9HHMEffilHHSHBl7!i!nPCMiMMRHIM THE PZTTSBTJItG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1891. 15 ' ' -, ... -M.,- . -, - , , i . .... , ,.., .1. ., ,...,. .. m S HflrVIPniO OnriTni S"1 old Senors formed a part of the be tens of thousands of the Mexican peas- QT?VT?ATQ TAT ITTQTYRV ,nbed Ward introduced his friend, to 1Trtin?n "HflWAT TITTT I ' " " " "" ' i 3 fllhl II I I K U A I MA I crowi There were children by the hnnd- ants on the plaza, among the trees and in OlJj T JDlMu JIM lJIulUltl. whom Stevens extended a hearty welcome, ILLUJlJjU JDUYY1N UlLLf r- 1 1 III I All 111 il 111 1 1 HI I IH I I reds and the wide streets surrounding this. Let and then said: "How are you feeling to- nTril t-7 -fVTJ s- I A nitsJ4imi I w prm' The Fifth of May Is to Them. What theGlorious Fourth of Julv Is to Us. BLAZES OF FIEEWOBKS; Bursts of Spread Eagle Oratory-and Gorgeous Processions GO TO MAKE OP THE CELEBRATION. l'resident Diaz Goes Afoot and Rejoices in. His Splendid Troops. 'HOW BRIGANDS WERE MADE SOLDIERS ell rcOIlRESrOXPEXCE OP TIIE DISPATCH. ' Mexico, July l. II E Mexican Fourth of July is celebrated on the 5th of May. It was on this day 29 years ago that the French troops of Napoleon 1IL, who were marching to Mexico City, were met at Puebla, about 200 miles from the cap ital, bv the Mexican army, under General Zaracoi, and effectually routed. The French wanted to establish a monarchy and lo keep Maximilian on the throne of Mexi co. Through the victory the Mexicans re trained their Republic, and they regard the anniversary of this victory their greatest na tional holiday. For a w cek before the day comes every town and hamlet from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, and from the Rio Grande to Guatemala is preparing for it The streets arc decorated with flags and bunting. The small boy lays in his fire crackers and fizzcrs, and stump speakers, ymmcr and old, prepare their spread-eagle orations. Mexico has A Great National Bird as we have. This bird is the Mexican eagle. It forms a part of the coat of arms, it roosts on one side of every one of the twenty-odd millions of silver dollars which the Mexican mints turn out every year, and with its feet resting on a thorny cactus and a serpent nrmly held in its mouth and talons, it flaps its wings and screams over the -whole of the Republic ns loudly as ever loes the great American bird on our glori ous Fourth. The Mexican is naturally a patriot. His blood moves quickly in his volatile veins, and he is as fond of a stump vpeooh as his brother across his Northern border. This patriotism is growing. For more than 12 years the country has been at peace, and the abence of revolutions has given the M t xicans a chance to look at themselves and their wonderful country. The res-ilt is their M'lf esteem is growing, their love for Mex ico is growing and every vear sees the 5th of May more and more enthusiastically cel ebrated. And so on the 5th of May the peo ple are out in all their glory. The Presi dent, his Cabinet and all the employes of the Government participate in the celebra tion. From 15,000 to 20,000 of the picked troops of the army form apart of the great procession and flags and fireworks, stump peeches ana cannonading, added to the Idare of clad and unclad humanity, make Mexico, especially the capital city, on this day one of The Great Sights of the World. This year, by the night of May 3, the Capital was gav with flags and bunting. The houses and sliops, their fronts in their usual bright colorvof white, pink, blue and grave old Senors formed a part of the crowd. There were children by the hund reds and The Prattle or the Spanish was mixed wit the din of the fire crackers and the cannon. The sight all told -was the gayest you will see in a lifetime, and the people were as merry and good-natured a crowd from the peon on the streets to the millionaire in the balconies as you will find in any city in Christendom. "" President Diaz was one of the leading Generals in the battle of Puebla, and before the parade began, he in company with the most prominent mer of the Republic went ! to the cemetery of FeTuando and placed a wreathon the tomb of General Zaragosa, This scene was very impressive, the great men of Mexico stood about the tomb with uncovered heads and they bowed as the flowers were laid on the grave. The crowd about them was also silent and the scene was full of the solemnity of sorrow. After it was over President Diaz returned to the palace, where he changed his citizen's dress for his uniform and came out in the full military costume of a General of the army, his breast covered with the silver medals he has won in his many campaigns. As he came out of the National Palace, on the same spot where Cortes stood with Monte- zumaniore than 300 years ago, he met his favorite troops of the Mexican armv to the number of at least 15,000 and with these as ihis escort marched to the beautiful park in the center of the city known as the Alameda. The l'resident Goes Afoot. This procession was a grand sight. The Senators and Representatives who consti- be tens of thousands of the Mexican peas ants on the plaza, among the trees and in the wide streets surrounding this. Let there be thousands upon thousands of the gorgeously dressed Mexican troops and you have some idea of the grand review on the Mexican Fourth of July. After looking it all over, however, you will find your eyes coming back again and again to the rurales, and you do not wonder that President Diaz isproud of them. It was through them that he turned Mexico from a land of brigands Into a land of peace and order. These men were themselves in many cases tne brigands ot Mexico. They were the bandits of the mountains who robbed stages, and made themselves famous as The Paul Cliffords of Mexico. General Diaz sent for the leaders and asked them how much brigandage paid on the average. The leaders said it was worth to each brigand something less than $10 a month, and Diaz so the story goes there upon offered them steady wages at that rate to form a part of his army. They accepted, and the result is that they make the best troops in the world. Diaz is both loved and respected by them, and they gave him a banquet tne night beloretbe lastoth ot May. These men form the working force of the Mexican army. They have cleared the mountains of robbers and it is now as afe to travel in most parts of the interior of Mexico as in the back districts of New York or Pennsylvania. These soldiers form the guards at the stations all over Mexico, and when any of the trains require an escort it is a company of the rurales who are detailed oo go with it. In Mexico the army means more than in the United States. It is throujrh the army that a partv or a President remains in power, and revolutions are too frequent in Mexico to al low the armv to grow discontented. The result iB that the soldiers are very well treated. President Diaz, it is said, made not long ago the remark that of the ex- oithe Government Ex-Clerk Lloyd Doubts if We Shall Ever See His Like Again. HE WAS NOT A MAGNETIC MAN. "Went to the Head of Congress as if 1t Force of Gravitation. SPARKS OP HIS INTELLECTUAL FORGE Out to See the Show. fflfflfe The Parade From a Balcony. yellow stucco, were trimmed with colored cloth and paper. The firecrackers had be gun their din and this decoration and firing went on up to the morning of May 5, when the whole city smelt of ponder and the sTcels shown out under the clear, bright ssy of Mexico, their walls one blaze of Mreamers and flsgs and their sidewalks filled with one of the queerest and most picturesque rnases of mixed humanity you i ill rind in the world. There were dark-faced Indians by the tens of thousands dressed in white cotton and wearing blankets of red, blue, yellow and all the other colors of the rainbow tolid and mixed. The men among these had on hats of all states of splendor, color and dilapida tion, and these hats had brims a foot wide and around, many of them w ere gold and silver cords some of which were fullvan inch thick. Many of the hats were o! straw, others were of -plush-like velvet, and they were -worn in all shapes, some with brims turned up at the bides and others pulled down over the eyes and turned up at the forehead. Their only similarity was that all had wide brims and tall cornucopia crowns, and these, looking down at them from the balconies on San Francisco street appeared like a ' Great Army or Sugar Lon es walking off with the red-blanketed human ity below them. Not only the Indians, but the Mexicans from the countrv, wore these hats, and the costumes of some of them blazed with silver and gold buttons. The women were less picturesque than the men, but with their dark faces shiuing ont of blue, brown and white colored shawls, they threw the dress of the other s?x into the payer contrast and made the whole a queer combination which seemed a part of another world than the American. The centerofthestreetsw.isnuitp ?ntr. eating as the Mdewalks. Mounted policemen in gay clothes dashed to and fro on spirited horses, the Mexican steeds of rich young liacicndados from the countrv bore their owners more gorgeously a'ttircd than the star of any circus procession from one part to another and the young swells of the -ity were out in their gay riding costumes on imported horses which are here more gorgeously clad than the horses of any other part of the world. Long before the time lor the procession the roofs and balconies along the line of march were filled with the upper tendom of Mexico Citv. Dnrk-evod .enoritas looked out of the b"lack mantillas down upon the surging masses below: fat old Duennas rat by their sides and watched tlwtthegay Mcxicnn dudes who were in the same or adjoining balconies whispered ujJy sweet-nothings in their little ears; and tute the Mexican Congress preceded the President and he walked on foot w ith his Cabinet at the head of these 15,000 troops. The crowd cheered as he went by, and there was a waving of handkerchiefs, a throwing up of hats and a din of shouts in welcome to Mexico's greatest man and greatest Presi dent. At the Alameda there were exercises like those at one of our big Fourth of July celebrations, the greatest poet of Mexico read a poem, one of the greatest orators spouted out his spread caeleisms in Spanish and the crowd roared out their applause just as our people do in the United States. TherT President Diaz -gave to the invalid veterans of the war a present, and the pro cession formed to march back to the pal ace, where the grand review of the parade was to be made. This time he rode. The State carriages came to the Ride of the Alameda, and their gorgeous footmen, in their livery of the national colors opened the doors for the President and his Cabinet. The review of the troops in front of the palace was one of the most picturesque military sights you can see outside of a great war. The Review of the Troops. The 15,000 troops were massed in a grand column at whose head was the general in chief and his staff This column contained the cavalry and the infantry to the number of 10,000, "and all of the armament and machinery of warfare was represented in it. There were the hospital ambulances, the MiTiiF! .inn nmmnniTinn icoitiitic ta m,i.n. - carrying their kegs of water, and the music to which the whole marched was by mounted bands. X do not know of such bands anywhere else in the world. The Mexican is a born musician, and if he were not a born horseman as well, he could never handle a big bass trombone and a half tamed mustang at the same time. The most wonderful part of the parade, however, was that division of the army known as the Rurales, or the Rural Guards of Mexico. These are the President's favor ite troops, and they are among the finest soldiers of the world. I have seen the best troops of the Sultan of Turkey, as they ac companied him on his way across Constanti nople to kiss the mantle of Mahomet, on their Arabian horses, and I have witnessed some of the great reviews of Europe, but I have nowhere seen Eiich wonderful horse men and such picturesque troops as the Rurales of Mexico. The gay costumes of the Turkish soldiers, with their gold braid and their turbans, do not compare with those ot these Mexican Centaurs. They ride in battalions on penses The Armv Mnst Be Paid Xlrst, and after that the other expenses, such-as the salaries of the civil officers. The for eign loans and the subsidies might come in afterward, but not before. Prior to this the payment of the army has not been the first con-, sideration,andoneof the strong points in the strength ot the present uovernment is the absolute faithfulness which it preserves in the payment of its troops. The army of Mexico now numbers about 35,000 men. Twenty-two hundred of these are rurales and there is a cavalry force of more than 6,000. Every Mexican capable of bearing arms is liable for military service from his 20th to his 50th year, and the country has very fair military schools. The army constitute to a large extent the police of Mexico and they keep order that would be considered wonderful in an Ameri can city. The night of the 5th of May, when there were 25,000 peonB in the plaza watching the fireworks as they were shot out from the great Cathedral, there was al most perfect order. The pulque shops had been open all day, and there were hundreds of the Indians who had their skins full. I saw several who were inclined to be noisy, but a tap from one of the soldier police caused them to become quiet at once and they walked off to jail. An American crowd is ten times as hard to manage as a Mexican one, and on the whole order is bet ter kept in the Citv of Mexico to-day than it is in the city of Boston. Police Handy With Gnns. The police force is very large. It ia known that its members will shoot on very slight provocation, and the crime of this great city is comparatively small. The night of the 5th there was a mammoth open The Finest of Fiery Horses, and each battalion has horses of the. same color. They ride so well that horse and man are as one, and it is hard to tell where the horse ends and the man begins. Both horse and man are gorgeous in their silver and leather decorations. The men wear suits of terra cotta leather, consisting of pantaloons laced down the legs, with silver cords winding afcout big silver buttons. Their suits are something like a loose round about, with a vest in front, and both coat and vest are. profusely embroidered with gold and silver which shines out under the sun against this dark red leather background. The boots of the Rurales are of the finost. leather, and great silver spurs stick out from under the gorgeous saddles which adorn every one of their horses. Their hats are the most gorgeous of sombreros. They arc of a fuzzy natural felt of a pearly Diaz's Favorite Troop, the Mvrales. Sample of Mexican Infantry. air concert in the Zocalo or plaza, and the bandsplayed while the fireworks were set off. These fireworks lasted for hours. The great Cathedral of Mexico formed their center and their background, and lines of light streamed in the national colors of the country about the vast towers. From the roof sky rockets by the hun dreds whizzed into the black heavens, and great wheels of powder cast a weird glory of light and shade as their sparks flew up ward about the massive carved front of the pile. The old Cathedral became almost ghost-like in its shadows as light after light blazed up and went out, and it seemed to me to be alive and dreaming of its splendid past. For years it was the grand center of the greatest and Richest Chnrch on This Continent. Mexico poured its wealth into its coffers. Its walls alone swallowed up 2,000,000 and its interior blazed with treasures of gold and silver. From it shaven-headed priests sent forth the orders that governed the country and it was the center of the power behind the throne. To-day it is the background of the fireworks that celebrate its fall. It be longs to the Government and its priests and worshipers hold it only upon the permit of me i.euuuiic xi stanas only as arr emblem of the Mexico of the past on the site of the neatnened alters which it took years ago from the Montezumas. As I look there seems to be remorse mixed with its sorrow, and now out of its towers and above its massive front springs a great shower of fire of many colors in the shape of a bow, and in it I read the rainbow of Mex ico's future the continuance and the im provement of the Republic when puritv -of Government allied to the education, both moral and intellectual, of the people shall make the great Mexico the Mexico of the future, which already to some extent is and which will more and more be the Mexico of. the people. Fkank G. Carpenter. THE BEST BOATING DRESSES. gray color, and the brims of each stand out about eight inches on each side of the dark faces of the soldiers while the crowns riso in the shape of a sugarloaf at least a foot above their heads. Around each hat is a silver cord an inch thick, and silver tassels hang from the end of this out to the edge of the great brim. They wear bright red sashes about their waists and their saddles are as gorgeous as themselves. They are of white leather, embroidered with silver with great stirrups and with bridles to which are fastened silver bits. Ilehind oai. saddle There is a Colled asso, and these men are adepts in the use of the rope. They begin to learn its use as babies while lassoing chickens, and it is said that the rope in their hands is more dangerous than the rifle bullet or the sabre blow. Each Kurale carries a small armament along with him. There is a Remington rifle across his back, his belt is full of great pistols and a sabre hangs by his side. Take this combin ation of arms, horses and men. Dress them in your mind's eye in this gorgeous costume. Make the bands play and the sun shine "Wall a square park with a great palace, a vast cathedral, and with long lines of arcaded bazars, let the walls of these be gay with flags and their windows and roofs be a mass of gaily-dressed humanity. Let there It is a Great Stistake to Suppose They Need Not be Heavy and Warm. The best of all materials for boating uicoaca, niiuuut tuiy uuuut, is UUrK OlUe serge, says the New York Tribune, but some women complain that it gets mysteriously dusty at sea, the little cabins in some yachts having a faculty of gathering dust ashore and evolving it when they get out to sea. So that in preference to eortre hihia ladies now choose a light tweed. This must be made in- some pretty unobtrusive color. A neat silk-lined coat and a cap of the same material must be added to tne suit The skirt of the dress must clear the ground by at least two inches, and for that reason, neatly fitting gaiters buttoned around the ankle will be exceedingly comfortable on cold or stormy days. One of the greatest mistakes a person contemplating yachting makes is to take too light clothes. Even in the southern lat itudes, the dews are heavy and the nights are apt to be chilly. A thick ulster or jacket, or even a fur cloak, as well as a steamer rug or Scotch plaid shawl, are ne- ucuincfc. ia uiuiii js nan so useiul in the way of bodices as are pretty blouses in cot ton, silk and flannel. Half a dozen may be packed in a small compass and furnish many changes. The sleeveless jackets which show the shirt sleeves, are worn this season and give an air of smartness to the dress of a young woman. From San Antonio. August Hornung, a well-known manu-, facturer of boots and shoes at 820 Nolan street, San Antonio, Tex., will not soon for get his experience with an attack of the cramps, which he relates as follows: "I was taken with a violent cramp in the stomach, which I believe would have caused my death had it not been for the prompt use of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The first dose did me so much good that I followed It up in 20 minutes with the second dose, and before the doctor could get to where I was I did not need him. This remedy shall always be one of the main stays of my family." W8tt tWEIITEX FOB TIIE DISPATCH.! Itter No. 8. Thaddeus Stevens was a unique figure in our legislative history; as absolutely so in his particular sphere as were Lincoln and Grant respectively in theirs. They were a wonderful triumvirate, and afford another proof of how, when the exigency of the times demands the men, the men are forth coming; each in his appropriate place, the square peg in the square hole, and the round peg in the round hole, instead of vice versa, as might happen if such things were left to the guidance of blind chance. Said Mr. Bancroft in the first sentence of his funeral oration on Abraham Lincoln, "That God rules in the affairs of men is as certain as any truth of physical science," and he found the proof of his statement in Lincoln's elevation to the Presidency at that particular juncture. There was nothing in Stevens' previous history or experience to particularly point him out as the man who was to shape all the important legislation needed in the great crisis of our history. He was a lawyer, de voted to his profession, and not known as a man of affairs, and yet, on his entrance to Congress, he went at once to the head as by a sort of mental gravitation, and no man questioned his right to the supremacy. Tliatl Stevens Rarely Smiled. "With all his sensitiveness to human 'suffering he yet seemed in the House like a uiau oi iron, riis lace rareiy lit up wun a smile, and always wore, as Cox once said in debate, "the gravity of Pluto's iron countenance." His utterances were made without the least excitement, and his wit and sarcasm seemed to he spon taneous. I remember an instance of this that occurred in an encounter with a mem ber from California, who said that a speech which Stevens had jnst delivered, exhibited just as much of con&ience as he would expect to find in a Representative of the coal and iron interests of Pennsylvania. Said Mr. Stevens in reply: "Mr. Speaker, I didn't think the gentleman from California had so much wit, but he has just so much." His tactics were peculiar, notably so in the exceeding paucity and brevity of his own remarks. He lett the speech-making mainly to others. I do not think that, in his 12 years of Congressional service, he made more than a dozen of what are called set speeches. He confined his attention mainly to a few of the more important matters of legislation, which were perfected in committee, and not often beriously altered or amended in the House, though he was not intolerant of amendments, but only of long speeches on them? and he generally disposed ot them by a single remark. Some Characteristic- Utterances. I give a few illustrations that occur to me out of a great number. On an amendment offered to an appropriation bill he said, "Mr. Chairman, I am opposed to the amend ment. I don't know what the amendment is, but I am opposed to it." On another simi lar occasion he said, "Debate is exhausted on the amendment, and everybody here is exhausted with the debate; let's have a vote." In reply to Brooks of New York, whom he came as near hating as he could hate anybody, he said, "I do not think it worth while to reply at large to the remarks of the gentleman from New York, because, according to his own statement, he has the sympathy of no party; stands by himself; speaks -r-nobody'si opinions but his own; and expects nobody to Deiieve mm. juna on another occasion, in reply to the same member, he said, "Mr. Chairman, I do not very well understand how a gentleman, on this floor, can justify himself in occupying the time of the House, and wastinc the money of the countrv when he tells us, on rising and on sitting down, that he knows he is doing a vain thing, and that he is expending time for nothing. If I thought that sir, I would holdmy tongne." And again, "The pro portion of the gentleman's remarks which were pertinent to the subject, compared with the balance, were about like the quan tity of bread to the quantity of sack in FallstafTs bilk" Samples of Stevens' Hnmor. In advocating an aDnronriation for ii completion of the Capitol bnilding, he spoke of the unfinished columns lying around as follows: "We all know that these beauti ful columns are being defaced by every man who chooses to incribe his name upon them. They are really becoming ridiculous, and the worst of it is the names of half the mem bers of Congress are omitted." Mallory, of Kentucky, Lad referred to him in a speech as his venerable friend from Pennsylvania. Stevens rose to a point of order. "The gentleman from Pennsylvania rises to a point of order, and will state it. My point of order is that it is not in order for an old, gray, bald-headed man to call a young man venerable." "The chair sustains the point of order,"' and no appeal was taken from the decision. His consciousness of power was aptly shown in his reply to Blair, of Michigan, who said, "the gentleman from Pennsyl vania takes very good care of his bantling." "Mr. Speaker, I don't take care of any-: body, and I don t much care for anybody." He 6aid of Henry J. Raymond, who was accustomed to make a speech on one side of a question and then vote on the other, that he had an undue advantage over other mem bers in the matter of pairing off; that he i could always pair ofi with himself. Outspoken on Negro Suffrage In a speech in which he severely de nounced the amended Constitution of Ten nessee, because it excluded negro suffrage, in reply to Maynard, who attempted to jus tify it by the statement that the Constitu tion ot Pennsylvania did tne same thing, he said: "The gentleman's statement is cor rect, Pennsylvania ought to blush for the infamous exclusion to which the gentleman refers, but will our blushes whiten the conntenance of Xennessee7 He never thought it worth while to dis pute the indisputable, and so, in answer to a member who was charging that there was gros.3 corruption in the executive depart ments unaer -uuiraiii s aaministration, he said: "Oh, yes, Mr. Speaker, I know there are frauds under all administrations; I know that corrupt men get in office under all administrations. I have no doubt that there are some corrupt men in office under the present administration that were be queathed to it by the preceding Democratic administration." His adroitness in statement was shown on one occasion when he and "Washburne, of Illinois, had got into an unseemly wrangle, and kept it up until a member from Michigan made a point of order on them and insisted upon it, because, as he said, they were both scribed. "Ward introduced his friend, to whom Stevens extended a hearty welcome, and then said: "How are you feeling to day, Mr. Stevens?" "Oh," was the reply, "about as well as a man could expect to who has been making an apothecary's shop of his stomach." "Whereupon," said Ward, "I thought I saw the preacher's reverence suddenly van ish." The Thick and Thin of It. To a big, fat doorkeeper, who was com plaining of the heat.he said: "I don't see how the heat caif get through you." Mc pherson, clerk of the House, who is a very thin, spare man, had fallen in a fainting fit in going from his office to his boarding house. Stevens, meeting me the next day, inquired what ailed McPherson. I said: "I Delicve he attributed it to some black berries he had eaten for lunch." "Black berries," said he. "I would think one blackberry would fill him up." I shall never forget the last interview I ever had with him. There were two friends from Pennsylvania visiting me, and, after seeing the other sights at the Capital, expressed a wish to see Stevens. "We called at his room, and found him that day sitting in a chair, with Dr. Young, his attending physician, at his side. He welcomed us with his usual cordiality, and his conversation was a continuous flash of wit, and without the least apparent effort or even design. He inquired of me after Mr. McPherson, of whom he was particu larly fond, and whom he made one of his executors. I said he was at Gettysburg, making arrangements to bring his family to Washington tor the winter. "Serves him right," said he, "if any man is fool enough to get married he ought to be condemned to live with his family." Fan With His Doctor. Courts and Detectives Responsible for Many a Ruined Life. POOR FELLOW SLIPS Judge's Severity Puslies Him on and Yidocqs Keep Him Down. LEAVES OP A MINISTER'S EXPERIENCE A servant brought in a note to him. He f lanced at it and dictated a reply; when Dr. Toung said to him, "Mr. Stevens, did you never use glasses?" ."Glasses," said he. "Why, what on earth, would a young fellow like me want glasses for?" "You must have been near-sighted in your young days." "Why,no. I thought I could see through people much better then than I can now." "How is your hearing?" "Oh, a great deal too good. I hear a great deal more about myself than I care to." And sodt went on. As we rose to take our leave he said: "My friends, I am much obliged to you for this visit. I wish you could stay longer. I would like to talk to you about the political situation and the state of the country, but you may be as sured that things are all right now, and when I am dead and buried and 40,000,000 worms have been poisoned with the medi cine Dr. xoung has been stumng into me, this Government w ill be standing strong as ever." This indulgence in wit was continued until-his latest hour, and. affords another in stance of "the ruling passion, strong in death," for when his old Iriend John Hick man called on him the day before his death and made some allusion to his appearance, the old man murmured faintly, "Ah, John, it is not my appearance that is troubling ma' just now so much as my disappearance." Not a Blagnetlc 3Ian. He was indifferent to public sentiment, and, like Grant, never hesitated in his course from any apprehension of popular disapproval. He was totally lacking in personal magnetism; possessed none of the arts by which the masses are influenced, and carried men with him by pure unflinching logic, which convinced the reason rather than stirred the emotions. He kept the end he proposed steadily in view, was never diverted from it by any side issues, and possessed an unrivaled facility in blowing away the smoke with which it was often attempted in debate to obscure the main question, as when, in re ply to Rogers, of New Jersey, who had spoken for hours on the proposed amend ment to abolish slavery, to prove that Con gress had no right to abolish slavery, he said, "Mr. Speaker, the question before the House is not whether we have a right to abolish slavery but whether we have a .right to amend the Constitution." ' j L question, if we shall ever see his like again. " ' ClintojTL'loyd. Copyright, 1891. A W0NDEE IN BEAT) W0EK. 'Tho Gift of Signora Angclinl to the Fran ciscans at Jerusalem. New York Herald. The piece of Venetian glass bead work, shown only to the favored few who enjoy the friendship and confidence of the rever end commissary of the Holy Land, is the work of a Venetian lady of rank, the Sig nora Catarina Angelini, who sent it as a present to the Franciscans at Jerusalem. From thence it was sent to the Very Rev. Charles Vissani, commissary of the Holy Land, residing in New York. It is 7 by 7 feet in size, and some idea of the work as a specimen of feminine industry may be gleaned from the fact that there are in.it 1,600,000 fine glass beads. That means there were 1,600,000 stitches taken to make the piece. It took the Signora and two other ladies, incessantly working on it, two win ters and one summer to accomplish the task. The beads are of" the kind called "Margueritine," of that fine glass made, in the manufactories of Murano, an island of Venice, to which the glassmakers were really confined, under pretext of protection, in the centuries when Venice had the mo- nopolyofthe glass industry of the world. Then the glas3blower who revealed the secrets of his arts was liable to have his property confiscated, withjiporhaps, banish ment added. And the dreaded Council of Ten, if it saw fit, might even condemn him to death. The ground of the glittering paralello gram is pure white. Crystalline, pearly and opaline gleams of light flash from this field of white, on which arc thrown, as it were, five wreaths of exquisitely shaded roses red, pink and white their rich color enhanced by the green of their foliage and a few other flowers, daisies, blue cornflowers and feathery sprays of mimosa. The largest wreatu, m wiuen ure me largest nowers, is in the center of the piece. The four other wreaths are in the corners. A border of turquoise blue, headed by agarland of roses, lilies ana otner nowers, surrounds the piece. WRITES FOB THE DISPATCH. In searching through a pile of letters which had come to me from time to time from the unfortunate and erring, my eyes were arrested by a sentence which I had ,marked with a pencil, and which read thus: "God alone knows how I tried to resist temptation how often I did resist it and at last how I succumbed." It was a sad letter all through, written by a young man with as fair countenance as you would want to look upon, who at the time of writing was 'serving out a sentence in one of our prisons. Thus he pours forth his sorrows and poignant regrets: "After the lapse of 20 years, what a sad thing it is to find myself amid ruined houses, to sit down in my lonely cell and say, Thus far life has been a failure.' Yet to how many is this the wretched summing up at the end of a single score of years from the time that reason takes the helm. Alas, that so few who start wrong ever succeed in finding the right way, life proving, even to its last burdened years a miserable failure. Am I to be one of the few who shall succeed in finding the right way? Or shall I go down with the many who know no returning?" In Prison Through a False Friend. His story was a sad one. When a mere youth in another city he had been inveigled into the commission of a crime which resulted in his imprisonment. Without the courage to face pnblic opinion when his sentence had been served he came to this city in the hope of redeeming his character, without advising his widowed mother and sister of his intentions. Under an assumed name he made a brave effort to secure employment without success until he at last found himself friendless and penni less among strangers. At that critical moment he encountered an acquaintance who had "served with him in 'prison, to whom he detailed his troubles. His friend expressed a willingness to help him, and so placed in his hands a watch which he requested him to pawn and retain half the proceeds. He hurried off to a pawn shop, disposed of the watch and was on his way back to his companion, when a rude hand was laid upon his shoulder and a harsh voice informed him that-he was under ar rest. After a few weeks confinement in jail he was arraigned for having stolen goods in his possession and after a very brief trial was sentenced to prison. It was vain for me to intercede with the Judge who sentenced him to have mercy on him. The poor fellow's record was laid before the judge Btating that he had already done time in prison, and so he gave him a severe sentence. It was when his time in the prison was almost out that he thus wrote to me, and at the close ot hi3 letter he tells me, what I had been advising him all along, "I have taken means to inform my mother and sister of my imprisonment, which I thought would be easier for them to bear than the anxiety which my continued silence would cause." A Reformation and Its Howard. On being discharged he called to bid me goodby, and then hurried home with the earnest resolve to live a straightforward life. For a long time I hoped to hear from him, bnt no word was received, and so with the many whom I had hoped to hear good things of but who had been caught in the whirlpool of vice and ruined, I ceased to think about him. A year passed, and I was away enjoying a brief season of rest at the seashore. One night while passing along tne Dniiiantiy iigniea streets, wmen were crowded witn a gay throng of pleasure seeders, x suddenly leit a touch upon my shoulder, and turning around I found my self face to face with the young man whose itory I have Just related. Leaning on his arm was a beautiful young lady who bore a striking resemblance to him, and whom he introduced to me as his sister. The moment he mentioned my name to her she ex claimed: "Oh, my brother has told mother and me about you." And then the two went on to tell me his troubles, and how he had succeeded in find ing honest employment and was at that time enjoying a brief rest kindly given him by his employer. A happier, more hopeful young man I never talked with than this one whom the judge who sentenced him to prison,. in a private conversation with me, pronounced a thief and also warned me that . I was wasting my timo in trying to do any,. iniug ior mm. Justice Tempered "With Mercy. lam very free to admit that the sanguine hopes inspired by those who have been overtaken in the commission of crime are often, possibly in the large majority of cases, doomed to De disappointed, yet 1 have learned from long experience that the harsh judgments which are sometimes expressed by those whose duty it is to deal with offenders, are occasionally demonstrated to be cruelly unjust. My experience further leads me to the conclusion that infinitely more injustice is done to law-breakers bv undue severity than by the judicious exer-J else of mercv. In the divine administration the most prominent feature in the punishment of offenders is that of mercv always, and to the .most palpably guilty. With us, a crimi nal's word never accounts for anything, while a hound of a detective, who dogs the discharged criminal's footsteps, liars film in every possible way against nnding honest employment, and by his persistent persecu tion compels him to seek the society of those of liko character with himself and be come partakers in their iniquities, is allowed to blight and blast the unfortunate wretch and compel him against his efforts and in clinations to remain a orlmlnal to the day of his death. Here is another letter in my hatch, from an Q-J AN AMERICAN SERIAL STORY. WRITTEN FOB THE DISPATCH B"5T CrcrULIES VEBITB. CHAPTER V. TVHAT THREE SIOJTTnS BRING FORTH. It would be idle to attempt to describe the effect produced at San Diego by this double catastrophe the drowning of little Walt, the insanity of the Captain's wifel The reader already knows of the deep sym pathy felt for the Allaire family by the res idents of the city, and of the lively interest which they took in the welfare of the young Captain. Although scarcely a fortnight since he had sailed, a terrible calamity had robbed him of his infant son and his wife of her reason. Upon his return he would search his forlorn home in vain for little Walt's smiling face, and there would be no wife to welcome him joyfully and tenderly. Molly would not even know that it was he. And as the Dreadnaught re-entered the harbor no cheer would go up, she would be received in dead silence. But it would not do to await the return of John Allaire before telling him of the dread misfortune which had overtaken him. Mr. Hollister could not for a moment think of leaving the young Captain in ignorance of what had happened, at the risk of his coming accidentally upon some fact or cir cumstance which might make known the terrible truth to him. The only course for the merchant to pursue was to send a dis patch to his correspondent at Singapore. In this way Captain John would be informed of the awful calamity before his arrival in the Indies. And yet Andrew Hollister desired to delay the sending of this dispatch for a brief period. Possibly Molly's reason was not irrevocably lost. AVho could say that the tender care lavished upon her might not restore her shattered intellect. Why strike John a double blow, by informing him of 1 day, which action on their part called forth general approval. It is easy to guess what motive was actu ating Lew Barker. The fact should not ba lot sight of that on the very day of the disaster he had intended to confer with Molly concerning a certain busine matter, which was nothingmore norlessthan'a prop osition for her to loan him a certain sum of money. But since then the situation hail' changed completely. It was more than likely that Barker would, in his capacity a guardian of the person and estate of his rel ative, have full control of her property, and in that case he would be able to provids himself with funds illegally, it is true, but it would enable him to gain time. Kate had already had a presentment that such would be his course, and while she rejoiced at beingable to devote herself wholly to her cousin, she trembled at the thotfght of the projects which her husband, under cover of benevolence and humanity, would attempt to carry out. Such were the conditions under which a new existence now began at Prospect Cot tage. From now on Lew Barker resumed his customary business habits, going down to his office every morning and applying himself to schemes in hand, but a close ob server might have noted that he never failed to return to Prospect cottage for the eVening, and that it wa not long before hi? absences from the city became rarer aud rarer and briefer and briefer. It need hardly be added than Nanny the mulattress had followed her master to his new home where she was destined to be come what she had been everywhere and at all times, to-wit: a creature upon whose de votion he could depend in the most absolute sense of the word. Little Walt's nurse had been discharged, although she had offered to ' devote herself to the care of Mrs. Allaire. The other servant was provisionally re tained at the cottage, for Nanny would" have found it quite out of the question to do all the work of the household. DOES KATE KNOW" JIB. HOMJSTER rfAS BEEN HERE? A delicate fringe of blue and white beads I unfortunate man, a locomotive engineer edires the border. naa m edges the border. Given a fringe and tassels of red beads it might serve as a baldachino over the throne of an American cardinal in a cathedral as grand in its proportions as St. Patrick's in this city or the Cathedral of St. James'.in Montreal. When we know that our grand-J mothers' bead bags cost from $5 to SIS we .may begin to estimate its probable value. ot them Old Enough to Know Better. Stevens arose and said with mock humil ity: "Mr. Speaker, I think the gentleman from Michigan is right, aud I feel that I owe an apology to the House for the re marks made by the gentleman from Illi nois." During his latter days he was accustomed to recline a good deal on his bed, on the fiat of hisback, and in that position received his visitors without any apology for the po sition they found him in; and, in this posi tion, he listened patiently to whatever any body had to bring to his attention, whether they came singly or in delegations. Ham ilton Ward, of Western New York, told me that he called on him at his room with a clergyman from his district, who had con ceived a w onderful reverence for Stevens. THE LYEE BIED FAN. i A Novelty That Originated In Australia and May Become a Fad. A novel and handsome fan which has at tracted considerable attention lately belongs to the contralto, Mrs. W. A. Green, of New York, and is the result of a desire to carry away with her a souvenir entirely typical of the country she is visiting, says Town and Country, published at Sydney, N. W. S. The fan is of Australian manufacture, and is formed of a full-sized lyre bird's tail, sup ported by four large ostrich feathers in grey. uneseare held in place by a silver cup, beautifully embossed in lyrebird and ostrich feather design. The 4handle ia of ivory, with a silver shield containing the mono gram. The blending of the two grays, in both the stiff and the pliant feathers is very beautiful, and the lighter silver trimmings complete a most harmonious whole. The idea that a lyre bird fan would be unique and original occurred to Mrs. Green some months ago, and has resulted most happily. The lady carried it at the last Carrington ball at the Government House, where it excited much pomment, and was eSDeciallv nrltniri hv T.aHv Cnmntrton. who ordered one like it with plumes and silver trimmings, and upon her return to VnirlnnJ .MnuAJ 2. XU Tl.tnininil nf They found him in the position abow de-wflefc stonned over in our citv. beinir temporarily out of employment, and who wns accused or stealing a watcn wnue in a state of intoxication. A miserable old turnip was the watch, not worth a dollar at the best, hut inepitoof the poor fellow's pleadings, and simply because ho brought no one to vouch for him ho got n hard sentence. Tho fact was that the man was .so utterly nominated by Snch a Charge that ho preferred to endure anything rather than allow his friends to know of his trouble. And so he was consigned to a felon's cell, though ho had a spotless character and a good record as a skilled engineer. The letter which now lies before me requests me to come and see him. Through a friend who kept his -"ecret for him he was enabled to hear f n m his family regularly. His little child had Just died, his aged mother lay prostrate with sickness, while hia wife was breaking hor heart over his strange and un explained absence. 1 trust that tho good Lord will not deal too harshly with an officer in tho prison and nryself for the white lies which we helped the poor man to sond to his wife apologizing for his absence, but studi ously concealing the fact that he was serv ing out his sentence in prison. And what a time we had of it when the man was out get ting him into passably good shape .and send ing him home to his dear ones. As I after ward learned, his identity never became known as having done timo in our priBon, and by honest attention to his duties his un fortunate experience in this cltywas-lna measure forgotten. Hero is another conclusion to which I have come. If those whose duty it is to pass sentence upon their folio wmen had any con ception of what a month or a year taken out of one's life really meant if they only knew the utter degradation felt by ono who is compelled to wear the garb of a prisoner and bear the reproach through all the years to come of having beena convict,they would not so flippantly mete out to tho poor unfor tunate a one-year or a ten-year sentence. E. K. DONEHOO. Cleveland, su Stop at the Hollenden, in American and European plans. the death of his child and the insanity of his wile if this insanity was not to be of long continuance? After a consultation with Lew and Kate Barker, Mr. Hollister resolved to delay action until the physicians could make a definite statement m regard to Molly's men tal condition. .In all cases of sudden loss of reason there is more hope of a cure than when the mental alienation is due to a gradual unfixing of the mind. Hence a delay of several days, possibly several weeks, was determined upon. Rhe first definite report of the physicians was to the effect that Molly's insanity wonld be likely to take the form of a mild and "entle melancholy. Every remembrance of Eer terrible misfortune had faded from her mind. Her eyes were tearless, ner gaze dull and listless. She seemed to see noth ing. She was no longer of this world. Her life was mere physical existence. Sunh was the condition of Mrs. Allaire during the first month following the acci dent. The question now arose whether it was expedient to place her in a private hos pital where she could have special treat ment. Mr. Hollister took this view of the matter, and it would have been done had not Lew Barker intervened with another proposition. ... Seeking out Mr. Hollister in his private office, Lew Barker Ihus addressed him: "It seems to be agreed now that Molly's insan ity is not of a dangerous character, calling for her confinement, and since she has no other family excepting us we ask that she be confided to our care. Molly was de votedly attached to my wife, and who knows, perhaps Kate's supervision of her may be productive of better results than that ot total strangers, ouomu uuj ayuijt toms of a critical nature show themselves it would be time enough then to take the necessary steps. Don't you think so, Mr. Hollister?" ...... .,. There was a certain hesitation in the manner of the honest skipper as he made reply, for there existed but little sympathy between him and Lew B.arker, although he knew nothing at this time of the man's en tangled affairs and had no ground to suspect his honesty. "Since you are willing to assume this re sponsibility," replied Mr. Hollister, "I don't see any objection, Mr. Barker, to Molly's being entrusted to the care of her cousin, whose devotion cannot for a moment be called into question." "A devotion," added Lew Barker, "which will never be found wanting." But as the man uttered these words the listener caught that cold, unpleasant, mat ter-of-fact impression which Dancer tound it impossible to rid himself of. "Your proposition does you credit," re sumed Mr. Hollister. "However, one thing occurs to me. I question whether your house in Fleet street, situated as it is in the centre of the noisy commercial quarter, would present conditions favorable for poor Molly's recovery. What she needs is per fect quiet, pure air " "And, therefore," interrupted Barker, "our intention is to remove her to Prospect ,Cottage and to take up our residence with 'her. She is accustomed to this villa, and the sight of objects familiar to her may ex ercise a salutory influence upon her mind. Mr. Hollister, we must leave undone noth ing that might in any way tend to have a wholesome effect upon the mind of our un fortunate relative." A kindly feeling had evidently prompted this reply. But why was it that the words of this man seemed powerless to inspire confidence? However, his proposition un der the circumstances called for immediate acceptance, and Mr. Hollister could not do less than express his thanks to Barker, ad ding that John would be profoundly grate ful to him. On April 27 Mrs. Allaire was removed to Prospect Cottace. where Kate and Lew Barker took up their residence that same j Lew Barker no denbt had in mind the fact that all those who were interested in Mrs. Allaire's condition would consider it a mnt fortunate thing that she should be in her cousin's care. Mr. Andrew Hollister him self was forced to acknowledge that she could not be in better hands. Whenever he called he was careful to note whether there was any tendency to improvement, for he still indulged the hope that he might not be called upon to announce to Captain John by cable to Singapore or to Calcutta the double misfortune, the death ot his child and of for was she not dead, too. And vet five weeks had now gone by and there had not flashed a single glimmer of intelligence through that mental gloom. In the pres- -ence of this calm, mild, indifferent condi tion, unvaried by any physiological dis turbance, the physicians seemed to lose all hope, and it was not long before they dis continued their visits. Whenever Lew Barker for some reason or other was oblized to be absent foradav the mulattress had orders to keep a close watch upon Mrs. Allaire. Without appear ing in any way to interfere with Kate, she took good care to leave her rarely or never alone with Molly and to report faithfully to her master whatever she had observed in Molly's condition. She showed great in genuity in getting rid of people who came to inquire about the captain's wife. She assured them that the doctors had ordered that no callers should he admitted; that absolute quiet was necessary; that the sound of a strange voice might bring on a fit of violence. And Mrs. Barker herself was inclined to side with Nanny when the latter thus got rid of callers whom possibly nothing but idle curiosity brought to Pros pect cottage. In this way the captain's wife gradually became isolated from the world. , "Poor Molly," thought Kate, "if her condition grows worse, if her lunacy loses its mild character and she becomes subject to outbursts, they will take her away from me: 'Lhey will shut her up in an asylum, and she will be lost to me! Oh, no. God grant that this may not happen. Who could possibly care for her with the same devo tion as I?" During the third week of May Kate pro posedthat they should try an occasional walk in the neighb'orhood, hoping that her cousin would gain some benefit from it. Lew Barker made no objection, merely di recting that Nanny should go along with them. Mrs. Allaire therefore left tt;e cottage one day, Kate's arm being affectionately en twined -in hers. She permitted herself to be led forth like a person without wish or will, going whither she was conducted with- out tasing any interest in anytning. jz the outset these walks had no appreciable effect upon the patient. However, the mnl attress soon began to observe that Molly's emotion gave evident signs of modification. Her habitual composure was interrupted by symptoms of mental excitation, which might be productive of harmful results. -On several occasions the sight of little children whom she met in the street threw her into ' a state of violent nervous excitement. Did they not awaken in her a recollection of the one she had lost? Did not a thought of little Walt flash across her mind? How ever this may be, and admitting that it was natural to regard this change as a favorable one, yet the fact is that it precipitated a cerebral disturbance calculated to aggravate . the malady. In one of these walks Mrs. Barker and Nanny had conducted Molly to the summit of Knob Hill. She had taken a seat with her face turned seaward, but it seemed as if her mind was as empty of thought as her eyes were full of vacancy. Suddenly her face brightened, a tremor ' shot through her form, Tier eyes lighted up with a strange glow, and, raising her trem- bling hand, she pointed at a white spot away -out to sex i .-!'. . l4 sfftjJS-
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