CHIME OF THE AGES.
off the coast of French Guiana, to suf
1er Imprisonment for life.
Working for the Prisoner.
DREYFUS CASE THE DARKEST
DRAMA IN HISTORY.
the Court of Cassation ordered a nev
trial for Dreyfus and referred the case
to the Rennes court-martial. July 1
Capt. Dreyfus arrived at Rennes, and
Aug. 7 the second court-martial began.
The details of the trial, famous and
Infamous alike, and the outrageous
couvlction of the prisoner are familiar
to all. The tight made for their client
by M. Laborl aud M. Demange aud the
prejudiced and unfair rulings of the
court-martial’s president, Col. Jouaust,
will live, the one a record of honor, the
other a record of shame. It was not
Dreyfus so much as France that was
on trial at Rennes, and France convict­
ed herself of an infamy as deep, an in­
justice as black and a dishonor as great
as ever stained the life of a nation. But
one thought can come to a person con­
sidering the present result of thedraiua:
“A government that cannot do justice
to the humblest of Its citizens has no
Justification to exist.”
PORTO RICO’S RUINS.
night and the scenes along the rtvei
were heartrending. House after house
floated past toward the ocean, carry­
ing its three, four, aud even more,
TERRIBLE DEVASTATION CF THE wretched passengers, who uttered pit­
GREAT HURRICANE.
eous cries for help. The night was
lighted by incessant flashes of light­
ning. though with little thunder. Many
Pictures of the Havoc Wrought In
persons held lamps at their windows
Our Peaceful Isle, Many Pathetic In­
and balconies to aid the struggling and
cidents and Deeds of Heroism Fol­
their rescuers.
lowed the l’amge of the Storm.
It was a wonderful but horrible
sight. A city of 30,000 people was en­
The recent West Iudian hurricane, tirely under water, a foaming torrent
with its attendant loss of life and dam­ pouring through the streets; lightning
age to property, was one of the worst flashing; men, women nnd especially
calamities of the century.
In Porto children struggling with the current,
Rico alone the death list reached near­ and then drowning; the rain ceaseless­
ly 1,500, while the number of injured ly coming down in sheets.
was three times larger. As to the
Many Heroic Incident«.
damage and destruction of property,
There were many Instances of hero­
that is luestlmaole.
Whole villages ism displayed. The Eleventh Infantry,
were swept away; growing crops were U. S. A., led by their adjutant, saved
washed out by flood or leveled by the at least 100 lives, by rescuing people
wind, shipping was dealt a costly blow, from the water. The adjutant person­
and the sea, for days and days after ally saved fifteen from drowning. With
the terrific storm, tossed upon the | a life line tied to his waist, he dashed
The case of Dreyfus apparently was
closed. The conspirators who bad con-
denmned him were strong and power­
ful. It was unpopular and unsafe to
A Htory of Tragic Incident*, Font In-
speak a word In favor of the prisoner
trlicue, Vile Treachery, tnffering i or of the proscribed race to which he
Innocence anil
Triumphant
Vil­ belonged.
lainy.
But the case was not closed. The
heroic wife of the prisoner, Mme.
The story of Alfred Dreyfus, a cap­ Lucile Dreyfus, remained, to tight for
tain In the French artillery, who was the houor of her husband. In whom she
reconvicted on the charge of selling believed, and well and loyally did she
state secrets to the German Govern­ ' wage her battle against entrenched
ment, is one of the most remarkable 1 wrong and Injustice and hate. Friends
In the history of the world. It is a story rallied around her. and in the press and
full of dramatic and tragic incidents, of legislative hnlls the case of Dreyfus
foul intrigue and vile treachery, of was kept ever to the front
forgery, assassination, suicide and al­
In June, 1.895, Col. George Plcquart be­
most every S|(ecles of crime and wicked­ came bead of the secret Intelligence of
ness known to desperate and degener­ I the war office. Documents came Into
ate men. That dreadful drama that has his hands that convinced him that
so dishonorably affected a nation has Esterhazy bad written the bordereau
HE GOT WELL,
overthrown live French cabinets, has and that Dreyfus was innocent
He
An
1
the
Despised
Little German Rand
driven three men to suicide, others to communicated this belief to Generals
Saved Hl« Life.
exile and many to undying shame and Bolsdeffre and Gonse. But Esterhazy
It was a sad scene. The old man lay
infamy. Nor Is the end yet. Truth, stood high In their regard, and Plcquart
justice, the symisirtiy and moral sup­ was sent on a perilous mission to Afri­ on liis bed, and by him sat the faithful
port of the unprejudiced In every land ca In the hope that he would never re­ wife, bolding his worn hand In hers,
and forcing back the tears to greet his
are on the side of Dreyfus, and the day turn. This was in the fall of 1896.
wondering look with a smile. But he
will eventually come when the French
Others, however, followed along the felt the cold hand falling on him, and
nation will declare the Innocence of the
lines of Plcquart In his investigation. he turned Ills weary eyes up to her pale,
man whom It has twice condemned.
Scheurer-Iiestner asserted the Inno­ wan face.
Dreyfus* Career.
cence of Dreyfus, and Mathieu Drey­
“Jennie, dear, I am going.”
Alfred Dreyfus Is an Alsatian Jew. fus, brother of tlie prisoner, openly ac­
“Oh, no, John—not yet—not yet.
He received a military training nt the cused Esterhazy as the author of the
"Yes, dear wife,” and he closed his
Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, and in 1878 bordereau. The agitation was so strong eyes; "the end is near. The world grows
was appointed to a sub-lieutenancy. He that In January, 1898, the war office dark about me. There Is a mist around
made a specialty of the artillery serv- j ordered a whitewash court-martial for me gathering thicker and thicker,
lee and Ills rise was rapid. In 1889 he ! Esterhazy. Plcquart was recalled to there, as through a cloud, I hear
was a captain In the army; in 1893 he ' testify. Esterhazy was acquitted ac­ music of ang 1-;—sweet and sad.”
was attached to the general staff—the I cording to program, and then Plcquart
A BADLY WRECKED VILLAGE.
"No, no, John, dear; that Isn’t
first Hebrew to hold that position. He was arrested on a trumped-up charge gels; that’s the brass band at the
was married, the father of two chil­ of forgery and sent to prison. The war tier.”
shores of the Island a heterogeneous bravely into the torrent again and
dren, and the future seemed roseate.
office was still In the ascendant, while
"What!" said the (lying man. • "Have mass ot wreckage that told of disaster again, depending upon his men to draw
But Dreyfus was a Jew—a crime In the lonely prisoner on Devil’s Island those scoundrels dared to come here to vessels, the crews of which perished. liis body’ out. The firemen of Ponce
Erance. Hounding Jews In that opera was eating out liis heart In suffering when they know I'm dying? Give me Scores of ghastly, bloaeed corpses also worked bravely, aud one noble
bouffe of a republic Is a pastime and aud shame.
came floating ashore to add their fellow’ lost his life.
my bootjack. I’ll let ’em see.”
A flat valley, usually ten or twelve
And. in a towering rage, the o!d man ghastliness nnd horror to the awful
Now feet above the water level, extends
jumped from ills bed, mid, before hla scenes already depicted there.
wife could think, he ba l opened the and then, after tlie storm, a disabled along Del Rio Portugués, stretching
window and shied the bootjack at the and long-overdue steamer made its al­ from half a mile to a mile on either
most helpless way into the harbor, and side. On this plain the plantations are
band.
“I’ve hit that fat leader in the neck!” from the men aboard these were got­ situated. Around the planter’s house,
And he went back to bed and got I ten the stories of the storm’s awful and often near the river bank, cluster
fury at sea. The entire island of Porto the huts of the peons, or laborers, from
well.
Rico was storm swept, but tlie worst twenty to fifty on each plantation.
Pianos an I Literary Reform.
destruction was wrought along the Emila Quinones, a prosperous planter
A funny story about Miss Marie Cor­ southern coast in the vicinity of Ponce
elli comes from Stratford-on-Avon, and twenty miles Inland.
Sickening
where that mystic novelist has been scenes abounded upon every side; half­
living opposite a young lad'es' school. dazed. sunken eyed, weeping men,
It appears that In this school are many women nnd children went wailing to
pianos, dally practice upon which by and fro; rows of dead awaited Identifi­
the pupils has been excessively dam­ cation; strings of dead carts, with their
aging to Miss Corelli's nerves. Driven gruesome tiurdens, rattled away to the
to desperation, she wrote to the prin­ cemeteries, while everywhere there
cipal of th? school, asking that when was an oppressive, heart-rending, fu­
piano forte practice was going forward nereal atmosphere that seemed to hang
tlie windows might be kept closed, ns like a pall of despair over the stricken
the noise interfered wish the progress Isle.
IX WAKE OF nUBBICANE.
Full particulars of the terrible storm
of literary composition. To which the
the
great
destruction
and
nc-
schoolmistress replied that If the noise show
living near the river a few miles above
would prevent the composition of an­ centuate the horrible condition of the the city, and his whole household of
other book like the “Sorrows of Satan" peasant, or peon. Houses and roofs to thirty souls, were carried away aud not
she wou’il ord'f htlf a dozen more shelter were as Serious questions as one saved.
food was before the government issued
pianos. New York Tribune.
Native estimates place the dead at
free rations and made other provisions 3.000 for the Ponce district alone, but
LADY YARD. -BULLER
INSANE.
to feed the destitute. The ruins in tlie real number will never be known.
most cases consisted of a floor only, Ail were buried in haste. Who they
k.iinou* Pul fornia Beauty Is Placed
with a few articles left thereon.
At were, what they were, will never be*
tinier Cire of a On irJian,
Ponce and along the southern shore found out.
Laly Yarde-Buller, concerned In
the hurricane spent its greatest fury.
many remarkable episodes In Europe
He Sized Up His Customer.
ami California, lias beeu adjudged in­
A rather loudly dressed "gentleman"
sane, aril a guardian appointed for her
stepped into tlie necktie department of
per.-on aud estate. She has run through
a big shop the other afternoon, and in
a fortune In lifteeu yuirs aud lias gain­
a supercilious tone that would have
ed notoriety by her eccentric behavior.
nettled a graven image into anger ut­
Those wlio have been til 'own Into con­
HISTORICAL CONFRONTATION OF HENRY AND 1’ICQl ART.
tered the single manda ory word:
tact with li r during tlie list few
"Neckties!”
a passion. Schemers curry favor by It
months testified that Lady Yarde-IJul-
The Z tin Enluode.
ill the esilmation of the baser elements,
Then he threw back his head as if the
Then came the novelist, Emile Zola, ler's addiction to alcohol had increased
and France has a superabundance of who In an open letter charged Ester- so much that -lie Ls in; ompetent tc
assistant was entirely ben atli bls no­
the former. Then Dreyfus was brill­ liazy. Henry and the chiefs of the war manage lr-r affairs. She spent het
tice. This top-lofty air aggravated the
iant and studious. These qualities gen­ office with eonslpracy to ruin Dreyfus. money recklessly and went so far as tc
a-s slant. I u he quietly displayed a
erated envy, and so, In 1894, when cer­ This brought upon Ills head the wrath actual y throw it away on the streets
number of late patterns with a deferen­
tain high-born and accomplished ras­ of the army chiefs and he was tried for While her actual Income Is only abou1
tial air.
cals wanted a victim upon whom to slander and found guilty. He appealed, $400 or $500 a month she had beer
’’These," he said obs'qiously, “are
east the odium of their malodorous was again convicted and tied from spending $000. Lady Yarde-Buller’t
the very newest things and are excel­
lives, wlmt more natural than to select France. M. Laliorl wns his counsel.
lent quality at a shilling."
career lias been checkered. She woi
the despised and envied Jew Dreyfus?
“A shilling!” haughtily snapped the
France nt this time was In a state of spoiled by her father, who was very
.'late eerets.
the utmost disorder. There were fre­ wealthy, and when in her teens tried The front of the storm reached there custom >r; "a shilling! Do I look like
In that year—1894 spies of the quent riots. The cabinet of M. Moline to eloi»e hi Japan with young Mnjorl-
about daylight and the wind and rain a man who would wear a shilling neck­
French secret service department re­ fell, to be succeeded by that of M. banks, afterward Lord Tweedmouth
continued to Increase til about noon, tie. Is there anything about uie to In­
covered a letter from the office of the Brisson, and the general political fab­ Then
wedded
Engllshmar when they gradually subsided.
This dicate that I----- ”
German embassy In Paris which seem- ric seemed oti the verge of breaking up.
"I beg your pardon, sir,” meekly In-
advance guard had broken the palm
ed to indicate that some Frenchman
At this Juncture July. 1898—War
trees, snapped off and stripped of their terpes d th* assistant; "the sixpenny
was carrying secret information to that Minister Cavalgnac asserted Ills belief
fruit the banana and plantain trees— counter Is at the other end of the shop."
office. The letter contained the sen­ In Dreyfus’ guilt, ami liis speech to tills
the chief food of the peons—and had —London Tl.l Bits.
tence: "This dog of a D----- Is really effect In the Chamber of Deputies was
torn and beaten down the coffee trees
getting too greedy.” 1 n September, ordered posted throughout France. He
A Family Burisl Pl ce.
and the sugar cane. Many houses had
1894. the spies brought to light another produced a document nt the time that
A clerical correspondent of the Lon­
been unroofed; but few. if any. lives
document known as the bordereau. It he said hail convinced him of Dreyfus'
wen* lost, though many were injured don Spectator says that the following
was In the nature of a memorandum guilt.
inscription is to be found on a marble
by the flying debris.
naming live military secrets which the
It was retorted that the document
At dusk the worst seemed to lie over, slab in the parish church of Tetbury,
Writer offered to convey to the un­ was a forgery and wns committed by
for the wind aud rain bad ceased. But Gloucestershire,
"In a vault under-
named person he was addressing. It Col. Henry. The latter soon afterward
between 6 and 7 o'clock in the evening neath He several of the Saunderses.
was turned over to the miserable Mer­ admitted Ills guilt ami then committed
the storm recommenced. accompanied late of this parish, Particulars the last
cier. Fli nch Minister of War, and be suicide. Previous to this l.emercler-
by torrential rain and gales. The lit­ day will disclose. Amen.”
summoned experts who pronounced it Plcard, who figured In the scandal,
tle Portuguese River, usually a mere
to be the work of Dreyfus. Major committed suicide, nnd last spring.
C.itise of Hi. Cone-it.
creek, already swollen from the morn­
du l’aty de Clam, one of the most exe­ Ix>rlniter, Col. Henry's former clerk,
"The Lynx Is putting on Insufferable
ing rnln, became a raging torrent, it
crable scoundrels who have figured in followed suit.
Jumped out of its banks at a curve Just airs thtoe days,” said the Lion to the
the whole national drama, was given
After the Henry fiasco Cavalgnac re-
above Ponce, and swept down through Bear.
the bordereau for further Investigation. ' signed ns Minister of War. Gen. Zur-
"What has he to base his conceit on?”
the streets. Small houses, with whole
He summoned Dreyfus before him. The | linden succeeded him. nnd he soon re-
families, were borne down In Its re­ asked the latter.
Investigation was secret, ami the Infa i signed because he wns opposed to a
"Well, he says he’s the only animal In
sistless current and either lodged In
limits l’aty de (’lam pronounced Drey­ revision of the Dreyfus case. A month
some fence corner or carried out to sea. the jungle that has the remotest con­
fus guilty, and added that the latter , later still another War Minister. Gen. named Blair, who was killed in South In one yard in the city were found the nection with golfing.”—Harter’s Baz.tr.
bad made a full confession. Dreyfus I Chntiolne. went down nnd out for the
Africa. Soon after his death she mar- bodies of daughter, father, mother auJ
wns arrested nnd incarcerated In the . same reason, and after him the whole
The Avenge Englishman.
(
rled Yarde Buller, a s -otchman. who grandmother.
Cberche Midi military prison.
A writer in an English magazine de­
cabinet. Francois de Pressense was taught her bow to drink. They quar­
At one place In the street where the
’Th* Fir»t Conviction.
I expelled from the Legion of Honor lie­ reled and l;e sue I for a divor* e. all -glng drift was checked, twenty four bodies clares that the real average English­
In December. 1891. Dreyfus was put cause he raised Ills voice for Dreyfus,
that she showed too much partiality for were picked up, most of tneni peons. man ie a workingman earning $<> a
on trial before a court-martial. The nnd others suffered social ostracism
the society of Valentine Gadsden. a Some of them, however, gave evidence week, wearing no collar, knowing noth­
trial was a farce. It Is now known am! politics! death for like offenses.
of refinement and one was thought to ing of tooth-brushes andbandkerchiefs.
mining promoter.
that not a particle of credible proof was There were accusations and recrimina­
l>e an American, but so quickly does and getting shaved only on Sunday. He
adduced against him. Casimir-Perier. I tions, threats of riot nnd rebellion, and
Ancient New Mexican Idol«.
decomposition set in In that hot cli­ does not buy books, and reads uothiug
then President of France, left It on rec­ other resignations from high offices, all
Age nts of the bureau of ethnology at mate that It wns impossible to recog­ but sporting papers.
ord that only one Inerliulnatlng docu­ because of the exile away off on the Washington have taken photographs nize him.
Dr. Sidley, an American
ment was laid before the Judges. and coast of Guiana.
Sim a Millionaire,
of the unique collection of stone idols physician, had a narrow escape from
that document was a forgery. The prin I
Tlie King of Siam is one of the rich­
owned by ex-Gov. L. Bradford Prince, death. He hail recently purchased and
New
Trial
Ordered,
Cipal witnesses against the prisoner
of Santa Fe, N M. He has over 1.000 fitted up a handsome home, prepara­ est of the uiouarcb«, his annual Income
were Colonel. llenry, Esterhaay ami . Tills wns the situation at the opening
of
them, and they were all dug up on tory to receiving the bride he expected living about $'JO,0GO,U)O. and he knows
Faty de Clam. Dreyfus wm convicted. of the present year. Then the testi­
the sites of ancient Pueblo villages. soon to bring from Chicago. He re­ how to enjoy the good things that lie
Hla conviction was necessary to shield mony of Dreyfus, taken on Devil’s Isl­
Some are over s x feet In height; some mained In his house as long as was pos­ within his reach. His palace is like a
others Just as hla second conviction and, was presented before the Court of
are light enough to float In water. It Is sible. Tying his money to his arm. anil city, as nearly 5,000 persons live in it
was decreed upon for reasons of state. Cassation, which Was considering the
difficult to tell the ago of the Idols; It In his underclothes only, he struggled
Consumption of Heer.
Jan. 5. 1895, Dreyfus was publicly de- granting of a new trial to Dreyfus.
Is only known that they were used by through water up to his neck and at
It Is estimated that the consumption
graded, hla swcrd’belug broken and his Events then crowded on one another. the ancestors of the present Pueblo In­ times over his bend.
Fortunately of beer in the entire world amounts to
uniform defaced. \The Parisian mob Paty de Clam was arrested In Paris
some onp> grasped him by the hair as $1,080.000,000 per annum.
dians before the Spaulsh conquest.
•hollted ••Down wlflb the Jew.!” and and Imprisoned. Esterhaay, who had
he sw»8‘t past a tig
bouse
— A
and
—! tc
be “
was c
••Live the army!" sm\ a little later the fled to Ixvndon. confessed that be was
To agree with everybody Is as bad
save^
It's much easier to run up a bill than
prisoner was taken tX Devil’s Island, the author of the bordereau. In J uim not to agree with auylsvdy.
flood was at lta height near mJ4- it la to foot IL
HE DAZED ENGLAND.
Original Progenitor of Liberal Ativer»
tizlng Still Living in New York.
Some of the nabobs of the present
day advertising world who think they
are "the only pebbles on the beach”
ought to take a trip down to Pough­
keepsie aud listen to the advertising
narratives an old man there may relats
to them. And the old man can substan-
t ate bis narratives with facts and
proofs, and Is not a mere yarn spinner
like many of his degenerate successors.
His name Is De Linton Wing, aud years
ago he won for films If tfie title of
"progenitor of liberal advertising” by
bis extensive advertising of a famous
brand of flour of which be was the pro­
prietor—the Julian mills flour.
It is said that at one time he was
worth $50,000,000, but lost his fortune
partly by speculation in buying news­
papers.
One of Mr. Wing’s greatest advertis­
ing feats, according to the Albany
Preas-Kn'ckerbocker, was tne insertion
In the London Times, much to the sur­
prise of the slow-going Britons, of a
full-page advertisement of his famous
brand of flour. It was claimed as a
Joke that Mr, Wing, wno alone had tha
secret and the patent for the manufac­
ture of the Julian mills flour, intro­
duced in the Ingredients a moistening
of alcohol and bops that gave a pun­
gency upon which many a family was
mildly exh’larated every morning at
breakfast, and he had as a part of his
business accounts a letter from Lord
Palmerston, prime minister of England,
In which the latter expresses the
thanks of Queen Victoria and her min­
istry for bags of his flour, because, as
the minister said, of its elevating ef­
fects at each meal.
In the adver Isement tn tlie London
Times Mr. Wing had such striking lines
as these:
"Julian Mills sees the
Queen;” ‘ Palmerston gets Ills Julian
cakes early and saves England's honor
by reason of the daring spirit they in­
fuse into him.” In the middle of the
page was a wood cut—a most terrible
Innovation for the London Times—of
Mr. Wing seated between the Queen
and Lord Palmerston, who are both
begging him to come to England aud
live at Windsor. To this Mr. Wing re­
sponds: "I am an American sovereign,
greater than the British crown.”
One of Mr. Wing’s greatest enter­
prises was during the great celebration
of 18S8, over the Atlmtle cable. Al­
bany turned out in great procession, at
the head of which was the great wagon
of D. L. Wing, made entirely of flour
barrels. Sixt en flour barrels served
as wheels and thousands of barrel
staves formed an awning over the body
of the wagon, on which fifty young la­
dles in linkers’ dress were conducting a
mimic bakery of the Julian cakes.
Thousands of Albanians were gratui-
toits'y served with bread that day from
the Julian mill flour, and at the home
of nearly every poor family in the ward
In which Mr. Wing lived were left that
night a barrel of flour and a photograph
of Wing and Queen Victoria.
Will H.i Absolutely Sife.
A Baltimore trust company lias con-
tracied with Pittsburg parties for the
construction of the largest steel vault
In the world. It will be of Harveylzed
armor plate exclusively, except for a
reinforcement of cast steel in front. It
will be 24x25x9 feet In the clear, inside,
and will require 150 tons of armor
plate. The vault will have four-inch
plates on all sides, except the front,
which will be six Inches, and a rein­
forcement of a cast steel plate six inch­
’s in thickness and a six-inch door. The
plates will be joined continuously by
the dovetail mortise method, which will
give them a solidity, when the mortises
are complete, which could not be se­
cured in any other way. Tlie vault will
be absolutely proof against burglary,
at least against the appliances usually
□perated In that profession. It is Im­
possible toattaek the Il.irvey zed plates
with a drill, which precludes the use
of explosives, and the plates are also
proof against an atta<-k by electrolysis.
Every plate is tested by drills and
other mechanical means of breaking
Into a vault and the highest electric
power Is as harmless as a drill, whiph
would- be shattered into fragments
against the face of the hardened ma­
terial. The vault of a trust company of
Pittsburg has six inches of plate on al)
i des except th * front, which is eight
Inches. Tlie new vaults are Impreg­
nable against any form of attack uow
known and are coining into f j or rapid­
ly for that reason. Tlie destruction of
the largest building In wli’ch th -y are
located would not affect them In the
slight st degree, and any me h-tnlcal
force which a few men could have
available for breaking in o a safewou’d
be worse than useless.
Imbibing Wisdom.
The man with a fad. who was talka­
tive, as such men generally are, had
been discoursing to his fHend. says the
New Y'ork World, on tb<^nfluence of
food upon character.
"Tell me.” said he, tn summing up,
“tell me what a man eats, aud I Will
tell you what he is.”
His friend, although fatigued, was
evidently Interested.
w
"There Is only one question I wish
ask you.” he said.
“Ask it,” replied the dfscourser, mag-'
nanlmously, with an air that said very
clearly. “Give me a hard one while
you are at IL and I'll show you how
■mart I am."
"It Is this.” replied the fatigued
friend. "How much sage tea would
you have to drink to make a wise man
of yourself?”
No answer being promptly forthcom­
ing. the conference broke up.
One great trouble with the self-mad«
man Is that be Is continually talking
■bop,
The average man never knows when,
be’« got enough until be axis too muck