Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1896, Page 13

12 INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION The Memorial Adopted at the National Conference Presented to the President. Mr. Cleveland Cordially Received the Delegation and Commended the Object. Mr. Gardiner G. Hubbard and Mr. J. L. M. Curry, ex-minisier to Spain, cailed on President Cleveland yesterday afternoon and presented the memorial adopted at the | national conference to promote tional arbitration, held in this city April The memorial urges that such steps be taken on the part of the United States as world conduce to the accomplish the end the conference resolutions adopted conference exp conviction that religion, humanity ai tice demanded the Ament between Britain of a p tration and its ear- © as to embrace 1. he committee a cor- the confer- ‘on of a wide of arbitration, establ und ¢ the immediate United § manent s: liest possible extension the whole civilize The President gave ates e Was a gratifyir ublic sentiment in favor and he had been surprised that such an assemblage of men could have been ught together from remote distances to give expression to their cpinions. It shi ed magnitude of thi yect and the profound interest t in it. He had read th station: dat the time the conference was in session and was much pl d with them. In his messages he had given utterance to his s and was glad to them tained by the ce. agreement to arbitrate, he added, mu: brought about by a between the na- so agreeing. Wh had been said erning the ties which should bind to- r the Engl ng peoples force, and it was impo estimate the poter ence of concerted two peoples. He ed the friend: bitration would continue to educate the people along the lines indicated, and said ¥ would have his cheerful co-operation. The committee explained that the me- morialists had abstained from going any details of a plan of arbitration, though the: a proper if it would ve agreeabie to the executive, with whom, of course, must rest the initiative in all steps looking al- night be willing so to do, at to treaty negotiation. The conference had sedulo the resolutions to avoid a hat would embar- rass_the the conduct of pending diplomatic questions and a com- e had called on Secretary Olney in advance of pe conierence and subm ed t him the substance of the resolutions which were likely to be adopted. In re onse io the sentiments expressed by the President as to English speech being a com se for an exalted miss and a to united effort for the good of n Mr. Curry said the lan- ruage of President reminded him of i y with Mr. Gladstone when ated had with vigor enth written in Beyond th a,” and enlarged upon true comity of nations and upon the ral duty of friendly support in the ause of peace and fre2 insiitutions, and said two great English-speaking h a common language, a com- - 4 common literature and a com- 2 religion, were under strongest ob- t io their united influence in of humanity and liberty. NORTH. ——____-+-e- WILD GEESE GOING They Are Now on the Wing to Colder Climes. Frem the Kansas City Star. Objects which never fail just now to at- tract the attention of travelers over west- ern Kansas are flocks of wild geese feeding upon the rich fields of wheat, which this spring seem to spread a carpet of green over all the broad domain. To rest and refresh themselves in their annual flight northward, the-geese alight in these fields. They select their ground carefully, choos- ing a spot remote from human habitation and so situated that they may see all the country round abcut, and thus be warned of the approach of danger in time to take flight. In their migrations northward in the early spring and southward in the late fall wild geese fly in families of a dozen or twenty, arranging themselves in the form of the letter A, one side of the letter in- variably shorter than the other, and the father gander and the mother goose a lit- tle in advance of the apex. Sometimes many families unite for a time and travel together, but always that inevitable letter 4 is clearly defined in the sky, the proces- sion led by a gander who has traveled the road before and whose “honk! honk!” guides the flight. While feeding every family posts a senti- nel, who stands in the midst of the feeding flock, his neck sttetched high, fixed and rigid as a statue. raveling over the Rock Islind railroad from Topeka to Hutchinson one day last week with Col. George W. Veale of To- peka, who knows all about wild geese, a representative of the Star witnessed this vectacle of patience and faithfulness, and aw. too, an attempt by a farmer boy to steal upon the flock with a gun. The pas- sengers crowded to the windows or hast- ened to the car platforms, and the engineer, ‘o interested, slowed up the train at a creek. The boy crept down a draw to a point nearest the geese and then began to work his way over a rise. The boy was to leeward, so the sentinel could not be warn- ed by scent, and the enemy had not yet come into view. Slowly the boy toiled his way, his body flat against the ground. Finally he had agged himself to a point whore he could e the geese feeding over a radius of twenty yards from the sentinel, and mov- ing slowly in the direction of the boy. He had only to be patient, and his reward would be a brace of wild geese. But he possessed a boy's curiosity. He raised his head to look. “Quack, quack!” sounded the warning of the sentinel. Ail was exc ment in the camp: the sentinel ran, know- ing that there was danger. Afte> a dash of thirty yards they rose in the air, but flying low, the sentinel's guiding “honk” ahead of them. At the quack of the sen- tinel the boy rose and gave chase, but the Ke Were too fleet of foot and too far 1 they took wing, and the boy's shots feil short of his aim. ‘¢ were in wild disorder when they lifted themselves into the air, but after that not a sound was heard from the sentinel, whose notes soon be: assuring, and before they had flown a quarter of a mile they were high in the sky, and, behold, there was the never-fail- ing letter A. Then the spectators from the train, which was now moving rapidly, witnessed an- other spectacle. The danger past the sen- tinel, which had been in the lead, dropped back and took his position at the end of the longer arm of the A, while from that po- sition the father of the family pushed to the head of the column, and, from the end of the shorter arm the mother goose flew forwafd and joined him. Until that moment they had been fiying in a sout westerly direction, but “honk! honk commanded the leader, and they whirled to the rorthward and soon were lost to view. tee liograph of His Own Skull. Philadelph istant pro- ‘niversity of Penn- iozraph of his own Ivania, has taken a rad skull. AM the small bones of the face, par- ticularly those about the mouth, are clearly shown In the picture. The teeth are distinct, and even fillings which have heen Inserted in some of them are sharply defined. The rays completely penetrated the nose, and there- fore show little of that organ on the plate, except the small nasal bone projecting from a point beneath the frontal hone of the skull, The thick cartilages surrounding the verte. brae of the neck were also thoroughly pene- trated, and six vertebrae may be counted with ease. The plate was placed by Dr. Goodspeed against the right side of his face and bound with a gauze bandage. On the other side, eighteen inches away, was the tube. 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Mr. Clark, chairman of the music committee, who was present, said it was the ly chorus he had visited where the gentle- men outnuinbered the Indies. The C. EB. badg were distributed at the meeting. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Minnesota Avenue Presbyterian Church Wednesday at the home of : |. Simpson. ‘The resignation of Mrs. M. EB. Crawford as presi. dent of n’s Relief Corps, auxiliary t Jenn A G. A. R., which was tendered Was accepted at the last meeti Cannon will leave for England W t to visit his parent: tson, Who were for seve jam, ‘will talk on that coun 1 —— FALLS CHURCH. M. E. Church has sold for Mr. Isaac Crossman a house and lot . Francis L. Wright of Washington for $3, Mr. C. J. Swart Miss Sue Riddle. Messrs. Webster and Arthur Flagg will entertain the Souci’ Club at their home at West End Friday evening. ‘The Fairfax Conversational Club met at the resi- dence of Mr. Brinkerhoff Tuesday evening. The paper entitled “The Art of Being Amlable’ was read by Mr. C. G. Nicholson. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Phillips, Mr. aud Mrs. 00. of Baltimore is the guest of Hi. F. Lowe, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Brinkerhoff, Mins Margaret Nourse, Messrs. W. W. Kins J. 8. Webster and Dr. Nourse. ‘The pext meeting will be held at the residence of Mr. L. B. Parker, and the subject of the paper ‘Our ‘Triais.” Kate Cullen of Washington Is visiting Mrs. L. Blanton. Miss An B. Coe of South Dakota is the giest of ber friend, Miss Julla Osborne, A business meeting of the members of the Chris- tian Endeavor Society will be held at the residence of Mr. H. F. Lowe Saturday night. the regular meeting of the Odd Fellows Thursday evenlug four candidates received the third degree. The anual decoration of the graves of the deceased members of the order will be observed ‘Thursday, June 11, at 6 p.m., at Oakwood ceme- tery. Ob ‘this date all who’ have relatives and friends burled there are cordially invited to. par- Hecipate in the decoration. . accompanied by his mother, and bis aunt, Mrs. Lawre bio, Thursday! h public school colored), T. W. ert_and May at the Zion M. E. Chnreh. cleared for the Deneiit of the ROCKVILLE. the orphans’ court yesterday the following trapsacted: ‘The last will and testa- nas was admitted to pro- record, The last will and testament of Ella Mary Dorsey was filed for probate. Ema Fore winistratrix of Richard W. Jones, de ceased, filed inventories of the personal and real estate of sald deceared, and was granted an order to sell the personal estate. Andrew J. Hurding, adwinistretor of Jobu Leizear, deceased, filed an inventory of the perscual estate of sald deceased, ved an order to sell the same at public sa E, Lloyd Faweett, executor of deceased, filed list of sales of the per- sonal estate of deceated. Letters of administration ou the personal estate of Mary A. Case, deceased, ere granted to Wm. B. Selby; bond, $800. The sale of a part of the real estate of Flodoarda deceased, reported and filed on April 21, ‘onfirmed. “A itions,”” by thirty-four young girls and boys of this town, rendered hére April 24, ‘will be repeated at the town hall Thursday evening, Zin instant, for, the benefit of the Rockville Gem Ctery Aseoclaticn, They will be assisted py local musical talent. ‘The Glen Echo Electric Railroad Gompany, having been unable to agree with Louls ©. Solyon ‘and the Shoemaker beirs in regard to the price for a por- tion of their land, which the company desires to cl np order to coonect their road vy Chase railroad, have applicd to Chas, M. Jones, a justice of the peace at this place, for a warrant Wlrected to John W. Colfer, sheriff of this ccunty, d‘recting him to summon a jury of twenty peisons for the condemuation of said land. The Warrant issued directs that the jury meet ot the premises to be condemred Monday, the 25th of May, to execute the warrant. At a meeting of the board of management of the Agricultural Society, held here yesterday, it was determined to ask ‘for proposals for the erection of In business ment of Mary Anne Th bate and fit new stables and a two-story poultry bouse, B6X5O feet. ‘The proposition to enlarge the grand siurd was referred to a committee. premium list for the September eahibition was revised. The soveral temperance organizations, Sunday schools apd churches of this county are est limit which has ever been reached. arrangements to send delegates to the anaual con- vention of the Maryland State Temperance Alliance, to be held in Baltimore on the 26th, 27th and 28th of this month, and It is expected that the couuty will be I represented. Mr. Henry N. Harris, an oll and highly respected citizen of the county, died Thursday. af his home evil jeth year of hin age. Hare Mr. ‘Harris occupied the position of e peace. ‘The clerk of t ait court has isened a_mar- riage Hcerse to Wm. H. Barnett and Emma Long. ‘Appropriate resolutions on the death of Judge Wm. Vetrs Boule have been passed by the congre- gation of the Baptist Chureh at this piace, of which he was for over fifty years a prominent pember. Mex. Mr. MoNeir of North Carolina will occupy the pulpit of the Presbyterian Church at this place during the summer and probably become Tegular pastor. ‘There appears to be quite a lively contest In progress among the democratic politicians of the county in seeking to secure positions under the new assessment law, both from the county com- missioners and Gov. ‘Lowndes. Pastor L. It. Milbourne of this place will today assist In the orgenizetion of a Baptist Church at Brownsville, Washington county, M ‘The Rockville Base Ball Club Wednesday shut cut the Eastern Athletic team of Washington in a game here, the score standing 17 to 0. The Rock- ville boys’ go to Alexandria today to play the Episcopal High Schcol team. ae GAITHERSBURG. ‘The members of Epvorth M. E. Church at a congregational meeting decided to establish a week-night prayer meeting. Wednesday evening was selected as the time for same. Dr. John Lewis of Kersington has located heré. Bishop Satterlee will make his first visitation to Ascension Episcopal Church Sunday, preaching and holding confirmation services at 8 p.m. Disiricc Lodge of Good Templars, No. 1, com- prising Montgomery county lodges, will hold its quarterly session at the Boyd Town Hall Saturday. At night, in the Presbyterian Church, there will be a grad rally, at which Grand Chief Templar Steele, Rev. L. L. Lloyd and Rey. J. D. Rayfield will be the speukers. ‘The executive committee of the Montgomery County Sunday School Association has decided upon Friday und Saturday, June 19 and 20, as the time for holding the annual reenion at Takoma. At the ‘unnnal election of officers of the Mont- gomery County Telephone Company, held here to- day, the following rs were chosen: President, A. F. Meem; vice president, Jomes B. Adams} Wm. H. Tulbott, secretery-treasurer; directors, A! F. Meem, J. B. Adams, Wm, B. Tschiffely, N. W. Griffith, Joseph Reading, W. H. Talbott, D. M. Monro. ‘The Cullen and Coiiins enterizinment for the Waverley Club benefit was bighly enjoyed by a gord audience at the Town Hall. place ieee Recent London Picture Prices. From the London Athenaeum. Messrs. Christie, Manson & Wéods sold on April 18 the following: Drawings—Rosa Bonheur, “Deer in the Forest of Fontaine bleau,”” £162; D. Cox, “Carmagthen Castle £05; Copley Fielding, “View of Ben Crua- chan Above Loch Awe,” £162; ‘View of Ben Lomond Looking Down Loch Lo- mond,” £257; G. Fripp, “Carrying Hay,” £105; W. L. Leitch, “Kilchurn’ Castle, Loch Awe, Argyllshire,” £52; E, Nicol, “Before the Fair,” “At the Fair,” and “After the Feir,” £126; J. M. W. Turner, “Hythe,” £126. Pictures—A. Bonheur, ‘Welsh Moun- tains,”'with cattle, £115; Rosa Bonheur, land- scape, with sheep, £735; W. Bouguereau, “The. Indigent Family,” £451; Vicat Cole, “Evening Rest, Abinger Mill Pond,” £262 T. Faed, “Ere Care Begins,” £414; J. L. Gerome, “The Call to Prayer,” £210; J. Linnell, “The Quoit Players,” £525; W. Q. Orchardson, “Hamlet and Ophelia,” £577; Lord Leighton, ‘The Fisherman and the Siren,” £367; F. Goodall, “Jacob and Rachel Meeting at’Laban’s Pasture,” £105; W. P. Frith, “The Race for Wealth,” £325; Mar- cus Stone, “A Honeymoon,” £577; 8. Lucas, “An Ambuscade at Edgehill,” £186; J. Hol- land, “Chiesa di Gesuati, Venice,” £325; B. W. Leader, “A River Scene,” with a letter from the artist, £157; “In the Mer Month of May,” £04; W. Collins, “A Keeper's Boy,” with dogs and game, £105; A. East, “Spring at Wargrave-on-Thames,” £147; P. Nasmyth, “The Willow Tree,” £118; E. Ver- boeckhoven, “An Interior,” with ewes and lambs, £189. The same auctioneers sold on the 20th ultimo the following pictures: ring, “‘The Interior of a S ures, horses and poultry, 19 Soene,” with horses and duck: Verboeckhoven, “A Forest Scene,’ sporting party, £804; 8. E. Walle: “Rouge et Noir,” £141; B. W. “Kempsey Church, on the Severn, Vicat Cole, “The Pool of London,” £157; H. W. B. Da- vis, “Sheep on the French Coast,” £147, ‘names that were afterward singled out in RUSSIA’S SPY JACOBSON. The Death of a Notorious Character in Obscurity After a Strange Career. From the London Standard. M. Jacobson, the notorious Russian agent and agitator, died this morning in a Buda- pest hospital, lonely and forsaken, after a ten days’ illness. His name will be familiar to every newspaper in Europe as the author of the famous compilation of secret docu- ments in reference to Russian plots in Bul- garia, and was for a time the right-hand man of Stambuloff, and formerly the as- sistant and confidant of M. Hitrovo, the Russian agent at Bucharest. His origin was of the obscurest. According to the Russians, his name was Moises Abramovitch, and his family is still to be found among the Jews of southern Kussia. But when he first ob- tained employment as a clerk in the Rus- sian consulate in Sofia, under Consul Gen- eral Hitrovo, he called himself Michael Ivanovitch Jacobson, and, it is believed, was a convert to the orthodox faith. He very soon acquired such an intimate knowledge of men and things in Bulgaria that M. Hitrovo, who knew well how to choose his instruments, by degrees took him into his confidence and made his reports and obser- vations the basis of his own communications to the Asiatic department in St. Petersburg. Jacobson was so versatile, so modest, and at the some time so honest in money mat- ters, that when M. Hitrovo had to leave Bul- garia and was promoted to the rank of min- ister in Bucharest, while the center of Rus- sian. agitation ‘was transferred to Rustchuk, the services there of a man like Jacobson were considered indispensable, and he was accordingly appointed to the official post of dragoman to the Rustchuk consulate. He was privy, from a distance, to the Grueft- Bendereff plot to kidnap Prince Alexander, and continued his services until after the failure of Gen. Kaulbar’s mission. On the withdrawal of all the Russian con- sulates from Bulgaria, he was petitioned for by his former chief, M. Hitrovo, and made dragonman of the legation in Buch- arest. Here he was required to act as a secret intermediary between’ the Bulgarian refugees in Roumania and Russia and their fellow conspirators at home, and to distribute subsidies among them. It has been proved beyond all question that he helped to organize the plots against the life of M. Stambuloff, and later against Prince Ferdinand, and assisted in the smug- gling of arms and ammunition, including dynamite, into Bulgaria. I a word, he tock upon himself the dirtiest work of the Russian propaganda, the funds for which were placed at the disposal of M. Hitrovo, and so useful were his services considered that the Asiatic department, as well as the Slavonic Benovelent Society, entered into direct correspondence with hirn. He was-at one time within an ace of re- ceiving Russian honors and distinctions, the appointment to a representative post in the east having distinctly been promised to him. But, unfortunately for:his prospects, he quarreled with M. Hitrovyo over the sub- sidies to the refugees andi the money sent from St. Petersburg, of which, he asserted, a considerable porticn foundé:its way into his chief’s pockets, while: he himself was expected to render a detailed account. The quarrel lasted long enough to give him time to prepare for his ultimate dismissal. His preparations consisted: in‘taking copies of documents in the archives of the lega- tion—in some cases only hasty copies,which accounted for the errors'‘in dates and a Russian reply to his book: + But {f not all, at least 90 per cent of the 230 documents he subsequently published were genvine, and they told a tale of Ruavian methods of agitation at that time which deservedly brought that power into contempt. With a number of origiti2l documents which he purloined, and with copies of the rest, Jacobson left Roumania for London, where he made offers to a publisher that were declined. Thence he went to Vienna and Belgrade, and finally to Sofia, where, in M. Stambuloff, he found the man who could appreciate him and his manuscripts at their true value. The first six of his papers were published by the Svoboda, and Mmede a sensation throughout Europe -be- tore the remainder were put together In Hook form and published in Bulgarian and moh. He was promised 10,000 francs by the editor of the Svoboda—that is to say, by Stamb:loff—but actually never received mcre than about 3,000 francs, being, com- pensated with a small post under the Bul- gurlan government. His real position, how- ever, was that of a government spy, whose duty it was to find out and give warning of plots; and not only did he more than once save the lives of Prince Ferdinand and M. Stambuloff, but he even enabled the latter to warn the King of Servia. Indeed, thanks to his vigilance and acutcness, the secret police of Bulgaria were at that time the best in Europe. M. Stambuloff fell, and with him depart- ed the glery of Jacobson. He stayed in Bulgaria too long, ard when he fled to Bel- grade was arrested at the demand of the Russian m‘nister, but reieased after the papers In his possession had been taken from hira end sent to St. Petersburg. About a fortnight ago he arrived at Budapest, ill and destitute, recognized only by one for- yner acquaintance, a writer on Balkan af- fairs, to whom, it is said, he confided the rest cf bis documents ard his will. He died of phthisis, from which he had been suffering for some timc. Prince Ferdinand in Censtant.ncple and M. Hitrove in Tokio will learn of his death with curicsly mixed feelir gs. WEST OF THE TRANSVAAL. The Strange Land That ix Ruled by the South African Company. From the Century. West and north of the Transvaal lie those immense British territories which have been assigned to the British South African Company as its sphere of operations. Be- chuanaland—so called from the principal na- tive race which cccupics it—is a high and generally level country, mostly wooded, though the trees are but small, and with grass which js richer and more abundant than that of the Transvaal. It is looked upon as likely to prove one of the best ranching tracts in the continent. Matabe- leland and Mashonaland, farther to the north, are equally high, but more vndulat- ing than Bechuanaland, with great swell- Ing downs somewhat resembling the prair- ies of western Kansas. They are bright, breezy countries, very hot in the daytime, for they Me within the tropic, but with nights cool even in midsummer, and a climate which, except in the lower grounds along the marshy barks of the streams, is not merely healthy, but invigorating. Plenty of rain falls in’ De- cember, January and February, and. it is only in October, at the end of the dry sea- son, that the grass begins to fail on the pastures. The subjacent rock is, as in Be- chuanaland, usually granite; but here and the%s beds ‘of slate and schist are found, and in these beds ‘there are quariz reefs, Lelieved to be rich in gold, and from which a great deal of gold must in days gone by have been extracted, so numerous are the traces of ancient workings. The extreme easterly part of Mashona- land, where it borders on the dominiors of Portugal, is called Mantcafand. This is a country of bold mountains of granite mix- ed with porphyry and slate—a country the loftiest peaks of which rise to.a height of 8,000 feet above the sea, and where a com- paratively abundant rainfall. makes the streams more numerous, and fuller even in the dry season, than are those of any other part of the great plateau. Here and there a plece of high tableland, some 7.000 fect above sea level, offers an atmosphere of rare salubrity, while a few miles farther to the eastward, in the low grades whica slope gently to the coast, malignant fevers warn Europeans against any attempt to settle, and make even a journey from the sea to the highlands dangerous durmg some months of the year. eee Novel Cure for Drunkennes: From the New Yerk World, Police Justice Morrison of Rockfort, IIL, has hit upon a novel scheme for dealing with drunkards. When such an inveterate appears before the Illinois justice he looks him over and says: “If I let you go will you promise upon your honor to report at police headquart- ers three times a day to show that you are keeping sober?” The prisoner will promise to do anything rather than go to jail. He appcars at po- lice headquarters mcrning, noon and night, where an officer with a powerful nose for whisky smells his breath. If he is sober he is allowed to go bis way, but if he shows traces of intoxication he is sent to fail. If he fails to report it is taken as a sign that he kas lapsed, and he is searched for throughout the city. When found he is landed in jail and made to serve out a ten days’ sentence. The plan is working like a charm. SIR LAMBTON LORRAINE. How He Saved the Lives of Many Cap- tive American: Albert Morlan in New York Tribune. Now that the brief misunderstanding be- tween this country and Great Britain is happily ended, and we are shaking hands and congratulating each other on the peace- ful settlement of the difficulty, it is pleas- ant to recall an incident in which her majesty’s armed sloop Niobe once did us a friendly turn. It was in the Cuban re- bellion of 1867. and the date was Novem- ber, 18° A vessel knewn as the Virginius, sailing under the United States flag, had been captured by the Spanish gunboat Tornado, and carried into~the harbor of Santiago de Cuba, where her crew and mor? than 100 passengers were thrown into prison without even the form of a trial. Among the latter were four insurgent lead- Senors Ryan, Cespedes, Varona and Del Sol. These were immediately selected and tried by the Spanish military court, and five days after the capture were shot, after which their heads were cut off and carried about the streets on pikes, while some of the blood-stained bearers pressed the ghast- ly trophies against the bars of the prison windows as a reminder of the fate the cap- might expect. Having so quickly dispatched these ret the thirst for blood was increased tenfold. The remaining prisoners were now treated to a mock trial and condemned to death. No attention was paid to the protests of the English and American consuls, and on November 7 Capt. Fry, an American citi- zen, and fifty-one companions were brutally butchered in the presence of a howling mob, who wwe allowed to dead bodies as they chose. This fiendish work was not only permitted, but was en- couraged by the Spanish commander. It seems incredible that such atrocities could bave been perpetrated in the present cen- tury by a Christian nation, but such are the facts, which are well authenticated. About ninety poor wretches still remain- ed behind those gloomy walls, and in spite of the earnest endeavors of our representa- tives, coupled h the efforts of the Eng- lish consul, the entire number were sen- tenced to be shot, and the hour was fixed for their execution. No American vessel was in those waters at that time, but, thanks to the ever-present English man-of- war,the armed sloop be lay at Kingston, within a day's sail. No sooner had her commander, Sir Lambton Lorraine, heard of the work going on at Santiago than he set sail for that port, where he arrived promptly, and, without waiting for instruc- tions or consulting any one, at once de- manded the reprieve of the condemned men, most of whom were Americans, and when Gen. Burriel sought to argue the question, he quickly brought the debate to a clos “You have murdered English subjec he declared, “and are now holding other: in prison. Release them immediately, or I will blow your town to atom There was no dallying. The Niobe’s ports were open, her guns trained, and every man was at his post. It needed only a sig- ral from the captain to bring down a storm of shot and shell that would soon have. re- duced the town to a mass of smoking ruins. Burriel made one last effort to secure his ends by insisting that only Americans were concerned, thinking by this assertion to arouse the prejudice of the English com- mander. The ruse did not succeed. “If that is che case,” replied Lorraine, “I will take the responsibility of protecting American citizens. If you do not at or comply with my demands I will open fire The Spaniard was forced to accept the terms, and by this friendly but unwarran dred lives were saved, a large proportion of whom were Americans. Possibly the Englishman erred, from a diplomatic point of view, by taking the high-handed course adopted on this occa- sien; but we cannot help admiring th courage that moved him to act so promptly Americans, who would have been murdere¢ in cold blood within a few hours; the epi- sede furnishes one example, at least, a British man-of-war was a welcome sight to Yankee eyes, and the remembrance at this time cannot fail to hasten the return of an era of good feelings between the two great powers that, after ail, are closely al- lied in all that appeals to the great heart of humanity. HALLS HAIR RB ER CONTAINS THE NAT- ural food apd color matter for the hair, and medicinal herbs for the scalp, curing grayness, buldwess. dandruff apd scalp sores. mutilate the | ed act of an English captain nearly a hun- | and vigorously in behalf of a little band of | | | | WHY THE TRAIN W4 ng Adventure Quick: jarious Boxton Bank Ce From the Boston Heral@ A young man who started on his vacation for Nashua, N. H., on Friday, had quite @ thrilling experience. He is a collector for a Boston bank, and left on the 1 o'clock train to go to the mountains on a fishing trip. Some of his friends went to the depot to see him off. AS a consequence, one of the brakemen on the train had to look after him. ‘The young man had several bundles with him besides his ing among his «ffects of seduce’ strawbe Notwithstanding the brakeman’s effor the young man persisted in teili trainload of passengérs all abou and his proposed trip, and he a strawberry to eve etty girl He walking dini friendly brakeman got p had his regular train to do, and the effort of also lookin the young man was a little too mu him. So he had an earhest conversation with dis- work after for the exuberant youth, and told him that if he was not careful he would fall off the train and all that would be left to take home to his friends would be a ase spot and piece of cloth stained with berries. The young man was affected, and said he would remain quiet. As a consequen-e of this promise, thesbrakeman left him we lone for a few minutes in one of the is of the coach. He promised to remain there until the brakeman again appeared. He uid He got up after the train passed ed to go to He had his fish- The forty not do so. through Wilmington and start one of the forward ¢ ng tackle and strawberries with him train was going at the rate of about miles an hour. One of the passe him hang to the railing a minute ; vd then disappear. The train, was stopped. A searchin party went ‘back nearly half a mile. No trace was found of the mutilated cemuins f the bank collector of Boston. It was ‘tain that he There was no doubt about that. Final some one found his hat. There was a hole in the mid ile of the crown. Then another passen dis- covered the remains of the basket of straw- berries. Eventually, a stroller saw the Watch charm which thé proud young man had exhibited to the admiring gaze of sev_ eral of the passengers. Still, nothing was seen ot the bank collector. The friendly Wb: the rear of the train to notify any ing train that there was a delay. He seen to wildly wave a fiag, and a mn of the ngers who were sear about the place where it was sunp young man had fallen track after him. keman had been sent to follow- was d the off, started down the It was not known what the Prakeman Was cha: ng, but a number kept after him. Tineily a curve was sed, and before them the interested neers saw the young man wildly running down the track toward Boston. The brakeman ran shouting all the time heard him, and stopped short. brakeman reached him he s: I am trying to catch brakeman explained th Wrong way, and that the for him toward Lowell. e was & the train was waiting The young man was somewhat sobere He had forgotten about the friends came down to the depot to see him of. He | laughingly told the brakeman that he had made quite a jump. He had run so great a distance that the train backed down to meet him. All the vded the platforms to watch ses of taking mn rgled form into | the train. Not aturaily, there was some urprise to see the body walk unassisted ito the car. The bank collector was all right, and, fort he sobered. There was not a scratch on him, but his clothing and face was covered with dirt. He was subdued, but he wanted his fishing tackle, and was unb As the train star he stood in tront of the seat to whic had been conduct- and calmly wating his hands, he an- ced to the assembled passengers “Ladies and gentlemen, 1 am all right. 1 want to beg the par one for delaying the train.” This is the truc story of the lateness of the 1 o'clock train. It was due in Nashua 10 o'clock. It did not get there until n of each and every The young man was not, however, suffi- ciently intoxicated to give his name and address to the conductor