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The ratification and exchange of trea
ties of peace between Spain and the Unit
ed States occurred on April 11. The Indem
nity of $20,000,000 is to be paid within nine
ty days from that date.
Mrs. George, whose trial for the murder
ef George D. Saxton has Just come to an
end at Canton, 0., has had four offers of
marriage since ihe trial began, and three
or lour offers to go on the stage.
“No pay, no preach,” is the motto of the
Rev. Mr. Brensinger of Merlztown, Pa.
Lst week the ghost failed to walk at
Mr. Brensinger’s church, and that gen
tleman went on strike. He positively re
fused to go on with the performance and
lit [vend upon the box receipts to relieve
the situation. At last accounts the strike
was still on.
Telegraphing without wires has been fol
lowed by telephoning without wires, ac
cording to an Albany, Ind., dispatch. It is
Mated that two parallel wires were used,
each about forty feel in length, with which
the experimenters succeeded in transmit
ting the voice without wires over a dis
tance of seventy-live feel. According to
this system, it would seem that It re
quires more wire for the wireless tele
phony than It does for the old fashioned
gort.
Upon the eve of the assembling of the
Czar's peace conference at The Hague, it
Is announced, the Emperor William of Ger
many will issue a decree of amnesty to
political offenders in Prussia. This is in
tended to be complimentary to the Czar.
But, as a matter of fact, will it not direct
the attention of the Russian autocrat,
and the world at largo, to the fact that
the mines of Siberia and Russian prisons
everywhere, are tilled wilh political offend-,
ers?
Some of Senator Quay's political friends,
it seems, have already been in corre
spondence with members of the Senate re
sj>eciing their votes when the question of
seating the Beaver statesman comes up.
A dispatch from Pittsburg says that six
ty-seven senators have pledged themselves
to vote in favor of Quay. If that is cor
t t. then the Senate will reverse itseif
and upset a number of its precedents. A
N< "' York politician once asked, “What's
the constitution, among friends?”
The at quitted of Mrs. George, at Canton,
v ; probably din more to tile prejudice
o.‘ t.e jurymen at -Inst capital punishment
ror wotm n bun to any failure on the part
of the smt* to fasten the murder upon hr r.
Th* womr.n s lawyers very adroitly wotk
< and upon iiif clmalrlc instincts of the men
in the Jury box. "if you convict her,” naid
one of the pltndtrt, ‘ don’t recommend her
.o mercy; send her to the gallows. She
w >uld prefer th galiows and quirk obftv
loti to Hit living bell of lift, imprisonment."
A MOVEMENT 1 CIWtHI) PEACE.
The announcement that the Insurgent
Filipinos have had about enough of fight
ing and want peace will be received with
feelings of rejoicing throughout the entire
country. Undoubtedly the plucky and per
sistent manner In which the campaign
against them has been conducted has con
vinced them that the Americans are an
altogether different people from the Span
iards. and that in thinking that they
would have the same sort of fighting in
trying to drive the American soldiers out
of the country they had in their wars with
the Spaniards, they made a very great
mistake.
We know very little, of course, of the
hardships which our troops have endured,
but the dispatches have told us enough
io make us understand that they have not
permitted either swamps, Jungles, rivers
or the terrible heat to interfere with their
military operations. They have pushed
steadily ahead, and no obstacles have been
too great for them to overcome. They
have given the Filipinos an exhibition of
fighting such as they have never seen be
fore, and it Is not therefore surprising that
the Filipinos have reached the point of re
garding the war as a hopeless one for
them.
The present effort to secure peace may
not he successful, but if it should not ie,
it is certain that it will not be long be
fore Aguinaldo will surrender. No steps
would hate been taken toward peace if
Aguinaldo had not seen that the time was
close at hand w’hen he would have to ad
mit that he was at the end of his re
sources. When Malolos, the insurgent
capital, wqs taken we did not think the
end was in sight, hut the asking for
lime to consider the advisability of sur
rendering means that the Filipino lead
ers see the futility of continuing the war.
It would not he surprising If our author
ity were fully recognized in qll of the
Philippine Islands before June.
MR. CHOKER’S IIEPARTCRE.
There is no longer room for doubt that
Richard Crokcr is boss of the city of
New York. Three men of prominence left
for Europe on the steamer New York last
Wednesday. They were ex-Speaker Reed,
the British minister and Mr. Croker. There
was a great crowd at the wharf an hour
before the steamer's departure. It was
not there, however, to see either Mr. Reed
or the British minister. In fact, those
two distinguished men were almost un
noticed in the surging mass of people.
The crowd was almost wholly composed
of office holders of the city of New York,
and they were there to say goodbye to
Richard Croker and to wish him a pleas
ant Journey and a speedy return to this
country.
When it Is remembered that Mr. Croker
holds no public position, and that he has
not won fame or fortune In any field of
useful endeavor, the gathering at the
wharf of the steamer on the occasion of
his departure for a visit to Europe must
be regarded as something out of the usual
in this or any other country.
That Mr. Croker is a strong character
there Is no doubt, and it is certain that
he controls the great city of New York
as completely as any business man with
in its limits controls his business. And
he makes it pay him to do so. The testi
mony which he gave before the Mazet
committee a few day ago shows beyond a
doubt the way he gets the money which
enables him to live like a Prince and to
keep a great racing stable in England.
He doubtless regards his money getting
methods as honest, and the office holders
of the city approve them, but a man of a
fine discrimination between right and
wrong would not find it satisfying to his
conscience to get money as Mr. Croker
gets It.
A NEW FACTOR IN WALL STREET.
It is announced that the rise In the price
of silver bullion which has taken place
within the last few days Is proving to
be anew factor in Wall street specula
tion. This week, so far, the rise has been
about a cent and a half an ounce.
It Is not at ail improbable that the rise
will continue. The reason that the price
of silver is advancing is the greatly
increased production of gold. If this in
crease continues for two or three years
there will be no silver question, because
the price of silver bullion will be about
equal to that of gold bullion at the ratio
of 16 to 1, and when that time arrives no
one will care particularly whether the
coinage of silver is made free and unlimit
ed or not, because no one will have any
thing to gain by having free and unlimit
ed silver coinage.
A co'uple of years ago everybody wanted
gold. The demand for it was so great
that a small premium was paid for it.
Now, nobody wants gold—that is, nobody
prefers It to greenbacks or national bank
notes. In fact, paper money Is often ask
ed lor in exchange for gold. All the peo
ple want so far as gold is concerned is to
• know that they can have it on demand.
As long as they feel certain about that
they prefer to have paper money.
So in the case of silver; as soon as sil
ver reaches parity with gold at the pres
ent ratio, there will cease to be a silver
question. And at the present relative rate
of production of the two metals it will not
be so very long before the bullion value
of a silver dollar will lie equal to that of
a gold dollar. The reason, however, that
silver has suddenly become a factor*, in
Wall street speculation Is that as trtb bul
lion value of silver rises the net profits
of the Mexican railways Increase, because
it takes less of the gross earnings to pur
chase the supplies which have to be ob
tained outside of Mexico. Also the
chance# for paying better dividends In
crease, because now, the fixed charges be
ing payable in gold, gold has to be pur
chased with tne silver currency for that
purpose.
The cruiser Detro ' ought to be some
where in the neighborhood of BluetWds
about now. It is lo lie hoped that her com
mander haa such orders as will enable him
to suppress that little tyrant, Torres, in
short order. Torres has made himse'f an
unmitigated nuisance, with his nagging
and bulldozing of American merchHtns.and
be deserves lo be taught a lesson that lie
will never forget.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 189D.
SOME OF THE SOLUTIONS.
The Northern papers have been busy
during the last few days giving their solu
tions of ihe black problem in the South.
Some of them have used very temperate
language In doing this, and others have
shown more temper than Judgment In giv
ing expression ,o their sentimnts. All of
them, however, have overlooked the fact
that they have In their respective com
munities problems, the results of social
conditions, which are as deplorable as the
condition in the South which permits of
the lynching of negroes for assaulting
women. We do not say this for the pur
pose of excusing lynching. We have al
ways condemned lynch law, and shall con
tinue to do. On no occasion have we at
tempted to condone violence of that kind.
When the spirit of mob law is abroad in
nocent as well as guilty are likely to be
come victims of it, and, besides, its ef
fect upon those responsible for such law Is
brutalizing and demoralizing.
We wish to say", however, to the news
papers which insist that these lynchings
in the South indicate that the Southern
people are less civilized than the people of
the North that they are not sincere—that
Ihey know that they are not dealing frank
ly wish their readers. One of the Western
papers—the Times-Herald of Chicago—ls a
little more fair Rian some of its contem
poraries in that section of the country. In
the course of an article on the Ncswnan
lynching it says: “We who are outside the
trouble find it a simple matter to be vir
tuous and law-abiding In our criticism,
but what should we do if we lived amid the
conditions which prevail in the South?
This would be a fair question for a South
erner to ask. and it must be confessed that
it does not admit of a ready answer."
Yes, It does admit of a ready answer,
hut those outside of the South are not
willing to answer it readily and frankly.
Let crimes like those of which Sam Hose
was guilty be committed in any onei of the
Northern states and the perpetrators of
them would be lynched, and, in all prob-'
ability, tortured just as Hose was. Why.
one day this week, according to a report
In a New Y'ork paper, a mob threatened
to lynch and burn a negro in the state of
New Y’ork for simply stealing a pocket
book. It would be an easy matter to find
in the criminal annals of almost any one
of the states things as horrible and sav
age as was the affair at Newnan.
We mention these things not to excuse
what occurred In this state, but to bring
home to those who rashly criticise a whole
people for what was done by a few that
the communities they represent occupy no
higher plane of civilization than the peo
ple they so freely criticise and condemn.
And it is Interesting to notice the vari
ous suggestions offered by our Northern
critics for the solution of the black prob
lem. One favors one thing and another
another thing. Most of them, however,
adopt Booker Washington's suggestion,
namely, education. We have no doubt that
if all the negroes were given a certain
amount of education there would be fewer
assaults on women by negroes, but the
race prejudice would not disappear. It
would, In fact, be accentuated. The more
education the negro Is given the greater
his demands will he for political, and even
social, equality. Education, therefore, in
stead of removing the causes of trouble
between the whites and blacks would only
Increase them. We have said many times
that the race prejudice is not confined to
the South. It Is particularly noticeable
in the South because negroes form so large
a part of the population. Is it not a fact
that the white members of the Common
Council of Boston, a couple of years ago,
refused practically to occupy seats In the
Council with a negro who had been elect
ed lo that body? They made every possi
ble effort to get rid of him and were not
satisfied until they succeeded. Is It not a
fact that a great outcry was made in the
aristocratic part of Brooklyn recently be
cause one of the residents of that locality
sold his house to a wealthy negro? These
instances are mentioned simply to show
lhat the prejudice against the negro is not
confined to the white people of the South.
If there were as many negroes in Ihe
North in proportion to the population as
there are in the South there would be the
same black problem there as there is here.
And why would there be? Because the
white race will not submit to the domina
tion of an Inferior race in ary degree, and
It will not admit it to a political or social
equality. And the black race is not content
to occupy an inferior position. We may
temporize with this black problem for a
good many years, but all efforts to solve
it on the basis of political equality will be
only makeshifts. That this is true the
leaders of the party of emancipation Is be
ginning co realize, and that Is why they
appeared to take so little interest in the
political troubles which occurred in North
Carolina and South Carolina last fail.
They understood that the problem was one
that could not be solved by the sort of leg
islation to which they had been resorting
for the last thirty years.
William E. Curtis, who is now out among
the Kansans whooping up prosperity, says
that Jerry Simpson has made enough out
of his whirl into politics to keep him in
comfort for the balance of his life. For
eight years he received a salary and “al
lowances" as a congressman amounting
to a little over $6,500 a year, or a total of
a bit more than $50,000 for his services as
a statesman. In Washington "he lived
in a frugal way upon his mileage, his
postage and private secretary accounts, 1 ’
and saved his salary- When he saw a
good opportunity lo invest in land or cat
tle in Kansas, he made the trade, with
the result that he is now the owner of a
good ranch and a hunch of some 500 hea-1
of cattle, besides which he has a good
bank account. And thus has Jerry Simp
son demonstrated that poverty can he
abolished by his system of politics; only
one has got to know how to work It.
Twelve years ago a Philadelphia man of
the name of Yerkes Went to Chicago with
$40,000 and a lot of nerve, to grow up with
ihe town. He put his money, ami also
his nerve. Into slreet railroads. Now he
is sel.lug out his roads, and will soon
settle donn in a palace on Fifth avenue.
New York, with a fortune of $13,000,000,
The investigation into the management
of the Elmira, N. Y.. reformatory, if re
ports are to be credited, is quite likely to
reveal cruel practices that will quite throw
into the shade some of the stories of
Southern convict camps which periodically
find their way Into the Northern news
papers. The purpose of the reformatory
of course, is to reclaim youths who have
gone wrong, ana to make good citizens of
them. It seems tha' a favorite method of
reforming these youths, in the Elmira in
stitution, Is to string them up by the
thumbs for a number of consecutive days.
Another favorite method is to beat them
with a paddle made of leather, the paddle
having holes In it and being soaked in
water. The purpose of the beating, of
course. Is to ge‘t self-re<p< ct and honor into
the unfortunate young fellows, through
their hides. “Sometimes,” said a former
attendant at the reformatory, according to
the New York Hi rill, "blood would
break through the skin; but the keeper
knew when to stop.” One witness said
that “Brockway and his colonels” had
fifty men strung up by the thumbs at one
time. “Brockway” i- the superintendent.
He is a Republican, and very likely Is one
of those Northern Republicans who are al
ways looking out for some "Southern out
rage” over which to cry out in holy hor
ror. ‘
Mr. J. Plerpont Morgan, the banker,
seems to have adopted ihe wiser plan of
distributing his wealth in person, and not
waiting to have it dispensed after his death
under a will which might not be construed
by the executors as the maker of it in
tended, or which might be broken and the
property diverted from the channels in
which the accumulator desired that it
should go. Mr. Morgan has just given sl,-
000, OgO for the benefit of a New York hos
pital. Thus he not onfy makes a princely
gift to a good cause, but sets an example
which other rich men would do well to
follow. By giving largely of their money
to worthy objects, rich men not only do
actual good, but they considerably lessen
the feeling of hostility towards themselves
which is felt by many persons of the poor
classes.
The manufacturers of bicycle parts
seem to be having a pretty hard time, from
the statement of one of them. He said:
"We buy chiefly three products; namely,
steel, brass and rubber. Since Dec. 1,
owing to the action of the trusts which
control these products, steel has gone up
100 per cent., brass 50 per cent, and rub
ber 80 per cent. In the meantime we have
not been able to raise our prices at all.”
And now the bicycle manufacturers, who
are the customers of the manufacturers
of the parts, are going to form a trust,
which will tlx the price at which it will
'buy parts. Really, it would seem that this
middleman manufacturer was likely to be
caught between the upper and nether mill
stone of the trusts.
PERSONAL.
—Secretary Wilson Is determined to dis
cover if a. human being can Jive comfort
ably In the coldest portion of Alaska, and
has sent there to experiment in gardening
Prof. C. C. Gorgensen, a Dane, who is an
expert In northern agriculture and who
will start a station at Sitka.
„ —Sarah Bernhardt says that to train her
voice she adopted measures like those ac
corded to Demosthenes. "All day long,”
she says, ”1 kept a rubber ball in my
mouth so as to be able to open it wide
enough, and when alone in my room I did
nothing for hours together but repeat 'ti
dl, tl di, ti di.’ "
—Plessis de Richelieu, who is acting ad
miral and commander-in-chief of Ihe Si
amese navy, was a common seaman in
the French navy, and deserted while un
der sentence of death for striking an offl
•eer. This sentence has long been annull
ed. Richelieu is a descendant of the
house of Richelieu, to which the great
Caidtnal belonged.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Spain may be effete, but it isn’t every
body who can get $20,000,000 for letting go
of a red-hot poker.—Puck.
—Provided For.—"l don’t see what is to
become of all these new doctors!” "Oh,
new microbes are being all the time dis
covered.”—Detroit Journal.
—Just as Economical. —“Would you call
Uncle Amos a stingy man?” "No, 1 should
say he had all his generous impulses un
der perfect control.”—Chicago Record.
—The Way of the Athlete.—Haicede—
“That there athletic education your boy's
gettin’ ort to come in handy In handlin'
Hie axe. eh?” Tornep—"Naw, seems not.
But he's all right with a hammer.”—ln
dianapolis Journal.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Baltimore Sun CDem.) says; “To
the negro lynching in Illinois is to he
added another in Kansans, illustrating the
pitiable results in the North as well as
the South of the sad blunder the Republi
can party has made in trying to use the
negro as a political instrument. The col
ored race has been filled, with impractica
ble ideas, aspirations and resentments—
has been demoralized—by its pretended
friends. Before the civil war and during
the civil war there were no assaults by
negroes upon white women and no lynch
ings of negroes in the South, or elsewhere.
The negro respected and trusted the white
people as friends. But to create a politi
cal ally in the South, the ex-slave was
given the ballot, taught to hate his former
master and encouraged to try to domi
nate the Anglo-Saxon. Failure was cer
tain. Nowhere on earth do the colored
races dominate the white. The former ad
vocates of enfranchisement now frankly
confess the failure of their effort and
Tegard It as a mistake, both because the
negro has shown himself unable to obtain
political mastery and because his enfran
chisement has increased the political pow
er of the section they had hoped to put
down.
The Hartford (Conn.) Times (Dem.) says:
"Hoke Smith, in speaking of the latest
Georgia atrocity, says ‘the sentiment
of the people of the entire country seems
less averse to killing human beings now
than when Spain was oppressing Cuba.'
The equanimity with which the more
pious imperialists receive the news of the
daily klll'ng In the Philippines is proof
enough that the Georgia man speaks
truly."
The Atlanta Journal (Dem ) says: "It it
now said that Mr Bailey will reconsider
his determination not to be the leader of
the minority in the next House of Repre
sentatives. We thought he would.”
Grant's Pension Protege.
“Certainly the story is authentic that
Fresidem Grant once asked me If I could
not raise the standard of beauty in the
dead letter office," said Assistant Attorney
General James N. Tyner, laughingly, ac
cording to the Chicago Times-Herald, "but
the sequel to it has never been published.
"The President was passing through the
department and jokingly commented on
the unattractive appearance of the clerks
and quizzically Inquired if I could not
raise the standard of female beauty.
"Naturally 1 regarded the matter as a
jest and replied that I would be glad to do
bo. and was open to suggtsilons.
" 'Why, employ one handsome woman
and perhaps she will leaven the whole
loaf,’ he answered and when I assented
he inquired seriously:
“ ‘Would you give a pretty girl an ap
pointment If I sent her to you?"
“ 'Of course I would,’ I replied, never
dreaming, however, that he v.as in earn
est.
“But the next day a lovely young girl
came Into my office with a note from
President Grant, simply asking, me to ful
fill my promise, without referring, how
ever, to ite character. I questioned her
closely, and found her as innocent and
unsophisticated as she was pretty. She
was a Southerner, and had lived on a
plantation all her life, but wanted a gov
ernment position, and, being backed by
the President, I set her at work in the
dead letter office.
“Some time later, while Grant was on
his trip around the world, X spent a cou
ple of months with him in Paris, and one
evening as we sat talking of the past 1
asked him if he remembered this young
lady.
“ ‘Certainly I do, for I have good cause
to remember her,’ he responded cordially.
"I intimated that I was satisfied there
must be a story back of his appointment,
and as he was in one of his rare reminis
cent moods, he related the following ex
traordinary experience:
“ ‘lt was just before the battle of the
Wilderness that I mounted my horse and
went for a ride. I was full of anxiety, and
in my preoccupation wc, outside of our
lines and found to my t i may that I was
being chased.
“ ‘‘My horse was a good one. and I rode
hard until I came to a little, half-conceal
ed cabin, where I dismounted and said to
a man that came to the door.
“ ‘Are you a Confederate or a Union
man?"
“ ' "I am a Confederate,” he answered
proudly.
Well, sir, I am Gen. Grant: can you
hide me for a little while, as I am being
pursued?”
“ ‘ “How do you know that I won’t be
tray you?” he inquired curiously.
“ ‘ “Because I trust your face.” 1 re
plied, and without -more ado he seized my
horee by the bridle and we went into a
deep ravine back of his home, where a mo
ment later he left me, after bidding me
to keep prefectly still. *
" ‘lt was a glorious moonlight night, and
I could see every object distinctly. About
II o’clock I heard the bushes crackle, and
for a moment my heart leaped for fear as
my host came cautiously up behind me.
Have you betrayed me?" I inquired
sharply.
No, sir,” he replied almost harshly,
"(he pursuing party has passed, the coast
is clear, and you can return to your
army.”
“ 'He put me on the right road, and as I
jumped into the saddle I grasped his Hand
and tried to thank him. I told him that if
I could serve him or his to let me know.
“ 'I never saw him again, but the day
you spoke to me his daughter came to me
with a letter from her father, who Is very
poor, reminding me of my promise. And
this,’ concluded Gen. Grant, ‘was the sole
reason I wanted to raise the standard of
female beauty in the dead letter office.’ ”
Occult information.
The lady who tells fortunes and goes into
trances had been visited by the idle young
person with an inquiring mind, says the
Washington Star.
"1 don't want to know anything about
family affairs nor how to beat the stock
market," he said cheerfully. "I am a great
reader of the news, and as I hadn't seen
anything about the Chinese emperor for
a long time, I thought I’d calf around and
see how he's getting along. I’ve been wait
ing a good while for some news from Pek
ing or Hong Kong or thereabouts, and I
thought you might help me out. Asia's a
big distance away,” he added doubtfully.
“Maybe you don’t make such long jumps
as Asia.”
“Oh, yes, she answered, and," passing her
hand over her brow, she shut her eyes
and proceeded. ”1 see a young man with
slanting eyes and a cue. Something tells
me that it is the Chinese Emperor. A man
Is running away from him so fast that
papers are dropping out of his pockets and
falling in all directions. The man who
runs is a life insurance agent. A lady ap
pears. She also lias slanting eyes. It is
the Empress Dowager. She catches the
young man in the act of taking a drink out
of a large bottle. She notes that there are
bottles of every size and shape scattered
about the apartment. ’So,’ she exclaims in
dignantly, this is the way you pass your
time—drinking and carousing!” 'Empress
Dowager,’ he answers, 'you do me wrong.
It is true that J drink. But there is no ca
rousal fluid in any of those bottles.'
“Nonsense!' she exclaims, 'why then have
them about?' ‘Because,’ he answered. ‘I
need them in my profession of Emjieror.
Those bottles are full of antidotes.’ The
Empress frowns and exclaims in a whis
per: 'That explains it!’ Then she turns
and leaves the palace .without another
word.”
"That’s first rate,” said the young man
as he reached for his hat and arose to go.
She opened her eyes immediately and
said: "One dollar, please.”
Grover Cleveland.
In a lecture on the subject, “Some Peo
ple That I Have Met,” delivered in Lewls
ton, Me., by Dr. Lorelius S. Metcalf, for
merly editor of the Forum, told of the
following conversation with ex-President
Cleveland:
■‘l once asked President Cleveland how
it felt to be President of the United States.
He looked down a long time, and when he
looked up there were tears in his eyes,
and he said: 'I grew up in a home with
a good father and mother, and they
taught me the right and the wrong, and
when I grew to be a man I am sorry to
say I did not always do the light. But
one day a very remarkable thing hap
pened. I was elected Mayor of Buffalo. I
said that I was not worthy to fill the
place. 1 felt I was not capable, but I was
elected, and I said to myself: "I know
what is right and what is wrong, because
my father and mother taught it to me,
and, thanks to them, I will be Mayor, and
will try to do what is right."
“ T went ahead doing what was right.
And one day a still stranger thing hap
pened. 1 was elected Governor of New
York. Then I was afraid. I said surely
there is some mistake. I am not worthy
for this great place. I cannot fill it. But
1 thought it over, and I again determined
to do right and fear not. And I went
ahead and did what I thought was right
And still a greater surprise awaited me. I
was made President of the United States,
and I was the most surprised man you
*vor saw But I have tried to stick close
ly to what f know is right, and I have
done It, In spite of what others say to me.
Committees come to me and ask me to do
things because it will advance the selfish
interests of someone. They never ask
tne to do a thing because U is right."
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The Ophthalmologieal Society of Eng
land has decided to admit women to mem
bership on the same conditions as men.
Henry R. Swanzy, one of Ireland's most
famous eye surgeons, presided. The vote
stood 21 for to 14 against. This is the
first scientific society in the British em
pire to take such a step.
—George C. Platt of San Francisco has
formed a company to insure against un
avoidable loss of employment. The scheme
provides that the policy holder shall be
paid three-quarters of the amount of his
salary for a month, should that time be
required in which to find anew place.
If the policy holders should be offered a
place on trial at less than his former sal
ary the difference is to be made good by
the insurance company. The objections
to this new insurance as outlined by prac
tical insurance men te the absence of sta
tistics oh *which to make safe computa
tions of a premium to cover the risk. The
c6ndition insured against is also, it is
pointed out, too much within the control
of the insured.
—A Sing Sing (N. Y.) dispatch says: A
new field of activity has been opened to
the convicts in Sing Sing prison. They
are to publish a weekly newspaper, and
the first number will be distributed among
the men on Saturday.. The name selected
for the paper is the Star of Hoi>e. It will
consist of four pages. Warden Sage, the
originator of the plan, will be the man
aging editor and news censor. Sing Sing
prison has an extensive printing estab
lishment, and the “cony” from the in
mates which > escapes the blue pencil of
the warden will be set up by convict print
ers in the shop, and then run off on the
press. Among: the outside contributors
will be Mrs. Ballington Booth. She is
a favorite with the convicts, and has or
ganized the Hope League among the men.
The naming of the paper the Star of Hope
was a compliment to her, in recognition
of her work among the prisoners. The
sheet will contain all sorts of news about
the prison, and in a way will be the offi
cial organ of the institution.
—Good news, exclaims the London Tele
graph. The corn microbe has been dis
covered. That does not mean that there
will be no more famines, and that the
peasants of Russia and India need no
longer fear the failure of iheir crops. But
the bacillus who has long tortured man
and made him angry with his bootmaker
has been unmasked. It is no good for him
to hide his head under a plaster, or the
many unguents which are warranted to
give relief. He is discovered, and a name
put to him. The "Bacillus Diahollcus,”
he is called, or “Di” for short: and, now
that he has been run to earth, we may ex
pect his complete rout. It appears, ac
cording to the official organs of the Phar
maceutical Society, that the Sherlock
Holmes of the microbe is a monk of the
celebrated monastery of La Trappe, and
he gives elaborate Instructions for the
capture and treatment of the naughty
mite. The prescription, before which the
insidious corn-raiser is mown down like
oats, is composed t)f thirty grammes of
“eau benite sterilisee" and thirty drops
of “laudenham de Sydenham.” For the
uninitiated it may be mentioned that “eau
benite” in this instance is a solution of
percholride of mercury. Let us hope that
the palmy days of the corn are over. The
"bacillus diabolicus” had better be very
carefiil.
—A Jewish commercial traveler relates
a curious experience he met with during
his trip through Lebanon county, Penn
sylvania, in the Jusdische Tageblatt: "I
met,” he says, "a number of colored men,
women and children who spoke nothing
but German. Before the day was over I
met at least fifty colored people who
spoke German. And when it came to
speaking English they were not at all at
their ease. I asked how this came about
and was told that years ago the colored
settlers had come up from the South
among the quiet Pennsylvania German
farmers of the Blue mountain districts.
The colored children grew up on the
farms, they worked and heard
nothing but German spoken. Their chil
dren go to English schools in winter, but
as quickly as they are out of sight of
their teacher they begin to talk the GerJ
man dialect and nothing else. These
Pennsylvania German negroes of whom I
speak use absolutely nothing but the Ger
man in their ordinary affairs of life. They
are good farmers, live on Pennsylvania
German cooking, and have all the habits
and customs of the Germans. In Reading
I met a smart, intelligent, middle-aged
colored man, whose name is Solomon Wil
liams, and who belongs to the Jewish
church. He says he knows only one
other colored Jew, a man named Moses
Varus, of New York. Both speak Ger
man quite well. Williams' parents were
servants in a wealthy family In New
York."
—A good deal of mystery, says a writer
. in the Church Gazette, is supposed to at
tach to the use of the anagram “ichthys''
(fish), for Christ by the early Christians.
The idea is said to have been derived from
a passage in the Sibylline books. A pro
totype has been found in the dolphin,
which was a symbol of the rescue of those
In peril on the sea. and figures on Chris
tian tombstones as emblematic of the souls
on their way to eternal bliss. The relig
ious symbolism of the fish was well known
in antiquity, especially in Egypt, where
the fish is frequently found in sculpture.
An Alexandrian Christian, perhaps
brought up in the traditions of the alle
gorical school, one day by a happy inspi
ration discovered that the word ' ichthys"
(Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior) con
tained a declaration in brief of the Chris
tian faith. The “jeu d'esprit" was at once
acclaimed and adopted by the early be
lieve: s. It was a delightful piece of mys
ticism, a secret password, which bound
the fraternity together. Sometimes the
fish is seen by itself, but mostly he ap
pears in conjunction with other figures,
such as an anchor, symbol of hope, or a
dove, typifying the departing soul, or a
loaf, either with or without a basket, in
allusion to the feeding of the multitude,
or the equally miraculous Eucharist.
Fishes are supposed to have no religion.
Probably they are greatly maligned in
that as well as other respects. St. Antho
ny, as you know, used to preach to them
and make their eyes glitter and their
hearts beat by his eloquence. A Jewish
story is told of a fish which leaves the
sea on Saturday and does not return until
Sunday, so as to be able to keep the Sab
bath. Other fishes, unlike their puritani
cal brother, do not observe the sacred
day. The Koran gives a storv of some
very naughty fishes In David's time
Knowing that the Israelites were forbid
den to catch fish on the Sabbath, the
wicked creatures came out of the Red sea
in unusual numbers, and kept in sight of
the people all throughout the day, in order
to tempt them. On the approach of night
they returned into the sea again In
fata, moment some of the Israelites yield
ed to the piscine blandishments caught
several of them and had the-m for dinner
Whereupon David curted the- Sabbath
breakers, and God, to show His displeas
ure, changed them Into apes and pigs. For
three .lays they remained in this unpleas
ant condition, when a violent sthrm arose
and swept them into the sea The fish
which brought the tribute money to our
I-ord la supposed to have been a haddock
which hail strayed Into the Lake of Gen
otic ret.
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