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A REMARKABLE surgical operation was per
formed recently in Doorpath, Gennany. A
young girl was wounded with a ball from a re
volver and tlie surgeon, Dr. Manteuffel, found the
heart had been cut open.' The surgeon removed
the bullet and sewed up the girl's heart, the beat
ing of which had stopped two hours before the
eurgeon was summoned. It Is said that the opera
tion was successful in every way, that the girl
will live, and tho accomplishment is being very
generally commented upon in the world's surgical
circles.
AN EASTERN publication called Suggestion
prints a communication from Nicholl Gig
gnotti, of Erie, Pa., in which tho doctor claims
that the sonnett "Opportunity," generally attri
buted to the late John Ingalls, was written by
Dr. Giggliottl in Italian in 1887. Dr. Glggliottl
says that ho reprinted the poem In La Glustizia,
published in Denver, and sent Ingalls a copy of
it with a rhythmic translation made by him and
revised for the English part by Martin Battle, a
distinguished follower of the late Henry George.
fThe second publication of the Italian original was
in tho Mignon of Naples June 12, 1888.
DR. GUISSEPPE COLONI certifies to having
published in the Flora Mirabilis of Turin
Dr. Giggliotti's sonnet, "II Fato," in 1887 or 3888,
and adds that it was translated into Greek, into
French by Mme. Sampson, into German by Ka
don, and into English by C. Bourges Watson. A
writer in the Chicago Tribune, referring to the
Giggliottl claim, says: "Dr. Giggliottl has pub
lished three books of poems, but singularly
enough the sonnet "II Fato" did not appear in any
of them, for the reason, so he says, that he was
'not satisfied with its literary polish.' The ad
mirers of Ingalls cannot understand why, if Dr.
Giggliotti was not satisfied with its literary pol
ish, ho printed it in tho Denver paper and sent a
copy of it with a translation to Senator Ingalls.
He does not explain in his letter whether or not
lie knew Ingalls previous to this, or why he sin- .
gled him out as the recipient of his alleged poetic
effusion."
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THE Italian sonnet claimed by Dr.' Giggliotti
is as follows:
-ILFATO. -iArbitro
lo sono dell' uman destlno,
Fama, grandezza, amor ml son vassalli, v
Per campagne e citta folle cammlno, ,
Batto a ognl porta, e corro nuovi calli.
6e in letargo, ti desta. Se nel vino
Le cure alloghi e tl son doloi i falil,
JT'alza a mi segnl. II fato son. Meschino
Chi non vieno con mo. Gli do cavalli.
Gioio, grandezza, onor, donne e piacere.
.Tutto gli obbedira men che la morte
JVieni. Approfltta del mio buon volere.
Solo una volta lo batto alle tue porte.
Io non tl seguo rispos' io 11 penslere
Sol rende 1' uomo avventurato e forte!
And here is his own rough English transla
tion: THE-'PATE.
Master I am of human destinies;
Fame, greatness, love are my servants.
Cities and fields foolishly I walk;
I knock at every door but once, and. I run to new
pathways.
If sleeping, wake. If feasting,
You try to kill your troubles with wine and sin. -
Rise and follow me. I am tho fate. Woe
To whom does not follow me. I give him horses,
Gold, fame, honor, women, and pleasure.
He will conquer every foe, save death.- -
Rise; hang to the opportunity which I offer to you.
I am revengeful. I knock unbidden but once at
every door.
I stay here. "Leave me alone," I answered;
"thought,
'And thought alone, makea every man happy and
strong."
THE Ingalls sonnet, the publication of which
added considerably to his fame, is as follows:
Master of Human destinies. am I!
Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.
Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate
Deserts and fields remote, and, passing by
Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late,
I knock unbidden once at every gate.
If sleeping, wake; if feasting, rise before
I turn away. It is the hour of fate,
And they who follow mo reach every state
Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate,
Condemned to failure, penury or woo,
Seek me in vain and uselessly implore
I answer not, and I return no mm,
THE Western Union Telegraph company has
ordered the discontinuance of the operating
and distributing of its wires throughout tho
United States for dispatching race reports. Re
ferring to this order, the New York Tribune says:
"This action was understood to have followed a
consultation of Morris K. Jesup, Jacob H. Schiff,
Senator Depow and other Western Union direc
tors with George J. Gould, whoso views woic in
harmony with theirs. As a result of this order
poolrooms throughout the city were practically
without service. They declared, however, that
they would be. running as usual today. The Cen
tral Federated Union committee aprcinted to take
steps to have the Western Union charter an
nulled declared It would demand the stopping ot
betting at the race tracks or the removal o the
state racing commission, of which August Bel
mont Is chairman. A representative of tho Now
York Telephone company told Police Commis
sioner McAdoo that tho company would refuse
to allow its wires to be used for poolroom ser
vice." IN THE hearing of the anthracite coal case,
May 24, President Baer of tho Reading com
pany said that reduction in the freight tariff
would not necessarily mean lower prices to tho
consumer if the operators think they should get
more for their products. The allegation that tho
carriers purposely tied up the coal traffic in win
ter or failed to furnish cars to collieries has no
foundation in fact, said Mr. Baer. There was
freight congestion last winter to a degree not
known in many years and.it was due to physical
conditions. He continued: "The Lord, though- it
may shock you, was responsible for that. It was
cne of the things over which we had no control."
WILLIAM BURNS of Rockaway, N. J., re
cently displayed great heroism and imme
diately found his reward in a peculiar way. The
New York World says that as Mr. Burns was
crossing the canal bridge, he heard screams of
children. Five little ones were running wildly to
and fro along the bank of the anal, shouting for
help The figure of a little boy was floundering in
the water. The little body sank, and the children
ran frightened in all directions. Burns threw off
his coat and dived to the spot where he had seen
the boy sink. When he arose to the surface the
body had been carried to the middle of the stream
by tho current. He swam hard and Drought him
self to the spot as the body sank a second time.
As it rose again Burns seized it. Then almost
exhausted hims61f, and weighed down by his
clothes he made for the bank, and finally reached
it after a struggle. The boy was unconscious.
He turned the body over and looked at the face
for tho first time. "My God, it's my son," he
cried. It was five-year-old Willie, who tried to
sail his toy boat while waiting for his father,
and fell into the water. In the liurry of saving
the boy the father had not recognized his son.
Ho put his hand hurriedly to the boy's heart and
found it was still beating. Then he rolled the
body back and forth on the grass, until he saw
signs of. returning, consciousness. Artificial res
piration, applied vigorously by the frantic father,
restored the little boy fully to consciousness, and
half an hour later Willie was resting in bed, not
much tho worse for his narrow escape. The chil
dren spread tho news of the rescue through tho
neighborhood, and neighbors who went to Burns
to congratulate him were doubly Joyful when
they heard the rescued boy was his own son.
HP HE Standard Oil company on May 16 de
X clared a dividend for the spring quarter of
$5 a share, which is $1 more than that declared
for tho samo quarter last year. This makes $24
a share for tho six months. Tho dividend for the
last quarter was $1G a share. Tho company will
havo to declaro $20 during the next six months to
bring tho divldond up to the amount paid last
year, which was $44. In 1002 tho dividend was
$45, In 1901 $48, and in 19U0 $48. Tho total Uivi
dond declared May 10 will amount to $8,000,000.
Of this sum John D. Rockefeller recolve's $3,
260,000. A GROUP of capitalists of Philadelphia, 8po
kano and b'eattlo has outwitted tho pros
pectors of British Columbia. According to a Van
couver dispatch to tho Now York World chose
capitalists havo obtalnod from tho provincial gov
ernment for $20,000 licenses in the rich coa. and
oil lands of southeastern Kootonay, reputed (o be
worth at tho lowest estimate $50,000,000. For these
lands tho Canadian Pacific railroad last year made -a
determined effort to get a title, but tho moth
ods it adopted provoked such public indignation
that a parllmentary Investigation was held by a
solect committee and a subsequent act was passed
in theloglslaturo making null and v.old any grant
which might have been made by order in council
to tho railroad. But what tho Canadian Pacific
with all its influence could not do the group of
Americans has quietly accomplished. The names
of thoBo at tho back of tho deal are not yet
known, but It is declared that Mr. Farrell, of tho
Great Northern road, had much to do with tho
manipulations. Keeping closely in touch with de
partmental heads at Victoria, tho Americans
learned that It was tho Intention of the admin
istration to throw the coal and oil lands open
for prospectors' location. The Seattle engineers
of tho American syndicate quietly wont tlnougU
the mining regions of British Columbia buying
for a small feo tho right to use miners' names
on application forms, These applications were
quietly forwarded to Victoria, and in due time the
whole fifteen miles of coal and oil lands was
staked put and applied for. The provincial pros
pectors aro bitter, and charge tho government
with having played into tho hands of the Ameri-'
cans.
A LONDON cablegram to the New York Worfd
says that the czar of Russia has removed
tho ban of exile he placed thirteen years ago on
his uncle, Grand Duke Michael Michaelovitch, for
his morganatic marriage of Countess von Meren
burg, who was considered the most beautiful wo
man in Europe. King Edward and Emperor Wil
liam, in recent years, havo vainly pleaded with
tho czar for Grand Duke Michael's pardon.
IT WILL be remembered that J. P. Morgan &
Co. were chosen as fiscal agents for the Pa
nama Canal company. Captain Nathan Appleton
of New York, who In 1879 was the first represen
tative from tho United States to Panama and
who subsequently became intimately associated
with De Lesseps, of tho Isthmian Canal company,
asserts that J. P. Morgan & Co. made $800,000 out
of the old Panama Canal company. Speaking to
a reporter for tho Now York World, Captain Ap
pleton said: "It certainly does seem the Irony of
fato that those who reaped such a fine harvest
out of my old friend Do Lesseps' concern should
again have an opportunity of feathering their
nests. I naturally take it that J. P. Morgan &
Co. have not accepted tho position of fiscal agents
from merely patriotic motives. It seems to me
that it would have been in good taste for the firm
of J. P. Morgan & Co., before entering into any
negotiations with France for the payment ot tho
$40,000,000, to refund the sum of $800,000 they re
ceived when the firm was Drexel, Morgan & Co.
Half of this sum came from the transfer of tho
stock of the Panama Railroad company to tho
Canal company, and the other half from he pay
ment of $50,000 a year for eight years to the firnv
for the use of its name as American agents of the
company. From the time of tho inception or the
old Panama Canal company to the year 1889, the
time of its first collapse oven the lottery bond
could not prevent a second collapse In 1894 J. P.
Morgan & Co. received through its Pans house,
Drexel, Harjes & Co., this bonus of $50,000 a year.
I am sure it is not on record that tho house ever
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