Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1893, Page 3

COREE THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY’ JANUARY 28, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES. SATOLLIS STATUS. ihe Papal Delegate and His Home at the University. A VIEW OF HIS QUARTERS. Waiting for the Official Papers From Rome— The Expected Coming of the Archbishop's Secretary— Bishop Keane Defines the Del- egate’s Position. &, T HERE ARE FEW MEN in this country who have attracted as much in- terest in the past few months as bas Mon- signor Satolli, the new papal delegate to the United States. He bas been written about time and time again, and the facts that bave been published about his a ality have been almost as varied as they have been numerous. As sual, the truth lies somewhere in the middle ground. S is neither # hair-shirted ascetic, hor yet is he a svbarite who lives solely for the good things of this life. calm in bis confidence oft He is one of the cleverest and ehrewdest men who have been closely attache: to the court of the present pope, and he ba a m 1 to his high office because it was he was the man best fitted to fill it. this country in the fall, r undefined or at u Tstood,he was known honght then -y one and that f disposing = the representative of has developed that his and that he is vested ary powers to settle all vexed AY arise He has been called this title is neither < one to those who are . although it gives y is. He is today the chureh in nan in oF LEPANTo. he archbishop of Le- his diocese, nor is » believe that there are any There used to be, rks got the upper hand The title still rem: er seen was called to ite pupil he had cardinal ope, who belo Inu power he hit is hardly that w him and question ‘imore would tu the delegate to the representative will reside at the in this city. It has been oceasions that as soon as the i that definitely settle his ill be transferred to Balti- 4 permanent residence there. is a mistake. The position end im-| portance of the new university are well recog- } ed im Rome. and while the pope's ambasaa- Jor te this country is to the ehurch and not to the state his odiciai residence will be the na- tion’s capital. he proposition has been rted in some wes Catholic papers of late to raise afund to build a handsome home for bim within the grounds of the university, and while nothing definite has been done in the matter as vet it is not at ail unlikely that the scheme will be put into effeet in the near fu- ture. HIS APARTMENTS. me being Monsignor Satolli oeea- Hils rooms are on the second floor, over entrance and facing toward the west. ¢ been described as almost palatial in point of fact they are noth- rt. ‘They are simply a suite of two sa bed room and a study, and are pre- upied by Bishop Keane, the nty, across the hall. The tue in size and furnishing as the n the th cis a warm red carpet that | ize with the hangings, for the that there are no hangings. dand are hung with « paravings of rather well- There is also a large | orirait of the pope. | who spent an hour or two y one day this week it was very maignor Satolli’s study is above A large oak desk stood | near the open fire- | @ bright fire of hickory ‘overed with books and silver and gold erucifix of the Virgin and Child. In t! talian-English diction- b made it look as though the arch- busy familiarizing himself f his adopted land. ‘This is Some time before be came to this or Satolli was given to under- ss the man selected to fill the @ and heat once began to English language. Now he read with but little dift- while of course speaking is by no me inti graph from « porte WIT TRE TIPEWRITER. means so easy yet he has got to the point where be understands English fairly well, and from aring it about him all the time, as he does, nent is very rapid. There were on the table and Look cases @ num- f the works of Thomas Aqui- ject of whose writings and teach- of Satolli i# today admittedly one blest authorities, Ai teresting proof he is rapidly “‘catehing on” to ods was seen in one corner of behind the door stood « n which be practices with pains- ¥- gate Monsignor Satolli draws a yearly salary of 90,900 lire or francs, about the very limited expense to while at the university thisis imple. He ws = man of frugal s riser and ahard worker. At “legato . but as time goes post increases it is ‘hes will be appointed. Monsignor Satolli bas not takes a very active part in affairs genor- ally, although ix certain matters, as for in-| stance. the reinstatement of Dr. “McGlynn, be fae made his power firmly felt. The reason of Besitancy on bis part is that the formal ‘hich mark distinctly his powers arrived from the Vatican. s and his person- | ~ in the big building of the univer- | dents in the building. | jarge and cheery room, com- © plainly fitted up and with | elegance. ‘The furnitare is of | ‘THE DELEGATE’s SECRETARY. They are being prepared or possibly have been by this time and are to be brought over by his secretary, Dr. Rooker. A rumor was started last Saturday that Dr. Rooker had arrived in New York on the Kaiser Wilbelm from Genoa, but although his name was on the passenger list he himself was not on board. It is supposed that his de; was postponed owing to some delay in the preparation of bis papers. A ca- Diegram announcing his departure from Rome ts looked for at any day now at the university. Dr. Rooker is a young man from Albany, N. nd is thejson of a well-known net man of that city. He himself tried bis hand at the business for @ time before he made up his mind to study for the priesthood. After re- ceiving a thorough education in this country he went to Rome to study, and while at the Ameri- can College he made en unusual success and IN THE CHAPEL. was the favorite pupil of Monsignor Satolli_at the propaganda. When the latter came to thi country three years ago last fall as the pope’s | legate to the ceremonies in Baltimore and the | dedication of the Cathohe University in this | city he intrusted his chair and lectures at the | cd to the young American priest, who position with very considerable credit f and to his teacher. It was at Monsig- | tolli's special request that his youn nd protege was made his secretary | when he was delegated to his new office. | NOT AN AMERICAN POPF. ‘The question was put to Bishop Keane by the reporter recently, “Have we in Monsignor Sa- tolli an American pope’ “No,” exclaimed Bishop Keano, “no more than M. Patenotre, the French minister, is an American President, or Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British representative.an American queci Bishop Keane, rector of the Catholic Uni- versity, constitutes with Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Ireland the triumvirate of what has come to be recognized as the American party in the Catholic Church. In his proximit to Mgr. Satolli, who is established at the uni- versity, it bas’ naturally fallen to the lot of Bishop keane to act as the intimate confidant of the pope's representative, and thus he be- comes a person of importance in the America: church second only to the papal representative himeelf. Referrit ganizati to Mgr. Satolli’s place in the or- n of the church the bishop went on to | say: ““A more exact papal parallel of the for- eign ministers in this country would be a nun- | cio, He would represent the pope in relation | to the state. Mgr. Satolli represents the pope | ins like manner in relation to the chureb. | “*How will Mgr. Satolli rank in the state? He has positively no relations with the pse he were present at some social ,asat a state dinner, what | “Only such rank as would be spontaneously accorded the most distinguished ecclesiastic present.” “Will Mgr. Satolit's office be made the bas ew efforts to secure the reception of a papal | “Absurd! the reception of a nuncio by the | United States government is an impoasibility | under the provisions of its Constitution, which ‘recognizes no church and accords perfect | liberty to all religiom. Ihe Catholic Church in America has no need of a nuncio and does not want that is essential to our best inter t freedom to worship God according to the dictates of oar conscience which every American has alike. We have thing to fear from our country and every- thing to hope from it. No differences that a diplomat must settle, but perfect sarmony that all are bent on securing. We are Catholics, yes; but we are.‘ merican,s a8 well. pious horror of vee doo American existing among a small faction within the church is not the true ‘Catholic sentiment. It is the whino and snarl of the dog in the manger. No may fairly claim to represent the Cath Church who preaches the doctrine that to lov God we must hate Cwsar, that because we believe in Rome we must distrast America. All the misplaced regard for fatherland and motherland that has found its way into the congregation of the church nd ix known as Cahensiyism is noless uncatho- lic and foreign to the tenchings of Rome. When the holy futher sends his children of many na- tions to this country to do bis work he does not say to them: ‘Go you, German, and save the souls of Germans; go you, Frenchmen, and Ld | | | THE BED ROOM. save the souls of Frenchmen.’ No; he says: “Go you and minister to the needs of all souls, and in your labor may God bless you all as tholics and Americans.’ ” “Is there anything besides geography that makes the Catholic Church of America recog- nized in Rome as American?” “Yeu patriotism. Loyalty to country defines the national characteristics of every branch of the church, but because in America the church is defended in the very Constitution of the people. because here we have the greatest freedom and the largest hope, American Catholics are the happiest on earth und consequently the loudest in their patriotism. We go over to Rome, wave the stars and stripes in their faces and shout hurrah until for very self-defense they have to sing “The Star Spangled Banner’ unto us and marvel at the stretch of the American eagle's wings. ‘This ability to Americanize Rome which Bishop Keane indieated was even more clearly set forth from Dr. O'Connell, the ecclesiastic | from Rome, who accompanied Mgr. Satolli on | his original mission as papal representative at | the dedication of the world’s fair. | WoW ARCHBISHOP IRELAND ASTONISHED THE | POPE. It was Dr. O'Connell who ushered Archbishop Ireland into the presence of the pope when the archbishop of St. Paul went to Rome with par- ticulars of the school question. The forms | which govern the audience of even an_arch- | bishop with the pope are unvarying and cere- monious in the extreme. Moreover, the natural reserve of Leo XIII is such as to keep all per- fons at adistance. That it intimidates roy- | alty is weil known in the story of how the youn, Emperor of Germany. in an audience, dropped the present he had brought to the pope, then let fall bis helmet, which he held in his other | hand, shook like « leaf and with his eyes glued | to the floor, stood, unable to speek an intelli- gible word. | Within @ certain radius of his immediate presence noone ever approaches the pope. In conformity with the etiquette governing the situation Arebbishop Ireland was seated before the pope mt the prescribed distance, and thus | begun the presentation of his case. But, warm- ing with the vital interest he feels in the school question, involuntarily he arose to his feet, and talking rapidly the while with an utter absence of the five phrases with which ambassadors and foreign dignitaries of all sorts are apt to embel- lish and obscute their real purpose in address- ing the pope, the archbishop unconsciously mored up inch by inch to the foot of the throne, then, still imp by the force of hia over- whelming earnestness, he was on the steps of the throne and close beside the pope, under the ery papal nose be was laying down the facts of the American church with emphatic gesture | and stroug. plain-spoken words.’ When be bad will consist only | exhausted his subject without any apparent | sciousness of the tremendous breach of | ce etiquette he bad been guilty of the arch! gathered up the papers he had scattered along his democratic way, and with no more elaberate adieu than “good morning” took himself off. For some moments after his departure the pope is said to have sat in silence with bowed | bead, as if still under the spell of that unfet- | tered will and earnest soul. Then slowly lift- ‘his eyes and drawing king with state officials | ‘The alleged | " promptly answered the bishop, “our | along breath he said; man is g zevelation tome He brings a| by | preatn of new life with him, Such courage, plicity, foree—surely great good shall come | out of the west.”” TRE CATHOLIG UNIVERSITY. The pope's representative in the west has about him in the environment of the Catholic University conditions distinctly American. Several miles from the heart of Washington the university stands in the midst of the 400 acres it calls its own. A steady and rather rapid ascert from the street leads to the main build- ing rhich crowns the rise of ground, overlook- ing in two directions a sparsely settled tract, of ng, Wooded country. In another direction gleams the marble tower of the Soldiers’ Home, almost hidden among the intervening trees, and to the south » bird's-eye view of the street stretches away to the Potomac. The clean, far- Teaching survey the eye enjoys, the unob- structed play of the sun and wind ‘and the ap- Parent clevation above everything outside which one feels standing at the door of the untver- sity, all combine to produce that American idea of the infinitude of life and liberty which is commonly only to be bad in the western prai- ries. In the matter of construction, the uni- versity has obtained but something over one- sixth of ite complete extent. ‘The hall of, phil- osophy now building,bas sufficiently fo chow, like the mein ba og, great magni- tude without a suggestion of magnificence. There is something almost puritanical in the Unostentations stretch of gray walls that neither pleases nor offends the eye. Within the building corresponding simplicity prevails, even to the Private chapel where Mgr. Satolii now cele- rates mass every morning. All this is pecu- liarly in accordance with the tastes of “Mgr. Batolli, who from his long intimate association with Leo XIII is American, at least in so far as to be American isto be of simpleynustere habits When Leo XIII was elevated to the chair of St. Peter he bronght with him to Rome the lit- tle court with which he had been surrounded in the archbishopric of Perugia. Of this court was Mgr. Satolli, and it is not the imagination that ——— hat a score of years — in cloge re- tions with Pope Leo have impressed Mgr. Satolli strongly with his personality. The re- semblance is that subtle likeness which is most in spirit and is never so evident as in the im- pressive picture the archbishop presents when celebrating mass. His face wears habitually tho serenity of expression which with its profundity bafites curiosity, and though breaking now and then into a smile, seems to leave forever undis- turbed the calm breath of the surface. —_ BROOKLAND. Miss Bertha Duttle of Dubuque, Iowa, is vie iting her cousins, Mr. and Mrs, George Angell, Mrs. Crosswell is again on duty at the Brook- land school after her enforced absence on ac- count of illness, Mrs, Theodosia Willard hasreturned to Brook- land. Miss Lola Young and Miss Bain have been the recent guests of Mrs. Brooks of University Heights. Mr. E. 8. Morgan haa commenced the erec- tion of the first brick house in Brookland on Dover street near 12th for Mr. George W. Eberly of Washington. Mrs. Veronica Andrews, mother of Mr. Frank | Andrews of Brentwood road, died recently and | was buried from St. Patrick’s Church. | Mrs. Ellen Bridgeman and Miss Violet Snoots have returned from Frederick, Md. ‘Miss Fannie Browner has’ been visiting her r, Mrs. C. K. Hetfield. Mr. Plummer Rhine, nephew of Mr. 8. J. | Owens, about whom so’ much concern was felt on account of his illness from lockjaw, has en- tirely recovered under the care of Dr. Darling ‘Mr. N. Etz has moved into his new house on Lansing street. | Mr. James E. Clark has begun the erection of a large addition to his residence on Michigan avenue. Mr. Raymond Marean has been doing some good work in amateur photography, portraying Brookland people and Brookland homes. Mr. Jobu T. Hare has inoved into his new residence on University Heights. ‘The thaw has spoiled the coasting. A missionary concert will be held in the | Queenstown Baptist Church tomorrow evening and interesting exercises are promised. ‘The Brookland Whist Club met this week at | the pleasant home of Mra. M. V. Burr on Uni- versity Heights and were delightfully enter- | tained. Sociability and good cher prevailed, | and after refreshments were served dancing be- | came the feature of the evening and was in- | duixed in until quite late. Among those in at- tendance were Mr. and Mra. H. M. Woodward, | | Mr. and Mra, T. G, Carmick, Mr. and. Mrs, | K. Hetfield, Mr. « Mra. Louise | Jallien, Miss Addie Jullien, Miss Marks, Mr. | Phil Jullien, Mr. Wood, the Misses Terry, | Misses Frances, Mary and Fannie Marean, | Miss Sidney Johnson, Mr. Fred Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. H. Barton, ‘Capt. and Mrs, Baumer, the Misses Emily and Agnes and Master Charlie Brooks. Se NEWS FROM ROCKVILLE. | Satisfaction at the News of Judge McComas’ | Confirmation. otes. | Correspondence of The Evening Star. Rocxvitte, January 27, 1898 Rev. L. B. Milbourne, pastor of the Baptist Church at Cedar Grove, was a few days ago Presented with a handsome gold watch as s token of esteem by members of his congrega- tion. The presentation address was made by Mr. Chas. Purdum, jr..to which @ happy re- sponse was made by the pastor. The semi-annual meeting of “Ridgely Brown Camp of Confederate Veterans” of this county will be beld hero on the 4th of February. | John T. Adams, colored, who was committed to jail here on Sunday charged with a felonious | assault on his daughter, Ida Adams, had a hoar- ing before Justice Cordict on Tuesday and was | remanded tu jail for the action of the grand | fury. In default of bail the daughter was com- mitted to jail as a witness. Mr. Harry Mannakeo shot and killed » mad dog near Kensington a few days ago. ‘Mr. Samuel J. Nicholson and Miss Mary E. McDonough of Hyattetown, this county, were married in Frederick city on’ Tuesday last. Mr. N. D. Offutt while driving along the public road about two miles wost of this place on Tuesday night was ordered to halt by three white men who sprang from the bushes on the side of the road and attempted to seize t bridle of the horse. By vigorously spplying the whip the horse was made to break away from the would-be robbers and Mr. Offutt es- | caped. The news of the confirmation by the United States Senate of Judge Louis E. McComas was received here with much pleasure by the numer- ous friends of that distinguished gentleman. During the lengthy contest in the Senate over the confirmation his friends here never lost faith in his ulthnate triumph, and no weight whatever was attached to the soveral trumped- up charges against his character. The abortiv efforts of those young gentlemen whoattempted the role of opposition on the ground that he was not a citizen of the District were only a subject of ridicule, when it was well known that iu many cases their own tracks were scarcely cold in Maryland or Virginia. 8. A. M. oo Written for The Evening Star, Binine. A massive man, a massive mind, A nature of magnetic might! A heart that understood mankind, A soul that glowed with genius bright! Diplomatist in rare degree, Great statesman, orator and sage! ‘Thy country recogaized in thee ‘The qualities that mould an age! Upon thy tablet we engrave ‘The tributes due to patriot lives, And memory shall o'er thee wave Its standard while our land survives Exalted citizen of the States United in their love for thee, ‘Though bowed our banner to the Fates, With pride tts stare are glittering free! Onr nation mourns its honored dead, But tn the peopie’s breasts there springs ‘The ower that crowns the patriot’s head And round his grave ite incense filngs. ‘On history's page thy name shail shine In civic glory! While thy word And writings wise the trath enshrine— “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Knight of the pen—O, plumed knight! ‘Our champton of th’ untented field! Pradent in counsel, firm for right, ‘Thine was the power that great men wield! —Davip Granam Apex. ——_+e-____ + “——~Important Art Sale in New York. ‘The most important art sale of the season 00- curred last evening in New York, when the col- lections of the C. J. Osborn and Edwin Thorn estates, combined with the private collection of Edwin 8. Chapin, were disposed of. The total receipts for the paintings sold were 141,445. Jules Breton’s ‘Departure for the Fields” brought $17,000; “The Oriental Mer- chant,” by Gerome, sold for $15,100; “ b j of the 5 brought [REAL ESTATE GOSSIP. Men Who Own Their Homes and Men Who Do Not. THE MAKING OF BRICKS. “ ‘The Percentage of People Who Live in Hired Honuses—The Growing Industry of Brick Making in This City—Some of the Im- Provements Now in Progress. T 18 COMMON enough to hear the statement that every one ought to own a home. Public speakers emphasize the impor- tance of s man being the sole proprietor of his castle, which is one of the legal terms for home. Saving institu- tions recommend the small savings as the proper way to start in the purchase of m home, while individual builders as we! as building associa- tions hold out inducements to those who have but little money and who want to buy ahome. Writers on such subjects as “how to get on in the world” urge upon the young to begin at once the purchase of a house. The advantages of having a roof over one’s head is constantly being brought to the attention ina variety of ways, and in fact the whole trend of argument and the weight of advice is all in this one direction. Men reali: opinion is against them on this subject if they either do not own a home or are not engaged in buying one, and they assume an apologetic attitude and sometimes one of defiance. ‘They say that they are going to or perhaps they take the superior attitude of one who 1s making bet- ter use of their savings than following the slow method of buying a honse on the install- ment plan. After a while they will tell you when they have got their pile then they will buy a house. Occasionally you will meet witha man who has the assurance to tell you that he saves each month what he would have to pay for a house by monthly pay- ments and puts it away in the bank, and he will argue that he is saving money because he Will not have to pay such a high rate of inter- est when he comes to buy. OBLIGED TO SAVE. The fact is that there is not one manina self in such a position that he will be obliged to eave whether he wants to or not. Men are afraid to assume responsibility and to face the rospect of depriving themscives of some of the luxuries and the supertiuities of life. How- ever, the motive be what it may, the fact remains that the residents of this city and of other cities own their own homes, ‘The statistics gathered by for example, during the last week there was issued from the census office a bulletin giving, among other things, the ownership of homes in the sate of Maryland. A similar balletin has been issued containing the eame class of facts about the District of Columb: or what is practically the same thing, the city of Washington. From thix source it is learned that there are in the city of Baltimord 96,45 home families, and of this number over 73 ‘pe cent rent the houses they live in, while the ba er “a ance own their houses either ‘in part or in whole. In this city there are 43,580 home familes, and yet nearly 75 ‘per cent of that number rent their homes and the remainder own their houses in whole or in part Thore is uo reason to suppose that either of the two cities named are exceptionable in the list of cities in this country. Cer- tainly there is less cause for in this city to continue to pay rent if they have any desire to be their own landlord than in most any other place, for the reason Any man of reasonable industrious habits and small sum of money ean makea start on the road that will bring him to the point when he is the king in his own castle. Besides all this the advance in values and the activity in property is of beuctit to the small owner, real estate market is inactive, and where it is quite as serious a problem to get rid of prop- erty as it seems to the average man to buy it. ART IN BRICKMAKINO. During the past week a number of the brick manufacturers of the city have been in attend- ance at the annual meeting of the Nutional Last year the avnual session was held in this city, and the brickmakers, who came here in large numbers from ail parts of the country, had an opportunity to see the importance of that industry at the nation’s c ‘They learned that the annual output ai time was nearly one hundred and fifty mil and during the past year no doubt the quantity was still greater. There is no question about the superior quality of the brick made in this vicin- ity, and its general use in the best buildings is a further evidence that brick takes a high rank asa building material. The makers of brick however, are not satisfied with turning out a good article, but they recognize the changes in the character of architecture and the advance made in the matter of taste. It is pos- sible to obtain from the makers now bricks molded in any design which an architect may suggest. ‘The scope of the art of brick making was pointed out by the presi- dent of the National Association, Mr. Charlet B, Pearson of this city, in the course of the address which he made at the opeying of the convention. He said: “By every consideration of ornament and utility, the architecture of American homes, business blocks, school houses, church edifices, public structures and charitable buildings, ix one of very large moment, as touching upon the culture and prosperity of the people. The varivty of shades, the elegant finish and the | diversity of ornamentation which we have at- tained’in the manufacture of brick afford the widest possible scope for pleasing and artistic finish of walls, The old square ungle which made a brick building look so stiff and ‘forbid- ding has given place to the broken angle and the curve, by which it is possible for us to mold brick with which we can produce in a wall anything which the architect can create upon paper. Along this line the demands of the future will be practically unlimited.” THREE New HOUSES. Three houses are to be erected on Pennsyl- vania avenue near 10th street southeast from plans prepared by W. J. Palmer, architect. ‘They will have three stories and basements, with fronts of Indiana limestone up to the first- story sills and cream brick the balance of the way. Stone trimming will be used generously on the facings. Swell bays will be prominent in two of the houses, while a circular bay will diversify the front of the remaining house. The roofs will be Frolecting and covered “with Spanish tile. mm the iirst floor will be the purlor, reception hall, dining room andkitchen. Sleeping apartments reql baths will occupy the remaining floors. The baths and vestibules will be tiled The laundry is located in the basement. Furnace heat, electric bells, speak- ing tubes, cabinet mantels and all good equip- ents prevail. SIX SUBURBAN COTTAGES. Six two-story-and-cellar cottages are to be built at West Brookland from plans prepared by Jos. C. Johnson, architect, The dwellings range in dimensions from 22x30 to 28x40. Prominent features of the architecture will be numerous gables and verandas on the front and side of the cottages. Square, round and octa- gon bays will diversify the fronts and extend to the steep shingle roofs. The interiors, trimmed with white pine, will have latrobes, cabinet mantels, t fire boards, hearths and baths and all modern improvements. SOME NEW BUILDINGS. Charles A. Arundel will build a house on 17th street near R street from plans prepared by C. A. Harkness, architect. The house will havo show window, oriel between the J.L. Poston will shortly begin the erection of a three-story addition to (2120 Penn- sylvania avenue for E. P. ‘Cost, $2,500. i Plead Not Guilty. ‘Roscoe ©. Campbell plead not guilty this Company in February last. that public | thousand that will save unless he will put him- | urprising small proportion of | the census office give some astonishing results. | people | that the facilities offered here are very best. | especiaily in comparison with places where the | Brick Manafacturers’ Association in Louisville. | | WHO OWNS THE SEALSt ! Dr. Welling Makes an Ingenious Argument to Sustain Uncle Sam's Claim. THE PRINCIPLE OF LAW GIVING A MAN OWNER- SHIP IN A SWARM OF BEES APPLIED TO AX INTERNATIONAL I88UE—A STRIKING ANALOGY —A NOVEL VIEW OF TRE CASE. The most recent contribution to the litera- ture bearing on the Bering sea dispute isa paper written by Dr. James C. Welling, prosi- dent of the Columbian University, and issued in pamphlet form in the series of Columbian University studies. Dr. Welling, besides hav- ing the dignity and responsibilities attached to the office of president of the university, is pro- fessor of international law in the law school of the university. The paper referred to is en- titled “The Bering Sea Arbitration; or, Pelagic Sealing Juridicatly Considered According to a Particular Analogy of Municipal Law.” Reduced to the simplest words Dr. Welling suggests the application to the case of the seals of the legal principle under which a man would reclaim his flock of pigcons or swarm of bees. So Dr. Welling's discussion of the sub- ject revolves mainly about the first principle of w, that relating to the convertibility of wild animals into property by occupation, and espe- cinlly such animals as possess, in logal phrase, the animus revertendi, or the disposition to re- turn to a certain place. This disposition, where it would be turned by man to economic uses, is shown by Dr. Welling to have been ized by law and writers on law from the earliest times as an element in determining property rights, Carrier pigeons and bees are cited as instances, a qualified property right in them being recognized. “The rule of law,” the writer says, “‘con- tinues to depend entirely on the degreo to which that quality, under human regulation, can be utilized for economic ends, and this Utilization for economic ends (as we'see in the case of bees) is most immediately the case of animals which have, by nature, an habitnal disposition of return’ which so ties them to a given place that the habit may be di- | rectly used for economic purposes. The economic aptitudes of such animals, if they be found in sufficient numbers to make their in- closure or husbandry an object of gain, can be made at once the basis of economic computa- | tion—a basis of computation almost as fixed as the soil to which they are tied by the habit of return.” PROPERTY IN THE SRALA, Tt would seem, he says, that these facts in | the economics of natural history and the rules of law which have been based on them are not without their application to the controversy now pending between the United States and Great Britain with regard to the capture on the high seas of fur seals which have their birthplace in Alaska and which, in all their pe- lagic inigrations, are known to have an animus revertendi which gives to the breed a calcu- lable value at the point of fixed return, ‘This animus revertendi, it is true, is not the crea- tion of human art in seals, any more than in bees; but for the very reason that it has a fixed qu | the more tributary to man’s emolument. On the faith of this instinct, and of the property Tight which it condilionates and assures 80 long as itis not disturbed, the government of the United Statos has dove infinitely more for the Alaskan seais which it husbands than the most enthusfastic apieulturist has ever eaayed to do | for the honey bees which he may have domosti- cated and inclosed in patent hives of the latest construction and most costly variety. The highest resourches of statecraft, of a: ra tive policy, of police control and even of inter- national diplomacy have been put in requisi- n for the protection of the fur-seal breed, on the ground that the fur-seal husbandry is a fac tor in our national economies, as well as in the economics of the world, and on the further ground that depredations committed on the | seal herds in their pelagic migrations must lead ‘eventually to the destruction of the fur-real species in Alaska (as has happened elsewhere), and so must inure to the economie detriment | of the United States. It is further argued that | the capture of seals in their periods of annual migration is attended with circumstances of wanton barbarity and of wasteful excess, which | and private morality. To the writer of this paper it does not seem that the United States, in the purchase of | Alaska from Russia, bought along with ita mare clausum in the Bering sea. The United | States could not buy more than Russia had to |sell. But the United States could buy from Russia a right to the undisturbed enjoyment of the Alaskau seal usufruet on sea_as well as on | lund. for this isa right which Russia enjoyed and a right which, attaching as it does to a1 mals having the animns revertendi, is rooted in a rule of reason and of law as old 48 the prop- erty law of historical jurisprudence. The rule was old in the days of Gaius.~ He says it is one which in his day had beea “handed down” as | settled law. As the animus revertendi insures the owner's | property right in inclored bees, when they have | swarmed (in such way as to ve identifiable) on | the Innd of a neighbor, though they cannot | there be reclaimed without ‘trespat would seem not unreasonable to hold that the owner's | property right in inclosed seals ehould be se- cured by their animus revertendi during the period of their pelagic migrations, since, if they are of right reciaimabie at all, they are there reclaimable without liability to indiet- espass.”” Writa wili not run either for the action in trover or of trespass on the case within the ‘‘no man's land” of the inap- propriable ocean; but the rules of right between two nations ought to be e#eentially the same as the rules of right between two individuals, how- ever diferent may be the rules of procedure. WHY NoT ON THE SEA? ‘To hold that the animus revertendi of Alaskan scal herds is sacred from assault within three miles from the rhore, but is open to marauders’ violence at a distance ono milo further (while tho animus revertendi remains just as strong in the remoter as in the nearer strotches of their migrations), is to play fast and loose with this tule of right and so to convert it into a delu- sion anda snare. ‘The seal husbandman, who will protect the owner's right in them indefi- | nitely, even when it runs on land where another | bas the ius dominii, but that in the case of seals | it will not run on salt water more than three miles, though outside of that limit nobody has aius domimi to plead against it (and though, | too, itis justas strong at a distance of four | miles or 400 miles outside of that limit as at a | distance of one mile inside of the limit), might | be sorely tempted to commit even a worse irreverence than that of Mr. Bumble when, in his legal discomtiture, he exclaimed, “The Law is a ass, a idiot! Nations in general have not pronounced the eapture of seals on the high seas to be contra bonos mores. The reply of Lord Salisbury un- der this head seems to be conclusive, but it is reply which moves, and was intended to move, in static law alone. The argument of Mr. Blaine moves in what we rection of that a petual point de mire of an advancing civiliza- tion—n moral ideal accepted by Lord Salisbury himself when he says that ‘her majesty's gov- ernment would deeply regret that the pursuit of fur seals on the high seas by Brit vessels should involve even the slightest injury to the people of the United States.” Dr. Welling says: At bottom, under the cir- cumstances and conditions of ‘the arbitration agreed upon, the question now pending be- tween the United States and Great Britainnith regard to the furseals of Alaska is thie: Will ‘the property rights of the civilized world and the interests of a growing civility among ua- tions be better subserved by remitting the eap- ture of seals on the high eeas to the primeval law of occupation, or by putting that law under the restrictions of international equity aud of ‘& progressive humanity? DO THEY BELONG TO LAND oR wATEn? And when we consider the tie which binds the Alaskan seal herds to the Alaskan soil it seems proper to ask whether these herds are more appurtenant to the land in which they have their native home and to which they have a fixed habit of:seturn or whether they are more appurtenant to the seas in whic y itean be made, under proper control, | should be probibited im the interest of public | thould learn that the animus revertendi of bees | . point of law, which, if well taken, seem to be determinative of the main issue joined in the “Bering sea arbitration.” A doctrine of law does not vary with the mag- nitude of the issues that turn on it. if itis sufficient to reclaim « fock of ought it $e be eullohan'$e racine wheeler sean, if it) be good as between bors under } law, it ought to be nations under international law. No attempt has here been made to: the American case or to traverse the British case at any other it. Indeed, the student of international as such or with the British case aswuch. He seeks simply to find in the pending litigation the rule of right which should obtain in » govern- ment of the nations, by the nations and for the nations, to the end that righteousness may be as much the law of the seaasthe law of the land. eas one FOR SWEET CHARITY'S SAKE. Successful Concert Given for the Benefit of the District Poor. The concert for the benefit of the poor of the District, which took place at Metzerott Music Hall last night, brought together « greater number of local musicians than were ever as- sembled in one program before. All freely contributed their services in behalf of charity, and the public generously responded by filling nearly every seat in the hall. The appreciation of the efforts of the performers was manifested in the most liberal applause, although no en- cores were permitted. Alithe participants suc- cesafully accomplished the numbers assigned them, and the individual and concerted work reflected the highest credit upon the musical circles of this city. Those who contributed to | the success of tho program were Miss Hattie | Meads, Mrs. Kitty Thompson-Berry, Mrs. Nellie Wilson Shir-Cliff, Miss Ruth Thompson, Messrs. Herndon Morsell, John P. Lawrence, Herman Rakemann, the Philharmonic Quartet, consist- ing of Misses Meads, McCulloch, Shepherd aud Stidham; the Washington Mandolin, Guitar Club, the Washington Saengerbund, the St. Cecilia Quartet, Mra. Shir-Cliff, Miss Thompson, Mrs. True and Miss Worley; the Philharmonic Club, Messrs. _ Lawrence, |Rakemann and Lent; the Franz Abt | Club, Messrs. Buchanan, Knoop, Holmes, Bird, | Abbott, Kaiser, Hancock and Yeatman; the Columbia’ Mandolin, Banjo and Guitar Club, and the Choral Society, led by Mr. Dushane Cloward. Mr. Wm. Waldecker performed the onerous task of accompanist. It is understood that over $500 was realized by the concert, which will be turned over to Maj. Moore for distribution to the poor through the police. There was noexpense every one connected with the concert contributing their services, even to the employes of the Music Hall. ‘To’ Messrs. ‘Morveil and Stone is due great credit for their | energy in securing the musicians and perfect ing ali the arrangements. ———— RESISTED THE OFFICERS. Henry Nicholson is Fined on Three C! in the Police Court. Henry Nicholson,son of the woman who for a number of years has sold newspapers on Penn- sylvania avenue and 15th streot, was in Judge | Kimball's court this morning on three charges. | His arrest took place on 27th street last night and the officers said that be was about half drunk. They told Judge Kimball that Nichol- son had been in O'Dounell’s “‘epeak easy” and Officer McNeeley said that he was thrown out | | of the place. | The prigoner resisted arrest and gave the | officers a lively time fora few minutes. The mother of the boy appeared and wanted to res- | cue him, but her appearance only made mat- | ters worse, and the prisoner, two officers and | the mother were*all piled on the sidewalk when | Sergt. Myere appeared on the scene. Nippers were put on the prisoner and the officers | started with him tothe station. Then Sergt. Myers came in for his share of abuee from the prisoner, who continued his bad lan, he reached the station cell. | res gaage until There was a bruise under Henry’s eve and he | charged that one of the officers inflicted the injury with his fist, ‘When the mother got on the stand she made |an argument to the court telling of how her | boy had been treated and she also charged that | she received a blow on her wrist that was in- tended for her son. Sho concluded ber re- marks by saying that the officers had beat a woman nearly seventy years old when perhaps | they would not beat ‘a man who deserved such | treatment. 5 The evidence of the officers showed that the | woman was inistaken in several of the minor | details and the statement of the prisoner that he was assaulted in the police station was also me Wells argued the \d ho thought Lawyer the case, and he thought that Henry bad been sufticiently punished. Judge Kimball thought he had not been pun- ished any more than his conduct warranted. Fines amounting to $28 or eighty-four days were imposed. OHIO REPUBLICAN ASSOCIATION. Ite Reception Postponed on Account of Mr. Bilaine’s Death. The annual reception of the Ohio Republican Association, which was arranged to uecur at the National Rifles’ armory last night, was post- poned out of respect for the death of Mr. Blaine. A number of guests had arrived before @ sufficient number of the committee bad reached the hall, and after some consultation, in which Mr. FE. G. Rathbone and Sixth Auditor Coulter advocated an adjournment, it was de- cided that this was the proper and respectful thing todo. The hall was very prettily deco- rated und all the arrangements had been com- pleted to make the event as thoroughly enjoya- ble as the former occasions of this character given by this association have always been, but the desire for social enjoyment was overcome by the feeling of respect and the affair was postponed. |" President Alphonso Hart made theannounce- | ment in ashort speech: “The nation is sad- | dened by an ovent which occurred in this city today. I need not tell you to what I refer. you all know. Though he was not an Ohioan, we all loved him. He was one of the most distin- guished men of the age, a central figure among the brilliant lives that ‘have been before the Pablio, A man with an extraordinary intellect, aggressive, brave, chivalrous, a | among leaders, a king among men—James G. Blaine. Now he lies in the embrace of death. His battles are over, his contests ended. The of the United States of every party and every creed will join in the common sorrow. By com- mon consent all the meetings end social festivities have been suspended and asa mark of respect to so distinguished a it has been concluded as the wise and respectful thing to sijoura nes ‘Mr. Hart then announ arrangements had beon made to have the reception on the 17th of February and that the invitations is- sued will be good on that occasion. Se eS HYATTSVILLE. Corespondence of The Fvening Star. Hyarrsvinie, Mp., January 28, The funeral of Mr. Harrison 8. Bowen took place from his late residence in this town at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Rev. Mr. Zimmer- man, pastor of the Methodist Church of this place, conducting tho services. The remains were interred at Rock Creek cemetery. The Teachers’ Association of Prince George’ county will hold its next meeting at the George- town Law School building in W: on Fri- day, February 24, at 10am. An te pro- gram has been for the oceasion, ‘The first issue of the Hyattsville Herald has made its | of public and of privat terest of the field the principal thing! “the princi "in this great con- | cernment?” ‘To ask euch questions is to answer them. The seal husbandry of the hunter is vagrant, casual and desolating- weai husbandry of the United States is stable, Providout and consorvative, becanse itis based on property ite result from o1 of Sees ship of the herds on that soil,'from control over the herds within “the three-mile zone,” the legal ralo of Junidically to that 4 i t i i 5 g Ht il zB a $ i 1 t 7 if 5 Hl & et fit is e é I ‘| a most AMONG AMATESE PSOTOGRAPHERS. ‘The Coming Exhibition of the Capital Cam- era Club—The Personnel of the Club. Amateur photographers have for a long time deen the subjects of «large variety of jokes ‘and bave often been characterized as “camera yellow sticks,” but these little picasantries have not discouraged the members of the Capital Camera Club, who on Monday, the 30th instant, for the inspection of the public. The club rooms will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. dur- ing the entire week. This club is pleasantly located st 401 7th street (top floor) and ever since itsorganization in May, 1891, has numbered among ite members some of the leading amateurs of this city. The membership has always been in t bar- mony, as enthusiasts in photography bave but little time to devote to petty bickerings. ‘the most complete coliection of photographic paraphernalia is owned by Mr. F. ©. Betts, who bas cameras and lenses of all makes and sizes. Betts can well be classed as a collector of photographic goods. He has made ‘® great success of instantaneous views, and is quite familiar with half-tone and other engrav- ing processes. Mr. E. J. Collett, formerly a member of the Washington Camera Club, is one of the most Psinstaking workers in the club, and bis artistic style im posing and careful attention to compo- sition is plainly evidenced by the work which he has produced. When it comes to making interiors Mr. F. J. Cullen stands in the first rank. Cullen isa hard worker, and wheu at work no can get « word out of him. If he bears, he don't answer, photography wraps him up so completely. The vice president of the club, Rev, Ernst Drewitz, the pastor of Concordia Lutheran Church, finds in photography a pleasant recrea- tion, and bas furnished several photographs for half tone illustrations. Albert J. Le Breton, formerly a member of njo and { the Wachington Camera Club, devotes much of Lis time to the fascinating pursuit of photog- raphy. He is a member of the Postal Photo i corresponding member of the California Camera Club, and bas a decided preference for pictures that teil their own story, that do not require labeling to be under- stood. Harry E. Simpson has the sharpest eyes of any member of the club, and his pictures are always micrescopically sharp. His forte is in architectural and group work. Allan J. Houghton, formerly president of the Columbian College ‘Camera Club, has bad « wide experience in photography. | He is oue of the fortunate ones who can make _ camera flatter the subject, and his services are in great demand. Henry A. Farnham enjoys the distinction of being the youngest member of the club. Out- door work is his specialty, and he is improv- ing rapidly. F. B. Dante, the real estate agent, would rather work with a camera than miss a real estate sale. Some of his work has for a long time been on exhibition in the photographic supply houses of this city. illiam C. Ewing is an enthusiastic experi- menter in pin hole photography and has demon- strated successfully that very fine work can be done without using a lens. He owns several cameras which were made to order from designs of his own. John E. Mitchell, whose good connsel is al- ways sought in all questions affecting the in- terests of the club, is fond of photographing | rural scenes, From the number of pictures ho | has made in'the vicinity of Betbesda Park he has been styled the official photographer of that popular reaort. FE. H. Pullman cares more for outdoor Photography than for studio work and has Often outdistanced all competitors in the photographing of the plants in the Botanical Gardens, A. L. Moore of the Fencibles is properly the military photographer of the clib. Shortly before the visit of the Fencibles to Omaba Mr. | Moore, with an assistant, photographed the | different members of this organization; the members filed in as their names were called and re posed in an incredibiy short time; only ove hour and a half was occupied in photo- graphing the entire company. Charles FE. Fairman, the president of the club, has devoted considerable time to multi and long distance photography and has al | done a great deal of work in the vicinity of his | old home in Vermont. | George M. Washburne finds bicycling more | attractive than photography, but bas done con- | siderable landscape work; he has nover devel- oped a “craze” for studio work. Frank A. Swartwout resembles A. L. Moore | in appearance and might be taken for his twin | brother. Swartwout has probably made more | photographs of machinery than any other mem- rofthe club, the few who can work with a “k ever, confine his oe Tagged not, — jotographic work to hand camera and shows great proficieney in architectural work. d Charles L. DuBois, the treasurer of the club, has the happy faculty of taking titles for his photographic work. now busy investigating half-tone work. RG. has shown a preference for out- side work and therefore has not done much portrait or studio work. Searle has become an ‘pert “‘developer” and is an authority on ‘dark room” subjects. Charles A. Cooper, unlike cares more for studio work and shows great attention to the minute details m composition. He bas a very winning way of saying “Look pleasant, L. M. MeCormick has done a great variety of Inndscape work in Ohio. His special hobby is lantern shde making, to which he has been greatly devoted af late. Mr. Charles Williams is the last addition to the ciub’s membership. He has experimented largely in flash light and has be- come quite an expert in that line of work. The burns which he has endured have often brought to his mind the old that “experience is dear school,” and that y isa bura- ne. ith the varied talent. comy Hey tetpn membership the exhibition i - era Club promises to be a rich treat. pica toca TAKOMA PARK. Rev. Geo. Bitzer of Leesburg. Va., with his wife and little daughter are visiting the Misses Bitzer on Oak avenue. Gen. 8. 8. Carroll, who {6 suffering from an ‘ecute attack of pneumonia, was pronounced slightly better this morning. Mise Gertie Bell will spend the month of Febraary visiting friend: in Buffalo and Troy, “Mrs. Prentiss Ingraham, who has been suffer- ing from severe nervous prostration for several weeks, loft. Thureday, stay at Boyd's. In order that of the C. E. convention Miss Edyth Page and Miss C, M. Summy are visiting relatives of the latter at 920 19th street northwest, Washington. Mr.and Mra Sleeper have returned from New York, where they went to attend the fu- neral of the father of the former. E. 0. F. Club met Friday night at the home of Mr. Will Stewart Notwithstanding the absence from the park of several members ‘a most enjorable meeting was held. ‘The monthly consecration service of the C. E. Society on Wednesday evening led Bessio Lawrence. A good» coe P Mie Stella to Miss Wi [ : k ‘ ii nig Pr ehEe! i i i I i ! W. L, Soleau of the pension office is one of | roduce strictly first-class | BUCKEYE STATE ProLrTies. Republicans Preparing te Open the Cam: paige WHI Campbel! Kon fer Geverner? Correspondence of The Evening Star Covemnos, Ono, Jannary 27, 1888. The Ohio legislature has been in seesion for as between neighbor | fiends” and “those fellows with a bundle of | three weeks, working along very quietly, noth | ing more senmational arising than the “ninety- | nine-year street railway franchise” bill, one | of the principal promoters of which i Mart w has nothing te do with the American case | Will open their annual exhibition of pictures A. Hanna of Cleveland, « prominent republiowm | and aclose friend of Gov. McKinley. This bill Was introduced Inet winter near the close of the erasion, and but for the early and almost abrupt adjournment would probably bave caused a big | scandal. | On account of their intimate friendshi | Hanne almost invariably called at the eaceu- tive office when be came to town. Prom there he would go direct to the legislative baile and [labor in the interest of his franchise bill Frequently he would mect some of bis legis- tor friends there and it was not long before i | Deganto be reported that the governor was interested in the measure and was mak- ing his office the headquarters of the lobby that was working here in behalf of the fran chise bill. This the governor indignantly denied, and ae the rumor seemed to rest entirely upon cir cumstantial evidence the newepapers deemed it unwise to ure it. So the matter rested all the summer and fall, but with the opening of | | the present session of the legislature the sub | ject has been opened up agar ‘One of the republican senators, John x | Abbott of MeCon: tery isvtile, has stated in an ie w that ho was asked by the governor to vo the Dill, It now looks a» though the democrats would be able to prove enough Against the governor to defeat him if be shoud be nominated for govern The senator belongs and it cannot be said to b 1 to make McKinley an imposmble by bis party again the She a eecond t being listened tot party t. Itis to the | that to nominate him would be to invite the | whole force of the democratic party in the na- tion tocome inand help to de him. it would give a national ¢ ter to the contest, and under the ciret little doubt as to what th ces there would be it pite of this, quit that the governor is preparing to be date for asccoud term. If be wants it hecam Jopimion that he wante position to ham is at od plans are on do by the Bovernor's fricnda the down the feeling against him im that Fa-M | Smith came to town | rangements fora grapd reception ernor at the Lincoin Club ho: of Febroary 3. While p } general will be invited th & political character, of all the republican | cl ernor’s staff and the Ham: in the legislature being tue | An authorized ax ty this woek and mi 1 to the gow= nent ception #til be of directors and officers city. the Kee acount delegation, attend retary of the State Keputli ae as to the coming banquet of the league, in evlebration of Lincoln's birthday, declares that it will be “practically the opening of the campaign of 1s This 1 not likely to be kindly received by the Sherman republicans, for the league te strongly Foraker in ite composition, and they will not like the idea of letting the Foraker mem sound the keynote of the campaxgn. | EN CONGRESSMAN OUTAWAITE’S DISTRICT. The news from Washington that Congress- | man Outhwaite fs likely to bein the cabinet has again caused commotion among the demo- crats here. So long ns Mr. Outhwaite carce to hold the office be can do #0, He has been | elected to his fifth term now. and the strength that his popularity gives him 1 increased by the contentions of those who would like to #ac~ ceed him. Should be resign w the eabinet it would precipita ong the dozen more prominent demo- who have been for some time open aspi- tanta for congressional honors as haa not beea seen here recently. The list of thoee who prob- ably would be candidates for Congress if Mr. Outhwaite should reagn war recently printed in Tue Stan, but a* several new candidates ‘have entered ince then a repetition would not be out of place. ‘They are the following: DeWite 1 C. Jones, Charles G. Safin, J.C. L. Page, ‘Thos. E. Powell, W. J. Clarke, John J. Lenta, Gilbert H. Barger of this city and John @. Reeves and Dan Danehy of Lancaster Jones was postmaster here under Mr. Cleve land's former administration, Pugh hn» repeat edly contested the nomination ur<nccessfuily with Outhwaite, Powell was democratic eandi- date for governor against Foraker the second time the latter ran for that office ond the others are lawyers practicing here and at Lancaster. There bas been some talk about ex-Gov. Campbell being a candidate for this vacanc but that i undoubtedly only idle talk. Mr. Campbell never claimed this as his home, and even while living here as governor be voted at Hamilton, and since removing to New York to live temporarily be has repeatediy snid that be retained his residence at Hamilton as before. Oov. CAMPRELL'S m A press dispatch stating that a cabinet position had been tendered to Mr. Campbell and that he had declined it becance his plans were to remain out of politics until ke could recoup his fortuns, try for the Ohio governor- ebip and get in line for the democratic presi- dential nomination in 1896 has caused consider able discussion among politicians here. They wonder whether he intends to be a candidete against Gov. McKinley this year or two years hence. If he should bea candidate this year and be successful he would retire from the gubernatorial office just before the time of the assembling of the national convention in 1896. He would have fame that would come from | defeating 90 strong end #0 prominent « man | Gov. McKinley. This is presuming that MeKin ley will be nominated by his party. That is the general opinion here. Ifthe democrats can ever curry this state they can do it this year. At least it is far more likely that they will do so this year thaa two years hence. If Mr. Campbell wants to gain any national reputation by being elected governor of Ohio this is his opportunity. This the probability of enocess is with his party in this ctnte, a0 it is not likely to. be soon aguin, and he will have, in all probability,a toemam worthy of his steci. cre | | i | amotio A Kerosene Lamp Falls on ¢ Father, Mother and Children Burned. A mother and two children are lying at the point of death in St. Catherine’ shop. A little stranger was expected in a short time. While the mother was preparing break- F In a mi flames. The mother dropped u coffee pot and the burning children clung to her. Her ignited. ‘The father into the room. He tore the children from his wife's skirt. Them SES ie