THE PITTSBUROc DISPATCE r SEpD PART. ' " PAGES 9 TO 16. Sft- IIS1THEH0USE i . Congress Keyer Had Abler leaders Than it Has Now. KENTUCKY AND OHIO TEIOS Ben Bulterworlh's Song About the Dandy Copper of Broadway. CRISP A MOST PBUMSIKG LEADER (cosBssroxsExcx or THIS dispatch. Washington, February 8. HE present session is coin? to be one of fight ing from the word go. Both Dem ocrats and have If tongues in oil of vitriol and the acri monious re marks of the past two weeks are but the be ginning of a poisonous stream of eloqn e c c e trbich will burn not only the hearts o! their opponents, but which will stir the souls of both parties throughout the country. The men are ripe for the occasion. There lave never been more noted leaders in both houses of Congress than there are now and the House has a dozen brainy statesmen who are ready for the fray and are glad that it is on. I took a look at John 6. Carlisle to-day. He looks almost as young as he did when he was elected Speaker six years ago. Bis shoulders have become slightly stooped, it is true, and the bald spot on his crown has widened, but his blue eyes are full of fire and the iron of his blood has not been weakened by his "unremitting industry. Carlisle is one of the hardest workers in public life. He leaves bis accomplished Juno-like wife to keep up the society end of his Washington lile, and he delves in figures and facts as tLough he were a young lawyer of 25 with his reputation to make. "personalitx of Kentucky's leader. John G. Carlisle is six feet tall. Of slen der form, he has a strong, rough, honest ' face. His forehead is high and broad, his complexion is sallow, his eyes liht gray -and his cheeks are thin.' He dresses in 'talesmen's black, wears a double-breasted frock and ties with his own hands the black string necktie he wears around his standing collar. I would not call hiraa handsome . -jnan, but be would be a striking one any where. On the floor he speaks with tew gestures, and his voice is a hard metallic one, becoming at times almost nasal. His fort is bis wonderful command of fact and statistics. He remembers everything that he has ever read, and he seems to have xead everything. He makes no fuss in his peaking' does not talk to the galleries, and is the most unassuming man in Washington. I rode down with nim from the Capitol one day in a street car and when we bad zeached the avenue a young negro girl en- . Grorrenor. Jiuttericorlh. McKinley. .Ami lft (vt r .rw ,-U f ft-4 - P?$ v55f z2 iere9 the car. 'There was no seat for her and she grasped the strap as she looked up and down the benches on both sides. I was surprised to see Speaker Carlisle, for he was then Speaker of the House, half rise to give her his dace. A moment later he saw that he could make room for her beside him and he crowded the rest of us up against the end and motioned her to sit down. His treat ment of everyone else is on the same demo cratic basis. 'His latchstring is out to every body, and anyone" who wants to see him can see him at any time. He lives very nicely here at Washington and his brick house on 3 street is one of the most attractive ones of the capital. He is fortunate in having a wife who knows how to take care of him, and Mrs. Carlisle watches over his health as carefully as though he were her son instead of her husband. -XBECKIXBIDGE, THE SILVER-TONGUED. Carlisle is the embodiment of the free trade idea, and the sime may be said of W. C P. Breckinridce, who, "in connection t -with McCreary, makes the Kentucky dele- k gation one ot the strongest irom the'South. ( Breckinridge is known as the silver-tongued orator in his own State. He is an eloquent i speaker, is a man of fine culture, and be de- lights in well rounded sentences. He I weighs a third as much again as Carlisle, though be is not as tall, and he is one of the fine looking men oi the House. His hair is frosted silver, his beard is as white as newly rfaked lime, and his cheeks are as rosy as the.risinc moon. He is a noted lawyer and was a professor in the University of Louis ville before he came to Congress. Many of his speeches are extempore ones, and hehas showuhimself to be a good all-round fighter. He-is as good a fellow as he is a statesman, and he lives in a very nice brick bouse here about two miles from the Capitol, on Six teenth street, in the shadow of ex-Senator Henderson's $100,000 brown stone chateau. Breckinridge has a curious way ot pre paring his speeches. He dictates ttie matter to the .graphophone and then has the cylin ders written out in type writing. He did for a lone time dictate his mail directly to the type-writer.nnd he is one of the men who can get through a great deal of work in a very short time. Representative Breckinridge's cousin, Breckinridge of Arkansas, is also promi nent in the Democratic party. He is the son of John C. Breckinridge, and he moves about the House looking as though he wanted to fight and was ready to take up one at a moment's notice. , He is a lean lit tle anatomy with a sallow face and a heavy i" aw. He possesses consiaeraoie ability and as shown himself an aDie'speacer. M'CBEABT AND SUNSET COX. McCreary, .of Kentucky, is also a good speaker, though lie has not as yet shown himself to possess the eloquence oi Breckeh ridge or the facts of Carlisle. He is a straight, well-padded brunette of medium fctlf at, with' b pair of tyes U Hack u oiled jet, with a broad, full forehead and with raven black hair. He dresses well, is per fcctlv at home upon the floor, and his speeches show him to be something of a student. He is 52 years old, is a practicing lawver, and was Speaker of the Kentucky House and Governor of the State belore he was elected to Concress. He is a iongspeak er, bot his speeches are by no means so long as those he accued the late Sam Cox of making. McCreary savs when lie left col lege 20 odd vears ago he made a visit to Is ew York, and. In passing through Washington, he spent a few moments in the House gal lery. He saw a little man standing in the middle of the floor and pounding the air very vigorously, while he kept the House in a storm of laughter. He asked who this was, and was told that it was Sam Cox. He was not able to waitfortheendofthe speech, and went on to New York and then back to Kentucky. He did not again come to Wash ington until he was elected to Congress, and through some trouoie in " "j he was not able to get to the House on the first day or the session. When he did enter it be taw the same little man ...tnn in lt came ulnrp and noundint? the air fn the same way. It was Sunset Cox rounding up one vi iuc iu Bjiwtuw w .i. three decades of Federal leeinlation. Mc Creary iu talking to Cox about the matter, Wlm JJreclenrtdge and His Graphophone. said that he liked the beginning of the speech and he very much admired th'e end of it, and that it would be his lite-long re gret that he had never heard the middle of it. THE BUCKEYE STATE'S GEEAT TRIO. Ohio compares with Kentucky in this Congress as to the number of its able repre sentatives. The able Onioans, however, are Republican. Ben Butterworth, Major Mc Kinley and Charley Grosvenor size up well with Carlisle, Breckenridge and McCreary. McKinley is the embodiment of the pro tective tariff idea. He is an able speaker, and this side of the tariff has been his study for vears. He is careful in the preparation of his speeches, does not believe in SDeaking unless be bassomelhing tosay and makes a hit nearly every time. McKinley is a good politician, and lie might almost be called a statesman. His act at Chicaco ih stating that he wan a friend or John Sherman's and that he wanted no one among his friends to vote for him as a Presidental candidate was an heroic one, and it added to his fame. He may yet be President ot tjie United State and if so he will make an eminently respect able President. He is cautions and con servative, full of dignity, and he has the bearing of a great man. He never makes a mistake and he has the sense to keep his mouth shut at the rjgbt time. He comes from the central part of Ohio, is well-to-do. and though he is not a.monev-mafcer his income is by no means small. 'He madeone of the ablest of the Republican speeches ih last week's quarrel, and he may be called the Republican leader tur.the floor. 7 BUTTJSEVrOKrlt'S quakes parents. nn of tlin best fiVhtert in Concress. and I he man who is always ready to throw ofl his coat and jump into the muss, is Ben vtnttprurnrth. He is a bluff. trood-natored fellow, who reminds one of a jolly sea cap tain, always ready to sing a song, tell a story or knock down the man who insults him. Butterworth always calls a spade a spade, and if he has a personality to utter he does not hesitate to let it fly. He has none of the Quaker instincts ot his father and mother, who were uoted Abolitionists, and who were members of the Society of Friends. During Ben's first political cam paign he was as much of a fighter as he is now, and his father saw fit to give him a bit of advice, which he did in writing and as follows: Mr Dear Benxt Thy mother and myself have thought well to give thee some advice touching the conduct ot thy campaign. We desire to sav to thee that we deem it better for thee to deal severely v. lth bad principles and bid practices than to deal severely with had men now llvinsr. who might be sneered and do thee harm. Very affectionately. THY Father. CAN SING AS WELL AS SPEAK. At latest accounts, however, Butterworth has not taken this advice. He is a brave as well as an eloquent one, and the fear of harm from the men on the other side of the House does not affect his speeches. He is one of the fastest talkers in the House, and he rattles out the dictionary at the rate of 200 wordsaminutewhen he grows excited. When he talks he talks all over, and there is not an atom in the 200 pounds which make up his anatomv which does not move when he takes the floor. He is as food an after-dinner talker as he is a political de bater, and there is no man in Congress who can sing "I'm a dandy copper of the Broad way squad" as well as Ben Butterworth, of Ohio. I have myself heard him sing this Blount Eolman. Crisp. song ten times, according to the number of notches cut into a stick, and every time that the Gridiron Club meets, and Butter worth'is invited, which is nearly always, he is made to sing. He lives very nicely here at Washington, owns a house worth $10,000 and has a pleas ant family. He is, lam told, tired of Con gressional life, and, like many of his fellow statesmen of more than ordinary legal abil ity, he is anxious to leave Congress and go back to the law, where he can make money as well as reputation. ANOTHEB beadt fighteb. General Charles Grosvenor is another good fighter. He has been fighting all bis life, and when his mother taught him his prayer doubt not that he kicked againstits wording belore he accepted it. Grosvenor comet from Athens, O., and for the past genera tion, during which he has been a politician there, the Republican party has been divided into factions, and Grosvenor has been tbe tighter at the headLof one of them. He has succeeded in downing his opponents and can cow stay in Congress as long as he will. He is a tall, white-haired, gray-bearded man, with eyes of the famous bide of the Sevres china and with atongnethat can beat that ot one oi those porcelain figures whose head moves on a pivot and whose, tongue goes iu and out nil day iettf. Grosvenor 's a is i$ Wiw.mi rt Us. Owl I vmGh&gmfflti( good speaker. He is a little too quick and jumps to his feet now and then when he had better remain in his chair. He is, however, always ready to say something, and he very otten says it very well. He ranked as one of the red-heads of the Hquse when he first Came here abopt four years ago, and though his hair is now white his heart action is good and his joints are well oiled. He is only 57 years ot age, and he was born in Connecticut in 1833. His father carried him out to Ohio as a squalling baby and he was rocked in a sugar trough instead of a cradle. He went to school in a log schoolbouse, did his first reading by the light ot an old fashioned log fire and pounded away until he has gotten an extraordinary amountof facts stored in that gray matter of his brain. He has been a soldier, a Speaker of the Ohio Legislature and divers odd other things before he became a Congressman, and he nowhastheseatol Silver Dollar Warner. CANNON AND MILLS. Joe Cannon tells me that he is tired of Congressional lite, and he thinks he would have been better of! if he had staved out of Congress and stuck to moneymaking. He is an able speaker, nevertheless, and he itill be heard from a number of times within the .next few weeks. Cannon is perpetual mo tion personified when he makes a speech. He tears the air, pounds his desk and needs about 20 sauare feet to move around in. He grows red in the face and throws his fingers at Roger Q. Mills while he howls out defi ance and logic in strong nasal tones. Speaking of Mills, he has not cut much of a figure this session, and the leadership which he held as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the last Congress has been practically taken from him by the reappearance of Speaker Carlisle upon the floor. Mills is not a great speaker, and as compared with Carlisle he is not a (Treat man. He has not the reading of Carlisle. and his chief forte is the tariff. At the time Mr. Mills was chosen as the head of the Ways and Means Committee I called upon him to get the story of his life. It was in the winter. I found him in his shirt sleeves, though the thermometer was at zero and there was snow on the ground. He did cot put op his coat during the inter view, and notwithstanding the fact that Mrs. Mills was in the room, he seemed per fectly at home. He is a big man. Fully six feet high, his arm is as big as one of Joe Cannon's legs, and you could put the little head of Henry Cabot Lodge inside of his big cranium and there would be an inch of space between the outside bones of the one and the iuside bones of the other. I doubt not that the smaller head would contain fully as much brains as the larger. AN ANGDXAB TOBACCO tOVEB. W. S. Holman is another Democratic leader. His long experience in Congress and bis knowledge ot the ins and outs of congressional appropriations, added to the remarkable amount of a certain kind of ability, make him one or the ablest men on the floor. He knows just when to object and how to clog legislation upon any measure that he disapproves of. Holman is a curious looking man. Kature made him when she was in her roughest mood and you will not find a curve in the six feet of his anatomy. Helooki asthiugh he was carved ou with a square and a draw shave. His body is all angles and his tongue is the most angular oi the whole. When he speaks his voice sounds lik abuzz saw which has struck a knot and he cuts the air in geometrical figures. His beard is as rough as the rest ot bis face and his hair looks as though his head was covered with cowlicks. He is an uneasy body and is very fond of chewing tobaeco. When he is not speaking he chews and bis jaws in one way or the other are kept in perpetual mo tion. For all his roughness, however, he has one of the kindest of hearts and he is very popular both here and at home. He lives at Aurora, Ind., very near where he, was born 68 years ago. Hp, has a fine farm there and ha is worth, I-ant told, in -the neighborhood of $200,000. He lives here at an hotel and be has for 22 years paid rent and board in "Washington. CBISP AND THE WHITE HOUSE BABY. L There are a score of other leaders in the House of Representatives; many of whom are able and several of whom have won their spurs in debate. Julius Cesar Bur rows, of Michigan, is a fine speaker, with some spread-eagleism about him. Boutelle, of Maine, is a good speaker and his voice is as strong as that of the bull of Basnan. Henry Cabot Lodge bas both gall and brain and Payson, ot Illinois, makes a good speech. McComas, of Maryland, is a good talker and John Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, has shown himself to be a man of ability. Blount, of Georgia, is another spread-eagle speaker and Crisp, the baldheaded, gets there every time. He does not make many mistakes like that he made while he was in Georgia during the Cleveland Administra tion and some malicious reporter had tele graphed that a baby had been born in the White House. Crisp thought the report was true and he made an alter-dinner speech, in which he said that the news had come to him "That in the house of our fathers a ch ild is born. Let us all unite," said he, "in the hope that the mother and baby are well." His speech was telegraphed over the country and when he heard that the report was a false one he grasped at his crown with an air as frantic as though it had been covered with hair and he would tear it in his dismay. PROBABLY CABLISLE'S SUCCESSOR Mr. Crisp has during the past week jumped away to the front as the House leader. The prospect is that he will take the honors from Mr. Carlisle. He is very ready in debate, has a strong, full voice, and is not afraid of anything. He is nearly as big as Reed in size, was 45 years old last month, and is in perfect health. He is, I am told, the son of an actor, was born in England, has been in the Confederate army, and v as a Judce before he was elected to Congress.1 He is a well-educated man, and is a gentleman and a scholar. He possesses to a marked de gree the qualities of leadership, does not lose his head when on the floor.andhis command of the Democratic forces is increasing in power every day. Fkank G. Cabpenteb. AN IMPOKTiM LITTIjE PES0lf. The Klog of Spain Whose Stcknos Has Camed o Mucu Anxiety. Below is the little fellow the precarious .state ot whose health agitated the fair sex all oyer the world lately and gave European politicians lots of anxiety and lurnished The Iur.yar.Qld Sing of Spain. ample grounds for scheming and plotting. He looks quite cute and harmless, and vet on his slender tbread'of life depends, proba bly( the tats of a powerful saonarcby. PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, THE DAY BIRDS MATE. Origin and History of the Holiday Sacred (o Saint Valentine. THE FEAST OF THE LUPEBCALIA. Efforts of the Christian Fathers to Modify the Pagan Customs. EEFEEEXCES FEOil THE OLD AUTHOBS rWBlITXa rOB TBS DISPXICII.1 VALENTINE'S Day, which falls this year on next Friday, February 14, had its origin with the Romans, who, a great many centuries, before Q Christ, held great feasts, known as the Lupercalia.in honor of Pan and Juno.during Feb ruary, at which tablets bearing young w o m e n's names were drawn out of a box by the young men. Each person drawing be came the faithful attendant of her whose name be had drawn until the next Luper calia. The close association thus engendered often resulted in a marriage between the parties. This matrimonial lottery was held 'during the Lupercalia festival because birds were believed to elect their mates at that time of year, a tradition still attaching to St. Valentine's Day and referred to by Shakespeare when he makes Theseus say in "Midsummer-Night's Dream:" St. Valentine is past: Begin these wood-birds but to conple now? The hardest task of the early Christian fathers was to induce the Roman people to abandon heathen festivities. To do this they divested all such observances of undue solemnity wnile retaining all their social aspects and associating them with some per sons or things pertaining to the church. They replaced the Lupercalia with St. Val entine's Day, thus retaining the date of.tbe ancient festival and connecting it with Christianity through a great saint, who, suf fered martyrdom in the third century. He was first beaten with clubs while a priest at Rome, where his remains now rest in the Church of St. Praxedes. So this excellent man never either directly or indirectly bore any relation whatsoever to the observances and ceremonies peculiar to the day devoted to him. "WOULDN'T GIVE XJP THE CUSTOM. . 'The good churchmen found it impossible to persuade the common people to entirely abandon any ceremony to which they bad become deeply attached. Despairing, there fore, of abolishi -g the matrimonial lottery of the Lupercalia, they modified its form, and endeavored to give it a religiouschar acter by substituting the names of particular saints to be drawn -as valentines instead of( the names ot men and women. From this ancient 'usage is derived the custom, still occasionally observed in some Catholic countries, of selecting on St. Valentine's, Day lor the ensuing- year, st.patron5aint who is called a valentine, ant ino-yonng men and maidens finding little amusement in drawing out the names of dead and gone saints, soon relapsed into their old cus tom of drawing each other, and even at the present time in many ot the rural districts of England and Scotland it is customary on the eve of !SL Valentine's Day, for the young people of both sexes to draw lots for a valentine. As the men draw from a bag containing the names of the maids, while the latter draw from one containing the names of the men, it generally happens that each person has two valentines, but the young men regard themselves much more strongly bound to the valentine they have drawn than to the one who has drawn them. If, as sometimes happens, a young man and woman should each chance to draw the other it is regarded as absolutely certain that they are destined to wed and must not, under any circumstances, permit their at tentions, or affections to center elsewhere. During the reign of Charles II, as we learn from that most interesting and curious record of the domestic lile ot that period preserved for us in the diary ot Mr. Pepys; married people were equally eligible with single ones for the lottery of St Valentine's eve, and any one chosen as a valentine was in honor bound to give a present to the per son choosing him or her. LIGHT ON THE ENGLISH "WAT. On St Valentine's Day, 1667, Mr. Pepys writes: "This morning came up to my wife's bedside (I being up dressing myself) little Will Mercer to be her valentine, and brought her name written upon blue paper in cold letters, done by himself, very pretty. and we were both pleased with it. But I am also this ;var my wife's valentine, and it will cost me 5; but that I must have laid out it we had not been valentines." On February 16 of the game year two days later he again writes: "I find that Mrs. Pierce's little girl is my valentine, she haw ing drawn me, which I am not sorry for, it easing me of something more that I must have given to others. But here I do first observe the fashion of druwing mottoes as well as names, so that Pierce, who drew my wife, did draw also a motto and this girl drew another Tor me. What mine was I forget, but my wife's was 'Most courteous and most fair,' which, as it may be used, as an anagram upon each namn might be very pretty." Again, alluding to the obligation resting upon a chosen valentine to give a present to the person choosing, he writes of the celebrated Miss Stuart, afterward Duchess of Richmond: "The Duke of York, being once her valentine, did give her a jewel of about 800; and my Lord Mandeville, her valentine this year, a ring of about 300." In February, 1GC8, he makes tbe fallowing entry: "This evening my wife did, with great pleasure, show me her stock of jewels, Increased by the ring she hath made lately as my valentine's gift this year, a Turkey stone set with diamonds. With this and what she had she reckoned that she bath above 150 worth of jewels of one kind or other; and I am glad of it, for it"is fit the wretch should have something to content herself with." Good Mr. Pepys here uses the word wretch as an endearing term. Admirers ot Sir Walter Scott will re member that he also alludes to this custom of giving valentine presents, and will readily recall the passage in the "Fair Maid of Perth," in which he describes the little St. Valentine's Day gift which the mighty armorer, Henry Smith, had prepared for bis valentine, the good and beautiful Cathe rine Glover: "It wus a small ruby cut into the form of a heart, transfixed with a golden arrow, and was inclosed in a small purse of links of the finest work in steel, as if it had been designed for a hauberk to a king. Round the verge of the purse were these words: Love's darts Cleave hearts , Through mall shirts. "This device had caused the armorer some thought, and he was much satisfied with his own composition, because it seemed to imply that his skill could defend all hearts saving his own." A. KISS TBEIK VALENTINE. Jn many parts of England and Scotland it is still custoniany, as it has been for many cauturUs, for young mtn and woatea to re a; KglSiSJi vis tSsXXisM f ft2Hif- o FEBRUARY. 9, 1890. gardas tbelr valentine the first person o! the opposite sex whom their eyes behold on the morning of St. Valentine's Day, and they have the right to claim the said valentine with a kiss which he or fche is in honor bound to accord without resistance or re monstrance of any "kind. Scott, in his novel of "The Fair Maid of Perth" already quoted, beautifully describes the manner in which the peerless Catherine Glover thus claimed the bold armorer, Henry Smith, as her valentine after he had saved her from dishonor by his great valor and strength on St Valentine's eve. The English poet Gay also alludes to this custom as follows: Last Valentine, the day when lnrds ot kind Their paramours with mutual chirping find, I early rose last at tbe break of day. Before the snn had chased the stars away, Afield I went, aralcl the morning dew. To milk uiv klne (for so should housewives do). Thee first I spied and the first swain we see, In rpite of fortune shall our true love bo. Shakespeare also alludes to this custom in "Hamlet" where poor Ophelia sings: To-Morrow Is St. Valentine's Day, All in the morning uetime And 1 a matd at your window To be your valentine. The custom of exchaneing amatory ad dresses between valentines on St Valen tine's Dny, to which I have already alluded, is a very old one. Many of the old English poets, such as Chaucer and Spencqr, have left some quaint models of this style of com position. Lydgate, famous in England as a poet long before the invention of printing, also wrote many valentines; and the same is true of Atbelitane Wnde, nn Anglo Saxon poet of the time of Richard I. One of the letter's productions has been pre served, and rendered into modern spelling, is as follows: Sweetheart, to thee I consecrate my soul. My life, my love, my heart are wholly thine. Let Ccpld now thy destiny control -And bind thee to me as my valentine. And as the birds, who choose their mates this day. Abide in wedlock happy all the year; Let constancy, that gem of brightest ray. Drive from our hearts all thought ot jealous fear. And when old Time shall bring thts day again Mot once, but many and raauy a time My love, now young, shall be so even then. And still I'll call thee, sweet, my valentine. A DESCRIPTION BY DICKENS. In comparison with such verses as these the so-called poetry of the sentimental val entines sold in our stationers' stores must pale its ineffectual fire. One ot tbe best possible descriptions ot these latter produc tions is given by Dickens in his "Pirkwick Papers," where he tells how Sam Waller, in gazing into a stationer's window on St Valentine's eve, beheld "A highly colored representation of a couple of human hearts skewered together with an arrow, cooking be fore a cheerful fire, while a male and female cannibal, in modern attire the gentleman being clad in blue coat and white trousers and the lady in a deep red pelisse, with a parasol of the same were approaching the meal with hungry eyes up a serpentine gravel path leading th'erennto. A decidedly indelicate young gentleman, in a pair of wings and nothing else, was depicted as superintending thecookiug. Arepresentation of the spire of the church in Lingham Place appeared in 'the distance, and the whole formed a 'valentine.' " But even the sending of valentines, the only observance of St Valentine's Day that is retained in our own land and time, seems to be gradually dyingout For some years past it has been the testimony of postmasters all over the'eountrv that the number of these tentimental 'missives passing throush the mails has steadily decreased. This falling off began with the introduction of Christ-masj-TNewTear and Easter cards, the nunj ber of which transmitted by post has in creased iust in proportion to the falling off I in valentines. The reason for fhis'isobvi Mna S. e.niitn.iihl vqfanfin. tti Anlv Aha for Which the word is not a misnomer, can only have its 'proper significance when it passes between persons of opposite sex. A Christmas, New Year or Easter card, on the contrary, is universal in its applicability. It is equally appropriate and acceptable from mother to daughter, from sister to sis ter, from lover to sweetheart, from friend to friend; and the popularity of these three classes of cards bids'fair to finally extinguish even the last remaining observance of the day devoted to the honor of good St Valen tine. FbankFebn. TI1E LEPER'S FBIEXD. 911m Fowler Who Goes to Take the Place of Father D'amlen. Miss Amy C. Fowler, otherwise Sister Rose Gertrude, the young woman who, as published in THE DISPATCH last Sunday, is now on her way to take Father Damieu's place on the leper island of Molekai, was first brought to the knowledge of the British public by tne Prince of Wales, and forth with becamea nine-day sensation allthrough tne United Kingdom. The Prince of Wales "has begun to make a hobby of the leper question, and has been instrumental in the foundation in Great Britain of a national leprosy fund, intended to be used for the pro tection of'Great Britain azainst the disease. t, Miss Fowler is iiow ot Brooklyn and will leave, probably this reek, tor San Fran cisco to take steamer for the island upon which she offers up her voung life. She can scarce expect to see herfriends again. Just before leaving England Miss Fowler re ceived a blessing from Cardinal Manning, and through him tbe blessing of, the Pope as well, who bas taken a special interest in the young woman's mission. "The hospital at Kalawao, of which I am to have charge," said Miss Fowler, "always contains CO or 60 patients. I intend to do what I can to brighten their lives. I don't intend to forget my scientific work, though. I nm taking with me a microscope, which will aid me greatly in making a study of the disease, and a camera, with which I shall make photographs, which may prove of valne to the medical world." The dress which Miss Fowler expects to wear in her vocation, and which is repro duced above, is the simple-garb which she wore when in Paris studying the dread dis ease with Pasteur. Test of a Champion Lifter. Boston limes. 1 Mr. Downsr-DIdlunderstand you to say, Carrie, that that ybuhg man of yours is an athlete? Miss Downs Only an' amateur, papa, but he's one of the strongest,men In the Athletic club. He- lifted a tlumsand pounds, the other dayl "Just hint to him that 'the yonng.man wbo'fimrries you must He able to lift the mortgage offthis house! " Sister Rose Gertrude. THE HAPPY-PLUMBER. If it's a Cold "Winter He Prospers, if Open He Prospers More. PROGRESS IN BIS LINE' OF WORK. The Modern Bathroom is a Thing of Beauty, hut it Comes High. SOME 'WELL-PLT3HBED EEBIDESCE5 wanxiN rOETUI dispatch. 1 O frozen, burst water pipes have called forth the scientific knowledge of the plumber and enriched his bank ac count this winter; and, as the whole class are com- F monly sup-':-' Dosed to be "d6wn at the heel," even the newspapers have left them severely alone. A reporter's curiosity, however, as to just how they felt about the absence of the cold weather that made the winter months such a harvest to them in the past led to a tour of investization and in tended condolence, which developed into one of congratulation. The weather, while it has not been con ducive to frozen water pipes, has been so mild that the plumbers have been enabled to proceed with their contracts in new buildings, and the season has been an un usually prosperous one. Mr. McShane, of Houston & McShane, accordingly was in a delightfully chatty mood, and discoursed freely upon the past and present of the plumbers' business. Great advancement has been made in their business in the last few years, not only from a sanitary point of view, but in elegance and finish. The old style of boxing up bath tubs and basins with wood, no matter how rare and ex quisite the wood may be, is not resorted to now in any fine work. The pipes are all ex posed, and are polished to such a high de gree that they are very ornamental. THE MODEBN BATHEOOSI. The bathroom of the present day Is a work of art The decorations of the tub and basin either correspond or contrast with the tile ine and wainscotting of the room. The ar tistic appointments and the luxuriousness with which the rooms are fitted up bear a slight resemblance to the bathing apart ments of ancient Rome. The basins, some of them of roval Worcester, but all beauti fully decorated, are supported by handsome nickel-plated or polished brass brackets and furnished with patent wastes, thus doing away with the troublesome rubber stopjjer and chain. The bathing tubs in material and decorations are exquisite and are finished with as littla wood as possible. Often the rim around the top is ot marble. The tubs are made now or solid earthen ware or 'enameled Iron ware, some times of silver; but Pittsburg does sat countenance. sneh extravagance yet The interior is decorated with a.jwide' border in appropriate colors of nymphs janjl. cnplds.j sporting'arotma in wavenroo- waaerneei, and the same style of figures is o'ten cast in relietupon the exterior and finished in oiL In shjfe the prevailing styles are the square-ended albion and the royal albion, tbe latter differing from tbe formeronly in the exterior, which is finished in bronze; the magaiine, which is rounded at the ends, and the French pattern, which has been the most common in days past i NO CHANCE TOE ARTISTS. The resemblance to the Roman tubs is lost in the shapes and the Romans had much the best of the bargain in beauty and con venience. Their bathine tubs were all be low the level of tbe floor and handsome marble steps led down to them, hence some of the njpst beautiful pictures were painted of famous beauties at the bath with their glorious bathing robes wrapped around them as they descended the steps leading to the sweetly perfumed batb. Imagine a picture oi like intent painted from a modern bathrooml No matter how much it may have cost In its finishing, the stiff high bath tub, tbe sides of which require almost an athletic leap to surmount, would be a death blow to frrncefulness of position or pose. Modern residences in the city, instead of the one or two bathrooms that used to be considered sufficient, now boast from three to five. The increased luxuriousness In this particular line means increased expense, of coarse, and the prices paid for the plumb ing done in some of the fine publio and private buildings make theplumbers happy. In the new German National Bank, cor ner Wood street and Sixth avenue, the plumbing alone will cost $3,000. It will be the most elaborately plumbed house in the city when completed. There will not be a lead pipe used in the whole building. The specifications call for all supply pipes in brass, the exposed portions to be highly polished, and waste pipes of enameled iron. Wash basins are all to be set on nickel plated brackets, and "Imperial" drains and traps trill insure perfect sanitary conditions. ' PJ.TTJIBINO OF RESIDENCES. Another building that has most excellent plumbing and for which the sum of $4,500 was paid, is the Freemasons' building on Fifth avenue. Private residences that are building receive very careiul consideration as regards that branch of tbe work. Outside of the gas fixtures the plumbing in a num ber of these new and recently built resi dences costs in the neighborhood of 53,000. A great many of the bathrooms are fitted up in pink imitation onyx, Tennessee marble and various pretty and expensive materials. The great improvement is not confined to the bathrooms and pipes either, one kitchen sink in an East End residence having cost $125. Among some of the residences that are marvels in their plumbing appointments are Chris Magee's, on Filth avenue, and F. M. Magee's, on Highland avenue; the Callery mansion, in theEist End; Robert Pitcairn s mlatial home: the Burchfield residence, in Oakland; the McCance, in Sbadyside, and the Boggs mansion on, .Norm avenue. Thoene Bbanch. GENUINE CANVAS BACKS. A Great Many Epicures Get Itcd-Headed Docks as Subttltntes. New York TVorld.1 A dealer in canvas-back duck said tbe other day that there were very few che's or caterers in town who did not occasionally substitute red-head duck for canvas back, and he supplemented this statement with tbe cheering information that only about 1 man out of SO is able to detect the differ ence. The difference in price is very con siderable. A pair of canvas-back Havre de Grace ducks, weight 73 pouuds, are worth $8. When the heads of the ducks are re moved the difference between them is so slight that a great many frequent buyers of them'will not buy at all unless their heads are in tbe place where nature intended them to be. The canvas-back ducks which come from Lake Superior and Michigan feed on celery to a great extent, all their meat is therefore les3 fishy than the meat ot the Chesapeake duckl When it is pre pared, however, by a skillful cook they can be very readily passed, off for tbe genuine canvas back. fpte WM 'liiilPIIIiiyU? .ggris WBITTEN FOB SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. The story opens- on tbe Welsh coast. Beatrice Granger, village schoolmistress and danzhtar of the rector or Brynsellv, hite paddling in her canoe, discovers Geoffrey B.Mham. a riling youne London barrister, who has been cut off from the shore by the rising tide. He aecepu Beatrice's offer to take him to shore. A storm comes up. The canoe is overwhelmed by aware, Geoffrey is hurled against a table rock and Knocked senseless. Beatrice clings to him- and the seaweed on the rocs:. A wave washes tbem awar. bat sailars rescne them. The doctors worK Ioncwlih hotn and they recover. Geoffrej's titled wife comes and shows a lack of wifely feel. Inst. 'Squire Owen Davles. wealthy and honest, betrays bis lovo for Beatrice by waiting three hours in the rain to hear of her condition. Beatrice's sister, Elizabeth, is ambitions to become Mrs. Owen Davles. While Geoffrey is recovering, his little daughter, Effle. run away from her mother and visits him. This leads to a scene betveen Geoffrey and his titled wife. She chares under poverty and be accuses her of heartlessness. Next morning Geoffrey goes to Beatrice hertslde and a long talk follows. Elizabetn interrupts the conversation, and, taking In thesltna- tion. divines the truth tnat ner sister ana me greatly. - Her jealousy of Beatrice creeps out. CHAPTER X. IiADY HONOEIA MAKES ARRANGEMENTS. Accustomed to observe, Geoffrey saw this instantly, and then glanced at the father. The old man was frightened; clearly he was afraid of Elizabeth, and dreaded a scene. He stood fidgeting his feet about, and trying to find something to say, as he glanced ap prehensively at his eldest daughter, through his thin hanging hair. Lastly, Geoffrey looked at Beatrice, who was fndeed well worth looking at Herface was qoitepale, and the clear gray eyesshone out .beneath their dark lashes. She bad risen, drawing herself to her full height, which her exquisite proportions seemed to increase, and was looking at her sister. Presently she said one word, and one only, but it was enough. - "Elizabeth." Her sister opened ber lips to sneak again, but hesitated andebangedher mind. There was something in Beatrice's manner that checked her. "Well," she said at length, "you should not irritate me so, Beatrice." Beatrice made no reply. She only turned toward Geoffrey, and with a gracelul little bow, said: "Mr. Bingham. 1 am sure you will forgive this scene. The fact is, we all stent badly last night, and it has not im proved our tempers." There was a pause, of which Mr. Granger took a hurried and rather undignified ad vantage." "Urn, ah," he said. "By the way, Bea trice, what was it I wanted to say? Ah, I know have you written, I mean written nut, that sermon for next Sundav? "My daughter," he added, addressing Geoffrey in explanation "urn, copies my sermon for me. She writes a very good hand" Remembering Beatrice's confidence as to her sermon-manulacturing functions, Geof frey felt amused at her lather's naive way I SHALL COME, HE of describing tbem, and Beatrice also smiled faintlv as she answered that the ser mon was ready. Just then the roll of wheels was, heard without, and the only fly that Bryngelly could boait pulled up in front of the door. ".Here's tbe fly come for you. Mr. Bing ham," said Mr. Granger, "and, as I live, her ladyship with it Ellzabeth.see if there Isn't some tea ready," and the old gentle man, who bad all the traditional love of the lower middle-class Englishman for a title, trotted off to welcome "Her ladyship." Presently Lady Honoria entered the room, a sweet, if rather a set, smile upon her handsome face, and with a graceful mien that became ber tall fisure exceedingly well. For, to do Lady Honoria justice, she was one of the most ladylike women in the coun try, and, so far as her personal appearance went, a very perfect type of the class to which she belonged. Geoffrey looked at her, saying to himself that she had clearly recovered her temper, and that he was thankiul for it This was not wonderful, for it is observable that the more aristocratic a lady's manners are the more disagreeable she is apt to be when she Is crossed. "Well, Geoffrey, dear," she said, "you see I have come to fetch you. I was deter mined that vou should not get yourself drowned again on your way home. How are you now but J. ncedn t ask, you look quite well again." "'.t is very kind of you, Honoria," said her husband, simply, but it was doubtful If she heard him, for at the moment she was engaged in searching out the soul of Bea trice, with one of the most penetrating and comprehensive glances that young lady bad ever enjoyed the honor of receiving. There was nothing rude about the look; it was too quick, but Beatrice felt that, quick as it might be, it embraced her altogether. 2Tor was she wrong. "There is no doubt about it," Lady Ho noria thought to herself, "she is lovely lovely everywhere. It was clever of her to leave her bair down; it shows the shape of her head so will, and she is tall enough to stand it That blue wrapper suits her, too. Very few women could show such a figure as hers like a Greek statue. I don't like ber; she's different-from most of us: just tbe sort of girl men go Wild about and wemen bate."-! All tbls passed tnrougn ner mina in a flash. Foe a moment Lady Honoria's blue eyes met Beatrice's gray ones, and she knew that Beatrice liked ber no better than she did Beatrice. Those eyes were a trifle too honest, and, like the deep clear water they resembled, apt to throw up shadows of the passing thoughts above. 'False and cold and heartless," thought Beatrice.. "I wonder how a man like that could asttrrf hei; and how much he loves herr .Thus the two women took each other's J ; - -7 j r " . THE DISFATCH. uarruiec iun uuwruiiiui.u measure at a glance, each finding the other wantine by her standard. Nor did they ever change that hastily-lormed judgment. It was ail done in a few seconds in that hesitating moment before the words we sum mon answer on our lips. The next, Lady Honoria was sweeping toward her with out stretched band and hermost graious smile. "Miss Granger," she said, "I owe you a debt I never can repay my dear husband's life. I have heard ail about how you saved him; it is the most wonderlnl thing Grace Darling horn again. I can't think how you could do it I wish I were half as brave and strong." "Please don't, Lady Honoria," said Bea trice. "I am so tired of being thanked for doing nothing except what it was my duty to do. If I had let Mr. Bingham go while! had the strength to hold on to him I should have felt like a murderess to-day. I beg you to sav no more about it." "One does not o'ten find such modesty united to so much courage, and, if you will allow me to say it, so much beauty," said Lady Honoria graciously. "Well, I will do as you wish, but I warn you your lame will find you out. I bear they hive an account of the wholr adventure in to-day's papers headed, 'A Welh Heroine.' " "How did you hear that, Honoria?" asked her husband. " "Oh, I had a telegram from Garsington, and he mentions rt," she answeredacar lessly. i "Telegram from GarsingtonI Hence these smiles," thought he. "I suppose she is go ing to-morrow." "I have some other news for you. Miss Granger," went on Lady Honoria. "Your canoe has been washed ashore, very little in jured. The old boatman Edward, I think: they call him has found it; and your gun in it, too, Geoffrey. It had stuck under the seat or somewhe're. But 1 fancj that you must both have had enough. canoeing for the present" i "I don't know, Lady Honoria," answered ' 8 ANSWERED DOGGEDLY. Beatrice. "One does not often gef sneh weather as lastnlght's, and canoeing is very pleasant Every sweet .has its salt, you know; or, in other words, one may always be upset" j. At that moment Betty, the awkward Welsh .serving loss, with- a forearm: about as shapely as tbe hfnd leg of an elephant, and a most unpleasing babit of snorting audibly as she moved, shuttled; in with the tea tray. Iuherwake came, the slim Eliza beth, to whom Lady Honoria was intro duced. After this conversation flagged for a while, Lady Honoria's Ily. till Lady Honoria, feeling that things were getting a little dull, set tbe ball rolling again. "What a pretty view you have of the sea from these windows,' she said in her well-trained and monotonously modulated voice, "I am so glad to have seen it, tor yon know I am going away tomorrow. Beatrice looked up quickly. "My husband is not goinsr." she went on, 'as though in answer to an unspoken ques tion. "I am playing the part of the unduti ful wife and runninz away from him tor ex- ...l.. .!.... ....t-. Tt a ... ... .i.t.ail fT h 3 utiMjr MiCS; "sswt . c.' vis v M.C, isnft it? but I have an enzagement that 1 must keep. It is most tiresome." Geoffrey, sipping his tea, smiled grimly behind th shelter of bis cup. "She doe it' -uncommonly well," he thodzbt to himself. "Does vour little girl go with you, Lidy Honoria?" asked Elizabeth. "Well, ho. I think, not I can't bear pitting with her you know how hard It ia when one has only 6ne child. But I think she would Be so bored" where I am going to stay, forthere are ho other children there;! ana besides, she positively adores the'iea; So I Shall have to leave her to her fatherai ' tender mercies. Door dear." I
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