The Washington Bee Newspaper, August 26, 1893, Page 4

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. FRUITS OF THE FIRST WEEK OF THE SPECIAL SESSION. Congress Gets Promptly to Work—The Great Silver Debate Opened — Presi- dent Cieveland’s Health—A Statement to the Public. VIRTUOUS JOSEPH SMITH. Prohibits Pologamy. | foseph Smith, President of the re- | | oon Church of Jesus Christ of the is at BU ee eae is week, attending the annual camp eecting of the Massachusetts district ‘ef the church. organized | Latter Saints, In regard to Mormonism he saidi | “We have renounced polygamy i? all Congress got rapidly to work during jt; forms, and the younger portion of the first week of the session. The sil- | the community, who are gradually get- ver and anti-silver Democrats agreed | ting the reins of power, Will allow upon a programme of debate, and the | battle was at once opened. Mr. Wil- nothing of the kind. Why, the book of Mormonism, which we believe, but son, of West Virginia, will lead the | place second to the Bible, on which Administration forces, eee fayor an | unqualified repeal of the Sherman sl ; my jaw, and Mr. Bland, of Missouri, | will head the silver forces. Mr. Wilson | 4p; troduced the following bill for the | Sacsaiatonal repeal of the Sherman silver law, said to have been drawn by Secretary Carlyle. It is known as Bill No. 1: os: enacted, ete., that so much of | the act approved July 14, 1890, entitled ‘an act directing the purchase of sil- | yer bullion and issue of Treasury notes thereon, and for other purposes, as directs the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase from time to time silver bullion to the aggregate amount of 4,500,000 ounces, or SO much thereof as be offered, not exceeding $1 for 371 25-100 grains of pure silver, and to issue in payment for such purchases Treasury notes of the United States, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; put this repeal shall not impair, or in any manner affect, the legal-tender quality of the standard silver dollars heretofore coined; and the faith and credit of the United States are hereby pledged to maintain the parity of the standard gold and silver coins of the United States at the present legal ratio, or such other ratio as may be established by law.” . Mr. Bland, of Missouri, introduced the following bill as a substitute: “Sec. 1. From and after the passage of this act all holders of silver bullion to the amount of $100 or more of standard weight and fineness shall be entitled to have the same coined at the mint of the United States into sil- ver dollars of the weight and fineness provided for in second section of this act. “Sec. 2. That the silver dollar pro- vided for in this act shall consist of 41244 grains of standard silver, said dollar to be legal tender for all debts, dues and demands, both public and} private. “Sec. 8. That the holder of silver dol- lars herein provided for shall be enti- tled to deposit the same and to receive silver certificates in the manner now provided by law for the standard sil- ver dollars. “Sec. 4. So much of the act of July 14, 1890, entitled ‘An act directing the | | purchase of silver bullion and the issue ! of Treasury notes thereon and for other | | purposes,’ as requires monthly pur- | | chase of four million five hundred ‘thousand (4,500,000) ounces of silver ‘bullion be, and the same is hereby, repealed.” | Debate immediately began under a mutual agreement, by which Mr. Wil- son’s bill will be discussed for fourteen days. Eleven days of the debate on the bill will be given to general debate | under the rules of the last House regu- lating general debate, the time to be equally divided between the two sides, as the Speaker may direct. The last three days of debate will be devoted to the consideration of the bill and the amendments, under the usual five- minute rule of the House as in com- mittee of the whole House. General leave to print is granted. The vote is to be taken first on an amendment providing for the coinage of silver at the present ratio. If that separate vote is to be imilar amendment providing io of 17 to 1; if that fails, on one proposing a ratio of 18 to 1; if that fails, one proposing a ratio of 19 to 1; if that fails, one proposing a ratio of 20 to 1. If the above amendments fail hall be in order to offer an amend- | ment reviving the act of February 28, 1878, restoring the standard silver dol- lar, commonly known as the Bland- Allison act. The vote then to be taken on the eng ment and third readin; of the bill as amended, or on the bill itself if all the amendments shall have been yoted down, and on the final pas- sage of the bill without other interven- ing motion. This prompt and decisive action will4 lead to action by the House within three weeks of the opening of the ses- sion. The House will probably pass Mr. Wilson's bill, and the fight will be seed to the Senate by Septem- per 1. Mr. Oleveland's departure from Washington to his summer home at Gray Gables has awakened consider- able anxiety. Before his departure he issued the following statement: “My absence from the capital at this time may excite some surprise, in view of my intense interest in the @nbject now awaiting the determination of Congress. Though my views and recommendations have already been officially submitted to that body, and though I am by no means certain I could further aid in bringing about the result which seems so necessary, it would be a great satisfaction to me if I could remain at the scepe of action. But whether I am here or elsewhere, I shall look with hopé and confidence to the action of those upon whom the responsibility now rests of relieving our people from their present dangers and difficulties. “I am going back to my summer home at the seashore because I am not sufficiently rested fromm the strain to which I have been subjected since the 4th of March to fit me to again as- sume the duties and labors which await | me here. I have been counseled by | those whose advice I cannot disregard that the further rest I contemplate is absolutely necessary to my health ané strength. I shall remain away during the month of August, and shall devote | myself to rest and recreation. My day’s doings will be devoid of interest to the public, and I shall be exceed- | ingly pleased if I can be free from the | attention of newspaper correspond- ! ents.” | Dr. Bryant, of Washington, who ac- | ied the President, had this to} say: “President Cleveland is not g sick | man, but is merely slightly exhausted | from overwork. He has labored Hard. | and needs a vacation as much ag any man I know.” The President will re turn to W: ngton early in Septem- ber. | The first great sensation of the silver debate was produced by Senator Vest, of Missow declared himself opposed to of the Sherman law except on the basis of the free coinage of silver. our religion is founded, prohibits polyg- amy, though this news may sound strange to the ears of outsiders. On is accourt Young could not maintain belief in both the book and his creed of multiple marriage, and that is why he started in on his own account. The book of Mormon is simply a record of doings of the people whom we believe first inhabited this continent, the fore- fathers of the American Indians and the Mound Builders. A GRAND ARMY PRESIDENT. Beginning an Agitation for a G. A. R. Presidential Nomination, New York, Aug. 14—A movement has been set on foot here that has for its direct object the election 01 the next President by the Grand Army of the Republic. At a meeting of Gen. Vo Post, G. A. R., at No. 435 F street, New York, Sunday speeches were made by several mem- bers of the post advocating the nomi- nation and support of a man at the next Presidential election who shal! be in perfect accord with the Grand Army men on the pension question. It is said that this movement will be agi- tated in all the Grand Army posts throughout the United States. The veterans are confident that if they and their friends unite and support such a man they will have no difficulty in electing the next President. Steuben A LABRADOR VOLCANO. Simple-Minded Fishermen Thought the End of the World Had Come. St. Johns, N. B., Aug. 15.—Intelli- gence has been received here confirm- ing previous reports of a Labrador voleano. Fishermen off Cape Harrison, Lab- rador, were startled on Thursday, Au- gust 3, by strange noises on shore and detonations like the firing of heavy artillery. Shortly afterwards the top of the cape was seen to be all ablaze, @ pillar of flame shooting up to a gr height. Some of the most venturesome fishermen landed, thinking the brush- wood covering the ground might be on fire and intending to extinguish it. But they found that the fire came out of the earth. A large part of the top of the cliff had fallen in, leaying a vast chasm, from which issued a stream of fire, stones, cinders and steam. The terrified fishermen returned to their vessels, declaring that the world was coming to an end. Many left the re- gion in fright, spreading the story of the phenomenon along the coast. Found Dead in His Bathtub. Washington, Aug. 15.— Mr. ©. P. Benedict, who formerly had charge of the branch office of the Adams Express Company in the Treasury Department, was found dead in a bathtub at his residence here yesterday. He was ar- rested some years ago and pleaded guilty to embezzling funds of the com- pany, and was sentenced to a term in the penitentiary. It was always be- lieved that he had lent the missing money to an intimate friend, a banker, in difficulties, who afterwards failed and went West, and that he sacrificed himself to save his friend. Benedict was sent to Albany, where he remain- ed for a little more than a year. Just before his marriage President Cleve- land pardoned him, saying that he could see no possible reason for his incarceration. to natural causes. State Funds Safe, New York, Aug. 10.—A rumor pre- vailed yesterday that the State of New York had $250,000 tied up in the sus- pended Madison Square Bank. It has been learned since that Controller Danforth became aware of the condi- tion of the bank before its doors closed, and, by a hurried trip from Al- bany, was in time to present a check for $250,000 and draw the amount out. The money belonged to the cang] fund. Superintendent of Banks Preston is in charge of the Madison Square bunk. The tota) liabilities of the bank were $2,705,171 at the last ort, including capital, surplus and undivided profits. The resources were equal to liabilities. Shot by “Tom” King. An Oklahoma City dispatch says: William Whitmaster, a United States deputy marshal, has been shot and killed in the strip by Laura Maundas, alias “Tom” King, the female horse thief. The marshe#l was pursuing the woman gnd met his death from am- bush. “Tom's” exploits have made her notorious, he is a well-born and good- looking Missouri girl, upon whom re- peated punishment has had no effect. This last is her gravest crime. Every outlaw in the West is her friend, and her capture will be almost impossible. The Government Corn Crop, The monthly crop report just issued by the Department of Agriculture, based on estimates ef the crop condi- tions on August 1, shows the bad ef- fects of the present drought. It re- ports a decline of six poimts in corn, the average for the entire corn region being 87, as against 93.2 on July 1. and a decline of more than ten points in spring wheat and ten points in oats and tobacco. The Pay Car is Coming. Albany, N. Y., Aug. 10.—The report- ed inability of the New York Centra} Railroad to secure currency to meet its monthly pay-roll has caused no lit- tle excitement along the line of the road. It is announced here to-day that the company has overcome the difti- culty caused by the refusal of its New York depository to cash a draft for $1,000,000. Cash enough has been se- cured to send out the pay car as usual Bill Will Cut a Watermelon. According to gn Atlanta, Ga., dis patch, Senator David B. Hill will soon cut a Georgia watermelon which weighs more than eighty pounds. It is a present from John Colyin, one of Senator Atlanta admirers, ij Says the Creed of the Latter Day Saints His death is ascribed | AMONG THE #/NDU POOR. Multituaes of 4¥origines, Almost Un- Living in Wretched Buildings. ny standard of actual a writer in the Paul- a ze, the aboriginal and unmixed Hindu population is poor in- deed. It has often been a wonder to us that the laboring classes among Hindus build so poorly, and one is not less surprised to see the comparatively superior houses the Koi takes the pains to build. A man can rarely stand in a poor Hindu’s one to three rupee house, he nearly always can comforta- bly do so in the Koiwar’s more capa- cious, better-roofed home. But_ this house is about all. Seldom do brass cooking vessels appear in the hands of the Kois. The most common earth- enware, cheap, easily broken and quick- ly replaced, do them. Better utensils are seen among even the poor Hindus. Here and there are flocks, but a few fowls, perhaps a goat or two, a dog, and one or two genuine “scalawag” pigs meke up a Koi estate. In the west the men dress better than in Bastar. The women go with the upper body only imperfectly covered by a cloth that covers the lower body, one end of which is thrown up over one shoulder from the front. In the villages of Bastar we find mul- titudes with no more than a piece of cloth three feet by nine inches, a very secant covering for the human frame. Our hearts have been touched with pity many a time as men, women and children haye come out to hear us preach, sing and pray. It is noti able that the natural modesty of man- kind is not wholly lost even among the most barbarous tribes, or under the vilest of heathen systems. We first thought such nudity would prove the depravity of. the people. But to our surprise we did not find any more im- morality among the aboriginee than the Hindu. Children up to eight or ten years are usually utterly naked. Among the Hindus the marriage relation is very lightly esteemed. The Koi, on the other hand, may poly; ise, but gen- | clothea, | erally he has‘ but one wife. | erty of the | stock pens. | Notwithstanding the apparent poy- origines among whom we have travelled, they seem remarkably happy. Almost every night you h | the village song and the tom-tom. T! is to amuse themselves and frighten away the wild beasts that abound about them and are the plague of their Whatever else the people have or have not, they get and use to- bacco. They grow it and its use by both sexes is everywhere seen. Even little children indulge in the pc Drinking under the Bri system” is fearfully preva the Godavery and drunkenn spreading greatly in that vicini to a recent date the people of have been comparatively fri this vice. But the Britis tem is set up, and the mohw: flower of which yields liqu: Five thousand people meet in J: - pur every Sunday market day. These weekly bazaars afford a fine opportun- ity for evangelizing. Much of the grain ee, the carrying is done on the heads of wo- | men, or on men’s shoulders. The aboriginee wears ple Men put on most of it. We fre- quently see from ten to one hundred different articles of ornament. ked they may be, but they must have jew- elry. We have seen thirty-eight rings in a man’s two ears on a feast day. The great respect apparently shown to woman among the aborigines is strik- ink. She seems to be reckoned fairly man’s equal. This greatly simplifies missionary work among them. Our preachers can at the same time with equal facility reach both men and wo- men. At Yellandu three-fifths of all who hear our preachers are women. The aboriginee either in the west or east builds no temple to his gods. These people revere gods they esteem to dwell in the hills. They worship the five brother kings, of whom Beem Der and Dharma Rai are the favorites. They sacrifice to appease the Hindu small-pox goddess, but do this in the open air. Every high hill is deemed sacred, and it is difficult to get one of these people to ascend one of the high- er hills. They have no idols so-called. The last man among them will tell you “God is above.” When you ask him why he does not worship him and him only he frankly says because he does just what his father taught him. Everywhere the magic-man is dread- ed, and he takes good care to fleece the people well for his own profit. Jagda- pur is full of temples and literally somebody bas made “priests of the common people’ here. Such is the country, the people, their history, their customs, condition and religion told but in part. Treatment of Watches. That a watch may keep good time, says Chambers’s Journal, it should be carefully treated; it should be wound at the same time daily, and when not worn should be placed in the same position, always hung up, or always laid down, as every watch goes differ- ently in different positions. In watches having a double case, the outer one should never be left open. If it is left open even for one night the glass is covered with a thin film of dust, whi will gradually enter the works through even the tiniest openings in the case. Watches should be wound in the morning, because a spring fully wound up will more readily overcome the dis- turbances produced by the movements of the wearer.. Springs will not break so easily if watches are carefully wound up and not taken out of a warm pocket and placed directly against a cold wall or on a marble slab; for that Treason a protective mat is desirable. The changes of the oil, the variations in temperature, the density and humid- ity of the air, all greatly affect the going of a watch, and it is only the lever watch of the most perfect finish which almost neutralizes those adverse influences. No watch keeps perfectly correct time.. Even the best chronome- sed in observatories and on board must be regulated according to tables which fix the variations to which watches are subject. A watch should be cleaned every two or three years. In time the oil decom- poses, gets mixed with the particles of dust which enter the works of even the best-closing watch, begins to act as a grinding material, and wears out the working parts. It frequently hap- pens that a watch requires cleaning oftener than once in two years, espec- ially if it closes badly or is exposed tc much dust and dirt. Any one who has the misfortune to drop his watch into water should take it at once to the watchmaker, to have it tNxen to pieces and cleaned; a delay of even an hour } may spoil the watch foreve more remarkable because, as r ubounds. | 'y of jew- | FREAKS OF MEMORY. Here are Some Queer Facts About Vari- ous Noted Men. Great men are always eccentric, and men who want the world to think they are great begin the jugglery of eccen- tricity early in life and keep it up. The genuine genius has a great deal of trouble with his memory. Henry Clay couldn’t repeat a verse of any poem. He couldn’t repeat the old long metre doxology, “Praise God from whom all blessings flow,’ but he never forgot an argument, a name or a face. Dr. Leyden, the intimate friend of Sir Walter Scott, could repeat an act of Parliament after hearing its first reading. It is an old story that Milton could repeat Homer. Charles James Fox once paid a visit to the town of Gorcum. He was relat- ing an incident that occurred there, but could not think of the name of the town. The next day he was giving a dinner, and while carving he startled his guests by calling, “Gorcum, Gor- cum.” ‘The name of the town had just occurred to him. Syndey Smith pretended to despise memory. He said he saw no more sense in remembering all he had read an the dinners that had made him ‘at. The story has been told for 100 years that Cyrus knew the names of all his soldiers. Emperor Hadrian could re- peat 2,000 words in the order he heard them. Angelo had all of Dante and Petriarch in his memory. It is said that Pascal knew the Bible by heart. Leibnitz could repeat nearly the whole of Virgil. A London reporter took no notes, and yet, when an unexpected debate sprang up, and he was left alone he could write it out verbatim. When listening he closed his eyes. He called it “being held up by the ears.’’ Prof. Lawson boasted that he could, if the Bible were lost, repea¢ the whole of it with the exception of a few verses. Lord Macaulay made the same boast about ‘“Pilgrim’s Progress” and “Paradise Lost.” It will be remem- bered that pone of the works named were lost, so that the gentlemen were never put to the test. It is a fact, however, that Macauley had a wonder- ful memory. When a boy he went with his father to call on a gentleman upon whose table lay Scott’s “Lay of the Last Minstrel.” Young Macaulay read it, and when he reached home he repeated it. ‘The most remarkable feat of memory on record was that of an itinerant ac- tor of England, William Lyon. He won a bet of a crown bowl of punch that he could repeat the whole of an issue of the London Daily Advertiser after hearing it read. This was the uders of newspapers know, there is no sort of connection between advertisements and the variety is endless. Jedediah Buxton was illiterate. -—He could tramp over a tract of ground and tell its contents in square feet or inches with exactness. A Census of Animals. The st populous horse country in the world is Russia in Europe. It has 20,000,000 of horses. The United States comes next, with a horse popu- lation of more than 16,000,000. In pro- portion to the number of inhabitants the United States is far richer in horses than Russia. But in that proportion the United States is in turn far sur- passed by the Argentine Republic, where, according to the latest accessi- ble figures, there are a few more horses than people. The countries. of western and south- ern Europe are thinly populated with horses, compared with the American continent and Russia. Italy, with a human population of more than 30,- 000,000, has only 720,000 horses. But it has almost twice as many mules and donkeys as horses. Spain has only a few more than 300,000 horses, or about one horse to every sixty people. Most of the “cavaliers’ of Spain ride on donkeys. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland has only | about 2,000,000 horses. The United States is the most popu- lous mule country in the world. It is also, by many millions, the most popu- lous pig country, possessing over 46, 000,000 of swine. There is, also, a larger proportion of pigs to the hu- man population than in any other country—larger even than in Ireland, a country which is popularly but mis- takenly supposed to be the Utopia of the pig. The country of the sheep, par excellence, is Australia. On that continent there are a few more than 3,000,000 people, but there are 62,000,000 sheep—that is to say, twenty sheep to every man, woman and child. In the United States we have only about 47,000,000 sheep, | which, though a larger sheep popvla- tion than that of any other country ex- cept Australia and the Argentine Re- public, is not proportionately so great a number as several other countries possess. British India has more cattle than any other country, but the United States has almost as many—upward of 52,000,000. However, the Argentine Republic again leads in the number of cattle in proportion to human beings. If the cattle in Argentina were divided equal- ly among all the people, every man, woman and child would have five cat- tle to take care of, and there would be enough left to give one additional crit- ter each to almost a million of the peo- ple. Considered from the point of view of farm animals, the Argentine Republic is probably the most import- ant country in the world.—Youth’s Companion. An Early Start. “You did not run fast enough,” said the station agent to the passenger who missed his train. “I ran fast enough, but I did not start soon enough,” said the passenger, as soon as he could get breath enough to reply. When we see a farmer drawing out manure while other farmers are planting, planting while others are hoeing, and killing weeds when his grass is drying up in the field, or harvesting unripe corn after the frost has killed the stover, we think that, no matter how hard he may have worked, or how busy he has kept since he began the spring work, the trouble is that he did not start soon enough. He should have had a part of his land fall-plowed, he should have had his manure drawn to the field dur- {ng the fall and winter; he should have bad seed and fertilizer at home before the ground thawed, and the team and tools should have been in shape to work right on without breakage or hin- drance from the first. Then he would not have been in a position to «realize quite so fully the truth of the old proverb regarding the length ang al- most hopelessness of the “stern chase.” Thos. H. Clarke. REAL ESTATE AND LOANS. 606 F Street, N. W., Wasutneton, D. 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