The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 30, 1899, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1899. 090 0-0-0-0-90-00 0900000660000 : GRANT WILL FIGHT BURNS TO THE END Withdraw When His ¢ [ ] L J - + Will Only . Support Will [ ? Ulysses S. Gr is an ® | v of the State other th: able man But the G the remotest possibility of the elect until the end of the session if it is necessary. This infc ‘ body Besides the Mexican. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, nt becomes convinced, and his friends likewise, that he bsolute impossibility in the Senatorial fight, he will retire. But to this retirement of Grant one condition attached. Mr. Grant, and his followers, likewise, must be convinced that his retirement will insure the election of some citizen n Daniel M. Burns, an is, the Grant men are not at this time ready to All they.will ask is that the man to receive their nt men will not leave their favorite as long as there is tion comes direct from .4 ° [ ® Elect Some-= Jan. 29.—When as a factor in the contest there is ion of Burns. They will stand solid one of Mr. Grant's closest -9 -0 090 0000966606066 The purpose how to spending f A: s to money ures of were trivial in comparison ansact domain of ics. nay restrain uthor of the speech from expressing his sentiments Assembly. He compre. ds cle v an utterance of t d be construed conduct, n t in the élec- wing out money to 1 of the Republican legislative ticket. colonel has defined a course which to pursue, but_his_chief he Assembly declined this of that already nsure hs Cons on Colonel I for forcing to show his hand. It is argued commonest kind of gratitude will ns to care for anc jeld his dis- Speaker. Quick to catch the hint dflemma Grant and Buolla out no hand to save scandal, show of Burns on of the & screws wer order that others c emulate the keley. t turned out 1s now forced | to protect his | ht. in’ orde prepared a sfon, but excitement of the struggle THE STATE WILL HAVE i | | | of bringing | on September 27, 18 mbly- | Peav _vrhv the ca | body | Purdy, 74 years of age, committed suicide | | by blowing off the top of his head with | | with 8, eight miles north of | sizing of his canoe. The | ated_under the ice and was not it was general man- | 1 Union Company of Chicago. He carried a life insurance of $100,000 and was a large dealer in building | stone at Joliet and Chicago. oot T Faints on a Bicycle. ROSS STATION, Jan. 20.—Mrs, O. H. Schneider, a prominent resident of Mill v, met with a serious accident this afternoon while riding on a bicycle near | rkspur. She was attacked by a fainting spell fell from her . recelving internal injuries. She was unconscious for over two hours. Dr. Spottiswood of Mill Valley was summoned and after a recovi Mr. ager of the Alas] hard struggle he brought the woman back to conscio B! i A Record Trip From Skaguay. SEATTLE, Jan. 2.—The steamship City of Seattle arrived to-night from Skaguay, Alaska, after having tab- a' record trip. She was seventy from Skaguay. The round trip made in six hours less than seven She had ten passengers from the erior of Alaska. L RO Aged Man Commits Suicide. ANGELS CAMP, Jan. 23.—Edward F. a shotgun to-day. He was well known in this vicinity, h aving been one of the early settlers. - Attorney Mahoney’s Son Injured. SAN RAFAEL, Jan. Young John Mahoney, the son of At y Mahoney of Larkspur, had his right leg fractured to-day while riding a wheel by coilic pedestrian_on Fourth stre physician was summoned and the set, after which the boy was taken home. WHY MODERN NOVELISTS ARE | DRAMATISTS. It has been noticed with some surprise TO PAY THE DAMAGE | HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- | MENTO, Jan. 20.—The delegation of the | Assembly Committee on Claims returned | it went to inspect the damage .done to from its trip to Dutch Flat, where g Wedgewood abitan asked reimburse- aiming that the | a Asyl rmalit laims are | stance of | to the As- | sa ion found ‘that th such> will be the yrt- of the committec CONVENTION OF THE } PACIFIC TURNBEZIRK Max Magnus Elected President and San Francisco Given the Next The twenty- the Pacific n Fran- orwaerts, Mission, 1. convention of sting of the tockton, Mary Santa , met Cruz and here to-¢ Vovort, | tes were declared entitled | in the convention: Turn L. M 10 seats Verei D. Attinger, V. Plagemann, Trost. pler Mission Turn Bock, G. A. Rul ¢ Ferd Fischer, hmidt Henning, H. , Andrew F. Meyer. mon, Fritz. Lambert, , Philip Conradi; Thomas | 3 Vovort—George Siess, Renick Muller, Ad chen. The following permanent officers were clected: Max Magnus, president; P. Con- radi, vice-president; C. Wiedemann, first ary: Paul Uth, second secretary waerts, 7 Stockton, 68; Lo;’ Santa Cruz, ' 3] , 1128 adopted protesting inst a § y law anc St ex- empting churches from t declar- ing that the Vovort of the Turnbezirk 1 remart in San Francisco the coming the next convention be held in onvention concluded with a ban- o-night. WINTER QUARTERS OF NORTHERN CRAFT Points at Which the Close of Navi- gation Found Alaskan Vessels. SEATTLE, Jan. 25—A special - to- the Post-Intelligencer contains the first Rews that has been received from.the Kayu- kuk river, Alaska, since the closing of navigation last fall. There ‘are about thirty sternwheelers on the Kayukuk River, mostly prospect boats. The La- velle Young, Captain Robert Young, owned by the pilots of Portland, is in The quet t winter quarters at 'Peavy, the North American Transportation and Trading Company’s headquarters. The James Derrick, Captain Kénnedy, is in winter quarters at Péavy. The Wilbur Crim- mins, Captain A. L. Ritchie, Is in winter quarters a few miles above Peavy. Peavy is situated in latitude 67:10 north, longi- tude 150:30 west. These are the only steamers on the middle fork and are about 100 miles up the Kayukuk, from the old site of Arctic City. On the south fork of the Kayukuk River is the steamer AlasKa, Unien, Cap- tainr J. ‘L.’ Crowell, owned by a Chicago .company, the steamer Katie ‘{enrich and the steamer Messenger, owned by Sioux City people. At Bergman, where the Alaska Com- mercial ‘Compahy hds a store, 100 .miles below Peavy, there are twelvée steamers * wintering. There are eight steamers on the Allen Rocket River in winter quar- ters and four on the Klokochatna River. Some of the steamers below Peavy ma Be lost in the ice, as they did not reac safe places for the break-up in the of late that all the most successful dramatists of the day are novelists first of all, and that the dramatists pure and simple have had to take the second place. Not many years ago it was accepted as an axiom that the arts of the mnovelist and of the dramatist were utterly dis-| tinct, and that in the unlikely event of a | novel being suited for the stage the aid of a skilled dramatist was necessary. But now we see the novelists adapting their own work for the theater, and, what | is more, doing it most successfu The | fact however, that the novel has ut- terly changed of recent years and is-no longer a drawn-out history of a family or of a man such as “Tom Jones,” “Quentin Durward,’ Martin Chuzziewit” or ‘‘Van- ity Fair.’ None of these works could pos- sibly be put on the stage in thelr entirety but the modern novel is far removed from them. The three-volume novel has en- tirely disappeared from amopg us, and the one-volume novel has taken its place, with the result that instead of being spun out over a number of years from the hero’s birth to his marriage, as used to be the fashion, the latter-day novel deals with one incident only, and deals with that much in the same way as the play- wright builds his piece for the stage. The novel has ceased to be epic and has be- come dramatic, and consequently needs but little alteration to make an acceptable play. The theater remains where it did, but the public taste in novels has altered, greatly to the advantage of the novelist, who i§ now able to reap a double harvest from the reading public and from theater- goers.—London Globe. — e A Romance in Boston. It is not often a real romance {s at- tached to the modern marriage, but there can be such a remarkable combination, for it has occurred, in all places of the world, In this very town. Less than a year ago a swell young bacheler, break- fasting at his club, began regarding his morning mail, which a servant consider- ately brought in with the/ first course. Among various invitations was one for a dinner party in a fashionable suburb, but the hostess's name was utterly unknown to the recipient? Who could. this lady be? Had he ever seen her? No, he thought not; yet the note was en regle, and the address was all right, so fearing to make a blunder, the young gentleman said it was better to accept than to offend some one whom he had probably met in his various wanderings, and he would go. The night of the dinner he therefore pre- sented himself at the house designated, but only to find his hosts were utter strangers, and they equally surprised to see a gentleman who had not been in- vited. A few explanations followed, to the mutual amusement of guest and host, for seems the note of acceptance had puzzled the Jatter quite as much as the in- vitation had the guest. But, as it pleas- antly turned out, both were Soon in pos- session of those clews to common acquaintances by which the elect of Bos- ton society hang _together, and the ‘‘wrong’’ guest was cordially given the prettiest girl in the party, and who hap- pened to be the hostess’s niece, to take out to dinner. The acquaintance thus begun in an anti-Bostonese fashion was continued through the summer, and when afew weeks ago a charming wedding took place with this young man and voung lady for chief actors, the conventional and unwritten Brahminical rules of Bos- ton society received a shock that did them a heap of good. Fate sometimes resorts devious ways to bring true hel.-;‘rl;l! loget{ller,land in spite of it being a selfish, practical age, romance st - ishes in it.—Boston Herald. ol —_———— He Saw the Pojnt. The following story is told of a P! = delphia millionaire ‘who has been t’i‘;‘:d some years. A young man came to him one day and asked pecuniary aid to start him in business. ‘Do you drink?” asked the millfonaire. “Once in a while.” “Stop it! Stop it for a year, and then come and see me.” The young man broke off the hablt at once, and at the end of thyear came to see the millionaire again. “Do you smoke?” asked the successful man. ‘'Now and then.” “Btop it! Stop it for a Year and then come and see me again.” The young man wefit home and broke away from this habit. It took him some time, but finally he worfied through the vear, and presented himself again. 1“(D° you chew?” asked the philanthro- 5 “Yes, I do,” was the desperate reply. - “‘Stop it! Stop it for a year; then come and see me again.” The young man stopped chewing, but he never went back a%alm ‘When asked by his nnxiouf friends why he never called on the millionaire a*n!n he replied that he knew exactly what the man was driving at. “‘He'd have told me that now that I have stopped drinking and smoking and chewing I must have saved enough.to start myself in THINKS SCOTT 1S THE MAN FOR THE EMERGENCY Why Davis . Gives Him His Support. : CALIFORNIA’S - OPPORTUNITY HANGS IN THE BALANCE. . Will Be the Greatest Beneficiary of the War if She Selects a Compe- tant Man to Guard Her Interests. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 29.—Senator John F. Davis of Amador County, together with Assem- blyman Dunlap of San Joaquin, have been, since the balloting commenced on the Senatorship, supporters of the candi- dacy of Irving M. Scott. Senator Davis states that he will stand by Mr. Scott to the end. sons for continuing to support Mr. Scott are of interest. “Is it true that you never met Irving of. Scott till he came to Sacramento lately?” a Call representative asked Senator Davis this evening. “That is fact,” replied Senator Davis, ‘“except that eight years ago I heard Mr. Scott reply to a toast at a banquet given by the Oakland Alliance Club, when, after the election of Governor Markham, the Lo ngeles delegation re- turned the flag to Alameda County as tue banner Republican county of the State.” “SVhy have you given Mr. Scott your pport ?” “}!{eu use I thing Irving M. Scott is the man for the crisis.” “Do you object to specifying in what respect?” “No, I do not. I feel that the war with Spain, though begun merely for the amelioration of humanity, has left us a legacy of the most momentous problems that have ever confronted the republic. Great commercial readjustments have ir- resistibly come upon us, and California is destined, if proper advantage is taken of her opportunity, to be of all the States the chief beneficlary of the war. Let us look at this matter rot as partisans, but as Californians. California has now the opportunity for which she has been walt- ing for a quarter of a century. The war has already given us the Hawalian nds, has settled the point that the ific railroad debt must be paid, every dollar, principal and interest, and that the Nicaragua canal is as certain to be built as the programme of the McKinley administration can make it. Vast groups of islands, whether as colonies, protector- ates, territories or otherwise, are to form stepping-stones to greater Oriental trade, The construction nig the Nicaragua canal will revolutionize the conditions of trade on this coast. The inevitable result will be to force the clutch of monopoly from off the throat of our merchant marine. San Francisco and San Pedro harbors are destined to become hives of activity, and in fhe resultant creations of new indus- tries and the development of old ones on this coast the commercial stagnation of the ever. The questions of the immediate fu- ture for California are, in short, essen- tially those incident to commercial ag- grandizement.” “You feel, then, that a man connected with commercial industries, rather than 8 Dn]l;lclfln or a lawyer, should be chose! ell, the Legislature should bar no one on account of his profession or busi- ness, provided he is alive to the saitua- tion.” T cannot help feeling, however, that Irving M. Scott would, under the exist- ing circumstances, be just the man for the State. Here Is a man who is a world- beater. He has climbed from the foot of the ladder. By his own unalded genius, by the power of his own brain and skiil, being a draughtsman in a is the em- risen from sgmall foundry till to-day he the last twenty years will have gone for- | against almost inconceivable odds, he has | FUTURE OF THE GOLDEN STATE ployer of nearly 3000 men and is the head of one of the most successful shipbuildin, firms in the world. He has been mos| prominently identified with our commer- clal industries and with every movement for good government. If sent to the United States Senate. his standing in the community is such that he could not af- ford to be any less successful than he has been in private life. California, if properly represented at this time, iS’ des- tined to ‘play as important a part in shaping tl?e result as she did in shaping the course of the war. I know of no one in ‘California at this time who would by his ability, by‘his genins, by his record as a man of aghievement, by his standing at home _anaufbmad. bring with him on to the floor’ of the United smr Senate greater prestige for California or ac- complish moré for the Paclfic Coast than Irving M. Scott. That's why I'm for him flmg ave been for him all” through this ght.”” RUMORS OF WESTERN " i 7 RAILROAD DEAL Broker Talks of the Significance of the Visit of Mrs. Stanford and Crocker to New York. NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—A morning paper says: A broker in Wall street, who is identified with deals in leading Western railway stocks, said at an _up-town club last night that he regarded the an- nouncement by Mrs. Jane Lathrop: Stan- ford, widow of the late Senator Leland Stanford, of her intention to visit this city as highly significant. “The lady has admitted,” said he, “that she is coming on business connected with the Central Pacific road, of which she holds a large block of stock. It has been reported for some time that the Vander- | e This being the case, his rea- | | any | doing” { | | | his bilts are desirous of getting control of a Western outlet—one that will connect the | systems which they control with the Pa- ic Coast.” The broker would say nothing definite, but he threw out hints about a big deal in Western railroad shares, which he said he thought would be closed hefore the | week was over. Only a few days ago one of the Vanderbilts made a public denial of intention on his part to capture: a Pacific Coast road and continue the New York Central system to San Francisco. It is pretty well known, however, that W, K. Vanderbilt has been a heavy buyer of Central Pacific stock during the past two weeks and has materially hold on the road. Mrs, Stanford will probably arrive here | on Tuesday or Wednesday. She was pre- | ceded by George Crocker, who is also in- | terested in Pacific Coast railways. With | Mrs. Stanford and Crocker both here, it | may be assumed that “something will be on the stock exchange in a few | strengthened | day | REMARKABLE TRIP OF A PROSPECTOR | Though Almost Blind, He Tra.wls? From the Kayukuk Country to the Sea. SEATTLE, Jan. 2.—The first prospector to arrive here from the Kayukuk mining district of Alaska &ince navigation closed last fall is B. C. Nichols. His trip is a most remarkable one, when it is consid- ered that Mr. Nichols is almost blind. Mr. Nichols came down the Kayukuk to the Yukon, which he ascended to Dawson | City. He ‘walked a great portion of the way behind his dog team. J. Dietrich, a mining engineer of San Francisco, who accompanied Nichols part of the way, brings news that a relief party had gone from Seventy-mile Camp | some time ago in search of a party of | six prospectors who were reported to have had their feet and legs frozen while crossing Porcupine River. The party had not returned and there was some anxiety concerning_them. 22 t Fort Selkirk A. L. Breckenridge of Portland, Or., had brought in G. T. Watts of Oregon City, who was suffering with scurvy. Breckenridge reported three other men sick with scurvy in their cabins about Forty-mile. They were sadly in need of assistance and would probably die before spring if it was not tendered them. e AV St. Louis’ Coldest Night. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 20.—According to the local weather bureau last night was the coldest on record in this vicinify this win- ter. The thermometer fell to 3 helow zero and during the day ranged several degrees higher. B8 Killed by a Gas Explosion. MURCIA, Spain, Jan. 29.—Fourteen per- sons were killed to-day by an explosion of gas in the Palia mine, near Mazayron, twenty miles west of Carthagena. The other ‘miners succeeded in making their escape. CLEVER RUSE OF " COUNTERFETER Why Irwin’s Sentence Was Light. HIS PRETENDED CONFESSION SAN RAFAEL CITIZEN NAMED AS ACCOMPLICE. Henry C. Gieske a Leading Merchant « and Prominent Democratiz Politi- cian, “Shadowed”” by Secret Service Agents. Special Dispatch to The Call, SAN RAFAEL, Jan. 20.—To say that Henry C. Gieske, a leading merchant and prominent Democratic politician of this city, was dumfounded yesterday on learning that for over a week he has rested under the suspicion of being an accomplice of Charles Irwin, the vet- eran counterfeiter, would be to put the matter mildly. Yet it is now known that the aged criminal played the fox and endeavored to get himself a light sentence by promising to reveal the name of an accomplice to one of his numerous crimes, and finally made a confession implicating no less impor- | tant and respected a person than Gieske himself. In the early part of last autumn a complete counterfeiter’s outfit was dis- covered by the authorities hidden in a culvert on the north side of San Rafael hill, less than a mile from the center of town. Secret Service Agent Brown was apprised of the discovery and speedily arrived at the conclusion that the apparatus belonzed to Charles Ir- | win, who had served several terms in San Quentin prison for “shoving the queer.” This happy discovery ex- | plained where the spurious money yith | which Marin County was flooded % that time had been coming from, and why. the poolroom men at Sausalito had their coffers full of the bogus coin. < short while ago Irwin was captured at Napa and taken to San Francisco. He confessed that he was responsible for the counterfeit coin so largely cir- culated in Marin County, and was sent to San Quentin for three years, it be- ing stated at the time that the light sentence was given on account of Irwin being past 70 years of age. Further de- velopments, seem to warrant a belief that there was another and more co- gent reason. Last Monday a_ -'-~nger visited Gieske's store and had him change a twenty-dollar piece. Later In the day another stranger came in with non- chalant mien and also dropped a sim- ilar coin on the counter with a request for change. Since Monday no less than eight men, none of whom Gieske had ever seen before, came into his store and substituted gold coins for silver. The merchant also soon became aware of the discomforting fact that all his movements after twilight were being shadowed. For several days the town has seen more or less of Secret Service Agent Brown, but no significance was at- tached to this, as nothing was confided to the local authorities. Yesterday Gieske was interviewed, and told point blank that Irwin had made a confession implicating the merchant as an aceom- | plice. His astonishment amnd anger knew no bounds. “I never heard of such a thing as business. And 1 have.”—Youth's Com- spring. John G. Tait of Chicago was drowned panion. 2§ Y AN .\\\}\\—; e, 7S "KID WoRKS> OF 5AN DIEGO INTRODUCES A BILL TO PROTECT , GROYES FACE AND INGIDENTALLY HIS OWN EARS o. . HENRY C. GIESKE, a Leading San Rafael Merchant, Whom De- tectives Have Been ‘'Shadowing."” From 'a Phdto by Lorillard & Bratt, San Rafael. this,” he said to-day. “I never, to my recollection, saw this Irwin. It is prob- able that he was workimg for ‘a small sentence and accused me in order to get it, “Many men come here for change, and I always keep a large supply of it on hand. For that reason I attach no significance to strangers asking for change. Come to think of it, no less than ten'men I never saw before have heen in here for change since last Mon- day, and I have frequently, while on the streets at night, thought somebody was watching me. but the full foree of the thing never struck me until I heard yesterday what Irwin had told Brown.” Going to a private drawer, Gieske | brought forth a_small box filled with | coins of various demominations. Most of them were plugged and one half- dollar was a counterfeit. A dollar was placarded with the notice of a local merchant that it woulf be for a larger sum in merchandise than its face. “I never try to pass a bad coin that comes over the counter,” said Gieske, “but place them all in this box. They are sold to a local jeweler. When I get a light gold coin I take it to the sub- treasury office and have it redeemed. I am sure nobody who knows me would for an instant harbor the idea that I would pass counterfeit money, but T wish to be set right before the general public.” _ Irwin's alleged confession receives no credence whatever in this: community. Mr: Gieske, aside from his prominence as a merchant and politician, has never had a blot on his escutcheon, and there are none who are more widelv and fav- orably . known: .throughout Marin County. ¥ JACK AND TIM. A Dog and a Parrot Kind of a Time. Their Tricks. My dog Jack sometimes expresses his affection for me by tousling my skirt, and I feign to be alarmed at him, and “Oh, p'ease don't, Jack=— p'ease " in baby talk, ys Mrs. Char- lotte Boner. One day when Parrot 'tim was sitting on a lady visitor's lap, Jack playfully began to nip and bark at him. With outstretched wings and feathers all aruffle with real or affected fear, the bird cried: “Oh, pease don't, Jack—p'ease do e dog we. were compélled to name Jack because of Tim. We had owned a dog of the same breed apd name that was slain by our country road trolley, and Tim was continually saddening us by ca..- ing him, It was my custom, when the dog_was out in the park somewhere, - g0 tothe dggr and (‘allk Whistling— ‘Here, Jack!" Bal;'(ng \% myself, “Where is Jack? 3 the parrot repeated over and over, time and again, after the dedth of the dog: “Here, Jack!"—whistling—"Here, Jack! Where is Jack?” And that dpF used to run to meet the postman and bring our mail to the house in his mouth. When- ever I heard the whistle of the postmamn I would call to the dog and tell him ‘ta get the letter. Tim soon had the com- mand t—"“Come, Jack! Go get the let- ter.” 8o when after the death of our dog we were fortunate to get another of the same family and the new one also was CB‘Il“IEd \LBBC;( learned to imitate tne post- mm{: whirring whistle so perfectly that in summer time, when he hangs in the front or the back porch, he often causes neighbors to run to their doors expecting the letter carrier. Last summer, to the great worry of cenductors. he learned how to stop trolley cars that run near our house. Mimicking the call of a cer- tain gentleman, whom he had heard hail the car, he would cry, *Hey, there!— hey!” 'and whistle shrillly. Several times the conductor hurriedly ‘signaled the .motorman, who frantically shut off the current and put on the brakes. At first they were quite nonplused at seeing nobody, for they could not sce Tim, be- cause of the vines on.the poreh, and robably would not have suspected him f they had seen him, so human was the call. In some way they learned of this trick, and thereafter the conductor looked about sha’sp!y before stopping at that spot.—St. Nicholas Magazine. ———————————— PEOPLE OF TITLE. The Princess of Wales Intends spendin, the whole winter at.Sandringham an will recelve only members of the royal family and_very intimate friends. The Prince of Wales' birthday will not be celebrated there with the usual festivities this year. ‘Theé Duchess of York, following the ex- ample of her mother, the late Duchess of Teck, who was an (ndetsfl?ahle working member of ‘needlework guilds, has not only made two dozen articles with her own hands for tHe London needlework 1ld, which is to hold an exhibition at e Imperial Institute, but she will per- sonally arrange the contributions at her stall at the institute, Both the Prince of ‘Wales and the Duke of York have sent contributions, but these are, of course, fiot thelr own handiwork, though the Duke of York, like the Bishop of Lon- don, rather prides himself on his prowess with the needle: King Christias , who has not quitted Denmark for a single day during the last fifteen months, will leave Copenhagen very shortly for Germany, accompanied by his brother, Prince Hans of Glucks- burg.. The king is to visit his sister, the Duchess of Anhalt-Bernburg, at Ballen- stedt, on the Harz Mountains, whence he will proceed to Gmunden, where he will be for several weeks the guest of the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland at their beautiful seat on the Traun See.. It is ex- pected that King Christian will pay a visit to England in Decembér and may very likely go afterward to Athens to yisit the King and Queen of the Hellenes. The King is in fairly good ‘health, buf his medical advisers are anxious that he should leave Venmark for some months for change of scene and surroundings ana absolute rest. e dowager princess Josephine Hohen- zollern-Sigmaringen entered upon her 8th aeg.r last month. The daughter of the rand Duke Charles of Baden by his not unhappy marriage with Stephanie Beau- i s, the Empress Josephine’s cousin and Napoleon's adopted daughter, she was born at Carlsruhe, October 21, 1813, redeemed | | Philadelphia R Twenty-one years later She became the wite of Charles Anton, the late prince of Hohenzollern, and _among _her ; children are the now reignirig prince, thé king of Roumania ,and the Comtessé de Flandr She has six grandchildren and an equal number of great-grandchildren. Princ Josephine still retains all her ment: faculties and her bodily vigor is not seri- ously impaired. She is a charming old Jady and deeply beloved, not only by all the younger members of her large family Sign but by _the whole population of narin- gen, where she quietly passes the evening of her lohg life in the exercise of never failing ¢! 7 e Why He Did Not Enlist. Nothing is - harder for thé average citizen when he enters the - than the stb- epirit to the s of the ser- day on board the ceiving ship Richmond at League an: a big six-footeér came swinging in and de- manded admission to the service. He stated that he had come especially his home in Nebraska to enlist, and joy was great when he pdssed the phy- sical examination. ‘Do you think I'll-get to_Cuba_soo he asked the officer, ““Can’t tell. You will have to wait and see,” was the answer. “My, but I ‘can hatdly wait to pop a dozen or so of those darned Spaniards. ne continued. Just as he was about to be sworn in a natty young officer came along and was accosted by a marine, who_touched his cap respectfully to him. “What's that for?' demanded the tall Nebraskan. “To show respect,” he was told. “'Does every- body have to do that? he contipued. “Certalnly,’” responded the officer. ““Well, parc d the Nebtraskan, in a dejected voice, as herslowly pulled. on-his coat.and started for. the dogr, “I'd_exnected to en- Tist and get to fight, but { could never do that. so good-by.” ' And off he went.— rd TR South Carolina and Her Schools. “Very few people know that the Com- monwealth of South Carolina pays a larger school- tax in proportion to her total wealth than any other State in the Union,” said William A. Barber, Attorney General of that State, at the Riggs one night. - “But such is really the case. The fact of the matter is that the State is laying the greatest emphasis imaginable on education, and her colleges are fast coming to rank with the first of the coun- try. Last year I had the honor of deliv- ering the closing address at the Winthrop Normal and Industrial College, an insti- tution in my State devoted to the instruc- tion of young women. There are 400 of them in attendance there in all, and I was astonished upon investigation to note the thorough and useful courses in the indus- trial arts that the institution is offering its students. The young women of the South are keeping step with their sisters in the North and West in progress, and we cannot tell what achievements the future has in store-for them.’—Washing- ton Star. —— e The She Villain. In penny fiction you can tell them from a distance by their hair of raven black- ness and. by their dusky cheeks tinted with vivid carmine. y look like beau- tiful demons and their speech bewrayveth them, for, depend upon it, no really good women habitually. uses the expletive “Bah!” Jealousy is the one characteristiac they have in common with the heroines. They think nothing of making love to the hero in_the most brazen manner, and when he coolly rejects their proffered af. fection this sort of thing happens: “‘Slow- ly she raised herself until she stood be- fore him in all her majestic beau then she hissed rather than spoke, ‘You have despised my love; henceforth you shall know what my hatred means.’ " 1In spite of the.march of intellect the spretae in- juria formae seems still to be arecognized spring of conduct.—Blackwood's Maga- ne. —_———— No Place for a Man to Live In. I do not myself believe that our genera- tion will get much value out of the Nile Valley. For in what does the Soudan ton. sist? Tt Is, as it were, a single thread of blue silk drawn across a great brown nug- get, and even the blue thread itself {s brown for many months in the year. Where the waters of the Nile soak intg the banks there grow thorn bushes and poisonous weeds. “Where fhe fnhabitants splash the water over their scrappy fields —perhaps 50 yards square—there are hard. won_ crops. This belt of vegetation is rarelX more than a few hundred yards broad. And the rest is desert—miserable, aching, desolate desert. There is ple of room to lie down and die in. Burtdi{‘ti!; no place for-a man to live in.—Lieut. Churchill in the North American Review, —_—————— Among the Shades. Alexander—What's the matter with you, Cdesar? You seem to be downcast. T hope it isn’t vour digestion. Caesar—No; I've just been thinking of the mistake I made in not establishing a magazine before I started out to conquer Gaul. Just think what a_nice slice I might have\got out'of it by writing up the story of the campaign for serial pub- 1ieation before bringing it out in book form, as I did in my Commentaries! - 1 realize, too, that I might well have given myself a_good deal more credit than I did, if T hadn't been so blamet .modest. These modern warriors have caught on all right, I see. Aleck, there were lots of things about the business that you and I didn’t know.—Cleveland Leader. — e ' Obstacles to Chinese Progress. From' the' Chinese' standpoint “Tst An & liberal and progressive, b\’;t she is so ig! norant and secluded that it is difficult for any forelgn ideas to reach her. - When sha sees something good she wants it, but she a5 1o conception of the condjtion of China’'compared with that of other coun- tries, and, of course, cannot apply the remedies that are needed. If sge could understand the needs of th people, if sha could realize the ud\'amages of modern fdeas . and improvements, she would romptly adopt them. &he does not lack ntelligenice, but knowledge, and has sur- rounded herself with advisers who have hever been outside of China and are even more unenlightened as to modern affatrs.— American Monthly Review of Reviews. —————— THE LOST CHORD. “The minister's - sermon on harmony seemed to be somewhat out of tune. ‘He forgot his notes.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. <