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American Catholic Tribune (Newspaper) - July 30, 1892, Cincinnati, Ohio AmeL«¡ # 1C ibune kpfnwá to? Hli BatMK* OartiBal «itoto^m», árelitotsto»* et Bafitaor», M. tto« Bost B«%. ArelibiBtooos ot Ctnommatl, muú Pa)ia««ii 9,. BiolUBon4, fm., PlnoMOMip iQto., mni Vii«ui9tQ*i, 0«1 VOL Mí.CINCINNATI SATURDAY. JÜLA^ 30, IHV2 NO 20 i)i\\)KrK \\4TniN Hit; am; 1.KAN r-TTAU-I.ISUMHNT. Au:^'..'M i>rn uU ’h- it iia-^ 'i fclví'li JU re;jtril to the r mit III «.f M-irríair*', tin* bt^jíi <>f Ar.ií. i-tiMnoi ,^'11 t; raak<* uj* thfir A few .140 a cnrioas íDci'ieQt oc urre'i m I. Tidon, \\ hifh liia-lrated An^ln-a*» líckienes'» in re'* card lo inarn.ige. 'The^xiore W. BAke, a memhi*r of an Antjlican c*HBnmtiity, knovk n a.«* *iIk- Soci»*ty ■ iSlJobo lhe Ev »ngeli?*t. atC >wley,” a|‘j'e.ate<3 V<> hi-» ><ip-rior Gniu-ral to rcl a»«d from hi- vows ti>r th<^ íol-líwinc apitarenllv -ufficient rt*aa -u: ii€ had béen pn-achin*;: «*n the indifo*-• •i'ihiluy of marriag»s and ag inst ih»* ro*xíeni Englníh sanction of divorce; when hr di*c4»v<*red that in be v»-rT church where he had be**n prea-hing a divorced w-*inan Itsd been m .rri#HÍ t >a#e '»ni hu-band; and ihi** loo. by permi.-sioo of the Vicar, arni a^ it tran.«pired, with th-^ ap to* %al of the “Sapeti *r (o neral." Now at this p^jint the diffieuliy wa-crave enough; but the diihculty which was v < come wdg «td! g'-eater. The Bishop .* the de cebí- on being appeal»* ' t^ '. h .4- iinabie to reprove th»- \ i ar (.»r the Suj*ere*r G-n j al) for alloa mg the o irs irri.ige of :i di-v.*rce»i pcr'i'Oi. Indeed ai. ti.- An.h* an Hi-liop- are content to permit • he law tA> take it- course" in regard I- tbe rema rying of toe d v^rced. Here I- an imbroglio which is badi* :nir. NVhat have the Anglican High A'/, ireh party to say I i* ? If mar» ri.ije indi-'solubie, why allow di- vr. ' If divoree be pemiiiisihle wi ere i- indi.-ijn^lability? We nat-■uraliy fe* I anxiou* to kno*' how the H:gh Church p.irtycm atienipi “t » get out Ü " tin* «hlerarna Here is ■one attempt; and 't 1- a niiserahle one: the Church Tim «. which is the chief organ of the Ritualiít-, suggest» that the “I .n»»eeni party,, may In* rc-’n.a ried. though the psrty who ».a.* j: f :rroc»-nt mu-t Tern tin single. I'ij!' i- an evasion which has neither iogi'-- nor religion, d'hc whole j»o ni Wiis iieiiss'ilubiUty; since the Cha Tjh Tiaj«*s maintains ih.at the Angti ah Church, like the **Ca’holic Church.” baa alwa>t taught that there can be no divorce a vinculo Matrimonio” there cannot be consistently any f r j .ie- ion» about “inoo-ence”, since neither innocencte n r guilt affect the m.atier. Yet here i- the dictum of the Church Time#, in regard to remarriage of the innocent party. “It i£ com^tent to any clergyman to consider on the gr»3unda of social ex-pedieocf, the propri-tv of allowing the iriDocent parr to re-marry. That is a different thing from pretending that toia right eiis s within the Chu^ rch.” Now “social expediency” no lonbt ha» lU claimes in regard 11 all human laws—it should be considered —but to affirm that >fjc al expediency can over ride a divine law; can make Xhai right which we a’l know to be wrong; is to give to social exediency as equal value with divine command' 'meot; in other wor Js, it is to be guilty of gr«»s.- impiety. And now we eni’er upon a new phase of the dilemma, which, to Anglicana, mav seem but normally inconvenient,* but to Catholics must appear di-astrous and overwhelming. The Anglican Bishop grante<l his 1 »*ence for a re-raarnage. All Anglican B .«iliops, for thirty years, have a wavs done -•*. hat is the Angfic^n Hector or curator to do, in the fa c o‘ this episcopal mandamus? Let us ask the Church Times to infonu us. “The Bishop’s license f .r remarriage of a divorced per= m. innt»ceut or guilty not only carru- with it n«* authority* but c.ijgbi t - be ab-'* utety ignored bv liiec’«»'rgyman U* w h .ra it i- presented . Here i'^ vvirb»»*! ot contradictory hyp-thesA-ji. I. If the Bi-bop has authority, be -h juM bv 'dw-yed; if iht* Bishop ha- no aulh rily, he ii no Bishop. (2) If the bi**h"p Wlieves that re-iiiart iage i.- immoral, he commands toe doing of hat he knows i»» be. a crime; if he believes that re-marriage not immoral, he denies the indis--olubility of Chri-tian marriage. 3.) if the clergyman who per-fcrma the Service approves of div«jrc»*, he is t*o say- our authority the Church Time- in antagonism to the teaching of the Christian Church; and if the cie gyman does not approve of divorce, but regar*U re marriage as a mortal sin he not only has faiDi.-elf to do what is wicked, but he has to impute the whole blame of the wickedness to his own Bi-h »p. We hardly know for whom we ought to feel the most pity; the poor Bishop, who either believes what is wrong, >r else obeys the Sute in preference to obeying*God, or the i>oor Re» tor or Curate who despises himself and hi* BUhop, despises the Cnurch in which he is prt*«umed to minister faithfully, and plays the coward, the Erastian. the hypocrite. This difficulty about divorce is only one around the career of the An glican clergy; yet it serves to bring into prominence the fact of the total abeence of anpematoral authority in the Church of Our Land, We are perpatoally being told bv the High Church party that they alone are the true Catholic Church in this country, the ancient^ Catholic Church, the represen tail vea, the heirs, of the pri in iiv Id» il. Imagine a primit vo I aituil'u* pne-t '-r BiJ-liop.—oraCaili-»»^ic prie-t <r Bishop of any peri“d,— ipiieiiy submilluig to the pagan laws »»l an iieretical State, an»l meekly oh» ying »• >nipl*-te subversion ot the Divine Law meekly conforming to a profane enactment in regard t<» mar iagel II this b* the way in which the Rituali-i- think to prove ihetn.-elve* “a Tiie branch of the Cat olic Cnure.i,” they have the childi«h delu'ion all to themselves. Even the D s»enter« make aport of such pusil'aniin'ly. Either marriage is indi soluble, or it «s not. If i be indi soluble, Anglican Bi-bop an i clergy OQ¿hi to hide themselves for shame for their ba-*e connivance; if it be not io»ii«soluble,—that is, An-glicanly or High Chuch y not indis» soluble—then Church of England has no more pieteoaion to be a “t^barcb” that bad the sect of the Alhigenses or of the WaJdenses. It w.iuld be idle to dis uss the impiety of su»'h a stale of things; it seems wiser to re^rd it as a Divine Lesson to all Anglican, to show them what must come from persistent scbiem. Inconsistency afUT incoii* 8 stency crowd upon the Establishment, yet Ang icans d > not seem to have eyes to see. At last we have the icrrib'e spectacle of t e whole bench of Bi-bops, and certainly three fourths <»f R*"ciors and Curates bowing down bi'fore the graven image of a pagan law, and nut so much as even indulging in a feeble pro'est, Toi- laii spectacle outght to l>e a lesson to earnest men; a Divine Entreaty to come »>ut of schism into truth. B. A- 0XF»»RI>.The Turret Ship Miautoiiioh- The recent cruUe of the L’nited States steamer Miaotonomoh to Annapolis, Md., and return, says the New* Yerk Herald^ was a success in this, ihit it brought >o I ght all the g^d an»J ba*l qiia«iti*‘S of this type of vessel, and she will now serve as sn object lesson in the construction »)f other ships of her class. One fact seem» to have been clearly demonstrated to the thorough satisfaction of all on board, and that is that nec-ry in going from one port to another. There are two very good reasons for this sUtemcnl—first, because of the absolute inability to fight her guns at sea, and second, because of the great di-<5omtort and |»08itive danger to the health of all on boar 1. Ilwill be remembered from previous aoooun s of the ship that the muzzle of ihe guns when leveled are only about five feet above ttie water line. Now, if the ship were aste^ ly platform, which simply rose and fell with the waves or swell, this would be all t ght, but such is not the case. In an ordinary groun»l swell or moderate sea, such a;* w^s encounter-eii going down along the coast, the ship rolled from lO to 15 degrees, shipping a sea with every roll, which dashed completely over the turrets, and which w'ould have wholly buried the muzzle of the guns if tney had been trained level abeam or eve a at an elevation,filling the guns with water and thus preventing their being tired. Another reasi>n why the guns cannot be used at .sea is that in order to fire them the turrets must be availa-b e, which is not the case under the pr sent conditions. I’pon g ling to sea four heavy brass choi*ks are inslrted between the turret an»i the deck a'^ound each turret. Then the* apron over this space i.s screwed down tight and all the joints are calk-e<i and filled with paraffine and a woo»L*n batten is nailed over all, thn- effectually securing the turret both from revolving and from work-in i¿ irora side to si*ie. Besides this, heavy wooden }»ort bucklers are put around the chase of the guns over the {Mirts and tlie space between is thor. «►ughly calked. All these things are a'jsoluiely necessary to prevent the berth deck from being Hooded, and ev»*n they are not sufficient. A con-si»ierable length of lime is necessary t'* remove the-c, and they must all be removed in order to use either the guns or the turrets. The second reason w’hy the ships of the monitor type should not be sent to sea—the discomfort of all hands can scarcely be imagined unless it has been seen. Notwithstanding all the efforts that have been made to j»revent the wat?r from gaining access to the place damp or wet and leaves no place for the men to rest below. Furthermore, all the hatches have to be closed and battened down im-mediately on leaving smooth water, and the heat from the engine and fire rooms raises thh temperature of the turret chambers to from 90 to lOO Fah., making it almost impossible for any one to remain bilow. The artificial ven'.ilation, although far superior to that on the old monitors, is not sufficient to carry off the hot air and supply its place with fresh c>ol air from above. In the turret chambers themselves there are no exhaust ventilators, so that althorgh fresh ah* is being oon-stantly forced in, it soon becomes as héatea as that already there. No ona can remain oa the spar deck while at sea, as^ every wave washes completely over the ¿eck, several fet I de p, breakiníT over tba turrets and throwing the spray high over the forward bridge. Even while lying at Huchor in Che apeake Bay seas came aboard, washing over the high hatch combiiijift and neceiAsitating tae c»o-ing of everyth'ng fore and aft. The only place left ífor the men to stay is the hu.*ricane d ck, which being small and the space largely tilled up with chests, hatch, v niilators and the smokestack, is very crowded and uncomf rtable w-hen n arly 100 men get on it. But the people of the e gineei’s force have a much har«ler time than lha deck hands. The temperature of the eogine room ranges from 120 to 135 degrees, while that of the fire room is general y about 146 The ventila ion of the tire room is fair, while that of the engine room is al* most nothing. The' machinists and en.iineers have 11 stand on the hot iron platform above the engines in order lo control the icversing gear and valves, and there is scarcely room enough above them to allow them to stand erect bjtween the beams. After Stan ting a four hour watch in such a p ace it is absolutely necessary for the men to have some place to go for rest and fresh air, but, as has been seen, this is very hard to find. Conse<iuenlly a numbor of the men have been prostrated and utterly unable to continue their work. No one questions the ability of the ship to go to sea as far as her sea— wortbines» is c -ncerned, but it is certainly considered unseleijs, tOi subj^| every one on boa d to euch discomforts, e-ipecially when she could never be of any service in a fight at sea. A number of changes will be recommended w’hich, il carried out will greatly improve the comfort of all bands. Some of these w'ill be to in-cra.se the ve -lilation by adding more blowers, by cutting a large hatch over the engine room and by putting in ventilators in different part of the ship.—iScientiJ'ic American.MORE OF MORGAN’S WORK. Nkw VV'iiatcom, W.\sh., July, ’92. Kd. Catholic News:—.The Luiuipt Indians, w'hom 1 visit every six weeks or so, have a large day school, averaging more than 80 boys and girls, and taught by a capable Catholic teacher. An inspector visited the school last week and said that r>u July 15 one ot the largest pupils of this school would be taken away and sent to an Oregon Indian Indus» trial Training School, which is far from baing in the odor of sanctity. Morals are said to be very low in that school, too much freedom among the sexes and followed by many breaches against chastity. Graduates of this school are generally proud, haughty, jKilished heathens. The Lumrai Indians, being all good, practical Catholics, are not willing to let their children go to their inevitable perdition. They a-e threatened w ith force to take their children away and they do not know what to do. I think the Government, or rather Preacher Morgan, wants to excite these ¡ eaceful and industrial Indians to resistance, in order to have a pretext to open this mujh coveted Reservation to the surround-ing greedy whites. Last fall a drunken white man was supposed to be killed by an Indian from this Reservation. The ladiao was tried but could not be convicted. When the Indian was allow^ed his freedom the whites tried to kill him and he had to leave his home to save his life. He ir ed to come home lately but he was again hunted by the w’hites and had again to flee for his life. In the meantime. I understand that a numerously signed ptitition w'as sent to the Indian authorities in Wash ngion, D. C., to either prevent the Indians from leaving their Reservation or to drive them away from it. So if Morgan can manage to have tha Indians resist tnis brutal order of taking away the children by force from their parents, it wull be a plausible pretext to either exile or exterminate these good peaceable Indians. I can’t see how any power on earth has a right to take aw^ay children from their parents when they have a good school where they can be made 10 Ibecome good Christians and useful members of society. But I suppose these poor Indians have no rights w’hich Mr. Morgan should respect. He has mi^ht and brute force on his side and that is all he requires. Consequeatly I do not see how consistent Catholics can so stultify ihetBselves as to cast their votes to continue Morgan’s brutal, bigoted rule for four years more. If the rascals are not ignominiously turned out from power this fall there will not be an Indian child left in a Catholic school four years hence. Then, Mx Editor, agitate the In. dian school\question in season and out of season in your able paper, till every Catholi^ is obliged for very shame to cast out the incubus represented by Morgan and his clique. Write one your forcible editorials on the above suibject and urgently request all Catholic papers to spread it broadcast over the land (before the November elect.’ons.) Yours most respectfully. Rev. J.B. Boulet ! IRISH LASSIES AT THE FAIR. I AH visitors to the World’s Fair will doubtless want to inspect the Iiish vidaiie wnich is beingarraoged under the auspit es of the Countess of Abeideen and Mrs. Ernest Hart. The letter gives the following outline of what it will contain: “We shall have seven cottages in which peasant girls and lads from Donegal and elsewhere will be seen at work, weaving, spinn ng, dyeing, «Pjigg'Dg» carving, etc. The girls will look very pretty in Concemara r d petticoats, fishwife skirts and blouses, and scarlet c oaks. In the first cottage will be a precise model of a cottage in Donegal, with undreea-ed walls of granite, with a hooded fireplace and dresser full of bright crockery; a girl will be seen dyeing and iipinning • ur fagpou^, Haoq-^^d^^ Hearth Hómespans,thje wo >1 ot which she get from tne lichens and h atber of her native bog outside. There will be an imitatiou prat fire, and on this the dyer will from time to time place her iron potato pot, and pro-cee 1 to dye the wool. This opera* tion is cirtaiii to prove immenself attractive to sight-Seers, and, as well as the carding, spinning and bobin* tiding, which Will be shown her, is an extremely interesting process. “Ill the second cottage there will be linen weaving and embroidering of the famous KelD Art Embroidery; whilst linen damask weaving on a Jacquard handloom and fringe knotting will go on in the third oottage. 'Btotoween ibi« * a*d Wie next- - cottage there will be a model dairy, in which dairy-maids will be at work churning and butter-making. I can assure our American cousins they will have a chance of some good butter, as we shall send over some of the world-famed Kerry cows, which will be stab ed at the rear, Tiiere will also be a pleasant, cool spot here where visitors can rest and drink iced milk. *,In the fourth cottage, which is under the ♦-special care of the Irish Industries Association, every description of Irish lace will le shown. There will be a Limerick lace woiker at her frame, the Torchon lace worker at the pillow, the n »merou8 varieties of .point lace, »nd so forth. “¿iprit/gtiig and veiuing, whichwre* employed in the produclt n of the beautiful hemstitched handkerchiefs of Belfast, will be shown in the next cottage. The girls of Down are especially noted for their exquisite and delicate work. We have not quite defiuitely decided about the two remaining cottage, but we shall probably sliow in the seventh the wood-carving industry in Irelanl,which has reached a really remarkable degree of development when one remembers the workers and teachers are peasant lads. You should see the set of owls carved by some of my own bovs for Lady Aberdeen last year. The ex. pression of the owU’ faces, as well as the execution, was excellent. O.her features of our Irish industrial vill* ages will be a replica of Donegai ca->tle, an old well, and other Ínteres, ting Celtic memorials. I believe the Irish village will be successful; we shall certainly do our be t to make it so.” THE COMING AMEFIICAN RACE, —Belated Studeni (hlc), can’t man Shee here, watch-open thish door.” Watchman—“Perhaps you will succeed better if you will try a key instead of that corkscrew.”—^Flieg-ende Blatter. —Strangler—“Can you kindly inform me when the band beg-ins to play?” Park Sparrow—“Oi can. Shure an’ oi’m not diff. Wait here, an’ when it stroikes up, oi’l let ye know.”—Drake’s Mag^azine. —Mriv Watts—“Mary Ann, these balusters seem always dusty. 1 .was at Mrs. Johnson’s to-day, and her stair rails are clean and smooth as g^lass.” Mary Ann—“Yis mem. She has free shmall boys.”—Indiana{>olis JournaL —“Whaf s the matter, Johnny?” called his mother. “Cramps,” shrieked Johnny, doubled up with pain. “Ah, yes” (severely); “you’ve been in swintming', have you?” “No, ma’am; it’s the other kind—g-reen apples.”—Chicag’o News. —The Correct Pneumatic Tube.— Pneumatic tubes of clean straw seem to retain their flavor with the public during^ a heated term like this, in spite of exhausting- scientific research for some better material,—Providence Journal. —Carruthers—“Didn’t you feel all broken up when May confessed that you were the seventh man fo whom she had been eng-ag-ed?” Waite—“Not at all; the numl^r was so lucky that I made a bee-line for a policy shop.”—Kate Field’s Washinprton. —Weairy Wife—“John, I do wish you’d tell me how your mother made plum-pudding; then, perhaps, I could suit you.” John—“Why, she took some plums and stirred ’em up with pudding and baked it, that’s alL” Weary Wife —“But, John, real plum-pudding -is boiled.” John—“Why, of •- course. Mother always boiled it after she baked it,”—Boston Transcript. —She had a French gardener. Whatever accomplishmants he may have possessed In other ways,' he was rather stupid about lawn duties. One morning his stupidity was beyond endurance. She told him most emphatically what she thought of him, and finished saying: “Now, Francois, you can go. I’ll not have you another day.” Ho went, crestfallen, to the stables, where her husband chanced to be. Ha looked at the general thoughtfully for a minute, and then said: **Ah, general, 1 very Sorry for you.” *‘Why, what is tha matter wdth me, Francois?” aaid tha generaL **Vall« 1 ean go, but you must-stayi**-^ Chicago Inter-Ocean. It will AnK-lo-€>«>rmani With a Da)»li of Celtic Thrown Jn. It is curious to note the shifting xilmracter of the immigration to this country. F<m* awhile we were threatened with an Italian deluge. When the collapse in the Argentine republic and Uuruguay turned the flood tide of southern Europe in this direction the American ports were overrun with the brown races of Sicily and the Italian peninsula, and some of the prophets began to predict that the American people w'ould be Datinized. But the Italian immigration Is already decreasing. The report of the bureau of statistics shows that the number of Italians arriving in this country during the nlae months ending with March was 80,194,. while during the corresponding period of the year preceding it was 88,-035, and still greater for the year before that. The feature of the movement frooa ^uasope is the enormous grqwth»f the Russian immigration. I’his is due to two causes—the increasing discontent throughout the empire and the Jewish persecution, the latter in paj> ticular being eifectiva. As a source of human supply Russia noW ranks next to Germany. During the last nine-months we received from that country 63,319 immigrants, which was more than double the number for the equivalent period preceding. A few ^years ago the immigration from Russia was so small that it was not •worth-'mentioning. But there is one country Irom which the human stream is not subject to spasmodic increas»»s or rtrrrgianrTi On the contrary, it flows steadily bn with a gradually swelling volume, and the characteristics of that land, next to those of parent England, will always have the greatest influence upon 4he' United States. The German nation has long furnished us more immigrants than any other, and even the great Russian spurt has not been able to pass it. The German movement, which began a half century ago, has been throughout that time unchecked, and is now larger than ever before. During nine months the total of arrivals from the German empire was 76,128, and the Germans from Austria, 20,497, this being an increase of about seventeen per cent, in one year. The immigration from England, Scotland and Wales does not change much from year to year, but remains close to 60.000 annually. While in certain years Russia, Italy and other countries may go ahead, yet the island of Great Britain remains, next to Germany, our chief source, of..humau'Supply. * Contrary- t«^* the general belief, the immigrants from Great Britain are much more numerous than those from Ireland. There have been periods when there was an enormous influx from Ireland, but for many years it has averaged not more than 80.000 annually. Obviously the Scandinavian blood—and a vigorous rod blood it is—is destined to figure conspicuously in the composition of the Ameritan of the future. The arrivals from Sweden, Norway and Denmark are next in importance to those from Great Britain and Germany, and exceed by one-fourth those from Ireland. The Bohemian and Hungarian immigration is still large, but is increasing very little, while that from Poland has augmented considerably. On the whole, after examining the flgut*e8 for many years, there is'no reason to change the opinion of earlier investigators that the American race will be essentially a conoposition of the Teutonic people of northern and central Europe. It will be Anglo-German, w'ith a Celtic dash, and it is too late for the Italian, Hungarian or Polish bloods to have any effect upon it.—Louisville Courier JournaL TALES OF THE ROAD. The Darlns l>eeds of Desperate Hlshwaj-men. A group of men were lolling in the loungers’ corner of a San Francisco hotel. Each was reading a morning paper. Each had his paper open at the page describing the robbery that startled Berkeley Saturday. “1 cannot help having an admiration for such bold thieves,” said a very respectable member of the gathering. “Not,” he added, “that I approve stealing in any form, but if one is bound to loot a strong box it is more manly to do it at the point of a pistol than to sneak into the victim's confidence and then betray it.” One by one the readers threw their papers aside, and without difficulty disposed of bandits and plunder in the remarkably short order that always prevails on such occasions. Then they grew reminiscent. “The pluckiest robber I ever heard of,” said a Denverite, “was the one who made Dan Moffatt give up twenty-one thousand dollars about three years ago. The story'became familiar enough, but the sequel has been generally squelched. A young fellow walked into Moffatt’s private office at the First National) bank, covered Moffatt with a pistol, displaying a bottle of harmless oil that he said was nitro-glycerine, made Moffatt fill out a check and then get it cashed and hand him the money. He specified just what he wanted, demanding one thousand dollars in golcU a ten thousand dollar bill, and smaller bills. When Moffatt went to the paying teller for the cash the visitor was just behind him with the revolver close to his ribs, but hidden by an overcoat. Ha^ng secured the money, the robber backed out of the door and disappeared. “Did they ever catch him? Well, now, that is kard to state. There is some mystery about it. * Some people did not think thair Moffatt wanted him caught. But a big row was made about it, and rewards offered. In perhaps a year, after numerous arrests and releases, it was announced that a prisr oner in jail in Clay county, Mo., charged with horse stealing, had confessed to being Moffat’s robber. The bank teller went there and identified him. The Denver chief of police told me, how-•ver, that the prisqiier was a pretender, and that he did not believe that he ever been in the state of Coloradjpu. Then the chap went crazy. ’’ You canÁói try a lunatic for robbery, 'and' the phb-U^jdoe«^¿ot^¿ee£^^trockjdf_^hé^|^^ prisoners of Clay county, Mo. So the matter rests.” The Denver man had the floor. “Y’ou remember, don’t you, the way Senator Tabor's gold bricks from the Vulture mine in Arizona were stolen? He got the property along in the ’80s. Tho output in the form of a brick left tlie mine evei*y two weeks. One of these bricks was worth about eight thoiis;»»d dollars. The foreman thought he could carry the treasure himself, but a lone highwayman fooled him; got away with the game, too. He was aftei-wanl eaugh i in the C5ty of Mexico and the brick recovered. The foreman took some assistants with him next time, and on this trip ran into an ambush. One assistant was killed and the other wouu»l-ed.^ One of thq robbers was hui’t, and caught later nursing his .wound in a hnt. Tlie other robber was picke^l up in a lonely canyon, dead, a Imllet through his head, ^ a revolver in his hand, and the brick on his breast. Must have been a grimly sarcastic cnss. “I notice you are having a good many stage robberies here. Used to have them in Colorado. Abolished the rob-baries first and afterward the stagfc But. speaking Of: robberies reminds me of. one highwayman who could give your,Black Bart points. He had held np stage after stage in sontlxern Colorado; taken everything in sight. He always gave orders' as though he had a whole posse in his gang. Vviieh’ he was captured it^ was found that he was a Cvippie w*eighing about one hundred pounds, and nerwer had any confederates: except dummies armed with broomsticks. He’s in the government.pen at Detroit now. ” “What’s the use of resisting when a man has the drop on you?” This from a fierce-looking individual whose piercing eyes would have scared the ordinary highwayman. “All nonsense, I say. Now in the Redding robbery Messenger Montgomery resisted. What did he get? Why, a system full of lead. He didn’t save the treasure. He didn’t do liimself any service, and the good opinion of the company is nothing to a dead man. I say it’s all right to give up when a gun is at your head. There’s nothing else to do. ¡Shoot your highwayman when he runs if you t?an, but look out for your own hide. You’ll never get another. ” “Are the authorities severe upon stage-robbers in California?” queried a Philadelphian. “Oh, hot very,” answered the tierce-looking one. “In the first place, they usually do not catch them. Two boys, frightened, half to death, stopped a Stage near Cazadero the other day. They trembled so that they couldn’t get the quaver out of their voices for a week, and this gave them away. They were sentenced to two years each. As to the Redding robbery, the comparatively innocent lad who was led into it was captured. His elder brother, the one who killed Montgomery and got the booty, is still at large. The San Andreas murderer, who shot into a stage a few weeks ago and riddled a young lady passenger, has never come to light. No. California is not particularly hard on stage-robbers.” “Coming back to the Berkeley case,” remurked the quietest member of tho loungers, “the pair of brigands were audacious enough to have trained under Jesse James. I do not blame the men for. yieldipg,... When rqbb^ ^re so desperate as to make spch an iittack in daylight, and in the midst of a crowd, they are desperate enough for anything. I was in the big Blue Cut holdup on the Rock Island raili;oad years ago. It was done by the James crowd, and I want to say that the barrel of the six-shooter I gazed into looked bigger than a joint of stove pipe. Some of ns had been 'boasting tho night beforé what we would do in just such an emergency, but we didn’t do it. We attempted to crawl under seats and tJirough windows, and many forgot to hide their watches and money. Oh, it’s easy enough to sit around a hotel and brag, but the man who refuses to acknowledge the potency of the drop the other fellow has on him is a bigger fool than I am. But I don’t mean to be personal, no indeed.” And the quiet man looked apologetically about to see if he had hurt any one’s feelings.—San Francisco Examiner. _ A DESPERATE YOUNG MAN. The Rejected Suitor Carries Out His Aw-tul Threat. “Tell me, my daughter,” said Mr. Munn, with some anxiety in his manner, as he led his only child to a seat in the parlor, “wasn’t young Mr. Gasket here last night?” “Yes, papa. Why do you ask?” “Did you and he have a quarrel?” “No, papa, not a quarrel exactly. But tell me! Has anything happened to him?” “Did he or did he not propose marriage to you?” “Yes, he did, papa,” replied the girl,* now thoroughly alarmed. “Do tell me if anything has happened to him. Has he committed sui ” ^ j “What was your repl|r, daughter? Did you accept him?” “No, papa. Has his body been dis-cov ” “Did you give him any encouragement whatever?” “No, sir. Did he shoot himself, or ” “You rejected him finally and irrevocably, did you?” “Yes, papa, and he said he’d go and do something desperate, but I didn’t ^Ink he’d make away with himself. Ó, papa, isn’t it awful?” “Yes, it’s awfuL I suspected that you had rejected him when I heard what he had done to-day.” “O, papa, do you think I shall be arrested for it?” “O, dear no. You didn’t have to marry him just "because he ^ked you.” “But tell'ine'what he ' has ‘done, papal” “He’s gone to work.”—Detroit Free Press. _ ^—^Tailor—“I am afraid your suit won’t be finished by Wednesday, sir.” Clauson—“But Great Scottl man, I am to naiKTy.nn.;heiress on that day.” Tail-or-^.‘‘Tl^at.:jnakes a difference. ‘ Yon may ooniit on mo to have it thert.'”— Clothier and Furnisher. _ «a PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. —Ex-Gov. Nícholl», of Lotiisiana, who has be<?n appointed chief ja.stice of tho supreme court of tliat state, is a graduate of West Point, and loe»t a leg, an arm, and an eye in the conf»?tierate service. He is a nephew e»f James Rodman Drake, the well known American poet, author of “The Culprit Fay,” —A young wocrian in Klatne, Me., whose father died in Amiersonvilla prison, draws a govemment pension on that account, and she needs iL She ia only 28^ears old, but her chest measure is 6.5 inches, waist 61 inehea, and she weighs 415 pounds. She i» unable to stand longer than a minute or two. —^Joseph Arch, the leader of the agri-laborer»’' unions of England, in a weak and worn man of 66, who has thcrongWy exhausted in him efforts to gain pcilitical power and recognition for the teáléro fit)oú the farma. .He_is a self-H^ucated man, and known what it is to have labcnred from sunrise .to'siros^ fóir'dO tsents' a day. —Lady Paget, wife of the British axn-ibassadcsr to the Austrian court, has become a ocmvert to vegetariamsm. She .is^id ,to Imve . pcnoonqed the use of flesh meat on humane' grounds, but e different complexi»^'so to'speak, in given to the anncmiieement by her ex-^•planatxon vegetarians have usually a very clear and fr^nently beautiful skin. ' ’ ' "' —Fannie Kemble at 82 is a sadly broken womaoir - ¡8>»e eannot. write n letter except when a friendly hand guides the pen aci^s the j>aper for her, and all the spirit and vivacity for which the great actress was onon .famous have left her. Shco no longer enjoys music except to listen to it, and her reading is limited to the Bible and a few religions books. —A careful woman dwells in Canterbury, N. H. She has had a lamp-chimney in constant use for twenty yeara^ and it is still without a flaw. «Another careful woman has her home in Porto Richmond, Staten Island. She wan married sixteen years ago, and began her married life with two rows of pina. She has thirty-seven of them yet, and would be perfectly happy if she could find three missing pins. -—Horace Daniels, of New London, made his heirs happy by willing to them a neat little fortune of $400,000, the only trouble with which is that it cannot not be found. Mr. Daniels wAa a jolly fellow, who, fearing that hia heirs might go to law over their legacies, had spent all he had before he died, leaving nothing but the indications of his intentions to console those who mourned his lc»s. —The most conspicuous woman composer of the present time is Mile. Augusta Holmes, who lives in Paris among her trophies, medals, wreaths and framed decorations. She is said to be a regal creature with ‘intense devotion her art. It will be remembered that im 1889 the government of France, hea adopted country, made a grant of 300,- 000 francs for the production of be* “Ode Triomphale.” v —A college graduate, hard up in Louisville, was compelled to accept a positioff as driver on a street railway. His natural politeness did not desert him. Whenever a lady on the street lifted a hand to summon him to halt fo» her, he gracefully lifted his hat. Ona day, a lady waiting on a corner, and da* siring to ride, chanced to hav# Itn handkerchief in her hand, and waved Ito at him. He not only lifted his hat, buto droppied the reins a moment until witB his disengaged ha^d he threw a kiss tofl her. He imagined she was flirting witoli bins. ’ ■» , —A quick courtship is chronicled by a Georgia paper. A man sto^iped at a house in Douglasaville and asked a lady for a glass of water. When ho had quenched his thirst he asked- her if she was married or single. She replied widow. On which the man said he was a widower in search of a wife. “Walk in,” answered the widow, “and we will talk the matter over.” One hour later the twain were made one by the nearest minister. —Sir Edward Watkin, of Channel tunnel fame, is accustomei to say that the safest place in which to spend an hour or two is an express train on one of the main railways. This is confirmed by the fact that last year only four persons were killed on all the railways of the United Kingdom, whereas in thA streets of London alone 147 deaths and' to 784 personal injuries resulted from ac-rldental circumstances connected with vehicular traffic. —A man living in Minneapolis has $600 worth of wooden legs and arms and wears them all himsell His left arm and both legs are gone, and all but the stump of a thumb on his right hand. Yet he can write a good hand, gets about briskly and does more business than, many a whole man. —This story is told of the famous bandmaster, P. S. Gilmore: When a young man he qngagpd a room for a few nights, but was untiihle to sleep because of a piano in the next house, which was kept going all night long. A lady in the adjoining room to Gililiore also owned a piano. He borrowed It one night and found peace and quiet thereafter by simply playing. “I’m tired now, and sleepy, too.” —According to Rogers, the poet Vernon was the person who invented the story about the lady being pulverized in India by a sunstroke. When he was dining there with a Hindoo, one of his host’s wives was suddenly reduced to ashes, upon which the Hindoo rang the bell and said to the attendant who answered it: “Bring fresh glasses and sweep np your mistress.” | —At the time of his retirement from active service, June 1st, Gen. David Sloan Stanley was commander of the department of Texaá 'Hd' is a roldiar of excellent Yé¿6rd in the rebellion and on the frontier. He was graduated from West Point in 1853,* and from 1855 until 1861, when he was promoted to a captaincy, ho passed tho greater part ol* the time in the saddle in the far west». In 1859 General Scott complimented hiqto for A successful engagement with tobA 1 Comanchea --- ‘

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