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PITTSBURG SUETOAY, DEOEMBER 1, 1889.
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BEFORE THE BATTLE.
Pen Pictures of the Contestants in the
Speakership Fight.
BEED'S STBENGTH AND WEAKNESS.
Gossip About McKinley, Cannon, Hender
son and Borrows.
more than that of any other man in public I Heed, he frequently moves about with bis
lite, and it is of the finest intellectual tex- hands in his pockets. He is a great smoker,
tare. "He can Bay more bright things in and is seldom seen without a cigar in bis
me space oi ten minutes than any other J mourn, tne end of which is always well
HOW THE LADIES ABE ISTEEESTD
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(COKEXEPONEKNCE or THE DISPATCH.!
Washington, November 30.
omEeed
says be
felt dur
ing bis
'rst six
uionths in
Congress
a fly
in a bowl
of mo
lasses "there
wastotsof
sweetness,
but no
light."
His con
dition i s
about the
same to
d ay as
to the
and
this is the
situation
of bis
Taffy
flows from
the tongues of McKinley and Burrows, and
Henderson and Cannon are moving about
the hotels smiling on friends and enemies
alike, with all the enthusiasm ot a cat chew
ing wax. Promises are plentier than
blackberries in August, and committeeships
are being arranged on the basis of the suc
cessful contestant.
Who will it be?
This is where the lack of light comes in.
I don't pretend to say. I give you pen pic
tuiesof all of them. Yon get the lot for a
nickel. You pays your money and you
takes your choice.
Major McKinley, of Ohio, U one of the
finest looking men in Congress. Fire feet
seven inches in height, he'is as straight as
Michael Angelo's statue ot David, and a
line dropped from the crown of his jet black
bead would jnst toucn the heels of bis pol
ished boots. Broad-shouldered and well
padded his form would serve as a model for
the "Washington Athletic Clnb, and his
classic, smooth-shaven face would not be out
of place among the signers ot the Declara
tion of Independence in the painting which
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"man in Congress can get off in the compass
of an hour. He knows what he knows, too,
and he is not afraid to say it. He has the
same confidence in himself now as he had
when he was a boy teaching school and ap
plying lor admission to the bannuan
fornia. Tom Beed tells the story himself.
His admission occurred at the time when
the constitutionality of the legal tender act
was being discussed bv the greatest lawyers
of the State of California. "The first ques
tion the Judge asked ine," says Beed, "was:
as me iecai tender act constitutional or un
constitutional?' I didn't hesitate a moment.
but I replied cooly and emphatically, 'It is
constitutional.' This ended mv question
ing. 'You can pass,' said the Judze. 'We
alwavs pass a manwho can settle ereat con
stitntional qnestions off-hand.' " Tom Beed
has been settling constitutional qnestions
from that day to this. He settled his cases
well enough to make a success as a lawyer,
and bis sell-confidence, added to his remark
able ability, has made him the Bepnblican
leader ot Congress.
SEED A GOOD LEADER.
Ko one disputes Eeed's leadership. Mc-
Kinley, Cannon, Henderson and Burrows
all follow him, and when the fight is on in
chewed. He does not weigh as much as
either McKinley or Beed, but his frame has
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Major McKinley.
Tliomaa Meed.
hangs in the rotunda of the CapitoL Major
McKinley undoubtedly Jooks like Napoleon.
Bonaparte, though he once told me that he
did not like to be reminded of the re
semblance. He has the same grave, digni
fied month, the same high, broad and full
forehead, and the same heavy lower jaw.
He is a better looking man than was Na
poleon, and his bright, dark eyes shine out
under brows which are less heavy than
those of Bonaparte, and his frown is by no
means so terrible as that of the Little Corp
oral. He appreciates, however, the value
of dignity, always dresses in a donble
breasted frock coat, and crowns bis classic
bead with a tall silk bat.
He generally walks up to the Capitol,
and as he goes along with bis chest to the
front and his tall hat in the air, he is one
of1 the striking figures on Pennsylvania
avenue. It was during snch a walk that I
once passed him in the street car, in com
pany with two Maryland Congressmen.
These men were free-traders, and they
naturally disliked McKinley. As we went
by bim, one ot them pointed to the street
and said inja most significant tone:
"Some men are born great, and some are
born in Ohio."
The other two Congressmen laughed and
said, "just so," and the two continued to
iggle over the remark for the next three
lorks.
THE OHIO MAX.
McKinley was born in Ohio, and he made
bis first speech one cold February morning
just forty-five years ago. Whether born
great or not, he has succeeded in making
himself so in the eyes ot the people. He is.
not a man of extraordinary natural ability,
bnt be is possessed of the genius of common
sense. He knows how to take advantage of
a koou opportunity, ana ne never mases a
mistake. He does not speak olten in Con
gress, and bis speeches cover but few sub
jects. He prepares himself well, however,
and when he does rise the House and the
country know that be has something to ear.
He is well posted on the rules of the House
and he wonld make a good Speaker. His
election might be looked upon as a declara
tion to the country that the BeDnhlican
party proposed to run its campaign on the 1
protective tans basis, and be would be just
the opposite of the former Speaker, Mr.
Carlisle. He would in many ways make a
Much better Speaker than Mr. Beed, and
be party could much easier spare him from
he floor than the bright-eyed, vitriol
oncued genius from Maine.
u Tom Beed is a renins. His brain weighr
the Honse it is Beed who watches for and is
prepared for every surprise. His long term
in Congress has amply fitted him for the
position. He is posted on all public ques
tions, and his reading has covered nearly
every field of knowledge. He is n fine
French scholar, and his Shakespeare is bet
ter thumbed than his Bible.thouph he knows
the latter well. He has an analytic mind,
and when he gets bold of a tact it drops into
oneof the little pigeon boles of his brain,
ready to slide off his slippery tongue at a
second's notice. He has the bump of humor
largely developed, and he can't resist say
ing a sarcastic thing even if it does cut tne
man at whom it is directed. It is this ele
ment of his intelleclDftinntnrR that will
Tburt bimTnTiis candTdacy'fofCBI "Bpeakef"
snip, juany ot tne snarp throes he has said
in the past are remembered now, and some
of these have lost him votes and friends.
Tom Beed looks anything but the tradi
tional leader. He has the frame of a Japa
nese wrestler, and his bead might serve for
that of a Chinese giant. He is fat and tall,
ana nis oig-nonea ooay is padded at every
point with muscular flesh. I have never
seen bim strike, but bis fist, under John
Sullivan's training, would fell an ox; and
be has a foot which would make him one of
the greatest football players of the world.
His face is broad, fair, and fat; the cheeks
puff out, and a pair of small, half-almond
eyes shine like diamonds under a broad
forehead, which goes on and on upward
until it fades away into a fuzzy baldness
about three inches in front of Beed's crown.
Beed's mouth is a strong one, and he has
a straggling red mustache on his upper lip
containing about enough bristles to make a
camel's hair brush. Beed's hair is thickest
at the sides and at the back. It is not lux
uriant at any place, and he combs the
sandy locks well up and back of his ears,
so that the ends of them just touch the col
lar of his coat. This big, round head is
pasted down upon Beed's broad, fat should
ers with a fat, wafer-like neck, and when
Beed cits in bis chair in the House, with his
hands up under his chin and elbows leaning
on his desk you wonder whether he has any
neck at all, and yon can hardly imagine
bim to be the greatest man among all the
members surrounding him.
Let a discuseion come up and you wonder
no longer. Beed's eyes begin to twinkle, a
queer smile hovers around that big mouth,
and a moment later you see him throw his
six feet into the arena of debate, and, in a
sharp nasal twang, he pours sarcasm and
argument out at triend and foe. As he goes
on with his speech his cheeks cbanee from
white to red, his semi-bald pate becomes the
eolor of a boiled lobster, and he trestnres
Jotcph Cannon.
violently with his arms, emphasizing every
sentence with a shake of his head. He cares
but little for appearances, and during the
quieter part of the session he walks about
the House with his hands in his pockets,
stopping now and then to tell a story to a
crowd of brother members, and making
laughter wherever be goes. He is alwxvs
ready with a story or a speech. He never
writes out his speeches lor the Record, anil
seldom corrects the proof of them as taken
down by the stenographers. He can make
as good au after-dinner speech as a Con
gressional one, and he enjoys the good
things of this life as well as any other man
in Congress.
JOLLY JOE CASKON.
His quarter here arenot far from those of
the Hon. Joe. Cannon, who is making a
jiveiy ngnt tor tne bpeakership, and ho
thinks be will get it. Cannon is as uncon
ventional in his appearance and babits as
Beed, bnt he is an entirely different kind of
man. Of medium height, he is lean and.
wiry, and bis fair, rosy face, with a pair of
bright blue eyes, looks out from under a
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Hs is alYesterner In appearance, ana, like j
been his custom to take a horseback ride
every day during his stay in Washington.
Mr. Cannon is now 53 years of age, and he
has been in Congress for the last 16 years.
He has always held a good position on the
floor.and he is noted as a fighter. His
favorite attitude in speaking is with one
foot on the cnair nearest bim. Then lean
ing over be shoot his words at the rate of
200 a minute at the opposite side of the
House, gesturing as be does so by shaking
his finger at the Democracy, and by now and
then violently throwing his hand at them.
He is a good speaker, is well posted on the
rules, and be has many friends. There is
nothing snobbish about him, and everyone
knows him as Joe Cannon.
Mr. Cannon has not as many enemies as
Beed, though he is by no means so meaiy
mouthed as one of his Illinois constituents.
Mr. Cannon told the story ofx this man the
other day. When talking about the habit
of "taffy-giving," which so largely prevails
at Washington, he said: "I have in my dis
trict out in Illinois a man who ought to have
been a Washington society woman. He has
a good thing to say about every man and
everything, and he comes in especially strong
at funerals. I will call him Jones for short.
There is never a funeral in the county but
tnat Jones is mere, and in talking about tne
virtues of the deceased there is no praise so
profuse nor tongue so glib as Jones'. He
can find virtues in the worst of reprobates
after they are dead, and he is packed full
of the. milk of human kindness
from the bottom of his flat cowhide
boots to the top of bis bald crown. This
peculiarity of bis has become a matter of
county talk, and two young fellows of Dan
ville made a bet upon the death of a repro
bate of the county that Jones could not find
anything good to say about him. This man
seemed to be altogether bad; he had been a
worthless, good-for-nothing, lazy fellow
during bis whole life, and he was one of
those idiosyncrasies of nature which seemed
to have no rood in them. At the time of
the funeral the young fellows making the
bet stationed themselves in the window near
which the procession going by the coffin
must pass, and waited for Jones. He came
along in good time with his handkerchief in
his hand. He stopped the procession as he
stood beside the coffin and looked down on
the reprobate's face long and earnestly. At
last with a sigh he exclaimed:
"Well, anyway, he had good teeth!"
HENDEESON A2tt BUBEOWS.
The two other candidates for the Speaker
ship are Henderson, of Iowa, and Burrows,
of Michigan. They are both reaching out
their bands after the gavel, aad there may
be some dark horses which may come in at
the last minute. Burrows and Henderson
are both built on the Brutus order, thoueh
Burrows has been christentd.br himarants.
Julius Ctssar. They are plain, blunt men, 1
and a large part or their capital lies in the
open-handed, bail-fellow, well-met style
possessed by each. Burrows is a Pennsyl
vanian by birth, and a Michigander by
adoption. He has been in Congress from
Michigan for ten years, and be thinks the
sun rises and sets in the Northwest. He is
a man of more than ordinary ability; is a
good speaker and a good stumper, and I am
told that in the campaign which he has just
finished in Virginia has made him very
popular with the Bepnblican element of
that State. He talked to the people of the
back counties as though he were teaching a
kindergarten, and gave them their first
plain understanding of the tariff.
General David Brenner Henderson is a
Scotchman, who was brought to Illinois at
the age of 6 years, and cot his education in
Iowa. He was only an ordinary member of
Congress until about three years ago, when
be made a great hit in his defense of Colonel
W. W. Dudley as Pension Commissioner.
Henderson does not look unlike Dudley; he
has the same dark hair combed up from a
high forehead, the same dark complexion
which turns to the color of the moss rose as
he talks, and the same half-limp walk, due
to the wooden leg replacing that which he,
like Dudley, lost on the battlefield. Hen
derson is a cood speaker, he gestures well.
and has Inngs equal to those of the famed
bull of Bashan. He is a lawyer by pro
fession, and be lives at Dubuque. He is
one of the handsome men of the House, and
oneofthe-well-dressed members. Hewears
a slouch hat and a cutaway coat, and pot
withstanding his wooden leg he walks well
without crutches. He is a man of great in
dustry and unlimited ambition.
THE CANDIDATE'S TVIVES.
All of the Speakership candidates are
married. Mrs. Beed is a finely educated
woman, and the daughter of the Bev. S. H.
Merrill, one of the noted Congregational
preachers of Maine. She is of medium
height and has dark hair and eyes. She is
possessed of much social ability, and she
will be a fit leader for the ladies oi the Con
gressional circle. Mrs. McKinley has
not been able to go into society for some
years on account of her health. She is a
very pretty woman, and is, like her hus
band, of Ohio birth. Her father was one of
the oldest newspaper men of that State, and
the founder of the Canton Repository. Mrs.
Cannon also comes from Ohio. She is noted
as a society leader, and she will bring to
her aid two daughters, who are very well
educated as well as very pretty. Mrs. Bur
rows met her husband when the two were at
school together. It was a case of love at
first sight, and Julius Cssar married her as
soon as be came out of tbearmy. Mrs. Bur
rows is tall and slender; she has sparkling
eyes and a rosy complexion. She is fond of
society and societv is fond of ber. The same
may be said of Mrs. Henderson, who is a
pretty entertaining Iowa lady; and, however
the fight for the gavel ends, it is certain that
the Honse social circle will not lack an ac
complished leader.
Fbastk G. Cakpentee.
WOMAN'S IDEAL MAE
Mary J. Holmes on the Qnalitiesin
Men Most Prized by Women.
LADIES' LIKES AND DISLIKES.
Things Which Make Marred Life a Fore
taste of Paradise.
A I0UNG GIKL'S OPINION OF THE MEN
tWBtTTEir FOB THI DISPATCH.
I have been asked to give my opinion as
to what qualities or actions of men are most
pleasing to women and most conducive to
their happiness. If there were but one
woman in the world, and I were that
woman, I could answer the question easily,
for I know exactly what pleases me in a
man and could tell it in a few words. But
the name of woman is legion, and every
woman has her own ideas, and these ideas
change as years go by, until, seen in the
full glare oi our summer life, or through
the speotaclea which more sober autumn
puts on, the man who, in our spring time,
was our ideal of all a man should be, falls
from his high pedestal, and the pieces of
our shattered idol are not worth the pick
ing up.
When Mrs. Jones, in her earlv eirlhood.
married Mr. Jones, she thought him the one
man in all the world who could make her
happy, and his roughness and swagger and
coarse good-humor pleased and amused her,
for tnere was in her nature something which
responded to his. But, given the same ad
vantages, women polish sooner than men,
and are quicker to adopt the little customs
of politeness and refinement, and although
Mrs. Jones is not yet so refined that she can
not'enjoy herself, she has learned to blush
at her husband's roughness, and shivers at
his coarse, loud talk,
Mrs. Brown likes to have her husband
smoke, and enjoys the .smell of his cigar,
while Mrs. Smith detests tobacco, and the
smell of a cigar makes ber sick. Mrs.
Wilkes likes her husband to dine at his
club; because it gives her more liberty to
gossip and visit, while Mrs. Tubbs cries if
she is left to dine alone. And so one might
multiply the list of women whom the minor
actions and habits of their husbands make
happy or miserable.
s THE MTSTEET OF LOTJE.
Bnt it is not altogether with the Mrs.
.Smiths, and Browns, and Joneses that this
article has to do; nor yet with that class of
women who married the man they knew to
be a drunkard, saying, as did a young girl
of my acquaintance, that they would marry
him if they knew he would be brought home
every week in a state of intoxication. That,
I suppose, islove; but of the kind of which
I know nothing from personal experience. I
could not marry a man who drank, or
gambled, or swore, or made vile remarks
about women, holding them all as low as
himself, or who had not as much or more
brain than myself. Still, there are plenty
of girls who can and do marry just snch
men and seem reasonably content.
And thus the puzzle "grows as to the qual
ity in men most prized by the better class of
women, for I do not call her of the better
class who willingly and knowingly promises
to love and honor a fool, or a roue, or a
swearer, or a gambler, or a drunkard. She
may be and often is in the so-called higher
ranks, where money reigns supreme, for
money will buy nearly everything and
everybody, and I should sometimes be
tempted to think it the golden virtue which
my sex prizes the most in men, did I not
know many a noble-minded woman who
has chosen to be poor with the man she
loves rather than, rich, with, the one she does
not
To judge others by one's self is said to be
righteous judgment, but is not always a safe
rule to follow in drawing conclusions, and
since thinking of this articlel have sounded
several women with regard to their likesand
dislikes in husbands, real or prospective. I
asked a young girl with positive opinions
what trait she would like best in her hus
band, if she had one, and her answer was
prompt and to the point: "I'd want him to
have a mind of his own, and not be bossed
round by his wife!"
WHAT THE GIELS WANT.
The reply was startling, bnt had in it
of herself; whether intentionally or not,
there must always be a hidden pain a want
or sometbing withheld, marring what might
otherwise have been perfect.
If were a man and how many chances
have recently been rung up on that if I
would treat my wife with every possible at
tention and kindness and courtesy, and the
older she grew the more attentive I wonld
be to her, for in this way, I believe, I could
mate her happy, even if Iwerenfeitherrich,
nor learned, nor famous, nor the perfect
Adonis so many young girls are expecting
for a husband. As grains of sand make the
mighty desert, so little every-day deeds of
kindness or unkindness mar or make the
sum of human happiness, and be or she who
is most thoughtful, most kind, most forbear
ing and unselfish, does the most toward
making married life what God meant it to
be a foretaste of paradise.
Maet J. HOLSTE3.
CTOSSCTT-A.:
A STORY OF EGYPTIAN-ISRAELITISH LIFE.
ENGLAND'S COAL SDPPLX.
A Decrease In tbe Production of tho Fast
Vevr Tears.
youth's Companion. 1
' A paper read before the Boyal Statistical
Society in February last, and printed in
Engineering, contains statements of Interest
to readers here as well, as in the Old World.
A coal commission was established in 1871.
Since that time statistics have been accu
mulating, and it is from these that conclu
sions are drawn. It appears that in the
northern coal fields which yield to New
castle its supply of coal, the rate of produc
tion has reached its maximum.
Within twlast four or five years there
has been a falling off in the amount of coal
mined. At the average rate of increased
production during the last 22 years the
available supply of the Newcastle district
would be exhausted in about 91 years. The
coal field of South Wales comes
next to that of Northumberland
in productiveness. Its yield last
year was 26,000,000 tons. This' repre
sents about 5,381 acres of a four-foot thick
coal seam. The, supply of the South Wales
basin is computed at one-third of the whole
supply of the United Knsrdom. At the rate
of production for the last quarter of a cen
tury, this basin will last for 79 years.
'Two-thirds of the South Wales coal
supply is obtained from Glamorganshire
If the production from this eastern portion
of the coal basin continues to increase at the
average rate of the last 24 years, it is shown
that the whole available supply will be
worked out before 60 years have passed.
Nearly one-third of the coal pro
duced in the United Kingdom is
consumed iu redncing ores ana in, con
verting iron into steel. The processes of
Bessemer, Siemens, and other inventors
have effected great saving in this direction.
The consumption of coal on steamers and
locomotive engines has been greatly lessened
bv the use of compound engines. "But with
all this economy the amount of coal used
by ocean-going steamers in 1887 was about
y,uuu,uw tons. Xhat used by steamers
in the coasting trade is reckoned at an
equal amount, and tbe locomotive engines
of England need nearly as much. As tbe
commercial and industrial prosperity of
.England depends directly upon ber coal
supply, one cannot see this dwindle and
disappear without a thought of the misery
which its want will occasion. It will do
no harm for the people of this country, as
well, to have a care for the natural resources
upon which our future industries must de
pend. GIYEN AWAI BI A PAEE0T.
BY PROF. GEORG EBERS,
Author of "Uarda," "An Egyptian Princess," Etc
(NOW FIRST PUBLISHED.)
COPTBIGnHD, 1883, BTS. S. H'CXUBXWJ
SELF CONCEIT MADE SILLY.
The Slan Who Got to be Brigadier General
ToUcn Down a Peg.
Y oath's Companion.
It is not easy to tell a self-conceited man
bow be is regarded, bnt now and then some
one proves equal to the task.
During tbe Civil War a man, great in bis
own eyes, was, by some influence, appointed
a Brigadier General. His sense of his own
importance was at once greatly increased.
He could hardly speak of anything else but
his new dignity. Meeting a "home-spun"
Yankee one day be accosted him thus:
"Well, Jim, I suppose you know I havo
been appointed Brigadier General ?"
Tes.'' said Jim, "I heerd so."
'Well, what do folks say about it?"
"They don't sav nothin'," replied truthful
James. "They jest laugh."
SWEET as chaplet of roses is Atkinson's
Extract of White Bose for the hair, cleans
ing, invigorating and frazrant, flu
xne reply was startling, but bad in it a
ring of common sense and trnth, for much
as a woman may like to boss her husband,
and pleasing as the recreation may be, she
would in her heart respect him more if he
sometimes took the reins in his own hands,
even if he upset the matrimonial car, or
drove it into a domestio cyclone.
I asked another girl, with no positive
opinions, and her answer was characteristic:
"A man is a man any way. full of corners
and quirks and cranks. Bnt we all have to
have one, I suppose, and so it does not mat
ter much, if be is only nice, and let us have
our own way."
Another, a frivolous butterfly, would like
a handsome man, who stands six feet in
his boots, and can dance without stepping
on her train, and making a gny of himself.
The girl has yet to learn that a dancing
man and a handsome man is not a man to
be desired, and that the plainest features
and most awkward manners, if they go
hand in hand with kindness of heart and a
soul of honor and integrity, are worth far
more than a Turveydrop and a handsome
face, which, in a man, seldom fails to be in
sipid. Another wonld be satisfied with a man of
high position, whom the world delighted to
honor, the reporters to interview, and the
people to stare at and point out, while she,
as his wife, shone in his reflected light.
Does not that girl know that such men
rarely have time to give to their wives, and
do not think of those little every-day at
tentions whicS are to a true, loyal woman
what the dew is -to the flowers, and without
which love will wear itself out in hot re
bellion against the ambition and its fruition
which have come between itself and hap
piness? Another wants a learned man, who has
read so much and knows so much that when
he speaks words of wisdom drop from his
lips like raindrops in a summer shower. All
this sounds very fine, or would, if the man
of erudition ever talked to her or to anyone
else; but bookworms, as a rule, are reticent
and self-absorbed, and in their abstraction
and reticence are apt to become selfish and
exacting, as was Carlyle, growling over bis
toast and tea in that not very happy home
at Craigenputtock. He was a man of learn
ing and fame, and his wife was proud and
fond of him, but, like. Dorothy in "Middle
march," who, while honoring Casanbon,
still had a hankering after his scanegrace
nephew, with his magnetism and" frank,
genial ways, she would have liked him
more and been happier with him had he
found time for those little attentions and
courtesies which women prize, and which
Keep love iresn ana young aown to a ripe
old age.
A THOBOUGH OENTLEMA1T.
Said a sad-eyed woman, whose husband
had been dead for years: "He was a gentle
man in every respect, but I loved bim most
for his kindness and thoughtfulhess, which
never allowed him to forget that I was his
wife and always made me feel that I was as
dear to bim as the first day he called me by
that name."
And she, I think, sounded the keynote of
me wnoie matter, -a. woman wno is wortny
to be the wife of a good man likes to know
that, however learned, or wise, or great, or
busy be may be, there is still in his heart a
spot where she reigns supreme, and from
which neither business, nor greatness, nor
fame, nor learning can dislodge her; that
she is his queen, to whom he pays homage,
whose presence he recognizes and whose ab
sence he deplores. She maybe rjroad of
AtVoaltUbfl Cheat Exposed by the Bird's
Tratbfnl Talk.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
"Oh, it was so funny," smiled the jolly
passenger as be left a Tenth street car at
Chestnut street and launched a derisive smile
at the bewildered conductor. "Two women
rboarded ,;tbexar at Wallace street- They
weighed an even 200 each, and besides
carried two big valises and a parrot. Tbey
were evidently uneasy at something and
gazed at the bird as if afraid that his tongue
would break loose. It did after a
while, but it served the woman
right When the conductor made
bis way through the standing crowd
and presented his hand for a fare the largest
of the sisters handed him a silver dollar.
The knight of the punch extracted 5 cents
from the Bland and returned 95 cents in
change to the passenger.
"Then he applied to the other one for fare,
and his Galway whiskers turned a brighter
hue when she coolly said: 'My sister paid
for me.' In vain he argued and protested
against two people occupying three seats for
one fare. As he turned despairingly away bis
parrotshipr who had been fidgeting in his
cage electrified the car by shouting, 'Mary,
you're a dead beat.' It was too much. The
women retreated, parrot and all, and as the
smiles of the conductor and passengers fol
lowed them an acquaintance said: 'One of
the sisters taught the bird that sentence be
cause they're always snapping at each
other.' "
BEATHLESS with suspense she
gazed at the vision; and yet she
would gladly have closed her eyes
to avoid seeing it, and have shut her ears to
the voice of tbe murmuring sycamore. Sud
denly the glory was extinct, tbe figure had
vanished, the voice of theleaves was hushed;
she saw before her, in atuddier glow, the
figure of the only man whose lips her own
had ever kissed, sword in hand, rushing on
an invisible foe at the head" of his father's
herdsmen. The vision came and was gone
as swiftly as a flash of lightning; and
yet, even before it had vanished,
she Knew all it meant to ber. This
man, whom she had named Joshua, and
who had every quality that could fit him to
be the guardian and leader of his people,
should not be led astray by love from the
high task to which the Lord had called him.
None among the Hebrews should hear the
message he "had brought, and thereby be
turned away from the perilous path on
which they had entered. Her duty wasnow
as clear in her sight as the vanished vision
had been. And as though the Most High
would fain show her that she had under
stood rightly what the vision demanded of
her, before she hadi risen from her Knees to
announce to Joshua the sorrow to which she
bad condemned him and herself, she heard
Hur's voice dose at band bidding the
crowd, which was gathering from all sides,
to form iu order for their march.
The way of salvation from herself lay be
fore her.
Joshua, meanwhile, had not ventured'to
intrude on her devotions. He was wounded
and angered to the depths of bis soul by ber
rejection. But gazing down on her he had
seen ber tall frame shiver as with a sudden
chill, her eyes and hands uplifted as if
spell-bound; and he had understood that
something great and sacred was stirring in
her soul which it would be a crime to dis
turb; nay, be had been unable'' to resist an
instinctive' feeling that be was a bold man
who could desire a woman so closely ono
with God. It would be bliss, indeed, to be
lord of this sublime creature, but at tbe
same time hard to see her prefer another,
though it were the Almighty, so far above
her lover.
'Men and beasts were already trooping in
crowds past the sycamore, and when at.
leneth Joshua-decided that he-must speak
to Miriam and remind "her of the gathering
throng, she rose, and turning to him, spoke
these vehement words:
"I have spoken with the IiOrd, Joshua,
hastily explained, greet bis father and re
quest him to call a meeting ot the elders.
But be 'ore he had done speaking the
quarreling herdsmen came crowding round
Hur that be might decide what place in the
procession it behooved each tribe to take; so
he went with them; and as soon as Miriam
found herself alone with the soldier she said
beseechingly, but in a low voice and with
imploring eyes:
"A hasty deed has broken the bonds
that united us, but a higher tie still
holds us together. As I have given up that
which mv heart held dearest to be faithful
to my God and my people, so do thou sacri-
nce mat to wnicn tny soul clings. Obey
toe Most High, who hath named thee
Joshua! This hour hath changed our glad
ness to bitter grief; may the good of the peo
ple be its fruit! Bemain a true son of the
race which gave thee thy father and mother,
and be what the Lord hath called the 3 to be,
a captain of His people.
"It thou abide by the oath thou ha', sworn
to Bharaoh, and reveal to the ciders the
promises thou hast brought, tbey will goover
to thy side; that I know lull welt Few will
stand up against thee, but foremost of these
few will be thine own father. I can hear
bim lift up his Voice in anger against his
own beloved son; and it thou shut thine ear
even to his admonition, then the people will
follow thee instead of following tbe Lard,
and thou wilt lead the Israelites as a mighty
man of valor. But then, when the day comes
aim in life, and, besides this, he had the as
surance that he might hold himself-a
worthy as Hur or as any other man.- Nom
could depose him. from this high pIao
but the glorious twain to whom be would
dedicate his blood and his Ufa. HI Go
and his people.
He was amazed to discern how greatly tai
new enthusiasm cast into tho shade every
thing else that stirred in his breast No
and again, indeed, be bowed his head laser
row as he remembered his old father? stilll
he had done right in setting aside1 his long,
ing to press him once more to his heart.
The old man would scarcely have nndertiee4
his motives, and it was better for them. t
vlit jMf fife;
Prince Beptah Ordering the Removal of I
Chains Jirom Joshua ana pnrom.t 4 j
Kasana Going Forth to Meet Joshua.
in which the Egyptian lets bis promises fly
to thetfeur winds, thou wilt see thy people
more cruelly oppressed thaa even heretofore,
and when they turn aside from the God of
their fathers' to worship the gtids with the J
beads of beasts, tbe curse or tny utner snail
fall upon thee. The wrath of the Most High
shall be visited upon the freward. and de
spair shall be the lot of him who snail lead
the foolish folk astray after that the Lord
hath chosen hist to be the captain of His"
people. I, a weak woman, the handmaid of
the Lord, and the daauel who loved thee
better than life I cry unto thee,- 'Beware of
the curse oi thy father; and the hand of (he
Lord! Beware lest thou lead' the people
WHAT A SEA COW IS LIKE.
A Strange Animal Thai Uvea in the Rivers
of Florida.
New York Tlmcs.l
On my first trip up the Manatee river I
fully expected to see a manatee, or sea cow,
raise ber big-horned head out of tbe black
water and bellow a warning at us. The
name leads -one to look for a great creature
with the hairy skin of a cow, with horns
and a frisking tail, a terrible animal big
enough to swallow tbe boat and all its con
tents, wading along the shallow shore per
haps and nibbling at grass and hushes. But
the sea cow of reality is a very different
thing from the sea cow of imagination.
There was little danger of seeing one of any
sort, for it is years since the last one was
taken in the Manatee river, except one sol
itary specimen that was considered rare
enough to be taken out to the semi-tropical
exhibition at Jacksonville. I saw it there,
and now my idea of the sea cow is clearer.
It does not roam about the country bel
lowing and swallowing whole sheep; it has
no nair and no horns, nor hoois, nor angry
tail. In appearance it is no more like a cow
than it is like a chicken, and its name
comes not from its shape, but from its habit
of living on grass and green vegetables, in
stead of eating fish or flesh.
Imbrication.
Mrs. Megrim Lemuel, what air you a
doin'? .
Mr. Me?rim .Annle-iankin' these utIm
If th stuff makes them wheels go th way it
Joshua and Ephraim Marching to the Mine.
and I know His will. Dost thou remember
the words with which God called thee?"
He bowed his head and she went on:
"It is well. Then learn now what it is
that the Most High God hath said to thy
father, and to Moses, and to me. He will
lead us forth from the land of Egypt, far,
far away,, to a land where neither Pharaoh
nor his rulers shall have dominion over us,
and He alone will be our king. This is His
will, and if thou desire to serve Him thou
shalt follow us, and, if we have need to
fight, be captain over the men ot our peo
ple.'' At this he. beat bis breast and cried in
great trouble: "I am bound by an oath to
return home to Tanis to tell Pharaoh how
the leaders of the Hebrewsliave received the
message which I have brought them. Yea,
and even, if it snouid Dreas my neart x can
not be forsworn."
"And rather Bball mine break," Miriam
moaned, than I break my vow to the Lord.
We have chosen. And here, in the presenee
of this heap of stones, all the ties are cut
which ever bound usl".
At this he was beside himself; ha eagerly
strove to take her hand, but she repulsed,
him with an imperious gestnre, turned away
and went forward towards the throng of
people who were crowding round the well
with the cattle and sheep.
Great and small respectfully made way
for her as she walked with proud dignity
towards Hur.lwbo was giving orders to the
shepherds. He came to met her, and when
he-had heard tbe promise she made him in an
undertone, he laid bis band on ber head and
said with grave solemnity: ''May the Lord
bless our union."
Then, hand in hand with the gray-haired
man to whom she had plighted her'trotb,
Miriam tnrned to meet Joshua, and nothing
betrayed the deep agitation of ber soul but
the fluttering rise and fall of her bosom,
though her cheeks were indeed pale; her
eyes were tlry, and her demeanor as unbend
ing as ever. '
She left it to Hur to tell the lover whom
she had rejected, now and forever, what she
had done; and when the warrior ieard it he
started back as though a gulf had yawned at
his feet
His lips were bloodless as he gazed at the
unequally matched pair. Scornful laughter
seemed to bim the only fit answer for snch
an announcement, but Miriam's earnest face
helped him to suppress it to coneeal his
painful aeitation under some trivial SBeeeh.
However, be felt that he oonld bk for long
A. slave g&rEee Basse ooMe Miriam tor
bid her to .to the. old Deole. so she ealv
d4MwTee''fewr more.' If
taoa wotuaet wove iminu'awieer wMt
than, tee ws-man whose oppeetttos awved
thee to anger, renounce thine own will for
tne sake ot the multitude or tnr brethren.;
Lay thine hand on this: heap, and swear
tome"
But the prophetess' voice failed her. Her
hands felt about vainly for some support,
and. with a cry she fell on her knees close to
Hur's .heap of stones. Joshua hastened to
raise her. holding her in -his strong arms,
and at his call some women hurried up ana
soon revived the fainting girl
As she opened her eyes they, wandered
vaguely from one to another, and it was not
till her gaze fell on Joshua's anxious face
that she fully understood where she was
and what had happened. Then she hastily
drank a deep draught of the water which a
shepherd woman offered her. dried her eyes,
which were streaming with tears, sighed
bitterly, and with a wan ssaile said to
Joshua:
"lam after all hut a weak woman,"
Then she went toward the house, hut after
walking a few steps she turned round, signed
to Joshua, and said:
"You see tbey are forming ia ranks. They
are about to set forth, Are you still ot the
same mind? There is yet time to call the
elders together."
But he shook his head in denial, and, as
be met her eye glistening with gratitude, be
softly replied r "1 will ever bear ia mind this
hea'p, and this hour, wife,of Hart Greet xaf
father from me, and tell him thai I love him.
Tell him, too, the name which his "son is
henceforth to bear by the command of the
Most High. Ia that name, which promised
me the help of the Lord.be shall put his
trust when he hears whither JT, go, to keep
the oath I have sworn."
He waved his hand to MirisjB.aad turned
to go to the camp, where his horse had been
fed and watered, but she celled after hiss:
"One last word. Moses left a letter for
you in tbe hollow of the tree." At this the
warrior went to the sycamore and read the
message which the man of God had left lor
him.
"Be steadfast and strong," was the brief
separate without meeting rather ths. ij
open dissension. ..
Sometimes it seemed to him as though ati
that had happened could be but a dreoatti
and as he was still intoxicated, as it were,4 J
bvtheaeitatiousoi the last few hours, nis 2
talnart frmA wa bnt litttA Mnvfrmi n '
the fatigues he. had gone through. At a.?
well-known inn on theroad. where he fous
several warrinrx. and traon? thefis CArtaJa
rantaina va1 (nnm in him. TlA fl. Timsfcka
allowed himself and his hone to rest and eats
and ss be rode on, refreshed, daily life as-d
serted its nehts. ae passed various oe
panies of soldiers on the way to the city
Tanis. and was informed thit they were w
der orders to join themselves: there to Ait
troops which he himself had brought he
from Libva.
Atlastherode into the town, and as JmT
went past the temple or Anion he ;
loud wailing, though he had learned est Mil
way that the-pestilence was well nigh at asil
Ann ITmrn manv! slimi Ha cr.t1iAAj3 AeW$
,. .-.- - j' -..- . a-rr-i
tact wnicn was presently announced h-ss-k;-,
first prophet, Buie, had just died uttheMSk ?
year ot nis age. and uaie, tne
prophet, who had so warmly asemrel hte of '
bis friendship and gratitude- ad, wh
counted on his cooperation inadaagewM.iS
enterprise, was nis successor niffst..
pnc3fc ftuu juugc, ca uomtvt u wuuuakui
in short the most poweriai emx 1b vmi
kingdom. ;
CHAPTBSXVTL
"He whom Jehovah helps!" BinnMll
a chain-lades prisoner with s bltiereeilijj
as five days later, he, with 49 fellow JM
ers, was led throKgb the Woaphalaralteai
Tanis toward the Bast-
Their destination was the mines est thai
peninsula of Sinai, whew freeh-eioed iSj
borers were needed.
The smile oa the vietia's fe see '
ished; then he drew up his ssweakc fnm'i
while his? bearded line-muttered, then
"StiMtsais&eisg!"shewhlsss.ta
.uwyoua woa w.-wwuag m.mmj
wsgh ne-wMMdto convey 1M 'i
the strength that hg bad lesaveiedi" '
age, Ephraim, courage; look; spasriisefwi
the dust come what mavl" "
"Silence while marching!" cried mm
jfe
Bphraim Contemplating Sit Jro$piiStgj
jLtcope.
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KSrfrZjS' Mil WsBkct
The Kctee Jrteer Watchtop XMtmcC JMer
view WiihJoa&ua.
injunction, aad Joshua raised his head, aad
cried joyfully: "The words are a comfort
torrayjouI;and if it is for the last time that
we have met, wife of Hur, it I sew go to
my death, be sure that I shall know-how to
be steadfast and strong, evea to the end
And do yon do all yea eaa tor say -old.
father."
Herewith he sprsar oa horsshsek, and as
he made his way to Tanis, fWehfvl to his
oath, his seal vw free fms fears, althoagh
he did net coaeeal from himself that he was
riding forth to geat peril. His highest
hopes were destroyed, and yet glad excite
ment straggled with tea grief of his soul. A
new aad gtorieos eaetie had Hs birth
theae: JUtlne hit whaie beiasr.aad It was
SMey)lnaifrd thong, he Jfad salbMd s
nis talents, proaa cr.nisnsaieand proud .did. mv.head.iast night,Z'H riU' tewai preserve . thet semblance f iattMteeaee, so waaad teeael eaaagk S ewkea she SgU af
1, of his looks, but ifothesehadds neglect ij'ilMPuck, 4i$ MJSt S? - i " " ' jwwataaii
the armed Libya guards who
gang, to the. elder prisoner, aad swi
his whip with Btesscinsr seetai'S.
was tbe saaahe threatened, aad Us
panieu wasBsralm. who aad
dessned to share his fete. Iflf
Every Egyptian child kaew whspS
meant, ior -oeaa me to tne rainesi was sbsb
people's most dreadful IsaareeaUaa.aaAnai
prisoner's lot was half so hard, m Ism, af fsW
condemned state criminal.
l series oi ingauui anmmasiiSM i
hardshiee awaited these at the
strength ot the healthiest was rained. sy,a
swn ot overwore, aaa tne tuuee
tims were forced to 4o thines as far has
their power that they soon sank iekxijl
everueuag rest ior waiea weir :
seals had leag pined.
Joshua's eneouragiar words had
eaect upon Ephraim;. bat wbe a fewi
utes later a chariot, saaded ay an. i
drove pt the gaat, andia it.
charioteer and a matron, steed
young woman, he tnrned roaad aaMdy aasji
gazed aner tne vehicle with saar fcliac ej
until tne das oa tbe read Bid it Ma i
The lady was thickly Tle.yat-shal
youth taeagat that fee had rooosjaiaadl
ior wnose sace nenaa russed ise , j
wuwiAxaMsk Mgu.n Tvusffne mt asj
to ooey. .ABU .cpnrain no, fsee
rectly. for the younsr lad via tbe
was. Kaeaaa, the daughter of Oe Csisaj
the archers; the eider womb was her sansj
Oa reaeMaft- a little tesspla oa H i
near a tnicnet or acacia, antes wate i
a well lortae nee of travelers,!
chariot had left tbe priseaers at si
tanee behind. Kasaaa begged the i
wait. Thes, springing out lightly
road, she walked to aad fro with, a I
head under the shadow of the trees aatst s
knew by a rellins; cloud ot d sat that
criminals were approaching.
Then, takinsr out of her aarstaat m
gold rings which she had broaght wife
lor tne purpose, ae went up to aae a
of the atelaaeholr proceseioB as be-
near on an ass. aad while she talked tV
and pointed to Joshua the 2adeaati1
. - - " ... . A . -- - . -
stolen giaaee at the nags wntca aM.aajpi
siippea into nis nana, txis naasserisa
only allowed hiss to expect silver,, aid!
i;e k owe aaessea a ineaaiy j
teous expression at the sight or taatrj
lag yellow glitter.
His eoaateaasee. certainly
again at the demand Kasana atasVtbsstl
it nrignteaea enca mors at a
farther larnsss ires the yaaac)
"xaae ue secies to tae weui
thes driakl Tbey shall ga
healthy un4rreaad!"
xnea ne rede an to the
called to Joebas: "Ton, whs bare j
once ruled ever mbt aeosle. aeass
awre stiaebed UU thaa tagaeeiftrj
or see. Tea, g sards, look after the cab
i will -watea aU eae: X aaf a lwi
say to bint"
The baaiaaawd bis bassis aa JCibat
swiviag aoatii teaas.a
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