The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 14, 1896, Page 4

4 WHITTIER GIRLS CRUELLY FLOGEED, Cat-o-Nine-Tails Used by the Reform School Attaches. LASHES ON BARE FLESH. ‘Brutal Punishment Said to Have Been Meted for Trivial Offenses. -MRS. MITCHELL'S ACCUSATIONS. Charges of Mismanagement Seemingly Borne Out by a Partial Investigation. LOS ANGELES, Car., July 13.—The in- vestigation into the conduct of the Whit- tier Reform School, begun ‘by order of Governor Budd, at the request of Mre, John W. Mitchell, one of the trustees, is not completed. So far ornly the girls’ school has been looked into, and the prevalence of a most brutal form or flog- ging has been disclosed. It is alleged that at one time last sum- mer one of the attaches re- moved the clothing of a 17-year-old girl and beat her with an overshoe because of some trivial offense. The usual method of flogging is to make the girls strip, and | then with a leather ‘*‘cat,” such as was formerly used in the navy. from ten lo} fifty lashes are given on the bare flesh. | The thongs are dipped in water to make them sting more. { The charges against the mlnagament‘ include a waste of money in permitting | the superintendent to purchase large| amounts of supplies and clothing in the | open market. Enough has been shown, | it is declared, to indicate the need of a | change in the administration of the school. The board of trustees of the Whittier Reform School did not meet to-day, as bad been expected. Copies of the testi- mony in the recent charges were delivered | to each member. Just who will pass on the charges cannot bpe stated. Mrs. Mitchell believes it will be Governor Budd, while others say the board will vote | on the matter. The board will not meet until Professor Keyes, the new member, returns from the north. T DECLARES THE NOTE INVALID. Mrs. Louise Jones Repudiates a $10,000 | Debt to @ Former Servant. LOS ANGELES, Cai, July 13.—0ld Mrs. Louise Jones has just learned, so she claims, that her name is unlawfully at- tached to a $10,000 note in favor of Mary Edna Osborne, her former housemaid. i Mrs. Jones has brought suit to have the | note declared void. The case presents some very unusual | features. It is not claimed that the note is a jorgery, but that 1t wasobtained in a fraudulent manner, Mrs. Jones cannot tell when or bow. The note reads: September 26, 1895—§10,000. On demand I promise (0 pay Mary Edna Osborne or order ten thousand dollars, value received, with in- terest at 5 per cent. (Signed) M. Lovise JoNes. The nate is indorsed by Mary Edna Os- borne to John C. Bewley. The defendant is a young woman of commonplace appearance and wears glasses. Mrs. Jones told how she em- ployed Miss Osborne as a sort of norse- | maid and -éreed to give her $30 a month | as wages. She remained in the family for | several months and was very well liked | until the note materialized. "'With refer- | ence to the note Mrs. Jones said she bad | no recollections of ever having signed such an instrument. There was no reason why she should sign one. Mary Edna had | no claim on her beyond the wages that | she had earned and every month the! amount agreed upon was paid to her. e LEGA4L FIGHT FOR AN ISLAND. The Lowly Sovereign of Whalers to Be Deprived of His Kingdom. LOS ANGELES, Can, July 13.—An original and unique proceeding was insti- tuted here to-day in the United States courts by Federal Attorney Dennis to dis- possess Antone J. Silva, who has for a long time held peaceable possession of Whalers Island, off the San Luis Obispo coast. | Bilva, who is a lone fisherman, has been warned time and again by the Federal authorities to quit the island, but has steadfastly refused to do so. Siiva claims the island by right of squatter sovereignty. The island is wanted by the Government 2s a site on which to construct. a light- house, and the plan isto remove the island king before beginning the work. The com- vlaint sets forth that Silva has unlawful possession of this bit of Uncle Sam’s domain. Just what kind of a defense Silva will make is problematical. He wiil be served with a summons in the action to-morrow. Damages in ‘the sum of and the costs of the sait, besides-the resti- tution of the island, is asked by the United States. PIRRIATIY QUEER DUEL AT ANAHEIM. The Challenging FPrincipal Fights With an Empty Revolver. LOS ANGELES, CaL., July 13.—A shoot- ing affray yesterday afternoon in the west- ern part of Anaheim resulted in the wouhding of Francisco Ruis by Santos Carisosa. The men. have long been ene- mies. Ruis went to the dwelling of Cari- sosa yesterday and called him out, daring him to mortal combat. Carisosa accepted the challenge. Simultaneously they drew their weapons and began firing. One of the five shiots from Carisosa’s pistol pene- trated the fleshy part of Ruis’ left:thigh, inflicting & wound that may prove serious. Both were arrested b, ({omubh&mn and Marshal Stedman, but as Ruis was clearly the aggressor Carisosa was re- leased on. his own noo(nlnnoe. The strangest part of the affair is that it was founa that Ruis’ loaded, and he was pnll!n%‘tho trigger in vain when he attempted to slay Oarisosa, Sknpias et Broiled by Ol Sol. LO8 ANGELES, Cav., July 18.—Owing largely to the bumidity of the atmosphere and the sbsence of sea breezes this has been one of the most oppressive days ever experienced nere. The sun rose in an un- clouded sky and there was not a breath of pistol had not been | air stirring, Th s A, 85 0 o’clock and 88 deg. at 12 M. For three hours this afternoon busi- ness was almost at a standstill owing to the heat. i ¢ —_— ¥ We ly Burned, LO8 ANGELES, CaL., July 18.—Littlé Roy Hazel, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hazel of 520 West Seventh street, died at 9:30 o'clock this morning from the effects of burns received yesterday by ing in contact with a gasoline lamp. "i'on?tl:'zhsr and mother are heartbroken over the loss of their only child. SANTA BARBARA'S MYSTERY. Unavailing Efforts to Identify the Bloody Clothing Found Near the Rich- ardson Villa. SANTA BARBARA, Cair, July 13.— Every effort has been made to-day to identify the bloody shirt found yesterday in a pasture near the Richardson place, but so far without avail. The measure- ments of the shirt and overalls correspond exactly to those of Cyrus Barnard's gar- ments; but his step-mother insists that he never wore any of that pattern. The discovery of a large water trough within thirty feet of the place where these garments were found explains the mur- derer’s choice of & retreat and hiding- place for the discarded garments. He could easily have taken a bath there and removed every blood-stain from his person before seeking his home. f Mrs, Ayvala, who lives in Montecito, con- tributes the tardy testimony that she rec- ognized Barpard standing in the road above the Richardson place at 9 o’clock on the night Mrs. Richardson and her daugh- ter were slain. A witness swears to have seen him on Figueroa street in Santa Bar- bara at 8:30 o’clock. He could not have been at both these places at the hours named and have covered the distance be- tween by walking. Will a witness come forward and testify that he gave him a ~lift” on the way? Mr. Peterson to-day commenced tearing down the little house in which Barnard and bis stepson dwelt, and where he met his death. It is useless to preserve it, as no ore wouid accept it for a chicken roost. Yet it is a trim little cabin, neatin appear- ance and oonveniently fitted up for a bachelor's modest dwelling. No word bas come of the mysterions stranger whose tracks were followed over the Romero trail to the Santa Ynez River on Monday morning, and then doubled up and down the river in such an unaccount- able way. BB Sl DEATH AT SACRAMENTO. Attorney Van Fleet Succun bs to Injuries Feceived While Sleep- Walking. SACRAMENTO, Cawn, July 13. — At- torney Frank T. Van Fleet died this after- noon from injuries reqgived by falling from an upper window of his residence in this city at an early hour last Saturday morning while he was walking in his sleep. Van Fleet was a young attorney, highly respected in this ¢ He was born in Monclova, Ohio, in , and was educated in the high school in Toledo. He was married and admitted to the bag in his native State, and 1n 1892 came to Sacra- mento, becoming a partner of A. C. Hink- son, one ot the present Judges of the Su- perior Court of this county. Van Fleet was a brother of Supreme Justice W. C. Van Fleet, who had been constautly with him since the accident. He is survived by a widow and three children. —_—— NORTHERN PACIFIC AFFAIRS. Judge Hanford Accepts the Resignation of the Old Receivers. SEATTLE, Wask., July 13.—The resig- nations of Oakes, Rouse and Payne, consti- tuting the old receivership of the Northern Pacific Railroad, which has been “hung | up” by the court since last October, were | to-day accepted by Federal Judge Hanford { and their sureties released. The action was taken by the filing of a stipulation signed by Silas W. Petitt, general counsel of the company, and Turner, McClure and Ralston, the attorneys for the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, setting forth that the old receivers had turned over all moneys and made satisfactory settlements of accounts. Judge Hanford also gave the Northern Pacific 3 judgment against the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad for $1,258,690 63. et s sl Fraser Valley Floods. VANCOUVER, B. O, July 13.—High water is still doing sericus damage in the Fraser Valley. The tides are making great inroads on Maria and Seabird islands. At Nicomen Island a number of settlers have become so discouraged that they have removed to other localities. Ou the highroads at Matsqui cattle belonging to those who have had their low-lying ranches inundated are roaming. On the Mission-Sumas branch of the Canadian Pa- cific Raiiway the trabsferring of pas- sengers, baggage and express is done on Matsqui Prairie, where for a distance of two miles the water is almost six inches higher than the roadbed. The transfer 1s made in boats. The water is subsiding very slowly. Gains Citizenship at Visalia, VISALIA, CAw., July 18.—Maria Muller was to-day admitted to citizenship of the TUnited States by Judge W. W. Cross, upon the recommendstion of Lorenzo Menne and Patrick Agan. On March 9, 1887, her husband, Joseph Muller, filed his declara- tion of intention of becoming a citizen of the United States, but he died on March 26, 1894, before he was naturalized. Upon this ground and under the laws of the United States enacted in 1802 and 1804, Judge Cross allowed Maria Muller to be- come a citizen of the United States with- out being required to follow the usual course. —_———— Spokane Railway Sale. SPOKANE, Wasu., July 13,.—~Thé Wash- ington and Idaho Railway, extending from this city to Ceeur d’Alens, a distance of 156 miles, was sold under foreclosure at Tekoa, Wash., to-day to the reorganization committee of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company for $1,615,740. This completes the purchase of all branch lines of the Onfion. and the plans of reorgan- ization will now be rapidly completed and the recsiver discharged. g, Suicida at Tres Pinos. HOLLISTER, CaAL., July 13.—After in- flicting eleven knife-wounds over his heart without killing himself, Thomas McGowan cut his throat at the Bouthern Pacific Ho- tel in Tres Pinos last might. He had been intoxicated and is supposed ts have com- mitted the act while delirions. He was & saloon-keeper. S Madera Pastor Near to Death. MADERA, CAL., July 13.—Rev. James F. Logan, pastor of the First Christian Chu: of Maaera and lately of Stockton, was stricken by -poplnx{.t is afternoon. His condition’ up to a late hour'to-night was considered dangerous. ks Forest Fires on the Cascades. SEATTLE, Wasn., July 13.—Forest fires are ragilgz in the Cascade Mountains for miles on eitherside of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Great damage has been done to timber, and at times the flames threatened trains passing over the mountains. s Fresno Woman Burned to Death. FRESNO,” CaL., July 13.—Mrs. H. B. Choice was fatally burned at her home in this city this evening, She upseta kero- sene lamp, and an explosion followed. A Maine Eat Story. . Tuesday afternoon, when Fred Sweet. land came home, he found his son’s wife sitting on the doorstep mourning the loss of ten little chickens which she believed 1o have been carried off by arat, When her husband came home he found the rat’s hole in the yard, dug into it & piece, and then fired into it with a revoiver. Upon opening the hole he found he had blown a big rat to pieces. He aiso found several of the chickens dead with their heads eaten off b*nu rat and three of the chickens alive. They were removed and cared for, and Friday they were just as lively as crickets, and i'ndln( it as though they had not been bereaved of seven bro and sisters.—Rockland * - THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1896. (FARCHILD TALKS EOLD AT SPOKANE The Former Secretary of the Treasury Not a Bimetallist. HIS PARTY IN ERROR. Free Coinage, He Says, Would Not Increase the Circulat- ing Medium. TRUE FUNCTIONS OF MONEY. Used Only in Small Dealings and Confidence Brings It From Hiding-Places. SPOKANE, Wass., July 13.—Hon. Charles 8. Fairchild, Secretary of the Treasury under Cleveland during his first administration, was seen by a CALL corre- spondent here to-day. When asked for his views on the financial situation and the planks in the two platforms he said: *“1 differ from the view: of your people in the West. I do not believe in free sil- ver. Iam not even an international bi- metallist.” “You are a straight gold man, then?"’ “No, I can’t put it that way, either. There is a misapprehension on the part of the people of the true functions of money. They seem to believe that the Government can regulate the whole matter, while this is not the case. Great parties are resolv- ing for this or that, and they might just as well resolve at what time there would be an eclipse of the moon. 1t is said that by free coinage we wounld have a larger circulating medium and asa result there would bearise of pricesand an increase in prosperity. I do not hold that this would be the case. The circulating medium js not the ount of money but the credits. In this respect confidence in one another aids in_extending the-circu- lating medium. Few. indeed, are the transactions actuslly compassed by the use of money. In small affairs it is used, but in all large dealings it is a passage of credits or settlement of balances. In the road which we are to {:urchne to-day, if we were to pay actual cash and were to use silver money, we would have to add a couple of cars to our train to carry money along.” 2 Mr. Fairchild referred to the purchase of the Ceeur d’ Alene branch of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company’s line, which was to-day acquired by the reorgan- ization committee. Continuing, he said: “I even consider gold too cumbersome to be used in transactions. In buying the road there is only a settlement of balances ana transfer of credits.’”” “Do you believe that by free coinage there would be an advance in prices?” “I am not sure but this would be the result. You charge more for an article in poor money than you Jdo in good, and you would get larger prices for products in the same ratio that silver money is poorer than gold. There is but one class that would be benefited, and that is a small number when compared with the whole people. Those who have debts to pay antedating the introduction of silver would, to the extent that they could pay in cheaper money, be benefited: but this is a very small class indeed. Unly 4 per cent of the debts of the country antedate the year in which they sre liquidated, while the great bulk of ali debts—the daily transactions, the 96 per cent—are liquidated within the year. hat we want is money that is ood anywhere, and on which is based f-rn credits. - You know perfectly well that you would loan a man $5 1f you had perfect contidence in him, his honest in- tegrity and ability to pay, although he m?ght not own a cent’s worth of property. ‘When you do that you have increased the circulation just to that extent. “But then,” said the general, as the train was about to pull out, “I was not going to give an interview until I sat down ana carefully thought over just what 1 wanted to say.” “‘Will the action of the Democratic con- vention at Chicago in adopting a free- silver plank result in the gold wing of that party putting up a separate ticket?” “I'am sure Idon't know. I bave had but littie time to look aiter politics, and all Iknow is what I have seen in the “If they do not, can the free-trade Dem- ocrats vote for McKinley, even with the gold plank, when the Republican party says that the tariff is the issue?’ ““We have tariff enough,” eaid he, as he toox his seat at the breakfast-table and ———e SBEWALL ENOWN IN SEATTLE. Character of the Maine Man .as De- soribed by a Friend. SEATTLE, Wasm, July 13. — 8. F. Coombs, a West Beattle resident, who was 2 member of the Maine Legislature auring the Speakership of James G. Blaine, in discussing the Vice-Presidential candai- dacy of Arthur SBewall to-day said: “Mr. SBewall's ancestry played an im- portant part in' revolutionary times and, like Mr. Thurman, he never sought office. In 1859 Arthur Sewall was a delegate to the Democratic Convention from Bath, Me., with Fuller from Augusta and my- self from Thomaston, Me. Sewall was tendered the Gubernatorial nomination, but declined. He said he had the business of his father to attend to and it required his whole time. He was very popular and would have undoubtedly been elected if he ad accepted. There never was a strike in Sewall’ nhir ard in Bath, Me., and he employs as h as 1000 men at times, He and Mr. O'Brien of the other large shipbuilding firm in Maine, located at Thomaston, are both silver men, and affirm that a high protective tarift has in- jurea theif business.”’ ot S e JOAQUIN MILLER AT SEATTLE., The Poet of the Sierras Flouts the Men Who Favor Gold. SEATTLE, Wask., July 18.—Joaquin Maller, the Poet of the Bierras, who has been touring Oregon and Eastern Wash- ington, arrived in Beattle to-day. He had many callers, for he is personally well known to the ploneers of these States, in each of which he tanght school in an early day. The venerable poet expressed him- self as much interested in the free silver movement. “It's right,”” he said, “for it is = step to- ward the advancement and betterment of bumanity, Away with such nonsense as the claim of the gold men. Why, Oregon on the edge of the sunset in America in ’48 and ‘lg dug gold and her blacksmiths bammered it into pieces of money with which to pay volunteer soldiers who were conducting an Indian war; and still they say that this great country can’t coin and hers from London. Now the people have issued a pronunciamento which ¢annot be misunderstood.’’ Of Mr. Bryan, the Democratic standard- bearer, the t commented: “Lat first thought his (Bryan’s) brains might e too much in his chin, and while I am satisfied that such is not the case, even if it were the venerable Maine statesman would be a balance for the wheel. Itis true Bryan is young, but he is better known than Lin- coln was when first nominated. And, with Pitt, I would say that ‘Youth is not 8 crime,’ and in this man who comes speaking for the plain people of the land we may find a liberator as big, as broad, as great as Lincoln. ¥ “The United States should do as France does—compel the saie of bonds to her own ku'fiflc'-l- We should quit sending interest to Europe, whose money-lenders demand that they have a pound of flesh back with every dollar we borrow from them. < I don’t know,’” concluded the author of ‘Songs of the Soul,” “now_that I've done writing poetry, but that I'll take a hand in this campaign.’ —_——— S4N EMIGDIO WOMEN VOTE. Their Exercise of the Franchise Results in an Election Contest. BAKERSFIELD, Car., July 13.—Alonza B. Rovinson filed suit in the Superior Court to-day lo have S. W. Walters ousted from the position of School Trustee in San Emiz_dio district, because of the premature exercise by a number of women of the privilege of voting at the recent school election in that place. Robinson was a can- didate and the election was very close. Four women, one of them the wife and another the uaughter of a member of the election board, applied for ‘mistion to vote. This was granted, aespite Robinson’s rotest at the time. They all voted for alters and Robinson was defeated by their votes. O AR Chico Fotes Against Bonds. CHICO, Cav., July 13.—Ths election to determine whether or not the school dis- trict should be bonded for $30,000 to defray the expense of erecting a high school build- ing resulted in the defeat of the proposed issue, ouly 79 votes being cast in fav the b'ondz ; o . 5% Shehoge S Suisun Votes for Water Works., SUISUN, CaL., July 13.—The proposition to incur an indebtedness of $42,000 for the acquisition of lands and the construction of a public water works was submitted to ‘o !;elg)aré'w-d;y and was carried by a vote THE WAVES OF THE SEA. Queer Superstitions That Have Arlsen From the Movement of the Water. The folk-lore of the sea is infinitely varied. All maritime peoples have legends of its origin, often of the most fantastic kind. The idea of the regenerative power of the ocean is both old and widespread. I! has found expression among people so dissimilar as the ancient Greeks and the Celts of Western Ireland. In the former case it appears in the story of Aptrodite rising from the sea, and in the latter in the Celtic legends of sea- born monsters. The ebbing and the flow- ing of the tide are accounted for by in- numerable myths, many of which center round mammoths of the deep. Among the Maoris of. New Zeeland, for example, the tides were attributed to the mighty and regular inbreathings and outbreath- ings of a monster named Parata, whose bome was supposed to be in the great deep beyond the horizon. Again, the notion that life ebbs with the ebbing tide, which Dickens has illustrated pathetically in the last hours of Barkis, is common to many coast and seafaring folk. Many other minor classes of sea super- etitions and sayings might be named. Among these are various ideas connected with the waves. For instance, wave names form a subject of considerable in- terest. The names given locally to the waves on different parts of the coast are curiously varied and sometiraes not a little suggestive. Peterbead folk call the large breakers that fall with a crash on the beach by the grim name of *‘Norrawa Norway) carpenters.” On the low | Lincolnshire coast, as on the southwest- | ern Atlantic-frenting shores of these isl- ands, the grandly long unbroken wavesare known as “rollers.” Tennyson once re- marked that the waves which broke on his native Lincolnshire coast were the Eflndut be knew save those at the Land’s nd. East Anglians speak of a heavy surf tumbling in with an off-shore wind, or in a calm, by the expressive name of “slog,’” while a well-marked swell, rolling in inde- pendeatly of any wind blowing, is called a “home.” “There's no wind,” a Suffolk fisherman will say, ‘‘but a nasty home on the beach.” The same folk speak of the “‘bark” of the surf, and of the sea covered with foam as ““feather white,” while the foam itsel! is “spoondrift.” “The sea was all a-feather white with spoondrift.’’ The epithet of this kind most generally familiar to landsmen is the name of “‘white horses’’ given to the foaming crests of waves. The phrase is a favorite with the ts. Swinburne, in “Off Shore,’’ speaking of the ocean, says: But for hours upon hours As a thra.l sbe remains Spelibound as with flowers ‘And content in Lef chains, And ber loud steeds fret not, and lift not a lock of their deep white manes. The Russians on the Black Sea call these manes ‘‘hares’’; while the French speak of a foaming crested sea as “la mer mon tonneus-.” Matthew Arnold, in the opsn* ing stanza of “The Forsaken Merman,’; sings: Now the ‘winds shorewards flow; Now the dalt tide seawards flow: Now tne wild white borses play: ‘hamp and chafe and toss n the spray. Most coast folk have theories of theirown concerning the recurrence of larger waves than ordinary. Atone place a weather- beaten observer will tell vou that two small waves will be followed by a larger breaker. Somewhere else you may told that three strong waves in succession will be followed by a feebler fourth, and 8o on with tolerable regularity. On the northeast of Scotland it isa favorite the- ory with the fishing and seafaring people that in & storm three waves are strong and violent, while the fourth is compara- tively weak and less dangerous. This succession they call a “roll of waves.” Fishermen returning from their fishing- ground often prove by experience the truth of ‘their theory, and hang back as they come near the shore to e adva: tage of thelull that follows, they say, pretty regularly after three big breakers. Any vlswrwth- seaside can test the notion for himself; but he mn“flnul no easy matter to nar urate observa- u.,Z; Moreover, the nfiu noted by dit- ferent observers will rarely be found to agree. Mest careful watebers of the waves will probably come to the conclusion that it 1s doubtful whether any of the numer- ous theories on the subject are in close agreement with the facts or whether, in- deed, there is any regular recurrence of either strong or feeble waves, The oldest and best-known theory on the subject is thai each tenth wave is bigger and stronger tban the precedin, nine. The idea is as oid as the days o; Ovid, for the Roman poet twice alludes to the great wave that overtops its nine smaller predecessors. Sir Thomas Browne descants upon the subject in his “Vuigar Errors,” and declarés that the notion is evidently ‘nor can it be made out,” he continues, observation, either upon the shore or the ocean, as he have with diligence expiored both.” Other ob- servers, of equal diligence, have come to a corit conclusion, and. have declared that a large and am'hdnlnfl wave is very frequently, if not always, followed by nine and only nine smaller ones. But the phenom 1t is said, is only to be wit- nessed ::::' ‘the tiae is flowing. No such succession of waves marks the ebbing of the water.—London Globe. ——————— p There Are Others. Philadelphia North American. Cunliffe—Did Roarer ever realize any of his political ambitions? —No, poor fellow; he never got any higher than the position of a favorite PACIFC GROVE ASSEMBLY Dr. Kelchner Lectures on “The Tabernacle of Israel” to Chautauquans. Exhibits a True Reproduction of the Sacred Structure of the Holy Land. PACIFIC GROVE, CaL, July 13.—The musical week -of the Chautaugqua Assem- bly closed last evening with a sacred concert by the Oakland orchestra with A. T. Stew- art as leader, assisted by Miss Safford, Mr. Lawrence, Miss Mast and others. This week will be devoted more particularly to literary pursuits. A class in dressmaking was started this morning, with a large number in attendance. The forum hour was taken up by Dr. McClish, president of the Chautauqua, and Mrs. Field, who lectured on “Eminent Men That We Have Met."” Each described | the peculiarities of noted men with pleas- ing clearness. The Sunday school normal class was ad- dressed by Rev. A. A. Graves of Ventura on “Bryant.” The Round Table was led by Mrs. M. H, Field. Rev. J. W. Kelchner delivered his cele- brated lecture on the “Tabernacle of Israel and the Heavenly Sanctuary’’ to-night. | After the expenditure of thousands of doliars, Rev. Mr. Keichner kas zecured a | reproduction of the tabernacle and all its furnishings. On a painting 12x32 feet in size Mount Sinai stands out in bold relief in the distance. The court inclosing the sacred structure is 8x16 feet, or about one- eleventh the size of the original. The whole structure is compesed of 1700 pieces and its construction . represents the fruit offour years’ labor. The entrance gate is of blue, purple and scarlet velvet, and around the entire groands are fine white silk portieres, suspended from gold pil- lars, set in silver sockets. Opposite the entrance is the altar for burnt offerings, back of that the laver, tha original of which was made from the melted mirrors of the women. The sides of the tabernacle are of burnished gold, each of which is capped with silver. In- | side are eight pillars on which the veil hangs. The furniture in the holy room includes seven golden candlesticks, the ta- ole of bread and the altar of incense. That of the most holg chamber 1s the ark of the | testament in burnished gold. The seat represents the throne of God, with two | angels on guard. It opens, and inside are the Laws on the Table of Stone, with set- tings of gold. The smaller vessels were made in Arabia, and include flesh-hooks, knives, bowls, shovels and baskets for ot- ferings. HIS LAST TRIOK. How an American Prestidigitator Satis- fied a Curious Englishman. A well-known American prestidigitator was & passenger recently ¢n one of the big Atlantic liners, homeward bound from England. He is s good-natured conjurer, and many times in the smoking-room he exhibitea his skill in performing tricks for the amusement of the other passengers. One of the frequenters of the smoking- room was an Englishman, who seemed to | be unable to get enough of the conjurer’s | tricks. Almost every time the American | entered the room the Englishman de- | manded something more, and usually the American complied. The conjurer took part in the ship's con- cert and did a lot of surprising things with cards. The Englisiman was in a front seat and followed the performance with absorbed interest. But the next morning when the American walked into the smok- ing-room after breakfast the Englishman repeated his old demands. The conjurer picked up from one of the little tablesa pack of cards, which had been used in the whist game of the evening before. He handed it to the Englishman and said: “Pick out acard.” The Englishman ran over the pack and made mental note of his selection. “S8huffle them up,” commanded the prestidigitator. The Englishman shuffled the cards se- | verely, cut and shuffled again. Then the | conjurer sbuffied them. After that he laid them out, one by one, in severa! little piles. The Englishman watched him with rapt attention. The conjurer gathered up the little piles and gave the pack to the Englishman again. aln,” he said. did it, and then the conjurer picked up the pack and said: ow, do you remember what card it was you selected ?”” “‘Oh, yes,' answered the Englishman, “f remember it." “‘Sure you haven’t forgotten?"’ **Of course not.” *“Yon can name the card ?”" “Certainiy.” ‘Well, then, there’s no use of my telling you what it is.” And the conjurer threw down the cards, and went out foliowed by roars of laug ter from those who bad seen the trick.— New York Sun. ONSTANTINE'S NEW ROME. He Bullt Theaters, Churches, Baths, a Stroke. Constantine ereated his New Rome in 330 as never ruler before or since created a city, says the Fortnightly Review. It was made a mighty and resplendent capital within a single decace. Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, Mauritania were despoited of their treasures to adorn the new metropolis. Constantine built churches, theaters, forums, baths, porti- €0s, palaces, monuments and aqueducts. He built, adorned and pled a great capital all ata stroke, and made it, after Rome and Athens, the most splendid city of the anciert world. Two centuries later Justinian became the second founder of the city. And from Constantine down to the capture by the crusaders, for nearly nine centuries, a succession of emperors continued to raise great sacred and lay buildings. Of the city before Constantine little remains sbove the ground except some sculptures in the museum and foundations of some walls which Dr. Paspates believes -he can trace. Of Constantine and his immediate successors there remain parts of the hip- podrome, of walls, aqueducts, cisterns and forums, some columns and monuments. Of the emperors from Theodosins to the Omudeshwe still have, little injured, the grand Church of Sophia, some twenty churches much altered and mostly late in date, the foundations of palaces, and one still standing in ruins, and lastly the twelve miles of walls with their gatesand towers. The museums contain sarcophagi, statues, inscriptions of the Roman age. But we can hardly doubt that an immense body of Byzantine relics and buildings still lie buried some ten or twenty feet below the ground whereon stand to-day the se- rail ns, mosques and houses of Stam- boul, & soil which the Ottoman is loath to disturb. When the day comes that such scientific excavations are possible as nave been made in the Forum and the Palatine at Rome we may yet look to unveil man monuments of rare historical interest and, it might be, a few of high artistic value. As yet the cattings for the railway have given almost the only opportunity that antiquarians have had of investigating below the surface of the actual city, which stands upon a deep stratum of debris. Society in Gllhm.l. “"-‘m- in Guatemala City to a foreigner, Ml’ a ung man, posse: about as mueh mn’nzlmn from a stand. point of amusement as would a residence n a graveyard. There is absolutely noth- }n to do except work, eat and sleep. The only plac» a man has to go when he h”, finished work,”’ said J. J. Pringle, son Ol the Consul-General to Guatemala from this country, *‘is to a saloon, and there he has nothing to do for recreation but drink. ‘The door to the best society is shut in the face of Ameri- cans—‘gringoes,’ as they are called by the haughty dons — no matter what their standing. Of course, when one has official dignity he is invited to the President’s ball and other official func- tions, and has entree into society, but there is no such thing as social intercourse in 1ts American sense. Nobody is allowed tosee a young ladv unless it is in the presence of her entire family or under the watchful eye of her duenna, and there isn’t much pleasure in this kind of a visit to most young men of America. Guate- mala City has a population of 80,000, but has no ‘theaters. = There was an opera company of fair character there two years ago, but thére have been no attractions at all of this kind during the past season. Living is very high in Guatemala City, and salaries are by no means correspond- ingly high. I would not advise any young man to go there with the idea of making his fortune. There has been too much immigration to the country as it is.”’— New Orleans Times-Demo e ENOWLEDGE IS NOT WISDOM. Men of Great Learning Sometimes Lose Sight of the Fact. In the recent memoirs of Dean Buckland an amusing picture is given of the antip- athy felt fifty years ago by the old classical scholars at Oxford to the new scientific learning, says the Youth’s .Companion. They described it as ‘‘mischievous and ab- surd.”” When Buekland once went to Rome for a long vacation one of the elder dons is said to have exclaimed: “Well, Buckland has gone fo Italy. Thank heaven, we shall hear no more of his silly geology.” Learned men do not always appreciate the achievements of their fellows. It is said that a friend brought Milton’s *‘Para- dise Lost” to a great Scotch mathema. ;icizn, who remarked when he had finished t: “It’s verra pretty; but, mon, what does it prove?”’ An American, who stated recently in a London club that he was going to Enfield in search of the grave of Charles Lamb, was astonished to hear him contemptuous- ly described by'an English statesman as ‘‘a flighty writer of silly papers, in which | there was no mention of political questions of bis day.” Paganini, while in England, was men- tioned by a great jurist in a letter as “‘a poor fiddler who had driven the town mad with his squeaks and scrapes,” and he, no doubt, would have described his critic as soulless and deaf to the highest expression of emotion. An anecdote is told of Henry Clay in the zenith of his popularity and fame. Meet~ ing an old schoolmate at a reception he expressed regret that another. friend, a mutual acquaintance, whose career prom- ised to be brilliant, had given up his life to the raising of pigs and making a fortune. The friend presently met the gentleman referred to, who exclaimed, with a shake of the head: “Poor Henry Clay! He might have made a good stock-grower and be a com- fortable planter now if he had not wasted his time in politics.” ——————— SWAPPING WITH THE OZAR. A Philadelphia Boy’s Scheme That Panned Out in Great Shape. Some time ago the attention of a Phila- delphia mother was attracted to her little bey by the fact that he lay at full length on the library floor evidently deeply in- volved in the intricacies of letter-writing. All inquiries as to the purport and pro- posed des! tion of the laborious produc- tion failed to elicit further 1emark than an odvice to ‘‘wait awhile.” At last the mis- sive ended with a scrawling superscription and an immense sigh of relief, and it was proudly borne to the father and mother that they might be afforded an opportu- { mity of expressing their entire approba- tion which was evidently expected. Imagine their surprise when their eyes fell upon the following: Dear Czar: Bince the death of your father you must have received a great deal of foreign postage stamps on letters irom your friends who were sorry for you. Iam collecting post- age stamps, and if you will piease send me a ood lot of y. irs I will send you some Ameri- an ones in return, The parents at first laughed at the idea, but the little man was so evidently pleased with this idea of his dyoung brain that they finally determined to allow him to mail it. never imagining that it woula really fall beneath the royal gaze. With both the parents and the child the thing was already {ast becoming a thing of the forgotten past, whea the mail of a few mornings ago brought the young fellow a rather bulky envelope, bearing upon it the seal and arms of the royal house of Rus- sia. To the little fellow’s delight he found, on opening it, that it was packed with stamps of ali nationalities. The labored missive had evidently reached its destination and had spelled out to the heart of the child, in all the excitement of his coronation ceremonies, such a message of childish innocence as made refusal impossible.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. e OUR LIGHTHOUSE SYSTEM, We Are the Only Nation Which At- tempts to Be Thorough. The United States is the only nation which makes an attempt to line its entire shores with Jighthouses or signals, the idea being here to place those sufficiently close together to permit of coastwise navigation in any weather. The system is not yet quite complete, but it is exceedingly well advanced. During clear weather the lights of the houses are effective, being as a rule hidden only by the curvature of the earth, but since fogs can hide even the suu from us, there are times when the lights cannot be seen, and for such occasions the light- houses are provided with some kind of noise-making apparatus, the care and con- dition of wbich is quite as important as that of the lightitself. Horns, bells and sirens are used at these stations as the common devices, and these are sap) mented by floating beils and 'hhlfl buoys, the former of which give warning on, close approach, while the latter are some of them almost as powerful in their tones as the shore signals. Recent experiments by Major W. R. Livermore have had in view the testing of the efficiency of the different kinds of warning signals, and how they are effected by aifferent conditions of the air. Major Livermore has been able to predict the nature of the disturbance which a certain direction of wind wili have upon the sig- nals, and has explained the reason for the so-called silent areas, within which no sound can be heard from the signals, al- though they m: be easily audible at irnur distances from the lighthouse.— appy Thought. —————— The Earth’s Rotation and Moving Tratns. “I had an interesting conversation with a Western scientist gno other day,” said N. 8. Moore, a Chicago traveling.man, at the Raleigh, “about the effect the rotation of the earth has on moving railway trains. He ciaimed that a train going eastward is accelerated by the earth’s rotation, while one ;oln“umnd is correspondingly re- tarded. als of railroad speet, to oghin the best results, he says, should therefore be made from west to east. The scientist backs his t.heor‘y up with elaborate mathe- matical formula. He goes further and estimates thata train running either north or sonth loses by reason of the earth’s movement, on account, he ugu. of the earth’s pressure azainst the mght rail. A train capable of m-kinig seventy miles an hour loses two miles. It is such an inter- esting proposition that I should like to see a test made.”—Washington Times, le- ng ' Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. SOLE AGENTS FOR THE MAGGIONI KID GLOVES, CLEARING OUT SALE OF LACES AT POSITIVELY LOWEST PRICES ON RECORD. LACES ALMOST GIVEN AWAY ‘Chiffon Laces. 6 inclies wide, in colors, black, cream, old rose. gray and lavender, former price 50ca yug,r Now 25¢ Yard Torchon Laces. 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