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THE COURIER- corporators seeks to obtain every privilege that is attainable and to be subject to the smallest amount of responsibility. As a result of these attempis there is an entire absence of uniformity in the requirements of these charters and a corresponding inadequacy of protection to depositors. Amongst the bills now before the Executive for consideration is one which requires payment of 25 per cerit. of the capital before beginning business. Two others on tan authorized epitai of $500,000, are each requtred to pay only $10,000, and another, which is an amenument to an existing charter, and which converts different institution into a bank without the payment of any portion of the stock and with the privilege of geueral speculation -in real estate.

In none of these charters is there any, requirement to pay any further installment on the capital stoek. In some charters private property can not be levied upon to make good the unpaid stock. It will be readily seen that in banking institutions organized on such a basis there is no security for a depositor. The deposits become in fnot almost the sole banking capital. Inexperienced bankers seeking to make immense profits on their small investments, are tempted to lend the money of the depositors on inadequate security.

When the spirit of speculation resulte in commercial disaster the money which has been lonned can not be recovered, the deposits are lost. and, as the bank has not been required to pay up its capital stock, the depositor is entirely without remedy. As the Senate is maturing a bill to correct the multa of existing legislation on this subfect, and as the House of Representatives has adopted a resolution tending in the same direction the Executive proposes to act in harmony with the General Assembly by withhoiding his approval from the olass of legislation alluded to while the remedial legislation is being perfected." AGAINST THE RAILROADS. Dennis Long Wine a Case Over the L. and N.

In the Court of Appeals. Frankfort, Peb. -The Court of Appeals today decided a very 1m- portant case from the Chancery Court. grew out of a dispute over the erection of a fenco by Dennis Long Co, at their pipe foundry on the Beargrass All or river front route of the and N. Railroad Company.

Long Co. contended that the etty of Loutsville In its contract transferring the road from Jefferson street to the Hourgrass all did not agree to give the road any more than sixty fect, or right of way for a double traok. The railroad company claimed 110 feet, or the entire width Co of from erecting and their sought fence to A enjoin number Long of the street, Interosa being involved, Seustor Wade services were engaged, as also were the services of O'Neal, Jackson Phelps for Long Co. Judge Lindsey. Andy Barnett and John Speed represented the railroad and won the, case the lower court.

The opinion of Judge Pryor, to day reverses that judgment in the following mandate, which decides the case In favor of Long 4 The original- and cross actions against Long should be dismissed, the. cross action without prejudice, and the cause is remanded for that purpose." Major Hale In Frankfort. Frankfort, Feb. Henry S. Hale, of Graves county, is in the city to-day and had a long interview this morning with Gov, Buckner and the Secretary of State.

It understood that Mr. Hale has been offered the Tress urership, and it is believed that he will accept. Takes Effect To- Morrow. Frankfort, Feb. resignation of Thos.

J. Henry as of the Court. of Appeals does nut effect until Saturday, when Col. G. Poore will be appointed Clerk.

will be no change in the management the office. Salida, and belongs to an engineer on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad. Napoleon has been engaged for the past two and a half years in helping his master run locomotive No. 86. His ticeship began at the age of six months, and he can now go into the round-house, where twenty-eight engines are kept, single out, and mount his own engine, and, in the absence of his master and the fireman, defend it against all intruders.

Napoleon rides on the fireman's side of the cab, with both his front paws and his head hanging out of the window, intently watching the track. He often scents cattle at a long distance. When they appear in sight. he becomes greatly excited, and looks first at them and then at his master, as though trying to make the latter understand the gravity of he situation. On a nearer approach to them he gives a cry similar to that of a human being.

If it is found necessary to come to a full stop, he bounds out of the cab, runs ahead and drives the trespassers out of harm's way. When it is desirable to communicate with the pumping stations, frequently at long distances from the track, a note is written and given to the dog, who delivers it and speedily returns with reply. He readily interprets signals to start from his own engine, and pays, no more attention to the whistles and of other locomotives than to the cattle that are safely grazing by the rondside. If accidentally left at any of the stations, he returns to Salida by the next train. A RAILROAD DOG.

Important Duties of a Canine Assistant On the Rio Grande. A Mid OWLS. Wonderful Curiosities, and They Are Coming to the Cincinnati Zoo. (Warsaw (Ky.) Independent.) David H. Ward, of Ghent, was hero yestoday exhibiting four monkey-faced owls that are wonderful curiosities.

Mr. Ward caught them in the beech woods on. Walton Craig's farm, below Ghent, January and the specimens are marvel to all of the ornithologists of this section. The bird about the size of a barn owl, and appears to be an admixture of monkey, owl and parrot. It has the face of a monkey, with large, black eyes, and sees as well during the day as at night.

Ita beak is like a parrot's, and its feathers and down arc like a sparrow hawk's, only softer and finer, with little black spots resting on the top of the feathers. The body is lice that of an owl, and altogether its identity is a complete puzzle to every one. It gives vent to a scream resembling that of a panther, and can be Heard, for two miles. It was their screaming at night that attracted Mr. Ward, and he thought.it was a wild animal.

On watching, ho traced the nolse to an old sycamore tree at the head of Craig's woods, and found two old birds with three young fall-fledged birds. He killed one of the old ones and broke a wing of the other by a shot, and then had a tough fight to capture the young ones. When dis. turbed they give vent to blowing noise like the hissing of an old There Is only ono bind that we ever heard of that answers Its description, and that is a combination of buzzard, owl, panther and devil, that is found in the swamps of Arkansas, and known by the euphonious title. of Dry Skull." Its blood-curdling can be heard for miles, and wond cause the hair on an ordinary man's head to lift lils hat off.

with its riguilty, No specimen was. ever caught, and it la a rare bird. Mr. Ward has been offered $200 for 4 pets." He exhibited them here Sesterday, and for points up the river for the same purpose. He intends slowing them at the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens, where they have nover seen anything like them.

Mr. Ward shot the old bins at night ty moonlight, and catight the young ones next morning. STOPS A BOULEVARD. Louisville Owner of Chicago Real Estate Stood Up For Her Rights, Mrs. Ethel L.

Swann, of this city, has so- cured temporary injunction In Chicago against that city arid the West Chicago Park Commissioners which stops. the work, at leaSt. In front of two lots owned by her, of making a boulevard. The city ordinance provides for the use by the commissioners of seventy feet of Ogden avenue, but 1t is said by Mrs. Swann that 0g- den avenue proper is only sixty feet wide, and two feet on either side of the street are to ho taken from the property owners without condemnation or com She objects to having a part of her lots taken even to make Ogden avenue boulevard.

FRIDAY MORNING, spreading nil over the universe. Hence the absolute identity of their reciprocal interests. It Germany should succeed in conquering France without the interference of Russia, or in conquer10g Russia, left withont the aid of France, there would then not ouly he no balance of power in Europe. but none in the entire world. All powers and all peoples would find themselves obliged to bow their heads under the volte of Germany, and to acknowledge her a af versul sovereignty.

Therefore. in any struggle with the quadruple alliance it is the duty of Russia to sustain France, just a8 it is the duty of France to sustain Russia. To the objection that if an alliance were concluded between France nad Russia. declaration of WAR would be the immeminte result, Mr. Tatishoff replies: It is just the same as if two separate army corps, acting against a concentrated enemy, were advised to keep separate for fear of hurting the feelings of that enemy.

And how should they be kept thus separate? By a maneuver which must necessarily lead to defeat! The absurdity of such advice 19 plain to everybody from a purely military point of view; and only a half-blind and incompetent diplomacy fails to see it as matter of policy. To our eyes it is as plain as that two and two make four that if the peace of Europe is to be assured, it must be by an alliance frank and sincere between France and Russia. The conditions of such an alliance are very simple- common defense against the common enemy: a mutual guarantee of the integrity of our territories, and an engagement not to conclude a peace otherwise than by common consent. The treaty would contain nothing hurtful to anybody, even if it was not justified by the threatening coalition of the four other great powers known under the name of the League of Peace, and which, notwithstanding its name; is precisely the thing that compromises the peace of Europe by the mysterious actions and the constant armaments of its members." SHE THOUGHT IT A GREAT JOKE. Her Husband Believed Her Dead, But She Was Having a Lively Time.

(New York Sun San Francisco Special.) The divorce suit of Bookmaker Asa M. Hamilton of this city against his wife, Hannah, has brought out 60tue rare testimony. About two years ago the Hamiltons visited New York, and so enamored of life in the metropolis was Mrs Hamilton that she wanted to remain, and so her husband returned to the Golden Gaie alone. Mr. Hamilton waited with Job-like patience for his young wife's return, and cue day was startled by the following message flashed over the wires from New York: M.

Hamilton: Hannah died last night. Send $250 for funeral Lucy Is Hannah's New York sister. Hamilton promptly forwarded the amount by telegraph. Turee days later the wires hummed the following: The undertaker demands another $100 for funeral accoutrements. Please forward at once.

LUCY." As belore the money was sent. Two months afterward business took him to New York, where he intended to visit the last resting place of his wife. On his first night in the city, however, as he was sadly walking the street, whom should he meet but his erring wife. How is this?" demanded the tonished Hamilton. Ain't you dead Do look like it cried his radiant wife, laughing.

Weren't, those telegrams the lovellest jokes ever played While you was monrning me for dead and paying money to have me buried, I was spending that same money in a royal way. Wasn't it funny Why don't you laugh But Hamilton didn't 600 anything ludicrous about the affair. He finished business in hurry, sped back to San Francisco, and the first thing he did was fo. bring suit for a divorce. The trial has been pending ever sine last July await ing the arrival of several commissions from New York.

Yesterday that of. Pat. Sheedly; the sporting man, arrived and was filed. It corroborates the story of Hamilton recarding Hrs. 'Hamilton's deception.

Sheedy met her at a walking match one night in New York. He knew nothing of her pretended death till she confided the whole story to him and boasted have done the old man up fine, and don't you forget it THE SENSATION. How to Avoid It When Starting Down Swift Elevator Cars. A great many people are unable to ride on elevator cars on account of the feeling that their hearts and souls are being pulled out of them when the machine starts to drop, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. People with heart affections are frequently forbidden by their physicians to ride in the cars, and it is disagreeable to thousands who ride in spite of it to save time and legs in the big buildings of the city.

A well-known lawyer, who has a very level head at most times, admits that his head feels empty when the elevator starts down, but claims to have discovered a very simple mechanical trick by which he avoids the all gone feeling. He is willing to have it suggested to his fellow-mortals anonymously and in no other. way. take a long breath," he said, just as I step on the elevator, and hold it with a tight pressure Then, just as the elevator bexins to sink, I let it out exactly with the motion of the car. The quicker the car starts, the quicker and harder I press out the air, and I don't feel as it my soul had flown out of my collar; in fact.

I can avoid the least disagreeable sensation." Another gentleman, who tried the experiment. vouched for the results in his case. Don't imagine that you have to blow so that everybody else in the car can hear you," he said. All you need to do is to hold the breath tightly and let it go noiselessly out of the nose. I think the sensation is due to the sudden change of pressure of blood in the heart and head, and the compression of air in the breathing organs off sets that pressure by reaction when the car starts" LEXINGTON LOCALS.

Couple of Randolph, New York, Married at the Clarendon Hotel. people of this city. A Scott County Death. Lexington, Feb. In the Circuit Court, Dud Alien, charged with robbing the house of Dr.

Kellar, has been sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. Bettie Mitchell, robbery, one year in the penitentiary. This afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Clarendon Hotel, Mr. Thomas J. Turner, of Randolph, N.

and Mrs. Lula Hotchkiss. a handsome young widow of the same place, were united in marriage. 'The ceremony was performed by the Rev. W.

H. Felix, of the First Baptist church. Miss Lily L. Rose and William H. Barkley were married last night at the home of the bride, by the Rev.

J. S. Shouse. Both are very popular young Georgetown, Feb. Mr.

Janics Kimbrough, prominent farmer of this county, died this morning, after a long illness, aged fortyseven years. He was native of Harrison county, but married in this county, and has resided here for number of years. For a long time he was Magistrate of this county. The funeral services will be held at the family residence. to-morrow afternoon, by Elder W.

R. Lloyd, assisted by Elder B. F. Clay, of Lexington The remains will be interred Georgetown Ceme- tery. Violated the Internal Revenue Laws.

United States Deputy Marshal Conrad McCarty brought in the following yrisoners from Jessamine and Robinson counties terday morning, charged with yiolating the Internal Revenue Laws, Thomas Frazier, Henry Taylor, James Taylor, Ruben Jackson, Moschy and Walter Deputy Marshal A. D. Clark also brought in Har din Menitor from Edmouson county on the same charge. FEBRUARY 14, 1890. TWO REPORTS.

The Judiciary Committee Hopelessly Divided On the Judge Jackson Case. The Majority and Minority Expeoted to File Their Reports To-Day. Both Are Said to Censure Him But In Widely Different Degrees. Yesterday a Very Bad Season For Pet. Bills In 1 the House, CAPITAL SOCIAL: EVENTS.

Frankfort, Feb. -The Judiciary Committee of the House attempted to gain further time this morning when Chairman Cox asked leave to report, and said that they desired until to-morrow morning to prepare the minority report, which they desired should go to the public with the majority report. Mr. Kinkaid replied that the majority wanted no further conferences or attempts to com promise. The debate indicated that a bad split had existed ail along in the committee.

Mr. Hardin moved that the committee be allowed to report to-morrow morning upon the conclusion of the call of counties for bills, and the mejority of thie committee indicated its agreement in that arrangement. expressing the hope that the further delay would result in harmony. The motion prevailed and the reports will be made to-morrow. The members of the majority insist that there is no material difference between the members of the committee.

The minoriy is inclined to be 8 little more severe on Judge Jackson than the majority. The minority of the committee think that the majority report lays too much stress on the mitigating circumstances in Judge Jackson's case, and is too mild where it pretends to censure. The minority, report will exzetly reverse this arrangement. Hon. Arthur Wallace had not been acting with the committee in this investigation.

Mr. Weil offered a resolution to facilitate the passage of local bills by holding two afternoon sessions ench week at which each member should have the right to call up two local bills. Referred to on Rules. The act to incorporate the Mutual Protective Society, of Kentueky, was re jected. It was a bill to legalize a vigilance committee.

The Committee on Criminal Laws aDproved the bill to allow conductors of passenger trains to carry arms, but the House reiected the measure. The same committee favorably reported Mr. Warren's bill to confer police powers on the conductors of passenger trains while in the discharge of their dutv. The bill was reiected. OFFICIAL PRESENTS.

Beautiful Gavets of Violet Wood For the Presiding Geniuses of the Gener. al Assembly. Frankfort, Feb? home of Gov. Bryan and Hon. Harvey Myers, Speakers of.

the Senate and House, remembered them to-night, and their legislative friends who were present at the presentation will remember it also. Their Covington constitu ents sent. down two beautiful gavels made of violet wood and finished in gold, suitably inscribed. The seance was held in the apartments occupied by Gen. Duke and Mr.

Jackson, and the hour was 10 o'clock, It was surprise, and Mr. Ben Lee Hardin was at his best, and, in presenting the gifts, gracefully said: Gentlemen: Your home friends, desiring to show to the world the higt esteem in which each of you is held by those who know you best, have delegated the very pleasing duty to me of presenting to you, a6 token of that esteem and as a testimonial of their atfection, these beautiful gavels, which are made of violet wood grown only in the heart of Africa. But you are not conclude by that, that they are African descent. They believe and confide in your integrity and ability to preside in your respective houses to that extent that, it those bodies respond to your fair, impartial and equitable rulings, the mirror-like surface of these instruments will never be marred or dulled by coming in contact with baeei wood while in anger or actuated by prejudice. They further believe that you will lend your offietal power in preventing the chartering of any company that shall have exclusive rights in the importation of this wood to be man.

ufactured into gavels for Speakers of the General Assembly of Kentucky." Gov. Bryan and Speaker Myers were both taken by surprise, but they are public speakers from away back, and were not disconcerted long. Their responses were feelingly made; and then ensued a good time. The Closing Ball of the Capital Club Social Success- Children's Night. Frankfort, Feb.

Capital Hall ball-room presented a brilliant scene this evening. It was the lastbefore-Lent ball of the Assembly Ball Club, and the children's fancy dress ball. All the tots in the county were out in the quaintest and daintiest costituies, and with their sisters and mothers to watch them. The children had the floor from 8 o'clock until fi, and then gave way to the club and its guests. Among the noticeably dressed children were the following: John Cannon, as Lafavette: Cornelia Gordon, a Forget-me-Not: Orrie Myers, of Covington, a Buttercup: Mattie Bryan, of Covington, Kate Green away; Katie Cox, a fairy: Pickett Johnson, a cavalier: Brownie- Duval, Queen of Spades: Mary Swigert, Marie Stuart; Eleanor Cannon, Normandy girl: Susie MeHenry, Marguerite Hiratn Cannon.

clown, and Evelyn Briscoe, of Louisville, spring. The later ball was one of the largest and prettiest of the season. Parties came from all the surrounding country. and Louisville sent quite a delegation. Mrs.

Ransom, the Misses Goodloe, Mr. and Mrs. Tamplett, Mrs. John A. Stratton, Misses Gifford White, Clara Moore Sherley, Ellen Harris, Sunbeam stead, Herndon Dixon and Bettie Hars, with an army of young men.

A BLOW AT JUDGE LILLY. All Civil Business in His District Remored By a Proposed Bill to Another Court. Frankfort, Feb. Committee on Circuit Courts met tonight and decidede to recommend favorably a bill to establish a Common Pleas Court in Breathitt county, and their report will be before the House on the first call. There is more in the bill than oppears on its face.

It takes in Lee, Estill, Breathitt, Wolfe and one or two Knott, triet, other and counties from Judge Lilly's disleaves him nothing but crimAnal cases. He threatens to becomes a law. resign it it Messes. Atherton, Pearce and Wallace appeared before the Committee on Banks this afternoon and made the bill giving the Louisville arguments on Gas Compang the right to make and sell electrioity. Further arguments will be made in the Senate chamber at 3 o'clock to-morrow afternoon.

In the House to-morrow Mr. Letterle will introduce a bill for the protection of the public health, by providing for the inspection of cattle, calves, sheep, lambs and swine intended for human food. Each city with a population of 2,000 or over shall have one or more inspectors, who will hold office for two years and shall inspoct all cattle and swine intended to be slaughtered, and see that none but suitable meat be killed. There is ho job in the bill, as fees or salaries are regulated by the Councils, board of trustees or County Levy Courts controlling the towns of over 2,000 population. THE FRANKFORT PRISON.

General Hewett Testifies Before the Investigating Committee Yesterday. Frankfort, Feb. -The investigating committee, which is looking into the affairs of Frankfort penitentiary, met this afternoon at 3 o'clock, and spent two hours questioning exAuditor Fayette Hewett. Gen: Hewett said that while he was Auditor he did not remember hearing any complaints about bad food at the penitentiary. The variety was sometimes insufficient.

He visited the prison once a week, or oftener, and made a special duty of inspecting the food. There had been no complaint about clothing. Gen. Hewett was asked to point out the law under which the Commissioners of the Sinking Fand claimed the authority to lease out convicts under the present lease, to be worked outside the walls. He said there was no law for it, and the Board never claimed that there was any the law of necessity.

The prison wouldn't hold the men, and something had to be done with them until the Eddyville prison was completed. Mr. Thomas asked why, instead of leasing the men for outside work, they had not been put to work under State officials on the Eddyville prison, so as to complete it mpidly. Gen. Hewett replied that perhaps that might have been done.

The present lease, he said, nets the State nothing, but merely acquits it of all expense for caring for the convicts. This was the best they could do. They had an offer informally from the gentlemen who lease the prison labor of Tennessee, to pay the same price that is paid In Tennessee, $100,000, if they might have the labor on the same conditions as in Tennessee. Such conditions would have given the lessees full control of the labor, without any restrictions whatever. The Board replied to this offer that it had no authority to make such lease, and would not make it if it had the authority.

He said each member of the Board had always been opposed to working the convicts outside the wails, and had been anxious to hasten the completion of the Eddyville prison. Gen. Hewett believed the lessees had always complied with the law and their contract as to the supply of food and clothing, and as to the treatment of prisoners at the railroad camps, if they failed, the State's only recourse is a suit tor damages and not a rescision of the contract. He did not think the contract would have been made it it had contained a clause allowing it to be reseinded at pleasure. It had been hard to make, anyway.

He did not think the work within the walls was 4 profitable, though the Work outatde He knew of no member of the Board of Commissioners who had in any way been benefited by the prison directly 02 indirectly. He believed they all respected their office too much for that. He himself was associated with the members of the lessee firm, in the State National Bank and in the construction company which is ing the Kentucky Midland railroad. He did not know to what extent the company had employed convicts on the road. Gen.

Hewett estimated that it would cost $100,000 a year to run the prison itselt, besides an outlay of at least $150,000 for machinery and materials if the State carries on the work within the walls. At the times when the prison had been thrown on the State's hands for several months, the cost of maintaining it had been about $6,000 a month, with no clothing to buy. He could not account for the increased mortality at the prison, in spite of the improved sanitary condition of the buildings. The committee will meet again tomorrow afternoon. SENATE PROCEEDINGS.

Stiff Breeze Blows Between Messrs. Breckinridge and Newman. Frankfort, Feb. The Senate session was dull and dev this morning. until the bill to incorporate the Cumberland Valley Improvement Company.

offered by Mr. Newman, came uD. Mr. Breckinridge thought the local title of the bill disguised a general measure in which a iob might lurk. His remarks brought on a sharo personal encounter between Himselt and Mr.

Newman. in which the honorable gentlemen indulged in some verv complimentary refezences to each other until Senator Smith. who occupied the chair. called them to: order. The bill was finally.

recommitted. The bill incorporating the Kentucky Dime Savings Bank of Louisville was passed. A bill was passed authorizing the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to sell. at their discretion. the four hundred and six shares of stock held by the Commonwealth in the Bank of Louisville.

and permitting them until such stock is sold to keep on deposit in said bank a sum equal to the par value of said stock. The act to incorporate the Kentucky Soldiers' Home wos passed. The bill to permit the wife to teslily in certain cases against her husband was passed by a vote of 24 to 7. with amendments by way of substitute. The effect is to allow wives to testify in all cases except as to confidential relations, The Peterman text-book was favorably reported, ordered printed and recommitted.

BANK LEGISLATION. The Governor sues a Supplemental Message to the General Assembly On This Subject. Frankfort, Feb. Gov. Buckner laid before both Houses to-day a supplemental message which made the Bank Committee prick up their ears.

The message is as follows: Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives, I desire to invite your attention to the character of the bank legisiation which is now being enacted, and which, it not remedied, is likely to result in financial disaster. do this the more readily because it is believed that the suggestions are in harmony with your own purposes to remedy the threatened evils. Judging from the features of the numerous bank charters that have reached the executive office it may be inferred tat every set of in-, ANCHORAGE INSPECTED. The Joint Legislative Committees Make a Thorough Examination of the Asylum. Good Order, Comfortable' Inmates and Thorongh Management Found to Exist There Anchorage, Feb.

-The Joint Senate and House Committee on Charitable Institutions ran down from Frankfort this morning to inspect and investigate the Central Kentucky Lunatie Asylum, Senator English, on a0- odunt of Senator Mulligan's absence, acted as chairman, and the other committeemen in attendance were Senators Reynolds and Huff, and Representatives Moore, Gardiner, Palin, McClanaban and Carpenter. No better day for the visit could be desired. Nature seemed at her winter's best, and the spacious grounds of the institution were covered with the bluest of grass and the greenest of shrubs. Dr. W.

J. Byrne, the Superintendent, met the committee at the depot. At the institution President William Hughes, Mr. S. L.

Gaar, Mr. S. J. Hobbs and Mr. A.

J. Herr, some of the commissioners, with Dr. E. H. Jones and Dr.

Moses Collins, took the visitors in charge. and the tour of inspection was at once commenced. The committee was first taken through the female wards. Those members who visited the Hopkinsville Asylum saw in it a model institution, one larger, but its inferior in nothing. The female wards were bright and clean.

Comfortable carpets lined the halls; draperies gave a homelike air to the wards; the beds were clean and warmly covered, and the showed the patients are well fed and cared for. The patiente in most instances are crowded together in small rooms, containing some times five and six beds. There was no difference in the female wards. All are models for a similar institution and thele. cleanliness and arrangement reflects much credit upon Miss Kate Ruhl, the efficient matron.

No difference is made iu the caring of the Good cases and violent cases are treated well. Up the committee saw every patient in the institution, and all united in declaring that they are warmly clad, well fed, and could not be treated kindlier. In the whole institution and among the 806 charges of the State, there was but lone in confinement, and that one nymphomaniac of tender years, who had bitten and lacerated terribly one of her ward companions. On this patient handcuffs, OF bracelets, as they are termed, were kept and she was unable to leave her chair. Cribs were visible, but none of them had occupants undergoing pun.

ishment or taming. In the male wards the patients were more crowded, and the great difficulty is, in the Superintendent's inability to classify the pa tients. Violent cases are in with the sensitive, milder ones, and this associa ton can but be harmful to the condition of the latter class. In the male wards nothing could be found for a most critical judge even to object against. The floors were" olean, the beds warm and comfortable, and the men well fed and clothed.

The wards are well ventilated and the sanitary arrangements not 86 be improved upon. Not single complaint was heard from one of the inmates. Until within the past few months tire Central Asylum was dreadfully overcrowded but recently the new building for the negraes has been completed, and this has made room for some other patients. The negro wards conand Ventilated, and the patiente so well cared for by the Demochitie administration of Demoeratio State that even the most rabid Republienn: dould find nothing. to cavil or complain of.

The committee visited every portion of the gigantio building, and from cellar to garret and from kitchen, to laundry the members think they have nothing to offer but praise. The institution needs nothing but small, appropriation for a ten-pin alley to exercise, the men in bad weather. The were very much pleased with the excellent showing made by Dr. Byrne and his assistants, and a number one report upon the institution surely be looked for. After the tour of inspection the committee listened to some of the neighbors who complain that the sowerage from the institution damages their lands and inconveniences their stock.

Then the committee had a look at the asylum accounts, and found them no less satisfactory than the grounds, the wards, and the buildings. The committee went back to Frankfort on the night traini The visit to Anchorage convinces the committee that another State asylum is absolutely needed for the milder class of patients, in order that proper classification can be made and greater good: results follow. Dr. Byrne, in speaking of the State's patients, said: A new pay Jum- ise the only way to solve the difficulty. The laws of justice and mercy demand that everything possible be done to benefit or restore shattered reason to these poor creatures, and this can not be done a6 long as they are indiscriminately thrown together in overcrowded wards.

Believing that the principal object of asylum treatment is the cure of its patients, I am not an advocate of either overcrowding or building caravansaries for holding great masses of the insane: consequently I have no appeals to make upon the propriety and necessity of enlarging the institution. Such establishments serve chiefly for the custodial care of the insane, where the work consists in providing for and ministering to the purely vegetative necessities of the number of its inmates. An institution of that character necessarily the medical officers, especially the Superintendent, to devote a correspondingly large business share of the time to the purely thus sadly interfering with the individfeatures if the institution: ualized care and treatment of patients." THE POLICY OF RUSSIA. She Will Never Permit the berment of France. In the Messager Russe, a review published in St.

Petersburg, there is an article upon the future policy of Russia, by Mr. Serge, de Tatishoff, the eminent historian and diplomatist. He declares, that Russia may remain indifferent to all the misunderstandings und difficulties of western Europe, but that there is one thing that the Empire is bound at all hazards to resist. and that is the dismemberment of France by Germany OF by the quadruple alliance. In opposing such an act, he saya, Russia would only be defending her own intereste, because a powerful France is, absulutely necessary as counter-balance to the German empire, which is at present supportd by the armies of Austro-Hungary and Italy and also sustained by the naval forces of Great Britain.

This was something that was well understood by the Emperor Alexander I. in 1814-15. and later still by Alexander IL. when in 1875 he would not permit Germany to invade France for the second time. before she could recover from her disasters and place herself once more on the defensive.

Let it be remembered that at the above named dates Russia was bound to the courts of Berlin and Vienna by treaty. while to day she is perfectly tree to mould her policy according to her own interests and needs. Germuns, nt the head of the so-called League of Peace, already dominates the whole of centrul Europe. Two great powers alone preserve their independence and hinder her domination from BIG WINGLESS BIRDS. Carions Story Concerning the Lost Moas For Which Scientists Have Been Searching.

A New Zealand Chief Describes a Battle At Which Scores of the Monsters Weze Destroyed. (San Francisco Examiner.) At a great gathering of the Maoris on the west coast of New Zealand some time ago, I was the guest of Te Rangihiwinui, a. celebrated fighting chief, at his pa, or village, called Patiki, on the Wangunni river. More than fifteen hundred Maoris had assembled there, and I had a rare opportunity of seeing them as they ate and of obtaining information on some very oncominon subjecta. The evening of my arrival my host proposed that we shonld pay a visit to Kawana Paipai, the patriarch of the tribe, said to he 110: years, old, who, I had been told, knew more about the antiquities of the islands than any other man living.

Kawana Palpal himself was evidently prepared to receive company. He wore the magnificent robe, made entirely of green and gold feathers ofithe woods pigeon and fashioned on his shoulder with a shark's tooth. His cloud of iron-gray hair was surmbunted by the precious -tipped plumes of the sacred huia, the sign of the chieftainship, and on his lap lay a superb battleAX of glittering green jade. His face; carved and deed in indigo blue in spiral lines over its whole surface, had the appearance of a frightful mask, through which the eyes glared rod and fierce and the sharp, white teeth gleamed wolfishy. He in had his indeed been a famous man-eater day, and as he sat there in the mysterious firelight, arrayed barbarous splendor, he looked more like a cruel pagan idol than human being.

Nothing, however, could be less savage than his behavior that evening. Upon 103 friend Te Raugibiwinui introducing me, the ratriarch stood up to give me welcome, and I then saw, to my utter astonishment, that he was six feet four or six feet five inches high and of of hereulean proportions. He greeted me cordially, and I soon found myself at tuy. ease, reclining on the sweet-smelling rushes, surrounded by smiling girls and roundfaced children, who could not taice their great bright eyes off the pakeha, the stranger, the friend of their chief, for a single moment. Our entrance appeared to have terrupted a discussion which was going on among the young men, and as 8000 66 the courtesies of our reception were over they resumed it.

I quickly discerned that it was upon subject in which I had long taken the profoundest interest, but had never before been able to get any light upon. The point at issue was this: The mon, the gigantic wingless bird of New Zealand, was most monstrous creature, standing twelve or fourteen feet high, on legs as thick as a camel's, with neck like a and long, slender, wiry fenthers, which made its cont more like coarse fur than plumage. So much is known about it, but beyond that all is mystery. The mos has never been taken alive since the -European pation of the island, fifty years ago. Solitary settlers in the remotest parts of the country, have from time to time reported being startled in the night by weird and fearful ery, so loud and shrill that its echo rang from crag to crag, until the sound was prolonged into the melancholy cadence of a 10g-horn.

They my that, rushing out of door, they have witnessed in the misty moonlight an object of almost incredible size, towering above the fern-brake and stalkthe ing away mountain into glens the with uncertain the vapors speed of race-horse. Dwellers in these awful solitudes, however, are subject to strange hallucinations, and the highest scientific authorities are of the opinion that the mon is extinet and has been so for many centuries. They found their belief mainly upon this: The Moors have maintained from time immemorial a priestly caste called tohunga, who lay claim to all the powers of prophecy and witchcraft, but whose proper business is to preserve the genealogies and annals of the tribes. A careful study of these curious oral records has established the fact that they embody the history of the people for about 800 years Yet, though they teem with allusions to every sort of natural object birds, beasts, fishes, insects, plants, flowers, fruitsthere is not a single reference in them to the moo, or to any creature answering to the description of the mOR in the slightest degree. It is held, therefore, to be certain that the most ancient tohunga that ever bequeathed a legend to posterity never saw oF heard of a moa.

On the other hand it is an obvious fact that at one time moss swarmed all over island and formed the chief diet of the inhabitants, whoever they were. Innumerable skeletons and bones of moas have been discovered of late an in places there are caves quite tuil them, the birds having evidently taken refuge there by hundreds from the pursuit of man or some other toe. Moreover, great collections of mos bones are often come upon which have undoubtedly been cooked in an oven, and with them are found the burnt stones which formed the oven, and rude weapons of the chase and sundry utensils of primitive cookery. Such are the two sides of the controversy as I had heard it waged in scientific circles and as the young chiets in Kawana Paipai's whare tersely and eloquently described it for my information before proceeding with their debate. It was clear to me from the speeches and from the signs of assent or dissent among the audience that the party who put their faith in the negative testimony of the Tobunga's records were at first in a large majority, but as the debate proceeded those who contended for the recent extinction of the mon--if, indeed, it were ever yet extinct -seemed to he gaining ground considerably and likely to sway the whole audience in the end.

A young warrior whose oratory and logical skiil were asserted with wonderful power in favor of the moa bones, and against the accuracy of the historical records, sat down amid tam altous applause, every one shouting: Kapis! Kanui Good I Very good Well done I thought the debate was at an end. Instead of that the best speech of the night was yet to come. Up to this point Kawana Paipai, the centenarian patriarch, whose memory went back more than 100 years, had never said a word or shown a sign of feeling on either side of the dis. cussion. Now, as soon as.

the Maoris had recovered from the immediate effect of the ghostly influence, he rose slowly to the full height of his mighty figure. Renching behind him he took from the reed-lined wall his taialin, a quarter staff of carved and polished wood, richly Inlaid with pearl sheil, seven or eight feet long. Leaning on this with his wonderful dignity and graceful pose he waved his hand in royal style for the assemblage, who had risen with him, to be seated, When all was quiet he held his taiaha out at arm length, just as a stump orator often holds a roll of paper, and began his discourse in a ringing voice: Oh, my children! You, the pakeha: You. Enoha te Bau, the tohunga! Listen to my words. You are young, but I ain old.

The land that you know is not, the land that I knew when I was young. All is changed. You can not even picture to yourselves what your own conn. try was like fifty years before you were born. The things that then were have passed away and have 110 longer any being.

When you talk about those times you talk without any brains. You know not what you are saying. It is all dark to you. It is not dark to me. I see it all when I look into the depths of my memory just as clearly 36.

Fou see the cliffs, the trees, the sky, when you -The Clerk take Thos There of look into the depths of a still pool I can not tell you all, but I can tell you some things. Listen to mg words: In those days, when I was a youth; we Maoris ha doo weapons or toois but what we made ourselves or wood or stone. We lived in our fortitled places on the hilltops, and never came down to the plains except for War or for the chase. All this open country that you see was covered with forests or with tussock grass, ferns, and shrubs twice as high as this whare. The fire never passed over it and the growth was so thick that no man could make his way through it.

Each tribe had their own tracks, known only to themselves, and when we went on aw ar expedition we used to cut new traoks. 60 that our enemies could not tell which way we wore coming from it by chance they had discovered our old ones. The rivers were much higher than they are now, and all the lower lands for hundreds of miles on both sides were often covered with water. Those forests and swamps were full of birds and animals that are quite unknown now, The Kaurehe, a great beast like a senl, only with four feet and a tail, was quite common then. It lived on eels and fish and only came out at night, and it could run on land or swim in water, as 1t pleased.

Then there were multitudes of birds without any wings, like Kiwis, but much bigger, much bigger, with long necks and thick legs. Some were 86. high As boy, and some were. as high as a man, tail manas big as I am. These were the mons you have been talking about to-night.

It made me laugh when I heard it said that the pakehas, the Earopeans, the wise men who write books, say there have been no moas alive for 800 years. The wise pakehns think they know everything because they have books and can rend and write. But there are -some things they know no more about than babes. They can not tell what this land was like was a young man any more than they can tell what the other side of the moon is like. I have Seen moas alive, hundreds of them, tens of hundreds of them.

I lave hunted them. I have been wounded by them. I have killed them. I have eaten them." The old chiler here paused to take breath and to refresh himself with a few whiffs from his pipe. During the inter.

val there was a rustling of tlax-mats and then a murmur of hurried conversation, questions, answers, exchimations, and here and there among the crowd a or improvised song droned not unmelodlously in a low key. At length the voices among knot of eager disputants at the far end of the whare rose above the general babble. Kawana Paipai shot a keen glance in that direction. What is the matter down there he esked, in a voice that silenced every. body in a moment.

What are you boys squabbling about We are not squabbling, father," replied a grand young stripling, jumping to his deet. W1 Kepi said you had not told ult Hows yow managed to catch the mons, 'and snidthe had better ask you himself if he was not satisfied. W1 Kepi never believes anybody, He judges others by himself." This sally was received with loud laughter, for the doubter evidently was not popular; but Kawana raised his taisha high in the air and every one hushed his neighbor to listen. We had no guns, no rifles, no horses, no swift dogs," the old chief said, repeating the very words of the Not even Kuri, the mongrel. Yet we knew how to catch and kill the mons.

We did not go out after the mons every day, a5 you boys go: out after pigs or eels, We made preparations for the bunt many days or months beforehand. We de cided which swamps we would drive the birds out of, and which valley we would chase them down, and often we arranged it so that they should be forced to take to the seashore and run along the sand for a whole day's journey. Then we made camps all along the line of the hunt, five or six miles apart, and hidden in the scrub above the valley. There we posted relays of young men, the strongest and swiftest runners in the tribe. We drove the moas out of the swamps with shouts and trumpets, and the smoke of fires, when the wind suited, mid, as soon as they took the direction we wanted, the first party of runners followed them, shouting and blowing horns.

We hind great wooden trumpets then that could be heard mile, and the moas used to run in terror from them. When once they began rushing in a herd down the valley it was ensy enough to keep them going. The second party of runners would be, waiting in their camp, watching, and, as soon as the birds ran past, they would come out of the sernb and drive them on toward the next camp, the first party. who were tired out, taking possession 02 their hiding-place, where food and water aud a good bed of fern were ready for them. So the birds were driven from camp to camp nntil they had run all day without stopping, and their feet were sore with running over stones and prickly plants, and their feathers were torn by the bushes and brambles.

At last they could run no longer. Then WAS the dangerous time, for they would turn on their pursuers and fight desperately with their great feet. They had three toes, hard like horse's hoot and nearly as big, but very sharp. A moa's foot ripped like a boar's tusks. bave scen a strong man killed by a with tooth his nine broken and his mend corn open.

Then they ran at you with their neck stretched out and pecked at yOUr eyes and face with beak as sharp and strong as a hatchet. When a dock of moas turned on us we used to take shelter in the scrub or climb up trees, and just keep them in sight until the parties who were cotning on behind us arrived. Then, when there was enough of us to surround the flock, we closed in on them and killed with our spears. Sometimes, at the end of long chase, they would lie down and die from exhaustion and hunger; but often they would fight to the last and wound everyone of us before we overcame them. A very big moa could seize a man with his beak and drag him along the ground and trample him to death if his comrades did not come soon to his rescue.

Ah, those were grand days! Those were grand days! Nothing like them now Here the old chief broke off his narrative, and hid his face in a fold of his in tribute to memory of his youth. Enoha te Ran, the tohunga, took advantage of the pause to rise in his corner and exclaim: A good story is a good story. Well told! Well told Under the guise of a compliment he sought to convey incredulity, Kawana Paipai dropped the feather robe from his face, glared at the tobunga for a moment, and then said contemptuously: My children, the best part of my story is that it is true. Let those who doubt carry me where I shall lead them, and not two hours' march from hence I will show you where we killed 100 moas and feasted for week at the ha. hunga, the funeral ceremony of the grandfather of Meta Kingi, that great warrior who is still amongst us.

We shall find the bones there. They will not lie In a moment all the young men sprang up shouting: It is a challenge! It is a challenge! It is agreed! We will carry Kawann Paipal to the place of the feast! Enoha te Rau shall be there to see." By general consent I accompanied the party who were to test the truth of Kawana Paipal's story. They consisted of four young giants, carrying the old chief on A light litter of manuka poles, interlaced with wild vines, followed by a cavalcade of horsemen, and men, women and children on foot numbering at least 100. After pleasant tramp of about nine miles, relieved by the choric songs, which the Moorie kept up unceasingiy, we came to a most peculiar mound, evidently the work of man, here the patriarch made us halt and descended from his litter. he said to the young men.

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The chief felt its weight and gave it to others to feel. When han Idled it I knew it must be a bind's bone for it was hollow and cellular, quite dis ferent from the bones of beast. The digging went on rapidly, great numbers of bones being taken out the pit and laid on the grass. There must have been a wagon-lead piled WE in heaps, when Kawana Paipai turned to Ehoha te Rau and said sternly: Are yon entistled Is this story well told; too? The tobunga put on a faraway look, but said nothing I selected for a memento of the scene a tibia, which was quite as much as I coble carry back to town. I have it still.

11 measured 3 feet 5 inches in length and 13 inches in circumference at the head. The bird it belonged to must have stood gully fifteen feet in height. Before we left the place of the feast determined to try and get some light on the only part of the question which re mained unsettled. Kawana Palpai," I said, a you have proved the truth of all you told us Jasi night. But can you explain why the tokungn, who must have known all about the moas and their hunters, never alluded to them in their genealogies or legends After a long silence the old chief said: Ask Enola te Ran, He is a tobunga.

He knows Enoha made such a grimace I thought he was going into a fit. His eyes were turned in their sockets so that nothing but the whites showed, and his tongue protended at least a couple of inches from his mouth. I gave an involuntary shudder, but renewed my question. The tobunga restored his visage with jerk to its original condition of ugli. ness, and in that weird, hollow, whistling voice of his recited waiste, or improvised stanza, which might be translated thus: 4 Lift not the vall from the face of the dead, Not raise up dangers that re can not see, For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

And what is dark to you is clear to Kawana Paipal shook his heed (and laughed, and 1 could not help feeling that I had come out of the encounter with the tohunga rather When we gos back to Pueild I asked my- friend Te it all meant, I was astonished to find him a Kawana Paipai shook his head and firm believer in the negative testimony of the priestly records. He sold, very little about the events of the morning, but I gathered that he thought we had been hoaxed. In scientifio cireles the problem of the mos bunters is held to be still unsolved. Mrs. Thurman' Role.

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