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LARGEST VOTE EVER CAST.
That ny tit Boast 01 Lords Against
the Home Rale Bill.
Calm After the Storm Question es to
the Course Gladstone Will Take in
View of His Overwhelming Defeat.
Opinion That the Queen Expects Him
to Appeal to the Country, and This
is Apparently Approved by Public
Sentiment—The Prima Minister Dis
patches a Messenger to the Queen at
Balmorai—His Mission Not Made
Public.
Loudon, Sept. 9.—Sir Henry Ponsonby,
the queen's private secretary, passed last
night at Black Craig castle, where
Gladstone is taking a holiday with Mrs.
Gladstone and friends. This morning he
and the prime minister iiad a long inter
view, and before noon Sir Henry left
with a special dispatch from Gladstone
to the queen concerning the govern
ment's attitude towards the defeat of the
home rule bill in the House of Lords last
evening. Sir Henry was conveyed in all
haste from Black Craig castle to the
railroad station at Couparangus, where
an express train was stopped to take him
on board and carry him to Balmoral.
WILL HE APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY?
It is significant that Sir Henry's mis
ion was not undertaken at the queen s
Instance, but at the suggestion of Glad
stone two days ago. The queen is known
to have awaited with unwonted anxiety
Gladstone's decision as to the course after
the rejection of the bill by the lords. The
royal idea is that Gladstone should ap
peal at once to the country, and the de
termination, which is understood to have
been expressed by Gladstone in his spe
cial dispatch, to hold on indefinitely, will
aot suit her majesty at all.
WHAT THE QUEEN 1 EXPECTED.
According to constitutional precedents,
the queen certainly had some reason to
expect that after the overwhelming ma
jority of lords, spiritual and temporal, had
condemned him th ' aged premier would
resign or ask the electors again to justify
his policy. Ii is surmised that Gladstone
Intimated in the dispatch carried to Bal
moral to-day the readiness of the cabinet
to submit to the queen's prerogative to
dismiss her present minister. This inti
mation would mean little, however, as he
knows he can rely on thequeen’s discre
tion to take no steps involving the crown
in the popular outcome against the House
of Lords
LARGEST VOTE THE LORDS EVER CAST.
A large and influential part of the ultra
Tory party expect such direct interven
tion from the queen, but their expecta
tion will hardly be realized. On the
other hand, the queen s opinion ns to tho
proper course for Gladstone will weigh
with him undoubtedly In hastening his
appeal to the country. Before last night's
sitting of the lords the highest vote re
corded in the upper house was 875. This
was given on the question of repealing
the corn laws in 1940, and included the
proxies of absent members The attend
ance and vote last evening, therefore,
were quite beyond precedent.
HAD NEVER BEEN PRESENT BEFORE.
No such gathering of hereditary legisla
tors had been seen previously in London.
Many of the peers who came to the towu
to vote against the bill had never seen
the interior of the House before, and fifty
of them were obliged to sign the roll for
the first time before voting To
render the duty of atten
dance less tiresome, some fifty or
sixty peers loafed in the refreshment and
smoking rooms during the debate. Sev
eral, finding the cuisine in the restaurant
of the house unsuitable to their tastes,
had their own rooks, and wines and meals
were brought in for the occasion. One
peer, for instance, gave a dinner prepared
by his own chef, served od his own plate
by his own servants, in neither its pub
lic nor private aspects did the House re
veal any thara. tcristics likely to stregth
en its chances of a long existence.
PLANS OP THE RADICALS.
The radicals will raise again the ques
tion of the Duke of Connaught's appoint
ment to the Aldershot command. The
debate will follow a motion, to be, made
probably by Labouchere.for the reduction
of the army estimates by cutting down
the salary drawn by the Duke of Cam
bridge as commander-in-chief. Several
conservatives and some liberal unionists
will support the motion with the purpose
•f defeating the government. If they really
have a majority, the consequences for
the government will tie serious. Camp
bell Bannerman, secretary of stato for
war, would resign, and a general reor
ganization of the cabinet would be nec
essary, as such a vote might also result
in the Duke of Cambridge's retirement.
The radicals speak privately of with
drawing the motion in case they obtain a
public assurance that the government
does not design the Duke of Con
naught's Aldershot appointment
as a prelude to his succession to the com
mandership in chief. This offer from the
radicals, however, would not help the
ministry much. The proposed motion
and the suggested bargain are therefore
the two horns of a serious government
dilemma.
HOW OVER THE PARISH FUND.
The dispute among the anti-Parnellites
over the disposition of the parish fund
seems to be nearing a settlement. Mi
chael Davitt and John Dillon, who were
appointed to confer with Jos. Kenny,
representing the Pamellites. as to the
release of the fund, recognized the claim
of the Pamellites to £IO.OOO as due them
when the fund was lodged. The Healy
faction disapproved of conceding such
a large sum. Justin McCarthy, leader
of the anti-Parnellites. finding it
impossible to reconcile the disputants,
has decided to take the management of
negotiations into his own hands, as one of
tho original trustees of the fund. The
party has indorsed his action by passing
a special vote of confidence in him. John
Barry, anti-Parnellite member of parlia
ment for South Wedford county, threatens
to withdraw from parliament on account
of the dispute over tho fund. He is op
lxised to granting the Pamellites the sum
conceded by Davitt and Dillon, and
wishes to have the bulk of the niouev
allotted among the evicted tenants.
CHOLERA PANIC SUBSIDED.
The cholera scare, started on Thursday
ra the House of Commons, has abated,
u he charwoman, who then was supposed
to have died of Asiatic cholera, is believed
now to hate had merely severe Knglish
cholera. Careful examination with the
microscope fail to reveal the presence of
Koch s bacilli, and the physicians who
conducted the investigation of the case
agree that the alarm was a false one. It
is re|>ortod also that the cases of the so
called cholera in Islington, Alur.vicbone
and elsewhere during the weed were
only chol. raine. One poo 1 result of the
scare in the House of Commons will be
the reconsiruetion of the drainage in the
neighborhood of the parliament build
ings. \\ estmiuster palace was built'
orcr a marsh and tho sew
ers are lower than the Thames. The
sewage, therefore, has to lie pumped uii
ue mum drum. During this process a
AOhl, C e t fe ncil P revails i' l the House.
Although the pumping is done in the ab
sence ~f the memt* ls , it is believed that
influen-*, caused this spread of
Lfi*' The charwoman who died on
AULr„du\ is only one of many servants
who have been made sick by the odors
from the sewens.
BLOW TO BIMETALLISM.
In a letter to Robt. Kvartt, V I’. Sir
Wm Hareourt extinguishes the last hope
i of the to metallists as to the re-assembling
of the Brussels monetary conference.
“Altho ,gh the government is willing to
cur. ider the proposals of other states,"
lie wn le. “they will not encourage ex
-1 peetatiuus which they are un
likely to fulfill.'’ Sir Wil
liam adheres also to his former
declaration, that any lnteference with
the single standard as now established iu
Ktq ..mu is open to the gravest objections.
Dr Ollomar Hnupt, the most celebrated
German authority on the relations and
production of the precious metals, writes
from Haris that M. Simeonelli. who lias
been Italy's delegate to all international
1,, i.ey conferences in tho last twenty
years, has declined to attend
the approaching congress of
the Latin Union, as he can no
longer approve Italy's policy in cur
rency matters. Dr. Haupt adds that the
congress will be very stormy, for France
is sure to denouneo the I-at fin convention.
Italy has contracted with Heaton's mint
in Birmingham for sixty million ten
centime pieces. The contract must he
filled within the next eight months,
work on the coins being pushed night and
day.
‘'THE LITTLE GEORGIA MAGNET.”
She is Back From Foreign Shores
With a Pocket Full of Gold.
Milledgeville, Gu.. Kept. 9.—Mrs. Annie
Abbott, better known in Georgia as Mrs.
Dixie Haygood, the “Little Georgia Mag
net,” has returned to the city from the
old world, where she has been for the last
two years. She was bom and reared
in this c ity and presided over the home of
a humble policeman until five years ago.
For a pood many years she professed to
have communication with those who have
pone to the great beyond, and often in the
past curious people about the city would
gather at her home and listen to the rap
ping of the spirits atul send messages to
some acquaintance on the other shore.
Later on her power developed until it
was found that she possessed a power
over human strength that was wonderful.
She gave exhibitions in this and adjoin
ing cities and crowds of people flocked to
see her. Her career was suddenly sus
pended, however, b,y a pistol Gullet that
carried out tho life of her husband, who
was shot down on the streets here during
the great prohibition contest of 1886.
In 1888 sho was married again and in a
short while her husband carried her on
the stage, and since tli n she has traveled
all over America, spending several months
in Mexico and about the same time in
Canada. Having conquered America,
they started for the Old World, and from
then until now she has been *tlie idol of
kings and queens, princes, emperors,
dukes and all the royal families of
Europe. Klie gave exhibitions in Egypt,
Damascus and Jerusalem and from there
she went to Alexandria city, and thence to
Greece. There she was invited before tho
king's family and in token of their appre
ciation of her wonderful strength, sho
was given a manific.-nt |>earl necklace.
The Morning News had a couple of
hours interview with her this morning
and was shown a scrap-book containing
two thousand notices from papers all over
Europe, representing a score of different
languages. She also has letters from
nearly every royal person in the old
world, eulogizing her extraordinary en
dowments. A Russian duke gave her his
photograph framed in solid gold at a cost
of SBOO. His name was written upon the
photograph from his own blood, an act of
the very higest respect from Russian noble
men. She wears two large diamond car
rings which were given her. by Queen Vic
toria, and has a photograph of the Prince
of Wales, framed in a solid gold frame,
which was a present from that distin
guished gentleman. Khe has five neck
laces of pearls and diamonds which were
giveu by different members of royal
houses, and belts, bracelets and rings
were bestowed upon her with lavish
hands. Her jewels are worth probably
?00,000, and they are all, nearly, the gifts
of admiring foreigners.
Khe returned to America to see her peo
ple in this city, and will probably give a
few entertainm cuts before returning to
Europe, although she insists that she
does not want to disturb her rest by any
continued work.
She and her husband and two children
will spend the winter hero and will meet
a Polish count in New York in April and
will return to Russia with him.
She claims that her wonderful recep
tion in Europe has been due to luck. On
the ship on which they sailed there was
an earl and several very prominent En
glishmen and she entertained the party
with one of her performances. They gave
her a letter of indorsement which was
shown your correspondent, and she after
wards received a memento from them in
the shape of a substantial present .
In five years she has been lifted from
obscurity to a position of w'orld-widc
fame and has made a fortune that will
easily last her the remainder of her days.
When her superhuman strength is con
sidered there will be but little wonder
that she has made such upward strides.
When asked what was the prettiest
city she ever visited, she replied: “Ber
lin ;” when asked what was the best, sho
promptly replied: “MiUedgeville.”
CUP DEFENDERS.
Second Trial Sail and Victory for the
Vigilant by Over Four Minutes.
New York, Sept. 9.—The Morgan-lslin
sloop did all that her many admirers ex
pected of her, and though it looked at one
time as though tho Jubilee was to be win
ner, the Vigilant came in with over four
minutes to spare. All four of the boats
built to contest for the honor of standing
as the American representative iu tho
international race started, and thev made
a merry racs of it, and the spectators en
joyed it more than they did the first trial
race. The air was clear as crystal, so
that every move of the racers could be
observed, and the ocean was less turbu
lent. In consequence, the flotilla of
pleasure craft accompanying the racers
was larger, and this added not a little to
the picturesqueness of the affair.
The wind was not strong enough
to make keeping up with tne
racers difficult, and the spectators
were iu it from start to finish.
TRIANGULAR course.
At each turn and at the end of the
race there was a serenade of whistles
from steamboats, guns from the steam
yachts aud cheers from sailing craft.
The contest was to he a triangular one,
tile first leg of which to he esat south
erst, ail windward work. The second
was over a southwost by west course, a
broad reach on the port tack.
The third. north one half
west, a run home with the wind a little
abaft the starboard beam. The starting
gun boomed at 11 :30.
On tho first leg the Vigilant beat the
Pilgrim 2 mins 2 serf: the Jubilee 2 mins
f> sees, and tlie Colonia 3 mins 28 secs.
In the reach from first, to second
turn tlie Vigilant beat the Jubilee
28s. tho Coionia 4 mins 48 secs,
and the Pilgrim 5 minutes 24 seconds.
From the second mark to the finish it
was run before the wind with spinnakers
and balloon jib topsail, and all of
the yachts showed a marked im
provement in liaudiing tlie light
canvas, the Vigilant and Jubilee taking
only 20 aud 40 seconds, respectively, to
set them. In the run home the Vigilant
increased her lead, finishing 5 minutes
8 seconds ahead of the Jubilee. Cor
rected time gives the Vigilant the race
by 4:32. On the third leg the Vigilant
heat tlie Pilgrim I miuute 18 seconds,
THE MORN TNG NEWS: SEN DAY, SEPTEMBER 10, ISOH.
the Jubilee 2 minutes 35 seconds and the
t < dun is 3 minutes 33 seconds. Following
official summary. Triangular course 30
miles, 10 mile* to a leg:
Name Start Finish Elapsed. Cor Time
ViK.isnt 11 32 00 3 06:Si 4.04.3 J . .4.01:81
Colonia ILMU.M 348 a> 4 17:09 4 tC Sfc
Jubilee* 11 31 M 3:41 31 4:09:10 ..
IT.rrim li 30:39 3<4 V 4 14:14 4 1.440
\ igllaut handicap. 13 seconds.
COTTON REPORT.
The Agricultural Department Shows
a Decline Since August.
Washington, Sept. 9.—The September
cotton report of the department of agri
culture shows a decline from the August
condition of the crop of fully 7 points,
being 73.4 this month, as against 30.4 last
month. This is the lowest September
condition since 1381, which stood at 70.
The condition in September, 1892, was
76.8. For the same month itl the years
1891 and 1890 it was 82.7 and 85.5, respec
tively. State averages arc: Virginia 93,
North Carolina 76, South Carolina 63,
Georgia 77, Florida 85, Alabama 78, Mis
sissippi 78, Louisiana 81, Texas 63, Ar
kansas 80, and Tennessee 68.
DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS.
In addition to the unfavorable condi
tions. among which drought has been
prominent, correspondents of the depart
ment ascribe the falling off in the condi
tion of the crop to the ravages of insect
enemies of tho plant, such as caterpillars
and boll, army and leaf worms. Dust as a
cause of damage is also extensively noted.
The hurricane of Aug. 28 caused much
damage to the crop in the states of North
Carolina. South Carolina. Georgia, and,
in less degree, the state of Florida.
GENERAL REPORTS.
Reports from the state of Alabama
show an excess of moisture in some parts
of the state. In some places the plant is
taking on a second growth, which is not
considered beneficial, and in others there
is sprouting and rotting in bolls.
Seven counties of the state
report too rapidly opening; eigh
teen that the plant is shed
ding badly, and forty-eight reisirt rust.
Correspondents' reports from Mississippi
are to the effect that the crop is doing
finely and the weather favorable tor pres
ent condition. In Louisiana excessive
rains early in August caused tho old cot
ton to shed badly while young cotton was
not benefited, as the growth was in weed
instead of fruit. With the exception of
the counties of Sebastuin and Scott, the
reports from Arkansas show the crop to
lie below the average. Jn Texas the plant
is small everywhere, both early and late
planting.
BATTLES ON TIIE DIAMOND.
Outcome of the Day’s Games of tho
National League.
Washington, Sept. 9.—8a1l games were
played to-day as follows:
BOSTON BEATS LOUISVILLE.
At Boston— R. H. E
Boston 3032 20 3 0 *—l3 I t 3
Louisville 202010 040— 9 9 8
Batteries—Quarls and Ganzel; Stratton and
Grim.
PITTSBURG BEATS BALTIMORE.
At Pittsburg— n. h. e.
Pittsburg 23300030 —ll 17 1
Baltimore 000005 000— 5 9 1
Batteries —Gumbert and Earle; Mullane
and liobinson.
BROOKLYN BEATS ST. LOUIS.
At Brooklyn— r. h. e.
Brooklyn 10000021 *-=• 4 4 5
St. Louis 011010 000— 3 6 4
Batteries—Kennedy and Dailey; Hawley
and MeClanley.
CLEVELAND HEATS WASHINGTON.
At Cleveland— r. h. e.
Cleveland 040000 00 2 0 (t 3
Washington 010001 2 1 0— 5 S
Batteries—Williams and O'Connor: Maul.
Stephens and McGuire.
NEW YOftK BEATS CINCINNATI.
At New York-Morning game— r. h. e,
New York 10000 0 1 10—3 10 1
Cincinnati 0 0200010 0— 2 8 2
Batteries—Baldwin and Wilson; Dwyer and
Vaughn.
NEW YORK BEATS CINCINNATI.
Second game— r. n. e.
New York 04 2 002 2—lo 11 3
Cincinnati 00010 00— 1 6 4
Batteries—Rusle and Milligan; Parrott.
Charabejlain. Vaughn and Murphy.
The game was culled at the end of the
seventh inning. No reason was given for call
ing game.
PHILADELPHIA BEATS CHICAGO.
At Chicago— r. h. e.
Chicago 100 3 0000 0— 4 0 3
Philadelphia 32000100 *— 6 7 3
Batteries—Hutchinson and Kittredge; Wey
ing and Clement.
RUNS OF THE RACERS.
Summary of The Principal Events on
the Country’s Tracks.
Sheepsho 1 Bay, Sept. 9.—The fol
lowing were tho events to-day:
First Race—Seven furlongs. May-Win won,
with Shadow second ami Acclaim third.
Time, 1:28.
Second Race—Futurity course. Pedestrian
won. with Aloha second and Tulia lJlackburn
third. Time 1:11.
Third Rare Five furlongs. Santa Anna
won. with Tom Harding second and Merry
Monarc h third. Time. 1:012-5.
Fourth Race—The flatbush stakes, seven
furlongs. Senator Grady won, with Galilee
second and Peter the Great third. Time
1:20 2 5.
Fifth Race—Seven furlongs. Springtime
won, with Troopine second and Cunarder
third. Time. 1:08 3-5.
Sixth Race—Mile and a quarter, on turf.
Kaoelaud won, with Ktldeer second and Vic
torious third. Time. 2:00.
To Remain at Mount Vernon.
Mount Vernon, Sept. 9.—The five con
demned murderers, who are to hang on
Sept. 29, will not be taken to Savannah,
but will remain in the jail
at Mount Vernon. The mur
derers of Mr. Peterson had their faces
blackened instead of whitened with hour,
as reported in yesterday’s Morning
News.
The crime for which Pierce Strickland
was convicted was the killing of another
negro man by shooting him from outside
his house, while his victim was at supper.
Death of an Esteemed Woman.
Pembroke, Ga., Sept. 9.—Mrs. Sinia
Hall, wife of Glenn Hall, proprietor of the
Pembroke gins and grist mills, died this
morning. Slip was for many years a
member of the Missionary Baptist church.
A few weeks ago she embraced the faith
of the Primitive Baptist.
Will Work at the Reduction.
Fall Kiver, Mass., Sept 9.—There will
be no strike among the spinners here or
at New Bedford, the reduction of wages
having been accepted at the mooting last
night. The weavers at their meeting
took no definite action.
Cambria Iron Company Resumes.
Johnstown, Pa.. Sept. 9—The Cambria
Iroty Company has jiosted notices, stating
that the mills will resume work Monday
morning. Over 5,000 men will he given
employment.
A few days ago a New York woman discov
ered a reddish mold-like substunce over the
surface of a loaf of bread, which she bought,
und on cutting the loaf found reddish streaks
running through It. She concluded that she
would not cut it . and took it to the health de
partment. A chemist was sent to analyze it,
ana reported that the mold was due to a fun
gus growth In the ttour. The fungus, he said,
had certain poisonous properties, nut he did
not think that eating the bread would endan
ger life steps were at once taken to stop the
sale of bread made from the ueienoruted
Hour, and to prevent a further use of the flour.
First laborer—" Going to march In the pro
cession of the unemployed''
second Laborer (desperately)—"No mv
boss has concluded not to dose his facto
ry.”—Detroit Tribuue.
IRVING IN A HISS HOUSE.
Tiie Presiding Priest Tells Kim Why
Actors Are Despised.
Mistake of a Chinese God— He Mor\i*
flea Hia Minister by Erring as to the
Visitor's Profession—Chinatown too
Clean and Virtuous Now to Meet
Foreign Expectations—lrving Thinks
Protty Well of Chinese Acting.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
With an opium pipe in his right hand, a
blue vase decora tt 1 with gilded dragons
under his arm and his pockets packed
with anklets, heathen idols, dried lizards,
lions' teeth and other Mongolian treas-
I ry Irving at nid night on Thurs
day entered the joss house on Clay street.
He was preceded by Detective Glennon,
full of enlightening information, and fol
lowed by stage manager Loveday, carry
ing a one-string fiddle, a blue silk mantle
and a tomtom.
Mr. Irving listened patiently while the
golden carvings, the great bronze urns,
the monstrous brass vessels and the mode
of worship were explained to him. His
eye was not insensible either to the num
erous printed placards hanging about,
stating in Efiglish that tourists were ex
pected to purchase a bundle of joss-sticks,
to the end that the temple might be sup
ported and tho visitors receive an inter
est in the prayers of “those who were
running this Joss house.” He invested
generously, for Mr. Irving spends money
like an American. Sore, regretful spirits
were made throughout Chinatown, in
deed, by his habit of paying what was
asked without doing what was expected
of him in the way of beating down
prices.
The wholesale transaction in joss-sticks
brought a priest of the temple to Detec
tive Glennon's assistance an exitounder
of the obscure—a small, yellow priest
with little twinkling eyes and a set
smile.
His reverence pointed to a row of long
handled halberds in a rack, each topped
with a massive ornamental head of brass,
and gave the information that long, long
ago saintly i men of China had carried
them, and each halberd identified its
former owner by the design of the head.
“Just like the rod of Aaron,” he said,
and equally efficacious for snakes. The
great brown god in the shrine at the
farther end of the dimly-lighted temple—
a god with a large black beard and bene
volent countenance, who sat tailorwise
with one slim hand on his mighty paunch
—had freed the Chinese from evil times
when in the flesh 2,000 years ago or more.
It is not tliis image that is worshiped, the
priest explained. The linage if but the
symbol of the deity. -Just like pictures
of Jesus.”
Not far from the god is the veiled
figure of a youth with blood-stained
cheeks. Visitors are informed by a card,
on which the nut-oil lamp at the figure s
feet throws its flickering light, not to
touch this sacred veil. The youth life
was a modern son. He toiled day and
night, but ultimately both his father and
mother died of starvation, and his grief
was so intense ho wept so continually,
that his tears turned to blood.
“Ah, yes, I see,” said Mr. Irving.
Filial piety was the theme of tho drama
we saw at your theater. Your actors are
very good. Yon hold your actors in high
houbr, no doubt.”
"Actors?” repeated the priest, puzzled.
“Yes, actors. They aro greatu men
among you?”
The priest dropped his smile for a mo
ment, eyed Mr. Irving shrewdly, and
shaking his head rapidly, said firmly.
“Actors no good I”
“Indeed? And Nvhy not?”
“Well, I dunno,” answered the priest,
searching for English words. “They—
they off color; yes, that is,off! color. Low,
you know.”
‘■But,” protested Irving, with a touch
of genuine resentment in his tone, “how
is it that your actors look so much more
intellectual and refined than the audi
ence? I was struck by that.”
‘•Well, I dunno. Actors no good.”
“And your poets, the men who write
books, they arc low too, I suppose!”
The priest's face lighted up.
“Oh, no: the poet, the man who writes
book, he very good, very great man with
us—not low at all.”
“Then why should the actors, who say
the words of the poets and let the people
sec what the poets mean, be low?”
“Well, they dress all the same women
and paint their faces, you know.”
“But so do your women.”
“Oil, yes, women; that all right. They
just women.”
“But,, persisted Mr. Irving, “why
should you not honor tho actors who
teach such good lessons on the stage—the
same lessons you teach here, no doubt?”
“Oh,” cried the priest, his smile broad
ening, “if actor ilo off stage what he say
on stage, that all right. But he don’t.”
‘•He’s got us there,” sighed Mr. Love
day.
Detective Glennon supplemented tho
priest. Chinese actors become great fa
vorites as actors, but their popularity is
limited by the walls of tho theater. They
are graceless, self-indulgent bohemians.
The salaries of the best of them run to
#5,000 a year and upward. They pur
chase diamond rings, sumptuous raiment
and the costliest of opium layouts. Often
their most ardent admirers in the theater
insult and strike them outside of it. Tho
merchants and other swells will have
nothing to do with them socially.
“Yes, very bad men,’’ concurred the
priest. “They send no money to China
for their mothers.”
“Peopleare alike everywhere, eh, Dove
day?” remarked Irving. “You know
how we say of a chap that ‘he's a damned
bad actor—hut he’s good to his mother.’ ”
Mr. Irving was surprised at tho excel
lence of the work done by some of the
Chinese actors. One who took the part of
a judge he pronounced a good cbmedian of
thequietsort, and thefemalo impersonator
impressed him. "It’s capital,” he said.
“There’s art in it all, however absurd ac
cording to our conventions it may seem in
many respects.”
The priest insisted on having Mr. Ir
ving’s fortuno told. Ho perceived that
this visitor was a distinguished man of
some sort.
The subordinate priest appeared, knelt
on a small red mat, bowed his head to
the ground thrice before the altar and
mumbltd a long prayer ina low and rapid
tone. Then he lifted up his hands ami
let fall from them two blocks of wood,
fiat on one side and rounded on the other.
If the Hat sides come up thrice in succes
sion it is proof that the god is present and
in a partieularh amiable frame of mind;
if the rounded sides are uppermost that in
dicates divine ill-temper; if the result of
the throws is half-and-half, then the god
is in an averaga mood.
Mr. Irving got half-and-half. The
priest struck the floor with IBs forehead
again, arose, genuflected and took from
the altar a vase containing many little
strips of wood eight or ten inches long.
This vase he shook, kneeling, till one flew
out. More bows to the god, and the num
ber on the stick having been noted the
priest lighted a large piece of paper and
carried it to a furnace, where he bowed
and bowed till it was ashes. The num
ber in tlie Book of Fate corresponding to
the number on the strips of wood was
found and the head priest proclaimed
Henry Irving’s future.
"You will live long time. Not very
good luck now, but by-and-by you havo
many converts -bring many souls to
Jesus. Have big church, in New York
perhaps, and very big salary.”
"Thanks,” drawled Mr. Irving, with an
unmoved visage. "Take this,” handing
over a greenback; “give it to the temple
—Of ao, keep it for yourself.”
The actor vra* at the bead of the stair*
when the priest came running after him,
his smile absent and abject apology in bis
mien.
Detective Glennon had dropped behind
and explained things.
"Oli. 1 beg your pardon, sir,” cried his
reverence. “I dam stupid. I think you
preacher, and preacher no like actor.
You you understand?”
"Perfectly,” answered Mr. Irving, pat
ting the shoulder of the remorseful eccle
siastic, who still held the greenback in his
hand. "That god of yours was a great
man. you say. and that is why you wor
ship him. Now I'll tell you something.
The greatest white man that ever lived—
the man whose memory is most highly
honored in all the world, he being nearer
like a god than any other, so divine was
his intellect—was an actor.”
"What you call him i" asked the amazed
priest.
"Shakespeare.”
Chinatown disappointed Mr. Irving.
He had hoard of its swarming multitude
of inhabitants, its fearful squalor. He
has. of course, seen the foulest slums of
London, New York and other great cities.
So he looked unmoved on the coolies
stretched out on their mats in the under
ground opium dens, where the wretches
lodged at the cost to each of $1 a month ;
lie penetrated the most noisome alleys of
the quarter, climbed up rickety stairs and
down again—took it all in, and said:
"They suggest depraved monkeys some
how, but they're not so bad. not near so
bad as I expected. We haven’t seen a
drunken man among them all. If wo had
gone into an English slum we'd have
heard language and seen women there
and been insulted, but these chaps are as
quiet as miee. They’re dirty and herd in
dirty quarters, but they're no worse in
those respects than the submerged in
other cities I’ve seen. There can’t be
any chance for improving these creatures,
can there? They’ve reduced life to its sim
plest terras, and the desire for anything
more, I fancy, has been bred and beaten
out of them. They’re not nice people to
have in your country, I should say.”
Detective Glennon apologized for China
town. Its population is only half what it
used to be, and the police have compelled
greater cleanliness and driven the women
out of sight.
"Destroyed the romance of the quarter;
just so,” said Mr. Irving.
THE SEARCH LIGHT BEETLE.
New Yorkers Astonished at the Sight
of the Brilliant Cucujo.
From the New York Times.
A young Mexican, carrying a perforated
tin box which resembled an old-fashioned
lantern, strolled along West 59th street
ono evening recently and stopped in front
of tho Hotel Pomeroy.
From the tin lantern came a beautiful,
yellowish-green light, such as no eandlo
could possibly give.
A number of gentlemen were sitting on
the hotel porch and the boy with the lan
tern stepped up to them and said :
“Mexican bugs, sirs? Fifteen cents
apiece, two for a quarter.”
He then drew back his coat and dis
closed several lerge beetles secured to his
vest by light threads tied about their
bodies.
Each beetle carried two powerful
ssarch-lights on the corsal surface of its
thorax, placed so as to throw the light di
rectly in front of its eyes. When tho
beetles were left undisturbed for a little
while, the light dwindled away to a mere
point, but it glowed again when they
were touched with the linger.
The tin box contained fully fifty more
specimens. It was their combined light
which illuminated the novel lantern.
The young Mexican took several of the
beetles from the box nnd made them pa
rade up and down the walk to display
their lights to better advantage. At the
same time their cousins the fireflies were
glowing among the trees over in Central
park.
The boy called tho beetles cucujo.
The sales were rapid, and soon every
one was asking how long they would live
and what to feed them on.
“Give them ripe fruit,” the boy said,
“and they will live till cold weather
comes.” He explained further that his
uncle had brought 600 up from the south
to sell iu New York and Chicago.
The beetle is the pyrophorous noctilu
eus of Central America and the West
Indies. It belongs to the family of the
elatorldae.
It is called cucujo, fire beetle and spring
beetle. The last name refers to its power
to throw itself by a quick movement of
its spine to its feet when it is placed on
its back.
The light comes from two oval tuber
cules on the dorsal surface of the thorax
and from the under surface of the seg
ments of the body.
In the southern countries the natives
sometimes use them as ornaments for the
hair. They are also confined in glass ves
sels and are actually used to light rooms.
A single beetle, if hold close to the page,
will enable one to read flue print.
Scarlet Clover.
Seaplet clover is a plant that thrives
well on poor soils or warm, moist soils of
the middle and southern states, and in
Bulletin 16 of the Delaware station its
growth is recommended for silage, hay
and for green manure. It is a leguminous
plant, and compares favorably with other
plants of this order for the object men
tioned. On t>oor soil its cultivation is a
great boon to tho farmer, for it will grow
upon and enrich soil that cannot be used
for much else. In orchards especially it
is useful, and from July to September it
is sown between the trees or bushes. It
grows and thrives through the fall and
winter, dyinjj down the following June.
It thus furnishes a winter and spring
pasture for dairymen, and if turned under
it makes the orchards rich in plant food.
It is, however, more susceptible to
changes in the weather than other grasses.
It will not stand drought as well as al
falfa. not nor can it stand very cold
weather. Its crop is also smaller than
cither of the other two. but its advantages
arc sufficient for its cultivation on poor
soils.
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