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EXPLOITS UP CAMERA FIENDS.
A Charge at; a \Vedding and a TelnptatiOa
at n Fllnt'l‘ill.
Even weddings and funerals are
hot safe from the kodak fiend. A
wedding which made a stir in Boston
took place at the bride‘s summer home
on the. coast. It was a charming af-
fair, picturesque in the highest de-
gree. and delightfully informal. The
informality had disastrous resr
for each of the guests, knowing that.
the wedding was to be an ou-t-of—door
affair, was inspired with the idea of
smuggling in his camera and getting
some snapshots of the happy couple
and the bridesmaids.
When the bride and bridegroom, al-
ready in the last stage of nervous em-
barrassment, received the rector’s
benediction and turned to face their
friends, there was a unanimous and
sudden movement in the crowd, and
the unfortunate couple were confron-
ted by rows upon rows of cameras,
of all shapes and sizes. Each aggres-
sor having flattered himself that his
idea was unique, was surprised at the
unanimity of intent; but no one re-
lented. The crowd closed in upon the
victims. The bride looked hysterical
and the bridegroom looked savage.
They had thought that the worst was
on-r. but this was adding insult to
injrry. All avenues of escape were
closed to them. They must grin and
bear it—and they did.
One of the wedding guests, who was
in the front ranks, during the cm
slaught, has a wide reputation along
the south shore, and, though he is
mild-faced and elderly, his advent will
scatter a crowd more effectually than
a small pox flag. Every one knows
him and realizes that the only safety
from being photographed when he ap-
pears lies in instant and hasty flight.
He can’t help taking pictures. He has
a most virulent and long standing
case of the mania. ‘
Not long ago his, wife’s mother died
and the old gentleman was summoned
to the funeral. He was sincergly
grieved; even for his mother-in-law his
kindly soul had felt no dislike. He
rHurried to the city. where the funeral
was to take place, and conducted him-
self wrth becoming and sorrowful dig-
nity. But at the close of the ser-
vices. when the mourners filed out of
the house, he was missed. He had
disappeared suddenly, completely, and
search for him was unavailing; so the
carriages were filled without him and
the carriages were moving away, when
an unseemly grin irradiated the min-
ist'er’s :face, but was quickly sup-
pressed. Concealed behind a conve-
nient hedge, with his camera pointed
at the imposing procession, was' the
missing mourner. The temptation had
been too strong for him. Proce-ssions
were his specialty. He was tempted,
and he fell; but, as he afterwards ex-
plained, he thought it would be a com-
fort to have the picture in the family.
It was a fine funeral—New York Sun.
A BURMESE DIVORCE.
People of Civilized Countries Might Learn
a Lesson from the Heathen.
It is worth a moment’s notice that,
while we, of this highly civilized land,
areperplexing ourselves in our ef-
fortskto find a simple method of ob-
taining divorce, on grounds of "incom—
patability of temperament,” and are.
wasting much time and large money
in litigation and lawyers’ fees, the
simple people of Burmah manage to
settle this question without the least
difl‘lculty and without waste of sub-
stance. Recognizing the fact that mar-
riage is often a lottery, and that, in
cases of suddenly discovered incom-
patability, it alw-ays'is, the Burmese
man and wife agree that divorce shall
be decreed by lottery also. If a, Bur-
mese couple find that they cannot live
in peace, and decide that they would
best separate, the wife goes out and
buys two candles of equal length.
These candles are made for this es-
pecial purpose, and are the only "legal
expenses” that need be incurred in
obtaining a Burmese divorce. The
wife brings them home. She and her
husband then sit upon the floor, and,
at a signal, each lights a candle. One
candle stands for him and the other
for her. The one whose candle burn-s
out. first rises 51nd goes out of the
house forever, talking nothing. The
one whose candle burns longest, even
by the fraction of a second, remains
and“ takes everything. Thus the di-
vorce is settled without any fuss or
scandal, the general public is not an-
noyed by the contentions of the sepa-
rating couple, «and each is free to re-
marry. There are, indeed, some les-
sons in plain common sense that may
be learned even from the ways of the
heathen who “in his blindness bows
down to wood and stoue.”——Godey’s
Magazine. '
Lfiark Twain writes: “It. tech; 9:
good to be out of debt that I have can-
celed a number of lecture engage-
ments in Australia. I have no respect
£9; a man who goes about robbing
e public on the platform unless he-
s nidebt" '-
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PROTECTING ROYALTY-
Wilhelm of Germany Has 1,500 Men
Guarding Him.
Fifteen hundred persons are lying
awake nights in Berlin and its neigh-
borhood to protect the kaiscr’s life and
healt's, and to see that his path runs
smoothly. These 1,500 are servants
of all degrees; some are styled “Excel-
lency,” and others are mere bootblacks
of fortune. Yet despite this host of
watch dogs, the kaiser feels secure
nowhere but in Potsdam, where the
castle is guarded by 500 picked men
in barracks connected with the palace, '
and where the royal park is patrolled
by numerous sentinels. who have org
ders to shoot at any supicious person
who cannot. or will not. give an ac-;
I
count of himself.
Those Potsdam arrangements for
guarding the royal-person are observed i
at all :e courts of Europe. In his
palace, at least. a monarch seems to
be reasonably protected against un-
pleasant surprise. The
part of the king business is in outings.
ceremonies and exercises of all sorts.
A! the beginning of his reign the kai-
ser magnanimously decided to dispense
with the public police service. Next
day the presid‘dnt of police and the en-
tire oflicers’ corps resigned. “If we are
not. allowed to watch over your majes-
ty in our own way we cannot be re-
sponsible for your safety.” they said.
The Prussian court has abandoned
body guards, except for ceremonious
occasions, but the kaiser keeps an elite
corps of 350 mounted men about his
person all the time. They are called
body gendarmes. and. like the Feld-‘
jaegers. are really nothing more nor
less mm royal footmen. paid out 0.“:
the people’s instead of out of the kais-
er’s treasury. When the kaiser goes
riding two body gendarmes. one or
two adjutants and two grooms. ac-
company him, but a hundred or more
gendarmes or Feldjaegers in citizen’s
dress traverse the park in all direc—
tions to look for suspicious characters
and be at hand when necessary.
The King of Italy loves his wife.
and will not drive out with the queen
for fear that a bullet. or a dagger
thrust. intended for him. may strike
her. But Crispi went further. Out
of a half hundred banditti marked for
the gallcys be selected one. Pietro by
name, and placed before him the alter-
native of dragging a. ball and chain
for the rest of his life or of living in
luxury and keeping his dagger and
lists ready for regicides.
During the last five years Pietro
has shadowed the king by day and
night. He attends him in the council
chamber and to mass; he sleeps on the
threshold of their majesties‘ bedroom.
\Vheu the king is about to drive out
Pietro examines the horses and the
carriage. He takes a bite or a spoon—
ful out of every dish before it is plac-
ed on Umberto’s and Mai-guerite’s ta-
ble. Disguised as a military attache.
this lusty ex-cutthroat. who has :1 rec-
ord as a throttler, sits to his majesty’s
left in the royal coach. with a dagger
up his sleeve, or rides by his side at
parades and reviews. ‘
The czar is surrounded by half a
hundred men of the Pietro stamp, the
pick of the Don-Cossacks. Splendid
barbarians they are, and the minister
of police sees to it that the influences
of civilization do not touch them be-
yond the soap point. They must keep
clean. must, indeed. be paragons of
cleanliness. but reading and writing,
even the Russian language. are closed
books to them. Knowledge might mar
their supreme self-confidence; it might
interfere with discipline; if they spoke
any language beside their vernacular
it might lay them open to foreign in-
fluences. The members of the imperial
family order the Cossacks about by
signs; they are permitted to speak
only to their direct superiors. The ar-
rangement works well enough indoors.
but for public occasions there‘s anoth-
er. ‘IVhen the czar rides or drives or ,
walks anywhere outside of his own
apartments. he is surrounded by a ver-
itable cluster of dignitaries and guards
dressed to give them the appearance
of superior rank.
a small man. completely disappears in
the sea of humanity engulfing him.
To hit him. an assasSin would have to
hurl a missile from above. and then
it’s ten to one he would kill some
nobody, or half a dozen of them. Olli-
cially the personal safety of the czar
is entrusted to the master of police. ‘
who is again controlled by a general
chosen by the czar for a‘longer or
shorter period, or for different locallr
ties, as the case may be. .
The presidents, or masters of police,
at St. Petersburg, Berlin. Vienna.
Rome and of all the capitals cfEurope
report daily to their sovereigns. their
business having precedence over any
other affairs of state. William. Nicho-
las, Francis Joseph. and even Leopold,
would sooner think of dispensing with
the ancient custom of holding a morn-
ing confab with their cooks than be-
grudge the time allotted for the inter-
view with the chief of mouchards.
The Emperor of Austria. who is a
pious man. employs few precaution-
ary measures. save the military ones
peculiar to his position as the head of
a great army. Of course his civil cab-
inet is always on -the lookout for
Czech, Magyar, Croat and Polish mal-
con-tents, but Francis Joseph takes
little interest in the matter. At the
same time he does not believe in en—
couraging attempts upon his lfe. A.
would-be conspirator or regicide who
falls into the hands of the Austrian
police is sure to sufi’er the full pen-
alty of the law. or even a little more
than the law allows. When the em.
peror travels, secret service men pre—
cede and accompany him. “I have
met his majesty several times when
abroad,” said a diplomat. “and on one
or two of these occasions the late Em- .
press Elizabeth was with him. The
imperial couple. when leaving the ho.
tel, was always escorted by detectives
in plain clothes. :1 measure particular-
ly distasteful to net mayo-m...
dangerous '
And Nicholas. being _
6
l FEATS OF THE. CAVALR‘.’ HORSE.
Dough-15’ Plucky Ride Through Rain and
hind to General Ewell.
The one sad feature about the war
is that the cavalry horse was not test-
ed. In fact the muddy roads, the long
distances required for transportation
made this almost impossible. Yet
some wonderful feats have been per-
formed by our horsemen to train them
for the campaigns of actual warfare.
General King tells of a plucky ride
made in the seventies by Lieut. James
F. Bell, of the Seventh, just to show
what our mounted soldiers could have
done had the campaign developed.
Bell was ordered to Medora, a little
town at the crossing of the Little Mis-
souri by the‘Northern Pacific railway.
iwhere he found important dispatches
for his brother officer, Lieutenant Gar-
lington, then in the field, and, all alone,
Bell rode away from Medora at-sun-
, rise on an August morning, covered
Ififty to fifty-five miles through the
roughest country in the Northwest by
noon. got a fresh mount in Captain
Varnum’s camp, and just after sunset
reached Garlington. The distance cov-
ered was at least one hundred miles.
and the gait was trot or gallop all the
. way.
The records of the cavalry regiment/s
on duty in Arizona or Wyoming dur-
ing the Indian campaigns of the last
twenty years furnishes numerous in-
stances of long rides of this character.
The annals of the great war have
many more—perhaps the most remark-
able being that of Henry Kyd Doug-
las, now Adjutant-General of Mary-
land, but at the time a young officer
selected to bear despatches for Stone-
‘wall Jackson, through pitchy dark-
ness. over river and mountain, from
Harrisonburg in the Shenandoah val-
ley, around Massanutten mountain,
over the Blue Ridge through Swift
Run gap, then by way of Stann-ards-
ville, Madison Court-House, Culpeper,
andBrandy Station, to General Ewell,
then “in the field.” Douglas started
just after sundown of an April even-
,ing, and in a pouring rain splashed
through mud and mire and the black-
ness of Erebus over the mountain trail;
exchanged his gallant blooded mare
for a big, raw-boned racer some forty
miles from the starting point; used up
mount No. 2 in a fifteen-mile spurt to
Madison C. H., where be swapped
him for a little gray which stumbled
in the mire and darkness after a run
of barely a. mile, and could not be
induced to rise, The magic of Jack-
son’s name won him mount No. 4, who
carried him nine miles and gave place
to a gaunt roan. The next stage was
the eleven-mile dash to Culpeper,
where, in the faint, cold glimmer of
dawn, the young officer reached Gen-
eral Dick Taylor, who steered him on
to Brandy Station and beyond. Just
twenty hours from the start, Doug,-
las found General Ewell and delivered
his rain-soaked despatches. He had
covered the entin. distance _of one
hundred and five miles in less. than
twenty hours. -
NEWS READINGS IN DAWSON.
Enterprising Elan Makes 9300 Reading to
the Miners.
A novel story is told by the Portland
Oregonian about the way the news of
the blowing up of the Maine was re-
ceived in Dawson C‘ity. An enterpris-
ing Yankee got hold of the first copy
of a. newspaper containing the account.
He made arrangements for getting the
news abroad in this business like fash-
ion:
‘lehting a vacant saloon building, he
caused bulletins to be issued giving an
inkling of the character of the news
that had been received, most judicious-
ly worded, and announcing that the
full account would be read in public in
the evening in the mammoth one story
log edifice next the Blue Ruin dive on
Brimstone street; admission two pen-
nyweights of gold, ranging in value
from $1.50 to $1.75.
At the appointed time
gathered to hear
hundred or more of them tossed their
gold dust into the door keeper’s scales
and crowded inside. The reading was
satisfactory, if the news was not, and
there was no grumbling about the in-
vestment. No less than $300 and prob—
ably much more,
that idea. The reader was a liberal sort.
1 of chap, and he read the other news in
I the paper merely as a courtesy to the
assembly.
This practice grew as the nation
neared war and after the war began.
and it is a frequent occurrence for a.
public reading of important news to be
given in Dawson at so much per head
for permission. And the cooped up man
pay for nothing more cheerfully than
war news. Their liberality in this mat-
ter is sometimes taken advantage of,
and stale stuff palmed off for news, and
even the Dawson City public is dis-
criminating in this particular. and is
strongly disposed to resent the swin-
dle.
the. miners
Sacred Fires of India.
The sacrtd fires of India. have not all
been extinguished. The most ancient,
which still exists, was consecrated 12
centuries ago in commemoration of the
voyage made by the Parsees when they
emigrated from Persia to India. The
fire. is fed five times every twenty-four
hours with sandalwood and other fra—
grant materiafls, combined with very
dry fuel. This fire, in 'the village of
Oodwada, near Bulsar, is visite by
P‘arsees in large numbers during the
months alloted to the presiding gen-
lus of fire.
Mr. Gotrox—But you are a poor
man, and my daughter has been ac-
Do you think she could stand such a
"hange?
lmpecuuious Lover—Certainly. sir.
Just see how readily those rich Rough
I Riders took to hard tack and bacon.
—.Judgc.
the news, and two I
was realized from ;
:rustomed to every conceivable luxury, 2
THE EVENING GAzE'r'rn
l
g THE CHINESE EXCLUSION LAW.
The Question of Admitting “'ives and
Minor Children of Merchants.
’ln connection with the Chinese immi‘
gration laws has just been presented
to the attorney general for an opinion.
This is as to the application of the
laws, as construed by the department
of justice, in past opinions, to the wives
and children'of tender years belonging
to Chinese now rightfully in this coun-
try.
The question was raised by ex—Rep-
resentative Baker of Rochester, N. Y..
, who has appealed to the treasury de-
partment on behalf of a. Chinese mer~
chant living in Rochester, and general-
ly known and respected there, who is
now in a. position to bring his family
over.
One opinion of the atterney general
holds that under section six of the laws
of 1884, all Chinese persons shall be
. excluded from entry unless able to pre-
I.sent a certificate such as is required
' by that law, and a later opinion gees
, further and holds that no Chinese per-
}.son is entitled to such a certificate un-
' less he belongs to one of the classes ex-
pressly exempted from exclusion--
namely, merchants, students, or travel-
I lers for curiosity or pleasure.
As the Rochester merchant’s family
would not come under either of these
heads, the opinions combined would,
unless modified or explained, seem to
I exclude them.
The treasury authorities feel, how-
ever, that the attorney general may
rule that the status of wives and mi-
nor children should be treated as de-
termined by the status of the head of
the family, and that it may be possible
to permit the reunion of the Rochester
merchant’s family by this construction
of the law.
The only thing to be guarded against
in such a case is imposition for the
purpose of evading the law.
Notable Nuptia‘s at Savannah.
Savannah, Ga., Nov. 1.—The marriage
of Miss Mabel Gordon and Mr. Row-
land Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey, Eng-
land, was celebrated at noon yesterday
at Christ church in this city.
The’bride is the daughter of General
W. W. Gordon, Porto Rican commis-
sioner, and the bridegroom is the son
of Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey.
His mother is the daughter of the late
Duke of Westminster.
He was born in 1859 and was educated
I at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking
his degree of B. A. in 1882.
He was admitted a barrister of the
Inner Temple in 1887 and was private
secretary to the secretary of war, the
Right Hon. Henry Campbell-Banner-
man, from 1892 to 1895.
The records of the family date back
to Sir Piers Leigh. who bore the stand—
ard of the Black Prince at Crecy, and
whose son, Sir Peter, was slain at
Agincourt.
Miss GOrdon is a social favorite 'in
Savannah. The marriage ceremony
was performed by the Hon. the Very
Rev. James Leigh, the dean of Here—
ford, assisted by the Rev. Robert
White, pastor of Christ church.
Stoneware Irust Formed,
Akron, Nov. 1,—The combination con-
trolling the production of white, black
and salt glazed stoneware in the Uni-
ted. States is an assured fact.
Three meetings recently held in Chi-
cago, Cleveland and Akron resulted
in a trust being formed along the lines
of the nail trust. Twenty-six concerns
are interested. .
The combination, it is stated, was
planned by the best legal talent in th>
country. and it is claimed the trust
laws will not be violated.
The combination represents about 6:."
per cent. of the entire production of
common stoneware in the United
States. .
The trust has advanced the market
a. half cent a gallon and in some in-
stances one cent.
R. F. Kent of Akron is president, T.
C. Robinson of Akron treasurer. and
M. 'H. Linn of Zanesville is its secre-
tary.
A Smokeless Powder Explosion.
South Acton, Mass, Nov. 1.—The
:powder house of the New York and
{New England Titanic Smokeless Pow-
I der Company was demolished by an ex-
I plosion just before eleven o’clock yes-
! terday.
Twenty men were employed in the
3building, all of whom escaped unhurt,
{except three, who were slightly injur—
: ed in the rush to get out.
a The cause of the explosion has not
I
g
I
been determined, but a few moments
previous to the trouble, the engineer
noticed that something appeared to be
wrong with the machinery, and he shut
foff steam and gave the danger signal
j in time to prevent loss of life. The loss
i will be $60,000.
The building in which the explosion
occurred was about 150 feet long by 75
feet wide, and one story in height. The
structure was almost totally demolish-
Eed, and the machinery, including the
engines and boiler, destroyed.
Hold Umbrella Low.
Baltimore, Md., Nov. 1.——Two mm
were killed by electricity in the streets
here yesterday in a peculiar manner.
A terrific rain and wind storm was p 'c-
vailing. Abrahaantummer was pass-
ing under an are light in front of a
store. The steel rod of his raised um-
. brella came in contact with the light,
Iand the current passed down the
- frame into the hand of the carrier.
I Stummer dropped dead and blue
flames shot from his hand. The pave--
. ments and the soles of the man’s shoes
z were wet.
I
I Wrecked by a Hurricane.»-
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Nassau, N. P., Nov. 1.—-The schooner
Jennie F. Willey, Captain Bulger,
, which sailed from Jacksonville on Sep-
i tember 21 for Long Island Sound, en-
countered a. hurricane on October 1,
' during which she was dismantled and
her deck load blown off.
She drifted, however, and stranded
on October 26 at Walker’s Cay.
The vessel and cargo are a total loss.
The crew succeeded in reaching the
shore and subsequently came to this
port. V
Panama Railtoud Terminal.
Coulon, Colombia, Nov. 1.—Permission
has been obtained from the govern-
ment by the PanamaRailroad Com-
pany to establish terminal facilities at
Laboca upon the payment of $400,000
and the granting of a lean to Colombia
of $51,000,000. . . ,
'2 fl-~.-.‘ . —--
Washington, Nov; 1.—A new Question I
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