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THREE SIDES TO IT
iio£V£i/r vino* u*a tiuit a
Tin % MILL Alt AFFAIR.
trust issue before courts.
in: II %> TO URAL ONLY WITH THK
%t TIOM or I III: MAI OR.
(.inrrnor Inn TLp Action With IU.
iirfrl lo tlc Mn)or' Vase Whether
ihr orporniloii I* n I'riiM or Not
Itut He Hue* Not *n> W Itut lie Is
t.olitu * Uu—( nurts (Icing I rated
ilia* on the Status of the
I ork Ice Trout.
Ai N. Y Nov 11.-Oov. Hoosc.
t..* prepared the following m*moran
< f the charge* against Mayor Van
V. a< f New York City in Ihe let Tru-.
in •ltei
Ther* arc three wholly distinct side*
to * • l* Truet mutter.
In the first pla- <5. there is the g nera.
q. t on whether the American Ice Com*
ptu *1 ding I* don in a necessjry of
j; f mme poor people of New York, waa
o into wt•lilt %n i * ihojmt for pub;*.
• *.d rrum to enter This I*. of coure**.
n< |iieatlon for legal action In any
thiii** j: for m Moreover, it la unne<*e*-
•ary to point out thu? whether the cor
pora •<) i* I' hhi or lileitiil, proper or Ini
f.r iin aura :**r. It Is an a*** of utter
h>i r* on the part of any publi man
to .• i,'* nice trust* in general und this
tr i m particular. In the platform, ami
on tr. imp. while he. at the same tlm
lo t o pr.vate cujM- tty. holds stock or has
(he -I * • k In the trust tha he thua de
no *
* A • ntlou Is called to this feature aim*
p,> n a use an effort ha* been made to
show that unless legal action against the
trust or son** of its stockholder* can be
taken, these j>ub|i. men are to be
exonerate*!.
In the Hands of the f nnrtH.
"Second. There Is ihe question whether
or not the existence of this so-called Ice
trust is m violation of she anti-trust law
This, of course. con only be decided by
the courts.
‘On May 38. the attorney genernl
Instituted proceeding* to annul the cer
tificate of the Ice company under this
law The corpora non through i* coun
sel, ha* fought the achor. at every stag**
on technicalities, not on the merits of
the case. The tt'-st decision before Judge
Cheatei was In favor of the state. An
appeal has been taken by the defendants,
which was argue*! weeks ago, and the
attorney general Is dally expectlng a de
cision by the appellate division on this
appeal. The defendants obtained a stay
*f proceeding* pending the appeal. All
possible <l.lap ru e ha* been shown by
the attorney general In the effort ro se
tir* the annulment of the certificate nd
nothing cotlid have been done by the
*u* to exiedlte proceedings, which ha*
no? lteen done. The delay Is due. of
course, to he course of the corporation
‘tself. whoa* stockholder* Include the
:• ibll< men übove alluded to.
We now come to the third side of th*
matter, the only one In which the flo -
* rnor. In his official * apa ity, has snr
l-.wer whatsoever to .**•. vis: The
f nres against Mayor Van Wyrk.
.. "nasmuob as the question as to
* !her the Ice corporation 1* or Is not
• •us? or monop. ly 1- before the court*
f decision, until they have acted, ac
?• n by the Governor an only with pr -
tv be taken uiuler the Grenier New
rk • barter So far as the charge* ar •
rough! under this charter It
r kes no difference a* regards the
v lyor'* conduct, whether th*’ aforesaid
. •porati*n Is or I* not n trust within
t. e meaning of the law *
tIiOHIM TO lIKKOKM FORCKff.
V.aahbnrn ( nil* on Them to Form n
New Party.
Ronton. Nov. IK. —An address headed *o
* * •‘Reform forces of the country." ha*
V*n Issued by George F. Washburn,
resident of the Hryan Club of Massa
icetts. and the National Committee of
the Peoples Party. In which he says:
The campaign of 1900 wa a contest of
against capital. It wa* th*
t•'* it eat struggle for human rights saice
th* days of Jackson or Uncoln. The re
* .action of McKinley was u victory for
imperialism nn*i the trusts. But our gran 1
inform movement will roll on to ultimate
tory.
It Is beyond the range of human prob
‘ility that Hryan will again become th.-
(sr.dldate of the Democratic party. But
in lead to victory anew thirty con
and on safe and conservative, vet pro
t <-ive lines Therefore, to maintain our
present momentum anew par*y must be
formed. We must have a complete reun
lf-n of reform forces. This can be accom
filth* and by uniting the Hryan Democrats,
i'V *n Republicans. Populists and other
•trial. lK>lies to l>e led by the man of th**
♦tr, whoever he may he. I believe that
f ’ l -Hich a party b**en formed four year<4
•so Bryan would have triumphed thla
hnv* Accordingly 1 pro|>ose that at an
* date we have a conference of the
1 '!• u of the parties referred to In the
f *ntra| part of the country for the pur-
PS' of effecting an immediate under
t *r.ding that we may begn the organi
t-i' n of anew party."
IT WAI A HRIIXIAKT C LOSE.
I of Ihr Con-
Krm* m >fntrll.
M idr;d Nov. I*.—The cloning seas on j
■ Spunish-Amortcan Congress wa*
; >ri: -ill irly brMllant. Th* president of
' t'ongre#* pointed out the bond* which
"Jflit to exht betw.cn |**oplc of the am
feci and ciulonu.
nor /*M;vr, of Salvador, Invited
f .rdc to visit South Africa
Ah.mo Ctado, of Montevideo, •iH
I-it n race sought not to hate to
Saxon. but rather ahould Imitate i
" tor Morey prendergast. minister of
I -oh.nies. advocated the union of ull
II Latin races.
, t
'KW HIHKH HOHSE SHOW.
*n Bendy for llrral lialhrrlna In
Mndlaon Square Garden.
■ York. Nov. II —All Is In readme-.*
'■> Hi* opening to-morrow morning of the
-.*nlh Annual llorse Show Assoc!*-
*t Madison Square Oarden.
■* Judging will he started at 10:*i
* to-morrow morning, when pelan
* Kano and Georg* l> Wctmore will
ihe.r opinion us Judy. * .m ixty-tw.i
6 JOi#ra.
. " *’n C, Whitney and William H.
1 ier will be the judges In the evening
MAH, * TKAMI.It FOR COLOX.
Ar, 'te* at llrnnawlok for t eal-Mali
Will He Eurerarded.
- JO*w t k, (In.. Nov. ll.—The American
' "unship Han Anlonlo. Wilder, master,
*\' seventvalire, bags of mall iratn
1 ’’on arrived here to-day for real. The
ii will he forwarded by rail rued from
***“ point, ’
A I'OLOHABO PIIOTMT.
'ki*i Meeting ConilemnrU I * n*lilng
of John Porter.
Denver. Col., Nov. IN—Ac a maes meet
ing he'd here to-day strong protests were
made against the actions of the Umon
mob that burned John Toner, the negro
rapist and murderer, at the stake
The meeting was presided over by C
M Hobbs, pn s.dent of the Y M C. A .
and speeches V*ce made by Gov. C. R
Thomas. Mayor ii. V. Johnson of Den
ver. PtetUlent Rio um <*f i'olorado Col
1* ge. Itnbbi Friedman. Rev Coyle. Mrs
Huron Platts Decker, prom men in na
tional wemen s dubs circles, and others
They all qok** In strong terms <on
demnlug what was termed the “Ltmon
..troclty ' and also denounc'd the en*
tional display of newspaper s orle.- on
cerning It The audience wan trrwl at
tlm tt.mort to riotous demons it at ions of
approval
Isotuil< r,.' n<k>pleil admit th* difficulty
of adequate y characterixlng the - rime for
which Poiter wa punished, but decjire
that however much the negto by his crime
merited death, no crime can justify re
ctairse to such barbarous methods. *nd
that while the action of the iet>p.e of
Lincoln aunty is attributed to excitement
.nl passion, it I* non* tie condemned
and dlaroui.tenancy! Hoi*, was rxpte-sed
that a law would S|*e#dlly be enacted In
Colorad> providing effective punishment
for such crimes and providing punishment
for any one t iking part in a lynching.
Gov. Thomas in the course of his re
marks said
"I do not believe the people of this
state are wore thin the people of any
• >ther state This is as rivUlxed r ’''m
munl'y s any state in the union and In
11 of them w* hear of oc< ureiices like
thin when the people have been sudd* nly
aroused :o stane such tenr.bh *o t. w hen
some such awful, horrible crime as tins
nrnro's. cries to Heaven for vengeance.
For the agonised j*ar**t\M *r.d for w'hat-
vor they have don*. I have no words of
blame or censure. Put ourselves in their
places ami can understand their wild
desire for vengeance.
"My remarks to-day are addressed, not
so much to the fact that death been
Inflicted, as to the manner in which it
has been done. I do n>t by this nvau
to justify lynch law No welt-ragulatal
( itlsei: can ever Justify a depnrtuie :r m
the law But every state has thee af
fairs. and we are not an exception
out IIK 1,11 KOH HI nDBR.
Jour linn Nnl.l lo limp Killed 0,1
Aeroiin, of Hl* Wife.
Orlando. Kla , Nov 1* —An old n-ro
namoJ Jourrtan ha l-ei rr>l for Ih#
murder of no:her negro nn mol La>ve rt
night or two ago Tn-re had been trou
ble braiv-en th- iwo oil nceount of Jour
dan's wife for Mn* time.
No one who kn-w Jour.tan ihooght n.-
would resort to suoh means to rid himeelf
of his esiemy. He Is upwards of sixty
years okl. a steady, Industrious mini, and
•ne of the most reliable of hie race. He
has been In the employ of Mr. A O.
liranham for seven years. Th- colored
iwople all say that Jourdan did the shoot
ing But ihht Is simply a matter of
opinion. s there m no direct evidence
igainst him. although circumstances
point to him with su h fi>rce as to carry
‘-otivlction to the public mind. Jmirdan
Is In Jail
('. K Howard of this place has Just
brought out the first edition of the Klo--
Idu Sunshine, a bright and well gotten
u. Illustrat'd nionthl>. devoted to the de
velopment of the state. It is .rinted at
the Sentinel-ileporter ufTW-e. atsl mechat
leally a* well as editorially. Is very cred
itable.
Nearly all of the old city oHtcial* were
renominated at the white men's prlmaty
J. B. I'arramore for mayor. James K
Duke for clerk and assessor. C. H Darter
for marshal and tax collector, and R l.
Hycr and C. K. Howard for oouncllmen,
were all re-nominated A O Hranbam
and W F. FlllOUw will he new members
of the City Council.
MoJ M. K Marks, the llvest latsl man
In the South, after four years In Near
\ork city, has returned to Orlando.
klfonTKH WORK HOI HS.
\\ Ul Go Inlo Rgeet To-day for I nlon
Maehlnlals.
New York. Nov. IS.—Oeorge W. Warner,
business agent of the International Asso
ciation of Machinists, made n statement
In which he said Ihtt the nine and n
half hour work day would go Into efTect
to-morrow among all of the machinists In
the Cnited Stales. On the I*th day of
May the nine hour work day. he said,
would go Into effect. This was In accord
ance with sn agrement with the national
trades association composed of employers,
and would affect WMWIO machinist*. 28. Pm
of wtiom were In New York district
"In some of the shops in the New York
district." hs continued, "the employers
will pay * , b hours' wages for nine and a
half hours. In others they have notified
the men that they will not pay It There
will he strikes In some of the shops, bu*
not In a great many 1 expect."
mat i aai:ti in i hi hi iiki.
Negroes In rhlesso Talked of llurn-
Ing of Porter.
Chicago. Nov. I*—The burning of Ihe
negro. Preston Porter, In Colora'o list
Friday wa* a theme for discussion In
nearly every colored church In Chicago
to-night. Several of ihe churches adorn
ed resolutions presented by Ida B. Wells
Barnett, chairman of the Aml-Lynchlng
Bureau, asking the President, In his nex*
message to Congress, to cgll attention to
the fact that during the lust ten yea >
nearly a.ooo cltlsens have been put to
death by mobe and that of the number
so Ivnohed fifteen were burned alive, and
urging him to commend to Congress leg
islation which shall secure to every per
son accused of crime irtsl by Jury Hll
shall hold criminally liable all | .error- who
constitute mobs to torture, murder and
burn alive cltlaen* of the Untied States. •
•MVS FLOOD IS INNOCENT.
Claimed Mayor of Elmira. NT. V„ line
liren Slandered.
Elmira. N. Y Nov. I*.-Attorney J P
Eustts. counsel for Mayor Flood of this
, M>. who Is under hell of O.OU> on the
charge of forgery In the first degree, In
connection with Catherine Loor.le. who
was on Thursday last taken to Auburn
pri-on to serve four yenrs and nine
month*, for offering forged deed* for
records mokes a statement In behalf of
hi* client, who he declare# hag been wick
edly slandered and libelled and Is lnmr. nl
of compile** ‘n rrtmM * charge.!
against Miss LoonW.
Thin People
should try Huatettera Stomach Bitters
Least of dealt mam* that your artomach la
pot working propeily The blood become*
mpure ami the result l* Indigestion. <or>
st(ration. Dv.pepsla, Flatulency. Inactive
t tver and Weak Kidney*. The cause Ilea
J; , h e .tomaclx Hostetler's Stomach
Hitters will reach It and cure It. Be sure
"live It a trial. Our Private Revenue
Stamp overs the neck of the bottle
Ibehmi; Hostetter’s
ol all Stomach
ikdltb-Reslorers Bitters
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1000.
GROWTH OF OUR SHIPPING.
IHMIMFNTF.H TONNAGB NOW F\-
(i:ti)K fMMNMNNI TON*.
lias It•*nchel These t Igurr* for the
Flrat Time uiwce the Civil War.
Muwfirr, \% e Are Mill Far llehlnd
Other Nalioua—Xuierleait Khlpiiins
l.ararly Done In Karelin llottouia.
I*r>|iaed Meaanre la t*on
nltleretl Entirely Inadequate
\Y uf ..lngton. Nov li —The rej*ort of
r>mmisioner of Navigation Chamberlain
made public ty-oay says the past flaca!
year list been the most prosperous period
knwwn to American sh.pplng for some
ytais BetuMNi for the currant fiscal yeui
promise an efen more ; atisfactory rccortl
For th first ttm since the Cidl War
the* documented tonnage of the
States exceeds &.00D.0U) gross t*>ns Oil
June 30. xx£x, American documented ton
nage cvnprlse<l 2.1.333 vessels of
gross tons, an increase of 300,000 tons over
the previous fiscal year. Our maximum
tonnage was &.k3R,fdi tons in lttl. Our ship
ping. the report adds in I*6l was largc?r
than Great Britain's, ami nearly equalled
the British Km pile’s. British shipping now
amounts to 14.361,000 gross lone.
American vese*s are a I mop: wholly con
fined to the coaating trad**, wnich em
ployed kamt year 4,331,143 tons, or more
than the tal tonnage of Germany and
France. Otlr tonnage in the foreign trade
was only 114,736 tons, and carried last
year tally 9 per cent of our exjwrts t*nl
iinfiorts. A can*ary hko American ship
ping registered for foreign trade, sal
66J.321 tons, while this tonnage now in tn*
thirieet; original esatea amounts to 482.307
tons.
The report says that for serious compe
tition with fore.gn nations in the ocean
carrying trade. %%* are practically restrict
ed to 37 registered stcamshiio* over l.Rhh
tons, aggregating 2* 22'* tone. Single for
eign steamship corporations own greater
I tonpage Besides the># stsamehips w.
have ltt reflate red square rigged sail ves
sels/ over l.Orti tons each for the deep sea
trade More than half of three are over
twenty years old. and as such vessel*, dle
a|>pear their places are not supplied by
new construction.
• ncrena* for (hr l>rm<lr.
inin our hii>|>!nir Iwinir th*
<k • <)#• 74" 34.’ ton*. of which M8.&22
toniitnd to th* crvdir of iho *i>t lak*\
Since LH>* the world’* gtfam*hip* h4v
in- r<uK\\ from U.Mtfi.Ciin xrmn ions 10
ton* HI OP*. Mil v***l* hove de
er raped from 9.188,W> tun* to 41.7.nr ton.
and the effective e*rryln|t power of th#*
world* merchant flee if hap increased flu
per i ant
The most notable change In the war Id’s
shipping has leen In the *u- of ptram
ships In 1D there were 21* ocean attain*
Phips of 4.n> tone or over, while now 980
■uch mearnerk, aggregating s,tfV.t*tf> ion*
constitute one-fourth of the world’s steam
tonnage
The hulls of o per cent of the world s
shipping are now made of steel, compared
with only 10 per cent In IM*
Conoantration of the world’s ehipown
ing bus been notable during the decade.
The thirty prnctpal steamship compsnlee
of the world own 1,800 Meamshlps of
tlft.OU) grow* it#n (Including some vessels
now buielmg) or one-quarter In tonnage
and more than one-quarter in currying
power of the world’s ocean steamships
Of these only nine of *I.OOO tons owned by
the International Navigation Company,
are American.
On the basis of the gross earnings re
port'd by principal foreign steamship
oon|wnlet It Is estimated that during IWh
the gross earning* of steam and sail vea
se U in the foreign carrying trade of all
natkms amounted to fTOO.uOO.OOO. The ex
port trade of the UnH**! Stales require*
about 10 per cent, of the world’s seago
ing tonnage hi foreign trade. Including
the kirpret fastest and moil expensive
•to unship*.
Steel Screw Steamship*.
The problem of ocean transportation *t
this time, the report says, is csnenttally
one of transportation by steel screw
siwamehli* The purpose* to which wool
en fore-and-aft vessels and steel square
rigged vessels are are important
but restrict**l The Sue* canal reduced
opportunities for sail vespels. ,nd the
Nicaragua canal. It Is state*), will further
reduce them In the past ten year* Great
Britain has built 4,01 steel steamship* of
9.7W.000 tons, while the I* nit*! States hue
built 4* Pteel steam vessels of 742.000
tons, of which Ift of 450.000 tons were built
on the Great I^akes.
We have built for the foreign trad* since
1890 only 24 steel steamships of 80.000 ton*,
and of this total 11 eteamship* of &g.OOO
•on* were built i* mail steamships un*ler
the petal subsidy acts. The report says
the coasting hw and its recent extensions,
our heavy expenditure* for naval con
struction. amt the building of vessels to
replace those bough* for transport*, and
tn* postal subsidy law* have given steel
shipbuilding its recent stimulus.
Mr. Chamberlain reviews In some de
rail the bills reported to the Senate and
House of !<*pre*-entatlves. known as the
subsidy bills, and give* I lustrations of the
difference In cost of building and operat
ing American an 1 British steamship* at
the present lime He says that the sub
sidies propose.) generally equalise those
differences. A freight steamship carrying
5.000 tons cargo now coals 872.000 In the
tolled fMste*. compared with $214,000 in
(•real Britain, though steel Is mu*h
cheaper here than abroad. Besides labor
<o*t the British advantage ;|r# jn the
enormous scale of production. OreOt Brit
ain being the world * “department store”
of shipping Monthly wage* on the Amer
ican vessel are $1,300. against S9OO on the
British ship
sut.el.lte* Are Not Adequate.
The report holds that the subsidies pro
posed for American steamships are not
more than adequate to secure ocean mall
services lo the great continents, equiva
lent to those of Great Britain. Germany
ur.d France. In the past sixty years Great
Britain and her colonies have spent over
$2(0.000.001) for Hi lilh ocean mall steam
ships. Details and estimates show that
the coet during the first year of Ihe pro
posed subsidy bill's operation would be
ibout H. 500.000. The maximum of ISMW.tiUu.
It Is said, pr, tally would be aita.ned dut -
Ing 1904-i. when a reduction of subsidy
rite# would be necessary. By that time
'he building of over 500.01 k) lon* of ocean
steamship*, aid the necessary Increase In
numlwr and extent of our ship yard*. (h
report declares, would have materially re
duced the cost of ship building In the
Uultcd Slate*, compared with Great Bri
tain and Germany, under the bill In five
years American steamships In foreign
trade, it Is stand, doubtless would reach
1 pO.uOO ton#, and sail vessel* 65u, 000 ton*,
suflh lent to carry about one-third of our
clean trade
WILLIAM M. WADLDI DEAD.
Warn Nephew of lute President of
(entral Railroad.
Augusta. Nov. 18.—William Morrell
Wadley. son of the late Moses Wadley
and nephew of the late William M Wad
ley, president of the Central Railroad,
died suddenly at his farm nine miles from
Milien. Saturday evening. He had been
having fever, and on Saturday a conges
tive chill terminated fatally He was un
married. Hi years old. and engaged In
farming In Burke county. His body was
brought to Augugta to-day. and IMS fun
eral will occur to-morrow from the home
of hie mother, Mrs Mary Wadley,
mm mm m— sample of war-
I ii 1 NKIt > SAFE "UK
■ ■ will U* sent vou
Bi
i ill B i.* - >*f* i*ure r .
B Rachester. N. Y .
on •* postal card,
and mentioning this paper
DEATH PENALTY FOR PRINCES.
(Continued from First Page.)
discusenm of the death (penalty for th**
princes and other high wffiriii# It Is evl
deni that the tninlstris at* weakening,
as they have reduced their proj**sil from
*xecut|oti to the severest punishment pro
viiied by Chlnaae law. forgetting that
Princes lie beyond th* reach of Chines*
law
“The news from the sou:h rn provlrc**
is more reassuring 1-t Hung Chang say**
that Prince Tuan has fled for -afM> t •
the residence of hi* father-in-law at Nina
llai Ilsur, on Uie UcMigoUun frontirr of
he province of Kan Bu."
PI NI9IIMFNT Or l-KIIMUD.
Advice* Received In Paris as in Pro
gress of Ncanlirtllntis.
Pans. Nov. 13. —The following advices
have been received from Pekin. lated
N’OV. 17
"II Pichon. i French mm inter In Peklni.
visited L.t Hung Chang, who handed him
im|>erinl de*rees depriving Prince Tuai.
and Prlni'e Chuan of their title* of no
hllity, and directing that they be im
prisoned until death The decrees assert
that Prince Ying has aireadv been *le
grade*l and imprisoned, tha Prince L*len
has been ortleitd not to 4c.iv** Ills pala * .
that Duke Ltn and Ying Nien. president
• f the censorase. and others, have been
•legraded. and that Yu HWli hae been
exited.
Another decree say* It la
to arre*t Gen. Ting Fu lifting ut jirea
nt. because he t* In poesession of tniOiia,
hut that he will be punish'd later “
The foregoing and Bpatch. with th* ex
■‘epllon to Gen Ting Fu Hsiang, corrob
orate# the text of the liable gram from
Director tleneral Hheng to Minister Wu
at Waahlng f on communicated to Secre
tary Hay last Friday.
FPIDCHK FKAHKO IN PEKIN.
unnlfar* t omlltlons In Chinese ( npl
lal Irr Serious.
Pekin. Nov 16, via Shanghai. Nov 18
Santtory conktlons here are becoming se
rtoiM. Since the foreign occkpotion mini
Chinese have died of smallpox aid other
lofedious diseases Fearing that their
funerals* would be interfered with, they
have kept moat of the coffins containing
their dead in their houses and cout*
yards
The quest ton of removing garbage has
become o*i*- of grave Importance Ae th**
natives are forbbtden to deposit refuse In
the streets, there is now an enormous
accumulation In (heir dwellings and yard*
which threatena a serious epldeml In
view of the large number of troupe in and
near the capkal. the consequences of such
an outbreak will be frightful.
Advance of fork’s ( Alums.
Berlin. Nov. IK —A telegram received
to-day from the German headquarters In
Pekin says
“Col York’* column, on Nov. 14. reached
Taha Tau on the gr*at wall, northwest
of th* c iprta! A large force of Chinese
cavalry had just evacuated the place.’*
Ma> B- More Delay.
Pekin. Baturdsy. Nov 17- The prelimi
nary note has not yet been presented
Its tfiTMi are not completed, and there
will probably be a further delay.
T 4 I.K OF MC I4MCM.
The Weakness of Ills Heart i atases
lonif I neaslnes*.
Ig>ndon. Nov If.—According to the Mos
cow cotr#s|iondent of the Express, the
wsaklwss of the t'xar'a heart c.iuisi s-me
apprehension.
The 8t Petersburg correspondent of
the I tally Mall says that the Bmperor’s
Mine** arose fnm lack of caution In
drinking Itesh water while suffcrti g fr >m
influenza, and he add* that “the Illness
has not made ns yet a deep inipr -*loti
upon the Husslan people, many of whom
seem never to have heard of it.”
There eeems to is* no doubt that the
royal castles st UvldU are In a bad hy
gienic condition.
There have been numerous Infectious
outbreaks 4n that district during the au
tumn an<i much anxleiy ha* been felt r
gardlng the Imperial children
The season ha* lec*n exceptionally dry.
and the water supply at Llvadia enor
mously reduced The Csr t*ok a number
of k>ng walks to visit hls slstec. Orand
Duchesa Xenia, anti it Is po*tb|e that on
one of these excursion* he drank Kid wa
ter.
, . ,
NKTEIIR PCU I' III# YARD.
I .nnrr'a Ron I’leked II I p uni! Xim
Trmwrf. It.
Ptoaon, til.. Nov It.—Mr. Jonathan
Bridge*. ona of Terrell county'* heat
farmer*. u In Pwn ye.teri.ty morn
ing While here he told of the falling of
a Mar In the yard of hU home on l*t
Wednesday evening at an early hour. Hl
aon. Dtnnlt. wit tn the yard, and no
ticed the glare of a light, and on turn
|ng around. saw a hell of fire coming to
the ground near him. A* noon a- it fell
It went out. and he went and picked uj>
the mineral formation, which waa tot
warm for him to carry In hi* hand He
managed to get It Into the house how
ever and gave It to hi* mother, who row
keepe It aa a treasure.
The l.et at Tallahaaser.
Tallahassee. Fl* . Nov. U —The < Iran I
United B*>n* end Daughter* of I*rar| will
publicly install their grand offl era <u lh
opera house on the night of the Krt I) ir-
Ing the afternoon the lodge will tirade
with ntual'- Among thbre who will de
liver adrtre.*e are J 8. William*. 8. O.
M. of the United State*. Rev K. P.
Neal, B. O C.. nd Hon. Joeeph E. Ij'<
of Jacksonville.
Nuprrinr Coarl Proeeedloas.
Hanford tnd St. Petersburg Railroad
Company, plaintiffs In error, v*. J. A
Moon, defendant In error—Grange coun
ty Motion for leave lo amend assign
ment* In error granted.
Jacksonville Street Railroad Company,
plaintiff In error, vs. R. J. Walton, et ux..
defendants In error-Duval county Motion
for leave to amend assignment* of error
granted
Engetkn ft Fclner Milling Com any
plaintiff In error, vs Isi-lor Oruntha!. de
fendant In error. Duval county Mtion
to strike certain part* of the iranscr pt
of record and to strike certain assign
ment* of error continued until final hear
ing of cause on ll* merit*, and thirty detya
allowed counsel for defendant In error In
which to file brief*.
The Jacksonville Terminal f'ompiny,
plaintiff In error, vs, rh” state of Flo Id i
ex rel . attorney general, et ah, el-., de
fendant In error. Duval county It Is
ordered that the matter* herein be con
Untied until Ihe second Tuesday In De
cember. prox
Charles H. Summers of Jacksonville,
Fla-, wa* admitted to practice.
Another Treasarer Short.
Chicago. Nov. I*.—Robert J. Stell. city
treasurer of the Monadnock Loan and
Investin' nt Company, ha* dlsappered It
Is said hi* books show a shortage of W,-
000.
OBJECTIONS TO THE PRIMARY.
\*T.%I m:f*u IXI HAVE honked
Blind IN FLORIDA.
C*wdides Herr Kept Out by High
%se ••nirnt* I tmteats In the
Fourth and Aeirath JudlelaA Dls-
I riels— I hese Hill Hr Taken Before
the llair Detnoeratie 4 ontmlitee.
Flesi laenernl lleiMoerufle Primary
Hill Me lle|.| In |HoJ.
T.tahafee Fla Not’ 18 The plan of
selecting ih* i.*>mlnes of the Lamo. rate
party for .**u*’ and county ffi ■* otn
el ti\- and apj intlve. b> p.lmary cl* c
t*‘> ‘ 1“ ocpig put to a sevaic te#t In this
8(Ml
J’b** p* smart on the 6th Inst. genet'-
ah) admitt 1 to have been go*wl deal
putting an end t th* talk of removing the
.*to *a pita l from Txlaihassee. and slso
in kll.n g the i iuj.vt of i;o *)ing a Con
stitutional lotumtiur
Th? i limari a\at am was* |.-.troiluc*d by
the |)er*yicra?|. But** (Naiventton hell a t
Jtin*- Tile Drill- * ratio fkate I‘xe- utlve
touimitu oixi**red that a|ifd.antA for th
offic*-!i of st e neniist adjutant general
and state attorney lit the Second, Third
Fouiih and Seventh judicial clr ult>. all
being Mp|>tnm office.-, to in* til ed by the
ir omitig Governor with'n the next tew
n on tbs. knould tunmlt their . iaims to the
votris at this p.imary. ant this was done.
Ill*- Hi.nc Kxe uitve t’oiitmltiee tna*)*
>uch high assessment.- a entrance fees
to the primary that om> one candidate
c.ualttlrd to run for state chemist. Cant.
B K Bose uf Kie-ltnrn.- aid only one.
• en. Patrick lluustuun . f Tallahassee, foi
adjutant general, in the Second ihl Third
roult the present siat** attorneys.
Meesrs Ualktr and B*d*erson. went
t.Mrougli the pi.mw.ry without opposition
his sparsity of can| <l it* s has furnisned
-he objectlun to the sysiem that It Is un
iitmocraii In ttiat It prevents poor men
from seeking office
In Fourth and Bventh Judicial ctr
> ults. ihe present slat* attorneys. Messrs
A ii Hariridge and James D Beg gw
car h had one qfsn* nt
In bo*h cases th* primary failed to le
* Me between the contestants, and appeals
have been taken to the Hta'e Executlv *
Committee, which meets In Jacksonville
Tuesday. Ndv 2u
The first general Democratic primary
under this provision will oe held In 1307
v hen a United Htates senator to succeed
H* n H ephen B Mallory. tw. c**ngie*s
men -three congressmen, if Florida gets
* not her one under the new ap|MrtlMtnent
s I* Is l*e.|eved s ie will-one Justice of
the Hup • me t’ourt to succeed Jusilcs e-u
--ton H Mabry, one member of the Hail
oad Commission, anew legislature, and
’.oesibly some other officials, besides coun
ty officers, will be selected in thla man
*ar
inn ii \ n* a iHiVKMVtiKVT.
He I* I'avlna I'lahlliis Harsher* a
t row* Per llat.
Pretoria Nov 1* - The Boer* ra active
It le alleged that f'omm*n.lant Doul*
Motha has ertabd*hel * government at
Heaendal, North M.ddlei-urg. and that
with the fl.V>,(rot> which he ha* available
he. I* 'paying (he lighting burgher* a
room per day.
Commandant Abel F.remu* le **ld to he
et Otlchhanl* liver with Ino men. and
1.0,0 wagon* ar.,l 12. 0n cattle.
From H-hle|herK It I* reported that the
Peers are compelling the burghers who
had surrendered to take up arm* again
tinder pain of death
w ii.i. at < t m;t MiMtor.
I.ondon Pastor Will Take I’aetoratr
nt Yurt lllteld, Mass.
I-ondcn. Nov. If.—The ftev. Q. Cantt*-
liell Morgan, minister of Newcourt Con
grrgatl.mal Church. Telllnaton Park. la>n
lon. announced from hi* pulpit yesterday
that h< had accepted the pastorate at
Northfleld. Mas* . In succession lo the
late Dwight 1. Mow.lv
Her 11 ,i*l,ii n,l Skipped.
Itetrolt. Nov. 11-Mr* Ma th- E Nor
ton of Detroit was married <o Charier
Ft Holmes of San Fram lsco In Windsor.
Ont Haturday evening latte I hie after
noon Mrs llolme* raised an alarm In
the Manning Hotel saving her hu<hand
wa* gone and she had missed Rtn Mr*
llolme* s.ild .lie had known her husband
but two weeks, having become acquainted
with him through a matrimonial paper.
ttleanier lladly Damaged.
Philadelphia. Nov. !.- The Belgian
steamer Waestand which trail'd front here
yesterday for I.tverpool with passengers
,nd a full cargo, returned 10-nlght with
a ten-foot hole In her port how The
\\ aeeland. while slraming down the Del
aware llay last night wa* run Into by
the schooner Kim City The schooner also
Irad a hole stove In her Itow.
A Triple llroeuln*.
Braille. * Wash.. Nov II -A triple
drowning from a rowboat I* reported from
lietta l.ake at the head of Hunter's hay.
Alaska The dead ale Mr* Jame* Tay
lor. Ban Francisco; Mis* Baker, of Table
Rock. Neb.. a missionary; Foreman
Karly of the Hunter's flay cannery.
BOYN WHIPPEO I WILDCAT.
\\ in, Slones They Hammered the
Idle Ont of the Ynlmal.
From the Philadelphia Record
Bellefonte. Pw . Nov IS—Pierce Wag
ner and Arthur E. Robert*, two H-ymr
old lad* of this place, are being lionised
for a thrilling encounter they had with
a big wildcat. In which the boys cam* off
victorious.
Wagner and Roberta, with a beagle
hound, went out after rabbits, and were
sitting on n old log. with the dog by
their side when, suddenly, a wildcat land
ed at their feet.
Finally the cat gave fight, and while
clawing the dog the boy* go' close enough
to kill It Wtlh Slones They brought the
ranus* Into town ami secured 12 bounty
for the scalp from the County Controls
.toner.. The cat measured three feet fl*
In he* had claws two Inch** In lenegth
and Whisker* like Bengal tiger
The Hatnfat lemlnl*eeaee*.
From the ]ndlnna|>oll* Hun.
At Brighton Beach t hit Mo** Rosen
Ueln. who wa* organising a on*-ntght
"Kauttt" company, for * Job "What part
,v> you wish to take’ ' h* inquired ahorl
•iy. ”1 wish to take the part of Mephl*-
tophele*. of course " I answered drawing
myself up proudly, for I had on anew am
of clothe., and could afford to look him In
the face "And why do you wish to take
.hat particular pari’" he Inquired 1
was amused at hi* dullneea. hut conceal-
Ing my disgust a* far a* possible, I ex
plained that It was because the devil al
ways get* hi* due*. He seemed pleased i;
my repartee wrote me out a sc tn per week
contract, and paid me my first week's sal
ary of r .V> In advance. 1 played the
devil In "Faust" until nearly the end of
the sea non. after which 1 wa* eaat In "The
Foundry." a workingman * play.
g i GELA
SAL" JhU b w urn
Rico
It is a pood soap.
It is kept by all the leading grocers.
Florida Work*,
Jacksonville.
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ANCESTRY OF THE HORSE
1118 UlAF.il.Olil IK lONf.llt THAN
TH IT OF NFU lORHN 4011.
\\ mm O Wee a Llffl* Xulitial Had Kunr
Toes and H ae lint *lllifly llliigrr
Than a Fox—Direct Evidence of
Descent.
Frederick A Ducas In M Uiure w Mi
presents In a popular way the aclen
tlfl*. ex blende going to show tfw decent of
the horse from a little animal with four
toes and lltlle bigger than a fox The
family records of the horse reach back
wards for something llk* 3.406.006 years.
The early hore- we may call him so
by courtesy, although he was then far
from b !ng a true horse—was an Insignifi
cant IMtb creature, apiwrently far less
likely to succeed in life * race than hi*
bulky competifois and vet. by making the
most of their opportunities, his descend,
ants have survived, while, m->' of thslrs
have dropped by the wayside and fin.
ally, by the aid of man. the hore has be
come spread over the length and breadth
of the habitable globe
Now right hera It may he asked How
do we know that Iha little hy tarot here
was the progenitor of the iv*r#, and how
on !t be shown that there Is any bond of
kinship l*etweer him and. for example,
the great French Percheron? There is
only one way In which we can obtain this
knowledge, and but one method by which
the relationship can he shown. ifH that la
by collecting the fraud! remains of animals
long extinct and r*mfuirlng them with the
bone* of the recent horse, a branch of
o< I#nee known as Paleontology It has
taken a vary long time to gather the nec
essary evidence, and It has tak*n a vast
amount of hard work in our Western ter
ritories. for the country ttiat I* as hot as
ilad* a. watered by stagnant alkali pools
la almost Invariably the richest In fo*
alls.’' Dike wise It has cslkd for the ex
penditure of much time and more pa Hence
to put together some of the |wtrifled evl
<4cnt***. fragmentary In every sense *>f the
word, and get It into such hape that it
could be handled by the anatomist Htlll.
the work has been We. and, link by ll* k
the chain has been const rue tad that unite*
the horn* of to-day with the Ivor se of very
many yesterdays.
Hrmalna In Remote Ages.
The first links In this chain are the re
mains of the brnnxe age and those found
among the rulna of the ancient Hwls*
lake dw Kings; hut earlier at 111 than the**
arc the lames of horsce found ithtinda Hy
in Northern Europe, Ala and Amerl-w.
The Individual lon#e and teeih of eom*
of three horse* are scarcely dhtlnrul'h
able from thoae of to-day a fact noted
In th* name Kquus fraDmu*. apfdl*d to
one spe*'|es, and when the te*lh abet*
are found It Is at times practl ally lnip>-
slble to say whether they tie long to a fos
sil horse or to a modern animal. Bui
when enough scattered bones are rathe ad
to make a fairly complete skeleton It be
comes evident that the fossil horse had a
proportionately larger head and sm tiler
feet than his existing relative and that
be was a little more like an as# or sebra
for the latter, spit* his gay coot. Is a
near relaflv* of th* lowly turn Moreover,
primitive man mad* Sketches of th* prim
Itlv* horse, just as be did o' the mam
moth, and these Indicate that the hors**
of those dsys was something like an over
grown Bhetland pony, low and heavily
built. large-headed and rough-coated Fo~
the old cave-dwellers of Europe were in
timately acquainted with the pre hbto ic
horses using them for food, as they did
almost every animal that f*ll beneath
their flint arrows and atone axes And If
one may Judge from the abundance r,f
bones, the horses must have roam and shod
In hands. Just as the horse> **<-up*d from
civilisation roam, or have roamed, ov-r
the pampas of Bouth America and the
prairies of th* West
The horse was Just as abundant In
North America in Pleistocene time as In
Europe, hut there Is no evidence to show
that It was contemporary with e*rly m *n
In North America, and even we e this *h*
case, it Is generally believed that Ion?
before the discovery of America tha home
had disappeared.
Domes lira ted la Europe.
Icng before the dawn of btstorv the
horse was domesticated In Europe aid
Caesar found ths Oermans. and even the
old Briton*, using war chariots drawn by
horaes-for th* first us* man seems to
have mad* of th* horses was to sid him
In killing off his fellow man. ami not
until cotnparat.vely modem lime# was Ihe
animal employed In the peaceful arts of
agriculture The Immediate predecessors
of them, horrna were considerably smaller,
being about the sisa and built of a pony,
tsui they were very much like a horse
In structure, aave that the teeth were
shorter. A* they lived during Dlocene
• Im*s. they have been named "Pllohlp
pus."
Going hack into th# paat a step fur
ther. though a pretty long step. If we
reckon by year*, we come upon a num
ber of animals very much like horse*,
save for certain cranial peculiarities, and
the fact that they bad three toe* on each
foot, while the home, as everyone
knows has but one toe Now If we glance
at the skeleton of a home we will aee
on either skis of the common bone. In
the same situation aa the upper part of
the little toe* of the hlppotherium as
these three-toed horses are called, a Iqng
slender bone, termed by veterinarian* fh
spNnl bone: and it require* no ana'omlca)
training lo see that the bones In the
two animal# are the same The horse
lack* th* lower pan of his tide toe*,
that la all. Just *s man will vary prob
ably some day lack th* last bones of Ola
little to*. W* find an approach to title
condition In some of the hlppotherea
even, known as Protohtppu*. In which
th* aid* toe* are quit* smalt, foreshadow
ing She lime when they shall hev* dis
appear'd entirely ft may also he noted
here that Ihe apllnt hone* of the horses
of the hroute *g are a little longer than
those of existing home*, and that they
ore never untied with the large central
*>e. vxhil** nowadays there Is something
•fa tendency for the three bon** •*> fuse
into nn ul hough (Kiri of this tendency
the writer be).eves to la due to inflam
mation set up by the strain of the pullmg
and hauling the animal is now called
upon to d* S**n* of these three-toed
hlppotherea ar* no - In th*- d.rect lira* of
ancestry of th* horse, but are side
branches on th* family tree, having be
come so highly spec a ls*l In certain dV
reotlona thxt no further progress horaa
wnrd was possible
Hickwar I still, and th* bones we And
in th* Mioc#ne strata of the West, be
longing to ihse m •tor* of th* hors#
to win h the ntm* of Meei.htppu* has
h<*n given because they ate ml 1 way In
tim- and etrti* ttir* between th* hor*e of
the past and pretuMP. tell us that then ell
fioi •••■ w*-r* uni a i and that all htd three
toes on a foot while the f..r*f*et bore
even the suggestion of a fourth toe Fretm
this to our Eocene hyracotheie with feg
pies Is onl> another long-t Im* step Wa
rosy g*> even beyond this In time ird
structure nd carry hack the line of the
horse to animals which only remotely re
in bled him and had five good toes to a
fKt but while these contained th* pos
sibility of a hors**, they made no show
of It
Direct Falitrsrr of (*• im-l*s * .
IVe have. then, this direct evidence aa
to the geneilcg.v of th* hnr** that be
tween the little Eocene hyracohere and
the modern horse we can pan a **ra
of uninwile by which we can (• by grad
ual stages from one to the other and
that as we com* upward the e la an in
erras* In stature, in the complexity of
the teeth and in the sis* of the brain At
ti>* same tim* the number of to*s d
cre a are. which Hiht that th* animals wara
•le\ *dd*ing more and more -peed, for It
Is a rule that the fewer the toes tha
faster th* anlms, the fastest of birds,
the tourich, has but two too*, and <ns
of the** l* mostly ornamental; and the
fasteet of foiminats, th* horse, ha* but
on*
The collateral evidence, though scanty,
hears oui the clrcumsianllal proof, de
rived from fossil lame*, that the hora*
ha* dev*iop*d from a many-toed ances
tor. and the evidence point* toward tha
little hyracothere ..* being that ancestor
Ii remain* only to show some good rea
son why thi* development should hava
taken place or lo Indicate the force* by
which It was to.-ugh! about We have
heard much about “the survival of the
lltte*t," a phrac which simply mean*
that those animals best sdaptsd te thslr
surrounding, will survive, while those 111
adapted will perish But It sh.ofld he add
ed that It mean* also that the animate
must he aide to adapt themselves to
change* in their environment, or to
change with It Diving beings cannot
ftaml atlll indefinitely. they ritual pro
gress or perish. Ami I hls seems to have
been the cause for the extinction of the
huge quadruped* that nourished at the
lime of the three-toed Miocene horse They
were adapted, to their environment as It
was. hut when the Western mountains
were thrust upward, cutting off tha motat
wind* from tho Pacific, making great
< hanges In the talnfull and climate to the
eastward of the Rocky mountains, these
hi* hraste. alow of foot and dull of brain,
rouhl not keep pace with the change and
ihelr race vanished Irom the face Of
the earth. The day of the little
hyracothere waa at the beginning of the
great series of change* by which the l*ka
country of the Weal, with ll* ni*rahy
hat* and rank vegetation, became tratta
formed Into dry uplands *parc*|y clad
with fln* graaae* On these dry plain*
the more nimble-footed animal* would
have the advantage In the struggle for
existence; and while the four-lowl foot
would keep Its owner from sinking In
soft ground, he wa* handicapped when It
became a question of speed, for not only
la a fleet animal better able to llee from
danger than hi* tdower fellow*, but In
time of drouth he can cover the greater
eatent of territory In search Of food or
water 80. too, aw the rank rushes gave
place to fine grasses, often browned and
withered beneath the summer's sun. tha
complsx tooth had an advaniatb- aver
that of simpler structure, while #ie cut-
Itng-leeih. so completely developed In the
her** fam.ly, enabled their posaeanora to
. rop the grass a* closely a* on# eoutd
do It with *cl*or Likewise, up to a
certain point, the largest, moat powerful
animal will not only conquer, or escape
from ht* eriemle*. hut prevail over rivals
of hls own kind a* well, and thus U
came to pus* that those early member*
of the horse family who were pre-emi
nent In tqw-ed snd stature and harmonla
cd het wlih their surrounding*, out
stripped Ihelr fellow* and transmuted
the*. quatPte* to their progency. until a*
s result of long ages of natural seleetton
there was developed the modem hor*e.
The rest man ha* done; the heavy, alow-
I* ed drwy horse, the fleet trotter, tha
huge Pereheroo and the dlmlnullv# pony
are one and all the recent product* of
artificial selection
0r \% i*r rmldmt,
MaJ. On. Jo* Whidltr li wropgr
he eay* that all of our war President*
have been re-elected lie overlook# Polk,
who wa* In the Whit* House durtna ths
M>xlcar War hut wa* not even renomi
nated At: told We have hd only fiv>
war President. munci>. Washington In
the lb volu lon, Mudlscn hi th# War <f
Mil wPh Great Britain Polk In the war
ap h Mexico. Lincoln 1n the Civil #■
and McKinley In th# war with Spain. If
w* call the difficulty with Franca In 1?‘
a "war' w<- shall hav* to exea t th* first
Adams. Who was not re-elected
WltK th* exemption of Grover Cleveland
no President ha* been r#-*l#et-d url s*
h, was hlm**lf * soldier or held a chief
eviuthe file* during a war peri and f
guess this *t dement will (tml Acne Ira
Is a nation of flgh'er*. and we rever*-*-*
nMnlnx so much as the uniform and tha
flag unless M I* <>ur prosperity. We want
that Is! alone. Look at the list: Watn-
Inglon. soldier at the Hsvolutlon: Jetf*r
son Governor of Vlrslnl# durleg the
Revolution. Madison. Pres deu* during
th< War of 1X13; Monroe, a Re olmonary
officer; Jackson S'tdler o' the War f
1112: Lincoln, soldier and Pre Me t in ihe
Civil War; Gram. #d*!*r In the Mexican
and civil Wars; McKinley soldier and
President In tba war with Spain.
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