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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-09
NEW STEAMERS FOR LAKE TR4FFJc.

Cleveland. Dec s-Shipbulding companies Of The
Great Lakes. that build steel vessels. have ALREADY
under contract for next season twelve steel ves-
sells aeh: Of which modern frelght-carrier-
TWO passenger boats. an oil tank barge and one
large tug Thes. vessels will foot ~ 100 value a
little more than 8 tsn The combine capaclif
o. the eight freght-carrers ai be about 5000
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-09
THE NEW YORK HERALD'S SFLEEDlD
CHRISTMAS NLMBER

viii be issued next Sunday. December H. In add,
tio1 TO all the II the world. and the usua
sunday features. IL will contain x pages OF special
color and half tone work by Nel-known artists,
exceeding anything yet issued by newspaper.
Many Jolly Christmas conceits In coior. You
should order In advance. Price as usua-Advt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-09
INCREASING JAPANS LAND T4X.
BILL MAY LEAD TO \ RUPTURE BETWEEN THE
CABINET AND THE LIBERALS

Yokohama Dec S-The Government has intro
duced IN the Die, bill providing for increasing
the land tax by 100000 yen. toward the estimated
budget dedcit of 100000 yen. The remainder of
the amount required Will be raised by other taxa
ton II f. believed these proposals VIII ead 70 a
rupture Of the understanding between the cabinet
and the Liberals
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-09
TO SEND TRANSPORTS TO PHILIPPINES.

TO SEND TRANSPORTS TO PHILIPPINES
san Francisco. Dec. Appropriations are now be-
Ing made by I.eutenant- Colonel Long depo; quar-
terma-ter to dispatch a fleet OF transports 10 the
Philippines The Information has been received
from Washington TO the effect that in short tine
several regiments OF Regular troops will be sent 10
Manila for the purpose ot relieving the volunteer
forces now there.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-09
LIGHT SNOWFALL IN ROCHESTER.

Rochester y y. Dec. S-The storm which pre-
vailed west Of Rochester dld not affect this ci'y
n,a-e-iallv except 70 delay the Western trains.
The snowfall here was light Moderate weather
pr.VaiiS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-09
4 STAY FOR PICQTART.

COURT OF CAssATIoN ORDERS POSTPONE
MENT OF HIS TRIAL"
Paris Dec S-The Court OF Cessation TINS
afternoon ordered stay OF proceedings h me
Pcquart cOurt-martial.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-09
1 BARHEHTINE, OyERDUE.

Halifax. y S. Dec s-The barkentlne Robert
Ewing. bound here from Ncw-York. i overdue
She left New-York November 2G six days before the
Thomas W. Holder which arrived h@is iA-s "Ao'"-
Ing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-09
ctosryG cOTrON ENCHIyGE.

r,verpool. Dec S-Thc Cotton Exchange viii be
closed on December a. 95 and 81. and on Jann-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-09
Az EMPTY LrFEBoAr REPORTED

London Dec s-A hfeboat. apparently belonging
20 the lost Furness Line steamship Londonan. has
been sighted The boat was seen on December IN
latitude is degrees and longitude Il degrees There
were some oars cn board. but no sign os use-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-09
sALE or A cELEHRATED sPRING.

Water Poland, Heavy shipments received dliiy
Recommended universally for its purity and
d!cnal power. Poland Park pl.. y. Y.-Adyt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-09
Those believed to have been lost are

LEE William. captain.
MURPHY. - chief orcer.
SLATER --. third engineer.
STAFFORD. --. chief engineer.
Twenty-one seanen. and cattienen. names U
known.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-09
PRICE THREE CENTS.
TRAGIC TALE OF THE SEA.
HOW THE LONDONIAN and TWENTY.
FIVE MEN WERE LOST.
GALLANT RESCUE OF FoRTY-FIvE OTHERS
BY THE vEDAMORE. WHICH STOOD
BY FOR THREE DAYS.

BY THE vEDAMORE. WHICH STOOD
BY FOR THREE DAYS
Baltimore Dec. S.-The Johnston Line steam
ship VedGmore. OF Liverpool. Captain Rob-
ert Bartlett for whose safety fears were begin
ning To be felt she several days overdue
arrived this morning at Pier No. 81. Locust
Point. with forty-five shi9wrecked men from the
Furness liner Londonian. whom she had picked
up at sea. twenty-five others are believed TO
have been lost
The saved members Of the are:
Second officer T. GlrTINs q London. second Engineer
J. ". GRAMMAR. nj London, Third i,asine.r z ~
-. Alkt>. u Scotland. ~. =. llSNt.. u r'eh'h-
neinn. ~d,Tf Ger ..aIy and J. MASON ~ London
ODsIs. g. TAGAN. u Hamburg. coHN~y man
thARLEs JVHA.EONE. OF D.nel4n. Ne" Ieal~nc
nlst H. CROSS. u London. stor~Aeeper, a. =.
1ONGE Dunedin. New Zealand. anG FkASh
I.EIMkG z Nai4ast Germany. ssamen, MALcOI>M
CONAN. T.. sJDDEI.l. !. = lDDELI. T. i.iss.
J. WILD. +. WATTS. WILLIAM TERRY yAAlo
CLARKE. THOMAS BRIGHT and H. oART Lt;:TI. ;.
OF London, JOHN FOlNE. n Liverpool. Stl.DSisE
ELLIOTT. ot Dumbarton. scotland. r. CUPID ,cot-
ored) of II. Vincent. ". l.. nfemen and coal trim
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-09

ED-FAvoRs GERMAN AND RUSSIAN ALL
ANCE-ANGLO-s -sAXON RACE INv1NCIBrr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-09

Paris. Dec. S-Henri Lavedan. the author has
been elected member Of the French Academy.
Evening journal., 1898-09-01
MASONS IN THE WAR.
Noted for Their Intense PatrfOtism-
Many of Them Enlist and Lodges
Arc Formed.

A large proportion of the soldiers
who have gone or are making ready to
go to the war are masons, an order
universally noted for its intense pa
triotism, says the Chicago Chronicle.
The "lodge" has been made to cover
multitude of small sins by those who
needed a convenient excuse to be alb
sent from home, but all true masons
are none the less strongly attached to
it. The question has been asked what
masonic soldiers do in lieu of lodge
meetings.
"They don't do without them" said
Secretary Laften, of the Wisconsin
grand lodge of masons, recently, when
approached on the subject. "Why, dur
ing our last war they had masonic
lodges in the army. Some of the grand
lodges granted dispensations for the
organization of lodges.
IF the army was near a city they
rented halls for meetings. If they
we're not near any city they held their
sessions in an officers tent. Officers
of the army in many cases were mem-
bers of the masonic fraternity, and it
was an easy thing to have the tent in
which the meeting was held sufficient
ly protected from intrusion. Guards
were posted and no one was allowed
within hearing distance unless they
could pass the guard, who of course
was a mason selected for the occa-
sion"
Evening journal., 1898-09-01

putting one on the alert and accelerat-
ing his movements. Cleveland Lead
er.
When Admiral Dewey writes a letter
he is always ready to add a postscript
in the shape Of solid shot.-New York
Sun.
In anticipation OF Chicago claiming
Honolulu as "our western suburb"
Greater New York would do well to an
mex Santiago.-Sioux City Journal.
What rare jokers those New York
papers are. One OF them prints a col
umn under the heading "Tammany In
telligence. Chicago Times Herald.
II it be true that Emperor william
has sought friendly understanding
with the United States as to our inten-
tions in the Philippines, It is a piece OF
boOrish impertinence, and he should be
told that It is none OF his business. In
going to the Philippines we have not
invaded German territory. Great Brit
ain, the most powerful nation Of Eu-
rope, has not asked Us any such ques-
Citizen.
Professor Norton is a gentleman and
a scholar, but his patriotism is a little
peculiar.-Providence Journal.
Evening journal., 1898-09-01
TEACHES BIRDS TO SING.
How Young CanRries Are Taught Pop
ular Airs by Means OF n
Music BOX.

An interesting and successful expe-
riment with canary birds has been per-
formed by a gentleman living in the
vicinity of Twenty-first and Vine
streets, reports the Philadelphia Rec
ord. This gentleman takes a dilet-
tante interest in the breeding Of these
song birds. As soon as the young birds
are hatched he takes them and puts
them apart in a room where he has
placed a small music box that initiates
the tone of a canary and is constantly
playing the same piece. Here he keeps
them by themselves, allowing them to
hear only the tone of the music box, so
that the young birds, accustomed to
hear the same air played continually
by degrees become masters of it and
sing it alone. All that is necessary to
start them when they are silent is to
whistle the airs, and the birds will i'm
mediately join in. He has already
taught quite a number of young birds
TO sing and is now engaged in teach
ing three young ones the air Coming
Through the Rye" Although they are
only seven weeks old they sing the air
very clearly, and in two more months
they will have it quite perfect. The
gentleman does not teach the birds
with a professional object, but as a
pleasure and a pastime, and takes
much pleasure in showing his wonder
full pets to his friends.
Evening journal., 1898-09-01

Some idea of the magnitude OF Great
en- New York is obtainable from the
report OF President Feitner, OF the De
partment OF Taxes, to Mayor Van
Wyclx, in reference 10 the magnitude
OF the task OF equalizing assessments
i'm the city, He says that by consolida-
tion, on The first day OF january, 1898
fuom an area OF 39,11S acres the city
suddenly grew 10 am area Of about 1885,
AS acres, OF which Manhattan COM
prises IL, 575, Bronx 76,54S, Brooklyn
1920, Queens 1900, and Richmond
37.120 Each Of the boroughs is sepa-
rated into convenient assessable dis
tricts, according TO law, and deputy
tax commissioner assigned to each.
Manhattan will have 10 districts, con-
tanning ll8,67O separate assessments
recorded dn 32 volumEs; BRONX will
have districts, containing 9,722 sepa-
rate assessments, to be recorded in p
volumss; Brooklyn will have 10 districts
containing 224,3S9 separate assessments
last year (which will be materially in
creased), to be recorded in about q
volumes, although 100 volumes wers
used last year; Queens will have 9 dis
trdcts, containing 17O,057 separate as
sessments, 10 be recorded in 80 vol
units; Richmond viii have 8 districts
containing about .44S separate assess
ments, to be recorded in 9 volumes
The total assessed value OF real estate
in 1897 was s2.464. .S49,677, OF which
$1,694 ,472,S65 was in Manhattan ana
$50, ,1O7, ,742 in Brooklyn.
Evening journal., 1898-09-01
ORIGIN OF KALAMAZOO.
This Is the Pretty Legend That Is Re-
spOnsn,Ie for the Michigan
Towns Name.

The name of Kalamazoo, like Osh-
kosh and one or two others, has come
to be to foreigners a synonym of
American absurdity. 1t is oftesl chos-
en-, for some occult reason, to illustrate
that form of vernacular English
known as united States"
But all thought of ridicule. vanishes
when its romantic origin is considered.
for it is the echo still lingering about
the memory of two duslxy lovers, who,
in that long-gone time when Michigan
was the home mainly of Indian tribes,
lived and loved on the banks of the
river which now bears their names.
Kahla, the young wa rrior, was
straight of limb and ca gle eyed, while
Mahzoo had been given by the Great
Spirit the many graces ard virtues for
which Indian maidens have become
noted in song and dlegend. Life to these
two possessed all the charms which
true affection has ever granted to
lovers, and the days, as they came and
went, brought only Astounding ioy.
Each summer evenin &, as the twi-
light deepened and the time drew near
for her lovers return from the chase.
the maiden watched from her bower
In the swaying branches of giant elm
overhanging the rivers edge for the
first sign of his coming. As the bow of
his canoe shot round the curve away in
the distance her clear musical voice
called to him: Kahlal Kahla!" and
from the young warrior came in loving
tones the response: "Mahzool"
Evening journal., 1898-09-01
An Exodnn Of Rnt.

The North China Herald says that a
curious phenomenon was witnessed re-
Gently at daybreak upon the opening
of the Ch'angmen gate of Soochow.
Some 1000 or more rats of all sizes
were seen to file out of the gates, show
ing no fear of the country people who
were focking to sell their market
produce in the city. There is much ex-
citement, amounting almost to a pan
ic, therefore, in Soochow, and dire
fate is prophesied to the city, it being
remembered that a similar exodus
happened in the sos, just prior to the
fall of the city into the hands of the
TAPPING rebels.
Evening journal., 1898-09-01
Science Eject. wonders,

Accordinglto Natural Science, DR..
Olsen, of Norway, has learned by
studying habits of microbes, to make
cheese backward. He keeps a stock
Of the microbes Of various cheeses, and
out Of a bowl of milk makes Gorgon-
zola, Stiiton or Camembert, as re-
guired. This threatens a serious blow
to the British farmer, for it is obvious
that DR.. Olsen has only 10 follow the
tracks of his microbes little further
back 10 produce the milk that makes
the cheese and the COW that makes the
milk Then the British farmer will sit
idly on gate watching DR.. Olsen with
cage full of microbes turning a field
cf grass into choice Shorthorns and
Attorneys.
Evening journal., 1898-09-01
THURSDAY. SEPT. /. 1898
THE DEVILs TslJAND ExITlE


The Dreyfus case case has taken a
startling turn, and the indications are
THAT THE result OF the conlnsssion and
suicide of Lieutenant Colonel Henry,
will be that Dreyfus win be released
and M. zola completely vindicated
General Iemputon de BO.sdeffre. Chief
Of the General Stan OF the French
army, HAS rendered his resignation no
THE Government. In his letter OF resig-
nation he explains THAT he resigns ow-
ing to his misplaced confidence in Lieu
tenant Colonel Henry, which led him
to present as genuine what was forged
evidence.
It becomes more and more evident
that the young JEWISH officer, at pres
emit exiled under most hornible condi-
tions ON DEVILS island, is the victim
OF a most damnab.e conspiracy con-
ccctsd and executed by the anti-eemitic
officers OF the French army, backed by
the anti-gemitlc press of the nation,
which wrought up public sentiment to
such pitch that THE government was
unqualihedly endorsed in all the steps
which II took, mot only against Dneyfus
but also against zo.a. his champion.
M. Cavaignac, the Minister OF War, has
stated that he Wishes to see Justice
rendered in the matter. The entire
world hopes THAT he is sincsre In the
declaration.
Evening journal., 1898-09-01
EDITORIAL COMMENT

The proposal that we withdraw
from any territory occupied by us and
relinquish it again to Spain will not be
tolerated by the American people. and
ought not to be.-Outlook
After the war Camara might amuse
himself writing a book called Half
Around the World in Sixty Days
ST. Paul Globe.
The Philippines are a trump card in
the great far Eastern game, and we
may have chance to play it.-Brook-
lyn Eagle.
Tammany has planned a clam bake
in honor OF Richard Croker This is
an occasion on which David B. Hill
will endeavor not to be a clam.
ington Star.
The Don to Uncle Sam: Il have
tried your Vesuvius hot drops and find
that they Danish that tired feeling in
short order They are great stuff for
Evening journal., 1898-09-01
MARINE ARCHITECTS.
The Most Skilled Are Unable to Find
Their Way to Protect Ocean Lin
ers from Disaster.

The cleverest marine architects have
been unable to devise a scheme to pro-
tcct the stoutest single screw liners, hit
hard amidships or thereabouts, from
disaster. Every steamship that has
been struck far from land by even so
modest a craft as a coal laden schooner
has gone down, sometimes without the
loss of soul, as was the case of the
Oregon, off Fire Island, on March a.
1876, and sometimes with more than
three-quarters of all on board, says the
New York Sun.
The Vile du Havre, of the French
line, was run down almost in the same
way as La Bourgogne met disaster.
The iron British ship Loeb Earn hit the
Vile du Havre in fog in midocean on
November %, 1873, almost cutting her
in two. She foundered- and only 23O out
of 317 persons aboard were saved. The
line, was hit, off Sable island in a fog
on August 13, 1883, by the Thingvalla, a
sister ship, and 70 passengers and 80 of
her crew were lost. The North German
Lloyd steamship Elbe foundered in the
North sea after being rammed by the
little British steamship Crathie on
January 30. 1895.
Only the steamships that collide
head on have hope of salvation. They
are protected by the collision bulk
heads. A blow astern or at any point
just forward or abaft midships is usu-
ally mortal.
Evening journal., 1898-09-01
LETTERS FROM TAE PEOPLE
IN THEIR OWN DEFENCE.

To the Editor Of the Evening Journal.
Sir. Inclosed you will find an item
which we would like you to contradict.
We found it in the Delaware Record,
printed at Harrington. We don't see
how the residents of Delaware can find
any fault with our regiment AS you
know, there are good and bad in every
organization. We think that this regi-
ment brought Delaware more honor on
Saturday, when It formed the presi-
dents escort, than any regiment the
state ever had. When the commander
in-chief reviewed us on Saturday he
said that we were the cleanest and the
finest looking set Of men he ever saw
in line, and we don't see what more the
people of our state want Furthermore
they might want us again in the near
future. If they muster us out we can
come home with our heads up, as we
don't know Of anything we have done
TO be ashamed Of. However, we are
ready to go anywhere that they want to
send us, and are willing to do garrison
duty in Cuba or any place else.
We would not leave home and good
JoDs 10 go out ana disgrace our state or
nation. No, God forbid that we should
bring one dark stain on our forefath-
ers. The people of Delaware know how
Company f braved the snow storms of
last Spring, and to think that some OF
our state papers harshly criticise us. II
they only knew how it hurts the papers
themselves they would keep silent. As
to the report Of our men causing a riot,
and man being stabbed with a bayon-
ct, it is entirely untrue, and we deny il
and want to hear no more such reports
II you will only give this item consid-
Grafton you will oblige every man in
the regiment, as we'll as Privates Frank
H. Fox and Frank B. Lynch.
Camp Meade, Middletown, Pa, Au-
gust 81, 1898.
Evening journal., 1898-09-01
BuFFATlO REEF nm rEKnA

Buffalo meat, and especially buffalo
veal, has been a not uncommon diet OF
Tekoaites, and, despite the efforts to
put stop to the destruction of the
flock OF the many half and quarter
breed buffalo. the meat still comes into
town occasionally, brought by the In
dians from the reservation in Idaho,
almost adjoining Telxoa.
A splendid 6-months'-old calf, hand
somely marked and with splendid hair
and we'll defined hide, was brought in
this week and sold to local butcher,
who, wise enough to appreciate its
worth, wired larger markets of his
prize, and was rewarded by an offer OF
40 cents a pound-head, pelt and all.
The head was not brought in, and the
butcher would not dispose OF the pelt,
so a second offer Of S3 1-3 cents a
pound for the carcass, shorn Of pelt,
was accepted,t the purchaser paying the
freight.
IF the calf had been brought in two
months earlier" explained the butcher
Il could readily have sold the carcass
for 81 a pound to Chicago parties, and
had | taken the precaution to preserve
Il in cold storage and figured with ca
terers while the meat was ripening
might have done as we'll at this date
There are several herds Of half
quarter and mixed blood buffaloes in
the reservation. One old Indian has 1Ot
or more, so the local butcher here says
of which none are under quarter-brec
while some are full-blooded and all ar'
carefully bred.
A month ago an Englishman bOugh
several youngsters, and but week ol
so an Eastern fancier purchased bul
and two heifers from this Indian, botl
TINS butcher.-Oregonian.
Evening journal., 1898-09-01
THEY NEVER RISE.
Such Is Said TO De the Way with the
Dead Victims OF Lake su-
perioF.

Another very interesting and very
sad thing about Lake Superior is that
1t never gives up its dead, says the Min
neapolis Tribune. Whoever encoun-
ters terrible disaster-happily infre-
quent in the tourist season-and goes
down in the angry, beautiful blue wa
ters never comes up again. From those
earliest days when the daring French
vOyagers in their trim birch-bark ca
noes skirted the picturesque shores of
this noble but relentless lake down to
this present moment those who have
met their deaths in mid-Superior still
lie at the stone-pavsd bottom. II may
be that, so very cold is the water, some
of the bodies may have been preserved
through the centuries. Sometimes.
not far from'the shore, the bodies of
people who have been wrecked from
fishing smacks or from pleasure boats
overtaken by cruel squall have been
recovered, but only after the most
heroic efforts with a drag-net or by
the diver. Once on a trip down the
lakes 1 met a clergyman who, as we
passed a point of land some miles be-
fore entering the narrowing of the
lake at the 500, pointed out the place
where the ill-fated Algoma went down
on the reef some eight years ago, and
ms he looked he said, slowly: 81 was
at the funeral of one man who went
down with her, and the only reason
that his body is not at the bottom to-
day with the other 3s that were lost
is because it was caughtin the timbers
Of fba rascal a ~ o,,,1I L
Evening journal., 1898-09-01
PLEASANT TUG PARTY.

Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. McCausland gave
a pleasant tug party on the Laura B.
yesterday. Their guests were Mr.. and
Mrs. William Lawton, Mr.. and Mrs.
George H. Mccall, Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
E. Mitchell, Mr.. and Mrs Harry X.
Miller, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas j. Talley,
Captain Pratt and friends, Mr.. Dyer
and wife, OF Norristown; Mr.. and Mrs.
=. p. Moody, William Butz and Mr.
Sterling and Miss Scott. The tug
went down the river to Fort Delaware,
then up as far as the high bridge above
Philadelphia. The evening was spent
at Washington Park.
Evening journal., 1898-09-01
BABY's PICTURE.
Method of Making DOting Mann
mas Happy.

An enterprising photographer has
lately completed a system by which
mis- pictures of babies have become IA
nous. He has discarded all the IA
miliar expedients of his profession to
persuade very young children to sub
init to the camera, and his scheme has
been completely successful. One part
of his gallery has been fitted up like
nursery. Around the room at con-
venient points are situated cameras,
and these are in charge Of his assist
ants, says Tit-Bits.
The photographer devotes his at
tention to the baby. He tries all the
toys in turn, gets on as intimate terms
as possible with the baby after such
short acquaintance, and gradually,
lures the unsuspecting infant into,
looking his best. When pose and ex-
preston are satisfactory he gives a
signal to one of his assistants at the,
cameras and the trick is done. Moth
ers bring their babies from all quar-.
ters to this tactful photographer. 1t
would be a difficult matter to find any
child who would not, after ten min
utes' session with toys, exhibit some
expression that his parents would be
proud Of. The artist catches that ex-
preston, and as many other agreeable
ones as possible.
The final delight comes to the moth
er when she receives the proofs, not
sent as proofs usually are, but mount
cd on large piece of cardboard, which
makes it possible for her to compare
them simultaneously. This wise man
has left nothing uDdone which could
strengthen his hold on the babies ana
their photographs.
Evening journal., 1898-09-01
A Princens in JaIl.

Princess Eleonora of Sayn-Wittgen-
stein, one of the mediatized semirayol
German families, has been sentenced
to a months imprisonment in Jail and
500 marks fine for spreading SANDER
Gus rumors about her brother-in-law,
Coun: Konigsmark, which brought
about his divorce. The sentence has
been affirmed on appeal.
Evening journal., 1898-09-01
Underwear.

In addition 10 our fine
IF muslin underwear, we
sell Saturday 100 pairs Ia
fine Muslin Drawers,
cambria ruffle-our soc
lty for 25c per pair.