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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-10-20
eRoup-''PEAcE AND PROSPERITY"

10000, and the Knights of Pythias have
asked to be given conspicuous position
in the parade, saying they will send
$4,000 knights. The Masonic order and
the O. 0. L. will also be there in large
numbers. Many thousands of the ma
tional guards win be there then
The national salute at sunrise will in
augurate the ceremonies of dedication
day, Friday, October 81. The president
Of the United States, his cabinet, mem
bers of the supreme court, members of
the senate and house of representatives,
distinguished foreign guests and gov
errors of the different states and terri
tories with their official stats, will be
escorted by guard of honor, composed
OF troops of the United States army, de-
tachments of the United States naval
forces and regiments from the various
state national guards, to the Manufac-
lures and Liberal Arts building, in
which the dedicatory exercises will be
held
At one o'clock in the afternoon in this
building the following dcdicatory pro-
gramme will be carried out under the
direction of the director general:
H. Columbian March Written for the occa-
sion by Prof. John X Paine.
.. Prayer by Bishop Charles H. Fowler, d.
D.. LII. D., of California
3. Dedicatory Ode Words by Miss Harriet
Monroe, OF Chicago; music by G.. w. Chadwick,
OF Boston.
4, Presentation OF the master artists OF tho
exposition and their completed work by the
chief OF construction.
s. Report of the director general to the
Worlds Columbian commission.
0. Presentation OF the buildings for dedica.
tion by the president Of the Worlds Columbian
exposition TO the president Of the Worlds Co.
lumbar commission.
Z. Chorus, 1.-THE Heavens Are Telling
Haydn.
g. Presentation OF the buildings fer dedica-
ton by the president Of the Worlds Columbian
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-10-20

1906, at the age Of 20, and was buried at
Valladolid, in Spain. 4 3 a. =.
The feast of the Ascension was the,
day of his death; and he died robed in
Franciscan habit, as his beloved queen
and protector had done. 20 ~
The cold and heartless Ferdinand
gave Columbus grand funeral, think
ing to do himself honor by it, and seven
years afterwards he reared to Columbus
marble tomb, whose inscription has
since become famous, both for itself
and the memory of him who lay be-
meath. 4Ht'I
His remains were afterwards taken to
Seville and placed with the body of his
son Diego in the monastery of Las
Cuevas. 30 i@ic
In 1915 they'werc cxlT,iiHea of
father and son-and transported across
the Atlantic to the island of San Do
mingo, which had been named by CO.
lumbus Hispaniola and was the princi-
pal settlement of his own discoveries in
his own time.
III l'ou, dlttI JilC SCSoiOu VI ipdu DO-
mingo t9 the French, they were again
dug up and placed in the cathedral of
Havana. There they now repose under
peculiar monument, There is claim
that the real remains were not removed.
There would be poetic justice in plac-
ing the tomb of Columbus in San Do
mingo, the island with which his great
est activity as Il discoverer is associated,
and the place where with the timbers of
his wrecked flagship he built the first
European habitation in America. The
chains placed on him by Babadilla dur
ing his imprisonment, and which he de-
clared should be removed by no less au-
thority than that of his royal master
and mistress, he kept in his study after
wards rs memorial and ordered that
they should be buried with him.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-10-20

park, near the pier which protects the
government battle ship, AT The south
end OF the space will be another pier
J The distance bctwecii7 the two points
Is about 29o01 feet Along the entire
tlistanceWil1 be phnntedsuljmarine. fire.
Works which wiillbeiexploded by cleo,
,tricity and Burst .tln'9agh the waves
lkesolennoes of Gre. yi.aH 49, I, ''.gpq 5,
Meanwhile there will be exploding
bombs, gorgeous set, pieces, and alto
gether a Wonderful 'pyrotcehiic display
which is intended TOO light up the
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-10-20

heavens for miles, One piece comprc-
hends salute Of 100 bombs ~ inches
in diameter. ~ l8sa8 seas g s~le' :.
They win be fred at once from NOR
tars with n terrific explosion and burst
of hamc. - 80, -
One bomb has been manufactured 5
feet in diameter. IT win rush slsyward,
leaving a column of fire in its wake
and, after attaining aaheight of several
hundred feet, burstsand throw out lo.-
O0O Stars Igs,- s-7 ...s f..-ss si.s
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-09
ELECTIONS In ENGLAND
MlsERIEs OF THE PARLIAMENT
TARY CANDIDATE.
Humors Of u British Political Meeting
.-vtsitinR the Candidate Evsding
Troubiesome lnqutrles-Who May Vote
for u Candidate fcr the Commonly
A parliamentary Eleotlon.


The imperviousntss OF the average
British skull to n JOKE prevents q gem
,eral and thorough appreciation Of tho
humors of IL British election. The Eng
lish have "a faculty nf taking everything
with the utmost seriousness, and as an
election is, to them. She most important
affair in which the british can engage,
every step in its rcxress, from the dis
solution OF the old Parliament to the as
sembling Of the ,.ew, is taken with
.o%verpowering s%olr1anity that is often
very funny. According to the Globe
Democrat, every Ole who has anything
to do with the affair, no matter how
small and Insignificant his share may
be, is profoundly impressed with a
sense of his own Importance and of the
fact that he is mahi,rs history, and so
goes about the job with an earnestness
that does him much credit. but often
fails to impress tha t%ystaLders in the
manner intended. From tho candidate
himself to the Chai.1nan of n popular
meeting, and from the latter pompous
functionary to the humble sharcr in
political work who walks up and down
the streets bearing two boards on which
is inscribed advice ~ voters us to the
properperson to receive their encourages
ment and votes. c.ery one feels, or
seems to feels, that he is n part of n
%stupendous whole, aad conducts himself
accordingly.
The infrcquency Of parliamentary
elections in Great Britain, as compared
with those for Congress in this country,
has a tendency to Increase their impor-
lance in the Eyes of the people. and the
local interest is not in the least dimin-
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-09

ishcd by the fact that, as IL general
thing, up to IL short timo before the cleo
tivn few of the electors in many Of tho
tborolghs know for wr,om they VIII he
called on to east tlieir votes. iol the
leaders of the two ra--ies choose. the
candidates and assign tAem TO districts,
so thnt a Scotrhman may BE- called on
to contest IL borough in the south of In
gland. while an Eng:.shman goes to-
Scotland to- solicit the .svAr of tho peo-
ple there. The fact tina, they frequently
have never seen theii candidate until
he appears before them on the hastings
does not disturb thu determination of
the mo nf his parry ~ vote sor him,
and when he comes down" from Lon
'don-for i'll England Vndon is up"
and everywhere else is "down"-to adj
dress hem. they turn .ut with LII en-
thuSi;:s ii torn of IL zoe for tho party
to give him IL welcome.
Suppose, then, that the Liberals pro-
pose to contest IL scat in Kent and the
Liberal management sends down John
Smith TO make the raavass. John goes
down. visits Cran5rook Eiddcnden, HAIRS
monien. Goudhurs, ana other villages
in his district, shakes hands with the
men, asks al'ou: thu health of their
~missuses' and the children. and goes
through other procrs.ea vi an electoral
canvass as familiar tc voters in this
country as in ENGLAND. But Johns
canvass is not 10 b.. completed without
kind. for much as the English people
ridicu!e the American love Of speech
making. the desire To address, audiences
is at least as strong In every part of
England as in any part of America.
Lang before the coming ri the would-bc
Nj. =. a meeting has been arranged, and
at this gathering air. Smith is expected
to outline the policy Of his party. tn
show how it alon: is the salvation of the
country, to explain what 1t has lone i'll
the past and shat it proposes TO do i'll
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-09

and when he rises it would be consid-
cred a gross breach Of parliamentary
good manners IL any other member
femained standing.
I; AS Speaker Mr.. Peel is the princi-
pal trustee of the British Museum.
He is also Chairman Of the Caledo-
MAN Canal Trust. In the early part
OF the century the government adj
vanced a sum Of money toward the
expense Of the canal, and in order
that it might be represented on the
trust q statute was passed making
the Speaker Of the day chairman ex.
pficio of the undertaking. He is also
trustee for the Duke Of Wellington
Of the famous Strathfleldsaye estate
in Hampshire.
The Anericsn Speaker.
!. Speaker Crisp does not get hale q
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-09

and for nine months in 1880 he was
Under Secretary to the Home Depart
iment. To the reader unfamiliar with
English institutions it may he neccs-
sary to state that a seat in the
House of Commons, instead of being
inconsistent with the holding of these
positions, is necessary to them, as in
the case of cabinet officers.
Attached to the Speakership is a
salary of $500 a year and an atficial
residence. Detached from it, but
shining in the distance, is the luster
of a patent of nobility and a seat in
the house of lords. besides a retiring
pension of $40, 900 a year. During
his term Of Office the Speaker is the
first commoner Of the land, taking
precedence of others by custom and
legislative enactment.
The political influence of the Eng
Fish Speaker is inflnitesimal com
pared to that welded by the Speaker
of the United States Congress. Here
the presiding officer never, or hardly
ever, seeks to divert the course of Leg
islation, nor does he name the COM
mittees of the House. His duty is
mainly to insist on a strict observ-
ance Of the rules, and to keep a close
eye on all those things which involve
the dignity of the House" to which
!Englishmen attach such immense inn
portance. For his peculiar duties
IMr. Peel is we'll equipped. He pos
sesses a fine business aptitude, a full
knowledge Of parliamentary usages,
land q disposition that can he serene
or severe, urbane or austere, as occa-
sion demands the exercise of those
essential qualities. He has also the
physical qualifications of a sonorous
voice and a commanding presence.
His desk ia not gavel-battered like
our Speakers, for, as a rule, he easily
controls the House. He sits with
Jove-like serenity in his rich robes,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-09

dimes she would not deign to sbestow :
glance. In q close election the CAM
wasting is carried ON with q vigor Of
which the people Of th:s country know
nothing, for In q district where the am
tecedents Of every q for generations
are perfectly we'll knowa to ell, the only
hope Of success lies in Inducing voters
Of the opposite political faith to change
their minds; and the difficulty Of doing
his can be imagined only when the
rugged self-relianoe. not to say obsti--
consideration. The time was when
votes were sold and bought almost
openly, but that time has gone by; II
there Is bribery now IL ID so carefullM
hidden as to be invisible even to the
shrewd guardians of public order. '
But the voters are q the only per-.
sons subjected to moral pressure while
the canvass is in progress. In every
British community, as IL every part Of
the United States, there are men and
ONE who imagine that the world is
on their shoulders, and that, should
they remove their support, the moral
universe would totter snl fall. These
are the men and women who forra SO.
cieties for the purpose OF bringing about
what the rest of the world calls impossi-,,
DllltleS. sometimes they succeed, some?
times they fail; in the former case they
are placed on the pedestal Of fame as
benefactOrs, leaders Of the worlds
thought, and persons to whom after
ages will point with pride, In the latters
they are denominated crsnks, and are
pronounced fit for the lunatic asylum.
Whether cranky or philanthropic, how
ever. tley are equally troublesome to
an anxious candidate when they come
to demand what policy he intends to
pursue in regard to the idea they have
nude it their business 70 foster, and
the unfortunate man is Often put to not
a little uneasiness when a woman's-
rights delegation IF . temperance
committee calls upon him to express
himself explicitly in regard to these
questions. To oppose Thorn is to lose,
the support of all on their eide; to favoE
them is to suffer n certain loss, probably
much greater. among those who regard
their pet theories as folly; to be nom
committal is to run TIC possibility
Of loss in both directions. To steer
clear Of these difficulties IL no easy mat.
ter, particularly us the people who con-
etitute themselves a committee to elicit
the candidates. views arg not usually,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-09

time with such remarks as occur to him
on the spur of the moment or are sug-
gested by the more or less lmpertinent
questions of the mob.
Tired out by his efforts he finally takes
his seat, and is vigorously alplauded by
his female relatives on the platform,
who have listened to his address with
looks Of admiration at the %pyofundity of
his wisdom, and with rcproachful and
rontemptuous glances at she crowd
which did not appreciate such talent.
The close of Johns speed. Is the sig
nal for an outbreak compared to which
the uproar that prevailed all along was
Il tritle. Some Of the audiancc desire
to hear other speakers Of the same
party as the candidate, others wish to
have II taste of something different, and
the leader of the opposition, who was
invited on the platform in order to keep
him quiet, usually seizcs the oppor-
tunity of the lull to spring to his feet
and begin an answer to the statements
and arguments that have been adj
vanced by the candidate. Flo is often
successful, for the spirit of fair play is
strong among the English people, but
not infrequently, when the local COM
mittce deems the situation inopportune,
hols, on n excuse or other, suppressed
whereupon he rctires in high dudgeon
from the platform and gives utterance
to his dissatisfaction from a chair in the
back part of the room.
a few days later the Tories have
their meeting i'll the same room, and
are addressed by their candidate, the
same scenes being enacted, this time,
however, the Liberals appointing as the
disturbing element, and, in sll prob
ability II member of the Liba,al local
committee appearing in the role of chief
srumbler. and being invited t., a seat
OH the platform TO secure u temporary
respite while thu Tory candidate airs
his views.
Disorderly as they often are. how
ever, the political meetings of the pres
cnt day are IL marked Improvement
owe those described by Dickens half IL
century ago, when the nominating
meetings were often riotOus. No one
who has read the great novelist's pict-
nrc of the election in which MIR. Pick
wick and his friends bore an humble
part can ever forget the description;
and yet, from the evidence given by
less imaginative writer's, there is rea-
son to believe the sketch is little, if at
ali. ovcrdrawn.
The methods of c%anvassing after the
nominations have been made have, how
ever, undergone little change. The
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-09
How Rapidly We Think.

Helmholtz showed that q wave Or
thought would require about a min.
ute tn traverse a mile of nerve, and
Hirsch found that a touch on the faca
was recognized by the brain and
responded to by a manual signal in
the seventh OF a second. He also
found that the speed Of sense differed
for different organs, the sense Of
hearing being responded to in the
sixth Of a second, while that of sight
required only one-flfth Of a second
to be felt and signaled. In all these
cases the distance traversed was
about the same, SO the inference Id
that images travel more slowly than
sounds or touch. 1t still remained,
however, to show the portion of this
interval taken up by the action OF
the brain. Professor Donders, BY
very delicate apparatus, has dem-
onstrated this to be about seventy,
five thousandths of a second. OF the
whole interval forty thousandths ara
occupied in the simple act of recognii
tion, and t%hirty-flve thousandths for
the act Of willing response.-House
and Home.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-09
Popular. but Erroneous.

"The dramatic manner in which,
newspaper reports of railroad wrecks
frequently refer to the heroic engineer.
who diet with his hand on the throt4
tie is amusing" said the General SUI
perintendent of a Chicago line. "Of
course nothing too good a be said
about q man who loses his life at his
post Of dnty, but the plain fact isl
that an engineer who dies with his
hand en- the throttle does SO because.
he has nothing else to take hold Off
/ have made a few run myself in my
time and J. speak by the card. 1t isl.
generally admitted by experienced
locomotive engineers that the safestl
thing to do when a collision is about
to occur is to drop down behind the
boiler head and grasp the throttlcI
regulator With both hands. Thisl
may prevent the engineer from beingl
hurled out Ct the cab, and the boiler
head protects him to a certain extent
frGN being crushed when the cab isl
%telescoped from the front. OF %course|
IL the tender is thrown upon the cab!
he will be caught from the rear, butt
he takes his chances at the best. IL
he jumps he is very liable to strike Al
stone pile or to have the engine fall
over or him before he can get away,
and / think the records will show
that fully as many engineers are
killed by jumping as by sticking toi
their cabs and holding to the throttle
regulator, whichis the most convenient
and substantial means of support"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-09

disposed to tolerate evasion, but de-
mand an unequivocal statement; and
the example of the candidate in the last
Parliamentary election, who, whenever
informed that u delegation was on it's
way to his house, hid in tho garnet, lcav-
ing word that he gone t. London,
would be followed by moro than one
consequences of such evasion even more
than the results of an interview. j
But from ii kind of pressure, that
for appointment n to Office, the candidate
for Parliament is almost entirely free.
There are, to be sure, in Great Britain
as in the United States, numerous pa
triots who are willing to serve their
country at a fixed and liberal salary,
but the incoming of a new administra-
ton with a new policy does not mean
there, as here, o general exodus Of
Government officials. Civil scsvice has,
in Great Britain, passed beyosd the ex-
perimental stage, and ia So firmly
grounded as any other principle of adj
ministrative government. With the de-
feat Of the administration, the ministry:
and a few heads of departments 60 out,
but the great body OF English public
servants, after being appointed, are Sc
cure in their places no matter bow great
CiL0 ROAAOLC6L uuLt 0NulS UIlt4V 4.Ull UlIu0
to time take place In the narlon. Prime
clVck in q government department, the
country postmaster, stays on, unaffected
by the change in domestic or foreign
policy that may be involved In the
election.
Mention has already been made of
the comparatively restricted number Of
English voters by whom the crlulidate
for Parliament is confirmed in hiA elec1
ton. Small as are these numbsrs COM.
pared with our unlimited suffrage, they:
are large when compared With the
classes of voters who exercised the.
franchise before the reform bill of 1858.
which was passed by the Conservative
Government Of Disraeli. Unsaer this
document voters in counties comprised
40 shilling f~reeholders, or those owns
ing property in fee Of that annual value,'
those possessing q life estate of thu
annual value Of 40 shillings, which, IL
not occupied, must have been possessed
before 1892, those possessing q life es-
tate of the annual value of E5, lessees
for not less than sixty yeare Of the
annual value Of E5. Or for twenty years
of the annual value Of $50, aud occu-
piers of lands rated at E12 q year. In
bCroughs the voters comprise the rated
oocupiers Of dwellings who lave paid
their poor rates, occupicrs Of premises.
not dwelling houses, of the annual value
of .lO, and dodgers occupying premises
Of the annual value of g1O. The bars Of
suffrage were thus let down to q very
low notch, but in spite of this fact great
numbers OF the Queens subjects are
still DISTINGUISHED, and have neithei
part nor lot In the election of their rep!
r~esentatives in Parliament.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-09

much pay for presiding over the noisy,
branch OF Congress as Is given thei
Speaker OF the House Of Commons in!
England. But he does not have toll
wear the curly wig. His head is mott
upholstered. That Is one compensa-i
ti0n for the difference in salary.
Though the Speaker of the Americana
House wears less hair and draws less!
pay than the corresponding oficial oil
the British Government, he occupies|
immensely greater influence inI
legislative affairs, and his reli
alive rank in the government
is higher. The Speaker OF the House
Is properly next in rank to the Presi1
dent. The Vice President is great
chiefly in tho fact of his nearness in
succession TO the President and the
possibility that he may become Presi!
dent, but as long as he remaind
merely Vice President he is an alterl
nate to rank and a comparatively UNI
important parsonage in the govern@
ment. The Speaker OF the Housei
however, has the appointment Of
committees who shall take charge Of
the business of the House, and he
practically dictates the policy of the
House. There have, perhaps, been
some Speakers of small influence, but
they have been exceptions. Speakers
Reed, Blaine, Randall, and Carlisle
each in his time exercised a powerful
influence upon legislation.
In appearance there is a strikina
contrast between Speaker Crisp and
Speaker Peel, even leaving out Of
consideration the difference in their
dress while exercising their official
functions.
The only other Office the Speake4
holds by reason of his position in thd
House is that of Chairman of the
Committee IN Rules, to which CoMj
mittee is referred all questions OF the
order of business. The Speaker usu1
ally dominates that committee,
though, of course, he may be voted
down by q majority of his four asa
sociates.
He has NJ perquisites of power be-
You'd his salary of $40, 900 a year, can
hold no other Office under the governs
ment during his i%ncumbency aa
Speaker, and has neither title nor
pension after retirement from the of
flee. 1t is an Office won through popui
larity and ability and held only by
those qualities which give a man a
commanding position in his party. Ii
is in the power of the Speaker to re-:
ward his friends and punish his enes
mics in many ways, but though the
contest which resulted in Mr.. Crisp's
election was a hot one, there have
been no punishments for those who
preferred another to him, and the
rewards have been measured out I'd.
ability ard trustworthiness almost
without regard to faction.