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The Omaha Is Stubborn
The officials of the Omaha railway com
pany did not make a creditable showing
in tbe conference with the Commercial
club committee yesterday regarding Min
neapolis' request for certain concessions
from that road.
The officials confined themselves to gen
eral statements and denials and an
amorphous attempt to discredit the cold
facts and figures presented by the commit
tee. When they did make any positive
statements they were often of sucii a lu
dicrous nature as 'the one iby Judge Wilson,
counsel for the company, to the effect that
the Omaha and North-Weetern are actual
ly competitors in certain territory "as
much as are the Omaha and the Mil
waukee."
Second Vice President James T. Clarke
did, however, substantially state that so
far as he could see there was no way In
which his company could grant any of the
concessions asfaed.
This means that the Omaha declines to—
Move its offices or shops to Minneapolis
from St. Paul;
Help the twin cities to obtain more fav
orable terminal freight rates;
Revise its present system of running all
passenger trains from the southwest into
St. Paul first, though it leases a route
that is seventeen miles shorter than that
via St. Paul.
Mr. Clarke having asked for time to re
ply in writing to the statement of the
Minneapolis side of the case it is no more
than courteous for Minneapolis to await
the receipt of that reply (before taking the
next step.
But, If we are not mistaken, Minneapolis
business men are intensely in earnest in
the determination to obtain fair treat
ment from the Omaha. The road now oc
cupies the position of refusing every one
otf Minneapolis' requests, even that for
Improved passenger service. Minneapolis
business men realize that the situation is
one of dollars and cents to them. If the
Omaha should persist in refusing to listen
to reason and. offers no concessions or
compromises it may <become necessary for
Minneapolis to make the question one of
dollars and cents to the Omaha.
Certainly the city council cannot, in the
meantime, authorize the street vacations
required 'by the Omaha for its enlarged
terminals on the north side.
It is urged against the St. Lawrence as
a route for ocean steamers that is a very
dangerous one, particular attention being
called to the recent wreck of the Lusl
tania. A wreck now . and then will not
affect the St.. Lawrence route more than
any other, but if ther are more wrecks
there proportionately than on the other
routes the charges for underwriting will
be so heavy as to make it difficult to de
velop a large traffic.
American Trade in Africa
Trade has been in the habit of following
the British flag — meaning British trade.
But in South Africa It is American trade
that follows the British flag. The English :
are spending about $1,000,000 a day in the
■wearing work of stamping out' Boer re
sistance and as fast as the conditions per
mit,: the Americans enter and take all the
orders for goods.
A Johannesburg correspondent of the
London Daily Mail complains that the
American commercial traveler is indus
triously selling while the English soldier
is shooting. The rand is full of Amer
ican mining machinery; all the chief en
• gineers are Americans and will not tol
erate any but American tools and ■ ma
chines; the hardware ':. and implement
stores are supplied almost r xclusively from
the United States, . and wherever the
American manufacturer competes with the
Englishman he wins, largely because of his
ability to do a "short order" business. / -
One merchant complained that plows or
dered In the United States would be re
ceived, sold and worn but before those
ordered in England would be at hand.
Comment is also made on the courtesy,
obliging qualities and adaptability of the
Americans to the demands of their cus
tomers.
To add to the gloominess of the view,
from an Englishman's standpoint, it is be
lieved that a large part of the very gold
mines which were the primary cause of the
war have been graduallly bought up by
Americans and are about to be united in a
syndicate or trust.
While there has been a special effort
to gain the South African market, which
has led to artraordinary efforts to please
and comply wltk conditions of that market
there is no occasion for Americans to pat
themselves in reward for their own clever
ness. The consular reports, which are so
valuable in stimulating trade, abound with
complaints of the failure of the Amer
ican manufacturer to succeed in many
markets, especially South America, because
he does not make his goods to suit the de
mands of the people, because he does not
study them and does not adjust his busi
ness methods to those of the people he
would sell to.
The St. Paul Dispatch wails over Min
neapolis' "wicked" figures. Then the
Dispatch consoles itself thus: Five-sixths
of St. Paul's business is greater than half
of Minneapolis' business. Whereat the
Dispatch sounds the loud timbrel, hits
the bass drum and likewise the snare.
The Pioneer Press will hereafter treat
the assumptions of correspondents as if
they were gold bricks. It recalls to-dey
that it said yesterday at the end of its
amusing slip on the street railway situa
tion, "the first thing to do Is to ascer
tain the facts." This advice was evidently
not intended for domestic consumption.
Amusing Professors
The real "end men" who perform for the
diversion and amusement of the great
American public in these first days of the
Twentieth century are the college pro
fessors. This thought is suggested by the
red>ivivus of Professor Triggs, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, who spoke a little
piece some months ago about Rockefeller
being the Shakspere of to-day. Yesterday
the professor discovered that the hymns of
Protestant churches are doggerel; in fact
he had doubts whether any Christian per
son could be a poet, it being the Triggs
idea that a little deviltry is necessary to
poetic creation and appreciation. The day
before it was Professor Starr, of the same
university, with his collection of imita
tions of six-toed Pete from Walla Walla,
all home products of Chicago, who held
the stage. • '
An American doctor residing in Paris
has discovered a new disease. Thus are j
our hopes crushed. No sooner"" do the .
doctors discover a cure for some old dis- J
ease than they add a new one to the list.
Professor Triggs says Protestant hymns
are doggerel and Sunday school literature
worse than dime novels. If the professor
doesn't look out, being in a Baptist insti
tution, he will furnish another illustra
tion of just what academic freedom is
not.
Minneapolis' own Pliny McAllister has
been plagiarized. A man named Minahan [
j down in Columbus, Ohio, is posing as the
original and only genuine antitreat agi- |
i tator and organizer. The Commercial
Club should call a special meeting.
Morgan's "community."
Pierpont Morgan has shown good judg
ment in the selection of the gentlemen
he has nominated for election to the
Northern Pacific directorate. His action j
indicates that there will be harmony be- j
tween the gigantic railway interests from J
the Atlantic to the Pacific, each of the I
great lines including the arrangement j
having such substantial interest in the
other that "community of interest" will
be permanent and all differences will be '
submitted to a referee, who will be W. j
i K. Vanderbilt.
Mr. Morgan believes he has secured
J permanent harmony. Perhaps he has and (
i perhaps he has not.
There has been a deal said about the
monopolistic element in these consolida
tions, yet they have been the result of
the clause in the interstate commerce law
which forbids pooling even under gov
ernment supervision. Consolidation is I
the only way by which to modify the ter- j
rors of destructive rate cutting. The j
public regard the Morgan consolidation i
of transcontinental roads as pointing to
exorbitant rates, but the interstate com- .
merce commerce commission can effect ;
some reduction of unfair rates, if it has i
not been able to stop secret rebates, i
Whatever may be the course of the Mor
gan railway control with respect to rates,
there will be no diminution of the out- j
cry against overcapitalization and charges
of hostility toward public interests and
no cessation of the demand by the social
istic element for government owner
ship, which is entirely undesirable. Gov
ernment regulation is preferable, after the
manner of the national banks. One of
the best suggestions as to the form of
federal regulation of railways and other
corporations has been made by the Brook
lyn Eagle, as follows:
A national officer or a national commis
sioner with the power over such corpora
tions possessed by the controller of the cur
rency, through the treasury -department, over
national banks, could 'be provided by law.
That law could require that every dollar of
capital stock of such corporations should be
or represent an actual dollar of value. That
would squeeze ail the water out of inflated
stock and would make the capital truth in
stead of a lie; fact instead of fiction. Every
thing that ought to survive would survive.
What -couM not «hould not survive tiat
process. The government could wind up a
fraudulent or mismanaged carrying or manu
facturing corporation, affected by a relation
to commerce, just as it does a national bank
in similar case. The method would arrest
.no legitimate multiplication or combination
in interests. The method would avoid gov
ernment ownership and interference with
the genius of private management. The
method should quiet all clamor and alarm,
for it would cure the causes of clamor and
alarm. It should base the corporation and
■combination system on foundations as strong
and solvent as those which underlie the na
tional banking system, wnlch is an almost
automatic insurance of safety and honesty.
The railways have suffered greatly and
bankrupted themselves in many instances
by big issues of common stock with noth
ing substantial back of It. They and
industrial corporations may be held con
stitutionally to accountability. The pub
lic can be protected against that much
talked-of beast, the octopus, whether he
travels on wheels or runs a stationary
engine and machinery.
It is often said of a man enjoying a
sinecure that he has nothing to do but
draw his salary. A man was prostrated
by heat in Minneapolis the other day
while doim; that very thing.
The Montreal Herald stale a poem from
the New York Sun; the latter copied it
from the Herald with credit. The grief
of the Sun is unutterable.
It is hard to believe that the steel
manufacturers and their employes will
emulate the insensate folly of the great
deadlock fi Sngland between the en
gineering firms and their employes, a
struggle which g^ave to the United States
the needed opportunity to demonstrate
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOUBNAE.
what its manufacturers could do. While
American capital and labor quarrel over
the division of the proceeds of their busi
ness, the Europeans may rally and take
the business.
No; It wasn't Judge McGee that com
plained so violently before the lowa bar
association of the prevalence of perjury
in American courts.
That Chinese "Settlement"
The news from Peking gives no en
couragement to believe that the powers
are approaching any settlement which
will settle anything. The self abnegation
of Japan in not insisting upon her de
mand for additional indemnity of $4,000,
--000 in order to prevent a prolongation of
the, hitch, is not so very virtuous when
the enormous amount of loot her soldiers
indulged in last year is taken into con
sideration. They quietly appropriated
values larger than the amount of the in
demnity claim relinquished. It is in
teresting to inquire what the powers have
settled after eight months of negotiation
with that wily old diplomat, Li Hung
Chang. The net result is not very prom
ising.
The powers are withdrawing the great
er portion of their forces and have handed
the policing of Peking back to the Chi
nese authorities, the result being the res
toration of the flagrant disorders which
obtained under the imperial regime. No
settlement has been made as to the
method of raising the money to pay the
indemnity and no adequate security for
its payment has been agreed upon. It has
been proposed to increase the customs
duties from 5 to 10 per cent, but the
proposition has not been adopted.
Neither has agreement been reached a»
to the proposition for each nation to set
tle its own claim by taking Chinese bonds
of long term and selling them for what
they will bring in the open market. That
means selling at a loss, and that is the
reason Japan demanded that her propor
tion of the bonds might be increased.
Russia put in a veto to this unless her
own big claim is increased. There is
talk of an international commission to
sit at Peking and advise the powers when
j there is any irregularity in the payment"
of interest or principal. Our government
| naturally prefers that the customs duties
shall stand at 5 per cent ad valorem in
stead of raising them to 10 per cent,
which, In gold, would amount to about
four times the amount of duties now col
lected, and that would be a hindrance to
our trade. It is possible that the question
of abolishing the liking or internal in
terprovincial tax may be considered.
There is yet to be considered among other
questions, that of new commercial treaties
which will open all the ports of China to
! foreign trade instead of twenty-nine, as
!at present. It is noticeable that the
I powers have left the chief instigators of
! the assaults on the legations and for
eigners generally unpunished. The
bloody Prince Tuan is now organizing a
large army to exterminate foreigners and
the empress, partner in the guilt of Tuan,
contemplates the movement with serene
satisfaction. There are fresh reports
J about the mobilization of the Boxer and
other secret societies for insisting upon
I "China for the Chinese," and the with
i drawal of the allied army will be the sig
i nal for the reactionaries to carry out
their program. Russia has taken steps to
make good her hold on Manchuria and
I France is pursuing her policy of encroach
j ment on the Tonkin side. It ought to be
j remembered that, whether the reaction
-1 aries or the so-called progressives in China
control that country, the foreigner will
not be desired as a habitant. That lead
ing progressive Viceroy Chang-Chih-
Tung, in his "China's Only Hope,"
calls for the adoption of all use
useful western processes and inven
tions, especially a modern army and
navy and railways, and, when in a de
-1 fensive condition in the modern sense,
I Chang would give the foreigner the dead
; cut and push things to make his country
■ a power with which no western power will
dare to meddle. He save if China does
; not make this change, "the foreigners will
| suck our blood, and, worse than ttiis,
j pare the flesh from our bones." The
Chinese liberal is about as inimical
toward foreigners as is the reactionary.
! The antiforeign spirit has increased
greatly among all classes since the powerg
have been dictating at Peking.
Promotion for the Deserving
Some young men are prone to com
plain of the "pull" which gives others
promotions and "softer snaps." Though
high officials of corporations, very natur
ally, often find good places for friends or
relatives the vast majority of the good
places go to those who earn them. Of
the 5,000 railway officials mentioned in the
.Railway Age's biographical dictionary
1,700 began as telegraph operators, clerks,
brakemen and shopmen. Places at the
heads of departments are filled by 166
men who were once brakemen; 62 by
men who began as firemen; 400 who began
as mechanics and 200 who entered rail
road work as laborers. The general of
fice end accounting departments were the
training places of 1,100 officials, 900 came
from the engineering department and
other clerical and subordinate positions
furnished 850.
In Good Condition
The controller of the currency, in an
Interview recently, called attention to
the fine showing of the national banks
under the working of the law of March
14 last, and contrasted it with the condi
tion of seven or eight years ago. In
1893 thirty-eight national banks went into
the hands of receivers, while only seven
banks have failed during the first six
months of this year, and in 1900 only
five banks went under.
The special benefit of the act of March
14 last is seen in the extension of bank
ing facilities, there having been 624
banks actually incorporated up to July 1
under it, with aggregate capital of $31,
--942,000, while there were pending July 1
applications for 160 more charters. The
incorporations under the new law are 429
banks with capital under $50,000 and 195
with capital of $50,000 and over.
The smaller banks incorporated are
chiefly in the west and northwest, while
one hundred banks have been^organized in
the southern states, where banking facili
ties were greatly needed. In Minnesota
twenty nationals, with less than $50,000
capital, hay* vt*een organized and two in
corporated, with $100,000 capital. The in
creased circulation secured by bonds ag
gregated more than $107,000,000, the new
law authorizing increase of circulation
from 90 per cent of the par value of the
bonds pledged to the full par value. Since
March 14 the total number of national
banks doing business increased from 3,617
MANY MEN WHO HAVE HAD TAILS
The Homo Caudatus or Tailed Man, Who Has Been Blest With
an Appendage Similar to That of His Brother Monkey.
St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Baltimore, Md.—There actually dwell on
earth to-day a tailed species of human beings,
according to Dr. R. Granvllle Harrison, as
sociate professor of anatomy, Johns Hopkins
university. Such a surprising announcement
from the faculty of this dignified and pro
found institution of learning ia calculated to
create a sensation.
"Homo caudatus" is what Dr. Harrison
calls this grotesque species. He says that a
real, live specimen was lately exhibited be
fore the Johns Hopkins hospital .medical so
ciety. It was a 6-months-old boy, born with
the superfluous appendage, which, according
to the doctor, "gave an impression not unliku
that of a pig's tail, a similarity noted in a
number of cases." The appendage was 4.4
centimeters long when the child was 2 weeks
old, but by the end of six months, when
amputated, had lengthened to 5 centimeters.
"It seemed advisable to remove it," added
the doctor, "not only to accede to the wishes
of the child's parents, who regarded its pres
ence with chagrin, but also on more practical
grounds. Its rate of growth was considerable,
and it did not seem unlikely that the ap
pendage might have later attained undue
proportions, causing, as has been reported
in several Instances, considerable inconveni
ence in sitting." Dr. Harrison has preserved
the amputated member in fluid.
From the United States five such cases
have been reported, to th_e doctor's knowl
edge. Prior to ISB4 116 authorities had re
corded observations of tailed men. Since then
twenty-two additional cases have come to
light The species appears to be widely dis
tributed.
As far back as the writings of Pliny and
Pausanias, Dr. Harrison finds references to
tailed men. Seventeen years ago a German
scientist published a map showing the various
lands supposed to have been, at one time or
another, the haunts of human races with
tails. These regions include not only widely
distant portions of South America, Asia and
Africa, but the greater part of western
Europe. The belief in such races has been
persistent and wide.
The tail is considered a distinction of the
highest degree, even a mark of divine de-
Bcent, in some of the ancient records to
which the doctor has referred. The Ranas
of Poorbunder, rulers of one of the Rajpoot
tribes of India, trace their descent, he says,
from their monkey-god, Hanuman, and con
firm this by the caudal appendages of their
princes, known »as "the long-tailed Ranas of
Saurashtra." Such an appendage has, on
the other hand, he relates, been looked upon
as a curse or a stigma of degradation by
some races. He finds record of a certain
community of tailed men in Turkestan. They
were held in contempt by other peoples,
and were therefore condemned to constant in
terbreeding. They were referred to as the
"Kuju rukly Tartar." The tail was cursed
by these people because It hindered the pos
sessor from sitting properly upon his horse.
Tailed races of human beings are sup
posed to have resided in nearly every coun
try, according to Doctors G. M. Gould and W.
L. Pyle, two well-known pathologists. The
persistence of "homo caudatus," even in pres
ent times, has given rise to discussion be
tween friends and opponents of the Dar
winian theory. By the former this queer
species is considered a reversion to a monkey
ancestor.
The great Darwin speaks of a person be
longing to this strange species. Virchow, the
great pathologist of Berlin, once studied a
boy of 8 weeks, from whom wa? amputated
a caudal appendage three inches long. Dr.
Oliver WendelJ Holmes, in the Atlantic
Monthly, June, 1890, states that he saw in
London the photograph of a boy similarly
afflicted. The chief physician of the Greek
army reports a recruit of 26 who had such an
adornment containing three vertebrae, and
mentions* other recruits with the same de
formities. A certain Dr. Miller studied a
West Point cadet belonging to the same cate
gory, and reports that "exercise at the riding
school always gave him great distress." A
to 4,178 with authorized capital from
$616,308,095 to ?647,CJ6,695 and circulation
increase from $216,374,795 to $323,890,724.
It would appear from these statistics,
which are undeniably significant, that
there is no real fear of national banks
among the American people. The senti
ment manufactured against the national
banking system in days of depressed busi
ness was due to the constant reminder by
the demagogues that the people who had
notes out usually paid them at the bank
and the bank was paraded as the synonym
of "oppression" and "robbery" by the
"capitalistic class." To excite distrust
of banks has always been a favorite po
litical method with the demagogues.
These gentlemen carefully encourage ig
norance on the part of the public, where
they find it exists, of the fact that a bank
performs and is intended to perform the
very essential service to the community
of concentrating private credits and mak
ing them available. The bank loans
credit and the community wants just that
thing.
The people of the south and west are
not complaiping of the increase of bank
ing facilities. They find that such in
crease has lowered the rate of interest
and discount in their several localities
where before it was difficult to get a
loan, and when it was obtained, a stiff
rate of interest had to be paid. The
theory that bankers are congenitally rob
bers and tyrants has weakened very
greatly during the past few years. Even
Bryan's stentorian denunciations of that
useful profession have wavered. He roars
now "gently as a sucking dove," and, as
for the Hon. C. A. Towne, erstwhile so
denunciatory of the banker, his voice is no
longer heard. He is allied with bankers
and others in the development of the oil
fields of Texas.
The state is waiting with much interest for
Larry Ho's poem on J. Heatwole, who
knocked him about fifty feet out of a govern
ment job. The poet is agonizing with "Eng
lish Bards and Scotch Reviewers" and is pro
paring to throw rocks, fits or anything else
he can put his hand to.
Grain experts who "ride out in their bug
gies" to look at the fields axe prepared to
report the prairie chickens very numerous
■until they notice the farmers slapping them
for mosquitoes.
Hot weather in London obliged the high
court judges to remove their ponderous wigs.
There are likely to be flies on bald-headed
Justice of that brand.
Last Sunday Duluth and New Orleans
showed up with the same temperature. About
Jan. 15 there is a difference that makes the
big lake smoke.
The Sultan of Turkey Is complaining of
prostration. He was completely worn out by
the American minister's method of bill col
lecting.
P. L. Smith was overcome by the heat yes
terday and was obliged to go in for one of
those heavy sodas with a Milwaukee collar
on it.
The Exalted Order of Soda Tanks meets
daily at the drug store to drown its sorrows
in the Sowing tumbler.
"""Utik fortune Superintendent Berry's horse
was not spared to know tfc* time it 1b taking
to 0^ .>n the bathhouses.
P. L. Brown was sonstruck yesterday. The
boy returned from a fisfcing trip and struck
his father for Jo.
Mr. Carnegie thr«w a hot library curve,
but Stillwater bit the ball plumb on the nose
and made first.
P. L. Jones, who suffered from the heat
yesterday, was relieved by an apoliinaris
lemonade.
There are signs of a thaw.
negro child born near Louisville, Ky., was
reported, when 8 weeks old, to have had a
"pedunculated tail, 2% Inches long and simi
lar in shape to that of a pig.
A wild man caught and tied^for execution
in Formosa had a tail more than a yard
long, and this member was exactly like that
of a red cow, according to one Struys, a
Dutch traveler, who wrote of his observa
tions in the seventeenth century.
The Nlam Niams, a Central African race,
are reported to have tails from two to ten
inches long. Hubsch, an Investigator of Con
stantinople, contends -that both men and
women of this tribe are so afflicted.
In Hibernia there were many people with
long tails, but they could not be approached
sufficiently for close study, according to Be
rengarius Carpensis in one of his commen
taries.
Here Is the additional testimony of a min
|i ister of the gospelr| Rev. ' George jßrown,; a
Wesleyan missionary, in 1876 reported 'j the
breeding ;of a tailed race of human being ! on
the island of Kali, off the coast of New Brit
ain." Tailless children of these people were
slain just after r birth to , deliver them from
exposure to ; public ■ ridicule. To be tailless
; was considered by the Hani - islanders to be
cursed. y '".? -**; '. " '■':'■■■' '■•;.. ".'■.''':'■?
• There really are tailed men of Borneo; but
| some authorities advance the theory; that
they are afflicted with hereditary malforma
tion, which would ' tend to add \ color to ; the
belief that j this relic jof a remote ancestor
can be transmitted. '■': -
A tailed race of princes have ruled Bajoo
pootana and are fond of their ancestral
mark," says one authority, writing of an
East Indian tribe. - .*
In the East Indies there is said to be &
tailed race of natives, the benches of whose
canoes are made with apertures to fit the
caudel appendage of each rower.. At one
time, according to | another authority, the
presence of tails in the orient was taken as
a sign of brute force.
i Emanuel Konlg, son of a doctor of laws,
had ! such anappendage "half ' a span long,
which 'grew directly downward, causing
much discomfort," according to one authori
ty. Emanuel was alive in 1690. His caudal
appendage was gracefully coiled. Blanchard,
a European naturalist, describes a like adorn
ment "fully ' a span :in length." § Dr. Thirk
of Broussa, in 1829, described a Kurd of 21
who had a posterior attachment containing
four vertebrae.;
Before the Berlin Anthropological Society
there were lately, exhibited two adult male
Papuans, "in good \ health and spirits,"
brought from New Guinea. i Each had a tail
containing bones. •'■- ■' - ; ,'
■ In Coehih China was found a boy of 12
years who had a tail a foot long. He was
known as "the Moi boy," and was studied
by scientists. Dr. Bartels, a German pathol
ogist, : describes \ twenty-five human beings
with various caudal appendages.
Granting that the ' evolutionists are r'ght
in their r theory that the occurrence of the
tail in man is a reversion to our lower an
cestors, such an unwieldy inheritance can
not be laid to the door of Father Ape. Grand
father monkey must be to blame. This was
well set forth by Dr. Theodore Gill, the
noted biologist, in the course of a conversa
tion with the writer.
"It is curious," : said he, "that the tail
should be so generally associated with the
ape. The fact is that the larger apes have
even less of a tail than man, and if we ranked
ourselves by J the tail alone, we would have
to take a place second to that of tbs apes,
who ; would enjoy ,the, first. We have four
caudal, vtrtfibrae., \ The corresponding verte
brae of the apes are broader and less de
fined as tail. pieces than.those of men."
But _ whatever 'disadvantages and embar
rassments "homo caudatus" may suffer, we.
in : these giorlr.us summer days, when all
rature Is up and doing, may envy those of
his - species who are able jto protect them
selves Irom our kinsmen, the fly and mos
quito." ...
AMUSEMENTS
- .. Foyer Chat. -
. Cooler climatic conditions, i combined with
prospect of seeing a strong: play j well acted
by the Pike theater company, drew two
large audiences to the Metropolitan yester
day. The play lis ■- well : mounted and .'cos
tumed . and ; has wen received ■•- with .more
enthusiastic demonstrations of approval than
any j play so far given by the Pike company.
It • will run .through the remainder of the
week, with' matinee Saturday. ' . •
"Under Two Flags,", Ouida's delightfully
interesting romance, will be given in its
dramatic form all. next week, beginning Sun
day j night, at the Metropolitan, .'by j the Pike
theater company. : This play was presented
at the Garden theater, New York, during the
regular winter season and scored one of the
greatest triumph •of the year. The dram
atization follows til's lines of the book
closely and retains- much of its fascinating
atmosphere. The great sand storm scene
will 'be reproduced on an elaborate scale.
■ THE BEST STORY
/£•*',. New Orleans Timet-Democrat. ■;%'?
"Probably the most popular story told dur
,lng- the , recent reunion at Memphis," re
marked an old Confederate soldier,. "was one
which related to a conversation between
Grant and a private soldier, and, while it has
been told often j before, . it was received with
a good-natured and, I may say, patriotic rel
ish by every man who heard it. ; But few of
my old comrades failed to hear j it, and but
few of them failed to :, repeat It / Really, the
story is an interesting combination of fact
and j fiction, and this ;is probably .why it was
so ; popular with the j old soldiers. Of course,
there was no rancor, no bitterness in the tell
ing of the tale, but the fact that it brought in
three of tha most prominent characters of the
war j and gave the Confederates the best of a
well-rounded point caused the old fellows to
split their sides when they heard it, and i made
them anxious- •to repeat it. Grant ran into a
private;in tbe Confederate ranks on one occa
sion, and the private called: "General," where
are you going?' 'To Petersburg, I think, but
maybe to heaven or to hell,' the general re
plied. [■' 'Well,|l will tell you, general,' the
soldier said dryly, 'Bob 'Lee is at Petersburg,
and Stonewall Jackson is in heaven.:, Hell is
the only place: left ; for you.' : Grant enjoyed
the thrust, as grim as it was, and after peace
had been restored he was often delighted jby
telling it, and always referred to it as one of
the pleasantries. of war between 1 the states.
But he never got any more rpleasure out .of
it than the old'soldiers did at the reunion at
Memphis." ■ : -• •
RUSSIAN JOURNALISM
Dec. 29, 1902, will complete 200 years since
Peter the Great sanctioned the appearance
of the first Russian newspaper, and the Bib
liographical Society of Moscow proposes to
celebrate the anniversary by issuing an edi
tion de luxe volume containing a list of all
the Russian newspapers published during the
two centuries, with portraits of the more dis
tinguished journalists. The proceeds are to
be applied to a fund for the relief of journal
ists in need.
Additional Proof.
Boston Herald.
Now that a colored girl has carried off the
Lonors of the Denver, Col., manual training
school, some of the southern statesmen who
are seeking to keep the negroes "where they
belong," will be more than ever convinced
that it is dangerous to give the blacks too
much education.
He* Down Now.
Indianapolis Journal.
The repulsive thing about the passing of
Mr. Bryan is the spectacle of men who
courted his smiles a year ago now dancing
in glee upon his prostrate form.
Vienna Kltchenerized.
Chicago Post.
"I regrret to report" habit has reached
Vienna, as the leading paper there announces
"that the difficulties of organizing an effective
European customs league against the United
States are insuperable."
Not a Democratic Item.
Towa State Register.
This Missouri Pacific railroad has Just voted
a dividend, the first paid by the road since,
IS9I. This is not & democratic news item.
THUKSDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1901.
REDHORN
by Cbarles LC< Tdy 1 o_r
Copyright, 1901, by A. S. Richardson.
Redhorn was a tough town. Half a dozen
"terrors" among its highly picturesque popu
lation stood ready to shoot at the drop of the
hat, and as many more professional blacklegs
and gamblers were handy with their guns.
It was a dull day when a killing was not re
ported, and an off week that did not chronicle
a lynching.
Redhorn accepted strangers on probation
That is, the new man was given twenty-four
hours in which to show that he could drink,
fight and lose his outfit at faro without tak
ing it to heart. If he did not affiliate with
'"the gang," he received a notice somewhat
to this effect:
"See yere, you pious-souled, psalm-singing,
knock-kneed jackrabbit of a critter, this ain't
your town, and you'd better move on if you
don't want to be planted up thar on the hili
among the snakes. You've got two hours to
kiss your mother good-bye and git."
At long intervals a tenderfoot —a man so
fresh from the states that he still used a
toothbrush and a cake of soap, and who had
never knifed a fellow being—showed up at
Redhorn and was struck dumb at its wicked
ness. If he was simply "going somewhere,"
he was permitted to remain long enough to
refresh the Inner man, and then was sternly
ordered on. Redhorn preferred to assimilate
citizens of its own selection.
One morning the cry was passed along the
line, "Tenderfoot in town," and the gang
sauntered up street to size up the latest ar
rival from civilization.
He sat on the steps of Oriental Hotel, a
womanish chap with a smooth face and hon
est blue eyes that scanned the crowd of
toughs unflinchingly, almost humorously. He
smoked placidly for a minute or two, then,
removing his pipe, inquired quietly: "Any
thing I can do for you, gentlemen?"
The gang, collectively and individually,
snorted, and the fun commenced. They
moved down on the newcomer and shot the
pipe from his mouth, the hat oft* his head and
the heels off his boots. They had expected to
see him slide oft the stepe and break for the
hillside when the first bullet whistled through
his hair, but he didn't move. He sat there
until the fusillade had ceased and the jokers
were wondering whether he was not an old
band in disguise, and then quietly said:
"Much obliged for your welcome; it's as good
as bringing out a brass band."
The crowd held a brief consultation. It
was agreed that he had nerve, but that he
would never make a bad man — not bad
enough to become an eminent citizen of Re.l
horn. Jim Kelso acted as spokesman, and
Ms sincerity could not be doubted.
"I hear you," replied the tenderfoot, when
Jim paused, then he dropped his chin on his
hands and stared at a distant mountain peak,
apparently oblivious to his surroundings.
It was not until the hour of grace had gone
by and a crowd gathered again that he awoke
and looked about him.
"You can't say that we didn't give you a
fair deal," observed Joe Lobdell, the gam
bler, as he came forward with a noosed rope
in his hands. "You had an hour in which to
git, and as you didn't go we conclude that
you want to be planted here. If you've any
farewell words to shoot off you might give
'em to us."
Daily New York Letter
BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL,
, No. 21 Park Row, New York.
A Pool-house Sage.
July 18.—A new millionaire may loom up
shortly on the horizon. The new luminary
will be William .Mongrief ex-pauper and in
mate of the poorhouse on Blackwell's Island.
This prediction is based on the assumption
that any man who can make money in the
poorhouse^ought to able to amass a fortune
with lightning rapi<jjjy with the whole world
as his field of operation. Mr. Mongrief was
up to a few days ago one of the commiser
ated inmates of the almshouse. He was not
entitled to commiseration, however, for dur
ing the few months he was the guest of that
institution there was not a cent of money or
anything else of value that the other in
mates possessed which did not surely gravi
tate into Mr. Mongrief's exchequer. He was
the Russell Sage of the institution, buying
and selling pauper commodities on exclu
sively Sagellish principles. His purchases
were made at the lowest pauper price; he
sold at extortionate figure's. In a short while
his pile of money and pauper wares grew to
such an extent that there was no article an
inmate might desire which could not be se
cured from him. At last the superintendent
"got on to him," and it was found that, in
addition to his stock of goods, he had actu
ally amassed $300 in cash. Very naturally
the superintendent objected to housing and
feeding gratuitously a Croesus of such mon
olithic proportions, and poor Mongrief wa3
turned out into the hot, hot world. In view
of his past record, however, he is early ex
pected to burst forth into the firmament of
millionaires.
The Stamp Trust.
Nothing is safe from the trusts. The latest
accession to the ranks of the octopus is the
"stamp trust," a combination of local phi
latelists who claim they have been obliged
to combine in order to keep their heads
above water. The "trust," which has just
been financed by a local trust company, is
known as the American Collectors' company,
and though, as a corporation, it was organ
ized some years ago, with a capital of $50,000,
the exigencies of competition have necessi
Use of the Gem-Snipper in Philadelphia
Philadelphia Record.
"Jack the Gem Snipper" has been at work
on Chestnut street during the past week.
With a pair of snippers or pinchers smaJJ
enough to be held and hidden at the same
1_
■■■ ■-.■ . ... ._■. - ; v.. .. \f
Showing "Jack the Gem Snipper" trying to
cut a diamond off an earring.
time in the hand, this dangerous robber
snips off a diamond and its setting, whether
worn on the owner's finger or in the ear.
So deftly does the expert snipper work that
the victim is not aware of the robbery while
it is being committed.
The snipper made one miss during the past
week, however, due either to his own clum
siness or to the fact that he did not calcu
late on the movements of the woman he had
selected for his prey. It is more probable
that a sudden turn by the victim at the most
important stage of the snipping, which
warned the latter of her danger, was re
sponsible for the man's failure, as it is to
be supposed that only an expert would dare
undertake such a job.
It was during the time of day that Chest
nut street was crowded with shoppers and
promenaders Vhen Jack made the attempt
that failed. Among the shoppers was the
wife of a prominent resident of Spruce street,
above Broad. Though the intended victim's
husband reported the case to the police, be
"I'm going to see how many real men there
are in Redhorn," replied the'stranger as he
stood up. "You are 300 to one, and every one
of you has a gun, and you've turned out thi3
morning to do a brave thing. As I was
tramping over here from Hunt's Valley I
heard that the Apaches were loose again and
headed this way. At Beaver Bend I came
across a settler's family camped out in the
wagon. The man baa a broken leg, and his
wife and four children are almost helpless.
I'm giving you straight talk when I tell you
that I walked all night to get here and head
a crowd back to Bave that outfit. They'll be
meat for the Apaches and wolves before this
hour to-morrow unless some of you will go
with me to bring 'em in. Hew many of you
can 1 count oa?"
Not a voice answered. The Apaches had
raided down close to Redhorn three or four
times, but the soldiers had always been sent
for to drive them back.
"Mighty brave about turning out to a pic
nic," smiled the stranger, "but don't «eem
to want to,run Into any danger. Ar» there
ten men here who will follow me?"
No one replied.
"Well, I'll take five, then."
"Isn't there one single man in Redhorn
with grit enough to go back with me to that
defenseless outfit?' continued the tenderfoot.
"Say-, boys," said the gambler leader, a
sickly smile on his face, 'it looks as if we
were short of sand in this town. I'm not
hankering after Apaches, but I've got a Win
chester and 300 cartridges, and If any galoot
wants to become a hero I'll lend him the out
fit."
Not a man took advantage of the offer. The
crowd growled, muttered and dissolved, and
only half a dozen were left when Joe Lob
dell continued:
"Look here, tenderfoot, you've thrown Red
horn down, and thrown it hard, but for one 1
don't bear no grudge. I see you're deter
mined on going back to the settler, and durn
me 1* I want to see you go with only a club
in your hands. TaJte my outfit, and If you
never bring It back I shan't have a word to
say, but we prefer to die with our scalps on.
We don't warm up on the Injun business
worth a cent. Hold on a minute while I bring
you the rifle."
The Winchester was no sooner in the ten
derfoot's hands than he started back over th*
trail without a word to any man or a look
behind him, and Redborn caw no more of him
for four days. Then the settler and his fam
ily were brought in by the soldiers, and in an
ambulance was the body of the tenderfoot,
riddled with bullets.
"You want to know how it was?" said tie
settler's wife as a crowd gathered. "Well, all
I can tell you is that he reached us two hours
before the Apaches did, and we had a bit of
time to get ready in. For two days he stood
off tljirty warriors single-handed, and was
wounded a dozen times. He had fired his last
bullet when the soldiers came up. He was a
man, he was."
"And Redhorn will give him a burial, and
turn out to the last man," exclaimed Lobdell,
the gambler, reverently touching his Win
chester, which had seen such valiant service.
"Excuse me, gentlemen," replied the cap
tain in command of the soldiers. "We shall
take him down to the valley and give him a
soldier's burial. He'd turn over In his grave
here among so many cowards."
tated an increase to $450,000. Under the pres
ent regime competition of any consequence
is eliminated, for, alcng with the increase
in capitalization, the Collectors' company
swallowed bodily the Scott Stamp and Coin
company of this city and the New England
Stamp company of Boston. Henry L. Cai
man, who conducted the Scott company, is
said to have received a check for $50,000 and
a large block of stock in the new company
for the surrender of his interests. Some
time ago the Collectors' company purchased
a valuable stock of rare stamps which once
belonged to R. F. Albrecht, and it later ac
quired possesssion of a valuable collection
from William Brown of this city. But the
tour de force just accomplished has set
philatelic circles "guessing." The other
small dealers of New York are now specu
lating as to whether or not they are to suc
cumb to the fate common to "email fry"
under the circumstances.
Elevated Courtesy.
To the thousands of people who daily maka
use of the elevated expresses to and from
their places of business, many interesting
little incidents occur that display human
nature in numbers of curious aspeots. At
all the stations but the last at which the
expresses stop, for instance, one will db
serve the usual wild scramble for seats. The
men push and Jostle each other in their
anxiety to get aboard. But at the last sta
tion, when all the seats are taken, the man
ners of the passengers change. There is lit
tle of the mad effort to get aboard, and it
frequently needs the yelling and pushing
of the guards to get them on at all. Each
man courteously waves his neighbor on to
the platform. Ostensibly courtesy haa sud
denly supplanted boorishness, for eaco
seems reluctant to precede the other. The
illusion fades, however, when it is discov
ered that the last aboard has the choice
stand on the platform, free from the whirl
wind of cinders that besets the others, and
where he has room to read his morning
paper without interruption from passengers
getting on and off the cars at stations be
low Fourteenth street.
-N. N. A
requested that his wife's name be kept from
the public. The woman was standing with a
group at a store window, between Tenth and
Eleventh stheets, when she became aware
of a Jerk at one of her fingers. She turned
quickly enough to see a pair of pincers re
leased from the diamond setting of one her
rings.
As quick as a flash the man who held the
snippers disappeared in the crowd and was
out of sight before the woman, who was
some time recovering from her surprise, could
give an alarm. In his efforts to get the dla-
'• > .<"'\J
Snippers or pincers used by the thief. Th«
dotted lines outlining the bag they arc
hidden in.
mond the thief broke off a piece of the stone
and Injured the setting. The woman got a
good look at the man as he turned away, and
in making a complaint to the police, fur
nished an excellent description of the thief.
It was admitted at the detective bureau
that several attempts of the kind had been
made in the crowdad streets recently, and
that a hunt was being made for the man.
"I am surprised," said Captain Miller, "that
this old-style method is being employed
again. A score or so of years ago the snip
pers were in common use, but nowadays
they are regarded as only curios in collec
tions of thieves' implements. The instru
ment Is certainly a dangerous one in the
hands of an expert, even In this day. When
policemen are to be found at every corner.
So carefully does the thief work that the
robbed one is not given the least chance to
suspect anything wrong."
The snippers, of which a drawing Is here
shown, are of steel and just large enough to
at the closed hand. To hide them the more
effectively they are usually covered .with a
bag of dark cloth, only the snipping end
being exposed. As shown In the illustra
tion, the pincers are hollow inside, so that
when a diamond is snipped off it falls Into
a safe place inside the pincers. The police
all along the crowded streets have been in
structed to keep a sharp lookout for "Jack
Use Q«m Snipper-"
