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SECOND PART.
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PAGES 9 TO 12.
PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1889.
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ORIGIN OF THE COMMITTEE,
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Whereiand How It Got ItsKame,and
ills Present complexion.
"K1KDS OP CLEAE SKETCHES
ICORBESPOSDENCE OP TBS CISPJLTCH.3
Washes gtoit, December 27. Speaker
'? Heed s readiness in makmcr nn nil commit-
tees strikes the keynote in the music of the
House. He is going
to save time and
money for Uncle Sam
by pushing things and
avoiding delays. The
new "Ways and Hems
Committee is a strong
one, and while there
is some disgruntled
critlcisin.it will prove
a good combination of
brains and industry
1 I 7 ilSKsSj
yg>cinnley. Chairman, before the session is a
montn oiaer.
The Ways and Means Committee is an in
teresting one. How did such a name come
to be attached to it? I can only think of
"the old committee joa Ways and Means that
the early English parliaments used to ap
'point when the Kings made newand exorbi
tant demands for money. The Commons
onlv cculd originate bills for revenue and
,.t:' when the demand for royal bounties came
fiitney appointed special committees to find
&&waj-s and means to lay and collect more
,taxes. Blackstone briefly describes this
committed as it was in the time of Henry
the Second.
Of 60 House committees, Ways and Means
is the most important, as it is the oldest. It
was first created on July 24, 1789, and con
sisted of one member from each State. Its
dnties then and for many years embraced
wore done now By 20
different committees
For in those days
Congressional commit
tees had an undefined
stains, and the new
growth of legislation
by committee to which
we are now so well ac
customed was then an
nntried institution.
In 1802 the House
. ; established fiv s'acd-
in? committees oi
nine members eacfc JBurrows.
"Elections. Ways and Means, Claims. Com
merce and Manufactures. At that time, as
indeed it was for over half a century, Ways
and Means w.s the Committee on Appro
priations. The members had not only
' to decide how much monev to raisi? hv
., dutieson imports, but to determine also in
vbat amounts and for what purposes the
ptTcvenutsmhould' be spent for the irariaus
needs of the G6vernment. More than this
the Ways and Means was the general
auditing committee for the expenses of Con
gress, the executive and judiciary. Now
there are eight inch auditing committees on
tne expenses in each of
the executive depart
ments. In 18U the
membership was in
creased to 11 and the
number of House com
mittees was increased
to 27. The load on the
Ways and Means was
somewhat lightened.
But it was still the
Committee on Appro
priations and In that
same year the Honse
Bcime,
adopted a rule requiring the committee to
report all the appropriations within 30 days
'from the opening of each session. It has
long been a complaint against the appropria
tions committee that it neia Dace its bills to
compel the House to comply with personal
and selfish demands.
Until 1829 the gentlemen of the Ways
and Means Committee bundled all of their
appropriations into one bill and dumped it
into luenuuse wiium
the prescribed 30
-days. In 1865 the
business of the coun
try and the commit-
tee had increased so
much that it wasun-
- equal tothe combined
task of digesting leg
islation on the tariff,
the war debt and the
vast expenditures of
the Government. A
new Committee on
Appropriations was
created, and Thad
Dlnoletf.
.Stevens, who had been Chairman of Wavs
'"JiiiTraS
and Means, was put at its head. This was
largely the work of the late Sunset Cox, and
.he it was who reported from the Committee
on Bnles the resolution for the new commit-
tee. In 1873 the membership was increased
. to 13. It has remained at that nnmber to
the present time. In December, 1885,
the House distributed a number of
" the "bills prepared by the Appropriations
Committee to their appropriate committees
and left but six general bills to the Appro
ve, priations Committee. So the origiual dnties
of the Ways and Means Committee are now
. widely scattered.
.To be a member on ways and means is a
,. hich honor and many of our great men have
'JE-f' lound it the portal to greater fame. There
are now here in Washington as I connton
4L. mv fingers, and almost in sight in a five
-minutes' walk, six men who have been
3chairmen of this committee and their names
-igsre famous in the uttermbst cabin in the
land. Here is Jnstin S. Morrill, who suc
" ,ceeded Thad Stevens as chairman. Here,
" , too, is Eobert C. Schenck, the
' post-bellum chairman; Henry L.
i Dawes, who hsd as his efficient helper,
"James A. Garfield; W. B. Morrison, of
Horizontal tendencies
in tariff legislation;
Judge Kelley, who
has served nearly a
quarter of a century
on Ways and Means,
and Boger Q. Mills,
who has just given
way to Mr. McKin
ley. The new chairman
is .so well known
personally and polit
icals that his ad-
ileKenna. ministration can be
confidently anticipated as a thorongb,
steady success under the pledges and doo-
trines ot his party. Few men in public-life
so well understand and practice the cardinal
. principles of Bepublican representativegov-
- ernnient, both as an official and as a party
man. It was this devotion to an idea that
Jield him true to the expressed wish of his
State in the last Chicago Convention, when
n word from him would have sent his name
firing over the Jand as the nominated candi
date (or the Presidency. Mr. tteiuniey
ill look well sitting at the head of the long
auie in the committee room, ms spine is
ve inches loncer than the normal back
bone, so that, as Colonel Allen, of Missis-
.Eipju, remarks, lie nas io it uowa ue ore
Vrou can see him." His handsome face it
;
the picture of calm Intellectual dlenitv.
.nu manner is gentle, courteous and con
si derate. His fitness is self-evident. Where
McKinlev sits is clearly the head of the
table. He is the youngest chairman the
committee ever baa. He will be 46 next
February. He was a soldier boy at 17 and
a captain at 21. He came to Congress when
35 years old and gained aposition as leader
at an earlier age than any man of his times.
Julius Caesar Burrows, who -standssecond
on the committee, would have made a good
chairman, although inclined to be a little
dogmatic. Me nasa
tall, square-shouldered
figure, and a
square, full head. He
ib now 52 years old,
and his lull brown
beard is mottled with
gray, and his hair is
turning. He has sat
in five Congresses
with some interrup
tions occasioned by
too many Votes for the
Democrats who ran
J-mme. against mm. xie is a
Pennsylvanlan, who went to Michigan to
teach school, and work his way up"o a ieat
in Congress. His recent candidacy for the
Speakership has not affected his cordial re
lations with Chairman McKinley, and the
two will be found working in good align
ment when the committee get down to the
various schedules.
Putting Tom Bayne on the committee was
a nice recognition of worth. Colonel Bayne
comes from the heart of the great iron and
.glass manufacturing industries. He is a
lawyer, a millionaire, and has been in Con
trreai far 12 vears. As Judire Kelley re
tires from the committee, Colonel Bayne's
appointment borrows significance. His will
be the voice to speak for the grcat'Keystone
State in Congress. Upon him now comes
the burden the venerable Judge has borne
so valiantly through many Congresses. The
new committeeman looks like a man who
hums mldnicht oil. There is lambent
energy in his eyes, but about them areal-
ways the lines mat ten oi iais nouns auu
hard wort;. He dresses in plain bnsiness
garb, and is oie of the most practical de
baters on the floor.
Governor Dingley takes Tom Breed's
place on the committee and represents all
.New England there.
Imagine a spare.dark,
stoop-shouldered man
with black sunken
eyes, a sallow Spanish
skin and black beard
and you will have ex
Governor Nelson
Dingley, Jr., before
your mind's eye. He
is a Dartmoutn man,
57 years old, and both
a lawyer and journal
ist, being now editor
of the Lewiston
a vitette.
Journal. When Mr. Frye went over to the
Senate six years ago he took his seat in the
House. Between himself and Mr. Beed
there exists a warm friendship and his
nresence on the committeM ennnprta It
Psubtly with the Speaker's chsir.
California, for the first time in rannv
years, has a seat at the Ways and Means
table. Joseph McKenna, a Philadelphian,
46 years old, for four years a memher of the
House, has the responsibility and honor of
representing tha Pacific coast, and, indeed,
over one-half the United States geographic
ally, for no State or Territory west ot Iowa,
except Texas, has a place on the committee.
(1 should say, parenthetically, that under
the rules of the House, no delegate from a
territory is allowed to serve on Ways and
Means.) McKenna is a plain-looking and
plain-speaking man, with a stylish reddish
beard, which lie wears close-clipped, blue
eyes and ruddr complexion. - .j
Sere no E. Payne, the Bepublican member
of the committee from New York, comes
very luckily info
prominence through
ihe death of the late
Co n gressman Nut
ting. Paybs was a
niemberot the Forty
eighth and Forty
iimth Congresses.and
is a hard.worki.ng,
methodical commit
teeman. He lives at
-Ani'nrn.theoldhomc
rf William H. Sew
rrd, and is now 4G
years old. He is a
i.'tr
Gear.
lawyer by profession, and ha practiced at
his home since 1886. He sat next to Mr.
Beed during the Forty-ninth Congress, and
between the two men a very warm friend
ship sprangup, of which this appointment
10 ine ways ana .means committee is the
Iruit Mr. Payne will make a very careful,
painstaking and successful member of the
committee.
The youngest member'of the new com
mittee, Bobert M. Iiafollette," looks like a
Eussian Duke, but hex is a Yankee noble
man, born in a well-made log cabin iq the
district he now represents in Wisconsin.
Down the load a little
way is another log c.ibiu
in which Mrs. Iiafol
lette was born. Iiafol
lette is now 35. He
graduated at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin,
where he also took the
Inn. MAnc TDl.il. ..
student he won firstpti"ii"?Jj
honors in the inter-'"' iy"Wiil
oratorical contest of v c3"Tfls
1879, his subject being f 7
iit ft tt & i jy
xugu. xie was a year
later elected District Carlisle.
Attorney of the Capital county of his State
and after re-election, sent to Congress, en
tering with the Forty-ninth. His com
mittee service has been entirely on Indian
affairs. .He has been one of the Speaker's
right hand men, and with a student's fond
ness for the subject of political economy, he
is well equipped for therork of the winter.
Governor Gear, of Iowa, is the last Bepub
lican on the committee. He is a New
Yorker, 64 years old. His father was a rest
less pioneer bound to be on the frontier, and
when the Governor was 11 years old he re
moved to Galena, 111., then in its hey-day oi
growth. Two years later he wenttoFo-t
Suelling, then in Iowa Territory, now in
Minnesota. There was but one log house
then where St Paul now stands, and Min
neapolis was bare prairie and marsh. Five
years later young "Gear floated down the
Mississippi to Burlington, where he began
life for himself as clerk in a general store.
He was twice elected Governor of his State'
and this is his second term in Congress. He
is "shrewd, canny old weather-beater who
knows what he wants and what the people
want and generally gets both.
The Democrats have a strtng represen
tation on tne committee. Mr. CarlUlp
standing atjhc head of
the minority, is oae of
the ablest men in tne
House, jind certainly
a most popular gentle
man. This is his
sixth Congress, and
during the last three
Congresses he has been
Speaker. He is now
54 years old, and since
1858 has been a hard
working lawyer. His
fairness to both sides
MUU. wnue jcresiaent of the
Chamber is proverbial,
and .his wish was first to be consulted in
making selections from the rainoritv
for the various commit
tees. He was first to
put Mr. Beed on Wavs
and Means, and the
new Speaker is row re
turningthe compliment.
.Mr. Carlisle was a
Unionist during the
war, and refused ti
allow his name to tie
used as a McClella"
elector in Kentucky. Hi
b-is held various State
offices, and for fonryeari
was Lieutenant Go vein
or. "Mr. Carlisle is not
MeiliUia.
m&&m
V if a
fa jiWfVJ
a free trader; his views of tariff reform are
conservative,
Boger Q. Mills, the. retiring Chairman,
was entitled by courtesy to remain on the
committee. He has been in Congress
since '1873, and apparently has a
lire lease of his seat. He earned the
Chairmanship of Ways and Means in the
last Congress by lehgth of service
and as one man alter another dropped out
ahead of him the prize at last was his. The
Mills bill came a crreat deal nearer success
than either of the Morrison Jbills, and the
late chairman is looked upon by bis col
leagues as a more conservative tariffre
former than his predecessor. Mr. Mills' is a
stoutly-built gentleman, CO years old, and
hedre'sses like a well-to-do Texas farmer
He has a quizzical visage and is rather
crusty to strangers, but, as Colonel John
Allen, of Mississippi, says: "He is a sale
man lora Texiu to tie to."
Benton HcMillin,
ofTennessee,isoneof
the old members of
thecommittee. Heis
aKentuckian born
and bred. In 1871
he began to practice
law m Tennessee and
six years later be
came a Judge. He
cme to the Hous;
in 1879 and has been
re-elected continu
ally since. He is a
Breckinridge. strong man who
works bard. The deadly accuracy ot his
logie is something his friends and toes re
spect. He came to Congress when he was
34 years old. and would still look as young
as ever jf he had not worn his hair oil by
bard work. He is a master of details and is
especially well read on all matters pertain
ing to the tariff. The coal and iron inter
ests of Tennessee are Mr. McMillin'a special
pride.
Arkansas has a member or the committee
whose name calls up the past. , Clitton B,
Breckinridge is a son of John C. Breckin
ridge, who was Vice President with
Buchanan, When the handsome young
Vice President drove off behind his superb
span of Kentucky trotters to join the Con
federacy in 1861, young Breckinridge was a
Doy ot 15 at school.
He dropped, his books
and got on a Confed
erate gunboat When
Appomattox came be
was ft middy stationed
on the James river.
He went to work and
earned money enough
to go through Wash
ington and lee Uni
versity and then be
came a cotton pla iter
in jirnuuMi uuui Mourn-
elected to Congress in r.
1883 be raised cotton and bought and sold
the textile on commission. He was sent to
the House by the Stat; at large; he now rep
resents the Second or Pine Bluff district
Mr. Breckinridge is a short, slight man,
with very pale blue eyes that are reinforced
by a thick pair of spectacles. He is pol
ished in manners, extremely affable and his
ranversation shows wide reading.
BoBwell P. Flower is the only new mem
ber on the committee, and he is hardly a
new member, having served in the Forty
seventh Congress. His shrewdness as a
broker and business manipulator, together
with the prominence he has achieved in
New York politics, justify his appointment
over the beads of a good many old publio
servants on the Democratic side of the Cham
ber. He is acquainted with nearly every
body in both ends of Congress, and with most
of the active members of Honse and Senate
he has had business dealings. Mr. Flower
is still regarded as a candidate for -Governor
of New York, .and eventually for the White
House. He is 54 years old, and is a hand
some, well-dressed man of genial face and
manners. He likes to hear and tell good
stories, and knows how to shake hands in a
way to make friends.
Jahns A. Tbuesdell.
BEDFOED'S EECEPT10N.
Children Eecelro Visile From BInnr, Inclnd
luc Santa Clans.
If one wished to see happiness personified,
a visit shonld have been made to the Bed
ford school building last Tuesday afternoon.
It was the day before Christmas, the last of
school until January 6, and the children's
reception day to their papas, mammas and
their friends. It is no wonder that with
this happy combination of events that the
little innocent faces beamed with smiles and
the little eyes sparkled with the happy ex
pectancy of Christmastide.
-"Mamma, I must put an extra shine on
my shoes to-day, because I am going to
make a speech," said little Balph in the
morning. Others must have said the same
to their mammas, as the little ones appeared
in their neatest attire and obeyed their
teachers in a manner that wonld chase the
signs of care away from the faces of these
public gnardiaus.'if the scholarly decorum
of visiting day was continued throughout
the year.
Shortly after 1 o'clock Prof. Ettling, the
caiistuenic director, arrived and commenced
at room No. 1 to give an exhibition drill.
From the way the little tots twisted their
heads, arms, legs and. bodies to the soft,
chant-like music, it-would seem that they
were not- in need of further physical cult
ure. As the drill progressed blushes were
seen to spread over their" little faces, from
the exertion, as a rose opens from the invig
orating influences of the sun.
Prof. Golden was here-and there, all over
the building, welcoming the visitors and
showing them around the different rooms.
The scholars in each "step" had prepared
manuscript specimens of their work, each
one having a cover bearing the name of the
scholar and the study. The specimens of
work showed a conception of the different
studies that was remarkable, especially
when the ages of some were considered.
One thing that was noticed by all present
was the high character of the designs and
drawings displayed. Little children of 7
and 8 years snowed outline work that was
worthy of much older pupils, and in come
instances indicated true artistic appreciation
of the work done. As Prof. Et
tling advanced to different grades,
from "step" 1 to the nighest
clashes, tne calisthenics became more
complicated. In room No. 1 a wand drill
was given, the wands being wrapped with
the national colors. In room No. 8 the drill
was varied by exchanging the wands for
dumb-bells, with bells on the ends, the na-
.; t J- -:u !.-!- i nl u-
tional colors still being used as a decoration
Boom No. 9 varied its programme by select
piano music, with Miss Jennie Evans and
others at the piano. The room was beauti
fully decorated with plants, etc Nearly
all of the rooms bad blackboard cartoons of
Santa Clans in various postures, and kindred
subjects of Christmas cheer. They were in
most cases executed by the pupils.
tChe visitors passed through the rooms and
examined the -work of the pupils or stopped
to hear the recitations and speeches. Each
room had a programme, and carried it out to
the letter. At last the sound of fife and
arum was heard, and the guest ot all others
appeared. It was Santa Clans, personated
by Mr. James E. Flinn, and preceded by the
Bedford Fife and Drum Corps. Behind
came persons carrying big baskets laden with
bags of candy and nuts. Alter a neat speech
in each room the scbolars.were all given it
bag.of candy, popcorn, oranges, etc., and a
bag of nuts. v
Shawls, shawls, shawls, ligb't and dark
colors, heavy, medium and light weights,
prices all reduced. Hugus & Hacke.
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ES'-RBV. T. DB WITT TALMjGB
and Marian White write t of i to
morrow's DISPATCH an interest
ing romancj,j entitled "Outsets of
New Years; Two Annual O m
mencements by a Fortune So' ar.
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ABEVWATERFINDER
Test of Apparatus to Locate Streams
Hidden Under Ground.
ELECTRO-TECHNICAL ENGINEERING
Beveals to the World a .JJoYel Invention
for Geologists.
PARTIALIS SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS
A belief has been prevalent for the last
three centuries at least that water bidden
underground, either in the form of springs
or as streams, could be discovered by the
usevof the divining rod, but it has been Te
served fpr the present day to'record a claim
set Up that such subterranean sources of
water can be discovered infallibly or nearly
so by scientific methods.
Not only has such a claim been made, but
the inventor of the apparatus has chal
lenged the engineering profession to inves
tigate the results obtained by the most
searching tests possible. The inventor, a
Bavarian by birth, but long resident in
Russia, and aii electro-technical engineer
bf profession, says that he b'as located more
than 600 wells in Bussia in the last two
years and a half, since making his discov
ery, without a single failure. This great
invention, great if it will stand the test of
the investigation now being pursued, was
discovered, as most important discoveries
are made, almost by accident. The first ap
paratus made was intended for a totally dif
ferent purpose, and it was chance alone that
disclosed tne fact that to running waterit
was extremely sensitive without being in
contact with it.
his riBsx prcar cosviciioir.
Mr. Heerdegen such is the inyentor's
name was experimenting in bis house in
Bussia with an instrument which he ex
pected would indicate in one room move
ments in another from which he was absent.
The experiment consisted in placing a
watch upon a table, carrying from it a cord
or fine wire through passages and other
rooms to where he was himself, and the in
strument he held in his hand would be af
fected the very second the watch was
touched. To what degree of perfection this
process was brought cannot now be told.
It probably was not perfected, as' on this
occasion the inventor was in a room where
his wife was making tea, using tor the pur
pose a large samovar, or Bussian tea urn,
and while standing near it he observed that
his instrument was affected every time that
the water was made to run from the samovar.
He became so convinced by repeated trials
that the moving body of water, "small though
it was comparatively, affected his apparatus
in n distinct and certain manner that be
immediately went out into the grounds sur
rounding the house, where there was a well,
and had bis conclusions confirmed In such a
manner that he abandoned bis original ex
periments, and devoted his time and atten
tion to perfecting the apparatus tor the much
more practical purpose ot water finding.
XESIS IK THIS COUNTS'?.
Mr. Heerdegen associated with himself
Mr. Alexander E. Schnee, late United
States Vice Consul at Moscow, and came to
this country, which he regarded as a more
profitable field for his labors. He came
armed with testimonials from respectable
firms, some of them known in? this City.
A.series ot tests have-ibeen comraenced-
here during the past week, which, although
not conclusive in their results, well warrant
a further investigation into tho matter, es
pecially under more normal conditions, as
those to which Mr. Heerdegen and his ap
paratus have been submitted were of an un
natural kind and such as he had never at
tempted before. The preliminary investiga
tion was witnessed by members of the edi
torial staffs of the Engineering and Mining
Journal and of the Engineering rttics, as
well as by Mr. Charles P. Gowen, division
engineer of the new aqueduct, through
whose aid and the courtesy of Mr. Alnhocse
Fteley, chief engineer ot the Aqueduct Com
mission, the tests were arranged.
The day was unfavorable lor the work in
hand, the ground being covered with sev
eral inches of wet snow, the very presence
of which, however, assisted in making the
tests more complete, be'eanse it more effect
ually concealed from the water searcher the
locality of the aqueduct
HOW IT WORKED WITH SNOW.
The snow was productive of two laugh
able incidents. Shortly alter commencing
work Mr. Heerdegen, proceeding very
slowly in the snowy road, with his eyes ap
parently fixed upon the ground, in reality
watching the pendulum, so to speak, of his
apparatus which he carried near the ground,
and all of the party intently .watching him
and his instrument, along came an old
farmer with his empty milk cans from Sing
Sing and saluted the party with "Be you
looking for rabbit tracks?"
Just as the party reached the point at
which the aqueduct crossed beneath the
road at a depth of more than 300 feet
water was located, somewhat to the sur
prise ot the gentlemen, the width of the
stream being defined as 12 feet, which is
about the width of the water flowing in the
aqueduct. Out came an6ther farmer from
the house near the road with the offer of his
assistance. "I can help ye; I was here
when they drew it in," and straightway he
began scraping in the snow a few feet from
the road, and presently he succeeded in un
covering an iron bolt which had been driven
into the rock by the surveyors to mark the
center line of the aqueduct."
HOW THE SECOSD TEST RESULTED.
The second test gave results nearly as
startling as the first, but'on the third there
was a distinct failure to recognize any such
body of water as was known to be flowing
480Teet beneath. The operator claimed that
the-day was unfavorable, being heavy and
foggy, and that the conditions were ' new to
him and abnormal, as he had never before
attempted to find water, inclosed artificially,
the impression being given that he had ex
pected that be would be taken to places
where springs were known to exist. On a
subsequent day other tests were made on the
line of the old aqueduct, where, near tli.e
upper end of the city, it is conveyed in a
tnnnel under Tenth avenue, and here the
results were similar to those obtained the
first day, satislactoty to the water searcher
in one case nnd unsatisfactory in another.
The general result thus far may be stated
as non-conclusive as to the infallibility of
the apparatus, but sufficient apparent power
of locating water has been displayed to
warrant a patient nnd exhaustive research.
This will probably be prosecuted in the di
rection of known artesian water, and the
final report of those engaged in the investi
gation will be looked forward to with great
interest.
TRYING IT OS A BREWERY.
A practical test of the accuracy of this
method is uow being carried out in New
York at tho brewery of Mr. Hupiel, where a
dry well has been sunk to a depth of more
than 2,000 feet. Within a short distance of
this unsuccessful veil the borers are again
at work on the assurance of Mr. Heerdegen
that water will be met with at a less depth
than 100 feet.
The apparatns is not patented, and, ac
cording to the inventor, will work in the
hands of any one with a little practice. In
appearance it is most simple, any complex
ity of arrangement being concealed in the
vulcanite or hard rubber case, about six
inches, long, shaped something like a bottle
without a neck, which acts as a sort of pen
dulum, and oscillates more or less violently
when above water according to the volume
and rapidity of the -stream. This is sus
pended from a leather-covered disk held in
the band by a thin insulated brass or copper
wire, which enters the top of the vulcanite
case.
CADGHT ON THE HILLS.
Newiy Note From AHentown, KaoatTlllr,
Mt. Washington, Etc
Cha&les ALT and Miss Ida Brackma were
married Monday.
The speak-easles on the hill flourished dar
ing the laifweek.
Getty Stcwabt, ot Atlanta Ga., is home
for the holidays.
D. D. Harris, the plnmber, will soon occupy
aneat brick honse on 'Washington avenue.
A PX.BASAHT little surprlso party was held at
Mr. Clark's residence, Beltzboover, Christinas.
The South Street M. F. Church gave its
Sunday school scholars a treat on Christmas
Eve.
There are still whispers of an elopement to
take place soon floating around among the
boys.
EuonRE Ipartles are popular on the hill,
bnt as yet none have attempted progressive
Beven-up.
Chables KAMmor. of Bntler, visited his
parents and brother In the Thlrty-flrst ward
Christmas.
Mn. akd Mns, Jonir Bich, of Jeannctte,
are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Bennett,
Arlington avenue. j
Uniok services will be held in the Knoxville
M. P. Church to-morrow. Bay. Mr. Jones will
deliver the sermon.
A V. ViEBHEiiLEn and Louis Kinzelwere
the guests of Mr. W.. C. Gnnvelflnger, West
End, on Christmas.
'The J. P, Mission Church of AUentown
gave their Sunday school scholars a treat
last Thursday evening.
The bill district police sometimes have a dull
time of it plodding over their beats with not
even a small boy to molest them.
The mission school of the Twenty-fourth
ward gave a treat to its scholars at the "Wicker
sham Schoolhouse on Christmas morning at 9
o'clock.
The grading nn Allen avenue is moving
along. The contractors say they will have it
flnisned from Washington avenue to Climax
street by February L
Chabi.es Haas, the genial and well-known
clerk at Algeo Bros.' store, is lying at the home
of his parents In West Liberty very sick. He
was taken with typhoid fever last Monday.
The Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston
Railroad deal for houses along the railroad has
caused a boom for real estate on the hill.
There are now very few vacant houses in the
Thirty-Orst ward.
ArntE broke out in Mauler's grocery store
in Knoxville last Monday. Someone7 pulled the
city firo alarm and the Mt. Washington hole
came rattling over but got there too late to be
oi any use. xne aamage was small.
TrjE Suburban Electric Bapid Transit Ball
way started last Wednesday, and is now run
ning regularly. It Is stated on good authority
that the Thirteenth street road will soon start.
(The latter expression is handed into the
office so often that It is kept set up in type.) j
The Excelsior Dramatic Company scored a
success In AUentown Christmas night, by the
production at Turner Hall of the beautiful
drama. In three acts, entitled "Under the
American Flag." Tho cast was made up of
well-known people, and they did their work
well.
The different candidates are commencing to
hustle on the bill. In the Thirty-first ward
Messrs. W. W. Nesblt for Select and William
O. Russel for Common Council don't seem to
bare any opposition. Messrs. Charles Black
and D. w. Smike are both after the Alder
man's office, ft Is alio whispered about that a
dark horse will be pushed at the proper time.
A 8AS Christmas it was to the relatives and
many friends of Miss Luln Noah, of Walter
avenue. Thirty-first ward, who died at the resi
dence of friends in Allegheny. 8bo was taken
sick with pneumonia about ten days ago. Miss
Noah was well known and beloved by all, and
her relatives have the sympathy of their
friends. The remains were taken to Butler for
interment.
There was a regular young tornado in St.
Clair township-fast Sunday night. The wind
howled around the houses and threatened to
unloosen many of them from their foundations.
The new bouse of Frank Erny, on Spring
street. Lower St. Clair township, was moved one
foot and a half oft its foundations and will
have to be rebuilt. No other damage has been
reported.
The Knoxville M. P. Church gave the Bun
day school children an enjoyable treat Christ
mas Eve. A model snow honse was built on
the stage with windows etc The presents
were grouped about in the house and outside,
ft seems that there was some little bitch about
the Santa Clans feature. When the entertain
ment was about to commence the person
who was supposed to have supplied
the Santa Claus costume failed to
produce it. A trip to Manager Wilt's
store on Wood street found it Closed and the
person returned. The programme, consisting
of recitations, choruses, eic., was very enter
taining and all carried their parts well except
Santa tilaus. As the hours wore along and the
programme could not be lengthened more, it
was announced that a smashup had occurred
on the Kriss Krinkle Overland Bailroad, and
that the children's patron saint would not be
present. Although it was something of a dis
appointment, it soon passed away and the
evening's programme was pronounced a suc
cess. Tha scholars all received a box of
sandy.
One of the pleasantest occasions Knoxville
people have been permitted to enjoy for a long
time was the Christmas Eve entertainment
given by the Presbyterian Sunday school. The
programme, which was a lengthy one, con
sisted of recitations, singing, dialogues, tab
leaux, etc. All rendered their parts well and
not only that, butjtbe programme was a very en
tertaining one to buth old and young. The
selections by the chorus of 12 voices, with Miss
Emma Eisamon, as organist, was greatly ap
preciated by 'all present. The two tableaux,
one representing the shepherd And wise men of
the East by a class of boys, and the chanting of
the Lord's prayer by a class of young ladles
dressed in white, with one dressed in black, all
kneeling with a little child, m the attitude of
prayer, were among the best on the evening's
programme. Jiicor me entertainment teaturc,
SS0 pounds of candy were given the children
and a picture book from one of tho
clothiers of the city. During the
evening Mr. and Mrs. Rev. Jones were
resented with a very fine china dinner Set. by
ir. B. J. Phillips, on behalf ot their many
friends In and out of tho congregation. Prof.
W. P. Montgomery, teacher ot the Bible class,
was the recipient of a clock nf exquisite de
sign and make. Bev. AV. A. Jones made the
Iiresentation speech on behalf of tho class.
dlS3 Emma Eisamon, the organist of the
school, received a lovely work box, Mr. and
Mrs. W. J. Hunter making the speech.
The church was beautifully decorated with
greens, holly, etc., and throughout it was a
pleasing success.
A NOVEL STRIKE.
Glntshouso Boys Who Refused to Work on
Christinas Eve.
v A crowd of glasshouse boys stood at the
comer of South Eighteenth street last Tues
day atternoon in earnest discussion. A
Dispatch reporter crossed oyer the street,
and, upon inquiring the cause of the confer
ence, was informed that they had "struck."
There were about SO of them, all employed
at Thomas Evans factory on South Eigh
teenth street. As they got together and
talked of Christmas 'and saw the prepara
tions going on around them for a roerrv
evening, they decided that they wouldn't
work, and that they would enjoy Christmas
with the, rest of them.
The men employed in the factory could
not go to ivork without the boys, aid for a
short time it looked like a lockout. The
pots, however, had been filled, and theglass
would have been spoiled if not used. The
men could hardly help sympathizing with
the boys, and to the foreman was left the
duty of bringing them' to work. The boys
at first held out strode, saying they wanted
to enjoy Christmas Eve as, well as other
people. At last the foreman told them that
they could get off at 8 o'clock, and one by
one they started to the factory with sober
faces at the thoughts of having to work
while the enjoyment and bustle of Christ
mas tide was going on about therm
RIcQinty Molasses Cakes.
Just the thing to ''please the little ones.
New, sweet and delicious. Your grocer
keeps them.
U2f MAUD HOWE, in to-morrow's
DISPATCH, gives pome val
uable bints to men and maidens
wbo are in love.
The Pettiest
'feY LUDOVIC HALEVY.
MEMBEE Ot THE PSEHCtt AOADEUT,
"CRIQUETTE,"
t
T was Friday, April
19,1889. They were
playing the third
act of "Borneo et
Juliette" at the
opera, and Prince
Agecor was posi
tively beside him.
self with excitel
ment He ran from
box tobox, his en
thusiasm bubbling
over in each,
"That blonde! Oh!
that blondel Ex
uuisltel So look at that blondel So you
know that blonde?"
He had just entered Mme. de Marizy's
box, a large one in the grand tier, and for
the hundredth time that night he burst into
rapturous ejaculation.
"What blonde?" asked Mme. de Marizy.
"What blondel There is only one this
evening in the house! There, opposite you,
in this same tier in the Saint-Mesme's
box. Look at her, Baroune, do look at
her!"
. "Yes, I am looking at her. She's vilely
dressed, but she is good looking."
"Good looking! She's a dreamt A per
fect dreaml Vilely dressed, I grant yon!
Some country cousin the Saint-Mesmes
have relations in Ferigord. But what a
smile! What a neck!' What shoulders!"
"Oh! my dear Prince, do be quiet, or go
awayi
I want to listen to Beszke
The Prince went away. No one, it seemed,
knew anything of his lovely blondel And
yet she had often been to the opera before!
But she had come in bourgeois fashion, to
the second tier. Now, as far as Prince
Agenor was concerned there were no places
in the opera house out of the grand tier.
Above and beyond was chaos, a space with
out form and void. The Prince had never
in bis life entered a box in the second tier.
Practically, therefore, there were no such
places.
While Borneo, kneeling before Friar Law
rence, was vowing eternal 'faith to Juliet,
the Prince was wandering about the corri
dors. Who could this blonde be? He
must and would find out!
And then he suddenly remembered that
the highly respectable Mme-Pieard was
the Saint-Mesme's box opener, and that he
himself had long enjoyed the privilege of
that respectable lady's acqaintance. In the
days of the Second. Empire, had she not
lnmaieu muiy hue rnuco ue serins, iuiu
the various mysteries of bezique Chinese,
Japanese, etc.? He was then 20, and Mme.
Pieard 40. At that time Mme. Pieard was
not an employe of the National Academy of
Music. Her calling and it was no sine
cure was that of "aunt" to a charming
young person, whose pretty face formed an
attractive item in the Christmas piece at
the varieties. In those youthful days the
Prince had spent three or four years of tran
auil, almost domestic bliss, in the society of
"niece" and "aunt." Then each had gone
their several ways, and 10 years afterward
Agenor had one e'vening handed his coat to
a venerable-looking old lady at the opera,
and been ereeted bv her with the following
little speech:
"Abl Princel How delighted I am to see
you again! And you are not changed, not
the least bit! You are just the same! Not a
day olderl"
It was Mme. Pieard, raisedto the dignity
of a boxkeeper. They had a long chat to
gether over bid Hints, and since that even
ing the Prince had never passed Mme.
Pieard without a smiling "good evening,"
to which she responded by a deferential lit
tle bow. She was one ot those persons, now
almost extinct, who have an intuitive per
reption of the finer degrees in rank, and of
the observances due to each. There lurked,
nevertheless, the least touch of familiarity.
almost of affection, in the tone with
which she said "Mon Prince." But this
was in no way offensive to Agenor; he had
none but pleasant recollections of Mme.
Pieard.
"Ah! Prince," said Madame Pieard, as
Agenor approached her, "I have none of
your friends in my boxes to-night. Madame
de Simiame has not come, and Madame
de Saint Mesme has lent her box."
"Exactly. That is what has brought me to
you. Don't you know the people whohave
Madame de Saint-Mesme's box?"
"No, not at all, Prince. They have never
been in the Marquise's box before."
"Then you haven't any idea who they
are?"
"Not the very least, Prince. Except that
I can see they don't belong to"
"Our set," she was going to say. But with
that tact which rarely tailed her she stopped
herseirin time, ana conciuoeu:
"They don't belong to ydar set Thev are
middle-class folks, very well off, I sliould
'say, hut still, only middle'class. Ah! you
are not satisfied You want to know more
because of the lair lady.don't you. Prince?"
These last words were uttered, or rather
murmured, with wonderful delicacy. In
themselves they were perhaps somewhat un
becoming as between Prince and boxkeeper.
But the perlect good taste of toneand accent
saved them. Yes, it was an attendant who
nddressed him; but an attendant'wbo pre
served something of her former status as
"aunt" in the realm of Oythera Mme.
Pieard continued:
"Ah, a lovely' creature! She came with a
little dark man. Her husband, I am spre,
for while she was taking off her cloiik and
she was some time over it he never tittered
a single word. There was no little atten
tions; he showed no interest. Yes, he mnst
have been ber husband. And then I exam
ined the cloak. One always feels a little
bit curious about new comers, and I and
mv colleague, Mme. Flachet, often amuse
ourselves by guessing what sort people are
from their belongings. Well, the oloakwas
made by a good dressmaker, but hot by a
smart one. It is expensive, well cut, the
material of the best, but there is no style
OH f THAT BLONDE 1
Woijii. In-Paris.
AHTHOB
OP "I'ABBE COSSTANTET,'
' ETC.
"PROxr - PROU,'
about It. No, they're rich middle-class peo
ple. I'm sure of It, Prince. But how
stupid I ami You know M. Palmer? Well,
he came to see your lovely blonde just
new "
"M. Palmer?" v
"Yes. And he would be able to tell
you "
"Many thanks, Mme. Pieard, thanks,"
"Aurevoir, Prince."
And Mme. Pieard went back to her stool
beside her colleague, Mme. Flachet, ex
claiming, as she seated herself:
"Ah! my dear, what a charming man!
After all, there's nothing like your really
well-bied people!"
The Prince was condescending enough to
rank Palmer the rich, vain, corpulent
Palmer among his friends. He even
deigned, and not infrequently, to consult
the banker in his pecuniary embarrassments,
and Palmer was only too delighted to help
him. In return, the Prince had submitted
to figure as director on the prospectuses of
two companies engideered by Palmer, who
took no little pleasure in the fact
that the representative of one of
the greatest families in France
was under obligations to him. The Prince
further acknowledged Palmer's services in
a variety of good-natured methods. He
showed himself publicly in the banker's
company, appeared in his box at the theater,
organized his festivities and took an interest
in his stud. He had even pushed bis grati.
tude so far as to carry on a must compromis
ing flirtation with Mme. Palmer. "I am
rubbing the bourgeois rust off her," he used
to say. "I feel I owe some sort of return to
Palmer, who is really the best fellow in the
world."
The Prince found the banker alone.
"Do tell me the name of that fair woman
in the Saint Mesme's box."
"Mme. Dagand."
"And is there a Mme. Dagand?"
"Certainly. He's a lawyer. My lawyer
,the Saint Mesme's lawyer. And if
you want to have a good look at Mme. Da
gand, come to our ball next Thursday. She
will be there."
The wile of a lawyer! She was only the
wife of a lawyerl The Prince installed him
self in the Iront'of the box, opposite Mme.
Dagand, and as he gazed at her he mused
thus within himself: "Have I sufficient
prestige and authority to make Mme. Dag
and the prettiest woman in Paris?"
For there is always a "prettiest woman in
Paris," and Prince Agenor had arrogated to
himself the functions of discoverer, herald
and consecrating pontiff of all such ephem
eral queens of beauty. Would he be able to
make Mme. Dagand the rage? Why not?
He had never taken up any little bourgeois
ies before. The enterprise would have all
the charm of novelty and audacity. He took
stock of Mme. Dagand through his opera
glass, and found fresh eraces and perfections
in her pretty person every moment.
When the curtain, fell the Prince went
Cba
HIS "W7FE HAD NEVER SEEMED SO RADIANTLY LOVELY.
and planted himself at the bottom of the
grand staircase. He bad already Inocu
lated two'o ' bis friends, so to speak. "Come
along." he had said," I want to show you
the prettict woman in Paps." Now, as
the Prince pronounced these words there
happened to be at his elbow a certain smart
young journalist, who was on the staff of a
fashionable morning paper. This young
man had remarkably sharp ears, and heard
every word that passed between the brilliant
trio as Mme. Dagand went by. Twenty
minutes later he presented himself at the
office of his journal. .
"Is there time td pot a dozen lines Into
the 'Society' column?"
"Yes, if yon look sharp."
The young man's hand was as quick as
his ears. He had dashed off 15 lines in a
twinkling. They brought in 7 francs to
the young reporter, but they cost M. Dagand
a good deal more than thatl
Meanwhile, Prince Agenor had betaken
himself to his whist at the club, and as he
shuffled the cards, he remarked:
"There was the most exquisite creature at
the opera to-night."
And the next morning in the Bois, at the
Potiniere,, the Prince sat his roan mare in
the bright spring sunshine and delivered
himself oracularly as follows to a little
group of respectful disciples:
"Yon caa take my word for it the pret
tiest' woaaa in Paris iactaiH Mme.
Dagand. This new star will be visible at
the. Palmer's on Thursday evening. Don't
forget the narrie Mme. Dagand."
The disciples went their way, spreading
the great news far and wide. v
Mme. Dagand had been admirably
brought up by an irreproachable mother.
She had been taught to rise early, to keep a
strict account of her expenditures, not to
employ a fashionable dressmaker, to believe
in God, to love her husband, to visit tha
poor and to pat by half her income for the
dowries of her daughters. She led a calm,
and peaceful life in an old house of the Bue
da Dragon, a house which had sheltered
the fortunes of three Dagand couples since
1825, the three husbands all lawyers, the
three wives alt virtuous. These three fam
ilies had enjoyed an equal and moderate
degree of happiness. They bad known no
violent delights, but neither had they tasted
anv suffering to speak of.
The next morning Mme.Dagand woke at 8
o'clock, conscious of some disturbance and
perturbation. She had passed a very- rest
less night, she who generally slept like a
child! Mme. Dagand had been vaguely
conscious at the opera that something un
usual was in the air.. All through the last
act she had felt a certain opera glass fixed
steadily upon her the Prince's opera glass
and she had experienced a cot altogether
unpleasant excitement, and once or twice,
nnder the unflinching scrutinyof her vis-avis,
she had blushed and drawn up the laces
that veiled her shoulders.
So, after opening her eyes, Mme. Dagand
closed them again lazily and lay dreaming,
between sleeping and waking. She was in
the opera house again and felt 100, 200, 600
glasses riveted upon her
Her maid came in, placed a tray upon a
little table, lighted the fire, and withdrew.
On the tray there was, as usual, a cup of
chocolate and the morning paper. Mme.
Dagand ronsed herself valiantly, sprang out
of bed, slipped her little bare feet into a pair
of small furry slippers, wrapped herself in a
white cashmere dressing gown, and, shiver
ing slightly, curled herself up in an arm
chair by the fire. She lifted the cup of
chocolate to her lips. It was too hot, and
burnt her. She put it down, and as she
waited for it to cool, she unfolded the paper
and glanced over the six columns of tbe first
page. At the bottom of the sixth column
were the following lines:
"Last night there was a brilliant render
ing of 'Borneo et Juliette' at tbe opera.
Most oi the great leaders of society were
present, among them, thebeautifulDuchesse
de Montaiglon, the pretty Comtesse de Lar
dac, the lovely Marquise de Muriel, the
charming Baronne de "
To learn the name of the charming;
Baronne, it was now necessary to turn over
the page. Instead of which, Mme. Dagand
laid tbe paper on her lap and gave herself
up to reflection. She remembered bow she
had amused herself the evening before by
getting Palmer to point out tbe famous ele
gantes present, and the banker had specially
directed her attention to this self-same "love
ly Marquise." Now, Mme. Dagand consid
ered thiajovely" an inordinately superla
tive epithet. The Marquise was 45, if she
were a day. And Mme. Dagand, who was
23, raised herself in ber chair, and glanced
at her face in the glass. She smiled; well
pleased at the charming blonde she saw re
flected, all youth and freshness, a bloom of
pink and white.
"-AM" said sue. "it l were a Marquise
perhaps the gentleman who wrote this might
have thought it worth while to notice me
and my name might have figured in his list.
How amusing it must be to see one's name
in print!"
Thus reflecting, she turned the page and
went on with her paper:
"The charming Baronne de Myrvoix,
etc. "We must lurther note the appearance
of a new star in the Parisian constellation.
The "whole house was in an ecstaey of ad
miration over a mysterious, gray-eyed
blonde of distracting loveliness, whose
shoulders such shoulders! were tbe topis
of the evening; 'Who is she? Who is she?
Who is the owner of those exquisite should,
ers?' Who, indeed? Wo are fortunate
enough to know, and generous enough to
give our readers the benefit ot our knowl
edge. The lady is Mme. Dagand "
Her name! She had read her own name!
A mist rose before her eyes, v All the letters
of tbe alphabet seemed to have begun a
frenzied dance across tbe page. Then they
gradually calmed down, subsided and re
gained their places. She was able to find
her name again, and go on with her para
graph.
"The lady is Mme. Dagand, the wife of
one ol the most wealthy and popular law
yers in Paris. The Prince de Nerins, whose
word is law in these matters, gave it as his '
opinion last night that Mme. Dagand was
'the prettiest woman in Paris.' We quite
agree with him."
Then came a dash. There was no more.
But it was enough I It was too much I Mme.
Dagand felt herself perfectly overwhelmed
by an extraordinary conflict of feeling, a
mingling of fear, pleasure, delight, confu
sion, satisfied vanity and wounded modesty.
Her dressing gown had fallen away a little
from her neck. She drew it together ablest
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fiercely, throwing it over her feet, which
she tucked awav nnder the chair. She had .
a strange sensation of defenselessness, of, '
nuaitv. xi seemea to ner mat me wnoier
city had assembled to stare at her in tha
inner sanctuary of her young married life,
and that toe Prince stood foremost amone -
them, crying to all Paris: "Look at her t, '
Jbook at her I She Is the prettiest woman in
.Paris."
The Prince de Nerins! She knew the name
well, for she took a lively interest in those;
newspaper articles heidedt "La Vie Pari.?
Ienne,""High life," "EcbosMondains,"etc.,,r
and was tnorougmy versea in tne cnronicles",
signed Mousseline, Fanfreluehe, Brimbo-'
rinn.Veldntiue accounts of sreat marrlairn.f.
great balls, great first niihts. great fancy'.
fairs. ThePnnce's name figured perpetually , I
in these records, and always as the supreme f ':
auiuoniy la matters oi taste. , -,
And he it was who had pronounced her ioA
be . .Here pleasure undoubtedly got the
better of tear! Still trembling with excite-
ment, .nime, uagana placed nerseli before a '
large mirror, an old-rashioned cheval-glassA
from Jacob's which np to that moment had
reflected only tbe virtuous partners of coa-j
scienuous lawyers, .minis respectaDiegiaes ,
she examined herself with the mosteaferi
scrutiny, the most intense curiosity. Satff
had always known sne waspmtyl But now,'
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