THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, MARCH 16,. 1890. o i w s: s clerk was talking to the solicitor be .h him. . Bother it, he is coming," thought Geof- But no, the solicitor bending forward in formed him that the Attorney General had been unavoidably detained by some impor tant Governmeut matter, and had returned his brieC "Well, we must get on as we can," Geof frey said. "I you continue like that we shall get on very well." whispered the solicitor, and then Geoflrev knew that he was doing well. "Ye Mr. Bingham," said His Lord ship. Then Geoffrey went on with his state ment. At lunch time it was a question whether another leader should be briefed. Geoffrev said that so far as he was concerned he could get on alone. He knew every point in the case, and he had got a friend to "take a note" for him while he was speaking. After Mitue hesitation the solicitors de cided not to brief lresh counsel at this stage of the cause, but to leave it entirely in his hands. It would be useless to follow the details of this remarkable will suit, which lasted two days and attracted much attention. Geoffrey won it, and won it triumphantly. His address to the jury on the wholc case was loug remembered in the courts, rising as it did to a very high level of forensic elo quence. Few who saw it ever forgot the sight of his handsome face and commanding presence as be crushed the case of his oppo nents like an eggshell, and then with calm and overwhelming force denounced the woman who with her lover had concocted the cruel plot that robbed her uncle of life and her cousins of their property, till at the last, pointing towards her with outstretched hand, he branded her to the jury as a mur deress. Few in that crowded court have forgotten the ragic scene that followed, when the trembling woman, worn out by the long anxiety ol the trial and utterly unnerved by her accuser's brilliant invective, rose Ironi her seat and cried: "We did it it is true that we did it to get the money, but we did not mean to frighten him to death," and then iell fainting to the ground or Geoffrey Bingham's quiet words as he sat down: ".My lcrd and gentlemen of the jury, I do not think it necessary to carry my case any lurther." There was no applause, the occasion was too dramatically solemn, bnt the impression made upon both the Court and the outside public, to whom such a scene is peculiarly fitted to appeal, was deep and lasting. Geoffrey himself was under little delusion about the matter. He had no conceit in his composition, but neither had he any false modesty. He merely accepted tne situation as really powerful men do accept such events with "thankfulness, but without surprise. He had got his chance at last, and like any other able man, whatever his walk of life, he had risen to it. That was all. Most men cet such chances in some shape or form, and -are unable to avail themselves of them. Geoffrey was one of the exceptions; as Bea trice had said, he was born to succeed. As he sat down, he knew that he was a made man. So Geoffrey thought and felt. The thing was to be done and he had done it Hon oris should have money now; she should no longer he able to twit him with their pov erty. Yes, and a better thought still, Beat rice wonld be glad to hear of his little tri umph. He reached home rather late. Honoria was going out to dinner with a distinguished cousin, and was already dressing. Geoffrev had declined the invitation, which was a short one, because be did no: think that he would be back from chambers in time to avail himself of it. In his enthusiasm, however, he went to his wife's room to tell her of the event. "Well," she said, "what have yon been doing? I think that you might have ar ranged to come out with me. It docs not look well my going out so much by myself. Oh, I forgot; of course you are in that cae." "Yes that is, I was. I have won the case. Here is a -ery fair report of it in the St. James' Gazette if you care to read it." "Good hevens, Geoflrey! How can you expect me to read all tha. stuff when I am dressing?" "I don't expect you to. Honoria; only, as I say, I have won the case and I shall get plenty of work now." "Will you? I am glad to hear it; perhaps re shall be able to escape from this horrid flat if yon do. There, Anne! Je vous l'ai bien dit, cette robe ce me va pas bien." "Mai, milady, la robe va parfaite tnent" "That is your opinion," grumbled Ladv Honoiia. "Well, it isn't mine. But it will have to do. Good night, Geoffrey; I dare say that you will have gone to bed when I get back," and she was (.one. Geoffrey picked up his St. James' Gazette with a sieh. He lelt hurt, and knew that he was a lool for his pains. Lady Honoria was not a sympathetic person; it was not fair to expect it lrom her. Still he felt hurt He went upstairs and heard Effie her pray ers. "Where has yon been, daddy? to the Smoky Town?" The temple was euphem istically known to Effie as the Smoky Town. "Yes, dear." 'You go to the Smoky Town to make bread and butter, don't you, daddy?" "Yes, dear, to make bread and butter." "And did you mace any, daddy ?" "Yes, Effie, a good deal to-day." "Then where is it ? In your pocket ?" "So, love, not exactly. I won a big law suit to-day, and I shall get a great many pennies for it." "Oh," answered Effie, meditatively, "I am glad that you did win, daddy. You do like to win, doesn't you, daddy dear ?" "Yes, love." "Then I will (jive you a kiss, daddy, be cause you did win," and she suited the ac tion to the word. Geoffrey went from the little room with a soitened heart. He dressed and ate some dinuer. Then he sat down and wrote a long letter to Beatrice, telling her all about the trial, and not sparing her his reasons for adopting each particular tactic and line of argument which conduced to the great result. And though his letter was four sheets in length, he knew that Beatrice would not be bored at having to read it CHAPTER, XVIIL THE KISIXG STAB. As might be expected, the memorable case of Parsons and Douse proved the turning point in Geoffrey's career, which was thence forward one ot brilliant and startling suc cess. On the very next morning when he 'reached his chambers it was to find three heavy briefs awaiting him, and they proved to be but the heralds of an uninterrupted flow of lucrative business. Of course, he was not a Queen's Counsel, but now that his great natural powers of advocacy bad become generally known, solici tors frequently employed him alone, or gave him another junior, so that he might bring those powers to bear upon juries. Now it was, too, that Geoffrey reiped the fruits oi the arduous legal studies which he had fallowed without cessation from the time when he found himself thrown upon hit own resources, and which had made a sound lawyer o1 him, as well as a brilliant an.l effective advocate. Soon, even with his great capacity ior work, be bad as much bubiuess as he could attend to. When lor tune gives good gifts she generally does so with a lavish band. Thus it came to pass that, about three weeks after the trial of Parsons and Douse. Geoffrey's uncle, the solicitor, difd, and to his surprise le t him 20,000, "believing," he said in his will, which was dated three days before the testator's death, "that this sum will assist him to rise to the head of bis profession." No r that it had dawned upon her that her husband really was a success, Honoria's manner toward him modified very consider ably. She even became amiable, and once or twice almost affectionate. When Geof frey told her of the 20,000 she was radi Ant. "Why, we shall be able to go back to Bolton street now," she said, "and as luck will have it, our old house is to let I saw a bill in the window yesterday." "Yes," he S3id, "you can gp back as soon as you like." "And can we keep a carriage?" "So, not vet; I am doing well, but not well enough for that Next year, if I live, vou will be able to have a carriage. Don't begin to grumble, Honoria. I have got 150 to spare, "and if you care to come round to a jeweler's you can spend it on what you like." "Oh, you delightful personl" said his wile. So they went round to the jeweler's and Lady Honoria bought ornaments to the value of 150, and carried them home and hung over them, as another class of woman might bang over her first-boru child, admir ing them with a tender ecstacy. Whenever he bad a suin of money that he could afford to part with, Goeffrey would take her thus to a jeweler's or a dressmaker's and stand by coldly while she bought things to its value. Lady Honoria was delighted. It never entered into her mind that in a sense he was taking a revenge upon her, and that pvery resh exhibition of her rejoicings over the good things thus provided added to bis contempt for her. Those were happy days for Lady Honoria- She rejoiced in the return of wealth like a schoolboy at the coming of the holi days, or a half-frozen wanderer at the rising of the sun. She had been miserable, as miserable as her nature admitted o, during all this night of poverty: now she was happy again, as she understood happi ness. ForLidy Honoria, bred, educated, civilized what you will out of the more human passions, had replaced them by this idol worship of wealth, or rather of what wealth brings. It gave her a positive phys ical satisfaction; her beauty, which had be gun to fade, came back to her; sne looked live years younger. And all the while Geof frey watched her with an ever-growing scorn. Once it broke out The Bolton street house had been furnished; he had given her 1,500 to do it, and with what things tbey already owned, she managed very well on that They moved into it, and Honoria had set herself up with a sufficient supply of grand dresses and jewelry, suitable to her recovered position. One day, however, it occurred to her that Effie was a child of re markable beauty, who, if properly dressed, would look very nice in the drawing-room at tea time. So she ordered a lovclv cos tume for her this deponent is not able to describe it, but it consisted largely of velvet and lace. Geoffrey heard nothing ot this dress, but, coming home rather early one attcrnoou it was on Saturday be found the child being shown off to a room full of visitors and dressed in a strange and wonder ful attire, with which, not unnaturally, she was vastly pleased. He said nothing at the time, but when at length the dropping fire of callers had ceased he asked who had put Effie into that dress. "I did," said Lady Honoria, "andaprettv penny it has cost, 1 can tell you. But I can'thave the child come down so poorly clothed; it does not look well." "Then she can stay upstairs," said Geof frey, frowning. "What do you mean?" asked his wife. "I mean that I will not have her decked out in those fine clothe". They are quite un suitable to her age. There is plenty of time for her to take to vanity." "I really don't understand you, Geoffrey. Why should not the child be handsomely dressed?" "Why not! Great heaven, Honoria, do you suppose that J want to see Effie grow np like you, to lead a life of empty pleasure seeking idleness and make a god of luxury? 1 had rather see her he was going to add, "dead first," hutchecked himself and said "have to work for her living. Dress your self up as much as you like, but leave the child alone." Lady Honoria was fnrions, but she was also a little Irightened. She had never heard her husband speak quite like this before, and there was something underneath nis words that she did not quite understand. Still less did she understand when on the Monday Geoffrey suddenly told her that he had 50 for her to spend as she liked; then accompanied her to a mantle shop, and stood patiently by, smiling coldly while she invested it in lace and embroideries. Hon oria thought that he was making reparation for his sharp words, and so he was, but to himself, and in another sense. Every time he gave her monev in this fashion. Geoffrey felt like a man who had paid off a debt of bonor. bhe bad taunted him again and again with her poverty the poverty she said that he had brought on ber; for every taunt he would heap upon her all those things in which her soul delighted. He would glut her with wealth as, in her hour of victory, Queen Tomyris glutted dead Cyrus with the blood of men. It was an odd way of taking a revenge, and one that suited Lady Honoria admira bly; but though its victim felt no sting, it gave Geoffrey much secret relief. Also he was curious; he wished to see if there was any bottom to such a woman's dj-sire for luxury, if it would not bring satiety with it Bnt Lady Honoria was a very bad subject for snch an experiment She never showed the least sign of being satiated, either with fine things, with pleasures or with social de lights. They were her natural element. and he micht as soon have expected a fish to weary of the water, or an cade ot the rush ing air. The winter wore away and the spring came. One day, it was in April, Geoffrey, who was a moderate Liberal by persuasion, casually announced at dinner that he was going to stand for Parliament in the Unionist interest The representation of one of the few metropolitan divisions which had then returned a Home Killer had fallen vacant. As it chanced he knew the head Unionist whip very well. They had been old friends since they were lads at school to gether, and this gentleman, having heard Geoffrey make a brilliant speech in court, was suddenly struck with the idea that he was the very man to lead a forlorn hope. The upshot of it was that Geoffrev was asked if he would stand, and replied that he mnst have two days to think it over. What he really wanted the two days for was to enable him to write to Beatrice and re ceive an answer from her. He had an al most superstitious faith in her judgment, and did not like to actwithout it Alter faithiully weighing the pros and cons, his own view was that he should do well to stand. Probably he would be defeated, and it might cost him 5U0. On the other hand it would certainly make hisnameknon asa politician, and fie was now in a fair way to earn so large an income that he could well afford to risk the money. The only great objection which he saw was tnat if "he hap pened to get in it must mean that he would have to work all day and all night too. Well, he was strong and the more work he did the better it kept him from thinking. In due course Beatrice's answer came. Her view coincided with his own; she rec ommended him to take the opportunity, and pointed out that with his erowintr legal rep utation there was no office in the State to which he might not aspire, when he had once proved himselt a capable member ot Parliament Geoffrey read the letter through; then immediately sat down and wrote to bis friend the whip, accepting the suggestion oj the Government. fChe next fortnight was a hard one for him, bnt Geoffrey was as good a man on the plattorm as in court, aud he had, moreover, the very valuable knackof suitiuz himself to his audience. As bis canvass went on it was generally recognized that the seat which had been considered hopeless was now doubtlul. A great amount of public interest was concentrated on the election, both upon the Unionist and the Separatist side, each claiming that the result of the poll would show to their advantage. The Home Rule party strained every nerve against him, being most anxious to show that the free and independent electors of this single division, and therefore of the country at large, held the Govern ment policy in particular horror. Letters were obtained lrom great authorities and freely printed. Irish members, fresh from jail, were brought down to detail their grievances. It was even suggested that one of them should appear on the platform in prison garb in short, every electioneer ing engine known to political science was brought to bear to forward the fortunes of either side. As time went on Lady Honoria, who at first had been somewhat indifferent, grew quite excited about the result. For one tiling she found that the contest attached an importance to herself in the eves of the truly great which was not without its charm. On the day of the poll she drove about all day under a bright blue parasol in an open car riage, having Effie (who became rather bored) by her side and two noble lords on the front seat. As a consequence the re sult was universally declared by a certain section ot tho press to be due to the efforts of an unprincipled but titled and lovely woman. It was even said, that like another lady of rank in a past generation she kissed a butcher in order to win his vote. Bnt those who made the remark did not know Lady Honoria; she was incapable ot kissing a butcher, or indeed anybody else; her inclinations did not lie in that direction. In the end Geoffrey was returned by a magnificent majority of ten votes, reduced on a scrutiny to seven. He took his seat in the House on the following night in the midst of loud Uuionist cheeriug. During the course of the evening's debate one of the members of the Goverment made allusion to his return as a proof of the triumph of Unionist principles. Thereon a very lead ing member of the Separatist opposition re torted that it was nothing of the sort, "that it was a matter of common notoriety that the honorable member's return was owing to the unusual and most uncommon ability displayed by him in the course of his can vass, a'ided.'as it was, by artfully applied and aristocratic feminine influence." This was a delicate allusion to Honoria and her blue mrasol. As Geoffrey and his wife were driving back to Bolton street, after the declaration of the poll, a little incident occurred. Geof frey told the coachman to stop at the first telegraph office, and, getting out of the car nage, wired to Beatrice: "In by ten votes." "Who have you been telegraphing to, Geoffrey?" asked Ladv Honoria. "I telegraphed to Miss Granger," he an swered. "Ahl So you still keep up a correspond ence with that pupil teacher girl." "Yes, I do. I wish I had a few more such correspondents." "Indeed. You are easy to please. I thought her one of the most disagreeable young women whom I ever met" "Then it does not say much for your taste, Honoria." His wife made no further remark, but she had her thoughts. Honoria possessed good points; among others she was not a jealous person; she was too cold and too indifferent to be jealous. But she did not like the idea of another woman obtaining an influence over her husband, who, as she now began to recognize, was one of the most brilliant men of his day, and who might well become one of the most wealthy and powerful. Clearly be existed for her benefit, not for that of any other woman. She was no fool, and she saw that a considerable intimacv must exist between the two. Otherwise he wonld not hare thought of telegraphing to Beatrice at such a moment Within a week of his election Geoffrey made a speech. It was not a very long speech, nor was it upon any very important issue; but it was exceedingly good of its kind, so good that it was reported verbatim, and those listening to it recognized that they had to deal with a new man who would one day be a very big man. There is no place wberc an able person finds his level quicker than in the House of Commons, composed as it is for the most part ot more orless wealthy or frantic mediocrities. But Geoffrey was not a mediocrity, he was an exceedingly able and powerful man, and this fact the House quickly recognized. For the next lew months Geoffrey worked as men rarely worked. All day he was at his chambers or in court, and at night he sat in the House, getting up his briefs when he could. But he always did get them up; no solicitors had to complain that the interests ol their clients were neglected by him; also he still found time to write to Beatrice. For the rest he went ont but little, and except in the way of business associated with very few. Indeed, he grew more and more silent and reserved, till at last he won the reputation of being cold and hard. Not that he was really so. He threw himself head and soul into his work with a fixed determination to reach the top of the tree. He knew tftat he shonld not care very much about it when he got there, hut he enjoyed the struggle. Geoffrey was not a truly ambitious man: he was no mere self-seeker. He knew the folly of ambition too well, and its end was always clearly before his eyes. He often thought to himself that if he conld have chosen his lot he would have asked for a cottage with a good garden, 500 a year and somebody to care for. Bnt perhaps he would soon have wearied of his cottage. He worked to stifle thought, and to some extent he succeeded. But he was at bottom an affectionate-natured man, and he conld not stifle the longed-for sympathy which was his secret weakness, though his pride would never allow him to show it. What did he care for his triumphs when he had nobody with whom to share them? All he could sbaie were their fruits, and these he gave away Ireely enough. It was but little that Geoffrey spent upon his own gratification. A certain share of his gains he put by, the rest went in expenses, u.ne bonse in iiolton street was a very gay place in those days, but its master took but little part in "its gaieties. And what was the fact? The longer he remained separated from Beatrice the more intensely did he long for her society. It was of no use; try as'he would, he could not put that sweet face from his mind; it drew him as a magnet draws a needle. Success did not bring him happiness, except in the sense that it relieved him from money cares. People of coarse temperament only can find real satisfaction in "worldly triumphs, and eat, drink and be merry, for to-morrow they die! Men like Geoffrey soon learn that this also is vanity. On the contrary, as his mind grew more and more wearied with the strain of work, melancholy took an ever stronger hold of it Had he gone to a doc tor he might have been told that his liver was out of order, which was very likely true. But this would not mend matters. "What a world!" he might have cried. "What a world to live in w hen all a man's happiness depends upon his liver?" He contracted an accursed habit of looking on the black side of things; trouble always caught his eye. It was no wonderful case. Men of large mind are very rarely happy men. It is your little, animal-minded individual who can be happy. Thus women who reflect less are, as a class, much happier and pore contented than men. But the large-minded man sees too far, and guesses too much of what he cannot see. So think Geoffrey and his kin, and in their unexpressed dismay, turn, seeking refuge from their physical and spiritual loneliness, hut for the most part finding none. Nature, still strong in them, points to the dear fellowship of woman, and they make the venture to find a mate, not a com panion. Bnt as it chanced in Geoffrey's case he did find such a companion in Beatrice, alter be had, by marriage, built up an im passable wall between them. And yet he longed for her society with an intensity that alarmed him. He had her let ters indeed, but what are letters? One touch of a beloved hand is worth a thousand let ters. In the midst of his great success Geof frey was wretched at heart, yet it seemed to him if he once more could have Beatrice at his side, though only us a friend, be would find rest and happiness. When a man, heart is thus set upon an ob ject his reason is soon convinced of its inno cence, even'of its desirability, and a kindly fate will generally contrive to give him the opportunity of ruin which he so ardently de sires. To be continued next Sunday.') Nrvr Wrinkles In Cricket. The latest innovation in cricket will give the players something to talk about The idea is to divide the innings into three, that is, that three men hat, and then the other side come in and do likewise. In the third turn four wickets will have to go down. The idea comes from Philadelphia. The Married Woman's I-iot. When a man doesn't impose on his wife, she acquires the idea that he no longer lores her. SIDE-M6&ED SHELLS. American Oarsmen Trying New Methods for Their Regattas. AN OBLIQUE ROLLING BOAT-SEAT. Paper Not so Good as Cedar When it Comes to a Matter of Speed. EXPERT UINTS FOE THE AMATEUES fWllITTEX FOB THE DISfATCn M E P. I C A N yachtsmen lead the world. Why not American oarsmen as well? Till now onr crews who have crossed the At lantic have al most uniformly met with defeat. They have en countered not better men, but boats built on a different method that was far ahead of our own. This has been all the more apparent from the fact that many of the amateur crews ou the Thames showed they were able to give the water to our professionals. Now all this is going to be changed. Our oarsmen were slow to change their methods. They didn't want to imitate the English shells. They experimented a good deal with different models of boats at home, and tried various kinds of rowing gear. The crack professionals were quick to grasp the idea that the lightest and swiftest shells The Old and the New. 1. The old center-rig. 2. The new side-rig, with oblique seats. were of cedar, and that very much depend ed upon the rig. Others, principally ama teurs, clung to papier mache boats for singles and doubles. And so the war be tween paper and wood went on, in an inter mittent fashion, each side having its advo cates. Yale, Harvard and the colleges generally took a languid interest in it, and gave more attention to training than to the material or rig of the boats. There is a prospect that the coming season will witness a revolution in American boat ing methods. Racing clubs everywhere are interesting themselves in the new'denarture. which promises to change not only the rig of j our racing shells, but the general lines of the boats to some extent The old-fashioned sliding seat set in grooves has given awav to the roller seat which moves on wheels. It is no longer to be in the center of the boat, im mediately over the keel, but on the side, and it will have an oblique motion to correspond with the natural motion of the body in the boat. DIFFERENT FROM THE ENGLISH. With this improved side-rig, which will be different in many respects from the En glish, the leading crews will row next sum. mer. Many of the oldest oarsmen opposed the change at first, just as they opposed the introduction of the adjustable rowlock and the sliding seat years ago, but they have come to regard the new rig in a different light since seeing it in use bv experts on the Harlem and by some of the college crews. The sweeps used with the new rig are of the Donohue pattern, those for shells being 12 feet long and 22x7 inches in the blade. The blade in the best is ribbed and grooved, so that it may have a better hold ot the water, a plain hlade often proving too flexible in strong tides. The sweeps for sculls are nine feet long, the blade being the same as in the shells. They are all made of spruce, fully seasoned. These have the largest blades of any oar yet designed, all authorities agree ing that the man with the larger blade has the better leverage. American oarsmen are still undecided whether paper or cedar is the-hetter material for racing shells. At the present time there is not one eight-oared shell of wood of Amer ican make in use in this country. On the other haud, very nearly all the singles and doubles are of cedar. The great champions, with one exception, have all won their vic tories in shells of wood. Hanlan, Teenier, O'Connor and Searle would think of using no other kind than cedar-built shells, while Courtney, who clung to the paper boat, has met with indifferent success. All the cham pionship races are now rowed in wooden boats. DEFECTS OF THE PAPER BOATS. "There have been many drawbacks to the building of wooden eight-oared shells in this country," said Billy Oliver, the best-known of cedar boat builders, the other day. "In an eight you have so much more length and stiffness to calculate on, and it is here where Sections of Some Shells. Fig. 1 For elcht oarmen. A. Midship line. B. Line of bow. C. Stern section. D. Draught at stern with crew averaging 150 pounds each. E. Draught at bow under same condition. Fig. 2. Section of cedar boat. Fig. 3. Section of paper boat, showing brace. the great difference between the paper and the wooden boat comes in. The papier mache boat, being differently braced and so much more flexible, gives to the pressure and does not retain in the water the same form it has when seen on dry land. It sag3 at every point, and the section, if it could be seen when the crew are aboard, would seem bag like. I might compare it to a bandbox or to India rubber, as far as its ability to retain the correct shape is concerned. Of course this has a great deal to do with retarding speed and acts as a handicap on a racing crew." A boat of cedar gives evenly all round and does not change its shape in the water. Amateurs say that paper gigs compare favorably with other boats in their racing qualities; but this opinion is not shared by professionals. The ideal English racing shell is of cedar; indeed no other material is used by the London Bowing Club, other crack English organizations and the Cam bridge and Oxford crews in their annual regattas. .Clasper. the most famous boat builder on the globe, makes all his shells of cedar. His eights are the model of the aquatic world and he sends them every where. There are a few Clasper-built shells Ql18ipllL aZT 111 I iTr-rTrTi If w in this country, in which almost all the champions have rowed rases at times, such as Pinkerton and Nagle, the champion double-team scullers, Buschman and Falatt, another crack double-team, Stevens, ot the New York Athletics, and David Itoacb, the veteran instructor of the New York club men in aquatics. 3JINEST SHELL EVER BUILT HERE. Plans have been received in New York of a boat designed by Clasper which will be put on the waters of the Harlem in April. She will be by far the finest racing shell ever built in this country, and will be in every way an ideal boat. Her length will be Gl feet; beam, 22 inches; depth. 8 inches. and she will closely follow the lines of the eights used in the great college regattas on the Thames. The section plan, which has till now been kept a close secret, was shown to the writer recently, and an outline of her graceful proportions is now published for the first time. She is calculated for a crew av eraging 150 pounds each in weieht,and even with this heavy freightage ber displacement will be three-fourths of an inch from stem to stern less than that of a paper boat. Her total weight will be 250 pounds. Her sec tion amidships is the same as that of most of the English race boats. The side rig will be used, instead of the center rig as now followed in the American boats. At first she will be tried on the Harlem, and then entered in some of the big matches of the coming season if she fulfills expecta tions. The side rig is a new thing in racinsr shells. By placing the sliding seats to the sides alternately, instead of right above the keel, as hitherto, a greater purchase is se cured by the oarsmen, and the motion is more natural than in the former method. Crack crews like the Gramercys, the Non pareils, the Atalantas, the New York Ath letics and Empires are watching the result of the experiment with much interest, and the general adoption of the side rig for racing purposes seems a foregone conclu sion. A DELICATE MATTER TO TRIM. It will be some time, however, before it can be taken up by novices for the reason that with the side rig it is a very delicate matter to trim the boat, and only an expert crew can work with the steadiness that is essential to racing foim. It is an English idea, but those who have experimented with it say it is bound to come, and that the racing shell of the future will have the side rig pointing inward, and will beat the speed of the present models several seconds to the mile. To-day the fastest time in the world is made in English boats, which have beaten the best American shells five seconds on a four-mile course on the Thames. This was done in a contest between English amateurs and American professionals. But the com ing American boat, our oarsmen confidently assert, will be able with its oblique side-rig to outswim the English by at least an equal distance. There is little difference in the cost of wooden and paper boats. The Atalantas, the crack New York club and the amateur champions of the United States, say that the papier mache cralt are more easily repaired when injured than the cedar boats. A wooden boat is not nearly so liable to in jury, however, as the paper shell, which suffers from abrasions, exposure and the action of the water, the latter sometimes re ducing parts of the shell to a pulpy con dition. COST OF A COMPLETE BIG. "A good cedar eight, with full set of sweeps and side-rig will cost 500," said a prominent boatbuilder. "A paper one of the same dimensions might be had for a lit tle less. I regard the paper boats just as good for all ordinary purposes as the best wooden ones, but for racing it lacks the stiff- Two Fine Boats. Fie. L Eight-oared wooden shell, designed by Clasper. with side rig. Fig. 2. Cedar coach ing shell, canvas covered, with fonr bulkheads. ness necessary to great speed. The thick ness of a papier mache shell and a cedar one is about equal probably an eighth of an inch all round except at the reinforced parts near the rowlocks." Oue of the prettiest little craft shells seen in many a day has jnst been built for Van Baden, the coach ot the Atalanta Club, for his own use while instructing his crews next season. She weighs only 35 pounds, is canvas-covered, built of th'e best cedar, fitted with the English rig, and is calculated to carry a weight of 400 pounds in addition to two bulkheads full of water, if necessary. Her length is 06 feet, beam 18 inches, A craft of the same design and by the same builder was built for James J. Tighe, a noted amateur, and on several occasions he filled it with water and sat in it, yet it floated. There arc four bulkheads in this style ot boat. On one occasion Gecrge Johnston made a 200-mile trip nut on the ocean in Tighe's boat, and Wallace Boss, the famous oarsman, said he would engage to cross the Atlantic in her if the stakes were big enough. A shell of this miniature would cost $100. ROWING IN SHOAL -WATER. "The best qualities of a boat can never be brought out in shoal water," said an old oarsman and "coach" yesterday. "The reason is that you throw the wash from the front oars and retard the progress of the boat at the back. In rowing in dead or shoal water you throw up rollers behind like a steamboat, while in deep water you simply leave a trail behind, showing that the life in thewatpr has carried off the wash instead of letting it roll up against the sides and stern of your shell. Any oarsman ought to tell by glancing at the stern whether his boat is in shoal or deep water. If he wants to get the best work out of a boat and crew let him steer clear of dead water and get ont in the live, even if he has to go further for it." George Hi Sandison. YEGETAULE PK0T0PUS1T. Llzhtnml Hent Produce Movements Visible br microscope. Mr. F. Newham, in the January number of Hardioicke's Science Gossip, has some ob servations on vegetable protoplasm, which are full of suggestiveness to all who study nature with the aid of the microscope. As he very popularly points out, it is necessary in order to study the primary or elementary form of protoplasm, to have recourse to the vegetable cell. The physiology ot vegetable protoplasm is the simplest form of living function with which we are acquainted, and without it animal protoplasm could not ex ist, seeing that animals are sustained by the chemical force accumulated in vegetable food products by the activity of vegetable protoplasm. The motile power of protoplasm is very wonderml and interesting, in the majority of case", it is slow and ill-defined. But the most remarkable feature of protoplasm is its extreme sensitiveness to external im pressions or stimuli, even such feeble vibra tions as those of the luminiferous ether or light being competent to arouse it from a nascent to an active condition. The more powerful undulations of heat might, there lore, be expected to profoundly affect it. And such is the case. Heat not only pro duces molecular activity in protoplasm, but visible protaplasmic movements are caused by it. When protected from extern&l forces, as inthe case ot buried seeds, tubers, roots, rhizomes, buds, etc, or when the activity or quantity of these forces are diminished, as in winter, protoplasm enters upon a condi tion in which most of its distinguishing functions are suspended in repose. Its mar velous powersbeccome dormant and latent, it ceases to build, construct, increase, or ap propriate pabulum, and simply lives. Secrels of the Menntori. New York Commercial Advertiser.! Next to the pocketbook, the most popular volume among the United States Senators is Anna Katharine Greene's "Behind Closed Doors." The Senators are in sym pathy with anything of that nature. "2P FOND OF PITTSBURG. Residents and Non-Residents Have Always Liked Our City. BETWEEN THE EAST AND WEST. frontier Hospitality Combined With the Conservatism of Old Cities. SKATING IN TUB PANHANDLE TDNNEL rWEITTES FOE THE DISPATCn.l "Why are Pittsburgers so fond of Pitts burg?" Sure enough; why are they? I never thought of the question until it was put to me the other day, and I found that to an swer it by analysis was a rather difficult matter. There is a mountain town in Cali fornia concerning which the inhabitants say, or used to say: "If yon come once, you'll come again; if you come again, you'll stay forever." The saying could not be applied literally to Pittsburg, but it could be made to fit very well. Its people are very fond of it, and their fondness "keeps" through every sort of weather. I have met old Smoky's children in manv far-away places within sight of the Pacific Ocean, on the prairies of the Northwest, on the other side of Mason and Dixon's line, in New York, in Phila delphia, where not? and never one of them but had tender memories and loving words for the grimy parent left behind. Some of them had gone afar in pursuit of the fugitive dollar we all pursue; and some were in pursuit of the health which for some of lis is equally fugitive; but all had the habit of looking toward the smoke-cloud at the Ohio river's starting place. Now what is the charm? WITH ALL THY FAULTS. For one thing, "home is home, if it's a hole in the ground," but that does not answer all the question. The spell has taken strong possession of many people who never lived in Pittsburg at all; who have only visited there from time to time, but who have stayed long enough to be inocu lated with the subtle influence. With these the taste has been acquired, like that for olives or tobacco. And it was very probably preceded by a strong dislike. For in the smoky days of old, Pittsburg was not fascinating through first impressions. It W3S rather discouraging than otherwise. The darkness of it; the dinginess of it; the un comfortable sense of being constantly be grimed all these served to make the final triumph more wonderful; for they were very dispiriting, and produced On impression very hard to overcome. And in wet weather, the mud 1 Never, anywhere else was there anything quite like the old-time mud of Pittsburg. Not onlv did it stick closer than any plaster ever in vented, but when you finally got it off it left grease spots on the garments. The oil of precipitated smoke combined with the elements of street dirt to form a compound which would have broken the heart of any washer-woman not native to the place. Yet in spite of all this strangers learned to like Pittsburg. old-time affection. And it is a curious fact that the warmest manifestations of the affection spoken of are for the city as it was when these condi tions prevailed the time before natural gas had done the work it was ordained to do. It wan for the old city, not the new, that the wandering citizens yes, and many of the citizens who have never wandered speak their words of love. They all admire the new order of things immensely; tbey are glad the new order has come, and wax proud and boastful of their city as it now is. Bnt somehow they say the old feeling was different. It was "more intimate, more individual, more responsi ble, more affectionate. The people lived closer together then. The individual was of more acconnt. The town was a community, and people knew each other and took in terest in each other's affairs. Observe that the affection did not at all depend upon the smoke and the grime and the mnd. It existed in spite of them. No body wants them back again. But they were characteristic ot the time when these other and more subtle conditions prevailed; and so will always be fondly associated with the Pittsburg which won the affections of the graybeards. Well, there is this to consider in con nection with the uraybeards the whole world over. No swan of to-day is so white and graceful as was the gray waddling goose of their young time; no sunrise this year will be half so radiant as the murkiest sunrise W3S when they were 25 years younger. They trill not be quite comforted because the present is not the past. THE YOUTH OF TO-DAY. But bless you! The youth of to-day will talk about the Pittsburg of to-oay in pre cisely the same manner a quarter of a century from now. So some allowance must be made for this retrospective fond ness. Also, a little allowance mnst be made for the inevitable penalty which growing greatness has to pay the penalty of being pushed and crowded out of the intimate relations which belonged to its more modest and compact period. And after all has been granted it will be discovered that Pittsburgers still like Pittsburg pretty much in the old way. And why not? The reasons for the liking remain essentially the same. There are some new conditions to become used to, but they are outside and do not reach to the center of things. At heart the old town is the same to-day that it was years ago. It can only change radically when the people change radically. They have not so changed as yet, aud let us all hope they won t. "Pittsburg is detestable, with its smoke and its dirt and its perpetual clatter of iron; but the people here are delightful, and I like the place!" I heard an Eastern man say years ago, and I have no doubt be wonld now leave "ueiesianie out oi nis verdict altogether. He had answered the whole puzzling question. The people gave flavor and quality to the place, just as they do now, and as they do always and everywhere. You see Pittsburg has a rank and character unique among American cities. It is the beginning of the West for Eastern people, and it is the beginning of the East for West ern people. In reality it is the first West ern city. The Allegheny Mountains set off the East like a wall. Beyond them the West begins. PARTLY -WESTERN AND PARTLY EASTERN Of course human nature is the same at heart everywhere; but it has different ways of manifesting itself. And the Eastern way is not the Western way by a very great deal. Still there are things about the Western way which Eastern people find tbat they like when the chance is given them. Now, I don't suppose that Pitts burgers ever suspect themselves of having Western ways; but they have them never theless in a very pleasant degree. That is the ereat reason why they like each other so mm h. The shell on them is thin and of smaUcompass, not dense and all concealing. They habitually reach out beyond it in all directions, and very rarely encase them selves in it armadillo fashion. The quali ties of head and heart which tbey possess they do not hesitate to show frankly. If they like they manifest their liking, and do not leave the object of it standing in doubt on the other side of a veil of opaque reserve. They are cordial and hospitable, and are heartily frank intlieir cordiality and hospitality, and not being averse to letting their ieelings and preferences appear on the surface. All this is not saying that they are not warmer at heart than are many people who habitually practice reserve. It is a difference in manner and method, that is all. Tbat is a Western trait. Bnt on the other hand Pittsburg is an old and well estab lished placeja place of cultivation and of social refinements, to say nothing of wealth ana luxury. Its pace was long ago fettled, With its freedom and heartiness and elasticity of conventional standards there is no rawness none of the wildness and "wooliness" which Eastern people gener ally associate with the word "Western." ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE LIKE US. II you are personally all rieht vou can take your place in Pittsburg without'having to show a diagram of your social status. And on the other hand, if you are person ally all right you can take your place in Pittsburg without having to show a diagram of your bank account. Both Eastern people and Western people find these facts pleas ant when they become a little accustomed to them. And therefore it is that strangers as well as Pittsburgers like old Pittsburg. And yet, alter nil has been said and done, I have 'sympathy with the old-timers who look regretfully backward. One would suppose that if "any earthly beine would re joice with exceeding great joy over the in troduction of natural gas for domestic pur poses it would be the housewife. Most of them do so rejoice; but there was one who spoke to me repiningly; and she repre sented a class. All her lite she had "kept house" in Pittsburg, using bituminous coal. Suddenly she had been emancipated from all the labors and annoyances implied in tbat statement; and she did not relish her emancipation. The old .routine had been broken up. 'There's so mnch make-believe about!" she said plaintively. "You sit down before a grate full of firebricks and try to tninK they're Inmps of coal. Of course that is im possible. Then there's so little to do. Yon can-'t educate a girl to do housework properly with that kind of a fire. I've almost forgot ten already how to dust thoroughly. And then there's no comfort in managing it. I did use to enjoy slacking down a coal fire for the night!" THE SET LIBRARY PROJECT. Progress does have to be paid for with a price. "There's to be a new library in Pitts burg," says a retrospective man of middle age. "Well, I rememher when the Mercan tile Library was opened, and tbat was a fine event ! Everybody was there, and we were all very proud of the handsome new place. I found a young minister sitting on a win dow sill, looking down on the stageol Trim ble's Varieties next door. It was the first variety show he had ever seen, and he en joved it immensely until I caught him at it" In these days the young minister might have gone in through the door and have made a sermon about the show afterward. There has not been very much good skating this past winter; bnt that does not prevent recollections of skating frolics long ago. And more than one old citizen has had thoughts of the boyhood winters when he used to skate through the tunnel through which the Panhandle Railroad now passes. It was a canal tunnel then. In summer canal boats passed by means of it and the locks beyond it, out into the Monongahela river. THE CANAL IN THE TUNNEL. That tunnel was a great engineering won der in those days, and commanded as much admiration as the new Court House does now. And the arrival and departure of passenger packets on the canal was a far more momentous event than the arrival and departure of any number of limited express trains is to-day. And yet the Pittsburger who skated in the canal tunnel, and who has told me de lightful things about those old times, is not yet an old man. Verily, whether "the sua do move" or not, Pittsburg does. And it keeps a lot of us, who are not so young as younger people, busy taking note of the changes that come to pass. May it be long, very long, before we have to note any change in the old characteristics that make Pitts burgers fond of Pittsburg! James C. Pubdy. A FAMOUS SMHYSTOBM. Anecdotes of I lie Grcnt Fall of tho Beautiful In 17S0. Youth's Companion. Among the severe snowstorms which vis itd New England in the last century was the famons one of 1780. In many places the snow was piled up to the second story win dows of tall houses, while those of one story were snowed under. The author of "Glimpses of Life in Westborough" tells several anec dotes illustrative of the straits in which the snow placed the people of that town. A farmer, James Bowman, discovering in the morning tbat the snow reached to the second story of his house, thought of his neighbors who lived in one-story houses. He called his boys and bade them put on their snowshoes and go over and see if Neighbor Tribbet was suffering for any thing. It was with difficulty that the boys found the little house; but a faint line of smoke on the surface ot the snow revealed the chim ney, down which they called: "Anything wanted, Tribbet?" "No," came up his answer. "Blessed be nothing. Go home and mind your cattle!" During this snowstorm, Mr. Daniel Forbes was taken sick. When it cleared off a com pany of eight yonng men drew his two daughters on a hand-sled to their father's house that they might see him before he died. At the funeral tbe clergyman, not having snowshoes, was drawn on a sled to the house of mourning, by several men. He notes in his diary: "It was sbarpcold, ye Wind Piercing, ye sled goes over ye tops of Walls and Fences. There were so many persons with snow shoes ye Corps was carried on a Bier on Men's Shoulders." SENAT0E PETTIGEEW'S TOWN. After Ho Hnd Got i; All He Visited the Man it Wn Named After. St Fanll'loneer-Press. About ten years ago, more or less, Sena tor Pettigrew, of South Dakota, came to St Paul and called on Judge Flandrau. "I now own the town of Flandrau, Dak.," said the pickerel statesman. "I have come all the way down here to introduce myself. My name is Pettigrew. If I like yon I shall retain the present name of the'town. If I don't like you, the name shall be changed." The town of Flandrau still exists. A MEMENTO OF CAKLILE. Characteristic Portrait or tho Great Author Tnlson Fifteen Years Aeo. A new and characteristic portrait of Car lyle appeared in a recent nnmber of the Re porter's Magazine. It was taken some 15 years ago, and shows the sage indulging in the solace of a pipe. On his right is Dr. John Carlvle, the accomplished translator of Dante's ''Divine Comedy;" on the lelt is Carlyle's nieee, Miss Ma'ry Aitken, now Mrs. Alexander Carlvle. Carlyle was once a schoolmaster at Kirkcaldy, and often visited the place after he became famous. It was on tbe occasion of one of these vitiu .that the above photograph was taken. How Tonrcce Absorbs Novels. New York Evenln York World.3 Judge Tourgee, the author, lives in a roomy old house, in Mayville, N. Y. He is a very rapid reader and is said to be able to "absorb" aa ordinary novel in three-anar. ten of an hour. mivM4 m. 7 1 1 a t if Vpt M I If$B3s)Swq MR CABKEGIgS GIFT. Unmbalo Thinks the Taxation Pro Tiso Will Kuin the Library. CONSTITUTIONALITY QUESTIONED. Endowment the Onlj Way lo Malce Snch Institutions Permanent. TOE NEED OF A POLTTECIUflC SCHOOL rwnrmre ron rai dispatch.i Mr. Andrew Carnegie has renewed his of fer to Pittsburg of a library or a series of libraries to cost 1,000,000 or more, in which to keep books of every class, so that the im pecunious may feast their mental appetites, and, like Mark Tapley, "come out strong" in all of the sciences and arts treated on in the multitudinous books to be found in well assorted libraries The general public at once goes mad and takes no thought of anything but the grand buildings which are to be built up in the city. Everybody is a committee to select sites for these buildings, and the locations recommended indicates a larger degree of mental aberration than was thought possi ble. The whole female population seems to be excited on the subject, aud, as is usual with them they.don't think that this library or system of libraries will cost the taxpayers a nice penny before they get through with them. It is now mentioned in connection with the libraries that the city or the tax payers will be required to pay 840,000 per annum for the maintenance ol these luxuri ous buildings. Does it seem possible that there is any power in the City Councils to lay a tax on the people to pay the expenses of every building which liberal men like Mr. Carnegie choose to erect? Does it seem probable that the Legislature has any right to say tnat the people of .Pittsburg or any other people shall be taxed for a public building that is not a necessity? QUESTIONS THE FAIRNESS. If it were a straight-out gift to the city, the giver should pay the expenses in addi tion to the gift, but as there is a provision that the people ot Pittsburg shall pay 40,000 per annum for its support, it don't look like a fair thing, for the poor man who lives away back in the hills, who never has time to read, or who would never read if he had time, or for the man wh ennnot read, that he should be taxed for tho support of a library. So might he as well be taxed for churches and their support and for the pastor's salary. It is claimed that this is an educational matter. It is not educational in the strict sense of the word, for novels are not educa tional, and it is well known by librarians that more than one-half of the books taken from a library are novels. Article 3, section 7 of the Constitution says that the General Assembly cannot pass a local law. special in its purposes. Would it not be a local law, special in its purposes, to asses such an enormous sum to keeo np a magnificent building, or bnilding3. for tho benefit or a few people and the aggrandizement of the city or individual. The bnpreme Court wonld hardly approve or any snch appropriation of the peo ple's money. As well might the City Councils appropriate money to build outright a general collese, likn Yale or Harvard, and pay the whole expenses of the same under general tax ation, under the pica that it is educational in Its character and a necessity to the general public THE LESSON OF THE PAST. District libraries were established about 1S30 for the schools In several Northern (states. But althongh they had the assistance of State ap propriations they generally succumbed after a. few years of struggling existence. Mercantile libraries were then started in most of the larger cities, fonnded of merchants and their clerks principally, which were to be sustained by ad mission or annual fees: bnt tbey have nearlv all fallen into decay. They have either become fossiliferous or have died altogether after her culean, struggles and many sacrifices by their more enthusiastic supporters, and tbe face stands oat in eliring characters that libraries cannot live without endowments or State aid. Those which lira the longest hare tbe mo3t vigorons management, but itls only a matter of time with tbe best of tbem. If Mr. Carnegie proposes to give a "Carnegie library" building without hooks or income, and compel every poor or illiterate man in this city, who can have no interest in it, to help keep it up without pleasure or benefit to mmself or family, it wonld be an injnstice. which it is very likelr tha courts will be called upon to remedy, if Mr. Carnegie wonld put less money in tbe buildings and endow the institutions with the balance, the libraries wonld endnro as long as the en dowment lasted: otherwise they will soon go as other presents to cities sometimes go, for par poses other than that intended, within 0 years oi tneir ueaication, as. ior instance, tne Alle gheny cow pasture, and tbe many small parks which have been Dreseated to Pittsburg by liberal-minded people in times past, bat which have entirely disappeared from the knowledge of the people. A PESSIMISTIC PREDICTION. The enthusiasm of the time will soon pass. Tbe bnildings will become political plums, and the charge of them will become pay for political services. The taxpayer will become tired of tho load he has to carry, and the very sight of the libraries will become loathsome and will make constant discontent to everybody but the poli ticians. People will crowd into them for a while as cariosity seekers, bat tbey will only be a nine days' wonder. The cause is known; tbe effect will be excuse for additional taxation and political jobbery. In tbe rosy light of the fine buildings which are to be added to the city, men are not think ing of dangers ahead, but all run like the boy after the butterfly, until ther fall over the precinice to flounder in the ocean, and their efforts at extrication become hopeless. 8ome of our ladies have expressed tbe wish that Mr. Carnegie would add a largo music hall to his central library, which is very much needed in this city; bnt would it not soon be confined to the edification of the "lOCL" and wonld not the poor man. or the poorly dressed man. soon get the cold shoulder from the officials ana from those whom he wonld rub against in that music hall? And wonld not bis wife or dangh ter get the cold shivers from the strong glare tbey would receive irom tne fashionably at tirod females they would come in contact with? It would not take very loner for the poorer classes to know or feel that their pres ence was entirely unnecessary. That wonld make it more of a burden to the general tax payer than the plain library building, and would throw the poor people into general dis quiet and unrest. EKDOWEIG THE LIBEABT. If Mr. Carnegie wants to benefit this com munity, In which he grew up to manhood and made his money, he wonld do so in a far more perpetual way by endowing his buildincs. That would call forth paeans of praise perpetually, while If the people have to give of their hard earnings, tbey will do so grudgingly and with Indignation at the man who brought these ex tra taxes upon them. There is no salve that cares the woands made by excessive taxation. Many of the best business men and financiers of the city have expressed the opinion that what is wanted in Pittsburg far more than libraries. Is a polytechnic school or an industrial school for boys. The apprentice system has. of late years, gone out oi existence, and a boy cannot learn his trade as be formerly conld. If Mr. Carnegie or any other public minded citizen wonld rinnatn t,SI,uOO,000 for that purpose a site could be pur ' chased and a splendid school building or build ings erecieu waicn wouiu accommodate avu boys for ?200,000, and this would leave the in terest on $800,000, which at S per cent amounts tof40.000.as an endowment which wonld edu cated hundreds ot our young men every year to tne very trades which are most common amonc us, and at the same time give them a good solid education in other material branches. Tbe increasing trade and activity in this city call out loudly for educated skill in all branches of mechanics and of the arts and sci ences. Most ot our skilled mechanics are frcm other cities, and many are from abroad. A well-known employer brings all of his skilled mechanics from the East and West, and has to. for this market falls him. He cannot get tho man he wants when he wants him, if at all, in Pittsburg, and consequently he goes away from home for bis help. Bumbalo. The Hoc Isn't In Iu Detroit Free Press.! At a recent dinner, given to see how mnch a man could possibly eat, there were 200 different dishes, and five of the eight gnesU tasted of them all. There is no use for a hog to expect to beat a man who sets his heart on getting ahead. Dentroyi Beamy, Then Complains. Washington Tost. The cynic is a man who strips all the " petals from a rose and then finds fault b came the remit Isn't attractive. &-!.
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