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TRADE DEMORALIZED
Vicious Competition in
Korea by Merchants
of Japan.
NO AMERICAN BANKERS.
Commerce of the United
States Falling Behind
in the Orient.
FORMOSA'S CHAOTIC CONDITION.
During a Conflagration Ninety
Chinese Are Killed by a
Magazine Explosion.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6.— Co
nsul-General Gernigan at Shanghai has
sent to the State Department his obser
vations on the commerce between Japan
and China and Korea, which he says will
present new phases as a result of the
termination of hostilities. He says the
competition among Japanese merchants for
Korean trade is vicious and haa demor
alized trade.
Mr. Gernigan calls attention to the fact
that there is not in China or Japan a bank
ing institution conducted by American
capital. Great Britain, France and Ger
many have banks in China and Japan, he
says, and the meachants of these coun
tries are supported by the banking in
stitutions of their own countries, and they
have been dividing the profits of Asiatic
commerce.
American merchants in Asia are com
pelled to transact their business through
foreign banks. Not many years ago the
American interest was of first considera
tion at Shanghai and American commerce
whitened Asiatic seas. Now other nations
are pushing ahead, although geographic
ally the United States should dominate
and supply with the overproduction of
their fertile fields the markets of the
swarming millions of Asia.
The reported retirement of Mr. Matsu,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, from the Jap
anese Cabinet, has not been communi
cated to *he Japanese legation here. It is
stated that if Mr. Matsu has resigned it is
doubtless due to ill health^ as he suffered
from acute lung trouble, which was ag
gravated by the recent strain on his health
in effecting a settlement with China.
HONGKONG, China, June 6.— Advices
from Taipeh Fu, Formosa, describe affairs
in that town as being still in a chaotic
condition. The native quarter has been
burned. During the conflagration a maga
zine exploded and kilted ninety Chinese.
The German gunboat Itlis fired on the
Cninese forts at Hobe, presumably be
cause a merchant named Tang, and the
former President of the so-called republic
of Formo3a, was on hoard with a number
of refugee Chinese soldiers.
The forts were silenced by the fire of the
gunboat. Subsequently the merchant
steamer proceeded. The British cruiser
Rainbow left this morning for Tamsui.
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WORK
Secretary Smith Approves
Plans for the Next Fiscal
Year.
Investigations of Great Value to
Be Made In the East
and West.
WASHINGTON, D. C. June 6.—Secre
tary Smith has approved the plan of opera
tions for the coming fiscal year submitted
to him by Director Wolcott of the geo
logical survey.
In the E.ocky Mountain region the Aspen
mines of Colorado will be studied and a
preliminary survey made of the mining
regions of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado,
Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.
This will cost $7000.
In the Pacific Coast region J. S. Diller
will use $4000 on the coal and gold mines
of Oregon. Three parties will have $8000
to use in California. Eighteen hundred
dollars is allotted to keep up the petro
graphic laboratory, $8000 for coal investi
gations in Washington and $9500 for work
in the goidrields of Alaska.
In the division of hydrography there will
be two parties — one in the East and an
other in the West — having respectively
$2800 and $1000 to expend. The work con
sists of gauging streams and examining
the water resource* of the country. In the
mining-resource district a register of all
the mines in the country will be made and
the work of mapping the mineral deposits
will be begun.
For topographical work the Atlantic re
gion is allowed $40,000 and the Central
Rocky Mountain and the Pacific regions
$30,000 each. In the surveyine department
preliminary triangulations will be made in
Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Indian
Territory.
IMSPECIEIi BY MATTHEWS,
The Commodore Flensed With the Work
at Coast Xavy- Yards.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 6.—Com
modore Matthews, chief of the bureau of
yards and docks of the Navy Department,
returned toWashington to-day,having been
absent a month inspecting the navy-yards
and docks in the South and West. Com
modore Matthews went to Mare Island,
Cal., especially to see if the dock at that
place could be enlarged so as to accommo
date the heavy warships of the navy. This
could be done if the appropriation was
now available. The money, however, can
not be used until July 1, and probably the
work of enlarging the dock will be com
menced soon after that date.
Mr. Matthews thinks there should be a
large wooden dock built at Mare Island to
accommodate the United States fleets in
the Pacific. The commodore visited the
new Pnget Sound dock and was much
pleased with the manner in which work
was progressing and expects the dock to
be completed in September.
ADDITIOXAL IXDIAIt POLICE.
Captain Beck to Proceed With the Evic-
tion of Settlers.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 6.-The In
terior Department has granted fifty addi
tional Indian police, to Captain Beck,
U. 8. A., acting Indian agent at the Osage
and Winnebago reservation in Nebraska,
and has requested the War Department to
furnish the necessary arms and ammuni
tion to arm them. The increase is to en
able Captain Beck to evict the illegal set
tlers on the reservation, who claim title
under the Flournoy Land Company, and is
in line with the recent suggestion of the
War Department.
PRESIDENTIAL, APPOINTMENTS.
William J. Coombs to Be Government
Director of the Union Pacific.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 6. — The
President to-day appointed William H.
Hugh of Ohio as Auditor of the treasury
for the Navy Department, to succeed C. B.
Morton of Montana, who was removed yes
terday. Edward A. Bowers of the District
of Columbia, now Assistant Commissioner-
General of the Land Office, is to be As
sistant Comptroller of the treasury to suc
ceed Mansur of Missouri, deceased.
William J. Coombs of New York to be
Government Director of the Union Pacific
Railway vice Don M. Dickinson. Mr.
Coombs is an ex-member of Congress, and
for two terms represented one of the
Brooklyn districts.
The President also made the following
appointments in the several marine ser
vices: To be second lieutenants: Alexan
der H. Hasson, Colin S. Craig, Claud S.
Cochran, Samuel B. Winegan Jr.. James
G. Ballinger, Charles E. Johnston, Ed
ward V. Johnson, Samuel P. Edwards,
John G. Berry, Francis A. Lewis.
To be chief engineers : David JVlcFrench,
Frank A. Randall, Horace A. "Whitcomb,
Wesley J. Phillips, Charles W. Monroe,
Frederick E. Owen.
To be first assistant chief engineers:
Charles A. McAllister, John B. Coyle,
George B. Maher, Denis F. Brown.
RULING FOR PENSIONERS
Decision as to the Date of the
Termination of the
Civil War.
Questions as to Whether Enlist
ments Were Made for the Vol
unteer or Regular Army.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 6.-Another
decision has been rendered by Assistant
Secretary Reynolds bearing on the question
of the date of the termination of the civil
war and the pensionable rights of soldiers
enlisting in 1865 and 1864. The conclusion
reached by Mr. Reynolds is that in all
these cases the question to be ascertained
is whether the enlistment of the soldier
was for service in the war of the rebellion
or for the regular army. If the former he
is pensionable and if the latter he is not.
Mr. Reynolds cites the varions orders sus
pending enlistments for the war and those
ordering the commencement of enlist
ments for the regular army. He says:
"As to these volunteer enlistments in the
regular army after the cessation of armed
hostilities, it cannot be truthfully eaid that
their enlistment was for the war of the
rebellion."
In reference to the decision of the Su
preme Court assigning August 20. 1866, as
the end of the war, he says: "The rea
sons, however, which would admit of this
holding, where the right of the parties in
the cases involved might be affected by
the running of a statute of limitations,
cannot be accepted to establish the date
of termination of the war of the rebellion
where the questions involved are whether
an enlistment was in fact for the war of
the rebellion and the service performed
thereunder in furtherance of its suppres
sion."
The Assistant Secretary, therefore, holds
that enlistments in the loyal State* after
April 13, IS65 — when recruiting in them
ceased — will not be deemed enlistments in
or for the war of the rebellion.
In the other States, Territories and the
District of Columbia June 1, 1865, will be
taken as the final date, as enlistments then
ceased in those parts of the country, and
July 1, 1865, when the blockade of the
Southern ports -was raised, will be taken as
the final date of war enlistments for the
navy.
KILLED Ilf THE RUSH.
A Bad Boomer Returns With the Bodies
of His Wife and Child.
GUTHRIE, O. T., June 6.— A sad sequel
to the wild rush into tne Kickapoo reserva
tion was viewed in this city yesterday,
when a man named Valchester, from
Southwestern Kansas, drove through the
city en route to his old home, having in
his wagon a coffin containing the body of
his wife and five-year old child, who were
both killed in the rush for claims at the
recent opening. In the first wild dash
Valchester's wagon struck a stone and was
partly overturned, throwing out the wife
and little one, who were trampled to death
by a score or more horses.
Of Interest to the Coast.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 6.-En
sign Hurlburt has been detached from the
naval academy and ordered to the Mo
hican, and Ensign D. W. Wills from the
naval academy to the Thetis.
Pensions have been granted as follows:
California: Original— Allen Wilson, ix»s
Angeles; original, widows, etc.— Matilda J.
Tracy, Lodi; Virginia Milne, Healdsburg.
Washington: Increase — Joseph Cassin,
Everett: John R. King, Snohomish.
Given a Medal of Honor.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 6.— The
War Department has granted a medal of
honor to Captain Clinton A. Cilly, of the
Second Minnesota Volunteer Infantry,
now a regiment of Hickory, N. C. On
September 20, 1863, on the field of Chicka
mauga, Captain Cilly saw a regiment not
his own leaving the line of battle. He
dashed after it, seized the colors and rode
back into battle, followed by the regiment,
which afterward did effective work.
Thrown From Bis Horse.
NEW YORK, N. V., June 6.— Robert
Stuart, president of the American Ex
change National Bank, was thrown from
his horse in Washington Park to-day. His
scull was fractured. He is still uncon
scious, but the doctors are hopeful of his
recovery.
Pardoned by the President.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 6. — The
President has granted eight pardons to
day. Among those pardoned was Arthur
W. Wilbanks, convicted in California of
forging United States postal money orders
and sentenced on February 21, 1894, to two
years' imprisonment.
Charter of a Whalebaek.
NEW YORK, N. V., June 6.— The Pan
ama Raiiroad has chartered the new whale
back steamer, City of Everett, to carry
freight between Panama and San Fran
cisco.
Condition of the Treasury.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 6.-To-day's
statement of the condition of the treasury
shows : Available cash balance, $183,245 566 :
gold reserve, $99,389,169. '
Burned to the Ground.
WAKSAW, N. V., June 6.— The Crystal
Company's works at Saltville were burned
to the ground early this morning; loss,
$100,000; probably two-thirds insured.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1895.
SPAIN IS PROTESTING
Objects to the Work
of the Alleged Fil
ibusters.
SYMPATHY FOR CUBANS.
I
United States Vessels Are Sus
pected of Carrying Men
and Arms.
JOHN BTTLL'S LITTLE GROWL.
An English Paper Says Uncle Sam
Should Not Assist the
Rebels.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 6.-Mr. De
Lome, the Spanish Minister to the United
States, has called the attention of the
State Department to allegations that fili
bustering expeditions against Spanish
authorities in Cuba are being fitted out in
the bayous of the lower Mississippi
River.
The communication also states that
armed citizens of some Southern States
often paraded with arms with a view to
joining some of these outgoing expeditions,
or at least to give active encouragement to
the Cuban insurrectionists. Some of the
statements made covered facts of which
the United States Government can take no
official notice, and were too meager for
political official action.
It is believed at the State Department
that there is little truth in the reports
which reach here from the South of the
fitting out of warlike expeditions for Cuba
but should it be shown that expeditions
are being organized which come within the
prohibitions of international law and our
treaties with Spain, there will be no delay
in bringing the parties concerned to
justice.
It is learned that the Spanish officials
are keeping a close watch on several sup
posed expeditionary movements for the
purpose of furnishing information on
which to request action by the United
States Government. One of the expedi
tions is believed to have started from
Philadelphia. The suspected ships it is
said at the Spanish legation are the George
Childs and the Bridgeport.
The Spanish officials connect the move
ment of these ships with suspicious opera
tions at Dauphin and Cat Island off the
mouth of the Mississippi. It is said these
movements are mainly the result of the
recent arrivals in the United States of Gen
eral Quesadafrom Venezuela, who brought
a considerable sum of money to aid the
Cubans, and another sympathizer who is
said to have brought $30,000.
JOHN BULL'S GROWL HEARD.
r.'ir Standard Says Spatn Will Mot Pay
for the Cuban Campaign.
LONDON, Eng., June 6.— The Standard
to-day contains an intimation to the effect
that when the insurrection in Cuba is
ended Spain will refuse to pay part of the
costs of suppressing it, adding:
"There is small pretenseof concealment
on the part of those going to Cuba from the
United States, and the authorities must be
cognizant of it. The country which
claimed and obtained damages from Eng
land on account of assistance given to the
South by armed vessels which were al
lowed this country should be the last to
allow men to leave her shores and insur
rect against Spain."
SPAIX'S REIJSFORCEMESTS.
Plenty of Troops to Be Sent to Crush the
Uprising.
MADRID, Spain, June 6.— Captain Mar
tinez de Campos has sent a cable message
to the Spanish Government announcing
that several insurgent leaders are expected
to effect a landing in Cuba, and owing to
fresh disturbances on the islands asks for
a reinforcement of six battalions of in
fantry. \ The Cabinet decided to send ten
more battalions to Cuba.
It is expected that in addition to the ten
battalions of infantry, another general will
be sent to assist Campos in suppressing
the insurrection in the island of Cuba.
The loan for the Cuban expedition will be
15,000,000 pesetas.
HAVANA, Cuba, June 6.— A dispatch
from Manzanillo, in the province of San
tiago de Cuba, announces the surrender to
the Spanish authorities there of the well
known insurgent leader Fonesca Santiste
bar Guevarra. The insurgents commanded
by Masso have burned the village of Guisa.
Captain Torres was captured by the insur
gents and shot.
READY FOR A. MASTERSTROKE.
Plans for a Grand filibustering Expe
dition to Cuba.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 6. — A
special to the Florida Citizen from Fer
nandina, Fla., says:
The masterstroke of the Cuban revolu
tionary movement in this country will oc
cur within three days.
The principal leaders of the party in the
United States gathered at Jacksonville two
days ago, but yesterday afternoon quietly
slipped over here, took carriages, and went
to Ocean Beach, where they stopped at the
Strathmore Hotel. From an adjoining
room the Citizen correspondent overheard
the whole of the deliberations, which be
gan at 8 f. m. and lasted until a late hour.
As appeared from the conversation moat
of the expeditions hitherto have gone from
San Domingo, but the board decided that
the next bold effort must be from the
United States coast Bouth of Charleston.
A fleet of light-draught vessels could go
unnoticed through Bahama channel and
then at night make short runs for the
northern coast of Cuba, where there are
many bays easy of access for an expedi
tion and poorly guarded.
The plans of the insurrectionists as far
as completed were as follows:
That as all plans for the carrying of the
insurrection in Cuba had heretofore
worked most satisfactorily, the eastern
part of the island had arisen, the western
half was ripe for rebellion, and the Span
ish army being unprepared, therefore had
come the time for a tremendous effort,
which would carry a great expedition
from the United States to Cuba.
The consulting boards decided that the
expedition should be mad* ready at once;
that it should sail from a point between
Brunswick, Ga., and Mayport, Fla. ; that
it should be commanded by Colonel En
rique Collao, the war-scarred veteran of
'68-78, and that the fleet should be
guarded by three newly built torpedo
boats of the latest pattern, of great speed
and manned by experienced seamen.
Lieutenant Tomas Collao Is to be the
staff officer, and Colonel Collao' s small
army is to be recruited from the Cubans in
the United States and picked Americans
from the Southern States.
Men already collected by Henry Brooks,
who is now in New York City, and who is
to accompany the expedition as a member
of Collao's staff, are also to be enrolled.
Collao is to land the expedition at some
point in Puerto Principe, where forces col
lected by Gomez and Marti will co-operate.
The expedition is to land in Cuba within
thirty days. In addition to this plan of
operation much general information was
given during the deliberations.
The province of Pinas Del Orras ha 3
arisen, and the insurgents have made more
progress in the present rising of three
months' duration than was made in
seven years, commencing in 1868.
It is believed that within a month
the whole of the island will be in
arms for the Cubans and that Captain-Gen
eral Martinez de Campos is exerting every
effort to be recalled to Madrid before the
arrival of the disaster which he believes is
sure to overwhelm the Spanish armies in
Cuba very soon.
FIXAXCEB OF JTJB WFO UXDZAXD.
Trouble Expected, in the Hypothecation
of Revenues. .
ST. JOHNS, N. P., June 6.— lt is re
ported that the principal clause in the
agreement for the loan which has been
granted Newfoundland through the efforts
of Colonial Secretary Bond, provides that
the bondholders shall have the first claim
on the revenues of the colony. It is pro-'
vided that a chartered accountant shall be
dispatched here to investigate the finances
and supervise the policy of retrenchment
as well as overlook all future . expendi
tures. The Government, it is said, may
have considerable difficulty in obtaining
the sanction of the imperial Government
in the policy of hypothecating the revenues
if these reports are true.
RAVAGES OF A CLOUJOBUSST.
Houses Swept Away and Many Persons
Drowned in Germany.
STUTTGART, Geemany, June 6.— There
was a tremendous cloudburst yesterday
evening over the Wurtemburg portion of
the Black Forest district, causing great
destruction of property. The River Eyach
overflowed, and many houses at Balingen,
Frommern, Dirrenwengen and Laufen
were swept away.
Ten persons were drowned at Balingen,
seven killed at Krommer and nine miss
ing. Seven were killed at Laufen.
Maedonald'e Statue Vnveiled.
MONTREAL, Canada, June 6.— The
greatest popular demonstration Montreal
has seen for years took place at the un
veiling of Sir John A. Macdonald's statue
this afternoon. It was the fourth anni
versary of his death. Lord and Lady Ab
erdeen and all the Dominion Ministers
were there, except Charles Hibbard Tup
per, leader of the opposition, and Hon.
Wilfred Laurier. All foreign powers were
represented.
BOMB-THROWER SCHXATTBELT.
Wounded During a Fracas and Said to
Be Hying.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, June 6.—
Fugitive Schnaubelt, alias Rindskopf, the
man who threw the bomb at the Chicago
II ay market riot, was badly wounded in a
fracas at Pinalajo. He will die.
Stnick th-e Britisher.
LONDON, En.., June 6.— The passen
gers of the steamer City of Paris are talk
ing of a row between Duncan B. Harrison
and a big Britisher named Woodward, on
the fifth night out from New York. Wood
ward, it appears, insulted Pauline Hall,
and when Harrison remonstrated, Wood
ward abused him and Americans gener
ally. Thereupon Harrison struck Wood
ward in the face. The latter appealed to
Captain Watkins to have the actor put in
chains. This the captain declined to do.
Bonds for the Syndicate.
LONDON, Eng., June 6.— William E.
Curtis, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
of the United States, and Chief Clerk
Logan Carlisle have been busy to-day at
Rothschilds' banking-house writing bonds
to be turned over to the syndicate. They
completed their work late this afternoon.
South Australia's Prosperity.
ADELAIDE. S. A., June 6. — At the
opening of Parliament to-day the Gover
nor, Sir Thomas Buxton, congratulated
the members upon the improving pros
pects of the colony of South Australia.
He added that the price of wheat, copper,
wool and silver had risen, and that trade
generally was improving.
Death of Consul Lott.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, June 6.— Hiram
Lott, United States Consul at this port,
died to-day. He had been suffering from
an affliction of the stomach for five days
oniy.
Six Persons Killed.
NIMES, Fbance, June 6.— An explosion
of a boiler at the Lavernardo mine to-day
killed six persons and seriously injured
three others.
WATEEPEOOF BEICK.
Interesting Experiments With Oil*
soaked Stone and Clay.
At a recent meeting of the Australian
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence, Professor Liversidge read a paper on
the "Waterproofing of Brick and Sand
stone with Oils." These experiments
were made with the view of ascertaining
the length of time that brick and Band
stone are rendered waterproof or protected
by oiling. The oils used were the three
commonest and most readily obtainable
for such purposes, namely, linseed oil,
boiled linseed and the crude mineral oil
known as "blue oil," used for preserving
timber. The weatherings were made
upon a flat portion of the laboratory roof,
fairly exposed to the sun and weather!
Good, sound, machine-made bricks were
experimented on.
The amount of oil and water taken up
by the sandstone was very much less than
that absorbed by the brick, although the
area of the sandstone cubes was much
greater than that exposed by the bricks.
Equal amounts of the raw and boiled oils
were absorbed ; the blue oil, however, was
taken up in much greater quantity by
both brick and sandstone, but by the end
of twelve months the whole of the thirteen
and a half ounces of blue oil had appar
ently evaporated away, and the brick had
returned to its original weight, but those
treated with raw and boiled oils remaia
unchanged. After the second oiling in
November, 1890. and exposure for nearly
four years and two months they had
practically retained all their oil, inasmuch
as they had not lost weight, and were also
practically impervious to water. It was
noticeable that the sandstone cubes treated
with raw and boiled oils returned to their
original weights, but do not appear to have
lost the beneficial effects of the oils being
practically impervious to water.—Phila
delphia Record.
Zangwill's Other Name.
Everybody is not aware of the full name
of Mr. I. Zangwill, says the Westminster
Gazette. Recently a lady, who shared in
a not uncommon ignorance, was conversing
with the literary interpreter of the
"Ghetto." "Mr. Zangwill," said she sud
denly, il I don't think I know your Christian
name." "Madam," said the novelist, "I
have no Christian name, but my other
name is Isaac."
REBELS OF ECUADOR
They Have Possession
of the Stronghold of
Guayaquil.
IGNACIO ROBLES RULES.
Proclaimed Military and Civil
General by the In
surgents.
TROUBLE OVER THE ESMERALDA
It is Believed Thatthe Revolutionists
Will Win in a Few
Days.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 6.— News
of the success of the revolutionists in
Ecuador came to the Navy Department in
a cablegram from Captain Watson of the
Ranger, now at Guayaquil.
The cablegram is dated at Guayaquil
yesterday ar>d reads:
"The insurgents have possession of
the city. Governor-General Flores has re
signed. Ignacio Robles, Liberal, has been
proclaimed military and civil general.
Everything quiet at present. Communica
tion with Quito by telegram is inter
rupted."
The last statement explains why the
State Department has heard nothing of the
progress of the revolution from United
States Minister Filman, who should have
arrived at his post at Quito some time ago.
Ecuador has been in a turbulent state for
some time past and much dissatisfaction
is expressed by the people generally at the
conduct of the Government.
■ This was fomented by the transfer of the
celebrated Chilian cruiser Esmeralda from
Chile to Japan under cover of the Ecua
dorean flag early in the spring, and since
that event there have been several revolu
tionary outbreaks culminating in this last
successful attempt to overthrow the Gov
ernment, for it is believed here that if
Guayaquil and other principal coast cities
Lave fallen into the hands of the revo
lutionists, their complete success will be
only a matter of a few days.
1 LEAVERS A.RE JT_V PRISON.
Arrest of the Prominent Revolutionists in
Colombia.
COLON, Colombia, June 6.— lt is report
ed here that all the leaders in the uprising
at Baranquila have been arrested and
placed in prison. .
The first shipment of gold from Colom
bian mines since the revolution has just
been made, $1,500,000 now being on the
way to Europe.
TO PEONOUNCE ENGLISH.
Boston Considered by Some a Safe Cri-
terlon to Go By.
Professor Morrison Caldwell presents an
able argument for the Southern pronuncia
tion of English. "Correct pronunciation,"
he says, "is a criterion of culture. To South
erners the culture of the proper pronuncia
tion of mary English words is a problem
of perplexity, by reason of the fact that
Southern pronunciation does not follow the
standard universally accepted in the North.
Many Souther :.ers have adopted the usage
of Boston, believing that it is the standard
of English pronunciation in both England
and America. When we consider the
causes that have contributed to this mis
apprehension, it is somewhat surprising
that many more have not been induced
to abandon the accent of their an
cestors. At school the child has placed
in in his hands spelling - books, reading
books and geographies, in which every
word is marked as pronounced by
teachers in the Northern States. Con
scientious teachers attempt to drill this
pronunciation into their pupils, under the
impression that any other is absolutely
wrong. Webster's dictionary and most
spelling-books teach the child that he must
pronounce Alabama as though it were
written Alabarma, but some geography
makers are not bo arrogant as to assume to
change the pronunciation of words local to
the South. It has been the misfortune of
the South that both the great diction
aries of America in the past
were edited by men whose "vo
•cal chords were attuned to the
cold winds of the North. They attempted
to nationalize a pronunciation prevailing
in one section of the country, but they
have not succeeded, because they essayed
an impossible task. The education of
Southerners in Northern schools or by
Northern teachers has not been without
effect in developing a dissatisfaction with
our Southern pronunciation ; nor has the
Northern resident failed to become a factor
in the change of the past decade, but by
far the most potent cause of this surren
der of our Southern speech on the
part of some of our most cul
tured people has been the pub
lication of popular novels, wherein the
language of the Southerner is given with
a peculiar spelling, to show the Southern
indifference to Italian a's, trilled r's and
ng's, which seem to constitute a holy
trinity for the adoration of these authors
who bow the knee to Boston, apparently
oblivious of the fact that they are caric
aturing the usage of the best educated
society of London. It will be charitable
to suppose that these critics of Southern
speech have been misled by that ancient
error that Southern pronunciation owes its
peculiarity to ignorance and association
with negroes.— Mid-Continent Magazine.
A Golden Thread.
The quintessence of fine art in weaving
is accomplished in the making of the
threads used in gold lace. It is effected by
a process called "fiber plating," carried out
in the following manner: A rod of silver
is gilded by simply pressing and burnish
ing leaves of gold upon it. This gilded
silver is then drawn through a series of
holes of decreasing diameter into a wire so
fine that one ounce is extended the length
of 1600 yards. It is then flattened between
polished steel rollers and further extended,
so that a mile and a quarter weighs but
one ounce. For this last drawing the wire
is passed through ruby dies. The film of
gold upon the flattened wire is much thin
ner than beaten goldleaf, and has fre
quently been quoted as an example of the
divisibility of matter, one inch of the wire
containing but the eighty-millionth part
of an ounce of gold, while one ounce of gold
covers more than 100 miles of wire. This
flattened gilded wire is then wound over a
fine silk thread so as to inclose it com
pletely and produce an apparently golden
thread. It is estimated that 250,000 ounces
of gold thread are annually made in Great
Britain. — Philadelphia Inquirer.
An Equine Gardener.
Henry Moore, a planter, living near
Englewood, Ala., has a valuable riding
horse, Kit, which he has trained to do
light garden work in a unique way when
not on duty under the saddle. When Kit
was quite a young colt he had the misfor
tune to sprain Tvs knee in racing and
romping about the pasture, and to keep
him well out of harnrs way his master put
him in the garden to take things easy till
his recovery. Moore's garden, like the
average one in this section, sometimes gets
overrun with coco grass, and having
occasion to chop it out pretty frequently
he hit upon a plan by which he might be
relieved of this almost endless work during
Kit's confinement.
The colt had always seemed remarkably
quick and intelligent, and with a very little
training Moore taught him to pull grass
as.cleverly and neatly as it could be done
by hand. In a short while Kit was en
faged as regular as a gardener, as it were,
eeping the beds as clean as the floor,
piling the grass in the walks to be re
moved by barrows.— Philadelphia Times.
A SWAN'S TIGHT TOR LIPE.
Itß Assailants Were Badly Csed Up
Before It Was Conquered.
One of the finest swans on the exhibition
water at the base of Eiffel tower was killed
the other night in a dastardly manner by
two youths, one of whom is a student of
respectable parentage, the other a third
class cafe concert singer, says a Paris let
ter to the London Telegraph. These mis
chievous lads were returning home to
Passy from one of the cafes of the Palais
dcs Beaux Arts at an advanced hour, when
they saw the swan sleeping majestically
on the pond, its beak buried in its feath
ers. They stealthily approached the bird
which was near the bank, and seized hokl
of it. The swan made what has been de
scribed as a gallant struggle for life, as the
cruel captors bear on their races, hands
and arms cuts and bruise 3 inflicted by its
beak and wings.
At last the rascals succeeded in dispach
ing the bird by twisting its neck, but its
cries attracted the attention of the police
men who were on beat at the Trocadero
end of the Jena bridge. Some moments
later the swan-slayers went toward the
Trocadero,oneof them endeavoring to hide
the bird under his greatcoat, but seeing
the policemen advancing toward them,
they took to their heels. The lad who
was carrying the swan was caught and the
other escaped, but as his address was fur
nished by his companion the commissary
of the Muette idstrict arrested him early
the next morning. The two are now in
the depot, waiting trial in the Police
Court.
The swan is said to have been valued at
£6. The affair bears a good deal of resem
blance to the story related by the late Vil
liers de I'lsle Adam of the man who killed
a swan in order to ascertain if it would sing
before dying. The splendid fowl killed the
other night on the Champ de Mars did not
give out a dying song, but it may be said
to hav#shrieked like a human being while
its neck was being twisted and its wings
torn off. The policemen declare that the
terrible sounds coming acioss the river
from the place where the outrage was com
mitted utterly amazed them for a time.
APPEEOIATED THE AD.VIOE,
How a Philadelphia!! Retorted to a
Lawyer's 'Witticism.
A few evenings ago a lawyer living in
West Philadelphia was visited at his resi
dence by an indignant female, who de
clared that she had come fer legal advice,
and in a, businesslike manner deposited on
his table a $5 note as a retaining fee. After
pocketing the money the man of law
politely requested her to proceed with her
statement. She said she was continually
afflicted with a series of nuisances which
she desired the lawyer to have abolished.
She was annoyed by a neighbor on one
side, she said, who is a music teacher and
trainer of the voice. The constant thump
ing on the piano and discordant notes
of the vocal students made her very nerv
ous. On the other side the neighbor kept
chickens, which awoke her early in the
mornings by their crowing, and annoyed
her during the day by flying over the fence
and invading her premises. Day and night
she was made nervous by the noise of the
trolley-cars passing her "door; organ-grind
ers and pedalers made her life miserable;
hucksters added to her misery by calling
their wares, and she wanted to know what
action she must take in order to be made
free of such nuisances.
The lawyer reflected a few moments with
coniDressed brow, and then said: "Madam,
you are decidedly unfortunate, and my
advice to you is that you go to a real estate
agent and engage him to secure for you a
nice comfortable dwelling in the suburbs
of some country village, where the nearest
neighbor is a quarter of a mile away,
organ-grinders unknown, trolley-cars un
heard of, and where hucKstera and ped
dlers do not come." Realizing that bhe
was $5 out, the female replied: "I'll do as
you say, and include among the others
that no lawyers must exist in the same
county."— Philadelphia Record.
QUEEE PISHING.
A Big Pike Landed in a Mail's Back
Yard.
In the phenomenal freshet of the past
ten days, with a yellow flood roaring and
curling about some of the principal busi
ness streets of the town, many Hartford
citizens enjoyed the rare and novel sport
of taking fish in their kitchen gardens, In
city lots, and sometimes in the public
highways. The handsomest catch, prob
ably, was taken by W. E. Smith of Weth
ersfield avenue, who bagged a splendid
seven-pound river pike in his back yard,
near a line of currant bushes, says the
Hartford correspondent of the New York
Sun.
Although the place is a mile and a half
from the river, ordinarily, still there was
water enough there even for a craft of the
pike's draught, since it was two feet deep;
but what the big fellow lacked iv Smith's
Kitchen garden was seaway. So he splashed
about among the brush, "tangled himself
amid various garden impediments, and
finally rolled over on his back in the
muddy flood, gasping. Then Mr.
Smith waded through his garden es
tuary to the side of the pike, sud
denly flung his arms about him, and after
a gallant finish fight bagged him. With
the big fellow in his arms, gasping and
spluttering and struggling like a wildcat,
the fisherman, streaming with mud and
water, dashed into his kitchen and planked
his prey on its floor.
"There," said Smith, after he had re
gained breath enough, "drat ye! Fight it
out there, now, if you want to."
Yet Smith was not exactly angry nor
vet precisely pleased, all things considered.
Many people in his neighborhood had
"planked" pike for dinner that day.
» — ♦ — ♦
Threatened to Bombard Monte Carlo.
"Did you ever hear of the naval Yankee
who threated to bombard the Casino?"
"Never!"
''He was captain of a trading-ship in
trusted with 20,000 francs. Putting in acci
dentally to Monaco, he thought he would
visit the gambling-rooms. Allured by the
horrible fascination, he ventured a small
stake. Like all beginners, he won coup
upon coup, until the turn of the tide. He
carried the precious notes in his pocket,
and, his own money exhausted, was
tempted to borrow from the sacred trust.
In a few nightmare hours he found him
self a pennP.ess, ruined and dishonored
man. But the old boy didn't take long to
make up his mind. Broad and burly, he
presented himself to the 'Administration,'
and explained the awful state of the case.
"Naturally, they refused to refund the
money. Then the mariner grew terrible
in his despair. 'Under these circum
stances, gentlemen, life is valueless. I
shall go back to the boat and if I don't re
ceive 20,000 francs within half an hour
shall blow out my brains; but before send
ing in my check I'll have the satisfaction
of bombarding your confounded Casino. I
take my oath to that. Good morning!'
"He was soon busy loading, aiming and
placing his solitary cannon, but in some
thing under twenty minutes the vessel was
hailed by a trim employe from head
quarters. 'Captain,' said the visitor, po
litely, 'your preparations will be unneces
sary; you can unload. Here are your
20,000 francs. Bon voyage I '"—London
World.
The only stone |tools now used by the
natives of Alaska are the knife for cutting
skins, and a sort of chisel for scraping hair
or fur from them.
WRECK OF THE HOUSTON
Carr's Celebrated Suit Is Now
in the Supreme
Court.
Manipulations of the Southern
Pacific by Which Share Values
Were Reduced.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 6.-The
case of S. W. Carr and others, stockholders
of the Houston and Texas Railroad Com-
pany, against the present management of
that company and various other parties,
including the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company and C. P. Huntington, which has
been before the Federal courts of Texas for
the past seven years, has reached the
United States Supreme Court on an appli
cation for a writ of error to the Circuit
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit,
made by the original plaintiffs.
The basis of the proceeding is the alleged
wreckage of the Houston road in the inter
est of the Southern Pacific. The Houston
road was organized originally as the Gal
veston and Red River Railroad and re
ceived a grant of land amounting in the
aggregate to 5,500,000 acres.
The road was absorbed by the Southern
Pacific, and it is alleged in the complaint
that it was so manipulated as to reduce
the value of the stocs from 88 cents on the
dollar to 12 cents.
The lands of the company were sold
under a foreclosure, alleged to have been
irregular, and at prices which are stated to
be far below the real value. The plaintiffs
ask to have the decree for the sale of the
lands set aside and also pray for other re
lief. The decision of the courts below have
been against the plaintiffs. They claim to
own $750,000 worth of the stocK of the
Houston and Texas road.
Jiiae of the Mmaouri.
OMAHA, Nebr., June 6.— For the first
time in almost a year the Missouri River
is running bank full at Omaha, and is
within a few feet of the danger line. Every
river in Nebrasika is on the point of over
flowing and all bottom lands are flooded.
Directors Declare a Dividend.
NEW YORK, N. V., June 6.— A dispatch
was received in this city from Chicago to
day saying that the directors of the Chi
cago and Northwestern Railway Company
met to-day and declared a dividend of l\g
per cent.
The Washouts in Colorado.
DENVER, Colo., June 6.— The officials
of the Union Pacific state that the reoorts
of washouts on the Cheyenne Northern at
Iron Mountain are untrue. The recent
heavy ruin caused no delays on that line.
In the Same Line.
I was at the "bargain counter" of a store
on Fourteenth street when I saw a good
looking, well-dressed little woman slip a
cake of soap and a bottle of perfumery into
her pocket. She realized that I saw her,
but after giving me a glance she pocketed
a powder-box, which was among the
"marked downs." I felt it my duty to
point a moral, and edging up alongside of
her I said :
"Don't you know that is stealing?"
"Of course," she replied.
"And you take your chances?"
"What chances?"
"Why, I saw you take the things and
could have you arrested for a thief.'
"Yes, just so!" she laughed, "but as you
happen to be on the same lay yourself I'm
not afraid \ Why don't you go for one of
those cigar-cases?" — Detroit Free Press.
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