3E2mm 3 'A v 10 Mnrrell and his bride are cat on board. Yon will meet them In Lierpool. Baxes, First Officer. Nothing was said that night about this application of Mr. Edison's new system of telegraphing between ships at sea; the same method by which he now receives and sends messages from moving trains at any rate of speed. inn tizaed is hopef.ui Thissvstem of ocean telegraphy is the s?re, bat neither are perfected. Yet, "The "Wizard" believes that soon a thoroughly practical telegraphic service -will be work ins between vessels at sea -within many miles of each other. It was not until the fourth day out that the mystery surround ing the fair voung lady and the man wear ing the artist's mien was solved. About the middle of the day the City of Berlin, another Inman liner, was sighted with a white necktie two feet below the top of the smoke stack, bv which theT can all be told. Is ow there was to be no secrets. The City of New York was dealing with a friend, and the voung -woman and her companion took their places at the same spot in the front part of the vessel, and off went the following message: Captain Land: , . How is everything I What kind of weather, and how about ice T We have had clear - eather and no trouble. "WAtkess. A moment later back came the reply : Captain 'ttat-ins: . . Everything first class. Fair weathen no ice. Everyone well and happy. Land. After this lriendly greeting the secret was revealed, and ail the passengers knew that the fair young woman was a telegraph operator who had come aboard under in structions to experiment with lightning on the ocean. Of course, she and her work were the talk of the ship, and there were a thousand and one conjectures as to what would be done in the near future by this strange man, Edisou. CABLEGRAMS TKOM HOME. As the conversation was still wacging A. J. Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was handed the following : Cassatt, City of'ew York: Can't vou go immediately to Berlin and con fer with William Walter Phelps about the dip lomatic matter talked over with you before vour departure? Not a moment is to be lost. Please make a quick trip. Thompson. "That destroys all my plans," said the great railroad man, as he thrust the message into his pocket. "I wanted to go to the Goodwood races after doing some business in London, and then look at some thorough breds to send home." In the midst of a spirited discussion as to the new energies and accomplishments of this age, "Wilson Barrett received the fol lowing: Wilson Barrett, City of New York: Your theater, which was just getting under root, was destroyed by fire last night. Pallet. This set him in a worse hnmor than any of the rest, and they fell to berating this ex cess of modern improvements, when Miss Florence St. John came from her stateroom on the upper deck bearing this message and entirely ruffled: Your engagement in England for 12 months is off, and instead of singing in comic opera as you desired, you will return to America in Oc tober. . Edwards. She was in anything but a good humor, and a young broker from Hew York by the name of Lawson was nearly frantic when he got a dispatch that the stock market had gone all to pieces and that his business was on the verge of bankruptcy. Half a dozen more incidents of this character occurred be.'ore we reached Liverpool, just enough to set everyone on board by the ears, and make those who received dispatches miserable for the rest of the voyage. VOTED A KUISAKCE. This last innovation by the electric Edi son was the one topic of discussion during the last days oi the trip. Ko one paid any attention to it so long as it was confined to intelligence between moving ships, and all were delighted at the prospect of the cap tains of two vessels moving in any direction communicating with each other freely in case of accident or caprice, as the case may be, but when it came to being annoyed in mid-ocean about matters they could not help and from which they were hastening away, was anything but satisfactory. One old fellow from Texas, who had been across every year for a long time, grew very much excited in denouncing the new-fangled notions by which a man had to have a guide to show him to his room every time he wanted to go there; but this receiving bad news in the Atlantic when one was go ing away from home to be free from news papers and the annoyance of telegrams an gered him. Up to the moment of springing this experiment about "picking telegrams off the Atlautic cable," which many elec tricians regard as perfectly practicable, and telegraphing to and from vessels at a great distance apart, the passengers had all been congratulating themselves on enjoying the very acme ol ocean travel on this king of crafts. But at this moment there is a gen eral objection to the introduction of this new Evstetn by which telegrams from home or to home may be intruded upon ship board, where everyone desires to have noth ing to do except to cat, sleep and talk. SPECIMEN OPINIONS. Mr. "Wilson Barrett said: "As a rule Americans are i n fa vor of 1 uxury, demand all the modern appliances, the best of food, the choicest wines of any people in the world, and they arc willing to pay for them more than any other class of citizens I have ever met. Tiiis remarkable ship, with its splen did equipments, taking nearly 400 officers and men to run and serve, is a monument to their pluck and extravagance. "Yes," rejoined Mr. Cassatt, "that is all true, but with all their rush they will not tolerate a telegraphic system which is bound to ruffle their rest while crossing the ocean." So far as I could make out the young woman used only two instruments in her ex periments from day to day. One of them was an incomprehensible mass of coils, wires and plates, which detected, when low ered into the water, the smallest changes in the temperature of the ocean, and by ring ing a bell announced the approach or pres ence of an iceberg or ice field. The effect of these upon the surrounding waters is very pronounced. They chill the water abont them, and as they melt they produce a body of ice water which will extend lor miles and even leagues. A large iceberg has been lrequently known to chill the water jor 15 and 20 miles in every direction, that is to say far beyond any point from which It can be seen. A TVABKTXG EI2TQ. The'Edison apparatus is automatic, and rings a bell whenever the temperature falls low enough to indicate the presence of a floe or berg. It is not altogether accurate at present, because it frequently happens that a berg is propelled in one direction by the wind, while the ice water, formed by its melting, is carried in an opposite direction by the currents in which it floats. Occasions ot this class, however, are quite rare, so that the thermometer is almost as correct a re porter of icebergs as the barometer is of storms. Captain "VVatkins seemed to regard this new instrument as a veritable god-send to the .mariner. In speaking of it he said: "An iceberg is not'a pleasant companion at sea. If you collide with it you are lost. Ot thousands of ships that have had this experience, hardly 5 per cent have been able to tell the story of their troubles. If yougo near a large iceberg, it is liable at any moment to split or capsize, and, in so doing, to produce a wave that may sweep your decks, if not to cause you to founder. They are bad enough in clear weather, but in haze or fog they are far worse. Their coldness draws white vapor about them and makes them seem pieces of fog a little thicker than that which surrounds them. In the sight time it is almost impossible to distin guish them under such circumstances from the dark mists by which they are embodied." A MAZE OF COILS AND PLATES. The othermechanism used by this young woman was far more complicated, and to mc and the rest who were un familiar with the latest developments of modern electrical science, was an abso lute mystery. Like the other one, it con tained wires, plates, coili and various metals, but instead of detecting tempera tures, it was intended to throw a message from our own good ship to any one which came within hailing distance, and also to receive any message sent from another ship by a similar contrivance to our own. It is not perfected as yet, but it does manage to communicate with very little trouble at any distance within five miles. The young woman said that Mr. Edison could talk, while on his boat in the lake, at Menlo Park, with people on the shore, by means of this contrivance, and his assistants are now able to do the same thing while in mid ocean. She claimed that it might be possible, with this invention, to tap the great cables, which to-day tie the two continents together, but of this lean say little. All I know is that she did telegraph to other ships in mid sea that were provided with similar contrivances and receive from them messages like unto those sent out. If it keeps on, trans-Atlantic travelers will be able to have news from both Europe and America every day from the many steamers which have con verted the North Atlantic into a parade ground, whose paraders are crafts of all sorts and conditions. OH MOVING- TRAINS. Yet this is not more marvelous than what has been done on land where telegrams are sent from and received by moving trains through that mysterious 'quality of elec tricity known as induction. As the young woman explained it to me, this, in the case of the railroad, is done by having, in the first place, a coil wound under the bottom of the car. Then, there is' a third rail which runs between the tracks which is insulated. That third rail is connected with an appa ratus at each station. When a signal is sent from the apparatus on the car it indnces a current in this third rail which affects the instrument at the distant-station. For instance, the operator will call Boston. Boston will answer, and send a current through this third rail which will act inductively on the instrument on the car. By the Edison system, however, the operator on the car can send a signal in the same way without this third rail and by the ordinary telegraph wire nbove the road. Instead of having a coil at the bottom of the car the wire is attached to a metallic plate which runs along the tops ot the vari ous cars. Through this the current acts in ductively on the wire which runs alongside the road." NATTJBE OP INDUCTION. Said I to the young woman: "What do you mean byan inductive current?" Said she: "Suppose that I have here a wire half a mile long, grounded at each end, ou which is placed a telephone receiver and upon which there is no battery. Some dis tance away, say a mile, running parallel, I have a wire on which there is a b.Uterv and on which there is a telephone transmitter. There is no disturbing influence between. I talk through the last wire and you can heat my speech on the first wire on which there is no battery, because there has been an in ductive current between the two wires. "The reason is this: There are magnetic whirls around the wire connected with the battery which induce a current of electricity in wires which run parallel to it. By that I mean induction. There is no known limit to that process of communication. The power to record those electric waves de pends upon the delicacy of the receiving in strument. To accomplish the feat of tele graphing or telephoning, which is easier, from steamship to steamship, no change in the construction of the vessels is necessary. It is not even necessary that they should be pursuing parallel courses, because this de vice could be so arranged that it could be placed at any angle and be to movable that you could talk with vessels approaching or sailing iu an opposite direction." FBANK A. BtJBB. METHOD HT HIS MADHESS. IIow a Penniylvanlaa la Bad Lock Got Transportation Ilomr. Some years ago there appeared in the Capitol, writes Miss Grundy, Jr., to The Dispatch, a respectably dressed, middle age man who walked slowly into the ro tunda, inspecting the frescoes and paint ings, muttering, as he did so, in half audi ble tones. After attracting the attention of visitors by his erratic manner, he suddenly disappeared through the entrance leading to the dome. Here, quickly stripping him self of every garment, the man dashed back through the rotunda and passing directly under the apex of the dome, he struck the exact attitude of Ajax defying the light ning, and remained as motionless as the frescoed figures on the wall above. For a lull minute both visitors and offi cers were paralyzed with horror. Then one of the guards springing upon him he was borne down, pinioned, covered by the cloak of an old apple woman and hurried from the building. The sequel is more interesting than the episode. Taken to the police station he was locked up, afterward examined, and on the physician's certificate of insanity, and in accordance with the custom iu the District, he was given a ticket and returned to the officials in his own county in Pennsylvania. On reaching his own county the man was declared sane and allowed to go home. He found himself in "Washington penniless, and he undertook the insanity dodge in or der to get shipped home at the expense of the Government, and succeeded. A VOICE LIKE A BELL. Reminiscence of tbe Late Jndce Korea and Hid Nutnrni Gifts. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Tbe late Judge foyes had a remarkable voice. It was the voice of a man of fine physique, and its owner used it as skillfully as a trained elocutionist. Judge Noyes voice was of remarkable timbre, and it was wont to be his boast that "give me an audi ence of 10,000 people iu the open air, and I'll make every one of them hear." "When General Noyes was Minister to .France his great voice, round and musical as a note from a bronze bell, was the marvel of the French people. Lew Eosen, the playwright, was in Paris when General Noyes came to represent the great Republic at the French Capital, and was engaged as French tutor for the Ameri can Minister's family. General Noyes had difficulty in learning French, and freely confessed it. One day Mr. Bosen, called upon Henri Martin, the lamous French"" .- .1 r .i ...... e . Historian, auu iu iub wuurac ui ujc .uuverBK- tion he mentioned General Noyes' difficulty in acquiring) French. "Ab"," said the great writer, "General Noyes does not need to learn to speak ze French language; he. smiles ze French language. Tito Hrmcri and a Messenger rwBOTEXrOB TEE DISPATCH.! II r: Wide I fling the portals of My Castle-in-the-air And bid my heart in gladness start To meet thy soul somewhere; I send with It a messenger Who'll tarry long with thee, "W hose sweetest art may steal thy heart And bring it back to me. Haste, my bonnio messenger. And take my hetrt to her; Thou must recall it Is my all. Though gladly I'd confer The treasures of the earth Would rob the sea full joyously For pearls to deck her hair; Would bring her home irom heaven's high dome Fair gems of greater worth, That none may scoff the proud queen of My Castle-in-the-air. Shej Why naked come, thou little one. To bring this message here? Nay, do not frown, with eyes cast down I ne'er such antics f ear, Ann would not blame a proper shame; Art deaf 7 Dost thou not bear? Then 1 will ask a simpler task What, sweet one Is thy name? Ill The lashes hid the shy child eyes, Whilst tear-drops vainly strove To stay in place and not disgrace The whispered name of "Love." Bhei Back to your master you mult take his message, that "She loathes Any man who never can Keep his sweet 'Lore' In cUthet," CLARA BELLE'S CHAT. The Summer Girl Has Brought a New Phrase Home With Her. HOW SHE DRESSES JUST UOWi Gaj Costumes That Bridge the Chasm Be tween Sun and Frost. E0UTB OP A KEW TOItK C1TI HAEBHAL fCOEKESrONDENCE or THE DISPATCH.! New Yoek, September 13. i HE belle's summer outing is over. She has sipped her fare well glassof mineral water at Saratoga through a straw in accordance with the la test whim of usage at the Springs. She has made her good by plunge into the surf at the seashore with bared feet and ankles in con sonance witn tne final custom of the season, one nas brought back to frVS l-'Ky T,rfftlL town many -CfOTfesK? quirements of grace ano gooaness, auu few bad habits. One thing that she has in troduced to town is a new catch phrase: "Don't be expansive!" That is .the coming slang remark of the day. Prudent mammas, who keep their eyes about them, have seen that Murray Hill boys are apt to imagine that they may con tinue the free and easy manners of the sea side or mountains alter the retnrn to the city. Hence the popularity of this expres sion as a protective measure. "Don't be ex pansivel" In other words, "paws down!" A Murray Hill chap remembers how he tumbled Bessie and Blossom about in the surf last summer, and it is quite natural that he should think he could romp a bit in the parlor this fall. But no; he'll be checked at once. "Don't be expansive!" HAS MANY APPLICATIONS. The remark has other uses, too. Itls the swagger way to tell a fellow that he is draw ing upon his imagination for his facts. "Don'', be expausive!" It may also be emploved to check the efforts of a would-be funnv'man, a hardened punster, a dealer in chestnuts or a reader aloud the last named species of bore being frequently met nowa days since elocution classes have become so common. To the politician who makes a long speech or writes a long letter; to the fashionable preacher who presumes upon the good nature of his congregation; to the elegant storekeeper who dilates upon tbe superiority of his wares; to the talkative hair-dresser and manicure; to the profes sional beggar, who waxes pathetic over his ills nud hardships; to each and all of them I say: "Don't be expansive!" Ordinary folk in this big town who know what a city marshal is will rejoice to read what I am about to relate; but, for the en lightenment of the outside world, Imust add that a city marshal is, in plain lingo, a constable, and pretty generally a very dis agreeable constable, insolent, violent, pug nacious and high-handed. MET A GIANTESS. One of these minions of the law entered a lodging house iu Irving Place, near the Academy of Music, where a troupe of ath letes is performing to summons as they call it a member of the company for an un paid account at a neighboring restaurant. Scarcely waiting for a reply, he pushed open the door, strode in, waved his summons in the face of a quiet lady-like person, and demanded the whereabouts of "Monsieur Leon." "My hoosband ees in bet," was the calm reply. "All right," blurted out the city marshal; "I'll serve him with this summons in bed. Ko need his getting up. This his room?" and the man made a motion to push open the door on his right. "Van meenute, sair; I do not veesh von to go in, sair. I like not your mannairs." "Oh, don't be giving me any ot yonr French airs. I'm an officer of the lawand I'm going into that room," growled out the fellow with the legal document. Saying this, he took a step forward and reached out for the knob', but at that in stant a white hand caught him quickly and deftly by his coat collar, and Bent him spin ning across the room, where he collided with afauge packing trunk, , his hat flying in one direction and his cigar in another. Gathering himself up, he turned around ex pecting to find that this sudden impetus had been the work of the woman's husband. But no, the woman stood there alone. hadn't enough tet. "See, here, my lady," he cried out. chok ing down his wrath and surprise, "if you play any more such tricks on me, I'll take you off to the station bouse." Treeks treeks?" she replied. "I play you no treeks; you play ze treeks miser' ablel" And before the marshal could raise his hand to prevent those white fingers flashed in the air, snatched tbe legal docu ment out of his grasp, rolled it up in bard wad and flung it into his lace. " filfw i M 1 vi:i l.-.;l oL WKy:ir flsa Alr'Wt'Vl 1 H JH rw?t THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, ' Tbe man was now boiling over with rage. He sprang forward with an oath to make the arrest he had threatened; but like a flash of lightning, the handsome defendant, in two senses of the word, with a twist of her leg knocked the constable's feet from under him, and he.measured his full length on the floor. Then, stooping down, she took a good hold of his collar, and yanking him to his feet, again knocked them from under him and brought him down with a heavy bump. The man made a furious effort to cry out, but the grip of the gentle lady drew his collar bo tight that it was impossible. A BEOTOAB TEOTJNCINO. "Miserable, miserable 1" she ejaculated as she rattled the fellow's boots first against the packing trunk then against some Indian clubs and dumb-bells lying on tbe floor. After this bit of mopping up, she stood him up against the wall and bumped his sconce against a heavy picture frame. Then, waltz ing him out into the hallway, she once more knocked his heels from under him and laid him on his back. Changing her hold from bis collar to his feet, she sent him sliding down the stairway headfirst like a toboggan sled. The city marshal scram bled to his feet very much rattled, and didn't even think it safe to make a halt in side the house to repair his torn collar avnd broken braces and dust off his clothing. "Who in the dickens is that woman on the first floor?" he inquired of a man stand ing on the stoop. "Madam Leon, the female athlete," was the answer. "She's the daisy heavy weight of the girl performers." "You bet!" cried the constable as be made off. THE MALE SEX IN BONDAGE. A certain philosophical thinker who had spent his life in trying to prove that what ever is, is right, became somewhat rattled when he tried to account for woman's in tense desire for finery; the more so, as it is a complete reversal of tbe natural order. His conclusion was that it is intended as a punishment for man, in that, by thus in creasing woman's power, it naturally in creased man's subjection. This theory is ingenious, to say the least. Bnt the funny part of it all is that the man has to pay tbe expenses of his own punishment, and he has finally reached that point.when it affords him pleasure to do so. It is the old story the eels, which became so accustomed to being skinned that they really enjoyed the operation. "Woman was never more beautiful than just at present at this coming of autumal davs and in this respect she is like the birds. For, with all due deference to Lord Tennyson, it is in autumn and not in spring that their plumage is most beautiful. That is to say, after they have had their outing. A LITTLE BIT OP COLOR. The cry is now "Adieu to the Ocean!"' and it is just at this time, wheritheeveningsbegin to be a little fresh, that our fashionables make it a point to displav some charming toilets, with fine bits of coloring. A charm ing litlle lady I met yesterday.wears one of these costumes a figured silk displaying a white vest. The sleeves are somewhat of a variation, double bouffant' falling over a long tight fitting cuff. Tbe collar is of'the Medici pattern, but the rage for "Toby ruffs," "Pierrette ruches," "Punchinello trills" and all sorts of leather and lace necklets bids fair to interfere with high col lars. There is no doubt about it. The average woman looks better when that "uncertain" portion of her body, called the neck, wears a collar. I say "uncertain" for here appears the first traces of age, here the mechanism of nature first becomes apparent, her cords and pulleys spring into view. Hence the inclination to cover it up, and hence the readiness of the Princess of Wales, who, alas, is becoming a very matronly person, to adopt tbe feather boa, which ingenious contrivance enables one to wear furs, so to speak, in mid-summer. TO CLOSE THE SEASON. In the second illustration you find one of the late summer toilets, to which I have already alluded, the skirt being gray wool embroidered with white silk shell motives, and the jacket a white flannel with the re vers, the collar and the borders of tbe short sleeves trimmed with cherry red passemen terie zigzags. The chemisette with the undersleeves is in loosely-folded cherry red ilk. To complete this bright and attract ive toilet, cherry red stockings, white gloves and a nattv straw hat, with a white hand zigzagged with cherry red, are neces sary. This costume may very appropri ated be termed not fin de siecle, but tin de saison. It still listens to what the wild waves are saying, but withone ear it catches the sound of the waltz, which reaches her from some inland resort. In the third illustration you will find an original ensemble, consisting of a white berage dress, figured with small rose bouquets, trimmed with black lace and black velvet bretelles and ceinture. "With this costume there is worn a gray straw bat, garnitnred with pale roses and white gauze. The black lace trimming is applied with a great deal of taste and marked originality, and wants close study, for it is only the most skillful that can save originality from becoming mere oddity, which is not allow able in art. A DASHING PAIR. In the last illustration there are repre sented two handsome toilets of marked char acteristics, the one on the right being a com bination of pale fresh butter, yellow and dark green striped faille, withwhite gui pure, cut in tbe novel fashion indicated. A plaiu maize straw hat, with no other garni ture than two white pigeons, is worn with this costume. On the left you behold a lovely dress made up of a gray striped flan nel, with fine white satin volant borders be low, and a jacket of mouse gray wool, with black satin revers. The chemisette is of pale blue and white striped linen, the long cravat being of plain white surah. The hat which accompanies this charming costume is a black felt Spanish bolero, ornamented with a white pigeon feather. The gloves are white, and so is the sunshade which con stitutes part and parcel of this ensemble, only it has a black satin brad around the edge. Not content with smothering its devotee beneath a cascade of frills, ruffs and ruches, Queen Fashion now decrees the use of tbe flounce for skirt trimming. It will help out the severely plain skirt amazinglv. There is still a visible and outward sign of the bustle. It makes itselt felt almost im perceptibly by tbe insidious manner of its attack. To accomplish this, the modiste collects the back fullness into a very small compass, and this .of course tends to 'pro duce an embryo bustle. Oh, no; there are no steels and no pads. Claba Belle. Ghosts Jnt tbe Sane, Atchlion Globe. 1 "When a man wants to believe in ghosts, and is ashamed to, he believes in hypno tism. Many a man who cannot control his own mind talks gravely of controlling the minds of others. SI' - . r SUNDAY, " SEPTEMBER HABRIS0N WOfiN OUT. The President Was Sadly in Need of the Outing at Gresson. NO HOD-CARRIER WORKS HARDER. Constant Fressnre Tinder Which His Dnties are Performed. THE BIX ATHLETIC B0DI QDAEDS rCOBE-SPOJrPENC- OF THE DISPATCH . Cresson Speings, September 13. President Harrison is here to find rest. He is a tired, indeed an almost wdrn-out man, and high in the mountains he hoped to escape the terrible nervous strain of his office. But go where he will the cares of position cling to him still. Mr. Arthur attempted to get away from them by exiling.hiuself to the Yellowstone Park; but even there he was beset to the point of distraction by reporters and tourists in eager search of Presidents and other curiosities. Even the fish he caught seemed to know that he was catching them iu an official capacity. Cleveland sought refuge for his honeymoon at Deer Park, but the boundaries of his dwelling place were pa trolled by news gatherers, eager to send re ports to all parts of the United States as to the most minute particulars oi his behavior as a new bridegroom. If he had permitted himself to indulge in a lover's endearment toward his bride outside of closed walls, telegraphic accounts of the manner in which the endearment was administered would have appeared tbe next morning. CAPTIVE IN A CAGE. 'His first month of matrimony, sacred for all other people, was spent in a cage, as it were, through the bars of which the entire American people was curiously gazing. When he soughtrefuge in tbe fastnesses ot the Adirondacks, reporters swarmed in his neighborhood as thick as the flies for which that region is famous, with special wires to the metropolis, whence the news of his latest movement was distributed. Furthermore, his wife's aff.iirs were considered to be as legitimately open to newspaper scrutiny as his own. "Was she not, forsooth! the wife of tbe President? She could not buy a dozen handkerchiefs without gossip for the benefit ol 60,000,000 people, nor could she decline to shake hands with her husband's open enemy without occasioning a scandal ot na tional proportions. President Harrison has fairly surren dered. He has not tried to escape from his official cage. The Park Cottage is merely a place to which he is permitted to transfer his official cares. For you see that the President is a man from whom all things emanate and iu whom all things center, so far as the government of this great people is concerned. He never has any time to suck molasses candy, and never was known to swiug on a gate. HARDER THAN A HOD CARRIER. It is no wonderthat Mr. Harrison is tired. No hod-carrier works nearly so hard as the President of the "United States. Save possi bly tbe New York street car driver, whose day of service covers 16 hours, no man la bors so long and has so little time to become acquainted with his family. Not one mo ment does the President get for himself, ex cept when he is asleep, and even tben he keeps ou toiling, as the hunter-dog con tinues to hunt in his dreams. He is a pub lic man in a degree that no other citizen is. He has no privacy nor any private relations; not a moment does be have to himself in his personal capacity. Even his house, called the Executive Mansion, is nearly ail of it an office, the courtesy of the government permitting him merely to occupy a few rooms in it for living purposes. Take for example his legitimate official work. To begin with, all tbe dopartments of the government are engaged in preparing matters fonhira to determine. The Secre taries ol "War, the Navy, the Interior, State, Agriculture and the others, all come to Mr. Harrison whenever anything in the execu tive way is to be done. INCREASING EVERY TEAS. All matters that come up iu Congress reach bim sooner or later for his considera tion or decision; and even on private affairs the voters in this country regard him as a last resource for advice. Thousands of private letters, on every conceivable subject, reach him each week from all parts of the United States. How much time does he have left for the routine of his official duties? The duties of the President's office have in creased every year. Each year new laws are made, which are referred to him Jor ex ecution, and Congress never has the slight est hesitation in pntting additional burdens on the Chief" Executive. Funnily enough, the President, whoever he may be, always grows fat at his work. There has not been a President yet who has not gained avoirdupois during his incum bency at the White House. The next hard est workers after the President, are tbe Judges of the Supreme Court, whose longev ity and hardiness have become proverbial. All of which goes to show that the men who are elected Presidents of the United States are not, as has been often alleged, very ordinary men. THE MORNING DUTIES. Take, for example,- an ordinary working day of the President of the United States. He breakfasts a little before 9 o'clock. Sometimes be goes direct from bis bed to his working table; but we will suppose that he allows himself a morning meal before starting to toil. On his worktable he finds a colossal mail, which is merely a selection from the letters which have come in. Before this time the mail has been delivered to his private secretary. The private secretary of a President of the United States is never an ordinary secretary. He must always be a man whom the President has known for years so intimately, in fact, that the Presi dent's most private and personal matters and circumstances may be intrusted to his knowledge and conduct. Elijah Halford takes the letters as they come in in the morning and sorts them over; they are many hundreds in number. A few he will recognize as private notes, and these he will set aside. All the rest be opens, per haps finding 20 among them that need the President's immediate and personal atten tion. In this way the mail is so disposed oi that the President neither sees nor bothers with the mass of it. HIS FIRST CALLERS. The President manages with great hurry to get through the perusal of his important and private letters before 10 o'clock, realiz ing all the time that members of Congress are coming in and awaiting an audience in the ante chamber. There is not one of these Senators and Representatives who has not matters of more or less importance to dis cuss, and the same remark applies to many other callers at that hour, who are nearly all men of prominence, who come from all parts of the country, and who mostly have in charge 'matters requiring immediate and serious consideration, implying his express assent or dissent. While seeing all these men and trying to remember what each one his said to him, Mr. Harrison is having all the time thrust under his nose documents which must be signed at once. And here he stays, under going the ordeal, until, three days iu the week, he is -obliged to go down stairs and' receive visitors wnicn means perlormlng the pump-handle act with a rabble of American citizens of all degrees, patting the children on the head, kissing the babies and so on ad infinitum. This performance always goes on in the Fast Boom. TAKES THE BACK "WAT. At 1:30 Mr. Harrison goes to lunch by a back stairway, lest some one tackle him on the way down. On Tuesdays and Fridays, however, at noon, he has to preside at meet ings with the Cabinet, on which occasions he must give decisions on matters relating to each department. These meetings usually last up to 2 or 3 o'clock, thus making the President's luncheon late. Ofconrse. mem- 1 bers of Congress do not restrict themselTM fUsrp-? 14, 1890. to the morning for their calls. They come in all day long,-each member of the Presi dent's party regarding the Chief Executive as a man to be consulted, abused and con fided in at pleasure. At 5 P. M. Mr. Harrison wishes to go driving. He steals out by a back way and thus makes his escape, to drive with this or that noted politician, with whom he is obliged to discuss questions of state. He comes back, puts on evening dress, and goes to dinner. At the table he entertains, by necessity, people whom he has invited to dine for reasons purely political. More -hop. , ' UNDER CROSS FIRE. Incidentally, he is conscious that the eye of the nation is upon him. If he serves wine at the repast, the Prohibition crowd will go for him in the public prints; sup posing that he provides only water, tbe op position newspapers will accuse him of be ing a temperance fanatic and, worse still, of niggardliness. Hayes, who spent four times more money on spreads than any other President before or since, was violently at tacked for his stinginess, simply because he provided no wine. And yet on a single en tertainment he spent $6,000. After dinner the specially favored in public life come to consult tbe President about what they particularly want, and thejr usually refuse to go away until tbey get it But suppose that Mr. Harrison ex ecutes another strategic movement and. in stead of staying in the White House, goes out to a reception ora dinner. There again he is badgered, compelled to shake hands with every one and stared at because'he isa public person. And it is ten to one that he will be cornered by some office-seeking guest and made sorry that he came. CLEVELAND AND ABTHUK. If it can be said that one man who does nothing but work is outdone in that respect by another, Mr. Cleveland outdid Mr. Har risou. Arthur tried to get some pleasure out of the Presidency, but he made a dole ful failure of it. The opposition newspapers charged him with the crime of being a" late riser, but it was also true that he was an owl. Much of his work was done far into tbe night hours. Weshould not forget to say that Mr. Har rison is Mayor, to all intents and purposes, of Washington and the District of Columbia, and that he is obliged to control municipal affairs as well as those of the nation. But, whatever a President of the United States may do, he is always sure of ferocious at tacks in publie prints, with accompanying illustrations of himself in every distressing guise by the most expert caricaturists in tbe land. GUARDED BY GIANTS. Last, but not least important, the Presi dent's dwelling is the Mecca to which all the cranks in the country make pilgrimages when they can. To protect Mr. Hariisnn from torture by them, from physical assault, from assassination even, he has to be sur rounded by a cordon of guards, especially selected for their skill as detectives as well as for muscular strength. Captain Densmore, who has command of the squad of six, is reckoned the most expert judge of cranks in this country. His First Lieutenant has an upper arm that is as big as an ordinary man's thigh, and bis fellows are all athletes. The squad has plenty to do. Thanks to the precaution taken, Mr. Harrison is safe in his own dwelling. Lincoln was not murdered in tbe Executive Mansion; it was at the theater he was at tacked. Garfield was assassinated at a rail road station. Any crank who attempted to get at tbe Chief Magistrate to attack him in the White House would be grabbed, dis armed and carried off to the nearest police station with surprising celerity. Once in a while a man will unavoidably get in at a reception wbo is under the in fluence of liquor. In such a case the offend ing person is literally passed from one guard to another and thrown out into the. drive way before he realizes what has happened to him. There is a regular drill tor this performance, and practice makes perfect. Bene Bache. THE LEPEOSY D0CT0E. SI.terBoio Ocrtrndo Write of thoPhrilclan Who Direct. Her Work. Pall Mall Budget. Sister Bose Gertrude writes to us from Honolulu as follows: "Dr. Lutz, the eminent dermatologist, who has studied the disease of leprosy in Brazil for ten years, has already effected some wonderful improvements in tbe pa tients under his care at Kalihi, and the people do not know bow to be grateful enough to bim for his affectionate care and indefatigable efforts to restore them to health. Indeed, the Government has received numerous petitions to nominate Dr. Lutz as President of the Ha waiian Board of Health, to give him the charge and control of all the lepers orsus pects, and, although these are all tabled, it is curious to see such demonstrations in a people who, as a rule, are eminently op posed to treatment by foreign doctors. Dr. Lutz is also an enthusiastic bacteriologist, and it may be hoped -that ere long a prophylaxis and therapeutics of leprosy may be made known to the world by him which will prove more efficacious thanthe means hitherto employed by either scien tists or soi-disant doctors or leper-curers." AT BUfrTEE CBOSS-LEGGED. Kent Description of tbe Ceremonies' of a Fen it In the Harem. We went to the harem at Cairo at 3 in the afternoon, and till the sun set we were en tertained by dancing and singing girls, with interludes of short funny stories told by two dwarfs, who made, I was told, a large income by attending marriage feasts 'and "dilating the hearts" of the guests, writes Mrs. Boss, in Murray's Magazine. As I did not understand Turkish, I tried to talk to some of the women in my halting Arabic, and was not sorry when Mme. Hekekyan Bey told me we were to have dinner. Little did I think of what an ordeal my first Turk ish dinner was going to be. Sitting cross-legged in a heap is not diffi cult for a short time, and on alow divan one leg can be put down for an occasional rest; but at dinner I was obliged to sit close to tbe little inlaid table under pain of spilling the food into my lap, and cramp was the result. The first time of eating with one's fingers is also rather a puzzle; but the dinner was ex cellent, and I wonder Turkish or Greek cooks have not taken the place of French chefs. There was rather a jumble, accord ing to our ideas, of soaps, sweets, roast, etc. ; the dishes seemed to come up whenever they were ready, puddings and creams between various preparations of meat or vegetables, and the rapidity with which they were served was extraordinary. Our kind hostess' pressed us to eat until I realized what the schoolboy at our village feast felt when he answered the curate timidly: "Please, sir, I think I could eat a bit more if I stood up." Tbe P-natur's Latest. A vagrant arrested in New York was de scribed as a "nomad." And when. he was locked up in default of bail, there was noraad-der man in town. Dr. Lutz. n'jf" -' WOMEN AND WAGES. Dire Necessity Shonld Not lba the Requirement of Unionism. GIELS, SHOULD BE FKEB AS BOTS, And if Thej Choose 'tha Field of Labor -(one Should Object. A PEKICI0DS FRIKCIPLE EXPLODED 'W1UXTT POI THE DISPATCH.l Judging by the speech made by their rep resentative uin Labor Day, the members of the "Working Girls' Progressive Union are cultivating and promulgating some very erroneous ideas as to the work of women. The leading speaker of the union is reported to have said: ' ""Women's field i occupied by women who have no necessity to work and thus many a willing girl is kept from getting the work that rightfully belongs to her." This evidently means that women who are not urged by necessity have no right to work; that it is their business to be drones and idlers in the field, or, at least, workers without wages; that if they have a husband to support them, or an income upon which they can manage to get along, they have no right to exercise their talents and ability in the way of making money, but should leave the field to those who are more necessitous. THE BITLE AMONG MEN. Equity, as Herbert Spencer observes. knows no difference of sex. The law of equal freedom applies to the whole race, women as well as men. The absurdity of the position held by the working girls as to restricting .some women from working if tbey choose is seen by applying the same rule to men. According to the idea of fair ness as held by the union, men who have enough to live upon should not work or en gage in any business, but should leave such pursuits to those who are not so lucky. A lawyer who by the exercise of his tal ents has achieved a competence should retire from the courts and give "the boys" a chance. A minister wbo has married a rich wife should step down and out of the pulpit to give the pious and impecunious young "stewgents" an opportnuity. The editor wbo has worked up to a large circulation and fat dividends should depart from the sanctum and let those whose pocbetbooks are slim step into his shoes. The working man who has earned enough money to buy himself a home, and saved enough to live upon if need be, should cease to labor so that those who need work should have a better chance to get it. Do men do this? "When men marry wives who, by keeping boarders, can support them are they re quired to quit working on their own ac count, so as to give up their places and job. to willing hands who nee'd them? OUK PROMINENT MEN. Gladstone, the famous statesman, is over 80 and bas plenty of money. Should be be retired from Parliament to furnish a place for men struggling ud from obscurity? The Bothschilds have more than a mint of money. Should they be retired from the banking business for the benefit of those anxious to grow rich and are willing to suc ceed them? James G. Blaine is a million aire. Why should he be retained in the State Department when there are thousands who wonld like to draw his salary? George "Westinghouse bas won his millions. "Why should be not quit business, let the wonder ful machinery of his mind rt and fall to pieces, and devote himself to idleness and inanity, so that the young fry might have a show? "Whitelaw Keid married a woman with great wealth, why should he not be deposed from the Tribune as editor, so as to give some gifted reporter a nice place? Mark Twain married money iu big figures, why should he not be restrained from writ ing books, so as to give young authors a foot bold on fame and a share of fortune? These girls want women who have means, and wives who have husbands, and there fore no necessity to work (as they think), to retire from the field of labor and make more room for the working girl. They do not seem to recognize the fact that talents were given to women not to bury, but to use, to trade upon, to increase. WHEEE THE THEOBY LEADS. According to their philosophy Harriet Beccher Stowe having a husband to support her should have kept out ot the field of au thorship, and devoted herself to cooking and scrubbing; Marion Harland as a minister's wife should have given her time and en ergies to the parish .sewing society and to scrimping along on a preacher's poor pay, rather than to making money outside by her pen; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps having got married, and with a husband to "support" her having no necessity to work, should cease writing for tbe public and give tbe scrubbing girls a chance to make a living; Mary A. Livermore having a husband to "support" her should retire irom the lecture field, in which she makes more money than her husband does in his parish ten "times over, and leave room for some of the young women who are willing to do such work. Mrs. McGiuty, who has a husband, should be debarred from washing clothes at a dollar a dozen, since she thereby 'may be taking work from somebody else. The value o: a born teacher is beyond rnbiea or anything else that is precious, but if she gets married there are plenty of sap headed people to demand that she shall bury ber talent, and that her place shall be given to perhaps "a green hand" who has no energy or enthusiasm for anything in the business, save drawing her salary. there's plenty; of tvobk. These people have no perception of the advantage of having workers suited to their work by virtue of talent and ability. They cannot see that if a married woman teaches, or engages in any trade for which her talents best fit her, that she does not keep work from others who need it more but in reality only exchanges it. If she teaches, or writes, or Clerks, or engages in any business for which she is best fitted, she mhst employ others to do her housekeeping, her sewing, her dressmaking and millinery. The work is simply exchanged and adapted by the best division of labor. If a good teacher, a talented writer or a clever bnsinrss woman is debarred from the "nse of her talents and forced to spend her time in dusting or dishwashing or drudging there is manifestly a loss of skill her tal ent is largely wasted. Such would be an infraction, too, of the law of political econ omy, which asserts that every worker is best employed in such way as will make his labor most productive and useful tq other people, and at the same time most profitable to himself. HOUSEKEEPING DRUDGERY. Moreover, there are many women ostensi bly "supported" who live tbe most meager and stinted lives. "With not a dollar to call their own, and reduced to beggary when tbey want one, it is rather to their credit to earn some, if thf-y can, as they have a perfect right to do. A recent English writer says: "It is strange to see into what unreasonable disrepute housekeeping woman's first natural duty has fallen in England." But it should not be a matter of such wonder to men after all, for who among them would care much for any busi ness when there was no money in it. A woman and many do may toil like a gal ley slave at housework, but not a dollar more is added to the family finances. How many men would work their lives away under like circumstances without the stim ulus of wages? Every olive branch doubles her work and contracts her purse. ' The wife of a well-to-do business man told the writer sheenviedher servant when she was paid her month's wages in solid cash, which she could spend as she pleased, with no man to ask her what she did with the money. At a woman's exchange the question was asked as to who were the contributors. Ko names are permitted to be given, but the in formation was obtained that they are largely married men who were in sore need of money themselves. The pleasure and profit of doing inch, worrXPerhap. account for the disrepute into which housekeeping has fallen ot which the English brother so piteously complains. IT IS HOT SUBPBISING. "What degradation, for ini;ance, is there in cookery?" he asks in mournful num bers. "Well, there is no degradation in it any more than in digging ditches or break ing stones upon the road, but men, if they can avoid it, never choose to So such drudg ery, so they need not express such sad sur prise that a woman who has no taste for it does not yearn to spend her time basting and broiling and roasting over a hot stove and dishwashing and scrubbing in a back kitchen at nothing per annum. A woman cannot always choose the work for" which she is best suited by taste and ability, but she certainly has the right to do so if he can. She is no more to be blamed for this thn are rich men wbo go on making money and engaging in business enterprises to increaie their pile. In Bellamy's "Look ing Backward" he represents that in the good time coming women are to be relieved of the slavery of housework, and so far will marriage be from becoming an interference with s woman's chosen career that the higher positions in the feminine armv of in dustry will be intrusted only to ""women who have been wives and mothers, since they only fully represent the sex." Ee lieved from the cares and responsibilities of housekeeping by co-operation, and furnished with healthful and inspiriting occupations, and with freedom to choose their own careers, it would not be strange if the women of the twentieth century should come up to the ideal presented. MEN "WOULD NOT ENDUBE IT. Dr. Leete, commenting on the present civilization when looking backward saidt "There is something which, even at this dis tance of time penetrates one with pathos in the spectacle of women who were more than any other class the victims of the nineteenth century civilization, their ennuied undevel oped lives, stunted at marriage, their narrow horizon bounded so often, physically by the four walls of home, and morally by a pretty circle of personal interests. I speak now not only of the poorer classes who were gen erally worked to death, but also of the well-to-do and rich. From the great sorrows as well as tbe petty frets oflifs they had no ref uge in the breezy outdoor world ofhuman af fairs nor any interests save those of the fam ily. Such an experience would have soft ened men's brains, or driven them mad." But women are stronger than men in en durance. That all this will be changed ia coming years the tendency of the times shows. "Whether it will take the form of Bellamy's ideal cannot certainly be pre dicted. But it is safe to say that the day is at hand when women will be as free to make the best of their lives as are men. That the "Working Girls Progressive "Union has progressed some is quite evident, but if the speech made on Labor Day by their representative voices their views they have a good deal yet to learn about the proper division of labor, and the law of lib erty. Bessie Bramble. GOSSIP OF THE GUARDS, LrTOTENANT A. T. EASTON. of Company F.. Fourteenth Kegiment, bas returned from an extensive trip through the watering places. Ma job W. W. Greenland, Second Brigade Quartermaster, took in the Exposition last week along with a number of other visitors from Clarion. The election for Second Lieutenant in Com pany C, of tbe Eighteenth Regiment, which wai postponed for two weeks, will take place next Tuesday evening. A 3Ieettsg of tbe officers of the Eighteenth Regiment was held at the Diamond street armory last night. A number of matters of importance were discussed. Company E, of the Fifteenth Regiment, un der Captain Michling. made the best showing rn the Second Brigade at tbe last spring inspec tion, the average of efficiency being 71 Company G., of tbe Fourteenth Regiment, had a well attended drill last Tuesday evening. Under Captain Thompson's handling the com pany is making rapid progress, and no dunbl will shortly be among toe best in the regiment. Battery B had a well-attended drill last last Monday night, tbe especial attraction being a brief bnt interesting address from Colonel Morton, a veteran of the late war. Captain Hunt bas Issued an order requiring his men to appear In fall uniform at drills hereafter, and proposes paying particular at tention 'o the saber exercises. LiEUTEJf ant f. H. Beak, of the Second United States Cavalry, who has been stationed in Pennsylvania fur tbe past two years as an inspector and adjunct to the National Guard, spent a few days in the city last week. Lieu tenant Bean's detail expires shortly and he is making strennons efforts tobave it lengthened. He expects to have tbe aid ot Mr. Quay in fix ing up tbo matter in Washington. Colonel W. J. Hulings, of the Sixteenth Regiment, spent a few days in tbe city last week, and wore an unusually large smile on account of the showing made by his regiment in the reports of Major Patterson for tbe last spring inspections, tbe Sixteenth being at the bead of the list in the Second Brigade. Colonel Hnlings is also a candidate for Congress this year, with fair chances ot success. The Fonrteenth Regiment Board of Control held a meeting last Monday night at which a number of important matters relative to the rifle practice were discussed. Considerable tronble is being experienced witn some of tha companies on account or the rifle practice com muta'ion, as some of them wno claim to have earned it last year hare never received the allowance. The subject of the pay of the regi ment for the inspection last fall was also talked of, and an effort will be made to dis cover why it bas never been sent down. There is considerable kicking among tha local company commanders over tbe report of Major Frank Patterson for tho last spring In spections. There are many causes assigned for the general poor showing madn in tbe matter of efficiency, while some assertions are made that the ratings arc unjustly low. In tbe Eight eenth Regiment the drum corps of 55 pieces was not accounted lor by Major Patterson at all, although he carefully inspected the men and praised their work. This orersight alone would drop tbe rating of the regiment very con siderably. DubinQ tbe coming week tbe eyes of the National Guardsmen all over the State will be directed toward tbe lit. Gretna ranges, where tbe annnal State contests will be decided. That some fine shooting will be done no one doubts, as the teams have been selected with great care, and It is probable that some of the best scores yet made in this country will be beaten this week. Monday and Tuesday will be given for tearajiractice. and Wednesday the regi mental matches will be shot oil. Thursday the brigade teams will be selected for practice and Friday the brigade match will be shot. Every sbot fired during tbe week will be carefully recorded, as a number ofmoneypn.es and trophies depend on the best averages made by the men. The inter-State rifle matches at Creedmoor, Long Island, took place last week. But little interest was taken in tbe contests ontside ot New York State, as but one other State en tered a representative team. New Jersey, and as it has as yet made but little progress, com paratively speaking, in rifle practice. Now York bad practically everytning its own way. Tho treatment given visiting teams last year at Creedmoor about killed tbe chances of tbe range ever becoming anything, hut a State affair. Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, the two most advanced States in target practice, refusing to send back teams this year. It i probable that by next season arrangements will be made to have a series of national contests on the Mt. Gretna range in connection with the State matches. The sub ject has been agitated for several years, and now bids fair to be a success. DESPOTIC BUT HOSPITABLE. A Cartons Fact About tbe Despotic Barons of ihoT-relflh Cenlurr. Among the most despotic barons of the twelfth century there was a kind of grot hospitality and indiscriminate charity, which caused their tyranny to be somewhat overlooked. As, for instance, that of Sir "William Filz-William, who lived about 1117, and who inscribed on a cross in Sprot borougb High street the following verse, which (together with the cross) were de stroyed in 1S20: Whoso is hungry, and list will eate. Let htm come to Sprotboroughto his meats. And for a night, and for a days. His borso shall bare both corns and bays. And no man shall ask hym where he goeth aware. Lies' popular gallery, 10 and 13 Sixth street. Cabinet photos fl per dozen. Prompt peli-eiy," sa ' , i-tii-ii .'s" . .! -$attj , ' --zdsx-., " . -&,;,- ?&:sSfc-aal -t , " , -. ',-,"(! -Ki - ' fls--t-i--iL ' -7is,-ri.t ffijMrf?r"'--fii th Mrlf .lir "' 1 1 h'JiSi&i&itiBBMmhiSSSn'
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