Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 2, 1891, Page 1

\ _o bl with the fact that " tiv TRASTS, Ancient and Modern Oharaoteristios Elbow- ing Each Other at Holland, CURIOUS €0 SKETCHES OF CITY AND COUNTRY. Commeroial Push and Energy Fringed with the Mass of Antiquity, IRRIGATION ON THE GREAT PLAINS, Frugality, Happiness and Content the Rale Among the People FROM AMSTERDAM BRUSSELS. T0 Mr. Ttosewater's Observations in the * Netherlands—Public Buildings and Public Works — Marvelous Growth of Cities, Brussers, July 1 itorial Correspond- ence.]—You take the Great Eastern rmlway train at London at& p. m., embark on the steamer two hours later, and when you get on deck by 6 o'clock next morning, you aro sailing up the river Scheldt, through a land- scape dotted with windmills and 1nterlined with canals and irrigating ditenes, with here and there a village, with those quaint steep-roofed, red tiled cottages. And when the steamer drops its anchor by 9 a. m., at thedocks of Rotterdam,vou realize that “the Holland,” and aro still b Dutch have taken holding jt. True, the porter smashers and professional guide from all sides in pigeon-Tnglish make you feel at home, but the wooden shoes on the brick pavement, the jabber and chatter of the hackmen and huck- sters, and the outlandish ance of everything and everybody impress you for yon are no longer among anglo-Saxon people, The first tning that struck me as sugges- , upon setting foot in Rotterdam, was the extensive use of brick for street pavements, The brick in use for this purpose is very hard, almost vitrified. These bricks are only 184 fnches thick, and set up edgewise in two layers over o sand and gravel base. At Amsterdam there are miles upon miles of s pavement, which I presume is given preference over stons by reason of its cheapness. The Plains of Holland. Holland is as level as a barn floor. The great plains of America, b tter known as the Platte Valiey, would suffer by comparison with the plains of the Netherlands, The valleys of the Platte and Republican are nearly everywhere bounded by bluffs and high hills, but Holland is simpty a dead level in which the monotony is onlv varied by Kroves of trees und thousands of windmilts that are perpetually pumping water from rivers into canals, and from canals into ivri- gating ditches, that enablo tho cultivation of tho land to its utmost proauctive capacity. You see no fences or hedees in Holland. Irvicating ditches traverse tho country in every direction. They not only diffuse abundant moisture to the soil, and afford an inexhaustible supply for watering the hun- dreds of thousands of cattle and sheep, that graze upon these pluins, but they effectually keop these nerds within the bounds allotted to them, thus saving the farmer the expense Jof herding, and servo a3 boundary lines be- eon each farm and parcel of lund. It goes without saying that this irrigating system has reached perfection 1n the Nethorlands and affords a protitable study for the promoters of irrigation in our Trans-Missouri states, Transportation and Products, While the inland canals and waterways of England have been to a preav extent super- L@cded by the railvoads, I fing that in Holland and Belgium, the inland transportation is carried on by river and canal. At Rotter- dam, Amsterdam and Antwerp vast quan ties of garden-truck, butter, eggs, ches s ail you d try to clatter of and farm products generally, are landed by canal boats and vessels that ply up and down the rivers, and this traflo by wa- ter ways s carried on almost all the year round, as the winters in this regiou aro com- pavatively mild. With every inch of ground cultivated to perfection by hand labor; for I uoticed very little harvest machinery any- where, and with every acre made available by irrigation and fertilization, Hollund and Belgium do not, as I am mformed, raiso food products enough to supply their dense popu- lation. Beigium with over five millions of people, occunying an aren smaller than that of Custer county, Nebraska, is obliged to im port food products from foreign lands, 2 far us I can learn the people of Hotland and Belgium are not discontented, and but. very fow of them have any disposition to migrate Their cities certainly show a great deal of en- terprise and vitality. How Hollanders Live, How do these peovlo live! Have they food enough to keep soul and body together! Are they comfortably housed and decontly ~eTothed! These questions naturally presented themselves to me, and I have endeavored, so far as possible during a week's junket in the Notherlands, to ascertain the facts by per- soual iuspection and contact. To my own surprise [ found that the common people of the country, embracing workmen in cities and farm labovers, enjoy lifo as well and in s0me respects have more real enjoyment than the samo class of our people. I have seen nothing that would indicate real want., There is a marked differenco in the dross of the farmer and common laborer and that of the mercantile and wealthier class, but every- body, men, women aud children, appear com- fortably clothed at all times, and on Sunday the masses going to worship in churches or seeking amusement on excursion boats and ut the great galleries of art and zoologicul gar- dens and parks are as well dressed as &re the mass of people you meet in New York, Phil- adelpbia and Chicago. Wooden shoos are worn by porters and wo- men scrubbing the sidewalks and frout stoops and field hands on the farms wear the clumsy footgear, but 1 have seen nobody barefooted and uobody In rags. Tho houses of the working peoplo are very plainly furnished, but kept moro cleanly than those in crowded streots of American factory cities, Beyoud noticing the school buildings in the larger cities I am unable to say to what extent edu cational fuctlities aro furnished, but I am as- red that an elementary education is within ch of all. For the higher branches, espe- ally what pertains to art and science, there Is greater opportunity for thorough instrue- tion than on our side of the Atlantic, One thing strikes the traveler everywhere MORN ING, in Holland and Belgium, and that is the ex- tensive cultivation of flowers and their gen- eral appreciution. Fverybody, men, women and chilaren, workingmen aud tradespeoplo, all invest in flowers and wear bouquets on the promenades. Quaint Amsterdam, Amsterdam still retuins much of the an- tique and medieval, by reason of her peculiar location and environment, with canals run- ning in every direetion through the very heart of the city and all .buildings resting upon piles driven into the marsh-like soll, she {s another Venice, A reconstruction of any largo building involves enormous outlay. In marked contrast to Amsterdam, Aut- werp is rapidly modernizing, while Brussels has become a miniature Parls, Those who desire to see the architecture of the mddle ages, and the characteristic Duteh and Flemish styles of architecture of the six- teenth and seventcenth centuries must not postpone their visit more than another decade. Antwerp and Brussels. I have viewed miles of painted canvas in museums, art gallevies ana churches, and gazed upon hundreds of celebrated pictures by the most famous Dutch masters, Ant- werp, the home of Rubens and Van Dyck, outdoes herself inadisplaying a prodigious number of portriits from their prolific brush- es. [ nave traversed the great zoological gar- dens, which iu some respects exceed those of London. The aquarium of Amsterdam, with its wonderful aggregation of fresh and salt water fishes, as well us seaweed, mollusks, crabs and shell fish, and marvelled at the ingenious contrivances improvised for the care and feeding of this collection. A de- seription of these placos visited by nearly all American tourists, would scarcely be inter- ting, [ will not, however, close this letter without calling attention to the fact that both Auntwerp and Brussels have had as rapid a growth within the past twenty-five years as any of our most progressive American cities. Within that timeAntwerp has increased from 150,000 to 225,000 population, and Brus- sels, which in 1865 had a population of less than 250,000, now contains over half a million population. And Brussels boasts the most magnificent public building erected in mod- ern times. Her palais de justice (court nouse) covers on arvea fifteen times as largo as the Douglas county court house ¢quare at Omaha, and the monumental strue- ture was erected at a cost of $10,000,000, which in America would mean double that sum. A less modern but more interesting public building at Brussels is the Hotel de Ville (city hall) which contains the historic banquetting hall of which Byron wrote: “There was a sonund of revelry by night, And Beleium's eapital had guthered there Her beauty und her ehivalry.” “The night referred to was that preceding J%ine 15, 1815, on which the battle of Waterloo was fought, and from tho tower of this city hall, with its gorgeous council chamber more magnificent than the chamber of the house of lords, may be viewed the lion monument on the top of the pyramid of earth erected over the re- mains of the heroic dead on the battle field of Waterloo ten miles distant. E. RASEWATER, e SEe el DESERTING PARIS. Visitors Find the French Capital Un- : pleasant During July. | Coppriahit 1891 by T tmes Gordon Bennett.] Pams, Aug. 1L.—[New York Herald Cable pecial to Titk Bir. | -—We are just on the verge of the bain demer season, and-nlready bundreds of Parisians are Hitting off 10 Trouville, Dieppe, Cabourg and Houlgate. ‘The Paris edition of the Herald most em- phatically denics the movement and Figarro and Gaulos publish entrefilets announcing the Forain notre excellent artiste, The Parisian will commence Sun- day in the Herald an amusing series of sketches and caricatures of scenos on plaze at Trouville. Forain 1s a young artist who possesses the truthfulness of Hozarth with the inspiviting dash of the Parisian im- pressionist, V His drawings are looked forward to with great interest. The Herald is also about to publish during the Trouville racing weolk, a colored illustrated supple- ment especiaily devoted to Trouville which will be largely contributed to vy G. M. Forain and for which many really good life- tike sketches are all ready. An innovation has been made in the delivery service, The Paris Herald together with other Paris papers ouly reached that popular watering place by the exoress train arriving at 4 in the afternoon but now the Herald’s bicycle service brings the Herald from Lisient, n junction on the Cherbourg line and the news- boys sell them on the plaze at 2 o’clock. Arrivals and Departure Mr. and Mrs. Harry Legrand Cannon of New York have arrived m Paris from Lon- don, and are at the hotel Westminster, Charles Warburton, proprietor of the Phila- delphia Evening Telegraph, and Miss War- burton have arrived at the Hotel Continental, Dr. M. L. Ruth, a surgeon of the American navy at Washington, is at the Hotel Athenee. John H. Harjes and family are wmaking atour in Switzerlana. Mrs. John H, Mitch- o1l and Miss Mitehell, wife and daughter of onator Mitehell of Oregon, are at the Royal. Miss Sara Hallowell of Chicago is spending u fow weeks at Moret Sur Loing. Miss Hal- lowell has recentl; beon offered a position s assis director in the world's fair art department, but declined unless her conditions are accepted by the committee. Mrs. John Monroe, wife of the Paris banker, has taken a villa at Etrate for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Fairman Rogers and Mrs. William Hilton of Boston bave arrived at the hotel Bristol. Jotn Davis and Miss Davis, Now Yok, left Paris to take cure at Spa. Mrs, John Lowry of New York has left Paris for Baden-Baden, Charles Singer and family, Mr, and Mrs. Rudolph Aronson and Fay ‘Temploton are en routo to New York. Fred- vick Coudert and family of New York have returned to Paris from Germany and are at tho hotel Meurice. They sall August 8 for ant . Gorman, wife of the president of the Anglo-American bank, Mrs. Edmund A. Smith and Miss Irene Smith of New York have urrived at the Hotel Coutinentul en routo to Hamburg. Mr. C. P. Clark, presi- dent of the New Haven railway, who has been spending a few days ut the Grand hotel has left Paris for London. Mr. M. E. Ine galls, president of the Big Four railway, ar- rived by the Lucerne, reaching Paris Tues- day. J. Neson Howard of Newport has ar- rived at Pavis. After a brief visit to Eng- land Mr. and Mrs, R. H. Galbraith and Miss Duhme, of Cinciunati, have arrived at the notel Belleme. Mvs. I. D. Broadmaa of Boston hias left Paris for Divoune Les Buins, Mprs. Jemes Brown Potter arvived in Paris Thursday night from Mursellles, and is stopping with her parcnts at the Hotel de Hollande, Miss juhart has gome to S, Moritz wo visit Princess Hatsfleld, nee Miss Huntington. Kyrle Bellew has left for Lon- don. Mprs. Potter’'s plaus are to visit her father ana mother for & short e before golog to Londou, 'EXILED T0 SIBERIA. 8, Gerber of Omaha Sentenced to the Mines | for Life, ALL HIS PROPERTY IS CONFISTATED, }:rnm a Well-to-Do State, His Family is Reduoad to Want, AND YET, HE HAD COMMITTED NO CRIME. ‘roing home,” esp I are that he would have BOME RUSSIA Cu Tn another part of -the i is expluined that the Gerber at Lomza is 1 escaping from the off Germany, This is o case. The governments punishiment by an impris verity 13 ot to be 6 with that of Siberia. There are few p miserate any mortal, 0 who, for so trivial an o at all an offense —sboul everlasting punishment fecling, therefore, of * when informed that th to be meted out to & m allegiance to the czar 0 According to the red beria, n question it pnfinement of fhment for his nd running mto ho humors of tho 10 inflict greater nont which in so- d in connection o could not com- hat race soevor, jge—if indeed it bo consigned to such hat must be the nishment is about 'ho had renounced Ho Had Absented Rimself from Russia for Five Years, APRIL 6 SOLOMON GERBER GOT A PASSPORT The Banishment Ordered Notwith- st ling Gerber Had Shown His Declaratio zen of the United States, to Become a Citi- Tue Bre, several days ago, published an article telling of the arrest in Russian- Polund of Solomon Gerber, a citizen of Omaha, his imprisonment in Lomzy, the capital of his native province, and .of his eventual life banishment to Siberia, The information on which the article was based was rather meager. It consisted simply of tne recollection of a party who had read in tho letter of a friend a short refer- ence to the subject. Since thon but few ad- ditional facts have been brought to light al- though Tue Bee has studiously endeavored to obtain all the points in the case In this respect it will continue until all the features shall have been laid before its readers. Who and What He Was. Gerber was a peddler. He was well known throughout the state. He was especially well known in this city, doing business with several of the banks and regularly remitting money to his family, all of whom save two boys, one about sixtecn years of age, ro- mained in their native place. Gerber came to this country about five years ago and immediately settled in Nebraska. He made his headquarters in this city and returned hither several times a year in order to replenish nis stock. i In tho latter part of January of this year, Gerber made up his mind to return to his native place. Ho desired, he said, to sell some property he held there ana return with his wife and children 1o America. Gerber had not yet sequ ctizenship, but bad taken the first stepin that direction, It is thought, however, that perfected his citi- zenship in New York in 1889, The record in the district court of las county is as follows A Declaration nflntnnflf% I, 8 Gerber, do declare on onth, that 1t fsbona dde my inten- cltizen Of the United States, nounce and abjuge forever all allegi- ance and fdelity to and any forelgn prince, potentate, state OF sovereignty what- ever, and particularly 0 the czar of Russin, of wihom I'was o & 3 bfid‘ 8. GERDEIL ibscribed [n niy DOSREGS and aworn to bo- o me, at my office in OmMaha, this 2%5th day of September. A. D,, 1 Clerk of the Distriot County. Nebraska, ‘When Gerber was that he was a citizen of duced his paper. Butithad no offect. In fact, it simply attested that he had abjured his allegiance to the ezar, & circumstance not calenlated to sweeten the disposition of a po- tentate whose hold of & subject is never ro- laxed, S Solomon Gerber Was Naturalized. WasiNGTON, 'Aug. 1L.=4[Special Telegram to Tue Bre.]—On Aol 6, 1801, Solomon Gerber, a native of Polang, took out a pass- pori. Ho was naturalized in the superior court of New Yorkin 1889, There is nothing if the record to show wheiher or not ho is the Oniaha man, i ‘The state department officials will not say whether or not_the fact that S. Gerver ab- jured allegiance to the czar will entitle him to the protection of this @overnment. If he merely declared his intemtions to become a citizen he is not a citizen, " If he secured his full citizen papers, commonly known as “sec- ond papevs,” be is a citizen of the United States and ‘entitled to the protection of this government. He could secure a passport unless he had taken out his second or full citizen papers. If he is & ciizon he should appeal to the neavest Unifod States consul in Russia or to the United Sfates legation at, St. Petersburg. There has nothing been brought to the attention of the State department as yet regarding any trouble that S. Gerber may have gotten into in Russin. Who Got the Passport? While it fs not absolutely clear that S. Gerber, who left Omaha in Fobruary, and Solomon Gerber, who se¢ured & passport in April of this year, are identical, it is cer- tainly a remarkable cofndidence that two men of tho same name, both natives of Poland, should almost at, the same time take passago to the fatherland. Tie BEE will endeavor to ‘ascertain the K B Moones, urt’ for Douglas tod ho declared country and pro- Ho made application for steamer tickots at |.identity of the man who Secured the pass- the B. & M. city oftice and was accompanied thither by My, A. Bernstein of this city. The latter remonst rated with him rogarding his journey. He advised him to send for his family and authorize an agent 1o dispose of the property at home. Gerber, however, would not hearken to the remonstrance. “I will go back,” he snid, “'seo my wife and children onco more in my' native: land and 1 will be able to got more mouey for the land which T own there. If I should change my miud and remain at home, I have mouey enough to support me the rest of my life.” ‘As he smd this he displayed o roll of bills of sevoral denominations which contained £3,000. Prophetic Words. ““Yes,” exclaimed City Passenger Agent Dowling, you'll go home and the first thing you know they’LL throw you iito prison and keep you there the rest of your life,” | Mr. Dowling didn’t know that he was a prophet. He scarcely believed what he had asscrted. He simply gave expression to the belief that the czar of all the Russians was a dangerous customer with whom to have deal- ing. At the present writing, Mr. Dowling’s prophecy is in a fair way to be realized, if in- deed it has not been realized already. Gerber boughtu passuge for humselt and son on the Humburg-American packet line and also bought tickets to Mishenitza, Rus- sian Poland, Februury 6, The presumption is that he sailed in the first steamer after his arrivalin New York. Last May his son fol- lowed. Up to the receipt of the news of Gerber's arrest, nothing had been heard from him by his friends. The latter infor- mation was contained in a letter to Mr. B. Schomberg. Graf, Neb., and of that letter Tne Bre has obtained a translation. The missive was written by Mrs. Schomberg at Mishenitza, who still resides in Russian-Po- land, and the parv relating to the point at issue is as follows: Story of His Arrest. That man Gerber is arrested, and if you wintto come home you mustcome prett soon. 1t you don’t come right awny you wil et the samo as Gerber, When' he was first arrested he got away from the police and went to Germany. The Russian authorities then telegraphied to the Goerman ofticials of the fuet and requesting thut ho be delivered 0 thow as soon as possible. In the menntimo Gerber sent his father to a Russian lnwyor and anthorlzed lim to offer the lutver 600 rubles if he would secure his liborty. The attorncy, however, said that he could thing for Gerber. The Germans then ciusht Gerber and conducted him to the frontier, where they surrendered hin to the Russinn police. The him hund and foot with chain 1 Lo the a i he will r I in_Lomza, whi n for one After thit ho Le sent to Siberia tor His wite and children cry all th time and nobody can afford them any consc latiol It is ouly by inforence that the reader will bo ablo to determine why Gerber has boen consigned to a living tomb. ‘The missive must thercfore be explained. The Russian empire does not recognize ex- pateiation. It never relinquishes its hold upon one of its subjects unless it be those whom it expels from the country,and woo be to them if they are detected upon their return, Why He Was Arrested, It is equally severe upon a subject who, without permission, absents himself from the empive for move than three yeurs. This was the offense charged against poor Gerber. He had left his native land five years or more ago, and lis ubsence had not beea excused. ‘This was a heinous offense in the eyes of the government. Gerber, howover, was not aware of the fuct. Innocently hie returned to his native land, hoping to depurt thence with his family for these shores, The rest is kuown. Gerber is doomed to the horrors of Siberia, his property has been confiscated aud his' family are paupers. "Phere is no doubt that the minions of the Russian despot take espacial delight in _en- forcing this tyranical law or custom. It is to theiv interest to be vigilaut and unrelent- jng. Te them comes @ large pronortion of the ohattels and monoy confiscated. 1In Gerver, with his ancestral farm and home, and the #,000 which he had acquired in this country, they found sufficient incentive 10 a striet compliance with the robber luw. As o cousequonce, while they are reveling in the posessiou of their ill-zotten wealth, the man who created it will be plodding aloug on the dreary treadmill of death in dreaded Siberia. [t is aifficult for an American to believe that any goverament ean have sueh author- ity or rather iufiict such a penalty for such an alleged offense. The openiug lines of the extract In ques- tion show that the same fate stares Shou- berg in the face: *“If you don’t come right away, you will get the same as Gerber," From this, it way be inferred that Mr. Shomberg has beeu in this country ver: uearly three vears and that, os a con quewce, before long his excusable leave of abseuce will bave expived. With Gerber's fate before him, Shomberg would be an ad- venturous mortal indeed to rua any risk of port. B : B N HOLY COAT OF TRIER. .Garment Snppos;_ 6 Have Been Worn by the Savior Now on Exnibition Trier, Aug. 1.—The “Hols Coat of Trier,” the garment supposed to havé besn worn the Savior, will ce exhibet, ! : here for siv.ivealss, i? s Fully two million pilgrims aré expect visit Trier during that time. An earnest and long controversy has been waged rogarding the genuineness of the relic. Chaplain Dasbasch, member of the Prussian diet and one of the committee for the exhibition of the holy robe, think that there can be no possible doubt as to its gen- uineness. It has been exhibited only twice during this century—in 1510 and in 1844, Many miracles are claimed to have been per- formed by this garment and it is said to still possess great merit. The relic is said to have been given as a present to the bishopric of Trier by St. Helen, tha mother of Emperor Constantine, upon the latter’s conversion to Christianity. The robe itself is a tumic about five feet long, cut narrow at the shoulders and gradually widening toward the knees, 1t is woven out of one pieco without any seams whutever. The material is supposed 10 have been linen, but its great age prevents any exact exami- nation. 1t is enclosed in an outer casing of purple and gold cloth, supposed to have been some time in 1he seventh century in order to preserve the relic. During the exhibition extra trains will be run daily to Trier from Cobleze and Cologne. ———— Bank of Rome in Trouble. Panis, Aug. 1.—A dispatch to the Figaro from Rome says that some excitement was occastoned in banking circles 1n that city to- day by the threatened suspension of the Bank of Rome, one of the Catholic institu- tions. The trouble arose over an order from the pope for the withdrawal of §2,000,000 de- posited in the bank to the credit of St. Peter's pence. Not having the necessary funds on hand to meet- this order when it ‘was received the Bank of Rome notified his holiness of the state of affairs and requested that he 1ssue an order couniermanding the first one, For a time it was feared that serious trouble would result from the sudden demand for such a large sum, but happily a crisis wes averted by the pope delaying the withdrawal of the 2,000,000, A financial paper here says that vhe Bank of Rome would have been compelled to ask for a moratorium but for' the assistance rendered by a French financial syndicate, The collapsé of the Bank of Rome, the paper continues, would not affeot thegeneral credit because the bank had taken no active share in gepoeral business affalrsy The clerical papers of this city neither confirm nor deny the truth of tho report of the threatened sus- pension of the Bank ot Rome by a large order made on the institutiom by the pope. ————tix WEATHER FORKCAST. ted to For Omaha and Viclnity=Fair; ary temperature. 3 WasuiNaToy, August 1.-=Forecast till 8 p. m, Sunday: A storm attended by cloudiness and rains over the country frém Missouri to Virginia. In the Curolinas the rain has been very heavy. Considerable Tain has fallen on station- the New Jersoy coast., Showers have occurred from Colorado to Mishigan. For Missouri—Generally - fair Sunday: slightly cooler; westerly winds. For lowa—Gonerally fair Sunday ; westerly winds; stationary ten\peratuye; For North Dakota and South Pakoto—Fair; variable winds: slightly warper by Monday For Nevraska—Generally] fair Sunday stationary temperature ; northwesterly wind: For Kansas and Colorado—Generally fair Sunday: variable winds; statlonary ternp: ture, except coolor, -~ Swi & Centenni'l Celebration Gexevs, Aug. 1.—The celobration of the sixth centennary of the Swiss confederation was commenced tolay by @ series of fetes in Schwyz, one of the four forest cantons situ- afed near the center of the confederation, Delegatos from all the cantons and cities of the republic, hevded by President Welti,assemled in Schywz today and wituessed a beautiful historical procession. » In the evening the delegates attonded a gala coucert perform- ance and were afterwirds entertained at a special splendid banquet given in théir bonor. Tonight the whole place was brlliantly illu- minated by u display of fireworks and & num- ber of huge bonfires, which were lighted on the various heights I the enviroas of the town, AY RESULT IV WAR, Traoquility of Earopean Politios May Be Suddenly Disturb.d, FRANCE AND RUSSIA ARE PREPARED. English Visit of Caused Dissatis‘act on. WILD RUMORS OF THE SITUATION. Great Britian to Be Foroed to Desert Ezyp- tian Territory, PLANS FOR GENERAL COALITION, Prevailing Discord Deeper Than Sup- posed—Solution of the Problem Rests with the Ministry Perple People— 1 (Copyrighted 1891 by James Gordon Bennett.] Losnoy, Aug. 1.—;New York Herald Cable Special to Tie Bee. |—The close and intimate relations which have been estab- lished between Great Britain and Germany in consequence of the emperor's recent visit have given great umbrage to France. Some purblind persons supposed that when Em- peror William went to visit Lord Salisbury at Hatfields it was ounly to talk about Queen Elizabeth, the weather and crops. [t was said by some at the timo that the occasion was of bigh politi- cal importance and France and Russia have now become fully alive to the fact, henco the treaty or agreement just signed by the French and Russian minister, the exact pur- pose of which cannot be made known, but I learn by excellent au- thority that the object is to make a formidable counter movement against Britainize-German alliance and to hold in reserve a severe check for England should events call for it. Your readers will see what sort of a check and how it can be delivered. Let them remember the position of England in Egypt. She remains there against repeated protests from Frauce. Over and over again the French government has made known its disaporoval of English occupation and insisted thatit must look upon it as an unfriendly act. Still Englaud sticks fast und tho sultan has thus far acqui- esced but he will not vun any risk of quur- reling with the czar toaccommodate England. Ho has no desire to get another squeeze from the Russian bear. What more natural than that France and Russia should put their heads together to incite the sultan to clean England out of Egypt! Of course tho sul- tan would not- say to Eagland in so many words *You must go,” for that would pro- _voke bitterness-and porhaps hostilities be- | Great Britain will probably . take.the lead of himself und the greatest naval power’ in the world, but roundabout mem?d’ can “be used. There is nothing to prevent his pendatory, Tewfik Pasha, from making it unpleasant for England to remain in Egypt o supercede Tewfik altogether and establish tho khedive who would promptly obey orders. This scheme is now agitating the various courts of Europe. It was observed that Lord Sailsbury at the Mansion house was laboriously effusive in his expressions of good will for France and of his delight at the approaching visit of the French flect. Also it was noticed that he declared he had never known foreign poli- tics to be in a more tranquil condition. When Lord Salisbury talks in this way thero is gen- erally mischiof in tho wind. Ho knows well that the czar is greatly disgusted by tho re- cent demonstration heroe, popular as well as ofticial, in favor of the German emperor. France has looked on with ill-disguised dis- ploasure. Both powers undoubtedly think that this now approachment is a menace to them. But what would England do if the sultan, through his khedive, gave her notice to quit Egypt? Would parhament and the people go to war for the sake of holding Egypt, knowing 11 tho constitution of our great parties here? I say that if parliament would utterly decline the embarkation of an army in such an enter- priso there are many conscrvatives and lib- erals who would contend that England has no real right to be in Egypt. No Right in Egypt. Some say she is thore in the interest of Egyptian bond holders, It would be impos- sible o get £100 voted in parliament for frosh warlike operations in Egypt, no mat- ter how they might be disguised, for it would rouse the whole country against another expedition. If, then, Rus. sia and France pers n their present intrigue, great humiliation would be inflicted on the BEuglish and that would not only be inviting, but an encour- agement to the German emperor to persevere st in cultivating closo relations with Greav Britam. He would naturally interpret it as a sharp reminder that it is not safe for him to choose an ally without the con- sent of Russia or France and that Eugland s but a broken reed .to lean vpon. Such is the problem beforo Lord Salisbury It will not tend to sweeten his holidays. Uneasy lies the head of England’s foreign minister. Theso ticklish times ono false move In_ foreign politics and the pres- ent ministry is gone, The undercurrent in favory of Glagstone is always in motion. The conservatives in Eng- land are prominently outnumbered by the liberals and it is only when dissensions break out smong the latter that the former ever got into office. The liborals are now closing up their ranks fn all divections, In- stead of union, they ure talking of a great reunion which next year is to witness. 1f they hold together the con- servatives must inevitably be thrown out of power. How, then, can Lora Salisbury decido on & permanent foreign policy, or how long can the German emperor place depend- ence on the English alliance! These are questions which have to be weighed in Lon- dou and Berlin s well as at St. Potersburg and Paris. Momeutous interest clustors thickly around them. My Mace aSor Waen the American immigration commis sloners now on an invastigation in Kuropo get through their work they will coriaiuly be in o position to make a seusation. They have found many organized systems which | ure unloading poverty strickeu humanity on | the western continent. Half the truth is not | yotkuown. If the commissioners have the | nerve to tell all the facts without regard to whom they hurt it will open the eyes of the blatant demagogues who have so far pre- vented sensible legislation, The subject of & geueral strike among tira, the German Emperor | " PAGES. | welsh tin plate makers, which s to | | tue | to build a combined th | Broadway. | dation for the story. | | eight decide whether the men will go o America or not has been partly postponed. The Herald's special correspondent at Swan- sea, telogrophs today that the men are furious at the treatment of the masters, but they recognize thiat the present is the wrong timo to fieht, so have they resumed theiy places, but the Melynerythan works, ownin/ mills and producing 12,000 boxy of tin plate ver woek, will stop My day. This will give Americans a chal to get the best of Welsh labor if they aesive such servico, Tho editor of the Welsh In- dustrial Times has veceived applications for the pames of American ngents, S0 that the men can make arrangements to go. The American Tin Plate Workers union propose 1o stop a half day cvery Monday and so make a reduction of $40,000 boxes por year. The masters have met aud determined to oppose the plan to the utmost, The members of tho British Steel Mill Men's union have decided to refuse tho prices offered by the Forest works at Swansea, so that the largost tin plate works in Wales is indefinitely closed. I am satis- fied that Americaus can get all the Welsh workmen thoy want, although the rumor that Secretary Foster has revoked the do- cision oxompting the tin plate men from tho operation of the contract labor law has created great excitement. The London edition of the Herald has received by mail a sheet of tin plate with the following letter To the Editor of the Herald: The enclosed plece of tin was made in St. Louis. Mo, re- cently. and there were no Welshmen at the bu rring. A L1vE YANKEE. Parnell and His Pian “Parnell is said to have still another card up his slecve,” the London correspondent of the Yorkshire Daily Chrouicie wrote his paper a fow days ngo. “A fresh scandal is whispered in counection with the parha mentary party. Therc 13, of course, a woman in the case, but no implication of the guilty party has been mado yet The member whose name has been mentioned has simply been a victim of misfortune, tho story being, with a slight differonce, similar tothat of Knoch Arden.” Naturally the first question is, whois it?! A member of Pages 1 to8 l : ) "NUMBER 45, INDLED THE BANK. ~ tsche Bank is Heavily Dofraudod by Two of Its Ole:ks, LMOST PRODUCED A FINANC'AL CRISIS, Other Berlin Banks are in a Voy Weak Jondition, TOO MANY DRUNK\RDS FOR THE EMPEROR Poor Quality of Aleoholio Drinks Rispeniie ble for the Inorease of Swicides, SURE CURE FOR SURGICAL TU3ERCULOS!S, Piof. Schuller Springs a New Rte Which He Calls “Guaicol"— Koch Being Assisted by r the Government, [Copuright bu the New York Associated Preas.) BERLY, Aug. 1—The shares of the Deatsche bank which Saturday last were quoted at 150 closed today at 140, The frauds on the bank perpotr. v its clerk, Francke, and the brole have excited the whole German world to a degree nnknown since the embezzloments of the two diroctors of the Leipsic Disconto Gesselschiaft. The full extent of the frauds on the Deutsche bank has not voen disclosed. The admission made by Schweiger, who is under arrest, covers only tho operations carried on by himself and Francke in paper roubles during the month of July. Both of tho men were well qualifiod to offect, the swindlo, chweigor, who is an ex-manager of tho the Irish parliamentary party says Purnell has passed through the fire and come out cousiderably charred. T think the Yovkshire Chronicle's correspondent only has a slight inkling of the truth. If my information is correct there is no Enoch Arden in the case. The story as told to mo is that a member of the Irish parhamentary party married his wife somo yesrs ago aud the union produced two children. Their separation is credited to incompatibility but the separation was described to me as de- sertion on the maw’s part. Not long ago the man married again, now it is sad the fist wife is alive and if such Is the case and Par- nell has the necessary evidence there is littio liope that he will keep silent, for in spito of desperato efforts on his part, ho is unablo to hold the member in question to his side. The bugle blast blown by the Chleago world’s fair commissioners 1 Loudon 15 echo- ing throughout Great Britain, The serious utterances of Sir Richard Webstor and Vis- count Cross shows that the government has taken np the matter in earnest and that the worid 1n_many- exhibits, The most im- pressive fact is that India {s to dazzle “Amorica with her treasures. I am able to an- nounce that the Indian government will make & hugoe display. The American con- sul at Bristol, Lorin A. Lathrop, has written an official letter calling attention that Bristol was the home of the Cabots. who discovered the American main land, and for that reason their achievements ought to rank with those of Columbus, It is proposed that Bristol shall have separate room for exhibit- ing her annient charters, memorials of an- tiquity, municipal regalias and everything illustrating the timo of the Cabots, Washington's Autograph, A Bristol firm of tobacconists, Messeiur Wills, have an autograph letter signed by George Washington, notifying them of a shipment from Virginia of four hogshead of tobacco. The Ancient Navigation Guild of Merchant Venturers still exists, It's first gov- ernor was Sebastian Cabot. The guild wishes to be rgpresented at Chicagoand 1t is likely the mayor of Bristol and several depu- tations will attend the opening ceremonies. Robert McCormick, the resident commi; sioner in London for the fair, haf resigned to accept the secretaryship of the American le- gation, ana yestorday begau his dutics, u magnificent suite of rooms in Victoria street being fitted up for him, The tremendous winnings of an English- man named Bell at Monte Carlo is exciting interest. Corvesponacnt Nettingham Guary ian is authority for the story that during threo duys he won $100,000. He sat at the table eleven hours each day without food and sent all his winnings to Ehgland so he could not be tempted to lose them. (Grouse shooting opens Augzust state that England young birds suffered se- verely through heavy thunder showe Part of the birds were drowned in the nest during the hatching period. Cold weatherin Scot- land injured the hatching. The sccond nest- ing has been good. A report from Caithue: states that birds are numerous und ther. no disease. There is Shurrey, Webster and Westfield moors, There is magnificent grouse prospects on lower moors, The bitter quarrel and separation of Actor Harry Lee and his nowly married wife is talked of by all Americans in London. It is said that Lee this week locked his wife in her room for three hours aud threatened her with death if she did not live with him again. The threats had wuo effect on Mrs. Leo, who yesterday cousultod an emi- nent solicitor with a view to bringing a suit against her husband in connection with the pawning of her diamond necklace, Les is said to be utterlng tureats against any man who associutes with his wife while she is separated from him. I have iuuestigated the report that Brown & Shipley, vsakers, are in trouble and find that it is ubsoluiely false, While General Booth is on his way to as- tonish the Africans London is being flooded with Salvation army looters labeled *‘Light in Darkest kngland.” The following reasons are given why tho public should buy army 2. Experts is an extra stock on the matehes: “First—To raise the wages of mateh and box makers, ond 0 fight agaiust the sweutin Third—To help tho poor to help themsclves.” Tho other labels on the b neighbor as st in the sight of ateh workers, quickly.’ match make rds are: *“Love thy thyselt," “Provide things hon- men,” “A ray of hove for ' “Ltub lightly wnd strike General Hooth claims to pay his s higher figures than any other other manufactu) The Herald is suthorized to deny the cablod story that Sir Augustus Harris, George Edwaras and Horace sSedger propose ter and bote! on Kdwards says there is no foun T'nere is widespread interest in the de cision of Judge Bapley in the Westminstor | {cos INUED ON SIXTH PAGK.| Berliner Handel Gasselehafi, had a good con- nection as a stock broker. Francke had been for fifteen years in the service of the Deutsche bank. He was entrustod with the duty of rovising and stamping brokers' momoranda sent into the bank. Couple of Daring Rogues, The manager of the Deutsche bank was away on a prolonged leave of absence when Senweigor and Francko arranged the plan to buy roubles for a rise for the July settle- meut and by means of forgod memoranda represent the purchases as made on account of the bank. Francke falsificd the bank en- trios to enable him to carry over his er.gage- meuts. Among these the July purchases are discovered. But the contracts falling due later, some of which aro now known as hay- ing been carried over month after month, will swell the total wmount involved in the frauds to an enormous sum. Francke dealt larwely in lottery specula- tions and carvied on a gencral speculative rame under the very noses of the bunk directors with au adroituess suggesting that Schweiger 1s right in his statement that Fraucke originated the frauds and used nim as a tool. The bank has offered a reward for Francke's capture. He has been traced to Bremen but there be was lost sight of. The immediate effect of the swinaie threatened for a moment to produce a erave financial crisis, Financial Sitaation Very Delicate. “The position of soveral banks involved in the South American collapse and weakened through the existing bourse emvarrassmont is so delicato that any sudden strain may lead toa break down. The press and publio luckily acceptod the statements of a roassur- ing charactor issued by the various banks. It was also seen that isolated frauds, howover gigantic, did not warrant a panic. The com- mittee of the Reich was appealed to and urged to euse the position by a reduction of the ofcial rato of discount. The recent influx of gold to the Reich bank from Ame . France and Eng- land was so0 iavze that the hope of . reduc- tion in the discount was justified, The directors of the Reich bank considered the request, but afte deliberutiop decided againss making any alteration in the rate becruse, says a semi-ofiicial _communication tonight,' thousn the bink holds a large stock of bullion international gold displacoment. wonld inconvenience tho inree ceutral bauks and the general position requires a cautious policy. Tuie imperiul yacht Hohenzollern, with his majesty, the emperor, on board touched at Drontheim today homeward bound. Al the party is in the best of health and are timed to arrive at Kiel on Wednesday. The emperor’s projoctod measure for the Gepression of public_ deunkenncss has bes come, under the manipulation of the minis- ters, merely a proposal that the landtag shoild increaso the penalties imposed on drunkards. Ministors Hercfurth and Migue and others coucur in the belief that the public would not tolerate active legis- lative interferenco with drinking, The em- peror thinks differently. A draft'of the pro- posed bill was sent to him and was returned wWith suggestions concerning state supervis- ion of the nealthy quality of b Bad Liquor Causes S Tmpressod with statistics concerning the growth of criminal offenses and suicides avise ing from drink, the goverament hus opened an inquiry in rogard thereto and is drawing evidenco Trom hospitais and other :medical sources concerning the ' increasiug use of potato spirits and other impure alcohols ahd how far the use of these suirits may bo regarded as a lead- ing tor in crime. The oficial roturns of suicidos committed 1n Berlin during tho first fortnight of July shows a total of 147, The cause of this enormous solf aestruetion is at- tributed chiefly to drink The emperor is friend of good beer, but he blames bad drink for many of the viola- tions of luw throughout the empire but more particularly in the great citics, especiall Berlin. He moans to try to attach sucl penalties to tho sale of bad liquors, both malt #ud spiritous, that it will not be worth while to run the risk of incurring thom, A fresh decision of tho Russian govern- ment concerning its policy towards the Jews debars the children of Hobrews from having the right of sojourn in Russia without a per- mit. ‘The Nova Vremia today in announcing that this order will tuke effect at the beein- ning of the next scholastic y praises the regulation as assisting to reduce the Jews to their natural society lovel ‘The influx of Jewish emigrants into Ger- many is rapidly abuting. This is partly owing to the strict oMcial supervision. Hun- dreds of these emigrants who succeeded in reaching Thorn have been sent back to Rus- sia on the ground that they have frandulent passports or that they did not possess means to proceed to their destination outside of Germany, The great number of Americaus who ate tended the Bayr fostival has been the subject of much remark on the part of the Gevman press, 1t scoms to be geucrally ad- mitted that the financial success of the uns dertaking was practically due to the great Amcrican patronag An r Cure for Tuberculosis, Prof. Dr. Mux Schuller of the Berlin uni- vorsity has a new cure for tuberculosis, He says he has experimented with it for the last twolve years, wnd that bo is perfectly sure of his resiits. Prof. Schuller is a_surgeon and cousequently his experimeuts have mostly been made in cases of so-called surgical tuberculosis, such as affections of joiuts, bones, glands, lupus, ete. He says, however, [cuntiNUED ON sixTH PAGEL