Norwalk gazette, Friday, July 2, 1897 · page 11

 

 

 

SEEIN’ THINGS.

 

or worms. or mice,

An’ things ”at girls are skeered uv Ithink are
awful nice!

I’m pretty brave, I guess: an’ yet I hate to go
to bed.

For, when I’m tucked up warm an’ snug an’
when my prayers are said,

Mother tells me “Happy dreams!” and takes
away the light

An‘ leaves me lyin’ all alone an’ seein’ things
at night!

S metimes they’re in the corner.sometimes
they’re by the dc or.

Sometimes they’re all a-standin’ in the mid-
dle of the floor;

Sometimes they‘re are a-sittiu’ down. some-
times they’re walkin‘ round

So softly and so creepy-like they never make
a sound.

Sometimes they are as black as ink, an’ other
times they’re wn‘te—

But the color ain't no difference when you see
things at night!

Once, when [licked a feller ’at had just moved
on our street

An’ father sent me up to bed without a bite
to eat,

I woke up in the dark an’ saw things standin’
in a row, ,

A-lookin’ at me cross-eyed an’ p’intin’ at me

so.

Oh, my! I was so skeered that time I never
slep’ a mite—

It’s almost alluz when I’m bad I see things at

night.

Lucky thing I ain’t a girl, or I’d be skeered
to death!

Bein’ I’m a boy, 1 duck my head an’ hold my
breath;

An’ I am, Oh. so sorry I’m a naughty boy.
an’ then

I promise to be better an’ say my prayers

again!

Gran’ma, tells me that’s the only way to
make it right

‘When a feller has been wicked an’ sees things
at night.

An so when other naughty boys would coa><
me into sin,

I try to skwush the Tempter’s voice ”at urges
me within:

An’ when they’s pie for supper or cakes‘at‘s
big an' nice,

I want to—-but do not pass my plate f’r them
things twice!

No, ruther let starvation wipe me slowly out
0‘ sight

Than I should keep a livin’ on an’ seein’
things at night! -—Eugene Field.

THE CELLIN I VASE.

E. TORRENCE.

 

BY M.

Mrs. Branscombe had a passion for
bric-a—brac. Not the ordinary, mod-
ern kind, such as any uncultivated
woman might have possessed herself
of by the simple process of paying for
it. but interesting things that were
valuable for their rarity and their his-
tory and the celebrity of their inven-
tors or discover-ers.

She had a fan that was said to
have once belonged to the last Tycoon,
who had been imprisoned and who was
said to have shaded his face with this
identical fan as he listened to the de-
cree which subjected him to durance
vile and abolished the tycoonate forever.
Mrs. Bran-scombe held to this theory
with unshaken tenacity, but her
nephew Will had been the victim of
doubt ever since he had chanced upon
a factory in Philadelphia which turned
out an inexhaustible supply of genu-
ine Japanese fans so like royal relic
that when he replaced it for a week
.with one of the late manufacture his
aunt did not seem to know the differ-
ence. _ '

He had not called her attention to
the experiment, because he had never
forgotten one he had tried with the
famous roc’s egg, and he did not be-
lieve that she ever had either. The
roc’s egg had been the joy of her heart
and the pride of her soul, and she had
treasured it with anxious care for
more than five years, until one day
Will, in an unseemly fit of glee, had
accidentally knocked it out of the nest
in which it had been calmly reposiug
for so long and it was shattered into
fragments. Thereupon it was revealed
that the famous egg had been cunning-
ly contrived with a preparation of
lime carefully glazed over the surface,
and no mysterious roc had ever had
anything to do with its production.

\Vill could never get ‘over the im«
pression that it was scarcely fair that
he should be blamed for the latter fact.
He might have thought it only just
that his aunt should have been vexed
with him for his carelessness in knock-
ing down her treasure, but she had
never seemed half so indignant toward
him for that as because of the little
circumstance that the egg turned out
not to be genuine. How did she sup-
pose he could help that?

lVill believed it was the roc’s egg
that ruined him. She had not seemed
to cherish any violent animosity to-
wards him previous to that. Since that
tragic event her treatment of him had
been really heart-breakinox Not that
he should have cared so much had it
been merely for his own sake and hers,
though he had always tried to be a
dutiful and afiectionate nephew. There
was Mabel. She was Mrs. Bruns-
combe’s niece and lived with her. It
will be seen without difficulty, when
taken in connection with the fact that
Will was in love'with Mabel, that the
situation was embarrassingly compli-
cated. It really became necessary to
Will’s happiness that his relations with
Mrs. Branscombe should be. placed on
a friendly footing.

There was but one way by which
Willcould reinstate himself in the
good graces of Mrs. Branscombe, and

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even that seemed impossible from a '

casual view. She had become pos~
sessed of a wild longing for a Cellini
vase. Perhaps there was no reason
why a Cellini medal or a Cellini seal
might not have answered the purpose
quite as well, but for some reason Mrs.
Brauscombe’s ambition had taken the
form of a Cellini vase. There was a
tradition of total depravity lingering

about the memory of Cellini which, by ‘

a subtile law of the affinity of oppo-
sites, rendered all things connected
with him objects of irresistible attrac-
tion to a. woman of the rigid propriety
of Mrs. Branscom 4-,. Therefore, it be-
came necessary tl at she should come
into possession of i Cellini vase with
as little delay as n ght be.

C

“You shall have it,” Will had said in

I ain‘t xi‘eared uv snakes. or toads. or bugs ,- a burSt 0f affeCtlon-

That was just before he went to
Florence. Mrs. Branscombe felt in an
unusually friendly humor with him;
first for his devotion to her interests;
second for his absence.

He wrote often to Mrs. Branscombe:
not once to Mabel. Neither did he send
her any message. Mrs. Branscombe
had always had faith in the remedial
effect of absence in sentimental cases.
It seemed to increase the afiection of
aunt and nephew. She was growing
almost fond of him now that he was
out of the way.

“Will’s a good fellow, when he’s in
another country, isn’t he?” she said
to Mabel.

“Oh, yes,” assented the girl cheer-
fully.

“He is improving his mind. It is
a good thing. I have always thought
it needed improvement. I think it
would hear more improvement than
any other mind I know. It \'111 never
be as good as Mr. Aston’s, but it could
be much better than it is.”

Mr. Aston was Mabel’s new lover,
and he had a great deal of money in
bonds and one of the finest houses in
town; two circumsrances which have
a tendency to brighten a man’s intel-
lect wonderfully in public estimation.

"1 think it will take a long time to
improve Will’s mind to any percepti~
degree.” said Mrs. Brauscombe
carefully. "He will probably be abroad
five years. at least.”

“What about the vase all the time?"
asked Mabel.

"It will take a long time to find it,”
said Mrs. Branscombe with all the
moral superiority of one who-"is con-
scious. of aspiring to different heights.
"if he should find it sooner he could
send it to me.” .

"l have found it.” Will wrote soon
:1 its-r this. “That is, I have found the
plzuc where it ought to be. That it
is not there is only an indication of
the general derangement of the uni‘
verse. It was sold some time ago to
:l number of the ex-royal family of
l-‘rnncc. It happens, luckily for me,
however the poor devil of a roynlist
may feel about it, that he has fallen
dead broke and all his collections are
to he put up for sale. So here‘s for
Paris. and wish me good luck.”

The next time she heard from “’ill
he had gone to Rome, having been in-
formed that the precious object had
been bought for a Cardinal and taken
to the lmperial City. The Cardinal
had since died and there was a hope
that the coveted treasure might be
within grasp. Then he wrote from
Madrid, where he had gone in conse-
quence of a rumor that the precious
vase had been sent to the Spanish Cup
ital and placed in a museum.

After that she did not hear from him
for a long time. She began to grow
uneasy, first for the Cellini vase and
then for her nephew. She had not
before known how fond she was of
him.

It was a year from the time of his
departure that fi’ill returned. walking
in one evening as quietly as if he had
been down town for an hour or so, and
had just come back.

Mrs. Brascombe sprang to meet him
in transports of delight. After she had
welcomed him and asked him how he
was and where he had been and why
he had not written her, she said:—

“I forgive you for not bringing the
vase. After all, Will, I think i’d rath-
er have you. You know I was always
fond of you.”

Will almost whistled in an excess
of incredulity, but checked himself in
time.

“That reminds me, though,” he said,

taking a box out from some mysterious ; _
‘ horses became restlve and ugly when

hiding place, “that I did bring the
vase.”

He opened the box and took from it
a vase beautifully wrought of silver,
ornamented on one side with a golden
Venus rising from a silver sea, and on
the other with a swarm of small Tri-
tons disporting themselves gaily on
the crests of silver . waves.

After a period of breathless contem-
plation, Mrs. Branscombe said,—

“What can I do to pay you for such
a" beauty?”

“You know there is only one thing
thing I want.”

Mrs. Branscombe looked at Mabel.
standing with eyes downcast, not look-
ing one at the classic piece of work-
manship.

“Child, how can you be so insensi-
ble? Do look at the charming thing.
If it‘s Mabel you mean you can ask
her."

“I have asked her.”

“You undutiful—”

Then her eye again fell upon the ex-
quisite carving of the master gold-
smith, and she relented.

“\Vhat did she say?”

“She said she would not do any-
thing without your consent, when you
have been so good to her.”

“G'ood child,” said Mrs. Branscombe,
with one eye fixed apparently on the
girl and the other on the vase. “I
can’t refuse you anything now, Will.”

Will and Mabel withdrew to the next
room to discuss the subject, while Mrs.
Branscombe remained in delightful
contemplation of the wonderful handi-
work of Cellini.

“Do you suppose it is genuine?” Ma-
bel asked the day after she and Will
had returned from their bridal tour
They were looking at Mrs. Brans-
combe’s treasures, chief among which
was the marvelous vase.

“I know it is,” replied Will.

“How do you know?”

He bent over her and whispered;

“Because I made it myself.”

Willie—Pa, why can’t a man have
more than one wife if he wants to?

Pa—My boy, the law undertakes to
protect those who are incapable of
protecting
Journal.

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fell into disuse, and the beasts were

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AMERICAN CAMELS.

THE “SHlP OF THE DESERT " lM-
PORTED FROM ARABIA AND EGYPT.

An Experiment which Proved ofNo Value
to the Government. The Animals at ‘
Last Allowed to Wander Over the

Prairies at Their Own Sweet “'ill.

In 1852, when millions of gold were
being mined in California, while thous-
ands of people were crossing the
plains to the new Dorado, and when
a transcontinental railroad was only:
a vague dream of a few enthusiasts.
Lieutenant Edward B. Beale (after-
ward General Beale) was stationed at
Fort Yuma, between California andl
Arizona on the Colorado Desert. A}
stream of immigration and freighil

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passed that way every week. The dis-
ease, suffering and frequent death
among the horses and mules in that,
dry, solar heat, convinced Lieutenanti
Beale that here. of all places, was:
where the camels of Sahara and Ara< .
bia could be used to advantage. In
connection with Captain Adams, of]
the garrison, he wrote at length upon '
the subject to Jefierson Davis, Secre-
tary of War.

The ideas of the young military men
in the West had immediate and enthu-
siastic reception by the Secretary. A
Commission was soon sent out from
San Antonio, Tex., to Arizona, to as-
certain the uses that camels could he
put to in military transportation. The
Commission made a favorable report,

 

and, with Secretary Davis’s annual to i
port to Congress in 1852 there was a .

purchase of camels for the War De-.

partment.

i
request for an appropriation for the‘

On March 3, 1853, a bill appropriat- ,
ing $30,000 for the purpose became a 3

law by the President’s signature, and
Secretar' Davis appointed Major C.
Wayne in December, 1854, to go to
Egypt and Arabia to buy seventy-five
camels.

Lieutenant Porter and Major Wayne
bought their first camels in Tunis.
From Egypt Major Wayne and Lieu-

tenant I’orter went lieusurely over to .

Arabia. There they bought more
camels of another breed. The expedi-
tion received at Smyrna thirty-three
camels from the interior.

In the Government book Secretary
Davis tells in detail how he instructed
Major Wayne to proceed from Paris
to Cairo, and when he had bought his
camels to bring them to New York on
the Naval Storeship Supply, then under
command of Lieutenant D. D. Porter.

Lieutenant Porter's
were to await Major “’aync at some
convenient point in the Mediterranean,
to disembark a land force at Beirout,
and to see that the expedition was
amply protected against attacks from
the warlike tribes of the interior. On
returning, the lieutenant was to land
his cargo at some point on the coast
of Texas.

The storeship Supply reached Indian-
01a, Tex., on February 10, having lost
three camels on the voyage. These

instructions ,

that survived were well, and the whole .

drove was taken under the care of
Captain J. N. Palmer, U. S. A., to
Camp Verde, Texas, there to be kept
several years. The Suwanee brought
in a load of forty-one camels on Feb-

ruary 10,1857, and these, too, were'

sent to the interior.

Almost from the first there was dif-
ficulty in grooming and feeding the
animals. In a few weeks several
died of unknown diseases, and others
languished and became unfit for work.
The military officers found it hard to
get any hostler to attend to the cam-
els, towards which all the cavalrymen
and troopers took a violent dislike. The

stabled or corralled with the strange
beasts. There were frequent reports
that a camel or two had broken away
during the night and wandered away;
and it has been suspected that extra-
ordinary zeal was not always put
forth to find the animals and bring
them back.

From May 5, 1801, some thirty of the
camels that had become partly do-
mesticated to American ways and
adapted to the climate of the South-
west, were kept at the United States
forts at El Paso and Bowie, Ariz.
They were fed and cared for at the ex-
pense of the \Var Department, but be-
cause the troopers and teamsters
could not be got use them in place of
horses or mules, and especially be-

cause of the clumsiness of the har- ,

ness and the unusual labor in packing,
the animals were seldom used. In the
last year or two of their stay at the
garrison they were merely pensioners
upon Uncle Sam’s bounty, and were
never brought into service. In 1861
the herd had increased to forty-four
head. Then the Cival War came on,
and in the stir of those days in every
fort in the South all attention was
The forts

allowed to wander away at will. They
travelled in pairs, and sometimes in
bunches of four and six, across the
deserts and into the‘ mountains. Some
lived for years in the Panhandle of
Texas. and in the Colorado River. In
some instances the camels multiplied,
but in twenty years most of them died
the mountains or were killed
by the Indians. ,,
At intervals in the last decade sol-
dich and cow-boys in New-Mexico and
.\,l'.'.iail a have seen the strays. Reports
are rim the animals have grown white
xvii il nee. are as wild as any mustang,
and have hard. bony hoofs, unlike the
imalnltiusanIIS of the well-kept camel,
and that their hide has assumed a
hard, leathery appearance. It is likely
there are few left in America. They
“we not been seen in'the central part
either New-Mexico or Arizona in

~ ml years—From the Land of Sun-

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CHOATE’S SUMMING UP.

The Cigarette Trust Trial Rapidly

Nearing Completion.

THE COURTROOM CROWDED.

 

The Eloquent Advocate Defends the Righ-
of His Clients to Sell to Whomever
They Please lllucli Interest

In the Proceedings.

New York, June 29,—The summing up

WEEKLY - no'HWAMi - GA"ZETT is.

 

of counsel in the case of officials of the I

American Tobacco company indicted
for alleged conspiracy, etc., drew the
largest crowd of spectators to part four
of general sessions today that has vis-
ited Judge Fitzgerald’s courtroom
since the trial began. Persons sought
admittance almost as soon as the at‘
tendants opened the doors, and by 10:3t
o‘clock most of the seats were taken,
though only the fortunate ones possess-
ing credentials of some sort were ad-
mitted. District Attorney Olcott, on
reaching his office, gave orders that he
must not be disturbed by any one, and
busied himself immediately with the
preparation of his address. Assistant
District Attorney Carpenter was the
first of the attorneys to reach the court-
room, being soon joined by his col-
league, Mr. Hardwicke, with whom he
has divided much of the work in con-
nection with the case not done by Mr.
Olcott.

When Joseph H. Choate, leading
counsel for the defense, arrived, just
before 11, the courtroom was packed to
the doors, spectators filling the aisles
in all directions, every available seat
having been taken. Messrs. Fuller and
Rollins, also of the defense, came next,
being joined soon afterward by their
clients, James B. Duke and Josiah
Browne, who have exhibited great in-
terest in the closing proceedings of this
rather unusual trial. Judge Fitzgerald
disposed of routine business by 11:15,
after which Clerk Hall called theroll
of jurors, and the officers closed the
doors. Mr. Choate then began his ad-
dress. referring at first to references
made to himself by District Attorney
Olcott in his opening speech as unjust
and without the slightest foundation.

Two Questions.

Mr. Choate told the jury that they
would have to consider two main ques-
tions: Whether the owner and manu-
facturer of property for sale has the
right to sell it to the community by any
manner and whatever terms he pleases
and whether the laws of trade justify
him in giving special facility, in order
to better market his goods. to those who
will agree to give him their exclusive
trade.

Commenting on the general aspect
of the case, Mr. Choate argued that ab-
solutely no evidence had been given on
the important question as towhat had
been the usages of the tobacco trade in
this country for the last 100 years.

“The district attorney?“ said Mr.
Choate, “is a young man who has a wide
discretion. I came into the world years
before his existence was anticipated,

- and I would advise him that if in the

future he would convict a. man he thinks
guilty he should offer all the evidence
he has against him. He can’t convict
an innocent man by only stating half
the case.

“I have studied jury trials in this
city for the last 50 years," proceeded
Mr. Choate, “and I never saw a. jury
yet that was disposed to find a convic-
tion upon an indictment instigated and
procured solely in furtherance of a civil
suit between the party charged in the’
indictment and the party procuring the
indictment.” *

After quoting a little law Mr. Choate
went on to glance at the charge.

“What is it?” he asked. “These men
are charged with conspiring to do an
act injurious to trade. Did you ever
hear of such a case? It is the first time
I have heard of directors in the per-
formance of their duties to sharehold—
ers being called on to answer the crim-
inal charge that they were conspira-
tors. You don’t combine to do an act
injurious to the trade unless you con-
duct your business in such a way as to
take away the legal rights of other
people.

“I stand here for absolute freedom of
trade,” shouted Mr. Choate. “I stand
here for unlimited competition by all
honest means, and I would like to know
in what way these men have acted dis-
honorably.

The Essential of Intent.

“But, gentlemen, you have also to
find that these defendants had criminal
intent when they planned their busl-
ness. That ' an essential element in
proving them guilty.”

Here Mr. Choate broke away from
his serious vein. He cast a glance at
the clock.

”Gentlemen of the jury,” he said, “1
would not have you look at the clock.
I want you to look at me, or the wick-
ed Duke, or the bad Browne, and if you
should get tired of looking at them cast
a. glance at the youthful district attor-
ney. A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
It is a great pleasure always to look
at him.” Mr. Choate then traced the
transactions and doings of the defend-
ants from the time they entered the to-
bacco trade.

“My learned friend could not help
coming out,” said Mr. Choate, “with
some of the stock phrases of the pepu-
lace, such as ‘dangerously wealthy.’ I
think he used that phrase 33 times. It
may be that a legislature will present-
ly say that no corporation shall be
more than so rich. By and by a legis-
lature may say that no individual shall
acquire more than so much property,
but until that happens you can be as
rich as you can get."

Mr. Choate said that the American
Tobacco company had a perfect right
to make cigarettesiand refuse to sell
them. They could sell them to whom
and in what quantities they liked. They
could even refuse to make contracts,
and they could make contracts with
any one who would give them their ex-
clusive trade.

“Good heavens,” exclaimed Mr.
Choate, “can‘t private owners of mer-
chandise make such agreements as they
like with purchasers? The one phrase
we heard more than another from the
classic lips of the district attorney was
that ‘lt is impossible to carry on the
cigarette trade with profit without hav-
ing the American company’s goods.’

“What does that mean? It means
that they are the only kind of ciga-
rettes worth dealing in because the
world wants to smoke them.”

 

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THE WAR LORD’S NEXT MOVE.

He lVIay Take It Into His Head to Chastlso
tEe United States.

London, June 28;—The'Spectator pub-
lishes a. long leading article on Emperor
William’s remarks, as recorded by the
Paris correspondent of The Times. The
correspondent reported a conversation
affecting to represent the views of the
emperor, in the course of which, speak-
ing of his anxiety as to the future of
Europe, he said that he did not fear
Chinese ambition or the anarchists, but
he did fear the expansion of one of the
great powers and the intervention of
the United States in the affairs of the
old world. This, according to The
Times correspondent, is the reason the
emperor does not allow himself to be
drawn into the ambitious conceptions
too readily imputed to him by those de-
siring to disturb Europe on the pretext
of wishing to prevent him from dis-
turbing it.

The Spectator says: “This is so im-
portant that we would give much to
know precisely what is in the kaiser’s
brain. The kaiser has displayed at
times singular gleams of insight. The
facts of the moment appear to justify
his enigmatic saying. The Americans
are exhibiting a tendency to depart
from their policy of seclusion and in-
terfere very strongly in the affairs of
the old world."

Continuing, The Spectator instances
Venezuela, Samoa-and Hawaii, adding:
“And they are apparently going to in-
terfere with Spain in the most per-
emptory manner. If there is any truth
in the accounts of the instructions giv-
en to General Woodford, the United
States intend to immediately offer an
ultimatum to Spain by practically re-
fusing her permission to suppress a re-
volt in her own dominion. The last
event seems to have very badly im-
pressed the kaiser, and the emperor’s
remarks throughout dealt with the per-
ils which it was his object to avert.
Does he propose himself to avert Amer-
ican intervention in the affairs of the
old world? If he does, President Mc-
Kinley must be cautious in his diplo-
macy, for the German and Spanish
fleets combined would be more than a.
match for any fleet America could pro-
duce, without an effort which would
tax the resources of the Union, not in
money, but in ships and sailors. The
Union is irresistible only ashore, and
Cuba would be a poor reward for a
great and dangerous sea war. It is not
certain Germany has not a motive for
such an alliance, for the United States,
with Monroeism, is nearly as much in
the way of powers desiring to expand
as Great Britain. Overcrowded Europe
finds that the foreign policy of the
United States debars them from colo-
nizing South America with their sur-
plus population. But, the natural place
for Germans is in South Brazil, and
now that the government is in a posi-
tion to direct the tide of immigration
we should not be surprised to see the
already powerful colony suddenly and
amazingly enlarged.”

SPAIN DENIES IT.

Has Not Formed an Alliance \Vlth
Japan Against Uncle Sam.
Madrid, June 28.—A report has been

circulated here to the effect that an

alliance has been formed between the
governments of Spain and Japan for
the purpose of resisting interference by
the United States in Cuba and the an~
nexatfln by that government of the

Hawaiian Islands is denied in official

circles.

The Madrid press generally publish
articles‘ expressing severe censure of
the United States authorities in ac-
quitting the persons charged with be-
ing connected with the alleged filibust-
ering expedition of the steamersDaunt-
less and Laurada.

 

She

Caused His Wife's Death.

Altoona, Pa... June 28.—Whi1e intoxi-
cated George Albright went to his home
Thursday and began to abuse his 16-
year-old wife. His mother-in-law, Mrs.
Nellie Snow, interfered and was rough-
ly assaulted by Albright and thrown
heavily across the body of the young
wife, who was in bed ill. Yesterday his
wife died from the injury received dur~
ing her husband‘s fight with her moth-
er. The coroner’s jury holds Albright
responsible for her death. He is in
jail.

 

A Pathetic Tragedy.

Albany, June 28.——Mary Ellis, aged
7 years, was struck by a. train yester-
day afternoon, and both legs were cut
off and the body badly injured. The
frantic mother could not be restrained
and caught the dying child up in her
arms. The scene was very affecting.
A surgeon could not be found, and it
was not until an ambulance reached the
spot that any medical attendance was
rendered. The child was too far gone
then and expired in a few minutes.

The Cleveland Club.

Milwaukee, June 28.—President Robi-
son of the Cleveland Baseball club, who
is now in this city, denies the report
that the Cleveland' club is to be trans-
ferred to Milwaukee} He says he will
not leave the Ohio city unless he is
beaten in the courts on Sunday base-
ball. In that event Milwaukee would
be his first choice.

Senators to Play Ball.

Washington, June 28.—Senator Clark
of Wyoming is arranging a senate-
house baseball contest to be played,
when the tariff bill is in conference. A
team from each body is to be organized
and play at the National park, the pro-
ceeds to be given to the charitable in-
stitutions of Washington.

 

Man and Horse Killed.

Springfield, Mass, June 28.—Patrick

J. Buckley, 3. popular butcher, living in
Agawam, was killed by the Albany ex-
press in Mittineague last evening. The
wagon was struck by the engine and
smashed into small pieces, and Mr.
Buckley was frightfully mangled. The
horse was also killed.

Nominations Confirmed. .
Washington, June 28.——The senate has
confirmed the following nominations:
George B. Billings of Massachusetts, to

- be commissioner of immigration for the

. port

 

of Boston. Postmasters.—New
York—Thomas L. Dunham, at Lester-
shire. Massachusetts—H. A. Pease, at
Edgarlown.
The Mine ‘Vorkers.
Columbus, 0., June 28.—The national
executive committee of the United Mine
Workers adjourned without fixing a
date for a new scale to go into opera-
tion. There will be no general strike.

 

 

The Strong Ties of Love That Bind
the Reichstag and the Diet.

KAISER RESENTS A SLIGHT.

Hamburg Didn’t Toast Him, So Hamburg
Elust Get Along Without Elm—An-
other Batch of Fifteen Generals
Retired From the Army.

Berlin, June 28.—-—The reichstag has
adjourned for the summer, but the
Prussian diet will remain in session un-
til late in July.

The association reform committee of
the upper house of the diet passed the
association bill on Friday in the muti-
lated form adopted by the lower house,
but with an addition to the effect that
associations “in which there are an-
archist or social democrat movements
or movements aiming to overthrow the
existing organization of the state or so~
ciety or movements preparatory to a
separation of part of the territory of
the state from the whole come to light
in a manner dangerous to publlc securi-
ty, especially to the security of the
state, may be dissolved by the police."

The diet is almost certain to pass the
bill in this form, which is more con-
sonant with the wishes of the govern‘
ment, which desires in a measure re~
pressing all Opposition meetings and
all Opposition agitation, but there is no
chance of the reichstag agreeing to the
measure in its amended form.

It was interesting to note the crop-
ping out of the deep seated animosity
between the two bodies, the reichstag
and the diet. In the diet Baron von
Zedlitz, the Conservative leader, re-
ferred, amid applause, to the “misguid-
ed, blinded majority of the reichstag,"
and speakers in the reichstag repaid
the attack in kind. Herr Richter, the
Radical leader in both bodies, spoke in
scathing terms of the “almost perma—
nent cabinet crisis.” He said Dr. Miquel
is to be virtually the new chancellor,
adding: “What does he believe in? We
ought to invite him to appear before us
and divulge his programme. It is not
enough for us to know the ideas of the
June government. We ought to know
also those of the July government. As
to the autumn government, nobody
knows anything about them.” This
sally was received with great applause
fronithe members of the Left.

Tired of Office.

In private conversation PrinceHohens
lohe, the imperial chancellor, has ex-
pressed himself as being tired of office.
adding that he counted upon retiring
in the fall.

The middle of June report for Prus-
sia shows that unusually good crops
may be expected, especially of rye.
Some of the provinces, Silesia and Pos-
en for instance, are expecting to sur~
pass anything seen in 20 years.

The meeting of Emperor William and
King Leopold of Belgium at Kiel is not
entirely devoid of political significance.
They will discuss the Kongo and other
African problems touching both Ger-
many and Belgium, such as the slave
question. King Leopold will invite the
emperor to personally attend the Brus-
sels exposition.

By rejecting the invitation of the
Hamburg senate to attend the horticul-
tural show and by avoiding touching
Hamburg territory on his present trip,
Emperor William wanted to testify his
displeasure at the recent failure to
toast him at the banquet tendered to
the members of the reichstag at Ham.-
burg.

A comical mistake of the emperor in‘

a. recent speech has been discovered.
Speaking at the unveiling of the men-
ument to his grandfather, at Cologne,
his majesty referred to “Neptune with
the trident,” to which he tacked his re-
marks in agitating for an increase in
the strength of the German navy. The
symbolical figure on the monument.
however, was meant by the sculptor to
represent Father Rhine, and it has not
a. trident, but garlanded vines and
grapes where the trident might be.

Prince Henry of Prussia, after the
summer naval maneuvers, will resign
command of the second division of the
First squadron of the German fleet and
will take the position of rear admiral,
with naval commands ashore and head-
quarters at Kiel.

More Generals Retired.

Another batch of 15 generals has been
retired from the army by the emperor,
making 30 generals retired by his maj-
esty in three months. The oldest of the
retired officers is only 56 years of age.

At the War academy of Potsdam two
of the older pupils have fought a saber
duel with the knowledge and approval
of their superiors. Both were severely
wounded about the head, and one of
them will probably die.

The sessions of the court of arbitra—
tion, of which the King of Saxony is
president, to determine the successor-
shlp to the throne of Lippe-Detmold,
have concluded, and the finding will be
published within three weeks. It is re-
ported that the emperor’s brother-in—
law, Prince Adolph of Schaumburg-
Lippe, has been defeated in his preten-
sions.

Much amusement has been aroused
by the fact that the jubilee portrait
of the queen, issued by the London
Times, was “made in Germany.”

Sergeant Raith of the Bavarian artil-
lery, stationed at Metz, recently stab-
bed to death a soldier who refused to
obey an order which that noncommis-
sioned officer had given him. Raith has
been officially praised for his act.

The Kreuzzeitung warns German
farmers against the invitations of em-
igrant agents to settle in the southern
states of America, and calls upon the
government to issue a. strict prohibi-
tive decree against such emigration,
“since German farmers are too good to
compete with black labor in the cotton
and rice fields.” '

 

The Duty on Hides.
Washington, June 28.—The senate
finance committee has changed the pro-
vision for a duty on hides so as to make
it ad valorem instead of specific, fixing
the rate at 20 per cent, instead of 11/2
cents per pound. The leather paragraph
is also altered so as to provide compen-
satory duties for the duty on hides.

 

The Grindstone Burst.
Winsted,‘ Conn., June 28.——Thomas
Benham, employed at the factory of
the Winsted Manufacturing company,
was instantly killed by the explosion
of a grindstone.

 

BERLIN did LETTER