Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1892, Page 9

‘A 1892—SIXTEEN PAGES. THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, pp Sante LEGISLATIVE RELIEF. Instances of Favorable Congressional Action in Former Years, THE GREAT IRISH FAMIN ‘Two War Ships Loaded With Provisions Sent Across the Sea After an Active Debate—Ke- Hef for Portland, Me, and Chicago—The Johnstown Calamity. ‘Written for The ANY ening Star. been Liberal in appropria- ons, 9F some other mode relief for the sufferers, .or has its liberality been confined to our own af- flicted communities. When famine invaded Ireland and supplies from this country were so bountifully poured out the government, thro legislation, became the purveyor and sent two men-of-war on that merciful and | Peaceful mission loaded down with the needed food and necessaries of life to suifering Ire- land. The United States ship Jamestown the port of Boston on the 23th of March, 18 and on the 18th of July tho United States ship Macedonia sailed from New York for Ireland with such relief as saved many lives Untold misery. The relief wh Uted by cities and individuals was conv, eat ports of the U: ‘Was sent from Alexa plies contributed L cities. The usu caidas GREAT CALAMI-| ties have overtaken our | Hime to © & country and Congress has | get the tariff in his pocket on the articles to be used. Mr. Logan said the whole amount of duties remitted in the case of Port- land after that great fire, as reported by the Secretary of the Treasury, was only $21, He said the articles named by Mr. Morrill in his amend- ment may be the very articles of which not a dollar's worth may be used. He mentioned stone, of which he said Chicago had an abun- dant supply in its immediate vicinity. Brick may be imported, for the reason that when the fire occurred all tho brick which could be bought had been bought by afew men and raised enormously in price. He said the ob- ject of this bill isto prevent organizations of that kind to raise the prices of all building material, ner urged the laying aside the regu- lar order of business and continuing the action ntil disposed of, but Mr. Garrett y said he had a remonstrance £ his constitucnts against the pas bil and asked Mr. Logan to allow ine it, ‘MR. CHANDLER'S AMENDMENTS. Mr. Chandler of Michigan interposed and said he had some amendments to offer. The debate became very bitter and personal, and Mr. Logun said that Mr. Chandler seemed dis- posed te with amendments for ngy it. r from som sage of th Michigan uuffered more fearfully in proportion to iy and the number of lives . He desired to put the an suilerers on a par with the Illinois The reply of Mr. Logar: was earnest, suiler | and he said athe was going | to arouse the 1 om M ‘The up in reg order anc ndier referred to the terrible fires the fail previous in Michigan, Wisconsin Minnesota, aud wanted relief extended to | the sufferers from them. | Senator Scott of Pennsyivania quoted from the Constitution provisions which forbade the pas of tho Dill and j Mr. penter opposed the measure be- d be a precedent not to be f lowed. He re <d the Chicago fir ceptional in 1ts nature and extent that the case 20 provis- | i One in which the nation might well step in pda by ‘a found torpe. | and reheve the sufferers by an appropri cially reack c but that potent | from the national treasury. ‘The bill, as intro- word cherity, which covers a multitude of gins, | duced by Mr. Logan, was passed on the 24th of covers also any in that immortal instrament when starving fellow ezeatures cry for food. THE IRISH FAMINE. In 1847, Februa Mr. Crittenden offered A sories o! resolutions expressive of sympathy for the sufferers in Ir Propriation of £500,000 for the purchase of Provisiow of all kinds to be conveyed to that Sflicted country in the earliest possible ti In a sperch of great power Mr. Crittende urged inmediate action on the resolution, but under th: rules over until the next day. contribiti tional ve the gr e cost of fit for the -onveyance of food we rd there was which vould justify into wssels capable of carr onel provision of war the Inrge is of the me: ¥. urged as a precedent the =ppro- Priatio: made in 1512 of £50,000 for the sur- vivors of the earth: aecas, Ven- he original ere referred resolution, v2. was offered ntatives and referred Kepr to the canmitiee on ways and means, of which MeKay @ North Car chairman. Mr. | Winthrop of Boston spoke with great feeling of the sever: Torts he had je as a member of the coamitice of w: and means to get some ation on lution making the apropriation, but, he the chairma and the ‘democratic majority pre- vented ay action and he ros Tation drecting the Sec place tle Un the 8 ‘out of Service in condition to convey the contribu- tions ¢ the city of Boston to irek and the Unites States shi onia, also out of serv- port of New York to con- we contributions of that city to the suffer- Ireland, 11S WOULD PAY THE EXPENSE. He asked that Capt. Forbes of Boston be placed in command of the Jamestown, and said if the strict coustructionists objected to the up these vessels ke was au- at expense would be defrayed yy the two cities, which desired to send their tributions to Ireland in United States vessels, re was of reso- de to placing United nd of merchant cap- ny lief Philadel- hed to command the ionia Mr. Holmes d the appropria- ommended, but which charge of appro- te action, and essed hitaself contribu- f the reasons appro resoiati ne certainty vetoed byMr. Polk. of the bill being have elapsed since that fright- Ss not recogniz expended We cannot amine in the vast 4 le p Part of Itin a Sear Or two after 1,500,000 peo- Pie perixd. MEF RY Le There e preve 2 another SLATIVE ACTION. legislative ions of sympa- nd such advo- 1 Calhoun, dents for r aded with pro- d for Irelan Visiows Amon the prov of ¢ quant was, t Waste as was said trivmg th cn S soon as relief bed from st every port “esse sped across the sea laden with food for be diering. RELIEF FOR CHICAGO. Th terrible fire which tignce in October, sac losses, was bro Uoeffered for the re bkbeen burned an out by this terrible cc of Congress December t a pr ed a joi of the saffer edt: fire First -For the as gratuitous ¢ f of the import duty paid actually used 5 the ground tened over by t provided said Mterials shal! have be imported and used and after the of the bill. The bill author- vmmissiover jernal revenue to spend the collection of such taxes assessed as sy have accrued prior to October 9, 1971, sinst any person residing and doing business owners of property in that portion of Chi- ge recentiy destroyed by fire. and who in 2 Of the said commissioner has suf- terial loss by said fire. Wr. Morrill offered an amendment naming pasticles to be used aud imported free of y- LIKE THE PORTLAND RELIEF n:rr. Tr. Logan said the bili was a verbatim copy the bill passed in 1866 for the relief of the tens of Portland, Me., when that city was royed by fire. The same measures of re- bad been passed then, and Mr. Logan ob- M4 to the amendment on the grounds that tin articles not named might Le necded in . and said that among some gentie- to be committed; e revenue was going to be materially re- by this bill and thot some one would not the term of one year fro bird. hat two port cap- | and means, | breach which might be made | Janua: 1, and making an ap- | e. | f grain and other provisioasrequircd. | . Mostly the whigs | avy to | Jamestown, which | 1872, by'a vote of 20 yeas to 6 nays. ‘The friends ‘ot the bill were surprised to find the next day, January 25 — 1872, & notice of a motion to reconsider offered by Senator Sawyer of South Carolina, at the re- | quest, as he stated, of the Senator from Mich: gan, who had voted in the negative. ‘The mo- tion came up inthe morning hour and Mr. | Chandler sent to the cbair a protest from the | lumber dealers, complaining of tae unjust dis- crimination st them when they had so | recently met with a similar afiliction, and from | whfeh they were juat recovering. ’ With this protest was a statement in detail of the amount | of lumber required tp rebuild Chicago and the losses entailed on them by being excluded | from the market. ‘They said their losses by | tire were augmented by the numerous fuilures in Chicago incident to the great calamity. A CAREFULLY CONCEALED FREE TRADE DODGE. Mr. € ler sent many letters to be read aud brauded the Dill as free trade dodge.” Mr. Scott ylvanin eaid he had received from his constituents protests against the bill | as milita t the glass industry. He said he w her vote the money so needed | by the sutlerers of Chicago, directly from the | treasury than pass the bi ch would stab | the industries which needed encouragement and support. ‘The debate on this question was | continued on the Ist of February and nearly all the leading Senators were engaged in it. Sena- tor Sherman said the bill was @ discriminating one against home manufactures and the example | set by the Portland tire, which passed without | much consideration and without any debate, carried with it consequences which should be avoided. air. frumbull said: “A large city,extendingas far as from Georgetown to the Navy Yard, reaching four miles in length, one mile in width, had been burned and overlaid with ashes. It was a calamity that stirred the sympa- thy not only of the people of the United States, but of the whole civilized world. I have some- times thought,” he said, “in reflecting on that calamity and its influence on the peopie of Chi- carefully Written for The Evening Star. in this city, who had dramatic THE: CHLOROFORM TRICK. ASA FLEETWOOD STORY. Sesinedenteraes teat] "ot seer were mameere, ESP ie cares aoe ‘powers, down into the ford and then fails a zig-zagging Mr. Barrett's counsel and guid- A Glimpse of the Tender Side of the Actor's | the benefit Price of Thete Feliy. up the foct-hills.| For you seo when you gete aderes ance. Of course the President's reqnest was | From the New York Herald. trail i id Granted and the young man started theat- i BY HENRY LOTHROP SMITH. mctight be edit cplacetsatns toeitens tes a Se cee ae ‘Americans in Paria, and indeed ait vietors to | I" ir. Barrett's company. The HIS EARLY EXPERIENCES IN BOSTON—H18 GRATE- | last time I saw him he was the business man- FUL MEMORY OF WARREN, THE COMEDIAN— | "ger cee farce a poner aaer iby and gave pe, prores- | €¥ery indication of having prospered pecunia- ee eae rily, even if he bad not made a brilliant success SION—NoT POPULAN AMONG ACTORS, si grey Mr. Barrett never yielded to any of the temptations which besot the actor, for he was too much in earnest in all his work. He had great self-control, and the habits of, thrift that he acquired in ‘his early days lasted him throughout his life. Consequently he accumu- lated a good fortune. He had good business ability, which isa rar» quality in an actor, and he always looked after the details of his’ own tours. He had a lofty idea of the power of the stage as an educator of the public, and believed that only the best work should be put forth. He had no patience with the average farce com- edy, for he thought it lowered the dignity of the profession, and yet when he was talking about it ono time I asked him if he didn't remem- coming a long ways off. ‘And so we fixed it “And that night the snow come, and in the morning it was a-lying soft and white all over the trees and over the trail, and everything jest a-shining in the sun, sorter joyful-like. And Jim, he says as how we needn't be surprised to see him coming back a-sledding, and if thar was any jingle-bells in the place, why he would have'em. And he rides away on tho old roan hoss, a-lesding of the bay, and both on’em ‘swish-swashing through the snow, and we dancing and a-shouting on the hill to keep him company as long as Le could hear, jest like two children, “Well, sirs, thar was more come with that snow than we first thought on; for aloug about 2 o'clock, jest arter we'd lit the first fire in the fireplace, and was a-standing out-o'-doors to seo the smoke pour out the ehimbloy, we bears a howl—and then another—long and shrili and dismal-like. And Rube turns pretty nigh as white as the snow thar, and jest says one word: the gay capital, should be warned of the chloro- form trick which, according to the police re- Ports, is being practiced there extensively upon strangers, ‘The chloroform trick is operated as follows: A well-dressed, plausible-speaking man lounges about the hotels most frequented by wealthy Americans, manages to scrape an acquaintance with such gentlemen as he judges to be easy victims, and finally proposes one of those stereo- typed rounds of nocturnal sightseeing which ‘reso alluring toa man before be has seen them and so disappointing afterward. Of course the man who acts as a decoy in this pernicious game poses as a Frenchinan thoroughly familiar wita all the gilded wicked- ness of Paris, upon which he dilates by the | Will be se hour to his eager liggenors. shirt front Finally the appointed night comes around, | ce-sity HAT WAS THE yieerest thing I ever seed?” We five were lounging in the little cabin after a long day's tramp over the hills; the dogs lay sprawled on the rough boards, with weary limus toasting before the fire; and the smoke from our pipes was poisoning the sweet Sep- tember air with every degree of smouldering long cut, fine cut and mixture. The guns had been cleaned and polished and put away; the shells were loaded for the morrow; and we four delegates from civilization had been whiling A neatly furnished parlor at Willard’s, a table on which there was a copy of Hamlet, and a chair so arranged that a visitor would naturally @rop into it Having done eo he would also see upon the table an envelope out of which Peeped a note. This looked as if it had been carelessly left by tho occupant of the room, but knowing the habits of that occupant I was satisfied that chair, table and envelope had been cargfully arranged beforehand. This thought came to me as I dropped into the chair to wait for the entrance of Mr. Law- rence Barrett some yeara ago. He had here—b and coat Not feminine 1892, dressed, wide aati ber when he danced a hornpipe as William in | and with poc! ell th gold and|made gowns, 17 away the last drowsy hour before rolling up Volves! Now a wolf ain'tno great critter {made the appointment for me to call! “Black-eyed Susa He aduutted that he did | bank noted me woomspecting trevsier Starte out | with eome fancy our biankets by the recital of adventures real | for a man what's well and strong, and gota/and I was punctual to the hour | that, butsaid thet Willicne wasa solid char- or imagined—such tales as hunters love to tell and other hunters love to listen to. Then the doctor, with a sly wink at the rest that signified something of interest, had called upon our guide, old grizzled Asa Fleetwood, for his con- tribution to the marvelou: “dunno if I kin give yon anything that'll strike you, gentlemen, as worth the hearing on. I've seed some strange things out yere in this lonesomeness—yes, and been in ‘em, too; n't tell you of no sich things as you've s on—no deers killed with pop- Asa’s disrespectful name for our silver- trimmed revolvers— wild hoses ketched and the old fellow ge t lus own joke—but I kin tell | you j -y-day story of something seed ouct tha: I'M never forget—not to my last minute on this earth.” : He paused with a your leave” to fill his c the nearest box, and tapping the rginia” into the bowl looked around at the faces silhouctied against the fire, pulled & moment we toget it well aligl settied hi 0 @ more comfortable position un, and maybe could climb a tree, to be on, but when he’s got a wife and bubies coming through the woods to meet him—and they not knowing the ways of wild things anyway -—and Jim with nothing but a litle popping six-shooter for to defena hisself on—thon 1 tell you wolves is different! And every time they yelled away off thar atwixt us and the settle- ment some way our hearts jest clim right up in our throats ‘and stuck thar, and we a-pant- ing. ‘Gentlemen, it takes a tidy while to tell Gout it, but it wasn't two shakes afore we was in the little cabin, and we grabs gun yere and a hatchet thar, and I don’t know what all, and then away we ‘goes a-tearing down the trail, tecth shet hard and narves and 1uscles braced for along race over the white suow. And al the while that wild howling a-getting nearer and a-getting nearer and the cold chills a-creep- ing up my back and a-shooting down and the agony in Keuben's face ever’ time we hears that distant yell. ‘he good Lord only knows how wo got thar, so scared and trembiyous and all onfit for running as we was, but anyway we reached the last bill over the ford, and jest as wo Was a-going to plunge down the trail, Rube stops short and throws up one hand, and says with | his lips as plain as though he'd said it with his | voice—for we had no breath left for talking with—Listen! And sure enough, awa: » faint and distant-like, a and then another and another—six of ~about as loud as snapping of a little twig. Bat we knowed what it meant; it was Ji shooter a-speaking bravely tor the wife and named. As I cast my eye toward the table I saw that the envelope bore the official stamp of “Executive Mansion,” and I was sure then, if I had been in doubt before, that the room’ had been duly “set” prior to my arrival. I was equally certain that I would knowall about the contents of that note before our interview was over, and I did. Ina few minutes Mr. Barrett entered through the portieres from the adjoin- ing room, greeted me very cordialiy and we drifted into a pieasant conversation that lasted something over an hour. I mention these details to show thatalthough Lawrence Barrett was a genial and companion- able man in private life to those with whom he became intimate, he never failed to get the benefit of theatrical effect. I knew Mr. Bar- rett and esteemed him very highly. 1 appre- cinted the struggle he had ‘made to reach the high position in his profession which he occu- acy at the time of his death; I knew how hard ¢ had studicd to acquire that education that had been denied hitn in his youth and I was ; aware of the difticuities he had experienced be- fore he reached that social recognition which was, perhaps, more grateful to him than ever. the praise he received for his professional work, HIS EARLY EXPERIENCES IN BOSTON. Iremembered when he had come to the Bos- ton Museum as its leading mau, a slim young fellow, looking more youthful than he really was, bnt with an intense ambition and a con- scientiousness in his work that commanded the respect of his older and more experienced as- sociates in the company and the approbation acter, notwithstanding the fact that he danced a hornpipe. NOT POPULAR AMONG ACTORS. Mr. Barrett was not pcpular in the profession, because he did not make friends easily. He was a strict disciplinarian in bis own company, but he made no rules that he himself did not live up to. He had no time to devote to mere frivolity, and yet he got a good deal of enjoy- ment outof life. His aim was to do what lay in his power to elevate the stage and to encour. age American dramatic authorship. i Love,” “Francesca da Rimini” and “Pendra: gon" are instances in that direction. The last named was not a success, even though placed Vefore the public at great expense so far as scenery and costumes were concerned and per- formed by a good company. Idon't care at this time to enter into any extended estimate of Mr. Barrett's abilities as 4n actor or of the value of iis iife-work to the American stage. My object in writing this was chiefly to tell a story of his early lite as he toid ittome. ‘The kindly offices of William Werren at that critical juncture, I believe, made Bar- rett what he afterward became, and Mr. Bar- ret deeply appreciated the act of the greatest comedian that this country has produced ‘Those who knew Mr. Barrett simply as an actor regretted his early death, for had he lived he would have done as much for the drama here as Henry Irving has done in England. Those who knew Mr. Barrett personaily felt that they had lost a friend of whose public career they could be proud and whose private character was without reproach. turns out to be a round of mortification and financial loss. Tarren. After a stroll up and down the boulevards, With various drinks at various cafes, the de- voted guide informs his companion that they will now go and pay their respe: ing actress, whose home is in bert. The companion is delig heart gives a flutter ox twoas they four flights of stairs leading to Which he would fain worship. They are cordially received in a luxurious apartment and the actress is lovely, They hear some music, drink some wine and then on one pretensv or another the stranger is introduced intoadarkened room and at that point his memory becomes a blank as to the events of the night. The next morning he finds himself, he knows not how, in bed at his hotel with queer feeling in his bead and a distressing nau- sea. He discovers on examination that all his money and ail his valuables, at least all which he had carried in his clothing, aro missing, as well as in many cases portions of the clothing itself. He has been dragged and robbed, that is simple enough, and thoroughly ashamed of his folly he shrinks, in nine cases out of ten, from appealing to the police or, indeed, making any mention of his misfortune. LUCKATIVE RASCALITY. The result is that the large hotels in Parisare infested with this class of well-dressed vermin, climb the shrine at ted in these parts, | d game Ww plenty and everything a feller needs to be had for tie taking on it, along over the trail one one day, pack on back and a whole gun shop of wepitis stuck on im, kind ing softly to hisself as he wale: little chap what says to m fire like as if he who, thanks to the unwillingness of strangers was coming to @ p makes hisseif | little ones, a-coming on the trail. of the patrons of that orthodox place of amuse- FLT. | to admit that they have made fools of them- to home.” He at;| “Then down we goes over the hill,and splash | ment. I recollected how patriotic he was dur- ‘seins ead selves, are able to work this chloroform trick jest an ornary homely little cuss, but | Splash, into the ford, up to our knees, up to our | ing the war, how he had gone into the army THE PANIse 'S SQUIRT. with profit and impunity. cl grit and a heart as | Waists, up to our o” gold, I ‘ound out arterwards. Well, {won't bother you with telling how it came about, but yway we became pardners, Jim Marlow and and worked our traps in’ cahoots and took turns at the cooking you needn't laugh, we washed em When we wasn’t in too much on a burr; “Bime 4, maybe” more— he iets on as how he has anotier pard in the east, a-following him on the trail; and if 1| ain't onconvenient—which I wasn't noways— he'd be glad to have him kinder join in and be one of us. And I allowed tie woods was big | enough for three, and anybody as Jim had tied | to would go all right with Asa Fleetwood. And sure enough, atore the month was out, along | he comes jest of a nightfall, a-leading of one riding of another; and when he sees our camp smoke, out he lets a great ‘ualloo’ that sets the woods a-ringing, and when Jim p he jumps and ‘tears away down the bill like inad; and this other, he off Lis hous and runs to Jii aking of handal mg each oth the back I never did see in all iy days! Well, presently along they come up the hill, and Jim allows as how I Was Asa, and this other, he was Kube; and wo onpacks his hoss, and stows his kitcomfortable- like, and inside of tw ght ha’ been three brothers, keuben Wethersbee, Jim Mur- low and me, so snug and smooth ‘everything Was a-running. “And one da; leaves tarni the tree ni-pits in the icy water— as up high and a-keepi our gun: amynition dry for to do death on them yelping devils! And when we gets atop of thé hill, we hears’em coming ’round the bend, the Little guna going zip-bang—agin— six times; and then a little space for him to load, and’ then onct more, six times. And all the while the wolves a-kecping wp that yell, howl and yell agin—that turned our blood to ices and We a-going on, a-staggering, and a-stumbling, and a-straining of our ears to listen. nd jest then they comes in sight, a good mile away, but seeming almost nigh enough to touch ‘em'in the cold clear air—the bosses all alash, the low sled a-bumping on the fallen logs, Jim a-standing up and laying on the wlip—and every little while a-throwing back his arm—and then would come a little puff of smoke-—and then we'd hear the pitf-bang a-floating on the air; and in the sled, all of a huddle on the floor,'a little tumbling. boune- ing heap we knowed was Rube’s wifo and babies, “And Reuben gives a awful groan, and stops, and throws up both arms, dead beat and ail ‘unnarved, and looks at me ‘appealing like, but could only shake my head, and drag him Iknowed they'd never make it to get in shot of us the way it locked afore the wolves would be upon "em, for they was gaining now— and coming up with every stride—and we so helple nd jest then Jim fires two shots, snap- bang, at a wolf as was a-getting up abreast of him, but only twice, and part of the pack stops and pitches on this’ dying but the rest | and served gallantly in defense of the Union, and I had carefully watched his career after= ward and noted his gradual but certain dev opment as an actor. His whole career is a splendid iustration of what a high aim, per- severance,Untiring energy and seii-reliance can comp) He was not ashamed of his early poverty, although he did wot thrust it rd, pre- ferring to keep his struggles in the background and be received for what he had made himself. Ue was said to bea cold, unfeeling man, thor- oughly selfish and without any gratitude to those who had aided him when he was un- known, but I know to the contrary, and a story that he told me of the late Wm. Warren is so firmly fixed in my memory that I believe I can give it substantially in Mr. Barrett's own words, “When I was engaged as leading man at the Boston Museum, “said he, I had been playing at Burton’s Theater in New York and had made a little reputation as an actor of some ability and promise. I think, however. that the work I did as support to a jady,who had an ambition to star, and who had engaged a theater anda company herself, had more to do with my Bos- ton engagement than anything else, I ac- cepted the position and terms without any real idea of the character of the company of which I was to be the head or the public which I would have to please, and the week before the season was to commence I went to Boston and reported when the company was called I had met only one of the members of that body before, and that was'Mr. Warren, whom I had aided in New And that is the part the victims rarely un- derstand—that they have been dragged with chloroform. They are apt to fancy that some- put in the wine given them todrink, at isan error. A much surer and more convenient way of stupefying the “pigeon to be plucked” is to bring him into a room where theairhas been saturated with chlorofor vapor. A few seconds are suflicient to pr duce unconsciousness and the man, hav been plundered leisurely, is taken back to hotel “dead drunk” by his eympat! friend, who bas mude several hundred sibiy several thousand france by the tion. ‘The Fisaro states that the apartme lovely actress in the Passago Colbert i been raided, but there are man s,each with its compl ire laces, and always will be so long as Americ continue their hail-fellow-well-met fash taking up and trusting these sympathetic strangers. —_—_—_+e-______ NATIVE AMERICAN COWBOYS, They Are Given the Preference on the West- ern Ranges. From the Chicago Tribune, December 29, “The native American makes the best cow- boy,” said J. M. Boardman of Deer Lodge, Mont. at the Leland Hote! yesterday. Mr. Boardman is one of the ownérs of 32,000 head of cattle wintering on a big rangein the Milk He Sprinkles Flowers, Ladies and » Mag- nificently Clad General, ¥rom the Massachusetts Plouguman. The big-eyed little king is very fond of his garden, and some time ago one of the queen's Austrian relatives, who was going to pay a it at the Spanish court, bought a very nice squirtgun in Vienua for the young monareh to use in watering his plants. His majesty found it perfectly charming for this purpose. It would send a stream of water almost any height or distance, and such a well watered do- main as the royal parterre bad scarcely been known before. Indeed, there was altogether too much of it to confine to the garden, and the king soon be- gan to make experiments in other directions. Fine paintings, rich draperies and various works of art were played upon at intervals, to the grea’ sutisfaction of his youthful majesty butsoon he yearned for more excitin [jects There is no great glory in attacki animate objects that cannot move or “answer back,” and Alphonso next cast speculative eyes upon his noble playmates and the ladies Who surrounded him. He also cast the con- tents of his squirtgua in the same direction, and found himself in the possession of more joyment than his short lite had yet afforded The crics and scuiles of “his victims, though mufiled in their veneration for their sovereign, added greatly to the rest of these but a-hol tremely novel ai r atsle of pe and the whole o along in the fall, and the ¢ brown aud some on ‘em red on ud the squirreis a-lining up their with acorns and a-chirp-chirping cago in ca: them to forget all animosities and all unkindnesses, and of the sympathies aroused throughout the whole world, tat the exhibition almost compensated for the calam- ity. * * * * And now the Senate of the United States hesitates as to whether it will ailow these people burned out, their dwellings stroyed, the industry of a life time consumed, to import, without — payix duty upon them, the necessary materials to reconstruct their dwellings. Why, sir, L had hoped such an act as this woald have been passed rapidiy and without opposition. The people of the whole world open their hearts and their pockets to relieve this distress, and yet the Senate hesitates.” ‘The late Henry Wil- son advocated the immediate passage of the bill and said: “It seems tome money was not made to be boarded, but to do good. The people of Chicago have had come upon them a terrible misfortune and I am ready to go as far ascan be done to aid them. ‘The world was made to grow men and women; money was made todo good with, not to be hoarded up and haggled over.” "The late Matt Carpenter did not oppose r He wasready, be suid, to vote a million of dollars direct from the treas- ury for those upon whom such a calam- ity had fallen. He antagonized the method. The late Roscoe — Conkling said the constitutional objection to the Lill was unauswerable. He favored relief, the very fullest, but opposed the method sougitt by this bill. Mr. Chandler, again protesting against the bill, said he was wisling to vote a fixed sum, from £40),000 to $1,000,000, but “under the provisions of this act we don't know what the exient of its provisions are.” After a length- ened debate and an amendment exempting lumber from being imported free, the bi passed by a vote of 20 to 17, barely a quorum. resentatives no objections the bill. Its passuge was amity, which occurred during the recess of Congress, met with such unbounded and spontaneous relief that betore Congress met the sufferers were bountifuily provided for, extensive and appalling as that was. Joux F. Coxe. — ‘Took a Few Dollars Off the Price. From the ‘Tribune. When the landlady entered the room he rose from his chair and said: “You have a room to rent, I believe?” es, sir—front room on the second floor,” she replied. “Are you one of the gentlemen who advertised for & room with board? “I'm one of the men who advertised for a sized room well lighted.” “Oue of the me es, ma'am." “How did your advertisement read?” “O, I just said, ‘A busivess man desires a fair- sized room, with board; within « mile of the business part of the city “The advertisement read ‘a man?" ‘ertainly.” fined gentleman?’ * e a few dollars off of the been lookiug for @ ‘man.’ ired of ‘refined gentlemen.” price, tm They gen- play poker all night and leave without their bills, —-—~ <0. —____ Accustomed to It Porter—‘“Iso ‘iraid you w: fob undressin’ up dar, sah EB ir. Gotham—*Oh, there's mat room, plenty of it! At home, T live Sedat performances, and it was along time before Queen Christiana knew of the indoor watering which gave her small son such infinite pleasure. Lut Aiphonso loved a shining mark for hi squirtgun, and this led to his exposure and a tutor to keep him in order. ‘The t gave a grand garden party, at which celebrities from far and near were present, and the king | singling outa big general ina blue and goid uniiorm, put himself behind a sbrub and shouted at him. eral approached the spot, and Al- 'd up a handful of flowers to lure him The glittering uniform came nearer, and when close to the skrud behind which majesty lurked in ambush, the point of the Vienuese squirtgun appeared like a serpent among the leaves, drenching and spotting the gorgeous suit which a moment before bud been so im- posing. ‘The dripping general backed ont of range as quickly as possible, and betore the mischievous boy could reload and follow up his victory his injured subject had taken refuge under the protectii of Queen Christiana. a tried to inveigle 0 less a person than M el Val, son of the but’ the youn, prelate had seen the general’s plight and was wary enough to keep several persons between him and his sovereign for the rest of the after- noon. On the following diy it was decided at the palace that a masculine hand was needed to heavy on Alphonso, and the cautious Mgr. De Val was selected to train his majesty. river country. “I don’t know why it is, but natives are so much moze proficient in the art ofcow punching an Itheir services are so much more desirable that young men of other na- tionalities are discouraged from getting into the profession. Oh, yes, all herders think cow punching isan art. Cowboys do not earna great deal of money. We had twenty-three of them—all young Americans—looking after our cattle last summer, and from April to No- vember they were rarely out of their saddles. Lut they only needed a few minutes at the shipping points to spend ali their ngs and then they cheerfully took up the tr Money—the least bit of it—makes a cowboy too independent to work, and they are alway more reliable and industrious when they are broke. As that is their general condition there is but little opportunity to complain of them ou don’t often find any but Ames boys on the northern ranges, It's different down near Mexico, where Mexicans and balf- breeds are in the majority. When those fel lows strike a northern camp, however, they are | generally relegated to a position of . rior class of work. -three cowboys horses are required, and it takes several herders to look out for them. ‘The constitu- tion of the average cowboy is wonderful. One is not able to tire out eight or teu horses a s regarded as an mvalid. tthe end of the fall there was considera- the day long, and the chick patridges urrying arter the old birds pretty nigh under your very feet—which I s’pose made him think “of his owu little chicks—Rube says: ‘Boys, this yer thing is gelorious, and 1 don't want nothing better than for to spend my days right out yere along o’ you and in this yere | something else; and each time the pack stops, clearing.” And we was agrecable, sure enough, | aad some on ‘em rolls over and goes heels up and he goes on to say as how le'd a mind to | in the sudden check, and back agin and take a build bisself a little home and slick everything | sniff, and when they finds their bite don’t draw up dine, and when he got her done, why he'd | the biood, then hark back arter the chase, and nd away to the states for his wife ting nearer, nearer all the while. ones. Well, sirs, that thmg gave n ‘And how we ‘kin see Jim's white face, turn, for’ let’ alone the — building ar him shouti hone out thar in the woods and a rough | curses at the wo! feller like me a-sieeping anywhere but |—and Kube kneels down aud throws up the out 9 doors like id been used to, 1| barrel of his risle—but drops it quick again and weren't much on a hand for women folks no- | gives a moan; he darsen’t fire for fear he'd hit ways. But when I looks at something else, dearer a thowsaud times than his face all ht up and the ng in his | his own bod) eyes, I jest gives iu right thar, and Jetson as| “And then it was, gentlemen, I seed the how this yere thing was downri ext, queerest thing I ever see in all my | needful for to pe vs; for Jim, he sees he'd never win ‘And eve with all on ‘em, and he jest up and working on the litt “widening out | stands on the seat, sharp and clear ‘against th the clearing. sich a chopping down of | White sky, gives the horses a last clip trees and sich a hauling of ‘em yere and a hist- | with the lash, kinder kisses hand to the sun- ing of "em thar, vou never hearn tell on. And | shine he never was to s bimeby she begins to look like a house, and Jim Marlow and Kube me was a-riding over to the settlement, twenty mile away, and swopping pelty und sich for doo: dys, and pots and kettles und fixings; a toting ‘em back over the hills and a-bumpi m agin the trees and a-yanking ‘em through | the brush till it was a wonder we didn't smash | | Keeps on, and Jima flings something bright and in the sun squat in the face of one a-coining up on other side; and then we see his last shot was gone and he’ throwed away his in—for every pound counted. Then pres- ently out goes the buffalo skin—and then York ashort time previously, He came for- d, grected me kindiy and introduced me to the rest of the company, each of whom said a few pleasant words to me in the effort to make me Ieel at home. ‘Wild Oats’ was the play sclected for the opening night, and of course I was cast for Love ‘The other parts were as- igned and then we separated. Idon’t think ‘the whole course of my professional life I ever so distrusted my own abilities as on that | day. Ifound that tho company was like one | great big family, exch member being exp |Tienced and having a recognized standing, | while all were much older than L ‘There were | Muss Kate Reiguolds, an excellent leading lad, Ars. J. 1, Vincent, one of the best oid wom on the stage, whose Mrs, Malaprop, Lady Du berly and “characters of that line Ihave not scen surpassed; Mr. Wan. H. Sinith, John Wilson, Jimmy whose names I do no? nk if I had knowa and understood the character of the company when the engagement was offered me I would have declined it. As it was, in that firs: diy of mecting those with whom I was to be associated I began to wonder if I really had the ability to fulfill the task that would be required of me. HOW WARREN HELPED IM. “Another thing that bothered me was about my wardrobe. I had no personal wardrobe aud I was poor and uuable to buy one. When Thad been at Burton's, although I played a good line of business, I always got my cos from the property room. I found at the in g to the hosses and shouting a-gaining grim and deadly mp. r that we wasa For a or may. bout 230 be thrice around lis head, gives us a ringing cheer across the snow, among those yelpin; y climb on him’ and t “em with his bare clinched fists, at him: he fights | ands, strikes ‘em with his jest then, white we was glar- gat itall, so helple dso hopeless, aiong | seum that each member of the company to have ent nxicty among Montana ecattlemen as to the whole outfit. comes the panting i er slows up. | his own wardrobe, and I began to speculate as | 1st of August. prong lag seater Te ng yp open ‘And ail this while we was ‘ing, Jim | come way oF otherd bundle Reuben in and | to what I should do. I knew I could fuke up ———-+eo dno up there. but so farithes not chown up. and me, how he was a to let ‘em know | he grabs the reins, tlis g8 tue his gun and cart- belt, and then away, away with the and babies for the home ‘on the di while I goes rushing back, shout I was in New York last wee blizzards out west and I tel tana to find out ad struck q ter and was informed that the weather out there was warmer than it wasin New York. I | just now popular think stockmen would prefer to have the hard | striped cloth. V winter due to Montana over. They couid | stand it this year, as the siock is strong and fat and the grass abandant, es we escaped droughts and prairie fires last summer.” dress for Ah when I read of that I did not k: but wh ow. t would come att ¢ through m, y down-hearted, sul ething of the way I felt must have mar fested itsvif in my countenance urated Mr. Warren put his we got into CourtSquare he remarked, | the ma Barrett? You seem rather HOW WOME: about it, away off makin VorE. Some Characteristic Episodes in Balloting at Ehnira, From the E!mira Gazette. ‘The women voted for school commissioners in district No. 1 recently. A reporter stopped inand asked afew quostions as to how the ladies managed it. ‘The first Indy the reporter questioned startled him with the rep] ‘Oh, have we got to tell everybody how we , Vote’ . “Ob, no; certainly not. I wouldn't have you tell me for the world. It’s against the law,” | said the reporter. “Oh, well, then I don’t care who knows how I vote,” and with that the Indy unrolled a smali bundle of paper and cautiously extracted a ticket phich looked ns though it had been | folded up and pressed out with a hot flat iron. “There it is," and she held up triumphantly before the reporter's eyes a ticket with John Josiyn’s name on. “Why do you vote for him?” asked the re- porter. Well, I don’t know. ‘Perhaps it js because he is bet! than Dr. Parke in your estimation?” ‘ow, that isn’t it at all.” “Then peraps you admire his politics?” ‘0, that isn’t it, either. Mrs. —— said she cing to vote for Mr. Joslyn because his family lived ueur hers, and I thought I would, too. erseet dear, ol rheard his’ bonny cheer; jest seed a shap | Llooe ow, heard them ing that I hear yen all the snd ¥ turns kinder blick a one yell to Jim thet L'w 0 more until J fluds mysell ‘one hand | Jand hatehet in. the tr, a-hacking and a-stabbing anda-chopping thosehounds of hell— shouting, drenched with blood—theirs, and his, | aud mine. ‘But I'm alive to tell on it, and—gentlemen, not one of them dovils ever sniffed the air of moruing. And-—Jim--don't mind an old fool's "ve seed the winter snows tail soft and white this twenty year upon the litte pile of stones that marks the spot, but Jim don't need homonnment, for in our hearts he’s hy ing still—and loved—and untorgotten.” her nothi rlew nor jess she Was to t bodice is a lous d hills and | ‘ore my eyes—I gives nd knows | ability to play ry like that I had just x good mind to th engagement aud go back to New York.” M Warren asked me if it wasn't rather cowardly to runaway before I had been under fire and £ admitted that it was, and then told him my trouble about the wardrobe. The old genth man's manner was so kind that I just opened my heart and told him how poor I was. I added that I supposed I could get an advance from the management, but that I hated to do that because it would place me ander an_ obligation, and would prevent doing my best work. He agreed with me that it would be disadvantageous to put myself in t of the management and said that we kof some other way. All the time we had been talking we tadbeen walking and, as I was not well acquainted in Boston I had uo particulas idea where we were going. I'- liy Mr. Warren stopped ata costumers and ted me in, 5' ng that there was where he all lus costumes made. I entered and at ouce- Mr, Warren addressing the proprietor said, ‘Mr. Curtis, I want to intzoduce to you Mr. Barrett, the’ new leading man of the Mu- seum Com Mr. Bari been untor- tunate in having lost all hi: ‘obe in a rail road aceident oat west and “finds that he has got to begin ail over again in that rospect. Now, you make whutever Mr. Barrett shall order and J’'ll be responsible for the payment.” never Was more surprised or grutitied in life. The whole thing was done so. deli- ly and so eflectively by Mr. Warren that I could have bugged him in my gratitude. When we got outside I endeavored to expross my appreciation of his kindness, but he cut me skort with the remark that Thad doze him a service in New York once and now he was re- ciprocating the favor. Poverty in Germany. From the New © Picas ‘The destitution of the unemployed working people of Germany, and especially of Berlin, is said to be pitiable in the extreme. Mme. Lena Morgenstern, the lady who presented Berlin with the People’s Kitchens, where meals are served to the poor at 10 pfennigs, received 700 applications for free diuuers between November 1d December 25. in the first warming hall in Alexander Platz, where a meal is also provided at 10 pfennigs, 2.685 men and 393 women applied Christmas. ‘A second warming hall has been opened, from 7 in the morning till late at nigbt, for the ac- commodation of the poor against the inclem- ency of the weather and which contains seats for about 400 people. ——_~or— Strict Discipline, From the New York Ledger. Several years ago the Rothschild’s belda large quantity of cotton in New Orleans, which they instructed their agent in that city to sell when cotton should reach acertain price. The agent, believing that the price of cotton would go be- yond the figure named by his employers, held on till he was able to sell itata price which mech £40.000 more than he would havegot for it if he had obeyed Lo crane from London. joyfully informed his employers ay Tappesing they Would hate bis entichas- ion at the result, Imagine his surprise and chagrin when he received s reply, saying, in substance: yours. Fake it. “The £40,000 you made by instructions 1s not ours. It is 3 + your successor, will start for New Or- leans b; next steamer. This incident illustrates the tri bit of board by per, and a thing he ¢ he fal me, we helps w idees’ quit kyous, and when at ast her ‘di and folded up and her in the envyloop, all hands takes a wet the gum and seal her up, so to «aj whole on us, this yere invivation was our senti- ments. ‘ihen we gives three cheers for the lit tle house and for the little famiuly a. out to hive mn it, j you know, and next mory e trail to ket for the cast aud post inis letter. at « mi 1 rwards- into the settlement ever; not my funeral, A Hero in Plain Clothes. From the Youth's Com: on. At one momeut in the battle of Waterioo Wellington was left alone, his aides-de-camp ' having ail been sent with messages to different egeberod pro rn tee he nee ttt | parte of the ich. He was sorely in need of a ching in the air, and then we sce he'd got | Messenger, nnd looked around anxiously, when & time w-reading on tieman in plain clothes rode up to bim, for it's dura si easier for to write ‘Can I be of any use, sir’ what we said ourselves. incton, looking him over, what other folks said! ais 7 mmanding ofticer over helping all we could, and a-iooking at it wrong | poi a partof the field where the battle was hot and fierce. The geutleman at ¢ up, and hind side aforo—I kuows better | nowadays—and a-searching for erosses, which | once galloped off, rode through the thick of the figut, and delivered the note. thar wasn't nary one in the whole letter and all on us mostly skipping the long words, anyway, | After the battle the duke made long and anx- we made out the sense of it and she was a-| ious inquiry, bat he never found out to whom he was indebted for that special serviec. coming, she and the little ones, in the next “I consider it,” said he, in telling the ance- stage to folle: Weil, Ldon’t s'pose you ever see sich fools | dote to Lord Shaftesbury, “one of the most gallant deeds that ever came under my notice, AS we was, a-trimming up that cabin in and out | with sprace boughs, and a-nailing up shelves | for the gentleman who did it could have had and women’s fixings; and it was just hammer, | no prospect of reward of honor.” hammer, hammer, all the day long, and pretty ter looking mes a-Wuooping, and a above the he lady then carefully arranged her hat, took the ballot in her hand as daintily as if she were picking a bon-bon out ofa box and handed it to the telie: Next came a lady who was in a hurry and said she had to vote right away #0 she could hurry back Lome to got supper. A lady in a hurry is & dangerous thing to molest or oppose, and all the men down in district No. 1 seem to grec on that point. They all made way for her with- gat saying a word, amd she handed in her bal- lot and got away so quickly that ehe was nearly home by the time tho teller had shouted out e, please The next women was ready with her name and gave it simultaneously with her ballot. inflexitle disci- : SERRE eee hat one act of course endeared Mr. Warren | *24 ~ pline inforced by the Rothschild’ sl all the nigh too, and hen “ap and at it ‘All From One Pig. greatly tome, and 1 can add that he was my Cpa Pleas? saked the teller. y s. Ee uger: ‘ e: in very an} recei a sore with missing the nail heads and a-pound. | F7™ tte Brandon Bucksaw. nina om bis nngestiond < telephone girls. Every time any ono rings the bell thoy shout out, ‘Number, please.’ just got s good mind not to tell you.” “Then you can’t vote.” That proved too strong an argument and the lady gave up her number. One thing that rather nonplussed the tellers ‘was a woman who gave her name as so and and the very next one gave the same name the same address. It was evident, however, that tho tellers didn’t want to get into valuable aid from his “suggestions, and 1 am proud to consider him a friend.” The manner in which Mr, Barrett told that ory convinced me of his real gratitude to Mr. ‘arren, and when a year afterward was tell~ ing the great comedian what Mr. Barrett had said he modestly remarked that he had al- ways been happy that he had been able to be of some slight service at the time referred. to and that the subsequent career of the young man had fully justified the prediction of sue. goss that he had made oror twonty years be- ore. She was a pretty little thing, and it was plainly to be scen that she had not been mar- ried iong. Ske tripped into a Monroe avenue grocery store and said to the proprietor: “My husband (there wasa great emphasis on the word husband) bought a couple of hams here some time ago.” es, ma’am,” eaid the grocer. ‘hey were very nice, very nice indeed.” “Yes, ma'am,” assented the “Have you any more like them?” “Yes, ma'am,” said the grocer, pointing to a row of ton or » dozen hanging suspended trom the ceiling. pia? you sure that thoy are from the same “Yes, ma'am,” said the grocer without » quiver.” may send me two more of them,” ing of ourse!ves—and the cabin, that stuck full of nails, I don’t beeve you could ha’ clapped & squirrel skin up anywhars without you'd touca # dozen on ‘em, ‘And when the time.comes nigh and the hours was getting shorter Reuben’ was a-run- uing out doors to take @ look, and a-running Lack indoors to take @ look, and a-changin, this yere, and a-moving that thar, un a-tidgeting about the whole place till Jim and me was near druy wild; and we allowed if he didn’t settle down somewhare like a rational eritter we'd jest teck him up over the door for a deckyration, or to be the star-scrambled banner—or whatever they call it—for yuu see, wo was alla-getting kinder narvous and ex- cit “And the day afore they was to come, and Rube sorter standing all by hissclf and a-think- ing anda-thinking, all ofasudden ho says, along 0° nothing: “Boys, 1—I+can't_ go down thar ir the setdement and meet 'em first—afore all those folks—I—jost can't do. it. Why, I about know I'd makea varmint of myéelf, a-hugging and a-kissing ‘em, and like as not I'd Ko to crying and disgrace ‘em—when I cots ou them 7 T have st Mv HI l ra the ton mae an out of the as she had iped in, nad tho grocer’ Seaphed’ arctan —2--____ Insinuating photographer (holdiug photo- gesgh in han) ‘No, madame, you have never ; ij i il? { ov his round of pleasure, which mvariably | by those who wish to coarse black braid. iriace had one three-po much as three fect. I headed as the next on How Americans in Paris Sometimes Pay the | Redfern’s Latest Desigus Im Stylish Gan Leather, in ail vest of belt The do ple. sown. The bound and ASHION WILL SOON SHOW 8OME changes more complete than at present. It has been noted that the sleeves have ceased to ascend and begun to widen. This is @ so palpable, but it is coming, may is even ts are worn with every style of bodice ement on the modiste’s part, and buckles play an important part in the costume of young dressed and un- d braided ana bugled velvet are the materials most used. The vest im many forms, the low vest with and unavoidable ne- pring styles of tailor- thered silk nd collar will be worm oud @ masculine style. h is military in style and extremely b aithough sin ich button across are the great feature. It iy a shape Which can be made either as indoor jcostume or walking coat. ve-tailed bard The front is ex- i the whole garment has @ leeves are low 1 KOWN. This costume is arain another sample of the Jtis made of ffs and side panel being rmed of plain white cloth with steel studs w bands of sable are used to edge it, bbon is drawn from arm pits and mingled with a ribbon girdle about the waist. The coat vainted elegant cut, the sleeves of reduced height and the skirt relic of the usual severity of cut. The whole forms @ stylish and charming suit. oot oo. Black Bass as a Jumper, ed of a which Bro. Harris expressed @ doubt if ever cleared the water more than eigh inches. At the time I thought I knew be contrary to my experience, but, as it was ‘this to, remained silent and “said nothings.” ‘That some bass—perhaps tmajority—do not clear the surface eighteen inches is no doubt equally true that others e: Eighteen inches is a baby to my catch this fall made; under | £ ee Es i i i t t ae i é i tii i i ilk