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THE BAMBERG HERALD. ESTABLISHED 189L BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 1899. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR 1 ' J A HOBBOB JF THE SEA. Men Who Lived On a Comrade's Flesh Landed at Charleston. ADRIFT ON A RAFT. i Cannibalism and Raving Lunacy-Cast Lots to Determine Who Should Die. 1 l Charleston, S. C? Sept. 2.? 1 Shipwreck, cannibalism and raving lunacy form the fabric of a harrowing tale of the sea brought to Char** leston to-day by Capt. Robert Mil- 1 burn, of the Rritish steamship Wood 1 ruff, bound here from Hamburg. The story of terrible suffering was 1 v rendered all the more thrilling by ( the presence of two of the actors in the terrible tragedy. They are 1 Maurice Anderson and Goodman ? ~t H.? t Tnomasen, survivors m uic *;??-*? Norwegian bark Decot, which sailed from Pascagoula for Buenos Ayres on August 3rd. The men were picked up from a raft by the Woodruff 250 miles south of Charleston, on j1 last Thursday, 31st ult. They were in a condition worse than death, and ? they were but a little if any better wheu brought up to the city on the ^ tow boat Waban this morning from the quarantine station and sent to a ^ hospital. Andersen is a raving maniac, with but little chance of again being a sane man while, Thomasen is so ^ weak and exhausted it will be a r marvel it he regains health. Anderson is a Swede while Toma- ^ sen hails from Stevanger. Norway. ^ The Decot was wrecked in the West ' Indian hurricane off the Florida a straits August 11th. Nine members ^ , of her crew went down with her. ^ Eight others succeeded in gettingon a raft formed by a part of the vessel's ^ deck. The following day the raft was broken in two parts, two men re- . - v maining on one portion of it and six on the other. The German steam* ?^ ^ ~ ? m.a!../] i,*\ ana a f f ha ^ Snip V^clLUlilrt pii'ivru uI/IIV vi vuv ^ two seamen and carried him to Baltimore. The only survivors of * g' the party of six are Andersen and. Thomasen, who were brought here to-day. The six men lived four days on the raft without water and with only w such food as was supplied to them * ^ by a small fislring line one of the men had in his pocket. After endur- C ing untold torture the fisherman lost w bis mind and jumped into the sea, n; carrying his fishing tackle with him. si Hie five remaining men were then ^ left with neither food nor water. oJ Two of them died and the other P1 ^^-three, who had been greedily watch- K1 ^^^^^g-them, sprang on their bodies as ss soon as their fafling heads showed that death had come, and hacked 01 away and ate pieces of their flesh pi and drank their yet warm blood. w Andersen and Thomasen both say la these men died and there is every w ^ reason to believe them, for regarding ft the other of the three men left they g> tell even a more awful story. n] They say that when only three of tt the original six were left alive and nn the drained and partly devoured ir bodies of the others had been cast away and had drifted off on the end- tl * less, tossing waves, it was agreed tl that one of the three should die to it - give food and drink for the other a W two. The three clinging to the raft rt decided to cast lots. It was left to yi chance and the two survivors say fe ^t after deliberate discussion a m T- method was chosen which was sure te to be fair. 1? A big German sailor lost and sub- e: mitted to the verdict of death with- ti r /rout a murmur or struggle, holding , ^up his throat to the knife with all a f: sailor's carelessness .of death. The ^ ' Swede and Norwegian killed him, ^ they frankly Lay, drank his blood and lived for two days on his flesh.' - ' ? ? ^" f/M- annthar C1 r i/ney weieunuj b-.-. ble to determine which of the two a should die and be eaten by the other. al When the Woodruff sailed in sight h of the raft Thomasen was amusing ? ?-? himself feeding the rotting frag- r( ments of the dead German's flesh to sharks that swarmed around the raft and humped their ravenous noses A against it. He and his comrade Cl were both crazed and more dead w than alive, they were taken on board a the Woodruff and everything possible to revive, them was done but a even after two days of care and at- 11 tention they'were in a fearful plight P when they reached here this morn- ^ ing. v The two men told their story to the seamen of the Woodruff. They v ^ are now in a condition of collapse 1 WU and both may die. Their attending ^ physicians will not allow them to 1 see anybody. If they live they will s ^ probably be tried for murder and an s oI? and much disputed question of v the law of the sea will he again ^ ? brought up. Whether men in their a f 4 position have the legal right to kill s -i another man, even with his consent, j has never been determined. A Sure Test. t - * xl The schoolmaster put to his ciass me \ question: "Two jars of gas, one con- < > f taining nitrogen and one carbon di- ] ? oxide, are given. How may the gases btf discriminated ?" One eager little pupil said: "Get a man. and let him take a deep breath of ? both. When he gets the carbon dioxide, ? he'll die. That's the way to telL " iv. . Bride Retains Her Name. j i There was a curious marriage at To- I, ledo a few days ago. The bride was . Miss Lydia Kingsmill Commander, and ; ? the bridegroom the Rev. Herbert N. Casson. By prenuptial agreement the ' f bride is to retain her own name?Mrs. i Lydia K. Commander; Mr. Casson will still be known as Mr. Casson. It is not s * stated whether the future members of f the family will be Cassons or Com-' manders or half and half.?New York ? Tribune. f DO NOT GIVE SATISFACTION. South Carolina's Pension Laws Cause ol Complaint. Columbia, S. C., August 31.?The South Carolina pension laws do not seem to be giving satisfaction. Kieven years ago the State legislature decided to appropriate $o0,000 annually for destitute confederate veterans and needy widows of such soldiers. The sum was soon found to be inadequate and was increased to $100,(X)0. which is considered a liberal appropriation for cases where it should be properly applied, .'iut there is great complaint that people ivho do not need pensions and are lot entitled to them are receiving the money, reducing the amount i ' i- I * .? n>wl outfitter TOlllg lO lilt? WUl kiitv uura anvi v v?vv??>d )ut others altogether. The matter is >eing agitated all over the State and t is likely the next legislature will levote some time to the construcion of a satisfactory law. A meeting of the chairmen of the ownship pension boards in that secion, held in Greenville, adopted esolutions on this suDject. which, ifter detailing the grievances of the mnest claimants and the unsatisfacory working of the present plan, ays: "Competent and conscientious ownship boards are the best judges >f the claimants in their near neigh>orhoods; and the difficulty is to get uch men willing to devote the neessary time to inform themselves f the law and to serve upon, these oards for absolutely nothing. We ecommend, therefore, that the omptroller general be furnished by J he country chairman of each couny with the names and postoffice adress of each township chairman nd be required to mail to his adress in ample time a summary of tie pension laws of the State with ecessary blanks; also that the meiners of the township boards as well s the county boards be sworn to npartially conform to the law and lat they receive $1 per day for not xceeding two days for their serices." The resolutions will be sent to the overnor and to senators and repremtatives. SUMTER FARMER'S VIEWS. rhat He Thinks of the Recent Rains in Texas. To the Editor of The News and ourier: Having seen so much ritten about the cotton crop, and so mch wild speculation as to the relit of the recent rains in Texas and leir beneficial effect upon the crop f that State, and having had a ractical experience of ten years in rowing the plant, I will venture to ly a few words on this subject. As to the effect of the recent rains i the cotton crop; every intelligent lanter is aware of the fact that hen cotton ceases to grow from ick of moisture at least ten days ill elapse, after the rain comes, be>re the plant will commence to row. After this new growth comlences it will be one month before le bloom appears, after which two lonths will elapse before the openig of the fully matured boll. From ^liese facts it will be seen iat it takes over three months for le cotton to mature after the fa.llig of seasonable rains. Now, how in any reasonable man say that the ;cent rains in Texas will affect the ield of the cotton now? It is perictly absurd. As a rule the cotton larket is influenced to a great ex>nt by the estimates contained in itters written by men who have no cperimental knowledge of the nalre and growth of the cotton plant. J. E. Barxett. Mayesville, August 29, 1899. Mormons Cause Bloodshed. Chattanooga, Tennessee, Sept. ?Wednesday night six Mormon Iders were conducting a meeting in school house at Pine Bluff, Stewrt County. Tennessee, when the uildingwas stormed by a mob of ver one hundred men. Eggs and >cks were thrown through the willows, and the building almost enrely demolished. Those present ed to save their lives, as bullets ommenced to strike the building lick and fast. Miss May Harden, popular young woman of the place, 11 1 u ttl/im'c nic^n raih^u uetwccii int >,...v .. nd Petty, with a view to checking tie work of the mob. While the trio assed down the road shots were red from ambush, and the woman ,\as hit by a ball and almost instanty killed. Her brothers said they fould avenge the crime, and, after he excitement died out, secured loud hounds and placed them on the rail of the assassins. Burton Vin011, a prominent young farmer and uperintendent of a Sunday-school, vrote a confession stating he had Li lied the girl, but that it was an iccident and he wished to rid himelf of remorse of conscience. Shorty after the confession the bloodlounds trailed to his home. Vinson urned, picked up a knife and cut his hroat, almost at the same instant sending a bullet through iiis brain. His family and the officer's posse witnessed the suicide. IIOW S THIS? We offer One Hundred Hollars Reward for ' ''otMPi-h that fHinidt i-iireil hv 111V cnsr in v ? - _ Hall's Catarrh Curt'. K. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo. (?. We. the undersigned, have known F. .1. ,'heney for the last 15 years, and helleve him ( erfcctly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any ubligations made by their firm. Wkst & Tki'ax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. < >. Wai.iumu, Kixnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting dircctiv upon the blood and mucom surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. There is a lar?e. if not a profitable field for any company that will insure the luck of the man who plays i he races. THE CARTER CASE. ' May Result In Prosecutions of Several Firms and Individuals. ! Washington, I). C., Aug. 30.? . The belief is strong; in certain official circles that further developments i may be expected in the Carter case when Attorney General Griggs makes his report upon the case to the president. It would not be surprising if, as the outcome of the attorney general's investigation, prosecutions should be commenced against others besides Captain Carter, who were connected with the work. A great deal of comment has been occasion by the delay of the attorney general in acting upon this case, j comment which the attorney gener al litis borne without complaint, it is suggested that an explanation of his position may be furnished when steps are taken, on his recommendation, to bring others to the bar of justice. It is intimated that one material reason for delay in the case has been the fact that the government is collecting evidence, based on the record of the Carter trial, for prosecutions against several individuals or firms. Separate Schools In New York. In a case sent up from Jamaica, New York, Justice Smith, of the State supreme court, rendered recently an important opinion. The gist of the decision is that colored pupils may be excluded from schools where white children attend. Mrs. Cisco, a wealthy colored woman, who has been attempting for several months to compel the board of education of Queens borough to admit her children into a school at Jamaica. brought a suit for peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the school authorities of Queens to admit her son, Jacob, into the school attended by white children. Mrs. Cisco admitted that Jamaica had a school exclusively for colored children, but maintained that she had a right to send her son to any school in the borough she chose. The case was stubbornly contested and her motion was denied without costs. Justice Smith rendered an exhaustive opinion, 6aying in part: "The court of appeals decided that ' under the provisions of the common 1 school act of 1864, authorizing the establishment of separate schools for the education of the colored race, 1 ~ ^ ft rr/\ nnrtfA ? Y*T hoil { r? ' um ttlHIIUUHCO 1IOTC niibi! iu their opinion the interests of educa- ' tion will be promoted thereby, to establish schools for the exclusive use ' of colored children, and when such 1 are established and provided with 1 equal facilities,- to exclude colored 1 children from schools provided for white children. There is no claim 1 ttiat the statute was ever repealed. ' The claim that the statute was re- 1 pealed by implication cannot be 1 seriously entertained." Whenever they push their way ' into northern communities in sufficient numbers to become a factor in the population, negroes always find ! themselves confronted on social 2 lines by the same race feeling that exists in the south. Iu States where they are so few as to attract little attention they may be granted unusual privileges, but as soon a6 the grow in numbers sufficiently to be a factor in the community they find laws making provision for the sepa- , ration of the races in schools and , other public places. Under like , conditions race sentiment is alike | in any latitude.?Augusta Chronicle. Here are Some Big Melons. Lake Park, Ga., July 27.?Your ' correspondent has been shown some ( watermelons which demonstrate beyond a doubt that this is the home , of that luscious fruit and the wonderful possibilities of this section of the State. Mr. James Heirs, who lives ; four miles south of this place, has raised some monsters, as tfie following shows. On a piece of land about twenty yards square, among others he has six melons, two of the smallest weighing 100 pounds each. The next four weigh respectively 108,110, 115 and 118-pounds. He has many others on this same piece of land which weigh from 75 to 100 pounds. These melons are of the "Girardeau Triumph" variety, and Mr. Heirs is a contestant for the Girardeau prizes, which amount to $200 for the four largest of that variety. These melons were raised on pine land which has been cleared about four years. a cow pen the first year and the next year or two planted in sweet | potatoes, and this year in melons. INO commercial ieruuzer wasuaeu, but a liberal supply of stable manure was broadcasted over the ground.? Valdosta Times. A Tobacco Monopoly. Washington, Aug. 10.?Minister Buck has reported to the State department that the Japanese Government lias concluded arrangements for the purchase of tobacco through agents, and will obtain supplies generally from the United States. This result follows inquiries set on foot after conferences between Secretary Hay and some of the members of the Virginia delegation, in Congress, including Senator Martin and Representative Swanson. The latter were desirous of having the tobacco interests protected against any discriminations which might follow the organization of a Government mo nopolyof the tobacco business. Japan has recently established this monopoly, as a means of increasing her revenues, and the American tobacco 1 interests have feared this might cut off the trade thfey have heretofore enjoyed with that country. But Minister Buck's report seems to , assure the continuance of the trade, as the Government agents will pur> chase supplies as heretofore in this country. COLONEL NEAL'S BOREEN Two Mew Warrants Issued Against Him. CHARGES FRAUD AND THEFT. Difficulty In Securing Bondsmen-Former Friends Desert Him. Columbia, S. C., Au^. 30 ?The way people avoid a squeezed lemon was shown to-day in the rase of Col^ 1 Vool A vaq r Q<rn lip WMS tllfi V uc. J "I-, Mark Hannaof Soutli Carolina polities. His power and his influence were unlimited. He had the right and left ear of Governor Ellerbe and the administration. He was courted and favored by all. To-day he begged for bondsmen. A year ago he would have gone on any one's bond or note and been accepted. The friends he might have expected to go on his bond, failed. He sent, and went, and for a long time it looked as if he would have to send home for bondsmen and spend another night at the hotel with a constable. About dinner time W. B. Lowrance and George A. Shields, with whom he never had any political and likely no business dealings, went on his bond. The bond was fixed at $3,500 on three indictments. Columbia, S. C., Aug. 30.?When Colonel Neal appeared before Magistrate Smith this morning he was confronted with two new warrants. The warrant on which he was arrested charged him with not turning over to his successor $593 collected for labor and not turned over to his successor 40 days after retiring from office. The new warrants wad as follows: State of SouUi Carolina, ( County of Kicmanu ) The State vs. Willian A. Neal. [AFFIDAVIT.] Personally appears before nieJ. M. Smith, a magistrate for and in said county and said State, G. Duncan ' Bellinger, attorney, general, who, on oath, says that he is informed and believes that on the first day of December, 1895, in said State and county, one William A. Neal was J guilty of a breach of trust with fraudulent intent in this: That being then and there paid by one J. S. Fowler the sum of five bun- : dred dollars for the use and as on ac- ( count of the State of South Carolina, ' the same being the property of said State, upon the'special trust and | confidence that he, the same, should safely keep, transfer and disburse for the said State, as its public re- 1 ward and officer, he being then and there the superintendent of the State penitentiary, he did then and there feloniously appropriate, convert and divert the same to his own use, with 1 intent to defeat and defraud the said State. 1 ? j Attv. Gen'l. ( - . . ! Sworn to before me tms ?9th day of August, 1899. , [l. s.J State of South Carolina 1 County of Richland ( The State versus William A. Neal. [affidavit.] Personally appeared before me J. M. Smith, a magistrate for and in *aid county and said State, G. Duncan Bellinger, attorney general, who dii oath says that he is informed and believes that on the day of , 1898, in said State and county, one William A. Neal was guilty of embezzlement in this: That then and there, being superintendent of the State penitentiary, he as such superintendent did receive from one W. F. Magill the sum of $40 for the use of said penitentiary, the same being public funds, and the property of the State of South Carolina, and he being then and there charged with the safe keeping, transfer and disbursing of the same, and did then and there < feloniously convert, divert, and appropriate said sum to his own use. , And further, the said William A. Neal theu and there the sum of $40, , the property of the said State did steal, take, and carry away. G. Duncan Bellinger, , Attorney General S. C. Sworn to before me this 29th day of August, 1899. , J.M.Smith, [l. s.J Magistrate. Why She Blushed. Of course she was indignant when it dawned upon her that some one was trying to flirt with her. Yet there was no denying the fact that the man behind her had kept steadily after her ever since she had left the street car. "And he's old enough to be in better business," she said to herself, indignantly. "I'll cross the street * 1 * - - ? l? ? *t? 1\ nf b A?I bn 4 o JUSt lO Iliaitc out u niiDiuDi nc; id really following.,' She crossed the street, and so did he. Then she turned onliim. ' Sir," she said, '-why do you persist in following me?" He started, as if disturbed in the midst of some abstruse mental calculation, and for a moment seemed bewildered. Then he bowed courteously and said: "Madam, why do you persist in preceding me?" Two doors further on he turned in, producing a latch key as he did so, and showing in other ways that lie had reached his destination. She turned back and went round the block rather than pass that house, and her face was still red when she reached home.?Chicago Post. Frequently Protracted Constipation causes Inflammation of the Bowels. Kemedy?use Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Mediciue. For sale by Hughson-Ligon Co. WALTER WELLMAN EXPLORES. Tells of his Journey In the Neighborhood of the Pole-He Still Thinks the Pole can be Reached by Way of Franz Josef Land. Hull, England, August 28.? Walter Wellman, the leader of the Wellman Polar expedition, who returned to Tromso, Norway, August 17, after having successfully completed explorations in Franz Joseph Land, arrived here to-day. He walks with the aid of crutches, his right leg, which was seriously injured by a fall into a snow-covered crevasse while Mr. Wellman was leading his party, still being useless. The explorer was accompanied by the American members of the expedition, who are well. In an interview with the representative of the Associated Press Mr. Wellman said: "The object of the expedition was two-fold, to complete exploration of Franz Josef Land, ot which the North and Northeast parts were practically unknown, and to reach a high latitude, or even the Pole itself. The first object was successfully accomplished. The second would have been achieved, at least to a greater extent than by previous explorers, but for the accident to myself." The provisions left for Prof. Andree, the missing aeronaut, were found by Mr. Wellman untouched. After leaving letters about his own expedition, and taking a collapsible house with him, Mr. Wellman proceeded due east to Cape Tegethoff, and arrived there July 30, 1898. There the party landed all the stores and the steamer returned to Norway. "We established our headquarters in the little house brought from Jackson's headquarters," continued Mr. Wellman, "over which flew the Stars and Stripes." Mr. Weliman (lispaicneu ,uieui. F. B. Baldwin, of the United States ( weather bureau, with an expedition north, intending to follow In a few clays. He was unable to proceed, ] however, and Baldwin, after estab- ' lishing an outpost, named Fort Mc- J Kinley, in latitude 81 decrees, left it in charge of two volunteers, Ventzen i and Bioervig and returned to Wellman's headquarters. Mr. Weliman, February 18, 1899, | with three Norwegians, with sledges and dogs, started north. Mr. Well- ' man, continuing, said: ''February 26, 1899. I arrived at Fort McKinley. i Bjoervig, rifle in hand, stood at the I mouth of the snow tunnel. He I wrung my hand and, with tears in , his eyes, said: 'Poor Ventzen is i dead.' 1 "Of course, you have buried him," " [ said. , " 'No,' Bjoervig replied. 'He lies | there,' pointing to the hut, '1 kept < my promise.' J "The two men had made a compact ( that in cuse of death of one the sur- 1 vivor should keep the body 4dll help s :ame. In that little hut the quick and the dead had slept side by side , through two months of Arctic dark- ] ness. J "Bjoervig said he had managed to keep up his spirits hy reciting Ibsen's | poetry. \ "The next day we gathered stones, ind under these we buried our dead ; comrade. A few fitting words wore , spoken as we stood around in 70 de- | jrees of frost. t "After a delay of ten days ^he ' party, including Bjoerving, pressed , north in sledges, and by March 20 | reached 82 degrees east of Rudoff i Island. ' "Then a seemingly trivial accident , turned the satisfactory advance into i a precipitate retreat. While strug- 1 jling with the sledges, in rough ice, my leg was bruised and sprained by ' falling into a snow-hidden crevasse, i For two days I went on, and unless ! other circumstances had not nc#r- 1 red I should have pressed onward so , far that I would never have been ; able to return alive. < "For two or three days I stumbled along until I fell. There was nothing to do then but get on a < sledge and be dragged by the men and dogs to headquarters. Forced marches by my devoted comrades saved my life. "The point at which we turned back was 25 miles northwest of Freeden Islands where Dr. Nansen landed in 1895. North of these islands we photographed three islands and some large land, unseen either by Payer or Nansen. We also found ? i . j i ~ : A.*** that layer s so-caueu uu?ciei uw? not exist. "I still believe it is possible to reach the pole by Franz Josef Land. But I cannot say if I shall make another attempt." Late Literary News. "The Art of Buying Food for a Family," by Mary Graham, is an able paper in the September "Cosmopolitan" on the very practical subject of;purveying for a household. The writer shows just where the average housekeeper is wasteful, and tells many things that will enable a purveyor to supply her family with variety in food at less cost than that with which she now endeavors to maintain a household with a too frequent accompaniment of complaint and criticism. This "Cosmopolitan" seems to be a household need, for it contains another article in the same vein by Anna Leach on the "Delightful Art of Cooking." It is remarkable what a wealth of information she crowds into a few pages. One longs for meals prepared and served as she suggests. She promises endless variety, just as cheaply too, when one learns to prevent the wastefulness which is the besetting sin of the American kitch en. No one ever heard of appendicitis resulting from a diet of sour grapes. The difference between love and dyspepsia is merely a matter of years. A few temptations beset the industrious, but all temptations assail the idle. MARK TWAIN ON THE JEWS. Why the Germans and Other Continent-1 < al Nations Persecute Them. The Jew is not a disturber of the peace of any country. Even his ; enemies will concede that. lie is , not a loafer, he is not a sot, he is not . noisy, he is not a brawler nor a rioter, lie is not quarrelsome. In the 1 statistics of crime his presence is ] conspicuously rare?in all countries. | With murder and other crimes of . violence he has but little to do; he is a stranger to the hangman. In the ( police court's daily long roll of "as- ?j saults" and "drunk and disorderlies'^ t his name seldom appears. That the Jewish home is a home in the truest 1 sense is a fact which no one will dis- I pute. The family is knitted together 1 bv the strongest affections: its mem- . * ' "n "" "" ? I bers show each other every due res-?>| pect; ami reverence for the elders is an inviolate law of the house. The } Jew is not a burden on the charities v of the state nor the city; these could c cease from their functions without affecting hint. When he is well v enough, he works; when he is in- a capacitated, his own people take j care of him. And not in a poor and j stingy way, but with a fine and large benevolence. His raceme entitled to P be caUttrthe most benevolent of all n the rmm* of men. A Jewish beggar t is not impossible, perhaps; such? thing may exist; but there are few men that can say that they have seen a that spectacle. The Jew has been p staged in many uncomplimentary j, form butsofaras I know no dramatist , has done him the injustice to stage 1 Jiimas a beggar. Whenever a Jew has 1| real need to b<?, his people save him fl from the necessity of doing it. The 0 charitable institutions of the Jews are supported by Jewish money, and amply. The Jews make no noise h about it; it is done quietly; they do g not nag and pester and harass us for u contributions; they give us peace, and set us an example?an example P which we have not found oursftives P able to follow. * 1< In Berlin, a few years ago, I read j, a speech which frankly urged the ex- . pulsion of the Jews from Germany; and the agitator's reason was as d frank as his proposition. It was cj this: That 85 per cent of the sue- jj cessful Inwyens in Berlin were Jeww, and that about the same percentage * of the great and lucrative business w of all sorts in Germany was in the pi hands of the Jewish race! Isn't it y an amazing confession? It was but another way of saying that in a Cl population of 18,000,000of whom only P' 500,000 were registered as Jews, 85- pi per cent of the brains and honesty of j,, the whole was lodged in the Jews. ' I must insist upon the honesty?it is 11 an essential of successful business, pj t? ?.? 1 s\e taken uy an^ large. \ji uuuiae, u c< Joes not rule out rascals entirely, (r< even aiming Christians, but it is a ? ^ood working rule, nevertheless. rc The speaker's figures may have hi been inexact, but the motive of per- <?c secution stands out as clear as day. tj The man claimed that in Berlnf the banks, the newspapers, the theatres, the great mercantile, ship- M ping, mining, and manufacturing in- ta terests, the big army and city con- p, tracts, the tramways, and pretty { >, much all other properties of high a palue, and also the small businesses Qj ?were in the bauds of the Jews. He said the Jews were pusAig the ^ Christians to the wall all along the jr line; that it was all a Christian a, could do to scrape together a living, ^ md that the Jew must be banished, m and soon?there was no other way ^ if saving the Christian. Here in a, Vienna, last autumn, an agitator ' said that all these disastrous details were true of Austria-Hungary aUo; md in fierce lamruage he demanded the expulsion of the Jews. When politicians come out without a blush |J( and read the baby act ill this frank tIway, uuttebuked, it is a very good in- t)| Jicatio^Rhat they have a mar Hot back of them, and know where to w 3sh for votes. al Now, why was the race renamed? t0 [ have been told that in Prussia it was given to using fictitious names, ge cud often changing them, so as to ( beat the tax-gather, escape military service, and so on; and that finally the idea was hit upon of furnishing g[ all the inmates of a house with one gJ and the same surname, and then , holding the house responsible right along for those inmates, and account- t0 able for any disappearances that gj might occur; it made the Jews keep track of each other, for self-interest's sake, and saved the government the trouble. Jf that explanation of how the Jews of Prussia came to be renamed sp is correct, if it is true that they flc- j ' titiously registered themselves to t|* ?ain certain advantages, it may t 1 possibly be true that in America f they refrain from registering them- ? selves as Jews to fend off the damaging prejudices of the Christian ^ customer. I have no way of knowing whether this notion is well jj founded or not. There may be other and better ways of explaining why gc only that poor little 250,000 of our ^ Jews got into the cyclopedia. I ^ may, of course, be mistaken, but I pj amply strongly of the opinion that we have an immense Jewish population in America.?Mark Twain, in t( Harper's Magazine. tj "Whisky is steady," says a late ^ market report. Perhaps it is, but ft the man with several fingers of it concealed under Jiis vest is apt to be j otherwise. UJ ^ Nine times out of ten when a man d gives what he calls a reason, it is a only an excuse. tc Fortune isn't the only thing that knocks once at every man's door. 11 There is the collector, too. jA Lazy people are criticised a great (), deal, but they generally lead long and happy lives. p When a man wants a cigar, he <r never wants it very had. T More people die from head failure a than from heart failure. F Don't busy yourself with unimpor- j*' taut thing.'. ? The man who always looks before lie leaps seldom leaps. ^ 11 is easier to do right than it is to (. get credit for it. u A girl's idea of an eligible man is t< one who wants to get married. d e A Snoring Premier. t< During the recent all night sitting of e the New South Wales legislative as- v sembly at Sydney the premier, Mr. !! Reid, spent a. large part of the night in s slumber on the Opposition benches. The j incident did not escape notice, as the n rotund attitude of the sleepy premier <i and his nasal performances compelled i attention from all parts of the house, a Eventually It was satirically demanded ^ why the leader of the government 1 should persist In remaining on the Opposition side of the house. Mr. Barton 1 promptly and wittily defended his new colleague by asking: "Why should he ^ not l?e there? Is he not now my sleep- e lng partner?"?Sydney Telegraph. 1 MCLEAN'S PERSONALITY. Characteristics of the Man Nominated for Governor of Ohio. Washington, Aug-. 81.?There is ?reat satisfaction in Washington >vet* the success of John R. McLean before the Ohio Democratic conven:ion. Washington has been Mr. McLean's home for fifteen years, and je is identified with some of the argest business enterprises of the :ity. He is president of the local >as company, a large stockholder in he Capital Traction company, owns >ne of the largest and best hotels iere, and is classed as one of the argest taxpayers of the city. He is >robably the only public man who las made a fortune out of a graveard. Ten years ago lie bought, at a ery low price, the old Holmead emetery, in the fashion northwest part of the town, and has since, fter removing the dead and grad ng and sodding the land, been sellng it off in lots at several hundred ier cent, profit. He is a popular nan with all classes, for he is at all imes approachable by everybody, nd is quite as likely as not to make rich man wait while he talks to a nor negro laborer or washerwoman 11 quest of charity. He is^a liberal iver and giver, has a large, old ishioned mansion down town and a ne country place out in the region f Rock Creek. Of late years Mr. McLean has had is attention much occupied with out, and last winter he took a new lalady in the form of what was ronounced paralysis of the diahragm. While it costs him, donbt?ss, not less than $100,000 a year for is household and family expenses, e says that his own living expenses oes not exceed $50 a year, for he in eat but three or four tilings, and ves chiefly on mush and milk, liich, being of Ohio birth, lie likes ell. All his life he has been what Dliticians call a "good mixer.'' k'hile a police reporter on the Cinnnati Enquirer, he became very iipular with the firemen and the olice of that city. As a result he as for 20 years? been an honorary lember of the Cincinnati fire defu tment. He owns the most unique Election any faddist ever got to3ther in the shape of a private >gues' gallery, which the police ive steadily for many years assisti him to> collect. It is said to be le largest collection of the kind ,vned by a private individual* Mr. ^ean is most domestic in his 1 ctoa nuri is the inseparable com inion of his charming wife and , iglit young son. The lattei has famously tjpidsome four-in-hand r Shetlands, which he shares with rery child in the block where the cLeans live. Mr. McLean has an . ii port ant collection of paintings, id is a well read man in art and terature. He keeps a sharp, busies like eye or. the charities of Washington and Cincinnati, and inually gives many thousands lietly for this purpose. New Methods In Advertising. Railway companies are adopting iw and unique methods of adversing, as is demonstrated by the jblication in the Four Track Series ' the New York Central Road, of hat is now becoming widely known id somewhat famous. *kA message i Garcia," by Elbert Hubbard, of le Philtistine Magazine, which it lf is a. peculiar and interesting i jblication as relating to magazines r the present day. This article is attracting wideiread attention, and has been an- . vered by a writer in "The Mirror," lblfsfted at St. Louis, under date June 15, 1899, entitled "A Message i Hubbard," which gives the other de of the American employe. The Southern Railway, the leading mthern sjTstem, spreading from < Washington to the Mississippi River, id gridironing the South, and the lly line to "The Land of the Sky" ction of western North Carolina, < %h also issued a publication out of le ordinary, in the shajie of an atactive booklet entitled "A Night 1 Mount Mitchell," by Henry < itchfleld West, one of the leading litorial and political writers of the Washington Post, a paper widely id favorably known for the ability splayed in its editorial and politiil columns. This story is a de- > iription of an ascension to the very p of Mount Mitchell, which is the ighest mountain peak east of the \fnnntains, and 400 feet high-1 than Mount Washington, upon hich has been erected a monument ? Professor Mitchell, aftgfcwhom ' le mountain is named. The story is replete with interest, ad thrilling in detailing a trip hich may be taken by any traveler >r health or pleasure, and reminds ne of Talmage's description of ookout Mountain, when he stood pon its heights and delivered the 1 (Mowing oration, which is reprouced for its graphic description of location.famous in American his>ry: "The carriage wound its way up, p, up. Standing there on the tip>p rock, I saw five States of the fnion. Scenes stupendous and verwhelming. One almost is disused to take off his hat in the resence of what seems to be the rainiest prospect of this continent, here is Missionary Ridge, the beach gainst which the red billows of 'ederal and Confederate courage urged and broke. There are the lue mountains of North and South Carolina. With strain of vision, iiere is Kentucky, there is Virginia. ,t our feet, Chattanooga and Ihickamauga, the pronunciation of hich proper names will thrill ages o couie with thoughts of valor and esperation and agony. Looking ach way, and any way, from the up of that mountain, earthworks, arthworks?the beautiful Tennessee finding through the valley, curling ,nd coiling around, making letter S" after letter "S," as if that letter tood for shame, that brothers should iave gone into massacio with each ther, while Cod and nations looked ill. 1 have stood on Mount Washngton.Jand on the Sierra Nevadas, md on the A'ps, hut I never saw so ar as from the top of Lookout Mounain." Copies of this booklnt and other *.4.rni. ? I nterestmg punncauons mi - mo liand of the Sky" sect'on and "Look>ut Mountain" may be obtained rom Mr. W. A. Turk, General Paslenger Agent, Southern Railway, Washington, D. C." WILL IT BE A MISTRIAL? Impossible to Condemn Dreyfus, but the Court May Stand Four to Three Against the Prisoner. Rexnes, September 2.?The Dreyfus trial is nearly finished. If it had been conducted according to American.^** English rules of judicial proceil"u?trrw*???i^^die prosecution would have ociTi^md one sitting, while the defence would have demanded an acquittal without offering a single witness, and the prisoner would have left the Court completely vindicated in the eyes of all sane men. Instead of this there has neen a lour weeks' exposure or the rottenness of the whole military system of France, together with the exploitation of a dozen private scandals. France, and presumably the world at large, expects that the seven men who have permitted, even caused, this travesty of justice will evolve a just and true verdict. The correspondent of* the Sun cannot refrain from suggesting that it, is expecting too much. It is obvious, of course, that the condemnation of Dreyfus is morally impossible. . It would be unsafe, however, to venture a statement of what the decision of the Court-martial will be. It is scarcely believed that it will be unanimous either way. Everybody in Bennes is now speculating on the subject. Many foreigners who are attendants at the trial fear the most unsatisfactory of all verdicts?four to three against the prisoner, which would carry acquittal, but would mean dismissal from the army. This cowardly compromise would deprive the conspirators of the body of their victim, but it would leave France in the same distracting crisis which has so long threatened her ruin.?New York Sun. ? mm ~ * ; Old Times. There are no days like the good old days? The days when we were youthful; When humankind were pure In n^fld And speech and deeds were truthful; Before a love for sordid gold . Became man's rulit.g passion. And before each dame and maid became Slaves to the tyrant fashion. There are no girls like the good old girls? Against the world I'd stake 'em! As buxon and smart and clean of , heart As the Lord knew how to make 'em! They were rich in spirit and common sense, A piety all supporting They could bake and brew, and had taught school, too, And they made the likeliest courtin'. There are no boys like the good old boys? When we were boys together; When the grass was sweet to the brown bare feet Thai dimpled the laughing heather; When pewee sung to the summer dawn . Of the bee inthe billowy clover, Or down by the mill the whip-poorwill Echoed his night song over. There is no love like the old love? The love that mother gave us; Wp ?r? nlri nlrl mp?i vot uro nino - "1 J again For that precious grace?God save us! So we dream and dream of the good old times. And our hearts grow tenderer, fonder, A.s those dear old dreams bring soothing gleams Of heaven away off yonder. ?Eugene Fikjld. . The Old Tom Cat. We have read a heap of gush about the voices of the night When the moon is flooding Earthland with a sea of silver light, When the stars are softly winking at each other in the skies. And the breezes gently whisper at* mospheric lullabies. There are voices of the night that soothe a sleepy fellow's ear, Blended in a tender chorus that is mighty nice4o hear, But there always comes another one to knock their music flat? That's the devilish soprano of the old Tom cat! ? " When the toil of day is over and the face begins to yawn And the eyelids get to droopin' like their energy was gone, Then we pull ourselves together, muster courage to unshuck, And we think the bed the very soft-.*-; . est snap we ever struck. Pretty so<>n the vision-angel opens up his nightly show, And we watch the fair dream pictures as they brightly come and go Till there comes a squally veto ou such ecstacy as that In the fileep-destroying solo of the old Tom cat. In a voice he thinks is tender and a dream of harmony He will perch upon the woodshed and call his sweet Marie, And the two will get together and re hearse their tale of love In a way t'd scare an angel from ite roosting place abbve! Then a fellow's Christian spirit always goes upon a strike, And his words are wild as ever came resounding down the pike As he hurls his household treasures out to interrupt the chat Of that diabolic pussy and her old Tom cat! We are weary of the story of the voices of the night Told by dream afflicted poets when they've nothing else to write. For they pick the grains of sweetness from the chaff of painful fact, And omit the sounds by which our ears are devilishly racked! Why the dickens don't the scribblers fire a volley now and then At the nuisance that makes demons of us meek and saintly men? Cease to send their fancy pictures * through the old poetic hat And assault the nightly warbling of the old Tom cat? ?Denver Evenin&r Post. Results impress us more when#we are ignorant of the process by which they are attained. A man may care but little for social recognition, but he draws the Hue at being cut by a barber. ^ .