Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1896, Page 12

12 COMMITTED TO JAIL Irving L. Ford Held for the Murder of Elsie Kreglo, ~ HE MADE NO STATEMENT 10 THE JURY The Evidence Against Him Was Overwhelming. LOCKED UP IN GUITEAU’S CELL The coroner’s jury in the case of Miss Elsie Kreglo, who was murdered last Mon- day afternoon, completed its work Satur- day evening. After hearing a number of witnesses the jury rendered a verdict to the effect that Elsie Kreglo met her death at the hands of Irving L. Ford, and the prisoner was later sent to jail. Ford was present at the inquest, but declined to mak? a statement, as he sald he had al- ready told all about the affair, and had nothing more to say. Coroner Hammett was on hand a few minutes before 3 o'clock, the time set for the hearing, and with him was the deputy coroner, Dr. Glazebrook. Chief Clerk Sylvester got together the names of the witnesses and assisted As- sistant District Attorney H. T. Taggart in the work of preparing the list for the use of the coroner. The room in the rear of the office of the station was packed with humanity when the coroner reminded the Jurors of their oath taken on ‘Tuesday, and while he was thus engaged the pris- oner came in and took a seat beside De- e Horne. He was very nervous and y picked at the scratches on his » and nose while he listened to what being said about him. He seemed badly frightened, and whenever the door opened he quickly turned nis eyes in that direction as if he expected some one there to harm him. The first witness called wes Charles H. Collins, a resident of Sheridan avenue. “Mr. Collins, look at the pistol 1 now hand you,” said Mr. Taggart, “and tell whether you have seen it before.” “It looks very much like the one,” he answered. “I was working about one-third of a mile from where the murder was com- mitted when a boy came along and asked where he could find the nearest doctor.” Witness told him where he could find the doctor, and then went down to where he saw the body of the murdered girl. The istol he found in the xrass about fifteen eet from the body. He turned the pistol over to Policeman Kopp. Policeman Kopp was called and he identi- fled the weapon as the one handed him by the preceding witness. He In turn handed it over to Policeman Bradley. Officer Bradley told of the receipt of the pistol from his brother of and said, after examining it, and finding its number 227, and the ini which he supposed were “T. D. A. {t to Detectives Horne and Weedon. tifying the Pistol. ve Horne testified that Officer Rrad- him the pistol, he said, “this was ae and,’ > gu here were four in it and one empty cylinder.” Witness told of the number 2nd marks on the revolver, i said that a citizen had in- ers that he had a revolver milar to those on this ad bougnt it ata store e Mr. Wal- price mark, thought he could find its owner. alford got his boo! * said witness, nd an entry on th: 1 of Septem- showing that the apon had been Ford, Burnt Mills, Montgomery “and fo ber, 189 sold to I county E Detective Weedon gave similar evidence concerning the pistol, and said that he and his partner, Mr. Horne, went to Burnt Mills in company with Deputy Sheriff Jones. They called at the house of Mr. Waters, near Burnt Mills, and then went to the house of the prisoner, but he was not at home. They returned the next morning, and being isfied that he was keeping out of the way, they swore out a warrant, charging him with the murder of the girl. Then witness told of the arrest of the prisoner and his arrival here. He told cf the man’s denial that night of the owner- ship of the pistol, or of the commission of the crime. Friday morning witness calied upon him again and he repeated his denial concerning the pistol. “He said to me,” said witness, get me something to eat I'll talk.’”* Just then witness got a telephone mes- Sege that the men from Harper's Ferry were on their y to the station to talk with the prisoner, and witness stepped Me ‘If you Admitting the Murder. Witness then told the jury that he heard the prisoner say he killed the girl. At first, when asked why he committed the crime, he answered, “I don’t know.” Later, he said he killed her in order that she could not identify him and be a witness against him. Witness explained at length the different statements made by the prisoner, and of his admissions concerning the pistol, knife and clothing. His last confession, witness said, was the one in which he admitted that he had attempted to outrage the girl. “He wz sked by a Star reporter if any inducements had been offered him to make the confession,” said witness, “and his re- ply was that none had been offered, but that he had made the confession volun- tarily to ease his conscience.” Witness produced the knife and trousers and hat, and told of having recovered them at the house this morning. Alfred Walford, dealer in weapons and sporting goods, indentified the weapon as having been seld from his stock. Henry Kraak, clerk in Walford's store, Was next examined. He remembered hav ing sold the particular weapon about two years ago. Mr. George McCeney of Montgomery county, who rendered the officers such val- table assistance, was sworn. He Knew the Man. “Look at the prisoner,” said the prose- cuting officer, “and state whether or not you know him.” “I do know him,” responded the farmer. “Who ts he?” rving Ford Witness said that Ford had lived in his neighborhcod for about four years, but not in the same house all the time. He told of the recovery of the knife and the finding of the hat and trousers in the prisoner's house. Witness also told of the various conversations he had with the prisoner since his arrest, and told of his acknowl- edgment that the knife produced belonged te him. Deputy Coroner Glazebrook was called and his evidence given when the inquest was begun was read. He added the result of his investization after the arrest of the prisoner, telling of the blood prints on the articles of clothing and of the statements of the prisoner. Mayor Br h and Recorder Winter of Harper's Ferry told the jury of the arrest and attempt at su y jumping in the river of the prisoner. ut. Kelly told of his connection with and of the care taken to protect He ad several conver- with Ford, and these he detailed to dary. Morgan liv the find the cas the Roteler, on whose place Ford ed what he knew of Ford and ade Montgomery county to 4 jentified the knife as the one he 1 Ford, and he had also given ‘d the hat he wore on the oc- casion of the murder. The Verdict. In a few minutes the jury returned a verdict as follows: “We, the jury, find that the body produced before us is that of Elste Kreglo, and that her death was caused by a wound tn the neck inflicted with a pen- knife in the hands of Irving Ford, on the 4th day of May, 1896, on the Klingle place, in the District of Columbia, during a fel- nious attempt to ravish the sald Elsie Kreglo." The crowd outside the station had in- creased rather than diminished, and when the patrol wagon started off in the direction of the jail there were shouts of “lynch him” and other threatening language, but Bo violence was attempted. The prisoner, who had declined to say anything to the jury because he said he had already told all he knew, was still very much frighten- ed, and it was not until he hed reached a cell in the jail in ‘murderers’ row’’ that he showed the slightest signs of relief. Yesterday Ford spent the day quietly in the cell which was occupied in turn by Guiteau and other murderers. He talked freely to the guards, and seemed anxious to see his wife and father. He told the guards that he could not read, but would like to see some picture books if they had any, and some magazines were given him. ‘The prisoner had sent word that he wanted to see the detectives yesterday, but none of them went to see him. He has already told all about the crime, and the officers know of nothing additional he can tell, unless it may be about another crime, and if he has anything further to say he will have ample opportunity to do so before the case is tried. ——.—__ KICKING TREES. Lumbermen Must Know Them and Know How to Keep From Being Kicked. From the Rumford Falls Times. Very few who have never witnessed the method of lumbering in our forests realize the danger, with its accompanying fascina- tion, the hard, rugged work with {ts health- giving results, or the enjoyment to be found in camp life in the solitary woods, miles from civilization. The danger from flying limbs or a “‘kick- ing” tree as it falls, lodges or strikes upon a stump or across a log, and swings around or files back with terrible force,is not noticed by the lumbermen if they are lucky enough to dodge successfully. Another danger that people little realize is that of the teamsters who haul the logs from the stump to the main road. Much of the timber is cut up on the mountain sides, which are so steep that a horse team can scarcely climb up. At the top, logs measuring from 30 to 50 feet in length are loaded upon one sled and are dragged down the mountain. In places the road goes down so steep that the ends of the logs are above the horses’ hips. The logs with the sled tip down, and away they go down the mountain, as fast as the horses can go, with the teamster hanging to the reins and keeping his balance upon the logs as they thrash and roll around beneath his feet. Occasionally the teamster emits a ter- rific yell that would put a Comanche Indian to shame, to warn his brother teamsters that he is coming, so they can get out of the way. They drive into a turnout, and the loaded team spins past them. It is seldom that a horse loses his footing: if he does the team is sluiced down the mountain. Oc- casionally they go against a tree, and some- times both of the horses are killed, but they generally come out all right, with a few scratches. With the advent of the railroad and in- vention of wood pulp, the uses of the spruce tree have been changed or enlarged, and so far as Byron, Me., is concerned, the man- ner of getting it from the forest to the mar- ket has changed. The logs are now loaded on to cars in the forests and hauled to the very mill doors, where they are converted into pulp and paper. During the present winter logs have been hauled to the Rum- ford Falls Paper Company’s mill, conve: ‘ted into paper, shipped to distant cities, where it Is used by some of the leading daily pa- pers, printed, returned and read by the camp’s crew where the lumber was cut with- in a fortnight from the time the tree was cut in the forest. Such is the effect of the progress of civilization upon this branch of business. Only a few years ago, even now, in remote sections, where railroads have not reached, one y. is reckoned on to get the lumber to market, and {t sometimes takes two years to run the lumber out of the stream to the main river. ———__+e-+_____ EXCITING WELSH WEDDINGS. Customs Which Are More or Less Amusing to the Spectators. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. A wedding, as {t was customarily arranged in Wales some forty years ago, was an in- teresting affair. In those days, as soon as the young people had made up their own minds, before they could speak of a wedding, the consent of the bride’s parents had to be obtalned. This arrangement, or rather consent, was called the Gofyn-y-ferch, and could by no means be done by letter, a written document be- ing considered very bad taste. A good deal of formality surrounded the Gofyn-y-ferch, and it was not to be omitted even when the parents were known to be willing. The accepted lover had many anx- ietics, and among them (the necessity of which will be seen by and by) was the pace of his best horse, and the pace and mettle of his friends’ horses. At last the wedding day dawned. The bride was dressed early, over her finery she wore a long cloak, Ittoned all the way down to the ground, while a hood entirely covered her head and face. In the course of the morning the bridegroom sent some of his friends to seek out the bride. Arrived at her father’s house, they found the door locked, and before they could be <dmitted they had to recite some poetry. Sometimes the fair lady's whims and caprices made the delay in unlocking the door very long. When the door was open the bride was still to be found. She had taken refuge in some obscure corner of the house, where she was crouch- ing out of sight, complezely covered with her long cloak. This game of hide-and-seek was sometimes so prolonged that when the bride was found it was too late to be mar- ried that day, but this did not happen often. When the bride was really found there was @ great mounting of horses; she, In her modest cloak, was seated behind her father, and all the company sei off as fast as their steeds could go—all except the bride's mother, who seldom, if ever, attended her daughter's wedding. Up hill and down dale, over smooth and rough ground, the mountain ponies galloped, and shame on the bridegroom if he and his zh the church before the Service over, the bridegroom had still to keep guard over his wife, for In one ceuntry parish, If not in many, it was the custom of friends of the young man to wait outside the church until the service was over. When the happy couple appeared the bride was s2ized and placed behind one of the men, who galloped off with her. Naturally, she was hotly pursued by the bridegroom, who, of course, after an ex- citing c » eventually captured her. When © wife was secured, she took her seat behind her husband, and on his own horse, and the company rode off again to the bride’s old home. Arrived at the house, all the party drank the health of bride and bridegroom out of the same pewter. —2ee A Matrimonial Advertisement. Dayton Correspondence St. Louis Republic. Some time ago Ralph Seely, a New York state farmer, who is a bachelor, inserted an advertisement in a Tcledo matrimonial paper for a wife, and gave the assumed name of Winfield Hale. The advertise- ment was answered by a Dayton woman, who gave the name of Miss Maggie Sloan, also assumed, her real rame being Mrs. Sarak Weeks, a widow. Over the assumed hames a correspondence was opened, and a marriage was soon arrarged. Seely came on here from New Paltz, N. Y., and met his intended at her home in West Dayton. Then followed a denouement. The be- trothed couple discovered that they were brother and sister, who had not seen each ether for many years. Of course, the en- agement was declared off, but the meet- ing was a happy one after all. EE PBS Blind Millionaire’s Understudy. From the New York Journal. There are no takers for Charles Broad- way Rouss’ offer of $1,000,000 or $5,000,000, cr, in fact, everything that Mr. Rouss is possessed of, to cure him and his substi- tute, John Martin, of blindness. Mr. Rouss has seen all the oculists in this city who have an established reputation. They have taken their fees, but could only tell him that they could do nothing for him. He is suffering from paralysis of the optic nerves. He is not totally blind, but so nearly so that he can only distinguish large objects, and those only indifferently well. John Martin ts suffering from the same affliction, and Mr. Rouss accepted his offer to become his understudy. Understudy Martin has been pounded with needles un- til there were 10,000 wounds in his flesh. Then, when croton ofl was rubbed on, he tainted. Martin is to report to Mr. Rouss vach day, and ff his sight is restored the Broadway merchant will submit to a sim- ular treatment. ———_—__+«+ When She Begins. From the Chicago Record. “How early do you clean house, Mrs. Perkins?” “Well, I always try to get started before the neighbors begin to borrow my step- ladder.” THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1896-SIXTEEN PAGES. A TRIP TO PHILADELPHIA. Experiences During a Two Days’ Visit in the City of Brotherly Love. From the New York Press. I have just returned from a two days’ stay in Philadelphia. Its rustic air of abandon delighted me from the first mo- ment when I alighted at Broad street sta- tion and purchased a paper of doughnuts. As I was to stay with a friend in West Philadelphia I got a messenger boy and sent him on ahead to herald my arrival. He reached the house the following afternoon, while the newsboys were crying the morn- ing papers. I was slightly annoyed at this, but as it seemed to excite no surprise among the rest, I made no comment. On leaving the station I took a street car, but a dread of arriving after dark im- pelled me to leave it and walk. As I strolled leisurely out Market street and across the Schuylkill river, carelessly switching the daisies and buttercups with my cane, watching the antics of an occa- sional strayed steer or a wayside game of cricket, an air of peace and quietness stole over me that was ineffably sweet. It was nearly 4 o'clock when I reached my destination, and the stores were all clesed and shuttered for the night. We had a delightful game of tennis in Rittenhouse square, and got back just in time for sup- per, which, with its scrapple and schmier- kase, quite won me. When the dusk fell we donned our slip- pers and smoking jackets and took our cigars out on the front steps, where we sat and conversed pleasantly with the people across the street on the next block. I claimed a guest’s privilege and sat up after 9 o'clock, but the street grew so unutter- ably lonely that I soon retired. The next day was spent in much the same delightful manner. In the evening we went to the Art Club to hear a lecture on “Our Late War.” The following morning my friend took me to the station. “Well,” he said, as 1 got aboard my train, “how do you like Phila- delphia?” “Charming!” I cried. A Foe us up to date? Eh?" he said pride- ully. “More!” I said enthusiastically, “for you haven't the new woman. “Say,” he said, “I've seen several refer- ences in out-of-town papers to the ‘new woman,’ what does the term mean?” The train pulled out just then. ————-+e+__—. SLEEPY TELEGRAPHERS, Their Scheme to Enjoy a Nap Re- sulted in an Accident. From the Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette. “At a single-track tunnel on the Pan- handle the officers of the road had perfected a scheme by which they thought tt was im- possible for an accident to occur. A tower was erected at cach end of the tunnel, and the two towers were connected by wire. Every train was compelled to come to a stop and get orders from the operator before she could enter the tunnel. Neither operator was allowed to let a train enter the tunnel until he had called up the other operator and got from him assurance that the track was clear. Jones worked at one end and Smith at the other. Jones could not let a train go into the tunnel until Smith said so, and Smith could not let a train go in until Joves said so. The only way a wreck could oceur was for each man to let a train go in at the same time. Even If both operators were to fall asleep at the sume time, the system would work, for the train conductors, going into the towers for orders, would awaken the operators. “One night there was a terrible wreck in the tunnel. Two trains had met head on. Several of the cre-vs were badly injured, and I think two died. There was an investiga- tion. “The president of the read himself went to the scene of the wreck. The two operators were called before him. It was impossible to learn anything about the wreck. Each operator was sure the other had reported the track clear, and could give no explana- tion of the cause of the wreck. Then the president sald: “Now, boys, I will tell you what I will do. I feel sure you know how this happened. If you will tell me I will give you my word that neither of you will be discharged. I thought I had a system here that was ab- solutely safe, and It is of more importance to me to learn how the wreck occurred than to punish the one who was responsi%le. I must find out how it happened, so that I can take care it does not occur again. ‘Tell me the truth, and I will give you my word that you will not lose your jobs.” ‘hen the two boys confessed. During the long nights they would become sleepy. Some- times one would fall asieep. Then, ifa train came, the other could not get an answer from him. One night Smith was sleeping soundly and Jones could not get any answer. He did not like to hold the train, for fear Smith would lose his job. So he let the train’ 1° through. He knew It was perfectly safe, for Smith could not let a train in without calling lim up. When the train came out of the tunnel it wakened Smith, and Jones told him what he had done. Then they ar- ranged a scheme so they could both sleep. They always kepi the red block down, so that no train could’enter the tunnel whilo they slept. If one called and received no answer he knew the other was asleep, and, therefore, the track must be clear, and he let the train in. “One night both were sleeping as usual. A coal train came to Jones’ end of the tunnel. The'whistle of the train wakened Jones. He called to Smith and received no answer. So he knew Smith was sleeping and the tunnel was clear. He asked the conductor to throw him off a little coal for his fire, as he was entirely out. The conductor threw off two or three lumps, and the train started into the tunnel. Those few lumps of coal cost the road thousands of dellars, and I believe they cost two men their lives. “Jones went outside to pick up the coal as the train pulled out. Being outside the tower, the nolse of the train drowned that of his in- strument, and he did not hear Smith’s call. A freight train had come to Smith's end of the tunnel at the exact moment that Jones was picking up the coal. As Smith did not get any answer, he thought, of course, Jones was asleep and the track clear. So he let the freight in. Then the two trains came together in the tunnel. “The president of the road kept his word with the boys, but he took them off that tun- nel and gave them daylight jobs, where they were not so likely to sleep, and could not do so much damage if they did sleep.” ———_+e<. HOLLAND'S PERMANENT WA\ No General is Allowed to Win a Final Victory. From the Buffalo Express, We were talking about England's little wars at the club, and, most pertinently, a man, a Boston man, who has only bcen ashore four or five days after a voyage of something like 115 days from Java in a sailing ship, chipped in: “I’ve got a yarn to spin in that connection.” You will no- tice the nautical way he spoke, after his experience at sea. “All the world knows, the Dutch have for years and years been trying to con- quer the island of Sumatra. Sumatra is the largest island in the world, bar Aus- tralia’’—that’s what he said; I am, geo- graphically speaking, too weak, to state it as a fact—“and as the Dutchmen kave made Java a great source of revenue, they have been trying to conquer Sumatra as well. “I got to know our consul at Batavia, the principal Javanese port, and, through him, a lot of Dutch officials, and I thought I'd Nike to take a shy at going to Acheen, the one place in Sumatra where the Dutch have a safe foothold, and see how so long a@ drawn-out war was conducted, for the Dutch have every modern appliance for romping over such savages as the natives of Sumatra, and only the interior climate is against their easy success. “I got a tip from the inside that I had better not waste any time, as under no circumstances would the Dutchmen at Acheen let me go to the front, where mili- tary operations were going on. That point, as I understand it, is some 300 miles in- land. *“‘And why?’ I asked. { ‘For the very good reason,’ said the man who gave me the tip, ‘that this war is a permanent thing for Holland, and a soft thing for the ring. There are govern- ment officials in Amsterdam and Dutch government colonial officials out here who each make from 50,000 to 200,000 florins a year out of the war in the way of supply- ing military stores, and the transportation of troops, or by means of any various litle games that big politicians out for ‘he dust have a way of playing. Not very long ago, in a moment of enthusiasm on some one’s part, a Dutch general was appointed to the command of Sumatra because he boasted that he could put an end to the war in a few months. He started in at full speed, and was keeping his promise so well that a vigorous (but very quiet) row was kicked up in the innermost circles, and he was recalled. Therefore, I didn’t bother to go and investigate the Dutch campaign in Java.’” AGAINST CIVIL ca sPENSIONS Two Government Olerks Who Oppose the Tawney Bill One Argues From a Constitutional Standpoint and Declares the Pro- posed Law a Plan of Robbery. The Tawney bill for the retirement of clerks continues to exclte controversial in- terest of many of the governmental em- “ployes, and letters on the eubject are still reaching The Star from all quarters. A correspondent signing himself “De Jure’”’ writes: “I feel that I would be* doing less than my duty did I not mention a few of the reasons why the government employes whcm it proposes to rob have net said, written and done more in opposition there- to than they have. The most thoughtful, and best informed ones believe that there 1s no more likelihood of such a scheme ever becoming a law than there is proba- bility that the beautiful golden dome of the new Library building will be torn away and a common shingle roof substituted. It is not believed for a minute that even a small per cent of the intelligent legislators of these United States will sanction legis- lation which proposes to systematically rob the honest employes of the government of a part of their salaries; for it is asserted without fear of successful contradiction that it 1s nothing less than that to take a certain per cent of a man or a woman's pay without an equivalent when they pro- test against it. Good constitutional law- yers assert that it would be practically tm- possible to frame a bill on the lines of the proposed Tawney law that would stand the test of the courts. “Robbery by unconstitutional legislation cannot be construed to be due process of law. What would the Congressman think of a scheme to take 3 per cent of his $5,000 salary each year, and lay it aside to pen- sion some member or Senator who has been fortunate enough to have been a na- tional legislator for twenty or thirty years, who is ready to retire with a clean record and empty pockets? I say empty pockets, because it is believed that those old people and those who were general service clerks and members of the signal service of the United States army (about the only ones who advocate this bill) would not consent to be placed before the world as mendi- cants and pensioners at the expense of their fellow-clerks had they not been im- provident and prodigal during the twenty or thirty years that they have drawn fair salaries, from which they could and should have saved at least a small competence. These old employes certainly would not seek by legislation to put their hands into the pockets of their neighbors and steal a part of thelr salary had they any con- science, self-respect or money. I feel like reminding these clerks who advocate the bill of the story of the ant and cricket. “It would perhaps be for the good of the service if many of the people who were in effice before the civil service law on the statute books, and consequently had no educational test applied to them, were re- tired, but It will not be done at the expense of their fellow-laborers. It is not to be thought for a minute that the House and Senate and the President will sanction a scheme to rob the people who came in through the straight and narrow gate of a competitive examination, and who are com- petent and do efficient, intelligent depart- mental work, for the benefit of a class who should retire themselves. Should such a scheme ever become a law, its constitu- tionality would be tested very soon, with- out question, for 9% per cent of all the em- ployes, who would not be beneficiaries, whom it would seek to rob, have too much self respect, assertiveness and manhood to tamely submit to such a measure. Civil vs, Military Service. “Justice” takes up another phase of the case, and, in arguing against the proposed ieasure, writes: “I should like to correct an idea held by some civil service employes that there is a parallel between themselves and the army and navy, warranting civil pensions. The man who goes into the army and navy foregoes all opportunities for money mak- ing, or for public preferment. He loses his civil status; his home is on the sea or in barracks; his life is not his own, but his country’s, to be laid down or wrecked per- haps at any time that his country calls for it In war or in hardship. With no choice of his own he is sent to the frontier, to desert places, to pestilential climes, to extremes of temperature. All the ties of family and social life are severed. His environment does not afford the pleasure and profit of either intellectual culture as found in cities or the physical comforts of the Washington markets. More might be said, but this is enough to show, by happy contrast, the good fortune of Uncle Sam's clerks in Washington. “Soldiers and sailors are disfranchised us they have no fixed residence, and if civil employes are to be put upon the life tenure plan and taken out of politics, the civil service law, to be consistent, should dis- franchise them. So long as they are per- mitted to go to their several states to vote they will be subservient to party politics. Two objects are sought by the civil service commission: To secure competency and character, and to take the service out of politics. The value of civil service examina- tions is that @ certain standard of qualifi- cations Is secured, but it is a mistake to suppose that there is something in the gov- ernment routine that is not quickly learned and which requires special abilities. Aside from the scientific bureaus, the qualifica- tons needed are quite inferior to those of school teachers, who receive from one-half to two-thirds the salaries of departmental employes. Education and intelligence are general in this country, and every Ameri- can 4s the peer of every other American in more than a phraseology. Frequent refer- ence is made to the civil service of other countries, but In a country where the gov- ernment is ‘by the people for the people’ all its departments are open to the people from the President down, by limitation of offi- cial terms. The army and navy alone have a life tenure, and the reason for that is in the special training required and the 1a- ture of the service. The idea of pensions involves risks or losses, and where are there any such in civil employment, except in the railway postal service? Department clerks have the most favorable conditions possible for comfort and safety, and an ample, assured income, without the pe- cunlary worries and liabilities of people in business ventures paying less. It seems a reflection upon the capacity or character of government employes to create a pension fund for the benefit of those longest in ser- vice, who have had the benefit of promotion, which means larger salaries, at the expense of the newer clerks who are struggling with smaller pay, and are content to do their duty in office and to become of some ac- count out of office. IN HOTEL CORRIDORS R. T. Lukins Cochran. Mr. dians, and his of Yuma, Arizona, is at the Lukins was scalped by In- description of the event, as told by him to a group of friends, is thrill- ing. “About fifteen years ago,” he said, “I was with a small scouting party in southern Arizona. There had been some trouble with the Apaches, but none in the immediate vicinity of where we were, and beyond a general lockout. for them, we gave the red skins but little thought. Rid- ing along a canyon we were suddenly con- fronted by Indians, who seemed to rise up from the ground in every direction. It is impossible even to judge the number in any Indian band, but I should think there were several hundred of them. Most of them had guns, although some were armed with bows and arrows. At the first volley of shots, 1 dodged to the side of my horse, and losing my hold, fell to the groun It saved my life, for the Indians, after killing my companions, scalped them. One buck seized me by the hair, and with a quick motion of his knife, I was ren- dered unconscious, suffering no pain what- ever. A detachment of soldiers passed along the trail we had taken a few hours later, and soon discovered that I was not dead, the Indian who scalped me not hav- ing cut so far down as he intended. I was successfully treated, and by wearing a wig show no traces of my experience.” “Some of these days the servant girl problem will be partly solved by monkey: said D. T. Fields of Colombia, South America, at the Normandie. “I do not mean that monkeys can ever be trained to do all things that a servant can do, but those things the animal can do are done better than by the average human employe. The first time my attention was ever call- ed to monkeys as latorers was in the dia- mond mines of Brazil, where they are found very useful, picking up the pieces of quartz and placing in regular piles. They work steadily, and enjoy it. A mon- key will copy after its master as closely as a Chinaman will, and a friend of mine presenting me with a fine, large monkey, I concluded to see how much he could be taught. My monkey learned to wash dishes first. It took several weeks to keep him from occasionally throwing a cup at some passing animal, but finally he learned to take good care of the china. Then I taught him to sweep, which he learned without much trouble, and finally trained him to drive my team of horses. That is as far as I have made him useful, but I am satis- fied that g monkey can be trained to do anything his master does in a manual way, and he will take an active interest in his work. I greatly prefer the help of my monkey to that of any of the natives whom I have yet employed.” “It now looks as if the state of Washing- ton would eventually rival California as a gold producer,” said C. D, Kenner of Spo- kane at the Shoreham. “It has been com- paratively a very short time since it was learned that gold in any paying quantities could be found in Washington, and, in fact, the fabulous pockets that have been dis- covered In other new fields appear to be wholly wanting, but for good medium grade ore there is no field equal to that of north- east Washington. There is not a great deal of excitement, less than I have ever known (n a new territory, but stamp mills and smelters are going up in unprecedented numbers. Several millions of dollars are already invested in paying mines, and all on a development rather than speculative basis. In fact the usual grub stakers and prospectors have not been wanted, and the claims are so closely taken up that there is but little chance for men without money to make anything out of the field. The new gold producing territory is about as large as the New England states combined, and there have been no failures. Every mine opened is paying good dividends. R. T. Leonard, who is accompanying Mr. Kinner, also has a good word for the Washington gold field. He is one of the fortunate few who succecded in returning from Alaska, of which he said: ‘There is gold in Alaska, how much I do not know, but there are very rich placers on Forty Mile creek, and on other tributaries of the Yukon. The newspapers, however, should nake the real condition of affairs known. It 1s at present impossible to get to the gold tlelds, and the towns are crowded with men, scme of whom are actually starving to death. Supplies cost from four to ten times as much as in the states, and trans- portation to and from the mines al this sea- son of the year is Impossible. The condition of common miners there is pitiable in the extreme. If food and clothing 1s not fur- nished them soon they will die from hunger and exposure. The steamship companies advertised glowing accounts of the gold fields, and thousauds of adventurers ex- pended all the money they could raise to get there, and now cannot return. There is gold there, but it is worse than useless, it is suicidal, for men to go who have not cap- ital to carry on mining for themselves ana buy a year’s supplies In advance. From the reports I received in Alaska, the field is no better than can be found in the United States, hile the difficulties are many times as great.” Among the guests at the National is R. C, Frazier of Chicago. He walks rapidly, but If he is closely watched it will be Seen that there is a slight jerky motion, indicating a crippled conditioa. But no one who Is not familiar with his history would imagine for a moment that there {s no life whatever in his lower limbs, and that he has no control over them. Mr. Frazler 1s #n electrician, and says that he intends to perfect and patent the appliance which he uses before he allows its principles to Le- ccme known. All that he will now tell is that he was paralyzed, as he expressed it, “I entirely lost the use of the lower por- tion of my body, and had to be turned over in my bed. I had studied electricity as a profession, and after many weeks of ex. periments, I succeeded in perfecting a belt charged strongly with electricity connected by wires with the legs and feet, that an automatic motion is produced similar to a natural walk. The electricity can be turn- ed on or off by means of a thumb-screw.” When he is walking he cannot stop rnless the current is turned off. It has no effect upon the limbs, and fs not intended as a cure in any way, but only as a means of automatic locomotion for cripples. “I visited a small town in Alabana a few days ago, where they are anxiously looking for a philanthropist who went there for the purpose of establishing a school,” said T. R. Leffer, a New York traveling man, at the Riggs. “The man, who wore a clerical suit of clothes, repre- sented that he was agent for an educa- tional fund, similar to that left by Pea- body, and had heard that the people of the town were without proper school facilities. It would cost $5,000 to erect the right kind of a building, of which he would donate one-half. There was no bank there, so he deposited his share in a Birmingham bank and held several mass meetings to raise the balance. The citizens became very en- thusiastic, and within a month the money was raised and turned over to him to add to the fund in bank. Then he went to ob- tain plans for a building, being accompa- nied by two of the best citizens, who went with him to the bank and saw him deposit the money. An architect was cm ployed, and the citizens returned, leaving the philanthropist to complete ‘arrange- ments. As soon 9s they were gone he drew the money out of bank and has not been heard of since. It was a new schene to me, and the newspapers don’t seem to have heard of it.” “One of the most interesting chess clubs I know of,” said A. L. Hoover of Cedar Raplds, Iowa, at the Howard, “ig along the line of the Burlington road in Iowa. A station agent, who is an enthusiastic chess player, learned that another operator along the road was also a devotee of the game. These two began to play, and once in a while an operator would break in in such @ way as to show that he also understood it. As a result ten of the operators form- ed a club, and a match was instituted, taking a year to play the full series. They are just now being completed, and strange to say, not one of those who started in the game has had his station changed. It would seem that the fascination of the game has overcome the roving disposition of the operators to such an extent that they have done their utmost to hold their positions and have refused to go to new fields, largely tn order to complete the championship series of chess.” “The passage of the pending bankruptcy bill by the House reminds me of an inci- dent under the old bankruptcy law,” said Albert E. Hamilton of Springfield, Ill, at the Raleigh. “One of the leading attor- neys of Springfield was visited by a Ger- man, who was reputed to be quite wealthy. “I want to know about dot bankruptcy,” he said. The attorney wes surprised, but explain- ed the procedure. “I must pay thirty per cent aindt it,” in- quired the client. “Yee."” “Well, zo ahead.” A schedule of assets and Iabilities was made out, the proceedings were instituted and in a few months the man entered the lawyer's office determined upon revenge. “You said I must pay thirty per cent,” he exclaimed. ‘Dose officers soldt mine farm und mine horses und mine house und pay demselves vat dey blease, pay efery tollar I owed und gif me twenty tousand tollars, all dere vas left, ven I vas vorth a hundred tousand tollars if I vas vorth a cent."” Explanations were useless, and it is safe to say the former bankrupt will not try it under the new law.” a re A Very Modern Antique. From the London Chronicle. All is not gold that glitters, and all an- tiquities that come from Egypt are not genuine. A lady who recently returned from that land of mystery brought with her a terra cotta figure of a cat which she saw with her own eyes dug up out of the ruins of Karnac. She paid a good prive for it, and was delighted with her purchase. Unfortunately, the other day it was knock- ed down and smashed. Its head was then found to be stuffed with old numbers of the Birmingham Post, and it bore other traces of being distinctly of Brummagem origin. MUCK-RAKE JOURNALISM. A Strong Arraignment of a Too Com- mon Type of Newspaper. From the St. Louis Otserver. = As a general rule, newspaper men that their first duty is to give the people the news, good and bad, regardless of the effects it may have upon the morals of the people. In order to justify this contention, they claim that it is better for the people that the light should be turned on, and that everybody—old and young, experienced and inexperienced—should see society as it is. It is argued that morality suffers nothing from the exposure of hypocrites, impostors and villains. It is better, we are told, that the doings of criminals should be given in detail, so that the young may be warned against adopting their methods. All this may have an element of truth in it. It may be well for morality in general that evil-doers be mercilessly exposed; that what is done in secret should be brought to light by the reporter; that the mis- fortunes, the blunders, the weaknesses and the follies of society should be mir- rored in the public press. But is there not also an element of truth in this posi- tion: Is it best for society that it should know the depths to which fallen human nature can descend? Should young and in- nocent girls become familiar with the de- pravity, the infamy and the shame of which abandoned women are capable? Is it good for young men to have their minds charged with the vices of debauchees and black- guards? But the newspaper man claims that what the Lord permits to happen the newspaper should not be too good to print. There never was a greater sophism than that. Every decent man and woman knows that there are some subjects which are never discussed in respectable society. The man wko would attempt to rehearse in private circles the details of social scandals as they are daily reported in the newspapers, would be summarily kicked out of decent society. But the newspaper claims the right to be nasty, and still be regarded as decent and respectable. It enters the purest homes reeking with filth, and if anybody objects to its presence, he is condemned as a prude or a hypocrite. What an editor would not dare to relate to a company of respectable gentlemen, he will sometimes permit to de- file the columns of his newspaper, which he expects refined women to read. Hundreds of subjects are tabooed in good society, but nothing must be excluded from the news- paper. But the sins of the newspaper are laid at the door of a prurient society, and must not be attributed to editors and proprietors. What other class of society can put up such an excuse for assaulting public morals? Not the lawyer, or the doctor, or the min- ister. The school teacher who would read to his pupils articles that daily appear in £0-called respectable journals, would be ex- pelled and driven out of the community. But there are other sins that the news- paper must answer for which none but the depraved and the abandoned demand in their papers. We refer to vile stories, un- clean suggestions, indecent advertisements, sensational reports which have no founda- tion In fact, exaggerated accounts of wrong- doing, false accusations trumped up by slanderers, and countless other things. There are certain classes of newspapers that do not hesitate to take up street gossip and fling it to the winds, all for the sake of gratifying the vitiated taste which they themselves have created and cultivated. Certainly the good of society does not de mand that infamous lies should be circu- lated far and wide. Muck-rake journalism can put up no excuse for its sins that will bear the test of reason and sound morality. THE TIP CUSTOM assert From Ev'ry Month. One of the inost painful results of the lavish expenditures of money by those who gather it easily is the growth of the “tip” habit In all parts of the country. This giving of a dime or a quarter or half dol- lar, for little trifles, officiously rendered (by those who have no claim whatever upon the gratitude or the generosity of the in- dividual recelving the service) is entirely the result of thcse who have money in abundance. It is entirely the result of that pompous magnanimity which those who possess splendid resources may easily ex- ercise. It {s nothing to a millionaire to “tp” a waiter 50 cents or more for little attentions rendered during the progress of a meal. To a man with a comfortable in- come, or whose morey comes rapidly, this is one of the metheds of showing that he 4s not close-fisted in his hour of prosperity hor unmirdful of tt 3 strugele maintained by others r efforts to live decently. Originally “tij were the fruit of generosity and well meaning, as in the beginning of all things, all was good. It is imitation long continued without rhyme or reason that is bad. For instance, “tips” given in imitation of the wealthy by a host of nobodys who are aying to be somebody are invariably bad. They are bad because th are not the fruit of sincere generosity. They are given because, in the bright cafe where men of affluence are wont to lounge the giving has come to be considered the proper thing. They are given because in a public parlor men of evident social standin are seen to put their hands in their pockets and g fully acknowledge slight servi The are given just as eve! ng is given } those who ape what they cannot hi be, Le., out of deep-seated desire to Proper thing handsomely, and so the seeds of evil are sown. Once given and imitate. ips” became the habit, then the fashion. then the rule and necessity and finally the tax end the hardship, which all m endure who would enjoy any of the comforts of metro- politan life. All meniais get the “tip” fever and the most frugal workers are made to el the effects of the rifonate prac- tice. Citizens who would ordinarily be able to patronize a respectable dining room or bath or barber shop are compelled to seek the less pretentious and more homely laces. They are compelled to endure the “second-hand” and the ed and the many little rudenesses which in the better grade of resorts the “tip” does away with Only those who are comprlled to do 5) things can appreciate the galling misery of the necessity. It is perhaps need! to suggest that the “tip” should be tabox —___+2--_—_. An Ape's Strategy for a Meal. From the Westminster Budget. In the Transvaal some of the fruit gar- dens are much exposed to the ravages of large cynocephalic apes, and a good guard has to be kept or the results of long labor would be lost. In some of those gardens grow certain shrubs which are much af- fected by wasps, the Insects liking to at- tach thereto their nests. These wasp: though small, have a very venomous sting. Baboons have often been noticed eyeing with envious glances the fast ripening fruit in one certain garden, but feare gather for fear of attracting the as of wasps. One morning ihe farmer 1 terrible cries, and with the aid of a & field glass he witnessed the folloy tragedy: A large, venerable baboon, « of the band, was catching the younger apes and pitching them into the shrubs whereon hung the wasps’ nests. This he repeated again and again, in spite of the most piteous cries from his victims. Of course, the wasps assumed the defensive in swarms. Durirg this part of the per- formance the old brute quietly fed on the fruit, deigning occasionally to throw frag- mentary remains to some female and young baboons a little further off. oa ee ereanee, Biddy Claims the Record. From the Hartford Courant. Every season brings with it a breaking of records. It may be a new trotting horse with an idiotic name, or an athlete who has thrown a heavy hammer a few inches further than it has heretofore been thrown or a bicycle rider who has lowered the record for riding a mile a sixteenth of a second; but all of these performances are oniy accomplished after severe and fa- tfguing taining, and, however, creditable they may be, look insignificant when com- pared to the efforts of a modest Plymouth Rock hen belonging to E. W. Tillotson of Farmington. This hen, without trainin or urging on the part of her owner, just broken the egg-laying record for 1 it is a monster, and measures 7% by 8' inches and weighs 4% ounces. - see Ready for Business, From the New York Weekly. Customer—“A friend of mine has a big diamond which he wants to sell.” Dealer—"Big tiamonds cost moneys. I puy von last veek, und I bay dree tousand tol- lars. Is your friend a bank president, eh: “No; he’s a hotel clerk. What will you faluf a tollar. gi EXECUTION DELAYE The Case of the Competitor Fillibus- tera to Ge to Spain. GREAT BRITAIN HAS INTERVENED Gen. Weyler Threatens to Resign if Prisoners Are Spared. See INCIDENT BECOMES SERIOUS The Spanish government has been asked to approve the sentence of death passed, at Havana, Cuba, by a court-martial upon the men captured on board the Competitor on a charge of piracy and rebellion. The men sentenced are: Alfredo Laborde, said to be the leader of the party and claiming birth in New Orleans and Ameri- can citizenship; Dr. Elias Bedia, also claim- ing American citizenship; William Gildea, said to be a British subject; Owen Milton, a native of Kansas; Teodoro Maza. This places the fate of the men in the hands of the authorities at Madrid and insures that they will not be executed with- out an order from the Spanish government, The British consul at Havana has inter-, vened in the name of his government on behalf of the British subject sentenced to death. This action of the British govern- ment in the case has caused a seusation at Madrid, and it has been the topic of comment by all social classes in the com- munity. The news of the capture of the men on the Competitor was received in Spain with great satisfaction and rejoicing. It was felt to be the first opportunity that had n offered to make an example of those en- Saged in feeding the insurrection. The pop- ular demand for their execution is general, and is likely to become vociferous Dispatches from Havana affirm that Cap- tain General Weyler is greatly irritated at the attitude of the United States on the question of the sentences. It is asserted that if the Spanish government adopts @ contrary view, owing to the representations made by the United States government, General Weyler will resign his po: The Spanish government, it is said, has resolved to adjourn the executions and has ordered the sentences and proceedings to be sent to Madrjd to be examined by the supreme court of the army and navy ee retary Olney’s note demanding the appli- cation of the protocol of 1877 to the Amer- ican subjects captured on the Competitor invokes article of the treaty of 1745. It does not oppose the punishment of the prisoners according to Spanish laws, but demands that they be tried by the hearing of witnesses and with the formalities of or- dinary tribunals. The Madrid correspondent of the London Standard nor Canovas del tillo has publicly stated that America has not protested against Spain's right to punish filibusters, but only against the summary trial of American citizens. The Spanish government 1s willing to consider tb mand, and has cabled to Captain Ge: Weyler to delay the executions p: result of negotiations which are Proceeding between Washington a rid to define the interpretation of the said treaties Madrid Newspaper Views. El Imparcial of Madrid publish bes a very strongly worded article against the Amerl- can protest. It declares the Spanish law must be enforced on those who violate it and that exemplary punishment is needed to stcp American expeditions. The article concludes by remarking: “Boys under six- teen must be pardoned, because as boys, and not as Yankees, they hold their lives safe at the hands of the Spanish.” El Heraldo publishes rumors that the government has received cables contirming reports to the effect that Generals We Ochando and Ahumada are prepared to re sign if the prisoners are not executed. El Heraldo says it cannot say if the ru: mors be true. Certainly something very traordinary is happening in for the same journal says: “The United States ties the hands of our army and stops the action of our justice at the same time that it provides the ir surgents with arms, ammunition, ships money and men. It 4s time that Premier Canovas should speak cle: about such conduct. If his words hurt the Yankees his silence hurts the Spaniards.” La Epocha, the official mouthpic premier, is more explicit, saying no conflict respecting the and the right of Spain to punish the guilty par- es is not discussed. The only concern is adjournment, which does not mean rduc- licn of the sentences. Really wher protecol of 1877 was signed, the mili tribunals gave such guarantees for fense of priscners as witn neys for the defense, but wh ern summary proceedings have sup Correo, the organ of ex-Premier Sa- gasta. Ys: “Prisoners captured with arms hand treaty exceptions cannot be granted. Such barefaced arbi rariness « ly wounds the Spanish. National se greatly preoccupies political men. whole conduct of the Washington g« ment since the Allianca question clearly shows a very unsatisfactory disposition on its part toward . The independent La Dia writes: “If the government yields the consequences will be fatal. In no way can S| Yield, for all the right is on our side: a f the Yankees break the Internatio: . We must fol- low their example. If rupture must come, let it be before more humiliation is to be noted.” Spain Between Two Fires. The London Daily News says in an edi- terial regarding the cases of the Competitor captives at Havana: “The sericus news from Cuba places the Spanish government between two fires. It is difficult to se how either side can rece If the Spanish government sacrifices Gen, Weyler it will probably have to be prepared to sacrifice its own life. Public opinion in Madrid is hardly well informed enougl. to profit by the Virginius case in 187%. The Spaniards ought to distrust their own nat- ural ferocity of this sort. Tho butchering of men of the Virginius, which many of them applauded the time as 4 fine and spirited act, received with horror and execration throughout the world.” Milton a Correspondent Regarding Owen Milton, the Kansas boy condemned to death by the Spaniards, the following dispatch has been sent from Jack- sonville, Fla., to Secretary of State Olney “Owen Milton, who was captured by the Spanish authorities on board the Competitor and condemned to death, left Key West as @ newspaper cor mm: mate plans for fur the corresponde nt.hopir ishing rel of the to consum- le news to lorila Tim Union at Key \ who in turn werc transmit such report © to the South- ern Asscciate nd United Press, through the me um of this paper. He must have had with him at the tfme of his capture crede’ showing his connestion with the Times-Union as its duly authorized repre- sentative. Such a letter was furnished him by me. “| send you this letter to assist you in your efforts in behalf of oung M ton. <TON, Unio: itor Expedition. “General Manager Ti: The Comp The Competitor sailed from Key West, Fla., on the night of April 20, and had on board twenty-five or thirty Cubans. She was comman: by Capt. Alfredo Laborde, a resident of Tampa. The customs officials at Key West had watched the schooner for several days before her l2parture, suspect- Ing that she would attempt to take out an expedition. A few she was captured t Spanish era, on the noril coast of the prov of Pinar del Rio. Most of expedition escaped, a few being dro: The vessel was loaded with arms an, punition The schooner Competitor is a vessel of 47 tons, 72 feet 4 inches long, 20 h. She wa feet wide, and built at Bellport, —+e-+ —_ __ Research Rewarded. From Life. “Little Johnny opened his drum yesterday find where th did he find out Yes. When his father came home the noise came from Httle Johnny,” to ise came from.”