Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1895, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, AUGUST ‘23, 1895—TWELVE PAGES. EClose at 5 o’clock—Saturdays at 1 until Sep- tember. Palal CLEARING © SALE, Not ‘many more days of this bar- gain feast—stocks are coming nearer to their normal standard—many odd lots have been cleared out—the broken sizes sold—in a few days the story will have been told—and —business wiil take its natural course —the arrival of new goods will be announced and active preparations for the fall trade will be noticeable. Meanwhile, the few remaining odds and ends will-be marked at prices lower than ever to sell them within a few days. We close at 1 o'clock to- morrow, so kindly arrange to shop early. We Can serve you equally as well at 8 o’clock as later. Table No. 1. Canvas Telescopes or Exten- strongly made and m Cases— trimmed with leather— 29 Cents. .. 44 Cents. B9¢ size—14-Inch—for. 89 size—16-Inch—for. 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ISLAND OF CRUSOE The Scene of Daniel Defoe’s Immortal Romance. Chile at Length to Open It to ” Settlers—selkirk’s Hut to Be, a Prison. From the San Francisco Bulletin. = - There has been received during the past thirty days news from Chile which will not be regarded as joyful intelligence by the friends of Dantel Defoe. Poor old Robin- son Crusoe’s hut on Juan Fernandez Istand is to be torn down, and in its place will be erected a prison station, to be used as an auxiliary to the Chilean penitentiary at Santiago. Juan Fernandez is to be thrown cpen to settlers, and rumor is extant that Mccho Island will also be advertised as “a splendid place for a poor man to make a fortune.” Mocho Island is mentioned in connection with the story of Juan Fernan- dez, because, according to South American historians, the spot was probably the land- ing place of Sailor Alexander Selkirk, whose «adventures Defoe elaborated into chapters of marvelous narrative, instead of the lonely rock several hundred miles in a southwesterly direction from the port of Valparaiso. Doubt still exists in the minds of a number of Chilean writers as to the identity of the island on which Selkirk spent four years of lonely existence. The Chilean department of colonizatior has never been inclined in time past to in- vite settlers to the islands lying off the coast of Chile and owned and controlled by that republic. Robinson Crusoe’s domain has been zealously guarded by representa- tives of the Chilean government, and all attempts to settle upon it or to learn the secrets of its queerly shaped canons, ranges and peaks have been discountenanced by stolid officials of that little southern na- tion. The opposition of the Chilean government to the occupation of Crusoe’s old home dates back to the overthrow of the Spanish powers on the western slope of the Andes and the securing of Chilean independence. Shortly after this important change in the political complexion of New Spain England dispatched ambassadors to ascertain the extent of the resources of the territory claimed by the new republic. The embassy was not received with open arms by the South Americans. The Chilean president suspected that England wanted to acquire one of the islands off the South American coast for a naval station, and when the embassy desired to inspect Selkirk’s sea- bound retreat it met with a polite but very positive refusal of passport privileges. This anti-colonization feeling influenced future Chilean presidents, and not until the rise of Balmaceda to power did the government consider the feasibility of colo- nizing both Mocho and Juan Fernandez Is- lands. The present ruler of Chile favors the movement, and before the year is over the authorities will have divided the islands into smali-tracts and placed the property on the market. , Juan Bautista Pastene, the Itallan ex- plorer, is alleged to have visited Crusoe’s isle before he did the Isle of Mocho. The records do not bear out this statement, al- though in the government library at San- tiago there is a volume of correspondence which refers to Pastene as one-of the early visitors to Juan Fernandez. Pastene did visit Mocho in 1844 and again in 1850. He ig alleged to have reported that he believed that Defoe’s hero was really marooned on Mocho instead of Juan Fernandez. How- ever, on Mocho Pastene found a superfor race of savages, who were of a much higher crder of intelligence than those spoken of in Crusve’s diary. On the other hand, there really were signs of cannibalistic feasts of days gone by in the high sands of the more remote island. Selkirk’s hut faces the southern ocean, and is a diminutive wooden affair, which the keepers of Juan Fernandez did not think worth disturbing. It is to be removed shortly, for the new branch prison will be built on the spot where it stands. Directly under the little house is a broad beach, partly protected from the winds by a hign bluff which commands from its crest a splendid view of the island and the sur- rounding Pacific. Selkirk, it is said, used the top of this bluff as a signal station, and for four years he patiently watched for passing ships. At the base of the cliff a long reef runs seaward, marked here and there by sbarp-poffited rocks, over which the surf dashes incessantly. . One word about Selkirk himself. English record keepers and historians aver that the man was a seaman, who was marooned for mutiny, but South Americans claim that the fellow deserted frora an English trader inbound to Valparaiso, and, after stealing a boat, sailed for what he thovght was the mainland. He land:d on, Juan Fernandez, and there found a semi-fertile island, vis- ited frequently by heavy rain showers, the home of waterfowl, and anything but a tropical paradise such as Defoe portrayed In hls remarkable record of human imagi- nation. The interior of the island was very rocky, and the flora and fauna of the land were of that limited character ascribed to “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Steven- son. The visits of cannibals to the beach of Juan Fernandez are supposed to have been related by Defoe in “Robinson Crusoe” simply to lend interest to his storv. The tribes of South Chile and Mocho Island are not thought to have taken long canoe trips to the out-of-the-way rock, but sav- ages, according to geological students, did frequently visit _the place years and years before Dantel Defoe and his prolific pen were ever heard of. Bones of a race of men of the stature and strength of the Patagonians have been found buried deev in tho island sands, together with stone and bone weapons used by tribes on the south continent centuries ago, and at a tims when Cortez, Pizarro and other Mexi- can and South American explorers were boys at school. The truth In the matter is that Defoe had Uttle to learn from Alexander Selkirk or the istand of Juan Fernandez that might have aided him in the foundation of the character of Crusoe. The evolution of a tradition developed Selkirk into the Defoe Crusoe; at least, that is what the Chileans say. coe Tired All Round. ‘ From the Atlanta Constitution. 2 “Oh, John,"" said the new woman to her husband, “‘you just ought to see my new bi- cycle-it’s beautifully tired!” “Tt ain't half as tired as I am,” groaned the husband, as he salted the biscuits and put sugar in the soup. TAR HEEL POLITICS Divided Condition of Both Parties in North Carolina. « POPULISTS, SILVERITES AND GOLD BUGS The Republicans Contemplating the Possibility of Fusion. THE OUTLOOK AT PRESENT eee Special Correspendence of The Evening Star. ‘ RALEIGH, N. C., August 22, 1895. It is not saying too much to say that the campaign, which will terminate with the election in 1896 began in North Carolina at least thirty days ago. When Senator Mar- fon Butler, the resourceful leader of the Fopulists, began his campaign of 1804, in January, it was thought remarkably early. But two months age he said to your cor- respondent that this campaign would be- gin far earlier. The populists are using to the full the silver excitement which prevails all over North Carolina. They are having “rallies,” at which there is no political debate or talk, in the ordinary acceptation of that term, but where silver is the only theme. Five or six of these meetings, all large ones, have been held so far, and Mr. But- ler says they will continue until winter, and be resumed in the earlier spring. In November he resumes the publication of a daily paper here, and will circulate many thousands of copies of his weekly paper. He counts on making many converts, mainly out of democratic ranks. He wants to lead all the “‘silverites.” 2 That the campaign will be a hot one can be imagined from the following extract from a Wilmington paper, which takes no part in the silver movement. Here is what Hit says: “That foul-mouthed blatherskite, Marion Butler, charges Grover Cleveland with dis- honesty. The idea! It is the pot calling the tablecloth black. We have never yet heard that Mr. Cleveland was kicked out of his society in college for cheating at cards. Have you, Mr. Butler?’ This silver matter has literally torn the democratic party to pieces. The allegation is made that not over 10 per cent of the party, at the outside, favor gold. The gold men have the leadirg paper in the state as their devoted champion and are standing firm in their faith, Some of the silver democrats are actually intolerant. The stock in trade of these is to a large degree abuse of the Prestdent, and an offi- cial from Washington who was here re- cently says he was actually astonished at the style of talk of prominent men, among whom lawyers had the chief place; that the abuse was actually greater than that so liberally showered by the populists, who have for two years, as he declared, been “masters in billingsgate.” es Uncontrollably for Silver. One of the most astute of democratic ex-chairmen, who was interviewed, said: “It is the generally accepted opinion that the fusion of republicans and populists, which was first effected last year, will con- tinue in 1896, Surface indications point in that direction. A leading populist said only a day or so ago that he knew of noth- ing calculated to disrupt the coalition. Ap- Pearances, however, are not always to be trusted. The populists have already shown a- disposition to abandon all their other former contentions and are concentrating all their interest and energy upon the sin- gle question of free silver. Their interest and zeal in this subject will increase in in- tensity and resoluteness. Were an election to come off now unquestionably there would be fusion, but in considering what they will do In 1896 we must look beyond the present state of the populist mind to the goal to which their present trend of object and thought will take them. Next year their zeal for free silver will be at white heat and*their hatred of the money power, already strong, will be a dominat- Ing influence and sentiment. In these con- ditions it is questionable whether they can be deceived into givirg their suffrages either altogether or partially for a ‘pluto- cratic’ candidate for the presidency. The silver sentiment is not, as a few news- papers and people claim, dying out, but it is, on the contrary, growing in strength and vigor, and will continue to grow until it triumphs. In North Carolina the re- publicars will stand by the gold candidate whom their party nominates. [ cannot tell what*sort of a candidate the demo- erats will put up for President, for the contest in the convention will be a mighty one, with the result in doubt. If the states which usually go democratic control it will 59 for silver, otherwise it will, like the re- publican convention, put up a gold candi- date. I can assure you that, in the latter case, another candidate, standing upon the exclusive and single issue of silver, will be evolied, and, furthermore, will be given North Carolina's electcral vote. People as earnest as they will be here next year on the silver question will not split hairs and wrangle about ways and means? but will demand results if the latter be attainable. Another thing which I know is that in this state the honest advocates of silver will get together in 186. The agitation here is most certainly not parting the silver forces, but is rather paving the way to ultimate union. While the populists are agitating noisily, the democrats in a quieter fashion are employing ail the agencies of the press and private persuasion in behalf of the white metal.” It is argued in the plainest terms by some democrats that there is no need of a silver convention now, though two demo- cratic ex-chairmen have signed a call for one. A convention now would be disad- vantageous to that party, as it would bring together the friends of silver in the three parties, and the populists, the’ best organ- ized, would assuredly dominate it. Not only is it the best organized, but it is also the most thoroughly aroused. Many demo- crats who ar? warm friends of silver, who still hope for favorable action by their party and who prefer to make their fight within its lines if they can do so, would nat care to participate in an independent sil- ver movement now. Negro Ascendency Possible. . Unless the friends of silver can be brought together on state issues, the white People will, be hopelessly divided and the negfoes, with their 90,000 votes, become the controlling power in local politics,’ The fact is the negro vote is today the holder of the balance of power. It is alleged in the plainest way that the negro voters wiil implicitiy obey the re licun or-lers, and vote solidly for a * man” if put up by that party. Some per- sons declare that the country necr es, or a great many of them, will vote only for a free silver man. It is said in some quarters that there fs a plan to speak of the tusion- ists as the “black party.” This will not do. Abuse makes no converts in North Carolina, The “color line” appears to be no longer a scare-crow. Democrats who are observant declare that their party must seek the ne- gro vote and not estrange it; because, they dec'are, the negroes are not well pleased at their decidedly cool treatment by the white populists and republicans. A very small percentage of the negro vote would turn the scales against fusion. It is fusion which the democrats wish to prevent. They wanted to prevent it last year, even though some of them were bold enough to attempt the bluff game of de- claring they wanted to see it. The republicans do far less talkin than the populists or democrats. They do not discuss the silver question. They evade in- quiries as to their views regarding the white metal. They say, in some cascs, that they await the sequel which their national convention will give. They may have a new state chairman. The populists think more of Dr. J. J. Mott than of any other re- publican, and want him to be chairman. The democrats who are for silver and who yet oppose a silver convention declure that none of the leaders favor it; that ex-Chair- man Spier Whitaker is the real leader of the movement for it. Some of them chal- lenge the purity of his democracy. These democrats believe if matters take their own course and there is good will and no abuse, the democrats and populists will naturaily get together next year. This is what the democrats who are observant hope to see result. A fusion of populists and democrats, with “silver” as a rallyirg cry, against the republicanr. They admit, too, that the democrats must nct make overtures, but that there must be a natural coming to- gether of the two elements now in discord. They further admit that there must be close union-of allj the demccrats.. There are in the state 104=to 15,000 advocates of the gold standard, these nearly all living in the towns and bemm what ure known as business men who have decided convictions. Reed and McKiffley Factions. Senator Butler hag called for the forina- tion of stiver ‘clubs, tha recommends that as soon as enough_are organized a silver convention be called. There was a sort of race, it appears, tetw}pn him and ‘some at least of the democrat#¥ to see which could call the silver ccnvention first. They beat him a few days. . But while the late allies—populists and republicans—may agaiff fuse, it can surely only be on state issues. How they can fuse on national issues ig a)mystery. The plan for a division of the electoral vote is de- clared to ‘be impracticable. The populists are just row as anxious as the republicans, perhaps, to rcut the democrats out of all the state offices. The Reed and McKinley factions among the republicans are not hafmonious. Sen- ator Pritchard is for McKinley, while Con- gressman Settle, who always antagonizes Pritchard, declares that the latter is wrong in asserting that almost to a man. the North Carolina republicans are for McKin- ley, but ‘that, on the contrary, they are nearly all in favor of Tom Reed; this in face of the fact that many of them are at heart for free silver. The democrats want the populist vote, and they want the negro vote, too. The republicans want the populists, for they are helpless without their ald. It is alleged that the nominations for state offices are parceled cut between the allies and a regu- lar trade made. Last year the republican national committee recbgnized fusion apa good thing. What will it say next year? ————— A PIKE’S PEAK LEGEND, , As Told by the Indians More Than Two Centuries Ago. From the Chicago Times-Herald. While the geolcgical and mineralogical history of Pike's Peak is interesting, the real story of the place comes from. the Indian legends. To Ernest Whitney of Colorado Springs belongs credit of discov- ering these legends, and in @ certain meas- ure preserving them. Mr. Whitney is a Harvard graduate, and when he went to Colorado many years.ago he became great-, ly interested in the Indian traditions. He devoted years to his study of them, and has visited nearly every tribe in the coun- try cn its reservation in search of infor- mation. His hardest "work was to separ- ate the old Indian legend from the interpo- lations which were the result of inter- course. with the whites. His work was conscientiously done, and; although many interesting features are omitted as being apochryphal, the legends as given today are the identical legenda which were told in the tribes 250 years ago. Mr. Whitney is conyinced that. centuries ago there was a close connection between the mountain tribes of Indians and the Aztecs, but says he-had no conclusive proof. ‘The Indian legends, especially the account of the flood, which is a factor in the leg@nds of all savage races, will prove of interest to the Bible scholar who will compare it with his book of Genesis. The legend of the formation of Pike’s Peak, as given by Mr. Whitney, follows: “At the beginning of all things the Lesser Spirits possessed the earth and dwelt near the banks of the Great river. They had created a race of men to be their serv- ants, but these men were far superior {o the presen: inhabitants of the earth, and made endless trouble for their creators. Therefore..the Lesser Spirits resolved to destroy mankind and the earth itself; so, they* caused the, Great. river ..to, rise until it burst its banks apd qverwhelmed every- thing. They thems¢lves, took-each @ large portion of the best,of the earth that they might create a new world, and a quantity of maize, which had heen their particular food, and returned ;to heeven. Arriving at the gate of heaven, which is at the end of the plains, where the sky and mountains meet, they. were tald that they could not bring. such burdens. of earth into, heaven. Accordingly, they ‘opped them all then and there. Thege;:falling masses..made. a great heao on the top. ef the world which extended far above thewaters, and this is the origin of Pike's Peak, which is thus shown to be directly onder the gate of heaven. (It was formerly twice as high as now, but lost its sumait,,.as told in an- other legend.) a : “Tho rock masses -eper it and ali about show that they have been dropped from the sky. The variety and,extent of mineral wealth in the region-prove that the earth's choicest materials: are -:derosited there. And still as the constellations move across the heavens and. vanish above the moun- tain summits we may see the spirits rise from the Great.river and pass te the gate | of heaven, The falling stars are their bur+ dens:or the dropping grains of maize.” + e+. - HONEST DEALING REWARDED. A Fakir Who Made Money by Taking the Publjc Into His Confidence. From the Boston Herald. “Gentlemen,” said the street fakir, as ho arranged his, betttes on the’ table before him, “I did not come here to lie ‘and de- ceive, and rob you of your hard-earned dol- lars. I have stuck to the truth all my life, and, though that is the reason I am‘a poor nian, I shail continue to speak the truth to the end of my days.” The crowd had been coldly surveying his preparations, but began to warm up a iittle over his address. “I might say to you,” he went on, as he held up one of thebottles in a loving way between his eye and the sun, “that this medicine was.,discovéred by & celebrated medicine man of the Sioux tribe_of Jndians, but why deceive you? It is a remedy entire- ly unknown to the Indians. It is my own discovery, and I never saw an Indian in my life.” The crowd increased in numbers and be- gan to press closer. “f£ could tell you that this compound would cure Bright's disease, and in ten minutes every bottle would be sold; but could I sleep tonight with the weight of so mtch deception on my conscience? How could I ever again look an honest man in the face after teiling such a falsehood? It will not cure Bright's disease—it would even hasten the end of a victim of that Laleful complaint.” There were row 100 men in front of the.| fakir, and,at least Hal? of them had their hands in their pockets in search of money. “I could say that it was a pain killer,” centinued the man, as he brought out more betties from an old satchel, “but an aceas- ing voice would be whispering in my car forever more. You might rub a barrel of it on you and it would not affect a pain. 1 miss the saies of at least fifty bottles be- I tell you the truth, but it must be “Gimme a bottle!” shouted a dozen men in chorus, as they held up their $1 pills. gentlemen—not yet- I will neither you nor allow you to deceive you You are an honesi, confiding peo- d I might te!l you that this discovers vould stop a headache in five minutes, and you would believe me and hand up your money. It will not cure a headache. I even declare that it would make one ten times worse.” : ‘The number of men who now wanted a bottle was at least} twenty, but the fakir waved the:n aside atd said: “Wait a minute. Phe discovery will not cure consumption after one jung is gone. It will not cure catarrh after the disease has a grim hold on the bronchial tubes. Af- ter both kidneys have wasted away it is no use to take it. It simply purifies the blood, and thus—” : “Gimme a bottle!:Gintme a bottle!” yelled fifty men, as they pressed forward, and in less than ten minutes the last one had been sold and the fakir had the money’ fn’ his -cket. : Pes we went down onthe train to Nash- ville that afternoon together, I asked: “After yeu have mixed water, molasses cohol together, do you add anything ‘Yes; cayenne pepper to make it pite, and the solemn truth te make it sell,” he sol- emnly replied, as he took out his wad of bills and spreai them on his knee and started out to find the sum total. eS A Chee From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph, Birmingham—“Why do you check is worthless?” Manchester—“You said it was for $90, didn’t you?” “I see now that it is for only $9, instead of $00, but that doesn’t make the check worthless.” “Well. if a check for $9 isn’t worth less than a check for $90, I'm no financier.” —_——__ +ee_- A Knowing One. say this From Life. “I don’t gamble,” sald the cannibal, as he took the lid off the sailor soup, “but I guess I'll open, this jack pot.” AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA —F— Difficulty in Keepinz Prisoners in the Obain Gang. A Remedy Suggested—Some Cases in the Police Court—Various Hap- penings of Interest. The game laws, which forbid the shooting of reed birds, sora, blackbirds and other marsh birds in the marshes adjacent to the city,have been published, and the police have been ordered by Acting Mayor Snow- den to see that they are rigidly enforced. Yesterday Policemen Dean and Young learned that some parties had been gun- ning in the marshes on Hunting creek just south of the city and started after them. The gunners, however, were on the lookout and escaped. The officers, however, cap- tured a lot of birds that had been shot, and they know and will arrest the guilty hunt- ers. In the Police Court. Justice Tompson in the police court this morning. disposed of the following cases: Walter Cline, charged with fighting, dis- missed; Wm. Cregg, charged with fighting, fined $2.50; Peter Kitts, charged with as- saulting Annie Summerfield, fined $5 or sixty days on the gang, and was sent back to the gang with thirty days added to his original sentence for having escaped there- front; Ida Evans, for being drunk in the street, was fined $1. Assuulted His Foster Mother. Some days ago Peter Kitts, a colored man, was sentenced to serve a term on the chain gang for breaking the laws of the city, but he did not stay on the gang long. When he got away he called on his foster mother, Annie Summerfield,, and told her she had to psy his fine and have him re- leased legally. This she agreed to do, and promised~to get him off the next day. This did not suit Kitts, and he insisted that she should secure his release at once; but owing to the fact that at the time she did not have the money she had to tell him again to wait until the next day. This angered Kitts and he proceeded to clean out thé house, and after he had done as much damage as possible and gotten every one out of the house, he locked himscif on the inside. A policeman was notified, and Kitts was arrested, and this morning sent to the chain gang for sixty days for his conduct. Escapes From the Chain Gang. There has been a great deal of trouble of late in keeping prisoners on the chain gang who had been sentenced in the police court to terms in the jail subject to the gang, and almost daily some one escapes, and although they wear a ball and chain, the captain of the gang seems unable to prevent their getting away. This morning two negro vagrants, both wearing heavy steel shackles, got away. It has been suggested that the best means of holding the prisoners when they are at work on the streets is to provide a long steel chain and fasten every man on the gang to it. In this way no one prisoner could get away and it would be impossible for them all to escape at the same time. A Lively Fight. A lively fight between John Hall and Howard Davis on South Fairfax street yes- térday afternoon created some little ex- eitement. Hall was the aggressor, and was fined $2.50 for the fun he had. It appears that Davis was joking with Hall, when Hall took exception to something he had said and called him a Mar, and at the same time struck Davis in the face. ‘They clinched and the fight ended with honors even. Notes of Interest. Mr. B. Wheatley, who has been attend- ing the funeral directors’ convention at Danville, has returned to the city. Miss Bessy Crymes is visiting friends in Winchester. * Judge J. K. M. Norton of the corporation court has returned from the White Sulphur Springs. Rev. Henderson ‘Suter, D. D., rector of Christ Church, has returned from Bedford Awe Dr. Suter’s health continues very —.—_—_. Increasing Production of Cotton. From the Baltimore News. The government has just issued a report Feviewing the production and price of cot- ton covering a period of 100 years. Accord- ing to the report, the production of cotton has increased from 35,556 bales in 1795 to the enormous total of 9,476,435 in 1894-05. The increase was gradual, the 1,000,000 mark not having been reached unt#l 1830. After that year more attention was de- veted to the cultivation of the fleecy staple, and by 1860 the crop amounted to 4,861,202 bales. It was about that year that the staple received the name of “King Cotton.” ‘The value of the crop in 1860 was $220,000,- 000. During the civil war very little cotton was raised, and not until 1865 did southern planters resume {ts cultivation on any- thing like an extensive scale, and the crop that year amounted to only 300,000 bales, but the price—83.38 cents a pound—was the highest ever known. By 1870 the crop had increased to 3,122,551 bales, while the price had declined to 23.98 cents a pound. Since that year production has steadily increased, and the price steadily decreased. The enormous crop of last year forced the price down to an average of 6.26 cents. This is not the low-price record, however. In 1840 cotton sold at an average of 8.92 cents a pound. After that yéar it grad- ually declined until 1845, when it reached the low level of 5.03 cents, the lowest aver- age value rujing for a whole year that has ever been known. Another interesting fact developed by the government's researches is that free labor has been more satisfactory and prof- itable than slave labor. Taking last year’s average price of 6.26 cents as a basis of calculation, the crop of 9,476,435 bales produced in- 1894-95 was worth about 250,000,000. . ——____+e+. Mrs. Reagan’s Table. From the Galveston News, Just before dinner was announced, Mrs. Reagan invited me into the dining room to see her dining table, the most marvelous piece of furniture I ever saw. The unfor- tunate genius who made it was a convict sent up for two years from Dalias county for No description of this table could Pp. convey an idea of it or the wonder- ful nuity expended in its construction. When it is said there are over 990,000 sepa- raie pieces, one may well wonder how a man ever joined them together so perfectly in seven months. These particles of wood are joined together in mosaics, producing the most precise and beautiful effect. I be- lieve President Trezevant could induce Mrs. Reagan to place this table on exhibition during the fair. It would certainly be a great attraction. Mrs. Reagan told me the history of the convict. He had been separated from his wife seven years and thinking that a sepa- ration of this duration divorced him without lega! proceedings, married again. He was arrested and tried for bigamy and sent up for two years. After he made this wonder- ful table Mrs. Reagan thcught that the pen- itentiary was a poor place for such a ge- nius, and when she had learned his history, interested herself in his behalf with the re- sult of securing a pardon from Gov. Hog. eee How Worth Got Started. Rigchange. It is not generally known that Worth owed his first introduction to Empress Eu- genie to Mme. Octave Feuill2t, then as now one of the most charm'ng women in®Paris. Feuillet, then at the veginning of her great career, had just won the heart of the em- press by writing for her private theutri- cals, “Le Portraits Je la Marquise,” in which her royal patron took the prin-ipal part, but which was so cleverly constructed that none of the other characters were al- lowed the slightest liberties with the per- son of the empress. Soon afier this Mme. Feuillet dined at the Tuileries, and Eugenie complimented her upon her gown, and ask- ed the name of the dressmaie “Your majesty, it is a man--an English- man. His name is Worth, and he has only been in Paris a little while,” replied Mme. Feuillet. “He knows how to design a woman's dress,” said the empress, critically; “you must send him here.” So the lilac dress of the playwright’s wife made the fortune of Worth, DORSEY’S HOSPITALITY. Lavishness With Champagne That Was Unappreciated. Santa. Fe Letter to the St. Louts Glode-Democrat. Stephen W. Dorsey is no longer numbered among the picturesque characters, of New Mexico. The log mansion, with its beauti- ful hardwood finish snd elegant appoint- ments, looking out from the edge of a high Tesa over fifty miles of plain and moun- tain range, with fountain playing on the lawn, no longer knows the presence of the man who Gesigned it and dispensed lavish hcepitality which New Mexican taste could not appreciate. Through the mutations of @ cattle company, ex-Senator Dorsey has transferred his residence to Denver. This territory has her quota of talented story tellers, but a big gap was made in the ranks when Mr. Dorsey departed. The hospitality which Dorsey dispensed at the log mansion on the mesa is still the marvel of New Mexico. mes remember,” said a territory official, “that one time when court was in session “at South Las Vegas, Senator Dorsey in- vited us out to his place to stay over Sun- day. Naturally, we all accepted, and in the party was Judge Vincent, whom Presi- dent Cleveland summarily, and, as we all thought, unjustly removed for appointing Dorsey one of the jury commissioners of the county. We had heard much of Dor- sey’s home and hospitality, and looked for- ward to the visit with a great deal of in- terest It was a twenty-mile drive. When we got to the place we found that its attrac- tions had not been exaggerated. The logs of which the house was bullt were dressed outside. The interior was hardwood and polished. Seaator Dorsey had piped water from a large spring high up in the moun- tain. He had water all over his house, and the pressure was sufficient to keep a large fountain playing continually in front of the big porch. “The Senator received us in the dining room. I will never forget that banquet. There wasn’t a drog of whisky on the Place.. Not a glass of er was to be had. But champagne of the costliest brands was pressed upon us. Champagne was good enough for Washington, but it wasn’t the” right thing fot a New Mexican crowd, and one after another of us slipped away from the table and got cut of decors. I can re- member to this day how thirsty we were and how we longed for a little of the whisky to which we were accustomed. And all of the time the fresh bottles of cham- pagne were coming on the table to mock us. The Senator was prodigal. He wouldn’t let the bottles stay to be emptied. A single glass, perhaps, would be poured out. In a few moments the Senator would wave the opened bottles away and order fresh, saying the wine was flat. I wouldn't pretend to say how many bottles came on that night. As soon as we could we got out of doors, all of us but one of our party, and the Senator. They remained at the table engaged in a political argument. The Senator was suave. His opponent was emphatic. I slipped back to the door and listened. ‘Now let us consider this question calm- ly,’ I would hear the Senator say. And then he would add, ‘by the way, my friend, your wine is flat. Waiter, here, bring us a fresh-bottle.’ “And so it went on until our representa- tive suddenly lurched and slid off his chair literally ynder the table. He didn’t arise. I saw Dorsey look steadily toward the va- cant chair, and heard him say to himself: “Where is my adversary? He seems to have fallen early in the combat.’ . “I went into the room, and suggesting to the Senator that it was more comfor- table in the parlor, gave him my arm. Then I got help, and two of us pulled our compadre who had remained with the champagne from among the table legs and put him to bed. We never again accepted Senator Dorsey’s hospitality. One recol- lection of that ocean of champagne and not a drop to urink satisfied us. ——__+«+—___ BREATHE THROUGH THE NOSE. A Few Points That Will Prevent Throat Trouble if Observed, From the New York Herald. “If only people would remember to breathe through the nose; if only they would think for a moment of the functions of the nose, I would have scarcely any- thing to do in my profession,” said a well- known throat and ear specialist to me the other night. “Xes! Free nasal breathing is the es- sential of a healthy throat. The nose is the medium made by nature to transmit the air to the lungs; its passages are pra- vided with a slight growth of heir, which acts as a sieve in purifying the air we breathe. These hairs collect the dust par- ticles, and because of the natural supply of moisture in the nose the air is sufficient- ly dampened “in passing through not fo ir- ritate the lungs and throat. “On the other hand, people who breathe through the mouth will always have a dry, parched throat, and are sure to be victims of hoarseness, sooner or later will suffer from lung uble. It is the natural outcome of the misuse of nature’s organs of respiration. It is true that singers breathe through the mouth, but it is only while. singing that they re- sort to this method of breathing, and it Is done only and solely because sufficient breath cannot be taken into the lungs at a single inspiration to balance the great amount given out in the production of the singing tone. The demand is very great and the supply must be equal to the de- mand for singing production. On the other hand, no one has ever seen a thoroughbred smger while exercising, other than the voice, use his or her mouth for the pur- poses of breathing. This saves the throa’ from becoming excessively dry, a natura! result of which is hoarsene: and keeps the passages to the lungs il protected from dust and microbes of disease.” “The cause for mouth breathing lies in defective nasal passages. This nasal ob- struction is known 2s adenoid. It is a kind of vegetation growth at the point where the nose and throat join. It is the cause of that common malady known as nasal ca- tarrh. It will also cause chronic laryngitis, which is a source of untold annoyance. To remedy any such trouble it is necessary to have the obstruction removed. The old method was to bucn, but the physicians of “today consider this dangerous. It's aq simple process to remove them with the trepan, saw or knife. It takes but a few minutes and is almost painless. This bony growth is often the cause of earache among children. This is due ‘to the press- ure upon the eustachian tube, which leads to the ear, and often results in complete deafness. It is advisable, therefcre, to at- tend to’any such growth as soon as it be- comes noticeable. The first symptoms are those of breathing through the mouth and ‘snoring’ while asleep. The special remedy is to make the patient breathe through the nose and to save the throat from all irri- tants, cold sponge baths and refrain. from the use of cologne and alcohol in the bath. Clear cold water and friction will do'more to make the body healthy, the throat and chest strong and the skin ‘clear than any other’ known process. The Greeks and Spartans never used anything but clear cold water for'the bath, and they have al- ways been recognized as the perfection of strength and health. “Just here it will be well to add that bi- cyclists must have free nasal breathing if cape enjoy the greatest benefit from this sport.”” --—_~+e0.—_ NOVEL SAVINGS BANK. How a Student Regulates His Expen- ditures While at College. From the 'N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. Those whose money burns holes in their pockets may find a useful hint in this story. It is of a student in Columbia Col- lege, and his strikingly original manner of regulating his personal expenditures. Like many another youth of salad age, he finds it impossible to refrain from squandering his money. It simply burns a hole in his pocket. So to get over the | difficulty he has hit upon the following plan: Upon receiving the check for a fort- night’s allowance, intended to cover his living expenses, he first liquidates any in- debtedness that may be outstanding to his lodging house keeper and washerwoman and converts the whole of the balance into fifty-cent silver pieces. Then, going toe his room and closing the door, he takes the coins by handfuls and scatters them broadcast around the floor. A few of those which remain in plain sight he puts into ris pockets. When they are spent he picks up a few more, and so on, as necessity requires. After a week or so has passed he is compelled to hunt abont pretty sharply for the cash, and the lastsday of the fortnight finds him grubbing under the washstand and bureau, poking beneath the bed and squinting down the register in the hope of discovering a stray half dollar that had eluded previous search. But, though cccasionally impoverished, he ‘gs seldom reduced to absolute penniless- ness. ———————————) JAMES RUMSEY’S STEAMBOAT His Successful Experiments on the River Potomac. The Invention Acknowledged by Res< olution by Congress—Acquaintance With Falion in London. From the Engineering Magezine. To Robert Fulton ts generally given the credit of having discovered the first method of propelling vessels through the agency of steam; yet it can be clearly shown that two men ante-dated him, even here in America, in this discovery. One preceded him. by almost twenty years, the other by eighteen or nineteen years. The man who jn America first discovered a method of-successfully propelling a ves- sel against wind and tide, with steam as the motive power, was James Rumsey. The government of the United States has recognized this to. be an established fact, for in 1839 Congress ordered a medal to be see in his honor, commemorative of. this rilllant achievement. James Rumsey was mn of Scotch parents in 174. Maryland Was his native siate, but he removed to Shepherdstown, V when about twenty years of age. He had ail the native shrewdness and astuteness generally as- eribed to the Scotchman. He was a man of fine presence, tall and powerfully bullt. While, strictly speaking, not an educated men, he was an omnivorous reader and well versed in matters pertaining to his Profession—civil engineering. He was a good talker, but a better listener, and his neighbors regarded him with respect and looked upon him as a man of undoubted ae He early turned his attention to invention, and the writer had, until a short. time ago, a pistol made by him, which shows his inventive capacity. When Rumsey removed from Maryland to Shepherdstown he entered the service of the Potomac Company as superintendent. While in the service of this company he Suggested many novel views in mechanics, and invented and put into operation numer- ous improvements in milling, especially in the application of hydraulics as the motive power. The steam engine was then in its infancy. Watt was just beginning to per- fect his wonderful invention. Machinists were rude and unskilled in their profession, and Rumsey was forced to plan, model and make bis own machinery. He even did ms pees iris casting himeelf—mak- ie molds and running off the me with his own hands. 4 = Action of Congress. Testimony adduced before the House of Representatives in 1839 shows that Rumsey had conceived the idea of steam navigation as early as August, 1783 (Cong. Record). Laboring under very adverse circumstances, he succeeded in the autumn of 1784 in mak- ing’a test of some of the principles of his engine and propelling apparatus. In Octo- ber, 1784, the Virginia iegislature passed an act “guaranteeing to him the exclusive use .of his inventiom in navigating the waters of Virginia” (Stat. Virg., 1784). About this time he wrote to Gen. Washington, com- municating to him the principles of his in- vention. Gen. Washington wrote of Rum- sey’s invention to Gov. Johnson of Mary- land. This letter is dated November, 178% and was produc2d before a committee of the House in 1839, at which time the following resolution was offered and pases: Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: That the President be, and he 1s hereby, requested to present to James Iiumsey, jr., the son and only surviving child of James Rumsey, de- ceased, a suitable gold medal, commemora- tive of his father's services and high agency in giving to the world the benefits of the steamboat. - In January, 1785, Rumsey obtained a pat- ent from the general assembly of Marylana@ for navigating the waters of that state (Acts Gen. As. Maryland, 1785). During the whole of this year he was busy in the con- struction of a steamboat. In 1783 he suc- cessfully navigated this boat on the Poto- mac at Shepherdstown in the presence of hundreds of spectators. The Cincinnati En- quirer lately printed the following d tion of Rumsey’s boat: The first steamboat was really built by James Rumsey at Skep- herdstown, Va. (now West Virginia). The boat was partially constructed in Frederick county, Md., in 1785. It was fitted up with machinery partly manufactured at a’ fur- nace called ‘the Catoclin,’ owned by Jonn- soa Bros., near Frederick, and the two cyl- inders, boiler, pumps, pipes, etc., were built in Baltimore. Part of the work was done at the old Antietam Iron s. The boat was eighty feet in length, and was propelled by an engine which worked a vertical pump placed in the center of the boat. The water was drawn in at the bow of the boat and discharged a: the stern through a hori- zontal pipe. The weight of the machinery was 665 pounds, and the boat’s capacity was three tons. All of the machinery, mcluding the boilers, took up a space of only a little over four feat square. The first public ex- periment took place on the Potomac river on March 14, 1786.” 3 A Success. The experiment was eminently successful, as was proven by the affidavits and per- sonal testimony of. numerous witnesses who testified before the above-mentioned committee of the House in 1839. ’ The only man who can contest prece- dence with Rumsey is Fitch. It can be clearly shown, however, that Fitch's first experiment was not made until September, 788, two years after Rumsey’s final and successful exhibition on the Potomac et Shepheréstown. De Warville, an eminent French writer, says in his work that, “he- ing in Philadelphia in September, 17 he attended, by invitation, and witnessed Fitch’s experiment” Library). Warville, in a note written February seedoe a while in London, says: “I have just met Mr. Rui of a gentleman of great ingenulty, who pro- poses building a vessel which, without sails, and by steam alone, he will c: the Atlantic in fifteen days.” After ae pe Be weeps in 1786, Rumsey re- solved to go to England. He believed that, with better workmen and better oppor- tunities, he could cross the Atlantic in os teeen days in a steamboat built after plans. He believed also that he could find in London the money for the furtherance of his designs. Slender means, while in the great city, often occasioned him to fall back on other inventions, and to abandon for a time his pet scheme, the steamboat, in order to replenish his purse. After long delays and many disappointments, he at.last succeeded in building a boat of 100 tons burden. His machinery was so near completion that he had fixed a dav for public trial, when his sudden death from apoplexy, while lecturing before a philo-- sophical society, put an end to everything. Dr. John Hunter, writing of mental emo- tion inducing apoplexy, refers to Rumsey when he says: “The person who invented or applied the steam engine to the sailing of ships, and who, when it was before the committee of the Society of Arts end Sci- ences, was taken at orce with an apoplectic stroke, of which he died in about twenty- four hours.” (Posthumous Papers, vol. p. 264.) Rumsey and Fulton. Rumsey’s letters to Mr. West, his broth- er-in-law, show that he and Fulton were cn intimate terms in London. Fultou was “lin Lor.don for the purpose of introducing his torpedg, but after Rumsey’s death turn- ed his attention to the steamboat. It is definitely known that Fulton never gave & thought to the steamboat until after Rum- sey’s death. ‘This is shown in his letters to Lord Stanhope (Robert Fulton Biog.). Fit- teen years after Rumsey’s death Fulton succeeded in building a boat and running it against. the current at the speed of five miles an hour. Rumsey, without assist- ance, without reflected light, id the same twenty years before. After Rumsey’t death there was ro one in his immediate family to attend to his numerous patents and fo push forward his inventions. Hii crly son, James Rumsey, jr., was biind an: deaf from the effects of scarlet fever. His brothers possessed no mechanical or in- ventive faculties, and were engaged in otker pursuits. The plans of this master mind ceased at bis death, save only in the active brains of Fitch and Fulton. In the light of such testimony we cannot fall to give the verdict of precedence to Rumsey, who successfully navigated his vessel, through the agency of steam alone, agairst wind and current on the Potomac in 1786. ————-s0- Overlooked. From Life. “And did you have any trouble in catch- ing the cable car?” “No; the conductor didn’t see me till if ‘was too late.” @e Warville, a 4