THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH.
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PAGES 9 TO 20.
SECOND PART.
THE PITTBITR& DISPATCH. SUNDAY, JULY 17, 1892.
GLADSTONEGAINS
GiTing Him a Majority in the
lText Parliament of 45
or Thereabouts,
ENOUGH FOE THE PURPOSE,
According lo the Grand Old. Man,
Though less Than Expected.
THE LIBERALS K0T DISCOURAGED.
llorlej's Bins Outlook in a Newcastle's
TriaDfular Tight
ALL COURJEST THROWN TO THE "WINDS
CUT CABLE TO TIIE DISPATCH.
Loxdok, July 16. Copyright. Six
hundred and fifty out of 670 members who
constitute the House of Commons hare now
been elected, and the parties this evening
stand as follows: Liberals, 266; National
ists, 65; Parnellites. 9; Conservatives, 266;
Liberal-Unionists, 41 Gladstone has gained
altogether in Great Britain 80 seats, but
against this magnificent achievement must
unfortunately be set 19 Conservative and
six Unionist gains in Great Britain and Ire
land. The net Liberal gain, therefore, is 55.
Of the remaining 20 seats Gladstone can
scarcely win more tnan two, ana bis major
ity in the new Parliament cannot exceed 45.
This result, it must be confessed, is not
equal to the sanguine hopes with which the
Liberals went into the fight, but Mr. Glad
stone is confident that it will suffice for his
purpose.
Not the least satisfactory feature of the
struggle, which practically ends to-day,
is the drastic manner in which the
constituencies have treated the Liberal
Unionist party, led by the Duke of Devon
shire, and that most venomous of Mug
wumps, Joseph Chamberlain. The party
numbered 73 members at the beginning of
the last Parliament, it lost several seats at
the bye-elections, and to-day it can muster
only 44 men, including six who accord
ingly won seats during the present contest.
Gladstone Not Entirely Satisfied.
But this punishment, although to all an
pearance sufficiently severe, does not sat
isfy Mr. Gladstone and his more ardent fol
lowers, who long ago made up their minds
that the Mugwumps would not number
more than 30 in the new Parliament. Mr.
Gladstone displayed his disappointment in
a letter published yesterday addressed to
the Liberal candidate 4br Handsworth
division, Staffordshire, in the course of
which he said: "Of all classes of candi
dates now before the country none is so
hopeless as the dissentient Liberal. I can
not help hoping tbat the Tories, if left
to themselves, would have had good sense
enough to restore harmony between Eng
land and Ireland by settling ,the Irish ques
tion, dui nere are a set oi gentlemen whose
creed seems to be summed U)fcn their hatred
of the Irish cause, and who, in their in
dulgence of tbat unhappy sentiment, have
foresworn, one by one, all their liberal
ideas, and yet continue to maintain the
name of a political creed of which they are
the masked but not dangerous enemies."
But, alter all, the reduction of this polit
ical party from 73 to 44 is a striking piece
of work of which the Liberals bavegood
reason to be proud. Mr. Gladstone is now
resting in tbe Scottish Highlands, but he
will be in London next week in order to
confer with his lieutenants as to the course
to be pursued at the reassembling of Parlia
ment on August 4.
SalUboxy Tt aits to Be Kicked Oat.
It is understood that Lord Salisbury has
made up his mind not to retire gracefully,
but will want to be kicked out He argues
that the numerical strength of the Tory
party still exceeds that of any other single
party in Parliament, and that he is not
bound to count labor members, Parnellites
and anti-Parnellites among Mr. Gladstone's
followers, until they have actually gone
with him into the same Parliamentary
division lobby. This, of course, s
merely a device for postponing the
inevitable, but at the most it will
not delay Mr. Gladstone's return to power
beyond a weelc or two. It will involve
among other small inconveniences, a set
debate upon the Queen's speech, in the
course of which the Tories hope they will
be able to force Mr. Gladstone's hand by
compelling him prematurely to divulge the
details of his home rule MIL They ought
to know the "old parliamentary hand" bet
ter than that. They are loredoomed to
disappointment The Grand Old Man will
beat them in strategy and tactics, and will
carry a vote of censure in the way which
teems best to him notwithstanding the
Parliamentary filibustering which the
Tories are already threatening.
Of the 52 Irish seats which a year ago
Timothy Harrington confidently predicted
would be won by Parnellites, only nine
have been secured by that taction, a result
which speaks highly for the good Bense and
patriotism of the people.
Ilarrincton'e Offer That Was Spurned.
A large Nationalist majority was never
in doubt, but few people believed that the
factiomsts would be so utterly routed.
Upon the eve of the general election Har
rington made what he described as a gener
ous offer, made solely in the interest of
Seace, thr.t there should be no contests In
Nationalist constituencies if 33 seats were
allotted to his party, but it that ofler were
rejected he and his irien'ls "would make it
not in every sense of the word" for the
Nationalists all over Ireland.
In order to avoid contests which would
let in Tories, the Nationalists oflered the
Parnellites 12 seats, but that offer, generous
in the circumstauces, was contemptuously
rejected, with the result that while proving
to the world their own insignificance, the
Parnellites have made a present to the
Tories of five Nationalist seats. The Tories
are as much chagrined as the Parnellites.
They bad counted, in their ignorance of
Ireland, upon the presence in the new Par
liament ot an Irish party almost equally
divided, and they would have been prepared
to pay a high price for the Parnellite sup
port against Gladstone, but that assistance
is now scarcely worth purchasing.
Meanwhilehowever, tbe Parnellites are
gratuitously playing the Tory game by en
deatoring to sow distrust between Nation
alists and Liberals. The Independent, the
chief Parnellite organ, cave Drominence
yesterday to a ridiculous statement pur
porting to emanate from London to the
effect that Gladstone had decided, with the
consent of the Irish members, to shelve
home rule in order to give him an opportu
nity of reforming the electoral system.
A 5tatrmpnt Without Fonnila;Inr.
The statement is an impudent and ma
licious fabrication. Mr. Gladstone will
proceed with his home rule scheme with the
least possible delay. The Irih leaders had
positive assurance to that effect before the
general election commenced, and Gladstone
could notbave gone back upon them had
his majority been double its present size.
But that majority now absolutely depends
upon m Aiiou Yoie, ana mat tact, it there
were nothing else, afiords of itself ample
security; that no attempt will be made to
trifle with Ireland's demands.
The Tory leaders have not yet met to con
sider their course of action," but the utter
ances of their inspired organs in the press
leave no room for doubt that their policy is
tobe a fighting one. The home rule bill
will be contested, clause by clause and
line by line, and every device of parlia
mentary obstrnctirn will be used lo defeat
it Nor can there be anv doubt that when
the bill reaches the House of Lords it will
be thrown out The peers might have hesi
tated to take such daring action had Glad
stone obtained the majority in Great
Britain, but with the T.ihernls in nn actual
minority of British votes, it may be taken
as absolutely certain that no quarter will be
given to them by their hereditary foes.
A Greater Straggle Yet to Come.
In every quarter the general election
now ending is regarded merely as prelim
inary to a greater struggle to come, prob
ably in the summer of next year. Tory
and Libera! newspapers alike are already
exhorting their partisans to take care that
their names are placed on the new register
oi voters which will be made np at the end
of this month, and in many constituencies
successful as well as unsuccessful candidates
are making their personal arrangements on
the assumption that a year of hard work is
before them.
In pursuance of their new fighting policy
the Tories have resolved upon the usual
course of opposing the re-election of mem
bers of the new Cabinet Hundreds ot
years ago the House of Commons, in its
wisdom, decreed tbat any member accept
ing a place of profit under the Crown should
ipso facto vacate his seat and submit himself
to his constituents tor re-elaction or re
jection. The rule has long ceased
to be of any practical value, because the
Crown no longer dares to gain its way with
the House of Commons by bribery and cor
ruption, but remains in force. Usually
new Ministers, by courtesy of their op
ponents, are re-elected witfiout opposition,
and almost invariably so when a general
election has jut taken place, but upon this
occasion tbe re-election of every man who
accepts a position in Gladstone's home rule
Cabinet is to be stoutly opposed.
Newcastle the Seat or War.
Preparations for these ungracious conflicts
are being actively made, and especially in
Newcastle, wher John Morley is to be op
posed bv a labor candidate as well as a
Tory. KeirHardic, a ybuu? labor leader
who has just been made M. P. for West
ham by liberal votes, has ungratefully gone
down to Newcastle to take charge of the
campaign against Morley, much to the de
light of the Tories, who bail the incident
as a timely proof of the instability
of Gladstone's majority. Fortunately, how
ever, there is not another labor member
who would act as Hardie is now acting.
They all owe their seats to Liberals, apart
from labor votes, and everyone of them ex
cept Hardie has sense enough to grasp the
significance ot that fact Hardie, being
young and vain, will probably not realize it
until he has alienated the bulk of his con
stituents and finds himself out in the cold
after the next election.
The probabilities are that even Mr. Glad
stone will not be spared the ordeal ot an
other election, for it is . ithoritatively an
nounced to-day that, emboldened by their
success in reducing the Grand Old Man's
majority in Midlothian, "the Conservatives
and Liberal Unionists have commenced an
energetic canvass of the constituency, with
a view, if thought advisable, of contesting
the seat, in event of Mr. Gladstone accept
ing office as Prime Minister."
An Attack Uound to Fa I'.
The proposed attack will certainly Jail,
but the fact that such action should be seri
ouslr considered is one of the many signs
of the exasperation of the Tories at being
defeated, and Colonel Kenyon Slaney,
an aristocratic M. P., yesterday
publicly denounced Mr. Gladstone as
one of whom nothing -was more
clear than that those who knew
him best trusted him least," and Tory
speeches and Tory- newspapers almost
teem with similar abuse; 'showing that
orators and writers have been severe
ly hit For many years, however,
Mr. Gladstone has been the best
abused man in the United Kingdom, and
has learned to pursue his way heedless of
the snapping and snarling of insignificant
enemies. He loves to fight well enough
when tbe foes are worthy of his steel, and
he will have plenty of it in the coming Par
liament An idea has taken hold of the Tory mind
that the Grand Old Man may be worried
into retiring from public life, and the task
will be undertaken by Balfour, Goschen
and Chamberlain, assisted, in all prob
ability,' by Lord Bandolph Churchill, who is
about to reappear on the Parliamentary
stage in the character of the friend of tbe
distressed party. The result of the general
election has converted the powerful daily
Chronicle, which henceforth will give "an
independent support" to Gladstone's policy.
Expressions of tbe Kadlcal Feeling.
It has transpired that Prince Christian of
Schleswig-Holstein, one of the numerous
German hangers-on of the royal family, and
who is kept from the poorhouse by the
generosity of the British taxpayer
was, in some manner yet " to
be explained, placed on the
electoral register for" East Berkshire, aud
recoraea nis vote tor the Tory candidate.
Something more is likely to be beard of
this matter in the new Parliament
Meanwhile, the radical feeling about it is
indicated by the London btar, which re
marks to-day: "Boyalties, supported by
the House of Commons, should not be
allowed to vote at all. They will
only vote for men who will keep
Tip their pensions. We disfranchise
a man who has received a little outdoor re
lief from the people, or a little medical aid,
but a royal pauper who draws s thousand a
year is allowed to vote."
In accordance with royal proclamation
the peers of Scotland met" Thursday in the
ancient Palace of Holyrood, near Edin
burgh, for the purpose ot choosing 16 of
their nnmber to sit and vote in the new
Parliament as representative peers of Scot
land. The Vtnal Protest Lodged.
What is described as the usual protest
was lodged against the Earl of Kellie voting
as the Earl ot Mar, but the Duke of Mont
rose, who presided, relused to accept it,
although it was indorsed bv the Duke of
Sutherland,. the Earls of Strathmore, Stair
and Gallaway, and Lord SempilL
The Earl of Mar and Kellie was trebly
fortunate, Thursday, because not only did
the peers refuse to abet the Earl of Mar's
renewed at temp to rob him of half of his
title, but they elected hira a representa
tive peer at the very moment that
he was being married in London
to a sister of the Earl of Shaftesbury. The
squabble about this title, which is to be re
newed in the House of Lords next month,
has called public attention to the anomal
ous position of numerous Scotch peers who
don't also hold English titles, giving them
the right to sit In the House ot Lords.
Scottish representative peers have to
undergo re-election at the beginning of
every Parliament, and no Scottish peer can
sit in the House otCommons,but Irish repre
sentative peers are elected ior life.and those
not so elected may sit in the House of Com
mons if they can find constituencies to elect
them. The law so rarely gives the advan
tage to Ireland that this instance is worth
noting. 4
Effect or the Parisian Cholera Scare.
IBY CABLE TO THE DISrATCH.1
London, July ia General Comstock,
heedless of the cholera scare, bas gone to
Paris. A good many Americans, however,
have canceled their Parisian engagements
and have gone to Eastbourne and other En
glish watering places instead.
A Russian l'xprillilon to the ramir.
Sx. Petersburg, Jul f 16. An expedi
tion Under the Command of rnntnin SaHnfT
bas started ior tne Pamir, the country from
which Captain Yodnghusband, an English
agent, was expelled some months ago by
Russians, and for which expulsion Russia
subsequently apologized to England.
POLITICS AND BUSINESS
With a Little Religion or Several Kinds
Mixed Cp In East Africa 4 Mm for
English Politicians and Philanthropists
to Clear Up.
CBT CABLS TO THE DISPATCH. 1
London, July 16. Captain Lugard's
tardy dispatches explaining his share in the
fighting in Uganda, have come to hand, and
they don't afford pleasant reading to Chris
tian lovers of peace. Thestory told is an
unedifying one of deceit and blood
shed between Roman Catholics, Protestants
and heathens, and the last-named appears to
have come out ot it with the least discredit
Lugard, of course, places the blame npon
the Catholics, but it is certainly a case of
six of one and half a dozen of tbe other.
The Imperial British South African Com
pany, which is composed of shoddy philan
thropists and sharp capitalists, wants ths
British Government to come to the rescue
of Captain Lugard on the old ground
that it the company's forces be with
drawn Uganda will relapse into barbar
ism, but the native Protestants and
Catholics appear to be romarkably
muscular Christians, well able to take care
ol themselves against the heathens, and the
people of Uganda generally, it they conld
be polled on the question, would as likely
as not vote in favor of barbarism rather
than civilization and Christianity, plus
machine guns and breech-loading rifles.
Tbe fact is that the East Africa Company,
having by its charter been given vast tracts
of country in Africa, is anxious to de
velop its possessions at the ex
pense of somebody else preferably the
British Government Had the Tories re
mained in power the company might
have succeeded, for it has already secured
from the British Treasury a subsidy for the
survey of a railway from the coast to the
interior, but there will soon be a Liberal
Prime Minister in Downing street who is
not likely to be hoodwinked like his prede
cessor.
The Liberal position is perfectly straight
forward. Either the East Africa Company
must do its work without Government as
sistance, or it mnst admit its incompetence
and hand over its territory to tbe Imperial
Government
ME. ASIOS ABLE 10 SIDE OUZ
Carriage Exercise Taken by the Rich Man
'Who TVm Reported Dead.
BY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, July 16. Mr. William Wal
dorf Astor was able to take carriage exer
cise to-day. It has transpired that the real
cause of the trouble which set the painful
rumors into circulation was a slight attack
of pleurisy which followed upon a severe
cold.
The Astor family believe they have been
victims of a cruel conspiracy, and their
legal advisers are in correspondence with
the postoffice and the cable companies, with
a view to discover the man who, it is be
lieved, sent a forged cablegram announcing
the death to New York. Mr. Astor has
bought the famous Henrietta mansion, in
Carlton Hoose Terrace, by private treaty.
The price paid has not been allowed to
transpire.
THE COLUMBUS ENCYCLICAL.
Leo XIII. Enjoins the Bishops of Italy,
Spain and America to Celebrate.
Rome, July 16. The promised papal en
cyclical, on the Columbns Celebration, was
issued to-day. In it the Pope enjoins tbe
bishops in Italy, Spain and America to cel
ebrate the anniversary of the discovery of
America by special services. In conversa
tion with a number of cardinals to-day the
Pope expressed himself as satisfied that he
had every prospect of living to celebrate
his jubilee.
His Holiness requests that the French
Government intervene by strong represen
tations at St. Petersburg to persuade Rus
sia to assume a more friendly attitude
toward Catholics in that country, haR re
sulted in no success, tbe Russian Holy
Synod opposing any change in the treat
ment of Catholics.
FIGHTING THE CHOLERA.
Russia and Spain Taking Extraordinary
Precaution Against the Plague.
St. Petersburg, July 16. The Medical
Department is distributing disinfectants at
cost price. The Czar presided to-day at a
council which disenssed the question of ap
pointing an official with dictatorial powers
to combat tbe epidemic in the Volga prov
inces. A telegram from Madrid says a commis
sion has gone to Irun, on the frontier, to
install a watch to prevent the introduc
tion of cholera into Spain from France and
to make arrangements for the disinfection
of passengers' baggage. Precautions to
prevent tbe disease entering Spain have
been taken along the whole frontier.
GEEVY'S BAD SON-IN-LAW.
Ho Is Convicted for Becoming AXayor of a
Commune j Illegal Means.
Paris, July 16. M. Daniel Wilson, son-in-law
ot the late M. Grevy, whose impli
cation in the traffic in decorations when M.
Grevy was President caused such a scandal
as to lead to the forced resignation of Presi
dent Grevy, was a short time since elected
Mayor of Loches, the commune in which
his estates are situated.
Charges were made that he had used Il
legal means to secure his election, and he
was placed on trial. To-day he was found
guilty, and fined 1,000 francs for corrupt
practices.
Ninety-Six Bodies From the Wreck,
Paeis, July 16. Two more bodies of vic
tims who lost their lives in the disaster at
St Gervais early Tuesday, have been recov
ered at Salainchs, whither they were carried
by the flood. This makes a total of 96
bodies that have been recovered thus far.
Arranging for the Arbitration.
PABI8, July 16. M. Eibot, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, to-day had a conference
with the American Minister and Mr.
Pbipps, the British Charge d'Affaires, on
the arrangements for the Bering Sea arbi
tration. City of Chicago Inquiry.
BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH
London, July 16.-The Bord of Trade
inquiry into the loss of the City of Chicago
will open in St' George's Hall, Liverpool,
on Monday, and will probably last two
days.
Investigation of Immigration.
Washington, July 16. In the Senate
to-day,-Mr. Jones, of Nevada, from the
Committee on Contingent Expenses, re
ported back a resolution, which
was aareed to, instructing the
Committee on Immigration to
inquire into the working of the laws on the
subject ot immigration from foreign coun
tries, the importation of contract labor, and
tbe laws and prevailing methods of naturali
zation since the ysar 1890. s
Killed by a Woman In Self-Defense.
Kingswood, July 16. Special
Weston is credited with another homicide.
One Bedbreg attacked a well-known and re
spected lady in her room at the Bailty
House. She did all in her power to defend
herself, and finally succeeded in crushing
her assailant's tkull, causing instant death.
WOES OF THE KICH.
How a Man Feels When He Has Sev
eral Millions at His Beck.
THE SAD STORY OP CYRUS FIELD.
Elizabeth Thompson Thinks Her Gifti Dave
Pone Only Harm.
YANDERBILT3 PLEASURE AND PAIN
WBITTXX FOB THE DISPATCH. 1
How happy are millionaires? Is "big
money" worth the labor and anxiety which
it costs? Is the owner of $50,000,000 really
worth more than the owner of "51,000,000?
I have interviewed several well-known
millionaires asking answers to the above
questions Cornelius Vanderbi't, Russell
Sage, Cyrus Field, Chauncey 'Depew, Le
land Stanford, Elizabeth Thompson and
others and it seems as if their views might
be of general interest, especially in the
light of the sad business in Homestead, Pa.
It was a week or two ago that I called on
Mr. Depew at the Arlington, where he
pansed while deciding whether to be Mr.
Harrison's Secretary of State or not At
the end of the business which indnced my
call I asked, "Does it pay to be very rich?"
"I don't know," said Mr. Depew; -"I
have never been it; but! should imagine it
did or folks wouldn't want to be it would
they?" Mr. Depew is worth only a paltry
million or two, and he is not "very rich,"
according to metropolitan standards.
A Hundred Millions Worse Than One.
"However," he continued,after a minute,
"they may think it is going to pay, and
afterward find themselves mistaken; man
never is but always to be blest; perhaps
that's what you mean."
"Is a fortune of 5100,000,000 any greater
than a fortune of $1,000,000?" I asked.
"Yes," he said, "it requires more care
and tires a man more to keep it, but it will
not bny any more of the things aman wants.
Whether it brings any greater enjoyment
well, probably not Riches do not generally
confer happiness or necessarily even com
fort It depends on what a roan does with
his money. I know a manwho has an in
come of just about 100,000 a year and gets
aheap of satisfaction out of it He spends
it all, on others, of course, most of it
Enlightened selfishness. He gets his
pleasure from making others happy. But it
must require a great deal of time and talent.
To know how to give away money wisely a
man needs to be inspired." It is about the
most difficult trade there is that of philan
thropist 'A. great many more people
would work at it if they were certain that
their money wonld do good."
Cyrns W. Field's Vanished Treasure.
Poor Cyrus W. Field died Tuesday his
immense fortune squandered by his son
and the fortunes ot several of his relatives
engulfed also, immediately after tbe death
of the two who were dearest lo him in life.
Five years ago he was worth f8,000,000.
I asked him about that time several of the
questions that stand at the head of this
paper.
"The value of money can easily be exag-
geratea," said Mr. Field. "It is really
worth only what it will bring in the things
we want; and for that purpose $10 a day is
worth just about as much as $1,000 a day.
In addition to this, there is only the grati
fied pride which arjses from having made
what men generally call a great success.
"So doubt Mr. Gould his about tbe.same
sort oi satisfaction Jbat his neighbor Gen
eral Grant had the satisfaction of having'
beaten the satisfaction that the boy has
who swims the farthest, or the girl who
stands at the head of her class. That's all
there is to it"
Mr. Field waB cheerful then, and even
jovial; he lounged upon the leathern sofa
and chatted and laughed, and perhaps he
thought less ot money than of the plaudits
of the world showered on him in 1858 when
the first Atlantic cable hiccupped its feeble
but significant benediction.
Kindness That Was Not Kindness.
A friend of mine stood the other day at
Mr. Field's bedside, and he speaks ot his
state being pitiful indeed.
"MV Hlft is a. wreck!" said the Rinfc mnn
bitterly. "My fortune is gone, my home
dishonored! Oh, I was so unkind to Ed
ward when I thought I was being kind! If
I had only had firmness enough to compel
my boys to earn their own living, then they
would have known the meaning of money 1 '
And the broken-spirited man repeated
over and over again his desire to die His
visitor reminded him of many things re
maining to live for, of the greet honors paid
him by all the countries tor his work for
civilization which moored the continents
together, of the fame which he has won and
would never lose. All In vain; he was sure
he nad'nothing to live for; and the decora
tions given him by sovereigns and now
hanging on the wall were meaningless
baubles to him.
I called and asked Bussell Sage about
this matter. It is no more difficult to get
at him to-day than it was before the dyna
mite crank sought to effect a loan without
security. He is worth a good deal of
money, and they say he has recovered the
$10,000,000 he lost in tbat scramble fn the
street one morning ten years ago. Proba
bly "he could foot up $50,000,000 or $60,000,-
00U it isn't wortn wnue to be too exact
Itusti-ll Sage Still Works Hard.
It was a very warm day when I called,
and he bad his coat off and wiped the high
receding tront of his business occiput with
a red silk handkerchief as he handled the
marked envelopes of pnts and calls on a
little table before him ana replied, "Yes,"
"No," to the clerk who came in every
minute or so and asked him a question in
figures and symbols which were all Greek
to me,
"You seem to work hard to keep ahead
of the boys, Mr. Sage." I said; "there is a
prevalent idea tbat millionaires don't have
to work at all."
He uttered a significant but inarticulate
sound of disapproval from the upper part of
his throat a kind of chuckle strangled in
its birth and added: "They have to work,
I guess, it they keep anything. Everybody
clutches to get It!"
"Xou have enougti money, haven't you?
I asked; "as much as you can use?"
"Yes, as much as I can use," he answered
turning toward me; "yes, I have as inuoh as
I can use. I suppose.
"Then why don't yon stop work?" I
boldly continued; "vou 'haven't a child in
the world; you are 75 years old; you are
worth, they say, $75,000,000, $1,000,000 for
every "
Works Because He Likes To,
He interrupted me once more with the
same old sound ot dissent, and repeated
Ironically, "Ihey sayl" After a minute be
added: "You ask me why I don't stop work.
I'll do it if you will answer me one ques
tion: What else can x go at that will do as
much good and give me as much satisfac
tion? Well, you can't answer it' Nobody
can. I have thought it over. This is my
trade. Another thing: Every man likes to
excel. He likes to prove to be worth as
much as folks say he is worth. Hardly any
man sold out suddenly would measure up
equal to his reputation. Men take tbe same
pleasure in accumulating that boys do in
running races and climbing trees. I
shouldn't be happy if I left the street And
there are a thousand men depending on me
for work what would they do?"
Asl took my leave the old gentleman
turned and said "no" to an offer to purchase
a "privilege." It then occurred to me that
his face had not taken 0Q wrinkle in 10
years, and tbat his clothes had improved
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the latter fact perhaps indicating a weaken
ing of his financial ability. Nearly 50
years ago, when be was not worth $5,000,
Bussell Sage, M. C, advocated the passage
through Congress of the bill to purchase
Mt Vernon. Now he is worth scores of
millions and he does not spend a hundredth
part of the interest on it; he never saw his
money and never had it, and, excepting a
bare pittance, it is wholly in the bands and
coffers of others, used by them for their own
benefit! But he thinks that fortune is his.
A Woman Tries to Give Money Away.
It is eight years, perhaps, since I last
saw Elizabeth Thompson.'though before
that time I had had the privilege of her
pleasant acquaintance. She is a million
aire, and bas an income of $50,000 every
year. She was the daughter of a poor
farmer of Vermont, and at 9 years old she
hired out as a servant at 25 cents a week.
She grew up in that humble place very
handsome and very studious, attractive and
intellectual, and at 20 she married the
millionaire .Thompson, who died 25 years
later and left her his fortune.
The last time I called on her, she had
"just gone up stairs," the maid said, but
would be down in a minute. I waited in
the parlor. When at last she appeared it
was obvious that she was distressed about
something, and I rose and tried to take my
leave. She stopped me and said: "Not
no! I am sorry I cannot conceal that I am
in trouble. The plain fact is that I have
been crying. You see that pile of letters
on the lounge. I have just opened them.
Most of them are begging letters, asking
gifts, askiug 'loans,' and they have set me
to thinking. O! I believe my money has
never done anybody any goodl
The Evil of One Sort of Giving.
"For twenty years I have -sown it like
chaff given away $40,000 every year, and
it seems to have produced only misery. It
sent to a drunkard's grave a'member of my
own family. It has alienated my best
friends. It appears to have helped nobody
for more than an hour. I hardly now hear
a word from those I have helped except
when tbey tell me it is all gone aud tbey
want some morel I don't know which way
to turn. I am at bay. I have money and
am afraid to bestow it in answer to any of
these letters.
I tried to plead for her philanthropies.
"You must have brought immense relief to
many poor people," I said. "The $150,000
you have spent to provide heads of families
with work"
"Doesn't seem to have done much good,"
she interrupted. "It is skill and industry
and steadfast qualities that win permanent
situations help from within rather than
from without I have found that out from
these letters, partly."
"Your gift of $500 to every settler in
Saline county, Kansas "
"Better," she said. "But you would be
amused and saddened by the strange letters
I get from there."
"The Vassar College telescope, the song
service ior the poor, the great science fund,
the Carpenter's'5" 'Emancipation Signing,'
hanging on the walls ot the Senate Chamber
in Washington, all speak for the wisdom of
your benefactions," I insisted; "and no
woman in tbe world but you, not even the
President's wife, has the freedom of the
noor of Congress. Is not that something?"
The Problem of Philanthropy.
"Yes, yes," she answered; "but all falls so
short of what I meant It I only knew how
to give away $100,000 this year, and have
every dollar do good I So much of my
money has disabled and crippled honest
men, made them lazy and spiritless and de
pendent multiplied beggars instead of di
minishing them I arraign myselt at the
bar oi conscience for my bad stewardship."
Mrs. Thompson has done as well as the
most of them. She is a constant student
ot economics, mainly progressive, reform
atory, an agnostic, t believe, brilliant in
conversation, gifted in apt quotation, and if
she bad been "in the swim" 50 years ago
her square intellectual face would have
been seen with those of Emerson, Margaret
Fuller, Charles A Dana and the transcen
dentalists at Brook Farm.
Here Are Two More Opinions.
I talked with Peter Cooper during his
very last days on the relation of a million
aire to the public
"I have been luckier than most of 'em,"
he chuckled, "for I have been the executor
of my own will. I have seen the Institute
finished aud at work for good; but there are
so many other things I want to do for the
relief of wage-earners " and he gave to
me a great bundle of his printed schemes
for bettering the condition of the poor.
Another "magnate" whose name I do not
feel at liberty to mention, once said to me:
"The men who do tbe most good in this
world are not the professional philanthro
pists, but the great capitalists who keep
their money busy in processes of reproduc
tion. The man who equips and keeps going
a great factory does more good than he who
builds an alms-house; and he who launches
a steamship or establishes a railroad confers
more benefit on 'the world than he who
endows an asylum that will keep thousands
from starving. He who teaches men to help
themselves he is the real benefactor ot his
kind."
W. A Cboffux.
EVIDENCK OF A FBIOHTFUL CRIME.
The Corpse or n Berry Picker Found In the
Woods With Two Bullet U onnda.
Yokk, PA., July 16. Mrs. Michael
Clemens, aged 32 years, was found dead in
the woods near Pleasnreville, about four
miles from this city yesterday evening.
When found she was on her hands and
knees, and her dress over her breast was on
fire. There were two bullet holes in'her
neek and cuts on her head.
She had been out in tbe woods gathering
huckleberries, and had been gone some time
when search was made ior her. Near the
body a man's hat and pair of suspenders
were found.
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THE HITTITE CIPHER.
A Tonng German Has Discovered the
ley to the Nation's History.
IT BI7ALED EGYPT AND ASSYRIA.
for a Thousand Tears Its Soldiers Held Its
Neighbors at Bav.
RECORDS CARTED IN STON'E BLOCKS
rSFECIAt. TELEGKASI TO TIIE DISFATCH1
Balxbiokb, July 16. News has just
reached the Johns Hopkins University
through private sources that the hitherto
unfound key to the Hittite inscriptions has
been discovered by a clever young scholar
in Germany, whose name is desired to be
withheld for the present Similar achieve
ments of not less importance have been
made before this by persons no mo-e con
spicuousas for example the unfolding of
the Lecret of the Assyrian hieroglyphs by a
schoolmaster at Hamburg named Grote
fend, who accomplished the task on a wager
which had reference to his skill in working
out ciphers.
This if the information quoted is cor
rectis the third great riddle of this sort
that has been solved during tbe present
century. The successes obtained in de
ciphering the Egyptian inscriptions and
the cuneiforms of Babylon have already
thrown a bright light upon a third mighty
empire of the past, which now bds fair to
leap into historical view from out of the
darkness in which its memory has been
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The Bittltes Ware Once Great.
Bespecting the empire of the Hlttites,
about whom so much is said in the Bible,
practically nothing was known until within
a few years. The Egyptian and Assyrian
inscriptions, however, when they came to
be read, were found to be filled with refer
ences to them and accounts of their doings,
together with many portraits of them, both
painted and sculptured. From these data
it has been learned that they were a great
military power, a nation of warriors, whose
country extended lrom the Euphrates river
to the -gean sea. So strong were they that
the Pharaoh who ruled Egypt at the time
of the Exodus was obliged to treat with
them on equal terms and to respect them as
an equal.
They were of light complexion and shaved
their heads partly, wearing pigtails and
having long, thin mustaches like the
Chinese. Their eyes were slightly slanted
and their facial angle was oblique. They
wore queer peaked .hats, fingerless gloves
and boots with exaggerated points that
cuiled upward toward tbe knees. Curiously
enough, precisely such boots and gloves are
worn to this day by the people in parts of
the region which they Inhabited.
Abraham Bought a Lot of Them.
The first purchase of land mentioned in
history was made by Abraham, who, ac
cording to tbe Bible, bought a bit of ground
for a cemetery at Hebron from the "sons of
Heth" i.,e., tbe Hittites. It is interesting
to know 'that at so remote a period silver
was employed as currency the cash equiva
lent given being 400 shekels of that metal
and that it was weighed out in a balance.
A notion of the geographical extent ot the
country occupied By this nation, which was
for a long time ahead of its Assyrian and
Egyptian neighbors in the arts ot war
and peace, is obtained from the. fact that in
the Assyrian inscriptions alone mention is
made of not less tban 300 Hittite geographi
cal names.
Yet this great empire of the past has been
historically ignored until lately, and it is
only since 1870 that scholars have attempted
to 'decipher the strange hieroglyphs left
ueiuau as us uuiy auryiviiiK uiciuunais. .in
these investigations Americans have been
conspicuous, the actual beginning having
been made by J. Augustus Johnson, ot the
United States Consular service, and the
Bey. S. Jessup, a missionary.
The Mohammedan Blocked Invefttlfiition.
These two gentLjmen, in 1870, came
across some Yery extraordinary Hittite in
scriptions at Hamab, in Syria, which at
once aroused the attention ot archtcoiogists
everywhere. Some ot tbem were carved on
stones tbat were built Into the walls of
dwelling houses. Bepeated efforts nere
made to secure them, or to get copies iu the
shape of "squeezes," but the superstitious
Mohammedans, regarding them a sacred,
would not permit this. Scholar irhn made
the attempts were mobbed by angry
crowds and their lives were even threatened.
Finally, with the assistance of a Turkish
official ot unusual intelligence and honesty,
the stones uere obtained by purchase anil
carried away, one of them being to largo
that fifty men and four oxen were required
to drag it a mile in a day. Two sets of
"squeezes" were mai!e lrom the inscrip
tions, one of which, is at present deposited
in the British Museum. Many attempts
have been made to decipher them. VtoI'.
Syce, oi Oxiord, the Kev. Dr. William
Wright, and Major Claude Conder, of the
Boyal Engineers, have all claimed more or
less success, but their claims are not recog
nized m established.
A War That I-l.trd COO Yean.
According to Dr. Wright, to whom the
writer is chiefly indebted ior the following
information, the early Egyptian records,
inscribed on. their monuments and on papy
rus scrolls, refer to tbe Hittites, as heredi
tary foes on the northeast frontier. For
century after century wars with them were
carried on with varying success. In the
year 1650 B. C., Thothmei L ascended the
the other one In November.
.throne of the Pharaohs and began a strug
gle with the Hittites, which was maintained
for nearly 500 years, with occasional Inter
vals of peace, by his successors.
When Thothmes III. became King he
found things in rather bad shape. His pre
decessor was a Queen, and during her reign
the neighboring peoples, of which the
Hittites were most important, had declared
themselves independent of Egypt, refusing
to pay tribute. Thothmes ILL was a great
warrior. He has been called the Alexander
the Great of Egyptian history. Adopting
an aggressive policy, he began a long series
of campaigns, of which 13 are sketched on the
monuments of that period, describing the
lines, of march, the rivers crossed, the cities
stormed, the booty taken, the tributes im
posed of silver, gold, weapons, horses, wine,
(pice and so forth.
Two Mighty Nations In Mortal Combat.
At length he led an army against the
strong city of Megiddo, on the Kishon,
where, according to the historical account,
the Hittite king of Kadesh had gathered to
gether "the kings and their peoples from
the waters of Egypt to the river-land of
Mesopotamia, and they obeyed him as their
chief." Then there was a great battle. Tbe
confederates were arrayed near Megiddo,
ant" against them the Pharaoh drew out the
might of Egypt Fighting was begun on
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Pha
raoh's coronation. He beat the confeder
ates at every point, and they fled, leaving
their chariots behind and a vast amount of
plunder, upon which the victorious army
fell, permitting the enemy to escape into
the city, which they defended with snch de
termination tbat, after a long siege, they
were permitted to surrender with honorable
conditions.
The inscriptions record in detail the
booty captured, which included a chariot
plated with gold belonging to the Hittite
icing and 924 other chariots; tbey also men
tion the tribute imposed and'give a list
of 110 towns and nations represented by the
confederacy. Nevertheless, during after
years the Pharaoh was obliged to renew the
-fight against the Hittites aiain and again.
On the death of Thothmes IIL, in the year
1566, B. C., this Hittite power, which had
been checked during his reign, became
formidable again, and 50 years later a formal
treaty of peace was concluded between
Barneses I. aud Saplel, the Hittite king.
The Oldest Heroic Poem Known.
In the year 1356 B. C, Sati L came to the
throne. He was the father of the Pharaoh
of the Oppression, and he renewed the war
against the Hittites, His son, Barneses IX
known as Barneses the Great, tbe
"Sesostris" of tire Greeks carried on the
fight and led a mighty army against the
Hittite city of Kadesh, on the Orontes.
He took with him on the campaign his poet
laureate, named Pentaur, who celebrated
the achievement in an heroic poem which
has come down in several editions, being
found inscribed on an extant papyrus roll
and also in conjunction with splendid battle
scenes on the walls of temples at Abydos,
Luxsors and elsewhere. This work in
verse is the oldest heroic poem known, hav
ing been written 3,200 years ago.
Thus far the Hittites have only been con
sidered from the Egyptian point of view.
Tbe inscriptions left behind by the
Assyrians show that they also were con
tinually at war with this martial people.
But the empire which had tor so long a
time successfully fought against such power
ful neighbors, maintaining itself upon an
equality with them, was at last on the verge
ot final dissolution. In 1721 B. C. the
Assyrian king, Sargon, came to tbe throne,
and four years later the long conflict was
brought to an end by the overthrow of the
Hittites at their Eastern capital, Carchem
ish. Thus fell the mighty nation which had
supported existence for a period of longer
duration than the empires of Babylon or
Assyria, Greece or Borne.
The Bistorlc Value ot the Key.
What has been ascertained from these
outside sources of the history of this re
markable people is sufficient to make the
world eager to learn their account ot them
selves, doubtless very fully given by the
sculptured and painted inscriptions which
they have left behind them in great num
bers. Such memorials of the Hittites are
scattered all over Asia Minor. Many.
either tbe originals or reproductions, are
now in tbe possession of museums and
other scientific institutions. It has only
rmained to discover the key for decipher
ing them, and it is to be hoped that the
news of the discovery of this ' long-sought
secret will prove to be correct
There is no doubt tbat much of the art
which until recently was attributed to the
Assyrians is actually of Hittite origin. Mr.
Gladstone not very long ago pointed out tbe
fact, until then unknown, tbat there is to
be found in Homer a reference to the
Hittites. They are mentioned all through
tbe Old Testament King David and King
Solomon are both spoken of as having taken
Hittite wives in the eleventh chapter of the
first book of Kiugs, and it is recorded pa
the same authority that Solomon imported
horses from Egypt and sold fhem to the
Hittites and the Assyrians. It is rather
curious to observe that the patterns ot the
priests' dresses on the Hittite monuments
are in fashion to this day in Cappadocia.
-NO HOBS UNION MEN.
Bushes & Patterson, of Philadelphia, De
clare Aealnit the Amalgamated.
Philadelphia, July ia Hughes &
Patterson have posted notices in their roll
ing mills here, stating that they will take
back any of their striking employes as indi
viduals, but not as members of the Amalga
mated Association.
The firm say they are procuring men in
other cities to run their mills. Several
hundred men employed by the firm have
been out since July 1. .
July Clearanoe Sale
Of fancy silk parasols, silk and gloria um-
Dreuas ana eiuiaren s parasols at prices to
close them quickly, at H. J. Lynch's, 43S-U0
joarsei street.
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France Means Business, While
King Behanzin is Proud
and Defiant.
HAED FIGHTING TO COME.
A Fine Battle Ship Made for the
French in Twenty-three Daya
THE AMAZONS IN READINESS.
How the Army of Women Warriors BehaTB
in Time of Conflict
ACTUAL SACRIFICE OP HUMAN BEIXGS.
rWHTTTEN TOR THE nUPATCn. t
Among all civilized nations the whits
flag is the emblem of truce or of defeat In
Dahomey, the most warlike of all African1
States, it is the national emblem, sym-.
bolical of the power of the king, a standard'
to be upheld or the glory of the land will'
fade. The white flag of Dahomey is again
assailed by a European power. France is
ready at last to push forward with energTi
her war against tbe proud and reckless'
young King, Behanzin, whose violation of,
pledges and invasion of French territory
are no longer to be tolerated.
The French Chamber voted $600,000 to
carry on the war. On June 17 France de-,
clared the blockade of the coast to prevent '
the importation of firearms. Reinforcements I
from Senegal have arrived at Kotonu, and
4,000 French troops have occupied Whydah, i
Dahomey's only port. France would have
taken the offensive earlier if she had been
prepared. The regular rainy season of the
past four months, however, would have
rendered aggression difficult; and the French
have improved the interval to complete'
their preparations.
A Gunboat Made In S3 Bays.
A Scottish ship building firm beat the
record in the celerity with which it turnedt
ont a large gnnboat for France's use on coast
lagoons and the Wheme river. This iron
vessel, the Opal, was completed in1
23 days after work had begun. No;
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will carry 400 soldiers, and its armament
consists of three revolving cannon mounted
on the bridge and four rapid-firing guns on
the spar deck. If France decides to capture
tbe capital, Abomey, this light draught
gunboat can approach within a few miles of
the big town.
This war has been brought about by vio
lation of pledges on the part of Behanzin.
At the close of the war of 1839, France
made a treaty with tbe King by which, in
consideration of nn annual pension of 20,000
francs, he recozu.zed France's rights along
the coast, and agreed to stop his raids into
the French protectorate of Porto Novo,
long the favorite hunting ground of Daho
mey an rulers for slaves and victims to sac
rifice in their fetich rites. Late last fall
the King violated his agreement by sending
expeditions into Porto Novo, where they
surprised several unsuspecting towns and
dragged hundreds of people to Abomey.
Thinks He Can Beat the French.
When the Lieutenant Governor of the
French colony protested, the King sent an
insolent letter declaring that he recognized
no treaty, that he had a right in Porto Novo
because his fathers for ages had been the
suzerains of that country, and that heshould
continue his forays if he chose, because all
the region occupied by the French belonged
to him; and yet, a he knew very well, his
grandfather. King Gelele, 14 years ago gave
up to France all rights to the port ot Koto
nu, and he himself had recognized France. y
claims in Porto Nova The young man has
since sent word to the French that if they
touch one of bis toilns in the interior he
will at once destroy Porto Novo and all the
French posts. He is carried away with an
idea of his power and the prowess oi his
Amazons, and nndoubtedly believes he can
drive the French into the sea.
It has been characteristic of all rulers of
Dahomey to entertain unduly exalted opin
ions of their importance. When King
Gelele, for instance, heard that Germany
had defeated France, he remarked: "Why
did not my brother, the Emperor of France,
ask me ibr aid? I could have sent him
soldiers and then I am sure he would have
won." Behanzin is the great grandson of
Gese, the most powerful ruler Dahomey
ever had, who reigned between 1818 and
1838.
Behanzin Is a Tain Ttatrr.
The present ruler is a most extraordinary
mixture of civilization and barbarity. The
dominant note in his character is unlimited
vanity. While a boy he spent some time
in Paris, where he learned to read French
1o this day he receives his copy of the
Qfflciel, which is brought from the coast to
his capital by a special messenger. His
vanity was greatly tickled when he heard
that a session o? the French Parliament,
last winter, was devoted to a discussion of
his august person and kingdom, and he dis
played his gratification by dancing around
the copy of the Offlciel which contained the
news.
In ordinary times the army ot Dahomey
is composed of 2,000 Amazons and 4,000 to
5,000 warriors. This is tbe well drilled,
standing army, whicb, in peace, is kept at
or near the capital, ready to march any
where at a moment's notice. When an im
portant war is on hand the King calls out
the reserve, which increases the strength of
his army to 12,000 or 15,000. The mest
nnique features of Dahomey are its
large force of women-warriors and
its terrible system of religions sacrifices in
which hundreds of human victims are
butchered at the capital every year.
The Only Place Where Women Tight.
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