HE AMERICAN
MICKOGRAPJIS.
it Is stated in one of the dailies of
IV nver, that the Red Handed assassin
Is at work in France, and great politi
cal trouble Is eiperted, and also states.
ail Ute shop windows which hare not The trouble in France, directed es
Thi is a Catholic shop," are in dan-1 pecially against the Jews, seems to be
ger. ,We may easily Infer from that directed at the Roman Catholics. The
where' the Denver paper thinks the ! followers of the pope are mad because
Red Handed man comes from, and it! they have not the power that they
the statements are true be might be 'once had and they wish to put every
right, , . I
The Maine I. rno and now who are
reennnalhla tnr the dMtruitlnn of the
gun .boat Was It improperly built.
or was it the enemy who did it Was
it blown up by a torpedo, or mine out-
side, or a dynamite machine placed
inside. . Spain Is the pope's pet coun
try and the pope has many pets who
are under the shadow of the stars and
stripes. Investigation will probably
settle this question.
In priest Phelan's answer to Dr.
Iee's qaestion, he thin us all the Pro
testants , are. heretics and that he
priest"' "Pheiatf is not a heretic, Is
enough to make a dog not a dog-collared;
man, but a real dog laugh.
Phelan Is a heretic and he is dyed in
the wool, and If Christ, or Peter, or
Paul, were here today, they would tell
Mr. Phelan that he Is a heretic. And,
unless Pheian changes, he will find
my statement Is true before the fire
goes out. And he will also find" there
Is no half-way house, called purgatory.
If things go with him as they have
gone, he will hare a straight ticket
and will not be troubled about any
stop-overs.
The way Vice President Hobart
treated Miss Gonne he would make a
first-class president next time we
place a man in the presidential chair.
I will vote for him now, so as to be
sure my vote is in. Hobart is the man
we want. He has brains, backbone and
business qualifications, and will not
be easily soft-soaped by the flannel
mouthed gentry of monkey fame.
.Put Hobart up now and start the ball
rolling.
Rev.' C." C Phelan lectured in the
People's Temple, Portland, Me., on
"Ideal American , Patriotism." ... This
is not the heretic Phelan of St Louis.
Evangelist HenryiVarley, of England
is now on the war pa 'against Ro
manism. Let the fight go on until
Romanism is shown to be a heresy of
which Priest Phelan, the noted watch
man is one.
-The St. Louis heretic, Phelan, says,
the United States never had any re
ligion I expect he thinks Rome is
full of it, where the Koman Catnollcs
claim, the pope cannot go out because
of belne afraid of being killed. Our
state prisons, and jails are full of re
ligion, because it is the Roman Catho
lics who are there in abundance, and
of course this heretic Phelan is- full of
religion. Some times they say he is
so full of it, when he comes out of a
Roman gin shop, he bows to the lamp
posts. This Phelan should turn over
a new leaf and try to be a gentlemaa
and a scholar once. A.
Wanted a Change or Venue.
Last Saturday a motion was argued
before Judge Buna asking for a
change of venue to some other coun
ty of the House of the Good Shep
herd case.
Attorneys O'Brien and Clapp op
posed it very strenuously. Mr. Butts
showed that, while the population of
St Paul was about 26 per cent. Cath
olics, the Judges, who have the se
lection of the names of the jurors, had
drawn about 55 to 60 per cent Catho
lics, and that it would be impossible
to secure a fair and impartial trial
of Bald case. Mr. Butts also referred
to the testimonial benefit given at the
People's church, for which thousands
of' tickets were given away, in order
to get a crowd, at which John Ireland
4nd others delivered speeches, making
statements that were untrue and mis
leading, to prejudice the public, all of
which has a tendency to prevent the
plaintiff from securing a fair and im
partial jury, and thereby, a fair trial,
Jftid that a just verdict Xxrald never
fete! obtained in Ramsey coanty.
" The attorneys objected very atrenu'
busly to the change, claiming addi
tional expense wonld be Incurred,
which would result in a great hard
ship, etc. Mr. Butta replied by stating
that the institution was located be
tween the two cities, as near to Min
neapolis aa St. Paul, and that to try
the case in Minneapolis would not be
more expensive than at St Paul.
. The judge continued the hearing
until Saturday, March 19.
The manner in which the names of
Jurors are selected is as follows:
, Last October the six Judges selected
400 names, from whlch4number Jur
or are drawn for each term of court
Two of the Judges are Roman Cath
lies, and the lists show that they
have selected a large preponderance
of Catholics.
The other Judges show no dlscrimi
nation, but select from all without dls
crimination. Thus, it can be Been,
with one-third of the Judge Catholic,
and discrimination being shown, It is
easy to get from 60 to 60 per cent of
Catholic on a jury; hence, bo impar
tial trtaL Wa will giv oar reader
fall particulars of tola scheme la ta
near future. The Brew.
Jew I'sder Catfeebc Ba.
thing out of the way to attain that
P?r- They nave great aspiration.
One of the stumbling blocks
In the
way Is the wealth of the Jews. If they
are unable to manage this wealth they
want to destroy it. If -iey wish to
hlr drlUed nd quipped soldiers
from the tour corners or me eann 10
'down" a certain nation, the purse
strings of the wealthy Jew might he
loosened for that nation and the Ro
man Catholics might "get it In the
neck, and that Is something they wish
to avoid. If they possibly can. A Ro
man Catholic has no use for a Jew or
any one else whom they cannot use.
As you study the question in France,
take particular notice of the opposi
tlon to the Jews, the person and the
source from which trouble comes, al
though the Roman Catholic will never
work "above board" when he can work
secretly. - A.
8HARPEXEI SWORDS.
BV H. W. BOWMAN.
Popes are Policy men.
Priests grow rich by fraud. i
Opposing Rome Is a proof of princi
ple. . '
There can be no real love for Amer
ica when the pope is the ruler. ; .
All papists are bigoted no matter
how liberal they may make out to be.
Rome makes it a religious duty to
oppose the public 'chools.
Rome finds slander a better weapon
than a bowle knife. .
Those who would lead men to oppose
Rome must look up her record.
It takes patriotism to stand out
against papal tyranny.
One of Rome's best hiding places is
behind a pile of money.
Take up any of your great world
problems today and you will find the
pope has his finger in the pie.
There Isn't much patriotism in the
heart of the man who aids Rome in
gaining power in this country.
The best remedy for national apathy
is to let Rome introduce some of her
old methods of persecution.
The papal praising college professor
is one of the pope's best workers in this
country.
It is much easier to be contented with
party pandering to Romanism than to
steadfastly oppose it.
A narrow headed bigot is the popes'
idea of a first class man. Thinkers al
ways give the popes trouble.
Where the public school sows one
grain of patriotism the parochial sows
ten tare seeds of treason.
Mr. S. M. White, father of Charles
P. White and Mr. Maud Boyles of this
city, died suddenly this (Friday) morn
ing at the home of his son on Thirty
third street, at tbe advanced age of 75
years. Mr. w nite was one oi me pio
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and favorably known to nearly all the
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lived a great many years with his fam
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of sons and daughters all married to
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THE CWlMt Of MUHDEW.
IM Weefal rrmlMM ftmikNl the
Fait "laeee.
There i not a state or territory in
the Union In which there is not a
trial for murder pending, la the mate
of Kentucky there are forty-seven
cases concerning ninety-one prisoners
for murder awaiting trial. In Virginia
there are at least twenty-three charge
of murder. In the first state only
seven of the men in Jail to be tried
for the capital offense of murder are
negroes, in Virginia there are eight.
North Carolina has twenty cases or
more, Georgia twenty-seven, Louisiana
score, Texas thirty-two or thirty-
three. Missouri twenty-four, Illinois
sixteen, Indiana seven, Michigan three,
Ohio eight, Pennsylvania twenty-six.
New York forty-two, Connecticut.
Rhode Island and Vermont one each.
New Hampshire has Just settled one
of her three by a sentence of thirty
years Imposed upon a erased assassin.
California has twenty-seven cases on
her docket, and, altogether, with a
dozen, more or less, there are 280
charges of murder on the criminal
docket of the various states sad ter
ritories. Some of these have only
passed as yet from the hands Of,, the
coroner or ' committing magistrates,
others are on trial, some are on ap
peal, and a few have gone through all
the judicial procedure and the con
victed men are only awaiting the exec
utive action of the law to complete
their record. There is no dominating
cause of these crimes, unless It be
that In the large cities they are more
frequently connected with robbery.
Love, revenge, madness, pure thirst of
shedding blood gain, jealoiiBy, polit
ical wrangles, family feuds and drunk
en brawls are a few of the sources
from which the homicidal acts have
origin. Some seem not to have even
the plea of madness, to which so many
of the causeless crimes are referred.
It is a mooted point whether legal pun
ishment has any deterrent effect upon
crime, but no ooe can note the terribly
suggestive figures given above with
out an earnest wish that punishment
have a real test Philadelphia Times
HERMIT IN A BIG CITY.
. a
Why an Old Lady Has Shut Heraelf Off
' from tha World.
Various, Indeed, are the ways In
which eccentric people indulge their
little peculiarities, but a decidedly
original manner has been adopted by
an old lady living here, says a Paris
letter to the London Telegraph. On
one of the grand boulevards stands a
house with closed shutters and fasten
ed door. Scarcely a sign of life is there
about the place and the house has re
mained in a simillar state over a quar
ter of a century.
The owner Is an old lady, who, on
Sept 4. 1870, the day on which the re
public was proclaimed, resolutely deter
mined that no one affected by republic
an ideas should ever cross the threshold
of her dwelling. To avoid any such
contingency Bhe simply declined
to allow any one inside and has refused
all offers to hire either apartments or
the shop below. The only time she
breaks through her hard and fast rule
is when workmen are permitted to en
ter in order to carry out repairs.
Painters, carpenters, locksmiths and
masons once a year In turn invade her
privacy and make good any damage
To relatives whose political tendencies
are the same as her own she is partlc
ularly gracious, but at the death of
each one an apartment in the building
is sealed up end now all are closed
barring the very small one at the back
of the house, which the anti-republic
an hermit reserves for her own use and
that of her three servants. This
strange behavior on the part of an old
lady has repeatedly excited comment
and numerous have been the attempts
of people to gain an entrance by some
ruse or other. All their efforts are
foiled by an aged servant who guards
the front door with dragon-like vigil
ance, and the would-be intruder soon
flftds the portals slammed In his face
and himself none the wiser for his
curiosity.
NO CORRECT MAP OF CUBA
Spanish Government Baa Been Woefully
NegMaent In Thle Respect.
From the New York Sun: Any
landsman who tries to buy a good map
of Cuba will learn the surprising fact
that no such map has ever been made
and that eyeo its coasts are for the
most part either uncharted at" all 'or
charted ao carelessly and incorrectly
that the captains of vessels in ' ap
proaching any except a few of the Is
land's most Important harbors - are
forced to rely almost exclusively on
such information as their own eyes and
sounding lines will supply. This may
not seem like a very important mat
ter, especially to those who are accus
tomed to think of Cuba as an out-of-the-way
part of the world, in which
many characteristics of a new and un
explored region are pardonable. In
reality, however, this lack of maps and
charts showa the quality of Spanish
rule as clearly as do the murders of
nonnombatants or the wholsale mis
appropriation of public funds about
which every correspondent baa. so much
to say. As countries In the new world
go, Cuba is very old. The Spaniards
began to explore it in 1492, and since
1511, except for a single year, they
have had uninterrupted possession of
it And In 400 years they have not had
time enough to spare from the task of
draining the Island's resources even to
survey its coast. The Idea of adding
Cuba to the civilized world never oc
curred to them. The only thought was
to establish at Havana and in a few
other places great fortresses, by which
the Island could be not governed but
controlled, and anything that would
help general commerce wii carefully
left sndon.
PRESIDENT MAY ENTERTAIN.
at fade Way for Revival of
, I tally MedleM'e rantee-
Sounds of music, dancing and revel
ry may soon be beard again in the fa
mous east room of the white nous.
There Is a promise that the fine old
customs of the days of pretty Dolly
Madison, "when the hours went round
the dial to tha sound of flute and
viol," are to be revived. The pre
ence In the official household of sev
eral pretty nieces, tbe many al tractive
daughters of meintwr of the cabinet
and news of a long list of girls to be
entertained by Vice President and Mrs.
Hobart have set the ball of public
opinion on this subject rolling with
tremendous impetus. Probable con
servative objections of President -r-
Klnley bid fair to be bowled aside by
sheer force of youth and tbe ever In
creasing prosperity that baa put warm.
new blood Into the social arteries of
the capital. Not a week passes when
evenings are not given over to some
one who wishes to play, sing or recite
In the white house. The cabinet fam
ilies assemble with that of the pres
ident, there Is a little alienee, a good
deal of operatic trilling, with a ballad
to finish; or much: prose, some blank
verse, a triolet or two, or Instrumental
interpretations of masters, old and
new. Applause follows, then "aood
nights." All very well for the elder
folk, but deadly dull for the younger
ones. - "Put linen on the east room
floor and call up the Marine band.
Hard times are over. Let the young
people laugh and he glad that the
shadows have drifted." said a aortal
leader. "If everybody is pleased," she
added, "build a ballroom, where not
only American girls and their caval
iers, but little children, beloved - by
Mra. McKlnley, can now and then rule
tbe hour." The society leader recalled
the famous birthday party of Andrew
Johnson, when 300 little folk were hla
guests, crowding the state dining
room for a lordly feast, dancing and
laughing through tbe big house, while
tbe band played a jolly accompaniment
to their pattering feet and bappy
Voices. The last dance aiven in tbe
white bouse was for Mrs. McKee dur
ing General Harrison's administration.
A hundred or more ladlee and gentle
men took part In the gay affair. There
were merriest music, supper and a
general good time.
PEACHES 75 YEARS OLD.
Laborer Discover a Caa - of Preserved
Fruit la aa Old Cellar.
From tbe Philadelphia Record: Can
ned peaches at least seventy-five year
old, which, like wine, seem to have
improved witn long standing, were a
feast a few days ago for the family
of Charles Zellman of Haddington. It
was while digging with fellow work
men tor the cellars of a row of new
houses on ground that was once part
of the old Dal ton farm that Zellman
struck his pick Into a cavity. Inves
tigation revealed a sort of stone-lined
well not more than six feet deep,
which had been covered over and con
cealed. There was a foot of clean cold
water at the bottom, In which stood
an old-fashioned glazed earthenware
Jar, with the lid scaled tightly on with
wax. It was not without some difficul
ty that the Jar was opened, but it. was
finally done by forcing it with the
edge of a spade. The men had ex
pected to see treasure of some kind
and were surprised, not to say dis
appointed, when only bright yellow
peaches met their gaze. The fruit was
perfectly preserved. Zellman claim
ed the prize by right of discovery, and
his family devoured the contents of
the Jar. about two quarts, without re
gard to historic value. Close by the
covered well is the now leveled side of
the old Dalton farm house, abandoned
early in the present century. How the
good wife who put up the peaches hap
pened to forget them in the spring la
more than can be told, nor does Zell
man greatly care.
Weddlns Fee ranee Scandal.
Wedding fees have caused some
thing of a scandal at Cumberland, Md.,
or, if not the fees, the division of
them. It seems that certain clergymen
there have been In the habit of paying
hack men for every couple from across
the state line that may be brought to
them, and the result has been the es
tablishment of a regular system of
what amounted to , little less than
blackmail, The . local ministerial as
aoclaMon has taken the matter up, and
every .parson, in. the, place will aoon he
asked to sign a promise to pay no tips
to drivers for bringing custom of thl
kind. New Tork Times.
A Trala Checker.
A Belgian baa invented an automat
ic train-checker, which has Just been
successfully tested in France. The ap-
nsratus was placed in position at a
distance of 250 yards from the station
It consists of an Immense iron catch,
fastened to the rails and regulated by
wire and lever from the station. When
lying flat traina pass it without dlffl
culty. When raised it catches a lever
suspended from a passing locomotive
The lever automatically opens an air
valve on the engine, and the brakes act
immediately. During the trial the
train stopped before reaching the sta
tion.
He Succeeded.
A Jefferson county man who owned
a small county newspaper made up his
mind that he was entitled to a vaca
tlon and, having fixed upon tbe place
to "put in the time," wrote the presl
dent of a railroad for a pass. In rec
ommendatlon of his paper, he skid:
"My paper ha a wide circulation: it
goes everywhere, In fact I have hard
work to keep it from golni to h 1!
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