THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH SECOND PART. W i i WW PAGES 9 TO 16. PITTSBURG. StWDAY. JANTTABY 26, 1890. FIGHTING SENATORS, Statesmen "Who Have Had Ex perience "With the Code. INGALLS'FIERCE QUABBELS Joe Brown's Preparations to Let Day light Into Bob Toombs. THE FRIENDSHIPS OF THE SENATE C0ZBSSF0XDEXCX OF THE DISPATCH. 1 Washington, January 25. HE trouble be tween Senators Call and Plumb will probably make them ene mies for life, and another feud 'will be added to the many which now exist in the United States Senate. A dozen odd Senators do not speak to each other already, and the bitter po litical speeches of the past week are by no means calming the troubled waters. The stings of debate last long after the sessions are oyer, and there are personal remarks made every session which rankle in the souls of the Senators at whom they are di rected. Call will not forget that Plumb called him a coward and Plumb will never forgive Call for saying that he was a bad man, a vain man, a weak man and a man of boorish manners and contemptible methods. Had these words been uttered before the war the result would probably hare been a duel, but as it is the two men will sit in the Senate, sneer at each other's speeches and pass by one another without speaking. John Sherman and "Wade Hampton hate not spoken to each other for years, and the trouble arose in reply to some correspond ence which Hampton had with Sherman while he was Secretary of the Treasury. Chandler wants nothing to do with Joe Blackburn since that stormy trouble arose in the session of the Committee on Indian Traders, and the Senator from Kentucky attempted to pull the ear of the Senator from New Hampshire. Chandler denies that his ear was pulled, but he acknowl edges that he received threats and other in dignities. He Mill never forget them, and Blackburn will long remember the offensive remark of Mr. Chandler in which be said that he "would not be bulldozed by any negro driver from Kentucky." SENATOR iNGALLS QUAEBEL8. Senator Ingalls is mixed up in half a dozen feuds. The Democratic Senators as a mass hate him worse than the devil hates holy water, and there are a number of Dem ocratic Senators with whom he can never be onfrijaMy terms. One of these is Joe Brown, of trtgia, whom the Kansas Senator held up to ridicule about six years ago under the title of the Senator from Alaska. Brown bad said he would not make the Senate the scene of a coarse personal quarrel, and that in his conflicts with brave men he had never been accused of cowardice. He referred to Ingalls' attenuated lorm and in timated (hat no one naa much afraid of the Kansas Senator. In reply to this Scnatorjn galls made a fiery speech, accusing Brown of changing the record of the Senate, calling him a "sanctimonious hypocrite who was lorever washing his hands with invisible Eoap in imperceptible water." Under the title of the Senator from Alaska, he charac terized Brown as the Uriah Heep of the Senate, as the Joseph Surface of American politics, as a snivelling political Pecksniff who had belonged to every political party in bis lifetime and to none which he did not betray. At the close of his speech he said he was willing to have the Senator from Georgia take his remarks in any sense he saw fit to take them, and that he did not shrink be hind the privileges of the chamber. joe bbown's duel. It was supposed that nothing less than a duel could come of these remarks. After a day or two, however, the matter quieted down and nothing more has been heard of the trouble. The two Senators will, how ever, never be friends, though both of them hold each other in decided respect. The fact that they did not fight cannot be con sidered an imputation upon the bravery of either, for both have shown themselves to be ready to fight in the days of the past, and had either sent a challenge there is no doubt that the other would have accepted it. Senator Joe Brown once came within an ace of fighting a duel with Bob Toombs. Toombs and he had a quarrel as to recon struction measures, and the story is that both expected to fight, Toombs made no preparation for the duel. Joe Brown went abonthis arrangements in the same practi- Plumb and CaU. cal business way lor which he is so noted and which has made him a success as a fortune maker and a great statesman. He drew up his will, put his estate in order and clipped all the trees of his or chard in practicing with his pistol. I think it wag in this affair that Brown called Toombs an unscrupulous liar, and that Toombs, in talking to one of his friends about it, characterized Brown as a hypocritical old deacon, saying: "What can I do with him. If Icnallenge him he will dodge behind the door of the Baptist Church,' and he then referred to the state ment of Ben Hill in reply to Alexander H. Stephens, wherein Hill retused to fight, taying to Stephens: "Sir, I have a family to support and a God to serve, but you have neither." This remark of Toombs was reported to Brown, and Brown went to his church and got a certificate stating that he had left it. He sent the certificate to Toombs, and told him that he would be glad to accommodate him and that he would accept any challenge he might make. It was while Toombs was waiting to make the challenge that he prac ticed with his pistol. Toombs knew that he was a good shot, and he saved his life by not aaying anything more about it As to Senator Ingalls" bravery there are ffl IfflSflP. numerous stories told of h Is couragein Kansas during and before the war. He was sitting one day eating his dinner in a hotel in Atchison. It was at the time that Ingalls had first come to Kansas, and he had al ready made two or three of his pyrotechnio oratorical displays. As he sat there a drnnken ruffian entered the room with a nhtol in his hands. He saw Ingalls and said: "See here, young man, they say you are a blanked good" speaker. Now, I want vou to get up and make me a speech or I will shoot out of you." He then pointed 'his revolver at Ingalls. Ingalls looked him in the eye and the re volver in the mouth, and replied that he did not intend to make a speech for any drunk ard. The man continned to swear and flour ish his revolver. He jumped up and down as he did so, and by accident his boot struck his pistol and he shot himself in-the leg. His boot was soon fnll of blood. This sobered him and he left the dining room. Ingalls went upstairs, brought down his pistol, laid it down beside his plate and went on with his eating. The man went out in the street, cot into a shooting affray and was killed that afternoon. SENATOR SHERMAN'S DUEL. Senator Sherman came very near having a duel at just about the beginning of the war. He was insulted by a member oi the Honse, and he picked up a box of wafers and threw it in the man's face. Everyone sup posed that the resnlt would be a shooting affray, and Sherman carried a pistol for some time after the occurrence. He had his pistol in his pocket the first day that he met the man in whose face he had thrown the wafers, and he passed him on the stone flag ging which surrounded the fish pond which used to be in front of the Capitol. Sherman kept his eye on the man, expecting an at tack, and I think one hand was on his pistol in his pocket, Wright, however this I think was the name of the man failed to attack him and no challenge was sent. Sherman had his bravery tested in the Kansas-Nebraska troubles when, he was sent West on the House Committee to in vestigate them. The committeemen were often in danger of their lives, and they re ceived many threats on paper marked with coffins and sknlls and cross bones. At one time, Senator Sherman tells me, a hoary- SOME SENATORIAL FIGHTERS. Voorhees. Blackburn. headed ruffian came in and denounced him in the rudest and most threatening of terms, painting the air red with profanity. Sbort hand.was then anew thing in the West, and, as the man went on, Senator Sherman motionedMo his stenographer to take down his language. When he had concluded his tirade Senator Sherman told him he ought to be careful as to how he assaulted a member of Congress of the United States when he was carrying out the orders of the Government, and told him that he had a record of every word he had said. SHORTHAND SETTLED HIM. The man sneered and swore and practi cally called Mr. Sherman a liar. Sherman then asked his stenographer to read to him what he had said, and the man listened dumbfounded as he heard his remarks re cited verbatim. It seemed a miracle, and he was frightened at the possible results. He asked to see a page of the notes. It was handed him. He looked at it, and clutch ing his hair, yelled out: "Snakes, bv the eternal!" Whether he thought he had the delirium tremens or not, Senator Sherman says ho does not know, but he left the committee room a scared man, and carried his pistol , and profanity off with him. Senator Ingalls was severely denounced by Senator Joe Blackburn about two years ago. and Ingalls and Blackburn might be called the two fighters of the Senate. Neither seems to be hapoy unless he is in a qnarrel, and both deal in oratorical pyrotechnics, delighting in the invective. They go about the Senate with chips on their shoulders de fying anyone to knock them off, and ready lb fight at a moment's notice. At the last quarrel between the two each washed for the other such dirty linen as he could find con nected with his war record, and the soap of the cleansing got into the eyes of both to such an extent that they do not smile as they pass by, and their souls are filled with hatred. A. TILT "WITH YOOBHEES. It is much the same with Ingalls and Voorhees, and if the Senator from Kansas dispenses as much vitriol during the present session, in proportion to the political ex citement, as he has done during those of the past, he will hardly have a speaking ac quaintance with more than half a dozen Democratic Senators. In his trouble with Yoorhees, the latter called him a liar, and the Senator from Kansas retorted that "if the Senate of the United States was a police court, the Senator from Indiana would be sentenced to the rock pile and bard labor." He paid his compliments to Senator Yoor hees' war record, and described the exciting trouble which took place in the North as well as in the South in terms by no means complimentary. The power of Ingalls, added to bis wonderful brain and terrible tongue, lies in his knowledge of the personal records of his brother Senators. He seems to have printed documents in his study de tailing every act of their lives from their births to the present moment. He has all such information at his ,tongne's end, and his perceptions are so keen that he knows jnst where to strite hardest and hurt the most. He feels hard knocks, however, and the Democratic Senators occasionally cut deeply into his sensitive anatomy. Joe Brown succeeded in doing this perhaps as much as any of his opponents, and both Blackburn and Voorhees caused him con siderably more than an unpleasant quarter of an hour. OTHEB SENATORIAL FEUDS. Theie are a number of other Senators who are not on the most friendly terms with ach other. Morgan, of Alabama, and Mitchell, of Oregon, will never sleep in the same bed, and it is hardly possible that their relations will ever become friendly. The trouble occurred not very long ago when Senator Morgan charged Senator Mitchell with being a representative of rail road corporations, and when Senator Tfitrliill rptnrtri Kw lavini k.i !........ -" .,.,., .j "".""A . (IU4KTH I he might do, and that he wonld not discuss, he had never disgraced himself in the Senate by reeling into the chamber in a state of beastly intoxication as the Senator from Alabama had done. Senator Harris and Senator Hiscock have not been on good terms since their fuss at the latter part of the last session regarding the Bureau of Engraving and Print ing, and there are a number of other Senators who seem to have a secret antagonism toward one another. This does not come out in their speeches and it does not affect to any great degree their inter course. It is often so with Senators from the same State. You seldom see Sherman and Payne together, and the reDresentatives o the great State of Ohio have nothing in common. Senator Chandler and Senator Blair are not hand and ' glove as two great statesmen who have interests in common should be, and Chandler evidently thinks Blair a crank, and Blair apparently knows it. Ingalls and Plumb are friendly enough, but they do not hobnob together, and Ed munds ana Morrill though good friends are by no means boon companions. It is the same with many of the other Senators rep resenting the same State. SEW SENATORS "WHO WILL FIOHT. There are a number of men among the new additions to the chamber who will not be afraid to resist if they are attacked this Bession. SenatorTurpie, of Indiana, has not had a chance to show his power of invective as yet He is considered one of the strong est speakers in this line in the whole State of Indiana, and the Bepublicans will probably here something drop before the winter is over. He is little and insignificant looking, but he has a gall-bag at the root of his tongue as big as that of Ingalls', and his command of language is almost as great. Moody, of Dakota, will certairly resist if attacked, and there are many stories of his bravery in the Indiana Legislature which have not gotten into print, I don't believe he would fight a duel now, but he has ac cepted a challenge in his day, and he comes from the fighting frontier. Another possible fighter is the Republican Senator-elect Ban ders, of Montana". If he should get his seat he will display to the Senate a tongue much the same as that of Ingalls, and he has shown himself to possess a courage equal to that of any man in public life. He was one Brown. Mitchell oi the chief organizers of the Montana Vig ilantes, who cleaned the road agents from the Territory and who hung over 20 men. The first of these was George Ives, and Sanders made the speech against bim while his friends were standing around with their hands on their pistols. This speech con victed Ives, and I heard a Btory to-night of an incident which occurred that same even ing at Virginia City. Colonel Sanders' was quietly reading in one of the stores of the town when a desper ado named Harvey Meade came into the room with his revolver stnek into the band of his pantaloons in front. He came up to Sanders and commenced abusing him and called him all sorts of names. Sanders went on with his reading without noticing for a moment, and then dropping his hand into his overcoat pocket he cocked the derringer' which lay there and raised his eyes to the bully and murderer as he quietly said: "Harvey, I should feel hurt if some men used such language to me, but from such a dog as you it is not worth noticing." The men who were in the store upon this caught hold of Meade and dragged him out. He afterward admitted to Sanders that he had intended to kill him. THB DAMONS AND PYTHIASES. The friendships of the Senate are.however, more numerous than the enmities. The 82 men in the chamber are, as a whole, much like a big club, and they associate more like college boys than like Democrats and Be publicans. Many of the States have Senators who are friendly to each other, and Spooner and Sawyer work together. Beck and Black burn are often seen arm-in-arm, and Beck has friends on both sides of the chamber. One of the most popular Senators is Senator Stanford, and his popularity, it may be. comes somewhat from his generous pursed He never lunches alone, and he gives many a good dinner both at the Capitol and at his residence. It was the same with Palmer, of Michigan, who possessed more elements of good fellow ship than any man in the Senate, and the friendship of Palmer and Manderson was one of the noticeable things of the chamber. The two were alwavs together, and one win ter Manderson and his wife lived with Sen ator Palmer in his big house on MaePher sou Square. West, ofMissottri, and Pugb, of Alabama, are great friends, though they hold different views on the tariff question, and you may often see those two rough diamonds, known as George and Cockrell, hob-nobbing together. A REMARKABLE COUPLE. It is funny how men of the most different temperament become attached to one an other. Philetus Sawyer, the millionaire Damon Payne and Pythias Sawyer. Wisconsin Senator, is as broad as he is long, and bis fat round belly shakes like a bowl of jelly oyer every good story he hears. He is a man of brains as well as money, and he is the direct opposite of that tall, thin grandmother in specs known as Senator Payne. The two are great chums, and Cameron and Sutler. they sit and gossip for hours together while the most bitter of political speeches are be ing made in the chamber. The fact that one is a Democrat and the other a Repub lican does not affect their good fellowship. Don Cameron is a good friend and a bad enemy. The especial object of his aversion in the person of Van Wyck, of Nebraska, ' has left the chamber. Cameron carried in his sonl the friendships and the enmities of his father, and he hated Van Wyck because he had made a bitter personal attack upon Simon Cameron wheu he was in the House of Representatives. He almost assaulted Van Wyck at the time that he made charges against Attorney General Brewster some years ago, and the scene of that day is not yet forgotten in the Senate Chamber. Cam eron was very ill. He got up in front of Van Wyck and interrupted him in his speech. He shook his fist at him and told bim not to talk any more in that direction. There was an uproar in the chamber. The Vice President tried to restore order, and Cameron finally was taken by his friends into one of the cloakrooms and persuaded to lie down on a Bofa. He was a very sick man, and had he been in his present health the affair might have ended worse for Van Wyck. CAHEBON AND BUTLEB. The great friendship of Senator Cameron and Senator Butler, of South Carolina, also starts, I am told, with Don Cameron's father. The incident ocenrred before the war. Hon. Simon Cameron was elected to the Senate, and through some hitch or other came very near missing his seat. Pierce Butler, Sena tor Butler's uncle, was then a Senator from South Carolina. He made a fight for Sena ator Cameron, and it was his speeches and vote that gave him his seat. After the ques tion was settled, Mr. Butler went over to Cameron and said: "Senator Cameron, I won this fight for you, and there is one thing I want you to do for me in return." T want you to send me a quart bottle of your best Pennsylvania whisky." "I'll send you a barrel." said old Simon, as he shook hands with Pierce Butler, "and when you want anything else call upon me and I'll do it." He sent Butler the barrel of whiskv and be continued his friend as long as he lived. Don Cameron inherited the friendship for the Butler family, and when the present Senator Butler came to the Senate it hap pened that there was some difficulty about his seat. It was a party question, but Don Cameron, so the story goes, broke awavfrom the Bepublicans in this case and voted with the Democrats. His vote made Butler's position secure, and he thus paid the debt of his father to Butler's uncle. Frank GTCarpenteb. OSE OP TAKCE'S STORIES. He Had Lout Bis Hat Which Reminded Hlra of a Tale. Hew Tork Tribune. 1 Senator Vance, of North Carolina, lost his hat the other day. He came out of the Sen ate cloakroom bare-headed, with his over coat on his arm and paraded the corridors asking everyone he met if he had seen a tall hat straying about anywhere. He was ask ing the question of Captain May, the door keeper at the lobby door, when a page came up with the missing article in his hand. Senator Vance was just saying: "Of course I don't think you have seen it, you know, but I was 'just asking,' like the man who came into my office once when I was Governor of North Carolina. He was a trampish-looking man, and his clothing was worn and seedy. He looked carefully around the room and then said: " 'Governor, you ain't seen nothing of a pair of boots around here, have you? I left em in that corner last night, and they ain't here this morning.' "I answered that I had not seen the boots. '"I knew some d d thief had stolen them,' said the unknown. 'Of course I knowed it wasn't you, butl just thought I'd ess QUININE AS DAILY. FOOD. Natives of Some Portions ot Africa do It In Abundance. February Wide Awake. Doubtless most people have at some time in their lives been obliged to take quinine. Disguise it as one will, in capsules or gela tine covers, it is a bitter dote. Think, then, of a country where it is aa article in daily use, placed upon the table as regularly as the bread. Such is the case in portions of Africa, The natives do not need it, of course, because they are born to the climate, but qninine is the white man's shield from the malaria. A missionary lady who lived for many years on the west coast of Africa told me that when perfectly well she took six grains of quinine every day in order to keep well, and that in her family of three persons they used, on the average, an ounce in six weeks. One can run over the table of weights, and easily see what a large num ber of grains an onnce contains. WAIS OF THE D0CT0E8. A Brooklyn Ladr Who Brought Her Physi cian to Terms. Brooklyn Eagle. This is vouched for: A lady who was suffering severely from rheumatism called in a physician who at once began to pay visits at $2 apiece. He administered a number of pellets and dilutions of an in effectual kind, and finally the patient said, in a bnrst of impatience, "Oh, doctor, can't yon give me sometbinEthat will really cure me? I'm so tired of staying here in the house." "If you really want it, of course I can,"replled the healer, and he selected1 from his case some medicine that did the business within 24 hours. Why did he not give it is the first place? A HERO'S ANCESTORS. Career of thfFamily Whence George Washington Came. MEN OP POWER IN OLD ENGLAND. The Stars and Stripes Taken From Henry Washington's Shield. GEAYE8 AT MUCH HADHABI PARISH ICORBKSFOXDEXCB OF Till DISPATCH. I Much Hadham, England, January 15. O Mount Vernon, Va., belongs the glory of being the birthplace of George Washing ton, the patriot of patriots, who if man ever did, lived and died for his country and for her good alone. He has been Compared to Ctesar, Cromwell and Na poleon, men in some sense possibly of a wider fame and more notorious prominence bat driven on by one Bpur alone, the spur of paltry ambi tion and the pride of conquest, which too often led them into cruelty and excess. Bussell, Hampdem and Sydney may have been as pure in motive; but they more or less failed and fell. To George Washing ton alone in modern times belongs the fame of accomplishing a mighty revolution, and of yet remaining for all ages the theme of a nation's gratitude, an example of noble and beneficent power. Though a hern may spring from any stock, ex quovit lignojit mercurius, i. e., you may cut your god out of any tree, yet the fore fathers ot Washington were men of mark and of power as far back as the days of the Tudors. The Washingtons were a brave old Northern family when, in the time of Henry VIIL, they migrated down South into Northamptonshire where Sir Thomas Kit son, under Henry VII., had been a mighty trader in wool, be being the uncle of the firat Lawrence Washington, who gave up his work as a barrister "to shear sheep of another kind." This same Lawrence, giv ing himself up to flocks and herds, grew to be a man of substance, and, going in for civil and religious liberty, obtained a grant of monastic land, and in due time became Mayor of Northampton. There the Law rences flourished and waxed great for three generations, taking rank amwg the nobility and gentry of the county. When evil days befell them, as they then did, they again rose into the sunshine bv the marriage of the eldest son to a half sister of the famous George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham,their headquarters being Tulgrave and Brington. HEBO OP BRISTOL AND WOBCESTEB. When the Civil War broke out the Wash inetons took the side of the King, and a cer tain Sir Henry Washington not only led the storming party at Bristol and defended Worcester, but became so noted for his un daunted bravery that when any difficulty arose in the army, it became a proverb, to cry out, "Away with it. quoth Washing ton." It was in his time that one member of the Washington family emigrated to America, after being knighted by James I., and there became the head of that branch from whom sprang thojamous George, .who gave a luster to the name of Washington which it-had never yet known. Hut it is to Brington Church. Northamp tonshire, that we must go back to note a fact of singular and curious interest to all pa triots on both sides of the Atlantic, for in that gray old parish church are still to be The Coat of Arms. seen two sepulchral stones, bearing date 1616, the one marking the grave of the fntherof the famous emigrant to Virginia, the other that of his uncle. Into each stone is set a tablet of brass bearing its own coat of arms, and the latter bears a device which, no doubt gave rise to the famous stars and stripes, known and noble among the noblest flags of the world, as our readers might easily see from the cut. The crescent moon in the third quarter of the shield is the ap propriate sign belonging to a younger brother. The stars and stripes which now figure on the national blazon were doubtless taken from this shield of the gallant soldier who fought so bravely at Bristol and Worcester as a compliment to so brave a hero, and have since won for a brave people a fame as untarnished as his own, that defies decay. The stars ot the States flag are five-pointed, like those of the Brington tablet, and the stripes in com alternately rea ana wnue. So lives forever the memorv of a brave deed and of him who wrought it ; and the glory that once was the proud possession of a single hero becomes the prouder heritage of a mighty people. Barely, indeed, in an cient or modern records, may a national flag lay claim to a nobler or fairer origin ; and still more rarely may a starry witness of its prowess still shine out on either side of a wide ocean with a radiance beyond dispute. ANOTHEB BRANCH OP THE PAMILY. But, another voice from the Mother coun try has yet to speak, and give us another glimpse of the Washingtons. A second branch of the same goodly race went down still further South into a quiet nook in the quiet county ot Hertfordshire, and there settled, increased and multiplied, and made themselves a name, of which some clear tokens are sfill to be found. Thirty miles away from the great city, by that dreariest of all dreary lines, the Great Eastern Ballway, which, sings Thackeray, "The shares I don't desire," lies the sleepy little village of Much Hadham, so called to distinguish it from a hamlet some three miles away named Little Hadham; the one being a goodly rectory of 1,200 a year, with a mighty rectory house and noble gardens, a lake and hanging woods, rich gentry tor parishioners, and few troublesome poor folk tor the shepherd's care; the other, a small, cold, dreary vicarage in the wilds, of not a quarter of the endowment of her wealthy sister, the sheep mostly; poor and the shep herd but an inferior being compared to the lordly rector in the next valley. King John, it is said, once had a hunting palace at Much Hadham, and a rector some 60 years ago is said to have been a Nimrod who I kept 30 horses in his own stable. Beyond all doubt a Bishop of London, some 300 years ago, there built for himself a digni fied and quiet retreat, which even now. In ruins, is still called The Palace. Clearlv St was a place for smooth, easy-going iif, where sober and sturdy merchants toot their ease after the toils RacMes and ba,n.aJ I rjlOTOTWlEMilljj quets of Babylon, mellowing and ripening on toward old age. A OBAND OLD CHUBCH. To this cozy retreat of peaceful repose the Washingtons quietly migrated; there they lived comfortable lives, and there at last were comfortably buried in the chancel of the grand old parish church, which, in spite of its insignificant spire half buried among noble trees, must have been a noble build ing. Even now 3 Bishop in fall "pontifi calibus," in Bearch of a quiet and dignified resting place might, as a Hertfordshire man once said of purgatory, "go further and fare worse." The interior of the church is still, After many centuries of decay, grand and striking, and there may still be seen the gravestone of Thomas Newee and his wife, the parents of Clement Newee, bearing two portrait figures in brass in the costume of the time of Henry VIII., and there may be noted the gentleman's long hair, his fur lined coat and square shoes of one piece, as well as the lady's elaborate headgear. This Thomas Newee was a man of might, and, perhaps, of questionable morals, seeing that he had a hand in spoiling and embezzling some ot the church's ornaments, vestments and goodly plate during the reign of the sixth Edward of pious memory. But, what ever his glory in that day, it "has long ago died ont in utter oblivion, while that of his son Clement still shines with a gleam of light of which sleepy old Hadham may well be proud. To him came the happy fortune of being father to a charming and fair daughter, Martha Newee, and she, in the year of grace 1578, when Elizabeth was queening it in full splendor, was married at the parish church to a certain Lawrence Washington, Registrar of the High Court of Chancery, and, above all, own brother to Bobert, the grandfather in the fourth generation of George Washington, the famous President of the United States. WASHINGTON'S LAST WORDS. The steps by which he won his way up to that proud height need not be recounted here; they are written in letters ot light along the scroll of fame where all may read. But it mav be well said that if the life and career of Washington were those of a hero, and his words not nnworthy of his deeds, no less dignified and worthy was his last utter ance, when his great work was done and the supreme moment was at harfd. The words were few, but grand in their simplicity. "It is well," was all he said. It was well; he had accomplished that for which he lived; like another hero, one Horatio Nelson, who as he lay a-dying cried ont: "I thank God, I have done my duty." B. G. Johns. TOO lAZI TO EAT. A Cnrlons Fact Thnt Moat People Can be Tun Described. New York 6un.l All of this talk about "the chaff" in any sort of food should be considered carefully, for the reason that a man who wonld live long mnst keep in mind that he will at first have to nag himself into the habits that will enable him to do so. Not one man in a thousand chews his food enough. It is a ludicrous fact that people are generally too lazy to eat. Let the reader try it and see. At the next meal, after reading this article, let him stop just as he is swallowing a piece of meat and see how much longer he can chew it before it becomes impalpably fine wastes away in his mouth. It is absolutely certain, unless he is the one man in a thou sandvery likely one in ten thousand he will find that he did not chew it more than half long enough. And yet he often won ders how it happens that he has the heart burn I Here is the reason. When food is swallowed in chunks the interior of the chunk spoils decays while the stomach is digesting the outside of it. It is the decayed matter that is so acrid. , , .,,. . Although tofflasy .to-eafr, people swallow too much. ' They stuff themselves and yet, being in haste, go away from the table un satisfied. If a man can by any exercise of will power bring himself to chew his food as long as there is any part of it left to chew, he will not only get all the pleasure there is in the taste of the morsel, but will get all the nutriment there is in it, and will never eat too much. A week of this will help to convince him that life Is worth living. THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT. A Canadian Politician Explains How the Trickster Work It. New York Sun. 1 "I had a good deal of experience with the Australian ballot system in Canada," said a former Canada politician who is now a resi dent of New York, "and I can say from my own knowledge that it protects the poli tician who wants to buy votes a good deal more than it does the ballot box. All ou need beforehand is one copy of the official ballot for each polling place. We never had any trouble in getting as many as were needed, and, until human nature changes a good deal from what it is now, I don't be lieve there would be any difficulty in doing the same anywhere else. The man who has a polling place in charge has his men spotted beforehand, and, in a good many cases, the arrangements all made. He keeps his official ballot, ready marked, in his pocket and hangs around in the neighborhood of his polling place and sees his men before they go in. The man who teceives it puts it in his pocket, gets a ballot from the official, stays the proper time in the booth, where he puts the fresh ballot in his pocket and takes out the marked one. The latter is deposited in the box and the other transferred to the possession of the man around the corner, who knows abso lutely that he has got what he has paid for, which is a good deal more than any pol itician can be sure of under the ordinary plan. T7HEEB BHAKESPEAEE PLATED. The Old Globe Thentrr in London and Its History. St. Louis Post-DIipatcb, The accompanying sketch is a fac-simile taken from a wood-cut at least 300 years old of Shskespeare's Globe Theater in London. The immortal bard appeared in this theater as an actor. It was situated in the place now occupied by the famous brewery of Barclay & Perkins. The company of which Shakespeare was a member was called "The Queen's Actors," and they gave their performances in two Shakespeare's Globe Theater. theaters, at Blackfriars in the winter, and at the Globe in the summer. The large, wooden structure resembled a fortress more than any thing else, with its porthole-like windows. The building was destroyed by fire in 1613, on the night of the performance of Shakes peare's "Henry VIIL," while the Black friars outlived it for many years, until it became the prey of old age, " 1 iWI!flssiBsis9si!sSii? j7CVKVPSJpPPPppWlj"SvgSsBpK5S'f i ThiSH Jj WRITTEN POR SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Tbe story opens on the Welsh coast. Beatrice Granger, village schoolmistress and daughter of the rector of Bryngelly, while rowing one day, offers to bring to shore Geoffrey Bingham, a yonng London barrister, married to a titled lady, who has been cut off by tbe tide. A sudden storm overturns tbe canoe. Beatrice clings to Geoffrey, who is knocked senseless, and both are rescued more dead than alive. 'Squire Owen Davies. proprietor of Brypgelly Castle, Is among tbe anxious watchers at tbe cottage,, where the doctors toil for Beatrice's life. She is saved at last, as Is Geoffrey. Geoffrey's wife shows little wifely feeling daring the anxious hoars. In chapter VI is described Owen Davies' first meeting with Beatrice, his ever increasing love and Beatrice's annoyance at his advances, Beatrice's sister, Elizabeth, has laid her plans to become Mrs. Owen Davies. CHAPTER VIL1 A MATRIMONIAL TALK. Before Geoffrey Bingham dropped off Into a troubled sleep on that eventful night he learned that the girl who had saved his life at the risk, and almost at the cost, of her own was out of danger, and in his own and more reticent way he thanked Providence as heartily as did Owen Davies. Then he went to sleep. When he awoke, feeling very sick and so stifl and so sore that be could scarcely move, the broad daylight was streaming through the blinds. The place was perfectly quiet, for the doctor's assistant who had brought him back to life, and who lay upon a couch at the farther end of the room, slept the silent sleep of youth and complete exhaus tion. Only an eight-day clock on the man tlepiece ticked in that solemn and aggres sive way which clocks affect in the stillness. Geoffrey strained his eyes to make out the time, and finally discovered that it wanted a few minutes to 6 o'clock. Then he fell to wondering how Miss Granger was. and to repeating in his own mind eyery scene of j WHERE THEY POUND THE RUNAWAY. their adventure, till the last, when they were whirled out of tbe canoe in the embrace of that white-crested billow. He remem bered nothingafter that, nothing but a rush ing sound and a vision of foam. He shud dered a little as he thought of it, for his nerves were shaken; it is not pleasant 4o have been so very near the end and the begin ning; and then his heart went ont with re newed gratitude toward the girl who had re stored him to life and light and hope. Just at this moment he thought that be heard a sound of sobbing outside the window. He listened; the sound went on. He tried to rise, only to find that he was too stiff to manage it. So, as a last resource, he called the doctor. "What's the matter?" answered that young gentleman, jumping up with the alacrity of one accustomed to be suddenly awa Ironed "TIa vnn fpftl nnppr?" "Yes, rather," answered Geoffrey, "but it 1 isn't that. There s somebody crying out side here." The doctor put on his coat, and, going to the window, drew tbe blind. "Why, so there is," he said. "It's a little girl with vellew hair and without a hat" "A little girl," answered Geoffrey."Why, it must be Effie, my daughter. Please let her in." "All right. Cover yourself up and I can do that through the window; it isn't .five feet from the ground." Accordingly he opened the window, and, addressing the little girl, asked her what her name was. "Effie," she sobbed in answer: "Effie Bingham. I've come to look for daddie." "All right, my dear, don't cry so: your daddie is here. Come and let me lift you in. Another moment and there appeared through the open window the very sweetest little face and form that ever a child. of 6 was blessed witb. For the face was pink and white, and in it were set two beautiful dark eyes, which, contrasting with the golden hair, made the child a sight to see. But alas! just now the cheeks were stained with tears, and round the large dark eyes were rings almost as dark. Nor was this all. The little dress was hooked awry, on one tiny foot, all drenched with dew, there was no boot, and on the yellow curls no hat. "Oh! daddie, daddie," cried the child, catching sight of him and struggling to reach her father's arms, "yu isn't dead, is you, daddie?" "No, my love, no," answered her father, kissing her. "Why should you think that I was dead? Didn't your mother tell you. that I was safe?" "Oh I daddie," she answered, "they came and said that you were drowned, and I cried and wished that I were drowned too. Then mother came home at last and said that you were better, and was cross with me because I went oa crying and wanted to come to you. But I did go on crying. Iried nearly all night, and when it got light I did dress my self, all but one shoe and my hat, which I could not find, and I got ont to look for you." "And how did you find me, my poor little dear?" "Oh, I heard mother say yon was at the Vicarage, so I waited till I saw a man, and asked him which way to go, and he did tell me to walk along tbe cliff till I saw a long white house, and then when he saw that I had no shoe be wanted to take me home, but I ran away till I got here. Bat the blinds were down, so I did think that you were dead, daddie dear, and I cried till that gen tleman opened the window." After that Geoffrey set to work to scold her for tunning away, bat she did. not seem, to THE DISPATCH. mind it much, for she sat upon the edge of the couch, her little face resting against his own, a very pretty sight to see. "Yon mnst go back to Mrs. Jones, Effie, and tell your mother where you have been." "I can't, daddie, I have only got one shoe," she answered, pouting. "But you came with only one shoe." "Yes, daddie, but I wanted to come, and I don't want to go back. Tell me how yon was drownded." He laughed at her logic and gave way to her, for this little daughter was very near to his heart, nearer than anything else in the world. So he told her how he 'was "drownded," and how a lady had saved his life. Effie listened with wide set eyes, and then said that she wanted to see the lady. At that moment there came a knock at the door, and Mr. Granger entered, accom panied by Dr. Chambers. "How do yon do, sir?" said the former. "I must introduce myself, seeing that yon are not likely to remember me. When last I saw you, you looked as dead as a beached dogfish. My name's Granger, the Bey. J. Granger, Vicar of Bryngelly, one of the very worst living on this coast, and thafs saying a great deal." "I am sure, Mr. Granger, I'm under a deep debt of gratitude to you for your hospi tality, and under a still deeper one to your daughter, but I hope to thank her personally fortbaL' "Never speak of it," said the clergyman. "Hot water and blankets don't cost much, and you'll have to pay for tbe brandy and the doctor. How is he, doctor?" "He is getting on very well indeed, Mr. Granger. But I dare say you find yourself rather stiff, Mr. Bingham. I see your head is pretty badly bruised." 1 "Yes," he answered, laughing, "and so is mv body. Shall I be able to go home to day?" "I think so," said the doctor, "but not before this evening. You had better keep quiet till then. You will be glad to hear that Miss Granger is getting on very well. Hers was a wonderful recovery, the most Soun wonderful I ever saw. I had quite given her up, though I should have kept on the treatment for another hour. You ought to be very grateful to Miss Granger, Mr. Bingbam." "I am very grateful," he answered earn estly "Shall I be able to see her to-dav7" "Yes, I think so. some time this after noon, say at 3 o'clock. Is that your little daughter? What a lovely cnild she Is. Well, 1 will look in again about 13. All yon require to do now is to keep quiet and rub in some arnica." About an hour afterward the servant girl brought Geoffrey some breakfast of tea and toast. He felt quite hungry, but when it came to the pinch conld not eat mnch. Effie, who was starving, made up fcr the deficien cy, however; she ate all the toast and a con pie of slices of bread and butter after it. Scarcely had they finished when her father observed a shade of anxiety come upon his little daughter's face. "What is it, Effie?" he asked. "I think," replied Effie in evident trepi datiOD, "I think that I did hear mother out side nnd Annie, too."' "Well, dear, they have come to see me." "Yes, and to scold me because I ran away," and the child drew nearer to her father in a fashion which wonld have made it clear to any observer that the relatione between her and her mother were somewhat strained. Effie was right, Presently there was a knock at the door and Lady Honoria entered, calm and pale and elegant as ever. She was followed by a dark-eyed, somewhat impertinent-looking French bonne, who held up her hands and ejaculated, "Moa Dieu!" as she appeared. "I thought so," said Lady Honoria,speak ingin French to the bonne. "There she is." and she pointed to the runaway EfBe With her parasol. i'Moa Dieur sjij tlw woman agaia, dsofbubUmg Reached Sim.
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