BAD FOR THE LAWMAKER
THE GERMAN BARON'S DIFFERING
POINTS OF VIEW!
Bis llallke for Money Leudan Once Gut
Him Into Trouble He Was Stroll-
Advocate of the bir, but Didn't Think
It Applied to His Case.
Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein.
the state secretary for foreign affairs,
. who accompanied his imperial master.
the German emperor, on his trip to
Great Britain, while a member of the
reichstag in 1878 very unexpectedly
found himself in an embarrassing situa
tion, as a result of his activity in secur
ing the passage of a law relating chiefly
"to the Jews, the story of which was re
lated yesterday by Mr. Moses Oppen-
neimer, or S3 Broadway.
"I have met the baron many a time,"
aid Mr. Oppenheimer,' "at the Mann
heim Chess club, of which we both were
xiembers. He is an ambitious man,
.and was much pleased when he was, in
1878, elected to the reichstag, the first
ultra-Conservative member that had ob
tained a victory in Baden. He was very
active in the German parliament, being
one of the brightest, as well as the most
. aggressive, wen in that rather dull con
glomerate, the ultra-Conservative party.
His prpminent participation in the enact
ment of the antiusury law resulted in a
Tather funny complication. - ' '
"I happened to know personally the
other actor in the story, and I have my
information directly from him. His
name was Louis Altheimer, a well-to-do
Hebrew residing in Mannheim and liv
ing on the proceeds of a snug fortune
which he had amassed in his youth in
the United States.
CALLED THEM BLOODSUCKERS.
: "Altheimer's specialty was to lend
money to officers of the army, to officials
and others of that class of society on
their promissory notes. His regular
charge was 12 per cent, per annum. He
would, of course, accommodate only
.people who seemed to be good pay. As
rule he would extend the note from
time to time on payment of the interest,
provided he had no fear of suffering a
loss.
"In those days Baron Marschali's fa
ther was yet alive and in possession of
his moderate estate. The young prose
cuting attorney had to get along in the
main on his rather modest salary. He
managed it pretty well until he had
some trouble with a youug woman. It
would never do for the rising young
courtier and conservative statesman to
have the scandal made public, and to
hush it up about 5,000 marks in cash
was absolutely required. The baron en
tered into negotiations with Mr. Alt
heimer and secured the loan of his note.
The interest was paid promptly, and the
little bill was extended several times
without any difficulty.
;'In advocating the antiusury bill in
the reichstag Baron Marschall delivered
a vehement speech against blood suck
ing usurers, especially those of Hebrew
descent. . The law as passed, largely
owing to Marschall's persistency, was
uwwuuigi y vague in n provisions, leav
ing it practically to the discretion of the
courts to say whether in any given case
the taking of more than 6 per cent, was
criminal usury, punishable by impris
onment at hard labor and by fines.
WOULD NOT RENEW.
"The session of the reichstag closed;
the baron returned to Mannheim and re
sumed the duties of his office. Mean
while his note for 5.000 marks, held by
.Mr. Altheimer, was soon to fall due. The
baron wrote a note to his creditor, ask
ing him to call and arrange for an exten
sion of time under the usual conditions.
Altheimer replied briefly in writing that
under the new antiusury law he did not
feel safe in continuing to lend money in
his former way, and therefore proposed
to go into some other business, where
bis capital would yield him legitimate
profits. He notified the baron that the
note would be presented for collection.
. "This turn of affairs was embarrassing
for the young statesman. He wrote
again to Mr. Altheimer, saying that the
nsury act was never intended for cases
like his, and could not apply to their re
lation. He urged a renewal of the note
as a perfectly safe and sensible transac
tion. "A reply soon came from the Hebrew,
acknowledging the baron's good inten
tions as well as his legal acumen, but at
the same time pointing to the fact that
the interpretation of the law was left
entirely to the courts.
" 'Under those circumstances,' Alt
heimer continued, "1 do not feel dis
posed to put my neck into the halter. I
cannot renew your note. You have been
accommodated so far by one, of the
lnnch abused Hebrew usurers at his
own terms. Your popularity and your
position will, probably induce some of
your Christian friends to lend you the
inount without security on perfectly
legal interest.
"Mr. Altheimer's note, it is needless
to add, was promptly paid. . Marschall
tmbsequently became the diplomatic rep
resentative of the grand duke of Baden
at Berlin; and still later he was appoint
ed under secretary of state in the for
eign omce, niung xne place formerly oc
cupied by Count Herbert Bfamarck.'
.New York Sun-
No Free Lunch in England.
Free lunches are unknown in England.
An American who sees crackers or cakes
on the bar and nibbles one of either is
promptly surprised with- a demand for
Another two cents. There is a lur.cn de
partment in nearly every place, however,
where for a few pennies- one may get a
snack of bread and meat or cheese, the
bread and butter being invariably the
subject of separate charges, as are pickle
-and. in fact, everything except "the con-
n-r, t- 4V. n ,.At .. . l - n
w - . - UlllLflt, m. vai
A Cruel Reason.
He She's a remarkable girl. , Slit--doesn't
hesitate to tell everybody that
he is twenty-seven Don't you admire
her for it? , '..,..
-. She No. because 1 know she is thirty.
Life.
Why . He Was at Home. -
i w nen cne .vonxeaerace army was pour
ing through Hichmond, on its march
toward the Peninsula, the soldiers re
ceived constant and substantial tokens of
the good will of the people of the region.
Women and children thronged the side
walks, pressing on their defenders every
thing which the scanty Confederate lar
der could supply, while from many of
the houses gloves, socks and comforters
rained down upon the companies. Mr.
T. C. DeLeon, in "Four Years in Rebel
Capitals," gives an incident connected
with this march of the sort which is
calculated to move the roughest soldier's
heart
The southern soldier, was ever a cheer
ful animal, with a general spice of sar
donic humor. Refreshed inwardly and
outwardly, the men would march down
the street, answering the waving hand
kerchiefs at every window with wild
cheers. Nor did they spare any amount
of chaff to those luckless stay-at-homes
encountered on the streets.
"Come .out'r that black coat!" "I
know ye'er a con scrip'! Don't yer want
'er go for a sojer?" Yere's yer chance ter
git yer substertootr
These and similar shouts, leveled at
the head of some unlucky wight, brought
roars o.f laughter from the soldiers and
from the victim's unsympathetic friends.
At one house a pale, boyish looking
youth was noted at a window with a
lady. Both energetically waved hand
kerchiefs, and the men answered with a
yell, but the opportunity was too good
to lose.
"Come right along, 6onny!" was the
cry. "The lady'll sparo yerl Here's a
little musMt fur ye!"
"All right, boys!" cheerily responded
the youth, rising from his seat "Have
you got a leg for me too?" and Colonel
F stuck the shortest of stumps on
the window seat.
With one impulse the battalion halted,
faced to the window, and came to "pre
sent!" as their cheers rattled the win
dows of the block. That chord had
been touched by which the roughest sol
dier is ever moved.
New Abbreviation.
A lady tells a story of a young man
who had come from the country to the
city in which she lived, and in a short
time fancied himself quite equal to any
social emergency. He never asked advice
on questions of etiquette, and in conse
quence he made many mistakes. Atone
time the lady issued cards to a dancing
party, and among the invited guests she
included this rather conceited and -
ceedingly awkward young man.
tie was to be out of town at the date
of the party, and so was unable to ac
cent the invitation. At t.h fnnt. nt y
card he read the letters R. S. V. P., and
was mucn perplexed as to their meaning.
However, he was nothiner daunted hv hit
ignorance, and wrote a note declining
me invitation in as formal and stilted
terms as he could command, and after
signing his name added the letters M. S.
C. C.
On his return to the cifcv after tk.
party he went to call on the lady, and in
the course of the conversation asked,
"By the way, Mrs. Clapp, what did yoi
mean by R. S. V. P. at the enJipf the in
vitation you sent me?" .
"Why." reohed the hostess, wit.hnnt a
note or surprise in ner polite voice,
-iney stand tor the Drench phrase, 'Re
pondez, s'il vous plait' Answer, if von
please."
"Oh. yes! Well. 1 was all rirht. then r
said the young man in a tone of much
satisfaction. "1 thought I should hit it
in my answer."
"Now that vou sneak of it " said hi
courteous hostess, "I do wish to ask you
what M. S. C. C. stands for. I
imagine, and I can't find any one who
- ...
nas ever seen ine aDDreviation used!"
"Oh," replied her visitor airilv. "that
meant 'Mighty sorry couldn't come. I
should think that was plain enough!"
x outh's uompanion.
Usins Dirty Water.
According to an Austrian -journal, one
of the most extensive velvet mnnfiu.
tories in that country has adopted a very
original anu elective method in the
punncation or its waste waters. Briefly,
the water, colored with analina and dif
ferent vegetable dyestuffs, and which
orcen iooes iie ink, is purified by a sys
tem of cleansing basins. There are three
basins employed, which - communicate
with each other, so that the water flows
easily trom one to the other.
The dirty water runs at the commence
ment into the first basin, in which it col
lects duriner the dav. remaining fhera
4 " O "
some twenty-four to thirty hours, the
greater part of the impurities being thus'
deposited, and the upper layer of the
water becoming more or less clear. The
sluice gate is then opened and the par
tially cleansed liauid escanes into basin
number two, while during its flow lime
water is ies in to precipitate the remain
ing impurities, the contents of the basin
being allowed to remain standing for
some thirty hours, during which time
ine iiqma, oy reason or the lime water,
becomes fairly clear.
Finally, the connecting channel he-
tween basins two and three is now opened
and a mixture of sulphate of iron and sul
phate of masnesia. or bitter salt. iRTnmla
to flow into the escaping water, which,
arter standing some thirty hours, is al
lowed to escane into the
Of course, dye houses which have a
grass meauow near by can advanta
geously make use of the irrigating sys
tem. , - , -
Cod and Herring.
Between 60,000,000,000 and 100,000,
000,000 codfishes are taken from the sea
around -the -shores of Newfoundland
every year; but even that quantity
seems small when we consider .that a
single cod yields something like 3,600,
000 eggs each year, and that over 8,000,
000,000 eggs have been found in the roe
of a single cod. A herring of six or
seven ounces in weight is provided with
80,000,000 ova. After making all reason
able allowances for the destruction of
eggs and of the young it has been cal
culated that in three years a single pair
of herring will produce 154.000.000. St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
WHY DO MEN SUICIDE?
NEARLY ALL METHODS OF SELF MUR
DER HAVE BEEN TRIED.
Sniclde Among the Greeks and Rom ana.
Few Negroes Have Ever Taken Their
'Own Life Reason of One Man for Has
tening to Shuffle of the Mortal Coil.
A prominent physician who has made
a study of suicide said the other day:
Why should a man kill himself? The'
popular answer is, "Because he is crazy!"
Scientific men easily disprove that, but
are still somewhat at sea in devising a
better answer. Was the philosopher
Seneca crazy when he entered the warm
bath and opened his veins? Were all the
hundreds of Romans who made happy
dispatch of themselves insane? ' Surely
not. - ;
The Greeks rarely committed Suicide,
but at one time it was quite the fashion
in Rome. It is the rarest of rarities for
a slave to commit suicide, though a slave
owner often does. - Extensive inquiry
fails to develop a single case of an Ameri
can negro's committing suicide, though
there have been a few cages among mu
lattos and octoroons.
Shall it be said, then, that the superior
race is the suicidal? Surely not, for the
Greeks were at least the equals of the
Romans. The solution must be sought
elsewhere.
Perhaps religious belief has something
to do with it, but it would be hard to
prove it. One fact, however, gives us a
clew. Among the lowest races of man
kind and in the lowest intellectual grades
of any society suicide is practically un
known, and among the highest in race
or culture it is extremely rare, while in
the middle or lower middle classes it is
most common. .
STRANGE REASONS FOR THE ACT.
It is those who are midway on the
course, whether as races or individuals,
those who are in the struggle, who lose
heart and rush unbidden into eternity.
This is only another way of saying that
where the battle is fiercest there are the
most wounds and sudden deaths; those
who have won the victory and those
lying idle in camp and designing no
struggle are fairly well satisfied with the
situation. The cultured and well-to-do
Philadelphian is, on the whole, as will
ing to live as the naked Senegambian. "
The causes assigned for suicide are to
the last degree curious. In many cases
well-to-do suicides simply allege that
they are tired of life the monotony of
it is too much forvthem. An English
gentleman left a note to the effect that
he was tired of "coming in and going
out, laying down and getting up, button
ing and unbuttoning."
A London cabman wrote that he had
exhausted all the pleasure of driving in
this world and wanted to see how they
drove in the other. Strange to say, love
and poverty furnish the smallest num
ber of cases, and mere bodily suffering
the greatest. -. -
But the saddest cases are. those in
which a whole family die together, and
of these the Salford case, which occurred
some years ago. was the most mournful
ofalL ..... ,
salf6rd's cold blooded deed.
Salford was a druggist's assistant,
threatened with the loss of position and
poverty. He succeeded in gaining his
wife's consent, as his letter said, that the
"whole family should go together," but
she did not want to know when the fatal
dose was' given. So he gave her and the
youngest child prussic acid in a cooling
drink as they lay down for the night, and
in a few minutes they expired without
pain: One by one he disposed of the
other five children in the same way
"all in peace and without pain, thank
God, he wrote.
He then drew up his will, went out and
obtained the signature of witnesses, re
turned and wrote four letters, and then
swallowed the poison, and was soon a
corpse. Such a case is beyond analysis
by a healthful mind. Yet we cannot eay
it was insanity.
It is scarcely possible to conceive of any
method of suicide not already employed
by some one, but whenever one strikes a
novel method he is sure to have a host of
imitators. Hanging, drowning, poison
ing, stabbing, or other forms of cutting,
shooting and jumping from high places
are most common.
Many women have swallowed hot coals,
powdered glass and other destructive ar
ticles. Cleopatra applied an asp to her
bosom, and it is worth noting that she
has no imitators. Women have a horror
of serpents, and they are not easily ob
tained at the time desired.
France leads all other nations in sui
cides, as in the last year for which we
have the record 216 persons killed them
selves in each 1,000,000 of the population,
and the increase is rapid. Of 7,572 .sui
cides in one year one-fifth were in Paris,
and smothering by charcoal fumes is the
favorite method. In London nearly all
suicides are with the knife and razor,
and it is plain truth that in this respect
the British are the worst "cutthroats" in
Europe Chicago Tribune.
Electricity Defined.
1 was standing on the back platform
of a street car the other day when a.
high school boy asked the conductor,
"What is electricityr '
The conductor made some jesting re
ply, when the lad, as if to show off a
lesson he had just learned said, "Elec
tricity is a manifestation of energy.?
How delightfully definite! What an
accession of knowledge the boy had re
ceived when, be memorized that defini
tion! No scientist can define electricity,
but the bqotblack who calls it "juice" is
more precise tuau the high school lad.
Buffalo Express.
- . . Musical Note.
"1 did not like Mantalini There was
an air 'of hauteur"
"Can you whistle it?
-"What?" ' ,..'. .
'The air of 'hauteur.' 1 never heard
of the composer." New York Truth.
.There is scarcely a more enjoyable or
healthful exercise than swimming, pro
vided always the water is not top rad, !
nor the indulgence to prolonged.
. How Insects Breathe.
If we take any moderately large insect
say a wasp or a hornet we can see,
even with the naked eye, that a series of
small spotlike marks run along the side
of the body. These apparent spots,
which are eighteen or ttwenty in num
ber, are in fact the apertures through
which air is admitted into the system,
and are generally formed in such a man
ner that no extraneous matter can" by
any possibility find entrance.
Sometimes they are furnished with a
pair of homy caps, which can be opened
and closed at the. will of the insect; in
other cases they are densely fringed with
stiff interlacing, bristles forming a filter,
which allows air, and air alone, to pass;
but the apparatus, of whatever charac
ter it may be, is so wonderfully perfect
in its actions that it has been found im
possible to injure the body of a dead in
sect with even so subtle a medium as
spirits of wine, although the subject was
first immersed in the fluid and then
placed beneath the receiver of an air
pump. The apertures in question com
municate with two large breathing
tubes, which extend through the entire
length of the body. .
From these main tubes are given off
innumerable branches, which run in all
directions and continually divide and
subdivide, until a wonderfully intricate
network is formed pervading every part
of the structure and penetrating even to
the antennas. Lutheran Observer.
Effect of Cold and Accident on Hair.
Arctic voyagers and other travelers in
frigid regions have frequently been sub
ject to canities as the effect of cold, a
circumstance quite in keeping with the
fact that animals, such as the bear, fox
and lemming, inhabitants of the ex
treme north, have hirsute coverings of
white. The writer was once acquainted
with a man named Sweeny, formerly a
sailor, whose hair was jet black except a
snow white tuft about the middle of the
frontal suture, where the scalp had been
taken off through a fall from a mast on
shipboard. Where' burns and severe
local inflammations have resulted in a
loss of a portion of the scalp, the injured
part has similarly been covered in many
cases with a growth of white hair.
Hyland C. Kirk in New York Times.
Injurious Mixtures.
The iodide of potassium is quite a con
stant ingredient of sarsaparilla mixtures,
which are vaunted to be "blood puri
fiers," tonics, etc. This agent is harm
less when rightly used, but it is capable
of doing grievous injury. One of its
baneful effects is inflammation of the
kidneys. If they are weak or deranged
small doses of the iodide are likely to
produce the effect stated, and many per
sons kidneys are so affected without the
fact being known. Hence, preparations
of the class mentioned should be held as
unsafe for general use. Hall's Journal.
ST I PAT I ON,
CiaaHIaWr
Atnict half the Auierieiiii imotiI v.r tu,..
only one preparation of Sarsaparilla that acta on
the lxm-i-l.s and rear lies this i
a:l Unit is Joy's Vegetable Sarxnparilla. It re-
ij.-icu it in j nours, au.l au occasional doso
prevents return. "Vc refer by permission to C. E.
Elkinrtmi, 125 .ocust Avpiiu.. K.i, !.,,,....,.
J. II. Hmwn, Petaluma; If. S. Winn, Geary Court,'
sun r ram-ixco, ami Hundreds oi others who have
use.! !t ; constipation. One letter is a sample of
hundreds. Elkinirtou.
years subject to bilious headaches and constipa
tion. Have been so bad for a year back have
had to take a physic every other night or else I
would have a headache. After taking one bottle
of J. V. S., I am in splendid shape. It has done
wonderful things for me. People similarly
troubled should try it and be convinced."
Joy
Vegetable
Sarsaparilla
Most luiHlerii, most eilei-tiv, largest bottle,
uno price, tl.0.1. si. ;,r 1:1.00.
For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSLY.
- THE DALLES, OREGON.
A Revelation.
Few people know that the
bright bluish-green color of
the ordinary teas exposed in
the windows is not the nat
ural color. Unpleasant as the
fact may be, it is nevertheless
artificial; mineral coloring
. matter being used for this
purpose. The effect is two
fold. It not only makes the
tea a bright, shiny green, but also permits the
mse of " off-color " and worthless teas, which,
once under the green cloak, are readily
worked off as a good quality of tea.
An eminent authority writes on this sub
ject; "The manipulation of poor teas, to give
them a'Bner appearance, is carried on eiteu
. sively. Green teas, being in this country
especially popular, are produced to meet the
demand by coloring cheaper black kinds by
glasing or facing with Prussian blue, tumeric,
gypsum, and indigo. Tttit method it to gen
eral that very Utile genuine tmeolored green tea
is offered for Male." . , .
It was the knowledge of this condition of
affairs that prompted the placing of Beech's
Tea before the public. It is absolutely pure
and without color. Did yoa ever see any
genuine nncolored Japan tea? Ask your
grocer to open a package of Beech's, and you
will see it, and probably for the very first
time. It will be found in color to be just be
tween the artificial green tea that you have
been accustomed to and the black teas.
' It draws a delightful canary color, and Is so
fragrant that it will be a revelation to tea
drinkers. Its purity make it also more
economical than the artificial teas, for lesi
of It is required per cup. Sold only in pound
packages bearing this trade-mark:
BEEC
U you groeec Ones not have it, he will get
1 for rba. MoeCOo per poand. For sale al
Xa5)s:Le Sutler's,
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