IM I I ill i "ip&m" I It ft. f I 16 WIDOWS OF HEROES Peeps Into Washington Homes That Eecall tho Karnes of the Ka- tion's Greatest Men. MEMENTOES OF GES. SHERIDAN. The Palace In Which Black Jack Logan Died Rich in Belies That Interest Bis Soldier Admilers. XRS. ADMIRAL DAHLGREVS RESIDENCE Earn Kantoll Was Kot Hack of a Money Hiker, but Sunset CcxLeft a Fortune. IC0KSErO2TDKCZ or TITZ OISrATCH.1 Washington, July 20. Mrs. General Sheridan is devoting herself to the educa tion of her children. She did not go into society at all last winter and she lives all alone with her little ones in the bis $40,000 brick mansion which was presented to the General when he came to "Washington. Mrs. Sheridan is one of the finest looking women or the Capital. She is straight and slender, has 'beautiful eyes, and her face is almost classic in its features. She is tho daughter of General Eucker, who was at one time Quartermaster General of the Army, and she was during her husband's life the center of attraction of the army circle of the Capital. She is finely edu cated and was thoroughly wrapped up in her husband. All of her surroundings tend to call up the hero who has passed away, and the Sheri dan House is one of the noted ones at the Capital. It stands within a stone's throw of Scott Circle; is on the corner of Rhode Island avenue and Seventeenth streets, and it has many rooms and many windows. It in terior is filled with curios picked up by Gen eral Sheridan during his long career. Stuffed birds which he shot look down upon you as you enter the hall, and in the dining room there is a great elk's head with wide branching antlers, which is a trophy of his hunting. A magnificent tiger's skin hangs over a Mexican saddle, mounted in silver and gold, and beside these an American nag is draped. EEMINDEES OF THE IIEEO DEAD. The parlors contain many pictures of Sheridan, and one of the finest of these is a large portrait in oil. It represents him in fall uniform, and near it there is a painting by Earle of Sheridan's Bide. Back of the parlor is the library, where the General wrote the greater part of his memoirs, and where are the books of which he was most foud. Here are a number of autograph letters signed by the hard of Abraham Lincoln congratulating Sheridan upon his military service from time to time during the war, and upon the shelves are photo graphs of Bismarck, Napoleon and Wash ington, and above them are engravings and etchings of General Sheridan's army friends. It is the same in the dining room and throughout the house, and 3Irs. Sheri dan is thus living largely in the past. I visited Mrs. General Hancock's house to-day, but find it is rented to a Cincinnati family and that Mrs. Hancock is living in 2ew York. Her house here is worth per haps 520,000, and it was a present to her from Mr. Corcoran aud other wealthy resi dents of Washington. It is a bis "three story and basement structure of Philadel phia pressed brick and brown stone. It is on a corner, is on the farthest edge of the fashionable section and is growing in value every year. It has about IS rooms and it ends at the corner in a brown-stone tower. Brass railings lead up the brown-stone steps to a wide front door, and you enter under a half-moon of stained glasi There is more stained glass in the windows and the house is beautifully finished as to paper and painting. HANCOCK 'WASif'T A MONET MAKEB. Mrs. Hancock has, however, spent but a short time in it, though she will probably make Washington her residence in the fut ure. She is not rich and General Hancock died comparatively poor. Her memoirs of her husband had no such sale as the books of Grant or Sheridan and she has not a great deal in addition to her pensiou to live upon. General Hancock was not a money maker. He gave a great deal to charily and be was generous to a fault. He married Mrs. Hancoct in 1850. She was then a young lady of St. Iionis and the two spent nearly a generation of hapny years together. Mrs. General Logan has perhaps the finest home of anv of the noted widpws of Jits. Logan anU Mrs. Sheridan. Washington. Calumet Place commands a view of the whole citr and the surrounding country for miles. It is a roomy two-story brick, with a hall running through its cen ter so wide that you could turn a wagon load of hay around in it without touching the walls. Immense rooms open into this hall from either side, and these are packed with relics of General .Logan, and with the evidences oi Mrs. Logan's and the General's taste. The two planned the furnishing of the house together. General Logan did a great deal of the carpentry work in recon structing it according to their ideas, and he aided his wife in selecting and arranging the furniture. Every room contains many remlniscenses of him, and Mrs. Logan says that she would not he happy away from Washington on this account. When they took the house it was battered and worn. The big rooms each looked as large as a barn, and it did not seem possible that any thing less than a lifetime or a fortune could make it habitable. X. CHANGE ALMOST MIRACULOUS. Good taste, hard work and a moderate amount of money gaTe it one o! the trans formations that are said to have come from Aladdin's lamp. The wide doors were cov ered with portiers made of Navajo blankets of red and blue, which Mrs. Logan and the General bought from the Zuni Indians. They scattered somemahogany seats throngh the wide hall and hung upon its walls In dian relics and old armor with some oi the General's weapons. During his whole life General Logan had received presents of canes, and had kept these until he had a barrel fnlL A curious little tftsket was bought for these, and tbey formed one of the curiosities of the drawing room. Every piece of furniture has its history and in the dining room they put a table that Charles Carroll of Carroll ton once owned and in their bed room they had a lamp which burned the midnight oil for Henry Clay when be played whist or planned out bis Fresidental campaigns. One of the jtefaa bad belonged to Blidell and In the bed Wws la which the General died there was a. dressing table and bureau which came from President Buchanan's home in Pennsylvan ia. In one of the parlors there was a couch which General Logan constructed himself upon which he loved to lie after a hard day in the Senate and in the corners of the room were flags and banners each of which had a story which both Mrs. Logan and the Gen eral could tell. The most of this furniture stands to-day in the same places it did when General Logan was alive. ATTRACTIVE TO THE SOLDIERS. There are perhaps a few more portraits of Logan upon the walls, and at one end of the double parlors there has been built the memo rial hall, in which Mrs. Logan has collected the mementoes of her hnsband. It is a per fect museum of Logan history, and one who can read between'the lines can here see the history of the late war. I will not attempt to describe it save that it is one of the most interesting places to the soldiers who visit Washington, an nod Grand Armv man ever comes to the Capital without calling upon Mrs. Logan. I chatted with Mrs. Logan the other day about the General's book, and she told me the General wrote it more with a view to inculcating patriotio ideas than to make money. She said a large number of copies had been sold and her profits on each were 40 cents. She has, you know, a pen sion of $2,000 a year from the Government, and though General Logan did not leave a large amount of money, still his widow is by no means in want, and she lives very nicely here. One of the finest houses of the Capital is now being built on the corner of Six teenth and K. streets and the widow of Sen ator Zach Chandler is the bnilder. Mrs. Chandler is the mother-in-law of Senator Eugene Hale and it is probable that the Senator and his wile will live with her when her mansion is completed. The ground upon which this house is being built cost ?5 per square foot and the cost of the house I doubt not will rnn close to 5100,000. Zach Chandler, however, lelt a fortune, and his widow was a millionaire. The' most of the money that Eugene Hale owns comes from his wife, and the family is as well off as could be desired. I was talk ing one day with one of the millionaire Sen ators, and he told me that when a man had 540,000 a year it did not make much differ ence whether he had any more or not. I doubt not that Mrs. Zach Chandler is in this condition. A million at 4 percent will, you know, bring in 540,000. KATE CHASE SPEAGTJE. Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague is a widow in one sense if not in another. She was di vorced from her husband years ago and she has spent a good part of her life since then in Paris. During the past two years she has lived at Washington and she is nowre siding at Edgevood, the country seat which her lather bought some time before his death. She promises to make a lot of money out of this estate. The city is grow ing out toward it. A part of it has been divided up into lots and it has quadrupled in value within the past three years. Kate Chase is just as bright now as she was when she presided over her father's mansion here lit Washington, and she ex hibits the same qualities to-day that made Mrs. Chandler's Colonial Palace. her so famous then. It was for her, I am told, that her father anxiously desired that he might be President of the United States. She had the qualities which would have made her a more remarkable mistress of the White House than any this country has ever had, and her father would have made a magnificent President Mrs. Sprague is a woman of fine literary ability, and I un derstand that she is now engaged in writing a life of her father. She has her father's diary containing his memoranda which he jotted down every night before he went to bed, and she has Drivate correspondence and letters which contain a great amount of unwritten history. She is working very careiully and very slowly on the work, and she verifies all her statements as she goes along. Mrs. Chase has her children with her at Washington. Ethel Chase Sprague is one of the noted horsewomen of the Cap ital, and she is a very bright society belle. She has a taste for the stage, and, like her two sisters, is possessed of more than or dinary intellectual ability. A NOTED ADJIIEAIS WIDOW. Madeline Vinton Dahlgren, the widow of Admiral Dahlgren, spends her winters in Washington. She has built a fine house here on a wedge of ground facing Thomas Circle. She planned the house herself, and its interior is filled with curious ideas in architecture. Her library has a floor of a spider's web made of wood inlaid with dif ferent colors, and Mrs. Dahlgren once told me that this web was meant to indicate that the pursuit of knowledge should be without end and should go on as long as life lasts. It made me think of my girlhood poetry: Bound as this ring that has no end, bo is my love to you, my friend. It is the same in the curious tiling of the library fireplace. "The passion flower," said she, "represents the love which one should have for learning," and other curi ous conceits I found in the ceiling, the ar rangement of the books and in the hanging of the fine old paintings which looked down upon me from the wall's. Mrs. Dahlgren is another literary widow. She has written a number of novels and some books of a more solid nature. She is very earnest in her Catholic faith, and in her library there has been made a little alcove containing a statue of the Virgin. The light which comes into this alcove shines through a stained glass window and the interior is madeiu the shape of a heart A lace curtain separates the alcove Irom the rest of the library, and it is here thut Mrs. Dahlgren says her prayers. She is a very kind-hearted lady, is not ostentatious or snobbish, and, though she has seen many years, she knows no lack of mental or.phys leal vigor. WIDOWS OP COX AND BANDALT The widow of Sunset Cos owns several houses at Washington. One of these was built after Mr. Cox returned from Turkey, and it has rooms fitted out after the Turkish or Moorish style of architecture. The frieze of one room is a text from the Koran and the portiers are richly embroidered curtains from Mohammedan mosques. The house is worth, I judge, abofttS30,000, and is one of the most comfortable homes of Washington. Mrs. Cox also owns a house in New York, and she has spent most of the winter in that city. She is, I am told, engaged in writing a biography of her hnsband, and she pos sesses remarkably literary taste. Her hus band reterred many things to her, and she was, like Mrs. General Logan, one of the most valuable wives that a statesman ever had. She kept all kinds of worries away from Sunset Cox and it was through her aid that he was able to accomplish such a great life's work. She traveled with Mr. Cox'wherever he went, and I have in my possession a picture of herself and husband taken by the midnight sun in Norway. Mrs. Cox was originally very well-to-do. Her husband made a great deal out of his books, and be was a success as a lawyer. During the latter part of his life he made some good investments and his estate was quite large. Sam Randall lett next to nothing, and bis estate all-told will probably not foot up $23,000. He was not a money-maker, not a money-lover, and I might also say that he was not much of a money-spenSer. The little house which ha owned here af Wash ington is not worth over 56,000, and I am not sore, but I thinkhis country place near Philadelphia was a rented one. Mrs. Bandall's daughter Annie married young lawyer of Washington, and though it ii act THE settled, it is probable that Mrs. Bandall will spend much of her time here. OTHER NOTED WIDOWS. Mrs. Mollie Garfield-Brown has bought a lot on Kalorama Heights, and I am told that she will erect a fine house upon it It is reported here that Mrs. Garfield will then come to Washington to live with her daughter, and she will certainlj; spend many of her winters here. She is well-to-do through the fund raised for her at the time of General Garfield's death, and she ha her 55,000 a year as a President's widow. Mis. General Grant did think of buying a house in Washington, nnd there was a Drospect last fall that she would buv the house which Edwin M. Stanton used to own facing Franklin square. She concluded to wait fora year or so, however, and she has re mained during the most of the winter at her New York house. Mrs. Stanley Matthews spent part of the winter here this year, and Mrs. Dahlgi en's Picturesque Rome. her big house is offered for sale for some thing less than 5100,000. Mrs. Waite has also been here this winter, and there are a number of other noted widows who spend a part of every winter at Washington. A number of wealthy widows either live in Washington or spend apart of every win ter here. Mrs. Harriet Hubbard Aver, who bar made millions out of patent medicines, occasionally visits Washington, and she al ways has several fortuues in diamonds in her trnnk. Mrs. Frank Leslie is now and then seen at a White House reception with diamonds in her ears as big as hazel nuts,and Mrs. Alexander Bay is another millionaire widow who lives here. Mrs. Hutchinson, the wife of the man who made so much money in selling sealskin, has a residence at the Capital. Mrs. Walsh.formerly of St. Louis, spends many of her winters in Wash ington. She is worth at least a quarter of a million and has a good income. She is the daughter of ex-Governor Shannon, of Ohio, who was once Minister to Mexico, and she was years ago one of the belles of the West The Duko Alexis paid her considerable at tention when he was in this country and he called her one of the most beautiful women of America. Miss Gbundy, Jb, Cholera Infantum. This disease is always dangerous, but not necessarily fatal. With proper care and treatment not more than 1 case in 100 wonld prove fatal. Mr. A. W. Walter, the post master at Waltersburg, III., tells how he cured his baby of a severe attack of the dis ease. He says: "About two years ago our baby boy was taken with a severe attack of cholera in fantum. As we kept a variety of standard remedies at hand, we at once began giving them, which we had often used with good success, but in spite of everything we could do, the little fellow grew worse. The case was a bad one. He had now got so weak that he lay limp and pale, almost motion less. He seemed almost beyond the aid of hnman hands, or reach of medicines; but there was n new medicine, just introduced here, called Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhea Keraedy. We concluded to try it, and to our happy surprise, we could see the good effect after the first dose, and before one-fourth of the small bottle had been given, he was up and well. We have also used it for the bloody flux, with the best results. The Bemedy has gained a high reputation here from the start It is a medicine of superior merits." For sale at 25 cents a bottle by E. G. Stucky, 1701 and 2401 Penn ave.; E. G. Stuoky & Co., cor. Wylie ave. and Ful ton st; Markell Bros. cor. Penn and Frankstown aves.; Tbeo. . Ihrig, 3610 Fifth ave.; Carl Hartwig, 4016 Butler st; John O. Smith, cor. Penn ave. and Main st; Jas. L. McConnel & Co., 455 Fifth ave., Pittsburg; and in Allegheny by E. E. Heck, 72 and 194 Federal st.; Thos. E. Morris, cor. Hanover and Preble aves.; F. H. Ezgers, 172 Ohio st, F. H. 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A Dispatch Staff Correspondent Helps Do the Flunkey Act FOE THE PBINCE OF WALES' PARTI Impressions of a Close Yiew at the Opening of Yauxhall Park. ENGLISHMEN L01AL TO THE THR0HB ITBOM A STAST COBBESPOKDEXT.l Lojtdojt, July 19. It is singnlar that an American citizen should be acting on a committee to receive the Prince of Wales on the occasion of tho latter opening a park in England. I bad the honor to be in that position on the 7th Inst, and I doubt if the circumstance has a precedent It does seem bold and not a little amusing for a foreigner to take part in the reception ceremonies in honor of a future King in the latter's own dominions, and particularly when the busi ness is the handing over of a public park to the people. I will not readily forget the event, and there were so many interesting features in it from a stranger's point of view that a few words regarding it will no doubt be read with great interest by Ameri can newspaper readers. How did I get on that committee? Well, I'll explain. Like all visitors from America I had a very great curiosity to see how roy altyreal live princes and princesses and not only to see them, but to be as near as possible to them so as to determine whether they were to all appearances made up of the same kind of flesh and blood as ordinary mortals. There was to be a public park opened in South Lambeth by the Prince of Wales, assisted by the Princess of Wales, Princess Louise, the Duke of Edin burgh, the Prince's brother, the Archbishop of Canterbury and others. To be one of the committee to receive this distin guished party was to get Into close company with every member of it. American news paper tuition soon enabled me to accom plish what I wanted. A friend of mine was on the committee and I secured his ticket and badge. I sallied forth, dis played the ticket and badge at the park gate long before opening time and was ad mitted without any questions whatever. Beally the committee men did not know each other, as they had been selected, and it seemed to me at once that many ot them were just as much strangers to each other as I iras to all of them. This being so I made bold to put myself on equal terms with all and was soon ordering intruders to keep off the grass. ANY AMOUNT OF HUMBUG. It was Vanxhall Park that was opened. It is right in the center of a working popu lation and in the parliamentary district that was represented by General Davis who eloped with a barmaid some time ago. The residence in the center of the park was the residence of the late Professor Fawcett, the blind statesman and economist whose daughter is just now causing a sensation in England by her extraordinary achievements at Oxford University and who was pre sented to the Prince and Princess of Wales at the park. The park is in memory of the late statesman, and is a beautiful little place. Americans who have never been outside the limits of the territory of the Stars and Stripes have little idea of the pomp, pageantry, and I may add flunkey ism of a publio event in which royalty fig ures. On such like occasions there is more humbug to the square foot than will be found throughout the entire length and breadth of the United States. Everybody turns out to see the Prince, from the indolent aristocrat behind his prancing steeds down to the poor and strug gling costermonger. And the wildest en thusiasm prevails. Well, we committee men representing the workingmen of the Kenssington district were ordered in line about 30 minutes before the royal personages arrived. There was a tree to plant and in troductions to be made. The committee was placed on either side of the spot where these ceremonies were to take place, so that I had an excellent view of the Anglo-German representatives of royalty. But long be lore the royal party arrived all the roads and streets were packed with people who had no admission tickets to the park. The crowds were kept from the middle of the streets by scores of mounted police and hundreds of police constables, and although the weather was damp and cold, everybody seemed to be in good humor, except an old man who stood next me, who conldn't get his pipe to smoke in good style. He cursed the royal family from the old Queen down to the meanest menial in the royal establishment. Military companies were scattered all over the park", bands were playing "God Save the Queen" and "God Bless the Prince of Wales," and school children were singing "The Boys and Girls of England." Still the wait became weary. COMMOTION CAUSES BT TEE AKEIVAL. Finally a faint cheer was heard in the ad jacent streets, and presently the Dake of Edinburgh and the Princess Louise.brother and sister of the Prince of Wales, arrived and were formally instructed as to their part of the performance, which was to hand over some keys to the Prince of Wales when he landed on the scene. A few minutes after the Duke's carriage had arrived a tremend ous cheer was heard outside the park. An old gentleman who might have been a mil lionaire, and whose loyalty was extreme, came rushing up the drive from the park gate, making heroic struggles, for lack cf breath, to say "the Prince is comiug." The Prince, Princess and their daughters, Princess Victoria and Princess Maud, ar rived sure enough, and there was a tremend ous noise. An outrider preceded the royal carriage, and the latter was drawn by four noble horses. The occupants of the blooded vehicle alighted and walked past the com mittee. Everybody was bowing and bend ing as if in the midst of a fatal attack of "grippe." The Prince wore a dark over coat and gray trousers, and his face was jnst as simple and innocent-looking as it al ways was. , He was . all smiles and in " some respects reminded one of the Mr. Dick that Dickens has im mortalized. However, while not givingevi dence of deep philosophio thought, he left no doubt of the fact that he would be a jolly good fellow when ont with the boys, and quite a happy and genial mark for the Washington, D. O , poker players.; WHAT THE PBINCE I3GOOD FOB. Doubtless the mission of the Prince of Wales on earth is not to think, but to attend race meetings, open public .parks and lay corner stones of churches. In appearance and intellect ho is thoroughly fitted to fulfill his mission. The cares of state mav lie heavily on- his mind, but only when he gets into his frequent financial difficulties by backing losers at the races. The Princess is a charming lady and carries her vcars so well that she could pass as a sister to her daughters. They were all dressed in a very quiet way, indeed; almost every lady on the grounds displayed much more gaiety in dress than the Princesses. The latter were very plainly attired. When the Prince's carriage had driven to one side, the Arch bishop of Canterbury arrived and the entire party was complete. There was a touching little incident next A little girl abont 8 years old, attired in white, presented a bouquet of wild flowers to the Prince of Wales. Nature's little Princess did her part well, and it was a question whether looks or those of the heir apparent to the British throne were the simpler. Then came the tree planting and Albert Edward got down to his work in magnificent style. Of course, he had no such things as picks and shovels to use. The whole was already mado and the little tree ready to drop in. Aided by a park at tendant, this laborions task was soon ac complished, that is the little sapling was put in the hole and the park employes pressed some soil down at the roots and it was "planted." It will be called the 7yi''Prinoe,a Oak," and may in futuio jean. SUNDAY, JULY 27, afford shelter to many of Albert Edward's subjects, who haven't the price to get into the neighboring saloon bar. Miss Pawcett, daughter of the late Prof. Fawcett, and Miss Octavia Hill, were then introduced, or presented as they term it, to the Prince and Princess ot Wales. Miss Pawcett is really a remarkable young lady, as she has beaten all the male students by far in Oxford Uni versity. The entire ceremony ot the open ing was soon over. The parly ascended a platform and after exchanging a few words the affair become a matter of history. Tha carriages were speedily out of the grounds and the wildest scenes followed on the streets. LOYAL TO BOYAITT. There was ono leading feature of the pro ceedings regarding which I must say a few words; indeed, it is mostly because of this feature that I have referred to the event at all. Time and time again wo are told in America that England is fast drifting tow ard a republican form of government, and many writers and sneakers go so far as to say that the Prince of Wales will never be King even though he outlives his mother. Now nothing could be more erroneous and misleading than notions of this kind. There is not the slightest evidence to lead any in telligent man to such a conclusion. I am not saying that the English form of govern ment is good, bad or indifferent, nor am I saying that some other form of government is the superior of the English form; but, whatever it is, depend upon it the English people are loyal to royalty. The park I have relerred to is for working people, chiefly, and it was bv working peo ple that the Prince ot Wales was sur rounded at the opening. Representatives of workingmen's clubs lined the park path ways and these representatives were stand ing puffing away at their common clay pipes. The dress of these men left no doubt as to their dally struggles to make ends meet and certain it is that many of tbem in the, various pnblic drinking par lors have often denounced the entire tribe of royalty, but here these were as loyal as the footman and butler that dance attendance around their master. The cheers of the crowd were of such a nature as left no doubt of the crowd's loyalty. Oh, yes. Albert Edward, if he lives, will be King, and so will his son. The truth is, there is no sign whatever that anything like a portion of the Queen's subjects worthy of notice want monarchy abolished. On the committee I have already relerred to there were many bona fide representatives of the working people of this very populous district of Lon don. I had a conversation with one on the subject I am now dealing with. He said: THEY'RE eaening THEIE salabies. "Sirj I am a thorough-going radical, and so are we all on this committee, but we are not for abolishing monarchy. The royal family costs us a great amount of money, but tbey do us no harm, sir. All that we want is the old Queen to come off the throne and take a rest, and give the Prince a chance. He is doing all the work and she is doing nothing at all. The Prince is work ing hard, sir. He has two or three publio engagements every day, such as laying foundation stones and opening public build ings and parks. He is quite willing to carry out these engagements, and they must keep him busy." Another member ot tne committee alter the proceedings were over and I had de clared myself, said; "Well, I know that thousands of Americans are led to believe that the English working classes want mon archy done away with. There is no truth in that. Of course we have many faults to find with our system of government, but in finding fault we do not mean to have our system absolutely changed. I think we have a better system of government than the United States. Onr lawmakers cer tainly represent the opinions of the people better than do the lawmakers in America. Practically we have manhood suffrage, and on all important qnestions the voice of the people decides. Our members of Parliament do not cost the nation a penny except when the members are State officials. This is not the case in America." I reminded the speaker of the declarations of such members of Parliament as Cunning ham, Graham and Conybeare regarding monarchy and he said: SATS IT'S ALL TALK. "Take my word for it that neither Gra ham or Conybeare, Hyndman or Burns 'speak the sentiment of the rank and file of the English working people on questions of socialism and monarchy. If the question of monarchy or no monarchy were being voted on in the House of Commons to-morrow, I don't think that there wonld be ten votes for the latter. Even such men as Charles Bradlaugb, who believe in are public, admit that England does not want that form of government, and he declares that he would not vote for the abolition of monarchy here were a bill on the question introduced. In short, he claims that the English people do not want monarchy abol ished, and until they do it is useless and unsaie to agitate the question. This is the view of all sensible radicals. As long as the people are content to pay the big sal aries to the royal family the latter will stay, and I really believe that if their pay was stopped to-morrow the country would not be a penny better off financially. "One great reason why the present royal family is popular with the masses, is the fact that the Queen never interferes with legislation. She draws 360,000 a year and says nothing, and she is wise. She has been a great woman, not because the good she has done, bntbeoause of the harm she has not done. Well, then, if the Prince of Wales takes the throne and follows his mother's example he will be all right, and so will the next Prince of Wales. However, as soon as royalty comes in direct contact with the people, the former will be knocked out You may certainly and truthfully state to the American people that there is no indi cation whatever of a republic being formed in England during the next 50 years at least" I find that the opinions of the gentleman just quoted prevail generally among radi cals. I am also reliably informed that in several large cities republican societies have collapsed because of lack of support The truth is the Britishers are not inclined to knock the old throne over yet. John D. Pbinglb. Gold filled Elgin watches, warranted, 20. M. G. Cohen, 533 Smithfield st. New Patent From O. D. Levis, solicitor of patents, office No. 131 Fifth avenue, next door to Evening Leader building: John C. Beck feld, Allegheny, gas engine; per T. Berg, Braddock, Pa., apparatus for charging furnaces; David Carlin, Pittsburg, sand core making machine; W. S. Colwell, Pitts burg, Pa., triple thermic motor; Junius Kennedy, Latrobe, Pa., "tire rolling ma chine"; George W. Langdon, Mercer, Pa., "bread cutter"; Thomas Midgly, Beaver Falls, Pa., wire cable; Thomas S. Minniss, Meadville, Pa., "combined head rest and cane',; BIchard Mooney, Sharon, Pa., "whee;" Adam Simon, Pitfibnrg, "nut lock"; George Westlnghouse, Jr., Pittsburg, brake cylinder head; John G. Lyon, Pitts burg, inkstand cores. United States and all foreign patents procured; over 20 years in me jjaicuk uusiness exclusively. No Oilier Eqnnl so Chamberlain'. During the summer of 1883 1 used three 25 cent bottles of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhea Bemedy in my fam ily in eases of the flax with much success, and cheerfully recommend that every fam ily keep it in their house, as I believe there is no other preparation that will equal it. T. M. Modglin, J, P., Alien Springs, Pope Co., Illinois. wsu Spring; Style. The largest stock of vestings, suitings and tronserings at Pitcairn's, 434 Wood st sn Special bargains throughout onr entire dress goods department this week. ttssu Huous & Hacks. Pube beer is refreshing and stimulating. Wainwright's leads in publio tavor. -Order by postal or telephone 5525. RwnTAT.rY dress trimmings. Eimrnrn Ss Wilds, 710 Pinnate., pittabnrg. 1890. v- QUITE A MENAGERIE. John Barleycorn's Show Has lots of Things Besides Snakes. SCENES AT THE MERCY HOSPITAL. One Fellow Sees Little Scotchmen Dancing the Highland Fling. BULLS AHD TDEKEIS IN STEAW HATS rWBtTinr TOB THB DUTJl.TCB.'I "Head them bulls. Holy Mosesl Some body head them bulls, quick." Little Joe, the drover, shonted this frantic appeal at the top of his voice, as he ran like a quarter horse through the corridor in the private ward on the fourth floor of the old Mercy hospital building. A drove of Texas steers was after him and he was flying for his life. Texas steers on the fourth floor of an hos pital? No, not exactly. The bulls were in Joe's mind, but he saw them all right enough. He had just developed a fine, large case of the jim-jams and his delusion took a business turn with the drover being driven instead of driving. Nobody bothered much about the bulls but Joseph was soon cor raled and quartered in a strong room where the cattle couldn't catch him. This inci dent, taken from real life, is used in this sketch of some ot the curiosities of alcohol ism to illustrate the fact that there are more things than snakes in John Barleycorn's menagerie. It may be as well to have it understood along toward the beginning of this yarn that what I will have to say will have no bearing on free-for-all cases of delirium tremens, occurring in saloons, police sta tions, the streets, or private residences. The cases that I will refer to are those which occur under rnle and while the victims are undergoing treatment according to one or the other of the schools of medicine, or in consonance with the theories of specialists, who say they can', but who never do cure alcoholism. SPEAKS FEOM THE BOOK. This is net hearsay business with me, un fortunately. I've been there, and have stayed until the cows came home, with all the schools and all the specialists so far as we have them in this country. My ex perience is that any of the schools or any of the specialists is quite as likely as not to have developed on its hands at any time as pictnresque a case of mania as any of the slums could produce. Almost everything depends upon the person afflicted. There is probably no ill that flesh is heir to the conquering of which is so much dependent on nerve as that of alco holism in its acute stages and for that mat ter in its primary stages also. If a man have the will power to prevent himself from giving way to the slight illusions which usually mark the incipiency of the D. T.'s, he will probably pull through without losing his head. A case in point just occurs to me. A friend of mine, a brilliant man, periodically flings his books to the dogs and starts in to drink up a distillery. When be is patron izing barleycorn he is one of those fellows who drinkfbetween drinks, and so it doesn't take him long to accumulate a cargo. When he can drink no more he goes to sleep, and when he wakes he loads np again. He keeps np this sort of thing nntil his friends capture him and leave him on deposit in one of the hospitals. While the frenzy is on him a quart of whisky a day would scarcely deaden his cravings. To come down suddenly to the hospital limit puts a terrible strain on his- nerves how terrible no one knows who has not suffered the tor tureyet he has never had the delirium tre mens. He is a man of delicate physique, but he has an iron nerve. HE SEES DANCING SCOTCHMEN. Shadows don't frighten him, but be in variably goes off his bead just so far, when he begins to rally and soon manages to get the whip-hand of his troubles. He sees things, and what he sees is always the same. Talking about his fights against the mania he says: "As soon as I see my little Scotch men I know that I've reached the limit, and that to be safe I must go to sleep at once." "Do you ever see anything but little Scotchmen?" the writer asked him. "No; I never see anything else. They're funny little roosters, too, and they are al ways the same. Thev're about as big as a quart measure, and they wear knee-breeches and little red caps. When they call on me they always take possession of the foot of the bed, and dance the Highland fling in a style that would make your heart ache. I enjoy it at first for a little while, until I realize just what kind of a show has dropped in on me. Then I howl for whisky and an opiate, and the Sisters give me both right away when they find out the little Scotchmen are around. I drop off to sleep, and my friends take a vacation until I break out again. But, I tell you, it is almost worth the neces sary preparation to see how those little fel lows can dance." HE DBINKS GOOD WHISKY, TOO. Now, this friend always drinks the best whisky he can buy, as do many others of my acquaintance, yet they all "get there" once in a while just the same as the fellows whose tipple feels like a torchlight proces sion to a man who isn't copper-lined. Of this latter class I have seen a grest many suffering with mania, but I never saw but one man who was frightened by the delusion that he was pursued by snakes. One poor fellow whom I think of now, aud whose death while in delirium I witnessed in a city police station, was always, when in that sad condition, annoyed by an endless procession of turkeys. He wonld insist that the birds persisted in marching past him with straw hats on to tantalize him be cause he had a prejudice against straw hats. "I don't care about the turkeys,'' he would cry, "but I'm not going to have them sailing past me with straw hats on. Mnke 'em take them off." It was easy to pacify him, however. It was only necessary to go through the mo tions ot stripping the birds of the objection able headgear to quiet him nntil he imag ined that he saw a second edition of the parade passing in review. STOLEN FBUITS THE SWEETEST. There is one characteristic common to all dipsomaniacs. Everv mother's son of tbem has a passion for contraband whisky. That general statement embraces myself, of course, as I intended it should. For the benefit of the unsophisticated reader an ex planation of what is meant by contraband whisky will not be amiss. Briefly, it is the liquor" that inebriates contrive to have smuggled into them while they are sobering up in institutions which receive such pa tients. This craving for stolen fruit is just as strongly manifested by the patients who have voluntarily put themselves under re straint us bv those who. against their own inclinations, have been isolated by their friends. One of the first things that a dip Bomaniao does after he is lauded in a hos pital is to hunt up the other fellows who are tarred with the same stick and can vas the prospect for getting in some of the "old stuff" unknown to the authorities. Sharp as these officials are, and experience has put them up to more tricks than I can think of, they are frequently outgeneraled and the whisky is secured. In a great ma jority of instances the fact that an unusual supply of tanglefoot is on hand is discovered occasionally in time to unearth the empty bottle. Two minutes after the arrival of the contraband a stomach pump would be required to find it As a punishment when contraband is found the regular supply is shut off. Then the hair begins to pull and a fellow's mouth feels as if he had been eating sand.. Under such circumstances the inebriates will drink anything, though water is always the last resort CATSUP TOB THE NEBTE3. I recall vividly a night in a city hospital .-when our lapjllM had been out off, and.wa. drank several bottles of catsup for the cay enne pepper that was in the condiment It didn't cut much of a figure as a substitute for whisky, but it helped a little to fill the aching void, but it is not to be recommended .in large doses even as a palliative because the alter efiects are decidedly more vociier ons than halcyon. In that same hospital on another occasion one of the boys helped himself to a dose that was worse than tha catsup in its immediate effect, though the final result was more satisfactory. The vic tim was a bright young Pittsbnrger, who was too fond of conviviality while here.'bnt who is now doing well in San Francisco, where he is keeping as straight as a yard of pump water. In his cups he was bois terous, and his hospital terms usually began in the barred room commonly called the cell or brig. This time he arrived at night to find an other delinquent ahead of him in the cell. The first prisoner had thrown himself on the bed dressed jnst as he was when cap tured bv Officer David Hanna, who took him in the act of drinking the punch that he fled from the hospital to procure. It was intended to punish him by several days' close confinement, and so his toilet articles had been brought from his room to the brig. When the second man arrived the punch was getting in its work and No. 1 was asleep. That nap was rudely disturbed. Of a sudden pandemonium appeared to have broken loose in that cell. A yell that rattled the foundation stones brought the sleeper in a single jump irom the bed to the middle of the floor. Battling the bars of the iron door the second fellow stood. Be tween yells he spat out large moutbfuls of a milky 'substance, and at each expectoration he seemed to become wilder. A DOSE OF CA3IPH0BATED CHALK. "Hurry, Sister, hurry," he cried. "I'm poisoned. I'm spitting'up my stomach." In less time than it takes to tell it several Sisters and a couple of orderlies were in the cell. "What have yon taken?" they asked In some alarm. "Oh, what's in that bottle over there on the table?" weakly asked the frightened man. "That's camphorated chalk, my tooth powder," his fellow prisoner replied. "That's what ails me. I thought it was seltzer aperient and I took a terrible big dose of it When I found it was not aperient and I began to spit chalk I thought I was poisoned and it scared the life ont of me." Everyone felt relieved, the prisoners were each given a bracer, and white-winged peace took possession of the premises until morning. The sad side ot this subject I have no in tention of touching npon at this time. Few readers will be entirely innocent of the hor rors attendant upon the habit which grows into the disease, alcoholism. It is now recognized as a disease, and physicians are beginning to treat it as sneh. "Well, as a disease isn't it curable?" yon ass:. "I answer yes," but not by medicine. There is but one remedy for any one who has ever been a drunkard. "And that is?" "Total abstinence." DlDlllUS. FOUR PER CENJ DIVIDEND DECLARED BY THE WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY. Tho First Seml-Annual Payment on the Capital Stack Dae on the 1st af Sep tember An Eastern Director oa tlie Board for tho First Time. A special meeting of the Westinghonse Electric Company was held yesterday iu the offices of the company to consider the advisability of paying a dividend. It was decided to pay a dividend of 4 percent on the capital stock, payable on the 1st of September. An addition to the Board of Directors was made in the person of N. W. Bumstead, of Boston. This is the first tlma that a non-resident of this city has been elected to the board. The other directors included George Westinghonse, Jr. Presi dent; Robert Pitcairn, George Herbert, John K. McGinley. H. C. Jackson, S. F. Kobbe, and H. C. Gordon. The following resolutions were passed: Resolved, That, from the net earnings of tha company a semi-annual dividend of four per cent upon tho capital stock be and the same Is hereby declared payaDle September 1, 1890. In scrip nf the company to the stockholders of record July 31, 1893: the said scrip to ba pava ble September 1, 1900; to be redeemable after GO days' notice on the first days of March and September in any year prior to the date of ma turity, at the option of the company: or to be convertible Into the stock of the company at par at the option of the holder; certificates to bear interest at the rate of 6 per cent per an num, payable semi-annually on the first days of March and September to holders of reeord; certificates to be convertiblo into the stock ot the company only when presented in sums of $00 or in multiples thereof; and to be transfer able on the books ot the company only In per son or by attorney. Resolved, That the President and Treasurer of the company be and tbey are hereby author ized to prepare tho proper form of tno scrip herein provided for, and to execute and deliver the same: that notice hereof be sent to each stockholder, and that the transfer books be closed July 81 and August L Resolved, "In view of the suggestion made by many stockholders that tho time Is too lim ited within which the privilege of subscription to tha new stock may be exercised: that the right of stockholders ot record July 8 to sub scribe for one-half of a share for each share of stock held by them respectively on that date bo and the same is hereby extended from Au gust 1 to August 20; and that the time for pay ments to be made for the stock bo extended to the 20th davs of August, September, October and November; and that notice of this exten sion or time be mailed to each stockholder." In tho circular Issued to the stockholders under date of June 4. tho management stated: "In view of tha large Increase in the company's bnsiness, and the need for more capital, the management deem it expedient to defer action with reference to a dividend until after the stockholders' meeting to be held Jnly 8"; and tne action yesterday was in accord ance with this understanding. It is understood that the form of dividend decided upon is the result ot a conference between the officials of the company and large stockholders in the East, who have a very full appreciation of the magnitude of the electric business and the necessity for using, for the present, all cf tho earnings of the company in the extension of the business. They, however, felt that they were entitled to a continuation of the divi dends, which they recommended should be In the form ot scrip. DIVIDEND PAVING STOCK For Careful Investors. An incorporated manufacturing company with a complete new works in operation making a special line of goods.without com petition has concluded to increase its cap ital stock from $75,000 to S125.000 in order to double its products. The goods made are sold on short time at a large profit, and out put oi tho works can be doubled with in creased capital provided. The managers are good business men, and their experience justifies the assertion that quarterly divi dends can be paid from the earnings of the company equal to, if not greater, than any Pittsburg corporation is now paying. The 50,000 of new stock may be subscribed for in lota from five shares upward, but an active man with capital to take the entire block or a greater portion of it, to whom good position will be giveu, is preferred as a buyer. Full opportunities for an investi gation may be had at this office. Chables Somebs & Co., Telephone 1773. 313 Wood street Special Bargains for Summer. One lot ladies' striped waists at 69 cti; 15 fine garnet surah silk waists $4 33 each, wor ih g6 75, at Bosenbanm & Co.'s. AMUSEMJiOTs. O X ROSS' GROVE. THUBSDAT, . Jnly 3L .BOAST! Trains Hourly. I REFRESHMENTS FREE. ADUIHblOX.SI. Lady and Gent JJ27-VJ3 GUENTHEK'S ORCHESTRA Furnishes Hosic tor Concerts, Weddings, Receptions, Ac Lessons on Flute and Piano given by PROF. QUENtiter. m Fifth are., and Bis. sell block, room Hi tp&ao. lJ NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ALLEGHENY, TWO DAYS ONLY, MONDAY ADTrjE8DAr,JTJLY23ANDa; EXPOSITION PARK, BARNUM&"BAILEY'S IMRE ICIRALFY'S NERO, OR THE DESTRUCTION OF ROME. MONSTER STAGE. 450 FEET LONG. MAMMOTH TENT 550 FEET LONG. THREE 42 FEET CIRCUS RINGS. TWO CO FEET ELEVATED STAGES. OLYMPIA HALF MILE HIPPODROMfl TRACK. 2 MENAGERIE TENTS, 300 FJ2ETLONG. MUSEUMS, BLACK ART. ILLUSIONS, TRAINED MENAGERIE, 500 Actors, 300 Performers, 400 Dancers. L200 People In tlie Ferformances. IMRE KIRALFY'S NERO, OR THE DESTRUCTION OF ROME, The Most Magnificent Spectacle on Earth. Dancing Girls. Priests, Soothsayers, Gladiators, Soldicrs,N obIes.Senators.W.irriors. etcetc. DARING CHARIOT RACES. STANDINO RACES AND ROMAN COMBATS. FIGHTING ON FOOT AND HORSEBACK. GRAND REALISTIC ROMAN TABLEAUX. Actually 1,200 People on a Stage 400 feet long. Just as it was presented before THE ROYAL FAMILY OF GREAT BRITAIN. The Finest Scenery and Costumes oa Earth. Clowns, Aeriallsts, Specialists, Japanese Acrobats, Atnietes, eports, uames. con tests. Rivalries, Pastimes and Feats, Circus, Hippodrome, Menageries, Museums. Aquarium. Two Monster Performances Daily, at 2 and 8 P. v. Doors open an hoar earlier. Admission to All 50 Cents. Children Under 9 Years. 25 Cents. GREAT NEW STREET PARADE, With a mils of costly object?, rain or shine, at 9 A. is. on day ot show. Route as follows: South ave. to Allegheny ave.. to Western ave., to Ohio St., to Federal St., across bridge to Liberty St., to Smithfield t., to Water St., to Wood St., to Third ave.. to Market st, to Sixth St., across bridge to Rob inson St., to Anderson St., to Chnrch ave.. to Union ave., to Ohio St., to Federal St., to Lo coes: st, to Exposition Grounds. Reserved numbered seats for sale at the reg. nlar price, and admission tickets at the usual slight advance at A. WEILER'S R.R. TICKET OFFICE. 67 Fifth avenue. Cheap popular excursions on all railroads. jyie-63-WFSu HARRIS'JTHEATER. Week Commencing Monday, July 26V Every Afternoon and Evening. INIGO TTERELL AUD HIS Pleasing Dramatic Company, In the Famous Romantic Drama, THE OCTOROON. New Scenery, Startling Mechanical Effect and a Double Quartet of Jubilee SIngera Week August 5 Inlgo Tyrrell In "The Tlotet. of-Leave-Man." Jy27-3 A Census numerator's Story. After a careful investigation and a rigid cross-examination among the best dressed men. of Pittsburg, I submit the follow ing questions and answers to the Supervisor of thb Census. Question 'Where have yon been buying your clothing pre viously? Answer At high-priced tailors, factory shop tailors and ready-made clothing stores. Question Did they all give general satisfaction? . Answer They did not. The first-class tailors overcharged me; the cheap tailors gave me poor quality and bad trim mings, and the ready-made stuff never held their proper shape. Question Well, what course have you pursued ? Answer I made a bee-liae for the Misfit Clothing Parlors, at 516 Smithfield street, and bought a genuine merchant tailor-made suit for ONE HALF of the original cost to make. They have given me entire satisfaction. $im,u0$18orfiu WiU Get a No. 1 Suit at the lSFiy CLOTHING PARLORS, 516 Smithfield St., Opposite City HalL 4 Jxftttn rJJ- " 'S M iS'l-i. k.ibs&raic&t'.. xt. 1 i &. 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