. The mauso- leum is built of granite, and this rock was cracked by the weather until fissures traverse the structure in every direction. The groups of bronze statuary which stand at each corner of this building showed marks of vandals’ visits. They were muti- lated and broken and many pieces were missing from them, notably a sword and a spear. In the museum, where invaluable mementves of the great martyr are kept,the paper and plaster was peeling from the walls on account of dampness. When I spoke to a native of Springfield about the disgraceful condition of the holy shrine he informed me that the only money avail- able for keeping the tomb in condition was the funds received from ions, visitors being charged 25 cents each, and that pil- gtims to Lincoln's tomb were few and growing less every year. Springfield and see what I saw without ——— en ro his fellow-citizens for allowing so hallowed a spot to be ni ed. If the Mlineis’ people won't be bg my Lincoln's last tenement the national gov- ernment should have enough veneration Sy, ‘he man who did more than any one else save the republic to his dust in something like decency.” “The way the public regarded the appar- ently interminable tariff controversy just concluded and the delay of President Cleve- land in signing the bill reminds me of a pretty good story,” said Carroll Taylor of Nashville at Wormley’s this morning. “An old fellow was plodding along over a rocky road in the mountainous part of Tennessee when he met another traveler coming in an opposite direction. The inhabitants in that part of Tennessee don’t get away from home very much, and consequently it is orly by the merest accident that neigh- bors who live at any considerable distance from each other have a chance to mect. The first old man was mighty glad to see the other, while the latter appeared to be suffering from some great trouble. This excited his friend’s curiosity. “ ‘How's th’ growin’ bin?’ he inquired. “"Ur-r-r, fust-class, I reck’n. They ain't puthin’ ter complain of "bout ther growin’,’ was the reply. ‘Still a runnin’ all right? asked the in- terrogator. “Fine ez corn silk,’ responded the man, with just a shade of enthusiasm in his tone. ‘Never see so much good licker cum from_no man’s mash.” ““En how's th’ good ole wife? persisted the interlocutor. “The other's jaw dropped and a hunted look came in his eye. “*Po'ly, Tom, po'ly,” came the reply, in a whine. ‘Fac’ is Henr’etta is damn po'ly. She ain’ bin able ter lif a fut er git outer bed fur nigh onto eighteen months. I tell yer, Tom,’ and the ejaculation came with earnest emphasis, ‘I wisht ter th’ Lawd thet she'd git well er do suthin’ “That's just how the country feels about the tariff,” concluded Mr. Taylor; “and, like the old mountaineer, it don’t care much what occurs so ‘suthin’’ is done.” “Georgia is going to give Delaware a close race one of these days for suprernacy as the peach-growing state,” said George McFarland of Savannah at the Ebbitt yes- terday. “If the express companies could only be brought down from their high horses sufficiently to deal fairly with the growers of early frcit in the south and reasonable rates were charged for shipping it to northern markets the increase in this branch of agriculture would be immediate and enormous, but in spite of such draw- backs it is already going ahead so rapidly as to be the subject of remark. In Berrien county many farmers are changing their pursuit into peach growing, and thousands of trees will be set out this coming winter. Just now it is the budding season and the operation is quite interesting. In the win- ter the peach growers plant quantities of peach stones in drills about six inches wide and three feet apart. They sprout readily, and in August have reached a height of twenty to thirty inches. The nurseryman then goes to an older tree of the variety he wishes to grow and sete Picton ple it. After removing all the hard wood and leav- ing the bark remaining he goes to the sprouts, and selecting one which is flour- ishing he splits its bark near the ground and inserts the bud against the juicy sap and binds it on with soft twine or When the bud has taken sufficient gro’ the sprout is cut off just above it and next winter these little trees are transplanted to the orchard. It has been sufficiently proven that the soil and climate of Georgia com- bine to produce the finest peaches in the world, both in size, firmness of flesh and flavor.” “The average reader of advertisements is apt to emile sardonically at announcements of sales of goods ‘at cost,’ “below cost,’” said Edwin Hawkins of New York at Wormley’s yesterday. “It seems impossi- ble to them that merchants can dispose of articles at the price they paid for them, and thus lose all the expense of handling them and for other causes. The trouble is that such persons imagine that the cost price of an article is the actual price paid for it at the manufactory. This ts an er- ror. The successful and sensible merchant always includes in the cost price of his wares the cost of handling and every item of expense that is incurred from the time the goods are bought until they ere disposed of to a customer. There are ‘cost’ rales an- nounced continually by reputable merchants, and usually the reason is found in the fact that they need a large amount of cash and take this means to get it. Then, again, such sales are ordered so as to make room for new stock and other purposes. You will make no mistake if you believe that the an- nounced sales of first-class stores can pretty nearly always be relied upon to be just what they are represented to be.” r, Hoope Helphenstine &Co., 1333 and 1835 F st. — We doa commiasion business and financial ition free; also receive suijert fo, check, at, sight and ‘allow interest —<— Private Wirca, ‘Telepdone <Ti. SPECIAL NOTICE TO PROPERTY CAPITAL, $300,000. wee is the best city ty the United States. for net we a 4 erat vemuite to Ore call, 1393, 608 upon applicetion. anll-colmo INSURANCE POLICIES PURCHASED A’ Re tonast) ata RA Savings And Trust. : Company Of the District of Columbia, CORNER 15TH ST. AND NEW YORK aVR Capital: One Million Dollars Safe Deposit Company, Special act Congress 1867. Trust Company, ‘General act Congress 1890, [eo T. Havenner, Investment Securities. Bh. op Ny and Grain bought and sold fog — bought and sold in New York or New sean Telcphosy som, TH Chiense ont sew CORSON & MACARTNEY, EX 1419 F at., Glover Correspondents of “Bivssre. “Moore & Schley, 89 Bankers and Dealers tn Go jent Bonds, te. Exchange. Loaas. eduou' the ‘exchanges of Now "Yark, "Pullassyhiey rch Philadelphia, ‘and A de of investment securt Dis tclet Bonds and ail local Tallrnd, “Gan, lowurseesp and Telephone Stock dealt in, PLANNING FOR SEA GIRT. Final Arrangements to Be Made at Tonight's Mecting. Every one of the District National Guards- men who expects to accompany the bris gade and regimental teams to Sea Girt or to follow those organizations some = next week is expected to be present tonigh| at the final meeting, which is to be held a} the headquarters of the second regiment in the Center Market Armory. All the pre+ Uminaries must necessarily be settled be- fcre the meeting adjourns, for the first de- tachment bound for Jersey will leave the city next Saturday night at 11:35 over the road. Some of those twice the amount paid last year. The figures quoted for round-trip tickets for Gividuals are $50, All the tenting rangements must be made tonight, and far as this end of the line is concerned rrovements of the entire detachment clearly mapped out. The ammunition been shipped and about al! of the shooting material is in shape for tation as baggage. > — THE COURTS. Equity Court No. 1, Judge Cole. agt. Michael; decree of divorce. agt. Baldus; sale confirmed and cause rer ferred to auditor. Bayne agt. McBilair; time for perfecting record on appeal x ded. Dean ten agt. Hartaway; petition suspension of decree denied. Gordon Gordon ; E. Lester, attorney w. - lainant, allowed to withdraw. ast. Dodge; sale confirmed nisi. Gill agt Gin; receiver directed to —— of chattels, tools and implements exch Circuit Court No. 1, Judge Cole. B, Latimer agt. D. C.; Judgment in orari.. Moxley, Boller & Co. agt. Oppenheimer; judgment by default for 50. Mary R. Garnett agt. Henry N. Copp; judgment by default for $260, New York Smelting and Refining Co. ‘Standard Engraving Co.; judgment by default for $138.76. U.S. ex rel. Long agt. Wm. ren, commissioner of pensions; time for ing’ replication extended to September 1894. Criminal Court No. 1, Judge Cole.—U. 8, agt. John Brown; larceny from the person; defendant reieased on bond of FU»