,r-J 16 I . - THE FTETSBiraG- DISPATOH, SUNDAY, JANUARY SI, 189a . act when 'introduced to a chambermaid, or to the heiress of a mechanics' boarding house His other self the self which rec ognized the equality of all men would have managed the thins better, if it hadn't been caught off guard and robbed of its chance. The young girl paid no attention to the bow, but put out her hand frankly and gave the stranger'a friendly shake and raid: "How do you do ?" Then she marched to the one washitand in the room, tilted her head this way and that before the wreck of a cheap mirror that hung above it, dampened her fingers with her tongue, perfected the circle of a little lock of hair that was pasted againsther fore head, then began to busy herself with the slops. "Well, I must be going it's getting toward supper time. Hake yourself at home, Mr. Tracy; you'll hear the bell when it's ready." The landlady took her tranquil departure without commanding either of the young people to vacate the room. The young man wondered a little that a mother who seemed so honest and respectable should be so thoughtless, and was reaching for his hat, intending to disembarrass the girl of his presence; but she said: "Where are you going?" "Well, nowhere in particular,but as I am only in the way here " "Who said 'you Trere "n ""e waJ"? Sit down I'll move you when you are in the way." She was making the beds now. He sat . down and watched herdeftand diligent per ' ' formance. "What gave you that notion? Do you reckon I need a whole room just to make up a bed or two in?" "Well, no; it wasn't that exactly. We are away up here in an empty house, and your mother being gone The girl interrupted him with an amused laugh, and said: "ifobody to protect me? Bless you, I fit aV"" Vfenr-' f- i TITERE HE IS! .don't need that. I'm not asaid. I might i lie if T was alone. becanse'I do hate chosts. and I don't deny it "Sot that I believe in 1 fthem, for I don't. I'm onlv'just afraid of 'them." "How can you be afraid of them if you -don't believe'in them?" "Oh, I don't know the how;Of It that's too many for me; I only know tit's so. It's She same with Maggia Lee." "Who is that?" "One of the boarders; young lady that "works in the factory?" "She works in a factory?" "Yes. Shoe factory." "In a shoe factory; and yon call her a young lady?" "Whv. she's onlv 22; what should vou call her?" "I wasn't thinking of her age; I was thinking of the title. The fact, is, I came away from England to get away from arti ficial forms for artificial forms suit arti ficial people only and here you've got them, too, I'm sorry. I hoped you had only men and women; everybody equal; no difference in rank." The girl stopped with a pillow in her teeth and the case spread open below it, contemplating him from nndcr her brows with a slightly puzzled expression. She re leased the pillow and said: "Why, they are all equal. Where's any difference in rank?" "If vou call a factory girl n young lady, what "o you call the President's wile?" "Call ner an old one." "It is a difference I hadn't thought of; I , fcdmit that. Still, calling one's self a lady doesn't er " "I wouldn't go on if I were you." Howard Tracv turned his head to see who it might be that had introduced this re jioark. It was a short man, about 40 years i old, with sandy hair, no beard, and a pleas ;ant face, badly freckled but alive and intel ligent, and he wore slop-shop clothing iwhich was neat but showed wear. He had jcome from the front room beyond the hall, where he had left his hat, and lie had a -chipped and cracked'white washbowl in his fland. The girl came and took the bowl. "I'll get it for you. You go right ahead and give it to him, Mr. Barrow. He's the Isewboarder Mr Tracy and I'd jnst gos to where it was getting too deep for me." "Much obliged if you will, Hattie. I iwas coming to borrow of the boys." He ifat down at his ease on an old trunk, and laid: "I've been listening, and got inter ested; and as I was saying, I wouldn't goon if I were you. You see where you are icoming to, don't you? Calling yourself a ilady doesn't elect you; that is what you twere going to say: and you saw that if yon I said it you were going to run Tight up against another difference (that you hadn't thought of, to wit, 'whose right is it to do the electing? Over there, 20,000 people in a million elect themselves gentlemen and ladies, and the 9SO.00O accept that decree and swallow the affront which it puts upon them. Why, if they didn't accept it it wouldn't be an elec tion; it would be a dead letter and have no Iforcc at alL Over here the 20,000 would-be 'cxclusivcs come up to the polls and vote themselvcs'to be ladies and gentlemen. But the thing doen"; stop here. The 080,000 come and vote themselves to be ladies and .gentlemen, too, and that elects the whole nation. Since the whole million vote them selves ladies and gentlemen, there is no. question about that election. It does make absolute equality, aud there is no fiction about it; while over yonder the inequality j(by decree of the infinitely feeble, and con rent of the infinitely strong), is also abso ilute as real and absolute as our equalitv." Tracy had shrunk promptly into his En ,lish shell when this rpeech began, notwith standing he had now been in severe training 'several weeks for contact and intercourse jwith the common herd on the common herd's.te.rms.; but he lost no time in pulling himself out again, and so by the time the , speech was finished his valves were open once more, and he was forcing himself to accept without resentment the common herd's frank fashion of dropping sociably into other people's conversations unembar rassed and uninvited. The process was aiot Terr difficult this time, lor the man's smile and voice and manner were persuasive and winning. Tracy would even have liked him on the spot but for the fact fact which he was not really aware of that the equality of men was cot yet a reality to him, it was only a theory: the mind received, but the man failed "to feel it. It was Hattie's phost over again, merely turned around. Theoretically Barrow was his equal, but it was distinctly distasteful to see him exhibit it. He presently said: "I hope, in all sincerity, that what you have said is true as regards the Americans, for doubts have crept into my mind several times. It seems that the equality must be ungennine where the sign names of castes "-were still in vogue; but those sign names have certainly lost their offense and are I wholly neutralized, nullified and harmless it tney are tne unaisriuteapropertyoi every individuaLin the nation. I think I realize that caste does not exist and cannot exist except by common consent of the masses outside of its limits. I thought caste cre ated itself and perpetuated itself, but it seems quite true that it only creates itself, and is perpetuated by the people whom it despises and who can dissolve it at any time by assuming its mere sign names them selves. "It's what I think. There isn't any power on earth that can prevent England's 30,000, 000 from electing themselves dukes and duchesses to-morrow and calling themselves so. And within six months all the former dukes and duchesses would have retired irom the business. I wish they'd try that. Royalty itself couldn't survive such a pro cess. A handful of frowners against 30, 000,000 laughers in a state of irruption. Why, it's Hcrculaneum agkinst Vesuvius; it would take another 18 centuries to find that Hcrculaneum after the cataclysm. What's a colonel in our South? He's a no body, because they are all colonels down there. Ko, Tracy," (shudder from Tracy) "nobody in England wonld call you a gen tleman, and you wouldn't call yourself one, and I tell you it's a state of "things that makes a man put himself into most unbe coming attitudes sometimes the broad and general recognition and acceptance ot caste, as caste does, I mean. Makes him do it un consciously being bred in him, you see, and never thought over and reasoned out. You couldn't conceive of the Matterhorn being flattered by the notice of ont of your comelv little English hills, could vou?" "Why, no." "Weil, then, let a man in his right mind try to conceive of Darwin feeling flattered bv the notice of a princess. It's so grotesque that it well, it paralyzes the imagination. Yet that Memnon was flattered by the no tice of that statuette; he says so savs so himself. The system that can make a god disown his godsliip and profane it oh, well, TIIEr SAID. it's all wrong, it's all wrong and ought to be abolished, I should S3y." The mention of Darwin brought on a literary discussion, and this topic roused such enthusiasm in Barrow that he took off his coat and made himself the more tree and comfortable for it, and detained him so long that he was still at it when the noisy proprietors of the room came shouting and skylarking in and began to romp, scuffle, wash and otherwise entertain themselves. He lingered yet a little longer to offer the hospitalities of his room and his book shelf to Tracy, and ask him a personal question or two : "What is your trade?" "They well, they call me a cowboy, but that is a fancy; I'm not that. I haven't any trade." "What do you work at for your living?" "Oh, anything I mean I would work at anything I could get to do, but thus far I havn't been able to find an occupation." "Maybe I can help you; I'd like to try." "I shall be very glad, I've tried myself to weariness." "Well, of course where a man hasn't a regular trade he's pretty bad off in this world. What you needed, I reckon, was less book learning and mor bread-and-butter learning. I don't know what your father could have been thinking of. Yon ought to have had a trade, you ought to have had a trade, by all means." But never mind about that; we'll stir up something to do, I guess. And don't you get homesick; that's a bad business. We'll talk the thing over and look around a little. You'll come out all right. AVait for me I'll go down to supper with you." By this time Tracy had achieved a very friendly feeling for Barrow and would have called him friend, maybe, if not taken too suddenly on a straight-out requirement to realize on his theories. He was glad of his society, anyway, and was feeling lighter hearted than before. Also he was pretty curious to know what vocation it might be which had furnished Barrow such a large acquaintanceship with books and allowed him so much time to read. CHAPTER XIX Presently the supper bell began to ring in the depths of the house, and the sound pro ceeded steadily upward, growing in intensity all the way up toward the upper floors. The higher it came the more maddening was the noise, until at last what it lacked of being absolutely deafening, was made up of the sudden clash and clatter of an ava lanche of boarders down the uncarpeted stairway. The peciage did not go to meals in this fashion. Tracy's training had not fitted bim to enjoy this hilarious zoological clamor and enthusiasm. He had to confess that there was something about this extraor dinary outpouring of animal spirits which he would nave to get inured to before he could accept it. No doubt in time he wonld prefer it; but he wished the process might be modified and made just a little more gradual and not quite so pronounced and violent. Barrow and Tracy followed the avalanche down through an ever increasing and ever more and more aggressive stench of bygone cabbage and kindred smells; smells which are to be found nowhere but in a cheap private boarding house; smells which once encoun tered can never be forgotten; smells which encountered generations later are instantly recognizable, but never recognizable with pleasure. To Tracy these odors were suffo cating, horrible, almost unendurable; but he held his peace and said nothing. Arrived in the basement, they entered a large dining room where 35 or 40 people sat at a long table. Thev took their places. The feast had hardly begun and the conversation was going on in the liveliest way from one end of the table to the other. The tablecloth was of very coarse material and was liber ally spotted with coffee stains and grease. The knives and forks were iron, with bone handles, the spoons appeared to be iron or sheet iron or something of the sort. The tea and coffee cups were of the commonest and heaviest and most durable stoneware. All the furniture of the table was of the commonest and cheapest sort. There was a single large thick slice of bread by each" boarder's plate, and it wai observable that lie economized it as if he ere not expecting it to be dupli cated. Dishes of butter were distributed along the table within reach of people's arms, if they had long ones, but there were no private butter plates. The butter was perhaps good enough, and was quiet and well behaved, but it had more bouquet than was necessary, though nobody commented upon that fact or seemed in any way dis turbed by it. The main feature oi the feast was a piping hot Irish stew, made of the potatoes and meat left over from a proces sion of previous meals. Everybody was liberally supplied with this dish. On the table were a couple of great dishes oi slieed ham, and there were some other eatables of minor importance preserves and New Or leans molasses and such things. There was also plenty of tea and coffee of an infernal sort, withbrown sugar and condensed milk, but the milk and sugar supply was not left at the discretion of the boarders, but was rationed out at headquarters one spoonful of sugar and one of con densed milk to each cup and no more. The table was waited upon by two stalwart negro women, who raced back and forth from the base of supplies with splen did dash and clatter and energy. Their labors were supplemented -after a fashion by the young girl Puss. She carried coffee and tea'back and forth among the boarders, but she made pleasure excursions rather than business ones in this way, to speak strictly. She made jokes with various peo ple. She chaffed the young men pleasantly and wittily, as she supposed, and as the rest also supposed, apparently, judging by the applause and laughter which she got by her efforts. Manifestly she was a favorite with mostpf the young fellows and sweet heart of the rest of them. Where she con ferred notice she confened happiness; and at the same time she conferred unhappiness one could see it fall and dim the faces of the other young fellows like a shadow. She never "mistered" these friends of hers, but called them "Billy," "Tom " "John," and they called her "Puss" or "Hattie." Mr. Marsh sat at the head of the table,his wife sat at the foot. Marsh was a man of GO, and was an American; but if he had been born a month earlier lift would have been a I Spaniard. He was plenty good enough Spaniard as it was; Ins lace was very aarK, his hair was vcrv black, and his eyes were not only exceedingly black but were very intensejthere was something about them that indicated that they could burn with passion upon occasion. He was stoop-shouldered and lean-faced, and the general aspect of him was disagreeable; he was evidently not a very companionable person. If looks went for anything, he was the very opposite of his wife, "who was all motherliness and charity, good will and good nature. All the yo'ung men and the women called her Aunt Rachel, which was another sign. Tracy's wandering and interested eye pres ently fell upon one boarder who had been overlooked in the distribution of the stew. He was very pale and looked as if he had but lately come out of a sick bed, and also' as if he had ought to get back into it again as soon as possible. His face was very melancholy. The waves of laughter and conversation broke upon it without affecting it any more than if it had been a rock in the sea and the words and laughter veritable waters. He held his head down and looked ashamed. Some of the women cast glances of pity toward him irom time to time in a furtive and half afraid way, and some of the youngest of the men plainly had compassion on the young fellow a compassion exhibited in their faces, but not in any more active or compromising way. But the great majority of the people present showed entire indif ference to the youth and his sorrows. Marsh sat with head down, but one could catch the malicious gleam of his eyes through his shaggy brows. He was watch ing that young fellow with evident relish. He had not neglected him through careless ness, and apparently the table understood that fact. The spectacle was making Mrs. Marsh very uncomfortable. She had the look of one who hopes against hope that the impossible may happen. But as the im possible did nothappen, she finally ventured to speak up and remind her husband that Xat Brady hadn't been helped to the Irish stew. Marsh lifted his head and gasped out with mock courtliness, "Oh, he hasn't, hasn't he? What a pity that is. 1 don't know how I came to overlook him. Ahl he must par don me. You must, indeed, Mr. er Bax ter Barker, you must pardon me. I er my attention was directed to some other matter, I don't know what. The thing that grieves me mainly is that it happens every meal now. But you must try to overlook these little things, Mr. Bunker, these little neglects on my part. They're always liable to happen with me in any case, and they are especially likelv to happen where a per son has er well, where a person is, say, about three weeks in arrears for his board. You get my meaning? You get my idea? Here is your Irish stew, and er it gives me the greatest pleasure to send it to you, and I hope that you will enjoy the charity as much as I enjoy conferring it." A blus'.i rose in' Brady's white cheeks and flowed slowly backward to his ears and up ward toward his forehead, but he said noth ing, and began to eat his food under the embarrassment of a general silence and the sense that all eyes were fastened upon him. Barrow whispered to Tracy: "The old man's been waiting for that. He wouldn't have missed that chance for anything." , "It's a brutal business," said Tracy. Then he said to himself, purposing to set the thought down in his diary later: "Well,here in this very house is a repub lic where all are free and equal, if men are free and equal anywhere on the earth, there fore I have arrived at the place I started to find, and I am a man among men, and on the strictest equality possible to men, no doubt, Yet here on the threshold I find an inequality. There are people at this table who are looked up to for some reason or other, and here is a poor devil of a boy who is looked down upon, treated with indiffer ence, and shamed with humiliations, when he has committed no crime but that com mon one of being poor. Equality ought to make men noble minded. In fact, I had supposed it did do that." After supper Barrow proposed a walk, and they started. Barrow had a purpose. He wanted Tracy to get rid of that cowboy hat. He did not see his way to finding mechanical or manual employment for a person rigged in that fashion. Barrow presently said: "As I "understand it you're not a cow boy." "Xo, I'm not." 'Well, now, if yon will not think me too curious, how did you come to mount that hat? Where did'you get it." Tracy didn't know quite how to reply to this, but presently said: "Well, without going into particulars, I exchanged clothes with a stranger under press of weather, and I would like to find him and re-exchange." "Well, why don't you find him? Where is he?" "I don't know. I suppose the best way to find him would be to continue to wear his clothes, which are conspicuous enough to attract his attention if I should meet him on the street." "Oh, very well," said Barrow. "The rest of the outfit is well enough, and while it's not too conspicuous, it isn't quite like the clothes that anybody else wears. Suppress the hat. When you meet your man he'll recognize the rest of his suit. That's a mighty embarrassing hat, you know, in a center of civilization like this. I don't be lieve an angel could get employment in Washington in a halo like that" Tracy agreed to replace the hat with something of a modestcr form, and they stepped aboard a crowded car and stood with others on the rear platform. Pres ently, as the car moved swiitly along the rails, two men crossing the street canght sight of the backs of Barry and Tracy, and both exclaimed at once, "There he is!" It was Sellers and Hawkins, Both were so paralyzed with joy that before they could pull themselves together aud make 'an effort to btop the car it was gone too far, and they decided to wait for the next one. They waited awhile; then it occurred to Washington that there could be no use chasing one horse car with another, and he wanted to hunt up a hack. But the Colonel said: , "When you, come to think of it, there's no occasion for that at all. Now that -Tve got him materialized, I can command his 1 motions. Ill nave him at the house by the time we get there." Then they hurried off home in a state of great and joyful excitement (To be Continued Next Sunday.) Medicine Is Good, Sometimes. tWaiTTEN TOR THE DISPATCH. Boggs I am bound to say that medicine has helped my brother wonderfully. , Foggs What kind did he take? Boggs Oh, he didn't take any; ha owns a drugstore. - SOLDIERS OF EUROPE. The Men Who Wonld Be the Leaders, Should a War Break Out. YEEY FEW OLD FIGHTERS REMAIN. Alvensleben Stands First in Germany and Gallifet in France. MEX UPON "WHOM THE CZAR IBAITS twarnxs on the dispatch. J AR is undoubtedly im pending in Europe and .cannot be postponed for more man two years. When the new rifle is supplied to the Russian army in 1894 a fresh stim ulus to military ambition will be furnished the Muscovite. Then we shall see war councils prevailing in the Cabinet of the Czar, on whom, de spite all theories to the contrary, the preservation of peace or the precipitation of war really depends. It is not the grievance of France respecting her lost provinces of Alsace and Lorraine which is likely to start the blaze, but rather, I think, the constant menace to peace. which exists in the conflicting nature of the elements which compose the Balkan peninsula. Reflecting thus, one's thoughts at once revert to the question as to what generals will direct the European armies. Many new men will come to the front who are now unknown, because war is the soldier's General Alvensleben. opportunity, bringing to the surface and developing his capacity and genius. In confronting these new men, bred under modern conditions and trained in all the newer tactics, the older commanders will be severely tested, and it is not easy to pre dict the result which may ensue. Tho Generals of Germany. Germany, whose military forces are cred ited with being the best organized in the world, has none of the great war generals of 1870 to lead her cohorts. Von Blumen thal, the last of the old regime to retire, has resigned from active service. Very distinguished in his day, especially a strategist, he will be of avail in an advisory capacity during the coming strug gle. Von Wnfdersee is foremost in the ranks of German officers. He has done good fighting in the war against Denmark in 1861 and was also in the Austrian cam paign of 186G. His career is a remarkable instance of successful ambition. American gold has had no small share in enabling him to attain his ends and influence which wealth "-as gained through his marriage to an American, the widow of Prince Fred erick of Schleswig-Holstein. Waldersee is a picturesque figure. Some think that this rs o General Gourko. is all that can be said, but there is a prac tical side to his character. Still his success as chief director of the movements of a vast army in war is surmise. He has yet to win his spurs in that arena. But if he has nat ural genius the training ho underwent as Moltke's representative, joined to the fact of his comparative yqutb, for he is only 52, should render his chances of winning dis tinction reasonably good. A Man to Keep an Ejo On. It is the opinion of many army officers in Germanv that the man who will most distin guish himself during the coming war will be General Von Alvensleben, Commander of the Thirteenth Army Corps. All familiar with the stirring episodes ot the war of 1870 will recall this officer's brilliant share in the sanguinary conflicts around Metz and the prodigies of valor he performed at the head of Germany's most dashing cavalry corps. It is even said that but for'his presence of mind at Mars La Tour, coupled with ,firm resolution, a portion of Bazaine's forces would have succeeded in cutting their way through the German lines and joining Mac Mahon at Chalons. The present Emperor is a warm admirer of Alvensleben, and re cently conferred further honors upon the veteran, whereat the French press took General Gallifet. special umbrage, which is only a par with their usual absurdities. Alvensleben is a man of commanding 'presence, soldierly, tall and erect, and altogether a fine type of the modern German warrior. France will look to'General Gallifet when war breaks but with perhaps more expec tation than to any other of her military sons. While he is not likely to take su preme command, at least during the com mencement of hostilities, ;for actual hard fighting and feats of valor he is pretty cer tain to gain the most distinction. Better Balanced Than Uoulonger. Sutatially a ploturtsque 'figur and in rested with all the glamor of typical hero. T A 77 WFSrV Xj55"3v yx " -- - ijl of arms, Gallifet is entirely free from the vulgar Hheatric attributes of Boulanger. General Gallifet's heroic performances in 1870 have established his reputation upon an endnring foundation. Born in Paris in 1830, he entered the cavalry as a jirivate. He. was made a general of division in 1875, and is now senior officer in that grade. On the fatal field of Sedan, Gallifet, at the head of his cavalry brigade, charged against the solid German masses with such reckless fury and astounding valor that Emperor William cried aloud to the officers of his staff as he and they watched with astonish ment the onslaught of the French horse men, "Ah, ces braves gens!. How they rush to their death." Taken prisoner with the rest at Sedan, Gallifet offered to exchange himself for Prussian officers, and agreed to go-back to the French army as a private and to prom ise not to resume his rank during the con- General Beck, Chief of Staff, Austrian Armv. tinuance of the war. But the Prussians were unwilling to give up the man of whose restless energy in the field they had seen so much. One of the Thoughtful Fighters. General Mirabel is the, most distinguished among the French scientific officers. He is somewhat after the Moltke school. His services during the siege of Paris were very distinguished, and he was all through the Crimean campaign and served in Mexico and in the Italian War. Silent and thoughtful, he does not present the dashing, picturesque personality so attractive to the average onlooker, characteristic of such sol diers as Gallifet. Yet it must not be for gotten that men of Mirabel's stamp consti tute, after all, the brains of an army. In speaking of the French generals I have reserved the name of Saussier for the last, because in the Franco-German war he was only a colonel ot the line, but fought with great bravery, especially at the battle of Borny. During the height of the Boulanger troubles Saussier, as Military Governpr of Paws, displayed unusual sagacity and prevented Boulanger from achieving a coup d'etat. The Bepublican Government did not forget this service and Saussier is now Commander in Chief. It is understood that he would take supreme command in case of war. Leaders of Russia's Armies. Of all the famous generals who com manded in the Busso-Turkish war of 1877 upon the Bussian sid? only one is left. This is General Gourko, the hero of the Shipka Pass. He is the cavalry hero of the Muscovite army and would taku com mand in the field. In 1877, when the Bus sian forces had barely crossed the Pruth, Gourko, by a most brilliant reconnaisancc, had reached the Rates of Adrlanople. Ho took the city of Tymore with a small de tachment ot cavalry and a single battery. His accomplishment of the remarkable feat of forcing his way throujrh tho Sliipka Pass nmid the rigors of winter is one of the great est military achievements on record. Dah and daring are the leading charac teristics of Gourko, combined ith a per sistency of purpose and an Iron will. His incumbency of the Governorship of War saw has not been quite acceptable to the Poles, who have experienced under him a rulorof severity and stern suppression of all nationalist movements. General Gourko as born in Lithuania, the country ot Tolstoi, in 1S28. For-Russia and Against England. General Kourupatkine, the personal friend and comrade of the great and lamented Skobcloff, with whom he shared the hard ships and dangers of tho Rnsso-Turkish War and also in the Tekke-Turcoman cam paign, will, in my opinion, make a greater mark than any other Russian general when the next tocsin of war is sounded. Like Skobeloff, he believes that England Is the hereditary foe of Russia, and he holds to tho Panslavistic warrior's creed that Russian, domain should ever be extending. He is a proliflo writer. General Obrutscheff", the chief of the staff of the Russian army, has the reputation of being an able tactician. He graduated un der NepaVoitchitsky, who was chief of statt fn tho war of 1S77. Kepokoitchitsky was re sponsible for some bad blunders in the lat ter war, especially the failures around Plevna, in which the Russians suffered severely. Probably his protege, ObrutschefT, has profited by the blunders of mis master, and learned how to avoid similar ones. Austria Not Very Well Ofl: The land of Hapsburgs is lamentably de ficient in the possession of ablo Generals, or rather of Generals with anything imposing in the way of a record. Excepting the Arch duke Albert, and perhaps one other officer, General ObruUdteff. we seek in vain foran Austrian General who has been proved and 'tried. Since the days of Radetzky, Archduke Albrecht is tho only one of note. But he is an old man now and could not count for much in a war. His famous feat of arms at Oustozza, where he defended the Italian Quadrilateral against Victor Emanuel, will be long remembered. A fine 'soldier like man, the loss to Austria will be heavy when he dies, and alreadv the question is being asked, "Who shall take his placet" Count Pegasevitch is Austria's leading cavalry officer. He is perhaps the beslUJen-eral-for dash and hard fighting qualities that the army possesses. The chief of staff is General Yon Beck, a native of Baden. He presents a combination of the slow plodding qualities of the Moltke type without display ing any of its genius. General Ton Beck''s brothers are in the German service. His record is not a.notable one, but he has seen service in tho Austrian campaigns. V. G EiBAYXDorr. Teaching Deaf Mates to Talk. Still another use has been found for the phonograph The Superintendent of a Deaf and Dumb Institute has been making experiments with the instrument, and be lieves that in connection with it he can teach the majority of the deaf mutes under his charge to talk. He finds that the in strument concentrates the sound at the drum oftheearin such a way that many of the pupils otherwise deaf are enabled to hear. One Way of Getting the Mitten, rwarrrair roa urn dispatch, i Brace Couldn't yon loveme if yon set about it? Miss Bagley What is'love? Brace Two hearts that best M one. Mln BAley You had better try to but long sa on. . ' r BOB BURDETTE'S-FUN. Argument of the Wise Man and the Fool Settled by the Crow. RULES OF THE BAGGAGE MAN. Eipensiveness of Killing as a "Feature of the Indian Policy. PHILOSOPHY MIXED UP WITH BUM0R prEITTET POB THE DtSPATCn.' A wise man stood by the fair greenwood, And the fogl stood close at his side: And they wrangled of things they misunder stood, ' And called on the crow to decide. "For I hold It true, as It's plain to view," Quoth Wisdom, "that Nature's laws nave reason for everything we do E'en the crow only flies be cause." Then winging his flight like a shadow of night, Came the great crow overheai; And he flew like a bird with cause for flight And as over he flew, he said: "Oh sweet is the grub, neath the young green shrub. Or close to the new planted maize: But the man with a club drove us out of them, bub, Bekays, bekays, bekays." Each to His Own. A traveler passing through the land of Pluribustah observed the baggage master put on a pair of gloves and leave his car at a certain way station. Alighting to follow his movements more closely, he saw the ter ror of the Saratoga carefully and with an expression of reverence approach a trunk fastened in the most perfect simplicity and innocence with only its own lock and straps, with never a coil of bed-cord drawn tightly about its weakness in many circling folds. He saw the master of baggage tenderly lift this trunk in his arms, carefully carry it to his car, and softlv deposit it therein as a mother would lay her sleeping babe in its cradle. As it did not look like the trunk of a man who owned all the railroads in the world, the traveler was able only to give a feeble cry for help before he fell senseless upon the platform. Thev carried him aboard the train and he did not recover power of speech or motion for over 60 miles. Then at the dining station he ap proached the tamer of trunks.and, pacifying him first with the usual offering of a cigar, asked the reason of his singular and un wonted mildness. "Sir," said the baggage man, "that was my own trunk, and I know how to handle baggage when it merits kind- treatment, and when I fully realize its value to the owner. As for the trunk of the president of this railroad, whoso you foolishly supposed that one to be, it is standing in the farther cor ner oi my car on the end that is not yet stove inhaving been carried four stations past its junction. I will double-check it back to him to-morrow morning, and if Ben Thorhammer doesn't bend the other end of it, I will know he has the grip. The presi dent of this road will learn to pack his things in a canvas mail pouch when he dead-heads a 320 pound trunk on George Granitecracker. " So saying George Granitecracker, for it was indeed he, gave the mild and inoffen sive cigar of the traveler to the little flower girl on the platform, and, standing at the dpor of his car, proceeded in lond, harsh tones to call off the numbers, destination and condition of the sick and wounded, as his assailant hurled them furiously down a steep place prepared for that purpose. Habett Sabetl to Get. "Are you paying anything for jokes this Winter?" asked the rising young humorist, as he paused before the desk ot the able and influential editor. "This is the season for them," replied the distinguished journalist. "Winter is the only time of the year when we do pay for them." "Indeed!" replied the rising young humorist, who was known among his-friends as the Aristophanes of the Clay County Sentinel. "I am glad to hear that," he added, drawing a verv large manilla en velope, official size, and heavily laden,from his inside pocket, "because I have a fevr left over which " "Yes, indeedy," continued the dis tinguished man of letters, with a reassuring smile. "Winter is the harvest time for jokes. It has to be a cold day when we pay anything iorjoKes.' And all around the room, from the litho graphs of actresses on the walls, and from the clammy depths of the paste-pot grim catacomb of the voracious and irreverent cockroach and from the grimy inkstand the sometime tomb of the erratic mucilage brush and from the wide extended jaws of the exchange-compelling scissors, and from the broken nose of the space-creating blue pencil, the humorist seemed to hear issuing in staccato passages hoarse and derisive laughter, such as comes from the other side of the House to greet the good things of Mr. Beed or Mr. Mills. . "Then," he said, bitterly, as he turned upon his heel, "it seems to me that on a day like this I ought to get about 5300 for what I have here" Throttle or Teach. There are 60,000 Indian children in this land, and only 15,000 of them go to school. That leaves about 35,000 that will have to be shot one of these days, and we only have about 20,000 soldiers to shoot them. Looks as though the Government would save money and trouble and a little strain on the conscience if it would build a few more schools and maintain them at a great annual loss. In the light of our past experience. one can read that ii costs a great deal more to kill one Indian than it would to educate a' whole tribe. And this estimate does not include the value set on the lives of the soldiers and officers who are killed by the Indian duririg the struggle'for his scalp. There is nothing in this world so expen sive as killing, jnst see, right here in our civilized communities, hpw much it costs in time, in legal machinery, in money, in trouble and heartache to hang one white man, who possibly richly deserves hanging if ever a man did. Why, it would cost more to bang the meanest man in Mont gomery county and everybody knows who that is than would suffice to pay the sala ries of all the teachers in a district school for five years. And it costs still more" to kill an Indian. And it ought to. Because the meanest sort of a .savage is better, by reason of his being a savage, than a mean white man. A mean white man, when he is "plumb mean," is the "orneriest" crea ture that crawls on the earth. A Very Bealiitlo Imitation. "Bill Dryface," the 'Squire said, "wrs the life and the dread of-the town. He could mimic any man that everlived. He'd sit here in the store, night after night, and make fun of people, taking 'em off to the very life, until we was just sore laughing at him, and every man scart for fear his turn would come next- But one night, right in the middle of the fun, when Bill was giving n imitations of the new Bap tist preacher, a feller happened along and seemed attracted by the noise. He stood at the door and watched and listened for about ten minutes, and then he up and took Bill oB himself; right to the very life, beat any thing I ever saw in my born days." "Show man?" queried the tourist. ' "Nog" said the 'Squire, "Deputy Sheriff, took him oft so completely he ain't never came back since; won't either, for about two years yet." And then there was heard in the dusty office the voice of a man laughing long and loud, and with repeated cadences of infec tious mirth, like onto the laughter of a man who enjoys a good thing when he hears it, and who can't hear it too often. It was the 'Squire. A Grstefnl Old Man. Mabel Waltzes had been waiting in the parlor for her lover's return for what seemed to her an age. Her heart turned to. bloodstone as she thought of him, young, slender, but brave to rashness and reckless ness, closeted alone with her stern father in the grim old. library. The door opened at last and he stood before her, unscathed, a flush on his cheeks and an expression in his eye. "Did yon seepapa, Bichard?" she asked with trembling eagerness. He held her in his arms for a moment-without speaking. "Yes, dearest," he said at length. "Andwhat did he sav, Kichard? Tell me what he'said? He refused you? Oh; your eyes tell me! He refused you; he will not give me to you? But I will be I am vours I do ndt fear his harshness we will ily-" But Bichard looked down into her plead ing face and shook his head slowly, like a man in a dream. "Tell me, then, for I cannot waitl Was he brutal and cruel to you? What did he do? What did he say?" Bichard Xobeard drew a long deep breath and again looked down at the face turned np to meet his troubled glance. He sighed and whispered slowly: "He only said 'thank heaven,' and went on reading." Survival of the Misfit. Scientists say at least some of them do; I suppose the rest of them deny it from the ground up, as is the way of the scientist that the orange was originally a berry and that its evolution has been going on for a matter of 1,000 years, or thereabouts. That is quite likely. And it is very encouraging. Anyone can see, from the manner in which the strawberry has been expanding itself during the past 15 or20 vears, that it is only a question of time until this pride of the garden will be as big as a countryfair watermelon, with abont as much strawberry taste to it as a pumpkin. Now, if fair science will only get down to prosaic business long enough to set the strawberry box and the peach basket to evoluting, until the one would hold a quart and the other a peck, the world wouldn't care very much whether Moses or Daniel wrote the Pentateuch, nor if it were even true, as has been darkly hinted, that Dr. Briggs didn't believe that the synod be lieved that he believed what he said he be lieved they believed he believed and were afraid to sav so. Modern Snlcldnl Carefulness. You notice going the rounds oi the papers just now the periodical paragraph concern ing the danger of putting money in your month, because you don't know .where the man who carried the coin had it before you got it. Well, there is a great deal in that worthy of consideration. Same way with ham. Jnst stop and think before you put that piece of ham in your mouth, think what awful places the hog was wallowing it in not many months ago. Then try to eat it. The fact is, my boy, if you stop to think all about things, where they were and who had them, and what they did with them and what they used to be, before you drink or eat or wear anything, you are going to die of thirst, starve to death, and be found dead in the street, stark naked, one of these days. Kvolntlon of the Family. "Housekeeping is so much more expen sive than we dreamed it would be," sighed Mrs. Youngwoman. "Edward and I made all our estimates for a family of two, just ourselves and one servant." "And how many are there in your fam ily?" asked Mrs. Oldgirl, sympathetically. "Six, and no servant,'" replied Mrs. Youngwoman, with a troubled accent "the cook, ner cousin, and niece, the policeman, Edward and myself"" Hard on the Tipper Bonn. "Forty-nine, years ago," said the village pastor, "that man cams to this town a poor boy, without friends or brains. Now he doesn't know what he is worth and is a member of the United States Senate." "Made a man of himself," suggested the visitor. "N-no," the parson said, "he couldn't do that; the age ot miracles is past; he's just as rich and a United States Senator." Something Worthy of Rebellion. "What was the most remarkable experi ence you'had during your military service?" asked the old lady. The young veteran re flected a moment or two and then said he thought the woman whose clothes props were knocked down by a cavalry charge one Monday morning during the battle of Bloody Carnage made more noise and said more in ten minutes than anything he ever heard in all his career of slaughter. Cartridge Faper Is Harmless. "Is the captain afraid of this fog, Mr. Officer?" asked Mrs. Timid as the ship was slowly smelling her way through a fog thicker, than a jail wall. "Land bless ye, no," replied the officer. "All the fog in the world can't hurt any thing; there's about teh thousand things lying around in it, however, that we are, afraid of." "" At the Fire Station. "Dear .Foreman, may we go and playt" "Oh yes, for Ithink you'd ought'er; Yon mav play with tho flro the livelong day With littlo drops of water.". Comments and Snggestlons. Three things, my son, you never return when you borrow, umbrellas, books and trouble. "How to make home happy." starts ofF an exchange. That's easy; have the children study their geography lessons there. If that doesn't make home happy there is no longitude. . We see by the papers that Araelie Eivcs Chanler is having "a beautiful study and an elegant studio built on her country house in Virginia." Ab, she has, then, de termined to quit work altogether? That is too bad, when she had but fairly begun. A religious exchange discusses the "Ad vantages.to a preacher of a visit to Pales tine." Well, there is one good thing al ways comes from it: his congregation gets some good preaching while he is gone. The advantages are not all on the side of the parson. "What ia the cheapest fertilizer?" asked Mr. Hayseed, looking in at the office of his favorite paper for information. "Soda," replied the agricultural editor, "you get a nitrate on that." And low, sepulchral laughter was heard to issue from the potato hole. It is stated that the Emperor of China is learning the English language, and his teachers give the world assurance that he will soon "be able to speak it like a born Englishman." Whv doesn't he learn the pigeon English instead? Then somebody could understand him. f Robert J. Burdette. AW ANTISEPTIC SOAP. Sulphate of Copper and Snlphate of Zlno Are Valuable Additions. A French scientific journal records that M. Vigier has discovered that dried sul phate of copper in soap has valuable ant septic and healing properties, almost entire ly neutralizing by its use the ordinary dan gers of physicians, nurses and any persons who are exposed to blood poison through cuts or scratches. Any good soap material to which sulphate, of copper has been added in the Proportion of 12 parts of the latter to 88 of ths former, Is recommended. In homes where soap is. sometimes made on a small scale, the ad dition of sulphate of zinc would be worth trying. It gives a green color to the iop, and le perfectly harmless. MEMORY AND HEALTHT Power of the Former an Indication of the State of the Latter. SNAP SHOTS AT FLYING 6AHE. The Principle of Vaccination Used to Pre vent Eea Sickness. STUBBI FINGERS OP TTPIWEITES3 rWBITTCT TOR THE DISPATCH.! W. h. Burnham in discussing the ques tion of memory, says that if a trustworthy memory is desired, the prime condition is health. Not only are the more serious forms of paramnesia pathological; but oven forgetfnlness, when nnusual, indicates dis ease. In point of fact, memory forms a moss delicate gauge of one's physical well-being. The power of committing to memory varies notably with fluctuations of one's physical condition: and, a3 everybody knows, recol lection is rendered difficult by fatigue, and is usoally easier in the morning than at night. The physioloaical cause seems to be that retention is conditioned by process of nutrition, while recollection depends largely upon the circulation, as is shown not only by many cases of amnesia or forgetfulness due to defective circulation, but ajsoby tho hypermneslas-of fever and other diseases, where there is an, increased rapidity of the cerebral circulation. In the second place, the trustworthiness of memory depends upon attention. "The true art of memory," as Johnson said, "is the art of attention." But not merely by strengthening the firstimpresslon does attention aid memory. The ability to recall any event depends largely upon the power or attention at the moment of at tempted recollection. It must be remem bered that memory is not, as used to be sup posed, an independent faculty of the mind that in some mysterious way may be strengthened by exercise, as the blacksmith strengthens his arm; but that memory Is re tentive Is due to the plasticity of nerve sub stance, and to the property ot nerve centers by which they retain in growth theirlunc tional modincations, and that recollection depends upon physiological conditions such as the cerebral circulation and the proper functioning of nerve cells; moreover, that a complete act of recollection is a complex process involving comparison, inference and the like. Hence, whatever in general is conducive to vigorous health, aud whatever tends to habits of clear and orderly thinking each conditions will aid recollection. And what ever is detrimental to the normal function ing of the nerve-cells fatigue, intense emo tion or tho like and whatever blinds the Judgment, will hinder recollection. Typewriter's Stnb Finger. Widespread consternation hasbeen caused in the Tanks of the typewriters by the state ment that the doctors have so directly taken cognizance of the digital degeneration en gendered bytheir occupation as to create for it the specific title, "typewriter's stub finger." It is now beyond question that the constant pounding upon the little piano like machines has an appreciable and most undesirable effect on the fingers! This Is quite In accordance with the way ia. which nature is apt to meet an exceptional call on her resources. But the evil may be greatly mitigated, i( not altogether cured. Eight fingers must do what is now given to lour. This is much more easily said than done. Piano players recognize this difficulty, and are content to submit '-o years of careful practice in order to overcome it. Most type writers shirk this labor and prefer to get up their speed at any sacrifice. Some of the best operators ot the day use the eight finger system, and notably JlcGurrin, who is generally regarded as the most rapid writer of clean copy on the typewriter in the world. Another mutliod ot counteract ing the trouble in question is to provide ex ercise for tho whole of the muscles of tue finger by an instrument. Tho only draw back: to this instrument Is its cost. A Camera for 3Isrkmn, ' It is stated that an Austrian has success fully solved the problem of obtaining pho tographic views in such a short period of time as is represented by the difference of time between pulling the trigger of a gna and exploding the cartridge, and by this means securing an absolute reliable proof of the aim of a moving gun. The apparatus is made to 11 1 any hunting gun or military rifle, and it is so constructed that the pulling of the trigger will open and close it before the effect of the explosion takes place. The small attachment is made of aluminum and is fastened to the lower side of the barrels in such a manner that its optical axis stands in a straight line with the aiming point. Ic therefore follows that when a shot is fired at a distance below 60 yards the center ot tho picture thus obtained will show a' dis tant spot representing the true point of aim at the moment of pulling the trigger. One excellent result of the nse of such a device as this should be the improvement, of bad marksmen. Movel Preventive of Seasickness. There are probably more cures for seasick ness devised in any one year than or any ailment under the sun. Tho latest attemps in this direction is based on the idea that by vaccination we prodnce an artificial small pox, which wards off the real disease; and similarly. If wo can prodneo mild seasick ness on shore, it is reasonable to expect that comparative immunity will be secured at sea. The object of tho proposed cure is to imitate exactly the rolling of a ship, and thus Ijavu a swing calculated to produco exactly the same internal senaationa. It id claimed tii.it an honr in such a swing daily, gradually increasing the motion by mount ing away from the center of oscillation, will gi tar to insure passengers to the real mo tion of the sea. An ImitationIce. It is rather a matter for wonder tnat tho imitation ice rinfc, which is so popular la. London, is not duplicated in some American cities. In tills rink steel skates are used instead af rollers. The surface for skating is prepared by pouring on an asphalt floor ing successive layers of water and certain, salts in u heated state, each layer being allowed to cool and crystallize before another is applied. Tho top layer, it is estimated, will be able to withstand the u ear and tear of a single week, and it then has to be renewed. UOT A BLOOD RELATION. warms' tob ties dispatch.! Bagley Who was that young man yoa recognized? c a r Brace My cousin. l -"V!, Bagley He didn t seem to know TOCL.rE. Brace He iia't what yon wonld call & A blood relation: only the on.of "my nnelev""""" !1 1 ,. r-j i t c.sttfiMiaMyn
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