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ITfoublf Is Confidently Expected Over the
Dreyfus Affair,
REGARDLESS OF AN ACQUITTAL OR A CONVICTION
An Alleged Imposter Appears Asa Witness Against
the Prisoner At Monday’s Session.
Advices from Rennes, France, state
that as the end of the Dreyfus court
martial trial comes within sight the
French government is beginning to
display a fear that the verdict will
give rise to troubles, and orders have
just been received by two regiments of
infantry and one cavalry .regiment,
already within hail of Rennes, to hold
themselves in readiness to march on
the town at the first sign of disorder,
to occupy all strategical points and to
repress manifestations in their incep
tion.
The local anti-Dreyfus organs, by
their anti-foreign articles, have al
ready singled out foreigners as ene
mies of the country, and there is little
doubt that foreign journalists will be
the first victims of the violence of the
mob- not so much Anglo-Saxon as
Austrian, German and Russian Jews,
who form a majority of the press rep
resentation of their respective coun
tries
Monday’s session opened rather
badly for Captain Dreyfus, as a sur
prise was sprung upon the defense in
the advent of an Austrian political
refugee, Eugene Cernuschi, who came
out with a flat-footed denunciation of
the accused, which, even though it
may eventually he proved a pure fairy
tale, is bound for the moment to exer
cise a malignant influence upon the
French people, who have not seen
Cernuschi nnd are thus unuhlo to
form n personal opinion of the man :
who launched these direct accusations j
against Captain Dreyfus.
Ccrnuschi’s appearance is undenia-1
bly against him. Nobody even sus- [
poets that he is what he claims to be,
a scion of the royal Servian house. On
the contrary, one would take him to
be ft groom dressed iu his best Sunday
suit.
It \vas remarked that as soon as he
had delivered his testimony and M.
Rabori had asked to have him put on
oath at Tuesday’s session behind
closed doors in order that he might
be punished, if guilty of perjury, he
left the room hurriedly.
Cernuschi's testimony which was in
the form of a letter to the president of I
the eourtmartial, Colonel Jouaust,was
most unequivocal. Me claimed that
on three distinct occasions, twice in
France and once iu Geneva, he was
told by a high placed foreign officer
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS MEET.
Tliey Have a Big Bully In Cooper Union
And Listen to Addrme*.
The Chicago platform democrats
held a meeting Monday night in
Cooper Union, New York, addressed
by cx-Judge James Tarviu, of Coving
ton, Ky., and Congressman John J.
Lentz, of Ohio.
Both of them declared for the re
nomination of William J. Bryrn and
against the policy of President Mc-
Kinley in the Philippines. Cooper
Union was crowded to its capacity.
At the conclusion of the speeches
resolutions were read endorsing the
whole Chicago platform and each of
its specific details, recognizing Will- :
iam J. Bryan as the leader of the
democracy and the exponent of the
principles contained in the Chicago
platform and pledging the earnest
efforts and endeavors of those present !
to the presidency of the United States
in 1000, declaring that the war against
the Philippines is a grossly immoral
assault ou American principles of gov
ernment.
Mormon Elders Mobbed.
The Mormon headquarters in Chat
tanooga Monday received notice of a
mobbing of Mormon elders at Oils
ville, Va., forty miles from Richmond,
a few nights ago.
LAST YEAR'S COTTON CROP
A Record Breaker* According to Mr. Hea
ter's Annual Report
The totals of Secretary Hester’s au
nual report of the cotton crop of the
United States were promulgated at
New Orleans Friday. They show re
ceipts of cotton at all United States
ports for the year of 8,579,426 bales,
against 8,769,860 lust year; overlaud
to northern mills, 1,345,623, against
1,237,813; southern consumption,
taken direct from iuterior of the cotton
belt, 1,353,701, against 1,192,821,
making the crop of the United States
for 1898-99 amouut to 11,274,840 bales,
against 11,199,994 iast year and 8,-
757.963 the year before.
SALVATION OE COTTON
Senator Morgan Sees Manila A* the Mar
ket of the World. N
A special to The Chicago Times-
Herald from Washington says:
Senator Morgan,of Alabama, proph
esies that expansion will be the salva
tion of ootton, and is about to start a
crusade in the south to spread the
gospel. In his prophetic vision he
sees Manila the great cotton market of
the world instead of Liverpool.
' that Dreyfus communicated treasona
ble documents to a foreign power.
In the third instance Cernuschi said
the officer showed him documents
emanating from Dreyfus, and that
this officer left France hurriedly two
days prior to the arrest of Captain
Dreyfus.
Tiie allusion was evidently to Col.
Sellwarzkoppen, the military attache
of the German embassy in Paris in
1894, whose movements were coinci
j dent with those described as the
movements of the officer of Cer-
I nusehi’s deposition.
Now this evidence is of transcend
| cut importance to the prosecution,
| and it is incredible unless Cernuschi
i is proving to he a humbug, that the
' government commissary, Major Car
i riere, should have admitted that he
i liad received a letter from him offer
ing important testimony and thrown
it aside on the ground of its coming
from a political refugee.
The deposition evoked expressions
of incredulity. One suspicious feat
ure was the fact that although the
witness said he could not speak
French fluently, his letter to Colonel
Jon a tut, asking an opportunity to
testify was drawn up iu perfect
French. He explained that he had
been assisted by his wife in writing
the letter.
This introduction of a foreigner as
a witness for the prosecution gave M.
Rabori an opportunity to submit the
most important request he has made
throughout the trial, a request which
if granted by Colonel Jouauat, though
this isextremely doubtful, would cer
tainly have momentous consequences.
May Apply to Germany.
M. Rabori announced his intention,
in view of the steps taken by tlie
prosecution in calling foreign evi
dence, to ask that inquiry should he
made through the regular diplomatic
channels as to whether the documents
mentioned in the bordereau were ac
tually communicated, and if so, by
whom?
This involves an application to tlie
German government, which the court
martial is scarcely likely to approve.
In any case the application means the
lengthening of the trial for several
weeks.
The introduction of Cernusclii and
the oilier developments of the day, it
is generally predicted, imply another
fortnight’s sitting, at the least.
CHANGE OF VENUE
Granted tl At l>arlun llj .Fudge
Keahrooke.
“I am opposed to trying cases that
involve human life, where the shadow
of the courthouse falls upon the mili
tary,” was in substance the statement
made by Judge Seabrooke from the
bench of Mclntosh superior court in
session at Darien Monday, as ho an
nounced his decision to grant a change
of venue in the cases against John
Delegal, Ed Delegal and Mirrandy
Delegal, under indictment for the
murder of Deputy Sheriff Townsend.
This statement created a stir in tl*e
courtroom and a great discussion on
all sides. The judge then set the case
against the three negroes for trial in
Eftiughaui county superior court.
CAR FULL OF PRISONERS.
Atlanta I'ollea Make the Most Unique
Raid on Record.
The most novel wholesale arrest that
ever occurred iu Atlanta, Ga., took
place Monday night when a trolly car
was transformed into a temporary
black maria, and about forty negro
men and women were rolled through
the city from Lincoln park to the po
lice barracks.
An officer stood at either end of the
car with a revolver and club, and each
had a citizen whom he had deputized
to help him keep any of the prisoners
from escaping.
PUBLIC DEBT DECREASED.
A Washing dispatch says: The
monthly statement of the public debt
shows that at the close of business
August 31, 1899, the debt less cash in
treasury amonuted to 81,157,306,555,
a decrease as compared with last month
of *4.281,116.
Chief Arthur Criticised.
Birmingham (Ala.) division, No.
152, Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers, at a big meeting of the divis
ion held Sunday passed resolutions
j severely criticising Grand Chief P. M.
1 Arthur for ridiug on boycotted street
| cars at Cleveland.
ARE AWAITING JIMINEZ.
Aspirant For San Domingo Fre.ltlency
Moving Homeward*
A dispatch from Cape Haytieu says:
Juau Isidro Jimiuez, the revolutionary
1 aspirant to the presidency of the re
public of Sauto Domingo, left Caiman
j era Sunday on board the Georges
Crioz for Baracoa, from which point
' be will proceed to Port Au Prince and
then to Puerto Plata, where" he is im
patiently awaited.
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DITCII WHERE THE BONES WERE FOUND.
The remains of another mastodon have been discovered in Orange
County, New York. This is the eleventh discovery of the kind since 1794,
and Kentucky is the only other part of the country that can match Orange
County in these pre-historic relics. The bones of this mastodon were first
brought to the surface of the ground on the farm of Fred W. Schaefer, about
one mile west of Newburg. The bones consist of the head, one tusk, the
lower jaw, with the teeth intact, sixteen ribs, two sections of the vertebrie,
a part of the shoulder blades and a number of smaller bones. The place
where the skeleton was found was once the bed of a lake which has been
filled by vegetable mould and washings from the hills.
Busy Days at the
Recruiting Stations.
flow Uncle Sin l*ickg Out Ills Men
For the Philippines.
JUST now, by order of the
President, ten new regi
ments are being raised,
equipped and sent out
k to the Philippines for
immediate service,
[p There is no difficulty
in making up these
regiments. From all the various re
cruiting stations established in the
United States comes the reassuring
report that the only difficulty is that
of selection.
Among the applicants there is of
WOULD-BE RECRUITS QUIZZING THE COR
FOItATj.
course a certain contingent from that
large, floating mass of waifs and strays
who have not yet reached the stage of
trampdom, but who live as best they
can, with no settled homo or calling.
So it requires nice judgment to pick
out the right ones from the mass.
Then, there are tramps open and
eelf-confessed, or if not actually con
fessed by word of mouth, self-evident.
When the evidence takes the form
of an over fragrance of breath or an
over rosiuess of nose they are promptly
dismissed. Stalwart and vigorous as
many of them are in appearance,
alcoholism is sternly barred by the
army regulations. Permanent and
professional tramphood would in it
self be an insuperable obstacle, but
tramphood that is only a recent ac
cident in an otherwise orderly life
may be overlooked if the applicant
has excellent qualifications in other
respects.
Then there is the large army of the
unemployed who have no vagrant
habits save those entailed iu the
dreary pursuit of work. These are
what the French call conscrits de
faim—conscripts of hunger. Though
they are nominally volunteers, they
SERVING OCT EQUIPMENT TO RAW RECRUITS.
are driven into enlisting by that hard
est form of compulsion—starvation.
For one that wants to fight, ninety
nine simply want bread. But if they
have been earnest and willing and
honest in their search for bread, if
Ihfy have always purchased it by the
sweat of their brows, and if they have
the mental, moral and physical quali
fications for fighting Uncle Sam will
not deny them the bread which they
are more willing to purchase with
their blood.
Rut not even these form the best
material which Uncle Sam has thrust
upon him for selection. Better far
are the brawny, brainy and eager
youth, from town and country, who,
fired with the true soldierly spirit,
unforced by emptiness of stomach,
come with hearts and heads full of
patriotism and generous ambition aud
high ideas to offer their services to
their common uncle.
The hardy backwoodsmen of New
England, the daredevil cowboys of
the Western plains, the stalwart farm
hands in the great agricultural dis-
RECRUITS WAITING TO BE SENT TO THEIR POST.
tricts all over the United States—
these with a little training develop
into the finest soldiers in all the
world. .
There are three recruiting stations
in New York. I have stood in all
three of these places and watched the
crowd of applicants streaming in, a
panoramio study of liumau nature in
its highest and its lowest forms, of
alert and splendid youth, of depressed,
disappointed and degraded maturity.
In all of these stations the method is
the same.
A sergeant sits at the desk in the
room into which the applicant is
ushered. He is patient, but shrewd;
kindly, but firm willed. He does not
balk at any uncouthness in manner
or speech.
He is not offended, even by the
freshness of the lad who bluntly de
clares, “Say, captain,l want to enlist,”
or even the unconscious rudeness of
the tough who inquires, “Be you the
bloke who wants soldiers?”
He recognizes that they are not yet
soldiers, but if they have soldierly
timber in them they may yet be pol
lished to the point of proper soldierly
deportment. One thing he is on the
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eighteen
Pit he is over twen
are that he is on
mg truancy from
,nt was satisfied
was neither too
service he must
other points of
quirements exact
[ate for the regu
lar army he must be a native born or
naturalized citizen, able to speak
English and to read and write; if for
the volunteers it is not necessary that
hi should be naturalized or know how
t J read and write, but he must speak
English.
These points are easily passed upon.
It is most difficult to determine
whether his habits are orderly, his
character good, if he is out of work,
whether it is his own fatflt that he is
so, and whether he is unmarried. No
married man is accepted. The shrewd
ness of the officer must supplement
the answers he receives, and must
further be called into play to deter-
THE MAJOB ADMINISTERS TIIE OATH.
mine at a cursory glance whether his
physical characteristics are sufficient
ly near the mark to make it worth
while submitting him to the necessary
examination by the army surgeon.
If he suoceed in passing the ser
geant, this examination is thenextstep
before his final acceptance. Every
morning beginning at half-past eight
the applicants who have passed the
preliminary examination are mustered
before the surgeon. Tests are madq
of the heart, the lungs, the eyes, the
teeth, the hearing. The body is
stripped and the individual is made to
go through calisthenic exercises.
It is a curious fact that more people
fail through defects of the teeth and of
the eyes than any others. Uncle Sam
requires a good digestion and good
eyesight. The applicant must have at
least two sound pair of molars, each
directly above the other, so that they
can properly perform the function of
masticating the food.
The eyes must be at least three
quarters of the normal. Printed test
cards are placed at a distance of twenty
feet, and the man is made to read let
ters of varying sizes. Many learn here
for the first time, to their dismay that
their eyesight is defective.
It is really pitiful to hear the ex
cuses, perfectly honest to themselves,
which they make for what they deem
to be a mere temporary lapse. They
had been anxious; they had been ner
vous; they had not happened to sleeps
well the night before.
“Give me another trial,” pleaded a
man, who bore every other appearance
of robust health. “I’ll be all right to
morrow. ”
But the fiat had gone out. It could
not be recalled. He went out angrily,
rubbing his eyelids, as though they
were rebellious children who had wil
fully brought their parent to shame.
To all the men, indeed, who fail in
the final test, just when acceptance
seems in sight, rejection is a crushing
blow. They who survive are propor
tionately jubilant. To each of these
is given a meal ticket and a comforta
ble cot in a room back of the recruit
ing office which he makes his head
quarters until he is sent off to camp
for the training which v\ ill turn a mem
ber of the awkward squad into a sol
dier. Then he is ready to be shipped
to the Philippines.
From two hundred to three hundred
men a day apply to the three stations
in New York, but rarely have more
than twenty-five or thirty been se
lected.
In the first half of the year the in
surance companies lost by fire in the
United States and Canada $65,695,750,
an increase over the same period of
last year of $7,462,000.
The fraternities of the
have 6,000,000 members.
lead with 768,508. 181111111
44 He Laughs Best
Who Laughs Last/'
.A hearty laugh indicates a degree of
good health obtainable through pure blood,
e/h but one person in ten has pure blood,
the other nine should purify the bicod
•wdh Hood ’s Sarsaparilla. Then they cart
Uugh first, last and all the time, for
%fof)d'6 SdUajyuUih
Electrocution of Sparrows.
I was told of an employe of one of
the street railroads who fancies spar
row pie. Shooting the birds is too trou
blesome, to say nothing of the penalty
of violating the ordinances. Also, it
would take too long to make enough
of a bag. This man has another ar
rangement altogether. He owns a spool
of fine copper wire, the ends weighted
with iron slugs. A few leaves tied to
the wire form the decoy. One end is
laid on the ground and the other is
thrown over the trolley wire. The
sparrows, accustomed to immunity
from electric shocks, gather on the
wire, which is temporarily grounded,
and electrocution follows in every case.
When he has enough the pot hunter,
provided with rubber gloves, pulls his
wire down and nothing remains to be
done but the making of the pie.—Cleve.
land Plain Dealer.
The Cuban Army
Uses Wintersmith's ' hill Cure.—Arthur
Peter & Cos., Louisville, Ky, (ientiemen:
"Please send us soma Wiulersmlth’s Chill
Cure, which has given such brilliant results
in treating chills and fever now raging in
Cuba.”—lira. Manuel Actguiar, E. Hernan
dez, if. Muno.
There are 3,710,000 persons in London who
never enter a place o; worship.
“I suffered the torture. cf the >3 untried
with protruding piles brought on by constipa
tion with whieli I was afflicted for twenty
years. I ran across vour C'ASCARETS in the
town of Newell. la.. and never found anything
to equal them. To-day i am entirely free from
piles and feel like anew man.”
C. H. Kbitz. 1411 Jones St., Sioux City, la.
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