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COLtJMBtTS, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 16, 1896.
WHOLE NUMBER 1375.
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MR.HOBARTS LETTER
ACCEPTANCE OF THE ST. LOUIS
NOMINATION.
A tttwassloa of the Ihdm of the Cam
tmiga. Especially the Silver Question
He Point. Out the EviU Upon Which the
Nation Will Fall ir an Unlimited Car-
teacy laa.e hi Made.
Hobart's Acceptance tetter.
Pateiisos, N. J.. Sept 10. Tho
following is, in part. Uarrett A. Ho
bart's letter of accsptance cf the Be
. -publican nomination for Vice Presi
dent It deals almost exclusively with
finance and tariff, and makes about
0,000 words:
Hon. Charles -W. Fairbanks and
, others of the Notification Committee
of the Republican National Conven-
tion. Gentlemen: I have already, in
accepting the nomination for the office
,of, the Vice Presidency tendered jbo by
''the national Republican convention,
expressed my approval of the platform
adopted by that body as the party
basis of doctrine. In accordance with
accented usage I beg now to upplc-
ment that brief statement of my views
by -some additional reflections upon
the questions which are in debate be-
'lore the American people
. "The platform declarations in refer
cnce to tnc money question express
. clearly and unmistakably the attitude
. of the Repub ican partj' as to this su
. premely important subject. We stand
. unqualifiedly for honesty in finance
ard the permanent adjustment of our
" monetary system, in the multifarious
activities of trade and commerce, to
.. the existing gold standard of value.
We hold that every dollar of currency
s issued by the United States, whether
of gold, silver or paper, must be worth
... a dollar in gold, whether in the pocket
. of the mati who toils for his daily
: ' bread, in the vault of the savings
bank which holds his deposits, or in
the exchanges of the world.
"The monej' standard of a great na-
' tion should be as fixed and permanent
as the nation itself. To secure and
retain the best should be the desire
of every right-minded citizen.
"The free coinage of silver at tho
ratio of 10 to 1 is a policy which no
nation has ever before proposed, and
it is not to-day permitted in any mint
. in the world not even in Mexico. It
, . is proposed to niakognthe coinage un-
, limited, at an absolutely fictitious
ratio, fixed with no reference to in-
.. trinsic value or pledge of ultimate
" redemption. With silver at its pres-
cnt price of less than seventy cents
" per ounce in the market, such a policy
means an immediate profit to the
-teller of silver for which i here is no
return now or hereafter to the people
or the government. It means that
for each dollar's worth of silver bull-
. ion delivered at the mint, practically
,. two dollars of stamped coin will be
' given in exchange. For SiOU worth
-of bullion nearly 200 silver dollars
will be delivered.
"Let it also be remembered that the
a consequences of such an act would
" probably be cumulative in their ef-
feels. The crop of silver, unlike that
.". -of hay, or wheat, r corn which,
being of yearly production, can be
' ' regulated by the law of demand
and supply is fixed once for all. The
"silver which has not yet been gath
ered is all in the ground. Death or
other accident of the elements cannot
',; augment or diminish it. Is it not
. more than probable that with the
r. enormous premium offered for its
mining the cupidity of man would
make an over supply- continuous, with
The necessary result of a steaity deprc-
. ciation as long as the silver dollar
could be kept in circulation at all?
Under the laws of finance, which are
. as fixed as those of any other science,
the inevitable result would be a cur
rency al and absolutely fiat. There
tis no difference in principle between
a dollar half fiat and one all fiat. The
latter, as the cheapest, under the logic
of 'cheap money, would surely drivo
the other out.
"The proposition for free and un
limited silver coinage, carried to its
logical conclusion, and but one is pos
sible, means, as before intimated,
legislative warrant for the repudia
tion of all existing indebtedness,
public or private, to tho extent of
nearly fifty per cent of the face of all
such indebtedness It demands an
.unlimited volume of fiat currency,
irredeemable, and therefore without
, any standard value in the markets of
the world.. Every consideration of
public interest and public honor de
mands that this proposition should bo
rejected by the American people.
THE MOXKY STAMARD.
. "Resting on stable foundations, con
tinuous and unvarying certainty of
value should be its distinguishing
characteristic The experience of all
" history confirms the truth that every
eoin,.made under any law, howsoever
that coin may be stamped, will finally
' command in the markets of the world
the exact value of the materials which
compose it. The dollar of onr coun
try, whether of gold or silver, should
--.- be of full value of 100 cents, and by
so muqh as any dollar is worth less
than this in the market, by precisely
that sum will some one be defrauded.
"The necessity of a certain and fixed
,money value between nations as well
as individuals has grown out of the in-
tcrchauge of commodities, the trade
and business relationship? which have
arisen among the people of the
world, with the enlargement of
. human wants and the broadening of
liuinan interests. This necessity has
made gold the final standard of all
enlightened nations. Other metals,
"including silver, have a recognized
; commercial value, and silver, espec-
. ially, has a value of great importance
for subsidiary coinage. In view of a
. sedulous effort by the advocates of
free coinage to create a contrary im-
, pressioa, it cannot be too strongly
emphasized tha t the Republican party
in its platform affirms this value in
silver, and favors the largest possible
use of this metal as actual money that
can be maintained with safety. Not
. only this, it will not authorize, but
.will gladly assist in promoting a
double standard whenever it can be
. secured by agreement and co-operation
among the nations. The bimet
allic currency, involving the free use
of silver, which we now have, is cor
dially approved by Republicans. But
a standard and a currency are vastly
different things.
GOVERSMEXT OBLIGATIONS.
'If we are to continue to hold oar
place among the great commercial
nations, we must cease juggling with
this qnestion, and make our honesty
of purpose clear to the world. No
room should be left for misconception
as to the meaning of the language
used in the bonds of the government
not yet matured. It should not be
possible for any party or individual to
raise a qnestion as to the purpose of
the country to pay all its obligations
ia the best form of money recogr'zed
by the commercial world. Any nation
which is worthy of credit or confi
dence can afford to say explicitly, on
a question so vital to every interest,
what it means, wheat rach ameaniag ia
challenged or doubted, it is desira
ble that we should make it known at
Once and authoritatively, that an
"honest dollar" means any dollar
equivalent to a gold dollar of the
present standard of weight, and fine
ness. The world should likewise be
assured that the standard dollar of
America is as inflexible a quantity as
, me t reach Napoleon, the British
, sovereign, or tho German twenty
marK piece.
"Any attempt on the part of the
government to create by it fiat money
of a fictitious value would dishonor
us in the eyes of other peoples, and
bring infinite reproach upon the na
tional character. The business and
financial consequences of such an im
moral act would be world-wide, be
cause our commercial relations are
world-wide. AH our settlements with
other lands must be made, not With
the money which may be legally cur
rent in our own country, but in gold,
the standard of all nations with
which our relations are most cordial
and extensive, and no legislative en
actment can free us from that inevit
able necessity. It is a known fact
that more than SO per cent of the com
raerce of the world is settled in gold
or on a gold basis. -
"Such free coinage legislation, if
ever consummated, would discrimi
nate against every producer of wheat,
cotton, corn or rye who should in
justice be equally entitled, with the
silver owper, to sell his products to
the United States treasury at a profit
fixed by the government and against
all producers of iron, steel, zinc or
ripper, who might properly claim to
have their metals made into current
coin. It would, as well, be a fraud
upon all persons forced to accept a
turrencythus stipulated and at the
tame time degraded.
TIIK DOLLAR OF OUR FATHERS.
"The dollar of our fathers, about
which so much has been said, was an
honest dollar, silver maintaining a
full parity of intrinsic value with
gold. The fathers would have spurned
and ridiculed a proposition to make a
silver dollar worth only i3 cents,
stand of equal value with a gold one
worth 100 cents The experience of
all nations proves that any deprecia
tion, however slight, of another
standard, from the paritj- with geld,
has driven the more valuable one out
of circulation, and such experience in
mattet of this kind is worth much
Biore than mere interested speculative
opinion. The fact that few gold coins
are seen in ordinary circulation for
domestic uses is no proof at all that
the metal is not performing a most
important function in business affairs.
The foundation of the house is not
always in sight, but the house would
not stand an hour if there were no
foundation. The great energy that
moves the ocean steamship is not al
ways in view of the passenger, but it
is, all the same, the propelling force
of the vessel, without which it would
soon become a worthless derelict
"It majr ba instructive to consider v
moment how the free and unlimited
coinage of silver would affect a few
great interests, and 1 mention only
enough to demonstrate what a calam
ity may lie before us if the platform
formulated at Chicago is permitted to
be carried out
EFFECT OX PAVINGS BANKS.
"There are now on deposit in the
savings banks of thirty-three states
aud territories of thi? Union, the
vast sum of 52,000, OJO.OOa These are
the savings of almost 5,000,000 depos
itors. In many cases they represent
the labor and economies of years.
Any depreciation in the value of the
dollar would defraud every man,
woman and child to whom these sav
ings belong. Every dollar of their
earnings when deposited was worth
100 ceuts in gold of the present stand
ard of weight and fineness. Are they
not entitled to receive in full, with
interest, all they have so deposited?
Any legislation that would reduce it
by the value of a single dime would
be an intolerable wrong to each de
positor. Every bank or banker who
has accepted the earnings of these
millions of dollars to the credit of
our citizens must be required to pay
them back in money not one whit less
valuable than that which these banks
and bankers received in trust
"There are in this country nearly
0.009 building and loan associations,
with shareholders to the number of
1,800,000, and with assets amounting
to more than $500,000,000. Their av
erage of holdings is nearly $300 per
capita, and in many cases they repre
sent the savings of men and women
who have denied themselves the com
forts of life in the hope of being able
to buy or build homes of their own.
They have aided in the erection of
over a million of houses, which are
now affording comfort and shelter for
0, 000,000 of our thrifty people.
"Free coinage at the arbitrary rate
of sixteen ounces of silver to one of
gold would be equivalent to the con
fiscation of nearly half the savings
that these people have invested. It
would be tantamount to a war upon
American homemakers. It would be
an invasion of 'the homes of the prov
ident,' and tend directly to 'destroy
the stimulus to endeavor and the com
pensation of honest toil.' Everyone
of the shareholders of these associa
tions is entitled to be repaid in -money
of the same value which he deposited
by weekly payments or otherwise in
these companies. No one of them
should be made homeless because a
political party demands a change in
the money standard fo our country,
as an experiment, or as a concession
to selfishness or greed.
T0E PENSIONERS.
"One hundred and forty millions of
dollars per annum are due to pension
ers of the late war. That sum repre
sents blood spilled and sufferi ng en
dured in order to preserve this nation
from disintegration. In many cases
the sums so paid in pensions are ex
ceedingly small; in few, if any, are
they excessive The spirit that would
deplete these to the extent of a far
thing is the same that would organize
sedition, destroy the peace and secur
ity of the country, punish, rather
than reward, our veteran soldiers,
and is unworthy of the countenance,
by thought or vote, of any patriotic
citizen of whatever political faith.
No party, until that which met in
Chicago, has ever ventured to insult
the honored survivors of our straggle
for the national life by proposing to
scale their pensions horizontally, and
to pay them hereafter in depreciated
dollars worth only 53 cents each.
"The amounts 'due, in' addition to
. the interests already named, to de
i positors and trust companies in na
tional, state and private banks, to
holders of fire and accident insurance
policies, where the money deposited or
the premiums have been paid in gold
or its equivalent, arc so enormous, to
gether with the sums due, for State,
municipal, county, or other corporate
debts, that if paid in depreciated
silver or its equivalent, it would not
only entail upon our fellow country
men a loss in money which has
not been equaled in a similar experi
ence since the world began, but it
would, at the same time, bring a dis
grace to our country such as has never
befallen any other nation which had
the ability to pay its honest debts.- In
oar condition, and considering oar
mag aincent capacity for raisins rev
enue; such wholesale repudiation Is
without necessity or" excuse. No
political expediency or party exigency
however pressing, conld justify ad
monstrous an act
The Tariff.
"While the financial issud which
has been thus considered, and which
has come, as the result of the agita
tion of recent years, to occupy a
peculiar conspicuousness. Is admitted
ly of primary Importance, there ia
another qnestion which must com
mand careful and seriods attention.
Our financial and business condition is
at this moment one of almost unprec
edented depressioR. Our great indus
trial system is seriously paralyzed.
Production in many of the important
branches of manufacture has alto
gether ceassd. Capital is without
remunerative employment Labor is
idle. The revenues of the govern
ment are insufficient to meet its ord
inary and necessary, expenses. These
conditions are not the result of acci
dent. They are the outcome of 'a
mistaken economic policy deliberately
enacted and applied. It would not be
difficult, and would not jnolyejmy
violent' "disturbance of our existing"
commercial system, to enact necessary
tariff modifications along the lines of
experience.
"Our party holds that by a wise ad
justment of the tariff, conceived in
moderation, and with a view to sta
bility, we may secure all needed rev
cnue, and it declares that in the
event of its restoration to power it
will seek to accomplish that result
It holds, too, that it is the duty of
the government to protect and en
courage in all practical ways the de
velopment of domestic industries, tho
elevation of home labor and the en
largement of the prosperity of tho
people. It does not favor any form
of legislation which would lodge in
the government the power to do whet
the people ought to do for themselves,
but it believes that it is both wire
and patriotic to discriminate in favor
of our own material resources, and
the utilization, under the best attain
able conditions, of our own capital
and our own available skill and in
dustry. The Republican party, n its
first successful contest under Abra
ham Lincoln, declared in favor of "that
policy of national exchange which
secures to the workingman living
wages, to agriculture remunerative
prices, to mechanics and manufactur
ers an adequate reward for their skill,
labor and enterprise, and to tho
nation commercial prosperity and
independence.' The principle thus
enunciated has never been abandoned.
In the crisis now upon us it must be
tenaciously adhered lo. While wo
must insist that our monetary stand
ard shall be maintained in harmony
with that of the civilized world, that
our currency must be sound and
honest; we must also remember tha.
unless we make it possible for capital
to find employment and for labor to
earn ample and remunerative wages,
it will be impossible to attain that
degree of prosperity which, with a
sound monetary policy buttressed by
a sound tariff policy, will be assured.
"In 1892, when by universal con
sent we touched the high water mark
of our national prosperity, we were
under the same financial system that
we have to day. Gold was then the
same standard, and silver and paper
were freely used as the common cur
rency. We had a tariff framed by
Republican hands under the direction
of the great statesman who now logic
ally leads the contest for a restoration
of the policy whose reversal brought
paralysis to so many of our industries
and distress upon so large a body of
our people. We were under the policy
of reciprocity, formulated by another
illustrious statesman of the genuine
American type. We may, if we choose
to do so, return to the prosperous con
ditions which existed before the pres
ent administration came into power.
"The Republican party has always
stood for the protection of the Ameri
can home. It has aimed to secure it
in the enjoyment of all the blessings
of remunerated industry, of moral
culture, and of favorable physical en
vironment It was the party which
instituted the policy of free home
steads, and which holds now that this
policy should be re-established, and
that the pnblic lands yet vacant and
subject to entry in any part of our na
tional territory should be preserved
against corporate aggression as homes
for the people. It realizes that the
safety of the state lies in the multipli
cation of households, and the
strengthening of that sentiment of
which the virtuous home is the best
and the truest embodiment; and it
will aim to dignify and enlarge by all
proper legislation this element of
securitv.
CURIOUS FACTS.
All men of genius are said to have
eyes clear, slow moving and bright
This is the eye which indicates mental
ability of some kind, it does not matter
what
It is a noteworthy fact that the loco
motive engines which drew the Tsar
and the Imperial party to Moscow for
the coronation were of American manu
facture. The veddahs, or wild hunters of Cey
lon, mingle the pounded fibres of soft
and decayed wood with the honey on
which they feed when meat is not to bo
obtained.
Some one has calculated that the
postmen of London walk, together,
something like 48,360 miles per day, a
distance equal to twice the circum
ference of the globe.
The quantities of bananas snippet
from West Indian and adjacent porta
into the United States now amounts to
13.000,000 or 14,000,000 bunches annu
ally, valued at considerably over $20,
000.000. Prof. Geikie estimates the amount
of sediment carried to the sea by the
Thames in a year at 1,865,903 cubic
feet, while it is estimated that the Mis
sissippi deposits in the sea in a year
solid matter weighing 812,500,000,000
pounds.
By a simple rule the length of the
day and night, any time of the year,
may be ascertained by simply doubling
the time of the sun's rising, which will
give the length of the night, and dou
bling the time of the setting will give
the length of the day.
The geographical position of Switzer
land, rendering impossible all attacks
by sea, and offering by means of lofty
mountains and difficult passes endless
positions of vantage to a moderate de
fending force, renders the country al
most impregnable, even in these days
of gigantic armaments and far-reaching
explosives.
The Russian courts have reversed the
assumption of the American tribunals
I that, when a Jiusband and wife are
arownea in tne same aisaster, tne wire
dies first. The Russian doctors have
testified unanimously that the man
would be the first to die, because the
woman is more agile, and keeps herself
longer above water.
THE !TW0 BRIDALS.
CAN langh grlMly
at the world, wrote
Kyrle Harding in
his prison dairy; 1
am leaving it to
morrow. I shall be
hanged by the neck
tin I am dead.
Once 1 would have
called the prospect
ghastly in the
dav. when wy
.blood was buoyant and generous, and I
was filled with the passion of 8a"801
living. But now the rest of life
gone. It has bored me and left me
spiritual nausea. I have lived too
much; lived at too high a pitch ana
strain.' I was too high-handed and
free-headed for the world. I am siea of
It And I will die contented. Pshaw. 1
am mad. What of poor Ethel? I write
wildly. She makes life still dear.
Life! I look back upon some bril
liant and dashing hours of it I go
back far back. Down inKeivia'-avo
years ago what a royal rage there was
when Mrs. Whymper came amongst
us! How she stirred our quiet little
seaside place; she was so bold, so be
witching, so unconventional! Ah! how
But wait awhile; let me dwell on the
beauty and illusion of the first stqge.
I wonder how many lovers Bhe had!
A score, probably. I was only 18 then,
and decidedly, I was the most reckless
of any. She was, I admitted, nearly
twice my age, but in my fever and
fascination that, I think, was only an
added charm to" a wealth of charms.
The pride of winning her, the thought
of a mere youth carrying her off from
the run of gallantly equipped com
petitors In the field appealed with a
brave force to my conceited boyhood.
What a wooing was mine! How my
kind aunt and guardian was distracted.
What womanly warnings she gave me
against the flighty widow! Poor aunt;
I believe I drove her to her grave. May
hap it was well before she knew the
worst
But I won Mrs. Whymper. The bold
ea throbbed in the moonlight that
night by the quiet shore, when I lis
tened with' enraptured senses to her
lovely avowal of love. She was a
charming picture there, by the beat
ing and love-murmurous water, whith
er we had wandered. I can recall the
whole picture, the brooding sky beyond
the reaches of the sea, the hills at the
back, the lights of the little town in
the distance, and nearer and how
dearer! the love-confessing beauty be
fore me. O, mad and memorable night!
Ours was a runaway match and a
sensation it was, beyond all doubt
Our whereabouts were unknown, but
that did not spoil the dramatic interest
of the situation, it is needless to say.
I read in an enterprising paper the
whole story of the romance the very
evening of our wedding in the distant
seaport whither I had proudly borne
my bride. What an eve that was! Even
yet the glamour of the impression
hangs around me, lives within me, and
mocks me. The depths of poetry and
passion within us are unknowable, but
mine was stirred to a wonderful deep
that evening. Illusive time!
The spell was soon over. A few dayc,
and my wife was tired of it The fever
had passed. She took little pains then
to disguise from me how old and worn
in reality she was, and how deeply she
had deceived me. I saw that I wearied
her, that she thirsted again for the
conquering plane she had left When
COME TO YOUR WED
DING."
she went abroad she was all charm
again, and seeming joyous young wom
anhood, for she was an adept in the
arts of deception. The transformation
she could accomplish was simply mar
velous. In the new town she made
another sensation, and won a troop of
admirers who made the life of her boy
husband intolerable. Wit, coquetry,
flash and fascination abroad, weariness,
ennui, nausea in the privacy of home '
the gods know it was a horrible time
for me.
For two years I lived in indescriba
ble misery. After the first year the
arts of my wife to beautify herself
grew vain. She could no longer con
ceal from the outside world the dreaded
story of age, and attraction's death.
As the bitter realization of her fate
grew upon her, a deadly rage, a hideous
spell took possession of her, and a
season dragged on when foul days were
ours. I became degraded and shamed
in my own eyes; a sickliness came be
tween me and all the world's light;
ambition, faith, and all things noble
died within me.
One .night my whole spirit of endur
ance died. There was a passionate
scene, and a struggle over which I draw
a veil. I left my wife wounded end I
knew beyond hope of recovery. I fled
far into the country.
Months passed. I had secured a sec
retaryship in a growing town by wild
and distant but boldly picturesque hills.
A winter passed, and spring came, and
with its green unfolding my heart
lightened and expanded, too. I had got
but meager details of my wife's fate
from the local papers. She recovered
from her wound, but a drink-mania
seized her, and her condition became
deplorable. She still persisted in her
favorite habit of rowing. Even in In
toxicated stages shewould take her lit
tle boat, and put out into the waters.
One evening the empty boat was found
drifting In the .bay. "She carried her
daring one stage too far," said the
townsfolk, and then with sorry humor,
she was not one that loved water for
Its own sake; yet it has given her a
grave." Then I heard no more news
from the old place. I wanted no more.
I tried -to bury its memory.
With the green unfolding of spring,
as I have said, my heart and ray life
expanded. Up among the mountains,
in the prettiest of cottages, I came to
know one who brought back all the
delightful fever of the fine young world.
Ethel Wilson, was 18, an only child,
and the tenderest flower in that in
wise primitive mountain land. A
lffr
I ii ilJWP
"I HAVE
wttl thrill rttlt through me as I reeaB
tor dear, gracious evenings In the lit
tit lower-garden fronting the cottage,
er em the bold moomtaln road that ram
salil. It The mmtf m. and MtYS
w . tr- -- w w w
s4 Jane made a glowing and holy
setting t ear love. After a lurid,
ieha-aaahted night I had awakened ia
ttw sacred tush of soagf ol morning,
M, Ethel, Ethel!
ICemoraUo memories arise of the
tfeMtag morning when we sped away
titae lake country. Lovely memories
seme of that glorious stroll la the gath
ering night, and the return to onr hotel,
Hke a return Into Eden. Hallowed
aes of tenderness, fringed with peace
r-though peace, as the stars peeped out
la a shining setting to our wedding
Joys, was a little pensive.
f Ethel had gone tor a moment to the
inner room, and I watched the fair
prospect from the window of the other.
Ah. I was fall of the passion and rap
tare of a new, fall-hearted life.
.Soddealy there were heavy steps on
the.Iaadiag, the doer was thrown open
Jgiekly, and with a rate, .accursed
TaugtfMrs: Whymper si I always call
ed her staggered in. Her face told a
melancholy story of drink and degra
dation. "Ha!" she said, in the malignant note
I can never describe; "yon see I have
come to your wedding."
I have but a vague memory of the
ensuing scene, with the blackness and
the madness that came over me. One
thing only will I say in my own justifi
cation. My deepest rage arose at the
thought of the position in which I had
placed poor Ethel. Heaven knows I
was innocent of the shadow of an in
tent to wrong her. How was I to know
that my first wife had been rescued?
I had seen no later papers from the old
place. I had had no tidings, and want
ed none.
As Ethel returned to the room, white
faced and terror stricken, I had struck
Mrs. Whymper her death blow.
And so I die tomorrow. Dear, dear
Ethel, but for you, how gladly I would
leave the wounding world! Ha! She
comes. It is the hour of our last in
terview. Now the gods give me true
endurance.
.......
Kyrle Harding was wrong. The vis
itor then was not Ethel. It was the
messenger with the tidings of reprieve.
"Penal servitude for life" was to be his
fate.
"They will release you yet after
years, after years!" sobbed Ethel, a few
days later, as she sobbed farewell; "but
Kyrle, I will watch and wait with a
brave heart" That was many
a year ago. Today they are pensively
happy in distant Australia.
W. P. R.
new Blevel. Tablar Is Made.
Solid drawn steel tubes have been
made for years for boilers and general
use, but the great demand arose when
the safety type of bicycle came into
ogue, the diamond frame requiring the
use of a greater length of tubing and
necessitating that this should be as
light as possible. There are variations
in the methods for producing a cold
drawn steel tube, but the principle of
all is practically the same. Only a
very high class of steel Is suitable for
the purpose, and that hitherto employed
hoe been chiefly Swedish charcoal steel,
containing a certain proportion of car
bon. The steel is taken in the form of
a billet two feet long and about six
inches in diameter. A hole is bored
through the center, and it is heated,
annealed and rolled into the form of a
tube about 1 inches in diameter,
with walls of about 10 gauge. This is
then drawn through a die and over a
mandrel by means of a draw-bench,
until about 10 feet long, beautifully
smooth and bright within and with
out This Is not drawn at once, hut in
a number of operations, and between
each of them the metal has to be re
pickled and reannealed to prevent the
crystallization to which the drawing
process tends to give rise. The first
drawings of the tube leave It about
three-eighths of an inch thfck, but this
gradually decreases until a tube is pro
duced which is of the thickness of stout
writing paper. This is the class of
tube employed In bicycles and that im
parts a strength and rigidity out of all
proportion to its lightness. Boston
Transcript
Seai. BerMferd St.rlM.
A laborer once wrote to Lord
Charles Beresford saying that his wife
had just had twins a boy and a girl
and he wanted to call one "Lord
Charles Beresford Brown" and the
other "Princess of Wales Brown."
Lord Charles gave his permission, and
obtained that of the Princess. Four
months later the man wrote again: "I
am happy to 'inform you that 'Lord
Charles Beresford Brown' is well and
strong, and that 'Princess of Wales
Brown' died this morning."
Lord Charles is a man of few words,
and-those very much to the point In
the house of commons one day, speak
ing in reference to the Arab slave
dealers, 'he said, with great emphasis:
"Mr. Speaker, we ought to catch these
men, give them a fair trial and then
hang 'em."
Unconventional Lord Charle3 has al
ways been. Receivng an invitation to
dinner at Marlborough House one even
ing, he replied by wire:
"Sorry can't come. Lie follows by
post" Strand Magazine.
Drlvlaff Oat Mosqattee.
Chestertown, Md., has found kero
sene effective in getting rid of mos
quitoes. "Some citizens," says a resi
dent, " had experimented with coal oil
as a remedy and were surprised at the
effectiveness of the liquid. The at
tention of the authorities was called to
the matter, and after a series of tests
the people were given official notice
that everybody should pour a little
coal oil in rainbarrels, stagnant pools
and wherever water had collected. No
great quantity of oil is required. A
teaspoonful is sufficient for a barrel
of water. The diminution in the num
ber of mosquitoes was easily noticeable
and now the pest has been almost got
ten rid of."
A QaeMIra.
Uncle "What are yon crying for,
Georgie?"
Georgie "Teacher caned me because
I was the only one boo hoo able to
answer a question to-day."
Uncle "What was the question?"
Georgie (between sobs) "Who put
the bent pin in teacher's chair." A-
swera.
HME. BARRY'S GEHS.
TREASURES OUCE BELONGED
TO LOUIS XV.'S FAVORITE.
X Oa.
Thm f r m Crnl
An Wert
ataattogr
HERB are
Du Barry's jewels?
This question is
pixaling many per
sons' at present,
says the New York
Herald. Thoagh
she has been dead
for many years,
this famous French
woman has sud
denly become am
object of great interest throaghoat Em
rope, aad all that coacernafer remaa-
t. 111. I. mmmmA-A mm nf.'aUtoriC "iBa-
'2irl7Jw
portance. MmeTroBarry was ittyT" lie WTolnUeaafy-URieJisI
wealthy, and yet up to the present
hardly any one seems to have made tho
slightest effort to lay hands on the im
mense fortune which she unquestion
ably left behind her. Now that pnblic
attention has been drawn to this
strange fact, It 13 considered certain
that a vigorous attempt will be made
to recover the fortune, and in this con
nection it is pointed out that a search
of this kind would be far more likely
to be successful than some other
searches for hidden treasure the ex
istence of which has not in all cases
been clearly established. Divers go to
the bottom of the sea in quest of bul
lion, others spend years in hunting
after legendary wealth, but until now
no one seems to have given a thought
to Mme. Du Barry's lost cash box, with
its wonderful collection of diamonds
and other gems.
History seems to give a clear clew us
to the present location of these gems.
In the evening of Jan. 10, 1791, Mme.
Du Barry left the castle at Louve
ciennes in order to pay a visit to the
Duke de Brissac, her intention being
to return on the following day. Dur
ing her absence burglars entered her
bedroom and carried off her jewels.
Moorin, Mme. Du Barry's faithful serv
ant, had heard no noise in the house
and the soldier who was on duty in
front of the castle was found dead
drunk in a neighboring wine shop.
The list of the stolen jewels is still
to be found in the French archives and
reads like a chapter of "The Arabian
Nights," so bewildering is the long cat
alogue of diamonds, rubies, emeralds,
pearls and other precious stones.
When the theft was made known the
French public smiled in incredulity.
Mme. Du Barry was not popular and
the revolutionary journals were unani
mous in claiming that the former fa
vorite of Louis XV. they politely
termed him "the modern Sardanapa
lus" had invented the whole story.
"She wants to run away to England,"
they said, "her intention being to enter
into a close relationship with the
friends of liberty and equality who
have already flocked there." That there
was no ground for the suspicion seems
clear from an article published in the
London Public Advertiser of Feb. 28,
1791, According to this journal the
men who had stolen the jewels had
gone straight to London with their
booty and had there been promptly ar
rested. There were five of them, and on their
arrival in London they went to a first
class hotel and ordered a first-class
dinner. Then lack of luggage and
seedy clothing did not tend to inspire
confidence in the hotel-keeper, but they
succeeded in convincing him that they
had plenty of cash and only needed to
get it changed into English money. On
the following day they went to Mr.
Simon, one of the richest jewelers in
London, and offered to sell him some
precious stones at a price which was
scarcely one-sixth of their real value.
The jeweler bought them for 37,500
francs and then asked them if they had
any more of the same quality.
. They said that they had had, where
upon he went at once and told his story
to the lord mayor, who caused the ar
rest of the five men. The police
searched them carefully, and though
the thieves tried to throw some of the
large diamonds into the fire they did
not succeed, and thus most of the
stolen treasure was recovered. One of
the thieves was well known to the. po
lice, being an Englishman who had al
ready been frequently arrested.
Being informed of the arrests, Mme.
Du Barry went to London, accom
panied by M. Rouen, her jeweler. The
latter identified the precious stones and
his testimony was so convincing that
nothing seemed to remain but to pun
ish the malefactors and hand back the
property to its rightful owner. In
those days a crime of this kind was
punished with hanging. Mme. Da
Barry, however, was rfot to recover her
property so easily. The thieves posi
tively refused to plead guilty.
The beautiful French woman went to
Newgate prison, where they were con
fined, thinking that she could fascinate
their leader into . confession of his
crime; but in this instance those
charms which had worked wonders
with so many men proved utterly fruit
less. The callous brigand remained
stubborn as a mule and refused to go to
the scaffold at her behest. The result
was that the lord chief justice decided
in their favor. The charges against
them, he said, had not been proven,
and, furthermore, no English tribunal
was competent to inflict a penalty for
a crime committed in a foreign coun
try. The five thieves were then dis
charged. As to the jewels, the court
was rather in a quandary.
The thieves had evidently stolen
them, but if they were not Mme. Du
Barry's property whose were they?
The mater was ingeniously compro
mised. The jewels were placed in a
cash box on which was stamped the
seal of the city of London and were
then placed for safe keeping with
Messrs. Ranson, Morland & Co., who
did a large banking business in Pall
Mall, near Marlborough house. The
understanding was that the jewels
should remain with them until the
court had rendered a definite decision
as to their ownership. One hundred
and five years have elapsed since they
were handed over to the bankers and
no definite decision has yet been ren
dered. English justice acted more promptly
whoa a Mbject of George m. appeared
aa ftaiattf against Mme. Da Barry.
Oa the morning after the theft madam
premised a reward of 1 .660 loam to aay
one who weald lad her Jewels,
the London jeweler who had
the thieves demanded half of this
oa the plea that the property, which
had been recovered and which had beea
placed ia the bank of Messrs. Ranson,
Morland Co., represeated half the en
tire property stolen. The lord chief
Justice, without aay hesitation, decid
ed la favor of the jeweler.
Tao coart had Jnet decided that tha
charge of theft brought against the five
alleged burglars had aot been proven,
aad that, anyhow it had aa Jurisdiction
In a caae of this Mad. and yet the same
ceart now decided that Mme. Du Barry
mast pay a moaey reward to the maa
who had caused the thieves'-arrest
So far as Mme. Da Barry was con
cerned the case eaded here. She never
saw her jewels again. Ia due time
Foaaaler-Tinville cast his evil eye oa
her aad she was ceademned to- death
by "tne lavolnUeaary-trlaaaal est- taa
ground that "she had conspired against
the republic and had furthered the suc
cess of those hostile to France by pro
curing them immense sums of money
during the frequent journeys which she
made to England."
And the famous jewels, what of
them? Been, a nephew of Mme. Da
Barry and an officer of the imperial
guard, endeavored, but In vain, to es
tablish his claim to this portion of his
aunt's property. Since the end of tho
first empire no new claim has been put
forward and those who are competent
to speak with authority are of the opin
ion that the great treasure, which was
valued at 500,000 livres In 1791, is still
hidden away In some cellar or vault ia
Pall MalL
NOVEL MOTIVE POWER.
H.w aa Jagaaloaa Fisherman Utluiea
Tartles la Ilia Hoslne.
"There are ingenious contrivances
which do not find their way into the
patent office," remarked a clerk in that
department to a Washington Star re
porter. "I might also say, in the same
connection, that there are men who
seem to be able to turn almost any
thing to good account I was thinking
of a fisherman I knew down on tho
Florida coast. A casual observer
would see nothing remarkable about
him, and a visit to his rude hut would
give the impression that he was poor
and shiftless. The principal thing that
interested me when I happened to call
at his home for a drink of water while
hunting one day was tho presence of
two monster sea turtles, both alive.
"We started a conversation the re
sult of which was that I employed him
to take me in a boat on a fishing ex
pedition the following day.
"In the morning I called at the house
and he was ready. He held two stout
leather thongs in his hand, one end
of each being attached to a turtle.
I was somewhat astonished when he
started driving the sea reptiles ahead
of us, but in reply to my questions he
said: 'You'll see.'
"And I did. We entered the boat and
the turtles began to swim, drawing tho
boat through the water at a good rata
of speed. The thongs were fastened
to their necks and he could guide them
by simply turning their heads, exactly
as he would horses.
"In about an hour we reached tho
fishing place, and, tying his turtles
to a tree on land, my companion pro
ceeded to the business of the day. Wo
went back drawn by the turtles in tho
same way."
A Good TolMk
First deacon "Has the new soprano
a good voice?" Second deacon "Well,
I should say so. Why, at the choir
fight the other night, you could hear
her voice above all the rest!" Puck.
Fortaae'a Favorlta.
Sapsmith "I wondah how it cornea
that Miss Swift ia always out when I
call?" Grimshaw "Oh, I guess It'a
just her luck!" Puck.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The original civil engineer was tho
mole. He anticipates danger by mak
ing several exits and entrances to his
abode.
Pages in congress must be over tho
age of twelve years and under sixteen.
In the senate they receive $1,440 a
year, In the house 81,200.
Golden hair is in much demand by
the wlgmakers of Paris and London
that contracts for the entire supply for
the next five years are recorded.
A one-legged newsboy in Buffalo
serves a route of papers by whirling
on a bicycle. His wooden leg is so
fitted .that it turns one of the pedals.
One-twelfth of the population of Eng
land suffer from gout A Berlin phys
ician, Dr. Fehlaner, says that this mal
ady is often due to the excessive use of
meat
Date vinegar has been made by the
Arabs for ages. It has recently been
put on the English market, and the
English say it is far superior to any
other vinegar.
A law in Connecticut decrees that a
man who has been three times con
vinced of crime may be classed as an
habitual criminal, and detained in pris
on for25 years.
Lady Burton, who died recently in
England, expressed an earnest wish
that, before committing her body to
the grave, her doctor should pierce her
heart with a needle.
Most of the railroad stations in Rus
sia are about two miles from the towns
which they respectively serve. This
Is a precaution against fire, as many of
the Russian dwellings are thatched
with straw.
A perilous feat was performed, not
long since, by a bicyclist in Lyons,
France. He rode his wheel over the
coping stone of a house, fifty feet from
the ground, in the presence of an im
mense crowd. The track is only two
feet wide.
A large aerolite recently exploded
above the city o! Madrid at 9:30 a. m.
"There was a vivid glare of light and a
loud report," says Science. "Buildings
were shaken and many windows were
chattered. According to the officials of
the Madrid observatory, the explosion
occurred twenty miles above the earth."
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