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THURSDAY. JUNE 28, 1894.
The Plague in China.
The health authorities of this country
have had ample warning of the existence
of the plague at Canton and Hong Kong.
While there has been no armour cement of
special preparations for preventing it
from reaching our shores, the presump
tion is that all necessary precautions have
been taken. The infectious and awful
character of the disease is well-knoWn,
and what makes it more terrible is that
medical science is unable to cope with it.
From 80 to 90 per cent of those afflicted
with it die. The few that recover owe
their escape to their strong constitutions.
Death comes quickly after the attack,
generally within forty-eight hours. But
the suffering is beyond the power of
words to express while life lasts.
There is no reliance upon medicine.
There is no known remedy for the disease,
the cause of which is not understood by
physicians. They know the symptoms and
that is about all. They have not had a
chance to study it because it has made its
appearance but seldom in modern times,
and then only in places out of the reach of
scientific students, it made its appear
ance in a small town in Turkestan in 1892,
and swept away 1,800-people in six days.
In the fourteenth century it destroyed
26,000,000 people in Europe and 36,000,000
in Asia. It visited Naples in 1665 and car
ried off 300,000 victims. In the same year
it killed 69,000 people in London in less
than four months. In Toulon in 1721 ond
third of the population succumbed to it.
Its last visit to Europe was in 1840-41. At
that time it made its appearance in Tur
key and Dalmatia.
Our close commercial relations with
Hong Kong and Canton make it neces-
MXy tb.-t alj.our ports of shojgJ.d, be
closely guarded against it. It would be
folly to take any chances. Nothing could
stay the progress of the disease if it
should find a lodgment on our shores.
Our safety is in preventing it from getting
a lodgment.
Time for Work.
It has been apparent for several weeks
that Mr. Atkinson will get a majority of
the delegates to the state democratic
convention, and, hence, will secure the
the gubernatorial nomination. He has
shown himself to be a much abler poli
tical manager than Gen Evans, and has
outgeneraled him at almost every point.
The question of the nomination being
practically settled, no time should be lost
in thoroughly organizing the party for the
campaign. There is no doubt, of course,
that the democratic ticket will be elected,
but it is a matter of the greatest im
portance that it should be elected by the
old time majority. It should be given
relatively a larger majority than the last
state ticket received, in order that the
populists may be convinced that they are
only wasting their time in trying to get
control of the state.
We do not believe that either Judge
Hines or Mr. Watson entertains the be
lief that the Populist party has a chance
of electing its ticket. Nevertheless they
are going to. make as lively a cam
paign as they can, with the hope
of electing a considerable number of the
members of the legislature, and for the
purpose of putting their party in as good
a position as possible for the national
campaign in 1896.
There is no good reason why the state
executive committee should wait until
after the meeting of the state convention
to organize for campaign purposes. It
should set the party machinery in motion
at once. A great deal can be done toward
arousing enthusiasm in the ranks of the
democracy before the ticket is named.
There is one thing to which attention
should be given at once, and that is the
nominating of men of influence and ability
in the different counties for the legisla
ture. In a number of counties the candi
dates have already been decided upon.
In the great majority of them, however,
th® people have not made up their minds
as to whom they want to represent them.
Some very important matters will come
before the legislature. Legislation of a
reform kind is expected and desired. The
most capable men available, therefore,
should bo nominated. In the few counties
in which the populists are strong it
would be folly to permit them to nomi
nate men superior to the democratic
nominees. That would be giving them
an advantage that would be of great ben
efit to them. The democrats must not be
content with accepting men who seek
legislative honors. They must nominate
men who are able not only to render the
state efficient service, but who will be a
credit to their party.
The honor of being the “exposition
mayor” of Atlanta is eagerly sought after
by a number of leading citizens. There
are several candidates in the field now,
with lots of others peeping from behind
the bushes. The ambition is a worthy
one, yet it is pertinent to remind the can
didates of the fate of Chicago's exposi
tion mayor. Notoriety has its draw
backs as well as its advantages.
Atlanta and Mr. Turner.
Hon. Henry G. Turner is to deliver an
address in Atlanta next Saturday on the
invitation of the chamber of commerce of
that city. According to our dispatches,
there is a movement on foot there to
create the impression that that city is
not friendly to his candidacy for the
Senate. This impression is desired
probably for the effect it may have in
other parts of the state rather than in
Atlanta.
No doubt the friends in Atlanta of the
other senatorial candidates are somewhat
alarmed by the prominence the chamber
of commerce has given to Mr. Turner’s
candidacy. The invitation, by that body
means, practically, that the business men
of the capital of the state regard him
with more favor than any other one of
the candidates.
It is a fact that the people in all parts of
the state have a very high regard for Mr.
Tu -ner. He has been true to their inter
ests all the years he has been in congress,
and the rtecord he has made and the posi
tion he has attained in that body are
such that Georgians feel a just pride in
him. It gives them pleasure to know that
throughout the country he is regarded as
the highest type of a statesman.
It is probable that very few of the busi
ness men of Atlanta, or of any other of the
larger cities of the state, know Mr. Tur
ner personally. He is not a hand-shaking,
favor-seeking politician. He does not try
to increase his popularity by playing the
part of “hail fellow well met.” Indeed,
he could not play that part if he tried.
He could not play any part that would
tend to give the people a wrong impres
sion of himself. But all who come in
contact with him are charmed with him.
His sincerity and quiet, simple manners
make those who know him admire and
trust him. People all over the state have
the most implicit confidence in him be
cause of his ability and his thoroughly
honest way in dealing with public ques
tions.
We have no doubt that if a senator
were elected by popular vote Mr. Turner
would be chosen. He has been long in
public life and has given satisfaction. He
is a power at Washington. He is looked
upon as a safe leader and wise counselor.
In the Senate he would be as prominent
as he is in the House. Indeed, in what
ever position Mr. Turner may be placed
he is certain to reflect credit upon his
state.
No one of course can predict with any
degree of certainty what the outcome
of the senatorial contest will be.
The legislature under the manipulation
of shrewd politicians may not express the
will of the people.
The World Mourns With France.
The death of President Carnot of the
French republic by the hand of an assas
sin makes the whole civilized world sad.
He was a good man and a good president.
He did much to make France great. He
was a lover of justice and liberty, and
during the time he was president, he
aided greatly in establishing the one and
guaranteeing the other.
He was struck down without a moment’s
warning, and by the hand of a foreigner.
An Italian did what no true Frenchman
thought of doing. The French people
loved President Carnot and probably
would have elected him president again.
He had political enemies in France, but
they were not assassins. Even the French
anarchists entertained no animosity to
him. He went everywhere without pro
tection. It did not enter his mind that
he needed protection. Among the people
of France he felt safe.
What reason had the Italian anarchist
to assassinate him? No reason, appa
rently, except that anarchists of any na
tionality believe in killing those in au
thority. Their creed is to kill the rulers
as the first step toward destroying gov
ernments, overturning society and bring
ing about chaos. Their hand is against
everyone who believes in law and order,
liberty and justice. All nations should
unite against them. They war upon
organized society, and society should turn
upon them and place them beyond the
power to do harm. *
They work in the dark and deal out
death at unexpected times. Within a
very few months bombs have been thrown
i» a crowded theater, an assemblage of
a nation’s representatives, in a restaurant
filled with people and in various other
places. The people are patient, but they
will cease to be patient under the con
tinual attacks of the anarchists. There
will come a day of reckoning, and all who
are suspected of being anarchists will
become victims of their wrath.
The assassination of President Carnot
recalls the assassinations of Presidents
Lincoln and Garfield. The motives for
the assassinations of our presidents are
well known. The motive for the killing
of President Carnot has not been dis
closed. There was probably no other
motive than the one already mentioned,
namely, the purpose of anarchists to kill
any one in authority. That motive is a
terrifying one to rulers wherever there
are anarchists. 4
Naturally, there is great uneasiness in
France, and there will continue to be
until a new president is chosen. The pol
tics of the republic is just now in a very
unsatisfactory Condition, and each fac
tion will seize upon the opportunity to
compel recognition of its views. What
France needs now is a leader strong
enough to gain the confidence of the peo
ple.
Bernard Coleridge, son of the late chief
justice of England, is a hard-headed fel
low. A few days ago the Morning News
told how, since his father’s death, he
would succeed to the peerage and would
be forced to give up his lucrative law
practice, because precedent said he must.
It transpires, however, that he will snap
his fingers at precedent and go on with
his practice, upon the assurance of the
attorney general that he cannot be com
pelled to stop. He is a member of the
House of Lords, notwithstanding which
he will continue to be a barrister in the
courts. The idea of a peer pleading law
suits is something that astonishes Eng
land. It is rather to be regretted that Mr.
Coleridge, who was a member of the
Commons, did not stick to tbat as well as
to his law, and let it be tested
whether there was any power that could
make him a peer if he didn’t want to be
one.
The New York World, in a physiog
nomical chart explaining the chins of
great men as indexes to their character
and ability, gives Abraham Lincoln and
Peter Jackson the place of honor in
the center of a group of celebrities.
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1894.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Mary Grossland states In her “Liter
ary Landmarks” that Lady Blessington and
others ot the poet’s intimates pronounced his
name “Birron.” The conclusion drawn is
that its owner must have pronounced it that
way himself. According to Leigh Hunt, By
ron called himself both Byron and Birron;
the Quiccioli called himself “Bairon:” and
Mary Jane Clairmont’s daughter figures in
the codicil which concerns her as “Allegra
Biron.”
Robert A. Whiteland, of Washington, re
cently forwarded to the Prince of Wales,
through Ambassador Bayard, a photograph
takm of the prince when he was in this coun
try in 1860. it represents a slender youth of
19, and bears little resemblance to the cur
rent portraits of his royal highness. The
prince, in acknowledging the gift, recalls
with pleasure his visit to the United States,
“and well reinembers sitting for the photo
graph in question.”
Valentine Cameron Prinsep, the new En
glish royal academician, was born in India
and educated for the civil service. Inclina
tion and study made him an artist. One of
his most popular pictures is “The Lion’s
Sons,” showing the bandjand-boys of the Duke
of York’s school, with a widow and a group
of old soldiers in the foreground. He was
selected by the queen to paint a picture of the
Durbar at which she was proclaimed Em
press of India. He is a novelist as well as a
painter
Mrs. Zultne E. Hearsey, of Baton Rouge.
La., is one of the most successful business
women in lier state. After the close of the
war, her husband being an invalid. Mrs.
Hearsey. opened a large book store, which at
once sprang into popular favor, and to-day is
the recognized headquarters for all standard
publications, as well as the rendezvous of all
book-lovers and litterateurs. She employs a
force of. thirty newsboys, and her second son,
Gaston Hearsey, has been her assistant for
several years. She also manages a large
floriculture trade, and the roses and camel
lias raised in her gardens are known all over
the south. Her florist business is scarcely
less profitable than her news and book store.
The Buffalo Commercial says that Radcliffe
college, formerly Harvard annex, has among
its undergraduates this year the first Japan
ese girl who has come to this country to be
educated. She Is Miss Shids-Mori. and she is
described as a charming combination of
Japanese features. English dress, American
coiffure and “Japanese-Anglo" language. She
is the daughter of a wealthy banker in Yana
gawa, Japan, who was converted to Christ
ianity some years ago and has educated his
sons and daughters in that faith. Miss Mori
will study in England and France, as well as
in the United States, and will then return to
Japan to devote herself to educational and
missionary work. She is nearly 20 years old.
BRIGHT BITS.
Horsey—Do I look like a gentleman, Pat
rick, in these clothes?
‘Patrick—No, sorr; ye lookloikean English
man.—Judge. •
Sunday School Teacher—Now, Sammie,
you may tell us where all the little Sunday
sChoul boys want to go.
Billy—l knows; in a swimmin'.—lnter
Ocean.
Tommy—Paw, what is the “sweating sys
tem? •
Mr. Figg—l don't know exactly, but it has
something 10 do with the troubles of the pore.
—lndianapolis Journal.
Bride—“Oh, Arthur, I often doubt vour love,
for I fancy that you want to marry me on ac
count ot ’my dowry,” Arthur—“ What a
foolish idea. Why, that won’t last me any
time.”—Fliegende Blatter.
Wife—How people gaze at my new dress.
I presume they wonder if I’ve been shopping
in Paris.
Husband —More likely they wonder if I’ve
been robbing a bank.—New York Weekly.
Mrs. Yearwed (beseechingly)—Oh, it I only
knew some way to keep my husband at home
nights. Can’t you. from your long married
experience, suggest a plan?
Mrs. Oldhand (grimly)—Certainly; chain
him.—Buffalo Courier.
“How are you going to get your money for
the Fourth?"
Ted—Why, by shootin’ off firecrackers now.
“How does that help?”
Ted—The boarders pay me to stop making
such a racket.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Young Man—Grade, what is it your
father sees in me to object to. darling?
The Young Woman (wiping away a tear)—
He doesn't see anything in you, Algernon.—
Boston Home Journal*
She—They say that persons of opposite
qualities make the happiest marriages.
He—That’s why I am looking for a girl
with money.—Tit-Bits.
An Observant! Youth—lt was Bobbie’s
mother’s birthday—her thirtieth, some said,
though there were others who were disposed
to credit her with three or four years more.
Bobbie, too, had his ideas on the subject ap
parently. for at breakfast he said: “How
ol d are you. mamma?”
“Oh, nineteen or twenty," was the answer.
“Humph!” said Bobbie.“ Seems to me you'er
growing backwards.”—Harper’s Drawer.
He leaned gracefully against the mantel.
“Yes,” he repeated, “I love your daughter.”
The old man in his easy chair regarded him
keenly.
“Can you support a family?” he asked, after
a pause.
"That depends. How"—he looked the
father of his beloved straight in the> eye—
“how many of you are there?”
Presently they came to the terms of an am
icable understanding.—Detroit Tribune.
CURRENT COMMENT,
Talking- of State Reforms.
From Swainsboro (Ga.) Pine Forest (Dem ).
We hope Georgia will soon repeal the home
stead laws, and the Twitty bill, which de
ciares a contract to pay attorneys’ fees null
and void, and put the state convicts on the
public roads.
Grumbles Too Much.
From Thomasville (Ga.) Advertiser (Dem.).
How can the third party man ever expect to
have any money when he never works, but
spends fully one-half of his time tasking
crankism and grumbling about hard times?
If he would work more his lines will fall in
easier places.
Too Young in the Cause.
From the Canton (Ga.) Advance (Dem.).
It is our honest opinion that, Judge Hines
will not be able to make as good a race as
some other men the populists had in their
ranks. Already the populists in different
parts of the state are saying he is too voung
in the cause, and that the nomination should
have been given to a man who had been with
them longer.
A Faithful Servant.
From the Atlanta (Ga.) Journal (Dem.).
There is hardly a doubt that Congressman
Rufus E. Lester will be renominated for a
fourth term in the House of Representatives
on July 17 without opposition. Congressman
Lester has given the people of his district
faithful and excellent service for six vests
and it would be a difficult matter for any one
to stir up a spirit of opposition strong
enough to defeat him. His continued renom
inations show the high regard for his party
services throughout the district.
About the Size of It.
From the Bulloch (Ga.) Times (Dem.).
A Georgia farmer sells his cotton to the
north in a crude state, and then buys it tack
in the manufactured article. The northern
capitalist thus recovers the money which he
paid out for the raw material, along with the
pi oh ts of his enterprise, while the northern
laborer secures employment anti the trans
portation companies something for their cor
porations to do. Then this farmer calls his
neighbors together to assist him in denounc
ing the government, and to howl about the
northern “gold bug.”
Both Parties Need Reorganization.
From the Baltimore Sun (Dem.).
Both parties need a thorough shaking up
and reorganization. It is their only salva
tion, and the plain voters of both should call
new leaders to the front who will raise their
organizations out of the mire into which they
have been sunk. We do not want party lead
ers who have been born and bred in the polit
ical slums, who mistake trickery for states
manship. and the methods of the sharper for
the arts of diplomacy. Nor do we want for
leaders despots who Substitute bayonets for
ballots, or political economists who place all
the public burdens upon the backs of the peo
ple. The people want neither lions nor foxes
to lead them—neither the beast of violence
who will devour openly, nor the beast of cun
ning who will slaughter in secret. Both par
ties must select their best men for this re
sponsible duty, men who represent the in
tellect. the manhood and the honesty of the
country. If they do not. they mat be sure
that another party will arise which win be
nearer to the mind and the heart of the peo
ple.
THE OLD FRIEND
with red Zon every package. It’s the. King
of Liver Medicines, is better than pills, and
takes the place of Quinine and Calomel. Take
nothing offered you as a substitute. J. H.
ZEILIN & CO., proprietors, Philadelphia.
In the “Most Dignified Body.”
When the tinder of New Hampshire and
the flint of Nebraska came in contact in the
Senate yesterday there were sparks, says the
Washington Post. It was all because Mr.
Allen referred to Mr. Chandler last Wednes
day as a baboon. Mr. Chandler did not hear
the “opprobrious epithet.” as he termed it,
when it was used, and he must have had a
cold shudder when he found it in the Record
yesterday morning. AH day itong he nursed
his righteous indignation, and finally he found
an opportunity to tell Mr. Allen what he
thought of him. As he arose Mr. Allen left
his seat, which is some distance back on the
democratic side, and dropped into Mr. Hun
ton’s seat on the corner of the aisle. It did
npt take long for Mr. Chandler to get started,
and presently Mr. Allen heard himself ac
cused in broad and unequivocal terms of hav
ing bartered and sold his vote to the demo
crats for the consideration of free lumber in
the tariff bill.
There was no mincing of words on the part
of Mr. Chandler. Indeed, lie deliberately
charged that the democratic votes given to
Mr. Alien’s propositions were due to a fear of
a threat that Mr. Allen, unless he got what he
wanted, would not vote for the bill.
“But I have discovered,” said Mr. Chandler,
in his raspiest way, “that the surroundings of
the senator from Nebraska before he entered
the Senate Were such as not to allow him to
observe these courtesies which all
gentlemen—’’ and Mr. Chandler de
liberately emphasized this word—
"regard even in the most heated partisan
debate. The senator from Nebraska." he
scornfully added, “is to be pitied and not
censured, for what he can not help.”
Mr. Allen, his face pale but drawn, arose to
reply. He denied the insinuation of a bargain
and characterized Mr. Chandler’s words as
unparliamentary, ungentlemanly and untrue,
and uttered with the deliberate knowledge
that they were false. He had never entered
into or suggested a bargain for his vote. He
would, he said, seek - to secure whatever he
could for his constituents, and he would cast
his vote upon the bill whichever way would
be of the greatest benefit to them, “in spite,”
he exclaimed, “of the low, dirty insinuations
of the senator from New Hampshire or any
other man.”
“The closing remarks of the senator.” re
marked Mr. Chandler, “only emphasize my
statement that he does not comprehend the
courtesies which should characterize debate
in this body.”
Then he sat down and the thermometer fell
ten degrees.
Drew the Line at Suspender.
•‘Some years ago,” said ex-Attorney Gene
ral Miller to a reporter for the Indianapolis
Sentinel, “I was trying a case up in Whiteley
county, where things are not conducted with
the formality that is the rule down here. It
was a terribly hot day in August, and the su:i
was cutting across lots to get at us. We had
stood it bravely for three days, and after
the testimony had been all given to the jury
M'e began with our arguments. Opposed to
me was a man -who weighed something over
200 pounds, and It got so hot that he began to
sizzle. It came his turn to address the jury
about the middle of the afternoon, and he be
gan with a great big cabbageleaf sitting upon
his head. As he became more and more en
thused the cabbage leaf tell off, and then, as
he began to warm up to his work, the only re
lief he could secure was uy the removal dthis
wardrobe. As he started in loTtel!
what aim unprincipled villain the defendant
really was he jerked off his coat and thr#w it
on a bench. As he dived into the ‘res gestae’'
he shed his vest, The motive for the crime
brought his collar off with a jerk, and as he
in vivid words, began picturing the scene at
the final moment, one suspender slipped from
his shoulder. It really began to get interest
ing.
“The court, as well as ail the others in the
room had been dividing attention between
the oratory and the shedding o'! apparel, and
as that suspender slipped from the shoulder
of the aroused orator, the judge concluded
that* it was time that something should be
done. He coughed once or twice, and then re
marked, quietly:
“ ‘Counsel, in presenting his case to the
jury, must not interpose anything that was
not brought out by the evidence.’
“The animated lawyer's fingers were ner
vously clutching at the other suspender, and
as he heard the interruption he stopped in the
midst of a concatenation of adjectives. He
hadn’t understood exactly.
" ‘Your honor I trust I shall be given suffi
cient liberty to expose—
“ The court interrupted him. ‘You will be
permitted in argument to expose everything
connected with the crime as brought out by
the evidence, but the court feels that you have
shown a disposition to digress materially.
You will please confine yourself more closely
by adjusting your suspenders.’
“And then he understood. ’
Reed Paid for the Wine.
Ex-Speaker Reed was stretched out on a
sofa in the House and Representative Bynum
was writing letters, .says the Washington
Post. Representative Berry of Kentucky
passed by,
“I should say,” said Bynum to Reed, in
an oft hand way, “that Eerry was the tallest
man in the House.”
A look of ineffable scorn flitted across the
face of Mr. Reed. “Bynum,” he said, “why
■is it that I have always to go around dis
pensing information to the democratic side.
Don’t you know that Curtis of New York is
the tallest man in the House? Bynum. I am
surprised at your ignorance.” And Mr. Reed
settled back on the sofa as if he had settled
the question forever and forever.
"I am willing to pin my faith on Berry,”
said Bynum, quietly.
“Well,” spoke up Reed, “if you will be
foolish. I will go you a bottle of wine on • it.”
Out went a couple of pages to hunt up Mr.
Curtis and Mr. Berry. Half a'dozen members
who had overheard the wager awaited the re
sult. The New Yorker .and the Kentuckian
came up together-Mr. Curtis tall and
straight. Mr. Berry stooping slightly. There
was no question as to who was the taller.
“There.” said Mr. Reed, with a tone of
triumph, “what did I tell y ou?”
But at that moment Mr. 'Berry, having
heard the question at issue, began to unfold
himself, so to speak, like the swan necked
woman in the dime museum. His long legs
straightened out. his back gathered inches
unto itself, his head rose up in.the air. and
presently Mr. Curtis- six feet and four inches
though he be—was a dwarf.
“My God. Berry.” exclaimed Mr. Reed,
somewhat irreverently, but with an expres
sion of awe in his voice, “how much of your
self do you keep in jour pockets?”
And then the crowd went down and ate wine
at Mr. Reed's expense.
Racing in the Old Days.
“They may talk about the good attendance
at the races,” said Bob Minehan, an old-time
devotee of the turf, to a Washington Post
man. “but the people that go don t put their
money cn the horses as they used to. I was
interested myself in book making not so very
many years ago. There were four of us in
the venture, and I shall never forget the re
sult of eight days’ work at Saratoga. Every
nigbt we used to throw the money in an old
fashioned gnp and carry -it to the safe,
actually too exhausted to count the roll.
There were plenty of big bills, though, and no
ones and twos—nothing smaller than
fives. My share was 30 per cent., and when
we divided up 865,000 as the profits of the
eight days, you can rest assured I was very
well satisfied with the returns. Men didn't
any more mind putting up 810) then than they
do a 45 note now. Our test patron during
that seige was a woman, a noted memoer or
the New Fork demi-monde. She knew
nothing of horses, but the name of one. -‘Wild
Irish Girl,” caught the woman, who, it seems,
was born in the old country. She plunged on
the animal from sentiment to the extent of
53,000 without ever enjoying the pleasure of
seeing her favorite win a single race.”
The late Dr. Parkes is reputed to have said:
“When a man dies of typhoid fever somebody
ought to be hanged.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A New England seminary for girls has
adopted the following college cry: “Wha,
who, wha, who, wha, who, zippe riroar; Hl,
yi, ki, yi, zip, pom, love, bomyah, bomyah,
sip, zip, 94.”
In a patch of five acres in Burnett county,
Texas, are to be found nickel, gold, * silver,
lead, tin and a large number of rare metals,
such as cerium, lantharum, erbium, thorium
and uranium.
“Nine hotel fires out of ten owe their origin
to one and the same cause.” said Caterer Mur
rey, of the House restaurant, to a Washing
ton Post reporter, in discussing the cause of
the burning of the Eckington hotel. “When
ever vou hear of a hotel fire whose origin is a
mystery, it is safe to attribute it to the cause
I will give. The best cooking lard is the fat
that is fried out of the fat part of beef. In
restaurants and hotels it is put into a
cauldron during the day and set on the range
over night. A light fire is usually kept in the
range to save trouble of starting it in the
morning. During the night it may happen
that an unusual draft is created by a high
wind. The fire blazes up, the’cauldrdn be
gins to boil, and the fat is in the flame. Next
it is in the pot, and then follows an explosion,
scattering the blazing grease in every direc
tion. Result—a fire of mysterious origin
which destroys.the building and all its con
tents. I have been burned out seven times,
and in every instance but one it was due to
this cause.”
It looks as if the days of iron were nearly
over, says the London Hardware Trade
Journal. There is a shrinkage of production
as against steel every year. Steel is as cheap,
and sometimes cheaper than iron, while its
durability is generally showing itself as in
finitely superior. Scarcely a ship is now
built of iron plates. A striking instance of
the superiority of steel was lately shown. An
Australian liner, built on the Tyne from local
steel plates, was run on the reefs in a fog at
Honolulu. For eighteen days she was rocked
on the jagged rocks until a tidal wave lifted
her off. All along the bottom the plates on
both sides were bent inward, the keel bar
being broken. The plates would only bend,
however, not break; not a single rivet had
sprung nor had a drop of water penetrated
the bottom. The vessel was brought by her
own engines, just as she was, 19,000 miles to
the Tyne. There experts examined her, and
made much favorable comment on the duc
tile and durable properties of steel as com
pared with iron. Iron would infallibly have
given way, while steel stood the great strain
intact.
Two remarkable stories of successful ma
lingering are told by the London correspond
ent of the Manchester Courier; A friend of
his has recently been stopping in the neigh
borhood of Princetown jail, and, during his
visit met one of the officials with whom the
responsibility for the anecdotes finally rests.
The first is of a man who simulated paralysis
so convincingly that he was released and dis
patched to his home in the charge of a nurse.
But on the very next morning he walked
down-stairs without any assistance and in
formed the nurse that her services were no
longer required. Story number two is even
more remarkable. There is nothing wonder
ful in counterfeiting blindness. We see it
done occasionally in the streets of London.
But in this case the convict not only gave a
perfectly artistic representation of that state,
but. what was a far greater triumph, success
fully baffled every medical test that could be
applied. He, too, received his discharge,
and was traveling in the company of a
warder, whom he suddenly electrified by buy
ing an evening paper and devouring its con
tents with avidity.
At a recent drawing room in London the
queen was ill or indolent and the Princess of
Wales received for her majesty, says
the New York Sun. Just before
the princess started the function off with an
airy wave of her hand and the band began
to play, she came to the conclusion that the
white gown, white diamonds and white lace
which she wore gave her a general character
less appearance. She also, had a huge bou
quet of white roses tied with a white ribbon.
After glancing at herself with some satisfac
tion in the mirror she went to her top bureau
drawer, pulled it open and taking out a large,
broad, black ribbon, tied it on the bouquet
instead of the white ribbon. Then she got up
on the throne, and all the countesses and
duchesses who write for the society papers
fell to gushingoover the marvelous original
ity of the princess in tying a black ribbon to
a bouquet of white roses instead of ft white
one, and all London was set agog. Three
weeks later the Russian ambassador gave a
reception which was attended by all the mem
bers of the British aristocracy of any impor
tance and to the surprise of the ambassador
about three-fourths of the women sailed in
with long, funeral-black sashes tied to their
bouquets. Black ribbons on bouquets have
not yet appeared in this country, and it would
be interesting to know how soon they will
put in their inevitable appearance.
In early days the rank of admiral was un
known; the chief officer of the squadron was.
called a constable or justice, says the New
York Home Journal. The term admiral, as
now used is derjved from the Arabic “amir”
or “emir,” a commander (as in “Amir-al-
Bahr,” commander of the sea). The early
English form was “amiral,” and is still pre
served as such by the French. The Span
ish and Portuguese forms are “almirante;”
the Italian “amiraglio.” The title captain is
not a naval but a military one. Under the
older organization the real captain of the
ship was a master; but a military officer was
placed on board, though he knew nothing
about nautical matters. As the captain be
came bigger and bigger, the master became
smaller and smaller, until, as at the present
day, he fills a subordinate position, which is
gradually becoming obsolete, being replaced
by an officer under the style and title of a
navigating lieutenant. Commodore comes
from the Spanish “commendador.” The
title of lieutenant, borrowed directly
from the French is more modern, and is
meant as a place-holder, or one who took the
place of the captain when absent. Sublieu
tenant is still more modern, and at the same
time a misnomer, as he never was a sublieu
tenant, but merely a mate, or one who as
sisted. In former days we had no cadets, but
volunteers. However, with the gradual ad
vance of politeness, the more term as
cadet was borrowed from the French, and
adopted as the title for the young gents in our
navy. In place of paymasters, the ships of
old had who looked after the pro
visions. The naval purser did more; he had
charge of the stores Qf the ship and the
iftoney chest. SurgeArfs and surgeons’ mates
fulfilled the duties of Idoctors. Chaplains are
of modern introducWofk Naval instructors
and schoolmasters ruled in their stead. The
term mate was rather a universal one, and
applied to all branches.
The biggest armor-clads in the world are the
Italian Italia and Lepanto, sister ships, each
of 15,900 tons displacement, says the Boston
Transcript. Next to them come the monster
English battleships of the royal sovereign
class, vessels of 14,150 tons displacement.
These in turn will be surpassed bv the Mag
nificent and Majestic, each of which will dis
place 14.900 tons. The largest armor-clad
over which the French ting floats is the Ad
miral Baudin, of 11,96$ tons, and next to her
is the Lazare Carnot, only eight tons smaller.
Germany's largest armor-clad is the Bran
denburg. of 9.*i40 tons. Austria has never
built any armor-clads, save those of moderate
dimensions, her largest, the Tegetthoff. being
of 7,360 ions. Spain s largest is the Pelayo,
of 9,903 tons. The three United States bat
tle-ships of the first-class which have been
launched, are the Massachusetts. Oregon and
Indiana, each of 1(1,2iG tons displace
ment. The lowa, now building, will
be 11,296 tons. There is now a reaction
against monster ships. England is the only
naval power that persists in the policy of
building them, and apparently she is nearing
a halt. Ihe Italians have come to the con
clusion: that is indicated by the dimensions
of their latest armor-clad authorized, which
will have 9,800 tons displacement. The deter
mination of France and the United btates to
keep their battleships under 12,000 tons was
deliberately taken by each government, after
weighing weight against efficiency. In this
policy Russia also agrees, the largest of her
armor-clads in service being the Georgi
Pobiedonosetz. of 10,280 tons .while her
naval constructors regard 12,000 tons as
about the proper limit. Os the cruisers
now afloat the Russian Runk is the
largest and probably, taking all things
into consideration, the most powerful.
She is armor-belted and is of 10.900
tons displacement, almost 2,000 tons larger
than the Blake. The English have author
ized two cruisers of 14,000 tons each, being
determined to see the Rurik and go her 3.100
tons better. As in the case of armor-clads
England stands alone in accepting this chal
lenge. Her Blake and Blenheim are not -only
exceeded by the Rurik but ty the Spanish
Emperador Carlos V.. which has 9,2 5 tons
displacement. The largest French cruiser In
active service is the D’Entrecasteaux, of 7,900
tons, but the Jeanne d’Arc is being enlarged
to a total displacement of 8.7(0 tons. Ihe
largest cruiser class of the Italian service
either afloat or authorized displace 6,500 tons
each, which is 450 tons more than Germany’s
leader, the Kaiserin Augusta. The largest of
our cruisers afloat is the New York, of 8.150
tons, while the Brooklyn (building) will be
1.000 tons larger.
PERIER TO BE PRESIDENT.
Carnot’s Remains Lying in State at
the Capital.
Mobs Loot the Stores of Italians at
Lyons and Burn Their Contents—A
Meeting of the Republican Deputies
Breaks Up in a Bow—Santo Again
Before a Magistrate—He Claims to
Have Acted on His Own Responsi
bility, but the Police Confident He
is the Tool of the Anarchists—ltaly’s
Flag at Half Mast Over the Qui
rinal.
Paris, June 26.—The special train con
veying the body of the late President Car
not from Lyons to Paris arrived here
at 3:10 o’clock this morning. The casket
was at once placed in an ordinary hearse
and driven to the palace of the Elysee,
followed by five carriages containing the
widow and her sons, and members of the
president’s military household. At a re
spectful distance behind the vehicles
were thirty cabs, containing newspaper
reporters.
When the coffin containing the body of
President Carnot was being taken from
the heasre at the Elysee palace it slipped
from the grasp of some of the men hand
ling it and feH to the ground, bearing the
men who still held on with it. The heavy
casket fell upon two or three of them, in
juring them painfully. The arrival of the
remains at the Elysee was witnessed by
the president’s coachman, who was
greatly attached to his master. When he
saw the coffin he fell insensible and ‘died
without recovering consciousness.
LYING IN STATE
The public will be admitted to view
the body of President Carnot to-morrow,
and thereafter daily until the funeral
takes place. The coffin, with the head
slightly raised, has been placed in the
middle room of the palace. A cushion
covered with decorations lies at the feet
of the corpse. The catafalque is sus
tained by four columns.
Immense crowds of people have visited
the palace to-day to express their sympa
thy.
At Versailles an army of carpenters,
upholsterers, and other workmen are busy
getting the great assembly hall in readi
ness for occupancy to-morrow. The
neglected committee rooms are being
fitted up, the old locks and
hinges are being cleaned and oiled
and a general renovation is going on
throughout the building. Even the old
cells are being cleaned and put in order
so that in the event of any of the members
becoming refractory, that the president
of the national congress is obliged to
place them under arrest, there will be
places in which to lock them up.
The police at St. Etienne to-day ar
rested three anarchists who are suspected
of having had relations with Santo.
The funeral obsequies of President
Carnot will begin on Sunday with
services in the Cathedral of Notre Dame
and conclude with the ceremony of de
positing the body in the Pantheon.
The cabinet has decided to introduce a
bill in the Chamber of Deputies, providing
that all persons in the navy, army and
civil service shall observe a month’s
period of mourning.
The cabinet held a meeting in the office
of the ministry of the interior to-day to
perfect arrangements for the funeral of
President Carnot, which has been fixed
for next Sunday.
REPUBLICANS IN A ROW.
A meeting of the republican members
of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies
was held this afternoon to decide upon a
candidate for president to be voted for
at Versailles to-morrow. The proceedings
were characterised throughout by an in
describable noise and continuous brawl
ing. Deputies and senators shouted at
the tops of their voices over one another’s
heads. Some demanded a vote without
debate. Blows were exchanged by sev
eral members and inkstands were thrown
about freely. Deputy Marc Sau
set, member for Ardrehe, tried
to stand upon the table and
was pulled forcibly to the floor by M.
Berteaux, member for Seine-Eth-Qise.
Another member who tried to hide the
ballot box was struck and. thrown down.
Finally some of the calmer members pro
posed a recess, and a motion to adjourn
was carried. A large number remained
in the hall, however, and after a short
period of quiet Senator de Verninac, who
presided, asked whether the meeting de
sired to vote.
The tumult was renewed immediately,
and as it was impossible to restore order,
M. de Verninac declared the meeting
closed, and left the tribune.
A FREE FIGHT.
Free fighting ensued for fully a
quarter of an hour. Eventually the hall
was cleared. The conflict was provoked by
the socialists and the extreme radicals,
in order to prevent a decisive vote.
During the fighting deputy Humber,
socialist, seized the ballot box, in which
a vote was being taken and breaking it
up threw the pieces in the faces of his
opponents. Under the circumstances a
record of the vote was considered worth
less.
Two hundred republicans met subse
quently in the committee room, Deputy
Delany-Montaud presiding. Resolutions
were adopted expressing the sorrow of
the moderate members Os the party that
the plenary assembly had been prevented
from accomplishing its purpose by such
tumultuous scenes, and accusing the so
cialists of purposely obstructing the pro
ceedings. It was decided that the only
resource was to go to Versailles without
preparatory decisions as to the presi
dency, and that this course was likely to
insure the election of M. Casimir-
Perier.
THE SOCIALIST DELEGATION.
The socialist deputies had delegated
Jaures, Hugues, Jourde, Miller, Grous- .
set, Hovelacque and Pierre Richard to !
attend the plenary meeting and act in t
concert with the advancad republican
senators in the choice of a candidate
who would not combat the socialists.
Later in the day the three republican
senatorial groups—the center, the left re
publican and unionist to
choose a candidate for the presidency. A '
ballot was taken with this result: j
Casimir-Perier 144, DuPuy 15, Brisson 6, |
De Freycinet 4, Arago 2, Loubet 2, Con- •
stans 2, Cavignac 1.
No representatives of these groups at- ■
tended the plenary meeting.
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Deputy Pelletan, radical, complains
that he was struck in the face with an
inkstand during the tumult in the plenary
meeting.
Deputy Sauset, who was pulled off the
table during the tumult, has challenged
M. Berteaux to a duel. The seconds
named by M. Sauset have declined to act.
HOW THE CHANCES STAND.
The chances of M. Casimir-Perier are
regarded as greatly helped by to-day’s
dissensions in the ranks of the republican
senators. It is expected that of the
800 votes cast on the first ballot
to-morrow M. Casimir-Perier will re
ceive 400. His supporters are confident
that he will have at least ,350 votes. If
M. Casimir-Perier is not elected on the
first ballot his chances will diminish
thereafter, as the Dupuy faction is trying
to induce M. Brisson’s supporters to trans
fer their votes after the first ballot to a
dark horse. The election of an “unknown”
is regarded 1 , however, as improbable.
a native of SICILY.
M. Lepine, the procureur of the Repub
lics, in an interview this morning stated
that Santo, the assassin, was a native of
Ticino, Sicily. He has a long, thin face,
and wears a small, dark mustache. He
is well educated and intelligent in appear
ance but miserably clad. When he ap
proached the president’s carriage, M. Le
pine said, he had in his hand not a
roll of paper resembling a petition,
as has been reported, but a good sized
bouquet of flowers. This he held up in
both hands, as though he was about to
present it to the president. Approaching
the carriage in that attitude, no one sus
pected his intentions. When he reached
the side of the carriage he slid one hand
down behind him and drew a poniard,
which, with a marvelously quick move
ment, he lifted above his head, and, be
fore he could be seized, struck the fatal
blow with great force.
A SENSELESS HOAX.
The Cocardes hoax to the effect that
Ambassador Billot had been killed in
Rome was the cause of numerous brawls
on the boulevards this afternoon. The
police reserves had to ba called out to
help preserve order. The Italian embassy
and consulate are strongly guarded.
The radical and socialist republicans
will hold a preliminary meeting in Ver
sailles to-morrow to decide upon their
course in the national assembly.
THE POLICE FOREWARNED.
London, June 27, 4 a. m.—The Daily
Chronicle’s Paris correspondent says that
Public Prosecutor Lepine was informed
some time ago of a conspiracy of cos
mopolitan anarchists to stab or shoot
prominent rulers and statesmen. An un
usual number of detectives accompanied
M. Carnot to Lyons.
Louise Michel says of the killing of
President Carnot: “His execution was
no more than a simple act of justice. In
Carnot the whole bourgeois world was
struck at. Anarchy once more deserves
well of mankind, for the love of mankind
is anarchy’s sole object.”
The anarchist Cohen, who was expelled
from France a few months ago, has ex
pressed similar sentiments. ' *
RIOTING AT LYONS.
Lyons, June 26. —Disorders here and at
other places in France, resulting from
the indignation of the people at the as
sassination of President Carnot, con
tinued throughout the night. Crowds of
rioters paraded the streets of the city
from the time the late President’s re
mains left Lyons until this morning and
in spite of the efforts of the police and
military, mobs sacked Italian stores and
taverns’ and after throwing their contents
into the street made bonfires of every
thing burnable.
Santo, the assassin was again brought
up this morning for examina
tion before Examining Magis
trate Benoist. The prisoner de-
clared himself to be an anarchist and to
be strongly in favor of a policy of vio
lence. Replying to further questions,
Santo said he acted upon his own initia
tive and had not been engaged in any 1
conspiracy to murder the president. The
magistrate, however, is not convinced
that the prisoner had no accomplices, as
it has been ascertained that when Santo
stopped at Vienne and Montpelier
he had several suspicious con- •
ferences with persons suspected
of being in league with the anarchists.
In addition, when Santo arried at Vienna,
Saturday, en route to Lyons he slept at
the house of an anarchist and afterward
started for Lyons at 3:30 o’clock in the
afternoon. The police investigation into
the crime has already lead to the arrest
of three persons at Vienne, believed to
have been engaged in the conspiracy
which resulted in the murder of Presi
dent Carnot. The author ties here beleive
that Santo was the agent of the an
archists and that he was entrusted with
the task of murdering the|President, and
that he carried out the instructions
which he received at various towns be
tween Cette and Paris.
LOOKED UPON CARNOT AS A TYRANT.
When the examining magistrate asked
Santo whether he had a personal griev
ance against President Carnot, he re
plied :
“No; but he was a tyrant, and I killed
him for that reason.”
“How did you stab him?” asked the
magistrate.
“I pushed aside the horses and cuiras
sier and advanced to the carriage. I had
a dagger concealed in my sleeve. I only
had to raise my hand. I aimed at the
stomach and brought my arm down
sharply, shouting ‘Long live anarchy!’
The crowd rushed upon and laid me pros
trate. I was beaten mercilessly.”
“Is the president dead?”asked Santo.
As the magistrate made no reply the
prisoner took it for granted that his vic
tim was dead. He smiled, and raising
his hand, imitated the act of stabbing the
president with undisguised glee. The
examination lasted four hours. #
The situation in Lyons becomes worse
every hour. This evening a company of
cavalry charged the rioters with sabers.
A delegation from the chamber of com
merce went to the prefecture this after
noon and demanded that all necessary
measures be taken to put a stop to the
present troubles. The impotence of the
officials causes general discontent. Many
persons demand that a state of siege be
proclaimed.
FORTY SHOPS LOOTED.
Forty Italian shops in this city have
been gutted and burned by the mob. The
police are either powerless to suppress
the disorders or else are disinclined to do
so. Anyway it is strange that they are
never on hand in force until the damage
is done, though they have in every case
had ample warning. Four rioters were
killed to-day by an explosion of petro
leum in a store which they were sacking.
The city treasurer of Iron Mountain, Mich.*
gets a salary of 8150 a year, and gives a bond
of $150,000.
BAKING POWDER.