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The Fat Princess of Bunkum
and of Fraud Has a
' Double in Europe.
HER VICTIM AN EX-KING.
Churchill and Chamberlain Snarling
Like a Couple of Cats.
THEY CANT KECOTEE FEOJIROCHESTEE
An Engineering Scheme Adrcnced to
Avoid Trouble Caused by tbe Gnlf
Stream Religions Londoners Being Re
minded Thnt Charltr Begins at Home
A Physician Gives His Life Unneces
sarily to Stive That of a Child Baron
Gevcra Proves Himself No Gentleman,
Though He is a Dlplomate A Sea Cnp
taia of Half a Century Kearing the End
of Life's Voyage The Earl of Shefflcld
Thinks Somo One Is Rnbbing It in On
Him Cardinal tcvnnan hot Dying.
- Madame Diss Debar has a doable in
Europe. It is Madame Christich. Lawyer
Marsh's European duplicate is ex-King
Milan, who is as much under the influence
of his "medium" as Mr. Marsh was under
the Diss Debar's. Captain Cook, who Jor a
half century sailed back and forth across
the Atlantic, is Bearing the end of his voy
age of life. Churchill and Chamberlain are
reported snarling at each other like cats.
Queen Victoria doesn't intend to mourn
very long for the Duchess of Cambridge.
fBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.1
London, April 20. Copyright Ann
O'Delia Diss Debar, of .New York, sinks
iuto abashed obscurity when confronted by
Madame Christich, of Servia. The latter
has dethroned a king and acted as the agent
in one of Russia's most pronounced and
gratifying successes. The last story which
comes from Belgrade concerning King
Milan's absolute and unquestioning sub
servience to the woman who claims to be a
medium, is credited in official circles here.
I have direct and indubitable evidence that
is vouched for by Her Majesty's Charge
d' Affaires at Belgrade.
Over the chasm of heaving billows and
turbulent states, Luther B. Marsh may
ciasp the hand of King Milan in infantile
and beaming confidence, while over their
heads float the corpulent twin sisters of
Bunkum, Hnmbug and Hypocrisy. In an
imposing allegory of fraud it would be an
aurora borealis of deception.
A PKOBLEM IN COBPOTVENCY.
Exactly why spiritualism should be asso
ciated with breadth of beam, double chins
'and rotundity of the female form divine,is a
mystery. The ample and flabby propor
tions of Diss Debar are duplicated in the
parenthetical outline of Christich, though J
in a lesser degree. It the Christich kicks
the beam at a shade lower figure than the
fat princess of New Tork. she makes up for
the deficiency in weight by a severity of pur
pose which laughs politics to scorn.
It is certainly an astounding thing that
the most notable dupe of charlctans lire men
of wide knowledge ana striking mental
gifts. King Milan, though dissipated and
depraved, is a man of notable attainments,
one of the mot accomplished of modern
Princess and a man familiar with all the
foibles and fallacies of Paris and the Lon
don crazes. His subserviency to the big
and majestic Madame Christich is absolute.
He abdicated his throne, according to the
best information, while laboring under the
influence of spiritualism.
LIKE A MAN IN A TRANCE.
King Milan thought Christich was a me
dium through whom he was receiving di
vine instructions, and when he announced
his abdication, he did so with the manner of
a man in a trance. His eyes were glazed,
his manner constrained to a painful degree,
and his whole demeanor that of a man
swayed by irresistible outside influence.
Since he has given up all care for his coun
try, he has resigned himself absolutely to
the medium's society. She is rich, massive
and impressive, and she has accomplished
by a bit of hocus pocus an end for which
Kussia has schemed in other ways in vain.
"When the Queen once more regains her
influenee in Servia, a matter of afew months
only now, the full effect of the action of
these two women in the turnoil and muddle
of Servian politics will be seen.
A DIPLOMAT, BUT NO GENTLEMAN.
Baron Gevers Has 0. Foor Clnb Steward
Discharged for Collecting; His Dues.
'BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.!
London, April 20. The St. James Club
is the social headquarters of the diplomatic
body, and one of the most exclusive institu
tions of the kind in London. It is apparent
ly managed on the strictly diplomatic prin
ciple of indifference to the ordinary rules of
justice. Baron Gevers, Secretary of the
Danish legation, is a member of the St.
James Clbu. On the night of March 29 the
Baron wanted 5, and borrowed the money
from Steward Hanman. The following Sun
day the steward, who is not a capitalist,
delicately refreshed the Baron's memory.
The Baron shrieked aloud, in the
best English he could command in the
emergency, at the deadly insult, and wound
up by declaring he never borrowed the
money. The next day he admitted the
steward was right, by paying the money.
Then this high and mighty chivalrous
Baron complained to the Club Committee,
with the result that poor Hanman, who had
been in the service of the club 25 years, and
has a wife and family to support, was sum
marily dismissed.
The matter, however, will not be allowed
to rest here. Hanman's hard case has been
brought to the notice of the Princess of
"Wales, who it is hoped, will forward the
facts to her father, the Kiffg of Denmark.
There is in truth a reasonable prospect that
ere long Baron Gevers will have cause to
regret nature's neglect to endow him with
the instincts of a gentleman.
CARDINAL NEWMAN NOT DYING,
But an Even Older and Tougher Man Dies
in a Poorhonse.
rBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, April 20. Cardinal Newman,
who is periodically reported to be dying,
attended mass at Edgberton oratory to-day,
and although he had to besupported by one
of the monks, no one looking at his bright
eyes and intellectual face would have
thought him 88 years old.
James Conway, an humbler but even
tougher old man, died to-day in the Dublin
poorhonse, stged 106. He fought in En
gland's navy under Nelson, and toddled
about until a week or two ago like a giddy
yonng fellow of 20.
Holders of Sneer Inactive.
1ST CABLE TO THE SISrATCB.1
London, April 20. The sugar market at
the end of the week is quiet, owing to the
holidays, but up to Thursday things were
phenomenally lively. As predicted by
The Dispatch Greenock correspondent,
folders are for the moment not pushing
sales.
MILAN
DISS
DA
HALF A CENTURY. AT SEA.
Captain Theodore Cook Kearlng Iho End of
His Voyage of Life.
;bt cable to the dispatch.
London, April 20. Captain Theodore
Cook, who recently retired from the com
mand of the Etruria, is lying very ill at his
house in the suburbs of London. He is
suffering from heart disease and paralysis,
his brain being also affected. Cook was
the most remarkable figure on the Atlantic
He has been crossing it for CO years, and
has come into personal contact with the
greater part of the interesting people who
hare passed between Europe and America
lor many years. He was in command of
the English ship Trent, when the confed
erate delegates were taken from her.
Captairf Cook is now nearly 80, and has
been reduced to his present state by un
ceasing devotion to duties, even when phy
sically unfit for them. Many people be
lieve that he never used to leave the bridge
of the vessel, and it is certain that'he was
there in all weather. He was taken ill
after he had finished a trip from America in
November, but up to the last moment was
under the impression that he should be able
to make the return trip. It was only a fort
night ago that he finally resigned himself
to the fact that he should not be able to go
to sea again. He is at present confined to
his room, but is able to transact a certain
amount of business. The doctors say that
anything may aggravate the brain trouble.
Captain Cook was the oldest and ablest
Captain in the serviee of the Cnnard Com
pany. Tne latter nave asked him to write
a book of his experiences, but he cannot at
tempt to commence this work yet, although
he is able to write letters. 'He has been
offered a fairly well-paid berth, with lKtIe
to do, in connection with the House of
Commons Committee on saving life at sea.
His advice would be invaluable for the com
mittee. His family, however, fear that his
illness is permanent, and that he will never
be able to leave the house again, in which
case the offer will be of no use to him.
INSULT ADDED TO INJUEY.
Why the Earl of Sheffield is Backward
Abont a County Subscription.
rBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.l
London, April 20. The Earl of Shef
field, who lives on a big estate in Sussex,
has been for over two years pestered with
anonymous letters threatening his assassina
tion, and the efforts of the police and of
swarms of amateur detectives and offers of
reward have failed to insure the discovery
of the writers. His lordship is a peppery
old gentleman, and as repetition has not de
stroyed the novelty of daily annoyance, his
temper has been kept at the boiling point
all the time.
To-day the Sussex people added insult to
injury by asking Lord Sheffield to subscribe
to the funds of the county cricket club.
Hjs lordship naturally, if illogically, re
plied that until his assailants had been
Drought to book he would not give a farth
lDg to public objects in Sussex, but as soon
as the wicked writers had been discovered
would subscribe 300 a year to the club.
SNARLING LIKE TOMCATS.
Churchill and Chamberlain Unable to Be
come Reconciled.
rBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, April 20.-r-BIrm"ingham Tories
and Liberal-Unionists, after a temporary
rally which enabled them tb defeat the Lib
eral candidate, are again abusing each
other with refreshing energy. Each side
accuses the other of falsehood and treachery,
and Chamberlain and Churchill are snarl
ing at each other like rival tomcats. Glad
stone is enjoying the fnu from the healthful
seclusion of Hawarden Castle.
On Monday Hawarden will swarm with
enthusiastic Liberal excursionists, to whom
the Grand Old Man will throw open his
park and probably say a few words on
things political in general and Birmingham
and Rochester is particular.
MAY BE MUNCHAUSIAN.
An Engineering Scheme to Avoid Trouble.
With the Gnlf Strenm.
tBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, April 20. The Gulf stream has
been lately treated somewhat disrespectfully
in this country, which owes so much to it
At the beginning of the week a lot of men
of science amused themselves with a model
of it, and now one John King proposes to
shut out what he calls its erosive action by
constructing an isthmus from Tow Point, in
Ireland, to the Mull of Cantyre, in Scot
land. The distance is only HU miles. The
strait does not average more than 200 to 400
feet in depth, and an isthmus would enable
a vast surface land, at present marshy or
submerged, to be reclaimed.
Scientific engineers say the project is
feasible, but common persons place it in the
Munchasian catalogue, in which a bridge
across the Atlantic has long occupied an
honored position.
A SEASON OP MILD GAIETY.
Queen Victoria Not to Observe Very Lengthy
Olonrnlng'.
fBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, April 20. The Queen has
taken pity on society, and mourning for the
late Duchess of Cambridge will not be so
prolonged or severe as was expected. Her
Majesty will visit the Prince and Princess
of "Wales at Sandringham, next week, and
there will be some mild gaiety, including
acting of Irving and Ellen Terry, who
have been commanded to appear next
Thursday, to their great personal inconven
ience and the deep disgust of the people who
had booked places at the Lyceum tor the
night.
Next month the Queen, with the help of
the Princess of Wales, will, hold three draw
ing rooms, and the Prince of Wales a cou
ple of levees.
A MABEIAGE THAT MAY NOT BE.
The Nnptlnls of a Royal Couple Likely
Never to Take Place.
IBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.1
London, April 20. Berlin and Vienna
newspapers have just informed the world
what The Dispatch correspondent cabled
months ago, that the recent absence from
Bulgaria of Princess Clementine was for
the purpose of finding a wife for her son,
Prince Ferdinand.
The lady who is said to be willing to
share Ferdinand's rickety throne is under
stood to De a Tincess ot tbe house of
Orleans, a Bourbon, but people who know
the cordial relations existing between the
Czar and the Comte de Paris confidently
assert that such a marriage will never be
allowed to take place.
CHAEITY BEGINS AT H0UE,
And Many Londoners Are Being Reminded
of the Adage.
rBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.J
London, April 20. Certain British re
ligious societies are putting up a mission
hall near the Paris Exposition, with a view
of converting wicked foreigners bv a full
and Javish distribution of Bibles and tracts.
The mission will cost thousands of pounds
and people with hard heads, as well as soft
hearts, are writing to the newspapers, urg
ing that the money would be better spent in
lessening the miseries of London's poor
than in converting foreigners, however be
nighted. SACRIFICED TO SCIENCE.
A Doctor Gives His Own I.lfe to Save That
of n Utile Child.
rBT CABLE TO TBE DISPATCH.
London, April 20. A young doctor re
cently sacrificed his own life and saved a
child's by sucking the clogged tracheotomy
tube in the throat of a little patient in the
last stages of dinhtheria. His widow may
now read in medical newspapers harsh de-
THE-
nunciations of her noble husband, who, it is
"asserted, was not heroic, but foolhardy.
It seems he should have had ready to
band an efficient mechanical sucker.
O.W A SLIGHT CliEW.
One of tho Denmark's Abandoned Lifeboats
Picked Up at Sen.
LONDON, April 20. Captain Blackle n,
of the British steamer Minnesota, at Til-bnry-on-the-Thames,
from Baltimore, re
ports that on the 11th instant in latitude
450 18' north, longitude 37 50' "West, he
passed a lifeboat painted white, -with the
words "Denmark," "Copenhagen," in
black letters on the stern. The sea was
In the boat were one oar, three rowlocks
in position for use, and one boathook. A
tarpaulin laid along the bottom of the boat,
which was half full of water. The painter
was -coiled in the headsheets. Pieces of
cigar boxes were also seen in the boat.
There was every appearance that the people
"who had been aboard had been taken off.
B00DLERS MUST 60.
Canada is Getting Ready to Bounce tbe
American Defaulters Sir John 9Inc
Donald Champions the Meas
ure in Parllnment A
Moral Lesson.
Ottawa, Ont, April 20. In the House
of Commons to-day, on Sir John Thompson
moving to transfer Mr. Weldon's hill to ex
tend the extradition act to Government
orders, Mr. Lanrier suggested that as the
details of the measure would create consid
erable discussion, it be not passed at this
late stage of the session. Sir John Mac
Donald said there was great moral impa
tience on the part of the people of Canada
to put an end to the influx of rascality from
the United States.
Cynics might say we had enough ras
cality of our own, but it was well to tell
the world that we don't want either those
people or their ill-gotten gains. He thought
the bill so unobjectionable in principle
that it would meet with little opposition;
but. if its details were likely to
lead to protracted debate, it would
then remain in the House
to say what disposition should be made of
it. Sir John MacDonald pointed out that
both England and Canada were anxious to
enlarge the list of extraditable offenses, and
that whatever delay had been in this direc
tion was due to the action of the American
authorities.
' He thought this bill could only take effect
by proclamation, but held that by passing
it a great moral object would be gained, as
Canada would thereby inform England and
the United States that she was anxious to
have the extradition treaty enlarged. It
would have a moral effect by informing
United States defaulters that Canada would
not harbor them an hour if she could pre
vent it. He thought that tbe details of the
measure could be made acceptable to the
House by an informal discussion rather
than by a set debate. The motion was
passed.
BITTERS IN MAINE.
The Stuff That Tickles the Stomach Con
tains Much Alcohol.
Banook, April 20. People in the rural
districts of Maine, who like to be consid
ered strictly temperate, yet still have a
yearning for "stomach bitters," are getting
their eyes opened to the fact that almost
all patent medicines of this character are
booze, or pretty near it. Down in the town
of Pembroke, Washington county, a few
days ago, a citizen who took an overdose of
some highly-recommended bitters, became
very hilarious, and wanted to lick every
man in the place, selectmen and ministers
included.
The village druggist, who sold the bitters,
was arrested and brought before Justice
Smart for trial. He pleaded not guilty on
the ground that he had sold only a bottle of
stomach bitters, which he declared was not
intoxicating, and handed the Justice a
sealed bottle of the preparation, together
with an invoice of the same from a Portland
druggist of whom he had bought the goods.
The local division of the Sons of
Temperance sent the bottle of bit
ters to State Assayer Bobinson for analysis,
and that official found it contained 45 per
cent of alcohol, the balance being mainly
water, so that the highly recommended dys
pepsia cure was nothing more nor less than
that hilarious and high-kicking fluid com
monly known as prohibition whisky.
Thestomach bitters business is a big thing
in Maine, and the various preparations in
that line are bottled and labelled in a most
artistic way. The traffic will probably
thrive on in spite of the Sons of Temper
ance, but even if it should peg out what's to
hinder a man buying a bottle of hair re
storer? CHECKMATED HIS FATHER.
An Indiana Boy Gets Married to Avoid
Paternal Whippings.
lEFECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.1
Louisville, Kt., April 20. Louis Jelp
is a stout 17-year-old boy, living in Ander
son county. On Monday last he was plow
ing on his father's farm, near Lawrenceburg.
The plow was drawn by a mule of vicious
propensities. The mule balked, and Jelp,
to make him go along all right, struck him
with the plow line. The animal kicked the
plow to pieces and ran away. Jelp's father
was plowing the adjoining field, and wit
nessed the runaway and smashup. He was
angry at his son for striking the mnle, and,
picking up a piece of the plow line, gave
him a severe thrashing.
After the whipping, young Jelp, very
sore both in bodv and mind, went to the
next farm, occupied" by Miss Malinda Hig
gins, a lady with a read head and 41 years
to her credit. The boy knew her well and
he related to her how cruelly his father had
treated him. Miss Higgins was lull of
sympathy and suggested to hbn that there
was a way in which he could emancipate
himself trom the control of an unfeeling
father. He inquired how it was to be done,
and she replied that he might marry her
and thus settle all his difficulties.
Jelp accepted Mis Higgins' proposition,
and on the following day the two took the
train at Lawrenceburg, coming to this city.
They immediately crossed over to the Indi
ana shore, where a license was issued and
they were married by 'Squire John Huche
ly. On tke following day the bride and her
youthful husband returned to the former's"
home in Anderson county. Mrs. Jelp has
nofearofher hnsband's father, and invites
him to make trouble if he dare. She is worth
510,000.
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, JU11B0 OF THE SOUND.
The Crack Puritan is tho Largest River
Steamboat AQoat.
New Yobk, April 20. At the foot of
Butgers street, East river, on the dry dock,
high and dry, her bottom glistening with
new paint, rests the Puritan, the largest
river steamboat in the world. The Puritan
is the new crack boat of the Fall Biver
Line, and will have cpst over $2,000,000
when completed. ,
The Puritan was towed to the dock by
five tugs, and so large is the new craft that
only abont nine inches space on each side
of her separate the wheel guards lrom the
dock, which is tbe largest in this country.
Passing beneath the paddle wheels of this
monster they seem situated about as high
over your head as the roof of a church. The
Puritan is 430 feet longhand is of 4,700 tons
register. In beam, from guard to guard,
measures 91 feet. Her 8 main boilers will
hold about 700 tons of water; from dome to
keel she measures 70 feet in height, and her
walking beam weighs 65 tons. The Puritan
may be called a "sister ship" to the Pilgrim,
but she is much larger. From 20 to 22
knots an hour is the -speed which it is ex
peetedUhe P.untan -will siiow.
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PITTSBURG
A MONSTER' PARADE.
The New York Centennial Committee
Expects to Show
AN ARMY OP 60,000 MEN IN LINE.
Nearly Every State Will Contribute Its
Quota of Soldiers.
LITELY ROW 0VEE THE NATAL PARADE.
f 4quaral "r am nlmseu lnsB"ra "' """'
man Gerry.
The Washington Centennial Committee
are straining every nerve to make the mili
tary parade one of the grandest ever seen in
this country, and present indications are
that they will succeed. Another squabble
has broken out in regard to the arrange
ments of the affair. This time it is between
Chairman Gerry and Admiral Porter, who
is grand marshal of the naval display. The
Admiral feels that he has been insulted,
and will probably resign.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1
New Yobk,' April 20. It has been said a
good many times since the big centennial
show began to monopolize public attention
that the celebration would not be a thor
oughly popular one. It is no fault of the
Governing Committee, but a fact, neverthe
less, that the only features which are open
for the enjoyment of the public at large are
the two parades, the concert of the German
societies in Madison Square and the fire
works. All the other features of the show
can, of necessity, be witnessed by only a
very few people comparatively. It was in
view of this fact that the committee put spe
cial effort upon the two parades. It was
desired that these entirely public features
should, in their completeness and splendor,
in some measure atone to the public for the
apparent exclusiveness of the other events.
The military parade, which Colonel S. V.
E. Cruger has been elaborating with great
care, will certainly be the greatest demon
stration of its kind ever witnessed in this
city. Every State has been invited to send
its National Guard, and as an inducement
the committee has ottered to pay the entire
boarding and lodging expenses of any num
ber of men the States may send. There are
13 States which have not responded to the
committee's invitation as yet.
ALMOST AN ABMY.
They are Arkansas, California, Colo
rado, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Texas, Minne
sota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon
and "Wisconsin. There are four which have
accepted the invitation bnt have not yet
specified the number of men they will send.
These are Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois and
Alabama. Still, with 21 States and tbe
District of Columbia, the list foots up 51,
850 men. Tne total is made up in this way:
First division, troops in regular service, 2,
400; Second Division, State militia, 37,100;
Third Division, Grand Army posts, 12,350.
The length of time the patriotic Ameri
can will have to spend looking at this great
parade is a little appalling. At tbe Phila
delphia Centennial the parade made what
is considered by military authorities phe
nomenal time. It passed a given point at
the rate of 7,000 men an hour. Supposing
the parade of April 30 should make the
same time, and this is doubtful, it will Ae
li hours passing the reviewing stand. But
the possibilities are even more appalling.
The 17 States which have not reported yet
are expected to send a representation from
their National Guards. Suppose each of
these States should send 500 men (and the
estimate is exceedingly small), there will
then be 60,500 men in line.- The man, there-
lore, who sees the whole parade will sit on
his $2 board seat almost, if not quite, nine
hours. x .
MOBB SQUABBLING.
"The relations between ElbridgeT. Gerry,
as Chairman of the Centennial Executive
Committee, and Admiral David D. Porter, of
the navy, as Grand Marshal of the naval
parade, have become strained. This is due
to Mr. Gerry's interference with the general
order in relation to the naval display in the
harbor of New York issued by Admiral
Porter a few days ago," said one of the
members of the Committee on 'Navy to-day.
After the receipt of this order it seems
Mr. Gerry went to the Committee on Navy
and said to them that Admiral Porter must
be given to understand that this celebration
was gotten up by the city of New York,
and that, although Admiral Porter was ap
pointed Grand Marshal, the right hadtnot
been given him to formulate any pro
gramme. On Thursday afternoon the Com
mittee on Navy met and had ready.a type
written copy of a programme for the parade,
which was submitted and acted upon. This
differs materially from Admiral Porter's
order, and it is the impression that he will
revoke the order to Bear Admiral Jouett,
who is Admiral Porter's executive, to come
to New York on "Wednesday and complete
the programme, and that he himself will
decline the Grand Marshalship.
A DOWNBIGHT INSULT.
Admiral Porter's order provided that the
naval vessels should anchor off Ellis'
Island, the Chicago one or two lensrths north
of the island, the others tohe southward of
that ship: the revenue curlers and yachts
will be anchored in double columns 100
yards apart, to the southward of the naval
vessels; the river and sound steamboats will
form in double column to the southward of
the yachts, 100 yards apart.
The Gerry Committee on Navy Pro
gramme provides that the navv vessels shall
be anchored off Bobbins reef, and that the
steamboats shall be in two grand divisions.
The first division is to form in the upper
bay, the right resting to the southwest of
buoy No. 1 at the lower end of Governor's
Island, astern of the flagship (the Hoboken
ferryboat Bergen), the left toward Staple
ton," S. I. The orders of the committee and
of Admiral Porter clash in other and more
important points.
One of the officers of the navy said: "It
is a question if Admiral Porter does not
tell this committee to go to some one else to
look out for their parade. It is a down
right insult, this treatment of him. Alter
making him a Grand Marshal, and seeing
his first official order, they revoke it and
substitute another; in other words, they
want him as a figurehead, an automaton.
But Porter is not that Bort of a man. He
knows what is proper to do, and he will not
consent to any such breach of etiquette
without a protest."
TBE TBESIDENI'S PBOGBAMME.
Mr. Frank S. "Wilherbee, an aid to the
Centennial Entertainment Committee, who
has been in Washington arranging details
with President Harrison, to-day annonnced
that those arrangements had been com
pleted. The President, Mrs. Harrison and
Mrs. McKee will arrive at Elizabethport at
7 o'clock on the morning ot the 29th. After,
breakfasting with Governor Green, of New
Jersey, the party will leave at 9 o'clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Bussell Harrison will meet
the party here.
Accompanying the President on his spe
cial train will he Miss Murphy, a guest at
the "White House, Secretary Tracy, Secre
tary and Mrs. Blaine, Miss Margaret
Blaine and "Walter Blaine, Secretary Busk
and the Justices of the Supreme Court.
Postmaster General Wanamaker will take
an early train and meet'the partv at Eliza
bethport, and Attorney General Miller will
meet the party here. Secretarv Noble will
stay at "Washington and look after the Gov
ernment. A Legal Holiday.
"Washington, April 20. The Solicitor
of the Treasury has given its his official
I opinion that the 30th last, is a legal holi-
DiSPATCHpOTT, JIMr
day for all national bankers and for com
mercial purposes in those States having a
feneral law making all days a general holi
ay in the State when so declared by the
President
IS HE A CHEISTIAN?
A Southern Methodist Minister's Reply to
Talmngo on tho Question of Misce
genation The African nnd tho
Cancassian Cannot
Amalgamate.
(SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1
Atlanta, April 20. Bev. Simon P.
Richardson, a leading Methodist minister
and Presiding Elder of Georgia, has sent a
reply to the Bev. T. DeWitt Talmage, who
recently preached in favor of miscegenation,
"f. Richardson says:
I cannot understand how any man with Dr.
Talmage's wisdom can advance such a miser
able doctrine as that of miscegenation. When
ever you try to Improve upon the work of tho
Almighty and blend two such distinct races as
tne African and the Cancassian, you not only
bring out and develop the bad traits in each.
Put weaken the human family. The negro is
as distant from the whitemanas is the coon
from the fox or the wolf from the doe. That
the Almighty Intended that these races should
be kept separate and distinct Is evidenced by
the fact that while they readily crossrIet two
mulattos marry, and in -the fourth generation
they cease to produce their species. This Is an
unfailing fact that is not generally known.
The same rule applies to crosses between the
animals I have named. Tho blood of the negro
Is different from the blood of the white maD, as
Is also his entire anatomy. The Lord created
the negro as in inferior race, and it is desired
that be so remain. To amalgamate the two
dwarfs the species and weakens every mental
ana physical power. To develop either to its
fullest strength they must remain entirely dis
tinct and separate.
I have lived among negroes all my life, and
carefully studied their natures and habits.
Their passions are as uncontrollable as those
of a wild aninal. It took the Greeks, one of
the finest nations on earth, more than 1,000
years to bring thomselves up to that degree of
culture for which they were remarkable, and
yet Dr. Talmage proposes to accomplish that
same result with the colored race. If Dr. Tal
mage is really sincere in his theory I saggest
that he try tbe experiment in his own family
before he forces bis theory upon an entire
nation.
K0 QUESTIONS ASKED.
How So Many Postmasters Can be Ap
pointed In One Day.
rSFECIAL TELEOBAU TO THE DISPATCH.l
"Washington, April 20. Nine hundred
and fifty-five is the sum total of the fourth
class postmasters appointed during this
week. This exceeds all former weekly
records, and the record of to-day ex
ceeded that of any single previous day.
Tho day of greatest slaughter heretofore saw
209 corpses on the field. This evening the
list ot slain for' the day footed up217. Little
investigation is made in regard to the appli
cants. Senators and Representatives who
inrnisn tne lists are held responsible. The
lists are brought, to the Postmaster General,
and with a stroke of the pen he makes the
appointments. Following are the Penn
sylvanians: James Hughes, Amity; T. Coburn, Aurora;
John Hecock, Benton; Caroline Rotley, Cono
quenessing; J. W. Woodward. Coon's Corners;
A. H. Cratey. Crosby; J. H. Ressler, Dalbole: C.
E. Zlnger, Etters; James Marshall, Hoi
ton; 8. W. Backman. Timeville; J.
B. Henry, McCoysville: J. M. Miller,
Marion Station; J. W. Stalford, Merryall;
H. L. Row, Merwin: A. Duff, Moravia: G.
H. Baxter, Nelson; J. D. Gillen. New Free
dom: J. D. Schickel. Paxinns; A. TL Hphmmfl,
Tuxletown: C. H. Shepard. Wells; W. W.
Graham, Winterstown; H. Mann, Wood's Run.
Following are the appointments for West
Virginia: C. G. Laskey, Davis: F. W. James,
Hendrick; W. P. Rncker. Lewisburg; J. M.
Pifor, Parson; A. L. Helmick, Thomas.
D. W. Gray was appointed postmaster at
Patmos, Mahoning county, Ohio, the first ap
pointment for Eastern Ohio in several days.
WILL FIGHT THE TRUST.
Clam Spreckels Talks Abont His Phiiadcl
phi'a Sugar Refinery.
San Fbancisco, April 20. Clans
Spreckels went to Philadelphia to-day in or
der to direct in person the fitting up of his
new refinery' building in that city. Mr.
Spreckels said that he expected to have a
tilt with the sugar trust prices, bnt he felt
assured that he would come out best. He
expects to have his Philadelphia refinery in
running order by June.
"Freight rates were against me here,"
said Mr. Spreckels, "and I like a rat in a
hole against them when all my business was
here. Now I will use my California re
finery to supply -11 local tgade and points
this side of the -Missouri river and will cut
underall the trust prices. I feel confident
that the tariff will not be taken off
sugar, not for some time at least.
This coming season I expect to turn out
4,000 tons of beet sugar from the Watson
ville factory. We will try and have one
more factory equipped and ready for work
next year. These factories will cost about
$600,000 each.
The Occidental Beet Sugar Company was
incorporated yesterday, with Claus Spreck
els, John D. Spreckels, M. Ehman and
Louis Sloss as directors. The capital is
$5,000,000. Mr. Spreckels when questioned
closely again positively asserted that he
never would join the trust.
THE BEST HE COULD DO.
A Yankee Father's Uncertain Welcome to a
New Danghter-In-Lnw.
Youths' Companion. 1 .
An old farmer in one of the New England
States had a son whose actions sometimes
indicated a lackof common sense; bnt with
natural parental love and consideration, the
old gentleman excused all his shortcomings
by saying: "He does the "best he can,
Jimmy does,'' which was perhaps true.
When Jimmy was 22 or 23 years ol age he
went to work for a farmer living in a neigh
boring county.
Three months after his departure he sur
prised his parents by writing to them that he
had been married, and would visit them the
following week.
Preparations for receiving the voun?
couple in a manner befitting a bride and
bridegroom were at once begun, and when
they arrived they found all the groom's
relatives gathered" to receive them.
The bride was a dull-looking and by no
means handsome young woman, and for a
moment the father-in-law seemed disap
pointed; then, his better nature asserting i
self, he greeted her warmly, and turning to
his son, said, with his old-time optimistic
cheerfulness:
"Welcome home, Jimmy: welcome, my
boy; ye did the best ye could, I've no doubt;
welcome, my daughter."
ALLEGHENY GAMBLERS BAIDED.
Nineteen Men Arrested nnd Two Gambling
Outfits Seized by the Police.
Two gambling dens were raided by the
Allegheny police at an early hour this
morning, and the players and outfits taken
to the lockup. The raid was conducted by
Chief Kirschler and Detectives Murphy,
Wilson and Johnson. They first proceeded
to Evans alley, near the foot of Chartiers
street, where six men and a poker layout
were captured. FredJiVilson was the pro
prietor, and the balance gave their names
as Charles Cook, Prank Livingston, James
Watson, William Brown and John Ward.
The officers next went to the rooms of the
Manchester Bod and Gun Club, above the
Enterprise Bank, corner of Franklin street
and Beaver avenue. The door of the place
was broken open and 13 people captured.
They gave their names as Charles Jones,
Gilbert Stewart, Charles Jackson, George
Kane, Prank Irwin, Frank Smith, Harry
Kernel!, Lewis Goswell, Thomas Jones,
Harry Galbraith,GeorgeSmith,J.imes John
son and John Smith. A full gambling
outfit was also captured.
Only'a Little Blaze.
Alarm No. 4 at 1:50 this morning was oc
casioned by a blaze in a shed over a bake
oven in the rear of No. 63 Second avenue,
occupied by Mr. Hyneman.
W9?-
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IN L'A BELLE PARIS.
Rose Michelet, the Little Blonde Maid,
and Her Son, the Call Boy.
THE BERNHARDT AND JME HADING
Gay and Exhilarating Scenes oa the Bois
De Boulogne.
I0ST 15 THE CATACOMBS OF PARIS.
A Bosebml From an American Belle a Beeompense for
a Moment of Terror. ,
Our Paris correspondence gives below a
view of life in that great city. He relates a
womanly passage between Sara Bernhardt
and Jane Hading, and tells of an unpleas
ant experience in the catacombs.
LCOItEESrOXDENCE OP THE DISPATCH.
Pabis, April 11. My room and my hotel
are delightful save for one disadvantage.
I cannot have a bath without walking
down to the end of the halL It is declared
to me, and I think truly, that the people of
Paris are not very remarkable for keeping
themselves clean. I judge of them from
their resources for bathing. In this great
house there is but one bathroom on each
floor. It is a spacious apartment, furnished
with every requisite, and in a room along
side is the special service of the floor. I am
assured by a smart little French maid that
it is quite unusual to supply a bath in the
room of a guest.
My excellent room, furnished in far better
style than the usual hotel room in America,
with a handsomely carved chamber set ot
mahogany, heavy silk curtains, pictures,
candelabra, and a fine bronze clock, costs
me 5 francs a day. Service is 1 franc extra.
My service consists of the little maid and a
simpering man. The maid does all the
work. The man appears to overlookthings,
and is sitting in his little office most ot the
time reading a paper. He is a great smiler.
Every time I pass hia'door he gazes out and
contributes a most encouraging smile. I do
not care for this man, because I know he
gets all the "tips," and the neat little maid
does the work. I handed her an extra franc
to-day. As I passed the door of the
"Service" ten minutes later the man cast
the brightest smile upon me that he had yet
accorded. 1 Knew that he bad that trauc
IN HIS INSIDE POCKET.
The people employed about the hotel all
speak eood enougn English. The man in
the "ascencenr" rather disconcerted me on
my first trip upstairs, when I timidly ven
tured to say:
"Le trolsieme, s'il vous plait."
"Third floor ? Yes sir;" he replied in the
most American style of English. Then he
looked at me and smiled.
"You are an American," I said.
"I am a New Yorker. I ran the elevator
at the Windsor for four years."
"The call boys are French, but everyone
of tbem speaks English perfectly. They
are in umiorm Diue, witn red caps, bound
round with gold braid. One of them who
had been fetching things to my room for me
was a remarkably bright and fine looking
boy of about 14. I asked him some ques
tions about himself, among them what his
name was.
"Pierre Michelet," he answered, "and
my mother is on this floor in the service
room."
"Do you mean to tell me that the little
maid with the blonde hair who fixes this
room is your mother?"
"Oui, monsieur. She is my mother, Bose
Michelet."
BEBNHABDT AND HADING.
I was having my roll and coffee at a table
in front of tbe Cafe de le Paix at 11 o'clock
yesterday moraine and enjovin? the splen
did concourse of equipaees and the gorgeous
panorama of promenaders that streamed in
rivers of color along the Bue de la Paix
and the Avenue de l'Opera. In a half hour
I saw a hundred people whose faces are
familiar on Broadway.
One incident was decidedly entertaining
to me. Two landaus, one going up the
avenue, the other going down, passed each
other directly in front of where I sat. I im
mediately recognized tbe occupants of each
carriage. One was a most remarkable figure
of a woman, with sleepy eyes, yellow hair,
and her mouth drawn down shapely at the
corners. She held a lilac colored parasol
over her head, and she seemed dreaming of
something miles away. But when her car
riage passed the other one that I mentioned
her sleepy eyes gave one, quick, sidelong
gleam and rested on the woman sitting
there. This woman was the handsomer ot
the two, and younger. Her face was as
white as a white rose, her hair dark red,
her eyes inexpressibly fine and dark. She
was attired divinely. As she was whirled
by she swept her long lashes downward with
an air of proud disdain at the yellow-haired
woman who was passing. I had to smile at
this encounter of famous woman, for I could
well imagine what was going on in the
minds of each.
One was Sara Bernhardt and the other
beautiful Jane Hading.
THE BOIS DE BOULOGNE.
Everyone drives out through the Champs
Elysee and into the Bois de Boulogne each
afternoon just as they drive out Filth ave
nue and into the park at 'home. But the
approach to the park here is the finest part
of the drive The broad, hard road skirted
by trees, with the walks on each side and
the houses beyond, is perhaps as splendid a
thoroughfare as can be found in the world.
One is struck at once bv the immense variety
of people and vehicles that follow oue
another out ot the city on these bright after
noons. The display is far more cosmopolitan than
anything we see in New York, and I do not
think the quality of it compares with what
we can see on any April day in New York.
Most of the carriages are hired, and are
very dilapidated. The drivers, in red
waistcoats, faded coats and high hats, made
oi oiacK or wmie patent leather that looks
like painted tin, never hold themselves
well, and the spruce and elegant character
istic of an American or English pageant of
this sort is noticeably absent. But the im
mense crowd, and the general picturesque
ness of it all, forms a picture that is con
tinually absorbing and exhilirating.
IN THE CATACOMBS.
You are obliged to get a card of admis
sion to the catacombs of Paris, and when
you arrive at the entrance you will find
probably 1O01 people waiting to be shown
through this wierd underground city of the
dead. All Americans go through the
catacombs, and the other morning when I
jumped out of my fiacre in the queer little
whitewashed inclosure at the head of the
steps I saw a typical matinee audience wait
ing to be shown the bones of 1 cannot say
how many million French people.
We bought candles of the old women who
hawked them about the yard and then
started down in single file through the Iron
door leading into a wall, like the door to a
tomb. The staircase was a spriral one, and
I grew tired after the first few moments of
counting the steps. The air grew percepti
bly colder as we descended, and peculiarly
uncanny and frightful. It seemed like go
ing down into the sea. The moisture dripped
iuto my face from the ceiling after a time.
I presume we walked in a line for
fully two niles through tortuous pas
sages, scarcely wide enough to pass a per
son in, with piles of bones reaching above
our heads and crowned with grinning
skulls. The gronnd, nnd the ceilings, were
of the consistency of damp chalk. My .feet
grew wet as I walked, and the moist air'was
painful to my lungs. A bell was tolline
most dismally somewhere in Jhe dreadful
place. A group of French students up
ahead of me were singing a ribald song.
The candles in front and behind me cast
r-J"5'
wet, silvery fleams of light over the skel
etons. A GHASTLY EXPEBIENCE.
I regretted coming into the dreadful place.
I had heard of people getting lost in -the
catacombs. I could imagine nothing so
ghastly in life. And it is gospel truth that
for nearly a minute I and a well-known
society girl of New York, she a stranger to
me, tboughtourselves lost. We reached a
dark cell from which converged four or five
different paths. We happened to be at the
end of the line. The rest vanished some
where, we could not say where. Which
road to take we d.d not know. She stood
with her back against one wall holding her
canl'e high above her head and staring
wildly at me. I have no doubt I was in as
great an attitude of Tear as she.
I shall never forget the locks of
that girl or the sound of her
scream as she understood her situation. I
ran to her, grasped her by the arm. and
shouted. And then one of the guides of
the line came out of one of tbe roads into
the cell where we were. We both clutched
him nervously by the hands. The girl was
crying hysterically, and I was laughing the
same way. The guide ran ahead and we
, followed, soon catching up with the rest of
the people. When we arrived a half hour
latter up into the clear, safe world X
thanked my stars that I was ont of that
tomb. The society girl from New York
threw a rose to me as she jumped into a
landau with her family, otherwise I should
have hated that journey through the cata
combs of Paris. Fbancais.
WASHINGTON'S APPEARANCE.
.David Ackerson Minutely Describes
the
Father of His Conntrv.
David Ackerson In Albany Exnre;3.1
Washington had a large1 thick nose, and
it was very red that day, giving me the im
pression that he was not so moderate in the
use of liquors as he was supposed to be. I
found afterward that this was a peculiarity.
His nose was apt to turn scarlet in a cold
wind. He was standing near a small camp
fire, evidently lost in thought and making
no effort to keep warm. He seemed sixfeet
and a half in height, was as erect as an In
dian and did not for a moment relax from a
military attitude.
Washington's exact height was 6 feet 2
iches in his boots. He was then a little
lame from striking his knee against a tree.
His eye was so gray that it looked almost
white, and he had a troubled look on his
colorless face. He had a piece of woolen
tied around his throat and was quite hoarse.
Perhaps the throat trouble from which he
finally died had its origin about then
Washington's boots were enormous. They
were No. 13, His ordinary waiting shoes
were No. 11. His hands rere large in pro
portion, and he could not buy a glove to
fit him and had to have his gloves made to
order. His mouth was his stroncr featnre.
his lips being always tightly compressed.
That day they were compressed so tightly as
to be painful to look at
At that time he weighed 200 pounds, and
there was do surplus flesh about him. He
was tremendously muscled, and the fame of
his great strength was everywhere. His
large tent, when wrapped up with the poles,
was so heavy that it required two men to
place it in toe camp wagon. Washington
would lift it with one hand and throw it in
the wagon as easily as if it were a pair of
saddlebags. He could hold a musket with
one hand and shoot with precision as
easily as other men did with a horse pistol.
His lungs were his weak point and his
voice was never strong.
He was at that time in tbe prime of life.
His hair was a chestnut brown, his cheeks
were prominent, and his head was not large
in contrast to every other part of his body,
which seemed large and bony at all points.
His finger joints and wrists were so large
as to be genuine curiosities. As to habits
at that period I found out much that might
be interesting. He was an enormous eater,
but was content with bread and meat, if he
had plenty of it. But hunger seemed to
put him in a rage. It was nis custom to
take a drink of mm or whisky on awaken
ing in the morning.
Of course all this was changed when he
grew old. I saw him at Alexandria a year
before he died. His hair was very gray and
his form was slightly bent. His chest was
very thin. He had false teeth which did
not fit, and pushed his under lip outward.
GIELS WHO WASTE MONET.
Servants Patronize Peddlers and Bay
Worthless Things at Hlsh Prices.
CbiciEO Herald. 1
The average servant girl is a veritable
chump from Chumpville when it comes to
pnrchases. She is "pie" for the peripatetic
peddler; He can invariably talk her into
the belief that his wares are a great bargain,
and she will give up her wages to him with
out a murmur. She will sign her name to
an agreement to pay $10 in weekly install
ments of 25 cents, for a 2 album, and will
think she is getting away the best of it.
She will trade five old dresses for a quarter's
worth of plaster of pans images and think
she has made a big bargain.
She will buy cheap jewelry, toilet soap,
dress patterns, garters and other things, be
lieving she is saving money when she is"
paying four prices for the articles, and in
other ways strengthening her reputation as
a "soft mark" in the eyes of the peddlers.
Those who often wonder how these same
peddlers live forget the servant girls and
their .foolishness.
SHB MADE FINE PIES,
And the Fact Is Solemnly Recorded on the
Rtono Marking" Her Grave.
Chsmbersburg- Spirit.
Among the mementos of the South which
Augs. Duncan, Esq., brought from Florida
with him is a quaint epitaph taken from a
tomhstone in a graveyard near New Orleans.
The epitaph runs tnns:
Here lies in the dnst
Tbe monlderlng crust
Of Eleanore Bachelor Shoven;
Well-versed in tbe arts
Of pies, pastries and tarts
And the lucrative skill of the oven.
When she had lived long enough
She made her last puff,
A puff by her hnsbandmuch praised.
Now bere she doth lie,
And make a dirt pie, I
In the hope that her crust will be raised.
TOWN TALK.
The Bargains at Thompson's New Tork
Grocery Prices for This Week Will
Astonish Yon.
4 cans Good Tomatoes (3 S. cans)... 25o
4 cans Sugar Corn 25c
4 cans Good Peas 25c
6 cans Blackberries. 25c
6 lbs Turkey Prunes 25c
5 lbs French Prunes 25c
4 lbs Evaporated Sliced Apples 25c
4 lbs Evaporated Apricots 25c
O lbs .Evaporated Peaches '25c
3 lbs Large California Plums 25c
5 packages Corn Starch 25c
3 packages Fruit Puddine 25c
8 lbs Large Lump Starch 25c
12 boxes Bag Blue 25c
5 boxes Concentrated Lye 25c
4 quarts Navy Beans 25a
5 lbs English Currants 25c
3J lbs Large Raisins j 25c
4 Bottles Ketchup.... 25c
12 bars Good Scrubbing Soap 25c
Ivory Soap, per bar 4c
Star Soap, per bar 4c
Lenox Soap 4c
Acme Shoe Polish, per bottle.,....'.... 12c
Boasted Coffee, per lb 22, 25 and 28c
English breakfast, Yonng Hvson, Oolong
and Japan Teas at 18, 20, 25, 30, 40 and CO
cents per lb. I
Goods delivered free to all parts of both
cities. Tothose living out of the city will
prepay freight on all orders of $10, $15, (20
and upward. Send for catalogue.
M. B. Thompson,
S01 Market street, corner Third avenue.
When you are needing anything in the
jewelry line call and see Jas. McKee at his
new location, 420 SmitMeld at.
I n'DT'tAT' 7?rCTTi7l'D.1l' I.TTrt
& uiuiiii rionciviaiiiut
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5
The Phenomenal Success That At
tends a Lawrence Connty Man's ?
EFFORTS WITH BOD AHD "KEEL
He Denies That He Charm3 the FinBj:
Beauties, and Says it Is
EASY TO CATCH PISH IP I0U KNOW HOW
A Crystal Pool Hasattd bjMGIjantle Fixe, Bass sad,
Salmon.
A mighty fisherman is brought- to public!
notice by our New Castle correspondent.
The lover of the piscatorial art is said to be
so successful as to bring upon himself the-,
charge of witchcraft. However, the gentle
man himself says he is successful because
he knows how to fish. ..
rCOBBXSFQXPXSCX OF TRZ DISPATCH.:
New Castie, April 20. Without doubt
the most successful angler in Western.
Pennsylvania is Joe Johnson, of New Castle.
Mr. Johnson is a well-known and highly
respected citizen of the metropolis of the
Shenango Valley, where he has resided
nearly all his life. He is by profession a.
sign painter and grainer.
During the last twelvef years, bass and
pike have not been very plentiful in. the
local streams, and the average -fisherman
has returned day after day, weary and dis-'
conraged, with no scaly beauty to exhibit
as a token of his skill.
This, however, has not been the experi
ence of Mr. Johnson, whose phenomenal'
catches have all along been the marvel of
old disciples ot Isaac Walton, who ate dis-
posed to consider Joe's success as the result-"'
of a charmed hook or a mascot carried in.
his bucket.
There is, indeed, a strong belief among;,
those who have frequently observed the.,
remarkably large number of fine fish that '
Joe usually captures, that he possesses
some secret kind of bait that lures with an
irresistible attraction the timid denizens of
the water, till they impale themselves, oa
the fatal hook. There are others who have
stood side bv side with him on the banks of
the Mahoning and Shenango, using the""
same kind of soft shell crabs that Joe uses, -and
following his motions, bnt without
sharing in his wonderful luck, and those
persons havelong ago pronounced him a
wizard, wielding a supernatural power
over the more esteemed members of the
finny tribe.
SAY3 NOTHING, BUT FISHES.
Joe pays but little attention to these
superstitious theories regarding his really
wonderful success, but likes to see people
take a common sense view of the matter,
and assign his success to superior skill and
a better Knowledge of piscatorial science,
to which qualifications it is undoubtedly
due.
All the trainmen on the Erie and Pitts
burg, Pittsburg and Bake Erie and Pitts
burg and Western roads know Joe, and
often have they gathered in groups at New
Castle Junction to view a string of 40 or 50 .
bass, averaging three or four pounds each,
which he was bringing home as the result of
a day's fishing on the Mahoning.
Larger fish than those of four or five '
pounds weight have been captured by- this
celebrated angler. Occasionally the big,
black, voracious pike oi the upper Shenango'
takes a notion to run away with Joe, pole
and all, but the attempt invariably- results
in the "fresh water tiger" being tossed upon,
the muddy bant, out of his native element,
a helpless prisoner.
Joe has captured specimens of this, fish,
weighing 28 pounds, landing them only'
after a long, hard fight. He has had manyi.
a nam inssie witn tne Dig channel cats, and.
blue
stubborn, powerful fish that tax the angler's
;, ui iuo uijj ueaver, wnica are a
sirengtrt, sciii ana tacJe to the uttermost.
A PIOHTINO PISH.
When a big 30-pound blue cat takes "hoTcfJ
of a hook, he means business every time-."
and unless your line is as stout as a small
hawser he will carry 20 or more yards of ifcw
away with him, and swallow it- with oib;
placency. leaving your big Limerick dan-ogling
in his upper lip for a trinket. It re
quires lots of nerve to land a very large,
blue cat. When hooked they have the habit
of heading at once for deep water, and every,
ounce of pressure you apply to the reel
brake only increases their speed.
However, the jaws of this fish are so
tough, that in case your tackle is of equal,
strength.it becomes a question of supremacy
between man and fish.and you must sock your
heels in the sand and hold on like "grim,
death." When you become tired and give
the fish line he refuses to take it, and set
tles down like yourself for recuperation.
His strength increases with every
moment on a geometrical ratio, and
if vou let him alone for any
length of time he will become so inflated
with a supercilious, vain idea of his total
invincibility that you will think you have
hooked a unicorn when he starts again.
Talk about the bass and salmon as game
fish; six pounds of blue cat will last longer
and pull harder than the toughest ten-pound
bass in America. Bass and salmon soon wear
themselves ont plunging hither and thither
in vain efforts to escape the hook, but the
catfish carefully husbands his strength.
when he gets an opportunity,and when you;
once hook a large oue it is simply a ques
tion of haul out, or hauln, unless you pre
fer to give him your bamboo and reel for
desert. Mr. Johnson prefers real game fish,
such as bass, pike and salmon, but has
often been compelled to land a big blue or
black-cat in order to save his line.
A riSHEB'S PAEABISE.
Near the village of Morravia on the
Beaver, there is a large pond situated about
500 yards from the stream. This pond is
fed by one of the largest springs in Law
rence county, and, as the water is pure,
pike, bass and salmon thrive in it, and
grow to an immense size. Most of these
fishes come into the pond during high,
water, when the river sweeps over the bot
toms, and not being able to escape after the
sudden decline of the freshet, are compelled
to remain there all summer.
Several years ago Joe discovered that this
pond was full of the choicest kinds of fish,
and so successful was he in angling for '
them, that the oldest residents were aston- '
ished at the size and the number oi salmon,
he captured there. His favorite stream,
however, Is the Mahoning, which is noted
for tbe larsa number of pike, salmon and
bass that live in its waters.
In the Shenango slackwater above New
Castle there are some iqmense pike and
salmon and Joe is a frequent visitor to that
locality in the fishing season. "Uncle Sam'
Smith, deceased, was also a successful
angler in his time, a hale, hearty",'
genial fellow, and since his dv,
mise Joe has no rival worth mention
ing in piscatorial prowess. Joe John
son and "Uncle Sam" have brought to this
city some of the finest strings of bass ever
seen in Western Pennsylvania. Joe's fame
as a successfnl angler is known all over
Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio.rv-.
He is now preparing his tackle for the
uuuimg seosua, wnica oppns June i. ana ex- -J
pects to capture many a splendid fish beiorejelj
George Tennan and the Press Club.
It will be a cold but mighty interesting -jjlj
subject. George Kennan, the famous ex-,1
nlorer of Siberia, will handle it and msW-F
it as warm as life Itself. "Camping Out in
Siberia" will be the topic Keally, though
Kennsn and his andience will campi)utria''t
Lafayette Hall, under the auspices of the
Pittsburg Press Club. The lecturer -fts
booked for the evening of the 29th, aad
promises a rare educational treat.
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