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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH; TUESDAY. JUNE 19.1888.-TWELVE PAGES.
billy mahone ;
fells Something About His
11 Selling Out.
the DEADLOCK OF 1881 DISCUSSED.!
Qorhi' ,u
attack on Maine Indorsed—The ,
LUiTe General and Ui* Little H%rord— j
ji Kick From the Head Boss— |
tils Career Ending.
HI tbe New York Herald.
PCTjbhiuBO, Va., June 8.—The Gor-'
hmi revelation in the Herald, in which
General Mahone’s debut on the stage of
Republican politics is largely given, creat
ed a sensation in \ irginia.
General Mahone was found at his resi
de in this city oy a Herald correspon-
‘lit-
(“Have you read Gorham’s history of the
conspiracy against Conkling?” he was
iskei).
“I bare not.”
'•You figure very prominently in it.”
“I mill"** I do. 1 know all about that
part of it, Gorham and 1 have talked it
over frequently."
“Will you please give mo your own
venion ut it? ’ **kl the Herald correspon-
^“N'ow " said the little General, “I will
not be interviewed upon that or any other
oolitical subj ct,” and walking to the book
case be took from it an instrument about
three leet long, slightly curved and hav
ing what seemed to be a scabbard and
hi !‘This is » Japanese sword,” said the
fierce little Boss, as he proceeded to un
sheath it. “It was given to Governor John
jj Jloydwiien he was Secretary of War
w a member of the Japanese government
then in Wa-hington. Floyd gave it to
John Moncure Daniel, he gave it to Ma
jor Dick Walker and the latter gave it to
U 'He bail now drawn the sword, the blade
ol which, resembling a sharp scy metar, was
(hiding and sharp.
“I never bad any use for it until re
cently,” continued the alleged one-nian-
powe’r. “You see it is so sharp that you
could.have with it."
“Yes,” replied the correspondent.
“Well,” said tlie General, “1 use this to
dispoeof interviewers,” ai d hegaveit a
semi-circular‘swoop, cleaving the smoke
from the correspondent’s cigar into two
distinct bodies, as if to show how expert he
was in deeapisating ncwsj>a|>er men.
Witli this understanding the General
drank about a tablespoonful of whisky in
a bait'a glass of waior, ihe correspondent
lit a fresh cigar end both took seats.
MR. GORHAM’S I.F.TTKlt INDORSED.
As the Japanese ruzoi-like implement
was now safely back in the bookcase, the
correspondent 'began to read extracts from
Mr. Gorham’s story relative to Gen. Ma
lone’s fusion of the readjusters and the
Republicans in Virginia and Garfield’s
willingness to form an alliance on that ba
sis- The General became interested. He
ssid:
' iuo not wish to say anyihing politi
cally juat now for publication, and it is
with the greatest reluctance that 1 refer to
the matters contained in Gorham’s story.
All that he says is true, and 1 am glad
that he his published it id the Herald to
vindication of the history of those times,
as the public has been grossly misinformed
in regard to the facta The meeting in
Washington, at which Senators Don Cam
eron and Allison, Representative L. I'.
Morton and Charles Umorv Smith, John S.
Wise, Kiddleberger and ' Frank A. Burr
were present, took place, and I explained
ia a four honra’ talk the Virginia debt
question. All of them approved what I
■aid, and my views were priuted and taken
to Garfield at Mentor, who said to Gorham
that the document was an honest one and
that the movement in Virginia met his
approval. Garfield afterword favored two
wparate conventions—one of readjusters,
the other of Republicans—and the fusion
ol the two bodies afterward. Ilia wishes
were deferred to in this respect.
the GARFIELD-MAHONE BAROAIN DENIED.
“A great deal has been said about ‘a
bargain' of the Garfield administration
with Mahone. There waa no bargilin then
prat any other time. As to this, the fact
* that when my document on the debt
question was taken to Garfield at Mentor I
»m acked, ‘What shall we say to Mr. Gar-
hid for you in reference to bis adoiinistra-
bun?’ I replied, ‘You can say to the
•wident that I will support his adtuinis-
hstion as far as his conduct of it will
allow. 1
. “And, when the interview with Mr. Gar-
hid had cloned, he waa asked by Don
Gmeron, who was present, ‘Mr. President,
what shall we say to General Mahone for
f°u?’ Mr. Garfield replied, ‘You can tell
hwersl Mahone that I will 'treat him just
u *wou!d any other Republican Senator.’
, '<>th these assurances the party came
“h* Ircm Mentor.
‘Coon after the inauguration I made a
“>nnal call upon President Garfield, and
f, quite a pleasant conversation with
0lm i during which, however, no reference
*“ ma de •» political matters.
u MAttONE AND THE REPULICANB.
Die Senate had been called in extra
'tsuon by President Hayes, and when it
“Pte to be organized 1 found rnyBelf the
“eject of considerable solicitude in both
Parlies. A prominent Democratic ’•enator
“ju: ‘Come on, Mahone; let me take you
I ,kV‘ e c * oa * t room and introduce you to
.. ^“atore. You will have to meet them
•ujhow.’
• - i.i not m a hurry just then to meet
Senators, and excused myself. Shortly
wrward Don Cameron came in and took
e into another cloak room and, ‘Here
ar ‘ l i hang up your hat on this peg,
•• ° nr ‘°at then, and here is , and here
, > introducing uie all around. ‘Now
Jure a|| right.’ This seemed to settle
c...- b,a . tus > ^ or vcr y Poon 0110 hi 1 ® Dcmo-
*tic Senston was heard to remark: ‘Oh,
J gosh • they’ve got him; his hat and coat
>n the Republican cloak room.’
*»E LITTLE GENERAL’S EVES OPENED.
about til id time I wished to have
"e obnoxious post-office officials remov-
m.’s. at the Post-Office Depart-
« ani in memoranda of the
VTc* kn ‘* change* I wanted made.
|,. th ' n 8 was done I called again and
eni x *D* ,r > Assiatant Postmaster Gen-
... w h° received me coolly and replied
JJJively to my demands. A third time I
J?** * 0| newhat savagely, and insisted
“"owing what was ’ the matter. I
that the President bad or-
,** ••• my applications for appoint-
‘hould be sent to him. This opened
(iL*y®“) »nd a suspicion I bad at the
**• ratified by the information of a
committee clerk of the Senate, who told
me that he had heard a Southern Senator
say to others, "It’s all right now. Mahone
can’t do a d—d thing. >Ve have fixed it
with Garfield.” I was unable froth that
moment to have even a petty postmaster
appointed during the Garfield administra
tion up to his death.
“There was a deadlock in the Senate on
its organization which lasted a consider-
able period. I could not even have a
route agent at Richmond removed. About
this time a committee of the Republican
caucus, consisting of Senators Logan, Cam-
erpn and Hoar waited on the President and
talked the situation over in regard to the
new Senator from Virginia. These gentle
men brought back the same assurance from
the Prceidtnt that he had previously made
at Mentor—that he would treat General
Mahone the same as he would any other
Republican Senator. The'deadlock con
tinued and the President’s nominations
were hung up.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD EMBARRASSED.
"About this time I received a written
note from General Garfield asking me to
call and see him. I did so. He said: ‘I
aui very much embarrassed by the failure
of the Senate to organize and the conse
quent suspension of the confirmation of
my appointments.’
“I replied:—‘Mr. President yon have
the whole matter in your own hands. You
cau easily break the deadlock in the Sen
a's and tecure its organization by with
drawing all your nominations. As the
matter now stands with the Democrats in
our front and attacked in the rear by
appointees and office seekers, your admin
istration is sure of defeat. But if you
will withdraw your'nominations and leave
the body to act on its organizition alone,
and let it be known that you will make no
nominations until that organization is
effected, the problem will solve itself.!
"Mr. Garfield said to that:—This would
be as-liming the entire responsibility—
taking it all on my own shoulders.’
“I remarked:—‘Mr. President you are in
tlie position which makes it yonr duty to
assume it.’
"He said nothing further for awhile, but
shrugged his shoulders.
SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED.
“My suspicions about the Democratic
alliance were being further confirmed
every day, and before leaving the Presi
dent expressed his anxiety about the con
firmation of Robertson as collector of the
Port of New York. ,
“ ‘As to that, Mr. President, I know
no'tbing. Neither of the New York Sena
tors have ever had anything to say to me
on tlie subject,’ I said.
“This closed that interview, leaving an
unpleasant impression on my mind.
“Soon after I was called upon by Chair
man Jewell. He came to the Senate, was
very polite, assured me of General Gap-
field’s friendly feeling toward me and
asked me to get into a carriage, to go and
see the President, who was then exceed-
inely anxious to have the nomination of
Robertson as collector of New York con
firmed.
"1 replied to Mr. Jewell: ‘While I am
sorry for the President’s anxiety, I cannot
interfere with this matter. I bare never
been approached by either of the Senators
from New York, and don’t know their
views on that subject.’
“Mr. Jewell retired somewhat discorn-
fitted.”
General Mahone was 'asked about the
conference in New York referred to in
chapter aix, part three, of Gorham’s story,
during which a Democratic leader told
certain of the Republican conspirators,
‘•W# won’t help you to tear down Conkling
in New York while you are building up
Mahone in Virginia,” to winch the latter
replied, ‘‘That can all be fixed. Yon go
over and see Blaine.” “I’ll do it,’’ said the
Democrat, and he did. General Mahone
said the statement was all trne, but would
add not a word more.
The Herald correspondent escnjred, but
the Japanese sword is still kept in readi
ness for the next.
BTItANGERTHAN PICT ION.
Tlie Surprising Sequel to n Gentleman’s
Story of a Thrilling Experience Long Ago.
From (he Naahvlllo Democrat.
The Democrat is permitted, through
courtesy of a friend, to narrate the facts
concerning an incident that occurred in
this city a' lew days since, a very strange
coincidence to say the least, and one so
interesting in its nature as to merit a place
beside the creations of the brain of tlie
novelist or story-teller.
A gentleman who has been a great trav
eler and has visited nearly every portion
of the globe has been spending a few weeks
in Nashville. Like most great travelers,
he is a fluent talker and a boon compan
ion. Among other friends whom he made
here was a young business man who has a
store on one of the thoroughfares of the
city and lives with his mother, a widow
lady a little past the middle age, in a pret
ty cottage in one of the quiet suburbs of
Nashville. The young maa was much
taken with bis new acquaintance, who, one
afternoon, after having r. fused several
former invitations, consented to go home
with him to supper. _ .
As the young man, his mother,who is an
invalid, and the stringer sat on the por
tico after supper chatting quietly, the
young man incidently reminded his
mother of some of his school-boy pranks,
which he said occurred while he waa at
school in Baltimore before his parents had
returned from a residence of ten years in
Australia. The stranger remarked that he
had once lived at Melbourne, Australia,
and after an interesting conversation with
the lady and her son about points on the
antipodes familiar to them all, said that
he had a peculiir experience on his way
home. On being jiressed-to tell the story
by his young friend, he said:
"That was some ten years ago.
I
knee. There was not good blood between
the captain and me after that; but it was
no time for fighting, as shortly afterward
the breakers overturned our boat, while
we were passing over a reef trying to make
eur way to a little coral island. I was a
splendid swimmer, and soon found myself
on shore alone. The only human beings
in sight were a man swimming bravely for
the island and the lady whom 1 had res
cued from the ship clinging helplessly to
a fragment of the boat! The man was
soon by my side, though in a state of utter
exhaustion, and I had concluded as I had
saved the lady’s life once I’d try and do so
again. Acting 'upon the impulse, I swam
out to where *he wn«; and finally succeeded
in getting her to land in an unconscious
state. She cairie to, but her reason had
desorted her, and she was a wild, raving
maniac. There was no fresh water on the
island, which was very small, and no veg
etables and hut little grass, but there were
lots of cocoanut trees lull of cocoanuts and
alive with monkeys. I ate a cocoanut
and drank the milk, and got some for the
lady and my companion, who had succeed
ed in getting to shore. He
was taken suddenly ill from
taking too much salt water into
his stomach, and died the second day after
we were wrecked. I buried him in the
sand, and made a little house out of cocoa-
nut leaves for the lady, but she was so
crazy she would not stay in it and would
not cat anything. She would run about
the island and scratch and hurt herself
till finally I caught her and tied her up
with ropes made of bark. AVe stayed on
tlie island nine weeks, and I kept her tied
most of tlie time and fed her on cocoanuts
till finally she began to get fat. I used to
climb trees a'ter cocoanuts, but I got terri
bly tired eating them, and used to divert
myself trying to catch a monkey. I
wanted to try a piece of roasted menkey,
but I could never get hold of one.
“I knew the Uland was on the road
taken by ships from Melbourne to New
York, and that it was only a question of a
short time till we would Ire picked up, but
I nan promise vnu that it seemed to me
like an age before one came near enough
to be hailed.
“At last a ship came by and took us on
board. When we reached New York the
lady was still a maniac, and I have never
heard of her again except through a friend
of mine who wrote to me about six months
ago from Philadelphia that he had heard
from her, and that she was alive and well,
and living with her husband in Washing
ton City.”
Tlie young man and his mother had lis
tened to tlie strungcr's story % witii breath
less attention, and when he' had finished
told him that the lady was a sister to his
host’s mother, and was at the time of the
shipwreck returning from s visit to her in
Australia. They further told him that
the lady had not regained her mind for a
year after she came back to America, and
that then she had no remembrance of any
thing that occurred after she left Australia.
She is now tlie mother of three children,
and the wife of a high government official.
NERVE OF A POLICE JUSTICE.
JimIro Ill-in,i’s Interview Willi n Mnn Who
Objected to One of III* Sentences.
St. IxiuL-i Republican.
Hon: Thomas J. Drum, of Butte, Mon.,
is at present visiting St. Louis. Tom
Drum is one of the best known men in the
West. He is a lawyer of distinguished
ability, and has follow-d mining excite
ments in the West for twenty years or
more. Judge Drum has lived in Califor
nia, Arizona, Nevada,and Montana, and
lias been a conspicuous 6gurc at the bar
in eacli place. During the days of Tomb-
Mone’s prosperity he was a United States
commissioner in Arizona, residing in
Tombstone, and when President Arthur
issued his famous proclamation ordering
the outlaw cowboys to disband, Judge
Drum took an active part in its enforce
meet.
A brace of cowboys were at one time ar
raigned before him for holding up a
United States mail coach between Benson
and Tombstone. The judge held them
both for trial without bail and sent them
to the Tucson jail for safe keeping. This
made the cowboys indignant, and threats
were made that Judge Drum’s earthly ca
reer would be wound up. A few d:\ys af
ter he ordered the prisoners taken to Tuc
son jail, Red Thornton, a notorious des
perado, quietly entered Judge Drum’s of
fice. The judge was sitting alone behind a
desk. He recognized Thornton ns he en
tered, but pretended to keep on writing
without taking any notice of him. In the
menntime, however, he managed to get hiz
hand on a double-barreled shotgun with
the barrels abbreviated to about fourteen
inches in length, that rested against his
desk within easy reach. He lifted it up,
and, concealing it behind a pile of books,
with his hand still grasping it, asked
Thornton what he wanted as that gentle
man appeared in front of the desk.
“Be you Jedge Drum?” asked the despe
rado.
“I be,” responded the judge.
“Welt, I kern to settle wid you alioiit
seedin’ the b’yes to jail," coolly remarked
the desperado.
“How are you going to do it?” queried
the judge.
“Jedge, you’re a putty good lookin’ duck,
an’ I hate ter do it, but I’v got ler blow
the top of your d d head off,”
remarked the gentleman with the red hair.
“That wouldn’t be much fun for me, es
pecially as they struck a big ore body in
the Cromwell this morning," ssid the judge.
“Jedge, you're too d d funny,” said
the desperado, and he made a motion to
reach for his gun.
As be did so the judge presented his
shotgun, stood up, and preseneed the muz
zle within two feet of the desperado. This
was something that had not been caleu-
A War Hall.Invention.
( Berlin Dispatch to the I^mdon Times,
j To day by special invitation, I attended
a very interesting experiment in thescience
1 of war ballooning, which was made in pres-
I ence of the military representatives ol the
i principal European powers, including Col.
, iSwaine, C. B., for England. The experi-
! ment, which was held at Fcrstenwaldc,
| consisted in the demonstration of a new
method of infilling balloous for recon
i noitering purpose- in time of war, whether
. over against a besieged fortress or in
; hostile territory of uneven surface,
j The principle of this new invention
, (which is the combined work of Lieut.
Richter, an ex-artillery lieutenant of the
• Prussian army, and Dr. Majert, a young
: chemist of distinction) is that the inflating
1 gas is produced on the spot, whenever ami
wherever want- ,1, instead of being bottled
up and carried along till required, as in
England, for example. “The sjiparatus
which thus produces the necessary balloon
gas at will resembles a traction engine or
thrashing machine, and when drawn by a
team of six lioises is warranted to go
wherever a field gun can be dragged,
In its lower part is a furnace.
This can lie fed with fuel of any
kind, especially wood, which is rarely un
obtainable, in some shape or other, during
a campaign; and above this :are several
parallel layers of retorts, about thirty in
all, into which are thrust cases of cart
ridges like railway carriage warmers, filled
with a mixture of zinc dust and hydrate
of lime, which tlie action of fire speedily
converts into the hydrogen gas requisite
for elevating a military ballon captif. To
produce q-ss sufficient for this purpose
about two hours only are required.” The
Bystem thus generally described is superior
to all rival systems, as its authors assure
me that it is cheaper, quicker and much
less dangerous than auy other. The cases
of compressed gas with which Eng
lish and other balloons are at present
filled are liable to explode in course of
transit from various causes, while the gas
itself has frequently proved fatal to those
within its reach. It is rather a heavy
looking engine, is this gas producer, with
all its certified capacity to pass wherever a
field gun can go, and 1 asked its inventors
what we conid do with it among the sands
of Egypt, or themountainsof Afghanistan,
wherever, in fact, England has her “little
wars” to wage with semi-civilized peophs,
who have nothing like continental roads.
“Oh.” said the inventors, “you do not need
to drag the ‘Entwickler’ all the way with
you. Leave it at the base of your opera
tions—say, for example, Suakim, if you are
going to Berber—on board ship or else
where, and it will go on there producing
for you inflated gas, which yon otherwise
would have to fetch at your peril all the
way from .England. Besides, you can take
the retorts out and carry them with cam
els, mules or the like to any point at which
you want to use them.” Tlie military at
taches of the chief European powers re
turned to Berlin under the conviction that
they had witnessed an experiment which
is destined to prove epoch-making, as tlie
Germans say, to scientific warfare.
iated on, and the intruder's disappoint-
was ' ment was apparent.
ouitV'a young man, tliough Saving just i “Throw up your arms 1” called out the
. ,I,„ RritiwH irmv in fiudee. Thornton obeyed promptly. “Now
which I enlisted when a mere boy, and was
on my way home to Liverpool.
“\Vr had been a few days out from Aus
tralia when u storm came up, and our shin
struck a hidden rock and began to bll with
water. Wc saw there was nothing to do
hut to take to the boats, which we did irell
tin'll without much regard to good breeding
or etiquette, each fearing that he would be
left. There were three ladies on the shq>,
and I noticed as our boat was about to
puli ofl that one of them waa left. I called
the captain’s a tention to it, but he said
our boat already had enough on her to
sink her; and ordered the oarsmen to do
their work. I was a big, strapping, good-
natured ft How, and hated to see the poor
woman left, who. by the way, seemed a
lady, hut was very lonely, and so I caught
bold of the side of the ship and held on
till the lady waa within a few feet of us,
when she fell in a sw<»n.
I jumped to her side,
seized her in my arms and sprang back on
the boat just as* it was separating from the
sinking snip for the last time. The captain
waa so suer* with me that be shot at roe
remain in that position until somebody
comes a’ong' to take off your pistols,”
said the judge. Thornton did as he »as
told. In a few minutes footsteps
were heard ir. the hall, and the judge
called the passer by to enter. It happened
to tie a lawyer who had an office in the
same building. Judge Drum told the
lawyer to relieve the desperado of his pis
tols, warning the latter if he made a move
he would receive a double charge of buck
shot The desperado’s pistols were taken
from him, and then, in front qt the judge’s
gun, be was marched offto jail.
Bn* n Woman Hide* Her Jewelry.
From the St. Paul Globe.
Women may not have a great head for
many thing*, but they have for secreting
valuables. There is a woman on Holly
avenue who possesses some handsome dia
monds. She pals them in a box, puts the
box in a ragbag on the closet floor, and at
night puts the watch dog in the closet on
top of the rag bag, locks him in there an,l
every night hides the key in a different
K lioe Her husband iav« that if she had
er way she would arm him to the teeth
Iwioe with a pistol, one bull miming me* and put him in the cloeet on top of the
entirely and the other Just grasing my dog.
A Qvnuu SACS AEE THE FliKGAKa*
When Their Women Reach n Certain Ago
They Koant and Bat Them.
Son Francisco Examiner's Account ol Albatross
• ' Expedition.
Profe-sors Lee and Townsend are both
more than ordinarily successful as ama
teur photographers. They have brought
back a line collection of photographs of in
teresting places, people anu situations,
some of which are reproduced here. By
far the most interesting pictures arc those
t.ik.-r. ofl'the (vast of Terra del l-'uego, the
inhabitants of which are tlie next to the
lowest type of tlie human race known.
Prof. Lee, by the way, ascribes a differ
ent origin to :ne name of the land than is
given in the geographies that were studied
in tlie school*. These text books said that
the number of volcanoes about gave tho
country its forbidding name, but the Pro
filer says there are no volcanoes any where
about there. The natives of the country
live in long bark canoes, in the centre of
which a tire is always burning. When to
kindle a fire meant to rub two sticka to
gether until they started to burn the sav-
ag,-' were i iri ful not b, let thru lires g,.
out, and the custom survives. ’The name
comes from these ever-burning fires.
1 he natives have learned the use of
matches anil tobacco, and these commo
dities command a high price in Terra del
Fuego, even though there is no protective
tariff there. A sheep or a baby is consid
ered a fair equivalent fora plug of todacco
or a bunch of matches. If the choice of
the price is given the native he will always
giv the baby, a., there is a much greater
demand for sheep than for young Fuegans.
It Was reported that in one of the cop
per t •< nk~, among the strange fishes, a good
specimen of the Fuegan baby waa com
fortably tucked away in alcohol, but the
scientists would not admit this.
The Fuegatia are not a warlike race,
though they arc very skilful' with their
primitive bows and arrows. The arrow*
are not feathered, and the barb consists of
a triangular piece of glass ground sharp.
Though the Fuegan. are very low in the
human scale, they arc careful not to offend
the eves of strangers. An explorer ap
proaching a boat sceionly the best looking
squaw of the pert/. .She handies a paddle
at tlie stern and steers the boat. Her less
comely si-ter—there are always two fami
lies on a boat—is hidden ignominious!/
under the scats.
There are no old women in Terra del
Fuego. Lc-t this should cause an exodus
from the civilized world it would jierhap*
be best to explain why. When a woman
gets to the right age, about forty-five, she
u considered to have done her duty. With
appropriate ceremonies, therefore, she is
either lanced or strangled and the family
larder is replenished with her roasted re
mains. .
TJie women, when they see the time of
sacrifice approaching, never attempt to
esca|ie it. They regard it as about almost
as settled a fact as that the wind shonld
blow, and never trouble themselves
abont.t. ,
Tlie Fuegans are not cannibals further
than this. They never eat children, young
women or meu.
THE MBPKROB OF CHINA.
HU Kelatloi. With Hi* Aunt, the Empress
H waage.r
From the London Time*.
Two curious documents nrepublisbed in
recent ntipsier of the Pelcin Gesette.
They arc tin dec: e by the Emperor an
nouncing the irrangements which he has
le for the future residence of the Em
press Dawager, t> >w that, having laid down
power, she it to have tho imperial palioe,
and her majesty’s i. ply. The Emperor
has decided It prepare for Ills aunt a
palace adjoining hi* own, which was once
inhabited by the great Emperor Kang-bi,
and aa a c< ,utry h,l,e proposes to re
build a part of the summer palace de
stroyed by Lnr^ Elgin. In announcing this
intention the Emp,.<,r refers to the wise
SWEET TOOTH.
rule of the Empress during his miuority; the world 1
when he reflected on all she had doLe for Increale ConM 7^7i7„' of ct.nf.etlor.rry
the empire he felt night and day inward at Homo and Abroa ,|
uneasinej. and searchings of he V t that she From , he u on Tel „,, r h .
had no place where she might seek rest Not only through the East, where in.
ami enjoyment. In accordance with pre- <J n ' g ence in sweets has been a popular ens-
cedent, therefore, his majesty ordered the ^ 00l ffom time immemorial,but in western
palaces already mentioned to be prepared am i northern lands as 1, the appetite
for her use, and after repeated solicitations f or goodies assumed formidable propor-
she was pleased to assent to the arrange- tionn. Vast quantities of bonbons are dis-
meut. In doing 60 the Empress says that p 0 f;ed of annually on the? continents of Eu
stace she assumed power she has parsed rope and America, chiefly by the fair sex,
her‘nights and days in fear and trembling, although German, Italian' and Spanish
»s if standing on the brick of a precipice.’ men are great eaters of "srdines,” cboco-
Under the present dynasty there lias been l ft tes a la creme,sugared almonds and crys-
no wanton license of the Emperor’s in lay- talized fruits.
ing out pl«»*iir« grounds or in their hunt- J As New Year “eUtmiea” and birthday
ing expeditions, but attention has been offerings bonbons are more in vogue than
paid to the wants and sufferings of ever abroad and have become fashionable
the . people. On the present ©n iliis side of the channel within the past
occasion, the Empsess goes on, she cannot decade. No gentleman of Latin or Ten-
bear the thought of offering objections to tonic origin being permitted to escort ladies
the Emperor s proposal, which is intended t to a theater or concert, would upon any ao-
as a mark of dutiful regard, more especi- * count fail to provide himself with an eie-
ally asi the funds will be drawn u^n from gant bag or decorative packet of “dou-
our private savings, and will entail no ex- ceurs” for their reflection during the per-
pense on the country. Outside rumors formance, and gorgeous “sacs de sucrcres”
are current, Her Majesty observes, that constitute no insignificant item in the
the whole summer palace will be rebuilt; budget of a Parisian “golden youth.”
but the time and circumstances are not ] n thib country the habit of nibbling
favorable, to the revival of the edifices chocolate creams and sucking caramels,
and functions of previous resigns; the peo- 1 formerly confined to those who, as thegooa
Pl®> infixed, have advanced in prosperity old toast says, “double our joys and halve
and peace prevails; but tlfere ore still our sorrows,” has acquired considerable
counlfss measures necessary, and “we trust Dtsld upon Englishmen of tlie upper and
th‘- na ion will believe that onr thoughts middle classes. It came in after drinking of
are directed to this object and port, burgundy and claret went out of
not to the frivolities of pleas- fashion.
urc and sight-seeing.” Turning The well to do Briton of the present day,
to the Emperor, the Empress says that the a8 a rule, is acliampague drinker, and the
greatest respect ho can show her will be to consumption of sweets, as pronounced by
develop Ids mind, par unremitting attpn- old world connoisseurs of the “wine when
tion to good government, and love his peo- it j 8 red” to be fatal to any tiling like just
pie. He must not let the present method Appreciation of tlie flavor and Doquet of
of paying his respect be made an opening U|>orto ami Bordeaux vintages, is not held
for tho gratification of future ease and en- t o affect the taste for those of Rheims and
joyment. The ministers must vie with Ejiernay.
each other in checking extravagance. To He who restricts his prandial potations
this lecture the Emperor appends the ob- to “sparkling” may, therefore, indulge in
servation that it is his boundeu duty to lollipops and cigarettes to his heart’ll con-
pay implicit obedience and respect to her tent, without fear of being denounced as
majesty’s romniatds by abstaining from an outward barbarian, ‘'which," as Macbeth
tlie least show of laxity and extravagance, remarked ujon a memorable occasion,
and he commands lus ministers to pay “ waH not so before.” Consequently men
learnest heed to her exhortation On May 0 f good social posi ion, whose fathers
20th the Empress was to take up her resi
dence in her new abode.
would have shuddered at the mere sight
of a stick of barley sugar or a slab of taffy,
may he seen any day at dessert time devot
ing an uniiiinted and persevering attention
to chunks of nougat and Rabat Lakoum
“foudantB” of a dozen different stages and
colors, and candied “mandarins” or “tan-
LS BLAINE’S HEALTH II ID?
Minister Lawton, UTio Saw Him In Rome,
Says He Is Failing.
From the New York Star.
Mr. Lawton arrived yesterday from Paris geriuts.”
left his post in \ lenna some two weeks of cbocolst* has become so eager that rail-
since,. ana will spend about two weeks in Wft y piaiions and other places of public re-
America on a vacation. hen seen on , sort positively bristle with mechanical con-
the dock Minister Lawton looked if. tf ivanccb fur «»uvej lie, iLm “lollies” to
Austrian air had agreed with him im- j jj,,. ( vr t uva po^sesf-or of on* particular
mensely. lie was in gvfd health ana : denomination of her Majesty’6 bronze cur-
spints, and sail, several things of decided ] Sweets, in a word, are becoming a
interest in a short conversation with a ; p,, war i n the state, und rule “the camp, the
S'nr reporter. . j omuh ♦!»<» "rove.” Even judges own their
“Now, I s&y very li‘ tie about the , H-i Ice* sway; soldiers suck almond rock
luation of European affairs, -a,U he, while doing “sentry-go;” the policeman on
ughingly; so don task me as to tlie out- J^,, beat has a bull’s eye in his month as
situation
look for"war or anything of a similar na-
turo. Y*u in know moro
by cable4han I do at present.”
“Did you see Mr. Blaine?” was asked of
Minister Lawton.
“Oh, yes: several times. Why, I dined
in his company in Rome only a month
ago.”
Mr. Blaine appeared to be a cue for Min
ister Lawton, lof he went on to say that °»te whlat sa they gall iL-i* already nans-
. ' .. . .. J . i nrr tho mnat mfunan DTPitmnnnt in u ni.t.
eye i
well as in his belt, and the British^ tar
chew, an American caramel iusicuu of iue
quid of “jiigtail” that used to distei d his
swarthy cheeks in the good old days of
England’s “wooden walls ”
Aw. ai.i|#li*a«i'> ulst.
From the London Figaro.
The new way ol playing whist—dupli-
the man from Maine was making a record
over in Europe as a society man.
“lie appears to have been improved lit
tle by his trip, as far as I can see,” said
tlie Minister. “Mr. Blaine used to be a
very robust man, you know. Now he is
any tiling but robust. He lias aged greatly,
I think. He has been failing in health for
several years and looks as if he had some
serious physical disorder. His apjicar-
ance is not that of a well man by any
means.”
“Did Mr. Blaine make any allusions to
political matters?”
“Well, no; he didn’t say anything in a
direct way to me. At times he joked
about politics.”
From what you have seen of Mr. Blaine
abroad, do you think lie would accept the
nomination for the Presidency if tendered
him by his pprty ?’’
“I Jo. Not only would he accept it, but
he would bow bis acceptance.”
“Have you read Mr. Blaine’s letters
from Florence, Italy, and Paris?”
“I have read his Florence letter, ves;
but not tho one from Paris. I shnuld be
much surprised, however, if Mr. Blaine
would decline the nomination if it were
really urged upon him."
Prince Roland Bonaparte was alio a pas
senger on La Gascogne. He ia a young and
handsome man, and ame across tho water
chiefly to attend the ethonological confer
ence at Columbia College. After the con
ference he will visit Canada.
Henry Wntteraon.
From tbe Chicago Herald.
It is a glariog absurdity and a scandal
that a governing parly shonld gather at
St. Louis only to be hounded and perplexed
by the minority which has constantly han
dicapped the race to victory.
It is, on the other hand, an everlasting
credit to American journalism that it
should furnish, In the person of Henry
Watterson, a man with brains and phi
losophy sufficient for the whole occasion,
and that this man, confronted by all the
forces of high tariff, pap. greed and politi
cal office-covetonsness, shonld still be ter
rible to the enemies of the people.
The tribe of political hermaphrodites
which came out of the East to give Cleve
land a nomination and a repudiation at
the same time has not the faintest knowl
edge ot the human faculties with which
tils one American Journalist has been so
rii hly endowed. These politicians r. ject
principle as the atheist denies God. It
act cz'~t. They bar; TO brg
on the people that they are incapable not
only of. relorai, but of the cone- pt of re
form. _
Through the never-tiring efforts of men
true to their ideas oi right—of whom
Henry Watterson standi easily chief—tbe
question of highor low fixes will go to the
people. It is not only idle for men alone,
out for national parties, to palter as to the
issue. Yet it is a vile situation that the
committee of reform, hut for the presence
of Henry Watterson, should have ailently
indorsed a resolution contrived by the
hired enemies of that very reform.
•‘What Drug Will Scour These English
Hence?”
Wicked'Macbeth, who murdered good
KingVoncan, asked this question in his de
spair. Thousands of victims of disease are
daily asking “What will scour the impuri
ties from my blood and bring me health? 1 ’
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Uedieal Discovery will
do it. When the purple life-tide is sluggish,
causing drowsiness, headache and lots of ap
petite, use this wonderfnl vitallzer, which
never fails. It forces the liver into perfect
action, drive, out superfluous bile, briogs
the glow of health to the cheek and tbe nat
ural sparkle to the eye. All druggist*.
ing the most intense excitement in whist-
playing circles, and wherever I go, in my
whist playing capacity 1 mean, 1 find the
pros and cons of tbe new method of play
ing the game being vigorously—nay, in
-'.me case*, almost fiercely—disemsed.
The alterations started by Mr. K. A. Proc
tor as to “signaling” and "echoing” and
other modern devices of that kind was
mildness compared to that which is rag
ing os to tho “duplicate whist
which a whist playing doctor
in the North of London has invented. His
“duplicate whist,” I may explain, elimi
nates at a stroke the element ol clianc-, or
luck, or whatever you choose to call it,
which bas always been a feature in whist
playing. For this now you play “dupli
cate whist.” Having Jcalt the cards os
usual, you play tbam trupft"! existing
rules: but ilien, when .the game is over,
instead of dealing the cards afresh, the
same hands which have just been played
arc again taken by the four players; A. und
bowiver, nbw having the cards which
B and D. held, while B. and D. take the
hand just played by A. and C. Tims the
snme bands are played out a second time,
.ml * score i. kept «o tlmt it may be »een
which pair of partners has made the most
of the cards they have successfully held.
And this process being repested with
every game, the rubber is finally said
to. be won by the two play
ers who, undrr.the above conditions, have
shown the greater skill. Skill, in short,
alone tells in duplicate whiBt, chance hav
ingnothing whatever to do with the re
sult; for if one pair of partners get all
four honors in their hands in the first
game, their rivals will hold them, as a
matter of course, In the next. So far as I
can judge, however, duplicate whiat ia not
likely to he generally adopted instead of
tlie ordinary pame. The element of chance
which enters into whist as now played gives
it its chief charm in the eyes of mauy
players, who often trust to tbeir luck to
enable them to hold their own with far
stronger and more scientific players.
Luck, indeed, serves not infrequently to
make a fair handicap out of what would
otherwise be a very one-sided race, and
thongb Cavendish and other whist players
of the first rank are said to be ardent ad
mirers of duplicate whist, I think it will
oust ordinary whist to a comparatively
small extent.
A Fruit Fuule.
From the canton Advocate.
We were shown last Saturday, by Mr.
II. ?. Tslbtrt, - limb hisb - lii
haw bush growing in his yard whidi had
a fruit on it very much resembling the
pear. The fiuit was some larger than the
baw, and was shaped and looked like the
pear, except it had a rough exterior. Part
of th‘e fruit on tlie tree, he says, is the or
dinary haw, while a goodly jmrtfon seems
to be a mixture of the haw and pear. The
only way Mr. Toll ert can account for the
seeming mixl are of the two fruits is that
the pear and haw trees grow very close to
gether and Ihe branches of each are min
gled with the other. He is anxiously
w.illng.fer the fruit to ripen to see what
it really I*.
Jodfe T!iuruiun'i* Age?.
From the Nashville Democrat.
Allen G. Thurman is not so old a man
as Gladstone, who is tlie active leader of a
great parly and a great reform. He is not
a* old a* Bismarck, the Iron '.ha reel lor,
who sway* and controls the destinies of an
empire. He has more years of life Is fore
him than the Republican party, the ugh he
is a great deal older than the organi'-iimn
and he ha* spent so many years in lighting
it that the Democratic parly shonld give
him a good front seat at the funeral.