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6 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., TALKING OF COLORED SCHOOLS. A Movement Started by the Brown- Cardozo Controversy. A PROPOSITION MADE IN THE SCHOOL BOARD TO PUT ALL THE SCHOOLS UNDER ONE SUPERIN- TENDENT—THE RESULT OF THE BROWN-CAR- DOZO INVESTIGATION. MEETING OF THE SCHOOL BOARD LAST EVENING. The Brown-Cardozo controversy, over which there has been much excitement in the public schools ever since the beginning of the school year, wasaired at the meeting of the school board last night. The board had an audience consisting of ex-School Trustees Johnson, Smith, Holland, and others interested in the colored schools. The discussion took a wide range, drifting from Messrs. Brown and Our- dozo into the whole field of the management of the colored schools. Both the jeachers named were retained in their places. An im- portant outcome of the investigation was s preposition to abolish the office of superin- tendent of colored schools and place all the schools under one superintendent. When the board met last evening Mr. Cor- nish, from the special committee composed of himself, Prof. Gregory and Dr. Francis, the three colored trustees, to whom the Brown- Cardozo matter was referred, submitted the report of the committee. his investigation was based on the letter of Prof. H. M. Brown, requesting that certain charges preferred against him by Prof. F. L. Cardozo, principal of the High School of the seventh and eighth divisions, in a communica- tion dated July 18, 1888, and addressed to Trus- tree J. R. Francis, a member of the High School committee. The committee announced its convictions as follows: ‘1. That the evidence fails to substantiate any inefficiency or want of ability on the part of Mr. Brown in the per- formance of his duty as teacher in the branches igned him. 2. That there is nothifg in the evidence tending in the remotest degree to re- flect upon his moral character; but, on the contrary, his associate teachers, three of whom are ladies, who were summoned before the committee, testify to his manly bearing and gentlemaniy conduct in all his official relations and responsibilities as instructor in the school. The committee also find in the investigation certain irregularities in the High School which should receive the attention of the proper standing committee, but are of the opinion that they were not empowered by the resolution un- der which the committee was appointed to make any recommendation looking to the trans- fer or removal of any teacher or teachers. They are convinced, however, that the best in- terests of the school require some definite ac- tion by the trustees, but t < erly coming under the jurisdiction of the High aad Normal School committee, who under a clearly-defined rule of the board have charge of the qualifications of teachers and al] matters concerning the High and Normal Schools. Fi- nelly, your committee beg leave to submit that cir judgment they have reached such con- clusions as are warranted by the facts brought | out in the evidence, a correct report of which | was made by the secretary of the board and is filed with this report.” NO CHARGES AFFECTING MORAL CHARACTER. Mr. Darlington said that the report as it stood intimated that there were charges against the moral character of Mr. Brown made by the principal, which were not sustained. He asked | whether it was a fact that the principal had | Dr. Francis said that | charges in his | published letter, but such insinuations were | made, and Mr. Brown, in bis letter asking an | made any such charges, Mr. Cardozo had made no s1 investion, referred to such charges. Mr. Darlington suggested that it was due to the principal that it be stated in the report | that he made no such charges. Prof. Gregory said the committee would accept any amend- ment to that effect. WHITEWASHED THE WHOLE MATTER. Mr. Frish said it seemed to him that this re- port whitewashed the whole matter and re- ferred it back upon the High School committee. As he summed it up the committee acquitted Mr. Brown and left the High School committee to investigate Mr. Cardozo’s efficiency. Mr. Darlington said he understood that Mr. Brown sought to secure the position held by Mr. Car- dozo, and asked if that was true. Dr. Francis said that itwas true that Mr. Brown was an applicant for the place. Dr. Francis, in answer to Mr. Fish, said the com- mittee had done everything that it had been directed to do by the board. It had reported upon the charges made against Mr. Brown. As to the desirability of making any transfers in the school. he believed that was a matter which should receive the consideration of the High School committee. ARRAIGNING THE MANAGEMENT OF THE COLORED SCHOOLS. Mr. Fish insisted that it was now proposed, after this committee had expended weeks in investigation, to have the whole case re- opened. He thought it was due to the board that this committee should state whether Mr. Cardozo was, in their judgment, qualified to hold the relation he did tothe schools. He thought the public would be dissatisfied if the pease, did not, at this meeting, do more than refer this matter to another committee. This committee, he said, should tell them, after their long investigation. their honest convic- | —_— | al, tion, whether , Mr. Cardozo was to ‘fill the “place of _ princip whether Mr. Brown ought not dismissed for insubordination. and to Mr. Brown was guilty of insubordination in his conduct with reference to his superior. Mr. Fish, continuing, arraigned the management | of the colored schools, and said that they were not up to the standard of the white schools, ‘This he attributed to the fact that the methods adopted in the white schools for maintaining | and increasing the efficiency of the teaching | corps were not followed. This matter, he said, | was not merely a fight between Cardozo@and | Brown. The investigation had brought out the fact that the colored schools were not doing what they should do. Discussing Mr. Brown's ease, Mr. Fisk maintained that as a subordinate officer he should have made his report to the superintendent if he believed there were irreg- ularities in the school. Mr. Darlington said that if the testimony showed that Mr. Brown's criticisms were prop- erly made and with a good purpose he sympa- thized with him, but if the testimony showed that there was any other motive, he agreed with Mr. Fish that it was insubordination. Dr. Francis agreed with Mr. Fish except in the statement that the special committee should pass some judgment on the question of Mr. Cardozo’s capacity. He believed the question was broader than that. He believed that the colored schools were not progressive enough, and that a remedy should fe applied. “Doctor,” said Mr. Fish, “why not come out and say what the remedy is?” “1 don't wish,” said Dr. Francis, hesitating, “to make any attempt unless I believe that we are to be supported in this by the citizens.” Mr. Darlington said that ‘after two months of investigation it was undesirable to leave this High School still to be torn up by the dissen- sions between two princi Officers. He thought this committee that had examined the facts should tell them whether Mr. Brown's charges were made only with a good purpose to further the interests of the school or whether the charges had not been made in connection with and to further the effort made by Mr. Brown to succeed Mr. Cardozo. DR. FRANCIS COMES OUT. Dr. Francis then submitted the following as an additional or minority report over his sig- nature alone: “There is another important fact that bas been developed during the prog- ress of this investigation which should receive the consideration of this board, and to which I must call your attention. It has been shown that there is a large gap existing between the ways and methods reqaiolia education in the two high schools, and also the schools of the first six divisions and those of the lasttwo. I am of the opinion that all the schools of the eight divisions should be brought up not only toan pve ge standard, but that = order, every and every means by whic! such high standard is reached should be the same_ = —_ through po — guiding spirit,thereby impre; } school of the District of Columbis withs feeling of harmony in methods of education and school —— which has never before been felt, Without expressing an opinion as to the rela- tive merits of the two present managements, I am convinced, from the comparisons that have been during the investigation, that one ie eee indicated. I therefore recommend that i i t @ committee of be pointed for the of consbasting the ak: visability of aboli the office of one of the two superintendents, and placi: all the public schools of the District ~ inane of Columbia unde: management of one superintendent and one as- agg peg eye ink ita matter prop- | be | Mr. Fish, dur- | ing his remarks, expressed the opinion that | ined on proba’ of both would be improved by pri i lea wp he t of Mr. desirable things e Managemen’ Car- arProt Grobory odtered « peaclaion” provi Prof. Gregory offered a resolu for the retention of both ‘Sashers until the ens of the year, Mr. Darlington said that in the light they had such action would appear very unwise. He understood that the condition of the colored High School was deplorable. He was advised that teachers and Five were divided into Brown and Cardozo factions. While such dis- sensions existed the school could not —~ He offered a resolution condemn’ a Brown's condugt in seeking to displace the principal by Uae charges and circulating —— and declaring the belief that Mr. jrown should be transferred without any reflection on his sional character. Mr. Darlington suggested that the resolution be laid over, and that mean- while the board could determine whether there was any chance of securing harmony in the school if these two men were retained. Prof. Gregory insisted that Mr. Darlington's proposal was ex parte, The weight of testi- mony, he believed, was against Mr: Cardozo, and if Mr. Brown were transferred he believed Mr, Cardozo should be transferred too. He did not believe the dissensions in the school would be quieted by the transferring of only one of the teachers. Mr. Mitchell thought they would do harm by removing these teachers at this time. He favored adopting the report of the committee, and leaving the management of the two teach- ers to the High School committee. As to Dr. Francis’ popes, he thought that was a mistake. He thought the schools had oene wonderfully well under two superintendents. THE TWO TEACHERS RETAINED. Mr. Darlington withdrew his resolution, in view, as he said, of the fact that both Dr. Fran- cis and Prof. Gregory believed that harmony could be secured in the school. The committee amended its report so far as to provide for the retention of the two teach- ers until the end of the school year, provided harmonious relations were maintained, and the report as thus amended was adopted. Dr. Francis’ supplemental report proposing an in- uiry into the advisability of consolidating the two superintendents’ offices was accepted, and ordered to lie over for consideration, CHANGES IN TEACHERSHIPS, Substitute teachers were appointed as fol- lows: Second division—Maude Stetson and Sallie E. Burroughs. Seventh di jon—Ama- leta Alexander, Mary E. G. Brown, Alexina Laws, Sarah Dickson, Sarah Dorsey, Bessie Francis, Mrs. Rosetta Lawson, Josie Lewis, Nettie Arnold, Marie Deitz, Madora Allen, Mag- from the school, moral or profes- ‘gie Saunders, Mrs, Gussie Henderson, Hattie Contee, and Josephine Ball, Promotions were made as follows: First division, Josephine Burke, class 8 to N. E. L. McLean, class 12 to 13. Sixth division, E. P. Kirk, class 4 to class 7; C. A. Heathman, class 5 to class 7; F, E. Ware, class 6 to class 7; J. B. Clark, class 7 to class S$. Second division, H. W. Price, class 13 to class 14. E. L. McCartney, teacher, first division, was reduced from class 9 to 8 at her own request, ‘The resignation of Miss Alice L. Strange, teacher in the sixth division, was accepted. Annie Wilson, teacher first division, Lydia D. twood and Sallie S. Childs, teachers second sion, were granted leaves of absence for ar without pay. A communication from B, Pickman Mann and others, asking for the use of a room in the Analostan or Weightman building for a free kindergarten school for children under the school age, was referred to the superintendent with power to act. A resolution from the committee on manual training schools providing for opening night schools in the Franklin, Henry, Jefferson, Wal- lach, Curtis, John F, Cook and other buildings if it be found that there is sufficient money, on the evening of November 12, was adopted. A resolution was also adopted thanking Mr. B. H. Warner and the Columbia National Bank for its offer to advance teachers’ salaries during the recent controversy that caused delay in the payments. —_-___ Daniel Hand’s Millions. HOW THEY WERE SAVED FOR HIM BY A FAITHFUL SOUTHERN FRIEND. Daniel Hand's gift of $1,000,000 for the edu- cation of colored children in the South did not surprise any one in Qharleston, 8. C., according toadispatch from that city. It was known a year ago that he intended to provide in his will that the interest on 21,000, should be per- petually devoted to this purpose. He has simply moved up the dates and put his liberality beyond the reach of lawyers and litigants, Geo, W. Williams, Mr. Hand’s old partner in Charleston, told on Saturday the story of his connection with Hand and how he saved Hand's property from confiscation by the Confederate government. Mr. Williams said: “Just fifty years ago I landed in Augusta, Ga., from my Nacoochee home, and was employed by Mr. Hand as clerk in’ his estab- lishment at a salary of $50 per annum. At the age of twenty-one I became a full partner of Mr. Hand and remained in business in Augusta until 18: T removed that year to Charlesto1 lished the house of George W. W: Mr. Hand remained in Augusta. At the beginning of the war Mr. Hand was in New York attending to the purchasing of sup- plies for our Southern houses. As he was oj posed to secession he remained in New York, and withdrew from the firm of G. W. Williams & Co. in 1861, but his lifetime earnings were atthe South. In the meantime war raged in all its fury, Each section passed the Seques- tration act. Finding that Mr. Hand’s interests would be confiscated, I requested his immedi- ate return to Charleston. Failing to get through the lines at Baltimore or Washington, Mr. Hand took the Western route. On arriving at New Orleans he was arrested as a spy. I then tele- graphed my partner, Mr. H. P: Hollingsworth, pry ov. Moore, vouching for Mr. Hand’s it tegrity. I keep most of my business letters and dispatches, and on looking over my books I find the following, which will explain them- selves.” Mr. Williams thereupon produced the following dispatches, all of the date of Novem- ber 14, 1561: H. P. Hollingsworth, care of John E. Hyde & Co., New Orleans: Will you please employ able counsel for Mr. Hand. and see that he has every comfort and protection? I have telegraphed Gov. Moore. Geonce W. Witt14Ms. Gow. Moore, New Orleans: Mr. Trenholm’s dispatch was based on a con- versation Mr. Hand had with another party. He has not seen him for years. I feel confident that I can satisfy you that Mr. Hand is neither a Lincoln spy ‘nor black republican. I will send you satisfactory documents. Please see that he has every comfort and protection, I am a native Carolinian. . Gronror W. Wittiams. Mr. J. M. Hana, Augusta: Your brother has been arrested. I think that we can establish that he is not a Lincoln spy. Georoe W. WILL1ams. J. M. Hand was a brother of Daniel Hand. Continuing, Mr. Williams said: “I finally succeeded in getting Mr. Hand out of prison in New Orleans, but he was ordered under guard to Richmond, Va., then the seat of the Confederate government. While passing through Augusta, Ga., his old home, the mayor, who was his friend, had to send Mr. Hand to tre to keep him out of the hands of a mob. On learning that Mr. Hand was in jail in Augusta I went there at once and secured his release. Mr. Hand was sent to Richmond and was confined for weeks in the Libby prison with Yankees and negroes. In the meantime a vigorous suit was commenced in Charleston to sequestrate Mr. Hand’s interests in the of George W. Williams & Co. At the end of a week's contest the suit ended in Mr. Hand’s favor, and his interest in our firm was thus saved from confiscation. As South Carolina was not a comfortable home for one suspected of Union sentiments, Mr. Hand de- cided to leave the South never to return. Be- fore leaving, however, he confided all of his interests in the South to me, to. be held and managed as my own, and in case of further attempts at confiscation to be regarded as my individual property. The real estate was all in myname. The interests thus confided to me had the same care and were own. I am gratified to know I saved for him has been returned to the South, to be held asa people.” Depressing Patti Stock in Paris. New York Tribune London Special. The directors of that essentially das 1m) Sua tea fortune of more than $2,000,000, $1,000,000 that Perpetual fund to educate the HE WILL HAVE TO GO. The British Minister Dismissed by the President. CONSEQUENCE OF THE FAILURE TO RECALL LORD SACKVILLE—SECRETARY BAYARD’S REVIEW OF THE CASE—FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN OUR DO- ‘MESTIC AFFAIES NOT TO BE TOLERATED. The following statement was given out at the State Department late yesterday afternoon: “By direction of the President, the Secretary of State to-day informed Lord Sackville that for causes heretofore made known to her majesty’s government, his continuance in his present official position in the United States is no longer acceptable to this Government, and would consequently be detrimental to the rela- tions between the two countries.” The grounds of this action on the part of the United States are stated in a report of the Secretary of State to the President, dated the 29th inst., which is as follows: DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Wasuixeton, October 29, 1888. To the President : The undersigned has ¢he honor to submit for your consideration the following statement, with a view to receive your direction thereon : On the 4th of September last a letter pur- porting to be written by one Charles F. Murchi- son, dated at Pomona, Cal., was sent from that place to the British minister at this capital, in which the writer solicited an expression of his views in regard to certain unsettled diplomatic juestions between the United States and Great Britain, stating, at = fee a that such an expression was spught by him for the p: of detecoiniay ‘ti vote at the enpeoacking presidential election. He stated that he was a naturalized citizen of the United States, of English birth, but that he still considered Eng- land the motherland, and that this fact led him to seek advice from the British representative in this country. He further stated t that the in- formation he sought was not for himself alone, but to enable him to give certain assurances to many other | med in the same situation as himself, for the purpose of influencing and de- termining their political action as citizens of the United States of English birth, but who still regard their original obligations of allegiance as paramount. The letter also contained gross reflections upon the conduct of this Govern- ment, in respect to questions now in contro- versy and unsettled between the United States and Great Britain, and both directly and indi- rectly imputed insincerity in such conduct, To this letter the British minister at once re- plied from Beverly, Mass., under date of the 13th of September last. In this reply he stated that “any political party which openly favored the mother country at the present’ moment would lose popularity, and that the party in power is ay aware of that fact;” and that in respect to the “questions with Canada which have been unfortunately reopened since the rejection of the (fisheries) treaty by the repub- lican majority in the Senate, and by the Presi- dent's message to which you aliude,” “all al- lowances must therefore be made for the poli- tical situation as regards the presidential elec- tion.” The minister thus gave his assent and sanction to the aspersions and imputations above referred to. Thus under his correspondent’s assurance of secrecy, in which the minister concurred by marking his answer “private,” he undertook to advise a citizen of the United States how to ex- ercise the franchise of suffrage in an election close at hand for the presidency and vice-presi- dency of the United States, and through him, | as the latter suggested, to influence the votes of many others, ke i this correspondence being made pub- lic the minister received the representatives of the public press, and in the frequent inter- views with them, intended for publication, added to the impugnments which he had already made of the good faith of this Govern- ment In its public action and international dealings. Although ample time and oppor- tunity have been afforded him for the dis ayowal, modification or correction of his state- ments, to some of which his attention was called personally by the undersigned, yet no such disavowal or modification has been made by him through the channels in which his statements first found publicity, The question is thus presented whether it is compatible with the dignity, security and in- dependent sovereignty of the United States to permit the representative of a foreign govern- ment in this country not only to receive and answer without disapproval, and confirm by his repetition, aspersions upon his political ac- tion, but also to interfere in its domestic af- fairs by advising persons, formerly his country- men, as to their political course as citizens of the United States, As between this country andGreat Britain there can be nocontroversy as to the complete severance of the ties of original allegiance by naturalization. Disputes on this point were finally put at rest by the treaty of naturaliza- tion concluded between the two countries on May 13, 1870. Therefore, it will not be con- tended, nor was such contention ever admitted by us, that citizens of the United States, of British origin, are subject to any claim of ‘the country of their original allegiance, The undersigned also has the honor to call attention to the provisions of section 5335 of the Revised Statutes of the ited States, by which severe penalties are visited upon’ the citizen of the United States, who, without the authority or permission of ‘this Government, “commences or carries on any verbal or writ- ten correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof,” either with an intent to influence the action of such aiens or its agents in re- lation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or with an intent “to defeat the measures of the Government of the United States.” Those penalties are made equally applicable to every citizen of the United States, not duly authorized, who ‘counsels, advises, or assists in any’ correspondence” with similar unlawful intent. The undersigned respectfully advises that the attention of the Attorney-General of the United States be directed to the enactments, in order that an investigation may be made with a view to ascertain whether they have not been violated in the present case by the correspond- ent of the British minister. By your direction the attention of the British government has in a spirit of comity been called to the conduct of its minister, as above de- scribed, but without result. It therefore be- comes necessary for this Government to con- sider lena = the Ste of its own self- respect and of the integrity of its institutions, it will permit further intercourse to be held through the present British minister at this capital. It isto be observed that precedents are not wanting as to the question under con. sideration, It is a settled rule, essential to the maintenance of international intercourse, that a diplomatic representative must be persona grata to the government to which he is accred- ited. If, by his conduct, he renders himself Vege non grata, an announcement of the fact may be made to his government. In the present case all the requirements of comity ave been fulfitled, the facts having been duly communicated to her majesty’s government, with an expression of the opinion of this Gev- ernment in 'd thereto, Respectfully submitted, T. F. Bayarp, NO FORMAL DEMAND FOR THE RECALL OF LORD SACKVILLE. Secretary Bayard said later, in this connec- tion, that this Government had never made formal demand upon Great Britain for Lord Sackville’s recall. The facts had merely been laid before the British foreign office. The President had then waited a reasonable time for Lord Salisbury to act, and nothing being done, had taken the course just announced. A REWARD FOR THE WRITER OF THE MURCHISON LETTER. A dispatch from Pomona, Cal., states that the national democratic committee has offered $2,000 reward for the discovery of the man who wrote the Murchison letter. Lord Sackville not the First. OTBER FOREIGN MINISTERS WHO GoT IXTO TRQUBLE IN THIS COUNTRY. Lord Sackville is by no means the first for- eign diplomat who has been forced to relinquish his residence at Washington on account of offi- ciousness, There have been several conspicu- ous cases in the history of the country, which have attracted considerable attention, besides L prrtuaroper that have been conducted quietly. Genet, who was accredited to this t, country in, 1793, was recalle mand of the President, for tying aye American privateers against British commerce. Genet tia not Jeave this country, remained as a private citizen an In 1806 Minister Yrujo, from Spain, tried to bribe an American newspaper to espouse the Epenish conse ine boundary controversy with United States, and to leave the country when ordered to do so, but action com however. He became nat- 3. DAY, OCTOBER 31, 1898. sovere’ A few Bates Missal kena recall of Sir Jobn Crampton, British minister, for conniv- tere to serve tx the Brit army’ against 8ol serve in army Bussia in the Crimean war. The circumstances of the recall of Poussin, in 1848, and of Catacazy, under President Grant's administration are familiar. More Curious Bets. WHAT SOME FOOLISH PEOPLE HAVE AGBEED TO DO AFTER ELECTION. Every day brings to light more curious Wagers made upon the result of the coming election. A Pipestone, Minn., man proposes this agreement with his brother, who is a Dem- ocrat: “If Grover Cleveland is re-elected I will make a pilgrimage, barfooted, w: 250 miles. and scourge myself with the regret of not having done my duty to my fellow-man and Seen Dakota. Upon my arrival, which shall be before December 25, 1888, you shall pour vinegar instead of balsam upon my bleedi feet and feed me with crumbs from your table, making my bed at night in the loft of the pig-pen. After one week’s sojourn you shall kick me off the premises, to retarn ‘the same asIcame. All I ask you to do is to sub- mit to the same conditions provided Ben Har- rison is elected,” A Chicago commission merchant has con- tracted with a saloon-keeper of that city that if Cleveland is elected he will carry a coffin on his back twenty times around Haymarket Square. A band of music is to go ahead and a large army of bookblacks and other street ur- chins will follow. If Harrison is elected then the saloon-keeper will carry the coffin. A for- feit of $25 hangs on the bet. A New York society lady has wagered a din- ner party with a gentleman who has agreed to send her a dozen beautifully decorated mag- nums of Dry Monopole if Harrison fails to carry the state, and a, well-known society girl is said to have made it such another bet on Cleveland with Mr. Herman Oelrichs. Miss Sallie Hewitt, of New York, is naturally astaunch follower of Mr. Abram Hewitt, and she is taking every wager that is offered on the result of the mayoralty contest, while Mrs. Cooper Hewitt, it is said, has made a wager of spony with her handsome brother, Mr. George ork, that her father-in-law will be re-elected by 60,000 majority. Several novel election bets have been meade in Rockland County, N. Y., among them being the following: A young man in this place is a solid democrat, while the young lady upon whom he bestows his attentions is an out-and- out republican. The political strife between the two has waged so strongly during the cam- paign that all love talk by them has been de- clared ‘‘off” until after the country is saved by either one party or the other. After a heated argument the other night the lady said she wanted to make abet on Harrison, “I won't bet,” replied the youg man, who is strictly moral in his practices and tendencies, ‘but if Harrison is elected I will agree to climb up to the top of one of the republican banner poles.” “All right,” said the girl, in a glow of enthu- siasm, ‘and if Cleveland is re-elected I will agree to climb up the Cleveland pole to the top.” The contract was sealed with a hand- shake, and the friends of the parties are im- Searle waiting to see who will have to climb a pole. {wo women in Clarkstown have made a prac- tical agreement to be fulfilled after election. If Cleveland is elected the republican woman is to come over to the house of the democratic woman and do her week's washing for her, and vice versa, if Harrison is elected. The ladies are both in good standing, and neither of them does her own washing. A democratic editor at Salida, Col., wants to bet his newspaper against $10,000 cash on Cleveland. A wager that has excited considerable inter- est in New York city is one made between Gen. Daniel Butterfield, formerly chief of staff of the Army of the Potomac, and Col, H. A. Weeks, formerly colonel of the Twelfth New York volunteers. Twelfth Regiment armory, and Gen. Butterfield first proposed to wager $1,500 that Harrison manila be aiaean | Gmneen or accepting the challenge Col. Weeks turned to the artist, Ed- ward Forbes, who Cer ape two large war pictures for the Twelfth Regiment armory, and ag a novel wager. ‘‘Let Mr. Forbes,” ¢ said, ‘paint another picture for the armory —one representing the battle of Gaines Mills. in which we were both engaged. Let him set his own price, and you shall pay for it if Cleve- land is elected and I in my turn if Harrison wins.” Gen. Butterfield Promptly accepted this offer. So the armory will have another large battle canvas whoever wins next week. see Collegg War Whoops. PECULIAR CRIES OF THE STUDENTS OF THE DIF- FERENT AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES. From the New York Mail and Express. Nothing more definitely individualizes a crowd of cojlege students than the “ery” which their college custom has ordained or college tradition handed down. As well as printed characters can convey sounds we reproduce below the distinctive slogans of the principal colleges, though cold lead type can but faintly convey the effect of the union of a hundred student voices articulating their own peculiar ery. Here they are—the rollicking huzza of California, the solemn war whoop of Dart- mouth, the strident scream of Cornell, the ex- losive energy of Hamilton and Wooster, the Pubbling effervescence of Boston, the vocifer- ous orthography of Columbia, Union, and Bow- doin, the sharp, quick cry of Harvard, and the deep-lunged, een as “rah” of Yale, Each has an individuality of its own: Harvard—Rabh, rah, rah; rah, rah, rah; rab, rah, rah! Harvard!! Yale—Rah, rah, rah; rah, rah, rah; rah, rah, rah! *Ya-a-le! ! Columbia—Rah, rah, rah! C-o-l-u-m-b-i-a! ! Dartmouth—Wah, hoo, wah; wah, hoo, rab! Dar-d-d-Dartmouth} ! Tiger. eee rah, rah; 8-8-s-t, boom, -h-h! | Rutgers—Rah, rah, rah; bow-wow-wow! ! Union—Rah, ‘rah, rah; U-n-i-o-n, bikah, hikah, hikah! Williams—Will-iams, Will-iams, Will-yums, yams, yums! Williams! ! University of Vermont—Rab, rah, rah; rah, rah, rah; U. V. M! Rah, rah! Bowdoin—B-o-w-d-o-in! Rah, rah, Rah! ! Cornell—Cor-nell! I yell, yell, yell! Cor- melil!!! Hamilton—Rah, rah, rah, Ham-il-ton! Zip, rah, boom!! Amberst—Rah, rah, rah! Am-herst-i-a!! Wesleyan—Rah, rah, rab, rah; Wes-ley-an-a! Rab, rah, rah! -Madison—Zip, rah, Mad; zip, rah, Mad; zip, rah, Madison! New York University—Rah, rah, ray, N. Y. U.,; siss, boom, ah! Layfayette—Hoo-rah, hoo-rah, hoo-rah; tigar! Lafayette! Syracuse—Hip, hoo, rah; hip, hoo, rab; Syracuse! Syracuse! Rah, rah, rah! Brown—Rah, rah! Rah, rah! Rah, rah! Brown!! F oa City of New York—Rah, rah, rah; C. Wooster—W-oo-ster! kee, University of Tennessee—Rah, rah, rah-rab- rah; bim, bim, boom-boom-bah! Rah, rah, rab- ral * Allegheny—Alleghe, Alleghe; rah, boom! Al- legheny!! Adeibert—Rab-rab-rah; Ski-yiyi; Ade-Lb- e-r-t! Pennsylvania College—Rah, rah, rah, rah; Penn-syl-van-yah! ‘Tufte—R-r-rah; rah-rah, rah, Tufts! University of California—Hah, ha; Califor- niah! U. C., Berk-e-lee! Zip, boom, ah!! Dickinson—Hip, rah, bus, bis! Dickinsonian- sis! Tigar. — Boston University—Boston, “Boston, bub-a- bab-a-bub: Boston Varsity, Varsity; rah, rah, rah!’ Colby—C-o-l-b-y, rah! C-o-l-b-y, rah, rah, rah, rent! Rensselaer University—C-o-l-b-y, rah! rab, rah, rah: rah, rah, rah, Rensselaer! Swarthmore—Rah, rah, rah, rah, rah, rab; Swarthmore, Swathmore;’ hoo rah! (ee tae gree Trin-i-t-y!! (ad libitum.) Racine—Ra, Ra, ‘ine! ~ pest Hanes See eae awe | An Honorary Member’s Rights. From the Lowell Citizen. ‘Tommy—‘My father is a church member.” Johnny—‘“So’s mine.” Tommy—‘But m; says your ain’ ‘cos he don’t challl norte 40 oh , Ror put *SFohnny (brevely)-—Wells, ay pape isan hon ry (brave ‘ells, my ‘an hon- a ees and honorary members don’t chip —_———_oo_—_____. The Motor Secret. From the Philadelphia Record. Expert—“I have called, under an order from the court, to see your motor mote.” Mr. Keely—‘When the planets are in their 2 amcorenay the motor won't mote, Bal some time next year.” ——— New York All Right. ‘From the Chicago Tribune. “I have no fears about New York,” exclaimed the Lpbrcee pute Sites Empire ; “she'll . “ifn afraid She wilt said, tbe dojocted Mis- sourian in front; “one more game her the pennant.” Grvixe Licut to Loxpor.—An of ib has been poste te for plant to the pF ain and to It will be the largest plant inthe The bet was made in the | SINGERS AND INSTRUMENTALISTS. Why the Former are More Capricious and Subject to Whims. From the London Spectator. A correspondent, who should know his sub- ject if anybody alive knows it, indorses all we said a fortnight ago about the wild whims of the great singers, and the pardon extended to them by the public, but asks us to explain why the great instrumentalists are so different from their rivals. The very greatest instrumental- ists, he intimates—justly, as far as our more limited knowledge extends—are, as a rule, dis- tinctly able men and women; people with minds, whose converse has charm, who are sane in all their acts and thoughts, and who are just as capable of self-restraint as other self-respect> ing people. They keep their engagements, they are not mad about their places on bill- ters, and if they sometimes grow faddy about e quality of their instruments, they are no more given to wild luxury, or to flying kites in the streets, as Mr. Mapleson reports of Signor Giuglini, than other professional men and women who have achieved success. It cannot be that devotion to music on the part of the singers is the cause of the difference, for the instrumentalists are just as devoted to their art, and occupy about eight times as much of their lives in cultivating it, Then what is the cause? We should say there are three reasons of ac- cumulative force. One is, that the greatest singer is almost always a great actor or actress also, and shares in that sense of the unreality of most things, and especially of the unreality of apparent conduct, which habitual acting al- most necessarily begets. Plenty of actors and actresses are good men and women; but it is impossible go be another person—often a some- what person, and always an exaggerated person—for hours of every day, and retain the ordinary full sense of responsibility. That ad- mirable actress, Mrs. Boucicault, used to say, or at least it was so reported, that at one time she feltas if she could not tell whether she were Mrs. Boucicault acting the Colleen Bawn— in the best melodrama ever written yet—or the Colleen Bawn acting Mrs. Boucicault; and just so far as that was true, must the atmosphere of reality have pressed lightly on her. Every | great singer or songstress must be more or less under that influence—Jenny Lind, sanest and soundest of them all, latterly avoided opera— and to it is added another. Great instrumen- talists work much harder for their bread than great singers, The latter are, as a rule, care- fully trained — though Mr. Mapleson’ tells a story of one, a stupid man with a mag- ical gift,who said sincerely and not asa joke, | that he would learn music as soon as he had done earning money—but when they }are once fully appreciated, they dare not | to work too hard. They might strain their 1k | throats, and the health of their throats—which, | curiously enough, are with some of them as sound as leather’ “found in the pit when the tamner died,” and with others as delicate as babies’ digestions—is worth hundreds of pounds an hour. They live lives of involuntary | Indolence, broken by performances which rée- quire long attendance, but actual effort only ‘or portions of two hours a day. The instru- mentalists. on the contrary, work every day and all day all their lives, work like students or professionals, at what, even when they enjoy as well as feel their art—a point upon which no | two are quite alike—is most fatiguing, and oc- casionally even exhausting labor. Work of | that sort takes the nonsense out of all women and most men—has, that is, the effect of a con- tinuous and severe training in personal self- restraint. Your fingers may ache, and your head be racked, and your nerves go to fiddle- strings with the strain; but you must go on practicing, or be pronounced by some critic “falling away from perfect form,” which means twenty pounds less a night on the expiration of your contract, There is no cure for whims like the treadmill, especially if the sufferer sets it going for himself. The third and greatest reason for the differ- | ence in character between singers and instra- mentalists is, we take it, this: All artists or pleasers of the public who are conscious that heir power, or their popularity, or their means of earning fortunes depend mainly upon a “gift,” tend to remain childish—we do not mean childlike, but childish. That which ban- ishes childishness is not merely natural growth, but pressure, the heavy weight of experience and difficulty and suffering, which, sometimes unconsciously, sometimes without full con- sciousness, trains us all. The great singer is nearly exempted from this discipline. At an early age, just when most men and women be- gin to realize that they have no protection from the wind, that life is heavy as well as light, that, in short, effort is indispensable, the great singer or songstress is released from ef- fort, finds himself or herself in essjon of an unearned and undeserved gift which is al- most magical in its power, which makes it rain gold, which brigs worshippers, flatterers, loy- ers, in streams—they say Mario at one time had adozen “offers” a month—which lifts thou- sands of cultivated hearers on their feet pant- ing with emotion, quivering with a rapture of | enjoyment at once intellectual and sensual. A court forms round a successful primo tenore or prima donna in an instant, and thenceforward, till their throats give out, eager hands lift from them the Very burden of the air. Their “agents” are as “devoted” as the equerries of kings. How should they get experience, or training, or the habit of severe thought, any more than princes in Asia or princesses in Eu- rope? They are from the first where severe effort lands a few of the ablest at the close of life, with this aggravation—that they have suf- fered, in achieving eminence, from no passing or general dislikes; have never, in all their in~ tercourse with the world, seen that world look anything but enthusiastic approval. ‘There isa pathetic passage in the queen's diary wherein she, just for a moment, and as it were with a suppressed sigh, notes the danger of being a sovereign at eighteen; and that, altering the age a little, but not the experience, is the lot of every prima donna. She and her companion on the stage, the tenor, too, have no compul- sion not to be childish; and as childishness is enjoyable so long as all whims are gratified, they tend to remain in that mental position. Why learn when learning brings nothing? Why strive when all is obtainable without effort? ‘Why, above all, be self-restrained when no one asks of you to restrain yourself, and self- restraint may be as painful as breeches to a savage, or fine street rough? Unsuccessful or half-suc- cessful, or slowly successful folk like the ma- jority of us, hardly recognize how they have grown to bear self-restraint as they have grown to bear leather boots, by incessant repititions of small endurances. It is not only that the first burden of life, uniary care, is not for the reat singer. Most heads are turned by sudden firtane, ut the possessor of a great yoice has to bear more mental shocks than that—sudden popularity, sudden adoration, sudden affection, often real and deep, all drawn to him or her by something internal, involuntary and incom- municable. Talk of genius; what is it in intoxi- cating power to the possession of a gift like this, unique, it may be, through all the singing- houses of the world? No wonder its possessor remains, till it departs, an enjoying. unre- strained, almost irresponsible, and sometimes very naughty child. e instrumentalist has neither this joy nor this temptation. He, too, has his “gift,” the something magical which learning cannot yield, or labor produce; but it is not a gift. He has to pay a price, usually a full price, for its development; and’ when, by strenuous toil, it is developed, it produces neither the same rain of gold nor the same pas- sion of adoration. isso NG How to Improve a Clock. From the Toronto Globe. It has been remarked that the little round clocks which are now seen in two houses out of three improve by ill-treatment. One man says his clock never would go until his baby threw it out of the bedroom window. Another had one which sulked for three months, and was brought into a proper frame of mind by letti the children Rlay all with it; while a clock had its back nearly broken before it be- came submissive and useful. 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