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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 189 9 TRADE DEMORALIZED, Vicious Competition Korea by Merchants of Japan. in NO AMERICAN BANKERS. Commerce of the United States Falling Behind in the Orient. FORMOSA'S CHAOTIC CONDITION. Durlng a Conflagration Ninety Chinese Are Killed by a Magazine Explosion. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6.—Con- sul-General Gernigan at Shanghai has sent to the State Department his obser- vations on the commerce beiween Japan and China and Korea, which he says will present new phases as a result of the termination of hostilities. He says the competition among Japanese merchants for Korean trade is vicious and has demor- alized trade. Mr. Gernigan calls attention to the fact that there is not in China or Japan a bank- ing institution conducted by American capital. Great Britain, France and Ger- many have banks in China and Japan, he says, and the meachants of these coun- tries are supported by the banking in- stitutions of their own countries, and they have been dividing the profits of Asiatic commerce. American merchants in Asia are com- pelled to transact their business through foreign banks. Not many years ago the American interest was of first considera- tion at Shanghai and American commerce whitened Asiatic seas. Now other nations are pushing ahead, although geographic- ally the United States should dominate and supply with the overproduction of their fertile fields the markets of the swarming millions of Asia. The reported retirement of Mr. Matsu, Minister of Foreign Aftairs, from the Jap- anese Cabinet. has not been communi- rated tothe Japanese legation here. It is ted that if Mr. Matsu has resigned it is doubtless due to ill health, from acute lung trouble, w; gravated by the recent strain on his health in effecting a settlement with China. HONGKONG, CHiNa, June 6.—Advices from Taipeh Fu, Formosa, describe affairs in that town as being still in a chaotic condition. The native quarter has been burned. During the conflagration a maga- zine exploded and killed ninety Chinese. The German gunboat Itlis fired on the Cninese forts at Hobe, presumably be- cause a merchant named Tang, and the former President of the so-called republic of Formosa, was on board with a number of refugee Chinese soldiers. The forts were silenced by the fire of the gunboat. Subsequently the merchant steamer proceeded. The British cruiser Rainbow left this morning for Tamsui. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WORK Secretary Smith Approves Plans for the Next Fiscal Year. Investigations of Great Value to Be Made In the East and West. WASHINGTON, D. C.., June 6.—Secre- tary Smith has approved the plan of opera- tions for the coming fiscal year submitted to him by Director Wolcott of the geo- logical survey. 1In the Rocky Mountain region the Aspen mines of Colorado will be studied and a preliminary survey made of the mining regions of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. This will cost $7000, In the Pacific Coast region J. 8. Diller will use $4000 on the coal and gold mines of Oregon. Three parties will have $3000 to use in California. Eighteen hundred dollars is allotted to keep up the petro- graphic laboratory, $8000 for coal investi- gations in Washington and $9500 for work in the goldfields of Alaska. In the division of hydrography there will be two parties—one in the East and an- other in the West—having respectively $2800 and $1000 to expend. The work con- sists of gauging streams and examining the water resources of the country. In the mining-resource district a register of all the mines in the country will be made and the work of mapping the mineral deposits will be begun. For topographical work the Atlantic re- gion is allowed $40,000 and the Central Rocky Mountain and the Pacific regions $30,000 each. In the surveying department preliminary triangulations will be made in Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Indian Territory. Sl 5 INSPECTED BY MATTHEWS. The Commodors Pleased With the Work at Coast Navy-Yards. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6.—Com- modore Matthews, chief of the bureau of yards and docks of the Navy Department, returned toWashington to-day,having been absent a month inspecting the navy-yards end docks in the South and West. Com- modore Matthews went to Mare Island, Cal., especially to see if the dock at that place could be enlarged so as to accommo- date the heavy warships of the navy. This could be done if the appropriation was now available. The money, however, can- not be used until July 1, and probably the work of enlarging the dock will be com- menced soon after that date. Mr. Matthews thinks there should be a large wooden dock built at Mare Island to accommodate the United States fleets in the Pacific. The commodore visited the new Puget Sound dock and was much pleased with the manner in which work was progressing and expects the dock to be completed in September, STl ADDITIONAL INDIAN POLICE. Captain Beck to Proceed With the Evic- tion of Settlers. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6.—The In- terior Department has granted fifty addi- tional Indian police. to Captain Beck, U. 8. A., acting Indian agent at the Osage and Winnebago reservation in Nebraska, and has requested the War Department to furnish the necessary arms and ammuni- ion to arm them. The increase is to en- :lbol: Captain Beck to evict the illegal ses- tlers on the reservation, who claim title und.er the Flournoy Land Company, and is in line with the recent suggestion of the War Department. PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS. William J. Coombs to Be Government Director of the Union Pacific. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6.— The President to-day appointed William H. Hugh of Ohio as Auditor of the treasury for the Navy Department, to succeed C. B. Morton of Montana, who was removed yes- terday. Edward A. Bowers of the District of Columbia, now Assistant Commissioner- General of the Land Office, is to be As- sistant Comptroller of the treasury to suc- ceed Mansur of Missouri, deceased. ‘William J. Coombs of New York to be Government Director of the Union Pacific Railway vice Don M. Dickinson. Mr. Coombs is an ex-member of Congress, and for two terms represented one of the Brooklyn districts. The President also made the following appointments in the several marine ser- vices: To be second lieutenants: Alexan- der H. Hasson, Colin 8. Craig, Claud S. Cochran, Samuel B. Winegan Jr., James G. Ballinger, Charles E. Johnston, Ed- ward V. Johnson, Samuel P. Edwards, John G. Berry, Francis A. Lewis. To be chief engineers: David McFrench, Frank A. Randall, Horace A. Whitcomb, Wesley J. Phillips, Charles W. Monroe, Frederick E. Owen. To be first assistant chief engineers: Charles A. McAllister, John B. Coyle, George B. Maher, Denis F. Brown. RULING FOR PENSIONERS, Decision as to the Date of the Termination of the Civil War. Questions as to Whether Enlist- ments Were Made for the Vol- unteer or Regular Army. WASHINGTON, D.C., June 6.—Another decision has been rendered by Assistant Secretary Reynolds bearing on the questlon of the date of the termination of the civil war and the pensionable rights of soldiers enlisting in 1865 and 1864. The conclusion reached by Mr. Reynolds is that in all these cases the question to be ascertained is whether the enlistment of the soldier was for service in the war of the rebeliion or for the regular army. If the former he is pensionable and if the latter he is not. Mr. Reynolds cites the varions orders sus- pending enlistments for the war and those ordering the commencement of enlist- ments for the regular army. He says: ‘‘As to these volunteer enlistments in the regular army after the cessation of armed hostilities, it cannot be truthfully said that their enlistment was for the war of the rebellion.” In reference to the decision of the Su- preme Court assigning August 20. 1866, as theend of the war, hesays: “The rea- song, however, which would admit of this holding, where the right of the parties in the cases involved might be affected by the running of a statute of limitations, cannot be accepted to establish the date of termination of the war of the rebellion where the questions involved are whether an enlistment was in fact for the war of the rebellion and the service performed thereunder in furtherance of its suppres- sion.”” The Assistant Secretary, therefore, holds that enlistments in the loyal States after April 13, 1865—when recruiting in them ceased—will not be deemed enlistments in or for the war of the rebellion. In the other States, Territories and the District of Columbia June 1, 1865, will be taken as the final date, as enlistments then ceased in those parts of the country, and July 1, 1865, when the blockade of the Bouthern ports was raised, will be taken as the final date of war enlistments for the navy. _ KILLED IN THE RUSH. A Sad Boomer Returns With the Bodies of His Wife and Child. GUTHRIE, 0. T., June 6.—A sad sequel to the wild rush into tne Kickapoo reserva- tion was viewed in this city yesterday, when a man named Valchester, from Southwestern Kansas, drove through the city en route to his old home, having in his wagon a coffin containing the body of his wife and five-year old child, who were both killed in the rush for claims at the recent opening. In the first wild dash Valchester’s wagon struck a stone and was partly overturned, throwing out the wife and little one, who were trampled to death by a score or more horses. T A Of Interest to the Coast. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6.—FEn- sign Hurlburt has been detached from the naval academy and ordered to the Mo- bican, and Ensign D. W. Wilis from the naval academy to the Thetis. Pensions have been granted as follows: California: Original—Allen Wilson, Los Angeles; original, widows, etc.—Matilda J. Tracy, Lodi; Virginia Milne, Healdsburg. ‘Washington: Increase—Joseph Cassin, Everett: John R. King, Snohomish. —_—— Given a Medal of Honor. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6.—The ‘War Department has granted a medal of honor to Captain Clinton A. Cilly, of the Second Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, now a regiment of Hickory, N. C. On September 20, 1863, on the field of Chicka- mauga, Capeain'Cilly saw a regiment not his own leaving the line of battle. He dashed after it, seized the colors and rode back into battle, followed by the regiment, which afterward did effective work. R Gl Thrown From Ris Horse. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 6.—Robert Stuart, president of the American Ex- change National Bank, was thrown from his horse in Washington Park to-day. His scull was fractured. He is still uncon- scious, but the doctors are hopeful of his recovery. e g R Pardoned by the President. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6. — The President has granted eight pardons to- day. Among those pardoned was Arthur ‘W. Wilbanks, convicted in California of forging United States postal money orders and sentenced on February 21, 1894, to two years’ imprisonment. oo Charter of a Whaleback. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 6.—The Pan- ama Raiiroad has chartered the new whale- back steamer, City of Everett, to carry freight between Panama and San Fran- cisco. s Condition of the Treasury. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6.—To-day’s statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $183,245,566; gold reserve, $99.389,169. e it Burned to the Ground. WARSAW, N. Y., June 6.—The Crystal Company’s works at Saltville were burned to the ground early this morning; loss, $100,000; probably two-thirds insured. SPAIN IS PROTESTING. Objects to the Work of the Alleged Fil- ibusters. e SYMPATHY FOR CUBANS, United States Vessels Are Sus- pected of Carrying Men and Arms. JOHN BULL'S LITTLE GROWL. An English Paper Says Uncle Sam Should Not Assist the Rebels. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6.—Mr. De Lome, the Spanish Minister to the United States, has called the attention of the State Department to allegations that fili- bustering expeditions against Spanish authorities in Cuba are being fitted out in the bayous of the lower Mississippi River. . The communication also “ states that armed citizens of some Southern Btates often paraded with arms with a view to joining some of these outgoing expeditions, or at least to give active encouragement to the Cuban insurrectionists. Some of the statements made covered facts of which the United States Government can take no official notice, and were too meager for political official action. It is believed atthe State Department that there is little truthin the reports which reach here from the South of the fitting out of warlike expeditions for Cuba but should it be shown that expeditions are being organized which come within the prohibitions of international law and our treaties with Spain, there will be no delay in bringing' the parties concerned to justice. It is learned that the Spanish officials are keeping a close watch on several sup- posed expeditionary movements for the purpose of furnishing information on which to request action by the United States Government. One of the expedi- tions is believed to have started from Philadelphia. The suspected ships it is said at the Spanish legation are the George Childs and the Bridgeport. The Spanish officials connect the move- ment of these ships with suspicious opera- tions at Dauphin and Cat Island off the mouth of the Mississippi. It is said these movements are mainly the result of the recent arrivals in the United States of Gen- eral Quesada from Venezuela, who brought a considerable sum of money to aid the Cubans, and another sympathizer who is said to have brought $30,000. JOHN BULL’S GROWL HEARD. The Standard Says Spain Will Not Pay for the Cuban Campaign. LONDON, Exg., June 6.—The Standard to-day contains an intimation to the effect that when the insurrection in Cuba is ended Spain will refuse to pay part of the costs of suppressing it, adding: “There is small pretenseoif concealment on the part of those going to Cuba from the United States, and the authorities must be cognizant of it. The country which claimed and obtained damages from Eng- land on account of assistance given to the South by armed vessels which were al- lowea this country should be the last to allow men to leave her shores and insur- rect against Spain.” SPAIN’'S REINFORCEMENTS. Plenty of Troops to Be Sent to Crush the Uprising. MADRID, Spary, June 6.—Captain Mar- tinez de Campos has sent a cable message to the Spanish Government announcing that several insurgent leaders are expected to effect a landing in Cuba, and owing to fresh disturbances on the islands asks for a reinforcement of six battalions of in- fantry.\ The Cabinet decided to send ten more battalions to Cuba. 1t is expected that in addition to the ten battalions of infantry, another general will be sent to assist Campos in suppressing the insurrection in the island of Cuba. The loan for the Cuban expedition will be 15,000,000 pesetas. HAVANA, Cusa, June 6.—A dispatch from Manzanillo, in the province of S8an- tiago de Cuha, announces the surrender to the Spanish authorities there of the well- known insurgent leader Fonesca Santiste- bar Guevarra. The insurgents commanded by Masso have burned the village of Guisa. Captain Torres was captured by the insur- gents and shot. READY FOR A MASTERSTROKE. Plans for a Grand Filibustering Expe- dition to Cuba. JACKSONVILLE, Fra.,, June 6.— A special. to the Florida Citizer from Fer- nandina, Fla., says: The masterstroke of the Cuban revolu- tionary movement in this country will oc- cur within three days, The principal leaders of the party in the United States gatherea at Jacksonville two days ago, but yesterday afternoon quietly slipped over here, took carriages, and went to Ocean Beach, where they stopped at the Strathmore Hotel. From an adjoining room the Citizen correspondent overheard the whole of the deliberations, which be- gan at 8 p. M. and lasted until a late hour. As appeared from the conversation most of the expeditions hitherto have gone from San Domingo, but the board decided that the next bold effort must b from the United States coast south of Charleston. A fleet of light-draught vessels could go unnoticed through Bahama channel and then at night make short runs for the northern coast of Cuba, where there are many bays easy of access for an expedi- tion and poorly guarded. The plans of the insurrectionists as far as completed were as follows: That as all plans for the carrying of the insurrection in Cuba had heretofore worked most satisfactorily, the eastern part of the island had arisen, the western half was ripe for rebellion, and the Span- ish army being unprepared, therefore had come the time for a tremendous effort, which would carry a great expedition from the United States to Cuba. The consulting boards decided that the expedition should be made ready at once; that it should sail from a point between Brunswick, Ga.,and Mayport, Fla.; that it should be commanded by Colonel En- rigne Collao, the war-scarred veteran of ’68-78, and that the fleet should be guarded by three newly built torpedo- boats of the latest pattern, of great speed and manned by experienced seamen. Lieutenant Tomas Collao is to be the siaff officer, and Colonel Collao’s small the United States and picked Americans from the Southern States. Men already collected by Henry Brooks, who is now in New York City, and who is to accompany the expedition as a member of Collao’s staff, are also to be enrolled. Collao is to lJand the expedition at some point in Puerto Principe, where forces col- lected by Gomez and Marti will co-operate. The expedition is to land in Cuba within thirty days. In addition to this plan of operation much general information was given during the deliberations. The province of Pinas Del Orras has arisen, and the insurgents have made more progress in the present rising of three months’ duration than was made in seven years, commencing - in 1868. It is belieyed that within a’month the whole of the island will be in arms for the Cubansand that Captain-Gen- eral Martinez de Campos is exerting every effort to be recalled to Madrid before the arrival of the disaster which he believes is sure to overwhelm the Spanish armies in Cuba very soon. e — FINANCES OF NEWFOUNDLAND, Trouble Expected in the Hypothecation of Eevenues. ST. JOHNS, N. F., June 6.—It is re- ported that the principal clause in the agreement for the loan which has beén granted Newfoundland through the efforts of Colonial Secretary Bond, provides that the bondholders shall have the first claim on the revenues of the colony. Itispro’, vided that a chartered accountant shall be dispatched here to investigate the finances and supervise the policy of retrencliment as well as overlook all future expendi- tures. The Government, it is said, may have considerable difficulty in obtaining the sanction of the imperial Government in the policy of hypothecating the revenues if these reports are true. RAVAGES OF 4 CLOUDBURST. Houses Swept Away and Many Persons Drowned in Germany. STUTTGART, GERMANY, June 6.—There was a tremendous cloudburst yesterday evening over the Wurtemburg portion of the Black Forest district, causing great destruction of property. The River Eyach overflowed, and many houses at Balingen, Frommern, Dirrenwengen and Laufen were swept away. Ten persons were drowned at Balingen, seven killed at Krommer and nine miss- ing. Seven were killed at Laufen. _— - Macdonald’s Statue Unveiled. MONTREAL, CaNapa, June 6.—The greatest popular demonstration Montreal has seen for years took place atthe un- veiling of 8ir John A. Macdonald’s statue this afternoon. It was the fourth anni- versary of his death. Lord and Lady Ab- erdeen and all the Dominion Ministers were there, except Charles Hibbard Tup- per, leader of the opposition, and Hon. Wilfred Laurier. All foreign powers were represented. e BOMB-THROWER SCHNAUBELT. Wounded During a Fracas and Said to Be Dying. TEGUCIGALPA, Hoxpuras, June 6.— Fugitive Schnaubelt, alias Rindskopf, the man who threw the bomb at the Chicago Haymarket riot, was badly wounded in a fracas at Pinalajo. He will die. — e Struck the Britisher. LONDON, Exc., June 6.—The passen- gers of the steamer City of Paris are talk- ing of a row between Duncan B. Harrison and a big Britisher named Woodward, on the fifth night out from New York. Wood- ward, it appears, insulted Pauline Hall, 2nd when Harrison remonstrated, Wood- ward abused him and Americans gener- ally. Thereupon Harrison struck Wood- ward in the face. Thé latter appealed to Captain Watkins to have the actor put in chains. This the captain declined to do. B0 Skl Bonds for the Syndicate. LONDON, Exe., June 6.—William E. Curtis, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and Chief Clerk Logan Carlisle have been busy to-day at Rothschilds’ banking-house writing bonds to be turned over to the syndicate. They completed their work late this afternoon. Ee South Australia’s Prosperity. ADELAIDE, 8. A., June 6.—At the opening of Parliament to-day the Gover- nor, Sir Thomas Buxton, congratulated the members upon the improving pros- pects of the colony of South Australia. He added that the price of wheat, copper, wool and silver had risen, and that trade generally was improving. ZEE DL Death of Consul Lott. MANAGUA, NICARAGUA, June 6.—Hiram Lott, United States Consul at this port. died to-day. He had been suffering from an affliction of the stomach for five days onty. —————— Six Persons Killed. NIMES, FrANcE, June 6.—An explosion of a boiler at the Lavernardo mine to-day killed six persons and seriously injured three others. WATERPROOF ‘BRICK. Interesting Experiments With Ofl- soaked Stone and Clay. At arecent meeting of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Sci- ence, Professor Liversidge read a paper on the “Waterproofing of Brick and Sand- stone with Oils.” These experiments were made with the view of ascertaining the length of time that brick and sand- stone are rendered waterproof or protected by oiling. The oils used were the three commonest and most readily obtainable for such purposes, namely, linseed oil, boiled linseed and the crude mineral oil known as ‘‘blue oil,” used for preserving timber. The weatherings were made upon a flat portion of the laboratory roof, f; ‘i)l(-,lgexpmed to the sun and weather. Good, sound, machine-made bricks were rimented on. he amount of oil and water taken up by the sandstone was very much less than that absorbed by ihe brick, although the area of the sandstone cubes was much ater than that exposed by the bricks. Eml amounts of the raw and boiled oils were absorbed ; the blue oil, however, was taken up in much greater quantity b; both brick and sandstone, but by the ang of twelve months the whole of the thirteen and a half ounces of bine oil had appar- ently evaporated away, and the hflckm returned to its original weight, but those treated with raw and boiled oils remain unchanged. After the second oiling in November, 1890, and exposure for nearly four years and two months they had practically retained all their oil, inasmuch as they had not lost weight, and were also pract ly ous to water. It was noticeable that the sandstone cubes treated with faw .?dhtho%f:‘{ dous returned to their original weights, 0 not appear to have ‘0’:% t.}lc:lllwneflcul effects ':i &Pe dlu.rbl:ing racti g fervimn water.—Phila- Salpbh - —————— Zangwill’s Other Name. Everybody is not aware of the full name of Mr. L Zangwill, says the Westminster Gazette. Recently a lady, who shared in & NOt UNCOmMMON ignorace, was conversing with the litera: interpreter of the “Ghefi"o." “Mr. Zangwill,” said she sud- denly, ““I don’t think Iknow your Christian name.” ‘‘Madam,” said the novelist, “‘I bave no Christian name, but my other . ex; army is to be recruited from the Cubans in | name is Isaac.” REBELS OF ECUADOR, They Have Possession of the Stronghold of Guayaquil. IGNACIO ROBLES RULES. Proclaimed Military and Civil General by the In- surgents. TROUBLE OVERTHE ESMERALDA ItIs Belleved Thatthe Revolutionists Will Win In a Few Days. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6.—News of the success of the revolutionists in Ecuador came to the Navy Department in a cablegram from Captain Watson of the Ranger, now at Guayaquil. The cablegram is dated at Guayaquil yesterday and reads: “The insurgents have the city. Governor-General Flores has re- signed. Ignacio Robles, Liberal, has been proclaimed military and civil general. Everything quiet at present. Communica- tion with Quito by telegram is inter- rupted.”’ The last statement explains why the State Department has heard nothing of the progress of the revolution from United States Minister Filman, who should have arrived at his post at Quito some time ago. Ecuador has been in a turbulent state for some time past and much dissatisfaction is expressed by the veople generally at the conduct of the Government. This was fomented by the transfer of the celebrated Chilian cruiser Esmeralda from Chile to Japan under cover of the Ecua- dorean flag early in the spring, and since that event there have been several revolu- tionary outbreaks culminating in this last successful attempt to overthrow the Gov- ernment, for it is believed here that if Guayaquil and other principal coast cities Lave fallen into the hands of the revo- lutionists, their complete success will be only a matter of a few days. LEADERS ARE IN PKISON, possession of Arvrest of the Prominent Revolutionists in Colombia. COLON, Corowmsia, June 6.—It is report- ed here that all the leaders in the uprising at Baranquila have been arrested and placed in prison. The first shipment of gold from Colom- bian mines since the revolution has just been made, $1,500,000 now being on the way to Europe TO PRONOUNCE ENGLISEH. Boston Considered by Some a Safe Cri- terion to Go By. Professor Morrison Caldwell presents an able argument for the Southern pronuncia- tion of English. ‘‘Correct pronunciation,’” he says, “isa criterion of culture. To South- erners the culture of the proper pronuncia- tion of many English words is a problem of perplexity, by reason of the fact that Southern pronunciation does not follow the standard universally accepted in the North. Many Souther:iers have adopted the usage of Boston, believing that it is the standard of English pronunciation in both England and America. When we consider tke causes ‘that have contributed to this mis- nfi)prehension. it is somewhat surprisinfi that many more have not been induce: to abandon the accent of their an- cestors. At school the child has placed in in his hands spelling - books, reading- books and geographies, in which every word is marked as pronounced by teachers in the Northern States. Con- scientious teachers attempt to drill this pronunciation into their pupils, under the impression that any other is absolutely wrong. Webster’s dictionary and most spelling-books teach the child that he must pronounce Alabama as though it were written Alabarma, but some geography- makers are not £o arrogant as to assume to change the pronunciation of words local to the South. It has been the misfortune of the South that both the great diction- aries of America in the past were ediled by men whose vo- al chords were attuned to the cold winds of the North. They attempted to nationalize a pronunciation prevailing in one gection of the country, but the, have not succeeded, because they euayes an impossible task. The education of Southerners in Northern schools or by Northern teachers has not been without effect in developing a _dissatisfaction with our Southern pronunciation; nor has the Northern resident failed to becomea factor in the change of the past decade, but by far the most potent cause of this surren- der of our Southern speech on the part of some of our most cul- tured people has been the pub- lication of popular novels, wherein the language of the Southerner is given with & peculiar spelling, to show the Southern indifference to Italian a’s, trilled r's and ng’s, which seem to constitute a holy trinity for the adoration of these authors who bow the knee to Boston, apparently oblivious of the fact that they are caric- aturing the usage of the best educated society of London. It will be charitable to suppose that these critics of Southern speech have been misled by thatancient error that Southern pronunciation owes its uliarity to i lI\Epmrxmce_ and association with negroes. id-Continent Magazine. ————— A Golden Thread. The quintessence of fine art in weaving is accomplished in the making of the threads used in gold lace. It is effected by a process called “‘fiber plating,” carried out in the following manner: A rod of silver is gilded by nimplly presaing and burnish- ing leaves of fo d upon it. This gilded silver1s then drawn through a series of holes of decreasing diameter into a wire so fine that one ounce is extended the length of 1600 yards. It is then flattened between polished steel rollers and further extended, so that a mile and a quarter weighs but one ounce. For this last drawing the wire is passed through ruby dies. The film of gold upon the Hlattened wire is much thin- ner than beaten goldleaf, and has fre- uently been quoted as an example of the 3irisibxlhy of ‘matter, one inch of the wire containing but the eighty-millionth part of an ounce of gold, while one ounce of gold covers more than 100 miles of wire. This flattened gilded wire is then wound over a fine silk thread so as to inclose it com- letely and Frodnoa an apparently golden ?mg 1t is estimated that 250,000 ounces of gold thread are annually gnuh in Great Britain.—Philadelphia Inquirer. An Equine Gardener. Henry Moore, a planter, living near Engle;yuod, Ria) hasea valuable griding horse, K'g:, whiz‘{z hl‘\a hn' trained tohdo light len worl a unique way when ngt on‘ldnty under the saddle. When Kit was quite a young colt he had the misfor- tune to sprain ih knee in racing and romping about the pasture, and to keep him wefl out of harm’s way his master put him in the garden to take things easy till his recovery. Moore’s garden, like the average one in this section, sometimes gets overrun with coco grass, and having occasion to chop it out pretty frequently he hit upon a plan by which he might be relieved of this almost endless work during Kit's confinement. The colt had always seemed remarkably quick and intelligent, and with nverf' little training Moore taught him to pull grass aslcleverly and neatly as it could be done by hand. In a short while Kit was en- gagegl as regular as a gardener, as it were, eeping the beds as clean as the floor, piling “the grass in the walks to be re- moved by barrows.—Philadelphia Times. —————————— A SWAN'S FIGHT FOR LIFE. Its Assailants Were Badly Used Up Before It Was Conquered. One of the finest swans on the exhibition water at the base of Eiffel tower was killed the other night in a dastardly manner by two youths, one of whom is a student of respectable parentage, the other a third- class cafe concert singer, says a Paris let- ter to the London Telegraph. These mis- chievous lads were returning home to Passy from one of the cafes of the Palais des Beaux Arts at an advanced hour, when they saw the swan sleeping majestically on the pond, its beak buried in its feath- ers. They stealthily approached the bird which was near the bank, and seized hold of it. The swan made what has been de- scribed as a gallant struggle for life, as the cruel captors bear on their races, hands and arms cuts and bruises inflicted by its beak and wings, At last the rascals succeeded in dispach- ing the bird by twisting its neck, but its cries attracted the attention of the police- men who were on beat at the Trocadero end of the Jena bridge. Some moments later the swan-slayers went toward the Trocadero,one of them endeavoring to hide the bird under his greatcoat, but_ seeing the policemen advancing toward them, they took to their heels.” The lad who was carrying the swan was caught and the other escaped, but as his address was fur- nished by his companion the commissary of the Muette idstrict arrested him early the next morning. The two are now in the depot, waiting trial in the Police Court. The swan is said to have been valued at £6. The affair bears a good deal of resem- blance to the story related by the late Vil- liers de I’Isle Adam of the man who killed a swan in order to ascertain if it would sing before dying. The splendid fowl killed the other night on the Champ de Mars did not give outa dying song, but it may be said to have@shrieked like a human being while its neck was being twisted and its wings tornoff. The policemen declare that the terrible sounds coming acioss the river from the place where the outrage was com- mitted utterly amazed them for a time. T e —— APPRECIATED THE ADVICE. How a Philadelphian Retorted to a Lawyer's Witticism. A few evenings agoa yer living in West Philadelphia was visited at his resi- dence by an indignant female, who de- clared that she had come fer legal advice, and in a businesslike manner deposited on his table a $5 note as a retaining fee. After pocketing the money the man of law politely requested her to proceed with her statement. She said she was continually aflicted with a series of nuisances which she desired the lawyer to have abolished. She was annoyed by a neighbor on one side, she said, who is a music teacher and trainer of the voice. The constant thump-= ing on the piano and discordant notes of the vocal students made her very nerv- ous. On the other side the neighbor kept chickens, which awoke her early in the mornings by their crowing, and annoyed her during the day by fiying over the fence and invading her premises. Day and night she was made nervous by the noise of the trolley-cars passing her door; organ-grind- ers and pedalers made her life miserable; hucksters added to her misery by calling their wares, and she wanted to know what action she must take in order to be made free of such nuisances. The lawyer reflected a few moments with compressed brow, and then said: “Madam, you are decidedly unfortunate, and my advice to you is that you go to a real estate agent and engage him to secure for you a nice comfortable dwelling in the suburbs of some country village, where the nearest neighbor is a quarter of a mile away, organ-grinders unknown, trolley-cars un- heard of, and where hucksters and ped- dlers do not come.” Realizing that she was $5 out, the female replied: “I'll do as you say, and include among the others that no lawyers must exist in the same county.”—Philadelphia Record. QUEER FISHING. A Big Pike Landed in a Man’s Back Yard. In the phenomenal freshet of the past ten days, with a yellow flood roaring and curling about some of the principal busi- ness streets of the town, many Hartford citizens enjoyed the rare and novel sport of taking fish in their kitchen gardens, in city lots, and sometimes in the public highways. The handsomest catch, prob- ably, was taken by W. E. Smith of Weth- ersfield avenue, who bagged a splendid seven-pound river pike in his back yard, near & line of currant bushes, says the Hartford correspondent of the New York Sun. Although the place is 2 mile and a half from the river, ordinarily, still there was water enough there even for a craft of the ike’s draught, since it was two feet deep; ut what tfie big fellow lacked in Smith’s kitchen garden was seaway. So he splashed about among the brush, tangled himself amid various garden impediments, and finally rolled over on his back in the muddy flood, gasping. Then Mr. Smith waded through his garden es- tuary to the side of the pike, sud- denly flung his arms about him, and after a gallant finish fight bagged him. With the big fellow in his arms, gasping and spluttering and struggling like a wildcat, tge fisherman, streaming with mud an water, dashed into his kitchen and planked his prey on its floor. ‘“There,” said Smith, after he had re- gained breath enough, “drat ye! Fight it out there, now, if you want to.” Yet Smith was not exactly angl'dy nor et precisely pleased, all things considered. any people in his neighborhood had “planked” pike for dinner that day. e Threatened to Bombard Monte Carlo. “Did you ever hear of the naval Yankee who threated to bombard the Casino?” “Never!" “He was captaip of a trading-ship in- trusted with 20,000 francs. Putting in acci- dentally to Monaco, he thought he would visit the gambling-rooms. Allured by the horrible fascination, he ventured a small stake. Like all beginners, he won cou upon coup, until the turn of the tide. He carried the precious notes in his pocket, and, his own money exhatsted, was tempted to borrow from the sacred trust. In a few nightmare hours he found him- self a penniless, ruined and dishonored man. But theold boy didn’t take long to make up his mind. Broad and burly, he presented himself to the ‘Administration,’ |+ and explained the awful state of the case. “Naturally, they refused to refund the money. Then the mariner grew terrible in his despair. ‘Under these circum- stances, gentlemen, life is valueless. I shall go back to the boat and if I don’t re- ceive 20,000 francs within half an hour shall blow out my brains; but beiore send- ing in my check I'll have the satisfaction of bombarding your confounded Casino. I take my oath to that. Good morning !’ ‘‘He was soon busy loading, aiming and lacing his solitary eannon,iut in some- hing under twenty minutes the vessel was hailed 2 wrim employe from head- uarters. ‘Captain,’ said the visitor, po- Iitely, ‘your preparations will be unneces- sa% you can unload. Here are your 20, WRECK OF THE HOUSTON Carr’s Celebrated Suit Is Now in the Supreme Court. Manipulations of the Southern Pacific by Which Share Valuas Were Reduced. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6.—The case of S. W. Carr and others, stockholders of the Houston and Texas Railroad Com- pany, against the present management of that company and various other parties, including the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and C. P. Huntington, which has been before the Federal courts of Texas for the past seven years, has reached the United States Supreme Court on an appli- cation for a writ of error to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circait, made by the original plaintiffs. 3 The basis of the proceeding is the alleged wreckage of the Houston road in the inter- est of the Southern Pacific. The Houston road was organized originally as the Gal- veston and Red River Railroad and re- ceived a grant of land amounting in the aggregate to 5,500,000 acres. The road was absorbed by the Southern Pacific, and it is alleged in the complaint that it was so manipulated as to reduce the value of the stock from 88 cents on the dollar to 12 cents. The lands of the company were sold under a foreclosure, alleged to have been irregular, and at prices which are stated to be far below the real value. The plaintiffs ask to have the decree for the sale of the lands set aside and also pray for other re- lief. The decision of the courts below have been against the plaintiffs. They claim to own $750,000 worth of the stock of the Houston and Texas road. Rise of the Missouri. OMAHA, NeBr., June 6.—For the first time in almost a year the Missouri River is running bank full at Omaha, and is within a few feet of the danger line. Every river in Nebraska is on the point of over- flowing and all bottom lands are flooded. s Directors Declare a Dividend. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 6.—A dispatch was received in this city from Chicago to- day saying that the directors of the Chi- cago and Northwestern Railway Company met to-day and declared a dividend of 14 per cent. e e The Washouts in Colorado. DENVER, Coro., June 6.—The officials of the Union Pacific state that the reports of washouts on the Cheyenne Northern at Iron Mountain are untrue. The recent heavy rain caused nodelays on that line, In the Same Line. I was at the “bargain counter” of a store on Fourteenth .street when I saw a good- looking, well-dressed little woman slip a cake of Soap and a bottle of perfumery into her pocket. She realized that I saw her, but after giving me & glance she pocketed a powder-box, which was among the “marked downs.” I felt it my duty to point a moral, and edging up alongside of her I said: “Don’t you know that is stealing?” “Of course,”” she replied. *“And you take your chances?” “What chances?” “Why, I saw you take the things and could have you arrested for a thief.” “Yes, just so!” she laughed, “‘but as you happen to be on the same lay yourself I'm not afraid! Why don’t you go for one of those cigar-cases?”’—Detroit Free Press. Joy’s for the Jaded ana Good Health for all Mankind. 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