z& rjrg-gjv , pnSBTJRG-- DISPATCH; SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1890.' IB OUT ill MRU Successful Hen Offer Some Sugges tions and Advice to the Col lege Graduate of To-Day. ALL MUST BEGIN AT THE BOTTOM. Millionaire Huntington Says They Can Soon Become Croesnses by Buying Up African Rubber. GOT. CAMPBELL TH1XKS WOEEIS GOOD. Views tf Ben Bntler, Eichird VsniEdlUr lajlor, John Waiimaterana Others. The great ship of higher education makes a landing bnt once a year. She is now, as in Junes past, nearing her dock, her decks crowded with the youth of the land, and will in a few days discharge her passengers for 1890 upon the shores of the citj of active life. Each bears his diploma, a certificate of intellectual health. The passengers are all ambitions to win a conspicuous, or, at least, a lucrative, place in the, to most of them, unknown land of business and professional competition. Their lives, thus far, have been spent in great part in and about this big school ship, steered by the rudder of parental direction and means, with little to think about except the studies of to-day or the examination of to-morrow. Some lew, of course, have had a hard row, unassisted, to reach the ship in the first place, bnt they are a meager minority. Probably one-third of the youthful passengers will have friends at the wharf to meet them, who, taking them in the carriage of plenty, will drive directly to the point where the life opportunity made by father, brother or other relative awaits them. The great majority, however, will land with no helpful hand to greet them. ADVICE TBOM SUCCESSFUL MEN. The Dispatch, wishing to be helpful to them, ha, as it were, invited to the dock to meet the graduates, men of conspicuous ex perience and recognized success in nearly all lines of desirable endeavor, many of them who landed, a few years ago, just as these young men will now, to make a single handed struggle. Surely their ideas and observationsmnst be of value. The letter which has brought these generous responses was as follows: Dear Sib In preparing an article of Inter est and of benefit to the multitude of young men who will graduate from college a month hence, we earnestly ask an answer from yon to the following question: What should a college graduate of to-day do? Our Idea is to create a symposium of views from the most advanced thinkers and won successful men of affairs, whose suggestions, based upon a practical knowledge of the world's ways and opportunities, must have great alue to young men about to enter a life of which they are anxious to make the most. The answers that have come are full of guggestions not only to college students, but to every young man who desires to make his future better, happier and more successful thah his past. Every man who writes here is a leader in his column ot the human army. Many of them have business inter ests that compass the world. Here are the responses to the letter above given: MEDICINE OB CIVIL ENGINEEBINO. "The law and ministry used to open the largest professional field for graduates of colleges. The law is now overstocked, al though there is plenty of room at the top. I The religious inclinations of the rraduate must determine as to the ministrr. Assum- I inc that the rradnate has a taste for the physical sciences, a good address and good patience, Ietlnm enter the medical profes sion. But if he has at all a turn for mathe matics let him study civil engineering, in cluding hydraulic and mining engineering, as a profession. That is the great field now open to young men. It requires hard work, but everything else that is going to be suc cessful requires hard work. If I had a son who had just graduated from college and had at all a mathematical mind, I should put him into that profession as the best hope lor his future. "Benjamin F. Butleb. "Yon ask, "What should a college gradu ate ol to-day do' The reply which suggests itself can be thus formulated. Have faith In God. TTse your brains. Iearn to think. Knowledge is to be acquired as a life work. There is no terminal period to learning. Take no theory for granted. Investigation and energy are the tools to build up truth. 'Expert scientists,' so called, either elude or delude. A training that qualifies lor this work is the best instruction of the college graduate for this life. "Bichabd Vaux." attat tttth kid gloves and canes. "What a young man should do when he is graduated from a college is a question that is yery hard to answer. It depends upon the young man himself, his ambition, his capac ity in any given line of work or thought, whether "he is poor or rich, lazy or industri ous. The first step should be to find ont what his steps are and what his particular ability is. Having ascertained his fitness for anv kind of business or a profession he should take the first openingthat he can find that is directly or indirectly in sympathy with the special avocation for which he thinks he is fit. "His kid gloves and cane must be dis carded and he must not care how hard he works or how many hours he is employed. He must be active, intelligent, self-reliant and put through whatever he attempts at any cost. One cannot give a recipe for suc cess in life as a physician can prescribe for the cure of a disease Artemus Ward's ad vice to a man as to what he had better do in case of an emergency is really as good a recipe as I have ever seen. It was to 'rise up and cave in the emergency's head. Life is a series ot little and big emergencies, and a man who succeeds is a man who caves in the head of each one as it comes across his path. Charles H. Tatlob." "What should a college graduate of to day do? It depends entirely npon the na ture of his preparation, his native talents, tastes, his health and habits. The advice that I would give to one person wonld not at all suit another. I should have to be governed by circumstances, taking each case by itself. John Wanamakee." SUPPLEMENTAL TBAININO NECESSABY. "The first thing for a college graduate to learn is that only a small percentage of his college education is capital available for im mediate use; that by far the larger part can be used only when he has climbed far higher, and that it may prove at last to be merely the gilding of a career achieved through other agencies. A college educa tion in itself affords no guide by which a voung man may shape his course in life. That is almost invariably determined by natural proclivities, by pressure of circum stances or by accidental opportunities. The learning that a man possesses is valuable in proportion as it strengthens his natural apti tudes, fashions him to his environments or fits him for exceptional conditions in pro fessional or business pursuits. "There is no one Dursnit that mn t.an another affords opportunities to the college graduate. The law offers him no greater reward than it offers to the self-taught man, except that it be by reason of greater facility of verbal expression, and this, like the faculty of ornate and florid eloquence, has lost its imprcsMveness. anil cojsiquently its value, at the bar.and almost everywhere else except in the pulpit; and ot the cultivated habit of concentrated and disciplined atten tion which will never lose its utility in anr profession. In whatever pursuit he may attempt he will find the value ot his train ing to bein what it is, and not in where it eafce from. Every yonng man starting fjrBM Practically uncertain attitude of a college education must begin at the bottom of a new and special course of study and training directed to the needs of hit chosen occupation. Often, indeed, his college training may weave into this with decided advantage, but it is oltener an element in the enjoyment of worldly success rather than a means of attaining it "James A. Whitney.". A BANK OK MEECANTILE HOUSE. "I have not had time to give your letter, or, rather, the question you ask, a very care ful consideration, but in a general way I might say that, after graduating, the young man shoulrl go into the banking or mercan tile business, beginning at the foot o. the ladder and working his way up. If there is anything to him he will not be at the foot of the ladder but a verv short time. "IBVTNG A. EVANS." Replying to your letter, let me say, briefly, that a college graduate ought to go to work. -He is just like anybody else, ex cept that the man who has acquired an edu cation without the opportunity of college instruction is superior, in most cases, to one who has had those advantages. Either of them will succeed if he be honest, sober and industrious. As a rule, I think too many college graduates seek professions, so called; as the law, medicine and the ministry. If they would go more into mercantile, mining, manufacturing or railroad industries, their chances for success in life would doubtless be improved. My own observation has taught me that a young man who is deter mined to win, and who preserves good habits and a high moral tone, is sure to suc ceed, unless he meet with loss of health or other unusual misfortune. "James E, Campbell, Governorof Ohio." "I can only answer your question by say ing that when I was a college graduate I took advantage of the first opportunity for honorable employment, and did my level best to perform the work to the satisfaction of my employer. From time to time, as other opportunities presented themselves, I took advantage of them. I know of no other rule for the guidance of the yonng col lege gradute but to work diligently, tell the truth and avoid indulgence in dissipations of any kind, and especially in the use of alco holic stimulants. "With training, there is no reason why the college graduate should not merelv hold his own, but easily surpass all competitors in the occupations of life. "Abeam S. Hewitt." TAKE A TUEN AT SCHOOL TEACHING. "In response to your favor, I would state my belief that a college graduate, it he con templates entering a business life, should attend a commercial college with the same humble motive that the tamer's boy does who comes to the city with enly a district school education for the same purpose. If he proposes the practice of a profession, let him pass at least three months previously in teaching school. He has such an honorable precedent as the experience of that other college graduate, John Adams, second President of the "United States. "I believe every man who has been at school, consecutively, lor the several years necessary to pass from the primary school to the commencement day. has cultivated, willingly or ignorantly, a state of intellect ual conceit that is detrimental to his inter ests, financial, social and moral, for more or less years, unless he is placed in actual con tact with an experience of the world as it exists. If that experience is a trifle un pleasant, the better for him. "The sturdiest man I ever saw was a Har vard graduate, who went immediately to Texas, lived two years as a cowboy, and went home to Connecticut with perfect self poise. I have lived among books all my life, but I do not believe it is a normal ex istence. The manual training school is solving this problem of a proper education, in which mental stimulus is united to mus cnlar (phvsical) action. Hurriedly, I offer these crude ideas. "Albeet P. Southwick." MAKES BROAD-GAUGE MEN. In reply to the question, "What should a college graduate of to-day do?" Thorn as Bailey Aldrich refers to a paper by Prof. E. R. Sill, published in the Atlantic Monthly some time since, as the embodiment of his oDinions. Prof. Sill writes thus: "A college is a place where young peonle. whatever their future occupation is to he may receive that more or lets, complete de velopment which we call a 'liberal educa tion.' The human mind, being many sided, the college undertakes to aid the develop, ment on all the lines of its natural growth The tendency of modern life, moreover, with the extreme division of labor, being to force one or two powers of the mind at the ex pense of the rest, the aim of the college is to lorestall this one-sided effect by giving the whole man a fair chance beforehand. "While the special or professional schools of the university provide that a person may go as far as possible on some one line of knowledge, which constitutes his specialty, or of that combination of knowledge and skill which constitutes his profession, the college provides that he shall get a com plete possession ol himself in all his powers, mind, body, and that total of qualities known as 'character,' as is essential to the highest success in any specialty or profession whatever. He may get this broad prepara tion elsewhere than in college. It may come through private study. It may come sometimes, but only to men of extraordinary endowments, from the discipline of life itself. Bnt to the 'average man' it comes most surely and most easily through a col lege course. DON'T BE A COVTABD. "What shall these voting men do? I fear this is a vague question you put to me and can lead only to a vague answer; for the problem of life before each youth is a sepa rate one. If I had any one of these grad uates before me, there is a single vague piece of advice I would like to give, and, if possi ble, in a way that would make it remem bered. I would say: 'For God's sake, young man, don't oe a coward. "The young man would think, I dare say, that such advice was ill bestowed on a brave boy like himself; and in less than three vears you might find this same brave boy moraliy ashamed of every noble resolution he carried with him from the college campus, gradually adopting the logical reasons for adhering to ignoble standards of professional, business or political activity; slowly and surely abandoning the fiht for social and political betterment to men of moral courage; becoming, in fact, the poor est kind of a coward, the coward in spirit the prosperous cynic a dead weight upon the progress ot the race. "It isn't the downwright scamp that brings disgrace upon the American repub lic and turns our city governments into dens of thieves, it is the "lazy, compromising and cowardly 'respectable.' "E. W. Gildeb." OPPOBTUNITIES IN AFBICA. Collis P. Huntington, the many times millionaire, speaking recently of the duty of young men with ambition and brains, said: "ir I were a young men with $10,000 or $100,000 I'd go to Ainca and make millions in the rubber trade. There is a town called Tabato, on the river Couco, near the north ern boundary of the Congo Free State distant about 700 miles from the Guinea Coast. You can buy rubber there Ho-dav at a penny a pound. A young man 'might go there and pay 5 cents a pound for it and still make a fortune." "Would you advise a young man to go there with less than fplOO.000, or less than $10,000?" ' lnan "Well, that would depend upon the younz man. I went to California with a party of young fellows from my native State Con fuCtiCn.t7:nd WLen w? reacled Sacramento the first thing they did was to spend $4 apiece for dinner. My dinner cost me less than a sixteenth of that sum. It was al- ""J" " '"" " "tb wunin my income. Any young man who does that will get along. b "In Africa, or more specifically, ft and near the Congo Free State, the climate is excellent alter you get back 100 miles or so from the coast. There is no fever on the up lands. Just now the rubber to be trans ported is carried on the backs oi natives and the lack of transportation facilities ac counts -for the cheapness of the rubber in the interior. But you know the Congo is navi gable for many miles, from Kinchassa, in fact, to Stanley Falls, and by and by we shall have a railroad down there which will make travel easy all the way to the coast." ART AT SCALP LEVEL. City Pnpils Enjoying Two Weeks' Stay at the Pretty Spot. THE DISCOVERY OP ITS BEAUTIES, How the Landscape Hunters HaTe Come to Think They Own It AIL FATS OF IS ELABORATE SIGN BOAED rWBITTXK TOB TOT DISrATCH. ?7l. discovery of the exquisite beauty of Scalp Level by a party of Pittsburg fisher men, it has come to bear she same relation to Pittsburg and Pittsburg artists that Barbizon bears to Pans and the French painters. So many years ago was this now famous fishing excursion made by John Hampton( Esq., George Hetzel and others that most of us first hesitate and finally refuse to men tion the number. We all feel this way as ht f inMfr. i. - vvfyx . .ii v A Fence Corner. the years go by never hesitating to go back 10, 12, even 15 or 20 years we like to generalize beyond the latter number. In those days Clear Shade and Bearing Fork were famous for their mountain trout, and the road leading to the mountain streams lay through Scalp Level. A mid day halt for dinner afforded the sportsmen an opportunity to take more than a passing glance at the unknown village, and the eye of Mr. Hetzel, always on the alert for scenes of natural beauty, was quick to dis cover here the rarest qualities ot the pictur esque. From that day to this Scalp Level has been the Barbizon of Pittsburg. THET THINK THEY OWN IT. Painters go elsewhere and find excellent subjects and beautitul qualities in nature, but they return to this, in many cases their first love, and find on every hand subjects which are equal to any discovered else- On Paint Creek where. Indeed, so thoroughly at home do Pittsburg artists feel at Scalp Level that they exercise during the sum mer months a kind of proprietory control over the village. It is one of the peculiarities ot humn nature that when one retains possession of unlimited privileges for many, many years, that which was at first accepted as" a privilege is looked upon almost as a right. It is thus that the artists have, taken possession of Scalp Level. Thev are for a few months ot each year rank Socialists. They object to new houses being built in the village. New houses knock all the quality out of a landscape. They oppose the tanner's right to build new fences around his farm. New fences are an abomination. They file a formal protest acalnst the cutting of rings around the beech trees on Paint creek. The farmer wants the ground for a potato patch. They strenuously oppose the painting of signs on fences and barns, and thus far in their op position they have been successful. HEBE is a secbet. The last fence sign painted in Scalp Level was a mammoth affair. It was a boot and shoe sign, advertising a Johnstown house. On the Highway. The letters were each at least three feet long. While the artists worked on the streams and in the woods, the sign painters labored with equal diligence from morn till night at the fence sign. If the painters of one class felt satisfied at the end of-the day, reviewing their landscapes with complacency, the fiainters of the other class experienced no ess satisfaction in viewing the brilliant colors of their shoe sign. It was a good sign, and the workmen packed their buckets and brushes under the seat of a baggy and drove away conscious of work well done. The artists came trooping home with their camp stools and paint boxes on their backs and there was consternation on every face. There was an ominous silence during the evening meal and a nervous and irritable feeling filled the village. The rights of the artists had been defied and their sensibili ties outraged. The workmen even had he audacity to secure the property owner'i permission to occupy his fence with a sign. At 2 A, M, of the following morning the 4$m r& jIl. & ,? W HBOTJGHthe ITT ms m B- n frw iw n last letter had disappeared under a snowy coat of whitewash and the painters were each and severally prepared to prove an alibi. To-day Scalp Level is the only vil lage in Pennsylvania not disfigured by one of the abominations of the nineteenth century. the pupils in possession. Heretofore Scalp Level has been occupied, owned and controlled by the professional artists. This season it is in possession of the pupils of the Pittsburg Art School, xne closing weeks of the school year are being A. Shady NooJc spent in study from nature in the midst of the beauties of this celebrated mountain village. This fact itself is an evidence of the new impulse given to art education in Pittsburg. Seven years ago, with the es tablishment of the" Pittsburg Art School, was inaugurated in this city the method of studying from life and nature. The first daily life class was established, and study irom .nature each year at Swissvale, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, commenced sys tematically. This season a more ambitious plan wag formed and on June 11 the pupils departed lor Scalp Level to spend two weeks in the pursuit of art at that favorite place. So successful has been the experiment that hereafter the pilgrimage to Scalp Level will be a regular feature of the school's work. This season the pupils are under the direc tion of Mr. John W. Beatty, who may be joined later by Mr. George Hetzel. The days are spent in painting and draw ing Irom nature, and the evenings are en livened by many merry impromptu enter tainments. It is a delightful and at the same time profitable way to end a hard year's work with pencil and brnsb, and the pupils will doubtless gather many new ideas about art and nature, together with improved health and mental vigor. A JOLLY "WAGON BIDE. The party enjoyed a novel ride from Johnstown, to he hamlet, a distance of seven miles, in a four-horse wagon filled with straw. On arriving at the scene, they installed themselves in the village hotel, a quaint and typical structure that is seen in all the small villages and hamlets in Penn sylvania, Mine Host Yale had an old fashioned country snpper awaiting them. The drive from Johnstown up the mountain road gave zest to their appetites, and they disposed of the repast in a short time. After the ladies became sufficiently rested they proceeded to the barn, and cleared the floor of the hay, and other stuff lying about, so that room could be had for dancing. To the music of the village orchestra which consists of an accordeon, two cornets and a mouth organ, the party danced until late iu the night. oxt morning the artists were up bright and early, and after breakfast they formed themselves in marching order with the above mentioned band and started out to make a tour of the town. The natives of the village stood back in evident amazement at the sight of the delegation parading through the town. One of them was heard to remark to a companion. that he guessed "this was a regiment of the Salvation Army, come to start up a branch in their town." The following ladies and gentlemen make up the party: Mrs. Gear, Miss Dunlevy, Miss Hewitt, Miss Barnes, Miss Shoyer and Miss Laubcngier, of Braddock, all of the Pittsburg Art School. The gentlemen are Messrs. Moore, Beaty, Gear, Boenigk and Master Bartberger. They will conclnde their sketching by Wednesday. Palette. PUT YOTJBSELF Iff HEB PLACE. A Servant Girl Statei Her Side of tbo Im portant Domestic Problem. "I read the article on servant girls in The Dispatch last Sunday," said a very intelli gent girl to a reDorter yesterday; "It' a not all one-sided, I assure you. Of course there are bad servant girls, but there are bad mistresses, too. The ladies who can't keep servant girls don't know how to treat tbem. "Have you ever thought of following Charles Bead's proposition of 'Put yourself in his place?' Well, do so. Live in im agination only one day in the home of a family of moderate means, consisting of four or five members in the family, and you will be astonished at the continued demands on her time and attention. The servant starts by lighting the gas for the prepara tion of the morning meal, the tinkling of a bell warns her she is wanted elsewhere; she is striking the match the bell again, this time it is for hot water, which of course she cannot furnish. She is reprimanded in the form of "wriy nave you not got hot water, you have been up "long enough to have evervthing ready.' "The poor creature returns to prepare breakfast with a full heart, and so it goes through the entire day, scarcely one piece of stork started before another begins. I hear some remark: 'Why! that is wnat they are paid to do.' That is true, of couise, but when there is a lack of consideration and want of knowing the value of timer on the part of the mistress, there can be no other result but defective service. "Another great mistake that many poor managers make is in not having a system in providing what is needed for the table, de pending on the corner store, be it grocery or meat market, 'because it isso near,' the pur chase ot what is required is put off to the last minute, often when the servant has the least time to spare Irom her kitchen." SMOKIHG Iff VEHICE. Tart Obsrrvntlon of n. Little Girl Upon the Ilnblt of tlio Ladies. Youth's Companion. It is the all but universal custom among the fashionable ladies of Venice of the present day to smoke cigarettes, both when alone and in company. The hostess at a ball among the nobilitv receives her guests with a cigarette between her fingers, and all the fair dames smoke in the pauses of the dance. The wijeofthesonof Bobert Browning, an Americ.ni lady, created a profound sen sation iu Venetian society last year by de claring that she would not invite ladies to smoke at her house, and the little daughter of another American lady unconsciously uttered a severe criticism upon the custom. The mother was visiting an Italian woman of title, and in her honor a ball was given in the palace of the hostess. The little girl, who was 6 years old, was taken by her nurse from her bed to a gallery where she could look down into the ball-room after the company had assembled. She looked at the brilliant sight for a moment in silence, and then asked, in much wonder. "Where are the ladies?" "Why, the hall is full of them," answered the nurse. "Oh no," said the child, "all those women but mamma are smoking." Wenrlnr Better shoes. Men can no longer ridicule their wires' hoes. Gradually fashion has veered around, until the dangerous French heel, pointed toe and narrow sole have given way, and au immense benefit in the style of walking among ladies is the result On the other hand, men have adopted some of the abandoned inconsistencies of the fair sex in the matter of shoes. HOW LIQUOK FLOWS. The Teetotallers and the Tea Takers of the Capital City. TEMPERANCE IDEAS GEOWIKG. Great Men Who Were Rained by Tippling and Others Who Were Hot. A SALOOlf WHERE HEHRI CLAI MAHK rCOKBXSFOXnsxCX OP IHI DISrATCH.: Washington, June 21. During the pastmonth a number of church conventions have passed resolutions criticising the use of wines at the White House dinners. President Harrison has been drawn over the coals and a number of resolutions refer ring to the charge that liquors were sold in Vice President Morton's flat have been passed criticising Mr. Morton and at the same time commending Postmaster General Wanamaker for his cold water feasts. The excitement regarding the use of spirituous liquors has pervaded the Capitol and Speaker Beed has driven beer and wines from the House restaurant. There is a Congressional temperance so ciety, which has been holding its regular meetings during the session, and there are some members of both Houses who believe that we will eventually have a prohibition party, which will control the Government. Among these is Senator Wilson, of Iowa, who told me not long ago that he firmly be lieved prohibition laws would eventually prevail thoughoul the United States, and another is Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, who preaches temperance on every occasion. statesmen who abstain. Ex-Governor Dingier, of Maine, is a Prohibitionist ; Philetus Sawyer believes in total abstinence, and Henderson, of Illinois, Kerr, of Iowa, and O'Donnell, of Michigan, do not drink a drop. Cheadle, of Indiana, says that during his canvass for Congress he was asked what he would do-when he came to Washington. He had replied he would keep sober, and he says he never tasted a drop of intoxicating liquor. Cutcheon, of Michigan, has never touched a drop in his life, and Kerr, of Iowa, has been a life-long cold-water map. There is no doubt that temperance is growing in Congress, but there is still room for improvement. Every session a dozen new members come here who are not accus tomed to drinking. They fall Into the habit, and before their Congressional term is closed they are ruined lor life. One of the funniest men of the last Congress,a man whose name was in the paperB as the great wit ot the session, was not elected to this. He had before he came to the House a splen did lesral practice. He acquired drinking habits at Washington, and he has now de generated, though he is not yet 40, into a barroom loafer. One of the brightest men who ever sat in the House of Representa tives was James B. Belford, of Colorado. He was making $20, 000 a year before he was elected to Congress, and when he came here he was as bright as the silver of his own Bocky Mountains and was as straight as a string. He got to drinking and Washington ruined him. He reformed and re-reformed only to break his good resolutions and sink lower until during his last days in Congress he was almost constantly under the influence of liquor. He was a very brilliant man and he could make a better speech drunk than most other men could sober, and no matter what his condition was the galleries were always ready to listen to him. After be left Washington he went back to Denver and I understand he has now reformed. When I saw him a year or so ago he baid he was making a fortune at the law, was a Prohibi tionist, and that he never again intended to run for Congress. I saw in the House to-day a white-haired, round-headed, short-bodied Judge who used to represent a Congressional distrfct within a hundred miles of Chicago. He was highly respected, and was only a moderate drinker when he came to the Honse. He had a nice family, and he was thought well of here. He could not resist the temptations of Washington, and he is now a drunkard. He has had several experiences with the Provi dence Hospital, and I have seen him on the street in such a condition that I thought he must be having a rir op delirium tbemens at the time. He would shake his head and mutter to himself, fight the air with his hands, and grab his leg as though there were a snake or bee inside of his panta loons. In the House to-day he was only half sober, and he drifted from member to member receiving cold looks from all. Thete is an American minister who gets a salary from TJnole Sam, considerably higher than that of a Congressman, who has been laid up a number of times at this same Providence Hospital, and this hospital is the place to which all statesmen are carried when they become so tinder the influence of liquor that they need medical treatment. The authorities are very discreet, and no one knows the names of their patients, nor do they publish a catalogue of their dis eases. I do not believe that there is a greater percentage of drunkenness among the Con gressmen and other statesmen here at Wash ington than there is among any other body oi men outside of a Church synod the coun try over. The great majority of public men drink more or less. It is only the Tetr, how ever, who drink to excess, and as to our Presidents, there has never been an instance of anyone except Andrew Johnson being charged with taking too much whisky while in the White House, and all ot them with the exception of President Haves have been moderate drinkers. all took theib nips. Washington was a good judge of wine. Thomas Jefferson paid $11,000 for drinks during his life in the White House, and Andrew Johnson served up Tennessee Eunch to his guests. President Arthur ad some of the finest wines in the world on his White' House table while he was President. Cleveland drank beer at his luncheon and always had wines at his state dinners. John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams, notwithstanding the fact that they came from Puritan Hew England, served wines to their guests, and Madison had a good wine cellar. Buchanan was through his long residence abroad a lover of good wines and a judge of liqnors, and it is said that Frank Pierce had a number or sprees at Washington before he became President. Andrew Johnson drank whisky straight, and when he was Governor of Tennessee he had a covered wasnbowl in the, executive chamber, and it was in this bowl that he kept the jug. President Harrison has always been a temperate man, and no one has ever seen him at a public bar. The de mands of the White House are such that it is almost absolutely necessary to furnish wines at state dinners, and the diplomats who have been accustomed to tbem Irom boyhood would make a bad meal without them. MODERATION and temperance. A great many of our statesmen believe that the use ot light wines and beers tend to temperance. If you will take France and Italy you will find less drunkenness there than in England, and there are not as many drunkards there as in the United States. Man of the statesmen drink only at dinner and not a few touch nothing except when r.t a big feast. Speaker Beed once told me that he did not approve of mixing drinks at these state dinners, and that as for him champagne was good enough, and he cared lor nc other wine when be had it. Senator Iugalls is not averse to a good glass of sherry, and as for the Southern men they usually prefer whisky straight. Senator Edmunds likes a good brand of Kentuckv bourbon, and he is noted as hav ing the best liquors at the Capitol. He fre quently "crooked hii elbow" in company with Senator Thurman, and the sly winks by which one signaled the other that it wm : vM5 time to go out and take a drink have become the subfect of many chestnut stories ot the past. Another Senator who was noted for keeping good liquors was Senator Eaton. Eaton's lavorite drink was lime punch. Still he kept a good brand of Kentucky whisky in bis committee room, and I heard to-day an incident which occurred there during an all-night session of the' Senate some years ago. THTJBMAN'S LITTLE BWALLOTT. Senator Eaton was sitting at his desk dic tating to his stenographer when Senator Thurman entrred and said: "Eaton, I want a swallow. What have you got to drink?" "I have some whisky," said Eaton, and with that he handed Senator Thurman a tumbler and told his secretary to bring the jug. The secretary attempted to pour the whisky into Senator Thurman's glass, but the jug was full, and he was acting so awk wardly that Thurman motioned to desist, and reached out his hand for the jug. The secretarv gave it to him, and Thurman tak ing the handle in his right hand gave a slight twist of the wrist and threw the jug back on his elbow, and in this position poured out the amber-colored liquid until the glass was brim full. There was a full gallon of whisky in the jug, and he did n't spill a drop. He then drank the glass neat, smacked his lips and left the room. As 1 e went out Senator Eaton looked at him and said: "Well, if Thurman calls that a swallow I would hate to ask him to take a full drink." AN HISTORIC DRINKING PLACE. Washington is noted for its fine whisky. You can get a good "jigger" in any block, and one of the most noted drinking places of the Capital is in a little old honse on the south side of the avenue about halfway be tween the Capitol and the Treasury. It is Hancock s saloon, and it has been patron ized by statesmen since the days of Presi dent Harrison's grandfather. It was here that Clay, Webster and Calhoun came to drink, and the old negro bar tender, who still stands behind the counter, tells me that John C. Calhoun liked sherry, that Henry Clay liked his whisky straight and was verv fond of a good julep. This saloon is a kind of enriosity shop. It has the relics of 100 of the most famous men and thieves of the past. Here are the auto graphs of all the noted men in our history. Here is an old pair of shoes that Washing ton wore, faded buttons from the coat of Andrew Jackson, and a seedy white hat which once adorned the head of Zachary Taylor. Here are Jeff Davis' drinking glasses, and the table on which Henry Clay played cards. Here are relics of the assassi nation of Lincoln, and mementoes of John Blown, and an old umbrella of Beau Hick man's. Beau Hictcman was the prince of Washington deadbeats. For more than 60 years he worked the statesmen and strangers lor drinks and loan's. A GENTLEMAN OF GALL. The lobbyists and dead beats of Washing ton have been reduced in number during late years. The civil service examinations have radically reduced their power of per suading office seekers that they can furnish them places, and you do not now see adver tisements in the Washington papers offering $100 cash and 10 per cent of the salary re ceived for a Government position. Five years ago such advertisements were common. Nearly all of the big companies and big in terests have lobbyists stationed at Washing ton who know these sharkers, and who warn their friends against them. I know one man who lives well here on an income of $70 a month. He is a Republi can or Democrat, according to the man he meets, and he would drink with Mephls- topheles and take a meal with the devil himself if he conld get an invitation. He is a man of ability and has been in the diplomatic service and was once appointed Consul to Zanzibar. He was away from Washington this time three months and then came back, saying that be had cruised all around over the-Indian Ocean and couldn't find the place. He b.ada wonder ful story to tell about how he had saved the 'daughter of an English duke when she had fallen over the side of the ship into the Bay of Bengal. He plunged headlong from the ship's rail after her, caught her as she was sinking for the third time, and, BY TBKADING the WATEE, managed to keep her afloat and away from the sharks until a boat was lowered and the sailors restored her to her father's arms. This story of Judge Blank's got into the newspapers and shortly after this another story appeared in the form of a special dis patch which stated that the English Duke had died and out of gratification for the sal vation of his daughter's life had left Judge BlanketylBlank, of North Carolina, 10,000. All of the Judge's friends congratulated him. His credit became good for a day and he took advantage of this to call upon the leading clothier of Washington and to get a complete outfit from toe to crown. The next day it began to be seen that the story was fishy, and a week later it became a gray haired lie. The Judge's clothes, however, remained new for several months, and on the strength ofthem he got many a meal and many a drink. Beturning to drinking at the Capitol, the Senate restaurant is now very well patron ized by the members of the House. Its bill of fare includes all sorts of fancy drinks, and there is not much use of asking for cold tea. There is a rule against the sale of liquors, but it is not operative and there is no rule which prevents a man keeping a bottle in his committee room. Senator Pen dleton used to'have a good brand of cham pagne in the Library Committee, and it is not uncommon for Don Cameron to give a lunch with wines to some of his Senatorial friends iu one of the committee rooms. THET KNOW -WHAT'S "WHAT. Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, is said to be an authority on fancy drinks. Voorhees, of Indiana, comes from snch a malarious district that he had had to learn how to judge whisky. John Sherman is not averse to a little good wine, though it is said he never takes more than a thimbleful of whisky, and his brother, the General, is fond of old rye. Nearly all the army officers drink more or less, and the best wine cellars of the Capital belong to the members of the navy. Many ofthem get their liquors from abroad, tree of duty, and every now and then one is ordered to a far-away station, and he auctions off his supplies. I got some very fine claret the other day which came from a sale of the wines of Lionel Sackville West, the last Minister to the United States from Great Britain, and you now and then get a bottle of old Ma deira from a Supreme Court Justice's cellar. The diplomats use the California wines largely, and Senator Stanford has the finest of these in his cellar. He has one brand of white wine which he sends out to sick peo ple, and he thinks that some of the best wines in the world come from the Pacific coast vineyards. Frank G. Carpenter. A Liberal Offer. Mat. McCabe. of New Brunswick, 111., offers to pay five dollars to anv person troubled with bloody flux, who will take Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhcoa Bemedv according to directions and does not get well in the shortest possible time. One half of a 25-cent bottle ot this remedy cured him of bloody flux, after he had tried other medicines and the prescriptions of physicians without benefit. Mr. McCabe is perfectly safe in making this offer, as more than a thousand bottles of this remedy are sold each day and it has never been known to fail iu any case of colic, cholera morbus, dysentry, diarrhoea or bloody flux, when the plain printed directions were followed. For sale by E. G. Stucky, 1701 and 2401 Pcnn ave.; IS. G. Stucky & Co., cor. Wylle ave. and Fulton st.; Markell Bros., cor. Penn and Frankstown aves.;Theo. E. Ihrig, 3610 Fifth ave.; Carl Hartwig, 4016 Butler St.; John O. Smith, cor. Penn ave. and Malnst.rJas. L. McConnel & Co., 455 Fifth ave., Pittsburg; and in Allegheny by E. E. Heck; 72 and 194 Federal st.; Thos. B. Morris, cor. Hanover and Preble aves.; F. H. Eggers, 172 Ohio st, and F. H. Eggers & Son, 199 Ohio st. and 11 Smith field st. Thau Cabinet photos $1 per dozen, prompt de livery. Crayons, etc,,' at low prices. Lies' Gallebt, ttm 10 and 13 Sixth it CLARA BELLE'S CHAT. Story of a Woman in White Who Koamed the Roofs at Night. MODERN CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS. Mnrray Dill Girls Bloomine With a Cos metic'From the Harem. HOW A STRING WILL SPOIL A TOILET icoBxxsronnxxcx of tiix dispatch, i New Yobk, June 21. HE sketches of fem inine life which I make are too closely confined tothe really mall McAllister clique, according to one of the very many readers who write to me. Well, here is an anecdote irom an other quarter of so cietv. "There Is alto gether too much ro mance in the world," said a little red-nosed man who keeps a dime museum iu Four teenth street. "It interferes with business." After moving slightly out of range of his diamond shirt stud, I asked the gentleman If his affairs were suffering at that moment from a superabundance of romance. "Yes they are," he said. "I've just lost the best card of the season by it. He played the cymballum and played it well. The second week he was with me receipts were way up, and I saw that the public was dead stuck on cymballum music. The nights were warm, von see. and I used to go into a little garden alongside the museum during the performance, just to keepcooL It was a perfectly quiet little place, generally de serted, and Irom where Isat I could look over all the roofs iu the neighborhood. A MYSTERIOUS WOMAN IN WHITE. "One low roof ran up very close to the side wall of my museum, and on a certain night I noticed the tali, white figure of a w'oman stealing over this roof through the darkness. It was ghostly, I tell yon, but when she paused at the open window of the museum the light from inside fell on her face and I saw that it was a sure enough live woman and a very pretty one, too. Just after she arrived at the window the cymballum player began his work inside, and all the time he was playing I could see that the woman's face expressed great ex citement and emotion, as though the music filled her with rapture. As soon as the cymballum player finished she stole back over the root and disappeared in her own -house. This programme was worked every night for sometime after that, not even rainy nights being excepted. "I was thinking about sending a season ticket to the Woman so that she could go inside the museum when she liked to hear the cymballum player, and would have done so had I not been interrupted by a note from the artist himself one morning, in which he explained that he would not be able to appear at the museum any longer, he having been married suddenly and gone on a wedding tour. This made me mad, but I never suspected that the woman in white had anything to do with the matter. THANKFUL HE WASN'T A EBEAK. "That same day, however, a poor old fel low, who looked like a mechanic of very moderate means, called on me, and asked if I knew anything about a cymballum player. He said that his daughter, who lived im mediately back of the museum, had eloped, leaving no trace of herself besides a slip of paper fastened to her pin cushion, on which was written: 'I have eloped with the cym ballnm nlaver in the museum.' " "The old man was delighted when he found out that a cym Ballnm player was an artist and not a freak. He had an idea that his daughter had gone off with the human frog, or the man with the elastic skin. But there's lots of money out of my pocket by the proceeding, and "so, I say, there's al together too much romance in the world. Every girl is a Juliet, and every cymballum player is a Romeo." A lady in a rich and fashionable costume set off by no small number of diamonds; an inconsistently absorbed and unworldly air, with .eyes fixed on vacancy; an assertive voice that finishes Up the most common place remark by some wildly oracular declaration, and there is your Christian scientist The town has held lots of 'em lately and they are not old or even middle aged. Neither are they the short haired, angular and spinsterfied company that a prejudiced person might expect. Many of them are young, handsome and bewilder ingly charming, with their airs half saint and two-thirds angel. A FASCINATING TBEATMENT. It must be utterly nice fora man, when he has the neuralgia, for instance, to have one of these dainty, other-world creatures pro nounce their shibboleth and then take a silent'measure of his psychology; for be yon 6 !eet2, with waist girths in proportion, they scoff at your physiology, and are utterly blind to your anatomy. It is re marked that as soon as a woman is enrolled among these prophets and teachers, she ar rays herself in velvets and diamonds. That of course makes the new cult very attract- 27ie Jlysteriout Woman in White. ive. But some of them are born to the purple, and their unworldly maxims and nun-like airs, contrasted with their luxu rious attire, are no less bewitching than be wildering to the uninitiated. When snch names, however, as Mrs. Cyrus Field and Mn. Pierrepont Morgan are cited as deciples the looker on feels a certain respect for them and for it, thongh it be altogether beyond her reason. When, moreover, these curious people declare that they cure the tobacco habit in its most in veterate forms, every lady in the land turns an attentive ear and feels a rising hope of a good time coming. Especially so that large class of daintily attired women who are ohligid to patronize the elevated railroads, where it is often impossible to find a decent spot to sit in or to stand on owing to the presence of the spitting fiend. AN INTEBMITTENT GEYSER. The other day a lady, so prettilv and delicately costumed she looked as if she had stepped from a picture where the artist had painted a poet's dream of fair women, was utterly"! discomforted and disgusted by this cause. She ocennied a crovs seat in a'Sixth avenue train when two flashily-dressed men took the seat aeross the aisle facing her. The man next the aisle began describing a wonderful horse, punctuating his discourse by a flood of tobacco juice directed toward the lady. At the first shower she pressed her skirts together with her fastidiously gloved hand. At the second, which came nearer, she tucked them about her feet and held them with both hands. The man seemed to try how close-he could come to her without hitting her. A gentleman on I lB KV1K WioSSlK j Mm tho seat opposite the lady had been absorbed in his newspaper, but becoming unpleasant ly aware ot the big geyser discharging near by, looked up to reconnoiter. Intensely disgusted and casting au angry glance at the horseman, he opened his newspaper and spread it over the lady's lap and feet. The offender stared an instant, then under standing the situation, resumed his story and his stops. Now, if the mental batteries of about ISO scientists conld have have been concentrated on that fellow and reduced him to a juice less, airtight, innoxious mummy, what en thusiastia transcendentalists most of that carload of disgusted humanity would have become! I doubt, though, if even 150 to bacco curers could have preserved such a hard-rinded specimen. NO HELP TOB HEB. A scene one often witnesses in Broadwav is the legitimate outgrowth of that false modesty so common in this country. A. lady will be permitted to go her way along that busy thoroughfare with some tape or string spoiling the effect of her toilet, and no one will call ber attention to the fact. Everybody will take a look at her. Among men the custom is to be almost too kind to each other. "Sir," said a kind-hearted New Yorker to a stranger beside him in a street car, "your tie has slipped up over your collar." "I don't wear a collarl" was the gruff reply. But women are so afraid of each other that one will be permitted to wander about a picture gallery for an hour with some string or tape or fastening hanging down and no one will inform her of the fact. It's mean. Suppose she does "turn all colors" whea told of it, she can't be otherwise than thank ful when she cools down. I don't say that a man or woman either has the right to stop a lady in the street and say: "Excuse me, Madam, in putting on your eyebrows thii morning you got one on crooked;" or "Ex cuse me. Madam, your shoe is untied." There are things that had better be Iett un done, but it's so hard to draw the line. A COSMETIC FEOM THE HABEM. A blush has overspread the cheeks of all the prettiest girls on Murray Hill. They are self contained, proud and smiling, but they are all pinkly suffused in the daintiest, sweetest manner possible. Such a brighten- Taking on Dame Nature's Rouge. ing up of complexions has never been wit nessed before and everybody but the girl themselves have been bothered to find out wbat the cause of the heightened coloring might be. The envions have mentioned rouge and the good-natured souls have won dered if the spring atmosphere did not con tain an ardent influence that was felt only by the cheeks of pretty girls. "The secret came out the other day. That blush originated with the return of a cer tain beautiful young married woman from Egypt, where she has been living with her husband, who is an army officer in the En glish service, for some years. When she arrived the whole world went into ecstaclea over the bloom of her cheeks. Finally, after several days ola triumph, the lady of the bright complexion declared that her lustrous charm was occasioned by a cosmetio used in the Khedive's harem, which is not paint or a dye, but an irritant which, prop erly applied, draws the blood to the tkjfa in . a brilliant blush which no amount of wash ing will take off. I inderstand that it bnrns considerably, hut no girl is going to object to a small inconvenience of that sort when so much loveliness is to be secured. The pluck of the proceeding does not eqnal that very original beauty whom I have heard of as going into the country the other day and sitting in the sun, wearing a cloth mask that hid all parts of her face ex cept the tops of the cheeks and temples. At tha wedding she attended that evening her complexion was so much rarer than the bride's that the groom looked away from his prize, and the best man almost forgot his role in contemplation of her beauty. The art of red cheeks is certainly develop ing in strange ways. Clara Belle. MADAME A. EUPPERT. New Tork's popular complexion specialist, who has met with such unexcelled success la all large cities of the United States anil En rope, baa opened permanent parlors in Pitts burg, where she will keep on sale her wonder ful FACE BLEACH. Face Bleach is not a U03JIETIC, not a WHITE WASH, but a. thorough tonic and skin bath. It opens the pores of the skin, so the blood can throw off its impure matter. Face Bleach is healthy for any skin. It removes the old dead cuticle that has accumulated. Face Bleach has been thoroughly tested for the LAST TKH TEAB3 br ladles whose faces have been enred of hide ous blemishes of every nature. One side hav ing been cleared at first. The general Ipnbllo Invited to call and sea one side ENTIRELY FRESH AND WHITE, six weeks later the re msiniog side clear. No more CONVINCING PROOF is necessary. Write to your New York friends and ask them to call at our mala office and be convinced. Face Bleach perma nently removes all blemishes, moth: freckles, excessive rednesi. Eczema. Salt Rheum. In fact every skin blemish, making the complex Ion clear, smooth and beaatifnl. Does notglva a washed ont appearance, but a healthy look. This wonderful Face Bleach, guaranteed, will be sent to any address on receipt of price, 23 00 Eer bottle or three bottles, usually a cure. So COL adles out of city can send for It securely packed. Bend four cents or call for sealed par ticulars. Very interesting to ladles who us desirous of having cnod complexions. MADAME A. KUPPERT, Room 203, Hamilton Building. jeMOl-sn Filth ave.. Pittsburg. Pa, The Soft Glow of Ths TEA ROSE Is Acauired by Ladies Who Use MEDICATED TRY IT, SOTjD XSV-EIEra WidJilKS. OspspfllppH POWDER " i I i m
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