The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 4, 1898, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1898 REVIEWS THE YEAR'S HISTORY OF THE NATION McKinley’s Message Completed. WAR A LEADING FEATURE FIXED POLICY FOR NEW POS- SESSIONS LEFT TO CONGRESS. An Increase in the Army and Navy Recommended and the Ques- tion of Finances Ably Covered. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 3—The Washing- ton correspondent of the Herald sends the following: President McKinley's message to Congress, which will be de- livered next Monlay, was completed late last night and this morning mem- bers of the Cabinet were i d to go to the White House and hear the latest revigion of the document. Those who onjoy.the confidence of the chief executive say that the Presi- dent has endeavored to write an hi torical review of recent events with appropriate comments and suggestions rather than to indulge in surprises or glittering generalities. He will also de- vote considerable space to business af- fairs of the nation, for it is not his in- tention to deliver at this time a one- topic communication to the Congress of the United Stat Naturally the. war and the circum- stances attending it will be the leading feature of the message. It will be a plain, straightforward account of the remarkable historical evemts through which this country has passed within the last year. 3 In dealing with the outcome of the war the President does not attempt to lay down any fixed line of policy for the permanent government of the Phil- ippines and Porto Rico.and Cuba. He refers that subject to Congress with the recommendation that the whole question be carefully and deliberately considered before committing the peo- ple of the United States to a new and untried colonial policy. The President will urge recommenda- tions for increasing the standing army of the United States to 100,000 men, as suggested by Secretary Alger, Major General Miles and Adjutant General Corbin in their annual reports. In this connection he will urge immediate ac- tion which will enable the War Depart- ment to maintain the regular army at its present enlisted strength of 62,000 men after the ratification of the peace treaty and until the passage of the law providing for 100,000 men. This is made necessary by the fact that the present peace strength-of the army is only 27,000 men and all above that number were enligted for but two years or dur- ing the war. The President will also cordially rec- ommend liberal appropridtions for in- creasing the navy. He asks that the mavy be increased to:enable the United States to establish and maintain sub- stantial governments in all of our newly acquired possessions pending ac- tion by Congress as to the most prac- tical form of government to be created. The War Department scandals will not be passed over in silence, but the President will refer to his appointment of the war investigation committee and will assure Congress that ifs in- vestigation is to be thorough, and 'that if any persons are found blameworthy they will be punished, and if faults are found in the system they Wwill be cor- rected. In view of the space devoted to “the war the message will be unusually long, for the President has not slighted the finances of the Government or any other branch of the public service in the message. As to revenues it will be shown that the demands upon the treasury are so great now and promise to be heavy for many years to come that it is a practical impossibility to | materially reduce the present war tax. | It is conceded, with some qualifica- tions, that customsduties are not suf- ficlent and may never be sufficient to meet the requirements of the changed condition of our national affairs. Un- der the circumstances financial reform and tariff reform are not strongly rec- ommended at this time. One interesting feature of the mes- sage will be a detailed statement of the expenditure of the $50,000,000 war appropriation, which was really the first declaration of war with Spain. There will be an abundance of figures and some dry statistics rendered neces- sary by the course of events and con- flicting statements made in connection with the conduct of the war. The Nicaragua canal will be strongly commended as a national necessity, and immediate steps for its construc- tion recommended. The main object of the President is to present to Congress a clear and com- prehensive history of the nation's af- | fairs during the last war. His first | work upon the message was com- menced in Philadelphia while he was in that city attending the peace jubilee. From day to day since then he has de- voted such time as he could spare from | his other duties to dictating and com- posing parts of the important docu- ment. The work has been done 80 sys- tematically that page by page it has been dellivered to the printer without the slightest confusion. The last re- vision went to the public printer to- | night, Not more than half of the members of the Senate and one-third of the members of the House of Representa- tives have arrived in Washington for the opening of the session. They are coming in by every train, however, and many will arrive to-morrow and Mon- | day morning, so that when the gavels | of the Vice-President and Speaker Reed fall at noon on Monday there will | be more than a quorum in each house. | Vice-President Hobart has been at his Washington home in Lafayette square for more than a week. Speaker Reed arrived to-night and is at the Shore- | ham, where he will put in a busy day | to-morrow with members of the House, | _ A great deal of work has already been done by various committees. The | House Committee on Appropriations hae been hard at work every day this week and has made rapid progress in the preparation of appropriation bills. The Congressional members of the Hawalian Commission—Senators Cul- |lom and Morgan and Representative Hitt—have completed their report, and the President has been made acquaint- ed with its contents. Appropriations and routine business | will probably occupy the first part of the session in both houses. Football at Vacaville. ELMIRA, Dec. 3.—A spirited football contest took place in Vacaville this af- ternoon between the Vacaville High School and the Elmira Rushers, result- ing in a score of 6 to 2 in favor of Vaca- ville. Both teams showed up well for the first game this season, but there was a lack of team work. The same teams will meet next Saturday afternoon in Allison Park, Elmira, when the Rushers hope to reverse the score. Diseases and Disabilities of Men! Palpitation of the Heart, Clutching Sensations, Sense of Fullness, Clammy Hands and Feet, Melancholy Spells, Blues, Inability to Concentrate the Mind, cured by the famous Remedio-Treatment, HUDYAN. CALL OR WRITE FOR HUDY . AIN! FREE CIRCULARS AND TESTIMONIALS. HUDYAN CURES Failing Manhood, Neurasthenia, Nervous Dyspepsia, Nervous De- bility, Nervous Decline, Nervous Prostration, Diseases and Disabilities of Men. vents the Drain of Tissue. HUDYAN Stops Losses. 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Now Goes to Court to Compel the Syndicate for Which He Acted to-Remunerate Him for His Services. agement, so that when the road finally becomes the property of the Chinese Government it can operate it by na- tives. The members of the American China Development Company got together and formed what they caqled the Chi- nese Railway Syndicate. The original subscribers to. the. project fund each held $1000 shares. They were admitted to the railway syndicate by paying $4000 more on each ‘share: held, the shares of the latter company costing $5000. Mr, Barnes, it is said, had an understanding that his $1000 shares were to be ex- changed into the $5000 shares of the syndicate without paying anything ad- ditional. In all about $300,000 was sub- scribed by the syndicate. i Mr Barnes saw Mr. Brice several times about his compensation, but heard nothing definite until October 6, when he received a letter from L. San- ford Beatty, secretary of the China- American Development Company. This communication told him that at a meeting of the committee of the syndi- cate a resolution had been passed nhro- viding that no claim of Thurlow Weed Barnes for compensation should be recognized. This resolution also provided that, as he had failed to pay the additional $4000 on each of his shares in the original company, they had been put up for sale. Barnes at once consulted his lawyers aml? the suit for $1,000,000 was the re- sult, Specfal Disratch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—The World to- morrow will say: Thurlow Weed Barnes has brought suit in the Supreme Court against the American China De- velopment Company for $1,000,000 for services in obtaining railroad conces- sions from the imperial Chirfese Gov- ernment, through the Chinese Minister at Washington. The concessions are worth in net profit at least $12,000,000 to the company and they may be worth $24.000,000. They are the most valuable grants ever made by the Chinese Gov- ernment to foreign capitalists and the terms are more favorable than the con- cessions obtained in recent years by French, Belgian, English and Russian syndicates. / The chief spirit of the American China Development Company is Calvin 8. Brice. His associates are James H. Benedict, banker; Anthony N. Brady, the Carregie Steel and Iron Company (Andrew Carnegie), J. H. Jarvis of the Arbuckle Sugar and Coffee Corpora- tion; Frederick P. Olcott, president of | the Central Trust Company; W. BE. Reed of Heremile & Co.; General Sam- uel Thomas, railroad owner; Henry R. ‘Wolcott of Colorado, Richard J. Cross of Morton, Bliss & Co., Levi P. Morton, Thomas C. Platt, Henry W. Cannon of the Chase National Bank, Thomas F. Ruan, street railway owner; James R. Stillman of the Standard Oil Company, representing the Rockefellers; Moore & | Shipley, bankers; John R. Hegeman of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- pany; Clarence Carey, as trustee of H. McK. Twombley and various Vander- bilt interests; Hartley & Graham, arms | manufacturers; J. P. McDonald, rail- road econtractors; James McNaught, counsel for the Northern Pacific; George R. Sheldon, banker; Charles H. Coster; C. R. Randall, president of the | Southern Trust Company, and many others of like prominence in the finan- cial world, All of these are defendants in the suit, as they are copartners in the syn- dicate which controls the concessions. Barnes alleges that after Brice's en- voys, including ex-Senator William D. ‘Washburne of Minnesota, had failed to obtain the concessions sought, Brice sent for Barnes and asked him to un- dertake the work. Barnes has spent many years in the Orient and had made several friends among the natives in high power, and, moreover, was a friend of Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese Minister at Washington. Mr. Barnes agreed to do the work, it is said, on the verbal understanding that he would be duly compensated for any valuable results he might ac- complish. He and Clarence Carey were appointed as a committee to obtain the congessions, Mr. Barnes being known as the managing member of he commission. Associated with them vas A. W. Bush. They set to work in January of the present year. Mr. Barnes first arranged through his friends in Peking by cable to have the Chinese Cabinet confer upon Wu Ting Fang the special power to make any railroad concession he might agree to with the American syndicate. He was successful in this and negotiations with Ting Fang were begun. In April an agreement was reached. During these months an immense amount of correspondence passed be- tween Mr., Barnes and the Chinese Min- ister and between Barnes and Mr. Brice and other members of the com- pany and also between Barnes and Mr. Carey and Mr. Bash. These letters and telegrams, it is asserted, will prove that Barnes got the concessions. The draft of the agreement reached by Barnes and the Chinese Minister was drawn up by Barnes and was accepted by both sides witheut change, ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster acting in an ad- visory capacity to the Chinese Minister, This agreement was reached on April 13 and signed the next day. Subse- quently it was ratified by an imperial edict by the Chinese Government. The concessions obtained by the com- pany provided for the building of a trunk line railroad from Hankow south to Canton, a distance of about 1000 miles. It will run through the richest and most fertile regions of China. The population of that- section of China is_ 200,000,000. From Hankow north to Peking runs a proposed rail- road, the concession for which was ob- tained by a Belgian syndicate. From Peking northwest runs a short road owned by China, which will connect with the great trans-Siberian raliroad built by Russia. Thus the road permitted by the American concessfon will have through connections with the Russian trans-Siberian road. The mest valu- able part of the concession obtained by the Americans is the financial terms. These have never been published. The road, it is estimated, will cost $40,000,000. Bonds for 10 per cent more than the total cost are to be guaranteed by the imperial Chinese Government. The 10 per cent additional or $4,000,000 is clear profit to begin with. The bonds are to be paid in ‘gold, to run fifty years and to bear b per cent interest. The Chinese Government also agreed to pay the American China Company 5 per cent on the total cost of the road for superintending the construction. In addition, the Chinese Government agreed to pay 20 per cent of the net profits. of the road in the form of de- benture bonds bearing 6 per cent in- terest and running forty-three years. After paying all expenses of the road, including the redemption bonds,, the road is to become the property of the Chinese Government. The Chinese Gov- ernment has the right to redeem the de- benture bogds at par and to'give 4 per TEACHERS NAME OFFICERS. Closing Session of the Northern Cali- - fornia Association CHICO, Dec. 3.—The Northern Califor- nia Teachers’ Assoclation held its closing session to-day. Addresses were delivered by Minor L. Seymour, professor of biology in the State Normal School at Chico; Rose W. Winterburn of Stockton, Guy H. Stokes, principal of the Marysville High School, and Dr. Thomas P. Bailey of the University of California, The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President—Professor O. E. Graves of Red Bluff, First vice president—Guy H. Stokes of Marysville. Second vice president—C. S. Reager of Orland. Secretary—Kate Ames of Napa. Corresponding secretary—J. D. Sweeney of Yuba City. Treasurer—Margaret Poore of Redding. The association decided to hold the next convention at Red Bluff during the last week in October, 1899, This evening, at Normal Hall, the larg- est crowd of the convention assembled to hear Dr. David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University, lecture on the subject, “‘Lest We Forget.” U S S WARDEN AULL'S REPORT. Conditions at Folsom Prison During the Past Year. SACRAMENTO, Dec, 3.—C. A. Aull, ‘Warden of the Folsom Prison, to-day filed his report with the Governor. He says the health and discipline of the prison- ers have been excellent. The dally aver- age number of prisoners is 907, and the cost per capita of maintenance 32% cents, a reduction of 2 cents during the last fiscal year, The $219,000 appropriated for | the prison v/ill, with the latter’s earnings, suffice. The earnings for the two fiscal | years are: Quarry, $2746; farm, $10,169; | United States prisoners, $7224 10; rock crusher, $1643; switching, $5680—amounting to $30,464. The Warden strongly recommends an enlargement of the farm and provisions for more profitable employment of the prisoners. 4 WILL CONTEST DISMISSED. Virginia Laogier Fails in a Legal Fight for a Fortune. STOCKTON, Dec. 3.—The contest of Virginia Laogier of Mazatlan, Mexico, to prove herself a @aughter of the late Ba- silio Laogier of this city and obtain a daughter’s share of his large estate, worth about $200,000, cameé to an abrupt close to-day, when the attorneys for the estate moved to dismiss the proceedings on the ground that the claimant had not established her right to contest the will under our statute. She did Mot prove le- gitimacy or adoption, and the court held against her. The case was on trial for | nine days before a jury, but the order of digmissal was made when the contestant had closed her case on the subject of adoption. It is sald the case will be ap- pealed. i, DEATH TO BE THE PENALTY. Conviction of a Man Who Tried to Kill a Whole Family. GLASGOW, Ky., Dec. 3.—The jury this afternoon, after belng out twenty minutes, returned a verdict against Bob Brown of willful murder and fixed his punishment at death. Two months ago Brown killed his fath- er-in-law, Alonzo McClemmand, a man 60 years ' old, shot his mother-in-law, shot his niece, Bertha Courtney, his brother-in-law, James Clayton, his broth- er-in-law Lewis McClemmand, and in resisting arrest, wounded a dozen of a Sheriff’s posse. The motive of the deed was that Brown had been intimate with his 13-year-old_sister-in-law, Terry Me- Clemmand, and feared she had told her parents. R gt AGAINST CO-EDUCATION. Students at Wesleyan University Hold a Mass Meeting. MIDDLETOWN, Conn., Dec. 3.—A mass meeting of undergraduate students was held in Wesleyan University to-day to protest against the system of co-educa- tion now in vogue at the college. Several speeches were made, in which it was maintained that the exclusion of women from the college would be to the best in- terests of the university, and if the pol- ley of admitting women is continued it will have the effect of greatly reducing the number of male students. "The feel- ing on this point was unanimous. The meeting will be brought to the attention of the faculty, who already have the | words. | differs in intensity. But it is universal. WHAT 0LD WORLD THIKS OF NEW Stead on the Feeling To- ward Uncle Sam. EXPANSION CAUSES CLAMOR EUROPEAN POWERS WANTED TO INTERFERE IN WAR. But the Attitude of England and the Coolness of America Discom-~ fited the Would-Be Meddlers. r a S Correspondence of the Associated Press. Copy- righted, 1898, by the Associated Press. LONDON, Nov. 24.—William T. Stead, writing from Rome under date of No- vember 21, says: “The answer to the question, ‘What does the Old World think of the New ‘World?" has never been made "with greater emphasis than in the Eternal City. The oldest Old World regards the newest New with feelings of anger, disgust and alarm, almost too great for The sentiment of indignation There is no sympathy for the United States either among whites or blacks. In fact, dislike of the American seizure of the Philippines and a convlction that the humane enthusiasm which made the war possible was a mere mask of cant assumed in order to facilitate con- quest, are almost the only sentiments shared in common by the rival camps of the Quirinal and of the Vatican. “With the King's men the sentiment is comparatively mild. They do not be- lieve in the least in the disinterested- ness of the American war of liberation. The American declarations are almost universally derided as hideous examples of a worse than English hyprocrisy. Uncle Sam, they say, determined in all things to surpass John Bull, has out- done him even in Pharisaism and cant. The friends of America wring their hands in unaffected grief over the fall of the United States and the tempta- tion of lust of territorial expansion. Her enemies shoot out the lip and can shriek in derision over what they re- gard as the unmistakable demonstra- tion which the demand for the Philip- pines affords of American cupldity, American bad faith and American am- bition, That is what the unctuous rectitude of the Anglo-Saxon always ends in. He always begins by calling heaven to wit- ness to his unselfish’ desire to help his neighbors, but he always ends by steal- ing his spoons.’ “It is unpleasant for the Anglo-Saxon to hear this on every side, but since the peace negotiations have developed a demand for the complete cession of the Philippines Americans will do well to recognize that some such statement as the above represents the current opinion of almost every one in Europe who pays cursory attention to what is going on abroad. The immense maior- ity of Europeans are, of course, abso- lutely ignorant of what has happeuned. Intent on their daily toll, they neither know nor care what occurs in other hemispheres. But the Europeans who read newspapers, who form what muy be described as the public opinion of the Old World, are practically of one mind on the matter. Outside of Eng- land I have met no non-American who did not dislike the expansion of Amer- ica, nor do I think in the whole of our tour through Europe I have met a Jiu- ropean who did not receive my oro- testations as to the genuine sincerity with which the American people en- tered into the war with more or less mocking incredulity. “ ‘It is all very well,’ they say, in ef- fect, ‘to dissemble your love, but why did you kick me downstairs?- It was all very well to proclaim your disinter- estedness, but why did you seize the Philippines?’ p ‘‘Mere national brigandage, mark- edly odlous phariseeism,” is a.phrase which roughly represents the judgment of the Old World on the recent devel- opments of the new. From which it may be learned once more the old truth, that in a man’s judgment of his neighbor’s motives we see the mirrer of his own character. For the most part they express no surprise. They expected nothing better from these English of the New World. They are true to their ancestry. But there is in every country a minority of thought- ful men who, having for all their lives been the stanchest friends of the Am- erican commonwealth, are now con- founded and utterly put to shame at what is universally regarded as the apostasy of the United States, the abandonment of their national policy and the adoption of the world policy of conquest, “When I listened, as I have been lis- tening for months past to alternate matter under consideration, ———— “JIM BLUDSOE” DEAD. Passing of Captain Lamothe, a Miss- issippi River Steamboat Man. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 3.—Captain William Lamothe died suddenly on Friday night at Alton, 1L, aged 81 years. He was one of the best known captalns on the Mis- sissippl. In 1842 he built the Luella. This boat was burned between Alton and St. Louls_and from the incident John Hay, now Secretary of State, found material for the poem, “Jim Bludsoe.” It is said that Captain Lamothe was in reality the prototype of the hero of the poem. R Nl Stanford’s Debaters. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Dec. 3.— The result of the final preliminaries to- night for the intercollegiate Carnot de- bate in Februagy gave places to Hayden, Springer and Stzzallo, with Ferguson as alternate. Carl T. Hayden is from Tempe, Ariz.; J. E. Springer, a junior from Iowa University; Anthony H. Suzzallo is from San Jose and James Ferfig:on from May- field. The judges were Professors New- comer, Spencer and Fetter. The field for the subject of the Carnot debate will be limited to “diplmatic and f mercial re- lations of France and Italy.” ‘Will Reorganize Havana Police. NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Former Chief of Police John W. MeCullagh, the present State Superintendent of RElections, will sail for Cuba some time next week to or- ganize the police force of the city of Ha- cent gold bonds at 102% in the first twenty-five years and at par thereafter. By the concession the American com- pany also obtained the right to mine the ricl parts of the route of the road. An even more valuable feature of the concession is that in the event of the contract with the Belgian syndicate be- ing canceled the concession to- build that road will revert to the American China Developmént Company on the same conditions governing the Han- kow-Canton road. The American company also obtained tAhe rl‘ght of building the road under merican management and free from the supervision otegfli\b‘n officials. The company agreed to establish and main- tain at its cost a school for the instrue- tlon of the Chinese in railroad | coal fields which extend along [-Havana. vnn?. Mr. McCullagh has been_ appoint- ed for this duty President McKinley at the instance of General Greene, who is in command of the American forces at SSE P Plans for the Inaugural Ball. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 3.—The inaugural ball executive committee appointed by Maylg; Land met to-night and lald out {ts work:' A number of sub-committees were appointed and will get right to work in preparing for the event. It is proposed T to make the coming ball t - liant ?ver ?fld hero. L TR Both Teams Fail to Score. SAN JOSE, Dec. 3.—The game of foot- ball to-day between the San Jose and resulted a ere was good ‘overt action on the part of the govern- taunts and lamentations of the foes and friends of America, the babel of voices seemed at least to merge into one scornful chorus of welcome to Uncle Sam. “‘Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. .All they shall speak and say unto thee, art thou also become as weak as we? Art thou be- come like unto us? How art thou fall- en from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning.’ “You may urge, rage and protest as much as you please, the Old World has made up its mind on the subject and nothing that can be said or done in the United States will alter its judgment. The American Government has come out of its ring fence. It has thrown its hat into the arena of the world. It Is launched on a career of conquest which will be all the more predatory because it is masked by humanitarianism. The commonwealth, they hold, has suec- cumbed to the malady which has so long plagued the Old World. A bright hope for the human race was extin- guished when the non-military power, which eschewed all schemes of aggres- sion and annexation, enrolled Itself among the common herd of conquering states. So men talk everywhere in Eu- rope. Whether they regard the old American {deal with sympathy or with content they all agree in believing that it has been abandoned, and that for- ever. The annexation of the Philippine Islands may seem but a small thing, but it is decisive. “In the course of my tour I am now compelled to admit that I found proof in existence on the part of the powers to intervene on behalf of Spain, which might have been serfous had it not been checked in the bud by the knowledge that England would have nothing to duo with it. 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P eEoRiuy CALIFORMIA'S LARGEST—AMERICA'S GRANDEST %(ut««««flt«« Cenatasastansaan 5’}?’ PERPRPPRPRP T ERRRR ,Oi!?.'?iiii FRRURRIRY X $4.95 $2.45 " STORE Q‘fi‘QQQQ(QQQ(Q‘!‘QQQQ‘QQQ.Q"Qt‘Ql‘fi&tiQQfifl41Q‘“‘Q((iii(ti4Q‘QQQQQ(QQ‘(i!i@t&t‘fitfi‘ii(iifi!@ S EHB OB EEEEEEE R 4GB REEERIRT GO ELAEELEAEREEANENE S A AR AREEIUEURAEREAREEAGEEEEEEE G R A ARt e et e et (o A5 broke out a diplomatic representative of the powers communicated to an American Minister at a European court in plain and unmistakable terms the displeasure of the powers and. their desire to express that displeasure pub- Hely and foreibly. This communication was sufficiently serious for the contin- gency of the use of allied forces of the European nations for the coercion of the United States to be frankly dis- cussed between the two diplomatists. The result of that discussion was to put a summary- stop to all notion of European intervention. “‘If you intervene,” sald the Ameri- can Minister, ‘it means war.' “*Yes,' rejoined his visitor, ‘and the forces of the great European powers acting in alliance would overwhelm any opposition which America could offer. “‘No doubt,’ said the American. ‘But you would have to bring your forces across the Atlantic to the other hemi- sphere and keep them there for the rest of your natural life. For the New World is not going to submit to the Old ‘World any more. No, sir; not any more than it submitted a century since, when e odds were far worse.’ th“ &nd, remember,’ he added, as a clincher, ‘that when you were bringing your armies and your navies across 3000 miles of sea to fight America, you would have to count with England, who is certainly not friendly to your enter- prise.’ 3 “This put an extinguisher on the pro- pos’flf §oxhing more was heard of the contemplated intervention. It never got so far as to be submitted to England. The whole design was checked at the very outset by the calm audacity with which the representative of America played his cards including the trump card of the Anglo-Amerjcan entente, which henceforth will play a_leading part in all the dealings of the English- speaking people with their jealous and neighbors. . su‘?lptlc:r? ‘:rse g‘lad to be able to set forth the actunlrgncts as they actually hap- pened. They were told me at first hand by the person most immediately con- cerned, and you can absgolutely rely upon the accuracy of the above state- ment.” Victims of the Portland. OSTON, Dec. 3.—Six bodies of victims otBthe Portland wreck @ere brought from Orleans to-day . to. the Morgue in this city. Three were subsequently identified. One is that of Fred A. Brown.of Port- land; another that of a man named Allen of Philadelphia and the other that of Eva M. Totten of Portland. Fishermen report seeing a mast sticking out of the water near Hogshead Rock, off Cohasset, with a man lashed to the rig- ging. A crew will attempt to cut the body loose and bring it to Cohasset. Bibles for Porto Ricans. NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Rev. A. J. Mc- Kim, agent of the American Bible Society, sailed yesterday for Porio Rico with 1000 copies of the Bible and portions thereof for distribution among the inhabitants of that isiand. Mr. McKim's visit to Porto Rico will be the first that ever has been made for the ‘:urposa of introducing the Protestant Blble among the people there. PUNISEMENT IN ENGLAND. Of punishments less than death which prevailed in England years ago mutila~ tion was one of the oldest and cruelest. Hnder the Danes, and even in the early orman times, for certain offenses men were deprived of thelr eyes or parts of the face or body. These barbarous penal- ties gradually softened themselves down into the comparatively mild forms ot cntunf off the right hand or the ears. Branding disparaging letters on the chest, forehead or hands was another form of mutilation ‘and-was occasionall performed as a substitute. for cutting of the ears on those who had already lost u*ue members. 5 he plllory was a favorite punishment in former times and it had the dublous advantage that it might be eiiher a very severe penalty or a very mild, acs ng as populace regarded the crime for ‘which it was inflicted. As the spectators ‘were allowed to pelt the victom he often a very b-_\mu of it. If a cattle- as p‘ 0! h E‘:’z&n W ed in Smithfiel in the more thinly populated parts of the United States. Three men al:'e recorded to have been killed in the piliory in Lon- don between 1755 and 1870, On the other hand, a popular criminal was hardly i convnienced and could crack jokes with the bystanders. Titus Oates experienced both fates. On his first day In the pillory he was all but killed. On the second his friends nearly rescued him. The penalty of burning .to death pre- vailed from the earliest times and, strange to say, it was practiced on what men then considered merciful grounds. 1t was long the special penalty for heresy, and this because the church abhorred the shedding of blood. And it was in- flicted. on women for crimes for which men were hanged, as a concession to the sex of the offender. In 1779 a man and a woman were sentenced for coining. The man was hanged and the woman Burned. The murder of a husband by his wife was petty treason, and this was punished by burning alive. In 1870 am act was passed which provided that women should suffer hanging. as in the case of men. It Is consoling to know that in the seven- :f:";":veand e:tgmeeml? cgnturk-s the vic- re not actual urned ‘aliv strangled beforehand. Hixnhgt Capital punishment was abolished for twenty-one crimes between 1818 and o, In 1827 there were still thirty-one crimes punishable with death.. It was abolished for nearly all these between 1832 and 1838, and remains now for only two. While these reforms were belng enacted capital sentences, ‘though still pronounced 1in large numbers, were rarely earrled into effect. In 1818 1254 persons were sen- tenced in England and Wales, of whom only ninety-seven were executed. In 1838, of 116 sentenced, only six were hanged. In the nine years. 1831-39, only five per- sons were executed in London. —_—— Prince George of Greece was dining one evening on the island of Salamis at the naval station there. At the last moment the cook discovered there was no lemon for the fish. Now, fish with- out lemon is an unheard-of thing in Greece. A council of war was held. It was decided that one of the revenue cutters should be sent to Plraeus for lemons. ADVERTISEMENTS. Prudent Piano Purchasers don’t want to buy an ex- periment. Maybe un- .known makers of recent growth can give you a reliable instrument, but the chances are they can’t. 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