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How Offenders Against the Law
Are-Transported to the
Central Station.
CALL FOR A PATROL WAGON.
Sparing Prisoners the Humiliation
of Undue Publicity.
THE SAD LESSONS OF THE LOCKUP.
Delicacy of the Police tn Handling and
Arresting the Transgressors Against tbc
Itir. The Fatrol Wnjon'. nastr
Ac.wcr to a. Call The Modest Pride of
the Arernae Drank-Disappointing the
Carious Crowds Searching for Wen p.
oni Escorting the Prisoner to n Cell
The Morning After The Rapid Descent
of an Old Timer Frightful Examples of
the Effects of Vice.
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.Let any Each pause a
Imonient when about to
commit some overt act
:rv, which is sure to enlist
the lightninc transporta-
tional facilities provided by" a thoughtful
municipality, and reflect upon the element
of secretiveness which enters into the treat
ment accorded to offenders acainst the peace
and good nature of the people. "When tou
get right down to the matter of shielding
the wanton smasher of the peace from an-
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due prominence in the stern eye of the pub
lic, you find a delicate, consideration, a
thoughtful and paternal care which should
eToke the heartiest gratitude. As a usual
thing, however, the eyes of the offender are
too blinded by partisan prejudice against
the institution of arrest to allow of calm
and rational appreciation of policial deli
cacy in dealing with the individual. Some
times, too, the perceptives of the offender
are dulled by the amount of -oh-be-joyful
temporarily amalgamated with the system.
"Who" can expect an eye made lazy and dull
by firewater, a mind whose subtle workings
are disarranged, or a body limp and wabbly,
to understand the extent of the privacy ac
corded by the covered hurry-up, the emptied
station house and the exclusion of the
curiosity of the vulgar?
There are few things in the round of city
life more common than arrests, yet but few
eyes are allowed to trace the final step of the
incarceration of the offender prior to his
entrv upon the police blotter as a truest of
the city for the city's good, it's an inter
esting ph.se of the well-oiled machinery for
the enforcement of law and order, and a de
scription of the precautions taken to min
imize the humiliations of arrest will be read
with interest by that portion of the public
which murmurs "poor devill" as the hurry
up wagon dashes by, as well as that element
enjoying leisure enough to flatten their
noses against the windows of the station
house and blink hopefully at the scenes
within, barred ont by the hard-hearted
bobby who interposes a demurrer to the
laudable desire ot the aforesaid public to
jam itself into the station house at the heels
of an offender.
HOT rr is DONE.
Somebody has been drinking and has nav
igated an undue load so far and no further.
An involuntary halt is called, to which
Chief Biown's most contiguous finest takes
exception. The patrolman goes to the
nearest of the 125 patrol boxes in the city
and turns in a call. For the sake of a re
duction to speed we will imagine that the
call comes from Penn avenue and Eleventh
street If it is at night, Mr. E, B. Leech,
in the Police Inspector's office, calls up the
patrol wagon at Second avenue. The horses
are partially hitched and are hustled into
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harness without the loss of a second. So
rapid are the movements of men and horses
the result of long practice that the
wagon has several times reached the law
smasher inside of six minutes from the
time the alarm was turned in. As a usual
thing the prisoner is landed at the Central
station and the wagon back in its stable in
side of 15 minutes. The reason for such
speed is obvious. The officer who makes
the arrest may be surrounded bv an unruly
element of population who would love to
rescue the prisoner from the clutches of the
law, or he may be trying to retain his grip
upon a whole wagon load of vicious and un
tractable citizens.
The hnrry-up dashes up to the box and
while the driver reins in his spirited ani
mals, the two wagonmen jump out and as
sist the patrolman in the sometimes difficult
task of installing the unwilling and refrac
tory offender. If he is either a common or
an uncommon drunk, main strength is very
necessary in insinuating him into the
dreaded vehicle. Some offenders embarK on
the trip wltn nonchalance born of familiarity.
Others burst into tears and endeavor to hide
themselves while en route to the Central
stntion. Drunks are, of course, in a nega
tive state of resistance. Many of the latter
clsss dimly belieTe that they are being
favored with a distinguished honor, and
with becoming modesty insist that they are
much 'bilged at being singled out for sueh
an ovation. If in the preliminary scuffle a
weapon has been taken irom the offender it
u handed to the wagon men, and a brief ex-
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given by the man on the beat.
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Then the hurry-up wagon threads its rapid
course toward the Central station. The
officials of that place which mijht have
the famous inscription, "Who enters here
leaves hope behind," written over the door
have bceu meanwhile apprised of the fact
that the wagon is hurrying up with one or
more unfortunates. In order to warn co
temporaneous traffic the patrol wagon has a
dismal gong which clangs at intervals.
"When the wagon reaches the entrance of
Diamond alley the gong sounds its warning
and the officials in the station throw open the
front doors. A crowd or greater or less ex
tent gathers as the wagon stops, and the
gaping at the captive and captors is pro
longed and earnest. If the prisoner is able
to move he orshe clambers out with a wagon
man on either side, and no time is wasted in
getting into the station, whereupon the doors
are hastily shut, excluding the vox populi,
always sorely against their will.
If this is at night time and a large per
centage of the patrol wagon's work is done
between supper time and midnight the
Being Searched Jor Weapon.
criminal is marched through the sta
tion, Turnkey Lourimore produces a
portentious key and opens the gate of
inch-bar iron and the wagon men rush the
offender through without so much as by
your leave. The door is swung to and
locked, and the prisoner is halted and held
by the wagon men while Turnkey Lour
imore and Sergeant David Myers go through
the pockets of the offenders with an amazing
dexterity and celerity born of unremitting
and constant experience. The entire con
tents of the offender's pockets are hauled forth
and inspected, and the two officers run their
hands all over his person in search of con
cealed weapons or valuables. Papers,
handkerchiefs, etc, are returned to the ar
rested person, but firearms, knives, watches
and all valuables are taken out to the desk
by the sergeant, who, before so doing, asks
the prisoner his name, and usually receives
the Smith or Jones bluffi The valuables
are sealed up in an envelope and marked
with the name and time of arrest of the
owner. The time of arrest has to be put
down in each case, or the identity of a num
ber of John Smiths would mix up the prop
erty question very seriously. Knives, un
less ot the stiletto, Barlow or Bowie brand,
are usually returned. Bevolvers never, un
less the prisoner has a permitto carry the
same, and sometimes not then, if the pris
oner is a well-known or dangerous char
acter. A MODEST CIIAMBEE.
"While the sergeant is attending to this
clerical portion of the business, the turnkey,
aided by the wagon men, has escorted the
offender to one of the double-row of cells,
unlocked the door and thrust him in, leaving
him to his reflections. If drunk, he hasn't
any reflections until the next morning.
There is not very much in the cell. The oc
cupant can stretch himself out on a plank
ledge, which might by courtesy be called a
bed, but which reminds one of the story told
of the novice who went to sea, and when it
came bedtime asked the sEipper where a bed
was to be found, and was told, with a sea
man's oath, to stick. ttkhife In the softest
board of the ship's deck and use that as a
couch. The bed is polished by long con
tinued contact with the physiques of all
sorts of unfortunates.
In the morning when the prisoner is sub
mitted to 'an examination by Magistrate
Gripp, the case, if finable, enlists the
frienaly offices of the valuables found on the
person the night before. If there were no
valuables, and if the prisoner has been un
able to scare up some friends in need and in
deed, the magisterial sentence sometimes in
dicates that the way of the transgressor is as
hard as the bed he passed the night
upon. By far the greatest majority
of the cases terminate in a sent
ence of greater or less period to the
works. If such be the case, that portentous
conveyance called the "Black Maria" trans
ports the unlortunate offender to the West
Penn depot, where the courtesies of a free
ride to the "works" are extended. So it
will De seen that the city is not mean or par
simonious in the provision of free transpor
tation. Many a rich man rides behind a
much inferior team than that attached to
the hurry-up wagon, and many a poor fel
low has deliberately committed some overt
offense in order to gain the exhilaration of
a rapid ride to Central station, a railroad
trip to the works and a season of compara
tive idleness with comparatively good
"grub" as an additional advantage.
Women who fall into the meshes of justice
are accorded much the same treatment as
male offenders, except that the searching of
their persons is attended to by the matron of
Central station.
THE SENTIMENTAL SIDE.
The above is the practical side of the ma
chinery of the mnnicipal arrests, but the
sentimental side is ineffably sad. The news
paper fraternity are always admitted to the
station when the drag net discharges its sad
catch of the scrapings of the haunts of sin
and vice. There are newspapermen who can
remember the wrinkled old hag with the
drink-seared countenance, bleared eyes,
disheveled hair, bloated body and wretched
rags who was fetched in screaming and
cursing last night, when she was a novice iu
crime and had not reached the uttermost
depths of squalor and degradation. It
seems nam to neueve tuai seven or eight
years could effect so startling a metamor
phosis. The first time she came into the
Central station, her eyes were still bright,
the country roses had sot fled lrom her
cheeks, she was clad in tawdry
finery, and the outlines of her
form were yet those of youth
and health. She walked erectly, and the
light of defiance gleamed in her restless eyes
when' she faced the police sergeant for
the first time with a remnant of shame
struggling to the surface in spite of assumed
denlmayoareishness. How quirk the tran
sition effected by debauchery and drinkl
Truly downward steps soon become a head
long rush. Even a powerful imagination
would be baffled by some of the "regulars'
who are periodically rounded np by the po
lice and sent up to the works, their release
to prove only more strongly the futility of
controlling appetites wedded to the dregs of
sin.
The men who float into the Central station
arouse more disgust than emotion. But
there are lessons, nevertheless, in the changes
in the faces of periodical visitors of the po
lice headquarters. The young man who was
gulled In last war with hhr faco flushed
Eer First Arrest.
with drink, his step unsteady, his hard
earned money a golden means to the enjoy
ment of the moment and its fascinations,
was at that time the worst enemy of himself.
Bioting and frequent arrests have destroyed
his manhood, calloused his emotions of
shame, and in a marvelously short time he
has been transformed into an enemy of so
ciety. It doesn't take long, especially when
one resolves to become his own agent of de
struction. More eloquent sermons on the vices of
man and womankind, more vivid illustra
tions of the dangers of intemperance, and
more speaking instances of the possibilities
of degradation filter through the police
headquarters of a great city than all the
Talmages can paint in a lifetime of ser
mons. The volcano of vice seems to in
crease its eruptions yearly. At least that is
what intimate contact with the habitues of
Central station would indicate.
Wales.
HEWSPAPEES OF THE. WOELD.
America Leads the List With 12,500 and
Germany is Second.
London Times.l
A large number of statistics have been
collected in connection with the Paris Ex
hibition, and of these probably the most in
teresting are those which deal with the total
number of journals published in the whole
world. These have been collated by La
Xature. The facts given show that Ger
many has the honor of publishing the larg
est number of periodicals In Europe, these
numbering 5,500, of which 800 are dailies.
Journals devoted to special religious dog
mas, creeds and scientific theories abound
more in this than in any other country.
The oldest German journal is the Frankfort
Gazette dee Postes, founded in 1616; the
most widely circulated, the .Berliner Tage
blatt, issues but 55,000 copies.
After Germany comes England, which
publishes over 3,000 newspapers, 809 of
which are dailies. France follows, with a
nearly equal number, of which only a quar
ter are dailies, bi-weeklies or tri-weeklies.
Italy holds the fourth rank by publishing
1,400 journals. In Austria-Hungary there
are 1,200 journals, of which 150 are dailies.
So far as other countries are concerned
Spain follows, with 850, and Russia with
800, 200 of the latter appearing at St,
Petersburg and 75 at Moscow. In all,
Europe is credited with over 20,000 jour
nals. .
Turning to Asia, the figures show that
here no fewer than 3,000 newspapers are
issued, most of which appear in Japan and
the British Indies. China is very poorly
supplied, having but the King-Pau (offi
cial journal of Pekin), which issues three
editions a day on paper of different colors,
and one journal at Shanghai and one at
Corea. Japan, on the other hand, pub
lishes 1,500 journals. Africa makes but a
very poor show, having but 200 newspapers,
30 of which are published in Egypt, and the
rest in European colonies.
America has a large share of representa
tion in the world's press, the United States
alone issuing 12,500 papers, 1,000 of which
are dailies. In Canada 700 journals are
published, most of which are French. Be
sides Mexico and Brazil, in which quite a
large number of papers are published, it
may be stated that the Argentine Bepublio
has 60 journals. Australia is credited with
700 papers, all of which are English.
HAEYELS OP MEM0ET.
Men who Conld Repent tho Contents o
Whole Books.
Blackwood's Macazlne.
There have been stupendous memories
enough in ancient and modern times to stag
ger belief such as those of Theodectes and
Hortensius and Cineas, of whom Cicero
speaks, and in our later days, Pascal, who,
it is said, never forgot anything he had seen,
heard, or thought; and Avicenna, who re
peated by rote the entire Koran when he
was 10 years old, and Francis Suarez, who,
Strada tells us, had the whole of St. Augus
tine in his memory enough, one would
think, to destroy all his mental power of di
gestion; and Justus Lipsius, who on one oc
casion offered to repeat all the "History" of
Tacitus withont a mistake on forfeit of his
life; and in our own days Jedediah Buxton
and Zerah Colburn, among others, who had
such a prodigious power and rapidity of
calculating in their minds. Colburn, it is
said, could tell the cumber of seconds in 58
years almost before the question conld be re
peated. The story is told that Jedediah Bux
ton was once taken to the theater to see Gar
rick, and that he was observed to pay unre
mitted attention to the great actor through
out the play. When he went out his friends
who accompanied him asked him how he
had been impressed by the acting, and Jede
diah answered by stating the number of
words and syllables that Garrick had
spoken. His mind had been interested sole
ly in this enumeration. I dare say it was a
purely mechanical operation of mind with
him, and I rather think that with all these
great menories it is the same.
WHT HE DIDN'T PE0P0SE.
A Young Man's Excellent Reasons for
Abandoning Matrimonial Intentions.
New York San.1
A certain well-known New Yorker, who
has to hustle for his bread and molasses,
this summer fell in love with a girl, and
ever since August has been on the eve of
proposing to her. His income is $2,500 a
year, but he wanted to be certain that he
could pay all the expenses before rushing
into the fray. He estimated that the rent
and running expenses of a suburban resi
dence would cost $1,800 a year. He al
lowed $350 a year for his personal expenses,
and thought that the girl could get along on
a like snm. To be sure he didn't expect to
save any money while living at this rate;
bnt like other young men he had abounding
faith in a special Providence which would
cause a long-forgotten nncle or other rela
tive to die sometime and leave him a for
tune. So he asked an intimate friend of his lady
love how much the latter spent for her
wardrobe during the year. The friend said:
"Why, she told me only day before yester
day that her clothes cost $1,600 a year, but
she did think she could get along on
$1,500." The engagement has not yet been
announced.
A Sadly Disappointed Maiden.
Philadelphia Hccord.: ,
A gushing Philadelphia miss was one of a
party at a rabbit supper in the country a
few days ago, and she was real provoked be
cause she could not find a single wishbone
in the whole potpie.
Times Bare Not Changed.
John Alden Wehave just won ye game
cf skittles, Priscilla. What thinkest thou
ot thy John As prowess ? ,
JjclelPue.
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PITTSBURG, SUNDAY,
WOMAN IS ADYANCING
Julia Ward Howe Tells What the Sex
Has Gained in Half a Century.
WOMAN F1F1T TEARS AGO AND NOW
Is Woman Less a Woman Because She is
More a Citizen?
THE EFFECTS OF COLLEGE EDUCATION
rwKrrrzjt von the sisfatch.
As these questions have been stated for
me to treat of, the most difficult clause
stands first in order.
A moral advance is not so easily made
sure of as is one in education, or in physi
cal condition. The deep things of the heart
do not float on the surface of the commu
nity. It is not easy to say at any time how
much of the vice of the world escapes detec
tion, nor how much of its virtue fails of re
cognition. Yet, to a certain extent, the tree
may be known by its fruits. We may infer
a higher moral condition from a better social
state.
When I remember the world- as I knew
it, 40 or even 50 years ago, and compare
these recollections with what I see to-day,
the moral advance made by society appears
to me unmistakable, and in this advance
women have been not only participators,
but active agents. This is not to say that
there were not many good women in the
time of which I speak, nor that there are
not many bad ones now. But the position
of women has essentially changed since that
time.
In this country, of which we can speak
with the greatest certainty, the whole ideal
ot womanhood has been lilted bodily, and
placed upon a secure elevation. How
should it be otherwise where freedom has
given woman room to grow and expand to
her full stature, and where the cruel gvves
of servile superstition have been stricken
from her intellectual faculties?
Ho creature can be noble that iSfbrced
into an apologetic position. The first sinner,
who stole the forbidden fruit, and led the
man to taste it. Who can tell how severely
ancient niyihus may have reacted upon
the position of woman? Not the Hebrew
Scriptures alone, but others of the Oriental
religions, threw the burden of the world's
evil upon womankind. Philosophers of our
own day who have become enamored of
these ancient faiths have endeavored, in
their way, to set forth this mean ard un
generous doctrine, and to maintain with the
followers of Buddha that the evil principle,
throughout creation, is the female. From
the Buddhistic point of view this doctrine
has indeed its logical justification.
"WOMAN'S EDUCATIONAL ADVANCE.
If, as this assumes, existence is an evil,
then the great part which women bear in
the production of life is primarily an evil.
Has not our Christianity put all these cob
webs to flight, with its wholesome showing
of the absolute valne of human life? Even
the genius of Schopenhauer will not efface
the sacred image of the mother and her
babe, to have in its place the bootless pres
ence of an infinite nothing.
The question of woman's educational ad
vance might almostappear superfluous in a
I day in which the ancient barriers no longer
cross wie unwaru patu vi vug wuuieu wiiu
would know something.
The high schools and colleges of the coun
try, once closed against women, are now in
great measure open to them. Their record
in these institutions shows their studious
zeal and capacity. After and beyond this
scholastic training, the education of practi
cal life--is now vouchsafed them, in the
variety which corresponds with the variety
of their gifts and predilections.
"What Will He Do With It?" is the title
of one of Mr. Bulwer's novels. The question,
"What will she do with it?" has often re
tarded the granting of the higher education
to woman. We of to-day can answer: "She
is doing good work with it. Thorough in
tellectual training is making plain to her
the laws which underlie her most gracious
instincts, giving her the rationale of the
poetic saying that
"Spirits are not finely touched
But to fine issues."
The pursuit of the higher education for
women has been met by two grave difficul
ties viz., the fear that its emancipation
would react unfavorably upon their moral
nature, and the persuasion that severe men
tal application would impair the physical
condition of the mothers of the race.
The first of these foregone conclusions
springs from the tyrannical instinct which
is at certain stages of society the leading
force among human tendencies. Not men
only, but women also, wishing to command,
naturally desire that others should be in
capacitated from sharing their rule. The
surest way to do this is to keep for them
selves the secrets of the knowledge which is
power. Statecraft and priestcraft have
closely allied themselves with these views,
and in our days a sort of "rank craft" has
done what it could in the same way.
THE BIGHT TO VOTE.
The heroic men who have vindicated the
cause of human freedom have brought soci
ety out of this rntof fear and repression.
They have shown, and history has shown
with them, that the true danger of society
lies in ignorance, and not in intelligence.
The Channings, Garrisons, Phillips, have
made the atmosphere all clear and bright
abont us. Before their time, the saintly
women of the Puritans and of the Quakers,
and in their time, the brave women of the
anti-slavery movement, have aided in tramp
ling out the embers of the old inquisitorial
fires. And to-day, the women of the suffrage
movement may point to Ann Hutchinson,
Maria Weston Chapman, HarrietMartineau,
and a host of others, and ask whether a
woman is less a woman because more a citi
zen, less fit for home duties because she has
learned to apprehend rightly the relation of
these duties to the State?
The question of woman's physical im
provement comes last in my list of queries.
I mention it here as being closely allied to
the topic of extended education.
The demand that the college curriculum
should be as free to women as to men called
forth from members of the medical profes
sion an indignant protest AH the ills that
flesh is heir to would visit them and their
posterity if this demand should be granted.
Insanity, sterility, deformity, would afflict
the college-bred women. Either they would
stay the men fatally in the race for acade
mic honors, or, the effort to keep up with
these would shipwreck the health of the
young girls for life.
in spite ot inese inreats, coming lrom
high quarters, the demand was persevered
in, granted, and availed of.
What followed? The inevitable conclu
sion that young women are as well able to
bear the strain of college studies as young
men are.
It also appeared that if some girls are
physically disqualified for sustained intel
lectual labor, a certain proportion ot the
young men are subject to the same limita
tion. Cases of breaking down among the
male undergraduates came to be observed
and reported. Non omnia possumus omnes.
We can't all go to college, men and wo
men of us, but many women can and should
go. And, thank heaven, they did go, and
still continue to do so.
EFFECTS OB1 WOMAN'S CLTJBS,
What a hysterical view was this, that
all the discoveries of science, the improve
ments ot hygiene, the ameliorated views of
diet, ventilation, and of the use and care of
the body, should not sufficiently benefit wo
men to offset the danger of a thorough course
of Latin, Greek and mathematics!
Mir uiucp wsfo- w wo wisueu mil ins I
now much were, m to be wished that the
NOVEMBER 17, 1889.
openly and efficiently against late hours,
tight lacing, high-heeled shoes, and the use
of nerve stimulants and cosmetics, as it did
against the healthful and satisfying pursuit
of learning I
Much as I consider women to have gained
by the position and opportunities secured to
them in America, I have yet to name an im
portant item which is both a condition and
a mark of their improvement This is the
fact of their ever-increasing tendency to as
sociated action.
The social instinct is strong in human na
ture, but it does not attain its best results
without study and self discipline.
The women's clubs which are springing
up all over the country are marks of this
study and discipline. I know of many of
them, and Ido not know of one which does
not keep in view serious and worthy ob
jects. The feeling of sisterhood which nat
urally grows out of club intercourse among
women tends to put out of sight the inordi
nate ambitions of the few and the self-distrusting
passivity of the many.
In the club it is soon fonnd that one
woman cannot do everything. All must
help, and tasKs are constantly found which
give scope to the activity of each and all. A
generous and far-reaching sympathy, tends
more and more to take the place of fantastic
aims and illusory relations.
The women's clnbs are, as I see them, the
sign and seal of the advance of woman in
health, in sound life, and in rational enjoy
ment and service. Julia Wabd Howe.
THE CHAEM OF S0UTHEEN GIEL8.
A Type of Truest Womanhood Which
Shines Brightest In the Home.
The Southern girl shines brighestathome,
says the Washington Herald. She has not
forgotten the old-time respect that children
should have for the mothers who gave them
life, and the graceful affection in which she
holds the gray-haired woman who kept a
brave heart amid the horrors of war and in
the sickening days of poverty and privation
that followed in its train, and, though she
has had all this to bear, has taught her
young daughters lessons of self-help, of
courage in misfortune, that can never be
effaced.
Those of true modest womanhood did not
need to be taught, for they were inherent
When the Southern girl walks on the aveuue
she is as distinctly recognizable as though she
were marked "From Georgia," or placarded
"An Alabamian."
Her step is easy, for it was learned from
Dame Nature herself, and the slender feet
might belong to the daintiest ankle that ever
gleamed in the shadows of the Orange Walk
at Seville.
You never knew before how lovely a cos
tume of simple white could be, and yet yon
say to yourself that the costliest device of
the cunningest miliner in. the "Rue de Bac
could not be more effective in demolishing
the masculine heart
Every woman who sees her knows that
that hat was the work of the wearer's
slender fingers, but haw becoming it is,
lighted by the softest, sweetest, brown-gray
eyesl
And as you look your thoughts are miles
away from the crowded avenue and its inter
changing scenes. You are young again,and
the romance of the far South come back,and
you smell the orange trees as they were in
bloom so many years ago, and with Owen
Meredith, you unconsciously say, "Oh that
we were eternally young!"
CABLE MESSAGES IS ENGLAND.
Red-Tape Segnlations Abont Dispatches
Sent Across tho Atlantic
Philadelphia Inq.ulrer.1
The American who goes into a telegraph
office in England for the first time to send a
cable message usually undergoes an experi
ence that confirms him in his opinion as to
the Svpetiaitty of the institutions of Mr,
native land. He has just arrived and is
anxious to inform the folks at home, so he
stops on his "way to the railway station or
hotel. Telling the Vcabby" to wait, he
grasps a blank, fills in the necessary words,
lays down his shillings and prepares to go.
"Wrong form!" says the clerk, politely but
firmly. The traveler looks around help
lessly nntil some one, seeing his embarrass
ment, hands him the white sheet required
for cable messages. He gives it to the clerk
with a sigh relief. "Must be stamped!" re
plies that official, pointing to a sign of
"Stamps sold here."
The traveler hands his message to the
bright-faced girl who presides behind the
iron-railed counter. "You must get it rated
sirl" she says. Half in despair, anxious,
maybe, to catch a train or join some waiting
friends, he finds the rating clerk, buys the
stamps from the interesting young lady, and
at last, ten minutes or more having passed,
has his message accepted and started via
a pneumatio tube to some more central sta
tion, at which the operating room is located.
Many are the excellencies of the English
postal service, but promptitude is not al
ways one of them. It is just to say the new
cable company has dispensed with many of
the formalities which are so trying to any
one accustomed to American ways.
THE MCK. IN THE LAPEL.
The Reason That Little Notch Was Blade In
Yonr Coat Collar.
St. Louis Eepablic.l
Did you ever wonder why that little
Y-shaped nick was placed at the juncture of
your coat collar with the lapel? I suppose
you have. Occasionally we all have our
little ruminating spells, and fall to wonder
ing the whys of the many odd things we see
about ns. Hold your coat np before you,
and you will see at a glance that it would
"set" just as well without the nick as with
it Therefore the matter of fit cannot be
given as a proper solution of the fact that It
is there. Withont apparent purpose this
nick is clipped from the lapel of every frock
coat worn in the world. But there was
motive in the madness of the first man who
adopted the little insignia of distinction. Z
will tell you about it
When the first Napoleon gave way to his
ambition he tried to implicate General
Moreau in Pichegru's conspiracy. Morean
had been Napoleon's superior and was very
SDpular, but under the circumstances, as
'apoleon was on top it was not safe to ex
press publiclv anv svmpathv with Moreau:
so his admirers secretly agreed to nick their
coat lapels to show what they were. Care
fully note the outlines of the first coat-front
you see that is well-fitted and buttoned, and
see if you cannot plainly detect the in
itial letter M in its windings. The M will
appear aside down, the little nick forming
its sides. M was the initial letter for
Moreau. and his champions were known by,
ine mess in ine lapeis oi ineir coau.
Aged Industry.
Mr. Farmhumper Poor old gran'pop's
got kinder feeble, but we can't support no
uruues rouna vuover-iop, aa no uou nuiuu i
drones ronnd Clover-top; an' he don t mind
OPENING OF AFEICA.
A Pleasant Talk With King Leopold
About the Congo Free State.
LIGHT FOR THE DABK CONTINENT.
Christian Monarch's Ambition to
Civilize Africa.
THE ANTI-SLATEEI C0NFEEENCE PLANS
lcoanxarosBxitcxoT thxpisfatcb.!
Bbussels, October 24.
FEW days ago I
received a note
from Monsieur Le
Comte Borchgrave
d'Altens, Secre
taire du Boi, sum
moning me to call
upon him at the
palace, which I did
on the following
morning at 920
.o'clock. I had pre
viously had the
honor of making
the acquaintance of
the Count by a per
sonal letter I had
brought
Minister
A. Le
to him from the Belgian
to the United States, M.
Ghaii, and was cordially
by the Boyal Secretary.
received
I was informed that His Majesty had in
structed the Count to inform me that it
would give him great pleasure to receive
me at the palace at 2 o'clock in the after
noon of Saturday, the 19th. His Majesty
had said that although it was cus
tomary etiquette in such matters
for the Minister to present an
American, nevertheless he desired me
A. Scene on the Congo.
to say to the representative of the American
Government at Brussels that in this case it
would not be necessary for him to present
me. A few moments before the appointed
hour I was received by the officers and serv
ants of the royal household and was escorted
to the reception room in the east wing of the
palace, which afforded a charming view of
the spacious and beautiful grounds for
which this palace is justly famed. The few
minutes I remained in the reception room
were pleasantly passed in an interesting
conversation with a young officer of the
King's household, wo, although not ac
quainted with the English language, was
familiar with the history and institutions of
America.
Presently the doors Ieadine to the Einsr'a
ffiseeretbKpT!fcBilJwMsha(l
Into thepreseleeofSisiGjejtT,XeopoldT
jj, -Eung oi tne .Belgians and sovereign
Headof thelndependentStateof Congo. He
was attired in the uniform of a Lieutenant
General, of dark blue cloth trimmed with
a small red cord. He wore hut one decora
tion, upon the left breast As he stepped
forward and cordially grasped "my hand,
with his more than six feet towering above
me, I realized that I was in the presence of
a ruler who waS every inch a King. For
many years 1 had known how richly he was
endowed with mental and moral attributes
such as are rarely possessed by rulers in the
Old World; and now I was impressed by
his magnificent presence. His urbanity and
regal bearing and the warmth of his greet
ing pat me quite at my ease,
A HANDSOME HOHAECH.
While a large man, Leopold IL has all
that distinguishes the student, carrying no
superfluous flesh; and proved himself a gold
listener as well .as a pleasant and entertain
ing conversationalist His hair and full
beard were carefully trimmed and liberally
sprinkled with gray. His features were
strong and clear-cut and keen; and his eyes,
bright and quick, flashed with intelligent
interest from behind a pair of eyeglasses.
His bead was broad and capacious; ears set
Hative Tfarriort.
well back of a brain that towered far above
them. His mouth showed both strength and
generosity, and his chin was indicative of
decision and courage, xiis voice wasciear
and soft with minor tones that had held
close fellowship with sorrow.
During a long and most interesting inter
view several questions were discussed; bnt
those that I have the liberty of mentioning
here pertained to a subject in . which he is
deeply interested, and to which he has de
voted his splendid talents and vast wealth
for some years the Congo State. In reply
to my question as to how be first became in
terested in the Congo, he said: '
"After the New York Herald and the
London Telegravh had dispatched Henry
M. Stanley to Africa in search of David
Livingstone, and he had snccesslnlly per
formed that mission, and had crossed the
Dark Continent from the Indian Ocean to
the valley of the Cdngo to the Atlantic
Ocean, I invited him to come and see me
herein Brussels. He recounted his thrill
ing adventures and experiences in Africa;
spoke in glowing terms of the richness of the
soil and the resourcefulness of the country.
He seemed to be anxious to do something
for Africa, and I told him to go back to the
Congo and undertake a work for the country
and the people, and that I wonld be his
banker. He went and what he did his
tory." In reply to an inquiry as to the objects
His Majesty had in view in so largely in
vesting in an enterprise which is regarded
by the world at large as largely precarious
and visionary, he replied with animation:
ura s i"ik aausi.
"mates are Homing more aaa tuBiues;
IkgS.
;jBl?:
"IISI- "'::i,'"S6Z
6,000,000 souls; in America there is a fam
ily of more than 60,000,000. I believe these
families have a duty to discharge to the
outside world as well as to themselves.
Small States have a ..greater facility for
doing good to the outside world than large
States. The Belgian nation is a small one;
no one is afraid of it; and it has neither an
offensive ambition nor diplomatic complica
tions with larger Stales. It is neutral.
You know the history of Greece. Well,
Greece was a small nation, and,, while it
fought many great and brilliant battles,
ITS CHIEir OLOET
was in other directions. It had great ora
tors, poets, historians, philosophers, artists
and clever citizens. Its commerce whitened
all seas, and its influence upon the civiliza
tion of the world has been beneficent wide
spread and permanent Thus the Belgian
nation seeks to achieve something for civil
ization, and to discharge a Christian duty
toward Africa. My people have but two
motives in this work; one is trade and com
merce, which is selfish and must be allowed;
l Pff d&i
ill
In Court Costume.
and the other is to bring the means and
blessings of Christian civilization to Africa,
which is noble."
When I asked His Majesty what he ex
pected in return for the great outlay he had
made in the Congo, his eyes kindled with
interest, and, straightening himself up in
his chair, he said :
"I have spent much in the Congo, and yet
I am not tired spending. What I do there
is done as a Christian duty to the poor
African; and I do not wish to have one
franc back of all the money I have ex
pended. God created Africa and the Afri
cans as well as. He did other countries and
races of people; and we owe a duty to that
country ana people that should be dis
charged with cheerful willingness."
"But what signs are there. Your Majesty,
to indicate that those people appreciate the
blessings of the independent State you have
established?" I asked.
"Many," he replied, "but chiefly in the
fact that every month more and more of the
natives appear in our courts; thus showing
that they not only acknowledge the lawful
government of the country, but that they
have confidence in the administration of
justice, and appreciate the privileges and
blessings of civil government"
"I have somewhere seen that when your
son was removed by death, you expressed
the belief that God had put Africa on Your
Majesty's heart?"
Turning his head to one side, he gazed
dreamily out of the window, while a sad ex
pression spread over his countenance; and
then turning and facing me squarely with a
tender melancholy In his words, he said;
"Yes, it is partly true; but we should not
Invoke sorrow to compel us to do our duty.
We shonld do right because it is right"
After pleasant conversation on other mat
ters, I took my leave of one of the noblest
sovereigns in the world; an emperor whose
highest ambition is to serve the cause of
Christian civilisation, and to rrromota the
wst-Hlilirli'- hfcjHMKi&si'l'hl
aom, mercy auu justice.
THE ANTI-SLAVZET CONTESESrCE.
The conference of the powers of Europe
which had been summoned to meet in this
city on the 15th of the present month has
been postponed nntil the 18th of November.
The postponement was made at the request
of several of the powers that ware not pre
pared to meet on the first date. All the
signatory powers of the Conference of Ber
lin, 14 in number, with 19 delegates, will be
present at the Conference of Brussels, and
Persia will come into the conference, the
only power not present at Berlin.
Beleiam has no secret or selfish motives
in calling this conference. The good of
Africa is the sole object in view. No plan
has been laid down cr policy suggested for
the conference to follow. The delegates
from each power will come with verbal and
written instructions to govern their action
on the leading questions to be considered by
the conference. England, Germany, France,
Spain, Portugal, Italy and the Congo State
nearly one-half of the powers of Europe
have territorial interests and claims in
Africa, and they will naturally be Interested
in the abatement of an evil that has exerted
such a deleterious effect upon the trade
and commerce of Africa. And no
doubt the other powers, although
without territorial possessions, will heartily
sustain any action that may tend to a practi
cal solution of the slave trade. There can
be, in my judgment, no plausible ground
for a serious division in the conference on
the best methods of checking and ultimately
extinguishing the slave trade on the African
continent providing, however, that wher
ever a military, or police, or boat service is
employed, it shall be national in its charac
ter and administered by and within the
territorial boundaries of each one of the
signatory powers having thus far estab
lished its authority in any part of Africa.
The international action of ths conference
will doubtless be embodied in a preamble
and anti-slavery proclamation.
The Mozambique river question will doubt
less be brought into the conlerence by Por
tugal' and England, but whatever power is
made master of this great waterway should
be made distinctly to understand that it
should be held open to a great international
commerce upon equal terms. And if pilot
age, harbor dues or a light impost tax
should be fixed, it should be done withont
discrimination. All the powers should be
admitted to trade and commerce upon the
terms of the "most favored nations," so
clearly and universally understood in in
ternational law.
Geobge W. Williams.
I IISCniliiF-MAEE'S MISTAIS.
How a Misdirected Letter Saved tie Work
of Cabaa Missionaries.
Said Bev. A. J. Dies, a Cuban mission
ary to a St Louis QloieDemocrat reporter:
"The Lord once made a man make a 'mis
take that saved the missionary work in
Cuba. The private secretary ot the Bishop
of Havana came to oar revival meetings and
said he was converted. He made all the
demonstrations incident to conversion, and
though, knowing how he had persecuted us,
we were suspicious when he came in ths
name of the Lord, we had to receive him
were, in fact, glad to. Then he wasted to
preach the gospel, and, of course, we let
him, for he was a gifted man. But as soon
as he got into our councils we could see ho
was doing one thing and another to throw
obstacles in the wav. He did this so iasid
iously that we couldn't catch him, though
he Vas bidding fair to wreck ths work,
"We called him before the council, but
could prove nothing. Next day J. got an envel
ope addressed to myself containing a letter
addressed to the Bishop of Havana signed
bv the spy and giving a detailed account of
what he had done as a spy. I called him.
and asfced him about the letter, and learned
that he had written a letter to sa, another
to ths Bishop ad pat them it tk wrong
envelops. It disclosed a plot thst weald
fcav?sill oar work: and ta- Let Md
UsaschiiMsfs.''
THE I0NE STAB HERO.
James Alfred Wakefield Helate3 the
Romantic Story of
SAM HOUSTON'S LIFE AND LOYE..
A Noble Han Who Sacrificed Himself oh
the Altar of Love.
ENDING HIS DAIS AH0SG THE DtDIAftir
rwxrrrxs' toe thx sisrATcs.i
Sam Houston, the man wbo occupied
almost every position from the meanest of
civil offices to being twice President of s
republic, is less heard of than any other
man in America who has achieved the same
results. He was born on the 2d of March,
1793, in Virginia, and the iron of his soul
shows he was a scion of that race which first
subdued the wildness of those hills, and
Tennessee forests and the ferocity of
their savage people. The day of 'his
birth was many years afterword to be
celebrated as the anniversary of ths
birth of a new Republic. It was on his
natal day that Texas declared herself free
and independent And when thitEepub
lic, with its "lone star," was admitted to
the constellation of States, with it came that'
wondrous man who had stood by the aide Of
the youpg country and rocked her infancy
in those far-off wilds. He come to tho
threshold of the Senate chamber, bringing:
in his arms, not like a Scinio of old. tho
fine gold and precious stones of distant'-.Jaj
uaiuaiiM J"ut" ttjc m Ala IltWIJUUa C4f
bat a new nod Tast empire. There he stL
!.- -tl ...lw ..I A - '-&
He has occupied almost every po-
sition in life and the heroism of his
nature will always be a fertile theme for the
old to tell the young in cabin, hut and' r
stately palace naus. ills Saxon grit xa-ti
surea victory, as a teacner ne was a sue-i 4 '
bHO 4 t-njVt MU tWU,l 1HMJU VtA.U U.S'
uy feuo vicar, iuuuic xujn uj UiJSUjJiUSUCatcUf
logic, and could steadily pursue truthjT
tnrougn me most intricate deduction; ,
Congressman, he was feltrs Governor, hon-5
orecf and respected: an Indian chief, her
touched the hearts of the untutored sons' ofa
the forest; President or that Western EeA,
public, he was loved as a god; a Senatora
his words were- Iliads; hut a a man hVisI
all that represents unselfishness and the deS
sire for ue weal ox others the ideal
hood.
a CaT BAW S WYVfJ
1 !. .1... s .t. Tl. .. t.;- i-jr 'd
A. OA1 AVAAA tim t. 1 J JtJi
Just as lie ir&B stepping upon the tbeatoj$j
over the Bkv and wrapt his heart and hasMl.l
in sadness and gloom. He married a girl ofr, a
trentls character and sweet TMr ftTirt tV- 3
alliance gave promise of all that is" high
and good. But due to malignant circum
stances their union was unhappy and short
It was in their separation that the noble
character of the man showed forth. He who,
can conceal the love of his heart screen the
attecnons or nis soul, lull tne fondness of his.
nature and smother the attachment that the'.
winzs of whiteness, and all to shelter the' 3
fair fame of her he had sworn before the.
AIM. V. VlVt .V UHHiU UU IIUKUI, J.JU9t
must read like the exploits of the gods ot.4
mythology, and defies the sober prose of ths
English tongue. Fancy has borrowed hsril
sweetest images from the wild idolatry ofj
jjiqian constancy, uut ut worm ox. paeaoar,
must acknowledge him king of pathetisl
tenderness, who turns his back upon ti
craves of his fathers and the land that caval
him: birth simply to go ont of ths horiia of I
tne woman ma m lovea. to xsaxs piam..
(ibisrivaJi. o"" . . 'Jim
- His young- wife- had loved heme; Ssmi
when she gavs her hand to Howioaj her:!
heart was withheld. His home hod noas ofj
the sweet felicities of wedded souls. iad.'i
Ilk all uncongenial alliances the seBarstlBJf)
distance grew apace. Her friends loaded
his name with odium and charred him witsiz
every species of crime. He sat quietly aad
saw the wife of Ms heart and bosom t
from him withont a single denial of a sinelsi
calumny. When she showed herprefereoesj
for the sweetheart of her girlhood dsyva J
T li.T IV -I I. 4-l --3
a rock snd words as soft ss down fis'J
told her they must part; that ne
a word should fall from his liesn
to cast a shade upon her character, norj
would ne suner on unsana Dream sgsiasfig
her in his presence. He left the life ofgloryj j
snd honor that was dawning upon him, roder,
into the forest ot the Bed man aad cast hU
lot with them,
THE CniEFTAIS'S yTELCOlO,
The tonchincr irreetin? of the Tenerahfa J
!, rt irt MtTiA .Ka t an !itT$ It. ll
he was reverenced. "My son." he said. "ivS
is long since we met; my heart has ofteat'j
wnnffored to von. T have h-ard that a farTr M
cloud has fallen on the whits path you we?s, j
walking, and when it fell you turned your. 7?l
thoughts to my wigwam. I know you willil
and you will tell our sorrows to the Grsst
lfstber. Jay wigwam is yours, my home is
yours, ray people are yours, res. wiia us.
Th-n. in ta heart a! tttA twooAm a-
v.T.ntlmA fiv naMomlill afrav1frtffv ttlav! 3
nnhl. lia. W nlra f.nvm n.!(VTttf aj Iaw. amiJ 1
1.1- . U1-.3 t n.U r U-1 tl 4l..9
won that added to our proud domain thstl
"lonely star" that has never ceased to silBsi1,
bright and alluring to tne pioneer, 'la"'
fair god oi love trownea ana snadowea sussfe
in gloom. Without the sunlight and ns-fl
sustained by that great conservative pria-i
clpie of a man's ine tne smne oz onectie?
and devotion of a woman whose tender per-'K
suasions prove too strong for all allsrey
ments, the stricien wanderer fought MwHIf
to the front i
Durintr all bis trials be never forgot thsz
sweetheart of his youth, the young wife of
v:. ...l J... ru.1 i...t. -.-u.it
inclv he kept his idol enthroned in Ul &.
heart Amid the wall of the winds on fe'- J
to that unseen world where strife and diss p-:.
pointment are saver known, his lips voice J
the last sentiment or nisnear.: "JJarua,
I forgive you." There ars crowns of lanm.
and of cold studded with diamonds: thers
have been sonsrs written as tributes to levls
ing, devoted , manhood; monuments hsTtvJ
been built in honor of men who h-vi
achieved greatness, but there never w.L
w-ar- crr-atr. nar-rr tribnta erected overl-lia
any man tnan tou; never s crows otj,
brighter luster than to stand in theglewYj
of God and whisper, "Darling. I forgiTS;,'
- II Tt la a nmJM tnr m. fntnra " c
.,--- i i-r. z.. .to-
rft v.-i i.t iv. t.a.... r i.'if-M
DO Benign uu irecu wo uuuciivn v. ; j
wonderful example, and so cam ana so noiy.
a light beams ceaselessly around his tosss
that flowers will ever bloom over nis grays
in that far-off land.
JAKE3 AXTEED WAKEyDELB,
ALL ANI80DI COULD 00.
Hew aa Osserraat Utile Weatast Tsrsasjl
Her Faser. i i
Tmthi Canra&nlon.l
All the family were reading in the likssm
one evening, .air. juay ou uio omi-i-j
..... vtifoh tin nnt down onea to leok'MI
a reference in tho encyclopedia. Mrs. KsyJ
had a French art book, and consslW.hsrj
French lexicon trequenuy. ueorgs sti
his mother the meaning of several woHs Uyt
the story-Doos: over wnica no w iaib.,
Evs, sged 5, sat with George's Costs
u.n hi, Ian
,ru.....r , ....... .1
"Beading, too, pussyr- siaartsvss
"Xet, sir." i
"Why, Era .Hay, voa caat reM.i
er oroiaer. ,i
V.a T au T -an TMH Aajp ajaaf
B 'bey' Mi lota of words v-kM X fsadl
that's all Ut My of joa at issisxfc-aij
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