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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. y fbb iMCrtfcS LONi 1 , U >O ErR OOM StftttrfemCHth. S ....... r . ...... 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 m .• * pr pfd- Wr ' ■’ * RS i P<’ 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. 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