Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 12, 1886, Page 11

» has incre APPEAL FOR PROHIBITION, The Aloobol Habit a Tyrant Whose Power Ouly at the Grave. Denonnced as a Drammer for Tippling Shops ~The Evil Increasing Throughont the World. Rabbatarianiem ef that the excess of every to insgre it it seems almost to have been disproved by the history of the alcohol habit. When the yoke of despots had made deliver- more desirable despotism had rea power. When 1 made the hatred of shams than the fire of he stal no Jesuitical intrigues could prevent t triumph of protestant revoit. But though the evil of intemperance has long been recog- nized as the blighting curse of modern civilization, the sorefelt need of relief scems thus far to have revealed no remedy After half a century of incessant labor, the champions of reform must admit the Fumiliating truth that the poison-traflic continues to increase in a ratio exceed irg that of our rapidly increasing popu- lation. In the United States the con- sumption of alcoholic liguors of all kinds ed 45 per cent in the past fif teen ye ‘Lhe consumption of lager- beer has nearly doubled in twelve years. Since 1866 the capital invested in the breweries of Great Britain and Germany has increased at the average rate of 43 per cent a year, or more than twice as fast as the general averaze of the ‘‘con- structive manufactures.” In parts of Europe where the ebb of ll other indus- tries has enforced a degree of frugality unknown to the revival periods of me- dimeval asceticism, the liquor traffic still swells the tide of reyenue and of dise Remedy after remedy has been proposed, tested, and changed for another. doomed to a similar failure. And yet the general tendency ot those changes reveals an advance in the right direction. Philosophers huve long thought it probable that the historians of the future will deal with the records of legis- lative reforms, rather than with the bul- letins of battles and bombardments, and the value of such records in characteriz- ing the spirit of the age is strikingly illustrated by the chronicle of temper- ance legislation. The necessity of con- trolling the grosser excesses of intem- perance was always more or less recognized, but until lately the efforts to that purpose were directed to the suppression of the symptoms rather than to the removal of the cause. There was a time when the beiief in the necessity of alcoholic stimulation would have proved a wholly unassailable axiom, even if legislators could have been in- duced to waste their time on such trifles as the preservation of health. It was the age of anti-naturalism, when the inter- ests of mankind were syswematically sac- rificed to the interests of a dogma. It was the millenium of madness, when the promotion of sanitary hubits was thought of far less imiportance than the enforce- ment of insane ceremonies, when the images of miracle-mongers lodged in giided domes while the image of God rotted in a hovel, when the slaves of the church slaughtered one another for the golden streets of the New Jerusalem while the streets of their own cities recked with filth, when men were tortured to death for whispering a doubt against the retensions of their spiritnal taskmasters ut were (ree}{ ‘Eermine:d to poison themselves and their neighbors with spirituous abominations, since ‘‘not that which goeth into the mouth deflleth a man.’’ In that golden age of anti-physi- cal doctrines, temperance had no chance whatever. Cavaliers and commoners vied in ‘‘wassail” nay, the moral exemp- lars of Christendom outguzzled the thirst- iest laymen. The monastery of Weltenburg on the Danube operatea the largest brewery of the Germun empire, and thousands of prelates owned both breweries and vine- wrds. Spiritual tyranny and spirituous icense went hand in hand. Yet, even then, communities had to legislate against the bestial abuse of that license; and there were voluntary friends of temper- apce, men of higher iaeals, and philanthrophists, drunken riots, though ‘they loved their wine, and who = recom- mended a self denial which they found often more easy to preach than to prac- tice. Their motto wus: “Moderation. Be temperate in all things. Keep the sate middle course,"’ A dangerous fallacy lurks in those pre- cepts. It may be safe to compromis conflicting duties, as charity and econ- omy,patriotism and domestic obligation! but where is the golden mean of virtue and vice? How keepa safe mddle cdurse on the slippery road to ruin?® After open- tng the flood-gates, not one manina ihousand can stay the progress of a be- setting vice, and~ of all besetting vices the alcohol ' habit is the most inevitably progressive. An unnatural appetite has no natural limits. For weeks, sometimes for months, young topers have to strug- gle aganst the protests of a better in- stinet, but the final surremder of that monitor marks the incipience of a mor bid craving, which every gratification makes only more exorbitant. For by and by the jaded organism fails to respond to the spur, the stimulant palls, but the hankering for stimulation continues, and the toper has to satisfy his thirst either by increasing the quan- tum of his tipple or by resorting to stronger poison. After kinding the flames of alcoholism 1t is vain to urge the advantages of 4 moderate conflagra- tion; one might as well recommend a moderate use of the privilege to ignite a barrel of gunpowder. We cannot toler- ate the use ot intoxicants and hope to prevent intoxication, The lessons of experience, if not physi- ology, gradually taught the friends of temperance to relinquish that hope. A strong party of the Reform league de- clared in favor of total abstinence from alcoholic beverages, and devised plans for the effective propoganda of their tenets. They doubted the expediency of coercion “in “'a matter of private Liabits,” but shrank from no sacrifice in Dbraving the odium of personal intoler- ance, in advocating their principles in publie lectures, 1n printing and distrib- uting millions’ of eloguent pamphlets Their own habits were generally distin- guished by a strict conformity to their i:nnflplv.. They hoped to cure the aleo- 0l habat by iillustrating in theory anll ractice the advant of uncomprom ising abstinence. Their motto was “Re- pud A good deal of learning has lately been paraded in demonstrating the legal ne- cessity of distinguishing between crimes and vices, between direct and indirect offenses aganst the statutes of the moral code. But the recognized interests of public welfare have uiways been pursued across the boundaries of such distinctions; oF, more properly speaking, the varying defimtions of good and evil have ever biused the prevailing theories as to the proper sphere of legisiation. When the #ternal welfare of millions was supposed to depend on their conformity to certain aysterious dogmas, und tue degredation r Forum at auce of »d the term rule its had burn se. who ' abhorred than life itself, | | of the toperinvolves an inevitab hotter | scholars THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SU NDAY, | of the body was thought to be rather con. ducive to spiritanl advautages, it seemed perfectly logical to give & health-destroy- ing habit free rein and curb the freedom of conscience, These theories have since been greatly modified; but that modern moralists hesitate to cocrce rum sell ers i hasten of to coerce gamblers and the vendersof erature means, after «fl, noth e but that ey are «till inclined to consider intem- rance, on the whole, a lesser evil than P n for gaming or lascivious novels 1 that bias a relic of the times when the temptations of the sexual instinct were dreaded more than those of the w vice Judging from secular standards we 1 be inclined to think th hol is doing more mischief in a single year than ne literature b done in a century. And while gam may be indemnified by an occasiol gain, there is no doubt that the passion ison <ho obsc time, money, and reputation of health nd, unt the loss of self-respect, & the asis on which Yo of appenls to the moral instinet founds his plan of salvation The power of moral resistence is weak ened with every repetition of the poison dose, and we might as well [ bed-ridden consumptive with appeals to resume hisplace at the head of an affii mily. Dr. Isaac Jennings mention the case of & young man of great promise whom a clerical friend attempted to dis- suade from habits of imtemperance “‘Here me first a few words,” said the young man, “and then you may proceed. am sensible that an indulgence in this habit will lead to loss of property, to Joss of reputation and domestic happiness, to premature death, and to the irretriev- able loss of my immortal soul; and now all this convict ing firmly on my mind and flashing over my conscience like lightning, 1f I still continue to drink do you suppose anything you can say will deter me from the practice Taught by the logic of such expe: iences, the friends of reform have at last recognized the truth that the “‘temperate use’ of alcohol is but the tirst stage of a progressive and shame-proof disease,and that moderation and repudiation failing, we must adopt the motto of “Eradica- tion.” We must direct our blews against the roots of the upas-tree; and there is no doubt that the sharpest, if not cheapest, tool would be the general enforceme: of prohibition. The penalties of a severe proscriptive law would sap the basis of the poison-traflic by making its risks outweigh its profits, especially the profits of catering to an ever-decreasing de- mand. For the very means used to evade those risks would also diminish the penls of tempta- tion 1o thousands of young men of that class owing their ruin less to innate depra than to the evilintluence of an obtrusivé example. The army of topers would die out for the want of re cruits wherever the causes of intemper- ance are limited to the temptation of the rum shop, with its garish splendor and its sham promise or pleasures. Butl the tempter comes in more subtle disgui The elixirs of death are sold as panac “Brandy doctors,” as Benjamin Rush used to call them, abuse the confidence of their patients by inoculating them with the seeds of u lfe-blighting vice Thousands of topers owe their fall to prescrsption of *“tonle bitters.” In many of our smaller cities dru her than coffee houses and beer gardens, are the preparatory schools of the rum shop. Dr.N. S. Davis, ex-President of the American Medical Association, confesses to having found *‘no case of disease, and no emergency arising from accident that could not be treated more succes fully without any form of fermented or distilled liquors than witn.” Dr. James R. Nichols, editor of the Boston “‘Journal of Chemistry,” records his conviction that “‘the banishment ot alcohol would not deprive us of a single oneof the in- dispensable agents which modern ci ization demands.”” *‘In no instance,” he adds, ‘“‘of disease in any form, isita medicine which might not “be dispensed with and other agents substituted Ten years ago the six hundred delegates of the [International Medical Con- Tess, cofvened at Philadelphia, were induced to admit that “‘alcohol is not shown to have a definite food value by any of the usual methods of chemical analysis or physiological investigation,™ and that “its use as a medicine is chietly that of a cardiac stimulant, and often ad- mits of substitution.” Then wi mankind’s sake. not confine ourselv such substitutes? Have the periments of Homaopathy abundantly proved that ~ di of sorts can be cured, not only as well, but more easily and ‘more permanently, without the use of any drastic sumulants whatever? Is it not mere mockery prohibit the sale of small beer, and per- mit any enterprising distiller to deluge the country with p n by selling his brandy as a *‘digestive tonic,”’ and elude the inconveniences of the Sunday law by consigning his liquor to a drug-store? But while these treacherous feeders of the alcohol habit are being assailed with even more trenchant blows, temperance people as a class seem to 1gnore an evil in which history and moral philosophy have unearthed the very tap root of intemperance, viz: the life- blighting tyranny of Sabbatarianism. Savages and wanton country boys, now and then may taste a glass of fire-water for the sheer mischievious love or risky experiments, but in our centers of civili- zation six out of ten topers use alcohol for exactly the same purpose that the life- weary toilers ot the east use opium—as an anodyne to lighten the burden of hopeless misery. Ina primitive state of society nature herself provides abundant opportunities of recreation, Wealth re- stores those opportunities. Our priyil- eged citixens can leave the city weeks to propitiate nature by a pilgrimage to the sanctuaries of the wilderness, and restore their health by the care and out-door sports of their nature-abiding ancestors; but those privileges are denied to the very classes most sorely in need of their blessings, and by suppressing all popular pastimes on the day when a vast plurality of our workingmen find their only leisure for recreation, we force them to seek relief in the narcotics of the rum shop and drown their misery in the Lethe of intoxication. They drink to get drunk;they take refuge in the de- lirium of the poision fever as in a dream, to escape the soul sickening roun about of six s of J‘rudg.-ry followed by a seventh day of un- satistied longin, Heat the furnace- fires, shut and rivet the valves, and pray for the safety of the boiler: but donot hope to prevent the explosions of vice after shutting the gates of merey on the panting toilers of a factory town, by closing their libraries,closing their parks, preventing their escape by stopping ex- cursion boats and picnic trains, and then convening a prayer meeting to avert the well-known consequences. “Nature will have her revenge, and when the most ordinary and harmless’ jecreations are forbidden as sinful, apt toseek compen: sation in indrigences which uo woralist would be willing to condone. The charge brought azainst the Novatians in the early days of the chiurch ean, with equal plasibii- ity, be brought against the Puritans in our own da Oupe vice, at all events, which cliristians of every school, as well &s non- clristian woralists, are agreed in cow- dewning, I8 reputed 10 be a spec- ial opprobrium of ..And the strictest observance of all those minute and oppressive Si ian lations referred 0, bas been found compatibie with conse- crating the dav of rest to a guiet but unlim- ited assiw of the I which inebri, ates but does not cheer.” Review, July 18, l:;lh sn . o r'?‘uh\{’;e mmnk' n‘r‘l:q. keep m 01 from vice."—Boswell, p. And there cannot be a shadow of a Goubt that the enemies of public awmmse- ments have for centuries promoted the vice of the poison habit by making its s destroys the ad alco | besiege a | ted | consequences a lesser evil. Thousands of ruined wretches have been driven to the rum-shop by the very men who are loud- est 1n denouncing the enormity of their | sin; and who would perpetuate that sin | to the end of time rather than 1»‘-"“ to | its victims a gate of escape by relaxing | the rigor of their own views. With our pauper-graves full of suicides whom the | doctrine of anti-naturalism had robbed of all the hight that shone on earth for n, with our citics full of pale-faced dren, we may weil doubt our right to » times when prelates at the expense of 'sta After waging a fifty s' war as the champions of salvation against the enc | mies of mankind, the evidence of . perience forces us to the bitter confes sion that we have strengthened the hands | of those enemmes. We must acense our- seives ot having deserved failure, but the | candor, even of self reproach, is | better * than delusion, re tting our eyes to ficance take, our ad- of our blindne trustiug supporters expenses of our campaigns t to further waste their resources, let us hov let confess that we cannot win the battle the present plan. Let us change the battle ground to the open fields; let us found temperance gardens with play grounds, free music and hygienic res taurants; let us have a free gymnasium in every village and every city park; let us devote at least a portion of our leis- ure day to health-giving sports, and neu- tralize the allurements of the rum shop by making harmless pleasures more at- ractive than the riots of vice. In the name who defray and of us the | have | ———— THE NATION'S LIBRARY. A Big Concern and Who Manages Ti— Omniscient Spofford. A Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Times. writes: One of the busiest persons in W ashington these hot summer days is Ainsworth R. Spoflord, the librarian of congress. \\'!n{:- other people are disporting themselves mountain or seaside he is busy with b plans for the new library building while other people are hapy | lief from work he is mof »py in this | opportunity to devote himsclf to this work. It has been the pet project of his existence for many years. There had been bill after bill in congress for the erection of a ary building, and Mr. Spofford hus been waiting for these many years to sec the accomplishment of his hopes. Now that the proposition_ has actually become a fact and the land for the site has been purchased, he cheerfuliy relinquishes his summer vacatio: r the work he has so lomg hoped to see accom- y 1n their Talk s an en- pofford is a wonderfu! man king encyclope he spedin of encyclopedias, ana a walk- 2 one, too. No matter what you want to know, if it is to be found out in bo: you have onl) 0 to Mr. Spofford a he will put you in to find it. He is one of the busiest men in V hington, but never too busy to answer a question relating to information to be had from books. Approuach him on any other s nected with his life , often in are brie t he the conve s sation to books « he is all attention. library buldings of his supervision will be it may,with the rather lin congress tardily and grudgingiy gave for the preservation of t endid library which Mr. Spofford has had in k and which has so largely accumulated in the past twenty-two g The library of congre: Spofford was appointed librarisn by P dent Lineoln in 1863.then consist2d of per- haps 15,000 volumes. Now it contains 750, 000 volumes of booksand pamphlets. Th its quarters were considered commodions and capacious; now they sre crowded with piles and boxes of books that can not be used because thereis not room for their distribution, and many dark rooms in the basement of the capitol are filled with wolumes which cannot be given accommodations in the librar) itself. Then the salary of the librarian and his assistants w. 000 or $7,000 a year; now their total salaries amount to nearly $10,000 a year. Then the library was surpassed by many in different parts of the world: now tbh are but four in the entire_world which outrank it. the rate of increase which has been the rule for many years past, M »ufford will haye a round million of b ] mphilets to store away m his ne rary building when it is completed rate of increase 1n the nur of works in the library in the past year has been very rapid. By law erson who copyTights a book mu to the iibrary. Be CODZTess ZIves from 350,000 to $75,000 a year for the pur- chase of books for 1t, and under the care- ful management of Mr. Spofford thisgives a rapid increase in the number of its works. The library now is increasing at the rate of neariy tifty thousand volume: a year. The collection is a wonderful one. It comprises books in ten different languages, and on many important sub- jects it has a volume of “every work pub- ished. M v of the works upon the ' Iy valuable for their antiquity, while in all new pablicatio both in this country and elsewhers keeps fully up to the tim. The library, while is called the li- brary of congress, is réally the library of the people. Anvbody who visits it may examine at his lexsure any of the works upon its shelves, and, by depositing the valve of any book may take it to his home and keep it for a considerable time. It is the Mecca of the historian and careful writer from all parts of the country. They travel here to study the works of refer- ence upon its shelves, and any day yon may see within its walls men and women of letters studying the valuable records which it contains. *The library was tounded in 1802 with some 3,000 volumes carefully selected in London. John Randolph was one of 1ts earliest friends and supporters. Jefier- son was also its friend, and when he found it necessary to part with his fine collection of books they were promptly purchased by congress und added to the ibrary. Itis said that Jeflerson shed tears on parting with his library, which was for that time a very fine one, Like other features of the great government it has had its reverses. It was destroyed by fire when the British invaded Wash- ingtonn 1814, They took the books from the library, which was then in the capitol, as it is now, and piled them on the floor of the hall of representatives, set fire to them and then érui the great building. Thirty-seven years later a fire 8 defective flue destroyed halt 'y, which consisted of some sixty teousand volum - The Earihguake Acguitted. New York Sun: J. Fasrington, a cigar dealer of Manhattan avenue, Greenpoint, accused Richard Jost yesterday of steal- ing two boxes of cigars. “‘When did my client commit the al- leged theftr” asked Counsclor Roesch. “Last Tuesa-l night.” “Did you see him take the cigarst” No, but { saw the boxes move, and he was behind them; I found a box in his pocket.™ ““Tuesday unight,” said the counselor; “that was the night of the earthquake. Maybe the uske caused them to move. And no ," he continued, “‘can you swear that the quake did not mfl]n_s mt;o;‘ul lg move, 1:3 l:j;"'h wenty-nive days in J sum which o which Mr. it for if | | but it was said there wa And | At | | was going to his plan: EPTEMBER 12, 1886.—~TWELVE PAGES. e e e e ——————————————————— e e e e e e e P e - e COLONEL BILL'S ROMANCE. ! An Officer of the Mexican War and His Pretty Wife. Rumors That Disturbed the Commu nity Which He Lived—A Triple Tragedy. in talk about war with Mexico, w anta Constitution correspondent romantic tragedy which grew out of our struggle W that country forty years ag When volunte hundreds of hand:ome them bro t Mexican wive them Among the fortunate ones was Colonel Bill. 1 never got at the straight of n a mystery about the colonel's marr Some of his sol a aid that in one of hisforays he had aptured a_ Mexican vill He looted the place, picked out the prettiest seno ita in it, the daughter of old Don Juan Gomez, a wealthy Castilian, and married her by force of arms, as it were. There was another story ¢ worse than this, It was that the dashing colonel had car ried off the beautiful wife of a Mexican general, and despite her tears and pro testations had m ber submit to the farce of a marriage ceremony performed by an army chaplain. These rumors, in various shapes, some- times modified and sometimes embell- ished, were whispered in the society cir- cles of the city of M for years after the return of Colonel Biil. I heard some- thing of the story when my boyish curi- osity was excited by the somber gloom of a tall, dark mansion in a guiet quarter of the city. At the time i was not old enough to understand the full import of what | heard, but I understood enough. to muke me shudde: Colonel Bili was seldom seen on the streets of M— He passed minch of his time on his plantation, a few miles out, and during the winter he spent weeks and months in distant cities. At first it was suid that he took his wife with him rs came marching home we among age on his travels, but as the years rolled on | he graduslly began to neglect her; and he would leave her for six months at a time shut up in the old mansion. The mystery of the place took a strong hold upon my youthful mmagination, and I never passed the honse without scanning it closel, i v any discoveries ho center of spacious grounds, =o filled up with trees and tropical shrubbery and flowers that it wa jvult to see much from the street. In the rear was a gar- den surrounded by 0 brick wall with grated opening one could see what was of the inclosure. One day in looked throv and saw the me my eyes had e s the colonel's w p young woman, tall aceful, and her dark face was illumir by a pair of that seemed to be shin This r 5 was 3 1 who appe id or companion. The two were onversing in a foreign tongue stood in the on heard voices. in the w woman t 1 knew at She w of their voici at them so = s attrac he ked at me their attention ladv of the mans: with a sad smile, and made some remark to her comvanion. Then they walked over to theother side of the garden, out of my sight. Naturally I told what I had seen, and «d me to-death with ques- d to deseribe the beau- *" asked an old gossip. I answered her thatI thought I saw diamonds glittering on her throat. in her hs nd on her hands, ) Goubt of i d my questioner, ut the poor thing has very few of them Tow 1s that?" I asked. 'hy, don’t you know? But of course youdon't. Well, when she first came here she had a peck of diamonds. Even on her morning wrappers every button was a diamond.” “And where are they now?" I queried en-mouthed wonder. t horrid old Colonel Bill has taken them. The colonel is a very bad man. I can’t tell a little boy like you how bad heis. Now, the colonel is always need- ing money for gambli vd racing and his other pleasures, and whenever he is in a tight place for a few hundreds he just takes a handful of his wife monds and that is the last of them. Such brutal meann en d me not alittle, and I secretly 1esolved when I got big enough 1o give Colonel Bill a genteel thrashing In the course of time 1 cavught more than one glimpse of the colonel when he ion or returning. He rode a fine horse, and generally dashed along without looking eitber to the right or to the jeft. He was a very handsome man of about fifty, but his face was stern and repellan Selfi ness, cruelty end even murder lurked i that Although I had fully made up my mind io eall Colonel Bill to a bioody account sometime in the distant future, the sight of him was so hateful to me that 1 made it & point to get out of the when I saw him coming. In the ntime 1 made inguiries about the an. People raved over t very few had ever se er gone inio socie en at home to visitors. nts little or nothing could be learne They were afraid of their master and devoted to their mistress Sull, it was generally agreed that Colonel Bill was horribly d and cruel to his wife. He was jealous, too, an absurd thing, as the poor lady never went any- where. 1 was told that some two or thre vears after the couple’ had settled in M-— they were visited by old Don Juan Gomez use for the wicked ecoloyel, to kill him, but he yielded to his daught- er's entreaties, and beforg he left shelled out diamonds and doubleons in the most bewildering profusion. Then he sadly went back 10 s hacienda in Mexico, Ng & prowise from his son-in 1aw 1o behave himself. and I could not learn how much of it was true and how much false, One r\‘rning{u-t after dusk, T had casion to pass the house.in such evid her. and had n From the oc- ntly a foreigner, was on the oppo site side of the street,'4ooking at the place. He called me over, and in very fw‘i English, asked me who hived ther tola him, he thanked me and walked off. Islackened my pace strauger in view. When he came to the garden wall he paused and looked up and down the street. Seeing nobody, he climbed over the projecting bricks at the corner, and vaulted over into the garden like s cat. § was so dumfounded by the roceeding that I struck for home and y a great effort kept my mouth shut. Tue next morning the whole city rang with the intelligence of a erime slmost without parallel or preeedent. When I heard the details I felt a sense ot guilty responsibility. Colonel Bill, his wife and a gentleman had all been murdered the night before. The servants could throw no light wpon the affair. When they retired at a lste hour they left Colonel Bill and bis wife in the Li- brary. In the morni the housemaid entered the library found the three move. they went out in a bul coroner and the corpse to finish the in- quest. public office is & publie trusiy’ seedy-looki | saloon on th The don did fipt bave a bit of | nd wanted | Bo the story ran, | eleven ) wwhich I felt | tained in the eity this evening, deep terest. A fime-looking man | for about On my return home 1 will immediately remit— and kept the | Cronstandt. were to strong to al effecting a descent at Croastadt and they were carried oe toward Oranienbaum, but the wind rising they were swept out dead bodies the heart, and a bloody dagger was found on the floor. In the colonel's hand was 4 pistol, but it bad not been dis charged. The bodies of the colonel and his wife lay close together on one side of the room, while the stranger's wason the other side Then I made a clean br had to attend the inquest, and when I saw face of the dead stranger [ recognized man who had questioned me the even and jumped over the e lawy and the tly puzzied. The W to the strang uily the theory that he w ther the former lover of the colonel’s wite, and that he bad killed the two in a fit of jealous re venge, and then committed suicide Some contended that Colonel Bill kitled the wife and the man, an killed himself, but the und tol in his hand was against Lfforts were made to t Gomez, but without resuit. 1 lieved that if he could have been found h would have been able to explain some things. As it was, the tragedy had (o re main a mystery., There were no further developments,” and other events drove the matter from the public mind., - How A Pitcher's Arm Gives Out. Detroit Journal; Lon I'witchell, the promising but crippled young pitcher whom the Detroits are “holding in re serve, was taken to Dr. George S, Riche ards yesterday afternoon by h rn what was the m; Twitchell’s arm. Twitchell has a right arm that any lady might be proud to possess. It is fair and exeedingly shapely. Besides the beauty that the young man keeps modestly hidden in his “coat sleeve there 1s an abiundance of well developed muscle which is perfect in appearance, but de- foctive in one little particular spot, There is an important muscle on the un- der side of the arm, above the elbow, which should be attachea to that joint, but isnot, and that's what's the matter with Twitchell, The muscte was detached, Twitchell says, in the game which he pitched for Detroit at Cincinnati early last spring. “That 1s where I did it," said he, *‘for af- ter [ had pitched one of my hardest and best balls 1 felt something in wy arm mive way. That has knocked me out for the whole season.” Twitchell k been resting at and his Ohio home ever since, exercismg a little daily and waiting for his arm to get well, though he did not know until yesterdav just what was the matter with it. Dr Richards, besides being a promi- surgeon, is a4 gray-haired TR 1l enthusiast, and an au- troubles, cnerally. The to do nothing pted and or then 1 pis theory was be Detroit and well up on bas doctor advised Tw for three or four weeks. “Do not." he said, lift even a water. at muscle is detached won't heal if you wse it. before you go to bed sprinkle minutes with ice water and then rub it thoroughly dry. Thatwill do you more good than'a pailfull of prescriptions or all the electricity there is 1n a dynamo. You may be able to pitch again three or four weeks, and you may not, but cer- tainitist if you continue to use that ou'll never be worth a base hit piteher. If yon had not used your since it was hurt yon would have right by this time." 1lI's arm does not trouble him n he pitches what he specdiest ball. Itis a bal is very difficult to fol- He torows all cther balls without wail of and it ery night ; g it for five jump ow. amn e The Earthquake in Georgia. Atlanta Constitution Une lady Jackson county threw open the door and fired & gun, and was w the floor with another gun in hand when her busband came home. A gentleman walked the floor with pistol in hand, looking for burglars, It is reported in Griffin that a leading counsellor in the prolibition contest rushed from his house into the middle of tue road in a single nether garment and yelled to his wife to come out, as the liskey men were biowing the house up with dynamite. ‘he jury in the Gilbert Davis case, in Eastman, were in their room in the court house, unable to agr: and, it is said, there was no probubility of theirarriving ata verdict. After the earthquake was over they agreed in about three minutes. A rather strange incident occurred a colored womun in Barnesville. Anna Anthony, who is in the employ of Mr. T. C.Banksas a cook, was preparing to milk the cow’ She had roped the cow and the end of the rope which she held bad an iron ring tied to it. The ring for Joop and caught on the wo- man’s finger, as the cow, in fright, at- tempted to get away. The pulling by the cow caused the thumb to be cut off, or rather so near ofl that the thumb had to be amputated. The earthquzke came near breaking up an inquest on Hutchinson's Island. Capt Dixon had crossed over to the island to investigate the death ot Cyru mpbell, on old negro, who was found bin the: noon The udden, and no onc present, so coroner concluded to summon ' a jury. After swearing them they were all” told to take seats in the cabin, D More, was the cnly witne He be- n giving his evidence, and had gotten about down to the time when Campkeil was last seen, when the cabin com- menced to rattle. “There she goes \" the witness said. His eyes grew e ordinrr, and he started for the door, leaving his evidence half finished. The juror nearest the door bout hulf a second, and he gave ut. The other jurors gave the corpse and they saw it 'hat was enough for them, and h, leaving the in D Public Office a Pablic Trast. Chicago Tribune: “Do you pelicve a inquired a wan who went into a West Side and addressed keeper with proteutous solemnity or evening. 1 certainly do," saia the dispenser of cocktails. 1 am giad to find you in accord with the prineciples held by the official head of the great political long,’ body rejoined the sroaching “the bar. Highway Commis where 1live, and n rs. Beir to which 1 be- dy party, ap- am one of the oners of tne township e held the office for unexpectedly de nd find- dy cash, I have upon my long 1f short for re -cn Obliged to fall bac official career as a basis for some trifling business accommodations | just_said, a public ofiicer is entitled 1o As you have publie trust, and 1 would therefore ask hiree fingers of old rye on trast The Highway Commissioner was fired out of the saloon in less time than it takes to empty s Bu), arian throne, and another historie utterance of the administration had gone into innocuous desuetade. - Acronauts in the Water. A large balloon, recently constructed in the imperial technical manufactory at St. Petersburg for the purpose of con- ducting a series of experiments bearing on the use of ballons for military objects, was dispatehed from St. Petersburg for The urp(-r currents of air ow of the aeronauts Each bad been stabbed to | | wind astof itall. I/ garden | had | Don Juan | | orders, | Liszt!’ to sea, and at last the balloon fell into the sea mineteen miles from Cape Kara valdja, in the midst of a violent storm of and rain. The thres oceupants of the car wonld certainly have been lost had the accident not been sigh by an English v The captain at once put about and rescued them from their peril ous position and took m safely o Cornstadt. - A BOLD AMERICAN GIRL. She Burlesques Liszt to His Face, and Breaks the Piano Stool and Strings. Boston Herald: Liszt was sound of stren and we his weakne ed no one asel a strange akness, but but him quoted may intercst A’ very life in Rome during the us IX it card of the one day a s | cireles. It ran thus: ‘Come and 1 ice with me to-morrow evening all hear Liszt.' Liszt was the god hour. Gossip was busy with his ) for Mme. de W. It was said ady had exacted from the ted manist the legitimate ratifi- jon; that quite averse to marr interposed be tween his friend and nimself the obstacle of his sacred engagement to take holy All wondered at the s ment of the artist with ments, and curiosity,not of malice, was excited Princess X sensation in the friends} that the celebra caticn v dive shall hear Not one of the bidden guests failed to accept the summons of the Princess X Old Roman patricians, the foreign colony, English, Americans, the cor diplomatique, rs of the pontificial army, many prelates and even cardinals, g »d in her salon, happy tor the tion,and promising them- ure of hearing the illus trious pianist and new abbe. Liszt ape pveared. The long black robe became his tall, thin figure. He wore it without em- barrassmeut, with that weary and haughty expression which never” really left nim. He received with dignity the homage of the lovely ladies, saluting them majestically, scarc deigning to open his lips, and H-rudu ng upon the spectators, especially the young and timid, a feeling of awe. They found the atmosptere of the room imbued with s presence. The more courageous brought him champagne and lemon ice, but their hands trembled while dorng it. One whispered as if in church. One feared to_distwrb the repose of the lion. \e evening advanced, and still the mas- ter had not approached the ,1; and Erard which stood open for him. The Princess X. at last decided to solicit him to play. The guests breathlesiy awaited the hoped-for pleasure; they placed them- selves in the most favorable positions for Learing. The discrete murmur of con- versation stopped altogether. It was an hour of ectasy. But had nerve: he refused to take his place at the piano. The princess insisted: she reminded him that he had playea at the Colonna palace. Why should he not play here? **Liszt, cold and immovable, answered briefly, ‘I will not play! ‘““Ihe Princess wus desperate. Her cuess had been brought here by a false hope. In the midst of the general silence the colloquy be pain ui. A few charitable Souls o tne rescue; a prelute interfered. The master was ob- stinate. The vpretticst women deluged im with eloguent solicitations and sup- icating Jooks. All efforts failed. The great spirit remained cold, and he de- clined in a tone cutting andincisive. All seductions were pow: to move hini. “In the midst of the ge: ismay, A young lady, excited and irritated like all the re rose and addressed in these terms the unfortunate mistress of the house, who sat npon tnhorns: ‘Dear Prince the master has refused us the great happiness his presence made us hope for. We cannot hear his divine harmon But, since our friends ex- pect music, I will, although very un- worthy, offer my modest assistance. 1 will zo to the piano.’ ““The stupegetion could not have been greater if one had seen the cupola of St. Peter's perform a fandango. The be- numbed audience watched curiously the young woman. It wasan American, very daring, very witty, well-known ntricities, but a woman of mind and real talent, and s0 young and pretty that no one could find fault with her. " She gracefully ungloved her hands, while the princess murmured her aston- ished thanks, seized the arm of the first avalier who presented himself, and went and seated herself on the piano *stool. This scene attracted a wondering attention. For a while everybody forgot Liszt for the beautiful eyes of her who took his place. With the precision of an artiste, but the mischief of a child, she prefuded brilliantly. But the piece! Oh, the piece! It wasa parody extra noisy of the most noisy composition of Liszt. And what gave piquancy to thething was that the executante 1mitated exactly the method of the master. The notes vibra- ted more and more under her furious at- tacks; they growled angrily; the hands an as if they mad over the electrificd keys. Soon it was not only the finger the fist which hammered the note. or rhaps the arm, and even the elbow struck the ivory in burlesque chords i n lady was no longer ved standing, ber eyes to heaven, the head turned up, rolling her glances, either swooning or madde 2bout the room, and shaking herself like an evil spirit. Finally her r, shaken as if by a whirlwind,escuped om the comb and fell in a sheet about her shoulde She interrupted her play raising herself with a gesture toward her forehead, exactly like the master, then panting, exhausted, laid on with all her force the Jast hoarse cho:d s and let ber- self fall upon the piano stool. apparently balf fainting. The tabouret broke with a groan, and at the same moment some of the strings of the piano cracked under this last pressure. ever shall I forget the cffect of this joke, doubtful as it wasop the whole. The guests forgot all decorum, they writhed with laughter, they held their sides, they wept. The thing was so un- expected, she was so droll, that no one could check the gayety of this immense salon. The good princess could only follow the tide. And the masterr He grew wan, green and red by turns, and picked nervously the buttons of hi new cassock. He threw a wanderin, glance upon the audience. No one dured 10 fix his gaze upon him; they were all well bred, but they laughéd aloud though without malice or “any intentio of being insulting or aggressive. Thus bbe was enabled to gain the door WILhout being perceiy severe, I admiy, but it has uce then tic borne fruit soen the abbe 1 much from rarcly found living by testeT wis in He was approa personage, who prepared 1o blow in | *Hold on—hold on an strect fa excitedly, as he sc customer a moment out of his hand; * b fam D. W. Voorhee tall man in some surprise Phen you can't touch this ms I wouldnt have it burst for §% your nickel. Tluis ain't no elephant jug tester.”’ And shouldering Lis machine the man walked rapidly away, as if he bad bad a DATTOW €5Cape. nued his ud jerked the tube ain't you Dan Voor- replied the your | musing | [OHI0 SCOOPS THE COUNTRY, A Youngstown News Hound Outwits & King and Takes the Pedro. | A Successtul Trick on the Emperor of Brazil, and the Subsequent Interview—A Spanish Grand Bounce from the Train. Detroit Froe Press porting the race is v In newspaper ve- ot always to the man who draws a fat salary, or the battle to him who travels with a stenographer. These remarks do not constitute the in- froduction of a sermon directed againat the sin of journalistio prid simply preface an anecdote, sad, simpie, and all » true, which I believe nover yet red in print S ten years ago, more or Jess, that esty Dom Pedro, emperor_of Bra- 1 a desire to sce the Yankee hant and set out, with all the dignity and pomp befitting his royal station, to make the grand tour of the United State He had carefully read the papers of the | land of the freedom, and was doubly arm rainst the dangers. No fellow teaveler on the oars could hope to get a rise from him, by dealing him four Kings and an ace in a friendly game of euchre; the man with an express vpackage or a lottery priz aiting him, was as clayin Pedro's hands, and if a paser onthe street chanced to find a glove with a ring in it, Podro gently tapped his nose andremarked that he was not in the market for jewelry. One further and unjust prejudice had the emperor; learned and shunned the innocent re porter, with all the terror that mar! the bschelor's Hight from the mite so- y. He would not be interviewed and at scttled it, and as he was sur- roundea by grooms of the bedchamber, royal rat catchers, nobles of the closet and imperial body guardsmen, six feet by two in size, with loaded muskets and fixed bayonets, he was in a position to bring the average newsgatherer to his own view of the e. The best and sharpest w York re- porters were put on the assignment. They secured places as waiters, but he had his own table servants; they “hired out' as mbermaids, but the grooms of the im- }mrml bedchambers were not to be ousted rom office; they engaged themselves as cabmen, policemen, barkeepers and threw themselves in the path of royalty y turn, but all in vain. t cawe the time when Pedro pointed lis royal nose toward the reced- ing star of empire and left New York He journeyed by special train, accom- panjed by his suite and watched over by his faithful guards. tached to the tiain was a carload of gilt-edged corres- pondents, not one of whom had ever been within reach of the royal boot. The train e west via the Ene and the Atlantio sreat Western, now the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio roads. and near Youngstown the cmperor met his fate. The ¢ editor of ‘the Youngstown News was then a man named Fassett He had represented his paper at Colun bus, and had hit so hard at certain statesmen as to come within an ace of losing the privileges of the chambers. He had a scent for news that was something wonderful; a fecundity of production ap- palling; and he wrote a hand of which, it is true. was said of Horace Greeley that no editor or compositor could handle it and be a Choistian. I have edited col- umn after column of it. He dressed like areduced old clo'man, working off hi dead stock, and his hair and beard sug- gested a hay K i vitual couch. With it all, he was a good reporter, a good fellow, and every one, save the vie- ;lylh(-i his terrible pen, thoroughly liked him. It chanced that Todd, the war governor of Ohio and a etizen of Youngstown had been the representative of the United States at the court of Dom Pedro, and that the emperor keld him in the highest esteem. Now, Fassett happened to possess one of Todd’s yisiting cards,and, a brilliant idea striking him, he wrote his name across the back, ran out to the junction and awaited the train. When it came he mounted the platform of the imperial car and endeavored to enter, but was halted by two crossed muskets. Then he handed the card to one of the soldiers, with Todd's name exposed. After a short consuitation in choice Rio Juneiroese the captain of the guard was summoned, took the card, disappeared returned, the muskets were raised, an Fassett was obsequiously ushered into the presence Dom Pedro was standing in the middle of the car with a smile of welcome on his face. As he saw his erller it faded into a look of puzzled surprise. “I thought it was Mr. Todd “No," suid Fassett; *'f am’ ‘A friend of his, no doubt: be So the two sat side by side. The em- perior asked Fassett tribe he be- onged to, and, finding he was not an Indian, the conversation turned to mat- ters Brazilian—the resources, railroads, partes, religion and prospects of the count the very pink of a perfect i terview, So it wenton for an hour, ag the train sped toward ( eland, and might have continued to the journey's end, had not the emperor fired 'a lot “of has he said. ted.” statistics at Fassett, which the latter was atrzid he should forget. Just then Dom Pedro turned his back for an instant, and, in an evil moment, Fassett tried to take the figures down on his cufi, and was detected by a sudden movement of his companion The anger of the em- peror was something terrible, “‘Are you a reportert” he asked sav agely. “*Yes, your majesty,” was the quiet,un- abashed answer. My name is Fassett. I am city editor of the Youngstown New: Here is my business card. 1 intended to tell you at first, but you took the words out of my mouth and I didn’t like to con- tradict you.'” “Miguel,” shouted his majesty. pez el truneano et firez ¢ It was done. Fassett was dropped be- tween stations, but he caught on to the platform of the press car and there he was a lion. Joe Howard oftered him $500 and Howard Carroll a staff position to duplicate his matter, but he was want, and so the ¥ “seonped” the country t the people of the Mahonng distri in their might and made Fussett a senator Stop- traddetore! state el en Paiiful Incidents ata Paneral, Pall Mall Gazette: The following vro cred are alleged 10 have taken place at the ent of a man nuwed Young, at Minste near Ramsg The re d were conveyed 10 1, where part of The funcral then hyard, where at was too small, 1o enlurge low- and sub. cred, but ja bottom. A for he coflin was val flin and cut away a whi the mo among them s was sullicicatly calarged, xad “the roceeds A prisoner 1n charged with mu ing the letters chaplers in the have smade s complete couns, aud s vendy iz s . Okiin, jail, ds lix, tiue