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The Covington Star. J. W, ANDERSON, Editor and Propretor. Grass and Roses. I looked where the roses were blowing; They stood among grasses and reeds; I said, “Where such beauties are Why suffer these paltry weeds?” Weeping the poor things faltered, “We have ueither beauty nor bloom, We are but grass in the roses’ garden— fiut our Master gives lls this room. "the slaves of a generous Master, Borne from a world above, We came to this place in Ills wisdom— We stay to this hour from His love, "He Lire feet! IIis humblest dreaturesj We havg Served ilim mily mid long; He gave no grace to diir features— •> wfe have iieithbr coldr nor song— "tet lie who lias made the rosed Placed us on the self same sod* He knows our reason for being— WL are grass Ihttie garjdu of God.” —Me*. Janies Freeman Clafke. A CAPE HCI1N INCIDENT. fit W. CLARK RCSSELL. On a December frioniing ; iti the year , 1883', a mail steamer; homeward boitud from a New Zealand port, Was ap¬ proaching the meridian of the Horn, but on a parallel more southerly than it is now the custom of steamships to take in rounding that stormy, ice-girt, - **■ «■ **m-.*B mm i w fcp y .giu - - headlands. December in those distant regions is midsummer, and the weather of that morning was us fair and still as a breezeless April day in this country; but the swell of the vast track of ocean ran ceaselessly, reminiscent respira¬ tions of a gian 033 whose conflict with the heavens is eternal, and whose breaking-pau es are very few and far between indeed. Over this long, dark blue, westerly swell the long tilelal fabric went sweeping in long, floating, launching Curtsies, whitening the water astern of her with a mile of lniik-whilo Wake, The frosty sUn, tvhose beams in that sea have some¬ thing of the silvery brilliance of the Electric light, flashed a score of con stellalions out of the gilt ami glass and brass about the steamer’s boWs and passengers Were pacing the long hur¬ ricane platform. Ear away on the starboard beam, poised, star-like, Upon the keen blue rim of the ocean, was an iceberg—a dash of crystalline light against the airy sky that out there, low down, wore the delicate hue of the opal. Otherwise the ocean swept naked to its confines, a plain of rich, deep blue, with the heave of the swell shouldering the morning glory under the sun as it ran, and making that part of the deep magnif¬ icent with flowing liglP. The chief officer was on the bridge; the first breakfast-bell bad ‘rung, and the captain, smart as a naval oili er, in buttons and lace trimmings, qui.ted the chart-room and joined the mate to take a look around before going be¬ low. The skipper was a man of eagle sight, and instantly on directing his eyes over the ship’s bows lie ex¬ claimed: “What is that black object yonder?” The chief mate peered, and the cap¬ tain leveled a telescope. “A ship’s boat,” said he, “and seem¬ ingly full of people.” The boat, when sighted, was some three or four miles distant, and the speed of the steamer was about thir¬ teen knots. In a few minutes the alarm in the engine-room rang its re¬ verberatory warning, sending a little thrill of wonder throughout the ship, so rarely i< that telegraph handled on the high seas. “1 connt eight men, sir,” cried tho chief mate, with a binocular glass at his eye. Again the engine-room alarm rang out; the pulsing that for days l ad been ceaselessly thrttbbing through the long fabric, languished, and in a few minutes, to another summons of the metal tongue below, ceased, and the great steamer floated along to her own impetus, slowly, and yet m re slowly, till the boat was within the toss of a biscuit off the bow, with the passe;; gors crowding to the side to look, and sailors and waiters and steerage folk biacke-’ing the rail forward. The occupants of the boat consisted r>f eight wild, liairv, veritable scare¬ crows of nisn, dressed in divers fashions—Scotch caps, yellow sou - westers, set-boots, toil-worn monkey jackets, and the like. “Boat ahoy!” bailed the captain, as she slow!) washed alongside. “What is wrong with vou?” A fellow, standing up in the stern sheets, cried back. -For God’s sake, sir, take ns aboard! Our water’s almost given out. and there’s nothing left to eat.” “Look out for the end of a line,” hawtod r the oVet captain. “Are vou stroug aboard without help’ ’ enough to get au „ AtopewJthrown, tl Tallows and swinging one after and came ecrambling „p tba dan,, side of the steamer, The crowded round and gazed at them curiosity and pity. Their eyes seemed to And famine expressed in the leathern that stared back through mats of “We must let your boat go,” said the captain. “Can’t help it, sir, thankful enough to bo here, I reckon,” answered the fellow who had called from tho stern sheets, anil who acted as “Anything belonging to you to come out after?” “Nothing. Let her go, sir. If sailors’ sea-blessings bmi freight a draft ghe airi’t going (o’ float long. The boat was sent adrift, the engine hell hmg 6-.it, once more the great mail steamer was thrashing over the long, tali heave of the Capo Horn swell. “How came you into (his mess?” inquired the captain. The man who had before spoken gave answer: “ IlVre ali that’s left of the crew of the Boston bark “George Washing¬ ton.” She was a whaler, a hundred and forty days out. It were four days ago. I was the first to smell fire some Hn"*n »4-n»r, -a - r»l ( vnlr tLa m J /I*14O, - r watch.”' “It wanted ten minutes to six bells,” exclaimed a man, and a general, em¬ phatic, hairy nod followed the inter¬ ruption. “I was the' first to smell fire,” con¬ tinued the other, “call it what hour ye like. I gave the alarm, and all hands turned to with hoses and buckets. But there was a deal of oil in the hold, and the ship’s planks was thick with grease besides, and that gave us no chance. By ten o'clock in the morning the flames had bursted through and was shooting up mast-high, and then we calculated it was time to look to the boats.” The others stood listening with hard, stolid, leathery faces, generally gazing With steadfast eyes at the speaker, but someti mes glancing askance at theeap stood round. “There wns an itgly sea running,” the man went on, “and the wheel being desarted, the ship had fallen off and ran in the trough, and the lower¬ ing of the stern boat-!, whalemen though they was who had the handling of ’em, cost our company of twenty eight souls the loss of all hands saving them as stand afore ye.” “A bad job! a measly, cruel, bad job!” here broke in a long-jawed man whose brow and eyes were almost con¬ cealed by a quantity of coarse red liair. “Well, . ciglit men got away in the boat,” proceeded the spokesman, “bringing along with us nothin’ but a small bag of bread and about six gal¬ lons of fresh water. We're Wen a washing about 6iuco Tuesday, and now, the Lord be praised, here we be with a chance of getting something to cat, and what’s more pleasurable stid to our feelings, the opportunity of comfortably taming in.” A murmer of pity rang among the passengers, several of whom were ladies, and there was more than one somewhat loud whisper to the effect that the captain ought really to send the poor creatures forward at once to get some breakfast, instead of holding them, starving and dry with thirst, in talk. The eagle-eyed skipper, how ever asked several questions before , dismissing them. “Since by their own confession the tire gave them plenty of time to escape from the bark, bow was it they left her so ill-provisioned as they repre seated ?” This was most satisfactorily account¬ ed for. Other inquiries of a like na lure were responded to with alacrity and intelligence. Every sentence that one or nil other of them let fall was corrobor ate( \ by the rest, Their tale of suffer j,,^ indeed, in the open boat was al¬ most harrowing; and tho captain with |], c first note of sympathy lh.it lii^ voice had taken, ordered them to go forward, adding, that after a good hot meal had been served them they might turn in and sleep for the rest of the day wherever they could make a bed. At the breakfast in ‘he saloon no thing was talked about but the whaler ,j m t had been consumed by fire, the dreadful drowning of some two-tliirds of her crew, and the miraculous de lireranee of the survivor, from the in expressible perils and ko.ro.-, of an j open boat of in the the sohtudeof thew.de the sto.mi- woiId est part ocean j j over. A benevolent gentleman pro posed a subscription. Before the iunch I con-bell was rung a sum ot tn t. pounds bad been collecicd. Theincident ^ R breaW iu , hc monotony; and when the eight men re-appeared on deck d nr ing the afternoon they were promptly ; app.oachad by .to P»..o»g.ra, wbp COVINGTO N'. GEORGIA, TU ESDAY, JUNE 1890. obliged them to recite again and yet ■grain their mellFicJlQly story of mar* time disaster, On the morning of tho third day, following (he date of this rescue, a ship was sighted almost directly in a lino with the vessel’s course. As she was neared she was seen to be rigged with stump, or Cape Horn top-gallant msists; she was also under vo.ry easy canvas which gave her a short-handed look in that quiet sea. Great wooden davits overhung her sides, from-which dangled n number of boats. She pre¬ sented a very grimy, worn aspect, and had manifestly kept the sea for some months. It was observed by the chief officer, standing on tho bridge of the steamer, that (he eight rescued nieii, who were looking at (ho sail ahead along with some of the crew arid steerage passengers, exhibited several symptoms of uneasiness and even ot figitatlori: Suddenly the stripes and stars, with the stars invert¬ ed, were run aloft to the peak-end—A signal of distress! The engines were “slowed,” and the steamer’s head put so as to pass the vessel within easy hailing distance. A man aboard the bark stood in the m'nzen rigging. !us aixiMwa,- ahovl”, He xo&fed through nose. ...... — “Hallo!” “I have lost a boat and eight of my men. Have you seen anything of her ?” The captain, who -had gained the bridge, lifted his hand. “Bark ihoy!” lie cried; “what bark is that?” “The ‘George -Washington,’ whaler, of Boston, a hundred-and-cighty-four days out.” The captain of the steamer con¬ trolled a sour grin. ‘ How came you to lose your boat and tlie men?” “They stole her one middle watch and sneaked away from the ship.” The captain of the steamer uttered a laugh. “ We have your men safe here.” he not burnt down to the water's edge, and that the rest of vour crew lo,k „ rl .k «<-«„„ drowned men. Send a boat and you shall have vour sailors.” Twenty minutes later tho eight whalemen were being conveyed their bark of . their ... to in one own boats, most of them grinning as they looked up at the line of heads which decorated the steam¬ er’s sides; aul, indeed, there xvas some excuse for the smiles, for among them they were carrying away the thirty pounds which had been sub¬ scribed for them.’ It would be inter¬ esting to krrew what their skipper said when lie learned that they had lost a fine boat for him; but ocean mail liners have to keep time, and the steamer could not wait to send a representative on board the whaler to report the many elegancies of sea-dialect which we may reasonably assume embellished her skipper's rhetoric.—New York Independent. Coffcc as a Disinfectant. An old colored man living in a dis¬ trict where the disease often prevailed once told the writer that one of the best preventive measures against yel¬ low fever was infusion of coffee. Some years ago lie passed through an epidemic of that g rave malady under the worst possible conditions, For at least a month he occupied the quarters of a large number of sufferers, pass¬ ing night and day among them, eating and sleeping in their midst. Recalling tho homely advice given him lie faithfully tried coffee as an an liseptic and drank freely of a very strong infusion live or six times a day, and continued the practice all the time He was for- tuuate enough to escape contagion, but never attached much importance to the use of (he coffee, Considering the results of recent developments, it would seem that the old negto was right in attributing antiseptic proper¬ ties to it. A series of experiments conducted by a German professor has proved that they are quito marked. Several differ¬ ent forms of intestinal bacteria were experimented upon, and their develop¬ ment and growth were found in all cases to be interfered with by the ad dition of a small quantity of coffee in¬ fusion to nutrient gelatine. In pure infpsion the bacteria were rapidly de¬ stroyed. The question as to what constituents exercise the antiseptic effect cannot yet be fully determined, Tbc caffeine is certainly active in only a slight degree; the tannin to a somewhat greater ex¬ tent: but. presumably, of greatest jm portance are tLe substances that are developed by roasting. It is interest i„g to note that a cup of coffee leftin a room tor a week or more, remains aim... b» miermoagtohma. A DOLLAR BILL PROCESSES IN THE MAKING OF PAPER MONEY. Engraving the Plates—Printing ami Numbering Notes—Precautions Against Counterfeiting End. in the Pulp Kettle, What volumes otNhjstory one of Uncle Sam’s greenbacks cotfid relate if it only bad the power of speech I U hethev their life be long or short, in the interval that elapses from the moment tnat they are tlimedWilt fresh, crisp and bright from the Government presses, until they straggle back so dirty and mutilated that even their denominations are scarcely decipherable, they have passed through hundreds, perhaps thou¬ sands of hands j figure;,l thumbed in innumerable transactions; been by million¬ aires and hod-carriers—in ;i word, have played an active part-in busy human life. There is much of interest, however, td be told about them before they are sent out on their career of Usefulness. 3f a N u 77 1 \ MACEBATOR ($570,000 ON THE TABLE). Take the work in the engraving divi¬ sion of the Government- Bureau of En¬ graving and Printing, for instance, as this is where the manufacture of paper money begins. No one engraver ever cuts the entire plate from which a bank note is printed. For instance; one man en graves the portrait, another does the let¬ tering of the inscription; a third the counters that Indicate- the denomination of the note; another a Section of the or¬ namental border, for this is never en¬ graved in full; still another is engaged on the seat, and finally the work of alt must be carefully scrutinized and the fin¬ ishing touches ^ added before the plate can bfl y nt t0 he p ^ otci ‘‘ ------- the more perfect the plate is in every part,the more difficult it is for gone or any .. weeks to fin j sh up a portrait, background, and after that he must put in the which consists of a ciose network of the finest spider web lines, made by a ruling machine with a diamoud point, d m m a m M ■vs. Ml HAND PRINTING PRESS. This may be seen on the dollar certifi¬ cate bearing the head of Martha Wash ington. On thc same bill it will be ob served that the counter on the right hand side, the Centre piece dollar,” containing the words “Oue silver end the counters and border mound the centre piece on the back, are composed of pe¬ culiarly curved lines. These machines arc very expensive, and are very complicated in their con¬ struction. They work slowly, but with great exactness,"and it is impossible the lines for a counterfeiter to reproduce ex actly. of thc plate engraved All thc rest is hand. After the plate for a series of notes is completed it number is taken the transfer press, where any reproductions can be made, which is dered necessary in order to print notes in large quantities. vn i m I l 11 numbering machine. Thi« however, is by no means a ple operation. The different dies which make up the complete plate must first be transferred to a cvlmdncat steel rob separately. They must then be laid down, or “assembled” upon a single steel plate or bed-piece. Upon this bed piece the various parts of the note ap¬ pears in intaglio, from which the im¬ pression is transferred to steel rolls of proper width, which is usually sufficient to contain four notes. The plates are lettered from A. to D., and thii is an¬ other check upon counterfeiting as the numbers must correspond to these letters. The last operation to which the piates ar< subjected before they go to the print ing room is the hardening process. This is done in various ways by an application of heat and chemicals. The plates arc then cleaned, waxed and laid away till they are needed by the printer. The paper used by the Treasury De¬ partment for its bills and notes is manu factored by a private concern, and upon its delivery is counted twice and packed away in sections of from four to forty sheets after it has been damped. Several different kind of presses are used in the printing division. The old laahioned hand - jrfate press and steam presses of the latest and most improved provided patterns are employed. Each press is with a register, which records automatically every impression that is made. Each impression calls for a sheet of paper; so that all the clerk who makes his examination at the end of the day has to do is to see whether the number of printed sheets returned correspond with the number of the register. This must also correspond with the record in the wetting-room. These precautions were necessary to prevent dishonesty, for otherwise it might be easy for rt printer to smuggle in a blank sheet of paper and /ill it with im¬ pressions of $100 notes, and rio one would be the wiser. The numbering division is the last through which the printed sheets to pass. Here the blue numbers letters are stamped upon the notes, accordance with a system which has devised in- order to make it easier experts to U«i»et spurious j).ot»« is now a variety Of bank notes, Treasury notes, Silver certificates, bonds, revenue and postage stamps are will printed at the Govern¬ ment Bureau, it at Once bo seen ot how vast a magnitude the work of this Department is. It keeps hundreds of persons Con¬ stantly employed, from artists and skilled mechanics down to the girls who sort over and counts the sheets of paper. In 1862 the Superintendent of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing had only'on0 male and four female assistants. Tlio Department now employs more than one thousand persons. The face value of the securities printed by the Bureau from July, 1869, to July, 1888, aggregated $13,108,606,634, and the amount previously produced would probably bring the total up to $20,000, 000 , 000 . When bank notes have outlived their period of usefulness they are redeemed by the various sub-treasuries of the Gov ■»rn IIU.111 then ajiil dumped atml Into 1 -p Iff it.kill cyTinaers 1— li »re vug large as locomotive boilers, which are railed numerators. Lime and soda ash is then added and the cylinders put in mo¬ tion. When the mass has been reduced to a pulp it is drawn off in semi-liquid form, and pumped into the paper room, where it is manufactured into thick sheets of paper. Some of it is cast into vari¬ ous forms, including little statuettes, which are sold by the Washington sta¬ tioners and fancy-store keepers to visitors ns mementos of the National Capital.— New York Press. 1TEWSY GLEANINGS, California imports all its oysters. Balt manufacturers are combining. Canada is considering penny postage. The English Derby was won by Sainfoin, Horse-flesh is sold at 132 shqps in Paris. Mount Etna is in a violent state of activ tty CaoP prospects in Europe continue favor¬ able, Connecticut fruit this year will bo plen¬ tiful. The apple tree worm has begun opera¬ tions. Winter wheat in tha West is in poor con¬ dition. There are 16,009 flour mills in the United States. This year is destined to be a great one in mining. A tv A TER famine is threatened in New York city. The planting of cotton was late, except in (he Carolinas. The thefts of valuable dogs in England are on the increase. New York pays $130,003 a month to keep her streets clean. A small green bug is attacking the rye fields in Pennsylvania, A irRKsit Nihilist plot against tile Czar ha3 been discovered in Paris. Complaints are made ot extensive Cattle stealing ih South Dakota. The internal revenue is carrying into the Treasury $1,500,000 a month. In Chicago on a recent Sunday tho police gathered in 20o lost children. A $10,000,000 cracker trust has been formed in Minneapolis, Minn. The United States manufactured 70.000,* 300 pairs of suspenders last year. The Indian training school at Carlisle, Penn., has now enrolled 733 scholars. OREGON expects an addition of 150,000 to its population this year by emigration. A ftoYAL order prescribes knee breeches and bhckle shoes for the German court. The bank deposits of Kansas are now $2,- 500,000 more than they were a year ago. The Watkins's tower. 1350 feet high, will be erected at Wiliesden, a London suburb. In some of the mountain passes of Wash¬ ington the snow is still seventy-five fo3t deep. Chief Tohee has signed over to the Gov¬ ernment 233,418 acres of Indian lands. Fort Worth, Texas, will erect a of fireproof spring palace to take the place the one burned. It is said that Lard Salisbury will hand over all the Lake Nyanza country, Africa, to Germany. The demand for St. Bernards is increasing in Euro >pe. Offers . of $3003 for dogs have been re: fused. Winter wheat fields have been plowel up of in various positions ot Illinois because frost and cold rains. Under the new contract for stamped wifi en velopes the United States Government save $335,000 in the next four years. The Tombs. New York city, is crowded with 400 prisoners, where the accoinmoda are intended for only about 300. An attempt is to be ma le to keep out of the country Mormon immigrants, oa tha ground that they are contract laborers. Buffalo Bill has capture! the city of Dresden, Germanv, with his Wiiff West Show. The first performance was held on a Sunday, and there was an immense crowd in attendance. The enthusiasm was anl great, his particularly when Colonel Cody rifie-shootm cow boys did their nansational on horseback. VOL. XVI. NO, 30. THE NATIONAL GAME. Nicholson- now captains Toledo. The game is “booming” in Hawaii. The Boston Leaguers want Dunlap. The attendance is improving all around. The Buffalo intield is doing great stick Work, The double umpire system is an assured success. This has been a remarkable season for dis¬ abled players. i he Hnwaiians, ot the Sandwich /stands, want a pitcher. Fogektt lias left the Philadelphia Brother¬ hood team again. I HE Players' l.engue leads the country in home runs and loug hits. Kerins lias succeeded McCarthy as cap tain ot the St. Louis Broivus. Extra inning games abound in the American Association this season. t luo, Bierbaues, has Holding of the Brooklyn Brotherhood a average of .935. Jok Mulvey is at present playing the best game m the Brotherhood at third base. Home runs are being made with remarka b.e frequency by the Players’ League batters. il hB th< ? thini basem an of tb« y “ Brotherhood .i tea,n ' Is a clever ball player Boston lias more left-1,anded pitchers than Danny Kasterrrook, make Glasscock, Bassett and a stonewall infield for the New 1 ork ivJiguers, lx is said that Second Baseman Dunlap lias an annual income of $5000 from his real estate investments. **•»' There is more baseball than the public can stand, the anil the gate-money is not near as bi¬ as magnates expected. ° Giles has already Dlaye.l four different positions tor Cleveland’s Flayers’ League team. He is still a utility m tn. Pete Browning, of the Cleveland Brother¬ hood team, is putting up a game unequaled by any left heider in the Players’ League. Thirty-eight players of the Brotherhood have an average of .300 and over, and seven¬ teen of the National League have a similar record. _ Urines, of Cincinnati; Rusie, of New York, ami Hutchinson, of the Chicagos, are League. the pitching honors in the National PROMINENT PEOPLE. Secretary Blaine is growing bald. Bismarck is well versed in English litera¬ ture. Jur.i.v Ward Howe, the authoress, is sev¬ enty-one. The Vanderbilts are noted for their tem¬ perance. General Brine, the English Channel bal¬ loonist, is dead. Sir Frederick Leighton is sixty, and ha painted 130 pictures. GreeyefL V v King George, of a grandfathei at forty-four years old. A illiam Black was paid $6500 for tin serial right to his last novel. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught vis " ited Niagara Falls recently. General Armistead Long, the ex-Con federate, is now quite blind. Roger Q. Mills, of Tens, has been- in Congress continually since 1873. Count Herbert Bismarck is reported en¬ gaged to Lady Dudley’s eldest daughter. Edwin Booth, the tragedian, is said by his fr.endsto be the laziest man in the world. Busan B. Anthony is now stumping South Dakota in the interests of equal suf¬ frage. General Booth, Commander-in-Chief of the Salvation army, has openel a bank in London. Lady Anne Blunt, the granddaughter of Lord Byron, lwes in Egypt, and wears the Arab dress. Sam Small, the Georgia evangelist, has lege accepted the Presidency of a Methodist col¬ at Ogden, Gtah. Henry M. Stanley will come to America in the autumn. He proposes to lectur&iajsflsJ Magazine, 0 nifeAiiD^^vfsoN-'GiLDER, and Miss Katherine of the Century Boston, Clark, of are to be married early next month. Cyrus V. Field, the man of cables and elevated roads, and once the owner of the New York Muil and Express, is insured for $359,000. Senator W olcott, of Colorado, earns $50,000 a year as attorney for railroads in his State outside of his salary of $5000 a y-ear as Senator. Tsu Kwo Yin, the new Chinese Minister has at Washington, and is a stout man of fiftv and a wife one son. He was head of a college at Pekin. Mrs. Sarah M. Renton, who died in Port Blakely, wealthiest Washington, recently, was tho woman in the ne.v State. She left a fortune of $3,000,000. The Emperor William has declined to per¬ mit the city of Berlin to erect a monument to his father, becauso it is his duty to do it himself, and lie will do so. Prince Charles, of Norway and Sweden, was drawn for jury duty recently, but the court promptly excused him, on account of his family connection?, it is said. Pierre Lorillard, of the graatNew Jer¬ sey tobacco firm and one of the leadiug pro¬ moters of the turf, carries a $350,000 policy. His brother Louis holds $100,000. ....., Miss Fl oren c e Righting ale, .the famous “CHRI3” Magee, the Pittsburg million¬ aire politician, has donated $10,000 to b« used for the erection of a home for boot¬ blacks and messenger boys in that city. Robert C. Church, a colored in man. Memphis, occu¬ pies oue of the finest residences Tenn. He is worth a quarter of a million dollar.?, from which ho derives a largo in¬ come, “M. Quad,” Detroit the humorist and sketch writer of the Free Frees, is paid 1135 a week for his work. He weighs 130 pounds, is very eccentric, and is a perlec* child in all business matters. Senator Hearst’s Washington houst contains seventy rooms. So far $1711,000 ha* been spent iu furnishing it, and this is said to bo only a beginning. Thirty years ago the Henator occupied au attic room in a Mis¬ souri farmhouse, where ho was working for his board. THE LAB0E WORLD. The iron trade is booming'. The strike agitation is practically over. The demand for building labor is very irgent. The French Government has limited a la boring man’s day to tea hours. A $50,000 furniture factory is to be movec from Ohio and located at Gadsden, Ala. AN exhibition of the trades ami Industrie, of" northwest Germany has opened at Bre men. The National Bakers’Union has over 100 local unions with a membership of nearly 30,009. The Now York Central Railroad ha, twenty-six women employed as station agents. All of the block coal fields of Ohio nno Indiana, with a few exceptions, are working full time. One of the most powerful and best Society governed of unions in Rngdaud is the London Compositors. The United States Rolling Stock Company at Decatur, Ala., has just booked orders for 11,000 fruit cars. Seventeen hundred carpenters non-union are ot strike iu Cincinnati, many men having joined it. The introduction of steam yachts on the canals of Venice has thrown many gondo¬ liers out of employment. The sawmills of the South are crowded with work; all the hardwood mills will bs The Emperor of Germanv has extend promised labor ^ accede to the mercantile petitions to classes, protection to the An - investigation of the wages of farm labor has been made by the Government, and it is reported that the monthly rate o. wage, has uot declined. ^ g the action of employers N j ' Scotia, over of Labor. The discharging Knights not beioug to em ployers say their men must any organization, material handlers that the building say the ^^Laborami organization is rapidly taprovmg^nce tha membership is increas illi; nt eV ery meeting, d that the action of the Rochester (S Y .) convention in eliminating the ant* trike clause from the coiistitution of tne Order of Railway Conductors is likely dism tegrate that organization . has The Austrian Military Department perfected arrangements by wmeu, m all uture changes in the various garrisons of Austria, the largest forces will be stationed in t he factory districts. This step is taken in eonse^vuaacs of the recent labor i lots. ' attain Anson doesn’t allow any of his players to loitor aoout. Ho hurries them oa and o.l the field and keep them constantly on Harry H right and Deacon White are now the only active connecting links betweeu the baseball of the past and the baseball of the present. ot Cooney, Boston, will of Chicago, and Herman Lon?, be great rivals for shortstop honors in the League this season. Both are playing a great game. , , E. Y , *?- IME;s ’ Tii '”^0 at- BrotherhqqJ Park O’Rourke, of the Jfew York Player^ team, has, made but two errors iu thirty games. He has bail sixty-four put outs and eleven assists. Captain Kelly’s work behind the bat so far this sjasju nas never been excelled in this country. The Boston Brotherhood star Is sure death to base-runners. IpE itcrbrook, of the New York League Ciuo, keeps up his present batting form ha ’ may repeat his brilliant achievement of 1881, when he led the Ameriaan Association bat¬ ter?. A Kansas paper 3avs that the Germans in many parts of tho West hava learned to speak and read English solely for tho reason that it is the only language iu which in¬ telligible reports of baseball games at. printed, Danny Richardson, of the Now York Players’ team, says: "it takes Brotherhood players to field the kind of balls that are being u-ed in that organization. They are so live.y that they almost tear tho hands off the players.” AVhilk baseball is undergoing a sort of purging ;n America, the great game is evi¬ dently taking strong root in England, There is no douot of its popularity among the ama> teurs who have taken it up ttnd tho profes¬ sional league has started iu with excellent prospects. Memorial Day figures e;>ea!i for them ie:vesi Total attendance at ail Brotherhood games, 39,080; League, a*, I tin. i„ 1 siij'J tile total attendance at all League games on Me¬ morial Day was 41,497. Tne leagues attendance in 1899 at Hi) game.- of the four leading Was 119,464, lli),891, and in 1889 the number was Dunlap did uot sign with New York, not Vritkstau dug reports to that effect nud his appearan e with the New York Club one day. "Dunuy” wanted more money than the New Yorx Club was inclined to pay and also wanted a two years’ contract. This was re¬ fused, He only played in one game to help Ewing out, A pitched is about the only player on a team Twelvey nowadays who does not wear a glove. but ears ago nobody wore a glove pair the catcher, and he was content with a of ladies’ kid gloves. Now the average back¬ stop wears hand protectors that are larger than those worn by pugilists in contests that $re allow ed by Jaw. Jtob Roy’s Sword, On one of the tables in the library ot It is n sworii bearing the maiks of time, ns tvll it may, for it is more than two centuries oitl. None but a strong man could v u Id it. Its original read owner of him was is a Ktmiv/ "for man if what we question true, the battered sword in is none other than the clavmore of Kob Boy MacGregor, whose lame has bee perpetuated for all time by the genius of jicolt. Highlanders The wars of the were con eluded blade^onipcan loa" iigo. but looking at this great almost imagine that those tierce feud? and battles which bcott hus so giuphically depicted were but things of yesterday. Bob Koy ? High- blade was not drawn in the fights of the landers ' alone, a ’ for it was swung right sturdily in many of t hc battles over the border between the tn Cavaliers and the Covenanters. . about five feet The famous Claymore is pounds, and Ion- weighs some fifteen has a broad, two edged blade of the finest tempered stool. It has a basket hilt of strongly wrought brass, so fash¬ the could be used with one hand or both. This was at one covered with leather, which has been worn a wav bv time and hard use There i- a wee. piece left, however, on which the “ Rob Bov." with thc exception of namt . „tiU bo The the first letter, m: t ’' seen. blade, though much nicked, is as strong as it ever was. property of John Mac¬ The relic is the Gregor. Esq., of Brooklyn, and was ex¬ hibited at tbc PhiladelphiaCentenmaUn of Mr. >lac* It is by t\ie courtesy Gregor that it is exhibited by the Long Island Society, English sav keep Unite i States Navv the difficulty with is to then engine-room meciaaics; waereas, efforts of the navv, the most persevering re¬ cruiting party, specially organized to obtain mechanics for the engineer’s force, have en¬ tirely tailed. Over 310 applications for the eight vacant positions o£ female deputy tactory inspectors Inspector have been received by Facterv Connolly, at Albany, N. V. Most o. taam bucxed up by influential indorsers. are of the applicants are Nearly one-quarter The Inspector is m married women. how to make the appoint, quandary as to meats _ SUBSCRIBE NOW.