The Washington Bee Newspaper, December 16, 1893, Page 4

Ne ee SE a errr 77 gnnagunassnassiapsaaaatimanaresmsnecaeeennmensmesiansneinianiinsiaiiaiac aaa THIS WEEK’S NEWS. A Summary of Current Events—The World's Doings for the Past Six Days Gathered and Condensed for Qur Readers. General. The Spanish police are still gathering tm Anarchists. Prof. Tyndall, the famous English selentist, is dead. A revolution is said to be brewing now in Venezuela. : A woman was convicted of horse stealing in Columbus, 0. There were 383 failures throughout the United States last week. France is organizing torpedo com- panies on the Russian plan. The indictment of Col. Ainsworth and others is practically quashed. Ni ensary bill has been intro- matey mae South Carolina Senate. New warships for Great Britain are to be built with all possible despatch. Mr. Gladstone is ill, but it is hoped that he will be about again very soon. The debt statement for November shows an increase of $6,716,498 in the public debt. Ex-Speaker Grow announces his can- didacy for Congressman-at-Large from Pennsylvania. Mrs. Charles Coghlan will sue for divorce, naming Kubne Beveridge as co-respondent. Russia’s sending of an agent to Abys- sinia is construed as an act of direct hostility to Italy. King Humbert is reported to have called on ex-Premier Crispi to form a Cabinet for Italy. A Columbia, S. C., carpenter thinks he has found a sword which once be- longed to Charlemagne. The new cruiser Marblehead made 18.94 knots on her trial trip, which is nearly two knots in excess of her con- tract speed. The Pennsylvania Company has se cured the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad, which gives it a new outlet to the lakes. Ex-Minister Robert Adams, jr., has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Second Pennsyl- vania District. The National Sugar Company has been organized with a capital of $1,- 000,000. The plant of the company is located at Yonkers. Police Superintendent Byrnes, of New York, brands Zella Nicolaus, who is suing George J. Gould, as a blackmail- er and adventuress. It is said that the revenue cutter Cor- win will leave San Francisco soon for Honolulu with a special messenger of the State Department. Governor Flower has appointed Hen- ry W. Bentley, of Boonville, to take testimony in the matter of the charges against Sheriff Beck, of Erie County, N. ¥. At a wedding at Arlington, Neb., Herman Echtenkamp and Frank Oste- man settled an old grievance by fight- ing a duel with pistols. The latter was fatally wounded. | Gov. Lewelling, of Kansas, instructs the police boards of that State that the law under which vagrants are com- ‘ pelled to work on the highways and | rock piles is unconstitutional. The State Boards of Arbitration of New York and New Jersey, the leaders of the Lehigh strike and President Wil- bur are at Bethlehem, Pa., the arbitra- tors trying to scttle the trouble. H. E. Huntington, a son of President Cc. P. Huntington, of the Southern Pa- cific Railroad, has been elected Prest- dent of the Cen Pacific Railroad, to succeed the late Senator Stanford. The officers of the tank steamer America, which arrived in New York this week, m to have seen a sea serpent off the Newfoundland banks. It was about 100 feet long and swam like a huge eel. Judge He k, at Albany, has ren- m that the State Board s of New York must show » not in contempt Mylod return in for canvassing the the election of 1891. The doctors have ordered John Mor- ley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, to take a prolonged rest Mr. Morley will lprobably be absent from his place in ithe House of Commons during the re- mainder of the session. The vault of the bank at South Bend, Ind., was robbed of $15,900 in broad laylight. The door of the vault was forced while the cashier was at lunch nd while the assistant cashier was being called to the front of the bank iby a decoy caller. General Master Workman Sovereign, his address to the Knights of Labor, favors free coinage of gold and silver, the abolition of the President's veto, the establishment of the popular in- itiative and referendum, and resistance ito land and industrial monopoly. The pugilists are to make their head- quarters in Florida in spite of the Gov- ernor’s warning. A cottage has been selected for Corbett’s use while train- the Corbett-Mitchell contest will be n the old fair grounds at East Jack- sonville. The “dance du ventre,” transplanted from Chicago to New York, as part of the prize winners’ exhibit in the Grand Central Palace of that city, was stop- ped by the police. Anthony Comstock enies that this disgusting performance is an Eastern religious dance. He says Persian Minister told him the lancers would be killed if they ap- ed in Persia. A Delta County, Texas, farmer nam- Baker recently went to Copper, the unty seat, and bought a whiskey arrel. He took it home and when he ent to clean it he found about half a gallon of whiskey in the barrel, which e drained out. He and his wife drank some of the liquor and were taken vio- lently sick. A physician was called, who said they had been poisoned by the whiskey. They died three days afterwards. Senator p2 Hunton was re-elected yy the Virginia Legislature to fill out the une: d term of Senator Bar- ¥ sed, and Thomas Martin, hairman of the Democ State Committee, was chosen to Senator Daniels rote stood: Thon Hugh Lee, succeed for the long term. The 0 S. Martin, 66; Fitz Governor McKinney, 1; Gen. Hunton, 1; necessary to a choice, 3. Ma S success over ex-Governor Lee was a great surprise in national political circles, =] than that of ordinary years. health officials of Bombay and other CHOLERA’S ENDEMIC HOME. Not India, but Arabia ts the Real Breed- ing Place of the Plague, Shocking as are the statistics of mor- tality among pilgrims to Mecca report-, ed in the Str from Tunis a few days ago, where of 9,000 who set out but half the number returned, the death rate of this year is but little sae e Indian cities have for some time been collecting facts and statistics to show that India does not deserve the ill reputation it has of being “the endemic home of cholera,” but that Arabia is the home of the plague, and they are preparing to make strenuous efforts to arouse the Arabian authorities and convince them of the fact, and to have them apply a remedy. Some of the statistics printed in the Bombay Ga- zette reveal a terrible state of affairs. According to the official returns of the Health Officer of Bombay, of 91,- 000 pilgrims who left that city for Mecca during the past eight years only 60,000 have come back. Thirty pilgrims in every hundred have per- ished in every year of that period, and very many of those who survived to return home have come back only to die of disease contracted on the pil- grimage. The facts adduced go to prove that the pilgrims do not carry disease with them from India. There is a rigid inspection at Bombay before embarkation, and every pilgrim is re- quired to pass a medical examination, to undergo a certain quarantining process, and to possess a certificate of good health. The mortality on the voyage from Bombay to Arabia is very small. It is after the pilgrims have entered the holy cities, and during the return, that the mortality is great. A record is kept by the British Con- sul at Jeddah of the number of pil- grims arriving at and departing from that port, with such particulars as will insure general identification. The fig- ures of this record fully corroborate those of the Bombay officials. An average estimate of a mortality of one- third among the Indian pilgrims in each year, when there is no general epidemic of cholera, is clearly estab- lished, and the belief is expressed, founded on such corroborative statis- tics as are obtainable, that fully one- third of all pilgrims to Mecca perish in every year. The Indian officials assert that the cholera plagues which periodically sweep around the world “have their origin in the filth of Mecca and Medi- na.” There is a great scarcity of water in these places, and the quality of the little obtainable is bad. The famous Holy Well at Mecca offers the most complete conditions for spreading disease. It ordinarily contains but lit- tle water. One of the most essential devotions in the pilgrimage is to bathe in and drink of the water from this well, and its brink is always crowded with pilgrims, some drawing its water and pouring it over ther persons, others dipping it up in cups and gourds and drinking it. The water used for bathing runs directly back into the well, and thus diseases are directly spread. The authorities did for a time this year close up the well. Drainage in the city there is little or none, and the most ordinary a precautions are utterly disregarded by the choked crowds of pilgrims. Not alone cholera is thus bred and spread, but the holy cities are hotbeds of small-pox and other like terrible diseases. The same conditions are true of El Tor, Jeddah ng at Mayport, Fla., and the arena of and Camaran, and the Indian health officials will, for the protection of its people as well as for the sake of the country’s reputation, make strong en- deavors to induce the authorities of the holy places of pilgrimage to take an interest in drainage and general sanitation; to have more scavengers even if they have to have fewer priests. They think that the Western nations might profitably take an interest in the condition of things in Arabia, and the result of their investigations will be offered in the hope that steps will be taken to crush out the cholera plague in what they assume to prove # its real endemic home.—New York Sun. Uses of Linden Bark, The bark of the linden tree plays a singularly important part in the do mestic economy of the Russian peas- ant. It is made into a sort of matting which is used for bags of all kinds, the best and heaviest being reserved to contain flour, and also into sandals, which are so hniversally worn that 10,- 000,000 pair are required each year. For sandal making strips of the bark of saplings are employed, and, as it takes the bark of about forty saplings to form a single pair, the destruction wrought by this one industry can eas- ily be imagined. The young trees are stripped in spring or early summer, when they are full of sap.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Eng! Humor as She is Spoke. An English paper says that years ago, when a severe illness left the Princess of Wales a little lame, a good many unmitigated snobs affected what was known as the Alexandra limp. According to the same paper, the visit of the Infanta at Chicago had even more ridiculous results, for the women of the Windy City are not only culti- vating a taste for ¢! but also facsimiles of the Infanta’s faint mous- tache——New York Sun. Aluminium, There are many misconceptions about aluminium that are widespread and which it seems difficult to correct in the public mind. Aluminium is not, section by section, a very strong metal. It is only one-half as strong as wrought iron. It has a very low elastic limit. It is not rigid, but it bends under a transverse strain readily. It is in its alloys that its utility commences to appear. With 8 to 12 per cent. of cop- per, or aluminium bronze, we have one of the most dense, finest-grained and strongest metals known. Whipping Scions of Royalty. I complain of your not having sent me word that you had whippel my son, for I desire and order you to whip him every time that he is obstinate or naughty, knowing well from my own case that there is nothing in the world which does one more good. I know by experience what good it did me, for when I was his age I was whipped a_ great deal. — Correspondence of i Henry IV. The Pound Sterling. The: old English pound sterling was derived from the weight of 7,680 grains of sound wheat from the middle of the ear and well dried. | THE FAMOUS PONY EXPRESS. . Fast, Hard, and Dangerous Riding with Letters for the Gold Diggers. The regular work of the daring and romantic overland Pony Express riders has never been exceeded, even by the recent specially trained for long d tance riding of the German and Au trian army officers. When it is consi ered that those Pony Express ride! travelled over a wild country, without bridges, or even roads deserving the name, crossed two great mountain chains, vast alkali deserts, and had to fight Indians and wolves along much of their journeys, and that the aver- age time made was 250 miles a day, it will be seen that even the Govern- ments which pay attention to such matters have no such courier system id to call upon. But this system was or- | ganized for the accommodation of the gold miners of California, who were | able and willing to pay, and in fact did pay, $5 for each half ounce of mail brought to them from the old folks at home by the daring little Pony Express riders. Each rider was limited to fif- | teen pounds of mail, which was divid- , ed into four packages of equal weight and carried in saddle pockets, two in front and two behind the rider. So it will be seen that each rider carried mail for which the company received $1,200, in addition, of course, to the United States postage. The ite of the Pony Express be- gan at St. Joseph, Mo., and extended due west to Fort Kearney, Neb., thence up the Platte River to Jules- Forts Laramie and Bridges, Wyo., and on to Salt Lake, Utah. The descent into the plains of Nevada was made thence along the Humboldt River. The Sierra Nevadas were crossed by way of Canyon City, Placerville, then known as Hangtown, and the Sacra- mento Valley, reached by the road the miners had made down by Folsom toa Sacramento, and thence along the val ley and over the foothills into San Francisco, where the long journey ended. There were always eighty riders in the saddle, forty going east and forty west. Change stations were close to- gether, especially over the mountain- ous sections, as the ponies were kept at top speed from station to station, no matter what kind of country they had to travel Many of the brave light weights who rode in the Pony Express service lost their lives in Indian fights for the gentle red man seemed to es- teem it a peculiarly high honor to dangle an Express rider’s scalp at his belt. The wonder was that the service was kept up at all; that so many of the riders escaped the Indians, dangers of flood, storm, snow, cold. Thei# chief advantage in en- counters with the India the Pony Express riders were alwa better mounted, on better fed horses, than the Indians, and could take care of themselves in a chase. They w< a wary and experienced lot and diffi- cult to ambuscade, so that while an occasional scalp was lost there were not many of the letters longed for which never came over that danger- ous route. : The Pony Express went out of exist- ence when the overland railroad and telegraph service was completed in 1869. Few of the old riders are still living, and the promoter of the scheme. William H. Russell, and his chief as- sistant, B. F. Ficklin, are both dead. Bones of a Departed Race. A farmer plowing near Calhoun, Neb., recently turned up a human skull, and search revealed a large num- ber of other skulls, besides bones. These relics were those of a powerful race, and who they were is unknown. The skulls are large, but the forehead is extremely low. A World-Herald re- porter visited the place, and a me: urement was taken of one of the lower jaws found and compared with the di- mensions taken of one of the men on the field. The relic’s jaw was found to be an inch larger each way, in pro- portion, than that of the person whose measurement had been taken, although he was six feet three inches in height, weighed nearly 200 pounds and had unusually large jaws. The measure- ment of the lower marillary found is as follows: Depth, 4 inches; width of the upper extremities, 5% inches; width inside measure from wisdom tooth to wisdom tooth. 2% inches; total length of jaw, 5% inches. The upper was fully as large, while the teeth re- sembled those of a cow more than those of a human being. They were badly worn and would go to show that the owner ate meat, presumably buffalo, a@ great deal. A dentist when shown the teeth said that they were much larger than any of those of a white person living in this age. A theory advanced is that these are the remains of some Mandan Indians, who were the earliest settlers of this art of the country, but were ultimate- ly exterminated by the Sioux. The size of these bones would explode this theory, however, as the Mandans were not a large race. Another theory is that they are, perhaps, the remains of Northwestern Indians who were killed by another tribe. This tribe were large in’ stature, according to tradition, many being six feet and more in height. ie reporter found about fifty fect from the location of this trench an- other in which were buried the remains of five grown persons and one infant’ A spade plied to the earth soon brought to view the remains of six human be- ings. These skulls were smaller and not of such extraordinary thickness as those exhumed from the first trench. They also bore the apeparance of hay- ing lain in the ground for a longer per- fod, as they would crumble apart of their own weight, while those first dis- covered were in a fair state of preser- vation. The cavities of the skulls had become filled with dirt, and it was only with great care in handling that a fair specimen was preserved. The trench was only three feet sbuare and about two feet deep. In order to place a human body into so small a grave it must have been fearfully mutilated. When found the arms were over the head, while the tibia and fibia were found under all. The skulls were also found in different positions, some being straight up and down, while others were lying face up and some with the face down. No pottery, metal or the like was found by which they could be classed with the mound builders. Elevators in Old Times, Passenger elevators were in use in Paris in the seventeenth century under the name of “flying chairs.” burg, Col., across the Platte and to} by the route through Ruby Valley and | was that! PADDY IS A MILITARY DOG. He Led the Charge ina Famous’ Battle of the Egyptian Campaign. There is one important participant in the English military tournament whose name does not figure on the programme. And yet he is one of the most earn rs in several of the vivid and H + scenes of military life now nightly to be seen at the Madison Square Garden. He is Paddy —simply, Padd. Who is Padd, and-white f A dog—a little black- i He is a thor- oughbred, speaking both physiological- ly and colloquially. His breed is pure, his pedigree will pass muster, and he has the courage, the nerve and the fearlessness which gain for a man the epithet usually ipplied to an animal. He hates mu and when Bandmas ter Mayne r his baton and his red-coated, gold-lace-bedizened — musi- cians strike up “Comrades” and play lit, he seeks the seclusion of the Gar- |den’s sub-cellar. But the blare of | brass, the trumpet-blast, is the sweet- ‘est of sounds to him. He pricks up his amputated ears and sniffs the air with delight. ‘he roll of musketry, the peal of artillery, the cdlanking of sabres are his music. born on the battle-field of in an artillery leathern buck- the property of Lieut. e officer, who had prom- meron, the Daily Stand- var correspondent. Kirk fell, and | Cameron, wh sense of duty to the readers of his paper led him to seek he news in the thick of the fight, re ceived his death wound. Capt. W. awson Turner, of the Fifteenth Hus- who was present at the battle as volunteer ok Paddy and adopt- ed him. The Je waif became the pet of the tiona naby, of Khiva fame, j him, but his master with him. Capt. Turner returned to England, and his little fox-terrier grew up in a military atmosphere. From the first he took delight in the sound and smell of powder, for they came to him with his first breath. When Capt. Turner, with the restlessness of the true cavairym: volunteered for the Egyptian cam mn he took Paddy charge at Suakim Paddy led the w his tail wagging. When his mas joined forces with the selected veterans—rank and file~ who have come to ica to, show us what stalwart, sturdy men, dashing riders and nervy fellows the soldiers of the mother country are, Paddy, of course, came along.—New York World. along. In the f A Story of the First Railway, S in Au- It was the y ina proposed to nullify the of the United States, she could, forcibly if she ys propided that ‘Georgia would join the act. In February he annual meeting was to be held in Charleston, and this usually brought | the leading men of the other slave States to that ¢ where the scheme was to be laid before them. A party of Augusta gentlemen were going down to these races on horseback, and I was invited to join them. At that time there was an excellent breed of saddle-horses in Georgia, called the “Cherokee pony,” being raised in the upper country, then occu- pied by the Cherokee Indians. It is now 2 thickly-settled region, with At- lanta for its chief ¢ but the Indians have long since disappeared, along with their ponies. I owned one of these poni a very handsome animal u g “peace must,” alwa about twelve hands high, a compactly built bay, with long tail, mane and foretop, ve easy in all gaits, gentle I had ridden him in fox and he could generally keep up with a field of big horses, and would jump any common fence. I have ridden many horses in many lands, but I think Little John was the saddle herse I ever rode. om Augusta to © leston is 140 miles; there were no rz roads then, although one had been be- gun from Charleston towards Augusta, and it was the first road in the steam power. On a fine morning in the latter part of February we start- ed, six in number, with a change of clothing in our — saddle-t , down south through the great tra t forest which lies between Augusta and the ¢ thinly settled, with roads only sui s We made about thi sa day, and ate and sle ome log cabin by the » were few villages or taverns, but almost any planter or far- mer would take us in for the night. One day as we approached Charles- ton suddenly the appeared on the an elephant, coming slowly to- us flapping his great ears. This ion was more than our horses and they all bolted into the woods with their riders, and re- fused to be comforted until the mon- ed. A few hundred yards r we met the caravan of wild s to which the elephant belonged. s the wagons were drawn by the ‘amiliar mule our horses passed quiet- ly, but as we got abreast of them from one of the wagons came the roar of a lion, with the growls of other beasts. The bolting process was renewed, and off went our horses in a panic. Hardly had their nerves become quieted again when we saw in the dis- tance the new lroad, finished some ten or twelye mi out of Charleston; it was built upon piles, longer or short- er, according to the nature of the ground; sometimes in crossing a ravine the rails were twenty feet from the ce. Our track ran near this L nd soon a horrid shriek as from twenty panthe was heard in the woods. By this time we were ner- vous. phants and lions we had beard of, and some of us had seen them, but what mons was this whose screams we heard? Presently it came in sight, flying aloft through the air, and breathing fire and smoke, and again our ightened steeds be- came unmanageable. And, in fact, I think that some of our party were as badly frightened as their horses. If any of my readers are old enough to | remember the introduction of locomo- tives, and how they felt at first sight | of them, they will perhaps understand our sensations that day in the pine woods. A mile or two further on we came to a broken wagon by the side of the | road, and near it sat a Georgia crack- er, smoking his pipe. On being asked what was his trouble, ‘‘Well, stranger,” was the reply, “I’ve offen hearn tell ; of nullification, and now I reckon I’ve | saw it for true.”—Forest and Stream. A good dinner assuages grief, 2 AT AE ATES LTTE IE Ie CHEAP JOB PRINTING At the “BEE” Office, 1109 I Street, N. W., near Iito where you can get DODGERS. TICKETS, PROGRASIMES, CIRCULARS. BUSINESS CARDS, VISITING CARDS RECEPTION CARDS, WEDDING INVITATIONS, BILL-BEADS, LETTEEADS STATEMENTS, CONSTITUTIONS, BY. DRAFZ BOOKS, CHECK B9OKS, & AT THE LOW} T CASH PRICES. Liberal Discount to Gaurcues Benevolent Societies, Social Clubs, Military Organizations and Labor and Trade Unions. 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