Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1896, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1896-SIXTEEN PAGES, Many a leisure hour follows the use of FELS-NAPTHA SOAP (At all Grocers.) FELS & CO., Philada. away with toiling as it does with boiling. FELS-HAPTRA soap. (At Grocers.) FELS and CO., Philadelphia. THE DACOIT OF BURMAH. Curious Methods @f Robbers Work in Blocks of Five. James’ Gazette. Burmah is one of the countries that are changing y fast, and one of the things that have changed n Burmah Is the dacoit. Instead of living tog-ther in bands in the Jungle dacoits are scatiered through sepa- rate villages in the guise of peaceful cul- tivators. During tie day each man at- tends to his paddy fields just Ike his neighbors, and it is only at night that they meet together for the dispatch of their | more important an@ lucrative business. Dacoity, as defined by law, is simply rob- bery committed by a band of five men or more, and it is important onty because | of the Burman’s strong natural propensity toward it, and the great difficulties which bis national character places in the way of its deiection. Perhaps the strange workings of the na- tive character are best exhibited in the fol- lowing case, which oceurred recently. The facts are vouched for by an Enghsh of- | ficial: There was a band of five men who were in the habit of practicing dacoity occasionally. | Three of them came from the same village— | not a common thing, as it makes detection | easier; the fourth from another village, and | as for the fifth, no man now knows where he came from, for reasons that will ap- pear. One night these five men, armed | with nothing beyond their knives and spears, which are used for fishing in lower Burmah, ertered a house, tied up the own- er and began plundering. Now this house Was in a large village containing not only @ population of some 1,400, but a police pest, with fifteen native policemen armed with Sniders. The alarm was given, and the house surrounded, and—then there was a pause. The robbers continued their work undisturbed within; the villagers—some two or three hundred able-bodied men, all more or less armed—sat around on the dam which surroun d protects every village in delta, looked down on the house and di: cussed the question; the police stood rather rearer the house and fired shots into it through the bamboo walls, hurting no one. One solitary policeman, afier a time, vol unteered to advance. He crept up quite close to the house and fired in through an cpening in the wall: then he went further, end actually put his head and part of his | * through the hole, apparently to see Whe} From the what execution he had done. One of the robbers promptly pinned him to the ground | with a fish spear and killed him. By this time th-y had completed their preparations. so they sallied forth, each man with his pack of plunder on ‘his back. | Though the house was surrounded, they #ppear to have had no dfficulty in making | their way through: only the police fired af- ter them with buckshot and hit three of them in the back, not seriously wounding | them. But one of the band had the mis-, fertune to stumble and fall. Instantly the crowd rushed upen him, and before he could rise literally hacked him to pieces, | and so effectively that not the slightest | clue to his identity remained. He was abs lutely destroyed: no one knews even what | was his nationality. The other four got away. Now comes the sequel, which Is, if po: sible, still more extraordinary. Some days after, a man in a neighboring village | formed the thugyi, or head man, that two | of the villagers, whom he named, had been | concerned in the late dacoity. The thug: had them arrested promptly, and they were carried to headquarters for fdentification. The man whose house had been plundered was confronted with a crowd of men from | the informers village and told to pick. The | first he picked was the informer: then he | pointed out the two men accused All three were examined and found to have buckshot | still sticking in their backs, and ell three | were hanged—for dacoity in which a man Is killed is murder. The remaining robber | Was never traced. A DIAMOND IN HIS LEG. A Cincinnati Ma Orloff Preciou From the Cincinnati Enquirer. Gus Fox, a deater in diamonds on 4th Street, has a story about the famous Or- loff diamond, named after Count Orloff, the first European who bought it. Fox says: ! “It was originally the eye of an {dol in ‘Trichinopoli. It was stolen, according to the accepted account, by a Frenchman, who escaped with it to Persia, where he sold it for the equivalent in our money of $8,006 to a Jewish merchant. “The Jewish merchant sold it to an Ar- menian named Shafras, who had traveled in Russia, and conceived the idea of taking the diamond to that country and selling it to the Empress Catherine for a great sum. Shafras paid him $50,000 for it. “Having secured the stone, the next ques- tion with Shafras was how to get it to Russia, or rather how to conceal it when he was searched by robbers, as he was sure to be on the road. The journey was a long and perilous one, and thieves abounded everywhere. Sha- fras thought of swaliowing the stone when he should be taken by the robbers, but was obliged to give that plan up, as the dia- mond was too large to swallow. “He began to feel he had a white ele- phant on his hands, when a thought oc- curred to him. He procured a sharp lance, made a cut in the fleshy part of his left leg and thrust the diamond into the wound. He sewed up the cut with a needle and a silver wire. It healed, leaving the diamond embedded fast in his leg, quite out of sight. “Then he started for Russia. On the way he was seized by robbers again and again, and was thoroughly searched. Being an Armenian, and suspected of going to Rus- sta to trade, the thieves marveled greatly at finding nothing of value upon his person. “He arrived in Russia at last, and, after extracting his diamond, visited the sot Stery of the Stone. press. He was willing to sell it for about $150,000, but the empress had not so large an amount available in cash for the pur- chase, and Shafras preferred to go on to Amsterdam, the seat of the diamond-cut- ting industry, where he had the stone polished. “Here Count Orloff, an extremely wealthy Russian, saw the diamond, and was filled with a determination to secure It for the Russian crown, He did secure it, but Sha- fras exacted from the Russian government $400,000, an annuity of $20,000 and a title of nobility. He died a millionaire. “The Orioff diamond weighs 195 carats, and is about the size of a pigeon’s egg. It is smaller thar the Koh-i-Noor, in the pos- session of the English queen, which is sup- Posed to be worth $3,750,000.” — ses __ Had to Regin Early. From th: Chieago Record. “How early do you clean house, Mrs. Per- kins?” “Well. I always try to get started before the neishbers begin to borrow my steplad- ‘ORKS! FIRE IRKS! ‘The Roys MUST celebrate cts. Firecrackers, 2 ; Roman Candi balis army, 4 cts.; Xm. "Salutes, 8 cts, per dou. is. Lanterta Fagan Ballesss Joo En gat LD, 421 9th st. ~ iv® | ured prominently in it himself. 'S FAMOUS RACE. BOOTHBY His Adversary Pushed Along by an Earthquake. From the Chicago News. Boothby tcld us another story about phenomenal natural disturbance. He said he felt tender about it because he had fig- The story concerned a habit engineers on the Van- dalia and the Ohio and M'ssissipp! roads had of racing. Just east of East St. Louis is the crossing of a pelt railroad, and from there on to the bluffs, seven miles away, is a straight streak of parallel track. As the outgoing passenger trains all leave East St. Louis at about the same time it was tue regular thing for Ohio and Missis- sippi and Van engineers to hammer for their lives over these seven miles, while the passengers yelled defiance at one an- other ard whooped and got excited. The Ohio and Mississippi had one engine, the «, which was able to waik away from everything ever put up agairst her. She had humiliated all the Van engineers, ex- cepting Boothby, end he fairly ached to get at her. One day, just as he had whistled for the crossing, he heard another whistle, and, looking over, saw the Ohio and Mis- sissippi tram abreast. The ergine’s num- ber was 60. Boothby straightened up for the race of his life. Tenderly, notch by notch, he opened the throttle while the fireman kept the old kettle just off the popping point. Over the belt tracks they went, the 60 alongside. To his joy, Boothby saw he was ching away from his opponent. Like a statue he sat, coddling the machine, and at the first mile he was two coach-lengths to the good. His passengers were shrick- ing their joy, while those on the O. and M. were dumb. The O. and M. crew, too, seem- ed astonished, and gathered on the plat- forms to look over at the Van's new racer. It_was Boothby’s race in a walk. Suddenly the Van engineer saw some- thing was happening. Looking over his shoulder, he found the O. and M. train only half a car-length back and surging along like lightning. It scared him, and he pulled her still wider open. Then did that noble 182 engine respond. She leaped through the air, hardly seeming to touch the rails. Right at her shoulder was the «0. Boothby gave her more. They were both going within a mile a minute. Booth- by said he never saw a locomotive go 1k that 60, but he knew his machine was as good as the best. They plunged forward more furiously than the win. Three miles, four, five, and then—oh, joy!—the 60 began to fall back. At the sixth mile she was two coach-lengths behind, and as the trains swept away from each other at the base of the bluffs the O. and M. was three trafn- lengths off to the rear. At Collinsville Hank Hibbard, white-faced, came rusking up to the !82 as she lay un- der the water tank getting water. “Great heavens, Boothby!” cried the con- ductor, “do you know what you've been running against?” “The O. and M.’s hottest stuff, and I ccoled it for ‘em. “Yes, you have. You've been running against an earthquake. That O. and M. train was picked up by it just out of town. A hill twenty feet high followed her last Pullman and she was running downhill the entire way, being pushed forward all the distance. “Say, Hank,” sald Boothby, earthquake help us any?’ “No; we were 100 yards ahead of it all the time.” Boothby climbed back on his box and Hibbard returned to the train. But al- though Boothby’s achievement brought glory to his round house, he would never race again. He said he didn’t mind whip- ping an ordinary engine run by ordinary steam, but he didn’t want to combat with a thing that “laid up” wita devils and was in league with cyclone, storm and earth- avake. These are the two instructive stories told by Engincer Boothby to David Lawrence and myself—two trusting cyclists who stop- ped to rest with him. —+e2—_____ Are These Hard Times? Gath in the Cincinnati Inquirer. I live, whenever I can, in a country place. Some time ago I was clearing up a piece of terribly rough ground, full of stumps, each stump in which required near a half day of labor, when I went to a rustic city in my neighborhood, possessed with the idea that I might find a tool to obviate so much wages. I observed a saw, about seven feet in length, of the finest steel, with teeth like the devil's. I thought to myself: “Perhaps there is some solution of the dif- ficulty with my stumps. But 1 suppose those saws would cost me $20 apiece, which I cannot afford. Said I to the hardware mai for that seven-foot saw?” He said: “One dollar.’ Afraid he had made a mistake, I picked up a saw, handle and all, and carried it off to the railroad station. In about an hour after 1 arrived all my formidable stumps had been sawed off to the ground. A little later I thought to have mason‘s sSquave made of iron or steel. These instru- ments I had seen in the hands of my me- chanics, who charged me galore. I supposed that the square would cost me about $3. The price was 25 cents. I quit the hardware shop with the square in my hand, lest the price might rise in transit. About the same time I thought of lux- uriating in a country porch, some 35 feet by 12 in dimensions, covered with a roof, ete. I went in Washington to a lumber yard. The entire equipment for the said perch cost me about $30. I left the lumber yard, as the hardware shop, wondering where 1 could find a real grievance against our times soo Where Mathematics Failed. From the Hartford Courant. The story told by a New Haven corre- spondent of the Evening Post of the locat- ing of a meteor by Prof. H. A. Newton of Yale from data obtained from a chance pho- tograph of the meteor’s flight, recalls an- other story récently related hereabouts by a Yale graduate. This young man, when a student, occupied a room in. Divinity Hall. One night he undertook with a toy rifle to hit one of the lights on the campus. His aim was poor and the ball passed through the window of an eminent and venerable professor of science (not Prof. Newton) and imbedded itself in the wall. This was the opportunity for the professor and for sci. ence. He, too, set to work and “computed the curve,” and with the exact skill of in- fallible tigures he traced the ball right back to the room of an innocent colleague, who didn't even know the rifle had been fired. The unfledged minister flatly denied all knowledge of the affair. But men, even ministers, have been known to make denials in self-defense, and the professor had the proof with him. There was the bullet, there were the marks of its course, and there was the computation worked out. It looked as if a pulpit career was to be nipped in the bud. But the guilty student heard what wes going om He called on the professor, confessed the offense, pointed out that the man of science was 200 feet out in his com- putation, and advised that the matter ‘be dropped right where it was. And that was “did that “How mush MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS Lively Time in Prospect When They Go to Chicago, SILVER MEN HAVE BEEN HARD AT WORK Contests to Be Made in Several Districts. FEELING OF REPUBLICANS eS Speciu! Correspondence of The”Evening Star. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., July 1, 1896. The Michigan democrats will have a merry time in Chicago when the brethren assemble in national convention, and it is not at all certain that Don M. Dickinson and the federal office holders will have it all their own way, as they did at the state convention in Detroit two months ago. The silver men carried the caucuses and county conventions by a large majority, preliminary to the state convention, and were confident that they would easily con- trol the state convention that would elect delegates to the national convention. But a few days before the convention a post office inspector, with headquarters in De- troit, made a hurried tour of the state, telegraphing ahead for the postmasters to meet him at the depot as the train came in. He was working under instructions of Don M. Dickinson, and the word he passed around was that the postmasters must turn out to support the administration. They obediently turned out, and instead of having a majority in the convention the silver men found the other fellows in pos- session, chiefly on proxies. The gold forces elected the four delegates-at-large, and of the twenty-four district delegates elected thirteen ‘were for sound money. The conven- tion, in addition to passing rigid sound- money resolutions, adopted the unit rule, with the view of making the state solid for sound money. The silver men had been neatly and completely “hornswoggled,” and now they are going to the national convention to get even. They will be on the ground early, and there will be no proxies. Since the state convention the silver men have been gathering affidavits from the original delegates elected to the state con- vention, and especially from those who gave proxies, showing that the proxies ig- nored instructions given by the county con- ventions, and instead of voting for silver, as told to do, they had gone over to the other side. The seats of the district dele- gates from the fourth, seventa and n.ucth districts, and perhaps from others, will be contested on the ground that the proxies did nqt obey orders, and with the national convention in contrel of the silver men it is confidently expected that the contests will stand. If the contests stand the unit rule impos- ed by the state convention will remain in force, and the gold men will be voted solid- ly_with the others for silver. If the contest does not stand, then the unit rule will be attacked to enable the eleven silver delegates to vote according to conscience and inclination. Whichever way it goes it will make a merry fight, and still further wreck Don M. Dickinson’s Michi- gan democracy. The Michigan delegation, at least the silver wing of it, will vote for the nomination of Boies. “They admire Teller, but think he has not been a demo- crat iong enough to be honored with the nom tion of the party. - Silver Sentiment in Michigan. ‘The adopticn of the sound-mroney plank hy the St. Louis convention is not unani- mously approved by the republicans in Michigan. There is a strong silver senti- ment in this state, engendered, frerhaps, by potatoes at 10 cents a bushel, and there is a widespread revolt against the sound money declaration. The Detroit Tribu openly bolts the platform, although it has many words of praise for the party nom- inee, and in its course has the warm sup- port of a large contingent throughout the state. Few, If any, of the republican papers in the state approve the financial plank, but they deprecate the course taken by the Tribune and assure their readers that while the plank is not all that could be desire’, yet the grand old party will do what right, regardless of the platform. If thi election were to be held today, the state would undoibtedly go for silver by an overwhelming majority; but there will be an abundance of time for the educational Process between now and next November, ard republican party managers are hope- ful of pulling through. Republican Gubernatorial Candidates The republican gubernatorial candidates are siding up on the financial question. Col. A. T. Bliss supports the platform and the cendidate. Pingree supports the candidate, but cannot swallow the plank. Aitken is an ardent believer in silver, but will not bolt the platform or the candidate—at least rot until after the nominating convention. O'Donrell is on the silver side of the fence, and Wheeler is not saying a word. The candidates are industriously working their respective booms, getting ready for the show-down in Avgust. Some of their methods are unique. Bliss has a literary bureau and a stereotypes foundry in connecticn with his boom and he is industriously working both of them. If a paper has a flattering article for B it is immediately put into “boiler-plate’ form and sent to the various republican papers in the state for republication. Pingree is freely making use of the state papers regardless of politics. He is adver- tising his make of foot wear, and the demo- crat papers are adorned with his portrait and the merits of his shoes as freely as the republican. The advertisements are in two or three forms, one form having a border of potatoes around the reading matter. O'Donnell is a newspaper man himself, and almost every mail brings to the repub- lican papers articles telling of his services to the party and to his country. He frank- ly admits that his services have been re- warded by elght years in Congress, but he says that this reward was conferred by a single district, and what he wants is a state reward. Wheeler is working his boom on the blot- ting pad plan, with an occasional piece of musie or song written by a Manistee singer on the side. On the blotting pad is a map of Michigan, with black dots showing where the “has been” governors lived, squares showing where the “would be” governors reside, and a big open star over Manistee to Indicate where the “ought to be” governor lives. Harry Conant of Monroe 1s working his boom ‘on the still-hunt basis, and has neither a terary bureau nor active work- ers out in his behalf. Aitken has an advantage over all the other candidates in that he has Auditor General Turner as his political manager. Turner controls the printing of tax sales In the country papers, and this gives him a tremendous leverage with the editorial minds of the state. The tax sales must be printed In at least one paper in each coun- ty, and as the job is worth from $500 to $1,800, depending upon the county, Mr. Tur- ner can have pretty nearly anything he wants. It was through Turner's influence with the editors that General Alger's elec- tion as delegate-at-large to the St. Louis convention was made possible, and he is working along the same lines for Aitken. a Electric Painting. From the Philadelphia Record, “Electric painting” is the name given to @ novel process invented by a Swedish ar- Uist, Mr. Swen of Goteborg. This process makes it possible to adorn plateglass with artistically executed paintings in such a way as to serve as panels for furniture or articles de luxe. As a matter of fact, the panels exhibited by Mrs. Swen, at Berlin, show as @ consequence of the curious ap- tication of coloring a wonderful effect; the use of phosphorescent matter in the colors produces a glowing brilliancy which in semi-darkness or entire obscurity illumines these panels with a glowing light of won- drous beauty. The painting will never fade, and being protected by the plate glass is indestructible. These decorated glass plates are greatly preferable to majolica tiles for their beauty and unlimited durability. Experts have pronounced this newly pat- ented process an invention of great value for use in furniture and for decorative pur- poses. IN HOTEL SORRIDORS|TALKING OF FUSION ees “The talk of John:R. McLean as a can- didate for the presifency reminds me of the old Cincinnati Stocking Base Ball Club,” said A. L. Gardner of Cincinnati at the Cochran. “Mr. McLean was always an athlete and posse: f gentlemanly sport- ing instincts. In fa¢t his tastes so ran to sports that his newspaper, the Enquirer, made a world-wide fpputation for its sen- sational and sportyifeatures, it being the subject of many a'/germon and debarred from a it many homes, but maintaining its lead in circulation. Whon the old Red Stocking Base Ball Ctub was formed, John R. McLean joined © it, and went on its famous tour when it’completed the entire season without losing a game. Mr. Mc- Lean was one of the best players on the diamond, and his nomination would be greeted with great enthusiasm by the base ball fans. “There would seem to be no question of the election of Bob Taylor as governor of Tennessee,” said W. R. Brabson of Mem- phis at the Riggs. “It is not so much a matter of politics as of destiny. When 1 first knew Gov. Taylor he ran a very small- sized country newspaper. He made the race for Congress on the democratic ticket in a district overwhelmingly republican, in order to preserve the party organization. His violin accompaniment to his speeches electzd him. Then he became poor trying to practice law, and was appointed pension agent at Knoxville. Then his brother was nominated for governor by the republicans and this led to the nomination and election of Bob Taylor to the governorship. He has never been satisfactory to the straightout leaders, but seems to have a sort of hyp- notic spell over the masses. His character is the most unique in politics.” “The success of the sM@diers’ colony at Fitzgerald shows the plan that should be pursued by the United States government,” said L. D. Bacon of Atlanta at the Nor- mandie. “As it Is now, nearly $150,000,000 a year are spent in pensions. The average pensioner only receives $8 or $12 a month, which is not enough to support him or to very materially ald in his support. What he needs is an opportunity to help himself. This the Fitzgerald colony, purely a pri- vate enterprise, furnishes, and a town of fifteen thousand inhabitants has sprung up like magic as the result. If the government would do the same, give the old soldiers a colony in each state, not a ‘home,’ where they are separated from their families, but a colony where they can be self-supporting and supply all deficiencies, it would result in greatly decreasing the cost of pensions, while thousands of old soldiers would feel much more independent than now “Iam the owner of a two-wheeled veloci- pede that I used to ride in 1866,” said P. T. Thompson of Louisville at the Ebbitt. “Thirty years ago a velocipede club was formed, similar in all respects to the bicy- cle clubs of the present day, and I was a member, becoming an enthusiastic devotee of the wheel. There were about sixty members in the club, and we traversed the turnpikes of Kentucky pretty generally. The velocipedes then had two wheels, the same size as the safety bicycles have, ex- cept that the velocipede wheels were very large, and there were no pneumatic tires. I had not seen my old velocipede for twenty years when I went home last week on a visit. I found the Whéel in the garret, and went out for a spin., ‘There were any num- ber of bicycles, but the bicyclists all stop- ped to look at the strange-looking machine I had. Even men who used them thirty years ago stopped_and gazed on my wheel with curiosity. They. had forgotten how the old velocipede was built.” - “This is my first {isit t6 Washington since 1868," said R. P. Wilder of Denver, at the Arlington. “The changes are wonder- ful. The city has beén so improved that every American ought to be proud of it. 1t is certainly a beautiful place, and the re- markable thing about it is that it has been transformed from @ mud hole into what it now is. When 1 was here in 1868 the busi- ness of the departments was practically stopped. Every clérk “was either on leave of absence, helping, his, party, or he was oc- cupying his time talking politics. It was a scramble for the ‘ins’ to stay in, and the ‘outs’ to get in. For several months it was dificult for the work of the departments to be kept up. ‘To one who has been here con- stantly, the difference would not be so noticeable as it is to me, because it has un- doubtedly been brought about gradually, but 1 have met a number of clerks during the past few d , and not one of them is taking the least interest in politics. None of them are on the stump, and none of them are asking for leave of absence to take part in the campaign. The change has been wonderful.” — Woman Who Shoes Horses. From the Chicago News. . Miss Alva Reed, a good-lookiag colored girl, who resides with her parents at Ar- mour avenue and th strest, is probably the only woman ‘n Chicago who can shoe a horse. Miss Reed is a plump little woman, weighing 140 pounds. She 1s slightly more than 5 feet in height and is twenty-two years old. She was raised in North Caro- lina, where her father owned a blacksmith shop. The girl had no brothers, and so after school hours, when her dishes were all w ed, she would go into her father's ad make herself generally useful to She could blow the big bellows, do errands and “keep shop” when her’ fa- ther’s business called.him aw: y- “I had learned how to trim a horse's hoors,” said Miss Reed yesterday, “and had seen father fit the shoes; so one day, when a stranger brought a horse while bapa was out and wanted him shod im- mediately, I concluded to try my hand on the job. I was elghteen years old and a big, strong girl. I blew up tMe fire, took off the old shoes, pared the animal's hoofs, put new shoes on his front feet and tight- ened up the oid shoes on his hind ones, charged the man $1 and turned the money over to father when he returned. He was both indignant and surprised. He déclared that I had ruined a prospective customer for him and that the man would be back the next day, leading a limping animal and uttering blue streaks of language. But nothing of the sort ever happened. Miss Reed has lived in Chicago since the world’s fair. Her father liked Chicago, sold out his business in the south and is now engaged in the coal and express busi- ness near his hotae. Miss Reed is cashier in a downtown restaurant, but there is a blacksmith shop near her home where she occasionally “turns a horseshoe just to keep her hand in. eee. All the London Museums Open on Sunday. From the London Daily Telegraph. For the first Sunday, in their history the whole of the nationatimuseums in London have been thrown ‘opéh to*the public. De- spite the temptation ta:spend the afternoon in the sunshine and frésh air, nearly 10,000 bersons sought to improve their minds and rest their bodies in tha various storehouses of science, art and archaeology, not to men- tion the unnumbered patrons of the numer- ous free libraries. ‘Squth Kensington Mu- seum again headed’ thé list, with an attend- ance of 3,173, the National Gallery coming next with 2,437. The National Portrait Gal- lery, opened for tHe first time on a Sunday, attracted 623, and tHe statistics for the other resorts wer cgional History Mu- seum, 1,777, Britivh Museum, 1,644; Geo- logical Museum, 191. eg Free Soda as ‘aw Advertisement. From the New York Sun, “ One of the bigge¥t Hepartment stores in New York proposes to do business during the hot weather with the ald of free soda. The expense of manufacturing soda water In large quantities ts ccmparativeiy small, and it is believed by the promoters of this idea that free soda water will prove an inducement that no woman can resist and keep her self-respect when the pavements outside are sizzling with the heat. The proprietor of one of these big stores said several days ago that there was no dead season during the summer in his business now. He said that many southern women come to New York in the middle of the summer to do their shopping. They found it convenient to stop here for a few days on their way to and from the cool sum- mer resorts, and this in itself was a busi- ness that amount to many thousands of dollars. Moreover, the fall goods are now displayed before the summer goods are well out of the way. ‘North Carolina Populists Willing to Tie to Either Party. THEY WANT GUTHRIE FOR GOVERNOR Free Coinage of Silver is the Su- preme Issue in the State. THE COLORED VOTERS Special Corresponience of The Evening Star. RALEIGH, N. C., July 1, 1896. The democrats made no mistake when by an overwhelming vote their state conven- tion decided not to defer the nomination of @ state ticket until after all the national conventions had been held. The action taken has strengthened the party immense- ly. The nomination of Cyrus B. Watson, a straight-out silver man, for governor, has had a distinctly beneficial effect. The ac- tion of the gold men in the convention, in their earnest work for the party, has brought about a unity of purpose to carry the state, which is exactly what the party needed. The populist plan, The Star correspondent is assured on high authority, was to seek in all sorts of ways to induce the democrats to postpone nominations and then the popu- lists would have immediately held a con- vention, named William A. Guthrie for gov- ernor and given liberally to democrats places on a mixed state ticket. That this plan would have caught many democrats goes without saying, the more particularly as the populists would have said: “This is the way to get silver. This is the way to defeat D. L. Russeil, the republican nomi- nee for governor.” But the action of the democrats has nullified all these plans. Populists and Republicans, A democrat of prominence, who enjoys the confidence and respect of the populists, Says that he feels sure the plan of the populists and republicans now is to have a Joint state ticket, to put Guthrie at its head, to make Russell United States Sena- tor, and Senator Pritchard to go in Mc- Kinley’s cabinet. The source from which this news comes makes it particularly in- teresting. Though it has been repeatedly denied that RusseH ever wrote a letter of- fering to come down as the head of the ticket, The Star correspondent is assured by James C. MacRae, F. H. Busbee and E. C. Smith and others that the letter was written and placed in the hands of Senator Pritchard, to be acted on whenever thought best. Russell declines to deny that he has written such a letter. Russell is a silver republican, and the plan is that he is to be a silver republican Senator, it is asserted. As to the electoral ticket put up by the republicans, it is said a majority of their State committee favor taking it down and substituting populists. James H. Young, a member of the committee, says this is the state of the case. Senator Pritchard, whose Prospects of election have for ‘several months been regarded by many as in grave Jeopardy, has favored giving the populists the governor and half the electoral ticket. ‘There is, personally speaking, no love lest between Senators Pritchard and But- ler. This is well known. ‘The friends of Senator Pritchard declare that Butler has not lived up to his compact made in Jaa- uary 1, 1895, that he and the populists would work and vote for Pritchard's re- election in 1897. They charge Butler with turning traitor. One of the leaders in this active championirg of Senator Pritchard is Representative Pearson. On the other hand, the friends of Senator Butler say Pritchard was one of the chief Promoters of the populist revolt against Butler; that pressed Representative Skin- rer, Cyrus Thompson and others to issue a manifesto against Butler, and that they have incited James M. Mewborne and other populists to do the same thing. They fur- ther allege that one of Butler's clerks in Washington was regularly betraying office secrets to Pritchard. ist Committee Meeting. The ropulist state executive committee is called to meet here on the 3d of July. ‘This was decided on last Saturday. Guthrie ‘ante here that day. He said that great movements were on foot. More than this he declined to reveal, but said the com- mittee would call the state convention to assemble between August 1 and 15. Inci- dents are often straws to show the direc- tion of the wind, and it was significant that republican-populist State Treasurer Worth, while at the station Saturday with Guthric, introduced the latter to some relatives as “Governor Guthrie.” Guthrie said the dem- cerats had put up Cy. Watson to beat Rus- sell, and that now the populists will put up a man to beat both. Guthrie has insisted that the republican party is honeycombed by populism, and that he would get 25,000 of its votes, and he aiso said if he could not beat Russell he could not beat anybody. There are demo- crats who declar2 now they have all the while believed that the populists would fuse with the republicans again simply be- cause they were not willing for the world to know how small their real strength is. It has been one of Senator Butler's objects to keep his party as the balance of power in both the state and nation. The Colored Vote. ‘The negro voters claim that their race holds the real balance of power, and that their attitude this fear will be far more in- dependent than ever before. The conven- tion of anti-Russell negroes which will be held here next Thursday, July 2, is awaited with some interest, as the signers of the call for it embrace many of the best edu- cated negroes in the state. The claim is made by populists that there is a great and deep-seated sentiment for free silver among the negroes, but negroes say this is untrue: that they are for McKinley and what he represents. Many negroes declare that Russell got the nomination only by holding on to the skirts of McKinley and Pritchard. Free Silver the Supreme Issue. With the mass of the people free silver is the supreme issue. “It far overshadows such issues as state banks of issues, &c.,”” says ex-Senator Jarvis, who is to be the chairman of the North Carolina delegation to the democratic national convention, and who is also the vice president of this state of the Democratic Silver League. Senator Butler made the opening speech of the campaign at Wilmington a day or two ago, and much of it was denunciation of the democratic party as traitors and hypocrites. He urged democrats to desert their own party and join the silver party, and denounced their party as opposed to silver, asserting that if it declared for free silver at Chicago it would prove false to its pledge. He made ‘the strange statement that gold men controlled the democratic state convention last week at Raleigh. At the end of his speech a rising vote of thanks was given the Senator, in which, strange to say, many democrats joined. It Js said here that if the latter did this strange thing deliberately, then they are not democrats, but silver party men; that is, they put silver above their party. This is what Senator Butler has for over a year eee endeavoring to induce democrats to lo. x-Senator Jarvis says of the North Car- olina delegation to Chicago: “It will go there without any personal preference, its sole object being to make a Platform for the coinage of gold and silver at 16 to 1, which cannot, by the ingenuity of man be misunderstood, and to nominate for Presi- dent the ablest man to be found whose sin- cere convictions are in harmony with that platform.” 2 rs Where Jackson Fought a Duel. From the Adairville (Ky.) Banner. During the storm last week a large red elm tree in front of Tom Darden’s house, near town, was blown down. This elm was perhaps the most historic tree in the coun- ty, and was known as the “'Dizkerson tree.” It was situated on the grounds whereon the famed Jackson-Dickerson duel was fought, years ago, and under its spreading branch- es Dickerson reclined, awaiting medical attention, after SE aaLy, wounded by General Jackson. trunk of this old tree measures only four feet in while its branches measure 100 feet across. Mr. Darden greatly regrets the uprooting of this old forestry landmark. —— on her. No make washing Millions Ne THEY LEAVE COURTESY AT HOME. Unnecustomed Frankness of an En- glish Writer. From the London Sketch, A friend of mine has just returned froin a long sketching tour in parts of France and the Netherlands, and has told me many and curious things about the way Englishmen and things are considered by people who have had no chance of a first- hand acquaintance with them. In the course of conversation I asked him to name the English artists who were most talked about, and the names he gave were start- ling. I quote his words: “The three artists whose work is best known are Walter Crane, Raven Hill and Aubrey Beardsley I tried hard to convince him that he had misunderstood the public taste, but he was as positive as the mendactous little heroine of “We Are Seven.” I quoted artist after artist who might be presumed to appeal more powerfully to the foreign mind; he absolutely refused to withdraw his state- ments, which were, he said, founded on most careful observation. Isn't it a curio combination? One can understand the Presence of the first two names, but Beardsley—leaving his work itself out of the question—is scarcely fledged. His work for John Larne, whose books sell largely on the continent, is the only explanation I can find for his popularity. On another point, and one, I venture to think, of interest to intelligent travelers, my friend was very strong. He told me that country people in the parts he visited regard the Englishman as some uncouth monster, with plenty of money and an ut- ter absence of manners or taste. This feel- ing is one I have also noted, and it un- doubtedly arises from the curious way in which our countrymen leave their courtesy at home when they travel. I have seen the mildest-mannered man who ever did the Bond street crawl in the London season absolutely transformed, a few months later, when I met him on the continent in the tweed suit and offensive cap peculiar to the traveling Englishman. At home he may be a thoroughly good sort; abroad, he | speaks loudly, acts vulgarly, and condemns all men who have not the privilege of being his compatriots. If in Paris, he will Bo to the Opera House in a morning coat and gaiters, he will curse waiters, and by a dozen pieces of carelessness offend peo- ple around him. If he did such things in town he would be voted “no class,” but he honestly believes that such behavior is all benighted foreigners have a right to ex- pect. International congresses and journal- istic courtesies and the friendly meetings of representative men of the nations can never increase the entente between our- selves and our continental neighbors until the great body of our countrymen will treat foreign prejudice with more consid- eration. If the faults proceeded from bad breeding and native barbarity, they would be beyond control, but, as they are only the result of carelessness and thoughtless- ness, it behooves men to reflect. The good opinion of a country is worth having. SS Origin of Tattooing. From Popular Science Monthly. What is the origin of this usage? Re- ligion, which has so much pewer over peo- ples, and which proves so obstinate in pre- serving ancient customs, has certainly con- tributed to maintain it among the more barbarous part of ovr populations; we see @ quasi-official proof of it at Lorette. Those who cultivate a devotion for a saint be- lieve that by engraving his image on their flesh they will give him a proof, a clear testimony, of their love. We know that the Phoenicians marked the sign of their divinity on their foreheads (Ewald, Ju- daischen Alterthun, iii). In the Marshall Islands they have to ask permission of the Bods to tattoo themselves, and the priests alone in New Zealand perform the office of tattooing (Scherzer). Lubbock adds to this that a woman who does not wear a tattoo mark cannot enjoy eternal felicity. The women of Britain tattcoed themselves in obedience to religion (Pliny, 33). The second cause is the spirit of imita- tion. A Lombard soldier answered me laughingly one day when I rallied him on his having spent a small sum to spoil his arm: “See, monsieur, we are like sheep, and when one of us dces anything we all imitate him at once, even if we risk doing ourselves harm.” Love of cistirction also has its influence. A thief of the most incorrigible sort, who had six brothers tattooed like himself, im- plored me, although he was half covered with the oddest tattoo marks, to find him a professional tattooer to complete what might well be styled the embroidery of his skin. “When the tattooing is very curious and spreads all over the body,” he told me, “it is to us other thieves like the black coat of society with decorations—the more we are tattooed, the more we esteem one another; the more a person is tattooed, the more influcnce he has over his companions. 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It has been named the “Bell- shaped mountain,” and a more appropriate cognomen could not be found. This peak, which hax always been one of the sights for tourists, occ ‘uples a most un- usual position. It is directly in the center of the channel, and when the steamer is going northward seems to block further progress, For several miles before the mountain is reached the passageway is not any too wide, and steep ~nountains come close to the water's edge on both sides. They seem to join the lower portion of the bell-shaped mountain, and form an impass- able barrier across the roadway. As the steamer is heading directly for the mountain it shows to the best advar- tage. Rising abruptly from tie mirror-like surface of the water, it rears its bead about 1,000 feet toward the sky and reveals the most perfect symmetry in its outline. The sides siope inward, and on the top there is @ litle knoll, the whole combination form- ing a perfect bell. 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