tlifi WEEKLY HEPPNER GAZETTE, JUMK 4, 1891.
3
GEORGE'S LETTER.
Poor Man's Politics in
Great Britain.
ARMY OF THE UNEMPLOYED.
Movement of Population to London
Impotence of Ordinary Menus
of Clinrlty.
London, May !Uh.
"Tlie politics of Great Britain in the
near future will be the poor man's poli
tics," Lord Rosebery is reported to have
said in a recent interview. There are
unmiKtakablo signs that the social dis
content which for some years past has
been so rapidly spreading and swelling
is tending to political expression, and
that changes that will bring new issues
to the front and give new meaning to
existing parties, even if they do not give
rise to new parties, are at hand. The
Fame impulse "which shows itself in the
United Slutos in such movements as the
Farmers' Alliance, and in the turning of
political discussion to economical ques
tions, shows itself on this side of the
Atlantic. Trades unionism is sweeping
on toward political action, and though
nothing like a new party has yet taken
form, new political demands are being
formulated and pressed, candidates for
l'arliament in the coming election are
being inten ogated and pledged, and in
places independent candidates are being
brought forward.
To fully comprehend the political situ
ation in Great Britain it is necessary
first to consider the social conditions.
FLOCKING TO THE CITIES.
A glance shows an unprecedented
state of unrest and dissatisfaction. And
there is good reason. Since "the bitter
cry of outcast London" was raised by
the Congregationalist ministers in 1883,
and the appalling extent of misery in
the east end of London was made
known ; and since the more recent driv
ing of the forlorn from their sleeping
places on the benches in Trafalgar
square and along the Thames embank
ment led to the marching of a gigantic
army of unemployed through the streets
of London, social conditions have, if
anything, become worse. Despite the
growth of population in Great Britain
the population of the agricultural dis
tricts has diminished. Farmers and
farm laborers have flocked to the cities,
and the congestion in the capital has
gone on-with accelerated speed. Large
as was the agricultural exodus
to London in the decade end
ing in 1881, the forthcoming census
is expected to show the exodus from
country to city to have doubled. The
result iiaB been to pack population closer
in the slums, until General Booth,
counting the inmates of prisons,
asylums, workhouses and hospitals, and
"thoso who, having no capital or in
come of thoir own, would in a month be
dead from sheer starvation were they ex
clusively dependent upon their own
work," and those who by. their utmost
exertions are unable to obtain the regu
lation allowance of food which the law
prescribes as indispensable even for the
worst criminals in our jails," estimates
that a tenth part of the population of
England are in the very slough of de
spond, and finds no serious question of
his estimate.
HHItOIC MEASURES NECESSARY.
Against such a swelling tide of misery
the ordinary means of organized and in
dividual charity are clearly impotent.
They havo no more appreciable effect
than bailing the sea with a bucket.
Even to those who have no other idea of
helping suffering than that of giving, it
has become clear that heroic measures
must be taken if charity is to accom
plish anything at all. Thus General
Booth's plan for a huge "city colony,"
to contain all manner of manufacturing
establishments, under superintendence
by Salvation army officials; for a "farm
colony" somewhere in rural England;
and for an "over-the-sea colony," for the
receiving of all those who may be in
duced to leave their native country
found ready acceptance as a means of
solving the social problem ; and the half
million dollars he asked for was quickly
subscribed. So popular indeed with
givers was this plan that subscriptions
were diverted from other charitable en
terprises, and even the regular donations
to the religious wing of the Salvation
army fell oil'.
But from this solution, all save the
utterly helpless among the masses turn
away. They turn away with a feeling
that something more than the most
highly organized and best managed
charity is needed and is due; with a
feeling than men ought to have, without
thanks to anyone, a chance to make
something more than a bare living;
with a feeling that an opportunity to
enjoy a little recreation and some of the
brightness of life, ought to be theirs of
right. Twenty years of popular schools,
the cheapening of newspapers and
books, and the ceaseless activity of all
manner of political propagandists have
begun to bear fruit. And though their
thoughts are confused, the masses have
began to think for themselves.
TL'RNINO TO TRADES UNIONISM.
Distrusting familiar political leaders
and political measures, they turned once
more to trade unionism, and seized the
weapon of the strike to apply it on a
larger scale to wider purposes. The new
hope of the new trades unionism spread
aniong them like fire through dry grass.
Bodies of men were quickly banded to
gether who could never before be gath
ered into organized bodies. One hun
dred thousand dockers, 120,000 gas work
ers, tiO.OOO railwav men, 80,000 Beamen
and firemen, 30,000 coal porters, 20,000
carmen, and 50,000 general laborers in
all nearly half a million men were or
ganized in two years. Even that most
diilicult of all classes of workers to move,
the farm laborers, started organizing.
These unions, moreover, gathered im
mense amounts of money. The dockers,
for example, irrespective of the large
sums gathered during the great strikes,
raised 100,000 during the past year. Of
this, If75,000 was spent in strikes, and,
although all of it was not spent for
nothing, as slight riees in wages in Lon
don, Hull, Southampton and other
places will show, it has become evident
that faith in the efficiency of strikes as a
means of establishing a general and
permanent increase in wages has, among
the blockers, as among the members of
the other unions, been steadily weaken
insr. With this weakening, the tide is
turning back toward politics.
ROYAL COMMISSIONER OF LABOR.
One clear mind quickly observed this
drift. With that keen insight which
has made him the most successful of
British journalists, William T. Stead,
editor of the Review of Reviews, ob-
o.nl onH nnhliahorl an interview with
Sir John Gorst, niemDer oi raniameni
for Chatham and Under Secretary for
India, in advocacy of the appointment of
a royal commission to examine into the
condition of labor. This interview was
flung into the Cabinet with the annouce
ment that the Liberals would use it on
the floor of the Commons in support of a
demand for such a commission, and thus
make a (lank movement on the Conser
vatives for the favor of the organized
labor massee, whose voting power will
count far more in the coming election
there ever before. The interview, being
the utterance of a prominent member of
their own party, tilled the cabinet with
dismay. Action was short and sharp,
They were afraid to refuse, and at that
very sitting it was decided to have a
commission, and the announcement in
Parliament shortly followed. But though
its members have been appointed and
the commission is getting to work, the
good that is to come of it is already
generally discounted. It is expected to
do as other similar commissions have
done take a lot of testimony and report
to Parliament, and there the" matter will
end. It is looked upon as a political
makeshift, to dodge, or at any rate to
defer, a real consideration of the social
problem,
THE LAND OUESTION.
Much more than the appointment of a
royal commission is demanded by grow
ing sentiment among the masses. Par
liamentary candidates are being closely
"heckled." They must state how they
stand on all public questions, and are
being interrogated as to how they will
vote on an eight-hour law, and on a
number of things breathing the spirit of
democratic-republicanism. The growth,
of radical ideas on the land question
shows itself in every constituency. So
strong, indeed, has been this influence
that at the last two national conferences
of the Liberals a plank was inserted in
the party platform declaring for the
principle of the taxation of ground rents,
in effect the beginning of the single tax
demand. In many places trade union
candidates have been put up, and at two
of the by-elections have been returned.
The great majority of those in the pres
ent labor movement have hitherto voted
with the Liberal party, and at a general
election, even though in some constitu
encies they may have their own candi
dates, they will still act with that party,
making a more and more radical wing,
between which and the conservative or
whig wing of Liberalism there must
sooner or later come a split,
PROSPECT!) OF THE UKNKKAL ELECTION.
With regard to the prospects of the
general election, which cannot be now
very long delayed, the Conservative
party has the immense advantage of be
ing the party holding office. Its man
agement, too, is marked by great shrewd
ness and ability. Lord Salisbury, Mr.
Goschen, Mr. Balfour, and its other
leaders are thoroughly versed in the
political arts, and are, moreover, as
honest and as thorough-going in their
desire to do something to help the
masses as at least a large section of the
Liberal party. Their proposal, for in
stance, to devote the surplus arising
from this year's revenues to the remis
sion of school charges was singularly
fortunate, as this charge has long been
so unpopular that both parties pledged
themselves to its abolition and to the
establishment of "free education."
The Liberals, on the other hand, re
ceived a serious backset by the Irish
complications. It is true, Irish matters
were quickly laid aside and British
affairs brought to the front, but much of
the prejudice remains. Then, too, the
Liberals lack a proper general. Mr.
Gladstone is now past his eightieth
year. He still possesses, undiminished,
that extraordinary personal magnetism
that of itself makes him the most power
ful individual in all the kingdom and he
can still make a great speech. But he
does not, and he cannot, watch details
as he did. The management of the
general work he leaves to others. Most
of this work falls on John Morley. Un
fortunately he, white exhibiting much
ability, has lacked judgment and has
lost the confidence as a leader, if not of
all but a small portion of the party, cer
tainly of the increasingly important rad
ical wing. To Morlev's influence is
charged Gladstone's advocacy of two
things utterly inconsistent with Kadical
principles, namely, of the exclusion of
Irish members from the imperial par
liament in the scheme of home rule for
Ireland, and of buying out the Irish
landlords at the expense of the British
taxpayer. Of late Morley has height
ened his own unpopularity by openly
and unreservedly throwing his weight
against the eight-hour movement.
THE LIBERAL LEADERSHIP,
Many things point to Lord Rosebery
as the rising man for the Liberal leader
ship. He is of high standing in the
party, has held many responsible posi
tions, served with distinction in the last
Gladstone government, and, as chairman
of the London County Council, devel
oped remarkable capability. His few
political utterances have been marked
by discretion. He is not known to be
a Radical, but his keen appreciotion of
the social and political forces at work
would prompt him, as a good politician,
to go far to meet political demands. It
is urged, however, that a peer of the
realm can never again hope to lead the
Radicals. More than this, the recent
death of his wife having caused his
withdrawal from the chairmanship of
the County Council, it is uncertain what
part Lord Rosebery will in the future
consent to take in public affairs. As it
is. then, the Liberals will go to the coun
try for a general election in somewhat
loose order, and relying mainly on the
strength of radical ideas and the tre
mendous power ot Gladstone s name.
When precisely that election will
come no one can say. Ihe Conserva
tives will endeavor to select a time when
some adroit stroke has produced a favor
able impression, and it is thought by
some close observers that this will be in
the fall, when their popular free educa
tion hill has jiiBt gone into operation.
However, much depends upon the un
expected moves that will take place on
the political chess board. If the elec
tions to fill vacancies occurring during
the term of thiB government are of any
value in forming a judgment of which
party will be successful, then the
Liberals would be said to have most in
their favor, for of 111 by-elections they
won 61, with 50 for the Conservatives,
whereas, of the same constituencies at
the last general election in 1885, they
won only 45 and the Conservatives 00.
But thought is moving fast, and what
may have turned results at most of these
by-elections, would now exert but small
influence. Only the Radicals, as dis
tinguished from the larger body of
Liberals, are confident.
Henry George, Jr.
Conglomeration of Ckankism. I
the American people can find any other
than a feeling of contempt, disgust,
nausea and loathing for such a conglom
eration of crankism as that, then the re
Dublic is really in need of some sort of
topsy-turvy shaking up as that mongrel
element would give it, and from which
anything that might turn up would be
better than its present condition ; but
happily that is not the situation. The
so-called People's party will be made a
'guy,' as it deserves, and the sensible,
level-headed people of the country will
look elsewhere for whatever in the
nature oi ic.wim
haven Herald (Rep.)
need. Fair-
BILLY THE BILK:
The Bandits of the Bowery,
BY .
CAPTAIN MAINE, READ JR.,
Al'THOR OF
Iron. Mound Ed. the Elevator-Boy: or, From the
Bottom to the Top; Ash-Barrel Ike, the
Si-avenger Deteelive: or, or Out for the
Dust: Rob Ruby.the Diamond Duke:
or, a Bad Mau from Bitter Creek ;
The Doomed Dozen: or,
the Janite's Daugh
ter, tic.
CHAPTER I.
THE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT.
"Kill me if vou will, but spare my
life!"
The shrieking voice of a young girl
rang out upon the night on Chatham
Square.
There was a sound of hurrying feet,
then all was still.
Then the quick, sharp sound of a
policeman's club clattering on the stone
pavement was heard and dusky forms
were seen hurrying through the dark
ness. From Gilbert's concert hall across
the way the sound of dreamy miiBic
floated out upon the night. The shrill
cry of the waiter: "Two up and one
down and certain death with seltzer on
the outside," rang across the silent
street. The figure of a man crouched in
a doorway near by shrank farther back
into the darkness. None heard the low,
mocking laugh he uttered.
The brave policeman fought bis way
through the empty street and reached
the scene of the struggle. There was
nothing there.
The mocking laugh of the man
crouched in the doorway rang out again
as the policeman stooped down and
picked up an anvil that had been
dropped in the struggle.
What could it mean?
CHAPTER II.
THE MYSTERY DEEPENS.
The scene is the Cherry Hill hotel. In
the handsome and spacious office a dozen
clerks sit dozing during the busy day.
"lias there been a bass-drum left here
for me?" inquires a voice.
The hotel clerk auita rubbintr his
diamond with the office blotter and
looks up.
The speaker is a short, thick-set man,
very tall and thin.
"No bass-drum has been left here,"
answers the clerk, after searching the
safe.
"Heavens! have I been misled?"
mutters the man; "but, no; she dare
not play me false." Then he turns to
the hotel-clerk, and adds:
"Should a bass-drum be left here,
wrap it up carefully and send a messen
ger at once to William Williams,-210
Bowery. I will call for it myself."
Then he walks briskly away. A bright
featured lad, in the uniform of a bell
boy, gazes suspiciously at the stranger.
"It is Billy the Bilk," he mutters.
Upstairs in Room Ml a man of middle
age- sits back at his ease, smoking a
cigarette. A smile of self-satisfied com
placency is upon his face. There is a
knock at the door. The man goes to it.
There is no one in the corridor, but on
the threshold lies a note. It is ad
dressed to Mr. Douglas Blanchard. The
man opens it ana reads:
"Beware! Billy the Bilk has called
for the bass drum."
His face changes deathly white. He
throws up his hands and falls forward
in a swoon.
CHAPTER HI.
THE MISSINU LINK.
Irene Blanchard sat in her boudoir
reading a volume of Emerson, a glad,
wild girl of 35, What was this change
that had lately come over her? What
had embittered her life? "What use to
live?" she murmured ; "iry young life
made a curse, my father a stranger to
his family." Then she read the poet's
lines:
"It wns the sad noon of the night;
Kaeh lamp-post heaved a sigh.
The pavement lay as still as death.
A tear stood in each eyL"
"It is like the anguished echo of my
own life," she said.
At this moment the loud beating of a
bass-drum sounded through the night.
"It is the serenade," she said; "why
will he dare come when he knows he en
dangers his life and my happiness. I
can never love him, even though he holds
my lather in his power."
CHAPTER IV.
THE MYSTERY SOLVED.
It is the night of St. Patrick's Day
The Bowery is a blaze of light. Laugh
ing crowds pass by upon the street. A
sweet-faced girl, scantily protected from
the biting March wind, stands on the
corner of Baxter street singing "Oruis
keen Lawn." The careless passer-by
does not note the pinched appearance of
her face, upon which her nose, so long
and sharp that it would pick a lock,
stand out in bold relief. A man clutches
her on the shoulder. "What have you
made?" he says.
"But a few pennies," she replies;
" 'Cruiskeen Lawn' is a back number;
nothing but 'Sweet Katie Connor' and
'Comrades' goes on the Bowery now."
"You lie, you jade!" he hisses; "I
slagged a bloke giving you tenpence,"
and lie strikes her a cruel blow.
The next instant he feels himself
clutched in the strong grasp of a young
man in a full-dress suit. It is Shelton
Langdon, an active member of the Man
hattan Athletic club.
"Yon cur!" he says, "to strike a
lady."
Billy the Bilk, for it 1b he, utters a
shrill whistle. In a few moments Lang
don is dragged into a den near by and a
70-cent suit replaces his costly garments.
Held by a dozen men lie is helpless, but
above him he can see the sneering face
of Billy the Bilk.
"Ed Mortimore should be here now
with the police," says the young man ;
"glory then, Billy the Bilk, in your
short-lived triumph."
At this instant, the crashing sound of
an iron anvil is heard against the door.
The bathed bandits crouch against the
wall as they . hear the ringing voice of
Ed Mortimer at the door. Another
crash and the structure totters and falls,
and Iron-Bound Kd springs into the
room saying
The continuation of this story will be
found in No. 4,11,44 of the Messenger
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news-dealers. Evening Sun.
-A Marvellous Echo,
Courrier du Midi.
At a watering place in the Pyrenees
the conversation at the table turned
upon a wonderful echo to be heard some
distance off on the Franco-Spanish
frontier.
"It is astonishing," exclaimed an in
habitant of the Garonne." As soon as
you have spoken you hear distinctly the
voice leap from rock to rock, from preci
pice to precipice, and as soon as it has
passed the frontier the echo assumes
the Spanish accent."
Lewis Mayer, confined in the county
jail at Dayton for stealing chickens, yes
terday attempted to commit suicide by
hanging himself in his cell. He waB
cut down in time to save his life.
BALMACEDA'S STORY.!
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ONLY CHILI'S NAVY INVOLVED.
The ICevolutlon Confined to the Oei-u
The Conflict Uroiihl on hy
Jealous Politlenl Leader.
New York, May 20 The Chilean
minister at Washington received a copy
of President Balinacedii's address to the
Chilean Congress, which assembled in
Santiago on April 20. The following are
extracts from the address:
The naval off'eers have taken up arms
against tho fe.vernnient, on the 7th of
January on board the national fleet at
Valparaiso, disobeying their general
commander, Hear Admiral Williams,
and taking on board the Vice President
of the Senate and the President of the
House. of Representatives. A few hours
after the consummation of these acts
they came back to Valparaiso in open
rebellion against their constitutional
chief and the valid authorities.
During the period of three months,
since the beginning of the revolution,
there is not an instance of a single pop
ular outbreak in favor of the movement
initiated by these mariners, whose
power is actually confined to the ocean.
The fleet has been unable to keep and
steadily occupy any port of the territory
containing any dense population, and in
order to occupy any town they had to
besiege and bombard the ports ot the
north and they soon set fire to unforti
fied towns, operating against the cos
mopolitan population of Tarapaca and
using hostilities of a character worse
than any of those employed during the
conquest of Chili. The provinces of the
north are separated lrom the entire
country by the ocean, upon which the
rebel fleet dominates, and by vast des
erts. The revolutionists have succeeded
in seizing thein alter seven bloody com
bats. Their fleet has not had suilicient
strength to upset the lawful government,
but it has shown enougn to uisturrj tne
public order.
The navy had not the right to discuss
the order given by their superiors. The
constitution forbids it. Obedience to
the President is upheld by the constitu
tion, and notwithstanding that their
ollicers have declared themselves in
favor of a pretended congressional dele
gation to establish a military dictator
ship, the Congress has not met even on
its own authorship. For three months
there has been no session, public or
private. It is true that a considerable
portion of the members of both houses
have taken part in the insurrection
against the government.; but these mem
bers cannot invoke tho authority be
longing to representatives of the people,
after having disturbed the public order,
assuming a dictatorial executive power,
appealing to arms and leaning a revolu
tion. The revolt, has-trot been supported by
the people.1 'xtt!r abettors are few
political groups, anirhatod only by a de
sire to secure absolute control of the
State. The conflict has been produced
by the ambition of the chiefs of groups
formed by the constant splits in the
ranksofthe Liberal party. The Liberal
party has failed to reach a unity ot ideas,
of direction and methods sulficient for
the government of Chili.
Being elected President I have
thought it to be my duty to inaugurate
a policy calculated to avoid at tho end
of my legal term the renewal of the
dangers which have threatened preced
ing administrations. I tried to give the
National party a participation in
proportion that should not ex
cite tho jealousy and resistance
of the numerous adversaries. The
Nationals refused to render me their
assistance, although their co-operation
was imposed by the clearest political
sense. After that all my ellbrts to unity
the Liberal party have proved ineffec
tual. A strugglo was waged between
the majority of the Congress ami the
executive power. I then thought it to
be my duty to close Congress, in the
hope that a short time of reflection and
calm would bring the heads of the coali
tion to fair and more reasonable terms.
Unfortunately the evil has been done
and I have now to stand its deplorable
consequences.
On the 7th of January last I found
myself without an appropriation and
without any rule, These facts could not
be made the basis or even the pretext
for a revolution, inasmuch as they have
often taken place at different times. 1
have endeavored to gather all the nec
essary elements to defend and secure the
triumph in Chili of the principles of
authority, without which nothing dur
able or solid could exist.
The action of the courtB of justice and
the military dictatorship of the revolu
tionists wherever they rule might bring
conllicts, and it has been decided to sus-
nend the high tribunals during the
present condition of things as prejudi
cial to the country.
The license of the Chilian press has
been carried in our days to extremes
never before reached 'in any other part
of the world. 1 think tho law must
keepsacred the right and liberty ot every
one to publish his opinions, but there
must not lie other oiionses oi tne press
than those qualified by the penal code.
In this way the true liberty of the press
will be definitely settled and at the
same time it will secure the responsi
bility for tho abuse of the same and the
punishment of the offenses against per
sons or the public morals.
It is not acceptable to leave to Con
gross or a majority of the members, the
power to reiuse to approve me. men ex
penses of the government, having a per
manent character. Deriving theirorigin
from previous laws approved by Con
gress, the power of suppressing, or ap
Dioving or not, fixed expense necessarily
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tion and failure in the preservation of
public order. When the re onus thus
conceived become a fact peace among
the States will be forever established
and consolidated.
The several question! of jurisdiction
and competence between the President
of the republic and his agents, on the
one side, and the judicial power on the
other, and those arising between the
legislative and executive and the judi
cial powers in reference to the constitu
tion, have originated very serious con
flicts, and lately the one which has
refused the call of a constituent con
gress, ft will bo convenient to create a
special tribunal composed of three per-
sonB appointed by Congress and three
more by The rupreme vourt. mis
tribunal shall finally decide on the con
flicts amoiia the public powers in all the
cases according to the forms established
J by the constitution. It is not natural
nor just that conflicts among the public
powers be tried and decided by any of
them, because that policy would estab
lish the supremacy of one authority over
the other of equal and independent
powers. There is no advantage in si vino?
! any of lhe P,ll)lic powers a chance to be
1 a party and a judge at the same time.
i l 'ie address concludes as follows :
' "Hiaveyet to tell the army and those
! marines w ho have remained loyal to
tneir government mat tliey hava only to
remain in the path of honor. The brave
men under the command of the valiant
Colonel Robbies and his companions,
Villa, Gran and Rumiro, have nobly fal
len on the field of battle. Future gener
ations, as well as ourselves, will keep in
veneration these generous victims and
i the example left by them wili always
stimulate our soldiers to discbarge their
j duty. Few governments have to meet
: more unmerited aggressions or more
I gratuitous inculpations than those with
wmch 1 have been assailed, hut I huvo
not on that ground lost the serenity of
my spirit nor the self-respect and tran
quility of my conscience. 1 have every
confidence in God, who presides over the
destinies of nations.
Jose Manuel Bai.maoisda."
A llirwers' liookReeper Disappears,
Leaving a UcMctt in the Thousands.
Pathuson, N. J., May 20 Cornelius
A. King, until recently a bookkeeper in
the New York office of Uinchlifl'e Bros.,
brewers of this city, ii; alleged to be a
defaulter to the amount of $20,000.
King was first suspected four weeks ago
when the firm began an investigation,
lie then disappeared. It was at first
supposed that his shortage waB small,
hut tho examination of the books, it is
alleged, showed he appropriated to his
own use during several years $20,000.
His method was not to credit on the
books sums which customers paid on ac
count of their beer bills. The firm,
after King's disappearance, heard from
him by his writing to one of the em
ployes from .New York city. King ex
pressed sorrow for what he had done,
and offered to help the firm tostraighten
up his accounts. He had been with
ilini'hliffe Bros., for about four years,
and his speculation began soon after he
gained their confidence. He was re
garded as a trustworth y man and was
well known in Paterson, being at one
time tax assessor of the city. It is be
lieved that his downfall is due to his
leading a fast life. He is married and
lias resided in New York.
An Heiress In Spokane U Foiihil Fl
lug ill the River.
Spokane, May 2(1 The body of a
young woman was found floating in the
river a few miles below town yestenlay,
and was identified as that of Mary
Grundler, an heiress, who mysteriously
disappeared several weeks ago. She
came from Germany a year ago and for a
time lived in San Francisco. Subse
quently she went to Albany, Or., where
she worked as a domestic. She came to
Spokane four months ago. She frequent
ly stated that her object in coming to
America was to get a divorce from her
husband, alter which she intended to
return to Germany. She was heir to a
fortune estimated'at $100,001), but under
the terms of the will could not come
into possession of it so long as she re
mained the wife of Grundler, who had
always treated her and her children
cruelly. She was last seen at the house
oi a midwife in this city, and a post
mortem examination today revealed
that she was in a delicate condition.
Theories of murder and suicide are both
advanced. The coroner is investigating
the case and it is likely some one will be
brought to justice for the woman's
death.
Dooley LlistH
Nearly a
Omii-ter.
Minute and a
Mei.hoi.rne, May 20 The prize light
yesterday between Joe Choynski and
Mike Dooley, resulted in the latter being
knocked out in one minute and 11 sec
onds. Choynski adopted rushing and in a
shortjtime had driven Dooley to the ropes
In the second rush Dooley was over
powered and knocked out. In betting
Choynski was the favorite 5 to 4. Tho
battle was fought under the aiiBpices of
the Melbourne Athletic club and was for
a purse of $:i()i)0.
Marked Men Terrorize a To:ant and
Force Hint In Leave.
Toi'EKA, Kits., May 20 .luuopli Ben
nett, who bought a farm in Washington
township, borrowed money from A.
Jewell, a city firm, to make the first
payment and put in his crops. When
the notes fell due Bennett did not have
the money to take them up, and bis
place was sold by the sheriff. He re
fused to give possession and was ejected.
Joseph Kindlesberger then occupied the
farm as a tenant of the purchasers.
Bennett is a member of the Farmers'
Alliance, and 150 or 40 masked men, with
liennctt at their head, drove up to the
place Sunday night and requested tho
new tenant to leave. Ho refused to do
so, whereupon revolvers were drawn
and he was told that he could either
leave at once or his dead body would be
carted off. liennctt was then reinstated
and still holds the place.
Kindlesberger has the names of tho
leaders of tho mob and will institute
civil and criminal proceedings against
them. The ollicers in lliiH county aie
all Farmers' Alliance men, including
the prosecuting attorney.
Several Hundred Coming Here to Titki
l.'lt l.aud.
San Francisco, May 20 Tho steam
ship City of Pekin, which arrived from
China and Japan this morning, among
other advices, brought the information
that a member of the Japanese house of
representatives is said to have resigned
his seat, and w ill establish a Japanese
colony on the American Pacific coast
Several hundred able bodied married
farmers are reported to havo .been
engaged.
A rolHlel.in KHIeil.
Baltimore, May 20 John Robinson,
chief clerk of the house of correction
and a well-known politician, was struck
and instantly killed by a passenger train
on the Baltimore A Ohio railroad this
morning, near Jessup, H. U, He was
alxjut 40.
The Flight Awarded to Hurfce.
London-, May 20 The fight between
Dick Purge and Jimmy Carney, which
took nl a'.e at the Hop Malt exchange
j room jn trough last evening, was
f awarded to the former in the eleventh
mning,
utes.
the light having lasted 42 min-
The Evangelical Lutheran church at
Skagit was incorporated yesterday.
; A MINISTER STRANGLED.
The Premier of Egypt tarrying the
Sears of HI ltascallty.
ISull rruneiseo Kximiiner. j
London, May 17 Mustapha Fehnii
Pasha, who succeeded Kiaz Pasha as
Prime Minister of Egypt, is a man of sin
gularly handsome presence and winning
manners, but his reputation is an ex
ceedingly evil one, and the glove which
he invariably wears on his right hand,
hides a queer semi-circular scar of a
wound which he received under very
tragical circumstances. It is the scar of
a bite of one of the most famous states
men of the Orient, whom he helped to
strangle.
In 18i5 Mnstapha iehmi was the con
fidential chamberlain of the Khedive
Ismail. A mission had just arrived for
the purpose of investigating, on behalf
of the great powers of Europe, the finan
cial condition of Egypt.
A HIU DEFICIT DISCOVERED.
One of the discoveries which it made
was although Egyptian government
loans to tho extent of $000,000,000 had
been contracted in London and Paris.
only $2till,UOl),000 had ever found its way
into tne National treasury, Hie re
mainder had been diverted into some
other channel, which was only known
to two persons, namely, the Khedive
himself and his minister of finance,
Saydk Pasha. Great pressure was
brought upon the latter by members of
the mission with a view of obtaining in
formation as to the missing millions.
and at length their efforts appeared on
the point oi being crowned with success.
Unlortunately the minister confided
his intentions to his private secretary, a
German, who has since become manag
ing director of a great bank at Vienna
and who hastened to warn the Khedive,
who, on the following day, proceeded in
person to the ministry of finance and
invited Saydk Pasha to go out driving
with him and subsenuentlv ioin him at
dinner on board the Khedivial yacht,
moored oil the Cairenco Palace ot Ge-
zireh.
HE WAS MADE AWAY WITH.
The entertainment was a very bril
liant one, and at its close both the
princely host and his guests returned on
hore. One alone remained behind.
namely, the minister of . finance, who
was seized by two of the Khedive's
chamberlain's just as he was about to
leave the ship. A quarter of nn hour
later the yacht slipped her moorings and
proceeded up stream. Two days later it
returned without the minister of finance,
who was never seen again. It was re
ported, however, that one of the two
chamberlains wore a thick inutiler round
his throat, and the other, Mustapha
Fehnii, had his right arm in a sling.
Soon it leaked out that Sand's throat
had been lacerated by the nails and
Mustaplm Fehmi's hand bitten through
by tne teeth ot tho1 unlortnnate prime
minister when they strangled him on
the night of the supper. Both chamber
lains were rewarded lor their services bv
being promoted to the rank of Pasha.
Sami, after being prime minister at tho
time of the Arabi insurrection, is now in
exile at Ceylon, while his companion,
Mustanha return, alter being engaged
to an American lady, wdio broke oil' the
match when she learned of the history
of his hand, haH now been raised to the
premiership ot Egypt.
Tho li'uture of PJirtiition
Mrs, Louisa Parr, tho well-known
novelist, contributes to Atahmta for
May a discourse on flirtation. Address
ing the jeiincs lilies of the present day
she exhorts them on a subject w hich can
never grow old so long ns the human
race endures. Mrs. Parr, to be
sure, soeins to look forward to a time
when flirtation playing at courtship,"
as she defines it shall be no more.
Flirtation, she says, will cease to exist
when it is not only possible but natural
or young men and maidens to enjoy
each other's companionship in whatever
pastime or study tlieir tastes may lead
them to.
But then, it seems, this "perfect lib
erty of intercourse" is to prevail only
when the world is assured" that the
aforesaid young men and maidens "have
no thought, wish, or desire to be any
thing beyond what they profess to Jie
friends, comrados, chums." We are
afraid Mrs. Parr is infected with the
Utopian spirit which has begun to in
spire so many worthy people. That
the social relations of the sexes are
more free than they used to be is un
questionable. In this respect we have
latterly taken more than one leaf out of
the American book, and the question is,
aro we any the better for it?
Mrs. Parr is not illiberal in her views
upon the topic. She thinks that "we
elders aro somewhat severe in the
names wo give to the intercourse be
tween young men and women." But,
we gather, she would have no "play
ing at courtship." She woud
have a young girl "guard
her love so vigilantly that even its
shadow should never fall on any one but
the elected one a counsel ot perlcctnm
which, we fear, is not likely to be at
tended to in the average number of
cases.
MODEST MR. TIIORNE.
An Keillor Wiiiits to he I'rliue Minister
of ICnglHhd or rreslilellt of Ainerleii,
' (W. II. Tlionic In I h- (ill.e.)
Make me Prime Minister of the Brit
ish Empire for 10 years and 1 will clear
its Augean stable of pauperism or burn
in hell every lord, every member of the
royal family and every lecherous 'vam
pire dependent upon their corrupt
sinecures.
Mako me President of the I'nitcd
States fur 12 years and 1 will give you
5000 inileB of solid granite docks on your
magnificent sea coast and river frontage ;
build on them at proper intervals of
distance, such forts us might defy the
world, and fill the ocean with ships
built in our own ship yards and bearing
our own Hag the most iK-autiful,
and, symbolically, the noblest Hag in
the world.
Prince Bismarck is reported as having
once Bald of Mr. Gladstone : If in the
course of my long diplomatic career 1
had diawn down upon Germany only
half as many snubs aud insults as that
gentleman has brought upon England, 1
should never havo the courage to stand
again before my fellow countrymen."
Carlylo thought Gladstone a mere
worldling; and the Grand Old Man's
own hitlier, early in William s career,
said William was well enough in his sen
timents, but without stability, without
backbone.
Of course William has proved himself
a greater man than his father; and Bis
marck may yet find that for every snub
brought iiiion England by the vacillating
shilly-shally of Gladstone a thousand
curses will be heaped upon Germany for
the blood-and-iron policy of the great
man now chafing, Wolsey and Napoleon-like,
on his little Helena, waiting
to die. '
v nut i warn, wiesw gentlemen ancj-r-.
readers of the Glolie to understand is
that intellectual power, military power,
money power will not, cannot and (here
the writer swears) shall not usurp the
money power, the spiritual power, the
power of risen love aud martyrdom long
ago made victor over the world.
If God only keeps me true to myself I
will conquer the lies and the liars that -hold
the nations in bondage in this
boasted age of freedom. But the work V
see opening for the true, incarnate God's
word of this time is so stupendous, my
own life, my poor hand and pen anil
thought so utterly and awfully un
worthy of this work, that I marvel at
my own courage even to dream of pre
suming to whisper the first real words
of the new redemption I see breaking
upon the world.
Everybody that knows me knows also
that I am not "a man with a loud
voice." When a preacher even and in
public I always spoke with the natural
tones of a refined gentleman; always
hated to have to raise my voice to any
unnatural rhetorical pitch, and neverdid
this except when the intensities of con
viction and nervous arousement made it
absolutely necessary. The only excep
tions to my uniformly quiet tones of
speaking have been in years past, when
incarnate liars and slovens have made
me insanely angry. I have a voice that
will one day wake the dead and con
found the liars that have outraged me.
If you will study with me the 13th
chapter of First Corinthians for a hun
dred years, I will lead you out of this
wholesale mad house into some new
region and beauty of God, again incar
nate in this world.
THE LAST OF THE HONEYMOON
Doris (at the mirror) Do you like
this dress, dear?
Harry (on the lounge) Yes, dear,
very much.
Doris (reproachfully) You haven't
looked at it.'
Harry (laying down newpaper)
Haven't I? Why, I told you the first
time you wore it
Doris I never wore it before.
Harry You certainly did. Well,
then, vou must have another vory like
it I
Doris I have none other that is like
it in the least.
Harry That's odd. I was certain I'd
seen it before (taking up his newspaper) ;
certain.
Doris (slightly sarcastic) 'ou haven't
seen it now.
Harry (laying down newspaper) I
have, too ! Cream color bows of lace
ribbon er or buttons bows of lace,
ami what do you call that thing in the
back ? , .
Doris (with determined cheerfulness)
Oh, dear me! It pays to dress for
such a critic. Tra-la la tra-la la (war
bles waits! song.)
Harry (fatuously going back to his
paper) I've been reading about that big
bank robbery in Philadelphia. The
gang went on from New York, it seems.
. . . Oh. those fellows will never
catch 'em ! New York defectives are
bud enough, but Philadelphia (reads
silently.)
Doris Tra-la la (more waltz song,
energetically rendered.)
Harry (looking up with a puzzled ex
pression) Shall I would you like to
hear the details? It says here: "The
facts elicijed so far "
Doris 1 beg vou will spare me the
facts.
Harry That's funny. I find them
quite interesting.
Doris (loftily) I see you do.
Harry (folding newspaper and putting
it resolutely under sofa cushion) But I
can read them later. Ya a urn!
(Yawns terrifically.) Gracious! Is it
only 4 o'clock ? 1 thought it must be
almost dinner-time.
Doris (with irony imperceptible to
masculine obtuseness) A you hungry ?
Harry Anil? Ain't you?
Doris (as before) 1 think I can exist
until 0 o'clock.
Harry Oh, I can exist! Ya a a
inn, Patience! The days seem long,
don't they, when you haven't anything
to occupy you.
Doris (with an odd smile) Too bad
you can't find something.
Harry (sleepily) We might take a
walk.
Doris Y. m really ought to, I think.
Hairy (rousing himself) Well come
on.
Doris Excuse mo; I have letters to
write. No, Dairy, really please!
Harry (stretching himself) All right.
I'll just sfridu along, then. By-bye.
(Kisses her on the ear and fuinblos for a
cigar.) I'll get the evening papers while
I'm out.
Doris (with wild sarcasm) Oh, do!
Hurry I will. Good bye, pet. (leaves
the room whistling. Doris flings herself
down and sobs into the sofa cushion.)
Harry (suddenly putting his head into
the door( And say, dear shan't I tele
graph What in the world is the mat
ter? Doris ! Are you ill ?
Doris Go and w w walk; go away,
please !
Harry Go away? From you?
Doris Well you did!
Hurry My angel! And you were
hurt because
Doris Oil, Harry, to take your hat
and go go for a walk alone! And
we're not not one month together yet.
Oh, w hat will you take your hut and do
when we're married a year?
Hairy (bewildered) Hut you told me
to go.
Dons Told you? Oh, for shame I
Harry (driven by despeiation to sheer
duplicity and assuming an air of stern
ness) And now you reproach me. It
is not enough that I tear myself away
from the sunshine of your presence,
feeling, too well, that you are indiffer
ent, that you are tirod of me
Doris (clinging to him) Don't dare to
think of such a thing.
Harry that 1 havo ceased to in
terest you
Doris Do yon w ant mo to die this
minute?
Harry and then, to be so mis
judged !
Doris I didn't not for ono breathing
instant, dear, ( Burrows her head under
one of flurry's arms, and subs content
edly.) But I dreamed of ma, last
night and, somehow, I think we
ought to go home.
Harry (radiantly) The very thing
I've been longing to that is tlie office,
you know they really need mo thoy
really do. Of course wo are having
such a lovely timo, it seems cruel
Doris (lightening up) Yes but we
mustn't he selfish. Wo must think of
others, and and let's start tomorrow.
Anyway, dear, it's tlie last week of the
lioncy-nioon.
lit was.)
Madeline S. Bridges in S.,Q. & Co.'s
Monthly.
According to the latest addition of
"Men and Women of the Time,"
Mrs. Humphrey Ward translated "that
very remarkable book Amiol's 'Journal
in Time.' "