Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1896, Page 12

12 ‘ THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, ‘JUNE 12,. 1896-SIXTEEN PAGES. THE EVENING STAR. has a Larger Circulation in the Homes of Washington than, all the Other Papers of the Cit Added Together, because it Stands Up Always for the - Interests of ALL THE PEOPLE uf WASHINGTON; does not Strive to Divide the Community into Classes, and Array one class Against the others; Contains the Latest and Fullest Local and General News; and Surpasses all the Other Papers in the City in the Variety and Excellence of its Literary Features. It Literally Goes Everywhere, and is by Everybod It is, therefore, as an Advertising ‘Medium without a Peer, Whether Cost or Measure of Publicity be Considered. FEW KNOW ABOUT THE SHAKERS| PHOTOGRAPHIC ART An Interes: ‘=, God-Fearing People Who Have Given the World Many Important Discoveries. We may not accept their pecullar religious be- Hefs nor can we enter into the spirit of their sacrifices. It 1s not itecessury to believe as they do, but we can and do respect their sincerity of purpose and the honor and uprightness which marks all their business dealings. The Shakers have ulways been successful in- Ventors, and some of the greatest of the con- veniences of the present day found origin in their settlements. “In one particular they excel £N other men or classes of nen, and that is in cultivation of medte- foal herbs and plants and thetr preparation for use. They have made it a study for more than one hundred years. It is one of thelr peculiar industries. ‘Their Hves have been devoted to it. Their latest and greatest achievement {s the Sheker Digestive Cordial. It fs not offered as a cure for all diseases, It does not pretend to te, but one disease it will cure, and that is indiges- tion. Sufferers who resort to Its use have not long to Walt to see the result. ‘The effect is almost {m- mediate. ‘The first dose usually gives relief and if continued a permanent cure will follow. It not only contains ulready digested food, but it digests food as well, thus toning up the general system. An interesting pamphlet is now being issued by the Shakers and can be had for the ask- ing at almost any drug store. Try a Ze. bottle of Digestive Cordial and see what it will do for you. HANDS OFF THE MO! Telescope That Will Bring It Within a Few Miler. From the Lenden Daily News. The huge block of crystal which will be- come the mirror for the great telescope has safely arrived in Paris. If all goes well the exhibition of 1900 will be able to boast of a distinct feature. Whether the moon’s fea- tures will be equally distinct is another question. Prof. Loewy thinks not, but M. Deloncle is still determined to carry through his idea. “The moon one yaré off." It was thus the scheme of the gigantie telescope was spoken of in the papers, but M. Deloncle, however ambitioue he may be in Central Africa, pro- tests that he never had so preposterous a notion. He claims that it will be possible to throw on to a screen views of our satel- lite brought within a distance of thirty-eight miles. This remains to be seen. However, everybody will wish M. Detoncle, and still more especially his shareholders, every suc- cess in what one must still regard as an experiment. The new telescopic mirror is the largest ever made. It was cast at Jeumont, a manu- facturing place and the last French station on the line to Liege, Cologne and Berlin. This splendid block of homogeneous crystal weighs 3,000 kilograms. Its diameter is 2.05 meters, and in its present nearly rough State it cost $1,000. Of course, it was con- veyed to Paris in a special train. It was wrapped up in heavy felt blankets, pro- tected by hoops of soft wood, with metal tires. mounted on pivots. Thus packed, the mirror was tightly wedged in a case that was placed in the wagon on a bed of hurdles and layers of hay. For greater safety the train stopped only once, at Tergnier, and went at as slow a pace as a royal train, escorted by a railway inspector. It was insured to {ts full value. The same afternoon it was removed from the northern terminus to the workshop. The mirror, before leaving Jeumont, went threugh a second grinding of its faces, he- ing as smooth as a fine plate glass. But for telescopic purposes this sort of smoothness 1s roughness itself. The finishing process will take two years and six months, and by more expeditious processes than any hither- to in use, which, moreover, will give greater accuracy than anything known. Hitherto astronomical mirrors and lenses have been polished by hand by slowly rub- bing the glass with the naked hand, some- times, but not always, moistened with oli, albumen and other substances which are the maker's secret. The drawback of this process Is that the mere heat of the hand may cause the surface to warp. The new mechanical process, of which particulars are not given, will produce a surface approaching a true plane, within one-ten-thousandth part of a millimeter. Even this marvelous finish will leave a mar- gin, astronomers tell us, for errors. The whole finishing process will cost £6,000. The silvering will not cost anythiug to speak of. The mirror wll be mounted on two arms ten meters long, and will be set In motion by machinery of the usual sort. The rays gathered from planetary space will be re- flected horizontally through a mammoth tube sixty meters long, laid on piles of mesonry. The lenses of flint and crown glass will be 1 meter 25 centimeters, the largest in the world, and the images, en- larged 6,40 times, will be thrown on to a screen, which thousands of people will view at a time. ‘The moon will, if all goes well, be brought within thirty-eight miles, but it 1s most doubtful whether images on this scale will prove correct. M. ry, the assistant director of the Paris observatory, who has submitted some splendid photographs of the mcon, believes that the limit of ninety-four miles he has reached is the utmost prac- tleable for a long time to come. Larger images will be indistinct. —__-+e+_____ THIS VULTURE ATE A WHOLE Cow. Peculiar and Not Altogether Pleasing Habits of the Bird. From the San Francisco Exaininer. A bird of prey as tall as a man haa been captured by the superintendent of Richard Gird’s ranch in the hills south of Chino, San Bernardino county. The prisoner is a magnificent specimen of the California vulture, without doubt the largest ever taken captive. From the crown of its ferccious-looking, red-wattled head to its strong, scaly talons measures six feet. Its plucky captor is an inch or two shorter in his cowhide boots. The man has the advantage in wetght, for the bird weighs 100 pounds. Still, that is a fair fighting weight to carry through the rarefled upper air. In order to accomplish this feat the vulture is provided with wings that have a spread of twelve feet. Withal, the orni- thologists who have seen it say that It is merely a youngster. Apart from the red whattles already al- luded to, the bird’s head conveys the idea of a very bald old man of miserly in- stin The back and upper part of the wings are gray and the tail and larger wing feathers are a glossy black. ‘he legs and feet are of a reddish hue. Alto- gether, Mr. Gird’s pet is a formidable look- ing customer. Partly for this reason, partly because of his red poll, partly be- € of his light weight in contrast to his extreme height and strength, and partly because he shows a vicious inclination to deal knockout blows to whoever approach- es him, Mr. Gird proposes to take good care of his prize, and is prepared to match him against any captive wild bird living. If the match were an eating contest Mr. Gird would probably be on the safe side. Allured by the palatable flavor of a dead cow, the bird devoured nearly every parti- cle of flesh from its bones, which so op- pressed him that, however vigorously he flapped his wings, he was unable te soar away to his eyrie among distant mountain fxstnesses. In this humiliating predica- ment he was lassoed and dragged flut- tering ponderously, but hopelessly, to Mr. Gird’s stable. His mood just present is @ trifle moroee, as might be expected un- der the circumstances, but Mr. Gird hopes to convert the bird into an affectionate and interesting household pet. Even in the bird's present condition his owner Geciares that he would not take $1,000 for him. Mr. Gird probably does not exaggerate the value of his acquisition. The Cali- fornia vulture is very nearly extinct, owing to traps lald for birds of prey by settlers. o+—___ The A B C of It. Frem the Birmingham Post. A—“Now, if I understand correctly, the first principle of socialism is to divide with your brother man.” B—“Then you’ don’t urderstand it cor- rectly. The first principle of socialism is to make your brother man divide with you." to At the Inquest. Frem Le Caricature. “You say you knew this man? Is there any particular eign by which you recog- mize the corpse?” “Oh, yes, your honor, he was deaf.” Collections Soon to Be Displayed in the Museum. 10 SHOW THE PROGRESS MAD From the Time of the First Exper- iments of Daguerre. THE WASHIN' GTON SALON At a recent meeting of the Camera Club of the C. Bi. C. it was voted to hold an art photographic exhibition next year un- der the title “The National Photographic Salon of 1897.” A circumstance worthy of note in connec- tion with the recent exhibition held at the Cosmos Club, and which has already been mentioned in these columns, is that fifty pictures there exhibited were selected for purchase by the United States Natioral Museum. It is now the intention cf Dr. Goode to have this unique collection hung in the National Museum as early as ex- pedient, in order that it may be seen. The fifty pictures, however, form a part of a collection illustrating the history and methods of the art of photography which has been in process of formation for a number of years under the direction of Mr. T. W. Smillie. Dr. Goode states that this collection has not yet been exposed to public view, owing to lack of room in the present building, but that it already contains many note- worthy objects, and when arranged for ex- hibition will show the history of photog- raphy from its beginning and contempo- rary illustrations of most of the note- worthy advances in the art and works of the greatest photographers of the world. It begins with examples of the process of Wedgewood engraving, shows specimens of the work of Niepce and original daguer- reotype of Daguerre by Need Brothers of New York. It may be remarked that the collection still greatly needs specimens of work of Daguerre and his early disciples. There is an excellent collection of early daguerreotypes and ambrotypes, some of them of remarkable clearness and beauty, including a view of the harbor of San Francisco in 1852, showing the dismantled fleet of the argonauts, a remarkable plece by Shew of California. There is also a unique series of daguerreotypes for the stereoscope. Next comes an example of the talbotype, taken by Fox Talbot, the inventor of the process. The Progress of Photography. The introduction of photography into this country is illustrated by specimens of the Little oval silver prints, first used about 1860, upon visiting cards, whence the name carte de visite took its name, and from tris time on examples of portrait and landscape work by many celebrated pho- tographers, showing the general progress of the art, including the magnificent large photographs made by the photographers of the early geoiogical survey: Comparatively little has been done to illustrate the work of the last ten years, and an effort is now being made to complete the series so that it will be a worthy, rep- resentation of the progress of ihe art from the beginning until now. The collection has not kept pace with the recent progress of the art movement in photography, and the acquisitioa of the prints from the Washirgton saion and art photographic exibition of 1896 is intended to supply in part this lack. It is unnecessary to en- large upon the importance which such a coliection as this must be to every photog- rapher; a collection in which he may see, side by side, the best works from year to year, and study the effects of light and time upon the permarence of paper and brocesses. The collection of the works of representative photographers is, of course, incomplete; this, it should be understood, 4s due only to the fact that there kas not been opportunity to secure an example of their works. It 1g the purpose of the mu- seum to be absolutely impartial, and to allow fair representation in its collections to every person whose work Is of merit. Besides the comparatively limited collec- tion wFich will be exhibited to the public, which of necessity can include only one or two pictures of a kind, there is a large study and reference collection kept in Grawers, protected from light and damp- ness, which is of even more importance to students of the art than the collections to be shown in the exhibition hall. The pictures bought by the museum from the exhibition of 1893 were chosen with the idea that they should represent as fully as possible the different schools of pho- tography in America at the present time, and the work of as many as possible of the most characteristic and representative art- ists. The fact is fully recognized that the developments of these schools 1s sought in amateur photography rather than among professional photographers, whose work 18 of necessity more conventional in {ts char- acter and affords less opportunity for orlg- inality and progress. The-fact was also recognized that several professional pho- tographers were represented in this exhi- bition, and characteristic specimens of this work were also secured. To Make More Parchases. Dr. Goode has signified his intention to secure for the National Museum collection some of the best pictures from the exhibi- tion to be held next year, and has ad- dressed a letter to Mr. Dodge, the chairman of the exhibition committee of 1896, which ‘s as follows: “I am very much gratified to learn that it has been decided to hold a second ex- hibition of art photography in this city, un- der the name of the National Photographic Salon of 1887. The exhibition of 1896 must be regarded as the most impressive exhibi- tion ever held in this country. It has dem- onstreted the right of photography to a place among the fine arts, and was sug- gestive of possibilities In the future which are by no means generally appreciated. Such exhibitions are useful, not only to the photographers themselves, but to all those who have occasion to avail them- selves of the possibilities of photography in the decorative and graphic arts, in the 1I- lustration of books and in the sclences. I am desirous of utilizing the coming exhi- bition for the purpose of extending the photographic collection in the National Museum, and therefore authorize you to announce that a number of the best photo- graphs there exhibited will be purchased.” —_->—_—_. HARVARD BOYS FINED. President Eliot Will Put a Stop to Further Disorder of the Kind. The three Harvard students whose ar- Test Wednesday night at Cambridge, Mass., while celebratir.g the Princeton vic- tory precipitated a riot, were arraigned in the municipl court yesterday. Clay 8. Briggs, who fired the pistol, was fined $15 for discharging firearms in the streets, and Goldthwaite H. Dorr and Arthur T. Pilling, charged with assaulting policemen, were fined $50 each. The court rvom was jammed with undergraduates, and a subscription has been started in college to pay the fines. President Eliot was incensed by the be- havior of the young men in defying the police and promiscuourly discharging re- volvers and cannon crackers. After the rumpus in Battle Square President Eliot sent for half a dozen well-known men and talked to them sharply. He told them un- less the disturbance was checked at once he should cancel all the daies of the base ball team, call the cr2w back from Pough- kKeepsie and rigidly prohibit any intercol- legiate athletic meetings for the indefinite future. : In ten minutes the leaders of the several classes were circulating through the crowd, begging, coaxing, commanding the excited students to go to their rooms, which, after a while, they did. The athletic committee is stjll consider- ing the occurreace. The return Princeton game, June 28, will be allowed on rigorous conditions, and wholesale pledges of good behavior in the event cf victory have been exacted. President Eliot has summoned a number of prominent undergraduates to meet him, together with the athletic committee of the faculty and others of the college gov- ernment, to discuss the matter of the dis- turbance and to decide how athletic tri- umphg shall be celebrated at Harvard in the future, CONGRESS | jHAS GONE Both Honses Adjourned Yesterday After- noon on Sofidtule Time. Addrexses of the Vice President and Spenker in AclHowledzment or Resolutions of Thanks. Congress adjournéa on schedule time, there being no sllps, in the arrangements. When the hour of'l4 o'clock arrived the Speaker and the Vice President, facing each other nearly a quarter of a mile apert, at the opposite ends of the Capitol, brought down their gavels and announced that the houses stood adjourned without day. The closing was devoid of any un- usual episodes. The eustomary resolutions of thanks were adopted, and the spirit of harmony that had marked the early part of the last.day was present to-a noticeable degree. There was a elim attendance, both on the floor and in the galleries, and the comment was freely expressed that it was about the tamest adjournment ever known. Shortly after 3 o'cleck Senators Sherman and Smith reported to the Senate that they had waited on the President, and that the executive had no further communtica- tions to make to Congress. Mr. Harris offered resolutions express- ing the thanks of the Senate to Mr. Frye of Maine, president pro tem., for the uni- form courtesy and ability with which he had presided over the Senate. A similar resolution of thanks to Vice President Stevenson for his dignified and impartial service as presiding officer was offered by Mr. Allison. Both resolutions were unanimously adopted. The Vice President's Address. A few moments before the hour set for adjournment the Vice President rapped the Senators to order, and said: ‘Senators, I am deeply touched by the resolutions personal to myself adopted by the Senate. -It has been my earnest en- deavor impartially to execute the rules prescribed for the guidance of this body. For the aid you have go generously given me in the discharge of the duties that pertain to this office, as well as for the courtesy. uniformly shown me, 1 am pro- foundly grateful. And now, wishing eacn of you a safe return to home and con- stituents, it only remains for me to de- clare the first session of the lifty-fourth Congress adjourned without day.” He then brought down his gavel without a handle, and in less than another minute the Senate chamber was cleared. In the House. The closing of the House yesterday was absolutely devoid of public interest. Up to the last minute there was a chorus of voices shouting “Mr. Speak:r” in the hope of be- ing able to push some small bill through. One of these bills, engineered by General Wheeler, was pushed through in two min- utes, and just emerged as the hands of the clock pointed to 4. Mr. Bailey of Texas and Mr. Maguire, California, democrats, wanted a last chance to say something on the political situation. They had to do a little bluffing before they were granted ten minutes each. Mr. Ma- guire spoke briefly in answer to a speech of Mr. Dingley. He denied that the country had been prosperous under a high tariff, and spoke of the panics and depressions since IN73. Mr. Bailey followed with an arraignment of the republican side for cowardice in dodging the issue ipredented by the anti- bond resolution. “For weeks,” said he, “their courage has becn like Bob Acres’, oozing from their finger tips, until now they are strenuously trying’ to avoid the con- sideration of a subject which three months ago they professed’ themselves ready to meet.” He proceeded to charge that it was the purpose of the republican party to make a “cowardly and disgraceful evasion of tho money issue at St.Louis.” He said there were millions vf honest citizens jn the coun- try who believed in the gold standard. There were other millions who believed in bimetal- lism, but now, hexe, said he, were a handful of self-respecting citizens, who would sup- port a party that rakused, tell them where it stood. A straddle would agceive no one. He warned the other side, that it was bet- ter to fight than runaway, and concluded with the statement, whieh, was applauded on the democratia side, that the democrats at Chicago, no matter what else they might do, would adopt ‘a platform that no one eculd misconstrue. Spenker Reed’s Speech. Just as the hands of the clock, pointed to 4 Speaker Reed arose and addressed the House. “Gentlemen of the House of Representa- tives,” said he, “before pronouncing those words which close the session I desire to offer to the House my grateful recognition of its kindness. The thanks of the House of Representatives is always a high honor, but is especially so at the end of a session where the Speaker has been forced to say ‘no’ more times perhaps than in the history of any other Congress. “While thanking you for your kindness to me 1 must congratulate the House on its conduct of the public business. Ordi- narily, @ majority of two and a half to one, a majority of 150, means disorganiza- tion, faction and discord. In this House @ hundred and fifty new men of both par- ties have behaved with a steadiness of veterans, and if our connection with the other branches of the government, with different ideas, has prevented us from serving the country as we might have done we at least have behaved with dig- nity, fairness and credit. “With the kindest personal wishes to you all, 1 again return thanks. By virtue of the concurrent resolution of both branches I declare this House adjourned without day.” —___+ e+____ VALUABLE HORSES BURNED. A Great Fire in New York Destroys the American Horse Exchange. Fire destroyed the building of the Amerl- can Horse Exchange, limited, which occu- pies nearly the entire block bounded by Broadway, 7th avenue, 50th and OSist streets, New York, last night. It is suv- posed that 125 valuable horses perished in the flames. One hundred fine carriages were also burned. The value of the prop- erty consumed fs estimated at $200,000. How the fire started {is not known. Flames breaking from the third story was the first intimation any one had of it. Eighteen engine companies worked brave- ly, and within an hour had the flames un- der control. Several narrow escapes from falling walls and the roof were made. ‘Among the horses destroyed were Elsie G., a very valuable trotting horse, worth $7,500, with a record of 2.19%. The American Horse Exchange, limited, has for years been one of the most famous places of its kind in America. William K. Vanderbilt ig the president of the cor- poration. Mr. Winthrop, George Peabody Wetmore and Col. Willlam Jay are among the managers. Many fine stock breeders in the west and sguth have been regular consignors of horses to’ the exchange. SS SUPPOSED CORFSH ALIVE. Edward Dorlan Contradicts the Re- port of His’ Death, Eaward Dorlan, who was supposed to have committed suicide, by,..shooting himself through the head in Fairmount Park, Phil- adelphia, ten days ag0,’48 alive and well. While Dorlan’s supposed body was lying on a slab at the morgue if, was fdentified by half a dozen persons, who were intimately acquainted with him. ‘Even the latter's brother came on frém New York, identified the body and ordered it shipped to New York city for interment...) - About the time the Coroner's jury was fixing up a verdict Wednesday afternoon to the effect that Dorlan committed suicide while temporarily insane, a letter was re- ceived by Dorlan’s employer from Harring- ton, Del., saying he was alive and well. The coroner will now ask that the body be re- turned from New York and reopen the case. SOS Patent Office Sustained. In an opinion written by Mr. Justice Cole, the Court of Appeals has affirmed a de- cision of the commisssioner of patents in the case of John H. Croskey against Thos. B, Atterbury. The case was an appeal from a decision of the commisstoner in an interference proceeding in which Mr. At- terbury was awarded priority of invention in the matter of an improvement in the process of manufacturing hollow glass ware, CLARA BARTON REPORTS Ina Private Letter She Tells of the Work of Relief. Medical Aid and Food for the Desi tute and Seed for Farmers. Miss Clara Barton, in a letter dated May 22, writes from Constantinople to Mr. Hitt, chairman of the House committee on for- eign affairs. In the course of the letter she says: “It affords me gratification, now, after the lapse of four months, to be able to say to you as a member of the honorable body which has been more or less disturbed over the Armenian question that although I came with much hesitation, I believe, after all, our coming was not a mistake. No un- Pieasant relations have grown out of it. There ts, and has been throughout, a per- fect and cordial understanding between my- self and the government here. The Government Friendly. “From the first I was entirely frank with it, and on no occasion has it been other- wise with me. The agents whom I desired to have go to the interior have not only been permitted to go, but escorts have been granted wherever required. They have had entire supervision of our own distributions, which have been mainly in material, using money only in the purchase of such things as were required among the people. “The local officials whom they have met have usually shown entire cordiality, but if any hesitation on their part has been mani- fested, It was at once removed by a word of mine to the porte, which has requested me to give it such notice. “It has also usked of me to have informa- tion given wherever my officers found the People afraid to go to their fields to work, through danger from the surrounding tribes, which are still very unsettled. I have invariably given this information, and guards have been sent for the safety of the ‘arthers, “Five expeditions have been sent out, three of which are distributing seed, farm- ing and mechanical implements and cattle, in the vilayet of Harpoot, where some three hundred towns and villages are utter- ly destitute. Medical Aid. “Two, or in reality three, medical detach- ments have been sent out by me, and are at work among what were two months ago the terrible contagious diseases of smallpox, typhus, typhoid and dysentery of Zeitoun and Marash, which I 2m glad to report as nearly overcome. From a hundred deaths @ day, or more, taking place at that time, our physician in charge reports yesterday, by telegram: ‘Sickness nearly overcome: only a few new cases.’ A more recent at. tack has broken out to the north, at Arab- kir, but has immediately been’ taken in hand by our own Dr. Hubbell, with phys!- clans and nurses, who, after only four Gays, telegrephs: ‘All doing splendid work; fevers diminishing.’ We have never taken upon ourselves largely the feeding of these people, but have left that to the brave and patient missionaries who had it in hand before we came, and who must hold to it after we are gone. We have made a spe- clalty of controlling and stamping out con- tagion, a work which there was no one e'se to take up, and if left to itself was to run riot, so far as we could see, through all Asia Minor. We have placed doctors enough there, drawing them from Syria and Constantinople, and holding them der contract and pay, to meet and ov. come, as we believe, any contagion that may arise—even cholera. si Seed Distribution. “Our other object has been the distribu- tion of seed, farming utensils and cattle, in order to get food growing to such an extent as to render these people, at least in a measure, self supporting, and thus relieve them of the starvation which will face them another winter, and relieve the world as well of this great drain upon its sympa- thies and its charities. “I am happy to state that both of these are in a fair way of accomplishment, and my faithful assistants and myself’ look anxiously for the day when, our task ac- complished, we can return to our home, quietly as we left, having done no harm nor given offense to any. “I have the honor to be, very respectfully yours, CLARA BARTO) —_ MANSLAUGHTER BY BICYCLE. Whot an English Judge Had to Say About Scorching. From Case and Comment. Criminal Mability for the reckless riding of a bicycle was visited with a sentence of feur months’ hard labor in the recent Eng- lish case of Regina agt. Parker, which was trfed at Lewes assizes. The defendant was charged in an indictment for manslaughter and also for furiously driving a carriage or vehicle contrary to section 35 of the of- fenses against the person act of 1861. The sentence was imposed upon a plea of guilty to the second indictment. This plea was accepted, although the presecution consid- ered that a conviction for manslaughter would be supported. The Law Journal quotes Mr. Justice Hawkins as saying that the counsel for the prosecution had very mercifully asked only for a conviction on an indictment to which the prisoner was ready to plead guilty, and that he was glad that some one had thought fit to put the law in motion and let those who were care- less and reckless of the lives of others know that they were punishable by the law. The justice also said that a man or women who rides a bicycle is bound to con- duct it with care and caution, and no more entitled to ride recklessly and furiously than to drive a cart at a furious pace through the street. Laws or ordinances on this subject, as on all others, are made only for those who are either mentally or morally deficient, and not for those who are intelligent and con- scientious enough not to need them. The interesting and innocent party who, for time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, has been carrying a gun and did not know it was loaded has now exchanged it for a wheel, and his works do follow him. His victim is often a fellow wheelman, but more often it is an elderly lady or small child. Pusillanimous municipal authorities have in many places failed to check the increase of these crimes. In other places the authorities have been more effective. To make the law of the subject plain to the limited comprehension of scorchers a few convictions of man- siaughter will probably be necessary. Se Catherine Built the Palace. From the Londen Standard. “The Petrovsky Palace is a charming monument to the more picturesque side of Catherine the Great’s character. 1t was her villa without the walls of Moscow, where she could live at her ease, surround- ed by her intimates, the Apraxins, the Volkorskys, the Golitsins, the Razumovs. She would have no soldiers to guard her; she preferred to rest under the protection of her own people, and the veople came crowding about the palace, saying: “Make no nolse! Do not disturb our little mother.” She Icved the ffelds and woods of Petrov- oe as well she might. 't was in this neighborhood that she herself awaited the approach cf her coro- nation, staying in Count Razumov’s won- derful villa, which so astonished Lord Herbert and William Cox in 1778. She had the palace built to commemorate the Rus- sian victories ov2r the Turks, and intrust- ed the task to a native architect, who knew how to adapt Gothic lines to Russian taste, and to combine splendor with com- fort. The red walls, with their white stone facings and round towers, seen among the trees, give a delightful impression of ele- gant_seclusion. Since Catherine's day all the Zmperors of Russia have awaited the day of the triumphal entry in the Petroy- sky Palace. ———_+e+—_.. Shortsightedness Proven. From Tid-Bits. A recruit, wishing to evade service, was brought up for medical inspection and the doctor asked him: “Have you any defects?” = “Yes, sir; I am shortsighted. “How can you prove it?” “Easily enough, doctor. Do you see that nail up yonder in the wall?” “Yes.” “Well, I don’t.” TWO STATEMENTS|FROM DEATH'S JAWS. The Appropriations Viewed From a Republican and Democratic Point, ANALYZED BY PARTY LEADERS Figures That Are Presented by Messrs. Cannon and Sayers. THE INCREASED DEBT i Chairman Cannon, republican, of the House appropriations committee, and ex- Chairman Sayers, democrat, have given out statements of the expenditures author- ized by this Congress, each viewing the matter from party standpoints. The total appropriations for the sesston, including permanent annual appropria- tions, is $515,759,420.49. Mr. Cannon’s state- ment says: “The appropriations charged to this ses- sion include $119,0%4,160 under permanent laws, of which amount $50,000,000 is for sinking fund znd $30,500,000 for interest on the public debt, or $3,255,614.40 more than was included at the last session of Con- gress in the statements of appropriations, and is on account of the increase of $162,- 3} 0 in the bonded indebtedness of the country by the present admfnistration up to February, 1895, the interest and sinking fund charge on account of the later bond issue of $100,000,000 in February, 1806, amounting to $4,400,000, not being included in the estimates of permanent appropria- tions. “The increase in the principal of the in- terest-bearing debt of the country under the present administration amounts to $262,315,400, which entails an annual inter- est charge of $11,492,616, and to meet the sinking fund obligations the further sum of $2,623,154. During the administration of Mr. Harrison the principal of the interest- bearing debt was reduced $25%,19 the annual interest charge $10,327, “The regular annual dilis,” says Mr. Can- non, “including deficiencies as passed by the House, made a reduction in the esti- mates submitted by the executive of $26,- 083,191.67; that they were increased by the Senate $22,920,442.30, and that as the; than as passed by the Senate, $12,283. $18.24 more than as they passed the House and $1, .43 less than the estimated requirements of the administration. “The regular annual appropriations, in- cluding deficiencies, made at the last ses- sion of Congress, amounted to $tk3.636,- 8U6.9 and included no river and harbor bill. Excluding the river and harbor act passed at this session, the regular annual bills as passed by the House appropriated only $373,505,082.25, or more than $10,000,000 less than was appropriated by the last democratic Congress.” Mr. Cannon criticises the Treasury D: partment because it has “expended $7,377, 440 for the present year in collecting the revenue from customs estimated at $1! 000,000; whereas for the last fiscal year 1SY2, under President Harrison's administration, there was collected, under the McKinley tariff act, $177,452,000 of customs revenue at_a total cost of only $6,007,517. The bills establishing salaries instead of the fee system for officers of the United States courts, he says, will save one million annually, and minimize frivolous and ma- lcious prosecutions. Special attention is called to the fact that Congress made no increases of salaries or employes in the government departments. ‘the following table of appropriations is given: Fifty-first Congress. Fifty-second Congres: Fifty-third Congres: Fifty-fourth Congress, the Harrison administration ending June 30, 1892, are given as $1,150,G31,214; ex- Ppenditures, $904,132.01; for the two com- plete fiscal years of Cleveland's administra- tion, revenues, $611,112,094; expenditures, $723,720,578. What Mr. Sayers Says. Mr. Sayers, in his statement, says of the tota! appropriations for the session: “This sum exceeds the appropriations made during the last session of the Fifty- third Congress by §18,751,200.83, and those of the first regular session of that Congress by $23,529,135.46. It is less than the appro- priations by the second session of the Fifty- second Congress by only $3,744,538.72, al- though at the latter session $59,352,404.85 more was appropriated for pensions than at this session. It is more than those by the ion of the Fifty-first Congress by $2 1.84, and $25,464,040.80 less than the appropriations at the second session of the Fifty-first. “The Senate organized this session by a combination of republican and populist votes, placing the control of committees in the hands of republicans, by its amend- ments to appropriation bills, as they passed the House, proposed to increase the total by $22,920,442.30. By conferences between the two houses this aggregate increase was re- duced to $12,283,918.24. The appropriations made wi the second session of the Fifty- rst Congress exceeded those made at the rst session of the same Congress by $46 767,612.64, or nearly 10 per cent. If the same proportionate increase should be made at the next session then the appropriations will not be less than $565,000,000."" Contracts wuthorized by this session he estimates as follows: Rivers and harbors....... $59,616,404 Public buildings, lighthouses and revenue cutters. 1,406,000 Defenses and armament. 4,195,076 New warships. 12,900,000 District of Columbia. 124,000 Total ... $78,241,480 He says that the total expenditures in one fiscal year have never been so great except during the civil war, and exceed the as- sessed valuation of property in any one of the scuth Atlantic states. In conclusion Mr. Sayers says: “If the present Congress had rigidly refused au- therity for additional contracts, and had appropriated only to meet the immediate or fiscal year requirements under existing ones, the next Congress and administration would have been in a position to largely re- duce appropriations and expenditures, and the administration of the government could easily have returned to an economical method of expenditure. This, however, has not been done, and the majority in Congress must be held responsible for this grave dereliction in public duty.” ——— GREAT BRITAIN’S DEMAND. The Hawaiian Government Sa‘ Excited Over the Report. The steamer Australia, from Honolulu, ‘brings confirmation of the Associated Press news concerning the demand made by Great Britain that Volney Ashford be permitted to return to Hawaii, The Dole government is very much ex- cited over the report, but the president of the little republic is pursuing a con- servative course in dealing with the mat- ter. The news of England’s demand originat- ed in Washington, and was forwarded in private correspondence to an Hawalian Paper end several private concerns. he situation is said to be that Great Britain has made a rather sharp demand upon the government on behalf of Colonel Ashford. The “request” is stated as the suggestion, in diplomatic sentences, that a pardon be issued to Ashford, and that he be permitted to return to Hawaii without conditions of any sort. It is stated by the Honolulu Star that the republic declines to accept the British for- eign office’s view of the case, refuses to grant the pardon or remove the ban, and adds that if Colonel Ashford is landed un- der British or other auspices or protec- tion until there has been an extended and complete review of the case the action will be at least protested. -——_—__++-__. Asks a Divorce. Ella Lee Chapplee has petitioned for 4i- vorce from John T. Chapplee. The papers in the case were withheld from publica- tion. to Be —_- - Copy of Will Filed. A certified copy of the will of the late Joseph F. Burr, dated December 10, 1868, has been filed. To Caleb Newbold of Spring- field, N. J., the estate Is left in trust for the testator’s widow, Sarah N. Burr. An Insurance Man Snatch- ed Therefrom. Made to Feel Like a Man of Thirty Five—Vigorous Now, in © Mind and Body. “Such Wonderful Results Should Be Heralded to the World”—So Says the Restored Gentleman. “Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., 518 Guaranty building, Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 13, 1805.—Gentlemen: Wil! you accept my thanks for the great benefits received from the use of Dr. Charcot’s Kola Nervine Tallets?~ At the time of commencing its use last July I could not read without my glasses signs on our business strects, could not retain on my mind a matter of business sufhclently long to get to the street from my office, aud could not call the names of my intinate friends, and woul! frequently get Jost in Ports of the city where I had been a dally visiter Jor the past seven years. I attributed my condl- tion to advanced age. Thanks to Kola Nervine ‘Tablets, however, although fifty-six years of age, I am sutistied that Iam today in as good condition, in every respect, as I was at thirty-five. Any- thing that will accomplish such wonderful results as this should be heralded to the workd. I might add for the beneht of the public, that this texti- moulal Is given without any solicitation on your part whacever, Mr. Swett ix one of the best known insu the northwest—in fact, throughout country. His case is not singular, ‘Tho similarly affiicted have been siufla:ly the wonderful Dr. Cha and $1.00 at draggi + Charcat’s name on label, WRITE POR ‘AMPLE PACKAGE AND TESTIMONIALS. Eureka Chemical & Mfg. Co., La Crome, Wis., ond Boston, Mavs, SOF SeRt divect Capt. m the Re- its in Detrot At the national conference of chari- tes and correctio.s at Grand Rapids, Mich., Capt. Cornelius Gardner, U.S.A. who is stationed at Fort Wayne, Detroit, and who has superintended the potato ex- perin cnt there, spoke on the topic, “Able- Bodied Poor and Unemployed.” After de scribing the plan and the manner in wh it was brought into operatidn, Capt. Ga: ner said: “The care taken of the crops and the zeal displayed in having the best culti- vated lot, is evidence that our plan is highly appreciated by those whom we helped. The committee had end each year to obtain as large tracts as poss!- ble, and except in few instances, none con- taining lesz than four acres are used. The crops are taken care of, to @ great extent, by the women and boys, and by the ter hours where the tath ment. The following are si For 184, acres planted, 4. families ax- sisted, 945; cost, $3.0"), or $3.10 per Jot value of crop, $14,000; average bushels of potatoes, 15. For 1xv: Ac number of families assisted, 900, or $3.10 per lot; average tatoes per lot, 4. ‘The crops rai: Potatoes, 6 hels; beans, 1, bush- els; turnips, 3,000 bushels; corn, 400 bush- els; cabbage, 4.04) heads; squash, 40 pumpkins, besides other vegetables. Families assisted to lots to date, 1 The city poor commission acknowledges that our work has taken from their shoulders a@ large amount in direct charity to those whom they would otherwise have had to help through the past winter, and we have probably saved the city $250,000 in taxation last year for this purpose. It is understood that €xcept in exceptional cases, no aid can ‘be obtained from the city poor commission unless the applicant was willing to take a lot from us and cultivate. We also give lots to people who do not like to go to the poor commission committee. “There is no doubt that due to this ex- periment the attention of poor people ge erally and day laborers has been called to the fact that a great deal of food can be obtained from a small piece of ground whea properly worked. We have evidence that a large number have left the city for near-by villages, and taken land on shares for cultivation. Furthermore, our example has been followed in New York, Ruffalo, Omaha, Minneapolis and Tole By our experiment in Detroit we can decide, I be- lieve, that poor people are gene ly willing to help themselves if given an opportunity. Since the largest item in the cultivation of land ts the cost of labor, in this case fur- nished by the people ’themselves—much good may, by this plan, be a with small expense to the tax: it turns the attention of the 4 soil and {ts opportunities to rai d even from the smallest portions; under the di- rection of an experienced foreman, we are complished at » the Me teaching people how to till the soil; that there are men of wealth willing to give land for this purpose and others willing to assist -the poor without compensation, thereby lessening the bitterness of poverty of engendered conditions.” by the differences social soe A TRIBUTE TO KATE F From the Honolulu Advertiser, Shorily after the announcement of Miss occurred me Field’s death a touching inciden which showed the place her holds among the commen people of he unt Two American negroes, laborers tn Hono- lulu, came to Dr. McGrew’'s res and offered to assist in any way possib’> in caring for the remains. They stuted that they had no money, iney coull not buy always nce floral tributes, but Miss Field had been a friend of tne negro and had done what she could to improve the condition of the race in the sduthern states. They would Ike to do something as a mark of appreciation and resp As kind hands had 4 done at that time D: w thanked them and gave assurance that their kind- ness would not be forgu:ten. During the noon hour before the funeral on Weadnes- day one of the men went to Dr at could be MeGrew's in his working clothes and if he might have a last look at th ly re- mains of the woman who had > £0 much for his race. Although th set had been closed and sealed, the doctor re- membered his promise and granted the re- quest. —e-—______ HER GOLD-TIPPED TOF. Why Dentist Leeds Has Sued a Song- atrenn. Brom the Philadelphia Record. Every one remembers Tom Hood's markable heroine in his famous poem, “Miss Kilmansegg and Her Golden Leg.” The girl he told of was only a creature ¢ his imagination; but Miss Florence Selma, the New York Music Hall singer, is a piece of plump reality, and though she hasn't a golden leg, she has a gold tipped toe. Several months ago Selma fell from her bicycle and hurt that toe. The result was an ingrowing nail. At first she paid little attention to it. But later the pain in- creased. The troublesome nail got right down to business, It grew in by day and it grew in by night. The constant ageravation which ema- nated from that big toe began to play havoc with her smiles. She says she be- came so cross and irritable that she no longer was pleased to mect her friends. And still the nail grew in. Having experimented with arnica, lo- tions and every preparation known to the drug stores without relief, it occurred to her that the offending toenail might be capped with gold- in precisely the manner that dentists cap a tooth. called upon Dr. Leeds, who undertook the he job, much against his own convictions, says. Leeds ig not a chiropodist, ut, he the result, from a professional stand point, was highly satisfactory. Mademoi selle had three sittings. A plaster of parts cast was made of the foot, and the doctor admits that he finally became quite tnter- ested in the work—from a professional standpoint. ‘The golden toenail cap did noi come up to Mlle. Selma’s expectations, however, and she flatly refueed to pay $54 for the work. After repeated efforts to coliect his fee, Dr. Leeds brought suit to recover the money, and on Friday Mlle. Selma was served with papers in the action,