THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, MARCH 16,. 1890.
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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
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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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