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making a cabinet.
SOME DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED
BY FORMER PRESIDENTS.
How Hamilton Fish liccame Grant’s Sec
retary of State—Garfield's Rapidly Made
Cabinet—How Conkling Got Morton Off a
Sickbed—Some Good Stories.
It happened that at a public dinner
In New York one evening recently there
were seated within neighborly distance
three or four guests who were led by
some personal experience or knowledge
in the formation of the cabinets of
Grant, Garfield and Cleveland to speak
of the embarrassments which presidents
elect always meet with and the surprises
with which some of them must have
looked upon their advisers at the first
meeting around the cabinet table.
The anecdotes which were told by
some of the guests at this public dinner
have all some historical interest, and
one or two of them are of historical im
portance. They are, so far as is known,
entirely new, so far as the public rela
tion to them is concerned, and this re
port of them commits them for the first
time to the permanence of type.
Grant first appointed Elihu Washburn
secretary of state, but with the under
standing that after a brief service he
was to be named minister to France and
another and permanent secretary be
named as his successor.
Grant already had in mind for that
office Hamilton Fish, who, since his
term in the senate expired, had been
wholly out cf public life and by the
new generation that came in with the
Republican party had been almost for
gotten.
Shortly before Secretary Washburn
w r as nominated for the French mission,
less than three weeks after he became
secretary of state, General Grant wrote
to Mr. Fish offering the state depart
ment portfolio to him, and in a less form
al, more private note urgently requested
him to accept the honor.
Secretary Washburn also wrote Mr.
Fish, and at the same time sent him the
state department cipher code, so that
Mr. Fish oould reply by telegraph in
cipher.
Whether this caused misunderstanding
or whether Mr. Fish desired simply to
answer Secretary Washburn’s letter by
a brief cipher telegram, intending a lit
tle later to write a more formal letter to
President Grant, is not known.
He did, however, reply to Secretary
Washburn’s letter in cipher, saying that
it would be impossible for him to change
his purpose not to return to public life.
Soon after the receipt of this telegram
Secretary Washburn called at the White
House, and after some state department
business was discussed he said to Presi
dent Grant, “What are you going to do
about Mr. Fish and the state depart
ment now?”
“Nothing more. There is nothing
more to da I have sent his name to the
senate as your successor. ’ ’
“You have already nominated him?
When?”
“I sent the nomination to the senate
a little while ago. ”
“But, general, Mr. Fish has declined
yorr offer. I have received a telegram
and supposed, of course, you had. ”
“No; I haven’t heard from him and
took it that he would accept.”
Here Secretary Washburn showed
General Grant*the translated cipher dis
patch. Grant instantly summoned his
private secretary. “ Send a message to
the senate at once to intercept Mr.
Fish’s nomination. It must not be de
livered to the senate. It must be Lvought
back to me. ”
The telephone was only the shadowy
dream of then unknown scientists. Had
it then been fact, not dream, Hamilton
Fish, in all probability, would have
lived a peaceful, comfortable life of a
retired gentleman who had an unevent
ful public career as governor of New
York - and senator in congress.
His career would have ended as he
expected and not really, so far as great
things were concerned, have begun. The
mounted messenger could not success
fully pursue the official who had gone
with Mr. Fish’s nomination to the sen
ate.
The nomination was before the senate
when the special messenger arrived at
the capitol. It was confirmed without
reference. Many of the senators had
served with Mr. Fish, and they were
glad to do him the honor of immediate
confirmation.
“It was too late, Mr. President,” said
the private secretary. “The messenger
did not get to the capitol in time, and
the nomination has already been con
firmed. ’ ’
Mr. Fish was immediately informed
by Secretary Washburn that President
Grant was not informed of his declina
tion until just after the nomination had
been sent to the senate, and he was
urged to relieve General Grant of im
mediate embarrassment by accepting
and serving until the president could
find someone competent for the office
and satisfactory to himself and the
country.
k Thus accepting, Mr. Fish went to
Washington, expecting to stay only a
few montlis at the longest. He remained
with Grant eight years and had the
pleasure of receiving as his successor his
fellow townsman and next door neigh
bor in New York, William M. Evarts.
After Garfield reached his hotel in
Washington, bewildered by a thousand
different things and perplexed by the
most embarrassing failure of many of
his plans, he found that he had three
days in which he must find time for
cabinet construction.
Now York gave him much anxiety,
but he at last decided to nominate Levi
P. Morton for secretary of the navy.
That office was tendered to Mr. Morton
on March 1, and he accepted it.
With the treasury department, for
which he had Senator Allison in view,
also provided for, Garfield felt that the
rest of the woik could be easily done.
But while he, in his hotel parlor, was
going carefully over the list on the night
of March 1 there were excitement and
anger in the asceticlike apartments of
Senator Conkling, not far away.
‘‘ Garfield has offered Morton the navy
department, and Morton has accepted,”
said John H. Starin before he had pass
id over the threshold of Oonkling’s door.
Mr. Starin afterward said chat he had
never seen Conkling more magnificently
angry than he was at that moment.
“The honorable and distinguished
representative from the Diamond back
district must withdraw that acceptance.
Had Mr. Morton been named for the
treasury I should have said aye, with a
mental reservation, but as the master of
the hulks, no. ’ ’
Conkling insisted that Mr. Starin
should at once go to Mr. Morton’s
house and bring him to Conkling’s
apartments. “I wish to reason with
him,” said the senator. Mr. Starin
found Mr. Morton in bed with blue lips
and the clammy sweat of a malarial
chill.
“You must come with me to tho sen
ator’s rooms,” said Starin.
* ‘How can I? You see me in bed with
an ague chill. ”
“You will have something worse than
an ague chill if you do not see Conkling.
I will fix you, ’ ’ said Starin. He got a
heroic dose of quinine powders and a
heroic measurement of whisky, and by
force of will, and some physical power as
well, compelled Mr. Morton to swallow
the potion. Then he wrapped the sick
man in blankets, bundled him into a
closed cab and almost carried him in his
arms into Conkling’s rooms.
They were there till late. The flush
upon Mr. Morton’s cheeks as he depart
ed was due neither to the antimalarial
cure nor to the fever that was in his
blood. It was the flush that Conkling
knew well how to bring to the cheeks of
men. With Mr. Morton it was not anger,
it was humiliation, and he sought Gar
field as soon as possible and begged to
withdraw his acceptance.
Within an hour General Garfield had
the name of Postmaster James of New
York on his list, but it was set against
the postoffice and not the navy depart
ment. In the early hours of March 2 a
telegram was on its way to General
James, and on March 3, just a day be
fore the inauguration, he was perma
nently upon the list for postmaster gen
eral, and thus suddenly and unexpected
ly there came to him the opportunity to
rid the postoffice department of the
greatest scandal in its history—the star
route service—and to show that the de
partment could be made self sustaining,
an opportunity which he fully met be
fore the year was ended.
Wayne MacVeagh had accepted the
attorney general’s office a little earlier,
but he was John Alden to a political
Miles Staudish, for he had urged upon
Garfield the appointment of another man
for that office, and Garfield had replied
in effect, if not in precise language,
“Why not speak fer yourself, John?”
Of a sudden Judge Hunt, dreaming of
nothing but a life of repose upon the
bench, found himself within 24 hours of
a cabinet appointment. He awoke on
the morning of March 3 simply Judge
Hunt and expecting never to be any
thing else. He went to bed that night
with the portfolio of the navy depart
ment in his keeping.
So, too, Senator Windom little dream
ed when the sun came up in the morn
ing of March 3 that before night he
should accept an offer for the treasury
department. Senator Allison had at last
finally and decisively declined to become
secretary of the treasury, and thus there
opened to Windom the opportunity of
which he later took advantage to achieve
one of the most brilliant financial oper
ations the history of the treasury depart
ment records.
Yet the surprise of all was that which
Senator Kirkwccd experienced. On the
morning after Garfield’s inauguration
Kirkwood went to the senate prepared
to hear and act upon the nominations
for the new cabinet. The prophet of
senate officials, Mr. Bassett, approached
him.
* ‘Senator, I have an application for
your seat from a senator, ’ ’ he said.
“Bless me! Does he think I am going
to die or resign?’ ’ Kirkwood replied.
“He says you are going into the cabi
net. ”
“Nonsense! Tell him my seat is very
comfortable. ’ ’
An hour or two later Senator Kirk
wood heard his name read as the nomi
nee for secretary of the interior. He had
not even been asked if he would accept.
—Holland in Philadelphia Press.
The Women of Missouri.
The supreme court of Missouri has de
cided that women are eligible to hold
any elective office in that state from
which they are not specifically debarred
by statute. The right to hold office npt
being dependent upon the rig!it to vote,
tlje women of Missouri may get the
plums without being at the trouble to
shake tho tree. It has been considered
so much a matter of course and of cus
tom that the offices should be filled by
males that in few instances has there
been any statutory regulation as to the
sex of the incumbents.—Philadelphia
Record.
The Man of Truth.
It doesn’t pay to contradict when people pause
to tell
The stories that you’ve heard so oft before
Of “coldest days” which solemnly they vow to
you befell
So often in the good old days of yoro.
And sometimes t hey will talk to you about the
fish they caught.
Without reply you turn your head away.
You cannot, with politeness give expression to
the thought,
ft you wonder what George Washington
Vould say.
ty’hen an able statistician comes with figures
and with facts
To promote some novel scheme of roseate
hue,
When a trust manipulator seeks to justify his
acts
And a raconteur announces “something
new,”
When jingo citizens proceed to tell how they’d
behave
In case they went a-marching to the fray,
You preserve a smiling silence, and your breath
you shrewdly save,
But you wonder what George Washington
would say.
—Washington Star.
THE TIMES: BRUNSWICK, GA., MARCH 7, 1896.
TIMES WILL BE HARD
WHEN EARTH CAN NO MORE SUP
PORT HER CHILDREN.
General Brialmont Says That In Less
Than 200 Years There Will Be Too
Many People—Some Interesting Facts
as to the Increase of Population.
At the Academy of Sciences in Brus
sels the other day Lieutenant General
Brialmont of the Belgian army deliver
ed a lecture upon the increase of the
world’s population.
Many statisticians have studied this
problem, and, according to the average
of their calculations, we find that Rus
sia doubles her population in 50 years,
England in 55, Germany in 55, Belgium
in 79, Italy in 84 and France in 183.
The general did not mention the in
crease of population in the United
States.
“A time will come,” he said, “when
there will be too many men on the
globe, and the equilibrium between
population and production will be re-es
tablished by the disappearance of those
for whom there will be no place at the
banquet of life. According to statistics
most worthy of confidence, the popula
tion of the world in 1882 was 1,392,-
000,000, and in 1890 it was 1,480,000,-
000 —that is to say, in eight years it in
creased by 88,000,000, or more than 6
per cent. If, calculating upon this basis,
we seek the date when the population of
the earth will reach 27 milliards of in
habitaifts, or double the number of hec
tares that the land of our planet meas
ures, we come to the year 2280.” Con
sequently, according to the general, who
in his lecture simply made himself the
interpreter of the- ppnriormgts. in 386
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In a Live Newspaper
is on the very best
billboard.
There is^
No injunction against
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The Times’ Fence.
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years the world will no longer be able
to feed its inhabitants.
“To deny the exactness of my calcu
lation,” says General Brialmont, “it
will be necessary to prove that the pop
ulation will not continue to grow as
rapidly as I have supposed. ”
Now, in 1788 the population of Eu
rope was 144,000,000 souls, and in 1886
it was 349,000,000, presenting an in
crease of 140 per cent in a century. The
president of the congress of statistics in
Vienna in 1887 produced documents
showing that the European population
had doubled in 70 years notwithstand
ing numerous wars aud a constant
stream of emigration.
From the ten milliards and a half
hectares that the land of the earth meas
ures we must deduct the polar regions,
the steppes, the deserts, the mountains
that are covered with snow, the roads,
the lands which are rendered unpro
ductive by industries and the surfaces
occupied by houses. After that deduc
tion we find scarcely two milliards of
hectares of arable land, from which we
must also deduct half a milliard hectares
for the support of animals. Therefore,
according to Raveustein, the learned
English geographer, we shall he short
of rations in 176 years.
If General Brialmont and Mr. Raven
stein are anywhere near the mark, they
underestimate the danger. By following
their line of argument closely we are
brought to the conclusion that the
world’s population will be starved out
in less than a century, because it is in
creasing more rapidly now than ever be
fore. The doctors, with their microbe
slaughtering serums, give no show to
honest plagues, and even threaten con
sumption; the philosophers, with their
high toned theories, will suppress wars;
the reformers propose to fine bachelors
for tho benefit of future mothers-in-law ;
the preachers conspire against mortality,
aud centenarians are on the increase.—
New York Sun.
Herbert to Stay In Washington.
Secretary Herbert has decided to make
his future homo in Washington after he
completes his term as secretary of tho
navy. He will open a law office and will
practice his profession in the national
capital instead of at his Alabama home.
He purposes taking cases before the
supreme court and court of claims and
may be associated with his son-in-law,
Benjamin Micou, who is tho chief clerk
of the navy department, aud who was
at one time a candidate for an Alabama
judgeship.
Their Policy.
This is a queer world. The very man
who really needs life insurance will not
be accepted as a risk by any good com
pany, while the man who stands a good
chance of living indefinitely has no
trouble at all.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
Bradley to Call an Kxtra ScHsion.
Governor Bradley has decided to call
an extra session of the Kentucky legis
lature, to begin Murch 9.
BRYAN MAY ATTEND.
The Inauguration Committee May Invite
Him to Washington For the Fourth.
In the desire to leave nothing undone
which will enhance the attractiveness
of tho inauguration festivities the citi
zens’ committee of Washington is con
sidering various novel propositions. The
latest idea is that the presence of Mr.
and Mrs. William J. Bryan of Lincoln,
Neb., will add public interest to the oc
casion.
Mr. Bryan is to be in Alexandria,
Va., eight miles down the Potomac
from Washington, about the end of Feb
ruary. It is urged that he would find it
pleasant to spend a few days in Wash
ington, including the 4th of March.
The committee is thinking seriously
of extending to him a formal invitation
to bring Mrs. Bryan with him and par
ticipate in the procession and in the
ball. The presence of the defeated can
didate would be a novelty, but it would
not he entirely without precedent. Ac
cording to history, Stephen A. Douglas
stood behind Abraham Lincoln and hold
his hat while the new president of 1861
delivered his inaugural address. Sixteen
years ago the most conspicuous person
ality, next to Garfield, at the inaugu
ral ball was General Hancock, in the
full uniform of his rank.
The inaugural committee will not
send an invitation to Mr. Bryan until
the suggestion receives approval from
Canton. There is no personal unfriend
liness between the president elect and
the boy orator. The latter has much re
spect for the former. Early in the cam
paign he frequently expressed in his
speeches admiration for the character of
his rival. This became so noticeable
that the Democratic national commit
tee advised Mr. Bryan to omit his enco
jiiil of Mr Jr
There seems to be an impression at
committee headquarters that, if invited,
Mr. Bryan will attend the inaugura
tion., There is also an impression that
Mr. Hanna will not encourage the ten
der of an invitation.—Washington Cor.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
EFFICACY OF PRAYER.
West Virginians Believe They See It In
the Destruction of a Still.
C. D. Gillespie of Tucker coifuty, W.
Va., has applied to the house finance
committee at Charleston for the refund
ing of $45 paid by him last summer for
the privilege of running a distillery
near Parsons, which he failed to oper
ate. Gillespie stated that he went to
Tucker county, and, seeing a large fruit
crop, purchased a tract of mountain
laud, on which was located a never fail
ing spring, and obtained permission to
put up and operate a distillery.
He began to erect suitable buildings
below the spring, and it soon dawned
upon the neighbors what was coming.
They protested, but to no avail. On
promising to buy their fruits and grain,
paying the highest market prices in
cash, many of them became reconciled,
but a few, regarding their religious du
ties higher than money, met at their
churches aud offered up prayers for the
destruction of the distillery.
Gillespie only laughed aud proceeded
with preparing to make a run of apple
brandy. About the time he had several
tubs of crushed apples ready for the still,
the prayers of his neighbors to destroy
the still having continued almost with
out ceasing, a steady rain came, caus
ing a large landslide from the steep
mountain above to come rushing down
and completely buried his entire outfit,
which he was not able to rebuild. His
neighbors who offered up prayers for
the destruction of the still firmly believe
and zealously maintain that it was an
answer to prayers. —St. Louis Globe.
A Patched tp Spinal Column.
Elmer H. Penrod of New Lexington,
0., has anew spinal column. Five years
ago he was injured by a fall, and his
tpekbone was broken between the shoul
der blades. Since then he has been para
lyzed, but Dr. R. Harvey Reed of the
Protestant hospital has removed four
sections of the vertebra!, cleaned up the
spinal cord and fixed him in such a man
ner that he will be able to get along
without the missing sections of his
spinal column. Silver supports will bo
used for his head, and. though he will
never be able to work, he can move
around as other men. —Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Kich Patronage.
The vacant see of St. David’s is worth
£4,500 a year, with one of the most de
lightful episcopal residences in Great
Britain. The bishop is patron of 132
livings, of four archdeaconries, of tho
deanery of St. David’s cathedral and of
tho four residentiary canouries.—Lon
don Truth.
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A STATESMAN POET.
THE PARTICULAR HOBBY OF THE
NEXT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.
John I>. Long Is a Poet of Some Ability.
He Gomes of a Poetic Stock—He Is Es
pecially Fond of Verses About Chil
dren—Some of llis Efforts.
Hon. John Davis Long, who is to be
secretary of the navy, is no exception to
the general rule that every eminent man
has a hobby asido from and independent
of his trade or profession.
Governor Long’s hobby is versemak
ing. But he does not run his hobby into
the ground. And not only is he a lover
of the muse, but as a practical devotee
he is a poet of no mean grade. As this
fact, however, he has not striven to pro
mulgate to the world at large, the writer
would herewith speak of him in this
role.
Asa poet Governor Long is a chip of
the paternal block. His late father, Hon.
Zadoc Long of Buckfield, Me., whilom
candidate for congress and a Whig elect
or in the famous Harrison campaign of
1840, was a man of fine intellect and
practical business ability. He was a
ready and fluent writer, and his poems,
published in the papers of the day, were
marked by ease of versification, simple
truth and beauty and the tender human
ity which was a notable feature of his
character. As may well be supposed,
Mr. Long was a lover of music, and it
is a noteworthy fact that he introduced
into his rural home the first piano ever
seen or heard in town, and his daughter
was the first pianist in the place, whose
skillful playing mutually delighted her
parents and their townspeople.
And right here, as a fitting prelude to
some specimens of his distinguished
son’s poetical efforts, and, moreover, to
give the reader an idea of his style of
versemaking, I quote the last four stan
zas of Zadoc Long’s little sentimental
song entitled:
MY OLD VIOLIN.
A sound like a serenude, plaintive and sweet;
An almost inaudible strain
Now rises und swUls into tones more complete.
Now sinks away softly again.
It seems like the spirit of many a lay—
A voice from the past that I hear.
In lingering cadences dying away,
On memory’s faltering tear.
Or the musio of dreams In the stillness of
night
By some spirit guardian sung—
’Tis the air through the cracks and the vibra
tions slight
Of m3' old violin, all unstrung.
How many a cherished remembrance it brings
Of dear friends and pastimes of 3'orel
A sorrowful touch on the heart’s shattered
strings
That soon will respond never more.
Governor Long was the youngest of
the four children. Of his brilliant, schol
arly professional and political career it
were supererogatory to speak. It has be
come a part of the history of the noted
men of our time. Asa writer both of
prose and poetry Governor Loug excels.
In the latter field he is the author of a
volume of original poems entitled “ Bites
of a Cherry,” which he dedicated to his
father, and which, like his translation of
Virgil’s “iEneid,” published in Boston
in 1870, the year of his first guberna
torial term, was very favorably received.
In his domestic poems he is especially
felicitous, as witness the following se
lections. Tho first is the concluding
stanza of “To My Wife:”
Thus your dear eyes long since have been
Not more the light by which I trod
Than gateways where I entered in
To breathe the love and peace of God.
Next are two sthnzas—the first and
the last—from “Margaret:”
I am a little three-year-old.
My eyes are heaven, my hair is gold.
What heaven and gold are, I don’t know,
But what I mean is ma says so.
In bed, tucked safe from harm and cold,
Shadows and slumber round me fold.
Sometimes I dream that one by one
Tho brown mice o’er my pillow run.
And now comes a sweetly simple
picture of a little 2-year-old fairy whoso
name is Helen:
Helen is aged two.
Look at the tender blue
Her eyes have tempted from the lieavenliest
patches in the skies I
Look at her rose tint face,
Tho ineffable fine grace
That in its smiles and dimples everywhere
upon it liesl
Had lady’s hand o’er such
An inborn grace of touch?
Could nestling hand more gently woo, forgiv
ing or forgiven?
Did ever mouth put up,
Or bud, so fresh a cup?
Or little feet make doorway seem so like the
gate of heaven ?
I have room for only one more home
picture. It is short and sweet, and is
quoted entire. Although in construction
wholly unliko Longfellow’s “Weari
ness,” and more optimistic withal, it in
its spirit remiuds mo somewhat of that:
At nightfall, by the firelight’s cheer,
My little Margaret sits me near
And bugs me tell of thing that were
When I was littlo just like her.
Ah, littlo life, you touch tho spring
Of sweetost sad remembering,
And hearth and heart flash all aglow
With ruddy tints of long ago!
I at my father’s fireside sit,
Youngest of all who circle it,
And beg him tall me what did he
When he was little just like me.
Governor Loug’s old home in Buck
field, Me., is now a public house, Hotel
Long, and on the L of it is still seen
his ola professional sign, “John D.
Long, counselor at law, ” a faded but
valued memento. He seldom finds time
to visit his native place, but whenever
he does ho receives a hearty welcome
from his former townsmen, who still
affectionately address him as “John. ”
Charles O. Stickney in Washington Post.
Setting a Horne's Broken Jaw.
A Susquehanna county (Pa.) veteri
nary recently performed an operation on
a horse that is said to bo the first of its
kind in the history of veterinary sur
gery. The animal’s lower jaw had been
broken by a kick, and in order to reduce
tho fracture it was necessary to incase
its jaw in pliable copper, in which con
dition it will have to remain for about
four weeks, during whicli time the ani
mal will be fed with a spoon on gruel,
milk and eggs.
THE AMPLIPHONE.
A Wonderfal Instrument For Learning
the Secrets of Our Hidden Organs.
A great deal of clandestine informa
tion was formerly gathered around tele
graph offices by people who listened to
the sounders and sometimes stole valu
able news. In 1887 a device was patent
ed which defeated such attempts. It
magnified the click of the sounder, but
conveyod all sound to the ear of the
operator. But in 1888 the dynamos su
perseded batteries in these offices, and
the ampliphone was laid aside. The
stethoscope is entirely inadequate to
meet the requirements of modern medi
cal science.
It has recently been learned that the
ampliphone, which only weighs about
two ounces, enables the physician to
hear the action of the respiratory organs,
the circulation of the blood, the move
ments of the digestive organs in health
and in disease, the sound of the capillary
circulation, the sounds in the eye, ear,
bladder, stomach and intestines.
By its aid diagnosis may be made of
bronchitis by the hoarse rattling in tho
bronchial tubes, in pleurisy by the tu
bular breathing, in emphysema by the
wheezing, in empyasma by the dullness
of transmitted sound, which shows loss
of vesicular murmur. In complications
of different symptoms the sound trans
mitted becomes even more essential.
Tho fact that tho pulse can now be
heard is very important. Five inches of
pamphlets and clothing were placed
over a man’s heart, and the beating
could be easily heard by means of the
ampliphone. Should this instrument
fulfill its promise its benefits to science
will prove illimitable. A leading phy
sician has expressed the opinion that
“its use in conjunction with tho X ray
will leave fewer of the secrets of the hu
man physiology undivulged. ’ ’ —Chicago
Inter Ocean.
ONE SMALL BRIDGE.
It Is Causing Trouble Bet wren Two
Towns In the Northwest.
A ten years’ fight between Duluth
and Superior, Wis., two rival towns at
the western end of Lake Superior, lias
found its way into the senate.
Just now these towns are distinct and
separate. Between them flows a littlo
arm of Lake Superior called by courtesy
St. Louis river, and it is as famous in
the annuls of the northwest as was the
Rubicon in the time of Caesar. As long
as that stream of water remains un
bridged, just so long will Duluth re
main Duluth and Superior be known as
Superior. But in the dreadful days to
come, when a bridge shall span the river,
it is likely that Superior will be nothing
but a suburb of Duluth. This makes the
doughty residents of Superior lie awakf
at night, distressed with fearful dreams,
while they stand on the shore of the di
viding stream and hurl defiance to their
all encroaching rival.
The bill authorizing the bridge passed
congress some timo ago, but now more
time is asked and some changes in the
charter are suggested. The material,
furnished by Pennsylvania steel men,
is lying at the site of the bridge, and
Senator Quay daily presses the enact
ment of the additional legislation, but
Senator Vilas, representing the Supori
orites, stands guard and objects, so that
the bridge is literally suspended in mid
air.—Washington Post.
A Clerk’s Mistake.
A clerk in the National bank of
Moorestown, N. J., recently closed the
safe for the day without first starting
the timo lock which operates the com
bination. This omission was not dis
covered until the next morning, when
all efforts to open the safe wero futile.
At last a telegram was sent to the safe
makers in Cincinnati. A man was im
mediately sent on. Ho said that the only
way to open the safe was to start the
clock. Ho called for a large piece of
timber—all that several men could han
dle.
Six strong men set at work with it to
jar the safe door sufficiently to start tho
clock. After many attempts the time
piece was set going. Then there was
nothing to do but to wait until tho clock
ran the required number of hours. Then
the deyr was readily opened.
Business was virtually at a standstill
four days, causing much anxiety on the
part of the officials.
The Garter.
It is in contemplation for the queen
to hold a chapter of tho Garter at Wind
sor castle on June 26 or 28, the function
to he followed by a banquet to the
knights of the order in St. George’s
hall. The last chapter of the Garter was
held at Windsor in 1855, when the late
Louis Napoleon was invested by tho
queen with the ribbon and insignia of
the order. On theso occasions all knights
have a right to take part in the proceed
ings, hut only those personages are ex
pected who have been summoned. In
1855 tho then Duke of Buckingham,
who was out of favor at court, was not
summoned, but nevertheless appeared at
the chapter. The queen showed her dis
pleasure by omitting to invite him to
the dinner which was given after the
chapter to all tho other knights who had
been present.—London Truth.
A Degenerate Flay by Max Nordau.
Dr. Max Nordau’s new play, “The
Right to Love,” is an erotic drama,
with a degenerate woman, Mme. Bortha
Wahrmund; her husband, Joseph Wahr
mund, and her lover, Otto Bardenholm,
as chief characters. Mme. Bertha, as
the climax to her degeneracy, comes to
the conclusion that, as she no longer
loves her husband, it is not right for her
to continue to live with him, but Bar
denholm, her mercenary lover, refuses
to support her away from her family.
Dr. Nordau’s treatment of the theme
remiuds us forcibly of some of Ibsen’s
prose dramas. As Dr. Nordau, in “De
generation, ” pays his compliments to
Ibsen in no favorable language, he will
scarcely relish the above statement con
cerning “The Right to Love.”— Home
Magazine.
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