18 GLIDING J VEHICE Between Historic Palaces and Listening to Garrnlons Gondoliers PLEASES MUBATHALSTEAD He Missed Most the Rattle of Wheels Upon Stony Streets. ST. MARK'S AKD BRIDGE OF SIGHS. refreshing Tislt to the Hone of Minister Grant at Tienna. LITTLE POETKT 15 THH BLUE DANUBE rwitrnTsr ron Tnx dispatcji.1 Kaskin's "Stones of Venice" fill three portly volnmt s, and he knew what he was writing about, and did not exhaust the sub ject. I have the purpose to set down with simplicity what a traveler sees whose time is disposed of for him until but a few pre cious hours arc at bis command. The train, leaving a long trail of steam and smoke, spun along, -with the hazy sky of the Adriatic on the right, the snowy masses of the Alps on the left, through a plain dotted with mulberry trees, occasion ally a chimnev in the villages, tall as the campaniles, until, with a sweeping tnrn to the right, we run into a country very low and level. Quickly there was a chanre in the voice of the car wheels, and we were running along a line of earth with just room for two railway tracks, and a stone wall breast high on either tid t. It was an em bankment two miles long, a narrow span; this was the invasion or the city of the sea by the all-conquering railroad. ' I had not been quite satisfied in my mind whether I tliould undertake to go to my hotel in a cab, iind was prepared lor anything except a long swim. The Tip System In Europe. The gondoliers were on hand in force, but the front rank facing the passengers was formed by the agents of the many iotcls, each with his badge around his hat, and they far outnumbered the passengers. The scramble was abdnt the regular thing. 3Iy Grand Hotel man was not remote, and seized mv handbag, umbrella and shawl, and the slip" of trreen paper that called for my trunK. Speaking of that particular slip of paper and its color, I wasold in Rome that the servants about the hotels hae ways of making known by marks on the luggage to their fellows whether the trunks are the propertv ol people who do well in the mat ter of tips, so that travelers are ized up be fore they get their rooms, and can bv no means escape their duty and go to the next town with an unspotted character. I was led gently bnt firmly to a marble step washed "bv green water, and handed into a very black boat. Two volunteer Venetians, a gondolier and an assistant porter, saw that I did not fall or stumble, and a venerable citizen stood with a hook and held the boat so that it rocked under my footsteps verv slightly. Promptlv my trunk was aboard, the porter and assistant and the old man received a tew coppers for one had to assume grandeur and I leaned back in the gondola, which was un steady as an average skiff I had hardly been "sure that the streets of Venice were water, like Joe Jefferson's son's stage sup ply, but there it was, plenty of it, and the wind blew bitterly down the Grand Canal. My gondolier was master of the situation, an'd indicated a desire to impart in formation. Tin Yell of the Gondolier. He named the palaces as long. as we pur sued the broad canal, then with a yell turned into a side street that is to say, ditch. The cry was to warn other boatmen that he was co'mine; the ditch was a short cut. The gondoliers have cries that are called peculiar, and they are so. If the word peculiar were not overworked, it would do very well for this case. The merry gondolier does not, in fact, seem in a per fect good humor. He may be soared by the steamboats in Venice aud it does seem ' hard on him but he is merely mad because he cannot be a monopolist. The people at large go in the steamboats; the gondola method of getting about is expensive. The gondolier's crv is like in Italian that of an Irishman driving a jaunting car, only not so loud and imperious. "What he says is If one may reduce it to English, or Ameri crn "Yere-me-hi-oo-vou-no-we." It means,t "Here I am lookout!" In 45 minutes from the time I got out of the cars I saw a great many of the stones of Venice, and some of the mud and the refuse of garden vegetables, in particular cabbage litter. The mixture in places of seaweed and the outer leaves of cabbages was also peculiar. I was pulled to the Grand Hotel, itself an old palace, second door west of the Desdemona House. I was not aware Desde mona had been so carefully hunted up, but it seems that her late residence is nearly as well authenticated at Venice as that of Christopher Columbus at Genoa, and it is much more conspicuous. Qnlet or S:rrpls raved TVIth Water. There was a room on the ground floor at the Grand Hotel that is tp mention two or three feet above the level of the -water. Presently the astonishing stillness of the place impressed and oppressed me, and in the night the silence deepened. It is no wonder Wagner came here to die. Talk of "wooden pavements! They are quiet, in a sente; but the quiet of the Grand Canal at midnight, without even the distant creak and splash of an oar, has a depth I have not been able to measure. The monotony was varied a little by a boatload of singers, with lanternsred, white and green, and the music was not bad. The musicians were mercenary, and soon de parted, discouraged. Uhe fact is, even opera singers prefer to be paid for their ex ercise, and the blowers of horns in the Alps expect centimes for the echoes. It is dutiful in Venice to go first to St. Mark's square, and the grand old campanile shocked nic. X had no idea its noble pro portions were of brick, but it is raw brick tower with a marble top, surmounted by a very much gilt angel; and I am indebted to a guide book for the intelligence that this angel is It) feet high. As a religious exer cise, I climbed the tower, and was cheered by tee guide with the story that Kapoleou rode up it on horseback, but he did not be lieve evcrvthing, or even very much, and said Napoleon really bestrode a donkey in his ascent It is not impossible that he performed this feat not from the slightest sense of humor, but torsive his strength. A View From the Campanilr. "When Xapoleou conquered Venice and dethroned the last of the Doges, he was 28 years old, and very slender. The tower is ascended bv a few broad steps at first, and then S8 inclined planes, each with one step to start, aud there are a few steps at the bcllroom, which is as far as visitors are al lowed to go. The ascent is a sleep walk, but not a trying climb, and tne view could hardly be more interesting. The whole city is iG view. It does not seem from the campanile that Venice is "throned on a hundred isles," for the smaller canals are too narrow to be visible in the midst of the mass of roofs. Those canals are not obstruc tions to walking about town, for the streets pass them by solid marble bridges, under which the gondolas glide, their marked prows always telling what the height of the arch must be for safety in passage. The cur rent of the sea is not strong in the smaller canals, and they are not strongly recom mended in hot weather to those particular about odors. Still, tbey are not poisonous, for the pure salt water every day moves through the canals, and this wholesome influence mav be relied upon to overcome a multitude of evils. In the Grand Canal there are strong currents. As the tides come and go the broad S that winds through the city is like a rnshing river, and its banks are clean. It is tor this, among other reasons, the favorite place of residence, and the hotels that look upon it are preferable. 151 IJgon Own the Town. Showers of burly pigeons are in posses sion of the city. They are more sacred than neat, and sanctify rather more than they adorn. They have fine feathers and a very confident manner, and the recklessness of their treatment of old statuary and the facades that offer lodgment for nesting and roosting is testimony that they and their ancestors have been taught that human hands will not harm them. If a child has a paper of bread or cake, or a package of grain, and scatters it upon the pavement of St. Mark's Square, the stones are covered with pigeons for rods. Preserving these birds is one of the old conceits, like the bears at Berne, the wolf and eagle at Kome, the storks in Strasburg, and the apes at Gibral tar: and there is not superstition enough about the custom to do any harm. There was a beautiful ship, long, low, white and graceful, "with tall masts, set at a rakish angle, and a white smokestack; and as the breeze blew ont the flag, it was "the Star Spangled Banner, long may it wave." Is that a ship of war? The reply was: "It is Mr. Esnnctt's yacht; he is a great man in 2Sew York aud Paris, and keeps his ship here. She is ready for a cruise now, ami he comes when be pleases." The yacht is a beauty, and I passed close enough going to the island of St. George to be able to say that she seemed to glitter with good order. May Isav, without offense, that the oys ters were just as good as we have at home; that they were notas tender as I have found the favorite shellfish, but of pleasing flavor, juicy, and not coppery. Their shells were curiously unlike the American shells. They were not rugged and lumpy like our shells but thinner no deep shells and they were so flat it was hard to see how there hap pened to be rocrm for so fine a morsel as they contained. The shells were tawny in colorine, and had fine lines of engraving, so to speak, like the crusts of diamond-backed terrapin. The Color Pictures or St. Mark's. St Mark's is not the largest or the most ancient or historic of cathedrals, but takes first rank in interest The eflects of it, Bus kin says and one must quote him on St Mark's depend "not only upon the most delicate sculpture in every part, but emi nently on its color also, and that the most subtle, variable, inexpressible color in the world the color of glass, of transparent alabaster; of polisheduarble, and lustrous gold." That sentence itself is En incom parable color picture, and it is better to say it is all so, and leave it to tell the story. The history of the four horses in gilded bronze over the principal portal is typical. They are Boman horses once adorned a triumph arch in Borne, it is not certain which one; were taken to Constantinople by Constantine; and when the Venetians were masters of that city the Doge Dandolo brought them to Venice this was when they were at least 1,000 years old. They were taken to Paris by Napoleon, and when he fell restored to Venice. The interior of the Cathedral is exceed ingly attractive, and grows in its majesty of architecture aud somber beauty of decora tion aud riches of association as it is studied. The walls are all firm, but evi dence of unstable foundation is in the un evenness of the floor, which has become quite undulating. The mosaics tell what tne possibilities of the art are. The carving of the altars and pulpits are exquisite, and the objects of beauty and thiugs curions in numerable; and over all there is an Asian glow that is faded, but it lingers in tones like a sunset when the twilight is long. Th Art Treasure of Venice. The Academy is crowded wiih the work of Venetian masters, including the master piece of Titian and his first painting, and the last upon which he was engaged 80 years after, when the plague carried him off in his 99th year. The northern Italians of the old times were strong men, as in the case of Andrea Dorio, who died at 96, and Titian at 99. The art treasures of Venice are sec ond only to those of Some and Florence; but there is at least an embarrassment of riches, when the eyes and the brain grow weary of the boundless feast, and the infi nite variety becomes indistinct It is the claim of Dresden to come next to Bome and Florence in art treasures, but the claim ant has hardly taken Venice into full and fair 'consideration. The great picture of Venice is Titian's "Assumption," and after him comes, first, Tintoretto and, second, Paul Veronese. The Palace of Doge surpasses the average anticipation. There is no point from which it can be viewed that it is not "grand, gloomy and peculiar." Just how Lord Byron managed to do as he says he did in Venice I have not been able to' make out with .mechanical and mathe matical accuracy. He remarks: I stood in Venice on the Bridie of Siehs, A palace and a prison on either hand: And saw from out the wave vast structures rise. As from the stroke of an enchanter's wand A thousand years their cloudy wings ex pand. But I could not manage to get more than one foot on the Bridge of Sighs. There are several bridges generally like it in Venice, though not connecting palaces and prisons. The actual passage from the palace, still a palace, though not a roval one", to the prison still a prison, and agloomyone, withiron barred windows of horrid aspect, and a hid eous prison boat at the steps under the fa mous bridge the actual walk of the prison ers from the hall of condemnation to the cells of imprisonment was not through the bridge that the novelist Howells, in his ca pacity of historian, calls a "pathetic swin dle." The worst of the dungeons, the vaults in which the prisoners were bestowed in dark ness, removed from every sight and sound, the living tomb, each with ita history of baffled ambition and bloodshed, and the den for private executions, looking like a good place to pat a few tons of coal, are in the palace itself Facts Abont the Brld-e of Big-hs. The snides are instructed artists. They introduce you to the Giant's stairway, so called from gigantic statuary that stand on either side; then you ascend the stairs of gold "Scala d'Oro" not the golden stairs that lead to Jerusalem the golden, but those used only by the citizens of high degree whose names were written in the golden book as "nobili." Tnen you see the halls where history was made and where it was painted; you see the library and the museum, long rows of august IJoges, acres of heroes, the Venetians aiding the Pope to bring the aggressive Barbarossa to terras, and Barbarossa as he was brought to kneel before the Pope at the portal of St Mark's, and the long procession ol the departed glories of Venice. There is a narrow hall leading, you are kindly informed, to the Bridge ot Sighs, upon which yon can place yourToijt, but may not cross, because there are repairs and other excuses. There is a smiling priest with rat tling keys, a franc passes and a door opens, and your feet are upon the stairs, and there is nothing to be seen save rusty walls and littered water. Now you. are turned away to the duugeons, a wisp of candle in your hand, the guide chanting: ''Gentleman, please give your attention: there are steps here, and do not spoil yqur hat" These dungeons were for the critics and opponents of the Government; those for the traitors, aud the easiest way to answer them was to cut their heads oil Here is where it was done. Let the boss live long, and put the painters to work to tell his deeds in living colors! But can you not see the Bridge qf Sighs? Oh, yes, "you can, and here is the place a low, solid marble arch, on which you may truly stand, "a palace and a prison on either hand," and all the rest, and there is the Bridge of Sighs swathed in reeds, while the workmen are doing something un explained, but probably restorative at least preservative. There is a good deal of painstaking bracing going on around the old buildings. The Home of Shylocfc. This Bridge of Sighs is, as Howells says, a pathetic swindle, and yet you tarn away '& THE with a sigh, and go to see the vegetable mar ket of Venice, well stocked with garden stud, and the fish market displays an attrac tive array of fish that seem fresh and familiar. . You cross the Eialto there are two iron bridges over the Grand Canal, but this is the only'springing arch of marble, that spans the'grand water at one bound. It is not now an aristocratic quarter, rather the reverse. I fear the shops on the bridge are almost shabby. Across the market space beyond Is the place where Shylock is said to have denounced the injustice ot the Venetians, and his house is pointed out You may believe or not, as in the case of Desdemona's palace, but there is the door at which we have seen Irving stand, playing ffliylocS, when the rascals had stolen his daughter. The cars ot the train on which I left Venice were unfortunately not manned simply with hot water vessels, an admirable style of preserving the health and comfort of the passengers, but had steam heating, and in each compartment is a brake by which steam may be turned on and the coach given the true American tempera ture. Anybody can turn the steam on or off his car, and the result is the mercury, stands high. I much prefer the old way of placing in the car copper vessels, long and heavy and tight, filled with warm water. They keep the feet warm, and overcoats and rugs do the rest As soon as I saw the preparations for high-heating the cars from Venice to Vienna I knew I wasjponnd to catch a heavy cold, and did so. AVe shall soon have nowhereany peace or safety from steam heating devilment, and must take our chances in the general stew. living on a European Train. Referring to railroad accommodations, I may remark that there was a dining car on the line from from Vienna to Berlin, and that they furnished tobacco and liquors in every form, and a very good bill of fare. One feature was a regular table d'hote, in cluding the almost invariable course ot chicken and salad. There was ample choice of wines, and the cofiee was good. Indeed, I found the coffee nearly ahfays very good. -There is a marked betterment fn bread in Europe, as in our own country. French coffee and Vienna bread goes everywhere, and Vienna bakeries are fashionable in German as in American cities. As I had not been able to get the north in the right place, we of course drove the wrong way to find the Danube, but "got there all the same," after about 40 minutts. The Danube was low, but not a disappoint ment It is a majestic river, and if I could only have turned it about so as to run toward the Black Sea instead of the North Sea. I hould have been satisfied; but it would not go my way. Shall I be forgiven for saying the Dauube. seemed to me as large at Vienna as the Mississippi at St Louis? It does not run as much water as the Mississippi, hut it is a giant, and bears all the marks of one, including naked space for a rise; and it had steamboats on it burn ing soft coal, and boats loaded with coal. The water would not have warranted the use of the wprd blue. It was ot the gray, melancholy tent of a dull December sky. Our Representative at Vienna. The gentleman who occupies the position of Minister of the United States to the Court ot Austria is one in whom the Ameri can people are for several reasons interested. I mean Colonel Frederick Dent Grant Those who are very particular about many things, and give their particularity a per sonal slant, no doubt hold that it is an net of favoritism tnarthis gentleman should be in the post that he fills. I do not use the word fills unadvisedly. Colonel Grant fills the place of Minister of the United States to Austro-Hungary acceptablV in the sense that he is first a man of strict and dutiful business habits; second, that he is kindly, courteous, attentive and efficient and beyond that he is held in high considera tion and esteem by those who are highest; and again I will have to state that the word is selected for its precise significance. There is one thing more that I reserve for a special sentence: Mr. and Mrs. Grant, with their tall daughter, almost entering her teens, ann manly son, younger, make up a most charming American home, so genuinely representative that any well-disposed citi zen would take pride in it as a bright and happy part of his own country; and the fact that German, French ano Englisli are spoken with equal facility and freedom in this home does hot detract from its American flavor. Upon the walls of Colonel Grant's official rooms, and of the home, one sees the American colors, and, in addition to the family pictures in the do mestic establishment, fine photographs of President Harrison, Vice President Morton and Secretary Blaine; and the remark should not be omitted that the fervor of American patriotism seems often to increase with the distance from our shores. The meeting of the sons of Presidents Lincoln and Grant in the capital of Austria, each holding with clear reputationand distinction aposition of honor uuder a Republican administration, is an in cident whfch the people ot the United States will regard as fit and agreeable, and a point of light in the story ot the nation to tell that, covered with glory and renown safe and rich and grand, it has not failed in grateful and graceful remembrance of those who were the leaders and the saviors of the Republic. Mubat Haxstead. WOMEN OF THE WAR. NINTH CONVENTION OF THE BELIEF COBF3 THIS TFEEK. A Programme of TJnnsoal Interest Ar ranged Some of the Distipjnlshed Speakers Army Nurses to Attend The Literary and Musical Features. The ninth annual convention of the Woman's Relief Corps of Pennsylvania, auxiliary to the G. A. R.. will be held in the hall of General Alexander Hays Post, G. A. R., No. 78 Fourth avenue, this city, "Wednesday and Thursday of this week. The convention will open promptly at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. Department headquarters will be established in Parlor B, Hotel Schlosser, Sixth street. A reception committee composed of Sons of Veterans and members"bf the local corps will be present at the various depots to meet the delegates and escort them to de partment headquarters, where the enter tainment committee will take charge ot them and conduct them to the hotels as signed to each. The following ladies have been appointed aides by the Department President. Mrs. Louisa Metz, Corps No. 1; Mrs. Sarah A. Naysmith, Corps No. 22; Mrs. Lizzie Hanger, Corps No. 8; Mrs. El len Murdock, Chaplain, Corps No. GO. A campfire under the auspices of the local corps will be given in Old City Hall, Tuesday evening. Hon. H. L Gourley will welcome the delegates and the Depart ment President, Mrs. Lindsey, will re spond. Comrade John W. Moreland will furnish the "war record" of Old City Hall. Department Commander G. A. R. George G. Boyer, of Harrisburg, will speak for the Grand Army, and Herman M. Rebele, Colonel of the PennsylvaniaDivision Sons of Veterans, will tell of the work of that society. Comrade Erasmus Wilson will represent the newspapers aud relate something'of what they did, and of the part they played in the "late unpleasantness." Judge Harry White, of Indiana, Pa., will be there and Senator A. F. Thompson, of Lykens, Pa., President of the Memorial Home Associa tion, will speak of the work of the Home. Comrade G. W. Bryant, M. D., the eloquent colored" orator, will give one of his entertaining ad dresses, and Mrs. Helen S. Morrison, of Smethport, Past Department President of the W. R. C, will speak of the work being done bv that organiza tion. Miss Millie Gardner will recite: so also will Prof. Byron W. King. These well known excellent musicians will also assist: Mrs. J. Sharp McDonald, Profs. Davis, Austin, Bullock and Miller, Mrs. Jenkins, Miss Flora -Gardner, the lit tle Misses Millie and Lilhe Lemme brick and Mamie and J. Daly. Another interesting feature will be "the appearance on the platform of a number of army nurses and ladies who were members of the Sanitary Commission from Pittsburg during the war. Tag AH fits stopped free by Dr. Kline's. Great Nerve Restorer. No nti after first day's use. Mar velous cures. Treatise and t: CO trial bottle free to ITU cases. Dr. Kline, 831 Arch it, 1'nlU., Pa. 6u TJ&ir .."-Vf PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, HIS UPS MD DOWNS. Senator Felton's Fickle Fortunes In California's Earlj Days. ROMANCE OF HIS FIR8T DRtNK. Plekel Up FIt Hundred Dollars for Watching a Stack of Hay. BESULT OP BIEJG TEUB TO KIEITOS fCOmtzsronDijicit or Tnx prsATCH.1 WASHrNQTOs-, Feb. 20. - EARLY everyone T Ti f our United States . CJ I Senators has had a Vj life of ups and Jk downs. One of the members of the House from Califor nia told me some stories last night of the early life of Sen ator Charles Felton, the young million aire, who has the seat of the late George Hearst in the United States Sen ate. Said this man: "Felton was only 17 years old when he landed in California. " Senator Felton. It is a mistake to say that he had been brought up a poor boy. His father was rich for his time and place and he went to school in an academy at Syra cuse, N. Y. When he was about 16, how ever, he had some little trouble, borrowed 5500 from his friends and came around Cape Horn with Flood, whi afterward became a millionaire in company with Mackay and O'Brien. He landed in San Francisco' with less than a dollar in hi pocket, and he and a party 'of three others went about th city together. liberal Though Broke. "One of the first places they visited was the Parker House, then the most fimous gambling place on the Pacific slope, and a score of games were in progress. The bar was runnjng, being manipulated by a fancy bartender, and one of the men suggested that the Deacon, which was the nickname for Felton, should setup the drinks. The boy had only 70 cents in his pocket, and this was in the shape, of seven 10-cent pieces. He was generous, however, nd though he had never taken a drink in his life, he said he had no objection, and he stepped to the bar and called for beer for his pJrty of four. Two bottles of English ale were set on the counter and the men, thirsty from their long voyage, drank their glass off with a will. Then the young Deacon, thinking of the prices at home in the East where the glasses were 3 cents apiece, boldly asked what was the charge, and was tHunder-struck when the bartender said it was S2, or 51 bottle. "Young Felton flushed. He turned pale and he was mortified almost to death. A man in business clothes back of the bar caught his eye and said, 'I guess yon are a stranger here, young man, and I want you to let this be my treat, and won't you all take another drink with me?' One Good Tnrn Deserves .Another. "Felton replied that he could'not and he said that he only had 70 cents in his pocket and he had no idea that beer was so high in California. The man who was Parker him self passed it off with a laugh, and paid the bill. The next day the yoiing deacon got work in San Francisco at ?16 a day, which was current wages for ordinary laboring men at that time and it was not long before he had plenty of money and was running a little business of his own. A few years after this the Frazier river gold excitement broke out and California was almost depop ulated by the rush to the north. Among others who went was Parker, and like most of the others who left for these gold fields, he lost all he had in them. It was after the excitement had pretty well died down that Mr. Felton was sitting in his Tjffice in Snn Francisco when a sun-browned, poorly dressed man came in and said 'Good day,' to the future United States Senator." " 'How do you do,' replied Felton. 'But tou don't know me,' said the man. 'Yes, I 5o,' returned Felton. 'You used to keep the Parker establishment I am glad to see you and can I do anything for you?' Set nim on His Feet Again. " Right you are,' replied Parker, 'and I think you "can do a good deal for me. I have come to San Francisco from Frazier. I am dead broke, and I want you to lend me $100 to start again. ' " 'I'll do it,' replied Felton, but yon had better take $250ind if you can pay it all right, and if yon can't it's all right anyhow. I will never forget how you paid for my beer and I am glad to do you a'favor.' "Parker took the money and started a new establishment He did well, and within a few weeks paid off the amount he had borrowed. "I have heard Felton tell some of the stories. He worked until he had saved $500 and then went to mining. He was slight and weak, however, "and he saw that he could do less work in a day than the other miners could do in two hours, and after he had made some little money he quit and concluded to try tc make a fortune in other ways. Provisions Vere then Very high in the mines. Potatoes were worth $1 a pound and hay was 500 a ton. ' Mules Made Ulm Lota of Money. "It cost ?1 a pound in freight to pack goods on the backs of mules from the co.is to the mines, and he turned his attention to packing. Every mule load was worth 5500 in freight, and he made money very fast. He then staked off a good claim in connection with a partner, and for a long time they took out 5100 a day apiece. They then decided to dam the Yuba river anil thus get at the gold in its bed. "They had by this time each saved about 55,000, and it took all of this to build the dam. When the dam was about completed a "big flood came np and swept it away and their 510,000 with it As the stream went raging down the mountains it carried nearly everything before it, and among other things which passed before the eyes of the young man was a sort of a cradle for the use of quicksilver in mining. Felton caught hold of this and pulled it out, and with it as his only capital he started life again. He rigged up a little reduction establishment, got four or five men to work for him, and was soon making several thou sand dollars a month out of his quicksilver machine. He speculated with the proceeds in one way or another, and in a short time after this found himself at Sacramento, bis quicksilver monev gone and himself prac tically broke." ' Striking a Fat Job. Up to this time Felton's attire in Cali fornia had been the costume of the country. He wore a slouch hat, a pair of -rough l We ',1 Jjvf. A. Job That Brought fCOO 'J5&- . 1?&:'l - - SU2JDAX FEBRUARY pantaloons, a.thick- red flannel.shirt, anda red sash about the waist which answered in the place of suspenders. In Aoming back to Sacramento he got at his trunk and put on a suit of broad cloth and a white shirt In this dres looking like a swell .among the rough men around him, he sat down for dinner one night in the little canvas tent which formed the best restaurant at Sacra mento. As he sat there eating 'dinner a man of abont 50 in business clothes came in and, took a seat opposite him. After the two were through with their meal this man who had remained Bilent up to this time, suddenly turned to the future Senator and asked if he knew where he could get a man to work for him. The young man replied: "I don't know. "What's the pay and what's the job?" "The job'ls not a hard one," returned the business man. ""I've got a stack of hay about amiieup the river above the town, and I want it-watched. It ha a corral around it, but there are a great many cattle in the neighborhood, and I'm afraid they'll get into it I want to bring it down on a boat to Sacramento for sale as soon as I can. The work' is not hard and it ouehtn't to be worth more than 510 a day. But if I can find the right men, I'll pay an ounce or 516 a day." Felton Got the l'laee "Well, I'll see," replied Felton. "Yon come around here to-morrow to breakfast, end if I can find you a man I will bring him with me." The next morning young Felton dressed himself in his red shirt, rough trousers and the toggery of his miuing camp, and was sitting at the table when the man came in. He did not recognize him at first, but when Felton said "Good morning," he said, "Well, I am blanked. And what are you going to do with that outfit?" "Oh," replied Felton, "I've decided to start oufon a tramp." "And where are you going?" asked the man. v "That depends somewhat upon you," was the reply. "You want a man to watch that hay up the river, and if you are still of the same opinion and want a good man, I'll take the job." "Not you," was the Teply. i "Yes, me," said Felton, "and I will watch it right" "But it will only be for a few days," said the man. "I am going to get away as soon as lean." "I don't care whether it is for five days or five months," said Felton. "I'll take the job." Had a Fine Time of It The man.then asked him if he could shoot and npon his replying thathe could he went to thestore and bought him a shotgnn and told him he could spend his spare time in hudting about the haystack. He then gave him a tent and Felton watched the hay. He watched it for nearly a month, and in the meantime quite a friendship grew up be tween him and the business man, who was a merchant of Sacramento. Felton sent him down some of the game he shotand the mer chant sent him up things to eat from the store. At last when the month was about up and Felton had received about 5500 for watch ing the haystack lie came into Sacramento and told his employer thathe had concluded to stop working for him. 'What's the matter?" said the merchant "Oh, I've get some capital now," was the reply, "and I am going into business for myself." "What are you going to do?" was the reply. "Well," answered the young man, "I've n oticed that the immigrants who land here at Sacramento always have a lot of nrovisions with them which'they can't afford to freight up into the mountains. They have kegs of pickles, sugar and other groceries which they sell here to whoever will buy them. Now you merchants cannot waste time in looking up these things and I've concluded to go in and buy up this stuff and.sell it to Tou. Whai do you think of the idea?" Doubled Up B!i Capital. "It seems to me to be a good one," was the reply, "and if you want a partner I'll go in with you." "I'd rather do a big business than a little one," said Felton, and he took the man into partnership. He found the business paid well. He bought pickles for 51 a gallon and sold them for 510, and as most of them were brought in in ten-gallon kegs he made 590 a keg. Pickles brought high price from the miners because they were thought to be a remedy for the .scurvy, which was almost an epidemic among them, and in a few months the Deacon had cleared 56,000, 53,000 of which went to his partner. Felton next conceived the idea of taking a big stock of goods up into the mountains, and he bo'ught two whaleboats, paying 5500 apiece for them, and be bought all the goods he could with the extra 52,000 he had left, and borrowed $2,000 more from his mer chant friend and put that into goods. The flood came and the boats were carried away. Here was Felton's fortune gone again, and he was now 52,000 worse off than nothing. He went back to .his merchant friend at Sacramento, and the man generously told him that he had made 51,000 out of him anyhow, and that he could: pay him when he got ready. How He Missed a Big hTlng. It was not long, however, before he was on his feet again, and in a short time re deemed his obligation. He speculated in mines and real estate, alwavs acting on the square, but taking the advantages which his good business judgment gave him, and he made a fortune. He had at one time a part of the famed Comstock Lode, which afterward made so many people wealthy. He had given a good price per foot for it, but though he had found, some pay dirt in his claim, it was comparatively small,' and in connection with his partner he sold the whole for 5190,000. Shortly after this the wonderful vein was discovered, and under the very claim which he sold for this amount was found its richest icld. It is safe to say that 5100,000,000 were taken out from under the spot which he sold for less than 5200,000. "It is something to have had experiences like these," added the Congressman to whom I was talking. "It is something to have made and lost fortunes. It is some thing to be a millionaire United States Senator, but it is a great deal more for a man to go through all these experiences'and to retain the same practical common sense and the same freedom from conceit and love for his fellow man that he had when he was in the beginning of his career. And this is the case with our new California Senator." FbankG. Cabpenteb. TOTAL ABSTINENCE NETTa. FATHEn Laxbhto paid a visit to Plttstrorjr Thursday. St. Alotsius Labies' Societt, of Seottdale, is in a nourishing condition. Mr. Jonx S. UcCaxx, of St. Columbian, Johnstown, promises a rally in the course of a few weeks. The form for the parochial school pledge is almost ready for the printer. It is hoped to have the cards ready lor next Sunday. The monthly meeting of the Diocesan Union will be held in the old Episcopal resi dence at the Cathedral next Sunday at 3 P. 31. iiT: Luke's, of Mansfield, St. Patrick's, of Duncan, and Immaculate Conception, of Irwin, should send delegate to the next monthly meeting. He Bobs Up Serenely From bed whose liver is all right. The bil ious subject rises slowly, wearily, with a sensation of languor and nausea after a nizht of unroit His skin, and eyeballs ard Ballow, his light sldo bothers him, his tongue is furred, lie has sick headache. His depart ment of the interior needs the rerorm brought about by Hostetter's Stomach Bit ters, the leading remedy for biliousness, constipation, malaria, nervousness, kidney troubles, and more recently for la grippe. New Washington, Penn., People Are not slow about taking hold of a new thing, if the article has merit A few mouths, ago David Byers of that place, bought his first stock of Chamberlain's Cough.Remedy. He has sold it all and or dered more. He says: "It has given the best of satisfaction. I have warranted every bottle, and have nothad one come back." 50-centandSl bottles for sale by druggists. TTSsa Xrr,-' V5??". "' '21. -1892. i REVIEW OF SPORTS. Good Features In the Tranquility of Baseballdom and Its Prospects. ESTIHATE OP THE LEAGUE TEAMS. The Gigantic Boxing- Fate Promoted bj Corbett and his Colleaznei. MAHER AKD FITZSIMMOSS BATTLI There is now a tranquility in baseball affairs that is very gratifying, indeed. A peaceful and quiet state of things is not always desirable, but in this instance it betokens good because it means that beneath "the surface there is a great deal of indi vidual activity going on. Each one is attending to his own. fences, or, to use a metaphor, is quietly mending his own nets. And how pleasant it is for everybody when everybody is attending to his own business; then there is no time to fight and quarrel with or abuse other people,'and then comes that general tranquility to which I have just referred. Well, we are now having signs that every club in the League is going into the season's battle thoroughly confident From every city in the League we have almost daily re ports that baseball prospects were never so bright and that there were never such good teams gotten together. The capitalists are doing all they can to make things as prom ising as possible, and I am glad to say that the players have awakened to the fact that much is expected of them, and that if that "much" is not forthcoming they will suffer. During the week there has been additional proof of the anxiety of players to get into good condition for the opening of the season. And here I may be allowed to re mark that the reasons given in this paper two weeks ago showing why home is gener ally preferable to far-away places for training purposes have been generally in dorsed both by local writers and the writers of other cities. As a result we have a number of Pittsburg players training at the home grounds, and I venture to say that if they work faithfully and have good attend ants they will be in better condition than they ever were in their lives when April comes. Prospects of the Teams As the opening day gets nearer each team in the League is becoming perfected, if the word can be used. So nearly are all the teams completed that prophets have com menced to name their standing at the end ing of the season. At ay stage this is a very venturesome thing To do, but at this period it is boldness to a very remarkable extent, indeed. I prefer to wait awhile. But while it wonld seem a waste of time to stop and make Out a list prophetic of the L finishing ot the teams, it may be worth while to say a few words abont the general prospects of the various teams. To all appearances the East will not have so very much the better of the West Ac cording to some authorities the Westerners won't be in it, but it is not safe to jump at any such conclusion. True, the Bos ton Club has a powerful team, and expe rience would lead to the conclusion that the Bostons are not likely to be downed. But every other Eastern team is very prob lematical, indeed,and it will be a surprise to me if one of the Western teams is not ahead of both New York and Brooklyn in the first half of the season at least. So far it seems to me that both New York ind the Brooklyn teams have been much over rated, while the Western teams have been estimated below their real value. If we ask why New York or Brooklyn are better teams than Chicago, Cincinnati, Pittsburg or Cleveland each man who answers wiil likely give us a different kid of answer, and I venture to say that every answer will be extremely open to criticism. After looking over the situation I am very much inclined to think that the teams of Cincin nati, Cleveland and Pittsburg will be much better than many people think. While there is nothing brilliant abont any one of these teams, they are yet made np of that very useful and endurable material that can'be relied on every day and that lasts to the end. As a rule these brilliant features are very, very ephemeral. Next -Week's Ileetlngs. Next week will be a very important one in baseballdom. There will be two meet ings of very great 'importance. One is to discuss and adopt a national agreement which is extremely essential for the welfare of the magnates it they desire to maintain the close monopoly they have commenced to build. Already we have discussed the agreement formulated by Colonel Bogers and we have seen that the "drafting" system is the "bogie man" in that proposed agree ment Judging from what the wiseacres have had to sav on the matter, I suppose 'the agreement will be modified to suit the minor leagues ana tnai an win oe weii. Beally'as tar as known the only objections to 'the proposed agreement are those relat ing to the minor leagues and that means they will be smoothed over. And don't be surprised ifVonderAhe leaves both Baltimore and Washington be hind; and taking the Brooklyn pitchers into consideration, it is not impossible for the Brooklyn team to get very near to the As sociation teams, who are cenerally expected to be at the bottom. Of course, the Phila delphia team will, as usual, keep every body guessing. But the 'general prospects are getting bette every day, and if three or four of the teams do not get far behind in the early part of the race all will make money. But dropping too far behind is the great danger, as there are a dozen teams now in the race instead of eight The other meeting is the schedule meet ing, and really that is of more importance to patrons of the League than anything per taining to the national agreement Besides the schedule tnere will be other matters of importance, including the disputed claims of players. It is stated that the New York club is going to prosecute its claims to Bicbardson, but for the life of me I fail to see wherein there is a shadowof a reason for any such claim at all. But it might be well to have both the New York matter and the Lyons case discussed. There would be satisfaction in having the New York mag nates soundly lectured for making such an unreasonable noise as they have done. And there could be no barm in havingthe Lyons case thoroughly discussed and placed on record. There is no chance of his coming to Pittsburg, but a record ot the case and its circumstances should be made for future guidance. Were it to be quietly laid aside now without any discussion regarding it the pqHic would have an idea that the entire affair has been from first to last carried on merely for effect And there will be a deal of meaning in the spirit that pervades these meetings. The manner in which magnate meets mag nate will give an idea as to what to expect as the season progresses and friction in creases. , County League Affairs. The County League leaders have -completed their circuit and almost gotten every thing into shape for the opening of their season. One pleasing feature of this little organization is the undoubted correctness of the gentlemen who are at the head of it. The work that these gentlemen do is much more wearying than the public knows of, and vet it is all a labor of love with them. This'fact alone tells forcibly of the earnest ness. One great' difficulty that the County League has had to contend wth is the un certainty of its clubs retaining its player". For a club to keep its good men extra money inducements have been necessary and, of course, this has handicapped the particular clubs. Now there is no reason at all why such things should be. All clubs in the League state they are not out to mute monev as much as thev are ont to en joy the national game. Then why should there be a spirit ot piracy prevailing to the extent oT inducing one dub to steal an other's players? Any move or act that en courages tlie development of this spirit will worlcinjnry to the entire organization and it is, therefore, incumbent that each club kill.in every possible way the piratical spirit. It can easily be killed. All that is necessary is for each clnb to acffaithfully to itself and to its colleagues. If that is done there is no fear of the County League; it will go along all right and will give us some good ball playing. That Salary Scheme. On several occasions lately I have had some words to say regarding the unsound ness of any method of "fixing" the limit of ballplayers' salaries. A statement of such a scheme, prompted by a magnate, has been published, and as I have emphatically as sailed the principle, I eive the favorable side of it, per request Its weakness will be apparent to all who are interested in the matter. "A plan for the payment of fair salaries in 1893 has been formed by the magnates, and will surelv be put in force. The offi cials of the 12 clubs are in hearty accord on the question, and the negotiations, which have been quietly carried on for some time past have come to a satisfactory conclusion. In substance the plan is that when a club is prosperous just in that proportion will the flayers be benefited. The 'first move will e to make a salary limit, which will be fixed at 52,500. By this means the Ireasury limit of a team could be kept down to 530. 000. At the close of the season, if a club has made money, the capitalists will insist on first getting a fair return on their invest ment, say 6 or 8 per cent Of -the remain der a fair sum will be set aside to be divided among the plavers on some equitable basis, and what is left will go to the capitalists. In case the club loses money or tails to do more than clear expenses the plavers will get their salaries inside the 52,500 limit, and the managers will not be compelled to make good put of their own pockets more than a trifling loss. "In fact, the aim of the officials is to get the players' beneficiaries in the event of the club's prosperity and protect themselves from heavy loss in case ot an adverse sea son. The argument might be made that the tendency of sneh-a plan would be to fill all players with a desire to leave the clubs of small cities and join the teams of New York, Boston or Chicago, where there are prospects of large profits. That objection might go in former seasons, but now, with an equal division of gate receipts, the teams representing the smaller cities have a chance to make qnite as much money as the big teams, and a profitable season would yield quite as much to the player." -The Latest Boxlnz Swindle. To be sure everybody who takes an in terest in boxing or pugilism, has read about the "great effor'- of the "greatest Heavy weight- boxer of modern times," Tuesday night last, of course we have to term Cor bett the "greatest," because his advertising agent says he is aud a few of the agent's friends who write in newspapers endorse the statement Now let us talk plainly about this gigantic "catching" of the pub lic and on the theory that that it is always best to call a spade a spade, I deem it best to call the affair in qu.stion, one of the boldest frauds ever perpetrated on the pub- ) lie, and a very innocent and gullible public at that Why, isn t it astounding to nnd abont 8,000 or 10,000 people paying money to see such a swindle and such a jell? And the manner in which newspapers that have from time to time censured everything of a fakish kind, have bolstered the rank fake up, both before and after the event, is one of the' remarkable features of the pro ceedings. If we take the New York papers as a guide we'll at once find that there was a remarkable timidity among all of them to speak plainly about the aflair. The Sun, of course, may be excepted, and that paper said it was a huge disappointment But there was one gentleman to whom I often look for information regarding New York events who had nothing to say about the quality of the event ex cept saying Corbett was disappointing. That gentleman is onr friend Mr. Donohue, and his silence on some very important points was one proof of the rank nature of the business. I mention the New York papers Decaose they were eye witnesses. Corbett on Bla Ilerlts. But although the affair was a fake as far as the Rocking of three men ont was con cerned, there was an earnest, and what we may call an honest part in the business. That was when Mr. C tried to knock Lannon out in three rounds. Just as sure as we lived Corbett tried to finish the Bos ton bruiser and failed miserably. And the excuses and apologies that have been made in his behalf since he failed are exceedingly amusing. There are three facts which go to show that Corbett tried his best to polish off Lannon. One is that at the end of the three rounds Corbett expressed the wish that there could be another round, believ ing he could finish his man in it A second reason is the statement of Lannon to the effect that he was led to believe that the "go" was to be a friendly one or else he would have made the result different when he found that Corbett was out for, "glory." Tbe third fact is the contest itself. The contest shows conclusively what I have all along intimated, that Corbett is not a fighter by any means. Here he had a man before him, who, when at his very best, was degrees behind the front rank, but on Tuesday night that man was as much in condition as a prize heifer at a Christmas beef show; and Corbett couldn't knock him out in three 3-minute rounds, notwithstand ing the fact that Lannon stood up and fought The truth is, to use a ring phrase, Lannon did a lot of banging himself. Why, according to every report ot the contest Corbett never displayed the elements of a first-class fighter. He couldn't deliver straight; had a bad notion of distance, and when he did land fairly he had compara tively little effec. In short, he showed up in different style to what he does when mauling in his fancy boxing. Why, he re peatedly worried a slow and winded man, and Mike Donovan time and time again was telling him to hit straight And Corbett claims to be a champion! He's a humbug. How long would Lannon have stood before Sullivan on Tuesday nizht? Not six min utes. The fact is a good hitter with good wind would have finally bested Corbett at Madison Squaae. Corbett's effort against Lannon fully veri fies what has often been said relative to his (Corbett's) contest with Jackson. Had the Californian stood up and fought against Jackson only half as much as he lought Lannon, he would have been defeated in short order. Excuses will not defend his failure against Lannon; indeed they will only make matters worse, and will go to show np his knocking oat of Spillings and Caffey as ridiculous. As a "show" card and as a pugilist Corbett has damaged his T. 3 -r JS 1 1 1! !. C3T J- reputation, ana j. urmir ucuevc tuuv qiuu would finish him in six rounds in a small ring, and that a man like Joe McAuliiTe wouid defeat bim in a finish fight if he would fight. Nay, the latest is that Lannon wants to fight him to a finish. So much for Corbett Alaher and .Fltztlmmons. Indications point in the direction of tell ing us that there is going to be more inter est in the Maher and Fitzsimmons battle than many of us at first thought It seems to me that there is going to be as much monev invested on the event as was invested on Fi'tz and Dempsey. Of course while I am still inclined to favor the chances ot the Australian I hold that the odds ought to be on the Irish champion. There are many things in his favor, although, as I have already pointed out, he is an unknown quantity, except that the only first rater he met he was badly beaten. That first rater was Peter Jackson. But the advantages he has over the Australian, which have been enumerated in these columns, ought in fair ness to make him favorite. According to-reports both men are train ing well and both are confident But I have nothing to add this week to what I said two weeks ago. Byan and Needham are also doing well in their training, and I am still of opinion that Daniel will again be beaten. The Chi cago pneilist is favorite, and I would be surprised if he was not In my estimation he has in all his contests proved himself a fighter of the good and'useful sort True, Needham is a good man, but he mnst needs be better than I expect K he is to defeat Byan. Both contests will take place on the "same evening, and I suppose -there will be any amount of double event betting? A Cricketer Klcfc. A few days ago there appearod-in this paper what may be termed a "kick" from the New- Castle cricketers relative' to the proposed local cricket league. The" New Castle club is considerably disappointed at their not being counted in. the circuit of the proposed league, and they point-out that they were among the first to suggest such an organization. Doubdess there is great reason for the novocastriaa kick that is, if the organizers of the Leagne intend to shut them out To my mind, there is no sound reason, at all why the New Castle club should not be ad mitted and other clnbs alia If the idea of the promoters of the League is to run a little fireside organization, cricket -will be more injured than by not bavins a league at all, and what is more, there will not be two teams in the Leagne at the end. of July. What is wanted are teams to come and play here other than those we can see every Saturday or holidav. If the League is not worth a little sacrifice it is worth nothing, and if individual pleasure is all that the promoters are after, they had better wash their hands of the League altogether. X have all along thought. that the organizing of a leagne was to boom cricket in Western. Pennsylvania and try to get a good foot hold for it But, apparently, I have been, wrong in my thinking. If such clubs as that at New Castle are admitted to the League they will cost the organization nothing and I venture to say that they will yield a patronage that will pay for" the extra traveling. One thing must be borne in mind, viz., that the nar rower the limits of the league are the leu interest there will be in it Pbetglz. THato toeen afflicted with an affection of the Hirnaf from rhllHhnnd. r.&used DT dlntherlS. a&d I nave Uied various remedies, bat Have never found I anytninireqnalto Brown' Bronchial Trochea." nev. u. Jl. J . .Hampton, jtucwd, .&j. pww vim In boxes. This is a Wise Doctor. A patient sends for him. It is a case of severe indigestion, carrying in its train constipation and sick headache. The young man is incapacitated for work. He flies to the nearest drag store and loads his already endangered stomach with mercurial purgatives, poisonous blood tonics, and pepsin preparations. Result he becomes rapidly worse. Doctor is called. Happens to be an old and respected practitioner. Diagnoses the case quickly. "Young man, throw these nostrums out of the window. Send for a bot tle of the genuine Carlsbad Sprudel Salts, follow the directions, and you will be up in two days." The entire Medical Fraternity rec ommends these salts. It is in reality taking the Carlsbad treatment at home. For 500 years it has been Europe's first Health Resort. The genuine has the signature of "Eisner & Mendelson Co., Sole Agents, New York," on the bottle. orrmamt TTiachcr It by the use of 'Blacking yon save ona pair of Shoes a yeer, and a bottle at 20 cents lasts three months, for hov many years bladclng- wlU ona je&r's saving in snoe Leather payf 10C 1vm Fr for the Cost 1 0O in- of Changing Plain White 4 " . UC Glass veSels to Kubjr, JO 10O Emerald, Opal, IOO 1Q or other Costly Gloss. IQn FOR CLASS WILL DOIT. Cod-liver oil is useful be-. yond any praise it has ever won ; and yet few are wil ling to take it the taste is so vile and it lasts so long. Some stomachs cannot take it, and some are burdened with it. Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil is not offensive; it is pleasant to some, especial ly children. It is not often a tax on digestion. Scott's Emulsion is cod liver oil made far more ef fectual. There is a little book on careful living ; sent free. Scott & Bowks. ChemisH, 1 ja South 5th Avenue, New York. Your drugs!5' keeps Scott's Emulsion of cod-lh-e -q2 all druggists everywhere do. i. eoNiuiPTioM: IhaTsapoQUreremedrfor the above disease; by its Tiso thousands of cases of tbe worst kind and of long tirdmr bare been cured. Indeed so stranx is my faith: isitseiBcaer, that I will sand two coitus raxz, with a YALUABLS TREATISE cntbasseaseoanrssf. ferer who will send me then Express and P. O. address. T. A. Slocntn, 31. 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