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The morning call., 1891-03-22
STRANGE SIMILARITY,
The Late Dr.. Armstrong and the Man who Shot
President Lincoln.

The recent death of DR.. J. G. Armstrong
of Atlanta brings into prominence again the
rumor that he was John Wilkes Booth.
When ard where the rumor originated it is
impossible to ascertain, but the basis upon
which it rests, most probably, is from the
strong facial resemblance that the doctor
bore to the Booths; this, coupled with be-
lief among some that Booth was never
killed. no doubt gave rise to the origin Of
this belief.
In connection with the facial characteristics
before mentioned, the doctor walked with
profound lameness, and upon his neck there
was large scar-pecrliarities attributed
also to Booth. AS far as this is concerned,
condolences of physical nature as marked
as this are to be found every day. Another
thing suggested in support of the Booth by
pothesiS is the marked attention lie gave
theatrical matters. and especially the plays
of Shakespeare. Frequently members of
local dramatic company would assemble in
the doctors library and receive the benefit
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hair his deceptive blue eyes and his beguil-
ing silky moustache, had made deliberate
set for a rich wife. He would now ignore
his music, except in careless, dilettante
way. He would drag Helena among the
fashionable eliQues which she had hitherto
deSpised. He would aim to shine as leader
OF society, and perhaps In few years would
break his wffe's heart by course of Teck-
less intidelities. Helena would never seek
a divorce, she was too modest and gentle for
that; it would all merely result in an inflic-
ton of lingering misery on the sweet Great
ure whom he had married.
So Tallmadge prophesied and after two
years had passed there was every reason
for him to acknowledge himself the very
falseSt of prophets. Old Mr.. Hamilton
followed his dear wife to the grave, during
these two same years, yet before his death
silently blessed the husband who had al
ready made his daughter charmingly happy
Helena and her lord seldom went into So
ciety at all. She remained chldless, and
yet their home was one Teplete with con-
tentment. A more loving husband than
Justin Worcester could not well be i'm
agtned. Tallmadge occasionally visited
them and saw nothing in their quiet, refined
household except signs of thorough con-
nubial peace. He met on several occasions
the kinsman Of Justin Worcester, who had
come tc dwell with himself and wife in that
pretty basement house uptown, which was
haunt of delightful taste and culture.
ms gentleman was Mr.. Oswald Blagden
and his age was certainly ten years more
than that Of Helena's husband. 1t was to
him, as Justin WOr, ester frankly and freely
SAID, that he had owed all his proficiency in
music. Blagden "a tall gray man with
scintilant black eyes and a most dis
tnguished general appearance had come to
America for the purpose of placing on the
New ork stage an opera of his own COM
position, which had enjoyed fair success
abroad. He had felt very hopeful at first
about the success of the opera here; but
soon he discovered that even if performed
there would be slight chance for it, as il
aimed at something better than triviality.
Blagden was not without certain means of
his own, and through the aid of Mr.. and
Mrs. Worcester he secured a few highly
desirable pupils. Then, in little while
he came TO live with Justin and his wife.
This plan Helena herself had one day pro-
posed and her husband warmly seconded IT,
At first Blagden drew back from the prop
osition, grateful and yet reluctant. He
stammered at least ten polite excuses
to Justin for not accepting IT, but
there was not a real excuse in any
of them. Finally vision of Helena in all
her gentle loneliness conquered him. This
Blagden was no longer a young man, but
he bad never met a woman of such en-
thralling presence. Now and then he would
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CERAMIC CURIOS.
The Antiquity of Porcelain Ware in Japan
Undetermined.

The Antiquity of Porcelain Ware in Japan
Undetermined.
1.-The ceramic art, according to our Japa-
nese traditions" said Mr. Shugio to writer
in the Art Amateur "has been practiced in
Japan from prehistoric times. But the
earliest wares were probably only rough IN
glazed pottery. The use of the wheel is
said to have been introduced by priest
named Giyokl as late as the year 724 Of the
present era, and the first glazed stoneware
is said TO have been made at Seto in Dwarf,
in 1921, by kato Sher0zayemon, usually
called Tothlro. who brought the art from
China. The first porcelain was also made
by pupil of the Chinese, Gorodayu SbOn-
i5lo.v " -'n ''''''
so that there is no porcelain of ex-
tremely remote antiquity"
Il think that you may say that even of
Chinese and Corean wares, as to the ear
liest dates OF which, however, there is
great uncertainty. 1t is as certain as any
thing i'll history that Japanese porcelain
does not antedate Shonsui's return from
his apprenticeship in Foo-Choo and King
te-Ching. He learned only the manufacture
of Iorcelain decorated with blue under the
glaze, and was forced to look to China for
materials, Tor porcelain clay was not dis
covered in Japan until long after his time
Specimens still exist which are aserlbed to
bin. Their principal merit is in the glaze,
WHICH u FeIy SUI anu luStT0uS. Many
of them are decorated with variety of
the so-called hawthorn in reality plum
blossom pattern, and his decorations are
said to show already the naturalzing ten
drney of Japanese design as opposed to the
more conventional treatment of natural
forms by the Chinese. Toward the end of
the same century our great General Taiko,
ordered the leaders of his army of the
famous Corean expedition to bring back
with them some of the best potters of the
country, at that time further advanced in
the arts than was Japan. These included
many of the best potters, who were estab-
lished by their new masters in their prov
inces.
"Thus, porcelain making may be said to
have been born in Japan with the birth of
the feudal system of society. The most
celebrated factories have always until re-
Gently been under the patronage of the
Daimio, or great Lords, who claimed the fin
est pieces for themselves. There was much
rivalry among these aristocratic manufac-
turers, and we doubtless owe to the condi-
ton of things instituted by Taiko and his
successors the great variety of unique and
beautiful objects manufactured in Japan
during two centuries and half"
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dozen artisans still exist who understand
the subtleties of the old craft Till quite
lately copper chombras with brass or silver
concentrations used to be manufactured In
TaniOre, Arkonum, and are still drawing
their last breath at Manambuchavadi and
1irnpati; but the cunning has gone from
the hand, and the work is less powerful
than the ancient one.
The most lasting monuments OF the cop
per art are the old grants written on copper
plate and coins which are constantly Deing
discovered and stored uD in the Madras
Central and other museums. The only ma
ton that possesses these imperishaol Die forms
of documents is India; palmyra lear is sup
posed to last five centuries, and iikaia,
specimen of this palm, greatly grown on the
CeylOn coast can be preserved for upward
OF seven centuries; but a document Oh cop
per, according to the immense num-
Der which modern research has brought to
light and which have been autographed IN
the Indian AntiQuary," can last even Tor
twenty centuries without the least In
jury being made by time. The original
Magma Charta is preserved in case in
a shapeless form like a handful of torn
scraps of paper. What hands could put IL
together, although it is only six centuries
old? Look at the most Insignificant record
of grant of rice to some poor Branmln IN
any temple during the days of the Chola or
CDalukya, ten or fifteen centuries ago;
each letter, each stroke or dot stands out IN
clear, distinct form, as leGible as it was
years ago, when its wording meant so much
to the poor recipient. But want OF art
energy is allowing this to die. Ready as the
Indian nation is to present addresses OF
welcome to Rajahs and to English officials
of position, they never take the trouble to
engraVe lasting ones on copper.
Iron work, too, runs the same chance of
being extinguished. India was the first
country which turned this metal into
weapons. Persia borrowed the art from
India. The Rig Veda. which is the Oldest
record in the world, gives evidence of this;
so do also the Astras and Sastras of the
Dhanurneda, and during the early part OF
the Christian era the Indian blade was the
most used throughout the Eastern and
Western world. This art reached its great
est perfection in Northern India. the Pun
jab, Nepaul, Rajputana, Gujarat and other
provinces, where they still make beautiful
arms; also in Hyderabad, where English
art has not penetrated SO deeply.-The
Nineteenth Century.
The morning call., 1891-03-22
THE LAST DAYS
OF NEFGATg.
The Old Historical Prison Of London to Be
Torn Down.
On the Site, Which Is Valuable for Commercial
Purposes, Will Be Erected Great
Warehouses.

The last days of Newgate Prison are at
hand. The grim old prison which had once
been so famous and infamous in the history
of the city of London is to be RACED to the
ground, and on its site-a piece of ground
worth almost its weight in gold-are TO be
built great city warehouses, writes Lon
don correspondent.
No visitor to London city can pass the
grimy black walls of Newgate without
thinking OF one or the other of the hundred
and one romantic stories connected with
the edifice. 'BarDaby Ridge" and the
doomed hangman. ''Oliyer Twist aud "0ld
Fagin," Jack Sheppard" and ''Blueskin,"
and My Lord Tom Noddy'-heroes of
Dickens, Ainsworth and ingoldsby-cOme
naturally to the front in such thoughts
But take up for moment a copy of New
gate calendar, and at once memory can re-
call fifty or sixty terrible crimes trimming
over with all the wickedness and frailty Of
humanity, that have had their last scenes
and final tragedy in or about the spot that
in few years may become vast ware
house of silks, muslins, leather and sides of
bacon.
Newgate has. of course, always been one
of the points picked ont by sight-seer and
traveller alike in London, and the great
point of interest has been the gate with its
frowning adornment of leg-irons. through
which so many wretched criminals have
passed on the platform beneath the gallows.
Present civilization has almost forgotten
thai there was such thing as public exc
cution, yet little drawing upon the fancy
an d anybody standing in the area of build
ings. forming an irregular square, of which
the prison is the principal side. can picture
the scaffold with its bowling mob around
it. kept back with difficulty by soldiers, the
cross-beam of the gallOws, the dangling
fashion, who have paid heavy prices to see
a poor wretch die.
my Lord Tom Noddy" was scarcely even
a caricature of the fashionable young man
of fifty years ago. "To see n man swing"
was, after all, Just as interesting as cock
The morning call., 1891-03-22
RECORDS In COPPER.
Images in That Metal That Are the Perfection
Of Art

The only real work Of art in copper that
now exists in India is the casting of Hindu
and other images for religious purposes.
These are, of course. mostly to be found in
old temples. Almost all the old temples
which can really claim antiquity have
images made of copper, which are
the perfection of art, and which, with
all the assistance of machinery, could
never be excelled or even initiated
by European cities. Southern India has
been the cradle of this art, and seems likely
soon to become its grave, for barely hall q
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ewes was drawn overOid Kd0Dfe and Stump"
her face the moment the rim of the cup was
removed from her mouth. As her death
was instantaneous, her last breath must
have passed through the fumes of alcohol
still in her throat. A few moments after
we were seated at breakfast. and in exactly
the same tones and with the same gestures
which he had used in bidding the convict
woman to prepare for eternity, did the
reverend chaplain ask me if l would take
cold ham or boiled tongue.
The Maggie and Stump" which at one
time supplied all the liquor which the pris-
oners were allowed to take in the jail, is
no longer drinking place, and its sign has
been scratched away from the front of the
house. Now a cheesemonger and poulterer
conducts his business there. However, the
once ill-famed hostelrie and the houses on
either side will all doubtless be pulled down
at the same tine as the prison.
Many people nave been writing to the
public papers protesting that no other build
ing should ever be ere ted on the infamous
site of Newgate." Others suggest that the
ground should be incloSed as a public
breathing-space. and that Immediately above
the spot where the murdererS were buried
a huge black cross should be raised with
the words, Jesus, mercy, Jesus, at It's
base. One gentleman, who intimates that
he employs hundreds OF young men IN his
wooden warehouse, says that II big build
ing ever stands on the site of Newgate, not
a Single person will ever venture into the
cellars, and no night Waterman on such
premises would be free from the fear OF
ghosts.
Whether business people will get over
their objection to the prison site as build
ing plat for their warehouses, or whether 1t
really will be turned into small park, Is Mt
present matter for conjecture even with
the city fathers themselves. Perhaps It
would be gracious act to turn the place
into public garden of trees and green grass.
with seats and fountains, and without even
a black cross to recall the hideous memories.
And then the patter of little feet and then
the echo of childish laughter would in time
perhaps make people connect the place with
other scenes. Even the ghosts of the poor
hanged wretches, if such there be, would
doubtless abstain from walking once the
spot where they expiated their infomy be-
came hallowed by the mirth of innoce
children. Strange whirligig OF time! Yet
green playground in the busiest spot Of great
London city, teeming with courts and
alleys full of human habitatiOns, would be
a boon to many, no matter by what means
the gift was obtained.
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should Have a Name.

One year, when l was up in the lake
country, / was sketching az Rydal Water,
when gentleman came up behind me, and
after watching me as l painted for some
time, said, "The man who could do that
should have a name." answered, just as
he moved away, "The man who can see
were working in stone quarry close by. if
they knew who he was. "Oh, yes," they
said; why. that's Southey, the poet. He's
a funny fellow" "How funny?" "Why
he's mad" they answered.-My Life-J.
Sidney Cooper.
The morning call., 1891-03-22
AM ANONYMOUS
LETTER THAT KILLED
RRirTEE
BY EDGAR FAWCETT.
wsir7EH FOR THE SUNDAY CALL
copyrighted 1891 for The Sunday ~ rights re'erUea
CHAPTER L.

Destiny is not a lenIeut task-master for
many of us In this strange school that we
call life. But for some Of us he wieids
rod Of iron, indeed, or perhaps one might
better call it whip of scorpions, like the
mvthic Cnrnna's in the Greek tales. Not
long AGO there lived in lonely, old-iaSn-
toned house which traffic and enterprise
have removed from the once almost sOmnO-
lent region of Waverly place, pale woman.
with traces Of remarkable beauty, whose
hair was quite white, although she had not
vet reached the age of 50. Long ago she
had inherited the house from her father.
but she had never cared to dwell there until
a certain GROWING misfortune of her days
caused her to seek it almost as one might
seek nunnery or monastery, and bide in
absolute social seclusion with two trusted
servants.
There was nothing morbid in this resolve
She was rich, and quietly dispensed large
sums in charity, personally visiting hos
pitfalls and often finding her way to the
squalid homes of those whom her purse
could aid or her presence cheer. But as for
the world of men or women with whom she
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who nowadays throng court OF justice and
fight for coigns of vantage, when some no
torious man or woman is being tried for
capital offense, would not be present at an
execution if such were possible? Doubt
less it is such persons who still form large
majority OF the hundreds who every week
visit Newgate, pass moments in the con-
demned cell, and linger almost lovingly
over the roughly paved stones above the
ouieklime eating the remains OF murderers.
The interior Of Newgate is IN every way
calculated to inspire horror; Its vanlt-uke
cells are more like dungeons we used to read
about in feudal castles than modern recep-
tacles for legal transgressors, and an execu-
ton within its walls is something that
spectator can never forget.
was present some years ago at the hang
ing of a woman who had murdered her
mistress for the sake of securing few
gaudy ribbons and feathers. and my letter
of invitation intmated to me that breakfast
would be served after the ceremony in the
jailer's house. Calcraft, the hangman, was
all smiles, and put out his hand to shake
with each of us. The wretched woman was
staiidly Indifferent, and the walk TO the
scaffoId along two corridors WAS made by
the light of lanterns. for the early dawn
was obscured in one of London's thickest
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fight, and not much less
brutal than dog-flghting
or bUll-baiting, and [
am not sure that a
cheerful supper at the
"Magpie and Stump"
once a public-house OPP
posite the prison, and a
glimpse OF the frightful
crowd regularly attend
ing executions in those
days was not worth
seeing once even by
persons not as a rule
patrons of brutal exhi-
billions. In fact, how
The morning call., 1891-03-22

A Philadelphia man wanted to commit
suicide as painleSsly as possible, so after
much thought he carefully shot himself in
the left foot. He is still alive,
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fogs. On the scattold,
just before the cap was
drawn over her face,
the woman begged for
a drink OF brandy, and
the execution was de-
layed for at least five
minutes, while one of
the warders went to get
what she wanted. IL
was brought to her in a
tin mug and poured
through her lips, and
the white cap which
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Cheap tinware is said to be very danger
Gus, the coating. Of the iron containing
poisonous materials, generally anthony.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-07
MORMON MONKEYING
Continued From First Page.

Continued From First Page.
country asking the names of their Co
IumbaS correspondents.
This morning'Gov. Campbell sent the
following telegram:
To the Commercial Gazette, Cincinnati, O.. {:
Unless you retract in your next issue. in the
broadest and clearest possible language, the
publication made by you this day and pur-
porting to be copied from the New York Re.
corder shall bring suit against you to-mor-
row The man whom you call Ralph W
Wilkinson, and TO whom these INDUSTRIOUS
hes are attributed, l never heard Of | do
uot propose to let you shield yourself behind
some mythical person or to escape be-
cause you are attempting to ruin my credit
ana reputation as an honorable man by
printing from papers in New York what YOU
have not the hardwood to print direct
Your meek editorial comment to-day is worse
than would be bold and open assumption
OF responsibility. Your screed taken from
the New York Press the other day was I'M
true and libelous, and l shall bring suit upon
that also unless you retract ii.
JAMES Z. CAMPBELL
NEW York, Oct. 6.--SenatOr Calvin S.
Brice has made downright denial of
statements concerning him and Gov.
Campbell which have recently been
published. Nearly all the statements
are made upon the authority OF one
Ralph Wilkinson, who is called "a
prominent politician and Democrat"
In the interview Wilkinson says
that Gov. Campbell is 100000
in debt and declares that the
governor lost the money in
stock gambling. He also declares that
Mr.. Campbell owes Mr.. Brice 100000.
MIR. Brice says he never knew man of
the name of Wilkinson, and emphati-
cally denies that Gov. Campbell owes
him money. He says the governor
never specialized to his knowledge. Had
he done so he believes he would have
heard of it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-07
is HE A GOAT?

During the summer, while the tenn
perature has ranged high, the defenders
of the faith once committed TO the saints
have been scattered, some to the mount
aims, some to the seashore, and some
even beyond the oceans waves. There
has been cessation of doctrinal discus
sions, and the heresy agitations have
been no liyelier than the oyster market.
Now the days grow shorter, ana the
weather is cool. The commentators and
eXpounders are hauled down from the
shelves again. and the utterances of
the radicals in the pulpit are once
more compared with the rulings
of the standard authorities. This
mans views on inspiration are meas
ured with critical care, and that mans
opinions on infant damnation are ana
lyzed in the light of precedents accu-
rately collated. Get in step there.
HOWARD MACQUEARY, says the bishop
of Ohio. or out from the ranks Won 90.
Mark time there, CHARLES A. BRIGGS.
proclaims the presbytery in council as
sembled, or get behind band PLAYING
a different tune from ours. Great cues
lions are to be settled this winter in
matters ecclesiastical, as we'll as politi-
cal. Discipline is to be enforced, and
the goats are to be divided from the
sheep. CHARLES A. BRIGGS is accused
of teaching that MOSES did not write
the Pentateuch, which includes an ac-
count of his own death. Is he guilty or
not guilty? Is he goat or sheep?
That is the point which is to be decided.
The radicals are on trial. And so is the
church.
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OHIO POINTS

The Peoples or Alliance party i'm
Ohio is not likely to cut much figure as
n separate voting element this year, but
Gov. CAMPBELL will receive a strong
support. Heis making a telling can
yass with the farmers. 1t is true the
Republicans do not approve of his
methods, and ms ist that he should not
say unpleasant things, even if they are
true. AS the governor goes about he
takes along statistics gathered from
official sources. In each county he
compares the valuation of agricultural
property now with what it was decade
ago. Taking the aggregate of the farm
lands of the state, he shows that ten
years ago the valuation was 1884,
S26,5l6 The S40.S15, $50 of improve
mentS since should be added, max
ing an aggregate of S725, 642 255.
Still, on the same basis of valuation
there is falling away of s57, 1912.
This is the loss the farmers have sus-
tanned in their capital in ten years. In
the same time the cities and towns have
grown and afforded all the advantages
Of the Wanted home market. Their
valuation has risen from 412.6s3, 314 to
$500. OPS, 724 in the decade. The contrast
is sharply drawn, and the fact is brought
home to the farmers that they have
been allowed only to sell their products
in the cheapest market in the world and
buy in the dearest. There is no getting
away from the figures, and the ONLY re-
ply is that there are big crops this year,
and the unfortunate people over the
water must buy them. But the tariff
did not cause the abundance in the one
case and the failure in the other.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-07
ASTRAKHANS

We sell and handle more
of this article than any
other retail house in Amer
lea. Buy our skins in Leip-
sic (where they are brought
every year from Russia,
and have had an experience
in the article which enables
Us to select the proper class
of skins and make them up
right, so we can absolutely
warrant the good wear of
every garment we sell. The
market is full of trash in
this line, and a poorly made
Astrakhan garment is near
ly worthless. We have goog
ones at $40, $45 and $50,
and handsome long Cloaks
at $55 and $50.