The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 16, 1895, Page 2

z THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1895. VON MOLTKE'S EQUAL, Count von Waldersee the Pride of German Legions. IS THE COMING LEADER. Masterly Generalship Shown in the Maneuvers at Stettin. RESEMBLED A BATTLE-FIELD. Many of the Soldlers Succumbed to the Heat During the Movements. BERLIN, GERMA Sept. 15.—The mili- tary experts who have just returned from participation in the annual maneuvers at Stettin are unanimous in their praise of the masterly generalship of Tount von ‘Waldersee, who reversed the whole pro- gramme and snatched unforseen adyan- tages from the Kaiser himself. The man- ner in which he conducted his part of the operation has confirmed the opinion that he will be the one who will guide the Ger- man armies in the next European war in which Germany shall be a combatant. As a tactician he is about if not quite the equal to Field Marshal von Moltke, and in respect to dash and energy is second to no general that Germany has ever had. In regard to the fighting aunalities of the German troops, the notions formed by the various experts and correspondents differ somewhat, but in the main are favorable. One correspondent says the reserve men during the heat of the movements lay about on the ground making it look like a field of battle strewn with wounded. Dur- ing the climbing of the slopes for an as- sault the men dropped from the effects of the heat as though they had been shot, and the army doctors rode around among them and administered reviving cordials to them. The tary corps unfastened the heavy knapsacks from the fallen men and assisted them to rise to their feet. The men were always full of grit and moved forward as soon as they were able after they had recovered their strength. The correspondent of The United Press, who was present throughout the ma- neuvers, contends that the men stood ihe hardships imposed upon them with won- cerful fortitude, not showing any fatigue worth mentioning. It is true that some of them broke down and lay by the roadside, but these men comprised only a few hun- dred out of 120,000. Of much more serious importarfce was the failure of the horse material under undue exertions. became completely played out, and the horses of the balloon detachment were so overworked that some- times not even the severest whipping suf- ficed to get them up hill. The weight of the gas reservoir also proved too great a strain for the ho: , and this shows the necessity for a radical reform of the mili tary material. Anotber reform affecting the lances, introduced throughout the Ger- man cavalry of late years, seems impera- neces: The lances do good work for a single man sent out to scout in open- ing doors and windows, giving the natives of an occupied.country a wholesome scare and a degree of respect for invading forces during a clearing-up expedition, but as soon as the men work in squadrons the lance comes an incumbrance and a source of danger to both man and horse. The Unite¢ Press correspondent, after col- lecting the views of military experts and comparing them with his own experience during the maneuvers, holds that the Uhlans may continue to use lances, but the Hussars, dragoons and Cuirassiers must be relieved of this hindrance. The infantry tried their new bayonets, which are of triangular shape instead of ped like yataghans, and it is con- latter style proves to be the most useful of any. The new portable tents were a great success. The men like them, as they can be erected without the slight- est trouble. There was a great deal of dissatisfaction, however, with the management of the commisasriat. Numbers of men com- plained that they had nothing to eat for a whole day except a slice of bread. Officers and men alike were sometimes so fatigued that they preferred to go to sleep rather than to remain awake and await the ar- rival of food. The chief commissary re- ceived a decoration, at which he was highly elated, but the other officers of the commissariat were left to indulge in vol- umes of bad language provoked by the clamors of the hungry men. The officers contend, however, that the men are them- selves to blame for not getting more food than they did, and ascribe all their priva- tions in that respect to their perversity. The facilities afforded to the members of the press throughout the maneuvers through Captain Dahms of the general staff bureau were unexceptionable. Every scrap of information asked for by the cor- respondents was given promptly and cheer- fully and with pleasant words. No re- strictions of any sort were imposed upon the revresentatives of the press. Colonel von Lowenfeld of the general staff had the care of the foreign attaches, to whom every attention was shown. Before the Kaiser and Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria parted, the new Aus- trian Cabinet was exbaustively discussed by them. The change inthe Ministry does nct in the least concern the political situa- * tion or affect the Dreibund, but the fact that it practically submerges the Austro German group has ziven a twinge in Ber- lin, especially to the conservatives. Prac- tically, Count Badeni enters office without a programme. Austrian Poles, with anti- democratic leaning, constitute a majority of the Cabinet, so that there is not the slightest chance of a popular extension of the franchise, nor indeed of any liberal re- forms. There is no reason, therefore, why the German conservatives should not wel- come the Badeni Ministry, and probably the Ausiro-German group will decide to accept Badeni. The appointment of Sir Frank Lasseller as British Embassador to Germany is taken as a forecast of Lord Salisbury’s intention to enter into a closer friendship with the Dreibund. The new Embassador is widely known to have German sympathies. He is a cousin of Lord Salisbury, and through marriage is related to the Duke of Devon- shire. Berlin society 1s in expectation of witnessing a brilliant period of receptions under the auspices of the new Embassador, the gayety of the British Embassy having been rather dampened under Sir' Edward Malet’s increasing disposition to curtail the embassy’s hospitalities. XKing Alexander of Servia has ap- proached the family of the Grand Duke of Hesse upon the subject of arranging for his marriage to Princess Sybille of Hesse, and it is understood that his representa- tions have been declined, and he has ap- plied to the Princess Dolgorouki, the Mor- ganatic widow of Czar Alexander II of Russia, who has two unmarried daughters —the Princesses Olga and Catherine--aged respectively 21 and 17 years. The Spanish Government has ordered 30,000 Mauser rifles for the use of the Gov- ernment troops in Cuba. The arms have been ordered from the Lowe Gun Worksin England, The Tageblatt and other Berlin news- papers are making an attack upon a sup- posed intrigue designed to oust Prince von Hohenlohe from the chancellorshtp in favor of Count von Eulenburg. These journals make reference to Poultney Bige- low as endeavoring to work court influ- ences against Prince von Hohenlohe, and declare that his tactless interference, based upon his acquaintance with the Emperor, is not approved in the court arcle. Though nobody regards Mr. Bigelow as of the slightest consequence, the papers aver the matter is worth mentioning, as show- ing to what extent persons may go in meddling with affairs in which they bave no concern. The Hamburg newspapers say that American imports of iron ore must have resulted in losses to the American shippers unless the Westphalian Iron Works, de- ciding to make the European mines more pliable to their desires, have arranged the shipments and are repaying the losses themselves. The shipments, one paper thinks, may yet develop a profit, however, if the experiment proves the utility of American ore for the German basis of steel processes. On the Diamond. CHICAGO, ILL., Sept. 15.—First gams—Chi- cagos 11, 17,2; Lonisvilles 5, 14,7. Batteries— Friend and Donohue, Cunningham and Spies. Umpire—Jevne. Second game—Chicagoes 5, 10, 0; Louisvilles 2,5, 3. Five innings. Bat- —Barker and Kitiridge, McFarland snd Wright. Umpire—Jevne. ST. LOUIE, Mo., Sept. 15.—First game—St. Louis 9, 18, 6; Clevelands 19,24, 3. Batteries— Kissinger and Otten, Wallace and_0'Connor. Umpire—0'Day. Second game—St. Louis 3, 12, 3; Clevelands 8, 13, 1. Seven innings. Bat- teries—McDougall 8hd Otten; Young, Knell and Zimmer, Umpire—0'Day. e P Entombed by a Cave-In. TECUMSEH, NeBR., Sept. 15.—A terri- ble accident was narrowly averted here last evening. Grant Buerstetta, a laborer, was employed at a sand bank near here. He was at work in a cave that.had been dug into the bank when the top fell in, burving him as he stood. R"orkmen rushed to Buerstetta’s assistance and suc- ceeded in getting air to Irim in time to save his_live. It took the men nearly an hour to dig the man out. He was unconscious, but was revived and may recover. s i Fought Twenty-Three Rounds. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 15.—One hundred persons saw a knockout fight at noon to- ay in a grove outside the Western city limits between Jack Ritchie, a local Jight- weight, and Charles Smith, colored, light- weight champion of Arkansas. It took twenty-three bloody rounds to knock the negro out. Ritchie weighed ten pounds less than his opponent, but was much cleverer., S e Sl Shocked by a Temblor. DUBUQUE, Iowa, Sept. 15.—A slight earthquake shock was felt in this city at 3 o’clock yesterday morning during a pause in the violent storm of lightning, thunder, bail and rain. The movement was appar- ently from west to east and wasonlya faint rocking motion. It was-not gener- ally noticed. o Dealers in Medicines Assign. RALEIGH, N. C., September 15.—Wal- lace Bros. of Statesville, N. C., the largest dealers of medical herbs in the world, have assigned. Pressure by certain credi- tors caused the assignment. The indebt- edness approximates $200,000, and is.said | to be fully covered by assets. = Four Aeronauts Killed. BRUSSELS, Brrervy, Sept. 15.—A fatal balloon accident occurred this afternoon at Loschenbeck, near this city. An aeronaut named Toulet and three companions at- tempted to make an ascent and when the balloon was in midair it exploded. The four men were killed. o Grain Destroyed by Fire. BROOKLYN, N. Y., Sept. 15.—Boler & Robinson’s grain elevator and a large stock of grain which it contzined was burned to-day. Loss, $90,000; insured. e nis g tos Mark Twain at Sydney. LONDON, N. 8. W., Sept 15.—Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) has arrived here. IT'S A NIOE SOHOLARLY SHINDY. Professors of the Ancient Languages Have a Falling Out. “There is war in the ranks of the archm- ologists of the Northwest, and the cause was an Assyrian dictionary. Dr. Muss- Arnold of the University of Chicago some two years ago commenced work on a students’ Assyrian dictionary, which was intended to be a great improvement over any then in existence. The book was is- sued in January of this year, but did not meet with the enthusiastic reception which the author anticipated for it. On the con- trary, the journal of the department of Hebrew of the University of Chicago pub- lished a most severe and scathing criticism of the work. The insinuations, not too delicately couched, was that Dr. Muss- Arnold’s work was but a waste of time and energy, in the opinion, at least, of the author of the critique, Professor James A. Craig of the University of Michigan,’’ says the Chicago Inter-Ocean. That Dr. Muss-Arnold was irritated by the general and specific charges brought against his work goes without saying. But Dr. Muss-Arnold” was not satisfied with raging in silence. He rushed into print, and in the Nation of June 6 there appeare an article over his signature which in cold deliberate sarcasm and biting irony outdi completely the unfortunate criticism which had created such a disturbance. He closes his communication with these sentences: The review is ostensibly written by another Assyriologist, who, as my successor in & West- ern institution, took this opportunity to prove to the outside world his great scientific superi- ority. ~Assyriologlsts will see at once the case for this most cold-blooded attack, but the gen- eral reader of the Semitic Journal, unaware of the facis stated, will easily be mislet, The communication touched some of those in high places in a rather tender spot. The first sentence pointed, according to general belief, at a noted archsologist and one who had been intimately associ- ated with Muss-Arnold in his woik. And the matter did not drop ‘here. After a silence of a week, brokengy no retort from Dr. Craig, it was believed that the matter had been dropped and that Dr. Muss- ‘Arnold’s charges had come so near home that no regly would be attempted. In the Nation of June 27, however, an article ap- peared of a very different tenor. After avologizi gufor the whole article in gen- eral, Dr. uss-Arnold retracts all his statements in particular, and ends by say- ing: “I wish to withdraw the slurs im- plied in the use of the phrases ‘ostensibly written’ and ‘cold-blooded attack.’ ’” 7 Was this apology impelled by Dr. Ar- nold’s own conscience or by some stronger power? To those familiar with the de- partment, it seems that a hand may be seen distinctly, and the hand is not that of Dr. Arnold. e —————— A hat is ‘“‘pounced” or smoothed b; means of a machine which polishes the whole surface finely and smoothly with emery paper. Formerly this process was done by hand, the workmen using pumice stone for that purpose. WHERE HEROES MET, Coming Dedication of a New Military Park. ON CHICKAMAUGA FIELD. Picturesque Tract Embracing the Entire Battle- Field. WORKS STILL WELL-DEFINED Imposing Ceremonles to Attend the Opening of the National Reserve. CHATTANOOGA, Texw., Sept. 15— Nearly a third of a century ago the battle- field of Gettysburg was dedicated as a National cemetery. On that occasion President Lincoln delivered an address which was recognized as the philosophy, in brief, of the great struggle then im- pending between the North and South. In this address, in words long since historic, he formulated the doctrine that “this Na- tion, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the peo- ple, by the people and for the people shalt not perish from the earth.” On Thursday and Friday of this week the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Na- tional Military Park will be dedicated with ceremonies no less imposing than those at Gettysburg, made memorable by Mr. Lin- coln’s presence. The time chosen has especial appropriateness in that it is the thirty-second anniversary of the fiercely contested battle of Chickamauga, in many respects one of the most decisive of the war, and one in which American pluck and endurance were shown to the greatest advantage. The Vice-President of the United States will preside. The Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy will by their presence lend official dignity to the occasion. Others present will include all, or nearly all, of the survining ¥ederal and Confeder- ate leaders who participated in the battle. Among these are Ex-Senator Anderson of Nebraska, General H. V. Boynton of Wash- ington City, General Dodge of Towa, Gen- erals Horace Porter and Daniel Butterfield of New York, General Palmer of Illinois, General Gordon of Georgia, General Wheeler of Alabama, Senator Bates of Tennessee, ex-Senator Walthall of Missis- sippi, Governor Roch of Aiabama and Gen- eral 0. O. Howard (retired) of the regular army. The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Park embraces the entire battlefield of Chicka- mauga and the approaches. The area within the legal limits of the park is about fifteen square miles. The approaches in the vicinity .of Chickamauga are mainly roads over which the armies reached the field. Those about Chattanooga lie mainly along the lines of battle. Those over Mount Lookout cross Hooker's battlefield and lie near Walthall’s, while the Crest road along Missionary Ridge follows Bragg’s line of battle in front of General Thomas’ army of the Cumberland and General Sherman’s army of the Tennessee. Nearly all these approaches, as well as the roads within the park, have been built by the Government in the most solid man- ner. Two of the number, the Crest and State roads, are constructed on fifty-foot rights of way. The scenery along a part of this military boulevard is such*as will give the drive a National reputation. ‘When, to these remarkable charms of val- leys, city, river and Bald Mountain, a com- prehensive and distant view of the battle fields of Lookout Mountain, Orchard Knob and Missionary Ridge is added, this drive becomes one that is without a parallel. The Government has acquired the site of Bragg’s headquarters, on Missionary Ridge, and about three acres surrounding it. Among other purchases which it has made in that vicinity is that of Orchard Knob. This wasthe headquarters of Grant, Thomgs and Granger during the battle of Missionary Ridge. Itisan isolated knoll about six acres in extent. The Confederate works and those erected after the Union forces captured it are still well-defined, and the general appearance of the knoll remains unchanged. The old roads, which were those of the battle, have been re- opened and improved, while roads opened since the battle have been closed and abandoned. The first steps in the development ot the Neational Military Park embraced only the battle fields of Chickamauga. This part the project had its origin in a visit to the field seven years ago by Gen- eral Ferd Van Derveere, a noted officer of the army of the Cumberland, and’General H. V. Boynton, at that time the Wash- ington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, who commanded the Thirty-fifth Ohio Regiment at the battle of Chickamauga. In a series of letters to the Commercial Gazette, describing the con- dition of the field and reviewing the cam- paign and the battle, the park scheme was thus suggested. 1t will be seen that from the first the plan differed essentially from that of Gettysburg, where up to that time only the Union lines had been marked. ‘the suggestion was received with such favor in the North that at the next annual meeting of the Society of the Army of the Cumber- land, held at Chicago a few weeks later, a committee of five was appointed to take the necessary steps to .inaugurate a move- ment for the purchase of the ground on which the battle was fought. General Rosecrans, president of the society, ap- pointed as members of this committee General Henry M. Gist, General Charles F. Mandersen, General Russel A. Alger, General Absalom Baird and General Henry V. Boynton. This committee met in Washington February 13, 1889, General Manderson presided. It was agreed to invite such Confederate veterans of the battle of Chick- amauga as were in Washington to unite in forming a Chickamauga memorial associa- tion. This joint conference was held on the following day in the room of the Sen- ate Committee on Military Affairs. Those present were Generals Rosecrans, Baird, Reynolds, Gist, Manderson, Boynton and Colonel Kellogg of the Union officers, and Generals Bate of Tennessee, Cofquitt of Georgia, Walthall of Mississippi, Morgan and Wheeler of Alabama, Wright of Ten- nessee and Colonels Bankhead of Alabama and Morgan of Mississippi. Thus the project grew, enlisting in its service distinguished citizens in the North and South. When the question arose in the winter following, the organization ask- ing Congressional aid for the purchase of the battlefield, General Boynton conceived | the idea of enlarging the scope of the scheme 0 as to embrace the notable fields of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, and the lesser affair of the battle of Chattanooga, and establishing the whole as a National Park, under the control of the Secretary of War. The bill was draWn authorizing the Secretary, through a com- mission of his own selection, to establish the park. It was placed in the hands of General Charles H. Grosvenor, an influen- tial member of the House of Representa- tives from Ohio, who served with signal distinction at Chickamauga and who wasa prominent member of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland. General Grosvenor, who is as active in a legislative capacity as he was on the field of battle thirty odd years ago, championed the measure with characteristic energy. It was referred to the House Committee on Military Affairs and by them favorably reported. It was not until the closing hours of Congress that a unanimous con- sent was asked to call up the measure. A single objection would have defeated the request. None was made. This was the more remarkable when it is remembered that the river and harbor bill, in which every member was interested and which they were desirous to dispose of, was before the House. The bill was read; the House dispensed with the reading of the report of the committee and the measure passed in twenty-three minutes. In the Senate equal consideration was shown to the measure. The sundry civil apuoropriation bill was up when Senator Hawley of Connecticut asked that the park bill be taken up. It was read and passed unanimously. The Senate clerk, General Anson G. McCook of “the fighting Mc- Couks,” who participated in the battle on Lookout Mountain, proved to be a faster reader than the House clerk, and as a result the bill passed the Senate in twenty minutes. It was taken that night to President Harrison by H. Clay Evans of Chatta- nooga, who represented that district in the House, and who was the recent Republican candidate for the Governorship of Ten- nessee. The Presidént promptly signed it, the National park was authorized and an appropriation of §125,000 made available to begin the worl A MODERN MUMMY. The Sultan of Johore Embalmed by a French Doctor. In a white-draped mortuary at the back of 38 Keppel street, Russell Square, a quiet-looking early Victorian red-brick house of exactly similar appearance to hundreds of other houses in red-brick rows in Bloomsbury, the body of his late high- ness the Sultan of Johore is lying em- balmed in semi-state. The house is that of Dr. Charles Bayle, Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, Commandeur de St. Gregoire- le-Grand, a French scientist who hasmadea special study of the art of embalming. When you enter at the street door the faint scent of heavy perfume strikes you and grows less faint as you walk along the hall. Then as a door is opened—you notice that it is painted in the prevailing Blooms- bury tint on the outside and hung with white cloth on the inside—and as you walk down white-carpeted stairs into a chamber built out at the back of the house where once was a garden, the heavy perfume comes at you heavier and more powerful, and separates itself into several distinct and conflicting scents. Before you, hiding something behind it, is'a screen, all white, standing in a room | of which the walls and ceilings are covered | with white and the floor is carpeted with white, seen in a white, soft, subdued Iizht] coming from a skylight veiled with white | cloth. The screen hides evergthi_ng in the room but its ghostly self, and, high up on | the white hangings of the opposite wall,| the crescent and star of the East in dall red that thrusts itself out from the white like a moaning in the night. The dim whiteness of the room, the heavy perfumes, the somber touch of red tell quite as plainlv what it is that lies be- hind the screen as could black velvet and | silver, burning tapers, and the damp scent 5 of dying flowers. room on & low trestle bed, white-draped, | the dead Sultan lies, to all appearance calmly and peacefully asleep. Dr. Bayle’s balsams have changed death into sleep, and he lies with his gray mustache and wévy hair and his_black-arched eyebrows, his "handsome soldierly, dusky features smoothed and softened, and with his eye- lids lightly closed i the calm and perfect repose which easy slumber brings to the face of the man of the world. He looks ex- actly asone who knew anything of the Sultan would expect him to look in sleep. On his breast there lies a bound manu- script_copy of the Koran, and under it, placed there'by the priest in accordasice with some custom or belief, a pair of scis- sors. On the white floor at the side of the bed are three large paper bags of perfume —one of rosemary, one of patchouli, and the other of rose leaves. The rosemary is for remembrance as well as for its pungent odor, and, perhaps, besides their strong perfumes, the patchouti and the dried and crumpled rose leaves may have their mean- ings. The wonderful triumph over decay has been effected by Dr. Bayle’s system of arterial injection. But not that system only has been carried out. In the Oriental system of embalming the body is eviscerated and the organs removed and purified. In the old days they knew no other way, and what they did in the old days is, according to Eastern ideas, the only decorous thing to-day. Sothe doctor has taken out the In the middle of the |. MR, DEPEW ABROAD, \ The Famous Diner-Out Tells of European Experiences. SEDAN DAY IMPRESSIONS Germans, He Says, Are Ready for War With France on Any Pretext. AT THE SHRINE OF LOURDES. Puzzled by the Miraculous Heallng of an Invalid in the Holy Grotto. NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—Chauncey M. Depew arrived from Europe last night on the steamship Paris. In an interview to- day concerning his vacation trip he had the following to say: ““We arrived at Southampton at the close of the elections in England, after the smoothest of passages on a summer sea. The progress of American methods in the old country is extraordinary. They say we have already ruined their weather. Five years ago the London newspapers sent me a letter politely requesting the appointment of a time convenient to my- self when a representative might call, and afterward submitted proofs. Three years ago reporters called and sent up their cards, but asked few questions, principally about American securities. This year the steamer landed at 5 o'clock in the morn- ing. At 6 I went down to breakfast, to find a reporter by my chair, saying in the well-remembered New York way, ‘Are yeu Mr. Chauncey Depew? Well, then, I want & column upon these subjects, upon which I am instructed to get your views.’ ““There were a dozen questions, covering the elections, finance, industrial prospects and the policies of parties. It was impos- sible not to recognize and respond to such a touch of home. The inierview, in whole or in part, appeared in all the English pa- pers. In one respect the questions were interesting and showed the development of the American in England with social ambition. The interview gave the Anglo- maniacs ihe opportunity and they im- proved it in the press, at dinners and in the drawing-rooms. “One of these questions was, ‘What is the American idea of home rule, and how generally are Americans of one mind on that subject?” My answer was substan- tially that home rule is the cornerstone of our institutions, and our people are practi- cally unanimous on that subject; that there néver had been any divisions among us as to home rule for Ireland, and we could not understand the real or manufac- tured fears of the adoption of the policy leading to the disruption of the British empire. On the contrary, we thought the adoption of the federative principle would benefit England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the colonies; that we were heartily in favor of English-speaking people leading the world, and willing that the British em- pire should have a first place in the affairs of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, but that we would neither consent to nor per- mit the control or occupatian by a Euro- pean power of the republics of America. ‘‘The excitement in the South Africa gold mines equals the wildest speculation in Colorado or California booming times. Both London and Paris are crazy. One of the best informed bankers in Europe told me that 100 men had pocketed in cold cash within the past year $500,000,000 by the sale of stocks or shares of these companies. The money had come from the confiding British Government and the usually cautious French. Forty millions of it was won by a man who went to the Cape as a jugglerin a circus and is now climbing rapidiy the social ladder. The stocks are constantly rising in price and, of course, capitalization, and at a not distant day the bubble will burst, scattering ruin more widely than has been experienced for a generation, ““After leaving London I went to Lu- chom, in the Pyrenees, where some of my family were staying. “I was in Germany on the 25th anniver- sary of the victory of Sedan. The celebra- tion reminded me of the rejoicing with us after the surrender at Appomattox. Pal- aces and cottages, stores and houses were alike covered with flags, and the bunting obscured the sky. Processions, music, illuminations and every form of .popular w were universal. The enthusiasm was I and contagious. It developed a deep- seated national and almost passionate desire for war with France now and on any pretext to settle forever the possession of Alsace-Lorraine ana to so cripple the internal organs, washed and cleansed them, applied his preservative treatment to them separately, and then replaced them in their proper positions. But that was only to satisfy the ideas of the Sultan’s court as to what was right and in order. Still it was not necessary ; it was not scien- tific, Dr. Bayle says. Z Four pints of the preservative fluid, of which he holds the secret, forced through the arteries by air pressure would have sufficed. ““You see,’’ he says, ‘‘the body is already beginning to dry; the hand be- comes to be a piece like of wood; the foot it is the same; the face I treat it in a differ- ent way, 8o as to keep it the appearance of softness; but you shall see that ear; it is already like a piece of leather.”” The ear looks warm nng soft and natural enough, but when you touch it it is_set stiff and hard. The legs are bound tightly around with strips of cloth, and another goes under each instep, keeping the feet in position. - In a day or two the bindings will be var- nished, and then all will be ready for the sleeping Sultan to be put in his coffin with the rosemary and the patchouli and rose leaves on top of him. ‘“And those bandages are not removed when the embaiming is complete?”’ the visitor aske “Those bandages,”’ said the doctor, “shiall be removed never.” Never is a lon time. The Sultan—his full name was Tunkoo Abubikr bin Ibrahim, known as Abu Bekar, Sultan of Johore, or more correctly the Tumongong—died officially on Tues- day, the 4th of June, 1895. That was the day on which his Ministers and court, having in the meantime, no doubt, taken the necessary precautions as to affairs in Johore, finally abandoned all hope of his beiugomlly still alive. On that same day the body was taken to Dr. Bayle, and there were then present indications that higy death bhad tagen place quite a week earlior. The embalmed body will remain where it 18 for two months longer, and then the Sultan will go back to Johore to be buried in the tomb of his fathers.—Pall' Mall Gazette. French that they would no longer be a menace to the peace of Germany, and that her military - establishment “might be reduced. “Being in Lourdes while in the Pyrenees, Ipaid a visit to this world-renowned shrine. The village church stands on a hill and on one side is a precipice running down to the river about 200 feet. At the bottom is a grotto about 100 feet deep, irregular and rough in shape. The legend of the place is that in 1858 the virgin appeared to a child in this grotto with promises of heal- ing the sick and a fountain burst forth, the waters of which have miraculous power. Alongside the grotto is a bathing place with four bath tubs filled with icé-cold water from the spring. Into this the patients are plunged, no matter what their disease or de(onnng. I was told 1200 peo- ple were dipped during the day I was there. They are plunged into dv;e water and instantly taken out, under con- stant and loud supplications for their heal- ing. ‘At night the sights are wonderful. They carry torches and sing hymns, marching over the winding roads. ‘Other thousands are on their knees in the space in front of the 6rono, praying, singing and imploring the Virgin for help. Hundreds upon hundreds of candles flicker and glare in the grotto and send a weird light upon the white-robed statue of the Virgin which stands just above. In theafternoon a vast procession forms at the grotto and marches along the river, turning into the plaza as it passes the point where the road rises from the plain upon the arches to the church. 4 *On one side of the plaza were placed in a row some hundreds of light wagons, each holding an incurable sufferer. The sicht of these helpless and, except b miracle, hopeless men, women and chil- dren in every stage of distortion, or living death, is affecting beyond words to ex- press. As the head of the procession reached the first wagon the priest elevated the host before the patient. Another priest cried out: ‘O, Lord, help this sick onel’ The hundreds'of priests and 5000 pilgrims repeated the cry in unison. In one of the recent public school ex- aminations in New YorEChy the pupils were directed to write what they knew about Columbus. One little boy handed in the follo.winfg:z “Christopher ~ Columbus was born in 1492. Tn 1776 he wandered off into the woods with a hatchet, and was never heard of again,” “Again, louder and with tremendous gu:ion and energy, he cried: ‘O, Lord, eal this sick one!” the crowd taking up the invocstion as before, As the proces- sion moved down the line of wagons, halt- ing and re‘genln this snpfliuflon before each one, the excitement became painful in its intensity, The patients grew fren- zied with anxiety and hope. The coolest and most indifferent man in the world would not have remained unmoved. “As I was crossing the plaza after this scene, from one of the dispensing wagons I heard my name called. The wagon was occupied by a lady, and was drawn by her son, a student at the college of physicians and surgeons in New York. Both had recognized me, having heard me speak in New York. She said that the doctors at home had told her that science and skill could do nething for her, and she must make herself as-comfortable as possible until the end, which wasonly a few months off. She nad come to Lourdes with faith and hope. I asked the grounds of her hope and she said: ‘A miracle was per- formed this afternoon before your eyes. Did you not seeit? That was the cause of great excitement.” “This was her story: A young girl who was staying at the same hotel as the lady did, had been unable to_walk -or put her foot to the ground for six years. She had suffered frightful pain, and screamea in agony when diEPed into the icy water. She had been sick six years, and after the procession passed that afternoon had called out that she wascured. I said to to the medical student, ‘What do you know about this?’ He said that he had seen the knee bandages at 12 o’clock that day. Itwasswollen badly and he counted twenty-eight running sores. I told him that must see that girl. The pilgrims were mobbing the verification room, to which she had been taken, to see or touch her, and the attendants were doing their best to keep them out and get them away. My medical guide, with true New York audacity, called out: ‘The distinguished doctor, Chauncey M. Depew, wants to see the patient.’ “Instantly a way was cleared, and in few minutes I was inside. The girl was not there, having been carried home to escape the crowd. There was an English doctor there, and I appealed to him. He said that he had dressed the leg at noon. It was swollen, suppurating and incura- ble; that he had cut the bandage off a half hour before, and the leg was nealed and the girl could walk, and he showed me the cut iandnge. Ithen insisted thatI must see the girl. ‘“About 8 o’clock that evening my stu- dent acquaintance eame to my hotel with a message that she and her friends would be glad to see me. My son and I started off instantly. I found a young rady about 17 years old, with a sweet, innocent, happy face. She told her Istory substantially as I had heard it, and that she had been un- able to walk a step for six pears. I asked her if she could walk now, and she went several times around the room, limping some, but with no apparent pain. I then ventured to request a sight of the knee. Her friends said certainly. “The knee seemed quite normal. The flesh and muscles were firm and natural. Black spots marked the places where the running sores had been, but the sores were healed and healthy skin was over them. I have little faith in modern mira- cles, but this case puzzied me. Of course, its weak point, so faras I am concerned, is that 1 did not see her before the alleged cure. The testimony, however, of the New York medical student, cf his mother and of the English doctor was clear and positive. They might have been deceived, or tried to deceive me, though neither seems probable. “For many vears the press, on my re- turn home, has wanted my experiences, and certainly I never had a more remark- able one to relate, and I leave the case ;vilth my friends just where I found and eft it.”’ ;. COLD BLUFFING ON BOTH SIDES. The Chicago Style When Young Women Meet in Restaurants. They were leisurely enjoying an excel- lent luncheon at a fashionable restaurant and discussing their private affairs with the freedom which publicity gives. “How awiully interesting,” said the tall blonde when the other girl had finished telling her, at great length, just why she and Fred arrived so late at the Van Duzen {icuic; “Do take another ice; you know his is my treat.” “I believe I will have another, but it isn’t your treat, it’s mine.” “No, it isn’c; you paid the carfare down.” “But yon treated to cream soda.” 4 know, but I mean to pay for this.” “Indeed you shall not, I—" “Well, we shall see. How good these ices are. Do you know Ethel really made that pink gown herself and only sewed Mme. Fink’s name into the waiscband ?” “You don’t say so! Why, there is Susie Fisher yonder. I wonder who paid for her luncheonto-day; that girl is a regular sponge.”’ “Isn’'t she? Don’t look at her; she is capable of coming over here for another ice, and I'm tired of always treating her and never—"’ “‘But this is my treat, you remember,” “It isn’t, at all; it’s—’ “Mine. ' shall be really offended if you pay—’ “You won't at all. Here comes the waitress with the checks; see me catch her eye.” “She sees me; here she comes—no, she’s going over to that table. Do you really think this veil becoming?” “Awfully! But if I had your lovely complexion I'd wear a thinner one. Oh, here is the wfitress! Mind you give both checks to me.” “Do nothing of the kind; you remember that I gave the order—" “That makes no difference; I insist—" *“Noj; it’s my turn, and—" “Give it to me, do.” “No, she won’t. I've made up my mind to pay, so you—why, Susie Fisher, is that you! I never saw you come in. Why didn’t you come over and Junch with us, you mean thing?” “Why, Laura, when I saw you an hour ago you said you had only eleven cents in our purse, so I don’t know how vou could lunch here. I couldn’t have done it my- self, but Myrtle brought me.” *Oh, well, Sadie.” “Oh, excuse me for interrupting, but I've a message for fou, Sadie, and I'm afraid I'll forgetit. I met your mother on State street a while ago, and she said if I saw you to tell you that your pocketbook is safe at home on_your bureau, where you left it, and it was lucky that you put your carfare in your glove. Hurry up, now, girls, pay your checks and come along; I want to go. Why, how queer you both look; I haven’t interrupted a confidential conversation, have 1?”’—Chicago Tribune. e A Miser's Hoard in Danger. A fire occurred yesterday morning 1n Croydon, which created considerable inter- est in the locality. Shortly after 1 o’clock a policeman on duty in Grant road discov- ered that the residence of a Mr. Jones was on fire, and it was with great difficulty that he aroused the inmates, the occupier and a female servant. When the firemen ar- rived the flames had got a firm hold, and it was as much as Superintendent Thomp- son could do to get Mr. Jones to leave the burning premises. At the earnest request of Mr. Jones, who is stated to be a man of eccentric character, the firemen entered the rear of the prem- ises and succeeded in saving a quantity of monev—gold, silver and copper, said to be the accumulated hoardings of years. The money was tied up in stockings and hid- den away in coal-scuttles, jars and other curious places. It filled several firemen’s helmets. Jones, who had been taken to an adjoining house, was the picture of ab- ject desgnr, but on seeing that most of his money had been saved me very ex- cited.” At the suggestion of a friend he ;eneromlv presented the firemen with four shillings, to_be divided among them. ‘When the fire had been got under con- trol and the firemen again entered the fremlsea they came across a curious col- ection of rubbish—hairpins, beer bottles, skeletons and rabbit skins—collected by Mr. Jones in his rambles. At daybreak an examination of the debris disclosed the fact that Mr. Jones had been the possessor of a veritable museum of antiquities, and that he was a num ‘smatist of no mean or- der, as well as . philatelist. Carefully arranged in various parts of the room were innumerable curios in the shape of a human skull, shells, bones, eggs, many hundreds of rare books an.dupostage stamps by the thousand.—Pall Mall Gazette. FIGHTING THE FLAMES Fires Still Raging in the Cranberry Bogs of New Jersey. GREAT DAMAGE DONE. Some Property in the Path of the Conflagration Saved by Back-Firing. RACED THROUGH THE BLAZE. Thrilllng Ride of a Party Sent to Check the Work of De~ struction. WATERFORD, N.J., Sept. 15.—A ter- rific fire is destroying thousands of acres of Cedar swamps near here to-night. This is the fire that has been burning in the Jackson Meadows for the past two weeks, and which had burned at least $60,000 worth of property. This morning a forty- mile-an-hour wind drove the fire into the Big Cedar swamps and toward the Burns Mill cranberry bog, a mile from here. Residents, with a big gang of Italians, drove out in wagons, and are still fighting the flames. By back-firing from the Atco branch of the Jersey Central Railroad they saved the Collins cranberry bogs, but the fire has now stretched into the big swamps from Jackson to Atsion, a distance of ten miles. Just before noon the teams with which the fire-fighters drove to the scene came near being burned, and it was only by gul- loping through the suffocating smoke that they were saved. Cinders fell in Cedar Brook, seven miles away. To-pight it was learned that the out- buildings on Isaac Hartford's place were destroyed, and oue [talian from this place has been missing since 5 o'clock. E.Z. Collins, an extensive cranberry-grower, is here with a big gang trying to save his bogs. Food is being conveyed in wagons to the exhausted men, who have been fighting the fire all day. PLEASANTVILLE, N. J., Sept. 15.— The villagers of Bakersville and Bargain- town, who were threatened by extensive fotest fires last night, have been saved by gangs of men working all night and to- day setting back-fires, Some valuable cranberry bogs were burned. Another fire started at 4 o’clock this afternoon four miles above here, and is now sweeping toward McKee City, which seems to be in imminent danger. A Small Boy’s Spanking. Only four persons saw it, but it wasa sight those four will not forget while life lasts. Not more than a fortnight agoa woman who lives in Georgetown came over to spend the day with a friend in an enor- mously tall apartment-house. She brought | her little three-year-old son with her. It | was a hot day and the two women with the | boy went up to the roof garden. Some- thing distracted the mother’s attention for a moment, and in that moment the baby had clambered to a chair, thence to a rustic table, and as the mother turned was just walking along the parapet’s edge. A divine Provi- dence kept both women from startling him by a scream. He ran along the edge of the | sickening height Iml;ihing and waving | his hands. k Nobody knows how long it was. Itseemed a lifetime. The mother dared not approach, for at every movement on her part the ventnresome little midget ran away, and called her to catch him. He would not be coaxed to come down, but finally he yielded to a bribe, and climbed down. And did the mother faint? Well, no, she didn’t. Her hair didn’t turn whit2, either. She simply took the 1fttle boy into her arms without a word. She held him close to her for a long time and then—well, she turned him over her knee and spanked him.—Washingtou Post. In Early Fall There is danger to health in the suddem changes of temperature, and from the dis- ease germs which result from decaying vegetation. The sysfem needs to beinvig- orated and the blood kept pure in order to resist these influences. The best blood purifier and building up medicine is Hood's Sarsaparilla It makes rich red blood, gives a vigorous appetite, stimulates the digestive organs and builds up the whole system. ’ 3 act harmoniously with Hood’s Pills i Hood’s Sarsapari O YOU WANT TO BE STRONG? MOST men do, and few men are as strong as they ought to be. The trouble is all from past in- discretions, excesses, dissipation. 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