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01. L No. 21.
etective L. P. LeVin
}akes a 2nd Trip to Georgia to
Investigate the Recent Burn
| ing of Sam Hose.
übborn Facts Obtained
herwise Would Have Re.
mained Intact.
he following interesting report,
sread before a large and enthusi
ic audience last monday evening
Quinn Chapel Church, Chicago,
ne 19th, 1899.
ust one week after my first re
t was read in Bethel Church I
rted upon a commission -which
kme to Atlanta, Georgia. Be
e I left T made arrangements
th Mrs. Barnett to gather what
er additional faets I could find in
line of this work. [ arrivedin
lanta Tuesday and making it a
int to keep clear of the people
om I interviewed when I was
posing of my horse medicine, I
naged to glean a number of in
esting facts which came tc me
iile I was prosecuting my duties
a drummer.
In the first place I found that
» dispatches from the Bethel
reting had gone all over the
uth and that the report had been
en very largely in the Atlanta
pers; that editorial comments
d been freely made and that
re was a feeling of apprehen
n on the part of the citizens of
lanta, Newnan and Palmetto
t the colored people of Chicago
re raising such a disturbance
at the Federal government would
e upthe matter. As- a conse
ence I found it very difficult to
any person to admit that he
w the burning of Sam Hose,
ny number of people told me all
vout it but they were ecareful to
v that they had been told the
cts and that they were not pres
t when the man was burned. It
ems to be the settled purpose of
| the people to deny participation
the horrible affair, se if that a
ourt was to sit in Atlanta to
orrow to investigate the burning
would be difficult to secure a
itness who would testify that the
nfortunate man was burned to
eath-
I took a day off to go to Mar
allville, the home of Samuel
ose. That is one hundred and
irty-six miles and a-half from
e Atlanta and Central Georgia
ilroad. I went to the home of
e heart brcken motherand found
r bent under the burden of three
rore years. [ was told that be
re the lynching of her son she
ad but few white hairs in her
ead, but now with only a few
eeks weeks from that time she is
Imost entirely gray. 1 saw her
n who in my first report I said
as an imbecile. Hehas a mind
nough however to know that his
hrother has been killed and his
mbling talk shows that what
ind he has dwells on the awful
ralamity that éame to his brother
ith the mother it is even worse.
she had no infirmity of mind bat
uffered only from old age and dis-
. Now the awlul death which
ame to her son has driven her to
verge of insanity so that she
s about broken-hearted, erushed
in spirit, her health wreckedand
ith her mind almost gone, con 1
nually mumbling her prayers and
smoaning her son. She is nowa
harge upon her colored neighbors
nd friends.
While in Marshallville I learned
tJ. B. Jones, the man for
hom Hose worked a few years
,and who captured him &nd
ivered him to the mob to be
urned and thus secured the re
of $1,500, is suffering some
ibution for his participation in
t dreadful affair. He has his
mies as well as his friends and
farct that he took Hose to New
to serare the money has given
is enemies & chance to brand him
one of that class always hated by
t white people in the South,
is a niger trader. About two
ago he had o dispute 'n the
cotton warehouse and the man with
whom he had the altercation called
him a damn nigger trader. As the
man was a white man and his
equal Jones was compelled to take
the insult with the best grace he
could muster. He is now anticipat
ing trouble on account of his par
ticipation in the affair and he now
earnestly denies that he was ever
at the burning, declares he left for
home os soon as he turned Hose
over to the mob.
I also spent a few hours at New
nan- I found that Mrs. Cranford
had entirely recovered. [ could
make no opportunity however to
see but I understood from both
white and black that she resented
the report that Hose had assaulted
her. One colored boy 1 talked
with told me that Mrs. Cranford
would scratch the eyes out of any
body that would tell her that Hose
had assaulted her. I understood
also that she and her family have
not spoken to Hemphill, the man
ager of the Atlanta Constitution,
which circulated a story of the out-
rage.
I went to see Mrs. Strickland.
She lives in a little two room
shanty and she is sick almost unto
death. When the mob took her
husband from her the night they
killed him they took him from
her sick bed. She has never re
covered from the shock and never
will. She hasnow almost constant
attacks from epileptic fits. Major
Thomas, the noble white man who
tried so hard to save the aged
colored preacher’s life, is good to
her and her children and they will
never suffer for want.
In my mention of the lyuching
of the nine men who were arrested
on a charge of setting fire to some
building 1 stated that five were
then killed by the mob which tried
to murder them. Whilel was in
Palmetto I tried to get some trace
of the four who were wounded but
who were not killed. T learned
that they were told to leave the
county under the penalty of death.
All of them had families, but they
were all compelled to go. None of
these men had anything to do with
setting fire to any building but
after the mob failed to kill them
they were released from jail but
were told that if they did not leave
the country they would be killed.
I found out also that the lynch
ing spirit is not satisfied. A colored
man named Grant Ball of Cedar
Town, Georgia, was arrested not
long ago on a charge of assanlting
a white woman. He was tried and
found not guilty. Just a few days
before I got there one of the
woman's relatives went up to him
with a shot gun in hand and de
liberately blew his brains out. On
the 14th whilel was in Atlanta a
ecolored man named Pullen was
lynched near Lebanon. The mob
took two Negroes from the juiland
after killing one, beat the other
nearly to death and then told him
he must leave the country.
Another act of barbarism oe
curred while I was there. This was
over in Louisiana, Edward Gray, a
colored man, had heen arrested on
a charge of burglary and im
prisoned in the jail at Reserve,
La., for many a year, He had
asked for a trial time and time
again but on one pretext or another
it was always refused him. For
the past three or four months his
health failed him rapidly and he
was about to die in jail. Last week
he was put on trial and as there
was no evidence whatever of his
guilt he was diseharged. His wife
lived a long ways out in the coun
try and the poor man scareely able
to walk and almost at death’s door
started out to get home to his wife
and family, struggling feebly along
he made most of the way home and
had gone nearly fiifteen miles when
his strength failed him and he fell
unconseious by the way ; meanwhile
the fact that he had been dis
charged so aroused the feeling
against him that & mob gathered
and started in pursnit of him. They
found him lying uneonseious on
the way snd then they took the dy-
Lil‘ man, tied a rope about his
[“ and hanged him to a tree.
These are all the lypchings that
happened while I was _ re which
MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL. SATURDAY. JULY 1, 1899,
rresulted in death. I learned how
ever that four colored men were
taken by a mob at Newnan last
;week and whipped almost to death;
‘then the members of the mob then
‘rubbed salt into their wounds and
!ordvrod them out of the country.
The reason given for this treat
ment of the men was that they had
been too fresh in their church. As
none of these incidents have been
mentioned ‘u the Northern papers
I am certain that not one-half of
the lynchings that occur in the
South are ever reported in the
Northern papers.
Another phase of the situation
indicates the spirit in that section
of the country. A man named G.
V. Barnett was arrested and
charged with being in a mob that
tried to kill a colored man named
Jackson. This was at Griffith,
(Georgia. The case was called for
while I was there in Georgia. The
whole court proceeding was looked
upon as a farce; the jury laughed
and joked about the matter and the
entire prosecution was simply a
travesty upon justice. From the
time the case was ecalled until it
was finished the proceedings &8
not take ten minutes until Barnet
was declared net guilty. Jackson
was thefl ordered out of the State
under penalty of being shot, ‘
Three white men have been
charged with rape upon a twelve
year old colored girl. Bets were
freely offered that their trial would
not last five minutes.
While in Atlanta I talked with a
number of public men about the re
port made in Chicago on the lynch
ings and I learned a good many
things about myself that I did not
know before. 1 found out that I
would not be a very acceptable
guést in Georgia. Several of the
men I talked with assured me that
Le Vin and Ida Wells were in
partnership and were selling a mil
lion copies of a lying book about
Georgia. The people of Georgia
would like very much to see that
woman Ida B. Wells: Mr. Durand
who talked with me about the mat
ter, said; "‘lf we had that Le Vin
and Ida Wells here we would hang
them together-’’ 1 langhed and
told him that I had not the slightest
doubt he would, but I did not tell
him thut he was looking into the
face of that man L.e Vin, but that
he would never have an opportunity
of paying his respects to that
woman, Ida B. Wells.
PP . a¥in
Great Men'’s Privileges
“The otheér day at Marion, Ind., Gen.
Lew Wallace was sitting in court when
the desire to smoke came upon him. He
lighted a cigar.
A court officer went up to htwm and
told uim that he must put out his cigar,
as smoking was not allowed. The gen
eral objected, and, rising, made the
novel declaration that, inasmach as he
was the oldest practitioner in that town
the privilege of smoking ought to be
granted him. g
The presiding judge saw it in that
way, and the act granting Gen. Lew
Wallace, as the oldest practitioner in
Marion, the privilege of smoking in
court is now entered on the records and
will be observed as long as the court
stands or Gen. Wallace lives.
Another occurrence, similar to this
only in that it concerns the right to
smoke, occurred a great many years ago
in the younger days of Bismarck. It
happened at & conference of the Bouth
German states before they, through
Bismarck’s iron and unfaltering diplo
macy, became the German empire.
At these conferences the ambassador
from Austria, then the oldest and sup
posed to be the most powerful of these
states, was the only ambassador priv
fleged to smoke during sessions. This
rule was always respected, and for
many yezrs he an joyed his solitary priv
flege with all the arrogance and con
descension a German can assume when
he feels himself more powerful or en
titled to more consideration than his
fellows.
At the opening of one session, how
ever, after Bismarck had begun to make
himself feit as a power for the state of
Prussia, the Austrian ambassador, as
suming his privilege, had just lit his
pipe, when Bismarck, biting the end off
a cigar, went over and asked him for »
Hght.
The Austrian ambassador was as
tounded at first, and the other ambas
sadors looked on in consternation, but
through the sheer boldness of the thing.
or perhaps for other ressons, the light
was granted, and from that time Bis
marek also smoked &t the conferences
whenever he chose.
This was one of the firet concessions
granted him. Before Bismarck gnt
through with the Austrian and the
other ambassadors in his ifetime they
granted him 8 great many more.—N. Y.
Werld.
PROMINENT MINNESOTA AFRO-AMERICANS.
Rev. W. S. Brooks, the popular pastor of St. Peter's A. M. E.
Church, Minneapolis, Minn.
Few ministers have accomplished in soshorta period what
Rev. Brooks has in'otr community. As a man pro bono pub
lico he stands amolig the best. As a church financier he has
been crowned with wonderful success. Within the last nine
months he has raised in cash nearly $3,000. This sum will
almost eliminate the debt of the new St. Peter's church of
which he is pastor. 1n connection with his laborious church
duties he is writing a book entitled, “What a black man saw in
a white man’s country. Not long since, Rev. Brooks toured
the European countrics, and the contents of his book will be
his actual experience in writing. It is expected to be very in
teresting. His congregation is semper paratus to aid him in
his noble effort and eonsiders his services indispensible,
NEW TRAVELING MEN.
Selloitors Are Now Employed by
Banks to Bulld Up Their
Basiness.
A new style of traveling mnan has de
veloped quite recently. His business
™ to solicit deposits for the New York
banks from the whfilgnf the coun
wy.* % e
~ His advent into the commereial world
‘was heralded by numerous cireular let
ters sent out by the banks of the em
pire city soliciting business, He is an
outgrowth of a change in the rules of
the New York clearing house,
When business became depressed the
merchants, manufacturers and busi
ness men generally began paying their
obligations in distant cities with
checks upon their local banks, where
they had before that time used drafts
on New York or other eastern banks.
The plan proved so convenient that it
was continued, and grew to immense
proportions. 1n the dull times the New
York banks were glad to get these
checks in deposit from the wholesalers
and others in that city, and they sent
them to the loeal banks for collection,
paying the collection rates and stand
ing the loss,
“Some of the large banks in New
York,” said J. P. Murphy, of the Mil
waukee national bank, “lost $40,000 and
$50,000 & year by these transactions, so
large had the business grown. Asa re
sult of this the New York eclearing
house changed its rules, 80 that the
banks were obliged to charge exchange
on these personal checks, and impos
ing & fine of $5,000 on the bank that
failed to observe the rule. In view of
this the New York banks are sending
out circulars and agents to the lead
ing merchants of the country outside
of the ¢ity urging them to open ac
counts with them. Of course the local
bankers do not like this kind of busi
ness, and it is not likely that they will
feel under the same obligation to ac
commodate those concerns who sp'it
up thelr acoounts in this way. Idon't
think they have done much in Milwau
kee yet. Henry Benediet, who was for
merly in the clothing business here, is
traveling over the northwest soliciting
business of this character for New
York banks, and recently made a viait
to Bt. Paul and Minneapolis. What the
clearing house here should do, and do
immediately, is to call s meeting and
charge Chicago at least the currency
rate of 30 cents for collections. As it is
now, Chicago M a sort of collection
sgency for the northwest for the New
York banks. We have been doing the
business of Chieago in this eity for
not:i::, and when it becatne necessary
o the currency to Chicago we
stood the charges of 30 cents for each
sl,ooo—that is the rate fized by the ex
press ecompanies.” - Milwsukee Sen’
tinel,
Leaft with the Telephone Girl
A telephone girl at a popular Broad
way hotel says that five men out of
every six forget something when they
come out of the telephone booth after
sending & message. No matter how
attentive & man may be at other times
his wits seemn to go wool gathering after
he has used a public telephone. The
next person that follows him into the
booth is pretty sare to find s forgotten
umbrella or & pair of gloven. But ciga
rette smokers are the most forgetful,
When & man i» talking through the
‘phone he puts his lighted cigarette on
the desk, fully intending to take it up
when he goes ont. He seldom dees it
Thie porter eomes siong duriog the day
snd gathers the half-consumed stutsps
into & box. Nobody knows but himself
what he does with his perquisites in the
way of tobaceo.—N. Y. Herald.
A GREAT SCHEME,
The Clever ldea of a Hotel Pdnter
for Getting Rid of Undesin
able Loungers.
Being a dull and sleepy sort of a day
Bunday brought to the hotel keepers
an unusually large class of temporary
visitors, men who drift into the hotels
for » rest and .« chance to loaf in com
fort on & Sunday when they have noth
ing better to do, and the weather condi
tions present no attractions sufficient
to lure them out of doors and to thke
open-air exercise. On such days hotels
get hold of a lot of sleepers that they
don’t want, and still it is difficult to get
rid of them without giving offense,
Shortly after noon on a recent Sun
day a man-drifted into one of the down
town hotels, selected a seat from which
he could watch people who passed in
the street, tucked himself back ecom
fortably in the easy chair, and after
looking out of the window awhile fell
asleep. There could be no doubt he was
asleep, for he snored persistently and
gave all sorts of imitations, from that
of & planing mill in full operation, to
the wind blowing in the neek of a bot
tle, and at intervals he groaned after
the manner of a fat man in a night
mare,
The bell boy who wis sent to awaken
the sleeper tried ineflectually to get
him to come out of it, and in despair
the porter of the house took a handful
of shot from the place where they keep
the pens, went dp behind the sleeping
man and earefully dropped the shot,
which were dirty, as well as cold, down
his back.
The sleeper was just starting on a
long drawn “g-w-w-r-r-r-ack,” when
the shot began to explore his person,
and the effect was electrical, a little
faster, if amything, than electricity,
The sleeper emitted a howl that seared
people passing in the street, and he
jumped up so quickly to grab himself
by the back of the neek that he fell
over his ehair,
He clawed and raked away at the
back of his neck and yelled that he had
bursted a blood vessel, and eould feel
his life eurrent pouring down his
ipinal eolumn, until he saw other wit
ters about the office laughing st him,
and then it dawned on hisslowly awak
ening mind that something had been
done to him, and when he retired to s
seclnded spot and shook the shot out
f his shoes he came back and issued o
zeneral challenge to all and singular
who had been concerned in the outrage
upon his person and dignity to come
sut and fight, which ehallenge was not
wcepted, and the mad man went away
vowing vengeance, providing he ever
finds out who put up the job on him
Worcester Gazette.
C Kirmess.
Iu some portions of Germany, the
kirmess, or church mass, formerly
danced in honor of the dedieation of &
chureh, is now observed with the spe
einl charscter of a harvest home. It
marks the clowe of the year's labors,
and is celebrated by three days of
musie, feasting and daneing with part
ners chosen or allotted, accordiog to
degrees of comeliness, 4t the preced
ing May festival.
In southern Germany, the end of the
harvest is marked by the sickle feast
The inst sheaf is earried in triumph to
the barn, and placed on the floor, while
the youngoer couples dance around it.
One-half of it is then decked with rib
bons, snd hung sloft while the other
half is-burned. lis ashes are treas
ured as & remedy for rheutnstism, and
are sometimes ased in making smulets
or charme. The pessants leave for
Wodan, or “the oid one,” & few earv of
corn, and 8 amsll number of apples, it
being eonsidered unloeky to etrip
cither field or tree entirely bare~Lip:
pincott's.
The Griffin Testimonial
a Success,
St. Peter’'s A. M. E. church was
the scene of a eultured and ap
preciative audience Wednesday
evening last, Master of cere
monies Wheaton, manager Reid et.
al. felt much pleased with the fin-
ancial result. The church was!
comfortably filled and all present
acknowledged the fact that the
programme was one of the lwntl
ever rendered in either city from
the fact that it was composed nfi
the best talent, The pnrtivi'mntn‘i
are to be congratulated for the ex- ‘
traordinary preparation made, that
the audience might be in pvrfwf
harmony with their efforts. After
Mr. J. L. Neal invoked the hlouw;
ing of God; Mrs. J. Frank
Wheaton sang a solo with the
usual impression. Rev. W. 8.
Brooks made a good ilnpmmphl!
talk on the necessity of education.
Mrs, Sadie Williams and W. R,
Morris, Esq., did not fail to lunko!
a hit with theirinstrumental duett, ‘
Frederick L. MeGhee, Esq., fi(.!
Paul’s eloquent lawyer, nmde an
able address upon the sterling
qualities of Mr. Grifin, ete. My,
MeCants Stewart made his flest
public appearance sines his gradua
tion as a full fledged lawyer. As
a speaker Mr. Stewart's l'utm-v‘
seems bright. His oration was ex- ‘
cellent. Mrs. Addie Minor Craw
ford simply entranced the audience
with her sweet song, and well de
serves thetitle 'Star of the West. "'
Miss Mayme Weir and Mr. Allen
Frenech well merits the honor of
being the best amateur dramatic
performers in the Twin-Cities.
Mrs. Wm, Smith was at her best,
and still retaing her former charms
as a singer: Miss Edna Grey ex
ecuted at the piano artistically,
Mr. F. Carpenter Nelson made his
first public appearance as a tenor
singer, with a favorable and last
ing impression, Extra numbers
Messrs, Lathrop Mason and J.
Johunson, As a pianist Mr. Mason
stands among the flest in the
Northwest, Mr, Johnson received
several encores, which was sufficient
evidence of his ability as a tenor
soloist. Mrs, P. F, Hale rendered
lvaluablc services as accom
panist, Messrs. M. E. Singleton
and R. Lee were diligent in per-
Hforming duty as ushers, 2
~J. Frank Wheaton, Esq,
thought he was speaker in the
House of Representatives when
he occupied the chair as master
of ceremonies. Manager |. C,
Reid wore a broad smile because
of the great success financially and
otherwise. A touching letter was
read from from Mr. J. M. Griffin
expressing his heartfelt apprecia
tion to all who manifested the
least interest iu his welfare,
Cash received received up to
this date on tickets sold, $26.
Mr. Jasper Gibbs, - - $25
Mrs. Jasper Gibbs, - - 2
F. L. MuGhee, Esq., guar
antee for 100 tickets - 25
Total . v 9
I desire to personally thank all
for their liberal contributions and
presence, particularly those who
contributed literary services to
gether with financial,
Sincerely, J. C. Rein.
Piled Wood While Governor,
Unele Dick Oglesby was honest him
self, and he believed in making other
people be so, just 8o far as it lay within
his power. The principle of the thing
appealed to him, and & false rule he
despised. In 1866, when he was gov
ernor for the first time, he ordered ten
cords of firewood from a farmer, who
was to cord the wood up in the gov
ernor's yard. The governor watched
until three cords had been piled. Then
be eould stand it no longer and, walk
ing up to the farmer, he said: “You
are piling thet wood too loosely. By
the time you get it piled up you'll be
giving me eight cords for ten. Now,
mind you, I won't pay for it.” The
farmer, evidently disgusted at being
told how to do bis own work, answered
that he guessed he knew how to cord
wood as well as anybody, and chal
lenged the governor to do it better of
he could. That Unele Dick would take
him at his word evidently never ve
eurred to him, bot it wasa't the first
time the good old gentleman had corded
wood, and, governor or no gevernor, out
he went. When the farmer had brought
the wood all in Unele Dick corded every
stick .of it over again and got it into
bring in two more~hicago
Chronicle. -
Price 5 Cents.
KINGS READY TO OUIT
European Monarchs Who Are Will
ing to Abdicate.
Some No Longer in Toueh with The' &
Subjects and Others Threats
ened With Adverse
legisintures.
Abdication seems to be in the air, At
ne time since the eventful years of
184540, when the whole of Europe may
be said to have been in open insurree
tion against the medievally autocrat
fe tendencies of its rulers, have there
been 8o many reigning sovereigns who
are declared to be on the point of aban
doning their thrones.
In 1848 the monarchs were mostly
princes born in the previous century
and reared within the influence of its
traditions, utterly ineapable, therefore,
of comprehending such new-fangled no
tions as popular government and na
tional constitutions,
Sooner than lend their names to any
such subversive idean, which they re
garded as synonymous with sanguin
ary revolution of the character that
brought Louls XVI. and Marie An
toinette to the seaffold, they preferred
to abdicate; and it was during these
two eventful years that the thrones of
Austria, SBardina, Bavaria, France and
Holland were vacated by their ocou
pants,
If to-day, half & century later, their
successors desire in turn to abdicate, it
is that they, too, have become firmly
convineed that popular legislation is in
compatible with good government-—
that is, an viewed from the throne.
Of the sovereigns reported to be on
the eve of abdication we have, in the
first place, King George of the Hellenes,
who declares himself sick and tired of
his uncomfortable throne, and does not
hesitate to declare that, the very at
mosphere of Greece having ceased to be
congenial to him, he is anxious to sur
render as soon as possible his scepter
to his son Constantine.
He is no longer in toush with his sub
jecta, has no friends at Athens save vis
itors from abroad, and s constantly
forced by the somewhat disreputable
poliey of the cabinets that succeed one
another with such rapidity in his do
minions to place himself in an awkward
and embarrassing position with regard
to those foreign courts to which he is
bound by ties of close relationship.
King Oscar is likewise talking of re
signing his crown $o his eldest son. In
his case there is not one, but two parlia
ments with whioh to contend, sud as
that et Ssockholm is always in direct
opposition to that at Christiania, he can
aot content the one without offending
the other, the result being that Norway
and Sweden are now, secording to his
own assertions, on the point of eivil
war,
He declares that he haa done his best,
like King George of (ireece, to live up
to the terms of the constitution by vir
tue of which he holds his scepter, but
that it is absolutely impossible to do so
any longer, and that it is a question
with him either of violating the sorona
tion oath or of stepping down and mak
my way for his son.
Then, too, there is King Christian of
Denmark, who, at the age of 81, finds
trimeel! face to face with s national leg
slature, in which the ultra-radieals and
socinlists, hostile to the throne, possess
an overwhelming mapority, outnum
nering the moderate liberals and the
mfinitesimad consarvative party com
bined by three to one.
Broken by age and infirmity, shaken
by the illness of his strong-minded wife,
who has been his ehief moral support
hroughout his reign, and deprived,
too, of the powerful backing of his son
n-law, the late Emperor Alexandria of
fßusain, he feels himself no longer
wmpable of coping with the situation,
snd announces that he is about to make
way for his son,
To these three kings must be added
e name of King Humbert of Italy,
who is foreed to submit to a prime min
ster personally abhorrent both to him
slf and to the queen, and to lend his"
wsme to s poliey of which he disap
proves at heart, but which accords with
the views of the legislature,
It is no secret that the whole of his
private fortune is already Invested
sbroad, in anticipation of his abandon
nent of the Itallan throne, sand that
ne finds more intolerable than ever &
situation which compels him to sur
sound himself with people uncongenial
to him snd to his consort, and to re
nain in & position toward the chureh
which is not only dismetrieally opposed
o the sincere religious feelings of the
queen and of himself, but likewise
places the reigning house of Italy in s
very awkward and embarrassing posi
tion with regard to all the other courts
of the old world,
Had it not been for Queen Marie
Amelie of Portugal, s strong-minded
woman like her mother, the countess of
Paris, King Carlos would have long
dinee relinquished his throne to his son,
with his younger brother as regent,
while King Charles of Rownanis and
the prinee regent of Bavaria are each
eredited with being on the eve of mak
ing way for the next of kin.
Finally, there is Prince Ferdinand of
Bulgaria, who has been strongly urged
by his Russophile friends to abdicate,
they undertaking to have bim reclected
under Muscovite protection. But he
has thus far refrained from ML“
their solicitations, reslizing that :
s many »slip between the cup and the
lip, and that, ¥he were once voluntar
ily te surrender hin crown, many things
might mterfere to prevent his recoves.
Rensen for s Populnrity, 5
The dinner has coms 1o be s big fao
tor in politics, says the Cascade (In)
Courler; not that men musé eat, but
that men must talk. LA