Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1893, Page 11

TALES OF STATESMEN Entertaining Gossip About Senator Kenna and Gen. Butler. > KENNA AND HIS CAMERA. oe SENATOR KENNA'S PHOTOG Wie Remarkable Picture of Beck ‘of Ken- tacky—His Manting Adventures and the Book He Had Planned for Boys—Ben But- ler’s Law Practice—His Memory and His | Power for Steep—Dan Lamont as a Cabinet ‘Minteter. a Written for The Evening Star ENATOR KENNA‘S death has robbed the boys of the United States of one of the most interesting books that has ever been planned for their amusement. Senator Kenna was a great lover of children and he could boys for hours by tell- ing them stories of his bunting adventures Ie Was a great hunter and be spent a large part of every summer camping ont inthe wilds of West Virginia. Many of his fri imgtos have received presents He was one of pest amateur photograr A States and be left hundreds o shots which be had taken inthe mountains anting scenes, and the negatives repre- senting these ace carefully classified and stored away in his brary. many years he had been taking photographs. and bis pictures rep- resent all sort: of hunting and g. and they are said to be the finest c im the country. During the past summer be planned « book for boys, which was to consist Of his stories of hunting and sporting and was to have been illustrated by these pictures, and it was to hare been entitied “A Book for My Boys.” The region in which Senator Kenna lived war a pietaresjue one, and he had scores of photographs of his childre: also many of hie brother Senators. One of the finest f the kind taken of the late Senator kof Kentucky was mace by Senator Kenna. Tepresents Senator Beck sitting under a great oak tree with his dog beside him and the picture ie most life-like. It was the best photograph that was ever taken of the great Kentuckian. NOW KENNA LOST A DEER. The most of Senator Kenna’s pictures are in- stantancous ones and it was long a hope of his that he would be able to photograph a deer on. the jamp. At one time he had made all his ar- Fangements fora photograph of this kind. ‘There was a deer in the bushes and its only way Ut was through « narrow gorge, where it would have to jump astream. Kenna had the bors go imto the bushes to start up the deer and he kad bite band on the bulb rea: jo press it when the deer should appear. As be heard it crashing through the brush, however, the spirit of the hunter overrode that of the ‘photographer and he dropped the camera and picked up his gan and ae the deer sprang forth he killed it, “Tn #peaking of this not long ago he ssid he re- gretted very much that he had lost the pic- ture. STORIES OF BEX BUTLER. It is queer how death treats public men. On the same night that Senator Kenna died on Capitol Hill in Washington another statesman away. His deathbed was located not a #tone’s throw from that of the young Senator, and. like Kenna, he bad kept bis life work going on until the last. He was, however, thirty vears older then Senator Kenna and he was figure tm the public eve almost before Senator Kenna was born. (en. Butler also began life young, but for nearly halfa century was a national . Had Kenna hved thirty years longer how much more might he have accomplished. He was only eight rears old when John Sherman came to Congress and be was still a boy when Busine was in bis prime. He was only twelve years old when Ben Butler jumped into na- tonal prominence at the Charleston con- vention, and when he started into the bai gone hold the attention of | *RAPH OF SENATOR BECK- nothing. I remember an instance here at Washington which happened only a year or 40 ago. A-soldier's widow who occupies a very responsible position in one of the departments | nds bos setously injured in arailroad accident, She was too poor to employ a big lawyer and the railroad corporation laughed at her de- mands for damages. She went with her story to Gen. Butler. He received her in his office on Capitol Hill, grunted aa she told ber story. but when she had finished it he said he would undertake her case for her and would not charge hera cent. As soonas the railroad company heard that Butler was her coansel they came to s and were glad to compro- mise at a good, round figure. A HARD WORKER. This partner of Ben Butler's tells me there was no harder worker in public life than he. ‘Said he: “Ben Butler once told me that he would \ | rather try cases of common drunkenness at #10 « suit than remain idle. He was the per- conificanon of inteliectunl activity and the gray matter of his brain was a great electric whieh was never idle. bis work and he kept bis papers and letters carefully arranged and filed away for future use. There is « great amount of unwritten his- tory in his correspondence, and I will not be surprised to dnd that he has left considerable unpublished manuscript. He was work- ing not long ago on a iecture on Judas Iscariot and his idea was to prove that Judas was the purest and nobiest of the twelve apoe- tles. He claimed this last on the ground that Judas alone appreciated the greatness of Christ and that he bet toassert His greatness, eupposing that He would by a word erush all His ener make bim- he King of the Wo! jety more than any his greatness on the stage of He did this not only by bis his dress, and he seemed to have umes as an actor. At here in an overcoat of tof the same material, for ail the world like a twas big enongh for « his bat was pulled down yr saw bis great ing out of one . I remember, tatesmanshi: actions, but peared save ina dress | suit. with a red rose people associate this wife's memory, for ) it is said that sho always inned such w flower in hix buttonhole before | he left home for his day’s work, BUTLER AT TEE caPITOL, eft Congress Ben Batler bas spent a tol. The RES Since he x his queer freaks in the way of dress. ithe right of entree to both House and | Senate and he usually went in without trouble. At the first casion, however, he ap- | peared in hi white sombi patent leather le came to the Senate c The messenger ¥ was running ie He thought he be put bis arm n. Butler to stand go in there,” said he; ‘this enators when the Senate is in tler looked at him and growled nd I have a right to go in.” ntiquated masher!” replied the doorkeeper, with a wink ata bystander. “Yon are trying to p’ for a sucker! You think Idon't know Senator Butler? He comes from mth Carolina and he just went In through You can't ge: in Go up and mash “em from the gallery, my dandy.” Gen. Butler was paralyzed for an instant, and then wheeling upon the astonished doorkeeper he fairly yelled: am Bi “Ob, no, my “Butler of South Carolina be blanked! Iam His own brigat eye Axed on the dawning light. Batler of Massachusetts! Gov, Butler, you pudent fool! And amid the profuse |The other of the group to us so near— apologies of the doorkeeper he went into the Senate. He had, of course, the right to do so by virtue of his being an ex-Congressman as well as governor. ‘BEN BUTLER'S WIT. Many stories are told here of Ben Butler's wit. fis brain was as quick asa flash and be had one of the most sarcastic tongues that ever eut a oul or cracked a joke. 1 heacd a story last night of his remark at the close oaal speech of John A. Bingham’ d uot like Bingham, buc the speech was anadle one and at its close the House was rapped in silence and you could have heard But- Ile was systematic in | ved Him to give Him a chance | at white sombrero, | hi a con- | said: I would like to sce any respectable father such a charge against me. I have heard this matter jested about and have seen it printed in the public press, but heretofore I have con- sidered it beneath ‘my dignity to notice it. I am getting tired of it now and I wonld like to end it by making some man pay me heavy dam- ages for libel.” This settled it. Butler's speech was reported and he heard nothing more from spoons daring that campaign. BEN BUTLER'S MEMORY. ‘Two wonderful things about Ben Butler were his memory and his power for sleep. A Wash- ington correspondent told me the other day how he called upon him one day for an inter- view. Gen. Butler had been working right along for eighteen hours and he was still at work when the co dent entered. He heard his request and then said: “+L would like to talk to you but my mind is full of this cace and I will have to sloep first, If i twenty minutes I will give you an said the correspondent, and Batler went into the next room. At the end of | twenty minutes he came out as fresh as a daisy | and bis mind was as clear asa bell. He had | slept just twenty minutes and I am told that he | could sleep at any time and in any place. He | | often slept in his chair in his office and neither | his mind uor his memory ever seemed to fail him. friends and when be was clected governor he | was surrounded by offico seckers. One of these, named Smith, came up to him and said: “Gen. | Butler, I have done all I conld to have you | elected and I want you to remember me now | when you come into your kingdom.” “Ah,” said Gen. Butler, “what is your name | “Smith,” was the reply. “Ihave worked for | you for years.” “Ah, Smith. It seems to me that I remem- ber you. You plaved me false at a convention just fifteen years ago. You promised to vote | for me, and “you voted for my opponent. No, Mr. Smith, I don't think I shall need you. iood-day.”” There seems to be no doubt but that Dan.La- mont is to be one of the cabinot of President Cleveland and the probability is that he will be the business manager of the administration. President Cleveland has iruplicit confidence in him and believes that there is no man in the | United States who has more common sense and is possessed of £0 much ability in this way as | Lamont. He has a wonderful knowledge of bu- | man nature. He can read a man at a glance and | his face is vuch that vou ean never tell anything | about the mind behind it. He systematized the | work of the White House during the last Cleve- | iand administration and he attended to every- | thing, from the laying out of the President's dinners to giving suggestions as to important | appointments. His honesty was never ques- | tioned and his fidelity to his chief was perfect. | | He could dispose of business ray He is | broad enough and big eriongh to co | | whole country and with all his notoriety he | never allowed the taffy which is so freel | to all men of prominence here at Washington to disturb his digestion or affect his manners. His little blonde head did not swell under the heated air of Washington adjalation and he was | | i | SECRETARY DANIEL LAMONT. as simple, plain and honest at the close of his term us at the beginning. He is » good manager of men and he will make a good cabinet oficer. His wife is a han woman who made herself noted here for her tact, common sense and sociable qualities, She | is a fair type of the sensible American girl, is weil educated and has more than ordinary mu- sical taste. During the last administration she | cared more for her home than society, but she | bad many friends an: i predict that as a cabi net minister's wife she will be a popular hos es. Fnaxx G. Carpenter. see | Written for The Evening Star ! ‘The Three Angels. Taree angels from the gate of heaven came | To earth below, And by the side of mortals ever since, Mid all their woe, ‘The three have stood, to comfort and to cheer— ‘Three stars above—three voices sweetly near. Faith was the first ercated of the three ‘That came to earth, Among those morning stars that sweetly sung Creation’s birth— With his bright face turned ever to the Lord. ‘The trust of childhood in the Father's word. Hope is the name the next brigat spirit bears 1 In heaven’s host, As close beside us mortals where we roam: Weary and lost, He comes to bid us look beyond the night, He was noted for his kindness to his | la! some young | HOW COAL WAS MADE Some Thoughts of Interest-at This Season of Frost. PRESERVED SUN’S RAYS. ‘What the World Was Like When the Coal etation in That Epoch Was Metamorphosed Into the Fuel of the Present, ete SLs ee en ‘T THIS FRIGID SEA- s0n,when the cold winds howl around chimney tops and the lakes and rivers are congealed,one feels inclined to wonder how peoplo managed to getalongand keep warm when there was no coal tobehad. After all,it was not so very long ago that fossil stores of fuel were first drawn és upon for the use of man- kind. That they cannot Inst forever is a pain- ful fact to contemplate. Only a few centuries from now, a6 it is reckoned, the coal mines of the world willbe practically exhausted, Hap- pily, the present generation will not be called on to solve the melancholy problem thus pre- sented, \ YEARS AND YEARS AGO. As the reluctant householder shovels its regu- lar stint of food into the greedy maw of the ogre in the cellar, otherwise known as the fur- nace, it is a marvelous thing for him to con- sider that he is keeping his dwelling warm by the heat of the sun’s rays which fell upon the earth millions of years ago. The solar orb of that vanished epoch, bigger than it is today and hotter, brought forth even in this latitude tropical vegetation of a wonderful Iuxurian: Plants of strange kinds grew up richly from the soil and formed dense jungles in the vast marshes which covered large areas of the #ur- face of this planet. Ferns, mosses and the | | leaves, branches and trunks of trees tell and de- eayed where they grew, only to make the soil more fertile aud the next growth richer and more luxuriant. Year after year, century after century. this process of growth and decay went on, until the beds of vegetable matter thus de- posited had reached grent thickness, But the enrth’s body was still shrinking, and in consequence her crust at times contracted and fell in, When it did so the land sank throughout vast areas, these beds of vegetable | matter went down and over the great marshes | the water swept again, bringing drift of vege- tation from higher levels to add to that already buried. ‘Then over these deposits the sand and | mud and gravel were laid up anew, and the | clayey soil from which the next rich growth | would spring was spread ont on the surface. | ‘This process was repeated again and again—as | often, indeed. ax seams of coal in any coal bed. | 180 squire miles andan average thickness of | Thus the conditions for the formation of coal | were made complete, atmospheric air being en- | tirely excluded while the vegetable beds under- | went the processes of decomposition. These pro- | cesses went on under the water of the ocean, under the sands of the shore, under the new deposits of succeeding ages, transforming the wood of the carboniferous era into the cdal of today. NATURE IS STILL MAKING COAL, though, unfortunately, not at a rate anything like fast enough to make up for the consump- | tion of this product. ‘The processes may be | watched from beginning to end. For this pur- | pose onc must first go toa peat bed, which is | simply an accumulation of the remains of plants that grew and decaved on the spot where they | are now found. When the upper layer of this | material is removed one finds peat with 52 to 66 | er cent of carbon, and the deeper one goes the | Petter in quality it gets Tt may be cut ont in | blocks with sharp spades, the water may be | Pressed from the blocks, ‘and they may be | stacked up, covered and ‘dried end used for | fuel, There is a certain kind of moss called phagnum.” which in large part makes up the Peat-producing vegetation. Tes routs dio sama ally, but from the living top new rocts are sent out each year. ‘The workmen who dig peat un- derstand that if this surface is destroyed the | growth of the bed must stop; 60 commonly they Temoved the sod carefully, replacing it after they Lave taken outa stratum of peaf. There 48 little doubt that if these beds of pent could undisturbed and covered over through many ages they would take on all. the characteristics of mineral coal. THE VEGETADLE STRUCTURE OF COAL. The substance of coal has been so compressed that the forms of the plants composing it cannot usually be seen, But when a piece of it is made so thin that it will transmit light, and is then subjected to a powerful microscope, ite vegeta- | blo structure may readily be distinguished, Immediately under every separate seam of coal there is a stratum of what is known as fire cl: ‘This stratum is always present and contains in great abundance the fossil impressions of roots and stems and twigs, showing that it was once the soil from which vegetation grew Inxuri- antly. It is common also to find fossil tree stems Ising mashed fiat between the layers of black slate which form the roofs of coal minos aa well as the impressions of the leaves, nuts and seeds which fell from these trees while they were living. In some beds of cannel coal whole trees have been found with roots, branches, | leaves and seeds complete, and all converted into the same quality of coal as that by which they were surrounded. BITUMINOUS AND ANTHRACITE, Geologists are of the opinion that bituminous and anthracite coals were formed during the some veriod and under like conditions, Origin- ally they were all bituminous, but during th violent contortions and upheavals of the earth's crust at the close of the carboniferous age the bituminous coals involved in that disturbance were changed by heat and pressure, and the consequent expulsion of volatile matter from Dituminous to aathracite. Cai variety of bituminous coal ing considerable light. It was called “can: coal” by the English people who first used it, ax it often served as a substitute for candles, ‘The name became corrupted to “cane!” and has so remained. It is more compact than | ordinary bituminons coal and it can be wrought in a lathe and polished. A certain variety of it | found in Yorkshire, England, is manufactured intoa kind of jewelry known as “jet.” ‘Was Formed, and How Its Laxuriant Veg- | "*’ | thut it was due simply to I i} G uf I E43 i ul 7 ry dened, forming fossil specimens which are unequaled im beauty and perfection. LUXURIANCE OF VEGETATION, ined by observation of the coal deposits India where.coal seams 200 feet thick ha been found. It is celdom, however, thet seams of anthracite exceed twenty feet in thickness. ‘The number of the coal seams indicates the umber of during which the growth and decay of plants was not interrupted. This number in the coal beds of Pennsylvania varies from ten to thirty. The combined average thickness of the coal seams of that state runs from twenty-five feot at Pitteburg to 120 feet at Pottsville. It must be remembered in- cidentally that the col in each seam is only from one-ninth to one-sixteenth in bulk of the woody fiber from which it has been derived, | Great Britain has about 12,000 miles of coal | deposits. The combined areas of coal beds in e United States amount to about 185,000 square miles, COAL IN BYGLAND. It is claimed that coal was mined in England before the Roman invasion by Julius Casa | The cinder heaps found among ruins of the | time of Roman supremacy in the island appear to chow that coal was largely used by the people of that age. By the end of the thirteenth cen- tury bituminous coal was burned to a consider- able extent in London. ‘The oldest coal work- ings in America are near Richmond, It is suppored that coal was discovered and mined | there as early as1750. ‘Tradition says that a boy | while hunting for crawfish chanced upon the | outcrop of a coal bed which crosses the James river twelve miles above Richmond. Mining was begun, and by the year 1775 the coal was in general use in the neighborb It played a part in the war for independence by helping to make cannon balls, and by 1789 it was being shipped to Philadelphia and New York. Dur- ing the late civil war these mines were seized by the confederate government for the purpose of procuring, fuol, and they are aill largely pre; ductive. “This coal bed bas an area of about twenty-four feet. It is supposed to contain about 50,000,000 tons yet unmined. There is reason to believe that the Indians knew some- thing of the uses of coal. “STONE COAL.” At the beginning of the present century anthracite or “‘stone coal,” as it was called, was not used at all except by blacksmiths and iron | workers in the districts where it was found. It was believed that it could not be made to burn ‘except by an artificial current of air, such as a, bellows supplied. In 1803 two great boat loads of it were floated down from Mauch Chunk to Philadelphia, Not alump of it could be sold because people did not consider it of any use for fuel. The city authoritios tried to use it for a steam engine at the water works, but it would not burn, Finally they gave it up, de- clared the coal worthless and caused what re- mained of it tobe broken up an stead of gravel cn the footpaths o grounds, This failure put a stop to the mining at Mauch Chunk, but it was renewed in 1818 and in the following year an ark load of the coal was started down the Lesigh river to Philadel- phia, by way of the Delaware, Its owners put up stoves in conspicuous public places in the cities, built coal fires in them and invited the people to stop and inspect them. ‘They went to rivate houses and prevailed on the inmates to Peallowed to kindle anthracite free in the grates which had been built for the use of soft | coal. They even bribed journeymen in black- smiths’ shops to give their coals a fair trial in the forges, LEARNING HOW TO POKE THE FIRE. The chief difficulty was to teach people how to ignite the new fuel. Having disabused them of the idea that a strong artificial air eur rent was necessary, the next step was to pre- vent them from disturbing the coals constantly by poking and raking them in order to induce them to take fire—a proceeding which the un- | initiated seemed to consider of prime impor- tance. Among those who bought the coaly was the firm of White & Hazard, manufacturers of iron wire. They spent a whole night trying to make itburn. ‘They poked, raked and labored incessantly, but notwithstanding the mont con- stant manipulation the coals above the burning wood would not ignite properly. By morning the men were disheartened and disgusted, and, slamming the door of the farnace, they left the mill und went to breakfast. It happened that one of them had left his jacket in the farnace room and returning for it about half an hour later he discovered that the furnace door was red hot. In great surprise he fiung the door open and found the interior glowing with an intenso white heat. Seeking for the cause of this un- expected result the men came to the conclusion ing the fire alone, a theory they afterward abundantly proved. The incident becoming generally known, people learned more from it about the process of building a hard coal fire than they bad learned from all their previous instruction. pabhidied! atcetiiy How Michigan Farmers Use the Telegraph. From the Engineering Magazine. In the November number of this magazine in the electrical department mention is made of a “rural farming district in Michigan that je | has provided itself with a telegraph line eight miles in length.” There is line in the north- ern part of benawee county which was com- meneed by connecting two farm houses, and hav Leen extended from house to house’ and Village to village until it is now over a hundred miles in length and connects newspaper offices, doctors’ offices and stores in Adrian, Tecumseh, Clinton, Franklin, Mason, Ridge PENNSYLVANIA DURING THE COAL-FORMING EPOCH Dr. Homer Greene gives an interesting de- scription of the climate of Pen: sivania ‘Sweet Charity, Or Love the mame as called on high, And with the three— | Love the sweet altar-fire to God that turna, | And thea for man in fervent pity burns. Beside each pilgrim in his weary way, ‘The three so dear— Even when slighted, still in pity deep ‘To bless and cheer— But the sweet stay, the brigatest of the three, And most like Him above, sweet Charity. For “God is Love”—so pure and deep with Him; & pin drop any place in the chamber. The ‘The fountains tow, Congressmen were ready to burst into applause | Which the deep shadows of parental love nen Butler, cocking his queer eye, said in a ‘So dimly snow— e whisper: T always cid like that speech!” | Al wisdom, power and holiness with him; | Bat Love the central ray of light sublime. And when beside the weary and the poor, We mortals go— | By word and deed to lighten and to soothe i Eacit heavy woe— | Puen the dear ange! comes w' And heaven resects belo ——__—_ + e+ End of a Big “tock Farm. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. was that of Stokes & Whitehouse, on the Lara- into the breeding of horses, i sires, and lost money They | sunk fully @500.000. Ine hunt one day White- ws practically abandoned, being lett in was x oC Perey Lamb, ro bad ean atta bend ftp [ever one handred, ana part of their food was 8 during the coal-forming epoch. The most remarkable features of the vegetation of that period were the size and abundance of ite plants. ‘Treos of that time whose trunks were from one to three fet in diameter and which | er toaheight of from forty to a hundred | feet are represented at the present day by sim- ilar species whose stems are only a fraction of an inch in diameter and but one or two feet high. But at that time all conditions were favorable for a rapid and enormous vegetable growth, air was luden with carbon, which is the principal food of plants—so laden, indeed, that man could not have lived in it, ‘The great humidity of the atmosphere was another ele- ment favorable to growth. Vegetation never lackedan abundance of moisture either at root or leaf. Then, too, the climate was universally warm. Over the entire surface of the earth the heat was ent ies of it that yw at that time niga in thoconi tte FOSSIL BEMAINS OF FERNS. ‘The most abundant of the plants of the coal- forming era were the ferns. Their fossil re- mains are found in great profusion and variety in most of the of the ‘There was also “A fow years ago the finest ranch in Wyoming | thirty feet and i iti j i Hit i E i iL i Eis f ] way and Raisin, ‘Tho farmer keeps up the ii across his farm and owns the in- strument. One cannot enumerate the benefits it confers, but one which the manager, Mr. Raymond Bowen of Tecumseh, mentioned to me today is worthy of special mention. The election returns came in very early from towns on the line and were given to ‘the agent of the Associated Presa in exchange for their dispatches, which were immediately sent over the wire toeach farm house. In re- ceiving news the farmer of Senawee county had anadvantage over the business man of New York and Chicago. I could not sleep last night,” said Mr. Bowen, “for I lay in bed® listening to the in- strament ticking off the election news.” What do you think of that? until every with cords ressibbereblilieioanecancie Just the Name. From the Clothier and Farnisher. xtended farm house is bound to every other Of steel. IN THE HOME CIRCLE. No Doubt That the Gentler Sex ts Acquiring Large Political Power—Wonderfal Strides Made by Women Recently—They Have Votes and Cast Them in Many States—In- Justices From Which They Still Suffer. ‘Written for The Frenine Star. HE TIME IS CLOSE at hand when women will sit and vote in the legislative halls of the nation. In fact, there is scarcely @ doubt that the Fifty-fifth Con- grese will include sev- eral members in petti- coats from at least two sovereign etates—Kan- sasand Wyoming. The latter will very likely choose Representatives of the gentler sex at the next elections. There will be women in the United States Senate be- fore long, perhaps. Whether they prore capable or not in framing laws they are sure at least to exercise a benoficial influence upon the manners of American statesmen. Women are rapidiy becoming a power in the Politics of this country. The beginning of it all was an effort on their part to secure control over the schools. At present twenty-one states of the Union allow them to vote for officers of schools. In nearly every state women are elected as school trustees, members of school boards and county superintendents of schools. | Last autumn nine women were elected ax mem- | bere of the school bonrd of Boston, 10,900 of | their sex voting. In Illinois women’ vote even for trastecs of the State University, this. privi- time last November. Fuily one-half of the counties in Kansas have women superintend- enis of schools, North Dakota bas chosen a woman for state superintendent of schools for the present year. TX Kansas, which in 1860 was the first state to grant school suffrage to women, the latter enjoy many addi- tional privileges. They vote equally with men in all the cities, casting their ballots for mayor, aldermen, judges und other municipal ofiicers ‘They will’éxercise this right of franchise for the seventh time next April, having it since 1887. It is particularly important, be- cause in that state therqare no less than 285 in- corporated cities, wherens in the state of New York there are only twenty-three such cities. | ‘This peculiar condition of affairs is due to the liquor dealers. Some years ago there was a law in force which obliged every liquor dealer out- side of the cities to get his petition for license signed by more than one-half of the residents of his ward or township, irrespective of sex. With remarkable unanimity the women declined to and the result was practical prohibition in smal] towns andrural parts. Accordingly the liquor dealers got ome the Srspaone ¥ e~ curing the passage of a law which permits any settlement of over 250 inhabitants to be incor- porated as a city. This deprived the women of their control over the sale of liquor in the towns, but the ngement has since proved very advantage- ous to them. At present in Kansas they are on an absolute equality with men, except as to voting for state and national officers. How- ever, it is likely that they will soon acquire all of these rights, inasmuch as the republicans and the people's party have united in favor of a Proposition to. strike one word out of thet clause of the constitution of the state which grants the right of ballot to “every male citi- zen.” That word is “male.” This amend- ment is to be voted on by the people in 184, and it ee, be adopted. Thus it is likely that Kansas will before long elect women as Representatives in Congress, and perhaps as Senators. Respecting all municipal affairs they already hold the reins, being effectively in control. No man whom they do not want can secure a place in the government of any of the cities. One city, Osksloosa, in 1887 elected women to fill all of the municipal offices, i einding those of mayor. city attorney, police stices and members of the common council. Since that time the mayor of Oskaloosa has al- ways been a woman and no edverse criticism | affairs. At the first election open to women, in 1887, 66.000 men and 26,000 women voted and the ratio of petticoat baliots cast since then has steadily increased. Experience proves that there is no truth in the old saying that women | generally do not care to vote. On the con- | trary, they exercise the franchise whenever they get the chance. WOMEN IN wroMIxG, ‘Twenty-five years ago the legislature of Wyo- ming passed a law granting to women all the rights as to voting which men possessed in the territory. There is nothing to prevent a woman from being governor of that state. bas as Tepresentatives of the state was recognized, and when they entered the great hall the convention rose in a body and cheered them. The delegates from Oregon, while on their way to the same convention, chose two women as alternates, to take the | place of alternates who were incapacitated by illness. At the convention of the ‘e party in Omaha there were nearly a score of women delegates. There were many women delegates alao at the convention of the prohibi- tion party in Cincinnati. During the recent presidential campaign not less than twenty women spoke on the stump. In 189 a convention is to be held in New York for the purpose of revising the consti tion of that state. The delegates will be elected by the’feople, and the law requires that some them shall be women. The latter will try their best to secure the recommendation of an amendment leaving out the word “male.” No SEX PROBIBITION. During the present week women representing the forty-four states of the Union have met in Washington for the purpose of asking Con- greas to submit a proposition to the legislatures of the states for an amendment of the national Constitution probibiting the disfranchisement of citizens on account of vex. This request has been made every year since 1869. Benjamin Butler long ago declared that the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States granted the ballot to all women as well as to negroes. This amendment declares that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof citizens of the Unil state wherein reside, and no state sball make a ‘any cy ‘whieh abridge vileges of citizens. of women suff: carried their appeal on this ground through the courts, but in vain. lege having been accorded them for the first | has ever been made on the administration of - | of construction, | tice of pat. also pi go y fe nothing quite co mean in this world as a i d, and there is no joke about the oft-quoted query, “What did you do with the 25 cents I gave you week before last?” GUARDIANSHIP OF CHILDREN. There are only six states out of the forty- four where the woman has equal rights with her husband as to the guardianship of ber children. | Elsewhere the father has absolute control over them. He can take them away from their ip If he chooses to send the girls to sell lowers in saloons and to apprentice the boss to ® bratel shimaster he can do it, no matter how much she may object. He can even will way into the hands of a stranger the guardian- ship of her child unborn at the time of his oath. There are only a few states where women can make any contract with their hus- j hands or testify in court as to any matters Wherein their husbands are concerned. In the |wouthern states the carpet-bagger legislatures framed laws similar to those in force in the north regarding the right of women to own Property, and those legal enactments still afford | protection to the women of the south. Even now women are discriminated ageinst everswhere as to wages. In all of tho govers- | ment departments at Washington women doing | exactly the same work as men get only two- | thirds a much pay. Why is thix so? Simply because they belong to a disfranchised sex. A certain Senator, on being appealed to on this subject not long ago, replied: “Madam, if we | Rave as good pay to | the women would soon be | partments, The voters of the country are of | the male sex, and the demand for places by men | is so great that we are only able to retain the | women on the plea of ecouomy, because we ean get them cheapo IN A SAVAGE STATE | of existence women are always treated in every | Fespect as slaves. The tendency of civilization jis to emancipate them. The day of their | freedom bas only dawned, and the notion that | they possess rights is ns Det xo new that it has | not ceased to excite ridicui judice agatust thi © parsing away, thongh wncb of it still remaiua. At a indies’ luncheon in Washington the other day one of the guests happened to remark that sbe was in | fever of woman's rights. This utterance ex- | cited a murmur of surprive and dieapprobation, whereupon sie who had spoken said: | “You do not agree with me because you have never looked into the matter, I think.” Permit | me to -uggesta care in point. Suppose that one of vou was arrested in shop ona charg of stealing. Such things have frequently bay ed through mistake, and adroit thieves will sometimes slip stolen ‘articles into other ple’s pockets. In such an event yon woul: taken to the police station and searched. The searching would be done by men, How agree- able, may I ask, would you find that There was another murmur, this horror. “You would not like it, I imagine,” the lady went on. “Well, it 1 for the purpose of ren dering such things impossible that the woman's right movement has been great extent car- ried on, one of its most important objects be- ing to secure the appointment of matrons at time of prisoners.” It bas been seriously euggested that in trials of women the juries shouid be composed of wo- men becatre they understand the motives and mental processes of their own sex fo much bet- ter than men do. exe Bac. ae eee BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. An Instance of the Suffering of Architecture the Atmosphere of Officialism. Birr Ferree in the Enginecring Magazine. Now that the world’s Columbian exhibition buildings nave been dedicated and every eritic, as well as every writer who can tell « building from a sandheap, is rushing into print with his opinion, it is being well recognized that by far ‘the worst of the large buildings are ted under the immediate | dirce burecu of construction and its able cbief, Mr. Burnham, but which were left to the tender mercies of officialism—the United States ernment building and that built by the state of Iilinois, A steady wail of inmentation bas gone up over the shortcomings of these buildings, but most unjustly. matter of fact nothing could be more satisfacto: ar dreadful- ness, and the worse they are the more ther ob- trude therr lack of proportion and their foreign- ness to the whole conception of the fair build- ings the better it is for art and the more thankful the chief of construction and his associates ehould be for them. Doubtless they are but in that case wi simply another ilins- tration of the inability of some men toappreciate their blessings. And the morite of the bad points of these structures lie simply in this, that they are the most complete and effective argument for the designing of the fair that could have been ‘he | devised, more convinemg and more powerful than even the wonderful beauty of the main nately, in this broad land of ours, many people who do not know a good building when they see one; if this statement is not believed how, Pray, are ths atrocious structures constantly going up in the most cultured communities and Sdmired in them to be explained? It is to be feared, farther, that there are many who will look upon the art and adornment of the Chicago buildings as a waste that might better have been saved. “To both of these the government and the Llinois buildings will make the best ble answer. Here are two buildings, not erected under the immediate supervision’ of the fir, in the atmosphere of officialiem, by the most approved machine methods, and seem- ing more ugly than they really are, more out of place, more distorted, more lle, by Teason of their juxtaposition to the true archi tectural beautizs produced by the bureau by the application of sound ar- tistic knowledge, feeling and appreciation of the beautiful. It is the story of beauty and the beast over again, if the comparison be a proper one. Side by side each system shines m un- dimmed luster, and the most casual visitor will be able to see and feel the force of art as op- Posed to ugliness, ————_+e+_—____ A MOUNTAIN RETREAT, ‘Where = Newspaper Writer's Imagination ‘The newspaper “fake” which made Bakers- ville, N. C., the scene of a bloody rict has served to draw public attention to a place about which little is known. It is a small vil- lage at the foot of Roan mountain. Roan General Wilder, / F F : z i i i ¥E iy il | E : i é j £ fi if fel ul if i i g 5 fi ; ! i i i rf ff He li i li Ff j 4 E I I structures themecives. here ere, unfortu- | ing of flame, which is a deception haaded down from remote antiquity. | “When the slaves in Sicily rose in rebellion abont 150 B.C. and took cruel revenge for the wrongs they bad enffered there was among them » Syrian named Runus. He warn man of | great craft and courage. and. having seen much | Of the world, he bad become acquainted with @ variety of little-known arta He pretended to have immediate communication with the gods, motber if he likes, and can do with them as he | flames leases. om wtance, he put it Into bis mouth through it The same trick ix bevier nowadaya. The nagler rele ome flax or into a ball about the ® walnut, which he sets on fire, permitting to burn until it fs nearly coneu Then be rolls around it more flax while it i yet burn- and performed mock ‘in the ball for « long time. to do bis act he slips the ball in unperceived and breathes th: breath revives the fire, 6 that from it. approached the fire of the altar. prieste old undoubtedly used naphtha to rake thee offerings catch fire, ar if spontancousdy, im order to detude the wondering mob. In mode" times persons who could walk over burning conis of red-hot iron, or who could bold them century an Englishman made himself faimons bs burning coals, swallow consisting of mercury, tin and biemuth, which, at alow temperature, may bave been eub- stituted for lead. the other feats mentioned, remembered that during the middl should escape with « solution of aceti mm cored red wil police stations, who should look out for female oman body. 1 | Blagden stayed ina room where the tempera- ‘ture was 260 degrees Fahrenheit for eight min- utes. A beefstenk was cooked in the same at mosphere and was overdone im thirty-three minutes, Sir F. Chantry and others remained for two minutes ina farnace which was muck hotter, the toermometer they carried with them Aldint | of Milan devised a costume consisting of a cloth, | covering for the body, arms and logs, which | had been steeped inasolation of alum. The head dress was a large cay enveloping the whole i ecloth, A metaflic dress was added to this, con- sisting chiefly of wire gauze. ‘The costume | intended to be worn by firemen. Clad im it | man could walk on bot iron in the midst of high flames.” —_- > Street Railroad Activity in New York. introduction of cable power on and electric power, either storage batiery underground conduit system, lines, and new equipment. to be lighted by elec by warm water or steam. to introduce a very Detween its various lines. ——— ee. A Love Story in Outline,