THE SCKAWTON Tlhi U-PTE VTSPJfKSPAY' MOKNTNCr, MARCH 18, 1890.
AC01EVEF.1ENTS OF YOUTH
.
Great Met fco Acquired Fame at aa
Early Age.
THB TINS OF EARNEST WORK
ft bat Malory Teaches In Kneosra.snunt
t the Yoaag Maa Jaat Eateriag
I'poa a Caraar Extracta from
aa Eloqueat Address.
'At a dinner given In Philadelphia on
March 3 to Judge Thayer, the following
words were used by Jamea M. Beck In
hla response to the toast, "The Junior
Bar":
Secular history eloquently tell u of
the capability of youth. It is one long,
splendid, flaming record of youthful ex.
Clolts. Shall we Imitunce Alexander, who
at 20 asi-ended the throne, ut a won the
feat tie or issus, anil at 25 that of Arbela,
who at 30 year of age had curried Oreek
civilization from the 'Mediterranean to the
Uanges. and who was hut 33 when he died,
nnconquered save by that waste of ocean
whose tumbling- billow mocked hla fur
ther jirogrees? The greatest of the Cae
amis -was but a young soldier when tie
compelled Pompey and Crassus to divide
with him the dominion of the world. Or
hall we Instance that marvelous boy of
oorowncentury.whoatft;. like young Hum
tun, rent the lion of French anarchy "as
though It had been a kid." at St he re
ceived as his wife's dowry the command cf
some Su.uuo half -clothed and half-starved
battalions, and Hun hla iiroud challenge
to hi adversaries, that he would muKe
them burn their books on tactics.' At So
this modern t'uesur behold the mlnarols
of Cairo gleaming- In the rising sun, and
could challenge the forty centuries that
looked down upon him from the Pyramids
to parallel the wonder of his career, ln-de-d,
from 175 until VtUu all Km ope be
came the mere chessboard of two young
men, and Us kings, knight, bishops, rus
Jes and pawns, were moved almost ut the
will of their master minds.
. 'Itie one. Napoleon, who ut Xi pressed
the other, young- Hill, who on entering the
bar was elected to the house of commons,
and who approved blmself "nun Inipur
'ongressus AchlUL" His tlrst speech, de
livered at the uk of Si. was so remark
able that not only Burke proclaimed hlui
"a chip of the old block" and therefore a
worthy sou of 'the Karl of 4'hnthum, but
Fox, when told thut Hit would become
one of the- greatest orators of 'the house,
replied: "Nav, h Is," A -year luter the
ministry hod dissolved and a powerful
coalition, consisting of Lord North, Hurke.
Fox" and other parliamentary giants, was
formed to oppose the government. Who
could ooi with an opposition that whs
fonnldatilo beyond any precedent? The
king turned to Pitt, and at 23 years of
ge he became chuheellor of the exche.
quer, and from that time until his death,
a few duys after the battle of Auster
lltx, he held supreme sway In KtiRlund, a
longer continuous reign of power thp.n
has even been enjoyed by any Knglish
parliamentary-leader before or since. It
was young- Pitt who organized with un
tiring energy the coalition after coali
tion that ultimately broke the power of
the young Napoleon, and thus they played
for the empire of the world their chess
game of nations. The latter's genius
shone forth resplendent at Austerlitz, and
1'ltt died of chagrin ut hearing the thun
ilerous "checkmate" from Napoleon's
canon, but when the smoke curled heaven
ward from the cornfields of Waterloo the
real victor of the Titanic struggle of
twenty years was not the Iron Duke, but
that voting lawyer, whose remulns then
rested In that Valhalla of the English
speaking race, Westminster Abbey.
OTHER GREAT YOUNG WEN.
If we turn from the cabinet and the
tented field to the more peaceful voca
tions of men. the truth Is not less star
tling. Newton was but 23 when he tils
covered that law as Infinite and compre
hensive as the universe, and which holds
the Innumerable starry worlds In Its ma
jestic operation aravltatlon. Beethoven
wrote the more famous of his sympho
nies before he was 32, and "Fldello" at M.
The merry, sparkling strains of "Don
fJlovnnnl," which the gray-beards here
sssembled have not failed to admire, were
written bv Mozart at 32. Mendelssohn
amazed the musicians of Berlin by writing
Ht 17 the overture to the "Midsummer
Night's Dream," of which It Is the high
est compliment to say thnt It Is worthy
of the text. 8chubert, who filled the
world with his mellifluous melody, tiled
at HI. Wagner, the Napoleon of the or
chestra, revolutionized the opera by
writing "Lohengrin" at 35. Sheridan, at
22, convulsed the world with merriment
und It has been laughing ever since by
that most perfect comedy, "The Rivals."
Byron, as we know, awoke one morning
and found himself famous at 23 by writ
ing "Chllde Harold." Campbell, nt 2,
composed his "Pleasures of Hope," and
Bryant, nt 18, wrote that undying poem,
"Thanatopsls." Shelley, at 18, made the
world his lasting debtor by "Queen Mab,"
while Burns, with his boyish hand upon
the plough sang under the blue skies of
Ayr his divine lyrics of democracy.
Shall we further Instance that sovereign
poet, who, fleeing across Warwickshire
meadows, entered London a .penniless and
unknown young man? A jaek-of-all-rades,
as Oreene called him, he held
horses and dreamed. He doubtless slept
In the squalor of some London garret,
but at the bidding of his genius the rude
walls dissolved and to his prodigal Imag
ination there arched above him the blue
heavens of Verona, Its "malestlcal roof
fretted with golden fire," while across the
balmy air there floated the youthful vows
of ardent lovers. Thus nt 27 years of
age Shakespeare composed the most per
rect love 'tragedy or literature, -Jtomeo
and Juliet."
IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
Go back In Imagination to the house of
burgesses. In Virginia, In the year 1'i'w.
The members are largely lawyers, ami
none more quick to resent the slightest
exuraaslun of disloyalty to Knaland's
king. The session Is drawing to its close
end no member has had sufficient cour
age to condemn bv word or resolution
the recently enacted stamp act. The
oungest member of the house Is a young
lawyer, gaunt, lll-attlred, with the clouk
ot u parson and a wig thut knew np pow
der. who had lust reached his twenty
ninth year. He had not Imbibed what
jenerson finely called "the noneyeu Mans
tieldlsm of Blackstone." which, as Jeffer
on added, "had turned the old lawyers
xrom w ntgs Into Tories," but had druiiK
deep draughts of liberty from old Coke's
comments on Mugna Charts. "Alone, un
advised and unassisted," the young law
yer arose and submitted five resolutions
o radical, revolutionary and comprehen
sive as to cause a thrill of Indignation to
pervade that Tory body, as though bias-
pnemy against ine torn Anointed had
been uttered. Standing erect, with larire
weeping gesticulations and a voice of
marvelous melody, he supported his reso
lutions by "torrents of a sublime elo
quence." as one of his auditors said sixty
years later, neacning to a cumax, lie, ut
tered the memorable and dating wonM,
tne nrst cnauenga oi uenance to the urn-
Charles I bis Cromwell and Georan HI'
"Treason! treason!" echoed from every
part of the house. The orator faltered
not far an Instant, but rising with the
lofty courage and prescience of youth to
a loftier attitude, exclaimed: "And George
111 may profit by their example. If this
us treason, mage tne most oi it."
It was the "forest-born Demosthenes."
young Patrick Henry, of Immortal mem
ory. My a majority of one vote the reso
lutions were carried. It was a triumph
vi rivuuriii'v great almost ueyonu prece
dent. Preylon Kandolnh. tha klnir's at'
torney general, angrily swept out of the
cnamwr crying, tsy uoU, 1 would have
given 600 guineas for a single vote!"
Wythe (destined to be the law preceptor
vi inw mining ugnia or me junior Dar,
Thomas Jefferson. James lUmiiuin in,
. John 'Marshall) Pendletpn and other older
lawyers, opposed the resolutions. It was
carrHMi. us nnnrroit says, because "Hen
rv carried all the younir mmhr viih
him. and thus Virginia gave the signal for
llie ruiiuiiriii.
Standing on ttotoe nml listnnin- it.
bated breath to his friend's sublime elo
quence, another law student, aged 22
years, who had drawn his Inspiration of
freedom from the everlasting hills r
Northern Virginia, stood on that great
any in ine loouy ni ine nouse. At 25 he
procured by his "Summary View of the
Rights of America" the honor ot an at
tainder by the British parliament, and at
St was selected, because his was the mas
terful Dsn of hla time, to a-lve to man.
kind In the Declaration of independence
its una aeea to iioeny.
YOUNO WARRIORS.'
The men who supported In the field the
Declaration with their swords were In
great part young men, and conspicuous
among them young lawyers., Alexander
Hamilton ana ionn marsnaii were Hardly
out of their teens when they dragged the
artillery over the frosen plains of Valley
Varmm. Nathaniel Green, at 34. was m-i.
a major general. Ethan Allen was but 31
wnen fie rousen irom ins slumbers the
commander of the British forces at Tlcon
dsrega and hade him surrender "la the
name of Great Jehovah and the Conti
nental Congress." John Sullivan was a
brigadier geiiaral at 35. and our own "Mad
kmhanv" H'aviM nt 34 mads hla brilliant
attack -on Stony Point. Struck by a bul
let while leading the charge ana oeiieving
that he was fatally wounded, he cried:
"Carry me into the fort and let tne die
at the head of my column." Henry Knox
was but when he Joined the Infant army
before Boston, and he was but 36 when
he became Washington's secretary of war.
Our invincible naval hero, wno sougiu nis
adversaries In Knglish waters and won his
great victory off Flam borough Point and
within alght of the English coast, John
Paul Jones, was but 31 when In command
of his little fleet he engaged a larger one
of English ships. "Has your ship struck?
called out the British captain, end Jones
instantly replied: "I have not yet begun
to fight," Few struggles on the sea were
ever so desperate, and no victory more
brilliant. Youth Is a tradition with our
navy, for Lawrence was but 27 yhen ho
poured out the blood of his gallant heart
on the decks ot the Constitution, with his
last utterance of indomitable courage:
"Don't give up the ship." Decatur was
but 25 when he entered the harbor of Tri
poli and destroyed the captive vessel Phil
adelphia, and but 2S when he was intde
a commodore: Perry but 28 when he won
his memorable victory on Lake Erie and
sent that hlstorlo dispatch, which ran
only be titly compared to Caesar's "Smil
vidl. vlcl." "We Imtfe met the enemy and
they are our.",
YOUNG LAWYERS.
Again. If we take the Constitutional con
venilon. which framed the wisest Instru
ment ever struck off by the brain and
purpose of man at a given time, we cannot
but be reminded that the three master
spirits of that convention were Janes
Madison, who at 2i was a member of the
general assembly of Virginia and at -3
became a member ef the continental con
gross, and at 3K entered the constitutional
convention; Alexander Hamilton, who was
but SU when he sat In the constitutional
convention, and Oouverneur Morns, who
was the saihe age as Madison. These three
young lawyers were lumt Instrumental In
shaping the constitution, and they, with
young John Jay. of New York, most ably
supported It by the Federalist. The latt.:r
wus only 29 when elected to the eonstl
lieiital congress, and at 32 he became
chief Justice of New York. What a gal
axy of genius! Alexander Hamilton, Pat
rick Heury. John Jay. Thomas Jefferson,
Richard Henry Lee. Charles O. Plnck ney ,
Robert R. 'Livingston, John Marshall,
Oliver Ellsworth. Elbrldge tlerry, ull
young lawyers, whose fame will ever
shine resplendent as stars of first mag
nitude. To this list .should M added. If
need were, Joseph Story, who ut 32 wns
an associate justice of the supreme court;
William Wirt, who nt 35 was employed to
prosecute Aurou Burr; John C. Culhoun.
who at 30 was chuimiuii of the committee
on foreign relations of the huusn; Henry
Clay, who entered the senate while under
the constitutional age being only 2
and at 34 was speaker of the house. Paiild
Webster, who entered congress at 30, and
at 3ti argued thn famous Dartmouth col
lege case. Stephen A. Douglas, who at SO
was made attorney general of Illinois, and
William If. Steward, whb at 37 became,
governor of New York. Nay, If we look
In our own state, we cannot but remem
ber that the wisest of our Judges, such
as Gibson. Black, Sharwood and .the la
mented Allison, have been recruited from
the ranks ot the junior bar.
GRANT AS A TEAMSTER,
Ills Widow Indignantly Denies the Im-
peaohment, but Is Effectively An
swered-To Have Been a Teamster In
volves No Disirace-Othsr Great Men
Who Were Teamsters.
Some months ago Captain Watrous,
of Milwaukee, In the course of some
army stories in the Chicago Times-Herald,
told an anecdote or two ot General
Grant, which had to do with the period
of his life when he was a teamster at
Galena. To these anecdotes Mrs. Grant
Indignantly demurred, alleging first
that Grant had never been a teamster,
and secondly, that If he had been. It
would be unkind to rake the fact up
against his memory. To this objection
Captain Watrous rather aptly replies:
"Supposing it were to develop that Gen
eral Grant had, at a certain period In
his life, been a professional teamster or
driver? Could that hurt Grant? I
have not seen anything that went to
prove that that ever was his regular
business, but I have heard many things,
backed by the most positive proof, that
In the transaction of his regular busi
ness he had performed the duty ot
driver, and on various occasions taken
the position of driver in an excursion,
both of pleasure and business, as In the
tase of his trip from Galena to Janes
vllle in 1860. Not a soul who has read
the history of Grant will think any the
less of him because of that. No one
would think any the less of him were it
established beyond a doubt that for a
year, or for years, he had been a pro
fessional teamster. A man who Is great
enough to command a million of men
and be president Is not hurt by a team
ster record, nor can his family be hurt
by it. The fact that in the short space
of four years he could rise from the
rank of a retired captain to that of lieu
tenant general and be crowned with
greater military achievements than any
other man of modern times, and then
serve eight years as president. Is the
best of proof that If he were a teamster
he had metal In him for something else.
.OTHER TEAMSTERS.
"By the way, other pretty good men
have been teamsters. One of the
grandest governors Wisconsin ever had
was a stage driver for years. It did not
hurt grand old Jerry Rusk later on to
have it- known he had been a stage
driver. He was pleased to hear the fact
mentioned. Who thinks any the less ot
the great war president because Mr.
Lincoln, to keep the pot boiling, split
rails; or of George Washington because
he once carried a chain for a surveyor?
Who thinks less of Garfield because he
rode a mule that hauled a canal boat?
Gat-ricld was a professional teamster. In
a way, but It didn't hurt his reputation
when lie wuh great enough for presl
dent. Who thinks less of one of Wis
consin's grandest characters because,
when lie flrwt cutne to the state he had
to chop cord wood at 25 cents a cord or
go hungry? Who thinks less of ex-Gov-nor
W. D. Hoard liecause he was a
wood chopper? Men speak of It as a
compliment. Who thinks less of John
M. Thurston, Nebraska's senator, be
cause he was a drayman in Chicago ut
one time? Or of ex-Governor and Gen
eral Alger, of Michigan, who drove a
team in the pineries? Who thinks less
of Minnesota's senator, Cushman K.
Davis, because he drove his father's
team and held his father's plow? Who
thought less of Henry Ward Beecher
because, when he tlrst began his minis
terial career, he was obliged to milk
the cow and do the stable housework?
Does anyone ever hold It up against Da
niel Webster because he earned needed
shillings as a chore boy? Who thinks
less of Benjamin Harrison because,
when he tlrst began housekeeping, lie
was his own chore boy and his wife
the kitchen girl? Look back Into the
life of almost any successful merchant,
manufacturer, railroad official, lawyer,
doctor, educator, publisher, and yon
will And that some time he was glud to
do work for a llvlng'tliat was not better
than being a teamster. The teamster
has an honorable calling. If It Is in him
to graduate from that calling to the
head of a college, a nation, a railroad,
a great paper, why, of course, it Is not
against him."
UIS PATENT IN PERIL.
Attorney Garrett McEnery recently
appeared as counsel In a rase before a
justice of the peace at sulsun. accord
ing to the San Francisco Post. Mc
Enery found it necessary to make fre
quent objection to the evidence that
opposing counsel was attempting to In
troduce. The Justice, whose first rule
of evidence Is "everything goes," looked
first annoyed and then Indignant. ' Fin
ally, he could contain himself no longer,
and, as a ruling on one of Mr Mc
Enery's objections, roared:
"Mr. McEnery, what kind of a lawyer
are you, anyway?"
"I am a patent lawyer," replied the
attorney, facetiously.
"Well, all I've got to say la that when
the patent expires you will have a hard
time getting It renewed. Go. on with
tne case."
OLDEST OF ITALIAN CITIES
Four Sights One Always Goes to See
in Pisa.
FIRST IS THE LEANING TOWER
Then Comes the Cathedral, the Campo
Santo and the Baptistery-W hat an
American Trareler Saw to
Interest Uim In Pisa.
Special Correspondence of The Tribune.
Pisa, March 2. There were three
Italian cities that became, in the early
middle ages, great naval powers. These
three cities, Genoa, Venice and IMsa.
grew rich and luxurious. To their ef
forts the preservation of Europe from
the Mohammedan is largely due. If It
PRESIDENTS
RAFAEL I0LESIAS, oi Costa Rica.
QEN. GUTIERREZ, of Salvador.
had not been for the almost ceaseless
war they waged with the Saracens,
there is little doubt that that race of
warriors would have overrun Europe,
but harassed as they continually were
by the fleets of these three cities their
efforts were diverted. It is the habit
to say that these cities maintained their
Meets only to protect their own com
merce, but we must remember that, in
protecting that commerce they protect
ed Europe.
The first of these cities to rise to
power, and also the first to fall was
Pisa, and its decay has been the most
complete. Its old-time rivals still re
tain some of their old-time importance
in the world, but Pisa has gone to sleep,
as it were, and the world has run away
from her. Since that memorable Au
gust day, 612 years ago, when the Geno
ese destroyed their naval power, the
Pisans have, generation after genera
tion, seen their city slip further and
further behind Its neighbors. As a
consequence of that great sea fight
Pisa lost Corsica, and soon after Sar
dinia was taken from her. Thus re
duced in power she fell an easy prey to
the rising city of Florence, and the town
that had single handed, driven back
the Saracens, and had held at one time
a large portion of the Italian peninsula,
became a dependency.
OF INTEREST TO STUDENTS.
As a natural consequence of this
early decay as an Independent growing
city, the group of buildings by which
Pisa is mainly known to us belong to
the earlier Italian period, having been
either built or designed between the
years 1000 and 1100. They were the
first of the renaissance buildings of
Italy, and are thus of great interest to
the student aside from their great
beauty.
The structures are four In number,
and are situated close together In one
corner of the town, and not In Its center,
as Is usual. They are the cathedral,
considered by some critics the most
beautiful in Italy, the Baptistery, the
Campo Santo and the far-famed Cam
panile, or Leaning Tower. They an? In
excellent preservation, in fact are now
kept up by th city as a sort of public
Institution. Their being a public Insti
tution, however, does not prevent the
ever present guide from intruding his
services upon you. To ascend the lean
ing tower It Is necessary to have a
companion, and this gives lilin his
opportunity. The ascent of Hie tower
Is well worth the effort required. At
one's feet lies sleepy old Pisa, shrunk
Inside Us old walls, which still stand,
now some distance from the town In
nearly every direction. The level plain
on which Pisa is built stretcheH uwny
to the Apennines, and if, as happened
when I made the ascent, the sun is set
ting, the effect of its rays on the snow
covered mountain tops is superb.
Away to the west the sea Is visible,
with a steamer making its way along
the coast. Just under the sun rises a
rocky Island, and the whole scene Is
one which once seen. Is not soon for
gotten. The Inclination of the tower nt the
top Is very noticeable, and when on its
lower side one automatically clings to
the inner wall. This Inclination, how
ever is not so much on the top as it Is
about two-thirds of the way up. as It
was at this point it wits discovered thut
one side of the tower was sinking, and
from there on It begins to bend buck,
the bow being quite noticeable If one
looks carefully at it.
THE LEANING TOW En.
Aside from Its great peculiarity of
structure, the tower Is very beautiful
and would have always been celebrated
for that alone. The marble of which
it is built is still white, Pisa having no
modern manufactories to nil the air
with smoke and dust.
In the cathedral hangs the lamp
whose swaying Is said to have suggest
ed to Galileo the Idea of the pendulum.
It hangs there still, from the flat roof
of the nave, (for the church Is In the
basilica style) which roof Is borne by
sixty-eight antique Roman and Greek
columns which the Pisans captured In
war. It may be said that the whole
church Is the result of war, for It
was begun after the great victory of
the Pisans over the Saracens by which
they acquired possession of Sardinia.
One of the most interesting things In
Italy Is the way one comes across old
Greek and Roman columns In the
churches. Perhaps some of them origi
nally stood In Greece supporting some
temple of the gods, and were brought
thence by the conquering Romans, from
whom they have descended to the
Italians. A good column has a long
life, and perhaps some ot these old
travelers will make yet another Jour
ney before they return to their original,
primeval dust.
IN THE CATHEDRAL.
The effect of the interior of the cathe
dral, with Its copper gilded' roof, its
many colored marbles,, its old stained
glass windows and Its fine paintings, is
very rich, made all the hiore so by the
subduedllght which, howevfrf prevents
one from fully, seeing the fine Audlca,
del Santos of which the, church; Is own
er. Just opposite the facade of the
cathedral stands the flnetlrcular domed
Baptistery, built a hundvd,y,eax8 after
the cathedral and occupying the same
relative position to It as does the one In
Florence to the cathedra;! .there. The
Interior is bare and desolate now, ex
cept for the celebrated luoiblu pulpit
by Nicola Pisano, regardedis one ot the
finest works of its time, pke the tower
this building also leans out. of the per
pendicular, but of course not to the
same extent. Some parts" of the
cathedral are also "out, of plumb"
OF CENTRAL
OEN. BARRIOS, ol auatemalaJ ,Z '
,1'iiw I
Fronj the Chloago
for the whole ground was flat and mar
shy, and at the time the buildings were
erected the science of foundation' was
probably not well understood. ' .
THE CAMPO SANTO. A." j
The Campo Sunt'o, or burial ground,'
Is the fourth building of this group.
Fifty-three ship-loads of earth from
Mt. Calvary were brought hither when
the Crusaders were compelled to evacu
ate Palestine, and as a consequence of
the possession of this holy ground, the
cemetery was known all over Italy. It
such a thing can be said of a cemetery,
positions there were much sought for.
The walls of the enclosing Gothic ar
cades are covered with frescoes, almost
obliterated, but of great' Interest to the
student as many celebrated pictures
are traced back to suggestions received
from these paintings.
These are the sights of Pisa. ' The
city itself is a strangely quiet sleepy
old town, -with quaint, deserted streets.1
There seems to be no especial industry
there, and the shops are hid In under
dim old arcades. My chief recollection
of the people of Pisa is that there I
first encountered what may be termed
the Tuscan toga. This Is an ulster of a
peculiarly vivid shade of red, some
thing between orange and brick color.
It is trimmed with heavy cuffs and
collar of fox-skin, and usually ' lined
with green. To a limited extent they
ore worn at Florence and Sienna, hut
Pisa seems to be the main seat of the,
fashion. One Is very likely to think on
first catching sight of a man in one of
them thnt a comet is coming around
the corner.
But every people to Its own fashion,
and these ore perhaps popular there
because they are both warm In color and
texture. Or perhaps the Pisans wear
them to counteract the quietness of the
town. Winford J. Northup,
. I
ABOUT FAMOUS MEN. j
DEPEW'8 LATEST.
Chfuineey Pepew. as 'the President of
another very. Important railroad, cuuio
down to his dinner with one of his m
Imllulile speeches, suys the Washington
correspondence of the New York Hun. He
Is looking thin. James llusted, now dead,,
once told tne that he was a college ma:.!
of llepew ut Yale, and thnt IVnew even'nt
that time was Htrlvinir for the laurel mr
oratory, and llnally did Kft the valedlc.
lory. Kepew's gentlemanly nature liu
had much to do with his IhkIi promotions,
lie Is hoth a good fellow und a coiirliec.
He delivers speeches Just us Oliver Wen
dell' I Ionics wrote poems, liecause they
are In him, and bubble out like the KprliiKS
of wuter under pressure, lie has n fine
capacity to Invent anecdotes or -to adapt
old ones, us when it Ibis. dinner lie con
vulsed the house by ilescrililtus a ' new
member of t'ongress seutrd In an old
blink barber's chair, and sayliiK, "You
have shaved ninny other stiiicsinvn In tha
pasC'tuH-h" ns-f'lay unci Webster'
"Yes, sir," replied Ihe barber, somewhat
frigl'llv; "you look somewhat llku Mr.
Webster."
.'In my brow?" Inquired the statesman,
who has III the nieantiuie been rendered
helpless In the barber's chair.
"No." replies the- nci;io. In .' "your
breath."
This anecdote, shaped by Mr. Pepew
himself, is of the character of Ihe news
paper comments on public men which sev
eral speakers thut niaht uppenred to
reprobate. I lemoerury mukes sport of Itself.-
While Mr. pep, w was thus referrin;;
In Mr. YWhster's hnccliunultan breath,
some of those very Invited suests were
huving their will of Mr. pepew's consti
tution. He ftbt credit for belli every tliillK
but a railroad man, yet I lieurd him sity
some time uro thai he itave more hours
to his railroad duties than-any corpora
tion President In the country,
WEIJSTRR'S PERSONAL FORCE.
Onre,' when Daniel" Webster wns ad
dressing ,a poll I leal meeting In r'nncoiil
Hull, say's ihe San Francisco Argonaut,'
the standing multitude within the hall,
pressed b'y those who were emltavoring
to enter from without, liecun to sway to
and fro, a solid mass of human bodies,
os helpless to counteract the movement an
If Faneull Hull were being rocked by an
earthquake. The orator, was In the midst
of a stirring uppcal, tirg'.ng the necessity
of individual exertion und until nchl id?
patrlotium tb avert the dangurs - that
threatened the political pnrty,whose prin
ciples he espdused, when he perceived the
terrible swaying of the. packed. assembly
and thn Imminent danKer.that might en
sue. -Webster stopped sljort In the middle
of a sentence, advanced to the eliiwor the
platform, extended his arm In an author!..
taiive a limine, ana in a stentornn voice
of command crlecl out: "Let each man
stand firm!" The effect was-Instantane
ous. Each man stood firm; .the great'
neHvuig- muse vi numanuy guinea us
equilibrium, and, save the long breath of
relief that filled the air, perfect stillness
ensued, "That,'' exclaimed' the great ora
tor, "U what we call self-government."
-AffiWCAN REPUBLICS...
SUNDAY OBSERVED WELL
In the Sinful Capital City of Darkest
England.
ALL BUSINESS IS SUSPENDED
The Inhabitants of London Are Not
Specially Religions, but They
Firmly Believe in Resting One
' Whole Day In Seven. ,
Barron, In the Times-Herald.
A London Sunday Is a very solemn
If not a pre-eminently religious day.
Perhaps there Is no city in the world
that, to the stranger, shows as austere
and repellant on the "Hawbath" as this
modern Babylon. To Issue from your
hotel or domicile at ID o'clock In the
PRESIDENT ZELAVA. oi Nicaragua.
POLVCARPO BONILLA, of Honduras.
Tlmei-Herald, By the Courtesy ot H. H. Kobliaat.
morning Is to enter the streets of a
deserted city. A few cabs with sleepy
horses and Invisible cabmen may be
in the ranks ot a street here and there;
now and then a bus may rumble past;
occasionally, too, a private equipage
of one or two horse power will hurry
by; and, of course, men and women
and children will straggle along: but
what movement there Is only heightens
and Intensifies the emptiness and lone
liness ot the monster city's desolation,
and one asks one's self wonderingly,
"Where are the crowds and the crfftfu
sion of yesterday, the surging thous
ands, the Incessant stream of traffic,
the dull, reverberating rumble of
wheels, the muffled clip-clap of my
riads of Iron-shod hoofs beating the
pavement, and that Inarticulate, inde
finable hum of a great city's babble?
Whither has It all vanished?
They only can tell who are the par
ticles of the daily commotion. Every
thing Is closed, as If men. were done
with buying and selling, even the
"pubs" being strictly forbidden to sell
to anyone not a "traveler," though I
believe any person who lives a three
miles remove from the "pub" may qual
ify as a "traveler." A resident of any
of the principal American cities who
has not bpen in London on a Sunday
has but an Imperfect Idea of what Sun
day observance really . means. Corn
pored with London, New York, which
makes a flourish of Sunday closing, has
'a fete, and Chicago a carnival on the
seventh day. London Is more puritan
ical than Boston and more sweetly sol
emn than Philadelphia, and It Is Pur
itanism rather than an evidence of
higher culture and broader refinement,
because the benevolence and philan
thropy nnd evangelism of Sunday-open
art galleries cannot be made evident to
the minds In authority.
NO SUNDAY DIN.
"Hitf you are glud of the quiet anil rp
poseas you wulk abroad, and appreci
ate' the benellcence of a day of rest so
universally resected. There Is no
temptution to loiter In the streets, for
the shop windows have heavy Bhuttera
before them or are curtained within.
The tradesman docs not seem to think
it worth while to cheat his God or
'juggle with his conscience by using Ids
windows as a Sunday advertising medi
um. He closes up shop In earliest. So,
ith nothing to see in the thorough
fares, you stroll into the parks, and
there you see the lower inlddle-cliiss
world, till uges, decked out, a la Me
lilnty, in Its best suit of clothes, quite
ut ease utid huppy, idle, chatty, laugh
ing, but to the full degree orderly and In
no way noisy. You may hear present
ly the Jar-resounding boom of "ISIg
Hen" procliilinliiK from his lofty tower
the aging of the day, und you will know
that cathedral, nbbey and church are
receiving their congregations and thnt
soon from thousuiuls of choirs and pul
pits will ascend Hint spiritual essence
of physical submission which has made
the nineteenth century a little belter
than uny other cycle that ever was.
Now, If you t liuctie to stand In one
of the busier thoroughfares near a
church you will note another London
lieoiiliarily. On the lamp-posts of the
"refuges" In the middle of the streets
are placards, hung there only Sundays,
which bear the command "Drive slow
ly." The driver of 'bus or cab or curt ot
"growler" or carriage pulls shnrply up
at that notice and keeps his team at n
walk until the church Is well passed;
then he inhy whip into a trot aguln and
go his lively way to the next warning.
Services In n Imdon church are not
disturbed by the ronr of the careless
street; hard I y as much mny be snid fof
some American cities. In which the
prayer of the pastor Is often punctured
by the shrill voice of the newsboy cry
ing his wares, or Ihe organ takes Its
.grewsome minor from the smothered
Hang and rattle of the passing wagons,
that seem to concentrate their ilynnmle
energies before a church door. This
street placard, wliicli aims to subordin
ate worldly necessities to spiritual de
sires, and which. In a manner, tybWes
a London Sunday, would not. 1 fear,
have much lnlluence upon Ihe independ
ent ardor of Yankee Jehus. Rut here a
constable stands before the door of the
church, and, though he never lifts a
finger nor opens his Hps In admonition,
his presence is an all-sufficient remindet
of taws that are uncompromisingly and
surely enforced. What marvelous crea
tures these London policemen are. to be
sure! Quiet,, undemonstrative, polite,
ready their voices always modulated
to conversational tones; no bluster, no
rrab,- no knocking down and dragging
off.
Yet they give the biggest city In the
world the best police service, and prove
better than argument may what a real
ly civilized community London is. Even
Paris arms her police with a huge dag
ger, by courtesy called a sword, an In
strument of defense and assault that
the dapper gendarmes are only too
ready to draw and put to use. Sunday
does not end with daylight, aa it does
In some communities that temporise
with religion, but rounds out the twenty-four
hours. Therefore, .there are no
Sunday evening amusements. Thea
ters, music halls, vaudevilles, concert
rooms, everything of the sort is scrupu
lously closed. So very strict are the au
thorities in these respects that it is
only with the greatest difficulty and by
the smallest majority of votes that per
mission Is given tor the Sunday opening
of such rare and temporary public bene
fits as the loan collection of old paint
ings at Guildhall.
Recently a concession has been made
to muslo, and it Is possible now to at
tend a classical and seml-sacred concert
Sunday afternoon and evening, but
these are Infrequent, there being only
two advertised In last Sunday's papers.
Whether this Sabbath day rest be dic
tated by sentimental or by sensible
considerations, there Isn't the slightest
doubt that its value to London is so
great, that If all religious scruples were
removed, the present metropolitan reg
ulations would continue In force, for
the public Is well aware of the benefit
to the Individual and to the community
of this ordered suspension of "wrang
ling worldliness." It need nut be In
ferred from this that London Is a com
munity of churchgoers. Indeed, my ob
servation leads me to the conclusion
thut an extraordinarily small propor
tion of this vast population Is to bor
row the phrase of an Impious wretch
addicted to church. But they make up
for the deficiency by a love of nature,
for the outdoor life of the English Is
Itself a religion. You would think so.
Indeed, to see their swimming races In
the Serpentine In Hyde Park on Clirlst
mas Day. What other people takes an
open-air plunge Into water every day
In the year, often breaking through Ice
to do It. If Is not Puritanism ulone
that bids such a people keep one duy In
the week for better things thun work.
ANECDOTES OF Till? BAR.
YOUNO LAWYER'S CLAIM-.
A young man with a delicate, straw
rolnred moustache and football hair
parted In the center and glued down to
his temples, sauntered carelessly Into
one of the Superior Court a the other
day, says the San, Francisco Post. He
eyed the judge through his glasses, and
sized up all the attorneys. Then he
walked out of the court. The Judge
a class of Ice water.
The judge who is nervous and testy
had observed the young man and
frowned down on the glued hair and
glasses. When the young man boldly
walked up to the bar and .took a glass
of ice water the Judge fairly boiled with
indignation at such temerity amounting
almost to contempt. The young man
was just raising the glass to his lips
when tho judge roared:
"That water, sir. Is for attorneys and
other officers, of the court."
The glass almost drooped from his
hand, he started violently, turned red.
then placed the glass on the table and
waled out of the court. The Judge
chuckled. V
Half an hour later the young man
entered the court mom again with a
roll of parchment in his hand. The
Judge glared at him savagely, but he
never flinched. Finally there was a
lull In the proceedings, and he address
ed the court:
' "Your Honor!"
"What is It, sir?"
"I wish to submit to the court my
certificate of admission to practice In
the Supreme Court and all other courts
of this State,", and he passed the parch
ment to the clerk.
"Well, what of that?" growled the
Judge.
"Now, Your Honor, having presented
the proofs of my admission to the bar,
I would now move the court that I be
permitted to drink from the official
pitcher," and he calmly drained the
glass of water he had left on the table.
SENSITIVE ABOUT HIS AGE.
'An attorney of Springfield, 111., was
at the Capitol the other day, says the
Washington Star and the subject of
sensitiveness about the age came up
"The most remarkable Instance of that,"
he said, "was a man not a woman
and a very able man mentally too,
Judge Snyder Breese. for many years
one of the justices of Supreme Court of
Illinois, died at a very advanced age,
but no one ever knew how old he was.
Upon one occasion tho Judges of the
Supreme Court of Iowa visited the Ill
inois Supreme Court. Judge Wright,
of Iowa, was at that time very old. and
he had gone West from Ohio, the State
of Judge Breese's nativity. At the ban
quet table Judge Wright said to the
venerable Illinois Jurist:
" 'Judge, we must be about the same
age. We left Ohio in the same year.
We have served on the bench an equal
length of time. I wonder how much
further the coincidence extends. I
would not be surprised If we were born
during the snme year. If not an Im
pertinence I would usk how old you are?
I am 78.'
"Judge Breese arose from the table,
his face livid with anger, and snylng.
fiercely. "I would consider It the height
of Impertinence, sir.' and left the room,
and would not appear again when
Judge-W'rlght was present."
ms ExcrsE.
Mr. Justice Hawkins, of London, has
been ut It again.
"You are charged with trying to com
mit suicide," be said, sternly, to the
prisoner ut the bur.
"I was driven to It. Your Lordship."
stnininered the unfortunate; "I was
driven to It by a woman. "
"Hum!" mused His lordship. Then,
suddenly. "Hid she refuse you, or did
she marry you?"
SKILLED INDIAN COOKS.
Aborigines of California Make Some Fa
mous and Savory IHshes.
From the Overland Monthly.
I have watched the women, ns many
hours more, gathered in groups along
the bank on the lovely slope a little
eastward, preparing their cuisine for a
great feast or "Hlg Times." Here and
there lazily curled the smoke from
fagot flies on which smooth stones were
heating wherewith to cook acorn soup
and bread and other luxuries. Shallow
circular depressions, some two feet In
lla meter, were made in the sand for
wushing the acorn meal, to remove the
bitter. astringent properties. The
acorns nfter being dried were pulver
ized In stone mortals of rude construc
tion with stone pestles nnd put to
these shallow cavities. Water wus then
repeatedly poured on till the bitterness
was gone. Then with the finger the
dough wns marked Into srfiiures, lifted
by one hand und the adhering sand re
moved by a dexterous application of
water with the other. It wns then
ttansferred to the heated stones, on
which fresh grass or leaves wer? hast
ily laid to receive It. Then another
handful of grass oh top of the dough
anil hot stones upon that until it was
baked. My husband says they also
made thn dough Into bans and put it
Into holes in the ground, previously
heated, and added heated stones on top.
The meal not made Into bread was di
luted with water and boiled Into soup
In latge waterproof baskets of beau
tiful shape and ornamentation, made of
grass roots, wild rmilax and certain
shrubs. The stones were lifted from
the fire with two long, pointed sticks,
dipped Into a basket of water to re
move the ashes, then dropiied Into the
soup und on cooling returned to the
fire. This wns repeated until the soup
was thoroughly boiled, bubbling like a
mud geyser. The very aged still ad
here to some of the old customs.
FINE TRIBUTE TO QUAY
Colonel A. L. Conger, of Akron, 0
Warmly EulofjUes Him.
THINKS H1H LIKELY TO MIS
Tha Aotlv Polltielaas. tu Says, Are for
Ulna from Main to California.
Qnalltles That Make His Candi
dacy So Popular.
Colonel A. L, Conger, of Akron. O
haa been saying many nice things la
behalf of the Quay boom. "I have
talked," said he, "with many prominent
buslnesss people from many different
states, some of them from states with
'favorite sons as candidates, and all
speak well of Senator Quay. Peraon-
ally, I regard the name of Senator Quay
as one ot the strongest that will come
before the convention.
"First Because of his great strength
with the business interests of the coun
try. In the senate, he has always been
the champion of those Interests. Com
ing from the great state ot Pennsylva
nia, which has always been the cham
pion ot. the American protective tariff
system, he has gained the confidence of
the friends of protection from all over
the country. Probably on that score
1 1 1 1 11 r , I MiVlnlflvaru.vnnlv muteHtwl
Hecond Because he Is the firm friend
of American ugrlculture, and today this
great Interest is- down, and has been
neglected. I think among all the candi
dates, perhaps Senator Allison bears tha
closest relations to our agricultural In
terests, und yet one of the best short
speeches 1 ever listened to on American
agriculture was made by Quay.
"Third Senator Quay Is stronger
With the politicians of the country than
any other cundldute or any other man
In our party. The wonderful magnan
imity he hits always shown to and for
those who have opposed him, the splen
did success he has achieved In party
management, and the ability shown In
restoring und maintaining harmony In
the party, mark him as one of the great
est lenders In the Republican party.
PERSONAL KXPERIENCE. ,
"It was my good fortune tu be asso
ciated with Senator Quay for a number
of years on the Republican National Ex
ecutive comlttee. I have sat with him
In important counclls.and seen him with
many surrounding embarrassments, but
he Is never rattled and always fair to
all. First for his country, then for his
party. He has the confidence of the
politicians of his party to as great w
degree as any other man In It. Let me
give you a little incident which I now
recall to illustrate how he has secured
at d maintained this confidence. After
the Harrison campaign and Instalment
of the administration. Quay had a meet
ing of the Republican National Execu
tive committee at his house In Washing
ton to consider some of Its unfinished
business. We commenced our business
early in the evening. About 8 o'clock a
delegation of five or six gentlemen from
a leading city in Pennsylvania called at
his house and wished to see the Benator
before their departure on the night
train. Quay requested the committee
to take a recess while he gave them a
hearing, and we did so, and the gentle
men withdrew to the corner of hla li
brary, while the members of our com
mlttee remained In the room.
HARBORED NO REVENGE.
"It was evident that the gentlemen
had called to discussi certain political
appointments for their state, and thera
seemed to be unanimity until the sena
tor mentioned a name for a particular
office, when the principal spokesman
entered his strong protest, said the man
was one of the bitterest political ene
mia. tha spnntnr had In the state of
Pennsylvania, the chief lieutenant of a
rival, etc. Each one of the gentlemen
Joined In the protest.
"Naturally, the members of our com
mittee were attracted by the talk, and
were anxious to hear the senator's re
ply, which was as follows:
" 'Well, boys, we have won this fight,
and all the Republicans of the United
States helped to win it, and all are de
serving of credit and the best recogni
tion we can give them.'
"Speaking of the rival whose name
had been mentioned, he said: 'He has
a large following. They have done a
good service for the party, and In the
next contest we shall need their services
again. The candidate is unobjection
able and I have decided to recommend
him for the place. You must remember
It Is my duty to represent all factions
of the party in our state, regardless of
how it affects me personally.'
"Mr. Fessenden, of Connecticut, turn
ed to me and said: 'Conger, do you ever
get that kind of politics dished up to
you In Ohio?' I had to say no but If
we had, we would have had two Repub
lican senators during: the past thirty;
years Instead of one.
ESTEEMED BY BLAINE.
His policy In such matters shows why
Senator Quay hus the confidence of the
men who innke Presidents. I doubt If
there will be many, or any, politicians
at the St. Louis convention, who. If they
ennnot get their own favorite candi
date, would not prefer a landing under
the banner of Pennsylvania's candidate.
"Let me tell you of the high estima
tion In which Quay was held by Jamea
(I. Blaine. It wus during Governor Mc
Kinley's first cumpalKii for governor In
our state. I was requested to make a
Visit to Mr. ltlalne ami to get from him
a letter favoring Governor McKinley's
canvass. Its beuring upon protection,
etc. Mr. Blaine was too ill to come to
Ohio to enter the canvass, but wrote tho
letter.
'I was nt Bar Harbor three days, and
spent much of the tlmo with Mr. Klulne
and Emmons, tild cumpalKiis und pub
lic mei! came up III our dials, and I shall
never forget his splendid talk about
Senator Quay. H wus very eulogistic
In his remarks ubout the senator and
suld:
"'Quay Is one of the strongest and
one of the safest men in the senate; not'
an orator, but a deep thinker, and prob
ably the shrewdest and best politician
In the I'nlled Slates. Pennsylvania has
reason to feel proud of him, and much
of her great strength In natlonul politics
and legislation Is due to his guidance.' "
JOLLYING A SOLTHEHNEa.
The Keparce of a Hotel :ierk Silenced aa
Atlanta Visitor.
From the Philadelphia llecord.
Quite funny lire some of the experl
ecnes narrutcd by persons returning
from the Atlanta exposition. A local
uewspuper man who got buck from the
south on Monday tells this one on him
self. I'pon arriving- ot Atlanta he
chartered a hack, nnd with that fine
scorn of pecuniary considerations char
acteristic of his profession, ordered the
driver to convey him to the "best hotel
in town." Entering the really gorgeous
caravansary, he dropped his grip before
the desk, held a jien Tiolsed above the
register ami Inquired:.
"What kind of a room can you give
me. ami how much?"
The clerk, a typical southerner, with
sallow complexion, drooping mustache
und long goatee, replied In an indiffer
ent sort of tone:
"Weil. suh. Ah ken give yo' a fo'th flo
room foh fo' dollahs a day. suh."
"Fo'th flo. fo' dollahs." repeated the
visitor facetiously mimicking the soft
southern accent: "then I presume you
can give- mo a first-floor room tor $L
eh?"
"N-o-o, suh." drawled the haughty
Georgian. "Ah kaln't give yo' a fust
flo' room foh one dollah. suh; but Ah
ken give yo' a room without any flo at
all foh nothin', suh. Jest go down thar
to the bahn and inqul' foh the mewel
apahtments."
The Philadelphlan made no further
attempt to have fun with the natives
during his stay in Atlanta.