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THE WKKKLY TELEGRAPfl: TUJESDAY. OCTOBER2l 1883.-TWELVE PAGES.
. T)T TTPTT V BrrT'fAV : ing $4,000 each, which lay beside the
jV -t* Jj U UJV X «» Will U money Mr. Carr had been counting.
— I The appearance of the hand and the
TWO 8IKN WHO AUK ALIKK.
„ r TT„„ XTr..,,- A rrnirict a I grafping of the money waB almost simul-
Defends Her Home AgtllllSl £l mneous. Utteringan exclamation of alarm,
Bold Bandit
AND KILLS HIM WITH A TtIFLE.
4 Texas Terror Who Has Robbed Stage
1’assengere and Hilled Mall Hags
Meets a Deserved Fate—The
Fait Particulars.
Chicago, Sept. 24.—A dispatch from San
Antonio, Tex., says: The notorious “lone
highwayman,” who has for the past two years
been a terror to travelers in the vicinity of
Kerrville, and who has, without the assi t-
jjee of a single confederate, repeatedly
robbed stage coaches, rifled mail bags and
gone through as many as lx commercial
travelers in broad daylight without the
,lightest incon enience or resistance, has
been killed. He was shot by Mrs.
Ijjjl, Hay, formerly Miss Gibbons,
at her home on the head prong of the Bio
Saliinal iu Bandero county last Monday. The
rcene of the occurrence is so remote from
railroad or telegraph service, that the news
did not reach town until today, when Mrs.
Uav visited the city with a company of
friends. To a correspondent slie told the
story of the killing ns follows: “Last Mon
day morning I wns sitting In my room, when
in’ldeniv a masked man appeared on the
front gallery. I told him to have or I would
till him. He laughed and said "You
„ e a plucky woman but I’ll
have what I want out of thi6
house or hum it down over your head.” By
this time I had a gun and he had cons. I
drew it down on him within eighteen inches
of his heart but it snapped and he said “I’ll
kill you,” at the same time producing a long,
keen-bladed knife and aimed it at my throat.
1 warded off the blow, out the next time he
■track the end of the knife stuck in my fore
head making an ugly gash. At the same time
I reversed ends of the gun and struck him
over the head, felling him to the floor, and
before he could rise, I reversed the gun and
pulled the trigger. This time it fired,
die bullet taking effect in his left side. He
gave a yell nml fell. I looked for anothtr
cartridge but blood was streaming down in;
face so I could not find them. I wiped it ol
with my apron nnd reloaded my gun ns soon
ai I found cartridges. He bnd’by this time
almost reached hia horse. I took good aim
and fired but I don’t think it hit him. My
husband was up in the canyon, but when he
came home a few hours after dark, he imme
diately organised a party of rangers. They
traced him for a distance of twenty miles by
his blood and found him dead. His name is
naknown, but he is recognized to be the
lame man whose depredations have, for the
past two years, terrorized the whole of Ban
dero.”
bobs TtVO hanks in a day.
An Agile Anting Thief Makes n Record, Bat
(Jets Caught.
from the New York tVoild, Sept. 2t.
Two of the most daring and remarkable
bank robberies, probably, ever known to
the New York police were committed yes
terday by the same thief, within a few
hours of each other, in crowded counting
houses and in broad daylight. The Filth
National Bank, corner Third avenue and
Twenty-third street, was robbed at 10 in
the morning, and the thief managed to get
away with $2,000 in hills from right under
tfie nose of the paying teller. At 3 in
the afternoon the Commercial National
Bank, No. 78 Wall street, was robbed of
48,700 by the same thief, who, after a hot
chase, was captured bv Policeman Bnlrn,
01 Capt. McLaughlin’s precinct.
For some days John B. Peterson, the
colored porter ot the Fifth National Bank,
has noticed a tall, clean ihawen young
man about the building or standing on the
sidewalk near the elevated road station.
He was genteelly dressed and the porter
thought that he’was a clerk or some one of
the depositors, and paid hut little attention
to his movements. John Kugcn, thejan-
ttor, also noticed the stranger It was
about 10 o’clock yesterday morning when
1’eterson saw the man enter the bank
building and go into the counting room
from the Third avenue entrance. The
bank was crowded with people. He was
dressed in black and carried on his arm a
long blue bag such as lawyers’ clerks use
to carry legal papers.
The counting-room of the Fifth National
Bank is similar to that of many other
banks in this city. A long counter runs
the length of the room. It is protected by
high glass partitions and iron railings and
the different departments, such as the pav
ing teller, the renewing teller, the book-
aeepets, note clerks, etc., have each a
•mall window, protected by railings,
through which business is transacted. A
coping, or what may be called a dado, of
Barbie runs around the counter about two
fe»l from the floor. The bight of the
counters and partitions does not exceed in
*11 five leet, so that by standing upon the
coping at the base of the counter, a tall
ju»n can readily reach whatever may be
Ijing upon the desks.
the paying teller of the hank, at the
lime the stranger with the blue bag en'
jeted, had several packages of $1,000 each
•before him in little tin trays. Something
distracted his attention for a second and
be turned around. When lie resumed his
former position—the whole action requir-
ln k hardly more than a second—he discov
ered that three of the packages were rniss-
10 (I. He immediately gave the alarm, and
M the same moment the porter, Patterson,
Mr. Mills rushed through a door in the
glass partition just in time to see the tall
stranger leap from the coping and thrust
the packages into the bag. The thief in-
Btantly took to his heels, followed clobely
by Mr. MilN. |>iwn \V:ill to IVarf,
through Pearl to Pine, thence into Maiden
Lane to the East river fled the robber.
Over a hundred people joined in the pur
suit, and the cry of “stop thief” was taken up
by many voice’s. At last the fugitive threw
down the hag. Mr. MiIIb, however, con-
tinutd, and as he and the crowd pressed
closely upon him the robber wheeled about
and fired three shots from a small revolver
into the crowd. Policeman Nugent, who
had joined in the chase, returned the fire
shot for shot, bnt neither thief nor pur
suer was hit.
At the foot of Maiden Lane stands Has
tings’ saloon, and into the rear door the
thief ran, with the crowd close upon him.
Officer Burns of the first precinct came up
at this juncture and, going quickly around
to the tsouth street entrance of the taloon,
caught the thief us he was coming out.
He took the fel ow to the first precinct sta
tion. There the prisoner gave his name
as Henry F. Harding, aged 24, a clerk out
of work, and living at No. 316 cast One
hundred and eighteenth street. On inves
tigation it was found that he was nut
known at that address. In his pocket $34
was found, $21 of which was in $1 and $2
bills, of which denominations the package
stolen from the Fifth National Irnnk were
composed; a gold hunting watch and an
elaborate chain. In a small Bussia
leather note book were numerous entries
of bets on elections, in which the republi
can candidates were backed to win. The
name Frank Page, Sherman house, wa9 re
vealed in the books and several entries
which could not be deciphered. Two, pre
scriptions, dated Aug 21 and signed Dr A.
E. Myers, for R. F. Seymour, were also
found in the prisoner’s vest pocket.
The prisoner is a very tall man, muscu
lar and well built. He has high cheek
hones a d much color. He took his arrest
very coolly and told Capt..McLaughlin
that he was born in Chicago and had lived
there until recently. Capt. McLaughlin
sent for Peterson, the colored perter of the
Fifth National Bank, and John Bugen, the
janitor, both of whom identified the pris
oner as the man with the blue bag who
entered the bank n few minutes previous
to the robbery.
Mr. Mills, who never lost sight of the
prisoner from the time he saw him at the
Commercial Bank until the fellow dashed
into the saloon, together with Charles \V.
Parsons, William F. Resell and Charles
Harrison, officers of the Wall Street Bank,
who were in the counting room at the time
of the robbery, then also identified the
prisoner.
The blue hag into which the thief thrust
the two packages was picked up nfld taken
to the station. The prisoner will he ar
raigned this morning at the Tombs.
THE STACK FAIR MATTER.
Not Yet Settled That It Will bo Held-'TIie
Conference Last Nlglit.
Colonel W. J. Northern and Captain R.
J. Powell arrived in the city lost night in
response to telegram-, sent by Secretary
Niib t. These gentlemen were called for
the purpose of meeting with pn.ni«a at in.
terest in Macon to di-mss the holding of
the state fair. After supper they were met
by Mayor Price, Hon. IV. A. Huff, Colonel
10. C. Machcn, M r. J. C. Bannon, Mr. R.
F. Burden, Mr. J. Van and others and the
question taken up, What was none is nnt
known.
It is announced, however, that there was
no chrystalization of plans, and that Pres
ident Northen and t ecretary Powell will
hold over until to-day when the matter
will be further discussed. Certainly no
result was reached lasr night. The calling
of the executive committee means an ex
pense of $300 or $400 to the society, and
the point is made that if this committee is
called together it is a reflection on the fair
committee, and if the fair committee is
called back it will be simply to ratify
what has been done by them.
A point wits made by the gentlemen of
the society last night, to it is understood,
that the city forbid the bolding of the fair
when it allowed the quarantine to go into
effect.
It will be determined to-day whether to
call the executive or fair committee to
gether and one of these committees will
decide the question of holding a fair.
WANTS A FAIR OF SOME KIND.
The following was received last night
from Blakely:
Editors Telegraph :—While, under ex
isting circumstances, no one can question
the wisdom of postponing the State Fair,
as has recently been done; it is never
theless true that very great loss and dis
appointment is thereby occasioned to
those who had wished to buy or sell fine
stock during “fair week.” Can not your
wide-awake city, foster at least, if it cannot
organize a “blooded stock sale” to come off
say, about the middle of November, and
thereby give these who wish to sell or buy,
an opportunity of doing so?
Very respectfully, T. M. Howard.
Anecdote of lSroolce and Forrest.
Brooke had a most wcnderfnl voice, a
voice of tremendous power and at the same
time of great melody, and with a great
, , deal of variety in it. On one occasion he
ttotethe desk with one of the pack-j was acting with Forrest, our American
*fi«s, which he had found at the door.
Ihe stranger had disappeared. There
*as only one explanation of how me rob-
“7 had been effected, and this was con-
anned afterward hv the mhherv at the
"‘II street bank.
Shortly before 3 o’clock in the afternoon
clean-shaven young man, dressed in
“iMk, carrying on his arm a long bine bag,
altered the coun<ing room of the Commer-
JJAl National Bank. No. 78 Wall street,
tin' W.Tarsons, the bookkeeper; Wm.
"• Kosell, the receiving teller, and several
•bers about the bank recognized the man
" one they had seen several times in the
Face recently, but, like Peterson, think-
jag that he wss a new clerk of some depos
itor, they paid little attention to his move-
iMits.
aft-Ctor. the paying teller, was behind
u desk counting packages' of bills and
Potting his cash in shape before leaving
/ “! e day. The counting-room is almost
m shape and appearance with
,“«of,he First National Bonk. _ There
* l "o same ground-glass partitions or
"«eni running the length of the counter,
* oo'tom of which is also decorated with
?{?:1*?^ or dado.
, y. McMaster Mills, the hank notary.
' cc "ne from hit desk to that of Xlr.
a, ’ paring teller, to get a bill
is... i" 1 ooking up suddenly he saw a
:. “s hand a ong black s eeved arm nake
tragedian. He was then a Block actor in
one of the English towns in which Forrest
was starring, and when some one said to
him: “Brooke, look out, here is Forrest
coming: he has npowerful voice, a voice
that will down anything that was ever
heard here;” Brooke replied: I’ll show
him something if he tries it with me.”
Forrest played“Othello”and Brooke“Ugo,”-
and in the great scene in the third act
where “Othello”la/a hold of “Iago”, Forrest
put forth the whole of his terrific and tre
mendous force, which he always did. The
moment he finished Brooke came out with
his speech : “Oh, grace ! Oh, heaven de
fend me!” etc., in a manner that almos
made the root shake ; it absolutely seemed
as if Forrest’s voice bad been nothing. It
astonished Forrest, and astonished every-
bod else. I suppose Brooke had the most
powerful lungs except Salvini’s that were
ever given to an actor. That is a very ex
hausting speeclijof “Othello’s” in this scene,
and by the time Forrest was done he was
pretty well pumped out and the other
came in fresh. It was not a very wise act
upon Brooke’s part, and contrary to his
better judgment, but lie had become so
worked up by the repeated warnings
against Forrest’s tremendous voice that he
did it on the spur of the moment. Forrest
certainly was never more surprised in the
course of his professional life, for it ws-
lie II.' ! wit!. :: re.ill w ho«c lllli-rain e
MICHAEL 1)H SINK A CSV.
TO OUT RIO OF 8BIOKE.
The Same Names, SnmoHnndxvrltlng, Same
State, Same Politic*.
From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Washington, Sept. 15.—Judge Ezra B.
Taylor,who represents the nineteenth Ohio
district in the House, is one of the best
known members on the republican side and
is ranked among the ablest. He is a man
of striking characteristics, and would ar
rest the attention of a stranger as being
above the ordinary run of men. His face
is strongly marked with force and individ-
uality. lie recently received a letter from
Wisconsin which calls up again a coinci
dence in his life which is probably the most
remarkable of which the worl i has record.
He related the story to the Star man yes
terday.
. He was born in Portage county, Ohio,
sixty-five years ago, attended school with
Garfield, and the two kept up a friendship
in after-life. When Garfield wns elected
to the Ohio state Senate in 1859, Jud e
Taylor was practicing law in the State.
Shortly after Garfield took his 6ent, Judge
Taylor got a letter from him, staling:
"I read your letter, and will he glad to
do. anything I can for you. I am sur
prised, however, that you desire such a
position. I thought your practice was
worth much more to you.”
This may not be the exact language of
the letter, but it was about this.
Judge Taylor did not understand the
letter. He wrote to Mr. Garfield telling
him 60j and saying that he was right in
supposing his law practice as worth more
than any position under the slate Senate.
Shortly after that Mr. Garfield called on
him and h.anded him a letter, asking if it
were not his. He examined the letter and
replied that it was certainly his hand
writing and his signature, but that he had
not written it, unless he had done so in
his sleep, and then he pointed out that it
was postmarked from another part of the
state.
The letter asked for the appointment of
deputy sergeant-at-arms of the state Sen
ate, was written in the judge’s handwrit
ing, and signed plainly with his signature,
Ezra II. Taylor.
Mr. Garfield wanted to submit the letter
to an expert to pass upon the chirogra-
phy. Judge Taylor said he would ac
knowledge that he could not tell it from
his own. It was submitted to nn expert,
who, without hesitation, said he could
take oath to its being Judge Taylor’s writ
ing. It was a mystery they could not pen
etrate, and they dropped it.
Not long afterwanl the state convention
assembled. Judge Taylor was walking
down the corridor of the principal hotel.
There were mirrors on the walls, in which
he could see his reflection. As lie ap
proached tho end of the corridor lie
thought there was another mirror directly
in front of him, in which he could plainly
see his own face and form. He drew
closes, and—no, it was not a mirror;
it was a man. It was himself in flesh
and blood. The two looked at each
other, and it seemed as if earh
nad lost his identity in the other, ijpto
they turned around' three times neither
could have been certain he was not the
other fellow. Neither spoke. They just
looked ateachother and passed in opposite
directions. Later in the day Mrj.Garfleld,
with the doable leaaing on his arm,
appro•! .lodge Teylor. !!•• intiudu'vd
them: “Mr. Taylor, Mr. Taylor; no, Mr.
Ezra R. Taylor, Mr. Ezra B. lay lor.”
Tiny were the same In name, in form, G
face, in age, voice, carriage, manners and
general appearance. Judge Taylor was
then known as colonel. He had been
named after a distinguished clergyman,
Ezra !’.o«:h. The duplicate wa - a!.-., know r,
as colonel, and said he was named Ezra
Booth, but he did not know after whom ho
was named.
The Star man had been told that they
discovered that they were born on the
same day. Judge Tavlpr says he does not
remember whether or not this was devel
oped, but that they were certainly born in
the same year, and/ that enir tdiOBSk*
stance or condition they could think of as
ptculiar to one applied with equal aptness
to the other. The acquaintance was con
tinued between these two men,‘ a constant
correspondence between them, until a year
ago, when the other died out wist. They
were never able to discover any relation
ship.
A few weeks ago Judge Taylor got a
letter from a lady in Wisconsin slating
that she had noticed the nume of Ezra B.
Taylor as voting against the Mills bill;
that au Ezra B. Tavlor, formerly Using in
a certain part of New York, had been a
very intimate friend of her father, who
was now dead. They had, she said, lost
sight of this friend soon after her father’s
dcstb, and they were anxious to find him.
They hoped the representative might he he.
A few Java ago he got another letter
from the lady, stating that she had been
delighted cn receiving his letter to recog
nize in the address the handwriting of her
father’s friend. < n opening the letter
she had found the handwriting and signa
ture the same as a number of old letters
they have, and hat she was at a loss to re
concile the contents of the letter with these
circumstances.
It has not yet been developed whether
the Ezra B. Taylor this lady seeks is the
one who died or yet a third party to the
drama.
But, to add a romantic feature to the
case, it now appear, that the Taylor this
lady seeks might have reasons for conceal
ing his identity from the family on account
of some business relations with the deceased
father, whom he may have oacd money.
A Magic Fack of Cants.
From ihe Baltimore Herald
Patrick Higgins, who boards at No. 410
North Front street, has been playing poker
and other deceptive games ot cards for
tome time post with Rtcnaril henuly in
the latter’s saloon at No. 211 North Gay
street. Schulye always won, and during
the last few weeks Patrick has lost as high
as $205. On Hunday he played agaiD with
Schulye in the hope of recovering some of
his lost money, with the result that he loet
$10 more.
In jute hand that was dealt there was no
less than seven aces and five kings out.
Patrick couldn’t stand this and reported j
the case to the police. Schulye was fined .
$10 and costa for allowing gaming on hia [
premises on Sunday, which was paid, hut i
he was committed for court on the addi-j
tinnal charge of selling liquor on Sunday. 1
Patrick had to surrender $2 43 to Justice I
Hobbs for gambling on Sunday.
A Wihc Patron of the La. S. Lottery. !
A worthy Chicagoan la Mr. I’etcr Klein, doing '
buiiucs* at No.'/J B. Klnaey street. lie l.t a
benevolent, frank and social friend—like all
• 111‘'hath* r un-lrr-" he will invest a s|.itre
dollar in a lottery aud on a form or occasion
ireti h:i $8.0-o pi )/«• in ih*- I .on i s inn & Mate
l-.’U* ry in i^MH iJit t.n with hia n other in law
of hia laic*tgood Iu:k he wa* th»- poaseonor of a
frat ttonal ticket No. 3,n.m whit h «5: .. 9W>. ;i.
the drawlin'. Aug. .m; he colIrcU i t•. .un- .r*•
through the expri^i my If.-
it i t.m.* build *
The PniiHe
‘ Chris
Calvary
“Christ iterate Pilate.”
From the St. Lonis Globe He mocrat
Michael—in I lunarian “Milht
Munkncsy / (pronounced Moon-ka-chc
with the the accent od the first syllable).
He >ras born in the yejr 1844 in the Fort
ress of Munkacs, Huigary. ITis original
family name was Liek, but after Hungary
had acbeived independent recognition in
the government everr Hungarian citizen,
in conformity to a privilege granted by
law, had tho right to ihoost* a distinctively
Hungarian name, aid the Lieb family,
loyal Hungarians but of German descent,
adopted a modification of the name of
their native town Later the Em
peror of Austria, as King of Hun
gary, created Miclael Munkacsy an
Hungarian baron, which gave his
name the prefix “von”—in French “de.”
His mother died soot after his birth, and
his father, a subordiiate in the Austrian
customs, joined the ]-itriots under Kossuth,
and, iu the reverses which followed upon
Russian occupation, vas thrown into prison,
fell sick and died tmre. Young Michael,
barely 4 years old, the youngest of four
desolate orphans, wot adopted by an aunt
who lived at CzarbaJ During the stormy
time of the revolr.ticn there was little gov
ernment of any kini in Hungary, aud the
country was infested by marauding bands
of robbers. One.nijjht one of the bands
broke into and plundered tho bouse of
his aunt, and munhred all the occupants
except the then 5wcar-old boy When
the morning dawned lie awakened near the
aunt’s corpse. An mcle. named Rook, then
took the lad to livj with him, but lieing
poor himself and 1 unable to give the
boy an education, le apprenticed nlm to a
carpenter in J3ekcs-pBHba. For six long
years he endured tip slavery of this occu
pation—sawing, nailing and planing from
early morn until 1»te at night. He grew
in stature but his nind was a blank page;
he was full of susceptibility, full of vague
longings, but withdit education or knowl
edge. When finally he became a journey
man a comparatively better time Lcgan for
the young man, wlp became'animated bv
an ardent desire ’or culture. Although
bis bread and his vork were hard he had
some leisure hours which he was able to
spend in study. lie won the friendship of
a few students a- the College of Arad,
where he had goncjto work, and they ini
tiate-! him into tin mysteries of reading
and writing. Tlnn he began to study his
tory and to real the poets, esrecially
Schiller, whom beloved aoove all others.
He even composed some poetry himself.
In Hungary, as in most other parts of
Europe, the villajje carpenter is a sort of
jack-of-all-trades'-builder, cabinet-maker,
undertaker, uplulsterer and home painter
at the same time. Michael’s earliest ex
perience with colirs was in painting the
outside of a cottige, and his rude attempts
and | Experiments With a Mixed Fuel Which
| i’rnmUes to Solve the Problem.
I From the Chicago News.
ly”— j The experiments made by the Daily
News in producing a smokeless fire by the
use of a mixed charge of coke and coal
have not been confined to the production
of heat necessary for the generation of
steam. A fuel made up of two-thirds of
soft coal and one-third of coke has proved
equally efficacious for domestic U6e as an
economical substitute for hard coal. Iu
common cooking stoves and furnaces in
which it has been the custom to burn hard
coal, the mixed fuel has proved itself to be
altogether successful. The result, as in the
fire-boxes in the Daily News engine room,
has been a smokeless fire, which generated
all the heat required.
The whole question, as the experiments
show, resolves itself into a problem of
proper firing. According to statements
made to a reporter; the coal and the coke
must be broken up ioto pieces very nearly
of a size, and must then be fed into the
stove or furnace carefully and scicntifi
cally, as it is needed. “The reason of this,”
said the gentleman who had been making
the experiment", “is that you must get
perfect combuotion, or as near perfect com
bustion as possible. With a proper amount
of oxygen present, the coal and tho coke
are entirely burned, and the final result is
so much allies. Some of the ash is carried
out of the chimuey by the draft, and this
makes the white cloud which takes the
place of the ordinary smoke. In house
hold work, however, it is not alone the case
that the tire is smokeless, but it costs much
less money. A fuel made up of soft coal
and coke is very much cheaper than hard
coal, while it is just as effective and more
cleanly.”
“Then, do you regard the smoke problem
as solved by this combined fuel?”
“I have grea'. hope. Mr. Stone is cer
tainly getting a practically smokeless fire
in the Daily News engine room. I under*
stand that the proportions have not been
so accurately 'determined that the question
is to bp considered definitely settled, for
different kinds of coal lequire different
ratios of coke, and these ratios must yet be
determined. The theory, of course, is that
the smokeless coke produces a fir^ which
burns up the coal and its smoke together
with a result in heat more than ^qual to a
coal fire and more manageable. The prob
lem is how much coke is needed for this
thorough combustion. When Mr. Stone
has settled that point there will not he any
smoke nuisance left to abate; because if he
can suggest a fuel which consumes its own
smoke and is cheaper than any smoke-con
suming invention, people will naturally
adopt it.
GUY’S WONDERFUL FKRFOR3IANCE.
at drawing were
face of a plank
He lias at h
now resides, thj
nude on the smooth snr-
io had just planed,
home in Paris, where lie
very tools with which he
lied so srduo' sly when he was poor and
obscure, and taws great pride in showing
tbrni to his m inis us the relics of his
Struggling dityL Under severe mental
and physical curtions, which were heyond
his strength, Jong with tha privations he
had to endure, ilunkacsy broke down. By
toiling daily from twelve to fifteen hours
he earnedjR wejkiy salary of 2j florins ($1),
so that lor nouths he was unable
to procur. yr/.hing warm to eat. He was
attacked br a violent fever, which wasted
his strcngtl and left him unfit for manual
labor. Agifn he found a refuge with his
uncle, Reck, who had, in the meantime,
acquired a .mail fortune. When he hnd
iceovcicd Ills health he Went to Gynia,
where he stw the portrait painter Szatnosy
at work. Munkacty was present at a few
sittings and followed the form creating
brush of the artist with breathless atten
tion. Then his future profession dawned
upon him. He would become an nr'isL
He obtained permission from bis uncle to
engage instructions from Szamosy, nnd he
accompanied tins artist to Arad. His
first great material success consisted in his
paujting the entire family of a tailor, for
which he received a winter coat in pay
ment.
The new artist passed through vuried
experience’, employing every available op
portunity to advance in the career upon
which lie had started, studying under sneb
niaaters as his circumstances would give
him access to. Among Munkacsy’a earli
est friends in Duiseldorf, whither he had
gone for study and development, was XIr.
John R. Lait, an American artist, at pres
ent residing in Baltimore. Xlr. Lait wns
attracted by the great genius and good fel
lowship of the young Hungarian, nnd did
much to encourage aud aid him in hie pur
suits.
The first work that brought him into no
toriety was a scene of Hungarian life,
known as “The Last Day of a Man Con
demned to Death,” which was purchased
b J. a gentleman in this country.
It is a remarkable fact that by far the
most important works of the now artist of
world-wide fame are owned in America.
Ilis greatest and most important works are
“Ihe Christ Before Pilate," “Christ on
Calvary” (now on exhibition in this city),
and “The Last Hours of Xfozart," owned
by Gen. ltu-sell A. Alger of Xlichtgan.
The great artist resides at present in
Paris, the great capital of the ‘ fine arts,”
and in one of the most elegant mansions
on one of the most fashionable avenues of
that city.
trwtlu* 1 . IMge.tlv. Capacity.
From the Loudon Life.
According to Ihe bills of fare preserved
in the city archives at Jena, Ooetlie was in
tha habit of dining exceedingly well. Ho
also liked company at dinner, for, during
tho period covered by the bills when he
h.d not one oue-t with him ha h.H three,
lie always had four courses, and some
time* more, the dishes of his choice being
h as III. Si href and rna-l p.-ik on the
same da^r; roups with dumpliug, ana a
sirloin with anchovy sauce, with roasted
pigeons anti roast mutton to follow, the
dinner rather of a glutton than of a poet.
For. a week and more he dined in this
fashion, the hill only coming to a little
more than £8. It is satisfactory to khow
that this really great man could dine well,
and was not a querulous snd djspeptic
wreck, though i' is not sopleassnt to know
that the poet squabbled with the landlord
over the items and even went to law with
him on the subject.
A Fill to Tim* Sans. Nine!
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets are
Renting Maud fl, v . Fleetwood Record n
Second and a tjunrter.
The New York Tribune says: The at
tractive programme and pleasant weather
drew a large crowd to Fleetwood park
Saturday. Hundreds of the prominent
turfmen of thecity occupied the club house
stoop and the grand stand was filled. All
other incidents were dwarfed by the won
derful performance of the Cleveland fiver
Gay in his match against time to heat the
best record ever made at Fleetwood—2:13 j.
The chances were against tho little black
gelding, but lie triumphed in the first at
tempt, and lowered Fleetwood’s record
to 2:12j. Guy wss given a slow
mile to warm him up. He
seemed in excellent condition ami
jogged around the circle in 2:27. The
track was then brushed oil for the trial.
The betting was against Guy at odds of
about 5 to 3. John Splain drove n runner
to sulky to make the pace. The little
flyer came down the stretch level and XIr.
Archer called “go” as he llew post the
wire. Guy looked like a black streak as
ho rushed down the hill to the first quarter
in 31 j seconds. This was marvelously
fast, but he increased the pace and reached
the half in 1:04. Excitement ruled high,
for this was a Maud S. gait. Sanders
cased up on the gelding in the third
quarter up to the bill, nnd reached that
point in 1.39j. Then he called on him
again and the little meteor responded
nobly and came like a flash up the home
stretch and left the runner in the rear.
Everybody stood ur> and cheered as f’uy
sped past the sUrnl in 2:12}, a winner by
1} seconds.
Flower, to Japan.
Theodore Ware. In Gsrden and For at.
There is no country in the world where
llowera are ro universally beloved as in
Japan. Thejr are inseparable from the
life, art and Ihcrnture ol the people, and
to deprive the Japanese of their flowers
would be to take sunshine out of their
lives.
But in Japan, where everything is char
acterized by extreme simplicity, the people
are consistent in caring more for the beauty
of individual flowers than for the effect of
large masses. The graceful aud refined
lines of a few well-arranged flowers and
twigs are a never-ending source of pleasure
to them, and no desire is shown to make a
vulgar display of a great quantit- of blos
soms. The art ot flower arrangement,
which forms a part of the education of
girls of the upper classes, has simplicity
for its foundation. It is divided into a
number of schools oi classes, and a long
course of study is required before one can
become proficient in either of them. Noth
ing in the arrangement of flowers U left to
accident or to individual taste; it is gov
erned by rules ss fixed as thote which
govern music.
A great variety of flowers follow in con
stant succession through the difierent sea
sons. The snow has hardly disappeared
when the early plum, the prime favorite
of all, bursts its buds and is
with welcome by the delighted people as
^he first token of the coming spring. Great
gardens or groves of gnarled, moss-covered
plum trees abound in and about the cities,
and thither in the blooming season the
people resott en masse, dressed in holiday
attire, to enjoy an irsthetic feast under the
trees and drink fragrant tea. Here they
give- vent to their delight by inscribing
poetic sentiments too brief, perhaps, to hy
called poems and hanging them on the,
branches of the plum trees.
Tile Stalwart. Will Remrinhor IfarrlAon.
From the Indbntpolls Sentinel (Dcm.)
In the war between Garfield and Conk-
ling over the spoils, Ben Harrison stood
with the former. Ben wanted offices for
his friends, and President Garfield had
preventive as well as curative. A few of them to bestow. So Ben gave Conkling
these “Little Gisnt*,” taken at the right the cold shoulder, anil made himself
time, with little eznrnse ami no inconveni- j “solid” with the man in the White Howe.
et.ee, will accomplish what many dollars (The ‘‘stalwarts” of New York, however,
sod much sacrifice of time will fail to do i Jmv* good memories, and they will -ettle I
disease once holds you with hi- iron their little "eon with Ben Harrison at the I
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BIO RI1-; ON CLEVEL'ANC
Why Isn’t “Jake" lie
From the New York Coimnerciul Afivertfrer
At the offico of Buhway Comiiu--,oner
Jacob IIcse it was said this morning that
he had left town last night. His depart
ure disappointed many callers of betfftjg
proclivities who were anxious to satisfy
XIr. Hes^a hankering for bets against Har
rison anti Morion.
One of the callers was Myron Bang.,
with whom Hess announced that he was
anxious to bet $20,000 on the result of the
election. Mr. Hess tackled Mr. Bangs a
few nights ago at the Hoffman house when*
the latter had no ready money, and de
clared nftcrwnrd that he had $20,000 to be
covered at any time Mr. Bangs might be
ready. Yesterday Mr. Bangs made an un
successful search for Mr Htss, and to-day
hi- qiie-t wits equally llli-lltcee-fil 1.
_ Another pariner of the subway commis
sioner iv “Ed” Stokts, who didn't happen
to be at the Heilman house when Hess
went around boastingthat he could/ind no
one who would hack Cleveland. When
XIr. Btokes heard the news lie communi
cated with Hess, but received no answer.
Mr. Ftokes is said to be willing to bet 10 to
8 on Cleveland.
Mahooey. the bookmaker, was at Wal
laces to-day looking lor XIr. Hess. He
had $25,000 to put up. When it was an
nounced that llesB wns out of town Xfa-
honcy went down to the Hofiman houro
and left word that the money was ready to
be covered nt any time between now and
election day.
“Charley” Smith, proprietor of the “Sil
ver Dollar” saloon in Essex street, nnd a
former member of the assembly, is willing
to put up $10,000 to $*,000 that Governor
Hill will be elected. Smith is a republi
can, lmt, like all the saloon keepers m the
eighth distiict, he is for Hill.
Sheridan Shook is willing to take odds
of five to four on Cleveland.
The bookmakers on horse racers will go
regularly into betting on the presidential,
elec inn ns soon ns the racing sea*on is
closed. Then the betting will offer some
indication of the drift of political senti
ment. At present the betting is done bjr
red hot partisans who are guided rather by
their desires than by cool judgement. Tho
regular bettiug fraternity has no political
prejudices ana looks only to facta.
The Decrease of Drunkenness.
From the New York Times.
As the result of numcr. us inquiries.
among business men in Wall street and
elsewhere, a reporter of the Timed reaches
the conclusion that business men are, as a
rule, less bibulous than were their prede
cessors a quarter of a century ago, and it
has ceased to be good lorm for a man to
rush ofl to a saloon nnd close each trans
action with a drink. The character of tho
drink has also changed, and wine and beer
and even Ringer ale and other non-alco
holic drinks have now largely taken tho
place ol spirits among those who adhere
to old customs.
' We liavo no doubt as to the truth of the
reporter’s conclusions. Instead of that
steady increase of drnnkenness that onr
teetotal friends seem to love or dwell on
there is a steady decrease of inebriety.
Outside a few disreputable neighborhoods
there is a surprisingly small proportion oi
drunken men to tie met on the streets of
this city. A man might walk the whole
length of Broadway late at night ami not
meet half a dozen men visibly under the
inllucn e of liquor. On the other hand,
he might run across :i considerable group
of young men somewhat elated leaving a
saloon or restaurant, but even in such
cases he would rarely see a man actually
drunk. More drunken men could easily be
found in the chief thoroughfare of many a
town of 10,000 inhabitants. Uf course
there is a great deal of drunkenness in so
vast a city ns this, but taking New York
as a whole it has a notably temperate pop
ulation.
And the change that has come abont
hero lias been felt elsewhere. This is.
notably true in tho south, where drunken
ness is daily coming to be considered dis
graceful by communities that only laughed
at it a few years ago. Thechangeof senti
ment brought about in a few years itv
numerous (owns in Lmisiana, Arkansas
and fexa9, as described by gentlem- n who
have for years been traveling through
those states on business, is little short of
marvelous.
What i. the cause of this change la.
public sentiment? Unquestionably it is
in the north partly due to the substitution
of wine and beer lor the more intoxicating
beverages, but this alone will not account
for it. The temperance agitation must be
credited largely with the growtli of the
loathing and contempt with which drunk
enness is regarded by those who once
merely laughed at it. Despite the fanati
cism that lias colored this agitation, de
spite the impracticable aims of the most
radical teetotalers, the fact remains that
the determined sgitators of the question
has gradually brought about a puMio
opinion that makes drunkenness dfevrace-
ful anti compels men to put a restraint on.
their bibulous proclivities.
This has, however, been accomplished
not because of, but rather in spite of, the
theories of the extreme prohibitionists.
Their whole assault has been directed
against drinking rather than drunkenness,
and they pet and coddle the drunkard as a
poor creature deserving oi sympathy who is
always the victim of (tie wiles of tne evil-
minded rumseller. This is sheer nonsense.
XIost men who drink can avoid getting
drunk it they really desire to do so. There
are undoubtedly some weak-willed people
who can never resist the promptings of
appetite, and there is also such a disease as
dipsomania, but the great majority of men
they will. What they want is a public
opinion tt>at will hold them to account for
drunkenness, just as public opinion holds
men to account for stealing.
There is probably such a disease as klep
tomania, and if a large body of respectable
people were to constantly insist that every
thief is a klept maniac and denounce the
people who put goods in his way, ami such
opinion should become general, the num
ber of people who would declare that they
could not n -i*t the insane impulse to steal
would become so great that the very out
side shutters would have to be chained
fast to keep them from lieing stolen, and
the exhibition of goods in the streets
would be regarded as deliberate immor
ality.
It is the growth of public opinion again**
drunkenness that has had the tiled of re
straining men from letting drunk, ami
whatSV. r tends to create such a -eti.-c of
responsibility tends to keep men sober
wherever they may be. Such men are ss
little likely to h. come drunkards in a great
city as in a < mniry eillag.-, while the very
reverse i- true of the young mao brought
tip where external restraints, and tlww
alone, are depended on to shield h.m irons
t 'liquation.