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If the stupendous undertaking of
certain English capitalists is carried
out to a successful conclusion Darkest
Africa will become Lightest Africa,
for with the unlimited power of Vic
toria foils on the Zambesia harnessed
and transmuted into electrical energy
(here will be no limit to the possibili
ties resulting therefrom. The breadth
of the falls is 5,400 feet and the fall of
the water is 330 feet to the gorge be
low. This energy now going to waste
is to be utilized and the electricity
generated transmitted over 600 miles
to the gold mines at Johannesburg.
How bold such plan is can be appre
ciated when it is stated that the long
est transmission cf electrical current
up to the present time is only a little
over 150 miles. And so if the project
succeeds it will not only mark a
marvelous development in the hand
ling of the electrical current, but the
labor problem' of the Rand will find
easy solution. The firm of Sir Doug
las Fox and partners are the en
gineers-in-chief of the enterprise,
known as the Victoria Falls Power
company. Limited, the advisory board
including such eminent scientists as
Lord Kelvin, M. Andre Blondel, of
Paris, Dr. Klingenberg, professor at
the Royal Technical college of Berlin,
and Dr. E. Tissot, of Bale, amongst
the engineers associated with them
being Mr. Ralph D. Mershon, of New
York, who has a world-wide reputa
tion in connection with long-distance
electrical transmission, and Mr. Ar
thur Wright, consulting electrical en
gineer to the boroughs of Brighton,
Marylebone and Stepney; while also
connected with the project are such
well-known names as Sir Lewis Mit
chell, general manager of the Stand
ard Bank of South Africa, and Mr. H.
Wilson Fox, manager of the Chartered
company, and originator of the power
scheme. The Victoria falls lend them
selves admirably to the generation of
electricity by hydraulic power, and
the construction of the proposed
works offers no great engineer
ing difficulties. To begin with, elec
trical plant for the production of 50,
000 horse power will be installed,
though the intake and the canal will
bo made large enough for double that
capacity. The intake will be on the
left or northern bank of the river,
above the falls, and the canal will con
duct the water to a spot near the top
of the gorge at the first bend below
the falls. Hence it will be delivered
through steel tubes to the power
house near the water’s edge 350 feet
below. By high tension electric cur
rent, the power will be conveyed to
the Rand, and at the main receiving
station a system of hydraulic storage
will be installed. The object of this
is to store the energy not immediate
ly wanted by pumping water to the
top of a high hill, whence it is re
leased, as required, for the production
of fresh electrical power. Coupled
with this hydraulic storage will be a
steam-driven reserve station, with a
rapacity of 20,000 horsepower, as a
standby in case of temporary inter
ruption of the current from the fails,
another guarantee that users of the
supply will have absolute security for
Its continuity. It is well to remember
that the enterprise will in no way in
terfere with the beauty of the fails,
for the British South Africa company
has fenced off a large area as a pub
lic park, extending some miles along
both banks. The Victoria Falls Pow
er company will have a total capita!
of $30,000,000. The first instalment
of the work will be completed ia two
years, and the company will effect a
saving of $5,000,000 per annum in the
cost of working the mines.
SETTLED IN FEW WORDS.
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Connoisseur Quickly Determined the
Status of Port Wine.
Winter strawberries are raised in
a iarge way by S. E. Jeter, of Hum
boldt. Tenn. In ail the big cities Mr.
Jeter’s strawberries can be bought in
.he coldest weather, and the fruit is
as-, sweet and delicate as that of
June.
“It is one thing to raise winter ber
ries. and it is another thing to raise
good ones—to raise the kind that
don't knot up your face like a mouth
ful of lemon,” said Mr. Jeter.
“You test strawberries as you test
port wine, by the color, the odor, and
the flavor. And there are few winter
berries that will meet this test. It
is like the port wine story.
“A gentleman invited a connoisseur
to try some port that he had just laid
in. T like It myself,’ he said, ‘but I
admit I'm no judge. I’ll feel better
about it after I've heard your opin
ion.’
“ ‘Well,’ said the connoisseur, 'we
judge a glass of port in three wavs:
Mr. H. Wilson Fox. the manager of
the company, is enthusiastic over the
project and in explanation of the
plans to the English capitalists inter
ested he declared that the difficulty
which had been suggested that the
Kaffirs might climb the cable towers
and cut the wires was too absurd j
even to mention.
"The objection has also been ]
made," said Mr. Fox, “that white ants
may eat the coverings of the cables,
but the reply to that is that the cables
will not be covered. Ants will not
climb 60 feet to eat metal, and. if suf
liciently athletic to make the attempt.
I am afraid that they will be bitterly
disappointed with the result.
"At our main receiving-station near
the Rand an entirely new departure
will be introduced through the utiliza
tion of a system of hydraulic storage
So far as we can discover, this ex
pedient has never been previously em
ployed in connection with long-dis
tance transmission.
the mam purpose of tins device
is to prevent waste cf power. In any
industry—and mining is no exception
—there are slack hours. Between
shifts, power is in full swing. Never
theless, the water does not cease tc
fall over the lip of the falls, the tur
bines continue to generate current
and if our customers do not use it
i the power will be wasted. To prevent
| this waste we shall, whenever there is
j spare power available, use it to pump
water into a reservoir at the top of a
j high hill, where it will constitute a re- ;
• serve supply of energy. We can then
j allow it to run down again through .
; pipes to the bottom of the hill, and j
I we shall thus be able to constitute at j
; pleasure an artificial waterfall, and by
i its use regenerate power.
| “When the line reaches the Rand, i*
i will be worked in conjunction with a
! large steam-driven reserve station
I Our customers will therefore have a
; triple security.
“Consider, too, the effect which the
| development of power at the falls up
! on a large scale may have upon the
■ future destinies of South Africa. The
i establishment, of great industries at
| the falls themselves, the supply of
water for irrigation to agriculturists
! and the provision of cheap power tc
i the mines in the Transvaal, will all
; tend to give greater employment tc
! European labor, and will help tc
| redress the balance between white
| and black.”
—
First Coffee in Europe.
Coffee was first publicly drunk in
i England when Ted Edwards opened
; his coffee shop in London in 1C52. He
I imported the idea from Cairo, in
which city cafes have abounded for
! centuries back, there being no fewer
i than 2,000 there in the year 1563.
French coffee, so much in vogue with
certain drinkers, begins its history
with Louis XIV., who drank the first
cup. Taverns for the sale of coffee
were first opened in Paris in 1672, and
in the following reign they had in
creased to the number of 600. The
present yearly consumption to each
person is, in round numbers: Brazil,
14 pounds: Belgium, 11; United
States, 7; Germany, 5; France, 3, and
England 14 ounces.
—
Enemy of Success.
Successful people are usually quite
devoid of humor; indeed, nothing mili
tates against success like a sense ol
humor.—Ladies' Field.
Wife Wears Family Wealth.
In Dutch Guiana the family wealth
is converted into jewelry that the wife
i wears.
First by the color, second by the odor,
and third by the flavor.’
’ He held the glass to the light.
“ ‘The color of this port is very
good,’ he said.
“He snifTed it delicately.
| “ ’The odor,’ he said, ‘is far from
unpleasant. Now for the taste.’
"He sipped the wine, and then put
his glass down hastily.
“ Would you mind passing me the 1
claret?' he said.”
Deutsch has built at his own ex
pense a large airship which recently
maneuvered near Paris and he has of
fered prizes of great value for aero
planes.
be sometimes trimmed, with other
flowers, roses being especially favor
ed, or again ribbon will form the chief
decoration. It has been some time
since the flower petal hat has had a
big vogue.
Proofs to Hand.
Indignant Landlady——Why have you
been declaring to everybody that my
coffee is very poor, Mr. Grouch;
Grouch—I have grounds for the asser
tion. madam.
RIGHT UP TO DATE
modern hotel astonished
DELAWARE FARMERS.
Accustomed to Simplicity of Country
Inns, They Marveled at the Rich
ness Displayed—Course Din
ner Especially Puzzling.
—
One of Delaware's senators is known
to a good many persons in rural parts
of the state from the fact that a hotel
at Dover bears his name. The father
of the senator astonished Delaware
about a quarter of a century ago by
starting a hotel on the modern plan,
the first of the kind that Dover had
ever had and the only one of the kind
that many visitors to the capital had
seen. \
When first opened the house was a
matter of the utmost curiosity to vis
itors. Rural legislators and their
friends looked with astonishment at
its thickly carpeted halls, its many
bathrooms, its heating arrangements,
its electric bells, its lights and all its
modern conveniences.
Hardest of all to understand was
the hotel dining-room. Instead of one
or two long tables it had provision for
seating guests in groups of two, three,
four or more.
This, however, was the smallest in
novation of the hotel dining-room.
Farmers accustomed to drive to town
with a feed of oats in the wagon for
their horses and to dine at the general
table of a small inn at a price some
times as low as 25 cents, never above
hall a dollar, heard with sceptical
astonishment of the doings at the new
hotel. The dinner was served, they
learned, in as many as six courses,
with cheese at the end that smelled
dreadful and coffee without milk in
little cups that did not hold more than
two thimblefuls.
Some of the farmers sneaked in
shame-facedly and tried that dinner,
which, of course, was served at mid
day. The experience of having fish
served as a separate course immedi
ately after the soup was alarming, for
some feared that there might be noth
ing else to come.
Then those queer made dishes that
came after the fish were puzzling. It
was only when the roast came on with
the familiar vegetables that the farm
ers began to feel themselves at home,
and even then the shifting of plates
and knives was embarrassing. They
reckoned the hotel must have a big
bill for dishwashing.
Some noticed that a few guests had
wine bottles at their places, and at
this the farmers from the back coun
try shook their heads, and wondered
what Delaware was coming to. It was
all well enough for a man to slip into
the barroom and gulp a glass of whisky
alone, or with a friend if he happened
to be thirsty, but this thing of drink
ing wine with your meals was a bad
sign.
When the dessert time came every
body ordered everything on the bill
of fare, as. indeed, the farmers had
mostly all the way through the meal,
but the cheese was sent away in haste
untasted, and there was a firm de
mand early in the course of the dinner
for coffee in large cups with milk.
There was a good deal of grumbling
when it was found that, eat as fast as
a man might, he could hardly get
through the dinner in less than half
an hour, and much surprise was ex
pressed that some of the guests sat
the better part of an hour at table.
Those farmers who were not too
much ashamed of what they had done
went home and told their wives abbut
that dinner. The foolish extravagance
of the blamed thing, especially in the
matter of plates and cutlery, tvas
what impressed the popular imagina
tion.
News of the thing traveled all over
the state. There were hotels like that
up at Wilmington everybody had
heard, where you could get your din
ner as late as two o’clock in the after
noon; but nobody expected such an
institution to be set up at Dover. The
senator’s name has for years been con
spicuous in business, but to many of
his constituents it connotes first of all
that new-fangled hotel.
Not For Hi8.
A prominent lawyer who formerly
practiced at the bar of Kansas City
tells of a funny incident in a court
there during the trial in which a cer
tain young doctor was called as wit
nes.
Counsel for the other side in cross
examining the youthful medico gave
utterance to several sarcastic remarks
tending to throw doubt upon the abil
ity of so young a man.
One of the questions was: “You
are entirely familiar with the symp
toms of concussion of the brain?’’
“I am.”
Then, continued the cross-exam
iner, “suppose my learned friend, Mr.
Taylor, and myself were to bang our
heads together, should we get con
cussion of the brain?”
“Your learned friend, Mr. Taylor,
might,” suggested the young physi
cian.—Harper’s Weekly.
Old Fogy Puzzled.
“I don’t know how old it is,” re
marked the old fogy, “but it caught
me all right. It is like this. A man
rushes up to you and asks you just
as if he really wanted to know: ’What
is a spiral staircase?’ When that
happened to me I started to explain
by saying ‘why it goes like this1 at the
same time making an upward rotary
movement with my hand, with the
forefinger extended. I had no sooner
made that motion when the fellow
burst out laughing and left me with
the remark: ‘I thought so. They all
do that. It hasn’t failed yet.’ I was
puzzled at first, but subsequently
learned by experience with others that
practically everybody who is asked the
simple question answers it with the
hand motion. Try it yourself with
anybody and see if I am not right.”
Youthful Chesterfield.
A pupil near Sabetha had been
naughty all day, and the teacher sent
him a note ordering him to stay after
school.
The boy wrote an answer on his
slate, saying: “Dere techer: Except
the oner with pleasure. Always keep
mi engagements with the ladies. Will
be at the tristing place at four p. m._
Sabetha Herald.
MODERN SOLOMON ON BENCH.
_
Billing of a South American Justice in
a Wife Desertion Case.
A judicial decision which rivals
some of Sancho Panza's rulings in his
island is reported from Valparaiso, in
the correspondence of a German news
paper. The case was that of the wife
of a fisherman and coastwise sailor
who was deserted by her husba'nd
shortly before the birth of their first
child.
The woman complained to the au
thorities and the police were ordered
to keep a lookout for the truant. They
got him after a few months, and he
was haled before the alcalde and con
fronted with his wife, who carried the
baby in her arms.
The facts in the case were undenia
ble; the defendant did not attempt to
deny them. It seemed as if nothing
remained for the magistrate but to as
sess the amount of alimony.
He paused, however, and reflected
solemnly for a while. Then he asked
the young woman:
“What was your occupation before
you married this man?”
"I was a servant girl, Excellency,”
she replied.
“And what used you to earn in those
days?”
"Ten pesos a month, sir.”
“How have you supported yourself
since your husband disappeared?”
“Since the birth of my boy. Excel
lency, I have taken a situation as a
wet nurse.”
"And what may be your wages in
that position?”
“Thirty pesos a month, your Honor.”
“Ah so! Well, it seems to me the
merits of this case are very plain. In
becoming the husband of this young
woman the prisoner has tripled her
capacity for earning a livelihood. He
has plainly conferred a great benefit
upon her, for which it is only fitting
that he should be compensated. I
therefore rule that she shall pay him
every month ten pesos by way of hon
orarium; this still leaves her twice as
well off as she was before marriage.
Xext case!"
British Employes Protected.
There is a feature of the British
Workmen's Compensation act that
shows the thoroughness of the legisla
tion secured through the efforts of the
labor members of parliament. Not
only does the act provide for the pay
ment of indemnity to mechanics and
laborers in cases of damage by acci
dent, but domestic servants are also
included in the protected classes.
According to the last census there
are 1,641,154 female domestic servants
in Great Britain. The new legal re
sponsibilities of mistresses and other
employers of these servants may be
summarized as follows:
In the event of death resulting from
an accident the liability of the em- |
ployer is the payment of three years' j
wages and an allowance for board, the j
total sum not to exceed $450. For
temporary disablement, one-half the
wages and an allowance for board
must be paid during the period of in
capacity. In the event of permanent
disablement the provision is the same
as in the case of temporary disable
ment, even though the person disabled
may be incapacitated from work for
a lifetime of many years.
The accident insurance companies
are adjusting their premium rates on
domestic servants to meet the condi
tions. Another adjustment due to the
passage of the act will be the collec
tion of the insurance premiums from
employers instead of from servants.
The premium per employe per an
num in the domestic class will prob
ably be $1.20, although doubtless re
ductions will be given by some com
panies apportioned in accordance with
the surroundings of employment.
Moods of the “Four Hundred.”
When you begin to see the restau
rants crowded to overflowing with
smiling, chattering, well-dressed, rath
er conspicuous looking parties and
when from every other hansom a hand
waves or a head bows, when you can
not walk a block without meeting
some friend or acquaintance, you
might—if you do not know better—be
excused for saying to yourself, “Ah,
ah, town is filling up!” But not at all.
These good people come from their
country places for the day, or perhaps
the week if they are sufficiently inter
ested.
They may half-open their town
houses, but they will tell you that they
are “picnicking." They wear their
prettiest clothes, manners and expres
sions; they lunch and dine together;
they are the observed of all observers
at the Garden (where you quite as of
ten hear a milliner exclaim, “That's
our hat in the box!” as a groom,
“That’s our horse in the ring!”) and
then, presto! they all vanish. North,
south, east and west; to stay with
each other, to ride, golf or automobile,
as their tastes dictate, while New
York is left to its ordinary work-a-day
inhabitants, and the occasional charm
ing Fashion Plates who "run in” to do
a few hours’ shopping for winter
fineries.—Mary Manners in Broadway.
Distanced.
In the hour of his might, with death
afar, he was not afraid. But when he
was broken and sensed death near,
with icy hand outstretched to seize
him, he was terrified and his only
thought was of flight.
But whither flee, to avoid that dread
presence?
If he took an express train, death
was at his journey's end as soon as he.
If he had recourse to a motor car,
death was beside him in the highway;
if to a flying machine, death rode the
wind with him.
At length, in desperation, he got out
and walked.
“I'll have a few minutes of real en
joyment, at all events,” he said.
And, behold, as he journeyed on, at
a foot pace, death fell more and more
behind, and presently gave up the
chase.—Puck.
Precautions.
“What have you to be thankful for?"
asked the discouraged person.
“I don't know yet.” answered the
optimist. “And when I find out I’m
going to keep it ^ secret for fear
somebody like you will try to argue
me out of it.”—Washington Star.
FOR THE LUNCHEON
PREPARATIONS THAT GIVE IDEA
OF NOVELTY.
Peach Cocktail Properly Put Together
Will Delight the Guests—Fine
Combination of Fruits—Ice
Cream and Peach Souffle.
In preparing a peach cocktail re
member that anything having a cher
ry flavor will combine well with tho
flavor of peaches, anti either kirsch,
maraschino or curacoa or any cherry
cordial may be used. Place the can
ned peaches on ice for some hours so
that they may become thoroughly
chilled. The slices, which should not
be too thin, are then cut into smaller
cube shaped pieces, and the grain of
the fruit will show; add a little sugar
to the fruit, sprinkling it thoroughly
from a sieve and tossing the fruit
about with a salad fork so as not to
bruise it. The fruit should not be
over-sweetened; pour over the sweet
ened fruit a few spoonfuls of syrup
from preserved marrons, or add a very
little of the syrup from preserved gin
ger, than add the cordial according to
taste; fill into tail stemmed glasses
or into sherbet cups that have been
chilled and serve at once. Your guests
will think you’re giving them the hot
house variety in January, and be prop
erly impressed.
peacn uomtnnation.— men, mere s p
delicious peach combination. For this
use bananas, oranges and peaches and
a few white grapes. Prepare by cut
ting the canned fruit into small bits;
pare and seed the oranges and cut
these these into small bits, first divid
ing the orange into carpels and cut
ting across them; cut the bananas into
small cubes and remove the stones
from the grapes; all the fruit should
be thoroughly chilled by being kept on
ice for hours before serving time. Add
a little sugar, sprinkled evenly over
the fruit, and if the flavor of bananas
is not desired, omit these, substituting
pineapple cut into small pieces or
shredded; a few preserved chestnuts
also cut up, and a few maraschino
cherries may also be cut up and added.
Fill these into the bottom of tall
glasses, and then fill the glasses two
tliirds full of peach ice cream; on top
of all place a small spoonful of whip
ped cream, piped on in a pretty de
sign, and sprinkle over the top chop
ped pistaehe nuts, or place a chestnut
or a maraschino cherry on top in the
middle of the design.
tee Cream and Peach Souffle.—For
the ice cream prepare one pint of
peach pulp, passing it through a fruit
strainer; sprinkle over it the juice of
one lemon and one cup of sugar; fold
in a pint of cream, which should be
whipped, measuring it before whip
ping, then turn into a freezer and
freeze till firm.
Bed Sores.—These are liable to oc
cur in any long illness where the pa
tient is much emaciated or where
there is paralysis of the nerves that
provide nutrition for the back and
limbs. While not always the nurse's
fault, bespeaking neglect, it is usually
considered so. To prevent the sores
the under sheet must be kept perfect
ly smooth, no crumbs must be permit
tee to get into the bed and the bony
prominences where the trouble begins
must be bathed from five to a dozen
times a day with alcohol and water,
half and half. Pat dry with a soft
towel, then powder. Finally make a
cushion or use a circular air pillow
covered with linen or cotton and place
the sore spot in the center. If you
make a circular pillow, fill with curled
hair or cotton. If these sores are
neglected they become purple, mortifi
cation sets in, the flesh sloughs off and
leaves an ulcer.
For the Fever Thirst.—In nearly all
feverish conditions water is now given
freely. It must, however, be boiled or
distilled. Never put ice in the water
the patient is to drink, but cool to a
refreshing temperature by laying the
bottles containing it next to the ice.
Milk or beer bottles with the patent
corks are convenient for cooling in the
refrigerator. Mineral waters, vichy,
appolinaris or seltzer are generally al
lowed if the patient likes them.
For Cut Flowers.
In the way of receptacles for flow
ers—where expense has to be a prime
consideration—there is nothing pret
tier than the glass bowls intended for
gold fish.
These cost only a few cents each
and show off most flowers to the best
advantage possible. Roses, tulips, mig
nonette, nasturtium and numberless
others look better when arranged in
something that shows their pretty
stems, and they look lovely in these
bowls of clear and undecorated glass.
Grilled Onions.
For this purpose use mild Spanish
or Bermuda onions. Peel and cut
crossw'ise. Brush over with olive oil,
lay on the broiling rack some distance
from the flame and cook slowly until
tender. Season with salt and pepper
and butter and serve on buttered
rounds of toast. Young home-grown
onions are nice and delicate cooked in
the same way, but they must be mild.
Before cooking soak for an hour in
cold water.
Stewed Figs.
Into an enameled saucepan put one
pound of dried figs; add one pint of
cold water and stew until the figs are
quite tender, then carefully remove
them and add one-quarter of a pound
of loaf sugar and the thin rind of a
lemon to the juice; when the syrup is
thick enough add the juice of one
lemon; put the cooked figs into the
syrup again and stew for ten minutes.
Serve with cream.
Cleansing Dishes.
Discolored china baking dishes can
be made as clean as when new by rub
bing them with whiting. Grease marks
on the pages of books may be removed
by sponging them with benzine, plac
ing between two sheets of blotting pa
per and pressing with a hot iron.
Seek Market for Arrowroot.
Renewed efforts are being made to
secure a footing in the English mar
ket for Queensland “arrowroot,” which
is secured from the fresh portion of
the Canna edulis.
Washington Day by Day
News Gathered Here and There
at the National Capital
SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR
A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH
WASHINGTON.—The senate gal
leries are always filled when Sen
ator Tillman is announced to speak.
No other senator since the days of the
acrid and dazzling Ingalls has been
able to draw such crowds as he.
Yet Senator Tillman isn't a great
orator, in the first place, his voice is
a bit shrill and unpleasant, until he
gets warmed up to the shouting point,
and then it takes on a deeper and
more sonorous timbre.
Again, he speaks somewhat discon
nectedly, sometimes losing the thread
of his argument altogether. But, like
a creek or river diverted from its path, i
he always gets back to the main bed '
of his progress in time.
He sometimes makes his sentences j
so long that he has to pull up short i
and begin again. When he reads from !
a prepared manuscript—this is not J
often—the monotony of his delivery
is tiresome.
When he is making a speech from
data scattered about his desk he has
prodigious difficulty in finding his ref
erences at critical junctures. He
gropes ail over the littered desk and
the desks of his senatorial neighbors
on either hand for the missing piece of
paper, flounders around underneath
the desks and on the floor, becomes
red in the face and flustered and mad
all through.
The neighboring senators make a
great show of helping him to find what
he is looking for, but they really don't
try very hard, for they are smiling all
the time and apparently enjoying the
spectacle of wrath which the South
Carolinian presents in these circum
stances. A snicker runs around the
galleries at such times, and this does
not cause the senator from South
Carolina to feel himself any more at
ease over the lost reference.
But always he succeeds in finding
the lost bit of paper in time. He sim
ply will not proceed until he does find
it, and he has searched for as long as
ten minutes, while senate and audi
ence waited. Then he goes ahead
with his argument.
His gestures are those of a man
wholly untrained in the art of oratory,
but somehow the flacking gestures
seem to belong to and to suit the flow
of words when the senator becomes
thoroughly wrought up. For all that
he is a very well read man, the sena
tor is still a rough diamond.
ATTEMPT TO RESURRECT
SAMPSON-SCHLEY CASE
SENATOR RAYXER, of Maryland, :
|J had a specific object in view in
bringing the Schley case to the atten
tion of the senate in his speech the
other day. He has been working in
cessantly to obtain the opinions of
senators as to whether a joint resolu
tion canceling the judgment of the
president and that of the court of in
quiry in relation to the command at
Santiago could be carried through the
senate. Senator Rayner is anxious to
secure an overturn of both these judg
ments by act of congress, as was done '
in the Fitzjohn Porter case.
The Maryland senator believes he |
has a sufficient number of votes '
pledged to enable him to adopt his res- !
olution. Admiral Schley is now con- j
sidering the matter to determine :
whether he is w illing to risk a viola-;
tion ot' the president's semi-official or
der or demand that naval officers re
train from agitating this famous con
troversy. Senator Rayner will offer
no resolution unless Admiral Schley
gives his approval and unless he is
absolutely certain there is sufficient
strength back of it to insure its adop
tion.
If such a resolution should be in
troduced it would simply deal with
the proposition as to who was in com
maud at Santiago. Xo other specifica
tion will be taken up. The judgment
of the court and the judgment of the
president leave it in absolute doubt as
to who was in command and, as a mat
ter of history, right and justice, it is
claimed, by the friends of Admiral
Schley that congress sought to put it
self on record that Admiral Schley
was in command in the battle.
STRIKING RESEMBLANCE
OF MEN IN PUBLIC LIFE
STRIKING facial resemblances of
men in public life and in official
circles in this city are frequently com
mented upon. There are three men
widely known whose similarity of
face and form is so striking that
queer mistakes of identity are expe
rienced every now and then. The re
semblance of the president to his dis
tinguished secretary of the navy and
attorney general, Mr. Moody, has al
ways been the subject of remark and
now and then of humorous mistakes.
Now that Mr. Moody has been ele
vated, or at least transferred, to the
supreme court of the United States,
he has come across another double
in the person of James Maher, clerk of
the supreme court.
When Justice Moody first met Mr.
Maher it was as a member of the
house of representatives, when the re
semblance between the two was re
marked. Again when as attorney gen
eral he had occasion to go to the
courtroom he occasionally saw his
double, and now as a justice on the
bench he can look over the edge of
his judicial gown any time and prac
tically see himself as others see him.
Mr. Maher’s resemblance to the presi
dent is striking when in repose, but
when he speaks or smiles he is obliged
to acknowledge that owing either to
the subduing atmosphere of the court
or to the lack of dental qualifications,
he cannot vie with the chief executive
at the other end of the avenue.
The resemblance of Senators Aldrich
and Foraker is also striking, although
the distinguished senator from Rhode
Island plays the role of a reticent gen
eral maneuvering his forces on th.!
floor of the senate, while the senatoi
from Ohio acts the more striking par*
of a dashing officer with standard up
lifted ready for the fray, regardless ot
the distribution of forces. If Mr
Foraker's well-covered head werj
matched by the hirsute adornment of
Mr. Aldrich the resemblance woult
be complete. But standing side by
side they appear as brothers and theii
similarity is frequently commented
upon.
SENGRA CREEL HEIRESS
TO FORTUNE OF MILLIONS
SENOR ENRIQUE C. CREEL, the
new Mexican ambassador, will
rank James Bryce, the new British
ambassador. Rumor has it that as
soon as President Diaz heard that Sir
Henry Mortimer Durand was to be
recalled by King Edward he urged
Senor Creel to make all haste to
Washington in order that a represen
tative of a republic might precede at
the United States capital the repre
sentative of the greatest monarchy on
earth.
Senor Creel did not want to come,
especially not in a hurry, but Presi
dent Diaz has something of a kingly
way about him in getting obedience
to orders, and so his newly appointed
ambassador rushed on to Washington,
and here he is.
Senor and Senora Creel now < are
established in the embassy on I street.
It is a huge double building admirably
adapted for entertaining purposes, and
the Creels have money enough to en
tertain. In fact, they are called the
Rockefellers of Mexico.
It is Senora Creel who is the real
Rockefeller, although her husband,
with his $24,000,000. is in no sense
pinched for pocket money. Every
cent of his millions, it is declared in
Washington, was amassed by his in
dividual exertion, a statement that is
taken to mean he made his money
without wringing rascal counters from
the hard hands of peasants, as Mr.
Shakespeare came pretty near put
ting it.
Senora Creel, however, is the heir
ess apparent to $200,000,000, and her
I
money prospects nave not spoiled her
She is exceedingly domestic in hei
tastes, dresses well but plainly, and
while she gives magnificent entertain
nients, her plea is that she gives them
because others enjoy them and she
enjoys seeing others enjoy themselves
This ambassador's wife is a daughter
of Gen. Luis Terrazas, of Chihuahua.
There is a good deal of wealth in
the diplomatic corps, although some of
the ambassadors and ministers who
are counted the wealthiest are less
lavish in their entertainment expendi
tures than are some of the poorer ones
among the foreigners. The Brazilian
ambassador, Mr. Joaquim Nabuco, is
exceedingly wealthy, and he keeps
multimillionaire company with the
German, the Japanese, the Nicaraguan
and the Haitian ambassadors.
Has Many Pronunciations.
What is the correct way to pro
nounce the name of that vehicle, the
“brougham”? Up in Scotland, where
the original Lord brougham came
from, the name was pronounced “Broo
cham" (with the “oo” as in "book"
and the “ch” as in “loch”), and also
“Broofam” and “Brooham” (“oo" a
little longer). In London society made
it “Broo-am" or "Broom” ("oo” as long
as one pleases), and the vehicle was
“broom." Elderly people still say
“broom," says the dictionary, and a
few make it “broo-am,” but “broam"
is commonly preferred by the edu
cated among the younger generation.
The one really vulgar pronunciation is
"brome.”
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