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Evening gazette, Saturday, February 27, 1897 · page 7

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THE IIIID III JAMESON.

The Farcical “Investigation” Which

Is Going on in London.

RHODES’ DEFIANT ATTITUDE.

The Man Who Was Responsible For the
Raid of the Filibusters Into the
Transvaal Tries Hard to Pose
as a. J ustified Patriot.

LONDON, Feb. 27. —The inquiry of the
parliamentary committee into the Jame-
SQn raid was resumed today in Westmin-
ster hall. There was a crowd of peers and
members of the house of commons present,
but the Prince of Wales was absent.

Edward Blake’s examination of Colonel
Cecil Rhodes was continued. The witness
admitted he had instructed his agent in
London, Rutherford Harris, confidentially
to communicate the plans of the secret
movement to certain persons in England,
but he refused to divulge their names.

Asked whether having a. force ready to
march into the Transvaal was conduct
consistent with his position as premier,
Colonel Rhodes evoked laughter by reply-
ing: “It is for this committee to judge of
my conduct. It does not appear to me to
be inconsistent.”

Mr. Blake then drew attention to. the
passage in the statement read by Colonel
Rhodes at the opening day of the inquiry
relative to a. foreign power, and added,
“I accept fully your view that you had
adequate grounds for that statement. ”

Colonel Rhodes replied: “I am glad you
put it in that way. If I stated my reasons
for the belief, perhaps it would do harm
and cause irritation to a friendly power.”

Sir William Vernon Harcourt asked
whether the colonel 'adhered to his state-
ment without adducing reasons in support
of it. “I am prepared to give evidence as
to why I think so,” was the colonel’s an-
swer. ‘

At Mr. Blake’s request Colonel Rhodes
read the paragraph referred to aloud, and
declared in a firm voice, “Iabsolutely now
believe it. ”

Further questioned in regard to the im-
perial character of the proposed federa-
tion, Colonel Rhodes said: “Mr. Blake
must remember that when we federated
Canada it was a local people federated
and the imperial government finally sanc-
tioned it.”

Questioned as to whethe/ he thought the
end justified the means the witness re-
plied: “If I had succeI/ded, .vc should
have had a union of Africa and the Char-
tered company would ha ['9 greatly profited.
.As I failed I must take the responsibility,
and I hope that the future will accomplish
the union.” The witness asked the com-
mittee to consider in its deliberations the
objects he had in view.

Germany tbs Favored Nation.

Henry Labouchere next examined Colo‘
nel Rhodes. 'He asked, “Was Germany the
powar you believed President Kruger fa-
vored?” “Yes,” was the reply.

Asked for evidence in support of his be-
lief, the witness read extracts from a speech
delivered by President Kruger before the
German club of Pretoria on the occasion of
Emperor William’s birthday in 1895, in
which President Kruger claimed that Great
Britain had relinquished her claim of su-
zerainty over the Transvaal and declared
that he had been able to make a treaty
with Germany, so that if one nation tried
to kick the Transvaalers other nations
would try to stop her. Colonel Rhodes
said that he believed President Kruger in-
tended by this speech to claim the right to
make such a. treaty and confirm it without
the consent of the queen.

The whole tendency of the Transvaal
policy was in favor of foreigners, especially
Germans, at the expense of the English.

Mr. Labouchere suggested that President
Kruger’s speech may have been an after
dinner oration. “But,” remarked Colonel
Rhodes, “President Kruger only drinks
water. ”

Replying to further questions, Colonel

V Rhodes referred to the objection of the

German minister for foreign affairs, Baron
Marschall von Bieberstein, in the reichstag
to a commercial union of the South African
states as being likely to lead to a. political
protectorate and the exclusion of German
goods. The witness denied that a. protec-
tion policy existed at the Cape and added,
“Protect-ion means bad factories and bad
articles for the benefit of a privileged few. ' ’

In answer to another question Colonel
Rhodes said that they proposed employing
only Americans in some of the mines be-
cause they are best acquainted with deep
levels.

After a discussion relative to the taxa-
tion of mines Mr. Labouchere questioned
the witness in regard to his meaning of
“civil rights.”

Rhodes \Vaxes Melodramatic.

‘Thereupon Colonel Rhodes, with a ve-
hement gesture. exclaimed:

“ The J ohannesburgers have no civil
rights, and no body of Englishmen will
ever remain in any place for any period
without insisting upon their civil rights.”

Statistical evidence, showing the ani-
mosity of the Transvaal toward Great
Britain and Cape Colony, followed.

Colonel Rhodes raised a laugh by tak-
ing from his pocket and reading aloud a
long extract from a recent speech of Mr.
Labouchere in the house of commons in
regard to Crete, adding:

“I quite agree with Mr. Labouchere and
transferred the same sentiments and state
of affairs to the Transvaal.”

Colonel Rhodes, replying to a question
on the subject, absolutely acquitted Mr.
Joseph Chamberlain, the secretary of state
for the colonies, of all knowledge of the
revolutionary-‘movement, whereupon Mr.
Chamberlain interposed that he would be
happy to answer any questions on the sub-
ject.

’ After a remark from Colonel Rhodes
that he thought that at the present rate of
progression the inquiry would last two
years the committee adjourned until Tues-
day.

Excitement In the Transvaal.

LONDON, Feb. 27.—A special dispatch
from J ohannesburg says that consterna-
tion has prevailed there since the mad
adopted vesterday a new high court law,
by which any judgment of the high court
can be annulled by the raad. Business is
demoralized.

The Case of Latimer Jones.

LONDON, Feb. 27.——Latlmer R. Jones,
the horse dealer and proprietor of the Elks-

dale stud farm near Scarborough, who

was recently arrested at that place on an
extradition warrant. charging him with
forgeiy to the amount of £22, 000 ($110, -
000), said to have been committed in New
York in 1887, was arraigned today. C. F.
Gill appeared for the prisoner, who offered
to return to the United States in order to
meet charges of forgery preferred against
him by the Tappcn company.

 

A SONG.

A bird soared up in the face. of the sun——
Oh, but the bird sang gloriously}—
With throb of bosom and flutter of ,wing,
In the rich, ripe glow of a. day in Spl' ing
When the bursting of blossoms had just
‘ begun
And the green on the hillside was fair to
see.

A bird soared up in the face of the sun——
Oh, but his song was a thing to hear!
With heart attuned to a. Wild desire.
With the quiver of passion and pulse of fire.
And the bond of a. soul that had well-nigh

won
The first of the golden outworks there.

A bird soared up in the face of the sun——
And I watched. his flight with a. straining

eye;
But if he descended I cannot tell;
I marked alone how his music fell,
Till the last faint throb of the song w as done,
0r lost in the space of the pillar less sky.
—Yout‘ 1 s Companion.

THE CELIBATE CLUB.

“Women.” remarked Jack Forest.
“are the bane of bachelor civilization.”

"Women is woe personified,” re
marked Arcturus O’Ryan.

“What in thunder are they herefor?"
inquired Will King. '

“Fellow sufferers,” said I, Thomas
Tommington, by superiority of age and
experience Chief of the Celibate Co—
terie, “permit me to offer the following
resolutions.

" "Whereas, Woman, by her continued
actions, shows that she is in favor of
the utte1 extermination of bachelors;
and

“Wheieas, Woman, has no use for a
man unless she can lead him around by
the nose; and

“Whereas, Woman thinks she owns
the earth and the men thereof; and

“Whereas, She never was more mis-
taken in he1 life; therefore, be it

“Resolved, That we whose signatures
are hereto appended do hereby assert
011.1- manhood and hurl defiance in her
teeth; and

“Resolved, That we entirely ignore
the existence of all.womankind; and

“Resolved, That we do solemnly
pledge ourselves to throw off the female
yoke, and that henceforth and forever
we will neither marry any woman nor
be married by her.”

As might have been expected, these
resolutions were received with vocifer-
ous applause, and the meeting of the
Celibate Club became so hilarious that
three babies on the floor below and
seven on the floor above were aroused
from their angel slumbcrs, and soon
had awakened everybody else in the
building. After which we adjourned,
having been implored to do by a com-
mittee of twelve married men, who as-
sured us that when we had children of
our own we could better understand
their feelings in the matter.

For three months after the resolutions
passed, all went well with me, as with
my resolutions, then Iwas thrown from
a horse and sustained injuries to the
extent of a. broken leg and numberless
bruises. I ordered myself to be taken
:0 the hospital, where all good bache-
lors go when they are ill, but a. cousin
of mine, a. fine fellow, except that he
was married, issued orders to the con-
trary and took me home with him.
There I was fixed up in royal style, and
his wife took charge of me with such
motherly solicitude that I ciased to
growl about not going to the hospital.

Within a week I began to improve,
and about that time my cousin’s wife’s
sister came to the house on a. visit, and,
not having much else to do, she used to
amuse herself with me. I objected at
first, and vowed I’d rout myself out and
go to the hospital, but those two women
knew they had~ me where I was defence-
less, and they only laughed at me when
I growled, and fed me on dainties when
I was tactiturn and silent. I didn’t
want to eat their truck, but my appetite
was something astonishing, and it
forced me to overr ome any prejudice I
might have formed.

Later my cousin’s wife 5 sister took to
reading to me, and she compelled me
to listen to her because she did have ex-
cellent taste in the matter of ~ books,
and could read exceedingly well. As to
her voice, it was the sweetest I ever
heard, but, of course, she could have no
credit for that. She was born with it.

Occasionally the members of the co-
terie visited me, but not often. as the
very presence of women was disagree-
able to them. They condoled with me,
however, and together we fro wn ‘7
upon Providence for thus throwing me
into the hands of the enemy.

As time went by, and my cousin’s
wife’s sister continued to read to me, I
unconsciously grew into the habit of
looking at her sitting on the low chair
near me, with her head bending over
the book, and I began to wonder what
she used on her hair to make it so wavy
and glossy, and when she would look
up occasionally and smile in response to
a laugh or remark of mine at something
she had read, I would have a. queer
kind of a. feeling, as if I were threat
ened with some kind of heart trouble.

One day I asked the doctor about it
and he actually grinned. I say
“grinned,” because I mean “grinned.”
It wasn’t the kindly smile of the phy-
sician to a. petulant patient, but a grin;
and 1 would have thrown him out of
the window had I been in my usual
health and strength.

The first day I walked out 011 my
crutches my cousin’s wife’s sister ac-
companied me, and I think I leaned
more on her than I did 011 the crutch.
I am sure I did, as far as the crutch on
the side next to her was concerned.

During the first two or three weeks of
my imprisonment I had longed for the
time when I could get out once more
and join the coterie; then I began to
think less about it, and now, when l
was leady to start forth on my jouiney
once more, a free man, somehow 1 fé. t
that I was losing something.

I c'ouldn’t quite understand it, and.
after my lately acquiied fashion of 1c
lying upon my cousin’s wife’ 5 s . -.-,11
asked her about it. .

lVell,1f you will believe me, I v. as
never more surprised in my life than I

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on my cousin's wife's sister.
blushed and stammered and said her

, sister wanted her right away, and I just‘ .

stood still in my amazement. She had
always been such a help to me, and

now, in a little matter like this to go ‘

all to pieces, almost made me lose con-
fidence in her. Then she looked up at
me and all of a. sudden I felt that old
heart trouble come back and—and—
and— ' i

I hope it is not neceSsary for me to go
into particulars. Suffice it .to say that

between my cousin’s wife’s sister and

myself we managed to have the matter
satisfactorily explained. ..

But there was the Ontario and there
were those infernal resolutions! What
a. fool a man can make of himself when
he is left to his own devices, passes
finite comprehension, and almost crowds
the infinite to the wall. I, Thomas
Tommington, the Chief, had basely be-
trayed my trust, and concealment for
long was impossible. But I quickly de
termined that concealment was my
only hope, and with this hope in my
bosom I’attended the Coterie’s banquet
in honor of my restoration to the
charmed circle.

What- a hollow mockery that restOra-
tion was!

I was there and at the head of the
table, as befitted my relation to the
Coterie, but my spirits were elsewhere.
Still, I put a. bold face on myself, and
applauded to the echo every anti- female
sentiment that was uttered. I even
proposed a toast myself to the utter ob-
literation of women.

I thought it best to draw it strong,
and I did. However, at 9 o’clock I
pleaded that I was not yet strong
enough to join in the late festivities, so
I withdrew, and, shameless wretch that
Iwas, Ihurried to my cousin’s house
and sat up till 12 o’clock with my cous-
in‘s wife’s sister.

At the next meeting of the Coterie I
began to feel that I was under suspicion.
Perhaps it was merely a. guilty con-
science, but I thought my bachelor.
friends cooled when I appeared among
them.

I know that when John Temple pro-
posed the toast, “Earth would be heav-
en without women,” and I did not
empty my glass, every member present
looked directly at me and then at each
other. Any person of the most ordinary
sensitiveness knows how he feels under
such circumstances.

As time went by and suspicion grew

.apace, it became evident to me that I

must get out of the Coterie. There
was no other honorable course left me.
I could see that there was no longer
harmony, and when I read our resolu-
tions, as I did religic .1sly at every meet-
ing, they were greeted with silence.

At the next meeting, therefore, when
the time had come to open the exercises
with the resolutions, I lose in my place
and held up 'my hand for attention.

“Men and brethren,” I said solemn-
ly, “I shall not read the resolutions this
evening, nor shall I read them again. I
have betrayed the trust you reposed in
me. I am no longer worthy to be your
Chief [great excitement] ; I—I—I—
brethren, all I can say is that- I am to
be married three months from next
Monday.” [Vociferous applause]

I was astonished at the reception of
my speech and explanation, and could
form no idea what action the Coterie
would take.

'Jack Forrest, as Vice-Chief, slowly
came to his feet, and, instead of look-
ingat me, as I feared he would, gazed
about on the other members.

“Gentlemen,” he said, “you have
heard the statement made by our
worthy Chief, and I cannot lead you in
action in the matter, ‘in view of the
fact that I am to be married myself ten
weeks from next Tuesday.”

John Temple, next inuauthority, then
took the floor, and I could see that For-
rest was even worse rattled than I
was.

“Fellow citizens,” said Temple—he
was a. stump Speaker in campaign times
——“I haven‘t a word to,say. I’m to be
married a. month from to-morrow morn-
ing at 10 O’clock.”

Park, King, and O’Ryan seemed to be
dazed by this revelation, added to the
two thatpreceded it, and King rose in
response.

“Gentlemen and brothers,” he said,
“I might be able to say what I thought
of the disclosures which have been

1115.38 here this evening, but really it

would be unbecoming for me to say
anything. My wedding is set for Wed
nesday two weeks.”

When King ceased Parke spoke up.

“I can only say, gentlemen,” he said,
“that I can offer no censure, for day
after tomorrow I am to be married to
the one woman in the world for me.”

This was rubbing it in. We who
had preceded Park felt that it was
enough to have confessed our crime
without glorying in it and When Are
turns O’Ryan arose, I almpst hoped
that he would scathe- ark 'ith scom.

O’Ryan was the handsomest man in
the Coterie, and looked first at me, then
in turn at each of the others. I felt
that the lightnings of his wrath would
strike us all and strike hard, but I had
less fear than if I had had to stand the
blow alone. However, I unconsciously
braced myself as he began speaking.

“Mr. Chief and fellow members of
the Coterie,” he said, “I am proud be»
yond all expression at what I’ve heard
here-this evenino. I had hOped that
you would set me, the youngest mem-
ber of the Coterie, a. better example.
You are all to be married within three
months, while I, gentlemen—I, to whom
you have stood as exemplars—l, the
youngest man of you all, shall not
marry.

“No, gentlemen,” he fairly ‘thun-
dered, “no, I shall not marry. It is not
necessary for me to marry. I was mar3
ried ten years ago. Congratulate me;

she’s the finest voman in the whole .

world.”

And those remarkable 1esolulions had
been adopted less than a you pie-
viously!

Oh, woman! womanl—VV. S. Lamp

ton in N. Y. Sun.

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MATCHES AND COAT TAlL.

Actor Crane' s Startling Experience in :1
Smoking Cal.

“An amusing thing happened to me
the other day,” remarked William
Crane, addressing a. Boston Globe re-
porter. “We were making a. short
railroad journey, and with some of the
men in my company I went into the
smoking car. The car was pretty well
filled, and as I was grOping around for
a seat a. man in an unwarrantable hur-
ry to get out of the car—unwarrantable
because he~had been smoking as bad a
cigar as any one else—threw me up
against the arm of one of the seats. As
my coat scraped along the arm there
was a series of mufi‘led reports, and I
was enveloped in a. cloud of smoke.

“On the other side of the aisle sat a.
colored man, smoking what was once
a white clay pipe. .He leaned over,
tapped me on the shoulder, and in one
of those whispers that could be heard
all over the car, exclaimed, They’ re
ofl!’ Then, in the most solemn man-
ner, he proceeded to hide himself in
smoke. I pulled from my pocket a
burning box of matches, and as the
crowd saw the hole 1n my coat it 1oared.

“Under ordinary circumstances that
hole in my coat would have excited
sympathy, but the remark of that col-
ored man was so amusing in its serious-
ness that it simply turned the tables,
andJ was forced to laugh myself at
what I do not consider a. good joke.”

A MYSTERIOUS BELL-RINGER.
An Eagle lilystifies a, Florida Settlement
for Many Years.

A11 eagle was killed in Osceola Coun-
ty, Fla., the other day which proves to
have been the largest known to have
been killed in the zDSouthern States for
many years. But the eagle has an in-
terest aside from its great size, since
its death cleans up a mystery which
has puzzled the ignorant population of
the northern pal . of 0090121 County £01
a. long time. A couple of negroes who
went fishing in the bayous of the inte-
rior pa1t of the county several years
ago returned very much alarmed be-
cause they ha d heard a mysterious bell
tinkling. sometimes far up in the
heavens, 2.11.1 sometimes close to the
earth,

' The denseness of the forest and their
own fears prevented them from making
an investigation, but as there were no
inhabitants in that section of the coun-
ty the men concluded that the bell-
ringing was done by the devil.

At frequent intervals since .t' “en the
bell has been heard, the sound appar-
ently coming from the clouds and creat-
ing consternation among those who
listened.

Upon one leg of the big eagle killed
the other day was fastened a. small
brass bell. From the appearance of the
bell and the bird’s leg it was evident the
noisy little bit of metal had been there
some time. It was probably placed
there by some one when the eagle was
quite young. Of course every time the
bird moved the bell rang, and it was
this sound that had so long mystified
the Osceola County folk.

The Prince of Monaco.

Attention is called to that interesting
person, the Prince of Monaco, by the
fact that the President of the French
Republic has just paid him a visit.
Monaco is a. principality within the
borders and under the domination of a.
republic. and its internal government is
at the same timea despotism compared
to which the Prince has himself said
that of the Czars is mild.

His revenues from the gambling ta-
bles of Monte Carlo are very large. The
principality is eight square miles in ex-
tent, and includes the old and pictur-
esque town of Monaco and the wicked

'but beautiful Monte Carlo. The Prince

legislates with the aid of such advisers
as he chooses. and a. law goes into force
by his decree solely. The name of the
royal family is Grimraldi and it has
reigned for 900 years. The present
Prince, Albert, is forty-eight. He mar-
ried first a sister of the Duke of Hamil-
ton. Eleven years later he was di-
vorced for reasons that are not publicly
known. the Pope consenting to annul
the marriage, a. very unusual proceed-
ing. The Prince afterward married the
widow of the Due do Richelieu, who is
also a kinswoman of the poet Helene.—
N. Y. Journal.

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Chasing Grand" 5 Great Head.

The Hon. Chasing Crane, a distin-
guished and apparently a humorous
tribesman of the Sioux of the Lower
Brule division, bets put in a claim for a
Governmentpehsion. He has not been
fighting for the United States, but he
has been eating for it, and he asserts
that his health has been damaged by
his consumption of the rations furnished
to him. The Hon. Chasing Crane has
What is poetically described as a great
he 21d. Whether or not his petition suc-
c reds. the country will be proud of such
a mind; nor has any Lower Brule states
brig lite 1' hepes than he, if he doesn't
N. Y. Sun. ‘

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Cecil Rhodes is in hearty sympathy
with «the work of the Salvation Army,
and has offered General Booth a plot
of land in Rhodesia for the use of the '
organization.

The Post Office Department hasn’t
made a profit in any year since 1883,
the year preceding the first election of
Cleveland. In that year the receipts
were $45,500,000 and the expenses-
$42,800,000.

 

Weyler went to Cuba :1 poor man.
Now it is said that he has paid into
the treasury 2,000,000» francs toward
meeting the expenses of the Govern-'
ment in prosecuting the warm Where
did he get it?

 

The Cuban tobacco yield the'past
year has been 75,000 bales, instead of
500,000 holes, the yield the year be-
fore. The sugar crop has been re-
duced to one-fourth of its former size,
and will be smaller the coming year.

1, A London policeman serves eight
hours a day and gets from $6 a week
on entry to $8 at the end of eight years.
The men are supplied with uniforms
and boots, and they have coal money
and certain extras. At the end of
twenty-six years’ service there is the
superannuation pay for them.

in discussing

 

Lord Salisbury, the

‘plnn to use coercive measures against

Turkey, explains that there are “slight
differences among the powers as to the
manner in which the pressure is to be
applied." This means, probably, that
the European nations can’t agree as to
just how Turkey shall be divided
when the time comes to carve it.

 

It is said‘that Patti lives in constant
dread of burglars in her castle in
.Wales and that she has surrounded
herself with a pcrfectynetwork of bur-
glar alarms, every entrance to the eas-
tle being thus guarded. Perhaps the
diva hasn't thought of hanging out: :1
placard announcing the usual prices of
admissionns a preventive cf crooks.
It might be tried with good results.

M. Zola is going to keep on trying to
get into the Frenéh Academy. Per—-
haps he will “break the record” of
Laujon, the song-writer, who was a.
persistent candidate for half a; can;
tury, and was finally elected at the
age of eighty-two, “because,” they.
said, “he would soon go to Heaven,
“and it was well that he should go
“thither by way of the Academy.”

Canada and Cuba are both colonies,
and they represent the widest differ-
ences in colonial administration. Cam
ada’s loyalty to England is a token. of
the fairness and Iiberality of British
law, while Cuba’s hostility to the gov-
ernment at Madrid is a bold indict-
ment of Spanish oppression and mis-
rule. The condition of these two great
colonies is an object lesson to the
world in the contrasts of law and civo
ilization.

 

A foolhardy feat has been performed
by a young cyclist at Atlanta, Ga. He
rode a bicycle down an ' inclined
board platform two feet wide from the
top of a high building into the waters
of the adjacent lake. Four men held
the machine while he mounted, and at
the word “go,” he was sent off, and in
an instant shot into the water, going
over the handlebars of his machine.
Both rider and bicycle were fished out
in good condition.

Dr. Grenier, the French Mohamme-
dan deputy, goes'to the lavatory of I‘m
Chamber of Deputies to perform his
ritual ablutions. When the man in
charge found him taking off his boots,
washing his feet in the basins, and
wiping them on the roller towel, he
felt himself obliged to interfere. Dr.
Grenier thereupon walked down to the
banks of the Seine, washed his feet in
the river in the presence of a crowd of
2,000 persons, and after going through
his prayers returned to the Chamber.

A Great Fox ”Bait.

Six hunters have trapped 925 foxes
within ten miles of Gardiner, Me, dur-
ing the past winter. One of the hunters
claims to have a. secret bait that is ir-
resistible to a fox, and he has a record
of sixty eight foxes last winter. He
sold the sec1et to another trapper, who
got fifty two foxes. . -

 

 

 

 
 
 

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Stamped fl Boss 5, ‘
Always the Same

 
 

 

 

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