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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY? APRIL 10. 1888.--TWELVE PAGES.
THE TELEGRAPH.
The Constitution and Mr. Cleveland
Humors have been circulated during the
last few days, principally by his enemies,
that President Cleveland will decline a re-
nomination. The Atlanta Constitution
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Manager.
The Democrats of Houston county are
of the plain, outspoken sort. They be
lieve in tariff reform, and do not hesitate
to say so.
f Tub Tirard ministry retired General
8ou anger, and then General Boulanger
•retired the Tirard ministry. Turn about
tl fair play.
Elect no man to the Georgia Demo
cratic Convention who is not in sympathy
with the Democratic party’s principles and
policy.
The Rapublican minority of the ways
mod means committee cannot agree on a
•t arid bill. All the harmonizing is being
done bv the Democrats.
MSamukl J. Randall does not hope to
•pass his tariff bill. All he wants to do is
to prevent the passage of any bill. He is
t he champion of high taxes.
‘Senator Brown voted for the bill ap
propriating $100,000 for a monument to
the negro troops who served in the Federal
H/my. Senator Colquitt voted against it.
JThe system of mutual insurance among
■employes of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road, of which so much was expected, has
broken down, on account of the opposition
v>f the men.
The Atlanta Constitution refers to the
weekly press of the State which favors
tariff reductions as "rag-tag and bob-tail.”
This delicate compliment will doubtless be
appreciated by the rural press.
Sosa Platt, of New York, is being sued
or swindling his sister-in-law’s estate and
iBoss Phelps, of New Jersey, has just lost
’his magnificent country house by fire. Re
publicans are having lots of bad luck these
days. ,
Senator Cameron also declines to be n
candidate for President. Really, tlio list
us growing painfully long. After all, the
patriotic Mr. Blaine may he forced to
again sacrifice himself on the altar of his
country.
Mil Emmett IVommack, solicitor-gen
eral of the Flint circuit, will be supported
•for the position ot delegate to the national
Democratic convention. Mr. Wommnck
is made out of tlie right sort of stuff, and
is a Grover Cleveland Democrat.
Two members of the Pittsburg reform
council were arrested the other day for
•running a gambling house. They had be
fore distinguished themselves by the energy
•with which they shouted that the gamblers
•must go. Republican reformers are always
frauds.
The Birmingham Age says Henry
Watterson wrote the President’s message
«nd speaks of the tariff bill of the Demo
cratic committee as “Meat-axe Mills’s
abortion.” The Age still calls itself a
Democratic paper, but in other respects is
loss cautious than other journals with
whom it trains.
The fact that the Philadelphia Times, a
protection Democratic pa|ier, and known
as an organ of Mr. Randall, libs declared
•for the Mills bill is evidence that Demo
cratic opposition is breaking down. Mr.
(Randall is a strong man, hut he cannot
-stand against the opposition of his whole
• party, unless he backs up against the Re
publicans.
Houston was the first county in Georgia
to elect delegates to the State Democratic
convention. It sent genuine tarifT re
formers and adopted ringing resolutions
endorsing the President’s message, Senator
Colquitt and Congressman Crisp. The At
lanta Journal appropriately exclaims:
&A11 hail to Houston county iu its timely
Mid manly lead!”
Au llxcelleul Choice.
Dr. I. S. Hopkins, president
■of Iiinory College, was elected president of
•the Georgia School of Technology. The
■commissioners could not have made a bet
ter selection. The president of the new
school should by all means be a Georgian
and then; is no man in the State so well
qualified for the position as Dr. Hopkins.
He was one of tho first men in Georgia to
dlncu«« tho imparlance of manual educa-
•kieu. For ten years
•ias e.adittd the subject
reasons which, in the Constitution’s opin
ion, should induce Mr. Cleveland to stand
for re-election. There is a fine irony about
these reasons which docs credit to the lit
erary skill of the editor, if it does not to
his honesty as a faithful Democrat, anx
ious for the success of his party.
He thinks Mr. Cleveland should not re
fuse a nomination, because “he has substi
tuted tiie views of a minority of the Chi
cago convention on the tariff for the plat
form adopted when he was nominated,
and no man lias ever been, found who
could lead the party to victory on that
line.” In his opinion, then, the President
is a traitor to his party, iu having forced
upon it a policy against which it had de
clared, and the chance of electing him is a
desperate one. Nevertheless, the editor
wants him renominated, with full power to
write in the platform the tariff views
which will insure his defeat. Not only
this, but be should be allowed to select tiie
candidate for Vice-President. In short, all
the powers of the representative assembly
of Democrats should be surrendered to the
man who has betrayed the trust confided to
him at its last meeting four tears ago.
In recommending that this power be put
in Mr. Cleveland’s hands, the Constitution
takes occasion to say:
Mr. Tllden dictated every word of the St.
I.ouis platform of 1876. The committee did cot
change a single line, and they were sensible for
not doing so. Tbere was no such foolishneis as
free trade iu it. Nor no such foolishness as
‘•tariff for revenue only.” Ills platform was
successful and ho was elected.
The Constitution’s knowledge of tiie
tariff resolutions Mr. Tllden wrote, which
the committee was wise not to change, is
evidently as uncertain as its English.
The scathing denunciation of the protec
tive tariff which that resolution contained
was copied almost word for word into the
platform on which Mr. Cleveland was
elected, and the concluding words
were as follows: “We demand
that all custom house taxation shall
be only for revenue.” There seems
to he some iitile of iiie "tariff for revenue
only foolishness” about this.
The Constitution has accused the Tele
graph of a habit of reading Democrats
out of the party, but-we must deny the ac
cusation. The Telegraph, even if it had
the power, would not do so cruel a thing.
Democrats of the kind we know are so
thoroughly convinced of the truth and
justice of the principles of their party and
of the vital necessity of its remaining in
power that they would he very unhappy
out of it. They have no comprehension of
tiie principles of the “New South” Demo
crats, of wiiom tiie Constitution is said to
be the leader, which permit that pajicr to
urge a man as the party’s candidate for
President who, it at the tiaie believes has
betrayed the party and will probably lead
it to disaster. They will also fail to un
derstand how the Constitution could con
clude #n article of the character outlined
with sucl words as these:
The President should slauil firm. We ‘tbiuk
he committed a great mistake wbeu ho Indorsed
tho internal revenue system, passed by a Re
publican Congress, anil made odious by repeat
ed maladministrations, but outside ol this,
with the single exception ot his peculiar views
on the civil service, we think be bos made the
best President the country bas bad for years.
Hepublicans ntid Protection.
The Republican party was not a protec.
tion party till the work it was organized
to accomplish had keen completed. It
was only after the great outburst of jiopu-
lar feeling or sentiment which rendered its
great achievements possible had cooled,
when it had become a political machine,
dominated by the moueyed interests of the
East, that it became its chief mission to
support a system called American, hut
which is anything but American. In the
better days of tho party, many of its lead
ing meu spoke of the tariff in a frank and
patriotic spirit. They did not foresee the
time when their political careers would de
|iend upon tiie faithfulness with which
they served -he giant monopolies created
liy war taxation. The words then spoken
come now to plague them
Tiie most prominent of avowed Republi
can candidates for the presidency is
Mr. John Sherman. He is a man of great
ability, and is perhaps the most powerful
defender of the protective system and of
the demonetization of silver—both design,
ed iu tucrease tiie wealth of the moneyed
classes and sections at the expense of the
rest of the community. Before the neces
sity arose for pandering to wealth and mo
nopoly—when the Republican party was
confident because it was popular—how
did Mr. Sherman speak? Here is a pas
sage from a report made by him in 1868 :
Every advance toward a free exchange of com
modities la an advance In civilization: every ob-
lie I atructlon to a free exchange la born of the aame
j K)t | l 1 narrow, dcapotlc aplrit which plhnted cantics
upon the Rhine to plunder peaceful commerce;
every obstruction to commerce is,a tax upon
theoretically and practically and
abreast of th ■ most advanced practical ed-1 consumption; every facility to a free exchange
-tacAters. At Emory Cdhge he established , cheapens commodities, increases trade and pro-
a far yearn ami a workshop which has '. Ju ''‘hm*nd promotes civilization. Nothing Is
, , , , , . worse than sectionalism within a nation, and
Frod.iacl ex.*llent results and largely in- nii „ linR ht , uer for lhe ^ o{ natlon , , h ,„
cr.i;ui'*u t!io usefulness of that institution., unreutrlcicij freedom of commerce iud Inter*
•r. Hopkins by iiis large attainments, bis course with each other,
fin : practical sense and hi* high character This shows that twenty years ago Sena-
1*. a hninbly fitted for tha presidency of! tor Sherman was a .much more advanced
‘ihe Stale Technological School. Two • free trader than ia any Democrat in respon-
w nitlis ago the Telegrami spoke of hia j aible position to-day. Even as late at 1882
eminent fitness for this place and it is Senator Sherman urged tax reduction, and
glad to announce bis election. I he meant tariff reduction, for about the
same time he argued ngai
of the imposts on tnlmecn and whisky in
the strongest words, declaring that “these
taxes ought to be left as a part of our
permanent system of taxation as long as
any other taxes, internal or external,
more oppressive, remain on the statute
hooks. * * * This tobacco tax, of all
others, is the easiest collected, tiie most
certain, increasing constantly from year
to year, dependent upon an appetite that
will he indulged, no matter what may he
the tax—a tax that has been more stable
than nnyother. No amount of tax likely
to lip put upon tobacco will prevent its be
ing chewed and smoked and snuffed. In
all other countries where taxation prevails
this is a favorite subject of taxation
* I say the tax on tobacco does not
diminish tiie price to the farmer who
raises it. * * * And I say we are
tiirowing ofT a tax which, by the judgment
of all nations, is the best source of taxa
tion.”
Very many other Republican leaders are
guilty of the same inconsistency as Mr,
Sherman. They have sacrificed tiie con
victions of a lifetime to a party exigency,
and now base their hopes of success upon
the power of money, on the one hand, and
the success with which they can arouse
hatred against a portion of their country
men on the other. If their own utterances
may be believed, their success will involve
the perpetuation of wrong and injustice to
a vast majority of the people whom they
will pretend to serve.
The insincerity of such n position is
manifest. It is not the result of larger in
formation. It is in truth, however much
disguised and denied, a real acknow iedg-
ment that the Republican party no I mger
depends for support upon tiie people as a
whole, but upon a class and a section.
tiie abolition I chew ing or smoking, on cigars or cigarettes, All .
these taxes must go, while every solitary tax '
Some of the critics are jumping on Clara
Morris’s new play, “Renee,” as immoral.
Ml of them jumped on “La Tosca,” and
Miss Davenport is fast becoming rich.
Clara Morris is playing to great
houses in New York in her new character,
“Renee de Moray.” Some of the. critics
are inclined to rank it as her strongest
effort, while others pronounce it decidedly
naughty.
Counsel for Maxwell, the trunk mur
derer, have exhausted the last possible
legal resource. They succeeded in getting
the case before the Supreme Court of tiie
United States, and failing to secure fed
eral interference they moved for a rehear
ing. The Supreme Court last Monday
dismissed the motion and witli it Max
well’s last hope.
SPOOKS THAT PAINT.
IIerr Most lias been very quiet since he
was released from jail tiie last time, and in
consequence most of his followers have de
serted him. lie is naturally angry and
hurt. A man of his temperament ;ls in a
cruel predicament when ho has to choose
between work and going to Blackwell’s
Island to get a living. Work is tiresome,
and there is no beer on the menu at t|ic
island.
Senator Brown’* Speeches.
Seuator Brown's conduct seems to be at dag
ger’s point with his professions; not merely
upon side Issues, but upon issues vital to the
welfare of the country, and of the State .ho pro
fessedly ‘represents.” Two vital inconsistencies,
worlil-wldc, between conduct and profession, I
shall expose in the present paper.
Senator Brown professes not to be a protec
tionist per se; and yet from tho day he went
into the Senate to the present time,he has never
once opened his mouth against the present
monstrous and outrageous tariff, and this too,
when the South was bleeding nt every pore
from its cruel iniquities. He does not even In
these two speeches propose n single reduction
in one single solitary duty on imports.
Not only is this true, but by urging the re
peal of all internal revenue taxes at one sweep,
he docs all he can do to fasten on the country
the present war tariff ns a permanent fixture.
NV ith u favorable’opportunity to reduce tho w’ur
taxes on the necessaries of life he is clamoring
for a removal of taxes on whisky and tobacco.
\ erlly, the record shows him to be a protection
ist per se of the worst kind. Ho belongs to
the same church with Sherman, Blaine, Ed
munds and Morrill. AU his talk about Jeffer
son, Madison ami Jackson amounts to uotmug
until he shows his faith by some suitable works.
He does not tell us that
as between internal revenue and high tariff
taxes] they preferred the former (under Wash
ington the average rate was less than half the
present tariff rate), though we were then young
as a people, and manufactures were in their
real infancy. Now grown Into glanti, they com
bine and form trusts, able not merely to take
care of themselves hut to govern the country—
to shape its policy in their own interests against
the interest of the public, in which work they
have no better agent and ally than Senator
Brown, and they recognise him as such.
Meanwhile our senior Senator talks and talks
about the “whisky ring,” but never opens his
mouth about the numerous other rings and
trusts and associations and leagues. He utters
no warning against these, and never lets out
the fact that the people can easily avoid the
whisky ring if they choose to do so, but cannot
avoid the ring on steel and iron, his favorite
*r*tu0ui iUippiug k, oi hvuiu me omer
rings without quitting their habits of eating
food and wearing clothes.
TIIK INTERNAL REVENUE.
Upon the other main issue also (there being
but two), Senator Brown’s conduct is equally
and squarely at war with his professions.
He proposes not to favor free whlsky-indeed
makes a strong protest against being so under
stood—but all his activities and his reasons
favor it none the less. He does for It all that ho
can do or could do, were his life at stake. If
sworn to do it, what mo/e could he do than
work for It night and day and send out speeches
—his own—and other Republican documents
by the bushel, loading the mails and fatiguing
his clerks to accomplish the end he professes
not to desire.
Take up bis nr.t speech and then bis second,
snd both are full and running over with op-
poeitton to anything else except cheap whisky
and tobacco. No argument that could bo used
addressed to cupidity, to prejudice or to ignor
ance, doc. be (.11 to employ.
It ta passing strange that out nl the thous-
eu’ls o( articles on the tin Iff list not
one do*, he propow either to tnok* free
or to reduce in rate. On the other hand
on the internal revenue Hat, he cannot couaent
to leave any tax whatever on any sort of liquor,
ranee This applies to evervthh' °
... , .. ... ' Marshs Utile gallery, and «•.> Iu.® In
Abont a dozen representatives of the that any spirit representing l* 5 to
New York press met Lost night by imrita- Raphael and painting such a danh 1 ^
tion of Luther R. Marsh, in the house he portrait of Rembrandt is a f raU( j JJ*
has lately bequeathed to a spiritualistic ltl , e
_ medium, Mrs L>iss De liar, to be main-j \f " H if T » tfiUJiND* say.
drygoods store, tho ordinary store for by her and her children as a “tem- I v * __ r * J “ p * * d'uvn to* n t
supplies, tho hardware store, tho shoe ple°f truth. Mr. Marsh sat lnlms'udv i- e »narkahle fnn« v * qq U8 niornin g it
;he housefurnishinir store, the clothimr with his hands iu the drawer ol his desk / •_ __ • i . le X re £ H ttlcd the
which contained a stock of paper pads. J a,r a very^ unfortunate one; and
On these pads, inclosed in the leaves of a if-* ,? w Mawh’a hallucinatii
hook or magazine aud held lirrnly in the i acllon created great surprise. '
hand, appeared writings of all kinds und TATma.m/, ...
from all conditions of dead men and wo-1 1 N UUUjiaii,
on tho long tariff list of ueccssaries must
stay and tie clinched and made permanent.
Thus, talk as be may, his utmost force is ex
pended against tariff reform and in favor of
A FREE OROG 8IIOP.
Between us and all goods, wares and mer
chandise taxed by the tariff, let obstacles and
barriers remain. Let taxes 8t.and between us
and the
family
store, the housefurnishing store, the clothing
store. I/et all these be obstructed, but make
straight paths to the grog shop! Cut down every
hill aud fill the valleys, and let us get easily
cheap grog. This is the burden of poth speeches.
Away with cheap goods, cheap iron and salt,
clothes and supplies, but huzza, huzza, huzza,
for the groggery and cheap liquor!
The wnisky ring is bad enough, but this bad
work of Senator Brown is worse. The bad riug
does not after all do so much harm as he does, for
it is a sort of watchdog against the groggery
but we can keep out of the w ay of the dog, aud
it is our interes* to do so. But the wolves,foxes
and brigands which beset our way to the pur
chase of goods, wares and merchandise may
bite and devour us, unrebuked by Senator
Brown. These he would keep untied and un
muzzled. Practically, to his utmost ability,with
much aid from the Hepublicans and the mpu-
opolists, he says:
Let the iron trust prey upon the people in
the matter of steel rails and the tools the farm
ers work with. (My dear friends, the farmers.)
Let every other combination have its wide Held
of plunder and monopoly, only let the road to
the groggery be free—open as the air, without
bar ur hindrance.
He assures us, however, that a reduction in
price* will not Increase the consumption of
liquor. This Is unfortunate, indeed. Reduced
rates increase travel. Try an excursion rate
and see the crowds it draws. People flock after
bargains when rates are reduced In other goods.
But it will not be so with liquor. Oh, no. Sen
ator Brown says it will not, and it is not polite
to say him nay; so men will not drink any
more.
The usual laws of demand and supply will
obey his bidding, and become inoperative.
Such are the Senator’s practices ami such Ills
professions. Upon the two main issues they are
as wide apart as the poles. Like the man at the
oar—with his face one way, he rows the other
with all his might He is not a protectionist
per se—not he. He is not for free liquor—not
he.
But no protectionist per se could do more for
protection per se. No advocate for free liquor
could do more for a free grogery—and against
cheap goods.
To support his real object the arguments he
uses are mainly the old staple Republican ar
guments—which, from a Democratic stand
point need no reply, except to minds uufamillar
with Democratic principles, and unaccustomed
to carry sound principles to sound conclusions.
But he adds some new and very shallow ar
guments of his own to the old staple. The Re
publicans got a good recruit when-they got
Senator Brown—wearing our uniform, but
fighting their battles. They are pleased with
him and quote him.
If the Senator’s general views are correct—
the Republican party is in the right, and ought
to succeed. If he is right the Democratic party
is wrong and ought to be defeated. If Senator
Brown’s speeches represent his honest opinions,
his allegiauce is given to the wrong party. It
might be admitted however, that he does bis
Republican principles more service by profess-
iug Democracy.
But if his professions are so at war witn his
practice, as to protection and whisky—how
with his othe^ professions, say, for cxumple,
his professed Democracy T How about his love
for labor—for the laborer—for his beloved farm
ers?
Tho inconsistencies we have exposed are not
of the past with the present; but of tho present
with the present; of professions with practice.
What advantage Is it to call him Democrat? He
is ouly the more dangerous for that.
What is more daugerous than to profess peace,
yet make war, especially to make war from
within? Admitted into the heart of the citadel.
Meanwhile, both of the speeches are strictly
for home consumption. They make no more
impression on the Senate, or the country gener
ally, than a Chinese tom-tom on a civilized
army. They arc fer the Georgia market. Mo
nopoly Is aggressive and impudent—it is ever
ready, while truth and justice are slow in their
movements. While the private interests of Sen
ator Brown (a nominal representative of Geor
gia) are no dearer to him than are the public Is
sues to the public, they ate quicker in opera
tion and are being worked up rapidly.
It may be well to review some of the Senator’s
fallacies, old und ucw, emanating from a high
Republican standpoint, and only dangerous be
cause of the professed Democracy of the speaker.
Hamukl Barnett.
Washington, Ga., April 3,1888.
The Ifnlluclnat!
York Lawyer,
others ha. the earmarks of our ti„, r
f a Well-known Ncr “ S’J’if of l
nien. Around the walls of Ihe room were j A Tedious Process Which toliiulure.l l,
innumerable paintings, almost altogether! IlelpufOpium. ' ' J
portraits, representing Raphael, Kem- ' From the Cornhill Magazine,
brandt, Moles, l’lato, Socrates, Adelaide I’lio NIy in, the butij -ct, is lying on „,
Neilson. Pythagoras and many others. On quite nude, with a dazed look iu |||,l
east Is in one corner of the room were closed eyes and breathing heavily, jr,
a portrait of Mr. MTlrsli, wrapped in a Ro- ^* inv nods at him meaningly, “lie iia s
man toga, and beside him a painting rep-, muck opium,” lie says, grinning at me
resenting his wife. These pictures, Mr. “ni not surprised at it. If the i tokwiM,
Marsh declared, were I lie work of spirits, uhgyee was going to exercise
Ho gave ample evidence of the fact that he urt upon me for ( our
earnestly believed all that lie said. | i’ ve hours. I should follow
Tiie press representatives, while they felt Dorman's plan and take opium by |U _
kindly towarcl Mr. Marsh, whose beliefs of an anstetbetic. The tattooing wiii s |,,
they treated with that deference which the we " 0I } Dio plump fair skinned lad |*f„
ancients showed to the insane, were dis- ] . u8 > oud the professor evidently thinks
posed to be rather sceptical about tiie pow- > 8 a subject to take pains with, as he
era of tiie medium, Mrs. Diss De Bar. I carefully mixing ins ink in a joint
Upon questioning Mr. Marsh, who has ; bamboo and preparing his weapon. Th
been a lawyer all his life and who was dis- I' s a brass rod nearly two feet lone an
posed to take the most personal inquiries about an inch thick j it is weighted at
good-naturedly, it was learned that lie had ■ l0 P w *th a little oruamentaWigure,
known Mrs. Diss De Bar for two or three I Die other end lias a hollow point diviu
years; that she was of rni'xed German and j by two cross slits into four fine prie]
Spanish descent and tiie daughter of the Tne professor examines the “bu
adventuress from the circus ring, Lola' ne! ^ cn d” critically, and havR
Montez, whose deeds old New Yorkers will j satiofied himself that it is sharp enou,
remember tucks up_ his putsoe _ and squats at Ph
Mr. Marsli himself is a small man, with Myin’s si e. Selecting a spot on thethig
square cut features, gray hair and short be places both feet on it a few inch
gray side whiskers. He liaB long been I apart,'and, stretching the skin tight,dm
known in New York, having amassed u the outline of the first figure—a tiger rti
largo fortune by liis fifty-two years’ prac-1 pantr—with an inky splinter of bamba
tice of the law. His wife has been dead Dt'* 18 80on done, and relieving himself™
havii
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
There is something noble about a goat that
all boarders might imitate. lie Is not particu
lar what he feeds oil.—Shoo snd Leather Re
porter..
We bellove no one has yet secured an Instan
taneous photograph of a kies. 'Cause why?
’Cause the old lingering variety Is more popu
lar.—Detroit Free Press.
Here lies a lawyer, cold In death,
With all paid tip that'a due him;
He lies at ease In peaceful rest,
For lying's natural to him.
Book Agent-'-Hcw do you do, madam. Will
your dog bite?” Madam—^“Waal, 1 reckon be
will.” Book Agent—“Would you have tliegaod-
neaa to apeak to him?" Madam—“Certainly.
Kick 'Im, Tlge; lick ’Ini.”—Harper's Bazar.
A Nebraska City man has not spoken to his
wife for several yean, but for all that Judgment
should not be too haatily passed nor hla motives
unintelllgently Impugned. Perhaps ihe has
talked ao constantly all that tlmo that he could
not get In a word.—Lowell Citizen.
many years and lie has no children.
Mr. Marsh and Mrs. Diss I)e Bar having
been drawn together through these spirit
ualistic agencies, have somewhat modified
the creed of others wiio have moved in the
realm of mystery. Mrs. Diss De Bar has
also thrown her fortunes in witli those of
Mr. Marsli, equal portions of iier exper
ience against his real estate and cash, for
the advancement of a kind of spiritualism
which can be made to work in entire har
mony with the Christianity of tiie times.
In fact the medium, her husband and chil
dren, have taken up their residence in the
top floor of Mr. Marsh’s house. Mr. Marsli
further corroborated the fact that lie had
deeded the property, under instruction
from the spirit land, to the women in
question. This deed she showed to a
reporter of the World. In it the
house No. 166 Madison avenue, is
given to "Kditha L. Diss De Bar, wife of
General Joseph Diss De Bar, in fee
simple, and to her heirs forever, it being
the intention and hope that after I have
departed this life* the sajse should, is her
keeping, and that of her children and
children’s children after her, be kept and
continued as it is now, a sacred temple,
dedicated to God and devoted to His scr-
The information was also disclosed that'
Mrs. Diss De Bar holds seances in tiie Al
pine apaitment house, where many promi
nent people go toiler; that ,sne receives
money for her service, having made, as she
states, SCO,000 in six months from these
instantaneous pictures. Mr. Marsli had
eighty of these valued pictures, which she
appraised at $80,000, to balance the value
of the house.
Tiie woman herself, at the request of
tho reporters, entered the room last even
ing and explained her methods. She is a
dark, fat woman, apparently capable, as
she says, of being a la nb or a virago, as
the case requires. She is ready with her
wit and tongue, and allows no one to ques
tion her too pointedly. Mr, Marsh sat by,
meekly corroborating some of her most in
credible statements. Asked how she got
the picture.-, she claimed that they ap
peared instantaneously on the canvas
while in a seance, the subject meanwhile
holding a canvas or piece of cardboard
above his head. Mr. Marsh even said that
he had seen tiie picture come on the can
vas, and referred to a black and white
drawing of his father as an instance. This
was an enlargement of an old photograph,
reversed. He said that the medium had
a large mouthful of letelnut, the p ro fe
sor settles down to work in earnest. I fl]
ing forward through his widely parlt
knees, he balanced tiie brass styleliaintil
and, clasping it with 'the fingj
and thumb of the right bag,
makes a bridge on the
which he fiesta on the surface
tween his feet. After sliding the instn
nient through his fingers once ortwice.i
if to take aim, he makes a start and nritl
away steadily with a light, firm touch tin
is wonderful!}- quick and true. In
than five minutes the tiger witli its s_
rounding border is finished, and the an:
removes his feet from tiie distented sk:
and washes off the supeifiuous ink to a
liow liis work lias come out. Evervbw!
presses forward to look at the pfetun
which shows up in bold relit
on the rapidly formed
ling. Mounp Salk exchanges
remark with his wife, and the tattoeer:
sumes liis working position to draw tb
outline of tiie ucx lligure. Tiie boy, stupe
tied with opium, lies insensible to nxii
while one figure after another gradual)
appears on iiis skin. Deep ns the point*
style sink, tiicy draw little blood, bin tb
limb swells in a manner that would alan
anyone who did not know it would retur
to its normal size in a day or two. Fen
sometimes supervenes, and in that ct>
the patient waits for a tiara u*fui* is
work of illustration is resume!
so it often extends over the perk
of a.week or ten days, during which tb
inconvenience -•offered- 4s., oansiderablr
Without the aid of opium the pre
would be u much longer one. I foui
that I could not endure tiie application
the style for more than thirty consecutii
seconds without flinching so much ait
interfere witli tiie operator’s movement
for the skin is pricked over so closely tb;
it becomes too tender to sustain'tlicir rep
tition. Eight rupees is the usual fee pal
to a tattooer for endowing a lad will
breeches. The figures that compw
them vary little, consisting aa
rule of tigers, “nagas” (dragoons,
Hi 8 IMkbdkte
never seen the photograph, hut living in
the house wi th it. Mrs. Diss De B,tr is
not the woman she appears if she could
not have got hold of it without Mr. Marsh's
knowledge. Nevertheless tiie fact seemed
remarkable to Mr. Marsh.
At this point one of the reporters at
tempted to cornor Mrs. Diss De Bar mid
reduce her information to a mathematical
basis liv telling how often she worked
these alleged miracles. She showed her
daws at once, and it looked as if tiie meet
ing would break up as did tiie famous one
on the Ntanislau. When peace was re
stored tiie medium's attention was called
to the fact that the pictures all showed
signs of having been painted by one and
the same person, and a iioor artist at that:
that they were not at all characteristic of
Raphael or Rembrandt, whose spirits were
said to have painted them, and that hav-
PERSONAL.
Joe Jefferson is reported to have a fortune of
r60,000.
8am Small Intends to start a Prohibition
paper In Washington.
The heirs arestill contesting tho will of tho
ate vtee-Preatdent Wheeler. He leaves shout
536,000 to charity and 510,000 to relatives.
Swinburne Is to shy and Bcnsitlva that If a
woman looks him full In the face ho blushes
os red aa the wattles on an Indignant turkey
gobbler.
A bill providing for s monument over the
body of John Gray, the lost Revolutionary
soldier who. died some years ego, has been
Introduced into Congress.
^Berlin gossips have discovered a curious coin
cidence Ip th'e fact that Emperor William's ago
at his death wua Just equal to the combined
ages of hla three living heirs—eon. grandson and
great-grandson.
A Professional Love Maker.
From the Gainesville Eagle
One of our young men Ea said to he mak
ing love in six diflereni young ladiis. He
is a prof, s-ional man, and as such generally
have their own wny, especially lawyers,
wesupposo he should be uliowtd this ex
traordinary privilege. Soiiio of the
young ladies seem to think, however, that
whisky, brandy, wine or beer or tobacco for such love is apt to be rattier diluted.
ing been painted without a brusli and
paint showed brush marks. She answered
these queries by simply saying that, under
the circumstances, the pictures could not
be expected to have the finisii and artistic
qualities of old art.
In order to examine this question more
crilicady than would ordinarily lie de
manded, owing to the position which Mr.
Marsh has held in the community, the art
critic ol this journal carefully scrutinized
a number of the paintings, particularly
the two attiibuted to Raphael and Kem-
oranut. Ihe portrait ot Raphael, .Mr.
Marsli said, hud been painted by the spirit
of Rembrandt. It was a portrait founded
on that which is in the l’uris Louvre, but
minus the cap, and with a background of
arches. It was a cheap and worthless
th ng, which no one with a knowledge of
pictures would look nt a second time. It
was painted everywhere with a full
bru li of paint, was hard aud dead
in color anil vacuous in expression. Such
daubs as this are to be found in the Bowe
ry, but it would be an insult to any ordi
nary man to ask him to believe that any
but a tyro had done the work. Certainly
and “beloos;” (dcviUr) Each
is surrounded with a border of sentence
generally illegible, Invoking good luc
upon the owner of the skin whcreapei
they are inscribed. The waist and kn«i
a?e ne Uv finished off with a tasteful edi
ing of j win t or scroll pattern; these sent
tive parts of the body are the last to I
done and tattooers have told me that tl
pain caused frequently arouses the patient
from his torpor.
ltENNETT TALKS HACK.
Ills Reply to Jny Goulil-a Scurrllom At
tnok.
From the New York Herald
He lias no right to complain of the uni
versal detestation in which he is held, i
is the sole author of that retribution befoi
which lie now trembles. The logic of Iu
life follows him, and it is inexorable. 1«
is neither persecuted nor a victim. H
simply awaits even iianded justice—a ten
rible outlook.
There are ghosts in hia path which wm
frighten sleep from tiie eyelids of anjr i
who had tho remnants of a conscience
That reign of terror well named Black Fri
day is not yet forgotten. It was aderilu*-
needless cataclysm which brought busing
to a standstill und left iu its track bank
ruptcies and. ruins innumerable. W
story of Erie shall not be repeated. n“ :
it was ns damning a tragedy a*;
ever writ.cn—its prominent incidenu
the arrest of Gould, hia compuboff
restitution of about ten niilh |in -'
and the deposit of tho jilundeiw
road in the hands of a receiver. Then l*
lows tiie procession of ghostly occu*ec-'
Wabash, which brought disgrace on onr
credit at home and abroad, and Texas 1*’
cific. and the Kansas Pacific, and Mints '
tan, and the Missouri Pacific. Ituasi*”
ruin, ruin everywhere, and on the run'.*'
has built a colossal fortune. No h'Jv
man has wrought such disaster or »*•
so much money out of it. Friends ana e»
cmies alike have been deluded by 8
promises, aud It is related that **
driven beyond the verge of despair byt*
jaiverty, have sought release from hue
d it-is Macbeth’* hand that Gonldlooksrt
nnd he trembles at wliat lie aces.
suits of the past have only teased m •
they are nothing; tiiev involve the P ,
incut of money only. But a criminal®
with thh possihiliiv of finding hinweiii
1.1... 1 .... I * i. i,;„. u-nthc wn*
Mr. Marsh should he ashamed of telling l ...
snch twaddle to intelligent men. His; hind the bare, > makes him writhe
not likely that the spiri t of Rembrant,' frantie fear and beat tiie air with imp° tc
painting m the planet Mars, or anywhere I passion. .
Oise in the universe, would consent to at if he dare face facts, let him do It-
manifestation o bin genius which would i reminiitceiic- s, lull! tli-y are the !*•
f ve the beholder the impression that he I sort of a whimpering knave.
new nothing ot drawing and still less of !
colors. W« know Rembrant too well for I What Is tli* Sfatter?
that. TLen, too, lie used to paint in Iti 101 From tbcOreenville (».('-) News.-
or thercaboats with a medium that nu- The Atlanta Constitution and Annirtf
dered his shadows transparent, his color ton Hot Blast have Inst their grip
brilliant > nd hi* cliiaroan-1 chief justiceship has been vacant *
inimitable. His medium I and w. have not nun JmwpIi E. Ik '
now is Mrs. Dies De Bar, and what lie pro- I S.uuir I Noble im-ntioncd in
ducos through that medium, and what witli tiie position.
nneciw*