Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1897, Page 15

Cu Day. Saturday we always make | || bargain day in our Drapery | || Department. | Any line that we have only a few pair of we re- || duce to cost and clear them | out. Perhaps you don’t know | that our Drapery Department | is the best stocked in Wash- ington. Credit if you wish, even at cost prices. Some of tomorrow’s special 9 pairs Notting- ham Lace Curtains, 34 yards long, 50 Cc inches wide. Were Q5 29 pairs Scotch Lace Cur- tains, 3} yards long, $7 95 -, 60 inches wide. ll a) Were $3.00......... f j i Ly ; -30 "| 15 pairs do., do. 21 pairs White 3 —34 yards long, 50 14 i 85 14 pairs Ivory do., 6 | 18 pairs Swiss Tambour— | 3% yards long, 50 i ae 3 3 Were $4.00. .. we Irish Point inches wide. Were do. Were $10.00. ... inches wide. Were Trading Stamps eee With Each Cash Purchase. . Lansburgh ’ FurnitureCo., 1226 F St. N.W. nod SSB SSSSPOS IONS OSS S5944 M. GOLDSMITH & SON, Jewelers, 911 PA. AVE. We Give TradingStamps The Original Green Stamps, And guarantee our PRICES, as they al- ways have been, the LOWEST IN TOWN? AAA od SHEDOH HDD ENTS OOHSEESIOOED < ° ° 3 for first-class goods. 3 ‘ —- 3 5 M. Goldsmith & Son, 3 JEWELERS, 3 911 Pa. Ave. 3 sbccceccscdsdesstasee Trading Stamps os s.¢ Ladies’ $3.00 and $3.50 Fine Kid Shoes, REDUCED TO $1.68 AND $1.98. e Misses’ Peb. Goat and Kid Button Shoes, B. C and D, 11 to 2 (heels), $2.00 qualities (odd sizes), > REDUCED TO 78 CENTS. @ Boys’ Button Shoes (heels), 11 to 12% and be 4 4% to 544: wear like tron. 3 Regular $2.00 and $2.50 qualities. 4 REDUCED TO 98 CENTS. «<> Come without delay for your size. > Robert Cohen & Son, 630 Pa. Ave. N.W.. : Established 1838. oct3n,40 | OFFER For 60 Days: ‘ We will make full sets ef artificial teeth on rubber at $5 per set. We use only the best ma- terials. Offer good 60 days from Nov. 1. Evans’ Dental Parlors, 1309 F St. N.W. 620-244 SET PO OOLO OOPS SLES S 3 eee ie wee Sess rosseosessees. C7WE MOVE ‘Our Facilities For} 7MOVING 3 2 other Household Gocds @ piture an ar tae um our prices are THE 5 LOWEST. If you want your effects moved with care—by experi_movers—in Padded Vaos—we are at your service. @ Largest Padded Vans, $4 load. ¢Largest Furniture Wagons, $3 “ @ @1-horse Furniture Wagons,$1 50. respect. . Hight mens, &3 per month, and Fret; cs. Your in- Merchants’ Parcel Delivery Co., 2401 D STREET N.W.——'PHONE 689. : e 3 C4 POSPSOPOPISSPLIPOSOOOD | POD dHS e Don’ let your & p petite KEEP YOUR Soe APPETITES. : Soi ‘wit Jo Halon iltae@ on, O14 AE ST=PHONE IIB. GRAND OPENING and FREE LUNCH We will celebrate the completion of new Stlon and’ Bes epnets to our Oyster Friday, November 5th, and extend a cordial invitation to our many Sect et cee See JOHN WEIL, fs ite } E it Offi ee New City Pos' ice. n03-w,| tetter and all disorders of the yer n Be BS Se the greatest punters ms Boli-mwetiy Only a Cold! Yes; but a cold frequently has a serious ending. Chronic coughs, pneumonia, bronchitis and consump- tion all start with a cold. Neglected colds cause more than two-thirds of all the deaths in America. There is a right way and a wrong way to cure a cold, but you can make no mistake in using Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey. . It is a pure healthful stimulant which quickens the circulation and restores healthy action to every part of the body. It is a sure cure for colds, malaria, pneumonia. It as- sists nature and builds up the system. Do not be induced to take any inferior whiskey which your dealer may try to substitute, but be sure that you get Duffy’s. Nothing else can produce the same effects. “INITIATING” IN KANSAS CITY. Boys Suspended From the Top of a Hotel by High School Students. From the Kansas City Star. From the sixth story of the Auditorium Hotel, at about 9 o'clock last night, just under the cornice, a human form dangled on the end of a rope half way down to the fifth-story window, while a half dozen heads projected over the edge of the roof and set up blood-curdling shrieks. The live body, blindfolded and wrapped in white bandages, swung to and fro in the wind like a corpse on an ancient gallows dangling from its chains. A crowd ’way down in the street below set up a yell of delight and approval. It was a high school fraternity “‘initiating’’ one of its members. The body was dropped on a little project- ing balcony, ‘untied and brought in through the window. Then the bandages were tightened and the boy allowed to stand motionless in a corner while his companion was treated with the same experience. Next the victims were dragged roughly down the dim-lighted stairs in an old part of the building, where a coffin had been prepared, rented the day before from an undertaker. Eight boys seized the two victims, threw them across a and wrapped them round and round in white bandages until they looked like white mummies. Then they seized one stiffened form and, after lifting the bandages for a moment from his eyes to let him see the coffin, dumped him into it. The lid was nailed fast and the coffin carried out on the street to the wagon prepared for it. The other “mum- my" was quickly carried to the wagon and a ed upright on the eoffin. Four boys, dressed in long, black gowns and cowls with black masks, took their places at the four corners of the wagon, two carrying ropes, one a pick and one a shovel. The driver took his seat on tne box, tworassist- ants climbed into the wagon and helped Keep the corpse upright. Then the ghastly procession moved on. Down 9th street it went until it reached Grand avenue, then it turned south to 11th street, then up to Main street. The mourn- ers walked solemnly along, with their pick, shovel and ropes over their shoulders, chanting a low chorus. When the proces- sion reached Main street a crowd was fol- lowing it, and curious people came out of the stores and watched it pass down the street. The procession filed down Main street to 15th street, thence to Troost avenue, where it turned south. At 24th street the wagon stopped, for the boys had become weary at the silence of the bey. “Say, you,” shouted one of the mourners through the air-hole in the lid, “wake up there! How’re you feelin’?” “If you don’t let me out o” here I'll"—— Just here one of the boys let a handful of dust fall through the air hole and dropped a stone on the lid, and the voice inside was drowned in a tremendous coughing. The mourners held a consultation and de- cided to bury the “corpse.” They took him in the rear of Haake & Sexton’s shop and read the burial rites over him. The mourn- ers dropped the first clods on the coffin and the rest fired a few volLeys at the wooden sides, just to “‘wake up Lazarus.” The coftia was stood on its head, wrong end up, against a tree. The lid opened and Laza- rus was called on to arise. He toppled slowly out and was picked up half dead. The other “corpse” was substituted in the coffin and the wagon drove on. When it reached the home of one of the boys the lid was again unfastened and the two victims were unbound and forced to climb trees, sing songs and stand on their heads. Then the final oath was adminis- tered, the new members solemnly shook hands with the rest and the whole party went to luncheon. ~- + e+ Goldfish in the Street. From the Chicago Post. Two hundred Lincoln Park goldfish suf- fered an involuntary airing today, with the result that many of their number lost their lives. Custodian Walker has been negotiating for some time with the Lincoln Park board for the purchase of the overstock of gold- fish in the hot house lagoon. The deal was completed last week and the fish were cap- tured by means of a net and dropped in a barrel. As soon as the requisite 200 were placed in their limited quarters the lid of the barrel was fastened on with supposed security and the expressman started with his golden lead. The driver of the wagon failed to caleu- late with sufficient precision the velocity and momentum of a Lincoln avenue cable car, which had just swung around the cor- ner from Center street. As he started to turn from the track the wheels of the ex- press wagon became caught in the rails, with the result that the grip car struck tbe wagon with just sufficient force to tilt over the barrel with its living contents. Crash went the barrel against the hard granite pavement, breaking the lid, and spilling water, fish and all on the tracks. The little swimmers, shocked by the sud- denness of their precipitation into a for- eign element, and gasping for breath, flop- ped around in misery, pursuing the streams of water, which were quickly absorbed by the dry street. The Italian expressman muttered divers oaths in his native tongue and proceeded to catch the squirming bits of golden red and put them into the barrel. The street car passengers, business men and women shoppers began to assist in the work. ‘The school children of the neighborhood, however, changed the complexion of affairs. With shouts of delight their contingent swooped down upon the already animated scene and began to appropriate the fish for pets. Handkerchiefs, pockets, hats, every- thing available for the purpose, were put into instant use in securing the fish, and soon housewives of the neighborhood ap- peared with tin pails and pitchers filled with water to claim their share of the spoils. With the exception of several fish which fell in the cable slot every bit of brilliant color was picked up and borne in triumph from the scene of the accident. An inventory of the fish returned ‘to the park lagoon showed that but seventy-two had been captured by the industrious ex- pressman and his volunteer assistants. ———_—_+o+—__ His Best. From the Youth's Companion. In the Hfe of Whittier it is told how in the days of the civil war an old Quaker from the New Hampshire hills came. down fer an interview with the good poet. The Green Mountain disciple of Fox was the owner of a sturdy lot of oak trees. The government had set its eye upon them, and wanted to buy Quaker knew that the purpose of the bargain must be to get timber for the new warships that were building. He hardly knew whether a sale for such a purpose was consistent with the gospel of peace. seeing that sound.” z ‘The oak from that Quake:'s farm was in the Kearsarge when she tought the SONGS OF OLD SLAVE DAYS Old-Time Plantation Melodies Have Passed Away. Negroes of the Present Day Cut the Original Melodies Scrappy Discords. Into From the Louisville Courier-Journal. The old-time plantation songs of the slav- ery days have about passed away, and the negroes now cut the original melodies into Serappy discords and minor notes. A negro had rather strike a minor note than to rub the waistband of his pants against a well-filled table and eat. It seems that-the peculiar tone holds a fascination for him which cannot be overcor-e. There is al- ways something to interest you when you can hear a genuine old-time plantation song as sung by the aged slave negroes, when heart and soul are united in the song. It is natural for a negro to sing, he posses- ses @ naturally clear voice and sings with his hands, feet and head. His music is gen- erally of the lively order, as his nature has always been, and no trouble can rob him of his happy disposition. I have spent many a pleasant hour lis- tening to the quaint songs of an old gray- headed negro on my grandfather’s farm, 2s he would rasp the screeching chords In accompaniment on his banjo. When he wouid sing he would get a humming: start with the cherds, and begin with a long drawn out note, rear way back, pat his feet and shake his old gray head. He enjoyed singing and I enjoyed listening. I would take him little pieces of colored Paper and all the coiored glass I could find to get him to sing for me, and to repeat the far-famed verse of alliteration: “Did you ever see a ‘possum in a pawpaw patch, a pickin’ up pawpaws and a puttin’ "em in his pocket to make 2 pawpaw pie for his papa?” This is the joy of his life, and it never grew old or tiresome to him ‘to re- peat it. Mose was his name, and not long since I concluded to pay him a visit and to hear again the songs I had so enjoyed when a child. I found his cabin and he was at kome, being unable to get about much. I shook hards with the honest old negro and sat down. ‘the light which came into his face showed how welcome I was, and we had a long talk. Finally I asked him to take the dusty banjo from the wall and give me a few strains of “Nigger Foot in Ashes” at a lively clip. He did as I asked, and the old-time vigor came upon him again. After playing a while, I asked him to sing me the corn-shucking song the “niggers” used to sing while they danced the “rab- bit dance,” after the corn was all husked and the “white folks’ had gone to bed. He was in fine spirits, and with his head way back on his chair and his feet extend- ed to keep time with the banjo, he sang: Early one morning’ on my massa’s farm, Cut dat pigeon wing, Lizy Jane; I heard dem chickens a-givin’ de alarm, Shake yo’ feet, Miss Lizy Jane. Stake y’ feet, niggers, it'll soon be day, Shoot along lively, Miss Lizy Jane; Massa ketch us dancin’, there’Il —— to pay, We got to dig ’taiters and hoe dat corn, Hit dat dubble-shuttie, Lizy Jane; You'd better be a-humpin’, coz it soon be morn, Shake dat balmoral, Lizy Jane. After Mose finished singing this song an eight-inch grin played across his face from ear to ear, his eyes sparkled and the old negro was happy again as if the young folks had gone through their dancing while he sang. He said: “Massa Will, de best days ob de old nigger’s life am done gone, but when I think ob de good old times we had befo' de wah, dese bones ob mine gets young, and I want to git right up and hit de jig step agen like I use to do.” Then he told me of how he was considered the best dancer in his section, and that there wasn’t a buck anywhere around who could hold him a light. I told him I was something of a dancer myself, and that if he would cut down Hve- ly on the old “barn-yard cackle,” I would show him a few steps in jig dancing. This tickled the wrinkled-face coon and he sang and played in earnest. srooster in de chicken coop crowin’ fo* lay. Horses in de stable go nay, nay, nay; Ducks in de yard go quack, quack, quack, quack, And de goose goes filley-I-fee. “Pigs in de pen keep a-squealin’ fo’ slop, Big dogs barkin’ like dey never will stop; Guineas in de tree go pot-rack, pot-rack, And de goose goes filley-I-fee.”” I stopped him because I was out of breath, and he laid back in his chair and laughed till his sides were aehing. I pulled out a rabbit’s foot and tossed it to nim, and the effect was magical; he jumped “three feet on a rise and sfx feet on the stretch,” and gave a whoop which was equal to a Commanche chief's. After his fright was over he told me, whatever I did, not to put any more of those hoodoos on Lim. I did not intend to frighten him, but wished to see if the superstition he had pos- sessed in his young days had departed from bim, I gave him a shining dollar for scar- ing him so, and he was himself again. We had had a fine time in the few hours I had stayed with him and I asked him to pick up his banjo again gnd play and sing the tune he used to call “Mr. Kimble.” His bony fingers raked across the strings again and he sang the quaint song I had enjoyed often when a child: “You cain’t guess what we had fo’ supper, Cum a rop-strop-bottle Mr. Kimble; Black-eyed peas and bread and butter, Cum a rop-strop-bottle Mr. Kimble. “Beefsteak, ham and mutton chop, Cum a rop-strop-bottle Mr. Kimble; Make a nigger’s lips go flippity-flop, Cum a rop-strop-bottle Mr. Kimbl And after each verse sang the chorus: “Keemo, Kimo, Kilgo, Kayro, Fleero, Fliro, Flavoray; Rop-strop periwinkle, little yaller booger, Cum a rop-strop-bottle Mr. Kimble.” Though age had left its telling mark on the person of Mose, his rich voice was as clear as a bell, and the minstrel of today cannot equal it for genuine melody. I was not anxious to leave him, but the day was far spert, and I had several miles to go, so I bade him good-bye and left the faithful old servant with tears streaming down his husky face. He laid his rough hands on my head and blessed me, saying: “Massa Will, I'll soon be ober dere in de land ob Canyan, but I'll remember dis visit to my dying day.” Stonewall Jackson’s Horse. From the Chicago News. “Old Sorrel,” the horse on whose back Stonewall Jackson was killed, is now in the museum of the soldiers’ home, half a mile from Richmond. The horse has been pre- pared and mounted in a lifelike attitude and is valued in his present state at $5,000 more than most dead horses are worth. “Old Sorrel” was presented to the home by General Jackson's widow and kept there until his death. During that time he was sent down to the New Orleans exposition of 1884-'85, where he attracted much atten- tion. The horse was thirty-six years old when he died, and his skin was stuffed and placed in the museum. The southern peo- ple would not part with “Old Sorrel” for any amount of money, thetr devotion to him being second only to their adoration for the brave soldier. England’s Postal Profits. From the London Times. The postmaster general’s annual report for the year ended on March 31 last shows that during the year the number of tele- grams dispatched rose by more than half a million. The extraordinary advance made in the means of communication dur- ing the present reign may be gauged by the fact that the number of telegrams now sent (nearly seventy-nine millions and a half, cr more and a half every week) by two millions the @ of paid lett through the post when the queen came to the of other missives, the most part of kinds not known to the post sixty years ago, are TS] ig | THE EVENING 8TAR, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1897-16 PAGES. CAN UNIVERSITY PARK . ===-AND--== NEAR sls AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON D. C. A PRIME INVESTMENT SAFELY [ADE NEAR A GREAT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION IN THE CAPITAL CITY. FIRST ADDITION, EASY PAYMENTS, NO INTEREST, NO TAXES FOR FOUR YEARS. FREE DEED IN CASE OF DEATH This beautiful subdivision is only four blocks from the American University, but has no financial connec- tion with that institution. It is only two and one-half blocks from the electric cars, and is traversed by Massachusetts Avenue-extended, and is bounded by Boundary Avenue. It is four and one-half miles from the White House, and lies i the famous Northwest section, and in the direction of the most rapid growth of the city. Near here are located the National Observatory, Rock Creek Park, ex-President Cleveland’s private residence, and the proposed great Episcopal Cathedral, and many costly and beautiful residences. Washington is already the most beautiful city in America. The founders wisely planned for a great Metropolis. American University Park Addition, situated as it is, in the most prosperous section of this growing city, near a great educational institution, which, in itself, would cause a prosperous settlement to spring up around it, and in the direct line of the most rapid and substantial improvements, on a high and gently rolling plateau, with every lot nearly on grade, and one of the finest panoramas east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, ‘open to view, offers as good an opportunity for real estate investment as has ever been presented in the his- ‘tory of Washington. Substantial homes costing not less than $2,000 each have been built by residents of Washington during the past summer and more are planned for next year. The streets are well graded and trees are planted about each block. Prices of inside lots, $600; Special prices for irregular lots. “ TERMS:—One-fifth cash; balance in one, two, three and four years, without interest. alley lots, $700; corners, $800; and the Massachusetts Avenue lots, $900. Taxes paid to date of deed. A free deed limited to four lots to the heirs of original purchaser in case of death, w. For further information address: : : it J. D. CROISSANT, DAVID D. STONE, Trustees, 804 F Street N. W., Washington, D. C. the average three million accounts and }the many hundreds who have been killed, forty-two millions of money. In 1896 it fcund a home for 6,866,000 accounts and £108,000,000. The profit made by the post office for the chancellor of the exchequer stood in the last financial year at a higher figure’ than it has ever reached before. For the last ten years it has hovered about a total of three millions; but in 1895-96, under the ex- ceptional stimulus of a general election and a revival of trade, it rose to £3,632,000. In the year 1896-97, without extraordinary aid of any kind, it exceeded £3,596,000. Sixty-eight thousand men and _ 12,000 women make up the permanent staff of the post office; while 46,000 men and nearly 17,000 women act as auxiliaries, their em- ployment being in many cases temporary only In name. The total number of em- ployes is thus not far from 150,000. —_ + «+ —___ A GLOOMY OUTLOOK FOR SPAIN. English Observer _Pronounces Weyler'’s Policy a Fatlure. From the London Times. The following statement regarding affairs in Cuba has been made by an Englishman, who, during his residence In Cuba, has had exceptional opportunities for ascertaining the real condition of affairs in the island, both in the large towns and in che in- terior: An “HAVANA, October 1. “The statements which have reached here frem Europe that a large portion of Cuba has been pacified and that tranquillity will be restored all over the island in a few weeks or months are simply laughable. The situation is as bad as bad can be. Not a single province of Cuba is in any degree pacified, nor is the state of things in any way better than it was two years ago. Matters are, indeed, worse, If only for the reason that the insurgents are stronger, better organized, better armed, and more confident than they, were then. At the present moment Hay: practically sur- rounded, and so serigus.js the condition cf the Spanish troops t#at there are not fewer than 30,000 soldiers'in hospital in Havana alone. Every day’that passes is a vic- tory for the insurgepts, and means a loss in money and men t@ the,;Spaniards. After three years’ fighting tha Cubans have now become drilled and discijlined troops. Un- der Maximo Go: -wH6 has shown him- result {s that they witl-mot hear of auton- omy in any form. 1Independence is their only. word. Durin; past year the rebels have shown | activity ever. Probably juation in Santa Clara is the worst, as there the Cubans are stronger than elsew! In Santiago de Cuba, too, the rebels, ate in considerable force. ‘Instead of, formerly, corfining their operations to the eountry, the insur- gents pre enter Leno ‘towns, reyes under eyes Oo: Spaniards, take ieee has de- forc ‘hat they clare ‘his policy to sng st inactivity, and from thia policy in the main deviated, although as I have pointed out, the Cubans have become in certain cases more aggressive. Gent speak- fng, it may be said that the Spaniards held the towns, while bey: thelr limits the rebels are I have shown given that even if such it bgt oer te brat ete ties. have been awful, the war has been | might have this policy has remained sterile. The Spanish army is in a deplorable condition, a very large percentage of the soldiers being unfit for service. They are scarcely clothed, and what uniforms they do receive are quite unfit for campaigning work. The average age of the rank and file is from fifteen to eighteen. They are mere boys— raw recruits, who, immediately on their ar- rival in Havana, are dispatched to the in- terior without drill or any kind. Naturally they soon fall victims to the climate, for it is not Cuban bullets that have carried off the majority of the Spanish army. Al- though it is generally supposed that there are 200,000 Spanish troops in’ Cuba, I think that at the present moment half that num- ber would be the more correct estimate. Sickness and bullets will account for the remainder. In many cases deaths are not notified to Madrid, and especially is this the case where the victims fall in provinces ofticlally supposed to be pacified. In these places the correct returns are never given. The Spanish soldier here is hum- ble, obedient and cool in action, but he has no knowledge of this kind of war- fare.” ————-ee_____ He Had News for Her. From the Detrott Free Press. “I tell you, it isn't safe for a man to leave home nowadays,” grumbled the man- on-the-corner to another man. “Since my wife got mixed up with so many clubs—art clubs, literary clubs, musical clubs, kinder- garten coteries and the like—she has so much to attend to and so much to talk about to other women that she actually forgets that she has any domestic respon- stbilities. My wife told me last night that she was sitting in our library early in the morning, deeply immersed in club conver- sation with an intimate friend, and they heard the door bell ring. She knew that cook was very busy, and the second maid was out on an errand, but she was so ab- sorbed in her club talk that she decided not to answer the bell herself. Again it rang with emphasis, so then she went to the shutters and looked out only to see at the door the back of a roughly dressed man. She concluded that he was only a peddler or a beggar, and went back to her profoundly intellectual friend. A third time the door bell rang, and this time with energetic and sustained violence. ba ness, hear that man,’ my wife sald to the other club lady; ‘Nora is out, and I'll have to go and see what he wants, or he will break the bell.’ So to the door she hastened, feeling very indignant with the peddler, who was so persistently dis- turbing her peace. She opeiied the door, prepared to discharge a volley of rebuke on the man’s head, but forgot all about it missus, yaid better be answerin this bell—I came in to tell yer that the ‘back part o’ yer house is on fire.’ their ancestors with the campaign. The rostgr shows that troops from Massachu- setts, New Hampshire and Connecticut took part, and among the names of officers ap- pears those of Roger Wolcott, Samuel Wal- do, Joseph Dwight, John Bradstreet, Ar- thur Noble, Jeremiah Moulton, Samuel Wil- lard, Robert Hall, Sylvester Richmond, Shubael Gorham, Josiah Dwight, Richard Gridley, William Burr and Samuel Moore. All these names, which are of the chief offi- cers only, are well represented in the New England genealogies. As the Worcester Spy rather humorously puts it, “now some of us feel unwonted thrills of patriotism, and gaze with unwonted affection toward the cross which bold, bad Harvard students, in the darkness of night, stole from its long familiar perch on the ridgepole of ee aa the college library. Perchance ne of our ancestors stol Louisburg church.” an a ——-+e. THE PRODUCTION OF PAPER. Proof That We Are a Nation of Readers. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. To those who think that the decline in prices in the last quarter of a century is @ue to the scarcity of money, there is a lesson in the statistics of the paper trade. In 1878 there were in the whole country 820 paper mills,which produced yearly 317,- 687 tons of paper. Now there are 1,178 mills, that produce daily (not annually) 13,- 000 tons of paper. This would be neacly 4,000,000 tons, counting 300 working - ays to the year, but as we cannot say how many days they actually run we may have re- ccurse to the daily capacity of the mills. It will be observed that the increase in the number of the mills is not phenomenal, but the increase in the capacity is very great. The dally capacity for the leading grades of paper kas run from 1,017 tons in 1872 to 10,223 in 1897. In other words, our mills are now capable of producing ten times as much paper as they could put cut twenty-five years ago. Though the num- ber of mills has increased only 43 per cent, the capacity has increased Ww per cent, while population has increased 60 cent. The statistics do not show that the nuills ref i | | tion, and to that extent it is normal « beneficial. So far as it is due to overpme ducticn, it must in time correct itself, tor business cannot be permanently done ‘at a loss. Somehow in plaints about the de- cline of prices, we hear very little sbout the reduced prices of paper. —o-—___ ANNEXATION OF HOLLAND. Germany Casts Wixtful Eyes on O14 Deutschland. From the New York Post. The northern Germans, who do not for- get that Berlin itself was founded by a col- ony from the Netherlands in 1163, look to Holland as the cradle of their race and the natural highway of their rapidly expand- ing commerce. As it is, at the present day Rotterdam is one of the chief ports, if not the principal one, for German shipping and transit. Holland, therefore, is the one cher- ished and constant objective of German policy. How persistently the project is kept in view may be judged from the fact “that Prince Bismarck, when, several years ago, he met the late King of Holland at Kissingen, said to him, in his half-jocose, half-serious way, that when he made up his mind to join Germany, they would be ready to name him high admiral of the united fleets of Germany and Holland, And the German emperor's famous ‘sram to President Kruger was dictated much by 4 Cesire to flatter the Dutch (which it un- doubtedly succeeded in doing) es by a feel- ing of hostility toward England. But the annexation of Holland can only be brought about by very wary and circui- tous means; possibly by the establishment, in the first instance, of a customs union: for a’recourse to violence would furnish England with a pretext to seize the val- uable Dutch colonies and blockade the ports cf Holland, since their acquisition would raise Germany into a first-rate naval power. Herein, then, les the irreconcilable antagonism between England and Ger- many. England's traditional policy has been to crush every rival on the sea, and counteract the growth of any likely com- petitor in trade. Having reduced Holland to impotence, the protection she now ex- tends to her aims at preventing the estab- lishment there of any other naval power, ————~o2- —______ A Convict Buys Diamonds. From the New York Journal. Isaac Rushmore, who has just been re- leased from the Auburn state prison, where he had served a term for grand lar- ceny, celebrated his return to the world in a truly worldly way. He had a car- he fitted himself out with expensive cloth- ing, and thence to a jeweler’s, where he paid $400 for diamonds and a. watch. Then he proceeded to the lead! hotel of the city, registered and tthe might in drinking and carousing. after sal- street, fine black suit, light- colored top coat, silk hat, patent leathers and with Auburn mud. He was taken to where he was %, which he paid, and started on the next