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NYE’S STORYJOF AMERICA.
Foretaste of a Remarkable Book
Which is Soon to Appear.
A Treasury of Wit and Humor—He
Says Interesting- Things Are Never
True, and the Truth is Only Convinc
ing When Told by an Experienced
Liar.
(Copyright >
New York. Feb. 34.—There is a clever
bit of dialogue in a noticeable contribu
tion to Current Literature— a slender
romance entitled. “A Bundle of Life”—
which reads in this way: “ ‘Very in
teresting,’ remarked Sir Ventry; ‘but in
teresting things are never true.’
* * * * * ‘And the truth is only con
vincing when told by an experienced
liar.’ observed Nicholas." Now the cyni
cal accuracy of these remarks is admirably
Illustrated in anew "History of the
United States," which the experienced
author of "Forty Liars and Other Lies"
—the truthful Bill Nye—is about to bring
forth through the house of Lippineotts
(Philadelphia.)
The historical method employed by Mr.
N.ve is sufficiently described in his prefa
tory apology, which goes on to say that:
"Facts in a nude state are not liable
criminally, any more than bright and
beautiful children commit a felony by
being born thus * * * * It is our
object to humanize our history and deal
with people past and present: people who
ate and possibly dran.c: people who were
born, flourished and died * * * If we
succeed in this way we are content. If
not, we know venose fault it will be, but
w ill not get mail and swear about it.”
The history sets out. quite regularly, with
a brief account of the adventures of
Columbus when he appeared as a sup
pliant at i ourt.
"The in.crvi.w." we arc told, "was en
couraging until the matter of money
necessary for the trip was touched upon.
His may sty was called in. and spoke
sadly of the public surplus. He said that
there were *IOO still cue on his own salary
aud the palace had not been painted for
eight years. Ho had taken orders on the
store till lie was tired of it "Our meat
bill," said he, talcing o.T his crown and
tnashing a hornet on the wall, is sixty
days over due. We owe thelured girl for
three weeks; and how arc we going to
get funds enough to do any discovering,
when you remember that we have got to
pay for an extra session this fail for the
pu?i ose of making money plenty?’ But
Isabella came and sat by him in hor
w.nning way. and with the moistened
corner of her handkerchief removed a
siot of maple syrup from the ermine
trimtningo; fc>s reigning gown. She patted
bis hand, and, with her gentle \oiee,
cheered him and told him that if he would
economize and go without clears or wine,
in less than 24?) years he would have
saved er.ouch to tit Columbus out. A few
weeks later he had saved ¥l5O in this way.
The queen tfien went at twilight and
pawned a large breastpin, and, although
her chest was very sensitive to cold, she
went without it all the following winter,
in order that Columbus might discover
America before immigration si t in here.
"Columbus now began to select steamer
chairs amt rugs He had already se
cured tho Nina, i’inta, and Santa Maria
and on the 3d day of August 1492, he
sailed from Palos. Soon his men began to
murmur, and to ‘pick on' him, and to oc
cupy his steamer-chair when he wanted
to use it himself. They even got to mak
ing chalk marks on the deck and com
pelling him to pay a shilling before he
could cross them. Finally he discovered
land, and was succeeded as governor by
Bobadilla;" the author stating in a lumi
nous foot-note that he has "refrained
from announcing the death of Columbus,
which occurred May 20.1501), at Vallado
lid. the funeral taking place from his late
residence, because I dislike to give need
less pain.” Mr. N.ve bestows but scant
notice upon sot sequent discoveries. Cor
tez, he declares, was one of the coarsest
men who visited this country. "He was
especially lawless and cruel to .tho Peru
vians ; recognizing the Peruvian at once
by his bark, he would treat him with
great indignity instead of using other
things which he had with him.” Once
the tank examiner came to ex
amine tho Cortez bank. He
imparted a pleasing flavor on the
following day to the soup. "Ribaut dis
covered South Carolina, and left thirty
men to hold it. They were at that time
the only white men from Mexico to the
North Pole, and a keen business man
could have bought the wholo thing, In
dians and all, for a good team and a jug
of nepenthe. But why repine ?"
It was an odd sight, according to the
historian, to witness one of these early
colonists coming home after a long hard
day hunting for pearls, as he asked bis
wife If she would be good enough to pull
an arrow out of some place which ho
could not rea- h himself. A fair impres
sion of the ancient manner in which the
narrative is written may be pained from
the following passage, with which the
second chapter is brought to a thrilling
close:
"This chapter brings us to the time
when settlements were made as follows;
"The French at Port Royal, N. S., 1005.
"The English at Jamestown, 1007.
“The French at Quebec, 1608.
"The Dutch at New York. 1613.
"The English at Plymouth, 1620.
Foot note.
The author's thanks are due to the follow
In* hooks of reference, which added to his
retentive memory, have made the foregoing
statements accurate yet pleasing:
A summer in England with 11. W. Beecher
EyJ. B. Reed
Bussell s Digest of the haws of Minnesota,
with Price List of Members.
Out Door and Bug Life in America. By
Chllblaiuy. thief of the Umatilla.
Why I am an Indian. By S. Bull With
Notes by Ole Bull and introduction bv John
Bull.
The Pilgrims, it appears, were an honest
people, but money mat ters were rather
panicky with them, and
‘They were kept busy digging clams to
sustain life in order to raise Indian corn
enough to give them sufficient strength to
pull clams enough the following winter to
get them through until the next corn crop
should give them strength to dig for clams
again. Thus a trip to Ijondon and the
Isle of Wight looked farther and farther
away. * * * • Speaking of clams,” adds
the author, “it is said by some of the Tore
fathers that the Cape Cod menu did not
go beyond cod-fish croquettes until the
beginning of the 17th century, when pie
was added by act of legislatnre. Clams are
not so restless if eaten without the bris
ket. which is said to lie hard on the
stomach. (Sec Dr. Dunn's -Family Phy
sician and Horse Doctor.’ ”) Concluding
his chapter on Plymouth Colony, Mr. Nye
is reminded in "Looking over the lives of
our forefathers who came from England,
I am not surprised that, wiyi all the Eng
lish people who have recently come to
this country, I have never seen a fore
father.”
Once the various colonies nro plautcd
here, the author's story of their vicissi
tudes moves rapidly on, with a charm
ing disregard of chronological sequence.
We leap, for instance, from the Salem
witchcraft to Main-, learning that
"ft is noted for being the castermost
•tate in the Union, and has been utilized
tv a number ot eminent men ha a birth
place White birch sixiols for thread,
Christmas trise, and tamarack and
spruce gum are found in greut abundance
uis the home of an industrious and
peace loving people Bar Harbor is a
coo! place to go in summer time and vio-
Uic the liquor law of the state,”
T lien the story of the ('barter Oak sug
goets to Mr. Nye that
"Important documents should not be
as a general thing, secreted in trees.
The author once tried this while young,
and when engaged to, or hoping to become
engaged to a dear oue. whose pa was a
singularly coarse man. and who hated a
young man who came as a lover at his
daughter's feet with nothing but a good
education, and his great big manly heart.
He wanted a son-in-law with a brewery;
and so he bribed the boys of the neighbor
hood to break up a secret correspondence
between the two young people and
bring the mail to him. This was the
cause of many a heartache, and finally
the marriage of the sweet young lady to a
brewer who was mortgaged so deeply
that he wandered off somewhere and
never returned. Years afterwards the
brewery needed repairs, and one of the
large vats was found to contain ail of the
missing man that would not assimilate
with the beer—viz, his watch. Quite a
number of people at that time quit the
use of beer, and the author gave his hand
in marriage to a wealthy young lady who
was attracted by his gallantry and
beauty.”
We are given a detailed account of the
discovery of New York by Hendrick Hud
son. "A Tammany chief approached the
discoverer and remarked:
T am one of the committee to show you
our little town. I suppose you have a
power of attorney, of course, lor discover
ing us?
•Yes.' said Hudson. ‘As Columbus used
to say when he discovered Nau Salvador,
T do it by the right vested in me by my
soverierns." ‘That oversi es my pile by a
sovereign and a half,' says one of the na
tives: and so, if you have not heard it
there is a good thing for one of your din
ner spee< hes here.’
•Very good.’ said the chief, as they
jogged downtown on a swift Sixth avenue
elevated train toward tho wigwams on
Fourteenth street and going at the rate of
four miles an hour. ‘We do not care es
pecially who discovers us. so long as we
hold control of the city organization.
How about that, Hank?’
'That will be satisfactory,’ said Mr.
Hudson, taking a package of imported
cheese and eating it, so that they could
have the car to themselves.
"We will take the departments, such
as police, street cleaning, etc., while you
and Columbus get your pictures on the
currency and have your graves mussed
upon anniversaries. We get the two
moment horses and the country chateau
on the Bronx. Sabei’
Gov. Andros is designated by the
author as "a sort of pompous tomtit,
with a short breath and a large aquline
opinion of himself. He was one of the
aerogram old-pie-plauts whose growth
was fostered by the beotle-bellied ad
ministration at home. Of Gov. Slough
fer a painful anecdote is related. On a
certain night, his rum having been mixed,
he took to his bed in a deplorable con
dition.
“When he awoke in the mornig at his
beautiful home on Whitehall street, the
sun was gayiy glinting the choppy waves
of Buttermilk Channel, and by his
watch, which had run down, he saw that
it was l o’clock, but whether it was I
o'clock a m. or p. m. he did not know,
nor whether it was next Saturday or
Tuesday before last. Oh, how he must
have felt! His room was dark, the gas
having gone out to get better air.
He attempted to rise, but a
chill, a throb, a groan, and back he lay
hastily on the bed just‘as it was on the
point of escaping him. Suddenly a
thought came to him. It was not a great
thought, but it was such a thought as
comes to tlioso who have been thought
less. He called for a blackamoor slave
from abroad, who did chores for him, and
hrdered a bottle of cooking bx-andy, then
some club soda he had brought from lxm
don with him. Next he prepared a celery
glass of it, and after that he feft better.
He then drank another.
"Keep out of the way of this bed, Ju
lius,’ he said. ‘lt is coming around that
way again. Stop to one side Julius,
please, and let tho bed walk around and
stretch its legs. I never saw a bed spread
itself so;' he continued, seeming to enjoy
his own Lancaster humor. ‘All night I
seemed to feel a great pain creeping over
me. Julius.’ he said hesitatingly, again
filling his celery glass, ‘but I see now it
was the counterpane.'
Eighty years after that Slough ter was
a "corp e.”
A valuable feature of the chapter which
desei-ibes the settlement of the Middle
States, is the following series of “Ques
tions for Examination:
Q. Who was William Penn?
A. He founded Pennsylvania.
Q. Was he a great tighter?
a. No tie was a pea asle man, and did
not believe in killing men or lighting.
y Would he have fought for a purse of
140,100
A. No. He could do better buying coal
lands of the Indians.
Q. What is religious freedom?
A It is the art of giving intolerance a little
more room.
Q. Who was Lord Baltimore?
A. See foregoing chapter.
Q. What do you understand bv rebellion?
A. It is an unsuccessful attempt by armed
subjects to overcome the parent govern
ment.
y. Is it right or wrong?
A. I do not know, but will go and inquire.'
After a brief consideration of the early
aristooracy—which, we are informed',
“was forced to close its doors, and the
arms of Lord Shaftesbury were so humil
iated that he could no longer put up his
dukes ;" and, moreover, he "lived in a
baronial shed and had arms worked on
the left breast of his nighty” —wo are
brought to the pregnant period of the
inter-colonial and Indian wars.
“Our forefathers had to live in block
houses, with barbed wire fences around
them, and carry their guns with them all
the time. From planting the Indian with
a shotgun, they soon got to planting their
corn with the same agricultural instru
ment in the stony soil. Gen. Braddoek
disdained the counsel of young George
Washington. He thought of fighting the
Indians by maneuvering in large bodies,
but the first body to be maneuvered was
that of Gen. Braddoek, who perished in
about a minute.
"We give the reader an idea of Brad
dock's soldiery bearing after he had been
maneuvering a few times.
"It was then that Washington took
command, as was his custom, and begun
to fight the Indians and French as one
would hunt varmints in Virginia. After
wards he did very well, indeed, duriug
the revolutionary war. Meanwhile times
were hard. Farmers and laborers and
even literary men wore breeches made of
bed-ticking. Ixird Cornwallis once asked
hisaidy kong why the American poet had
such an air of listening as if for some ex
pected sound. ‘I give it up.' retorted the
uidykong. ‘lt is,’said Lord Cornwallis,
as he took a large drink from a jug which
he had tied to his saddle, ‘because lie is
trying to see if he cannot hear his Ded
ucting.' On the following dav tie sur
rendered his army, aud went homo to
spring his bon-mot on (ieorge III.” Dur
ing the critical period of the war. "Ethan
Allen and Benedict Arnold led two small
companies to Tieondex-oga, a strong fort
tress tremendously fortitied. ami with its
name also across the trout door. Ethan
Allen, a brave Vermonter, born in Con
necticut, entered the sallyport, and was
shot at by a guard whoso musket failed
to report Allen entz roil and demanded
tho surrender of the fortress.
" ‘By whose authority?' asked the com
mandant.
" ‘ii.v the authority of the Great Jeho-
Tah ami the Continental Congress.’ said
Alien, bi-andishing his naked sword at a
great rate.
“ery well,’said tlie officer; ’lf you
put it on those grounds, all right, if you
will excuse the up|Kaiunce of things
We were nut cleaning up, uud everything
is by tile heels here '
" Never mind, said Alien, who was
the sou! of politeness *VVe put on no
frills at home, and so we are ready to
take thing* a awe find them.’
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2T>, 1894.
“Washington was a soldier in the true
sense, and, when a lad was given a little
hatchet by his father. George cut down
some cherry-trees with this, in order to
get the cherries without climbing the
trees. One day his father discovered
that the trees had been cut down, and
spoke of it to the lad.
" 'Y'ea,' said George, T did it with my
little hatchet; but I would rather cut
down a thousand cherry-trees and tell the
truth about it than be punished for it.’
“Well said, my brave boy i exclaimed
the happy father as he emptied George's
to.v bank in;o his pocket in payment for
the trees. ‘You took the words right out
of my mouth.’ ”
When Benjamin Franklin visited Eng
land. he delighted in shocking the king.
"He liked to go to the castle with his
breeches tucked in ,iis boots, figuratively
speaking, and attract a great deal of at
tention. It looked odd to the English of
course, to see him come into the royal
presence, aud, leaning his wet umbrella
up against the throne, ask the king,
•How's trade?’ Franklin never puton any
frills, hut lie was not afraid of a crowned
head. He used to say, frequently, that a
king to him was no more than a seven
spot."
After the revolution came an era of good
feeling; then the war of 1812; and then,
in 1825, John Quincy Adams was elected
President. '
“He was a baldheaded man,” says the
author, warmly, "and the country was
given four years of unexampled pros
perity. Yet this experience has not been
regarded by the people as it should have
been. Other kinds of men have repeatedly
been elected to that office, only to bring
sorrow, war, debt and bank failures upon
us. Adams was called ‘The old man elo
quent,’ and it is said that during hi* more
impassioned passages his head, which
was round and extremely smooth, became
flushed, so that, from resembling the cue
ball on the start, as he rose to more lofty
hights his dome of thought looked more
like the spot hall on a billiard table. No
one else in congress at ttxat time had suc
ceeded in doing this.” *
The Florida war (1835) grew out of the
fact that “the Seminoles regretted having
made a dicker with the government at too
low a price for land. Osceola, the chief,
regretted the matter so much that ho
scalped Gen. Thompson while the latter
was at dinner, which shows that the In
dian is not susceptible to cultivation or
the acquisition of any knowledge of table
etiquette whatever. What could be in
poorer taste than scalping a man between
the soup and the remove? The same day
Maj. Dade with 100 men was waylaid, and
all but four of the party killed. Seven
years later the Indians were subdued.
"Phrenologically the Indian allows his
alimentiveness to overbalance his group
of organs which show veneration, benevo
lence, fondness for society, fetes cham
petx-es, etc., hope, love of study, fondness
lor agriculture, an unbridled passion for
toil, etc.”
We now come to a swift review of the
Mexican war.
At Cerro Gordo Gen. Scott overtook the
enemy under Gen. Santa Anna and made
such a fierce attack that the Mexicans
wei-e completely routed. “Santa Anna
left his leg on the field of battle and rode
away on a pet mule named Charlotte
Corday. The leg was preserved and
taken to tho Smithsonian Institute. It is
made of second-growttx hickory, and has
a brass fei‘rule and a rubber eraser on the
end. Gen. Taylor afterwards taunted
him with this incident, and, though
greatly irritated, Santa Anna said there
was no use trying to kick.” Then came
the fatal catastrophe of the rebellion.
Mr. Nye's narrative here is somewhat
fragmentary aud condensed. It will be
sufficient for us to note, as being of
timely interest from the recent wreck of
the Kearsarge, the following incident;
“The Alabama was an armed steam
ship. and the most unpleasant feature of
the war to the federal government, es
pecially as she had more sympathy and
aid in England than was asked for or ex
ueccted by the unionists. However, Eng
land has since repaid all this loss in vari
ous ways. She has put out from $5,000,-
000 to $8,000,000 into cattle on the plants
of the northwest, where skeletons of
some may be found bleaching in the sum
mer sun; and lam personally acquainted
with six Americans now visiting England
who can borrow enough In a year to make
up all the losses sustained through the
Alabama and other neutral vessels. Capt.
Semmes commanded the Alabama, and
off Cherbourg he sent a challenge to the
Kearsarge. commanded by Capt. Wins
low, who accepted it, and so worked his
vessel that the Alabama had to move
round him in a circle, while ( he filled her
up with iron, lead, copper/tin, German
silver, glass, nails, putty, paint, varnishes
and dye stuff. At the seventh rotation
the Alabama ran up the white flag and
sunk with a mellow plunk.”
Finally, let us add, to post-bellum days
and the present paciflo progress of the
country, the author devotes several chap
ters, chiefly of a reflective and discursive
character. He finds that there is too
much liberty in some places aud not
enough elsewhere: he even regrets that
lie was not born a foreigner, and, after
thinking it all over, with a retrospective
eye on the civil war, he wishes to know:
“Who is the bigger ass. the man who
will not forgive and forget, or the mawk
ish and moist-eyed sniveller, who wants
to do that all the time?”
We commend this query to the consid
eration of the gentle reader.
OLD CLOTHES.
Some Reflections in Respect to Them
Drawn From Observation.
Mr. Thomas Carlyle, as every one
ltnow.s wrote a book called Sartor Resar
tus, which is nothing more or less than an
essay on old clothes, but I wish it to be
distinctly understood that I am not using
Mr. Carlyle’s ideas in this article. In
fact. Ido not believe that I have the re
motest recollection of what his ideas
were on this worn out subject, as I read
the book some eight years ago, and since
then 1 have devoured so many others
that all I can remember of this ' remark
able book, is the title, and the name of a
certain old professor, who figured in it
pretty freely, but which I would not dare
topi'onouneo in public.
If the truth be told, I onlyread “Sartor
Resartus” from a strong sense of duty. I
had just come to the conclusion that I
was getting vexy frivolous and light
minded and needed something solid for
ballast. So I pit ked up Carlyle's great
book and struggled through it, enjoying
what I understood, but, alas, there was
very little, indeed, that I understood, i
suppose I might say about every other
word. I admit, though, ttxat a few of his
mighty words stuck in the cells of my
brain and have effectually prevented me
from ever becoming light-minded again,
so really I feel uuder great obligations to
Mr. Carlyle. But you need not be afraid
that 1 have any intention of hurling them
at you here, not because I am afraid that
you would not understand them, but be
cause I might use them in the wrong
place, and because 1 also have my doubts
as to whether the thinness of tlie paper
on which tins article is written would
support their weight.
1 do not think that any of us think very
much about our old clothes except to get
rid of them as fast as possible and supply
their place with new. and when 1 say
"us" 1 meuti the women, who are always
on the alert to dis|Kise of an old
dross to their advantage. But sometimes
it turus out to bo to someone’s else ad van
tage I onee knew a lad.v who gave about
six old dresses, worth at least one dollar
apiece, to > business looking colored girl
to sail for her. After (he girl had gone,
the lady suddenly remembered that she
had neglected ontlrely to find out where
(hegirl lived, and onty knew her first
name, which was Sarah Ann. It is al
most needUss to add that neither Sarah
Ann, the dresses or the six dollars ever
appeared on the scene again, and the un
fortunate lady's husband was cruel
enough to sneericgly remark that he was
glad shewas stuck. for being so foolish.
But with a man it is entirely different.
He never wants to get rid of his old
clothes He clings to them as long as
they will cling to him, and he will wear
a suit until it becomes positively disre
putable. and his friends begin to guy Mm
and talk about taking up a collection.
Then he puts it by regretfully, for he has
git)wn to iove it as tenderly as a father
does his child. They seem to understand
his feelings perfectly, to sympathize with
him in his sorrows and re oice with him
in his Jo.vs. They don’t pull him in the
armholes when be makes a statement
that is not exactly gospel. They do not
manifest disapprobation by squeezing
him in the waist, when he occasionally
eats too much ef his favorite dish. In
fact, they just accommodate themselves
to any circumstance in the easiest man
ner possible. They don't kick at small
things. They are not particularly
fastidious about a little dust, and a
man has not got to brush off a table
or barrel before he sits down to en
joy a comfortable smoke or chat with a
friend. But when a man gets in anew
suit he has got to go over the whole agony
again. They have got to be taught what
manner of man he is, and fit themselves
to him accordingly ; and sometimes they
are very obstinate and hard to teach, and
then that man is in purgatory. He is un
comfortably conscious that his friends
who matte fun of his old clothes are now
making fun of him on the sly because lie
looks so dudish. The pockets are all in
the wrong place, and he has to work to
get their bearings so that he won't have
to ransack fifteen minutes before he can
find the paper he is looking for. When
he meets a friend he is afraid to lean
against the lamp post or sit on the stop
for fear of spotting them. Altogether, ho
is in a decidedly cross and unpleasant
frame of mind until the obnoxious new
ness wears off.
I do not believe that a man who pos
sessed a spark of judgment would put on
anew suit to go to propose to his best
girl, and if he did I’ll wager he would
never do it again, if he ever got another
best girl. He would be at a terrible dis
advantage. as he would be deprived of
that freedom of action which tho occa
sion would demand. He would be sure to
be rather awkward in his movements,
and when the time came to put his arm
round her waist he would not be able to
do it easily and gracefully. It would
most likely be a stiff performance, and
ten* chances to one. unless the girl was
madly in love with him, she would reject
him because he failed to press her with
sufficient enthusiasm Then he would go
out with a left feeling, cursing his new
clothes, which kept him from using his
arms as his heart dictated. Perhaps he
would not know it was the new clothes,
but anyhow he would feel decidedly un
comfortable.
Even after a man has discarded a worn
out suit, he will cling tenaciously to tho
memory of them, and one morning on get
ting up he will suddenly recollect that he
once owned a black coat with gray
speckles on It, that was the most com
fortable garment he ever had on, and a
violent desire will seize him to wear that
old coat again. He searches diligently
in the closet and the wardrobe, but no
speckled coat can he find. So he appeals
to hia wife, who sweetly replies; "Oh,
that old thing. Why I sold it. dear, six
months ago tor 75 cents, and bought baby
three pair of socks." Then, if he is a
natural man, he will swear mildly, and
call her a wasteful, exti’avagant woman,
declaring that he could have worn that
coat at least six months longer. If she
wanted socks for the baby, why in the
name of common sense hadn't she asked
for the money, and.let 'his alone.
She would be selling hia head soon.”
Now a woman is very differently con
stituted. She never has the slightest at
tachment for an old dress, and gets it
out of the house as quickly as she can so
as to get anew one. Only occasionally
does she entertain any sentiment for an
old dress if she has had a particularly
nice time in it, and even then the regard
is-not very deep or lasting, because she
will disjiose of it In a moment if she
thinks she can make a good bargain. The
only way I can account for this is that
women are not as constant as men. Of
course, they would indignantly deny this
charge, but it is true all.the same.
Seriously now, I don’t think we have
one half the respect and affection that we
ought to have for our old clothes. As
soon as they begin to look a little shabby
we get ashamed of them, and forget what
good, steadfast friends they have been to
us. How warm they kept us in cold
weather, how cool in the summer. How
pretty they made us look when we were
especially desirous of pleasing some mas
culine eye. We do not near appreciate the
great service our clothes render us from
the time we enter this world until we
leave it, nor fully realize of what vital
Importance they are to our welfare aud
happiness, and that, in fact, we would not
well dispense with them, with any de
gree of personal com Tort.
There is only one kind of old clothes
that a woman really regards with affec
tion, and that is the little worn long
dresses and short dress, petticoats and
socks of a little one whom the Reaper has
gathered to his arms. These she lays
by lovingly and tenderly, touching them
as reverently almost as she does hor
Bible.
THOSE COVETED ISLANDS.
The Interesting Paoiflc Group Which
Mexico Is Said to Claim.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
The story told by a special dispatch
yesterday from tho City of Mexico that
the Mexican government would probably
soon lay claims at Washington to Santa
Catalina, Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa
Islands elicited considerable comment.
By most persons now here who reside in
Santa Barbara. Ventura, and other coast
counties contiguous to these islands, it
was not believed that Mexico could make
the claim stick. While some Mexicans
have resided on these islands, the islands
have, it is stated, been held mainly, when
at all, by Americans who were interested
in sheep raising and guano. Mexico has
never, in all the years since the cession of
California to the United States, made
any claim to them, aud it is claimed that
they were nominally included in the
treaties of 1819 and 1848, if not, in fact,
stated in dotaii. On this ground it is
urged that Mexico cannot rightly claim
them.
This was the substance of a statement
of William Mondeson, an old resident of
Santa Barbara county, it is said that
James Lick ouce laid claim to Santa Ca
talina Island, and that for a long time he
had a large hand of sheep there."
The islands claimed by Mexico belong to
tho chunnel group, so called, which num
bers seven distinct islets, lying off the
coast below the sharp turn of the main
land to the northeast. Geologists have a
theory that these channel isles are the
mountain summits of a peninsula that
once extended from Point Concepcion to
San Diego. The correspondence of the
geological and botanical species there
-with those of the mainland give Justifica-
I tion to this surmise, although Catalina
| has many specimens of flora plainly show
] ing drift from the south to her peace!ul
shores.
Cabrillo discovered and named Catalina
i in 1542, and gpeaks of thu bronzed hair
and ruddy complexion of the natives,
thus showing their differentiation from
the black haired, dull brown tacos on the
California shore, and suggesting the same
northward emigration that can be proved
of the flowers Vbcauo later spnkeof the
houses thatched with shells, the ; offices
where graven Images were wor*hip|>od
| and biros were sacrificed. This superior
form of worship indicates, too. a vast im
provement upon the Digger huts of reeds
and filthy ietich worship, with the coyote
for a god. The islanders were water
farers and workers in stone, another
point in which they excelled the lands
men. Their canoes were of hollowed legs,
made watertight with asphaltum. The
Smithsonian Institution has removed over
thirty tons of relics of stoneware exca
vated from these islands.
Soon after the early Spanish visits the
northern seal hunters sailed down upon
the unoffending islanders, and, with Tar
tar fien lishness. killed or aimed to kill
every male inhabitant along the channel.
The race languished and tffe progeny of
the few who escaped were taken from the
islands to the missions at Santa Barbara
and Purissima early in 1800. all but the
poor forgotten woman, whom Nidever
found years after, a gibbering idiot.
Santa Catalina is one of the best known
of the channel islands, particularly since
the establishment on it of a summer re
sort, Avalon, with a hotel and regular
steamer service in ti e season. Santa Cruz
is the largest of the Santa Barbara Chan
nel group, and lies twenty-one miles off
shore. East and west its length is twenty
ono miles, and it has an average width of
four miles. Its coast line is
about sixty miles. The eastern por
tion is irregular, barren and water
less. Whilo ihe northeastern part is cov
ered with large rocks. Several species
of cactus and coarse .grasses flourish in
this region. The shores are bold and rug
ged, bordered with a dark gray sand
stone. The elevation of the highest point
is 1.520 feet, and it is visible from a dis
tance of forty miles. San Pedro Point is
the name of the eastern extremity. A
mile or so west is a rocky ridge known
as Cavern Point. Small bays and coves,
which afford anchorage for small craft, in
dent the shore. These are known as
Prisoner’s Harbor. Chinese Harbor, Peli
can Bay. Tyler Cove, Scorpion Harbor,
Tinker Harbor, Platt's Harbor, Smug
gler's Cove, Shaw'3 Anchorage, Valley
Anchorage Albert Anchorago, Alamos
Anchorage, Posa Anchorage and Fowey’s
Cove.
Santa Rosa island is a landmark bold
in contour, though it is not so high as
Santa Cruz. Moderately round hilltops
are visible on ali sides. The greatest ele
vation is 1,564 feet above the sea level.
There are no largo trees on the island,
although it is well watered, but scrub oak
and pine in small clumps are to be found
in the gulches. Grass and herbage grow
in great abundance. Along the north
west side is an indented shore line ten
and a half miles long. There is a plateau
arising from the water edge to the foot of
the mountains. It is 340 feet above the
sea, and is traversed by numbers of nar
row gulches. The south side is alia bor
dered by bold, straight bluffs. The area
of the island is about 100 square miles.
Along the shore, at a distance of four or
five miles apart, good boat landings may
be found.
Santa Catalina lies off San Pedro Bay
and San Pedro Hill at a distance
of nineteen miles. The passage be
tween the island and the mainland is
called San Pedro channel. Santa
Catalina is eighteen miles long,
with an extreme breadth of seven miles,
and an average breath of four miles in
tha southeastern part and two miles in
the northwestern. The narrowist point
is at the isthmus, which is half a mile
wide. The entire shore line is forty-six
milos in length. The topography of the
island is exceedingly rough and mountain
ous. Along the south side the shore line
is bold and difficult of access, save for a
break of three miles. The north shore is
also bold, but has several landings be
sides the principal cove. Catalina Har
bor, five miles from the northwest end of
the island, is nearly one mile in length
and only one-third of a mile in width.
Isthmus Cove, on the north side of
the isthmus, falls back about three
quarters of a mile from the general drift
of the northern shore. Its approaches are
high on either side, but two outlying
rock rocks of moderate extent and two
sunken rocks lie at the entranoe and in
side the heads.
LILIUOKALANI’S DIAMONDS.
How an Innocent American Woman
Held Some For a While.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Fort Smith, Ark., Feb. 11.—When
Queen Liliuokalanai was deposed and
soldiers of the United States placed in
charge of the royal palace of Hawaii, the
royal crown containing 360 jewels, was
stolen.
The gold frame of the crown, minus all
the jewels, was found crumpled and
smashed, Jammed away in a dark ftjrner
in the palace, but not until George Ryan,
one of the United States soldiers pawned
one of the diamonds with a broker, was
there any clue to the thief or thieves.
Ryan was vigorously prosecuted by At
torney General William P. Smith, of the
provisional government, and sentenced to
three years’ imprisonment. His letters
were examined, and among them was
found one from a sister living in Fort
Smith, Ark., acknowledging with many
thanks, the receipt of "the pretty dia
monds.” This letter was signed simply
"Hattie,” but it contained local refer
ences sufficient to enable a shrewd detec
tive to work out the identity of the writer,
who proved to be the wife of a very re
spectable citizen.
The iettex-s were sent to the chief of
police of this city, who turned them over
to ex-Mayor C. M. Cooke, who personally
prosecuted the seax-ch until he was en
abled to lay before tho lady her own let
ter acknowledging receipt of the dia
monds. She was greatly mortified and
evidently had no knowledge that the dia
monds were stolen ones. Mr. Cooke gave
her a receipt for the diamonds, and then
placed them in the vault of the First Na
tional Bank to await instructions to for
ward them, which Chief of Police Surratt
did yesterday, receiving a reward of *luO.
The diamonds are wortn perhaps SI,OOO.
“BILLY” DEUTSCH DEAD.
The Well-Known Gambler Expires in
Denver- His Strange Career.
From the New Y’ork Tribune.
Many people in this city who were con
nect: and with racing or with the stage were
talking yesterday of the death of "Billy”
Deutseh. "Billy" died Sunday in a Den
ver hospital, after an illness which had
long prostrated him. His reputation ex
tended over three continents. He was
born in the old First ward, where ho was
successively a programme seller, a bank
er’s office boy. a salesman, a hotel clerk
and then a theatrical manager. With his
cousin, Maurice Gran, lie ran several en
terprises, and when the two parted com
pany he found himself almost as poor as
on the day he began life.
He read the "Mighty Dollar,” scraped
together SI,OOO. anu with trie help of W.
J. Florence amassed $125,000, with which
he retired at the end of five years. Going
to Europe he learned the game of barra
oat, at which he lost and won two for
tunes. I-ess than five years ago he re
turned from Monte Carlo with SBOO,OOO
won at t arracal and rouge et noir.
Twelve mouths later ho was penniless
Then his health gave way. Consumption
seized him, an.. for tho last few years ho
had been a physical and financial wreck.
Many stories of h.s generosity havo
been told. It is said that ho gave away
more than $70.(810. lu hia possession two
days before his death were notes to the
amount of S4<'.UOO. "o|ien my trunk,” ho
said to those around him, "and give them
to me." As the slips were put into his
hand he deliberately tore them to
shreds ami threw the pieefs in the
tiro, "These boy* are a* poor as 1
atn." he said, "ami I don't want these
things to worry them when I am gone.”
Ride* Haggard has liken to farrau gis ihe
Wsvi-lisjr Valley la England, and do-s 1 Hlo
library woik, atcepi is lh colder mouths.
RAILROADS.
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(90th MERIDIAN TIME.) *
Time Table in Effect Dec. 25, 1893.
T Sf ln ! 'Ej ln I T ?? la | TO AND FROM THE ~T~' T?Sti
38. I 34. | 36. I NORTH. So. . 3a Q£ ln
12 01 nn 325 pm 7 spm Lv Savannah...; Ar 430 am" It 00 am —Tnif—■
143 pm 620 pin ; DOipmAr Fairfax S. C Lv! 244 am B>6 aS In I'® 1 '®
■■• -• ” £SO pm i' „ Ar Augusta Lv! 725 am ~ 13 pm
2 255“ Po 941 pm Ar Denmark. S. C Lv 203 am 711 am "iw'”
350 pm 940 pm 11 (to pm Ar ColumDla.S.C Lv 1210 am 500 aSim p ®
830 pm 300 am Ar Charlotte. N C Lv 10 50 pm '-sx7^
949 pm 440 am Ar Salisbury, N. C Lv! 915 pm *“
1109 pm 620 amAr Greensboro, N. C Lv 732 pm Si? 831
1227 am 800 am Ar 1 anvllle. Va Lv 550 pm!::
700 am 125 pm Ar Richmond. Va Lv 1240 pm ... iilX a!a
218 am 1000 am Ar Lynchburg. Va Lv 350 pm vjo? 111
600 am! 11 40 am Ar Charlottesville, Va Lv! 212 pm . ' ?e- ar “
713 am| 255 pm Ar Washington Lv 1101 am ....! .AS
*23 am 1 420 pm Ar Baltimore Lv 042 am oan
10 46 ami 640 pm Ar Philadelphia Lv! 720 am ' pm
112 pm 910 pm Ar New York Lv. 12 15 am .. ' Pm
830 pm 725 am Ar Boston.. Lvi 730 pm' . . 900 ‘'i®
-tgi. XT,,. , TOASi?,£ii° M 1 T;'T t S‘'‘ fir
440 am 830 ami ♦lopm Lv Savannah Ar 11 50 am 710 pmi TTw —■
645 am 1100 am; 603 pm Ar Everett Lv 942 am 506 pm qo™
s 1 ™ 1
835 am 100 pm 815 pm Ar Yulee Lv 745 am 313 pm 7r Pm
915 am 340 pm 845 pm Ar Fernandina....r ...Lv 710 am 12 25 pm pm
9 t 8 am Ar Callahan .. Lv 2 15 pm
920 am 155 pm 900 pm Ar Jacksonville Lv 7CO am 225 Dm aw j,™
10 so am 345 pm Ar St. Augustine Lv P 1 VS pn >
12 15 pm 11 15 pm Ar Psiatka Lv 420 am ......!!"I 3,5 SS
11 33 am 850 pm Ar Lake City Lv 11 33 am
12 20 pm 942 pm .. Ar Live Oak Lv ...!. lo4t am!
237 pm 12 05 am Ar Monttcello Lv 805 am! ""
330 pm 12 45 am Ar Tallahassee Lv 730 ami
5 12 pm Ar Chattahoochee Lv 12 38 am!
* 15 P™ Ar River Junotton Lv 12 35 am
11 00 pm Ar Pensacola Lv 4 25 Dm *
3 05 am Ar * Mobile Lv 335 pin *
7 35 am Ar New Orleans Lv 11 00 am
1137 am 420 pm 12 03 am Ar Waldo Lv 333 am TT37"am
5 00 pm Ar Cedar Key Lv 6 15 am
153 pm 600 pm 212 am Ar . ..Ocala Lv 116 am 052 am 107 „m
1 18 pm Ar Sliver Springs Lv SJ®
245 pm 655 pm 826 am Ar Wildwood Lv 12 05 am 857 am 12 07 £5
3fopm ••• 426 am Ar Leesburg Lv 10 30 pm 822 am
515 pm 725 am Ar Orlando Lv 745 pm 630 ami 930 aS
5 50 pm 11 16 am Ar Winter Park Lv 8 40 a£
3pm 756 pm 449 am Ar Lacoochee Lv 10 20 pm 767 anr"Tom m
9 10 pm 4 20 pm Ar Tarpon Springs Lv - U
1010 pm 700 pm Ar St Petersburg Lv
ptn 631 amjAr Plant City Lv 835 pm 631 am 947
530 pm 1010 pm 730 am!Ar Tampa Lv 730 pm 545 am 9i)oa£
*Notk—Daily except Sunday. 1
Vestibuled sleepers on trains 35. 36, 37 and 38 via Richmond and Danville railroad he.
w Pf ?, Tampa .Jacksonville and New York, connecting with Colonial express solid tram
Washington and Boston without change. “ la
To Florida—Sleeper on No. 37 to Tampa. No. 35 to Jacksonville.
Sleeper to New Orleans on No. 35 from Jacksonville.
SpartanburK Srlor CSrS ° D tralns 37 and 38 Jacks nvtlle and Asheville via Columbia and
Dining cars on trains 37 and 38 between Jacksonville and New York.
For full information apply to A. O. MAC DONELL, G. P. A.. Jacksonville Fla
N. S. PENNING! ON, Traffic Manager, Jacksonville. Fla. '
All trains arrive and depart at Central railroad depot.
, I. M. FLEMING, Dlv. Pass. Agent
Tickets on sale corner Bull and Bryan streets and Central railroad depot, Savannah ha
D. C. ALLEN, City Ticket Agent. ’
THE TROPICAL TRUNK LINE.
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway,
Joseph H. Durkee, Receiver.
THE FLORIDA SOUTHERN RAILROAD CO , )
INDIAN RIVER STEAMBOAT COMPANY, V R. B. CABLE, General Manager.
JUPITER AND LAKE WORTH RAILWAY, i *
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No. 15.|N0.35.jN0.71. | N0.23. |Tlme Table In Effect Feb. 7, '941 No. 78. | No. 72. | No. 14."
* *3OP * 2 00p -tli) 15 a|* 910a Lv Jacksonville Ar 3< 0 pm] 645 pmi 630 am
S2i p ! J 95? a iflhfla Magnolia Springs 200 pm 451 pm 519 ain
l? 95 p 11 95 a| 10 13 a Green Cove Springs 156 pm 446 pm 515 am
H2op 340 p 115Uaj Jlosa Palatka 105 pm 404 pm 420 am
l 7iS a 12 18 p Seville 11 48 am 307 pm 303 am
138a 513 p ... I2 50 p DeLeon Springs 1114 am 223 am
2 15a 5 29p 134 p 116 p Bereslord 10 55 am 203 am
2 32a 5 39p . 127 p Orange City Junction 10 46 am 150 am
„ 2 55a 5 54p 202 p 145 p Enterprise Junction 10 35 am 207 nm 137 am
* 4 00a 6 35p 243 p 233 p Sanford 10 10 am 146 pm 115 am
f 15a .07p 3 lop 320 p Winter Park 915 am 12 45 pm 1155 pm
2itl a I?£ p 327 P *32 p Orlando 905 am 12 30 pm 1140 pm
53,a 752 p 40-’p 412 p Kissimmee 830 am 12 00 nn 1050 pm
630a 8 45p 450 p 507 p Barlow Junction 740 am 1110 am 94Snm
7 sfia 9 4i)p 550 p 600 pAr Bartow 630 am 1012 am *730 pm
Ft. Meade 9*5 am 255 pm
t 1 45p 902 p Ft. Ogden 716 am 1000 am
+ 245 p 936 p Ar Punta Gorda Lv t 6 40 amt 900 am
8 35a *lO 35p 615 p 6 50p Ar Tampa Lv *6loam+94sam *BO5 pm
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8 40p 515 p |Ar Leesburg *BO7 am 10 47 am
t 8 30pj 2OOp Lv Jacksonville Ar sou pm' | 630 am
til 10a + 6 25p Lv Sanford Ar 960 am! 530 pm
1140a 6 45p Paola 9 23 am 4 20 pm
12 55p 7 23p Sorrento 845 am! 305 pm
1 20p 7 35p Mt. Dora 832 am! . 245 pm
1 40p 7 50p! Ar Tavares Lv +8 20 am; 42 15 pm
+ 6OOp 210p§1 45 pLv Enterprise Junction Ar 10 25 am 150 pm!..!!
8 l“p 344 p 319 pi LaGratige 725 am 12 26 pm
8 45p 4 OOp 335pj Ar Titusville Lv *715 am tl2 15 pm
I Courtney | '
Steamer" St. Augustine" Is!® Indiauola 21 steamer "St.Augusttne" is
appointed to leave Titusville ri Georgiana 2 appointed to ioave Melbourne
daily, except Sunday 5:30 a § Tropic g daily, except Sunday. 12:10 p.
m ; due Rockledge 9:30 a. m ; w CScoa and m.: Rockledge 4 p. m.; due
Melbourne 12 noon. jS Rockledge efi iTitnsville 9:30 p. m.
Steamer "St. Lucie’ or “St. Eau Gallie.... J Steamer "St. Lucie” or "St.
Sebastian” is appointed to * Melbourne is appointed to
leave Titusville for Jupiter on St. Lucie £ leave Jupiter 1 p. ra. daily,
arrival of train No. 71 —4 OJ o Ft Pierce ..® except Saturday: Rockledge
p.m. dally, except Sunday; g Eden c 7.30 a. m.. except Sunday;
due Rockledge 6:30 p. m.: § Jensen •? due Titusville 10:30a. m., core
Jupiter 12 noon following day. 3 Sewall s Point 2 necting with train No. 72.
I ;■ Kobe Sound £|
* 100pm*900 am Lv Jupiter Ar; u 45 am 2"15 pm!
*Dailv. tDaily except Sunday. JSunday onlv.
Trains 71 and 72 carry par.or buffet cars between Jacksonville and Titusville. Punta
Gorda and Tampa, and veen Palatka a-d Broo’ sville Trains 23 and It earrv through
Pullman Buffet Sleepers dally between New York and Port Tampa, connecting at Port
Tampa on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays lor Key West and uavana. Trains as and
7balso carry through Pullman sleeping cars between sew torn and Port Tampa.
Trains 15 and 14 carry through Pullman sleeping cars between Cincinnati and Port Tampa.
G. D. ACKERLY General Passenger Agent, Jacksonville. Fla.
TYPEWRITERS.
REnmcTON Typewriter
The history ofjhe REMHTGTOI7 shows a stead popularity >md success.
It is ahsolntely nnrivaied for ail the essential qqalitics of a first-class writing machine.
1 First invention of the Typewriter now known
• as the Remington Standard. A few machines
made by hand during this and the following
1 The repeated experiments of the in ' en i or *
1 ut having somewhat improved upon the nrst
crude attempts, it was brought to the
Remington factory, at Ilion, N. Y.
1 Q*7 A After more than a year of painstaking labor
on the part of many able mechanical experts,
the first Remingion-inade machines were
put upon the market.
t years after, only 1,000 machines had been
I sold. The public were slow to realize tne
value of the invention.
1882. The number increased to 2,300 machines.
ADOPTED AS THE OFFICIAL 1 885 5 000 machin ” were ° ,d this >" ear ' 11 gr ' W
lUUJ| in popular favor. In
WRITING MACHINE 1 QQ A Sales had risen to 20,000 machines per
np twp •! annum.
Ur Inc | Found a production of 100 machines per d*T
WORLD'S COLUMBIAN J 89 2.
PYPnQiTmre live additions to our factory, to enable it r
CAruiliiun, keep pace v.-ith all demands.
WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT,
327 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
C. S. Rionn _
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