Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1892, Page 9

ee Ptriga, . te: THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER’ 3, 1892—SIXTEEN PAGES. PULPIT AND POLITICS. American ete Who Have ane Candidates for Office. COURAGE OF CONVICTIONS. Men Who Have Come Ont of the Pulpit to ‘Take Part in Political Campaigns—Minis- ters Who Are Senators—Interesting Sketches of Divines. ——— Written for The Evening Star NE OF THE FEA- tures of the late state and national campaigns upon which little com- ment was made was the large number of preach- ers who took an active \d conspicuons part in them. The late vice presidential candidate * of the prohibition party was a preacher, and in two states preachers were candidates for governor and conducted campaigns at once able and aggressive. No preacher has had # more interesting and more varied career than the Rev. Thos. K. Beecher of Elmira, N. ¥. He is the bel! brother of the late Henry Ward Beecher, and, like him, man of independent and aggressive character, advanced views and the courage of his convictions. He was born in Litchfied, Conn., sixty-eight years ago and Eraduated from Hlinois College in 1843. For several years after leaving college he was a school teacher in Philadelphia and Hartford, and in 1552 be ae pastor of the New En- @land Congregationr] Church im Brooklyn, and fm 1854 went to Elmira, where he took charge of the Independent Church. where he has since remained. Mr. Beecher is fond of calling him- self a “tencher,” and this word perhaps best de- veribes his character and career. He has all his life held that there is nothing not con- demned in the decalogue nor opposed to the “golden rule” which Christians may not do. Not total abstinence, but temperance; not the refusal to use. but the ability to not abuse the pleasures of living are the rules of conduct which be teaches. Mr. Beecher is a pictur- esquely handsome man, and as a speaker is always interesting and always unconventioral. Wholly fearless in the exprestion of his views, he has for many years carefully watched the march of events and spoken his mind thereon without fear or favor. The commencement of his political career was coincident with the th of the republican party. and he has been a candidate at one time or another for nearly ‘every office within the gift of the American Fle save those of governor and President. The Tepublicans. the democrats, the greenbackers and the probibitionists bave all nominated him to bigh office. and he has never declined a nomi- tion, believing thata good citizen should never seek or refuse office. Some years ago be was nominated for mayor of Elmira, and would have been elected had not the male members of his church. fearing to lose so excellent a pastor, voted againet him, but the outcome was in no sense « disappointinent to Mr. Beecher. He is in the br sense a p her, who never fails to take an optimistic view of ‘life, and he always finds more pleasure in running for an gice than be would in securing the ofice JAMES BRITTON CRANFILL ef Texas, who was recently the vice presi- dential candidate of the prohibition party, is another man who has made success of both FFeaching and politics. He wae born in Parker county. Tex.. in 1957, the son of a fairly well- to-do physician and farmer. His boshood was passed on his father's farm and the training he received was that of a farmer boy and » cow- Boy as well. He left home at the age of seven- teen and for two years taught school at Craw- was the c raduating he prac rville, Coryell county, Tex. He had from the first strong journalistic inclina- tions and while at Turnerville began the pub- lication of a small monthly Paper. This ren- ture soon grew into a big weekly and he finally removed it to Gatesville, where as the Advance he remained its editor and publisher until De- cember. 1886. The 4 ~, under Dr. Cran- fil's management, secured recognition as the Jeading prohibition and temperance paper of Texas. Dr. Cranfiil was, in fact. the father of the prohibition party in Texas. The first pro- hibition convention of Texas, held in S tember, 1886, was called by him, and the state ticket nominated by it in the following November polled 19,000 votes. Dr. Creufill has wade his influence felt in widely varied fields of activity. He was for several years chairman of the prohibition state tee of Texas aud is now vice president Baptist Young People’s Unic an Baptists and also the Texas member of the national prohibition committee. There have been few more fearlons and aggresive fighters against the liquor trafic than be, and, daring the famous campaign for constitutional prob: Dition in Texas, Dr. Cranfili was the leader of the prohibition forces. Asa writer he is virile and caustic and as a speaker earnest and forci- bie. He isa reguler ordained minister of the Baptist Church and is frequently heard in the pulpite of bis denomination. Much of the eredit of the growth of the Baptist Church in ‘Texas in recent ygars is due to him. No man is more generally esteemed by the people of his state than is Dr. Cranfill, and, though defeated In the late election, he is sure to be heard from egain ip the future REY. JAMES HENDERSON KYLE. No preacher has iu recent years made s Greater success ic politics than bas the Rev. James Henderson Kyle, now Senator in Con- ress from South Dakota. He was only thirty- seven when he took bis seat in the Senate and we at the time member of that Douay. Senator Kyle e* giant physically and of Ameri- { intellectually. He was born in St. Lawrence county, this state, a region noted for its stal- wart and succesefnl politicians. His fatker was a hard-headed Presbyterian of the strictest sect and insisted from the outset that his son should “paddle his own canoe.” He did so and paddles it most successfully. He worked hie way throngh Oberlin University, studied theology in the Presbyterian Seminary in Alle- geny, where he was graduated in 1882 and or- dained a Congregational minister. From 1882 until 1885 he was pastor at Echo and Salt Lake City, Utah. He removed to South Dakota in ‘the early part of 1886, residing for fours years at Ipswich as pastor of the Congregational Church thero, and in 1890 settled in Aberdeen. He was elected to the South Dakota state senate in 1590, and a short time after, in a con- test which Insted forty days, was chosen as an independent to the United States Senate. I have been told that Kyle had little to do with politics until after he went to Dakota. 18 THE FARMERS’ ALLIANCE. He did nothing there until the Farmers’ Alliance movement came into pronfinence. Then he jumped into the fray and argued the canse of the farmers with great enthusiasm and vigor. It is enid that a seat in the federal Sen- te was a thing of which he had never dreamed, and he bad resolved to leave South Dakota and settle in Boston when elected. Senator Kyle is tall, thin and angular in appearance, and his shapely hend is covered with @ great shock of red hair, As a Senator he has proved hard working and industrious, and has won the re- spect and esteem of his ‘colleagues. Of Sena- tor Kyle's political methods an amusing story is told. When a candidate for state senator he made a house to house canvass, and had a very large district to cover. During the season in which he conducted his canvass the farmers were really too busy to talk politics, so Senator Kyle took with him in his tours a stout, lusty negro, and then went right into the fields after his votes. Introducing himself to the busy tiller of the soil, and engaging the latter mo- ment in conversation, he would have the negro take the plow and continue the field work, while candidate and farmer would go off under « tree and talk things over. It is needless to add that he was elected to the state senate by a whopping majority. SENATOR COLQUITT A MINISTER. Senator Kyle is not the only ministerial mem- ber of the Senate. Senator Colquitt of Georgia was long a Methodist local minister and still preaches occasionally. Senator Colquitt has often been described asa modified edition of Stonewall Jackson. He is one of the ablest and best known southerners now in public life. He is of medium height and solid build, with clean-cut classical features and a magnetic per- sonality which makes him a power with the masses. He has been in public life for nearly forty years and served in the lower house of Congress before Senators Morrill and Sherman took their seats there. His aspirations have often been bitterly opposed, but he has never been defeated when a candidate for office. On several occasions .he has made political trips throngh his #tate on horseback, addressing the village folk from the saddle. Though dignified in character he can accommodate himself with ease to the exigencies of any situation. He has often preached to the negroes from the pulpits of their own churches; has filled several pastorates during the ubrence of the Tegular appointee; has talked to the pro- hibitionists in the afternoon and to the “wet” Georgia “crackers” in the evening, and has not only succeeded in winning, but also in holding the confidence and estecm of the Georgia people. Although now nearly seventy he is still as active as a man of forty. Senator Colquitt was born in Georgia in 1824, graduated from Princeton in 1844 and during the Mexican war served asa staff officer with the rank of major. He was first a minister; then gained admission to the bar, and when the state of Georgia seceded entered the confederate serv- ice as a captain, rising to the rank of major general. He did the bulk of the preaching and Praying for his command between battles during thg war and was as di a war fiend as Jackson on the plain of conflict. In 1876 he was elected governor of Georgia and in 1883 en- tered the Senate as the successor of the late Senator Hill. BEV. L. F. MKINNEY. The Iste democratic candidate for governor of New Hampshire was a preacher, the Rev. Luther F. McKinney of Manchester. He is the most popular democrat in bis state, and though defeated at the recent election great mistake to consider his political career a ended. in the Ohio cavalry during the war, his highest rank being that of sergeant. At the close of the war he went west to Lowa and grew up with the country. He was a farmer fer a while im Iowa; then went to college in New York: later became a clergrman and removed to Maine, where he came to be known as ‘The Parson.” In 1873 he settled in New Hampshire. where he has since resided. Soon after settling in New Hampshire he began to take a hand in politivs. In 1884 he ran for Congress on the democratic ticket and was beaten. In 1886, not a whit dis- couraged, he moved on the enemy for the second time and was elected by asmail majority. In but 1890 found him again at the starting post, and he won handily on the home stretch. In ngress, though aggressive and full of fight, be was very popular among his fellow members. wher he is whipped, and in the late campaign in New Hampshire kept the Republicans con- stantly on the move. Should New Hampshire ever elect a democratic legislature Parson Me- Kinney is pretty sure to go to the United States Senate, | REV. IRA P. CHASE. Another preacher was the republican candi- date for governor of Indiana during the late campaign, and this was the Rev. Ira P. Chase. Elder Chase is a native of this state. He is fifty-seven years old, a veteran of the war and for many years was preacher in the Christian or Disciple Church, the denomination to which the late mt Gartield belonged. In 1886 he was defeated as the republican candidate for Congress from ths fifth Indiana district, but in the same year was chosen chaplain of the In- diana G. A. R.. and in the next year its depart- ment commander. {n 1888 he was, as a repub- lican, elected lieutenant governer of In: and upon the death of Gov. Hovey in 1891 suc- ceeded to the gubernatorial office. As candi- date for governor Parson Chase conducted a picturesque and stirring canvass, but was not succcesful. Missouri has in the Rev. W. Pope Yeaman another very successfui preacher politician. He is « popular minister and a poliste! orator, and though be has been the principalin seve rai Pompe | cam has never lowered th > dig- nity of is calling. Dr. Yeaman isa native of Kentucky and is now about sixty years of ace. Ie received a superior academic educa‘ion yt d | e@: for ten years be entered the mini try of | the Baptist Church. He settled in Missour. in Is70, and has ever since beeu one of the most couspicuous citizens of that state. For nine years he was pastor of a leading St. Louis eburch, and was also at Kpoeedenr y itor perp ee bey er oe oh be pee years he bas been an McKinney is an Ohio man. He served | 1888 he ran for the third time and was defeated, | Parson MeRinney is a man who does not know | county, Mo. In 1878 and 1882 be was a candi- date for state superintendent of public schools in Missouri, and last summer was a candidate REV. W. POPE TEAMAN. for the gubernatorial nomination. He is still in the prime of life and careful observers be- lieve he will yet be governor of his state. THE REV. THOMAS DIXON, JR., pastor of the Twenty-third Street Baptist Church in New York, has not been a candidate for office since he settled in the motropolis, but he is nevertheless a forceful factor in politica, Dixon is still under thirty and a dis- tinct and striking personality. He was born in North Carolina, comes of a preaching family, received @ univerity education and came to New York to study law. Soon after entering the legal profession he was elected to the North Carolina legislature, but abandoned his legis- Intive career almost at the outaet to become a ministef. In 1887 he accepted a charge in Bos- ton, and by his earnestness, eloquence and en- thusiasm soon attracted general attention. In 1839 he was called to his present charge and now preaches every Sunday to one of the largest congregations in the metropolis. He preaches what he calls the religion of Christian social- isin, talks to his people of the things going on about them and aims to transfuse politics with what he considers to be the duties and_pur- of «Christian community. Rev. Dixon popular, is all the time growing more 80 and is sure to play a large part in the future. DR. CHARLES Mt. PARKHURST, pastor of the Madison Square Church, and president of the New York Society for tho Pre- vention of Crime, is a preacher who believes that members of his profession should take an active part in politics, and a municipal ro- former, whose ideas and methods are bound to be more and more talked about as time . Dr. Parkhurst comes of New England stock. He was born in Massachusetts fifty-eight veara ago, graduated from Amherst in 1866, and was teacher before he became a preacher. He possesses brains, pluck and discretion, and is waging a war upon the political powers that be in New York city that is well worth watching. Rorvs BR, Wrisox. pnd oats LIVELY TIMES PROMISED. Tactics of the Tories in the Coming Session of Parliament. Although the opening of the British parlia- ment is still eight weeks distant the conserva- tive party is already on the scene with three amendments to the address in reply to the speech from the throne. One amendment at- tacks the Irish evicted tenants’ commission, another relates to the distress of the agricul- tural clasees, and the third relates to the waver- ing policy of the government with regard to Uganda. Besides these there are other amend- ments under discussion, Although the general run of the amendments must depend upon the announcements made in the queen's speech, it is evident that these will prolong the discussion on the address, thus obstructing the work of parliament, and that the object is to test the strength of the government. ‘A prominent liberal member of parliament said yesterday: “We expect the warmest time any parliament has seen since the discussion of the reform bill of 1882."" What threatens to make matters worse for members personally is the fact that the rela tions between the parties ore so embittered that the party “whips” decline to try to ar- range pairs. In the last parliament the Glad- stonians refused to pair with the liberal union- iste, but they assented to arrangements with conservatives. Now the liberal whips find that neither section of the opposition will pair with liberals. The result will be that every member will be kept in constant attendance in the houee of commons for fear the government's narrow majority may be submerged by some trifling vote. The whole [rish party, many of the mem- bers of which have been in the habit of absent- ing themselves unless specially whipped up to vote on an Irish question, will be obliged to re- main constantly on the defensive. If they per- sist in their former custom of going to Ireland on the excuse of urgent personal business, the government is certain to be defeated within one month after the opening of the seesion. ‘The solid confidence of the Irich leaders in Mr. Gladstone is apparent, and also the absolute unity of policy among the MeCarthyites. There is, therefore y reason for the belief that the party whips will bring every man to the house on the opening of parliament, and will keep ell there until home rule is decided one way or the other. ‘The conservatives, apropos of priestly in- timidation in Ireland and the unseating of Mr. Fullam, intend to introduce a bill making it illegal for priests to act as agents for illiter- ates or otherwise at polling stations. ‘The Par- nellites are counted upon to support the bill, but ptobably the conservatives will be found to be mistaken in their expectation. Another trouble before the government is the renewed agitation of Irish tenant farmers foran abstement of the judicial rents fixed four years ago. The tenaits declare that the fall in the prices of live stock and of farm products generally makes a revision of rents | imperative. A temporary clause of the act of 1887 empowered the land commission to re- duce rents in the ratio of the decline in agri- cultural prices. The ciause was operative for only three years and expired at a time when | it would have done the most good. ‘The gov- ernment vill ask parliament to restore the clause exactly as it was, After the rest of the cabinet members had flons,out of town Lord Speneer and Mr. Camp- cll-Bannerman, the heads of the naval and War offices, remained for several days to confer witb Sir William Vernon Harcourt, the chancel- lor of the exchequer, on the estimates for their respective services. "Bad budget prospects had led the chancellor to insist upon a reduction of the estimates, and Mr. Campbell-Bannerman gave way to him, but Lord Spencer persisted that the navy must have £2,000,000 more to keep it up to its necessary strength. —_—<eo— Gov. Osborn Holds the Fort. Gov.-elect Osborn of Wyoming yesterday morning, accompanied by several men, went to the capitol building and asked the janitor to show him into the executive rooms. The janitor refused to let him in without tho authority of the acting governor. Osborn sent for a carpenter and ordered him to open a win- dow leading to the legislative chamber. By the use of a large chisel the window casing was re- moved, the sash thrown up, and the party took possession, and Osborn announced himself as governor, saying that he had taken the oath of office before notary public. ——+o-—____ It Always Takes. From Puck. Boggs—“Don't you think I ought to make a great foot ball player?” Simmons—No; you haven't the physique.” Boggs. *hat’s very true, but I have a great shock of hair to hang over my eyes as I emerge from the melee in front of the grand stand. And think how it would show up in the photo- graph of the team: petra mh Born to Blush Unseen. From the Philadelphia Times. TALE OF ‘A WANDERER A Typical Tramp Relates His Story toa Star Reporter. KNIGHTS OF THE ROAD. satis Eanes A Hearty Meal Produces a Flood of Remin- iscences—Good Luck and Bad Luck—How ‘Tramps Sometimes Have Opportunities to Perform Good Deeds. eee eee: = XCUSE ME, MISTER, but I ain't had @ bite “ter eat since last night, an’ I'm dead broke. Gimme a dime; yer ‘won't miss it.” The speaker was an ill-clad, slouchy fellow, with a danger signal nose and a furtive look in his eye, who sud- denly emerged from the Dy shadow of a dark door- aN ‘on the avenne the other night and accosted a Star reporter who was passing by. The reporter was about. to passon without heeding the request whens notion struck him and he stopped. The tramp again began his tale of woe, which was cut short by Tue Star man saying: “Well, I'l do this for you if you'll tell mea story about yourself and some of ‘your tramp- ing experiences; I'll give you your supper, and, after you've told ote your story, T'll give you eal a dollar besides. How does that strike you?” 4 “Look here, pard,I ain't no tramp, an’ I ain't got nothin’ ter tell. I lose all my stuff bettin’ on de election, an’ I wasn’t in it. “See?” “All right, then, I'm sorry Ican't help you. You ought to have known better than to risk your money. Good-night,” and the reporter started to move on, but the tramp stopped him end said: “Tl go yer, boss, an’ it’s a bargain, but let’ burry, for I need some chuck de wust kind.” The reporter took him to a restaurant across the street, where he would not feel out of place and the bill of fare was more substantial than choice or varied. ‘After the waiter had brought his supper the unfortunate pitched into it, and Tex Star man pulled out a copy of the ‘evening paper and pretended to read it, meanwhile watching his rotege out of the corner of his eye. Poor fel- ow! te must havo been telling the trnth about the date of his last meal, for he ate with an ap- petite that made the colored waiter open his mouth in astonishment. Great bites of bread with hunks of corn beef and cabbage disap- ared into his mouth and were washed down yy huge freshots of coffee that reminded one of the muddy Potomac water striking a provision store during a flood. It seemed as if he never would finish eating, but at Inst he drew back his chair, wiped stubby-bearded face with an claborate flourish of the napkin, and declared that he was ready for the ‘‘chin biz,” as he termed it. “Say, boss,” he said, “talkin’s kind er dry work. Lemme have a bottle uv beer.” This was brought him, and he swallowed it down aud commenced. HOW THE TRAMP SAVED A TRAIN. “Well, yer wants ter know somethin’ "bout any little t'ing uv interest I run across since I been trampin’, does yer? Lemme tetch up my thinker a bit. Mebbe yer'll like to hear "bout how I saved a train out west wunst,” he said. reflectingly, and continued: ‘It was dis wi I was countin’ ties on de Topeky an’ Santy Fe road, headin’ to Kansas City. One cvenin’ jest "bout dusk w’en I turns eroun’ er curve I sees er trestle on fire. It was ‘long in do fall, mighty dry time, an’ de grass all eroun’ wuz burnt, an’ it musi have catched froma spark from anengine that passed by. Gosh! The trestle was blazin’ an’ the sleepers wuz so badly charred dat ifatrain had struck it, it would have fell through, sure. It was sitooated so yer couldn't see it from either side, till almost onit. It was in the center of a heavy curve. like. By jimmy! I knowed somethin’ was got ter be done,an’ done mighty quick, too. I couldn't be in two places ter wunst ter stop trains comin’ both ways, an' I didn't know which wun would come fust. I commences ter think, an’ I bustles my thinker till yer e'u'd fairly hear ber click. “I had a newspaper in my pocket, so [runs up de track wun way ez fer ‘oz L dast ter go an’ cuts a big stick wida split mtsde paper in dis split and sticks de whole t'ing up in de middle uv de track so’s the engineer 'll see it an’ stop. Den T bustles back past de trestle an’ goes as fur de udder side as I kin an’ waits, “I fairly hugs myself fer joy, t'inkin’ how de passerigers'll give me de stuff wen dey finds out I saved deir lives. I hadn't waited long, neither, w'en I hears a train acomin’ on my side de trestle, an’ my heart jamps clean up in my throat. W'en she come in sight she proved ter be a dodgasted cattle train. I stops her, dough, an’ de boys aboard uv her did de square ting by me, yer bet. Dey ail chipped in an’ gave mea grub stake, an’ I di waik ter Kansas City, neither. \ got a good ting out uv it. “Say, lemme tell yer how a pal of mine an’ me wuz skeered purtey near ter death up in Jersey wunst. We struck a barn wun night, after it waz dark, an’ went ter sleep in it. Nex’ mornin’ my pal wakes up just ex day is bi in’, an’ see somethin’ hangin’ over in wun cor- ner froma fafter. He wakes me up, an’ says, kind er soft like, “Bill, w'at's dat hangin’ over yonder?’ I couldn't quite make it out, an’ we lay dere watchin’ it, till it got a little lighter, an’, by gum,dere wuz a dead man hangin from a rafter by a rope, wid his head on wun side. Mebbe we didn't’ shake dat barn at double nick. Ugh! it makes me ull creepy now ter tink of sleepin’ all night wid a stiff. A day or two after we heerd ina town we struck dat s man workin’ for some farmer had hung hisself inabarn. We didn't say nothin’, fur some- body might er t'ought we knowed more erbout it den we did. See? NEARLY DONE FoR BY “Yer see dem sears yer?” he asked, leaning over and pointing to four or five deep livid wounds on his neck and lower part of his face. “I could show yer more uv ‘em on my shoulders an’ breast, too, if I wanted,” he con- tinued. “How did I get ‘em? From a dog, dat’s how. Tought my time had sartainly come dat day. It waz up in Pennsylvany. I stoppedata farm house wun day. Before 1 went up ter de house I looks on de front gate an’ de fence ter seo ef dere is enny sign ter look out fer dogs, but Idon't see none. Yer sce, we tramps has all kinds er signs o's we kin tell ench udder if dere is enny bad dogs eroun’, if de péople is liable tor give yer ennyt'ing ter eat, an’ 80 on, “I didn't see no dog sign, but some- thin’ w'at meant I could git somet’in’ ter eat, £0 I waded in. I wuz knockin’ at de door, w'en a big bulldog slips up behint me an’ pulls me down. Den we had it, I didn’t have not'in’ ter defend myself wid, an’ he wuz tho viciousest brute I ever see. He went at me like s lion, bitin’ me in de face an’ neck. I yelled ez loud ez I could an’ tried to keep him off wid my hands. Somebody come ter de door w'en { yelled, an’ it wuz a woman, ‘We'n shie see w'at wuz goin’ on, she yelled, an’ tome more, come out, bat dey dign't do noth- in’, but yell and wring deir ‘hands. De brute wuz " an’ haulin’ me all over de groun’, an’ I waz purty near give out tryin’ ter keep him a from iy throat, w'en a man runs up wida stick an’ tries ter make him let gouv me. By gum, dat dog lets go uv me, an’ I turns on him, an'I fainted just den. I waz purty near dead, I tells yer. He wuza dog dat de farmor had FARMER'S DOG. jist wot from de elty, it turned out, an’ after ho ft me he jumped on de farmer hisself, but he I got well enongt party jouse treated me white an’ doctored me up. ter notice t’ree notches erbout laid ‘im cold wid his club. “I laid up fer six weeks in dat house before yh ter tramp. It came near fixin’ me, but de people at de “Wat is de sign means look out fer de dog? I es givin’ not'in’ way, see? But if yer ever inch part 4 POINTER FOR NIGHT TIME. “If ever yer have ter sleep out somew’ere at night, w'en yer ain't got no cover, lemme give = bruised me all up. Hay'ser lot warmer den straw, mebbe ‘cause it packs tighter. “Most all uv de fellows who hasbeen trampin’ fer a long time knows each udder, an’ dey all has nicknames fer wun anudder. Dey calle me de Lone Star ‘cause I ginerally travels by my- .eiclseare ass t 'm kind er uv de com) Thkeops. If Td a stuck ter dat over in Balt more I'd ‘a’ been better off. I wuz workin’ de umbrella mendin’ racket den, an’ w'en I reach de city it wuz rainin’, an’ dat'sa good time ter mend 'brellas, fer it makes people know w'at HE OPIUM HABI T. It is Worse in Its Effects Than the Love of Drink. DRUG STORES TO BLAME. dey're good fer. Imade a nice little stake at | A Washington Physician Tells of the Abuse of the Drug at the Capital—Need of a Law Against the Sale of Morphine Except to Doctors. it, an’ wan afternoon I runs 'croas sn ole cove T'd_seon in Brooklyn. He was broke, but I helped him out. Dat night we ' foun’ er ole warehouse down on de wharf dat woz empty. We rush de growier so much we gets pretty full, an’ goes ter sleep on some ole baggin’ dat has been lef dere. W'en I wake up in de mornin’ my pal ain'tdere, an’ I find he’s skinned out an’ took my kit ‘long wid him. Wen I feels in my cloze ter get a dime fera drink I fin’ de dog has teched me fer all I have on me. He's a diagrace ter de pefesh, dat's w'at ho is, “Washington ain't no healthy climate fer a tramp ter live in, no way. Dere’s too many uv dese here blue-coated and brass-buttoned microbes floatin’ ‘roun’ in de atmosphere ter suit his constitootion. Dey’s (‘ick ez musqui- toesinarain barrel. Dey don't give a fellow time ter sce de sights, Dey even waite aroun’ de railroad stations ter nab de boys jist ez soon ez dey slips offen de freight trains. I come mighty near bein’ swiped by wan wen’ I lights from my private cattle car I come over from Baltimore in, Yer can’t stick yer head in er park but w'at wan rags er. “We don't stay ere long, an’ I’m fest passin’ t'rough on my annooal southern trip. “T’ve chewed de rag fer yer some time, an’ I could tell yer er lot more, but if I did yer would know more erbout me dan I duz myself. Bee? So I must be goin’. “Say, boss, can't you make dat one ball, ‘ste’d uv de half? “T’anks, I knowed yer was insympat'y wid de workin’ man. S'long.” And the reporter saw him shin up the street and enter a saloon on the corner, where he doubtless | filled his hide with liquor and forgot his troubles. ———— TRIXIE'S TRICKS. From Puck. FERED Ccoming dejectedty into room where His Sisten sits reading, thumps down into seat. Dead silence.) His Ststxn (apart).—Of course! His face is flushed, he’s wrinkled about the eyes, he’s been biting bis mustache and has forgotten to tarn down the bottoms of his @ousers! And he slammed the street door and banged things around dreadfully in the hall. Yes, inde; (Snif’s.) Exactly—violet sachet powder,which is what whe always uses, Oh, and there's a long white hair caught in his boot lace! That came from the wolfskin in the southeast corner of her parlor, and it means that she sat in the great stuffed chair with her back to the win- dow--naturally enough, for she looked terribly yellow when I saw her this morning. Then the band of his scarf is all up over his collar from his leaning forward —so ehe wouldn’t let him sit near her evidently. Ob, yes,I understand! (Aloud.) Fred! Frep (deep bass).—Humph? His Sisren.—What did you two quarrel about? 5 Frep (taken unaroare).—Wh—who—where? I don’t know what you— His Sister (sith razor-like incisiveness).— Nonsense, Fred! — You've been to ree Trixie ‘Twiggs, and you didn’t find her precisely you expected, and you sulked—and then got ngry,and then pathetic, and then maudlin, and then surrendered altogether: and she just simply walked on you and did whatover in this niortal universe she pleased, and finally sent you away after you had begged her pardon for what you hadn't done and she had, at least a dozen times—without getting it. There! Frep (astonished).—Jove, Nell, how could you guess? Sister (intensely scornful).—Guese? irl—I'm another! Aren't we all az much alike as 60 many four-to-seven tens? It's only the difference in the men that gives us riety whatever—and even then it's easy guessing. I know you, Fred, and soI know Perfectly well how Trixie Twiges manages you— goosie! Come, tell me the rest: Fuep (glad fo relieve his feelings).—Ob, Nell, she said— His Sister (superiatively scornful).—Said! ‘Tho idea of paying any attention to what a girl says—except to notice what she doesn’t say How did she look? How did she act? That's the question! Frup (steeped in gloom).—She looked like an angel—(groans). His Sistrn (/aughing).—But didn’t act like one, you want to say, poor Freddie. No, we seldom do, Well? ‘ Fnep.—She seemed very different from what she was the last time we met. His Sister (addressing the world in gen- eral).—He thinks that is something strangely new! And yet he has a sister in the house—and a barometer! Somehow, it all went wrong from the She disputed or ignored everything I ut when she bad completely shut me up, sho wonldn't say anything herself, and we came to a dead standstill. ‘Then — His Sisten.—Then you tried to find out what was the matter by asking her questions, you poor oid stupid! Frep (surprised).—Stupid? How else should I find out? : His Sisrex.—You'd only to hold your tongue and she'd have told you of her own accord — probably after you'd said “Good evening,” and gotten half way to the door. But you must ask her questions! Like a man! Frep.—Anyhovw, the plan didn’t succeed. “There was nothing wrong.” “she wasn’t in the least offended,” and so forth. At last I lost my temper—and—well—h'm— His Sistex (much amused).—You went through the various performances I mentioned a littie while ago—and she did, too! Now, what do you suppose it meant? Fnep (in despair).—It meant that I am done for—that she bates mo! is StsreR (contemptnously). — Pshaw! It meant that her new gown was three inches too short in front, and she'd just found it out that morning. As the dressmaker wasn’t there, and you were, she took it out on you, ‘That's what it meant! Fnep (incredulously).—No! His Ststen (decisively).—Yes; she had told me about the dress a few hours before. If I'd known you were going there I'd nave warned you. Only— Fnep. His Sistzu.—Where did she look when she ‘was at her worst—over you, away from you, or at the floor? Faep.—Away from me—asif I weren'tworthy her notice. (Groans.) I hardly saw anything but her profile. His Sisrex (greatly interested int—merey, those ears! Why, she must have en awfully wrought up! Did she do any- thing unusual? Frep (reflecting).—Nothing but crochet. Never saw her do that before. His Srstex (ezcited).—Nothing but — oh, you men! That was because she was so nervous she couldn't keep her hands still—had to occupy them with something. And—? Fuxp (indifferently).—She complained of a cold, kept coughing, snd finally wrapped some sort of worsted thing around her neck. His S1steR (leaning back in chair).—That’ sufficient. She hasn’ta particle of a cold. I know all about it now. Prep (densely).—I'm blessed if I do. His Sister (perfectly positive).—No, you'd never have thought of looking at her ‘throat, though it’s there and not in our faces that we show our feclings; ‘but she was breathing as fastasa sleeping kitten, no doubt colon ‘y other second—and she did what she could to conceal it. I'm sure! Frep (staring).—Sure of what? His Sisten.—Of this, Fred. She was cross about the dress, felt. womanish, and therefore ble by making you so, We behave ‘that only to one man. The girl's in love with you! Gumping up)-—in love with me? Hs St6ren (watching him like @ cat).—In love with you! (Pause, during which Faxp Fuminales, and His Staten intently studies his —_.—__—— ALK ABOUT THE wretchedness resulting from strong drink sold illegally at unlicensed rum shops and drug stores, where a phy- Sician's prescription is not always necessary to the proprietor's peace of mind! Why, man, it isn’t to be compared which those very same drag stores are respon- sible for throuch the vast quantities of mor- phine they distribut8 over their counters in re- turn for cash.” The speaker was a well-known Washington physician, who is even better known, perhaps, as one of the most skillful members of staff con- nected with a leading local hospital, His au- ditor was a Stan man, whom the doctor had just invited to bis pri office for consulta- tion when the previous pationt was bowed out by the office boy,and the disciple of Esculapins continued: “Sometimes the drug is sold strictly in accordance with requirements of the law, but more often just the reverse, although the Gruggists are well aware that their customers want morphine simply because they are slaves to the habit. Of course there are plenty of druggists here who wouldn't sell the poison un- less a reputable doctor's prescription is pro- sented, but there are likewise many who would sell merely for the sake of gain under any cir- cumstances. And let me say right now that in proportion to the population there is no other city in the country where so great a quantity of morphine is annually consumed as in Washing- ton. You may not have noticed many opium eaters about, but I bave, because a physician can note the symptoms at a glance, and any member of my profession with wide experience can tell the same story with truth. “See this check,” said the doctor, ashe picked from his desk a strip of paper bearing the sig- nature of a young married society man of the capital, whose absence from fashionable dinners and dances would have been marked at once during the season a year or two ago, when match-making mammas still had an eve on his fortune before his marriage. The check was for 1,000 and the recipient explained: “That isn’t the largest fee I ever reccived, but I never earned $1,000 more thoroughly, for my work involved the cure of one of the most confirmed morphine users that has fallen under my notice in twenty-five years’ medical practice. The man who just went out when you came in is the patient I refer to, and undoubtedly you recog- nize the name on this check as belonging to a member of one of the best families in Washing- ton. I don’t mean to say that there are others just like him in every local fashionable house- hold, but I do assert that the better class of people here are most addicted to the poisonous drug. and the effects in my experience alone are something appalling. There seems to be only one way to,stop the illegal sale of the drag, and that is for Washington physicians to make a joint crusade on druggists who violate the law whenever they discover where their mor- phine patients secured the supply. But likeall other desirable results that is not numbered among the extremely probable things, and meanwhile we pill prescribers can rake in feos from the unfortunate people who have become slaves to their instincts and craving for nar- cotics.”” ‘THE MORPHINE SLAVE’S STORY. Evidently the doctor was in a reminiscent mood, which the round-numbered check and a glowing hearth fire heightened, and he was easily induced to relate the story of the society man who had the fortune scarcely more than two in a thousand have—that of being cured of their bondage after once becoming habitual worshipers at morphine’s shrine. Some five months ago the doctor's boy led into his office a dark, medium-sized man, whove eager eyes and generally nervous air pro- claimed him to be laboring under unusual excitement. His complexion was sallow and pasty, and the unhealthy pallor of the skin em- phasized the strange appearance of bis eyes, upils of which were abnormally contracted. e physician knew his visitor well, but had not seen him for several months.” To the practiced medical eye the object of the visit Was at once apparent, but the patient was per- mitted to tell his story without urging. Doctor, I have a confession to make,” said he. “Ihave becn taking morphine for a year and a half and Iam now under complete mas- tery of the drug. I want tobe cured. I took it first because I was very much troubled with nervous headaches and I hud read of the pleas- ing effects of the opiate. But nothing I have ever read equsled the reality.) My early expe- rience was biissful beyond any power of mine to describe. It seemed to me I had never known before what life really was. the influence of the drng ‘there were no head- aches and no trouble in the world, but to get these effects right along I gradually increased my doses of morphine, and when I was not under the influence I was more and more miser- able. I take forty grainsa day now, and when the effects of the dose have passed away I am in hell itself. I cannot attend to business, I am fit for nothing. I honestly want to be cured. Will you help me?” The doctor named. as his conditions that the patient must come to his office for injectii and must not take morphine without the medi- cal adviser's knowledge. The conditions were erly accepted and every day the doctor took yringe and threw from eight to twelve grains of morphine into the patient's blood. Day by day, however, he reduced the within five weeks after treatment was begun, the injections averaged only three or four grains per day, where the patient had once been accustomed to forty. Tonics and nutritious dict aided the physician's efforts and the patient was practically restored to a normal and healthy ‘condition of mind and body. His weight had advanced from 117 to 140 pounds and the man seemed to be on the high road to recovery, when one day he burst into the doc- tor's office, apparently in quite as curious a con- dition of excitement as on the occasion of his first visit. am going crazy, doctor,” fairly screamed tho patient, “‘and [must have more morphine than the pitiable threo or four grains you deal out to me each day. I cannot live without it, and would rather die than be compelled to un- dergo this devilish torment and craving for the drug.” ‘The doctor assured him that he could by no means accede to such a request, which séemed fo make the patient almost # raving maniac, He demanded back his syringe and prescrip- tions, by means of which he had been enabled to secure morphine from druggists, and both of which he had intrusted to the doctor in the first enthusiasm over his contemplated cure. hysician, however, was firm and broke yringe into upon the floor. shrieked that he could easily get a new syringe and morphine elsewhere, to say thing of more accommodating medical men, and rushed from the room. Then the doctor with the hell of misery | While I was under | Prominent doctors that the man was unfit to attend to business on account of his morphine habits a commitment was obtained for bim toa | private aevium near Baltimore. Here the m: | ‘was treated for three months, and two weeks | ago he returned to Washington entirely freed | from a desire for those beautiful dreams with Dinckest hell beyond them. : KLEPTOMANTACR ‘The fashionable world, in other citios at least, | has been quite frequently startled by the semi- public announcement that some member of the | “#400” was detected in the act of stealing goods | and knieknacks, sometines of no earthly value | to the thief, in large stores, where the party | was known af & customer or not, asthe case might be. If the victim of the act happened to be popular in his or her set, the stealing was nerally set down as an unfortunateexpostire of | leptomania, and the public at large rarely be- | came the wiser. To lie and steal seem characteristics of opium fiends, for they can no more help such @tions than ‘they can help breathing. Any 100-foot steeple becomes an Eiffel tower under the | drag’s influence. On one occasion a lady who | fashionable hotel, and one morning the doctor was summoned thither and ushered inte the Presence of a handsome woman something over forty years of age, who was reclining lMxuri- ously ona sofa. The French maid, who called for the doctor, explained that her mistress’ ail- ment wase mystery. At times sbe was exhil- arated, jovial and good-natured, and at othr #0 morose and unreasonable that Ler frie suspected her of insipient iusanit; tor made several cails, carefully patient and left prescription there was no improvement came away after each visit m: before. | He suspected very ly in the case that the | | woman was addic’ ‘o the use of drage, in spite of the patient's assertions that she never | used an opiate of any kind. Careful pumping of the French maid revealed the fact that ber | mistress was in the habit of sending messenger boys from the hotel to drag stores, and they | invariably returned with little bottles contain- | jing small tabiets. She was accustomed to tak- ing these several times aday, the maid de clared. and at night repeated the dose just t | fore retiring. two or three extra tablets be | frequently placed under her pi | managed to secure two of the bor contents, for the doctor, and then the game was | his. The tablets were immediately found to be | morphine, and the labels on the phials revealed | the drageists. Acting upon their fears of Le prosecution for selling the drags in euch man- | Yat somebow @ the physician e purzled than | ner the doctor exacted a promuse from each to | furnish the woman with no further quantities | of the poison, and in that way cut off her sup- | plies. That afternoon he called as usual upon the patient and quietly informed her that he bad | at last correctiy diagnosed her ailment. To her of “Indeed, what is at?” the doctor re- | |, “You ure taking morphine.” | Thave never taken a grain of morphine in my life,” was the indignant resp. d when | the physician had related how he cir ented | her plans to keep supplies of the deadly she informed him of his discharge on spot. “But I was imperturbable as a pig on ice,” said the medico in relating the story, and assured the patient that I intended doing noth- ing of the sort. Iwould consult with her hus- band and sce what he said about it. The result was that the lady consented to be placed under restraint inher room. We gradually reduced her daily doses of morphine and by the time summer set in she was completely cured.” Mow IT UAPPENED. It transpired afterward that this particular devotee of the morphine habit was introduced | to the effects of the drug by another promi- nent physician of Washington. Sue bad called medical services into requisition while suffering from alight attack of intes- tinal colic, and to relieve the pain the doctor ured an injection of morphine. A second call for the same trouble met with the same pre- scription, and in a very ehort time the woman wasaslave to the drug. During the early stages of the habit morphine eaters are wonde! fally shrewd and cunning, and are able to con- ceal from their friends the fact that they are consuming the narcotic every day. It is pretty dificult to deceive an honest physician who is called in, as the contraction of the pupils of the eye isalmost an indubitable sign, and the doctor afterward learned why this symptom of mor- phine using was absent in the lady's case. She ad read of the infallible rule in diagnosis adopted by physicians, and cut off the possi- bility of discovery of her slavery by using bella- douna, which is well known as an application bound to enlarge the pupils of the eye. All this she frankly confessed after a cure was well advanced. HOW THE DRUG 18 PRocURED, “But where on earth do these fiends get their regular supplies of morphine from, doctor, es- pecially when the law requires that druggists can deal it out ouly ona prescription from a Cc e quest as ucked by Tue Srau man, and the physician's answer wae: “From drug: gists, of course, and bythe simplest of means possible. Tho less careful class of doctors do not carry morphine around with them, and whenever it is an absolute necessity to give the drug for extreme cases of pain they give p scriptions. Then it is jast as easy for.the usor to have the «ame prescription filled again and again at the same drug store or a duplicate of itat another. Of course the to considerable sums by and the druggist doesn'teare a rap about the law of the matter, and sells anything he can so long as the purchaser is ab! pay. Under the cic- cumstances there is, therefore, little ground for wonderment where the maniac gets his stock in trade for dreams and ensuing hell on ¢ There are dozens of drug stores to be we by the trick, and just contemplate my par of a*familiar old quotation, “Morphine doth make liars of "and I think it will be «cen how droggists are impored upon in in: where they would otherwise refuse to give a caller one grain of the drag. No, sir.” added the doctor in conclusion of his epic, “the more I think of it aud the more I its deadly effects every day in my prac tn | tice the more I'am convinced that there shoul: be a law which would prohibit the sale of mor- phine to ansbody but physicians. ‘There might e scme unprincipled rascals in the medical profession who would sell the drug to regular users, but those cases would be comparativ few asa whole, and one big element among social evils of the day would be eradicated, We have a populous jail here in Washington and it may seem an odd assertion to made that more of the crime there represexited is due morphine than to whisky, but I am ready make that assertion and stand by it, too. victim of morphine is not #o demonstrative in vublic a his brother unfortunate with the rain ttle, and that is practicaliy the only ditfer- ence. We prohibit the sale of liquor after midnight every day and altogether on Sunday. ‘The promiscuoas ale of morphine is forbidden legally at all times. We generally prod up any violators of the excise regulations, and all that Washington needs is ontire stringency as far as the druggists are concerned, and it will mean the release from bordage for many hundreds of slaves in this very city. ———+oo____ Tried for Shooting a Moonshiner. In the United States circuit court at Raleigh, N. C., yesterday the first murder case ever tried in that court was taken up. The defendant is United States Deputy Marshal Zachariah Rhodes, and be is charged with the murder of a moonshiner named Edwards in Duplin county two years ago. It is in evidence that the moonshiner was under arrest and tried to escape near his house, He called his dogs and his wife made her ap- ice, accompanied by several savage dogs. were set upon Rhodes and the moonshiuer to escape. He was shot and mortally The yunded, dying in five wecks. 473 Rae Le Engineers Who Want More Pay. The general grievance committee, com- posed of thirty-five members of the Vander- Dilt railroad lines east of Buffalo, who went to Now York to confer with the management in regard to an increase of pay for engineers dosired his services lived with her busband at a | ¢ EEE THE COLORED ¥. M. ©, A. Although Only The colored Y. M. C. A. is in need of fends to carry on the good work which ‘wns started om Lith street northwest near the corner of B cet about a year ago, and in order that the work might be even more successful in the | future than it basin the past an appeal has boom made to Christian people for asrietance, as pub= lished in another mn. It bas been e Jess than ona year since this organt Possession of the old Forest Oty House and changed it from a disreputable resort to a place of religionetrair be young men in thatas well ax other newghb changed in many reepects and on the second floor, instead “of numerous small room, are comfortable quarters for the young men. The front room to the right of the entrance ts a reading room, which is open day and night, In there are t omerous daily publie cations, including &, as well ax Manges Nentic papers and ‘religious jourwala, wa library contaming {rate and choice se donated by friends, © of the secretary adjoine * the Which have beer Then there is the & YOUNG XE. z men only lane led by Mr. JE ganization is It compar 2. bers of for wha the has bs holidays the members of establishing the zht prospect of success, Moreland gives most of bu ok and >be found im the rooms of the associ it every eveu- OFFICERS OF TUE ASSOCIATION. The officers of . wat present ares President, J. H. Merriweather; vice president, J. F. Chestnut; recording secretary, J. W. Butcher; general secretar. E. jorelands treasurer, Bailey school, David Warne Douglass, T Parker N. Dailey, E.R. 1 don, R. T. Drew. P. A. and L. M. Hershew, In addi s held in. the asso~ cinti » holding « wert ctings ‘in the churches os well as taking part in religious mectings mother places, Last even Mr. M d coy od a meet- ing in Glick’s alley, whore a marked improve- ment has resulted from the holding of oun meetings. * _— Boys Caused the Mischief at Madrid, Though Thursday was a day of considernble excitement in Madrid there was nothing whate ever to justify tho assertion that the populace is or bas been in revolt. Most of the excitement was occastoned by a report that the anarchists had agai mimnenced their outrages. This re- pea had its origin in the fact that a bomb joaded with gunpowder had exploded near the Central telegraph office made by the explosion, but no da was done. ‘The policy are inclined to the belief tha® the bomb was placed where the explosion oo curred by boys bent upon mischief. - see A Medical Student Takes Paris Green. J. Ross Faulkner, student at the Belle= vue Hospital Medical College, New York cit: and the son of ex-Stato Senator Lecter B Faulkner of Danvill committed suicide yesterday at the hospital, His body was found at 4 o'clock ix his room, on the first flour of the east wing of the bospital, by Dr. James 8. White. Faulkner had taken paris green, The body was reawoved to the morgue, Faulkuer was twenty-four years of age. se rerowded English City. ty News » demonstrations of the f interest to point ont A great noise was The Moat © Frei the Loudon In connection with th unemployed it may be that London is not the most overcrowded city of the country. Liverpool enjoys that unen- viable distinction. In the thirty-three great towns from which the registrar general receiv weekly returns the averege number of persona to the acre is thirty-four. In Liverpool, how= ever, there are ninets-eight persone to the acre, In Ph fty-eight. London comes third with fifty-ceven. In ue other town, the average reach fifty, but Brighton, 1. Bolton and Sunderiand all have aver- than forty persons to the acre, in exnetly forty. Pater-—They wilt amuse the children.”