The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 21, 1895, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1895. FROM THE CAPITOL, The Appointment of a New Judge for Sacramento. GOVERNOR BUDD'S PLAN. He Will Listen to the Presen- tation of the Merits of Aspirants. CLERK FOR THE CONTROLLER. Signing of an Assembly Bill That Creates Another State Office. SACRAM 0, between the hours of 10 and 12 is the time that has been appointed by Governor Budd to listen to the various March 20 — Friday morning deleg tions from the legal fraternity of city who may desire to present the onal abilities of the several candidates for the position of the third Superior Judgeship of Sacramento County, created ature. truth in the rumor that d to the effect that the ernor has declared an intention to ap- t the candidate who is considered best fitted for the position by his colleagues, ir- respective of politics, it is claimed by lead- ing legal lights that Charles Oatman (R.) undoubtedly secure the greatest ma- jority. On the other hand, if a Democrat is to be appointed, on the same grounds they n that Joseph Hughes is at present far in the lead of his competitors, and has already pledged over 42 out of the 73 mem- bers of the Sacramento bar to stand by him in cage Oatman is out of the race. Other prominent Democratic candidates, who are making strong fights, with good prospects of success, are Attorneys A. Hinkson d W. H. Devlin. The latter as, pe ing of all the various aspirants, and has also his favor the fact that he is an able exponent of the intricacies of the r. Attorney Hinkson also possesses z backing, and is making a still fight v prove a winner. In the mean- time, lesser legal lights are awaiting the outcome of the struggle with intense in- terest. If there by car in RK FOR THE CONTROLLER. The Governor Signs d Bill Which Creates Another Position. SACRAMENTO, March 20.—Governor Budd to-day signed Assembly bill 981, zing the State Controller to appoint litional cle n his office, in addition wumber now allowed by law, to be s the receiving clerk, and also n appropriation for the payment ry of said clerk, which will be $1600 a year. The necessity for the creation of th office was caused by Assembly b A4 CL known introduced by Bulla of Los Angeles, tled An act requiring all property sold for nquent taxes to be sold to the State, rohibiting individuals from purchas- ing. The amount personal property and ate that is yearly forfeitable for non- Ievient of lareis Sl e it would be an utter impossibility for Controller Colgan to handle this added increase of business with his present official force. The position bids fair to be anything but a sinecure’ to the party chosen to fill the office of receiving clerk, the identity of whom is as yet un- real known, as no appointment has or s liable | to be made for some time to come. It is rumored, however, that T. M. Eby will be chosen by Controller Colgan to attend to the duties of this department. Hearing on Unsigned Bills. SACRAMENTO, March 20. — Governor Budd announced this afternoon that he would accord a hearing to all persons in- terested in the bills now before him to- morrow and Friday, after which time a hearing would be refnsed. Port Warden Braunhart's Commission. SACRAMENTO, March 20.—The com- mission of Samuel Braunhart as Warden for the port of San Francisco was signed by Governor Budd and.duly recorded upon the archives this afternoon. LOST THE FISH. Clever Muskrats Take Advantage of An- glers and Rob the Hooks. A small party of fishermen from Parks- ville and Livingston Manor drove up to Lily Lake on Mount Pleasant last Wednes- day morning. They cut holes in the ice and seta couple of dozen tip-up tackles for pickerel. The fish took hold in their usual fierce, hungry style and for an hour or more the boys yanked fish to their hearts’ content. Then the sport had a sudden cessaaion. While the other anglers had been tend- ing the lines George Edwards and Hen Penfield went ashore and kindled a big fire of dead chestnut limbs, so that the others could come and warm up now and then. The spot where the fire was started was a little patch of reedy meadow, some two rods across and handy to the woods. In the dry cattails and rushes were some heaps of what looked to be brown leaves and grass. Before the fire builders knew it the whole patch of reeds were in a blaze and the fishermen let it burn, beca: it made the walking to the fire easier. Just after the flames had taken pos- session of the bit of meadow and while the fishers were all bunched to- gether, spinning yarns, the whole lot of tip-ups bobbed down_ at once, and_twenty red flags waved frantically in the air. The boys jumped for the lines and found harder pulling than they had hitherto struck. After a hard fight in each case they dragged their game to the surface, and to their amazement, found a big brown muskrat fast on the hook. The victims snarled and snngped their teeth but were speedily dispatched by a whack from a stick. A muskrat was on every line, and not.one got away. Mose Tucker let the lines back in a hurry, rebaited, in hopes to catch other rats, and sure enough, on about half of them he succeeded. Then the run of queer fish abated and no more were caught. The pickerel would not bite in that spot, but fish holes were chopped in the ice off the mouth of Outlet Creek and soon the tip-ups were busy again. The day’s catch of pickerel altogether for the whole four men was 143, and eleven of these weighed over 4 pounds, one tip- ging the steelyards at 6 pounds 3 ounces. ut the thing thatraised the hair on the village folks’ heads when the frizes were exhibited and weighed in the store in the evening were the thirty-four big plump muskrats. For a time 10 one believed the story told by the fishermen, but as no one could find a bullet wound or a scar on the rats the miracle ned credence, and, furthermore, old John Enders vouched for the fact that the little meadow patchatthe the strongest political back- | north end of the lake was alive with musk- rats. “Why,” said he, “I've heard tell of muskrats takingjfishhooks many a time and the way it happened this time is plain enough to see. There were about fourteen muskrat winter nests in that meadow patch and when the fire spread over it the }wal drove them all out. They took to the water and started to swim for the out- let when they came across these hooks baited with nice fresh fish—something they like very much and don’t often get in iter. You may call it queer, but that's it must have happened. I'm plagued sorry it happened, though, for we'll have durned poor muskrat shooting up at the lake next fall!”’—Syracuse Standard. POLICE BLACKMAIL, Its Cornerstone in New York Was Laid in Peter Stuyvesant’s Day. In Stuyvesant’s time many abuses of power and assessment were grafted upon the eternal customs of the town. Shortly after his arrival he obseryed that “‘one full fourth part of the city of New Amsterdam had become bawdy houses for the sale of ardent spirits, of tobacco and beer’’; on some of the business streets this propor- tion still holds good. He inaugurated Sunday closing, with the result, perpetu- ated to our time, of side-door opening. Fines were established for this, that, and the other infraction of regulations which afforded the constables a legal basis for making rep 1n 1658 eight men were constituted the rattle-watch, and were au- thorized to take ‘“‘lock-up money’’ and fees, which sums were to be brought into the house of the captain of the watch and held for the benefit af the members, a “‘divvy,” as it is now calleq, oceuring four times a year. Thus extortion was put, as it were, upon | a basis of police discretion and right; but there was a rule against setting up a social club on the proceeds. So the habit of police collections, contracted as a pleasurable duty, has been handed down as a vast and secret “‘perquisite” of the guardians of the ‘Fuhlic peace: and it must not be over- ooked that from those days to these the police of the city have been in the per- | sonnel a continuing body. 1t wasas nec sary then now to admonish the police not to use violence upon peaceful burghers. “Burgher right,” after the Dutch custom, was granted by Stuyvesant to please the | citizens, and prevailed as a trading and | electoral qualification of “freemen’ into our own century. Stuyvesant fixed the fee of “‘great burghers,” from whom municipal | officers were chosen, at 50 florins; and of “small burghers” qualified to pursue a trade or to keep shop, at 25 florins. Partly from this acorn has grown the Tammany oak of assessments and reprisals on mercants. Followers of steady callings in the early | days were the spoil of the autocratic authorities, just as they have been to-day of equally irresponsible blackmailers. Some of the earliest settlers were free- booters from the Spanish main. Smug- gling was as commoun as Indian cheating and Stuyvesant and othern Governors, English ‘as well as Dutch, were openly charged with sharing in the profits of il- licit trade. Subsequent to the Dutch Go ernors piracy found in Manhattan its chief emporium. Even reputable merchants de- vised moral and lezal quibbles for_engag- ing in_sea-poaching usually under the oi so-called privateering. The great Wil- liam Kidd was peculiarly a Manhattan product. Governor Fletcher in 1696 admitted that he had exchanged ‘“‘presents’” with the no- torious pirate Thomas Tew, but explained that his chief desire in seeking ‘amus- ing conversation” was “to reclaim him from a vile habit of swearing”’—which | parallels the Tammany theory at a proper way to reclaim malefactors is to ap- In 1698 the }:oiut them to public office. farl of Bellomont, who had succeeded “letcher as Governor, complained to the English Lords of Trade that he had en- deavored to place four merchantmen, about to clear for Madagascar, under bonds not to supply p at that notorious try ing-place with supplies and bring their booty to Manhattan; “‘but the Council, some of them being ‘concerned in these ships,” he writes, “unanimously opposed this method, as not prescribed by law and because it was never practiced here before, so I was forced to discharge said ships.”’'— Century Magazine, A Logical Dog. Having derived much pleasure from read- ing the frequent natural history notes | which from time to time appear in the Spectator, I venture to S5 you an in- stance of what seems to me the working of the canine mind under quite different cir- cumstances. The first refers to an incident which happened a_great many years ago. It was this: One day, when a lad, I was walking with my father accompanied by a strong, smooth-haired retriever called “Turk.” We were joined by the bailiff of the farm, and in the course of our walk Turk suddenly discovered the presence of a rabbit concealed in what in Scotland is called a ‘“dry-stane dyke.” Aiter a little trouble in removing some stones, poor bunny was caught_and slanghtered, being handed to the bailiff, who put it in his coat pocket. Shortly atterward we sep- arated, the bailiff going to his home in one direction, and we to ours in an opposite one. Before we reached home we noticed that Turk was no longer with us, at which we were rather surprised, as he was a very faithful follower. Some time after we got home, perhaps an hour, I chanced to see a strange object on the public road which puzzled me as to what it was. It raised a cloud of dust as it came along, which partly obscured the vision. What was my surprise when I found it was Turk drag- ging a man’s shooting jacket, which proved to be the bailiff’s, with' the rabbit still in the pocket. Weafterward learned that the dog, to the surprise of the bailiff, quietly followed him home, and lay down near him. Presently the man took off his coat and laid it on a chair. Instantly Turk pounced upon it and dashed to the door with it in his mouth. He was pursued, but in vain, and sucteeded in dragging the coat from the one house to the other, a dis- tance of one mile and three-fourths. It was evident the dog had a strong sense of the rights of property. He believed the rabbit belonged to his master, so he set himselfto recover what he thought stolen goods.— London Spectator. sy Department Libraries in Washington, While the new Congressional Library building is rapidly assuming features of early occupancy, and we shall soon have a place for the srlen id collection of books that are now almost fmpossible of access, owing to crowding, why wouldn’t it be a good idea to consider the broadening of the purposes of the library so as to give it a national character and namei Perhaps few people know that every department of the Go mPint has a hibrary of its own. .| Bos ofshese are very extensive and val- uablé. But why should the Government create and maintain half a dozen libraries in the national capital? And why not con- centrate its efforts upon the real national library ? There isa library in the Navy De- partment of over 40,000 volumes. Congress makes appropriations for it every year. Itis the second library in importance of its kind in the world, being only excelled by the United Service Library, London. This Government side issue, however, contains the best collection of works on Arctic ex- glornion of anY library in the world. here are complets chronicles from the earliest times down to date. These con- tain a full and detailed history of the Brit- ish navy. The other features are quite as complete. Congress grants an annual ap- ropriation to add to these volumes, and a n&: sum is required for the maintenance of the whole. ere are no works of fiction in it. But thereis a Treasury library of considerable size containing works of fic- tion, and which in other respects is ex- actly the same as any other library of gen- eral reading. And there isa Patent Office library and a War Department library, etc, They might all be merged in the one great national book concern. — Pittsburg Dis- patch. TR . 40 5ese A S Special legislation has been attempted in con- nection wnfilv.ha Blythe case. " s OREGON ROAD ST Important Decision Portland’s Circuit Court. in A TRUST COMPANY LOSES The Union Pacific Receiver Will Retain Charge of the Short Line. JUDGES REVIEW THE CASE. The Application of Piaintiffs Should Have Been Made to Wy- oming’s Court, PORTLAND, Or., March 20.—Judges Gil- bert and Bellinger to-day in the United States Circuit Court rendered a decision denying the motiq& of the American Loan and Trust Company for the removal of the Union Pacific receivers from the receiver- ship of the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern and the appointment of others, with leave to the American Loan and the matters involved shall have been sub- mitted to the Circuit Court for the District of Wyoming. After reviewing the case Judge Gilbert said: The disposition of these applications must depend upon the effect to be given to the fact that the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway Company was first taken into the re- ceivership by the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Wyoming upon the foreclosure of the Dillon mortgage. The court had unquestionably jurisdietion of the subject- matter and of the parties. It was the proper court for the institution of the suit. The cor- poration defendant was organized under the laws of Wyoming, where had been its principal place of busin The fact that buta small percentage of its railway lines is within that State is unimportant. The right of the court whose jurisdiction is first invoked over a cor- poration whose property lies in various dis- triets is not to be measured by the proportion- ate extent of the property interest in that jur- isdiction. There is no rule that the court within whose limits the greater portion of the property is shall be the court of primary juris- diction. It is sufficient that the corporation had its home in Wyoming and had a portion of its property there. The legal authority of a receiver extends no further than the territorial limits of the juris- diction of the court whose officer he is. Within that limit his right of possession will be re- spected by all other courts; without that limit no court 18 bound to recognize his authority. But by a principle of comity, courts whose jurisdiction is exterior to that of the court which appointed the receiver will concede to the latter the right to reduce to his posses- sion and control the property of his trust which may there be found. This comity will not be extended to the detriment of local ereaitors of the person or corporation whose property is in | receivership. By another rule of comity, equally well established and universally recog- nized by the Circuit Courts of the United States, the action of the Cirenit Court which | first acquires jurlsdiction of the parties of the subject-matter of a suit by the appointment of a receiver will be réspected by the Circuit Courts of the other districts in which the prop- erty of the insolvent is situated. It is urged that if the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern were operated under a manage- ment wholly independent of the Union Pacific system, it would be free toenter into traffic contracts with other and competing roads, and that thereby its earnings might be greater than under the present management; and it is in- sisted that the lienholders of the road have the gight to demand that the property over which their liens extend be segregated from the system, since the traffic egreement has been broken, and that it be free to be operated in such & manner that advantage may be taken of its sitnation and surroundings to earn the greatest possible income for those who are in- terested therein, and this regardless of the ei- fect that may thereby be produced upon the remainder of the system. If the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway were susceptible of dismemberment without injury to either portion; if that por tion of its line within the State of Wyoming were a separate branch, capable of a separate management, or if the action of this court were necessary to the preservation of the rights of the lienholders by whom the applications are made, it might be urged that a case is pre- sented which would justify the court, in the ex- ercise of its discretion, to disregard the settled rule of comit But no such exceptionsl state of faets ex: There is nothing presented in the record in these cases which makes the gen- eral rule inapplicable. The reasons which are urged for the removal of the receivers already appointed and the appointment of othersin their stead have not been presented to the con- siderationj of the Circuit Court for the district of Wyoming. That court has had no oppor- tunity to pass upon them. Those reasons are as potent and convineing in that court 2s in his, and it must be assumed that all courts equally will mete out to the suitor the justice and the relief to which he is entitled. | Union Pacific Officials Pleased. OMAH4A, Nebr., March 20.—At the headquarters of the Union Pacific the de- cision was received with mnch favor. An official sai This application for separate receivers by the junior mortgage-holders should have been pre- sented to the court of primary jurisdiction, which happens to be the Eighth Circuit of the District of Wyoming, that being the court in which the receivers were first appointed for the property under the foreclosure bills. No one can foretell the future conduct of the case. The ] trust company has the right to renew the peti- tion for separate receivers in the Wyoming District, before Judge Sanborn, if it sees fit. But the fact that the receivers have not been attackea and the original appointment isin a sense indorsed, is taken to mean a good square winning in the first round of the contest to pre- serve the Union Pacific system from further disintegration. Everybody about the Union Pacific head- quarters is happy. They have felt that they had the right of the case and were glad to see it 5o soon vindicated. The Oregon Short Line and Utah North- ern is the largest part of the Union Pa- cific in the West, being the road from Ogden, Utah, to Butte, Mont., and from Granger, Wyo., to Huntington, Or. EUROPEAN PAWNBROKERS, Their Rates of Interest and the Care With Which They Keep Articles. In Austria-Hungary the largest amount of pawnbroking is carried on by private pawnbrokers under the authority of the state. The interest charged at the im- perial pawn office in Vienna is at a uni- form rate of 10 per cent. In the last year for which statistics are forthcoming the Vienna pawn office received 866,015 articles in pawn, for which it advanced £420,000. The average value of the jewelry and other valuables pawned amounted to 25s, while that of the clothing and similar household effects was only 4s 6d. It is stated that, on account of the space re- quired for storage, the institution would 2ot be able to keep itself going without the aid of the jewelsand other valuable pledges, which take up so little space in the ware- houses. elgium the rate generally charged by the various Monts-de-Piete ranges from 4 to 16 per cent, but in Brus- Trust Company to renew the motion after | sels it has been 6 per cent since 1891. In Germany pawnbroking is conducted either by the state, the parish or private persons under state supervision. ’I“he rate at the Government pawnbroking offices in Berlin is 12 per cent. Mr. Percy ‘Wyndham, one_of the Secre- taries of ‘our’ Embassy in Berlin, in- cludes in his report some interesting de- tails of the organization of the German state pawnbroking establishments. Val- uers are employed in the permanent ser- vice of the oftice, among whom is a person with a technical gknowledge of fiold and precious stones. They have to eposit a certain caution money in case the office should suffer loss through cul- pable cases of overvaluing. All the officials are pledged to secrecy as regards the busi- ness they conduct. The articles are most carefully’stored. Each piece of jewelry is stored in a separate box; watches, of which there are many thousands in the office at a time, are kept in draws, each containing a hundred, and fur coats, which' are pledged in considerable numbers, are stored in a cool place where they siould not suffer from m- 1. From the statistics it appears that the State office is used rather by the middle classes than by the very poorest. Of the first 3000 business transactions of the month of October, 1893, artisans and tradesmen head the list with a total of 1648.—London News. LOOOMOTIVES AND FNGINEERS. Fast and Slow Runs and Peculiarities of Various Engines. It takes about an hour to get steam enough on an ordinary locomotive engine tostart it, from cold water. It is a familiar fact that the water in the boilers of steam fire engines in cities is kept hot while the engine is standing in the house by a pipe connection with a boiler underneath; when the engine starts its own fire is lighted, Locomotive engines that are running regularly stand in the roundhouse in the intervals between runs with their fires banked. The fires are kept cleaned, but they may not be hauled for weeks. The practice varies somewhat in this respect. On some roads fires are hauled once a week; on other roads they are kept up in engines for three or four we or more continuously. A locomotive engineer on one of the fa est runs out of New York says that he h: never seen an engine that would run fast as he would like to ride. No appre- hension apparently is felt by the engineer of a fast engine. £ Calmness is one of his most noticeable its, and if ‘he worries at all it is because s got a hot box, or :l)methinfi has happened so that he may not be able to make the time, and not because he is going through the air at fifty, sixty, seventy miles an hour. But it should be under- stood that none but a man of perfect nerve is likely to reach the footboard of a fast engine. There is not a vast difference between running at night and at day. Signal lights at night are plainer ana can be seen at a much greater distance than day signals. The engineer must of course keep con- stantly in mind where he is, but he comes to know the country just as a pilot knows his landmarks in the dark; and he has this advantage of the pilot, that he can’t very well get out of the channel. Most engineers prefer day runs, because it seems more natural to work in the daytime, and it is pleasanter. e ¢ Almost all locomotive engineers prefer a fast run to a slow one. The fast trains are the blue ribbons of the road. Aside from the honor of running a fast train there is a very substantial advantage in the hours. 1f an’'engineer simply stepped into his cab in the station and stepped out again on his return almost any run might do weli enongh, but he does not do that; he goes to the roundhouse before train time and looks over the engine, and sees that it is in condition and properly supplied for the run and in every way ready, and he runs the engine to thestation. Ail this takes time. On hisreturn he runs the engine back to the roundhouse; this takes time, too, though not so much as thg time spent vefore the run; but alto- gether these periods add materially to the length of the engmeer’s bou aking these duties into account, the great ad- vantages of a fast run are manifest—the shorter the time spent on the road the shorter the total time. There is a eommon impression that no two locomotive engines work just alike, even though made from the same pat-~ terns. A locomotive engineer of long ex- perience says that the impression is cor- rect. He says, by way of illustration, that two high-grade watches of the same pat- tern, and supposed to be just alike, may not work the same way. One may not vary half a minute in six mouths and so be, practically, a perfect tmekee per, while the other may vary a minute In 4 month. It is so with engines; they do not work just alike. One may steam and run better than the other. The slightest variation in finish or adjustment might be sufficient to cause this. Vhen the new engine has been runa Kear or so it goes to the shop to be over- auled. With it goes areport of the en- gineer, who has run it on the engine’s characteristics and performance. 1f the engine has developed "any defects they can usually be remedied at this overhauling, and it may be that the engine comes out on the road again as smart as any of them. ~—New York Sul e, Queer Things Dug Up in Michigan. A remarkable collection of pottery, said to have been taken from mounds in Me- costa, Isabella and Montcalm counties, is on exhibition in Elsie, Mich. Five cas- kets, of nearly the same size and make, are shown. The exteriors bear what ap- ar to be likenesses of the varamidq of Egypt, as well as Egyptian and Pheenician letters and characters. There is a sixth casket, different from all the others. One side rel)resems the pyramids of Egypt and the other side two male figures, one a mound builder, with a spear aloft in a threatening attitude, and the other an American fndiun with tomahawk poised. There are two tablets. One, said to rep- Tesent the ten commandments, being num- bered from one to ten, and the other a rep- resentation of the flood, from the warning to the resting of the ark_and the comin, forth of the inmates. I'rom one caskei were taken three brass coins, four stone coins and nine pieces of stone type. From another a nugget of solid gold wexghing about two ounces, stone amuleis, an pipes, lamps and vases, said to be of the time of the Pharaohs, were taken. There is a perfect square adorned with Masonic emblems, alleged to have been taken from a mound, upon which remained a stump over four feet in diameter, the rings show- ing the tree to have been over years old.—Chicago Inter Ocean: e Catacombs in Mudie’s Library. Here are thousands and tens of thous- ands of volumes, whose agire ate weight, albeit that they are “light’’ literature, must amount to many tons. Nearly all we see in these “‘Catacombs” are novels, the majority of which have had their day. Some of them made a sensation in their time. The great librarian had to purchase thousands of them to meet the eager de- mand of his readers, but nob?;liy asks for ul:em now, and worse still, nobody will buy them. Here is one. We must not give its title, The public was clamorous for it when it appeared. Mudie subscribed 3500 copies, ow it is dead stock. Pilesupon piles, shelf upon shelf, case after case. % Here the books of the once idolized au- thar must lie, unless some grand crema- tion should reduce them to ashes, or there should be reserved for them a resurrection w‘flew life through the gates of the paper mill. The instance is only one out of many, and a visit to these catacombs would be’'a salutory discipline to many a living au- thor shfuld success have engendered his humility, showing him how the public is already beginning to pass him by, if not to forget his name.—Good Words. PIE LTty it T ask not for his lineage, I ask not for his name; if manliness be in his heart, he noble birth may claim.—Nicoll. > ————————— Persia has twenty miles of railroad. WAS FELT FOR MILES Explosion of Twenty Thousand Kilos of Dynamite. DISASTER ON THE RHINE Several Persons Killed and Great Damage Done to Shipping. HOUSES ALSO BLOWN DOWN. Transportation of the Explosive Had Been Delayed by the Ice Blockade. COLOGNE, March 20.—A terrible explo- sion of dynamite took place in Salmouth, in the District of Dusseldorf. The cargo of the ship Elizabeth, consist- ing of 20,000 kilos of dynamite, was being unloaded when the explosion oceurred, killing a number of people and doinga terrible amount of damage. The exact number of persons’ killed is not yet known Another vessel, which was alongside the Elizabeth, caught fire and was burned. The force of the explosion was felt for miles, and was at first believed to have been the result of an earthquake. Several houses collapsed at Keoken and other vil- lages, and windows were shattered within a wide area. g At Cleaves, five miles from the scene of | the explosion, doors were blown off and window-frames were smashed. The bodies of five victims ot the explo- sion have already been recovered, and six persons believed to have been killed are missing. The force of the explosion was so great that three vessels at Lobith, the last Dutch village on the Rhine, were sunk. Two hundred and twenty tons of the ex- plosive were taken in six boats from Lobith to Salmouth last January, en route to Ant- werp, whence it was to have been shipped to Australia. Owing to the ice blockade in the river the dynamite was landed at Sal- mouth, where it was stored, awaiting the opening of navigation. In the meantime the Elizabeth had been chartered to take the dynamite forward and the cargo was being stored yesterday when part of it exploded. The cause of the explosion is unknown. HAS SIX GRANDMOTHERS. Baby Louetta Bell Smith Is Favored With Relatives. To have six living grandmothers is a distinction which rarely falls to the jlot of any of the present generation. Patchogue comes to the front and calls as its own the lusty eight-months-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. 8. Herbert Smith. The little blue- eyed youngster rejoices in the name of Louetta Bell. TLouetta Bell, fat and chubby, kicks her feet in ecstacy when tickled under the chin, and seems to fully understand her importance when the vis- itor is informed by the mother of the ex- istence of the six grannies. The baby is the pride of the Smith home, and is fre- quently taken to see Grandmother Magin- nes ana Great-grandmother Betts. The line of relationship of the grand- mothers 1s traced as follows: On the mother’s side is Mrs. Gearge Maginnes. She is grandmother number one. Grand- mother number two 1s Mrs. Julia A. Betts, aged 60 years, whorejoices in being mother to Mrs. Maginnes. That, of course, makes her great grandmother to Louetta Bell, The great grandmother is Mrs. Israel Smith, who is now in her 84th year. She is very proud of her great-great-grand- child, Aunt Sally, as she is familiarly known in the village, was an important personage ut the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. erbert Smith, the parents of the baby on Thanksgiving day, 1893. She delighte the wedding guests with her quaint say- ings and recited several poems. On the father's side the first mother is Mrs. Madison Smith of Blue Point. Following in succession is great- grandmother Mrs. Overton of Bayport and reat-great-mother Mrs. Samuel Smith of aphank. The several grandmothers all delight in explaining their family rela- tionship. About one hundred "aunts, uncles, great-aunts, great-uncles and one great-great-uncle are also numbered among this baby’s remarkable string of relatives.— Patchogue, (L. I.) special to Brooklyn Eagle. —————— GOLDEN EGGS AND MUSHROOMS. Two Dishes Which Are Declared by Ex- ‘ perts to Be the Finest Work of Art. Mushrooms are treasures in the hands of inventive cooks, who recognized that they afford possibilities beyond the delicious butter-basted grill or cunning mixture with kidneys or chickens. Mushrooms impart a subtle flavor and a richness to soups and stews, and they are invaluable as entrees. ‘‘Autolicus,’” in the Pall Mall Gazette, gives two dainty recipes worthy of adoption: “The reigning sultana in the mushroom’s harem is,” we are told, “the brilliant golden egg. Sweet symphonies in brown and gold are the dishes their union yields. Oeufs brouilles aux cham- pignons—has not the very name a pretty sound! 1t is a delight best suited to the midday breakfast: a joyous course: to fol- low the anchovy salad, the eel well smoked, or whatever dainty hors d’oeuvre may stimulate to further appetite. “The eggs, scrambled and rivaling the buttercup’s rich gold, are laid delicately on crisp toast, and present a couch_soft as down for a layer of mushrooms. Let Rus- kin rave of Turner’s sunsets; let the glory of the Venetians be a favorite tug among artcritics, but when did .Turner, or Titian, or Tintoret invent a finer seheme of color than egg and mushroom thus combined for the greater happiness of the few? A silyer dish or one of the rarest porcelain sfahau,ld be the frame for a picture so per- ect.” And then, again: ‘‘Creatures of infinite resource, eggs and mushrooms meet in cases to produce a new and distinct joy. The mushrooms, stewed in milk thickened with the yelks of raw eggs and bread- crumbs, line the little fluted china cases; into each a fresh egg is broken, then more mushrooms and bread-crumbs are spread gently above; a shallow pan, its bottom just covered with hot water, receives the cases, and ten minutes in -the oven will complete a triumph which, once tasted. you may well remember all the days. of your life.”—Foreign Exchange. —————— A Quick Retort. Max O'Rell_was telling stories. “In Sydney, N. 8. W., William Redmond, the celebrated commoner and home rule advo- cate, was at Centenary Hall. There was rand- wishes to ask him a question he will be glad to answer it.” “A man arose from the body of the meeting and ascended the platform. “Mr. Chairman,”’ he said, but he never got any further. He was recognized at once as a notorious Orangemen, and quick as a flash a great big specimen of an Irishman sprang at him and struck him in_the temple—like that—so. The man fell like a log, and it was thought he waskilled by the blow. They had to send for doctors and had to carry the man out on a stretcher. Imagine the excitement all this time, con- tinuing for a quarter of an hour. Finally the chairman—don’t forget how meek and mild he w tapped gently on the edge of his desk, advanced to the front of the plat- form with his eye-glasses poised on the end of his fingers—so—and it became at once as quiet as you could imagine. Then, very deliberately, the chairman said: “Gentlemen, is there any one else who would like to ask Mr. Redmond a ques- tion ?”—Buffalo Express. . UNCLAIMED MONEY. There Is a Vast Amount of Unowned Wealth. There is a vast amount of buried wealth in the world besides that which the ocean covers and the virgin ore awaiting the miner’s call, but few people know the locale of these hidden moneys. In the following jottings we have endeavored to indicate the chief sources from which un- claimed moneys arise and how they are dealt with: Funds in Chancery (England)—The exact amount of the unclaimed funds belonging to suitors or their representatives, undealt h for fifteen years or upward, is £2,327,- Prior to 1869 such money was invested in Government securities, but in 1870 the funds were used toward the reduction of the national debt, the consolidation fund being thenceforward liable in respect of all successful claims to such funds. On the 28th of February, 1893,dhe total funds in the Supreme Court of Judicature were £65,481,866, but the proportion unclaimed is not stated. 1t is a remarkable fact that part of the surplusinterest of these funds— representing over £1,000,000—was applied toward the erection of Royal Courts of Jus- tice. Moreover, in 1881, Mr. Gladstone’s Government borrowed no less than £40,000,- 000 of the suitors’ funds for national debt purposes, Funds in Chancery (Ireland)—Tt is pro- posed to®uild a new law library in Dublin, at a cost of some £15,000, out of the un- claimed suitors’ funds. on Government Stocks—All dividends and stock unclaimed | for ten years are transferred to the Na- tional Debt Commissioners till claimants lljpp(‘z\r. In 1866 no less than £3,000,000 of the unclaimed stock was canceled, and the consolidated fund made liable in respect of successful claims to such money. Th 1890 the balance of stock remaining unclaimed was £953,132, and the unclaimed dividends amounted to £1,387,969. It may be men- tioned that the exchequer some years since realized a windfall of £150,211, representing fractions of pence saved in the payment of dividends. This is one more proof of the old saying, “Many a mickle makes a muckle.” Estates Reverting to the Crown—In 1884 the statute of limitations was applied to the recovery of estates falling to the crown by reason of persons dying intestate with- out known heirs. Funds which had been accumulating for centuries werethus swept into the coffers of the The total amount received by the ““Crown's Nomi- nee’’ from 1876—the date of the passing of | the interstate estates act to 1893, reached £1,708,963. A large portion, however, was claimed by the rightful heirs, and, after ayment of the crown's share, for her Majesty’s use, the balance in hand in 1893 was 5,147, Bankrupt Estates—The new bankruptey offices have been erected out of part of the unclaimed funds in bankruptey. The total liability of the exchequer in respect of un- claimed moneys arising from bankruptcy in England and Ireland is £1,136,055. Scottish Estates—The Registr: Edinburgh, was built out of fun: ing from ‘“‘forfeited estates.”” Soldier’s Money—No less than £114,170, representing theamount of the effects of deceased soldiers, has accumulated during the past twenty years. This amount has & Commissioners for distribution, owing to the rightful heirs failing to claim. Army and Navy Prize Money—Upward of £400,000 of the unclaimed army prize money has been used for keeping up Chel- sea Hospital and grounds, etc. The bal- ance due the soldiers or their representa- tive in 1893 was £102,089. Curious enough, only £14 was paid to claiman during the year, while the expenses of the prize department were about £400. Un- claimed naval prize money is transferred to the consolidated fund. Considerably over £250,000 is due to sailors or their kindred. The foregoing extracts show parts of the large amount of money lying unclaimed in the United Kingaom. It is officially stated that liabilities of the consolidated fund are considered to be remote, and the state not likely to be called upon toany material ex- tent to discharge. But, on the other hand, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his budget speech of 1891, stated that in that year ‘‘he had been called upon quite unex- pectedly to provide £100,000 in respect of unclaimed funds in chancery. It was supposed that a large sum owing to suitors would never be claimed, and it was writ- ten off. ‘Experience has proved thatan increased spirit of research, assisted by those means oyincreaued publicity which the day de- mands and receives, had enabled many suitors who it was believed would never claim to make their claim.” Discussions in Parliament, the press and elsewhere show the urgent need of greater publicity as to alljunclaimed funds. Lis! of some unclaimed moneys are still only published in the London Gazette, while many others are not published at all. Until these lists are published in newspa- pers likely to be seen by the persons inter- ested the amount of money must go on increasing.—Chambers’ Journal. In the first issue of the Planter we gave the experience of W. G. Hinson of James Island in reference to feeding horses and mules on potatoes. We have since found two farmers, J. C. Lan}?ley of Darlington County, and W. D. Harriss of Florence County, whoare utilizing their potatoes in the same way. These gentlemen are not doing it from necessity, but as a matter of farm economy, and are well pleased with the experiment. According to the estimate of Colonel T. W. Woodward of Fairfield it takes three bushels of potatoes to equal in nutriment one bushel of corn, but even if it took four the cost of feeding on the potatoes would be far less. It is well known that a dry summer is very favorable to potatoes and just the opposite for corn, and this fact ought to be sufficient to induce every farmer to plant them more largely.— The Carolina Planter. ——————— Tea Intemperance. There is no doubt as to the tea-drinking propensities of the English race. We flirt with coffee, but tea is our only serious love. ‘With the exoe?tion of Russia, we drink more tea than all the rest of the Continent ut together. It is the one universal rink of all classes, and, it is to be feared, by all classes it is abused in the same fashion. The grande dame and the char- woman both find solace in the teacup, and both turn to it rather too frequently. The volume of tea consumption has steadily increased with the fall of the price of tea, and now that it is within reach of even the poorest, it is no longer a luxury, but a the wildest kind of enthusiasm when he had finished addressing the great mass- meeting. The chairman of the meeting was a very meek, mild man, do you under- stand? Very meek and very mild. Very well. The chairman rose when quiet had been restored and said: “ ‘Gentlemen, I am requested by Mr. Redmond to say that if any one present necessary of English life. Afternoon tea is the most unchangeable of social functions in London. Our neigh- bors across the Chaunel, with that sincere flattery which they sometimes pay to our failings, have attempted to bdrrow this custom also, but have never succeeded in actually drinking the tea. French people may invite each other to ‘‘5-o’cloquer,” =l better—or been handed over to the Patriotic Fund ! but they have too great a respect for their digestions to wander, as we do, from house to house, drinking at each a tepid cup of unknown strength. For, after all, it is in the making of the tea, and not in the amount. that is consumed, that the real danger lies. The Russians are even greater tea drinkers than we are, but they would never touch the terrible black draught which is our insular delight.—Spectator. Blood Ni(ie Pure Eczema on Face, Neck and Hands Hood’s Sarsaparilla Cured All Im= purity. “Qur son Augustus was very severely troubled with eczema. Sores broke out on his face, neck and hands, and the slightest scratch on his hands would Break Out in Bad Sores. We persuaded him to take Hood’s Sarsa- parilla, and it has been two or three ince he has been troubled. His s are quite smooth. Our nephew, Edgar P. Shaver. who lives with us, was afflicted similarly, only his case was more severe, accompanied by scrofulous banches on his neck. He has taken four bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla and is now 9 o Sarsa Hood’s®% Cures well. His skin is as smooth as any one could wish, and the risings on his neck have disappeared.” Mgs. M. J. 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