Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1893, Page 10

10 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D. ©. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 14, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES. BYGONE SPEAKERS. Men Who Have Filled the Chair Before Mr, Crisp. THEIR PORTRAITS IN THE LOBBY. What They Tell of the Men Themselves. Written for The Bveniag Star. © APARTMENT IN the Capitol attracts more attention from visitors than that what is known as the Speaker's lobby. Four doors open into it from the chamber of the House of Repre- sentatives. It is about ninety feet long and thirty feet wide and uns from the west to the east corridor of the House. Its French windows open upon a marble Balcony, facing south. From this bal- ony there is a magnificent view of the two banks of the Potomac. A striking feature of the landscape is the arsenal, in which Harold, Atzerott, Payne and Mrs. Surratt were executed. The room itself is the most ft if ell in i, 6 t i tS ‘ 3 i & onal white neckerchief en- Sircles hig throat vith a ruffie below it. He Barries @ quill and seems lost in thought. Next comes old Jonathan Trumbull.Speak- of the Second Congress. The state of Connecticut sent his portrait here. He passes by us in colonial costume,with a blue governorship of Con- Recticut. He thought we latter a higher honor than the former, a strong commen- tary upon the strength of state feeling in the early days of the republic. The third to pass And now a gentleman passes who resem- Dies the late Charies Sumner. The resem- Diance is intensified by his short side whis- ers. There is nothing colonial in his garb. ‘The black coat comes well up to the neck Tals ta the Speaker of the Sixth Congress is © of e Sixt ‘ongress, Theodore Sedgewick of Massachusetts. He served from 1799 to 1801. . hhe served one term and went to the United States Senate. It is worthy of remark that although the Speaker was the third officer In ¥ank in the government and the second in in those days, men like Trumbull, and Clay should prefer a seat in ‘the Senate to the speakership of the House. The next gentleman to appear is the of the Tenth and Eleventh Con- @resses, Gen. Jos. B. Varnum of Massa- chusetts. He, too, left the Speaker's chair {0 g0 to the Senate. His state has presented @ fine painting of the general to the House. It is a pleasant face, almost as pleasant as that of bull. There is a stern aspect about the mouth, however, that indicates and untiring energy. Gen. Var- to have been the first Speaker Con, and was afterward President of the United States Bank. Foliowing in Mr. Cheeves’ footsteps is Philip P. Barbout of Virginia. It is the face of an old dominion farmer. Seamed with deep lines, it is thoughtful and expressive. ‘The fire of his intellect is shown in his deep- seated eyes. The attire has a neat careless- Ress about it found only along the Eastern Shore. The collar is part of the shirt and lacks starch. The white waistcoat is low cut and wrinkled, and the familiar black coat looks a little seedy. Barbour was Speaker in 181. Andrew Jackson after- ard made him a justice of the Supreme 01 Following Mr. Barbour comes another Virginian of rare old stock, Andrew Steven- son. The contrast between the appearance of Barbour and Stevenson is strongly mark- ed. The latter has a magnificent presence and an elegance unparalleled among Speak- one ‘piscopal authority. The is well set and the outline extremely aris- tocratic. An immaculate stand-up collar closely clasps the chin. It is held with a long white cravat, tied in front, low down, black ribbon, from which a monocie is sus- pended. The black coat is tightly buttoned with a dignified wrinkle at the buttonhole, and the figure is that of a royal and most courtly F. F. V. And now we behold a man evidentl¥ of Scotch descent. The bristling hair, military whiskers, stern face and Ganiiel presence Following appears a face and figure well known, that of James ik. Four, the only Speaker who ever became President of the United States. His face is clean shaven, forcible and intellectual, and the bristling hair aptly justifies the name of “Young Hickory” applied to hin in the campaign of Isl. The black stock, white dickey, chin collar and close-cut coat of fifty years ago tell the times in which he lived. Bebind him you see the figure of another courtly Virginian. It is that of the Honor- able Robert M. T. Hunter, Speaker of the Twenty-sixth Congress. He also left the Speaker's chair for the Senate. He looks like a near relative of Senator John W. Daniel. This appearance is borne out by the long roiling black hair and turned-down collar not Byronic in its proportions. A black tie, coat and waistcoat give Mr. junter the perfection of dignity. Behind him are John White of Kentucky, John W. Jones of Virginia and John W. Davis of Indiana. In personal appearance each represents his state. Wnite is thin and angular in feaure and has the look of a Kentucky quarter horse. The eye ts bright and the face indicates intellectual strength. His attire is neat yet extremely plain. Jones has the long hair, the full eye and the expressive features of ‘the old-time Virgin- jan. Dressed in black with plaited dickey and a rolied-down collar, he seems reserved and modest when compared with those who have gone before him. Davis has as strik- ing a face as any in the group. The large nose, firm mouth, full eye and well-set head indicate a man ‘of great magnetic power. His shoulders are thrown back and he has the chest of a Roscoe Conkling. In figure and dress he recalls the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash. ‘The next to approach is a tall gentleman with @ fine figure and a well-modeled head. The hair and whiskers are gray and the cos- tume modern. This gentleman is Robert ©. Winthrop of Massachusetts, Speaker in 18 and 1849. The painting was presented to the House by the state, and was evi- ently made a quarter of a century after Mr. Winthrop served as Speaker. The four- in-hand tie, frock coat and stand-up collar ‘Were not worn in 148, This stately and im- pressive gentleman, who ts still alive, also ft the Speaker's chair to go to the United States Senate. ‘The man behind him fs of an entirely dif- ferent type, broad shouldered, round faced and sturdy. He is a true son of the moun- tains of northern Georgia. This gentleman is Howell Cobb. He was Speaker of the ‘Thirty-first Congress. Some would say that the face resembled that of Robert Toombs, while others would fancy there was more of @ resemblance to Phineas T. Barnum. Cobb wears a genuine steel stock about his neck, with a low stand-up collar. His black coat and waistcoat set him off to advantage. He was Buchanan's Secretary of the Treas- ury and afterward became a confederate general. The next in line has a boyish face with thick, brown hair, blue eyes and an active presence. The features are clean and fine cut and the expression thoughtful. He is Linn Boyd of Kentucky, Speaker of the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses. The black stock and short stand-up collar Were still In vogue. The tightly buttoned waistcoat displays his shirt front at nearly every button. He is followed by his successor in the Speaker's chair, Nathaniel P. Banks of husetts. The state presented to the Jobn G. Carlisie (When Speaker) House Banks’ portrait. Unlike that of Winthrop, it was taken when the general was in his prime. Stern, firm and un- daunted, the face indicates the nerve and intellect’ that led the republican party to victory in the days of its youth. The next figure is that of James L. Orr of South Carolina, the last democrat to hold the office of Speaker before the war Orr was a ine statesman. His face, like that of Cobb, is a typical southern one. The long @f the House to wear a shirt collar. It is Samuel J. Randall. fan old-fashioned stand-up affair, with a tendency to lop over his huge white cravat. He was the last Speaker to wear frilled cuts. ‘And now passes a trim and elegant figure. is a tinge of auburn in his sandy hair, and his blue eyes are piercing. T! high cheek bones and mobile mouth speak his origin. He is Henry Clay of K tucky. The portrait was found in an « committee room years ago. It was « dently executed by some traveling portrait Deinter when Clay was a young man. The €anvas became cracked and the painting was fast going to destruction, when some New York members began to take up a col- for its renovation. This awakened fm authority and the painting is now @s good as new. Old friends of Mr. Clay Say that it is an excellent Ukeness. It was evidently taken before 1520. The wi coat is buttoned to the throat and the bi stock is surmounted by @ standing collar that would have excited the admiration of the late Gen. Spinola. Henry Clay was the only man who was ever chosen Speaker on his first appearance in the House. ‘We next see a grave gentleman with a @acerdotal air. He weagg the old rolling white cravat, high-n’ black coat and tiny side whiskers. He § evidently a South Carolinian, not quite ug m dress with the im which he lived. . Je is by no means ideal Speaker. He jjoks more like a ‘and sallow theolffical student than cer of the House. He the celosraied Langdon Cheeves of South Carolina. rolling hair covering the ears {s there. The stubby chin beard, the flery eye, the firm mouth and the aquiline nose give a fire-eat- ing expression to his countenance. This is enhanced by the high collar, carelessly tied eravat and typical black coat and waist- coat. Next to Gov. Orr we see William Pen- nington of New Jersey and Galusha A. Grow of Pennsylvania. Pennington has @ stern Dutch face. He looks like a de- scendant of old Peter Stuyvesant. While dressed like Orr, he is in direct contrast. His hair is parted and disheveled. His face is stern and the lines more clear. Pen- nington had been a whig governor of his native state, and had taken a prominent part in what was known as the Broad Seal controversy. It had reference to the sig- nificance of the seal of a state when ap- plied to certificates of Representatives. Grow’s picture hardly does him justice. It was evidently taken twenty years after he left the chair. The black hair and beard have grown silvery, but the figure is erect and the eye bright and penetrating. He would knock down a South Carolina or any other Congressman upon due provocation. This painting was presented by the state of Pennsylvania. Grow was the first Speaker who wore a mustache. Follcwing him stalks Schuyler Colfax and James G. Blaine. The smiling countenance of the Indianian and the intellectual face of the great statesman of Maine are so well known that they need no description. Ex-Speuker Thomas B. Reed. Walking behind these two men you see a gentleman who has a sad, ca! sion, and the features of a. Gar He wears a mustache and full beard, and expres- | This is Blaine’s successor in the Speaker's chair, Michael C. Kerr of Indiana, a careful and thoughful man. No Speaker was ever more respected by the House. ‘The next in line has a face of singular Deauty. The curling black hair, the flashing eyes, the Tuscan features and proud bear- ing are those of Samuel J. Randall. The painting was presented by his native state. as it is it —< — equal in . oY rayon photograph it displaced. o- tograph was so remarkably true to life that members of Congress often stopped to ad- mire it as they were passing by. “If this head, cast in bronze, were dug up along the banks of the Tiber,” said Representati Hitt, some years ago, “everybody would have said that it was the cast of a true Roman—the noblest Roman of them all.” ‘The next in the procession is J. Warren Kelfer of Otic. It presents the strongest contrast to Randall in appearance as well as im official life. He had a mustache and a full beard, and no member of Congress ever stopped to look at his picture a second time when passing through the corridor. Indeed, they never stopped at all. ‘Now comes a living expressive face. In many respects its owner was the greatest fe eae of them all. He is John G. Carlisle of Kentucky. The bulging perceptive facul- ues, clear eyes, strong nose, determmed mouth and firm set jaw and chin are true to nature. A stranger would say at once that this was a man of intellect, and a born leader of men. sald to be the Rnest painting ie the walters 0 mest painting ie gallery, Hon. Thomas B. Reed. It was presented by a few of his friends. To an unartistic arles F. Crisp. eye the picture looks coarse and unattract- ive. The coloring {s said to be magnificent, and in process of time the picture will un- doubtedly tone down until its beauties are apparent to every beholder. As it is now, however, the most of Mr. Reed's constitu- ents would condemn it. Indeed, one of them ood gazing at it for full five minutes, some months ago, and then with a look of disgust turned to a friend and sai ‘Some durn democrat done this.” Speaker Crisp’s portrait is not among the collection. He is an js, and not a has been. In time, like many of his predecessors, he may vacate the Speaker's chair for a seat in the Senate. AMOS J. CUMMINGS. ——_-+ 0+ —___ A Strange Exhibition. ‘From the London Saturday Review. ‘The first performance at the Aquarinm of the Arab described as Hadji Soliman ben Alssa—that 1s, a member of the fra- ternity of the Aissaouas—and said to have attained to the saintly dignity of mara- bout, attracted a large number of medical men, who certainly showed a lively interest in the proceedings. The announcement of the exhibition seemed to promise something of the kind which can always be com- manded by the tourist in Algeria, and which inspired Delacroix to paint one of his most famous pictures. As a matter of fact, the difference between the Arab’s per- formance and the familiar show referred to proved to be as great as the differ- ence between the rites of the children of Aissa as performed among them- selves and the spectacle as «urranged at Algiers or Oran for the entertainment of European tourists, with whom “to see tne Aissaoua” is but an expression of sight- seeing. In the place of the pandemonium, vocal and instrumental, the fierce yells and howlings, the frenzied dance, the eloquent tom-tom, and exploits that recall, but far transcend the operations of the priests of Baal, the Arab at the Aquarium performs in cold blood on the stage of the theate: and is, of course, unsupported by the con. tagious excitement and ecstasy induced by oe normal performance of the brother- After a preliminary tnhalation of vapor from the hot charcoal of a brazier, into which he has thrown some powder, he de- clared—in French of a kind superior to what we have yet heard from Arab lips— @ condition of insensibility to pain was produced, though how this could be, ur how insensibility could be thus effected, there was no explanation offered by the critics present. Whatever may be thought of the claim, the skeptic would admit, at least, that the performance was a credita- ble piece of acting. Then the Arab took some long steel needles and thrust one through the upper portion of each forearm and two others entirely through both cheeks, in which condition he submitted himself to closest examination, talking with ease and unconcern the while. The old schoolboy trick of driving pins to their heads in the muscles above the knee seems as child’s play to this show of stoicism. With the same kind of needle the Arab operated on his tongue precisely as he treat- ed his cheeks, and in the same direction. ‘Then, with a fine stiletto, and the aadible blows of a small mallet, he drove some three inches of cold steel into his body, obliquely toward the left side, without showing the smallest discomfort. After this, his placing an arm above a flame, and Rear enough for a scorching, was a small matter. He then suffered a viper to fasten on his finger, and did divers other slightly disgusting things. —___+e+_____ ‘The Vivisector Held Up. From the Lewiston Journal. ‘One of the most curious expeditions ever planned by man was that once undertaken by Dr. J. G. Bunting of Portland. During all his life he had been a close student of the philosophy of digestion, and for the purpose of his investigations he had that Femarkable Canadian, Alexis St. Martin, in his care for twenty years. In order t> clinch matters and provide facts for some of the doubting Thomases, Dr. Bunting cast about for some one else upon whom he might continue to experiment. He could think of but one plan, and that was to go into Africa, buy two slaves, and operate upon their stomachs. By opening the body near the fifth rib and perforating the stomach, & condition could be produced similar to that existing in the person of St. Martin. ‘Therefore the doctor, purchased his supplies and sailed across to Tunis in the north of Africa. There he hired a native chief with forty of his followers, paying them a liberal retalning fee and promising alluring largess when the trip should be ended. They set forth. The doctor carried £1,000 in his side pocket, and the chief’ probably lay awake four nights thinking about the matter. At any rate, on the fifth night he sneaked into the doctor’s tent and deliver- ed a little address over the muzzles of two pistols. When he had concluded the doctor passed over his ducats and the chief passed over the border along with his renegade band. They helped themselves to such supplies as sulted their artless and unen- lightened tastes. The doctor came back without a retinue, but with a deal of ex- perience that will never appear In @ medical worl ————_+e+—____ A Very Hat of Mercury. From the London Daily News. Oa his way to one of the stations at Buda- Pesth, a French gertleman recently went into a hatter’s shop and bought and put on @ hat which had attracted him by its some- what tnusual color and shape. When he had been walking up and down the station some few minutes he was astonished to find in one of his overcoat pockets a purseful of money and the other a gold watch. ‘He went at once to the station master and found him listening to the complaints of a countryman, who had just lost his purse, The purse was the one which the French- man was returning, but when it had been Jost it contained only 10s., now it held near- ly as many pounds. The mystery was soon explained. A policeman came to the station master to report the arrest of a pickpocket. He was immediately brought in and confessed the theft of the purse, into which he had put the proceeds of previous robberies and the watch. He had “passed” them into the Frenchman's pockets because of his hat. He explained that hats of that pecu- Mar pattern, which are made only by one firm, are the badge of a large international gang of pickpockets, and so he had taken the Frenchman for a confederate. ‘The hatter bore out the statement, saying that he had recently sent a large consign- ment of hats of that kind abroad, to a place which the pickpocket named. But he was able to prove that he had no com- plicity in the base uses for which his wares were intended. cae The Capitel at Fault. From Puck. “The British governmental system is su- perior to the American in some ways.” “How?” ‘Well, in the house of commons there ‘He was Speaker of the Thirteenth | has his hair combed carefully over ais ears, | isn’t room for all the members.” WITH GAUDY WINGS. The Pleasures and Profit of Butterfly Collecting. G00D THING FOR YOUNG FOLKS. What i Needed for Beginning a Collection. WHERE SPECIMENS AREFOUND Written for The Evening Star. CTOBER WOULD not, at first thought, be selected as the month in which to begin the study of in- sect life. But incen- tives for such a choice exist. Of those who appreciate the delights that the collector finds when in “the field,” many have not at some time been taken with an im- pulse to gather as interesting an array of Plant forms as the few remaining weeks before snow fall will permit? Conscious- ness of inevitable departure prompts one to seek a memento for retention, and as the young man or young woman who has Summer country rambling aoniees the great ual disappearance of many bright-winged creatures that had added to the beauty of the wild blossoms he will quite likely feel prompted, if gifted with the instincts of the naturalist, to inaugurate, before too Sener ithe Nels anaes ee 1 a fine collection has been’ originaved at such 's time. The Admiral. Much interesting material remains, ex- cept in the colder parts of the country. Pass through an orchard, where the super- abundant fruit Hes decaying upon the ground, large numbers of a brilliant and quick moving butterfly are likely to be met, rather hard to take, because so nervous in sieht but yrorth the exerclse of a ttle lence and caution. It is “the one of the few butterfies having «cor. mon” name; his mottled red, white and black wings, and generally great abundance, make him conspicuous among insects to even the casual observer. A name having more of significance is pyramels atalanta. One will not collect long before beginning the use of the proper scientific terms, an soon their great advantage, convenience and necessity will need no demonstration. Vanessa antiopa is a richly colored cousin of “the admiral,” also favored with & Popular title, “The mourning cloak.” The greater area of the handsomely de- signed wing is a rich brown. This is trimmed with a golden band running along the margin of the wings. The insect at times is abundant, and adds much to the appearance of a collection. Other late flying and strikingly marked butterflies are those of the interesting genus grapta, allies of vanessa, and pecu- Mar for the tortuous outline of the wing margins. Some species are interrogations, comma and semicolon, so named because of silvery spots on the ‘under surface of the wing, closely resembling the marks of Punctuation. All butterflies that hibernate may be captured late in the fall. Among them the pretty sulphur yellow species of the genus colias, and the extensively dis- tributed junonta’ coenta, notable for the beautiful “eye-like markings on its intri. eately decorated wings, besides those above mentioned, ‘A Pleasant Pastime. For several reasons a passion for insect collecting is one of the best directions in which a growing boy’s bubbling energies may be guided. If fortunate enough not to love the larks of street gamins, he, will quite likely want to have a gun and kill something, or aid in reducing the popula- tion of native songsters by getting to- gether a great variety of nest contente— enerally done more in the spirit of stamp collecting than with a view to the intelll- gent study of natural phenomena. But free from the discouragements and dan- gers of hunting with flrearms and having none of the evils of nest robbing as a mere sport is the pursuit of the always abund- ant insect forms of field and forest. A few cents outlay covers the expenditure, the recreation is full of excitement and in- struction without the slightest danger of loss of life or limb, and the collector may always return with something of interest and of @ character that will permit it to become a lasting pleasure. For the class of true insects—that 1s, those having six loco- motive organs—is by far the most numer- ous and varied group of moving creatures, and equal to any in point of complexity and pecullarity of structure. What is Needed. One beginning a collection need provide himself with only a net, a small pocket box for the field, some pins, a stretching board or two and a few drawers or even merely empty cigar boxes in which tem- porarily to preserve his material. A yard of mosquito netting, a piece of heavy wire and a pithy stick will make the net. Pro- fessional entomologists use a slender pin made especially for their work, but the ordinary kind will answer. A small and flat cigar box with strips of corn pith or cork is just the thing for a collecting box. A collection of butterflies in glass-covered cases handsomely decorates a brary wall, but as the bright colors will fade after years of exposure to light the only perfect way in which to preserve the delicate beau- ties is in vermin-proof drawers. The construction of the stretching board is simple. It consists merely of a piece of pine with grooves of different widths a few inches apart. To be quite correct it should be made of three thin strips so adjusted that the wings will be slightly raised in drying, for their tendency is to droop. After the butterfly has been killed by the compression of the thérax—the wings should be touched as Uttle as possible— or by immersion in vapor of ether or chlor- oform a pin has been passed thi the body. The pin is stuck in one of the grooves and the wings set in the proper Position and fixed by strips of pasteboard secured with pins. Tt will dry in a few days, and that is all the preparation need- ed. The drawers should be charged with some chemical offensive to insect pests, A Noted Collector. One of the most industrious of insect collectors is Prof. Lawrence Bruner, the state entomologist of Nebraska. During the summer he takes between 500 and 1,000 specimens a day—a good number when one remembers that ten hours cover only 600 minutes. But he doesn’t stop to pin in the field and takes everything met, relaxing the dried specimens in winter ‘and then mounting in proper shape. His is the finest grasshopper collection in existence, containing propably all the known species of orthoptera in the world. He was com- misstoned to study the insect during the grasshopper plague in the west. The Ag- Ticultural Department entomoiogist has offered him $2,000 for the splendid collec- tion, but he declines to sell. One summer day Prof. Bruner was dig- ging with his insect pick at a decayed stump in one of the Rocky mountain states, when two mountaineers approached, Think- ing the ertomologist’s occupation at that moment rather small business for an able bodied and sane man, they queried: “Watcher doin’ that fer’ “For seven dollars a day.” They at once drove on. He had discerned the animus of the question, and had an- swered them with the only response which thelr intellectual capacity could appreciate. "Those capable of taking no wider ana higher view of the business of living than did these miners need not turn their atten- tion to amateur entomology. ‘While a world of wonders entirely foreign to the knowledge of but few is to be ex- plored by gaining some famillarity with the differerit orders of insects, the ants and bees, the files, the beetles, the bugs, the grasshoppers and the dragon files, as well ag the butterfiles and moths, {t is through the latter that interest in this marvelous class is generally awakened. Over 5,000 species of butterflies are known, and of these 9) are North American forms and ninety-five occur in the limited area of New England. ‘The genus papilio, comprising the queenly “swallow tails,” {s one of the most exten- sive and varied, over 300 species having been met. They are the typical butterfiles, and some of the forms are familiar to all. "The young collector will have a good rep- resentation of the genus in his collection after the first summer's work, and if he has exhausted the possibilities of the locality he will find that he has several species of quite different coloration and marking, but all characterized by @ handsome tail’ on each lower wing. Goat Rugs Cut For Cash. 300 Fine Gost Skiu Rugs, white. «ray and Diack. Best grade. Remular price, $300. For Cash $2.20 Each. Big = +~=—S Reductions In Carpets For Cash. 20 patterns of different Best Tap- estry Brussels Carpet. Fon Casa 650. Yo. For Casz 650. Yo. 50 patterns of Body Brussels Car pets. REGULAR PRICE, $1.50, Fon Cisz 900 Yo. Fine Moquette Carpets. NOW MARKED $1.50. For Cas 900 Yo. 2.000 Ollcloth Buss. pare to carpet them mow, for no lower prices have prevailed within ‘the last century. Fon Osea $29.75. ‘No. 1. Crushed Plush Parlor Suites, © ploces, spring edge. NOW MARKED $45. For Cas $31.50. walnut frame, 6 pleces. SS For Casx $33.75. 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Blue Heavy 8 Har Trees Cor Fon Cass No. 267. About 40 Hat Trees in Great 3-Day Cash Sale Of Furniture, Carpets & Draperies At Julius Lansburgh’s Rink. Tonday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 16, 17 and 18th. We shall allow a “Special” Discount of 25 per cent for cash on all goods not mentioned below. Bring This Advertisement With You To Avoid Mistakes And Do Not Delay Until the Last Day And Then Think Because the Kems You Wanted Are Sold That Woe Did Not Have Them. Everything Exactly as Advertised. Comrrere Crosrxe Ocr Or Exrmz Sroce Or Fiar-ror Orrice Dass. For Casx $10.25. No. 00. Handsome Walnut 6 Flat Top Office Desk. $25, Fos Casz $12.50. Julius Lansburgh’s “Rink,” N. Y. Ave. Bet. 18th amd 14th. 4 FRENCH PHILOSOPHER. ML. Barthelemy St. Hilatre at Eighty- Nine Years, From the London Globe. M. Barthelemy Saint Hilaire, the bosom friend of Thiers and Cousin, lives at Passy, fm a pretty ttle villa surrounded by a gar- den in which he passes the most of his ‘time, musing and philosophizing on current events. He has just reached his eighty> ninth year, and bears his age remarkably well. “So you wish me to give you some reminiscences of my life,” he said, with a gratified smile, as he seated himself in his easy chair. “Let me tell you at once that I owe my career more to Aristotle than any- body else. I entered the College of Louis- le-Grand in 1815, a few weeks after the bat- tle of Waterloo. Suddenly I was selzed with a for Greek, and studied it so suc- cessfully that I soon earned quite a reputa- ‘tion for it among my school fellows. Five years later, at the early age of fifteen, I was called on to write a Greek poem in hon- or of the birth of the Duc de Bordeaux. On sass college I became closely acquainted with ttre, whose superior intelligence 1 admired, but whose religious opinions I did not share, for I have always been a Spirit- walist. His father, seeing my taste for study, placed his remarkable library at my disposal. One Gay he sald to me, ‘As you are 30 fond of Greek, why do you not turn your knowledge of that tongue to account by translating some fine work of anti- quity?." The idea struck him, and he at once set about translating Aristotle, whom he con- sidered to be one of the greatest masters of human intellect, and to whom he thereon resolved to devote his life. “It was in 1834,” he continued, “that I completed the first two volumes of the colossal work I had undertaken. I was proud of my labor, but how to get It published? At that moment I ‘was a modest employe at the ministry of finance, earning just £60 a year. The publish. er di £300—judge of my despair! Fortunately I was introduced to Cousin, who took me by the hand and got my vol- umes accepted by the director of the royal printing office. From that day I was saved.’ In 1888 he was appointed professor of Greek [ana Latin at the College of France, where he remained till the revolution of isi. In the meantime he was elected a member of the Institute. After the revolution he was elected a representative of the people, and, iz. opposition to Carnot, minister of public instruction, succeeded in pers: the as- sembly to revive the five chairs at the Col- lege of France which had been suppressed. , He was next made administrator of the col- lege, end occupied that post up to the coup d'etat. Retiring into private Mfe he resumed his great work until 186, when he was elected to the corps legislatif, then to the national assembly, and finally became secre- tary general of the president of the republic. | He next described his relations with Thiers. “The first time,” he said, “I met the man who was destined to play such a leading part in my life was on the 26th of July, 1830, the day on which, together with so many others, I signed the famous pro- test of journalists In the offices of the ‘Na- tional.” I knew that it had been drawn up by Thiers, and I was introduced to him. From that moment I became one of his most fervent admirers. I must add, how- ever, that I was somewhat disappointed | when I found him leaning toward the mon- archy. Of all his political friends I was the 5 ‘one that remained faithful to my re- publican convictions. Thiers, Cousin, Ville- main and others oscillated in turns between | the two forms of government. It was thus that, in spite of my admiration for Thiers, I dia not hesitate to oppose him in 180, when he supported, and with that marvel- ous talent, the bill for public instructions, which was simply tantamount to the de- struction of the university. This fact, how- ever, did not prevent him from making me his collaborator after the war. The truth is that a mutual sympathy had united us from our youth, and our relations were 0 intimate that a cover was always laid for me on his dining table.” os ‘Within an hour after Mayor Denny was formally inducted into office at Indian- ‘apolis, Thursday, he sent for the police superintendent and told him that steps must at once be taken to close up the gambling houses and keep them cloned, and the saloons: must not be open after I o'clock at night or on the Sabbath.