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called God. One sentence at this point
caught my delighted ear. It was apropos
of tome question of the judgment and ran:
A Deity They Comprehended.
"Nol I tell you God doesn't do,business
that way."
He was siring them a deity whom they
could comprehend and a cold and jeweled
heaTen in which they could take a natural
interest. He Interlarded his performance
xith the slang of the streets, the counter and
the exchange, and he said that religion ought
to enter into daily life. Consequently, I
presume he introduced it as daily life his
own and the lite of his friends.
Then I escaped before the Messing, de
siring no benediction at such hands. But
the persons who listened seemed to enjoy
themselves, and I understand that I had met
with a popular preacher.
Later on when I had perused the sermons
of a gentleman called Talmage and some
others, I perceived that I had been listening
to a very mild specimen. Xct that man
with his brutal gold and silver idols, his
nands-in-pocket cigar-in-mouth and hat-on-the-back-of-the-head
style of dealing with the
sacred vessels, would count himself spir
itually quite competent to send a mission
ary to convert the Indians.
All that Sunday I listened to people who
said that the mere fact of spiking down
strips oi iron to wood and getting a steam
and iron thing to run along them was prog
ress; that thfl telephone was progress, and
the network of wires overhead was prog
ress. They repeated their statements
again and again. One of them took
me to their City Hall and Board of
Trade works and pointed it out with pride.
It was very ugly but very big, and the
streets in front of it were narrow and un
clean. "When I saw the faces of the men
who did business in that buildinjr I felt that
there had been a mistake in their billeting.
Writing Down to His Audience.
By the way, 'tis a consolation to feel that
I am not writing to an English audience.
Then I should have to fall into feigned
ecstacies over the marvelous progress since
the days of the great lire, to allude casually
to the raising of the entire city so many feet
above the level of the lake which it faces,
and generally to grovel before the golden
calf. But you, who are desperately poor,
and therefore by these standards of no ac
count, know things, will understand when I
write that they have managed to get a mill
ion of men together ou flat land, and that
the bulk of these men together appear to be
lower than Mahajans and not so compan
ionable as a Punjabi Jat after harvest.
Just when the sense of unreality and op-
fression were strongest upon me, and when
most wanted help, a man sat at my side
and began to talk what he called politics.
I had chanced to pay about 6 shillings for a
traveling cap worth 18 pence, and he made
of the fact a text for a sermon. He said
that this was a rich country, and that the
people liked to pay 200 per cent on the value"
pf a thing. They could afford it. He said
that the Government imposed a protective
dnty ot from 10 to 70 per cent on foreign
made articles, and that the American manu
facturer consequently could sell his goods
for a healthy sum. Thus an imported hat
would, with duty, cost 2 guineas. The
American manufacturer would make a bat
for 17 shillings and sell it for 1 15s. In
these things, he said, lay the greatness of
America and the efieteness of England.
Competition between factory and factory
kept the prices down to decent limits, but I
was never to forget that this people were a
rich people, not like the pauper conti
nentals, and that they enjoyed paying
duties.
An Object Lesson in Trusts.
To my weak intellect this seemed rather
like juggling with counters. Everything
that 1 have yet purchased costs about twice
as much as it would in England, and when
native made Is ot inferior quality. More
over, since theno lines were first thought of
I have visited a gentleman who owned a fac
tory which used to produce things. He
owned the factory still. Not a mau was in
it, but he was drawing a handsome income
from a syndicate of lir.DS for keeping it
closed in order that it might not produce
things. This man said that if protection
were abandoned a tide of pauper labor
would flood the country, and as I looked at
his factory I thought how entirely better it
was to have no labor whatever rather than
face so horrible a future.
Meantime do you remember that this
peculiar country enjoys paying money lor
value not received? I am an alien, and for
the life of me cannot see why G shillings
should be paid lor 18-penny caps, or 8
shillings for half-crown cigar cases. When
the country fills up to a decently populated
level a few million people who are not
aliens will be smitten with the same sort of
blindness.
But my friend's assertion somehow thor
oughly suited the grotesque ferocity of
Chicago.
Chicago Versus India.
See sow and judge! In the village of
Isser Jang, on the road to Montgomery,
there be four Chanear women who winnow
corn some 70 bushels a year. Beyond
their hnt lives Purun Dass, the money
lender, jrho, on good security? lends as
much as 6,000 rupees iu a year. Jowala
Singh, the smith, mends the village
ploughs some 30, broken at the share, in
365 days; and Hukm Chund,.who is letter
writer and head of the little club under the
travellers' tree, generally cecps the village
posted in such gossip as 'the barber and the
midwife have not yet made public property.
Chicago husks and winnows her wheat by
the million bushels, a hundred banks lend
hundreds of millions of dollars in the year
and scores of factories turn out plow
gear andmachinerv by steam. Scores of
daily papers do wort which Hukm Chund
and the barber and the midwife perform,
with due regard for public opinion, in the
village of Isser Jang. So far as manu
factures go, the difference between Chicago
on the lake and Isser Jang on the Mont
gomery road is one of degree only and not of
kind. As lar 3b the understanding of the
uses of life goes Isser Jang, for all its sea
sonal cholera, has the advantage over Chi
cago. Jowala Siugh knows and takes care to
avoid the three or four ghoul-haunted fields
on the outskirts of the village; but he is not
urged by millions of devils to run about all
day in the sun and swear that his plow
shares are the best in the Punjab; nor does
Purum Dass fly lorth iu an ekka more than
once or twice in a year, and he knows, on a
pinch, how to use the railway and the tele
graph as well as any son of Israel in Chi
cago. But this is absurd.
"What the Preachers Say.
The East is not the "West, and these men
must continue to deal with the machinery of
lile and to call it progress. Their very
preachers dare not rebuke them. Thev
gloss over the hunting lor money and the
thrice sharpened bitterness of Adam's curse
by saying that such things dower a man
with a larger range of thoughts and higher
aspirations. They do not say, "Free your
selves Irom your own slavery," hut rather,
"If you can possibly manage it, do not set
quite so much store on the things of this
world." And thev do not know what the
things of this world are I
I went off to see cattle killed by way of
clearing my head, wbicb, as you will per
ceive, was getting muddled. Tbey say
every Englishman goes to the Chicago
stock yards. You shall find them about six
miles irom the city; and once baving seen
tbem yon will never forget the sight.
As far as the eye can reach stretches a
township of cattlepens, cunningly divided
into blocks so that the animals ot any pen
can be speedily driven out close to an in
clined timber path which leads to an ele
vated covered way straddling high above
the pens. These viaducts are two-storied.
On the upper story tramp the doomed cattle,
stolidly for the most part. On the lower,
with a scufflme of sharp hoofs and multi
tudinous yells, run the pics, the same end
being appointed for each. Thus you will
see the gangs of cattle waiting their turn
as they wait sometimes for days; and tbey
need not be distressed by the sight of their
fellows running about in the fear of death.
All tbey know is that a man on horseback
causes their next door neighbors to move by
means of a whip. Certain bars and Icnces
are unshipped, and behold, that crowd have
gone up the mouth of a sloping tunnel and
return no more.
"Watching Pig Sticking.
It is different with pics. They shriek
back the news of the exodus to their friends,
and a hundred pens skirl responsive. It
was to the pigs I first addressed myself.
Selecting a vinduct which was full of
them, as I could hear though I could not
see, 1 marked a somber building whereto it
rau, and went there, not unalaraed by stray
cattle who had managed to escape Irom their
proper quarters. A pleasant smell of brine
warned me of what was coming. I entered
the lactory and found it full of pork in bar
rels, and ou another story more pork un
barreled, and in a huge room the halves of
swine, for whose behoof great Inmps of ice
were being pitched in at the window. That
room was the mortuary chamber where the
pigs lay for a little while in state ere they
began their progress through such passages
as kings may sometimes travel.
Turning a corner and not noting an over
head arrangement of greased rail, wheel and
pulley, I ran into the arms of four eviscer
ated carcasses, all pure white and of a hu
man aspect, pushed by a man clad in vehe
ment red. When I leaped aside the floor
was slippery under me. Also there was a
flavor of farm yard in my nostrils and the
shouting of a "multitude in my ears. But
there was no joy in that shouting. Twelve
men stood in two lines six a side. Be
tween them and overhead ran the railway ot
death that had nearly shunted mc through
the window. Each man carried a knife,
the sleeves of his shirt were cut off at the
elbows, and from bosom to heel he was blood
red.
Stringing Up the Pigs.
Beyond this perspective was a column of
steam, and beyond that was where I worked
my awe struck way, unwilling to touch
beam or wall. The atmosphere was stifling
as a night in the rains by reason of the
steam and the crowd, l climbed to the be
ginning of things, and, perched upon a nar
row beam, overlooked very nearly all the
pigs ever bred iu Wisconsin. They had
just been shot out of the mouth of the via
duct and huddled together in a large pen.
Thence they were flicked persuasively, a
fevr at a time, into a smaller chamber, and
there a man fixed tackle on their hinder
legs so that they rose in the air, suspended
from the railway of death.
Ohl It was then they shrieked and called
on their mothers and made promises of
amendment, till thetacklemau punted tbem
in their backs and they slid head down into
a brick floored passage very like a big
Kitchen sink that was blood red. There
awaited them a red man with a knife which
he passed jauntily through their throats,
and the lull-voiced shriek became a splut
ter, and then a fall asot heavy tropical rain,
and the red man, who was backed against
the passage wall, you will understand, stood
clear of the wildly kicking hoofs and passed
his hand over his eyes, not from any feeling
of compassion, but because the spurted
blood was in his eyes and he had barely
time to sties: the next arrival. Then the
first stuck swine dropped, still kicking, into
a great vat of boiling water and spoke no
more words but wallowed in obedience to
some unseen machinery, and presently came
forth at the lower end of the vat and was
heaved on the blades of a blunt paddle
wheel things which said "hough, hough,
hough!" and skelped all the hair off him
except what little a couple of men with
knives could remove.
Losing His Individuality.
Then he was again hitched by the heels to
that said railway and passed down the line
of the 12 men each man with a knife los
ing with each man a certain amount of his
individuality, which was taken away in a
wheelbarrow, and when he reached the last
man he was very beautiful to behold, but
excessively unstuffed and limp. Preponder
ance of individuality was ever a bar to for
eign travel. That pig could have been in
case to visit you in India had he not parted
with some of his most cherished notions.
The dissecting part impressed me not so
much as the slaying. They were so ex
cessively alive, these pigs. And then, they
were so excessively dead, and the man in
the dripping, clammy, hot passage did not
seem to care, and ere the blood of suoh a
one had ceased to foam ou the floor such an
other and four friends with him had
shrieked and died.
But a pig is only the unclean animal
the forbidden of the prophet. I was des
tined to make rather a queer discovery
when I went over to the cattle slaughter.
A Judas From Texas.
Iu the center of that yard stood a red
Texan steer with a headstall on his wicked
head. No man controlled him. He was,
so to speak, picking his teeth and whistling
iu an open byre of his owu when the cattle
arrived. As soon as the first one had fear
fully quitted the viaduct this red devil put
bis Lauds in his pockets and slouched across
the yard, no man guiding him. Then he
lowed something to the effect that he was
the regularly appointed guide of the estab
lishment and would show them round.
They were country folk, but they knew how
to behave; and so followed Judas, some hun
dred strong, patiently and with a look of
bland wonder in their faces.
I saw his broad back jogging in anvauce
of them, up, up a lime-washed incline
where I was forbidden to follow. Then a
door shut, and in a minute back came Judas
with the air of a virtuous plough bullock
and took up his place in his byre. Some
body laughed across the yard, but I heard
no s'ouud of cattle from the big brick build
ing into which the mob had disappeared.
Only Judas chewed the cud with a malig
nant satisfaction, and so I knew there was
trouble, and ran around to the front of the
factory and so entered and stood aghast.
TUo Killing of Klne.
Who takes count of the prejudices which
we absorb through the skin, by way of our
surroundings? It was not the spectacle
that impressed me. The first thought that
almost spoke itself aloud was: "Tbey are
killing kine," and it was a shock. The
pigs were nobody's concern, but cattle the
brothers of the cow, the sacred cow were
quite otherwise. The next time an M. P.
tells me that India either Sultanizes or
Brahminizes a man I shall believe about
half what he says. It is unpleasant to
watch the slaughter of cattle when one has
laughed at the notion for a few years.
I could not see actually what was done in
the first instance, because the row ot stalls
in which they lav was separated from me by
50 impassable leet of butchers and slung
carcasses. All I know is that men swung
open the doors of a stall as occasion re
quired, and there lay two steers already
stanued, and breathing heavily. These two
they pole-axed, and halt raising them by
tackle they cut their throats. Two men
skinned each carcass, somebody cut off the
head and in half a minute more the over
head rail carried two sides ol beef to their
appointed place. There was clamor enough
in the operating room, but from the waiting
cattle, invisible on the other side of the Jine
of pens, never a sound. They went to their
death, trusting Judas, without a word.
Tbey were slain at the rate of five a minute,
and if the pig men werespattered with blood
these butchers were bathed in it. The
blood
Kan in Mattering Gutters.
There was no place for hand or foot that
was not coated with thicknesses of dried
blood, and the stench of it iu the nostrils
bred fear. And then the samo merciful
Providence that has showered good things
on my path throughout sent me an embodi
ment ot the city of Chicago so that I might
remember it forever. Women come some
times to see the slaughter, as they could
come to see the slaughter of men.
And there entered that vermilion hall a
young woman of large mold with brilliantly
scarlet lips and heavy eyebrows, and dark
hair that came down In a "widow's peak"
on her forehead. She was well and healthy
and alive exceedingly, and she-was dressed
in flaming red and black, and her feet (know
you that the feet of American women are
like unto the feet of lairies), her feet, I say,
were cased in red leather shoes. She stood
in a patch of sunlight, the red blood under
her shoes, the vivid carcasses stacked round
her, a bullock bleeding its lile away not six
feet from her and the death factory roaring
all round her. She looked curiously, with
hard, bold eyes, and was not ashamed.
Then said I: "This is a special sending; I
have seen the cityNjf Chicago." And I went
away to get neacc and rest
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THE
SILVER TOOL TALK,
Antipathy for Newspaper Men En
tertained by David Littler, One
of the Leaders in It.
CAMEROS AND THE POKER GAME.
The Late Secretary Windom's Opinion of
Ex-Congressmen and the Looby
at Washington.
A CLERK WHO EEPDSED A BIG BEIBE.
Senator lagalls Offered Fire Ceats aWcri for Letters
ltd Other Gossip.
tCOnnLSPOSDENCB OPTHB DISPATCH.!
"WASHlNGTONyreb.?. The future of
Senator Ingalls is one of the most interest
ing subjects of gossip in "Washington. A
friend of his told me last night that he
could make $100,000 a year, and when I
asked him how, he mentioned a number of
contracts which had been offered the Senator
which showed me he was not far wrong.
"Senator Ingalls," said he, "could make
510,000 a year by his pen. He has a most
versatile mind, nd he gets applications
every day from editors of magazines asking
tor contributions. Some of these letters in
close checks with the amount left blank, and
with a request that he fix his own price and
fill in the check in payment for the article
if he will only write it. He has a standing
offer of 5 cents a word for anything he will
write for syndicate newspaper publication,
and a number of lecture managers of the
country are after him. It is said that
George Kennan makes 530,000 a year by
talking on Siberia. Ingalls would draw
everywhere on any subject, and he could
make at least double this amount during
a season's lecturing. He is a splendid
lawyer and it not a bad business man.
A Novel That Was Burned.
"The manuscript of his novel was burned
up in the fire which consumed his dwelling
and his library a year ago or so, and it may
be that he will take this up and rewrite it.
It was a splendid story and would undoubt
edly have paid well. Senator Ingalls
would draw better as a lecturer than any
other man in the country. He has made
few general campaign speeches and he has
never carted himself around from State to
State as a prize show politician during Pres
idental "ampaigns. He would be a new at
tracUor, and his lectures would be such that
he Cu-ad work the same towns over and over
again."
Senator Ingalls' successor promises to be
quite as picturesque a character, as far as
his personal appearance is concerned, as
Ingalls himself. He is six feet tall, 18
inches across the shoulders and he has a
beard about two feet long. His bair grows
down on his forehead, so I am told, to with
in one inch from his eyebrows, and he has a
lean, lank frame which makes you think of
a skeleton in clothes. His head is as queer
iu shape as that of Ingalls, and Ingalls'
head is the most curiously shaped one I
have ever seen. It is narrow at the front
and wide at the back. The hair comes low
on the forehead. It is cut short, and is of a
rich iron-gray.
"Where the Contrast Is.
Ingalls, however, is upon the whole a fine
looking man, and he has a distingue air,
which is not the case with Judge Peffer, who
looks more like a Hoosier or a broken-down
preacher, and who was, I am told, getting
525 a week as an editorial writer at the time
of his election. He will bring a lot of new
"isms" to the Senate, and will, I venture,
be surprised at the small impression he
makes.
I saw Senator John C. Spooner on the
street this rfcernoon. He very much regrets
the political necessities which prevent his
return, and he has a lingering hope that he
will get back here at the next Senatorial'
election. He has been saving some money
within the past few years and is worth, it is
said, enough to keep him, provided he lives
plainly. He can make 520,000 a year at the
law, and I was told the other day that be
was offered this amount if he would take a
position with a certain railway which has its
headquarters at Chicago. He refused ou
the grounds that he did not want to leave
"Wisconsin, and if certain business interests
in which he is interested with other Senators
do not turn out well, he will probably be
found practicing law iu Milwaukee. He
will never be happy until he gets back into
public life.
Spooner's Worthy Successor.
Senator Spooner has no mean competitor,
however, in cx-Postmastcr General Vilas,
who has been elected, for the next six years
to take his place. Yilas is as cold as a wedge
in December, and he is as sharp as the tack
which sits with point upward incognito on
your bedroom floor after house cleaning. He
has had the education iu party management
and the manipulation of political wires
which go with the great Postofllce Depart
ment, aud the defeat which he received with
Cleveland at the last Presidental election has
probably reduced the swelling which his
enemies charge was going on inside of his
cranium through the prominent position
which he held here.
When Vilas first came to Washington he
had what is called a big bead. lie thought
that because he was a member of the Cabi
net he had lodgings among the clouds, but
he soou learned that' the only way to succeed
was by diplomacy, and by the time he left
he was as suave and polite as au office
seeker. He is a man of remarkable ability,
and he can make an eloquent speech upon i
occasion. He .lias a wonderful analytical
mind, and. he understands how to get the
meat out of a subject and to serve it up in
such a manner as will suit the palates and
understandings of those he is talkiug to.
Beads Virgil for Amusement.
He is about as good a lawver as John
Spooner, aud he is fully as well educated a
man. He has a library of about S,000
volumes, and he reads Virgil in the original
for amusement. He understands the French
and the German, and his favorite novelists
are George Eliot and Charles Dickens.
Senator Vilas is well-to-do now. He was
making about 520,000 a year when he was
chosen to take a place in Cleveland's Cabi
net, and be has the money making sense in
herited from his Yankee ancestors and de
veloped by the atmosphere of the pushing
Northwest.
He made a big hit during the time he was
here at Washington in the Gogebic iron
region along L.ikc Superior. He had
bought some lands here years ago, before the
mines were discovered, on account of the
timber, intending to keep them for his chil
dren. The iron made them immensely valu
able, and just how much be is worth he
himself only knows. When Cleveland was
making bis -last campaign, Vilas had no
idea but that he would be re-elected, 'and he
confidently expected to be continued, as Sec
retary of the Interior. His confidence in
this matter was so great that he rented a
magnificent house on Sixteenth street in
Washington nnd took a four years' lease on
it It is now occupied by one of the South
American Legation, but whether thev rent
It oi Vilas or whether be compromised the'
matter and threw up bis lease 1 am unable
to say.
Vilas Oratorical Start.
Speaking of Vilas as a prospective Sena
torial orator, he made his first national
reputation as a speechmaker when he deliv
ered his famous oration on Grant to the
Army of Tennessee, and he again came to
the front as tho President of the convention
which nominated Cleveland. He was
looted upon as an austere man when he
first came to Washington, but he developed
sociable traits later on and became quite a
story teller. I remember an anecdote con
cerning bis first speech after he lelt school
as he told it one day after a Cabinet meeting
PITTSBTJUG - DISPATCH,
at the White House and as Colonel Dan
Lamont repeated it to me. Said Mr. Vilas:
"It was on the occasion o' a new railroad
coming into the town, and for some reason
or other I was chosen as the orator of the
day. I got through and was most highly
complimented by a backwoodsman of rr,v
acquaintance who ran to me as I came down
from the platform, and, putting a strong T
on the end of the French words he used,
said: 'I want to shake yer hand, Billie; I've
heered yer debut and ye've come out with a
big eclat.' And," continued Mr. Vilas, "I
don't believe I will ever get a greater com
pliment than that"
Cameron and Draw Toker.
The absurd stories that gain currency and
are even believed by many people in Wash
ington are decidedly interesting. Every act
of a public man is attributed to some under
handed motive or personal pique or feeling. I
heard it solemnly asserted only last night that
the secret of Don Cameron's going against
tho force bill was because he had had trouble
with Senator Aldrich over a little game of
draw poker, and that such games were the
cause of much internecine warfare in the
Senate. 'No one would imagine that so ex
emplary a character as Aldrich had any
thing to do with a game of cards, and there is
no doubt that Senator Cameron, however
unfair he may play the game of politics
with his constituents, would not do other
wise than play fair-at cards with a Yankee
from Bhode Island.
As to Senator Cameron's silver speculation
and his agent, the Hon. David Littler,!
had a queer conversation with this man iu
New York about the time ha was iu the
thick of it I could not understand his
actions then, but they are more apparent
now. Mr. Littler is a big bepry man with a
red face, iron gray hair and heard, and a
general bullying air about him.
littler and Newspapers.
He was sitting in the lobby of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel where I was stopping when
I saw him, and went up to him, aud calling
him by name bade him "good morning."
He looked at me as though I was a bunco
steercr, and upon my telling him that I bad
met him at Denver when he was on the
Pacific Kail road Commission, he gave me
his hand and asked me what I was doing. I
replied that I was corresponding for the
newspapers. As I said this he drew back
suddenly, and said: "I don't like to talk
to newspaper men."
"You don't?" I replied; "and why don't
you? What have you- been doing that you
are alraid to talk to newspaper men?"
"Oh, nothingl" said he, somewhat indig
nantly, aud then changing bis tactics made
an evident attempt to be friendly. I then
went on to ask him a number of questions,
not with any idea of getting anything lor
publication, tor I did not believe he had
anything in him worth publishing, but
merely for pastime. I asked what he was
doing, and upon his telling me that he was
practicing law at Washington, I innocently
asked whether he was making any money
at the law, and as to what kind of law he
was practicing.
Afraid to Talk.
He evidently thought I was probing too
close to silver 'and he said: "Now, I don't
want to be interviewed, and what do your
people care whether I am making any money
or not?"
"Well, Judge," I replied, thoroughly
disgusted with the man's egotism, "I had
no idea of using your remarks, and I can
emphatically tell you that iu my judgment
the readers of the newspapers don't care a
cent about you or what you do. Good day."
Littler's law nractice seems to be that of
the score ol other broken down politicians J
who nang about Washington. They get a
taste of public life and imagine themselves
to be great men until the tidal wave of pub
lic opinion turns them down, and they wake
to find themselves noboddies and their bare
feet on the pavement They have not sense
enough to go back home and try again, but
tbey hang about, the Capitol looking for
crumbs from the political tables, aud ready
to do anything or to go into anything which
promises to keep them alive.
Itoscoo Conkllng's Big Fee.
The lobby and the law are in Washington
to a great extent synonymous terms, and I
know of men who are really great lawyers
who find plentyto do. In presenting a case
to a committee of Congress an ex-Senator
has a pull that the ordinary lawyer could
not have, and it is said that Boscoe Conk
ling at one time got a 550,000 fee
for arguing a case for the Apollinaris
Water Company before the Secretary of the
Treasury. He often came here to Washintr
ton to practice before the departments and
he could command his own terms.
A great many people, however, have the
idea that money will do anything in Wash
ington. There never was a greater mistake.
The majority of the Congressmen and the
majority of the Government clerks are hon
est. I passed a man on the street to-day who
is'now working for the Government at 1,400
a year who I know, refused a bribe of 530,
000 to say just one word a few years ago. He
was at the time the confidential clerk of Mr.
Jeuks. the Assistant Secretary of the Inter
ior. The Bell telephone cases had been be
fore the department and had been decided,
but the decision had not yet been -given to
the public. They were locked up in this
young man's desk and the Assistant Secre
tary had gone home, leaving him iu charge.
Tho Story of a Bribe.
No one outside of the department knew
that the cases were decided. He was sitting
at bis desk when two well-dressed looking
men entered and after waiting a moment
came up to the desk and asked if the assist
ant secretary was in. He replied that Mr.
Jenks had left the city and asked the men
to be seated. They then engaged in general
conversation and npon learning that he had
lived in Minnesota claimed to have come
irom that State. After a ievf words about
the Northwest one of them broached the
subject of stocks and very adroitly referred
to the Bell telephone case and said that a
man could make a pile of money if he knew
how It was going to be decided.
"How so?" said the other.
The first man then explained how the set
tlement ol the case would affect the stock
market and then asked the clerk if the case
had been settled. He replied that it had,
and that it was that moment locked up in
his desk in the room in which they were
sitting. He had no suspicion at this time
what the men were after, and he was
frightened when the man sitting nearest
him leaned over and pulling open his coat
showed him an envelope stuffed with thous
and dollar bills and said:
Thirty Thousand for a Word.
"I want to know whether that decision is
in favor of the Bell Company or not, and I
have jnst 530,000 here to pay for the in
formation. I only want you to say 'yes' or
'no' and the money Is yours."
The clerk thought a moment and then
said: "Wait a minute and I'll tell you!"
He then went in to see Secretary Lamar,
but could not find him. He passed on into
Secretary Mnldrow's office and told him
there were a couple of men in there who had
tried to bribe him. Muldrow rushed in
with him to catch the men, but they had
jumped out of the window and got away.
They had first tried the door, but be had
told the messenger to keep this locked until
he came hack, and they had risked the
breaking of their legs by the window. The
clerk was highly complimented by Lamar
for his action, and he deserved it
Speaking of shady law practice in Wash
ington and how broken down ''statesmen en
gage in it, recalls a remark of the late Sec
retary Windom in regard to his action in
keeping away from the capital when he was
not in public life. Said he, just before be
took his place in President Harrison's Cabi
net: "I bave never been back to the Senate
Chamber since my term expired. I used to
see so many ex-Senators hanging around
the chanibeV interested in some job that I
resolved never to be in their company. A
man ,of honor can never afford to ruu sus
picious &isks."
.Frank g. Carpenter.
Reputations Made in a Bay
Are procious scarce. Time tries the worth of a
manor medicine. Hostetter's Stomaoh Bit
ters is a 30 rears growth, and like those tardy
lichens that garnish the crevices of Alaska's
rocks it flourishes perennially. And Its repu
tation has as firm a base as the rocks thorn
(elves. No medicine Is more highly regarded
as a remedv f or f ever and lague. bilious remit
tent constipation, liver and kidney disorders,
nervousness and rheumatism.
SUK)AYV IFEBRTJAftY
GOLD DREAMLAND
Is as ftubslitnlial as Uiclics From
Tan-American Railroading.
THE PLAKS LOOK KICE ON PAPER
Bat the Great Amazon Isn't Going to Consent
to Be Paralleled.
DIFFICDIiT IS THS CONSTRUCTION
rcOnBESFOXDZHCZ Or THE DISPATCH. 1
PABA, BRAZIL, Jan. 22.
E AZIL is a wonderland,
especially the part of it
called Amazonia. There
are a thousand times
more marvels in it than
Captain Mayne Iteid has
told. But marvels don't
rnako good ballast for
railroad tracks except on
paper.
Much of the "Pan
American" literature
that is being palmed off
on the trading public of
the three Amerlcas,when
Brazil, for example, is
the topic, reads very
much like a Jules Verne story to one who
is on the spot, and a wierd suspicion forces
itself upon the reader that the "pan" at
tachment is principally for "scooping" pur
poses. The great "Pan-American Kail
way" is a beautifully, taking conception.
The American eagle shivers in every pin
feather, rfbd his teeth chatter with delight
at the mere suggestion. "Trans-Andine,"
too, not trans-across, but trans-lengthwise
from peak to peak and from crag to crag in
the aerial path of the condor; what wouldn't
the Fourth of July bird give for such rail
roading in a Pullman sleeping car and an
early morning hand shake with the biggest
bird that fliei, right on the wing and hard
by his snowy equatorial roost.
The Pan In Railroading.
But however glorious this may be for the
great American eagle, when the average
American citizen proposes to send his own
priv.ite "ten dollar eagles" a railroading,
especially a pan-railroading, he wants to
know how it is going to pan out and where
the "pan" is going to dump after the
"scoop" is made, and where the eagle is
going to light when he comes down.
Not long since my attention was called to
certain articles published in New York on
this subject, whose author has the reputa-
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tion of knowing pretty near all that is worth
knowing about Brazil, and which treated
especially of the most necessary and most
promising of Brazilian railway schemes, as
he thinks. The roads which he suggests,
or some of them, would be situated so they
might be utilized as pirt of the great Pan
American Eailway, if that is ever con
structed. "If?" some readers may exclaim. "Whv,
of course it will be constructed."
A continuous line of railway may, some
time in the far distant fnture, be in opera
tion from New York to Buenos Ayres,
but it will never be used for carrying
through freight between those two points.
As long as half an ounce of coal can be
made to move a ton of cargo a mile on the
open ocean, no born Yankee is going to send
his freghtby rail to the Amazon Valley or
to Bio or to Buenos Ayres.
Only a Itallway Bream.
The Pan-American Railway will never be
for Pan-American trade. An ocean steamer
can beat a freight train by 50 per cent as to
speed, and by agreaterdiflerence in cheapness
oi' carrying. Consequently, it is nonsense
excuse" me it is pure poetry this Pan
American Bailway dream.
Amazonia has 50,000 miles of avail
able river navigation; and by the
coustruction of GOO or 700 miles
of railroad to get around the rapids ot
the Madeira, Tapajos and Tocantins rivers,
several thousand miles more wonld be added
to Amazonian navigation.
With 00,000 miles of waterway, every
man can have a steamboat at his front door,
as often as he needs it, the year round.
There is only one steam railway in the Am
azon valley the Bragauca Railway, run
nine out 40 miles from Para. This road has
never paid balf of its running; expenses.
The deficit is paid by the State. - The
trouble is that in all Brazil there is no pop
ulation back from the riyers and the coast
to support a railway, except in a small part
of Southern Brazil. In nearly all the rest
. it t ui:.. u.l. . .1... :.. !
OI mis Jtepuuiiu, uAvn iiuui tuu ncr mar
gins, there are forest-covered mountains.
What lies back of these mountains is still
as unexplored as the interior of Airica.
Lines Alone Mountains.
When the highlands of the interior are
peopled, they will need railroads to give
them communication with the water course',
which will always bo the grand trunk lines
of communication of Amazonia. Except
on extensive plains, the rule of railroad
building is to follow the water courses. To
follow the course ot therangeof mountains,
tunneling the spurs and bridging the
mountain valleys is to multiply by 1,000 the
cost of building. But that is juswlint is
d(3nc in much of the present railroad build
ing on paper, for Brazil.
The watershed between the Amazon basin
and that ot the Elver Plate Is a mountainous
region, and its flanks are cat ou either side
by the valleys tributary to the Amazon and
Plate rivers respectively. Still the New York
Pau-AmericanJEtailway dreamer proposes to
shove a railway more than 1,000 miles
lengthwise through those mountains, irom
Ouro Preto, the capital of Minas Geracs,
westward to Coyaz and Cuyaba, cutting at
right angles every valley and hill he meets,
through a nearly uuiuhabited region for
most of the distance. The two objects pro-
8, 189L
posed are to reach the possible mineral
wealth of the region to be traversed, and
especially to give to Bio direct communica
tion with CisandineBoIivio, which is locked
in by the rajii! tf the River Madeira.
Tho Natural Route.
It is perfectly safe to predict that no rail
road will be built aling that route very
soon. The natural outlet of that part of
Bolivia, which is two weeks nearer to Eu
rope and the United States than the one
proposed, is down the Mamore and Madeipa
rivers. A short railroad past the rapids is
the solution of the problem for Bolivia.
The same writer has another railroad
"castled in the air," to run from Manaos,
on the Amazon, to Paraniiribo on the coast
of Dutch Gtiintia. The distance is an insig
nificant 1,000 mile Nothing would have
to be paid lor "right of way," for there is
no one living on the route, and no one has
ever been oyer tbeground, so that it is im
possible to prove that the plan is not feasi
ble. There is a range of mountains to cross;
but he has the general direction of water
courses in his favor. He is crossing the
mountains, .and not riding them astraddle,
as in his Southern plan. But the great
puzzle is to know what use the railroad
could be put to after it were built He
thinks that it would give to Manaos quicker
communication with New York; but that is
an enormous mistake.
Better Time by Water.
New York steamers sail direct to Manaos
1,000 miles np the Amazon the year around.
They can make the distance from Manaos to
Paramiribo, via Para, in five days, and be
there as soon as his overland freight train,
with much less than half of the expense,
and with no resliipments of cargo, the c.irgo
going unbroken by steamer from Manaos to
New York in ten days.
The whole scheme seems like a desperate
attempt to dispense with the Amazon river,
by carrying the Amazonian products from
1,000 to 2,000 miles overland, either to Bio
de Janeiro, or to Dutch Guiana before
shipping them. But the Amazon will not
be dispensed with. It has not only the
right of way, hut will hold it exclusively.
No railroads need apply They can't be
built down the valley proper, for the river
rises 30 feet or more annually, and over
flows its plains, changes its channel, tears
out its islands, builds others, and plays the
mischief generally. At low water, this
year, a steamer may find 15 fathoms of
water, where last year there was a forest
with trees CO feet in height.
Trlth of Forth Bridges.
Over the bluffs that flank the flood plains,
a railroad would have to tunnel and bridge
without end; aud on crossing the tributaries
of the Amazon there would have to be Frith
of Forth bridges, built on mud and miles in
length, 50 feet above low water mark; for
those tributaries annually rise from 30 to 40
feet, and overflow their flood plains for
miles in width. The Amazon will never al
low an east and west railroad as its rival,
nor allow itself to be bridged after it leaves
its cradle in the Andes.
There arc railroads to be built in Brazil,
howevar, as already indicated, to pass the
NOW BUILDING.
rapids of the" river Tocantins, Tapejos and
Madeira. These three abort railroads will
add immensely to the material wealth and
resources pf Brazil and Bolivia; for the ter-,
ritory thus opened up is inhabitable and
very rich in its soil, forests, pastures and
mines. None of these railroads is now con
tracted for, although two of them have been.
Skeletons Along the Path.
The Madeira and Mamore Bailway for
passing the rapids of the Madeira river was
a most disastrous enterprise. Fortunately
for Brazil she was not to blame for the fail
ure. P. & T. Collins, of Philadelphia.were
the contractors for building the road. En
glish bondholders laid -an injunction on the
funds and the work stopped. Five miles of
finished tracfc, seyeral ship loads of rails,
locomotives and other 'appurtenances still
lie in the forest at Santo Antonio, ou the
Madeira river, where thev were abandoned
12 years ago.
Seven years ago the Brazilian Government
sent a commission of civil engineers to sur
vey the" route. Alter returning to Rio
there were charges cf "sham survey," etc
The commissioners quarreled, the survey
was pigeon-holed, and is still there where it
was put seven years ago.
The Alcobaca Railway, on the river Toc
antins, has fared no better; present prospects
are dubious, although the Federal Govern
ment is promising that it shall soon be built
It was to have been built by the Para Trans
portation and Trading Company, an organi
zition chartered by the State of Wisconsin,
and said to have a nominal capital of
510,000,000.
Acted in Bad Faitlu
This company obtained theilrst choice' of
large tracts of land at a nominal price, ex
clusive privileges for the road for 90 years,
and other advantages that would have made
its stockholders immensely rich, in all prob
ability, if its plans had been carried out.
The grant was obtained In a marvelous easy
manner, toall'appearances. Butjust as the
company w'ere about ready to begin actual
operations, the Government ol the State of
Para suddenly and rather mysteriously
voted repudiation of part of the" privileges
Granted.
" The bad faith implied In this partial re
pudiation caused the company to abandon
everything, aud let the grant collapse by
neglect
It the history of the Para Transportation
and Trading Company could be written out
in full, both on the side of the company and
that of the Brazilian Government, it would,
in all probability, serve as a most valuable
guide book for future railroad contractors in
Brazil, as to what ought not to be done by
either business men or governments under
any circumtance. Colossal bad faith is
the mightiest obstacle that hinders Brazilian
railroad building.
The illustration shows a section of road in
the Ainaziu Valley. The vegetation is
marvelous in its luxuriance. Railroad
builders will have to tunnel the forests aud
make a new tunnel every day. The growth
is so rapid nnd (dene that a swath cut in
the morning is overgrown at evening of the
same day. J. O. KERBET.
A census of Charleston, S. C, just taken
with great care, makes the population of that
city 05,173, against a Uttle over 3,000 by Porter's
census.
GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
The Veteran, Max Uarelzk, Tells a
Story of Christine Kilssun.
POLITICS 'WAY DOWN IS DIXIE.
Stanford Feels Encouraged Over Bis Money
Lending Projsct.
THiJ SCnOOIi 1SSTJB IX WISCONSIN
.-COnRESPONDKNCE or THE DISPATCH.1
New Yokk, Feb. 7. In my wanderings
over this big town during the week I gath
ered the following short interviews, which
are of more than local interest:
MaxMaretzek, the operatic conductor
Yes, I have jujt published another volume
of musical memoirs. A man who first in
troduced Pntti to an American audience
and first conducted "Faust" has aright to be
garrulous In 1819 I always conducted
with gloved hands. The fashion was prev
alent iu London, and I followed It in New
York. The best seats at the opera cost only
fl iu those dayi We never allowed flowers
over the footlights except at benefit per
formances. We allowed the artists only
their salaries and their fares when travel
ing. No extra pianos. No hotel expenses.
Prima donne and tenors had from SC00 to
$800 a mouth; members of the orchestra
from $50 to $C0 per month,
I remember an incident about Christine
Nilsson that may interest you. When she
was in this country under the management
of Max Strakosch, and I was musical con
ductor, we traveled irom Cincinnati to Buf
falo. On the road, about half way, I got
out and bousht a bit; sausige and a loaf of
rye bread and when the train began to move
nirain I becan to eat with great relish.
Nilsson, who sat almost directly opposite,
turned around with a grimace of disgust on
her face.
"Who is eating garlic, or sausage or
something?" she asked bitterly. "Is it you.
Max? Bahi" and out she took three or four
flaconsand sprinkled perfume all over the
car. "Couldn't you wait till we get to Buf
falo?" added Nilsson. "Must you buvsuch
awful stuff? No; you had to buy that aw
ful stuff and make me sick."
Nilsson contiuued iu this strain for some
time. I put the rest of the'sausage into my
pocket I apologized. I felt rather sheep
ish. "Now it happened that just as we were a
few
nours irom isulialo. a ireisrht train
broke down and we were hemmed iu.
Everybody was excited. We would bs
late. Wo were hunjry. Ac about 10 o'clock I
fell asleep. I had eaten, the others had not. I
felt comfortable enough. At about 2 in
the morninji I felt a touch on my arm. I
rubbed my eyes and stretched.
"Who is itT What's the matter!" said L
'Huihr' answered someone. "It's I, Jfaxl
It's Christine. Say. Max, I'm awfully hungrv.
Can't you let me have that bit of sausage I saw
you put Into your pocket when I scolded you
so? Do let mo have it. Max."
John Sherman's Publlo Life.
Ex-Congressman Amos Totvnsem, of Ohio
Many havo asked me whether I thought Sena
tor John Sherman wuuld retire from active
politics after his term In the Scuato expires. 1
do not know positively. I do not think he will,
for two reasons. First, he is in full possession
of his vigorous mental faculties, and is a power
in the Senate: an J, second, the people of Onto
will not consent for hiu. to retire jnst let.
John Sherman bat been in public life many
years, and has reflected great credit upon the
State that so honored him. The people arc not
prepared to shelve him wbilo he is so active and
in the zenith of hi-. Illustrious career. All he
has to do is tn halfway consent and ha will cer
tainly go back to the Senate. I do not think
he will be a candidate for the Presidency.
Indiana's Natural Gas.
Judge C W. Fairbanks, of Indiana, a great
Gresham boomer Although Indiana is a great
State for politic?, the people there are very
much more interested iu the development of
the State than In political matters. When an
election occurs, of course it absorbs the atten
tion of everyone, but the supposition that the
Hoosier State is a political kindergarten all the
season round is one ot those pleasing fictions
which the Indlamanj rarely ever taKe tne
trouble to contradict It used to be that you
could not meet a mau In Indianapolis without
the subject of conversation being more or less
political. Now it is natural gas. And natural
gas is developing onr country wonderfully.
The ephemeral booms of the far West are
heralded with noise, but onr growth is going
forward rapidly without advertisement and the
usual hippodrome connected with booms. Nd;
I can't talk about Presidental candidates. A
year from now w.ll be time enuugh.
liancroft's Volume of Foeras.
Andrew D. White. ex-Minister to Berlin. ex
President ot Cornell I knew the late George
Bancroft well. He wm a man of great dignity
of manner. His memory was marvelous, even
in his latter years. He spoke German and
French fluently and read Greek readily. Old
Emperor Wilhelm twice inquired after Mr.
Bancroft Did you know that Mr. Bancroft
once published a volume of poemsj He did.
when be was in the twenties and later bought
up all the copies he could lay hands on. He
was always a great realtor of poetry. You re
member he quoted George .Eliot's "Spanish
Gipsy" in bis history, and he always loved
roses.
Kepubllcans In the South.
Ex-Governor Knfus U. Bullock, of Georgia,
Government Director of the Union PaclHc
What the South wants is capital from
the North, and not politics. Now I am a Demo
crat in local politics, but a .Republican when
national questions are involved. I havo lived
long enough In the South to know that only one
thing keeps the whites Democratic, and that is
the negro question. Eliminate the negro from
politics and there would be more white Re
publican' in the South than Democrats. I know
scores of prominent white Democrats in At
lanta who would vote the Republican ticket to
morrow on tbe issue of protection and free
trade if the negro question were eliminated. It
would be far better for tbe South if tbe colored
man. were not in politics, because as long as be
is he will be tbe bone of contention, and the
true issue will be overlooked. Thousands of
Democrats have Interests tbey wish protected.
New England has bad tho benefit of protection
50 year.", and now the South wants it. I think in
a few years a great change will occur in the
political complexion of the South If the negro
supremacy question can only be relegated to a
secondary place.
Let the South Alone.
Ex-Congressman William Whitney, of
Holyoke. Mass. I cannot say that I am sorry
that tho elections bill has been practically
killed, although I am a Republican. It seems
to me a short-sighted policy to stir up sectional
feeling and disturb the relations between the
North and South. The laissez-faire policy is a
splendid ooe to pursue at present in regard to
the South. Our relations commercially and
socially with tho South wero never better, and
just when sectionalism was fast dying out up
pups the Federal elections bill. If it bad be
come a law I mink it would bave done more
harm thin good. Wisdom frequently consists
in not doing things. Many years ago such men
as Evarts. Blaine and Hoar opposed a force
bill, but now two or these, at least have
changed front and advocate strongly a bill as
drastic and as dangerous as the first pne. Let
well enough alone.
Catching Vp a Manacer. e
David Belasco, playwrinht In my early days
I used to be indefatigable In bringing plays of
mine to managers. One manager 1 suspected
of never reading any plays. So I tried a trick
on him. One day I gave him a roll of blank
paper tied with red ribbon; be received the roll
politely and told me to call in two weeks. I
called as be had requested and be said he had
read the p'ay. bnt unfortunately it would not
dn. Then 1 slowly unrolled tbe blank paper
before his rye, held It up to him and en
joyed the comedy situation.
One Way of Making a Living.
E. Frank Harris, wire artist Hoffman House
Yes you'd be surprised at the demand for
these Uttle trinkets made here. 1 have, as you
see, a large assortment of feminine names
"Daisy." "Maggie," "Charlo:te,""Marguente,"
"Cora," etc., on hand, but my customers very
often bave tbem made to order. I can make
one while you wait In almost any name. Tbe
wire Is copper and rolled gold. I also make
bracelets and rings after almost any design in
a very few minutes. These slngl names sell
forEO cents and the tracelets for from SI to $2.
It is a passing fancy with some people to bave
something of this kind made as a souvenir of a
New York visit. Yon will bo surprised, per
haps, when I tell you that I often take in from
$20 to Sfll per diy for tbee little things. As
tho wir cost very little, I can make no com
plaint about the prunts of the business.
The Result of a Bow.
Frank 21. Reynolds, Business Manager
Eden Musee The French ball row in which
Otero figured created a sensation. It Is funny
bow these things work. She danced to "stand
ing room only" for several nights thereafter.
Onr place was packed the following nights A
trifling episode that was so magnified by the
newspapers resulted In a perfeet crush for us.
Otherwise there was nothing In it Some peo
ple said it was a put up job; but It wasn't
Never Head the Newspapers.
Daniel Leach. Custom House Talking about
professional jurors reminds me that whenlwas
connected with the Smithsonian Institute at
Washington! knew a man by the name of
Scrivener, who perhaps served more times on a
jury than any other man at the capital. If any
body approached him with newspapers after a
crime bad been committed, he would waive
him aside majestically, saying: "I don't want
to know anvtning about it or discuss the mat
ter. You see, I may be called to serve on tba
jury, and a juror never discusses thesa things.
Nothing could Imlnce him to read tba "news
papers, because it Interfered with his pro
fessional duties as a juror. I think that man
served about 20 days out of a month on an
average. He could always answer the usual
questions as to his opinions on a case satisfac
torily to tbe counsel on both sides and the
Court That was the only man 1 ever knew
who made serving on a jury a profession. He
as a very intelligent man, and probabl v a f air
juror, too.
Hobbies in Books.
Duprat, bookseller. Fifth avenue The taste
in rare books has changed. Fifteen years ago
collectors used to go in for Elzevir, Aldus,
Baskervllle and Pickerings. Now Dickens,
Thackeray, Burns. Shelley. Keats. In the orig
inal editions, are tbe rage. Collectors don't
care for a book except It has the hrsc imprint
I saw a Hawthorne's "ScarletLetter," Brst edl
tion. which brought 510 the other day. xon
can buy a second edition for S2, It you wish.
All Is fancy, you see, and hobby.
Kcady to Fight McAuliffe.
Jim Corbett, the boxer and pugilist Yes, I'm
heavier than I was last year when I visited New
York. I've gained about 17 pounds. I'm ready
to have a go with McAnliffe If the preliminaries
are satisfactorily arraneed. The fight between
Dempsey and Fltzsimmons was a rattler. I
ued to ba in tbe life insurance business out in
'Frisco. I tell you if I'd been a company I
wouldn't have granted a policv to Dempsey
after the sixth round. Fitz was too much for
him from the start.
Tho Bartender's Secrets.
Jerry Fiizpatrlck, bartender at the "Pick
wick" Many bartenders work in winter and
layoff ind play the races in the summer.
Cremo u months was the fashionable drink
last summer. Whisky sour has gone out of
fashion. Gin fizz. Manhattan cocktail and
wnl3ky straight hold their own. Most profit
is made on green chartreuse. We buy that tor
S3 20 a bottle and sell it at 20 cents a glass. You
can easily calculate the profit
Some of the Collectors.
Alfred Trimble, art critic and connoisseur of
bric-a-brac Man has been called a scraping
and a collecting animal." and tbe definition is
true. Take tbe collectors of Gotham. Inspec
tor Byrnes collects murderers' and criminal
tools. Brayton Ives goes in for books and
miniatures. Astor collects real estate deeds.
Moroilni collects old armor. Dr. Emmett col
lects Dickens. Thomas J. McKee col'ecls Foe
and John Howard Payne. Lawrence is proud
of hU death mask collection. Mrs. Paran
Stevens has old jewels. John Taylor Jobnon
prides himself ou old laces. Charles A. Dana
is the happyposscssur of old china and porce
lain and so on.
Ada Behan's Wit
Wilton Lackayc. actor When I wasatDaly'i
1 found MiS3 Rehan quite as cbarming a lady
as I had always considnred her a charming
comedienne. One day. during a cause of ths
rehearsal, I was standing on tbe stage with her,
and we had a chat. "Are yon quick study!" I
asked, in an oil-hand tone. "Oh, yes. very,"
sli- answered. Then I looked at ber and satd:
"How long do you tlilnc it will take youto
learn to like me!" "Absent or present!" says
she. Ibat floored me.
Pronunciation in Dixie.
George W. Cable, of Massachusetts, creols
novelist Although I do not live In the South
now, yet I have not lost an interest in the peo
ple. It is not difficult for me to tell by tbe pro
nunciation what section ot country any South
erner is from. The Virginian has bis accent
distinct from the South Carolinian and the
Lonlsianian. And, of course, tbe Creole has
bis delight! ully mnslcal accent or intonation.
Not long ago I met a young man. and, after
hearing bim speak. I said: "Yon are from
Northwest Louisiana, the Parish ot Bossier, and
your ancestor! were Anglo-Saxons who lauded
in Virginia jnst prior to the Revolutionary
War." He replied that I was correct. I am
rarely ever mistaken in placing the different
tvpes in tbe South. The ethnological stndy of
the South is most Interesting,
Wisconsin's Educational Issue.
Senator Phlletns Sawyer, of Wisconsin A
great deal was said in tba last election in my
State about the little red scboolhonse. The
Republicans certainly favor the red school
house and believe In ourpublic schools, but the
Democrats defeated them. You see, the Re
publicans were misunderstood by the ioreign
voters, who really believed that tba grand old
party of freedom and education wanted to
force educational matters to a fanatical ex
treme. And some, notably an old German
whom 1 heard of. said that the Bennett law was
to force him to speak English or go to jaiL Com
pulsory education does nut mean that none but
public schooli shall be patronized, or that
parents cannot send their children to any
school, no matter bow far from home, but the
Democrats tried to make the foreign voters In
New York State think to.
Stanford's Land Scheme.
Senator Leland Stanford, of California I re
ceive on an average 200 letters a day commend
ing the bill I introdnced In the Senate by
which money can ba borrowed on land from
the Government at 2 per cent per annum. It is
impossible, of course, for ma to read them all,
but I do the best I can. Tbe interest shown
erery where in tbe bill 1 introduced is very en
couraging and proves that the financial ques
tion is really uaramount to all others now be
fore tbe country. The farmer, of course, will
be benefited by my bill, should It become a law.
and Indeed every man without capital. Any
one who has tillable land, or ever buys It on a
credit will be able to burrow money from the
Government at such a low rateot Interest he
can afford to go into debt a little. Someone
asked me what would be done in case a land
owner should become insolvent and unable to
pav tbe interest to the Government That is
very easy to answer. There wonld be plenty of
men ready to bey in the land, borrow money at
2 per cent from the Government and go ahead
as if tbe insolvency had never occurred. Tbe
sub-Treasury bill advocated by tbe Farmers'
Alliance simply hypothecates products. My
bill, if it becomes a law, will not bring about
tbe mlllenium. but it will give the people
money and forever do away with money panics.
The Negro Dialect
Thomu Nelson Page, ot Virginia, author
of many negro dialect stories In my opinion,
dialect stories are very much overdone. Of Uto
many dialect stories bave appeared, and more
orles surfeited the public Sometimes they
are very readable, especially when they are
true to nature. I never like to get away from
the real talk ot the colored man when writing
a story where be has to be quoted. Tbe origi
nal Virginia darkey Is a good model to follow.
He is. as a rule. If he is old. full of pleasing
reminiscences and is always contrasting tbe
present with the past, mncb to tba disparage
ment of the former. I think it will not be Ions
before the old type of Virginia darkey will dis
appear. A younger generation Is coming on
and they have nothing to make tbem especially
original. It is melodious to the ear to bear an
old darkey talk. He drops all bis gs and deals
chiefly with vowels. Ho never utters a guttural
word. His sentences flow like a phonetic
vocabulary sliding down a river of vowels.
t The Actor's Clothes.
Robert Hilliard. tbe dude actor Well-mads
clothes are of Importance to juvenile men. Tba
men of fashion about town criticize the fit ot an
actor's trousers and coats. I never wear a pair
of trousers longer than a month on the stage.
Always lay your trousers flat before retiring.
Coats can be cnt to hlda adiposity. I hear
Theodore Thomas always wears a Prince Al
bert of a certain cnt to hide his paunch. An
actor on the stage ought never to raise his coat
tails when he seats himself during a scene. You
know the story told of Lester Wallack and Os
mond Tearle during a rehearsal. Tearle. dur
ing a love scene, raised bis coat tall prior to
sitting down on the sofa next to his lady love.
"That won't do. Mr. Tearle." exclaimed Wal
lack. from an orchestra chair where ha was re
hearsing the play; "that won't do at alt Don't
bo afraid to sit on your coat tails. Don't bs
afraid of tbe coat A gentleman should have a
dozen coats iu bis wardrobe."
CHARLES T. MVBSAT.