?i THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. " PAGES 9 TO 16. - SECOND PART. FROM THEFBOIHEft A Correspondent Fresh From the Scenes of the Indian War Blames the EASTERN PHILANTHROPISTS They Stayed the Hand of Miles, When a Blow Would Have Settled It All ForeTer. THE EED MEK KEEDED A LESSOH, And the Failure to Administer It Is Likely to Kesult in Merciless Massacre in the Future, SEAL CAUSE OP THE EECE5T UPBISIKG. Tit Agist IThe Eu Bees CstcUag It End Irey Eidt Eu Bully Hot Beta to filial it AH Froa BRUTAL EECEEATIOS FXBKITTZD THE BRAVES Another chapter on the Indian question is famished by Mr. Charlei H. Cressey, whose dispatches from Fine Bidge agency during the Indian trouble were published in this paper. Out of the fulness of his experi ence he writes to The Dispatch, as follows: "Whose fault was it what caused this trouble among the Indians? The primal and principal cause as I as certained it from personal and widely ex tended investigation in the capacity of a newspaper correspondent among the Indians good, bad and indifferent was the long continued failure on the part of Congress to do its full duty, particularly in the matter of surrounding its appropriations in a man ner insuring a certainty of the Indian De partment, so called, making the issue of supplies with the promptness necessary. Indians went hungry, they became ex asperated by hunger, while Congress dis cussed tariff reform. Then too, there was and is the red tape curse. Indians are mere children in one striking particular they know no friend ship or entertain no confidence when the other party promises and then fails to promptly fulfill that promise. The Indians know nothing of legislation or departmental routine. Imagines Promises Broken. The Great Father promised, he says, in return for his land to give him all the pro Tisisns and clothes he wanted, or at least a reasonable amount. To the Indian mind, when those provisions fail to come regularly, the Great Father has broken his promise then the Indian sees strong and sufficient grounds for mutiny. Not only have his provisions frequently been delayed, but he has been put upon land that is ut terly barren, utterly untillable Poor, al most the very poorest of clothing has been sent to him, and it wears out and drops completely from his body long before the time for a new supply arrives, then he re sorts to his blanket, leggins, etc., which are made by his own people, and which last an honest length of time. I am not a particle surprised that nine tenths of the more than 250,000 Indians on the Government reservations in this country to-day still cling to their blankets, leggins and moccasins. As between the alleged civilized garments miserable in materia , and fraudulent in make with which the Indians are furnished, and the strong, warm, well-made, picturesque costumes of their own handiwork, they show, in my estimation, excellent good judgment in choosing the latter. Jeans Are Good Enough. I would not suggest to the Government furnishing the Indians with English melton, broadcloth or fine cheviot, but I do insist that if the Government would furnish them so very expensive a class of suiting as plain, every-day jeans, that Mr. Indian would have a much better opinion of Sir. Great Father, and be more inclined to believe in him than is the case at present. I am no lover of the Indian, nor am I a hater of the Indian. My one object is simply to state a few plain facts as I found the m at the Pine Ridge agency. By nature and by instinct the Indian is pastoral, not commercial. Congress has seemed to appreciate this fact to the extent of putting him on barren land, giving him a lot of fifth rate implements and telling him to earn his bread likehe white man. Ton might as well plow for grain on a ball room floor as to plow for it on Pine Eidge reservation. "The Government has provided big, good schools on the reservation. "When the In dian students finish the course of study there they can go to the great Indian school at Carlisle, Pa., and graduate." Yes, and then what? What becomes of nine and three-quarters tenths or them after they get back from Carlisle? You don't know? Well, I'll tell you; they go back to Pine Ridze, back to the horribly filthy, the vermin-ridden tepees of their ancestor-, and in a month tbey are just as much uncivil ised, to all intents and purposes, as they were before they took that long course of schooling at home and abroad. The Eed Man's Recreation. Scores of times, while bnsv at Pine Eidge, the query came to my mind what in heaven's name are these people living for? No wonder they want to go to war if for nothing more than to relieve the craz ing monotony of their existence. Think of it not a thing ou earth to do, day in and day outl I'm wrong, they do have just three slight recreations, divertisemenU or what ever you may class them two for the bncks and one for the squaws and mark what they arel Every two weeks or so the agent turns loose about 100 steers on a sweep of prairie east of the agencv, and the bucks, astride of ponies, and armed with gun or bow and arrow, let loose in a grand chase alter them. They shoot to kill bv slow stages of tor ture, and the way in which they enjoy the barbarous practice is simplv revolting. When the members of a lodge down a steer they gather around it with their knives, and if any life remains in the poor creature they jab its eyes out, cut ofl its tail and ears and so on. After getting the greatest amount of stort possible out of this seance of torture, they proceed to skin, quarter and take it-home. You Should see them ride through the agency with great pieces of the fresh beef tied to their saddles and dripping with blood, and with their faces and hands all smeared with blood. Buch is one of the recreations indulged in by the bucks. The Other Dlvcrtlsement. Their other is to strip to the skin, paint up, stick war bonnets upon their heads, get out their tomahawks, take up a position on the agency square and hold a wild and weird dance, tell stories of battle and massa cre and then go home and feast on roast dog. As for the squaws, their one divertise ment is the squaw dance. They form a circle, jump up and down till they can't jump any longer, and go home and eat puppy soup. I speak of these divertisemenU 'in this connection4ecause I discovered to my com plete satisfaction that the two indulged in by the bucks play a certain distinct part in keeping alive the love for the barbarous and the war associations. If the Government really means to do something to civilize and better these Indians, and thus to lessen the probabilities or Custer massacres and Wounded Knee battles, why, in the name of the commonest of common sense, does it not do away with the barbarous beef-killing disgrace, and have the beef issued in a civilized manner; and why doesn't it pass a little rule requiring the bucks to dance clothed instead of naked? There will be time enough for them to dance naked after they become civilized and attend a lew swell receptions. Teaching; Them Trades. If the Government is really in earnest about wanting to better the Indians' condi tion, why don't it erect an extensive indus trial jor trade school at every agency? In dians will work if they are shown bow, if they arc shown that they can make money by working. My close observation at Pine Bide thoroughly convinced me that there is no more disposition to laziness among In dians than among whits pedple, the chances for employment being equal. Indians crowded the office of their agent every day I was there, their errand being literally to beg that they be given some one of the few little odd jobs of manual labor that the agent is compelled to hire done. Teach these Indians to make boots, shoes. clothing, furniture, etc, and to run ma chinery. They will be found as bright and industrious a set of apprentices as there is in the land. The Government wheelwright, harness and blacksmith shops, the sawmill, etc, which do simply the very limited amount of work necessary to run the agency, all contain Indian journeymen and ap prentices, whose work and habits fully cor roborate what I sav. Yes, put on every In dian reservation a big concern like a peni tentiary, in point of trade-learning oppor tunities, and you will find it packed to its utmost capacity with Indian apprentices, uoiu young ana oia. Scatter Among the Whites. As soon as one learns his trade, find him a place among the whites the Indian good doing society, or whatever it is, could help at this and so keep pushing or drawing them away from the reservation and their barbarous Indian life associations and scat tering them among the whites. Whenthetime comes that tbey have completed their trade in such a trades school, let the Government arrange perhaps to give each one his 'share in cash of tho Indian reservation land, as a starter in the world. Snch a plan would not only help them to forget barbarism, break up dangerous tribal relationships and factions; would not only give them a practical, everyday useful knowledge and equipment lor getting along in the world as civilized people do give them something to live for but American citizenship will have received a fresh strain of valuable and tireless vigor which and mark it well will not prove half so treach erous, half so devilish as much of that which now enters the arteries of our national life, and which has not a thousandth part the claim upon American sufferance and citizenship that the Indian has. Idleness and Ghost Dancing. Yes, it was idleness, idleness, idleness; the long accumulated effect of idleness, made possible and I will say enforced by the government under which they live, that formed a certain part of the cause of the present outbreak. As to the part played by the ghost dance in producing this great show of hostilities, my thorough investigation convinces me that it was important. The ghost dance in the midst of Indians was productive of more mischief than the wild, shouting camp meeting amid whites simply because of the doctrine promulgated by a portion of the participants, namely, that after a time the Indian Messiah would come, cause the earth to open and swallow up all the whites, and bring back the buffalo, deer and other game that the Indians love so well. After getting hold of this doctrine a few of the more fanatical began advocating the idea of help ing along an early fulfillment by seeking to assist in the extermination or the whites, and particularly the soldiers. Not, however, until the worst element on the reservation began preaching this idea of assisting prophecy, was the ghost dance a particle more dangerous among the Indians than is the dance now permitted on the agency. Unfortunately the feeling among the Indians generally, that they had been deeply wronged by the Government, made it possible for thi3 idea to become very popular. To my personal knowledge much plotting was done at the gbostdance that it finally became a veritable war dance The Agent Didn't Canse It. As to the relation of the Indian agent to the uprising, I believe it 'to be as nil. Viewed in the broadest sense I am con vinced that the fact as to whether he was a superior or an inferior man for the plnce had no particular weight The Indian agent of to-day does not possess the possi bility of effecting peace or war nor of steal ing that did the agent of yesterday. The Indian call him dull, ignorant, supersti tions and all that sort of thing, if you will has, I discovered by personal contact, very little down right respect, disgust, or even care whatsoever for these under servants whom the Government sends to dole ont his Hour and shoddy. The agent is constantly on the defensive, and in just as unobtrusive a manner as possible. It is true that in name he is the sole arbi ter of affairs, both personal and general, on the agency. Notwithstanding this, he soon sees that his personal safety will be enhanced if he patronizes rather -than commands. Men who to-day become Indian agents without firstunderstanding that they come into the position simply as a political incident and not by reason of their qualifi cations, are ignorant indeed. But such men aie few. Your bright agentof to-day spends very little time experimenting in philan thropic or even rulership schemes. His main idea is to get through each quarter, draw his salary and begin a new quarter, with just as little to do with the Indians under his charge as possible May Protest In Tain. Oh, I know that my assertions in this connection may call out many "cards," but all the same I know just what I say is truth. The task providing even that his mental balance is reasonably perfect of dealing with 0,000 Indians entirely through the lips of a second party, an interpreter, is in itself sufficient to stagger even the most self-sacrificing recipientof an Indian agency appointment. No, the Indian agent is not responsible for enough of the present trouble to call him "in at" at all. As to the Government's treatment of the trouble: Immediately on my arrival at Pine Eidge agency the middle if November I secured the best scouts possible, and daily had them make secret trips into the camp of the Indians who were regarded as unfriendly. I myself obtained an interpreter and daily went up and down through the camp of the friendlies. In this way I secured my information-first-handed and kent ud with every move of any importance that was J oontemplated. Before the end of the first week I was thoroughly satisfied that the Government was doing eminently the best thing possible in sending troops to the scene of agitation. Through channels of private information exclusively my own and that could be worked .only with the greatest difficulty and by taking serious risks, I found the Indians fully resolved upon war. Their elan at that time was to have a great fight in the very near future Bravado or the Sioux. There has been an element of the admir able about the Indians' course in this trouble all along, and I say it, with all em- pnasis possioie, notwithstanding he Kept me dodging bullets for two hours at the battle of Wonnded Knee To him it was a coolly calculated dael to the death for wrongs which he keenly felt had been inflicted upon him by the power whom the soldiers repre sented. He did not mince matters a particle. He was a Sioux, and the Sioux never have been conquered. To show his contempt for the demonstration of military power that had been massed abont him, he went on pillag ing and burning the homes of the settlers, stealing and butchering scores of big private herds of cattle He committed a thousand crimes, for any one or which a white man wonld have been run down and most severe ly punished. The spectacle presented by several thou sand of these devils plundering the homes of frontiersmen, stealing Government stock by the thousand of head, most of the time within less than a day's march from the camp of the United States army, and not a finger being raised by the latter to stop the high-handed wholesale work of crime, was a spectacle that drew forth derision and taunts from not only the press of America, but of all Europe. But no one expressed more wonderment at this spectacle than did the red-skinned depredators themselves. It Was a Bad Lesson. During the three weeks that sDectacle lasted the now hostile Indians gained more self-reliance, more of utter fearlessness of the militarypower of the Government than they ever gained before in any ten years of their history. I have the word of many thoroughly civilized Indians who talked with these hostiles daily, that this was so. I have more proof; I have the word of many of those hostiles themselves, spoken to me direct, that the permitting of such a thing by the Government has put a feeling of power into the Indians that will result in a mighty tragedy most fearful to contemplate. However much good the Indian loving philanthropists of the East may claim to have done in the past in the way of secur ing justice toward these creatures, they have certainly made what a little more time will show to have been one of the most serious, most stupendous of blunders in bringing to bear upon the administration the avalanche or influence that they did and which succeeded in hampering and finally block ing the wheels of the War Department Those wealthy, influential devotees of false, ignorant theories relative to handline In dians who are on the warpath may certainly now throw themselves back in their tilting chairs, and caress their well-fed forms with a deal of satisfaction over having been the power behind the Presidental chair, that has made this regular army of America the laughing stock of the world, and has averted for the time being any more Indian blood shed. They Will Rise Acaln. But, when these Indian lovers in the East take up their morning papers and read that the Indians, to save whose blood from being spilled they pulled their influential string with so signal success, have again suddenly aroused in greater might than ever, have caught the whole Western country off its guard the soldiers departed to their re spective forts the thousands of settlers on the Northwestern frontier defenceless prey to their insatiable thirst for blood; let those Indian fad affectors know where the whole blame will rest. The influence used so secretly and so effectively by these Eastern so-called be frienders of the Indian is a feature of this whole campaign which in point of potency has probably never before been surpassed in history. From 3,000 to 5,000 armed Indians are plundering and burn ing the homes of settlers and steal ing and slaughtering thousands of Government cattle The military is called, arrives upon the scene, is possessed of ample power to check the diabolical work. But what happens? The soldiers are strung out around the great territory where the devil ish work is going on. Instead of the War and Indian Departments harmoniousiv and with an everlasting firmness demanding ol the Indians that they stop their hellish work, and if they refuse force them; giving them a certain time a week or ten days in which they must surrender their arms as prisoners of war, or have them taken from their dead bodies; instead of this what do we see? A long series of peace-begging conferences humbly solicited by shame! snamei snamei me army. Tho Power Behind It AH. It gave me a feeling of simply nauseating disgust for the general in command. The faces of his own officers were pictures of supreme disgust This continued for a month or more when finally one day I'saw never will it be Known by what chance a package of official dispatches. Instantly my disgust was withdrawn from the officer in command and centered upon the Indian fad affectors in the East It became clear as day to me that the hands of the War De partment had been rendered almost useless by the ironclad influence wielded by those Eastern Indian lovers. In the light of other secret information which I obtained, I am warranted in stating that the course pur sued by those in command of the troops was almost if not wholly opposite to the diotates of their own judgment And, mark it, the soldiers of Pine Eidge agency wanted, begged to be allowed to fight the main body of the hostiles. Many ot these old soldiers grew mad as furies as they discussed the attitude in which they were being placed before the country. The Indians still mean to fight! If they mean peace it tbey are done with war why do they not give up their arms? I can produoe 60 yes 100 persons whose statements will go unchallenged before any court in the country, who will take their solemn oath to theeffect that they have seen as many as 2,000 guns, principally Win chesters, together with great quantities of small arms, ammunition, etc, in the posses sion of Indians concerned in this uprising, and now in the near vicinity of Pine Eidge ageaey. A LAEQE DIAMOND EOBBEET. The Thieves Secure Their Booty Without Disturbing the Watchman. Sah Frahcisco, Jan. 31. A statement is published that the diamond , house of Colonel A. A. Andrews was entered some nights agoand over 65 diamond lockets and about 50 diamond scarf pins of a total value of 57,500 was taken by burglars from the showcase without disturbing the watchman who was sleeping in the store Detectives kept the matter quiet, but have not succeeded in obtaining any clew to the thieves. Given a Home Once More. Thomas Knibain, a Polish newsboy, who has been sleeping in wagons for several days, was sent to the TanuehiH Street Or phan Asylum yesterday by Agent O'Brien. He is snpposed to be the little Southsid beggar. He now has a story about both his parents being dead. Chambeelain's Cotjoh Remedy has cured many cases of croup in this vicinity, one In my own family, and it is exactly what it is recommended to be I have sold it lor two and a half years, and know it to be reliable As long as I have Chamber lain's Cough Eemedylcan sell no other. J. P. Mellstrup, merchant, Ephriam City, Utah. wsu FuBlflTUBE upholstered and renaired. Hatoh & Keehait, 3S-S4 Water 'street. J PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, KESUMEOFTHEWEEK The Divorce Suit a Nail in langer's Political Coffin. Bou- A THR0HE FOR PRINCE LUITP0LD. The World's Had Monarehs and the Due d'Orleans' Deductions. AS AMERICAN DUCHESS TO THE.FK0KT tWBITTXX rOB THE DISPATCH.! On the 2d of April, 1889,Parli correspond ents of American newspapers cabled as follows : "General Boulanger is the most prominent Frenchman in the Bepublio to day, and a democratic administration could not do without him." They were the words of United States Min ister McLane. Since that time things have Boulanger. changed 'wonderfully for the General. The intrigues and many little scandals with which his name has been connected, have caused him to be al most entirely obliterated from the list of notables. " So complete has been this move ment, that he has found it necessary to in form his friends that "although extinct, he is not yet buried," to rise the phraseology of Editor Stead. Nevertheless, his following is decidedly meager, and what there is of it so very much, mixed in idea and design, that the varions individuals are shooting not only hot words, but bullets at each other to emphasize their several opinions. The fact of the matter is, Franca is tired of its idol of two years ago and "can" do without him. To cap the climax, even his wife wants to "do without him," and has, during the past week, applied for a divorce. It seems that at one time enthusiastio writers set it forth that the General was an especial favorite of the ladies. To use the exact words of one: "He is the especial hero of feminine France, and he reciprocates to the fullest extent the admiration of the ladies." Now right there Madam Boulanger drew the line. She was content to have him the hero of France; the idol of the military and the admiration of the ladies; but, for him to reciprocate oh, not In this respect Madam B. was decidedly against "reciprocity;" hence the divorce suit It is almost safe to say that Boulanger, with a divorce affair in his skeleton closet; a money scandal on his hands and his lew friends "forninst" each other, is almost as dead to the world of the present and future as Barneses. Where England Is Having Trouble. The traveler in the Gulf of Aden at the present time, who happens to pass a point on the coast situated abont 10 north lati tude and 45 east longitude, will see a bustling town of perhaps 20,000 inhabitants, all engaged in business of some kind or an other. The principal articles of trade are coffee, grains of different kinds, ghee, gold dust, ivory, gums, cattle, ostrich feathers and slaves, representing the interior prod ucts, brought here to be bartered for cotton, rice, iron, etc Let the same traveler visit the spot three months hence and he will see huge piles of garbage and little more. Not a single human being' or building will greet- his eye This is the place or town which on 'the maps bears the name of Berbers of Somali Land. It presents the rather curious phenomena of a big thriving town lor six months oi the year and a barren waste the balance. Berbers, in fact, is nothing more nor less than a big fair ground, where the natives of the interior gather once a year to trade the products of the season for the ar ticles mentioned. It is hardly necessary to inquire how the native produce is accumulated, if we inform ourselves as to the character of the people. They are notorious for cheating, lying and thieving. At the present time the English Government, which controls that territory, is having a great deal trouble with them, and have been compelled to organize a camel corps of Indian soldiers, which will be posted along the coast to follow these depre dators whenever they make their appearance In the neighborhood of the settlements. Bavaria's Mad King. It seems as if Bavaria was determined to be rid of insane monarchs,-when it is an nounced that Prince Luitpold, the present regent, will next month be summoned to the throne in place of poor imbecile Otto. It is said the present determina tion is the result of the exhibitiou of able state manship which Lulf pold has displayed since the reins of Government wereplaced inhis hands, and yet it does not seem Sing Otto. any time since the Bavarians openly de- l, V "c"01 lnat Jbuitpold was re sponsible for Otto's insanity, and also that of his brother and predecessor, Ludwig. What reason they had for this opinion is not known, but certain it is that many of the people of that countrv believed that Luitpold killed Ludwig, and is now slowly killing Otto. How they manage to attribute Otto s madness to the regent is somewhat beyond the ordinary Individual's compre hension, but that Otto is mad there is not the slightest doubt. The poor fellow is an inmate of the lonely castle of Nymphen berg, with no interest above shooting at peasants lrom his window, peeling potatoes, and flopping his arms in imitation of the eagle he imagines himself to be. The World's Mad Monarch. it would surprise most people if they knew how many of the monarchs of history have been equally as mad as either Otto or bis brother, Ludwig. Away back in the earliest ages we have re cords of mad kings and queens, and the record con tinues, and grows even more and more pronounced as we advance into iU W Regent Luitpold. later periods. Scripture has its Nebuchad nezzar, who for seven, years-was as crazy as he, well could be; also Saul, whose par oxysms of passion that could only be sub dued by the tuneful tones of David's harp, can be attributed to nothing else than a speoies oi madness. Five of the Ctesars were more or less insane. A Eoman author de scribes Caligula as being "crazy in mind and body." Nero was either mad or the most atrocious monster in historv, and Donii tian, by his desire for blood and other eccen tricities,, must be considered "off." Diocle tian. Commodus and Hcliogabalus were also far from sane. France has had its mad Kings in Charles VI., Charles VII. and the unfortunate dauphin, Louis XVIL England has had its Lear and George III., and there are some who declare that Victoria is not altogether well balanced in mind. Isabella. Queen to John of Castile, ended her days in insanity, Afws m$WM Y FEBRUARY 1,. 189L and her granddaughter, Joanna, wife of J-'iinip ot Flanders, who inherited the taint, s one oi the saaaest hgures in nistory. Among the Czars. Ivan the Terrible was not only a lunatic, but a dangerous one. Ivan, brother of Peter the Great, was as bad, and so was the son of Peter IIL. Czar Paul. who began by exhuming bis father's corpse from the grave, crowning it and otherwise showing his madness. This was the monarch who, in the year 1800, challenged all of the potentates of Europe to single combat, bidding them bring "with them as seconds and squires the most enlightened Ministers ana most able Generals, such as Messrs, Turgot, Pitt and Berenstoff." He also issued ukases against the use of shoestrings and round hats, and painted all the sentry boxes, gates and bridges of the empire in such jrlowimr colors that a color blind Fiji would have went wild with joy at seeing mem. The Duo d'Orleans. The cause of the prevalence of insanity amosg the scions ot royalty is a question often asked. Probably the intermarriage of close relatives lor the purpose of main taining the kingly strain is the best the ory offered. It is ou this hypothesis, no doubt, that the Due d'Orleans bases his objection to wedding the Princess Mar guerite. It seems that the heir of the house of Orleans, having been inform ed nf tnn Avil roanlrs of such marriages by Duo Orleans. a learned doctor, lost no time in bringing the matter to the attention of his father and finally refused absolutely to marry his cousin. A broken engagement was the re sult, but the relations of the father and son suffered a severe strain in the operation. This fact does not seem to concern the young man much from all appearances, and he will be likely to gain his point, having quite a will of his own, as was evident from the boldness with which he went to France last year against the express interdiction of that Government, and insisting on being ac cepted as a soldier was thrown into prison for his pains. His term did not last long, however, but he certainly gave the authori ties a taste of his pluck. Napoleon's Kctreat From Moscow. The extremely severe weather from which Europe has been afflicted lately is abating. In the meantime there is hardly any doubt that the one or two survivors of Napoleon's terrible Eussian campaign of 1812-13 have had ample opportunity to compare notes. The winter in question was hardly as severe as a dozen that could be mentioned in the last century, but it is particularly notable on account of the tremendous loss of life in the retreat of the French army from Eussia. Under the circumstances a short resume of the part the weather had to do with the disaster ought to be interesting here. Winter set in early that season. The French army began its retreat on the 18th of November; Napoleon leaving the Muscovite empire on the day following. On the 23d the evacuation of Moscow was complete, and the entire army was marching toward Smolensk: with the snow Jailing heavily and steadily for a number of days past The Frenchman, Larry, tells us that when the army started, a thermometer which he carried registered 15 Fahrenheit That part commanded by Ney, escaped from the Eussian troops, by whom it was surrounded, bt crossing the Dneiper, which froze over the night before they started. The day be fore, Eussian troops with cannon had crossed me Jjwina upon the Ice. The cold then diminished and on the 24th it thawed, bnt immediately grew cold again, and from the 26th to 29th during the terrible passage 'of "tue -Berezina, the water contained numerous blocks of ice,out none of them sufficient to suggest-the possibility of the troops crossing ucr upon mem. j.ne thermometer gradu- an ly fell until the 30th, when it registered Fahrenheit; on the 3rd of December it 13' stood at 22 and on the 6th 35, which was the day after Napoleon issued the famous "Bulletin No 29," announcing the awful disaster which had overtaken his forces. The Duchess of Manchester. When Consnela Yznaga's mother invited the Viscount Mandeville to her home in Orange, N. J in the year 1876, and the aforesaid Mandeville with all his claims to the rights and titles of the dukedom of Man chester proceeded to fall ill while there, the event was not accepted as a commentary on the quality of the bread on the Yznaga board, but Duchcsi of Manchet-zi rather a fortunate ter. circumstance for Con snela, who, while acting as nurse for the nobleman, managed to conveniently fall in love with him, and it being returned, the result was a marriage Everybody'in this country rejoiced at the idea of a future American Duchess of Mauchester, although the Yznaga family were really Cubans born and raised. Public attention is again at tracted to the family through a proposed alliance of the dowager duchess with the family of the Duke of Devonshire by mar riage to the Marquis of Hartington. The interesting complications of such a match were referred to in The Dispatch's cable grams yesterday. Wilkie, Burns' Natal Day. Immortal shade of Robert Corns, On this thy natal day. ., Tho heart of Scotland to thee turns Her homage fond to pay. She clings to thee, thro' woe and weal Thy name her prondest boast. Her loyal heart, tried stanch and leal Holds thee her best lov'd toast Her straths and hills, her glens and lakes Re-echo to thy fame. Her cnrllng streams, her tarns and brakes Are hallow'd by thy name Her daisy prlnk'd begowan'd lea. Her blue-bells wat wi' dew. Drive new charms lov'd Bard from thee To warm Scotch hearts anew. The exil'd Freen an' brither Scot, The laddie far t rae name. Where chance or choice may cast his lot, Claims kinship with tby fame And ever as the day returns, That gave to thee thr birth, 'He greets thv name, OI Robert Barns, Wi' soncs o' praiso au' mirth. Dwell where ho may, the hardy Scot This night will laurels twine Unmindful of his rank or lot, To lay upon thy shrine. From lands afar his heart returns This night to classic Ayr; He roams this night with thee and Burns, 'Mang scences thy muse makes fair. By bosky dell and purling stream Whaur fays an' kelpies lurk, He wanders on with ihee to dream, O' Alloa's haunted kirk. The banks an' braes o' Bonnie Doon Thy saint'd Mary's shrine, Are his to love a' things aboon. For Robbie, they were thine Frae Bnchanneys tae John o' Groats, At ilka lngleside, Thon honorM art, the wale o' Scots, " Aula Bcotla's joy and pride O Burns, the heart of Scotland thrills At mention of thy name. Her meads, her streams, her vales, her hills, Thy heritage of fame The faults, the follies of her son She will not closely scan; She proudly claims her gifted ono. Her Plowboy-Poet Man. McDonald, Pa. Joseph Haizk. Shtxoh's Cube will immediately relieve croup, whooping coueh and bronchitis. Sold by Jos. Fleming & Son, 412 Market tu fom 1 PT IJ - wa I i ... - ' -T' 1 ' v -, J--- ' ' ' " " - - IrWrrv "-zjiL -" "s f-fc Tj --3 rt-V sjr0M S"""v --. b -h ' vf wjmmiL t. -A.V xv wwSZfcwmv. KOx yEmgBWK&n wa-JM W,T b,. wa loo' I " ' ' ' . CAMERON BEEKS SECI.TJSIOK' AT TOBTBESS MONEOE. OYER A CENTURY OLD. James Stephenson Macready, Lives in tho West End, Who ONE OF THE HEROES OP WATERLOO. He Also Battled With General Jackson at flew Orleans. SOME OF HIS Y1TID EEMI5I8CENCES "Ah, sir, many a time that day I licked the French blood from my Bword to cool my tongue; and, I tell you, we mowed them town like a mower mows down the grass wi' his scythe." These are 'the words of a man still living in this city, used in his thrilling description of the battle of Waterloo, in which he was a soldier under Wellington. This old hero will be 102 years of age the 12th of next July, according to the record in the old family-Bible in Ireland. It was on the 21th of last December that The Dispatch published something about the veteran. It had been reported to the Board of Health that he was sick and in destitute circumstances. These reports were found upon investigation to be untrue, for he had not only enough to live upon, but was negotiating for the disposal of some property in Philadelphia, which would give him a fair compensation. In the Home of the Veteran. The venerable veteran, a soldier of two famous wars, James Stephenson Macready, lives in an abode, as interesting as the man himself.in an alley in the West End. The other day a visit was made to him in com pany with Captain S. L. Fullwood and Colonel William A. Herron, both old citi zens and military men. When the door opened Mr. Macready's first words, passed over. the body" of , a vicious dog lying ou the steD, were: "Is that you, William Herron?" JubI as prompt was the reply of the Colonel, "Why, Mac, is this where you live? I thought yon were dead 40 years ago." Mr. Macready was born in Scotland, and was taken to Ireland, to the County Antrim, where he grew up, and, curious enough, in the neighborhood of some of the ancestry of Colonel Herron. He crossed the ocean in a sailing vessel in 1809, landing at Philadel phia. He at once got a job of work at SO cents a day, but as he had to pay $1 25 a week for his board, he exercised the preroga tive of the individual workman of those days, and quit. From Philadelphia he came to Pittsburg in 1810, walking the entire distance, and passing his first night within the present limits of the city in a log cabin still stand ing near the Methodist Church in East Liberty, on Penu avenue, now covered with weather-boarding. He got employment here at 60 cents a day, still paying fl 25 a week for his board. His Military Career. He enlisted in the Duquesne Blues with many well-known Pittsburg boys, whose names fall glibly from his tongue, for service in the war of 1812. After a short campaign on the shores of Lake Erie he went with his company to re-enforce Jackson at New Orleans, going down the river on flat boats. "Wo got there," the old man says, "just in time to get behind the cotton bales and see the closing ud of the war." He located his soldier's warrant for land on the site of the town of Sharpsburg, and sold it some years after for 80. Immediately upon his return from New Orleans Mr. Macready sailed for Ireland on a visit to his friends. He at once enlisted in "Scot's Grays," a famous cavalry regi ment, for service in the campaign against Naooleon. Telling this the old man says: "You see I fought in America against the British and then went home and fought for tbem against the French." It is in the description of this great battle that the elo quence of the old man rises to its height Could be tell his story on the platform in Old City Hall as he does from his chair in his humble abode he would never again know want "Ah," he says, "it is so long ago, and I grow so weary a talking, nevertheless he makes historically acenrate and thrillingly eloquent re'erences to "Old Bony," as he calls him, to Wellington, to Hongamont, to Blucher, to Grouchy, and to the movement of the troops. Warming up to the excite ment of the time, the old herp takev up his broomstick, goes through the English manual of arms, shows how tho British in fantry formed their hollow squares against the French, how they fired from the hip, fell to the knees to load their muskets and the heavy cavalry dis mounted with the long saber bayonet ou the end of the carbine. His Vividness of Description. "The French didn't care to try us more than once," says the old soldier. "Ah, sir, many a time that day I licked the French blood from my sword to cool my tongue, and, I tell you, we mowed them down like a mower mows down the grass wi' his scythe," and, he adds proudly, "I come off withont a scratch." One can almost hear the clash of the saber, the rattle of the musketry, the shrill notes of the fife, the roll of the drum and the music of the bagpipe as the old inau goes ou with bis description of the battle. "The drums," he says, "were covered with asses' skin and could be heard from Temperance vllie to the hills of East Liberty." He tells of the Scotchwoman who heard the pibroch in the distance, and cape down dancing amqng the troops, singing out merrily, "cheer up, my laddies, the Campbells are coming." For all his service in both thcsie wars the old man is without a pension, and this fur the reason that he has never applied. "I have always been able to ciru an honest liv ing," be Bays, "and if I get disabled I think the State of Pennsylvania or Allegheny will keep me the rest of my life" A couple of weeks aeo the old man was iniured br a sewer pipe rolling Pon him when he was atj work on the streets of the city. He says he has the promise of a job In Wightman's glass works as soon as he shall be able to get out. He also counts on an early visit to Ireland. "And," he says, "if I get home to Ireland I will apply for a pension." He indignantly rejects any overture to take up bis abode in a soldiers' home. The room in which he lives is indescribable All sorts or packages dangle from low strings stretched across the ceiling; the walls are covered with bric-a-brac of every kind: pans, skillets and cooking utensils. The old man does his own cooking and washing. His only companions are a dog, two chickens and three cats. He has scant clothing for his bed; "But," he says, "ou the cold nights I sit up all night in my rocking chair in front of my fire and keep meself warm." But if every visitor will treat the old man as Colonel Fullwood and Colonel Herron he will have no need of a pension. His Campaign Nearly Ended. His campaign of life is nearly over. He says he "always hung onto the Whig party until the breakin' up time" When Buch anan was nominated he voted the Demo cratic ticket, "Bnt, he adds, "if I bad vom ited as often as I have regretted it, I would be a dead mou." He launches out in a vig orous tirade on Buchanan for "trying to turn over the Government to the rebels, the old rascal, and I never voted the Democratic ticket again, and I never will." "If I could have caught Jeff Davis, he says, "I would have put him ou a pole and shot him." The old man was raised a United Presbyterian, in Ireland, under Bev. Samuel Alexander, of Antrim, and about 0 years ago took up his church membership in this city, under Bev. Bichard Lea, who is still living in New Alexandria, Pa., in the 80th year of his age MILLIONAIRE IN RAGS. THE STEAHQE EIPEEIEHCB UJ OF A MAS OF WEALTH. ITALY Beaten Almost to Death and BobDed and Imprisoned as a Tramp He Returns to New Xorlc h Woful looking Object of Poverty. New Yobk, Jan. 31. Alexander Vonein, a Napa, Cal., millionaire, landed at the Barge Office ragged and greatly emaciated, in company with 485 Italians, from the steamship Burgundia, from Naples. Mr. Vonein told of a European trip, taken for pleasure and health, which almost resulted in his death, after he had first been robbed and sent to prison as a vagrant He was registered, and then went to the Custom House and presented a letter of in traduction, which he carried from the United States Consul at Marseilles, to Collector Erhardt, telling the story of his trials and tribula tions. The consul asked that he be assisted to his home, which the collector agreed to do. Vonein's story is that about five months ago he left his palatial residence and friends in Napa, Cal., and went to Italy for the good of his health. With him he took 55.000 in gold currency, and over a dozen letters of Intro J notion from California and New York business men. After wandering about for some time and making a pro longed stay in Genoa, he listened to a voice which described in glowing colors the beauties of Monte Carlo. He decided to visit the place, and one night packed his gripsack. This done, he went out for a stroll, and was waylaid, beaten and robbed of bis money, jewelry, fetters of introduction, and even his coat, hat and waistcoat He was found insensible in the street by one of the police Efforts were made by the police to catch the robbers, but nothing was recov ered. Vonein finally started to beg his way to Nice, eating the food that he received from the peasants. Ou arrival at the seaport city he thought that at last he was in the hands of Iriends. Again he was mistaken, for when the police caught sight of the dirty, ragged and enfeebled man, he was arrested as a tramp and sentenced to 30 days in prison. .Vonein served his 30 days ih prison, and then tramped to Marseilles, where ap plication to the American Consul met with a hearty response, and he was shipped to New York. aheghehys bthxdihqboom. Almost Two Million Dollars Pnt In New Structures last Tear. The report of the Allegheny City asses sors, given out yesterday, shows the total valuation of the city to be 52,000,000. The total number of new buildings erected in the city last year was 968, and their valuation was 1,852,850, an increase of 5215,350 over 1889. The total number of brick dwellings in the city is 8,093, and frame, 9,408, making a total of 17,501. In the new buildings the Second ward led the list, 177 having been erected in that ward at a cost of $415,150. THE CANADIAN TJISSOLuTIOB. The Official Gazette Contains No Mention of the Proposed Action. Ottawa, Out., -Jan. 31. The Official Gazette, issued to-day, does not contain any notice about the dissolution of Parliament. It is believed that the Government will take rro action until Sir Charles Tnpper ar rives. Confinement and Hard Work' Indoors, particularly m the sitting posture, are far more prejudicial to health than excessive mucular exertion In the open air. Hard sedentary workers are far too weary after office hours to take much needful exercise in the open air. Tbey olten need a tonle Where can they seek Invigoratlon more certainly and agreeably than lrom Hosteller's Stomach Blt turs, a renovaut particularly adapted to recruit the exhausted fores of nature? Use also Tor dyspepsia, kidney, lirer and rheumatic ail ments. Mb. J. A. Carteb. of Wells, Ore, says: "Chamberlain's Cough Bemedy is good and gives entire satisfaction to my customers." Van IMWS IDEAL Some Suggestions Growing Out of the Experience of the Postmaster General; . RELIEF FROM THE ROUTINE Through a Secretary Who Should Be Paid $10,000 a Tear. POSTAL TELEGRAPH AHD SAYIHGS. Supervision by Districts and s Find Tennre of Office. FEEB COINAGE A5D F0ETD5E MASIHS rCOERISPOSDISCB or TUE D1SFATCH.1 WA8HiKOTOjr, Jan. 31. The best busi ness man in President Harrison's Cabinet ii Postmaster General Wanamaker. His de partment at Washington is the biggest busi ness department under the Government, not excepting the Treasury, and Mr. Wana maker manages it, as far as possible, on bus iness principles. The views of such a man on business matters cannot but be of great interest, and I called at the postoffice build ing at 430 o'clock this atlernoon to have, if possible, a chat with the Postmaster General ou the financial situation. Half past 4 o'clock p. ir. is a good time to catch the Postmaster General. He gets to the Department at about 8 o'clock in the morning or an hour before his clerks begin to arrive, and at 430 tie great building is deserted, the Postmaster General has gotten through with his most important business and he is finishing up his work, which ends between 5 and 6 p. at, every day.. I found him dictating a letter and after he had fin ished asked him to tell me his opinion of the causes of the present financial stringency. He replied: Opposed to Pree Coinage. "As to the financial situation, I think the trouble has tided over for a time We were in danger ot a panic, but we have escaped it and matters will move smoothly from now ou. The tightness of the times is largely due to the lack in the amount of our circu lating medium. We need a more elastio currency, but we need one that is based on a different principle than that of 80 cents worth of silver to the dollar. "I would be in favor of the free coinage of silver ii it were based on the market value of silver, but the putting of 80 cents . into a coin and marking it 100 cents is just as bad as though you should put three pecks of wheat into a bushel and by marking ths , measure "full" should try to make tha people or the world believe that it would, pass for a bushel, and that they should pay the same price for it as when tbey received four pecks instead of three The free coin age bill may become a law, but I don't be' lieve it will last a year longer than the Con gress that enacts it. The results of it will be such that the next Congress will have to rePeal ,t About Postal Savings Banks, "How about your postal savings banks ' scheme, Mr. Postmaster General," I asked "Would not such institutions increase tha hoarding of the money by the people and add to financial stringencies like tha present?" "Not at all," replied Mr. Wanamaker, "The best thing for the country to-day would be these postal savings banks. They would bring into active circulation 100,000,000 which are now hoarded away in stockings, tucked beneath the raft ers or sandwiched under the carpets or bun ied beneath the hearthstones. Whenever a bank fails this hoarding increases. The peo pie feel that tbey have their principal safa u they lose the interest. They consider their biding places better than the banks, but tbey have such a confidence In the Gov-" ernment that they would deposit their money at once if postal savings banks were organized. My plan provides that the money shall be loaned under proper security to the banks in the States from which tha savings come, and this would at once put the money into circulation. I want to sea these savings banks within an hour's walls of the home of every working man. The in fluence of depositors upon their fellows would be marked, and thousands of dollars would be saved by people who now sava nothing. The Experience of Others. "Last year the total amount of the de posits of the savings banks in Great Britain was just about 5100,000,000, and the poor among the French deposit about $50,000,000 every year in the Postal Saviors Binks. The deposits are increasing in all the coun tries of Enrope which have adopted tha Postal Savings Bank system, and a largo proportion of the savings are deposited by minors, showing that tbey are great educa tors in the school of economy and accumula tion. It would be a good thing for tha boys oi the countiy and would aid them to maka a start in life" As Mr. Wanamaker said these words X thought of bis start in life, and my mind rapidly ran over his career as I have heard it reported. I could see him a little fair faced boy, living in the country and walk ing four miles every day into Philadelphia to clerk in a bookstore at Si 25 a week. X could, see -him as a little older he received 51 50 a week in a clothing store, and then, year by year and dollar by dollar as ha grew and saved till he got his start and rounded the big store which now employs thousands of clerks and which gives him an income of perhaps a thousand times as much every week as ha made when ha started. Wanamalcer's Great Wealth Mr. Wanamaker is said to be worth mill ions. He has? investments of many kinds, and it is said that the Philadelphia store makes a number of times the President's! salary every year. Its business runs into millions, and during one year, by its co operative principle, it paid, I am told, to the clerks alone 5100,000 in excess of their salaries. And still the man who has cre ated this business is as yet in his prime Ha is 53, but he does not look to be more than 40, and as he talked I wondered how much oi his success was due to luck and clrcum stances, and I asked: "Do you think, Mr. Wanamaker, thai the chances of business success are as great to-day as they have been in your past? Sup pose you were a boy again as you were 40 years ago; do you think you would have as fair a chance to make a fortune and to do good work as you have done?" "Yes," reDlied Mr. Wanamaker. "I think I could succeed as well now as in tha past. It seems to me that the conditions of to-day are even more favorable to success than when I was a bov. There are better facilities for doing Business and thera il mere business to be done Information in the shape of books and newspapers is now la the reachof all, and the young man has two opportunities where he lormerly had one." The Combines and Trusts. "But do not the monopolies and trusts'that now prevail compete with and clog individ ual enterprise to an extent that they hava never done before?" "I think," replied Mr. Wanamaker, "thit we are much more afraid of combinations of capital than we have any reason for being. Competition regulates everything of that kind. No organization can make immense jirofits for any length of tlmg without its i
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