Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1889, Page 6

—_ ae. 6. A FIGHT AT WEST POINT. OLD TIMES AT THE CAPITAL. “NOTHING BUT A NIGGER.” A Colored Student the Cause of a Meet- | When the South Took the Lead in OM- | A Southern Paper Makes Strong Pro- ing Between Two White Cadet Officers. elal and Social Life. test Against Mob Law. feud has broken out among Uncle | rom the New York Telegram. From the Mobile Register. Pestana = in the West Point mili- wal of Mr. Pierce brought to} The poor woman who was assaulted near tary academy. Its smouldering embers burst | Washington a new and agreeable social ele- | Birmingham, and who has our profoundest forth in flames one night last week, when two | ent, and the reign of the queens of society | sympathy, did not say positively that the negro soldier boys laid aside the habiliments | ** B¢ver so absolute and complete. The | brought before her for identification was the +4 pout and appeared in the arena to settle a south may be said to have taken the lead in the | one who committed the assault upon herself question of honor. The only warlike instru- Senate, and in the cabinet the social life of | and who murdered her little son, She at first ta used were their brawny arms and bare | Washington found its support, Mrs. Pierce | said that he looked like the assailant. She ranch It is the talk of the day at West | “Sin great measure, a recluse. The death of | then said that he stooped more than the assail- Point, and the famous “Grant-Gillmore” battle | *er only son, a few months before the inaugu-| ant. She went so far as to say that if this was of years ago is dwarfed into insignificance by | tion, by a railroad accident, was a calamity | not the assailant, he was twin brother to the a, Apia rant raid meeting of last she never recovered from. Only on the oc-| assailant. At no time did she say he was the is “| casions of official necessity did she appear in | man. The mob were clamorousfor her to erie make a decisive admittance. She failed to do THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. A New York World reporter, who traveled | PUPlic. The administration was a very popu- thi w-covered academy ds yes- it the gory battlefield, is able to a fall suloonsien history of the encounter. thinning out of the corps which always follows the January examinations caused a re- assignment of the cadets’ seating in the mess hall. Custom ordains thatthe duty of assign- ing cadets to mess tables shall rest with the ranking cadet captain, who is dubbed “‘super- intendent of the mess.” Cadet Cupt. ye = D. Langhorne is now superintendent of the mess. When he ot announced the mess assigumentsj they caused great consternation. AT THE TABLE OF HONOR, commonly called the ‘staff table,” the young colored boy, Chas. Young, now a member of the first class, was given a seat. The tender feel- ings of some of Uncle Sam's wards were shocked. They considered it a degradation to them to have the colored lad shown such a dis- tinction. Noble and magnanimous motives seem to have inspired Cadet Langhorne to his considerate treatment of the lonely African. But whatever may have inspired Cadet Lang- horne, his fortitude at a trying moment seems to have abandoned him. He could not resist the cry of opposition raised by his classmen. ‘The result was, Cadet Young was assigned to another table—one presided over by Cadet Lieut. Barroll, also a member of the first class. Now it is further alleged that in removing the colored cadet Capt. Langhorne put in his place on the “staff table” a member of the fourth class. Inno other college in the country is “elass” distinction so rigid as at the military academy. Therefore. according to the un- Written law of the institution, it was a direct insuit to the colored boy to give a fourth class- man precedence over him. LIEUT. BARROLL OBJECTS. As soon, however, as the assignment of Cadet Young to Barroll’s table was made known, Lieut. Barroll objected. Last Wednesday evening, when the corps marched into the mess hall for supper, Mr. Barroll, in the presence of Cadet Young, protested to Capt. anghorne against the assignment. He characterized the cap- tain’s action as vindictive and inspired by unsoldierly motives. During this episode, his feelings wounded to the core at the cruel con- duct of his fellow classmen, Cadet Young with- drew from the hall. It is reported that he left the hall without permission, so exasperated did he become, but this report could not be verified. The generally accepted account is that he was excused on the ground of sickness. As far as could be learned, Cadet Young is still at Barroll’s table, but the scene of Wednesday night resulted in Cadets Barroll and Langhorne mutually agreeing to settle the dispute in true pugilistie fashion and according to the London prize-ring rules. lar one, and during its term no disturbing ele- ment came to war inst the joyment of the entertainments which are eared t for their lavish hospitality. Mrs. C. C. Clay wasone of the brightest ornaments of those ladies in official life, whose graces gave a luster to Washington society that has never been surpassed. Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Mrs. A. ¥. Brown, of Tennessee; Mrs. Jacob Thompson, Mrs. John R. Thompson, of New Jersey, sul juently Mrs, vernor Swann, of Marylan George E. Pugh, of Ohio: Mrs, Pendleton, of Ohio: Mrs. Reverdy — , Mrs. cance: Fo me Gt Bis Douglas were among the reigning celebrities whose presence was an additional attraction to every entertainment. With Mr. Buchanan’s administration a somewhat different element redominated. Miss Harriet Lane presided at The executive mansion with a grace and kind- liness that did so much to render that adminis- tration a successful one, in a social point of view, whatever history may say of its political failures. It seems to me that it was about time that the present style of dress or undress was introduced, not as now worn, but an ad- vance in that direction. I recall the super ance of two very distinguished ladies at the President’s house one night at a levee, with such a liberal display of back and breast as attracted universal observation. Their develop- ment was rather full, and the display was more ample, and to some more objectionable, ‘and, although the fashion was not ‘speedily followed, it was planted, and bears abundant fruit on every oc- casion of “full dress” to-day. The display of wealth began about this time. California had been erecting miners into millionaires, Croesus had appeared among us. Carriages, which had in the past been somewhat scarce, increased rapidly, and the increase of regular visitors made a change in the program of winter gayeties. The effect of woman's influence and its value were never more plainly exhibited than in the case of Miss Lane upon this ad- ministration. Mr. Buchanan, in a few months after his inauguration, was perhaps the most unpopular President with Mis own party of any man who had ever filled that exalted position. It was difficult to select any question upon which the President had not taken both sides. Despite this failure the guests who went to visit and expostulate with Buchanen were mollified when Miss Lane could be seen. a Steel-Making in the South. From the Atlanta Constitution. The making of pig-iron is an industry that the south controls. It makes the price and governs the market, The making of steel has up to this time been controlled in the north. The Bessemer company by smothering the What West Point girl does not know Cadet | basic patent under which alone the phosphoric Langhorne? ‘Tail, with massive shoulders, the very embodiment of a perfect soldier, his black hair contrasting with his light complexion, George D. his class. both as a soldier and gentleman. is a native of Virginia, axd of that generous, impetuous disposition so common to the natives He | unto itself. ores of the south could be worked, has pro- tected the north in the making of ingots. In four years that patent will have expired and wanghorne is one of tie prides of | the n the south will gather the steel industry In the meantime, the Bookwalter patent, which covers a new process of steel- making, has excited special discussion in the of that state. Since he has been in the corps | north. The Constitution sent a correspondent he has on several occ ions won honors for his | to personally investigate the matter and see if it “knocking-out” abilities. The fact that he is | could be adapted to the southern furnaces. We a ranking captain is sufficient commendati for his character and standing in the corps. His opponent, Cadet Barroll, is a lieutenant of B company, and of a very excitable temper- ament. Reared in Maryland, he is said to have on have no doubt that the south will find its way to steel-making before the basic patent is opened— whether through the Bookwalter process or otherwise, remains to be seen. In pig-iron and in the lower grades of cotton cloths, the south # strong antipathy to his colored brethren. He | already controls. She will move now to steel ranks high as a stude horne, is of a stouter build, but is : muscular, and energetic in his movements, His manly and soldierly demeanor has made him very popular among the young ladies who visit West Point during the social season. THE BATTLE occurred last Thursday evening. It was a clear, cool night, and a fairer or more brilliant moon never shone over the historic grounds. Their military duties had all been completed, and all were preparing for their evening repast and 2 promenade among the sequestered nooks of the poss. The hai of the old town clock were just pointing to 5:30 when the two com- batants met. The ring was — just in the rear of the boiler-house in the barracks yard. Seconds were dispensed with. Only a few cadets witnessed the affray. The work of pre- Paration was soon over. Caps were tossed on the ground; the glove-fitting dress-coats were unbuttoned, and the two Herculeses shook hands, assumed warlike attitudes, and the affray on. An eye-witness says that the preliminary rounds were not productive of any effective blows. They consisted of sparring and counter-sparring. But in the third round Langhorne’s powerful arm came out from the elbow with a giant-like force, and his bare knuckle alighted on Barroll’s right eye with such force that it nearly stunned him. Then followed two more rounds, in which Barroll ‘ot in some of his fine work, and gave his an- ist a beautiful pair of ning black eyes. Honors were about equally divided when the battle was suddenly brought to a close. THE BUGLE CALL To DUTY fesounded across the plain, now gorgeously il- tuminated with the flickering rays of the beau- tifal moon. The two battle-disheveled youths hastily buttoned their coats and abandoned the ¥ field and took their piaces at the head of eir companies. Both were « sorry-looking sight, but Barroll appears to have got the ‘worst of the affair. is eyes were all battered up and his nose was scratched and knocked somewhat out of its original position. A silk handkerchief adorned his face for after the fight. Langhorne’s eyes are still black, and on these bright moonlight nights, | had corps to and | this as he marches in command of the from the mess hall, they form silhouette on his soldierly face. etal Senator Beck as a Temperance Man. ‘Washington Cor. Atlanta Constitntion. Speaking of the state dinners at the White so Dena was quite a good joke played on Senafor Beck, of Kentucky, by Senator Butler, of South Carolina, and Senator Hale, of Maine, at a White House dinner last winter. The joke inconvenienced the Kentuckian considerably, and spoiled all Coo gy ge of the dinner for i Senetor Beck, like all true Kentuckians, Joves a good glass of wine or old Bourbor Senators Butler and Hale knew of Mr. Beck’s fondness for the exhilerating fluid and deter- mined to prevent the Kentuckian from even getting a taste of the rare old wines which con- stituted a part of the menu at the state dinner im question. Mr. Beck was sitting near the eenter of the table while the other two Sena- were at some distance from him—one on right and the other on his left. As each waiter would pass either of these gentlemen they would point to the Kentuckian and say: “Don’t pour any wine ivto the glass of that large gentleman, for he does not drink and it offends him to have it offered to him.” Consequently, as each waiter went around with wine Senator Beck was skipped over. He was not impolite enough to ask for wine, Dut sat there looking almost the picture of des. ir. He would eye the glasses of those around im nervously and then look mad at the waiter. | He was indeed perplexed, and the two Sena- zyed the joke on him highly enjoyed his predicament. When the dinne: was nearly concluded the Senator from Ken- tucky bore such a disconsolate look that Sena- tor Butler took pity upon him and announced | to those at the table the joke he and Hale had | Esa upon the Kentuckian. All present e an interesting yed the joke hugely and there was quite a arty laugh over it. However, Senator k's glass was filled time after time, an each waiter poured out more of the ‘kling wine his manner changed, and before the guests had the Kentuckian was in his usual good humor and appeared to enjoy the joke that had just been played upon him as much as any one present. He is much shorter } and to finer looks?” and he wrote board. The second ran away because vitriol at her. and the was brought | no more responsible for his character than for prints. soe What’s ina Name? From the St. Paul Globe. A lawyer of Temple court was looking over some papers his German client had brought, and every signature had a menace in it as it stood: “A. Schwindler.” “Mr. Schwindler, why don’t you write your name some other way; write out your first name, or something? I don’t want people to think you are a swindler.” “Vell, sir, how much better you dink that “Adam Schwindle: <o Two Cases of Divorce. ONE WAY IN WHICH TO MARRY MULTITUDINOUSLY AND LEGALLY. From Time. “Ah,” said the judge, “‘you want this decree of divorce made absolute?” “Yes, your honor,” replied the applicant. “Haven't I seen you before, though?” “Yes, your honor. You granted my fourth petition for divorce six months ago.” “Ah, [remember. What were tae grounds?” “She deserted me for five months.” “What were the other divorces for?” “The first left me because I wouldn't pay her ew The third deser—” “Yes, yes. The decree is made absolute,” Paper was signed. ‘3 thi said the judge, as a prisoner “Who’ “Found guilty of bigamy yesterday, your honor,” said the crier, ‘and ‘brought up for sentence.” “Ah, how was it?” ‘Your honor remembers that the prisonor lost all trace of his wife at the close of the war | and remarried at the end of fifteen years, being unable to find any trace of his first wife, but she’s just turned up.” “True, true,” said his honor. “Clear case of several days | bigamy. Fifteen years.” And the session was adjourned after the crier elled “God save the commonwealth and onorable court.” —~oe-—___—__. Modern Atheism. From the Des Moines Iowa State Register. The most thoroughly watered intellectual capital of our day is that which invests in cheap theories of life, that ignores God and ridicules the suggestions of piety and religions faith, Fellows who have not brains enough for any er idea turn atheist. Or, more moderately philosophical they announce that they do not know whether there is a God or not. Some even hint that they wish in their hearts that it might turn out that there isa god. They act as if, in that case, they might be willing to contribute something tohis support. It is @ little early for modern atheism to Present a popular philosophy of life. Already, however, that form of atheism which Lord Bacon de- scribes when he says that “there is no man who thinketh that there is no God except him to whom it maketh that there were no God,” has come forward with its sermon on the mount. The president of the Ameri- can Secular union, R. G. Ingersoll, in his annual address, not long ago ¢ranslated into common language the learned dialect of the new schools of atheism and chaos, that for a time threatened to prevail in this money get- ting modern age. Standing before a well- dressed audience of a thousand people in the chief center of American wealth an culture, he exhorted his hearers to “get out of their minds that old nonsense about man’s free moral agency,” on the ground that “a man is his height; for his acts than his dreams,” It is perfectly evident that this first offort of the chief apostle of American atheism, to construct & working theory of worldly affairs, has been inspired directly from Bedlam. ‘The applause of a thousand well-dressed people at this utter- ance, as reported in the New York Sun, ts that the sooner the people of this country get back to sound principles and leave off this new aoe 7 of babblers and phrase-mongers, the tter. Let this beware that it goes not landmar' lasting: “Fear ments, for this is the ¥hole duty of man.” A Lawyer's Suir Acarxst mis Motuer-t- jainst his mother-in-law, Mrs. Caroline his wife's affections from Five years ago Law.—J. D. Critchtield. a well-k of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, began suit, Wedne ay lenderson, of Erie. Pa., for $100,000, all that om with W. W. Howell, deliberately 2250, Mrs. Critchfield. became very and while in that condition her mother Henderson's anband died a left the bulk of so. The negro all the time denied his guilt. The mob were anxious for a victim. ‘They waited over night, and then, one of the mob, bolder than the rest, threw a lasso over the head of the and then, the tigers having smelt blood, dragged him off toa tree. Deny- ing the guilt all the time, the victim went to death, and when he was all need for ven- gence, aman of the mob proposed that they shoot bullets into the human being whose soul was crossing the threshold of eternity. And then five hundred BULLETS WERE FIRED INTO THE DYING MAN. What a glorious fusilade that was for men whose kindred held muskets at Shiloh and Get- tysburg. But perhaps their kindred did not hold muskets there. It isa singular fact that the brutes who led mobs in peace were the first to run in battle. He was nothing but a nigger. He had no rights which the mob were bound to respect. He had no right to claim the benefit of the least doubt. He was guilty from the time he was canght. He was simpiy a gutter rat caught by the terriers, and they liad a right | i to bite, choke, stake, torture and kill him at pleasure, There was no other purpose in his Presence onearth. He was intended to make @ Birmingham holiday. What better subject was there for butchery? He had no friends, He was simply a dirty, brutal nigger, who had no position on earth to fill and whose creation was a mistake, This last Birmingham mob was perhaps the most unreasonable mob that has disgraced this young city. If this negro had been guilty the courts would have declared so very promptty. There is no escape for a negre without friends, without money in such a case. We have laws, officers and courts to meet such acase, Then WHY THE NECESSITY FOR LYNCH LAW, especially in a case where the chief witness was not positive? The truth is that the mobs are generally led by brutal white men who should themselves be behind the bars cf a peniten- tiary—by men like the poor drunken creature who at Birmingham assumed the name of one of Mobile’s best citizens to incite the people to riot and violence. It is true that a large num- ber of the disorderly clement of Birmingham are northern men, and that many of them are ex-convicts, but it is also true that many of the mob are southern men who know their duty to society, We say to Birmingham, in the name of civilization and law, that this thing must be stopped. If it is not stopped the commercial welfare of Birmingham and the good name of Alabama will be blasted. Our people are not savages and brutes. We ere a law-abiding and God-fearing people and we will not permit a handful of incarnate fiends to defy the law and bring disgrace upon our authorities, The peo- le of Alabama will stand by Governor Seay if he will ferret out the leaders of this les’ d and bring them to justice. Wh having a good and brave sheriff like Smith, of Jefferson, if he is not to be held up in his efforts to sustain the law, unless he has the practical sympathy and support of the authori- ties. IT 18 A SHAMEFUL THING to see the craven-hearted officers of the law, exhibiting fear of mobs, and even sympathiz- ing with and aiding them. It is equally shame- ful to see a people looking with indifference upon attempts to condemn a sheriff for doing his duty. In such a state of official cowardice and popular disregard of law, it is not surpris- ing to see a new mob following in the footateps of the late mob and taking the law in its own hands. Oh, it was only a nigger, and perhay they caught the right nigger!’ Did not the mob intimate that even if their nigger was not uilty of this offense he had been recognized Cyaman cna ob) the tye tnautiod judges, who composed the mob, asa nigger who was sus- pected of a similar crime on some former occa- sion. That was sufficient. What more would any reasonable southerner want? Away with him to the tree, and shoot his carcass through with five hundred high-toned bullets—all com- ing from the throats of five hundred brave pis- to buckled around that noble mob to defend themselves against the officers of the law. If Jefferson county and Birmingham do not put a stop to lawlessness they will ruin themselves and disgrace the fair name of Alabama, Some Queer Wills. From the Charleston News and Courier. In overhauling some of the old books in the records of the probate court, Judge Gleason has come across some queer documents. Here are some of them: Aman, whohas been dead so long that he shall be nameless, was hanged in Charleston for murder. He protested his innocence to the last, and the day before his execution made a will, leaving his personal property, valued at $439 in money, and a silver watch and chain, to his relative. The last clause of the will is as follows: ‘4s I am to be hung to-morrow for the mur- der of —— —, of which crime I am innocent, and firmly believing that I was found guilty by a packed jury, I bequeath to this jury eternal damnation, and, in order that their names may be known to posterity, I herein insert their names [————, foreman and eleven others]. T order and direct that my executor hereinafter named shall deliver my body to the medical students of Charleston, 8. C., and they are re- quested to have my bones properly cleaned, my skeleton Properly mounted, so that it will pass down as a proof of the bribery and cor- ruption used in the conviction of an innocent Another man, long since deceased, and who was evidently a wealthy Frenchman, after dis- ‘ing of his estate, provides for an erring ughter as follows: “fe is tome a great cause of mortification and regret to mention the name of Clotilde, my leo, “eat now twenty-three years old. To rotect this instrument f bequeath to her one arleycorn. I pray she will repent and pre- pare for the Lord’sforgiveness.” Another man, who was a widower and had an only daughter, who seems to have been the cause of much trouble to her father, dis- poses of his estate and gives to his daughter “my blood horse, Jim, feeling satisfied that if she will either ride or drive him it is likely she will be brought home a corpse, in which | satisfactory event then let the horse be sold and the proceeds given to the poor.” ginonte team tte Read Newspapers and Study. From the New Haven Register. Our advice to young men is to study politics all the time. Begin now to keep the run of current events, not only at home, but abroad. Watch the le in France, which now pre- sents a scene of stirring interest. as the threat- ened revolution approaches, with Boulanger rising above the angry surges of the troubled waters. Mark the progress of the home rule idea in the British parliament, and especially the that the “Grand Old Man” is taking in it. Note the attempts that are made to estab- lish civilization and Christianity in Africa. In | order to do this you must do more than read | the newspapers carefully. You must delve into history. You should also read carefully the | best works you can find about the science of overnment, The political parties in our own i} present a study well worth watching care- j fully. Above all, make it a point to analyze motives, separate the good from the bad, care- | fully make up your mind as to what is right, i but do not bhinid yourself to the faults in your Any young | passing struggles of men | from the high plane of intelligence and virtue will not only be a credit to himself his party, but will be a good to the nation. a eee Bismarck’s Probable Successor. From London Life. There is a report current in court circles to the effect that Prince Bismarck will soon retire into private life. The same rumor gives him for temporary successor Count Waldersee, the it chief of the general staff, and successor Count Moltke. Count Waldersee woul pre eps ne hold the i i i | ; i HE | York, on , himself, The wound he inflicted “MUST” AND “OUGHT.” Contrasting Motives in Southern and Northern Novels. Anna L. Dawes, in the Critic. The novels of Amélie Rives are especially and peculiarly southern novels, They are full of the distinctively southern atmosphere, the environment here sumptuous and there ne- glected; the curious mingling of . contempt for surroundings and dependence upon them; the ignoring of labor; the habit of command; above all things, the imperious wills—all these are traits as perfect and distinct as the phy- sical forms she pictures. And it makes little difference where her plot is laid, in England or America, the typesare the same, It is life tropical everywhere—out-of-doors, in drawing- rooms, most of all in men’s passions. The very plot of her most famous novel is simply the question whether the heroine shall have her own way or not—this and nothing else. It glows with passion of body and soul, but it turns on no incidents or actions of life, but solely on the struggle between the will of the dead and the will of the living. This certainty that man must have what he wants, that it is only a oe of whose will shall dominate, is the ,hall-mark of fhe south, and the novel which makes this its drama is the southern novel. Duty may enter in, or even control, but there is the point of strain. The southern imperative is must. Therefore it is that THE HIGH-WROUGHT NOVELS OF PASSION are still realistic, because this is southern life in its essence, enjoyment, excitement, posses- sion, passion. Miss Murfree’s books have the same note, and thus are southern also. There is little enjoyment in these, however; the ex- citement and the passion together are of a fi kind, and concern the public, not the i and thus, although of the same mark a different region, Her untainéers work their own will just as truly as Virginia cavaliers; but it isa wild will, a love of feuds and fighting, a hatred of other men. Murder is one of their tools, and human nature cares not so much for what it has as for what it keeps others from having. These are elemental, not civilized qualities—passions, not passion; and there is no question of material things, one way or the other. THE NEW ENGLAND ENVIRONMENT. Contrast these two very different types with the men and women who move about Howells’ pages. The environment affects them, not they the environment. They are bound down by conditions of life. pecuniary, social, industrial, even climatic. They not. The effect of their houses and their friends is con- siderable, and even aumptuousness is carefully suited to the station ‘+ ich it has pleased God to put” them. All this is_ strongly true to life again, As must is the southern imperative, 50 oughd is the New England imperative. The one life is all color, the otherall form. The one writes in the air must and shall, the other hews out of the rock ought and will, Put Annie Kil- burn, or Silas Lapham, or even Milton Corey cone entation, how poorly they fit the sur- roundings, how unsuited to environment, their analytical life! But Virginia of Virginia would be equally out of touch with the consid- ering north. Howells could not paint a south- ern beanty; neither Rives nor Murfree could dvaw a northern hero. Yet Howells’ delicate dissection is as truly realistic to its own home as the fierce drama of the southern writers to their country. RUSSIAN REALISM, Now, in a single word, compare this charac- teristic method with the method of the Russian novels, generally considered the type of real- ism. In a sense they are all alike. Minute- ness of detail, close and clever intellectual an- alysis, dramatic treatment of philosophical conditions, are common to all of them. A cer- tain fleshliness, a certain dirt and filth, a cer- tain complexity of living as well as life, certain common types of thought, are always to be foundin them. Itis true that Tourgueneff is different from Tolstoi, and Dostoyeffsky is all by himself; but the creatures they work with are just the sume, and ere moved by the same motives and the same passions. \ You might transpose the characters from “Anna Karenina” to “Crime and Punishment,” and you would have no difficulty in fitting them to their new homes. Wide as Russia is, multifold as are her people, her type is one, and her li treatment thereof differs only as the indiv author and his outlook differ, This is so obvious that it brings into stronger relief our own di- versity, and the fact that while we are one also, it is not a single one, but a complex one. It is E Pluribus Unum in fact as well as in oratory. Realism in Russia consists in depicting care- fully and elaborately the different people within the great empire, who, under so wide a sky, yet breathe the same social atmosphere and, each class for itself, think the same thoughts. Real- ism in America consists in expressing with equal care the different types that have made for themselves different social atmospheres, here careful and considered, there wild and ungoverned, there again passionate and im- pulsive. Ret SES Lost His Mind on His Wedding Day, AND FOR TEN DAYS LAY CONCEALED IN A BARN WITHOUT FOOD. The mystery surrounding the sudden disap- pearance of Thomas Conway, of New Suffolk, N. Y., onJanuary 12, the day he was to have been married to Miss Mary Sullivan, has been cleared up. Tuesday afternoon Henry Knee- land, a farmer near Mattituck, N. Y., on going to his barn found in the hay-mow a man who was insane and nearly dead. He was identified as the missing bridegroom. Conway, on Wed- nesday, recovered his senses and told the ex- traordinary story that he had been in the barn since the day of his disappearance, and that all the food he had had was what milk he got from the cows. He was unable to account for his strange actions, Nothifg was known of Conway's disappear- ance until the guests had assembled for the wedding ceremony and the appointed hour had assed, and when it was learned that Conway | ad drawn $400 from the bank that day it was feared that he had met with foul play. The money was found intact in the young man’s trunk at his home, bee A Speech from Joseph Chamberlain. HIS AMERICAN WIFE LISTENS TO HIS REMARKS ON HIS FISHERIES NEGOTIATIONS, ETC. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain addressed a meet- ing at Birmingham last night and met with an enthusiastic reception. Mrs. Chamberlain oc- cupied a seat on the platform, A letter was received from Mr. Bright's son, who wrote that his father’s health was steadily improving, and that his condition was generally very much better than it was a month ago. Mr. Chamber- lain, in the course of his remarks, referred to the rejected fisheries treaty, He said that his mission to America had _veen one of peace and good will, and had resulted in the treaty being accepted by both governments as an honorable solution of the question at issue. The treaty had been rejected in the Senate by a strict party vote, and he was not disposed to over- estimate the importance of that vote. He was convinced that the feeling of cordial friendship bet#een the two Posies was 80 great and firm that nothing would be permitted long to inter- fere with it. (Cheers, During his absence on his second fortunate visit tothe United States—feries of ‘Hear, hear”]—he had followed closely the events in parliament. What struck him most was the remarkable diminution in prominence of the Irish question, It was evident that the coun- try felt the importance of other questions, Doubtless the i yp condition of Ireland, which was largely due to the wise and firm administration of Mr, Balfour, had contributed to keep down the clamor of the Parnellites. He (Chamber! ) believed that the Gladstonians were finding out that home rule by itself was nota name toconjure with, and that hence- forth the Gladstonian platform would give | Racine to other questions upon which the iberals, as formerly, might agree, eee A Practican Joxz Taat Cost a Lirx.—The manner in which Theodore Weh! met his death in the carpenter shop at 185 7th street, New ‘uesday, was fully explained yester- day when Paul Ockas attempted to end his life by putting a bullet into his breast at his home, 400 east 82d street, i and on Wednesday he acknowledged that he did the capers When advised to give himself up he said he was afraid, and James Stenner, from whom he rented a room, ordered him out house. Ockas entered a closet and shot It appears that di : aoe one. a ar i about the Tevolver Ockas bet Well cents the revolver was loaded and when Wehl’s attention was E ‘A JANUARY 24, The Desirability of Taking Good Care of This Important Organ. Dr. W. P. Hutchinson, in American Magazine. What a curious organ the human skin is,to be sure! I know that almost everyone looks on it with contempt, as a sortof well-fitting wrapper for more precious goods beneath. That is, comes along and sets up business with the skin as sole backer. Really there is no organ of the body so long suffering and so abused as this same flexible covering of ours, that has so much to do. In summer, when not oppressed by heavy, ill-ventilated clothing, it is always perceptibly busy; in cold weather excretion continues, but being in form of vapor, is not noticed. Few persons are aware how much work this organ does. In cool seasons, the average amount of sweat exhaled from an adult is 2 pounds; this amount increasing up to 4 pounds an hour. the latter enormous quantity having been meas- ured — workmen exposed to the intense heat of gas-works furnaces, Night and day, every hour of our lives, this wonderful sieve is at work, taking from the blood useless and ——- debris, its labor so vital that twenty- four hours’ complete suspension means death. Now in winter, while its functions are least and its openings liable to be clogged by pres- sure, by plugging from lack of care, or by some disease, it is plain that much, aye, ex- treme pains should be bestowed upon it. Every- one cannot take regular daily baths of water, but everyone can, upon getting out of bed, have a hearty, thorough rub down. with a rough towel—not one that is harsh enough to scratch and hurt, but a Turkish web, that will stimu- late and be pleasant. This frictgn wil open skin pores in good shape, set cay ‘y circula- tion of blood and surface nerve flow in full mo- tion, and be the very best possible preparation for a winter day. Avoid too frequent plunge baths in winter. Few men, still fewer women, of our nervous Americans, have stamina enough to waste any upon cold water, as is done when a plunge is srety into the morning tub at ordinary temper- atures, In hospitals such baths aro used to reduce heat in fever cases, and it is easy to bring it down three or four degrees ina few minutes by this means. This fall that seems so trifling. is in reality something very great, compared with the narrow range within whose limits life is ossibl nd_ such shocks are inimical to ealth, The dry rubbing spoken of before is far better. eee Risible Raisers. Misfortunes are said to come in pairs, but the first one surely came with an apple.—Boston Gazeete, Health journals insist upon reposing on the right side only, and claim that it is injurious to lie on both sides, but we don’t know where they will find a healthier looking set of men than lawyers.—Salem (Ore.) Statesman, How to boil down a thousand and one states- men, politicians and party shysters into seven competent constitutional advisers is what oes Mr. Harrison.—Marthas Vineyard Her- ali “And why do youask that a day’s work should be comprised within eight hours?” Labor Agitator—“So thafwe can have more time in which to demand shorter hours of la- bor.”—Boston Transcript, kind of stories do bald-headed men MeSwilligen. “Don’t know. eplied Squildig. “What kind?” “Hair-raising stories, of course.” —Pitisburg Chronicle Telegraph. Four hunters fire simultaneously at a rabbit that keeps on running, and they ask altogether: “I wonder who missed that time?”— Texas Siftings. ae ES About 600 miners employed at the Gilman, Cedar Mountain, Black ond and Franklin coal mines, Washington Territory, all of them Knights of Labor, are out on a strik _EDUCATIONAL. LADY QUALIFIED, WITH PURE will cive Lessons in French to beginners a own Wences. For terms aud particulars, add Box 72, Star office. $ AC e its next session Februar eacaloeue and terms address WM. H. derick, Md. IANO LESSONS — Ss CLARA HARKISO! “1234 13th st. nw. FINE ARTS, E progress of ~ Ja21-2Nt" 10 THE PARIS EXPOSITION—A SPECIAL course of practical conversatic ns in French; Classes from 4 to 9 p.m. Prof. and Mme. DES GA\ ENNES, 1203 11th st STEIN, SOPRANO, HAY- ew York, can be engaged for umber of pupils will also be Wallach Place. ja 18-1i HORTHAND IN SIXTEEN SIMPLE LESSONS SS Classes daily. Tuition by mail a specialty. Cail or send for pamphlet. 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