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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-07

Dr. Felix Adler was member or the Iehe
mcnt House Commission which did good WORK
for our city's tenement population several years
ago. and his interest in workngmen ana women
has familiarized him with the conditions under
which large numbers Of people in New-fork are
forced TO live He therefore spoke with knOWl-
edge in discussing the homes and rookeres OF
the city in his lecture yesterday. His remedy
for tenementhouse evils is radical one; ne
would reform the tenement-house our OF exist
epce That way, Of course, lies the road to the
ideal state Of things, but no one knows better
Than DR.. Adler the impracticabiliy of so deal
ing with the matter at once. we must deal
with things as they are. and devise laws that
will make tenement house life as tOlcrable as
may be- And when these laws are enacted let
IA hope that no religious corporation Will seek
10 stay their enforcement by appealing TO Inc
courts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-07

Scratch a currency tinker and you VIII ma an
inhationist who believes that government can
make itself rich and its citizens prosperous by
increasing the outstanding evidences OF Its own
Indebtedness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-07

On the eve OF his retirement from office, Gov
ernor Markham. Of California, has made an ap-
pointment which is thoroughly disgraceful. BY
a political deal that has nothing to commend
e. one of the Police Commissioners OF San
Francisco resigned on Saturday and in his
place the Governor named "Mose" Gunst, a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-07

1t IS in 10 way surprising that the schools OF
New-YorL have sadly desenerated under Tam
many control. that the accommodations Tor
children are far short of what should be pro
yidcd and that there has been rapid progress
ON the down grade. The question just now be-
fore the Board Of Education is whether PreSi-
dent Knox. the head and front of the Tammany
ring in the Board, shall be reelected AT Tie
meeting DAY after tomorrow There are some
signs that he will yield 10 the demands OF de-
ccncy and step aside; but if another man takes
his place the need Of a thorough reformation III
this department will not be lessened scin,illa
We want a school law, which VIII bring
our school system up TO the times and remove
the evils that have crept in; and we want 10
have 1t administered by men who know what
education is by personal experience, and who
have nothing but disgust for existing methods.
Tammany Hall and our public schools can have
no relationship save that of antagonisn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-07

1t gives us pleasure to record the fact that
Governor Morton is devoting attention betmeS
10 the reduction Of expenses by the cutting off
of useless bureaus and officers. and enforcing
economy all around One Of the places where
need Of reform is great is the office of the Su-
perintendent of State Buildings, filed for several
years past by one Delehanty. who has the
honor Of being the faiherin-law Of Senator
Murphy. The cost Of maintaining the public
buildings has increased enormously under Dele
hanty's supervision. This office and all the
others ought TO be administered on strictly
business principles.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-10

coryphee. who with application and
natural aptitude may be an assoluta
some day, is interesting.
Learning to dance for the ballet of
the opera In Paris Is a training Spar
tan-llke, almost ferocious.
The novice comes as child, and year
upon year without intermission passes
through the exercises that are scarcely
less a. cruel ordeals.
THE ANGER who desires 10 become a
star must sacrifice her childhood and
her youth, forget that she is a woman,
and remain as chaste as marble Dia-
ma in the Louvre"
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-10

both hammers OF their shotguns and
at the same instant made q lunge
against the door. which opened Inward.
1t flew back as II struck by "A pilcdriycb
and in less time than 1t takes 10 tel II,
the two men were standing in the mid
die Of the room. with their shotguns
lcveied on the seven moonahincrs VINO
wore sitting around the fire playing
"Hnnds upr cred Marshal Drake,
and like a flash fourteen hands went
Into the air The prisoners were then
dlsarmed, and while Marshal Drake
guarded them In one corner of the
room, Deputy Cockrcll proceeded TO
destroy the still and everything IN the
establishment. 1t was a big task. He
had been correctly informed for It
was thirty gallon still. 1t was full
OF beer. and there was a hot fire under
II. In addition there was about 200
gallons of mash IN various stagtc of
fermentation, two or three dozen SAT hf
OF meal and ten or fifteen gH'inrs Of
whisky in jugs ready to be sold, II
was nearly two hours before Cockrell
got through. Then the big copper stlll
looked as II It had been run over by "A
trolley car 1t was cut to pieces with
an axe and the worm-that long coil
of copper which the steam passes and is
condensed-wa battered all out of
shape. The tubs containing the mash
were knocked to pieces. the whisky
jugs broken aud the meal scattered
over the floor 50 that when Cockrell
had finished, Jim Bannlon, who was
conveniently absent when thN raid was
made. would not have recognized his
establishment had he put in his APP
pearance at that time.
Then Drake and Cockrell took their
prisoners to Hazard arriving there
about / O'Clock In the morning. and
landed them in jail The next night
they took them 10 Jackson. thirty-tiye
miles distant. arriving In time to catch
the $3.50 train on the Lexington and
Eastern railroad for Lexington, They
arrived here at hnlf-past o'clock that
morning. having Travelled thirty-nvc
miles over bride path through the
mountains and 100 miles by rail. I
never saw more tired looking lot of
men, and although the two officials
had broken up what was perhaps the
largest muonshlne distillery in the state,
they told about 1t as modestly as n
school girl would refer to her .lrst Leau.
Not Always Success.
But all the raids made on the Ken
tuck moonshlners have MT hee1 SO
fortunate as this. Several years ago
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-10

told George Drake what he wanted to
do, and the daring marshal immedi-
0tely agreed to 20 with Cuckrell after
the big muonshlne still Arriving at a
little place called "Ilel for Sartin."
about fifteen miles west OF Hazard, the
county seat OF Perry county, they found
man who Knew about where the atill
was located lie told them that It was
somewhere on Lots creek, about Ave
miles north OF Hazard.
That night they rode over 10 where
Tots creek cmptles into North Fork
where they put up At the house Of an
Old mountoinrer. passing themselves on
~ cattle buyers. They stayed around
mo old mans house all the day wltho III
seeing single soul But some one saw
them. for Just after dark a long. lean
specimen of the molntaincer came to
the old mans house and wanted to see
that big man with the white hat"
umenning Deputy Coekrell) He told
him he wanted him to come
out INTO the yard but Cock
rell, fearing 1t was trap to catch
him. refused to 80 ut first. but finally
decided to take the risk. After they
had gone fifteen or twenty steps from
the house the mountain man whispered
N Cookreils ear this startling ques-
rs YOU fellers lookin' for Jim Ban
MONS big still9"
In telling of the Occurrences after
wards Cockrell said a man could have
knocked him down with a feather lust
at that moment. Bannion had been
so circumspect that the revenue off,
GERS had never been able to find out
who conducted the "hig still" as they
called ~, and many OF the officers re-
garded II as n myth. After recovering
from his astonMhmOnt Cockrell real
lzed that this unknown mountain man
was an enemy OF the big stlller ami
that here was his opportunity to make
one OF the richest hauls IN the history
or the department. The details were
soon settled. The unknown inforiner
proved 10 be BIN Gritty whom Ban.
Mon had refused to credit for whisky
He at once led them up To Lots
creek. about three miles, and I'm n
deep ravine could be seen a huge dark
object, which upon closer inspention
proved 10 be the dlstillery. NOT n raw
OF light issued from It. as Il contained
no windows. Gritty told them mo
door was In the upper end OF the buiid-
ing. and thlther the two officers can.
tously crept They We're both armed
with double barrel shot guns. loaded
with buckshot. Grlffy had told then
thar Baunion kept several inountain
desperadoes on guard inside the hhuse
at night, and that during the daytime
they were deployed around The buIl6-
Ing. some distance on. Accordingly
The officers We're prepared 70 take des,
perats measures. and, instead OF knock
ing Tor an admittance. they cooked
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-10

Grcnt MilIionnircs Tell How They
Began Their Fortunes.

So many citizens of this country have
succeeded within a generation or less in
piling up vast fortunes that 1t seems
as If the task could not be a very diff
ticult one. 1t will be interesting to hear
from some of them how they set about
1t.
When l was 10 years old" said Coils
T. Huntington to the writer. II went
from my home In Connecticut to New
York and bought a small bill of goods,
one of our neighbors being security for
my credit. My first deal was a success,
and thus won my first 800. But start
ing business in San Francisco in 1S49
| lost heavily until my funds were so
low that In order to get to Sacramento
earned my passage money thither on
a schooner by helping to load her at
81 an hour. Al sacramento l started
IN business in tent with limited
stock Of general merchandise, and there
l secured the first 800 that l may be
SAID to have kept to the present time"
Phillip ID, Armour, the Chicago pork
packer, whose fortune is estimated at
2OOOO,OOO, said: Il got the first 500
OF the fortune / now possess by dig
ging and washing gold. l started for
California in 1Si9 and drove a team of
SIX mules across the plains There l
aug and washed away until 1 was pref
" Well wearied, ana then | got some
washngs that / sold for 500. the first
time | ever possessed so large sum"
Andrew Carnegie explained that his
hrst 800 was saved from salary paid
to him by Thomas Scott president of
the Pennsylvania railroad.
Senator John =. Jones of Nevada,
sometimes called the silver king, said
that he found his first money in the
ground, but he earned 1t. He went to
California in 1919 and worked as a
miner in placers and tunnels. and there
made small beginning of his fortune.
The late Senator Stanford often told
now he earned his first S100 1t was as
y lawyers fee. He was practiclng in
ozarkee county, Washington territory,
ana defended man accused of murder
ing peddler. The most damaging fact
asainst him was that ring belonging
W me murdered man was found on the
prisoners hand. Addressing the Jury
IN the most solemn manner Stanford
salai Before God swear that 1
Know this man Is Innocent"
ms attention was then attracted TO
spectator who was In state Of great
emotion Going to him he said: "This
- me guilty man" The man confessed
aiiu explained that the pcddler's ring
s Sas pulled off in the death struggle.
.Saahiord received from his client 800.
winch ne always afterwards preserved.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-10

We Have Room FOR Two ,rhirI. 40
the worlds Eopuintinn.


st, Louis Republic.
Have YOU any idea of the number of
persons that the United States wn,id
sustain without overcrowdlng the pon,i-
latton, or even going beyond the limit
OF density now shown by the state az
Rhode lsland7 The last census of ne
pigmy state lust gives II a popuIation
of 100000. The area of the STATE IN
square miles is only 1850, thus we find
that there is an average OF 8is perso,,..
on every square mile OF her territor,,
We san best Illustrate the sustnlnino
capacity OF the whole OF the IYni,n5
states by making some comparlso,,s.
The state Of Texas has an area or sts
$50 square miles, and, We're II enuo1i,,
as densely populated as little Rbod,.;S :,
would comfortably sustain a pnn,,ia.;r
OF S352sG2S inhabltaits--a graster , 1911
Der Of persons than the whole en,,,, u...-
Is expected to have in the wear iso8
Scatter people all over the whole io,,1
from the Atlantic to the paeine ' an3
from tho Gulf to the British possess, ~
as thiolily as they are now IN PtNns
Island, and we would have az az w
Inhabitants, instead OF an insirnigeS,,s9v
62,O00,000- In other words, II the uni,iss
States could be peopled to their ntmos9,
sustaining capacity, we could talse n,,,s
OF nearly two-thirds OF the prsss,,s
population OF the globe.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-10

Bill has been able to keep his word up
to the present week. a. No.,
Sloan one OF Miremnn's mufdereIs'
had recovered from his wound ana was
loanng around the Cotton SfeVh helsn-
borhood. George and Niremnn were
warm friends, and the lhlrepiu OiiiSel
who during The past few weeiSe, ran
10 earth The deperate Montgomery
county lynchers OF Tom Blair con
oluded he would go Up 10 Knott county
and aee what he could do. owing to
the dangerous Illness OF MAJOR Shelpyi
DEPUTY Corltrell could not accompany
him, So Drake took along Tom Hole
fields, who was glad to get cnAhee 70
help arrest one OF the murderers OF ms
old cotnrade Wireman, and at Jackson
Drake picked up Ben Wilder, the mar
shat Of that place Three gamer men
never started out togther, ana 10 three
men ever undertook more perilous
Like nearly all their predecessors
who had visited Ooton Creek, they had
no trouble In arresting the moonshin-
ers, They captured Nose Feliner,
Green DAILY, JOhn Nanover FINLEY
Bailey, Joe Fields and Madison Messer.
when they got TO the mouth of Cotton
Creek, where It empties into Laurel
Fork, Drake told Hollenelds and VII
der 10 guard the prisoners while he
went around the mountain to house
in which he thought he could find Ike
Sloan. As soon as Drake was out OF
sight the officers found themselves
surrounded by BIZ BeGley and his
gang OF seven desperate men, all OF
whom, with the exception of BeSley'
are unknown to the officers. Hole
fields, Remembering how poor Wire
man was shot to death, did not walt
for Begley to make the attack, He
gave Wilder the nod and instantly both
officers had "a Colt in each hand, and
they began to work like Calling guns.
II was such Il surprise to Begley and
his men that they ran like the towards
they are.
In the meantime Drake had gone on
and actually met Ike sloan in the path
coming down the mountain side. He
got the drop on Wireman's murderer
and placed him under arrest and took
two splendid pistols off his person. He
put a pair of handouts on him and
started him down the path In front OF
him, telling him 1t he made any at
tempt to get away he would fill him
full OF bullets, As Drake carried A
in each hand and had Sloan's two pls-
tolls I'm his overcoat pockets he was
a fairly well armed man, and Sloan,
knowing this, obeyed orders like
n soldier As they turned around a
spur Of the mountain they could hear
the shooting going on down at the
mouth Of the creek Drake, realizing
the peril his brother officers were ln,
made Sloan 80 down the mountain
double quick, when the firing suddenly
ceased
Drake supposed that his companions
had been slaughtered, and he expected
that he would share their fate. 1t
seems that Bagley and his men had
started up the mountain over the same
path that had been taken by Drake,
and, hearing him coming back, Il ey
ran out into the bushes, and s. he
passed opened fire on him. As Drake
already had his pistols out, he began to
shoot as rapidly as possible in the di-
rection from which the bullets had
come. and 1t was not long until Eegley
and his men retreated FOR the second
time. Drake arrived safely at the
mouth OF the crock with his prisoner
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-10

fexor muscles Of the back of the LEG
are stretched to accommodate a grace.
full carriage of limb.
Tlptoe practice follows, and here.
WIN the foot bound in tight kid san,
ahl' me agony begins, No human be-
nls ever stood upon the tips of the
muscles, new tissues must be created
and these can be developed and flxed
IN place only by long-contnued, unre-
and practice. N'ae
some very pretty pictures are given
mere OF tavorites Of the opera ballet
put they walked through the bitter
depend 'e' Sou may
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-10

mountain man is an improyident fell
low. He raises little patch Of corn.
fattens a few hogs to make his bacon
and to feed, probably one horse. The
balance OF his corn he carries 70 some
nelghboring min sud has It ground into
meal the miller tolling 1t as deep ms
his conscience Will allow. Then he
takes his meal to the nearest still-they
don't call them distilleriee-and trades
It FOR whisky, the moonshiner giving
him a quart OF the liquor for every
bushel OF meal. Now. when your
mountain man runs out OF corn 10
grind into meal TO swap for whisky.
his appetite for the stun does not
ahate, and the moonshiner, after sell
Ing him probably two or three gallons
on credit. suddenly decides 10 cease
letting him have whisky. This makes
the man mad. and whenever he hears
OF revenue agent being In the neich-
borhood he quietly let's The agent know
where Mr.. Moorshiners stili can be
found. and gives him all the informa-
ton he can as 20 the number OF retain
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-10

Of courage and determination that
has struck terror TO the moUnshiner9
OF the Kentucky mountains. BEFORE
receiving his appointment he hrd done
a great deal of trading with ne people
of Eastern Kentucky, and was thor
oughly familiar with their IDEAS con-
corning The making Of whisky
Who Moonshiners Are,
In order to better understand the
condition of affairs IN 'ns section re-
rarding the business which has ccst
tho government So much money, l Will
uuote an interview I had with Deputy
Corkreu the other day, He was sneak
ing of how the people IN the North
did not understand the situation here
and believed that every moonShiner
was n desperate OF the most pronoune-
ed type.
continued Colonel CocHren, than such
nm Idea why. SIR. / have talked with
moonshlnars by mo score and they
cannot understand how the government
can rightfully prevent them from
grinding their corn into meal and max
ing that meal into whisky, any more
than II can prevent them from mnklnG
II into hoecakes. You must remember
that Eastern Kentucky rs one hundred
years behind the age In which we I'VE,
tNcept In the matter OF firearms. The
people who inhabit this district are
heseehuahts OF lht gu pi'',o'i ~
Nehturers VINO rHlie "ut ~, '' -,
.urins me vhe later p9it vi snu '" ,,i.I
tury' ne sails Nnnll'7 'HTy s.,,.
men are stllsiaSlory rtsil, ,I,,,,. ,,,'
mem now ana lhey arc en- Nls'u'l,S t',s
falne prt.'tve peopie. me ~, III III
srllltI,ea, unu,, NeSgte'i,E W. w M,
thoWn laws OF pieeulhg III our uoi'
&c hnlinals they hnNg leeel,y u''',u ,.,'
1he pauhess ppsseSseu w lhytl uV' ", "
ehetstotS' u'u me iaSN o. ~ .ltlU' luz a.a
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-10
THEY 60 ON TIpTOE TO GLORY,
now FRENCH DANCING STARS
REACH FAME AND WEALTH.
Much Nerve nud rIucls Needcd-'rhe
Long and rigorous Course of
Training of the Ambitious Parisian
ballet Dnnccr.
nrnelr lolntg aro lubrIeatea va lhelr

"Thelr Joints are fabricated with their
tears"
An old French ballet master who had
taught for "fhe opera" long ago ut
tered this professional eplgram
In speaking Of "the opera" iopera
dc Paris Is meant--la grande-no other.
What's the use? Everything else is
a copy, a poor forgery, at least in the
proud fancy OF the French, who sub
sldlze and worship that national instt-
tuition the most splendid theater in the
world, the almost celestial home Of song
and dance.
Song and dance, for to match the
diva and chorus there are la premiere
etollle and lie corps de balletl
The old maltre who spoke Of tears
under the knee-pan and In the socket
OF the hip addressed his thought to the
miseres of learning to dance for the
opera.
Something about the education of the
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-10

ers the moonshiner has, how much
meal he mashes day and the best
way and best time TO make the RAID.
This Is his method Of revenge, ana the
revenue men pay him all the way from
two TO FIVE dollars for his Information
The Dcputy's Brave AssiSthni'
Deputy Cockrell had the good TOR
tune to select as his assistants Deputy
United States Marshal George W.Drake
OF Powell county: Deputy United states
Marshal wlllie4n Bird Of Breathltt
comfy. and Deputy Marshal Ihomhs
f1ollenenld Of Wolfe county. In some of
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-10
AGAlvsr THE PRACTICES nAn.

to "gether" the poison
trouble. He was to y
fore the snake was !
his mouth was open
said the letter, you I
after the snake Is De-
fang is folded back an
folds Of the maxlllary
you by express 10 2
agent a pair Of forcsp
structed for this worH'
nish to our agents
Here the old man g9l
me a long-handled s'ss
the most delicate WON
accompanied him ant
how ii worked. we
hundred feet through
before we heard me y
and his boy. turning
bush, found his yiciim
head up, and in hall :
his forked stick OYER !.
animal, and the Old \
strument fast on ne \, \
that hung down yis'0
mouth. q,
with a dexterous "
the venom bag came I. \
broken, and after cius 7
the serpent with DIS I
trophy In the PAIN q
to look at. ,A,.
Afterwards he shos. 4
with glass-stoppefI's,a.l. y
ton, which the cn ,s Z,
sent him. He tod = !
making a good deal 4 !
the snakes than 10 "'
his crops. IL, Il
/ bought q ylai y ~
long time for exps e, II |
passing it over % -.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-10

WITH BOLD MOOASHINERS.
Thrilling Experience Of Revenue
officers in Kentucky
WHO THE MooNsHINERs ARE
How the White Whisky Factories are
Raided.
Elective work of Marion o. Cock
rcil and His Deputies-Dcspernte
and bloody Efforts 60 Rescue Prise
oners-IIow Moonshiners Live.
Ho THE MooNsH1NERs ARE


LEXINGTON. KY, March s, 1895.
The crusade against Kentucky noon
,hiners has been pushed with remark
able yigor since Major Thomas II.
shelby. who died last Tuesday, was
made collector of Internal revenue for
The Seventh district.
The work Of destroying Illicit dis
tIllerles is left to deputy collectors OF
The various districts, Major Shelby APP
pointed for This arduous and hazard
Gus duty n young man named Marion
O. Cockroll son OF ex-senator Ben
Coclran OF Montgomery county. Young
Cockrel is six feet four Inches high
and weighs 2lO pounds, without sur
plus ounce Of flesh upon him. He Is Of
very quiet disposition. but possessed
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-10

Miss Arniotls Does Feat. In Shadows
Line

Miss Arniotis, the new strong woman.
has proved a tremendously strong card
at one OF the leading variety theaters
In Paris.
She Is strong woman, pure and OH,
pie, and has really performed t s.,a-
which put many OF the efforts ~ ~
professional strong man in the shada
she does not claim to possess a..
supernatural or otherwise magpefis
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-10

to guy her. The Chicago Herald says
she took one luckless youth by the
nope Of the neck and slammed him in
an empty barrel. which she then used
as baseball, soaring the life out of
the fellow as she tossed him in the
air, and this because the man said he
thought she was but a trickster.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-10

and his friends in the same way, her
kindness was declined with thanks.
Then she was asked to carry Two
men, seated astrde of a barrel, with
one hand, feat which she executed
with ease and grace
She is inclined to be roughly mis-
chIevous If any Of her subjects attempt