Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1897, Page 1

i — THE EVENING = eee PUBLISH DAILY EXCEPT AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, TIC] Fennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th &t., by ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company S. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't. Kew York Ofice, 49 Potter Building. The Hvoniag Star is served to subscribers In the vs, on (heir own account, at 10 ecni ai cents per monte. Copies at the conts each. By mali—anywhere in the States or Cenada—postage prepaid--50 ecats Fer month. Satrrday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with foreign postage added, §3. (Latersd at the Post Officé at Washington, D. C., Bs xecend-class mat! matter.) [7 All mail subscriptions must be paid In advance. Rates of advertising made known on application A LAKE OF RED WINE. A Cistern Which Will Hold 500,000 Gallors of Grape Juice. From the San Francisco Chronicle. A rippling lake of red wine, hidden from sun and sheltered from change of temper- ature by a great mound of earth, a half million gallons of sweet grape juice ripen- in a subterranean cavern, artificial though it b the new California style. Ten times might the great tun of Heidel- berg Le filled before this hidden spring would be exhausted, and the great redwood reservoir in and its companion t Merced are as thimbles to this giant's Hquor el: ing this city but bottle it is, and its filling shed, though for five days pumps have forced 4-inch of the ex ssed juices of the wiss-Italan colony's grapes into It. Be- this great tank at Asti, whose sides the Russian river valle attempts at the storage of vast itities of grape juice are insignificant. n resorvoirs of the same rectansu pe have taken the place of the tuns in which the jeyful Juices of the Rhinesi grapes took on thelr full sweetness and Long ago the 50,000-gallon Heidel- was surpassed. London sted vice as large. and F aif to that and is still behind ced, whose great tun will hold four times the full of its historic predecessor. evolutionizing bottle-lake, which $100,000 worth of grape ths before it must be drawn into ng was a creature of neces- and the product of ingenuit for, thot avation, cement lined a erior has been glazed properties of gla: ne wine should grow old and mellow as comfortably as in the narrow walls of a man-blown flask, First, an excavation was made in a hillside the rear of the win concret! feet tn thick- nor and the sides » cover, the latter being steel girders. Next, was covered with a lin- and finally t was pity of glass. The buried beneath feet of arth, grass will grow above the wine The object of all these precautions is to maintain the wine at a uniform temperatur The cement wine tank ts 10% feet long, Bt feet wide and 24 feet high. From the xXterior, however, it ears as a gigan- the ey is a manhole 3 meter, which will serve te low ef a workman to clean out when ¢ p two 4-inch which the vir, It has sttom being a Hitle that the centents rawn off by gravitation. To $ nel 4 feet in dizi been bh which ru com- with nm wooden aged barrels pre- and reservoir was re- et that the sand nt on the spot, j few hun- in its cost was $ are sev- ages to be from the ion of the concrete and cement One of these, it Is expected, will be that wine will be maintained at an even cool temper: other is the equal blending of gallons of wine at one A third is the saving in insurance. calculated at the rate of $1,500 per which in five years would repay cost of construction. It was necessity and not choice, how- ever, which led eriment, proba- y » fruitful quences. The of the were cient to fill . and *hbering vineya . desiring to 1 products to a member of the wine- makers dey corporation, some means had to be 1 to care for these grapes. The ng machinery and the fermentation Bpparatus were sufficient, but the problem S what should be done with the wine. ne idea of the concrete cistern was broached and adopted. Only forty-five days, however, remained for its execution. arge number of 1 was thercfore employ ¥ Working day and night, were plete the task in exactly t Fort days after be nk it wi and only one day's ‘y was caused in the pic king and ecrush- ing of the grapes. Thursday last the pro- ss of filling the gigantic receptacle with ine was bee Pumps were set to work on both 4-inch pipes, and by Saturday night it had been half filled. By Wednes. Tight the immense quantity of wine be in place. ; oe HUMAN OXEN IV sour AMERICA, Some of the Hardships of Travel in the Tropics. Difficulties of Trans- in The Engineer- C. P. Yeatman tells teries of the strength and Kk carriers in Colombia. In an article on pertation in the Tre ing Magazine, some August, remarkabie onal pack carriers on who make a specialty of carry- burdens which the sturdy and much en- ule cannot stagger under. On some of the roads you will see at times what appears to be a live box, staggering slowly end painfully down the mountainside ah of you; as you draw nearer, in. during mule aad you may hear box grunt, very much as an old pack does at each downward step on a road. re is something uncanny ling, if it is your and you happen suddenly rtake the box, going down hill, for ing, swaying and grunting mass has ble means of support, and no ap- steep about the experience, excuse for behaving in such a man- r % * © Very likely the road is too rrow for your mule to pass your fellow ter; s0 you are obliged to fol- in wake. But at last you ble to pass ahe and you find n nO way to blame for @ man under it. Short may be, but the muscle on you of the pictures of old the world on his brawny In one hand he carries a long, with which he steadies himse » and, when he wishes ‘ks up the bank on the side road, settles the lower end of his lead against the higher ound, and props vp she ppes end with his stick; then he is fre= to slip the plaited maguey tiber bands off his shoulders and forehead, and m under his burden. s. below the skirts, in w, gTeat knots and masses of i muscle, which form her not grace- but very useful, underpinning. Ask yw much weight she carries, and you he answer, as if it were a child's . has, ao mas’—equivalent to, wo hundred and twe nty pounds. As you catch sizht of her wrinkled face. you may thoughtlessly remark that it is a heavy joad for one of ner years; her answer ts apt to be: ‘You should see my grandmoth. ; she does carry heavy to.d:. T am not il-grown ye.’ This is sai > injured ac alr that you ride on wc ‘uy you 4 not remembered that man has a » be touchy about her age, even if she is not dressed in the height of fashion. As to the grandmother, and the probability of her still being able to carry burdens in this world. you are apt to bs strongly of the opinion that the ps wh old lady has drawn entirely on } ration; but G0 not be too sure of | the glaring tropical sun brings wrinkles quickly, and, where women are frequently mothers at fourteen years of age, @ great-grandmother y still be a very active member of so- this sort of freight carrying expen- sive? Rather! A twelve-arroba, 430-pound paskage, which {3 generally the maximum Che Zvening Star. No. 13,935. WASHINGTON, D. ©., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1897. TWO CENTS. ‘\ The Evening Star is the only afternoon paper in Washington that receives the dispatches of the Associated Press, It is therefore the only one in which the reader can find the complete news of the world, directly trans- mitted by telegraph, up to the moment of going to press. for men, as a nine arroba is for women, may cost $150 for one hundred miles, or $10.18 paper per ton per mile.” —_____+-e-+—_ FOUGHT A PANTHER. Man and Animal Fight to the Death With Natare’s Weapon: From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Probably the only man who ever killed a panther with no other weapon than the strong hands and brawny arms nature gave him Is a resident of Memphis. He is an Australian native, born in Syd- ney, and gives his name as John L. Sulli- an. He stands 6 feet 5 inches in his shoes, and weighs 215 pounds, not an ounce of which fs surplus flesh. His colossal frame is one solid mass of bone, sinew and mus- cle, and if fighting were his trade he would be ready to go into the ring at a moment's notice. Had he been reared a pugilist he would have cut no mean figure in the his- tery of the ring, and in all probability have proved a match for Peter Jackson in his paimiest days. But this modern giant says he never fought a man im all his life. The only tight of note he ever had was with a panther, and that laid him up for a year. He will remember that fight to his dying day. It occurred nine years ago. Sullivan was then ‘ireman of a construction train on the Louisville, New Orleans and. Texas rail- read, One day his engine stopped in the ovds near Shelby, {n Bolivar county, Miss., and having an hour's leisure he got off, intending to snatch an hour's rest on a pile of cane near the right of way. Just as he was preparing to lie down he saw 2 panther approaching through a ravine that concealed him from the construction crew. ullivan gave the alarm and the crew fled leaving him alone on the field. The pa er turned on Sullivan, whose presence it ignorant of until it heard his warning cry. Yhe animal,which proved to be of formid- able size, made a spring and landed on Sultivan with an impact that. would have feiled an ordinary man. The Australian stood the shuck without a stagger, how ever, und pushed the beast off with a po: erful shove, but not before its terrible claws had buried themselves in his flesh and torn off the skin and tissue from the neck to the walst. Then with a_ blo curdling snarl it attacked his legs, clawing off a section of his thigh and biting through the calf, where its teeth remained until Sullivan, with a powerful effort, ‘kicked loose,” as he himself described it. Th the battle began in earnest. The animal, now roused to fury, reared himself en his hind legs and came on with a rush. Sullivan caught him by both forefeet and held them a grip like iron. A furious followed. It ‘as a hand-to-hand between nd man beast on equal rms and with life as the stake. Sullivan tried to throw the beast, but the ground was slippery with his own blocd and prevented a firm foothold. At last, inch by inch, he forced the animal toward the root of a big tree and with a-mighty effort threw it down and fell on top of its rate body, never releasing his hold of forearms. a struggle that Sulfvan long ered with a shiver. He knew his chance lay in Keeping his clutch on the brute’s forearms, extending. them us wide as he could force them. After a brief ithing speli he crawled up: the" brute’s and planted one of, his knees firmly chest. All this time the panther was his hind legs to great advantage, ing chunks of flesh from Sullivan's feet. But he never thought of it. He hac other work before him. How to kill the beast was a question that puzzled him as he kneeled there, panting, half fainting with loss of blood, his nerves almost over- the fetid odor of the brute's cai inhaling its hot breath and almost the fire of its eyes. just he thought of a way, and nerving elf to the task he dug his knee deep down into the animal's chest, summoning all his strength to the effort, and feeling its bones crunching under him! Then using the spot on which the knee rested as a fulerum, he drew the animal's head to- ward him so as to break its neck. The ani- mal divined his. motive and resisted with all its strength, but the man prevafle@ and the neck broke with a snap that might have been heard a block. _ When the condictor and engliiéer came along half an hour afterward they found Sullivan lying unconscious in a pool of his own blood, almost in the arms of the beast he had slain. The animal weighed S05 pounds, and measured 9 feet 3% inches from tp %o tip. Sullivan is fifty years of age. His name is probably assumed. He has lived in the United States for twenty years and is em- oyed by the Memphis Street Railway Company as trackman. A reporter for the Commercial-Appeal saw him last night and took his measurements. His height is 6 feet 5 inches, his arms outstretched measure 6 feet 10 inches, 6% inches more those of Robert Fitzsimmons; the ch of his right arm is 31% inches re- taxed and 15 inches when tense; Fitzsim- mons’ biceps are only 12 inches; forearm 13 inches, an inch and a hulf more than Bob's; his chest measurement fs 39, against Fitzsimmons’ 41. Suilivan used to wear a No. 12 shoe, but after his encounter with the panther his feet, which had been badly clawed, swelled so that he now has to squeeze into a 13. Not long ago, it will be remembered that a local shoe dealer put out a pair of shoes with a placard stating that anybody the shoes would fit might have them. The shce dealer had no idea there was such a feot on earth. Sullivan came along and soon proved that his title to them was in- disputable Sullivan is afraid to fight a man for fear of fatal results to the other fellow. A blow from his right arm might kill an ox. feelin A SACKIFIC AS E OF WEEDS. Railroads of the Southwest Hampered by Vegetation on the Tracks. From the Railroad Gazette. In the southwest the railroads have a large item of expense which finds no place on the books of eastern companies, this being for the removal of weeds which grow rank and luxuriantly between the tracks, seriously impeding rapid running, being crushed under the wheels and making the tracks greasy and slippery. Various meth- ods have been propesed and tried to de- stroy these weeds, but that finally adopted iu the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road is to burn them by means of an ofl flame. This burner destroys the vegeta- tion between the rails and over a space of twenty-four to thirty inches outside of them. The outfit consists of a car made of iron, of iron shields suspended under the car and between the trucks, an ofl tank car having a capacity of 4,500 gallons and a smaller oil tank of 900 gallons capacity strong enough te withstand a pressure of seventy pounds per square inch. This tank is filled from the tank car and air pressure is supplied for forcing the oil to the burners. ‘he car, which is sixty-five feet long, is strengthened by connecting trusses at each side and has a cab sheath. ed with corrugated fron at one end. The car 1s intended to be pulled over the road by a locomotive. The shield beneath the car is thirty-two feet long with aprons at each side to retain the heat and to prevent side winds carrying the flame to one side of the shield. The forward truck is protected by an auxiliary shield fast- ened to the bottom of the lower arch bars. When the fire fs started the shield is low- ered to within three or four inches of the rail and the aprons then slide on the ground. When crossing bridges the shields are lift. ed clear of the rails twelve to fifteen inch- es hy means of air pressure from a reser- voir acting through a train of chains and pulleys. The oll supply is also cut off in crossing bridges, and the moment the ofl valves are closed the- flame is extin- guished and it 1s as-readily renewed when the oil valves are again opened. The oil is directed against the inclined under gur- face of the shield, which retains sufficient heat to ignite the oil, even after it has beer shut off for half an hour. in crossing small culverts and cattle guards the closing of the valve is unnecessary, as the lifting of the shield will carry the flame high enough to prevent any firing of the tHn- bers. G The compressed air for forcing the oil through the burners and for lifting the shield is supplied by two Westinghouse air pumps, these being sufficient to main- tain an air pressure of seventy pounds with four burners in use. The amount of ofl required for each burner is about eight gallons per mile. A light crude oil is preferred. Only a few minutes are required to get an effective heat after reaching the place where the work is to be done, and after the first few minutes no difficulty is experienced from the oil dropping on the rails and making them greasy. A gang of four men follow close to the car to put out all ties fired, but it is the intention soon to use steam jets ircm the locomotive in extinguishing fired ties. The speed with which the car trav. els depends upon the kind of vegetation to be scorched. Early in the season, when weeds are tender and not over five or six inches high, a speed of four miles an hour is practicable, whereas if the tratk is thickly covered and matted with heavy, coarse grass the speed must be reduced to two and a half miles an hour. Only the light blades of grass are consumed, the greater part being scorched, and while Many stalks appear quite green after the flame passes over them, in a few days they, too, wilt and die. One curious and un- explained fact which has also been ob- served in connection with forest fires fs that a new kind of vegetation appears after cach burning. The cost of operating the car for a day of twelve hours fs $50, so that covering thirty miles a day the average cost per mile is $1.66. It is claim- ed the of! consumed is a compartively small tem in the total charge, the transfer from one part of the road to another and the use of a locomotive bringing it up to the sum named. < ———__—_+-e+____ ANNEXATION AND PRICES. The Hawaiians Anticipate Decided Commercial Advantages. From the Honolulu Commercial Advertiser. “Annexation does not mean higher prices for dress goods,” said a prominent dry gocds merchant yesterday, “so men who have been holding off on the subject, fear- ing that the expense of dressing the fe- male members of their families will be In- creased, may rest easy. “For years America has been producing as fine quality of siik as can be found in ‘France, except in the surah variety. They have not quite cvercome the difficulty which blocks the road to success in that particular grade, but they will in time. Nearly all the dress silks sold in Honolulu and all the ribbons are made in the United States, so that with the advent of arnexa- ticn ,will come a reduction of 25 per cent in these goods. A majority of the laces sold here, I think, are made in Aterica. True, Valenciennes is, of course, made in Europe—nost of it in Brussels. The pro- gress made in these manufactures by peo- in the United States is, to say the 2st, remarkable. Twenty-five years ago the silk industry in America was in em- bryo, and wss begun by some ladies, who cultivated the silkworm as a fad. I be- Neve it was in 1876 that the first samples of silk were shown. Now enough of the fabric is woven there to supply the ladies in the states with the materials for the best gowns. ‘Of course, European goods will advance in price, according to the Dingley tariff, ard I think hosiery will come in for the hardest rub. These goods are made in Germany, and the Honolulu consumer now pays a duty, whether they are imported by the dealer direct or purchased from a job- ber in the United States. And that re- minds me! Some of the goods worn in Herolulu suffer a double duty. Few of the retail dealers here carry sufficient stock or order in quantities large enough to war- rant their having an agent in Europe or buying direct from the European manu- facturer. What is the result? Why, those who buy foreign-made goods from the large dealer in New York or San Francisco buys plus the American duty and then P: the Hawaiian duty on arrival. Buy- ing direct means the saving of one duty, but {t means also that he must anticipate his orders far enougn ahead to have the gcods shipped direct from Liverpool or Southampton, via the Horn. With the com- petition of the present day, merchants can- not pay the transatlantic and overland freights and compete with a rival who happened to order his goods direct. “It may surprise some of the ladies to know that co much of the silk they are wearing is purely American, but it should not prevent their wearing dresses of that material when they are assured that it fs ‘just as good’ as that made in France. I doubt if half the ‘made-in-London’ cloth which goes into men’s suits in the United States was ever outside the boundaries of that territory before it was made up. There are grades of cloth, to be sure, that cannot be produced anywhere so well as in the west of England—I mean the finer qualities of smooth-surface goods—but rough goods, corkscrews and diagonals are made equally as good in the United States as in England, and when annexation comes along men in Honolulu may dress at less expense than they do now, unless they get cloth imported from England. “Clothing of English material and made to order by some tailors now costs very little more than the same would cost in London, if made by the average tailor. Of ccurse, you could not get it from Poole’s establishment, or, indeed, any West End tailor, for anything like the money, but there would be very little difference in the appearance cf the suit if you paid a third mcre for it. In view of annexation, I sup- pose large orders have gone forward to Europe for Erglish, French and German gcods. Wholesale dealers, who see far enough ahead, would undoubtedly order so as to save the duty, and their profits will be handsome in consequence. I have been told, too, that the Japanese are ordering extensively from the Japanese manufac. turers, and within the next few months the duties collected on these shipments should be very large. The United States tariff on gcods from Japan is much more excessive than in Honolulu, and the Japanese mer. chant 1s just cute enough to take advan. tage of it.” ———_+e+__ A GRAVITY CLOCK. People Who Think the Problem of Perpetual Motion Solved. From the Utica Press, In appearance the clock suggests a finely finished model of a machine or hoisting apparatus rather than a timepiece. The dial is secured by an upright brass “A” structure. This latter is surmounted by a round aneroid barometer, whieh suggests the familiar steam gauge. Around the dial 1s a large fly wheel with sprockets, and to the left of the fy wheel is an endless bucket chain lift, constructed upon the principle of a grain elevator, with a thermometer on the post of the lift, suggesting a steam valve. Forty-one little weighted balls, uach about the size of a large pea, are employed to operate the clock; they are drawn up on the bucket chain and dropped at intervals of a minute into a conduit over the fy wheel, from which they roll into the sock- ets of the wheel. The wheel carries twenty- one of the balls at one time, and their weight revolves the wheel. The power thus produced swings the pendulum and gov- erns the hauss oe ae dial. The wheel carries the balls about a third of the way around, and then they drop into another conqit, a triple incline, which finally lands them at the foot of ‘the elevator again, where the endless chain gathers them up for another “swing around the. circle.’ Some fine mathematical work has been requisite for this clock, as everything about it depends upon the most exacting calcula- tion. The balls must be all of exactly the same weight and the momentum of each must be the same; for if any one were to lose a fraction of a second in de- scending the triple incline it would proper sprocket on ‘the lift and two hundred and nine feet and five every day, and in the course of a year makes a journey of over fourteen miles. If they were te travel in relays they would make a record close to six hundred miles within a year. Of course, the problem of perpetual mo- tion has not been solved, so there must be a hidden mechanism.» The clock is mounted upon a beastiful' Brazilian onyx base, inside of which is a regular clock Movement, which doé® not run the clock Proper, but merely operates the elevator. A clock movement is employed for this part, because of the necessity for accur- acy; it supplies the power ahd also controls it, so that the chai’ eséapes with pre- cision once every moment: ea How to Take Moonlight Photographs. From Scribner's. Moonlight effects im photographs have long been admired by the uninitiated, and fully appreciated by both amateur and pro- fessional photographers for their beauty, and many plates, too, have been spoiled by snap-shotters who have accepted moon- light as the real iliuminxtor of these views, and accordingly focused directly on this beautiful orb of night. Moonlights with the moon herself wn evidence are really sun photographs; that is, pictures taken wi a rapid exposure, the camera pointed toward the sun generally in the late after- noon or early morning, and witn clouds between the lens and the direct rays. Many charming so-called night pictures are taken by making two exposures, a short one in the rapjdly diminishing after noon sunlight, to get an impression of buildings and other dark objects, and an other longer one after dark to print in gas and electric lights that line the long street or mark out the roads and winding pathways of a city park. ----900 Hydrophobia Without a Bite. Paris Telegram to the London News. The death of Mlle. Santasiero from rabies should te a lesson to ladies who kiss lap dogs and let them lick their faces. Mile. Santasiero is the daughter of the former chef of Queen Iscbella, who keeps a well- known restaurant where one cana have Spanish and Neapolitan dishes. The only daughter, aged twenty, had a bull terrier named Bob, of whom she was very fond. Bob two months ago fell ill. His mistress nursed him and lavished caresses on him. He showed his gratitude in licking her face and hands. He then ran away from her, and how!ed if she went near him. ‘The poor brute may have felt an_ irresistinle desire to bite, and so wanted not to huve that easy opportunity. However, he grew worse. He bit, some days ago, two cus- tomers and a man who was furnishing ice. They wert to the Pasteur Institute, and seem to be doing well, but Mlle. Santasiero, whose foot he attempted to bite, fell ili last week. She thought she had a cold. and kept on saying, “Bob did not bite me.""Cértainly his teeth had not pierced the shoe leather. Fever supervened, and then convulsions. The doctor said she suf- fered from rabies. When her mother went t» kiss her she cried, “You must not. I only kissed Bob, and see, I have his dls- temper."” For two days her convulsive state was dreadful. The third jay was quiet till just toward the end, when can- gestion supervened suddenly and she died. No trace of a bite could be found on her foot or any other part of her body. The dog’s saliva, it is thought, must have been absorbed as he licked her face. 0+ Corean Civil Service Examination. From the Popular Science Monthly. A. gentleman will study classics in win- ter, composition of pottry in spring, and in summer study those subjects which will fit him for official duties. The. king ap- points judges to exaniifie candidates for office; the number appoirited may be three, seven or twelve. The student for exami- nation is locked up fn a room for three days without books, The Subjects usually selected for examinatfon ate from_ancient poetry and classics, a# follows: First, long word poetry of seven words; second, short word poetry of six words; third, problems in classics; fourth, clearing up doubts in classics; fifth, criticising famous men of olden..times; sixth, considering what sys- tem of morality Is best to correct or-modi- fy bad customs;. seventh, suggesting what kind of military organization Is best to defend and control the country. In these various examinations It fs claimed that poetry reveals one’s natures that problems in classics show oné’s knowledge; that clearing up doubts in classits demonstrates one’s powers of dectsion;’ that criticising ‘Tartous: men-indicates” one’s knowledge of persons; that judging the best system of morality and deciding as to the best kind of military organization display one’s men- tal attributes. The swindling and thieving character of Corean officials, their torturing and mur- dering subjects without trial, and the de- gradation and helplessness of Corea to- day, stand in curious contrast to this en- nobling list of studies and examinations, and indicate a depth of hollow pretense and hypocrisy which is simply appalling. a Buzzard Lawyers. From the New York Herald. Several lawyers visited the Murray Hill Hotel at breakfagt time yesterday, where victims of the railroad disaster near Gar- rison are belng cared for, with a view to arranging the details of possible suits Against the New York Central and Hud- son River Railroad Company. The clerks refused to send up their cards, but, undis- mayed, they tried to send written appeals to the suffering persons offering to obtain large amounts from the railroad company on contingent fees of 40 to 50 per cent. The clerks discovered this scheme, how- ever, in time to prevent the victims being disturbed. . One attorney went to the Flower Hos- pital, where two or three victims of the wreck were. He was so persistent in his demand to be admitted to the wards that the superintendent was forced to have him ejected. A legal representative of the New York Central railroad called at the Murray Hill Hotel yesterday to effect an amicable set- tlement with some of the passengers. He confined his attention, however, to those whose damages were limited to lost prop- erty. I could not learn whether he was successful. Large English Customs Payments. From the London Telegraph, Since a well-knewa*tea merchant an- notneed that his cheék for £50,513, repre- senting the duty on Cfylon and Indian tea imported by him, was the largest ever paid to the customs -authonities, shoals of gen- tlemen, anxious to show how grateful the country ought tobe fo them, have pro- claimed the payment of even larger sums, than that mention (A whisky merchant tendered more; so @id a tobacco importer, who claimed to have paid £100,000 at one fell swoop; and now a custom house offi- cial rid jer even the’ —. sinks into comparative insi lance compared check for £150,000 once paid the castors department. The perticular business which necessitated this disbursement is not disclosed, but there is little doubt that it was for either tea, whisky, beer or tobacco, He Sneezed thé Bullet Out. From the Atlanta Constitution? > * Seven years ago. Mr ‘Téadore Wolfe, a merchant of Camdey, 8. C., was attacked cn the streets of that fowl by q man with whor. he had had a diffidilty and shot in the face with a pistol. The bul- let split on striking bone, was thought all of th been ae At times the 135 an unpleasant ‘th ‘his face, which was accounted for two ago, when, huinder of tho billet, for seven year head A TRAMP WHO KNEW. The Engineer F: He Was an Ex- pert Fireman. From the Chicago Inter-Occan. “We were coming east with the fast ex- pres: said the engineer, “and my fire- man got sick. I pitied the poor fellow, and told him to get up on my side and run the engine, and I would keep up the fire. We did rot want to fall behind time? but the train was a heavy one, and the en- gine, which was a big ten-wheeler, ap- peared to be working poorly, so that no matter how we tried to keep her hot, she went back on us, and before we got to F— we were fifteen minutes late. After leaving F— I went back to get things ready to take water at the next plug, and found a- grizzly-bearded fellow stealing a ride on the blind baggage car. He looked at me as if anticipating an order to get off at the next stopping place, and I looked at him, perhaps savagely, and soon gave him the expected order. “*All right, pard,’ he said, in a good- humored way, ‘I am only trying to get to P—, and wil] leave you, bui would be glad to do mething to work my way." “What can you do? I asked. “Well, sir,’ he answered, ‘I can fire that engine of yours, if you will give me a chance.’ z “We needed an extra fireman real badiv just at that time, and I said to him: ‘Get up, then, and let me see_what you can do.” “The grizzly-bearded man came up, and the way he mounted the tank and balanced himself on the coal and swung down into the cab gave me some confidence in the fellow. He took up the scoop at once, opened the furnace door, and examined the fire critically. Then he began to break up coal and mix it with smaller particles, after which he threw in four or five shovelfuls, scattering it with a professional fling of the scoop. Then he closed the door with a bang, put the scoop in the proper place, examined the steam and water gauges, and took a seat behind the sick fireman. Before we had gone half a mile he was down again carefully feeding in coal. Be- fore the next mile had been reeled off the engine was steaming nicely, and, although I was pushing her hard on a slight op- posing grade, the steam was keeping up around the 150 notch. Our tramp fireman wsiched the steam and smoke as it left the stack and kept his eye on the furnace fire. and we saw at once that we had picked up a professional. My fireman offered the stranger his dinner bucket, which had not been touched, and, after feeling the bottom of the part that contained the coffee, he shook it a little and set it just where I would have put it for the same purpose, and then, while he waited for it to get warm, he carefully looked over his fire and put_in some more coal. “The old firemar and I were getting in- terested, and I think that the conductor must haye noticed that we had struck a ‘new gait, but he did not know the cause. I looked at the sick fireman, and he looked at me, and then we both gazed respectfully at the stranger, who was eaiing as though he had endured a long fast. I kept the throttle almost wide open, with the engine well hooked up to the high-speed notch, and the way we went up that hill and down the next was a caution to the freight crews we passed along the way. When we reached the distant signal at the X tower I found it right, and just then the new fire- man, who was also on the alert, cried out, ‘White block,’ and came down to put in some more coal. The home signal happened to be on his side of the curve, and he knew his duty, and had the proper words in his mouth before I could see what kind of a light we were to get. “Well, we made the run for the remainder of the Stretch of 120 miles dead easy, and gained seven minutes besides, and when we got to the tower near the depot we were right cn the dot. It was something un- usual for our train to get in on time, as it was a very heavy one, and on that particu- lar night we had an extra car, and did not krow that tne superintendent was on board until the next morning, when he compli- mented me on the splendid run I had made. “In the meantime I had provided the stranger with enough cash to pay for his bed and breakfast, and asked him to come sround and see me before he started for P—. Sure enough, he did come around, -and, as he had washed up and got a clean shave, he looked like a different man. I questioned him about his previous career, and he talked like a gentleman, and showed me recommendations as fireman ard engineer which had been written by the superintendents of some big roads. He explained that his last unfortunate move was voluntary, to get away from some swell-headed minor officials who had no use for a decent man unless he was lauding them eternally to the skies. “I conld not flatter such people,’ he said; ‘they deserved to be kicked; but I gave one ef them an uppercut under the jaw, and took it for granted that it was best for ime to hunt a new job. I say I did this volun- tarlly, because I did not have to hit the chump, but hit him for the sake of some of the other men who had been his victims sv long. But bad luck befell me. I got sick, lost my money, and had to try to beat my way to P—, where I have friends.’ “**Would you accept a job firing now if I could get you one?’ I asked. “Yes,” he answered, ‘I would be willing to do anything to get a little money.’ “I had learned that my fireman would not be able to report for duty, and I went to the superintendent’s office and asked him if he would permit me to recommend a fireman for that week. “Certainly, sir,’ was the answer. ‘You are entitled to such a privilege after the good work you have been doing.’ “Well, I took Edmunds with me (that was the tramp fireman’s name), and he performed wonderful work with the scoop, and I hated to let him go, but the super- intendent heard of my windfall, and be- fore a week Edmurds was running a freight engine, and now he is hauling the limited express, and one of the best run- ners on the road. “I have picked up lots of tramps since then, but never found one of them worth the heat he obtained from the furnace fire; but whenever I see some poor fellow shivering on the bumpers I think of Ed- munds, who is now my best friend, and try to help the pilgrim along. ———-0-+___ He Was Not In. From the Philadelphia Record. A man who was offering for sale a small Newfoundland puppy appeared on Chest- nut street yesterday, and quite unintention- ally afforded a good deal of amusement to the promenaders. Of course, he was pleased at the notice which he attracted, but he couldn't see what there was so funny about either himself or his dog. He had bought one of those reafly-made handbills, such as are pasted upon houses, reading: “For Sale, Inquire Within.” leadpencil he had croesed’ original form. A small boy who saw the joke approached the man and asked:. “Say, mister, did de growler swaller his owner?” “No; don’t git gay, Johnny,” seid the man. “Well, den, who do youse ask fur w’en youse gits inside?” queried the small boy. ‘the point, and tore = lacard, so that “For Sale” A few years ago an inventor devised a new sleeping car to Mr. Pulfnan. The latter, over thém, said: “There is tr He i HH ie at EXTRA! HENRY CHORGE 1S DEAD Died at Union Square Hotel at 5 A. M. This- Merning, DEATH WAS QUE TO APOPLEXY Seemed Well When He Re- - tired Last Night. AWOKE ABOUT 3:30 A MIN GREAT PAIN Soon Became Unconscious and Died in Short Time. MADE SPEECHES LAST NIGHT NEW YORK, October 20.—Henry George died at the Unicn Square Hotel about 5 o'clock this morning, Apoplexy is given as the cause. After speaking at several different cam- paign meetiags last evening, Mr. George returned to the hotel about 11 o'clock. He ate a light supper and immediately retired. About 3:30 o'clock this morning he awoke and complained of suffering severe pains. He beccme unconscious, from which condi- tion he did not again recover. Mr. George Had Been Warned. As he has always-been- regarded rather a delicate man, Mr. George has surprised his friends by the remarkable yigor he dis- played in his work during the present cam- paign. Those who came nearest to him feared that he was working at too high a pres- sure, and to them his sudden death, while most deeply deplored, was not wholly un- expected. Indeed, he had been warned several times that he was taxing his strength too se- verelyy and that if he was not more con- siderate of his powers collapse would follow. His close friend, Willis J. Abbott of the Journal, and @hairman of his campaign committee, had called Mr. George's atten- uon to the fact that similar work during the populist campaign in Chicago, in the fall of 1894, had nearly resulted in his com- plete prostration. In spite of the warn- ings of friends at that time Mr. George had continued his active canvass until he near- Jy collapsed one night while talking on the stage at Central Music Hall. Though his death occurred at such an carly hour, it was only a short time before several of his many friends and admirers were at his bedside. Prominent among these was Father McGlynn, the noted priest, whose admiration for pOlitical views of the famous single taxer had been sup- plemented by an almost brotherly affection. The hotel physician, who was hastily summoned at once, pronounced Mr.eGorge’s attack fatal, and spoke of the similarity of his case to that of the late George M. Pul!- man. “It is,” he said, “the old story of too much mental energy for the accompanying physical powers. Mr. George has simply worked himself to death.” Effect om the Situation. The death of Henry George adds to the confusion of the political situation in New York. A situation already so mixed as to be puzzling to the most experienced poli- ticians is now thrown into a tumult of con- fusion. It is impossible to tell in what di- rection the George followers may turn. While mourning for their great leader, the chief enemy of Tammany, they are not apt to feel any less bitterly toward Croker and his followers. Many of the George men will naturally turn to Low, unless another candidate is run in the place of Mr. George, but others who have belonged to the Tammany organization may return to the support of Van Wyck, under the impression that his election is assured. - If the feeling of the George people should be #0 intense as to drive them in a body to Mr. Low's support it would obviously mean the defeat of Van Wyck, and those Tam- that the George people will substitute Dayton for George, if the law permits the substitution. In that event it is difficult to say how far the emotional feeling over the death of George would go toward electing Day- ton. Dayton is popular, in Tam- many Hall and among the Low people. even Henry George's Career. Henry. George was born in Philadeiphia September 2, 1859, and was, therefore, fifty- eight years of age. He began life as a printer's devil. He went to sea at an early age, and, reaching California in 1838, re- mained there and drifted inte journalistic work. In 1879 he published “Progress and Poverty,” which was issued in New York and London the following year. This book, which soon acquired a world-wide reputa- tion, was “An inquiry into the cause of in- dustrial depressions and the increase of want, with increase of wealth.” In this work Mr. George examined and reconstructed doctrines previously held as te the distribution of wealth and the ten- dency of wages toward a minimum. Mr. George found in the fact that rent lends to increase not only with the in- crease of the population, but with all im- provements that increased productive power, the cause of the world known ten- dency to the increase of land values and to the decrease of the proportion of the produce of wealth that goes to labor and capital, white he traced in the speculative holding o fland thus engendered the ten- dency to force wages to a minimum and the primary cause of paroxysms of in- dustrial depression. The remedy for these Mr. George de- clared to Be the appropriation of rent vy the community, thus making land vir- tually common property, while giving to the user secure possession and leaving to the producer the full advantage of his exertion and investment. In 1880 Mr. Gecrge removed from Cati- fornia to New York, n has since been his home. In 1881 he published the “Irish Land Question,” visiting Ireland and Eng- land in the same year. In 1883-4 he again visited England and Scotland at the invitation of the English Land Reform Union, making speeches on the land question, and in 1854-5 he made another trip at the invitation of the Scot- tish Land Restoration League. On both tours he produced a marked effect through- out the British Isle. Mr. George's political career ‘began in 1886, when he was nom- inated for mayor of New York by the united labor party. In this campaign he received 68,110 votes, against 60,435 for Theodore Roosevelt, re- publican, and 90,552 for Abram 8. Hewitt, democrat. During the present campaign Mr. George has frequently reverted to an old charge that he was counted out of the mayoraity in 1886, he and his friends alleg- ing that at least 20,000 votes that had been cast for him legally were not counted for him by the returning board of New York peity. During the last campaign Henry George ardently supported Willem J. Bryan. He did this not on the ground of a free silver platform, but because the democratic plat- form.as a whole suited him better thany the platforms of sry of the other parties. He made speeches throughout the ca: paign, and was sincere in believing Bryan would be elected.