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rawusa III. Artificial LEG. for DrlnL.

CHICAGO. Aug. li.-H. W, Harrington. u
musician and a piano tuner, left both Of his
artificial legs last night in a saloon. He took
them of ana put them up with the narkeeper as
security for the price OF a large numhcr Of
drinks. Two policemen boosted HIM up 10 tho
rail in Judge Fosters Court to'daF and be pro-
missed to walk IN the stri.gh oath, In the future.
The police then went Out no got MIS- legs.
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TWO CHILE ROADS blocked.
stoppaEe nj Midnight in Broadway and In
Park Row Also.

The grip OF a south-bound Broadway cable car
got caught in a strand OF the cable at Seven
tenth street at midnight last night. The men
stationed at the Union square curve had the
cable stopped promptly. They set to work TO
repair The break and The road was blocked for
twenty minutes. Cars were running on time at
l2:3O o'clock this morning.
The Third avenue cable road was in trouble,
too, at the same time. On Saturday and Tues
day nights, after II o'clock, the cable on the
loop AT the Post Office is allowed to rest, and
the cars are drawn around by horses.
As one OF the trst cars was towed around this
morning The hltching chain OF the team slipped.
Eel through the slot, and caught tine grin some.
how. The road was blocked for half an hour
before the grip was cut out and the line cleared.
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Proposed Monument to Edwin VI. stanton.

COLUMBUS, o.. Aug. 14.-The Stanton Me-
mortal Association OF Steuben vile was incorpo-
rated to-day by 7. NJ. Simpson and others. Tho
articles say that the purpose OF the association
is " to erect q monument IN COmmemOration Of
the distinguished services OF the nations
greatest War Secretary. Edwin ". Stanton"
Funds will be raised by subscription. and com.
mlttees viii be aLnOinted tor That purp0se.
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SHOT EDITOR O,MALIEY.

An Encounter on the Streets or New Orleans
Over IN Alleged Libel.
NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 14.-Ex.Recorder Whit
ake- shot and severely. but not seriously,
wounded D. Q. 0'Malley, owner and editor
OF the New Orleans ITEM this evening at
Camp and Commercial place. The shooting
grew out OF a newspaper controversy. MIR.
O'Malley was indicted by tho Grand Jury q
few days ago charged with having lbelled Ed
ward Holyland, a former clerk Of Whitaker. In
commenting upon the indictment. he severely
criticised Whitaker himself. The two men tn ct
this evening, when Whitaker drew his revolver
and shot O'Malley through the shoulder.
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MAXWELL POTTER KILLED.
Son or . weIl.Known New Yorker Run Ovev
by q Train in Ohio.

HAMILTON. O., Aug. 1L-Maxwe1 Van Eaton
Potter. the nineteen-year-old son Of Ellis N.
Potter, senior member Of the arm Of the Potter.
Parlin Company Of New York city, one Of the
largest spice companies in the United States,
was killed instantly last night at Schenekss star
ton by the cars His body was found BY o tramp
early this morning. Young Potter had besn to
Cincinnati on his wheel, and was returning to
his grandmother's home in Hamilton, whore he
was spending his vacation from Yale. His
Young Potter had left college last spring and
intended to go into business this fall with hi0
father. His father. mother, and two sisters,
whose homo here Is at LAG West Eighty-seventh
street, went to Ohio on receipt OF the newA-
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a chma'. sleep OF T~enty-s,r Days.

LOUISVILLE. KY, Aug. l4.-Elsle Dick. IL
years Old. is lying in a siumber which
has already lasted for tSenty-Six days. The
mid. WhO Is the dan ghter Of Mrs. Thomas Dick
OF Az East kentucky street, was taken III
tweuty.eight days ago. Two days later sho
dropped asleep ia her chair at luncheon. Her
nuther ~calleu'i in a Why slcian. He succeeded in
rous.ng her once. but only for a short time.
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GREER
Greeee's Protests AGAINST International Control
Must Not Be Ia ken Seriously.
Special CdLle DsSpatoh to r

SDectuI CutEt DeSpuFuH TT 5UF'
BERLIN. Aug. IA despatch to the Post
from Athens says that a member OF the Greek
Cabinet has declared that the protests OF the
press and Government against the plan OF the
powers for international control OF the Greek
finances must not be taken seriously.
The Government is convinced Of the necessity
OF the step and desires that it be taken, but 10
obliged TO protest on account OF public opinion.
which Is strongly against the plan.
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NEW BICrCLE AC0IDEyE
Gas Generated Uuder Cork Handles EIpIod.s
ana Injuries n Man.

KANsAs CITY. Mo-. Aug. l4.-F. u. Buckley, q
Kans,s City. Kan. wheelman, had a peculiar
accident yesterday Afternoon while repairing a
bicycle at his shop at North Fifth street, near
the handle bar by heat forced from a bloW.pina
The interior Of the tnie became 90 heated
that the cement with which the cork handles
were fastened on melted and caused gas to gen
crate. This gas exploded and blew Oh The cork
haGdIss. The bot bicycle cement covered buck
that the nesh peeled 0d.
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GOLD AT 4 PREMIUM OF 1879 is.
The Highest Price Ever Paid TOR the Metal In
Mexico.

MEN1co City, Aug. 14.-Gold sold at n pro-
MUM Of 1881 to 129la per cent. here to-day.
This Is the highest point ever recorded In the
republic.
Bar silver established another low record yes
terday. The London quotation was given nomi-
nally as 25l9d. an ounce, but no bids were OBJ
tainable by cable. In the local market CONNER
cial bars declined to 55 lie cents. as against
$3.50 cents. the previous low record, made last
Tuesday. Government assay bars were quoted
ct 55is cents an ounce, which made the value Of
the silver in our silver dollar -. 80 cents. Private
cable advices from London ascribed the weak
ness there to American selling.
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WANTED CHArFEE,s DIAMONDS.
HIEhwaymen Attempted n Robbery in CaiirOr-
mia and One OF Then Wa Captured.

mia and One or Them was Captured.
VENTURA. Cal, Aug. IA L Chafee. n
well-known merchant, had a narrow escape
from two highwaymen late last night. When
driving into town two men sprang out from the
roadside and tried TO grab the brides of his
horses. ChafTee lash-d the team inro a gallon
and knocked down and ran over one man. The
other shot at him with n ride, but missed him.
the scene OF the attempted robbery. lie found The
injured robber lying unconscious in thn road.
other rohber. utthe man escaped in the dark.
ness. The injured man has NOT been Identified.
The crime was probably planned 10y men who
knew that Chatfee wore diamonds worth $500
and always carried considerable money.
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TAGGED FOR HOLLAND.
Infant Passenger WIN Cross The Ocean II
Care OF Omc-rs or the OLDHAM.

The steamer OLDHAM Of the Netherlands line,
which sailed from Iioboken yesterday morning.
carried Harry and Elsie stevens Of Chicago.
aged 4la and 2is years respectively. They were
travelling alone. To The clothing OF each was
attached a lag bearing The words ITO Holland"
The Children were dressed neatly and said they
were going 10 heir parents. They arrived in
Hohoken from ChicakO on Friday and were COM
signed to ID, Van WIKI of the Netherlands
Amer.Gan line 70 be forwarded TO Holland.
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Devil. Cast Out 400 swine DEAD.

PERRY, Oklahoma. Aug. lt.-The New Light,
a religious sect. near Cushing, southeast OF here.
insists that 1t casts outdeyils. One woman says
that nine Of them nave left her. More than 800
sons believe the cast-out devils Of the revival
have entered the swine
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Is It = View Camel

VANCOUVER, b, O., Aug. 14.-The strange
luminous body recently reported as seen In Van
couver and described AS cigar shaped, with a red
light in the centre, IL IN full view OF Vancouver
tonight and 10 being watched by thousands. II
10 ira cling at a furious rate OF speed from south
TO north. and ID evidently. u comet. II was al
hrst thought to DO an airship.
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PEACE VEG OTIATIONS
stn Dragging slowly A~IoaE-Europs Has Lost
Interest In Them.
Special Cable Despatch TO Tux sus.

Special Cable Despatch TO Tux sUS.
LONDON, Aug. lathe progress OF the peace
negotiations at Constantinople Is still a matter
which is utterly without interest in Europe.
Peace will be signed when the Sultan 10 ready.
and not before.
Tewhk Pasha Is now amusing himself by
RraVely discussing. step by step. the process Of
the withdrawal Of the Turkish troops from Thes-
sally. and the Ambassadors are apparently argu-
Ing the points with inexhaustible patience.
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PERRY, o. T., Aug. l4,-At Comanchc Alex
Rsy and Charles Dunn, Two Of the best known
men OF the Iuwn. are dying from wounds re-
ceiVed In a duel With rides. Both were candi-
dates for the Postmastersnip OF tho town and
the fight ErsH out OF The rac&
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Roy Killed b, = baseball Foul Tin.

BOSTON. Ang. l4.-Joseph Collins, 10 years
old. while wAtchin. a ball game nj Wood island
p,rk this afternoon. was struck on the head Inv
a switt foul tip and knocked insensible. Med.
cal aid was summoned, but he died soon After.
He resided In East Boston,
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PTRRY. o.. t.. Aug. l4-OutlAWs set Ore To
Cleveland, Oklahoma, on Thursday night and
half OF the toWE was destroyed. Nearly every
business building In town was burned
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I-RAYs ~ THE CUSTOMS.
The New System or EIamIninE Baggage In
France Works We'll.
Special Gable Despatch to THE sus.

Special Gable Despatch to The suS.
LONDON. Aug. 1.-THE X.rays customs in
speciion is now in full working order in France.
Formerly only about a third OF the trunks and
parcels were examined.
Now all are Swallowed on the screen at The
railroad stations, and the examination is far
more rapid than by the old method.
Cigars, cigarettes and other oontraband rolled
up In clothing are easily discovered.
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H. a W. P0cAnttoS. n 4 ~.
NAkodaa. T. W. HAkOdAA
B0thRsW Sksets In high banded SOnAnL-1aG
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-26
DUMAS Fills ON STAGE LIFE.

The late Alexandra Dumas fills wrote for the
stage, but he did not recommend it. In June,
1892, a society girl wrote him and asked him
to help her get on the stage. The letter he
wrote in repty has been recently published in
the Paris Figaro. 1t ran as follows:
Madame: Whenever a girl who springs from the
lowest classes of society shall come to me to ask
.or my assistance to secure her admission to the
stage if she is pretty and gifted will give her the
aid she asks for. but shall always refuse my as
sistance any young girl who declares that she
is of good family, respectable, and of independent
fortune, as 1 believe Tor girl brought up under
such conditions, anything, even death, is better
than that abominable existence. Respectfully,
A. DUMAS.
This is strong language indeed from one
whose opinion is entitled to respect And
yet in justice to the theatrical profession, it
must be admitted that there are two sides to
this, as TO other questions. If Dumas word
were law, the stage wo1ld find its recruits
only among the hopeless and the destitute
Of course, there was a time when all PLAYERS,
men and women, were "rogues and vaga-
bonds" by law. But nous avons change tout
celia. William Winter, the doyen of Amer lean
critics, holds that one OF Sir Henry Irvlng's
greatest claims to consideration is the fact
that he has done so much TO elevate the stage
that at present the profession of player is one
offering inducements to men and women of
the very highest standing.
[ think most people win agree that NJ.
Dumas ideas are those of the long ago and
not particularly applicable to present condi-
tious
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-26

According to the Pail Mall Gazette, num-
Der OF letters having TO do with the editorship
and management of Household Words and All
the Year Round have come to light. Charles
Dickens factotum was W. II. Wills, and through
MIN came instructions 10 contributors from
"the Chief" In some OF Mr. Wills memoranda
are sentences which repeat Dickens dicta.
There. was great deal of preparation for the
Christmas numbers and the plans were laid
long in vance. We do precisely the same
thing to-day, and the holiday numbers of the
New York m Magazines might be deemed ready,
so far as text and illustrations go, during the
month of September, and possibly some print
ing has been done earlier.
Wilkie Collins was the nun of promise in
Household Words. The Chief had written this
about him: He and have talked so much of
late years about fiction writing and see him
so ready to catch at what have tried to prove
right ana avoid what l have thought wrong,
and altogether to go at it in the spirit have
fred him with 1t seems that at some time
Dickens entertained the idea of taking Wilkle
Collins into collaboration. for he said to him:
"Leave me this character or situation and let
me give you such advice about that" That
gives strange idea of the freedom Wilkie Col
Inns was to indulge in in he Joint literary job
In fact, it amounted 10 little or nothing
Dickens was to be always in control
In collaboration the master mind invariably
asserts itself. Maybe the most perfect COLA
bo alton known was the union of Erckmann
and Chatrian. If there is any credence to be
placed in the story OF these two it was Chat
rian, the railroad employe, who made the
plots, and Erckmann who filed them up. This
seems likely, because Erckmann's debut in
literature had taken place before he became
acquainted with Chatrian Q847). This mar
riage brought about absolute perfection. We
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TO MAKE YOU MERRY.

MANY CARGoEs-By W. w. Jacobs New York;
Frederick A. stokes For sale in this city by
w. Doxey, + aace Hotel. Price 81
II is written that a merry heart doeth good
like medicine, and for this reason the peru
sal of "Man. Cargoes" may be recommended
as health promoting. The book consists of
number of laughter producing stories of ships
and seamen. They are of most convenient
length to fill in short intervals of leisure, and
viii prove to the mind q delig htful rest from
serious thought.
The faculty of telling amusing stories is in
deed a rare one. In fact the futile attempt to
succeed at 1t is so frequent in literature that
readers grow weary of being often cheated of
the laugh they expected might follow peru
sal of the story. For writer to try to be
funny and fail is apt to make the reader even
more solemn than If he had never sought dt-
version. 1t is this rarity of truly humorous
stories that makes this little volume by Mr..
Jacobs a special treat to readers OF all moods.
ANY one willing to abandon himself for
space 10 the spirit of fun will be able to get
his heart well exercised with shaking chuckles
by reading his yarns.
Contrary to common custom, Mr.. Jacobs
does not put his best story in the lead. Who
ever tries the frs: story. and finds it fAirly
good, may read on in confidence of some thing
coin ing that will well repay perusal The
captain of vessel carried his spirited daugh-
ter off to sea in order to cure her of fancy
he supposes she had for a clerk. This girl,
Hetty, who is what is popularly known as "a
case" soon finds friend in the first mate,
and together they conc C q schem, 10 defeat
the Captains idea of giving his daughter to
rich merchant whom she did not like. The
mate reasons that il the captain took her to
sea 10 cure her of one love all she has to do is
to fall in love with some one on the ship in
order to be sent ashore She and the mate
therefore agree to put on the semDlance of
ardent love for each other. This leads to
many amusing schemes and successful coun-
ters between the three. The love-acting is
done so well that it turns to earnest in the
end, and all readers Will feel that the ma G
fully deserves his triumph. 'The Skipper of
the Osprey is another love story which COM
bines humor with q touch of pathos "a Black
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- Rugby 5chooI. ~

Avalanches, the Steam Engine, the
Thames, India Rubber, Bricks, the Battle
OF Poictiers, Subtraction, the Reindeer, the
Gunpowder Plot, the Jordan. Alluring, is
it not2 Twenty minutes each, and the
days OF ones life are only threescore years
and tenp'
Considerations of space forbid the max
ing OF more than passing reference to
numerous thoughtful remarks of Mat
thew Arnold upon such matters as re-
ligious instruction in the school, and the
general scope of elementary schools, and
to certain comparisons instituted by him
between English, French and German
methods OF instruction. These will be
found worthy of careful study by every
teacher am bilious of broadening his
methods with the ultimate idea of con-
ve-ting his charges into educated men
and women. We have already quoted Sir
Joshua Fitch's opinion of his colleague as
a titterateur. Here is an additional one
that might with propriety be taken to
heart by those literary logrollers whose
effusions find place IN the reviews of our
day: "Critici.m," he (ArnoId) said, as
the disinterested endeavor to learn and
propagate the best that is known or
thought in the world. 1t is the busi-
ness of a critic to detect and to expose
insincerity, vulgarity, the mere watch
words of parties and cliques, and in par
ticular the slovenly and pretentious use
of terms and phrases which were only
half understood"
Notable, too, was the judgment he
passed upon America and the Ameri-
cans: His frs: Impressions before visit
ing that country were gathered from books
and newspapers alone and were not favor
able. (Was il not Arnold who re ID arked
concerning our supposed lack of rever-
ence: The average Yankee would address
a king as MisUer' and ask the price of the
throne be sat on?) He said: Whereas
our society in England distributes itself
into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace,
America is just ourselves, with the Bar
barians quite left out, and the Populace
nearly"
To sum up in a few words the work
which Sir Joshua Fitch has ably done, we
may repeat that the latest contribution to
Arnoldian literature is worthy of being ac-
counted of prime importance. Despite
several disfgurements wholly due to
pre jud ce, and however one may occa-
sionally disagree with the writer's point of
view, let it be said that in the main he
has been loyal to his idea, and the book is
step ahead in the direction of rendering
credit to the two foremost English educa-
tors of this century. The epitaph written
on Matthew Arnold could with equal JUS
tice have been inscribed upon the tom OF
his father:
There is sprung up light for the right
eous and joyful gtadaess for such as are
true hearted.
And the Psalmist's words fitly express
the recognition that has tardlly followed
their labors. EMANUEL ELIAS
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-26
WIT AND PATHOS.

AUTHORS READIN GS-Arthur H Young New
York: Frederick A. Stokes Company For sale
by VIII am DoXey, Palace Hotel.
The book consists of q series OF readings
from the works of James Whitcomb Riley. Eu-
gene Field, Bill Nye, Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
Hamlin Garland, Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Win Carleton, M. Quad and Opie Re d. The
greatest cere has been used in the selection of
the different pieces, and the reader will surely
be content with the compller's judgment In
the majority of cases each one Of the above
well-known authors is represented by three
pieces. The more humorous of the whole col
lection is undoubtedly Bill Nye's "A Blasted
Snore'." Every one who has travelled will ap-
preciatc the delicious description OF the sleep
ing passenger and the demoniacal brakeman
1t took Bill Nye to tell of such things. Mr.
Young's illustrations are charming. The
sketches are lifelike, and show the respective
authors in many of their characteristic atti-
tudes. People who want little thumbnail
drawings of these favorite authors cannot do
better than secure the book. They will get
them and much good reading matter besides
At the end OF the volume the Biographies of
the different writer's appear, and afford most
interesting and instructive reading The book
is handsomely printed.
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Arnoldian tradition at all, that 1t is
one sided, and that 'it gives the reader
the i'm preston that it is the chief business
of the public school to prod uce healthy
animal, 10 supply him with pIeasant COM
panions and faithful friends, to foster in
him courage and truthfulness, and for the
rest to teach as much as the regulations
of the school enforce. out no more" One
should. of course, take into consideration
the fact that it is an 1nspC cor of schools
who is writing, but we ask ii this is not a
rather auster. way OF regarding TON
Brown" and if, in the capacity of censors,
we look askance at the convenient "crib"
and 'vulgus," is not their improper use
quite unbalanced by the code of school,
boy ethics enforced, and that strictly, in
other directions? Let it be granted that
the schoolboy possesses a rooted abhor-
renee of constituting, and that, as in the
case OF several of the young gentlemen in
Tom Brown" C@ ar and Xenophon's 3
Anabasis are less attractive than robbing
fanny yards and orchards; has he not pre-
cedent upon which to fall back in justifi-
cation of his predatory pursuits? We ask
it in all seriousness and with due appre-
citation of the acts OF the classical writers
mentioned. From the standpoint of the
schoolboy, using the moral code peculiar
to him, let word of protest be entered ;;
have We not proverb regarding the i'm
practicability of placing old heads upon
young shoulders?
With Thomas Arnold's extra scholastic
interests we have nothing 10 do, content
ing ourselves with viewing him as a man
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-26

on error and harmful in practice. To
Matthew Arnold's credit be it recorded
that in a report to the Committee OF Coun-
Gil on Education he expressed his disap-
proval of the scheme, thus courageously
placing himself in opposition to so pow
erful an antagonist as the Duke of New
service of the London school board, the
writer of this notice is enabled to speak
from personal experience and notes 1t as
gratifying fact that thus far the objec-
tionable system has failed to find foot
ing in the United States
The letters of Matthew Arnold which
have been given 20 the world, while not
placing him in the first rank of those
whose correspondence has enriched our
literature, nevertheless indicate to re-
markable degree the difference between
father and son in temperament and char
acteristics. The Master of Rugby was
serious-almost austere; his son was
playful and trif1ed with the superficial as
poets of important events. When Arnold
the elder took occasion to speak of MS
work it was in 'e-ms of enthusiasm, and
the language was that OF man inspired.
Note the difference in the case of his son:
ut is a long, tedious business hearing
the students give specimen lessons at the
Lraining-schoolS. There is little real util-
ity in it and great deal OF claptrap, and
that makes The expenditure of time more
dIsagreeable to me-" And again, later:
81 must go back to my charming occupa-
ton of hearing students give lessons.
Here is my programe for this afternoon: