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The Grenada sentinel., 1897-02-20
A Caution to tho Greeks.

CANEA Feb. l1.-Vice- e-Ad miral Cam
evaro, of the Italian navy, com
manding the united foreign naval
forces here, has formally notified the
commander of the Greek squadron,
Prince George of Greece, Of the occupa-
ton of the town by the marines OF the
foreign warships with the consent Of
the Turkish government. To this
notice the Italian admiral added the
warning that the Greeks must not
make an attack upon the town, which
is under the protection of the flags Of
the great powers.
The Grenada sentinel., 1897-02-20
Anti-Turklsh Dlsturbances

ATHENS, Feb. l7.--Anti-Turkish dis.
turbances have occurred in Thessaly.
Shots have been exchanged at Arta, ON
the Turkish frontier, where Turkish
guard across the border was struck by
bullet.
Col. Vassos. commanding the Greek
troops in Crete, has received instruc-
tions from the government to avoid any
encounter with the foreign forces on
the island, but to execute the orders
of the king, which are that he shall
occupy the island and restore order
therein. The Macedonian and Cretan
committees have arrived at an agree
ment to concentrate their efforts in
Crete to the end of securing union
of the island with Greece.
The Grenada sentinel., 1897-02-20

To Fund Alabama's bonded Debt.
The general assembly OF Alabama
has passed law to fund the bonded
debt of the state by calling in all
bonds and issuing new hO-year bonds
The Grenada sentinel., 1897-02-20

Pig Newell was convicted Of murder
at Selma, Ala. and sentenced 10 be
hanged March 10. December 20 Wright
Crawford was murdered by Newell,
who, to cover his crime. put the body
on brushpile and cremated it. He
confessed his guilt after conviction by
a Jury.
The Grenada sentinel., 1897-02-20
Taken from Prison and Whipped.

Tom Jones, charged with running
An immoral house, was taken from the
station house at Union City, Tenn, BY
IS men and whipped SO badly that he
could not walk.
The Grenada sentinel., 1897-02-20

They Met, snd Funeral Followed.
J. W. McDearmond was met on the
road by his son-in-law, Buster" Dou-
gan, and man named johnson, near
Dawson, Ga. McDearmond is dead.
Old feud.
The Grenada sentinel., 1897-02-20

AI6UhmH NUttUn TuCtOTIob ssxeuHPtoUs
A bill cxempting cotton factories
hereafter to be built in Alabama from
taxation for ten years, has passed the
legislature; signed by the governor.
The Grenada sentinel., 1897-02-20

HOt SE.
In the house the conference report
on the bill as to the time and places OF
holding United States courts in Utah
was agreed to, the house receding from
its amendments,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-30
A HINDoo WOMAN'S PRAYER.

o Brahma, see my baby dear,
Who begs for bread with none to hear;
o, see her wretched little arm.
So bare and thin unsaved from harm.
l feel her weak and clinging hand,
Ny daughter starving in this land;
In fearful want and misery
With Brightest life of perjury.
Canst thou not just one morsel give,
That my dear child may only live?
The last had l gave and pain
Is writhing through her form again.
When once 1 sought thee on my knees,
A lady from across the seas
Said that her God my child would pless,
And love with greatest tenderness.
That Christ taught all men to be good,
Taught universal brotherhood,
To pity outcast Hindoos' fate
Condemn the selfish Brahmin great.
From that rich land so far away
Where all have bread enough each day,
If their God teaches love so sweet,
WHY don't they send us bread and meat?
They teach that little girls in name
Should be kept pure and free from shame,
While they themselves no hunger meet;
Instead have homes and much to eat
Their money spent in trivial ways
Would feed and clothe us many days.
o, if Christ loves us all the same
Why don't they help us in his name?
Laura Ella Verran. in the Wisconsin. =
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-30
NEW YEARS IN RUSSIA.
The Cars Kissing Contract-Two
Weeks of Festivities.

New York Sun: New Years customs
in Russia are interesting. In the morn
ing the princes of the imperial family,
personages of the court functionaries Of
the capital. and servants of the palace
come in regular order TO present their
homage and good wishes to the emperor,
who kisses all the members of his family
and all the high officials three times. ac-
eording to the Russian fashion.
On Easter Sunday the emperor is
obliged by custom to kiss in the same
manner every individual he meets, even
the lowest of his subjects. the most mis-
cradle of beggars. This kiss is intended
to call the Russians attention to the fact
that they are all brothers in the orthodox
religion.
But on New Years day the emperor
gives his fraternal kiss. as we have said,
to his family and the high functionaries
in his service only; and the people in the
streets kiss each other. whether they
are acquainted with each other or not.
by the car are permitted to kiss the
hand of the empress. The ceremony of
hand kissing was suppressed for a time,
but 1t was re-established few years
ago under the reign of Alexander III.
The festivities commence on December
q, and are ended on January G.. During
these two weeks the young people gather
together to play games and to dance. On
New Years day a breakfast, dinner and
supper the guests, standing around the
table. touch glasses, drink the health of
the emperor and offer good WISHES TO
each other.
Masters give presents to their servants,
but don't give presents to each other, as
they do on Christmas. On Christmas day
in all the families. the table is set With
profusion, and hospitality is offered to
everybody. In high society they drink
champagne. while the common people
drink brandy.
At this time. also, they devote them
selves to augural practices. They throw
melted lead into water. and from the
figures formed by the suddenly cooled
The young girls try to learn whether
they will be married. and to know some
thing of the face. the qualities and the
fortune of their future husbands. At mid
night they sit down between two mirrors
by the side of which two candles are
placed. They look into one mirror and
into the other until they can see Il lights.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-30
ROBINSON CRUsOE's ISLAND
It Was on the Opposite Side of South
America From Juan Fernandez
Where Tradition Says Defoe's
Hero Was Stranded.
BY KATE STEVENS.

editor of Daniel Defoe's Works.)
A late dispatch in the newspapers
throughout the country refers to a re-
ported sinking of Juan Fernandez and
to this island as the tabled home of
Robinson Crusoe. A later dispatch
says that the government of Chilli has
decided hereafter to call it Juan Fer
nandez Crusoe's island
1t takes but q moment to show that
Juan Fernandez is not Crusoe's island.
The story Defoe first published in 1719
tells just where Crusoe's island lies.
The hero. you remember, was on his
way from Brazil to Guinea when the
hurrfcane-the likes of which still
sweep over the West Indian seas
wrecked him and cast him on a lonely
coast. 1t was near the mouth of the
Orinoco.
The master made an observation as
we'll as he could" says Crusoe. and
found that he was in about IL degrees
north latitude, and that he was % de-
grees of longitude farther west from
Cape st. Augustine; so that he found
he was upon the coast of Guiana. on
the north part of Brazil, beyond the
river Amazon, towards that of the
river Orinoco, commonly called the
Great river, and began to consult with
me what course he should take, for the
ship was leaky, and very much dis
abled, and he was going directly back
to the coast of Brazil. was positively
against that; and looking over the
charts of the seacoast of America with
him, we concluded there was no in
habited country for us to have recourse
to till we came within the circle of the
Caribbee islands, and we therefore re-
solved to stand away for Barbados"
Again, says Defoe, towards the end
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-30
CUBA's THREE PARTIES.
They Are the Constitutionalist, Au-
Economist and the Separatist.

New York Journal: The Marquis
Apezteguia is the head of what is known
as the constitutional, or absolutely loyal,
party in Cuba. There are three parties
there. First are the Constitutionalists,
who are the Tories of Cuba, and blindly
loyal 10 Spain. They want the old Span
ish conditions restored and the insurrec-
florists wiped out and burned out, root
and branch. Then there is the AutoDomist
party. They are loyal to the Spanish flag,
but they want home rule and self-govern-
ment on the Canadian plan- OF this party
Senior MOntoro, one of the most elevated
characters ablest lawyers and greatest
orators in the island is the head. Third
and last are the Separatists. These are
the inSurrectioniStS, and they are gener-
ally in rebellion.
The Marquis ApeZteguia is one of the
richest men in the island, and is the
owner of the Constancia sugar estate.
Hence his interest in a speedy conclusion
of the war. His manager is now grinding
cane. and expects to make 220,OOO sacks
of sugar. and says that he is not molested
bV the inSurgents-the reason for his Sc
cur;ty, perhaps being that the estate
maintains a garrison of from 1000 to l, 2OJ
Spanish soldiers, for whom the MARQUIS
is said to pay 900 month to the Span
ish authorities at Havana. l was also
reliably informed that other estates have
not only paid for Spanish garrisons, but
have also placated the insurgents by pro-
curing arms ammunition and money
Corstancia estate affairs will be inter
esting to America, as l was informed 1t
is heavily indebted to Philadelphia mer-
chants and money lenders.
Senior Montoro, whom / mentioned as
TIE head of the Autonomist party, who
occupies middle ground between the ultra
Spanish party and the insurgents is con-
sidered by everybody to be man of pure
character. 1t is upon Montoro that our
state department chiefly relies for infor-
nation at this time. Early in the struS-
gle the Autonomists insisted that Montoro
should go to Madrid at the head OF del
egation TO insist upon autonomy. He had
been often 10 Spain as. a Cuban member
OF the Spanish cortes, and was known 10
have great influence with Spain But
Montoro would not lead the delecation,
probable because he did not believe the
mission would have success. AS a conse-
quence, however, the Autonomists have
row in the main gone over to the in
surgents. Montoro and n few of the lead
ers are all that is left of the Autonomist
party. II is now Spanish rule or absolute
independence.
This letter I will follow with others.
sett:-c forth fully what L learned of the
condition of the Spanish army; of the
ability of the insurgents to continue their
revolt. and of the inability of Spain to
crush it. l will also tell you of the treat
ment of. Americans in Cuba, and the
4 ethcds of war which are popular with
fbe SDaniSh.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-30
TELLS A GRAPHIC STORY.
Clusters Operations Against the
Sioux Endorsed bv General Miles.

Detroit Free Press: In Major General
Niles personal recollections of army life
a CHAPTER is devoted to General Custer
and the Sioux war, the massacre and the
campaign that followed. The points Of
interest in this history of the last great
camoalgn against the Indians are natur-
ally the operations IN Arizona that led to
the retiring of General Crook from active
command and the transfer of General
Miles to that district. General Miles
writes with great feeling and unhesitat-
ingly champions the cause of General
Custer in the campaign against Sitting
Bull.
Re states clearly the conditions that
prevailed when General Custer moved
with the Seventh cavarly into the Indian
country, when General Terry, in COM
ma-d of the department. General Sheri-
dan, in command of the military district,
and General Sherman in command of the
army, knew not enough of the conditions
and circumstances TO give definite in
structionS. General Miles admits that at
the time there was feeling in military
circles that General Clusters training in
the civil war and his general temper in
battle were against him as the command
er of an expedition against the hostile
Indians. and General Grant insisted that
Terry and not Custer be placed in COM
mand of the expedition 1t was admitted
on the other hand that General Custer
had more experience in fighting Indians
than Genera; Terry, and that he would
be- in command of the active column.
General Miles takes the position that
General Clusters dispositions for the bat
It's were in direct accordance with the
best military strategy, and that he failed
to defeat the Indians simply because he
was not adequately supported by the
seven companies of cavalry that were TO
act in concert with him. He insists that
General Custer did not disobey orders. be-
cause the last Instructions of General
Terry were to make his own dispositions
ard to use his own judgment. General
Miles conducted the winter campaign i'm
mediately following the Custer massacre.
He was familiar with the Indians who
participated in that campaign. he visited
the battlefield. traced the lines of battle
and the development of the fighting, or
the progress of the battle by the position
of the dead bodies. and he scouts the idea
that General Custer moved up the ravine,
a theory that was advanced by some of
his critics, but shows that the bodies in
the ravine were those of the so or 40 men
who had attempted to escape when all
their comrades had been slaughtered. He
critic:ses the actions of Major Reno and
incidentally those of Captain BenteeI. He
tells. in short, a graphic story of what
must have been one of the most dramatic
battles OF history, and his discussion Is
from first to last a defense of the dead
Custer and severe condemnation of Major
Reno
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-30

Of the tale, in reference to the tide
about his island: Il afterwards under
stood it was occasioned by the great
draft and refiux of the mighty river
Orinoco, in the mouth of which river,
as l found afterwards. our island lay,
and that this island, which / perceived
to be west and northwest, vas the
great island Trinidad, on the north
point of the mouth of the river. asked
Friday a thousand questions about the
country. its inhabitants, the sea, the
coast, and what nations were near. he
told me all he knew with the greatest
openness imaginable. l asked him the
names of the several nations of his
sort of people, but could get no other
name than Caribs. I easily understood
that these were the CaribbeeS, which
our maps place on the part of America
which reaches from the mouth of the
Orinoco to Guiana, and onward TO ST.
Martha"
This disposes of the fiction that Juan
Fernandez, on the other side of South
America, is Robinson Crusoe's island
Crusoe's island is really Tobago, the
more southerly of the Windward group
of British West Indian islands. 1t is 20
miles northeast of Trinidad, and is
26 miles long and seven and one-half at
its greatest breadth. Today it has a
capital, Scarborough, with nearly 1000
inha bitants.
1ODdSO Is not wanting IN IeSeHu Oh
a castaway. an originals Robinson
Crusoe for in the History of TobagO,'
by Chief Justice Woodcock, we find an
account of a solitary Frenchman who
said he had lived there alone q years.
Two men have at different times
lived for years quite alone on the island
of Juan Fernandez, off the coast of
Chile. One was an Indian, who was
left there in 1851, and rescued in 1851,
whose adventures the buccareer, Cap
tain Dampier. describes in his New
Voyage Round the World" The other
was the celebrated Alexander .Selkirk.
who was found by Captain Woodes
Rogers, and by him taken from the
island in 1909. after a solitary life OF
four years and four months. After
Selkirk's arrival in London he was
much written uD and talked Of His
experiences inspired Cooper when he
wrote his beautiful verses beginning,
] Il am monarch of all l survey De-
foes Robinson Crusoe enjoyed adven-
lures that bear a striking resemblance
to both the Indians and the Scotch
mans experiences. as de-" led by their
rescuers- With SelEl'S~S usoe has
been especially identihS 49, a late in
genious writer of the life of DeTOe even
relates the legend of visit of the true
born Englishman to Selkirk at Bath.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-30
COURT INTERPRETERS.
Brooklyn's Course in Choosing Them
More Enlightened Than New
York's

New York Sun: The foreign population
of New York is much larger than the for
eign population of Brooklyn. not only alb
solutely, but relatively. and the cosmopoi-
itan population of New York City is much
more diversified than is that of Brooklyn,
there being many foreign colonies in this
city which have no counterparts across
the bridge But in the appointment OF
court interpreters. to facilitate the trans
action of public business, New York City
has, perhaps, considerable TO learn from
Brooklyn.
L. New York the theory under which
interoreterS are appointed seems TO be
this: man who speaks one otner Ian
-uage than English can speak all other
languages than English, and therefore is
worthy to be described as an interpreter
OF general gifts and accomplishments in
all matters of language. In the district
courts of the city. for instance. the Gus
tom is TO appoint interpreters who speak
German, under the general superstition
that a man who can speak German IS
familiar with other languages. In Brook
Ign, however, court interpreters are APP
pointed with special reference to the par
ticular language or languages which each
understands and can translate. For in
stance in the supreme court there Is a
German Interpreter SALARY Sl,SOO), an
Italian interpreter SALARY $1,000, a Scan
dinavian interpreter SALARY N2OO), and a
fourth interpreter whose speciality is a
He receives s., 500. So it is always posi-
BILE to procure the services of an inter-
prefer whose knowledge of the language
TO be translated is based on something
more than a smatteri1g. This list does
rot include over half of the interpreters
in Brooklyn courts.
There is in one of the courts an inter
prefer whose special knowledge is of
Polish and Slayonic: there is another who
speaks Russian, and still another who re-
ce.-es e. 200 a year as an interpreter of
Lithuanian In New York no such dis
tinctionS have been established, and it
sometimes follows in consequence that an
individual holding no official place is Sc
lected by the lawyers in an action TO act
as interpreter, and more frequently one
of the lawyers in the case either acts as
Interpreter or secures someone for that
purpose This happens when the regular
Interpreter of the court is not familiar
with the particular language which it
may be necessary to translate.
German, Italian, Jewish jargon and
French are the languages most used in
New York City by litigants and witnesses
unfamiliar with English but they are not
the only ones. Bohemian. Greek, Hun
garian. Russian, Spanish and Syrian are
required from time to time. A class of
residents who speak a language of their
OWN but seldom get into the courts are
the Dutch A translator or interpreter
gets 8, 200 q year in a district court and
81 900 a year in the general sessions court.
There is one interpreter in the supreme
court. He gets $500.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-30
In a London Hotel.

Chicago News: The American visitor
to London who stops at a certain hotel
in that city finds many novelties and
conveniences that are not known here
in America, where hotels are supposed
to have reached the acme of luxury
1t has an American-plan diningroom.
but only a French bill of fare. 1t has
an India room. where an Indian chef.
in the costume of his country pre-
pares native dishes for those who de-
sire them.
In this hotel each guest is known by
the number of his room instead of his
name, and it is rather odd to an
American to be addressed as Mr.. $50.
as though he were a convict in the
penitentiary.
On each floor. day and night. are to
be found a maid, valet and a waiter.
who are at your service. and have free
access to your rooms. When you come
home at night, if you are a man. you
find your clothes pressed and cleaned
and carefully packed away in a chest
of drawers. If you are a woman the
maid attends to frills and furbelOws as
though she were hired by you especi-
ally. Guests never bother with their
keys-the maid or valet on the floor
takes charge of the key and is ready
at any time to open your door.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-30
THE GIRL LOVE.

The girl love loves Christmas-tide;
All, then her smiles beam far and wide
And draw the poor close to her side
On Christmas. in the morning.
But the girl I love loves righteously;
So smiles on all men. so you see
I'm doubtful when she smiles on me
On Christmas, in the morning.
The girl love loves childish smiles
That dawn when ST. Nick covers miles
With gifts that lie in heaps and piles
On Christmas. in the morning,
The girl / love loves the Christmas board,
Low-laden with the toothSome hoard;
Her dainty skill can't be ignored
On Christmas. in the morning.
The girl l love loves mistletoe;
She scans it standing just below.
Her rose lips raised kiss-high-just so,
On Christmas, in the morning.
So the girl love loves Christmas-tide;
All then her smiles beam far and wide,
And draw poor me close to her side
On Christmas, in the morning.
-Lin-O-Type, in Bangor (Me.) Com
mercial.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-30

listeners, and the clergy reaped a rich
harvest The attendance in church be-
came so increased that few of the
buildings were large enough to meet
the demand.
From that era date many fine Minis
tiers and cathedrals; churches already
beautiful were torn down to make room
for better; the rich and powerful raised
noble edifices and literally endowed
them 1t seems somewhat homogeneous
that elaborate and exquisite churches
should have been built, with such
promise of permanence, just at a time
when the end was expected; but their
erectors evidently thought to make
peace with heaven by so doing and the
work was good one, whatever it's
motive.
Monasteries. also, had a golden time;
monastic foundations to the number of
1,2OO were raised in England alone
during the enthusiasm of religious
panic. Lands which had been unjustly
taken were restored to their owners. or
made over to the church. AS the tenth
century neared its close, the impression
deepened; many persons sold all their
goods and gave to the poor. Rich and
poor went on pilgrimages. The nerves
or Europe were so highly strung that
the greatest excuses were perpetrated
from motives of piety; asceticism.
seii-HdSellatlOn, Denance, were Drac-
tced with eagerness Persons died
from sheer fright. when sudden shocks
made them fear their fancies were re-
allied; one thunder storm in Paris is
said to have killed 81 people, purely
by terror.
All things considered, the panic of
iOUO was probably of enduring service
10 the world. as it served to rouse the
people out of the savage state into
winch they had settled and start them
on the pathways of civilization.
another panic occurred in 1854. when
a great rare eclipse took place Fore
told by astronomers, ignorance augured
the worst from so uncommon an event
churches were again crowded with de-
Vout Worshipers, trembling with appre-
henslon of an event which they Thought
might carry off the earth's atmosphere
or poison its waters. The eclipse came
the earth survived it: then came the
comet of 1879, which really approached
very near to this planet in it's swift
career. Many persons really thought il
was TO be the end, and the demand for
BlDles became so great that a. London
bookseller found himself compelled tn
strike off two special editions. The
comet passed, and with it the special
demand for Bibles.