mmum Bjsgagangask ssgss msmrf fnTwr THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. PAGES 9 TO 20. "" SECOND PART. v THE FLTTSBUBG- DISPATCH. SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1892, I GLADSTONE'S FIGHT A Great Deal Harder Than He Himself Expected, but Not Yet Lost. THE TOEIES JUBILANT, But Their Bapture Destined to Be of "S"ot Lon? Duration. COTTON GROWING IN BUSSIA 2ot let Such a Success That American Hanters Seed Fear It . SO FOURTH OF JDLT IX LONDON TOWN IBT CABLE TO THE DtSPATCH. London, July 9. Copyright. Mr. Gladstone lias had a harder fight than he expected, but to Liberals of strong faith and to students of political meteorology ultimate success was never in doubt. The latter class felt rather discouraged Tuesday evening when, as pollioc returns came rollirg in over the wires, it was seen that seats which were Liberal in 18S5 and Tory In 1MS8 had not been won, and that Tories I were actually paining unexpected victories I in constituencies thought to be safely I Liberal. I Tory newspapers ednesday morning were jubilant as if they instead of the Lib erals had made a considerable net gain, and the results were even described as emi nently satisfactory. These editorial com ments were inspired by the same feeling that for five years past has induced Tories to shout thanksgivings whenever they man aged to save one of their teats in a bye election, yet strange to say, despondency prevailed for awhile in the Liberal camp, because it seemed evident that Gladstoue was not going to sweep the country, and these creatures of impulse had not bar gained, as wiser men would have done, for occasional reverses which the most skillful commanders cannot always guard against in a great campaign. ever Any Caurfe for Alarm. It is nov seen that there never was cause for serious alarm, for the close of each day's polls showed a net gain for Gladstone and home rule. Next week's polling in the counties will certainly give the Liberals additional gains, but rural constituencies in this country are proverbially uncertain and it is too soon to particularize the extent of the home ri-le majority. Up till Friday morning Tories were con fident that the most Gladstone could do would be to secure a majority of 8 or 10 by aid of the Irish members, and the in tentions cf the Government were a matter of Common talk at the Carlton Club in Pall Hall, and the Constitutional Club in .Nor thumberland avenue,London. Salisbury was to "hang on," a new Parliament was al ready summoned to meet for business on August 4, was to be prorogued to November, and thereafter to February, tb'us enabling the Government to enter into negotiations with Irish members with a view to obtain their support The Government is deeply pledged not to grant Ireland home rule, nut it is under a solemn promise to deal with the question of Irish local self-government, and it would not be difficult to draft a virtual home rule measure aud style it a local gov ernment bilL Irish members, it was urged, would prefer half a loaf to no bread; an in stallment of home rule would be better than nothing at all, a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush and so on. Mill lioora to Down the Tories. But there is still room for hope that the constituencies will gie Gladstoue a small majority, irrespective of the Irish members, thus spoiling theTory plans and furnishing a most effective guarantee that justice shall be done to Ireland promptly and gener ously. Mr. Arnold Morley, chief Liberal whip, who ought to know something about elec tion matters, told a meeting in Notting hamshire last evening that he saw no reason to be dissatisfied with the results so far achieved. They did not expect to make their great gains in the borough constitu encies, but they expected to realize them in the county contests, which began that dav. Mr. Gladstone said the same thing in the course of a conversation at Dalmeny this afternoon. On the other hand, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, speaking at Barnstaple last night, predicted a Tory majorit v of 64, but in form ing that estimate lie coolly ignored the fact that at the time he w as speaking the Lib erals bad made a net gain of 21 seats. When Parliament was dissolved the ministerial majority was 68. Yesterday afternoon it had been reduceJ to 32. Therefore, urged this sapient critic, a little sum in arithmetic would show that if they went on at the tame rate there would be aTory majority of 6i when the elections were over. Jlaklnc a Ministerial Majority. The London Standard yesterdav indulged in arithmetical calculations of equal quality. In order to efiect a ministerial majority, Mr. Gladstone "ought obviously to make 74 gaina." But as Sir William Harcourt pointed out last night, in a lively speech at Chesterfield, a gain of 74 seats meant the destruction of a majority of 148, which the present Govern ment never possessed. The Ministers commenced in 1886 with a majority of 11G, which at the dissolution had been reduced by Liberal success to 68, so that it only required a net LiDeral gain of 35 scats to place the Government in a minority. Estimates and political conclusions based upon Tory arithmetic may have been cabled to America, so that it is well to make known the true state of a flairs. At the moment of cabling this the net Liberal gain is 30 seats. Gladstone would now have a majority If the InsB Nationalists had presented a united front to the enemy. Jast llow Things Now Stand" On the 20th of May, 18)1, Timothy Har rington, in a public speech in Dublin, in discreetly went into particulars respecting the electoral prospects of the Parnellites, and named S2 seats which he was confident they would win. Several of these seats have already been won by anti-Parnellites, and at the moment of cabling the members elected in Ireland are thus distributed: Four Parnellites, 23 anti-Parnellites and 16 Tories and Liberal-Unionists. Mr. John Morlev has been placed in an awkward position by the action of the New castle electors. He has been elected, and cannot, therefore, with any show of grati tude or political decency, seek another constituency at present, but he was placed second to aTory who polled over 3,000 votes more than he dii Newcastle i a two-member constituency, but the Tories had no idea that they would win, and there fore ran only one candidate. The figures show that they might easily have won both seats, and the question now of interest to Mr. Morley is how he will lare wLen he has to seek re-election. Moilpjr In a. Bad Box. On appointment to a place in Mr. Glad stone's Cabinet lie will not be spared a con test, for the fight in Newcastle, which has just ended in au unexpected Tory victory, was fought with unexampled bitterness on t AnBlTRATIONYov are both both sides. Mr. Morley must either find a safe Liberal seat elsewhere or keep out of the Cabinet. Mr. Gladstone could not afford to commence bis administration with the humiliation of a defeat of one of his chief lieutenants. A good many Irishmen now in America who knew Mattman Barry as a Fenian So cialist and member of the executive of the famous Internationals, will be interested to know that their quondam associate has be come intensely ''respectable," and is at present contesting Banffshire as a Tory of deepest dye. The Irishmen aforesaid will appreciate the exquisite humor of Barry's position. ARTS DESTB0YINQ A VILLAGE. They Eat Away tho 'Wooden Beams Until the lloases Collaps?. London, July 9. For some time past random reports have appeared of a strange condition of things at the French town of La Bocliell, where the inhabitants were pictured sitting abont in groups and uncer tainty watching their bouses fall in and their worldly possessions buried in the de bris. The people in this peaceful village were suddenly awakened to the presence of some terrible" mystery when one night, dur ing a modest banquet at the borne of the cure, the upper stories of the bnilding sud denly gave and not only rained the French dishes of the hostess, but covered the guests with a choking cloud of plaster. Before the astonishment that had paralyzed the en tire neighborhood was overcome another house tell in with preciselv the same symp toms. And so it continued, one house after another would give way and disappear. It has now been discovered what has caused all this destruction, and it is no greater object that a diminutive whiteant which has invaded the place in multitudes and confined its attacks to the beams of the houses. These were eaten entirely through. The prefecture has ordered the peonle to immediately have all the wooden beams torn out of their property, and 'substitute those of iron. . COTTON GEOWIKG IS BTSSIA Vot Far Enough Advanced to Cause Trouble for Amirlcan Planter. rBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.! LOJao-, July 9. Dr. Thomas Heenan, United States Consul in Odessa, Is. now at Tashkend, awaiting the cotton flowering be fore drawing up his report on the condition and prospects of Bussian Central Asiatic plantations for the Washington Government. "From what I learn privately from Samarand letters," writes the Daily 2Teva correspondent, "Americans have little to fear as yet, at all events, from the competi tion of Bussian cotton. An irrigation system of no small magnitude is necessary for any considerable cultivation of cotton in that region, and inthe most favored sec tions now occupied with this particular in dustry the plant is said to lose much of its vitality in maturing. A large portion of the Czar's private estate on the Marghab is experimentally being brought under culti vation. AMEBICAH PBEACHIN3 ABE0AD. The Bishop of Massachusetts Attracts At tention In London. BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. LONDON, July 9. The Bishop of Massa chusetts' preaching is attracting consider able attention here. He has already ad dressed a large congregation in Westminster Abbey, and to-morrow he will deliver a sermon in the large and fashionable church of St. Peter, in Eaton Square, at which many Americans have arranged to be present. Minister Terrell has run over from Brus sels for a short holiday here. Kins Alexander to Sleet Sis Papa. fBT CABLE TO TnE DISPATCH. London; July 9. An interesting event will happen at Ems to-morrow, when young King Alexander, of .Servia, will meet his strange father, ex-King Milan. The latter has been leading a dissipated life in Paris on money the Servians granted in order to get rid of him. He knows a great' deal about horse racing, card plaving, and other things not likely to be of service to a youthful monarch. The reason for the meeting is not generally known. It cannot be one of affection on either side. Morn Kiotlnjr In Spain. Madrid, July 9. Bioting broke out to day in the towns of Lorea and Calaspareia in Murcia against the new Octroi Dutch. In both plaees the municipal residences were attacked. A tax collector's house in Calas dareia was sacked and the furniture was burned. The Mayor of the town fled, be ing threatened by the mob with violence. An Addition to His Collection. tBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. London, July 9, The King of Sweden, who was recently piloted through the slums of Paris by Detective Bossignol, has sent that gentleman a splendid scarf pin, con sisting of a blue enamel shield bearing the royal initials and surmounted with a crown in diamonds. Bosignol is said to have the finest collection of scarf pins in France. Twelvg Killed on tike Genera, GENEVA, July 9. On the Lake of Geneva to-day the boiler of one of the steamers at a pier at Ouchy exploded. Twelve of those on board the steamer were killed outright and 40 were injured. Manj of tho pas- i J3UST TEEH Hf TEE SAMS QRJLYE. wrongs you cannot talk tetSement until thai an out sengers were- blown Into the lake, from which they were rescued in small boats. WALES D0PFS MOURNING. Ho Wants to Take a Crose on a Warship The Ministers May Jfot Al'ow It Bis Stud Farm Sale a Good One. rSPECIAL TILEQRAM TO THE BI8PATCH.1 London, July a Five years ago the Prince of Wales started a stud farm at Wolverton, for the purpose of improving the breed of hackneys and hunters, and has I since spent a lot of money upon it Yester day he held his first bi-ennial sales, and there was a great gathering of aristocratic buyers, despite the distractions of a general election. The Duke of Portland bought several horses on behalf of the Queen, and the sale realized altogether 66,005, a sum of which was not large, considering the number and quality of the animals sold. The Prinoe of Wales is spending a good deal of money in extending, altering and beautifying his so-called bachelors' cottage at Sandringham, which is to be the Norfolk residence of the Duke of 'Xerlt, otherwise Prince George of Wales. The house is quite large enough for any young married couple. The Prince is gradually putting off his mourning, and he is now accepting invita tions to dine out with friends. He would like to go on a cruise in the autumn with the Duke of York, who is now in command of the cruiser Melambus, but it Js notlikelr the Ministers will allow him to do so. Warships have been known to founder at sea ere now, and ir H. M. S. Melampns should go down with the Prince of Wales and Duie of York aboard the unpopular Fifes would come to tie throne of England. The average loyal Englishman never ceases to think ot such a possibility,. . . The Prinoe'.of -Waler3nay"be vsked Xo arbitrate upon a curious dispute which has arisen between two- roval pretenders, Don Carlos and the Comte de Paris. The latter, it seems, has had the impudence to assume the armorial bearings of the House,of Bour bon, of which Don Carlos is head, without "label," denoting that hs belonge to a junior branch. The count, on being re monstrated with through a mutual friend, Lord Ashburnham, has declined to enter Into correspondence on the subject with the Don, and so the matter stands. At present nobody worries about the dispute, as neither pretender is likely ever to win a throne. F0TJBTH 0? JULY IN LOB DON. Dow Some Prominent Americans Abroad Celebrated the Giorlons. rBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. London, July a The Fourth of July was celebrated with nnusnal enthusiasm bv Americans in London this year. Minister Lincoln's reception was the biggest ever known since there has been a minister of the United States to the Court ef St James, For three hours Cromwell road was blocked with carriages in front of the Lincoln resi dence, and over 800 Americans shook hands with their London representative. Colonel Tom Ochiltree's Fourth of July dinner at the Albemarle Hotel, which was attended by a score of distinguished citizens of the United States, was a culinary masterpiece, and the Savoy and Langham Hotels gave elaborate anniversary dinners to their American guests. Nat Goodwin celebrated the occasion with a river party on the Thames Sunday, which lasted until the late morning of the glorious Fourth. He had DeWolf Hopper, Stuart Bobson, Kate Forsythe, Eloiss Willis, Minnie Palmer and Ella Chapman among other American members of the pro fession on board his boat C0L0ES TEAT XABT F0EEYEB Used in the Manufacture of tbe New Franco- Russian Flags. RIT CABLE TO TUX DISPATCH. London, July a The Paris correspond ents agree that the liason just ended in the French capital was Exceptionally brilliant, and that the social approaohment of the old monarchical aristocracy towrrd the republic has become most marked. Paris is nowabsorbed in preparations for a national fete next week. The feature 1 this year will be "a display of the new Franco-Russian flag, which has been named "The Cronstadt" The colors of France and Russia are printed on" the same piece of cloth, and according to a Laxly Neat corre spondent the flags are sold in the shops with a warranty"that the color "will last forever, li&a the friendship of 'the two nations." Americans In British Politics. BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH, LONDON, July a Baron Halkett, who was defeated ' for Chester, although the Grand Old Man made a special speech in' his favor, is married to the daughter of Anson Phelps Stokes.- Among the success ful Liberal candidates is Major Evan B. Jones, at one time United States Consul at' New Castle and afterward at Cardiff. Ha was elected for Carmarthen yesterday. The Drury Lane Theater Leasew. London, July 9. At the annual ten era! meeting of the proprietors of Drury Lanai Theater yesterday it was mentioned that the lease of the theater would expire .in. 1894, and fear was expressed that the Duke 6f Bedford, the freeholder, would not renew it The theater cost 218,000, and it has stood for 230 years. A Famous Band of Brigands Captured. Sofia, July 9. A band of brigands have been captured in Dubnitza. They belqnged to the notorious Anastasius who stopped the Orient express In Mar, 1891. and cap-' tured six Gerians for whom Turkey afterward paid heavy ransoms, '" . , . - of tight HOMESTEAD'S WOMEN. They Are the Greatest Sufferers From the Trouble in the Mill. VISITS TO THE DESOLATED HOMES. Many a Mother Who Hasn't Bad the Care She Ousot to Have Bad, CASES WBERE WAGES WIRE WASTED rCOKBESPOSDESCE OP THE DISPATCH. Hombskead, Jul 9. Were yon ever so overpowered with a grief or weight of woe that the very sun shine seemed hateful and the singing of birds or children's happy laughter the greatest mockery? When nature herself in most perfect mood seemed arrayed against you to tantalize, and in contrast to its smiling, bring out'iu darker hue the grief of a breaking haart? Something of that contrariety which shines upon funerals and grief and rains upon weddings and jollity was experienced at Homestead during the unhappy week just gone. Clouds dark and lowering, thunder loud and prolonged would have been strictly in accoad with the spirit of the time; en rapport wijji the general gloom and wretchedness. Bqt instead of adjust ing itself sympathetically to the sorrowful moods of a despondent people, it continned tantalizingly fair. ' . 'Oh.'if the- suji cnjy would not shine' and the. children would keep qufet I could bear it belter," moaned one poor woman upon whom the hand of misfortune had fallen with crushing weight The Family of Poor Tom Wrldoo, This was Tom Waldon's widow, the mother of five children, graded like stair steps and in hourly expectancy of adding a sixth to the nombex. Although in both physical and mental travail she eonld not be induced to quit the room wherein was all that was leftofher'poorTqm." Around and around the coffin she wandered in a half demented way making lo outcry, yet wail ing in a way that was heartbreaking to hear. No tears came to relieve her surcharged heart and the stony, awful stare in her eyes and the drawn, tortured expression of the face, from which all hope had fled, will b aunt me to my dying hour. The uncon scious -children played joyously about the door, coming in occasionally to admire the tall candles burning at papa's head and to inquire what was the matter with him that he laid so still. This was only one house out of several it was my painful privilege to visit during these trying days. As the guest of Dr. John Purman, one of the most popular young physicians of Homestead, I was especially favored in personally meeting and talking with the workers' families. I went with the doctor upon his round of visits and in this 'way saw these wretched people in their own wretched homes. The experience was a neive-racking one, but just such as X needed. Borne Where Poverty Dwelt. That people could live in such squalor I had always before then doubted. There is nothing more true than that one-half the world does not know how tie other half lives. We, of the other half, are too prone to draw our silked robes about ns and keep as much distance between ns and the other half as possible, and in a measure forget, or lor tms very reason tail to realize that tnese people are as human as ourselves. The question ot 'labor and capital, like every other, can be reasonably argued both ways, bnt I am not the one to argue it either way. Without expressing an opinion as to the right or the wrong of this last dreadful contest, I can but lament the "inhumanity to man that makes countless thousands meura," especially since so many of the thousands are helpless women and children to whom the.world the nan world owes its tendereit protection, I hold it to be A sin and a shame that women have to enter tho sordid grind of life. Whether Swede, Hungarian, Pale, Irish, German. American or of whatever tongue, a woman s a .woman for a' that and a' that, in paraphrase, and there is a living that is hers and which she should get .without overwork or worry. Tin wimen Who Were In the Fight. Woman as originally planned was a deli cate oreation, intended to hold within her self all capabilities of good cheer, tender ness and grace, put the women at Home stead, who ielt called upon to get out and fight like men for what they felt was theirs for the, earning, have become sadly per verted from the primal idea., That is not what heaven meant womankind to be, and this js not the fault of the women themselvsji. Ton or I in theirplace would hare done as they did, while they in our place would de as we i do, which .too fre quently is to live without a thought, of less fortunate sisters. , , .These women are not ignorant and stupid by any means. w I, met , several who .were about the ordinary, and who, with the ad vantages that the, money-they fought for might bring, could fill yur place er mine. One of tha calls made with Dr. Purman waa to dress the wounds of Harry Hughes, a bright-faced young man who, having the elasticity of spirits natural'to .youth, was cheerfuly even in the face qf the probable loss of a limb.. But the young wife with a baby in her arms had not yet recovered from the shack pt ths j night before when liar husband had ' btan carried in as she supposed dead, and was inclined to find fault with "a philanthropist who would build libraries for people who had no time to read, instead of paying wages that would insure bread and butter, and leave a few cents over and above for a newspaper or book that could be brought home to the wife and family." It was no use to explain that the books in publio libraries could be taken home to be read. These people are loud in protesting that if sumcientiy remunerated for their worK tney could build libraries in their own name, and have comfortable homes besides. The Women the Keal Sufferers. Be that as it may, I pity those women from the depths of my heart They are the victims of the mistakes, whether made by employer or employe. I don't like to be a raven and croak, nor a i crow to sit on a blighted pine tree and caw, nor to fall into step with kickers nor strikers, nor butt against things that can't be cured, or at least over which I can have no coitrol, but those heart-rending sights among women at Homestead have moved me to a word in their defense, which those claiming to be their protectors should hear first of all. I heard several groups of men discussing and "cussing" as well the McKinley bill and giving their opinion of that protection which fails to protect.in language that reads best written in dots and dashes, and I won dered how many of them had lived ud more nearly to their promises of protection to the women made dependent noon them than had the political measure which just now is j cvuuug xu iur so iuu a measure oi meir wrath. One of my discoveries had been that all homes were not comfortable according to the money earned. Here a family would be found to be living better on $1 CO per day than another at twice that sum.and it nearly always fell out that John Barleycorn was a Eermanent lodger at the first house. If I ad my way, every man who took a drink of rum while his family needed one creature comfort, should go to jail for every such robbery. And it I had my way, women should not work for the support of any man's family unless that man was incapaci tated. Men Enough to do the Work. Every bit of hard work should be done by men. There are men enough in the world, strong and able, to support all the women. I would level a tax on every male adult who remained unmarried, and such revenue should go toward the general sup port of old maids and widows. I would found beautiful homes where all unpro tected women should be cared for, where they could tarry together and acquire and maintain the sweet amenities of life. There they should sing, paiut, do fine needle work and teach girl children to be come what the Lord intended them to be, delicate, pure, hieb-minded and womanly beings, and we should have the salvation of the future race assured. I could not but wonder what kind of women I found in some of the worst homes would make, and I could not even imagine. From my heart I wished I could rescue them, and it seemed to me I would like to own the mill, to-day so hateful in their sight, for just one year that I might give them ail its earnings for that long a time and see if they would make the wise use of it they now think they would. What the Women Sailer. I am strongly of the opinion some would have it all at the end of the year, and that the women would get as little proportion ately as they do now. But less care they could not get under any circumstances. Our grandmothers' china is better guarded than are women. The china is carefully locked behind glass doors, while grand mother's flesh and blood is forced into hard and bitter usage. Small wonder that it is so often rndely marred or broken 1 It seems to me the gift of motherhood sheula ordain women and set them apart from the harsh dealings of life, and that every man, high or low, in remembrance of of his mother, should do all in his power, even toSividing his last dollar, to relieving1 her from the Wear and tear of life and take the load off from both back and heart for sake of future generations. Maet Temple Batabd. Indian Pollen Arrest Big Men. Pbjkbe, S.D., July 9. Four citizens of Pierre were arrested by Indian police yes terday, nearly J00 miles from here, in spite of a pass Irom Secretary Noble. They were taken over 100 ml'es to the Cheyenne river, at Forest City, ind placed in the guard house, where tbeytare now confined. The parties are CharlesUfellette, son of Gover nor Mellette, and! Clerk of the United States District Court: S. B. Wallace, man ager of the electric! light plant and street railway here; L. Ktlson Gardaer and a cowboy guide. 4 A 3IO WHEEL SOB. THE FAIB. Hovel Amusement Anmngement by an Old Pltt'sburgiBoy. W. H. Wachter, of Chicago, has designed a giant wheel for the amusement ot visitors to the World's Fair. The wheel is to be 300 feet high, revolving between two powerful trussed towers, 150 feet! from the ground. There are te be 42 spokeajn this giant wheel and 12 of them will carry basKets beauti fully upholstered, providing Toom for four adults, swirjing easily from a pivot so as always to be upright and contain a table and other comforts. Forty-two spokes will be emblazoned with the arms of the States. The various compartments will be furnished each after the characteristic manner of some nation. There will be a'.Chinese compart ment and a Turkish one and a Moorish one and so on. As each parfy reaches the top of the wheel it will be given 15 minutes to enjoy the view. The wheel will cost (10,000 or $15,000. Mr. Wachter is an oil Pittsburg boy, having lived here all Ijis life. He has traveled all through Earope and been engaged in several enterprises and been very successful in all of them. 1 AN IHSUEANCE CASE DECIDED. Companies Need Not Deposit a Guarantee Fand to Do Basinets. St. Louis, July 9.-4judge Klein has ordered a peremptory writ of mandamus to issue against the superintendent of the State Insurance Department, requiring him to issue a certificate to the Employers' Lia bility Assurance Corporation of London, enabling them to do an insurance business in this State. The superintendent had re fused to issue the certificate mentioned, on the ground that the company could not con duet all the different kinls of insurance and guaranty proposed with ut in a few years becoming hopelessly inrolved. He was willing to permit the ceppany to do busi ness in Missouri if it would first deposit (100,000 in the State Treasury to insure policy holders against lofe. 'Judge Klein held thatftbe statute did not authorize the superintendent to impose that restriction on the company, and that he must issue a certificate in its compliance with the statutory provSions relative to in surance companies genetlly. A COTJHTY TBEASU1 CONVICTED. The Jury Finds He Stole 854,000 or Publio Money at Baitings, Neb, Hastings, Neb., Auly 9. Ex-County Treasurer Charles H. ijaul, who has been on trial in the District Court tbe past week en a charge of embezzln'g 154,000 as Treas urer of Adams oounty, waa found guilty yesterday after the jury had been out two days. He was recommended to the mercy of the court f A motion for a ney trial has been filed. Samuel Fist. Paul'speputy, on trial on tbe charge of aiding tbtfembeulemenVhas filed 'a motion for onang of vanua, BLACKS OF ALABAMA. NoTel Scenes in the Kelt Where Race Ignorance Is-Most Dense. A KOETflEEN GIRL'S EXPEDITION. T"mt'EU11 Furn Beds Ycyin Ihere to Get 'Bid of IyiI r pints. PEEPS IKT0 TUB LOWLY CABI5S fWRTTTEV TOll THE DUPATCft. t "Tne best laid schemes of mice and men Gang aft agloe." I believe that, don'tyou? I had intended to tell you about the mountains, wooded hills, rich val- leys,deep bottom lands and cotton fields of Alabama but my thoughts "gang aft aglee" to-day, and I shall try to inter est you in a lo cality that is black in soil, black in inhabi tants, black in ig- Universally Popu ar. norance and su perstitionthe Black Belt of Alabama. Until a few years ago the Belt seemed doomed to ever be a land of ignorance and vice. The population was scattered and the people so immoral and Ignorant that it was a difficult, If not impossible, thing to reach them by the ordinary missionary methods. Tou know well the surprise -of both the Northern and Southern whites when it was learned that the Industrial Missionary Association of Alabama had reached these people and that they were being educated. Like many of my sex I am curious yes, I admit it and I determined to see for my self what had been done for these people and learn something of their customs. Should I ifo by rail or "tramn It?" Mir question was answered by "Uncle Ben," an old slave, who said to me:. "Look yere, honey, yo' suah had better let me tote yo' in my wagon, yo'll see mo', an' I'll carry Have you eyr been in a green wagon with red wheels, a red mule, and a "culled gemmen" for an escort? No! Well it is de lightful, amusing, interesting! A Very Delightful Old Character. ' The first question Ben asked was: "Come from de Norf, honey?" ', "Yes, Uncle Ben, and" It's very cold thera at present" " A - "I know dat, chile. 'Peahsjo me yo done' mm, a snow numn; rse a smart nigger aroun' these parts." To this remark I made no reply and he continued: "Chile, do all the ladies Norf have 'lasses candy hair like yo's?" I answered: "So," with avehemence that startled him. Girls! Girls! Girls! I mean theones with golden locks, what wonld you have said? After that remork, I grew very silent, fearing that he might say: "Lawd, I done forgot to drive my whitemule." After a long and tedious journey we ar rived at Beloit, the most thriving city in the "Belt and were met by Mr. C, B. Curtis, President of the L M. A. A. "Come with me, he said, "and we will go through the city together. There are many places of in- "'"i Hauatios, a sawi mm, aieea and grist mill, postofflce, blacksmith shop and the cabins of the negroes,". How strange it is to see all these black faces ana figures! They look at you and say: "Heah's mo' chalk ladies, heah's mo' Yankees. But you enjoy their pleasant remarks about the "Yankees." The home of Mr. Curtis and his eo-work-ersisalarge roomy dwelling with wide verandas. It is a store, freight depot, school room and dwelling combined. The furniture is simple and neat Much of it is homemade and speaks well for the tact and ingenunity of tne women folks." Walls That Conld Tell Strange Tales. After leaving his home we visited the "Old Stack House," a delightful rambling old mansion formerly owned by a rich planter, and now strange fate o'f Provi dence occupied by the men who had once been sold as "goods and chattels" by its owner. What stories of woe and sladness those old walls could tell! It seems but yesterday when Chloe "shuffled a step" and sanr her quaint old songs for de "missus," and tbe place raqg with the laughter of the guests. The scene changes, men are whipped like hounds and sold to the highest bidder, and Chloe's voice, which once held you spellbound by its beauty and softness, sounds harsh and me tallic as she shrieks and sobs lor "one mo' look" at her child. But we must see the cabins. Uncle Ben leads us toward Gill Place, the richest and blackest lands In tbe belt The hnnses are poor and dilapidated, and the netrroes. un der the supervision of the white missionary, are busily repairing the roofs, mending floors and building new cabin. Those who were not busy at the carpenter work were "chopping cotton." This operation,' as far as I can understand it, means chopping down the young cotton sprouts which come up abundantly, so as to allow proper space between the real cotton plants. Uncle Ben told ns that had we been a few weeks ear lier we could have seen them "bed up the cotton rows, plant the seed and cover. Superstitions of the Black B.'t, Hart yon aver been where everything; around 70a hai history? Every face in j One of the Slack Sell Preaehert. Sketched In the Fltldt. the "Black Belt" tells a story; every cabin has its tale, and even the old bell which summons the hands to work has a history. Then again, the, negroes in the "belt" are superstitious. One of the saddest sights 1 saw was the burning of a hay mattress to "get the evil spirits out of it." Upon in vestigation it was learned. that a young col ored woman who had been very ill had Deen forced by her mother to leave her husband because of the "hants" in tbe cabin. She believed that these spirits had entered the mattress and would not leave until they were burned out I afterward learned that the husband and wife became reconciled, and as a proof of her wifely love she wa going to make all her "ole man's work pants." In another cabin I found a woman in the last stages of consumption. The home con tained but three pieces of furniture, bed, table and stove. The one window the cabin contained was closed and the room dark, damp and desolate. I asked tbe husband why he did not open the window and let in the fresh air and sunshine. He replied: "I doan' want no mo' evil spirits here; enough in the ole woman now." I tried to explain "WriG-- J rr' A I STdiVrJ jfrfA"-' A:r- fonLj I Ft. "fir 1 IHto Bimilt of a Letter. to him the nature of the woman's disease, the necessity of having fresh air and sun light, but he stolidly refused to do as I bade him. Mrs. Curtis tells of a remark made in the the store by one of the negroes. She was making an entry in the daybook and after she finished the man exclaimed: "If I could write like that I'd throw down the hoe quick and run for President sure, and I'd keep running till I got there, too." Tbe Darkles' Recipe for Cornbread. One of the most interesting days in the month is "ration day." Fifteen pounds of salt pork and one bushel of meal are allowed each worker for his month's living. The bacon, as they call it, is fried and the meal made into cornbread. I asked the recipe for the bread and was told "to-use a little Indian meal, just enough, takes a little judgment, a little salt, not too much, takes a little judgment, water enough to thicken properly, some more judgment, hot oven, hot enough, with a little judgment" I tried the recipe, but couldn't find tbe judgment" and my "cake" proved a dismal failure. The breakfast of the poor or negro is ba con sop or jnice (the hot bacon fat), and cornmeal; dinneris bacon, peas, cornmeal, sometimes rice. The peas are not like our little English peas, but resemble small white beans and when cooked have the ap pearance of "Boston baked beans." A favorite dish and one considered very dainty is "Hoppine John," peas and rice boiled together. Don't they ever have fruit or "greens"? you ask. Yes, dew berries, strawberries, hallberries, grapes, pears and peaches. For greens they use young beet tops, young turnip tops, spin- :ach and lettuce. Washday Bown In Dixie. Perhaps yon may be interested in wash day. A.waihdaT among these people is not likeThe Northern washday. The women "take the clothes to the artesian well and wash them. The washboards are made of wood, and do not have the zine front, like the ones our laundresses use. The clothes are boiled in a huge iron pot, which has three feet and stands about three inches from the ground. Logs are put under it, and in a few moments the clothes are scalded. After being properly "blued and starohed," they are hung upon lines, tree branches or anything convenient to dry. Clothespins are an unknown luxury. The floors are scrubbed on washdavs, or, as they say, "scoured." The houses or cabins are simply tnrnished, many contain ing but one room, and in this room the family sleep, eat and live. There is something pathetio about the home life of these people, and they are eager to learn and be taught not only book knowledge, but domestio economy. Truly, the negroes are imitative beings. They try as much as possible to be like their white brothers, and are industrious in acauirin? a knowledge ot the mechanical and industrial arts, Tbe Progress Is Encouraging. Through the kindness of the white mis sionaries they hare learned to be mora peaceable and submissive. Since the L M. A. A. has undertaken to elevate tbe people of the Black Belt many churches have been erected, schools and more comfortable dwell ings have been built, but there is much to be done, Many of tbe inhabitants of the Belt live out on plantations, and as yet have not been reached. I give a fao'simile in miniature of a letter sent by a little black girl to her white teacher. It stands for some little progress. I could have remained longer there was so much to learn aud I had seen so little but Ben came and told me it was time to return. As we rode home in the twilight he told me many stories of his childhood and many of the superstitions of his race. As he bid me good night he kissed my hand and said: "Lawd bless yo', honey; if I neber see ye again. Goodbyl Just say a pra'r for Ben to-night; pore Ben." Poor Ben, indeed. He was richer than I, tor in his heart there was no malice, nor un kind thought Soon he, too, must lay down all that was corruptible and mortal and put on immortality. Miss Jo. Kabt. HEALTH OF THE PE0PLX, TVhat tbe State Board 17111 Discuss at Ita Meeting; To-Morrow. The State Board of Health will meet to morrow in the Supreme Court room, Har risburcr. for the twenty-second recularmeet- ing. Among the reports to be discussed are those on typhoid fever at Homewood, a sub urb of Pittsburg; correspondence with the Adjutant General in reference to tents for use in emergencies; typhoid fever at South Fork, Cambria county; closing of schools at Erie on account of diphtheria; action with reference to noods at Aitusriiie, Oil City and Meadville; smallpox at Pittsburg, at Condersport, Potter county, at Mill Creek, Luzerne county, and on vessels arriving at Kew York; notification of arrival of infect ed vessels at the port of Philadelphia; should schoolhouses be panered? slaughter house nuisance near Greensburg, West moreland county; minor nuisances at Greensburg, Westmoreland county; Trainer, Delaware county; Millvale borough, Alle gheny county; Oakdale station, Allegheny county; Mont Clair, Montgomery county; Phcenixville. Chester county, and West Bellevue, Allegheny county. A great many other' matters ot a general nature will be discussed. Excursion Via the Picturesque B. & O. B. B. To Atlantic City, via Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia, on Thursday, July 11, 1S3J. Kate 10 the round trip; tickets good for 13 days from day of sale and good to stop off at Washington City returning. Trains with Pullman parlor and sleeping cars will leavo B.4 0. depot; Pittsburg, at 8 A. if. and 9:20 T. X. Liza photo studio, 10 and 13 Sixth street, first-class work, moderate prices, prompt delivery. Bring the babies, au MIGHT? JJEFEAT, Few Candidates for the Presi dency Kept Their Fame -After Failure. BOTH BLAINE AND TUDEN Displayed the Greatest Coolnesa After the Story of the Ballot I BURR IEFT A TARSISHED KAME. HIj repraYitj of Heart Eridenced Letters Hs Left Behind. la CLEYELAND AND C0NHEIG UT IAW IWJtlrXtN TOB TOT DISFATCa.1 The politicians and statesmen who havo been unsuccessful candidates for the Presi dency illustrate the brevity of political repute. Such of them as are remembered owe the fact that they are not forgotten either to peculiar personality or to careers which were so dramatic and brilliant as to have made impress upon ths times suf ficiently great to become traditionary. It is not likely that many persons could tell of! band who the rival candidates were from the tima of the inauguration of George Washington up to 1810 that is, those can didates who were defeated. Yet a most in teresting and instructive lesson can ba learned by the study of the subsequent careers of the disappointed and defeated. Therein are contained stories of politics which are in themselves fascinating narra tives, and by them are also suggested hints that may be valuable to the aspiring young politician of tbe present day. The two men who came nearest to the Presidency without reaching it were Aaron Burr and Samuel J. Tilden, the one a Fed eralist, the other a Democrat of the Jeffer sonian stamp. Bnt Burr is better known as the politician who slew Alexander Ham ilton in a duel than a man who received a vote for the Presidency which tied that which Jefferson obtained, thereby throwing the electien into the House of Eepresenta tives, and compelling a change In the Con stitution altering the manner of chosing Presidents ana Yice Presidents. The Blennerbissett Conspiracy. Burr became Yice President with Jeffer son, and it is known in a general way that after his duel with Hamilton he was engaged in an alleged conspiracy with Blennerhas sett to create a great empire in the South west, of which he should be monarch, and that h3 was arrested and indicted for trea son, but never successfully prosecuted. It is also known that he practiced law in ifeir York and died at such an extreme old age that men are now living who knew him and conversed with him, and it is only recently that his law partner died in Kew York City. Abont a year before his death he narrated to the writer many interesting anecdotes, of his life, WilliamVH. Seward used to tell of a visit ' he made to Burr in New York City in 1832, and of his yunazement as he saw this withered old mandressed in a shabby dou ble gown with slippeaujrun down at tho heels, witnan unstarched lfrrf-ifft'rt rh'rh , was not over clean and with other evidences of poverty or carelessness about his person. , There was nothing in his appearance to suggest the fiery young soldier who had made with Arnold the memorable march through the Maine wilderness to Quebec and 'who participated in tbe assault on that city in which Montgomery lost his life. His feeble and husky speech had no hint in it of the oratorical power which had ones charmed ths Senate, and his mannerism none of that grace or deference which bad in the early days made him a most fascinating and in fluential politician. Nor was there any such charm of manner as suggested the gal lant who had the reputation of gaining the affections of many women. Nothing ot his old spirit was manifest except the fierce light which was in his eye. He was a withered, feeble, Impecunious old man, with no friends, with no sweet recollections and with nothing but enmities in his heart He told Mr. Seward that Washington was a man of small talent, who was completely under the influence of Hamilton, and that Hamilton was his parasite. He started to tell Mr. Seward about the duel with Hamil ton, but the conversation was interrupted. He Became an Ishmaellte. Mr. Seward gave it as his opinion thai Burr's nature was changed, not only by his disappointment over his failure to ( secure the Presidency when he was matched evenly ' in the Electoral College with Jefferson, but that his entire disposition had been changed by his belief that tie had been treacherously treated by Hamilton and other Federalists. "It is the only case in our history," said Mr. Seward, "where the failure to obtain tbe Presidency caused a man to become an Ishmaelite, and it is my opinion that if Burr had been elected President he would have revealed only those brilliant powers which made him ot suchgreat influence dur ing and immediately after the Revolution, and that his heart would have been softened instead of hardened as it was." That Burr was an Islftnaelite is mode evi dent by certain things which were narrated to thewrlter by those who knew whereof they spoke. General Thomas L. James says that Thurlow Weed once told him that ha met Burr on a Hudson river steamboat, standing solitary upon the deck with his cloak wrapped about him, shunned by every person who was on the boat Mr. Weed, pityinghim, invited him to his state room, and there Governor Morgan Lewis met him. Mr. Weed knew that the Gov ernor and Burr had been officers and friends during the Revolutionary War, but some- ltl .. AL- a-MHwaA AMJtfr 7m4Aa4'Aj4 f hst lUWg in IUC UlOJiilCI Ul tutu IUliKBti UV it would not be well to introduce them. After some conversation Burr retired and then Governor Lewis said: "I am glad yott did not introduce us; it would not have been pleasant, because I hare not spoken to the reptile lor 25 years." .Aaron Bore's Infamy of Heart. The only friend except his young partner whom Mr. Burr had in New York was Mat thew L. Davis, and him Burr made his literarv executor. The infamy of heart ot which Burr had grown to be capable was made manifest in his dying instructions to Mr. Davis, and it is probably unprece dented that a man who has betrayed so many women, and who possessed the evH dences of the betrayal, 'should have com sented to leave these documents at tho disw posal of his executor. Mr. Weed has told the story to his friends, for he was invited by Mr. Davis to aid him in the preparation of Burr'a literary nf mains. They found in Burr's chest a greati number of letters, almost every one of then) from women whose standing in society waa good, and some of them members of families; of great social prominence. There were let ters from social leaders in New York, in Trenton, Philadelphia, Bichmond, New Haven, Albany and Troy. Many of then women were dead. Some of them had left happy families. A few were still living. Most of the letters, while beginning tha1 series in terms oCendearment and affection, ended them with pitiful charges of betrayal and desertion. It became knotrn that Mr. Davis poai 1 . r 1 5 ''irflii'oitif'-" """"""sBr """""""li'S'"""""'""1""' uwU- ' -ij.rimfi'1
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