WBoasEa m r T nWOTKHWW . ?t "s"TTf ?T7fprT7fp TTf s&Mr? - T,r7SL" mwmmfw. o '' )? THE Mf -vi;a!TOpTin v i .-. .j. . -- .- . wi SECOND PART. PITTSBURG DISPATCH S. PAGES 9 TO 12. P - I i II I PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1890. IN THE OPEN SEASON Times When the Sportsman May Destroy With Bullet or Hook Birds, Beasts and Fishes. SOKE 8P0RTSMEN'S SUGGESTIONS. Argnmtnts in Furor of Shortening the Sea Eon for Some Game and Lengthening It for Other Kinds. QDHLUKCSUALLY PLENTY TDISIEAE. Toutj fheasants MsjgutradlEf In (he Mitket Woodcock. The 1st of September is the last day of grace for the frisky squirrel of eloquent tail, nnd in thii vicinity September 1 is regarded as the opening of the hunting season, though by law woodcock may be shot from July 4 to January 1, and plover from July 15 to January 1 in each year, and fish of one kind or other may be taken from April IS to Kay 1 in each year. Following are the times set by law for booking and shooting -f various kinds of game and fish: Birds Turkey, from October 15 to Janu nVy 1; ducks and geese, from September 1 to May 15; plover, lrom July 15 to January 1; woodcock, from July 1 to January 1; quail, from November 1 to December 15; pheas ants, lrom October 1 to January 1. Animals Deer and elk, from October 1 to December 15; squirrels, from September 1 to January 1; rabbits, from November 1 to January 1. Fish Brook or speckled tront,from April 15 to July 15; lake trout, from October 1 to January 1; black bass, pike, pickerel and salmon, from Junel to January 1; German carp, ircm September 1 to May 1. IX IDEAL BEING. As a rule, only the pot hunter in this vicinity cares to inaugurate the season be fore September 1. A few shoot woodcock and plover professedly, hnt others anything they can draw a bead upon, bnt they are not many, and from the testimony of some people in the Diamond market it would seem that a very radical revision of our State law is needed. The trne sportsman is an ideal being, bnt rarely met with in this country. He may he a stickler for laws to better others, but when he gets into the wilds he will catch trout regardless of law and never stop to heed the protests of the Naiads. He will shoot the squirrel at any time he can and never hear the protests of the Oreads; blaze away at deer, elk or hare, without fear of the Satyrs or the horned and goat footed Pan, and he accepts the ministra tions of the Zephyrs unthankfully, as they fan him while he is lying in wait to murder the squirrel as he looks for his evening meal. In fact the averace sportsman has about as much sentiment in his make-up as tbe van dal who destroys sylvan beauty for -present profit, though knowing that his descendants will suffer in consequence. SHORTENING THE SEASON. The finny tribe can stand more of this wanton destruction than any other class of game, as its fecundity is so great that it is difficult to pel ceptibly diminish its numbers, so long as streams are not poisoned or dams erected to prevent ascension at spawning time, bnt iu the case of leathered nnd quad rupedal game the situation is different and unless there is retorni some valuable kinds of small game will soon be extinct in this State as deer and elk are now virtually. Mr. Elmer Snaner suggests a remedy. Instead of having the season for woodcock open on July i, plover, July 15; turkey, Oc tober 15; qusil and rabbit November 1, and pheasants, deer and elk October 1, he would have the season for shooting all kinds of game begin September 1 and hold open un til January 1. There are good reasons for the change suggested. A hunter tor the market goes out say on July 4 to shoot woodcock, or on the 15th of the same month to shoot plover. He sees more chances to bring down young pheasants than if he were specially looking for them (any sportsman can testify that the game he jsn't looking for is always plentiest), and he is unable to resist the temptation to shoot them, especially if he be a hunter for the market, and thousands of young pheasants (ruffled grouse) are sold dressed in market for woodcock. SPORT FOB BOrS. In August the baby squirrel is unsophis ticated and a boy may, if a good thrower, kill him with ease. The hunter is not able to sell squirrels in market, but that will not always deter him from killing the young ones and having them served up for himself. Tney are more of a delicacy thau spring chicken. Now if no game could be sold be fore September 2, an immense waste would be stopped, and Mr. Shaner says the regula tion would please a vast number of real sportsmen who cherish more or less senti ment in connection with recreation. Another proposition is to amend the law so ns to make the sale of game at any season unlawful. It is argued that those who want to eat it would be forced to be come marksmen or depend on the bounty ot friends, and if forced to become marksmen they might be of use to the country when food for gunpowder may be needed. The victories of the American troops over the British in the devolution and in the war of 1812 were largely owing to tbe superiority of the Americans in the use of small arras. Then, too, the waste ot game is frightful. Many tons of it are sent to the dump annually, and there are no fish of consequence in the rivers to devour the offal. It is usually held at fancy prices until putrid, and thongh some people prefer it in this condition, the Healtb Bureau does not, and it is largely confiscated and is a sheer waste. MAKING A IEST OF 8KILL. It might, perhaps, be well to make lovers of game get it by an exhibition of skill somewhat similar to that the youthful Spartan was obliged to show in order to get Ins breakfast. Game would undoubtedly soon become plentier. Another proposition is frequently ad vanced, and it is to make it an offense to shoot squirrels with a shotgun. There are thousands of butchers who make the svlvan solitudes echo year after year with thefr No. 10 breech-loaders, who come home after a week's hunt with 100 squirrels or more, which they proudly exhibit as trophies ot skill. These guns scatter a rain of shot over three feet, and men who couldn'thit a stable door with a rifle are able to kill squirrels nnd coast of their prowess. Were these people lorced to shoot with rifles squirrels would soon be seen frisking in tbe picnic groves in the suburbs of cities, and the sight of them is worth more than the eatin". Quail and rabbits are unusualb plenty this year. The season for shooting the former being shortened to six weeks, may pave contributed somewhat, but the main reason is the mildness of last winter. Their enemies, sneb as foxes and weasels bad less power to harm, as they could not corral a covey under a snowdrift and slaughter them wholesale, and tbe abundant feed made them Tery prolifio in the breeding season. GAJIE AND POPULATION. 'Whether or no it be true, as some noliiirnl economists claim, that human population is I increased or returded according to the abundance or scarcity ot food, certain it Is that these conditions have ranch to do with the abundance or scarcity of qnail. The same holds good ns to the rabbits, or rather hares, with the further advantage that last winter the sneak-hunters could not track them in the snow and shoot them as thev sat in their forms. The hunters who used ferret auxiliaries had some success, but they could not locate their prey so well as they could with snow on the ground. Then the "rabbit" (hare) is so prolific that it is hard hard to exterminate under any circum stances. Qnail are so plenty in this county, and within sight of the city, that the call of the "Bob 'White" can be heard any clear day. They even came into a cucumber garden in Robinson township and almost destroyed the crop by scratching it ont while dusting themselves. It was somewhat provoking to the owner, bnt the birds seemed so guileless that he could not find it in his heart to shoot them, though allowed by law to do so, under Bach circumstances. The penalty lor ille gally shooting, catching or killing any bird, brute or fish, is a fine ranging from $5 to $50, but the majority oi pot hunters escape con viction. A BIG CHICAGO PLANT. PROJECT IMDER WAY FOR A SYSTEM OF BLAST FURNACES. Pltttbnrg and Yonneiown Men Form the Company Bolldlng to Commence at Onca Chicago Men Thoasht to be In v Wrested in II. Chicago, August 8. South Chicago is to have another industry added to the long list of enterprises located at that point dur ing the last eight month's. A system of blast furnaces which will rival that of the Illinois Steel Company will soon be in active operation on the opposite bank of the river. The Iroquois Furnace Company, consisting of Youngstown, O., and Pitts burg capitalists, has quietly pnrchased a 8100,000 site, drawn up the plans and secured permits for a building of equal value, and in a few days the contractors will have from 100 to 200 men at work on the buildings. The Chicago and Calumet Dock Company has sold Block No. 109, lying between Ninety-fifth street and the Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad, with a west frontage on the Calumet river, to S. Frank Eagle of Youngs town, O. Mr. Eagle will arrive in Chicago to-day. He represents Eastern capitalists, with whom a number of Chicago men are expected to co-operate. As yet no definite clew can be found to the identity of these Chicago investors, bnt the name of E. C. Potter is lreely connected with the enter prise. E. C. Potter was the Vice President of tbe Illinois Steel Company until the dis agreement in the management and the con sequent reorganization of tbe company last spring. The fact that he scarcely takes kindly to the new order of affairs and that his old interests were identified with the Calumet region gives color to the report. At his office last night a representative of Mr. Potter denied bis reported connection with the new enterprise and volunteered the infor mation tbat Mr. Potter was entirely igno rant of the existence of any such corpora tion. The plans of the part of the plant to be completed this summor have been drawn. They provide for one furnace and four stoves, with the necessary bnildines. A stock bouse is to be 'built along the river front, extending north and south; a casting house, 165x64 feet will extend east from this, and the necessary boiler and engine houses will be built on the north. Ihe-cito Ujl desirable one, as it lies within half a mile ot the Calufflct-narSor and will have dock privileges of such a nature that ore from the Lake Superior region can be transported directly from-Escanaba and lake points to the furnaces. TBTTTH CBTJSHED TO EABTE. It At Le A coin, nnd Convict Cschra.ii In Par doned br the Governor. Springfield, August 8. Governor Fi fer granted an immediate and unconditional pardon to John D. Cochran, who was con victed of murder at the November term, 1888, of the "Wabash county circuit court, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. There is not now the shadow of a doubt that Coch ran was innocent of tbe crime of which he was convicted and for which he has suffered for nearly two years. The name of his sup posed victim was John Buchenberger. This man came to Mouut Carmcl, 111., from Evansville, Ind., October 11, 1888. On the 15th he purchased a revolver with one round of cartrides, and on the 16th he was found in a dying condition in a lumber shed, the revolver which he had purchased the day betore lying under his leg with one chamber, empty. He had been shot through the roof of his mouth. Cochran, who had come to town looking for work, and who bad stoppad at the same hotel with Buchenberger, was suspected, tried and convicted, mainly on the testimony of one Charles Beese, who had served a term in the penitentiary for horse stealing. This man testified that Cochran admitted to him that he had murdered Buchen bercer for hia money. The defenne was that Bnchenberger had committed suicide. The day before he shot himself Buchenberger wrote a letter to bis wife and family nt Evansville telling them tbat when it reached them he would not be in the land of the living, bnt with his father in heaven; also telling them where his body could be found. It was afterward found at the place indica ted in tbe letter. The letter was written in German. Its genuineness is admitted by the prosecution, and it is also admitted that it was received by the family of Buchenber ger in due course of the mail. Strange as it may seem, the existence ot this letter which, with other facts, leaves no room to doubt that Cochran was innocent, was not known to the defense until alter the unfortunate maq had been convicted and sent to the pen itentiary. CONFIDENCE IS BEV1VIHQ. Argentine Un a New Cabinet and All U Now Serene There. Buenos Aybes, August 8. Dr. Pelle grini, the new President, has appointed the following Cabinet: General Boco, Interior; Eduarda Costa, Foreign Affairs; Guterriez Lastra, Education; General Levalle, "Wnr and Navy, Vlucente; Fidel Lopez, Finance. Per cct harmony prevails in the new Cabinet. Saenz Pena has been elected President of the National Bank. The lead ing citizens have waited upon President Pellegrini. Confidence is reviving. Gold is at 125. The banks are closed, but the bourse will reopen shortly. Exchanges are rising. Tbe election of Pellegrini to the Presi dency has caused popular rejoicing. The city is decorated and illuminated. A decree just promnlgated raises the state of siege and declares tbe liberty of tbe press. AH IMPOETED BEBPEKT. A Bon Constrictor ia n Los That Cnmo From n Demlnso. Lowell, MAbS., August 8 This after noon, as an employe of the Merrimac Croquet Company, at Ayres City, sawed through a large log of lignum vitas, which comes from San Domingo, a hollow place was discovered. He put in his hand and felt something more. He quickly withdrew it and informed tbe foreman. The two pro cured a pair of tongs, and pushing them in discovered a large snake, which their united strength was unable to pull ont. A book was then procured, and as the head ot the snake appeared tbe tongs were closed on it, crushing it. When tbe snake was pulled ont entire, it was found to be as large as a man's arm, and four or fire feet long. It is thought to be of the boa con stridor hind. BANGS AND BANGERS. Indncements Held Out to Those Who Ire Thinking of Learning THE ART OP DRESSING THE HAIR. Not as Much Honey in the Business as is Sometimes Supposed, EXCEPT FDR THE 0WMEES OP SHOPS "Hello, Louise, what the matter with your hair? Your bangs are a perfeot fright," was the greeting given a charming yonng bride by her newly-made husband the other evening at their lovely residence in the East End. "Been to the hair-dresser's and she clipped it too close; it'll be all right inaconpleof weeks." "Probably so, but it's deucedly unbe coming," remarked the young husband, dubiously. "How did it happen ?'l "I really don't know. It was roe same woman who has clipped my hair for some time, and always satisfactorily, but oh, well, mistakes will happen in the best reg ulated families, I am not inclined to cen sure as severely now as I was an hour ago. Sort of getting used to it, I suppose." "Well, I never will get used to it," con tinued the critic "You look like" "There, Charles; don't, please. You know I can stand anything better than to be made fun of." "Well, Louise, I'll be good, but It's so shockingly " "Charles!" "Hard to be good under the circum stances, I was going to Bay," was the in- occut rejoinder of Charles, who ran his hand through a handsome pompadour with a satisfied expression, as he surveyed it and bis own manly form in the square French mirror surmounting the dressing case. "Never mind. You may be the victim of an over-zealous pair of scissors sometime, too," was the warning given by the pretty wife, and which proved a prophecy in this case, as with the speed retribution can at tain when put to the mettle, Charles arrived at home later in tbe evening, with his glorious pompadour, the pride of his heart and the cnlminating point of his beauty, representing a church steeple in the way it was trimmed. Before removing his hat, however, he extended his hand to his little wife, and said: "Girlie, it was cruel of me to make sport of yon this evening. You wouldn't do that with me, would you?" A FORGIVING SPIRIT. "No, Charles, I wouldn't; but that's all right," in a forgiving tone. "Well, then, see here. Just look at the awful cut I have on my hair but shake hands again, that we won't say one word to each other regarding onr shorn locks." The little wife gave one glance of regret at the place where the hair used to flourish, and then, compressing her lips to prevent the smile tbat the effect provoked, by shak ing bands sealed the compact proposed by her liege-lord. But the joke was too good. She didn't saiLone wordJohimifikfi iliil nowever, to several ofhis acquaintances, and before the week was over she was more than even, as each member of the club greeted him with: "Hello. Charles, what's the matter with your hair?" And Charles has vowed vengeance upon hair cutters and hairdressers in general, as his latest experience witn them has cost him any number of cigars, beside mortification by the wholesale. Such incidents without the amusing termination, however, are very common, and many a lady spends time vainly before her mirror trying to coax the ever-popular bang into a little more length, or at least arrange it in somo way so that tbe shortness thereof will be less apparent alter a visit to a hair dresser. "And why is it so?" was asked a young man whose mission it is just at present to look out for tbe hair of the "quality" in PitUburc. "Generally the resnlt of incompetent per sons, though occasionally even a very skill ful artist will make a misscut. To learn the trade properly requires about three years' time, and most ot the girls who go into tbe business spend three months learn ing. Soma difference, you see, and the dear public must suffer until the amateurishness of the three months' apprentice has worn offl She simply learns her trade by PRACTICING ON HUMANITY at large. Ana, really, tne salaries given hairdressers do not warrant spending so very much time in learning the trade, nor do "they invite real energetic, intelligent people, as a rule, though to be a success one must be considerable of an artist, must note the contonr of the bead and face, the shape of the forehead, and any number of little points, that the arrangement of the hair and tbe style and shape of the bang may be be coming. 'The shampooing, too, is no easy matter, for beside cleaning the hair properly, the drying must be done so thoroughly that not. a particle of cold may result from tbe wash, aud so deftly tbat not one thread of the en tire suit of hair will be broken. The cut ting, dressing and shampooing, though, are easy, compared to the wig-making and arti ficial hair woik that is included in the knowledge of a first-class workman. In this work, principally, is the three years spent that In the old country fits one to commence operations upon a defenseless public as a hair dresser, and in it are all the fine points learned. "Theater make-up, too, is a part of a gen: nine artist's stock in trade, and to- success tully put on the paint and powder is consid ered absolutely necessary. Yet, with all this, a man or woman, no matter how skill ful, rarely receives more than $25 a week, while the scale is generally from 7 up to $15. Immense mon;y in the business, though, to the proprietor of an establish ment." . FELT THE SHOCK AHD LIVED. A San Francisco Mnn survives a Current of S.000 Vol it. San Francisco, Augnst 8 One man in this city has passed through what Kemmler did and yet survives. He is Burton C. Van Emon, employed with the Keith Electric Company as electrician. Van Emon is n tall, broad-shouldered young man. "Yes, I received tbe shock," he said with a smile. "The current had pressure of 2,000 volts. I was standing on a ladder at the time with a pair of pincers in my band hold ing a wire. The ladder slipped. An iron bar was beside the wire, and instinctively as I was falling I grasped the bar. This made the current and I knew nothing about it more. I felt nothing, though I knew I had been shocked. All I can recollect was an awful pain at the base ot the brain.' The next thing I remember they were iorclng whisky down my throat to bring me back to life. I felt no pain, but I couldn't think. I was dazed and helpless for 48 hours. Then I began to leel most intense pain in my arms and tbe muscles of my back and neck. They swelled and I conld hardly move, the strain on tbe muscles had been so in tense." Charily on 'Change. New Yore, August 8. An auction sale on the Produce Exchange ot the new bale of Texas cotton, donated by the planters for the benefit of the Houston Orphan Asylum, oi Texas, hJenght $830. HER' RELIGION CHANGED. LIZZIE GORDON TELLS A MALTREATMENT. STORY OF Deserted by Her Parents She Is Bound Out lo a Beaver County Farmer, Who Make Her a Drudge Forced to Be come Proselytized. , A sweet-faced girl, who had only seen the sorrows of 18 years of life, drifted Into the Department of Charities. She was sur rounded with an air of beauty and a neat-fitting dress. Gaily twitching her bonnet strings and a chair, she took a seat before Examiner Hoffmann and began to tell her story. She gave her name as Lirzie Gordon. Oyer ten years ago her father had died, leaving her mother and a little boy and girl. Her mother had mar ried soon after to Abe Wilt, who, she claims was a drnnkard. The children were allowed to go hungry nnd finally both the mother and the stepfather were landed in the workhouse. The children were taken and sent to the Poor Farm. The same year she and her brother were bound out to Frank W. Swain, a farmer, who lived near Badeu, in Beaver county. The records were referred to and the trnth of her story proven, Then the girl con tinued, "Some time later my mother took my brother Charlie away and I don't know where they are living now. Mr. Swainwas to give me an education, and when I arrived at the age of 18 he was to give me anew dress and $100 in cash. He never did any thing. He made me work like a slave. He has a family of five children, four of which I had to nurse. He beat me frequently and made me do work I was unable to perform. I was a Methodist when I went there, but Mr. Swain was a Catholic and compelled me to accept that religion." "Do you want to become a Protestant again?" was asked. To this the girl responded: "I don't know whether I could. They made me swear I would never accept any other religion." "When I became 18," she continued, "I asked for the fulfilment of the contract, bnt he refused to give me anything because I was not a boy. They treated me so badly that I left last week." Tbe officials of the department promised that her case would be investigated and the Beaver county farmer brought to time. In speaking of tbe case, Mr. Hoffmann said: "It always was a mistake to give children to farmers. It's mighty few they get from me. Farmers always want a child 10 or 12 years old, that they can put out into the field to hoe corn'. They almost Invariably make the children do the work of a fnll grown person. It is also a mistake to give children into families of a different religion from that in which the child basbeen raised. They all promise that the children shall go to what church they please, but tbat promise is seldom carried out either by Protestants or Catholics. A FISH BT0EY W0B.TH BEADIHG. A Cat That Welshed SO Pounds nnd a Pike 36 Poandi. rSFECUn TELEGRAM TO TIIEDISr-ATCII. Paekeksbubo, W. Va., August 8.' Al Simms, an Ohio river fisherman, came up last evening with a cargo of the bigeest fish seen here for years. They were all cats, six of which weighed 310 pounds. One of them was a monster, weighing 80 pounds. The fish measured over 6 feet In length, and was to all appearances almost as large as a full-grown man. This is the biggest fish caught in this viciuity for several years. " xticlBnrCTytin-iTuTctt inirfocaon wja killed in a peculiar way by a 13-year-old boy on Stillwell creek a short time ago. The boy ws chopping Wood near tbe bank of the creek near a flat which was overflowed by a sudden rise in the creek. The water had filled several low swales through a nar row outlet, and as it was falling tbe fish, which had ventured from tbe bed ot the creek, endeavored to get ont, but failed, as tbe water dropped two feet. The boy heard the noise made by one of them as he was making des perate efforts to force his way through the narrow outlet and ran down with his axe to the spot. Tbe fish and the bov had it for five or ten minutes, when by a lucky blow the lad .succeeded in killing the monster. The fish was a monster pike with rows of teeth as sharp as needles and long enough to tear a boy's leg to pieces. While dragging the fish ashore the lad saw another monster trying to force its way like its com panion into deep water. Another battle oc curred and another victory for the boy. The fish were taken ashore with the assist ance of a man who happened along about the time the fight ended. The largest one weighed exactly 36 pounds and the other 34. The above story is vouched for by a gentle man who saw the fish after they were killed. HAPPY TBOTJT FB3HEES. They Cnplnre Old Peto and About Forty Other Finny Bennilei. Butte, August 3. Judge "W. I. Lippin cott, C. D. Lippincott and Dr. Winston re turned to Butte to-night in triumph. They suceeeded In capturing Big Pete, the famous trout In Lost creek, abont six miles from Anaconda. Pete has baffled all efforts of tbe fishermen for four years. Every sum mer "Judge and Doc" lay for him and fish for him, but each summer Pete has come off the victor. Dr. Winston finally landed the great trout and pulled him out of the deep hole where for years he has lain re garded with envious eyes the veritable old timer of Montana. The trout weighs i pounds. When taken out a hook was found Listened in one gill, a book which the gamey trout bad wrested from Judge Lip pincott two years ago. One gill was gone, the trout's mouth was torn away, and he looked as though he had been through a dozen campaigns. Altogether, the party caught 40 trout, weighing 30 pounds. The party had a hair, breadth escape on the wov to the creek. About a mile west of Dr. Mussigbrod's place they were encountered by tbe doctor's big black bull. The bull gave chase, of course, and the three fishermen had a hard run for their lives. The bull required assistance and called in a whole band of cattle which stampeded the trio. The judge's brother complained that he was giving out, and to save bis lite tbe doctor and the judge stopped and began stoning the cattle to drive them back. By this means he was given time to reach the fence and the others followed in qnick style. All got over the fence iu the uick of time. No lives were lost. EENATOB WASHBTON TALES. Congress Cannot Pass a Force Bill Till Next sculon. CHICAGO, August 8. United States Senator Washburn bas been making a visit to his Minnesota home. He arrived in his city yesterday morning, "I am strongly of opinion,'" said be, "that the Senate will pass tbe tariff bill modified in accordance with the suggestions of Secretory Blaine, The suggestions may have come late, but there can be no doubt that the country, espe cially the West, wants the suggestions adopted and I think they will be." Tho Senator did not think the election bill would be passed during the present setsioD in spite oi tbe stand taken by Speaker Beed, "The West does not want the bill," he said; "it would not be possible to pass it without a change in tbe rules, and the rules wilLnot be changed this session. They certainly ought to be, for as things are now a Senator can kill legislation by talk; but some of tbe older members, who hold tradition sacred, are opposed to any change. So to think that a change will occur this session is out of the question; the election bill in conse quence must necessarily lie over." THE SENATORS SICE. Arduous Work of the Long Session Telling on a Number of Them. A RIG LIST Otf THE INDISPOSED. The Democratic llemhers Seem To Have Suffered More Severely. RHEUMATISM AND A TARIFF SPEECH Washington, August 8. There are sick men in the Senate. The elongated ses sion of Congress is responsible for the gen eral air of weariness that marks the daily meetings of the upper house, and it is the continual strain which is responsible for the upset condition ot a great man legislators. Up to this time it is probably correct to say that the Democrats have worked harder than the Eepublicans. As a general thing the minority in the Senate does not have to labor excessively, but ever since last December the Bepublican leaders have so contrived and controlled things as to make their antagonists hustle pretty nearly all the time. They made as sertions and then have thrown the burden of proof on their friends the enemy. The re sult is a badly-wrecked aggregation of statesmen, every one of them, willing and anxious to adjourn. Of course there are several" of the Eepublicans who have suf fered from the continuous labor their ag gressive campaign made necessary, but taken as a whole tbe Eepublicans are in better shape, physically, than the gentle men on the opposite side of the chamber. CHANGE IN APPEAISANCE. Many of the affected ones are hardly aware of the changes tbat have taken place in their appearance, but the decadence of senatorial pulchritude is very apparent to u uuacivcia m mo press gauery. mr. Carlisle has been seriously indisposed for the past ten days: his friends say his trouble is malarial. His colleague, Mr. Black burn, is also afflicted similarly, but to a lesser extent. Chills have made some of the hot days quite bearable for Mr. Black burn. Mr. Ecnna's trouble is one which worries him a good deal, but tbe doctors say that absolute rest will cure him; he is suffer ing from accelerated action of the heart. Mr. McPherson has been devoting a great deal of time to legislation of the larger magnitude, aud be weighs several pounds less than he did last spring. Mr. Pugh also haslost weight, and with the vanishing avoirdupois has departed much of tbe floridity of countenance which was his. A sure index of Mr. Morgan's condition is his voice; this is much weaker now than it was earlier in the session, and it Mr. Morgan weie to exert bis vocal organs to the utmost they would not give forth such strong tones as they did when the Montana Senatorial contest was in progress. Mr. Cockrell, whose interest in all matters is always promi nently active, has a haggard appearance; he only resembles the Senator Cockrell of six months ago in his general outlines, SHOULD BE AT HOME. Mr. Coke suffers the pangs of a well-developed case of rheumatism; his right knee is affected. If the Texan could only go home and stay there for awhile he wonld recover, for the southwestern climate does not encourage the disease. Mr. Coke has a K -rlPr - 1 J. hoBmiIl J. . delivered it ere this had it'not been tbat his affliction prevented him lrom standing up for a sufficient length of time. One of two things must happen or that speech will be buried: either the "rheumatiz" must cease to torture or the Senator must securr unani mous consent to deliver his oration sitting down. Mr. Gorman's face is much thinner than it has been for many months, but he sticks very closely to bis desk. Mr. George's com plexion has been blanched to a surprising extent, and it will take three mouths of Mississippi sunshine and moonshine to re place the bronze hue which has ordinarily been the color of his facial features. Mr. Faulkner feels the effect of the activ ity which has marked his Senatorial work this session and be makes frequent trips to his home to recuperate. Mr. Yoorbees is another of the generally enervated but not specifically sick. THE REPUBLICAN SIDE. On the Bepublican side the sickest-Iook-ine man is Senator Davis. Beally he is not sick, but tbe wide expanse of whisker less face still shocks those who think tbe Minnesotan ought never to have removed his mnstache. Mr. Davis' health has, how ever, deteriorated considerably, his work as Chairman of the Pension Committee and tbe troubles arising out of the St. Paul Minneapolis census fight having bothered him beyond expression. Mr. Morrill is far from well, and his colleague, Mr. Edmunds, complains quite frequently that his physi cal condltiort is far from satisfactory. Mr. Hoar has thinned down until he probably weighs 20 pounds less thau he did last win ter. The long session has affected Mr. Blair. When Mr. Blair is feeling weel he not only likes to make speeches himself, but be also is willing to hear others talk. Now his in disposition is apparent in his desire to shut off much speaking and to say but little him self. Mr. Farwell has not been in the Senate for some time. He is a very sick man. Mr. Mauderson, who has been quite 111, is much better now, but he owes his im provement to absence lrom his Senatorial labors. Mr. Power la evidently out of health; he is pallid and looks even more sickly than Mr. Morrill. When Mr. Power came Jrom Montana be looked much better than be does now. Senators Allison, Aldnch and Hiscock hard workers on appropriations, tariff and silver all look wearied and would hail adjournment with a large-sized hail. Mr. Huwley also shows the effects ot a too close application to public business, IT AGEEES WITH THEM. Some of the Senators look as though long sessions agreed with them. Mr. Call is tough and shows no sisns of exhaustion. Mr. Dolpb seems to be as fresh as ever. Mr. Beagan is as heavy as ot old and apparently just as contented last year's clothes will fit liim. Messrs. Vance and Bansotn are be yond question O, K. and Mr. Vest's activity and pugnacity have nndergone no change. Mr. Sherman is hardened, tor he shows no signs ol wear; six or seven hours of tariff each day do not disturb him at all. Mr. Spooner also seenis to thrive on abstruse discussions of "Specific" and "ad valorem." Mr. Piatt has had a hard time of it, for, in addition to bis legislative duties, he has been much'worried over the serious illness of his wife, but he seems to bold his own so far as outward appearance go; And everyone of the Senators wants to go home. A TJNIFOBM LAW ON WTlLS. In Necessity Urged by the Natlonnl Bar A.ioclmlor. Indianapolis, Angust8, At the meet ing of the National Bar Association to-day it was decided to recommend to the State Legislatures the adoption of a uniform law on wills, so that wills made in one State will bo valid in another in every particular. A committee was authorized to memorialize Congress urging the passage of the Evarts bill, which provides fur an additional judge in each circuit to facilitate business. The Executive Committee were instructed" to correspond with the Boston Bar Associa tion and arrange for the holding of tbe next annual convention in one of the suburbs of tbat city, probably Nantucket, on the first Wednesday in August, 1891, aud report the choice of location to tbe Secretary. DOING A BIG BUSINESS. REMARKABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUMMER EXCURSION. This Benson Bents tho Record Railroad Passenger Men Tickled With the Be. Crlpis. bnt Nearly Tired Ont by the Work Many Prople Coming nnd Going;. Good-natured Ed Smith,, the Division Passenger Agent of tbe Baltimore and Ohio road, sat in bis cozy office yesterday after noon mopping the perspiration from his brow and dictating letters as fast as be could to his stenographer. He stopped in his work long enough to give some idea of the ex cursion business this summer. Said he: "Never in the history ot the Baltimore and Ohio road bave we carried so many people out of Pittsburg as in the month of July, and if the rush keeps up at present Augnst will surpass its predecessors. The number of people going to the monntains and sea shore is unprecedented. My force here is working night and day, and we are all pretty well fagsred ont." City Passenger Agent Gregory, who was leaning against a counter, Indorsed these statements, and remarked that he was asleep on his feet. He has been up late almost every night since the season opened, and he wonders what has broken loose. On Satur day a special train of 600 G. A. B. men will start over the road for the encampment at Boston. General Passenger Agent Clark, of the Lake Erie, was found up to his eyes In busi ness. "I haven't had time to get my dinner to-day," he began. "We are kept too busy for any comfort. All our trains are jammed with people, and extra coaches are needed for every train. In fact the system is taxed to carry the people. I don't believe I ever saw sucb a rushing season before. To-morrow the Beaver Vallejr merchants will have their annual picnic, and 2,500 people will at tend. On Thursday we have an excursion to Niagara Falls, and another one next Tuesday." Other railroad agents made similar re ports. They haven't bad such a summer in their recollection, and Pittsburg is main taining its old-time reputation as being one of the best excursion towns in America. It is too early in the season to get any figures about the number of people carried. All the agents can say is "we are crowded." AH OCEAN BACE BEGUtf. The Tentonlo and the Cliy of Now York Leave Qnermtown. Netv York, August 8. The spirited rivalry between the Inman and White Star line steamerais well known, but through a change of sailing schednle last spring the lovers of transatlantic racing were disap pointed, because none of tbe fast steamsdips came in direet competition; but now tbey are to be gratified. Yesterday afternoon the Teutonio and City of New York left Queens town within half an hour of each other. The cable announced that tbe City of New York passed Boche's Point at 1:35 o'clock, while tho Teutonio followed ber at 2 o'clock. Tbe fact that they had sailed about the same time excited the greatest interest in maritime circles, and the ofHolals of both lines, although they are very reticent about saying anything, are anxionsly awaiting the outcome of the vessels' test of their re spective speeding qualities in their 3,000 mile spin across the Atlantic. The Teutonic Is the favorite because her record is much better than those of her com petitors. The Teutonio on her last west- to 8andy Hook in S days 21 hours and $5 minntes. Her average speed was 19.99 knots nn hour. (The best westward record the City of New York has ever made is 6 days 4 hours and 17 minutes, which she made in September, 1889. Before she was placed into commission this yearshe was tboronghly overhauled, it wasthougbt sue would tnen come much nearer to the superb record of the City of Paris, but as yet she has failed to come up to expectations. A 6EEAT DISC0VEBY. Alamlnnm to be Produced nt n Cost, of Fifteen Cent a Ponnd. CniCAGO, August a Prof. J. M. Hirsb, a German chemist of Chicago, in an inter view to-day asserts that he has discovered a process by which he can extract aluminum from common clay at a cost of IS cents or less for each pound. Aluminum at present cost f S per pound, a fact which renders it practically useless, notwithstanding its re markable qualities. The professor declares he has been working on the subject since lbbo, and tbat he is not asking financial aid from any source, having already all tbe backing he wants. Two six-story buildings have been leased by him, in which he proposes to begin work within a few weeks, turning out 300 pounds dally from the start. If Chicago is soon to have cheap aluminum there is no reason why the main hall of tbe Columbian Expo position should not be built of tbe bright metal, which is lighter and far more endur ing than an equal bulk of either brick, stone, iron or glass. A BIO BEWABD. The Enoimona Price GflVred to Get Rid of Rabbit. Jrom the London Spectator.! To earn the 25,000 offered by the New South Wales Government for "the effectual extermination of rabbits," nnmerous schemes hive been suggested, many, as tbe Commissioners say, "of a surprising charac ter, and quite impracticable;" electricity, poison, firing the country, inundations, natural enemies (including'rats, wild cats, weasels, stoats, skunks, snakes, Tasmanian tigers ana aastnaniaa aevils, more oDjec tionable as neighbors, one would think, than the rabbits), feucing, traps indefinite, and combinations of all the above. The large introduction ol polecats, stoats, ferrets and weasels into tbe Australian col onies will in the end nrove a remedy worse than the disease. It is said tbat children and lambs have ulready been attacked by them, and yet the demand for these ferocions little creatures is so great that game keepers in 'England are selling them for 6s. and 7s. each tor exportation. A FAnULY OUTBREAK. A Justice and Hl Wife Glvo tho Gossip a ratij-cf for Talk. rsrKOIAI. TXMtallAM TO TUB DUrATCJt.l Mansfield Valley, August 8. A. W. McMilieo, Justice or the Peace of this town, has locked tbe doors on his wife, Ellen H. McMillep, nee Callahan. To-day be published a notice that he wonld not be further responsible for debts contracted by ber for her support. Mrs. McMillen threatens to sue fur assault and battery. She has a black eve which she sayi is a present from her spouse. They have three children, a girl and two boyg, the eldest being 11 years. The 'Squire, who is 30 years old, has taktn the two boys. His wife le t the Ho in an Catholic Church to go with him to the M. E. Church. The fracas lias et all the gossips to tulking, and both McMillens are bound to huve it their way. V iiibiirs; ib Lake Erie R. R, Bxcnrslon to Niagara Falls, Toronto and the Thousand Islands. Tuesday, August 12. NiagaraJCdllsund return $ 7 00 Toronto and return 8 00 Alexandria Bay and return 12 00 Lake Chautauqua and return 8 00 Tickets sooJ for jeturn nny time within 15 days. Parlor car to Buffalo on the 8 A. ii. train. Sleeping car to Buffalo on the 9:45 p. m. train. Pullman car to Lakewood and Jamestown on the 2:35 P. M. train. xbssa (2 -S rilOlI THE LADIES' In a little fishing village off the coast of Maine, many years ago, a yonng girl was seen coming ont of the low, red bouse at the end of the one and only street of a hamlet. "There goes Babette to her boat," the women said as she passed them a tall, slight girl, with her heavy, light hair in long braids, and holding her head erect and not ungraceful. "She is not so bad looking, Babette isn't," said Sarah Howiston to her two neighbors, who had dropped in for a moment's gossip after their day's work. "She aint ugly, nor she aint pretty; it takes Nell Parker's black eyes and red cheeks, to make a real beauty," Hannah Coomer said. "Pretty is that pretty does," said the third, rather sharpiv, "and Babette has the pretti est ways and the kindest heart of any girl hereabouts." "Yes, Babette is a good girl, fur all her notions," assented Sarah. "But Jeanie McNeal spoils her too much for poor folks; she don't set her to hard work like the rest." "And why should she," asked Babette'a companion, ''when she isn't like us, sn' never'll be? When she's o' different blood and breedin' from us rough, fisher folk? And when her body's growin' so fast, an' she not over-strong, sue oughtn't to be worked to her grave. Jeanie McNeal's got sense in that slow, Scotch head of hers." A little pause fell on the three women. The mind of each went back to tbat day, so memorable in the annals of this quiet, monotonous life at Hollingshead Point, when in tbe midst of one of the most terri ble storms in their remembrance,, there was a vessel wrecked off tbeir roast, aud there was washed ashore, lashed to a part of the rigging, the form of a beautiful woman, and a baby not 2 years old. The awe-struck women did what they could, but they de clared that no human efforts could bring back the dead to life all but Jeanie Mc- BABETTE, TURNING, Neal and her husband. They had the two lifeless bodies carried to their cottage, and there they tried all their simple yet effective remedies. No sign of lire came to the lovely young wouan, but tne naoy revivea. xo Jeanie it was as if God had given her this littlo creature for tbe sons He bad taken. It was a girl, and how she had always longed for a daughterl The clothes she made for her were far daintier than any baby of tbe Point had ever known, lor Jeanie had been taucht in the old country the finest of needlework. They fonnd on the little one's dripping gar ments the name of Babette. It was the only clew they had; but old Malcolm MeNeal went to the school-master at the nearest town, and had him write out tbe particular! nnd have tbem published in tbe Boston, New York and Paris papers. For tbe school-master had said that Babette was a French name, and the old Scotchman had remembered that the young woman, evi dently the child's mother, had a foreign look and her clothes were very beautiful. Jenaie took from her stocking tbe carefully hoarded pennies to pay for tne advertising, and then she waited, in outward calm vet Inward aeony of spirit, for the result. But Bjbette lived on undisturbed, and grew up into her present younggirlhood. Jcanieand old Malcolm did what they eould for ber. They even sent her, alter tbe lame school master nt the Point bad taught her the rudi ments of the common branches, to Clyde, to tbe far more learned master who bad proved so useful in the earlier years of her life. Babette took readily to books. She was un like any child tb'o practical old Scotch couple had ever known. Dreamy, loving to wander off by herself, with strange fancies coming out now and then to startle the old people, Babette was a loving, g0od? obedient child. She often looked at the little baby clothes laid away so cirefully in the old sea chest, and examined with tender scrutiny the dainty embroidery and fine sewing they showed. She took up tbe more elegant cinthes and dreamed dreams oi the Beautiful mother who had worn them, and sometimes wondered about ber posible relations; yet she was not unhappy. She had so mucb, she said: first, her deur, adopted parents; ihen tne sea, on which in the gay, new boat, old Malcolm and her stauncbest admirer, Pa mela Lowden's husband, bad made for her Babette conld sail where she pleated; and then, her new books oh, yes, Babette felt that she had treasures untold iu her life, and hoped it would only make her more grateful to the good God, and more loving to the girls about her who had so much less. To-day, as she stepped into her pretty boat, she felt so glad and happy, she sang softly as she floated away. Her daily tasks were done and she felt that she had earned her piny time. There was a dark crimson cushion in the boat's stern, and when Ba bette was tired rowing, it was a favorite pastime with her to carl up in the bottom of the boat, rest ber head on the cushion, and looking up into the sky overhead, to dream dreams and see vision'. Such innocent, pretty fancies that visited that bonny he.ul I And nothing warned the girl that this day was to be so different from all that had gone belore. Wheu (he shadows lengthened, Ba bette sat np and rowed rapidly toward shore. As she moored the boat into the sheltered cove, she turned for a last, loving look at the broad expanse of sea and sky spread ont before her, then fastened tbe boat nnd sprnnc ashore. Almost at the same moment, as if be bad sprang from tbe rocks, a man's figure stood before her. Tbe sight of him was so HOXS JOUBXAL, sudden and unexpected that the girl gave a little cry of dismay. "Pardon me if I have startled yon," said a courteous voice. "But do you know of any place where I could find board ana lodging?" As he spoke, Babette thought of all her friends; but tbeir honses were so small and tbeir families so large. With the desire to help, tbat was instinctive with the girl, she said impulsively: "Come home with me, sir; perhaps my mother will take you in." So the two walked down the street in the dusk, the stranger talking easily: bnt Babette, suddenly conscious of her bare feet and working dress, became silent and em barrassed. She was thankful when her home was reached. A few moments later the young man had explained to- Jeanie McNeal that he was an artist, who was very anxious to sketch some ot tbe points along the shore, and to find a stopping place: "And, indeed, I'm not hard to suit," said Kenneth McLeod, with his pleasant smile. The smile and tbe Scotch name won old Jeanie in spite of herself. "Ye're welcome, sir; bet its plain livin' ye'U find in this bit boose," she said. And so the yonng stran ger became an inmate of the neat, frugal home of Malcolm McNeal, and in due time his sister joined him. Jeanie had demurred over the coming of "a gran city leddy," bnt Kenneth overcame her objections at last. "She's nae ili-faured, an' has whole some ways," said the old woman to Babette, cautiously, after Jean McLeod's advent. Indeed, old Jeanie became very fond of ber two lodgers as time went on. "Nae airs an graces, an' snippin ways," she said to her husband. And to the girl, what a revelation their crming wasi Jean McLeod was simply fas cinating to Babette. Her dainty, refined ways found a quick response in tbe girl's 'heart, while Miss McLeod, on her port, grew to love the sweet-mannered, gentle creature who seemed a rare plant to be found among the rocks and rough places of this fishing hamlet. Tbe tun went fishing together con stantly, while Kenneth was oft with hia PACED KENNETH H'LEOD. artist'a outfit strange sights for to paint. "Blood will tell," Jean said to her brother, alter one of these outings. And she told him the girl's story as sjie had learned it from old Jeanie. "She loves Burns, and she is a lady down to ber very finger tips," she said in conclusion. Her brother laughed: "At your old tricks, Jean, seeing a princess in every peasant," be said. Tbe long summer passed pleasantly to Jean, who welcomed tbe quiet and novel change after her busy, gay life in the city; profitably to tbe artist, who had already made a name in his own city and hoped for greater things; but to Babette it bad been a season of wonderment and delight, of en chantment and fairyland. The books sha had read, the things she had heard, and Babette Would Dream Dreamt and 3tt Vuions. then there was the love, almost adoration, she felt for this friend, so utterly unlike any one she had ever seen before, and who seemed to Babette like the young mother she could not remember. And when tbe fall days came, what won der that Miss McLeod finally prevailed on old Jeanie to let Babette return to Boston with her? Jeanie was all the more ready to consent because of the jealousy which had sprnng up into existence at sight of Babette's absorption in this new compan. ions'nip. She fought against this leeling with all tbe strength of her stern Calvin istic up-bringinc, which revolted from ad mitting sucb a deadly sin into ber heart. "It showed her," she said, "what an idol she had set np in Babette." The consequence was that when the brother and sister returned to Boston they were ac companied by a shy, sweet girl, dressed in a fashion that Uoston had not yet beheld. But as the months passed what a change had come over the fisher maiden Stylish, tasteful dresses, constant intercourse with cultivated, charming people, with the many advantages an eager, bright girl will devour with tbe avidity of a starved soul, all these metamorphosed the dreamy Maid ot tbe Sea into an interesting, self-poised girl, refined, yet with unusual origjnulity. It was won derful bow naturally Babette took to the new life. "Ab, blood will tell," repeated. Jean to ber brother triumphantly; "every one is delighted with her, and she is going to study with that splendid Proiessor Mar riott. He told we she was a rare souL To think of such a girl being wasted in that isolated desert of a village!" When old Jeanie had parted froa & i
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