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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-08-14
The American Girl Abroad

From the Salt Lake Tribune.
Immediately in front of three young
fellows dressed in knee breeches anC
flannel shirts, who have tramped sc
long they look rather out of place in a
vehicle, sits the American hotel girl
Yesterday she tried to walk up mon.
tanvert and over the Mer-de-Glace
in high-heeled kid boots, and to-
day she is, if anything, more
inanimate than usual. She is
pretty and pale, and her high-heeled
boots, rich dress and white complex
ion serve an effective contrast to the
'stogies," flannel shirts and peeled
noses of her countrymen aforesaid.
She detests Switzerland. She hates
being dragged about in this way, but
she endures it because it is "the thing
She sees little and learns nothing. She
submits to it as she would in having
her ears pierced, because it is the re-
quirement of fashion. Paris is the
only place she appreciates, and
she spends her time there
in shopping. She is ostenta-
tiously languid, and vulgarly assert
i've by turns. She is a success as a
misrepresentation of her countrywo-
men abroad. There by her side is a
girl who looks straight out into space,
and is in mortal terror lest some i'm
proper person should speak to her.
Beside her side sits pleasant-faced,
kindly old gentleman, who is endea-
voring to make himself agreeable, but
she is about as gracious as a carved
dol, and as sweet as frozen lemon.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-08-14
Hiph Life at Long Branch

The list OF notabilities at Long
Branch, according to the Philadelphia
Times, has been increased by the adj
dition of the names of President Zal-
divar of the republic of Salvador;
Jacob Baiz, consul general of Salvador
and Guatemala; the marquis de Leu
vile; and the future marchioness,
Mrs. Frank Leslie. They are living
in one of the West End cottages, a
place affected by people who have
plenty of money and are willing to
spend it lavishly for the privilege of
living apart from people who have not
interminable bank accounts. They
have three of the most expensive
apartments. They pay for their rooms
500 day, and in addition So day for
the stabling of pair of housekeeping
bays, not to estimate the cost of a
prim English coachman and footman
and the marquis French valet, who
sleeps somewhere in the outer world.
However, as Mrs. Leslie has $50, 600 a
year from the business which she res
dued from chaos, expense counts for
little. The marquis is more than six
feet tall and proportionately broad.
He paints and writes poetry and speaks
several languages.
Mrs. Leslie's immediate neighbors
are the family of Harvey Kennedy,
the millionaire broker of N. Y, who
pay $3.50 a week; "Plunger" Walton
and his daughters, who were at first
thought to number 100-they seemed
to be so much around-but settled
down at eleven. and for whose main
tenance $3.50 a week are requisite;
Mrs. John Kean of Elizabeth,
who pays $3.50 a week for herself
and her little son; ]. b. Ltppincott,
the publisher of Philadelphia, and his
family, who pay $3.50; Alfred G.
Baker, the aggressive president of the
of Music, whose family
cost him for their choice apartments
$500 a week, and E. G. Woertz, the
rich New York brewer, who pays
1920. The "cottagers" keep more
than ninety carriages and a small
army of coachmen and footmen.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-08-14
POLYGAMY.
A Recollection of the Early Time of
Mormonism.
From the ST. LOUIS Republican

A Recollection of the Early Time of
Iormonism.
From the st. LOUIS Republican.
Editor Republican, find in your
issue OF July 16, long interview I'M
der the head of Revelation Revisers,"
of one of the Republicans staff with
the conclave of Mormons in Rich
mond, Missouri, gathered there with
the purpose of comparing the
various editions of the Book of
Mormon with the original manu-
script In the possession of one David
J. Whitmer. In his interview with
the present Joseph Smith, son of the
prophet, l see that gentleman denies
that his father first promulgated po-
Iygamy in Nauvoo, and challenges the
proof. 1t is quite probable that none
exists to the present time. except that
stored up in the memory of those who
ings of those troublesome times.
Havings been resident of Hancock
county during these exciting times,
except the elimination when the Nor
mons were driven from Nauvoo, 1
have vivid recollection concerning
the doings and sayings of that period,
and can conscfentiously affirm that
Joseph Smith did promulgate pre-
tended revelation sanctioning pol
ygamy, which raised such a Juror
among the Mormons them
selves that it threatened the destruct-
ion of the whole fabric, and the revel-
alton proved to be abortive for the
time being. 1t was believed at the
time that Brigham Young was the !
real progenitor of the revelation. One
reason that the mass of Mormons re-
jected the vile revelation was that it |
was in violation of the written word |
contained in the Book of Mormon. |
They were mostly honest, intelli- |
gent and respectable peo-
pie from the eastern and mid
die states, whose misfortune it was
that they had been duped by few I
villains. There were a
great many backsliders about this
time, and there would have been many
more had their means not been all
away from them by the ring
hat governed, and many remained
n the vain hope of recovering the
money they had been persuaded to
end to the robbers. l believe that in
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-08-14
Neatly Done.

Capt. Williams, of the New York
police force,has recently distinguished
himself by giving a sound drubbing
to couple of "bunco" operators in
that city, one of whom was the fam
Gus Hungry Joe," who enjoys the
reputation of being the smartest fell
10y in his line in the country. 1t ap-
pears that the two accomplished
swindlers attempted to manipulate
Capt. Williams brother, a wealthy
lumber dealer of Brooklyn. When the
brother intimated that they were a
couple of scamps, they attempted to
assault him. When taken before the
magistrate Hungry Joe" was advis-
ed by the court to employ counsel,
whereupon he engaged all the lawyers
present. saying there was nothing
mean about him. In spite of the array
of talent thus. engaged the offenders
were sent to prison, but were subse-
quently released upon giving large
bond for their good behavior.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-08-14
A PROCRUSTEAN COFFIN.
The Way a Long Mortal Was Shortened
So That the Obsequies Could be
Finished.

The way Long Mortal was Shortened
So That the Obsequies Could be
Finished.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Several farmers of Oak Creek, who
brought produce to the south side yes
terday, brought intelligence Of a
strange burial which occurred there
last Friday. Horace Baldwin died
last week. He was remarkably tall,
his army description making six feet
seven inches. In cases where his COM
rades would have been wounded in
the breast he would stop the bullets
with his stomach. He was so COIL
spicuously tall that he was given
sobriquet appropriate to his stature.
He could not stand army life very
well and soon gave it up. Friday,
when the neighbors gathered at the
farmhouse to do honor to his memory
by following the remains to the grave,
it was found that the coffin had been
made for six-footer and was there
fore seven inches too short. The
corpse could not be squeezed into the
casket andtso, rather than to disap-
point the people waiting outside, rel
alive ran into the woodshed for a saw
and began deliberately to saw off
about eight inches of the dead mans
legs. He thought the corpse moved
and tainted. Thereupon another rela-
tive seized the wood-saw and COM
pleted the shortening process. The
severalImembers were bent back, the
coffin lie fastened and the funeral cor
tege wended its way to the Oak Creek
cemetery. The story has created a
great sensation in Oak Creek and
those who did the remarkably savage
thing are severely censured.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-08-14
ESQUIMAUX DOGS.

When at Fort Albany we saw sew
eral EsquimauX dogs, species of
canine unknown in civilized COM
munities. These dogs are very large
larger than our Newfoundland, and
much stronger when in condition.
Their strength, however, varies. In
the winter, when they are well fed
for driving, they are much stouter
than in the summer, when they are
poorly fed, without exercise and
languid from the heat, which is very
telling upon them, as their native
very severe. Their colors are
breeds are white and black-their
hair thick and bushy, and the'tail
long, bushy and curling up at the
end. AT times they are very quiet, at
others very savage. They are driven
ordinarily five in number. but often
many more, before sleds, one, invaria|
bly, female, leading, for the others
will follow her more readily. Each
dog has separate rein, which is held
by the driver, who has also a great
long whip made of sealskin, plated
as ordinary whips, but with the heavy
part of the lash about the thickness Of
mans wrist. The lash is from
six to nine fathoms long, and the ham
die, made of wood, from foot to
foot and half in length. When a
dog is not drawing properly or mis-
behaving in any way he or she is
drawn by his or her separate rein out
from the rest of the pack to receive
chastisement with the whip, and so
well do they know what is coming
that just as soon as the rein is pulled
the victim begins yelping and strug-
Cling to correct his or her ways before
the whip comes laundering along.
Great skill is required in the use of
these whips, for If not properly ham
died the great heavy lash cracks
around the manipulator's body and
legs, infiicting very painful and some
times severe wounds, but in the hands
of a person skilled in the use of them
these whips can be used with great
precision and effect, sometimes COM
pietely cutting dogs ear off.
Very remarkable stories are told
about the manner in which the
Esquimaux handle their whips, but
they are, 1 believe, slightly eHagger-
ated. 1t is said that they have fire.
quently attacked and killed white
bears, tho most ferocious animals in
the vicinity of James bay, with a
knife attached to the end of whip
One of our party "tried his hand
with one of these dog-whips and sue
ceeded in furnishing his legs rather
severely, while a Hudson bay COM
pany's officer used it with as much
ease and precision as a horseman
would have used an ordinary whip.
Some Esquimaux dogs at Fort Albany
had to be tied long distance apart
with long chains, while whole fish
were thrown to them, which they de.
voured with astonishing suddenness
lest in their greed they should turn
upon each other. They are quite I'M
manageable when they get on the
track OF deer, and no person can
check them in their wild career as
they gallop sup hill and down dale
over ice and snow and through bush
with the sled behind them in pursuit
of the prey. Ordinarily they make
about sixty miles day, and very
pleasantly and comfortably aRfs man
travel IN these northern regions
wrapped in blankets and furs upon a
dog sled.-Toronto Globe.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-08-14
Won MoLTKE, THE SILENT.
How the Famous German Field Marsha
TonIxs and Acts

How the Famous German Field Marshal
Looks and Acts.
From Blackwood's Magazine.
M0ltke, the slent-der Schweiger-
as he is called, is generally considered
the greatest, and is certainly the most
successful of living soldiers. His
achievements at Koniggratz, Sedan
and Paris have never been surpassed,
and compel the admiration of all
competent. military critics. Silent,
quiet, cold, the very incarnation of
concentrated thought. ilst as you see
him walking in the streets, or moving
in drawing room, when everybody
stands respectfully aside to let him
pass-so he stood on the battle field,
his cold, clear eye passing from one
point to the other, and his cold, clear
mind weighing the chances of victory
and defeat with the intensity and Sc
renity of mathematician bordering
over the solution of some grave prob
lem.
No one, it is said, has ever seen
Count Moltke excited, not even. at Sc
Jan, where the greatest victory of
modern times decided the fortunes of
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-08-14

a very successful swindle, operated
by street peddlers, is what is techni-
cally known as the "soap caper." For
the purposes of the swindle two fell
lows will buy lot of cheap soap and
cut it up into small pieces. which
are dainty perfumed and nicely
wrapped in fancy colored paper. This
is all the stock in trade
needed, except a generous allow
ance of cheek. One of the fellows
dresses himself up like a dude
and generally conducts himself so
that everybody to whom he appeals
makes. fun of him. Perhaps he does
sell few pieces of the soap, for it ap-
pears to do what he claimed Tor it,
but he purposely makes such an ass
of himself that nobody wants to trade
with him. Soon, when he is boasting
of how much soap he can sell in a
day, common looking fellow
in the secret, calls out,
swell, why don't you sell it
thenP and at once they get into a
wrangle, which is ended by the plain
fellow betting that he could sell more
soap in ten minutes than the proprie-
tor Of the stand can sell in half an
hour. The bet is generally quite a
large one, and as sympathy is entirely
with the communicating fellow, the
crowd comes to his support, and he
rapidly sells out his share of the soap,
and finally also disposes of the greater
part of the others packages. 1t is
needless to say that the fellows are
confederates and are playing into
each others hands. Two good opera
tors con make tremendous profits by
working this game, and they run no
risk of being arrested.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-08-14

of the News and he abandoned the |
fight against the rule. 1t was the bit |
ter persistency of this fight at the
rule which at first sickened
the opposition to Ireland. They know
that without the rule the patronage
of the state was quite sufficient to
place at any time bare majority of
the delegates in the convention COM
mitted to the support of the executive.
Under these conditions it is plain to
be seen that the sage of Seguin could
not have been beaten. But healthier
state of feeling has grown up. There
does not now seem to be any chance
whatever to disturb the rule, and
that Will put the opposition into the
convention with some show of ulti-
mate success, or at least, it will not
encounter an insuperable obstacle
right at the start. There is
another thing which tie thick
and thins have not calculated
upon. 1t is this: There is not sin
gle delegation endorsing the admins
tration or instructed for Ireland
which has not in its ranks men who
would vote for any other man in the
party rather than him, if only fair
chance were offered. These all in a
body and acting with the avowed OPP
position, will make things very lively,
to be sure, and if led and handled
with anything like skill, GOODNESS and
Judgment, they will be able to hand to
his excellency a siZeable Waterloo,
and it will be sugar-coated with
no concessions or under standing
as to the subsequent race for
the United States senate. Ireland
beaten at Houston, means that we
have seen the last of him. That
would eliminate him from the next
and all other races for the senate, the
governorship or other place. One
check to the governor would be as ia
tai as the most crushing defeat. He
is so situated, his fame rests upon
such foundation OF sandy unreanty
that he must step forward and at a
lively rate. He cannot halt or he
would sink in the quagmire of his
own faulty record, and be
lost ere anyone knew how
it all came about. The Ireland
boom has no rock-bed, no granite
foundation in the hearty good will of
the people, and when the bellows
cease to blow, he dies for want OF
breath.
The Houston convention will cipher
all these things out, and we will see
as we said before, a devil of a rumpus
kicked up there, unless we are farther
out in this than we ever were before
in political calculation.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-08-14

the two most powerful empires of the
continent. His calmneSS seems myS-
FERROUS, almost awful, and there is
something strangely sad about that
silent, lonely old man. His wife died
some years ago, he never had a child,
his nearest relations, with the eXcep-
ton of nephew and niece, seem to
be kept at distance by him. Who
are his companions and friends? To
whom does he eyer talk in friendly
familiar way? Nobody has ever been
able to tell me, though l have often
inquired.
An old man of eighty-four, he still
appears without fail wherever duty
calls him. He is to be seen at almost
all the Emperor's receptions, the most
striking parsonage near the throne,
But how does the old Field Marshall
pass his time when free from duty
when tired OF Work? Nobody pre-
tends to know. Either nobody pene-
trates into his intimacy or else those
who approach him intimately do not
! speak about it.
| When the weather is fine you may
see very tall, thin man. with very
light yellowish hair, and sallow
beardless, Wrinkled face. out of which
shine a pair of stony gray eyes
wrapped in long, dark military coat
a cap on his small head, faultlessly
dressed in generals uniform
a gentleman born ID every inch
of his aristocratic, slender figure
his body still erect, but his head as il
deep thought slightly bent forward
such man, ! say, you may see coming
out of the great red building Which
stands on the Koensgs-Platz, at tn,
corner of Moltke and Bismarcl
streets, and which bears the name o
"Gen. Stab" This old man, unattendet
by aservant, walks slowly, noiselessly
Every one who meets him looks a
him attentively. If the passer-by is
soldier he stands on one side ant
salutes. The old general returns tn
salute slowly and deliberately, but ap
parently without seeing to whom.
Every time 1 see him the though
occurs to me that in such guise Dant
must have passed through the street
of Florence. That is General Fiel
Marshal Count Hellmuth Won Moltke
one of the strangest characters tn
world has ever produced. It is we
worth going to Berlin to see tina
great historical parsonage.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-08-14
The Houston Convention.

just one week from to-day the
Houston convention will assemble,
and the misery of the Texas democra-
cy will begin. This is an important
epoch in the history of the party in
Texas. No convention since the war
will be charged with graver duties
or will discharge or perform more
delicate service. This body will de-
feminine the weight, force, ability,
nerve and purpose of the Texas ring.
If the ring is still supreme the nomi-
nations will exhibit that fact. If its
power is on the wane in any sense,
we will find out that interesting fact
by few nominations outside of the
schedule made and fixed up
months and months since. Just
at this writing we are frank to say
that we don't believe the people have
a ghost of a chance, unless indeed
the determination of several of the
north Texas counties to put in a man
for governor whether or no, is adj
hered to. The ring is surging power
fully against the suggestion, and it is
not at all improbable that it will be
able to so bulldoze the leaders of the
move that they will abandon the
purpose ere the convention sits. If
this card is not played, if the original
policy of north Texan nomination
is adhered to strictly, there is now
every chance, every indication indeed
that their candidate will go in
with considerably over one third
of the whole vote of the conven-
ton, some believe, and advance
very plausible reasons why he will
reach one-half of the vote. Either
would amount to a deadlock, and
that would be fatal to the sage of
Seguin. This probability has stood
out in bold relief to the ring ever
since the Ireland administration COM
menced. This is no new suggestion
to them. They understand it in all of
4to A6 Aeo eAAA0 oAo0OWoS o1O nOuCO bHclI
papers have been inveighing against !
the two-thirds rule for two years. The
state was to go promptly to the devil |
If the rule was not finally and once
for all. abrogated. Big papers and lit
tie ones, bright papers and dull, indie
pendent papers and partizan, in fact,
all sorts and conditions of organs |
were set to work yelp- |
ing at the rule. All this was to
meet the indication now SO plain with
regard to the condition of his excel
lency's attitude before the Houston
Even so smart a paper
as the Galveston News, and which
hates his exce]lency so cordially, went
into the trap and has spent the greater
part Of the summer fighting the rule,
The only dependence of the opposition.
It is very strange, but true it is. It is
llso true that at last the idea effected
! Judgement In the brain of the editor
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-08-14
TONS OF TYPE.
AN ERIE PRINTER WHOSE STRING
WOULD MEASURE 1873 MILES
IN LENGTH,
Erie Letter in the Cleveland Herald.

IN LENGTH.
Erie Letter in the Cleveland Herald.
Western newspapers are Boosting
over printer In the employ of the
San Francisco Chronicle who has
completed half century of sit at
the cease" There is printer in Erie,
longer Me suing tsn the VINO Golden oai
Gate" man. "Father" Quinn was ap-
prenticed when a lad to a printer in
the city of Waterford, Ireland, in 1880,
and after serving his apprenticeship
got "sit" on the London Times, and
had several "fat takes of the account
of the queens marriage. Coming to
America Mr.. Quinn got cases on the
New York Evening Post, which he
held for seven years. Turning his
face westward he came to Erie and
served nearly twenty years on the
Erie Dispatch. He now holds cases
on the Erie Daily Herald, and al
though almost 20 uses his eyes with
out the aid of the optician or glasses.
"Father" Quinn's years of toll and
wearying labor represent. startling .fea-
lures in the way of figures. For in
stance, assuming a fair average rate
of speed taken from his best at 10000
ems and his rate of 5000 ems at the
present day, giving 1900 ems for an
average, it will be found that the
enormous amount of 119340,O00 ems
of matter have been set up by this
compositor during the past two OF
three years more than half century
In setting this it was necessary to
handle over 357 100000 pieces of metal
twice over, including the distribution
1t will further interest the reader to
know that the type so set would
weigh 1877 300 pounds, or ninety-four
tons, which this old man has lifted
piece by piece in the specified time.
In setting type the average distance
over which the hand travels is foot
and a half or thereabouts. Conse-
quently his hand has travelled over
100000 feet, or a matter of 97,727
miles, or within few hundred feet of
being four times the circumference of
the earth. This does not include the
distribution, which would increase
the distance to about five and a half
times around the globe. Father
Quinn's "string" would fill about 49,
OILS columns of space. If stretched
out in continuous line it would
form belt two miles wide by over
seven miles in solid reading matter
Put these lines in one continuous line
and it would extend 1853 miles.