Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1890, Page 10

10 e MONSTERS OF THE DEEP Gigantic Horrors That Roam the Dark Unfathomed Depths. SWIMMING NIGHTM ARES. The Great Sen Serpent and What It Really fs—Giant Squids and Mighty Poulps That Attack Man—Poisonous Marine Monste the Pacific. —_-_-_—_ T THIS season of the year th % serpent is accustomed to turn up at odd spots along the Atlantic seaboard and supply interesting sum- mer reading for the newspapers. There is nothing that people are more eager to hear about than this mystery Hof the ocean—for one reason, because science ‘readily admits the pos- sibility of such a crea- ture’s existence, Al- though the ignorant are accustomed to pooh- Pooh such @ notion, as they do everything which does not some within the grasp of their understanding, the mass of reliable testimony in the sea serpent’s favor isrecognized by those who have studied the subject as well-nigh in- eontrovertible. That some prodigious monster of actual fact has by its occasional appearance affordeda basis of truth for what is so gener- ally supposed to be a myth has been entirely demonstrated, and will be sufficiently shown fu this article. It remains to be determined whether other monsters besides this, as big or Digger, have a share in responsibility for the It is rather extraordinary that the monster when seen is al referred to as the sea ser- pent, as if there could not be more than one such animal in existence. But surely if one exists there must be others, else how would itekind be perpetuated? Itis hardly to be supposed that the sea serpent has a life of in- definite duration and thata single specimen bas been astonishing the world at intervals for thousands of years, for it must be remembered that observations concerning the beast have been made a matter of written history for at least three thousand years. One finds in Vir- gil’s “Xneid” a description of the manner in which two sea serpents came out of the ocean at the behest of an angry goddess and gobbled upLaocoon and his two sons. twining about them with slimy and hideous coils, THE MONSTROUS PLESIOSAURUS. Two-thirds of the carth’s surface is covered with water, the far depths of which, miles and miles below the waves, have never been ap- proached by the human explorer. Who can Say what frightful creatures, vast and formless nightmares of the deep, may lurk there in the darkness of an aqueous night never illumined by a sun’s ray? No one has any reason for asserting that the enormous plesiosaurus of the Oolithic age, skeletons of which are found at this day, does not still survive in the unfath- omed caves of ocean. This extraordinary aquatic reptile, which resembled a gigantic snake threaded through the body of a turtle, having the head of a lizard, the tecth of a crocodile, a neck thirty feet long like the body of aserpent, the ribs of a chamelion and the paddles of a whale, would answer very well to the usual description given of the great sea serpent. It 1s very likely, however, that the monster which has given cause for a majority of such stories is one of unquestioned existen at the present time, although up to within a very recent period science was not well ac- quainted with it, nor was it known what mighty ions this ogre of the ocean attains. THE GIANT SQUID. With this monstrous animal, however, the fishermen of the Indian ocean have been un- —— = leasantly acquainted for many centuries, In Ret the professional angler in those south seas is compelled constantly to indulge a rather exciting anticipation of meeting one, anda cer- tain percentage of loss of life consequent upon these encounters is a matter of regular estimate in the business, for the humble toiler of the sea. while engaged in his peaceful employment, must be prepared at any time to see a mon- strous creature with enormous goggling eyes rise out of the depths and fling across his boat @ gigantic tentacle armed with scores of suck- ers so powerful that nothing short of horse power can pull them off from the object to which they re been once attached. For such an adventure the fisherman has always ready at hand keen knife with which to slash off the ntacle before it has dragged him overboard in fatal embraced. He must work quickly, for the monster has another tentacle to help him in the attack, and it is hardly an even fight between one or two men and a creature with a arm reach of 100 feet. i Such andeven greater are the proportions Feached by the giant squid, which is con- sidered by some excellent authorities to be in actual truth not only the be Lgay sea serpent but the semi-fabulous kraken as well. It in- habits all seas, though it is most numerously found in tropical waters. A full-grown speci « Men weighs more than 10,000 pounds, has a body 50 feet in length and, besides its eight smaller tentacles, is armed with two greater tentacles for purposes of attack each 100 long, the greatest dimension of the animal being therefore no less « 150 feet. No wonder that Stories are told of its attacking ships and even dragging them under the sea! As for the poor erman, once captured and held fast by th horrible sucking tentacles he closer embrace of the beast’ which are likewise equipped with suckers, and the frightful creature sinks with its captive to the bottom, where it tears him to pieces at its leisure with its powerful parrot-like beak. Should it be frightened while engaged at its hideous meal it discharges from an organ called ite ink bag a fiuid which renders the water round about as black as night for hun- = of yards, thus effectually concealing it- 18 THE GIANT SQUID THE SEA SERPENT? This is the creature which not a few men of science declare to be what those who thought they had seen the great serpent of the sea have attempted to describe. The accompany- ing illustrations show it inthe act of swimming in its accustomed fashion during calm weather, with a large part of its body elevated aboye the water. Extended observations of small imens made in the aquarium at Brighton, and, have demonstrated the fact that this is its favorite method of feeding. Inasmuch as it always swims backward, making Progress by expelling water rearward trom a big siphon in y, observers casually viewmg a giant squid at soa may have most naturally imagined that the part going first was the head, the ap- pearance of a tentacle upraised in the water, ss in the picture. being mistaken for a tail. Buch, at all events. is a theory maintained with great array of evidence apparently most valuable. For the present, however, it must remain a disputed question whether this ani- mal of fact is to take the place of the sea ser- Pent of ancient and respected tradition. It is Worth saying, by tho way, that the two great snakes which attacked the Laocoon family may weil have been the two great tentacles of Sahat squid, making allowance for errors of (@adition. A SQUID NAVIGATIXa, The “kraken,” which advocates of the giant squid theory likewise identify with the same Monster, was believed for centuries to inhabit the seas and fiords of Scandinavia, where it is now known that squids of the largest size dwell. There seems, in truth, no good reason for doubting that the two creatures, the one real and the other;half mythical, are one. The fa- mous bishop and naturalist, Pontoppidan,mem- ber of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Copen- hagen, wrote that the kraken grew to be half a mile long and was frequently mistaken while floating asleep upon the surface of the sea for an island; so that people ianded upon it and Were engulfed in a macistrom by its sinking. It will be remembered that Sinbad the Sailor is said in the Arabian Nighte to have had a like adventure. The kraken was big enongh to la} hold of the largest man-of-war and pull it down to the bottom with its arms, which it fre- quently raised up as high as the masts of a ship out of the water. Pontoppidan speaks of the manner in which the kraken was accustomed on occasions to discolor the water about it, and his description otherwise proves that it and the giant squid were the same animal. Of tho dis- charge from the ink bag and its purpose the ancient Roman poet, Oppian, said. “The endangered cuttle thus evades his fears, And ative hoards of fide safely wears, Sihowe shades the sharpest bean oF light defy. Pursued, be bids the sable fountains flow, And, wrapt clouds, eludes the impending foe, ‘The fish retreats unseen, while weli-born night With pious shade befriends her parent's Might.” Victor Hugo was more distinguished as a lit- erary man than asa zoologist. Accordingly, his famous “devil fish,” described with such horrible detail in the ‘Toilers of the Sea,” is to some extent a mixture of the giant squid and the octopus, to be spoken of later on, ENCOUNTERS WITH THE SQUID. Many astonishing adventures with specimens of the giant squid have been recorded on the strength of unimpeachable testimony. On the 30th of November, 1861, between Madeira and Teneriffe, the French dispatch steamer Alec- ton. commanded by Lieut. Bouyer, came upon pecimen floating asleep. ‘The | was stopped and many bullets were fired at it, passing through its soft flesh without doing it much harm apparently. Harpoons were thrust into it, but they would not hold, and finally a rope with a running knot was slipped over the tail, When an attempt was made to hoist the creature upon deck the enormous weight caused the rope to cut through and the mass feil back into the seaand disappeared. On the 26th of October, 1873, two fishermen Were out inasmall boat near the east end of Belle Isle,Conception bay, Newfoundiand. See- ing astrange object floating on the water they struck it with a gaff, upon which it instantly shot out two enormous tentacular arms over the boat. trying to seize its assailants. One of the men—Theophilus Piecot—cut off both arms with an ax, Whereupon the animal moved off. darkening tho water as it went with an inky fluid. A fragment of tentacle presented by the fishermen, 17 feet long and 34 feet in cir- cumference, was sent to Yale College and was carefully estimated to hav2 belonged toa giant squid with a body 10 feet long and tentacles 82 feet in length. This, however, was only a baby one. On the 22d of September, 1877, another specimen of about equal size was atranded on the north shore of Trinity bay, Newfoundland. A perfect reproduction of it as it was in life may now be seen in the National Museum, Bishop Pontoppidan tells what is doubtless a true story of a little adventnre that occurred to three of hia countrymen. Eric Paulsen, Hans Ohlsen and Olaf Bruhn, who were out fishing one calm day, when a shapelesa something rose above the surface and from thirty feet away shot into their boat an arm which seized Hans and dragged him overboard. There was a tre- mendous commotion, a number of huge, writh- ing serpents, as it seemed to Eric and Olaf, up- rearing themselves around Hans. As they gazed, helpless from horror and bewilderment, the monster sank with a mighty swirl into the depths with its victim, there to devour him, clasping his corpse with slimy embrace and gougling with great greenish eyes over the repast, mn the 10th of January, 1877, affidavit was made by officers and crew of the bark Pauline to the effect that on July 8. 1873, in latitude 5 deg. 13 min, south, longitude 35 deg. west, they all saw three large sperm whales off the lee bow. Suddenly some sort of monster appeared just ahead and, throwing an arm 100 feet or more in length around one of the whales—it encir- cled the cetacean three times—literally dragged the whale, head foremost, to the bottom. sub- sequently what was thought to be the same monster was seen by the same observers to up- hft an arm 60 feet above the surface. SEA SERPENTS OF OLD. The ancients thoroughly believed in the ex- istence of sea serpents of vast dimensions, During the wars with Carthage a great water snake kept the Roman army from crossing the river; Bagrados, swallowing many of the sol- diers, until at length it was destroved by stones thrown from catapults and other military engines usually empioyed in battering the walls of fortified towns. The monster's skin and skull were subsequently preserved in a temple at Rome. Many Latin authors of re- ute mention big sea rerpents such as un- Soubtedly did then, as they do now, exist in tropical seas, Such marine serpents are found most commonly in the Indian ocean, and no less than forty or fifty species of them are known. They are all exceedingly poisonous and will usually attack man. They frequently attain a length of 12 feet, and there is no pare ticular reason for assuming that they do not arrive at vastly greater size. One of the best attested sea serpents on record was seen on the 6th day of Augnst, 1848, by the officers of H.M.8. Dedalus in the North Pacific. About sixty feet of its length was visible, and it had all the appearance of a gigantic snake, its head end shoulders held four or five feet above the surface of the water, through which it swam at the rate of perhaps fifteen miles an hour. It was viewed at quite close quarters through field glasses from the ship's deck, and was observed to be of a dark brown color, yellowish white about the throat, and with what appeared to be a mane. On the 24th day of February, 1849, about forty miles from the spot where the serpent above men- tioned was seen, Capt, Herriman of the ship Brazilian saw a strange creature astern stretch- ing along the water for thirty fect or more, with its head lifted several feet above the surface and a mane running down the neck. A boat was lowered - and the mouster was approached with harpoons. It was found to be an immense piece of sea weed, to which the swell caused by the subsidence of a previous gale gave a sinuous and snake-like motion, This latter story illus- trates the possibilities of optical deception in the case of most conscientious observers. A creature closely resembling the monstrous Tchthyosaurus of antediluvian times was seen in the Gulf of California by Capt. George Hope of H.M.S. Fly, The sea being perfectly calm and of a glass-like transparency he beheld lying on the bottom, a few fathoms down, an enor- mous animal with the head and general figure of an alligator, except that the neck was vastly longer and, instead of legs, it had four large flappers like aturtie’s, It appeared to be pur- suing some prey, and moved in serpentine fashion, its body having ring-like divisions, An eminent zoologist has referred to this as the most interesting natural-history fact of the present century. THE GIANT POULP. That other enormous horror of the sea, the giant octopus, with which Victor Hugo mixed up the great squid, is of the same family with the latter beast—a soft and pulpy monster with eight tentacles of equal length radiating from its central mass and armed with suckers, Its habit istolurk im some dark cranny in the depths waiting for an unwary victim to venture within reach. With three or four of its mighty arms it clings fast to a rock, while with the re- maining tentacles waving, gliding and feeling about in the water it keeps on the alert for rey. Aman coming within its reach—and aman beings are often its victims—is in- stantly embraced. Instantaneously as the pull of s trigger the pistons of the hundreds of suckers on the tentacle are simulta- neously drawn inward, the air is re- moved from the pneumatic holders, a vacuum being created in each, and the victim is so completely spinioned that hardly ible. Men the rock are wra about the man, drawn into the close embrace of the ip to be torn to pieces by its beuk and absorbed. In his book on *” French in Algiers” Mr. writes: in the habit of bathing in and time to time several of them disappeared, no one knew how. a ly forbid- , in spite of which several men went into Suddenly one of them and the who rushed that an had seized nd took advantage of the enforced of the crew to have his vessel scraped inted. While three of the men were g on planks slung over the side a h poulp rose from the water and threw one of its arms around two of the sailors. whom it tore away, together with the scaffolding on which they stood. With another arm it seized the third man, who held on tightly to the rigging and shouted for help. The shipmates suc- ceeded in rescuing him by cutting away the monster's arm with axcs and knives, but he died the following night. The captain tried to save the other two sailors by killing the animal and drove several harpoons into it, but they tore out of its soft body and the men were carried down by the poulp. This story is believed to be a true one; at all events, it accords perfectly with established facts re- lating tothe octopus. The islanders of the eastern seas have numerous traditions concern- ing poulps which have embraced good-sized ships and helped themselves to the sailo1 the whole, although these monsters are most interesting to discuss, not even the most scien- tiflcally inclined person would be disposed to encounter one, even for the sake of solving the mystery of the sea serpent. THE WEEK IN NEW YORK, Matters That Gothamites are Gossiping About. THE EVOLUTION OF THE TRADE JOURNAL—IM- PORTERS AND THE M'KINLEY BILL—ASPHALT PAVEMENTS FOR THE METROPOLIS—A SPITEFUL SERVANT GIRL’S REVENGE, Correspondence of Tre EvextNa STAR. New Yorx, July 24. Ameeting ofa unique character was held yesterday afternoon and evening at Delmoni- co's uptown restaurant, This was a gathering of a select company of trade journal proprietors to form the American Trade Paper Association, About twenty of the leading class journals of the country were represented and an organiza- tion was effected which is likely to have an important influence in developing what is al- ready one of the most interesting phases of American journalism. Very few persons realize the vast propor- tions which trade journalism has already ac- quired in this country and fewer yet appre- ciate the future that is opening before the busy workers in this field. The oldest trade journal in the country, the Dry Goods Econo- mist, dates back only to 1846, even in its rudi- mentary and pioneer state, so that the evolu- tion of the type covers scarcely more than forty years, But there exist today certainly two hundred of these journals that legiti- mately lay claim to attention, while fifty, at least. are valuable newspaper properties and fiftcen or twenty represent great fortunes, The advance of these journals in repute and intluence is scarcely less notable than in num- bers and pecuniary value. As Editor Wood of the Builder and Decorator said at the Delmonico dinner, it was not till within a few years that the class journal was. regarded as other than a smart somi-blackmailing affair, very cheap and thin in a news aspect and un with no broader desigu than to eke outa living for an adven- turer. And too often in the earlier days this harsh opinion was descrved, as in many cases itis yet. But no such censure applies justly now to trade journals as aclass. They have become the recognized voice of great indus- tries, the channels of business intelligence, the spokesmen of science, art and trade and are rapidly taking on the ‘office and authority of experts in all the vocations of life, ‘The organ- ization is expected to promote all these ends by an interchange of experience, the creation ofachain of local agencies, the bettering of methods and the elevation of standards. The meeting appropriately selectod Mr. C. R. Clif- ford of the Upholsterer as the first. president of the association, as that gentleman is recognized among the leading trade journalists especially in those features where ideas tell, RECONCILED TO THE NEW TARIFF. I was talking today with one of the heaviest importers of hosiery in the country, and I asked him what would be the practical effect on his trade if the McKinley bill went into effect. He said that probably the lower grades would be supplied by the{domestic manufactur- ers, but ‘that the foreign trade as a whole would not suffer, and for this reason: It has been the experience of all importers that a high tariff stimulated the wits of foreign man- utacturers to devise such attractive qualities of goods that Americans, who are bound to have the best there is going, at any price, would be willing to pay the enhanced price in order to get ihe comacor the market. This has been true of many lines of English goods, and unquestionably the effect of the increase tariff now will be to improve the quality of foreign hoisery and thereby really benefit all hands. Itis due, more than any one reason, to this necessity of improving the quality of imported goods, that we see all over Eu- rope a wonderful development of techni schools, in which the artisan becom and unless this country soon waki importance of these schools we will find our- selves hopelessly distanced by foreign rivals in all the fine lines of goods where the artistic element enters as an important consideration. At present there are very few if any thorough technical schools in this country. In Phila- delphia there is one institution of some merit, and two or three small and orade schools may be found im New York—possibly in other cities—but our universities neglect the prac- tical side of education almost without excep- have not realized the importance of this item in production. THE METROPOLIS GETTING CIVILIZED. Yesterday the board of estimate and appor- tionment passed the report of Commissioner Gilroy telling how he has spent a million dol- Jars during the year for street paving. This is the beginuing of the new regime and is an ex- penditure which no intelligent citizen can con- demn, The fruits are aiready evident ina number of brand new streets, The Boulevard, which cuts across lots on the west side from the bottom of the park to the suburbs, is al- rexdy assuming quite a Washington aspect with its broad white asphalt pavement and parallel lines of trees, Eighth avenue is also to be as- phalted from its down-town terminus to the park. This will make a splendid roadway, and the bicycle riders are already using it and the Boulevard for their wheels, It took quite an amount of hustling to got rid. of the million dollars on time, but Tam- many has had some experience in such industry, and succeeded very well, The pPoject is to spend $10,000,000 in ten years on the streets, and the city can make no better in- vestment. One item of good judgment yes- terday was the passage of a resolution to lay asphalt pavements before all the hospitals of the city. The blossing of such an improve- ment is obvious. If this was supplemented by putting down civilized pavements before churches and schools another step would be taken, and then all that would be left would be to complete the good work by laying it before all stores, manufactories, private houses and open lots, WHAT SPITE WILL DO, The poet Pope tells us that “hell knows no fary like a woman scorned.” This adage came near having @ most terrible exemplification yesterday in the spite work of a reprimanded servant girlinthe Grand Union Hotel, who went into a closet of the hotel and set fire to a mass of combustibles, with the idea of “getting even” with the hotel by burning the whole building up and everybody in it. Fortunately the fire was discovered in time to put it out with a douche of cold water, but that had noth- ing to do with the case so far as woman's re- venge is concerned. ‘the moral is, unless you are fond of master-on-torst, not to reprove that important official, the servant girl. Her rei; was rigorous enough before; what will it be now if she resorts to correction with arson? A STEAMSHIP LINE IN HARD LUCK, Till within a very few months it was tho boast of tho National line thet ite record for loss of life in shipwreck was fully equal to that of the Cunard line. This claim was strictly borne out by facts, but within the past year two calamities have befallen the line, one the mystery of the Erin, no trace of which has ever been seen except the empty boat that was found adrift, and now we have the loss by fire of the staunch old Egypt, once a fashion. able and famous steamship, but long ago left behind in the race for speed and line hel; by nger business, yan rage eon was rathor aying a tion, and thus far the great industrial centers |. IN THE GOOD OLD TIMES. Political Bitterness in the ‘‘Purer Days of the Republic.” MORE PARTY ANIMOSITY AND PERSONAL VITUPER- ATION THAN IN LATER YEARS—HOW “THE FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY” WAS VILIFIED BY HIS OPPONENTS—HIS STANCH DEFENDERS— COURTESY SUCCEEDS COARSENESS, BE common expression which is so gen- erally employed in speaking of the early days of the republic as its purest days }will be modified if the unlimited abuse of the best men and highest officials of the country by the political press of that day serves 48 @ criterion from which to judge, and surely no better one could be found, Those “purer days of the republic,” as we so often hear them Spoken of, containod some most bitter and virulent members of the press, whose writings teemed with the most violent abuse of the first President and his immediate successor, Mr. John Adams. The first in that line was Philip Freneau, whose paper, the National Gazette, the organ of the democratic party, of which Jeffer- son was thes recognized head, was daily filled with abuse and lampoons of Washington, while the editor held the position of translator mm the Department of State, under Mr. Jefferson, at a salary of $250 per annum. He sent to the President daily three copies of his paper con- taining his abuse, which Wasbington com- plained to Mr. Jefferson, alluding to him as “THAT RASCAL FRENEAU.” Some hot words passed between the Pres- ident and Mr. Jefferson, the President claim- ing he had no right to keep on the pay rolls of his department a man who was so constant in his abuse of the administration. Hamilton commented very severely on Jefferson's official support of this editor and charged him with controlling the paper and using the patronage of his office in its support. That Jefferson up- held Freneau, while disclaiming any respon- sibility for the articles filled with bitter abuse of Washington and his administration, of which he was a member, is evidenced by an extract from his diary, where he says: “Fre- neau's paper has saved our Constitution that was fast galloping into monarchy, It checked the career of the monocrats,” ANOTHER OPPONENT OF WASHINGTON, and one of his most vindictive enemies, who rivaled Freneau in his personal abuse of the Father of His Country, was Duane, the editor of the Aurora, published in Philadelphia, His daily assaults, personal and political, against Washington and John Adams and other friends of the administration, with which his paper twemed, can be judged by this extract from the Aurora of March 6, 1797: “Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen ‘Thy salva- tion,’ was the pious ejaculation of aman who beheld a flood of happiness rushing on man- kind. If ever there was atime which would license the reiteration of that exclamation that time has now arrived, for the man who is the source of all the misfortunes of our country is this day reduced to a level with his fellow citizens and is no longer possessed of the Pee to multiply evils upon the United States. if there was a period for rejoicing this is the moment—every heart in unison with the freedom and happiness of the people ought to beat high with exultation that the name of Washington from this day ceases to give cur- reucy to political inequality and to legalize corruption.” Duane, like Treneau, was the es- pecial friend of Jefferson and enjoyed what official patronage he could bestow. “THE INFAMOUS CALLENDER.” Another editor of that period, whom Dr. Caustic speaks of as “the infamous Callender, @ tool and hireling of Jefferson,” thus speaks of John Adams: ‘This heavy-headed Incendiary bawls, ‘To arms!’ Alns, he is not an object of envy, but of compassion—and horror!” ‘Again he says: “John Adams, that scourge, that scum, that outcastof America, * * * We have been governed by the most execrable of all scoundrels, He is in private life one of the most egregious fools in the cabinet. The fu- ture historian will inquire by what species of madness America submitted to accept as Presi- dent a person without abilities and without virtue; ‘8 being alike incapable of attracting either tenderness or esteem.” Washington was not without stanch defend- ers in his day and among them was one of the most noted characters of that age—Thomas Green Fessenden of Vermont. He was a man of considerable power, He clothed his defense of Washington and his attacks on Jefferson in verse. He edited the Weekly Inspector and other journals and wrote under the nom de pions of “Christopher Caustic, M.D.” In 1804 @ returned from England and published his “DEMOCRACY UNVEILED” in verse, but with such copious foot notes that they fill more than half the volume and con- tain the bitterest portion of his attacks, Duane and Jefferson furnished the burden of his song, which was explained by these foot notes, An example will serve to show the free- dom with which the politicians of that day dis- cussed each other: Durst bid the powers that be deflance, ‘Thou art indeed w rogue as aly As ever coined the ready lie; Few xood and great men cat be named Who is not numbered with your wane On Jefferson he devotes pages of abuse. The bitter enmity between Hamilton and Jefferson led to violent personal altercations, and Hamilton was unsparing in his language against his colleague in the cabinet of Wash- ington. The contest for the presidency between Burr, Adams and Jefferson was the occasian for Hamilton exhibiting his animosity toward all three of the candidates. Despite his dislike of Jefferson he advised his friends to vote for hi! in preference to Burr or Adams and wrote: « admit his politics are touched with fanat: ‘ism; * * * that he is crafty and ersevering in his objects; that he is not scrupulous about the means of success nor very mindful of truth, and that he is a contemptible hypocrite.” Hamilton continued to pursue Burr, whom he denounced ‘as true a Cataline as ever met in midnight conclave. * * * Ho is bankrupt beyond redemption, except by the plunder of his country. * * '* Every step in his carece Proves that he has formed himself upon the model of Cataline.” STATESMEN WHO WERE POLITICAL ENEMIES, BUT PERSONAL FRIENDS, In striking contrast with such denunciatory attacks on political antagonists the present age and that of the last fifty years offers most Pleasing evidences that the days of personal abuse by the press and the men in public life during that period left their bitterness with rare exceptions in the arena where their polit- ical battles were fought. Mr. Webster and Col, Benton were warm personal friends, Mr. Cal- houn and Mr. Webster held the kindest rela- tions in private life, and Mr. Peter Harvey, in his memoirs of Mr. Webster, relates that not long before Mr. Webster's death he asked him who he regurded as the greatest statesman he had met in his tong public career. After a mo- ment or two reflection he said: “John ©. Cal- houn; he was the longest-headed man and the yurest public man I ever met.” Mr. Clay and r. Van Buren, the very antipodes in political life, were warm personal friends, Clay visiting Rinderhook and Mr, Van Buren visit- ing Ashland. Sty first memories of political strife are of the contests waged by Mr. Francis P. Blair and Amos Kendall in the Globe and Gales and Seaton in the National Inteilic . Their broadsides fired into each other resounded oes the whole country, but they were models of editorial dignity and statesmanlike presentation of their ures; pungent and full of fire as they were, the trenchant pens wielded by those editoral giants never descended to abuse, and their contests were political only. An illustra- tion of the kindliness which prevailed in those days is worth relating, PRESS COURTESIES TO POLITICAL OPPONENTS. One night, during a bitter political canvass, the press of the’ Globe broke down. Repairs at that time was very serious matter, and it would take several days to restore the Glove — to usefulness. In this extremity Mr. Johnson, whose christian name has feng. nrtges but who was for foreman of the roused Mr. = ld bree Pigiioament, and asked allowed the use 1e Inteltigencer press. , said Mr. Seaton, and for more than Globe was issued from the Jnielli- filled with Mr. Blair's most vigor- the Intelligencer and For some reason Gen. Duff in the Telegraph the ctive party meas- in very decided antagonism toward his admin- istration, They. embarrassed it in every way. . The condition of the Northwest territory was one demanding relief. The early settlers were massacred by the Indians and —— for help were unheeded, Washington atked for power to raise troops. and after considerable delay, during whick the question of relinquishing the whole Northwest territory and making the Ohio river our western boundry was debated, Washington's persistence and influence pre- vailed, and they voted him, very reluctantly, 3,000 men and some money. | THEY GO AFISHING. The South Moun Club’s Visit to the Upper Potomac, DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY OF GETTIXG 4 6TanT —X€UDDY WATER AND DYING BAIT—THE PResI- DENT'S MESSAGE—a MISHAP To TRE PHOTOO- RAPHER—THE CATCH. - 8 ICE PRESIDENT of the South AN OLD CITY OF WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER. Mountain Fishing Club wore agloomy ex- I was shown a copy of the Washington Gazrtle \VZ Pression on his face ashe sat examin- of September 21. 1796, a few days ago. Hardly ‘ing « closely written postal card. The more than 18 inches square, it contained some secretary looked across the table at him ae matter, and to _ Naivagrention “<4 and grew solemn. The other three members vertisements were most attractive. 1e Washington lottery took up about half a col. | 0° ‘he club, the president, the vocalist and the umn and an advertisement for “a patient y colonel, had gone on up the river a sportsman to purchase a ticket” was sugges- | few hours before to prepare for the slaughter of the black bass that was to be begun the next ive. Mr. Clotworthy Stephenson, who was a contractor under the first commissioners who day on the arrival of ti whole party at the fishing grounds, laid out the city. advertises hie residence on street, next to the present Ebbitt. I remember i : it wall peace. ator, just as he describes it—a| The secretary, after studying the vice prosi- dent's face for a moment, whispered solemnly in Tue Stan man’s ear: “The water's muddy.” double frame house with porches on the first and second floor, set back from the street, and The postal card had come from the boatman on the fishing grounds shortly after the depar- next it, on east’ wide, was a large brick house built by Msj. Joseph Wheaton, who was the ture of the president and his companions, It announced with cruel brevity: sergeant-at-arms of the First Congress and re- “Water muddy; bait fine.” tained the Position for twenty-one years, com- As the vice president read it over the tenth ing with Congress to Washington, He built next to this house, advertised for sale in 1796, time his eyos rested on his rod and tackle with & look of deep disappointment, Here was a Mrs. Leslie advertises the Capital Hotel on Capitol Hill and one or two advertisements of Pretty piece of business; half the club on the way in search of a day's sport and the rest cut boarding and a runaway “nigger,” with the cut, off by an announcement of muddy water. The which was once so familiar, of a negro with a bundle over her shoulder running. ‘Ihis paper vice president declared he would not go; that there was nothing but catfish and eels in was published by Benjamin Moore and was the precursor of the Nation Intelligencer, J.F.C. muddy water, and no member of the South Mountain Fishing Club should drop a line to Peta tng WHAT ONE SEES AT ’SCONSET. such game. And then he swore—not a pro- fane oath, but solemnly swore that he would not go fishing any more; that the water was always muddy, The morehe swore that he would never fish again the more longingly his eyes rested on his tackle. Gradually a soft light came into his eye as his hand rested on = light split bamboo rod. “He says the bait is fine,” he said, as his eyes again turned to the postal card. “Maybe th river isn’t so muddy; maybe it will clear off. and he balanced his rod daintily. ‘Maybe the president will telegraph us that it is clearing. The bait is fine! Dod rot that Monocacy empty- ing its muddy water into the river. It is the meanest stream in the world, It is muddy atter a three months’ drought. But the bait is fine. With good bait we ought to get some- thing. There is no use taiking about it, I'm not going to fish in muddy water,” he broke out again after a short pause. “I wonder why we don’t hear from the president? He ought to know enough to telegraph us, He may say it's all right. But if he does we can’t tell, He may want fo be caught because he is.” A MESSAGE To COME, The secretary acquiesced in ail this, but kept on preparing his tackle. Prosently a messen- ger boy came running in with a dispatch, It was from the president. it ran: *-Water clearing; bait dying. Come.” “What did I tell you!” broke forth the vice President in a passion. “It's just blamed bad uck. Any one knows that we can’t fish with dead bait. Iwon'tgo! Thatsettles it!” Then he settled dowa in a way to show that that did settle it. The secretary worked on with his tackle. In a moment the vice president leaped up out of the dumps. “What are you waiting for?” he cried to the secretary. “*Don't you know we will miss the train?” In a moment he had gathered up his tackle and buckets and bags. “I would not go at ail,” he said, depre- catingly, “if it were not for your insisting upon it, and for the fact that our friend here, Tue Stax man, is to be our guest.” OFF AT Last, So started the last fishing excursion of the famous South Mountain Fishing Club, The president and other officers of the club having gone before, the vice president, the secretary and the club photographer, with Tae Stan man asa guest, were to take the last afternoon train on the Metropolitan branch for the upper Potomac. We were all assembled but the + wd tographer. ‘The train was ready to start, yet he did not assemble. Neither nis camera nor his whiskers came insight, The vice president was nervous and the secretary remarked that they were bound to get a six-pound bass and would have no means of preserving its picture, On the rear end of a Baltimore express which leftahead of the Branch train the secretary thought hesaw a man with whiskers and a camera, holding on like grim death as the train shot out. But that could not be the club pho- tographer, for that train went in another di- rection, Yet itwas the club photographer, who had come late and rushed breath iessly down the platform, and clung to the last plat- form of the first train he saw moving out, While the rest of the club sped gaily along, wondering which it would be, dead bait or muddy water. the photographer was being car- ried away to be landed far from fish and far from friends at some moss-grown way station. The bass is a game fish. He is shy, he is A Quaint New England Fishing Hamlet and Its Present Surroundings, PRIMITIVE ARCHITECTURE—A NANTUCKET cow- BOY—FLORAL BEAUTIES—THE CACTUS AND THE MUSQUITO IN BLOOM—COATUE'S CLUB AND ITS OTHER ATTRACTIONS, Correspondence of Tar Evextxo Stan, Stasconset, Mass., July 21, *Sconset might properly be divided into three sections—tie original fishing hamlet, Sun- set Heights, extending along the bluffs to the south to low beach, and Bank Edge Place, with the moro pretentious suburban villas that are scattered along the bluffs to Sunkoty light. The cottages in the original hamlet are small and quaint and of style of architecture adapted to the increasing family needs from time to time. A new room or projection is designated as “a wart.” Asa precaution against fire each cottage stands alone. They are covered with shingles and have small windows and doors, The little bed rooms lead off from the sitting room, like state rooms from a cabin, and give one the im- pression that their model wasaship. Clocks are sometimes found screwed to shelves and mantels, The fishermen come up from Nan- tucket town for the fishing season to live in them and in summer they are occupied by “foreigners” from the adjacent continent. As "Sconset is growing this year there is a police- man and health officer (both in one), but this being such a law abiding community his duties are not heavy. The old “pump,” well remembered by every visitor for its pure cold water, still fulfills its mission supplying the thirsty with a cooling draught and the artist with an ever-popular subject for a sketch, Everything is put off by tho Nantucketer. A few weeks ago a party of gentlemen inter- ested in education drove eight miles to the town of Nantucket to witness the closing ex- ercises of the Coffin school which had been ad- vertised. On arriving at the hall it looked dark and unlike the festive sceno one usually sees on such an occasion, Atlast it was ascertained that they had decided to postpone the grad- uation until the next evening. THE HERDSMAN AND HIS FLOCK. The herdsman is quite an institution in Wconset. So realize the cottagers when he takes a Fourth of July holiday and the cows roaming about in a few minutes consume flow- ers in the gardens that have been tenderly nurtured. Informer years he has taken care of the herd of between twenty and thirty cows at two cents a head per diem, but this year he evidently struck, and is paid a monthly salary, One would think it rather a lonely and deso- late life with only his dumb companion: 4 the moon and soa in sight. He wiles away his time picking blue berries during their season, and many a cottager’s tea table is supplied with fresh berries of his picking The base ball games between the Nantucket and "Sconset nines begin again today. A son of Senator Spooner is captain of the 'Sconset nine. They have very good grounds and a black and white uniform. Preparations are being made for a concert for their benefit. Tho 'Sconset Exchange is again opened and well stocked. There are still left some rare bits of old china, more than a hundred years old, This year a great part ot the articles for strong, he is clever and quick. He is more than a match for any but the most skilful anglers, But wher the South Mountain Fis! ing Club takes to the river it is a cast, a strike, a struggle, and the gamest fish with fins lies in the bottom of the boat. They know the eddies and the pools and the shaded places behind the rocks where the bass lies in hiding, and he cannot refuse their invitation when they drop him a line. The Potomac is full of these fish, but it is not every one who can catch them, sale are sent out by the “sink” in Nantucket. There are odd-shaped shoes, eastern pipes, Japanese dolis, woodenware and china cups and saucers, WILD FLOWERS, For wild flowers we have hedges of sweet brier and azalea ponds covered with floating water lilies, fields of daisies and their cousins the black-eyed Susans, In the swamps are the pitcher plant and, springing up from the moss, amid delicate ferns and grasses, are rare orchids, giving forth their delightful fragrance, which seems the combination of the scent of the grape bloom, mignonette and lily of the valley. A favorite walk is along the beach to see the ‘‘merteusia maritime.” This grows in just one spot, forming a little mat of sage green, with a fringe of delicate pink and biue buds and blossoms, This seems to be a year specially favorable to the thistles. Their rich coloring greatly enhances the beauty of the moor. In the pine woods are the Indian pipes and pipsissewa, A few days ago a party from ’Sconset drove over to Coskaty—opposite to Wauwinet—on the narrow sketch of sand te see the cactus in bloom, The sandy soil is clothed with dwarf POETICAL ISAAC WALTERS, There is a dash of romance and poetry inthe club, They would not think of fishing in a canal or off a wharf. They fish only amid wild and beautiful scenery. They seek some lodge far from the haunts of man on the wild banks of the upper Potomac, and after a night spent in reciting past experiences and in other equally innocent amusements they start before the sun rises and are soon floating down the river silently, casting as they go. This time they led the way to « spot many miles up the river known to but few outside of the club, A walk from the station along the banks of the dried canal, where now and then acanal boat lies stranded, to a little white- washed stone house on the river bank, and there's the lodge. ‘The vocalist has a sentimental soul and an eye for beauty. Lying in the dried eanal, where it had been left by the last great freshet, with the young willows growing up about it, he pointed out an old canal boat. A tangie-haired child stuck its head from the window; amaiden of shapely form and face wildly fair leaned gracefully against the deck house with her hands clasped behind her head, and the old man rested against the tiller,while his whiskers waved in the wind. The vocalist dropped a few notes of a song as he and a becom- ing blush rose to the cheeks of the lasa, na bend of the road, where a cool spring pours from the side of a hill into a little dell, roofed by ® mammoth beech, with limbs knotted and interlaced and gnarled roots that form convenient seats beside the spring, the vocalist pointed out the names, the v double hearts and true lovers’ knots that scarred the trunk of the great beech, and he had to be led away by force before he could sing several love songs that arose to his cedars scarcely more than a foot high, their tops spreading out like a broad table. ‘Many are covered with berries and their fragrance fills the air. In among these cedars were beau- tiful specimens of “opuntia vulgaris.” The flowers being of a bright golden color are large and of a silky texture, with many strmens, “In spiny armature, secure and bold, ‘The cactus lies at length and guards its gold.” In addition to these there are legions of mosquitoes that would effectually interfere with a prolonged stay. COATUE AND ITS ATTRACTIONS, By driving alittle further on this stretch of land we reach Coatue. This point has been recently purchased bya company and many orders have been given for cottages. There are toboggans at the bathing beach, which have al- ready been tested and found delightful by those who like the sport. There is a little steamer, Coskata, which makes hourly trips over from town, The Coatue Club are to have gun house fitted with targets, covered lines and all appliances for trap shooting. They are also getting ready a ground for quoita, Some blue fish have been caught from the end of Coatue sand. AT THE FISHING LODGE. That night at the lodge the vocalist disap- , voice Services have boon held in tho chapel the | Por'ay and, Prositly the sound adomedhsese last two Sundays. The first being conducted - pop ered cemaletits by Dr, Flagg of New York andlast Sunday's by | tho water, while the rest of the Sou = v. KE. Jones, formerly of Washington, — now rector of Trinity Church, Columbus, Ohio, Thg little chapel looks fresh and attractive and services are attended by large Sey * | vice preside: ried off by the wrong train, of the missing of many trains and finally of « long tramp in the wrong direction after the right train had landed him almost at the door of the fishermen's house, After all the fuss the club made over him, killing the fatted calf and all that sort of thing, he was mean enough to take @ snap shot with his camera at the commissary colonel as he was giving the boatman a dollar and taking his fish, soe LORD BOYLE FOUND. The Wanderer Appears to Claim Hig Father's Titles and Estate. Among the names on the passenger list of the Steamship Teutonic, which sailed from New York on Wednesday, appeared those of Mr. R. Boyle and Mr. H. Boyle. This plain Mr. R. Boyle was the missing Richard Henry, Viscount Boyle, now (because of the death of the old earl) Earl of Shannon of Castle Martyr, county of Cork, Ireland. Mr. H. Boyle was his brother, the Hon. Henry Boyle. Lord Boyle, or Earl Shannon, ashe is now called, isan eccentric young man witha de- cidediy interesting history. At the age of twenty-two, Just seven years ago, the young viscount left his home to seek his fortane in the great northwest. He is a young man of a decidediy roving disposition, democratic in his tastes, fond of outdoor sports and hunting and fishing, and equally fond, as it would appear, of indulging in what is known in this country as “high roiling.” His lordship landed on these shores with un- bounded ambition, a pocketful of money anda Keneral desire to have a good time so far as circumstances would permit. After thoroughly “doing” this city in company with other kin- dred spirits his lordship went to a ranch in Manitoba and engaged in the pursuit of “punching” cattle and waging a sportamanlike Warfare upon the wild denizensof the groa® Rorthwestern forests and streams, Nor was the pursuit of politics forgotten in the land of his adoption. A reai live Irish lord who could pat an artistic brand on the wild cattle of the great western foothills and beard the savage grizzly in his lair without flinching Was a person to command respect, and Milord Boyle was therefore elected a member of th Macleod legislature. He served a term wit reat credit to himself and to the unbounded satisfaction of his constituents, His lordship next embarked in the banking business at Winnipeg, Manitoba, becoming one of the firm of McArthur, Boyle & ampbeil, The junior partner of the firm is the youngest son of the Duke of Argyle and brother of the Marquis of Lorne, then governor general of Canada, With the collapse of the Winnipeg boom, however, came the dissolution of the firm and again his erratic lordship strack out for the frontier. Lord Boyle was next heard of in Victoria, B. C. There, according to accounts published im the papers at the time, he appears to have led a rather fast life. Then his lordship suddenly disappeared, and from that time, over two years ago, until within the past week his whereabouts has ever b veiled im misty uncertainty. Ax his lordship had never written home «ince his departure, over seven years ago, it is not to be wondered at that his relatives were worried by his erratic and wayward conduct, Of course, when the old Earl of Shannon, Lord Boyle's father, died some four months ago and the missing lord had himself become the earl, it became a matter of some moment to find out whether the wandering heir was alive or dead. For this purpose Lord Boyle's brother Henry came to this country soon after the earl’s death, Mr. Henry Boyle scoured the great northwost on the trail of his missing relative, but fi n nd ingu:ries, however, Were not without their fruits, for a telegram was received two weeks ago from Idaho from his missing lordship stating that he was alive and well and would shortly arrive in New York. Closely following the telegram came his lord ship himself, bronzed and weatherbeaten as = Sioux Indian, but a splendid specimen of physi- cal health and robust manhood. The income from the estate of the Earl of Shannon has dwindied from #100,000 a year to a small sum, owing to the Irish land troubles, ~J P+ Shane ve ONLY ONE DAILY MEAL FOR YEARS, Rev. John Eberle Cured Himself of Disease by That Plan. Rev. John J. Eberie, a well-known local Preacher of Pottstown, Pa., has been living on one meal « day for thirty years and is in excel- lent health. He celebrated his sixty-soventh birthday on Monday. He says from his youth up to the age of thirty-seven he was a constant sufferer from a complication of diseases and resolved to adopt the one-meal-a-day custom to see if his health would be benefited by it. His bad health Gradually disappeared, and now he is hale ud vigorous old man. —— eee POISONERS ARRESTED, Three Plotters in Buftalo Charged With a Deliberate Crime. Mra. Wade, who keeps a boarding house on East Market street, Buffalo, Mary Sylvia, aged sixteen years, and her brother, John, agod fourteen, have been arrested charged with attempting to poison Annie Silks, a disso- lute woman, who lived with the children's father. The boy confessed and said that Mrs. Wade gave Mary money to get oxulic acid, laudanum and whisky, She thea mixed the poison and gave it to Mary to give to the Silks woman. Mary went home for that purpose on two occasions, but did not have nerve enough. Then Mrs. Wade prompted the boy to « ister the poison, He and a companion Johnnie Hayes took the poison to the iH and Hayes gave it to the Silks woman. The womai ame very ill, but recovered. ‘The girl Mary also made a statement cor- roborating that of her brother. Mrs, Wade denies the stories told by the children and says that the girl bad told her that she intended to poixon the Silks woman and that she had ad- vised her to be careful. Mrs, Wade alleges that Mary tried to poison her #0 as to get Possession of her boarding house, ome a DISCONTENT IN CHILI. Differences Between the President and the Deputies of That Republic. The political situation in Chili is very un- settled owing to the strong differences existing between the president and the deputies over the appointment of an unacceptable cabinet, and the president is determined not to call a one, One result is that a motion not to the customary bill to authorize the col- Roction of taxes until the president appoints new cabinet has been made in the deputies and will be carried. ee Ne DR. BURISELL HEARS FROM ROME Next Sunday is His Last as Pastor of the Church of the Epiphany, New York. It is learned that the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has completely and thor- oughly sustained Archbishop Corrigan at every point in his contest with the Rev. Dr. Burteell, has written to Dr. Burtsoll to that effect. Not Next Sunday is his last Sunday as of that church, and on August | the will be put in charge of the Rev. Dr. P. aie ca SME nt and the commissary colonel get | J. Prendergast, who will become its pastor. * Aeon The future of thé Rev. Dr. Burtsell is in the ee liable to met peronal tm thee femartn “Tiny | Bande ofthe Sabred Congreraion One Machine Can Cut Out Ten Million - to Gladstone, Sticks in a Day. the other day Mr. Glad- From cannot ex] y to remarks from Gen. Sherman thse Goeeainn ot making matches from a| Poees to look at the bait. wig Ng ng and others given ata recent assemblage at Ne Pine log may be divided into four heads, | peuslly Sones the, hailed that might, thous | York and conveyed by Cel. Gouraud to Europe. namely: Preparing the splints, dipping the Tux Star man lost nearly all his bait by e: Mrs. Gladstone sccompanied Mr. Gladstone to matches, box making and filling. When the iting it so often. Ep eget the exhibition, where many prominent persons timber is brought into the cutting room of the seg iecapeemerr ig Frnwagg ins 80 much that im The factory it is seized upon by a gang of men, and who place it before a circalar saw, where it is | Mtg “cont w cn iivat warm em the breakfast it was still unsettled which kept the rest awake. a Tt was in the Mountain Fishing Club showed their resources, Muddy water and dying bsit did not dow: them. More than the of each beat his, ise that at it more fish As tho boats were length thickness ob- | strings, each cried feet long, the knotty parts and they} Justes “73 sre then fed into s machine, w! acts and | being packed looks like a Lace bnagy mgginn cut them | dusty and travel-worn into single matches, machine ents 150 | door of the house them forward 8] rushed arms; with sharp knife, over | as ham and fried chicken he | these. -