The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, November 01, 1894, Image 5
CROOKED COm
Criminal Operations In Doctoring
Uncle Sam’s Currency.
How Skillful Manipulator* Derive Larga
Fro flu from Clipping, Sawing,
Oougtmg, Boring and (Hiding |
Gold Pieces.
One of the many unlawful schemes
to prostitute the coin of the nation has
recently been suppressed by ex-Chief
Drummond. It first came to my atten
tion early last year, s<iys a New York
Herald writer. I refer to what was
known as the "coin sticker," which
made possible the extraction of, with
out discovery, part of the silver in
coin. The inventor of this "coin
sticker,” which was an advertisement
printed on paper to be pasted on coins,
sold territorial rights to print and use
it. The “coin sticker” cost the govern
ment a great deal of trouble and ex
pense to suppress. On fifty cent and
one dollar coins was pasted the adver
tisements with a paste of glue which
almost defied removal, covering the in
scription on the reverse of the coin,
deadening the resonance and of course
enabling the swindler to take out part
of the silver and substitute base metal.
Spurious coins of very common work
manship also passed readily with the
coin sticker on them.
There is a great increase of late in
the number of skillful men who are
constantly studying ways and means
of stealing a part of the genuine metal
from our coins and substituting base
metal. One of the most successful
swindlers in this line was a man named
Wilcox, who was recently taken into
custody in Chicago by secret service of
ficers. He made an average income of
from fifty to one hundred dollars a day
by clipping gold coins. Uy cutting a
rim from around the coin, as a tire
might be removed from a wheel, he
took away from each twenty-doliar
gold piece an amount of gold not ex
ceeding twenty-six or twenty-nine
grains in weight, or the value of one
dollar. The subsequent rereeding of
the double eagle, done with a machine,
rendered it as perfect as ever to the eye
of the casual observer.
The apparatus was small and easily
packed, and on reaching a fresh locali
ty all that was required was a quiet
room in an obscure street and a supply
of gold coin. The latter he secured
from the bank. He would deposit a
considerable sum of money, and after
awhile he would draw it out in gold.
The clipped coins were passed by Mrs.
Wilcox at dry goods shops mostly.
One of the most interesting processes
consists in sawing a donble eagle in
two through the edge and gouging out
the inside, so as to remove about fif
teen dollars' worth of gold. Thus the
piece is reduced to a hollow shell in
halves. It is then filled with platinum,
which U nearly as heavy as yellow
metal and costs at the present market
rates, though this varies, somewhat
less than one-half. Lead is too light
for the purpose. The cut edge of the
reconstructed coin is disguised by a
rim of gold soldered on, and a reeding
machine renews the corrugations of
the minting. The result is really a
work of art, being a combination of
five different metals. Only an expert
can distinguish anything wrong about
A metnon somewnai similar, tnougu
less artistic, is to substitute for the in
terior portion of a gold piece a core in
the shape of a planchet of silver. A
better plan, though somewhat labori
ous, consists in boring into the coin
from the edge so as to remove a consid
erable part of its internal substance.
In this manner about seven dollars’
worth of gold may be conveniently re
moved from a twenty-doliar piece, the
hole being filled up with a metal com
position and soldered at the opening
with gold.
Fortunately for the currency, prac
tically all the gold in circulation in the
United States passes every few hours
through the treasury and subtreas-
nriea. Every piece received at those
institutions is weighed, and, if found
light In weight, Is stamped with a big
"L.” Such coins are redeemed as
bullion. The loss to the government
by wear and tear on silver coin in
circulation is considerable. It averages
three cents on every dollar. Last year
it amounted to 8239,293.
The people have not all become
familiar with the faces of the new
silver coins The obverse and reverse
of the older coins they have known so
long and intimately that the draped
figure of Liberty and the majestic pose
of the eagle are fixed in their mind and
always recognized, but the new coins,
with changed designs, to which,
puzzling them more, were added the
Columbus souvenirs, have not yet
established their identity.
The manufacturing counterfeiters,
quick to discover and take advantage
of whatever favors deception, almost
immediately followed the government’s
issue of the coins of new design with
their fraudulent issue in likeness of
them, and reaped a rich harvest be
cause the originals were known, but
not well known.
The gilders-—counterfeiters, too—’
saw in the new twenty-five-centcoln, if
gilded, a presentable, beguiling ten-
dollar piece, and pocketed a full per
centage of profit until discovered. The
lack of weight should, of course, and
does make known the fraudulent
Character of the gold coin. This laat,
the gilders' scheme to falsify coin, as It
requires neither skill nor expensive
plant, and promises so much (or so
little, is always a seductive one to the
unprincipled or weak of wllL
Prices a century Age.
One hundred years ago beef sold in
New York city at *X<1- toStfd. a poundi
mutton, SJfd; veal, 5J4 to SXd-; live
pigs, 3 butter. Is. IXd-i new milk,
:8Xd- ta>3Xd, a qnart; chickens, lOd. to
Is.; hay, £3 Sa. to £3 16s. 3d. a ton;
wheat,’ 3s. 7Xd. a bushel; barley, 3a.
IXd.; corn, 2a. UXd.; rye, 3a.lXd.; oats,
1*. 8Xd. The average yield of wheat
per acre in the state then was 12 bush
els; of corn, 23 bushels and of buckwheat
Is bushels.
THROUGH COOSA RtVIff BRIDQt
I
Birmingham and Atlantic Mixed PrecIpS
tated Hear AanUton—One Killed.
Annsien, Ala., October 3.—A Bir
mingham and Atlantic mixed train,
consisting of ona coach, baggage and
wo coal ears Went .through n bridge
over the Coosa river yesterday. The
bridge was qjty feet high and the wa
ter twenty feet deep. One negro pas
senger was billed and the conductor,
flrenis a, mail clerk and baggage mas
ter were hurt, but none seriously.
Among the passengers were ft woman
and tw® children, neither of whom were
AMERICANS AND DIAMONDS.
They Buy Mure Thau tha People of
Europe.
It Is claimed that Americans buy more
diamonds than any other people. They
have always worn more, and at all
times of day. In and out of season, so
i they were a reproach to their English
cousins in the early days of social inter
course. But American women's dia
mond earrings worn early in the morn
ing. though decried by conservative
Britishers, had the power, to change
the standard of dress. Ridiculed as
they were, the Americans won the day,
and soon European dames began to
wear their Jewels in the street and on
all possible occasions. A craze for din-
i monds spread over society, and not
only family heirlooms but much new
Jewelry employing these once rare
stones, and bought dirt cheap, became
a feature of the daily toilette. Of
course, when fashion took a hand in
the business, the diamond market
boomed and syndicates talked very
I loud and big of the fields where the
sparklers bloomed perennially. The
real gem entailed the Imitation, and
rhinestones, as well as the almost-im-
possible-to-detect paste from the Rue
de la I*alx and the Palais Royale have
had a tremendous vogue, but, as de
mand increases supply, tfie diamond
syndicates were equal to the occasion,
and "real stones’* could be purchased
for a little more than the false ones.
The result has been that everybody
has worn some sort of a diamond. In
this country the craze has grown into
a cult. Tiaras gleam on the brows of
the wives of millionaires. Necklaces
worth a prince's ransom are bought by
anybody who has money to pay for
them. Brooches, pins, bracelets, starred
with the gems, are so common a woman
must plaster herself with them to be
observed. Every girl "Just engaged"
exhibits a diamond ring, and it has de
veloped a vein of humor, if not a new
class of joke, that much envied gage
d'amour. The nice young man who
polishes your boots for a nickel wears
a "diamond" in a not too fresh neck
scarf, and the gentlemanly car con
ductor is not above ornamenting his
little finger with an off colored African
stone! In fact, where there is the least
excuse for jewelry, one may be certain
the preference will be given to the dia
mond kind.
NOISELESS ROYSTERERS.
The Whoopi©.. Spree Indulged In by a
Trio of Motet.
Three men went out on a quiet drunk
the other night, says the Kansas City
Times. They drank early and often.
In the descriptive parlance of the north
end they "made a night of it.” Unlike
the majority of men, the more intoxi
cated they became the less they
“talked.” They were mutes, ail three
of them, deaf mutes. They visited the
saloons of the nor th end and Imbibed
copious libations of the extract of malt.
They lined up be fore a bar and chatted
to each other on their finger ends, and
drank and smiled and smiled and
smiled. Words were written in the air
with startling rapidity early in the
evening, but as the night wore away
the insidious something that steals
through one’s system after repeated it
erations to the white-aproned monarch
to “fill ’em up agai»," began to tell on
the mutes. Their fingers began to grow
“thick" and did not readily respond to
their owner’s will os was their wont in
periods of sobriety. Toward midnight
it became plainly apparent that their
artificial source of expressing their
thoughts was losing its Integrity, also
its orthography. This fact pleased the
mutes. They looked as if they would
like to whoop a few times in defiance
of the police and the public. But as
this pleasure was denied them, they
pounded the bar and nodded to the bar
tender to fill the glasses again. But
the deaf-mute humanity wears out the
same as the other kind, and shortly be
fore dawn stole down from the Sni
hills they dropped off into sound and
unbroken slumber. Then only they
became audible. Their sleeping could
be heard.
WHIPPING-POSTS AGAIN, electricity on the farm.
Efforts of Prominent New Yorkers
in This Direction.
Franch Marring©..
When a French bride marries she
does not assume the hymenial white
satin, as is our custom, if her family or
her husband's are in mourning, but
goes to the altar in simple white mus
lin, as M. Ernest Carnot’s bride did a
few weeks ago. Though in view of
the late president’s tragic death it
seemed somewhat soon for the wed
ding, Mme. Carnot herself wished that
it should take place, as it accordingly
did, but with so much privacy that not
even a single relative, except Uiose im
mediately connected with the young
people, were informed. The bride's
family wore costumes of pale gray and
violet, while the Carnot ladies were, of
course, in deepest mourning. The
bridegroom's mother appeared deeply
moved during the service, and an air
of silence and sadness hung over the
bridal. Mile. Chlris was an especial
favorite with the late M. Carnot and is
extremely pretty. She had no orna
ments, except a bouquet of white roses,
with some fastened into her simple
dress. The Lady chapel of SL Pierre
de Pasay, in which the marriage took
place, was adorned with similar flowers,
but there were none in any part of the
church.
Tr»a.ure SMksrs In Florida.
It l* remarkable how many people
live In Florida for no other purpose
than hunting hidden treasure, says the
Cincinnati Inquirer. From the stories
told it would seem that there must be
millions of dollars In Spanish doub
loons hidden along the Florida coast
Some of these have actually been
fonnd, just enough to give zest to the
search. Capt. Kidd is supposed to have
planted a few hundred thousand dol
lars down there, and a number of other
pirates used Florida aoil as a deposit
bank. There are people who have
lived there for twenty years in order
to find treasure, and have Impoverished
themselves in their search for this' vast
wealth. There have never been any
very large finds, but a number of small
ones, and the belief that there are
large sums hidden seems to be uni
versal
What It I* Hoped to Areoatpllsb Through
8Mb • Low-To Bo Employed Oul;
for Wife-11©.ter. and Brutal
Thugs.
New York proposes to attempt to re
vive the system of corporal punish- l
ment for certain classes of offenders.
A t least certain people in New York,
led by Elbridge T. Gerry, will try to
have the following made a law at the
next session of the legislature:
“Whenever a male person shall be
convicted of a felony consisting of or
accompanied by the infliction'of phys
ical pain or suffering upon the person
of another, the court may, in its dis
cretion, in addition to that penalty
now prescribed by law, impose an ad
ditional sentence of corporal punish
ment to lie inflicted upon the offender
in the prison to which he shall be sen
tenced. Such corporal punishment
shall be inflicted in private in said
prison, in the presence of the warden
and suigeon thereof, who shall certify
the fact to the court wherein it was
imposed."
Commodore Gerry is very much in 1
earnest in the mstter, snd in an inter
view with a reporter for the New York
Recorder stoutly defended the plan on
the ground that it provided for the
only punishment that is really feared
by the brutes that It is intended to
reach.
“Crime,” *aid he, “of the more brutal
and fiendish . haraetcr is frightfully on
the Increase, -specially in the case
where children of both sexes are the
victims. Instances in which lifelong
injuries have been Inflicted on girls
and boys of a tender age ore becoming
so numerous that it is time something
was done to strike at th. 1 very root of
evil, and I am sure the only weapon
that can be effectively used against the
brutes who, in their passions, exhibit
no thought or feeling for their victims
is the lash.
* “Once let the brutal element of the
community know that the pain and
suffering inflicted by them on others
will be meted out on their own bodies
and the shocking state of affairs now
existing will be to a great extent
wiped out I am thankful to say that
the creatures res]>onslble for the of
fenses are forelgnera. The grade of
crime against which the resolution is
aimed is peculiar to men from other
countries. And the only way to show
these wretches that they cannot in
dulge in such things in this continent
is the crack and the sting of the lash.
'It has been erroneously stated that
wife-beaters are included among the
creatures against whom we are fight- j
ing. This is not so. We are only ad
vocating the lash for felony committed
by men. Wife-beaters belong to an
other class of animals which may or
may not deserve a good thrashing.
They, however, do not enter into the
discussion. Burglary with violence, as
sault of any brutal nature—those ore
'he offenders who, i maintain, should
feel the sting of the lash. A conviction
of twenty years, reduced by good be
havior to twelve, has no salutary effect
on the callous element with which I am
dealing.
As an Instance, you, a law-abiding,
peaceful citizen, are enjoying a well-
earned rest; a hardened brnte of a bur
glar, not satisfied with plunder, delib
erately knocks you over the head, puts
your eye out, crushes in your skull,
maims you, beats you, and for this he
gets twenty years. Is that any satis
faction to you? Do you get a new eye
or another skull or a clean skin? Nol
Then I say let his punishment be pro
portionate in some degree to the of
fense.
'Formerly crimes of which I specially
speak were punishable by death. But
experience showed that the class of
people that commit these crimes of
personal violence don't dread death.
Nihilists, anarchists, atheists and the
more degraded classes scout the Idea.
Corporal punishment Is the only thing
the scamps and rarcals are afraid of.
A few years in prison doesn't have any
deterrent effect. A man comes out of
prison and he immediately perpetrates
a similar crime, but if he understands
that he is going to get a dose of that
which he inflicts on other people, he
thinks twice before he runs the risk.
“It is nonsense to play the fool with
criminals and say thatcorporal punish
ment is degrading and a revival of the
dark ages. Are the abuses Inflicted on
little children degrading? Was there
anything in the dark ages more debas
ing than the revolting acta which oc
cur to-day? There seems to be a mawk
ish sensibility in the opposition to cor
poral punishment. It is the oldest
form of punishment known, snd it is to
be found in the Mosaic law. There
can be nothing brutal in It, provided
yon don't make the exhibition public.
In Delaware they have a curious meth
od. A felon is sentenced to thirty
lashes, fifteen of which are adminis
tered. lie is then told to get out of the
state, and if he is found there after the
lapse of a week the balance of the
thirty lashes awaits him. The plan
works admirably.
“Again, in London, when the garrot-
ere were terrorizng the city, the cat-o'-
nine-tails was brought into play with
such effect that garroting was un
known in a very short space of time.
Would I suggest any particular mode
of administering the punishment? No.
The ordinary lash on the back would
meet all requirements. It is effective,
and if I live long enough the advisabil
ity of its legalization a ill come before
the next session of the legislature.”
Country Life May Be Mud* Lee* Laborious
by u New Ageecy.
Part of the growing difficulties oc
casioned by the desertion of the coun
try and the crowding of the cities will
be remedied, perhaps, by six years
hence—in that wonderful year 1900,
which electricians set as a mile post of
human progress—by the crowning of
steam's rival, says the New York Press.
Machinery is rapidly taking the dead
ening drudgery out of farm work when
conducted scientifically and on a large
scale, and is causing it to attract the
attention of city people who long for
the healthful fields. Only the bodily
discomforts of farm work have pre
vented an exodus from the city to the
country. Already electricity is turn
ing its attention to the long neglected
DANGER TO THE WORLD.
China a Menace to the Civilization
of All Lands.
Japan Within liar Rtahu In liar Effurta
to Maintain a Bold I'poa
— Eiclu.lr. Nationality of
tha I'hlaMO.
Sir Edwin Arnold is s warm partisan
of the Japs, but he had the privilege of
witnessing the grand army maneuvers
of some two or three years since, and
s no one will deny to him a knowledge
of the Interior economy of the country.
Sir Edwin Arnold, says the London
Daily Graphic, will not countenance
[ the belief of Mr. Curzon that the Jap-
_ _ j anese government is desperately occu-
farm work, and has discovered profit*- pied w Uh domestic politics
ble results to be had by subjecting , “I am surprised that so intelligent an
crops to currents of electricity. It is obi error should not have known how
beginning to simplify the ponderous
farm machinery, and as soon as the
storage battery has received its finish
ing touches and can be applied to light
ening the farmer's toll and increasing
his profits the farmer will be looked
upon with envy by the prisoners of
city streets and counting house walla
Those particular effects of electricity
upon farm machinery and farm life
are, however, visible chiefly in the im
agination at present, and are not at all
likely to be realized in six years; but
one great change may be looked for in
this direction in the immediate future,
and that is the improvement of the
farmer's condition by means of good
roads and the rapid transit which
electricity Is almost ready to bring,
thus greatly enlarging his market and
bringing him higher prices for fresher
products, and also bringing him closer
to the life and pleasures and stimu
lating effect of the city. There is to
be a wonderful change in farm life in
the more thickly settled parts of the
country in a very few years, and rapid
transit will be largely responsible for
it. The cheap transmission of electrical
power must bring soon many changes
that will be felt in the city household,
and perhaps the chief of them will be
the abolition of the cook stove as it is
known at present The small electric
heater has already begun to take its
place, and it is almost certain that even
in six years coal will be banished from
a majority of the kitchens in cities ad
jacent to water power from which
electricity Is generated. When heat is
wanted for cooking purposes it will be
had at a moment’s notice by the press
ing of a button.
THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
Voatn©.. of Some of the Or.liter star, of
the I’leladea.
If our sun were removed to the
Pleiades it would hardly be visible in
an opera glass with which nearly 100
stars can be seen in the cluster. Sixty
or seventy Pleiades surpass our sun in
brilliancy, Aicyon being 1,000 times
more brilliant, Electra 500 times and
Mala nearly 400, says Longman'© Maga
zine. Sirius itself takes a subordinate
rank when compared with the five
most brilliant members of a group the
real magnilleance of which we can
thus in some degree apprehend. If we
seek to know the dimensions, not of
the individual stars, but of the cluster
itself, we are met with many diffi
culties, but, on the assumption that it
is approximately spherical in shape,
we can calculate Its diameter to be
over 40,000,000,000 miles If we think of
the dimensions of our solar system by
themselves or in relation to terrestrial
matter they appear stupendously enor
mous Neptune, the most distant
known member, has an orbit over 5,-
000,000,000 miles across, but the solar
system Is to the Pleiades but a Lilipu-
tian to a Brobdingnagian—is but a
microbe to a mountain—for a sphere
the size of the solar system would, if
it were spherical and its diameter that
of the orbit of Neptune, be relatively
so minute that it could be contained
more than 400,000,000,000 times in a
sphere the size of the Pleiades; in
other words, the limits of the Pleiades
could contain 150 solar systems as
many times over as there are miles be
tween Neptune snd the sun. It must
not be forgotten that though there are
2,300 stars in the cluster, yet with such
dimensions for the entire group vast
distances must separate the stars from
one another. In fact, 2,3»0 spheres,
each with a diameter of 3,000,000,000
miles, could be contained in the limits
assigned to the group, snd assuming
equal distribution of the stars in the
group, each would be at the center of
a sphere 3,000,000,000 miles across, and
therefore a light journey of 187 days
from its nearest neighbor.
Cure for Headache.
As a remedy for all forms of
Headache, Electric Bitters has
proved to be the very best. It
effects a permanent cure and
the most dreaded habitual sick
headaches yield to its influence.
We urge all who are afflicted to
procure a botttle, and give this
remedy a fair trial. In cases of
habitual constipation, Electric
Bitters cures bv giviugtheneed-
ed tone to the bowels, and few
cases long resist the use of this
medicine. Try it once. Large
bottles only fifty cents at Will-
cox & Co’s drug store.
MORE GHASTLY EVIDENCES.
The Remit, of tha —«©©nt Storm on tho
Florida Coaat Grow More Alarmlug.
Kby West, Fla., October 8.—Fifty
dead bodies, victims of the wrecks oc
curring on the reefs during the recent
storm, have bean washed ashore on the
islands around Key West. The dead,
it is stated, sra evidently sailors from
the vessels destroyed, although the
length of time which has elapsed since
the storm has rendered the bodies uni-
lentiflable through decomposition. The
}reliabilities are that many more of
;hese ghastly evidences of the hurri
cane's fury will be brought to light in
. .*.7. iL.r».
Pursuing tho Train Koblioiv.
Fort Worth, Tex., October 23.—A
strong posse is in pursuit of the four
men who robbed the west-bound Texas
Pacific express train of a large amount
of money estimated at about 820,000.
Governor Hogg proposes to offer a re
ward for their capture.
Penas cols'. Sunday Oramsnco.
A — t qr. aTW , inc rcmoiuiuK —7-
Pensacola, Fla., August 1. The p- tu . re( p meDtli which fought with
peal case to test the validity of th Union army thf drll wa r met In an-
Bunday ordinance In this city was ^ rennloI1 Waddy, twelve miles
argued in the supreme court at laiia- | aorth of her8 t^y. Four or five hun-
hasaee yesterday. The eourt reversed ^ (old!en , are pr esent. At the meet-
ha decision until the September term. | ^ t 600
Soldiers of Khstncky Most.
Lawrkncebubo, Ky., October *.
The remaining
members of the Ken-
the
MONOCLES IN EUROPE..
Believed to Have Orlglnstsd In the British
Army—Favored by Continental ORleem.
In every capital of Europe the mono
cle Is common enough, says the New
York World. It attracts no attention
on the street. In a row of men at a
theater a considcralile proportion are
sure to have IL Perhaps half the offi
cers in the Ger man army wear mono
cle* They are seen in abundance at
any meeting of the French academy.
Even socialist deputies In France are
not -ashamed to go among their con-
stituenta wearing them. A session of
the English honse of commons glitters
with solitary eyeglasses. The single
eyeglass is said to have originated
among the officers of the British army.
About the beginning of the century an
order was Issued that army officers
should not wear eyeglasses or spec
tacles. It was supposed that they gave
the wearers an unmllitary appearance.
The order caused severe inconvenience
to many short-eighted officers, and one
of them belonging to a crack regiment
Invented the single eyeglass; its use
was no contravention of the order
which prohibited spectacles and eye
glasses. It soon became very popular
In the army and was afterward adopted.
On account probably of this origin the
single eyeglass is very generally worn
in Europe by army officers. It is by
sonic thought to give an aspect of de
termination and ferocity to the wearer,
whereas eyeglasses lend an air of
teeblenesa
A Tablet for n King.
A tablet recently set up at Naples
commemorates the bravest act done by
a king in this century, the visit of King
Humbert to the cholera sufferers in
1884. It stands near the spot where
the excommunicated king, Cardinal
San Felice and the archbishop of
Naples met while passing through the
hospital In the performance of
duty.
queen Regent cur mine has in
structed the Spanish government to
prosecute Roman Catholic papers which
asserted that aha had caused the King
ta carolled %» 8 Free
llttie the Japanese houses of parlia
ment count socially or politically
against the policy of those ministers
whom the emperor appoints and whom
he removes at his sole pleasure. When
the deputies make themselves Impossi
ble they are simply sent home; when
they refuse supplies public funds are
taken quietly on account; and when
they bring things to a deadlock the
emperor and his advisers carry on the
business of the country, after dissolv
ing parliament, which, amid all these
vagaries—the lively working of new
and geqerous wine—remains steadfast
ly loyal and ardently patriotic.”
That the two countries had equal
rights in Corea, and that when one In
creased its force the other was bound
to do the same, was the writer's con
tention—in short, that Japan has done
and is doing precisely what England
would have done under the same cir
cumstances. “In the present struggle
Japan unquestionably stands the cham
pion of progress, of justice, and of in
ternational development, so that the
partisanship shown in certain quar
ters against her has In it an element of
stupidity which cannot, therefore be
easily excused." Mors interesting than
this, though, is Sir Edwin Arnold's re
minder of one of the forces "which
more potently tends to hold China to
gether in her intense and exclusive na
tionality," namely, the extreme anx
iety of the Celestial to be buried at
home. “But if some high ecclesias
tical authority, or tho Vermillion Pen
cil itself, should decree as they well
might, that Confucius should be sat
isfied if a pinch of Chinese dust were
thrown into the foreign grave—then
tho floodgates would lie open to a gen
eral Chinese immigration into all lands.
“One perceives how heavy the obliga
tion is, and at the same time how bind
ing, when again and again, at San
Franaisco and other ports of embarka
tion, Chinese passengers are stopped
carrying in a carpet-bag or a hat-box
the bones of their relatives. But when
any such general emigration of China
men occurs as that which I am fore
casting, It will be a social and industri
al deluge. The markets of the world
will be literally jswamped with the
most Industrious, persevering, fearless
and frugal specimens of mankind who
will everywhere underbid labor and
monopolize trade, as they have done in
Singapore, Penang and many other
spots. The danger to civilization that
China represents consists in this rather
than in her unwieldy strength and
slothful resources, the ineflicaoy of
which for actual service Japan has al
ready exposed by the brilliant com
mencement of the present campaign.
“For these and other reasons it is to
the Interest of the civilized world that
China should not become more homo
geneous or any larger than she is at
present, and above all that she should
not intrigue with the second colossal
standing menace to human progress,
the Russian empire, agumst the free
dom of the Pacific. That German jour
nal had the true instinct in scientific
politics which lately wrote that, in the
war just declared, the sympathies and
good wishes of civilization were dne en
tirely to the side of Japan."
Tressarad Present, from the Queen.
Jewelers to Queen Victoria have a
•oft snap since her craze for theatrical
performances at Windsor. It is opined
that diamond brooches and bracelets
must be bought by the gross, as her
majesty always pays the artists in
these tokens of her consideration and
appreciation of the show. Many are
the favored stars who now own a
queen's brooch, and who look on the
gift as a lucky piece ever after. It
speaks well for their loyalty and the
lieauty of the Jewel that the recip
ient always says It shall never leave
the family, but become an heirloom
from that time forth. The worth of
these souvenirs rarely varies in price,
but they vary in design, and the artist
who receives a crown in diamonds and
rubles with the initials “V. R. I.” from
the royal hand deems the honor worth
living for. Mme. Higrid Arnoldson re
ceived one of these brooches when she
sang in “Philemonet Baucis" recently,
and Mrs. Kendal has one like it which
she told some friends was placed In her
dress by the queen herself, when the
Kendals were commanded to play at
Windsor seven or eight years ago.
Modern Andalusia.
Mr. Carl Luffmann, the well-known
Australian agricultural expert, who
has been for some months studying
viticulture and fruit growing round
about Malaga, gives a highly favorable
account of that part of Spain as a field
for emigration, in the Ixindon Dally
New* With the importation there of
industrious men, capital and modern
appliances there is every natural con
dition, he thinks, favorable to a speedy
and profitable return. In fact, accord
ing to this authority, there is no coun
try in Europe which presents advan
tages equal to those of Australia. At
the same time he points out that Spain
offers the advantage of being In Eu
rope, and therefore close at home,
while it has local attractions of such
an old world character as delight the
most conservative. From a health
point of view, moreover, the climate is
1 unrivaled, a circumstance which tells
strongly in favor of happiness In
Spain there are no bad seasons, no
drudgery, no hard competition, no
dearth of sunshine. The country, Mr.
Luffmann declares, Is open to receive
and benefit every class of emigrant
Crattaxoooa, Tenn., August J.—
Richard D. Rawlings, of Chattanooga,
whose disappearance from Chicago
caused a sensation, returned to Chatta-
their | nooga yesterday. He had been on •
| visit to SI Louis.
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