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' » c N n * * V - v * " > » - ^ "'I. . - I . . : : * j^ti , Gx^^ral Chalmers • ' f f « r © s t F o l n t { M i g « . ) s p e c i a l . ] r ' p r o c e e d i n g has just been wifamlid MM "which should excite the feelings of shame and indignation in the bosom of every patriot in all this land. Gen­ eral James B. Chalmers, -whose father "was United States Senator from Mississippi, whose brother was Chief Justice of the State, who was himself a distinguished soldier, and equally distinguished as a lawyer and poli­ tician, came here as the Republican candidate for Governor. He had no appointment here, but his friends de­ sired him to speak, and . he consented to do so. As soon as this became known the Democratic Town Clttb called a meeting and occupied the court house for that night. General Chalmers, by the request of hi3 friends, remained until to-day, and it iras announced that he would speak at 3 o'clock this afternoon, upon which the Sheriff of the county declared that lie should not speak in the court house. An effort was then made to procure the opera house, but this was under the oontrol of the Circuit Court Clerk, and lie refused to rent it. Application was then made to the Mayor for the use of » A covered stand in the street, where speaking is frequently oondgicted, and this was also refused. Efforts were then made to procure •two vacant groves in the town, and the use of these was refused. A vacant lot •exposed to the broiling sun was finally procured; but this was too uncomfort­ able to secure an audience, and as it was near a residence and the family did mot. desire speaking there the effort to epoak was abandoned. It is due to some of the better class of citizens of West Point to say that I am informed that a majority of the Democratic committee was opposed to the action of the Sheriff, and urged iim to give the use of the Court House to the Republicans. This neighborhood has in the past few years received quite a number of |3iighiy respectable settlers from the North, who have been urging others to me; but they are Republican a and have been accustomed to free speech and free thought in all matters, and ~ .ey were appalled at such an exhibi- ion of Democratic chivalry. Such a proceeding may well cause fcny intelligent and fair-minded citizen to halt, stand still in thought, and ask imself whether we live under a free institutional government or under an istitution of the dark ages. The Gen­ eral bore it all good-naturedly. He ud that in old times Democrats always lemanded a division of time with op- sition speakers, and that in their jroceeding the Democrats of West "taint reminded him of a tarrapin, rhich at the appearance of an adver- ijry swallows its head, draws ein its ill, and hides itself in its shell, and lat he should hereafter call thorn [Terrapin Democrats." JAME8 D. LYHCH. Gen. Chalmers Withdraws. New Orleans (La.) special: Capt. [. T. Wimberly, Collector of Internal avenue, received a letter to-day from }en. James R. Chalmers, who was >minated by the Mississippi Republi­ cs for Governor. It confirmed his pported withdrawal from the contest, gether with Judge Frazee, who was apublican candidate for Attorney leneral. The letter is as follows: 1*SARDI8, Miss., Oct. 6, 1889.--Dear Jimberly: At West Point the door of le Court House was locked against us Vd we could not have any hall in the Iwn, and as I am too feeble to speak the open air I lid not speak. At [e same place I received a strong ap- from the leading negroes at Co- ibus and also from some Democratic ^rsonal friends advising me not to any appointment there. I went Oakalona and the use of the Court >use was again refused, but Burkett ited me his hall. But the night be- re I was to speak the military com- Jny went parading and yelling over |e streets, and the next morning early apt. Tom Burchard (old Greenbacker |d now Democrat) and Judge Frazee ne and urged me not to speak or the ling'of negroes would commence and ay would charge it to me. Dr. Judah |d Capt. Burkett begged me not' to aak. I asked them to put the state- snts in writing, which they did, and |;hen announced that if my Republi- friends did not wish me to speak I buld resign my nomination and go Ime. I did so, and FraV-ee did also, jurs truly, JAMES R. CHALMERS** |A TALK WITH MR. SHERMAN. laflMmt Hl« Theory on Control of Fed. Iral Klectlons, and Indorses Windom'a fiscal Policy. T. C. McBride, of the Cincinnati zquirer, had the following interview th Senator Sherman at Washington: "Do you'know," said the Senator, al- ling to his European trip, "there is •general good observance'of Sunday iGermany? Up to '2 o'clock there is reverence paid to the sanctity of the y. The churches are well attended, jfcer that all the stores are open. Not ly the beer gardens, but all stores of fcrchandise." Then jumping to an­ ker thought, he said: "An eminent Vsician in Germany said to me: p.© ̂ Germans are drinking too much Mr. Sherman made no special ex- lation, I asked: "Did he think by drank too much beer iu point of rrals or to the detriment of health?" "Both," he replied, "more especially the detriment of health. Taken leratelv, his opinion was that beer LB nourishing. Taken immoderately, [thought, it shortened life." next asked Mr. Sherman if he still Id to the theory that the National rernment should take charge of all Btions which involved Congressmen members of the Electoral Col- 'Undoubtedly," was the rejoinder. | advocate such a law for several rea­ ls. One is that it would be uni- in all the States. Another that rould save expense to the State, kere is no reason why' a State should | put to the expense of supplying the linerv to elect members df Con- sss. They do not represent the ite, they represent districts. As U appoint the Judiciary by the ites. If the Federal Government juld take charge of such elections rould be'under a system applicable lall the States in the Union, and it juld be uniform. The great trouble, ragh, is to teach the Democratic ty. In the old days, when in rer, it insisted tffat the State, and the Federal power, should issue culating notes, and the result was had about the worst banking sys- _ ia the world. The Federal Gov Mount, with the war, took the power l»4 |»ve us the present national hank­ ing system." upon this subject I said to Mr. Shaman that Mr. John Jay Knox had had said to me in New York that Sec­ retary Windom could pay a Mghex price for 4-per-cent. bonds than 129, t maximum limit he fixed, rather than buy 4^-per-cents. at the price h« was paying. *1 indorse Mr. Windom," he said. "In two and a half years the 4^-per- cent, bonds will be due. There art about $100,000,000 outstanding. It if good policy to redeem such of class as he can now command, for nc one can tell what two and a half yeart may develop. We might not be ready t° redeem them, though I think we will, and as a Government on such a splendid basis as we now are we would not want to renew them. Again, a few years may likewise develop that 4-per- cents, are not worth 129, so that the policy^ the Treasury Department ii pursuing I deem quite a good one/" "And as to silver, Senator," I asked, "have you changed your views ?" & "No, I have not," he said. "I can't understand the silver men. I would be willing to buy up to $4,000,000 a month, and issue certificates upon the bullion value, not coining the bullion at all until such as had bees coined had gone into circulation. Are you aware that only $52,000,000 of sil­ ver is in actual circulation? The bal­ ance is stored away in the treasury vault. Under the policy of the silver men, the price of the commodity has continually gone down. Why should the Government be compelled to coin so many silver dollars each month to store them away in vaults and issue certificates representing them? Why not buy silver as pig-iron in pigs, and issue the certificate for the actual val­ ue of the silver bullion, instead of coin­ ing a silver dollar, which in actual value is not a dollar at all? This would appeal, in my judgment, to financial sense." Of his anticipated trip to Ohio, the Senator spoke with animation, not for­ getting the desire to see the old horse which lor twenty-seven years has been on his Ohio farm, and a dog of like service. It was rather made manifest that just now his heart yearns for the autumnal splendor of his*Mansfield en­ vironment. The South and the Amendments. At the reunion of the Army of the Tennessee in Cincinnati General Sher­ man, among other things, said: "We fought the holiest war ever fought on God's earth. A larger amount of result was accomplished from that war than from any Caesarian or Napoleonic war. We made peace on a continent. We raised the standard of our nation­ ality a thousand-fold. We lost noth­ ing but slavery. The people of the South lost that. They bet on the wrong card and lost. Now they are betting on another card. They con­ sented to the amendment to the Con* stitution as a point of concession for not being otherwise punished, and they came back into the Union with a five- fifths vote for their representation in Congress, instead of three-fifths. It is not right; it is not honest; it is not honorable; it is not such as a soldier knight will do. Therefore those ne­ groes must have the rights which the Constitution gives them or the States must be deprived of that proportion of their representation in Congress. That's a legitimate result of the war, honest and honorable; and the war won't be over until this is done. Don't un­ buckle your waist-belts too much." These utterances were not those of a violent man or a malignant one. They were the words of an old soldier who has the affection of the men of the Union armies and the respect of all the people. They stated a point in con­ troversy with remarkable clearness, and because the point was well made the little speech seems to have aroused the resentment and hatred of %he Bour­ bons of the South. The New Orleans States, extreme in its Bourbonism, ex­ treme in its English policy of free trade, copies the paragraph from Gen­ eral Sherman's speech quoted above, and speaks of him as a "vicious old do­ tard," a "superannuated old hyena," as a man "howling like a Comanche In­ dian for the blood of the South." This is the language of the rebels of 1864 and pi the copperheads of 1865. But the point of the States' ar­ ticle is not in the howling idiocy of its language, but is found in the fol­ lowing: "If there is one fact in the history of reconstruction more clear and indis­ putable than any others, it is that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments were never ratified by the Southern States, and that they were pinned to the Constitution by Federal bayonets; they were indeed -the legislation of vengeance and remorseless hate, they have borne their legitimate fruit, and they will continue to bear such fruit to the end. These amendments were the work of the North exclusively; the South submitted to them because she could not help herself." The difference between this state­ ment and that made by General Sher­ man is that it is asserted in one that the South consented to the amend­ ment as a point of concession for not being otherwise punished, and, in the other, that the South submitted to the amendment because she could not help herself. General Sherman after all does not seem to be so far from the truth of history as the States would have us believe. General Snerman intimated that the South was endeav­ oring to nullify the amendment. The States, speaking for the Bourbons of the South, admits it.--Inter Ocean. THE Democratic policy, as announced by Senator Hampton and Representa­ tives McCreaiyand Breckinridge, is to be one of obstruction, provided that the Republicans introduce a measure for change of the rules governing Con­ gress. So much has been expected by the country. But the people will not hold the minority guiltless if it de­ lay needed legislation by the tactics of obstruction. There are matters of great import to be acted upon; sup­ pression of trusts, regulation of the surplus, revision of the methods of col­ lecting revenue, coast and harbor de­ fense, naval rehabilitation, readjust­ ment of pensions, improvement of waterways. If these great projects be delayed by the factious fighting of a minority to obstruct the passage of rules needful to a speedier transaction of business the voters will see to it that the Republican majority is in­ creased to a degree that will mak« ob­ structive tactics vain. The temper of the people is not favorable to a bull­ dozing policy on the part of a minority. --Inter Ocean. SALT-.is the arrests decay. polioexnaa. AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS IHTKKXSTIM-O ZTKXS OATHKBKD WWW VAKIOU8 SOUBCKS. m»l Oar JTolffhborm A** Dolai-lUttan of General and Local Intare«t Olar- riasrefs and Deatht-Aoddtnti and Crimes --Personal Pointers. --An organization called the Live Poultry Transportation Company has lately been organized in Chicago, which, it is believed, will create a revolution in the live-poultry^traffic. A local journal says: Heretofore th« live-poultry traffic has been limited on account of the erode appliances, nsed in the transportation of lire ronltry. The rough boxes in v.liicb live poultry is cooped up do not- ftllnw of their btir.g fed and watered while in transit, and they consequently arrive at, destination iu poor and almost unsalable con­ dition. In consequence, poultry is killed aud dressed at points of shipment and forwarded in that shape. The new company proposes tf* lur- niah earn expressly built for tlio transportation of live poultry. Coops are 1>;i;lt on each side of the cars, with sufficient tpace in the centor for a man to walk through and feed and water the poultry in'trovjgtis applied to the coops for that PNRJKME, and the bottom* can b<> <U-JIWH out a* on bird-f ages and cleaned. This, instead of de­ teriorating the poultry, will improve it Wliile ' in transit and it will anive at its destination iu | a well-fed and healthy condition. Thirty of ! those cars are now fh coarse of construction at 1 the Pullman car shops. j --We clip the following from the Chi- I cago Tribune of a recent date: 1 {l great step forward in the way of connecting f Chicago with Mississippi Kiver naviga ion by | tbe Illinois l!l\er will IM? made this v.nk when I the new lock on the illinois River at La Grange I is open for traffic. The last link in tho chain of | Illinois Kiver improvement is the lock at I Kampsvillf. All thi> material for its construc­ tion escspt !?20,(KX) worth of stone has been pur­ chased. About £100.0tW will be required for its construction, and if Congress makes the needed appropriation it will be completed next year. Then soundings will |bo made land the bars dredged out to give seven feet of water from the Mississippi to the Coppt ras Creek lock. It is estimated 2,000,000 cubic yards of dredging will lie required. The total amount t'Htimaie 1 to complete those improve­ ments is $412,000 If appropria'ions are made the work will ail bo done next season. Then the largest steamboats on the Mississippi that can reach the month of the Illinois can come up to Peoria v. ith ease and have water io spare, lliey can also reach La Sallo if the State does some dredging in tho part of the river she con­ trols. All that is required in this direction is to take out the accumulations the State has allowed to gnther in the ehannrl. When that iu done steamers and canalbcats can come alongside each oih^r at La Salle, and the water route between Chicago and New OrleatiB, as planned a half century ago, is complete. The new look at La ftvauge is the most important link to this chain. It cost the General Govern­ ment over $500,000. Like ail the Illinois lUver locks, it is 350 feet in length and 75 feet in Width, capable of holding boats 325 feet long. --Tho Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias of Illinois, in session at Chicago last week, elected the following officers: Grand Chancellor. J. H. Kellogg, Freeport; Grand Vice Chancellor, Charles Scherer, Ga­ lena ;Grand Appellate, F. C. Conk. Peoria ; Grand Keeper of the Records and Seals, H. l'.iCaldwell, Chicago, re-elected; Grand Master of Exchequer, John Gabriel, Chicago, re-elected for tho tenth consecutive year ; Grand Master-at-arms, C. A. Barnes, Jacksonville; Grand Inner Guard, Charles Burgoyne, Chicago; Grand Outer Guard, PaBt Chancellor John A. Melter, Cairo; Supreme Representative, W. A. Schmidt, Quincy. . ' --The Drainage Commission at Chi­ cago has finally fixed the drainage-dis­ trict boundaries to be: The city of Chicago except the portion south of Eighty-seventh street, the incorporated town of Cicero, and that portion of the town of Lyons set forth hi the petition, including the organized Village of Lyons. The Chicago Daily News says: The opinion of the Commission is a lengthy document. It starts out with a discussion of the act under which it is proposed to form the district. From this discussion it concludes that the design of the act w as to enable Chicago to have a pure water supply and to dispose of the sen ago by sending it down tho Res Plaines River along with enough water to dilute it to inoffensiveness. But while the disposition of the sewage is the fundamental consideration of the law, it was recognized as practicable to make this drainage •waterway also R commercial waterway or ship canal. The law and the joint*resolution on tfefa point quoted to show* this. The de­ cision then gives ilgures to show that "the lake commerce entering at tho port of Chicago ex­ ceeds iu tonnage the whole coastwise commerce Of the United States." In addition to this it is pointod out that the United States Government should, aud may, deem it advisable to nmke this waterway avail­ able for the passage otwar vessels from the in­ terior rivers into the lakes, quoting facts, figures and the law to show that while the im­ mediate purpose is to dispose of the sewage of Chicago the manner of doing so is iixed in such a way that a navigable waterway will at the same time be created. Very little objection is being found with the boundaries as the commission has fixed them. --The ex-prisoners of war of Illinois held a two-days reunion at Springfield last week. The following officers were elected for the ensoing year; President, General C. W. Pavey, of Mt. Vernon; Vice Presi­ dent, E. H. Miner, Bloomington; Secre­ tary, John Little, Bloomington; Treas­ urer, W. H. Simmons, Gibson City; Chaplain, Rev. James A. Coals, of Win­ chester. At a mass meeting of veterans a resolution was passed favoring the passage by Congress of the service pen. sion bill, allowing every honorably dis­ charged soldier of the Union army a pen­ sion of $8 per month. A. long series of resolutions offered by Major R. J. H»r- mer of Chester was unanimously adopted. Tbe preamble sets forth that there has been pending in Congress for six years a bill providing for the pensioning of ex- prisoners of war with no other result than that of beinz persistently ignored, and that the present pension laws are inade­ quate to cover the complicated nature of the disabilities with which the ex-prison­ ers are afflioted. The resolutions then proceed to relate that in 1864 the rebel authorities proposed to make a sweeping exchange of prisoners, but that this prop­ osition, after due consideration by the government, was rejected for the reason that an even exchange meant disaster to the Union canse, the condition of the Confederate prisoners being that of fresh troops, while the Union prisoners of war were dying of starvation. This statement is made for the purpose of showing why the ex-prisoners more than any other class of soldiers should be liberally pensioned. --Within the city limits of Chicago are 3,185 miles of streets. This is about the distance from New York to San Francisco. --A well-appearing young lady hired a livery rig at Hock Inland which, up to date, has not been returned. It has been traced to an Iowa town and the woman ar­ rested. She will be bronght back to Book Island and tried for horse-stealing. " -V-A Watertown (N. Y.) firm will supply Pecjria with a new water works system. Not less than $500,000 is to be expended in the improvement. --Edward Kutton fell from the third story of the Monticello Seminary Build­ ing at Godfrey and was killed. --The State convention of the Y. M. C. A. was in session at Peoria last week. More delegates were present than ever be­ fore at a similar State convention. The following officers were elected: Presi­ dent, Oliver J. Baily, Peoria; First Vice President, Bev. E. E. Shover, Belvidere; Second Viee President, Kev. W. H. Shureman, Chicago; Secretary, W. H. Clark, Chicago. --B. F. Lantx, a young traveling man, committed suicide at Peoria with a revol­ ver. Financial difficulties and religious are said to have pro mete --The report of the State Board of Charities upon the financial condition and management of the charitable insti­ tutions of the State for the. quarter end­ ing Sept. 8,1889, show* the following average number of inmates and cost per capita for maintenance is eaeh instils- tion; Average "number. Cost. Northern Insane Hospital.. 531.1-2 $47.09 Eastern Insane Hospital...1,659.17 35.17 Central Insane Hospital...».... 812.'^ 42.19 Southern Insane Hospital...... 640.30 33.96 Institution for Deaf and Dumb. 70.98 405.59 Institution for the Blind 36.11 288.37 Asylum rorKeeble Uinded.^.... 364.-*fS 46.14 Soldiers' Orphans' Home 5100.54 41.25 Charitable Eye and Ear Infism'y 132.9*1 43.93 Keform Schoot 833.48 82.71 Soldiers and Sailors' Home.... €69.20 44.69 Total .6,559.63 $1,053.69 The total number of inmates for the qtnrier was 7,575; there were 1,251 in­ mates discharged or absent, and 70 died. The total expenditure was $255,695. The average net cost per capita for the main­ tenance of inmxtes is $42.13 (exclusive of officers). There is a surplus of $226,289 remaining in the treasury at the end of the quaiter to the credit of tbe various institutions. --The following statement shows rates per cent, of addition or deduction adogfted by the State Board of Equalization for the year 1S89 for the purpose of equalizing the assessment between the counties: Town and Per'al nronty. Lands, city lots. AM.1M. m iM. Add. Ded 98 IT Counties. Adams ,. Alaxander. Bond Boone Brown Bureau Calhoun..... Carroll Cass Champaign.. Christian.... Clark Clay Clinton Colas took Crawford........ Cumberland.... DeKalb DbWltt Douglas DuPage . Edjiar Edwards........ Effingham...... Fayette Ford Franklin U Fulton Gallatin I tireene Grundy Hamilton........ If Hancock.......... 4 Hardin .. Henderson....... .. Henry Iroquois..., Jackson .. Jasper .. Jefferson.... .... 97 Jersey Jo Davieps .- .. Johnson....,,.... Kaue .... .. Kankakee........ Kendall....r.i... Knox Lake LaSalle .. Lawrenoe........ M Lee .. Livingston., Logan Macon Macoupin..... Madisou..,^ .• Marion........ Marshall...;., Mason.. Massac McDonough... McHenry...... McLean Menard Mercer Monroe Montgomery,. Morgan....... Moultrie...... Ogle lVoria. Perry l'iatt... Viket... Pope I'muski Putnam liandclph Kichland Bock Island..... Saline Saugaztaoo Schuyler......... Scott Sholby Stark St. Clair Stephen son...... Tazewell Union Vermilion........ Wabash Warren Washington. Wayne White Whir«a<il« Will Williamson...... Winnebago ...... Woodford........ S » 10 9» ii is .» e f -i " •-.2 . S 45 :: * 8 r ' ! • ' ' *4 • i i I .. is » i M a ? *4 M 14 1* 1 ii u 1« JW U e it t it I IS • M 40 T a ii M 1 . .. IS » " u 4 5 10 is 9 V-*4 11 IS IS it 13 13 7 .*) IS 'i 18 a ...v. .*• • » a 10 - » -.. - .. 14 •• 17 17 •• s ;w f » •* IS 96 'i is .. .Hi i» ii « 90 90 • *' t . .. « M 10 t .. 1 * ii 8S 40 4 vs # ( 1( a 81 M 8 9 a ~ i. - -Pf* % M m 8 ». ir..? •• IT -i. ~ 10 if ,/V/%U • IT 6 - H* • • as U is - M 15 17 #%' '• 0 ai SB ** « t l 9 9 96 9 X ,84 I a- ,10 18 8 14 10 18 84 --Enlargement of the Chicago post- office building by the erection of iron an­ nexes, the employment of n large number of additional clerks and of 115 new car­ riers and! twenty-two horses are among the recommendations of tbe Chicago Postoffioe Commission which have been approved by Postmaster General Wana- maker. The Commission in its report thus refers to Chicago's phenomenal growth: In 1831 Chicago WM a village of twelve houses, without post routes or a postoffl6c. In 1841 it was an incn-porated city, with a population of 5,7;22. In ! *70 the population was 3lKi,C>05. The following year the tire destroyed 17,500 build­ ings, inclu'iing the postofflce. The burned dis­ trict cohered '2,1'24 acres, or nearly three and one-half square miles. Notwithstanding this terrible setback, Chicago is now a magnificent, active business mart, covering, with the recent­ ly annexed district, 175 square miles, with a population of upward of 1,000,000. The growth of Chicago has kept psrfse' with the wonderful development and prosper­ ity of the Northwest. It is the center of 35,000 miles of railroad, with seven largo ter­ minal depots, and about fifty way stations for the accommodation of trains of twenty-three different railway companies. It has one of the most complete systems of street railway in the world, providing daily transportation for about 225,000 jtoople. It has magnificent public and private buildings, and many large business nlocks towering io the skies. Some of these business houses have from 1,201) to 2,500 occu­ pants. During the year ended Dec. 31, 1888, 12,70'i permits were issued for new buildings, the estimated value of the said buildings being S29,882,»00; and for the six months ended June 30,1KS9, .5,800 permits for new buildings were Issued valued at $18,441,170. --John Hanks, of Hillsboro, while walling a fifty-foot well, was buried by a cave-in. --An unknown man' was killed by a Sock Island train at Book Island. --A Chicago "smoke-preventing and fuel-saving company" has been incor­ porated at Springfield. --At Illiopolis the Sangamon County Bank has discontinued business, paying all demands against it in full. --It is reported that the son of a wealthy Chicagoan who entered Harvard University this year, earned a member­ ship in one of the most popular seeret so­ cieties of the college by blacking hoots and selling papers in the public square at Cambridge for the space of one week. --Macoupin County has just lost by emigration its oldest inhabhitant, Sam­ uel Garraum, aged 104 years. He has moved to Kansas to join his children, he having three sons and one daughter liv­ ing in that State, one daughter in St. Louis and another in Brighton. He has two other sons out West. Mr. Garraum was born in England August 18, 1785, is still hale and hearty, smokes and chews tobacco, and was never so ill as to srted the services of a physician. --At Carbondale last Sunday Bi«2>op Morrill ordained twenty.one for the Methodist ministry. ; ̂ THE PHANTOM SHIP. rttm Snhjuct of Hhtorr and RnmtBCe, II lJes Borlnd In the Colorado I>e««rt. Who has not heard of the ph&ntosi ship of California, whose hulk i-< buried to the sands of the desert, and whose spectral masts have lured many treas­ ure-seekers to destruction ? At the time of its disoovery, several years ago, the press raved obout it, historians specu­ lated upon it, songsters sang it, novel­ ists wove it with romances, and Joaquin Miller, the long-haired rhyraster of the Sierras--dropping into poetry with the facility of Silas Wegg--celebrated it in verse. This mysterious vessel lies not far north of the line between Upper and Lower California, in what is known as the Colorado Desert, and has just been rediscovered by a party of prospectors. It was first seen by Joseph Tallwt, who gives it as his opinion that the desert in which it is stranded was once a part of California Gulf, but that at some re­ mote period an earthquake threw up the chain of hills across its mouth, en­ tirely altering the character of the conn- try. The waters gradually subsided, but their mark may still be plainly seen some sixty or seventy feet tip the moun­ tain sides, all around the border. The ship may have been a piratical craft which lost her way; she may have been tbe vessel named by Admiral Vizcaino and mentioned by Father Junipero Serra. She may have been a ship of exploration, commanded by some Cas- tiiian grandee, which disappeared in the seventeenth century with 1,000,000 doubloons on board. None can now tell anything about her beyond the bare fact that she is in the midst of the desert, "lifting heavenward a hand." Though many have tried no man has yet been able to reach the spot. For miles around it on every side, the alkali crust that cover the deep, hot, stinging sand is not strong enough to support man or beast. There is no water for a great distance; and if a man could wade through on foot, where it is imi>ossible to oontrol a mule to carry him, he could not be burdened with sufficient food and water to last him through the expedi­ tion, without which he must surely per­ ish. Last year two determined mineiv. were sent out, equipped with shovels, tools and "grub stake" to dig up tbe craft and its treasure. Time passed, they did not return, arid finally others were sent to look for them. The latter, coming in sight of the tall white masts, found a pile of fossils and marine shells --a monument erected by those for whom tliey were looking;and later they came upon two human skeletons, pre­ sumably those of the miners, the flesh picked clean from the bones by greedy vultures. In the present month another party of explorers will leave San Diego prepared to unravel the secrets of the phantom ship. One or Love's Pranks* WANTED--Twelve men fojr bottle-washing. 363 Division street. The above advertisement was inserted in the want columns of several papers Friday. t Mrs. Kate Weeks, a washerwoman, who has a modest home at the above number, had just eaten dinner with her children when there was a great knock­ ing at the door. She opened it, and n typical specimen of the tramp species pushed his way into the room. He was ragged and without collar or hat-brim. "Be vez the woman phwat is in nadt o' bottle-washers?" he demanded, point­ ing out the advertisement with a dirty *k^ondering greatly, JEfra. Xteelw" ex­ plained that there was surely a mistake, that she had not inserted the advertise­ ment, that she had no bottles to wash and no money to pay bottle-washers. However, no sooner had this applicant gone than another came. And so it kept up all the afternoon and evening. Big men, little men, dirty men, lazy men, crazy men have clambered up the stairs and thumped on Mrs. Weeks' door. She has suffered countless indig­ nities and insults, her stairway is all mud and water, and the door has bee i opened, so many times in twenty-four hours that the lock is broken. A tired-looking little woman visited police court yesterday morning. It was MIM. Weeks, and her eyes were very red. "I want a warrant for George Bapp," said the woman,' bnttonholing Judge Ilaug. "He lives at 408 Grandy avenue, and he is the meanest man in Detroit. He has bothered me in every possible way, but worse than all else be put this advertisement in the paper about me. I am a hard-working widow, and Iiapp is my lover. He wanted me to marry him right away, but I didn't want to do so until he had money saved up. When I refused he went off angry and has been doing everything possible to make my life miserable." "I don't see what I can do about this joke of his in the papers," said the Jus­ tice, "but I'll issue the warrant for his arrest for making threats."--Detroit News. !(' Tender-Hearted. Bean were so numerous in the early settlement of Ohio that one man has been known to kill sixty-five in a single season; but the war of extermination greatly reduced their number in a few years. Mr. Barker, of Athens, relates the following hunting incident of pio­ neer times: ' Ch îs Stevens and a German named Heck were bunting one day, 'and treed a bear in a large poplar not far from Steven's house. The bear climbed nearly to the top of the tree, which was very tall. The hunters had but one gun between them, and Stevens was to shoot. He levelled his piece, took aim, and then waited as if taking a more careful sight. Heck waited anxiously for his com­ panion to fire. Out of patience, he at length exclaimed, "Why don't you shoot ?" Stevens, who was a very kind-hearted man, deliberately lowered his gun and said, "I can't bear to see the poor thing fall so far!" "Aiut you a soft oner exclaimed the German. " Gif me de gun den--I shoots him if he falls mit de ground till a t'ousand feet." He seized the gun, and Bruin soon came tumbling down. ({tieer Postal Card Message. Mr. W. T. Movers received a postal card yesterday, with this sentence Writ­ ten in quotation marks: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow." Had he had not known the handwrit­ ing he would have been puzzled, but that and the Baltimore, McL, postmark gave the thing away. It was a reply to a telegram which he had sent to the head of a wealthy firm there, announcing the successful issue of a business transaction, and that was the brief answer of the business Atlantd Constitution. WILLIAM NICKEL k the five-cent stote in Butler, of Ideas Are In Demand. A half dozen of the most successful men of New York were recently asked what chance young men have to get cm in this world these days,says the Chicago llerahl. Jay Gould, Rnssoll Bag*, James Gordon Benuett, Dr. Norvin Green, and Charles A. Dana said the outlook was never so good as now. hat one quality should they pos­ sess to succeed beat?" was the question asked of each. Russell Sage replied; "cautionJay Gould, "perseverance," Dr. Green, hard workMr. Bennett, "enterprise;" Mr. Dana, "brains." Perhaps Joseph Pulitzer, of tbe World, summed it up in the best way. "My dear sir," he said to an applicant for a position on the IForW some ^mn ago, "What can you do?" "Anything," was the cheerful re­ ply. "Yes, but you must certainly be able to do one thing better than an­ other." "Oh, yes;" was the response, "I can write well on most any subject, am a good executive man, and am fertile in ideas." "Oh," was Mr. Pulitzer's reply, "fer­ tile in ideas." And he drew his chait up to his visitor's and peered anxiously into his face. "Then you are just the man I want. How many good ideas have you lying around loose that I could utilize in increasing the circula­ tion of the World. "Oh, I could give you twenty," was the calm reply. "Twenty?" said Mr. Pulitzer inss- tonishment. "Yes, sir, twenty." " Well, now try it - Go home and write me out twenty good ideas or sug­ gestions for increasing the circulation of the World. Send me your list to­ morrow. I will pay you one hundred dollars for each idea , I accept. My check for two thousand dollars will be mailed to you at once if I accept them all, and I nope I can, for we need new ideas here all the time, and then we can make permanent arrangement. I will pay one hundred dollars a week for a good idea, and you needn't come to the oflice, either. Yes, I'll do more. I'll buy a fine pair of horses, so that you may drive around town and enjoy yourself in the park. Your for- tune is made if you can do as yon Bay." The young man did send his ideas, carefully written out, and they were promptly returned to him as worthless. Instead of riding through the park in a luxurious coach, he is now holding down a chair in a Bowery cheap lodging house. He possessed brass, but not braina. South American Pampero. A strange natural phenomenon is the pampero, a {South American storm wind, which is described by the author of "Hearts of Oak," who first made its appearance during astay at Montevideo. A light breeze had been blowing from the northeast, but had steadily increased in force, and brought with it the heated air of the tropics, while passiug a treeless country, exposed to the burn­ ing sun rays of a clear sky, so warms up the atmosphere on the snores of the Rio de la Plata, that its effect on human beings is exceedingly bad. This state of things generally lasts for a.week, or longer, until the stifling heat becomes unbearable, ana the in­ habitants are seen resting in grass ham- rauuk* r»r tying on ha.ro floflry, ITHQWlftblft of exertion. However, relieris close at hand. A little cloud, "no bigger than a a man's hand," is first seen to rise above the waters; then the heavens grow black with clouds, and the battle of opposing winds begins. The pampero advances with its ar­ tillery well in front; forked flashes of vivid lightning, followed by peals of thunder, bear down upon the foe, who quite up to the moment of attack, is fiercely discharging its fiery breadth on the surrounding regions. The inhabi­ tants now climb on the azoteas, or flat roofsL to wStch the struggle, and to be the first to participate in the delicious relief brought by the pampero to their fevered bodies. Far out on the river a curious sight may be seen; the opposing waves, raised by the rival winds, meet, like a rush of cavalry in wild career, their white horses with foaming crests dash themselves against each other, and send clouds of dazzling spray high into the air; this being backed by an inky sky renders the scene most imposing. Gradually the northeaster gives way, followed closely by its enemy, the pam­ pero, which throws out skirmishing currents of ice-cold wind, in advance of its final onslaught. Then comes a roar of the elements, and a deluge such as no one would willingly encounter, and cooler weather is established, for the time being, A Pledge from the Sea Redeemed. Charles B. Taliman, of Portsmouth, while out after menhaden with his crew, sighted a bottle afloat, and as it ap­ peared to have something in it, he pro­ posed to pick it up and examine it. Some of the crew ridiculed the idea, but he pushed off for it and took it in. Upon examination it was found to contain a note stating that if the finder would forward it to Providence to an address that was given, stating when it was picked up, he should receive a nice watch-chain. Mr. Taliman was a little incredulous, but thought he would try it, and so the note was sent as directed. On Saturday evening he was highly j pleased to receive the chain.--Provi­ dence Journal. • " , An Index to Character, The human laugh is an excellenl'ltP dex to character. Did you ever know a man who simpered and giggled like a girl wiro wasn't a sueak in his heart ? And on the contrary, did you ever know a fellow who laughed out squarely with a good honest roar who wasn't the> priuce of good fellows? A shrill laugh is indicative of deceit, and a deep chuckle proves sincerity and good na­ ture. By this I don't mean that a man jrith a tenor voice cau't laugh as though he was honest, or one with a bass voice oover his insincerity with a me*e bellow. It's the ring that talks. If the laugh has no ring you can put the fellow down as half-hearted and insincere. „ An Expert Fram Infancy. Diamond Cutter (to farmer applying or an apprenticeship for his son)--I fear, sir, that the lad has not beeu so educated as to adapt him to my busi­ ness. What does he know about facets and carats? Proud ' Father--Fassets aft* carrots! Gosh I Say, mister, afore that kid was two year old he could work the fasset on the. cider bar'l an' he ain't et much else but mrrots all his life.--Jeweters' Weekly. WHY hasn't the debt of Nature been paid, she's got the roc is? waii« "TOO GOOD OR TOO BLfltlV •m Wan Tr*Jt*ur«tr H« * efern Handle the Moctay. "Aid. Kowalski was either voluntarily ' too good or too blind to Secretary Mor- genstern's methods. What kind of a treasurer is that who* never calls for a 7 statement of the finances of the society whose interests he is supposed to serve?" It was ̂ Stanislaus Slominski, delegate , to the Buffalo convention of the Na- ; tional Polish alliance, who spoke. It was Mr. Slominski's opinion, as it is the prevailing opinion among the Poles gen-. ; erally, that the general treasurer of the T Polish National alliance was altogether too easy toward Seeretaa-y Mo*- genstern. Investigations into Morge»r s - sterns transactions yesterday developed' , many new features to the general see- retary's embezzlement of the funds of the alliance. e It is altogether incomprehensible to > the members how Morgenstern ever .. <c » came to have control of the entire funds of the order. The constitatfa* * XS provides that a quarterly statement4 shall be made to the general treasurer f by the secretary, who collects all th® moneys due the alliance, in the pres- ; ence of the central Voard. The board Is ^ composed of tbe president, secretary and treasurer of the alliance, and oi ; delegates from the local lodges in the , city wherever the general officers are **-•?* located. The president of the order last V * year was M. Osuch, Kawalski's brother- J in-law; I. N. Morgenstern was the gen- < J eral secretary, and A. J. Kowalski the If general treasurer. The number of ^ rill - delegates entitled to participate in tbe f v w deliberations of the board was twenty- ^ foui. * ? i "1 was one of the delegates from Koe- , ̂? ciusko lodge," said Frank Birsckv last ' 1 A evening." but I never attended the meetings of the board, for the simple 'U;|" reason that I never was notified of the ' 4|| board's meetings. What happened in . my case happened in each of the other i twenty-three delegates. We protested y ' to Morgenstern--in fact, members were ?, * always complaining against Morgan- ^ ^ stern--but it did no good. Kowalski and Osuch backed him up and that was < 4v the end of it. In the meantime the .'A board met, and audited Morgenstern's ̂̂ ̂ ' ti accounts." - ,* i "Could Morgenstern have abstracted V v"j money from the alliance without K.O- ..." ,. s walski's knowledge ?" j ' ^ "Not if he acted in accordance witti . ; the constitutional provisions. But he V did draw money--the bank money, in ' "* \ .i fact, was in his name. How that came *- * " i , about I don't know. The treasurer; ̂ ought to be able to tell." ' The same que-ttion was asked of the ^ V* new treasurer, Mr, Majawski. J,, "Ask me something I can answer," he iv^j replied, shrugging his shouldenk "That's the very point we want to ee- ̂ tablish ourselves," xM' ' *:| "He was either too good or too blind,* , j "-* * said Mr. Slominski. . ? That is the general opinion. Morgan- *4 /»J stern had evidently plenary powers "2; granted him by the treasurer, for 0j checks drawn in favor of certain mem- ^ bers for deaths were signed by his own name instead of Kowalsk's, as they , vi.;» "i should have been. Before leaving Chi- *• cago Morgenstern turned over to Ko- v \4 . walski a deed to his property on Wa- ' ' ^ bansia avenue. Morgenstern*# where- ^ J *^,4 abouti is still unknown. . ' Sewing on Buttom, . ..v Did you ever see a than in tlie tude and privacy of his study performances in the world. First, he hunts for the button. Gen* erally, to secure it, he robs Peter Paul, and cuts one from some garment. This may be much smaller than the size he is hunts for a needle. Probably out and buys a paper of needles. always chooses the largest, having impression that large needles will sew stronger than small ones. ^ , As to the thread, he gets the coarsest *' he can find, and this he doubles. He /. takes the big needle in one hand and his coarse black thread in the other, be bites off the thread to the desired length, then he tries to twist it to a fine point. . "f, Generally in this he succeeds in mak- t *" ing two and sometimes three fine points out of one end. Of course he can't get all of these points through the needle's ̂ f eye at once. He tries hard to make the needle and u.v thread to get on friendly terms with each other. Sometimes the needle kicks, and sometimes the thread. Some- times he really imagines he has • threaded his needle. It is an ocular delusion; the thread has missed tbe needle's eye by half an inch. It ii harder work than sawing wood. At last the needle is threaded. Now • ; he tries to sew the button on without ' taking off his trousers. This proves a failure. He twists himself into an un- >• gjs comfortable position and so would sew. - But he cannot sew so. He ruus the needle in his finger and makes an in- audible exclamation. Again the needle slips into the fleshy part of the hand, which induces a very audible dash from the operator. The recording angel knows what is going on inside of hint and debits him with every item. He sews hard; He has forgotten all about the neces­ sity for a thimble. He jams his thumb down on the needle's head, and it pune- tures his thumb or runs under the nail. By nnd by he sews the button eye full of thread. His big needle does not paas through any more. He must stop. He ends by winding the thread as many times as it will go under the button, and perhaps he leaves off with two oc three inches of thread sticking outside. A woman can, through many outward indications, tell when a man iias been trying to sew on a buttoni He doesn't know the shibboleth of needle and thread and it catches somewhere every- time. At last the button is sewed on, he is proud of his work. vf" -4-' ' t -i i - % <i h> 4 . - :-3 Vjj: m - £ W.K/ - X K * : £ ' > * S r . z * , . . . . - v A v . ^ . : A Different Kind. *It always sort <>' makes me feel and down-hearted to read about the prodigal son iu the Bible." said Farmer Silkens to his male offspring who waa home on his summer vacation. "Y-a-a-s." "Yaws," echoed the old man, as Ma lips curled contemptuously, "he came bock and says honorably and flat-footed. Tvedone wrong auM waut another ehance.'" *Y-a-a-s." . ' •:/ "Yaw§; he cKdtrt M>mc t>acfe to tb» farm pizenin' the very butterflies with the smoke from his siggwreefcs an' say. 'Pops, ole boy, I'm dead broke; couldn't you let me have a twent to keep up my end with the J els at the club V Not much he didn't.** And the old man heaved a sigh and went out to feed tike hogs.--San Fran^ cisco Wa»p. A GROSS liar is one who tells twelve lies per day for twelve day*.-- £bt(esnuut» 115 • »>-fs