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THE PITTSBURG
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SECOND PART.
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PAGES 9 TO 20.
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11 HEALTHFAGTORY.
Mark Twain Initiated Into
the Mysteries of Mary's
Baths in Austria.
ALL TALK IS ON -LIYEKS,
Ejccpt When a Jovial Fat Man Runs
2jainst a Eappy Lean One.
A POESI BELEASED BY THE MUD.
Austria's Emblem Should Be a Grandmother
Harnessed to a Do?.
ILOT FOE A THEILUXG STAGE ROSTAKCE
TTTITTE3T TOH THE DTSrJLTCH.l
HIS place is the
village of Hirienbad,
Bohemia. It seems
no Terr great dis
tance from Annecy,
in Hante Savoie, to
this place yon
make it in less than
30 hours by these
Continental express
trains but the
changes in the
scenery are great:
they are quite ont of
- -" proportion to the
distance covered. From Annecv by Aix to
Geneva jou have blue lakes, with bold
mountains springing from their borders,
and far giimpes of snowy wastes lifted
against the horizon beyond, while all about
yon is a garden cultivated to the last possi
bility of grace and beauty a cultivation
which doesn't Btop with the handy lower
levels, but is carried risht up the sheer
steeps and propped there with ribs of ma
sonry, and made to stay there in spite of
Xewton's law.
Beyond Geneva beyond Lausanne, at
any rate yon have for a while a country
which noticeably resembles Xew England,
and seems out of place a&d like an intruder
an intruder who is wearing his every-day
clothes at a fancy-dress ball. But presently,
on your right, huge green mountain ram
parts rise up, and after that for hours you
are absorbed in watching the rich shadow
effects which they furnish, and are only
dully aware that Xew England is gone and
that you are flying past quaint and un
speakably old towns and towers.
Xext day you have the Lake of Zurich,
and presently the Rhine is swinging by you.
How clean it is! How clear it is! How
blue it is! How green it is! How Bwift
and rollicking and insolent is its gait
and style! How vivid and splendid its
colors beautiful wreck and chaos of all the
soap bubbles in the universe! A person
born on the Ilhine must worship it.
I saw the blue Rhino sweep along; I heard,
or seemed to hear.
The German songs we used to slnjr in chorus
sweet and clear.
Yes, that is where his heart would be, that
is where his last thoughts would be, the "sol
dier of the legion"who "lay dying in
Algiers."
And by and by yon are in a German re-
LEANNESS, rjLTKKSS
cion, which you discover to be quite differ
ent irom the "recent Swiss lands behind you.
Youhavea6ca before you; that is to say,
the green land goes rolling away, in ocean
swells, to the horizon. And there is an
other new feature. Here and there, atwide
intervals, vou have islands, hills 200 and
300 feet high, of a haystack form, that rise
abruptly out of the "green plain, and are
wooded solidly to the top. On the top there
is just room lor a ruined castle, and there
it is, every time; above the summit you see
the crumbling arches and broken towers
projecting.
Nature in Rudest Shapes.
Beyond Stuttsart, next dav, you find
other changes still By and by, approach
ing and leavine Nuremberg and down by
Zewhaus. your landscape is humped every
where with scattered knobs of rock, un
sociable crags of a rude, tower-like lok,
and thatched with grass and vines and
bushes. And now and tiien you have
gorges, too, of a modest pattern "as to size,
with precipice malls curiouslr carved and
honeycombed by I don't know what; but
water, no doubt The changes are not done
yet, for the instant the countrv finds it is
out of Wurtemberg and into Bavaria it dis
cards one more thickness of soil to go with
previous disrobings, and then nothins re
mains over the bones but the shift. There
may be a poorer soil somewhere, but it is
net likely. ,
A couple of hours from Bavreuth you cross
into Bohemia, and before long you reach
this Marienbad and recognize another sharp
change the change from the long ago to to
day; that is to say, Irom the very old to the
spick and span new; from an architecture to
tally without shapeliness or ornament to an
architectureattractively equipped withboth;
from universal djsmaluess as to color to uni
versal brightness and beauty of tint; from a
town which teems made up ofprisonstoa
town which is made up of gracious and
graceful mansions proper to the light of
heart and crimeless. It is like jumping out
of Jerusalem into"Chicago.
No Snch Variety Anywhere.
Tlie more I think of these many changes,
the more surprising the thing seems. I have
never made so picturesque a journey before,
fiand surely there cannot be another trip of
like length in the world that can furnish so
much variety and of so charming and inter
esting a sortl
There are onlv two or three streets here
in this snug pocket, in the hemlock hill,
but they are handsome. When you stand
at the foot of a street and look up the slant
of it you see only block fronts of graceful
pattern, with happily broken lines, and the
pleasing accent of bay projections and bal
conies in orderlv disorder and harmonious
confusion, and always the color is fresh and
cheery, various shades of cream, with softly
contrasting trimmings of white, and now
and then a touch ot dim red. These blocks
are all thick-walled, solid, masshe, tall, for
this is Europe; but it is the brightest and
newest-looking town on the continent, and
as prettv as anybody could require. The
steep hills spring high aloft from the very
back doors, and are clothed densely to their
tops with hemlock.
In Bavaria everybody is in uniform, and
you wonder where the private citizens are,
but here in Bohemia the uniforms nre very
rare. Occasionally one catches a glimpse
of an Austrian officer, but it is only occa
sionally. Uniforms are so scarce that wo
seem to be in a Republic. Almost the only
striking feature is the Polish Hebrew. He
is very frequent He is tall and of grave
countenance, and wears a (ioat that reaches
to his ankle bones, and he has a little wee
curl or two in front of each ear. He has a
prosperous look and seems to be as much
respected as anvbody.
The crowds that drift along the prom
enade at niusic time twice a day are fashion
ably dressed after the Parisian pattern, and
tbey look a good deal alike, but they speak
a lot of languages which vou have not en
countered before, and no ignorant person
can spell their names, and they can't pro
nounce them themselves.
The Miracles of the Sprlnsr. ,
Jlarienbad Mary's Bath The Mary
is the Virgin. She is the patron
ess of these curative springs. They
try to cure everything: gout, rheuma
tism, leanness, fatness, dyspepsia, and all
the rest. The whole thing is the property
of a convent, and has been for COO or 700
hundred years, nowevcr, there was never
a boom here until a quarter of a century
ago.
If a person has the gout, this is what they
do with him: They have him ont at 5:30 in
the morning, and give him an egg and let
him look at a cup of tea. At 6 he must be
at his particular spring, with his tumbler
hanging at his belt and he will have plenty
of company there. At the first note of the
orchestra he must lift his tumbler asd
begin to sip his dreadful water with the
ret. He must sip slowly and be a long
time at it Then he must tramp about the
hills for an hour or so. and cet all the
exercise cud fresh air possible. Then he
takes his tub or wallows in his mud,
if mud baths are his sort By noon he has
a fine appetite, and the rules allow him to
turn himself loose now and satisfy it, so
long as he is careful and eats only such
things as he doesn't want He puts "in the
afternoon walking the hills and fillinz up
with fresh air. At night he is allowed to
take three ounces of auy kind of lood he
doesn't like, and drink one glass of any
kind of liquor that he has a prejudice
against; he may also smoke one pipe' if he
isn't used to it At 9:30 sharp he must be
in bed and his candle out Repeat the
whole thujg next day. I don't.see any ad,
vantage in this over the gout
A Becenerntlns Revolution.
In the case of most diseases that is about
what one is required to undergo, and if yon
have any pleasant habit that yon value
they want that They want that the first
thing. They make you drop everything
that gives an interest to life. Their idea is
to reverse your entire system of existence
and make a regenerating revolution. If
you are a Republican ther make vou talk
free trade; if you are a Democrat they
make you talk protection; if you are a
Prohibitionist yon have got to go to bed
drunk every night till vou get well. Ther
spare nothing, they spare nobody. KeformH
reiorm, tnat is tncir wnoie song, at a per
son Ib an orator, theygag him; if he likes to
read, they won't let him; if he wants to" sing,
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ASD AT.L THE BEST.
they make him whistle. They say they cin
cure any ailment, and they do seem to do it;
but whv should a patient come all the way
here? Why shouldn't lie do these things at
home and save the money? Xo disease
would stay with a person who treated it
like that
I didn't come here to t3ke baths; I only
name to look around. But first one person
and then another began to throw out hints,
and pretty soon I was a good deal concerned
about mvself. One of these goutees here
said I had a gouty look about the eye; next
a person who has catarrh of the intestines
asked me if I didn't notice a little dim sort
of stomach ache when I sneezed. I hadn't
before, but I did seem to notice it then. A
man that's here for heart disease said he
wouldn't come down stairs so fast if he had
my build and aspect A person with an old
gold complexion said a man died here in a
mud bath, last week that had a petrified
liver good deal such a looking man as I
am, and the same initials. And so on, and
soon.
They Sent Him to Bed.
Of course there was nothing to be uneasy
about, and I wasn't what you may call real
lv uneasy; but I was not feeling very well
that is, not brisk and Ijvent to bed. I
suppose that that was not a good idea, be
cause then they had me. I started in at the
npper end of "the mill and went through.
I am said to be all right now, and free from
disease, but this does not surprist me.
What I have been through in these two
weeks would free a person of pretty much
everything in him that wasn't nailed there
any loose thing, any unattached fragment
of bone, or meat, or morals, or disease,
or propensities, or accomplishments, or
whatnot And I don't say but that I feel
well enough; I feel better than I would if I
was dead, I reckon. And besides, they say
that I am going to build up now and come
right along and be all right I am not say
thins, but I wish I had enongh of my dis
eases back to make me aware of myself,
and enouch of my habits to make it worth
while to live. To have -nothing the matter
with yon and no habits is pretty tame,
pretty colorless. It is just the" way a saint
feels, I reckon; it is at least the way it
looks. I never could stand a saint
That reminds me that you see very few
priests, around here, and yet, as I have al
ready said, this whole Dig enterprise is
ow ned and managed by a convent The few
priests one does see here are " dressed like
human beings, and so there may be more of
them than I imagine. Fifteen priests
dressed like these could not attract as much
of your attention as would one priest at
Aix-les-Bains. You cannot pull vour eve
loose from the French priest so long as he
is iu sight, his dress is so fascinatingly
ugly.
The Universal Subject or Conversation.
While waiting in the reception room all
by myself two men came in and began to
talk. Politics, literature, religion? No
their ailments. There is no other subject
here, apparently. Wherever two or three
of these people are gathered together, there
you have it, every time. The first that can
get his mouth open contributes his disease
and the condition of it, and the others fol
low with theirs. The two men just referred
to were acquaintances, and they followed
the custom. One of them was built like a
gasometer and is here to reduce his girth;
the other was built like a derrick, aud is
here to fat up, as fccy express it
at this resort They were well satis-.
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EVEBTBODY INSISTS
fied
with the progress they were mak
ing. The gasometer had lost a quarter of a
ton in ten days, and showed the record with
pride on his' belt, and he walked briskly
across the room, smiling in a vast and lu
minous way, like a harvest moon, and said
he couldn't have done that when he arrived
here. He buttoned his coat around his
equator and showed how loose it a-". Tt
was pretty to see his happiness, it vas s,o
childlike and honest He set his feet to
gether and leaned out over his person and
proved that he could see them. He said he
hadn't seen them from that point before for
15 years. He had a hand like a boxing
glove, and on one of bis fingers he had just
found a diamond ring which he.had missed
.Itrears ago. ''-.
The minute ttte derricK got a chance he
broke in and began to tell how he was pil
ing on blubber right along three-quarters
of an ounce every four days; and ne was
still nioinc awav when I was sentfor. I
-left the fat man standing there panting and
VI : 3 Tl! -J 11-! t ill
muvriu, uuu oweiuug auu uuu&usiug like a
balloon, his next speech all ready, you see,
and urgent for delivery.
They Talk About Their LlTeri.
The patients are always 'at that sort of
thing, trying to talk each other to death.
The iat ones and the lean ones aro nearlr
the worst at it, but not quite; the dyspep-
night and all along. They have more symp
toms than all the others put together, and
so there is more variety of experience, more
.change of condition, more adventure, and
consequently more play for the imagination,
more scope tor lying, and in every wav a big
ger field for talk Go where yon will, hide
where you may, you cannot escape that
word liver; you overhear it constantlr in
the street, in the shop, in the theater, in
the musjs ground Wherever you see two
or a dozen people of ordinary bulk talking
together, you know they are talking about
their livers. When you first arrive here
your new acquaintances seem sad and hard
to talk to, but pretty soon you get the lay
of the land and, the hang of things, and
after that yon haven't any more trouble.
Yon look into the dreary, dull eye, and
and say: "Well, how's your liver?""
You'will see that dim eve flash up with a
grateful flame, and you will see that jaw
begin to work, and you will recognize that
nothing is required of you from this out but
to listen so long as you remain contcious.
After a few days you will begin to notice
that out of these peoplt's talk a gospel is
framing itself, and next you will find your
self believing it It is this that a man is
not what his rearing, his schooling, his be
liefs, his principles make him, he is what
his liver makes him; that with a
healthy liver ho will have the clear-seeing
eye, the honest heart, the sincere mind, the
loving spirit, the loyal soul and truth and
trust and faith that are based as Gibraltar is
based, and that with an unhealthy liver he
must and will have the opposite ot all these;
he will se nothing as it really is, he cannot
trust anybody or believe in anything, his
moral foundations are gone from under him.
Kow, isn't that interesting? I think it is.
Hrleascd by a 31 ad Bath.
Two days ago, perceiving that there was
something unusual the matter with me, I
went around from doctor to doctor, but
without avail; they said they had never
seen this kind of svmtoms before at least,
not all of them. They had seen somo of
them, but differently arranged. It was a
new disease, as far as they could see. Ap
parently it was scrofulous, but a new kind.
That was as much as they felt able to say.
Then then they made a stethescopic' exam
ination, and decided that it anything would
dislodge it, a mud bath was the thing. It
was a very in?eniou3 idea. I took the mud
bath, and'it did dislodge it Here it is:
A Love Song.
I nsk not "Is thy heart-still sure,
Thy love still nann, tny faith secure;"
I auk not, "Dream'st thou still of me?
Lonc'st alway to fly to mo?"
Ah, no-but as the sun includeth all
Tho good gifts of the Giver,
I sum all these In asking thee,
"O sweetheart, how's yourlivert"
For if thv liver worketh right.
Thy faith is sure, thy hope is bright,
Their dreams are sweet and I their god.
Doubt threats in vain thou scorn'st his
rod.
Keep only thy digestion clear.
Ho other foe my love doth fear.
But indigestion hath the power
To mar the soul's serenest houi
To crumble adamantine trust
And turn its certainties to dust,
To dim the eye with nameless Brief.
To chill the heart vi ith unbelief,
To banish hope, and faith, and love,
Place heaven below and neli above.
Then list details are naught to me
To thou'st tho sum-gift of the giver
1 ask thee all in asking thee,
"O darling, how'70ur liver?''-
Yes, it ii easy 'to say it is scrofulous, but
I don't see the signs of it In my opinion
y
pirrsBima,- Sunday,
it is as good poetry as I have over written.
Experts sav it isn't poetry at all, because it
lacks the element of fiction, but that is the
voice ot -envy I reckon. I call it good
medical poetry, and I consider that I am a
judge.
Some Strange Street Manners.
One of the most curious things in these
countries is the street manners of the men
and women. In meeting yon they come
straight on withont swerving a hair's
breadth from the direct line and wholly ig
noring your right to any part of the road.
At the last moment you must view np your
share of it and step aside, or there will Da
a collision. I noticed this strange barbarism
first in Geneva 12 years ago.
In Aix-les-Bains, where sidewalks are
scarce and everybody walks in the streets,
there is plenty of room, but that is no mat
ter; you are always eseaping collisions by
mere quarter inches. A man or woman who
is headed in such a way as to cross your
course presently without a collision will
actually alter hi direction shade by shade
and compel a collision unless at the last in
stant you jump out of the way. Those
folks are not dressed as ladies and gentle
men. And they do not seem to be con-
ON RIGIIT OP WAT.
sciously crowding you out of the road; they
seem to be innocently and stupidly unaware
that they are doing it. But not so in
Geneva. There this class, especially the
men, crowd out men, women, and girls of
all ranks and raiment consciously and in
tentionallycrowd them off the sidewalk
aud into the gutter.
There was nothing .of FhH kind in Bay
reutb. But here well, here the thing is as
tonishing. Collisions are unavoidable, un
less you do all the yielding yourself. An
other odd thing here this savagery is
confined to the' folk who wear the fine
clothes, the others are courteous and con.
:siderate. A big burly ,CQmancbe with all
the signs about him of wealth and educa
tion will tranquilly force young Jadiesj-to
step oft into the gutter to ayold being run
down by him. It is a mistake that there is
no bath that will cure people's manners.
.out drowning would help.
A Brraldlo Design Tor Austria.
However, perhaps one can't 190k for any
really showy amount of delicacy of feeling
in a country where a person is brought up
to contemplate without a shudder the spec
tacle of women harnessed-np with dogs and
hauling carts. 'The woman is on one side of
tne poie, tne dog on the other, and they
bend to the work and tug and pant and
strain and the man tramps leisurely along
side and smokes bis pipe. Often the woman
is old and gray, and the roan is her grand
son. The Austrian national ornithological
device ought to be replaced by a grand
mother harnessed to a slush cart ith a
dog. This merely in the interest of fact.
Heraldic fancy has been a little too much
overworked in these countries, anyway.
Lately one of those curious tilings hap
pened near here which justify the felicitous
extravagances of the stage and help us to ac
cept them. A despondent man, bankrupt,
friendless, and desperate, dropped a dose of
strychnia into a bottle of whis'kv and went
out in the dusk to find a handy place for his
purpose, which was suicide. In a lonely
spot he was stopped bv a tramp, who said
he would kill him if he didn't give up his
money. Instead of jumping at the chance
of getting himself killed and thus saving
himself the impropriety and annoyance of
suicide, he forgot all about his
late project and attacked the
tramp in a most sturdy and val
iant fashion. He made a good fight, but
lailed to w in. The night passed, the morn
ing came, and he woke out of unconscious
ness to una mat ne had been clubbed half to
death and left to perish at his leisure.
Cheated Out 0 Hln Suicide.
Then he reached for his bottle to add the
finishing touch, but it was gone. He pulled
himself together and went limping away,
and presently came upon . the -tramp
stretched out stone dead with the empty
bottle beside him. He had drank
the whisky and committed suicide
innocently. Now, while the msn who
had been cheated out of liis sui
cide stood there bemoaning his hard luck
and wondering hpw he might manage to
raise money enough to buy some more
whisky and poison, some people of the
neighborhood came 6r and he told them
about his curious adventure. They said
that this tramp had been tne scourge of the
neighborhood and the dread of the constab
ulary. The inquest passed off quietly and
to everybody's satisfaction, and then the
people, to testify their gratitude to the hero
of the occasion, put him on the police, on a
good enough salary, and he is all right now,
and is not meditating suicide any more.
Here are alt the elements of the naivest
Arabian tale; a man who resists robbery
when he hasn't anything to be robbed of;
does his very best to save his life when he
has come out purposely to throw It away;
and finally is victorious in defeat killing
his adversary in an effectual and poetic
fashion after already hors du combat himself.
And now, if you let him rise in the service
and marry the chiof of police's daughter, it
has the requisite elements of the Occidental
romance, tacking not a detail as far as I can
see. Mask Twais.
BECEI7EE8 HOI BOUND BY LAW.
A Remarkable Decision in a Railroad Dam
age Case In a Texas Court
Galveston, Tex., Feb. 6. The State
Supreme Court has rendered a remarkable
decision in the case of S. S. Turner against
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad,
Cross & Eddy, receivers.
John Turner's mother sued for damages
for the death of her son who was killed on
the railroad. The case came before Will
iamson county on an appeal, and the jndges
decided that, inasmuch as the lair mentions'
specifically as liable owners, proprietors,
etc., and omits receivers, the latter cannot
be held responsible for injuries inflicted,
nor compelled to pay damages.
'February 7, 189a
THE SILENT MYSTERY
Is .What New York Politicians
Calling Grdver Cleveland.
Are
BILL AND HIS MACHINE WORK.
A Murderer tho 3Iost" Interesting Character
in New Tort.
HIS IXECUTIdX AX APPROPRIATE ONB
rronnEsroNBKNCi: or tite nisrAxrit.l
New York, Feb. C Senator Hill, who
is working the machine with all the ardor
and many times the enthusiasm of a Man
tallni at a mangle; Grover Cleveland in the
strange role of The Silent Mystery, and
Carlyle Harris conVicted of his young wife's
murder are the important actors on the
metropolitan stage this week.
Of course the murderer is the most inter
esting of the three. We never weary of
intelligent murderers; in fact. we never
have enough of them. Harris is the first
that has turned up in a long time. His
name and doings make conversation
everywhere. When an ignorant brute
commits a murder and dies for it, no
one cares but himself, nere is an intelli
gent young man, tall and slim, who has a
young woman on his hands, finds the load
embarrassing, and decides to kill her. That
interests everybody. It is well worth while
to study a young chap able to win the
affections of numerous young women, and
possessing, at the same time, s character
that made it possible for him to kill a girl
who loved him as calmly as that girl would
have drowned a batch of kittens that she
was not prepared to entertain. Any num
ber of women thought a great deal of this
dilnted, Tulgar little beast of a nineteenth
century Henry VIII.
Women's intuitions Not Infallfble.
Therefore what is the use of talking any
morp about the value of women's intuitions.
That is one disillusion. Here .is another.
Many good people have had great faith in
stirpicultuM. That is to say, they felt that
in the important matter of the perpetuation
of the human raec too much was left to
luck. The mother of the young murderer
is a stirpiculturist and has written a book
protesting against the prevailing principle.
In her book she lays down rules which she
doubtless followed and which were to im
prove future generations very greatly.
Her son turns out a murderer; an intelli
gent fellow and lovable, as hi9 friends put
it, but a murderer. That seems to discour
age the stirpiculture idea.
It is almost enough to cause a revision of
his views bv the young man of the period
who does his thinking on all subjects for
himself, and who just now usually decides
against the existence of a soul because he
can't see it Here is a young man, enter
taining, gay, intelligent and lovable, with
the added advantages of stirpicnlture tried
on himself, rho commits a cowardly mur
der. It's enough to make a young thinker
believe that there are some things in nature
with which his mind is not fittedMo wrestle.
The killing of Harris by electricity, if it
ever takes place, will, in the language of
newspaper men, be a great story: Electri
cal killing seems hardly fair treatment for
the sturdy straightforward laboring roan
who commits his murder, with an axe or a
billet of wood. He seems to hav almost a
right tvdemand that he be punished with
the rope in simplo fashion.
An Appropriate Execution.
But for a seientifiCjinedical'tourderer who
nses drugs, prescriptions, and a knowledge
ofhuman nature in his work, the complex
dynamo, with its alternating currents, volts
and wires and the knowledge it demands of
nerves and other medical things, appears to
be singularly appropriate.
Harris passed his medical examinations
most brilliantly. He will know what is in
store for him quite as well as those who kill
him. That will enable those who write
about the electrio killing to give anew
color to the affair. There will be interest
ing copy also concerning the professional
feelings of the doctors who constitute them
selves executioners and who will have to
one. ate on one of their brethren.
The action of the Legislature admitting
reporters to electrical executions will make
of the Harris execution a notable event in
the historjr of newspaper work.
That action, by the nay, is a sad thing for
the unhappy prison wardens. They can
onlv admit six reporters to each killing and
will have to deal with at least 25 news
papers, each thoroughly convinced of its,
right to send a man. Warden Brown, of
Sing Sing, has two men to' kill next week.
After careful thought he has decided that
the reporters from morning newspapers
shall witness one of the executions and
those from evening nowspapers the other.
Hill and Cleveland the Big' Men.
The two political big men are in the sight
of New York once more. " Mr. Cleveland is
back from his fishing and doubtless very
busy at Lakewood. Senator Hill in Albany
sees so many callers, according to reliable
reporters, that they keep the snow from
falling on the sidewalk of his house, No.
123, State street, and save the expense of
sweeping.
Hill is now far beyond the stage in which
it is necessary to speculate concerning him.
From his early manhood he fought a series
of political fights, always winning, and
finally crowned his work by a fieht for
Democratic control of this State, at the end
of which a decision of the Court of Appeals
made him tor the first time a serious candi
date for the Presidency.
He is now working to be President, and
makes no secret of his ambition or his
efforts. He has preferred to the advice of
disinterested friends the old advice about a
bird in the hand, and has decided to have
his midwinter election of ddlegates and get
the right ones while he is sure that he has
the power to do it
Among those who criticise him many
declare that success has at last turned his
head. His head is not one that turns. He
is a mighty able man, "forcing his luck" as
gamblers do by increasing their stakes when
fortune smiles.
Clevolanrt thn Silent Mystery.
' Grover Cleveland of all men on earth is
now the mysterious one in the eyes of those
who discuss politics in New York.
He has returned from the South with tales
of fat, woodcock and painful swamps. On
the train' from Washington on Wednesday
he was exceedingly .merry, speeding the
hours with fishing and shooting yarns, and
the other pastimes of great men turned
loose. He did not look at all liko. one
bowed down by the x, eight ot a schemine
Hill.
Everyone is waiting now to hear what
Cleveland will say If he makes np his mind
to talk. There is much speculation as to
what the inside workings ot his mind ate.
Does he worry about Senator Hill, is he do
ing deep political scheming on his own ac
count, or is ho simply drifting with tho
tide, and how much Interest has he in the
committee organized to protest against the
midwinter convention which is now sending
out protests for signature? If he would
answer these questions and a few others he
wonld greatly oblige many who are inter
ested in him.
The feeling aroused against Hill because
of his determination to hold a midwinter
convention has seriously alarmed many of
his sincere friends in New York It Is
feared that If he sends a lot of straw men
to the National Convention a contesting
delegation will be admitted, as were the
Tanftnany Hall men in 1880, and that all
the result of his wonderful machine work
will be lost
Tammany's Second Han.
"The possibility that Hill may prove on-
I cago lends importance to the other men who
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A CONJUNCTION THAT KNOCKS
might prove to be Tammany's second choice.
Gorman, Flower and Whitney are among
those talked about Whitney is the most
interesting.
He has remained very muoh in the back
ground of late, but there is not any doubt
that he has great influence with Tammany
HalL The fact that he has taken no open
part in the efforts that have been made to
fight HilL in Cleveland's interest the ab
sence of his name from the list of those pro
testing against the snap convention, for in
stancehas caused it to be generally de
clared that he wa sitting up nights nursing
a "baby" boom of bis own.
It is quite possible that he has been, but
his failure to fight Hill is no sign. A man
who at any time may reasonably expect
something pleasant to 'happen in a political
way cannot afford to stand off and throw
stones at the Machine.
The chief thing in the way of Whitney's
preferment, as often happens in politics, is.
.one for which he is certainly not to blame
the prosperity of the Standard Oil monop
oly. After his nominatlou, if it should
occur, every Republican newspaper in the
country would be dotted with Standard Oil
barrels, decortcd in various humorous ways,
and unless the Republicans should put up
some man of the Depew railroad type the
Democrats would hare a hard time with
the sons of toil.
In spite of the Standard Oil, however, a
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So much for politics in New York this
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that Hill is still on top, with Cleveland the
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CONCEPTION AND SCOPE OP THE WORE.
fcoiuutsro-TOEScs ot rne dispatch.!
WASinxCTOir, February 6.
. T IS now near
ly ten month
since the three
Government
expeditions of
civil engineers
sailed from New
York City for
South and Cen
tral America to
make the sur
veys for the line
of the Inter
continental railway. Ever
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since last May
U these parties
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though suffer
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of hardships
and surrounded
by all the in
conveni ences
and difficulties
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of the rainy season among the Andes and on
the highlands of Guatemala they have pros
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of road. The territory through which they
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have to be cut through forests and for hun
dreds of miles they are away from the lines1
of wagon-roads and have nothing but mule
paths to guide them.
The reports from the different expedition
have been received regularly at the Inter
continental Railway office here, and very
full private letters have been written to'
Mr. Cassatt, the President, and to Lieuten
ant Brown, the executive officer of the com-'
mission, by the men of the various parties.
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