InpifpfM jr IS No Other City in the World Has So Many Privileges to Offer for Rotting. HER FAMOUS LIBRARIES. Women Flock to Them Without An noyance Save From Students. OPPOETUSETY TO STUDY AET. lecture Courses Which American Girls At tend Without Cost KO TOLL OX BRIDGES AND FINE PAEKS fCOEEESPOXPISCE OT HIE DISPATPH.1 Paeis, Feb. 19. F all the cities of the world Paris is the most generous in administering to the higher needs of her people. Every am bition for education, for culture, for orgi n a 1 investigation which they have she tries to satisfy. Every taste for art, lor comfort, for mu sic she aims to gratify. And all is free. Her lavish generosity is not for Frenchmen alone. It is for all the 'MIS ill I '& .. - '" world. She sets a shining example before all municipalities by the completeness of her free institutions, by the efforts she makes to keep them in the advance, and by the welcome she gives to all who wish to use them. But to enumerate her bounties. Books are as essential as bread in French eyes. So ft GENEROUS 3 Li t THE GKEATEST UBBABY IS THE -WORLD. In all free Paris nothing equals the libra ries. The greatest of them, .the greatest in the wcrld, in fact, is the National. Who can tell its measure? There are at the dis posal of the reader fully 3,000,000 volnmns. There are about 100,000 manuscripts. There are superb collections of coins, old books, bindings of all ages and from all countries; everything, in short, which book-lovers long for and use. Every Serious 'Worker Admitted. The student who would work in the Na tional Library has only to provide himself with a ticket from the administration, which is easily obtained by showing that you have some line of work which you are pursuing J senouEly. Foreigners must present letters from their minister or consul (the former, it is worth remembering, does not charge anything for this service, the latter does, J2 or more). Once provided with a ticket and the student may spend every working day of the year there if he will. Ample desk room, an arm chair, attendance and ink are furnished him. He may demand any lor any 20 of the 3,000,000 volumes and have it'or them put upon his desk. He has encyclopedias in all tongues within easy reach. " On a table near by he finds aU the best reviews of all countries (except America). He is in fact in student's clover. If the National is too far from one's resi dence, or if he wants a smaller and quieter library, there are three other large general libraries in the city the Arsenal, Mazarine and Saint Genevieve's. The first of these is the finest in the city after the National. It is placed in the old hotel of Tully, the famous minister of Henry IV. The beauti ful rooms, with their magnificent carved ceilings, their fine old inlaid floors, their frescoes, aud their associations make a worthy home for the 600,000 volumes of the Arsenal. While there are fine collections on all subjects here the theater and romance are particularly rich. In many ways the Arsenal is the most delightful place in Paris for work, but oddly enough it seems to be the least used of aU the large li braries. The Home or the Institute At the Mazarine there are about 250,000 books. "What makes this library especially interesting is that is is situated in the home of the French Institute, the great learned society to which all Frenchmen aspire as the pinnacle of earthly honor. Here one may catch a glimpse now and then of a shaggy headed savant, and if he is a good eavesdropper even hear a phrase from the lips of a member. Saint Genevieve's is pre eminently the students' library from its situa tion within a stone's throw ol the Sorboune, the College of France, the School of Law and several other great institutions of learning. It is a well chosen collection of 120,000 vol umes, besides some 33,000 manuscripts of the Middle Ages and a quantity of curiosi ties. All of these great libraries are used freely by women and without annoyance, unless it be occasionally at Ste. Genevieve's. Tha French student has a well-deserved reputa tion for riotous living. A rendezvous with a pretty grisette is quite as much, if not more, an object of his daT's work as attend ance on lectures. "When Ste. Genevieve's was open'to women he hailed the change as furnishing a capital place for -meetings, and used the opportunity so well that matters became scandalous and the library was closed to women and is now at night. Bat there are now so many girls studying in Paris and they do their work with so much dignity and reserve that they have con quered the old scandal and use the library treely. It is only now and then that some youngster from the country, whose ideas of Parisian college life are lormed from read ing out-of-date romance,makesit unpleasant for the serious-minded maiden. Besides these four great public libraries there ii a multitude of special collections. At the City Hall is a fine library on munic ipal administration. At the Camavalet Museum is another on the history of the city, and on the Bevolution of 100 years ago. It is an intensely interesting collec tion of about 80,000 volumes, with some 70,000 engravings and charts. The school of medicine has 90,000 volumes for its students. The University of Paris owns 170,000 volumes. At the Grand Opera there is a library devoted to the theater; at the Jardin des Plantes is one on natural his tory of about 80,000 volumes, besides a great quantity of drawings and paintings. The City's Circulating Libraries. Among the free libraries of Paris those of the municipality are of especial Interest. These are small circulating libraries estab lished especially for the poor, and open in the evenings. The first was opened in 18G6, and at the end of 1889 the last year for which the City of Paris has published its statistics there were 61 in operation. They are miscellaneous and modern in their contents. In 1889 1,232,127 books were taken out of the muni cipal libraries. An interesting experiment has been made in connection with several of these the lending of music, engravings and designs. Tne habitues greeted the oppor tunity with great enthusiasm. Technical books on the industries in which the in habitants, in the quarter in which the library is situated,are engaged art being added, and in many cases lectures and free lessons in designing and drawing are being given. If books are the bread of Pans, art is her air aud sunlight Her galleries and museums are a bewilderment to the ignor ant, a discouragement to the time-limited tourist and an endless task for the student. There are at least 20 galleries and mnseums in Paris and its immediate vicinity which no one can afford to miss who pretends to "do" the city. At the head of these is, of course, the Louvre with its miles of canvas and enough statues to furnish mile posts be tween here and San Francisco. The whole ancient world has been ransacked to enrich this collection. If less in sb-e than the Louvre, the value and interest of several other museums are no less. There is the Gluny with its quantities of Middle Age stuffs, the Luxembourg with it modern pictures and statues, the Camavalet with relics of Paris from the days of the Gauls to those of the modern, Versailles with Us vast historical canvases, the Artillery with its weapons of war in all ages and many others. Take almost any subject which one cares to study and each museum will fur nish something. The Doors Kemaln Open to All. It must not be supposed that the student in Paris is given these libraries and museums with no other instructor than himself. There are furnished to the public a great variety of free lecture courses on all sub jects. Beginning with the middle of Oc tober there appear en the bulletin boards of the city great posters which announce the lecture" courses of the winter. At the Uni versity of Paris and the College of France, at the polytechnic and the schools of law, medicine and theology, at the Museum of Natural History and of Art, at the City gjgDgfeffi.DDDi 0j3eC!B Hall and the Louvre, etc., etc, course after course on special subjects are given by the most famous men in France. Every week one can hear members of the Institute, great writers, famous politicians, leaders of thought. Their subjects are simply legion, and include every useful, and many useless, lines of human inquiry. While the lectures are intended primarily for the students in these institutions, the publio is freely admitted to most of them. It improves the opportunity, but it is not always to warm its head; sometimes it is its feet it warms in these comfortable lecture rooms. There is a great poor and idle Paris, respectable, but cold, and it flocks to the lectures as to the libraries and museums for the sake of having a comfortable place to sit. There are many foreigners taking the Paris courses, not a few of whom are Ameri cans. American girls take advantage, especially of the lecture of the univers- Chapel 0 the University of Parts. ity and college. I know one who is follow ing different courses on as many different subjects: a species of folly which perhaps one ought to have too mueh pride to tell in public about a compatriot. Free Parks and Tree Bridges. But FreeParisisnot described when one has told of libraries and museums and lectures. There still remains the city itself, the beauty of whose streets and squares does so much to make life worth living in Paris. About 300 acres of the city's area are in gardens and squares. They are distributed fairly in the poorest as well as the richest quarters. Be sides there are the two great parks the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes each of which contains about 2,250 acres. In the parks and squares of Paris and along her streets have been planted over 88,000s trees. To provide for the weary 8,285 long benches, each seating from four to eight persons, have been placed at convenient intervals. Water is everywhere. There are 78 monumental fountains which play, There are 98 Wallace fountains and 682 water spouts to assure a thirsty public that it need never suffer from lack of drink. To add still further to the pleasures of these open spaces they are planted with flowers and shrubbery, and in several of the largest of them- concerts are held from two to four times each week dur ng the summer. Added to this, Paris has made her bridges all free, an item of no mean importance when a river cuts a city at its heart; as does the Seine, separating schools from com merce and politics from fashion. It is not very long ago that toll was taken on cer tain bridges, but now the 21 are entirely free. Free Paris is not an empty title; it is a great fact, the extent and value of -which can only be touched on in a newspaper letter. To enumerate adequately what it includes would require a volume; to appre ciate what it means, at least a year ot life in its midst. Ida M. Taebeli Wrtijcallon yon with samples and fur nish estimates on furniture renpholstery Hjltgb & KJEEKAif, 33 -Water street B 5 r 5 rVaV HM44 "! k s j.i I Si "tJHFVouiH fiwffwi fPM-5 MlsiSaS FLASH LIGHT TALES." I Murray Turns the Camera of 0bsei vation Upon Chicago. AN ABOMINABLE HOTEL SERVICE.. lYerythinj: Goes on Sunday and Specula tion Is All the Bag. THE SECRET OP BI-CHLORIDE OF GOLD rrsoic jl trxrr cobkxsfondeitt.i Chicago, Feb. 26. The most offensively obtrusive feature of a Western town to the casual -visitor is the bad hotel service. It would reaUy seem that a degree of civiliza tion that produces such great newspapers and a city that is conspicuous for its ad vanced position in all the varied avenues of active modern business life might also de serf e to be commended in this respect. Un fortunately for those most affected by tha results it is quite otherwise. , I do not rely wholly upon my own per sonal experience of some years' travel, but have had ample testimony of my fellow men. There have been recently erected in Chicago some family hostelries that may possibly ba an improvement on the old lines so far as architecture and conveniences are concerned, but it is not these features that are of particular moment to the tempo rary sojourner. The good hotel endears itself to you by the character of its creature comforts and not by its size, its style of architecture or the expense involved in its floors aud wainscoting. Bad Service and Poor Meals. Bad liquor is Just as bad over an onyx bar as over.a counter of unpamted wood. It is worse for the contrast offends one's sense of the congmities as well as the palate. So bad service and poor meals are more aggra vating in a big, pretentious hotel where the prices exceed anything in Continental Europe. The experience of every New Yorker is that as he travels westward the comforts of hotel life are fewer and cost more money. The hotels are always crowded. Perhaps the natural laws oT supply and de mand account for it You can now get as good a meal on a ves tibule train as you can get at a Chicago table d'hote. The service below and above stairs is simply abominable. It may be that few good hotel servants are to be had in the West or that sufficient pay cannot be offered to make it an inducement for compe tent servants to remain there. At any rate they are conspicuous by their absence. I have sometimes imagined that nothing could be worse than a typical Southern hotel say of Bichmond, or Charleston, or New Orleans; but even in the South they don't expect field hands to wait on table. Thej Need a HeClnre There. In some respects Chicago reminds me of New Orleans about a dozen years ago. The theaters are open Sundays and the bars are running full blast The Sunday pretense of a plate of crackers with your drink at the Hofiman art gallery is too fine, and the private door and watchman, or special Sun day liquor room, are distinctions unknown at the Chicago hotel I went to the theater Sunday night with thousands of others. The theater was packed and at least one quarter of the males in the vast audience rushed out between every act to "see a man" at the adjacent saloons. These were doing a roaring trade. It was a picturesque sight, and I doubt whether it could be duplicated in the New Orleans of to-day. Coming out of the play house the senses are assailed by the pungent odor of tobacco saliva that formed in noisome pools beneath about every.eighth seat Fully one-third of the audience were ladies and the fact that they sat through all this and paddled through the filth uncom plainingly at the close indicated that they were accustomed to it 'T do not Jight my cigar after breakfast as long as I remain here'," said a drummer in the Palmer House rotunda, "AU I have to do is to hold it between my teeth. There is so much tobacco smoke in the air that I can't teU whether it is alight or not" They Do See Stars There. The Chicago people who saw the aurora borealis recently were tickled nearly to death. "As a general thing," observed a friend, "the only Chicago man who sees stars is the man who is knocked on the head by footpads." -This is not strictly true, for I saw a couple aggregating some 400 pounds slip down on the icy sidewalk Sunday night coming from the theater. All of their Chicago feet came up at once and aU of their avoirdupois came down at once. A 16-story building shivered. But thev scrambled to their feet quickly and the laugh of the buxom lady reverberated on ' the frosty air for a half a dozen blocks. The aurora boreaUs wasn't in it I asked a couple of Chicago friends one night to show me something typical of the great Western city. They took me into Mike McDonald's gorgeous barroom and consulted the barkeepers. The result was a basement on a crowded thoroughfare. Up ward ot 0 men and women were drinking and .smoking at smaU oaken tables the men bearing the appearance of country toughs, and the women the marks of the lowest rounds of the ladder. Both together com prised the hardest looking crowd of hu manity I ever saw. It wag simply and plainly low life without a redeeming fea ture a crowd of homely and degraded, de bauched and dirty.people, so low and repul sive of aspect that I went away inwardly wondering if there was elsewhere on top of the earth a more revolting picture than the typical Chicago place in lull blast A More Pleasing Picture. Let us turn the journalistic camera upon a more pleasing object In tho heart of one of the worst quarters of the city two Christian women of small fortune have es tablished an institution which for practical benevolence and the permanent betterment ot the condition ot the lowly and poor might be copied elsewhere to advantage. In the first place, it is located right in the midst of those whom it is designed to serve. In the second, it makes no pretentions to architectural or other display. 'In the third, it is non-sectarian and there is no re ligious string attached to the benevolent bouquet It is a large double house with kinter garten, gymnasium, reading room and nursery attachments. Working women leave their small children there when they go out to work and call for them when they return in the evening. There are certain days when those who speak a particular language, German, Italian, Polish, etc., are entertained and instructed. The children of those of any language are cared for every nay not wun xoagings out wun everyining else that improves and elevates young humanity. Grown persons of all nationali ties are welcomed to the place and are assistedin English. There are no con ditions and no restrictions. They are aU re-, ceived on a common level. A Convert to the Keeley Cure. Becent sojourners of D wight, 111., are to be found everywhere here. I met a young man who used to be a confidential clerk in a prominent New York railroad office and whom I knew as a habitue of certain Broad way resorts. "I have just returned from Dwight," said he, "and wiU never drink again. in this city of new associations I feel that I shaU recover confidence in my own manhood." "How long is it since you were drunk?" I inquired. "Three weeks and two days,"- said he. Then he began telling the story of a spree that had lasted two weeks and finally landed him at Dwight on the verge of delirium tremens. It would read like a romance. He showed me' letters from his Dwight companions. I am sorry he did, for these letters indicated the groundless work of the bi-chloride of gold cure for drunken-' Hess more vividlv ahan anvthintr I have vet I seen in print It is largely a matter -of al locution and strong contrast! that awaken the imagination and quicken the moral and strengthen the physical powen of ielf restraint He Works an the Imagination. If the Dwight doctors injected warm -water into the veins of the patient the re mit would probably be the same tinder the same circumstances provided the patient thought it something more potent Take a physical and mental wreck and land him into such a place and sober him up until he presents a contrast of manly decency to later arrivals make him believe in himself and in his own future surround him with others who compare their broken careers with his career, and who are now of one sentiment of sympathy aud ot the same grand resolve and it is a matter of no par ticular moment what is injected in his left arm beyond that mysterious charm which it exercises upon his mind. Send him away confident that he wiU never want to drink again and that he will be able to withstand the artificial appetite for the bottle and you have done much to permanently reclaim him. He is Uke the patient who is cured with bread pills but the cure is just as good. Great is the imagination I Two Opinions on Anti-Option. The anti-option bill is another of those things which bear two decidedly antago nistic points of view. A Chicago gentle man satisfied me one evening that the pro posed law was not only an outrage upon the right of the American citizen to buy and seU anything that any other American citi zen might sell or buv, but that the poor iarmer producer would be the chief sufferer by Congressional tinkering. He had made a lucky turn in May wheat that day, and was full of the subject also of 1850 rye. I was converted. I didn't know Yurything about it, but I was converted. The next eveningl met the same man, and he assured me with unnecessary vehemence that Congress ought to pass the" bill at one. The big speculators had used the anti-option bill itself that day to such advantage that they depressed the, wheat market 2 cents a bushel and had caught my informant for some $10,000. "This will come off of the poor farmers," he said. So I was converted back again, or became an involuntary back slider, I don't know which. The old-time gambling houses of Chicago are closed, just as they arc in Pittsburg. Yet Chicago is a greater gambling city than can be found anywhere else in America. The p-rain market suuulies a more creneral -source of recreation and spoils and despoil ment than all of the faro banks and roulette wheels in the world. A Shirt a Barity in Chicago. , The Chicago swell young man wears a muffler habitually not to protect his throat but his shirt collar. This desire to present himself at any moment and any There with a clean collar is his chief claim to swelldom and separates him from the common herd. In the eyes of the c h. he is a "dude." This muffler is usually of subdued color and doesn't show dirt When worn there is no ocular evidence of any shirt beyond the modest rim of shrinking cutis. Done up in this style a bevy of Chicago males remind you of a gang of stokers about to descend to the coalhole. The rarest sight in Chicago is a shirt and when you see one the chances are that you'll wish you hadn't seen it Now and then one of these articles blooms sweetly in the early even ing an exotic that reminds you of the clear, calm, beautiful world outside the city. Charles Theodore Murray. SERVING THE TOMATO. One ot the Best Vegetable, but One That Suffers Worst at the Cook's Hands Points on Corn and Celery Advice as to Beclpes, rwaiTTEir foe the dispatch. Next to the potato in usefulness is the tomato. The tomato is commonly served as a soggy mess, insufficiently cooked and more than sufficiently thickened with bits of bread; or as a scallop, which is a thinner stew with the bread on top and is baked in the oven. Tomato stew in its simplest form is a most enticing vegetable that partakes of the nature of fruit Tomatoes are one of the few vegetables that can stand the tin. A stew of canned tomatoes, if weU prepared, cannot be distinguished in flavor, texture or any other way from the fresh tomatoes stewed. A tomato stew, therefore, deserves consideration. In the first- place, the to matoes should be cooked, not simply heated. Thev should cook and boil until most of the liquor has evaporated. Then a gener ous piece of butter,a large spoonful of sugar to a quart, salt and pepper, and a teaspoon ful of Worcestershire sauce, if convenient, should be added. These well dissolved, fine, not coarse, bread crumbs should thicken the stew for 10 or 15 minutes before serving. Some like curry as a flavor. Some like a suspicion of onion. The lines on which the perfect stew is built remain in either case. How to Bake the Vegetable. Baked tomatoes are a pleasant varia tion. Fresh tomatoes are sliced, and layers of tomatoes are spread with salt, pepper, curry, sugar and butter, and last of all with bread crumbs and the dish is baked until the tomatoes are tender. Five min utes before they are taken out a cup full of cream, sweatened and whipped, is piled on top of them. It will brown before it melts and makes a piquant sauce for the dish. Tomatoes fried in cream is a German dish and worthy of a heroic nation. Fry small ripe tomatoes in butter, first on one side, then on the other. Whem fried, salt and pepper, and then sift flour over them; add a cupful of good cream, not whipped. Stew altogether until the cream is thickened and the tomatoes perfectly cooked. It it not difficult to broil tomatoes, you must only remember to cut the slices thick enough and broil them long enough. Black butter is blackened by the addition of vine gar to sizzling butter. Mushroom catsup or Worcestershire sauce will help the color. The black grease rises to the top and Bhould be slammed olt It is tne precious part Old Indian epicures who have acquired the fervid and rather ferocious tastes of the Orient like cayenne pepper to give a good bite to the black butter. For proportions I take half and halt of butter and vinegar; but this is a matter for the individual con science ta decide. How to Cook Corn. Boasted ears of corn are good enough to be roasted of tener than they are. Canned corn lends itself to souffles naturally. A custard and a can of com there you have it all! But you must be sure to pour off all the liquor 'in the can, and it is a good plan to wash off the taint of captivity, and let the. corn stay in an earthen or china dish. in the pure air, for a little time before cooking. Then add an unsweetened cus tard, ot a pint of milk aud two well-beaten eggs, salt and pepper, then pour into a but tered baking dish and bake for 20 minutes to half an hour, according to the inscrutable dispensations of ovens. Corn fritters are made by mixing corn with a batter and fry ing a large spoonful at a time, in hot lard. They are made out of grated com. Celery is seldom cooked; yet cooked in cream, or a thin cream sauce, it is a very pleasant 'dish. It stews until tender in milk and then the sauce is made by heat ing the mUk to boiling and adding it to the usual proportions of butter and flour. The Germans fry cabbage. It is not a fastidiously refined dish; but fried cabbage is a good dish for growing boys and for workers in the open air. The Germans fry it in lard why should I shield myself be hind the Germans? I fry it in lard myself! Shred half a cabbage. 'Soak it in salted cold water for 15 minutes. Bemove and dry the cabbage and fry, a little at a time, in a frying pan. I have a beUef that bacon would be a good medium for a cabbage fry, butlhaye not tried it A few chopped pickles are nice as an accompaniment, and it should be peppered after it is fried. It does not inevitably follow that because a recipe is tried and the effort is a failure that the recipe, itself, is a lying bit of ad vice. It is worth while to give it another trial, which may result in brilliant success. And, finally, it is always advisable in using a new recipe to take- plenty ot time. Hurry ii responsible for more kitchen tragedies than 8 d a itselfl OCZAYX THAKKfc SILENCE OF BQ6SDST Fresh Light on the Mystery of Why He Stopped Composing at 44 E0IALTY COIJLD NOT MOVE HIM. The Prince of Wales Hay Sell Out Sandring ham at a Sacrifice. HOlfOES IS TO AFEICAN DISCOVER! rWHlTIEX TOB THE DISPATCH. I Italy and Europe generally will to-day celebrate the centennary of Rossini's birth. Americans are not taking much inter est in the celebra tion, but additional significance is at tached to the event, since it may be made i the occasion of pub- ' 1S.1.1 il . - iisiiiug tuo jtuiiuua j composer's corre spondence, which for so many years Rossini. has been locked up in the archives of the Paris Opera and the French Ministry of Fine Arts. With one exception Handel Bossinl was the most prolific of the great musical composers. He was the author of 53 operas, three of which, viz.: "William Tell,"., "Semiramide" and "The Barber of Seville," still hold the public boards, and yet, at 44, he had stopped work and never put pen to paper again in the composition of music, although he lived 32 years longer. Fury at hearing "The Huguenots," and recognizing its superiority to anything he had written, is said to have been the cause of his retire ment It is the hope that the publication of the correspondence will reveal some thing of importance in connection with this incident It is awakening much interest among the members of the committee at work on the manuscripts. Bosini was an out-and-out miser, and would hardly per mit such a petty reason to stand between him and the money his compositions would bring him. If he really got out of conceit with himself, surely the flattery showered upon him from every sourcoought to have brought him back to his senses. It is said the Empress Dowager, of Russia, met him one day and tried to tempt him to return to his work, but the old man turned sullenly away, saying he had done with musio forever. Again at Baden he at tended a performance, and out of compli ment the orchestra performed his glorious overture to "William Tell." At the first notes the Duchess of Cambridge and her retinue, who were present, and almost the entire audience rose to their feet and turned with homage to the box occupied by Bossinl, but the headstrong old man never moved a muscle and seemed in no way grati fied by the honor shown him. Sandrlngham Palace for Sale. It is announced that the Prince 6f Wales will dispose of the famous Sandringham palace at the first opportunity. Some say the place is unhealthy and that that is the Prince's reason for disposing of it; others again are of the opinion that the recent con flagration which destroyed a portion'of the building, together with considerable of the Duke of Clarence's personal belongings and that Prince's death, so soon after, have turned the Prince of Wales against it Sandringham was the wedding present to Albert Fdwardi from his father. One million dollars was paid to a son of Lord Palmerston for it, and since that time the Prince has spent at least a couple of million dollars in its improvement The estate contains a little over 8,000 acres, about one-third of which is made up of ex cellent game coverts. It would not be sjrange if some Amerl-' can of wealth would purchase Sandringham, malaria and all. The royal associations will certainly be attractive, bait and, in ad dition, the Prince is so anxious to rid him self of it that it is asserted he would be likely to accept quite a deal less than he paid for it Old Norfolk itself, rejoicing in its claim to be the birthplace of so many illustrious Englishmen, offers another charm to Americans, insomuch as it has been the home of some of the best blood that went forth to colonize this country. John Bolfe, the husbrad of Pocahontas, Henry Spelman and many others whose names occupy prominent places in the early history of America came from Norfolk. A Son of His Father. In a recent article on the Gladstones a rather pretentious, magazine published in New York made tha statement that Her bert, the youngest son of the Grand Old Man, was dead. The publication referred to must have in tended to say sleep ing, and that asser tion must have awakened Herbert. for f iWd. b 1 irlr Stifl'S' Txrvar tTiA vmrv 1fvi " licst corpse in the Herbert Gladitm$. United Kingdom. It is true that hereto fore but little has been heard of Herbert For all the public knew of him or his affairs he might as well have been dead. But re cently he has leaped into the foremost rank of politics, and that in the face of one of the warmest campaigns England has known for many a day. Of course, he is on the side of his father, who is a candidate of a Lib eral party pledged to Home Rule. To in crease his strength Mr. Gladstone endeav ored to secure to him the support of the labor element To that end he wrote a labor essav. It contained some trosd things but on the whole was rather dull for Mr. Glad stone. To fill the void who should spring up but, this almost forgotten Herbert Gladstone. His declaration of his party's policy was so strong and clear that it has added wonder fully to his father's strength. It is not often that a father's greatness descends to his son, and the surprise to everybody would be indeed great if the hitherto mod est and retiring Herbert should manifest anything like his father's ability. Insects "With railing Snow. North Adams, Mass., 'is boasting of a shower of worms, or rather of a snow storm that brought with it myriads of small scarlet worms. So numerous were they that the river for several acres was colored to a crimson tinge. Instances are on record of showers" of fish, frogs, insects, blood, milk, etc., but tHis is the first fish-bait snow of which we know. A storm of somewhat similar.character occurred in Russia, aud is recorded in a newspaper of that country in 1827. A heavy snowstorm that passed over Pakroff, in the Government of Tover, was accompanied by an immense number of black insects about an inch long, with flat, shining heads, antennae, a velvety kind of skin, marked with rings or bands, and feet which enabled them to crawl rapidly over the snow. Such of them as were carried into a warm place died in a short time, but the rest remained alive for a considerable period. A similar event is reported at Arache, in Upper Savoy, France, about 4:30 jl. m. on the morning of January 30, 18G9. After a somewhat violent gust of wind snow fell until daylight aud a large number of live larva: were found in the snow. They could not have been hatched in the neighborhood, for during the days preceding the tempera ture had been very low. The only explana tion for this phenomenoniythat the insects were brought from Southern France on the sale of wind which preceded the storm. I Xh Ihese are the only phenomena on record in J "m w- which anything living has fallen durlnr snow storms;' In connection with" rain it may be considered comparatively common. The Crises In France. It is not many weeks since it was re marked in these columns that the signs of disapproval shown everywhere over the actions of France in the fam ous Archbishop of Air affair would be likely to result seriously. No mat ter how'strong the current of publio opinion ran in official circles azainst Rome, it W' DeFreycineU was certainly a mistake of a Catholic coun try to make use of the methods indulged in in the ease referred to. Some was not dila tory in accepting the handle of the weapon offered and making use of it with telling effect The result is now very evident M. de Freycinet and his Ministry are the first to feel the blow. Goodness only knows how many more will suffer before it all ends. That is about the only satisfaction allowed Do Freycinet in his fall. He well knows that when the lontrest-lived Cabinet of the third republio went down; it did not leave much of a foundation behind to build future hopes upon. M. Ribot or M. Rouvier may succeed in quelling the unruly majorities in the Chamber of Deputies, but it is almost absolutely certain that such a condition will not last long. About Sirs. Humphrey Ward. There seems to be an erroneous impres sion tEat Mrs. Humphrey Ward, of "Rob ert Elsmere" and "David Grieve." fame, is a new celebrity in the literary world. Even one of the best book reviewers of this coun try, a writer whose authority on bookish subjects is very generally unquestioned, said last week that Mrs. Ward did her first literary work in 1880. This is a mistake. Mrs. Ward had achieved enough fame in the latter part of 1874 to be made the sub ject of a pleasing notice in the critical col umns of the Eclectic Magazine. She was then engaged on matter intended for children's reading. By the way, it does not seem to be gener ally known that this famous woman was born in this State. She is married to the principal art critic of the London Times and is a great admirer of Mary Anderson, who is the actual model from which the heroine of the novel, "Miss Bretherton'is drawn." The Honor of Africa. The name of Colonel James A. Grant, the explorer who died last week, will always be associated with the most celebrated of African travelers. For many years he has been considered among the greatest authorities on Af rica, but, whether he or the long-dead Captain Speke are entitled to the most credit for the work thev rccomnlished Oianri flnni together is a much debated question. Ex treme partisans of both have so long harped on the separate claims of each that it is hardly possible to know whether it was Speke or Grant that accomplished the most, in the heart of Africa. Some say Grant' was a mere figurehead in the expedition that solved the mystery of the source of the Nile; others that Speke, with .all his cleverness, was not equal to Grant in scientific matters. But in all consider ation of this subject the fact must be remembered that the original pur pose of Speke was to bring an English man as a witness to prove to sarcastic Bur ton the truth of his claims to having dis covered the source of the Nile. To that end he requested Grant to accompany him, and at no time in the accounts of that trip does Grant's name assume pretensions be yond the ordinary. It seems presumption to foist Grant's name ahead of Speke's at this late hour. Grant may have been able enough, but we must judge of men by their deeds. Speke has been dead 28 rears, and if Grant -nos- sessed all of the 'ability claimed-for him, ii .11 as tr la i j. . surciy jui hue weaxuixne 119 wouiu oare uono something to substantiate it W. G. KATTFSIAMr. BACTEEIA IK FLAKIS. A Discovery bj Uncle Jerry's People That Slay Help Gardeners. It seems surprising enough to learn that plants which bear pods, such as peas and beans, depend largely for their healthy growth upon bacteria. These little vege table organisms attach themselves to the rootlets, upon which they feed, forming about each of their colonies a woody tubercle, just as the species that engen ders consumption in human beings and other animals forms tubercle in the lungs. Thus the roots on which such germs find a lodgment are found to be more or less covered with warty excrescences. Until lately it had never been imagined that the tubercles were of use to the plant, or that the latter relied in any degree for its welfare upon the parasites which form them. Nevertheless, such has been shown to be the fact by experiments in the Department of Agriculture. Plants are composed largely 01 nitrogen, auu tue uactena De scribed absorbed this element from the air. Indeed, this is the onfr way in which podT bearing vegetables can procure free nitro gen from the atmosphere. Each kind of pod-bearing plant has its own species of bacteria, upon which it depends for a sup ply of free nitrogen from the air. The tu bercle germs of peas do not produce tuber cles in beans, and therefore are of no use to them, and the various forms of tubercle making bacteria are not all found in every soil. In a field where beans have been cul tivated for a long time there may be no tubercle germs for peas at all, or vice versa. Accordingly, the farmer would be likely to find a change from one crop to the other a dismal failure, unless he knew enough to procure some earth from the proper place, mix it with water, and thus microbe-seed the land for the new vegetable. TEX IHVEHI0S 07 THE MATCH, like a GoodSIany Other Public Benefactors Died a Pauper. The first match was the product of the in genuity of John Frederick Komerer, who early in this century was imprisoned In the penitentiary at Hohenasperg, in Germany. He invented the Inciter match while in his gloomy dungeon. There were no patent laws then, and the German Government for bade the manufacture of matches on the grounds of publio policy, because some children playing with them had caused a fire. Komererwas ruined by Viendese com petition when he was released from prison and died a pauper. In 1842 this law of Germany was repealed. And in 1848 a match manufacturer of Vienna had already amassed $ 1,000,000. Up to 1862 the Vienna manufacturers controlled the match business of the entire world. ZTX8X 3L00D 07 THE WAS. It TVa Shed by Col. B. T. Keller and Col. B. T. HSwkes Now Has It. The first drops of blood shed in the War of the Bebellion are declared to be at the present time in the possession of Colonel B. F. Hawkes, of the Pension Office in Wash ington, and to have been shed by Colonel B. F. Keller, who commanded the Federal forces at the battle of Fhilippi, the fint battle of the war. One of the first bullets fired pierced Colonel Kelley's Tung and stained his vest, which was preserved. Colonel Kelley did not die, although the' iurr-eon pronounced his wound mortal, and lived to a good old age. WRITTEN FOB BY MARK TWAIN, Author of "Innocents Abroad," "Tom Sawyer," "Huckleberry Finn," Etc, Etc STHOFSIS OF PBEVIOCS CHAFT2BS. Lord Berkeley, ostensibly Earl of Bossmore, has a son who has studied the claims of ona Simon Leathers of America to Chalmondelay Castle and the vast estate, and becoming convinced that he and his father are usurpers, starts to America to make his own fortune. He is imbued with democratic ideas. His father declares tho son is stark mad, but ha starts to America nevertheless. In Washington he narrowly escapes death at a hotel Are, and having been reported burned in the newspapers, adopts Howard Tracy as his name. At the lire be accidentally irets the clothes of One-Armed Pete, a cowboy, who is also ie, ported burned. In the pockets is a sum of money which Tracey put9 in bank; He fails to, nnd,work and drifts to a cheap boarding house. The habits of the boors is the worst trial he has had to bear. Finally he becomes a hero bv thrashing tne bully of the house. Tha latter leaves, taking Tracy's money with him. The landlord insults Tracy for not paying his board. Discouraged, he telegraphs his adopted name to his father, expecting' help. Tho, announcementthat he expects a cablegram from his father, who is an Englisn Earl, con vinces the boarding bouse folks that his failure to get work has set him crazy. At last Tracy gets a cablegram. It reads simply, "Thanks." Despondent to the last degree, Tracy finally takes up with an Old sailor and a German who paint abominable pictures. He be- flns to make money for the first time since he came to America. Simons leathers and hla rotherset tilled at a log roUing out West, and Colonel Mulberry Sellers, the central char acter of tho story, becomes the American claimant to Chalmondelay Castle. He and his old wile, with a sprigbtlv daughter, live In a tnmbled-down house in Washington, whloa now becomes Bossmore Towers. He mourns the voung Lord as dead, and came near sen J ing the old Lord a basket of ashes from the hotel fire as his son's remains. He is always full of chimerical schemes, amongthemaPigs-in-Cloverpuzzle.whichattheinstanceot his Wild "Western friend, Washington Hawkins, he sells to a Yankee at 5 cents for eachpuzzle sold. One-Armed Pete is wanted for a crime and a reward Is offered. Sellers and Hawkins der termine to get the reward. After the hotel Are they get a glimpse of Tracy In the cowboy costume and prepare to capture him. CHAPTEBXLX HEBE bang you go again without giving any rotice 1 Going to buy?" "iC, as soon as X get the money. I don't care what the price is, I shall take it T m nffbrd it. and I wilL Now then, consider this and you've never thought of it, I'll warrant Where Is the place where there is 25 times more manhood, pluck, true heroism, unselfishness, devotion to high and noble Ideals, adoration of liberty, wide education and brains, per 1,000 of popula tion, than any other domain in the whole world can show?" "Siberia I" "Bight" . . "It is true; it certainly is true, but i. never thought of it before." "Nobody ever thinks of it But it's so just the same. In those mines and prisons are gathered together the very finest and LEFT BBHTSP VS THE noblest and capablest multitude of .human beings that God is able to create. Now if you had that kind of a population to sell would you offer it to a despotism? No, the despotism has no use for it; you winid lose money. A despotism has no use for any thing but human cattle. But suppose you want to start a republic?" Yes, I see. It's just the material forit' "Well, I should say so! There's Siberia, withjust the very finest and choicest ma terial on the globe for a republic, and more coming more coming all the- time, don't you see! It is being daily, weekly,monthly renmited bv the most nerfectlv devised sys tem that has ever been invented, perhaps. By this system the whole of the hundred millions ot Bussia are being constantly and patiently sifted, sifted, sifted, by myriads of traine'd experts, spies appointed by the Emperor personally; and whenever they catcnva man, woman or child that has got any brains or education or character, they ship that person straight to Siberia. It is admirable, it is wonderful. It is so search ing and so effective that it keeps the gen eral level of Bussian intellect and educa tion down to that of the Czar." "Come, that sounds like exaggeration." "Well, it's what thev say, anyway. But I think, myself, its a lie. And it doesn't seem right to slander a whole nation that way, anyhow. Now, then, you see what the material is, there in Siberia, for a re public." He paused and his breast began to heave and his eye to bum under the im pulse.of strong emotion. Then his words began" to stream forth, with constantly in creasing energy and fire, and he rose to his feet as & to give himself larger freedom. "The minute I organize that republic, the light of liberty, intelligence, justice, hu manity bursting from it, flooding from it, flaming from it, will concentrate the gaze of the whole astonished world as upon the miracle of a new sun; Bussia's countless multitude of slaves will rise up and march, march! eastward with that great light transfiguring their faces as they come, and far back; of them you will see what will you see? a vacant throne in an empty land! It can be done, and by God I will do itl" He stood a moment bereft of earthly con sciousness by his exaltation; then conscious ness returned1, bringing him a slight shock, and he said, with grave earnestness "I must ask you to pardon me, Ifafor Hawkins. I have never used that expres sion before, and I beg you will forgive it this time." Hawkins was quite willing. "You see,Washington,It is an errorwhich I am by nature not liable toi Only excita ble, impulsive people, are exposed to it But the circumstances of the present case- THE DISPATCH I being a democrat by birth and preference and an aristocrat by inheritance and rel ish" The Earl stopped suddenly, his frama stifiened, and he began to stare speechless through the curtainless window. Then ho pointed," and gasped out a single rapturous word: "Lookl" What is it, Colonel?" "Itl" "Nol" "Sure as you're born. Keep perfectly still. I'll apply the influence I'll turn on all my foice. I've brought it thus far I'll fetch It right into the house. You'll see." He was making all sorts of passes in tha air with his hands. "Therel Look at that I've made it smile I See?" Quite true. Tracy, out for an afternoon stroll, had come unexpectedly upon his fam ily arms, displayed upon this shabby house front The hatchments made him smile, which was nothing, they had made thq neighborhood cats do that "Look, Hawkins, lookl I'm drawing it over I" t "You're drawing it sure, Bossmore. If I atABCH OF PBOQEE33 ever had any doubt about materialization, they're gone now, and gone for good. Oh, this is a joyful dayl" Tracy was sauntering over to read tha' door-plate. Before he was half-way over ha , was saying to himself, "Why, manifestly these are the American Claimant's quar ters." "It's coming coming rieht along. I'll slide down and pull it in. You follow aftex me." Sellers, pale and a good deal agitated, opened the door and confronted Tracy. Tha old man could not at once get his breath then he pumped out a scattering and hardly coherent salutation, and followed it with: "Walk in, walk right in, Mr. er " "Tracy HowardXracy. "Traoy thanks walk right in, you'ra expected." Tracy entered, considerably puzzled, ana said: "Expected? I think there must be some mistake." "Oh, I judge not," said Sellers, who, noticing that Hawkins had arrived, gava him a sidewise?glance,jintended to call his close attention to a dramatic effect which he was proposing to produce by his next remark. Then he said, slowly and im pressively: "I am you know who." To the astonishment of both conspirators, the remark produced no dramatic effect at all, for the new comer responded with a quite innocent aud unembarrassed air: "No, pardon me. I don't know who yoa are. 1 only suppose Dut no douot correctly that you are the gentleman whose title is on the door plate." "Bight quite right sit down, pray sit down." The earl was rattled, thrown off his bearings, his head was in a whirl. Then he noticed Hawkins standing apart and staring idiotically at what to him was tha apparition of a defunct man, and a new idea was born to him. He said to Tracy, briskly: "But a thousand pardons, dear sir. I am forgetting courtesies due to guest and stranger. Let me introduce my friend Gen eral Hawkins General Hawkins, our new Senator Senator from the latest and grand est addition to the radiant galaxy of sov erign States. Cherokee strip," to himself, "that name wiU shrivel him up!" but it' didn't in the least, and the Colonel re sumed the introduction, piteously disheart ened and amazed "senator Jaawcns, mi. Howard Tracy, of er " "England." "England! Why, that's m " "England, ves, a native of England." Eecently horn there?" "Yes, quite recently." Said the Colonel to himself. 'Ihis phan tom lies like an expert Purifying this kind- by nre don't wore ill sound him a little. further, give mm another chance or two 3i t.
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