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AMERICANS 1LL AT EASE
Traveling in Germany Made Unpleas
ant by Unsupplkd ants.
THINGS YOU CAVT GET THERE
There Are Many Article of Food and
Comfort Which Americana Ycara for
in Vain Whan in the Father
laud-Some Citations.
In the Old World, writes a Berlin cor
respondent of the Sun. one is supposed
to be able to secure all the comforts
and luxuries tit life if One has the
wherewithal which commands them,
but I have discovered that even murks
und groschen will not procure in Ger
muny some of the thing that dollars
and dimes will In America. Take the
things one likes to eat and doesn't Ret.
The Herman eertulnly excel In cooking
vegetables and ull sorts of farinaceous
foods, but they haven't the remotest
Idea of how to prepare n beefsteak or a
roast. They consider the KiiKllsh und
Americans utterly barbarous because of
their preference for rarely done meats.
Their own ure always conked to a dark
brown color, and mutton and beef are
not to he distinguished from each other
by the sense of taste. Their favorite
meat, aside from sausages, seems to
be hare, a dry, tasteless food, which
suggests stowed chips about as much
as anything.
Oysters you may secure In midwinter,
hut they are very small and very ex
pensive. A German girl suld to me one
day, as we passed a restaurant where
huh tern were advertised for sale:."Ila
ben sle austern In Amerlka schon ge
gessen?" and she was surprised when I
replied that we could have them almost
any day in New York. She hud tasted
them once.
PIES AHR UNKNOWN.
It Is difficult to celebrate Thanksgiv
ing Day in Germany in a very ortho
dox American way, for the cranberries
and the mince pics ure not ulways
forthcoming, Cranberries one can Ret
sometimes In Itresden, but they are n
pour llllle Imitation of the real Ameri
can article. Pie seems to be a Yunkec
lsni. (ierinan conks have not been Ini
tiated Into the mystery of compound
ing tlakey pie crusts. They lenrn oc
casionally how to make the indigestible
inside nf a mince pie, but they have no
artistic appreciation nf the qualities
of an upper and under crust. In their
hundH, a pie crust is a mere piece of
heavy prosulc dough, In which a shupe
less mass of mince meat gets a defi
nite symmetrical form.
German bakery shops are a paradise
of toothsome sweets. There one can
find nil sorts of sweet breads and cakes,
sugared nnd cinnamoned on the out
side and tilled with plum Jam or choco
late cream, but one can't get there a
pie or a loaf of lioston brown bread. A
skillful cook may learn to concoct n
kind of Heiiln brown bread, but It will
never have the superior qualities of the
American article, because one can't get
molasses in Germany and Is obliged to
use a very Inferior sort of syrup. As
for baking-powder biscuits, they are
quite out of the question. The Oer
111 a n, however, make an excellent roll
or brodchen covered with poppy or
caraway seeds, which Is a very good
substitute for hot biscuits and prob
ably more wholesome.
Among other hygenlc articles of
American diet of which the Germans
nre still In ignorance may be mentioned
fruit cake. Sponge cake they have
heard about from English novels, like
Mrs. Haskell's "C'ranford," and some of
them have tasted "angel food" at par
ties in the American colony. They
know about lemonade, but they seldom
drink It, ns wine or beer Is always
rwrhlri ' in u ftrrmntl-tindse. I "was
greatly amused at a young German of
ficer whom I met one evening at on
American reception, lie had manful
ly done his duty toward the coffee and
the salads and the Ices before he dis
covered the lemonade. The Germans
usually begin any social, festivity with
a dinner. After a couple of tiresome
hours at a very long table, where an
incessant clatter of tongues and glasses
reigns, the table Is pushed back and
the dance begins. Our American fash
ion of letting each man help himself
and his fair friends in an informal
but modest way between the dances Is
hew to them. They apfiear to consider
themselves In duty hound to make out
a full meal, but under the discomfort
of atunding up to do it and of waiting
on themselves. Still, they conscient
iously perform that duty, though it
take all evening to do It.
LEMONADE A SURPRISE. .
The German officer on this occasion
showed his appreciation of the lemon
ade by Imbibing large quantities of it.
He held his glass up to the light and
critically squinted one eye nt it. Jle
asked If lemonade was a favorite Amer
ican beverage, nnd he wanted to know
what It was made of. I really believe
that he had never tasted it before. Cir
cus lemonade and Its accompaniments
of peanuts and popcorn have no claim
on the popular heart us they have in
America. What Germnn would stop to
experiment on red lemonade when there
was the assured and blessed certainty
of enjoyment in a glass of Munich beer,
for the same price? Peanuts do not
appear to be appreciated by even the
Juvenile German in the way that they
deserve. A man who sold tons of pea
nuts at the World's Fair brought ship
loads of them over to the exposition
at Antwerp, hoping to dispose of them
to his profit. Alas, he couldn't dispose
of them at all, and returned a sadder
but a wiser man to the Western hemi
sphere. It was the same way when
Buffalo Bill was in Berlin. The little
MARQUIS RUOINI, ITALY'S NEW PREMIER.
From the Chicago Timet Herald. By the Ceortea of H. H. Kohtoaat.
German boys and girls went wild with
delight over the horses and the Indians,
but none of them cried for the peanuts
and poticurn which were on sale there.
A groat many Germans have never
seen poix-orn. "Is it true, fraulcln."
said an old man to an American girl
nt a German pension. "Is It true that
you have in America a kind of grain
that bursts with the heat Into a beau
tiful white flower? I will not believe It
until I can nee It myself." So the girl
sent for a few ears of popcorn, ana
when it came her fellow boarders fol
lowed her down to the pension kitchen,
where she popped the corn over the fire.
They were as delighted as children, and
would not allow a single grain of the
wonderful flower-like corn to be lost.
CANDY. GUM. TOBACCO.
Candy one can get, of course, but
compared with" French or American
confections it Is as moonlight unto sun
light os as water unto wine. One must
content oneself here with Marzipan
candies, of which the Germans are very
fond, but the decided almond taste,
which characterizes them. Is sickening
to one who likes a more delicate and
.evasive flavoring.
Chewing gum is not often on the mar
ket. It is supposed to he especially
dear to the heart of the American girl,
and so If you carry the mark of your
nationality in your face or on your
tongue you need not he surprised If a
shopkeeper some day detains you, say
ing: "I have secured something, frnulein,
that the Americans like."
That something Is probably a small
supply of chewing gum. In German
novels of the yellow-paper-backed or
der the American girl Is always repre
sented as a very Independent and
dashing young woman, who is devoted
ly addicted to chewing gum and to
smoking cigarettes. 1 saw a striking
young woman at the riding school one
day who, after a hard gallop around the
course, sat down with her escort on a
bench to rest, ishe had assumed a most
comfortable attitude feet crossed.head
buck, and lips pur ted to emit a thin line
of smoke, while between her first two
fingers she held a tiny cigarette. Some
Gerniun girls, who had come there with
their governess to take their first riding
lesson, looked over their shoulders at
her and suld. In a shocked but rather
apologetic whisper:
"Eln Amerlkiinerln!"
They were wrong, however. I caught
some of the fair smoker's conversation,
and, Judging from the staccato sound of
the lunguage which she spoke, I should
say that she was a Russian, It Is to
be hoped that her cigarettes were not
made of German tobacco. The Ameri
can who Is fastidious uhout the weeds
that he smokes will have In forget some
of his fastidiousness when he comes te
Germany If he cannot Import his to
bueco. If he asks for a good cigar he
will get one which costs ten pfennings
uhout two and a half cents In American
coin. Is it any wonder, then, that
American olfactory nerves ar,e offended
by German tobacco?.
GERMAN BOOKS.
Germany is the great book centre of
the world. Hooks are plentiful and
cheap enough, and If a man is not fas
tidious about their exteriors, he may
fill his library shelves without much
cost or trouble. If he takes an aesthetic
pleasure, however. In the look of the
book. In the feeling of It, his bookcases
will only be filled slowly and at con
siderable expense. The Germans dis
play extraordinarily bad taste In the
bindings of their books. They like them
red and blue und green and purple, with
lavish gilt decorations, such as we
think out of place except on nursery
books. The paper Is very bad, and,
combined with the wretched Gothic
c haracters, to which the German print
ers still cling, has a very bad effect on
the eyes. Even at Christmas, It Is dif
ficult to secure pretty holiday books,
similar to those of which we have4uch
an ubundance In America.
If you are fastidious about your book
bindings you will probably growl at the
German ink Into which you dip your
"American stob pelt, sent you by order
through the mall. You want black ink,
of course, but after nil sorts of strug
gles with pale black Ink and with pitch
black ink, you will probably resign
yourself to the use of purple Ink, such as
most of the Germans use.
Your calling cards will probably
srlve out before you have been here long,
if you have the good fortune to be popu
lur, and you will expect to get another
supply, of course, by simply sending
your plate to an engraver's. That Isn't
the way they do here, however. If you
want to send your plate to Paris and get
along meantime without visiting cards,
you can do so, but you had better in
stead order a package of lithographed
cards, and In so doing observe the cus
tom of the country.
SOME LUXURIES.
There are a few little American lux
uries which you must not expect to find
in benighted Germany. One of them
is dental floss. A German dentist will
look at you In bewilderment while you
describe the desired article, and will
politely tell you that he hasn't an
"thnung" of what the "knadiges frau
leln" means. Another thing Is witch
hazel. You may bruise yourself black
and blue and bump yourself lame, and
have to do without that most soothing
bairn unless you happen to live at
Grunewald, a certain suburb of Ber
lin. In one little drug store nt Grune
wald you will find witch hnzel, and In
only one. That Is because 1.1111 Leh
man, the great singer,, lives at Crune
wald. But she has not always lived at
Griinewald. She has lived In America,
and that Is the very reason why you
now can get witch hazel at Grunewald.
The little druggist Imports It for her.
I might mention open grate tires as
one of the things which the Americans
In Germany sorely miss during the
winter months. One sees them very
seldom here. In America, although we
have nil sorts of wonderful steam and
hot air heating apparatus, we still keep
our o:ien Urea for effect, but In Ger-.
many they are banished altogether, and
the sepulchral porcelain stovc-relgna
supreme. ' Then there arrt the elevators
which are conspicuous by their absence.
Everybody lives In apartment houses,
and he who resides on the fifth floor
climbs cheerfully heavenward to that
height, and never thinks of complain
ing. I know of one pension which ad
vertises a. "lift" among Its chief at
tractions. Americana flock thither
fondly hoping to be "lifted." but the
elevator la always Just going to be re
paired, or the elevator boy has always
Just gone to his lunch.
Though America hasn't picture gal
leries or art treasures, and though it
has the German opera only two or three
weeks in the year, still, you see, it has
some things the year round that great
Germany has not.
IT ,MAIE HIM FA MOt'S.
Congressman Boomed Into Popularity by
t'linmpagno Hook.
This Is the story of a champagne
hook.
By a champagne hook Is meant one
of those metal beaks In a pocket knife
which are used in breaking the wires
which ueeure the cork in a champagne
bottle. The hero of the story is Repre
sentative Hull, of Iowa.
Mr. Hull and Congressman Chleker
Ing were going to Chicago on a train
together some time ago, when dicker
ing displayed a knife which Hull at
once began to admire extravugantly
because it had a hook, which dicker
ing seriously assured him was designed
to remove stones which become fast
ened In a horse's, hoof occasionally on
a rocky rood. A stone in your horse's
hoof Is an ugly thing to displace unless
you have a hook In your knife; and Hull
knew this.
"Well, Governor," said Chlckerlng.
with secret malevolence, knowing that
Hull represented a prohibition state,
"If you like the knife so well you muy
have It."
"Oh, no." said Hull. "I wouldn't think
of accepting It. You might have use
for it some time on the road driving.
If your horse should ever gather a
stone In his hoof yoii would greatly
miss this hook."
"That's ull light. Governor." said
Chlckerlng: "I know where I can pick
up another Just like It; so vuu just
take It, and remember nie."
Mull accordingly accepted It. and on
reaching home showed It to his wife,
to whom he extolled the virtues of
knives with a hook attachment for
cleaning horses' hoofs, and rejoiced in
his wonderful possession.
Mis. Hull lookeil ut the knife nnd then
at her husband.
"John." said she, "any mutt who has
served three terms-as secretary of the
state senate, b.een twice lieutenant gov
ernor, nnd served two terms in con
Kress must be a pretty good man If lie
doesn't know a champagne opener from
a hoof cleaner."
The story leaked out, and one of the
avldlous correspondents of an Iowa
paper wired It as a choice bit of gossip
about state members. U was copied
all over the state and commented on In
a variety of ways.
About this time the congressman met
the correspondent who first published
the story. He was smiling all over.
"You did me a great service." Hull
said, wringing his hand affectionately,
"a great service. All the Prohibition
ists are taking my wife's view of my
Ignorance und saying that I must be an
unusually good man, while all the antls
are insisting that I'm a devil of a good
fellow for Imposiug so successfully on
my wife, since I must certainly have
known better. It works In behalf of my
popularity whether you take one view
or the other."
MULTUM IN PAKVO.
Resolution Is omnipotent. John Foster.
Pride that never-fulling vice of fools.
Pope.
Alternate rest and labor long endure.
Ovid.
Content Is the wealth of nature. So
crate. .
Man-asm poisons reproof. Wiggles
worth. Nature Is commanded by obeying her.
Bacon.
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.
Bulwer.
Every noble work Is at first Impossi
ble. Carlyle.
Rashness and haste make nil things in
secure. I lenhum.
Reproof should not exhaust Its powers
on petty failing. Anon.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you
bring some with you. Joubert.
Weak men light their friends, strong
men fight their enemies. Grant.
Evil is wrought by want of thought as
well us by want of heart. Hood.
Poverty Is the test of civility and the
touchstone of friendship. Hizlitt.
All a rhetorician's rules teach nothing
but to name his tools. Samuel Hutler.
The pleasure for which we dare not
thank God cannot be Innocent. Anon.
Patience is not passive; on the contrary
it Is active; It Is concentrated strength.
Anon.
So shines the setting sun on adverse
skies, and paints a rainbow on the skies.
Watts.
Hellnement that carries us away from
our fellowmen Is not God's refinement.
Reedier.
To hove what we want Is rlehes, but
to be able to do without is power. G.
Mncdouuld.
No rock so hard hut that a little wave
may beat admission in a thousand years
Tennyson.
It Is the bright day that bring" for'.h
the adder nnd craves wary wu Iking.
Shakespeare..
1 take It to be n principal rule of life
not to he too much addicted to any one
thing. Terence.
Hv taking revenge a man Is but even
with his enemy; but in pusslug over he
Is superior. Hueon.
"one soweth und another reapeth" Is
a verity thut applies to evil as well as
good. George Eliot.
If a proud ninn makes me keen my dis
tance, the comfort Is that he keeps his
ai the same time. Swift.
'TIs plain there Is not In nature a point
of sttihillty to he found; everything either
ascends or declines. Anon.
No might nor greatness can censure es
cape; back-wotinillng calumny the whitest
virtue strikes. Shakespeare.
We cannot too often think there Is n
ne ver-sleeping eye, whic h reads Ihe heart,
and registers our thoughts. Huron.
Riches without charity ure nothing
worth. They nre n Messing only to him
who makes them a blessing to others.
Fielding.
The real satisfaction which praise can-,
afford Is when that Is 'repouted ulond
I'grees with I lie whisper of conscience.
Johnson.
He Unit resolves upon any great and
good end has by that Very resolution
nnled the chief barrier to It. Tryon
Edward.!.
The intellect of man sits visibly en
Ihrone.l upon his forehead and in his eye,
oud Ihe heart of nisn Is written upon his
countenance. Longfellow.
Our own nnlnlon of ourselves should be
lower thnii thut formed by others, for we
have n belter chnnce nt our Imperfec
tions. Thomas a Kempls.
Forever from the hand Ihnt lakes one
blessing from lis, others fell; and soon
or lute, our Ruber 'miles his perfect re
compense to all. Whlllier.
We should be careful lo deserve a pood
reputation by doing well; nnd when that
cure Is once taken, not to he overanxious
about the success. Rochester.
It Is the old lesson a worthy purpose,
patient energy for its ncfomnllshment.
a resoluteness undaunted by dilllculf
and then success. W. M. Piinslion.
The mind is found most neute and most
uneasy in the mernlng. dieosiness Is. In
deed, a enecles of suKacltv a passive s;t
goclly. Fools ure never uneasy. (loot h A.
Revolutions are not made, I hey come. A
revolution is as natural a growth as an
oak. It comes Ant of the psst. Its foun
dations nre laid far bai l:, Wendell Phil
lips. Good nature anil evenness of temoer will
give you ii n easy companion for life: vir
tue and good sense an ugreeahle friend;
love and constancy a good wife or hu
bp ml. Spectator.
Disagreeing In little things and agree
ing In great ones Is whut forms and
keeps up a commerce of society nnd
friendship among reasonable men, nnd
among unreasonable men, breaks It.
Anon.
Shun no toll 10 moke yourself remarks-,'
ble by some one talent. - Yet do. not de
vote yourself to one branch exclusively.
Strive tn get clear notions about all. Give
up no science entirely, for all science Is
one. Seneca.
To be always Intending to live a new
life, but never to find time to set nbout It;
this Is as If a man should yut off eating
and drinking and sleeping, from one day
and night to another, till he is starved,
and destroyed. Tlllottson.
WHEN GENIUS OUTCROPS
The Development of Greatness Often
Manifested at Fourteen.
SOME INSTANCES IX QUESTION
Incidents in the I. Ives of Great Mon-John
Marshall and t hurlcs Dlekcns.
The Case of Spiirjeon Other
famous Youngster.
From the Philadelphia Times.
It Is worth while to watch boys and
girls at 11 years of age. This, It seems.
q the time thut most surely Indicates
the after life. As Uulzue says. It i: a
luminous point. It Is here that the
boy munllVsts the man. Homo prodi
gious youngsters assert themselves be
fore this, but not inuny of them do. If
un exception In to be found with any
particular class of minds. It Is with
musicians. They are very quick to
show thetr.r-lves Mossart.- for In
rtancc, writing a concerto when he
was ! years old, and Rossini compos
lug "Tuncitd" ut I, which mude him
famous.
John Marshall, on the frontier of
Virginia. Hinl Charles Dick, us In the
city of London, separated by a cen
tury of time, are two splendid speci
mens of boyn starting at it In the
lace nf celebrity. Marshall, we know,
hud the distinction of being on? of the
best lawyers and scholars of the revo
lutionary epoch, . while Dickens at
tained a popular' eminence in novel
writing unsurpassed. When John
Marshall was 14 years old he was
placed under the tutelage of a ciergy
inun named Campbell. He received
but two years of Instruction. Ills own
gi nlus and uoplkatlon did . the rest.
The number II Is conspicuous in Mar
shall's life. At this age he began his
studies: ut twice 14 he was In the legls
luttiie, und at thie times this age he
was sent envoy to France. Dickens
hud no more Instructions Ihun Mur
shull. nor was It of the best. He quit
the old Wellington school ut II. and
this put him In the way of u grand
career. It was his pivotal period,
when he begun his Intimate ucquulnt
ance with lite In London, nnd at -S.
twice this age, he mude his mark as a
professional author.
CHARLES SPt'RGHOX.
It Is doubtful if the career of any
mail bus been more clearly Indicated
at any time of life than was I'harles
Hpurgeon's ut 14. He was then going
to school ut Colchester, and preached
a. sermon of such excellence as to
nialre his teacher suspect he had the
gift of oratory, The sermon Is re
ported to have been delivered with
great enthusiasm, but none of that
simple majesty which made Spurgeon
famous. At 14, too, we see Hossuet,
the most gifted priest the Catholic
church has known, while at the col
lege of Navarre, delivering an extem
pore sermon before Mnie, RamlMiullet
and a circle of friends. He was then
the brightest hope of the church. A
year before he had been appointed
canon of Metz. and now his father,
dean of the parliament of Metz, re
calls him to that city from Dijon that
he may benefit by his appointment as
canon and complete his theological
studies. This same year he was sent
to Paris, and while there saw the
grand entrance to the city of , the
emaciated and almost dead Cardinal
Richelieu, so graphically described by
l.amui'tine and Salute-Ben ve. The
glory of a prelute who had been given
the highest dignity of the church save
that of pope, and the highest of the
state save that of king, cuptivated his
Imagination and filled him with ambi
tion; and this lad of 14, with the face
of a child and the head of a man, sees
himself a cardinal In the church and
prime minister to a king. The vision
was never realized, though his genius
was ample.
RALPH WALDO KMKRSON.
Emerson's fourteenth year seems to
brnr rather indirectly on the best part
of his life, that of thinker and writer,
but Is the starting point of his career.
He then entered Harvard with little
taste for Its curriculum and laws of
government. Hut like his friend Car
lyle at Kdlnburgh, he rummaged the
library and learned literature. Here
he was under the tutelage of Edward
Kverett, Caleb Cushlng and George
Ticknor. His taste for oratory was
confirmed by Everett and Cushlng.
though Tlcknor's mind, that vast store
house of literary knowledge, was real
ly Emerson's controlling force nt that
time, If It might be snid that he was
controlled by anybody. From this In
fluence, with some Intervening time,
be came under that of Ellery Chnn
nlng, another eloquent and learned
man. lie soon took up lecturing nnd
writing as a vocal Ion, the preparation
for which dated from his fourteenth
year.
Cervantes as a boy had more of the
spirit of rebellion than Emerson.
When 14 he was put to school at Mad
rid under Lope Ue- Ilogos to learn
theology, law or medicine. He was
not a good student,' never was until
be became n man. Law he couldn't
understand, and theology' he wouldn't
understand: 'medicine he learned a lit
tle. At this time Cervantes wanted
to be a poct.-aiul wa3 a prolific writer
of verses. Those done at 14 were mer
itorious but those written at were
no better and altogiHhcr unworthy
one of his ability. for fourteen years
he gave much' 'of his time to experi
mental writing, mi.stly poetry. At 2S
he ubonuoned lti but u .few years luter
tigalu took loi writing, c.d at fin
ished his first prose work, "Galatea."
In Cervantes' life flip number II Is
particularly noticeable. "At this ugr
he was put1 to school, 'where he gave
the best part of bin time to writing,
in which dipuitmcnt, though not as a
poet, he was destined to utmost rival
Hhakespeaie. At twice 14 he drifted
from poetry to prou: to bf.cnme the
glory of Spain, us finb-.ac years
later became the llrxt novelist of
France. Now add the half of 14 t )
this nge and we see Cervantes un au
thor ut H.',. At four times 14. .r,U, lie
had written himself In letters thut will
never fade; it wu:i then that be hud
tiiiiidicd the llrst part of "Don Qui
xote." Fourteen years after this be
died.
GEORGE JM'CIIANAN.
George liiiclinuan. the Scotch poet
and scholar, was born foity-oue yeurs
after Cervuntes, in l,",(5. Like Cer
vantes, he was put to school at 14.
Their records, however. In their re
spective institutions of learning nre
widely different. Young Ruchunan
lived with his uncle, James Hnilot,
who watched the boy and discovered
his mcntul Inclination. He predicted
for him eminence In scholarship, and
told him he had arrived nt an age
which he could not afford tn let pass
without some deelHlve step toiicliing
his future. George Instinctively spe
cialized the study or Latin, nnd that
he might bicoine quickly proficient in
It he wus sent to the University of
Paris, the best school in Europe for
Instruction in this language. He en
tered ut 14. and never abandoned the
studies which he then took up. Ills
growth was clearly manifest at this
age. Buchanan considered that his
intellectual life dated from his four
teenth year, und at the age of 70. which
is five times 14, he began his autobi
ography, in Latin. The last fourteen
years of his life were given to writing
MMory.
George HiiHhnnan. Cervantes. Emer
son. Hossuet and John Marshall, at 14,
to use a common phrase, went to
school. David Hume, Dante and Jo
seph Scallger quit school at 14. Hume
left Edinburgh university at this age
and took up a course of reading that
formed the opinions of his life. Dante,
ut 14. left itrunetto ijitlnl. under
whose Instructions ho had been placed
at 11', with that thirst for knowlcdgo
which plunged him so ardently Into
the ftudv of niience and literature.
Joseph ricallper got enough of Bor
deaux university in three yenrs. Ho
entered it at 11 und left It nt 14, ex
changing the tutelage, of tho school
for that cf his father, n Latin nnd
Grck scholar of great reputation. Here
Joceph entered upon hbi trarvelnus ca
reer of cnnqiictt among tho languages
and acquired fourteen, which wa3
about nil. David Hume, at 14, had
chosen his occupation. It should be
literature, and though It cost great ef
fort to keep that resolution, he did so.
It Is remarkable that Hume rhould
have begun so early thai keen analy
sts f human nature that character
ized his work. Ills entire utter llf
encms to rest on the hae of his four
teenth year. As u writer of hlsloty.
Hume outranks either hicalig.r or Bu
chanan, but 1 below imcliunan und
tttlil further below Hcallger as a schol
ar. For downright scholarship these
two men are possibly unequaled.
Dunle Is known an a poet, the v.iltef
of the "Divine Coimdy." nnd Is noth
ing else. There is no manifestation,
however, ill his fourteenth year that
shndowtd forth "The Inferno." He
was then exclusively a student of
science and literature, nnd lill.d hu
bead with whatever came bin way Hist
wus worth knowing. Rut this wus
reully the preparation for bis poem,
for Dante could never have made such
Intelligent applications of his Imagery
without the reference of other minds
than his own. We see, then, two
branches of Dante's life thut of the
poet well known, that of the scholar
little known that converge In hln
fourteenth year. Dante hud no. in
structor after he left Lutlnl, and that
he should have risen by his own exer
tion to the eminence of one of the most
learned men In Italy In as creditable lo
him lis bis great poem.
THOMAS CARLYLE.
Another boy who marched to college
at 14 and was great as a man wus
Thomas Curlyle. He fh"n entered Ed
inburgh university. Hume hud left
this same institution just ut the same
uge thut Curlyle went Into It, und both
of them at this time begun their ex
haustive course of reading which
made them historians. Moie darltg
than Emerson, Carlyle would lay his
own foundation, and when he had
lived to be Mi, four times 14, the pre
cise aye at which he ntond ut his zen
ith, he hinl left behind him a great
Htrenin of light. His mind retained its
freshness unit vigor years thereafter,
losing much of Its strength at To.
When Charles James Fox was 14 he
left the Latin school at Eton, but for
a widely different purpose from that
for which Dante, Huchamin. Scallger
and David Hume left their schools, at
the same age. These boys plunged
Into the exbaustless reservoirs of
learning thut had been fed from the
minds of all the pust. Young Fox,
however, wan not without ambition.
He sought notoriety and won It, and
he won It quickly, for he soon became
known as one of the worst profligates
In England. Strange that his father
should have counseled and Influenced
such a career. Certainly his four
teenth year was most memorable, for
in It he stepped from the calm, pure
solitudes of Eton to the discordant
hell of Spa. and from that he went to
worse, reaching a depth of almost Ir
reparable degradation. How different
was It with Napoleon, who went from
his provincial school at Rrlcnne when
a lad of 14 to enter the great school at
Paris, and from there to the army,
which mude him emperor of France,
nnd practically of Europe. At twice
14, 28, he whipped the Austriuns nt
Montenotte, and on that battle, he said
rested his empire and his nobility.
Beven years afterward he was em
peror. DA VINCI.
The manifestation of Da Vinci's ge
nuls when a child of 14 was so great as
to make Verocchlo, his master, to
abandon his art in despair, and when
Da Vlucl had become more famous
than Verocchlo he, too, was outdone
by Michael Angelo at 17, who had then
been but three yearn under tuition,
having been placed with the celebrat
ed Ghiiiandajo when he was 14 years
old. Here he caught that blend of
style which makes beautiful the
strong. When Da Vlnel saw himself
surpassed he took It easy, and merely
said that Ghliiandajo'g method was
superior to that of Verocchlo. The
name Raphael became more glorious
than Angelo, and Angelo sought to be
revenged by bringing out Plombo as a
pupil, who painted the Randlnelll por
trait, said to be the equal of anything
Raphael ever did, except his "Portrait
of an Old Man." Sebastian could nev
er rival this; he was too lazy to work,
and so the greatest art died with Ra
phael. At the age of 70, five times 14,
Michael Angelo was preparing for his
design of the new St. Peter's.
Gerald Massey says of his fourteenth
year: "Till then I had often wondered
why. I hail lived nt all." It was then
that ho discovered the world of mind
in the book stalls of London, nnd set
about writing poetry. Petrarch, when
14, was taken from the I'niversity of
Montpelier and placed with Pistola at
liologna to study canon law. He, too,
took to writing veisea when then gave
promise of his ultimately rivalling his
master, Virgil, though he never did.
His poetry was r.ot remarkable, but
his learning was the wonder of Flor
ence, fvrhaps there never lived a boy
who knew as much nt 14 an did Loren
zo. Shelley did not think himself a
poet at this age, but then wrote a
novel called ".astrozzl," which Is
only worth referring to as his first ex
pression. Timothy Dwight, like Lo
renzo, wns more scholarly than poetic.
When he was half way up to his four
teenth year It Is said thut he Ftudicd
through Lillys Lutln grammar
twice. At any rate he was fur enough
advanced at 14 to go into Yule college
lege, and there was Copernicus. In
whose fourteenth year dates the origin
of the wonderful revolution In astron
omy that he effected. It wus at this
use that he attended the mathematical
and astronomical lectures of Albert
Hiudzewski ut Cracow, und wnstm.ule
acqtiainled wilh the works of John
Miiell, r.
OTHER EXAMPLES.
In the liven of Margaret Fuller nnd
Harriet Mititineail thcfoiirteeuih year
is moie hupoiialit. There was never n
more thoroughly educated woman than
Margaret Fuller, nod she was only 14
when she left boarding school and re
turned home to enter upon thut course
of serious and severe readln.r which
won her the distinction of the most
learned voinan of her time. The range
of her research, mere child that she
was. embodied not less than twenty au
thors. Hun let Mat tlneau'n method was
different. At 7 rlie took up the study of
Milton, to which she devoted seven
years. At 14 rlie hud mastered that,
and no more. Confucius knew com
paratively nothing at 14. but that was
his turning point, und from that time
on he gave himself up exclusively to
learning, und became the widest mail
in China. At 14 Tasso was made com
panion to the win of the Duke of IV
saro, and this companionship excited
his passion for knowledge. Lis mast
ery nf.lmiite, Petrarch, Roccacclo,
Aristotle, Socrates, Plato und the criti
cal writers dates back from his four
teenth year with the duke's Bon. Plc
clnt composed a mass nt 14 which was
laughed at, but In which Leo, his In
structor, saw the boy's genius; Schubert
was master of counterpoint and har
mony at 14, and Gounod at the same age
was admitted to the Paris conservatory
and began a career that culminated in
"Faust" at 41, three times 14.
Culling a Unit.
From the Washington Star.
"There's just one thing that T wnnt to
say," said the proprietor of the news
paper to his managing editor, "and that Is
thut we've been Imposed on long enough.''
"What's tSe matter?"
"We're going to turn over a new leaf.
If these pugilists are going to do their
righting In tho newspapers they'll have to
pay for It the same as the baking powder
manufacturers."
A SCARED IH3I ITICIA,X. .
Concrete Did Njt Take Uim Into Its
ConfiJonce.
Front the Chicago Record.
George Drake, tho well-known moun
tain detective, who has spent much of
his time tn the mountains nf eastern
Kentucky on missions attending his
profession. Is authority for the. follow
ing amusing story, which he claims
was an actual occurrence:
"In Letcher county." rays Captain
Drnke, "there Is a stretch of country
ttbout fifteen miles square where the
Ignorance of the natives Is astonishing.
In the winter of '4 I had occasion to
travel through this country,' being on
the lookout for moonshiners. Riding
ulong one oTttrnoon I chanced to stop
in u blacksmith shop the only one for
miles around-to ha,ve a thrown shoe
replaced. The blucksmlth who fitted
the slide, I learned later, was the In
tellectual giant of that section. Ills
fame umong his fellows was due to
the fact that he could read a nowspa
per. As he hammered away nt the
norse wioe a lunky specimen of the
mountain type rode up, and. ufter greet
ing us with 'evening',' secured his horse
and took a seat upoti a hroktjn plow
share In tho shop. After sitting ui si
lence for some minutes chewing a pon
derous quid of tobacco, spitting at In
tervals and eyeing m the meanwhile,
he offered the question:
" 'Sam. huve yer paper cum yet?'
" 'Come ylsterdny,' replied Sam,
" Ms them fellows still up ter con
gress '."
" 'Yes.
" 'Wut hev they er dun this trip,
Sam?'
"A few moments' hesitation, and
then, with a wink over his shoulder
ut me, Sum responded: '
" 'Why, iry, they durn fools lies made
tew more months ter ther year, and
them lew Is winter months."
"'Hy durn!" ejaculated Iry. 'en me
en Hlrum Is a both Bhort er fodder,
lew.' "
NOT DAMKfl WKBSTEH.
Who I'ntertalned Puikens with 'Imitation
' ofa llangiug. ' -,"
"Hollunrti" In' Philadelphia' Fress:
In the . T.oiidon cable letter to the
Press printed upon Sunday, Is a para
graph which mentions' the sule of an
uutographlc letter of Charles Dickens,
lu which the author told a story nf a
dinner which he attended, and nt which
Daniel Webster' was one of the guests,
and that Webster having ordered the
lights to be turned down caused a bowl
containing a liquor which burned with
a ghastly light to be placed upon' the
table. Then 'by this dismal light the
guests saw Wrebster with a rope around
his neck, his head to one side, and his
tongue hanging out in imitation of a
man who had been hanged.
Charles Dickens had such an experi
ence as that-ln lioston, but It was not
Daniel Webster who gave the represen
tation of the hanged man. It was an
other Webster, and by an extraordinary
coiuoldenq? he was himself hanged
some years afterward . for murder. It
wus Professor Webster, of Harvard col
lege, who furnished their weird enter
tainment for Charles Ickens, and who
was convicted of the murder of his
creditor. Dr. Parkman, and hanged for
that crime. When the account of the
trial and conviction of Webster became
known to Dickens he Instantly recalled
that Incident of the dinner, which al
ways impressed him as a very strange
and improper entertainment for such
an occasion as that.
A TKIO OP NF.PARTF.ES.
Some of the Jests and repartees that are
recorded of rivals on the stage are of a
superior class. Thus Gurrick suld with
some complucenry to Foote: "I see, alter
all, you ure acting one of my pieces at
the Haymarket."
"Pooh!" retorted Foote. "I must hnve
some sort of ventllatio-.i for my little
house In this hot weather."
So with Sheridan's reply to Monk
Lewis, who offered to bet on something,
no mutter now what, all 'the money
brought by his (Lewis') successful "Cas
tle Specter."
"No," said Sheridan, coolly, "but I will
bet you all It Is worth."
When Roaden, who had gone about fall
ing Drnry Lane "a wilderness," came to
Sheridan with a new play, the latter suld
good-nuturedly, "You are entitled to call
my theater a wilderness, but it Is too much
to expect me to give you an opportunity
of proving your words."
TIME'S REVENGE.
When first I sought Cecilia, b1i
Had lovers then In plenty,
And looked on me disdainfully
Recause I was but twenty;
For she, you see, was twenty-three
Which made her so much older
TlmihmiKh I wooed her ardently,
Shecbiild not have been colder;
And when I swore, with faltering tongue,
I loved her. and no other,
She laughed, and said I was too young
Must go home to my mother!
How fast the years have sped nwayl
I'm getting old I'm thirty!
Rut Cissy's youth hus made delay
She's twenty-six und flirty.
Now she on mo smiles tenderly.
And her heart ls-.io warm. It
Would yied itsef quite readily
if 1 should care to storm it.
But when I think of tnnrrluga now
My thoughts are of another.
And Cissy's chance Is good, i vow,
Of staying with her mother.
Vincent F. Howard In Munsey's.
JAMES M'NEIL WHISTLER,
-From the Chicago Tlmt
IHt MIOIUfllES WEALTH
Mr. Morton Heads the List aod
Senator Ctiilom Ends It.
QUAY IS WORTH OXB MILL10X
McKlnley'a Circnmstanocs Moderate lie
Was Barely Saved from Baakraptey
Kceently-A Term as Governor of
Ohio Dubious Financial Uoaor.
Washington. March 24. Senator Cul
lom has said he Is too poor to purchase
delegates to a national nominating
convention. This is literally true. . He
is worth less money, perhaps, than any
other Republican presidential candi
date mentioned. Morton la the wealth
lest in the Republican list; Quay come
next and Allison third. Morton in a
millionaire. Quuy Is worth nearly a
million, most of iioh has been made
in stock speculation. Allison's modest
fortune has been acquired through
years of careful saving. McKtnley Is
In very moderate circumstances, and,
but for the generosity of some of hla
millionaire' friends, might have been
financially embarrassed a year or sa
ago.
It has come tn be a tradition that a
term us governor of Ohio means bank
ruptcy. Few of the ex-governors of
that state left the office as well finan
cially as they entered It. Foraker left
it poverty-stricken and went to Cin
cinnati to practice law, where he has
reclaimed some of his lost ground by
a law practice that yields an income of
$.10,000 n year. Campbell was unable
to meet the ordinary expenses of llv
Ing and was badly In debt when he waa.
defeated for go-ernor. Hoadly left the
olllce poor and went to New York
where he has since built up a good law
practice. "Charley" Foster, one of tha
celebrated ex-governors, was unable to
pay his creditors CO cents on the dollar.
The present chief magistrate of Ohio
is a member of a millionaire manu
facturing firm.
CULT.OM'8 CONDITION".
The crisis In McKlnley's financial af
fairs came while he was governor, but
weilltliv fetendu ixinia t tn, ,it 1 1. hi-
rescue and saved him from humilia
tion. Speaker Reed still counts his wealth
In the thousands and cun't afford to
ride to the capitol In a cab. Senator
'uyis, in mimicHoiu, in ne enters me
list of cundldntes, will rank with Quay
In the mutter of wealth. Some one ha
said that he owns half of Minneapolis
und will have a mortgage on the other
half if he lives long enough.
About a year ago a judgment waa en
tered in a Washington court against
Senator Cullom as security for ex-Pension
Commissioner Green B. Raum.
Since the judgment waa rendered the
senator has been paying It off. His In
dorsements on the paper of political
friends have cost him $30,000 or $40,000,
but he has met these demands patient
ly nnd is poorer today In this world's
goods than when he entered public life.
The senator's possessions are said to
consist of a farm In Tazewell county,
Illinois, ard his home at Springfield.
He lives In a rented house here In
Washington. His residence is the
house on Highland Terrace occupied
by Mr. Rayard when he was secretary
of state. The senator's family live
very plainly. They puy $1,500 a year
rent for the house, which Is modestly
furnished, and keep a horse and car
riage. They meet all the social obliga
tions of public life.
Two years ago when the political sit
uation In Illinois did not look uuspl
slous for Senator Cullom, and It was
generally predicted a Democrat Would
succeed him as senator, he told a friend
he would go out of public life with
scarcely anything In the way of money
to his credit. It was his Intention, had
he failed of re-election, to go to Chi
cago and engage In the practice of law.
While he has been unusually success
ful In politics, and his whole career has
been a succession of political triumphs,
he expresses regret, for pecuniary rea
sons, that he ever entered politics.
SICCESSI IX AITIIORSIIIP. .
Valuable' Information from One Who
Makes $10,000 a Year.
There Is a struggling young author In
Washington who had the misfortune to -have
a book published, and the addi
tional misfortune of never being able
to sell the second one to any publisher.
A friend of his told him that what he
needed was advice from those who
made money out of their work, and a
friend of his In New Y'ork received sal
aries amounting to $10,000 a year from
his writings, e
The two were brought together at the
house of a mutual friend, and the fol-.
lowing conversation was overheard:
"1 am very glud to meet you," said
the young man. "Advice from so suc
cessful an author would be Invaluable
to me."
"1 will be glad to help you with any
suggestions I can make," was the gra- '
clous reply.
"What class of books do you find pay
the best'"
"Rooks, books?" was the response, In
a tone of great disgust. "Who told you
i nniip mooks ; .rtiiy mull can wi un
books. You don't suppose i could make
$10,000 a year that wuy. do you? I write
advertisements, sir, for some of th
largest houses In the country. Do I
look like a scribbler of books, sir?" and
the Indignant author left the room.
Wushlngton Star.
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