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CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence solicited: but to receive at tention letters must be accompanied by a responsible name, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. All letters should be addressed to MORNING NEWS, Savannah, Ga. REGISTERED AT THE POSTOFFICE IN SAVAN NAH AS SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER. —-- 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. Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair. D“PRICF’’S The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder.—No Ammonia; No Alum* Used in Millions of Homes —40 Years the Standard. 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.