Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1896, Page 10

10 ! — {HUNYADI JANOS ) The World’s Best Natural Aperient Water. of the On the mb21-sat,26t “Andreas Saxlehner,” SosSontoeSoetonodhoeteesecsosfontnete 25 Years’ Success in U. S. Highest Reputation all Over the World. CAUTION: None genuine without the signature firm Label. Seeteteetetetctetets Seetontee TS ss ss a Sedededededeetedeeteteet: sSeedestersondentestesgeote adoageete prompt delivery. — work unless you THE YALE. Don't you think It Dee ae a hat ee ee Ee Ee ee te te ee EPP EP LCE «LL! LLM¢E|MKM_KL« LK LG lll lol > Every day we make new converts. Every day more men are “won over” —to become life-long customers. The secret is not hard to find. Our business wouldn’t grow so fast if we didn’t do the best laundry work. The already long list wouldn’t be con- stantly increasing if we didn’t have the best facilities—the finest plant— the most improved machinery You are not enjoying the very best us a postal? You'll be glad you did! THE YALE, STEAM LAUNDRY, 514 1oth st. & 1104 14th st. *Phone 1092. —and are a patron of you'd better drop SPedeesesteegeo geet afendenteaseeseeseeseases o = = = = == A SLIDING SCALE OF PRICES. You Pay 81 for Admission at Six O'Clock and Fifteen Cents at Ten. From the New York Tribune. ‘The doorkeeper at the Chincse theater in Doyers street ts a thorough New Yorker, and does not seem to be in close sympathy with the rest of the establishment, except- ing only the German-American watchman. ‘A visitor asked him something about the plot the other night. “Say, it's funny about that;” he answered, “but I can't keep up with what they are Griving at. They ain't iike us. They does everything different. I know they're play- ing some historical thing what happene long ago. Is that a woman? No, they don't have any women any more. They used to have one, but she got married. It was funny about that. A fellow in Mott e arried her. He was a rich mer- chant: & Her and her chant; had lots of money. father and mother came over together. He paid her father $1,400 and her salary for | a year for her. They had a quarrel in two or :hree months and separated. It cost ! him a hinese wedding once. Say, funny about that. I was best man. bride didn’t see the groom and the groom didn’t see the bride. They woke me up about # o'clock in the morning to go to the wedding. I had to lay out the carpet ont on the sidewalk for the bride | alk on when she got out of the car- Say, it was funny about that. There mere than a hundred Chinamen came to the house and went in the front door, and 1 never saw them after that. They must have gone into the cellar or some- where, because I never saw one of them after that. ss “Don’t the actors rehearse? Say, it's funny about that. They sends clear to Havana or San Francisco for a good a He won't come unless they pay him ary for a whole year in advance, or | sometimes only six months. The best ones | sometimes won't want to come for more | than five er six months. They gets down / stairs and they puts up a piece of paper and al the members of the company stand around and read it. Pretty soon they know what to do. Maybe the play lasts a week } or two veeks or longer, but they all know just what to do. : “There ain't many people here tonight ‘The best nights is Mondays and Tuesda: ‘Then the place is jammed. A good many comes at 6 o'clock and stays through til 12._¥t costs a dollar at 6 o'clock, 75 cents at 7, 30 centz at $ and 25 cents at 9. If the play don’t draw very well they charge 15 cents after 10: The doorkeeper was here interrupted by a Chinaman who wanted to get in with- out paying. He made it intelligible that he wanted to see a man and wouldn't stay Dut = few minutes. The doorkeeper insis- ted on a deposit as a guarantee of good faith. The Chinaman handed him a paper dollar and went inside. Before long he eume back to the door and held out his hand. A return check, then worth 15 cents, was placed in it. The Chinaman became iuch excited and thus impaired his powers of English speech. Finally the doorkeeper understood that he wanted his dollar. The doorkeeper wasn't sure that it was the right Chinaman, but at last yielded and returned the money. ‘They all looks the same to me,” he ex- plained. Th ae TOUCHED A SECRET SPRING. The Accidenial Discovery of a Man Who Bought an Old Des! From the San Francisco Call. Henry J. Crecker is being gazed upon with envious eyes just now by Maurice Casey and Harry Laraberton. These three gentlemen occupy thé same office at 508 Califernia street, and have a similar love for that which Is artistic and unique. This made them all desire the possession of a unique brass-bound writing desk, which Crocker succeeded in winning, and in which he has just found treasures. The writing desk was offered them by a dealer in curios named Belasco. Belasco, be remembered, a fortnight ago tought some old boxes which once belonged to Conley Leach. He pafd $10.50 for them, and found among the other contents old coins and rare stamps to the value of 3800. He had come to sell Mr. Crocker some of these stamps, when he began telling about the writing desk. The next day he brought the desk up. Its age was apparent. It was made of rosewoed, was beund heavily with brass, and was prettily inlaid with the same Metai. Substantial brazer handles sunk in trass shields showed that the desk was not @ mere ornament, but was intended for traveling. This fact was attested also by the capacious interior, which was divided eff into smaller compartments by shelves Of sandal wood. The workmanship shown in the chest, and Its oddness, made each man desirous te become the owner. None wished to put up the entire cost, however, so, after they bad lowered the dealer's price of $7 to $4.50, they each contributed $1.50, and the cwnership of the desk was left to the arbitrament of fate. It was suggested first that they throw dice for it. Nobody had any dice, so Mr. Crocker borrowed three 50-cent pieces from the janitor of the building. Then they “matched.” Tae odd man was to take the cesk. At the word the three put down their coins. When Casey removed his palm the money showed talls. Mr. Crocker’s coin Was heads. Mr. Lamberton's coin was still concealed. When he withdrew his hand a ‘ail was exhibited, making Mr. Crocker wirner. p That evening Mr. Crocker prepared to take his prize home. Casey at once pro- tested. “You don’t know anything about that desk,” he said. “It might give your whole family smallpox or something else that's dreadful. You'd better get the old thing disinfected before ycu take it over to your Lous: Then he smiled in @ superior way, and teld how glad he was he hadn’t won the desk. As the days passed and the antique it of furniture still remained in the office, Mr. Casey grew to be quite a chaffer. The result was that the writing desk was a matter of constant thought, and Monday afternoon, spurred on by Mr. Casey’s cha fing, Mr. Crocker looked it over thoroughly to see if he could not convert it to some use about the office, since he could not take it home. The desk was a@ strong one, and with the cubbies removed would make an attractive receptacle for papers. While Mr. Crocker Was examining its interior to see how it could be altered, his finger touched a hid- cen spring. A panel in the side of the desk at once fell out, revealing three smail Cas is cry of astonishment at onze brought Casey and Lamberton to his side. ‘Ther chaffing all died away as the first drawer showed tuo $50 bills issued nearly fifty years ago, but undoubtedly genuine. The secend crawer contained an old-fashioned sold watch. curiously carved, and a daguer reotype, on the back of which was an al- most obliterated inscription. Some earrings of an ancient pattern and a finger ring beautifully chased rested on cotton batting in the third drawer. The jewelry was so curious and the hid- ing place so deftly fashioned that the spec- ‘tors were dumb with astonishment. When they regained their tongues they ceverwhelmed Mr. Crocker with congratula- tions. Casey admitted that there wasn't so much of a “josh” on Crocker after all. “What will Belasco say?” But Belasco didn’t say a thing. As soon as he heard that he dropped down from $7 to $4.50 on a “lot” consisting of two $50 bills and some valuable jewelry, he made a bee-line for his store. Word came from the neighbors that the curio dealer was carefully prying out the entire interior of many desks, chests and boxes in ession. There were no reports of Ge anything. ._ Crocker is looking for more brass- bound resewood desks with hidden ene iE FROM “Cc RMEN.” Exciting Seenes When Tobacco Fac- tery Women Went on a Strike. From the Pall Mall Gazette. An English lady in Seville write: “We have been wondering every Moment what might happen next, for the strike of the cigarreras has been a great excitement. At the tobacco factory here there are 5,200 wo- men and about 100 men. The women one morning rose up against the authorities and smashed windows, doors and everything they could lay hands on, and then marched into the Piaza San Fernando. One woman climb- ed up on a kiosk just opposite our windows and orated to the crowd. The women shout- ed, screamed and applauded, until the sol- diers and the town guards had to be called cut. For ten days the shops have been most- ly shut, the women walking about in groups, interviewing people and haranguing, always accompanied by the guards and the soldiers. It has been an exciting time. “The orders were to prevent the cigar men from mixing with the women, as the soldiers were warra ited to keep the women pretty calm; but if the men had interposed blood would have been shed. The patience and ar- rangements of the civic people have really been marvelous; but one got very tired of it, and one is thankful that the struggle is over. The women made a dash to get at the inspector and the overseer, swearing to tear them to pieces; and they would have done it, for you have no idea what savage figures they looked—it made me think of Marie An- toinette’s visitors. At last they have been reduced to entreating to have the factory cpened again, and the strike is over. Nine- teen ringleaders have been dismissed and the inspecior stays on; but several concessions Fave been made to the woihen. The whole town is fiercely on their side. “One day I was sitting alone in the public gardens when I found myself suddenly surrounded by the strikers. It was a trifle alarming; but I kept up a cour- ageous smile and distributed a heap of coppers as far as it would . go. They were quite delighted, and, instead of scowling at me, one beautiful girl was de- sired to dance in my honor, which she did, the rest clapping hands. I had heard so much of the beauty of the cigarreras that I expectedgnore. But the scene in the garden was effective—the palm trees and the blue sky and the surging mass of wild-looking ¥omen in gaudy scarfs, with real flowers pinned to their black dresses. They made a food show; however ugly or old they were, the hair was always carefully dressed and flowers pinned on.” ‘ *<|FIGHTING JOE FYFFE One of the Bravest’ Officers in the _ Navy. A STIRRING CAREER RECENTLY CLOSED Outlines of the Life Work of a True American. GREAT SKILL AND NERVE ————— Admiral Fyffe wes a remarkable man and an officer of unusual distinction in the civil war. His death has been the occasion of the recalling of many incidents in his pic- turesquely spirited career of nearly a half century of active service, and they illus- trate the character of a man whose career weuld gladden many a boy’s heart, and serve as a very noble and stirring exampie if his story could be fittingly told. He was a man of whom it may well be said that he wore his uniform over a patriotic heart, whether at home in the heat of civil con- flict, where his self-possession and entire fearlessness led him to do a valiant man’s work in helping victory to put an end to fratricidal war, or in foreign ports, where Patriotism was much less at a premium. “Fighting Joe,” as he was popularly re- ferred to by those who knew his career, endeared himself to those who met him by his frank, honest and straightforward man- ner. He was of that type of naval officer so seldom met with nowadays, known as “the old school,’ a man of powerful phy- sique, fine bearing, handsome features, a clear eye, strong voice. He was always aleri—a little gruff perhaps. He was stern when necessity demanded, generous to a Rear Admiral Jos. Tyffe. fault, courteous and kind. His brother offi- cers loved him, the blue jackets trusted him. Never in the history of the navy wus an officer more revered than “Fighting Jse.” Always considerate, and democratic in his manner; “Justice” was his waich word. He was a “yarn spinner” par excel- lence, a great attraction among naval offi- cers. Only an American. Volumes might be written on his ex- ploits, and the incidents in which he fig- ured most prominently. An incident illus- trating his strong pride of nationality oc- curred in his youth, during the cruise in the frigate St. Lawrence, at the time of the world's fair at London. He was a typical American, and proud of a little Indian blood in bis veins. Attending offi: ally a banquet given by the mayor and «ity of Southampton, his indignation w: roused at hearing, one after another, American officers telling, speeches, in the how proud they were of their English ancestry, ard vying with each other to show how little really blood was in their veins. ising, in his turn, Midshipman Fyffe said, almost tear- fully, “I feel very lonesome among all these Englishmen,” waving his hand to- ward his brother officers. “I haven't a drop of Engl.sh blood in my veins. You must all excuse me and bear ‘with me. I am only an American; and here his voice rang out, “but [ thank God that I am, and that my ancestors owned America before Columbus or the Christian era.” A perfect storm of “Hear!” “Hear!” ran down the tables, Engiishmen knowing valor then, as now, when they hear it in words or see it in deeds. Rear Admiral Fyffe was born in Urbana, Ohio, July 26, 18%: appointed to the navy from Ohio September $, 1817. He was almost immediately ordered to ser- vice on the Cumberland, and on reaching the Gulf of Mexico was transferred to the bomb brig Stromboli, in which vessel he saw much active service in the Mexican war. His next duty was off the coast of Africa in the Yorktown. This vessel was wrecked on one of the Cape de Verde Isiands, on which occasion his gallant con- duct was highly commended. After one year’s return to the Naval Academy and promotion to the grade of passed midshipman, he volunteered for, and was ordered to, the Grinnell arctic exp tion, sent, wnder Lieut. Hartstene, in search cf Sir John Franklin and Dr. Kane, the latter being rescued and brought home. For Eis services in this expedition Licut. Fyffe was decorated by the Queen of Eng- land with the medal of the “Arctic Order of Victoria.” Succeeding cruises, ranging over all the world’s waters, in the “San Jacinto,” the “St. Lawrence” and “Rellef,” the “Lan- caster” and tie “Germantown,” brought bim to the flagship “Minnesota” in the early part of the civil war. Here he ex- perienced two years of very active serv- Ice, during which time he took prominent part in the destruction of the blockade runner “Hebe,” near Fort Fisher, N. C., in August, 1863. He also participated in the destruction of the blockade runner ‘Ran- ger,” as’ well as in an engagement with infantry below Fort Caswell, January, Personal Bravery. A marked instance of his self-sacrificing devotion to duty and great coolness and courage occurred when with Rear Admiral Lee in one of the monitors up the James river near Fort Darling. The admiral from the conning tower ordered Lieut. Fyffe to send a man outside to the top of the conning tower to see whether the enemy’s rifle pits on shore were occupied. Fyffe went below, and instead of sending a sailor to the exposed deck, slipped out himself and mounted to the tower, and -egan to inform the admiral as to what he saw on shore, which was within easy pis- tol shot. The admiral told him to come down. “No,” said Fyffe; “any man I send up here may have a wife. I have none and can act freely." As though filled with admiration at his daring the confederate sharpshooters in the rifle pits stood up and presented arms to him instead of shooting him, as they could easily have done. Lieutenant Fyffe commanded the double- ender gunboat “Hunchback” from the win- ter.of 1863 till after the close of the war, seeing much service on the James river, where his vessel was almost daily under fire from confederate batteries and sharp- shooters. In May, 1864, he engaged a force of con- federate artillery above Cox’s wharf. In the next month he engaged confederate batteries near Deep Bottom; also batteries at Curtis’ Neck, near Tilgman’s wharf. On January 25, 1865, he engaged batteries and two confederate iron-clad rams near Dutch Gap. This he cons‘dered his greatest ser- vice during the war. The war being ended, he had his first shore duty at the Boston navy yard; then sajied in the Oneida for China as executive officer, followed by command of the Ashue- lot, and this by the command of the moni- tor Saugus. While commanding this ves- sel an incident is related by an eye-witness illustrating Admiral Fyffe’s tron determi- nation and lightning-like grasp of a dan- gerous situation. In the summer of 1869 the Saugus was proceeding to St. Iago de Cuba in tow of the United States steamer Gettysburg. On approaching the entrance to the harbor, before a heavy sea and strong current, the commander of the Gettysburg, which was in the lead, saw that the breakers on e!ther side of the narrow entrance were exceed- ingly heavy, and that a strong current was sweeping across the shoals. A motion of the speaking trumpet called Capt. Fyffe’s attention to the danger, and an answering usual after-dinner | American | i ay 7? wave signaled his nse. + Putting: his helm hard over, Capt. Fyffe forced his ves- I—an iron-clad.mon{jor—right into the ‘weather’ breaker, whith completely over- whelmed her, the smother of foam’ cover- ing the entire ship, tumet and smokestack. But she passed through ‘safely. The offi- cers of the Settewoars, arked that they had_never before juch an exhibition of nerve and -bold, prompt seamanship, which undoubtedly sayed the. vessel from destruction. d Many Important Commands. - Shore duty, light hifise duty, command successively of the ffonocacy, the St. Louis, the Franklin, the Tennessee, the Pensacola, duty as cagtain of the Boston navy yard, command ef the New London naval station, and, fin#Hy, command of the Boston navy yard, Hrpught’ him to the close of active se: ix days before reaching the age lim: ixty-two years. He passed regularly through every grade in the navy, honored #y and honoring each commission from midshipman to rear ad- mira!, having stood through storm and wreck and battle for forty-nine years in the forefront of his country’s service. Admiral Fyffe’s wife, who survives him, is the daughter of Rev. Granville Moody, colonel of the seventy-fourth Ohfo- in- fantry and brevet brigadier general, who distinguished himself at Stone River, and was widely known as the “Fighting Par- son.”” Admiral Fyffe died on the 25th of Feb- ruary at Pierce, Neb., and was buried at his birthplace and the family home, Urba- na, Ohio, on March 1, with full honors, so far as the Grand Army and the state mill- tary resources could supply what is cus- tomary at naval funerals. All was done w:th the greatest love and pride in giving room_in the breast of Ohio to her distin- guished son. ——_—_ SHADOWGRAPHS IN SURGERY Opinions of Two Prominent Members of the Medical Profession. Will X Rays Help the Doctort—Not Much at Present, but if Success- fully Developed They May. Professor Bull, who occup;es the chair of surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, in speaking of the value ‘o medicine and surgery of Roentgen’s discovery, said: “As usual, the entire civilized world has enthused over a discovery, thé beneficial results’ of which to humanity ere wow only presumed. I am, however, of the opinion that it will take some time to develop this application of ‘X’ rays. At present the results aitained do not promise anything of great value to advanced surgery. Of course, the shadow- graphs of hands which are now exhibited everywhere may b? made useful in some branches of the profession, but in compari- son with the vast revelations which the X-ray impressions of the brain, thorax and abdomen would effect, only the rudiments of the discovery have been reached thus far. : “Take, for instance, a case of appen- dicitis. If 1 could get a photographic im- pression exhibiting the exact state of in- fammation cf the little vermiform appen- dix, also showing the situation of whatever intestinal adhesions there might be, and the quantity of pus sin the diseased ap- pendix, I should bes retieved from much brain work and should feel more positive of the minor details of any diagnosis. “Appiied to internal cdéncerns, if the dif- ferent density of certaim conditions of t ste should be manifested in the impressions on sensitive plates, sumgeons would cease to he puzzied in these eases; at present a certain degree of uacertainty is unavoid- able. Such seem tobe ‘the remote possi- bilities of the future tievelopment of Koent- gen's discovery, and if all this is realized it Will be the most important knowledge ever placed at the disposal of medical science. it might then even be ptonounced the first tiusight into the hidden mysteries of life, a eulde to the future solutes Dr. Paul Gibier ofothe-New York Pasteur Institute said that he hid not as yet been atle to sec practical Gemerstrations of the application of X rays t the human form in diseased conditions: S “Bit how aboutethée possibilities?’) I asked. ~ ith Bie ¥ “Ah—the pessibilities—well, I should say that they are very encouraging. I think the new rays have in them a:potency which may revolutionize me 2 and surgery; but the question is, will man be able to master and direct them? Tat is the point that must be demcnsirated before a posi- tive ement can be made by any con- servative scientitic man. I admit that it is quite likely that this invisible influence may prove sufficiently potent to localize tumors and other equally dangerous foreign mat- ters in the human body; but the science is in its infancy, and doubtless must pass through its seven ages the same as man before it can command high honors from the world. It must be developed. “It is a serious questicn in my mind as to whether the relative density of the tis- sues will establish a sufficient distinction between the different crgans, when the ex- periments arrive at the point where they can obtain shadowgraphs of the body. Of course, all dead matter er broken down tis- sue is denser than healthy matter, and the suggestion seems not impossible. As re- gards the possibility of locating bullets in brain. { take this to be the most ditfi- cult of all. If the shadowgraphing of the iver, heart or the spleen is demonstrated to he merely a matter of a variation of shade—assuming, of course, that the body may be shadowgraphed—then the same prs- cess may be applied to the brain. It is quite possible that even the two thicknesses of bone to be penetrated in the latter in- stance may prove less obstructive than the foreign body, and so locate it. But even in case this proves true it will be necessary to make two shadowgraphs. One would only Iccate the foreign matter from one point of view, and a cross-section would bave to be made to get the exact position of the bullet, which would be very ex- hausting to the sufferer, unless, it could be done very quickly. “If the efforts now in progress to force this strange influence throygh the thicker parts of the human form are crowned with success it seems pertectly consistent to as- sume that metallic substances could be readily localized. ‘The introduction of the rays at the front and side of the thorax, of chest, should exhibit the point of intersec- tion of the two lines of rays, giving accu- rate measurements of location, which would enable the surgeon to introduce the probe and extract the foreign matter without hesitation. At present he must search in the dark, under an extreme ‘needle in a haystack’ condition.” Treasury Promotions, The appointment of Mr. Coffin as deputy controller of the currency has resulted in the following promotions in the currency bureau: T. P. Kane, from $1,600 to $1,500; B. F. Blye, jr., from $1,400 to $1,600; W. A, Nestar, from $1,200 to $1,400; F. T. Israel, from $1,000 to $1,200, and J. A. Long, from $900 to $1,000. Z a fin =m —— +. Written for The Evening Str. "other Side. (Replying to certain Aisfraging references to oar fgad the microbe) ee 1 Ob, we philcsoptic sages’ stifi find comfort for the ages in the forms yeu chill “outrageous,”” Which are hidden fh the air; For with a little mone¥, we. have bonght a Iittle Bunnfe, and, although it; may seem funny, It has made ug fre from care. In bis food we've killed! baci, though you think that, willy-nilly, they, should make us all feel ebilly ade With a wild and nimeless fear, In the water he's bees; driuking there is not a microbe blinking, e¥er ready to be linking Its career witls Buunle, dear. an : Yet, cur Buonic is not free, antiseptte’d though he be—as any one may see— From the ills of mortal strife, Though we sterilize his dinner, this unscientific sinner, becomes daily thin and thinner, ‘TM we're fearing for his life. ‘So the bugaboo bacillus we have found -will never -kill us, unless there come to thrill us One pernicious to our Land, And the microbes, when pacitic, never growing too Prolific, can the truly sclentifle . Find in ordinary man. MATTIE BEACH. —— a The London Times announces trat Géorge Richmond, the artist, is dead. He was born in 1800. He executed betwéen 2,000 and: 3,000 portraits during his life. From the Land of Frost to the Land of Flowers. INCIDENTS OF THE ITINERARY The Wonderful Recuperation in the State of Florida. A REVIEW OF THE CONDITIONS Staff Correspondence of The Evening Star. ORLANDO, Fla., March 17, 18%. The world is full of different kinds of People, and no better way to find it out is possible than to travel four or five hundred miles on a railroad train. If you add on a couple of hundred more the fact becomes more patent. And people grow different the further they go if they happen to be journeying in the same car with you. This siruck me in the case of+a gentle- man who left Washington with me. When he came ‘nto the Pullman he was fussing with himself for not wearing his heavy overcoat. When we reached Jacksonville Sunday he offered the ‘bus @river a half dollar to take him where he could pur- chase a suit of gauze underclothes. The trip down from the capital is interesting when you have a traveling companion like that. When the Atlantic coast flyer passed Quantico I informed him that the place was President Cleveland’s favorite duck- ing ground. Senator Ben Tillman would have employed him as an understudy had he heard what followed. Private Secretary Thurber would have had a duck fit. A President duck hunting when he got $50,- 0v0 a year for ‘tendin’ to the people’s busi- ness! Why didn’t he buy his ducks? ’Meri- can people gittin’ sick an’ tired of such doin’s. Might as well have er monerky er Rooshy. Couldn’t shoot ducks any more'n he could hit a k’rect policy. I changed the subject to Indian Head and the proving grounds. All stuff an’ nonsense. No sense in spendin’ money tryin’ guns an’ wastin’ powder when we didn't have no boats io carry the guns if they air good, neer no fottyfycashuns to put ’em in, neither. The Conduct gf the War. As we approached Richmond and rattled along through the historic surroundings I tried to touch his ardor by a war-time sug- gestion. He never took no stock in the war, he said. Did think about goin’ in once, but when he saw ’em palaverin’ around and not goin’ right down an’ takin’ Richmond an’ hangin’ ole Jeff Davis, he knew it was no use. Ever sence then he'd believed in obbytrashun an’ would raise his voice in favor of it every time. And he’ did until the berths were made up, and he turned in kicking against the obduracy of the porter in letting down the upper berth when there was no one to get in. Next morning he didn’t think much of the southern country. It was too flat, and he could see no evidences of the push and pro- gress he had heard so much about. From Charleston down to Savannah he ing out, trying io find crops of early vege- tables and a “whit man. othin’ but niggers, by gum!” he ejaculated, as station after station gave a glimpse of a dozen col- ored brothers and sisters. From being tire- some he grew amusing, and therefore harm- less. Other eyes than his could have seen the signs of the advancing south the new fences, the inc: ng number of cleared fields, the pink of the peach blows in many an orchard, succeeded by the white clouds of the pear. The immense traffic evident at Savannah was indicative of the forward movement, and again at Wayer whe I saw the cars of twenty different systems telling the story of the south—the story of its u al commercial union with every other s ion of the country. between stations one could appreciate its advance- ment in another way; in its remarkabie railroad facilities. From Savannah into Jacksonville our train ran at an average speed of fifty miles an hour, and in many stretches my watch showed Just sixty sec- onds between two mile posts. Queer South Carolina Darkies. We made a stop of some duration at Adams Run; S. C., and the Sunday crowd of negrces was at the station. The Adams Run section is in the heart of the bluck belt, and the negroes here are a distinct species of their race. And, by the way, this part of'the state was once its wealtni- est, and the twenty-liye-miles-wide belt be- tween the Atiantic coffst line and the ocean ned the most fertile rice and cotton plantations on the globe. It was interesting to note the dialect of the darkies. I asked ene what he had in hfs basket. “I dun yestiddy go de sio’ an’ git him sum tings ter eat. Him hongry den me, too. Whe him?" “Him my ole vomans.”” I learned it was a peculiarity of theirs to call their wives “him.” Their sioicism is another strong point. Samuel Mullin of Philadeiphia and myself were on the station platform when a dusky couple, evidentiy just married, came driving up in a sulky behind a mule. There was a cloth belly band holding the shafts down, and as the mule crossed the railroad track the belly band broke, back went the sulky and out tumbled ‘the occupants. ‘There was a chorus of yells of derision from the dark cioud of spectators, but the victims said never a word. They picked themselves up, and whiie the girl went to the mule’s head, the man fixed the haracss. It was all done silently, and when the 1e- pairing was completed with something teat looked very much like a corset string, the man climbed into the sulky, the girl fol- towed, showing a vast expanse of bright red hosiery, and off they went. Jacksonville and Its Bicycles. Jacksonville was interesting, as it always is, and here it was that my pessimistic friend wanted those gauze underclothes. On every hand there were evidences of muni- cipal activity and corporation enterprise. All the trains now stop at the big union passenger depot, and electric cars are ready to whisk you to any hotel in the town, while you can telephone ahead for a room if the crowd is big. M:les of vitrified brick pave- ment form the street roadways, and more are. being laid, while electric lights illu- minate the main streets and many of the house: If hard times did strike Florida, Jacksonville doesn’t show it. The main thing that strikes a4 Washing- ton man is the number of bicycles. Indeed, I was amazed, coming through lower South Carolina and Georgia, at the number of wheels I saw at the country,stations. In Georgia particularly were they numerous; but in Jacksonville they are impressive in quantity. On every business street is a bicycle shop and up and down every street the riders scurry. And they scorch, too. So do the electric cars. The latter rush down Bay street, the main thoroughfare, at a good eighteen cr twenty miles an hour, and everybody knows it and gives them ‘rigitt of way. President Phillips would have Maj. Powell on his back in ten seconds if a 9th street car ran two-thirds as fast across the mall. But the bicyclists and the bicyclistes rule the roost. Sunday after- noon is the favorite day for the colored sis- ters to turn out on their wheels, and they were out in force day before yesterday. And dozens of them wear bloomers. Such bleomers! I'd be willing to wager a dollar that one dusky damsel I saw in Jackson- ville had fashioned hers out of a pair of belster covers, and there was red and yellow braid on them. Russet shoes and leggins and a hat with a section of a conservatory cn it completed the apparition. Down Into the State Center. The trip from Jacksonville to Orlando is one of the prettiest in Florida over the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West rail- road and the famous Plant system. The traveler sees the wildest and most pic- turesque, as well as the most cultivated portion of the state. Numerous streams with palm-covered banks are crossed, and countless lakes that seem like pearis set among dazzling emeralds, are skimmed along by the train. There are snow storms now and then in the jungles that intervene, formed by masses of biossoming dogwood, and again you want to stretch out a hand and pluck the’ jessamine that biooms so tentalizingly near. Then you come into the orange country, and your heart fills with pity for the people who own the blasted groves. Where the trees were are black- ened stumps, and you see piles of brush that two ycars ago bore millions of gleam- DDOGOHOGSHIDHHSHSHSHNO9H9SHIHHOSHHHOSHOOSSOOS THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, “MARCH ot 18982 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES, A TRIP DOWN SOUTH| S@@@80 ee0eee6e cooees HEH HK HH RH HHH He eH RH HH HHH HH HH HH HHH eR HHH HH HH lumbia improvement. 22d and P Sts. N.W. @@S9o Columbias Triumph Wherever Exhibited! The magnificent disphy of Columbia Bi- cycles at the Cycle Show at the Washington Light Infantry Armory is but the repetition of many former triumphs. the Columbia Bicycle believe that they turn out the most perfect piece of mechanism that can be produced by the most expert work- man out of the finest known materials. makers recognize Columbia as THE stand- ard, and follow closely as possible every Co- Columbia Bicycle Academy, J. Hart Brittain, Local Manager. 7 BSOSSE S9SSSS9 SOSSS5 OS “There is no Best The makers of All eR RH HHH HH RRR HHH HER HH ee EK HHH HR HH ee SOSDSOOSOHHD9ST9HGHHS9S9SSSHSSOOO 2 Pope Ii’f’g Co., 452 Penna. Avenue. * SSOSOCOSOGOS ing yellow globes. Around each stump, however, there shoot up vivid green shafts—a pronuse for the future, for the roots of the orange trees were not killed, and they are fignting for lusty life again with every indication of success. We pass Altamonte Springs, Winter Park, and roll into Oriando, the progressive, hustling, wide-awake capital of Orange county. ‘There are broad streets Here with packed clay roadways, hard and enduring us as- phalt, and down every one, almost, the eye sees the crystal water of a lake. Orlando is well worth a description, which needs a further investigation to make adequate, for certainly the largest “pinery” in the world—that is, the greatest pumber of acres in one pody devoted to the cultivation of pineapples—is worth knowing about. Chief Justice Bingham Better. At the San Juan Hotel I met Chief Jus- tice Bingham, who came to Florida to re- gain his health; his brother, Judge Murry Bingham of New Hampshire, and his brcther-in-iaw, J. H. Ballou of Boston. Justice Bingham said he was feeling bet- ter, and that his stay here would depend upon his recuperation,which was constantly increasing. Miss May Clemmons, the Washington girl who has won deserved tribute as an elocutionist, was also here and gave some excellent recitations in the hotel parlor last night. Gov. and Mrs. Shepherd are at St. Augustine, and a num- ber of other well-known Washingtonians, including Leroy Taylor, Harry Moses, Frank Wilson Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Bigelow and Miss Greer, are scatiered over the state. But these are generalities of the trip down. One purpose of my visit wes to discover what the few hundred thousand inhabitants were doing to keep the wolf from the door. Last Yenr's Fearful Freezes. A year ago in the last week of December I reached Florida on the breast of a north- erly breeze that sent the thermometer dewn to a few degrees above zero and spread havoc and devastation over the state, from the Georgia line to the keys, and from the gulf to the Atlantic. In a night the land was changed from a redo- lent, bright-hued garden to a blackened and’ blasted desert; its people panic- stricken; its golden globes mock oranges, and its destiny a query that no one had the hardihood to even attempt to answer. Jchnstown after the flood was scarcely more pitiable than Florida after the freeze. The great staple crop of oranges, whence millions of dollars were expected, dollars that meant the payment of countless debts long deferred, that hung ihreateningly over hard-won homes, was annihilated; fruits and vegetables were ruined, and the whole population held its breath and paused help- less. In this very town I saw two score of men who had been changed from affluence to poverty in a night, and all over the state I fcund the same conditions. A month later enother and harder freeze came, as if na- ture determined to complete the wreck she had so terribly commenced. Conservative students of the conditions here estimated last May that the winter had caused $ 000,000 loss in the state. Those figures would be appalling in an old and settled community, where wealth was founded on actual possessions. In a new and almost undeveloped country there is no adjective to describe the effect. Leeving Florida, and for a long time thereafter, I wondered how its people weuld meet the awful problems before them, dependent, as they had made them- selves, upon their orange groves and the in- dustries dependent upon them. What would the ruined men do who had been struggling to meet their mortgages and who were row plunged deeper into iiabilities than ever? What would labor do, now that pick- ing had stopped and cmployers could not even meet their own living expenses? What would the government do for the funds to carry on its machinery that must be gathered from taxes, and what the busi- mess men who were dependent upon the sale of supplies to meet the demands of manufacturers who furnished their goods? Those were grave and perplexing problems i-deed. Out Chicagoed Chicago. The people in Chicago faced such when they looked out one morning ever a. city in ashes. As the Chicagoans set themselves to do the work of resurrection «nd rejuve- nation, so did the people of Florida take up the labor before them. There was mo- mentary stagnation, but it -vas only mo- mentary. As if moved by common impulse, they determined to stand together and sclve the question of community salvation. ‘There was little or no money in the state, but there was the more solid wealth of de- termination, energy ani a wiilingness to work. The payment of last year’s taxes was deferred for several mont! the taxes of this year were reduced by the state au- thorities under power vested in them by the constitution. Northern capitalists who had invested nillions in the shape of mort- gages hurried their agents down to the state to look the conditions over. Every- where these investigators went they found the people steadfast in their faith in Flor- ida and earnest in their efforts to rehabil'— tate the state. Those agents reported that it would be wise to extend the time of the debts, because they would all be paid in the end, and the men who held them will- ingly acquiesced. Orange growers found that the roots of their blasted trees re- tained life, and determined to bud them with living stocks, and everywhere in Or- ange county and all through the vast orange growing belt the groves are sending up green shoots, while around their sides are piled the dead remains of the original trees that were once so green and glorious. New Interests and Industrie: While their new trees are growing they are devoting themselves to other crops. Potatoes are being raised in vast quant!- ties; hay is being grown on thousands of acres; stock is grazing and fattening for the market beneath countless pines, and everywhere the people are diversifying ented agriculture and opening up new pur- suits. The pines in the northern part of the State show the fresh scars of the turpen- tine makers, while the saw mills are every: where making music in the woods; and ev- erywhere you hear the confident, satisfied decle ratior “Florida’s all right; we are a little bent, but will spring back straight pretty soon, and no other freeze will ever phase us like the last one.” Talk about western vim and energy and pride and get-up-and-get-ativeness! Just come to Florida, and you'll know what such combination really means. CLUSKEY CROMWELL. ———__ AFRICA’S WHITE NATIVES. ' Farther Reasons for Believing There in Such a People. From the London Daily News. There have always been vague traditions of a white race locked up in the interior, but when the tales have come to be tested the white race generally turns out to be merely a tribe of lighter colored Arabs, keeping all the characteristics of the race and having none of the white man’s. But in this race we have some:hing much more correct and prec Capt. Larymore, at present A. D. C. to Sir Francis Scott, was sent up to Koranza en a mission, and stayed a considerable time in the czpital. He took advantage of the opportunity to inquire about this com- paratively unknown race and its neighbors, and was surprised to find that there was an accepted tradition that there itved, an indefinite number of days’ marches to the northeast, a tribe of white men. Further inquiry elicited the statement that they lived on the skirts of a desert, which was difficult and dangerous to cross. Attempts had been made to avoid this desert by passing through their country, but they Were found to be so fierce and So absolute- ly devoid of fear that the caravans pre- ferred the dangers of the desert to the hostility of the white tribe. Such circumstantial statements induced Capt. Larymore to make stricter inquiries, and at length he found a Mohammedan priest and Hadji, a man of great integrity and considerable influence. He had been to Mecca, and it was on his Way there and hack that he act y saw with his own eyes one of this white tribe. The man in question was armed only with a bow and arrow, but such is the rm puta tion of fiercen possessed by the race that the caravan did not remain long in his vicinity, but left the place as quickly as Possible. Al Hadji saw him di: tinctly. Capt. Larymore, who, by the way, is a type of the fair Saxon, interrupied the priest in his story, and said that the man must have been simply a light-colored Arab. “No,” said Al Hadji, “I gaw him close at hand and he had light hair and blue eyes, exactly as you hay This statement, and the confirmation it had re- ceived by many rumors and tales, was one of extreme importance, considering the strict integrity of the man who made it. Consequently, Capt. Larymore took down his testimony in writing. The existence of such a race is firmly believed in by most of the gold coast travelers, and, among others, by Sir Francis Scott. Unfortunately, owing to the fact that the reckoning of the progress of the caravan is done in the most careless way, the spot cannot be located. Al Hadji sa: it is many days from Koranza, which might mean 100 or 1,000 miles. AN INTRUDING OWL In Locked Up in Its Stolen Nest by a Couple of Evicted Woodpeckers. From the Buffalo Express. Although the woodpecker is industrious, provident and peaceful, he is not to be tri- fled with or tyrannized over with impunity, as the following incident will show. A companion and I, on an August day, not long since, piched our camp at a spring on the table lands of the ridge dividing Ojal from Santa Clara valley. About the spring etands a large grove of live oaks. In ene of these not far from the tent door a pair of woodpeckers had, for years, no doubt, made their dwelling place. Some- what shy of us at first, the birds in a few days paid little attention to our presence. It has frequently amused us of a sultry af- ternoon as we lounged upon the buffalo robes laid on the shaded grass to observe the birds, with whose labors the warmth appeared to have little to do. We had camped there a week or ten days when, before ®daylight one morning, we heard a commotion about the home of our staid neighbors. Our attention was attract- ed by their shrill outcries and the whir of their wings among the branches overhead. It had no sooner grown light enough to see than we pushed back the flap of the tent door and peered out to ascertain the cause of disturbance. It soon became apparent that a little tecolote, or ground owl, at the approach of day had taken lodgings in the hollow oc- cupied by the woodpeckers, to their con- sternation. But the return of day brought courage to the rightful owners and they resolutely set about finding means to eject the invader. They tried bluffing awhile about the only aperture to the hollow tree, but to little purpose other than to cause the tecolote to peck at them when they ap- peared to be about to thrust themselves in. At last, finding that neither threats zor entreaties were likely to be effective and resolved that if they were to be deprived of their home it would be the last of that tyrannical owl, the woodpeckers brought presently from another part of the grove an oak hall of the size of the aperture, and, driving it tightly into the hole, withdrew to another hollow tree, leaving the bird of prey hermetically sealed up. After several days, when we started to return to San Buenaventura, the ball was ‘still in the hole and the woodpeckers, set- tied in their new home, were going about their business as if there had never been @ tecolote. “~