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DEATH REVEALS IDENTITY.
A cablegram from London says the
Countess of Stradbrooke, whose death
has just taken place In that country,
was the peeress who was the cause of
the arrest of Edmund Yates, the An
glo-American Journalist who was the
proprietor and editor of the London
World. It was on her account that
he was convicted of criminal libel
and sentenced to a year's imprison
ment. Yates would have escaped the
penalty by giving the name of the
writer of the libelous paragraph. This
COUNTESS OF STRADBROOKE.
he declined to do. The libel in ques
tion was to the effect that Lord Lons
dale, then, as now, a married man,
had eloped from the hunting field with
an unmarried girl. Lady Grace Fane,
now Countess of Londosborough. It
was a paragraph for which there was
not a shadow of foundation and which
originated in the lively imagination
of the countess. The Countess was
Miss Helena Fraser, daughter of Gen
eral Keith Fraser of the British army,
and was married to the Earl of Strad
brooke In July, 1893.
OVER THE FALLS IN A BOAT.
Mrs. Anna Edson Taylor, a dancing
teacher, has demonstrated that a per
son may dance over the great horse
shoe fall In Niagara in a barrel and
come out alive. But the proof she ha3
given has & very limited scope. People
who would not have believed that the
feat she performed was possible still
have reason enough to think that the
chances are overwhelmingly against
the barrel experts and not worth tak
ing on the promise of dime museum
profits.
While the success of the woman Is
not difficult to explain the possibility
of following her course is quite an
other affair. By sheer good fortune
she escaped a smashing on the rocks
above the falls and was carried clear
over to the very deep water under
neath. The barrel, which was heaTtly
weighted, sank where sinking merjit
safety and came out but slightly dam
aged, though there had been some
leakage and the carefully protected oc
cupant was severely hurt.
DEAN FARRAR S VIEWS.
The Dean of Canterbury says that
the working people are leaving the
Episcopal church on account of its
tendency to spectacular ritualism.
Dean Farrar said that the church in
fluence over the poorer people, par
ticularly in the slums of larger cities,
will soon be lost unless the church
ritual is simplified and many cere
monies abolished. Taking exactly the
opposite stand, a large number of
REV. DEAN FARRAR..
American Episcopal clergymen insist
that it is the dignity and grandeur
cf the service which Influences the
people of the slums.
Occupation In Norway.
Sixty per cent of the population of
Norway live by agriculture, 15 per cent
by manufacturing and lumbering, 10
per cent by commerce and trade, 5 per
cent by mining, and the remainder are
In the professions and the army and
navy and engaged in different employ
ments. Mad a Fortune Smngrgrlina;.
Mme. Nina La Belle, a French
woman, boasts that she has made a
fortune smuggling
diamonds Into the
United States. She
takes them from
London to Canada,
there being no Im
port duty on them
in the lntton smm-
SCrnt; try and then send3
them by express
across the line.
She says the cus
toms officials seldom inspect express
ackages, especially when the value
narked on them is less than $500.
American Monument to Raleigh.
A movement Is on foot In North
Carolina, prompted by the tobacco
lealers. to erect a statue of Sir Wal
ter Raleigh in Raleigh. Collection box
's are to be placed in stores where
tobacco Is sold.
Wire fences were In limited use in
the neighborhood of Philadelphia as
tar back as 1816.
News and Views
THE MISSION OF MR. REDMOND.
John E. Redmond, member of ths
British Parliament, has come to th-3
United States, it is said, In quest of
funds to defray the expenses of the
Irish parliamentary party, who, under
the British constitution, are not paid
for their services to the empire. The
American people have always been In
hearty sympathy with Ireland's aspir
ations for home rule, and, although
the feeling of prejudice against Great
Britain that once prevailed has abated,
there is still among all Americans a
kindly feeling toward the land from
which we have derived so much that
is most valuable In our citizenship,
and which was so long the victim of
rank Injustice at the hands of its
stronger neighbor. But the Ireland of
today is not the Ireland of forty or
fifty years ago; if it were Mr. Red
mond would be more likely to be now
occupying a cell in Kiimainham than
in first class American hotels. The
time has probably gone by when the
Irish in America could be induced to
give up their jnoney to promote il
lusionary schemes of revolution.
There are heavy enough drains upon
their liberality without contributing
to the support of professional con
spirators, who exploit the trusting
patriotism of their -countrymen for
their own emolument. -It is because
Mr. Redmond is not the man of that
class that he wi'.l receive a hearty wel
come to the United States. Brooklyn
Times.
EDWARD'S SPECIAL GUARD. '
William Melville- a member cf the
famous Scotland Yard police detect
ives, has been made a special guard
for King Edward VII. He has under
his supervision a squad known a3 the
Royal Guard, all plain clothes men.
WILLIAM MELVILLE.
This guard consists of twenty-five of
the best detectives in Great Britain
Minister Wu No Traitor.
The Athenians ostracized ArisMdes
because they got tired of hearing him
called the Just, and were afraid that
the general favor in which he was held
was more than could be safely allowed
to any citizen In a democracy, and
now the Chinese want to recall Min
ister Wu, who has done more for them
than any other representative they
ever had In a foreign capital, .because
they think that he is altogether too
popular here. It is easy to laugh at
the Athenians and the Chinese, but
they are not alone in their folly. There
are citizens of Brooklyn who hesitate
to vote for Seth Low because they are
tired of hearing about his civic vir
tues. Washington Post.
Actress at SO.
Mrs. Anne Hartley Gilbert, the
"grandma" of the stage, is still indus
triously pursuing her profession at
the advanced age
of SO. Mrs. Gilbert
Is with Annie Rus
sell In "A Royal
Family." Sue is
frankly and de
lightfully old, but
time has dealt
gently with her
and her powers of
endurance are re
markable. Her
debut was made with the old school
of actors, when she was a mere girl,
and now as an old woman she plays
in a modern company. She has out
lived the manager who once called her
"grandma;" she has outlived the as
sociations of youth, but Mrs. Gilbert
at heart !a young, and perhaps that is
the secret of her success.
Women In New York.
The Women's Municipal League of
New York Is actively' engaged in rais
ing funds to further the interests of
the fusion campaign against Tam
many. They are distributing pam
phlets showing how vice is being pro
tected under Tammany rule and It is
for this purpose chiefly that they are
raising a campaign fund.
I s Dowager Duchess.
The dowager duchess of Newcastle
is one of the great ladies of London
who is actively engaged In philan
thropic works in
the east end, where
she Is simply ador
ed by the factory
girls who come in
for so large a share
of her care. Many
years ago she se
ceded to the Roman
church and she is
naturally most in
terested with the
charities connected
with that body. The duchess has
been twice married, her second
husband being Thomas Hohler,
who died in 1892. Her father wa3 the
late Henry Hope of Deepdene, Dork
ing. Deepdene is now the property
of Lord Francis Hope, the duchess of
Newcastle's second son, and is let by
him to Lily, duches of Marlborough.
Motor cars of a designedly he&ry
build are to repla railway projected
in the Kongo Free State.
THE CRIME OF CZOLGOSZ.
Among men of some degree of edu
cation and of calm judgment there
has been less than might be expected
of that feeling of personal hostility
towards Czolgosz which has animated
the general public. These mor
thoughtful persons have esteemed him
too insignificant a creature to be the
object of personal hate. They have
looked on him as an irresponsible In
strument in the hands of a malevolent
fate. They have had no more desire
to wreak fierce personal vengeance on
him than on some insect the law oi
whose being it is to sting as upon
a wasp or a mosquito.
From the point of view of those
persons the assassin was a poor.
wretched, half-educated degenerate
He had no employment and did not
desire employment. He was not on
of the "good working people" whose
enemy he falsely says McKinley was
He was a non-moral creature with a
brain half crazed by the wild theo
ries of violent anarchism. He fancied
that he could overturn the social or
der with a pistol shot, or that he
could gain by making the attempt to
do it a notoriety honest labor never
could secure for him. .
A piece of wood or iron or even a
wretched insect might disarrange cost
ly and delicate machinery. The whole
fabric might be thrown out of gear
for a time or even wrecked. It might
have to be repaired at great cost, while
many men were thrown out of employ
ment. Sensible people would not
cper.d their time In storming at thd
cause of the damage. They would re
pair the works and endeavor to de
vise methods for protecting the ma
chinery from disturbance by other
such iusects or interferences In the
future.
Czolgorz has been properly execut
cd. No one should say his punish
ment was inadequate. It was the pun
ishmcnt impassive justice has pre
scribed fcr his offense. He was a ven
omous worm differing in infamy from
the other anarchistic worms in that
he sought notoriety by murdering a
ruler while they talked of doing it.
The notoriety he coveted should be
denied him as far as possible.
A matter of more importance than
the denunciation of Czolgosz ha3 to be
attended to. That la the devising of
methods for the better protection of
future Presidents from small anar
chistic creatures of the Czolgosz type.
Chicago Tribune.
SOUTH AMERICA FOR AMERICANS.
The German caval officer who would
order Americans to keep hands off iii
America and who would build a fleet
to enforce his order probably had at
least one stein too much on board
when he indulged his warlike humor
in menacing speech. Such vaporings
are about as sensible as those that
used to emanate from British naval
heroes up to a quarter of a century
ago. They are no indication of the
purposes of the German government.
which will not set up German inter
ests In the five republics of Central
America with gun and sword; they ex
rite no sympathy among German im
migrants in any part of America.
Wherever Germans go they become
loyal citizens, just as they do in tha
United States, and an interesting case
in point is furnished by Brazil's ex
perience with them as it is described
by Colonel Bryan, our minister to
that country. Colonel Bryan estimates
the German population of Brazil at
a quarter of a million. Many of the
immigrants, he says, have become Bra
zilian citizens and are taking an ac
tive part in Brazilian politics as Bra
zilians. They are not planning a se
cession of the state or states where
their Influence is greatest so that they
may thus attach themselves once mora
to the German empire. They believe
in Brazil for the Brazilians, in Amer
ica for the Americans. N. Y. Times.
MARRIAGE AND COOKERY.
Judge Deuel of the Essex Market
police court in New York is not only
a wise but a closely observing magis
trate. When Morris Morgalstein, es
corting Rebecca Gross, appeared be
fore him and declared his wish to
marry her because she could cook such
"a lofely dinner," the judge consented
promptly, and added, "Good cooking
will sometimes reach a man's heart
when poetry and sentiment won't. Old
maids might grasp at this as a straw,
but all women ought to know it."
Of cour.iv they should and most of
them do, though they are usually a
long time finding it out. Morris and
Rebecca will enter upon the holy state
of matrimony not looking "through a
glass darkly," but seeing each other
"face to free." They have no illusions
to be removed. .They will begin wed
ded life ufen a secure foundation, and
so long as Rebecca's hand retains Its
culinary ciTnning Morris will be a de
voted husband and she will be a hap
py wife. It Is an ideal arrangement
which eld . maids may well consider
and which all women should know
before it is too late. New York Sun.
The Philippine Cable.
The most stupendous undertaking
of modern times, the laying of the new
Pacific cable, will be undertaken be
fore the close of the present year, and
within nine months this country will
be in telegraphic communication with
Honolulu and a year later with Ma
nila. It will approach a globe-circling
achievement, for it will be tha
connecting link between the existing
Hne3 that will place all parts of the
world In communication with each
other. And a pretty long link it will
be, for the distance to be traversed
by the cable will be 6,912 miles. Tha
completion of this line will bring the
aggregate telegraphic system of te
world up to a total of 164,586 miles;
all of which, with the exception of
16,171 owned by various governments,
will be under the control of private
corporations.
Professor W. D. Gibbs of the Ohio
State University has been elected pro
fessor of agriculture and director of
the experiment station at the New
Hampshire College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts at Durham, N. H.
TINTYPES MAY PREYnwlCATE.
Seaeoast and Foreign Labels Stumped
on the foyers.
When tii? tintype man came out with
the pictures he asked the young cou
ple what address they would like
stamped on the red paper cover. They
didn't seem to understand the ques
tion and he repeated it. "I can put od
any place you like," he added. "I am
provided with rubber stamps, witt
which I can stamp the name of every
town of importance from Coney Island
to Constantinople, and I can fill la
the date to suit my customers. Here
is my local stamp. It says, 'In Old
Coney Island.' I don't use that, how
ever, nearly so often as the seacoast
and foreign labels. They come In handy
for people who like to put up a bluff
that they have been further away from
home than they really have. These
social frauds are a little late in begin
ning their deception this year, owing
to the backwardness of the season, but
today has brought a rush of business
and the Long Branch and Atlantic City
stamps have been overworked. The
outlook is good for an unusually large
crop of pretenders who are going to
make their friends think they have
oeen away this summer. To back them
up in their assertions they are going
to lay in a good supply of tintypes.
For the last two or three seasons peo
ple who leave New York for a day or
a week or a month of the year have
made a practice of getting their pic
tures taken in every town visited, as
a souvenir of the trip. All this photo
graphing would be expensive if high
class artists were always patronized, so
in order to curtail the cost the ambi
tious travelers look up the tintype
men. This habit of economy has been
a blessing to me as well as to the stay-at-homes.
A regular photograph would
bear the name of the artist as well as
the address, and thus make deception
impossible, but most tintypes look
alike, no matter where taken, so all I
have to do is to finish the picture and
stamp on any address desired. In that
respect I am the best friend of the im
pecunious. It isn't everybody who would
take the trouble to humor their foibles,
but I go on the practice that a man
who has not enough amiability to ac
commodate his customers has no right
to be in business, and so I help them
whenever and however possible. What
place did you say? Coney Island or "
The maid looked at the man sheepish
ly. "Let's put it New Haven," she
said. "That will sound better than
Coney Island." New York Press.
LINCOLN'S AVENGER.
Some Stories Illustrating Huston Cor
bett'a Impulsiveness and Courage.
Sallie Biuner Houston telis the Smith
County (Kan.) Pioneer a curious story
of how she received the news of the
assassination of Lincoln, Garfield and
McKinley. She was 4 years old at the
date of the assassination of Lincoln,
but she remembers that when the news
came to her father's farmhouse she
"leaned up against the big fireplace
and cried," while her mother "wiped
her own eyes with her apron." Of
the assassination of Garfield Mrs.
Houston relates this story: "At that
time we were living on our farm six
miles south of Concordia, this state.
Several of the family. Including my
self, were sitting in the yard with Bos
ton Corbett, the man who shot the as
sassin of Lincoln. At that time Cor
bett lived on a farm near us. While
we sat there my father came from
town and brought the news of the
shooting of President Garfield. Every
one who remembers Corbett remem
bers his impulsive nature. He was
quick as a cat. The news seemed to
electrify him. He Jumped to his feet,
saying: 'I wish I were there.' We all
knew what he meant. There would
have been no trial for Guiteau. All
who ever knew Boston Corbett knew
that he would have shot Guiteau on
the spot had he oeen there. It was
about this time that Corbett was ar
rested on complaint of some of his
neighbors for some petty offense and
taken to Concordia for trial before a
justice of the peace. He thought that
he wa3 not getting Justice, so he drew
his ever-ready revolver and ordered
them out and thus cleared the court
room. He then mounted his little
black pony and went home. There
was a great deal of talk of having him
rearrested, and several persons went
to his home to do so, but did not have
the courage to do so. As they always
returned without him, the case was
finally dropped."
Anarchist Elected In Rome.
The Camera dl Lavoro a body en
tirely composed of workingmen, but
recognized officially by the municipal
ity of Rome, from which it receives
600 lire subsidy per month, might be
translated into English as "trades
union." It has between 8,000 and
9,000 members on its rolls, but only
some 2,500 took part in the elections
last week. The battle was between
the socialists single-handed and an
alliance of Republicans and anarch
ists, and the result 'was the complete
victory of the coalition. Five repub
licans and three anarchists headed the
list; the beaten socialists obtained only
the three seats allotted to the minor
ity. The fact has its importance, for
it signals the first appearance of the
anarchists in the public life of Rome
less than two years since an interna
tional congress was held here to de
vise measures for their suppression
and just a year after one of their party
assassinated the King of Italy. Lon
don Tablet.
tlonors Easy.
She "You know, John, you promis
ed me a sealskin wrap and " 'He
"And you promised to keep my stock
ings darned, and you haven't done it"
She "Well, you don't mean to say
you'll break your promise on that ac
count?" He "Well, it's just like this:
You don't give a darn, and I don't give
a wrap." Philadelphia Press.
Compressed Air.
The latest application of compressed
air to human comfort is seen in a bar
Der's shop in New York. At each of
the barber's stands there is a small
rubber tube with a screw nozzle. The
tubes connect with a large tank filled
with compressed air in the rear of the
ehop. When the barber finishes shav
ing a customer he attaches the ? ? ? ?
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"Ed" Stohes is dying dying of old
age, and perhaps regrets. In a few
days, as days go, he will cross to that
unknown to which he sent "Jim" Fi.sk
thirty years ago. There will be left
then of a trio only a woman a broken-down
woman, "Josie" Mansfield.
Thirty years ago, "Josie" Mansfield
(riumphca over t:e honor, the busi
ness affairs, the reputations and the
eternal happiness of "Ed" Stokes and
"Jim" Fisk. She plunged the affairs
of the Erie railroad and Jay Gould
into a whirlpool of litigation, scandal
and shame that ended in murder.
Fisk is dead. Gould is at rest.
Stokes Is dying. The Mansfield lives
abroad in Paris.
From 1SC0 to 18C7 she lived in Bos
ion in good society, she always
claimed. In 1867 she secured a di-
vorce from her husband, a man by the
name of Lawlor, and went upon the
stage. She could not act, but men
could look at her and her tigress
oeauty. She appeared in New York,
but did not succeed. She solicited an
audience with "Jim" Fisk. She was
penniless then and only possessed the
A MEMORABLE CABINET.
When the Confederate States gov
ernment was organized, in February,
1861, Jefferson Davis named as his
cabinet Robert Toombs, secretary of
state; Charles G. Memminger, secre
tary of the treasury; L. Pope Walker,
secretary of war; S. R. Mallory, secre
tary of the navy; John H. Reagan,
postmaster general, and Judah P. Ben
jamin, attorney general. Before the
year ended, R. M. T. Hunter had suc-
eeded Toombs as secretary of state.
nd Judah P. Benjamia succeeded
Walker as secretary of war.
In 1862 Benjamin became secretary
of state, James A. Seddon secretary of
war, and Thomas H. Watts became at
torney general, to be succeeded in 1863
by George Davis. In 1864 George A.
Trenholm succeeded Memminger as
secretary of the treasury, and in Jan
aary, 1S65, General John C. Breckin
ridge became secretary of war, Seddon
resigning because of criticism by the
Virginia legislature.
All of these cabinet officers, except
Reagan, are dead. Toombs died in
1885. Hunter in 1887, Memminger In
1888, Breckinridge in 1875. Of the cab
inet officers with Mr. Davis from first
lo last, Mallory died in 1S73, Benjamin
n Paris in 1884, and Reagan, the sole
survivor of them all, is reported by
ihe daily press to be fighting his last
3ght against death, at the age of 83.
Benjamin was the only one of the
Davis cabinet who declined to accept
the situation after the war. He went
ibroad in 1865 and lived abroad until
Ms death. Hunter acted with the
Democratic party, and ju3t before his 1
The King Alfred, one of the costliest
jrar ships In the British navy, and
ilso the largest cruiser in the world,
was launched with success the other
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clothes era her back, but her animal
beauty remained with her.
He built her a palace at 329 West
Twenty-third street, and there he and
his friends reveled night after night,
and there in time came Edward S.
Stokes. Stokes was of good birth and
breeding, a Wall street clerk of hand
some personality and features, whom
Fisk took a fancy to one day and
made his protege.
Fisk thought that Stokes was about
to betray him. He therefore forced
down the stocks in which the latter
was interested. Stokes was thus al
most financially ruined. It was said
at the time that the woman in the
case told toke3 to kill Fisk.
However this may have been. Stokes
left her house the afternoon of Jan.
6, 1872. He went to the Grand Cen-
tral Hotel, where he stationed himself
in the corridor of the parlor floor,
carelessly walking up and down, and
not appearing to be interested in any
thing in particular. The main stair
case was In front of him.
Thus stationed he saw Fisk enter
and start up the stairs. The latter
death was appointed to a Federal of
fice by President Cleveland.
Reagan was the only member of the
cabinet captured with Mr. Davis, but
soon after his capture he wrote an
open letter to the people of Texas ad
vocating laws which should grant ne-
EX-SENATOR REAGAN,
groes civil rights and political rights
with an educational qualification. This
letter greatly excited the Democrats of
Texas, but in 1874 they elected Mr.
Reagan to congress, where he became
conspicuous in interstate commerce
legislation. In 1887 he took his seat in
the United States senate, and since
that time has been one of the most
pronounced nationalists in the South.
ill'
THE LARGEST FIGHTING SHIP AFLOAT.
day at Barrow-in-Furness, where the
keel was laid down early this year.
The King Alfred, It is expected, will
not only be the largest but the fleetest
vvas seveu steps ' up when he sa
Stokes, LI3 right arm resting on the
standard at the head of the stairs, 9
pistol in his hand. Without speaking
Stokes fired twice. The first bullet
took effect in the abdomen, the second
in the left arm. Fisk fell to the floor.
Stokes walked away, but was capturec
before he couJd leave the hotel.
Fisk was carried upstairs, and Jay
Gould and "Boss" Tweed came to bia
bedside. He died the next day, but
"Josie Mansfield was not with him.
Instead came his wife and his broth
ers, and they remained with him to
the end.
Colonel "Jim" Fik was buried with
honors such as New York bestowed
upon few men. Tweed blubbered and
even Gould cried. Stokes remained In
prison. He hired the beet counsel in
EDWARD STOKES.
the land and was tried three times,
the last time being convicted of man
slaughter in the third degree. Grover
Cleveland pardoned him from prison
in 1877 after he had served four years.
Something of his fortune was left, and
on that be has lived an earth pariah
ever since. He is at the home of a
Eister, now dying.
The Mansfield woman fled to Boston
after Fisk's death. From there she
removed to Paris. In 1891 she mar
ried Robert L. Reade, formerly of Min
neapolis and New York. Since then
she has lived in comparative obscur
ity. She is wealthy moet of her mon
ey came out of Fisk and Stokes.
All of Mr. Lincoln's two cabinets are
dead, so that Mr. Reagan is the sole
survivor of all the cabinet officers of
the great war period.
The distinguiBhed Texan Is a type of
southern gentleman that is rapidly
passing away. He was born 83 year
ago in Tennessee, and drifted, when
almost a boy, into this section of the
country. In 1856 Texas sent him to
Congress, and four years later he re
signed his seat to becomo pott master
general and secretary of the treasury
In Mr. Davis' cabinet.
t:
t'nlque Jtanqoet for Carnegie.
Next December at Hoboken. N. J..
Andrew Carnegie will be given a
unique banquet on the completion of
the new laboratory of engineering of
Stevens Institute, to which he gave
165,000. Molds are now being made
fc the bread which will be used. It
will be made in the shape of railroad
spikes. The ice cream will be mad
in the shape of T rails, fried oysters
will be taken from a miniature locomo
tive, and when the blast furnace Is
tapped there will issue from It punch
instead of molten Iron.
Publishers Take Notice.
Andrew Carnegie is giving away li
braries right and left. If he keeps on
there will hardly be enough books to
fill them. Ex.
A postal card sent from Paris to
Paris via Moscow, Vladivostock and
San Francisco, made the trip around
the world in eighty days, at a coat of
2 cents.
I
cruiser afloat She will cost when
completed, 1,011,759, and something
of her great size may be gathered
when it is said she is 500 feet Ion.
