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SECOND PART.
CHIIMSBIG BLOW,
Its Tainglorions Citizens
FairlyTakeAiyaiiEast-
em Han's Breath.
THINE THEY AEE GBEAT,
But the Yisitors to the Big Fair Will
Be Disappointed.
STOCK-YARD FLAYOR OF HOTELS.
Hislnraj- lotteries in Daylight and De
pravity Everywhere.
HOTF THE TOWN STRIKES A VISITOR
,Tioa jl staff cobeespovdent.i
Chicago, Feb. 19. There is a stock
yard flavor about a big Chicago hotel that is
depressing in the extreme. From what I
have seen I infer that this applies only to
those who are accustomed lb the select,
clean, quiet hostelries of Eastern cities.
The large body of natives and the greater
proportion, perhaps, of the "Western trav
eling commercial people like it. They re
Tel in it They crowd the corridors and
stand around the rotundas in billy-goat
whiskers, boz coats and slouched hats and
muddy boot"!, and expectorate tobacco sa
liva and talk hour after hour, day and
night, by the scores and hundreds.
Perhaps these coiridors and rotundas are
scrubbed down at night I don't know. I
never sat up late enough or got up early
enough to see. To me they are always
filthy and crowded, and the air is always
reeking with stale tobacco smoke and the
fetid breath of a sweaty rabble who have
apparently never used a tooth-brush or a
bath. It is not the fault of the hotels it is
the situation. The unceasing rush of feet,
the eternal scramble after trains and rooms
and keys and mail and something to eat is
wearisome. I would not live in such an
atmosphere the rest of my life, short or
long, for a brown stone front on a corner
lot on "Wabash avenue. To be always dirty,
to walk around in filth, to breathe dirt, to
come in continual and necessary contact
with dirty people, until the soul becomes
calloused and you cease longer to even wish
to be clean that is the state of the Chi
cagoan. A Shock for Continental "Visitor.
I wonder what the continental traveller
will say when he comes to Chicago in '93 to
visit the great fair! Then the Chicago hotels
will be fuller and dirtier and more repulsive
than ever they were. The spotless marbles
of beautiful Florence, the noiseless temples
of entertainment of lovely Iiucerne and the
German Spas a thousand quiet hostelries
from ancient Home to the German Capital,
where spittoons and chewing tobacco are'
unknown how they will cry out against this
horrible polution! I wonder what those
accustomed to the clean continental hotels
will think when they stand is line in one of
these reeking human stockyards waiting for
an opportunity to register, or to get a room
key, or to obtain a bit of note paper, or to
ask a question.
And I wonder how such a man will feel
to have the register jerked out of his hands
at the critical moment, or to have his room
key slammed at him by an insolent satrap
In baggv trousers and a red necktie, or be
snubbed for his ignoranco of stockyard cus
toms. And, further, I wonder what he will
say when he comes in to wash the black
grime from face and hands and change his
collar and cuffs several times a day, and
coughs and sneezes black ooze in the early
morning and dares not wear white linen ex
posed to the sooty air, and finally realizes
fully that every man, woman and child in
this great city is quite as dirty as he is and
has long since ceased to struggle against it!
Tlicy Live in High" Temperatures.
The most remarkable thing to the observ
ant Eastern man up in the Xorthwest in
winter is the extraordinary beat found en
joyable and necessary by the inhabitants of
that cold climate. The hotel rooms are
close and stifling on an ordinary day. Every
window is made double like the windows fif
a Pullman car, and every crack is plugged
as tight as a drumhead. The atmosphere,
dry br nature, is still further rarified by
artificial heat Even the great rotunda of
the West, Minneapolis, is always super
heated in ordinary weather, and every time
ft door opens tlio cold air rushes into the
vacuum in a way to strike terror to the un
accustomed. The newcomer sutlers with
continual headache indoors. The air is so
dry it is almost impossible to keep lather
on the Sace long enough to shave. The
hotel barber slaps a hot towel on your face
at the finish and looks pityingly at you
when you remonstrate.
Hen sit about the rotunda and stand
about the barrooms in great bearskin, coon-
sKin, loxEkin, sealskin and buttaio skin
overcoats without apparent discomfort
One of these coats will weigh 25 pounds or
more. "When the fur gets wet it will weigh
60. Hundreds of men are thus dressed on
the streets of Minneapolis when a spring
overcoat would be comfortable to a Pitts
burger. I don't know whether they sleep
In them or not, but the man who goes about
in a 25-pound ot ercoat with the mercury at
C0 above zero and can sit around a hotel
with the mercury at 75 must require a good
deal of extra covering at nurht
"When you put on such a coat in the
fall," said a hotel clerk, "you can't take it
off till spring. You'd catch cold. They
get used to it"
"That's the only way they bathe," ex
plained a New York drummer. "A man.
enjoys a Turkish bath all day, and is
rubbed down by Ijis wife with a mop every
night"
A Chlcaso Hotel Picture.
A barkeeper is making a wonderful con
coction with a maraschinoed cherry in the
glass which he calls a Manhattan cocktail,
and as he shakes it up as if it were a lem
onade .
Two young neoifl dirty lavender ties
and soiled cuffs, with the appearance of
having been up all nicht, are playing a
gume of billiards at $100 a game, assisted by
our mash and soda on the outside, and a
crowd of gawky country looking loungers,
while
Five stalwart bootblacks are polishing off
some of the biggest feet I ever saw, just
outside the door, and
The sonorous but irregular notes of the
caller In the great ginger-bread-work bar
ber shop beyond crying "Sev en ty one!
Ber en ty twol Sev en ty three!"
rise on the stuffy air and indicate the num
ber of human cattle coming in turn under
the morning razor, pending all of which
At least four score of gentlemen (here
called "gents"), with commercial and un
commercial noses, can be seen under the
elcctrio lights of the big and dirty rotunda
diseusrinr; a variety of cigars and business,
contributing to the confusion and cuspidors,
sitting grimly in the dark corners, reading
the morning papers in the light ones, and
Bisisgjover all and permeating tht floods
of electric glare and angles of darkness, and
cutting the diseased atmosphere into harshly
jarring sections, are the clatter of room keys
pattering on the marble counter in the dis
tance and the bawling of the baggage man
and the train anunciator and "front" and
squeak of moving chairs and the nervous
coming and going of many feet and slam
ming and banging of doors
A Chicago hotel 10 o'clock picture.
Points About the Hotels.
If I owned the "West Hotel at Minneapo
lis ten minutes I would thr&w out a sickly
looking tree that Js suspended between the
heavens and the earth in the center of the
magnificent rotunda, and discharge colored
waiters who chew tobacco while serving
meals. Perhaps I would be considered too
particular for that climate. And if I ran
the Clifton House in Chicago ten minutes I
would raise the salary of the barkeeper who
wags his ears. A barkeeper who can wag
his ears backward and forward as he shakes
the festive punch is a jewel without price.
He draws customers and makes those cus
tomers thirsty. Xo man can tell a long
story with a barkeeper quietly snapping his
left ear at him.
The typical Chicago man can be met on,
evcrv corner. You could not avoid him if
you tried. I really do not believe you will
Una his counterpart on the laceoi tuegiope.
His overmastering instinct is to pump in
formation into you at every point of con
tact It doesn't matter that you are a total
stranger to him and have a mind possibly
b;nt on something else. I stopped a msn in
a thronged street in a raw wind from the
lake enioellished with fine cutting snow,
and inquired where I took the cars for the
"World's Fair Grounds. Instead of answer
ing me directly he tilted up his soft hat apd
said: Have you got a pass J. tola mm
I had. though 1 was somewhat taken aback
by the abrupt inquiry. I thought he was
going to ask me to let him see it, when his
companion, smoothing out a snuff-colored
goatee, observed: "Greatest thing the
world ever saw 30 acres of floor in one
building."
The Banns Passion In Chicaso.
I stopped in a beer place for a glass, and
the barkeeper eyed me for a moment and
asked me if I had been in the "Eookery." I
told him I had that it was a great
building.
"Chicago has the finest buildings in the
world," said he, turning to another-customer.
The latter casually remarked for
my hearing: "Chicago is the finest city in
the world."
I got away. "When I got back I went up
to the Commerce building to get a paper
executed before a notary. He nanded me a
pamphlet on real estate and pulled on me a
prospectus of a new building association.
"Population increased here 108 per cent
in ten years greatest growth in the world,"
said he. To which I replied that the only
interest I had in Chicago real estate was to
get it ofl my hands and feet.
"More buildings put up in Chicago in ten
years than any other city in the world. In
creased in ten years C56 per cent real
estate" v
But I fled precipitately. I spoke com
plimentary of a big drygood house to a
lady on State street I happened to have
known a long time ago. Immediately the
answer came:
"Chicago has the finest retail drygoods
houses in the world. New York isn't in
it!"
Another newspaper man asked me where
I was stopping, and I told him.
"Fair hotel Chicago has the greatest
hotels in the world," said he.
Beats Sew Tork for Boasting.
I was on a cable car, going out to see a
friend, and a total stranger next to me ad
dressed me proudly:
"Great things, these cable roads Chicago
has the finest street car system in the
world."
"Yon bet she has." rut in the man on the
other side of me. And they were so pleased
with each other that they shook hands
across my lap. Then they began to tell
each other what a great city Chicago is.
Coming down the elevator in the Hand &
McNally building a couple of men were
talking French. "When they got out, one
of the passengers turned to me and said,
confidentially: "Great, isn't it?"
"What's great?" said I,. "the building?"
"Yes but the people. Chicago is the only
cosmopolitan city in the world."
And thus, on every hand, with whomso
ever you talk or don't talk. It is all the
same Chicago is the greatest, finest, most
superlatively magnificent, in whole and in
detail, and every inhabitant thereof is a
special committee of one, chairman, secre
tary and executive board to impress these
things on the stranger's mind.
Bobberies In Broad Davlisnt.
There are now more robberies committed
in the open streets of Chicago in a single
day than are committed in JSew York in a
week. Twenty-two cases of highway rob
bery were reported one day last week at a
single police station. The unreported may
have been larger. This is largely due to
the extraordinary influx of population
owing to the World's Fair. The city is full
of men who probably came here for work
and have turned thieves and robbers through
desperation. The streets are full of loafers
and vagabonds of every description and
every degree of rascality. No man's purse
is safe and no w oman can go abroad at
night unprotected. Men whose business
takes them out at night go armed.
But many of the most astonishing cases
that ever occurred in a civilized community
have been in broad daylight upon open and
unfrequented thoroughfares. The worst of
it is, the robbers are rarely caught The
police force of Chicago, from being oni-e
one of the best, is now one of the poorest in
the world. The disgraceful facts are now
everywhere discussed but the people are
utterly demoralized. All sorts of crime
are literally rampant For a great city
inviting the attention just now of the civil
ized world Chicago is a conspicuous and
shining disgrace to all Americans.
Another Kind of Bobbery.
The pretty typewriter at the Palmer has
a sweet temper that is liable to spoil. "A
man from Omaha had me do a 50-cent job
for him," she said. "He was a very pleas
ant man and had two daughters about half
frown, whom he introduced. Having some
usiness around town, he asked me one
morning if I would be kind enough to look
after them. He said they were young and
innooenC, and he was afraid they couldn't
take care of themselves. As they were
pleasant, nice girls. I didn't object It
finally came my dinnerjliour, and I said to
them that I lived at the cafe, and they said
they would dine with me, and 'papa would
square it We went we dined. Those
girls had toast on quail, porter house steak
and ice cream and cake and soup and pie
and everythingTight and left I never saw
such appetites. The bill nearly paralyzed
me it was S4 65. I'm dreaming of that
bill now every night Settle ? No; I never
saw them again. Well-to-do people, too.
Next time any slick old man leaves his
girls with me I'll turn 'em over to the
police. Four big, shining silver dollars-
just think of it I The b5 cents was my
share."
Courtesies or the Wild West.
"There goes the richest man in Dakota,"
said a man in a Palmer House billiard room
group. "How do you do, Sam," he added,
turning to the richest man in Dakota' with
extended hand. The richest man in Dakota
took the extended hand and shook it softly,
twice up and twice down, and then "shook"
the man himself and stepped up to the
marble bar and drank alone.
The richest man in Dakota was small and
wiry and round shouldered and wore a big
beaver overcoat from the summit of which
his long, thin neck protruded like the neck
of a turtle. His face was sallow and gaunt;
mouth coarse and large, and between (he dark,
towsled mustache and Billygoat whiskers
you might observe a set of uneven, yellow
tobacco teeth. The nose was decidedly aqui
line, and the two little black eyes set far
apart looked out at you like the eyes of a
ferret The richest man In Dakota wore a
broad brimmed felt hat that flapped at I
THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH.
every step he took, and the low cut vest
displayed exactly in the middle of a flat
and narrow chest a diamond as big as a
hazelnut Altogether the richest man in
Dakota-was a picturesque and ugly man to
look at ,
"Drinks alone 6f course," sighed the man
who had called him "Sam" "goes right by
and drinks alone, .although I own a farm
right next to-hlni!"
A Stray Bit of Politics.
Every adult of intelligence in Indiana
knows 'Sol Hathaway, editor of the Inde
pendent, at Indianapolis. A strong face and
huge frame a man full of stories and west
ern reminiscences. The man by his side,
gray-bearded, lame and suave of manner, is
Hughes East, long private secretary to the
late Thomas A. Hendricks.
"John O. New is responsible for Presi
dent Harrison," said Mr. Hathaway "New
and 'Lige Halford. They made Harrison
and Harrison is paying them pretty well
for it Halford used;to write press notices
and send them to the country papers
throughout the State asking the editors to
insert them in their editorial columns, so
that the Journal could copy them.. It is a
weakness of the country press to be desir
ous of being copied in the central State
organ and about every one of them re
sponded. In this way a remarkable unan
imity of publio sentiment in Indiana ap-
S eared to favor Harrison's nomination,
'ew-owes every dollar he has in the world
to Harrison for services rendered in that
national bank case at Indianapolis. He
settled the score and had a balance in his
favor when Harrison was nominated. New
circulated 10,000 copies of his paper every
day at the convention. He wanted to be
Secretary of the Treasury, and Harrison
would liked to have appointed him,
only he dared not do it But he gave him
a place worth in hard cash as much as the
Presidency, and 'Iiige is still Harrison's ad
vance agent"
A Pointer on Wheat Handling;.
"I have been weighing wheat in South
-Dakota," remarked a living image of Sena
tor Joe Blackburn, showing his hands across
a Palmer House spittoon as big as a half
bushel, "and look at my hands. The grain
dust is worse than Chicago grime. I have
been at it now for eight years and'this is
my first time oft All those who ever
worked with me are now dead. Two years
is the usual limit of such a life, but I have
taken better care of myself. I always wear
a nose and mouthpiece of moist sponge on
duty, and the neglect of that precaution
will kill any man in two or three years.
The grain dust is not wholly disagreeable
arid it thus deceives healthy men it is
deadly; It goes into the flesh like flint
Under a microscope it resembles splinters
of glass. I never go to bed without a good
bath and a hearty rub and by this con
tinual fight I have survived all the weighers
I ever knew. Only my eyes have suffered
and I am now consulting an oculist to see if
I can't get them fixed up. I have 100,000
bushels of wheat waiting my return."
Facts About Chicago Feet.
"Talk abouJ Chicago feet," 6aid a travel
ing man from Philadelphia, "I've just sold
the biggest lot of shoes I mean a lot of the
biggest shoes at Minneapolis and St Paul.
Never "noticed the big feet there? Well if
you will go along the street and look into
the retail stores you'll see an average that
will strike you dumb about Chicago feet
They are not in it There are a good many
Scandinavians up there and (they all have
big feet, men and women. Northern
nationalities always have big feet Southern
small ones and better shaped. I don't
know why it is but it is so. The feet of our
own Southern people are famous. My
house couldn't sell that bill of goods in
Louisville, except for the use of the negro
farm hands."
Charles T. Mtjehat,
WHAT PEABY HAS FOUND.
WS "MAX KQTFBBAJJOirO ,GEEISC
ALAND'S XOST COLONISTS
IT The J Exist They Have Been Prisoners
for Six Hundred Tears A Itaco of Blp
Van Winkles Plans of the Lieutenant
for the Summer.
Washingtok, Feb. 20. Special.
"There is good reason to believe, judging
from the contents of papers transmitted
privately to my hands some months ago
although I have never spoken of the matter
hitherto that Lieutenant Peary, in whose
behalf a rescuing expedition is about to
start for the Arctic, has actually met with
the famous lost colonists of Greenland."
So said one of the most distinguished
ethnologists in the povernment employ at
Washington. He added: "You may re
member that the Norf emen established set
tlements during early times in Greenland.
One of these colonies was entirely cut off
from civilization and lost, as is recorded in
the sagas and other traditional histories of
those people. Winters grew colder, and
one unprecedentedly severe season follow
ing another, the little gathering of squat
ters in that icy region was shut away from
the rest of mankind by frozen fields along
the shore and the heaping up of mighty ice
cliffs, through which there was no passage
and oyer which it was impossible to climb.
"That was 600 years ago. Since then ex
pedition after expedition has sought these
lost settlers in vain. Owing to geographical
indefiniteness in the original accounts
written on the subject, not even the locality
occupied by the colony could be very nearly
ascertained. I am not at liberty just now
to say more than that Lieutenant Peary has
apparently discovered the descendants of
these vanished Norsemen, somewhat less
than 200 in number, dwelling in a sort of
ice-bound oasis, without either entrance or
exit, as they themselves have for so many
generations believed. To all intents and
purposes they are so many Rip Van
Winkles. Peary is now at Whale Sound.
Next summer he will strike northward,
with the intention to determine the coast
line as far as it extends. If the land
extends as far as the Pole, he may attain
that long-sought goal."
A Canadian Kick Against Bland's Bill.
Ottawa, Feb. 20. George Johnson, Do
minion Statistician, referring to the 'move
ments in the United States Congress calcu
lated to aflect Canadian interests, said there
is one movement of considerable -importance
to Canada, and that is the free coinage
question. If the bill becomes a law then
the present guaranty of the United States
Government, that its silver coin will be re
deemed in gold, will cease. That guaranty,
Mr. Johnson says, is all that maintains the
silver coinage of the United States at its
face value.- All holders in Canada of
United States silver coin would find it at
once depreciate in value.
Covered TVith Bosln and Set on Fire.
Baieioh, N". C, Feb. 20. The mystery
which surrounded the horrible dgath of
Miles Toomer, a young negro, at Hillsboro,
last Monday night, has been solved. On
Monday'night last Toomer was found, in the
street with his clothing all ablaze. He soon
died. It was found that some grass nearby
was all on fire, and that some one had been
lying in the center of the burned spot. From
this cine detectives have worked, and yes
terday they announced that Lewis BuffinN
and Alice uotton, both colored, had poured
rosin over him while asleep, and then set
him on fire. The guilty persons are in jail.
lanitnc School Boys Carry Revolvers.
Lansing, Mich., Feb. 20. At the Town
send street school one of the teachers had
occasion to punish a 10-year-old pupil
named Guy Cottington. She had struck
him twice, when he pulled out a revolver
and said if she struck him again he would
shoot he'r. She got it away from him before
it was discharged. A canvass of the school
was xoade and IS boys of tender age were
found who own revolvers and who are ac
customed to carry them, "
PZTTSBTJKG, SUNDAY,
MTSHffllMMAEKS
Among the Deaths Reported by Cable
In the last Few Days.
HOHMSEN'S' PLACE IN HISTORY.
The Man Who Captured the U. B. 8. Ches
apeake in 1S12 Just DeaL
STORIES 1B0UT BECEHT ETBNTS
WTtlriET TOE THE DISFATCn.J
True merit is often not appreciated in
this world. It's all yery well to feel sorry
now that the mas
ter painter Cor
regio's wife died of
starvation or that
the poor boy poet
Chatterton put an
end to his life,
when the same fate
stared him in the
face. It seems al
most a cruel neg
lect on mankind's
part that accounts
Dr.JHommsen. of some men are
not balanced and the dividends declared
when they are due, while in the cases of
others payments are made before earning.
Take Dr. Theodore Mommsen, the German
historian, for example. I will not say that
he was not well enough endowed with this
world's goods, but he was a man whose lame
will be fresh and green long after the memor
ies of such as Kipling, Stevenson and Eider
Haggard will have faded away. And yet
when Dr. Mommsen came to die one day
last week.the very best of American jour
nals, with all their boasted appreciation of
genius, had but a line or two in which to
chronicle his demise.
Dr. Theodore Mommsen was born at
Garding, in Schleswig-Holstein, and early
in life his talents attracted attention in the
leading German colleges. Ancient Borne
he made an especial study, and at the time
of his death he was considered by those
competent to judge, the greatest authority
on that country. He contributed many
valuable works to the world of letters ou
his favorite subject Most of them have
been translated into English and other lan
guages. His greatest work, "A History of
Borne," which has been ably translated by
W. P. Dickson, has gone through quite a
number of editions and is still in demand.
As would naturally be expected in a man
making so careful a study of one subject,
Dr. Mommsen accumulated a large number
of very precious works, but, unfortunately
for his posterity, who might have profited
thereby, almost the entire collection was
destroyed by fire in 1880.
Facts About a Popular Idol.
The body of the famous Mazeppa, hero of
Tartary, as he is called, has just been dis
covered in" the Cathedral at Galatz, whither
it had been conveyed from Bender in 1709.
Sometimes I think too much has been made
of Mazeppa, especially on the stage. So
tremendous a hero has he been made among
certain classes that I am afraid the true
story will likely be discredited. The facts
of the matter are as follows: The .hero was
discovered in an intrigue with the wife of a
Polish nobleman, who caused him to be
stripped naked and bound on his own
horse's bacfcand-thji animal sent adrift The
horsexarried -Mazeppa-to- his.own. home and'
notto'the Ukraine, as the story goes, but
Mazeppa, out of shame, fled to the Ukraine,
joined the Cossacks and afterwards arose to
great distinction, although guilty of many
other acts during his Liter life that are not
to his credit
Practically, the only satisfactory results
of his career have been the great poem,
novel history and masterly paintings of
Vernet it has suggested.
. A Man With a Future.
England has just appointed a new Min
ister to Spain, Sir Henry Drummond WolffJ
whose future career
will, I think, be well
worth watching. He
is a born diplomatist BLS-CSs!'
and politician. As
a member of Parlia
ment for Christ
church, and after
wards Portsmouth,
he was a powerful
nllv of Mr. Balfour
in opposing Glad- Bir Henry D. Wolff.
stone. Sir Henry first assumed publio
office as a clerk in the Foreign Office Ho
years ago. In 1852 he became the Acting
Charge d' Affairs at Florence; was secretary
to the Earl of Malmesbury when he was
Foreign Secretary in 1858, and then dis
tinguished himself in 1878 as representative
of Great Britain on the Europeon Commis
sion for organizing Eastern Koumelia. In
1885 the Government sent him on a special
mission to the Sultan. Subsequently he
was for two years Minister to the Court of
Persia, and since the middle of 1891 has
been stationed at Bucharest
On his father's side Sir Henry is an Israel
ite and on his mother's but third in descent
from the great Prime Minister Walpole.
The father was the eccentric and remark
able individual, Joseph Wolff, who, after
visiting all parts of the world, reached the
United States and created something of a
sensation by being ordained to the Episco
pal ministry. Dr. Wolff made 'three re
markable journeys through . Central 'Asia
and was the first missionary at Teheran. He
married Lady Georgiana Walpole, daughter
of the second Earl of Oxford, and Sir Henry,
whose portrait is presented herewith, is the
only child.
It is said when Dr. Wolff captured the
heart of the noble Earl's daughter, who is
now his wife, his Lordship sent for him
and wished to know how an adventurer, a
missionary and a Hebrew could dare to as-r
plre to the hand of a Walpole.
"Stay! Stay! My Lord!" exclaimed
Wolff, as he took from his breast a small roll
of parchment "Let me read to yonr Lord
ship the long lineage or your humble sery
nt " and ha Tiorrin txritri ''.Tftrnn inn cnn m
ant,'
' and he began with '
the son of
.,. f ,
V UdV ULAi
the son oi , eta,
as far back
as the son of David. King of Israel. "There.
my Lord, if you have a pedigree equal to
that, we will discuss ancestry."
The Earl of Oxford was silent, and his
daughter became the wife of the missionary
and traveler, the adventurer and Hebrew,
whose son seems destined to play an im
portant part in European politics.
Fate of the African Explorers.
Death is playing havoo with the brays
men who have penetrated the African
wilderness in past as
well as in quite re
cent periods. Within
a few weeks of each
'SMrsrtreV other Db Brawn on A
Paul Crampel fell
victims to the fero
city of the natives,
and last week Col-
$vonel James Grant
sSgand Dr. Junker
passed away. Dr.
Junker was a Hus-
Dr. Junker. sian scientistwho ac
companied Captain Casatl, of the Italian
army. Dr. Junker ws a much discussed
individual when he returned to Europe a
conole of years since with the information
that Emin intended to retain bis dangerous j
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position in the heart of Africa. It was this
news which caused the King of the Bel
gians to recall Stanley to Europe from this
country, when the famous traveller was fill
ing a profitable lecture engagement, to lead
an expedition to the relict of Emin. The
results of this famous trip have been so
widely published and are so well-known as
4o require no recounting at the present
time.
The Fate of Iia Ferouse.
Speaking of explorers reminds me of La
Perouse, the French explorer, whose two
ships were lost over a hundred years since
on the New Hebrides. Some few weeks ago
I referred to this story, but very briefly.
The two vessels were wrecked on a reef near
the little island of Vanicors. The entire
crew of one vessel was drowned in the surf
or killed by the natives as they'struggled to
the shore. The crew of the'other landed in
safety. According to the natives, the party
succeeded in constructing a rude two-masted
craft from the timbers of the wrecked ves
sels and then sailed away to the westward.
Nothing has ever been heard of the fata
of this party until recently the story comes
from Queensland that the battered hulk of a
rudely made vessel, found years ago on Tem
ple Island, oil the coast of Queensland,
must be the remains of the boat in which,
the doubly unfortunate La Ferouse party
endeavored to reach civilization. The
wreck was very old when discovered, and
was so rude in its construction as to suggest
the belief that it had been made by men
who did not understand the craft or had not
the proper tools. The natives of the New
Hebrides said the boat had left in the di
rection of -"the setting sun." Temple
Island is about 1,100 miles nearly due west
from Vanicora. It is likely they made an
effort to reach Botany Bay, but were unable
to withstand the strong southeast winds
they encountered, and were driven on the
reefs of Queensland, where they drowned
or were butchered by the cannibals who
still inhabit that region.
The Captor of the Chesapeake.
It seems almost incredible that the com
mander of the vessel that captured the
United States ves
sel Chesapeake in
Boston harbor in the
War of 1812, should
die only yesterday a
week ago. I remem
ber the interest I
took in this incident
when I read of it a
score of years ago in
my school history.
Even then the time Admiral TTotffc.
seemed to stretch away back into antiquity.
And to think that one who took such an
active and important part in that event
should live until this time ! The assertion
that Sir Provo William Parry Wallis was
the captor of the Chesapeake may not be
accepted as correct by those who have un
derstood Captain Broke to be the com
mander of the British frigate Shannon, but
it must be remembered that Broke
was lying seriously wounded and help
less in his cabin and the first lieu
tenant had been killed some time before, so
the command had actually devolved upon
Second Lieutenant Wallis when the brave
Chesapeake lowered her colors. Sir Provo
was nearly 101 years of age. at the time of
his death. He thus held the position of
senior Admiral of the British navy since
the death of Sir George Sartorious in 1885.
W. G. Katjfmanit.
SOuTHEEH SHAEPBS3 COENEBKB.
They Conspired and Defrauded Uncle Sam,
but Must Kow Settle Tip.
Mobile, Axa., Feb. 20. In tne United
States District Court to-day, B. F. Brad
ley, -Ji a 'McKinney, 3S. H. Sherman anil
I?J-H.--Verstred were, fined "tlOO rincf-
sentenced to tnree moniny imprison
ment, and sir others were fined from
$10 to ?25 and sentenced to 20
days' imprisonment, on a charge of
conspiring to defraud the Government All
era from Clarke county, Ala. The two
principals In the case were Bradley a
and McKinney. i.ney each went De
fore United States Commissioners
several times and under oath testi
fied that they had seen the parties
named above cutting timber off Govern
ment land, and witnesses were also fur
nished when the cases were brought before
the court No convictions followed be
cause the parties swore each other out and
it was impossible to make a case.
An investigation was set on foot, "and it
was ascertained that no timber had been
cut and that there was no violation of law,
it being simply a device to obtain witness
fees and mileage fof the parties entering in
to the conspiracy. The Government's of
ficials are highly pleased at the conviction
of the men, as it is thought it will break up
one of the worst practices known in this
section by which the United States is de
frauded out of large sums annually.
Fulling From the Ke serve Fund.
Bremen, Feb. 20. The North German
Lloyd Steamship Company has decided to
pay no dividend this year, but to write off
51,200,000. In order to do this it will be
necessary to take 5400,000 from the reserve
fund.
A UVKLY. FOUR HOUKS
To-alorroTT Moraine From 8 to 13 A Bis
67 25 Men's Salt Sale P. C. O. O.
Here's a sale of men's suits that's full of
ginger. It will last only fourriours, from 8
to 12 to-morrow morning. (We close in
the afternoon.) Your own selection of our
f 14, $15 and $18 men's suits made in sack and
cutaway style, including the pinchecks, the
hairlines, the plain black cords, elegant
broad wale And narrow wale suits. Eight
styles of fancy casslmere suits, fourteen (14)
patterns of fancy worsteds and six elegant
designs in broken plaids, besides crossbars,
plain patterns, and erring bones. Four
hours' sale, remember, and no more. Be
early and you can choose the best P. C. O.
C., Clothiers, corner Grant and Diamond
streets.
Ia Grippe Successfully Treated.
"I have just recovered from a second at
tack of the grip this year," says Mr. Jas.
O. Jones, publisher of the Leader, Mexia,
Tex. "In the latter case I used Chamber
lain's Cough Bemedy, and I think with con
siderable success, only being in bed a little
over two days, against ten days for the first
attack. The second attack J am satisfied
would have been equally as bad as the first
but for the use of this -remedy, as I had to
go to bed in about six hours after being
'struck' with it, while in the first case I was
able to attend to business about two days
before getting 'down.'" ttsstj
A Eemxrkable Core of Bhenmatlsm.
Messrs. Cage and Sherman, of Alexander,
Tex., write us regarding a remarkable
cute of rheumatism there as follows: "The
wife of Mr. William Pruitt, the postmaster
Jiere. had been bedridden with rheumatism
for seieral years. She could get nothing to
dd her any good. We sold her a bottle of
Chamberlain's Pain Balm and she was com
pletely cured by its use. We refer anyone
to her to verily this statement" EO-cent
bottles for, sale by druggists. txssu
Pittsburg and lake Erie B. B. Co.
On February 24 this company will sell
tickets to Pittsburg and return at one fare
for the round trip from all stations where the
one way rate is 25 cents or more, on ac
count of meetings of tho G. A.B. Tickets
will be good to return until February 26,
inclusive. J
B. I H. DABB3 has finished two fine oil
'Portraits -recently of -well-known neonlelr
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TEE ONLY WAT SB CAN GET
FKESH PAPER MONET
Will Be in the Hands of the People
Before Next Do? Days.
BILLS HAED TO COUNTERFEIT.
Intricate Scroll Work Based on Mathemat
ical Formulae.
BLUE CAME IfEAS BEIIfQ ADOPTED
f SPICIAt TZLEQBAM TO TBI DUPATCTM
Washington-, Feb. 20. "Greenbacks
as a synonym for paper money has come
near being rendered a misnomer. The
proposition has been seriously considered by
the Treasury during the last few days to
make the reverse of every note and silver
certificate issued by the Government sky
blue. In fact, copies of the designs were
printed in that color and submitted to show
what they would look like. Unfortunately
for the plan, the tint suggested Confederate
shinplasters to somebody and that settled it
Accordingly, the color will not be altered;
but the design on the back of every one of
Uncle Sam's bills is to be promptly changed,
excepting only the new 52 silver certificates.
Treasury notes as well as silver -certificates
are all to assume a novel aspect on the re
verse side. The patterns are completed and
have been officially approved. By April
the engraved plates will be ready to print
from, and three months later the fresh
money will be in the pockets of the people.
Showing; the Tiny Silk Threads.
These changes are made chiefly in order
that the designs may show plainly the bands
of red and blue fibers which run 'through the
new distinctive paper. This paper is mads
so that the fibers only show on the back of
each bill, being contained in the outer layer
of its substance on one side as the sheets
come from the mill. Unluckily, all the old
style notes and certificates are so covered
with engraving behind that there is no
chance for exhibiting the peculiarity which
Congress has declared shall be made a con
spicuous feature;. Accordingly, it was found
necessary to maka an entirely fresh set of
plates, wifich has occupied the arduous at
tention of '-tho Bureau of Engraving and
Minting for some months-past, "
'incidentally it was sought to mace tne new
patterns more highly ornamental, and the i
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Secret Service declares that they will make
counterfeiting more difficult No. two of
them are at all aline. Furthermore no por
tion of a design is repeated on the same bill,
as used to be the case when the skillful imi
tator could copy one small bit and by simply
multiplying It with a transfer press or small
battery reproduce a large part of a note.
Tho F-ngravlnc; Is More Open,
Instead of covering the backs of the new
notes and certificates with a maze of en
graving too elaborate for the eye to follow,
Chief Engraver Casilear has made the de
signs as open as possible, the white back
ground of the paper showing. the patterns in
such conspicuous relief as to render any
error of the counterfeiter readily detected.
No such exquisite and complicated geo
metrical lathe work as appears on these
bills was ever seen before. It is the one
thing which the forger cannot successfully
imitate. To produce a single "bnttoa" of
it meaning a bit of tracery, circular, oval,
or otherwise shaped, complete in itself
sometimes requires two or three days of
preliminary figuring merely to compose the
mathematical formula. Even with this
formula at hand, the criminal engraver
could not set the machine so 3 to copy the
picture.
An admirable example of this sort of
work will be found in the new 510 silver
certificate when it Is issued. In the middle
of the back is a beautiful piece of lathe en
graving, which looks like one of the dissolv
ing kaleidoscope patterns thrown by the
magic lantern upon a white sheet But the
most exquisite of all the designs is the
Treasury note for 51,000, which has a wheel
that is a marvel of decorative intricacy.
Special Effort on the Letterlnc.
Tn collaboration with tho lathe worker,
the engraver of letters and the ornamental
engraver have expended their best skill
upon these new bills. Each is a separate
branch of the profession, which has been so
highly specialized that a man who can do
more than one of them well is yery rare.
The making of small, square and perfectly
plain letters is one of the most difficult ac
complishments. In the designs 'for the Treasury notes
flowers are made to play an Important part.
bunches of tiger lilies and other blossoms.
being so combined with the scroll work in
the corners as to afford a well-nigh hopeless
task to anyone, who may try to copy them.
Another novel feature which appears in
every one of the patterns is to be remarked
in the conspicuous "wqlte figures represent
ing the denomination in each corner, so that
the money can be counted over with the ut
most readiness.'' To bank clerks this -will be
a blessing. Some-of the corners of' the
pictures are square,-while others are, round,
and in every way it has been tried to make
as much variety among them as possible. J
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Other Suns Haye J)immed and
Then Plashed Up Within
Man's Memory.
OUBOTOOEB-DIDSOOSCE
If We Are to Account Eationally for
the Glacial Period.
EABTH'S LITE ALMOST DESTE0IED
The Daj JTaj Come "When Every Drop of '
Water WiU Become lea.
ETIPENCE OP THE TAEIABLE BTAE8 !
iwmrtiar tob tss dispatch.!
LOWING that tha
stars are not merely
brilliant points at
tached to the vault
of the firmament,
but that each star i
veritable sun liks
'our own, must wo
accept it as possibls
that a sun should in
crease or diminish in
brightness?
May our own sun
at some time grow
great in light and in heat, dazzle us, blind us,
consume ns, burn vegetation from the toco
of the earth, cause animal life to perish la
a stifling desert, and lay humanity on tha
scorching sands of a perpetual Sahara? Or,
on the other hand, may the beneficent
source of our natural heat become wrapped
in a veil, suspend his shining, shut in his
golden rays, the arrows of flame he has
darted since the days of Apollo, refuse us
springtime and flowers, summer and .har
vest, autumn and vine, spread over tho
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globe the frosts of an eternal winter, freeza
the bloodjn our veins, make every creature,
shiver in a final, anaemia under a moist,
penetrating, icy atmosphere, and lay out
tha whole human race tinder a thick-and in
creasing winding-sheet of snow?
Fosslbly and Probably Has Been.
Yes, our great and beautiful sun may be
squarest dealing.
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