W$?Wy1Mi Kyr f"5" -v '"- . " -: V ;r u- w -.- --.-- -- - MAKINGRESIDENTS Unwritten. History of the TVire-Working of Na tional Conventions. HOW GEN. HARRISON WON. Tom Plait's Telegram to Sherman That Sew York Was for Him. GAS PirES BEAT BLAINE IN '76. Garfield's Gemination the Result of a Spasm of Hero Worship. $90,000 IX GOIiD WON FOE BUCHANAN fCOKRESrOXDENCK Or THE DISPATCH. rf ASHIXGTON, y. March 5. The i rue mstory 01 Presidental nom nations is never published. The world gets the ballots and the speeches of the National Con ventions, hut it never sees the wires which are pulled behind the scenes, nor hears of the trades which are made between candidates and the convention leaders It does not know that Cabinet offices have been often promised as the price of the support of a delegation, nor does it understand the little tricks and queer turns which sometimes make or de feat a President. The story of the convention of 18S8, when President Harrison was nominated, is full of unwritten history. The actors in it are all alive, but you will scarcely find one who is willing to say, over his own signa ture, just how the nomination came to be made, or how Sherman was beaten and Harrison nominated. One of the most prominent Senators from the "West told me much of the inside story of this convention last night, and when I asked him whether I might ue his name in connection with the interview, he replied: Xeir York's Vole for Harrison. "Xo, but you can asfc Senator Sherman whether he received the dispatches which I have mentioned, and if so this will be an evidence to you of the truth of my story. First ask him as to whether, on the Sunday before Harrison was nominated, he did not pet a telegram signed by Tom Piatt and Warner Miller saying that the 2few York delegation were going to cast their rote on the morrow for him, and whether, later on, he did not receive another stating they were going to give a complimentary vote to Har rison." I asked Senator Sherman these questions, and be replied that he did receive these tele grams and that he believed they were sent in good faith. Now for the Senator's story. saia ne: "Senator Sherman would certainly hive been the nominee of the convention of 1888 had New York not decided to give one solid vote for Harrison on Monday. This rote was given more as a compromise than with the serious intention of making Harri son the candidate, and the understanding was that after it the delegation was to be counted solidly for Sherman. Harrison Was an Accident. "The vote for Harrison, however, turned the scale, and Harrison, much to their sur prise, was nominated. New York came to the convention practically without a can didate. The votes lor Chauncey M. Depew in the first stages of the convention were more complimentary than serious, and the New Yore delegates did not consider him a possibility. Depew, howee, took the vote for earnest, and he began to run wires to the other delegations which might have resulted in his nomination. "I knew that the "West could do nothing with Depew as a candidate. He was the attorney of the Yanderbilts and arepresent ati e of the gold bugs, and his nomination meant certain defeat. I found, however, that he w as getting considerable support, and among others I talked with was Sena tor SeweU, of New Jersey. Said I: 'Scwell, I understand that New Jersey is going over to Chauncey Depew, and I don't think it is a good move.' 'You are crazy, replied SeweU, 'he can't get a vote in our delegation.' 'Well, look and see,' said 3. Sewell thereupon polled the delegation, and he came back and told me that half of them were going to vote for Depew. I then called upon the New York delegation and a number of them told me there was nothing serious in Depew's candidacy, and shortly after that Depew's name was withdrawn. " How Sherman Xst the Presidency. "But how did Hew York come to vote for Sherman?" said I. "There are a number of stories mixed up in it," was the reply. "While the conven tion was in session, Chauncey Derew gave a .dinner one night to the New York delega tion and at that dinner it was agreed that the four delegates at large from New York should cast the 70 votes of that Stale as they saw- fit, and three of these delegates leaned toward Sherman. The four delegates ere Warner Miller, Frank Hiscock, Tom Piatt and Chauncey M. Depew. Warner Miller was from th'e beginning a Sherman man. Chauncey Depew preferred Sherman to the other candidates and so did Frank Hiscock. The only one who was in uncertain quantity in this regard was ex-Senator Tom Piatt, who got the credit of being both a Sherman and a Harrison man at this time during the convention. "I am not sure as to the exact time of this dinner, but it must have been at the last of the week. .New lork had been drifting around and it had caU 58 votes one or twice for Harrison. It was felt in the convention, however, that this meant nothing, but when the story got out about the Depew dinner the Ohio delegation realized that the candidate who could hold the solid vote of New York could be nominated. Calico Charlie's Bis Promises. "The nextmorning after the dinner Charlie Poster, now Secretary of the Treasury, knowing that he could depend upon Miller, Hiscock and Depew, called upon Tom Piatt with several other Sherman men and urged him to go in with the other three delegates st Urge and make New York solia for Sherman. He told Piatt that Sherman ap preciated the importance of Hew York and that if if brought about his nomination by casting its Mlid vote for him, he would certainly give it due reioenition if he came to be President. Mr. Foster told Mr. Piatt that of all the candidates before the con vention, Sherman was the only one who was big enough, brave enough and strong enough to carry out any promises hi friends might make concerning him. At this Mr. Piatt said that promises in such a case would handicap the candidate and that he felt satisfied that Sherman would treat his friends fairly. He gave the impression that he intended to vote for Sherman and I think up until late Sunday night this was his intention. I know .that he and Warner Miller telegraphed Senator Sher man on Sunday that Hew York would give him her solid vote on the morrow, and later on they telegraphed him that they would give one vote to Harrison and then vote for him. The other Sherman men who were present when Foster talked with O' Plaft told Mr. Foster that he ought to have said, that Senator Sherman would certainly feel that New York should have a place in his Cabinet, but Foster said that he could not conscientiously make such a statement," Elklns' Bide With Flatt. "Allthis time," continued the Senator, "Stephen B. Elkins was watching Tom Piatt He had heard of the dinner and he understood the situation as well as the Sherman men did. As soon as Piatt left them he called and took him out driving. What transpired during that drive I do not know Piatt is said to claim that Mr. Elkins offered him the Secretaryship of the Treas ury if the New York vote should be cast solidly for President Harrison and bring about his nomination. Mr. Elkins, I am told, denies that he made this offer, and the President savs he never authorized any thing of the kind to be made if it was made. At any rate, Piatt did not get to be Secre tary of the Treasury. "Another curious thing about the conven tion and the New York delegation was that the most of them were willing to give Alli son a vote at one time rather in the way of compliment than anything clse, but that Depew, whom they had maue witnaraw on account of the objections of the Grangers, said that Allison was a Granger candidate and if the Grangers objected to him, he would be haneed if he would go with the Grangers, and with that the vote was given to Harrison with the idea of afterward com ing over to Sherman." Itbvt II ayes Was Nominated. I called on Judge James X. Tvner, At torney General of the PostofSce 'Depart ment, the other day and asked him to tell me the inside historv of the nomination of President Hayes in 187& ' Judge Tvrer was at this time. a3 he is now, one of the lead ing politicians of Indiana. He was then Assistant Postmaster General and shortly afterward Postmaster General under Grant and he was noted a? being the chief lieuten ant and adviser of Oliver P. Morton. Mor ton was one of ihe leading candidates before the convention, and it was the throwing of the Morton strength to Hayes that caused the stampede in his favor "and resulted in his nomination. Judge Tyner was at first reluctant to speak of the matter, but finally he gave the tory as an interesting piece of unwritten historv. Said he: "Forsome time before the convention.it was evident that Blaine would be the strongest candidate to come before it. He had an en thusiastic following and when the conven tion met at Cincinnati weat once saw that it was Blaine against the field. The rela tions between Senator Morton and Senator Blaine were by no means friendly ones. Morton thought Blaine Had Injured Him, and next to his hope of receiving the nom inationhimself was his hope that if he could not be nominated that the nominee should not be Blaine. For a number of reasons I did not deem it wise or safe that Blaine should be our nominee, and I thought that some other candidate would be more accept able to the people. There were 756 votes in the convention, and 379 were necessary to a choice. On the first ballot Blaine had 291 votes, and Morton came next to him with 125. Then lollowed Bristow, of Ken tucky, who was still in Grant's Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury, but who was not at all inharmony with the President. He had 113 votes, and next to him stood Conk- ling, whom Grant was anxious to see nom inated, and after Conkling came Hayes, of Ohio, and Hartranft, of Pennsylvania. The Blaine forces were solid. They were well organized, and they were in the ficht to stay. We cast five ballots, the candidates not varying much from their original strength. But at the end of the sixth bal lot it was evident to me that a break was bonnd to come very soon, and that a straw one way or the other would result in the nomination of the candidate toward whom it went." Morton's Telegram of Withdrawal. "Now I had had a long conversation with Mr. Morton before I left Washington. In which I told him we "would nominate him if we could, but that I thought it would be a miracle if we succeeded in doing so. 'It is your physical condition,' said I, 'that will, in all probability, defeat your nomination. There will be great opposition to the nom ination of a candidate however great who is in the physical condition that you are. tlf ynu could stand upon your feet as you once did. nothing could defeat vour nomination. Still, there is a chance, and we will stick to you as long as there is the least possibility of our success, but if at the last mo ment we see that that possibility' has gone by, I want you to give me the right to vote for the person I think can be nomi nated. I will telegraph you at that time, and I would like to have the authority for withdrawing your name.' Senator Morton said he was perfectly willing to take my judgment in that matter after conferring with his other friends in the convention, and so at the close of this ballot, when I saw that the next ballot would either see a change or would result In the Nomination or Blaine or Bristow, I telegraphed Senator Morton at his hotel, the Ebbit House, at Washing ton, telling him that his nomination could not be made, and asking the authority to withdraw his name. Mr. Morton had a pri vate wire to his room in the Ebbitt House, and the answer came quickly back. It was: Don't vou think there is a chance for me yet?' "To this I replied, 'No,' and within a short time I got another telegram, which read as follows: " 'I leave the matter to you and my friends, but see that our vote counts.' "That telegram brought about the nom ination of Hayes. At the beginning of the seventh ballot I rose and asked that the In diana delegation be allowed to go out of the convention and consult The whole convention knew what this meant It meant that the Morton strength would in all prob ability be thrown so some other candidate, and it was seen that this would decide the fate of the nomination." Poor Gas FlxtnresiFIxed Blaine. "In the meantime the Blaine "strength had fought hard against the field, and it wss all we could do to keep the forces of the Other candidates in their ranks. At one time when the Conkling strength was wavering, a number of the other candidates loaned him votes to keep his strength up and to keep them from going to Blaine, and during the first day'ssession ive force lau adjournment, for we saw that another ballot would result in Blaine's nomination. We accomplished this adjournment by a trick. We knew that the Blaine men could outvote us on the question of adjournment, but the man who had charge of the convention hall was a friend ot liayes , and it, began to grow dark jest about the time that this ballot was to be taken. He came to the convention hall and told the leaders that the gas. fixtures of the hall were all out of order, and that if they at tempted to light them there would cer tainly be an explosion. The result was that the convention had to be adjourned till next day, and that story abont the gas brought about Blaine's defeat It enabled his opponents to make combinations against him and many of the delegates sat np all night, myself among the number. Combination With Governor Noyes. "Hayes at this time had not much more than the vote of Ohio. I called upon Gov ernor Noyes and he wanted me to throw the Morton strength to Hayes. I told him I thought Morton could, be nominated, and we finally left with the understanding that if the time came in the convention when it was seen that' either Morton or Haves could be nominated by the aid of the other that the best man would have the 'votes of the other at that time. This was a private arrangement between myself and Governor Noyes. There was no other candidate in cluded in it "To return to the convention, as I said, everyone saw that the decisive moment had arrived when I asked that the Indiana dele gation be allowed to retire and consult, and most thought that it was to withdraw Mor ton as a candidate. As soon as the delega tion was alone, I told them that I thought the time for the withdrawing of Morton's name had come and I gave them the sub stance of the telegram I had received and of other telegrams which had been received by others. I told thafa of my. conversation, with Senator Morten before I left Washing THE ton, and when the vote was put as to the withdrawal of his name, it was agreed to. The result was tnat we Kt out of the 30 Indiana delegates to votes for Hayes. When this result was declared to the convention, the shout that went up, almost took the roof ofE Hayes had 38 votes and Blaine had SSL" TJi Enthusiasm for Garfield. Speaking of the enthusiasm of the con vention in 1876. the moat enthuslastio con vention in cur history was the Garfield con vention of 183a Secretary Foster, who was the leader of the Sherman forces of this convention, told me net long ago that the applause that began daring the last ballot, when It was seen that Garfield was going to be nominated, lasted over an hour and that they were still applauding when he took Garfield out of the convention. Said he: "Garfield did not know what to da He turned as white as a sheet and he sat there looking like death -while the convention cheered. While we waited, telegrams be gan to pour-in and he would hand these over to me and I would open them. We got in that hdur over a hundred telegrams, and congratulatory telegrams came from long distances before the result was offi cially announced by the Chairman of the convention. I remember one from Baton Bouge, La., and there were others equally far away. A.t last Garfield said, 'Can't you get me out of here?' And I told him that I would try. With that we got up and pushed our way, arm in arm, out of the convention halL lore Off the Koof of Garfield's Carriage. "I got Garfield into a carriage at just about the time the crowd realized that he was coming out, and as I did so the crowd seemed to grow wild. They, tore the roof right off the carriage in their anxiety to see Garfield, and I remember that I had to pay $65 to the cabman to make the thing square." & "What in a nutshell was the cause ot Garfield's nomination?" I asked. "The nomination of Garfield," said Secre tary Foster, "was almost directly the resnlt of hero worship. The convention of .1880 was one made up of hero worshipers. " The followers of Grant and Blaine were full of enthusiasm, lire and "of the determination to nominate their candidates. The rest of the delegates were actuated by the same feel ing. Every man seemed to have come to the convention with a purpose, and, as the convention went on, this enthusiasm spread, and, as the contest was narrowed down to two or three candidates, it 'became stronger and stronger. Soon after the con vention was called to order, it was seen that it was Grant against the field. , How Conkling Was Worshiped. "Boscoe Conkling was the idol of ths friends of Grant He was cheered again and again.whenever he rose in the hall, and his speeches were receives with long and continued applause. I thing that Conkling enjoyed his. position. He never looked better nor stronger than he did at Chicago. and he seemed to feel his power. Now, the opposing elements 'required an idol, and that idol they found in Garfield. He was pre-eminently the great leader of the oppo sition, and his eloquence. Lis magnfiicent presence, and the courage he showed on the floor, made him the god of the anti-Grant men of the convention. I don't think Garfield encouraged this sentiment He would not have been mor tal had he not liked it, but he was modest about it and he did not court applause nor pose tor it, as it seemeato me uonkiing aid. As the convention went on, this worship of the leaders grew stronger-and stronger, and when the time came that Garfield's name was sprung by those 16 votes from Wiscon sin, it was at its climax. It created a per fect stampede toward him and in two bal lots he was nominated." How Anchanan Defeated Douglas. I heard a curious story the other night about the nomination of Buchanan in 1856. It was brought about by $90,000 in gold coin presented by New York and by the with drawal of Stephen A. Douglas. Mr. Charles P. Button, who was a relative of Senator Douglas and one of his confidential agents, tells me the story. Said he: "Before I left Washington to go to Cin cinnati, Senator Douglas wrote a letter withdrawing his name from the convention in favor of Buchanan and he gave this into my hknds and that1 of anotherUlfnois friend with the instruction that it 'waslto be pre sented to the convention if "there was no chance of his being nominated. He was prevailed upon to do this by some of Bu chanan's friends who promised him that if he did so, Buchanan's' forces would support him four years later. They said that Douglas was a young man and Buchanan was an old one and that Douglas could afford to wait Well, when we got to Cin cinnati we found the chances were pretty good for Douglas, but the Buchanan men tot around the other man who had charge of is letter and kept him in a chronic state of inebriety during the convention and through this condition the letter was given out Buchanan had a strong support from New York and Isaiah Rynders, who was one of the leaders of the" New York delegation, had parlors in the Burnett House upon the floor of which he had $90,000 in gold spread out which he showed the delegates and told them that New York would give that to the campaign if Buchanan was nominated." Feank G. Carpenter. ONE OF HATUEE'S CANTEENS. A Quantity of Water Enclosed In a Beauti ful Sphere of Chalcedony. A very remarkable curiosity occupies a little shelf at the Geological Survey. It is a lump of chalcedony as big as a child's fist, white and translucent It is but a thin shell, and, when held to the light, is seen to be nearly filled with water, which flows about as the object is turned this way and that What makes it interesting is that the water has undoubtedly been enclosed and hermetically sealed in this natural recep tacle for thousands and thousands of years. Probably it was there long before Moses was born, and yet not a drop of it has evap orated. Originally there was a cavity in the rock, formed by a volcanic bubble. Water percolated into Upbringing in solu tion silei, which was deposited on the walls of the little holiow in a coating of chalce dony. At length it would have been filled up solid with beautiful crystals, forming one of those "geodes," as they are called, which are nature's treasury-caskets, found concealed in rocky formations where least expected and revealing wonders of brilliant color. Agates are made in the same fashion. However, in this instance the small channel by which the water flowed in and out became closed ud in some way, and so the process stopped. After the lanse of no one can tell how many centuries, the stony mass containing the chalcedony chamber with its liquid contents was broken open and it fell out, being loose. PUNCTUATION. IN TELEGBAMBL A Tnnny Experience Major Pond Had With a Chicago Newspaperman. Three years ago, on a professional trip with Mr. Biley, and while my wife'was with me bound for the coast, writes Bill Nye, we got word at Kansas vCity that the children had been attacked simultaneously wih scar let fever, and so it was necessary to give np the California trip. ' Our manager hated to give up the tour en tirely, and, in order to make it more im pressive, wirei that I was ill, which was all right for a manager, but would not do for anybody else. He sent the following mes sage, totally unpunctuated, to Eugene Field, of Chicago: t Eugene Field, Soot, Chicago: Nye very ill west of Missouri what would you take lor 60 nights with BUeyT Pond. Eugene did not seem to understand the telegram, I judge, for he wired back: J. B. Pond, Kantu Cltyi I also am sick west of tho Missouri, but do ipt know what I would take. Eroixx Field. " Convenience.' Yes. I find the SafeDeposit Department German National Bank, Wood street and Sixth avenue, the most convenient place to keep my papers and valuables, its location being so central. Boxes rented at JH -and. upmbtu per year. aux PITTSBUR'G" DISPATCH, NEW FORMS OF DEATH Planned by Nihilists for a Propa ganda of Destruction in Russia. AN ANONYMOUS PROPHET 0DT. Ingenious Bomb Which Has Been Christened the Czar's Pancake. DIMMITE TBEFHRBJBD TO GLTCEBUE rwRrmtif roa tim dispatch-t The very recent Anarchist outbreak at Xeres In Spain has been referred to both in the cable dispatches and in the local news paper comments as an ordinary riot devoid of any political significance. But there is something portentous behind It all, It has been decided to take more active measures to push the Anarchist movement forward, and, strangely enough, the fields selected for active operations are extremes, being in fact, Russia and Spain. Three months be fore the outbreak at Xeres, secret instruc tions were Issued by the leaders, and in formation has reached New York from re liable sources which indicates an active policy on their part Who are these leaders? The principles of the Anarchist movement are ably repri- Ramot, the Spanish Anarchist. sented in the various countries of Europe by individual men. Head and front of it, and with his influence paramount in all lands is, ot course, Prince Krapotkin, the Bussian of noble birth who has submitted himself to a decree of outlawry and exile in the pursuit of his convictions. Born in a station calculated to foster in his mind a sympathy with everything autocratic, his thoughtful speculations on the condition of the masses in Bussia and elsewhere cul minated in his positive rejection of the ex isting social law. His Brother Assassinated by Nihilists. The evolution of his character is the more remarkable when viewed in connection with the attitude of his brother, whose actions rendered him so obnoxious to the Nihilists in Bussia that they effected his assassination at Karkoff some years ago. A refugee from Bussia, Krapotkin found himself subse quently in danger of prosecution in France, uie Government there having taken um brage at his promulgation of extreme socialistic views. From his present asylum in London he directs the operations of his followers in all parts of the globe, who re gard him as their head center and apostle. In France we have Elise Keclus, the dis tinguished man of science and probably the most famous geographer of his time, whose connection with the communfe in 1871 neces sitated his Joining the colony in Geneva of exnatri ted fellow theorists. Theiltalian believers in extremes arer headed by Cipriani, who has to some extent sought the adoption of parliamentary methods to help the cause. Germany "pog- Eltse Rectus, the French Leader. sesses an uncompromising leader of anarch ical thought in Bruno Wille, who has been the mainspring of the revolt against the moderates in the German Social Democracy. Wille is a poet He has been at the head of the secessionists who fell awav from the Social Democracy under the conviction that the latter was fast degenerating into a vast political machine. The Leader in Spain. Earn os is the life of the restless element in Spain. This fiery leader, whose im petuous temperament rejects all restraint, and who, appearing at the Socialist Con gress in Brussels last September, as a dele gate, refused to entertain the policy of rea sonable agitation seeking to force upon the Congress a plan of physical force and open destiuction resultion in his ejection from the Maison du Peuple has been selected, as the world has seen, to raise the red flag in Spain. And so five weeks ago when news of the revolt" reached these shores Bamos was known to be its instigator. He Focusing the Oar's Pancake. was well calculated to make an efficient leader. Under the guise of a peasant he penetrated into the remote poverty stricken districts of Xeres, where most of the soil is occupied by the vineyards of large territorial proprietors. Here was a promising field for the exercise of his skill and a suitable stage for the first act of the drama of blood. The peasantry of the Xeres country, hav- an almost Intolerable existence to escape from, readily nccepted the propaganda of Bamos, -who utilised for his purposes a fol lower named Zarzuelas. Zarzuelaa led the band of infatuated peasants against :the bayonetroftheBtilitaryandielfa victim, SUNDAY, MAB'CH 6, with the others who were captured, ' to the operations of the public garroter. A cavity Transferred to Basils. To sum the matter up, the attempt has proved an ntter failure, and the central leaders,believing that Eamoi deceived them as to the preparation among the people for successfully revolting, decided to turn their attention to Bussia. which, because of the famine, they consider the ripest field for the accomplishment of their ends at the present moment Bight here it will be of great interest to state that a copy of a manual of about 100 pages which is about to be sent in quantities to Bussia for circulation in the famine dis tricts and which bear neither .signatures nor imprint, has just been received in New York. This little book, which has all the appearance of having recently been issued from the press and is in the Bussian tongue, is an address to the rural proletariat It is written in the simplest possible language so that it mav be comprehended by the most unsophisticated peasant, able to read, into whose hands it mav fall. It is not difficult to infer that his birthplace is Geneva, Swit zerland, and its creators certain well-known Nihilist conspirators. Curiously enough it begins with an appeal to the "brotherhood of man" and then pro ceeds, within the limits of the first of the three parts into which it is divided, to give instructions for the prosecution of secret warfare, including the construction of mines, hand grenades and bombs, and the methods of operating and using them. Dynamite Better Than Kitro-Glycerine. The uniform use of dynamite is recom mended in preference to nitro-glycerine which was used in the assassination of Czar I Alexander as being more reliable and effective. The book recites that American I experiments have demonstrated the supe riority ol dynamite for all purposes over every" other known explosive. A careful description is given of a pe culiar form ot bomb whose design displays considerable originality and ingenuity. This object is about three inches in dia meter and is shaped much like an ordinary pancake, with the exception that it is a good deal thicker. It contains a tube into which is inserted a dynamite cartridge. The object is affixed to the waistcoat or whatever other covering may happen-to be worn upon the breast, much after the fash ion ol the detective vest camera so much in use a few years since. It can be suspended from the neck like a scapular. Connected with the mechanism is a short string which hangs against the body as a bell rope might against the wall. The conspirator, armed with one of these weapons, when he desires to destroy, has only to open his outer coat, and, standing in such a position .that the disc of the machine is focused on his victim, draw the depending string downward, when he cartridge is immediately propelled oat ward from the tube in the machine. It Kills at a Hundred Feet. The projectile has a range of 100 feet, and is estimated to possess a sufficiently deadly force to destroy at least a dozen persons in a dense crowd. The pamphlet gives this machine the name of Gossudarny-blinee, The Pitatt for the Soldiers. which, when translated from Bussian into English, means "Czar's pancake." So much for the first section of the book. The second part is addressed specially to the peasantry who inhabit districts far re moved from transit, facilities, who cannot in consequence be easily reached by laree bodies ot troops and are thus in a position to carry on successfully a guerilla warfare. These are advised and instructed in the art of constructing .hidden pitfalls under such roadways as exist in their vicinity, and over which any armed force dispatched for their suppression would be likely to pass. In this connection, as in others, the manipula tion of explosives is enjoined. As there are small facilities, however, in remote dis tricts for the people to manufacture com plicated explosives they are told how to make ordinary gunpowder, the materials of which are comparatively easy- to obtain saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal. The, pamphlet further deals, in its third part. with the methods of storming the larger towns and gives directions for attempting such a mode of warfare with prospects ot sliccess. ' Scythes as Implements of Death. . How to repel the attacks of mounted gen darmerie is another matter treated of. The use of scythes as weapons is advocated and the point is made that terrible execution was done during the Polish revolution of 1863 by bodies of peasants thus armed. The traditions of that time still exist in very many rural ports of Bussia, and the suc cesses of the scythe wielders against the formidable bodies of heavy cavalry which opposed them are remembered to a large ex tent These allusions are calculated, the writers of the book, evidently conceive, to promote a war spirit among its readers and to inspire. them with some self confidence. "No quarter," says the book,""must in any single case be shown to the Tchinov niks," which proves that there is no abate ment in the sentiment of revenge against officialism ih general, which is supposed to be the keynote of all Bussian anarchistic movement's. Simultaneous- is inculcated a pacifi: policy toward the Church. Peas ants are advised to exempt from violence all members of the priesthood. The reason for this may lie found, no doubt, in the growing conviction among Nihilists that the Church as an institution is too firmly rooted and exerts too strong an influence on the popular mind to render interference with it either sbfe or advisable at present Smuggling in the Pamphlets. The Nihilists have dispatched their special agents, determined, resolute men, to the confines of the Bussian Empire, charged with the distribution of this manifesto. It maf be a subject of wonderment to some how the books can be safely smuggled acre as the frontier. There are many ways of doing this, however. These pamphlets are printed on very thin paper and occupy little space. There are portions of the har ness of the sleighs which cross into Bussian territory from foreigu soilespeoially avail able for the effective concealment of contra band. In addition to this the Bussian offi cers otfthe frontier-are not by any means always superior to the influence of a bribe. Before these words appear in print the dis semination of the Nihilist tracts may have served its purpose. What will the effect of all this be upon the United States, and will the Anarchists in this Country indulge in any sympathetic display when their brethren abroad are heard from? The best reply is found in the opinions of several leading New York Anarchists whom I nave interviewed. The opinion of the most -enlightened and intel ligent among the extremists in America is that the best and surest means of attaining the objects of anarchy in America is to pro mote the organization of radical trades unionism. V. Gribayedoff. About Nothing. Washington Star. Manager What are you kicking about? Actor My salary. Manager (impressively) Don't you think you are making a great deal of fuss about nothing? Tot Immediate Insertion. Chicago Tribune. 1 Butcher How much bologna sausage did you say? Hungry reporter Give me give me about three-quarters of a column. . ' ' 111 1892. DANCE OF THE SOULS. Weird and Beautiful Ceremony-Iaf-cadio Hearn Saw in Japan. GIRLS OP GRACE INDESCRIBABLE Mysteriously Gliding In Perfect lines in the Soft Moonlight. SCENES LIKE THOSE OF DREAMI1ND IWBITTXK FOE TUB DISPATCH. In my wanderings in Japan we come at list to Shimo-Ichi in the heart of the land. We halt at a dingy little inn, and while the landlord conducts me to the bath, where he insists npon washing me himself as if I were a child, the wife preparesfor us a charming little repast of rice, eggs, vegetables and sweetmeats. She is strangely in doubt about her ability to please me, even after I have eaten enough for two men, and apologizes too. much for not being able to offer me more. "There is no fish," she says, "for to-day is the first day of the Bonku, the Festival of the Dead being the 13th day of the month. On the 13th, 14th and 15th days of the month nobody may eat fish. But on the morning of the lo'th day the fishermen go out to catch fish, and everybody who has both parents living may eat of it But if one has lost one s father or mother, then one must not eat fish upon the 16th day." Even while the kind soul is thus explain ing, I become aware of a strange, remote sound from without a sound I recognize only through memory of tropical dances a measured clapping of hands. But this clapping is very soft and at long intervals. And at still longer intervals there comes to us a single, heavy muffled booming, th tap of a great drum a temple drum. A little while we proceed, along the main street, then, traversing a harrow passage between two houses, we suddenly find our selves in a treat open space flooded by moonlight This is the dancing place; but the dance has ceased for a time. Looking about me, I perceive that we are in the court ot an ancient Buddhist temple. Muffled Ham of Solemn Voices. In the center of the court is a framework of bamboo, supporting a great drum; and about it benches have been arranged benches from the schoolhouse on which villagers are Testing. There is a hum of voices voices of people speaking very low. as if expecting something solemn and merry treble cries of children betimes and soft laughter of girls. And behind the court, beyond a low hedge of somber ever green shrubs, I see far off white lights, and a host of tall, gray shapes throwing long shadows, and I know that the lights are the white lanterns of the dead (those, hung in cemeteries only), and that the gray shapes are shapes of tombs. Suddenly a girl rises from her seat, and taps the huge drum once. It is the signal for the dance of souls. Out of the shadow of the ancient temple a processional line of dancers files into the moonlight and as suddenly halts all young women or girls, clad in their choicest attire; the tallest leads: her comrades follow in order of stature loves of little maids of 10 or 12 years compose the end of the proces sion. Figures lightly poised as birds figures that somehow recall the dreams of shapes circling about certain antique .vases: those charming Japanese robes, close-clinging about the knees, might seem, but .tor the great, fantastic, drooping sleeves, and the curious,broad,comely girdles confining them, designed after the drawing-.of some Greek or Etrnscau artist. r A- Dance Words Cannot Describe. And, at another tap of the drum, there be gins a performance impossible to picture in words something unimaginable, phan tasmal, beautifully weird a dance an astonishment All together glide the ritrht foot forward one pace without lifting the sandal from the .ground and extend both hands to' the right, with a strange floating motion, as of swimming, and a smiling-, mysterious obeisance. Then the right foot is drawn back, with a repetition of the waving of hands, and the mysterious bow. Then aU advance the left foot, and repeat the pre vious movements, half turning to the left Then all take two gliding paces forward, with a single simultaneous soft clap of the hands, and the first performance is reiter ated, alternately to right and left all the sandaled feet gliding together all the supple bands waving together all the pbant bodies bowing and swaying together. And so slowlv, weirdly, beautifully the processional movement changes into a grand round, circling about the moonlit court, and around the voiceless crowd ot spectators. And always the white hands sinuously wave together, as if weaving spells, alternately without and within the round now with palms upward, now with palms downward and all the elfish sleeves hover duskily to gether, with a shadowing as of wings and all the beautiful feet poise together with amazing synchronism with such a rhythm of complex motion, that, in watching it, one feels a sensation of hypnotism as while striving to watch a flowing and shimmering of water. The Silence of the Tomb. And this soporous allurement is intensi fied by a dead hush. No one speaks not even a spectator. And, in the long inter vals between the soft clapping of hands, one hears only the shrilling of the crickets in the trees and the shu-shu of sandals, lightly stirring the moon-silvered dust Unto what, I ask myself, may this be likened? Unto nothing yet it suggests some strange fancy of somnambulism;dreamers, who dream them selves flying, dreaming upon their feet And there comes to me the thought that I am looking at something immemoriolly old something belonging to the unrecorded beginnings of this oriental life perhaps to the crepuscular Kamiyo itself, to the Magi cal Age of the Gods, a symbolism of motion whereof the meaning has been forgotten for innumerable years. Yet more and more unreal the spectacle appears with its silent smilings with its silent bowings, as of obeisance to watchers invisible and I find myself wondering whether, were I to utter but a whisner. all would not vanish forever-isave the gray mouldering court and the desolate temple. The Chapt for the Dead. But nol those gracious,- silent, waving shapes are not of the Shadowy Folk, for whose coming the white fires were kindled a strain of song, full of sweet, clear, quavering as the call of a bird, gushes from some girlish month and 60 soft voices join the chant: Sornta soroimashita odorikosa sorota, Soroikite kita hare'yukata. Uniform to view (as ears of young rice ripening In the field), all clad alike in sum mer festal robes, the company of dancers have assembled. - Again only the shrilling of the crickets, the shu-shu of feet, the gentle clapping; and the wavering, hovering witchery of the measure proceeds in silence, with mesmeric lentor with a naivete of grace which, by its very strangeness, seems old as the en circling hills. Suddenly a deep male chant breaks the hush. Two giants have joined the round, and now lead it two superb young mountain peasants, towering head and shoulders above the whole of the assembly. Their yukatas are rolled about their loins like girdles, leav ing their bronzed limbs and torsos naReil to the warm air; they wear nothing else save their huge picturesque straw hats, and white tab! (Japanese digitated stocklngs.or, rather, socks) donned expressly for the testlvaL Never before among such people saw I such men, such thews; but their smiling, beardless faces are comely and kindly as those of Japanese boys. They seem brothers so like in frame. In movement, in the very timber of their voices, as they Intone a son?. And sons follows song and the roundever becomes larger and tne hours pass unfelt, unheard, while the huge moon wheels Blowly down the bine steeps or the west. A deep low bftom of bronze rolls suddenly across the night the rich tone of some temple bell telling the twelfth hour. In standly the witchcraft ends like the won der Of some iweet dream broken by a sound. t r ItlOUIO Hjurx. WEITTEN TOR THE DISPATCH BY MARK TWAINS Author of "Innocents Abroad," Etc., iitc T SYNOPSIS OF PBETIOCS CHAPTERS. - Lord Berkeley, ostensibly Earl of Bossmore, has a son who has studied the claims of one) Simon Leathers or America to Chalmondelay Castle and the vast estate, and becoming convinced that be and bis father are usurpers, starts to America to make his own fortune. He is imbued with democratic ideas. His father declares the son is stark mad, but bo starts to America nevertheless. In Washington he narrowly escapes death at a hotel fire, and having been reported burned in the newspapers, adopts Howard Tracy as his name. At the flrone accidentaUy sets the clothes of One-Armed Pete, a cowboy, who is also re ported burned. In the pockets is a sum of money which Tracey puts in bank. He fails to And 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 by thrashing the bully of the house. The latter leaves, taking Tracy's money with him. Tho landlord insults Tracy for not payine his board. Discouraged, he telegraphs his adopted name to his father, expecting help. Tho announcement that he expects a cablegram from his father, who Is an English Karl, con vinces the boarding house folks that bisfailura to get work has set him crazy. Atlasc Tracv 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 gins to make money for the first time since he came to America. Simons Xeathers and his brother jret Killed at a log rolling out West, and Colonel Mulberry Sellers, the central char acter of the story, becomes the- American claimant to Chalmondelay Castle. He and hU old wlie, with a sprightlv daughter, live in a tumbled-down house In Washington, which now becomes Bossmore Towers. He mourns the young Lord as dead, nnd came near send ing the old Lord a basket of ashes from, the hotel Are as his son's remains. He is always full of chimerical schemes, among them a Pigs-in-CloverpuzzIe, which at theinstance ot his Wild Western friend, Washington Hawkins, he sells to a Yankee at S cents for eachpnzzle sold. One-Armed Pete is wanted for a crime and a reward is offered. Sellers and Hawkins de termine to get the reward. After the hotel flre they get a glimpse of Tracy in the cowboy costume and prepare to capture him. Sellers thinks he has the power of materializing the dni1 One dair Trae-. wanderiiur about Washington, sees the emblem9 of bis house on Sellers' residence. The latter takes him for the dead cowboy's materialized spirit and goes through wild gesticulations to draw him to the residence. Tracy comes, attracted by curiosity, not Sellers' imaginary power. Sellers and Hawkins set Tracy to retouchins chromos while they discuss the rewards offered for the cowboy. Gwendolln and Tracy im mediately fall In love. CHAPTER XX. Tracy made slow progress with his work, for his mind wandered a good- deal. Many things were puzzling him. Finally a light burst upon him all of a sudden seemed to, at any rate and he said to himself. "J've got the clew at last; this man's mind is ofi its balance; I don't know how much, but it's off a point or two, sure; off enough to explain this mess of perplexities anyway. These dreadful chromos, which he takes for old masters; these villainous portraits, which to his frantic mind represent Boss mores; the hatchments, the pompous name of this ramshackle old cribi Bossmore Towers, and that odd assertion of his that I was expected. How could I be expected? That is, Lord Berkeley. He knows by the papers that that person was burned up in the New Gadsby. "Why, hang it, he really doesn't know who he was expecting; for his talk showed that he was not expecting an Englishman, nor yet an artist, yet I answer his require ments notwithstanding. He seems suf ficiently satisfied with me. Yes, he is a lit tle off; in fact, I am afraid he is a good deal off, poor old gentleman. But he's interest ing all people m about his condition are, I suppose. I hope he'll like my work; I would like tp come every day and study him. And when I write my father ah, that hurts ! I mnstnit get on that subject; it isn't good for my spirits. "Somebody coming I must get to work. It's the old gentleman again. He looks bothered. Maybe my clothes are suspicious; and they are for an artist. If my con science would allow me to make a change but that is out of the question. I wonder what he's making those passes in the air for, with his hands. I seem to be the ob ject of them. Can he be trying to mesmer ize me? I don't quite like it There's something uncanny about it" The Colonel muttered to himself, "It has an eflect on him, I can see it myself. That's enough for one time, I reckon. "He's not very solid, yet, I suppose, and I might disintegrate him. I'll just put a sly ques tion or two at him, now, and see if I can find out what his condition is and where he's from.'.' He approached and said affably: "Don't let me disturb you, Mr. Tracy. I only want to take a little glimpse' of yonr work. Ah, that's fine that's very fine in deed. You are doing it elegantly. My daughter will be charmed with this. May I sit down by you?" "Oh, do; I shall be glad." It won't disturb you? I mean, won't dissipate your inspiration?" Tracy laughed, and said thev were not ethereal enough to be very easily discom moded. The Colonel asked a number of cautious and well-considered questions questions which seemed pretty odd and flighty to Tracy but the answers conveyed the in formation desired, apparentlv. for the Colonel said to himself, with mixed pride and gratification "It's a good job as far as I've got with it He's solid, solid and going to last; solid as the real thing. It s wonderlnl wonderful. I believe I could petrify him." After a little he asked, warilv: "Do you prefer being here, or or there?" "There? Where?" "Why er where you've been?" Tracy's thought flew, to his boarding house, and he answered with decision: "Oh, here, much 1" The Colonel was startled and said to him self, "There's no uncertain ring about that It indicates where he's been to, poor fellow. Well, 1 am satisfied now. I'm glad I got him out" He sat thinking, and thinking, and watch ing the brush go. At length he said to him self, "Yes, it certainly seems to account for the failure of my endeavors in poor Berke ley's case. He went in the other direction. Well, it's all right He's better off " Sally Sellers entered from the street now, looking her divinest, and the artist was in troduced to her. It was a violent case of mutual love at first sight, though neither party was aware of the fact, perhaps. The Englishman made this irrelevant remark to himself, "Perhaps he is not insane, after all" Sally sat down and showed an inter est in Tracy's work, which greatly pleased him, and a benevolent forgiveness of it which convinced him that the girl's nature was cast in a large mold. Sellers was anx ious to report his discoveries to Hawkins,so he took his leave, saying that if the two "young devotees of the colored muse" thought they could manage without him he woula go and look after his affairs. The artist said.to himself, "1 think he is a little eccentrio, perhaps, but that is alL" He re proached himself for having injuriously judged a man without glving-him any lair chance to show what he really was. Of course the stranger wai very soon at his ease, and chatting along comfortably. The average American girl possesses the vat- It Was Love at First SigJU. 1 "Tom Sawyer," 'Huckleberry Finn," uable qualities of naturalness, honesty and .inoffensive straightforwardness; she is nearly barren of troublesome conventions and artificialities, consequently her pres ence and her ways are unembarrossing, and one is acquainted with her and on pleasant terms with her before he knows how it came about. This new acquaintanceship friendship, indeed progressed swiftly; and the un usual swiftness of it, and the thoroughness of it are sufficiently evidenced and estab lished by one noteworty fact that within the first half-hour both parties had ceased to be conscious of Tracy's clothes. Later this consciousness was reawakened; it was then apparent to Gwendolen that she was almost reconciled to them, and it was apparent to Tracy that he was. The reawakening was brought abont by Gwendolen's inviting the artist to stay to dinner. He had to" decline, because he wanted to live, now that is, ncav that there was something to live for and he could not survive in those clothes at a gentleman's table. He thought he knew that But ho went away happy, for he saw that Gwen dolen was disappointed. And whither did he go? He went straight to a slop shop and bought as neat and rea sonably well-fitting a suit of clothes as an Englishman could be persuaded to wear. He said to himself, but at his conscience "I know it's wrong; but it would be wron if not to do it; and two wrongs do not make a right." This satisfied him, and mads his heart light Perhaps it will also satisfy thp. reader, if he can make out what it means. The old people were troubled about Gwendolen at dinner, because she was so distraught and silent If they "had noticed they would have found that she was suffi ciently alert and interested whenever the talk stumbled upon the artist and his work; but they didn't notice, and so the chat would swap around to some other subject, and then somebody would presently be pri vately worrying about Gwendolen again, and wondering if she were not well, or if something had gone wrong in the millinery line. Her mother offered her various reputable patent medicines and tonics with Iron and other hardware in them, and her father even proposed to send out for wine, relent less prohibitionist and head of the order in the District of Columbia as he was, but these kindnesses were all declined thank fully, but with decision. At bedtime, when the family were break ing up for the night, she privately looted one of the brushes, saying to herself, "It's the one he has used the most" The next morning Tracy went forth wear ing his new suit, and equipped with a pink in his buttonhole a daily attention from Puss. His whole soul was full of Gwendo len Sellers, and this condition was an in spiration artwise. All the morning his brush pawed nimbly away at the canvasses, almost without his awarity awarity, in this sense being the sense ot being aware, though disputed by some authorities turn ing out marvel .upon marvel, fh the way of decorative accessories to the-portraits, with a felicity and celerity which amazedthe veterans of the firm and fetched out of them continuous explosions of applause. Meantime Gwendolen 'was losing her morning and many dollars, bne supposed Tracy was coming in the forenoon--a con clusion which she had jnmped to without outside help-- So she tripped downstairs every little while from her work parlor to arrange the brushes and things over again, and see if he had arrived. And when she was in her work parlor it was not profitable, but just the other way as she found out to her sorrow. She. had put in her idle mo ments during the last little while back in designing a particularly rare and capable gown for herself, and this morning she set , about making it up; but she was absent minded, and made an irremediable botch of it When she saw what she had done, she knew the reason of it, and the meaning of it, and she put her work away from her, and said she would accept the sign. And from that time forth she came no more away from the audience chamber, but remained there and waited. After luncheon she waited again. A whole hour. Then a great joy welled up in her heart, for she saw nim coming. So she flew back upstairs thankful, and could hardly wait for him to miss the principal brush, which she had mislaid down there, but knew where she had mislaid it However, all in good time the others were called in, and couldn't find the brush, and then she was sent for, and she couldn't find it herself for some little time, but then she found it when the others had gone away to hunt in the kitchen and down cellar and the woodshed, and all those other places where people look for things whose ways they are not familiar with. So she gave him the brush, and remarked that she ought to have seen that everything was ready for him, but it hadn't seemed necessary, because it was so early that she wasn't expecting but she stopped there, surprised at herself for what she was saying; and he felt caught and ashamed, and said to himself, "I knew my impatience would drag me here before I wa3 expected, and betray me, and that is jnst what it has done; she s,ees straight through me, and is laugn ing at me, inside, of course." Gwendolen was very much pleased on one account, and a little the other way in an other; pleased with the new clothes and the improvement which they had achieved; less pleased by the pink in the buttonhole. Yes terdav's pink had hardly interested her; this one was just like it, aut somehow it had got her immediate attention and kept it. She wished she could think of some way of getting at its history in a properly colorless and indifferent way. Presently she made a Venture. She said: ' "Whatever a man's age may be he can re 'duce it several years: by putting a bright colored flower in his- buttonhole. I have jolten noticed that Is that your sex's rev son for .wearing a boutonniere?'' 4 ' "I fancy not, but certainly thatreasoS A - 4 .1 m jffS.w-t , -1aa .. P - " & .-? - 'n-M gf--"1 "'i-r f -II- - f rfnriNWrffiliftftS JMWJWSB
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