davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-23
SPAIN AFTER A COMPROMISE.
Americans Consider VOluminOus
Communication Yesterday.

Communication Yesterday.
Paris Oct. 22.-The United States peace
commission he'd two sittings to-day to
consider the To1uminous communication
presented yesterday by the Spanish com
missioners.
This new proposition of the Spaniards
looks to a compromise between the refusal
of the Americans to assume any of the
Cuban debt and the Spanish holding that
The United States should assume it wholly.
The terms Of yesterdays proposal are
obviously unknown save to the commits
sioners. The American commissioners will
reply to the communication at Mondays
Joint session, and an extended argument
win then follow, and will carry the mai
ter possibly over to another meeting.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-23

Constantiuople, oct. 22.--The Emperor
and Empress OF Germany left for Pales-
lire at $40 this evening They received
an ovation from the rowds OF people as
sembled to witness their departure.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-23
Conferred with Queen Regent.

Madrid, Oct. 22.-Considerable specula-
ton was caused here to-day by the hold
ing of a long conference between the
Queen, Regent and Gen. Polavieja, former
governor of Cuba and OF the Philippines.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-23
cnnt. MccnIln Orderen to Dntr.

Washington, Oct. 22-Capt y. H. Nc
Gala. who has been detached from the
command of The cruiser Mafblehead, and
ordered 10 duty at Norfolk as captain of
the navy yard, has been authorized to de-
lay reporting unta the 29th inst
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-23
TONE OF PRESS CHANGED.
FashOda Question Left Out of All the
Negotiations.

Negotiations.
London, Oct 23.-The Paris correspond
ent Of the Sunday Times says:
THE change of the tone of the press is
noteworthy. 1t is now certain that the
Fashoda question is left out of all nego-
tiatiOns between France and England, and
that both governments have grasped the
double fact that England means to stick
TO her programme, while France is certain
ly entitled to facilities of access on the
Nile
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-23

Warrington, Oct 22-President AIcKIn-
ley returned to Washington at 2.30 b. N.
to-day from his western trip.
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-19

to feel the bitterness of death. The men and women of Artena are even wanting in paternal and maternal af- lection. Vengeance is of their daily prayer and in deliberateness of crim- inal purpose they have no equals on the face of Europe, save perhaps in some parts dominated by the un- speakable Turk"
 Since the old name of Montefortino was erased from the map after the fall of Rome and the end of the Papal Gov ernment in 1870, three entire families, some of the oldest in the city, have been completely wiped out-grand- parents, parents, brothers and sisters, cousins and nieces, nephews and uncles and aunts-the Scarenzies, the Dabos and the Rulfis Neighbor throws him self upon neighbor in the fields, on the street, or In his or her castle, the home. All houses are provided with means of Notifications and many trap doors. Victims of hatred or the prizes of robbery are killed, maimed or tor tured. A house goes up in flames and half dozen children with It. Who cares? Next day a friend of the mur- dered family shoots down the perpe- trator or perpetrators wherever he find or tracks them.
 The authorities are powerless, for no citizen of Artena will bear witness against another. Vengeance is mine,' ,' says the mountain "hero" or heroine ' and, no matter how convincing the proof furnished, his or her obstinancy of denial is greater. l attended a ses- sion of the assizes at Artena early in the year. The whole town knew that young Ottavi saw his father mur- dered by JegadO. Did he bear out the public prosecutor? Not a word could that official draw from his sealed lips His sisters, his mother, who had been likewise direct or indirect witnesses to the deed, were equally silent When l returned to Rome I read in the Tribuna a dispatch saying that Jegado's house was broken into night before last and that the murderer and his family of three small children were bound to the bed, drenched with kerosene, and slowly roasted to death-"perpetrator unknown" of course.
 Murder is avenged by murder in Ar tena, as was done for centuries past in Montefortino, and whoever testifies against a red-handed scoundrel takes his life in his hands. Hatred, Jealousy and petty squabbles lead to new mur- ders, for the citizen of Artena is un- stable, excessively vain, morbidly irritable and loves revenge above all things.
 After 1870 the new Government re- solved to break up the time honored robber nests, and Montefortino in par ticular was given strong judicial ad- ministration; schools were erected and the greatest severity was exercised in carrying out the laws and enforcing re- spect for them.
 As a consequence a few hundred of the inhabitants had to be taken charge of at once and shipped to the county seat, where they were confronted with their judges, cage having been built for every twelve prisoners Whole families were then deported; but crime did not diminish in the least The new city of Artena soon had as bad name as the Montefortino of old
 Just before Pietro Acciarito heaped new criminal renown upon his native city by attempting the life of King
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-19

which is not reckoned among the gen tleSt countries.
 When l asked at the railway station here for a ticket for Artena, I was told that no such place was on the route, and the map corroborated that state ment However, I insisted that this town had been reality somewhere in the southeast of Rome between the western main chain of the Apennines and the Alban mountains, for five or SIX centuries or even more. Then a council Of officials was called and one of them, who had formerly been In the service of the Papal Government, re- membered that Artena was a new name for the old robber stronghold of Montefortino, where a tribe of the an- cient Volscians, who gave the Roman republic so much trouble, is still four ishing.
 "Artena," he continued, ''has no rail- way station, for we could probably not find station master who would trust himself in that neighborhood. The nearest station is Volmontone. on the Rome-Naples line, via Delletri."
 I found the town, which I reached on mule back, one of the most pictur- esquely situated in the kingdom Ar tena crowns the summit Of a mountain 1900 feet high Half way up stands a mighty castle, built like a fortress of the Middle Ages, with a moat and towers galore. It belongs to the Borg hese, but no member of that princely family has set foot in it since shirts of chain mail and steel bonnets went out of fashion. In fact they ceased taking personal interest in their property since their neighbors above acquired their first blunderbuss.
 The town consists of a single street crawling up the mountain in zig-zag fashion. The houses are low and nar- row in depth; behind the small back yards the rocks descend abruptly, as if hewn off by mighty rush of waters. From the summit an enchanting out look can be had into the Roman Campagna, the Alban and Sabine mountains.
 The 4O00 citizens of this town are, &C., cording to the Mayors statements, among the best situated in Italy as far as means and opportunities for making a steady and comfortable living are concerned, even the poorest of them owning enough rich land in the valley to yield all they need, while the better to-do families are among the heavy wheat sellers and spectators of the province. That actual want does not
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-19

exist in Artena was further demon strated to me by the surpassing fact that during my visit there not a single beggar approached me; not even the children asked for centesimos.
 Under these circumstances, to which may be added particularly mild eli mate, one should imagine that the Ar tenians were happy go-lucky lot, a little lazy perhaps, but certainly un- willing to habitually walk the path of the transgressor. Such surmise would completely coincide with the writings of the Lombrosos, Morrisons Ferris and others, who insist that the majority of criminals are bred under anomalous social conditions. More over, it would concur with the latest year book of the New York State Re of criminals in New York came from homes which were positively bad, that is, where want and abject poverty reigned, besides crime; while only 71a per cent came from homes that were positively good.
 So much for pathological theories. As matter of every day practice crime flourishes in Artena as if the town were one immense bagnio and its four thousand inhabitants so many graduates from the galleys, set free on lone island to massacre ana rob each other at will.
 As already stated per cent of all deaths in Artena are the outcome of murder direct; persons dying of wounds received in assaults, or bv the action of incendiarisrn, are not included in the list. Thefts, street robbery, burg lary and assault with stiletto or re- volver are matters of such ordinary oc- currence in the town and in the valley belonging to the people that to investi- gate them all, according to the Mayor of the city, the number of police off, cials and judges would have to be in- creased out of all proportions to the total number of inhabitants The au- thorities, continued this official, take notice only of the most atrocious of crimes brought to their notice by the press of the capital, or when non-resi- dents suffer.
 This complacent tfficial Is the elev- enth successor of a Mayor mysterious ly murdered In Artena in the beginning of 1879. All these Mayors were elected for period of ten years. Three died under the hands of assassins, two of them in broad daylight and on the open market place. The rest received such wounds as to cripple them for life and make them leave their post in haste. The incumbent of the of- flee aspires to the distinction of out
 
 about his business with ears securely plugged and eyes shut. As a piece of general information he told me that ''the number of crimes against life and property brought to official cog nizance in Artena is fifteen times greater, relatively to the number of in- habitants, than in any other place or district of Italy" Mark the words official cognizance"
 E,yerything tends to show that almost the entire population of this mountain town is imbued with criminal propen- sities. There is no need of leading an Artenaen, who may have strayed from his or her environment, into crime by suggestion All of them seem to be possessed of an irresistible passion for cruelty-cruelty that wishes its victim
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-19

craze was dubbed "grog" and the word has lived.
 A few years later, in 175s, the instruc& tions for the royal navy contained thiS wisdom:
 Whereas, It is of very pernicious con- drams the allowance made to them of any kind of spirituous liquor in lieu of beer. and it having been found by ex- with water is very conducive to the pres ervation of their health, every com to is see a0T nd srcfy ct hged liquor to be Issued by itself to the com pany. of the ship or vessel under his com-, the officers and company to be every day mixed with a due proportion of water upon deck. in the presence of the lieu tenant and two other officers of the watch who are to be strictly charged to take care that the men sbe not defrauded in their allowance.
 When our navy began it's illustrious career amid the Revolution liquor was of course as necessary part of the supplies as ea-biscuit and powder, and we find Paul Jones, on sailing from Portsmouth in TIT, bewailing among other shortages "only thirty gallons ofi rum.'
 In 1881 Congress took an advanced step by providing that all in the navy who voluntarily relinquished the spirits TdllOn SnOulu De pdlu cents a Oay.t In 1842 the ration was cut down to onel gill, but the alternative of half-pint of wine was added, and the commutas tion price was fixed at cents.
 The first year of the Civil War brought a greatly increased naval force and increased trouble from strong drink. Moral sentiment had progressed, too.
 In July, 1862, Congress revolutionized the American navy by passing the hiss toric law providing:
 That from and after the first day of September, 1862, the spirit ration in the navy of the United States shall forever cease, and thereafter no distilled spiritu- ous liquors shall be admitted on board of vessels-of-war except as medical stores and upon the order and under the control of the medical officers of such vessels, and to be used only for medical purposes.
 From and after the first day of Septem- Der next there shall be allowed and paid to each person in the navy now entitled to the spirit ration cents per day in com mutation and lieu thereof, which shall be in addition to the present pay. And since that day there has been no "grog" in the United States navy.
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-19

Umberto in April last. royal official was foully murdered in Artena; and, though many are undoubtedly in the secret of his taking off, it is impossible to gain one particle of evidence aSSur- ing conviction. It happened ln thls way. About a year ago the letter car rier of the city was deposed and an other young man sent from Rome to take his place. The wife of the corner, a fine looking woman, went about the city bewailing his misfortune and of ferng proof that her husband had been unlawfully dimissed. Finally she gave out that she has made a VOW 10 the Holy Virgin to wear a black dress III the Easter procession, which meant certain death to the new letter carrier or course the people of Artena saw the point of this talk, and when the young woman thus appeared on April IS among three hundred others clad Tn white, singing and praying in the pro ceSsion behind the cross, nopody Ill town doubted that the Government would soon have to send second post man to that district.
 The blasphemous woman not only wore the unconventional dress, but 1n- stead of the candle and flowers, carried an unlighted torch in her hand, wound with crape. On the following Monday, April 26, the letter carrier was found dead in the road leading rom VolInon- tone to the mountain town. He had been shot through the head and dag ger stuck in his heart All the money and valuable letters he carried were gone.
 There are only surmises as to the ] murderer or murderers, and these say that the man was shot down by Maria lover and that she, to make death sure, or following an impulse of cruelty. f1, 1xri rfn
 The Government stands aghast before the problem of what to do with this town full of criminals. On March ', 1557. Pope Paul " issued an edict or dering the city of Montefortino to be razed to the ground. The command was only half carried out. Troops drove the citizens from their strong holds into the forests and encamped on the victorious ground after many hot battle But two years later the new Pontiff, Plus ", allowed the citizens to return, and since then no such sum- mary form of reform has been at tempted although it Is generally con ceded to be the only one that might be of lasting benefit.
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-19

"HEY didn't splice the main
 brace" the other day on the
 Nashville when that gallant gun
 boat had raced through the sea
 with every human pulse abeat and captured the first prize of the war. They won't splice the main brace on the Oregon even if all hands should have the strain of that seemingly im- possible thing, an all days running fight with a fleet of Spanish cruisers.
 Splicing the main brace" is, or rather used to be, serving an "extra' allowance of grog to all hands on a naval vessel after an engagement. This explanation is so old that it will be news to many in these days. If things were as they used to be how naturally 1t would have happened that when the Nashville had captured her prize and when every heart aboard was aglow with the success that the boatswain and his mates should have piped through the ship the order, All hands for grog'' At the beginning of any other war in our history "Grog oh!" would have resounded through the ship. But
 
 And stopped his grog forever.
 One out of the mass of records is a report from the Lord Deputy and Coun- cil of Ireland to Henry VIII in 1545 on the ''victualling of shipping" and among the liquor supplies is "Wyne, Sake, 6 tonnes, maketh beverage IS tonnes; wyne, Gascoyne, II tonnes, maketh beverage 16 tonnes''
 That is how John Bull watered his sack and Gascony wine for his sailors in those days.
 A notable event in this history was the invention of 'grog" in l740 Ac- cording to learned article oIl the sub- ject published in The United Service by Admiral Meade in 1884. the honor is due to Admiral Vernon of the royal navy. In bad weather it was his fashion to wear on deck a grogram cloak from which he acquired among the men the sobriquet of "Old Grog." About the year mentioned, while in command of the West India station, he originated a new and satisfactory official beverage composed of rum and water, the serv- ing of which began on his flagship, the Burford, and thence spread. The bey-
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-19

for a while.
 Then tiring of the seclusion she thrust her head beyond the hedge. An Aus trian Prince, whom she had met at Carlsbad and whose infatuation rippled the current of life there, sought her hiding place and seeking found her. His blood was royal and his purse was heavy.
 Some of the most regular frequenters of the race track in Vienna are women One sees them constantly on the course, book in hand, wherever the betting is heaviest; women of rank, members even of royal households. And here, day after day the Princess Louise was to be seen, seated in the Austrian Princes box. Next an attache of the Belgian embassy and then a French Marquise followed in her train
 A boy and girl were born to her and then the turning point in her life was reached.
 A little sister of hers whom she had
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-19
THE EL0PEMENT

growth of association with the Viennese women, who are e-eminently versed Tn those arts which attract and hold the opposite sex. Passionate and ob- st1nate, hers was a nature requiring a master hand for guidance; an iron hand, but clothed in velvet. Such hand her husband, the Prince, did not possess. He was twice her age, noted for his capacity for liquor, and uncouth in personal appearance as we'll as in mentality. The records of prudence in his family were no better than those in hers. and so the couple were most charmingly assorted. There were no illusions to be dispelled on either side, and still there was no positive dislike.
 She was but seventeen when the mar riage took place and was at once traug- planted from Berlin to that most cor rupt of capitals, Vienna, where the Prince was stationed as field marshal in the Austrian army.
 Installed in a palace and left to her own devices, unprotected save by that divinity that doth hedge a king and
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-19

H OAE, June 10, 1SSS.-ArmeQ with government commission, Ces- are Lombroso and other re-
 nowned students of criminology
 have turned their attention to
 the little city of Artena, in the Volscian Mountains, some forty miles, as the crow flies, from the capital. Lombroso will write a book on Artena.
 This town of 4000 inhabitants lives in history as the southern matching oven of evil-doers and felons. AS long as four and half centuries ago Cor rado Celto said to its citizens: "No possible punishments can deter them from heaping up crime upon crime, for their perversity of mind is more fertile in inventing new offenses than the imagination of judges is in new punishments." And at the period men tioned new-fangled ideas for executing and torturing criminals were almost as plentiful as such relating to bicycles are to-day.
 Either for patriotic or geographical reasons. or both, Artena has never fig ured in the criminological literature of the present period, which has branded other places in Italy as homes of the DOTH Qenu4uenlg OuI 1lO" cAA O'SAAA~~NA ing of records, ancient and contem- porary, by the well known authorities on medical jurisprudence is promised and we will soon know all about this romantic spot, where assassins grow wild, where fair browed mothers edu- cate their children in the noble art or cutting throats and where revenge Is the prayer on the lips of young and old.
 Meanwhile your correspondent has done a little Investigating on his own hook. To begin with he ascertained that while the crop of murders-and this does not include homicides or mere manslaughter-in the whole of Italy is on a ratio of thirty to every other kind of ten thousand deaths in the kingdom, nearly 2 per cent of the men, women and children buried in the mountain cemeteries of Artena year by year die by violence. And let the reader remember here that the Italian national murder crop is the largest in the civilized world, being four and half times larger, for in- stance, than that of Great Britain.
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-19

voices. They charm the eye, the ear, the senses. They are trained to 1t; II IS their life, their business. They are ap, solutely unexcelled in the practice oI all womanly grstces.
 In this world of fashionable intrigue the Belgian girl was left to play her hand alone and it was virtual soltalre
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-19

Rats, mice and squirrels are continu- ally gnawing at something, but they dc not do this out of pure mischief" as people generally imagine. Animals of this class, especially the rats, have teeth which continue to grow as long as the owner lives. In the human species the teeth are developed from pubs, which are second set are full grown. but In the case of the much-maligned rat the pulp supply is perpetual, and is continually se' creting materials by which the incisors gain in length. This being the case, the poor creature is obliged to continue his gnawing operation in order to keep his teeth ground down to proper length.
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-19

supposedly the members of his iln- mediate family, it is small wonder that insanity, to use the polite expression newly coined for her especial benefit, found her out.
 Society in Vienna is the most fastidi- ous in all Europe. At the same time it Is said to be the most corrupt Per-
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-19

100000 f1orins, has been sued for hundreds of thousands of f1orins by deceived and eXaSperated creditors, and has been committed to an insane asy- lum by her dumfounded royal relatives till the tangled threads of all sorts of scandals regarding her can be strengthened out after a fashion.
 This daughter of King Leopold of Belgium has been going a pace of late years that has even startled the widest royal revelers of the courts of Europe. Everybody expected that she would end her inglorious career in a blaze of scandal, but no one dreamed that an in sane asylum would shelter her at the last. The chroniclers of European gos sip believe the royal family after long conference decided on this act as offer ing a possible excuse to the public for her last effOrescent escapades.
 Poor madcap Princess! Poor Louiset Poor because all her folIies, all her weaknesses were no doubt forced upon her through heredity. The viciousness. the badness, call it what you will. were there, were in her blood, and her en- vironment, the passing events of her life, served but to incubate it. Intrigues and hirtatons were the very air she breathed.
 From early girlhood she has kept so- ciety quivering as from an earthquake shock.
 Low-browed and heavy of feature, with a form whose voluptuous curves suggested the feline in every sinuous movement, she had yet a grace of man. her which was undoubtedly the out
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-19
LAST TGROG DRUNK
 IN THE NAVY

Splicing the main has almost become ancient history among whisky ration early reasons fully set forth in the following article opinion about grog against spirited and determined