h -: " & Wy'Ji' vi 18 face. He had censured the young wan 60 far as, in his opinion, his conduct merited reproof, and on that point liis conscience was set at lest. "Yes; Mariian is 8enior Eartner. That is the position, John," said e. "I am junior still." , For some moments Westcott pondered deeply. "3Ir. Carter," he presently said, "I ha e no wish, as you must know, to dis pute my uncle's wjlL He made, me a gen erous oner, and I refused. HailTflllen in w ith his views, instead of opposing them, I should hae been his heir." "Unquestionably," said Mr. Carter. "Fifteen years, ago," continued "Westcott, "I was very young. I had no judgment. I was all activity and impulse. But I have now at least I hope so arm ed at years of discretion. I am 32; and I should like to settle down in life. "Will you help me?" Mr. Carter's face grew thoughtful. "Don't misunderstand me," Westcott went on. "I will begin, as you did, at'the foot of the ladder." The merchant appeared surprised. "Would you accept a clerkship," said! he, "in vour uncle's old house?" "Why not? I -wish to be guided entirely by you. I cannot ask you to make me a partner," s-aid "Westcott, with a slight smile.. "I have little or no means. Though i ought to tell you," he added, somewhat mysteri ously, "I am not -without expectations." lr. Carter reflected a moment; -then he said: "I should indeed be ungrateful, John, if I refused to help you. Mr. Girdlcstone was a true friend to me. Andif I appear to hesitate," he added, "it is because I am thinking of -vou, not of myself. I will briefly explain mv meaning. lie seated himself opposite Lis visitor; and the care worn look, wliicb Westcott bad liRiced when he came in, apptarcd to increase. "Xou must know, John, that your uncle was a great financier how grcat, 1 did Jiot realize until taken into partnership. I some times doubt if I fully appreciated his genius even then. The amount of capital in the business was amazingly smalt But such confidence was placed m Mr Girdlestone as a financier, that had he drawn bills to the extent of 100,000 he would ha e had Jio difficulty in getting them accepted. " After a Ehort pause Mr. Carter continued. "When Mr. Girdlestone died, as you may imagine, the position was altered. "With small capital and greatly diminished credit, I have had to sustain the reputation of an old established city house I liave hcen doin my best, you will not doubt that. But I do not pro'fess to have a talent for finance like my late partner. "What has been the result? For a w hole year I hare been at my wit's end how to save the firm. It. has be'en a hard struggle; aflairs have gone from bad to worse. You have ap peared, John, at a most trying moment. Had you arrived a few weeks later you would probably lunc found the old place locked up and in the hands of creditors. How, under the-c circumstances, can I help John "Westcott rose from his chair. There was a look of inrgy in his face. "Who knows of this?" "S"o one," replied Mr. Carter, "except Marian." Westcoit reflected a moment "What sum is required to save the house?" "Tn el ve thousand pounds." The young man a"nswered: "I scarcely possess that number of shillings. But some thing though one must not dc too sanguine something may be done." Mr. Carter appeared lost in thought. His face expressed deep despondency. It was not merely the dread of losing the position he had gained through close attention to business, it seemed to him that if the house failed as it could never have done, in his opinion, while his old partner was alive the catastrophe would thrown blot on Mr. Girdlestone'1! memory. Mr. Girdlestone had chuen him as a trust northv and competent person, one most capable of upholding the traditions of the firm after his death, But independent of that, as Mr. Carter could not hide from himself, his daughter would sutler: if fail ure came she would participate in the ca lamity. The gloomy prospect was almost overmastering. And now John Westcott, Mr Girdlestone's one survhing relative, had come unexpectedly upon the scene had come as if to remind Turn, at the eleventh hour, of his serious responsibility. As Westcott stepped toward the door, Mr. Carter recovered himself and said: "You will be our guest? A room shall be prepared for jt'ou j our old room. "Where shall I send to for jour luggage?" "I left it in a coach at the entrance to the square." The merchant hastened out to give the necessary instructions. "When he returned, Westcott was standing with his hand on Mr. Girdlestone' door, a side door commu nicating with Mr. Carter's room. "May I take another glance, said the joung man, "at that portrait ol my uncle? It struck me as a remarkable work of art." "By all means," said Mr. Carter. "It is by a great master. "Will vou, excuse me?" he added, seating himself at his writing table. "1 have a number of matters to see. about. "We dine at 7 o'clock." The candles in Mr. Girdlestone'sroom are still burning. "Westcott takes up one of them and again looks intently at the por trait of his old uncle. "It is "vour secret" and his eyes still rest upon the picture 'I will use it, a you v ould have wished me to do, tosaie theiouse. He puts the can dle on the bureau, and again he sits down in the chair facing the desk. He docs not hesitate now. He places his hand into an apparently empty pigeon-hole, and the inner wall falls'open. "in a moment he has drawn forth an obioug paper. He glances rapidly at the inscription. It is the "Last Will and Testament of Jeremiah Girdlestone, of Fisher's Folly." And at the foot of the document, in a quaint handwriting, John "Westcott reads the follow ing significant words: "For the key to the secret strong room, wherein will lie found fifty bags of hard cash, look behind the Golden Xamp." The room with the five windows, in the center one of which stood the Golden Lamp, was an old dining halL The oaken oralis were hung with large and valuable paint ings; and from the center of the ceiling was suspended a great chandelier. At one end of this room a fire was burning in the open chimney: and near the rug, in front of the fire, was placed a round dining table, laid for three. Leaning over this table, to ar range some exotic flowers in a center vase, was the beautiful lamplighter who had at tracted John Westcott's attention an hour ago. 2o antique room, with so lovely a figure placed there, would have better represented a former century; a period, one might say, in which Fisher's Follv was the abode of beauty and fashion. The girl was plainly dressed, the fair hair was drawn back from the broad lorehead into a Grecian knot, and the dark veh ct Tobe fitted closely to the tall and slender form. Her face was unde niably handsome; but there was something more than mere beauty in the large brown eyes and resolute mouth; each feature expressed that quick intelligence which awakens con fidence. It was the face of a woman with character a woman likely to exhibit resource in a difficult situation. Such was Marian Carter, the head partner in the old house.' Having touched the flowers softly with her long expressive fingers a touch of the butterfly's wing in tenderness she turned away and moved through folding doors into an adjoining room. It was a small room, but with paneled walls of dark oak, like the dining hall. In an arm chair near the fire sat Mr. Carter with his head resting on his hands. His face was more troubled in expression; since his inter view with "Westcott he appeared to have even more fully realized the magnitude of uie calamity winch was pending. As Marian approached him, hvevcr, he made a t-trong eflort to overcome his depression. "Is all readv, Marian?" said he, with cheerfulness iu his tone. "Everything." "Is the lamp lighted?" "Wliy, father, do you think I would neg lect that? "Would it not be too thought less," said she laughingly, "on an occasion . like this?" As Marian seated herself beside him, her father said: "How strange that John West cott should have returned to-night" "It.is strange," said the girl, smiling. "And what is still stranger," she added, with a slight blush, "someone I think it must have been Mr. "Westcott was standing be ', " low the window when I lit the lamp. Is he likely to pro-v e a f ricnd" "Ah! I was wondering," said Mr. Carter. "He has the character of being an excellent and shrewd young fellow. But 1 fear," he went on. "that even if he had his uncle's financial genius, he would- find it no easy matter to lie stoppea aDruptiy, tor at this moment Westcott came in. The change in his appearance, now that the rough costume was gone, was remarkable. Mr. Carter scarcely recognized him; there was little of the sailor even in his face, and nothing in his manner. He had all the style of a refined gentleman. The merchant rose from his chair and formally presented him. Had she seen him, thought Westcott, when standing in the square below the win dows? There was- something in her look, something in her very attitude toward him, which made him doubt if he was an entire stranger. He had recognized her; and he had conjectured, while in conversation with the merchant, that the beautiful "vision" at the Golden Lamp could-be no other than Marian Carter. But lie had no time for more than this passing reflection. The din ner Mas announced; the folding doors were throw n onen. and they nassea through and took their seats at the table. The first obiect that attracted "Westcott's glance was the old lamp. Marian's look followed his. She smilingly asked him: "Bo you remember it?" "Xo; I had forgotten the house," said he. "I was seldom here." "Ah! It is strange you should have for gotten that lamp," said Marian. "So I am thinking," "Westcott replied. "The workmanship is exquisite. But," he added, "is it not a lantern?" "It can be used as such. It is called the Golden Lamp. It was called so long be fore I was born. It belonged, as you may have guessed, to Mr. Girdlestone. He used to call it mine. It has stood where it now stands, I believe, for nearly a hundred years. But the lantern." safd the girl, ''can easily be detached; it hangs from a hook, as you sec, under the dome. I have forbidden "any one to touch it. I trim and light it myself all the year round." "No wonder," replied Westcott gal lantly, "That it burns so lightly." ""Sot for the world," Marian went on, "would I miss doing so. It is to me a sacred duty." Westcott could not suppress a smile. "What reason can you have, Miss Carter," said he, "for being such a conscientious lamplighter?" Marian looked serious. 'It was Mr. Girdlestone's wish," said Marian, with a glance toward her father; and receiving no look of disapproval, she added: "As long as the lamp is lighted it was a sort of su perstition with him luck will not leave the house." As soon as the two men were alone oyer their wine though they could see' and hear Marian at the piano, for Ihe folding doors stood open John Westcott turned to Mr. Carter and said: "There is some thing about that lamp--and l nope you will not thin me too inquisitive which interests me. May I look at it more close"?" Thc'merchant readily acquiesced; and the young man, stepping across the room, bent over the lamp; and had not his back been turned to Mr. Carter, the expression of keen excitement which came over his face might havi puzzled him. Seating himself once more opposite to his host, after a somewhat lengthy examination of the lamp, "Westcott said: "There is a large key, I ob serve, hanging behind the lantern. Is there any tradition attached to that?" 'I cannot tell you," said Mr. tJarter, "No one knows." "Do you mean, sir, that it fits no lock?" A slight smile crossed the merchant's face. "You know how curious women are," said he. "I need scarcely tell you, John, that Marian has tried every keyhole in the house. She has not solved the mystery." "Have you no theory, Mr. Carter, con cerning that kej?" "Xone." 'Has it never occurred to you that it might have been the key," said Westcott, "to my uncle's financial genius?" "All! that is a shrewd remark," said Mr. Carter, thoughtfully- "But let me tell you," he added, "something about that strange man. It will interest you. Xo one, unless it was his Indian servant, knew Mr. Girdlestone more intimately than I did." That eager expression again passed over "Westcott's face, Tint it escaped Mr. Carter's notice. After a short pause he began; and the low sound of music in the adjoining room'added to the earnest tone of his voice. "Through a long iife, John, your uncle had lived alone in his old house alone with his Indian. During office hours he often occupied his room down stairs the room in which that fine -portrait hancs: but he received no visitors there. All matters of business were arranged in my room in the room, at least, which became mine when I was taken into partnership. There, in his magic way, he settled questions of finance. No one was ever allowed to pass beyond the staircase. Et en Marian, to whom he was greatly attached, never visited the upper stories except when Mr. Girdlestone took her to look at this lamp. A 6 o'clock e cry evening the great hall door was bolted be hind us that is, myself and the clerks by the native servant; and never, under any cir cumstance, was it opened until 9 the next morning." "An odd character," eaid Westcott in an undertone. I "This eccentricity led to all sorts of rumors. It was generally believed that Mr. Girdlestone was a man of great wealth; aud his excessive caution and secret ways sug gested a hoarding disposition, "it was thought that his gold was 'stored in heaps in the garrets. I often heard these tales. But I ha e since cbni inced mysqlf that these rumors were unfounded." "Yon discovered nothing?" "I will tell you," said Mr. Carter, "ex actly what happened. During the years that I served Mr. Girdlestone more "than 20 in all I never knew him to be absent for one day from his desk. There were times when he remained in the counting-house only an hour or two; those were what I called his restless days; for I could hear Jiim pacing his room, which is just above the office, with a peculiar tread which I have never forgotten. It was the only exercise he took, and it always foreboded some new and frequently gigantic financial scheme. I sometimes fancy, when I am very busy, that I can still hear him walkinz up and down." "Westcott looked about him. "In this room?" he inteiposed. "You believe it was here?" "So it sounded to me," was Mr. Carter's reply. "But it is a strange old house; and I have sometimes thought," he added, "that there might be rooms upstairs or downstairs of which we know nothing. But let me finish. One afternoon, toward the hour for locking up, I heard a groan. It came from Mr. Girdlestone's room. I went in, and found my old partner leaning forward upon his desk with his head sunic upon his arms. -That was his last day in the counting house he died that night." Mr. Carter paused, with a distressed look on his face. The details of that painful in cident were passing vividly through his mind. Presently he continued: "No sooner was Mr. Girdlestone dead, strange to say, than his Indian servant absconded. Ncfone knows where he has gone. He seemed to me like a man who had received some shock. I could make nothing of him. Doubtless, he possessed a great deal of information about his master. If Mr. Girdlestone was a hoarder of gold, he must have found it out But I, who have lived here ever since pry partner's death, have discovered noth ing. And as to the mystery, John, about that key," he added, "who can solve it?" "Westcott made no reply, but he sat watch ing the merchant attentively; andhe soon noticed a look of drowsiness coming oyer him. The fatigue and anxiety of the last few days were beginning to tell upon his overwrought brain. The more sleepy he be came the more wakeful grew the expression on "Westcott's face. To be antduded next vxek.' The Tyrant Macbeth Was laid out cold by Macduff. Those tyrants, biliousness, constipation and dyspepsia, are defeated with no less certainty and com pleteness by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. That conqueror of disease also speedily overcomes malaria, rheumatism, kidney an,d 4ladder troubles, nausea and nervousness. f- PSSa ' - v- tT ""'F'v-8 r-" .lase - V -? THE a Tomusi's trials; Bill Nye Relates Some of His Experi ences and Adventures. OBSTACLES A LECTURER MEETS. Taken in for a Twenty by. an Expert In the Orthography Line. THE WAIL OP A GORGEOUS ALDERMAN COBBISPOSDENCI OF TUX DISPATCH. Ono Boot, May 27- OTJTHEBNMissonri is one of the most prosperous" sections of-the United States.. Lmust freely admit that I did not know it It is a region built up almost en tirely since the war, and, there'fore, is peopled by a thrifty and cosmopolitan people who are not s content to live upon their reminiscences and relatives. WitH a two-storvsoil beat ing untold wealth in grains and fruits at Jhe surface, and beneath stored with lead and zinc for the whole world, it iS not surprising that this section smiles at the pinching pov erty and the shortcomings of other lands. Joplin is a thrifty town in the midst of this fruit, grain and mineral belt It is a good town, but the hall where we "obliged" was not a, very pleasant one in some re spects. It was a partially reformed rink, with an overshot stage entrance. We en tered by means of a little side door, about eight feet above the street grade, in a bur glarious way. I stood onMr. Burbank's shoulders, and after, sawing off the bolt of the door we managed to break in. Any body who can get into the stage entrance of a theater will generally have very little trouble in getting into most any secret so ciety. M , It's a "Wonderful Country. Carthage is a very handsome and thrifty town, with almost every industry contribut ing to it, from the .sedentary methods of agriculture to thci healthful toil of life in surance. The rock' ribbed earth is filled with marble and beautiful building stone to which there seems tobe no limit The quar ries arc not even able to fill their orders for St. Louis alone, and e ery farmer has a zinc or lead mine back of his barn. Lhave been told that half the lead and more than half the zinc output of the United States comes from this region, and yet above it all the earth is rich in way ing grain, the sky sheds health and" vigor, the climate is cooler in summer than Minnesota, and in winter warmer than many Southern localities. This opinion is given without hope of stock in a zinc mine or a choice corner near the postofHce at Carthage. Carthage is the most versatile town I have seen for many a day. I also showed there. The popcorn privilege wa sold at this point for a good price, and Y hen the lecture was over (he floor was white with this cheering but non inebriating vegetable. It was "also at this place that we had the singular stage escape, which consisted of a scuttle hole at the back of the dais. One had to bow pleasantly to the audience, dodge a rafter over the.'door, and scoot down a chute behind the Ameri can flag, which served as a dressing room. If you have never tried to look pleasant at an audience while you had a lump on the back of vour head as big as the bump of self-esteem on the brow of a bantam, you cannot well understand the effort required at such a time in order to "oblige.'.' Bunkoed Oat of a Twenty. Yesterday I met a thrifty traveling man with a silver trimmed sample case. I thought I had seen him before, and so I had. He'spoke to me. "Yes," he said, "you and I met in Cleveland last month." I remembered it then. I was sitting in the reading room of the "Wcddell House, and this man was there. He was writing a let ter. Finally he raised his head and said, Gating Inlo the HaU. "How do you spell choir a church choir?" I knocked the ashes from my fragrant ;,.... o,i ..u npi,n; VlUt IUIU DUIU, v-.-V--.. liajjui, x ouiu. U hat with my elbow. "Possibly; but, yon know, I had the idea in my blame fool head that q-u-i-r-e was also correct for church choir. Are you sure that q-u-i-r-e is not admissible for church choir?" ( "Oh, yes, sir," I said, as I wrote a few autographs for a delegation waiting in the anteroom. "I would stake my existence on it." "Well, sir, I am probably wrong, but I am headstrong and I don't mind losing $20 for I am a Standard Oil man just to find out, and mc will leave it to 'Webster." "All right," said I; wishing to buy a spring overcoat, oi wnicn j. was greatly in need, "?20 goes." I did not notice-the grammatical construction, however, at the time. We got a Webster, and then I saw what I had not seen before that "quire" was correct I wish that I could sell the knowledge I have go for what it has cost me. I would take much needed rest in Europe for 85 years, and live well all the time. Now in the Orthography Business. Well, this man is now in the business..he told me. He has quit the road and gone into this orthography business, which nets him $50 per day, with the aid of a young man who helps" him start the argument. At least it did net him zm per day. .Possibly after this ad. is, published he may not do so m elL His idea, however, was, when I'saw him, to make about 50.000 in 'three vears, and then live in a large feudal lime kiln on the Khine. At Dallas a traveling man the other day almost broke up the hotel where I stopped. He secured a raw potato as he passedby a grocery store, and when he got hidinner order he concealed his bakeoVpotato in his pocket and substituted the raw one. "What kind of a place is this?" he asked, as he called the head waiter unto him. "Do you think I am a Texas steer thatjpu feed me on raw potatoes? Are, yon -oing to give me cut feed Tor des'sert?" ' 9 The head waiter was entirely nonplussedr He went to the waiter and roasted him at a terrible rate. People."all.over the dining room got interested; It threatened to . . vJ"5tamdoor.. j "Thanks, ' he said,' "hut is it not also spelled q-u-i-r-e?" "Oh.no. You are thinking of a quire of " I c-n.W 0 I mAH mrr ;.... ,.. l.:l. La J. II 1UCU iiil U1UC liCW U11IU .ana - -"s w vw- --, " PITTSBUEa DISPATCH; break upt the housed The proprietor-came jn. Business wasparalyzed. Fresh roasted peanuts went up three points. Then it was explained, and peace returned to the cuisine and the breast of the waiter. I do not think that a man should do that way. It hurts the public confidence and shakes our faith in values. Adrcuturo of, a Widower. This litter is"peculiarly rambling, and so I venture toTefer here-to a singular circum stance which I witnessed in the cars last week. An elderly man got on at Jasper. He was going to Archy. The less people travel the more they are overcome and hor rified with a short journey: From the fuss made over it you would have thought that this man was going to the Holy Land to visit the home of some of thd broad humor ist of the Old Testament He stogd in the door andldsscd nine grown up women in an explosive way, and said goodby to them with real tears in his eyes. He was a kind old man, with a faded place on the back of his necklwhere the long hair had shaded it all winter, but where the barber had been at work and fixed him all up. He was all excited with the prospect, and after he had kissed quite a large delegation of his neighbors he came in with his black enameled valise, containing his other vest and some doughnuts, and as the train started up he gave a lurch and sat down in the lap of a middle-aged lady who ' was holding a little bracket made of a cigar box with a jackknife. It tbok six long months in the unccnaiu iigiib ui ihv jicuiieuuurr lor ner Tlye Aldcrinan Head His 2em. son to make this for his widowed mother, and when he was executed a fortnight ago he left it with many a bitter tear upon it for her. Ancient Hearts May Beat as One. The venerable widower crushed it when he fell, and a mourn came up from the sore heart of the boy's lonely mother. Quite a number of thoughtless people laughed when they heard the littlebracket go by the board, but they would not it they had Known its sorrowful history. The farmer apologized over and over again, and his tenderness made the widow weep a little more till she had to tell him the sad story, and then she showed him a paper. He wiped off his specs eight times before he got through with it Then he bought the widow a big red apple, and when the brakeman howled "Archy!" he did not get out, but went past with the widow toward her home. Possibly in the Indian summer of her lite she will bless the day when the gentle hearted amateur traveler sat down on the poor little bracket, and he also will cease to regret it Quien Sabe as the feller says. An Alderman "Who Was Weary. Not long ago I met a wealthy ex-Alderman of 2ew York in Colorado. He was of Celtic extraction, but American by instinct He was traveling for his health in the fast nesses of the grand old Kocky mountains. He had made a fort-jie in the beautiful city of Denver by simply buying lots when other people felt like selling, and selling while the others wcre'feeling like buying. We were soon pretty goo.d friends. He said that his greatest grief came to him now because with all his money he hadn't the keen zest for enjoying it that he had in the blessed old days when he had an appetite and no money! "Now," said he, 'II have money and no appetite. ,.1 almost cry in the night for thp smell of the sod and the spring rain on the dusty road. I hate the smell of Broadway and the street sweepers, and the recollection of bad sewerage and the Van Twillers, who knew mighty little of good sanitary arrangements. In fact, be Gob," says he, "I can t be a successful aristocrat I want tOjgo back agin, me boy, and belong wance more to the Hoy Polloy." Ills Sorrow Poured Out In Ithymo. Then he took from, his pocket a soiled iragmeni. oi verse, wjucu j. win give ueiow, and nhich I call The Wail of a Oraxo-Soman JrUHanan: , Oh, I'm weary of doing the proper thing; I'm tried of doing as I am told; I want to hear the ouhlfrolig sine, And smell the fresh, wet mould. Oh, it's take me finger bowl away, And make mo wance more a boy, With a sun burned wedge down the spine of mc back, While I whoop with the hoi polloi. Ob, me swallytail hurts me under the arms, And me. patent leathers are hot and tight; For Loo Loo MaCallister's lost his charms And I'm homosiek and weary to-night. I sigh for the song of the katydid "V hen ma heart was alive with Joy, When I bathed me feet in the long, wet crass - And belonged to the not polwi. I want to get shet of me manicure sett, And dig In tho dirt and tho dew, I ant to cat onions, and then foiget All the wholo Woi Id, me darlin', tmt you. I'll put me feet on the escrotoire; , Aud let no scallops me soul annoy, I want to forget tho days, you bet, since wc shook me noi iolloi. BtllXte. nrvEirroB of the jucbobe. The Man Who First Used the Word as a Xame'for Living Organisms. The word "microbe" dates from 1878. It was born on Monday at 4:30 in the afternoon, in the assembly hall of the Academy of Science at Paris. It was in the month of February. "I still remember the day," says the writer in The Great Divide, who makes the foregoing interesting statement. "The weather was cloudy and cold, and the gas ha'd just been lit I still see, as if I were there, Charles Scdillot, the surgeon of Strasburg, member of the section of medi cine, slowly rise and rcad; with his heavy and unwieldly voice" tho title of a memoir, 'Application of the Labors of M. Pasteur to Surgery.' . . "Xiving OTgamsmS, coming in contact with sores," he said, "bring on serious com plications. I am going to show this plainly, but in the first place I must say a word about atmospheric germs. These germs have been called b'y so many names that one gets lost among; them. For example, they are called chizophytes, micrococci, chro ococci, microshores, desmo bacteria, bac teria, bacteridia, leptothrixes, clodothrixes, biggiatoa, micrcorganism, mucedinea, aerobia, anacrobia1, monads, Tmeillia, vib- npnes and other names wnicn i. pass hy. "I believe it would be an advantage," added Sedillot, "to substitute for all these denominations a simpler generic name for current "use. I, therefore, propose the gen eral name microbe, from micros, small, and bios, life. I have consulted my friend Lit tre on this point, and he approves of my choice." Then during the vihole lecture Scdillot exclusively used the word microbe. Like all new things this word was much discussed. M. Pasteur used it 6nce out of courtesy, a second time for the sake of con venience. This was nil that was needed for microbe to gain ground, &i it is.well known what progress it nas made since 1878. Let us render to Cffisar the things that are Cassar's the inventor of microbe to Charles Sedillot Fires Jnst the Same. New York Continent. Philanthropist Is there a fire escape on the building you work in ? Clerk Yes, .but it is useless. Fellows get BfSlt5r? ,nred just tne same. - "j? ' t- "SUNDAY, MAT 31, FUTUEE C RUSSIA. An Apologist for It Says It Has the Only Stable Government ON THE CONTINENT OP EUROPE. The AdministratiTe Process Has Its Dupli cate in Our Own Country. WHT THE HEBREWS ARE PEfeSECUTED CCORHESFOjfDEJtCE OF THE DISPAtCn.3 New York, May 30. "The destiny of liberalized Kussia," said Colonel Charles A. de Armand, a Bussian of great intelligence and wide information, "is the destiny of the Eastern Continent, just as the future of the United States is the future of the Western Continent. Eussia will dominate the Old World; the "United States will dominate the Americas." This well-kuown Bussian-American, gal lant soldier and author, was found at his de lightful summer residence at Carlton Hill, K". J. He has recently put forth a work which is attracting considerable attention, as being a sweeping and ingenious reply to the numerous , attacks upon the Bussian Government "I mean by this statement," he continued, "that although the governmental forms of the two countries are widely different, they are best calculated, respectively, to most highly develop the commercial and political strength and general prosperity of the peo ple. Nations reach the same ends through different means. . The prosperity and power of any nation jests' upon the approval of its governmental system by the masses of its people. Vf'f Ono Point of Similarity. "Eussia and the United States enjoy that confidence to a degree unknown to other leading; powers. They are not in any case rivals; they are natural allies. This problem of government which engrosses the attention ot modern Europe to-day has been my study for years. If you will closely ex amine the subject it will be apparent that the two nations have been and are still ad vancing on parallel lines. They have long touched elbows in the extension of human freedom and in striving for the greatest good to the greatest number. I care not what sensational magazine and newspaper writers say of Eussia, except so far as they mislead by inculcating erroneous ideas. They write for a supposed market demand. "The present unsettled state of political affairs in Europeis caused mainly by the desire of selfish' statesmen for personal power. The constitutional form of govern ment that is, parliamentary government affords them greater scope, while dividing the country up into numerous parties ana factions. , The Cases of Italy and Germany. "Take Italy, for example. "Dinted Italy of to-day constitutes more nationalities and languages than its hang understands. They have adopted the English system of minis- lenai responsiDimy ana nave inereiorc many warring factions, each striving to out do the others in order to gain power through its individual representatives. Now, how long can this last before a crisis or a re bellion which will be fatal to the Union? "Then take Germany. Its young Emperor started in to rule a semi-Caisar, or semi Napoleon. Finding an obstacle in the aristocracy he turned to the masses. He be lieved that Socialism was German strength and he lost the support of the conservative aristocracy. He is -now assaulted in Ger many by both parties. Seeing this he throws his strength with the army and tries to play the Ca:sar. How long such a chaotic political state can exist remains to be seen. A crisis is looked for there also which will be fatal to German unity. Now let us look toward France. France also borrows her Parliamentary system from the "English. I refer especially to that feature of the system urged (chiefly by outsiders) for Bussian ministerial responsibility. Oar Sj stem Applied to France. "What do you think of the French Par liament? Party after party follows rapidly on each other's heels, not having the wel fare of France at heart, but simply individ ual gain. Surely the Bepublic of France under the present Ministerial Government cannot long exist unless reform is adopted and our own system here in thj United States substituted. This system of ours, of a Congress elected by the people, responsi ble simply to the people and not" to the Chief Executive, adapted to the national wants and temperament, guided by a writ ten Constitution, is working smoothly, while other nations are in a continual tur moil. "It is not a system and a Constitution presented suddenly to a great nation habit uated to another and radically different form of government. It is a growth. It sprouted over a hundred years ago and has grown with the people and the people have grown with it until it and they are insepa rable. It would take another century to up root this growthj if, indeed, it could be torn up at alL This is progress. Tho Parliament of Russia. "Russia is progressing in the similar way and after the same safe and steady fashion. Its national'institntions are adapted to the wants of its people a people almost twice ai numorous as the people of the United States, and distributed over an area consid erably larger than this territory and founded upon both a national and radical system. It, too, has a Parliament. That Parliament differs from our Congress and from the legislative bodies mentioned to sharpen this comparison. The Bussian Par liament fits into the national systemt and is as much part and parcel of the Bussian peo ple as ii the Congress of the United States lucniicaiwim our political strengtn ana nap piness. It is a council appointed by the .Bmperor, with the Senate, for life, and as soon as its members have taken the oath of office they are wholly independent of the Executive. They legislate for Bussia the sameas Congress does for us. The people of Bussia know well their strength and re sources, They are protected by the strong arm of the law from the vicious elements. They enjoy as much freedom as is vouch safed to our people here under the Constitu tional Government of the "United States. The Russian System of Fanlshmont. "In the punishment of criminals Bussia is more humane than even we arc. She simply substitutes banishment for the peni tentiary and the scafiold. To say that her system does not meet the approval of her people is to presume mat ii.',uuu,uuu ot peo ple of the most warlike nation on the face of the earth can be kept in subjection by forces taken from themselves. It is ridicu lous. "The 'administrative process?' That has been considerably harped upon byAmer can writers recently in connection with the cock-and-bull stories from Siberia. We have abundant illustrations right here at home of the 'administrative process.' The other day a woman was brutally murdered in a cheap lodging house in New York. The police anthorities began arrlsting peo ple right aud left, until some 50 persons were thrown into prison 'on suspicion of having committed the crime. This system obtains in almost every city of the Union. On election days hundreds of innocent peo ple are arrested in this country without war rants and incarcerated until the next day, when they arc liberatedwithout trial and set free without redress. Wo Should Not Throw Stones. "As to the treatment of criminals, the records of the penitentiaries in tho United States, the history of the Georgia convict and the prevalence of lynch law put the worse abuses of authority in Bussia -in a humane and orderly light. The late cold blooded murder of defenceless prisoners, who had been acquitted of crime, in the city of New Orleans, finds no parallel in Bussian annals. "Yet shall we arraign a whole people for the lawless and inhuman acts -of individuals? Shall we pull down an entire system of government because Insig nrnrnrarn V2 1891. nificant members of it occasionally commit inhuman acts of cruelty and abuse their authority? Who wants to abolish the police force of New York because every now and then innocent citizens are brutally clubbed? Nobody but cranks and criminals. "The policeman's club is the insignia of peace and the practical eiinrnnpn nf law land order. It is personal liberty and na tional freedom. Those who cry out against it in this country are the same people who cry out against the governmental system of Bussia a system of law and order, and a system which protects the humblest indi vidual. It is a system detested by crimi nals. This testimony from Siberia is the same testimony heard from every jscaffold in America "I am innocent' The Persecution of Hebrews. "What of Eussia and the Hebrew's? I'll tell you. In the first place the people of the United States do not generally under stand the economic and financial condition of Bussia. They allow themselves to be misled by reports that are sent from Europe through interested motives. Most" of the newspapers of England, Germany, France and Holland are in the hands of the He brew's or controlled by them. "It is no reflection "upon the race to say that life to them is largely a question of dollars and cents. Bussia has outstanding in Europe, mainly in England, Ger many, France and Holland, perhaps a 1,000,000,000 of bonds and these bonds and mostly dealt in in the cities of Frank ford, Pans and Amsterdam, and in the hands of Hebrews. They are the principal dealers in these securities. They can invent talcs of the attempted assassination of the Emperor or spread abroad stories of antici pated national disturbances, and down these securities go. j.nen tney duv tueiu in. These canards are exploded. Up the se curities go. It is a stock-jobbing operation constantly repeated and Wall street opera tions of this nature greatly aggravated mak ing the Government a sort ol Shuttlecock for Individual Gain. The persecution of the Hebrews is merely the attempt to suppress such operations, which react upon the masses of innocent people just a3 they do here. The hostility of the Government toward these bankers and stockjobbers has nothing to do with re ligious belief, only so far as the latter sus tains and encourages such conduct" "Then why are the poorer Hebrews run ning away, or being forced out of the coun try?" was asked. "As to that," replied the Colonel, "I am willing to pledge myself to give so much money to anjbody who can prove that they hav e been sent out of the country for relig ious belief. If religious belief impels men to commit offenses against the laws of the land, and such men were punished, would you admit they were punished because of their religious belief Are the Mormons in the United States persecuted because of Hheir religious belief, or is it because they violate tne lawsr The Case of the Mormons. They have been driven from one section of the country time and time again and yet the Government sought them out in their seclusion and treated them with -rigorous laws enacted especially against them. The Mormons also call this persecution. We know better. They were hounded down by the civil processes and military forces of the United States because their so-called religious practices were inimical to the well being of society and subversive of the laws of the land. We have nothing against a Mormon because he is a Mormon, but a Mormon must not violate the laws any more than anybody else. Bussja has noth ing against the Hebrew because he is a He brew, and there has been no act of the Rus sian Government leveled at his class more arbitrary, laws more specially stringent, or that savor more of persecution, than this Government has visited upon the Mormons. Now, the Bussian Hebrew is not the kind bf man we know commonly as a Hebrew in this country. Not by any means. You can easily understand that by visiting certain quarters in New York. Misled by the Rogues. , jit is the unscrupulous intriguantes and rogues who, under the garb of religion, in duce these unfortunate people to sell out their small holdings in Bussia and to leave their homes and associations for the purpose of bettering their condition in America. You'll find in Eussia to-day hundreds of these sharpers, Hebrews from England and Germany, going among these ignorant He brews, telling them about the riches that can-be found in the Americas. They sell them ieir railroad tickets and steamship tickets and make money. The Government of Bussia has nothing to , do with it. It simply enforces the laws relative to He brews that time and practical experience in Bussia have demonstrated as necessary to regulate and restrain a people whose racial characteristics would otherwise be a stand ing menace to the masses of the Bnssian people and to the Government itself. These laws are wise and beneficial. If they seem to'be harsh in some respects it is because those who so consider them have little idea of the necessity for them. The attempted amelioration of the conditions of these peo ple invariably results in a return to the enforcement of the laws. These periodical requirements are the so-called 'edicts' against the Hebrews. These laws have been in existence since Peter the Great" Charles Theodoke Mueeat. DISPATCHES TO THE NATI0HS. How They Are Received and Sent Out at Secretary Blaine's Office All dispatches of international importance are written by Mr. Blaine with his own hand. Each communication of the sort he indites in the shape of a rough draft, which is apt to be., full of corrections and inter lineations. This goes to a copyist, who re produces it in fair and beautiful script on big sheets of fine linen paper. Next it is copied into the record books, after the Sec retary of State has signed if, but if it is to be sent by telegraph, the pretty copy on linen paper is omitted, the record boo"k only preserving a transcript of it for future ref erence if needed. A single wire connects the office with the Western Union, and an operator is always at hand to receive and transmit messages to all parts of the world at cut Government rates. "When dispatches, arrive they are handed over by the chief clerk to the officials for whom they are properly in tended, and such of them as require transla tion are given for that purpose to Mr. Thomas, the polyglot official translator for the department. There are others who" as sist him in this work, But he is responsible foritalL ' A Thirty-Two Ounce Baby. Mr. and Mrs. AVilliam Derringer, of Wat son, Clark County, Ind., are the parents of a boy two months old who weighs only two pounds and is but 16 inches talL His head is 10 inches in circumference. The child's face is wrinkled and resembles that of an old man, while thick fuzz covers the face and forehead. He enjoys good health. Corns permanently and quickly cured by Daisy Corn Cure. 15 cents; of druggists. Badges for lodges, societies, etc. Fine and reasonable.atMcMahonBros. & Adams', 52 Fourth avenue. su t THE GE-iVlrtE IMPORTED ARTICLE VoT HftVE JOHiMHOfFSnALTEXTRCq BEWARD0ft5VyB5T(TtfT5 SOLD VflDERlTttE MfEl .OF H0F J0JiafiUh0EF3SCT UK.. (SfiE.ff ta mEft PE11I50AI (CO., ,WYorh ERiEH 5T PRIDE OF SANTIAGO. The Beautiful Alameda Where Her People love to'Promenade. FOUE MILES OP tf ATUBAL BEAUTY. How the Chileans Take Their Foaming Goblets of Fresh Milk. the famous ceeeo de sajita lucia COBBESFOSDESCT OP TII& DISPATCH. Santiago de ChileT May 1. A stranger in this splendid capital hardly knows where to begin a systematic round of sight-seeing, so numerous and varied are the points of interest. An all-day's excursjon is but as a drop in the bucket, and after a month of diligent hunting he learns that there are "lions" j et unvisited. For ourselves, let us commence with the famous Cerro de Santa Lucia, an illustra tion of which accompanied my last letter. For $1 an hour one may secure as handsome a coach, coupe or landau as the city con tains, with a smart jehu and pair of well groomed horses; or, if not particular about style and disposed to be economical, he may get one good enough f or the purpose for half that sum. Our way lies along Santi ago's greatest glory the beautiful Alameda; and indeed, I doubt if any city in the world can show so fine a public p'romenade. It runs east and west through the heart of the city, from Santa Lucia to the Exposition Park, a distance of about four miles. .Six Hundred Feet Wldo in the broadest part, it is shaded by four rows of enormous poplars, whose roots are watered by noisy streams dancing along each side, nhich are confined in deep chan nels of brick and cement, crossed by in numerable bridges. There are paved streets ltlilili!M TTIE STATUE TO GENERAL BAnNET O'niGGINS. on the outer edges, a driveway 100 feet wide. a street car line, paths for pedestrians, and numerous stone benches under the trees; while down the middle a line of statues and fountains is scattered at regular intervals all along the wav, interspersed with platforms, whereon military bands, stationed perhaps half a mile apart, play nearly every after noon from 3 to 5 o'clock. The music calls the people out to walk or drive; and during the summer months these public concerts are given in the evening, when the uptown portales arc deserted for this more extensive promenade. It is equally fashionable to come here at sunrise, but never iu the middle of the "day, except for los pobrcs; Milk One Knows Is Fore. Eveniat this early hour one sees groups of well-dressed gentry in every direction, out for their morning constitutional and glass of milk. One of the oddities of the town is the milk-stations. There are dozens of them along the Alameda, where bare-footed women tether their cows from 5 till 9 o'clock every morning. Each four-legged mother is accompanied by a calf, which is effect ually prevented from seeking its natural sustenance by a leathern muzzle over its mouth, and is teased, dragged and driven by the numerous progeny of thtf two-legged mothers. To these milk stations come troops of nurses with babies in arms, ladies, gentlemen and children of the aristocracy, each to purchase a drink, which they may be sure is fresh and unadulterated by seeing it milked before their eyes, directly from the cow into the glass. "A foaming goblet at 5 cents a gob," as an American facetiously "But it is not strained," I said in horror to a Chilean acquaintance. "Why should it be strained ?" was the astonished reply. "Would it really be made any cleaner by that process? Besides it would ruin the rich foam, which is to cows' milk what 'the bead' is to champagne or 'the cream' to lager." Don't Know What Straining Is. By 9 . o'clock all traces of the milking have disappeared, leaving the grounds clean and sweet as" ever. But again at evening ono may meet the venders goin about the streets froinhohse to house, followed al ways by the'muzzled calf and a troop of less well-behaved human youngsters. There a. stationary depots on other streets, where u cow is tied.upon a platform and milked to order whenever a customer comes along; and when one tcow is exhausted it is sent home and another immediately take . its place. On a fable cloce by are mea jrc, cans and glasses, and often raw egg md a bottle of brandy too, so that those wLo de sire can brew themselves a punch. But nobody in South America dreams of drain ing the milk, and if a foreigner ventures to hint that such is the custom at honuk, they stare at- him in amazement, not ui'mixed with scorn, as one who would "paiat the rose." Piled under a tree in the Alametlui close by a beautiful bronze fountain, is a vast but rapidly diminishing heap of wa.ennelons, that luscious fruit being as highly relished here as among plantation negroes. Just beyond is a fine statue of the good Abbe Molina, who, by all accouuts, was one of the purest men that ever lived. But being set np here in bronzy or marble is no proof of that' Says one: "Chile has assassinated or sent into exile some of her noblest sons; but she never fajjs to perpetuate their mem ory by graven images." A Venerated Irish Patriot. The most venerated statue in the whole collection is that of General Barney O'Hig gins, who, as his name indicates, was not a Chilean. Here he appears iii gorgeous uni form, mounted on a pVancing steed and pro claiming liberty to the people. He is called the George Washington of the country, and lauded as the greatest man of His time. Liv ing at a period when the nation was shaken to its depths by the momentous questions whether the clergy should' or should not OF J0rW"HH0FF- 01 "HE MECK.OF-EVERYBOTTLE, mm, a a a ran . u J5 EXTRACT IS. TflE 'BL'5T mLtOILrAU.ULDIUJQ.LI- I,' 'i - -sBjSjH!r "- ":T&r- friz the hair over their foreheads in a "bang," and whether the President should attend church in military uniform or the dress of a private citizen he freed the country from the rule of Spain, averted threatened revolution, gave character and dignity to the National Government, and succeeded in uniting all the interests of the different factions. When at the zenith of his power, and recognized as the central figure of the country around whom all other leaders revolved, he resigned the Prci dencj which he had held for six years, in order to appease the wrath of a few church dignitaries who threatened to bring on civil war. Oh for a. Barney O'Higginsat this time, say we, to find some way out of tha present political muddle! However, though now hated by half his subjects, President Balmaceda is as likely as anybody to have his image erected by and by in the Ala meda. Other leading 3Ien From Ireland. Speaking of Chileno-Irishmen, there was Patrick Lynek, who was the foremost sol dier of the country during the war of ten years ago; and from old Ambrose O'Hig gins, grandfather of the later patriot, down to the O'Lcarys and McGarrys, and scores of other families no w prominent in politics and trade, a majority of Chiles leading men were descended from the Emerald Isle. Fronting the Alameda are some of tho most splendid palaces of this proud old cap ital. Casas which cost ?o00,000 to build and as much more to finish are common here. Many are of carved sandstone, fully l!0O feet square, with the inevitable central patio. Some have two, even three patios? one be hind another, so that the vista of orange trees, palms and blossoming shrubs, fount ains, flowers and statuary, is most charming, as seen from the great arched doorway, which is usually closed by a high gate of gilded iron bare. We have visited a num ber of these mansions, and will tell )oa something of their interior another time. El Cerro de Santa Lucia is a strange, steep hill of solid rock, cast by some volcanic freak into the center of the great plain on which the city stands, and rises abruptly to the height of nearly a thousand feet, it is surrounded at the base by a lofty wall, which zig-zags like a battlemented fortress some distance up the sides, having barti zans, toners and parapets, and an imposing gateway where a small entrance fee is charged. A wide, well-kept carriage-way winds around and around the stony hillside more than ialf way to the summit; while paths, bordered by shrubs, and Cowers, and steep stairs dug in the solid rock, lead to the very apex, jrhich is topped wtli an octagonal observatory with a glass roof. A Mighty, Tiatnral Monument. All these embellishments were effected by the hfe Benjamin Vicuna Mackenna, an eminent Chilean editor, author, orator and statesman, who was Governor of Santiago for many years and one of the candidates for the Presidency in 187G. "Being a public spirited citizen and possessing considerable wealth, he undertook the work of convert ing an unsightly mound whicli could not be moved into a thing of beanty and a joy forever. By the aid of private subscrip tions and using much of his own means, he improved the n.Uural resources of the baro rocks by all that money could compass and taste suggest. Hu designed it also as his own posthumous monument, aud now lies buried on the side toward sunset, at the edge of a precipice 800 feet above the town. Here is a miniature castle fronted by a lovely little chapel; and in a crypt of the latterIackenna reposes. TraditioTtells us that the King of the un conquerable Araucanians had a stronghold here centuries before the coming of white men; and from as fa- back as the Spanish invasion in Valdivia's time, down to a re cent date, it served as a fortress, command ing the entire valley with its guns. It was on Santa Lucia that the United States Astrononfical Expedition, under Lieutenant Gillcs (in 1852), made its observations. From base to summit there are binding walks and stain ays, balconies, grottoes, statues, belvidcrcs, kiosks, groves, flower beds and vine draped arbors. , Cnpld's XiTorite Llttlo Nook. The stairway leading to the summit is necessarily steep and narrow, requiring a tolerably strong head and -steady foot to make the ascent, but mercifully, the, dizzy heights are partially hidden by vines and overlapping branches. Following a wind ing path among dense shrubs and trees, the way grows narrower, wilder and more crooked. Here is a crasgy grotto, within which perpetual twilight reigns and ice cold water drips, and one i stjrtled to meet the wicked eyes of a horribly life-like ser pent, its head raised as if to strike. All along the crooked path giant geraniums are growing, some ten feet h withtrunks like saplings; besides roses- in infinite va riety, azaleas, honeysuckles, Indian pinks, pafizics and forget-me-nots apparently clinging to the bare rock, but in reality well grounded in a coating of fertile soil. Ever so far above the city's din and tu mnlt is an obscure corner, which can be reached only by zig-zag foot-paths, where rustic oeatsare set under sheltering trees; and it is safe to say that right here the sweet "old story," which is as new to-day as when told by the first man to tne first woman in the Garden of Eden, lias been re peated oftcner than anywhere else in Chile. When the summit is attained, one feels well repaid for his time and trouble by the mag nificent prospect spread out on every side. Directly at one's feet lies Santiago, in an almost perfectly level plain, surrounded on every side by the snowy Andes,and on clear days the white cap of giant Aconcagua can be distinctly seen. The air, blowing pure and cool from the mountain tops, comes laden with the fragrance of near-by flowers, while strains' of music and snatches of song and laughter float up from below. Fanxie B. Waeiv A Lesson In the Spring. New York IleraM.l In tho spring I've learned with sorrow That this proverb's not astray, X ever put off till to-morrow Clothes you ought to wear to-day. THE 5IG1ATVR& iVTRlXLVX TQiHiQ .e'Aaenfos T3f W
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