jfiiTlMBffrapi JW??!!" Z&W ivg&r-itl p" iSSP ? 10 States, and like all such questions they are not easy to answer, nor are replies to them to be hastily formulated. In reply to your first question, Will our present re publican form of government last 100 years longer?" I would say that I have no accurate data which would warrant me in expressing an opinion as. to how Ions the present gov ernment of the United States will endure. "Your second question, 'If not, why not?' I am equally unable to answer satisfao torilv. . "In renly to your third question, 'What is its creates! peril?' I would say that in rnv judgment the indifference of the people to righteousness in their rulers and to in-te-ritv in the administration of the Govern ment is the greatest peril with which we are threatened as a nation. "In replv to your lourth question Twould Bay that there is not the smallest probability that aliens and foreign syndicates will ever attain control of this country by buying up its land and business enterprises, and event ually change its lorm of government. The driit of the world is not toward monarchical government, but away Irom it, and onr dan cer is not in the direction of monarchy, but rather of anarchy; not from foreign syndi cates, but irorj domestic syndicates, and then from the recoils from that tyranny which ereat moneyed combinations seek to impose." Tending Toward Republicanism. Joseph 2". Dolpli, the senior United States Senator Irom Oregon, writes: "To your first question I answer yes. The Constitution may be amended, changes in form may occnr; hut our republican gov ernment "will endure for all time. Mon archical government is not likely to be re established on this continent and before another century all the leading Govern ments of Earope will be republican. In yiew of the foregoing answer, your second question requires no reply. "Your third question, 'What is our Be public's greatest peril?' I will not under take to answer categorically. The main tenance of a government by the people is possible only while the masses are inde pendent, intelligent and virtuous. The danger to our republican form ot govern ment arises from the ignorant, the vic.ous and venal classes, controlled by desiguing and corrupt men. To guard against the danger we should educate the rising genera tion, prevent the coming to this country of the criminal classes of other nations, main tain the standard of American wages and thus secure the independence of the Ameri can workingmen; frown down by public opinion and punish by law all corrupt prac tices which debase the voter and cheapen suffrage. "I answer your fourth interrogatory bv saying that I do not think there is a parti cle ol danger that aliens will so buy up the land and loreign syndicates so buy up the business enterprises as to obtain control of our country and eventually change its form of government. The indncement to foreign inve&tors in this country are created by our system of government and republican insti tutions. Foreigners, who have invested their capital here for greater safety and bet ter profits, will be naturally interested in maintaining those institutions, and I doubt if a majority, other things being equal, would prefer a monarchy or aristocracy to a republican government. Of course, it would be belter for the country if its laud owners were all citizens and none ol its industries were owned bv loreigners or controlled by loreiga capital, so tnat the profits UDon the capital would remain here; but the produc tion of what we consume in this country by foreign capital here is far better than, and preferable to, in every way and on every ac count, the production ol such articles by foreign workmen in foreign shops and for eign countries with loreign capital as well." Too Hard for the Shermans. Senator John Sherman writes as follows: "I never venture to prophesy for the fut ure. No one could answer your questions with any confidence, though I hop' that our Government will last for many ye ,-s. The perils of the future cannot be anticipated. Any man would usurp the properties of the infinite if he attempted to reply to your questions." The Senator's brother, General W. T. Sbenjian, sa)S : "5Tour questions can only be answered by some newspaper editor. Newspaper edi tors are the only true prophets now living to lny knowledge." Senator Edmunds is not a pessimist, as witness his reply: "Xo your first question, I answer that I certainly think so. This answers both your first and second questions. In respect to your third, I remark that I think the great est perils to the Republic are insufficient education, excess of the foreign element and political corruption. "As to your fourth, I think there is no danger of anv considerable portion of the lands of the United States falling into for eign control, nor any considerable portion ol its business enterprises." Europe's Dangerous Element. Senator Wade Hampton, of South Caro lina, writes: "Time alone can give answer to your first question and to your second. "With regard to what is the greatest peril of our Govern ment, I think it is the accumulation of money in the hands ot a few persons andthe unscrupulous use of wealth. I apprehend so danger to republican institutions by foreign immigration or capital in the way pointed out by jour fourth question; but I think that great barm is done to the country by allowing Nihilists, Communists and paupers ot otber lands to become citizens of ours." Wasamakcr Has Faith. Ecsimaster General Wanamaker says: "I have lull faith in the perpetuity of our institutions. I firmly believe that our re publican lorm of government will improve steadily and endure lastingly. This answer, I think, covers all the questions you present to me, and they are most important ones." The Past a Guarantee. Senator Ingalls expresses himself ai fol lows: "I think that the Anglo-Saxon race on this continent have thus far overcome every obstacle in their unprecedented experiment of popular self-government. They have made too many sacrifices to leave any doubt that they will solve the problems of the future as successfully as those of the past." A MAGNETIC SEEEtET. The Complete Ascendency He Enjoys Over Prisoner's blinds. ew York Tribune. A man who has told many stories which have appeared in this colnmn is responsible for the following: "Talking about the fear that criminals have for some officers oi the law, I knew a sheriff in Sweetwater county, "Wyo., whose power oyer desperadoes was amszing. He seemed to be able to mate them do anything which he chose except be come respectable citizens. There was one fellow who was a notorious ruffian even among his kind. He spent nearly all his time in tbe clutches of the law. He was a gambler, a -thief and undoubtedly a mur derer. "3Tet often when there was dangerous work to be done, my friend, the Sheriff, would go around to the county jail and fetch out his mott desperate prisoner to.as sist him. He even went so far at times as to release him entirelv, sending him on some mission. The fellow always came back, reported to the Sheriff and submitted to.beiug locked up again without a mur mur, lie was so afraid of tbe Sheriff that he did not dare to do otber than he was ordered to do. I ought to say, however, that the Sheriff had 'broken in' his wild friend at their first meeting with the butt end of a revolver." IleTV&in'tlnlt. Hew lork Jo'urnil.J "I never knew until now that I wasn't In it," said Arthur Lumley yesterday to "Com" McCaffrey. Arthur was standing in front of a big fur rier's store on Broadway and was looking wistfully at a seal-lined overcoat as he spoke, AS THEYOIICE WERE, Unique Photographs of Four of the Leading Stage Favorites in Their Younger Tears. BOOTH AT THE AGE OP 23. The Original Taken at Lexington in 1856 Brings Out the Actor's Eesem blance to Napoleon. r ADELIKA FATTI AS A BLIP OF A GIRL LrtUi rnm Btrtxetea Wltn til Shiga Wu it th BtgiEShg ef Eer Cuttr. " rcOBnESrOJTDENCE or THE DIBTJLTCII.1 New York, Jan. 21 S Edwin Booth walks Broadway with a cane, and the frost of age glistens on the locks he has al ways permitted to curl about his ears, tens of thousands of Americans feel admiration for the actor and interest in the man. "We hate to see him grow old. The picture of the great tragedian repro duced herein shows him as he was a quarter of a cen tury ago and the ; .original photo graph, taken ,by James Mullen in Lexington, Ky.,in 1856, is not only an admirable likeness but is as well, Con sidering its age "STSjkS ?'" nd remote ness or the town where it was printed, a work oi art. In the unique collection of dramatic curios which his large wealth and conse quent leisure have enabled Mr. Fetr Gil sey to make, a collection which is the delight of every member of the theatrical and artistic callings who has had the opportunity of seeing it, there is no more' notable por trait of contemporary celebrities before they EDWIJT BOOTH AT became famous than this photograph of Edwin Booth. Striking Resemblance to Napoleon, It is impossible in a newspaper cut to re produce the delicacy of expression in the features, the fine lines of the hands, the tapering fingers which Mr. Booth knows so well how to ue, and the great meditative eye. Nobodv could fail to see the man himself, with all his powers, stand out from the cardboard wbich shows the boy at 23. Even then there was some uncertainty about young Booth's name. He was unquestionably baptized Edwin Thomas Booth, though ofteuer spoken of as Edwin Forrest Booth, and best known as plain Edwin Booth. "When -this lemarkable photograph was made Booth had been an aetor seven years. The powerful lower jaw, which has always given a masterful ex pression to his face was not yet prominent, but his resemblance to Napoleon Bonaparte, which one has but to see this photograph to confess at a glance, was even then striking Fanny 'Davenport in Babyhood. to a degree. Napoleon had a' square chin with a dimple in it; Booth's chiu was tben more pointed. But tbe eye, the forehead and the cheek bones have very much the look of tbe fiery Corsican. Booth his own family are said to pro nounce the name "Boothe" with a sort of "vexed Bermoothes sound had made his first appearance be-'ore an audience when only 16, on the 10th of September, 1819. The Boston Museum was the stage, anjd Trasel in "Richard III." the character. The Guggenheim sisters were the chief at traction. Mr. Booth appearing "with" them. It was'not until 1857 that the young trage dian stepped on New York boards, at the Winter Garden, as Siehard in. Mr. Mul len's photograph, which is wonderfully worsed and in such details as tbe hber oi the linen in the shirtbosom and the char acter of the fingers, is a long panel, and would be a credit to anybody at any time. t Fata at Eight Tears. . A large photograph; of what might be called folio sue, shows Adelius Patti at the I A hi TE age of 8 years. She is a tall, "well grown slip of a girl, with a grave, firm face and the birthmark ,of her .native land, Spam, stamped unmistakably on the handsome features. There is nothing Hebraic about the leatures as shown here, the nose being straight and fine. The future queen of song and greatest money-earner of women of all time, is very plainly dressed in tbe photograph, wearing what might be taken for a linsey-woolsey gown. Gold hoops, of an oriental pattern, reminding one of Othello's, glimmer from her ears and on her fingers four rings are visible. Eitzgibbon, of St. Louis, who was succeeded by John A. Scholten, made the picture. Patti first appeared here in a concert for the benefit of the American dramatic lund. Mr. Gill has the programme ot the evening and the newspaper criticisms which ap peared next morning. There was no doubt that the unknown little Spanish girl, in whose lace can be seen the great prima donna of to-day, made an instant jmpression as the star of the entertainment, and a bril liant iuturc was promptly predicted lor her bv the newspaper critics. There are other Patti at Foui teen. pictures extant of Patti as a childj but none equal in expression and character to this. The photograph of Palti at 10, taken in company with Paul Julian, the little violin ist, who was the feature of the Strakosch troupe then, is, however, very interesting. A letter About Patti. Here is a letter from Maurice Strafcosch, written from Philadelphia iu September, 1852, to Mr. Boberts, evidently then the dramatic editor of the Boston Times: Philadelphia, Sept 26, 185Z Mr. Koberts, Bo.ton Times: JIT Deae Fkiend I shall be very soon in Boston With Adellna Fattl, really tbe greatest musical wonderin the world. What her powers as a vocalist are I could not describe to yon. Wo are now giving concerts here with triumphant success. We have already given three, each more crowded, and we are obliged to prolong oar stay and give some more. I send you an article which I would be very thankful if you would Irsert (-lc) in Your valnable paper, with the announcement that we villi be very soon in your city. With many hearty thanks in anticipation, and many wishes for your happiness, 1 beg you to believe me your very devoted f rieud. M. faTUAKOSCH. After all, it seems the press was "worked" in very much the same manqer tnen as now. However the limitations of newspaper il- TTVESTTT-THBEE. lustration may fail to bring the likeness out to the casual eye, there is an unmistakable likeness between Fanny Davenport at the age cf 3. as shown iu the photograph from which the accompanying cut was nfade, and Pannv Davenport as she is to-day fair, fat and 41. Mrs. Davenport, who is alive and well to-day, and an exceedingly quick-witted and interesting old lady, is shown hold ing her young hopelul on ber Knee and looking down with pride on the chubbgirl who was soon to become an ornament of tbe American stage. Tanny Davenport's Age. A good deal of surprise, too, is expressed when the date of the picture and the age at which it was taken are authenticated. Pos sibly because of a rather variegated matri monial experience and of the encroachments of avoirdupois onalraineonce magnificently lithe Panny Davenport seems, in many minds, to have gotteu the credit of being much older than she really is. She was born just opposite the British Museum, in London, in 1850, and as "only 41" now, she isn't more than a young woman still. Miss Davenport's first appearance on the stage was as a child in "Mctamora." The pretty little girl shown here in the costume of a drummer boy would never be recognized as the young woman whose ex periences on the burlesque stage have been so eventful for the last 10 or '15 years. Sarony took the photograph from which the cut is made when Pay Templeton was. just 12 years old. There is an, innocence and grace in the face which many thousand theatergoers who remember old John Tem pletan's burlesque company in its tour of Texas and tbo Southwest and South 15 or 18 years since will recognize as having then adorned the manager's nimble daughter. Aud it is to be observed of these four fig ures now piominent each in his or her specialty, tragedy, grand opera; melodrama and burlesque, that each began the theatri cal career as a child performer. 3'. P. B. A Pretty Lamp Shade. St. Louis Post-Dlspitcb.3 This unique lamp shade, called the "Bou doir Sky," is made of silk of the daintiest azure blue. A. transparent golden moon and -any ' number of large- and small transparent stars are pasted between the double layer of- silk. A A. -Pretty Jjimp Shade. full garniture of soft Indian silkof a yellow color is draped around both top and bottom ot the shade, as shown in onr illustration; long loops ot ribbon fall to one' side. The effect is a charming one.( , The Koch Lymph Will not be needed If vou use 'Bump's Balsam, the best cough cure. BimjUo'l reei all druggists, 3 0 t PITTSBURG ' DISPATCH, SEEN FROM THE EEAR. Frank Carpenter Takes a Peep at the Senate From a Gallery. A CHARACTER STUDY IN BACKS. Wolcott the Sullivan of tbe Chamber, and Chandler the Pigmy. HOW SENATOR GEORGE'S CLOTHES FIT fCOEKISPOKDKSCB OF TBI DIsrATCB.l Washington, Jan. 24. I write this let ter in one of the public galleries of the United States Senate. I have lelt the press gallery, wbich faces the Chamber, and have come here to get a rear view or our states men. I want to note them as the stranger does, and I sit here surrounded bycolored citizens who have crawled in to get out of tbe cold, by tourists who are doing "Wash ington in 36 hours, and by bridal couples who whisper sweet nothings to each other while Senator Sherman makes one oi his great speeches. An old gray haired, black-faced uncle slumbers peacefully by my side, with his iron spectacles resting on the tip othis nose, which emits an audible snore as I write, aud back of me I hear a green country girl asking the guide to show her Senator Tom Keed, and saying that she don't believe that Vice President Morton wears a wig as the papers' have reported. Below me is the big Bear Pit, known as the Senate Chamber.and I count 80-odd backs, with queer-shaped heads tied to the tops of them, resting in all attitudes imaginable in mahogany arm chairs with red cushions, behind little mahogany desks. The Backs of the Statesmen. These are the backs of our great United States Senators. They are owned by these 80 men, who have six-year contracts with the Government at 53,000 a year, payable monthly. They receive nearly100 a week, or about $15 a day year iu aud year out, and to all outward appearances they get the money chiefly tor resting those backs against those red leather cushions for about 12 months out of the two years which make up the life of a Congress. There, one of them drops a pencil on tbe floor, and a page boy iu knickerbockers runs and picks it up for fear he should bend that J5.000 back. Here, a private secretary, furnished by the Government at ?G a day, takes down the directions of one of the Senators, lor fe.ir be should get the student's stoop in those 55,000 shoulders by bending over the aesk, and there, a third Senator, in order to rest tbe easier, his thrown himself back against the red-leather cushions ana has propped his feet on the chair beside him, and seems to b? going into a doze. It is a sott snap. 1 don't know anything better than the position of a United States Senator, and here from the rear it seems softer than ever. How They Amuse Themselves. See how the great men amuse themselves. Culloni, of Illinois, is playing with a string. Iteagan, of Texas, is poking the end of his spectacles into his ears, and Payne, ot Ohio, is chewing a wooden toothpick to digest the bread and milk nhich has formed his frugal lunch. I see two round, fat backs below me, and I hear tbe cliuk of silver as I heud over the rail and look down. George Vest aud Philetns Sawyer are sitting and chat ting together, and their big heads almost hump each other as they whisper under their breaths. Sawyer has two silver dollars in his hand and he passes these in a fondling way,as though he loved them, from one paw to the other. He is urging Vest to sign a petition whirh lies before him, and by this he will be enabled to pass a pension bill for one of his constituents out of the regular order. Saw yer is like Joey Bagstock, "tough, but develish sly." He gets through more pen sion bills than any other man in the Senate, and this is the way he operates. He is one of the successful men of tbe Senate, and those silver dollars which he clinks are only two out of the 4,000,000 wbich he is said to be worth, and which he has made out of that big, round bald head which is pasted down into those big broad shoulders below me. Backs and Character. The back is a good index of character. There is a positive force in that bJck of Sawyer's. Every one of its fat bump3 is in dicative of push and perseverance, and the broad shoulders, the firmly set head and the great, powerful arms are emblematic of the success ot its owner. Senator Vest has the back of a fighter, and here from the gallery it looks like the back ot a bully. Vest re minds one of. the bad man from Bitter Creek. His shoulders are thrust forward and his neck pokes his great head, with its frowning eyes, out from them, and you look to see the'ehip on his shoulder which his manner asks you to knock off if you dare. And still Vest is a good fellow. He has been a great man r years. He was a mem ber of the Confederate Congress and he ranks here as one of the strong men on the Democratic side of tbe Chamber. He has a strong back, but not a diplomatic one, and he holds his own by sheer force of intellect and will. Take that back of Evarts. It is stooped witn the study of many years. Tbe frame inside its broadcloth coat has lost its uprightness Irom the burning of gallons of midnight oil, and Ev.-.rls is one of the best read men in public life. Evarts' lxns Sentences. He has a mighty head, 'astened by a thin' neck to those stooping shoulders, and when he begins to speak .you think his words must be coiled up Inside his Iranie like a watch spring, for he pulls them out, ad jectives, nouns and verbs, until you are dizzv in trying to keep track of them, and he will reel off 400 of tbem before he makes a period. I usked him one day as to these 400-words sentences, aud he replied: "My boy, I have beenmore than a gener ation in public life and I have occupied a number oi positions of trust.and it seems to me that when a man has gone through the different periods of public life that I have and has had to do with such interests and such trusts as 1 have, and the only thing that can be said against him is that he uses sentences 400 wordslong, it does not seem to me that the criticism is such an one as should not keep him awake o'nighls. Be sides," he uent on, "all the great orators of antiquity nsed long sentences. Demos thenes reeled out pages of words without a stop. Cicero used long sentences, and in fact, it is a question as to whether the proper oratorical sentence should not be a long one." The Back of Prosperity. Senator Hoar has a good, fat, old, con servative back. It is prosperous and well rounded and its owner seems to have that contented spirit which is better than great riches. Senator Cul loni has as many angles in his back as Hoar has curves. He thinks bis back looks like that of Abe Lincoln's, but as he stands erect inside of his desk, be makes me think of the frame which tbe farmer puts up in his cornfield when the crows are plenty, and his coat seems to hang from his shoulders.. Another angular back is that of Senator Sanders. Sanders looks as though bis bones were hung on wires, and he throws his stomach to the front instead of his chest, as he stauds upright. He has not tbe tat paunch of Senator Sawyer. His shoulders stoop slightly and he has the fighting back of Senator Vest. He is one ol the bravest men in tbe Senate. and ono.of the most able. He is a man of ideas, and .when he has gotten out of tbe babyhood of Senatorships he will make himself felt. Ingalls has an angnlar back. He is tall and thin, and tha newsboy Who called him a skeleton dressed up was not very far wrong. The top of his frame is the most curious part of it, and from tha rear he appears to t Have a Very "Large Bead. "Looking at him from tbe press gallery, his forehead is narrow and his head small. Here, it is as big as that of any of the United States' Senators',-and the "remark that I heard last sight In retard to It, made SUNDAY. JANUARY 25, by Congressman Tarseney, is unjust in the extreme. Said Tarseney: "Talk about Ingalls' head. He has no head at all. His neck has merely grown up and haired out." Ingalls' head, in reality, is not bad-looking. At any rate, It has more in it than yon will find in nine-tenths of the heads of his brother Senators, and the gray matter in his brain will outweigh that of any member of the House, with the exception, perhaps, of that of Tom Heed's. Senator Plumb has just risen to speak. He has the aggressive business back. He is fat, and strong and blustering. Every line of his rear is practical. His shoulders are square, and so square that they hurt your eyes. His shoulder blades are turned in toward his chest, and he doubles up his fists. and pounds the air as he talks. He whips himself this way and that, and you see that there is not a weak joint in his ver tebra, and you can almost see the backbone of the man, though it is padded with a thick covering of flesh. Big and little of It. Just back of him stands young Senator Wolcott. He has a pair; of shoulders so broad that had he been Sinbad, the "Old Man of the Sea" would never have left him, and he is a gord deal like Plunib,only better made and better rounded. He has a short neck, a big, well-combed head, and he has shown himself to be a good speaker. Just beside him I note a lean little fellow of about 100 ponnds weight. I would take him for a clerk if I did not know that he was Senator Chandler, and as I look at ths big frame of "Wolcott, one of the legs of which is as big around almost as Chandler's waist, and the head of which corresponds to Chandler's as a football does to a baseball, I see that avoirdupois is ho index of brains, and that a little man may no as, much as a big one. Chandler's back does not measure more thau a font and a half from shoulder to shoulder. His neck is so thin that it conld be twisted off like that of a chicken, and ifbobs this way and that, and he twists his shoulders in and out as he sits there and thinks. He is the most nervous body in the Senate. A Back for Bulldozing. Senator Voorhees has a fat, Dutch back. His frame is tali, heavy and apoplectic. It is an aggressive back and a sort of a bully ing back, and he has made lots of money at the law by throwing those big shoulders back and bulldozing the jury. Eustis, who sits beside him, is also a lawyer, and his back looks up to tbe gallery with all the lines oigood living and good clothing. He has an income bigger than that of Voorhees, and I have no donbt that he could buy Voorhees" a half a dozen times over. His big frame has been fed with a silver spoon from the time it first saw light as a bouncing big baby, until now, when it holds its own as one of the six-foot millionaires of the United States Senate. Eustis conies from one of the oldest fami lies in the country. He graduated at Har vard and has been a prolessor (or years in on i of the universities of New Orleans. One oi his brothers married Mr. Corcoran's daughter, and tbe Senator himself inherited a fortune. He is a man of great ability and great culture, but he is too rich and too lazy to cut a great figure in tbe United States Senate. Mr. Vance has the back of a fat old grandmother, and his double-breasted coat with long skirts makes you think he is an old woman with a "Mother Hubbard" as you look at him from the gallery. His back is full ot good nature. Scares Too When He Itises. Blodgett, of New Jersey is one of the razor-backed Senators. He is tall and thin and scares you when he begins to get no. He rises and rises until you wonder where he will end, and the bald spot on his crown, when he stands erect, is somewhere near seven feet from the floor. He has the stu dents' stoop, but he got it from bending over the machinery of a locomotive, rather than over books, and his reputation has been made out of railroads rather than politics. He began life as a locomotive engineer, and he worked his engine so well that he wheeled himself into one of the chief offices of the road, and he has for years been the head of the Long Branch division of the Jersey Cen tral Bailroad. He lives at Long Branch aud is said to be in close connection Irith the Seweil party in New Jersey politics. Another tall, lean Senator is Walthall, of Mississippi. )He is 6 feet high and about 18 inches broad. His shoulders are narrow and bis long hair flows down in curls upon them. Looking at him from the gallery, you would hardly know whether his head was that of a man or a woman, for the hair is combed a la pompadour, and it flows in graceful curls down the nape of his neck. He is a high-toned Southern gentleman and an eminent lawyer. ITho Educated Fig. He is always dressed in the cleanest and neatest of clothing, and in this he is some what different Irom bis colleague, Senator George, who looks as though he had been modeled by one of nature's brickmakers in stead of one of nature's sculptors, and whose negligent ways have caused his bitter toneued enemies on the other side of the chamber to call him the "educated pig of the body." George, however, is a very good fellow. He is a man of considerable brains, and he is a great constitutional lawyer. It is not true that his trousers are cut with a circulir saw, and his coats are in reality made in Washington instead of at home. His pantaloons are undoubtedly slightly baggy, and the remark of Senator Vance as to them is not altogether out of the way. Vance says that he uever takes a rear view, of his old friend George without thinking of what one of his colored constituents said about an elephant after he had been to the circus. "Yes," replied the old nncle, "I done seed the elephant." "Aud what kind of an elephant was it, Uncle Ned?" "Wal, I never seed an elephant afore, but I 'low this was a mighty smart elephant, only it 'p eared to me that be sutinly had a heap of slack leather in his pants." Fban x G. Caepentbb. EELICS OP A E0MAN CITX A Plane, a Sandal and a Tent Peg From the SUchester Excavation. Readers of The Dispatch remember the discoveries recently made at SUchester, near Heading, England.. Belies of an ancient Plant, Tent Teg ant Bippo Sandal. Soman city are being dug1 up there, and they throw much light' upon the life of the Bomans'in England. Household goods packed and shipped. - HAuqs & Kxkxxx, 83 and 34 Water it, a if f J L Hi I! 189L LITERARY SUCKLINGS A Request in Behalf of a Graduate Excites Shirley Dare's Wrath. PAP IS A BAD THING FOR SUCH. Starvation Better From the Standpoint of Society's Best Good. WHI KIl'LING IS SO SUCCESSFUL wxtrrax tos Tin Disr-iTcn.l If the dear public grows tired of being taken into confidence abont some of these letters with which I am favored, in town meeting phrase, let it be manifested. I always did like to know what various human nature is capable of, and my taste is in a fair way to be gratified. The last epistle, in delicate, feminine hand, after polite and complimentary phras mgs, came to the point on the last page, as follows: Now I am going to interest yon in a young man, if you are so situated as to be interested. Splendidly educated, literary taste, but does not seem to find the rigbt place. I Inclose his address. If you can do anything for him lam sure it will be appreciated. Some people evidently think- it a privi lege for other people to interest themselves on demand for the unsatisfied and unpro vided who have their minds fixed on the higher apples on the tree. You may have planted your crabtree from the wood, graft ed, nursed 'and pruned it for 20 years, and when it is in full bearing, if the entire neighborhood doesn't have the benefit of the fruit it isn't for want of asking. IV hat the Request Means. There are procedures in vogue among highly respected people which need to be characterized they deserve. This sort of application is one of them. To a writer born so of three generations of hard thinkers and harder workers, whose way has been lought and toikd for in the cralt, come thb friends of this young graduate whose way has been smoothed for him through a splendid education, with a polite hint that the 500 chances for work ou every hand are not up to the level of bis ambitious taste, and "if you can do anything for him it will be appreciated." Doing anything in such a case means the canvass of one's literary acquaintance and connections, writing a good many letters and using no little effort in conversition for a good many weeks. This is desired as if it were a joy and favor for a busy person w,ho never knows au hour of leisure, whose work piles up two years beforehand. For, mark you, let one prove any ability and willing ness to work and the world takes care he never shall want for it. He can have the privilege of doing all his own work and other people's, too, if he will submit to it. When Men Are Interesting. To this and all similar applications, for this is not a solitary one by some dozens, I beg to say, iu the first place, I decline to feel the slightest interest in young men as such. For one reason, they are able to take sufficient interest in themselves to ex onerate the rest of the world Irom solicitude in their behalf. Except to themselves and some girl or two they are the most uninteresting creatures of the human race. Their talk is egotistic, crude, limited; their opinions hackneyed repetitions of the latest not always the latest fashions in ideas, caupht from "re membered" authors. Boys I like under 17 and over 45. At the latter period they be gin to leel the sun, to ripen, color and "take flavor. When the mouth gets its grip and the eye its aim, from that time np to 80 and into the eternities men can be interesting outside their personal and closest circle, not much before. They have to be tolerated, under conditions, at meal times and when there is nobody else aronnd, and it will never do to let tbem know individually just how perfectly their places are filled by va cancy. When I think of tbe hours of sub missive boredom I. have endured withafiable aud condescending yonng men I feel tired. Exceptions to thortule. Exceptions prove the rule, and I am happy to think of a few hard-working, in telligent lads, shrewd with native intelli gence and rare good feeling one a fisher man, one a clerk in a grocery, one a working druggist with whom it was possible to talk cheerily, with sense of humor and gain. But they had all worked through from their teens, the young druggist allowing himself just 50 cents a week above the cheapest board possible to pay the rest of his salary for his sister's education. A man like tbat is never uninteresting. In the second place I 'don't see why, in tbe name of the humanities, anyone is called on to feel or exert interest for a hale, sound young man, with use of his limbs and "splendidly educated" besides. What more OHKht he to need? What is hisspiendid ed ucation good for, if it has not placed him at an advantage over the rest of the world? That others may well ask of him, not he of the world.' Were he a woman untaught or half disabled with young children and help less ones dependent on her faltering arm, or an old man breaking under tbe buffets of misfortune, -he would have right to help;, but a youqg man of abilities and advant ages above the common, or so esteemed, to go about askinglnflnence at second or third hands to get a better helping than fate serves out to him, does not excite enthusi asm. "V Knocfcj for the Yonng Graduate. Besides, it appears that the young man is not without work and duty, only he has not the right place to suit his taste and terms. Most people do not find the right place till they have been looking for it 20 years or more, and are thankful to get it then. What business has a young graduate to expect a place to suit him? The question is not whether he can get work to suit him, but whether he can do work to suit the world, and, if not, the sooner he le?rns or puts him self out of the way the better. If he can get taken on trial in any low cosition in tbe world's great bnsiness, on food and lodging, it is all he has a right to look for till he proves bis fitness. When he has looked the world well over, be will conclude the first fdace that offered was the right place, only he was not man enough to fill it. Probablv Moses keepiug sheep in the deserts of Midian, or Vou Moltke as a subaltern, felt that be was not in the right place, but Fate had other views for them. Neither handling truuks as a hotel porter nor keeping books in a corner grocery has ever kept a man ot readability from being a general or a Cabinet Minister. Finding the Right Place. To taken late example, Mr. Clyde Fitch, with as fine an education as the country af fords, filled some years by giving private lessons in languages and studying history for plays and stories, as a sculptor studies anatomy and form. So he is able to write "Beau Brummel" and finds the right place much sooner than by canvassing his friends and his friends' friends for something com mensurate to his merits iu his own idea. I own a willingness to take trouble and worry and effort lor inexperienced women and all disabled folk, even though as gener ally happens, they turn again and rend one, or prove much better able to make effort ftr themselve'i than others are to take it lor them. Bntau able-bodied yonng man de pending on women's influence and care to help him, excites a enrious contempt in all sane minds. I haven't the slightest hesita tion against leaving such a one to his chances, because he is sure to find misjudg ing women and white throated ministers enough to help him to much better things in this world than he deserves. Where Woman Are Weak. " Women offer premiums on worthlessness. Tha most utterly good-for-nothing and loath some scamp I ever knew' of crowned two years of pretended reform, after sponging on church people through a short put seminary for "Christian workers" by marrying a eirl of one of the highest families iu the State with 1200.000 to ber fortune last year. He profasMd to be a rtioraad i aablar, bat h never was anything as decent as a gambler. There is a depth of infamy whose wages even a small gambler will spurn. This high-bred, and "Pious girl, with tbe wilfulness of her sex and piety well devel oped, led away with a pretended coat of arms which the fraud showed her and a pre tended reform from high caste gambling, must marry him against the prayers and protests of all her family and friends. Sho knows what it is by this time to be married to a beast, incapable of honor or decency, whose only pretense of treating his wife de cently is to keep a hold of her income. I never gained snch an insight into woman's weakness as in the details of this affair. The Uses of Starvation. One who knows the world grows very much hardened to the result of starvation. If an ed a cited or sane man in this day in a civil ized country c.-yi't make a comfortable liv ing tbe best thing he can do for the world aud himself is to starve. Starvation is the penalty of natnre for improvidence and worthlessness. We are all in the boat to gether, and if any man trill not take his turn at the oars, instead of singing, let bim go overboard as not worth saving. It sounds pretty hard doctrine, but it is a very much needed and entirely wholesome one. ''Lastly, what ri2hi has this young man to enter tbe hicher calling of literature at all for ten years to come? What has he seen worth describfng? What has he thought out and pnt to test worth onr hearing and thinking ovei? What can he do that he can leach us to do; or, with what even can he entertain ns In the telling? He is like an art student who had learned to copy pencil drawings who wants work a3 an artist at once. He is empty of experience, void of suggestion. ,What has he but a taste for literature, which, forsooth, we are to turn out of our berths and poke about to gratify? Requires Thorough Training: I wish there could be schools of literature established where all aspirants had to go through at least as thorough training as they are expected to for art. At the pros pect of a seven years' course most applicants would find the taste for literature bad de serted them. The only reason why litera ture is in esteem aud held higher than man ual labor is that it requires longer, closer, finer training, which it commonly doesn't get. Most masters of it have taken a 20 years' course of observation of human na ture and the world, besides study of history and tbe mere art of expression, before they gained the right place. And there have been very few men of distinclioofltn newspa per writing even, who were not men of anairs as well as of the pen, ' Innate laziness is uo proof of talent for literature, though it is a frequent pretence lor it. I'll venture to say tbat this raw graduate, with bis fine handwriting and splendid education, would not be worth his salt in any newspaper office, any publishing house, or in any literary work whatever, ex cept the mere "hunting down and catching by the tail of his pet ideas, which are the same breed ns his favorite professor's, and the world has too much fresh, good thinking nowadays to tolerate wornout strains. The Literary Sucklings. There doesn't appear to be any great de mand for sucking literary talent. The census shows abont 10,000" persons in this country who call themselves authors, and adding up the syndicate and magazine lists of writers and the best known newspaper men and women, you may account for 500 of them. Perhaps there are as many who earn $l,uW a year by their writing alone, perhaps 100 ot ti.ese earn more. It the rest of the 10,000 average $10 a week they are doing far better than the publishers give them credit for. That sum is what every Irishman who handles.a spade in this State can make 50 weeks in a year. Educated people may pursue this kind of life and call it love of literature, but it is reOly laziness, and tbe sneaking desire for the credit ot a high calling without the com bined bodily and mental effort which real affairs require. I'm glad that literature be gins to have a little more of the stonebreafc ing quality put into it that the world calls for newer, livelier thoughts, with some of tbe vital marrow in tbem, some deeper in sight than the world at large has in man and woman, society, government, or even in rock and heather, desert and hillside. Hints for the Young aian. Ton want to study your segment of tbe world as Agassiz made his pupils study fish, which at sight appeared exactly alike, but after a month's study showed so manydifler ences that the pupil could hardly discern a resemblance. To do this you mnst go into the world, into business and mix with its characters, learn Its phrases, its queer twists of idea, its pranking vanity, its deep hidden veins of feeling. It is no wonder the caliphs of Bagdad de lighted to roam about the bazaars in dis guise, and see human nature in its un studied postures, not flat on their faces before a throne. I would mvself serve montbs behind a counter, just for the sake of studying life and people as they appear from the other side of it- Ton can't learn by going as amateur casual a day or a week, for yon are as apt to get conclusions wrong as right, but yon must enter some live career and learn it as Kipling knows India, or Verestcbagin the Bussian service. Not till then can you make other people see and feel what you write. Secret of Kipling's Success. Toe examiners for tbe School of Litera ture should ask tbe applicant not merely, "have you a taste Jor it," but "have you any facility of expression," and then, "have yon experienced anything to express?" Mr. Sqseers' method was the right one after all, only he applied it to pupils of too young an age to profit by it. The secret of Mr. Kip ling's effects isthat he lived before he wrote. His fighting scenes, his barrack life, his love-making, bis flirting was never evolved from inner consciousness, or observation. He has not looked on, eyeglass in band at the tragi-comedy of society, to select a few details here and there, he has the whole ex nerience in the Dhotoeraphic memory, which is the best part of a writer's outfit, and chooses the lines which live. There can be no question abont his success being a lasting one. His method is the right and true one, and such a man will write with vivid interest as long as the world lasts from which he draws material. He is the one writer who can make a story absorb ing without love-making. He is like to be the Thackeray of our time, for there is more resemblance in the two men than their East Indian and artistic beginnings. Thack eray's earlv work in the "Yellowplush Papers" and bis short stories has much oi the dash and swagger or Kipling's. Suielet Dabs. 0UE OF HAPOLEOH'S CLOCKS. A Peculiar Hello to Re Seen at the Ouelph Exhibition in London. Among the relics at the Guelpb exhibi tion in London, mention of which has been made in The Dispatch's cablegrams, Is the traveling elock shown here. It was taken from Napoleon's carriage at Watarloo and lent for the exhibition by Henry P. Cotton, Esq. The picture is taken fnm the IKus trated Nttet of the TTorld. Household goods'pteked for shipment. HAiratf & KsxXAM, 83 and 34 Water it. n r 0LDTECTJMSEHrSPIPE. A Belie Now in the Possession of an Armstrong County Man. CARVED PROM LIMBS OP TBEE8. On the Stem Is a Whistle the Chief Used to Call Hi3 Sqiaw. HISTORICAL TALGfi OF SHOKBSS IWIUTTXIt JOB THI DISri.TCS.1 Old Tecnmseh had a habit of whistling for his squaw. It is doubtful whether this important historical fact would have ever come to light but for a remarkable pipe now in the possession of John B. Webb, or Boss ton, Armstrong connty, some 40 miles from Pittsburg, on the Allegheny Valley Bail road. The pipe was originally the property of the celebrated Indian cbieftan. Tecnmseh, it will be recalled by all schoolboys, was born about 1768, and was killed in battle about 1813. His squaw then held the pipe, and she lived lor many years afterward. Mr. Webb informs The Dis patch tbat it was purchased from the In dian woman somewhere between the yean 1840 and 1844 bv Colonel J. G. Brice, and at the death of the Colonel tn pipe cams into his possession. He now exhibits it as a val uable relic of tbe days of Tippecanoe, and he has no idea of making a present ofit to the Smithsonian Institute. A Carious Combination. It is a curious wooden pipe, cut from tha limbs of trees iu four parts. Upon it are carved the iaces of men, birds and animals, in accordance with the ancient Indian cus tom. One of these is a dog, another looks something like a deer bead and third is a bird. The bowl is the most elaborately carved of all. Mr. Webb took the pipe Old Tecunueh's Pipe. L Main stem "lib whistle at A and mouth piece at B. 2. Bowl, elaborately carved. 8. Cap for bowl, also carved. 4. Lower chamber. apart and, laving tbe several pieces on a table, sketched them for this paper. Tha accompanying -illustrations will give a fair idea of it. On the main stem is a whistle, which tradition says was used by Tecnmseh for calling his squaw to him. In these days of Indian troubles anything bearing on the m3nnerot life among the red men will be read with interest. Sqnaws were always treated little better than dogs by their liege lords, and this pipe with its storv helps to prove that. The pipe in Mr. Webb's possession is 13 inches long. It may really rank as one of American curi osities in its line. Valuable In Archaeology. The practice of smoking, and consequently the use of pipes, has always been one of ths archaeological guides of (he ages. The prog ress of civilization has been traced by them. Besides our own Smithsonian Institute at Washington, the antiquarian museums of Europe are lull of smoke pipes many cen turies old. Thev are known as Danes' pipes, Celts' pipes, elfin pipes, fairy pipes, old man pipes, etc Many of them are remark able fortheir very small size. whence,perhaps. some of the above fanciful names. This, however, is accounted for bv tbe excessively high price of tobacco when it was first grown. Ton could not have bought 5-cent papers of it then. Similar small pipes have been found in North America, and some mode ot using tobacco has always prevailed among tha Indians. They, however, go to the other extreme, frequently leaving pipes of ex treme length, indicating their animal appe tites in tobacco as well as in everything else. It was only among the very earliest fathers of the North American Indians that stone pipe bowls were found in which stems sometimes as Delicate as Straws Were Inserted. Later tbe stem was huge as any other part of the pipe. These bowls, however, whether of stone or wood, have generally been elab orately carved. Their authenticity as In dian relics can be quicker proven by that tbau by any other ear mark. They con tinue, however, to be made by the Indians to the present day, often of stone, which art not cut without great difficulty, and are adorned with figures of men and animals. Some of them are adapted forhe insertion of two tubes, and two smokers may at the same time inhale the fumes of the tobacco. Can this double-stem arrangement pos sibly be an elaboration of the idea of ths pipe as a type of peace? To smoke the pipe of peace is a powerful notion with tbe In dianr, but to smoke it on the same pipe it certainly more forcible, as well as logical. J. L. D. The Pet Alligator Traffle, Kerr York San.1 Now is about the time when early Florida alligators begin to arrive. In many of tha places frequented by tourists in tbat State young alligators a foot or so in length are offered for sale, usually at half a dollar aniece. The dealer in enriosities keens a dozen or 20 of them together in a big box lined with tin. The pnrcbaser may take his choice, and tbe dealer puts it in a wooden box which is perforated to admit tha air. The express companies make low rates ou this freight, and every season many small alligators are sent to various parts of the North. MADAME A. RUPPERT' Complexion Specialist. '8rSs - Mma. A. 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