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THE SULTAN OF JOLO
GEN. UATES TELLS HOW HE WORK
ED THE OLD FELLOW.
DONOTDESIRE INDEPENDENCE
I'IIDFEK THE PROTECTION OF A
STRONG NATION.
AS i*li #IO.OOO in Silver Properly Ap
liliril mill n l.itilc Tact There Wax
So Difficulty in Getting; the Dp.
sired Guarantors From the Hem!
of the Moras—He Gets l’nlil to Keep
Ihe Peace—Gen. Hates Docs Aat
3U) SS lint the l nilerstnmlina Was
About Polygamy.
Pan Francisco. May 19.—Gen. J. C.
Hates, who has just returned from the
Philippines, is quoted as follows regard
ing his dealings with the Sultan of Jolo
ond the manner in which he obtained
the Sultan's good will after the islands
had been ceded by Spain.
The Mohammedans who recognize ths
Sultan of Jolo," he said, “differ from the
ether natives of the islands in the fact
that they do not desire independence. In
fact, they told me they preferred to have
the protection of a strong nation, and
frankly declared that if the United
States did not want to take them, they
v.ould appeal to some other great coun
try. As commander of the Department
of Southern Luzon, it became my duty
to treat with the Sultan of Jolo. I found
his people to be very much like our na
tive Indians, and it seemed to me that it
would be better to get them in an amica
ble mood than to go In for an Indian
war. Gen. Otis put SIO,OOO In silver at my
disposal, and after they had given all
the concessions that the government
wished, I made a few presents, but they
did not get a cent until they had come
in our terms. There is nothing extraordi
j cry about these people. They are will
ing to tight and do not lack In bravery,
but they have little knowledge of fire
arms and are not as formidable as the
Indians of this country.
Manila IViin Surprised.
After my first consultation with the
Filltan, the people of Manila were amazed
to learn what had been accomplished, and
it was declared that the Unhed States had
in six weeks secured from the natives
more than the Spaniards were able to get
in three centuries. All we wanted for a
beginning was a pacification of the coun
try, and to have it so that Americans may
travel freely without, danger of molesta
tion This we secured by continuing the
methods inaugurated by the Spanish, who
had been paying the Sultan of Jolo almost
es much money as we do, without obtain
ing any guaranty of peace in the island.”
until GHT THEM A LITTLE nOV,
Childless Atlanta Couple Readily
Accepts Surprise Gift.
Atlanta, May 19.—A well dressed white
man slipped upon the porch of No. 122
Walker street, Saturday night, about 9
o'clock, and deposited a little boy seven
months old. The man gave two or three
loud raps upon, the door and fled. When
B. C. Trouton, who lives et that place,
answered the raps upon the door, he
found i beautiful and chubby boy lying
upon the floor of the porch with a bottle
cl milk at his mouth. A number of per
sons had seen the man when he entered
the yard and saw him when he left. They
stated that he ran when he left, and that
lie had his hat pulled well down over his
eyes. Mr. and Mrs. Trouton at once
adopted the child, and declined to let the
police take it unless Its parents were
found. They have no children of their
own. The mystery is a mystery still, al
though police ond city detectives have
worked a day on the. case.
TCI SETTLE LABOR DIFFERENCES.
Sdeel u nrkers and Their Employers
♦o Get Together.
Youngstown, 0., May 19.—The differ
ences between the roll turners union and
the Republic Iron and Steel Company may
Loon be settled.
It is stated that the Republic Iron and
Steel Company is willing to recognize the
union and sign the scale agreed upon
with certain changes already agreed to.
It L said that the Steel Hoop Company
b willing to pay more than the scale,
but will not recognize the union. The
American Federation of Labor Insist,
however, that signing the scale ie the
If-fue presented. General Superintendent
Jenks of the Steel Hoop Company has
gone to New York to present the matter
to the officials of the company.
DALLAS’ STHKETS EI.OODF.I).
A Ton-fntlnl Rn'in With Sublime
Electrical Display.
Dallas, Tex., May 19.—A torrential rain
fell >n this city to-night. The precipi
tation is estimated at about two inches
in less than three hours. For a time
every street in the city was flooded, and
•Here is no question but that stocks of
koo<h in basements and cellars have been
■leavily damaged. The rain was aceom
pamcd by an electrical display of sublime
Proportions. This necessitated shutting
, Public lights, leaving the city in
darkness and bringing the cars on all of
the systems to a standstill.
SH ALLOWED strychnine pills.
Wu * Germaine Nearly Killed by
t)cntlNt* Prescription.
Minneapolis. Minn., May 19.-Catherine
Germaine, playing the leading role In
1 ” Highwaymen” nt the Metropolitan
1 this city, swallowed nearly a
o strychnine pills to-day and may
■-he was suffering with toothache
'■CK the afternoon end resorted to a
•-s- 1 S' S Office. He gave the pills with m-
T| f u 1 ienrs to take one every three hours.
‘ * i n *truetion* were misunderstood and
, knowing their deadly contents Miss
- rtialne took the overdose. At midnight
‘ 1 rendition was critical.
HI HIED in molten metal.
1 ‘Plosion Ol Heaaemcr Converter
Brings Death to Five.
Youngstown, 0., May 19—The bursting
' mammoth converter in the Bessemer
"Parlment at tne National fltoel Com*
llJ ’ Pl*bt to-day allowed thirteen tons
molten metal to flow over the mill,
| using death to two unknown Hunga
n'l fatal Injury to Thomas lie*.
! n Johnson and an unknown Hunga-
A Family Tragedy nt SI. Paul.
K t. Paul. Minn., May 19.—1n the pres
“ of his ti-year-old son. Frank Orclpel
, to ' n t*ht "hot down In cold blood by
* brother-in-law, Henry Mingera. Three
' ts we,.. q r( , (1 -|1(1 almost
, M *ntly. The tragedy was the result
a former family quarrel.
Southern League.
Memphis, 9; Shreveport, ®.
‘'e® Orleans. 9: Chattanooga. 4
BALDWIN TO SEEK THE POLE.
Proposes to Plant the Stars and
Stripes There. He Says.
New York. May 19.—Evelyn B. Baldwin,
who accompanied the Peary and Wellman
arctic expeditions, and Is about to make
another effort to reach the North Pole,
arrived here to-day on the steamship
Cambria. Mr. Baldwin said that he would
leave here early next month and would
embark for Dundee, Scotland. In about
four weeks on the America, the flagship
of the expedition. Thence he will sail to
Tromsoe, Norway, where he will meet the
supply ship Frithjof and the expedition
will sail for Franz Josef Land, where they
will make their headquarters for the win
ter.
"Our first object," he said, "is to plant
the Stars and Stripes at the North Pole,
but whether we do that or not, we hope to
enlarge the knowledge of the polar region
and make Important contributions to sci
ence." d' "
CANNOT REMOVE REMAINS.
Bishop Vlonacam of Lincoln, Neb.,
Denies Mother's Right.
Lincoln, Neb,, May 19.—Bishop Bonacum
of this diocese has denied 1 the mother
of Edward Cagney the right to remove
her son's remains from the Catholic Cem
etery in this city. The mother, Mrs. Jlc-
Entree, of Plattsmouth, desired to place
the body beside the remains of another
son at Plattsmouth. The matter will be
taken to the courts.
In ecclesiastical law the wish of a dying
person is regarded sacredly. Cagney had
expressed a desire to be buried on the
Fitzgerald lot In the Lincoln Catholic
Cemetery. Bishop Bonaeum holds that
the wish shall be respected, and he will
proceed against anyone who tries to re
move ihe remains.
THE CHINESE INDEMNITY.
Britain Offers a Plan to Lighten the
Burden.
London, May 20.—Dr. Morrison, wiring
to the Times from Pekin yesterday says:
"The British plan of a bond issue for
the payment of the indemnity includes a
proposal, in order to lighten the burden
for China that she should issue bonds
at par for 300,000,000 taels now, and the
remainder five years hehce.
“Great Britain and the United States
alone oppose the joint guarantee project.
“The British authorities emphatically
decline to eo-operate with the German
expedition to Southern Chi Li, and it is
now announced that the expedition is
abandoned."
THEY DO XOT FAVOR EXPANSION.
San Francitro Workmen Memorial
ize the President.
San Francisco, May 19.—There seems no
doubt that there will be a walk out to
morrow of the machinists in the Union
Iron Works and the Risdon Iron Works.
The number of men affected is not yet
known.
A lengthy memorial emanating: from the
San Francisco labor council has been pre
sented to President McKinley. It ascribes
the present differences between employers
and employes to the possibility of Con
gress not taking any action in reference
to the further continuance of the exclu
sion law, now in force. The policy of ter
ritorial expansion is combatted, and the
request is made that with the acquisition
of outlying lands the doctrine of exclu
sion of Asiatics be enforced.
A SI IT FOR *4,000,000. *
Man Who Discovered Oil at nonu
nion t Rants Big Reward.
Beaumont, Tex., May 19.—Patillo Hig
gins, who claims to have given Capt. A.
F. Lucas the information which caused
the latter to bore the first oil well here,
has filed suit for 94,000,000 against Lucas
and his associates. In his petition he
claims that the knowledge which he im
parted to Lucas was well worth $ 4,000,000
and one-tenth interest in the output of pe
troleum; that on account of possessing
the information Lucas found oil, and that
the product of the well was well worth
Joo.ooo per day.
USED MAILS FOR FRAI'D.
i
- Politician Gets Himself
in Trouble.
Knoxville, Tenn., May 19.—H. H. Gouch
enhour, of Greenville, Tenn., a promi
nent Democratic politician, who opposed
Congressman W. P. Brownlow, Is under
indictment before the federal court for
using the United States mail, it is said,
for purposes of fraud’. It Is alleged that
he collected from some of the postmasters
In the. district contributions to the cam
paign fund, promising to repay. He made
the promise good, it is claimed, by mailing
at these several postoflices enough cam
paign literature to more than reimburse
the postmasters.
THE CAPE TOWN CATHEDRAL.
Royal and Distinguished Patronage
for Soldier* Memorial.
London, May 19.—King Edward has be
come patron, and the Archbishop of Can
terbury and Earl Roberts have become
vice patrons to the fund being raised to
erect the eastern portion of the new Ca
thedral in Cape Town in memory of those
who have fallen In the war in South
Africa.
COREA’S LEASE TO JAPAN.
Latter Gets I.and Formerly Wanted
by Rnsala.
Yokohama, May 19—According to ad
vices from Seoul, the Korean government
lias leased to Japan 450 acres of land to
form a settlement at Ma San Pho.
The land in question was formerly anx
iously aought by Russia.
Tlie Eclipse in Sumatra.
San Francisco, May 19.-A cablegram re
ceived from Padalg. Sumatra, from the
Crocker eclipse expedition from Lick Ob
servatory. states that the sky was par
tially clouded at the time of the eclipse
The form of the corona was similar to
the eclipses of 1899 and 1900.
Rebel* ftapend Hoatllttlew.
Kingston. Jamaica, May 19.—The Brit
ish Steamer Para, Capt. Btranger, which
has arrived here from Colon, reports the
suspension of hostiltles on the part of the
Colombian rebels, and that the Colombian
government la believed to be negotiating
to end the revolution.
An Irrigation Dam Breaks.
Wichita Fall*. Tex., May 19.-The Ir
rigation company’s dam her# broke this
morning at 1:30 o’clock. No lives were
lost hut considerable damage was done.
The people In the valley were warned
In time and moved to higher ground.
A Cabinet t rials In Pern,
Lima, Peru. May 19.-A cabinet crisis Is
reported to be Imminent. It Is said that
the Peruvian minister of finance. Do
mingo Alrnenara, has threatened to resign,
as he disagrees with his oollengues on the
details of ihe sail monopoly.
.%zed Discoverer Dead.
FaJrhaven. Mass,, May 19. Weston
Howland, the discoverer of the met nod Of
refining petroleum, died to-njght. aged M
• ear*.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. MAY 20. 1901.
FARMERS OF LAI'RENS.
Do Not Like the Idea of Having Fer
tilisers Taxed.
Dublin. Ga., May 19.—Yesterday quPl?e a
number of farmers of Laurens county
met in mass meeting at the Court House
and condemned the action of Controller
General W. A. Wright in ordering the
tax receivers of the state to require fer
tilizers used on farms to be returned for
taxation. The mass meeting was held im
mediately after a meeting of the Laurens
County Cotton Growers' Association, end
was presided over by Mr. J. M. Finn,
cashier of the Dublin Banking Company.
Representative L. Q. Stubbs addressed
the meeting, and stated that it was not
the Intention of the Legislature to require
farmers to return for taxation the fer
tilizers held by them for use on their
farms and advised them to refuse to pay
taxes on guano. Representative Stubbs
told the farmers that Controller General
Wright was evidently sincere In believ
ing that this class of property was taxa
ble, but in his opinion he was placing a
wrong construction on the tax act. After
condemning the action of the eontrollsr
general, a committee of five was ap
pointed to raise funds with which to make
a test of the matter. It is the purpose of
the farmers for one of them to refuse
to give in the fertilizers held on hand by
him on March 15, last, and if the tax
receiver refuses to accept his returns to
ask the court for a mandamus compelling
him to accept the returns as made out
and presented. Tax Receiver J. N.
Adams, acting under the Instructions of
the controller general has been refusing
to accept returns from farmers unless
they specified what amount of fertilizers
they had on hand on March 15, last. He
even goes so far as to require them to
give In all the fertilizers they had used
prior to March 15, holding to the position
that even if it had actually been placed
in the ground it is property, and should
be taxed. Mr. W. J. Joiner was selected
to make a test of the matter, and he is
now getting legal advice ns to his course.
The farmers are worked up over the mat
ter, and state that they expect to make
it warm for somebody, politically, even
if they loose their suit and have to pay
the tax.
While In mass meeting the farmers also
discssed the action of State Treasurer
Park in refusing to honor the Governor’s
draft on the public property fund, every
one present taking the position that the
Treasurer is right in refusing to pay out
this money. There ts no doubt that the
Treasurer has greatly strengthened him
self in Laurens county by the stand he
has taken.
Dr, Benjamin F. Stanley, who died Fri
day night of Bright’s disease at his home
in this county, will be buried to-day at
the Stanley burial ground about twelve
miles from Dublin. Dr. Stanley was 67
years of age and was one of the most
prominent men In the county. He at
tended college at Thedford, Vermont, and
after graduating took a course In medi
cine at the Augusta Medical College. Dur
ing the past fifteen years he has not
practiced medicine but was engaged in
farming. He has a large family connec
tion In this county. He leaves a wife
and three children. Hie children are
Mrs. Dr. R. S. McCarthy of Gordon; Mrs.
Dr. J. H. Duggan of Wilkinson county,
and Mr, Rollin M. Stanley of Laurens
county. Dr. Stanley was a surgeon in the
Confederate army.
A Gl'll/TY WIFE ARRESTED.
Trnined Norse Charged With Death
of Husband.
Chicago, May 19.—A dispatch to the Rec
ord-Herald from Quincy, 111., says:
Mrs. Mamie Barnes, widow of Dr. Jo
seph Barnes, who died under suspicious
circumstances at 'the insane asylum at
Jacksonville a short time ago, was arrest
ed to-day at Edina. Mo., by Sheriff Roth
of this oily and brought here to
night and handed over to the
sheriff of Morgan county, who left for
Jacksonville on to-night's train. Mrs.
Barnes, who is a professional nurse, was
engaged in nursing a'sick woman at Edina
when arrested. She is charged l with hav
ing had guilty knowledge of her husband’s
death. She professes innoeense. Fergu
son, the negro who is supposed: to have
administered the poison to Dr. Barnes,
was arrested here last Tuesday and taken
to Jacksonville. Mrs. Barnes claims that
she does not know Ferguson.
BRINSWICK RIFLEMEN'S FAIR.
Will Be an Event of Great Interest
in Social Circles
Brunswick, Ga„ May 19.—The Bruns
wick Riflemen's fair will open to-morrow
night. The armory is a scene of beauty,
it being handsomely and beautifully dec
orated, and the different booths are Ailed
with pretty and useful articles. The com
pany will give a street parade at 5 o’clock
to-morrow afternoon as the formal open
ing. A large number of donations have
been received from all over the country
and the success of the undertaking is al
ready assured. Captain Dunn and his
men have been hard at work for a long
time preparatory to the opening, and: the
young folks are looking forward to it
with great pleasure. Among the many
amusements on the programme for to
morrow night Is a prize drill by the Ri
flemen for the company's handsome gold
medal.
THE Dl AL SWEETHEART BUSINESS.
Colored Swell Get* Badly Done I’p at
Tallahassee. /
Tallahassee, Fla., May 19 —Sindy Court
ney. a dashing young negro woman, who
has two sweethearts, met one of them,
Will Edwards, on Saturday In a grove on
the boulevard. Shortly after the other
sweetheart came along, and during the
afternoon Will Edwards was found In
that vicinity shot through the stomach,
breast and arm, but neither Edwards nor
the woman will tell who did the shoot
ing. Edwards is still alive, but In a criti
cal condition.
BISHOP O’CONNELL CONSECRATED.
The Ceremony Conducted by Cardi
nal Satolll.
Rome, May 19.—Mgr. O'Connell, formerly
rector of the American College in Rome,
and recently appointed bishop of Port
land, Me., was solemnly consecrated this
morning in the Church of S*. Joseph by
Cardinal Satolll, prefect of the propaganda
and formerly apostolic delegate to the
United States.
First Division V ft. Not to Dishnod.
Brunswick, Gs , May 19.—The Flint Di
vision. Naval Reserves, of this city, will
not he disbanded, as was stated In these
dispatches a few days ngo. The company
has only recently elected new officer* and
Is in a good condition. It is understood
that Inspector Obear will bo In Bruns
wick sometime during the present week
and will inspect the command.
Grocery Fire In Brunswick.
Brunswick. Ga., May 19—Fire In this
city early this morning destroyed the gro
cery store of J. J- Spear* on J street.
The Are had gained good headway before
the deportment arrived and It did but
little good except In saving nearby houses.
The store and nearly all the contents were
destroyed. _
—Progress.—"How Is you pergressln' In
yoh Bhakespere Club?" askl Mr. Kras
tus Plnkley. "Beautiful." answered Miss
Miami Brown. "I sholy is gettin’ dig
white folks dialect down tint."—Wash
inf tun Star. __
GOOD PEACH CROP IN SIGHT.
A SATISFACTORY YIELD NOW AS
SURED.
Shipping Season Will Soon Begin
and Preparations Are Being Made
for n Busy Time In the Fruit Sec
tion— Commission Men ire on Ihe
Field and Some Crops Have ll
rendy Been Sold—The Crop Not
Expected to He Quite So Large ns
Last Year'*, bat of Superior Qual
ity.
Fort Valley, Ga., May 19.—There Is no
doubt now but that this section will en
joy the benefits of a largo fruit crop this
year. The shipping season will soon be
gin and arrangements arc being rapidly
made for the quick handling of this im
portant crop. The Georgia Fruit Pack
age Company has recently added more
than $15,000 worth of maclfinery and other
permanent improvements to Its large
plant In order to meet the demands for
crates; several hundred men are employ
ed and the factory is running night and
day.
The growers are busy renovating their
packing house*. hauling out crate mate
rial and putting together the pieces, so
as to have everything in readiness when
the peaches begin to ripen. New meat
markets, restaurants and other places of
business are being opened up in antici
pation of the large volume, of business
that is done while the handling of fruit
Is in progress.
The concensus of opinion is that there
will not be quite as many peaches as
last season, but that the quality will be
so far superior the net price re
alized will be greater on account of the
less expense in handling a few good in
stead of a large number of crates of in
ferior fruit.
Representatives of Northern commis
sion houses are already on the scene, and
several orchards have been disposed of as
the fruit now stands regardless of any
future contingency. The season, after
viewing all the prospects, together with
the present Indication, promises to be one
of the most satisfactory ever enjoyed by
the growers.
The Fort Valley Courier will make Us
bow to the people of this section Thurs
day, and will be published weekly there
after. Mr. Emmett Houser, an attorney
of this place, will assume editorial man
agement.
BIG STRIk£oN TO-DAY.
(Continued from First Page.)
Manager Gannon and representatives
from the shops to be held at Washing
ton this week.
Many Will Strike nl RnfTntn.
Buffalo. N. Y., May 19.—1 t was an
nounced at a meeting of all organized
machinists in this city held to-night that
all the machinists employed by the Le
high Valley Railroad system will strike
to-morrow.
About 1,200 machinists in other estab
lishments are either to strike or will do
so by Tuesday.
At Syracuse the union machinists will
quit work where the employers refuse to
sign the nine-hour schedule.
About 1,500 are expected to strike at
Seneca Falls to-morow.
1,000 to Strike at Plainfield.
New York, May 19.—At Plainfield, N. J.,
it is expected to-night that 1.000 machin
ists out of 1,200 employed in that city will
go out to-morrow morning. The large
shops there are the Pond Tool Company,
Scott Printing Press Company, Potter
Press Works. Aluminum Plate and Press
Works and the Campbell Press Works.
The Pond Company's men will not strike,
as their demand for an increase will be
answered after the directors' meeting on
June 3.
Generally Signed at Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, May 19.—About eighty men in
Pittsburg and Allegheny will be affected
by the strike of the machinists of the
country to-morrow. Business Agent Shaw
has Issued a strike order to the men em
ployed by the four firms who have failed
to sign the new scale. These firms are the
American Steel and Wire Company, For
est Oil Well Supply Company, the Oil
Well Supply Company and the Oliver Iron
and Steel Company. The American Steel
and Wire Company is expected to sign
Monday morning.
Milwaukee Machinists Will Strike.
Milwaukee. May 19.—Representatives of
the various plants in Milwaukee employ
ing machinists, announced to-night that
there was no chance of the demands of
the machinist* being granted. Twenty
five of twenty-eight shops will be af
fected, three small concerns employing in
the aggregate, about fifty men. havfng
granted the demand* of the men. About
1,600 machinists in this city will strike.
A Minority nt Indianapolis,
Indianapolis, May 19.—One hundred and
seventy-four machinists out of 862 In the
city, and 20 boiler makers out of 62 will
strike to-morrow morning. The Big Four
has settled with Its men on a scale of 26
cents an hour straight and nine hours to
the day. The Indianapolis, Decatur and
YVeetern Railway will settle with Its men
to-morrow on the same terms. Sixty-four
machinists went out last night.
Denver Grnnta Mne-Honr Day.
Denver, Col., May 19.—The threatened
strike of the manufacturing machinist* of
Denver has been averted, the local mem
bers of the National Trades Association
having granted the nine-hour day and the
scale of wage* demanded by the machin
ists' union.
Lehigh Valley Men to Strike.
Wilkcsbarre, Pa., May 19,-The Lehigh
Valley Railroad and the Central of New
Jersey have declined 4o grant the machin
ists employed in their shop* here a nine
hour day. and the men will go out on a
strike to-morrow. About 1,400 men are
affected.
Many to fitrlke nt Lamden.
Camden, N. J.. May 19.—The indications
here to-night ore that there will be a
considerable number of machinists to go
on a strike for nine-hour* to-morrow. A*
far as could be learned not one large
firm ha* signed the workmen’s demand.
At the Wilmington Shops.
Wilmington, Dal., May 19,—Officials of
the machinist* union in this city said to
night that a strike would be ordered in
all Wilmington shops with two excep
tion*. They claim that at least 500 men
will answer the call.
ASPHYXIATED IN NEW YORK.
Wealthy Plllshnrg Mnn Fonnd Dead
in His Room,
New York. May 19.—Robert Gibbs, 52
year* oid, superintendent of an Iron mold
ing works In Pittsburg, Pa., and a man of
considerable wealth, was found deed In
his room on West Twenty-second aired,
having been asphyxiated by ga.c The
case was reported to the coroner's office
as one of suicide, but indications under a
more thorough Investigation makes It ap
pear that the death was accidental.
—Prince Kropotkin, the Russian an
archist, at present visiting this country,
is of the opinion that war I* disastrous to
Russia because It Is invariably followed
by outbreaks at home which tend to
ward tha free.lorn of the people. These,
of course, the Prlne* favors. Ha aaya that
Atae Russia will be a peaceful country.
9TORIES OF FAMOUS WAR HORSES.
Jackson's Charger Marlon Old
YVhltey of the Mexican YVar.
Black Tom, the Jnmper.
From the Baltimore American.
Not even the bloody repulses recently
inflicted by the Boers of South Africa on
the British forces under Gens. Methuen
and Buller were so surprising or appall
ing as the Losses of Sir Edward Paeken
ham at New Orleans in January, 1816,
when his command met with the most dis
astrous defeat ever sustained by a British
army. In that campaign the American
commander used three war horses, the
favorite being a bright hay stallion, on
which Jackson was mounted on that fate
ful Bth of January. The charger Marion
is mentioned in the popular bailed of
"The Rattle of New Orleans:." So far as
the writer is aware, writes Gen. James
Grant Wilson, in Our Animal Friends,
none of Old Hickory's biographers affords
any information concerning his battle
steeds, and, curiously enough, the writer
is indebted for almost ail that ts known
of his celebrated war horse to Chaplain-
General Glelg, the last survivor among
the commissioned officers, who fought In
the battle of New Orleans. The Tennes
see frontiersman, politician and soldier
was a fine rider, an ardent admirer of
horses, and the owner of many fast run
ners that he was fond of racing. Not a
few of them were sons of his charger
Marlon. Lieut. Lavaek, the only un
wounded British officer who surmounted
the American parapets In the battle of
New Orleans, was kindly spoken to by
Jackson, then mounted on his war horse,
and later described both to his friend
Glelg, then captain of an Infantry regi
ment. Sixty years after the terrible dis
aster, the venerable chaplain-general of
the British army, under his own roof on
the estate of Strsthfleldsaye, repeated to
the writer Lavack’s account of Jaokson
and hl magnificent battle charger Marlon.
A fine portrait of "Old Hickory" and his
horse as they appeared at the time of
his great victory may be seen
In the city Hall, New York.
t was painted by John Vanderlyn.
Old Whltey was the most famous
steed of the Mexican War, Gen. William
B. Franklin writes: "Old Whltey was
Taylor's favorite horse, and was as well
known to his army as the General him
self. He was snow white, and the Gen
eral always rode him, notwithstanding
the remonstrances of his staff officers,
who were apprehensive that his color
would make him too prominent a mark
in action. He resembled an English cob
in figure, was a fine animal, and all who
were near the General became very fond
of the horse." Gen. Longstrect say3: “I
remher clearly Gen. Taylor and his war
horse. Old Whltey, His usual positton
when his horse was standing waa one leg
over the pommel of the saddle. Stonewall
Jackson's horse, Sorrell, was much of
the style of Old Whltey, but was not
white.” The last survivor of President
Taylor's immediate family writes: “You
ask about Old Whltey. He was a great
pet with us all, and was never ridden
after my father's return from Mexico,
and when ho went to Washington the
war horse waa sent to his plantation.
During his term as President there was
so much interest and curiosity expressed
to see the old charger that he had him
brought to Washington, and after my
father’s death he was sent back to the
plantation, then the home of my brother,
Richard, where Whltey lived to a good
old age. He was pretty well denuded of
both mane and tail by sightseers."
Winfield Soot, born two yeaTS later than
Taylor, during his campaigns in Mexico
rode two favorite war horses. They were
both about 17 hands, for he was so large
and heavy that no ordinary horse could
carry him. Rollo was a beautiful bay,
stylish and spirited, and the other charger
was a bright sorrel named W’ashlngton.
The battle steed owned by Scott during
the Civil War was, like Rollo, a blood
bay, but nearly 18 hands high. He was
probably the largest and most powerful
steed ever ridden by a soldier. The old
Genera! was greatly attached to Napo
leon, as he named him, and when, owing
to the Infirmities of age, he could no
longer use him under the saddle, he was
driven in harness to Scott's coupe. The
day before the hero of the two widely
separated wars of 1812 and 1846 died at
West Point, In May, 1866, he called the
groom, who Is still living, to his bed
side, and said: "Peter, take good care
of my horse." At the military funeral,
which followed four days later at West
Point, the. leviathan Napoleon, properly
caprisoned, followed the remains of his
master In tho procession to the United
States Cemetery, a proceeelon which in
cluded Grant, seven corps commanders,
and some 200 general and field officers,
all on foot, walking behind Scott’s war
horse.
Only less celebrated than Old Rough
and Ready's favorite chargor was Capt.
Charles Augustus May's Black Tom,
magnificent and coal-biack gelding, such
a peerless steed as Theodore Wlnthrop in
troduced in his finest story under the
name of Don Fulado, or the Forest King
In Oulda's novel, "Under Two Flags.”
May, mounted cm Tom, was the beau
s&breur of Taylor's army in Mexico, en
joying the same reputation for dash that
.Custer won In the army of the Potomae
nearly two decade* later. At the head
of his squadron of the Second United
States dragoons, Capt. May led a gallant
charge against a Mexican battery In the
hnltle of Hesaca de la Palma, May 9. 1846.
and leaping Tom over one of the guns
captured Gen. I.a Vega and the entire
battery of six pieces. Mny enjoyed an un
surpassed military record for leaping with
Tom, and. It la possible, one that has
never been epualled in the hunting field
or even on the race course. Francis La.w
ley, perhaps the highest British authority
on the subject, gives 24 feet aa the great
est distance ever covered by an English
horse In a steeple, chase or elsewhere.
Black Tom Jumped thirty-five feat on a
wager during the Mexican war, and three
years later May made another bet that,
with a flying start of fifty yards, he cold
leap Tom across a canal thirty-six feet
In width. They came thundering along at
terrific speed, the Jet black steed 'nearly
seventeen hands high, and May over she
feet, sitting like a centaur. Tom gave a
mighty Jump, but fell short, and of course
man and horse had a very sudden and ex
ceedingly cold bath, for tha attempt was
made in midwinter. Thoroughbred Tom
was a spirited and rather difficult horse
for any one but his master to control. A
Maryland friend, wishing to make a fine
appearance before a Baltimore belle, bor
rowed May'* steed; but bearing too hard
on the bit when In front of the lady's res
idence in Cathedral street, Tom began
bucking, finally toesing the lover Into the
street and galloping hark to hi*
Albert Sydney Johnston, who fell In
the first day's fierce struggle at 8hl!oh,
held the highest rank of sny soldier kill
ed during the Civil War. He was a great
lover of animals, and when appointed a
cadet to the United Htates Military
Academy, in 1822, owned a beautiful sad
dle horse, which he presented to Ills sis
ter, saying: "f cannot sell Charlie. He
might fall Into hand* where he would be
badly treated: but you will always be
kind to him." Young Johnston had in
variably displayed unusual kindness to
his horse and dogs, often leading the
former when he believed Charlie had be
come fatigued. Ip the War Between the
State* he owned several chargers, but his
favorite was n large thoroughbred bay,
which be. called Fire-Eater. Like alt
hla horses, he was large and powerful,
for only such could carry a man of Gen.
Johnston's majestic proportions. He was
6 feet 2 Inche* in hlght. with massive
figure, suggesting resemblance to Wash
ington. and when astride of Flre-Eaater,
was th/' beau Ideal of an army comman
der. his appearance acting as an Inspir
ation to hi* soldiers. Whenever they
caught sight of him in the saddle, their
shouts were Irrsspreailbte. On Munday
morning, April 6, as he mounted Flre-
Lvtcr, about daybreak, lie Mid to his
staff, “To-night we will water our
horses In the Tennessee river." Early
in the afternoon, as the General
was leading a successful charge
against the Union troops, who were
falling hack to another line, deliver
ing volleys as they retreated, a mlnle bul
let caused a mortal wound, from which
the commander of the Confederate army
died within half an hour, having bled to
death for lack of proper surgical atten
tion. One of his staff states: "My own
horse having run off when I dismounted,
I mounted Fire-Eater, Gen. Johnstone’s
horse, but found him so badly crippled
that I dismounted to examine, Hnding mat
he was wounded in three legs by musket
balls. 1 rode him to the rear, where we
left Gen. Johnston’s orderly with two
fresh horses, left Fire-Eater with the
orderly, mounting one of the fresh horses
and proceeding to report (o Gen. Beaure
gard." Besides the fatal wound, John
ston had previously received during the
day three slight wounds.
Col. William Preston Johnslon, late
president of Tuiane University, New Or
leans. in a recent letter to the writer,
says: "After my father's death I rode
Fire-Eater to the end of the war. I was
captured with President Davis, and when
w'e approached Macon I was sent into
the city on parole to request Gen. Wilson
not to separate the president and his
staff. He granted the request, hut direct
ed me not to leave the hotel. My horse
wa* hitched outside, and I never saw or
heard of Fire-Eater again."
THE BUSH VELT.
YVhy Fugitive Bodies of Burghers
Seek Asylum There,
From tho London Express.
The new* that fugitive bodies of Boers
are trekking toward the bueh veldt has
somewhat hastily been assumed to indi
cate that, finding themselves driven from
pillar to post, the desperate burghers are
seeking a last fever-stricken asylum.
The buab veldt is a term applied loosely
to a long strip of wooded country which
runs roughly east and west in a line fifty
miles to the north of Pretoria. It lies
somewhat lower than the. surrounding
country, and for this reason maintains
throughout the year a warm mean tem
perature.
People at home ihavc even yet failed to
grasp the immensity of the Transvaal.
They seem to think that because It is all
called by one name it is all of one geo
graphical and climatic character. The
truth is that one part of the Transvaal
differs from another Just about as much
as California does from the State of
New Y'ork.
There are never frosts in the bush
veldt, though on the. high table lands
about Middleburg and Belfast, not thirty
miles away, night frosts are both fre
quent and hitter in the winter season.
Similarly, Ihe rainfall In the bush veldt
Is Inches higher than on the plains.
In the depths of winter, when the grass
on the veldt Is brown, parched and in
edible, it is green and fresh and succulent
in the bush country. For this reason the
wily Boer leaves his farm on the plains
when hi* animals can no longer find
grazing there, and treks laboriously iff
In search of pastures new. Generally he
takes his entire household wiVi him,
wife, children and furniture. :he family
lares and penates being heaped indis
criminately in enormous trek wagons.
This annual trek Is a sight to be seen
and never forgotten. It beats a Scotch
"flitting” or an Irish eviction into fits.
The male members of the family ride
on horseback, the women and children
sit on the wagons, and all gesticulate
wildly, screaming curses at the Kaffirs
and oxen at the highest pitch of their
voices. Sometimes the trek occupies a
fortnight, if there ts s long way to Ro;
and every night the oxen are outapanned
and a camp in formed for the night. Bight
to twelve miles a day is the average rate
of progression.
The land In the bush veldt Is not taken
up In the same way as elsewhere; the
burgher simply treks on till he finds a
place which suits him qnd stop* there.
He does not build a houae, but lives en
tirely In his wagons—sometimes with a
huge sail thrown over to form n tent.
Some of the richer farmers have special
wagons for annual picnic—enormous
lumbering things they are, which thirty
oxen strain to move.
From April till October life In the bush
veldt Is pleasant and healthy enough. In
October it begins to get warm, and hy
the middle of November the heat Is un
bearable. Then fever comes, and the
knowing burgher returns to health and
the spring grass on the plains.
In the ordinary way trekking to the
bush veldt does not commence till May.
but there Is no reason why It should not
begin In April. Asa rule there Is still
sufficient grass through April to keep
the beasts fat; and so long as he is not
compelled to move the Boer is the in
carnation of laziness.
Therefore. It will be seen that, what
ever else the liodles of Boers now re
ported to be trekking to the bush veldt
are doing, they are assuredly not run
ning their heads blindly Into a death
trap. It has been stated repeatedly by
paper* which ought to know better that
those who seek asylum In the bush
country must necessarily perish of fever.
This Is nonsense. The ordinary Boer Is
a great deal more afraid of fever than
he Is of the Lee-Enfield rifle—especially
If he has a good horse under him.
The Boers are going to the bush veldt
because they know that they may now
do so with safety. They will slay there
Just so long as they can with Impunity—
I. e., till October—and then they will
come back on the plains. Whether we
ran dislodge them earlier remains to he
seen. The bush veldt Is almost Impossi
ble country to move large hodies of men
In, and It Is for the most part unknown.
We have had maps—pretty bad ones,
too—of the rest of the Transvaal, but we
have none of the bush country.
ARSENIC FACTORIES.
Habits Acquired hy Ihe People Who
Work In Them.
Abridged from Science Gossip.
White arsenic Is the form In which arwc
nlc Is taken by the peasants of Styrla and
the Tyrol. Prof. Schallgrueber of Gatz,
nes the first to call attention to this
practice. In a report which he made in
1822 to the Austrian government on the
cause of the numerous deaths from arse
nic poisoning in those districts. He found
that arsenic waa kept in most of the
houses In Upper Styrla under the name of
"hydrach," evidently n corruption of “hut.
tenrauch." or furnace smoke. His state
ments were subsequently confirmed from
personal observation by a Dr. McClagsn,
of Edinburg, but for many years aft-r
--ward the arsenic eaters were generally
disbelieved In; and It was not till 1860
that C. lielsch published convincing evi
dence.
Arsenic Is principally eaten by hunter*
and woodcutters, with, the object or ward
ing off fatigue and Improving their stay.
Ing powers. Owing to the fact that the
sale of arsenic IS I legal in Austria with
out a doctor's certificate It Is difficult to
obtain definite Information of a habit
tvhlch Is kept as secret as possible Ac
cording to h Dr. Ireno, In that district
the afsenlc is taken fantlng. usually In a
cup of coffee, the first dose being minute,
but Increased day by day, unlit It some
times amounts to the enormous dose of 12
or II grains. He found that the arsenic
eaters were usually long-lived, though
liable to sudden death. They have h
very frestb, youthful appearance, and are
seldom attacked by infectious diseases.
After the first dose the usual symptoms
of alight arsenic poisoning are evident,
but they' soon disappear on continuing the
treatment.
In the arsenic factories in Salzberg It
la atated that workmen who are not arse
nic eaters soon succumb to the fumes.
The manager of one of these works in,
formed Mr. Heisch that he had been med
ically advised to est arsenic before taking
up his position. He considered that no
one should begin tho practice before
twelve years old nor after thirty, and that
in any case after fifty years of age the
daily dose should be gradually reduced,
since otherwise sudden death would ensue.
If a confirmed arsenic cater suddenly at
tempts to do altogether without the drug
he Immediately succumbs to the effects
of arsenic poisoning. The only way to
obviate this is gradually to acclimatize
the system by reducing the dose from day
to day. As another evidence of the cumu
lative properties of arsenic it Is interest
ing to note that when the graveyards m
Upper Styria ore opened the bodies of
the arsenic eaters can be distinguished
by their almost perfect state of preser
vation, due to the gradually accumulated
arsenic.
FEES Ob’ CORPORATION DIRECTORS
Ten to Twenty-five Dollars for Each
Board Meeting.
From the New York Evening Post.
One of the leading corporation lawyers
In New York, a man whose Income from
his legal practice cannot be less than
$50,000 a year, arrived at his office the
other afterff&bVi, for t'he'fttst time that
day. All the other members of the firm
and most ofAhe clerks ware already gone
for the day, but in his j>j;svate office
sat a man who had been patiently await
ing his arrival for two hours.
"Well," said the counsellor, after his
visitor had departed, "that man detained
me only ten minutes, and yet before, he
left he handed me a SIOO bill for the
legal advice I had given to him In regard
to his responsibility in a certain stock
transaction. I have been busy every hour
since ten o'clock this morning, and yet
till this client paid me this fee I had
not made SSO all day. I have been t
directing' meetings—four of them—and
the total of my fees for attendance i*
Just S4O. Twenty dollars of this cam*
from an insurance company, $lO from a
national bank, and $lO more from a
telephone company. In all of which I am
a director. The fourth meeting was of
a manufacturing corporation, which so
far i>ays nothing either to its directors
or stockholders."
"Don't you find It a rather losing
business, this attending trustee and di
rector-meetings?"
"In a way, yes, and, yet in other way*
no. You see a man in the professional as
well as the business world must keep
himself before men, and being on di
rectories of large banks, trust companies,
and Industrial corporations is one of the
best advertisements a man can have. It
stamps him as a success and nothing, you
know, succeeds like success. How many
concerns am Ia director in? Eleven, t
think, but then several of theoe are
more or less Inactive and do not take
up much of my time.
"But eleven is nothing, as compared
with some of the leading financiers In
this city. Senator Depew's name appears
as a director or trustee officer in seventy
six corporations, mostly railroads, banks,
and trust companies, and the list of them
takes a full .page and a half In the
Directory of Directors. Next to him, in
point of activity as a director, oomea
William K. Vanderbilt, with forty-eight
corporations appearing after his name.
Edward D. Adams is also In considerable
demand, having forty-three companies,
mostly railway, to keep track of; James
Stillman forty-one, George J. Gould
thirty-six, Fred. W. Vanderbilt thirty
five, President Calloway of the New
York Central thirty-six. D. O. Mills
thirty-three, Frederick P. Oleott twenty
two, August Relmont thirty-two, J.
Plerpont Morgan thirty-one, William
Rockefeller twenty-two,and a dozen others
who have more than fifteen concerns
after their names.
"As to the fees for attendance at these
directors’ meetings, they vary from $5
to $25, hanks, the larger ones, paying
$lO In gold to every member present,
though some very rich ones go beyond
this. As these meetings are weekly, some
times semi-weekly, and the boards con
sist of from ten to twenty members, you
see it Is something of an item in bank
expenses. The fee is generally paid in
gold, and it Is something of a custom
among directors who are married to turn
over the gold pieces so received to their
wives for 'pin-money.' Thus It comes
aiiotii that these busy men are always
reminded before leaving home of their
bank engagements for the day.”
But when all ts said about the pecuniary
sacrifice a busy and successful man
must make in becoming a bank director,
there Hre few. If any, fiduciary position*
so much desired. The story Is told of a
Wall Street broker who was recently
elected a director of a big down-town
bank, and who had to buy ten ahares
of stock at $706 a share In order to
qualify himself for the place. The bank
Itself It not a dividend-payer, but this
operator saw an opportunity to strength
en himself materially In the financial
world through his connection with thia
bank, so he considered the $7,000 as money
wisely spent.
Lastly Wine*.
From the New York Press.
Our millionaires think $75 a gallon for
rare old Maderla an utterly impossible
price, simply because their tastes ar*
blunted by champagne, and they care no
more for a bottle of Welsh Reserve, New
ton-Gordon or Chillingaworth-Ogiethorp#
than for a cheap sherry. In the famous
cellars of the Hotel de Ville at Bremen
there are a dozen case* of holy wine
which have been preserved for 250 year*.
A merchant figure* out that If the coat of
maintaining the cellars, payment of rent,
Interest upon the original value of tha
wine and other incidental charge* are con
sidered. a bottle of the choice 'Madetfa,
has cost no less than $2,000,000. each glass
ful $270,000, and single drop could not b*
sold without loss under s2ou.
It is probable that this very old win* is
worthless on account of "starvation."
Charles Bellows, our ablest authority on
Madeira, says that It becomes "starved"
after feeding upoh Its own lee*'for thirty
or forty year*. "It 4eems to me that It
la very human, and require# companion
ship,” he says. .I'DemlJobna of Ihe same
variety should be blended. The marriage
of the two wine* would probably give the
leea more character, and the wine would
thus continue to Improve. This certainly
ought to he done as a tonic after the
Madeira lias been ttfty year* In gtas*. _
The most remarkable collection of Ma
deira* in this country is the property of A*
Philadelphian. It was begun by hi* grand
father, and til* father added largely to
11. The wines are kept In old-fashioned
five-gallon demijohn*, which are brood at
the bottom, so as to spread the lees over
a greater lurface. They are always drawn
by siphon, as the slightest disturbance of
the lees destroys the value of the glassful.
There is a specially constructed room at
the top of the house In which most of ths
Madeira is kept, after the original
Charleston method, but Mr. Bellows, who
examined the collection, could find very
little difference In the Improvement be
tween the wines kept there and those In
the cellar.
Mr. Bellows thus describes an old Ma
deira drinker taking a glass of wlno:
"First a few drops are pored In the glass,
then the glass I* warmed before an open
fire until the wine Is thoroughly heated,
and then the drop* are pored back Into tha
decanter. Then the glass I* half tilled and
slowly brought under the nose; he shut*
both eyes and sniffs the aroma for a full
minute. Then he opens one eye and holds
the glass up to the light, and with thumb
and forefinger turns the glaaa round and
round. Then, with a sigh, he tilts a few
drops on tho end of his tongue and rolls
both eyes In a realty alarming msnner.
If the wine pleases him he finishes the
glass, and If il dors not he seta it dowt>
untasted. This does not seem to he an af
fectation. but the general method In
which old Madeira t* drunk by those who
know; and f can aaaurt you they ara very
few Indeed."
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