Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 12, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. ~ B ROSEWATER, Bditor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF Dadly and Sunday, On Bix Months v Three Mcnths, Bunday e Weekly Be CRIPTION dne Year ... Ome Year with Premium.... OFFIC Omana, Bes Butlding. Chicago Ofies, 7 Rookery Building New York, Hooms 14 and 15 Tribune Build. g, Washington. No. 513 Fourteenth Street, Council Blufts, No. [2 Pear] Street. Lincoln, 1029 P Styeet, Bouth Omalia, Corner N and 2fth Streets. CORRESPON DENCE. ns relating to news and adl- Ve addressed to the Editor- S LETTERS, ra and remittances should The Iea Pul iishing Company, hecks and postoflice oraers ¢ the order of the company, be addressed b Omah be made payal The Bee Pablishing Company, Proprietors ® Hullding Farnam and Seventeenth Strests, he Bee on the Trains, Thero 1s no e: on the trains, 1o carry A full supnly. The Bee and cun't get it on trains where other Omaha papers ure carried are requested to no- tUly The B Please be particular to give in all caseé full information ns vo date, rallway aud number of ravelers who want Glyo us your name, not for publication or un- necessary use, but as a guaranty of £ood falth ) ins, (5% Ueorze I, chuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, does solemunly swear that th tunl clrenlat of Tire_ DALY Beg forthe week ending November &, 1580, was s follows: Sunday. Nov. 1. Mondiy. N Tuesd Wednosday Thursday, No Friday, Nov. 8. Eaturday, Nov, 9. Average..,.. Elate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, Eworn to before me and subscribed to in my prerence this Uth day of November, A. D, 1840, (Senl.] Stato of Nebraska County of Douglas, George 1), Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- poses and say's that he is secretary of The lee Fublisbing Company, that the actual averago daily circulation of Tiik DALY BEE for the month November, 1 De- llall\hel'. 1588, 1 o ribed in my 8 thiskd day. of November A, I coming art exhibit deserves the encouragement and support of the peo- IF speech is silver. Louis will se- oure a well stocked nfint from the coming national silver convention. pumber of voting precincts in the city must be doubled to secure afair and full expression of the will of the veople. ThE government directors of the Union Pacific are about to start on their annual inspection of the commissary de- partment of the road. Tur window glass trust will be ready for business and higher prices cy the fist of the year. A panes-tak- ing public should note the fact. RAILROAD connection with the capi- tal of South Dakota would fill along materi itor felt want and Omaba’s trade te: illy enlarge IF THE democrats cannot support an organ out of their own pockets, they cannot make it an object of charity at the expense of the county. WiisKY could not produce more in- temperance of speech than that which characterized the proceedings of the hysterical third party in Chicago. CoNG SMAN REED is said to have the pole in the race for the speakersbip. The Cannon of Illinois will, however, be heard thundering on the home stretch. TiE preliminary canter for city offi- ces brings the B family strongly to the front. Broatch, Bechel and Boyd pre- sent an alliterative combination of more than ordinary vim and attractive- ness, I will not be the fault of the bond- holders if they do not reduce the na- tional surplus and the dangers which surround it. During the past fiscal year they were paid the magnificent sum of seventeen and a quarter million dollars a8 an inducement o give up their hold- ings. THE real cstate exchange, energeti- cally supported, will materially en- hance the prosperity of the city. It will bring sellers and buyers into daily communicution, and enahle the agents to discuss ways and means to place Omaha’s advantages before outside in- vestors. | MAJOR BURKE, the defaulting treas- urer of Louisiana, whose sudden refusal to face his accusers at home strength- enad belief in his guilt, announces that he has struck a rich silver mine in Hon- duras, and will return like the count of Monte Cristo to duzzle and paralyze his eunemies. It will require a good deal of bullion to wipe out the fifty-two indict- ments recorded against him. e Tue financial transactions of the clearing house banks for the past week demonstrates & marked increase in the business of the country. Out of forty- nine cities in the ussociation, only flve show a decrease, compared with the corresponding week last year, and the total increase aggregates twenty-five per cent. The figures are a gratilying evidence of widespread prosperity. S———— Tre varrow escape of a motor train loaded with passengers from wreck on the Northwestern crossing in Council Bluffs should spur the authorities to provide ample safeguards for human life. ‘I'ravel between the two cities is sogreat as to make this crossing partic- ularly dangerous, and more effective toction should be had. Either the jorthwestern trains should be brought toa full stop before crossing the street, or additional watchmen should be em- ployed and gates erected to prevent the possibility of a wrecks 0N TO SOUTH DAKOTA. Among the projects in which Omaha has n vital interest none desérves more | active encouragement at the hands of | the Omaha renl estate exchanga than the proposed direct connection with | Yankton and South Dakota. If no | capitalists can be found willing to build an entirely independent line from Omaha into southern Dakota, our board of trade and real ecstate exchange should exert their combined influence upon the managers of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad to close the gap on their line between Hartington and Yankton. The distance is only twenty miles, and if preparations are made this winter for beginning active work early 1n the spring, Omaha can have a direct ruil connection with Yankton by the first of Juna, 1800. The importance to Omaha of an air line road to Yankton and thence into the nheart of Dakota cannot be A new field would be opened to Omaha jobbers in a territory which naturally should be tributary to them, and the people of South Dakota would avail thomeelves of Omaha’s great stock yards and packing houses to market their cattle. South Dakota has already supplied Omaha with the best paving material and building stone. The great cement heds that have just been opened near Yankton would afford us great advantage in procuring cement which is pronounced equal to the best Port- land, and of which #housands upon thousands of barrels are used in the construction of sewers, granalithic sidewalks and our best buildings. With the gap between Hartington and Omaha closed this city would be within flve hours’ run of Yankton, and within less thun eight hours’ of Sioux Falls. Now that the Union Pacific and Northwestern systems nave become al- lies, Omaha is more than ever in posi- tion to press her claims for better facil- itics and connections into South Da- kota by the Northwestern system. NATIONAL MEAT INSPECTION. The secretary of agriculture, in his annual report, urges the necessity of an inspection of cattle at the time of slaughter by government inspeotors. His reasons for this are that such an inspection would guarantee the ac- ‘copted product as untainted by disease, enable the national authorities to promptly discover any cattle disease centers, and have an influence to re- move the prejudice in foreign countries against American meats. The latter consideration is 1mportant, for, while it is true, us the secretary says, that the objections made on the part of foreign authorities to the wholesome- ness of our meat products have little if any foundation +in fact, still as long as we neglect to take the precautions uni- versally adopted by the governments of those countries in which we seek a market for these products, and leave it to the ofilcials of other countries to inspect our live cattle or our meats, it is impossible for us to present as forcible arguments as we counld other- wise do agaivst restrictions on our trade. Under present condi- tions these foreign govern - ments claim, with some show of reason, that they have better opportun- ities for learning of disease among American cattlo than are enjoyed by the American government itself. In the opinion of Secretary Rusk it is time to put an end to this anomaious condi- tiom. The exclusion of American meats from European markets is a serious matter Lo one of the most unportant in- terests of the country, and any policy which promises to remody the situa- tion should receive careful consid- eration. It is of course well under- gtood that the foreign claim that American meats cannot be relied on to be free from discase is & mere pretext. The real motive for exclusion is not to protect the consumers, but the pro- ducers. Still the pretext finds Jarge aceeptance, and as the people of those countries can have no idea of our sys- tem of local inspection, or if they could would be likely to have little confi- dence in it, since their habit is to re- gard nothing worthy of unquestioning acceptance which has not the approval of the national government, we can hardly hope ever to be able to success- fully combat the unwarranted objec- tions to our meats until we can assure the foreign consumers that they receive national inspection. There can be o serivus objection to such & plan, and the possible advan- tages are such as to commend it to con- sideration. Certanly if it should re- sult in inducing a single foreign gov- ernment which now excludes American meats to change its policy it would prove a most profitable plan. Tbo cat- tlo raisers and the large intorests en- gaged in handling meat products, will doubtless approve the suggestion of the secretary of agriculture, E—— ANO1HER RICHMOND INTHE FIELD The New York Sun names David B, Hill and James E. Campbell as demo- cratic candidates for president and vice president in 1892, Mr, Campbell, who is the governor-clect of Ohio, when asked what he thought of such a ticket, remurked: ‘**Three years ahead proph- esies and ‘famous combines’ hardly, ever come to a head, They don't gen- erally come out well. The year 1801 is the time when these things will de- velop.” This observation attests that Me. Cawmpbell is a . shrewd and prudent politician, but it suggests something more than this, and that is that the newly elected governor of Ohio may have an ambition ahove the second place on the next democratic national ticket,and feels that he should rank at legst equal with Hill among the possibilities for first place. ‘Why should he not? Mr, Campbell is certainly not inferior to Governor Hill in ability, and his political record is much more creditable. When he shall have served & term as governor his experience in public aflairs will be more extended than that of Hill, siace bhe will have had both a legislative and au ex- ecutive experionce. Thelate campaign exposed to view the whole public record of Campbell, and it was shown to be a very fair and respectable one. He has 3 THE OMAHA DAILY been guilty thus far of none of the unscrupulous methods which have marked the politieal career of Hill, and if he shall go on in this course for the next two years, maintaining a clean and creditable record, he will not fail to commend himself to the large reput- able element in the democratic party which Aoes not regard Hill with favor. There is another thing which may count strongly in favor of the Ohio man when tho next national democratic con- vention meets, and that 1s the senti- ment now spreading in the party that it shoutd look away from New York for o presidential candidate. It has been urged by southern newspapers and or- gans of democratic opinion elsewhere that the time has come for the party to throw off its long maintained de- pendence upon New York and take a leader from the wost, What is properly the west has no man at present whom the party would be likely to regard as available for a presidential candidate, but in the event that no suitable western man can be found three yenrs hence, should the sentiment in favor of selecting a man from this section be strong enough to make itself folt 1n the convention, Ohio is not so far east as to prevent Mr. Campbell being accepted as a compro- mise. There is still another thing to be considered, and that is the possibility, or rather the probability, that the war of the Cleveland and Hill factions in New York will be so sharpand bitter as to compel the convention in the in- tevest of the party to drop both of them. It is plainly the intection of Hill to make the most aggressive effort to so- cure the support of New York in the national convention, and it is equaliy evident that the friends of Mr. Cleve- land will do their best to defeat this de- sign. Unless the ex-president declines to be a candidate, which is not at all likely. o very vigorous contest between the democratic factions in New York is assured, and it 15 easy to understand that in such circumstances the party in convention might concluce, as the only safa way, to sclect a candidate from some other state upon whom the party in New York might be able to harmon- ize. Who more likely than Campbell to be the man? Obviously the governor-elect of Ohio 1sin o much stronger position, as a presidential possibility, than the gov- ernor of New York, and if he shall dis- crectly nse the opportunity before him to strongthen himself in the good opin- ion of his party, he may be a large and important figure in the next national democratic convention. THE DEPOT PROPOSITION. Does Omaha’s future depend on a Union depot, a Tenth strect viaauct, and the run- ning of eastern trains oversthe Union Pacific bridge? Do those three achiavements depend upon the voting of $130,000 of the people’s money to the railroads? If the World-Herald could be convinced that these questions called for affimative auswers, 1t would say to the people, ‘“‘voto the bond.— Vortd- Herald. Omaha’s distant future may not de- pend upon a Union depot, Tenth street viaduct and the running of ecastern trains over the Union Pacific bridge. Twenty-five years hence, or even ten yeurs hence, Omaha may occupy such a commanding position as a commercial metropolis as will compel all rail- ronds that converge within fifty miles of Omaba to seek an inlet into the city. But Omaha’s immediate future, in our humble opinion, does most decidedly depend upon the construction of proper approaches from the business centrd to tho Union Pacific bridge,.and upon im- proved depot facilities that will enable the eastern roads to bring their trains into Omaha over the Union Pacific bridge. Omaha would to-day be much more populous than Kansas City had she been similarly favored with union depot and vassenger transfer facilities. Omaha would to-day be a city of two hundred thousand population had it not been for the drawback of the em- bargo that has kept all the Jowa railroads and the Wabash road out of this city and subjected our jobbers and citizens generally to incal- culable annoyance and expense on uc- count of the wretched transfer facil- ities. The question that now presents itself to Omaha is simply this: Shall we raise the embargoand give a powerful stim- ulus to Omaha’s growth next spring by voting the bonus asked by the Union depot company, or shall we take our chances on the buiiding of the viaduet and depot in the dim and distant future? And this is all there is of the proposition. Can Omaha afford totax herself seven thousand five hundred dollars a year for twenty years, and by so doing give momentum to a healthy and solid real estate boom that will return more than seventy-five thoussnd dollars annually in increased valuations of property and will very materially aid in dvawing for- eign capital for permanent investment? The only weak spot Omaha has to-day in her make-up as a commercial center is hor lack of railroad transfer accom- modations, and in the rainbow railroad system to the southand north. Canshe afford to rejecu any proposition that will place her on an equal footing with Kansas City and other rival vailroad centers? Clall it blackmail or highway robbery on the part o1 the Union Pacifie, the question vital to every man who owns & foot of ground in Omaha is: Can we afford to be withouta viaduct and umon depot for an indefinite time, Tue Bee favors the North Omaha bridge and depot proppsition as much as anybody; but suppose that project should fail to materialize, where will Omaha be two or three yeurs hence with rivals to the south and north cutting away at her trade. For our part, we want 0 see Omaha pass the two hupdred and fifty thousand population mile-stone withio ten years, and we are willing to add one million dollars to her bonded debt or even double that sum to bring aboat that result. — WHATEVER may bs the nature of the difficulties which have induced Madame . Modjeska, as it is reported, to take NOVEMBER 12, 1880 stope to s6Ver her connection with the Booth-Basrétt combination, no one who knows that lady will question for a moment thaf, she is blameless in the matter. The inuendoes contained in the dispatch roporting the dissatis- faction of the distinguizshed actress, which imply that Mr. Booth has been guilty of ungeatlemanly conduct of a grave nature, are entitled to novcre- dence. During his long career on the stage Mr. Booth’s reputation has nover been sullied by any scandal, and it is most unrensanable to suppose that now, having reached the age when ‘‘tho heyday in the blood is tame and waits upon the judgment,” he would bo guilty of conduct that would blot tho fair page of his splendid record as actor and gentleman. The probabi is that the misunderstanding, if s there be, is of a business and profes- sional nature, and in any event it is to be hoped all purties concerned will be able to settle the differences with the least possible publici Tie Fremout branch of the W. C. T U. have taken up the Tekaman inei- dent and indorsed the action of Mrs, Gougar and the zealots who insist that her right to slander and defame peoplo shall not be abridged. They say officially that Rosewater had no right to a min- ute of Mrs. Gougar’s time, and should have hired a hall to answer “her vile tongue.” This is a proclamation to the state at large that the W. C. T. U. pro- poses to stand on the platform of in- tolerance, slander and vituperation as laid down by the Gougar woman in her letter to the New Republic, which for coarseness and vulgarity could scarcely be matched by a London fish- wife. THE Sioux City Jowrnad pathetically asserts that “whisky comes high but the people will have it.” They will certainly have a better article than was furnished by the “blind pigs” and boot- leggors of Sioux City. Allison Will Be Re-el Kansas City News. It is with no small satisfaction that the Evening News notes that the tendency of the later reports from lowa is to increase tho republican majority in the legislature, For a time it seemed that the two parties were ligely to bo 80 nearly of a strength that any dissension in the republican ranks would have resulted in the retirement of Senator William B. Allison from the United States senate, ‘This would not only bave been unfortunate for Towa, but it would have been a national calamity. Senator Allison has been long in public life. His mind, naturally broad and strong, has been reintorced by long observation of men and events. He has for yecars beena careful student of American politics—to use that much abused word in its proper sense. A republican‘and a strong party man, Sena- tor Allison 15 in no sense an extremist. His views on the tarifl aro moderate and reason- able. Upon finance and the monetary ques- tion he is an admitted authority second to none at the nation’s capital. There are a good many millionaires in the United States scuate. There are not a few clever politicians. But of true statesmen there is a dearth. For maoy years Iowa has been fortunate enough to be represented by a true statesman, for such Senutor Allison is beyond cavil. We bave no fear that Towa will be so blind to her own honor and her own interest as to repudiate her greatest man after his many years of faithful service. Bl Republicanism and Prohibition. Indianapolis Jowrnal, The republican party, as a political party, has no identification or sympathy with pro- hibition as a political movement, and vepub- licans in all the states should so declare. ‘That doue, let it adopt high license, local option, and restrictive police laws as a final- ity and call a halt to the agitation on the liquo= question, The liquor traffic can and must be regulated, but the idea of regulating men’s morals must be abandoned. Saloons cannot be abolished, but they can be con- trolled. If the republican party is to con- tinue to do business i politics, it must rec- oguize the inevitable in this rezard and ad- just itself to immutable conditions, . coted. The Australian Systen:. Boston Globe, It is necdless to say that the first thorough trial of the Australian system by o whole state was tho most signiticant element of in- terest in our own recent election, Students of social science and ballot reform agitators from all the surrounding states came here to see with their own eyes the practical work- ings of the system, and some of them, after visiting a represcntative assortment of pre- cinets in Boston, made trips into the subur- ban towns to see how it worked in the coun- ry districts. The result exceeds even the most sanguine expectations of the advocates of the system, and will stimulate its adop- tion in every state in the union, A An Unprofitabie Experience. Utica Herald. “The republican majority in Towa has fallen from 72,000 in 1873 to & minus quantity in 1689—the result chiefly of honest efforts to satisfy the prohibitionists, The necessity of a chunge of plan is apparent. il 2P i THE BOARD OF TRADE, Its Co-operation Asked in the Efforts to Secure Imporeant Legisiavion. President Martin, Secretary Nason and members D. H. Wheeler, C. O. Lobeck, G. M. Nattinger, . 8. Chase, L. M. Auoderson, J. H, Evauvs, J.'A. Fuller, George J. Hunt, Henry Gioson und Edward Davis shivered through a brief session of the Omaba board of trade last eyening. President Martin was given further time in which to prepare his report of his visit to the St. Louis exposition, A memorial from the St. Louis board of trade asking' ‘for the aid of the Omaba board in securing the pas- sage of the bankrupt law was reforred to the cemmitteo on transpurtation, The New York voard of trade presented a memorial 0n _the same subjeet, and joined it with a resolution urging the reduction of the rute of letter postage to 1 ceut per ounce. This was also roferced to the trausportation committee. “Tho New Yorkibourd of trade also asked the co-operation:0f the Omaha bourd in their efforts to securd the passage of the *tonnage bill,” now before congress, which bas for its object the restoration of the American merchant marine. The mem- bers of the board thought favorably of this scheme, and 4 resotution was passed requestiog the Nebraska represeutatives in congress to fuvor the bill, A resolution was passed declaring the sense of the board to be that Chicago is the ng‘lol’ place for bolding the world’s fuir in “I'lie report of the deep harbor convention was received and filed. ——— Eitimates. The board of public works held a very brief special meeling yestorday morning and two final sewer ostimates as_follows : ©C, W. O'Donavan, sewer district No, 85, on BSeventeenth street from Upion Pacific rail- road to Center strect, smounting to &3,156.25; J. O, Corby, district No. 91, $6,115.48. COWDREY SUCCEEDS LAWS, The Now Socrotary Takes Immedi- ato Ohargo of Affairs. PUSHING THE REDUCTION ORDER. Tho State Board of Transportation Means Business—A Snit Against the 1. O, G. T. Lodge—The Oity in Brief. 1029 P Steeer, Laxcowy, Neb,, Nov. 11, Hon. B, R. Cowdrey was appointed socre- tary of state this aftarnoon, and as indieated by Laws’ resignation he enters upon the dis- chargo of tho duties of the office at once. His commission wus presented to him about 5 o'clock by the governor. The deputyship is still There are no indications as to where this honor will light, but. Lew Fryar, of Clay county, is thought to have the inside tracl Mr. Bumgardner, the recorder of the office, cannot hope for promotion, although he has been a persistent aspirant, A Cass county man is under consideration and tho lightuing may strike in that dire LixcoLy Bureav or Tur OMAna Bee, } & conundrum. ‘The Freight Keduciion Order. The state board of transportation held an informal mecting this morning und fixed upon Tuesday, Novewmber 19, as the day for the final hearing on the order reducing freight rates on coal. Representatives of the va- rious railroads operating in the state will be in attendance and show why the order ought not to bo enforced and go into effect. 1t ems, therefore, that the rato problem on al is to be settled in the near future. The 1, U, G. L. Sued. The L O. G. T. lodge was sucd by Elisha M, Lewis, in tho court, this afternoon, for rent long since past due; plaintift alleges $000 to be due and unpaid. The defendant says that but $62.50 is due; thava note of $250 10 further payment bas not matured; that during the last year of the leaso the plaintiff leased the second story of the build- ing to colored peopls, who made it so un pleasant by their obscenity and indecen for people going 1o and from the 1. O. G. T\ hall in the third story that it finally broke up the lodge. It also provented the lodge from sub-letting the hall to others. The board of public lands and buildings held a special meeting this morzing. Martin Dougherty was employed as an assistant firoman at a salary of $35 per month. The board also passed a resolution prohib- ting the heads of stato institutions from purchasing supplies ineurring expense or making improvemeuts without its consent. A copy of the resolution was ordered served one, superintendent of the asylum for the insane at Hastings, and all other in- slitutions not thus instructe: New Notaries Public, The governor to-day made the following notarial appointments: Frank S. Daily, Chadron, Dawes county; J. P. Watts, Waterloo, Douglas county: E. H. Marshall, Bloomington, Eranklin county; W. dard, Omaha, Douglas county;” R. D. Tate, Carrico, Hayes county; A.C. Logan, Creigh- tou, Knox county; John R. Inkster, Ray- mond, Lancuster county; A, J. Beecher, McCook, Red Willow county; C. A. Collins, Wahoo, Saunders county. City Nows and Notes. Governor Thayer returned from Platts- mouth to-day at noon, Al Parsons, ot Grant, svent the day in the city. George Tucker was injured by being thrown from kis buggy at the coruer of Six- teenth and O strects last night, Dr, Guild, of Holdrege, was here to-day. The doctor had the honor of presiding at the lute republican congressional convention, Dick Johnson left for Beatrice last night, where he takes the chief clerkship at the Paddowk, having resigned a like position at the Capital of this city, 3. L. King, of Osceola, was in the city to- Mr. King is a candidate for judge in e Sixth judicial district in place of Hou. T, B, Norval, supreme judge-elect. The case of the state of Nebraska ex rol William H. Hunt vs the mayor and council of the city of Hastings, mandamus, was filed “for hearing bofore the supreme court to-day. Two little boys, aged eight and nine years respectively, came to the city from Clark Suturda) 10 search of their father. With the assistance of the police tne father, Mr. George Preston, was fouud and is now pro- viding for his sons. The district conrt commenced its fall term this wmorning. Call of the docket occupied the entire forenoon, Judge Fieid was on the banch. Tho trial of causes commences to-morrow morning. It will take at least two weexs to clear the criminal docket. ————— OLD CHINESE BRIDGES, Perkins county, Engineering Science in the Gelestial Empire, The Chinese suspension bridges, dat- g from the time of the Han dynasty (202 B, C. to 220 A, D.), furnish striking evidence of the early acquaintance of the Chinese with engineering science, says Iron. According to the historical and geographical writers of China, it was Shang Lieng, the commander of the army, under Ruaen Tsu, who under- stood the construction of the roads in the province of Shense, to the west of the capital, the high mountains and deep gorges of which made communica- tion difficult, and which could be renched only by cireuitous routes. At the head of an army of 10,000 workmen Shang Lieng cut through mountains and fitled up the valleys with the soil obtained from the excavations. Where, however, this was not sufiicient to raise a road high enough, he built bridges resting upon abutments or projections. At other places, where the mountains were separated by deep gorges, he car- ried out a plan of throwing suspeunsion bridges stretching from one slope to the other. These bridges, appropri- ately called by the Chincse writers “flying” bridges, are sometimes so high as to inspire those who cross them with fear. At the present day thers is still « bridge in existence in Shense 400 feet long, which stretches across a gorge of immense depth. Most of the bridges are only wide enough to allow of the passage of two mounted men, railings on both sides serving for the protection of travelers, It is not improbable that the missionaries who first reported on Uhinese bridges two centuries ago, gave the initiative to the construction of sus- pension bridges in the west, e MONSTER CANNON. A Description of a Few of Europe's Big Guns, The recent complotion’ of a 125-ton gun at Essen for the Russians, and its shipment from Hamburg to Cronstadt, says the New York Suu, after a success- ful test at the Meppen range, has marged another swge in the making of mouster ordnance. The largest Krupp gun previously mude was one of about oné hundred and nineteen tons, throw- ing projectiles of 2,810 pounds. Ituly has two of these mounted in a shore battery, and 1t ie for coast defence ulso that Russia int«e ds to use the new gun obtained from Krupp. 1t has been suid that the next step in advance under- taken by the Essen works will be the making of a 150-ton gun, which will throw @ projectile weighing 8,000 pounds. Hurdly less interesting than these calibres arve the more familiar 110-ton guns of the Elswick works, inasmuch as they are used for the batteries of British ships, as, for example, on the Benbow. This gun fs forty-four feet long, or about two foet loss than the 119-ton Krupp, and its calibre is sixteon and a balf inches. The diameter of the pow- dor chamber is twonty-one inchea, and the maximum charge is 950 pounds, to be used with a projectile weighing 1,800 pounds. With the extreme powder charge a muzzle energy of 62.700-foot tons is expected, Thess figures show a groat change from thirty years ago, when the largest cannon mounted on a war vessol throw a shot weighing only sixty-eight pounds and possessing an energy of only 1,100-foot tons, Still there are not lacking complaints aguinst the 110-ton gans. Those which have been built for the Victoria and Sanspareil are said to have developed serious defects, two out of the four al- ¥ deliverod having failed on the test,” and ono seriously collapsed, A gun of this size costs over $100,000, so that the loss is serious in onso of failure. Yet this is a mattor that may not con- cern the government whore private works, like those of Elswick and ssen, supply the guns. The makers have to stand the loss if the gun do not come up to the contract requir ments. There is apt to be much oxa, geration in the reports of the shorteom- ings of heavy guns. Krupp has made four 119-ton guns for Italy, and the Ells wick works have made many 110-ton guns for the Duillio, Dandalo, Italia und Lepanto, besides ' the 110-ton guns for the Andrea Dosia, the Irancisco Lauria and the Morosini. The French have also many very heavy guns, al- though none of quite us great weight as tho Krupps and A rmstrongs. - LIFE OF A PERSIAN BOY. The Pe - liar Teaining of Children of the Orient. Wkhen a boy is born in Persia, says the Philadelphia Times, a servant runs tothe fatherof theinfant and announces the news by saying: *‘Praise be to God the most merciful, you are the father a boy!” **Mashallah!” replies the father; “‘praise is indeed due to the one God, groeat and mercifull” The same fervent jratitude is not exhibited on the b of a girl, but the afflicted father e, latos instead, in a resigned tone: that so? Then we shall do the best we can for her.” He has an eye on the fu- ture years when he will be forced to cast “about to place a mortgage on his house or chattels n order to pay off her dowry. As soon as the lusty Persian lad is launched into the troublous world he 1s firmly bound in swaddling bands, which are kept tightly swathed until six months old. He resembles a piece of wood rather than anything else until he is six months old,when histiny arms are released and he may lie on s back in the cradle and play with the trinkets hanging from the cross! the richly carved and painted cradle, to which a cord isattached. The mother or nurse, sitting and knitting in tho doorway shaded by great palm trees, tugs on this cord and thusrocks her boy 10 sleep. When the Persian lad is three or four yearsold ho comes under the barber's hands. The ceremonial at law requires that the head of every male Mohamme dan should be shaved and kept smooth during life. Hence comes the custom of wearing turbane and koeping the head covered in the house, and the dis- honor considered to apply to the Chris- tian custom of uncovering in the pres- ence of asuperior orindoors. The Turks shave the entire head excepting a tuft on the top of the crown, wherewith tiie Archangel Gabriel may lift the faithful out of their graves at the sound of the last trump. But the Persian boy is only shaved from the forehead to the nape of the neck, a large tuft being left over ach ear. Hence the most dignified and andsome Persian gentleman looks sim- ply ridiculous when he removes his head covering. When our Persian boy is eight years old it is time to think of serious things. Up to that time he has ved in the garden orin the street lanes, as much with girls as with boys, his lodging being in the women’s quar- ter of the dwelling with his mother and sisters. His sportsars ball, kite flying, hide and seck or tchitik. The last is a game not infrequently played also b American lads. It consists of a Etic% resing on a stone. The upper end bemg struck smartly by a bat the stick springs into the air, when it is struck across the field, and met by another lad, who bats it back. Failing to hit it the second striker is out. This is one of the oldest and most common games of the past. Jackstones is also a favorite Persian game, especiully because it requires lit- tle efforv and can be played on warm days in the shade of the vines, when the heat of the sun makes it well nigh of | impossible to venture out of the shade. When the Persian boy is nine or ten his father ealls humn to his side, caresse him, strokes his face, and says: “‘Light of my eyes, my young lion, it is time for thee to be studying thy hook. God willing, we will make of theo n vizier; thou shalt have horses,and men-servants and hand-maidens, aad summer places, and hunting grounds, and the crowd shall mako obeisance to thee in the market-placo. In_ any case there is work before the, whethor thou become a baker’s apprentice or a great vizier. Thou must go to school, then I will ap~ prentice thee to some artisan; say thy prayers and perform thrice absolution tive times daily and oft repeat the name of the prophet, and let no silver slip through thy fingersthrough foolishness; 0 shalt thou bo happy. W RO, my son, with my blessing; but remember,if thouart lazy and forgot these counsels of mino thou shalt eat much stick, There, go now, 1 wish to smoke awhile and count my beads.” An American Ind after such an admoni would doubtloss reply, **Yes, the Persinn boy. Alway: v toward his pareuts, however naughty and wayward he may be, he veplies: “As my father wills, to Alluh be the glo R A WOMAN SAVED THEM. She Cooked Food For Starving Saile ors on a a Kaging Son. A thrilling tale of shipwreck, involve ing the heroism of a brave little woman, brought to this eity yesterday on the steamship Avlanta, which is in the West Indian fruit trade, says the New York World. The victims were Captain I 8. Etheridge and his brave wife, of the American schooner Spotlese, and the skipper and five sailors of the Bello of the Bay. Both vessels were wrecked in the same storm within ten miles of oach other, and the two crews woero picked up by Captain Cooke, of the At- lanta, Octobe , within an hour of euch other. It was on his outward trip to Jamaica, and after carrying the ship- wrecked people to Montego Bay he brought them to this port. The rescuo was a most gallant one having been made while the hurricane was still at its hoight, While the s?mr,lu«s was fast going to pieces the wife of Captain Ktheridge was urging her husband and the sailors not w abandon the ship. The crew wero lashea to the pumps and wero wenk and exhausted, and Mrs. Kthe- ridge, wrapped in an oil-cloth suit of her husband, walked the deck of the sinking vessel, carrying food and drink to the men, When her husband failed from wealkness, she begged to be al- lowed to take his place, but tho sailors redoubled their efforts and refused to permit her to do 80. Tho heroine of this story declined to talic of her exper- iences,but those with whom she worked were loud in their prase of hor braver, The Spotless sailed October 17 from Savaunah for Baltimore, with a deck load of lumber. Just north of Hattoras she was struck by a territic south east hurricane, which soon countered around to the northeast, The schooner was hugging the coast, and attempted to haul off shore,but in doing so lost her spanker, foresaill and jib. Then a big sea threw the vessel almost on her beam end, and before she was righted the foretopmast broke off. The heavy seas next carried away the boats and caused the vessel to spriag o leak. AlL the next day the men labored at tho pumps, and on the day following, weak, ewollen and brused, they would have given up indespair, but for the captain’s wife. She found a few potatoes,and with the aid of an oil-stave saved from the ruins, she cooked them. While Mrs. Etheridge was is last olling, and she hud to recline on asofa and hold the stove in its place, That morn- ing a steamer passed close to them, but without seeing the schooner. At 4 o’clock in the atternoon, led by Mrs. Etberidge, all left the cabin and were going to take refuge in the rigging, when the Atalanta was sighted, Their rescue quiuklf’ followed, but not with- out great peril, Au hour later the Atalanta sighted another vessel flying signals of distress. It proved to be the brig Belle of the Bay, almost water-logged. 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