TUB SCH ANTON... TBIBUNE WEDNESDAY, MORNING, r MABCH lly
SOEE POLITICAL HISTORY
It Is Recalled by .a Contest in Chester
County.
1 GREELEY LIBERAL MOVEMENT
Put Vlsjsd ia It by Ex-Coogrsssmag
Sartlngtoa aad. Also by Colonel
A, K. MoClars-Ths Cas f
Gaining A. Grow.
"Pna," In ThlUdelphla Bulletin.
Ex-Congressman Smedlpy Darllnfr
ton. who has been elated to the St.
Louis convention as a delegate from the
Chester, county district, mounts himself
on a Quay platform and preaches with
heart and soul and might- and main
agajnat any man who Is not faithful
to the "regular" organization. The
Wast Chester veteran has been doing
tins so often these many years that it
may be dlfllcult for those who know
him only aa a partisan with implicit
faith In the machine, to understand
thut he was once something of a mug
wump himself. Tet he was one of the
bund of independents In Pennsylvania
who couldn't stomach the second nom
ination of Grant for the presidency and
who wwit clear out of the party under
the leadership of A. K. McClure when
the Greely standard was erected In that
strange, ploturesque campaign of 172.
That experience seems to have lasted
hlm-for the rest of his life. For the
past twenty years or at least since he
began war on Jamea B. Kverhart and
drove him out of public life, he has
apent the greater part of his time In
public affah-a wrestling with, and gen
erally throwing down, the Independents
and bolters In his political household.
Darlington, however, la only a fair
sample of the men who bolted from the
Republican party In that year to satis
fy grudges or, aa a chance for disap
pointed ambitions or, as was often the
ease, to further an honest, sentimental
lunging for pure politics, and who,
when they met failure, returned to their
old allegiance) with even a fiercer par
tisanship than the faithful. Galusha
A. Orow was the most conspicuous of
them in Pennsylvania. He came back
humbly In the hurd money campaign
nf 1X75 and he has been a strenuous
party man ever since. Front him down
to John W. Frazler. who for a good
many years has been a valiant trench
erman for the local lmichines, they
nearly all put on the straight Jtepubll
ran livery and have worn it as faithful
ly, If not also as ostentatiously, aa lar
lliigton.
TWO EXCEPTIONS?.
The two chief exceptions were Curtln
and McClure. Curtln became a Dem
ocrat, but he was never quite able to
xet Into close touch with the party.
No man, indeed, ever went out of the
Republican party with more regret
from among the rank and file of those
whom he had left than the war gover
nor. He had been Bervlng as minister
to itussla; hia position was doubtful in
the pending campaign, so far us it was
known to the public, and there was a
mighty sensation on the summer morn
ing when It wus announced that he
would not support Grant, and when it
looked on the surface of events as if a
political revolution might call Greeley
to tlit presidency. The blame for his
secession was placed on McClure, who
had been In close correspondence with
him, and the Cameron clans were
turned loose upon them both ns if they
were a pair of bandits. "Traitor,"
snre-head," "renegade," "assassin"
and "Ingrate" were a few of the showers
of epithets that fell upon Curtln's head
from the extreme stalwarts of the party
press. But the plain people of the party
throughout Pennsylvania, the thous
sitnds of intelligent Kepubllcan homes
In which he had been an object of affec
tion, and the soldiers, who could not
dismiss him, and his spirit-stirring elo
quence, from their most treasured
memories of the war. did not share In
the abuse. There was real sorrow
among them over his defection, and
there was never a time when they
would not have gladly welcomed him
back it he hud been willing to suffer the
mortification of suing theCamerons for
peace and to go through a course of pro
bation and discipline at the hands of
his old rival.
No political movement ever had a
brighter beginning and a more inglori
ous ending than the Liberal uprising of
1872. When it was fully started In the
Cincinnati convention there were signs
that it would sweep the country and
that the very roots of the Hepubllcun
party had been torn out of it. The
nomination of dreeley apparently had
made a deep impression on the people.
Its real weakness was not disclosed un
til It was endorsed by the Democratic
convention. Of course, there was no
hope of his election without its endorse
ment; but Tew of the Liberal leaders
foresaw the revulsion that was to follow
among the Republicans who loved Gree
ley less than they hated Democrats,
nnd among the Democrats, who hated
Greeley even more than they hated
nrant. The full extent of this feeling
waB not perceptible until toward the
end of the summer, but when the first
symptoms of It appeared in the North
Carolina election It presaged the be
ginning of the tremendous rout In the
autumn to shrewd observers. It was
not, however, until Pennsylvania had
voted a the October election, after a
campaign which has not since been sur
passed here In virulence, passion and
corruption, that the Greeley men gen
erally saw that nil was over.
M'CLURB AT THE HELM.
'Among the Liberals Colonel McClure
Was their, head center in Pennsylvania,
He oiK-ncd their headquarters on Wal
nut street with John W. Frazler as his
man Friday. They were' practically the
Liberal state committee. Indeed, with
out McClure the movement would prob
ably have made small headway In
Pennsylvania. He had been the chief
representative of the delegation at Cin
cinnati, had made David Davis, of Illinois-,
his candidate, and had support
ed tlreeh-y only when his nomination
was found to be Inevitable. With very
little money and with all the news
papers in Philadelphia with but two ex
ceptions of any Importance bitterly hos
tile to him he carried on a spirited
campaign by the aid of a literary bu
reau and by the help of such spouters
aa were, willing to go on the Demo
cratic stump; for In Pennsylvania the
democrats had nominated Charles It.
Buckalew for governor, and Buckalew
was a strong dose for any man who
had been a Republican to swallow, how
ever much he might have wanted to
support Greeley. Colonel Forney, with
he Press, tried the experiment of op
posing Hartranft and supporting Grant
In the spring and early summer, and
It lost the Press thousands of Its read
ers; but It tended to give the Liberals
an Importance in the state campaign
and to make Pennsylvania a doubtful
state until a late stage of the canvass.
Greeley had many chlvalrlc supporters
among the Liberals, who went down
with him In the wreck, even when they
foresaw what was coming: but few of
them anywhere in that memorable year
did bo much to make his canvass re
spected as McClure. who was then in
the full prime of his manhood, with a
wonderful memory, a winning elo
quence, fertile of ideas, skilled In every
piece of political artifice, and with a
reputation as the most effective politi
cal 'writer in Pennsylvania next to
Forney.
DISPOSING, OF THE RUINS.
McClure, like Curtln, drifted towards
the Democrats simply because there
was no other abiding place for him. A
year and a half after the Greeley rout,
he ran for mayor against Stnkley, and
the Democrats who were not on the
malnchance and a large contingent of
young and Independent Republicans,
rallied around him, - the Press openly
supporting him and again tearing a
gap In Its subscription list until It had
then fallen to a circulation of .Ms) or
8.WJ0. The downfall of MeClure's hope
of being made mayor of 'Philadelphia
and his want of success at the bar turn
ed him In the direction of journalism,
and it Is doubtful whether he haa ever
seriously hankered ater an office since.
It would not be unfair to him to say
that he became a sort of brevet Demo
crat, not ao much because hta tastes,
sympathies and convictions carried
him that way, but because he couldn't
very easily go any other way. twenty
two years ago in view of the peculiar
circumstances that surrounded him
both politically and In journalism.
McClure can write that unique chap
ter of our political history the Liberal
movement from the time of the Butn-ner-Schura-Fenton
- Trumbul - Tipton
cabal In the senate to the death of Gree
ley In a mad house as no other man
can unless possibly it were Murat Hal
stead or Whltelaw Reid. It is a chap
ter well worthy of preservation, tragic
as It was.
SOCIAL SETTLEMENT IDEA.
Uow Mlaa Adam lias Developed It la
Chicago.
The social settlement Idea, says the
Chicago Evening Post, has taken a
strong hold on the city Hull House,
the oldest and best known of these
agencies, was opened six yearB ago. A
fine old residence stood alone in the
heart of a .congested ward. All the
better world hud moved away, and
Italians, Bohemians and Russian Jews
had come In to supply the place. Two
young women saw the opportunity.
They rented this abandoned mansion
and opened in a modest way a second
Toynbee hall. They sought to adapt
themselves . to the work at hand. At
first the untamed youngsters of the
neighborhood broke their windows and
despoiled their grounds. The priests
and rabbis looked askance and pre
pared to guard against proselytes. The
young women were patient and tactful,
however, and slowly but surely they
won their way. Miss Jane Addams, the
leader in the movement, has very clear
Ideas upon the subject. "It Is an ef
fort," she says, "to add the social func
tion to democracy."
The good and the bud. the Ignorant
and the cultured, are brought together.
When this is done, the leadership of the
Hull house management Is very gentle,
beautifully subtle and never offensive.
There is boundless play of the sym
pathies. There is h careful avoidance
of the didactic. Self-governing clubs
are formed, admission to which cau be
gained only by ballot. One of them In
cludes forty factory girls, who rent an
outlying tenement from Hull house,
board themselves at a nominal rate,
take their meals at the coffee-house and
attend nightly classes in the lecture
room. There is a men's club of a sim
ilar character. Then there is the Men's
Social club, which has a billiard room,
members may do about us they please,
although drinking and gambling are
forbidden. The Jolly Boys' club, for
reading; the Gymnasium club, the Wo
man's club, for the study of household
economics; the German Woman's So
cial club, the Italian Fencing club, the
Debating- club, the Mandoline club and
twenty others all have their places in
the Institution. The kindergarten
and day nursery occupy an independ
ent building. Other departments are
the free dispensary, the visiting nurses,
factory inspection, street und alley In
spection, food Inspection, art studio,
penny savings bunk, circulating li
brary, bureau, music school and relief
bureau. It is a busy place.
CLOSING THE BOOK.
Convinced That the World Owed Mat a
Chance to Die.
From the Detroit Free Press.
A dozen men would have remembered
him for his gray hairs, his ragged gar
ments and the pathos In his voice as he
told of his misfortune und asked for
charity, but when the winter's night
shut down the old man crept Into a pub
lic hallway, sat down on the stairs und
was supperless and weak. Two or three
pedestrians who happened to glance in
saw his dark figure huddled up and
were not sure it was a human being,
but a patrolman stood and looked at
him for a moment and then turned
away with: ,
"Poor old man! By and by I'll Bend
him to the station, that he may be
more comfortable."
As he sat on the stair in the dark
ness, his head on his hands and a shiver
pussing ovar hlin as the Ice-cold gusts
invaded his retreat. hlB thoughts were
not to be envied. He balanced hlB book
of life. He hud lived for over sixty
years. He hud hud friends, money,
health, happiness. Tonight he was pen
niless, homeless, friendless and an out
cast. He might wear his rugs for two
or three years more; for two or three
additional years he might compel chari
ty to keep life In him. Then what?
Then the end would surely come. He
thought It over nnd over.nnd he reached
up In the dnrkness. and with his skinny
fingers he made as If writing on the
wall:
"Debit: The world owes every man
a chance to live."
"Credit: The world owes every man
a chance to die."
Then he rose and walked out on the
street. Some of the pedestrians glanced
at him pityingly, and would have given
him alms had he asked them. But hu
no longer had a story to tell was no
longer cold and hungry. The river was
only three blocks away. His steps were
turned in that direction and there was
no halting no turning back. The
lights on the wharves gleamed out over
the water and silvered wave and ripple.
There were boats plying to and fro
there were people coming and going.
The old man saw nothing but the river,
heard nothing but a voice saying:
"The world owes every man a chance
to die!"
Right down to the wharf ns a dumb
beast is driven out to Its edge as peo
ple walk in their sleep a leap nnd a
splnsh, and the book of life was closed
for good. The world had given him his
chance to die. He had furnished shroud,
coilln, hearse and grave.
CRIME AMONG INSECTS.
Every Form and Variety Said to lie
common with Them.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Almost every form and variety of hu
man crime is common with Insects.
Cases of theft are noticed among bees.
Buchner. fn his" "Physic Life of Ani
mals." speaks of the thievish bees
which, in order to save themselves the
trouble of working, attack well-stocked
hives in masses, kill the sentinels anil
the inhabitants, rob the hives and
carry off the provisions. After repeat
ed enterprises of this description, they
acquire a taste for robbery and vio
lence; they recruit .whole companies
which get more' and more numerous;
and. finally they form regular colonies
of brigand bees. , . . , ,
But it Is a still more curious fact that
these brigand bees can be produced ar
tifllcially by giving working bees a
mixture of honey and brandy to drink.
The bees soon take a delight in this
beverage, which has the same disas
trous effect upon them as upon men;
they become ill-disposed and irritable,
and lose all desire to work; and finally
when they begin to feel hungry, they
attack and plunder the .well-supplied
hives.
There is one variety in bees the
Sphecodes which lives exclusively
upon plunder. According to Marchull,
this variety. Is formed of Individuals
of the Halyaterf species, whose organs
of nidlficatlon are defective, and which
have gradually developed Into separate
variety, living almost exclusively by
plunder. .
They may thus be said to be an ex
ample of innate and organic criminal
ity among; Insects, and they, represent
what Professor Lombroso calls the
born criminals that Is. individuals who
are led to crime by their. own. organic
constitution. .
mm
Telling How le Manned' to Smash the Record ..of Eistcddyodic Rats on
- . a Certain -Hew Year's My.
A Welsh eisteddvod Is always the same
wherever held, whether large or email.
You recognise Its essential oharcter ev
erywhere, ma you recognise your face) in
a. thousand fragments of broken glass. It
duplicates itself aa by a natural law ami
almost as unerringly, barring out some
monstrosities which Kngllhhinen and non-Welsh-Americana
manufacture now and
then, to which the word eisteddvod is ap
plied as an advertising trick.
When it i suld tliut William Wagner
Watkins, conductor of the Hinging; ut
Kbenexer ohapel. leading tenor and fol
ia 1st ut Cwmul, won four prizes at four
elstethlvods) on the same New Year'H Day,
l must not be considered u reflection
upon the t-haructer of the eisteddvod or
upon th performance of Wutklns.
Watkins understood the character of the
eisteddvuit. lie knew it us the scholar
knows his alma muter, and the eia
teddvod ia the alma mater of molt
Welshmen, and good mother she ha
been. Voiuijr man though he waa, lie
was an eisteddvod veteran, lie was
always the Hist at Cwmcoed to se
cure a programme of a new eis
teddvod. The best room at his home was
decorated with red-white-and-blus ros
ettes, the trophies of many a contest, ns
the stores at Ohrhnmastide are. decorated
with the gifts of Sama Claim. He knew
the tastes and peculiarities of all the ad
judicators ii the country as thoroughly
as the Journalist know those of the can
didates for coiifreaa. He knew the make
up of an elateddvod committee as well as
a politician knows hie precinct.
lie had duly entered his name In va
rious forma for the tenor solo competi
tions at the Aberglusdwr, Cwmsunt, How
ardtown and 1'ontgam Kisteddvods:
Solos, "Kevenge, Tlinotheus cries," "The
Death of Xelaon." 'Vwymp Llewelyn,"
and "The Hay of Biscay;" war names,
"Kryr Arurat," "l.lew Llawen," "Kos o
Asia" and "Carw I'wrlyn."
During the lust three months, the neigh
bora had many times been thrown into
a panic, us by a lire alarm, often at
unseemly hours, by cries of "Revenge''
from Tlinotheus." until they got used to
them, s well as to the heart-breaking
keens" of Nelson and Llewelyn, and the
cries of distress from shitp-wrecked mari
ners. Jiloltke, tiy his kitchen fire, never man
ouvred a grand assault with a better
mastery of details than did Watkins. in
the quiet of his room, witli eisteddvod pro
grammes adld on railway time tables be
fore him, lay his plans for the eventful
day.
The duy before the four-fold contest,
instead of croing to work as usual, he
resolved to reconnoitre the field, like mi
advance agent of a show. He wanted to
try the trains, and Und out any possible
hitch In the- traillc. He rooted" among
the secretaries of the eisteddvod. and
obtained from them the final programme!,
giving the exact order of the'eompetitions.
Ho measured 'the distance between the
vhapHs und halls, where the eisteddvods
were to be held, andthe rullwuy eta lions.
H till on his. way home he felt consid
erably depressed. He hail discovered that
there were forty competitors for the four
prize or th total value of '-'. But that
fact ulone did not depress him, but he
iiud found that that amount of eisteddvod
business, according to the dally train ar
rangements, could never be done between
trMlns.
His hope now was In excursions. When
he came out of the train at Cwmioetf,ta
tluii he loitered around the place, an4"oon
found the eaam at leisure and put him
mme questions us to the trafflc at that
time of the year.
"it's dreadful," aald Mr. Baggage. "I'm
completely worn Ul by it. Christmas
once a year 1 bad enough without an
other on the tail of it."
Mr. BaeTgges was an Kngllshman
and did not understand the eisteddfod.
Epigrams Uttered by
Alexander Dumas.
"Celibacy, marriage nnd adultery this
Is the trlloRV in which the life of women
struggles. It Is in this thut poets may
find eternal dramntic subjects. Of the
three phusea of the tragedy the most
painful Is evidently the last named."
"The stage has not the merit of correct
ing, hut it lus the right of preventing and
the right or verifying."
"The stage Is logical and pitiless; that Is
why It makes so much use of laugrhter
and of tears."
One tliyuld never take one's daughter
to a playhouse. Not only the plays are
immoral; the house Itself Is immoral."
"To express an Idea, to formulate a
theory, to sueitain an opinion In public,
are things so grave uhat one's conscience
s-houl'l never 1e at rest if on be not ab
solutely sincere."
"In writing- plays do not have the pre
tension not to be mistaken but the firm
desire not to deceive anybody."
"Plays are not written only for those
who go to the- theater. They are written
also for those who do not so to the the
ater." "The spectator gives only success. The
reader gives fume."
"Playwrights who hope to live In the
future have not only to interest the pub
lic; they have to win individuals."
"Oil the stage charm Is more necessary
than truth."
"To convince a thousand Individuals
one needs only to move them; to convince
one irthoii it is necessary to convince
him."
"None can be a dramatist If It be not the
flesh and blood of ihumanlty which he is
disponed to give to those who listen and
to those who read."
"If the fall of your pluy wounds only
your conceit or your interest; if It does not
trouble your ideal anil your convictions; If
at the secoiml ipcrformance you ure pre
pared to modify your view, you may be
perhaps an ingenious stage-manager
you shall never be a dramatist."
"Wherever there are assemblies of men
there are souls to be won."
".Men and women go to the theater only
to hear of love and -to tuke part In the
TiultiSHiiil the Joys that It has caused. All
the other interests of humanity remain at
tli door."
.
A LINCOLN, STORY.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The railroad etutlon destroyed by fire
In Providence. It. I., the other duy. was
hullt in IMS, or only a few years ufter the
lirst railroad had touched Providence. It
wa -designed by Thomas A. Tefft, then a
Ktudent ut Hrown university. It wax-an
example of the Komanesque order of
architecture, and when it was constructed
it wus the lougeet building in the I'nited
States, belli Cil feetln length. The cen
tral towers, the octagonal towers on either
end, the arcades und colonnades, and the
numerous arches, all suggested the
churches in upper lluly (built centuries
ugo by the fxmburds. The upper part of
the main structure wus formerly devoted
to a public hall, which, in 18-, was the
principal hall In the city. In the Bpraguc
Padleford campaign for the Governorship,
in the spring; of that year, Abraham Lin
coln made a speech In this hall which Is
recorded as an Important event In local
history. It Is said that soon after the be
ginning of the- address a Democrat in the
reur of the hull shouted In answer to one
nf Lincoln's statements, "That Is a lie!"
There was an uproar at once of "Put him
out!" Lincoln at once Interfered and auid:
"No, do not put him nut, but let him come
right up here to the front. He Is the .very
man that I want to talk to." Thin In
genious suggestion of Mr. Lincoln, supple
mented by his story appropriate to the In
terruption, elicited three cheers from the
audience, who had no idea that they were
cheering the next President and the great
eat mati of the century.
BELIEF IN PET OMENS.
Sopsrstitions Which follow a Mag from
Ills Cradle to Ills Grave.
From the New York Tribune.
There Is ar old superstition that the left
limbs should always be dressed llrst, but
not completely at one time. Suppose that
the man who manifests his Indignation at
the assertion that he is superstitious com
mences, cautiously, as it were, without
letting himself -.know that he is bel.-ig
watched, with the first garment he puts on
In the morning, and learn what is the re
sult. How niirprlsed he will be to know,
perhaps for the first time, his left arm
goes into hisi shirt first and his left sock
on his left foot first, to say nothing of con
tinuing the observation as far as the shoe.
There are men who will change a gar
ment which had been put on, unconscious,
ly. inside out, but there are many who will
not. for their lives, risk the old supersti
tion, concerning; such an act.. rKlnga have
not dared It." ' -
Where Is the man or boy who, save only
In a spirit of bravado, will knowingly walk
under a ladder 7 - Even if done In a spirit
MME
Written for The Tribune.
"Do you expect much traffic tomorrow,
sir?" Watkins asked rather nervously.
"Why. just think of it I I have Just
received a dispatch stating that there
will be five special excursion! tomorrow,
and, goodneaa knows, they may be in
creased to tan 'before the day la over. I
wish these stedvud. or what-do-your-call'em,
to the d ."
Watkins felt too grateful for the news
to take offence at the Ungllihman's esti
mate of his beloved eisteddvod.
That evening he quietly hummed over
his eoios, but, aa a wise eisteddvod man
he nursed his stomach. He then looked
up a friend or two who were to take th
held on the morrow a bassos.
The next morning, with a hasty "happy
New Veal" to his folks, he hastened to
take his place in the lung Indian Hie be
fore the railway ticket ontce. A train
came alonir. and the porter cloned tha
gate, leaving- half the people outside Wut
klns rushed to the gate. Jumped over It,
making a V-lnch rent in the leg of his
trousers, and pitched himself Into a com
partment, making the twenty-first where
there was room only for ten.
it was a very fool-hardy thing to do,
for to travel without ticket on those
trains was a serious offense. Train con
ductors are not supposed to sell tickets
for an extra 10 cnts on the trains, but
they are expected to hand the -ticket-Ice!
to a policeman who usually hangs
around the railway atatlon for the Joo.
Hut Watkins was an old offender, and
this contingency had been marked in his
plan. Hie leading principle of warfare
was to guard against surprises.
The train reached Aberglaadwr In good
time, but Watkins did not rush with
the crowd through the wicket where tick
ets were collected. He waited to the last
man, squeezed three pence Into the por
ter's flat and offered th? money to pay
for the ticket, which the porter took.
Excursions cover a multitude of railway
Irregularities, and happy Is he who knows
how to profit thereby.
"Timotheiis" came on early at the Ab
erglusdwr eisteddvod. and ten stalwart
fellows cried for "revenge" with ull their
might, and the udjudicators we don't call
thre judges, that name Is reserved for
assizes and cattle-shows announced that
'"ftinotheua" had been amply "revenged"
by the singing of "Kryr Ararat." Wat
kins Jumped to the platform, and with
one knee on the boards, he bent his head
as submissively as a victim of the guillo
tine, and a stylish young lady threw over
his neck a loop of ribbon to which was
suspeuded a rosette with half-a-soverelgn
hidden among Its petals.
Though the four ulaces were on the
same route, Watkins had next to make his
way to Pontgam, passlner by the other two
f daces. Flushed with his first triumph,
lis heart was further gladdened by seeing
two excursion trains, on on the tail of the
other, steaming into the station. Here
he bought hia ticket like a gentleman,
and reached Pontgam without renting fur
ther his clothes.
The Pontgam committee was wiser than
the Aberglasdwr one. It hud been, decid
ed thut the llfteen "Bay of Biscay" men
were to be listened to by one of the adju
dicators In a school room close by, while
Herbert Travers Budenham, esq., .M. P.,
Q. '., was delivering a. long oration on
"The Olory or the Welsh Nation," wind
ing it up with the invariable "Oice y bit
I'r leth Uwmrake." The result of this
preliminary contest waa that four, among
whom was "Coavr Owrlyn," were selected
'to sng the piece before the audience,
when, of coarse, the rosette came to Wat
kins. The rendering of "The Death of Xelson"
at the Owmsant Blsledtlvod was. In the
opinion of Hlr Duncan Alacnamura, the
leading adjudicator, one of the best treats
of his life. He would willingly, he suid.
award the prise to ach of the competi
tors. Out of the abundance of Ids good
of defiance of the old bogie, how expect
antly, and sometime tremblingly, he
it waits the coming of the penalty. Try it,
man, und If the penalty of sorrow or loss,
disappointment or accident, does not re
sult before the day has swept by you
will not tell of it. ir It comes to you, the
rule will be followed, and you will never
cease telling of it, this rare occurence.
When a man returns to the house after
once starting out, having perhups forgot
ten to kiss his wife, or something less im
portant, his natural incllnutlon, without
special prompting, is to sit down before
starting again. It Is said to be bad luck
to omit this.
Kven death may result If a human being
should raise an open umbrella over his
head within doors it ia said. I'tnbrella
makers have been known to observe this
religiously.
People who live In the country must be
careful not to have around their homes a
white-nosed cow, for, should the window
be open and this cow with the white
proboscis reach over the window sills In
search of information or something dain
ty, there will 'be a death in the family be
fore long. So nays the old saw.
Why must we give a penny for any sharp
Instrument presented by a friend? Why
do we seek a four-leaf clover, and why
must we pick up a dirty horseshoe from
the street whenever we see it there? Why
do men nail the horseshoe over their doors
and ends down, too, invariably, when the
original superstition, of which they seem
to be in ignoruiiice, asserts that should be
nailed up the other way, so as to cutch
within its embrace the luck which de
scends. OUNCES OF PliEVKNTIOX.
An excellent preventive of wrinkles, nays
a writer in Vogue, is the application to
the face ut night of a. teuspoonful of
sweet cream taken from the morning's
milk. The extremely mollfylng substance
should be gently rubbed Into the skin
with the tinner, following; the direction of
the wrinkle and never crossing it. The
massage must be continued for at least
a quarter of an hour, after which some
more cream Is rubbed in and the entire
face powdered with fine starch, into which
a small quantity say one teaspoonful to
u pound nf sturch of alum has been In
corporated. A very convenient mucilage can bo
made out of onion Juice by any one who
wl.hes to use it. A good-sized Soanlsh
onion, after being boiled for a short time,
will yield, on being pressed, quite a large
quantity of vety adhesive fluid. This
is used extensively In various trades for
pasting paper on to tin or zinc, or even
glass, and the tenacity with which it holds
would surprise uny one on muklng the
first uMemiit. It is a cheap and good m.i
cllage, amranswers as well as the more
costly cements.
forks that have been steeped In vasel
ine Is an excellent substitute for glass
ttonpers. Acid in no way affects them,
and chemical fumes do not cause decay
In them, neither do they become fixed by
a blow or long diaiute, which latter fact
will be appreciated by those who often
lose time and temper by a "beastly fast
stopper." in F'hort, they have all the util
ities of the glass without Its disadvan
tages. An excellent polish for mahogany is
made of one part nf hoi led linseed oil to
two parts of alcoholic shellac varnish. The
mixture must be well ahaken, applied In
small quantities with a woolen cloth and
rubled vigorously, A tine polish will be
produced.
SOI 111 AMERICAN'S HESOlRCF.fi.
The sixteen republics south of the Unit
ed mutes, and iclttding .Mexico and Cen
tral America, have a population of over
jo,(ioo,uiw people.
The government of Brazil controls the
telegraph system. In lMW there were l!i.a.
4ti7 miles or wire, und Hraxll communicates
with the United States by three lines.
Brazil's commerce Is mainly with
Prance, Great Britain and the I'nited
States. The principal articles exported
an- coffee, hides, tobacco, gold coin and
bullion, sugar, diamonds, rosewood, cocoa
and rubber.
Venezuela Is three times the size of
France and of Germany and live times the
size of Italy. It Is, In fact, larger than
any European nation except Russia. There
are only two seasons the wet and dry.
The climate varies with the altitude.
Mexico's mines are many and rich. They
have been worked for over tw) years, and
although vast quantities of precious
metals have been taken out, by far the
greater part of the treasure Is yet to be,
mined. Humboldt, at the beginning of
this century, estimated Mexico's mines at
3,000.
Bolivia and Colombia have their greatest
wealth in mines. Their development is
very slow, however. Vast coal fields, gold,
sliver, precious Atones. Iron, copper, tin,
lead,' bismuth, mercury, platinum, zinc,
rock, crystal, alum, talc and alabaster
are among the things which will make
these countries Very rich.
R IATH1
heart be then volunteered some excellent
hints to the competitors, hints which
others had willingly paid three guineas
an hour to listen to. He Anally an
nounced that there waa one of the singers
who had so clearly out-done the others
that the adjudicators had not the slight
est hesitation in awurdlng him the prise,
and he (Sir Duncan) predicted a brilliant
future for the winner.
The applause which greeted "Llew I.la
wen" wus loud and long, und as Watkins
was going to leuve the plutform plus ro
sette, Sir Duncan shook hunds with him
warmly, ami invited him to come and bee
him whenever he came to London.
As Watkins was going .to catch another
excursion for Howurdtown. he begun to
feel very queer. Ills head ached, his
throat twitched, and he felt altogether
out-of-sorts. This, his greatest triumph,
affected him the least, though he realised
that It was in fact overwhelming. All
of a sudden he remembered that he had
not eaten anything since 7 o'clock lu the
morning, and nothing worth mentioning
then, so great Is the mastery of mind
over matter. He rushed through a crowd
into a coffee tavern close by and gulped
a sandwich and a cup of muddy coftee.
The Howurdtown Kisleddvod was a verv
email affair, and the rendering of
"('wymp Llewelyn" was one of Its most
Important items. The five competitors
were called upon to sing before the au
dience. Despise not the small eisteddvod, thou
stranger, who hast not been duly initiated
into the rights and prlvleges of the bards,
ovatf-s and minstrels of the Ule of Bri
tain! 'Tis here the village llampdens air their
views,
And mute inglorious Milton court the
- -M use.
Neither think that the smile of royalty,
the boast of heraldry, and the pomp of
power are necessary to kindle genuine
enthusiasm ut a smull chapel eisteddvod.
There were many teurs shed that evening
as one singer after another bewailed the
losa of "Llewelyn eln l.lyw Ola'" and of
the Independence of "The Land of My
Fathers."
"Kos o Asia" alias Watkins lingered
pathetically on the notes. It was not
now a question with him of gaining an
other rosette, for that he felt sure, and
there was no terrible Sir Duncan Mac
luunara to overawe him. With his whole
heart he set himself to interpret the grief
of u whole nation. He took astonishing lib
erties with the composition, but the prize
waa awarded him heartily by the adjudi
cators, but still more enthusiastically by
the audience, and few adjudicators are so
callous as to defy the verdict of an eis
teddvod audience.
Great were the rejoicings on the train
that evening as Watkins and a few friends
returned home. Had he been Stanley,
Just emerging from darkest Africa, he
could be given no warmer reception;
When the news apread over the platform
of t'wmcoed station, Wutklns was sur
rounded by a large crowd, and as he drew
out one rosette after another, the enthu
siasm broke out into an untransiateable
cheer "O Watkins ag e" a. kind of a col
lege cry which you can apply to any per
son you meet. One of his friends threw
the ribbons over Wutklns' neck, with
two rosettes hanging before him and two
behind him, and, with those picturesque
adornments, he wus taken by the arms
and marched through the crowded streets
to his home.
Watkins had to pound hard at the stub
born coal for a month before he covered
the dead loss incurred on that New Year s
Day, including a pair of trouscre. Then
he began to save money to visit Ixndon
and Sir Duncan Mucuamara.
Rhys Wynne.
Having Fun With
And in the Court.
From the Chicago Journal.
A liquor case was on trial, and one of
the officers who had made the raid testi
fied 'that a number of bottles were found
on the premises.
"What was In the bottleaj" asked the
Judge of the witness.
"Liquor, your honor."
"What kind of liquor?"
"I don't know, sir."
"Didn't you taste It. or smell of itr
"Both, your honor."
"What! Do you mean to say that you
are not a judge of liquor?"
"No, sir; ini not a Judge; I'm only a
policeman."
The witness was excused from answer
ing any further questions.
Joseph II. Choate is an expert In han
dling two-edged sword repartee. His skill
is such that he seldom meets one who
is able to bold his own with him. Me met
his match not long ago while trying a
case before the surrogate.
An old woman was being questioned
by him about how the testator looked
when he made a remark to her about
some relatives.
"Now, how oan I remember? He's
been dead two years," she replied, test
ily. "Is your memory so poor that you can't
remember two year back?" continued
Choate. The old woman was client, and
Choate asked: "Did he look, when lie
spoke, anything like me?"
"Seems to me he did have the same
sort of a vacnnt look!" snapped the wit
ness, with fire In her eyes. The court
room was convulsed and Choate had no
further questions.
At a late term of Emanuel county court,
Georgia, a lawyer had been absent from
the court room, as he feared, beyond his
l;ve. As he hastened back he Inquired of
an old negro who was leaning against the
gate: "Uncle, can you tell me what case
they are trying now?" Whereupon the
ilar key answered: "It's one o' dent raM
of delicious niuschufT." The lawyer hur
ried on, to find the court engaged in try.
Ing a mun for alleged bigamy.
WELSH NEWS NOTES.
A charming young widow appeared as
a candidate for the post of nurse before
the last meeting of the Alerthyr CJuur
dians. Only two voted for her. viz.. the
Itev. Aaron Davies and the rector of Vay
nor, and these two are widowers.
At the Glamorganshire assizes held re
cently four young colliers Richard Mor
gan. Kichurd Richards, William Itlch
urds, and ICdmunil Davies charged with
violently outraging u married woman,
named Ha rah Aune Crlnp, at -Monday AkIi
in January last, were rentenceil to five
years' penal servitude.
At the Glamorganshire Assizes the Jurv
brought in a verdict for the plaintiff, with
iV) damages, in the Cheyne vs. Williams
breach of promise case, opened on Thurs
day. In the criminal court the case In
which John Walter Moore, a Kaptist min
ister, was charged with indecently ux
suultlng a little girl ut Trealaw, the pris
oner was now sentenced to fifteen months'
Imprisonment.
The half-yearly meeting of the share,
holders of the Rhymney Hallway compuny
was held at Cardiff recently. A dividend
of d'i per cent, on the ordinary mock was
declared.
At the half-yearly meeting of the court
of governors of the University college of
South Wales and Monmouthshire recently
held the principal slated that the tolal
subscriptions promised toward the build
ing fund now amounted to about 7.i,uuu.
On he motion of the principal, a resolution
was adopted urging the inexpediency of
bringing into existence another large
representative body for the discharge of
the functions connected with Welsh in
termediate education, and declaring the
opinion of the court that the Hcheme
should be amended by the substitution of
the court of the University of Wales for
the proposed central govemig board.
The Beaufort tinplnte works of Swan
sea are stooped owing to the want of or
ders and low price.
The usual meeting of the tinplate asso
ciation formed a few weeks weeks aao
to consider the provision of a company
for the purpose of opening fresh market
was held at the Mackworth Arms, Swan
sea. recently. The committee reported
that the promises which they anticipat
ed from tlnplale-makera of providing capi
tal for the scheme had not been sufficient,
ly numerous to enable them to proceed
further In the matter at present. It was
decided, In view of these unexpected cir
cumstances, to convene a general meet
ing of the association for the purpose of
considering whether the scheme of pro
moting the company was to be deemed
feasible of further agitation.
m.;c;;g the flayer-folk
Kbit Has Beea and Will Be ia Oar
Local Theaters.
GOSSIP OP STAGS FAVORITES
Paragraphs of Ifewa sad Cowiat Cos
es ralsg tha tahakltaats of Iks Misale
World-Aaaoaaeezssats of Cosaisg .
attrsetioss-Tkestrtcal Ttdlaga.
The starring fever has caght several
good comedians, who will next season
appear with companies of their own.
One of the foremost will be Jefferson
D'Angelis. whose rich and picturesque
humor was one of the hits of "The
Little Trouper." Mr. D'Angelis will
appear next year as the central figure
In "The Caliph." a new opera by
Harry B. Smith und Adulph Hnglunder.
It will open September 7 ut the Broad
way theater, New York. Harry Conor,
of "A Trip to Chluutown" company,
whose drolleries pleased a lurge au
dience at the Academy last Saturday
night, will be another star to come out
In a new piece. Charles H. Hoyt is now
putting the finishing touches to a com
edy which Is said to afford special facil
ity for the exhibition of Mr. Conor's
capacity as a player of eccentric humor.
This actor Is one of the most success
ful of M. Hoyt's stars, and will be very
prominently featured In the forthcom
ing production.
Robert Mantell will tomorrow night,
at Cincinnati, produce a new play by
Espy Williams. It Is a romantic French
drama, of the style affected by lr.
Mantell and other of the younger school
of actors. The action takes place In
the time of Henri HI., and the piece
Is full of adventures and: Intrigues.
The plot hinges on the alleged theft by
the hero of a Jeweled garter belonging
to Margaret of Navarre. She tries to
fasten the crime upon him for having
repulsed her amorous overtures. It Is
said to be full of stirring Incidents,
and with a sufficiently strong story to
demand attention throughout. Mr.
Mantell appears in the character of a
boyish sailor, who appears at the court
of Henri, and with whom Margaret la
Immediately captivated. The role is
said to lit him perfectly, and allows full
play of his peculiar melodramutic pow
ers. II I! II
Mme. buse will appear In America
next season with an English-speaking
company and a 8hakeserlan reuet
tolre. The suggestion of the polyglot
company was Mme. Duse's. and her
idea seemed to be that If 1 the Eng-
usn-speaklng public heard her com
pauy. if not herself. In their own Ian
guage, they could follow her closely
through the play without the eternal
fluttering of llberetto leaves through
out the t neater, and eyes fastened on
the pages Instead of the actress. She
Imagined, also, they would like her
more than ever in Shakespeare's char
act era, and that, coming from the land
of "Juliet." she could Invest that char
acber with a true Italian color that
might give new Interest to It. The
abandonment of Duse'a modern reper
toire in America will be pleasing news
to Hernhardt. It Is said the divine Sura
Is not standing the comparison with her
Italian rival as well as she hoped.
Scrantonlans who saw Creston Clarke
when last he visited Scranton. and who
were then strongly impressed With his
intelligence, despite hia kinship to Ed
win Hooth, will perhaps be Interested in
a. few words by "Penn." of the Phlla
delphia Bulletin, who. In the course of
an article on young Clarke writes
"What Clarke may turn out to be ia an
Interesting speculation among play
goers. He has a following, at least here,
which has faith In his future. He has
had as much recognition as Edwin
Booth had at his age and probably not
less financial success. Hooth spent the
llrst few years of his firofessional life
knocking about in California in its early
days and even In the Sandwich Islands
ami Australia. He had not conquered
his public. In fact, until he surprised
New York with that achievement cele
brated In theatrical annals thirty years
ago, of playing Hamlet one hundred
nights in the Winter Garden an un
dertaking of which the elder Clarke,
who has always hud a sharp eye to
business, was associated In the man
agement. In fact, after he made
nis first starring tour n had no
higher ambition than to settle down as
the leading man of a good New York
stock company. Men who remember
hltn at this time say that Creston Clarke
looks a good deal like him and that he
had not matured as to either voice or
strength, never having had the vitality
of his father. Liquor was then a neces
sity to him; the taste was probably In
herited from the cravings of his wild
natured sire for strong potations, and
the reputation of the vice stuck to him
long after he had freed himself of it. In
this respect, at least, his ambitious
nephew has not followed in his foot
steps. The day when a tragedian was
almost synonymous with a rounder or
profligate has gone by.
II II II
"Clarke and his admirers, who hope
great things of him, may be encouraged
by the fact that recognition and success
In tragedy often do not come to an ac
tor before middle age. They depend a
good deul on a physical force, which
sume men do not acquire until they are
forty. They depend even more on the
study by which a man often requires all
that time before he can know his own
defects and cure them. Irving, for ex
ample, played humble parts in support
of Hooth when Hooth first went to Lon
don, and he was forty before his repu
tation had expanded. John McCtillough
hammered away for many years before
he developed into a popular favorite.
Lawrence Harrett; who,' season after
seuson, used to come to Philadelphia
to empty benches, was nearly fifty be
fore he obtained general recognition.
Davenport was in his middle years be
fore it came to him. If. indeed, it ever
came to him in the measure that IiIm
powers deserved. A comedian general
ly gets the etart of the tragedian by ten
or twenty years. Jefferson, Clarke,
Florence, Raymond. Toole. Owens.
Wallack and Sot hern were on the full
tide of success before they were much
past thirty-live."
II II li
CHATTKR OF THE STARS:
"The Globe Trotter." with "Old Hoss"
Hoey. has closed its genou.
Jerome Anthony has been re-engaged to
support Walter Whlte.lde for his spring
tour.
James O'Neill and family go to Europe
at the end of the tragedian's season,
June I.
John Drew will appear In a new play,
with .Maud Adams, within a month, at the
(Jarrlck theuter. New York.
David Henderson l making prepara
tions for a new extravaganza, to open in
Chicago some time lu .May.
Albert Chevalier, the famous London
music hall comer singer, will begin his
American engagement March 24.
Edward Viooin will shortly commence
a tour with his new production. "For the
Crown." and several other plays.
W. H. Vower has almost completed ar
rangements for the production of his new
melodrama, "Shannon of the Sixth."
Chauncey Olcott will spend his summer
vacation on the Pacific coast, opening his
next season Aug. 2 In San Francisco.
A Texas statesman named Robert J.
Brown Is giving what he calls a dramatic
narrative, entitled "S Wags the World."
The success of Frank Daniels and "The
Wlzurd of the Nile" Is said to be almont
phenomenal. Already the opera is booked
up for next season.
ixle Fuller may make a short tour of
principal cities on the conclusion of her
present New York engagement instead of
immediately returning to lxndon.
Negotiations between Abbey A Grau, of
New York and Dorothy Morton have been
discontinued, and Miss Morton will not be
prima donna or their new light opera com
pany next season.
Maurice Barrymore hart Signed contracts
with William A. Brady by which he will
star next season under his management.
The play will be a drama or Mr. Harry
more s own composition, entitled "Roar
ina llick and Ompany." Mr. Brady tie.
clares it the strongest society drama,1 he
haa ever read. , -ji
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