Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1898, Page 15

The Story of the WRITTEN Revolution BY SENATOR LODGE AND ILLUSTRAT- ED BY Senator Lopce SOME OF THE BEST ARTISTS IN AMERICA.... Henry Cabot Lodge’s great historic work is now running in Scribner's Magazine and will continue throughout 1898. In the March number (out to-day) he shows the cause of “THe Spreap or Revotution.” His description of the writing of the Declaration and his characterization of Thomas Jefferson should be read by every American. Tue Revotutionary Pictures For the first time all the modern art forces and resources have been brought to bear upon the, A corps of noted artists, led by Howard Pyle, were commissioned by the magazine last summer to make over 100 paintings and drawings expressly for this series. SCRIBNER’S MAGAZINE Price, 25 cents a number; $3.00 a year Revolution. THE AMERICAN STATURE. Inch in Height Might Consequences. From the Boston Evening Transcript. a paper read by Major Henry S. Kil- beurne, surgeon, United States army, be- fore the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, he advocated the th ¥ that the physical power of a race or people—and, consequently, their capacity for work—is measured by their average stature. For every inch of height between five a six feet the extreme breathing ca- pacity is increased eight cubic inches; the pacity being at its maximum at ve years. A table of measurements .621 native white Americans, accept- the military service of the United shows that the number of men be- is but States, low sixty-three inches in height Ettle greater than that of the class above Seventy-three inches. The most numerous is included between sixty-seven and -nine inches, and this standard class would have a greater chest girth than the average. The mean height of 125 United States naval cadets above the age of twen- ty-three years was 67.40 Inches. As these men are drawn from all parts and classes of the United States, they represent very nearly the typical physical development of the American people of twenty-five years ot 2. Major Kilbourne concludes that the com- mingling strains of Celtic, Danish, Nor- Wegian and German blood among our peo- ple have, thus far, worked no deterioration of physical quality. “Not so with the swarthy. low-browed and stunted people swarming to our shores, Absorbed into body ef the people, these multitudes st ‘rretrievably evolve an inferiority’ of type. To realize the result of such a con- tingency. let it be considered that the loss of an inch in stature might bring in its train the loss of national ascendancy. Let us take care, then, that the siate chall suf- fer no injury. seein. Relies of O14 W: Prom the Baltimore San. Relics of the wars of other days were @iscovered yesterday in the loft of the cen- tral police station. In ‘cleaning out some of the rubbish which had accumulated in the loft Patrolman O'Neill discovered in a heap fn one end of the loft about twenty- five bayonets of the long, flat type, such as were used on the old fiintlock muskets in the war of 1812. The steel blades were incased in well- Worn leather scabbards and were very rusty. The-bayonets are about three feet Jong and are stained with what those who Viewed them believe is blood. In the pile Were also found a number of old-fashioned cavalry swords, much heavier than the modern cavalry saber and sheathed in mas- stve scabbards. A large box filled with con- ical shot, several boxes containing flints Which were used in the flintlocks, a box containing a number of cartridges of the er pattern and several dozen minie sre also found. Captain Penington of the 4th Regiment Was tn the station at the time the discov- was made, and went up to look at the elfes. It is thought they were moved into the Soon after the present structure was built + ee He Rede With the King. From & German paper. A few to th days*ago a soldier was returning barracks of Ludwigsburg (Wurtem- ) from an excursion to the suburbs. It near the time for evening drill and he s in fear of being late. Suddenly a small driven by a man im civilian’s not take the vacant seat at your "asked he soldier. “Iam late for aril’ “Ill be glad of your eompany,” came the reply. The trooper took the seat. A few min- utes later, looking at his watch, he grew pale “Pardon me,” he went on, ‘but might I ask you to drive faster? I have great fear of my captain, whe is a strict diseiplina- ‘ { am a minute late he will put me the guard house.” To what barracks do you belong?” ‘The K— barracks. “Very well, we shall arrive in time.” he driver whipped up his team, and in ort time drew up before the gate of the barracks. Thank you, sir,” sald the soldier, in de- the son of Mars was still bowing Lis acknowledgments the officer.on duty % the armory had ordered the guard to present arms. The driver of the vehicle was the King of Wurtemberg. To Blame If you do not get Whisky of the proper Age and Purity. “Six Years Old, 100% Pure,” is the Governments Guarantee on every bottle of Bottled by W. A. GAINES & CO... Frankfort, Ky. The Government Internal Revenue Officers at the distilleries inspect the contents of every bottle. In buying be sure the Internal Revenue | Stamp over e Cork and Capsule is ar that it Dears the name W. A. GAMES & OD. it it Guarantes [t is @ Governmeni that goes with this bottling. _ ALL DEALERS SELL IT = 77 tation house from the old watch house | SALARIES OF The Most of Them Werk at Populistic Figures. From the Topeka Capital. The salaries of the bankers of Kansas @re no- s» large as popularly supposed. In accordarce with the new banking law. Bank Commissioner Breidenthal has re- quired the state and pnivate bankers of Kansas to file with his department state- ments shoving ihe receipts and disburse- ments of these institutions; in other words, to show the experse of running them. This has never teen raquired before. The state- ments are prepared by the bank officers pot ti» cashier, and show in detail where every cent has been spent. They are sworn to. There are in the neighborhood of 375 State and private banks in Kansas. The s¥orn statements just sent in by the offi- cers of these institutions show that les: thar twenty-five presidents of state an private banks draw salaries. Many peopl believe that all presidents are on the pay roll. Those who draw pay devote their en- tire attention to the bank's affairs. The saiaries of these are mostly under $1,000 2 ycar. Three of them draw $2,500; a dozen more draw only $500 a year each. he average salary of cashiers is about $1.0 a year. A number draw $1,800 to mY, but these are offset by the 200 or more who get from $600 to ) a year. The cashier of the largest bank in the state gets only $2,500. The cashier of one western Kar sas bank gets $25 a month and boards himself. Kansas bank clerks as a rule are not overpaid. Some of them get as high as $1,000, but the average of them get about $480. terk hire, $200," is a familiar ertry on the statements. Only one bank in the state spends over $10,000 a year for running expenses. That is the largest one, and its salary list. last year aggregated $134Me. Of this amount the nresident $9 2AM) and the cashier $2,500, The next highest was $8,500, the third $5,680 and the fourth $4,790. The rest.all run under $4,000. The expense account, all told, of the ma- jority of them, averaged less than $2,000. Siege “LITERATURITIS.' ‘Tue New Disease That in Observed in Modern France. From the Medical Record. This is a complaint ‘an account: of which will be fourd in no medical text book. .M. Charles Bastide is resporsible for the nam- irg of this fin-de-siecle disease, and in the current number of the Fertnightly Review discourses cn its origin, its contagiousness end on its various symptoms. It may be said that, although it is more or less prev aicnt &. all parts of the civillzed world, it is in France that its course is most viru- lent. The inoculstion of “Iiteraturitis” be- gins at an early age; the boy at school is the first to receive its baneful seeds Into bis system. and as he advances in years the diseas+ gains a firmer hold, until at lest the malady is past cure. In a word, the epidemic referred to is that dissem- ated by the corrupt literature of the day. rding to M. Bastide, “public unrest in +. the unsteadiness, the tendency to emeat, the frantic loves and hates may |c- in @ largo measure attributable to the urwholesome pabulum France digests. Paris is the hotbed in which grow many poisonous fungi, and unfortunately Paris ares the food and distributes it.” ‘This perhaps is scarcely a subject to be com- | mented on in the pages of a medioal jour- nal. as it ccnceras the physical body only Still there can be no doubt tha: reading of pernicious literature does rmfully affect the bedy through the in- fluence of the mind, especially with the young. Such books, too, tend to sugges: ard foster habits which, if continued in. will eventusily wreck both body and mind. ys pera Bs ID OF MICE. ir directly. th MEN ARE Al One Particular in Which They “Take After” Their Mothers. ux Clty Journal. A man never admits he ts afraid of a rat or a mouse, and when he sees a timid woman flee from one of these undesirable rodents to a place of safety on top of a piece of furniture, or other handy eleva- tion, he generally assumes an alr of superi- erity, laughs at her timidity, scoffs at the idea of one of these creatures injuring anybody, and oftentimes gets disgusted at what he terms “cowardice.” But the man who Insists he is not afraid of a rat or even a little mouse is in reality foolish, and this can be demonstrated should he come in contact with one of them. You never saw any one who de- sired to or could cooly handle even a dead rat. Human beings have a natural dislike for rats. Yesterday afternoon a big, stalwart man, ; Who looked as if he might face death with- | out flinching, was passing along 4th street. j When near the corner of Pearl street he From the emitted a screech that was terrifying and brought the pedestrians along the thor- j oughfare to a standstill. The man was | clasping -his leg with his hands and hop- jing across the street like a bucking | broncho. He shouted as if suffering ex- cruclating pain, and several persons went | to his assistanee. The only thing the mai- ‘ with him was—a young rat had erawled | Up his trousers leg. The» rodeht was ex- | tricated and exterminated. Then the big, | “brave” man mopped the perspiration from his pale brow and stole sheepishly away. | The crowd which had gathered laughed nd fel! to telling experiences with rats. “While out hunting with a friend seme years ago,” said » “I caw a similar | case. We were crossing a Wheat stubble | When a little mouse ran up Dig trousers leg. He screamed and I thought he = heen bitten by a rattler. He dropped his. gun and ran around in a frantic manner until I removed the rodent.” A number of other interesting - experi- ences with rats were told, and nearly all agreed that after what they had a@nd seen a man is just as much afraid of arat a8 a woman. - stranger than fiction if’ thé newspapers would’ print as mvch of it.”—Detroit Journal, fe other lords. According to custom, he must heard | stop at the dais and: bow to the lord chan- cellor, but..the lord chancellor being him- CRISIS FOR ENGLAND Gravity of the Situation Confronting Salisbury. AN AMERICAN ALLIANCE DESIRED Amusing Instance of Devotion to Established Forms. Saati SCENES OF ZOLA’S TRIAL Ss Special Correspond-nce of The Evening Star. LONDON, February 10, 1898. Two facts stand out in stark relief from the labored explanatiors and the fogey half-truths tortured trom unwilling cab- inet ministers by the opposition in pariia- ment. These facts ere that every man’s hard is against Erglard, and ‘hat the lion, brought to bay, fears to strike back. A premier may be depended upon to put the best face on matters, yet the brightest picture which Lord Salisbury’s conscience would permit him to draw displays much more of shade than light. It has fallen like a cold shower bath over the ardor of the patrivts who were so recently cheering the defiance of Hicks-Beach that Britain had sooner fight than let go her treaty rights.. The dominant note of the London perty organs has changed over night from ecck-sur+ confidence to diplomatic pes- simism. Until the neeting of parliament the peopie had dimly realized that their gcvernment was hard-pressed from sev- eral quarters, but went on trusting quite tlindly in the competence of the ministry to dig it out of the pit somehow. ‘From Lord Salisbury’s apologetics they learn that England will be lucky to get along in peace clutching what spoils she already has, while her rivals go ahead unmolested leoting cheerfully in new fields whose pick- irgs she wculd gladly share. The plain facts in the case of China are more humil- iating to Erglishmen than any chapter of their diplomacy since the Venezuelan ep!- sede. Germany has gripped the port of Kiao-Chou, together with other perquisites. Russia has taken Port Arthur and Japan has foreclosed upon Wel-Hai-Wei tefore the ierm of the mortgage has expired. Great Britain attempted in the beginning ot the game to force a loan upon China and ecceot the port of Ta-lien-Wan as se- curity, but Russian diplomacy checkmated that move, as Russtan diplomacy generally dees, and the net results of the whole bus- iness, as Lord Salisbury is forced to ex- peund them, are that Englend must be con- tent with the assurances of her enemies, Germany and Russia, that her treaty rights will be respected; that while they are stretching their claws out for China. they will charitably refrain from pushing her into the water. Also that on some indefi- nite future day they may consent to dis- ctss with her the question whether she can eccupy Ta-lien-Wan; that is, after they shall have irretrievably fenced that region within their “spheres of influence.” Nearer home the cabinet had the Cretan muddle to explain and epologies to make. because England had played the last fiddle in the concert of Europe. In Madagascar France had trampled over all England's treaty rights, according to Salisbury; M. Hanataux had. “broken the ordinary-rules of imternational comity,” yet England hag swaliewed her medicine. She had been bul- lied by France into accepting a new treaty with Tunis much less advafitageous than the former one. France was crowding her back in Africa most unneighboriy. ‘To over- flow her cup of irials the Indian meeting was poured in. The Indian government had been driven to bankruptcy that Lockhart might march his army up the hill, like tae King of France, only he has not been able to complete the parallel and march them all back again. Hundreds of good sokiters have been lef{ on the frontier, common re- Port says, -sacrilices to incompetence anit nepotism jn high places, and many of the best “families throughout Eng!and are tn mourning. While the quarrel with the border tribes stands where it did, the slaughter profited nothing. But for the enemies which are hounding the government from without the presstre of popular opinion would force parliament to quick: action In changing the Indian policy, so strong “i# the popular indignation. While every other European government has a guafref with England and every one is almost openly contemptuous of her wishes in the conti- dence that she will not dare to’ offer tignt alone, the conservatives have “stronger chance of being perpetuated in power than they would under clear skies. Lord Salisbury'’s outline of the situation was intended to be soothing. yet. in one séntence, when he alluded to “the extreme gravity of the crisis in our country’s his- tory,” through which we are passing, he echoed the real condition of affairs, for every politician believes that England is facing a crisis. An American Alliance. In this crisis Englishmen are all, down to the most rabid Yankee haters, ayowedly anxious for ar alliance with the Unitea States. Very eagerly the newspapers catch at every straw from the other side which points to American friendliness. The- krow that if such an alliance were made the chances that Unce Sam would be call- ed upon to pull John Bull's chestnuts from the fire would be infinitely greater than the reverse, because John is so separated all over the globe that his feet are being continually trodden upon somewhere, while Uncle Sam keeps pretty much within his shell. If the conditions were changed there might not be so much prattle about the glories of a conflict of the Anglo-Saxon nations. When M. H. de Young, the proprietor ot the San Francisco Chronicle, was in Lon- don recently an American newspaper man suggested to him that here was a good fiela for the establishment of an enterprising newspaper on American lines. ‘Don't you believe it,” Mr. De Young replied. ‘There's no room for anything alive and up to date in a place where a flock of old gentlemen go down to parliament and sit all night en shoemakers’ benches without any backs to them and keep their hats on their heads just because their ancestors have done the same for six hundred years.” They make themselves uncomfortable in parliament in a great many other ways that an American legislature would not think of enduring through any sentimental reasons so long as the members had the power of making appropriations to minister to their ease. In the first place, several hundred legislators and peers huddle into stuffy ttle rooms no larger than the Su- preme Court chamber, whereas in Washing- ton Mr. Walker of Massachusetts would make their lives a burden until -he drove them into consenting to decent ventilation. In the second instance, they waste no end of time performing ceremonies which serve no purpose whatever except as symbols. British Adherence to Old Forma, The rigid adherence of the British to forms was Illustrated by the performance ta which Lord Halsbury treated the house of lords on the opening of parliament. By virtue of his office as lord chancellor, Lord Halsbury presides over the house of lords. Since the last session of parliament he had been raised from the rank of baron to that of earl, and according to the prez>dents he mvst-be introduced to the house in his new capacity. Accordingly, Lord Salisbury arose and announced that her majesty had been graciously pleased to confer upon |- Baron Halsbury the .dignities of a vis- county and an earldom, which was a cheer- ful bit of mendacity, considering thai the elevation was notoriously a stroke af po- litical jobbery and according to popular be- liet was forced upon the queen against her inclinwtions. However, the lord chancellor srese and stalk:d out of the door in his black robes, clutching.a bag which con- tained the great seal of England; and which another tradition compels him to keep in his custody, although there was no reason. to believe’ tha: -self he made obetsance Then, he. proceeded was vacant, he chucked gilded chair and then pepe to prostrate This was a difficult Inful operation which requiréd the helf o¥"several supers. Lord Halsbury is 4 y¥cwentleman and bulky, and groveling there on all fours, with his back turned 1 the.audience, he ga not present an inf Ive spectacte. tting back’ to hts féetPbr being puiled up by the supers, he gthd¥éd audibly, and then bowed three times fo the throne. and mopped his brow. Was solemn as a funeral. .«:ty How would Washingtum fave received a Performance of that sort} with Senator Hanna, or Mason, or Ker Reed as the performer? Yet the Epallgh deem it very impressive. 1? a: t Scenes at the ¥%éfa Trial. The reports of Zola’s“trial which have been rushed to America .by cable neces- sarily omit many detailswhich go to de- Pict the atmosphere of a, French court of justice. From the more elaborate accounts which come by mail to the London papers it appears that the audiences play a very important part in the administration of justice, something akin to the functions of the chorus in a Greek tragedy. The spec- tators volce public opinion and public opin- fon controls the judge. When Zola’s attor- ney attempts fo ask a question which dis- pleases the populace they howl him down. Then they encourage the -witness and help him out with their views. shouting “Bray. Labori,”” “Vive rarmee" and A bas Zola. which the judge seems to take as a matter of course. 5 Most of the testimony: which has been admitted has not dealt with facts, but with the convictions, conclusions or emotions of the witnesses. Occasionally two or three witnesse¥ entertain the court with a dis-. pute, each one calling upon the Deity te witness that what, he safd was the truth and the others were liars: -The witnesses who have sworn that Dreyfus was guilty averred that they knew It because he had been convicted by honorable men, reason- ing which was gravely accepted ‘as {ron- clad evidence. The curious reasoning methods of the French mind were illus- trated by Capt. Picquart. who informed the court that he had rifled Esterhazy’s trunks to find incriminating documents, and added that he felt quite proud’ of the perform- ance, because the documents had demon- strated that Esterhazy was an innocent man. It seems to be proper form for each witness to declaim in beginning that his only ebjects are to serve France and jus- tice. Thereupon, if he be a person who approved by the chorus, {t shouts and if he be unpopular, ‘Conspues reports of the French papers naively re- mark here and there, in parenthesis (“At this point the sitting was suspended, that the spectators might acclaim General Bois- deffre”), or “might abjurgate General Mer- cler. : The court, it seems. refv'sed to permit the presentaticn of certain letters as evidence, but Figaro states that they were all print- eG In the Avrore and copies of the papers supplied to tre jurymen when they came inte court the next morning. After the sec- ond day's <itting M. Rochefort came cut to the portico and orated to the canaille, declaring that he had just conversed with sever2l members of the jury about the case, and found them all bitterly opposed to Zola. Then the crowd shouts. “Vive Vjustice:” a cab driver mounts to the ros- trum, embraces M. Rochefort and kisses him upon both cheeks. More “vives for “Yarmes “France,” “M. Rochefort,” “gloria” and other things, followed by “Conspues Zola” and ‘‘A bas Dreyfus.” The presiding judge® wonderfully prompt in shuttins off pt timony in fa- vor of Driyfus, but matigéek to be adsorb- ed in his theughts when ayy witness de- sires to te his impression. that Dreyfus is guilty until the statement is out, when he wakes vp and rebukes fhe witness. The verdict resulting from $tch’singularly im- Partial proceedings will, of course, be ab- sclutel¥ cor vincing. ‘ Mr. Charles T. Mcrrgy, the newspaper respondent wha was,for,¥ears a brigh: ght on the row in Washington. is now sc Jeurning in Paris to writgiabout the ex- pesition -of 1900 for McClure’s Magazine. In a letter to Mr: Clatence Dean, press agent of Barnum & Baifey’s (which has eeuieyen Wondertul’ popiflamty in London), © SAYS: i vyshotd “We of the QuartierwLatia are still ex- cited—red-hot. ‘The istedénts: and’ polies agents! stl swarm idee oF ys artests yesterday.) PH At of. hystéri- cal denunciations of et y. and. every- thing. Our editorial vigor during a pres- idential, campaign is nothing to all thts, traitor, liar, idiot, imbecile being’ miid ex- ressions of personal estéem, These. are gned, And, of Course, the writers are per- ally ‘responsible.’ . An American tourist in a Parisian res- taurant: said “Garcon, Gorgonzola.’ ‘The ¥aiter dropped his tray and . shrieked, “Conspues Bote’ ““ROSEL-C. > roen Leaving Louisiana, From the New York Post. For some unexplained reason the negroes are drifting away ftom the farm lands in the northern part of Louisiana and going to Arkansas. This movement has been in progress for years. Some time ago negroes were brought Into this section of the state from other states to become tenant farm- ers, but these, also, are going, and the time is approaching, the Monroe (La. News says, when many of the large plan- tations will be tenantless. Discussing what to do, the News rejects the idea of import- ing more negroes, It also opposes a sug- gestion that white men be sought as ten- ants, believing that a white man “who has no ambition above that of always being a tenant is shiftless, spiritiess, and not worth having.” Its plan is to cui the large plantations into small farms and endeavor to sell them to white settlers. The remedy seems a proper one to the New Orlean: Picayune, which says that:some parishes in the state have succeeded in attracting, a farming population from the northern and western states, and. there is no rea- son why northern Louisiana may not, with proper advertising, supplant its negro ten- ant farmers by white owners of the soil. Naval Officer Tells How a Catastrophe Was Narrowly Averted. From the Mlustrated Electrical Review. Those who believe that a-naval officer's life in times of peace is one of ease will un- doubtedly change theiy views after reading the following*experience, as told by a well- known officer in the United States. navy: T_am glad to see you again, and all the re so,because, without knowing it, I came very near going up into the air in small bits on this last squadron cruise. We were at heavy gun practice at sea, and but for the quickness of a gunner’s mate would never have returned. “As you probably snow, the heavy gurs in the turrets are fired by electricity, the gun being discharged simply by pressing a button. The officer in command of-the for- ward turret on our ship dufing rapid firing practice was just about?tg#!press ‘the but- ton to fire org of-our big » when.a gun- ner’s mate was seen to, pb at something om the wall of the turretsamd then fall in-a heap on the ficor. ° pressed’ the button, but the gun w: discharged. ‘When the mate he was asked what had hap) 8 sie informed the cfficer that thé breech»ofithe gun hed not been locked, a:d thet: ope grabbed at on the wall was the ming the elec- tric firing circuit. ie saw that the officer was prepared to-fire-the gun, and at the same time observedthd the breech of the gun was not Jocked,, ly cocurred to him’ to Drenthe discharged was to destroy; circuit,which he did promptly: and effe ty. Bast Bie a aap J ‘eget a charge.o! F @ gun, ‘another charge of, ‘the eoaher in the tur- pret ready to: be. served.sand:the passage- ‘Bebo ine Ackpess of the ld, have sek would have the , the breech , | blown out’ inalde- ‘the ° tur: front the burning powder wei THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1898-16 PAGES. SAGE PREDICTS WAR New York Financier Explains Cause of Drop im Stocks. WORK OF RECRUITING ENDED a SS Only a Few Specialists Are Now Needed in Navy. ACTIVITY ON VIZCAYA Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. NEW YORK, F2bruary 24, 1898. I: is generally believed that the Spanish cruiser Vizcaya will leave our harbor to- morrow. While there has been no official arrouncement to this effect, ther> are Nimerous straws which show that the wind blows in that direction. Her four days’ sojourn in port has been peaceful to a degree. In addition to coaling and pro- vistoning for her return voyage, there are said to have been a number of American mechanics at work upon her steering gear. This latter is not fully verified. But. in spite of all this, the night watch can be heard by the residents of Tompkinsville calling out his usual “All's well.” In addi- tion to the handling of coal, provisions and pessibly machinery, there have been other preparations aboard the Spaniard today that have excited Interest. The Tompkins- vilers assert that 2arly this morning the Spanish sailors began hoisting something to the fighting top of the military mast aft. A block and fall was rigged and a long object which looked not a little Hke a car.vas-covered gun was dragged from be- low. This was placed in the fighting top. What it was can only be conjectur2d, and conjecture .runs t preparation on the part of the Vizcaya’s commander for busi- ness. All sorts of rumors have been circulated to account for for the warship's prolonged stay in port, but the true reason is said to be that no sailing ord2rs have yet been received from Spain. 1t was expected that all the coal bunkers would be filled yes- terday, and the sailors worked hard up to midnight last night, but there was still recm for more of the fu2l. The two barges brought to the vessel's side were not y. qvite empty this morning, and a third loa ed barge has been towed down from Com- nwnipaw. When the contents of this barg> had been passed aboard in bushels the "8 coal cargo will be completed. Thousands Sec the Ship. Twenty thousand persons, a goodly per- centage with cameras, have already vizwed the Vizcaya from Tompkinsville and St. Gcorge, and the water front has again been crowded all day. Many go out in boats, but always return looking like a man who has been buncoed, for no visitors ar> al- \cwed to get within two hundred yards of the vessel. ‘There is one incident connected with the Vizcaya’s visit New Yorkers in the main are heartily ashumed of. When Capt. Eu- late and Consul General Baldasano called upen Robert A. Van Wyck, and in tneir Most polite manner paid their respects to this great.city’s chief magistrate, the iat- ter, following his training in the late rau- nicfpal campaign, did not open his head. He unbent sufficiently te nod. Unkind crit- ics.say that when a messenger notified him that the Spaniards were about to invade his oilice,.he issued a “hurry call” for Croker, and that because he couldn't find his “boss,” who has the y to his pad- locked mouth, he couldn't speak. It is said, and on preity od authority, that this act of discouriesy on the part of Van Wyck wi! be brought to public notice in some manner at Washington, and that his houor’s ears may burn wiih unpleasant Said pbour him. Pies cale ef action has not been turned by clamor, magogy or by yellow poli- ism today. There is the Patriotism pre- olumns, possibly today because conservative sources have at last leaned strongly to- ward the theory that our noble ship and nobler boys were the viciims of Spanish trexchery. But-the spirit of waiting was &8 strong. as ever. Uproar in Wall Street. Thete' was only one spot where there was ripping and roaring over the news of the day, and that was in Wall street. The battle for dollars was as gory as the battle for country, ard the scene of action 13 strewn with thé carcasses of the-unfortu- nate army of bulls. It was a bear day, hide, hugs, claws and all. While there were many sufferers, one good thing is be- lieved to have been accomplighed, namely, the wiping out of the “Tammany pool,” the speculative wing of the new city ad- ministration. This | morning’s 12-point break in Metropolitan street railway stock eid the %point break in Manhattan Ele- vated, which brought the two stocks to 3 level, respectively, 39 1-2 and 22 1-4 points be'ow the higa prices of the past six weeks, were generally taken to mean the extinc- ticn of the “Tammany pool.” Fer severz] months Wall street has been infested with prcfessional politicians and Frofessional gamblers, or people whose Gaily labers conmybine both vocations, who were buying these two stocks on what was known, even “efore Van Wyck's rapid transit message, as a “city ha’ eran brokers have said that never since the days of William M. Tweed has this sort of people come down in such a body to Wall street. Tle “point” has been that the Tammany administration ‘had agreed rot only to block ail other rapid transit pians, but to favor in every way the pri- vate interest of these two enterprises, and when Metropolitan stock, ten days ago, sold at 171 1-4, the “tip” was circulated everywhere that the “Croker pool” would promplly advance it to 200, Today it sold at 132. Nearly all the politicians had their “margins” wiped out yesterday or today, and there were numerous reports of fail- ures to make good impaired accounts. Common report today was that even the brokers whe ‘‘carried” these accounts have lost heavily through their customers. In regard to the general slump in .the market the following statements of promi- nent financiers may be interesting: Henry Clews, the banker, said that, in his opinion, the slump this morning was due to the war seare, which drove the people to liquidation. “I would designate the fall in the market,’ said Mr. Clews, “as due to a semi-panicky feeling. People who were long on stocks on slim margins were driven to liquidate. This movement is by no means exhausted yet, and will have to run its course before the market rights itself. Fortunately, the market kere is receiving a strong backing from London, The strength of buying over there indicates to my mind that they don’t take much stock in the war scare.” James R. Keene expressed the view that the strong indications of war this morn- ing. were responsible for the apprehension which led to the slump. Sage Predicts War. e 15 AN OPEN LETTER ~ To MOTHERS. ‘WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO TITER EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. J,-OR SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of “PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” the same that has borne and does now bear the fac-simile signature of on every wrapper. Leder This is the original « PITCHER'S CASTORIA” which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought. and has the signature onthe wrap~ of a per. No one-has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. March 8, 1897. Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepung a cheap substitute which ‘some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in- gredients of which even fhe does not know. “The Kind You Have Always Bought” BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF CA Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You. ‘THe CENTAUR COMPANY VY WURRAF STACEY. Brw vee cite. ter the yard today. On board the receiv- ing ship Vermont it was said that only thirty-seven more recruits were needed at ! Present. This will complete the force of eighty-two men necessary to make up the complement of the crews of the Terror, Puritan and Dolphin. Forty-five new men have already been enlisted. The recruits still needed are ten seamen, eleven ordi- nary seamen, five landsmen, three ship- wrights, two coal passers and six second- class machinists. When these men have been enlisted there will be no ferther re- cruiting at the vard unless spectal instruc- tions are received from Washington. > THE SENSE OF DIRECTION. In Horses It is Possessed Only Now and Then. From the London Spectator In passing through Bombay early in 1850 I bought a fine black Kutch pony and | marched with him to Kamptee, in Central India, 560 miles. The evening after arrival I dined with the cavalry regiment, at the | far end of the cantonment, over three miles distant from the house I had secured; but | on leaving the mess house, the syce hav- ing run off at once in advance, I found my- self plunged in worse than Egyptian dark- ness without the smallest conception of the road home er any trace of surrounding objects. The pony, nevertheless, took me along the whole distance, in at the gate of my compound and up to the house door, although he had never been east of Bom- bay, much less acquainted with the canton- ment of Kamptee, My Victorian friend was at the time of the incient I am about to mention—some thirty years ago—engaged in breeding horses. It appears that on One occasioa while driving a. mob of horses down to Melbourne for sale he lost his way tn the bush, and wandering on through most of the day vainly endeavoring to find his camp, had very néarly arrived at the despairing | conviction that he was honejessly lost, as | not infrequently happens in Australia. Feeling the horse he was r-ding rather be ing on the bit to one side, it suddenly oc- curred to him that the animal had the sense of direction, and, trusting entirely to this, he threw the reins on his neck. The horse, turning right round, got soon into a lobbing canter, and brought my friend direct to his camp, situated, as he judged, some seven miles away. On many subse- quent occasions my friend found this horse’s sense of direction quite unerring. His experience, however, of the majority of horses which passed through his hands | was that they either possessed the sense in a very low degree or not at all. But what appears to me a still more re- markabie instance of the sense in question was narrated by the same friend as con- nected with a horse he at one time possess- ed, which, reared by himself, showed such cleverness in undoing bolts and fastenings of al! kinds that nothing short of a jock and key availed to keep him either in or out of his stable. On selling this animal to a planter, who was then traveling right up to the north of Australia, over a thousand miles distant, he warned him that unless well secured en route the horse would al- most certainly get back to his old stable. In a month or thereabouts this actually oc- curred. The animal was one morning found in his stall little better than skin and bon having, as my friend calculated by the da’ given him, traveled right across a great part of the continent to his old home at the rate of over a hundred miles a day! On two subsequent occasions this horse got away from purchasers, who, notwithstanding the information my friend gave of his past his- tory, desired to possess him, and returned from great distances to his old home, where he remained for the rest of his days, too clever to be parted with! A MOLOKAI ISLAND RANCH SOLD. A Big Hawaiian Real Estate Deal. From the St. Louis Glebe-Democrat. Probably the most notable real estate transaction In the history of the Hawaiian Islands occurred February 2, when the Bishop estate ranch, on Molokai Island, was sold at public auction to Arthur D. McClel- lan of Boston for $251,000. The long lease. the business men on the islands were pres- ent, and the bidding was lively. The upset price of the property had been fixed at $150,000.. McCleHan was in a combination of twenty-five men, and had ized to bid $225,000 for the combination. When the price was bid above that McCiel- | ceiving a like jirgs. “The | Operate the bridge railway themselves or DOES THE BROUKL BRIDGE Payt The Charges Are Low, but Reteras Satisfactory. From the Yale Review. ‘The story of this bridge is, indeed, one of the most interesting chapters in the city’s history. It was originally projected as a private enterprise, and in 1867 a company j Wes duly nized to build it; but the cities of New York and Brooklyn were au- thorized to subscribe to the cap. ital stock, and to teke over the bridge at any time by paying one- third more than the cost of construction. Both cities availed themselves of the op- pertunity to subscribe to the representatives of the two city governments were added to the board of the work cf consiructicn fi satisfactory progress, and so after several years’ de'ay the corporation was dissolved, the cities bought out the holders and the bridge was the joint expense of the tw: iyn paying two-thirds of the cost and Te- proportion of the net earn- trustees were authorized to to authorize it to be operated, and they chose the plan of direct public manage- ment. The resuit has been on the whole rather a triumph for municipal manage- ment and low charges, When the bridge was first opened there were tolis for admin- sion to the driveways and promenade: but they were gradually reduced or abolished,» making the bridge free first to pedestrians and more recently to cyclists, while the fare oa the bridge railway has been re- duced from 5 cents to 2s, with the imme- @ate effect of much more than doubling the number of passengers carried. The abolition of tolls for vehicular traffic has been authorized by the legislature, and if *his were dene there would be no charge for crossing the bridge to those supplying their own motive power, but only to those carried across on the reilway; as . high- way the bridge would be entirely free. And row even the elevated and surface cars of Brooklyn are to be permitted to cross the bridge for merely nomi: al tolls, in order that the public may be spared the Incon- venience of a change of cars and the ex- pense of an exira fare. Thus the affairs of the bridge are in such a state of transi- tion at present that the financial stacistics o? past years throw little light upon the future. It can be stated definitely that merely abolishing the tolls on the carriage- Weys would not have the effect of reducing the receipts below the current expenses, for of late the railway fares alone have usually been more than sufficient t> pay the running expenses cf the bridge. and there ar> some minor sources of revenue; but the effect of the contracts with the brooklyn railways cannot be so well fore- teld. The revenues of the bridge during the official year 1897 included $1, 4 in railway fares; $00,797 in carriagew which had not yet been discontinued; $87,- 039 in renta's, and $24,380 for the use of the bridge as a support for telegraph and tel- ephone wires. The last item shows that the bridge has been managed in more bus- i: ess-like fashion than the city streets, for the latter give support to electric wires without compensation. ier Wom of the Legion of Hoi From the New York Tribune. Under th first empire two women were Gecorated with the Legion of Honor. One was Virginie Ghesquiere, who, disguising herself as a man, took the place of her brother, who was too weak for a zoldier’s life. Sh» entered the 27th Regiment and rese to the rank of sergeant, and her s«x was not discovered until she was wounded while rescuing her colonel from the cnemy. Marie Schelling, a native of Belgium, was the second woman to be similarly honored. She received six saber cuts at Jemmapes, and fought at Austerlitz and Jena, where she was wounded twice. In 1806 sh> was promoted, and in 1898 Napoleon decorated ber with his own hand and granted her a pension. Soeur Marthe, a Sister of Charity, was decorated in 1815, but the only decoration given to a woman between 1815 and 1851 ‘was to a “cantiniere” named Perrot,though light ribbons were given to women between 1851 and 1865, one being received by Rosa Bonheur. Lady Paget was also on of the rectpients of the Legion of Honor, in recog- nition of her ambulance work in 157 and decorated for s=rvices on the ‘uttiefield, twenty of the total of thirty-four who re- ceived. the red ribbon having been Sisters of Charity, while ‘Rosa Bonheur has been- the only artist thus honored. Mme. Di-ulafoy, the brave wife of the ex- plorer of North Africa, received the “‘Le- gion” a short time ago.