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SECOND PART.
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QUICKS IS CLOVER
A Bicli Harvest for Pretended
Doctors the Result of
London's Grip.
THE DISEASE DECLINING,
Hut Its Ravages Hare Scared Every
body Nearly to Death.
TORIES OX THE ANXIOUS SEAT.
Thev
Give Up Lots of Good Money
Their Exeter Meeting.
for
JflAXT LOXDOX TRADESMEN IN TROUBLE
TEY CAELE TO THE DIsrATCH.
Lolox, Jan. 30. Copyright The
public alarm caused by the continued
spread of influenza has almost grown into a
panic, and there is no doubt that if any ac
cessible country free lrom the disease could
he found in Europe, everybody who could
afford to travel would flock thither. This
is due in large measure to popular misap
prehension encouraged by some ignorant
new spaper scribblers.
In the figures given in the Kegistrar Gen
eral's return, issued last Tuesday, it was
stated that during the previous week the
"Annual rate of mortality per 1,000 living"
was 40 in London, which thereupon the
Daihi Tdcgraph, falling into the common
error that this meant that 46 persons in
every thousand had died in one week, ex
pressed lear that the influenza would "pass
. the bounds of an epidemic and attain the
dimensions of an unknown and dreadful
plague."
tine Victim in Every 8,450 Londoners.
As a matter of fact, 506 deaths were re
corded last week as primarily due to in
fluenza, and as the estimated populati6n of
London proper is now 4,203,294, the mor
tality was actually 1 in 8,426, or, taking the
deaths from all cause', 1 in 1,133. But as
this is more than double the average, pessi
mists naturally refuse to be comforted.
Pending the appointment of the commis
sion on influenza the JirUish Jledical Journal
lias been collecting information which has
more than local interest. The medical
officers of health throughout England, who
. are Government officers, were asked to state
whether, in their opinion, influenza is in
fectious, and whether it can be brought
within the provisions of various acts of Par
liament, compelling notification to the
public authorities, isolation, etc.
Influenza Generally Called. Infections.
"With regard to the first of these points,
of 43 medical officers who express an opin
ion all but three have no doubt that influ
enza is infectious, and is conveyed directly
from person to person. Several believe it
can he transmitted by clothes, etc. The
majority of these experts also hold that
personal communication alone is insufficient
to explain the rapidity and wide extent of
its diffusion, and believe that the poison
may be carried to a considerable distance
through the air. The degree of infectious
ness varies according to the individual,
weakly persons and especially those whose
lnngs are delicate being particularly liable
to it
The disease is most infectious in the
early stage. The incubation period is short,
or from two to three days to a week, at
most
Law-Maklns on the Grip.
"With regard to legislative measures,
while almost all of the medical officers of
health hold influenza to be a dangerous, in
fectious disorder, within the meaning of the
act, the majority do not think the addition
of it to the list of notifiable diseases would
be of much use, the early cases being al
most certain to escape identification, owing
to the indefiniteness of the symptoms and
the expense of notification during an epi
micbeingenormous. Notification, theyagree,
is useless without compulsory isolation, and
at present the public mind is not prepared
for such a step, aud the sanitary authorities
could not provide anything like the neces
sary accommodation.
Of the few who think influenza could be
brought within Xhe range of legislative en
actment, only one or two thins: that such a
measure would be advisable.
Education on the Subject.
The only measures which the medical
officers of health think could be effectively
taken by the public authorities are the
issue of instructions to the public as to the
avoidance of exposure to infection, to cold,
fatigue and other depressing agencies; the
isolation of patients as far as possible in
their own homes; great care during the ill
ness aud especially during convalescence,
"and attention to the sanitation of dwellings
and surroundings.
, In many districts the sanitary authorities
are now doing useful work on the lines sug
gested by the medical officers of health, and
charitable agencies are looking after the
poorer sufferers.
There are signs that the epidemic is abat
ing; aud if these be confirmed by the
Kegistrar General's next return the panic
will subside. For the moment, however,
the croaking of the pessimists prevails, and
the quacks are getting rich.
Cambnil-e University Has to Close.
It is probable, in view of the ravages of
, influenza, that Cambridge University will be
, closed and undergraduates at the various
colleges will be seat down. A don and an
" undergraduate have died at St John's Col
lege this week, and this has apparently
determined the authorities to act
On the continent the malady still mani
fests itself, though in Italy its virulence has
considerably abated.
It is significant that the present epidemic
kas in many districts proved more dis.
astrous than the last cholera epidemic.
THB TABLES TTJEHED OH TBAHCX.
The Kepnhlle Now the nigh-Handed Ag
gressor In Another Chadoulne Affair.
Pabis, Jan. 3a Hardly has France
scrambled out of the unpleasant position
she placed herself in by protesting,against
the expulsion from Bulgaria of M. Chadou
ine, than she expels a Levantine journalist
M. Justin Marengo, of the Latin-Catbolic
community known as Francs, from her ter
ritory in apparently the most outrageous
manner, by order of the Minister of the In
terior, M. Constans. If the account given
of this affair by M. Marengo is correct, the
agents of M. Constans have acted in a more
high-banded manner than did the agents of
M. StambonlefC M. Marengo has appealed
to M. de Freycinet, President of the Coun
cil: M. Marengo recalled the fact that it m
through him that the JUoniteur Oriental, of
Constantinople, became a Franco-Kussian
organ and the sole controversial exponent
of French ideas against the hostility of the
other powers. M. Marengo, for some reason
or other, left the stall of the Idoniteur
Oriental and came to this city, where he
edited a paper which attacked Turkey and
advocated forcing Abdul Hamid to renew
the constitution of Midhad Pasha, and, it is
presumed, he was expelled from France on
demand of the Sultan. M. Marengo's ex
pulsion took place on January 9, but the
facts in the case have only recently become
public.
A DESPERATE STRUGGLE.
ENGLAND'S COMING POLITICAl, TUS
SLE A GREAT ONE.
All Eyes Now on tho Exeter Meeting An
.Expensive Exhibition for the Tories
Salisbury Forced to Be on Hand A
Bogus Meeting of Farmers.
TBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. 1
London, Jan. 30. Much importance is
attached to a speech which Lord Salisbury
will make at Exeter next Tuesday evening,
. upon the occasion of a great Conservative
demonstration in that city. The local
Tories have been organizing this affair for
months past, and have built a temporary
hall capable of holding 10,000 people.
The meeting was to have been held a fort
night ago, but had to be postponed on
account of the death of the Duke of Clar
ence. Lord Salisbury had decided to cancel
the engagement altogether, as there was no
particular reason why he should go to
Exeter, but the thought of the good Tory
gold spent in the buildim: of a special hall
in his honor touched his heart and he
relented at the la.t moment
The Coming Straggle a Great One.
As the Prime Minister was so willing to
forego his visit it is difficult to understand
why so much importance should now be
attached to it, or why his speech should be
expected to differ from scores that have
been delivered by the Tory leaders
since Parliament was prorogued last
August An explanation is to be found
in the fact that men's minds
are now occupied with thoughts of the I
coming great political struggle, and when
ever a Cabinet Minister is announced to
speak Liberal hopes and Tory fears are
aroused in expectation of hearing some
definite announcement of the date of the
general election and of the issues to be put
before the constituencies. But there is
nothing in the immediate political situation
to encourage the Government to precipitate
a strnggle, and the result of the Bossendale
election is not calculated to give the Tories
appetite for electioneering.
Awaiting Their Opportunity.
An opportunity may and probably will
be given the Government in the course of
the coming session, and for that chance
Lord Salisbury and his colleagues are evi
dently disposed to wait. Signs accumulate
that the crisis will arise out of the Irish lo
cal government bill. Desperate efforts are
being made to heal, or failing that, to con
ce?l Tory schism, but so far without suc
cess. There are scores of Tory members
who declare they will oppose the Govern
ment scheme, and as most of these mutineers-don't
propose to seek re-election 3t
the end of the present Parliament, it will
not be possible to coerce them into submis
sion in the ordinary way, while they are
too numerous to be bribed by peerages or
baronetcies in the old-fashioned way.
The Ulster Tory members are dissatisfied
with "the guarantees for protection of the
loyal minority, and their newspaper organ
onlyyeslerday sounded a note of defiance to
he Government! But even if the Govern
ment should manage to quell the revolt in
its own ranks, it will have to reckon with
the Liberal phalanx, eager for a fipht and
led by the doughtiest and most skillful of
political warriors.
Gladstone's Simple Flan of Campaign.
Mr. Gladstone's plan of campaign is sim
ple enough to be understood by all men. If
the local Government bill sh'ould be a fair
and. statesmanlike measure, worthy of
Liberal support which is wildly improba
ble he will help the Government to pass
itin the teeth of the opposition of Tory mal
contents. If, as will almost certainly be the
case, it should prove to be a bill drafted in
the interests of the Irish landlords and
Orangemen, he will oppose it line by line.
Then there will arise a great howl of "ob
struction," and upon that battle cry the
Government will appeal to the country.
The Liberal-Unionist and Tory leaders
have all sent the customary letters to their
supporters requesting them to be in their
places at the opening -of Parliament, and
the other preliminary work referred to in
The Dispatch last week is being pushed
along with refreshing vigor.
A Bogus Agricultural Meeting.
The loudly-heralded "rural conference"
convened by the Tones as a set-off to tho
great demonstration held in London last
month, and addressed by Gladstone, took
place at Ely yesterday, it consisted, in the
pithy language of "a Liberal critic, of
"Chaplin, refreshments and beer." The
delegates had been carefully selected and
bribed to attend by the promise that all
expenses would be paid, and that there
would be plenty of drink, and 250 attended
and listened with open mouths to
the pompous platitudes of the Minister of
Agriculture.
After Chaplin had spoken a dapper
little man in corduroys, rose and delivered a
rattling speech crammed full of theories
and arguments of the most pronounced
Radical character. The horrified organizers
tried to stop the Utile man's tongue, but in
vain, and he held forth just as long as he
caredto do so, while "the delegates," think
ing his speech was in the programme, and
therefore perfectly orthodox, applauded
vehemently. Finally the little man sat
down, and only then was it discovered that
he was a sturdy Itadical to whom a ticket
and invitation to drink beer had been sent
by some blundering clerk direct fronfhead
quarters, instead of through the local
organizars.
Of the 250 delegates present not 50 were
genuine agricultural laborers. The whole
thing was a sham, and so badly carried out
that its fraudulent character has been clearly
demonstrated.
GEORGE MUST MARRY.
Bis Wedding Fixed tor October, But No
Bride XTet. SelectedThe rile Specter
Haunting all Minds The German m-
peror a Remote Possibility as an Heir.
rBT CABLX TO TIIK DISPATCH.1
London, Jan. 30. It has been practically
settled that Prince"George, of "Wales, shall
marry some time in October, in order to
make the succession secure. Nobody knows
yet who will be the favored bride, but we
are assured io-day that "the universal ex
pression of approbation of the Duke of
Clarence's selection of a bride who was
English by birth and training has not been
lost on the Queen and Prince of "Wales, and
it is as certain as anything well can be that
Prince George will, in this respect, emulate
his deceased brother's example."
Prince George, is to have the suite of
apartments in St' James Palace given to
but never occupied by his brother. It will
be necessarv, also, to make a peer of him,
and the odds are abont even that he will be
dubbed Duke of York, Duke of Sussex or
Duke of Kent. It is asserted that he is
raising objections to leaving the navy, hav
ing an ambition to command a big ironclad
and ultimately a squadron, but in this mat
ter he cannot be allowed to. have Ms own
wav. An ironclad might run on a rock.
or boilers might blow . up, or she might
founder in a storm, and the Prince must not
run the risk of any one of these events, so
long as the Duchess of -Fife stands third,
the Duke of Edinburgh seventh, and the
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frennan Emperor twenty-first in the direct
lice of succession to the British throne.
As the sober Tory St. James Gazette gloom
iljremarks: "The crown of England de
scends like a barony in fee to the nearest
heir of the last wearer, be that heir male or
female (daughters, of course, being post
poned after sons), and were Prince George
never to marry the crown would pass to the
Duchess of Ei'fe and afterward descend from
her to her daughter, Lady Alexander Duff,
at present aged 1 year always supposing
that a son was not born to her in the mean
time. In that case the son would naturally
take precedence. "We might then (and the
possibility is by no means Temote) witness
the curious sight of a Marquis of Macduff
steppine direct from the guards or benches
of the House of Commons to the throne."
That Fife specter is positively; haunting
royal and aristocratic minds, and it will not
be laid until Prince George shall have mar
ried and provided for the succession.
TRADESMEN IN TROUBLE.
MOURNING FOB THE DUAD DUKE IS
t RUINOUS TO BUSINESS.
An Appeal to the Queen to Dry Her Tears
and Help Them Stave Oft Bankruptcy
Only Dealers In Crape Making More
Than a Living Just Now.
1BT CABLE TO TnE DtSPATCH.
London, Jan. 30. The royal tradesmen
who put up black shutters, placed crape on
the royal coats of arms over their shops and
in other ways ostentatiously proclaimed that
they were in mourning for the Duke of
Clarence, are now calling upon the Queen
to cut short her period of mourning in order
that they may be saved from ruin. They
declare that, despite Kaiser "Wilhelm's
visit, last year was a bad one for business,
and that many of them will be forced into
bankruptcy if they don't have a good season
this year.
The favorite scheme is for the Queen to
come to London after her continental holi
day, live for three weeks at Buckingham
Iralace and hold three drawing rooms and
the same number of state concerts. That, it
seems, will save the season and make every
body happy. Curiously enough the Daily
Chronicle, which, apart from the home rule
question, is the most radical newspaper in
London, has constituted itself the organ of
the London tradesmen in this matter. It
warns the Government that "London dis
contented means London anti-ministerial,"
and suggests that the Metropolitan mem
bers of Parliament, irrespective of politics,
should hold a meeting, pass resolutions set
ting. forth the facts of the case, and send
them to the Prime Minister for presentation
to the Sovereign.
An Act of Lofty Charity.
The Chronicle maintains that an effort to
redeem the season would be an act of lofty
charity to tens of thousands of people who
can have very little at the best of times be
tween them and want, and who are "as
helpless in aught except ministering to the
shifting fashions of the time as the slaves
who were bound to the chariot wheels of
patricians in olden days."
It is not in the least possible or probable
that the ChronUle' ingenious advocacy will
prevail with the Queen. The most that she
will do will be to hold one drawing room
late in the summer, aud perhaps delegate
another to the Duke and Duchess of Con
naught The Queen dislikes London and
detests Buckingham Palace, in which, for
many years past, she has spent an average
of two davs and one night per year. The
demand that she should sentence herself to
three weeks' hard labor in London is absol
utely preposperous, and unworthy of a
moment's consideration; and the Queen
would say so in so many wnrds, it she
were not the most tactful old lady in this
country.
West End Dealers In Trouble.
It is undeniable that the "West End trades
men, except sellers of mourning materials
and undertakers, are having, and are likely
to have for some months, a very bad time.
One man, for instance, is said to have' paid
50,000 for an immense quantity of dress
material and fancy things of the Hawthorn
or May Blossom pattern, in honor, of course,
of the'Princess May, the bride-elect Death
has spoiled that particular deal, no doubt
But a dozen other men who expended thou
sands in the purchase of crape and black
cloth, upon the strength of the first serious
bulletin from the sick chamber at Sandring
ham, have no reason to regret their specula
tion. The talk of general ruin is absurb. Fash
ionable traders know how to take one year
with another, and after all, there is the
perennial golden flow from, America, the
course and volnme of which is almost as
certain as the Gulf Stream. There is a pros
pect, also, of a late autumn season.
BATTEITBUBO A O00S BOY.
Behaving So Well That His Motber-In-Lavr
Is Delighted With Illm.
London, Jan. 30. Prince Henry of Bat
tenburg has presumablv received leave of
absence from Mother-m-Law "Victoria, and
has gone on a yachting cruise in the Mediter
ranean all by himself! The Queen is said
to have been much pleased with Battenburg's
sympathetic demeanor during the Duke of
Clarence's illness, and the ready manner in
which he made himself useful during the
funeral, hence this holiday and also the an
nouncement that the good young man's
brother, Prince Louis of Battenburg, is to
be given the post coveted by all naval offi
cers, of commander of the royal yacht
"Victoria and Albert
One of these days, if Beatrice's husband
continues to be good, he will blossom forth
into an English Duke and take a seat in the
House of Lords. Already his English is
nearly as good as that of the Queen's son,
the Duke of Edinburg.
ArmeS Women Aid the Strikers.
Madeid, Jan. 30. The continuance of
the strike at Bilbao is chiefly due to women
inciting the strikers not to yield. A band
of women, headed by working girls, waving
knives and shouting "Hurrah for the
strike," marched through the streets of the
village of Ardoneda yesterday, threatening
the property of the mine owners as they
went along. The gendarmes guarding the
mines and iron works were openly threat
ened with death.
Chinese Growing Hostile Again.
. Shanghai, Jan. 30. Telegrams of a dis
quieting nature have been received " from
Ichang, on the Yang-tse-Kiang, 950 miles
from its mouth, and from Chung King, on
the same river, 1,350 miles from its mouth.
Ichang was the scene of a riot and massacre
of Christians during the late troubles. Great
hostility is being shown toward foreigners,
and it is feared that further trouble will
follow.
The Khedive Makes No Changes.
Cairo, Jan. 30. The Khedive in person
to-day opened the General Assembly. He
congratulated the members on the good re
sults hitherto obtained by their action, and
said that he would continue the work his
father had commenced.
Humbert Interested In the Fair.
Eome, Jan. 30. King Humbert yester
dayTeceived the World's Fair Commis
sioners, Messrs. Bryan Higginbotham and
Ives. The King informed the Commission
ers that he took a lively interest in the
Chicago Exposition.
. Six Thousand Engineers Quit.
London, Jan. 30. Six thousand en
gineers 'employed in work on ithe rivers
Weare, Tyne and Teei have struck in con
sequence of a dispute regarding payment
for overtime. -
RESULTS OF THE WAR.
flew York Had a Bier Time While It
Lasted, but It -Is Quiet Now.
HOW HILL IS PULLING THE WIRES.
Great
Eejoicing- Among His Camp
Cleveland Is Out of Town.
That
HEWS ABOUT CROKER AND GKAKT
rctmitEsroOTENci or rira dispatch.i
New Yobk, Jan. 30. There is a certain
difference between a horse and a great city.
A horse can think of but one thing at a
time. If he wants to balk and his intelli
gent owner sets fire to his tail he at once
forgets the balking idea and concentrates
his attention and his thoughts on his burn
ing tail. A town, on the other hand, is more
like an individual man and can sometimes
carry as many as two separate ideas in its
head at the same time.
For instance, during this past week the
great and powerful city of New York has
constantly talked about war, and while it
was talking on that entrancing theme,
which was destined to amount to nothing, it
was deep down in its mind turning over the
political situation, which has been develop
ing interesting features at such a remarka
ble rate.
How the War Changed People.
Of course for the present the war busi
ness is as dead as if it had not been heard
of for ten years, but while it lasted it was a
very big thing to this town, which rarely
finds anything really worth taking an inter
est in. For the first time in years the men
who bought the extra editions of the even
ing papers stopped to read them in the
streets as thev cot them and the man de
layed in his onward rush by the perform
ance, instead of losing temper, sympathized
with the provincial behavior of the news
paper readers and looked over his shoulder I
to see what the big headlines would say.
In 'addition to this, men who prido them
selves on their usual indifference to the rest
of mankind were discovered carrying on
heated conversations with total strangers in
the elevated railroad car's, and waving the
American eagle by his "tail with unconven
tional enthusiasm. An interesting feature
of the war scare, and one of which the gen
eral public knows nothing, was the doings
in the newspaper offices. Every man on
every big newspaper had some special in
terest in the thing.
War News at a Dollar a Word.
The men in charge of the expenses wept
at the thought that all the important news
that the paper printed for the next few
months would cost ?1 a word for telegraph
ing alone, to say nothingof the cost of send
ing men to the seat of the trouble. The city
editors, who are responsible for the local
news, and who in ordinary times despise
everything that happens more than a few
blocks away from the City Hall, have spent
days plunged in grief because some foreign
editor whom they had learned to despise
would have the right to look down on them.
Every small reporter has been beseeching
his editor to let him have a whack at the
war, and the sporting reporters, ordinarily
the representatives of Mart in the newspaper
business, have fallen'in the face of the great
fighting that has been impending to a place
as low as that of the new men who are sent to
do sermons. Poor down-trodden reporters
who had knowledge of languages, but a'poor
idea ot news nave found themselves all of a
sudden big men, because they could trans
late Spanish newspapers for the night ed
itor, and in fact the whole new'spaper busi
ness has been totally torn up while the
scare was on.
It is not likely that anyone in this
country is more disappointed to-day than
the newspaper man whose boss has a fine
steam yacht, and who was to go in charge of
mat iast steamooat, with a lot ot assistants,
photographers, etc., follow the fighting
boats as closely as possible and, with all the
exciting possibilities of having races with
hostile boats, do war correspondence as it
has never been done.
Hill Knows He Is Very Big.
Senator Hill's visit 'to New York has
added to the great interest that is felt here
in national politics just now. There is no
longer a Cleveland Democrat or Mugwump
who will say with the old-time indifference
to Hill's scheming that he is not a serious
element in the Presidental question. He is
at this moment the biggest man in the
Democratic field, and he knows it His suc
cess is perhaps due to all the wickedness
that is ascribed to him, but it is neverthe
less full of a very fine moral. If ever in
this world a man has succeeded by hard
work and attention to business exclusively,
Hill is the man.
He had not been in town two hours before
he was hard at work looking over his fences
and seeing whether any of them needed
patching up. At the Hoffman House he
had his usual diplamotic arrangements of
rooms, a big room and a little one. And as
hot work was expected, he had even added
a second little apartment, which is unusual.
Each of these had its lot of visitors. In the
big room were the not very important men
who like to be around the big man, whoever
he may be, and who must not be dis
couraged, although it is not possible to let
them know really what is going on.. In the
two little rooms were lodged the men whom
Hill wanted to talk to privately, and for
many hours he trotted patientlv from one of
these two little rooms to the other, stopping
at intervals to get rid of some of the waiting
ones in the big room.
How He Made His Visitors Feet
Every man he knew and took the wildest
interest in. Each call filled him with a
pride and gratification which he did not at
tempt to conceal, and not even the smallest
man went away without the impression that
his visit had given Hill a new feeling of
confidence that he would be President
Next to his ability to make every man who
sees him feel very important, Hill's most
precious faculty is his ability to say no
matter what, and keep a perfect straight
face. He is not a man without sense or
humor, and yet when he was asked before
the question was publicly decided when
the delegates to the Democratic Convention
were to be selected, he took on an innocent
air andjeplied : "I have not the least idea,
because the only men whom I have had a
chance to talk to as yet are Croker and
Murphy."
At this time it is safe to say that when
Hill, Croker and Murphy have been in con
sultation everything In the way of local
politics is settled but the weather at the
election. Therefore, Hill's quiet, earnest
assumption of ignorance ranked him at once
as one of the ablest actors of his time.
Hill's course in having the delegates chosen
as early as the 22d of February has been
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voi 7 Diivujji; b.i..v.o&u, uiu iuay uo mm a
great deal of harm in the eyes of conserva
tive people.
Chose the Lesser Danger.
No one knows that better than Hill, how
ever. He has calculated the wprk before
him, and has decided that the thing for him
to do is to make sure of the New York dele
gation now while he knows that he can,
even if some feelings are hurt
" The possibility of Cleveland's announcing
himself out of the race, which was alluded
to in this letter some time ago, has been
discussed a great deal of late. It is an in
teresting possibility, but no one has yet
been heard from who can speak on the sub
ject with authority. Hill and his friends
do not believe in the report, or at all events
they are going ahead with their work as
though they would have all the Cleveland
enthusiasm of long ago to fight. It may
interest Mr. Cleveland and his friends, to
know that tho thing which most amazed
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and delighted Hill was Cleveland.'scourse
in leaving 'New York and going to Lake
wood at such a critical time. If there is
one thing in which a practical politician
believes, it is in being on the spot when
work is to be done, and nothing has de
lighted Hill more in a long time than the
announcement that Mr. Cleveland was not
only going to Lakewood, but that he meant
to shut up his house in this town, or rent it
if possible.
A Contrast Between the Two Men.
An enthusiastic Hill man, in discussing
this course on Cleveland's part, remarked
with joy that the latter had shut himself i
out ot any possibility of organized work in
New York that he had no place in town to
which he could come quietly, there to have
his friends drop in casually, as it were, and
do the scheming and plotting that all work
ing politicians look upon as indispensable
to success. The importance that Hill at
taches to that question may be gathered
from the fact that when he had to give up
his executive home in Albany and go to
"Washington he took a house for himself in
Albany, and took care to let everyone
know that he was still an Albany man even
if he was a Senator, and that he was paying
Albany rent The Lakewood episode de
lights him.
JS ext to Hills visit Croker s appearance
as an author in the North American Jieview
has interested the New York political world
as much as anything. It is safe to say that
many a man who had never heard of the
North American Review before now has in his
possession a copy of that publication. The
Tammany chief writing is pretty widely
known by this time. What he said was
practically that to succeed in politics it is
necessary to have system, and that if a cer
tain body of men devote their time to the
work of the city, the city should be willing
to pay them for it. Many men who like to
be wise have volunteered information since
the Tammany leader's article .came out as to
who really wrote it
Croker Wrote His Own Article.
I am able to give information on that
point which cannot be contradicted. I
know that, because long before the article
was written! heard him give the substance
of it to some friends in practi jally the words
in which it appeared in the Review. Croker
is far from being a literary man. He is no
Howells, for instance, but when it comes to
saying in simple words the things that he
has on his mind, many might well envy his
ability. The number of speeches that he
has written or prepared for inexperienced,
timid or incapable politicians would fill a
good many numbers of the biggest review,
although he never makes speeches himself
if he can help it
It was announced in this letter last week
that Hugh J. Grant might jump from the
Mayor's office, in the City Hall, to the
United States Senate. Mr. Grant has told
me this week that he has never had the
slightest idea of such a thing, but he does
not say that he would not go to the Senato
if asked to do so by those who will have the
Senatorship to eive away. He proposes to
get out of New York City politics when his
present term as Mayor expires.
Grant Ready to Be Struck.
That will be in next January, just before
the election for Senator comes on. It is, of
course, certain, since he says so, that Grant
has no idea of working for'the Senatorship,
but it is a fact that friends of his have dif
ferent views on the matter, and if the light
ning should dart in his direction he will be
in a fine position to receive it, with no
office on his hands to embarrass him. Grant
himself admits that there is no other place
that he could get that would be good
enough for a Mayor of New York, that is to
say no place that would combine dignity
with the rest that he wants after 11 years of
constant service as an official.
His friends are working with a view to
sending him to. Washington in Hill's foot-
bivjis. -Lucy auuuuuce wuu pleasure tnat
Murphy, the big boss of Troy, does not
want the Senatorship any longer, because of
some idea on the subject that his wife holds,
and that Grant will be the natural selection
of the organization. "Whoever thinks that
he would like to have Hiscock's'place when
fate throws the latter overboard will do
well to keep an eye on the workings of
Mayor Grant's friends, working for his
glory in spite of him.
Outside or War and Politics.
Outside of politics and war this has been
a dull week. The "Water Color Exhibition
is open and not very amusing. Chase shows
a picture of a bear standing in front of a
lady which fs worth going to see. The bear
is supposed to be a Viking enchanted. In
the picture he appears to De having a very
nice time.
The everlasting Paderewski has gone on
adding to his laurels. The newest thing
concerning him is the invention of a popu
lar substitute for his real and difficult
name. The new name is "Paddyswhisk
ers." It is alleged concerning this distin
guished foreigner that his intelligent man
agers made it a condition of his contract
that he should not cut his hair while in
America.
It is certain that it gets longer all the
time. He plays pool in the "Windsor Ho
tel nearly every day, while admiring crowds
gather round, and when he bends over to
make a difficult shot his hair tends to shut
out everything from his eyes. This proves
that genius has its troubles.
Arthur Brisbane.
Idaho Claims More Territory.
Boise Citt,Idaho, Jan. 30. The bound
ary line between Idaho and Washington is
in dispute. Hon. W. J. McConnell, ex
TJnited States Senator, believes the present
line is about 30 miles too far east If Sena
tor McConnell should succeed in his scheme
for a resurvey and the idea prove correct,
Spokane would be in Idaho instead of
Washington. Cheney, Marshall and all
the towns along the line of the Spokane and
Palouse would belong to the Panhandle.
Melbourne, the Wizard, TXojr In Mexico.
El Paso, Tex., Jan. 30. Frank Mel
bourne, the ram wizard, accompanied by.
his Drotner, m. ta.r Melbourne, passed
through this city yesterday on their way to
Guayamez, Mexico, where they will carry
ou experiments uu tue property OI ii iS.
Hatheway and his associates, who have lost
an immense amount of stock on account of
ithe scarcity of water for the last two
months. Melbourne stated that upon his
return he would produce rain in this vicin
ity. Canada's Debt Piling Tip.
Ottavta, Ont., Jan. SO. The public ac
counts of Canada for the last fiscal year have
been issued. They show that the revenue
on account of the consolidated fund was
f38,579,310,and the expenditures 537,343,567,
showing a surplus of 2,235,743. The total
debt of Canada is placed at $289,899,229, the
assets at 52,090,199, and the net debt at
S237,809,030,-an increase during the year of
f275,818.
Getting Bid or Whisky Stock.
Chicago, Jan. 30. A distiller, who
claims to be in the confidence of the officers
of the Cattle Feeding Company (Whisky
Trust;, while at the Internal Sevenue
office yesterday said that the big holders of
Whisky Truit stock had unloaded their
holdings; that they had got rid of several
millions worth of trust stock in the last
few weeks, and that most of the stock was
now held in the East
Fizarro's Remains Still Perfect
Panama, Jan. 8a The remains of Fran
cisco Pizarro, the conqueror of Peru, were
removed with great pomp from the crypt
in the cathedral to the chapel of the vice-,
royg. The remains were'tound in a perfect
state of preservation. The wounds inflicted
by the assassins being still discernible.
Wm, call oiL.you with samples and fur
nish estimates on furniture reupholstery.
Haugh & Keenan, 33 Water street
JUT It's your
SEN No, no,
REAL WORK OF LIFE.
Tie Tendency in Allegheny Schools
Is Toward the Practical.
TYPEWRITING IS NOW A BRANCH.
Washington's Birthday to Ee Celebrated in
a New and Novel Way.
NEWS OP EDUCATIONAL CIRCLES
The thirty-seventh annual report of the
Board of Controllers and the eighteenth an
nual report of the Superintendent of Schools
of the city of Allegheny, for the last school
year, have just been issued. They contain
many matters of interest and show gratify
ing progress in school work on the "North
side. The report of the President, J. S.
Young, shows that the average monthly en
rollment of the day schools ,for the year
1891 was 12,710, an increase of 304 pupils
over that of the preceding year, and the
number of teachers employed 291, an in
crease of 13; the amount paid to the teachers
of day schools 169,961.50, or an increase of
J8.209.75 over that of 18S0.
President Young says that the Allegheny
schools have no superior in the State. He
calls the attention of the board to the revi
sion of the school law, and says the basis of
the school law is the act of 1854 which was
passed when conditions were entirely dif
ferent from what they are now. He recom
mends that suitable legislation correcting
the evil be prepared for presentation to the
next Legislature.
Superintendent Morrow's report inclndes
statistics on attendance, etc., and points
out the advantage of form study -and draw
ing and states that the industrial impor
tance of this matter is as great as the purely
educational and the work gives a training
in this great industrial center which is a
preparation for the practical business of
life.
Typewriting In the High PchooL
In the commercial course of the High
School typewriting has been added to the
studies, and the principal of the school, in
his report, states that the science depart
ment would more nearly meet the demands
of the city if opportunity could be afforded
the pupils for doing practical laboratory
work, which could he done with little ex
pense, and also suggests the introduction of
some kind of industrial work in all the dif
ferent departments of the schooL
Librarian Benny has the following to say
about circulation: "Curing the four and
one-half months the school library occupied
the room in City Hall the circulation was
14,033 books. The circulation for six and
one-half months in our present quarters was
27,157, which shows that the present room
is much better patronized than the old one. "
A suggestion is made that the pupils of
the commercial department of the High
School be moved to another building, fitted
up with especial reference to commercial
work. This would be advantageous to the
department, and also give room in the pres
ent High School, which last year had an
enrollment of 322 pupils.
These are the principal points in the re
port However, it contains a vast fund of
information on general school work, includ
ing school laws, rules, the names and ad
dresses of teachers, and is the most complete
report ever issued.
Superintendent Morrow is very anxious
that the school laws be codified. 'To a DIS
PATCH reporter yesterday he said that the
laws are in a very crude shape, the pro
visions in many oi tnem oeing so contra
dictory as to make them useless.
To Celebrate Washington's Birthday.
An event of great patriotic interest is be
ing pushed by the Principals' Club, fit Alle
gheny. Yesterday its session was .entirely
devoted to the best methods for conducting
patriotic exercises on Washington s Birth-,
day, and a committee of principals was ap
pointed to prepare a programme. The
Principals' Club, of Allegheny, meets semi
monthly and discusses important ques
tions relating in a wide sphere to 'both
the schools and nation's interest
Not long ago the subject discussed was
"How to Teach Patriotism in the Public
Schools," and the ultimatum agreed upon
was that the way to reach the large adult
foreign population would he to engender
love for the American flag in them through
tne pupns oi me puDiio scnoois. so to
stimulate this patriotism the club has de
cided to hold exercises in" every school
building in Allegheny, and so reach every
child in the city in connection with the
celebration of Washington's Birthday.
Besides these special school exercises
therewill be a large public gathering likely
in Carnegie Hall on the evening of Febru
ary 22. The programme will be largely
made up of the exercises conducted pre
viously, supplemented by speeches in the
schools, and the whole affair will be in edu
cational hands. .Prof. W. H. Dodds. of 4'jb
Allegheny HighSchooL is President of the
Principals' Club, anaTrof. T.,& Woods, of
tne xnira wara scnoois, secretary.
Honors of the Pittsburg Schools.
The following are the names of the pupils
elephant, Sen.
Jim; you take it
who stand first in the highest grammar
rooms of the various ward schools for the
month of January. -
Colfax, Susie Lougeay; Mt Washington,
Mary Miller; Bedford, Guy Watson; Peeb
les, Katie Alfree: Lincoln, Annie Oursler;
Thad Stevens, Lizzie Foley; Balston, Maggie
Sullivan; Luckey, No. 1, Ida Wolstoncroft;
Luckey, No. 2, Grace Holliday: Liberty,
Frank Schulz; Allen, CharIesMustin;Morse,
John Rowland; Mt Albion, Elmina Sander;
Forbes, Alice Tyler; St Clair, Laura" Koch;
OHara, Lillie McNeely; Wickersham,
Lizzie Mathews and Jessie Marker; Dn
quesne, John Heineman; Homewood, Lois
Whitmarsh; Howard, No. 1, Edward
Epping; Howard, No. 2, Chris Cunning
ham; Hiland, Elsie T. Coleman; Hancock,
Belle Smith; Lawrence, Lulu Hoerr; Birm
ingham, Jennie Hammett; Humboldt, Ger
tie Heineman; Moorhead, Laura Eutledge;
North, Alice Booth; Franklin, Amelia
Hoovles; Eiverside, Jennie Hobbs; Knox,
Ada Eichardson; Minersville, Harry Saling;
Springfield, Charles Staniek; South, Phillip
Leiber; Soho, Clara Kierschbaum.
Bits of School Gossip.
Tie Homewood public schoolhouse, which
was commenced last July, will he opened
with a reception next June.
Teachxbs from MaKeesport, Bradaock and
other near towns will attend the Teachers'
Local Institute, to be held In Wilklnsburg
this week.
Next Saturday at the Miller street build
Ins, the Permanent Certificate Commltteo
will hold examinations In geography and
spelling-. The examination will run for five
Saturdays.
Maech S has been fixed as the definite date
for the next city Division Institute. The
steps 1, 2, 8 and 9 wf II be Illustrated by class
drills, under the supervision of thH (H.a
Fundenberg, McComb and Mrs. Strickler, of
the Osceola school, Twentieth ward.
SuntRIHTEtDEST BJUttLTOlf will hold a
Division Institute at Braddock next Satur
day. He is having such gatherings through
out the county which gives him a opportunity
to meet all the teachers, which would In
many cases, with his large circuit, make it
impracticable.
The Board of Directors of the St Clair,
Twenty-seventh ward, school will add a
four-room addition to the No. 2 building as
soon as the weather will permit operations
to put it under way, making the old struct
ure a ten-roomed domicile. For the last two
years this building has been in a very
crowded condition. The Luckey School
contingent will shortly dedicate their new
four-roomed building.
Tiranew Third ward schoolhouse atTVil
kinsburg will open to-morrow morning with
tne louowmg teacners m charge: Misses
Frances E. Marter, Ina M. Stewart. Mary J.
Smith and Mary H. Price. Tho building is a
handsome brick and stone structure of nino
rooms, with all the modern improvements.
The cose is J23.0CO. It will accommodate the
children who have attended the branches of
the Wilklnsburg public school in the Metho
dist and Covenanter Churches for the past
six months.
A DESPERATE PRODIGAL.
He Shoots His Cousin, a Prominent New
York: Merchant, 'When the Latter Re
fused Illm Money Then He Uses His
Gun More Effectively on Himself.
New Toek, Jan.. 30. Jacob Somborn
shot and injured his cousin, Julius Som
born, the well-known merchant, to-day, at
the latter's office, 67 Broad street, and then
shot himself dead.
The suicide turned up a few days ago in
this city, and Mr. Somborn had not "seen
him for a long' time, knowing nothing of
his wanderings. About 1:15 this afternoon
the prodigal asked to see his relative, Julius
Somborn. The latter was in the outside
office when Jacob approached him, and de
manded a sum of money. Mr. Somborn re
fused, and his relative shouted:
"I will kill you if you don't."
With these words he whipped- out a re
volver and fired at Mr. Somborn. The
ballet struck Mr. Somborn in the right side,
causing only a slight flesh wound, grazed
the Bkin. dropped through Mr. Somburn's
, trousers leg and fell out on the floor. At
the sound ot the snot Mr. 'Somborn ran into
his private office. Jacob followed him and
fired three shots at him through the glass
door, none of which took effect.
The would-be murderer then made a dash
for' the street door. As he reached the
stone step leading to the sidewalk he pnt
the muzzle of the revolver to his head and
fired twice. The bullets entered, his brain
and he fell back dead. Julius Somborn had
frequently given his relative pecuniary as
sistance. Uncle Sam Wants No Bicyclers.
Chicago, Jan. 30. General Miles re
cently organized a bicycle corps at Sheri
dan. The War Department officials hearing
of it. notlhed uenerai Bcnoneld, who js
said to have written General Miles, order
ing him to disband the corps. General
Miles wants the corps continued, as he
thinks the bicycle can be made of use in the
army.
Graves Not Tet a Xree Man.
Denteb, Jan. SO. The granting of a
supersedeas in the Graves case does not
mean that Dr. Graves will be admitted to
bail, as has been claimed. He 'will be
nllnwpd all the time his flttnmdir. .nn.iil.
necessary to further prepare his case.
Dress Salts.
For a good fitting suit or overcoat' go to
Pitcairn1, 434 Wood street
OLDMDje.ROML
Modern Buildings and Im
proYements Give It Unex
pected Smartness
GOOD WATEB AND STEEETS.
St. Peter's Is All and More Than Stay-at-Homes
Have Imasjined,
WORKS OP THE SISTIIE CHAPEL
Either the Light Is Bad or Murat Halstead
. Doesn't Enow iri
AUTHEXTIC1TI OP THE ILiOT EHJC3
WBITTEN TOB THI DISPATCH.J
letter No. 4.
YIDENTLT the
rail-
roads of Italy are
not
managed with the pur
pose of enabling the trav
elers to see the country.
There -were two trains
leaving Pisa for Borne
rt
JJ-'. ?,
one had to make
'-te
"V II "
choice between a train
leaving at 11:40, reaching
Borne at 9 o'clock, and
one at 4:40, arriving at
Borne at 11115. In either
case, the country nigh the Eternal City had
to be observed by moonlight. 'The tax on
one light trunk waj nearly $3. .This has a
tendency to prohibit the transportation of
dress suits, extra overcoats, overshoes and
iron bootjacks in the future.
These December days are the shortest of
the year, and we were hardly out of Pisa
before darkness fell, as modified by moon-
ngnt. it was a December night, and yet
the air was not chilly. One door of our
compartment was open for hours, and there
was no complaint We found the car get
ting hot, and, lo! it was heated by steam,
and there was a lever found with directions
as to turning the steam on and ofK Wo
turned it offi On the right was the Medi
terranean, often visible; on the left, not far
oft; mountains occasionally, whole villages,
We had stores of roa?t chickens that had
been good livers, bread and butter, grapes,
oranges, and red wine of the country, and
yet the ride seemed long-drawn out
Fast at Thirty Miles an Honr.
We were on what is known in Italy as a
fast train, and yet it would be an exaggera
tion to say that we exceeded 30 miles an
hour. At last we found ourselves on a
bridge, and the remark passed around: "The
Yellow Tiber." The cars had, however,to run
about half-way around Bome, and we hung
on the outskirts of the city, as 13 the fashion
in solving the mysteries -of Detroit We
"got there," though, as the boys say, and
the porters appeared in force, and we had
L to face the longest row of hotel omnibuses,
each with a vocueratmg agent, that lever
saw. My trunk had been examined at
Genoa and paid for three timet, butihadto .
give up the key, which I found next morn
ing tied to one of the handles.
The Hotel Qnirinal is a small edition of
the Grand Hotel, Paris, and there is the
same fine style of driving in at the front
door, as it were. It was midnight when I
entered my room and extravagantly lighted
two candles. One young man called for a
room upon which the sun shone in the
morning, and he was complimented on his
experience aud sagacity. The sun performs
a great part here. His rays are warm in
December. The trouble is that, though he
shines longer than in London, he has not
quite time enough to make winter days
warm. It is difficult for Americans to
appreciate the service performed for Italy,
Prance, Spain and England by the Gulf
Stream, that carries the warm waters of tho
far South to Europe, and by the hot wind
from Africa, that is tempered and made de
licious by its passage over the Mediterra
nean. It is to the tropical stream and the
south wind that Southwestern Europe owes
its delicious climate.
Dreaming of St Peter's Dome.
Once upon a time I was asleep in a sleep
ing car, and had a dream. Jl. bookseller
passed through the car, in which I fancied
myself reading, and handed me a book of
poems. I declined to buy and refused to
look at the volnme, when the youth who
was dispensingliteraturesaid: "Yon should
buy this, for there is a poem in it by your
self." I could not remember any poems of
mine, but the work was handed me, and on
the neht-hand page, about half-way down.
was to be seen a fine headline, in prominent
type: 'Lines to a Boman Eagle, by Murat
Malstead. J. read as iouows:
Why do yon fly
So fr from homer
When did yon see
Fair Italy
From tho rounded towers of BomeT
I turned the page and awoke. The mental
association, no doubt, was with the familiar
lines on the "sad sincerity" of those who
"builded wiser than they knew" when "tho
unconscious stones to beauty grew," and
they "rounded Peter's Dome." My dream
poem comes back to me as I look upon the
dome that was so wonderfully rounded, and'
Bee the Boman Eagle in nis royal cage,
alongside the wolf's den in Capitol Hill,
and behold the luminous crystal blue of the
skies of fair Italy.
I shall have to give with a nrefaeean.
anecdote of my firstlunch in Borne. A wild
and wooly Western story was forced upon
my recollection to-day by the anxiety of an
attendant in the Winter Garden at iho .
Hotel Qnirinal.
It's Always Wine at Eome.
The story is that a tenderfoot was asked
by one of the acclimated settlers among the
foothills of the Bockies to take a drink.
and replied: "No, thank you: I do not',-
drink." Somewhat disappointed, the old: I
citizen saia: "JLace a cigarY " ."No," was;
the reply, "J. do not smoke," "Oh I" ex-,
claimed the veteran, "you will have a piece
of pie." The waiter asked: "What wina'
will you have?" The Prohibitionists will
perceive the total depravity of putting the
case in that way, and recognize the de-;
generacy ot tne Italians in supposing that
one musb uavc wiue lur luucueuu nua um.
ner. I answered: "I do not wish wine to
day." Then a bright idea struck my friend.
He knew I was an American, and said:
"Oh, you will take some whisky I" If I hadk
thought of the fun of it in time, I would
nave laen tue wmsjfcy iu iicip out uio
ioke; but my man turned away with -a
dreary look, as if he did not approve of the
phenomenon. '
By the way, there is not in Bome that
usual American excuse for drinking rebel-''
lious liquors, viz., that the water is bad, for'
the Boman water seems very good, clear
and distilled, and abundant It comes
through the ancient aqueduct from the Ap-'
penines, and appears to be free as air. A.
3
fountain plays in sight of my window, a
stream illuminated at night with electricity,
and rising witn aazzimg peauty 30 feet
Evidently it does not represent steam
power. And referring to this beneficence
reminds me that the streets ot all the Ital
ian towns thus far are perfectly paved
clean. I have been thorough several of ithe
narrowest ana crooseaest ox-tne streets
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