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fact, instead of meridian observations by a
great number of observers, all difi'ering one
from the other in the recognition of the
various magnitudes oi the stars, and in
methods of relating their positions; infctcad
of innumerable transcriptions innumerable
calculations and reductions, and gathering
and lierninaiing of the information along
n lone; period of years; instead of this there
will beundertaken an exact photograph of
the heavens, and this not only of stars up to
the ninth magnitude, bat those of the
eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and even
fourteenth magnitude; and these lesser
magnitudes will not add difHciltics further
than the exposure of the sensitive plate for
a longer time.
The Xnmbcr of the Stars.
Everybody knows that stars beyond the
sixth magnitude are invisible to the naked
eve, and the term "magnitude" applies
simply to the appare..i brilliancy ot the
stan-, "those of the first magnitude being the
moxi brilliant, those of the second a little
less brilliant, and so on: those of the sixth
being the last that can be seen with the
naked eye. Here is a list showing the
probable" number of stars of every magni
tude up to the fourteenth:
Mafmltu!ib.
Frt
fcoml
Tlilnl
i'mirth
Jlltti
Slith
treenth
No. (Magnitudes. No.
Sl.Kfftlitb .(
rlNinta lsvuu
IK Tenth .(V0
Kiu'13eMMHli l.tUUKM
i.fTmii a, emu, con
4.3uulTSlttnth 5.000.00
13,000:rourt(fnth sr.ooe.uio
The stars of tin- fourteenth magnitude are
vis-ible through the best astronomical in
struments. It will be seen that the total of
these first 14 magnitudes exceeds 40,000,000.
To try to catalogue this celestial army u uld
be not only a superhuman task, but abso
lutely beyond realization; for errors would
creep" inevitably into Mich a number of ob
servations, as well as into their reductions,
their transcriptions aud their places upon a
map. Years and year would not suffice,
nnd while the work mas in progress the stars
themselves would chang-s their positions hi
space, for each of them is animated by its
own motion more or lets swift.
Can Bi Dono in Thirteen Minutes.
Xow photography can effect this properly
nnd in the amplest manner, thanks to the
perfection to which the art and its methods
have been brought. And do vou know how
long it would take to perform this gigantic
task to erect this imperishable monument
of astronomy? In 13 minutes! Following
are figures "show ing with substantial ac
curacy the duration of exposure necessary
to get an impression of the stars of various
magnitude upon the new gelatine plates:
"-Eposuiv '
ilin- w- .Mapi!-
,-KxpoMire-
Ml..
Mapil-
UU'S,
olid.
3.
S.
31.
50.
W.
00.
00.
Vires u
i-cw.nd 0
Thlni 0
Vonrth 0
rtrtii 0
fetsth 0
fcCM-Ulll 0
.an i:igntu...
... 0
.01
iiith
. 0
.tc
.1
.5
.3
1.3
IVnth 0
Kin "nth 0
TUrth 2
riilrtit-nth 5
Fourteenth tt
Thusihe one-thousandths of a second ara
sufficient eipoure to photograph a star of
the first magnitude, ahjlf-secoiiU's exposure
takes a picture of the smallest stars visible
to the naked eye, and 13 minutes jre needed
to photograph "those of the fourteenth mag
nitude. IV plate "4 by 30 centimetres covers
five astronomical degrees. If at a given
moment 8,000 telescopes arranged for
photography should be opened all over the
earth and turned upon 8,000 points of the
sky. all the io:uts ueing agreed upon in ad-vaiit-.',
the 8.000 plates would have photc
praplicd the entire heavens and registered
the 40,000,000 stars of which we spoke
above. Placed side by side in their proper
positions these S,000 plates of live degrees
each would represent the 41,000 astronomi
cal degrees o! which the surface of the
heat en is composed.
Can't lSr Dono All at Once.
This kind of instantaneous photojraphv
of the heavens would be ideal, but it woulil
cot be possible, because, lint, at any given
moment night extends over less than half
the glebe, and. second, because the atmos
pheie is neicr perfectly clear, and, last, be
cause these b,000 instruments would involve
en imme-ase expense, a matter which it is
simpler and more practicable to reduce to a
minimum. The work will probably be
divided among the following obseratories
in proportion to the number of plates set
against eacii:
Tarts
Jlonii-aux
Touloute
AlciiTs
Gru'iiwiLh
..l.aM Oatar.c
..!,- m lVrnando
..l.OfG Cauihjna
..LaiO.antiaeii
..i.ncs
...1,3.0
..1,3
..1,Si0
...l,S10
....l.l'l'Lnl'l.ita
uxttml l-lsj'ltlo Janeiro
.1,376
IllJi-iajtlonl () l,ues(.apor(ruodlIopc. 1.512
VnfxUll 1, 'miIii 1,410
Rom l.W Melbourne 1,1)
There will be about 22,000 plates of two
decrees each arranged so that their borders
shall overlap each other sufiieietitly to reg
ister all th" -tars without fail and' thus in
time cover Sin- vhol? heavens. The work
vill probably be completed in five or Bix
years.
Thus nineteenth century science will be
queath to posterity an invaluable and im
perishable s;a;tiiien: as to the sidereal
hcaicns, winch, in future centuries, will
Bene as a centci basis for the solution of
the great prohlem of the constitution of the
universe.
ltetter Than tlw Human Ej.
The liumati eye "crtainly is an instrument
admirably adapted to its purpose. How
transparent is tins livinj crystal, how de
lightful are its hues, tthat'dep'h it has,
-what beauty! It is 1'fe, pnss-oj', light!
Close the eyes and how much i'" the world
remains'.' Asd yat the lens of a photogra
pher's camera is a new eye that gives the
finishing touch to ours, that surpasses it,
that is more marvelous still. This giant
ej c is endowed with four important advan
tages as conipar-nl with our eyes it sees
more qnicklv, further, longer and, ines
timable faculty, it prints, preserves, what it
sees.
It sees wore quickly; in the half thou
sandth part of a-second it photograpis the
tun, its spots, its whirlwinds, its flames, its
mountains of fire, in an imperishable docu
ment. It sees further; turned at darkest night
toward any part of the heavens, whatever,
it discovers', in the atoms of the infinite,
ktars, worlds, unixerses; e:e.itions that our
eye could ncvr sec by any possibility, no
matter how powerful a telescope "were
brought to bear.
Itiscesfora longer time; what we cannot
contrive to see alter several seconds of at
tention, we can never sec. This new eve
needs but to look sufficiently long; at the
end of an hour it will see better still, and
the longer it remains directed toward the
unknown, the more complete will the eye
iiossoss it, without fatigue and always
letter.
Holds Fast to What It See.
And it preserves upon its retinal plate
nil that it has seen. Our eye retains im
ages but an instant. Bupposc, for example,
that you kill a man at the moment when,
quietly seateel in his chair, he has his eyes
open md directed toward a bright window.
(Ihcre is nothing improbable in the suppo
sition upon a planet where all the citizens
are soldiers and kill each other in all man
ner of ways at the rate of 1,100 daily.)
Then suppose that you tear out his eyeE,
(I should have said that the hypothesis in
volves dealing -with an enemj-1 and you
immerse them in a solution of alum; those
eyes will then retam the image of the win
dow with its transverse bars and its light
spaces. But in :t normal state of things our
eyes do not r-'tain images there v.ouldbe
too many of them brides. The giant eye
of w Inch" w e speak holds fast cverythiiig'it
sees. Its only need is a change of the re
tina. Yes, the artificial retina sees more quickly
aud better. And, by virtue of a propertv
wholly lacking in the human eye, it pene
trates abysses where we do not and never
could see anything. This is, perhaps, its
most astonishing faculty. Place the eye,
for example, at tne eye-piece of a telescope
whose object glass measures 30 centimeters
in diameter; such an instrument is the best
for practical observations, "With this glass
of 30 centimeters diameter and three nnd
one-half meters in length, we may discover
stars to the fourteenth magnitude, that is to
say about 40,000 stars of all kinds.
The Timo That Is Required.-
Now place our eye by the photographic
retina. Instantly the most brilliant stars
beat upon the plate and mark their like
nesses there. jrive one-thousandths of a
second suffice for a star of the first magni
tude, one onc-hvndredths for those of the
second, three onc-hundredths" for those of
the third, and so on, according to the pro
portions expressed' above. In less than one
sceond the rjhotogranhic eve has seen all
rthat we could perceive with the naked eye.
jout mis is as Homing, ouiis wsiuiu uuiy
through the telescope also come and beat
upon the plate, and thereon inscribe
their images. Those of the seventh magni
tude take seconds to make their im
pressions on the plate, those of the eighth
need 3 seconds, those of the ninth 8 seconds,
those of the eleventh CO seconds, those of
the twelfth require 2 minutes, those of the
thirteenth C minutes, and, finally, those of
the fourteenth 13 minutes. If we have left
our plate exposed lor a quarter of an hour,
we will find. photographed upon it all the
region of the sky towanl which the tele
scope was directed, all that this region con
tains, all that we could have contrived to
discover with infinite difficulty by a series
oftery arduous and long continued observa
tions." But we have merely entered upon
the marvelous.
Stars of the Fifteenth Magnitude.
Let the photographic cjye continue to ob
serve in place ot the human eye; it will pen
etrate the unknown. Stars invisible to us
become visible to it. After an exposure of
33 minutes, stars of the fifteenth magnitude
will have finished their task of impressing
the chemical retina and placing there their
images.
The same instrument which to the human
eye reveals stars of the fourteenth magni
tude, and which would register about
40,000,000 stars in the entire heavens, dis
closes to the photographic eye 120,000,000,
including only those of the fifteenth magni
tude. It could reach forth to the sixteenth
and throw before the dazzled admiration of
the observer a luminous maze of 400,000,000
stars.
Never before in all the history ef mankind
lune we had in hand the power to penetrate
so deeply into the abysses of the infinite.
Photography with its recent improvements
takes a clear picture of every star, no matter
what jts distance, and sets it down in a
document tiiat can be studied at leisure.
"Who knows if some day in the phtographic
views of Venus orMars some new methodsof
analysis may not discover to us their in
habitants ?
It Opens Up Sew "Worlds.
And its power stretches forth to the in
finite. Heboid a star of the fifteenth or
sixteenth, even seventeenth magnitude, a
sun like our own separated from us by so
great a distance that its light requires
thousands, perhaps millions of vears to
reach us, notwithstanding its unheard of
velocity of 300,000 kilometers a secondhand
this sun lies at sueh a depth that its light,
so to speak, reaches us no longer. The
natural eye of man never would have seen
it, and the human mind never would have
guessed its existence but for the implements
of this modern art. And yet this feeble
light, come from so far, is sufficient to make
an impression upon the chemical plate
which will preserve its picture unalterably.
Ani this star might be of 'the eighteenth
or the nineteenth magnitude, and beyond,
so little that the human eye could never sec
it even aided by the most powerful tele
scopic appliances (for there will always be
stars beyond our range of vision); and yet
it will come and hurl its slight ethereal
arrows on the chemical plate set up to await
and receive them.
Started Before History Began.
Yes, its light will have traveled during
millions of years. "When it started the
earth did not exist, the real 'earth with its
humanity; there was not a single thinking
creature on our planet; the genesis of our
world was in the process of development;
perhaps only in the primordial seas tliat en
veloped the globe before the uprising of the
first continents, before the primitive, ele
mentary organisms formed themselves upon
the bosom of the wafers, preparing slowlv
with the evolutions of future ages. This
photographic plate takes us back to the
past histo.-y of the universe. During the
ethereal flight of this ray which comes
to-day to beat upon the plate, all the his
tory of the earth has been acco'aplished,and
in this history that of human kind is but a
single wave, an instant. And during this
time tne history er the distant sun
w hich photographs itself to-day has been
accomplished also; perhaps it became extinct
long since, perhaps it is actually out of ex
istence. Thus this new ye which transports us
across the infinite enables us at the same
time to trace the periods of past eternity.
Yes, many of these far-away suns that we
are goirg to such pains to "photograph, no
longer exist The end of the world has
comj to them as it will come to us; and the
luminous couriers that they sent us before
dying travel forever. Astronomy plunges
us into the insoluble mystery of the infinite
and of eternity and therein lies it grandeur.
Cajiille Flasijiaeion.
SIPPING BPBI1IG WATEB.
The rieasure Seekers of nttshurg and Alle
gheny Xow at Bedford.
SPrCIAL TELECnAM TO THE DISPATCII.
Bedford SrniXGS, June 27. The weather
here durin;; the week has been the kind that
ha made Bedford famous as n summer re
sort. The days are comfortably warm, tho
thewnometer never registering abovo tho
S0"s, whito the nights are fo cool a blanket is
necef sary. The editors who had such a de
lightful visit are gone and the pill-makers,
known ss the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical
Association, are holding their fourteenth
annual convention. They brought with
them tbolr wives and sweethearts and aro
enjoying themselves to their hearts' con
tent. Horseback riding has alueady sot in: a
rido over the hills and through the
valleys on an easy and sure-footed
saddler is a plcasuro which is often
overlooked by many who " isit Bedford.
The delightful weather this week has
started tho young folks te mountain climb
iqs; parties of 15 and 20 are often seen wind
ing their way around trie mountain paths
nnd over crags and rocks in search of ferns
and wild flowers which rfre in abundance on
the mountain above the hotel.
"The Georgia Minstrels." the talent of tho
Springs Hotel dining room, crave an enter
tainment in parlor "A" to tho members of
the Pharmaceutical Association on Tuesday
evening.
II. F. 15ott and wife, of Scottdale, are at the
Springs for a week's sojourn. Jlr. Bott is an
expert violinist and he entertained some
frivnds in the parlor TueseLiy evening.
William Xelib, Ksq., father of Senator
Kecb, is hero for a week's solourn. and to en
gHge ciuarters for his family, who will join
him in a few days.
George A. Kelly, accompanied by his wife,
is one of Pittsburs's representatives at the
Pharmaceutical Convention. Mr. Kelly re
sponded to the address of welcome which
was delivered by Hon. John Cessna, of Bed
ford, in an able manner.
F. II. Eggcrs, Pittsburg, is an autograph
for a week's sojourn.
The tally-bo took a party to the willows
"Wednesday evening. The party was com
posed of members of the Pharmaceutical
Association.
A. Beck and vlfe. of Allegheny, registered
at the Springs Monday, where they will sip
the waters for a week.
"W. S. Hixenbaugh is registered at the
Sprin;s.
The orehestra which has captivated those
who have visited Bedford for tho past four
years will anive July 6.
The cannon ball train, composed of new
Pullman cars built especially for the summer
truffle, starts Monday night. It leaves Hun
tingdon at 7 o'clock r. m. on arrival of trains
from Pittsburg and Philadelphia. It will
inike the run lrom Huntingdon to Bedford
without stops. President Jaumey, who
arrived to-day, will go down to see his hand
some train make its first trip.
I). J. Xeff, Ksq., one of tho shining lights of
the Blair county bar, registered at tho
Springs Thursday. '
The public carriages and the turnouts of
the diirorent livery stables were never finer,
or can any resort boast of more gentlemanly
attendants.
Timely Advice.
Now is the time to provide yourself -and
family with a reliable remedy for bowel
complaints. It is almost certain to be
needed, and no family can afford to be
without it. It costs but a trifle, and may
be the means of saving much suffering, if
not life There arc many different rernedies
in.use, but Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy is undoubtedly the
best. " wsu
The drink for warm weather is Iron City
Brewing Company's beer. AU first-class
saloons Keep it
A GHEAT COMMONER
Thaddeus Stevens Was the Only Real
Leader of the House Unless
Keed Be Reckoned One.
CHIEF CLERK LLOYD'S ESTIMATE
After an Intimate Acquaintance With tho
Statesman During the Active
Part of His Career.
PR0N0MCED TIEWS UPON BLAYERY.
His
Exporter, His Sarcasm, His Conraje and His
Charitable Disposition.
WIUTTEX for Tns DisrATcn,
One of the great moral heroes of his time
was Thaddeus Stevens, the acknowledged
leader of the House, and the only real
leader of it that I ever knew. And yet the
appellation of driver would more nearly
describe him. At least he always seemed
to take it for granted that his political
associates in the House would do what he
told them without questioning; and it was
the exception if any of them proved refrac
tory. There was no real leader after his
death. There were too many eminent men
of average ability to permit them to follsw
the lead of any one of their number, at
least until the advent of Tom Heed.
Stevens never feared the face of man.
Possessed of an apparently sublime con
sciousness of his power, and the rectitude
of his, purpose from his standpoint of duty,
he was serenely indifferent to any attack
ever made upon lrini in debate, and gener
ally disposed of it, if he thought it worth
noticing at all, with a single terse or epi
grammatic sentence, as in the case when a
certain member of his own political party
matle a bitter attack upon him. He simply
said, without the slightest trace of excite
ment: "What no gentleman should utter,
no gentleman need answer."
The Courage of His Convictions.
No obstacles ever deterred him in the.
pursuit of a purpose, and ho opposition ever
made him quail, or even seemed to disturb
him. He had the courage of his convictions,
and was wholly indifferent as to where they
might ieaa. him and was no compro
miser where principle was involved. His
refusal to accept a deed for a lot in a ceme
tery, because it contained a clause limiting
the right of sepulture to the white race, was
characteristic of him. Such a man compels
the tribute of our admiration, however.
much we may differ with his views.
The world "is inno dauger from overstock
of earnest and consistent men. As Prof.
Lowell tersely expressed it during the war:
"Our need is not so much more men as more
raan."
' Stevens was always thoroughly consistent
in his political course. His first view of the
Rebellion was that it was an insurrection,
and to be dealt with as such. After Presi
dent Lincoln issued his proclamation of
blockade he called upon him and said: "Mr.
President, have you duly considered this
proclamation it ith reference to the law of
nations?"
Lincoln replied: "Why, no, not much;
we nevr had much to do with the law of
nations in Illinois. The proclamation was
ofSewaid's getting upland I supposed it
was all right."
No Longer an Insurrection.
"The legitimate effect of it," said Ste
vens, "is to erect the insurgents into bellig
erents, and the war must be henteforth con
ductcd,'not under the Constitution, but un
der the laws of war."
And from this position, once deliberately
taken, he never departed. His declaration,
made on the floor of the House during the
period of reconstruction, and which startled
many of his political associates, "I thought,
we were all agreed that this was conducted
outside the Constitution," was but the
natural expression of his position. And,
not only was the war conducted outside the
Constitution and under the law of nations,,
but settlement was to be made under the
same law. He scouted the right of the con
quered to make any appeal whatever to
the Constitution, and maintained in
the fullest degree the right of
the conqueror to dictate terms to
the vanquished, which might be anything
recognized by tne law of nations. He saidj
"If they had whipped us we should have
bpen compelled to submit to their terms,
which would have been dictated without
any regard to the Constitution of the United
States, and, as we have whipped them, I
deny their right in toto to appeal to that in
strument They shall not mate a straight
jacket of the Constitution and put it on
those who have adhered to the Government
to embarrass them in securing the legiti
mate results of the victory they nave won."
Objected to Hanging Davis.
And, in strict accordapce with the view
so entertained, he denied the right of the
Government to hang Jeff. Davis,. though if,
as Lincoln expressed it on another subject.
it could have been done, "unbeknownst-like
to him," I doubt if he would have shed any
tears over his "takina off."
His hatred of human slavery was so in
tense that it suggests some special reason
for it. I have thought it might have been
inspired by his experience in the first re
ported case in which he was conperned as
counsel. It was a case in which a Southern
planter was seeking to recover possession of
a two-legged chattel w,ho had committed
grand larceny by running away with him
self to Pennsylvania, and Stevens, in be
half of the master, strange as it may seem,
had issued the old common law writ of
humine replegiando.
If there was any man for whom he had a
special regard it was for a pronounced Abo
litionist. I remember an incident illustra
tive of this told by the late Judge Wood
ward, of Pennsylvania. He saief that he
and Stevens were at Harrisburg Once over
Sunday.and that he attended church on that
day, and, in coming out, found Stevens at,
his side and said to him: , -
His Belief in tho Negro.'
'Mr. Stevens, you and I 'have keen nnj.
formly opposed to each other on all ques
tions, but I am glad to find there if one bond
of union between us. "We Can both attend
the same church, but if you will pardon me
I would like to know what induced you to
attend this particular church?",1'
"Oh," said Stevens, "I came to hear this
fellow preach because he is an Abolitionist."
"Whereupon," said the Judge, as he told
the story, "the bond of union suddenly
parted."
He firmly believed that a negro was as
good as a white man, and a good deal better
if he behaved himself, and. in reply to Cox,
who said in debase, "I oik the gentleman
Thaddaa Rcvcnx.
THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, SUNDAY, JUNE
from Pennsylvania to give up his idea of
the equality of the white and black races
before the law:" he simply said, "I won't
do it." To Brooks, of "Nw York, who
made o speech denying the equality of the
races by nature, he replied, "I will pit John
Langston against the gentleman from New
York on any fair field of intellectual com
bat; and the gentleman will be the first to
"throw up the sponge."
A Bit of Philosophy.
He fully indorsed the sentiment ex
pressed by Prof. Lowell in one of the Bige
low Papers.
1 'alnt of those who fancy there's a lois on
Every investment that don't start from
flosson,
But I kn ow this. Our money's safest trusted
In snthin, come wut will that can't be
busted.
And that's the ole Amcrikin idee
To make a man a man, and let him be.
His convictions were maturely formed
and firmly held. Among these was the con-
viction that so the end bo right it fully
justifies the means. He said to a fellow
member, who made some reference to his
conscience: "Conscience, what has a po
litician to do with a conscience? The sooner
you throw it to the devil the better," which
led a friend of mine, much given to philoso
phizing, to remark that Stevens was the
most conscientious man he ever knew, that
he was even conscientious in the belief that
a politician ought not to have any con
science. It is certain that he never hesi
tated about adopting any means he thought
necessary to carry liis purpose, and to ac
complish it would enter into almost any
sort of combination with his political op
ponents. A Coalition "With Democrats.
On one occasion Boutwell was fiercely
antagonizing a measure that Stevens had
much at heart. Seeing that he was in
danger of being defeated, the old man went
to the other side of the chamber antl suc
ceeded in making a coalition with the Dem
ocrats, and then, after carrying his point,
hobbled back to Boutwell and said to him,
"Why did you force me to making a com
bination with those infernal scoundrels on
the other side of the House." Before
voting on any case of contested election he
simply inquired of some friend, "Which is
our scoundrel," and invariably voted for
him, justifying himself probably by the be
lief tliat, except politically, there was no
particular ainerence between tnem.
I had been absent on one occasion for
about a week during the sitting of the
House. On my return ho said: "Where
have you been? I have not seen you for
some days.
I replied that I had been off trout fishing
at Youngwomanstown, Pennsylvania.
"Youngwomanstown," said he, "that's
the place it here we gt 700 majority for
Bitner, when he ran for Governor, and
there was only one old red house in the
township, and we would have elected him,
too, if they had done as well in the western
part of the State as we did in the eastern:"
Solicitude for Xegro Bights.
Of course the one fundamental condition
he insisted upon in the reconstruction of
the States that had been in rebellion, was
absolute seeurity for the negro in all the
civil and political rights, and Tie was quite
indifferent about the manner in which it
was done, so that, "when it were done, it
were well done." To accomplish this end
he would not have hesitated a moment
about reducing the wTiole South to a terri
torial condition, or even blotting out State
lines, and making new political divisions of
all the Southern States.
He, of course, committed many mistakes
in his legislative policy, among which was
notabjy his attempt to keep down the price
of cold, by forbidding dealing in it on the
stock boocrd, under heavy penalties, which
led Long John Wentworth to say that he
knew more about nigger than he did about
finance.
His speeches never rose to the height of
true eloquence. They were plain, terse,
practical, and rizht to the point. His
'speech ou the impeachment of President
Johnson was notably bnel in comparison
witu tne others, iie was aeiighted with a
comment made on it by one of a company of
Jjun&irds trom his own district, who called
upon him shortly after its delivery, and
said: "Mr. Stevens, that was a great speech
you made on the trial of Johnson a great
speech."
"Ah, whit did you think was so great
about it?" said Stevens.
"Oh," was the reply, "because it was so
lectle."
I doubt if he ever received a compliment
that pleased him more highly.
A Master of Sarcasm.
He disdained the use of rhetoric and all
the common arts and tricks of the orator.
He was always calm, cool and unimpas
sioned, even in the most exciting debates,
and was so confident in the truth of what he
jaid that he seemed surprised that anybody
should doubt it. His most effective weapon
in debate was sarcasm, which was so natural
to him that he would have probably found
a great deal of trouble in suppressing it,
and the dread with which it was regarded
by his fellow members contributed greatly
to the power he wielded over them, though
it was intensely amusing to those who knew
him more intimately. To the members of
the House he seemed something like the
fourth form in the prophet's vision, "dark,
mysterious, iron teethcd,terrible," while by
nature he was the gentlest andmost genial of
men, with an overflow of sympathy for all
who were in "any distress ot mind, body or
estate."
There was no man in public station more
easily approachable. Men, women, and
children went to him freely for advice or
help, and were always sure at least of a
sympathetic hearing. He 'called at my
office one day during the Christmas holidays,
and said he was in great trouble. On in
quiring what the trouble was he said he had
just received a letter from an old widow in
Lancaster, telling him she was out of fuel
and provisions and asking him for help. He
said the Sergeant-at-Arms,who is the bank
er of the members, had gone to New
Hampshire to spend the holidays, and
he did not know where to get
any money to send her. I told him
to draw his check on the Sergeant-at-Arrcs
for what he wanted and I
would cash it for him. He drew his check
for f 50, which I cashed, and after expressing
his thanks for the favor, ha hobbled off, de
lighted to"have got out of that trouble.
A Bather Odd Charity.
It Is related of Hm that walking to the
Capitol one morning in company with a fel
low member, from whom he haa won a hun
dred dollars at poker the previous evening,
he was accosted oy an old lady who made a
pitiful appeal to him for help. He pulled
out the hundred dollars and handed it to her,
and then, turning to the gentleman from
whom he had won it, witn a quizzical smile,
said:
God moves In a mysterious way
His wonders to perform
On another occasion he met a woman cry
ing Dltteny ana assea wnat was tne trouble.
She said she had lost a 5 bill, the only
monev she had in the world. Putting his
hand in his pocket he pulled out a ?5 bill
and handed it to her with the remark:
"That's very queer, I just found a 55 bill."
But I must reserve further remark for a
subsequent letter. Clinton Lloyd.
Copyright, 1801.
Don't fail to read the fire sale ad. on
page 8 of Kingsbacher Bros., 516 "Wood
street.
At Five Dollars a Suit.
It will only cost you a ?5 bill to buy a
man's good suit at our store on Monday.
We mark our goods at theso low prices to
sell them off quickly. This is our clearing
tinie, and it is the biggest cut-price sale of the
season. It is attracting thousands of people
from far and near. Monday we propose to
sell 1,200 men's good cassimere suits, neat
patterns, in checks, plaids and mixtures,
made up in sack or cutaway style, for only
(5 a suit. Come and take your pick.
R 0. O. a, Pittsburg Combination Cloth
ing Companj, corner Grant and Diamond
streets. . .
SlClLUUr awnings, absolutely sun-fast,
at Maumax & Son's, 539 Penn avenue.
Excursion to Atlantic City
Next Thursday, July 2, via the B. & O. E.
it. itate tiu me rounu trip.
THE WEB OF A SPIDER
For the Poor Little Fly Is Not Worse
Than an English Inn
FOR THE CONFIDING TOURIST.
Wakeman Delivers Himself of Some of His
Unlucky Experiences.
TEMPERANCE INNS ALONE AEE DECENT
COEBESrONDESCE Or TITX DISPATCH.
London, June 16. There are two classes
of inns in England and Scotland in which
the guests find comfort. One class com
prises the great hotels of such cities as Lon
don, Liverpool, Glasgow and Edinburgh,
which have become" comfortable, during the
past quarter of a century, in proportion to
their adoption of American hotel manners
and improvements. The other class is the
humble and simple hotels of remote villages,
of almost unknown dales and glens, of bon
nie old Scotch dachansand of rose-embowered
English hamlets, where one thanks
God, if he have come by design or accident,
for the tender repose and blest rest to be
founetamong them.
There is another class. Its inns are the
hotels the average traveler, commercial or
uncommercial, is compelled to patronize,
and which lie in wait for the doomed tour
ist from Land's End' to John O'Groat's.
They are simply places where one for a
necessary period resigns himself to captiv
ity, surveillance and extortion. The un
feigned'and tremendous surprise and indig
nation evinced at protest against either, are
elements of humor in the situation, if those
may exist where there seem3 only opportu
nity for downright despair.
The "Welcome a Spider Gives a Fly.
The effusiveness of your welcome at one
of these inns is alarming. The next instant
you have cause for alarm, for with a queen's
warrant you could not find a shred of that
gaumy, greasy, gaseous welcome. From a
dozen to a score of grinning, jumping,
wriggling, vociferous beings grab and gasp
and gurgle at you Until you are inside the
door and outside the law, and your belong
ings have been wrenched from you, and
yourself left as lone as is silence between
the stars. Then if you find them, or any
body that, without ransom, will acknowledge
to having ever before 6een them or you in
that blessed inn, you possess genius and a
great brave and patient souL
If you have come to the inn by carriage
and been mulcted by the station porters for
bringing your baggage to the door, by other
porters who grab it and carry it to some
other place, by other porters who now seize
itand deposit it near your carriage, and by
still other porters who assist the scorful
coachman in getting things to rights and
under way; or if you have walked and car
ried a portmanteau or two. and been haunted
and taunted bystreet porters and urchins
for your niggardness and efforts to destroy
the customs of the country; you will find
fhem all there, these slimy, slippery human
tentacles of the concrete British inn devil
fish, separate and distinct notifications of
the life blood sappings you wijl be called
upon in spirit and pocket to endure.
Every Soul a Heady Vampire.
There is the landlord, riotous in obse
quiousness; the landlady, beaming with
smiles, but measuring your capacity for
imposition with unerring accuracy; the
head waiter, a superior foreign being, us
ually a German-French adventurer in full
dress, who performs all offices with scorn,
but now standing there with bland per
missibility in his face for your coming trial;
the porter and the second porter, who
grin at you this onco to ever after grin;
"boots," that sodden, grimy slave who
never sleeps and who is ever at war with
all other souls within the place; "but
tons," in uniform as to clothing, but in
permanent gloom as to face, save when
you arriye and he lights up with joy at
the misery he alone can cause you; a
half dozen odorous stablemen, who each
watch their chance to leer and pull their
forelocks at you in effort to establish se
cret recognition of what you may expect
if you do not placate them; the barmaid,
who knows, you know, that it is she alone
who supplies the awful voluminousness and
minuteness of that inevitable bill, and who
giggles and gyrates as she sees your own
writhing recognition of what is to come;
and a number of muscular cattle called
chambermaids, who in a trice have settled
the manner in which you shall be racked
and wrecked within tne precincts of the
dank, clammy den to which you are certain
to be consigned.
In a moment the cold realism of your
situation has come. You are inside a low,
dank, narrow hall and alone. At one side
is the bar, an affair constructed like an
American railway station news-stand, which
is shut out from sight whenever the bar
maid wishes to yawn, the landlady desires
to abuse" her Boniface, or your own objure
gations become too numerous aud decisive.
Lucky to Get Anything to Fat.
Opposite is the "coffee room," a long, low,
cheerless place, with a long, low, cheerless
table, spread with a cloth ever decorated
with misplaced matter. If you have the
good fortune to finally get anything to eat
in the place, you will have to partake of it
with a olowsy tourist possessing one sofa, a
drunken guest snoring upon another, a
crowd of drovers, of politicians or of the
constabulary or military, swigging ale or
stout beside you, and the whole room as
blue as a channel fog with the smoke of to
bacco. Directly you are in the prison-like
hall. The head waiter is gone; the porter
has grabbed your luggage and disappeared;
"boots" and "buttons" have vanished; land
lord, landlady and barmaid have been swal
lowed up in the inconceivable somewhere
behind the bar; stablemen and chamber
maids are whisked into undiscoverable re
treats. Great, gloomy doors, black,mouldy
walls, hard, forbidding ceilings, alone con
front you. You bang your knuckles against
the bar window. Landlord.landlady or bar
maid by and by appears, giving vou a look
of pained surprise, and then disappears.
You call, "Porter!" "Boots!" "Buttons!"
"Chambermaid!" There is not even a
reproving glace now in answer. Yoa call
and bang some more. This time echo alone
reproves you. Groping about the place,
you snatch at a bellcord big as your wrist,
with a tassel as big as your heii This you
tug at very violently. The clang and. clamor
ef the bell, which you cannot locate,' fill the
whole place. The bar-window comes up
with a slam, goes down with a slam, and an
expression of disgust and dismay is caught
escaping betwecnthe slams. Then, peering
up from dark stairways, and peering out of
quickly-opened doors, are seen faces full of
grave surprise; you near an aoout you ex
clamations of disgust and dismay, and in
another instant all these faces are gone, and
you are again alone. Then you talk out
loud to yourself for awhile in rude Ameri
can words.
Noise Gives No Keller at All.
Strengthened, you return to the big bell
cord. You jerk and jerk at that You find
other bellcords and jerk at them. Nearly
all of them ring bells, belb of such awful
size and sound, and, in instances, such
startling nearness, that you are scared at
your own dire work and are rather relieved
that nobody appears to avenge your calamit
ous proceedings. Tor a time you exist in
the dazed, dark, silent spell that has come
upon you. but finally you' cannot bear your
isolation longer. You determine on investi
gation at the risk of your actions being mis
construed, and yourself arrested and flung
into a British bastilc. Even there, yon re
flect, would at least exist a motive for your
being looked after by somebody. You try
all the doors and windows of the bar, softly
at first, but gradually to an earnest and
burglarious degree- Then you try all the
dark hall doors from which peered laces full
of surprise at your obstreperousness. These
are locked, or open only upon repelling
gloom.
Determined to secure relief, you timidly
seek the "cofiee room" "human various.'
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Everybody is there snoring. Then you at
tempt to descend stairs whic.li you" think
must lead to where the servants ought to be.
After you crash against sharp angles and
fall in unexpected turns, this attempt is
abandoned. In desperate hope and courage
you begin scaling the ascents to upper mys
teries. You are more successful here, for,
by following the stair railing, you can at
least for some little time proceed. You go
pretty high this way. Doubtful of where
you are, you return a flight or two. Then
you move stealthily through a dark, stuffy
halt Like a sneak thief you try every door
you find, listening with beating heart fo'
movements of vengeance from suppositi
tious occupants.
A Season of Tips and Disappointments.
Your strained hearing catches the sound
of footsteps. You suddenly pounce upon
him and hold him as remorselessly as ever
"Goody Blake" was clutched by "Harry
GilL" The man says, "Lord bless us!" but
does not seem very frightened. He proba
bly knows what it is to be frequently sur
Srised in the dark by desperate people. You
emand with surpressed emotion to be led
to your room. Lord bless us, yes, certainly;
but you do not looren your grip upon the
individual. By and by you have penetrated
the somewhere, and you find yourself in a
room that must be your room because you
recognize some features of your luggage
when falling over it.
But there you are at last, and what a
room? Shades of past ages, how thy kindly
wraiths are insulted by what i3 here in pre
tension, patching, mold and decay! One
fears to use a drawer lest the furniture will
crumble in pieces and dolorous spirits be
unloosed. The washstand is propped; the
bowl is cracked; the towel is as shredded as
a politician's record. You can only sit in
safety on the floor. You "tip" the manyou
have caught out of all reason, and shivei1
ingly ask for a light and a fire. Lord bless
us, yes, certainly as to a light; but there
must be a cdnsultation about the fire. He
departs and you stand there supported by
hope and a compact, black atmosphere for a
good half hour. He never returns. Another
man does. This one brings one tiny candle
faintly hinting of light, and disclosing the
extraordinary necessity for light. You sug
gest that you will need more. Heisapalled.
But you pledge your ability to pay for two,
or even three candles, if all are burned to
gether. That may be admitted, but "the
innovation is too much. You fee this new
man. Lord bless us, yes, certainly; he will
see. He goes away and never returns. You
take your candle and make a little trip
around the echoing halls, but you find no
one.
Ton Blast Have Like a 3Ian!ac
Then you return to your room, find the
bellcord and enliven the hostelry for a long
time with doleful tollings, janglingsand im
petuous staccatos of a remote but strong
toned belL By and by another man comes,
as if in doubtful attentivencss, and seems
anxious to know if you have really rung.
You endeavor to make it clear that you
have, and why you have; and you fee him
and say, "My good fellow!" and "There's a
man!" and other friendly things. This one
goes and stays, like the rest. You begin on
the bell again, or, thoroughly reckless and
desperate, rush to your door and yell; yell
as one will yell when the limit of human
patience is reached. In a moment they are
all there; all the pack of persecutors "who
first gave you welcome. You address them
in unmistakable language. They are sur
prised, pained, humiliated, at your extraor
dinary conduct. But by a frank statement
that unless a fire of coals is put in your
grate you will utilize the unjointcd sec
tions of furniture for the purpose,
and unless you are furnished enough
candles you will make a pyre of
the inn itself for light with which
to get out of it, you are eventually provided
with what you want by two or three other
people who have been lying in wait for this
very denouement; these only submitting to
accommodate you after their palms have
been crossed with silver, like the bad old
witches of the storybooks.
In every other act or fact about the Brit
ish inn, there is the same hopeless stubborn
ness. Once within it you must resign your
self soul and body to indescribable delay, in
attention and every conceivable affront and
incivility. The guest is a creature to be
plucked, bullied and pillaged. To these be
ings with wooden heads and straw hearts,
who do not "keep" them but are kept by
them, civility is unknown; comfort is un
heeded; innovation is treason, and dynamite
lurks in all suggestion of improvement.
Choose the Temperance Hostelries.
It would be captious and dishonest to as
sert that there are no pleasant exceptions;
but anyone who has traveled much in Eng
land and Scotland knows that theabove pic
ture is a true one of nine-tenths of those
inns the average wanderer finds in the aver
age English and Scottish town or village.
Acquaintance in every place visited'wonld
no doubt reduce one's percentage of misery.
But as you are compelled to know it, in
passing rapidly from placo to place, the en
tire system is one of grab-and-pluck. The
bar is the British innkeeper's god. He has
no pride in his house and the entertainment
he might give. If your bill for liquors is
likely to four or five times exceed that for
bed and board, you are tolerated nnd even
coddled. If you have something to do be
sides guzzle, you may as well understand
first as last that you are not wanted, and
will not be decently treated. In nine
tcnths of all British inns there is not a
Jiublie room and they are all notorious
y tiny and close where the fumes and
smoke of liquor and tobacco do not form a
dense and awful pillar of cloud and fire by
night and day. The inn is absolutely the
bar annex here.
But there is hope for the traveler in Eng
land and Scotland in two directions. If one
will make a rule of patronizing only the
temperance hotels, or of hunting out the
humblest and most insignificant inn that
can be found in the place" of arrival, my
word for it, a" clean bed, a fairly comfort
able room and the best attention and serv
ice to be had in this country, will in nearly
all cases be secured. The temperance hotels
of our own country are as a rule only fit
places for self-mortification or suicide.
Her they are the only places where one
can secure any manner of adequate enter
tainment Edgab L. WAKrsiAir.
LOCAL SOCIAL 'ROTES.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Thomas, of
East Diamond street, Allegheny, was the
scene of n. brilliant assemblage last "Wednes
day evening in response tc. an invitation for
a-musicale issued by Mrs. Thomas before her
departuio to Chautauqua for the summer
season. The programme consisted of a vocal
solo, by Miss Ksvto Ball, accompanying her
self on the violin; mandolin selections, by
Albert Stimtnel and Professor Liefeld's Fe
male Mandolin Club; a piano and violin
duet, by the Misses Lulu and Kdna Vogler;
guitar selections, Dy air. .morgan .Hearing;
and recitations, by Mrs. William Bentley
and Mr. Wesley Calthenbaugh. An elegant
luncheon was served at 11 r. jr. Those who
participated In the evening's enjoyment
were tho Misses Grace Cahill, Lulu and Edna
Togler, Mary and Betty Black, B. Culthen
baugh, .Tosie JJowning, Mr. and Mrs. J. Knee
land, Dr. Pitcairn, Willie Thomas and Al
bert 11. J.1CI61U.
Probably tho most successful social event
of the week was the muslcale glvon by Miss
Olive Price, of River avenue, Allegheny,
last Thursday evening, in honor of Miss
Lillian McFeely. of Stcubenville, O. Piano,
mandolin and guitar selections, nnd fancy
dances, uv Professor Thum.i and Miss Price,
iuteilnded by a sumptuous repast, consti
tuted th- oventng'senjoyment. Included in
the number piesent niav be mentioned tho
Misses iullio Hunter, May Lacock, Mamie
Ilendiicks, Mrs. Ackison and Messrs. Milton
Hendricks, Piotetsor Albert D. I.ieteld,
Walter Floyd, Hen Burns, Al Sonde, Profes
sors It. F. and Frank Thuma and Carl Eraun.
Aline Walker, a little miss of 10 years, do
lighted the largo nnd fashionable audience
gathered in St. Mary's Hal!, Allegheny.Tues
day afternoon, by her wonderful rendition
of "The Little lIighlandShepherdess,"which
she rocitcd and danced in costume. The
poem was written for her by her teacher.
Miss Mary Cody.
Mr. B. N. Jacobs will sail for Europe Sat
urday on the Servja and will be absent some
eight weeks. He intends to visit the principal
capitals of the Old World, taking & Paris,
London, Berlin, Tienna and Amsterdam,
and will also spend some timo with his rel
atives in England.
Wels Brothers' Orchestra will furnish
music for the Casino Club, at Allequippa, on
August 3, and for about ten lawn fetes in
July.
The Great Western Band furnished the
music for the aohooisof Lawrenceville, atj
.arsenal xuxi, n nuay.
CHOICE
DLtbHlfifUV
Is situated in the
TWENTY-SECOND WARD,
Surrounded by the residences of
TillufflS,
And other standards countyfamilies. It is accessible by
ALL THE TRACTION LINES.
The principal avenuesirunning through the "Park are -
Beechwood, 80 feet wide; Linden and
Shady, 60 feet wide, and Denniston,
Hastings,' Fairoats and Up
ton, 50 feet wide.
To Careful Buyers, Who, in Selecting a-Site for-aHome, want &
HIGH AND HEALTHY LOCATION,
Surrounded by GOOD NEIGHBORS, and so situated that the
property is sure to appreciate in value, we feel safe in recom
mending the Beechwood.Park lots. It is proposed to maintain
this neighborhood
SELECT AND DESIRABLE,
And, with that object in view, certain building regulations have
been adopted, and no lot with a smaller frontage than
50 Feet
In depth
A SPECIAL PRICE.
Has been arranged for the FIRST FORTY LOTS SOLD,
after which the prices will be advanced.
We feel fully justified in indorsing these lots as
THE VERY
Now on the market They lay
neighborhood,
SCHENLEY PARK,
And are offered at figures that must commend themselves to all
buyers who combine prudence and good taste.
PRICES WILL RUN FROM
$1,500
PER LOT HI TIE FIRST FORT? LOTS SOLD.
Terms to Suit Purchaser.
Our special opening
Monday,
AT 10 O'CLOCK A.M.
Both members of our firm, as well as not less than four of our
salesmen, will be on the grounds to show parties over the prop
erty. Take the Fifth' avenue cable cars (fare 3 cents) and tell
the conductor to let you off at Shady Avenue; less than six
minutes' walk up Shady Avenue brings you to the lots.
Plans and all particulars furnished on application.
06 Third
CORNEp.. WOOD STREET, IJiTTSBURG. ,,
FEOPEItnES.
THE FHS, TUB
Feet
-will be sold.
CHOICES
beautifully, are in a first-class
contiguous to
sale will begin on
June
Avenue,
$2,500
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