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tgrgfW3B5wJjMjt kxr res sigsxiiip Jbr i THE SUNDAY XZHROSTICnE JA1TUABY 26 1890 QTXAIMTJPE SHEET that one ever gives trouble to the man acemenC Their civility and devotion to the artists sre proverbial and it the stories of the greenroom are to be re lied upon more than one danetuebas notdisdained tbe homage of these muscular snitors At every new opera especially if It obtains a success it is the custom for these achimsts tor present flowers to tbe angers inedeading dancers and to the author and composer At the Opera as well as elsewnere fines are imposed by the bands on artists and visitors for certain reasons For ex ample Should you ever wish to closely inspect the mysteries of the et and wings take care not to pro nounce the word rope for if yon do yoi will quietly see before von a stage band bat in band requesting you to pay a fine In Pans theaters the word rope la strictly prohijitej ropes do sot exist even where they are as nu nitrous as on a sailing vessel they are always called cords in Pans Ma chtnists bare a slang nf their own and it is not an easy one to learn either as they give words a significance quite contrary to that ass gned them by the French dictionary Assay Hatsie TOJB PUPCHK PUCKA As Berisedflt Is Again the Baeeln 2iw Yorh liew York Sua The rrvival of popular interest in the polka as a fashionable diversion among merry makers who deftly tnp the light fantastic toe is one of the events of the present dancing season The dance has once more resumed its old time hold on the popular heart Dancing masters are vieing in th couitry in the eaort to introduce what they call popular varieties of the dance and Com Myers of music are flooding the market with new dance music set to polka time This rage for the dance has even crossed the ocean and Lon don newpspers chronicle as an interesting bit of social news that the fash iouabies are smiling aa oo the dance that was at the height of popu lanty there half a century ago The present sudden hkine for the dance is all the more remarkable con sidenng bow completely it went out of iashion some decades ago Its revrraf is credited to the Society of mencan Dancing Masters and the matters sav that the effort to restore it to popular Sty was first made fully six rears ago at an official gathering of the sac ety at tTrenors Hall There all the objections to the old form 01 polka were fully and Intellige tly discussed and the concla lion unanimously reached that if carefully divested of the wearying monot ony and tortuous strain of its original Style it could be revived into fresh TKjpulanty Thereupon the master pat their thinking caps on and evolved the pretty and varied Combination ol terpsichorean figures that now known as the polka The revived dance is really a merjrng of the ol I Bohemian heel and toe polka itli a side step glide that entirely reheves it from its former objectionable monotony It is the revised and beautified dance that lias struck the popular fan cvot London fashionables and that has obtained im ruenso favor in this country daring the present season One of the leaders of the Society of American Dancing Masters danced the sew polka at his academy on Broadway last Thursday before a Sn Rs porrinjtsjmshedisnof afUr SfSTSTTJissected it as It were step by step to explain its captivating details fully In its completene it was a five step divertissement danced in six eight time The brat part opened with a springy heel and toe introduction endng with a jettie which wai a gentle one two three stamping emphasis with the feet that was not a stamp at all but rather a gentle patting or caress of the door with the dancing pumps This first part the Proessor explained was merely the Bohemian polka of old days 1 he second part he said was the deightful modern innovation He danced it by lett ng one foot glide outward from the other with graceful cue twice and then repeated the jettie finale Everything about the movement as executed by his trained feet was distin tly apparent and pleas lng to the eye and in perfect rhythm with the music i ou see the Professor said with enthusiasm it is not hard to under stand why the polka is aga popular is it As darned to day there is a happy and pleasing vanetv in its movements a perfect sympathy with the music and an entire absence of the trying monotony that made the old palka a torture to the dancer Thus danced the polka must necessarily afford pleasure to the cultured dancer and secure a gratifying change from the altz It ought to oe danced every day Tbe polka and the waltz are now exmisite illustrations of the poetry of motion They are artistic refined and make idval recreations for the cultured It should be said that th Society of Dancing Masters tnat restore i toe polka to favor repudiate completely as nondescript and fraudulent the vane bes of Ive step combinations that are called special styles of polka The society danciag masters assert that there are no varieties of the rehabdi tated polka They say that it stands by itself exquisite alone incapable of further improvement The society dancing master talked entertainingly of the history of tbe polka and of its sudden decadence hen first introduced half a centuty and more ago the Spintei tune ol tbe polka he said took Loidon literally by storm The tune was whistled by men and boys everywhere and the dance itself was danced in the parks and in the streets by all who felt young enough for that sort of diver won The dancing master said that Mr Hart a famous master of London who arranged the figures of the first lancers ever danced aoroad told him that tbe polkas decline in popularity dated from the night of a great masted ball given by a laay ot quality me polka had been assign a place of honor as usual on the programmes but a number of lealous fashtonab es unable to secure invitations to the ball of the select 400 of that day con tared to get bold of tome tickets and sent some coarse brea men in nno clot ties to break up the ball These unrefined dancers entered upon the polka dancing irom the very start and stamped their feet so vigorously when thev came to the jett final of the polka that then clumsy bonteroosness fairly shook the house and made a discord that ternhed the gentler guests The lady of quality was so horoned at the discover that the polka could be thus vulgarized that she issued a social edict against tbe luckless dance that sealed its fata It was brushed from polite circles and sank rapidly in pub lic estimation Another reason assigned fof the de cadence of the po ta in the last fifteen or twenty years is that the walls being an easier and more graceful dance far less trying to the physkpe ol the dancer swiftiv crowded out the old fashioned polka The old form of polka the dancing master added differed radically in the method ot tbe execution ofita Bohemian figure from the poetic modernized polka It was clumsy and ungraceful As originally danced the eentlenieu used to stand in one spot when swinging bis partner and swung ner irom sua tosiaeinjt manner that so the modern masters aay did violence to a poetic conception of terpsichorean art and what veal worse shook the fair dancer in a distressing manner The American dancing masters assert with pride that they have no fear of the present popularity of the polka waning They aay it possesses like the waits too much intrinsic beauty and graceful design lose inciaim upon those who View dances with the eyes of an artist and execute them with the accompLshed knowledge of experts is the art hi ii Overheard in th Kitchen life What did yon wear last nlghl asked the celery A lovely mayonru ievreplifid the lettuce And you 1 never was so mortified in my life I want dressed at all And the beet Hushed i Go to the champagne cork thou tardy lover consider its nays and do iiewifnghueUon Leader SLEEPY EPHRiTA The Story of Its Rise and Decline HOSASTICISSI IN AMEBICA A Carious Sect of Solitaries in Penn ylyaaii Before tbe Berolution Written for the CBaoicicu In one of the northern interior town shins of Lancaster county Pa lies the litue village of Ephrata It is about fifteen miles from the thriving city of Lancaster and is reached by the Reading and Columbia Railroad In early times the Paxt tng road later known as the old Dowmngtown Ephrata and Uarnsourg turnpike passed through it Epl rata a sleepy old town to day was once a thriving active and busy hamet tbe home of a sect peculiar to this country whose members bare nearly all died out whose forms and ceremonies are mostly abandoned and whose lands have nearly all passed to others the remainder is in htigation In 1709 Alexander Mock founded a religious sect called Conkers also known as Tankers Dunkards Turn biers and German Baptists near Schwartzenau Germany He had many followers and bis society wai much persecuted in their vanous localities In 1715 twenty famlies owmg to the persecutions sought refuge in America and settled at Germantowc Oley bkippach Copestoga and Folk ners John Conral Biessel a native of Eberbach Germany embraced the views of Mock and in 1720 emigrated to this country lie was of command mg appearance well versed in Scripture a fluent speaker mystical in his utterances inclined to solitude and for veral yers after his arrival in this country lived as a recluse His studies and contemp atious lei him to adopt other views than those held by his brethren and in 172a he issued a small work setting forth his opinions These weft accepted by some of the brethren and in 1723 he endeavored to become one of tbe bishops of the society but in this effort he failed and in 1732 he settled on tbe banks of the Cocolico creek in Lancaster county now Ephrata and lived in a cave His followers soon found his retreat and lie was joined by Martin Brener and Samuel Uckeriine and soon after by Anra and Maria Etcher the two latter irom tbe Cones toga Church They were joined in 1811 by Israel and Gabnel Lckerline and In the next year by a large number from Oley btlppach and Coventry and all the congregation of Falkner Swamp who placed themselves under the spiritual guidance of biessel A church societv mi or ganized retaminst48 doctrines ffee Dunkers end adopting the seventh day of the week as their Sabbath Bsessel formed in 173o the society of the Solitary and urged upon his followers a life of celibacy and retirement He was invested with the title of 1 at her and assumed the moo astic name of Friedsam to which as added the rulfii Gottiecht to gether meaning Peaceable GoJngbt The Eckerimes were the business men of tbe sect and through them a large area of landed property was obtained on the banks ot Cocolico creek which was neid as commJ stock Un this land tbecoitununltyttledand named their place Laser meaning an encampment and subsequently changed the name to EphraU a Scripture name In the year 1710 there were in the cloisters thirty six single brethren and thirty five sisters and at one time in later years when the society was at tbe beght of its prosperity tbe whole con gregabon outside of the principal building but tbe immediate neigh borhood numbered aboat 300 There as an allotment of one quarter of ai acre to each person for garden purposes the fruit to be divided grass and produce ot orchards and meadows pronts of paper mill etc were to be expended in paying taxes and all the profits arising irom sales of produce to go into the common stock to be expended tor the aid and relief of such members as became sick aged or infirm The first building erected under tnis system was built in 173o on the hill named by Father Fnedaam Mount ion The budding was called Kedar and contained one principal room for religious worihip love feasts and the ceremony of washing of feet Besides these there were other rooms very small for the use of the bretnren and sisters those of the latter being in the upper story In 1733 a larger build ingcaded Zion was builton the same hill All he buildings then and later erected were covered on roofs and sides with shingles and remain so to this day A large building called 1enieL intended as a meeting house was built in 1740 and in 1715 the building Saron was erected as a dwelling house for married men and women who had voluntarily renounced their matrimonial vow the sexes to be kept separate in different parts of the houe Tne plan proved a failure as many of the Beii divorced couples reunited and returned to their previous homes Connected with Saron was a chapel and a com ta odious ball called SaoX for the boldng of love feasts Kedar the brst building erected was found insufficient for the uss of tbe brethren after a time and in 1743a larger building was erected for them and called Bethanla where the brethren resided From this time they were known as The Brethren at Beihama and the sisters The Sisterhood of Saron Connected with Bethanla was a meeting room with a gallery sulbaently large to accommodate the whole society for public worship It superseded Peniel and fn it the Saturday meetings were held dur mg ail the years of tbe prosperity of the society Around Betnania were erected smaller buildings among them being a schoolhouse printing office almonry bakery and other buildings while farther away on tbe tract was a grist mill saw mill fulling mill and oil null These nulla not only served the society but the people ot the surround ng country The bouses BethaB a and Saron though both large and three stones in height atfordea but rude accomoda tions tor the brethren ana sisters With ceilings barely seven feet in he ght passages so narrow that two persons could not pass each other in them with low and narrow doors swinging on wooden hinges and fatt ened by wooden latches wita celts hardlv btree enough to hold a cot each having only the light and ventilation atjoraea oy a smau winuow eiguteeu bv twentv fire inches in size and con taining only the most indispensable articles of furniture of the rudet da acriDtion these houses were anv thing but the abodes of luxury for loose wno resiuea in wem ia Bethanla tbe brothers slept oh wooden benches with wooden Mocks for pillows baron was but little better famished In each of these cells was an hour glass and the walls especially In baron were nearly covered wiui urge sheets of pacer on which were wntten in large ana elegantly executed Oer min text passages of Scripture and verses of onzinal ttoetry br father Fnedsam The walls of the meeting room the cniDeu aaa schoolroom were also covered with this ornamental work which was done by the sisters in tbe writing room which was set apart for that purfose The bisters Anasta sia Iphlgenia and Zenobia were re markauy skillful in this writing The dress adopted by Fnedsam for the brethren and sister of iphrata 1 was neirly the same as that ot the juapucuins ivcj wore oim bhu gown of white linen in summer and woolen in wiater Tne cowl of th sisters dufereds little from that of the brethren and as a matter ot course they wort the petticoat in place of the trousers but they wore tbe same kind of gown and the tont ensemble of the 4itts of both sexe was 9 nearly alike that the difference between brother and eister could hardlv be discovered at distance Both went barefooted except when tba weather was too cold Their food was of the plainest kind consisting aimosf entirely or oreaa vegetables and mush iso animal lood was used and even batter and cheese were discountenanced as being gross and unspintual in their nature and wnat was cerhans or neater lmcor tance injurious to the voice All their veraus jut communion aaa anauoK purposes their plates trays anel alt articles of table serree and their can dlesticks were made of wood by the nanus oi tne most stiirea among the oreinren When the soaetr first bezan thev bad few if anv beasts of burden and the plow was drawn by tbe brethren ranged in a long line on each side or the rope and even then the sisters often assisted in tne labor at that time Aa time passed on the society prospered and other industries than agriculture were begun and actively earned on One of the la ding industries and one by which the society is widest known was printing and publishing The fa mous pnn ting press used oy tne society at Kphrata was purchased in 1742 and Tirsi pat in operation 1143 and was usea irom tnat time by the society unul 1795 and by private individuals for thirty years longer and is now in possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia This press was probabtv the first set up in the fetate outside of Philadelphia and the typography both illuminated and plain with the elegant binding in board and brass of the books issued from the press are among the finest of the early iDecimens of nnntinr in the Minnies oi America Pnor to 1742 a number of books had been printed for Biessel and the so ciety by Benjamin Franklin ol Phila delph a and Christopher Saner of uermantown Tbe first pnnted by Fraaklmfor Biessel was entitled DivineDivine Melodies of Love and Praise The first issue from the press of fcauer was entitled Zon Hill of Incense or Mountains of Myrrh the volume being dedicated to Alt the solitary turtle doves that coo in the wild iiess Th firt book pnnted on the press oi Ephrata was for Brother Onesimue Lckeriinl in 174L Ue was deposed the next year and iather ne isam ordered that every copy oi his book pnnted the year before be burned The celebrated Conrad Weises was present at the auto de fe Tbe business increased to such an extent that a paper mill was necessary and on August i 1755 several acres of ground and a paper mill was donated to tne society oy John tson man ana his wife iorty three publications including Eckerlin that was burned are known to have been printed on this press wnue it was in the possession ol tbe Ephrata bociety copies of thirty eight of the different Ephrata publica tions are in the possession of Zahu of Lancaster City Pa aluable collections are also owned by Samuel Pennypacker Philadelphia and Professor Oswald biedensucker of tbe Universitvof Pennsylvania In these collections are also manuscripts and mus wntten br the bisters Zenobia and Anastasia that are marvels in wntina and illumination It is known that a large amount of money was pnnted on tbe old Ephrata press which was ordered by Congress hen in session at oric Pjl JiE l3 K77 G6io2ei Ba3traTn 6apf braith the county lieutenant sent men to the paper mill at Ephrata for paper to make cartridges for the Continental army They finding none at the mill searched the pnn tine office and discovering a great number of printed sheets of the Bible or Testa ment seized three waon loads of them and the sacred ammunition was soon afterwara fired into the lines of the British at Brandywme and German town Pnnone at Enh ata was continued after tne sale of tbe old press A small hymn book as issued in the year 195 by fcolombn Mayer In the early part of the century Joseph Bauman pnnted a number ot voinmes In 1712 singing schools were begun at Ephrata under tbe direction of Father Fnedsam who was himself a good singer as well as an excellent per former on the violin The music used was Beisseis own composing and was written on sheets by the sisters of Saron SI ore than 400 hvmns were thus copied in their great hymn book Zionitacher Weibzauchueel After a tune these pupils became noted for their hne performance which attracted many strangers to sit tbem avion after tbe close of the French ana Indian war comm ssioners were appointed by the English Government to visit Ephrata for the purpose of learning something of this peculiar Simmon upon visiting tne piace they were charmed with what they saw and heard particularly with the sweet singing of the sisters Some of the wntten music of Saron was sent by them as a present to tbe royal family who being greatly pleael with it sent in return a present inclosed in a box borne months after the box was received at Ephrata and pnrately opened by Father Fnedsam and Pnor Jalbez Peter Miller sod after examination the box with its contents was buried in a secret place and has never been resurrected In 1710 a babbath school was established under tbe leadership of Ludwig Hacker In 1750 a building was erected for its use It was one of the buildings used in the year 17i as a hospital for the wounded soltLers from the battle of Brandywme The first pnor of the brotherhood was Brother Onesimus Israel Ecker line who remained as such until 1745 when he was deposed for exceeding his authority in proposing to erect a tower and ordering a chime of bells from Europe without consulting the proper authorities Of the tower and bells the following is of interest Upon the arnval of the first bell the indignant communists startled alike at the unauthorized innovation upon their plain ways and at the inordinate extravagance Of their presumptuojs pnor at first resolved to break the bell to meces and bury the fragments but upon more mature reflection and by the advice of the more practical Biessel they agreed to sell it Peter Miller came to America in 1730 and soon after became pastor of a Reformed congregation in Tulpe hockea and after a lew years became an arjostle of Biessel casting his lot with the brotherhood where he as sumed tbe monastic name as Brother Jabez He was a classical scho ar and a good theologian and became widely known among scholars and leading men upon tne retirement oi Pnor Bckerlme in 1745 Peter Miller wis appointed to succeed him as pnor which position be held unul 1763 when Conrad Biessel died after forty years of leadership Peter Miller succeeded to the charge of the brother hoocLand although it has been generally admitted that in education and natural talent be was much the superior of Biessel yet from this time the so ciety steaoiiy uecuueu in uecaoence was not however the result so much of the change of leadership but of other causes one of the principal ot wmen was tne lacs tnat tne time i passed when institutions like it co id grow and liouruh tn America All of its history that is of much in terest closes with the close of tbe Bevo iution It continued a few years longer with something Of its original forma but at tbe end of a quarter of a century it had ceased to be more than a reminder of the prosperous community that Father Fnedsam had held in charge years before To insure the support of the inmates of the monastery dorms the remainder of their lives and to legally bold the property of the community a memorial was presented to the Pennsylvania Legislature setting forth the facts and asking for an act of incorporation An act was passed February 21 1814 incorporating The Genuaa Betigious boaety of Seventh Dav Baptists of Ephrata and appointing seven men as trustees Trus tees were cuosen uum urns to uine but about 1875 disputes arose the society was divided into two factions each claiming to be the legal one two boards of trustees were chosen and the case came before the courts One ot the remain lnr male members if 83 years ot ace and the last sister died In 18SD aged 83 rears In any event the property belonging to the society founded by Biessel la 1732 wilt be swept away by court costs and fees as tbe contest is bitter and is carried I from court to court The case taifma decided in favor of one faction out has been taken to the Snbreroe Court and it is only a question of time when 1 tne once famous society will be wiped out and its property passed to others AcsTta Husgemoed A NEW TELEPHONE Ow More CoatrtTBBce for Trans mitting Sound A new mechanical telephone of extra ordinary power has recently been ex citing considerable attention in London A correspondent of Xatprt describes it asiouows It is of American onzm like so many other modern improvements of exceptional character being the Inven tion oi one Lemuel ilellet 1 believe ol Boston There have been many previous mechanical telephones as your readers are aware some of which have obtained much publicity for a short time and then bare been heard of but little more but having had opportunities ot experimenting frequently with the pew instrument and observing its vocal power so to speak under Tery vanous circumstances I cannot douot it has a great future before it It may be clearly stated at once that the pulsion instrument is absolutely independent of all electrical aids and appliances and therefore needs neither battery power to bring it into play nor insulation of any of its parts to keep them effective It consists solely of two cheap and simple instruments connected by an ordinary non insulated wire of copper or better still of a double steel wire the two parts being slightly intertwisted say with about a single turn in a coupe of feet The wire or wires is simply looped to the instrument at either end the connection being made in a lew seconds The instrument consists of a disk in combination with a series of sn ali spiral springs inclosed in a case of some three or four inches in diameter These springs arranged in a manner that has been determined by expenment and so as to produce harmonized vibrations appear to possess the power of magnifying or accumulating upon the wire the vibrations which the voice sets up in the disk and the wire seems to possess on doubtedly does possess the power of transmitting to great distances and giving out upon a second pulsion instrument the sounds of the voice The ability of this smple system of spnngs disks and wires to convey conversational and other sounds to considerable distances with great clear pess reproducing the very tohes of the voice and the qualities of musical sounds with but little reduction or modification is most surprising and to none more so than to the many men of science who have been recently experimenting with it Tbe wnter of this notice cannot perhaps do better than state his own experiences with this system After examining and experimenting over several short lengths ot wire some of them exceeding a mile and a half he last week went to the Fmch leypLOad station of the Midland Hallway from a point near to Waich a line had been conveyed to near the Welsh Harp station a distance of three miles by tbe line of railway and ot more by the track of the wire which for the larger part was earned by the tele grapa pasts to wmen it was attacbea by very simple means Conversation through this length of line for over three miles was exceedingly easy In deed so powerfully was the Tacsl transmitted tnat an ordinary hat sui ficed for all the purposes of the second instrument without going near to which conversation was earned on repeatedly by means of the hats of three gentlemen who were present the tops of which were merely placed against tne teiepnone wire I then went into the garden of the Welsh Harp where a short length of wire had been led between two points the wire on its way from one point to theolher being twice tightly twisted at an interval of some jards round small branches of trees of about one inch diameter being wound round ana rouna tne branch three times in each case Strange to say this light twisting of the wire round the branches in no way Interferes with tbe transmission of the voice from end to end of the wire A third and last experiment was made with a wire laid obliquely across the Welsh Harp lake and allowed to sink and rest upon the lake bottom The length of tbe hne was roughly estimated at about one thud ot a mile and from end to end excepting a few yards at each end where the wire was led from the waters edge to tne telephone box the wire was com pletely immersed and without any other support than the bottom ot the lake offered it Yet notwithstanding this immersion of the whore wire conversation was earned on through it by means of the pulsion instruments without tbe feast difficulty In fact the oice came through the immersed wire and the longest wire of over three miles previously mentioned with greater punty and mellowness than through shorter lengths I must leave to pihers to ex plain and if necessary to discover the scientific grounds of the success of this extraordinary littie instrument Looking however at its practicat capabili ties as exemplified above it is not surprising that postoffice police rail vay and other commercial people are already overwhelming with applies tions those who are arranging to supply the new telephone which from its extreme simplicity is manifestly a cheap one THE hETV FORTH BRIDGE The Great Structure Considered From an Artistie Standpoint Engineering News In a recent lecture before the Library Institution of Edinburgh Benjamin Baker considered tbe design ot the iorth bndge from an esthetic point of view He said it was useless to criticise the design on paper because the mental emotion arising Jrom its enor mous size was absent The great pyramids would be justly regarded with contempt if no larger than a ta stack Aristotle was quoted as holding that rovided the whole object was visib as siren great magnitude was in itself an object of beauty and Socrates thought that no object was In itself inherently beautiful but that the attribute depended upon the impression made upon tbe percipient mind According to these views in considering the beauty or ugliness of tbe Forth bridge the question of size must be regarded and still more tbe diiier ent parts of the structure and the functions they have to perform Mr Baker acknowleged that Jr Morris apparently thought otherwise when be Said at a recent art congress that there would never be architecture in iron every improvementin machinery being uglier and ugUer until they reach that supremest specimen ot ugliness the Fonh bndge Mr Baker did not believe that Mr Morris had the faintest knowledge of the duties the great structure bad to perform and thus be could not judge ot the impression it makes upon the mind of one who ha this knowledge and can appreciate the direction of the lines of stress and tne fitness of the several members to resist this force It is impossible for any one to Judge of tne beauty ot an object Without enow lng its functions The marble columns of the Parthenon are beautiful where they are but If one of these columns was bored and used as a funnel for aa Atlantic liner it would cease ta be beautiful said Mr Baker though of course Mr Morns may think otherwise In retard to the suggestion of artistic friends that the arches should have been true curves the speaker said that to make them so would have been a structural lie The Forth bridged not an arch and it says so lor itself and a curve would have been as much out of place aa bent columns in an architectural facade or a beam tricked out to look like an arch Mr Hater said that Sir John Fowler i and himseif did carefully study the esthetical siaeot tne design ana as tne arched form was admittedly the most sracetulrit was adopted aa near fas could be done without intro ducing false construction or shams All ornamentation was carefully avoided as futile in such massive members The leading lines of the structure are emphasized by a great batter etcso as to express at once then strength and stability Evergreen trees are the dudes of tbe forest Thev make the sprueest boughs EovuSntwi DILLOxNS WAR CLADL Its Growth With the Lapse of Time A SEQUEL OF THE EEBELLI0X Tbe Human Crew of tbe Yacht Wanderer SlaTes Thrown Overboard Written for the Csaoxicts David Dillon was an early persistent and not unsuccessful claimant asalnst the Government He owned the steamer Amazon plying upon the Savannah nrer between Augusta and Savannah and was in command of her when Sherman captured the latter city Besides during the war Dillon was running a general store in Savannah and which during bis absence On the Amazon was in charge of John Brown then his slave This slave was Dillons right hand man and In Dillons presence testified that there were in tbe store three hogsheads of bacon seven barrels of lard twelve casks of rice fifty boxes of soap fifty boxes of candles fifty barrels of molasses thirteen hogsheads of sugar on the third floor and six hogsheads on the fourth floor and three cases of shoes In the confusion attending the capture Of Savannah by General Sherman In December 1864 it is very probable that much of these gracenes was taken possession of by citizens who knew they were there or most likely by Confederate soldiers The Federal authorities got any bal ance remaining John Brown testified that the store was broken into and plundered by a mob the night before Sherman entered Savannah The Amazon and one other steamboat name not known were budt and furnished in few York before the war for the Savannah nver traie Sitting beside one as I write is the old gentleman Francis Moore as superintendent for Ben hewhouse then in business in New York who having a large trade South iurnisbed these twin Teasels It was not guessed then to what traitorous uses thework of loyal hands might come But the United States navy took possession of the Amazon and floated lovat colors from her flagstaff as soon as the Savannah dock was in Federal possession Within a few months every foot of soil was ours and the cruel war was over Then Dillon prosecuted the rovern ment for the value of the Amazon in the Courtof Admiralty at Phiiadel pha If 1 am not mistaken General Butler was his attorney and won the case for him Of course Mr Dillon proved his loyalty before this court but the Confederate archives hid not then furnished receipts from the Con federate Governmentsigned by Dhlon I for the folio UL ESS February zmar oswr ittarch 2M Slay lfoh TM10 May 30th 32o5 Juns 1st 10i0 June 28 o620 July 23th 2S0330235paid him at these dates in 1861 for the use of the Amazon Emboldened by bis success Dillon presented tbe Commissary Department with a claim for 30613 67 This was in October 1867 The items which Brown testified were in the store shortly before Sherman came had grown to 131 casks of nee 131 rice casks charging for the nee and the packages containing it separately 60 hogsheads of suear 130 barrels molasses 200 boxes of soap and 150 boxes of Candles This claim was pending before the Commissary Department March 3 1871 when the orzanization of the Southern Ctamis Commission reinoveu iui claims lor property taken and used by the army or navy from the Commissary and Quartermaster departments ana the Court of Claims to the jurisdiction of this commission It may be reasonably surmised that this 30615 CT represented all that Mr Dillon could postbly remember against the United States authontities at the time the claim was filed Four months after this commission began work or July 20 1871 he remembered other articles and filed claim ISO 523o for 1 72000 fceptember 23 1371 he overhauled his memorandum of tbe store business added 325 barrels of flour 40000 pounds of bacon hfty barrels of flour ten barrels of lard oil 15000 pairs of Bussian half boots and made the account aggregate 7o015 67 as it appeared in the sworn to claim No 7451 filed that day But I have now to do with claim 5235 for 272000 This was composed of but two items 120000 bushels of rough nee and 100000 pounds oi fodder As this was almost exclusively commissary stores it would appear surprising that Mr Dillon neglected to include it his account filed in October 1867 But the most wonderful fact connected with claims held by our vtitbern fellow citizens against the Federal Treasury is that the farther away from the date a claim onzinates the better and more elaborate becomes tbe memory of the claimant In mak mg up an account two years after the war closed it was easy to forget an item of 272000 which would be fresh in the memory four years later When Mr Dillon came to prove his claim it was necessary to tell how when and where he became the owner oi this nee and fodder He testified that he purchased the nee of John Tucker on November 20 18b4 for 750 000 that the nee was on the plantation of Tucker ten miles from Savannah that he paid 550000 in Confederate money and Tucker owed him the rest that the rice was left on Tucker plantation and was taken by the atmy after December 10 1S64 ihe only evidence of the taking or the trade was the testimony of Dillon and Tucker and a copy of an alleged bill of sale Tucker testified Every kernel of nee was taken awav by tbe army not less than 140000 to 150000 bushels He was asked You were cot there when the army train came for the rice I was They came the first day and took large quantities of it the Tery first day Tucker had already sworn that he left bis plantation and went to Savsnnah on Christmas day and remained there till summerseveral months Colonel McDonald received an order to go with a wagon train for the ncedated December 23th and started nextfflorning Tucker had sworn that tbe army reached his plantation on Saturday December lOLhr that on Sunday he disappeared was not visible was hid in a ranne on the island till the 14th and was then taken prisoner and carded to a Michigan regiment for three days and Irom thefice to blocums headquarters until the 19th when he was allowed to return to his plantation where he stayed till the 25th The house barn mill and six of eighteen ricks of nee were burned between the Sunday Tucker left and the 30ih of December wheu the army tram came The ricks would average Irom 900 to 1000 bushels ot rough rice As a wagon could not possisly carry more than twenty bushels of nee in the straw the absurdity of supposing that any such amount as claimed could hare been taken is apparent If Tucker and Dillon could be believed Tucker bad 5o0000 la Confederate money when the army reached bis plantation December lOihv He said a lieutenant took 15000 in cold from his bersoa bnt he never tola what became of his stack of bills But however fraudulent a claim might appear in the main it aeemed to be the policy of tbe Commissioners of Claims to be certain there was no wheat among the chaff before rejecting It Then claims of Dillon were con tested for years and were about as thoroughly investigated by special agents as any that came before the commission It was early determined that very little rice was taken from the Tucker plantation and what little there was belonged to Tucker and that its ownership by Dillon was never conceived of until after be had gained bis steamboat smL This necessitated a pretty thorough inquiry into who John Tucker was and whatweso bis antecedents Going back to 1857 on a stormy night Li that year party of four were assembled is a sailors boarding house on Bay street bavan Jfiah Apparently there was nothing unusual in tbe party or the manner in which it was pleased to pass the tune Ostensibly they were engaged in a friendly game of cards which progressed without noise until one of the party was declared winner Immediately thereafter three Pistol shots quickly discharged followed by a fourth a few moments later attracted a policeman who was sheltered under aa awning a few doors away Springing his rattle be was quickly reinforced by other policemen and entrance to the room was effected The party of four were all there but on of them was already dead The party bad been composed of the captain and three mates of tbe yacht Wanderer lately from Cuba It was proved that tbe dead man was one of tbe mates who had fired three shots at the captain without any preliminary quarrel and without Luting bint The captain fired one shot killing his assailant instantly It was a clear case of self defense and tbe three prisoners were honorably discharged Tbe real causes of tbe difficulty leaked out afterward and became pretty generally known Ihe Wanderer bad brought a cargo of negroes from Africa to Cuba where they were sold One half tbe money received was given to tbe crew in Cuba and they were then discharged Tbe other half of the money was to be divided between the captain and three mates tne captain claiming two shares One mate insisted that there should be but four eaual shares of which each officer should take one The dispute had not been settled on the arrival in savannah It was of pnme necessity that the matter should be settled amicably and to this end the game of cards was proposed The captain wan and the mate undertook to change the verdict by means of assissnation dying la the attempt as detailed above The profits of the tnp had been enormous and the risks correspondingly small The cupidity of John Tucker A Lamar and other wealthy Georgians was completely enlistei by the success which had attended the venture and the yacht anderer Captain Famum cleared from Charleston reputedly for a pleasure excursion to the coast of Afnca but fact for a cargo of negroes to be delivered Cuba or on the coast near Savannah as circumstances might decide There were then on the coast of Afnca a number of Vigilant American and Bnt uh war vessels on the lookout for slavers The officers ot the anderer displayed such shrewdness as to completely hoodwink those watching ber movements and took on board between SX and 800 Africans more than four times as many as could be comfortably accommodated by her She sailed for Jeckelis island on the coast of Georgia arnvmg the re hovem ber 29 1858 Largs numbers of Africans were chained on deck and yet the mortality among them was unusually large because of tbe crowded condition of the Tessel and the want of usual necessities Between Cuba and Jeckell island a vessel was sighted which was believed to be in chase of her by tbe officers of the Wanderer Hurriedly as many negroes as could be forced between the hatches were crowded below and weights wert fastened to those remaining and they were heaved overboard The exact number thus massacred la not known but the yacht reached ber destination with less than 600 of those she started with There she was met by the tug Lamar having on board JohnP fucker OA Lamar Du Bignon und Trowbridge The negroes were generally naked and none of them fuQy clothed Thev ere landed in four gangs One of 16 was in charge of Tucker and moved across country to his plantation known as the Drakee plantation nine miles above bavannah The Others were moved into the country and sold for the benefit ot Lamar Du Bignon and other investors in the enterpnse As stated nearly 500 negroes were landed from the yacht ande er in free America in the year 1858 jn violation of law to say nothingof human lty The outrage was of public noto riety in the city of bavannah and of do utue note throughout the United States Yet but three of the negroes ever reached the hands ot the United States authonf es Two of these were taken from jail on a writ of habeas corpus tned before a Justice of tbe Peace named A Staley and turned over tou jiu jLatnar as his property his claim to which was attested by the oath of John Tucker Indictments for piracy for holding and abetting the holding of African slaves and for rescuing Far num a prisoner ol the United States were found against Tucker Lamar and others by a United States Grand Jury may zy low a united states Judge who waa father In law to A Lamar ordered the cases not pressed against Lamar It Aitken John Tucker Mott and A Brown indicted for holding and abetting in holding African slaves All were guilty no one was punished The wax came very soon and not one day too soon if tbe last was to be seen of such hornbie outrages upon the rights of human beings The war closed and the villainy of slave taking or piracy as it was known to international law gave place to crime a modified torm as detailed in the records attending tbe contest of claim 5235 and which can be found accompanying the report of the Commissioners of Claims to Congress filed away at the rational capitoL Avaar STILL ON THE GO Looking for a State Where One Can Live Without Bard Work Youth a Companion A gentleman riding on horseback over the Western praines met a dtlapi dated praine sehooner drawn by a pair ol bony and hollow eyed oxen A ragged uncouth man and a woman of equally unattractive appearance with a fretful ond untidy baby her arms occupied the front seat while the rear part of the wagon did not seem to contain anything but ragged children of all sees and sizes The man brought tbe oxert to a standstill and thus accosted the traveler Got any terbacker mister 44 No 1 neVer use it ou dont Well I wonder bow in creation a feller kin git along thout terbacker Are you travilm or jkt going somewhar Ihe traveler not unwilling to have a little conversation With this queer specimen of humanity had reined in his horse and said I am going to the next town Where are you bound Well I dont zactlj knows Just Where we will settle down hered you come from From Kansas Hows times out there Very good Any chance for a feller to make a living Ob yes penty of chauets What at asked the man eagerly At hard work This reply evidently dampened the man ardor Some kin stand bard work he said and soma cant I dont lieve in a feller malun a slave of hisself Thatg why I left Ioway and Ohio and Minor hat do you want to do for a Lying WTelL I dont sadly know And youve no idea where you will locate Jo dunno as 1 her but Im willing to stop in anyplace where times is good an I kin git along lie is probably wandering still be and bis family adding to that great and widely scattered arrarof people who Eever git along ta any coon Social Lines ta Holyoke Springfield SepuhJcan The Holyoke Blue Book or social director has lust made its armear ance Instead of usinu mysterious stars and daggers for distinctions these active in society matters are arranged is one chapter and those families in good jtaading whose men members do not make odmary calls in full evening dress come under a special list Then there is a chapter devoted to people prominent only among Boman Catholic circles There la a list of the social clubs ia the Paper City and of course a chapter on what is meant by society The names instead of alphabetical arrangements are out under the streets and thus prominence is ia Urectiy laid on locality YALlTABLE STOCK Bank Shares at a Great Premium CAUSE OF THE BIG PJBICES Four Thonsand Fire Hundred Dollar for Paper of 100 Tar Tallies Every sow and then there Is an announcement in the newspapers of the sale of a few shares of tbe Chemical Bank stock In tbe last three years there bave been about half dozen of these sales and they have been Of especial interest to very neb men always on the alert to invest their surplus wealth says the ew iork Suik To tbe poor man even if he glances at the announcements of the sales and the pnce3 realized for the stock of the bank they are of no particular interest except to inoculate bis fancy with the bossibilitv that at soma time in the diin future betoo may be able to be a member among tbe owners of Chemical stock Three years ago the shares of the bank sold in the neighborhood ef 3000 a share A few days ago ten shares were sold at auction on the Heal Estate Exchange for 4500 a share Etarting first with the statement that the shares have a par value of 100 each just as most other banking and railroad secu nties have why is it that people pay 4560 tor a piece of lithographed paper which says on its face that it is worth only i0or In the words of a man with some cash himself after reading of the sale of ten shares at 4560 a share Is this not altogether a fancy price or perhaps a fashionable price for tbe stock If so why will people pay so much for it Is ft because they think it is smart to own a little and they like to tell their friends that they do If not a fancy pnee tell me why it is worth so much is it because of tbe big surplus or because of the dividends or whatr This is a ureltv rood line of Ques tions and yet it is a marvelously in 1 wresting tact mat every one oi tnem conveys by inference the correct explanation of the causes for the high pnee for the shares it is true that if there is any fashion financial circles it is considered the correct thing to own a few shares of Chemical stock Well known and veracious authorities are responsible for this statement as they also are for the additional one that many men like to die with ten shares or so of Chemical in their strong box Tbe shares are lithographed on no better paper than that used for the shares of other banks The Chemcal buildlnar on Broad way is a modest structure Vy tne wouaanos wno pass it eery aay comparatively few know that itIs there bave for the occasional nouncetnent of a sale oi ft i4 shares of the stoclrMu heard of the bank The officers of the bank seem also to carry the modesty or to speak more properly in a financial sense the conservatism of the institution into their daily lives On a snap guess not 10 per cent of the members of the New York Stock Exchange oonid tell the name of the president and possibly not half of that number could tell that the administration of the banks affairs is conducted by but fa ve directors Yet when financiers know that a few shares ot the banks stock are advertised for sale tbey flock to the scene and bid with alacrity and vigor It should be explained that these sales only occur when the affairs of the aforesaid man who wanted ta die with a few shares of the stock in his strong box are In tbe process of ettlement by the executors of the will or the heirs themselves There are only SOOQof tbe shares which at a par Value of U30 a share make the camtaL stock of the bank 300000 The shares are held by old New York families Yet with its small capital stock the last report of the banks olbciais to the proper authorities shows that is round numbers it has 31124700 in its possession This vast amount is made up of the surplus or undivided profits amounting to 3058 000 the capital stock of 300 000 and the deposits of patrons amounting to 24768 TOOL As the bank is required by the national Banking act to keep in its vaults 23 per cent ol its deposits the total available funds of the bank are 24832525 This vast amount in rarcels is lent to bank ers brokers merchants and manufac turers on sound collateral it is turned over and over many times year and at ail sorts of ratea of Interest This is done so successfully that the bank now pays out in dividends 450000 a au iu per cent pay ments every two months or a total oi 150 per cent a year This of course on the par value of the stock and thus it is clearly demonstrated that on tbe ten shares which were sold the other dar at S4500 a share and which cost the purchaser ana wmen represent a par value of 1000 the annual income is 1500 The problem as to the net Income oa the actual value of the stock at 1500 a share is then easily demonstrated to be about 329 per cent a year Daily Chronicle Three MonM MISCELLANEOUS What Is rJ OAiTOii i nnr MISCEILASEOUS PMiMSI sn A 30 Cook Stcr COAJL BTTKLnTEIB WITH THE OR Weekly Chronicle One lea For 1450 The Premlnni Cook Stoves tit jnumfactored expressly fir aJf rf sUjing Indoors after a day or the largest and oldest Stove Manufacturer in the United SufUjjJJi ad faced the storm to go to the that hw hii an experience ot 52 jean standing in the btumeu ATnjM Iili ft 32 I jnrSSVij The theatrical season all ore i TJmte States has beett so far al the worst ever known ihe cai all over seems to have naa the 1 and the public have kept themselvl home In Caniorni we nave SBrtle peHs ol rainy season every but as a rule people nave grown 1450 Coal Cook Stove Inckdinjj in EXTRA FIRE BACK THlM JOINTS PIPE and AN ELBOW for each Stove TLeie Stoveifcl advantages that no other stoves possess The PREMIUM I TOrff tiiif la I jm I II Iff vl te3L IS 1 SCjh 111 OUB GOAL COOK Uacriptioa of Coal Cook for aay kijidof Coal Special Feafe Aoai measurement ei oven 1 targe hopper ieed door Hot DuApini and shaklng grata Oat top plate allows forexpaiu 8 of hole 1 Inch griddles Actual measurement of oven bottom 16x16 laches Hot blast draft is front door wis hearth 2 ss and cnnt iftion anA tlmt aL poVaA andwarDisS Support under lone center to tee It from PATEKT FOOT LEVERS TO OP2N OVZS DOOBS a treat convenience In ot tiSvl HI btaas or sprite open when the lwi Lane bailed lift out ash tan ivers ana centers Tin Ifned oven floors IWVT Horlsoi neoeesarr Smooth caetlnrs and sclendidlr zaetuitad Ntckel Towel bar Kickel trtoiolaea oa orea door wuti tne medaffiorj 81mpl la construction Operation perfect 1 covers and centers Tin lined oven doors alt openings In front and back are plates provide the additional fcs for tbe proper combustion of fine coaL Every Stove is warranted to us to be as represented and to perfectly All Stoves will be shipped by us direct from San Fnncac Purchaser pays freight charges from San Francisco If you ot rs neighbor want the best Stove for the least money Send 1450 and Get THE CBRONiaE PKEJ1II COOK Sll AND THE DAILY CHBONICLE THEEE MOOT OR WEEKLY CHE0NICLE ONE YEAR HiBisfiielest StaT Era QScrti far Haer It Will Sits Perfetf Address all orders de YOUNG Proprietor San Tranclaoo Chronicle SAN FRANCISCO CAI Weekly Castoria is Dr Samuel Pitcher prescription ior Infants and Children It contains neither Opium Morphine nor other Narcotic substance It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric Drops Infant Syrups and Castor OiL It Pleasant Its guarantee is thirty years use by Millions of Mothers Castoria kills Worms Castoria the Childrens Panacea the Mothers Friend Castoria Castoria cures Colic ConstipaUoi Soar Stomach Diarrhea Eructation Gires healthy sleep and promote digestion Without injurious medieatidx Castoria Castoria is so well adapts fc children that I recommend itai superior to anj prescription knovu to me ABCHEElLDt 111 So Oxford St Brooklyn 5 122 EOE A 75 High Arm Sewing Machine and iihrnsiiRlA THE SAN ERANQM CBEBOISriOLll Perfect anil Improied ia SEWING MACHEi This Xschlne Is th flaett ot ever ofirl to public al fstfarrtfW and oannot be boaibt from Scti thn tbe ntular tlllM rriw 7 i OU Ul 7Hir nuias Fnwt Jr5 1 EwSU It is a nelitW lii tnaeBlae aceomcaaled Mr ua UOSI uh ac so elala sod ilmpn uii Ja can mister It KOMOU tar This Tear the weather has not only tonpleasant bat absolute pressing depressing in such avrsy I It has saMaed eTea the capacitji enjojlng aaythsng It baa beerJ i unfortunate season la one way game consolation off ring in anotl fit lias kept a great manr rcechal pand laborers in forced idleness Tireveated their niakin wastes the other hand It has stopped a manr Teopie from spend ng mo and the enforced ecoaoy vnli its advantage when the weather cl nn But in the mean time It 1 im sible to count now much it has cos theaters although the local mans will not lose much any mo The wonts thev would hare Vould have added largely tor their I accounts It Is said that only three attrsctl are making any great amonni money in the East Tnere is nots harder in the business even a i uhoasdntr lies in eoine to the aters every night than to tell ho theater is doing unless tne seats empty There are so many trick the trade that managers workthatt deceive one another Isper made use of so deftly that one cacl tell that the audience are mainly dd heads There was one star playeJ San irancisco a year or two ajo I receipts were set down at 1200 a nld The house was crowded and the a 1 enpes seemed gnuln The books the theater showed those Hearts the manager of the concern had rerl the theater and he had a Utile Bate I cojiz to the box office cettuie tickets and putting In his note for doner net became ot the tid noboay but himself ever knew xt that tney were osex mere nave some managers who were willing tell the truth but newspaper men so much in tbe haoit ot uniting ded tions from theater statements the does a manager sometimes a sen injustice if he gives the teal facts publication ibm a managjer I180J we know that it may ue hot not over and when he Is her and savs 500 it is ttromptlv redu to C0O unuer tbe usual rule Tber a Iran knees snout managers wnen show is a good way off on its back ait on tbe subject 01 its ness But whileltisplajingjons Hot expect that he will not make best ot it it is buuiess but it ma Jadmentrpl results very difficult 8 Arents are not verv reliable In i statements Nobody lies so earne sncf faitftfollEM We advance act MThe lovaltv ol the subiect to the ha tbfcciu2ento the republic th po Sg leal nireling to tne Doss is ss noun Compre4 to the loyalty of an adva EF errant to bis show Once In awhile ttrrtifn hfl hi ahimefullv abus Uat he is always ready ne compa is always much better than It was the nertormancei is mcch imtmvJ A few years ago a well known opera manager was resident in etntrs Cisco and be turned an honest doll by looking after the interest ot wander nz prima donna who hanser to come here Ue was very fnen with the sewscancr men of cou and eare them lots of useful inlon tion about peeple he was not tnt estea in generally lust ana ira t5 I There was a rnma donna antrotiv to sine nere cue naa lust come ir Europe A entio ssked the vols impresario about iter zae cas oeen a grcc army sua cut sne is past lier voiet i worn and she is not a great aifij I cow The nrima donna arrived and riixsk luiug sue oiu yiza cugBgc to look after her business interests came to inform tne critic and bro i smile came oyer both the faces Ah be said know know bnt well you help beraii you ca cue is not so very oao Then eetm however on exan tlan to be a chance of matin moni la any theater run on business print pies and witn careful attention to tl attraction As a rule biz risks takJ witn clear Judgment and luanag Tropeny pay nanasomeiy laxe beys oreamzauons When Abbe i into opera In htit York without a knowledge of the artistic end ot With no conceDtion of the nature the opera sinters or drawlne power operas be lost nearly 3O00O VYil that ieison he never forgot that son stores tuie or pecul ar crominen either ot the ment or the standing i tne artist was an anto atei necessity i draw the public The apnarentlv ti rnendoai risks lie has run have real Pv been much less daneerous than ootb ne witn xeopie woo ostmoi mil But Abbef understands big advert nr and knows that with PattiorSarJ Bernhardt he gets columns of noli 1 taisr so plain 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Murray Street 21 31 Karvy Street HI Set Jerftt tt Smhsr Ail rawlu DlDttil Sherwood i aaw whlch the newspapers know the pub almost demand of them It is curio that tentative productions of pis generally end in irotbing in ixradv very few of tbe pieces tried for one formanca have succeeded in becorm night bills for any run Jim the Fe laanwu one that diri hrl fSirdhmr loung caanara work to eet it trfed regular performance Cants Swift and Our Flat wre also fir produced as a trial bet a hundr bthers never were heard of srhjC ot these new nlavs which are rotten 1 elaborately and upon which manage risk a fear thousand dollars compar lively few nave notbrougnt tnemon cack even when they have been fa Urea The racavnnish policv is a fat one in theaters If is a business prcpl thoa that a good play may be spoiii by cheap actors and a cheap prodil Hon bnt a hud nl will linlri ita for enough time to repay the outlay Jg Is thoroughly acted aact tuun ss st ged Baldwin Theater tr Por some riremths we have been re jlngln ihe Eastern press the mast ro1 n8 accounts of the success of pronsi HAtJ I 31 I PJ coeuawviuatfl The special interest that if had for was mat a California manager had bi hheaj cf jjj tje jw Yott masasr lit f04 to1 tt making a fortune out I coming aoiaiers serious we omedianst iiorse and ail Tl that Shenandoah it by Arnencan anthnr it 1t 1 Jnore appeal jthe public wad rwnsm it touches deeply It pa farther preUy welf knownSi gronson Howard rinks ahead of fgiish writers in the duahvytf work and although the Impressloi 2hBdoaal i a jnelodras iT1 core triftiyin tact a come JCF cresmtttnea ol gldd kw It Tru ttkea iorranteti t3.