' J ‘5'! ransom. Aim COMMERCIAL. Closing Quotations of the New York Stock Exchange. New YORK. Dec. 5.—Money on call nominal. 11 at 2@2}§ per cent. Prime mercantile paper. 394% per cent. Sterling exchange dull. with actual business in bankers’ bills at [email protected])4 for demand and 84.87%@4.88 forflo days. Posged rates. $4.88%@4.89 and [email protected]. Commer- cial bills. 54.86%. Silver certificates. 675.1%“; no sales. Bar silvei'. 67. Mexican dollars. 54. Government bonds steady. State bonds inac- tive. Railroad bonds weak. ‘ Closing prices: Atchison....,..... 16%. New Eugland..... 54 Bur.&Quincy.... 82% N.J.Central......105% North American. 5% - o..o..c.&sm.L.. 40;; ‘ . Chesapeel<e&0.. 17% Northern Pacific- 456 '7 ". Chicago Gas ...... 64% Do. ref.... ....... 15% Cordage ...... 6% N. .Central ..... 1m Cotton Oil ....... m 18% Del. & Hudson. . .128 Distillers‘ Trust.. 1895 Erie .............. 12% Reading General Electric.. 31 Hocking Valley... 18%. Lackawanna ...... 166% Lake Shore ........ 149% Lead .............. 30’ Louisville & Nash 51% Missouri Pacific. 29% Northwestern . ...106% Texas Pacific... . .. 8% Union Pacific..... 9 Wabash pref ...... 18% Western Union... 87% General Markets. an Yonx. Dec. 5.—FI.OUR —— State and western quiet. but steady; city mills patents. 34.10.134.35: winter patents. 88.5I}@3.70: city mills clears. [email protected]: winter straights. [email protected]. WHEAT—No. 2 red Openend. higher on better cables and talk of export business on the Pacific coast: trading Was quiet; May. 67% 67%c4- December. 65%@65%c. CORN—No. 2 ruled firmer on covering orders and sympathy with wheat: May. 35%c. OATS—No. 2 quiet and steady; February. Zl%c.: track, white. state. 24@270. . PORK—Dull: new mess, [email protected]: family. 310 @10.50. ' LARD-Dull; prime western steam. $5.60. nominal. BUTTER—Strong: state dairy. 16©22c.; state creamery. 19@25c_. CHEESE—Steady; state. large. 7V4©10cm small, 7%@10}éc. " EGGS—Steady; state and Pennsylvania. 22@ 26a; wcstern, 21@23c. SUGAR—Raw firm: fair refining. 3140.: con- trifugal. 96 test, 35cc; refined firm; crushed.‘ 5%,“ powdered. 4%c. TURPENTINE—Dull at 27%@27%c. MOLASSES—Firm: New Orleans. 29@84=c. RICE—Quiet and firm; domestic. 3%@6}éc.: Japan. 3§é®4c. TALLOW—Quiet; city. 4 3460.; 4 5-16c. ‘HAY—Steady; shipping. Choice. M850. country. 703756.: good to Spanish. Comment on President's Message. MADRID, Dec. 6.—-The Globe describes the paragraph in President Cleveland’s message referring to Cuba as “an utter- ance of. serious importance. ” Sdcar monument ’ GMT TRADE RESTRIm President Cleveland’s Message Cannes Much Talk In Berlin. 130313037, Dec. 6.—A dispatch to The Standard from Berlin says: “A feeling akin to consternation has been caused here by President Cleveland’s references to Germany. It has had a marked efiect upon the boersc and has been discussed fully in the newspapers. The Radical newspapers take the upper. tunity to attack the Agrarians and Baron, von Koeller, just dismissed from his we! as Prussian minister of the interior, to whom they ascribe the prohibition of the importation of American cattle and the re strictions on life insurance companies. The government organs, on the contrary. contend that the situation in America is responsible for these restrictions and that than withdrawal rests with America her- sel . “The colonial papers accuse America of an intention to maneuver England and Germany out of Samoa, and they appeal to the government to proclaim the suz'er- ainty of Germany as the only power en- titled to rule in Samoa. ” The Daily News Berlin correspondent makes similar comments, and says: ”The free traders here suspect that the mens- ures against American food products were really prompted by a desire to be com- plaisant to the German farmers, whcsc in- terests suffered by American competition. “Anti-American measures meet with Opposition here as tending to stop the rap- idly growing commercial relations, the statistics showing that there is a contin- ual rise of German exports to America. “The industrial, iron and n vigation oompanies’ shares declined on t e hoarse and other stocks fell in sympathy. 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The extra guardship problem is still unsolved, and the rumor that the sultan has been given a specified time within which to grant the firmans do- manded by Great Britain, Russia, Austria and Italy is still discussed and remains uncontradicted from any official source. During the past 24 hours there have been frequent councils at the palace and several exchanges of communications with the representatives of the poWers, but no decision seems to have been arrived at by the ports. The dilatory policy of the palace people, which has certainly fre- quently warded odesevere measures, is continued apparently in the hope that some hitch will occur which may put an end. to the accord Of the powers. The diplomats admit that gals is another ex- ample of the unequale craftiness of the Turk and a further illustration of the cunning of eastern statesmanship which has so repeatedly been more than a match for the we! trained, thoroughly seasoned minds of some of the cleverest diplomats of Europe. Delay at any price seems to be the'main feature of the tactics of the Yildiz Kiosk manipulators of the sultan, and this is the keynote to the situation on the Turkish side. 01’ course the embassa- dors .are painfully conscious of this fact, and it is all the more embarrassing to them as this line of politics has been a breastwork they have hitherto been un- able to break down. They do not attempt to deny that the accord of Europe, an al- most unprecedented state of afiairs, is lia- ble to be disturbed at any moment. and it is to attain this end that the Turk is working assiduously, night and day, with all the skill and subtleness of eastern di- plomacy. Turkish Diplomacy. Irritating rumors about the “real do- signs” of Great Britain are taken to the Russian embassy by the agents of the ports. and annoying insinuations con- cerning the “ultimate aims” of Russia find their way, through the porte’s agents, into the British embassy. Then. again, the French ambassador hears reports about the doings of the German ombassa- dor, and vice versa. However, as intimated in these dis- patches a week ago, when the situation had reached just such another critical stage, there is no doubt but that the sul- tan or the powers must back down within a day or so. Upon the previous occasion . Great Britain, after sending the gunboat Dryad to the entrance of the Dardanelles, I was humiliated by the cunning of the Turk to the degree of having to send that warship back to Salonica bay. But, as stated at the time. this was regarded as being only \a temporary withdrawal. This still seems to be the case. and unless all signs are misleading or the unexpected happens there will be a decided change in the situation by Saturday. ' The existence of a. cabinet crisis here has long been commented upon, but as a change Of ministry is one of the oldest and most familiar moves of the sultan to obtain further delay little or no attention has been paid to the matter beyond con- veying to Abdul Hamid the intimation that another change of ministry would in no way alter the determination of the powers to take any action they may think advisable under the circumstances. All the Turkish ministers are guarded, and all are in fear of their lives, not only dreading assassination at the hands of the Armenians, but standing in great appre‘ hension of being summarily dealt with by the sultan, who is known to be irritated beyond any previous degree at everything and everybody. Abdul's lmpotent Rage. Seeing the meshes Of the European net drawing closer and closer around him ev- ery day, Abdul Hamid is described as be. ing frantic with helpless rage and likely to wreak vengeance upon any or all of his ministers if he can only muster up courage enough to do so. Too weak to recognize the real cause'of all the trouble, his own incompetence, the 'sultan is said to be blaming everybody around him for bring- ing about the present crisis. There are more rumors than usual in circulation today regarding the massing of Russian troops on the Turkish frontier and the gathering of a Russian fleet near the Bosporus. Indeed it has been re- ported that seve‘ral Russian war vessels have been sighted off the Black sea coast of Turkey, and nobody would be aston- ished to see Russia’s extra guardship steam into the Bosporus from the east at about the same time that Great Britain’s extra gunboat passes the Dardanelles. Of course this is mere conjecture, but it is a sample of the flying rumors upon which alarming reports are based. 2' The people here are quiet. almosttoo quiet. in fact, considering the grave state of affairs. and the police continue making arrests of Armenians. The peaceful state of Constantinople and its vicinity is one of thestrongest arguments being used by the sultan in his untiring efforts to per- suade the powers to waive their demands for extra guardships. and to those who see only the outward state of affairs this would seem to be a well made point and one worthy of much consideration. Americans Safe. The United States minister, Mr. Alex- ander W. Terrell, has receiveda note'from the ports to the eflect that new and more rigorous orders have been sent to the Turkish officials in the disturbed districts to take every precaution necessry to pro. tect all foreigners and their property and assuring him of the safety of the Amer- ican missionaries at Caesarea, from where a “disturbance” was recently reported. It is reported here today that Zia Pasha is going to Berlin as Turkish ambassador to Germany in place of ‘Tewfik Pasha, who was recalled in order to be appointed- minister for foreign affairs. A dispatch received here today from Marash says that the American mission‘ arise there—the Rev. and Mrs. Lucius 0. Lee, Miss Harriett A. Lovell, Mrs. Etta D. Marden and Miss Meda Hess—are safe and confirms the story that the mission buildings were attacked by the Turkish troops. The [situation at Bitlis causes renewed anxiety unong the missionaries, as many alarming reports of rioting and bloodshed are in circulation. Efforts are being made, jeot; -- _- to obtain accurate information on the sub- . ‘_-—-— ' \ " A Semiofncial Statement. _BERLIN, 'Dec. 6.-—The Cologne Gazette announces that. a Russian squadron’ of sevan battleships cud nine torpedo boats is anchOred‘off Sevastopol under orders to hold itself in readiness to sail at 24 hours’ notice. It says that the orders for assem- bling this squadron were issued a month ago, when Russia assumed that Great Britain might attempt to send war vessels through the‘Dardanelles without the con- sent of the sultan of Turkey. LONDON, Dec. 5.—Referring to the statement of tho Cologne Gazette today regarding the assembling of a Russian- squadron off Sevastopol, it was semlofli- cially stated here this afternoon that for years the Russian Black sea fleet has been under orders to be prepared for active service at any moment. It is also pointed out that a full understanding has been established between the powers in regard to the situation in Turkey, and that no apprehension exists of any one power tak- ing independent action. Said Pasha Afraid For His Life. ROME, Dec, 6.—A dispatch received here from Constantinople says that Said Pasha, president of the Turkish council of state and formerly grand vizier, has taken refuge in the British embassy, at Constantinople. believing himself not only to be in danger of arrest, but fearing for his life. Recently Said Pasha was mentioned as likely to be reappointed grand vizier, and, when matters reached a crisis last week, he was called upon to do his utmost to persuade the British em- bassador to order the gunboat Dryad away from the Dnrdanelles and was successful in getting Sir Philip Currie to refer the matter to his government, with the eventual result of securing the desired end. ' CUBANS WIN. Gomez and Sanchez Said to Have Routed a Force of Spanish Troops. KEY WEST, Fla, Dec. 6.-—Passengers on the steamship Olivette reported that Generals Gomez and Sanchez, with 2,000 or 3,000 insurgents, attacked the Spanish Generals Suarez, Valdez and Garrich, who had about 2, 500 men, between Camaguey and Las Villas, completely routing them. They left 150 dead on the field. It Was rumored in Havana that An- tonio Maceo, with 2,000 men, had passed La Trocha going toward Camaguey. The insurgent chief Rego blew up strain with a guard of 40 soldier-b, capturing all the arms and ammunition. Another shipload of Spanish soldiers has arrived at Puerto Rico, making a total of 8,000fresh troops. They will be distributed through the country at once. MADRID, Dec. 5.—The Imparcial’s spe- cial dispatch from Havana says that in the fighting which took place near Santa Clara the insurgent General Maceo’s van- guard lost 29 killed and wounded, most of them being shot while retreating. . Nevertheless it is rumored that Maceo is continuing to advance. A dispatch from Havana to The Im- pa‘rcial says that Gil Gongajos, the rebel leader ,who'was recently captured and tried by court martial. was shot at Ma- tanzas. ’ Two Men Missing. EASTLIORICHES, N. Y., Dec. 6.—Fears are entertained for the safety of Walter F. ShOthll, a traveling salesman from Jer- se‘y’City, ’and Charles Smith, a liveryman oil-this’town. They started to drive to Patohoguelast night. The team of spir- itedhorses driven by Smith was caught in- Center Moriches at midnight. Smith’s buggy was broken, and there had evi- dently been a runaway. , _ A. R. U. ManSent to Jail. . KAI-.ISPELL, Mon., Dec. 6.—-T. B. Blok- ers, one of the American Railway union men arrested at. the time of the attempted strike ordered by Roy Goodwin on Nov. 4,.was found guilty in the district court of destroying property and interfering with the Great Northern road. He was sentenced to six months in the county jail. The trial of Roy Goodwin is in prog- ress. Buffalo’s Latest Mystery. BUFFALO, Dec. G.—Hundreds of people have visited the morgue and looked into the features of the unknown dead woman, but not one has recognized her. Cor ner Tucker still adheres to his belief that she is a Canadian girl and thinks that only by publication in the Canadian weekly papers will her parents learn of her fate. Fire In the Hold of a Bark. GLASGOW. Dec. 6. —While the Norwe- gian bark Arabia, Captain Ommundsen, at Glasgow. Was transferring cargo for re- shipment to New York today, fire started in the cargo in her hold. and 500 bales of jute and several hundred hides were de- stroyed. The fire Was caused by the drop- ping of a lighted match. . Locks Bad For the Oil Men. WACO. Tex, Dec. 6. -—The taking of testimony by which the state expects to convict agents of the Oil trust of violation of the antitrust law has begun. Several merchants from small towns were exam- ined and testified to their dealings with the company and complained of injustice and discrimination. Against Religibus Congresses. LONDON, Dec. 6.—A Rome dispatch to The Chronicle says that in the next issue of the Jesuit organ, The Civilta Cattolica, the Vatican will publish an ofiicial note, blaming retrospectively the Chicago re- ligious congress and condemning the idea of a similar congress at the Paris exposi- tion in 1900. Boland Succeeds Walsh. ALBANY, Dec. 6.—John H. Boland of Troy was today appointed by the governor a port warden of the port of New York in the place of John F. Walsh, whose term has expired. Mr. Boland was one of the foremost and most aggressive Republican workers in Troy during the past four or five years. SEhooner Sunk by Ice. TOLEDO, Dec. 6.—The schooner Boscc- bel of.Port Huron, Mich. was caught on a bar outside of Turtlelight and cut down by running ice. She sank in deep water. and her crew of seven men were taken off by the tug Roy and brought to this city. She will be raised at once. Carlisle’s Report Delayed. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—It is probable Secretary Carlisle’s annual report will not be sent to congress before Tuesday of next week. Various matters delayed its prep- aration so that the secretary did not begin writing it till the latter part of last week. Mgr. Gleason’e Funeral Services. BUFFALO, Dec. 6 -——The final services our the body of Mgr. William Gleason were held at St. Joseph’s cathedral today, the leading prelates of the city officiating. 'Vl. N011 W §A_;L.,K '___ (1' A Z E T- T E .. t Highest oi'ail in Leavening Power.—'-Latest U. S. Gov’t Report :' ‘ R0 Baking i Powder . ABSOLUTELY PURE HEROISM OF A wloow. General Schofield’s Recognition of the Bravery of 3 Southern Woman. It was on the first and second days of September, 1864, General Hardee of the southern forces, was sent to Jones- boro from Atlanta with 22,000 men to head bill a formidable flank movement of the enemy which had for its purpose to cut off southern communication and thereby compel the. evacuation of the city of Atlanta. The flank movement consisted of 40,000 or 45,000 men and was commanded chiefly by Major, Gen- eral John M. Schofleld, together with General Sedgwick, who was also a corps commander, and consisted of the best fighters of the Federal army. As the two armies confronted each other two miles to the north and north- west of Jonesboro, it' so happened that the little house and farm of a poor old widow was just between the two lines of battle when the conflict opened, and having nowhere to go she was neces- sarily caught between the fire of thetwo commanding lines of battle, which were at comparatively close range and doing fierce and deadly work. The house and home of this old lady was soon convert- ed lnto a federal hospital, and with the varying fortunes she was alternately within the lines of each contending army, when not between them on dis- , puted. ground. So the battle raged all day, and the wounded and dying of both armies were carried to the humble shel- ter of this old lady until her yard and premises were literally strewn with the dead and dying‘of both armies. _ . During the whole of this eventful day this good and brave woman, exposed as' she was to the incessant showers of shot and shell from both sides, moved fear- lessly about among the wounded and dying of . both sides alike, and without making the slightest distinction. Final. ly night closed the scene with General Schofield’s army corps in possession of the ground, and when the morning dawned it found this grand old lady still at her post of duty, knowing, too, as she did, the fortunes, or rather misfor- tunes, of war had stripped her of the las‘.‘ vestige of property she had except her little tract of land which had been laid waste. Now it was that General John M. Schofield, having known of her suffering and destitute condition, sent her under escort and arms a large wagon load of provisions and supplies, and caused his adjutant general to write her a long and touching letter of thanks, and wound up the letter with a special request that she keep it till the war was “over and present it to the United States government and they would repay all her losses. She kept the letter and soon after the southern claims commission was estab- lished she brought it to the writer, who presented her claim in due form, and she was awarded about $600—all she claimed, but not being all she lost. That letter is now on file with other proofs of the exact truth of this statement with the files oi the southern claims commis- sion at Washington. . Her name was Allie McPeek and she died several years age—Atlanta Con- stitution. PRIVATE .TELEPHONES. New York Millionaires’ Call Numbers Are Not Public Property. There are some very aristocratic tele- phone owners in the city, but a study of the telephone directory supplied for the use of the general public does not reveal this fact. This is done purposely. It is nouse getting] mad if, when you ask for Mr. Croesus Vanderbilt’s telephone number the girl at the other end asks if you don’t know it. When you say that you don’t know it or try to fool her and say you did have it, but lost the memo- randum, she will anster back, ”We cannot give you Mr. Croesus Vander- bilt’s house unless you know the num— ber. ” - The fact of it is the girl would be breaking strict rules of the company if- she gave this information. There are a good many millionaires and prominent society families who have telephones in their residences, but they are for private use. Only the friends of the head of the house and a few other persons know the number. leaves the number with her friends, and in exchange receives their numbers. She also leaves her number with the head of the hospital where shevhappens to be on . the managing committee. This exclusive system is adopted in order that outsiders cannot annoy Mr. Millionaire by ringing him up on the telephone. The men who have tele- phones put into their palaces do so with the proviso that their names and tele- phone numbers shall not appear in the directory—New York World. May Be Able to Lend Him Some. ‘ “And you think,” she murmured” “that we could be happy on your present income?” “Yes,” replied the 'young man, “I am sure of it. ” “And you will not ask papa for mon- 9y?” “N 0. Your father and I played poker last night. Unlesshe changes his ideas - of the game Iwon’t have to ask him for money. ”—Washington Star. The lioman Helmet. The Roman helmet of the average size weighed about two pounds and was thickly lined with felt, so that a severe blow could be borne without serious in- convenience. These helmets were intol- erably hot, however, and were never Worn during the march or at any time save on parade, sentry or guard, duty, or in the immediate presence of the enemy. The mistress of the mansion A“ REAL“ moorings; LIKE THE POET ,HE IS BORN, NOT MANUFACTURED. - No Set Rules to Govern His Picturesque Career, Yet He Is the Man Who Controls the WorldTCapacities Required to 0b- tain a Place In Journalism. Can journalism be learned by rules? This question as to whether journalism can ever become a normal career, like other recognized careers, has always haunted and even, I may say, besieged me. And indeed it would be strange if this were not the‘case. For the knowl- edge requisito to make a pair of boots. or a hat, or a pair of gloves maybe taught according to established princi- ples and fixed' rules; by dissection of the dead human body may be~ discover- ed the laws of medicine and the best methods of curing the living; a lawyer may learn in the schools the modes of procedure and exact precedents of his professibn; the art of war, its rules and precepts—indeed throughout the entire list of human professions there is for each a special series of laws and Condi- tions by knowledge of which he who enters as an apprentice may go out, by slow degrees of advdncement, a master. But in journalism alone among pro: fessions this is not the case. In this career there is no body of doctrine, no series of fixed rules, apparently no pos~ sible method of instruction. Nowhere has there been an attempt to establish such laws, nowhere has there as yet been a. school for journal- ist apprentices, where they might learn precise rules for their profession or ob- tain a recognized basis of preliminary and indispensable knowledge, and yet journalism governs the world and is be- coming daily a more and more influen— tialpOWer. The problem is really press- ing, and even because of its very difii« - culty fascinating to the mind. Men who cannot make up their minds to follow another’s lead along a path to be traced slowly, step by step, often leave the SIOWer and more regular pro— fessions to enter journalism, much as formerly mercenaries engaged them- selves to this and that foreign army, quite willing to fight at random on the morrow against an enemy whose very existence the night before was unknown to them. Once become journalists, they change their newspaper,as formerly they changed their profession or career. They jump from grave to gay, from the political journal to the journal of satire. They become at will reporters, chroniclers, art critics, literary review« ers, not seeking in any way to study the course of events, the drift of the times, but, on the other hand, fitting all con- temporary ideas and events to the meas— ure of their own personal temperament, so that an event or problem, thus treated . according to the fancy of a journalist, appears tragical or ‘comic, without any .sort of regard for its real character. In- stead of describing it as it is, establish- ing the principle which it illustrates, they scatter abroad confusion and pro- duce in the public mind a condition of uncertain kaleidoscopic eclecticism which is the negation Of all really an— thoritative opinion and the destroyer Of all conviction. To obtain a place in journalism an entire series of capacities is required, all to be summed up, but not defined, in the single word talent. The absolutely ignorant, men without imagination, without inteilligence, without the gift of assimilation, without, let me add, audacity and gayety, cannot Obtain a place, cannot succeed in journalism. - The man who would enter a school of journalism should feel a. positive “call” to this vocation, should have in him the unwearying vigilance which is an abso- lute condition of it, the love of danger —of civil danger, that is—and real peril, a boundless curiosity and love for truth, and a special and marked facility of rapid assimilation'and comprehension. Take a young man possessive the first scholarly diplomas in his corn"1 7. If he enjoys good health; if he has the free use of all his bodily faculties; if he sees and hears accurately and knows how to express quickly what he hears and sees, then, if he wishes to be a jour- nalist, take him in hand, undertake his education, give him that general equip- ment fitted for the various forms of bat- tle which such a career implies, and if you do not make a great journalist of him you will, at all events, make one who can easily stand comparison with any, even the most authoritative prod—' not of the utterly disorganized journal- ' ism of today. But you will do more than this. You will hair's created a type, one of a. special class, now isolated and rare, but soon to increase and multiply —the type Of the journalist—elect, standing head and shoulders above the common stream of contemporary jour- nalists. In other professions those who issue from a. special school, with a spe— cial training, are a model for those less favored by fortune. They precede and guide the latter, and, with the, rarest . exceptions, always maintain their lead. SO it must be in journalism whenever in any country a national school of jour- nalism shall have been created. —M.‘De Blowitz. V as fiSt'Es—BB'S't—i-iies. , . ' Van Waffles—There goes a man wh has caused ,more strikes than any man in the country. McGilder—Some grasping capitalist, isn’t he? - . , - _ Van waffles—No; he is a champion bowler. —Brooklyn Eagle.
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