EXPANSION IN THE SOUTH.
Sweeping Kepulillcnn \ Irtorlra HHV:
Given u Fre»h lmpe(ua
(o Trade.
When the south understands and ap
preciates the benefits that it will derive
from the policy of national expansion
as practiced by the present administra
tion there will be an end of llryanism
in every southern state.
Col. Bryan, who in all probability
will be the nominee of the free silver
democracy in 1900, is an avowed anti
xpansionist. He was opposed to Jhe
innexation of Hawaii; he was opposed
to the seizure and retention of I'orto
Rico; he is opposed to the retention of
the Philippines. lieforc the American
people had had an opportunity to con
sider the question of national expan
sion Col. Bryan, in a speech at the
Omaha exposition, declared against
such a policy and in favor of national
isolation, lie bade the people turn
their eyes from the unfolding vision of
extended territory, of expanding com
mercial greatness and the. spread of
civilization through the extension of
the American system of government,
and rest their gaze upon the mold and
must and cobwebs of the past.
If he could have his way lfe would de
stroy the magnificent future now dawn
ing for the south as a result of the ex
pansion policy, for admitting the great
benefit to accrue to the north
west. no other sectfon will reap
such commercial and financial benefits
ns the south after the United States
shall have established its government
in its new colonial possessions.
The king product of the south is cot
ton. and one of the principal if not the
chief demand of our new possessions is
for manufactured cotton goods. The
Philippines will be made the base for
our Asiatic trade, and from the princi
pal Chinese ports alone the demand for
cotton fabrics is sufficient to exhaust
the entire cotton product of the south
ern states. The acquisition of these
islands makes the Nicaragua]! canal a
I ecessity, and by its construction the
south will be given absolute domina
tion of the Asiatic market for cotton
fabrk'sand raw material as well, (ioods
can then be shipped from southern
ports by a direct all-water route with
out breaking bulk.
This means the establishment of cot
ton manufactories in the south and the
building up of a merchant marine on
the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It
means that the chief southern coast
cities will become ports for a constant
ly expanding trade, the possibilities of
which «eein to be unlimited. It means
that a large share of the northwest
traue will find outlet p.ntl ingress
through southern ports.
It means that the south will become
great financially and commercial^ - , and
that the negro problem will be partly
solved by the increased demand for un
skilled labor.
Mr. Bryan is opposed to the policy
which holds out this inviting future to
the south. Before 1900. however, the
expansion policy, territorially and com
mercially, will be in operation, but a
chief executive hostile tocuch a policy,
hostile to a sound currency upon which
commercial growth must rest, could
practically undo all that may be ac
complished between now and then.
Such a man as Col. Bryan cannot be
trusted to deal with the new national
and international conditions arising
from this expansion. Be could not, of
course give back the territory we have
acquired, although another anti-expan
sionist. Mr. Cleveland, did so in the case
of Hawaii, but a policy of negation and
restriction would deprive the country
of most of the benefits it would other
wise receive as a result of expansion.
liryanism is the greatest menace
there is to the future of the south.—
Chicago Times-Herald.
PRESS OPINIONS.
B. Bill can now crawl back
into his hole and sleep a couple of
years more.—Minneapolis Tribune.
C-T'Genera! Prosperity now has an
other opportunity to take command of
the forces of the nation.—Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
ETIf free silver is not dead most of its
champions are now numbered among
the dead or missing. I.ouisville Cou
rier-Journal (Gold J)em.).
C-'W. J. Bryan went home to exercise
the right of suffrage, but the result in
his state looks as if he mutilated his
ballot.—lndianapolis Journal.
breeds republican vic
tories. There is no stronger proof of
this than the republican victory in the
lately populistic state of Kansas.—Chi
cago Tribune.
Itl f the silver question could only
have been given a little more prom
inence in the campaign the republican
victory would have been unanimous.'—
Cleveland header.
If One of the ablest free silver repub
licans in the country is ex-Congress
man Towne. of Minnesota, who lias just
been defeated in a hot contest in the
Sixth district of that state. Towne has
spoken ail over the country as the ex
ponent of free coinage at sixteen to
one by this government independently
and has presented the case in as plaus
ible a light as it was possible to be
done, but his theories have been re
jected with an emphasis that even he
can hardly mistake.—Bloominglon
Pantagrapli.
If "I oin" Harvey, who was a sort of
general manager of the campaign of
the silver fusionists during the recent
contest for the control (if the house of
representatives, says that what the sil
ver cause most needs is more general
and thorough organization. That
would be very nice for lhirvev. as one
of the chief organizers, but the chances
are that organizees. so to speal<. will
never be found in sufficient numbers
to provide "Coin" with a comfortable
living. If that cannot be done, his ae
tivitvwill come to a speedy end. Clove
land Leader. '
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
UrjnnlNm Menaces (he Ini2im(rlal
(irnwtli of (he Southern
Slalei.
The election result the country over
has stimulated trade sentiment. The
republicans won sweeping victories,
closing iu on the populist stronghold*
of the west, either winning or crippling
the populist organizations so as to ren
der the in harmless. Washington, Ne
braska. Kansas, South Dakota, Nevada
all voted the republican ticket so as to
increase republican representation in
congress, while the great central and
eastern states rolled up tremendous re
publican pluralities. Minnesota alone
broke the uniform republican victory
by choosing a governor from the op
posing forces; but as this result is
analyzed, no comfort is found in the
victory for unsoundness in the money
policy of the country. The state elects
seven republican congressmen, the bal
ance of the state ticket, and a largely
republican legislature. It is not parti
san to refer to this result as a business
victory, because it is. It means that
good times will continue; and i-ince it
was known that sound money princi
ples are maintained a boom iu stock in
vestment has followed, with stock trad
ills' trebled since election day. The fact
Is less important that people are buying
the b.'st railroad securities in the coun
try, than it is that they are not afraid
to invest money following the election
result. Sound money democrats the
country over voted for republican leg
islative and congressional candidates,
because they felt safe, from a business
standpoint, in so doing.
The Tiflicial statement of the export
and import trade has been Issued dur
ing the week, and the showing proves
beyond question the prosperous condi
tion of the country. To every di
vision of the world we have t'icreased
sales, while we have decreased pur
chases from every grand division ex
cept Asia and Oceanica. To Europe
sales were increased from ssi'-8.805.000
to $006,080,000, while our purchases
dropped from $332,394,000 to $240,863.-
000. These are striking figures, and
they jnean nothing less than that
Americans are profiting by this dis
posal of a surplus, the malting of which
is keeping men employed.
The force of the strong trail" under
current is clearly outlined by the large
totals of bank clearings and the general
large distribution of goods. It is a sig
nificant fact that the last few days has
developed unexpected new inquiry for
fiig iron. It is stimulating sentiment
wonderfully, because it is revealing a
reserve business force that is very en
couraging. It is demonstrating that de
velopment is not finished and that there
is more work to do throughout the
country, which in turn means the em
ployment of labor and increased con
sumption of products. The flour manu
facturers. as an instance, are breaking
all production records. They are watch
ing water power closely, so that no in
terference with production may check
the operation of mills. The domestic
consumption of flour has developed in
marked degree. And this is true of all
general food products. The people as
a mass are eating again.
The tendency of trust staples is to
sell lower in price rather than higher.
Sugar competition is sharp, and devel
opments show that, on the whole, con
sumers are petting the benefit of trus.t
work in food staples. An in industrial
lines generally, manufacturers are real
izing- profits from the economy of trust
operation, rather than from increase of
price. Take the proposed tin plate
trust, now forming, and which will in
clude the 40 tin plate plants of th»
country. Without increasing the price
of tin plate, the trust will make a saving
of 25 cents a box of 100 pounds of plate
or over $2,000,000 on the year's produc
tion. The trust expects to realize its
dividend from this saving, rather than
from an increase of price for plate.
Running through the business lines
of the country, a generally healthy con
dition is reported. Wheat and flour
exports fell off this week, but the large
average is maintained by the heavy ex
port last week. There is firm sentiment
in foreign markets with no speculative
activity to develop it. The export de
mand for iron is breaking all reeorfls.
Forty thousand tons of steel rails have
been placed recently for northern Eu
rope, while export orders have been re
ceived for 100.000 tons of tin plate.
Seven years ago the United States was
importing its tin plate, while under the
tariff it is now supplying a large part of
the European trade and the consump
tion of this country besides, and keep
ing 43 plants in operation.—Minneap
olis Journal.
Free Silver Dion,
In either one of two ways the election
j will kill silver. It will frighten the pop
ocrats into dropping it in 1900, or it
will render them desperate, impel them
to cut loose from the east, which has
abandoned them, and force them to
make a last rally on that issue. In
either case silverism has got its death
blow. On that issue every state east of
the Alleglienies is as solidly republican
as Pennsylvania or Massachusetts.
Moreover, the west, as the recent re
turns show, is breaking away from the
base money party, and can never be re
lied on again to roll up a majority for
the sixteen to one folly. It can never
poll as many votes again as it cast in
IS9O. The "(i.500,000" have dropped to
low figures. Bryan's dupes have learned
something in the past two years. It
will be fortunate for the republican !
party and the country if the democrats
take up silver two years hence. It will
give the republicans an easy victory,
and knock that issue out of polities for
ever. St. LouisGlobc-Demoernt.
tremendous populist jell at
the Chicago convention when Bryan
made his noted speech was tlx? demo
cratic rtHpiicm. The old party per
ished on that occasion, and its succes
sor needs a new successor.—St. LouU
Globe-Democrat.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER i, 1898
WHERE ARE THE LEADERS.
111 All the Illatory of the Democratic
Pm ty There Him Never ileen
So I'lior 11 Sliovvlnw.
Democrats when in a reminiscent
mood say that their party in respect '.O
leadership reached its lowest estate
during the civil war and reconstruction
times. This judgment is, of course,
based 011 the assumption that most of
the democracy's leaders came from the
south, and at thattime that section was
not represented in congress. This as
sumption is correct. From the days of
Jefferson and Jackson 011 to those of
Huclianan the brains and character of
the democratic party were provided l.v
the southern states. After the recon
struction period the south did not com
pare as well in intellect in its represen
tation in congress as it did before the
war. The race which produced Cal
houn, McTJuflle, Jefferson Davis, Breck
inridge, Benjamin, Toombs, Stephens,
Hammond and the rest of the magnates
of the old south did not come to the
front immediately after their states
were restored to their former relations
to the union. Some of the men here
named were wliigs at first, but all of
those who were alive when the whig
party died in 1856 became democrats.
A lower grade of nun intellectually
were in the ascendant in the south in
the 70s and 80s from those who gave *l:e
law to that locality from 1800 onward
to 1860. and the democracy as a na
tional organization suffered in conse
quence.
Hut. tested by intelligence, courage
and character, the democracy of the
country has at this moment touched a
lower level than it reached in the dark
est days of its previous history. Though
the south was absent in the 60s. the
democracy was not altogether destitute
of intrepid and capable men. It was
represented in congress by Pendleton.
Richardson (of Illinois). Ywllandigham,
Phelps. Randall. Bayard, Thitrman. Cox.
Hendricks, Yoorliees and other men of
that caliber. Feeble in point of num
bers the democracy was in those days,
but in courage and general ability it
was far from being contemptible In
the contests of that time, though it was
always beaten, it was able to make a
fight which won the respect of the coun
try. The best that could be said fir
democracy as a partisan organizatif n
was said by one or other or till of these
able and conscientious men. and said
effectively. Their arguments and pre
tensions never aroused the derision or
provoked the laughter of the country,
as do those of their successors.
In neither branch of congress at the
fire son t time lias the democracy any
man who, in point of character or gen
eral capability, can compare favorably
with ai.v of those who have been men
tioned. None of the democratic chief
tains is able to carry his party in his
branch with him on any question of na
tional policy. Bailey, technically, is the
leader In the house, but the rest of his
party does not take him seriously, and
it is not altogether certain that hi' doe?,
himself. The ablest democrats in the
senate ore Lindsay and Gray, but
neither is in harmony with his party on
the money question, wliieh the stump
speakers of the party say is the prin
cipal issue before tlie country. Xeither
has any personal following. Gray is to
be succeeded by a republican on March
4 next, and Lindsay will be succeeded
by a republican or a silverite, probably
by the former, when his term ends.
Outside of congress the democracy is
equally destitute of men of capacity
find popularity. Cleveland is out of
polities, and long before his term ended
his party repudiated him. Hill is a
political corpse. Croker has no stand
ing outside of his own state, and there
are indications of a revolt against him
in that state. Bryan could not get a
third of the vote- in a national conven
tion to-day. Stone and Altgeld are
local magnates only, and locally their
reign is probably nearly over. Outside
of the south, the democracy has not in
the entire I'nited States a man who
could carry bis state in a presidential
election. N'ot in all the 100 years of
that party's history lies the democracy
been so contemptible in the quality and
standing of its representative men as it
is at this moment. —St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
MEANING OF THE VICTORY.
Fealnri-a of the Itrsnlt* Tlmt Are
Gratify lllß to (he Whole
Country.
Like good wine, the election news im
proves with age. The early returns
gave nothing for democratic congratu
lation; the later returns bring nothing
of democratic consolation.
For Col. Bryan and his school of free
silver disruptionists there is only woe.
The death knell of their hopes has been
pounded, and from .Nebraska through
out the west its echo Founds, reverberat
ing from mountain across dale. The
west stands true to an honest finance
and a safe, progressive administration.
Here, where the while metal madness
counted most confidently upon support,
its projectors found its most positive
repudiation.
That the east has in a measure
proved recreant to republicanism af
fords no comfort to this stranded crew
of piratical wreckers. The states where
democratic pains in congressional rep
resentation have been made are for the
most part those that kicked the silver
plank from their platform, ignored tl e
issue and went to battle on local fac
tionalism. The sixteen to one zealots
can figure their cause no gain in re
publican losses sustained in the east
So the country can congratulate itself
upon the retirement of Col. Bryan to
the shades of oblivion -which he so weii
adorns—and the stilling of the free sil
ver slogan now and forever as a dan
gerous campaign cry.
Hut there are other features of the
results that are gratifying to repub
licans. The administration of Presi
dent McKinley is handsomely indorsed
by the general vote of confidence. This
is especially significant in, western
gains. The president is a western
s man. He represents tlie vigor, tlie full
ness of life, the enterprise and pro
gressiveness of the younger growth of
Hates as set over against the effete
elder commonwealths of the east. In
1 a time when his administration was
put on trial there i* rare gratification
1 in the reflection that its beartiestand
, most unquailifled indorsement coircs
I from the section of which he is a part,
and which best knows and appreciates
what he i«, and what he represents.
Not the least significant feature of
this rally round the flag and the ad
f ministration at Washington in this "off
year" is the ratification of the war
policy and the direct expression of
confidence in the pence negotiations
that follow. The people are satisfied
with the war and its results. They
■ approve the plans of settlement nsout
, lined. That is why they have so em
phatically reversed the rule and made
this "off year" one of victory for the
party in control. The people are for
sound money and ag'iinst a depreciated
currency. That is why they have voted
to sustain honest finance; to ring down
•lie curtain on the free silver farce, and
have hissed liryan and his fellow
clowns from the stage.
And it i' well. Already has business,
that sensitive barometer of commercial
storms and industrial sunshine, given
1 vldence of the confidence capital has
:n a settled and safe administration of
national affairs. I'neasy until the re
sult was assured, timid and hesitating
while doubt remained, trade has seized
'ipon assurance of continued integrity
and taken a firm advance. The indus
tries will follow in natural sequence,
and as capital comes more actively into
the open labor will take 011 healthful,
••y.npathetie impulse.
It is :in era of general grntulation
"or patriotism, principle and progres
sion. For fiat ism, fanaticism, popu
lism it is the beginning of the end, the
depression that presages death and
eternal dissolution.—Cincinnati Com
mercial Tribune.
THE SURPRISE IN NEVADA.
OitiinotiM Outlook for tree Silver In
the Very Home of
SI IviT.
Th unkindest cut of all to the cause of
free silver, to the amazement of every
man. woman and school child in the
I' 11 iti'd Stiites. has come from little Ne
vada in this strange election. The early
returns indicated that the republicans
had carried Nevada by a small majority,
'out 110 one, even among the most op
t tuistic and confident sound money ad
vocates, discerned any special signifi
cance in that result. Nevada, to be
sure, was among the states whose in
coming legislatures would have toelect
federal senators, but on the financial
question, it was taken for granted,
t here was little to choose between a Ne
vada republican senator and a Nevada
democrat.
liut it now appears that the country
has been unjust to Nevada. Its voters
are not impervious to reason and fact.
The world moves for them, and the
signs of the times do not altogether
escape them. They have duly pondered
the interminable Stewart speeches 011
the "crime of 1876," but they have
studied the treasury figures of gold
production and the market quotations
of silver. While Stewart litis only been
repeating himself, the market has
added a fresh anti-silver argument
every day. In the end the market was
bound to defeat Stewart.
An anti-Stewart legislature is be
lieved to have been chosen, and the
long-winded "silver orator who has imi
tated C'ato of old and tacked 011 a plea
and a warning in behalf of silver to any
speech 011 any subject he has ever had
to lre;it in the senate may be relegated
to privacy and to other forums than the
1 ntional senate. Et tu, Nevada! the
silverites will cry in dismay, while the
sound money men will resolve to give
up nothing as irrevocably lost and to
carry the war for sanity and honesty
even to those few states with which sil
ver has been supposed to be a purely
industrial issue, a matter of bread and
butter which blinded the local citizens
tc every fact or maxim.
Stewart's only hope is in the failure
of his opponents to agree upon a candi
date. A deadlock would give a two
years' lease of political life, though" it
would not deprive his defeat of its sting
and bitterness and striking moral. —
Chicago I'ost.
result of the congressional
election is significant. For the first
time since IS7O the country unmistak
ably sustains the administration at the
congressional election of the off year.
In 1874, 1878, 1882, 1890 and 1894 the
party represented by the administra
tion lost the house by slaughter of its
members overwhelmingly, while in
1880 Uie democratic loss, though not
disastrous, was severe and sufficiently
to warn the administration and its
party of the fate to surely overtake
both in the national election of 1888.
The elections of this week disclosed
that the country is likely to elect a
republican president and congress in
1900.—Worcester (Mass.) Telegram.
Cl'ryanisin was badly worsted in
the election. Free silver did not win
in a single st;>te or district where a
fight was made on that line. In the
east the K'.'rml money men had every
thing tliMr own way. and ir. the west,
where the free silver majorities of '9O
were not wiped out, they wejre cut in
two. Colorado, which gave llryan 134,-
882 majority two years gave the
llryan candidate for only 50,-
000. Bryan's own state, wliieh gave
him 13,000 majority, now goes repub
lican by about 10,000. llryan and IJry
anism are "repudiated everywhere.—ln
dianapolis Journal.
ICAfter the election last week the
markets were active, with a strong up
ward movement The party of pros
perity is easily identified.—St. Louie
(ilobe-Democrat.
1 GEORGE D. MEIKLEJOHN.
1
Axalntnnt Secretary of War Wants to
lie Ktected t lilted State* kenn
tor from Nehranka.
1 George T). Meiklejohn, who is looming
, up big as the possible or probable suc
-1 3essor of United States Senator Allen,
I has just finished a record as assistant
; secretary of war. He is comparatively
p a young man, but he has had a busy ca
i reer, well filled with political and pro
fessional triumphs. lie is a native cf
' Weyauwega, Waupaca county, Wis.,
where lie was born August »'6, 1857. He
| spent his youth on a farm and gained
• the scant education afforded by the
' public schools of a sparsely settled
1 country in pioneer days, but this was
I supplemented by a course at the state
normal in Oshkosh. Young Meikle-
GKOROE l>. MEIKLEJOHN.
lAslstant Secretary of War Who Wants to
Be a Senator.)
john's thirst for knowledge grew with
his years, and he rounded out his edu
cational career with a college, course in
the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor. Like many another young col
legian, he turned to teaching as the
readiest means of employing his tal
ents, and he returned to his nat ive town
to become the principal of its high
school. He taught for a time also at
Liscotnb, la. He had determined to
study law, and returning to his alma
mater he was able to graduate from its
law school at the age of 2.'i. He went at
once to Nebraska, settling in 1880 at
Fullerton, Nance county. From that
time on his services were in almost con
stant demand for political positions,
and lie has won many honors since.
Shortly after his arrival in Nebraska he
was elected county attorney and held
the office for three years. lie was
elected to the state senate in ISB4 and
was reelected in 1886, and was chosen
president of the senate during his sec
ond term. In 1887 he presided over the
republican state convention, and after
ward made a successful chairman of
the state committee. He was elected
lieutenant-governor in ISSB. and was
sent to the Fifty-third congress from
the Third district by a plurality of 3,005
over his next highest competitor. Mr.
Mieklejolin was appointed assistant
secretary of war a few weeks after the
expiration of his term in congress.
PAPERS ON A STICK.
flow mi Old Pari* Xevrttboy Solved a
Problem Which Puzzled AH of
Ilia I'ollcnifacN.
"Necessity is the mother of inven
tion" is an old adage which, perhaps,
was never better exemplified than in
I'aris after the order had been given by
the Compagnie Generale des Omnibus
to stop newsboys from entering its ve
hicles. It was easy enough to sell pa
pers in the street or even through the
windows of a car or 'bus, but how was
it now possible to reach would-be cus
tomers perched on the "imperiales," the
seats provided 011 the roofs of the street
cars and omnibuses in I'aris?
The problem was soon solved, for one
fine day a man selling papers appealed
? ' Iff |
M *JBI
A PARISIAN IDEA.
(How Father Rarbette Circumvents the
Omnibus Company.)
near the Madeleine with a peculiar ajT
paratus. lie had a stick seven or eight
feet long, with wire clamps fastened to
its sides and papers stuck in them. On
the top there was a rl'iall cup with a
hole in the bottom. The hole wasvery
important part of the apparatus, for it
reached all the way down through the
stick, and through it came the copper
coins of one or two sous, according to
the price of the paper selected by the -
patron. This was at last a convenient
way to reach the roof of a car, and
"Father Barbette" was soon imitated 1
by a number of other newsboys, who
built apparatus just as ingenious is his.
Dcutli of <lll Old Parrot.
Ducky, the royal parrot of England,
presented to the king in 1800 by Pitt, is
dead at the age of 124. The bird was an 1
accomplished talker, and was banished
from the court for a time in 1850 be- 1
cause of its powers of mimicry and in 1
the frightful statements it did not hesi
tate to make even in the presence of '
royalty.
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.,
M r s. Richard King, of Texas, owns
2,000 square miles of land in that state.
Mr. ( urzon'g Irish peerage is tlie
twenty-fourth Irish peerage created
since t lie union.
Two slate-roofers quarreled recently
on a roof in Boston, and both fell to the
grouuAind were killed.
Mrue. I 'at t i dislikes the scent of vio
lets. which she declares has a decidedly
injurious effect upon her voice.
A Milwaukee judge recently granted
a divorce, with the provision that the
wife pay the husband alimony.
A clergyman in Wyandotte, Kan., lias
been arrested for kissing a {••irl who was
ia member of his congregation. The
complainant testified under oath that
"the kiss was so cold it made lier
shiver."
While President McKitiley's great
uncle Francis was fighting tinder Hen
ry Jay McCracken in the Irish revolu
tion of '9H, a grandfather of Senator
Manna was a captain in the opposing
Knglish force.
( apt. I.ee, of the British arnn , say s
that (ien. Chaffee, lieutenant colonel of
the Third cavalry, who commanded a
brigade in the attack on Santiago,
conies nearer his ideal of a soldier than
any other man he has seen in the
I'nited States army.
The body of a woman buried in Win
chester, Ky., "!'i years ago was recently
exhumed and found to be petrified.
The body was buried in a metallic
casket. The face had a natural appear
ance. and in one hand was a rose which
was perfect in its petrified shape.
A rancher in Arizona lias posted this
startling warning on a cottonwood
tree near his place: "My wife Sarrah
lias left my ranch when I didn't Dooa
Thing Too her. Any Man as takes lier
in and Keers for her on my account
will fjet himself I'umped So Full of Led
that some tenderfoot will locate him
for a mineral claim."
A PARADISE FOR WAITERS.
In Vlennii Tli.j Can Seize I timi «
Cuatoiner'N llntcsnee for
'f'tieir Tip*.
This question liys just been decided
in (he affirmative by the higher court at
Vienna, which not only confirmed the
judgment of the lower Court in a curi
ous action referred to it, but i>lso as
serted the right of a hotel servant to re
tain passengers' luggage in case a sulli
< ient gratuity is not forthcoming.
The suit, which proved again the
"law's delay," arose out of a dispute, in
August of ls'.ni, between a gentleman
who had passed considerable time at a.
summer resort as a hotel porter. A
Air. I) , who, with his family, had
►tuyed for 'M days at the hotel pre
sented the servant who brought the
luggage to the station with a pourlioirc
if six florins, about ten shillings. This
the man emphatically declined to ac
cept, demanding instead ten florins. On
the departing guest declining to give
that amount the servant refused to part
with the visitor's luggage, which, after
a scuffle, he carried back to the hotel
and deposited with the manager. Mr.
I) then brought, through the public
prosecutor, a charge of extortion
against the servant, accompanied with
threats and injury to property.
The lower court acquit t ed t he servant
on all the counts when the case was
brought before it in March, 1897. Then
the suit was carried to the higher court,
which confirmed the previous decision.
The charges of threats and injury to
property the court considered unproved,
and declared that the servant, who re
ceived no wages, was thrown for his
subsistence upon the generosity of the
visitors; that of this Mr. 1) was
aware; and that personal service for
days, according to the local usage,
at ten kretizers a day, amounted to at
least 12 florins, to which the man had
a legal claim, and that lie was quite
within his rights in retaining the lug
gage to secure himself from pecuniary
loss.
The custom of feeing every where and
everybody is so general iti Austria that
the only surprising part of the affair is
that anyone had the courage to rc-i t
the"local usage." Cabmen, conductors,
servants, porter:, guards, waiters, all
expect gratuities as a right, and this
tax is a considerable drain on a small
income in Austria. The astonished for
eigner soon yields to the inevitable, and
regularly provides himself with a snili
cient number of small coins to carry
him serenely and comfortably through
the day, at the same time inwardly re
gretting that Austrian traditions do
not allow all charges incurred to be en
tered in the bill.—London Telegraph.
Discovery of n Crnnn«K.
About a mile east of Dumbarton rook.
in the Firth of Clyde, a dwelling on
piles, or erannog, has been discovered
below high-water mark, some s:i yards
from the low-water mark. It is
feet in circumference, the outer circle
cf piles being of oakwood. sharpened
with stone axes. The transverse benms
and floor are of oak. willow, elder and
branches of fir, beech and hazel, with
I racken (ferns), moss and chips !n
the refuse heaps outside of theerannojj
were found the bones of stags, cows,
sheep, signs of lire, many firestonet
■ind a whetstone or hone. Near by was
a canoe 37 feet long 4 feet wide, hol
lowed from a single trunk of oak. This
erannog is the first yet found in an
estuary, and it evidently dates from the
stone age; therefore, it seems earlier
'ban others yet found in the liritish
isles. —London Public Opinion.
DifllouK to Stop.
Experiments se-Mn to show that a
large ocean steamer, going at 10 knots
an hour, will move a distance of two
miles after its engines are stopped and
reversed, and no authority gives le's
than a mile to a mile and a half as the>
required space to stop its progre-r.
The violent collisions in some cases
during fogs may thus be accounted for.
—Boston Globe.
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