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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1002. a MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS. Old Wo lid News From Capitals of the RUSSIAN GOVERNOR GENERAL'S BODYGUARD Of Caucasian Nobles in Their National Costume. "traits are given above arc all of the Georgian i present i apita! invested and ihe fvture pns troops are of the tamos; importance to pro sibilitles. Ii does net co.ilain the asted the pease MS from the of the ma of jingoism, but ends with a carefully raiulers. who at rothinp; in ineir greed for cattle.

For ihnir services men are i'sed tvrngranh saying thai Germans of i en decorated with orders and iliey re. must ranko up their mini's whether the busi ceive rewards for the capture of any i ness alreailv created shall ije and r.otalde niiilefoelor. STEALERS TIEB UP Thirty nine Vessels Lie Deserted at Their Docks Marseilles. in OTHER PORTS AFFECTED, Moroccan Sultan Disperses Eebels. but His Advance on Babat Is Checked.

Ne French Stamp. Paris. November Work at the quays, in Marseilles, is at a standstill, owing lo the strike of the stokers. Thirty nine steamers lie deserted at their clocks. Crewa of steamers which have arrived at various ports of France from Marseilles have left their ships in sympathy with the strikers at Marseilles.

Fighting in Morocco. News hits here from Tangier, Morocco that, the Sultan of forces have been attacked by the Zemmour tribesmen not Tar from Tangier. The Sultan the rebels, but his majesty's advance on Rabat has been checked. New French Stamp. The French government is ready to issue a new stamp, the design of which is to be adopted as the final symbol of the reptihiic.

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M. Closed Sun. KrZAR'S GOVERNMENT LOSES 10 AMERIGAN SEALERS. Dutch Arbitrator Finds for Vessel Owners in Seizure Cases. FRICTION PREVENTED.

fey "Award Russia Must Pay About $1 10,000 for Capture of Craft Ten Years Ago. The Hague, November 29 The expected apjened in the deeision of Professor Asser. the. Dutch jurist, who was arbitrator of the ftjaims of American sealers against the seiz fre Of their vessels by Russian boats. These Bwtaures took place nearly ten years ago, 1133 until Russia finally agreed to the arbitration here no satisfaction could be ob Bfcained.

Vhere was considerable ill feeling on the fcart. of United States officials at the dila ory practice on the part of Russian officials, was not until 1900 that, by agree EBent, Count Lamsdorff, acting minister of Ojejgn affairs of Russia, and Herbert H. D. 'eirce, United States charge d'affaires at jt. Petersburg, designated Professor Asser, member of the council of state of the ffifetherlands, as arbitrator.

Professor Asser, at The Hague, where the Baset was heard, decided on June 30, 1902, afaft the average annual should form he basis on which damages be award which was exactly the contention ad (anced by Mr. Peirce, who was the advocate or the United States government. The de Jsion carried with it the opinion of the ourt that Russia must pay damages, and inly left for further argument the sum due each case. In each instance Professor Asser found in 'avor of the American ship owners, and his iecision fixes a precedent that, it is hoped, will prevent any more friction in the future. E'he arbitrator appraises the damages in the ase of the schooner C.

H. White at the case of the James Hamilton Lewis at 28,588, the Kate and Anna at $1,488 and the lape Horn Pigeon, $38,750. In each case in erest at 6 per cent, is allowed for ten years. which amounts to nearly $7,000. Professor Asser delivered his judgment in Kbe arbitration court in the presence of the Hrepresentatives of the United States and of iiussia and others, including the foreign.

uiniBter of the Netherlands Van ivn I3x giving his reasons for the award Professor Asser held that the schooner C. H. Oihfte was seized outside Russian territorial waters and that the Russian conten iQn that a warship of one nation was entitled to pursue beyond the boundaries of its territorial seas a ship of another nation, jOiity of illegal action within those waters, sras untenable. The arbitrator declared that the jurisdiction of the state could not axtend beyond its territorial waters except special treaty. The seizure and confiscation of the C.

H. White and the imprisonment of her crew was, therefore, illegal nd Russia was condemned to pay the C. H. White J32.444 with interest at 6 per cent. The case of the James Hamilton Lewis' is governed by the same decision, while in the case of the Cape Horn Pigeon, Professor Asser, in Sxing the damages of $38,750 and the interest at 6 per held the general principle that damages should include the prospective profits of which the victim had been deprived applied equally to international litigation.

In the case of the Kate and Anna the Wbitrator decided that the captain could have continued seal hunting and that, therefore, Russia was not responsible for the prospective profits. ending the reading of the judgment Professor Asser thanked the authorities of the arbitration court for the facilities at to him and the members of the court 6r tfieir assistance. Paris, November 29 Ambassador Tower, hen informed to night of Professor Asser's tward. declined to talk of the matter, espe lally as he negotiated the convention tinder tohich the claims of the American sealers were submitted to arbitration. It is as erted that this is the first time the Rus tlan government has ever consented to sub lit such claims to an arbitrator.

New Bedford. November 29 The Cone Horn Pigeon was a New Bedford Hwhaler, owned by 1. W. R. Wing.

The iltm of the Wings for the unlawful seizure Hot their vessel and the loss of catch conse Bquent on her detention was first presented Bin. 1893. BRITISH PUNISHED TRIBE. Peshawar. British India.

November BTwenty five Waziris killed, 202 taken prison ers, 2 wounded, 59 towers and 3 villages destroyed, and 6,000 head or cattle and 03 jpms captured, is the net result of th British expedition recently sent against the rebellious tribesmen. The effect of this puplsliment upon the offending iribs in to have been salutary. StJHRBiNEIl ELECTED TO BUND. '5ape Town, November 29 Cronwright Schreiner (husband of Olive Schreinerj, the candidate of the Afrikander Bund, has been elected member of the House of Assembly for.Colcsberg, Cape Colony. BOSTON CATTLE LANDED.

November 29 The cattle and Sheep brought to Liverpool to day by the British steamer Wlnifredian from Boston, JjCoyember 19, was closely inspected by Board ofade representatives. They were found fo'bT'hee from disease and were allowed to tfsa. Mr I EARLY XMAS BUYERS Securing the Bargains. Pianos delivered on payment of Miiall deposit. No more money re tuired until afier January 1st.

We are making it just as easy as we can for those who desire to buy Pianos. The instrument will be delivered at once, or any tune before Christmas. The purchaser pays a small deposit and no more until alter January 1st. A Few Choice Bargains In Second Hand Pianos still left: Lilly. I'inlsi maple I r.

i i i large size ifi I ll I i.i 1:1 in li 7 Cuml I i i it 1 i Slllll Mil I $100 Ncilsiqi ijSUO As a medium of expression of the most ditlicuit and artistic composition, the Bradbury Piano is without a peer. Salesrooms, 500 Fulton St. Factory, 774 76 78 Fulton St. FORTESQUE. A 00UKH0B0R.

TO WIN PEASANT MI. London Surprised at Action of Earl's Son in Renouncing World to Marry Beauty. HE MAY LEAD THE COLONY. Young Man, Interested in Sociological Questions. in Love With Simple Life of Russians.

Inn. Noveavier 21 The news from Can a.i.'i thai the lion Arthur G. Fostoscpie had rinonn'ci! lite world of luxury, to which tad i ist omed all his life, lo marry a meld of ihe Miiukh.jijnr settlement in Assini hoia has been the scnsriiinu of the week in his'i so' icty circle: 'oriesriue is the neph civ of ihe Huko of Portland, the second duke in v.ealih in Englai.il. The news did not noise tlu surprise that it might have had the ridegrooin heen another of similar rank, for tile man always has been noted for doing cure things. Fortesqne wes an boner man at Oxford and a noted athlete in his universi' days, he being a strong oarsman and runner.

He al ways was of a serious turn of mind, and after he was graduated became de ply interested i in social and sociological ipiest'ions. He has been a. rover for years, and in iiis wander visited the settlement of Russian fa niitics. Me was deeply inicrrsted in the slm plo peasants and found many virtues in their nneoulii life. became interested in a maid of rare beauty, whom he first saw hitched, with olher women.

In a The Doukhobors do not believe in making animals work, and the women generally do the laborious plowing and cultivating. This maid, he has declared in a letter to his relatives here, was lhc most beauiifiil he had met in his world travels. announced that he had determined to renounce his religion, the world, his fortune ami relatives and marry the girl. He has since done this, and Olga Varinhoff, a girl of 20. is now Mrs.

Fortesque. He has assumed the meager garb of the men in the colony and has begun the hard labors, in which every one to do his share. There is a good deal of speculation in society as to the outcome of the "experiment," as several hate put it. It is not doubted that the young mon hr.s Ihe best, of intentions and is really seriously in love with his new life. As the young man never did any work, it is expected that, he will pass many a hard 'day.

Fortesque is a man of Ideas and action, and it is possible lhai he will become a leader in the colony and thus wield a power for good. He Ins declared that he intends to work for the uplifting of the colony and will attempt to root out some of the mad superstitions ant! ideas that makes the life of this colony so pitiful. While young Fortesque might never have beer, an carl, ho had a Iargu income from family estates and was sure to have a largo fortune, if he lived. His uncle, the sixth Duke, of Portlond, bas an income more han a year from his rent roil alone, and no one knows how much more from other investments. The Duke is second in land wealth lo the Duke of Westminster.

Fortesque is ihe son of the third Earl Fortesque and was burn in 1808. He entered the military service in 1S78 as a lieutenant of the famous Coldstream Guards, but gave up his some years ago. The family to which he is closely allied, the Bentinek, the name of the Duke of Portland, dales back lo the fourteenth century. In addition to owning magnificent country seals in Nottinghamshire, Berkshire and Ayr. Scotland, the livlte of Portland is one ot Ihe largest land owners In London.

Aiue'n of lhc fashionable section around Portland, Square, Portland Place and Square is owned by the Duke. It was against the present Duke of Portland thai Mrs. Anna Druce brought ah. to recover the estates and title for her she claiming that her dead husband, C. was the real fifth duke.

She declare' that her husband's death and burial under his name were deceptions and that h9 was unlawfully incarcerated iu an insane asylum. She lost her suit. WIFE POISONED BY LETTER. Vienna, Nocmbcr 20 in Moscow a youn married woman of one of the lending families received a letter through the post ad dressed lo her husband in a woman's handV writing. As she opened it a piece of paper il with ihe words, "Think of me," with no signature.

The next moment she sank insensible lo the Her little 2 year old boy picked up ihe envelope and was likewise overpowered with the poison with which the letter was impregnated. Mother and child were found some time afterward in a dcalh lika trance. ANARCHIST IN BULGARIAN CASTLE Sofia. Bulgaria, November 2M A supposedr Anarchist was arrested in the park or Euxinogrndc Caslle to day on suspicion. iASXZ.

he intended making an attempt to assasslnata Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria. HITS GEHi CRUISERS FOR SOUTH XMEU USE. Fieet Society Calls Attention to Need of More Watching in These Waters MISS KRUPP RICHEST GIRL Larcre Dciegnlion of Fanners Coming to Make Tour of United States and Study Our System. Mrrlii: Soilolv. November The Gorman Kl to which Emperor William ana r.i'iirly all lhc ubinet rs.

naval offi and nin rs iiign in lie Kovcrnmcii r.er iee sen; ii i vera! through the sjeieiy's monthly puML'titinn. a of eort.irlerai ions mpk'f neei'st ary lite 'ouildli'g of more erulscrs fo: service abroa'i. csprvially Central an Souili American waters. The om.ntiuicM lion deals with German trade relations and goe; seriously Into the amounts of the or permitted to lat'Ruish. if the foi nter alternative opted the navy must he increased by sufficient cruisers to adequately protect trade." Cor.cerning Trc extent fit interests in Venezuela ihe cniumu'iieailon says they amount to an agsrerate of Htm.

"On. of whl h. speaking, is invested in railrouiis and to DOO in plrntations and productive works. The remainder is engaged in trade and in the handling of German goods. Willi the German crttl.

ers Ariadne. Ama zeno and Xioiio poiug out about December 10 Germany will have seven vessels in West Indies. According to prestni arra.oc.e motus. so far as can he the i Any cf all the vessels in those waters is The murine ministry does not indicate what wm be mad. after the set I lenient of the Venezuelan een iroversy.

but it is no; unlikely that two sent to th. Pacific cruisers ho where I Gcnr.f.n Hag has not been seen foi some time. Bertha Krupp Kichest woman. Fraulein Bertha Krupp. the elder of ihe late Ilcrr Krupp's rlaugliters.

is now un doubtedly the richesi woirnn in Ihe world in her own righ I Bankers have estimated Ihe value of Ihe Essen and associated ui'aeturing works, with subsidiary proper; ies. at "7, German Farmers To Inspect U. S. A large delegation of farmers, under the auspices of the German Aeri' tilt ural Society, is going to the United Siuics in Aj.ril for a Ihtce months' tour, studying American agricultural methods. The German Eir.hassy at Washington negotiated I he affair with the Agricultural Dcparlnu which will furnish a guide for the entire trip.

His expenses will be defrayed by the Germans. The trio includes stops at Baltimore, where speeia! I attention will he given to dairy farms, and Washington, where the Agricultural i meat will bp exhaustively udied. The German Agricultural Society, though a private organization, has taken the Unite. 1 States Agricultural Department as a model wil return astwerd. via Tac onia.

and sc. the wheat farm of the Dekntas anil nf Min i nesota. Later they will visit the Chicago I slaughter houses and grain elevators, after which the Germans will see the beet root i Industry of A number of agricultural experiment, stations along ihe route, i will be examined. i The travelers will embark for home in New York on June The German Agri cultural Society's board or managers will be represented on the trip by naron von Wal lenbcrg Pachaly. Bcfiide a number of important agriculturists, the parly will iu i clinic a iiozi students ihe Deri in Acri cultural Institute, who will take the trip ai their own expense, regarding the knowledge to be gained as a valuable investment for t'.

future great farmers nf Germany. Gerber, the agricultural attache cf the German Embassy in Washington, will accompany the delegation. There is a g. pn rush hero of faimers from ail parts of the which will be the ni Vie founded upon ibe rosea relies made during the trip lo the Ur.it! Statcj. Jjew American Church, Mr.

01 Ar:" Cbvrf MT l'" VCn 10 10 St'T''' mi 'iic mi it u. im ii ni is eom pletlng, at a cost of Emperor Will iam inquired about the church when Mr. White, the Ambassador, had his re we 11 audience of his said ho would attend us dua. cation. Uproar in Reichstag'.

In the Reichstag io ciey Barth alluded to Herr Iliclucr as having formerly participated in lhc tariff bill obstruction. "He is to the minority:" cried Herr Rebel. whei otir.on Herr Hunter sprang in hi. feet in a great rage and shouted. "That is infamous:" The pesiflent, called Porr llebel to order, and Ihe Socialists, after having The ministry is quietly supporting the majority parties in bringing ihe tariff to a vote without detailed discussion, as ihe rules provide.

The Cabinet ministers huve kept uis crcetly away from the Reichstag during the stormy scenes of the past two days, but Chancellor von Buelow is actively holding ccnforcnr.es with the majority leaders behind the scenes, I i i ID HI DEFIES THE BRITISH TROOPS. He Promisesto Whip Them Whenever They Are Ready for a Second Defeat. KRUGER WANTS TO GO HOME. Letter to Chamberlain Asking to Be Allowed to Return to South Africa. November 29 A special dispatch from Garrero.

Somaliland. dated November 26. announces that the Mad Mullah recently sent into the British camp the train of supply camels captured from Colonel Swayne's column. He was careTul previously to render all the stores unfit lor use and accompanied his present with a defiant message, promising to whip the British whenever they were ready to risk a second defeat. Kruger Wants to go Home.

General Schalk Burger and Wessels and Wolmarans. the former Boer delegates, sailed to day for South Africa. The general Is the bearer or a letter from Mr. Kruger to Colonial Secretary Chamberlain, asking that he be allowed to return to South Africa. Wessels and Wolmarans had been refused permits to proceed to the Transvaal colony, but they hope the prohibition will be rescinded after their arrival in Cape Colony.

Off for the Durbar. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught, who are to represent King Edward and Queen Alexaudra at the Coronation Durbar, started The Duke of Connaught, Who "Will Represent Kinp Kilward at ihe Coronation Durbar. on their journey to India to day. They will go by way of Egypt, where' they will be present at the opening of the Assouan dam. Colonel "Jack" Leslie (who is a member of the Duke of Connaught's staff) and Mr3.

Leslie accompanied the Duke and Duchess. Son of Duke Bankrupt. A receiver was appointed to day in the Bankruptcy Court for the estate of Colonel G. W. A.

FItz George, a son to the Duke of Cambridge. The appointment was made on the petition of a judgment creditor for It was the Duke of Cambridge who narrowly missed being England's king. The Duke of Kent left an only child, a girl, in delicate health. Beside that girl there only remained, of all the progeny of George III, his youngest son, the Duke of Cambridge, who had made a lawful marriage and had one son and two daughters. If that girl had died or had no children the succession would have gone to the Cambridges.

As it was, she ascended the throne as Queen Victoria, married immediately afterward and had nine children. The present Duke was born in 1819, just two months before the late Queen. He came into his title in 1850. The Duke married an obscure actress without the sanction of the crown, had twelve children of the name of Fitz George, illegitimate In the eyes of the law, but openly acknowledged by their father. Training Ships Doomed.

The old training brigs in which the young tar Rets his first idea of seamanship ar.d discipline will be done away with after next summer. Already the Admiralty has begun sending boys from Greenwich School direct to the Mediterranean fleet instead of to these vessels. The brigs are almost the last survival of the old navy. Several are attached as tenders to the stationary training ships. In these brigs the sailor boys go to sea for a period of six weeks and are then drafted to modern ships.

Tha three deckers used as stationary training ships will be the next to go. Already the routine aboard them has been modified by the abolition of sail drill as it used to be performed and the substitution of more physical drill. Some time must, however, elapse before the stationary training ship is abandoned, as it serves in addition as a recruiting depot. Since the abolition of the training squadron a large percentage of young hands has been sent to the ship's of the Channel and Mediterranean squadrons, and this is found to be 'the better way of making them efficient man of warsmen. The Channel squadron is now very largely a training squadron.

Bad Year For Wine. The vintage of 1902 will rank among the poorest on record. There has been a diminished yield in nearly every wine producing district of Europe and the quality or the grapes has ui many cases proved poor. The latest reports show that the total yield of wine ir. iTance "111 scarcely exceed the estimate, made a month ago.

of 880,000.000 gallons, wh.eh is about 264,000,000 less than i'ranee al( r.e vill fonsume. There is, however, a sufficient quantity of champagne on hand to satisfy the world for the next five years. In tact, so Tar as high class wines are concerned, the world is always a few years behind the wine grower. From Bordeaux, the chief center for clarets, it is reported that most of the superior growths have yielded nearly as much as last year, but only halt as much ordinary viie has in most cases been forthcoming. The quality is said lo be good.

At Bcaune ihe yield is a third less than last year for red wine, and two thirds for white. In Anjou and Tourainc, where the sparkling Saumur ccmes from, the yield has been one the worst for many years. In the. Tarragona district of Spain the failure of the vintage is described as the most i istry have for some time past been anxious nnl ls irying to do in Germany many things to make use of I his lira wing, but as the de "3' 'bo Department floes in the I'liilcd sign for the new stamps had been thrown open to competition and Holy was one of I After leaving Washington the industries the committee appointed lo decide the o.ues Virginia will be examined and theu tion. there was some difficulty in the brer ding and tobacco growing in diistri.

of Kentucky will be inspected The loubet Not Invited Here. l''8'8 Th i ta and Omiinii, where the slockvardr. here that any project .) be investigated, and will 'a, inouire is on foot for extending to President Loubet inl() lhc bcet sllgar 'TnPV an invitation to visit the rutted States for wlI1 svsu.nls nf the purpose of attending the Louis Ex Colorado. From San Francisco Hie Gcrnvm position. Xo one close to the President, it I farmers ill go on an excursion ir.

Los' is said, has been sounded on ibe subject, Angeles and studv die fruit farm Thev I he nobles of Caucasia serve a body 1 guard for ihe Russian governor gen oral at Tifiis. Every one oi tnem is a nricue of hish degree and they make a fine i show on slate occasions when clad in their national costume. The princes whose por I calamitous since 1S54. and in other districts the condition of things is almost equally bad. The most favorable report of all is from Oporto, for in the Douro valleys the frosts and rains which played havoc elsewhere were escaped.

Yet it is said that "vintage" port of 1902 will be scarce. The Rhine and Moselle wines will be poor in quality, as well as meager in quantity. In Sicily only half or two thirds the quantity of last year's wine will be produced. It la believed, however, that the Marsala will he satisfactory. In Madeira the yield has' been quite disappointing, although the quality is said to be gocd.

High Prices for Bacon. Bacon is no longer a regular article of diet in London except in the homes of the well to do. The price has gone up to about a shilling a pound. A slice from a real English home fed ham is rapidly become a breakfast dainty. Irish.

American and Canadian bacon and hams have risen in proportion. Prices have been advancing for four years. The glut in the market at that, time began to ease, owing to the pi? farmers ceasing to breed stock because they were unable t.o obtain a fair profit. Food stuffs, especially maize, got dearer and bacon cheaper every day. with the result that the farmer only fed for his own table and those of a lew friends.

Partial failures of the potato crop also account for gradually diminishing Irish As. the supply fell off the demand, of course, increased, but it was not until quite recently that the farmer awoke to the potential profits involved in the continually enhanced prices and once more turned his attention to nig breeding. Trimc porkers, however, are not made ready for the market in a day. and the probability is thttt the almost prohibitive prices for the best bacon and ham now ruling will remain throughout the winter. Compared with the first ten months of last year, the imports of fresh pork during the same period this year have dropped over 18,000 salted pork 13.326 bacon and hams 33,660 cwts.

War Secretary to Wed. Society is taking much interest in the forthcoming marriage of the Rt. Hon. St. John Brodrick.

Secretary of War, to Miss Madeline Stanley, the eldest daughter of Lady Jeune. Mr. Brodrick. who is 46 years old, is the son of the eighth Viscount Miss Madeleine Stanley. Daughter of Lady Jeune, Who "Will Marry the Unllsh Secretary of War.

Midlcton. In 1880 he married Lady Hilda Wcmyss Charteris, daughter of the ninth Earl of Wemyss. She died about a year ago. Miss Stanley, who is 26 years of age, is a popular young society woman. Her father, who was a colonel in the Grenadier Guards, died in 1S7S, her mother being married to Sir Francis Jeune three years later.

To Aid Poor A society has been formed to assist poor people in defending themselves in any case of arbitrary action on the part of the police. The promoters say that In view of the numerous disclosures of police misdeeds such a society is necessary. Club for Clerks. A number of philanthropists have pledged themselves to establish a superior residential club for young men engaged in banks and offices in the city, where, at moderate prices, all the comforts of home, combined with improving and congenial society, may be obtained. The club will be conducted on purely commercial lines.

A building, at a cost, of 5250,000. is to be erected and furnished, which, in addition to 270 bedrooms, will con lain dining, smoking, reading and billiard rooms open to tenants. Rents arc to range from 7 shillings weekly per furnished room. Meals will be supplied at cost price. A license is to be applied lor, subject to the strictest supervision I I i I completely under Rll3sil irrc.giar forces of the Cam asiis employed to keen their countrymen in in many districts, and particularly whiire brigandage is still practiced, these I the of the manager, and the club house will bcopen to tenants at all hours.

All after paying a dividend of 6 per cent; per annum on the ordinary shares, are to lne, credited to a reserve Tumi with which oiT't club houses may be built or existing enlarged. Scarcity of Labor in Transvaal. News from Johannesburg is to the effect that financial depression prevails in the Transvaal, and i'uat there is considerable apprehension re.ta ding the immoa'iaie future. The banks have a gretit uiiinant of money out on loan compared with the sair.3 pericd iast year. The decision of the Corn declaring null Mr.

KruegcrV proclamation of Oct. 25. 1SSIP. abrogating the jiaymeni, of rent and interest during the cor'iinuance aS hostilities, has caused eonstcrration atrong mcri gagees. particularly in view of the fact that the banks are not prcpaued to their high rates of interest.

Only about a I'nird of the minesjare working. The chief cause is the scarcity of labor, which is caused by the inoliei jucy of the Labor Association, since private, fjfforts' are being rewarded by a sufficiont tuppiy. ii Uo Army Text Books. A recent Army report stows that cadets and officers are handicapped' in their studies because the necessary text books are out of print. The War Office mi ikes no effort, to re issue these books, with the result that students are groping in the dark, and cannot get books which are absolutely indispensable.

Some of the hooks haw: been out of print since 1 SfiS, and it is impossible lo day for a cadet or officer to the official literature upon the mastering of which his future career depends. Army Brewery. Temperance people are aghast at the latest proposition of the War Office. It is proposed to establish an extensive brewery under government control. Work on the piant Is expected to begin in the spring.

Former soldiers and reservists will form ihe general staff, but experienced civilians will conduct the establishment. i The supply of groceries will probably be undertaken by yearly contract, in open mar ket for the present, but if government beer i brewing proves a success, experienced buy crs will buy direct from the government and I supply the regimental canteens. NO TRACE OF YOUNG JOHNSON. New Jersey Youth Dropped Out of Sight Three Months Ago in Antwerp. Antwerp.

November 29 Despite the efforts of the police and private agencies for three months, nothing has been learned of tha present whereabouts of Frederick Johnson, son of Colonel Edmund Johnson of Vine land. X. who dropped om of sight in a night. The young man started to return from a visit he had been making lo his aunt, the Princess Salm Saim in Bonn. Prussia, three months ago.

He had $1,000 when he was last heard of and bought a ticket at Antwerp for bis steamer passage home. The ticket was never presented, and young John son's trunk and baggage were found un packed and untouched here. Five years ago the ryoung man had an cs cape from death under circumstances that set the whole country talking. George E. Johr.sou of California appeared at Vincland and announced thai he had dis covered that Colonel Johnson was his father, who had deserted his mother during the Civil War.

In 1855 Edmund Johnson married George Johnson's mother at St. John's Church in New York City. His family regardcu the match as one beneath him and had little communication with the wife. Early in the war Edmund Johnson enlisted and became a captain in the United States Army. After the battle of Balls Bluff Johnson's brother came to her and told her tha' the captain was among the slain.

Having no doubt that she was a widow, Mrs. Johnson, at her brother in law's suggestion, went to California, where George Johnson was born. The brother wrote her that her husband hod boon buried in Greenwood Cemetery beside one of their children. Years alterward Mrs. Johnson applied for a pension and the government advised her that no Captain Johnson of a New York regiment had been killed at Balls Bluff.

The son when he had grown to manhood came East to investigate. Ho found the child's grave in Green.vood. but there was no father buried beside it. The young man prosecuted his search when he had developed thin the pretended death was really a desertion of his moiher, and detdded. that his Colonel Edn'iund Johnson of Vineland.

The colonel, who had a wife whom he married in 1805 and had reared a family, indignantly denied the claim and denounced the as a blackmailer. There was a row. and Frederick Johnson, coming to hi'4f assistance, the stranger drew A rortlvo and attempted to shoot him. nor lias tr.e maiter oeen nroaciieo in v.neri can or French governmc nla! circles. Artist Sentenced.

Syndon. the French artist, who on September 22 shot and killer; David, the 'veil known stock broker of Paris, while the latter was walking along the sea front of Etrctal mot far from Havrci. was lo day sentenced at Rouen to ten years' imprisonment at penal servitude. SAY 1.000 DIED SMALLPOX. Greelts Vaccinated Healthy Ones Vfiih Lymph From the Diseased.

Vienna. November A shocking story ii published by the Xeucs Wiener Journal lo day of the stitailpox cicourge in the i'tirni Islands, near Samos. Greek Archipelago. Over a thousand persons are dead at the Fur i islands, which are mnaoited by Greek empire lo file applications for membership families. jn the delegation; but nuist of them musr When smallpox broke out.

the Turkish au be rejected, as it is rt. as imp act ica thorities quarantined' the islands and the blc to Rood work if the party exceeds people, being without doctors, resorted thirty or forty. ihe expedient of vaccinating the healthy pro The society ha just completed an iui ple with lymph from the sufferers and the merse building here, costing over $2.10 disease spread rr pirtiy in all directions There is no confirinaiicr. of ihe v. I'urni Island, sometimes called Fourn; Island, is one of tbc smaller tracts of land in the Grecian Archipelago and one of Southern is near the mouth of I he Meander River, in the vilayet of Aidin Asia Minor, its population it; vcrv small i The people are employed principally in fishing for coral and sponges.

The men are hardy, well built and handsome, and the women arc noted for their btauiy. the ancient Greek type being well preserved. Furni Islam: belongs to Turkey and belongs to the group caiicd by the Turks the vilayet of thu White Sea. GEKMAIT STEAMER BLAMED. Speed of Kronnrinz Willielm Ex wssi i When Ingham Was Struck.

London, November 211 The Admiraliv I i Court, has found that the German questioned the presence of a quorum Lloyd steamer Kronprinz Wllhelm was House, hastily left the hall and the presi solely blameless for the collision wiih the Idem closed the sluing. rimis steamer iiuuei i ingnam oil Head. October resulting in the sinking of the Ingham and the drowning of ihe mate of that vessel and the only passenger sho had on board, and held that the Kronprinz Wilhelm was proceeding at excessive speed In view of the fog. The damages will be assessed by the registrar..