The age-herald., 1900-06-30

Young females will have offers of mar
 riage"
 "A child born on this day will waste its
 money and spend it anyhow; 1t will gem orally be poor or in trouble"
 Every American boy reads with indig- l nation that the author of Robinson Cru soe' once suffered the indignities and out rages of the pillory. Daniel Defoe was con- | demned to the pillory by the House of Commons two hundred less three years ago; and a chronicler of the times tells us | that decayed vegetables and dead rats and cats were thrown at the hapless author in the playful manner peculiar to small boys and loafers in the London of that day. All this Is recalled by the fact that today is the sixty-thrd anniversary of the aboli- tion of the pillory in England; the doing away with that barbarous instrument of torture being one of the first acts of Queen Victoria's reign, occurring as it did on the tenth day after her accession Daniel De- foe is buried in the ancient graveyard of Bonhill, in old London, and a monument
 marks the grave erected by the children of England by subscriptions sent through weekly newspaper This much is set forth on the monument, and thus the dead Defoe is made to serve as an advertise
 ment for Modern Journalism" Hard by
 Defoe's grave sleeps the mother of John
 Wesley, the illustrious founder of the Meth odist church. Across the street, City Road, in front of the graveyard is Wesey's chapel, wherein the great preacher in structed his flock. Wesley is buried at the rear of the church. Inside are his pulpit, chair, and Bible. The gallery running around the church In semi-crcular form is supported by pillows of marble, each the gift of the Methodists of some one of our southern States. Alabama's pillar Is pure white. The marble of which it was made was obtained in Talladega County; which also, by the way, supplied the Ala bama stone in the Washington monument. Bonhill graveyard is only some four acres
 in extent; yet during the Great Plague,
 which Defoe pictured so grapnicaIy, 4O,0OO victims of the epidemic were buried there.
 Bonhil has so far escaped the general movement for transforming the old grave
 yards of London into play grounds for children, the which has resulted in GO transforming more than seventy "cities of the dead"
 "1 e Department of State at Washington
 does we'll in making public the dispatch from Consul General Stowe at Capetown relative to distressed and destitute Ameri- cans, who call upon him for relief" said
 a former Consul last night. And it is well
 that American newspapers are giving all
 possible publicity to the Consul Generals
 statement of .deplorable facts, for it may
 deter a few of our .countrymen from talk ioo ba riS of baip loft in
 foreign land. It appears that hundreds of destitute Americans are beseiging the Con sulate-General in South Africa for relief; and that is a condition which is in part familiar to all men who have served as
 American Consuls at seaports. The Con-
 suls most troubled by destitute compatri- ots are those at Cork, Belfast Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Southampton, Genoa, Naples, Antwerp, Havre, Hamburg and
 Bremen, and at the chief inland capitals of Europe namely, Paris, Rome, Berlin and Vienna. None of these Consuls has dollar from his government at his dis posal for the relief of even the most neces- sitous and worthy applicants. Whatever Consul may give is of his private means, and most of our Consuls are but poorly
 paid. All the Consuls whom l ever knew gave all they could give in charity to their suffering countrynen. One Consul, an eminent man now dead, admitted to me in confidence that he gave all his unofficial fees, about twelve hundred dollars a year, | to aid destitute Americans. Knowing him | intimately, l had charged him with being 1 reckleSsly generous; and 1 am convinced I that he gave large share of his inade- l Quate salary Consus are obliged by law
 to relieve destitute seamen, but the rem
 dering of such relief is so hedged about by l rigid and often foolish and unjust regula- | tions that frequently the money so expend-
 ed, borrowed in many cases from banks,
 is not refunded, and the Consul is forced to
 submit to it's deduction from his expense
 account. Seven shipwrecked sailors were
 cast in winter sick and starving upon a 1 lonely shore in my Consular district when | l had one, more than hundred miles l from the Consulate. Under my telegraphed l instruction their every want was instantly
 supplied All the bills were made out in
 my name as American Consul and includ- 1 ed even the brandy poured down the
 threats of the men at the moment
 they were discovered to restore them l to life; hot baths, mustard plasters
 socks, underclothing, what not The total
 cost was enough to give me nov summer
 vacation on the seashore; but never a
 penny of it paid me by the United 1 States Treasury, or through any other
 source whatever The money was bor- rowed. I repaid it when I received my
 salary, which was actually not sufficient | for my personal expenses but nobody ever l has yet paid me. The Treasury authorities
 set up a plea that some minor technical l detail, such a voucher for a glass of
 brandy, six-penny telegram, and so on, | had not been complied with to the letter
 So a servant of the country, obeying in-
 structions and assisting his dying coun-
 trymen in a foreign land was robbed by
 the best government the world ever saw l etc, ad nauseum. Humbug, Bah.''
 | Drawers to all articles of furniture, of- l flee and household, and doors and windows | generally, are causing an appalling amount l 1f a,,gf t,,f l., zlt s...A