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nothing hut glare and desert and alkali dust
There was no smoking accommodation. I
at in the lavatory -with the conductor and a
;old prospector who told stories abont In
dian atrocities in the voice of a dreaming
child; oath following oath as smoothly ai
clotted cream laps the month of the jug. I
don't think 1 e knew be was sayinganything
sulphurous, but nine or tea of tnose oaths
were new to at, and one even made the con
ductor raise liis eyebrows.
"And when a man's alone mostly, leadin'
his horse across the hills, he nets to talk
aloud to himzelf as it was," said the weather
worn retailer of tortures. A. vision rose be
fore me of this man tramping the Bannock
citv trail under the stars, swearing and al
ways swearing.
Bundles of rags that were pointed out as
red Indians boarded the train from time to
time. Their race privileges allow them free
transit on the platforms of the cars. They
mustn't come inside, of course, and equally,
of coure, the train never thinks of pulling
'up for them. I saw a squaw take us fly
ing and Iearing us in the same manner when
were spinning round a curve. Like the
! Punjabi, the red Indian sets out by prefer
ence on the trackless plain and walks stolidly
to the horizon. He never says where be is
going.
Impressions of Salt Lake City.
I am seriously concerned for the sake of
Mr. Phil Robinson's soul. You will re
member that he wrote a book called "Saints
and Sinners," in which he proved very pret
tily that the Mormon was almost altogether
an estimanie person, jyct since uiy arrival
at Bait Lake I have been wondering what
made him write that book. On mature re
flection, and after a long walk round the
city, I am inclined to think it was the sun,
which is very powerful hereabouts.
By threat good luck the evil-minded train,
alreadv delayed 12 hours by a burnt bridge,
brought me to the city on a Saturday by
way of that valley which the Mormons, over
their efforts, had caused to blossom like the
rose. Twelve hours previously I had en
tered into a new world where, in conversa
tion, evervone was either a Mormon or a
Gentile. It is not seemly for a free and in
dependent citizen to dub himself a Gentile,
hut the Mayor of 0?den which is the Gen
tile city o"f the vallev told me that there
most become distinction between the two
flocks. Long be'ore the fruit orchards of
Logan or the shining levels of the Salt Lake
had been reached that Mayor himself a
Gentile, and one renowned for his dealings
with the Mormons told me that the great
question of the existence of th power within
the power was being gradually solved by
the ballot and by education.
"We have," quoth he. "hills round and
about here staffed full of silver and gold
and lead, ai.d all the powers of the Mormon
Church can't keep the Gentile from flocking
in when that's the case. At Osjden. 30
miles from Salt Lake, this year the Gentile
rote swamped the Mormon at the municipal
elections, and next year we trust that we
shall be able to repeat the success in Salt
Lake itself. In that city the Gentiles are
only one-third of the total population, but
the mass cf 'em are grown men, capable of
voting, whereas the Mormons are cluttered
up with children.
Old Mormons Tersns the Toung.
"I guess as soon as we have purely Gen
tile officers in the township and the control
of the policy of the city the Mormons will
have to back down considerably. They're
bound to go before long. My own notion is
that it's the older men who keep alive the
feeling of opposition to the Gentile and all
his works The younger ones, spite of all
the elders tell 'em, will mix with the
Gentiles, and read Gentile hooks, and you
bet vour sweet life there's a holy influence
working toward conversion in the kiss of an
average Gentile, specially when the girl
knows that he won't think it necessary for
her salvation to load the house up with
other women folk. I guess the younger
generation are giving sore trouble to the
elders.
"What that you saylabout polygamy? It's
a penal offence now under a bill passed not
long ago. The Mormon has to elect one
wife and keep to ner. If he's caught visit
ing any ot the others waal, do you sec that
cool and rest.ul brown stone building way
over there against the hillside? That's the
penitentiary. He is sent then to consider
his sins and he pays a fin", too. But most
of the police in Salt Lake are Mormons,
and I don't suppose they are too hard on
their friends. I presume there's a good
deal of polygamy practiced on the sly. But
the chief trouble is too get the Mormon to
see that the Gentile isn't the doubly damned
beast that the elders represent. Only get
the Gentiles well into the State and the
whole concern is bound to go to pieces iu a
very little time."
And the wish being father to the thought,
"Why, certainly," said I, and began to take
in the Valley of Deseret, the home of the
Latter Day Saints, and the abode, perhaps,
of as much misery as has ever beeu com
pressed into 40 years.
Polygamy Among the Bengali
The good folk at home cannot understand,
bnt you know how in Bengal to this day the
child-wife is taught to curse her possible co
wife ere yet she has gone to her husband's
house. And the Bengali woman has been
accustomed to polygamy for a few hundred
years. Yet she has a thoroughly feminine
hatred ot her rival. You know, too, the
awful jealousy hetween mother-wife and
barren behind the purdah the jealousy that
culminates sometimes in the poisoning of
the well beloved son. Now and again an
English woman enjoys a high caste Mussa
mani dhai, and in the offices of that hire,
women are apt to forget the differences of
color and to speak unreservedly as twin
daughters mutually under Eve's curse. The
dhai tells very strange and awful things
She has, and this the Mormons count a
privilege, been born into polygamy, but she
loaths and detests it from the bottom of her
jealous soui.
And to the lot of the Bengali co-wife
"the cursed cf the cursed the daughter of
the dunghill the scald bead and the barren
mute" (you know the rest of that sweet com
minatiou service) one creed, of all the
white creeds to-day, deliberately introduces
the white woman taken from centuries
of training, which have tanght her that it is
light to eontrol the undivided heart of one
man. To quench her most natural rebellion
that amazing creed and fantastic jumble of
Mohammedisni, the Mosaic law and im
perfectly comprehended fragments of Pree
Masonry call to its aid all the powers of a
hell conceived and elaborated by coarse
minded hedgers and ditchers. It it a sweet
view, isn't it?
And the Valley Is Beantlfnl.
All the beauty of the valley could not
make me forget it. And the valley is very
fair. Bench after bench of land.'flat as a
table against the flanks of the ringing hills,
marks where the Salt Lake rested for
awhile in its collapse from an inland sea to
a lake SO miles long and 30 broad. Belore
long these benches will be covered with
houses. At present these are hidden among
the green trees on the dead flat of the valley.
You have read a hundred times how the
streets of Sail Lake City are very broad and
furnished with rows of shade trees and gut
ters of fresh water. This is true, but I
struck the town in a season ot great drought
that same drought which is playing havoc
with the herds oi Montana. The trees were
limp and the rills of sparkling water that
one reads about were represented by dusty
saved courses.
.Main street appears to be inhabited by the
commercial Gentile, who has made of it a
busy, bustling thoroughfare, and in the eve
ot tne sun Bwigs the ungodly lager and
smokes the improper cigar all day long.
For which I like him. At the head of
Main street stand the lions of the place,
videlicit, the Temple and Tabernacle, the
tithing house, and the houses of Brigham
Young, whose portrait is on sale in most of
the booksellers' shops. Incidentally
it may be mentioned that the
late Ameer of Utah docs not nnre
xaotely resemble His Highness the Ameer of
Afghanistan, whom these fortunate eyes
have seen. And I have no desire to fall
into the hands of the Ameer. The first
thing to be seen was, of course, the Temple,
the outward exponent ot a creed. Armed
with a copy of the Book of Mormon, ftrbet
jtet comprehension, I went to form rath
'opinions. Someday the Temple -will be
missed. ,it was only begun 30.. years .iee.1
and up to date rather more than $3,600,000
have been expended in its granite bulk.
Inside the Monster Temple.
The walls are 10 feet thick; the edifice
itself is about 100 feet high, and its towers
will be nearly 200. Aud that is all there is
of it unless you choose to inspect more
closely, always reading the Book of Mor
mon "as you walk. Then the wondrous
puerility of what I suppose we must call the
design becomes apparent. I am wrdng;
there is no design. These men, directly in
spired irom on high, heaped stone on stono
and pillar on pillar without achieving either
dignity, relief or interest. There is overtbe
main door some pitiful scratching in stone
representing the All Seeing Eye, the Ma
sonic grip, the sun, moon and stars and,
perhaps, other skittles.
The flatness and meanness of the thing
almost make you weep when yon look at
the magnificent granite in blocks strewn
abroad and the skill that $3,000,000 could
have called into the aid of the church. It
is as though a child had said: "Let us
draw a great big fine house finer than any
house that ever was," and in that desire had
laboriously smudged along with a ruler and
pencil, piiing meaningless straight lines
on compass drawn curves, with his tongue
following every movement of the inapt
hand. Tnen sat I down on a wheelbarrow
and read the Book of Mormon, andbehoId
the spirit of the book was the spirit of the
stone before me. The simple Joseph and
Hiram Smith struggling to create a-new
Bible when they knew nothing of the com
parative history of the Old and New Testa
ment, and the inspired architect muddling
with his bricks they were brothers.
Authority of the Book of Mormon.
It is written, and all the world has read
that to Joseph Smith an angel came down
from heaven with a pair of celestial gig
lamps, whereby he was marvelously enabled
to interpret certain 'plates of gold scribbled
over with dots and scratches, and discovered
by him in the ground, which plates Joseph
Smith did translate only he spelled the
mysterious characters "caractors" and out
of the dots and scratches produced a vol
ume of 600 closely printed pages, containing
the Books of Nephi, first and second; Jacob,
Enos, Jarom, Omni, Mormon, Mosiab, the
record of Zeniff, the Book of Alma Hola
man, the third of Nephl, the fonrth another
Book of Mormon, the Book of Ether (the
whole thing is a powerful anssthetic, by the
way) and a final Book of Moroni. Three
men, of whom one I believe is now living,
bear solemn witness that the angel with the
spectacles appeared unto them; eight other
men swear solemnly that they have seen the
golden plates of the revelation, and upon
this testimony the Book of Mormon stands.
The Mormon Bible begins at the days of
Zedeklah, King of Judah, and ends in a
wild and weltering quagmire of tribal fights,
fibs of revelation and wholesale thefts from
the Bible. Very sincerely did J sympathize
with the inspired brothers as I waded
through their joint production. As a
humble fellow worker in the field of fiction-
I knew what it was to get good names for
one's characters. But Joseph and Hiram
were harder bestead than ever I have been,
and bolder men to boot. They created
Teancum and Coriantumy, Pahoran, Kish
kumen and Gadianton and other priceless
names which the memory does not hold;
but of geography they wisely steered clear
and were astutely vague as to the localities
of places, because you see they were by no
means certain what lay in the next county
to their own.
"Wonderful Accomplishments In Print.
They marched and countermarched blood
thirsty armies across their pages, and added
new and amazing chapters to the records of
the New Testament and reorganized the
heavens and the earth aa it is always lawful
to do in print. 'But they could not achieve
style, and it was foolish of them to let into
their wierd Mosaic pieces of the genuine
Bible wherever the laboring pen dropped
from its toilsome parody to a sentence or
two of vile, bad English or downright
"penny dreadfulism," such as "Moses said
unto the people of Israel, 'Great Scott, what
air you doing?' " There is no sentence in
tne Book of Mormon word for word like the 4
foregoing, but the general tone is not widely
different.
Then I went a bout the streets aud peeped
into people's front windows, and the decor-'
ations upon the tables were after the man
ner of the year 1850. Main street was full
of country folk from the desert come in to
trade with the Zion Mercantile Co-operative
Institute. The chureh, I fancy, looks after
the finances of this thing and it consequent
ly pays good dividends.
Don't Many to Get Beauty.
The faces of the women are not lovely.
Indeed, bnt for the certainty that ugly per
sons are just as irrational in the matter of
undivided love as the beautiful, it seems
that polygamy was a blessed institution for
the women, and that only the dread threats
of the spiritual power could drive the hulk
ing board-faced men into it. The women
wore hideous garments and the men ap
peared to be tied np with string. They
would market all tnat afternoon and on
Sunday go to the praying place. I tried to
talk to a few of them, but they spoke strange
tongues and stared and behaved like cows.
Yet, one woman, and not an altogether
ngly one, confided to me that she hated the
idea of Salt Lake City being turned into a
show place for the amusement of the
Gentiles.
"If we 'ave our own institutions that ain't
no reason why people should come 'ere and
stare at us, his it?"
The dropped "h" betrayed her.
"And when did you leave England?" I
said.
"Summer of '84. I am Dorset," she said.
"The Mormon agents was very good to us
and we was very poor. Now we're .better off
my father an mother an' me."
"Then you like the State?"
She misunderstood at first. "Oh, I ain't
livin' in the state of polygamy. Hot me,
yet. I ain't married. I like where I am.
I've got things o my own and some land."
"But I suppose you will "
"Not me. I ain't like them Swedes an'
Danes, I ain't got nothin' to say for or
against polyamy. It's the Elders' business,
an' between you an' me I don't think its
going on much longer. You'll 'ear them in
the 'ouse to-morrer talkiu" as if it was
sprcadin' all over America. The Swedes
they think it his. I know it hisn't"
"But you've got your land all right?"
"Oh, yes, we've got our land an' we never
say aught against polygamy o' course
father an' mother an' me."
The Sights of Salt Lake City.
I should liked to have spoken to the
maiden at length bnt she dived into the
Zion Co-op. and a man captured me saying
that It was jny bounden duty to see the
sights of Salt Lake. These comprised the
egg-shaped Tabernacle, the Beehive and town
honses of Brigham Young, the game great
ruffian's tomb with' assorted samples of his
wives sleeping round him (just as the 11
faithful ones sleep round the ashes of Bun
jit Singh outside Fort Lahore J'and one or
two other curiosities. But all these things
have been described by abler pens than,
mine. The animal houses where Brigham.
used to pack his wives are grubby "villa;
the Tabernacle is a shingled fraud, and tne
tithing house where all the revenue returns
seem to be made much resembles a sWble.
The Mormons have a paper currency ot their
own ecclesiastical bank notes whioh are
exchanged for local produce. But th little
boys of the place have great weakness for
the bullion of the Gentiles:
Itisnot pleasant to be taken round a
township with your guide stopping before
every third house to say: "Ih.t's where
Elder So-and-so kept Amelia B'athershins,
his fifth no, his third. Amelia she was
took on after Keziah, but KerJah was the
.aider's pet an' be didn't dare to let Amelia
come acrost Keziah for fear of her spilia'
Keaiah's beauty."
The Mussulmans are ruite right The
minute that all the domestic details of
polygamy are discussed in the mouths cf
the people the institution is ready to falL I
shook off my guide whem he told ine his very
last doubtful tale and went on alone. An
ordered peace and a perfection of quiet lux
ury is the note of the city of Ss.lt Lake. The
honses stand iu generous and' well-groomed
grass plots, none very much worse or-better
than their neighbors. Creepers grow over
the house fronts, and there is a very pleas
ant musioor wind am'JBg the trees in the
Tast i street, with, tsaell ef bajaad
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CANDIDATES QF '92.
Uncle Joe McDonald Says Silver "Will
. Unhorse Cleveland.
HILL IS OUT OP THE QUESTION.
Ilarrlson Must Fight a Han From the West
for the Presidency.
EICH BEHINISCENCB AND PE0PHECI
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Washington, Feb. 14. I met ex-Senator
McDonald, of Indiana, in his room at the
Biggs House last night. He gave up poli
tics when he left the United States Senate,
and he is now devoting himself with profit
and pleasure to his first love the law. He
has an immense practice here at "Washing
ton, and he ranks as one of the greatest
lawyers west ot the Alleghenies. He is
noted for his sound, hard-headed common
sense, and a long life of study and practice,
added to his sterling abilities, has put him
at the head of his profession.
His income is said to be five times the
salary ot a Congressman, but he practices
at the law because he loves it, and he told
me last night that he could not remember
when he had not au ambition to be a lawyer
and that if he were a boy again he would
choose the legal profession and stick to it.
I asked him as to his political ambitions
and he replied:
Not a Born Politician.
"I am not a natural politician, and poli
tics have been only an incident in my life.
I do not care for political life and I think I
am happier and better off as a private in the
Democratic party than as one of its officials.
I began to practice law as soon as I was out
of college and I was Attorney General of
the State of Indiana before I was elected to
the Senate."
"Where did you go to school, Senator?" I
asked.
"In different parts of Indiana," replied
Mr. McDonald. "I was born, you know, in
Butler county, Ohio, and my father moved
to Indiana when I was 7 years old. At 12 1
was an apprentice to a saddler, a relative of
mine,-and learned the trade, working at it
for six years."
"Do you think you could make a saddle
to-day, Senator?"
"Yes," replied Senator McDonald, "I am
sure I could, and, in fact, there is a saddle
now In use by my sister which I made for
her some years ago. 1 was the bov Congress,
man in the session of 1819 and 1850, and I
was under 30 at the time I was elected. I
remember the great men of that time very
well, and I
Can See Clay and Webster
in my mind's eye to-day as they photo
graphed themselves upon it in 1849. Henry
Clay was in the Senate. He was very tall
and spare, and had a small head with a high
narrow forehead, a large mouth and a big
nose. He wore very large collars, and some
of the paintings in the Capitol are good
representations of him. He was one of the
greatest orators I ever heard, and nis lorce
largely came from the manner of his utter
ance rather than from what he said.
"He had a very musical voice and had all
the qualities of a fine actor. His manner was
such that his speeches lost weight with you
if you were in tuch a position that you
could not see him while he wsj speaking.
He was a man of great force, and he im
pressed himself upon everything with which
he was connected. Daniel Webster, it
seemed to me, was by far the stronger man
intellectually, 6411 upon such committees as
Clay and Webster worked together in the
Senate the measures bore the stamp of Clay
rather than "Web3ter, from his push and per
sonal influence, which carried to snecess al
most everything that he attempted."
Webster Excelled. in Thought
"How did "Webster impress you as an
orator?" I asked.
"He waa a great speaker," replied Sena
tor McDonald, "but the charm of his
speaking was intthe thought rather than
the manner in which it was presented.
He had none of.the graces of Mr, Clay, and
his spenking was done chiefly in a conversa
tional tone, a.nd the most of his gestures
were only from the elbow. He possessed,
however, the strongest intellectual individ
uality of any man that I have ever known,
and he held his audiences for hours by the
iron chain of his thought which he forged
link by link as he went along. He was a
tall, broad-shouldered man, with a massive
heatj and deep-set eyes, which were rather
dull save when he became enthusiastic in his
speaking. He had a good voice and his very
appearance canted strangers to stop and
wonder who he was."
The conversation here turned to the tariff,
and I asked the Senator whether he thought
the McKinley tariff bill was the cause ot the
Bepublican defeat He replied:
Tariff la the Late Election.
"I do. The people have begun to study
the tariff, and the fanners are especially
alive to the effects of nigh import duties on
account of the Twine Trust' The McKin
ley bill put a tax on nearly every article of
home consumption, and every drygoods
el'trk and every tin peddler became an object-lesson
teacher. The result was the de
fiat of the Bepublican party.
"This tariff question," continued Senator
'McDonald, "is an evidence how history re
.peats itself. The first political speech that
I ever made was at my old home in Craw
iordsville in Indiana. It was 44 years ago,
and President Polk was the candidate upon
a tariff for revenue platform,substantially the
same as that of the Democratio party during
the last Presidental campaign. During the
Cleveland-Harrison campaign I made my
last speech at Crawfordsville, and the chair
man introducing me said that he did not be
lieve an instance could be shown in our his-
-tory of a man making-two speeches for a
Presidental candidate 44 years apart and ad
vocating substantially the same issues. The
first message of President-Polk was substan
tially the same as the tariff reform message
of President Cleveland, and it brought about
the enactment of the tariff of 1840."
"What will be' the chief issues of the next
campaign?"
His Ideas on Sliver.
"Tariff; silver and the force J111, or some
otherNneasure of substantially the same
nature. As to the silver question, I have
always been on tfce -hard money side rather
tfc&a in that of zreeabackita or fiat Btonev.
"Te-ds-iy I do;ot ksow- hejr, I , would vote
Wfreji In ttie.uwufl ;? senate. n te
if il
Uncle Joe MCJJonaia,
THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH
ratio were based on the intrinsic value of
the silver in the dollar as compared with
gold, there would be no danger in free coin
age. I hardly think it would De dangerous
as it is, though it may affect our dealings
with foreign countries. "Whenmoney passes
from one nation to another, it goes by its
actual value and not by its mark on the
face, and it the dollar does not contain 100
cents, it cannot be used as 100 cents Jn set
tling the accounts of nations."
"What figure will the Farmers' Alliance
cut in the next campaign?"
"It will have its place and will perhaps
affect matters to a considerable extent I
don't expect it to last, however, and a year
or two will be the extent of its life. You
cannot have a successful party iu this coun
try which is not broad enough in its
principles to embrace all classes and to suit
all sections and all sorts of individuals.
These single idea parties spring up and are
cut down alter they have done their work by
the great scythe of publio sentiment, and
the people fall back into the two great
parties which, under one name or another,
have been in existence since the organiza
tion oi;our Government"
Grover Cleveland's Chances Slim.
"How about candidates?"
"If the nominating conventions were held
to-day I suppose the candidates wonld be
Harrison and Cleveland and under such
circumstances I have no doubt that Cleve
land would be the next President of the
United States. The situation from now on,
however, promises to be very different If
the silver question enters into the campaign
it may mean a change ot candidates as far
as the Democracy is concerned. If the free
coinage bill passes the House and is vetoed
by President Harrison it will force silver to
the front as a campaign issue. President
Cleveland is understood not to favor what
is known as free coinage while claiming to
be a friend of the sliver coin, and he might
not be satisfied as a candidate in a cam
paign in which free coinage would be the
leading issue.
"I believe that Harrison will veto the sil
ver bill if it passes, and it seems to me that
there is no doubt that he will be the jiext
candidate of the Bepublican party. The
only man who would stand any chance
against him would be Mr. Blaine, who
shows no inclination toward the nomina
tion, and whose loyalty to Harrison, shown
by his acceptance of the place of Premier
in his administration, would hardly permit
him to take the nomination, even if it were
tendered him. The power of an adminis
tration in the renominatlon of its head for a
second term is very great, and President
Harrison will develop a remarkable strength
before the convention meets."
Democratic Candidate From the West
"Suppose Harrison vetoes the silver bill,
and the silver issue becomes such as to make
the nomination of Cleveland seem inadvis
able, from what part of the country will the
candidate be chosen?"
"I think the candidate will come from
the "West I do not believe that Hill could
be nominated if Cleveland were a candidate
and were defeated. The Cleveland men
wonld not support Hill under such circum
stances, and I don't see how he could be a
candidate at this election, though he may
be later. As to other Eastern candidates, I
suppose that Fattison, of Pennsylvania,
wonld be brought to the front, and another
man who would be looked upon as a possi
bility would bs Governor Abbett, of Hew
Jersey.
"The candidate, in case silver is one of
the leading issues, will probably come from
the "West, and there are a half "dozen differ
ent States from which he might be taken.
Illinois is now trembling in the balance,
Wisconsin is a doubtful State, we practi
cally own Michigan. "We hardly know how
to figure on Iowa, and Indiana is always a
fighting ground."
McDonald's Own Position.
"You have often been considered a Presi
dental possibility," said I.
"No I notnol" said the Senator, as a faint
blush crept up from the white whiskers un
der his collar and traveled over his broad
expanse of healthy features. "No, I am not
a candidate,and I have never been stung by
the Presidental bee. My friends are very kind
to mention me in such a connection, but I
am, as I told you, thoroughly content with
being a private in the ranks of the Demo
cratic party, and all I want is to see its prin
ciples and its candidates succeed."
"Suppose Harrison should be nominated,
the Vice President may be taken from In
diana?" said L
"Yes, possibly," replied the Senator.
"And we have many good Democrats
in Indiana. I would be satisfied to see any
of them receive the nomination, with the ex
ception of Governor Gray. I don't consider
him a good Democrat, and I don't think he
would make a fit candidate for the "Vice
Presidency. I say this, not because I have
any personal feeling against Governor Gray,
but I think his record is such as would unfit
ns to make a good fight with him as one of
the heads ot the ticket"
We "Will Own the Continent
"The attack upon home rule," said Sena
McDonald, "was the most dangerous ele
ment of the force bill. The protection of
the rights of the States is the' principle upon
which, is based the expandibility of our
Government If we can keep our present
Constitution as it is, we can become a great
nation and under it we can and will
conquer the North American Continent I
believe that the whole of this territory will
be under our Government before the middle
of the next century.
"Long before that we will rival England
and perhaps surpass her as the greatest man
ufacturing nation of the world. If we adopt
her policy of free breadstuff and Siea raw
material, th'ere is nothing that can stop us
and the United States will be the workshop
of the nations. New York will be a greater
city than the wildest imagination has ever
dreamed of and Chicago, the Giant of the
Inland, will increase in population and
wealth beyond .conception. This vast terri
tory will teem with millions who will be
brought together by the improvements of
the future as to inter-communication, and
its possibilities of goodness and greatness
are appalling."
Prank G. Cabpenteb.
HIOB.TY ABM3 OP LIGHT.
Spectacle Presented by the Test of a Search
Light In Boston.
Boston Herald.
The other evening a mighty arm of light
darted across the city, grasped the gilded
dome of the Capitol and held it up for every
one to see. Then it reached over and picked
up the spire of the Park Street Church. It
held it a few seconds, till people could read
the time and see which way the wind blew,
then dropped it suddenly, darted over to the
South End and touched the tall chimney of
the West End power station, on Albany
street
At the top of the Edison electric light
building a little group of men, most of them
electricians, were trying a new search light
It looked like a light copper mortar as it
hung on its swivels and was pointed by the
operator at point after point along the street,
till men and women put their hands over
their eyes to keep out the blinding flash and
horses shied at the strange distinctness with
which unseen forms and trees suddenly ap
peared before them.
The light is the Huntingdon search, fog
and position light It is an aro light, but
using an incandescent current Electric
light wires can be tapped and connected
with it anywhere. It gets its great power
from lenses, rather than the ordinary re
flector. Tbeibeam of light is a small one,but
ha vine great penetration. Horse car
-drivers said they saw it last night at a
distance of oyer two miles from the roof
where it stood, and it is claimed to locate a
vessel at a distance of one mile.
He Was a Mild Man.
rlcsn Grocer.
Mild Old Gentleman (goaded ''to madness
by next room lodger) Good gracious I
What are yoRpoundlng the furniture that
way for? 9
Idle Party-Trying to kill Use. v
- Mild Old Gtfttlewaa (after deep tfcettgkt)
Well, "I 8UttatIr!aJtitrT tot
oesaes iae
SUNDAY EEBRTTAIl'? 15,
CONTEMPT OF WOMEN
Was One of the Prominent Traits of
Napoleon's Character.
HOW JOSEPHINE MANAGED HIM.
His Idea of Woman's Sphere, aa Shewn In
Bla School Regulations.
THE SFI SYSTEM. FOE HIS OWN WIFE
rwniTTXN ron tub dutxtcua
In view of his career as a hero, no one
will attempt to deny that Napoleon Bona
parte had a soul above buttons. No tone
will gainsay his greed for glory, his fierce
rapacity tor power, his insatiable ambition
which gave him no rest, but led him from
rank to rank to almost the eminence of a
god. While repudiating the divine right
of kings, he "waded through slaughter" to
a throne, where, by his master mind and
military genius, he terrorized all Europe,
brought kings down to the dust and made
the Vatican a valley of humiliation.
He began to climb the steps of fame nnder
the red flags of the democracy, he reached
the heights in a blaze of glory as an antocrat
of the first magnitude and came down like a
stick upon the "lone barren isle" of St
Helena. He aimed to make himself su
preme ruler of Prance and to fashion the re
mainder of Europe into a footstool, to be
knocked about or upset at his royal pleas
ure. But while, in popular parlance, he
proved himself to be a "holy terror" for a
time, the world waked up and beyond his
victories at Marengo, Eylan, Wagram and
Austerlltz he found Waterloo, which, as
Carlyle says, "tumbled him helpless into
vacuity, where, beyond rescue, he had to
sink and break his heart and die. Our last
great man."
How the Character Stands Time.
What that great man was made of history
now begins to tell us. His arrogance and
conceit grew as his honors fell thick upon
him and he became afflicted with that sad
disease of greatness known as "the big
head." He treated the crowned heads of
Europe with contempt He parted their
possessions and divided them up to suit his
imperious will. He so ill-treated and in
sulted the Queen of Prussia that to her dy
ing day she impressed upon her children as
a duty to inflict, retribution, and never to
pardon the wrongs that their country suf
fered at the hands of Prance.
He hesitated " not to threaten the Pope
with deposition from his holy office. With
the roughness of a conscienceless conqueror,
he demanded submission. He claimed the
domination of Charlemagne and the powers
of Emperor of Borne. He intended that the
sovereigns of Europe should be his subjects
and reign only by his permission. Nor was
he less despotic and arbitrary in civil life.
The phrase "as false as a bulletin" origin
ated, it is said, in his dispatches from the
seat of war. Their lack of truth he de
fended upon the score that it was necessary
to deceive the enemy, to keep np the cour
age of the army and to sustain the hopes
and desires of the people. His idea oi the
freedom of the press was to demand that the
public should be deceived by cleverly written
articles against England, Austria and
Prussia. His praises were to be sounded
and his measures ardently approved.
NapoleonTcared a Woman.
He had a horror and fear of the pen of
Madam de Stael. Her banishment from
Paris, the suppression of her books, the
persecutions she endured were a recognition
of the fact that he, the conqueror of Europe,
was afraid of a woman witu brains. In his
spiteful littleness he called her a "she
crow," a "bird of ill omen," a "creature
whose residence upon French spil meant
measureless mischief." His tear of learn
ing for women was also shown by his regu
lations for the management of a girls' school
at Econen, in which he planned what they
should eat and wear, and how they should
be educated. Pint, they were to be taught
religion specially, as a guarantee for hus
bands aud fathers. They were to be schooled
in faith, but not in reason. "The weakness
of a woman's brain, the uncertainty of her
ideas, her destiny in sooiety, the necessity of
resignation." reanlred according to his
notions nothing so much as religious
training.
Por the boys' school at Pontainebleau it
was the reverse. Prayers and the oateohlsm
were for the girls science and mathematics
for the boys. The girls were to be tanght
very little of physics, history or geography,
andno Latin or foreign tongues. Their work
lor three-fourths of the day was to be given
to knitting stockings, embroidery and the
making' of underwear. Thus did the great
soldier bring his mind down to the details
of filling in the time of the school girls.
What be wanted for France was good moth
ers. This with an eye to providing his
army with recruits. Poor mothers I What
must they have suffered from the insatiate
ambition of this selfish man, whose glory
and greatness were purchased by the sacri
fice of millions of their sons I
His Treatment of the Women,
Nothing more plainly shows the narrow
ness of the mind and meanness ot the nature
of Napoleon than his treatment of women.
He made war upon the salons whereliterary
men and women exercised freedom of speech
behind closed doors. By his despotio will
he muzzled the press, he managed the
theaters, he coerced the Church. In order
that the coming generation should not go
wrong, he revised the catechism and tacked
on a continuation to the Pourth Command
ment to the effect that as Christians "we owe
especially to Napoleon L love, respect,
obedience, fidelity, military service the
tribute ordered for the preservation and de
fense of the Empire and his throne; we also
owe him fervent prayers for his health and
the prosperity of the State." Failing in
such, duty, they were taught that they "re
sisted the order established by God himself,
and rendered themselves worthy of damna
tion." Bonaparte even when in lo-y was bent
upon conquest His personal appearance
was against him when he courted Josephine,
as we are told. He was short and squatty,
and homely by reason of an eruption upon
his face. She regarded him with indiffer
ence, and even then discerned something of
his despotic character. He loved her as
much as his selfishness would allow. His
desire to marry her waa not alone for love,
but as a stepping stone to fortune. General
fioche and Caulaincourt are said to have
been his rivals, but that he overcame the in
difference and apprehensions of Josephine is
made evident by their marriage.
Napoleon as a Bridegroom.
Shortly afterward he took the field in ths
campaign against Italy. His leve letters
are as full of warmth and passion as those
of any Borneo. But that the wife, by her
frivolous love of pleasure, gave him some
cause for worry, is made plain, says a recent
writer, by the fact that some of these letters
were full of threats, and show 'unmis
takably the torments of jealousy. Jose
phine has been set up by most writers
es a saint entitled by her angelio
goodness end fortitude to have a halo
round her head, but this seems mainly to
have been caused by the desire to make
Bonaparte blacker by way of contrast She
was by all accounts possessed of great per
sonal charms, was good natured, and dis
tinguished for the eminent social quality
exercised but little influence over her
husband, save through sacrifice. She stood
in awe of him, and allowed him to dictate
in everything. He, it is-said, inspired her
with a contempt for morality, tanght her to
regard everyone with suspicion, and made
her an adept in the art of lying. She
dressed with exquisite taste, but was wildly
extravagant, and always in debt During
his campaign in Egypt she was harassed by
money troubles, and to relieve herself
trafficked with her influence, ana compro
mised herself In the view of her husband's
relations. Gossip and scandal were busy
with her name, and thea,M bow, made as
-Btueh mischief and misery as -possible.
I U Refused to Meet Josephine.
WVa VanftlAAti VAtnrnai) from Scrrnt wttla
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1S9L
his heart full of bitterness and his mind full
of malicious stories', he relnsed to meet his
wife, and expressed bis determination to se
cure a divorce. But her tears and prayers,
and those of her children, Engene and
Hortense, secured a reconciliation much to
the disgust of the Bonaparte family, by all
of whom, Josephine notwithstanding her
sweetness of temper, her ample good niture,
her genial manners was cordially despised.
It need hardly be stated that Josephine re
turned this feeling with interest when op
portunity offered. Their envyand enmity
were always ready to misconstrue her every
motive, and to give breath to every libel and
scandal. Spies were ever on the -alert to
gather from any source material to promote
dissension end trouble between Napoleon
and Josephine.
The mean jealousies, low Intrigues, the
envy and conceit, abd lack of morality dis
played by his sisters, coupled with the van
ity and frivolity of his wife and the women
of society may have been the foundation of
Napoleon's contempt for women. Men are
prone to judge all women by those whom
they best know. The revolution had broken
up society. "The circle that surrounded
the Directory," says Madame de Bemnsat,
"was a corrupt one," and the women whom
he knew were of the vulgar, vain, and frivo
lous order. He despised tbem for their in
feriority, and regarded the influence of
women in society as an intolerable usurpa
tion," and an abuse of the progress of civili
zation. Didn't Need Women's Help.
Madame de Maintenon ruled France un
der Lonis XIV., and Madame Pompadour
managed politics and State matters for Louis
XV., but Bonaparte made up his mind that
no woman shoulcLhave a finger in his im
cerial pie. But for all that, Josephine with
her tact and benevolence helped greatly to
make his way smooth. She did much to
ingratiate the nobility and reconcile them
to the court by helping to restore to them
their confiscated estates. She was of great
service in promoting the return to France of
many who had been driven from the country
by the Beign of Terror. She has told of
him, that "there were not more than five or
six days in a year when a woman may ob
tain any influence over him because his
opinion of the sex is so unfavorable."
He was afraid of intellectual women, and
never at ease in their nresence. He banished
Madam de Stael. The beautiful Madam
Becamier shared the same fate because she
visited her in her exile. His system of
spies and imperial police did effective work
in breaking up society, and in repressing
openness in correspondence. The best of
friends were reserved, and not only the pa
pers, hut even private letters in the days of
the Empire are more remarkable for what
they omit than what they relate of pauing
events and politics.
Set Spies Upon Josephine.
So suspicious was the nature of Bona
parte that in all her life Josephine was
watched by spies by order ef her husband.
The ladies in attendance at the parace had
often a sorry time of it To them, when the
fancy seized him, or things had gone wrong,
he was brutally rude and insulting. How
far he went is shown by the fact that though
he had no scruples about his expressing his
contempt for all women, he said at one time
of his stepdaughter that "Hortense
forces me to believe in virtue." In actual
fear the dames of the palace maintained
habitual silence. Under the despotic
power of this man they were even afraid to
gossip. To them not only the walls had
ears, but even the tables and chairs seemed
to be reporters.
A woman to haye lived with such a man
must Indeed have been good natured and
patient In view of her trials the idea that
she cared for her high position more than
she loved Napoleon eertainly has consider
able weight Biographers relate that on
one occasion when Napoleon had arranged
for a grand ovation for himselt the multi
tude cheered and hurrahed for the Empress.
Napoleon flew into a rage, and, as the
story goes, be spent two hours or more in a
seene of such violence and outrage with
Josephine ar almost to exceed belief. He
accused her in the most cruel manner ot
having planned to enter the town and cap
ture the honors of the populace for herself
that should have been given to him.
How the Divorce Came About
It seems scarcely possible that a woman
could be sorry to be separated from such a
man, but for the pleasure of being Empress
Josephine, was willing to endure every
humiliation, lint his imperious will con
quered. Her prayers and tears and threats
availed nothing. He relentlessly broke np
his family, trampled upon the rights of
Josephine, compelled the church to sanction
his divorce and countenance his marriage
with a daughter of Austria. That this
union was, from the church point of view, a
sacriligious one mattered nothing to him,
aud the scruples of Maria Louise were
easily satisfied. Marriage to him meant
but little save to further his ambitious de
signs. He quarreled with his brother Lucien,
who refused to give up his wife at Na
poleon's dictation, and he compelled Jerome
to give up his American wifeBetsy Patter
son, whom he never suffered to appear in
France.
Josephine was superstitious. She was
subject to presentiments. In these days she
would likely have been a medium. She
told Napoleon that when their fates separ
ated his star would go down. Talleyrand,
in his late memoirs, seems to convey the
idea that he used his best endeavors to
thwart the plans of Napoleon, and while
pretending to serve him, was secretly
planning bis downfall. Anyhow, with all
his amazing genius and success, he was
made to realize that power is only solid in
justice, and that dishonesty does not pay.
Bessie Bbambls.
CUBA'S UPHEAVALS,
The Island Is Said to Be Breaking la Two
By Some Strange Force.
St LoolsEepabllc
Bead era of this department will remember
the curious prophecy of the old Bavarian
hermit, which was given entire in "Notes
for the Carious," MepubUo of February 14,
1890, in which the startling prediction was
made that Cuba would break in two and
sink beneath the waves before the ending
of the present century, A recent letter to
an Eastern paper, written perhaps by some
one who had never heard of the old man's
effort at uncovering the future, contains,
among other matters the following:
"The startling discovery has been made"
that Cuba is cracking, not simply cracking,
but bursting wide open. Numerous fissures
in the earth have suddenly appeared in
many widely situated localities, but par
ticularly near Matanzas. One of these
enormous cracks is nearly 11 English miles
in length, and has actually broken a moun
tain chain asnnder, leaving a wide gap,
which, but for the fact that the fissure teems
without bottom, would make a splendid road
way, making the rich plantations in the
valley beyond at least SO miles nearer
Lathios, the nearest port, which is now
reached by rounding the spur of the moun
tain. Some of the cracks and openings within
sight of this place (Matanzas) are 600 to
1,000 feet long, 24 to 60 feet wide and of un
known depth. These disturbances may be,
and no doubt are, a continuation of those
felt not long tago alone the south coast of
the island, but the people are not inclined
to view it in that light, regarding all such
manifestations with a superstitious awe,
many of them actually believing that some
impending calamity is about to overwhelm
the country. Scientists explain it bysaylng
that the earth's crust .thickens from the sea
Inland, and that, therefore, the inland pres
sure is toward the nearest coast line; the
crust there and in the ocean beyond, being
thinner, is more sensitive to central disturb
ances. Shocking; a Lady.
Detroit Ireefrtss. - i
Mrs. Pordyce Langley, a Long Island
matron, had for many years-flattered her
self that she walked with unusual grace
and dignity,-but the other- day a teacher of
manners ,told her that. eetit was
"pudgy," sad she took; lawbsmaraad tried
tome.
GOSSIP OF GOTHAI.
Odds and. Ends of Life Gathered In
the Form of Interviews.
GOT, SAM HAUSEE'S POKER STOET.
Theodore Thomas Says American Opera
'Host Have an Endowment.
TEUNK3 AT HOTELS AXD 01 TEAISS
rcoaitxsrojroixcz or thz oispatch.i
Nrw Tubs, Feb. 14. I have picked up
the following short interviews in my walks
about town this week:
Ex-Governor Sam Hauser,, of Mon
tanaI am almost cured of traveling in a
special palace car with a number of gentle
men or what is known as a party. Several
years agd several Congressmen and I started
together for a trip through the Far "West to
California. "We got together at Chicago and
began our journey in a happy frame of
mindV Borne New York reporters, while I
was in the city, got wind of our going, and
sent a dispatch "West to the effect that I and
a poker party of Congressmen were aboard a
special car hound for California. In every
Western city we entered reporters came in to
ask us, not about the object of our visit to
California, hut how the poker game stood.
As we were not indulging in cards at
all we became wearied of the joke. No
sooner had we arrived at San Francisco than
a persistent reporter tackled me about the
alleged poker game. He did not say alleged
because hep really thought we bad been
playing. It was too much. I told him it
was a base, foul, malignant, traveling, cor
rupting, all-around, bay-windowed, gable
roofed lie. He did not believe me, and
earnestly asked me to tell him how much
was lost and won and who were the lucky
ones. I never heard the last of the alleged
poker game. The papers were filled with
allusions to it Some time after this I and
several who were in the other party made ar
rangements to take another railroad trip. The
enterprising Kew York reporter teleg.-ashed
West that the poker party would start on snch
a date. It broke up the party. I never go any
where with a party these days. One would
imagine that I could play poker.
What People Bead.
William T. Peoples, librarian of the Mercan
tile .Library We have been established 70
years, and our library now numbers 229,210 vol
umes. The following is a classification in vol
umes of the books circulated last year: Theol
ogy, 2,834; mental and moral science. 2,063; Doli
tlcal science, 3,561; literature. 20,982; history,
geography and travels, 15,600; biography, 3,067;
matbematics. 164; natural science, 1.833: medi
cal science. 718; arts. 3,140; nctlon, in English,
78.399; in French, 6,331; in German, 8.S46; in
other language, 87: total, 140,003. Popular taste
evidently runs to fiction, you see. Of novels
most in vogue we sometimes hare ten dupli
cate copies.
A Test of Honesty.
Colonel George W. Parrott, President
of the Capitol City Bank, Atlanta, Ga. Some
queer feelings come over a man when he ex
pects to be awakened at night and asked to ran
away with a lot of gold. After the fall of
Richmond, ex-Governor But us B. Bollock, of
Georgia, had $440,000 in gold belonging to the
Confederacy which he was conveying to Au
gusta. 1 was doing the transporting in several
wacons. We started Irom Blackstone, S. C,
and were three days and nights en route to Au
gusta. The ex-Governor knew as well as I that
the Confederacy was doomed, and that In a
short time General Lee would have to sur
render. Every night I rather expected the ex
Governor to come to me and say something
abont not delivering the gold to a designated
bank in Augusta. But he was as honest as any
man can be. He never even bin ted by innuendo
that the plan of dividing the gold wonld not be
bad. I often laugh and tell the ex-Governor
that I kept awaks at night expecting him to
make a proposition to divide the gold. It is in
trying circumstances that men prove their
mettle and what they are made of. Since that
time I have never doubted the integrity and
Incorruptible honesty of ex-Governor Bullock,
One of Stanley's Black Boys.
Henry M. Stanley, late of Africa I have
have had any number of bright African
boys attached to my staff, only to lose them by
some carelessness on their part One boy, taken
from the interior of Africa, was particularly
bright I took him to Europe with me and sent
him to school for a year and a hair. Then he
had a longing to go back with me and I con
sented. In the interior of Africa he was care
less and one day he and nine others were
drowned. The natives are reckless and do not
value life as the whites. This yonng boy is
represented in a picture of myself at the New
York Press Club. Many questions have been
asked abont this particular boy because he was
photographed and pictured. He went the way
of most young Africans.
The Curse of Bosslsm.
Ex-Congressman Henry G. Burleigh, of
New York The curse of any poltllcal party
Is bo'slsm. Let one man imagine he can boss a
partylnaState and his egotism becomes so
great he goes aronnd wearing it as a kind of
royal halo. He will have a finger in everything
that Is done, in every Legislative act and very
soon nothing can be done unless it has a politi
cal complexion and is manipulated by him.
Borne fell from imperial boss ism, and any party
that attempts to stand it for a term of years
will fall to pieces, Bosslsm is against the spirit
of American institutions. I am a Bepublican
In politics, but I am against anything, even In
mv own party, which savors of bosslsm. Here
every man has a right to stand up and express
his opinion and act as a free man, but many do
not do it because they are afraid ot being "dis
ciplined" by some district or city boss. The
British tried to boss os many yean ago. bnt
found the task too much for them. New York
State is a big plum for a boss to manroulate
politically, bnt after several years ths yoke be
comes too galling and (be people rlso np, irre
spective of party, and carefully bury the boss.
I had rather be a coal shoveler in sheol than a
truckler and lickspittle for a political boss.
Potatoes in Politics.
Colonel George W. Hooker, member ot
the Bepublican National Committee, from
Vermont My State is great, especially when
it comes to raising potatoes. Now few people
may believe it but potatoes have a potent po
litical influence in Vermont. Any Congress
man from the State who should consent to
have potatoes pnt in the free list wonld be de
feated. Every farmer would rise np against
him. and In Vermont the farmer's vote counts.
Why. with potatoes on the free list Canada
wonld pauperise nearly every farmer in Ver
mont I do not mean to say that potatoes are
ail the products in my Bute, but they certainly
are among the staple products. The city chap
wbo sits down to a One dinner and eats three
or four big potatoes and wonders what West
ern State produced them, onght to De duly
informed that an Eastern State had the honor.
I believe that some ot the first-class restaur
ants and hotels in the Urge Western cities now
pnt on their menu cards, Vermont potatoes.
You never see a thin, measly, razor back po
tato from my State. Free trade would elim
inate the large juicy and peculiarly sednctive
Vermont potato from tb e market What lover
of bis Bute wonld da it?
An Ex-Congressman's Superstition.
Ex-Congressman George West, of Ballston.
N.Y. I am not superstitious a bit bnt I
will not sit down to a dinner at my own home
with 13. Last Christmas some of my daughters-in-law
and sons-in-law came to dine with me.
When we sat down to the table only 13 of ns
were present I would not have it, and so two
tables were quickly prepared and seven of us
were at one and six at another. We have all
been in. good health since. At Washington I
often dined with Congressmen when only 13 of
us were present, but I always felt that I'waa
not the unlucky one. and if one of us did die
somebody could be found to fill the place in
Congress. Bnt in a private family the thing is
anttrelr different L do not know how T hpcama
inoculated with the 13 in number scare. I
never bet at poker, never believe in mascots,
never make a cross in the sand and expectorate
in it when I have to turn back, never feel any
fear when a cross-eyed girl looks at me, and
never shudder when1 1 cross a funeral proces
sion. I have nave had a dream that came true
but once, and that was when I dreamed it was
too expensive to devote mv time to politics.
TCnnnan's Tlctnre of Bossia.
Princess Martha Engalttcbeff, of Russia
One wonld Imagine from reading Mr. Ken
nan's articles' abouT- Siberia and- Bossia
that the land of "the Czar wasanytblng-bat de
sirable to llve'ia. MrvJKennan has taken a de
cidedly pessisaKtlo.vlew.aBd kas written ae-'
eordlagly. . Thare doubtless eases Of hard
sfaipa In prkeaHfe ta&aurles. The criminal
olassee canoot be kept 'in hiSttrioul apar:-
meats. Whynotgivean unbiased account of
Bnssla; her social customs and the home life
of the people. Sometimes Europeans come to
the United States,and after a few davs so away
and write books of a very uncomplimentary
kind. If these hasty authors had remained
longer I hare no doubt tbey wonld have formed
entirely different impressions oi this country.
Perhaps if ilr. Kennan had remained longer
in Rusia and. not been biased be wo"Id bave
written articles in a different strain. Bossia Is
a delightful country to lire In.
American Crests and Slottots.
Joseph T. Wilson, stationer la order to
understand the stationery business thoroughly
I think it best to serve an apprenticeship. I
served my time in Edinburgh, Scotland, and it
was seven years of profitable employment I
studied every phase of the stationery business,
and thought when I came to this country that
my knowledge of heraldry would be super
fluous. It has proven to be qnite profitable,
for I find that many Americans are entitled by
right of birth to crests and mottoes. A gnod
many ladies'bave beautiful crests engraved
npontbelr letter paper acd not on their car
riages. I presume their bnsbands object to the
crests on carriages more so than on stationery.
Bnt there are some who do not care if the
world knows that they are entitled to crests. I
find one thing royal about New York buyers,
and tnat is tbey want the best graie of erery
tli.ng. A duchess or a lord would not care to
boy finer stationery than a majority of Ameri
can purchasers. And few may credit this
statement bnt it is true. The refinement of
people as a rule always shows itself In the pur
chase of stationery.
Finance and American Opera.
Theodore Thomas, musician The life of
a mosiclan Is one of work. My playing before
the public is the least part of the work
I have to do. Tbero is never a mo
ment that I can claim of absolute
leisure. -Hundreds of people write to me
whom I have never seen or heard of, and their
letters bave to be answered. Friends ask me
wny I answer them, but 1 can only answen
civility. Then I am often asked about a
school of opera in this country, and wby wa
are so far behind in establisbinz a great con
servatory. Well, we have a few bread acd
butter conservatories dow. where the teachers
depend upon good paying pupils to get a
living. 1 call these teachers "bread and
butter" professors, but 1 do not mean to dis
parage them or their methods of teachings
Bat no great national school of opera can ever
beestabiishednnlessit is raised far above the
plane of financial want We might just as
well look the problem squarely in the face and
not try to deceive ourselves. As Iocs as there
is no large endowment for a grand national
conservatory forthcoming just so long will the
musical future of the cunntry be retarded.
Not because there is no talent here, for there
is plenty, but because the talent goes abroad
for an education which inean3 practically
expatriation. We must teaci in America,
give opera in the English, language, and ever
contribute for a grand conservatory.
Drunks on the It Roads.
Guard on the Third Avenue Elevated
Road The greatest trouble I find is In putting
off sleepy drunks at the end of the road at One
Hundred and Twenty-ninth street A passen
ger sllghty intoxicated will get aboard down
town. Intending to get oil at Fifty-ninth or
Sixty-seventh street and going- to sleep will
ride to the end of the route. When the train
stops at One Hundred and Tenth street I gen
erally go in and shake the sleeping man, but all
to no purpose. He will mumble something
abont being let alone and continue his sleep.
At One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street I at
tempt to get him off in a quiet way because I
have to let the passengers out of the gates in a
hurry. The tng of war comes at One Hundred
and Twenty-ninth street Sometimes it takes
four guards to get one drunken man out of the
car. uften It is danzerous to put oft a
sleepy drunk passenger. He rises up and
goes to fighting without knowing or caring
where be is. One time I had a curtons expert
ence. I put off a sleepy drunk at the end oi the
route, and he asked to go down to Forty
seventh street We haye orders not to let
drunken men nde In the elevated cars, bnt
what are we to do when they get on ostensibly
sober and then sink into alcoholic slumber?
This man said be was not drunk, bat had sim
ply overslept hlmsel.. We put nim on a down
train, and when we arrived at Forty-seventh
street be was sound asleep and conld not be
awakened. At South Ferry be roused up,
walked out on the platform and boarded an
uptown train. Again he slept until he arrived
at One-Hucdred-Twenty-ninth street, and.
there he was taken out almost blind drunk and
slept in the nearest station. The life of a
guard on the elevated road is not one of ease
and joy.
The Smiuhlnc of Trunks.
A. Lovejoy, head hotel porter I have been
a porter for 22 years and naturally think X
know something about my business. I handle
somel.StO trunks a week and on steamer sail
ing days 1 often send ISO to 200 trunks to one
steamer. It requires care and skill to handle
trunks. I have never yet smashed a track,
and that is a good record. Frequently I havo
been asked what kind ot trunks stood the wear
and tear of handling best The sole leather
trunk I do not consider the most durable, al
though tbey have that reputation. A modern
made trunk, canvas covered, Tith strong strip
pines and iron jointed, so the body of the trunk
cannot strike the floor if it falls a deways, I
think stands hard usage best The tin covered
trunks can S'and just so much pressure and
banging about and then either collapse or
get so fearfully Indented tbey are never in
shape again. Hotel porters handle trunks like
artists and not in the slam bans smashing way
which characterizes thei railroad baggage
handlers. I now l.ave five porters under me
and tbey are all men of strength and would as
soon think of dropping a baby as a trunk. If a
trunk got injured, in our hotel by the porter,
througn carel"S3 handling, the guest wonld
cease to be a patron of the hotel if the damages
were not paid. It is just as easy to handle a
trunk without smashing it as it is to throw It
down recklessly. I know a great deal of I nn 13
poked at the baggage smasher, bnt I want it
distinctly understood that a porter la a first
class hotel, like the one I am in. Is an artistand
can carry a trunk anywhere with safety and a
certain amount of grace. We do not belongto
the class ot railroad bamfatters wbo work fof
corporations that bave no soul and do not cara
about an individual trunk.
Something About Chocolate.
Saleslady In a confectionery store Many
people ask me about the chocolate statue of the
Venus de Aiilo in our front window, and want
to know whether it will melt It is soUd, weigh
ing 1.925 pounds, and is made of the best choco
late When the weather is warm the statue has
to be out in a cool place or else it will melt
Two chocolate statues were sent to the Paris
Exposition recently, and one of them was
mined by the boys in Prance, who chipped lit
tle pieces from it to eat. It was a high tribute
to the toothsome quabty of our chocolate. The
statues took the medal in Paris. Who is the
artist? He is in the service of my employer, and
lustmakesa statue now and then to keep his
band in. Ladles are very fond of chocolate
candy wben It is manufactured as bon-bons.
One peculiarity of chocolate eaters Is that they
are very, very fond of chocolate, andalways
want the best I tnine we make just as good, if
not better, chocolate than is manufactured in
France. Now, a pound ot bon-bon chocolate
sUIs for $1 25, while a pound of cooking choco
late la valued at Jl down to 80 cents. It is a
healthy candy, and, used in cooking; Is flesh
producing. Looking After Reckless Drivers.
Officer Michael Eano, Broadway police)
squad I have been at the Fifth avenneand
Twenty-third street crossing some U years and
have done my duty, I hope, in keeping vehicles
from running over pedestrians. It is not an
easy beat especially on Wednesday afternoons
when the matinees are over. I'm 6 feet 3
Inches tall in my sock feet weigh over 22a
pounds and can run as fast as any one 1 k now.
Ahackmanran over a lady just below Worth
monument not long ago, and broke both her
legs. He drove down to Twenty-first street be
fore I was notified ot what bad occurred. Al
though be was driving rapidly to escape, and,
had two blocks the start 1 did some fast sprint
in" and caught him at Sevenjpenth street It
is no trouble forme to run fast My exper
ience in stopping reckless drtversr It would
fill a book. The average hack and carriage
driver would jast as soon run Over me as not.
Indeed, I was run over once, bnt I do not cars
to say anything abont It The hactman waa
arrested and fined S10L When I raise my hand
to stop a borse, I mean it and that horse has
got to stop. A constant stream of people,
ladies, children and young girls, to say nothing
of men. is passing daring all the bosy hours of
the day. I bave to keep on the crossing and be
on the alert In proportion to the number ot
reckless drivers few people are run over.
How It Feels to Be Beaten,
Hon. J. P. Sanborn, member of the Re
publican National Committee.from lllcbJSjan
There are times when a man f eelsliae gofsf to
Kamskatchka, or some tar away land and tea!
Is after a crushing defeat at the polUC , I con
fess that I never anticipated defeat la Michi
gan last fall and wben it camel bad ajfaeltaa
as it I had been struck and conld not locate the
part ot my anatomy where the- blow felt Tit Is
only through defeat that we learn to become
philosophers. The best way Is to go ahead and
not make any big brags and then the laltgh will
not be on yon wben your side is defeated. Of
eoarie.now and. then, politicians have only brag
to help them and they make the best use of it
-possible.-' Narjoleon said.-after tba baKlx n(
-Waterloo, that he had met reverses at a sklrm.
un. anas is a nappy, sbajx. xupieykiad of a
way to take Sefeat, asd" as a-rule, amaferity
of the poHtiaUns emulate; the great Ceiileaa la
Btakiaz-UgBt or-orasbiaft-'defeat I bare bos
arrive at taat sweet degree of eJHseenpwyyet,
---- CHAUtEST. MH&A3k .