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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH
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SECOND PART.
THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, MAT 8.. 1892.
HI ELECTION TEST
To TTMcli Tories and Liber
als Alike Are Anxiously
Looking Forward,
LOED SALISBUEY'S SPEECH
Taken as a Straight Tip That Par
liament Will Dissolve
BEFORE MANY WEEKS ROLL PAST.
The Germany Jlrmj to Tackle Bread JIade
of American CornmeaL
IT CATCHES OX WITH TIIE EMPEROR
TBT CAM.E TO THE EISrATCIT.1
Loxdox, Mav 7. Copyright. The
election for Xorth Hackney will take place
next Wednesday, and Tories and Liberals
are working with energy most rematkable,
seeing that the fight w ill have to be fought
over again at the general election, within a
month or two at latest. The fact is that
both sides regard this election as a test of
the political leeling of the whole of London,
and there is little doubt that if the Tories
should retain the seat by anything like
their former m-ijoritr, the Government will
be encouraged to hurry the dissolution of
Parliament by a few weeks. As the semi
official Standard says this morning:
There can lie but few xnoro bye-elections
before the ccneral strugglo to whloli the
entlro nation is beginning to look forward,
and there can bo no doubt that the result of
tberresent contest will he appealed toby
whiehc er ido may prove the victor, as an
ennietaiid omen of the Keneral elcotion.
As tLe 'tcmuard until quite recently had
contained almost dailv editorials designed
to prove that the country had no desire for
dissolution of Parliament this year, it may
be safely assumed that it has just received
an authoritative communication from head
quarters. Lord SalisburVs Primrose Speech.
Lord Salisbury's speech at the great
iT'mrose meeiincr, yesterday, connrms this
belief! The speech, in the main, was little
more than a renlica of that delivered at
Exeter, a few weeks ago. It contained the
same denunciations of Irish Koman Catho
lics, and the same incitements to Ulster
Orangemen to take up arms against that
Home Rule Parliament which all Tory
speakers, officers and rank and file alike,
evidently regard as inevitable.
But the Prime Minister's fulminations
and encouragements were rather stronger
and more direct yesterday, and remarks
were interpolated which left no doubt in
the minds of his hearers that Lord Salis
bury had made up his mind respecting the
dissolution of Parliament.
The Tories believe that the general elec
tion will follow immediately after the
great convention ot Ulster "Loyalists,"
which is to be held in Belfast, Sunc 17,
and at which Orangemen, taking their cue
from the Prime Minister, will formally
place on record their intention to resort to
rebellion aiainst the Queen and the Im
perial Parliament, rather than submit to
a Dublin Parliament.
Clttcr 5Ien Not Jtadly Taken In.
Of coarse the shrewd business men and
sturdy iarmers of Ulster will not be such
fools as to put their words into deeds, but
it is absurdly thought that, with Belfast
bluster about civil war rinsing in theirears,
itimid British electors will be terrified into
voting against home ule. in the hope
thereby of averting bloodshed, wherefrom
mav be gauged the sinceritv of the Torv
make-believe in a coming victory.
Contrary to Mr. Gladstone's wishes,
radicals have obstructed business in the
House of Commons, this week, in a manner
so quietlv effective as to cause Mr. Baltour
to lose histemperirequently, and todeclaie
privately that he is ''sicfi of the whole
business." Mr. Gladstone fears that the
radicals mav obstruct so clumsily as to cre
ate pjmpathy lor the Government, thus
wantonly prevented from carrying on pub
lic business, but there does not appear to
beany substantial ground lor this appre
hension. A welcome relief to parlicmentary dull
ness was afforded Wednesday, by the sus
pension, for disorderly interrupting and de
fiance of the chair, of Mr. Cunningham
Graham, the eccentric Socialist who sits for
Lanark and is chiefly known to the publio
for the ferocity of his speeches and the
length of his hair.
Not Unused to Such Troubles.
Graham lias twice previously been in
similar irouhl" in September, 1SS7, for
speaking disrespectfully of the House of
Lords, contrary to the rules of the House
or Commons, and in December, 18S8, for de
nounciiiT the late Mr. Sm.th as a dishonor
Hole trickster. He has often been danger
ously near suspension, for the honorable
member is built upon feminine lines, and is
prone to hysterics when he cannot have his
own wav.
This incident has drawn attention to the
comparative decorum of Irish members dur
ing the last lew years. One almost sighs
for the lit elv old divs when Dr. Tanner
roystered around the liouse, and when Tim
othy Healy was named and suspended for
having challenged Mr. Dp Lisle, an English
Catholic Tory member, "to come outside the
Hoube and have his neck,broken." Mr. De
Lisle, happilv for Mr. Healy, did not re
spond to the invitation, being a cold-blooded
Englishman.
In these dull days Mr. Hcaly and for the
matter of that, several other clever and ex
citable irishmen, to whom one is accustom
ed to look for parliamentary diversion, are
aspiring to leadership, and consider it nec
essary to assume the melancholy mien of
men weighed down with the caresof State.
WAELIKE MANEUVERS IN BTSSIA.
Troops Again Jlatsinc on the Frontiers or
Germanvand Austria.
Sevastopol, May 7. The preparations
for war in Russia have never been more
active than now. There is a continuous
movement of troops to the western frontiers
of the country, and the calling out of the
successive categories of reserves in the in
terior has commenced. These reserves will
be forwarded to various points of concen
tration, xi hence they can in the easiest man
ner reinforce the legulars in the garrisons
on the Austrian and German lrontiers. The
naval transport preparations are nearly
vuujfiieiuu.
A dispatch from Vienna says: Conpider
able uneasiness is apparent in military
circles owing to the renewed reports of ap
parent preparations for war on the part of
Russia and the movement of troops toward
the Western lrontiers. Advices from Rus
sian J'olaml state that the officers of the re
serve are daily receiving sealed orders, to
be opened only upon further instructions,
these ordcis being intended for a case ot
sudden mobilization. There can be no
doubt that every possible measure is being
taken to ptepare to beize the first advantage
in case ot a declaration of war.
She Faked the Compartment Story.
LONDON, Mav 7. It has transpired that
the story told by Amy Faulkner, the dress
maker who was found yesterday in a terri
bly injured condition beside a railway car
at Leeds, and who said she had been as
saulted by a man in the compartment of a
railway carriage and then thrown out, is
without truth. The woman to-day con
fessed that the story was concocted by her
self, and that, instead of a man throwing
her from the train, she jumped outherself.
She gives no reason, either for jumping
lrom the train or for telling the story that
she'had been assaulted.
THE IXJIAN ENTERPRISE
Shaking Up the Other Transatlantic Lines
England and Norway to Bo Bettor
Served A Fatrlotio Dodje Being
Worked.
nr cahle to the dispatch.
Lojtdox, May 7. The Inman people
have decided to make a bid for the lucra
tive passenger traffic between England and
Norway, which heretofore has been monop
olized by an interior class of steamers. The
start is to be made early next month with
the City of Richmond, which thereafter will
run regularly far into autumn between New
Castlc-on-Tvne and the Norwegian fjords.
It is believed the experiment will De a prof
itable one.
The Inman's reported intention to accept
American registry for their best steamers
has not yet attracted much attention here,
even in naval circles. Lord George Hamil
ton, First Lord of the Admiralty, is con
cerned at the prospect of losing some of his
swiftest reserve cruisers, but be is said to
have expressed the opinion that flaar trans
fers are easily arranged, which means that
as England is never likely to be at war with
the United States, money could make the
Inman steamers British again at tne first
alarm of European war.
The British postofiice being conducted
upon purely commercial principles, the In
man steamers will continue to get their
share of the mails, whether they fly the
Stars and Stripes or the blue pennant of the
royal naval reserve.
The White Star and Gnion people are
professing the most fervid patriotism by way
of contrast with the supposed wretchedly
sordid behavior of the Inmans, but the pro
fession is whollv uncalled for and somewhat
ridiculous. It is rumored that the Duke of
Devonshire's patriotic soul has been grieved
by the Inman's action, and that he is
half inclined to built a fleet ef swift
Atlantic liners to compete with the City of
Jew xoric anu uity ot l'aris ana their two
sister ships now in course of construction on
the Clyde. The Duke is chairman and auto
crat of the big Barrow Company, which
built the Empress steamers running be
tween Vancouver and Yokohama, but he is
withal a cautious man, and is not likely to
nige ins company into a couise which, in
the opinion of competent critics, would end
in bankruptcy.
Only the immediate effect of the Inman
mote will doubtless be to hasten the build
ing of two White Star steamers upon the
designs of which Harland. Wolff & Co., of
Belfast, have, it is believed, been engaged
for some time past.
LADY JEUNE ON LONDON SOCIETY.
Her Article Criticised as Coming From a
Prrjudiced Source.
TBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
LoxiJOS', May 7. Lady Jeune's article
on London society, in the Worth American
Jitvicw, has caused some flutter here, on ac
count of its obvious cuts, but the writer,
who is the wife of Justice Jcune, of the
Probate and Divorce Court, nnd herself,
in a limited sense, a leader
of society, is not accurate when
she absolves the old nobility from her
scathing condemnation. The evils which
she denounces permeate the entire struct
ure of London society. Including her own
particular set Numerically and propor
tionately the other nobility have been con
cerned in many more scandals than the
specially abused "new rich" class, during
the 80 years of which Lady Jcune
writes, and the unpublished records
of the divorce court would tell
the same tale. The principals in nearly all
the most loathsome scandals of this genera
tion have been members of the old nobility.
The record stands and cannot be questioned.
The condition of immorality which it dis
closes in the limited class is appalling,
but representative, and no amount of
magazine whitewashing can hide it.
Lady Jeune is in a position from which
she can safely lash the vices of a class to
which she does not belong, and from which
she has nothing to gain. If she had courage
she could have found in Mayfair and Bel
gravia, commencing within the charmed
circle of royalty, sufficient material for
half a dozen thrilling magazine articles, but
the recital would have closed in her face
many doors, the privilege of passing which
she has obtained by much laborious effort.
In short, Lady Jeune's worldly position is
not such as "to enable her towrite impar
tially of "London society."
LAWS FOB EICH AND P00B.
A London Police Magistrate Says They Are
Not Exactly Alike.
TBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.l
LON-DON, May 7. The Coroner's jury at
Fulham yesterday returned a verdict of
manslaughter against Susan Clark, wife of a
workingman, for the death of her step
daughter, aged 9 years and 10 months. Mrs.
Clark, like Mrs. Montagu, was actuated by
a "seuseofduty" to starve and beat the
child. She had no dark room in which to
imprison the poor little martyr, but she
found a satisfying substitute iii stair ban
isters, to which the child was sometimes
tied for seven hours at a stretch.
It will be interesting to see whether com
mon Mrs. Clark will be let oft with 12
months' imprisonment, spent in a comfort
able infirmary and allowed to wear her own
clothes, like aristocratic Mrs. Montagu.
The probabilities are that the workman's
wife will spend at least 18 months in a
prison cell at hard labor and clad in con
vict garb, which will add emphasis to the
complaint recently made by a London police
magistrate that there appears to be one law
for the rich and another lor the poor in this
favored laud.
COHNMEAL FOB OEBMAN SOLDIEBS.
The
Emperor Likes the Kind ot Bread
Made of Our Maize.
BY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
Losdon, May 7. Through the vigorous
propaganda of Colonel Charles J. Murphy,
Bpecial aeent in Europe of the United
States Agricultural Department for the in
troduction of Indian corn as a food supply,
Germany has developed great interest in
the new cereal. At a meeting this week of
the Association of German Bakers in Ber
lin a report was read on the use of corn, and
its adoption recommended as a food staple.
This maymean a heavy demand for Ameri
can corn in uermanyp
The German Government is putting up a
corn mill plant, and it is probable that
corn will soon be adopted for use in the
German army. The Emperor takes great
interest in xnis question, and one ot the
first loaves baked by Colonel Murphy's
emissaries was eaten at the royal table.
German millers are already ordering mill
ing machinery to grind corn, in anticipa
tion of a demand for meal.
Moro Jokers Than Anarchists Abroad.
Paris, May 7. Harmless "infernal ma
chines" are found daily in various French
towns. Many of them are probably the
work of practical jokers,
A It Igwam for the Ulsterltes.
London, May 7. A temporary building
will be built in Belfast for the Ulster con
vention, largo enough to accommodate
10,000 delegates.
On a Level With Uncle Sam,
Paeis, May 7. The Government of Dom-
inica, one of the British Leeward Islands,
has granted to French products the same
tariff that is levied on imports into Domi
nica from the United States.
RACERS AND BACKER&
THE ALLEGED POISONING OF OB1IE
STILL A SENSATION.
English Ladies Betting High on Their
Favorites Stable Boys and Bookmaker!
Caught In a Scandal The Newmarket
Sleeting.
BY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London-, vMay 7. Copyright. The
Duke of Westminster persists In his state
ment that Orme was maliciously poisoned,
and he has oflered 1,000 reward for such
evidence as will convict the offender. Some
leading turfites, however, consider this
sum insufficient, and have started a sub
scription to raise a fund of 10,000 as a re
ward, and if there are any commonplace
rascals in the conspiracy this amount ought
to cause the plot to be revealed.
In some quarters the idea of poison
obtains little credence, mainly on the
ground of Prof. Loffler's assertion that
all the trouble has been caused by a bad
tooth. Against this, however, is the fact
that the horse had been opposed in the bet
ting market, in a quiet, tinobstrus
ive way, but for laree amounts,
even when everything seemed in the
horse's favor. Then the Investiga
tions at Kingsloe make it tolerably clear
that one of the stable boys had been "got
at" All these boys at the present are
under surveillance, but this particular one
is known to have had communications with
an nnscrupulous betting ring, and to have
received a suspicious parcel from abroad a
lew days betore Urmo was attached.
There are many other awkward facts for
the youngster to explain, but naturally the
Duke is more anxious to get at those who
conceived the villainy than to punish their
tool. Meantime, Orme's chances for the
Derby have vanished the betting Is 20 to 1
against him and no takers. The probability
is he will not start in the race.
The Newmarket meeting this week suf
fered from cold, cheerless weather, the at
tendance being far below that of previous
years, but with those who attended bnsiness
was brisk. Tne Duchess of Montrose was
there, as enthusiastic as ever, and betting
freely. She likewise drank heartily when
her horse, Oberland, came home the winner.
Lady Elena Wickham, another horse lover,
was conspicuous at the ringside, and backed
her fancy with sportsmanlike relish. Ladv
Randolph Churchill was engaged on. both
days in initiating Lady Alington into the'
mysteries of backing and hedging, and they
ran Borne little conns In partnership.
The racing generally was good. The ab- 1
sence of Orme rendered the 2,000 guineas a
very open aflair, the winner turning up In
C. D. Itose's Bonavista, a horse very little
fancied before the race. Although he is
entered for the Derbv, it is probable that
he will not run, as his build is rather against
his compassing the Epsom course success
fully. . The 1,000 guineas was won by Baron
Hirsch's La Fleche. She started at 2 to 1
on her, and won so easily that she was at
once made favorite for the Derby at 3 to 1
on her. This is the first time that a mare
has been made favorite for the Derby since
Lady Elizabeth proved false and ruined her
unfortunate owner, Lord Hastings.
A Brazilian Government Victory.
Paris, May 7. The Brazilian legation
here has received a dispatch, saying that in
the Congressional elections in the province
ot Para the Government obtained a large
majority.
CITY CONTRACTS AWABDBD
For Over Hair-Xillion Dollars' Worth of
Bureau Supplies.
Chief Bigelow, of the Department of
Public Works, awarded a lot of contracts
yesterday for supplies for the various
bureaus of his department, which
will cost ?500,000 when the goods
are delivered. Contracts for hardware
were let to the Bindley Hardware Company,
Logan, Gretrg & Co. and Wolff.Lane & Co.;
lumber to F. K. Gearing, Murphy & Die
bold and A. McClure & Co.; ligonier blocks
to the Ligonier Stone Company; crushed
and screenings of ligonier to Booth &Flinnj
Irregular crushed and screenings to Sloane
& Mcllvain; limestone crushed and screen
ings to G. L. Peabody; paving
blocks to K, H. Smith; granite
crossings to Buente & Martin;
river gravel and sand, Iron City Sand Com
pany; bank gravel and sand, J. P. Sharp;
bank gravel, J. K. Davison & Bro.; sewer
pipe and cement, S. Garrison; cement, tar
and pitch, Stewart Graham & Co. ; cement,
Frank Fertig; sewer aud gutter castings,
L. M. Morris; push brooms, Condon
Bros., brooms lor sweepers, house and
stable supplies, W. C Oastler,
Wolfe Bros. & Co., and G. K.
Stevenson; horse feed, W. G. M-ackey,
Henry & McCance and D. McCaffrey;
wagons and carts, Mayer Bros., P. Blatt and
Scobie & Parker; harness and stable sup
plies, Loughry & Son and J. T. Capel; ice,
Chautauqua Company: rubber hose". H. L.
Childs & Co., and street lamps and posts, S.
Keighley & Co.
TEN YEABS FOB PAIGE.
The Confessed Palnesvllle Forger Tells of
nls Effort to Rave the Bank.
Cleveland, May 7. Colonel Balph K.
Paige, brother of David B. Paige, about
whose whereabouts and financial condition
there is so much mystery, was sentenced
yesterday to ten years in the penitentiary.
He was the cashier of the Painesville
Savings and Loan Association, the failure
of which revealed the fact that he had
uttered forged papsr in an attempt to tide
over its affairs. Paige saw the uselessness
of attempting a defense, and pleaded guilty
a few days ago. His wife and daughter were
in court yesterday when he was sentenced.
When asked if he had anything to say be
fore penalty was pronounced, Paige said he
used tbe forged paper, not for private gain,
but in the hope of saving the failing bank.
It was not for his family, whom he had
dragged down to disgrace. He regretted
the misfortune that bad befallen the de
positors, and hoped to see the day when he
could devote his life energies to restoring
their lost money to them. Captain Bur
rows, one of his attorneys, addressed the
court, eivine a history of the troublous
career of the bank, and of Paige's frantio
efforts to keep it on its feet. The judge re-
OT,alrA4 imnn ttlP RennilCn A tt 4lin nOFnnmt
and passed sentence. Paige, his wife and
his daughter received the sentence with
calmness.
FIVE DOLLARS EACH.
1,000 Men's Suits Oflered Slondny In Our
lVell-Lichted Basement at S5 Each P.
C. C. C, Clothiers.
Monday we offea a great bargain for men
In our well-lighted basement. At only $5
each we will sell men's mixed cheviot, cas
slmere and tweed suits, sold formerly on
our main floor for $10 and $12. There are
nice, neat, daik and medium patterns to
choose irom. Buits in sack style, cutaway
style or straightcuts. A live-dollar bill huys
one. The sale won't last long, so call Mon
day. A number or light-colored suits In the
selection. Only $5 each tbe prize bargain
ot this season.
P. a C. C, Clothiers, corner Grans and Dia
mond streets.
Trt Llttell's laundry. Work equal to new.
203 Smttlifield St. ttssu
Lochtjtvar AWHnros at Hamanx & Son's,
539 Penn avenne. Tel. 1972. tIibu
Tborp, 913 Penn Are.,
Will make a limited number of dresses for
$10, this week only.
ART BY AMERICANS.
Some More of the Pictures to Be Seen
in New York Just Now.
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HOW TO LOOK AT THE CANVASES.
The Paris Critics Have All Thej Can Tell
Attend to Ihis Spring.
60MB DEI AILS OP MERITORIOUS WORK
rCOBRESrOJIDESCE OP THE DISPATCH.l
New Yoek, May 7. Why is It that the
exhibitions of the Society of American Art
ists are not more truly popular? Artists
are deeply interested and greatly pleased by
them; all the critics praise them as far the
best of tbe year; and all other peeple who
profess to know about art, as well as to care
about it, are just as well oontent. But the
public which flocks to the Academy does
not flock to the Society's galleries. It
comes In greater numbers every year, but
not yet in such numbers as we ought to see.
Perhaps it is because the public thinks
that such very good things must be too
good to be beautiful or charming; that such
"progressive" things cannot be easily com
prehended; that such "artistic" things must
be all paint and no picture. So whether
you are artist or connoisseur or just a plain
man who "likes pictures," please, if you
live in Hew York or chance to be here be
fore the end of May, stop in at the society's
exhibition. It is in a very convenient
place, No. S66 Fifth avenue. There are
only two rooms and they are pleasant
rooms, well lighted and with many comfort
able seats. And you do not have to go up
stairs to get to them.
A Picture That Attracts Attention.
I have already told yon a few of the
things you will see. Chief among the
others is Mr. Thayer's "Madonna De
throned," which will enchant you by its
rich and beautiful color, impress you by Its4
dignified yet not academic arrangement,
and do you good by its nobility, serenity,
refinement and depth of feeling. Perhaps
you will say that it is painted "queerly."
So it Is, in some places, and in one or two
places It is queerly drawn as well. But
these blemishes really do not detract from
its power and charm.
I may add, however, that you will never
appreciate his work, or that of many of his
present companions, if you look at it close
at hand. You must stand across the gal
lery to see it well. More than two cent
uries ago Kembrandt told the public that
pictures were meant to be looked at, not to
be smelled. But the public has not yet
learned the lesson, although the more
modern the form of art, the more likely is
distance to be demanded for its proper
understanding.
Look, lor example, at Mr. Robinson's pic
ture called "In the Sun," to which the
society's committee gave the Shaw prize of
51,000. Near at hand, you will "call it,
probably, a vigorous but "rough" study of
a peasant girl in a red bodice and a blue
skirt, lying at full length on very green
grass and holding up a straw hat to shade
her head from the sun. It may not impress
you as very true, it may not charm yon as
very beautiful. But go across the gallery
and look at it again. You will think you
are looking at the veritable thing, and a
very beautiful thing it will seem.
A New Brush at Fifty.
Ami again, as a very extreme Instance,
loos at Mr. Niemeyer's autumn landscape.
Mr. Niemeyer is more than SO years old and
lives under the walls of Yale College, where
we might fancy that the "progressive"
forms of modern art would not be highly
valued. But he has lately thrown away all
his old brushes and grasped the new im
pressionistic brush. Look at his canvas
closely and it seems a bitof lunacy in paint
There is scarce a suggestion of form, there is
not a real piece of color. There are only
little blots and streaks and quiris of paint,
and they are of every other possible color
as well as the colors one might expect to
see in an autumnal landscape. But get
away half the length of the gallery. Every
thing clears itself now, asserts" itself, ex
plains itself. It is a well-composed, a well
rendered, a well colored landscape in which
the vivid hues of New England maples in
October are given very truthfully and much
more harmoniously than we might imagine
possible.
When you have looked at these two pic
tures and at Mr. Thayer's in the proper
way, I think you will not be in danger
again of saying a picture is nonsensical or
ugly when you have merely passed your
eye-glass upon its surface. You can look
at Mr. Brush's "Portrait" or his "Ossian"
closely, if you will; at Mr. Beckwith's
small portrait of a "Lady in Black," or
Mr. Thome's beautiful little portrait of a
"Lady in Gray," at Mr. Cox's fine nude
figure called "Echo," or Mr. Denman's
"Ode to Aphrodite," or Miss Macomber's
naive and charming little "Annunciation."
But even the most delicately handled of
this still looks well at a distance. In short,
a very good rule to follow nowadays is,
"When in doubt, go to the other side of the
gallery."
A Coming Exhibition of Art;
When this exhibition is over the same
gallery will be used for a collection of
pictures contributed by New York artists
for the benefit of the Grant Monument
Fund. They will be shown from May 31
to June 6, and they will be sold at auction
by Mr. Depew and General Porter; so the
sale promises to be lively on the
auctioneers' part at leat.
One hundred and fifty-five thousand dol
lars were in hand for the monument fund
when General Porter took control of it. In
the four weeks that elapsed before the lay
ing of the cornerstone by President Harri
son more than $200,000 additional had been
promised, and the remaining $150,000 will
probably be nearly all secured before Me
morial Day, when there will again be fit
ting ceremonies around the tomb.
It is highly amusing to read the raariy ac
counts which have come from London with
regard to the "great popular success" of
the recent Whistler exhibition. Can such
a phrase be applied to Whistler, and
really refer to Whistler in England? Of
course, one knew that the recent purchase
of his portrait of his mother by the French
Government would put him up a peg in the
estimation of the British Philistine. And,
of course, one knew that in matters of
art this Philistine is more sheeplike than
any veritable ewe. But, even so, the re
ports are surprising. The whole flock of
Philistines seems to have taken the Whist
ler fence at one jump.
The Popularity of Whistler.
It means that the British nublio have left
the conventional path and stepped into tbe
path long characterized by a term which, in
its mouth, is more insulting than any other
the path of "eccentricity." What it will
do with itself there one can hardly fancy.
But it is still harder to fancv what Mr.
Whistler will do with himself now he has
become a popular painter. His life-long
grievance has been taken away from him.
How can he live without it? How could a
court jester live without bis cap and bells,
his parti-colored raiment, his bauble and
the hump on his back? Dressed like other
men, and deprived of anything to toy with,
must not his joy in existence be gone? But
perhaps Mr. Whistler can find new bells
and baubles and make himself a new hump
out o'f the praise he is now receiving.
Perhaps he can find a cause for unholy
glee in the faot that the English, publio
have dared to Bet, his work aright, or to say
it sees it aright Perhaps Ms crowning
Hour of Mephiatophelian sport and make
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believe self-scorn will come when some day
he is elected a Koyal Academician. If not
the world must lament for him, and must
lament for itself, for the sight of one of the
very greatest artists of our time posturing
as a court, or rather as a public, jester has
been one of our time's most dramatic
spectacles. It has not been an Improving
spectacle, of course, except in one way. It
has enlarged our understanding of the pro
tean capabilities of a single human soul;
and any increase of knowledge in this
direction may be of use in our own daily
lives, especially it we are tempted into tne
very foolish course of trying always to "see
the man in his work"" Often the man
whose name it bears is not in the work at
all, but some quite different man Beems to
be there. Often this man will be found, as
in Whistler's case, far inferior to the artist
in dignity and worth aud charm. But I
have known cases where the artist was a
much less fine and interesting fellow than
the man.
Paris Critics Will Be Busy.
At Paris the two big salons are opening
just now, one with at least 1,000, and the
other with nearly 2,000 works of art A
number of very important sales will be held
during May, including the Daupias and the
Cottier sales, and the sale of Alexandre
Dumas' pictures. The fifth annual exhibi
tion of the Black and White Society, which
this year includes pastels and water-colors,
too, fills a big partof the Palace of the
Liberal Arts at the Champs de Mars, and at
the Ecole des Beaux Arts are gathered the
works of Pelouse, a great landscape painter
who is hardly known as yet in this country,
although death has consecrated his name
if I may be pardoned an appropriately Par
isian phrase. Then there has just been the
annual show of the water-color and pastel
societies at the Petit Gallery, described as
remarkably fine, and somewhere else the
big show of the "Independents," described
as remarkably independent of all conven
tional ideas "with regard to the manner of
conceiving or of executing pictures.
Here such work as we have learned to
know as "impressionistic" may well have
seemed conventional itself, compared with
the still newer experiments of the tachistes
a self-applied name, which may, perhaps, .
Of which we have plenty, was the means of making us perform the most remark
able feat ever accomplished in the mercantile world. On April the 30th our large
building, with the entire contents, was totally destroyed by fire. While the fire
was still burning we leased the commodious building, 414 Wood street, and im
mediately sent our trusty salesmen to market for a new and complete stock.
Is now here and open for your inspection. Everything that pleases the eye and
fits the pocketbook can be found in our elegant salesroom, where, with increased
facilities, we are again prepared to be the money-savers of the people. We will
continue to combine that golden rule, which has made us so many friends, "Do
unto others as you would have others do unto you," with the largest stock, lowest
prices and easiest terms. Thanking all our old customers for their sympathy and
bearing with us in our misfortune, we hope always to merit their trade by doing
for them in the future what we have in the past.
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best be translated "spotters," although
someone has been unkind enough to trans
late it "dabsters." And, finally, even the
Independents have been outdone by the
society that calls itself "Kose Croix,"
which being interpreted means Eosicru
cians. These, says a certain French com
mentator, are "a band of mountebanks sus
tained by Borne- talented madcaps." But
the work of a talented Parisian madcap is
sure to be interesting, if not satisfying; a
Parisian mountebank is apt to be a very
amusing sort of mountebank, and even a
Parisian dabster can dab in a way which
will fill people with a joy and wonder that
are not altogether derisive. So, I say, I
am sorry for the critics of Paris, and, I
hope, the public of Paris does not take
itself and its duties as seriously as the peo
ple of London.
America for the Americans.
Not nearly so many American painters go
back to Europe for the summer now as went
even a few years ago. They seem to have
got thoroughly acclimatized, and, unless
they want absolute rest, usually prefer the
chance to work outdoors here to the chance
to work outdoors under their once beloved
skies of France. Of course this is as it
should be, for the result is that distinctively
American character which, year by year,
grows more strongly marked in our land
scapes and plein air figure pictures.
But, of course, there is no year when some
of our painters do not go back for a sum
mer's work abroad. One who will go this
year is Mr. Hopkinsoa Smith. He expects
to bring us back more of his Venice.
Another who will go abroad this summer Is
Mr. Will H. Low. He has a commission to
paint a ceiling, 35 feet by 25, for the recep
tion room of the new Hotel WaldorK I wish
that his friend Mr. Isham might go abroad
with Mr. Low and do a big ceiling from
the small decorative canvas he has now in
the society's exhibition. Until last year,
few people knew anything about Mr. Isham,
and it seems as though he knew little about
himself, although he had long painted with
more or less application, and was a well aq?
credited member of our arti-stic community.
But last year ho exhibited an excellent por.
trait, and this year he has another that is
still better a brown girl in a striped grai
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dress, in a lively attitude with a wreath In
her hands. It is not easy toguess just what
she means to do with her wreath, but that
does not matter, for the head is painted
very strongly and well, and is admirably
characterized, and the dress is handled in a
quite masterly way.
M. S. Tax Kensselaeb.
ISO'SULLIVANDEAD?
NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT
THROWS DOUBT ON IT.
He Bases HIa Letter on the Supposed bun
nine or the iceman and Ills Friends
The Remains, However, Taken to ills
Old Wisconsin Home.
CniCAGO, May 7. In connection with an
account of the death of O'Sullivan, the late
Joliet convict, and the preparations for the
funeral, a morning paper contains a myste
rious statement as to an equally mysterious
letter received by Its editor last night The
letter was delivered about 6 o'clock by a
public messenger boy, who stated that it was
given him for delivery by a crippled man at
the Auditorium. The man could not be
found, despite a vigilant search. The letter
is as follows:
Chiqaoo, III., May G.
With reference to the rumor of the death
of O'Sullivan, may I be permitted to ask how
do you know O'Sullivan is dead! Who certi
fied to his death? Has there been an inquest
over his remains? What authority have we
for the allegation of his death save the tele
graphed statements of newspaper corre
spondents of Joliet? While not impeaching
these reports, is it not possible, havinjr
Texard to the unofficial and sympathetic
attitude of Warden Dement and the
mass of cunning revealed in the Cronin
conspiracy, that the newspaper correspond
ents have been imposed upon? Did any of
them see him die? Or is it not worth while
to fully investigate this rumorwhile O'Suill
van's body Is lying In Well street, and be
fore it is hurried to Wisconsin for inter
ment, to make sure that it is not a plaster cast
of the face and features of the convict No.
47 that has reached Chicago, and not tbe
former iceman of Lakcview and er-member
of Camp 20. A Header.
The body of Iceman Patrick O'Sullivan
was to-day taken to his old home at Monroe,
Wis., where interment will occur to-morrow.
About 20 friends and relatives ac
companied O'Sulliyan's body. While the
remains were lying in the parlor of his
former home here, hundreds of the iceman s
old associates passed through the room to
take a last look at the face they had known
in life. Of the intimation tha't the body in
the casket was not that of O'Sullivan, his
relative, Mrs. Whalen, simply said, "I
would to God it was so, but you knew him;
look for yourself."
VALENCIA MUST SOON FALL.
Venezuela Rebels Capture an Important
Town In the Victorious March.
Bakcelosa, Vesezttela, May 7.
Calabozo has fallen. The mystery sur
rounding Casanas is solved at last, and
there is no doubt that the Commander in
Chief of the Government's army is a
prisoner in the hands of the insurgents. He
has held himself well at Calabozo, but, as
as predicted nearly two weeks ago, the end
had to come as it did.
Calabozo and its commandant were not
taken without a show of resistance, but con
stant desertions and the wont of supplies
had so weakened the Government troops
that to hold out against the resolnte forces
which opposed them was no longer possible.
Eumors of this disaster to the flower of
Palacio's army have been coming in for
several days, but they were discredited.
Meager details mention a fight, in which
the Nationals were driven into the city,
with the insurgents following and taking
possession. The fall of Valencia will come
very soon.
Roaches", bedbugs and other insects are
conspicuous by their absence in houses
where Bnglne is used occasionally. 25 cts.
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TEOMEff OF THE BOW.
Followers of EoDin Hood Coming to
the City to Attend the
GEAUD COURT OF FORESTERS
The Order to Plant a Tree With Great Cere
mony in the Part.
THEEE THOUSAND HEX TO BE U LINE,
The Foresters will take charge of this
city on Tuesday and hold possession for two
or three days with the fourth annual ses
sion of the grand court of the order in this
State. For the opening day a grand parade
and public mass meeting havo been ar
ranged. On Tuesday afternoon a parade of
3,000 men will take place over the principal
streets in the lower part of the city and
the mass meeting in the evening will be
held in Union Legion Hail, Sixth avenue,
where the sessions of the grand court will
be held. Great preparations are being
made by the local members and it is ex
pected that the meeting will be successful .
in every way and tend to spreading the or
der In this end of the State.
The Ancient Order of Foresters is one of
the oldest secret organizations in existence,
and in England it ranks second in influence,
membership and antiquity to the Masonio
order. Although it is strong in some parts
of this country, notably in Xew York,
where there is a membership above 25,000,
it has not reached that position of influence
attained in its birthplace and which it ex
pects ultimately to reach here. William
the Conqueror, by his persecution of the
Saxons on his invasion of England in 1066,
gave rise to the first order of Foresters.
Subsequently Bobin Hood, declared an out
law for shooting the deer of the King to
provide food for the suffering people, organ
ized the Forest Itansrers, and the organiza
tion has been perpetuated in various forms
until it now has more than 150,000 members
in America and many times that in Eng
land.
It is a benevolent fraternal organisation,
and, its promoters claim, does more in the
way of relieving distress and Inculcating
morality than any similar order in this
country. It is a" rich order, too, the na
tional treasury having over 5000,000 on
hand, and every State body having a good
surplus to draw from.
Tuesday's parade will be ofiicered as fol
lows: Chief Marshal. George Tann; aid,
Robert Erskine; Harsbal, flrst division, Ar
thur Thompson: second division. William
II. Round: third division, John J.Lewi.
The parade will form on Water stree at 2:13,
and, starting promptly at 2:30, will pass
alons Smithueld street to Third avenne, to
Grant street, to Fifth avenne, down Fifth
avenue to Wood street, to Liberty avenne,
to Tenth street, to Penn avenue, to Seventh
street, to Seventh street bridge, to Robinson
street, Allegheny! to Federal street. to Iforth
avenne, to Irwin avenue, to West Ohio
street and to Allegheny Parks, where the
procession willpause and tho ceremony of
planting the Foresters' tree will be per
formed. The parado will then proceed to
Cedar avenue by West and ast Ohio streets,
where it will be dismissed.
The mass meeting will be held at 7:30
o'cloctc Tuesday evenin?. when the follow
ing will be tlio programme: Overture, Se
lect Knights' Band; address of welcome,
Hon. H. I. Gonrley; quartet, tho National
Qnartot; solo. Miss Edith Harris; address,
Hon. W. J). Moore: address, "Pennsylvania
Forestry," Eli Moon, H. C It.; overture. Se
lect Knights' Band; recitation, Miss Bessie
aiiomas; address. "The Order," W. V.
Rnnklo, P. H. C. B.; duet, Wm. Davis and D.
Morris; overture, Solect Knights' Band;
quartet, the National Quartet: addressr-.
Good of the Order," Dr. J. Milton Duff: re- -citation,
Miss Edith Harris; solo, Thomas J.
Jarrett: address, "Good Night," Hon.
Alfred Marland.
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