Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1893, Page 17

—_—_————— THE EVENING STAR Prva a ht HED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Penneylvazia Avenne, corcer Lith St, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, 8S. H, KAUFFMANN, Pres't. ———— New York Office, 88 Potter Building. ~~ THE EVENING STAR is served to subscribers in the ity by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents Coptes “at the coun- —anyt bere ja the United brepaid—3e cents per SaTuRpar QuINTTPLE SHEET Stan $1.00 per year gm postage added. $2.00. Gatered at the Post Office at Washington, D.C., &s second-class wail matter.) EF All mail subscriptions must be paid in ad- ‘vance. Rates of advertinine made knows on application Part3. Che Evening Star. a WASHINGTON UP THE HUDSON. LIFE AT WEST POINT. The Mill That Grinds Out Young Officers. WORK IN PLENTY FOR CADETS. They Learn to Obey Before They Command. IN BARRACK AND TENT. DWritten for The Evening Star. VERY ONE WHO travels for the iirst time along the beau- tiful Hudson between bany asks for West Point,. and is disap- pointed to find how little of interest can be seen from the boat or the train. The United States Military Academy is on a broad plateau New York and Al-: a cadet appointment to bestow on some boy residing in his district, and between the age of seventeen and twenty-two. ‘The President has the appointment of one cadet from the District of Columbia and ten from the United States at large. The “at large” appointments are usually given to the sons of army and navy officers, who, from the nature of their position, do not, as a rule, remain long enough in one Place to acquire the necessary legal resi- dence. There are usually four or five hun- dred applications for each of the cadet ap- pointments at the President's disposal. ‘Those candidates who pass the entrance ! Buildiag « Revetment. | examinations are admitted in June, and im- mediately upon reporting at West Point are put under military discipline, which, as long as they remain at the academy, never several hundred feet relaxes. These new arrivals are known in| @ good share of hard work. . D. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1893—TWENTY PAGES. enjoys every moment of his liberty. What other people regard as a matter of course he considers the greatest luxury. To be able to sit in a rocking chair, to wear civil- fan clothing, to have pockets in which to put his hands, to be able occasionally to He in bed in the morning, all these privileges are to him the acme of bliss. At West Point the railroad station at the foot of the hill is “off limits’ for cadets, and to go .to a station every day of his furlough if he likes, to get on a train and take a trip, is, indeed, purchasing a through ticket to the seventh heaven, ‘The first year cadets constitute what ts officially the fourth class, but “the plebe class” is the name generally applied. The next year this becomes the third or “year- its members being termed from the length of their stay at the academy thus far. A cadet goes through a “plebe camp” and a “yearling camp,” but at the end of “yearling year” he does not begin his third year with a camp. This is his summer off. He becomes a second classman and, leaving the other three classes to make’ up the camp, his class goes on furlough, whence its unofficial designation as the “furlough class.” Back comes the “furloughman” to resume student and barracks life the first of September, and when summer rolls around again he goes to “first class camp,” for, having ar- rived at the dignity of his senior year he scorns to use any except the official desig- nation of “first class.” | Flirtation Walk. the year his is spoken of as the graduating class, and at the end of a successful four years he goes on “graduating leave” for ttree months and a half, at the end of which, as a second lieutenant, he joins his regiment “wherever it may then be,” in Maine or Texas, in Alaska or Florida. Not AM Play Yet. It will be noticed that when the colleges give summer vacations the Military Acad- emy establishes a camp and hangs on to its cadets during three summers out of four. Camp brings a welcome relief after months of hard study, but nevertheless it includes Only drill mbove the river and the railroads. It is | cadet parlance as “beasts,” and the sep-| books are ‘taken to camp and the cadet now Well worth one’s while, however, to stop off at West Point and proceed up the grad- ually ascending road to “the plain,” which on a large scale corresponds to the usual college campus. Here the visitor finds a ttle world peculiar to itself. Nature and man have co-operated to make one of earth's most beautiful spots one of its Most useful as well. Shut in by the High- ‘arade Ground. 1 lands of the Hudson, which rise in the rear | foTmations keep them busy from morning | which he ha ef the grounds like smail mountains, ihe military cadet learns the rudiments of the art of war amid the most peaceful sur- roundings. So quiet is the place that the the cadet must float as lazily through the academy as does the flag in tlie breeze. Could the visitor follow the cadet from reveille until taps he would conclude that has a great deal to do besides fine clothes and man. The writer has labored @ day on the farm, but n in the busi- est agricultural season did he work as he did while a cadet at West Point. To un- derstand fully how this is true one must follow out in detail the comprehensive sys- tem requiring the great amount of work that the cadet is called upon to perform. West Point, in view of its unique posi- tion in the edy has great institutions ts that it pays its students a small salary to cover all their expenses, while in the usual case It is the student who does the paying Thiy fact enables West Point to do aly as it pleases, and to withdraw from the in- @ividual cadet that much privile The resuit is an iron discipline, which, with ary restrictions, is wise for the best interests of all ¢ must be remembered schoc the object in view Officer ‘fitted to represent hi the army, all the more impor n count of its small size, which forms nucieus of their defend, Now for the Cadet. By this time the visitor is inquiring about the trim cadet, whom he has seen disap- pearing around the corner of the barracks in response to the solemn call of a bugle. First of all, how dit he become a cadet? He was appointed by the War Department ssman is apt to find h the Congre elf with | arate part of cadet barracks to which the | so-called animals are assigned rejoices in the name of “beast barracks.” Here for a few weeks the new cadets live under super- | vision of an army officer, and in the im- mediate charge of cadet’ officers detailed ior their Instruction. Drills, marching and does physical rather than mental work. He goes to rifle practice, to infantry drill, to light battery drill, to various kinds of heavy artillery drill,and to mechanical maneuvers, where he Jacks up great guns and puts in | practical use the principles of philosophy TROOP (MORNING) PARADE. until night. The old cadets go into camp on a corner of the grounds about the mid- die of June. In July the new cadets follow, is maintained until the end of the new cadets have men, and ame which ing June, or become are now m until the follo A sharp line his colleagues of the other three Among his own classmates he is called by his last name, or, if popular, by his first, but to an upper cla: rv’ So-and-so. Whe cadet he must always prefix d end up with a sir, and in iv same courtesies with rupulous exactness. The following dia- between an old cadet and a_plebe } cw | arrival in camp is of hourly oc- your name, sir?" are you from, Mr. Smith lifornia, sir.” “Who was your ‘pred’ (predecessor), sir?” “Mr. Jone: < “What was your previous condition of servitude, Mr. Smith?” “I was a student, sir.” The Routine of the Day. Camp drags wearily by for the poor plebe and it is a daily source of wonder to him Plebe Battery. that he has ever seen any attractions in | the profession of arms. He goes to roll drill, to company drill, j artillery drill. He marches to all of his | meals at the mess hall a quarter of a mile adet officer at his heels di- cep hack his shoulders, to nin, to straighten out his nees, to hold up his head, or to correct |any or all of the thousand and one bad | tendencies of the frail mortal in walking. In addition to the above duties he has to be in immaculate condition for dress parade, ning and evening. He marches to tion in swimm and to hi n¢ All cadets are taught to dance, * being recognized as hav- ore than ¢ or two joy the me, all the mor parates the | to | learned during term time. He builds bridges of pontoon boats or of such materials as the woods afford. The thermometer may be in the nineties in the shade, but the cadet stands in the broiling sun, and at the word of command em- braces a heavy of timber and waltzes | it into position as gracefully z | best girl at the hop that night. some unaccoun way that girl will discover that both of the c: hands are blistered by the pick and shovel with which he has been digging a_ siege paraliel or throwing up earthworks. In his after life as an officer the cadet may never have to labor thus with his hands, but he will have to command soldiers who do, and he must know how it is himself. Camp Life for Cadets, As soon as the cadets march into camp in June a guard is mounted, and never until the tents are struck, at the end of August, is the camp without sentinels. their silent watch. About once a week each cadet has, in some capacity or other, a tour of guard duty which lasts for twenty-four hours. In his best uniform he prepares for the rigid inspection at guard | mounting, and that ceremony over, he gues on duty. There are three reliefs, each sen- tinel walking two hours and resting four. It can hardly be .called resting, for the member of the guard stays or sieeps at the guard tent with all his clothes and belts on and his rifle at his side, ready to spring up at a moment's notice to repel the real or imaginary attack of an enemy that may happen along. This enemy is usually the inspecting officer, who comes around once or twice during the night and turns the guard out, to the great disgust of all con- cerned. During the camp three hops are held dur- ing each week. They last only two hours, but make up in hearty, enthusiastic en- joyment what they lack in length. The | iris are relatives of the officers and cadets jor visitors at the post, and come from all parts of the country. In spite of the guard and other duty the cadet in camp finds | considerable time for happy strolls around flirtation walk” wish some girl friend, and | adds, mayhap, his romance to the many se- |erets which the historic old rocks keep for | those who have gone before. He is usually | able to attend a couple of hops every week, | but sometimes, when he is most anxious to go, he will be unexpectedly detailed for guard in place of a man who has been |taken sick. Or the department of phiios- y will decide that it {s a beautiful night j for part of the first class to have practical jastronomy. As a soldier he can only obey, |and with a telescope for a partner and the crickets for an orchestra he goes to his trying, like Aeneas of old, to read in tars what career the future has im ise for him. CHARL! HINE. a —— An Indignant Denial. | From the Detroit Free Press. | She had been at the sea and among the | mountains all summer and her industrious j her during the long, long days. Now she | had returned and he had been hearing many things of her and was sore displeased. They tell me,” he said painfully, “that you were engaged ‘to six men this summer.” Her cheeks flushed and her eyes blazed. “Who told you that?” she asked angrily. | ev talk.” | Her anger gave way to sobs “Oh, George, ‘herself on his neck, “it isn't true; ft isn't | true.” ral people. It has been common wee aon a 74. Just what the old “gentleman wonders .*# at I am unable to * say, but, as he was 2S “standing about a . a‘) hundred yards away S.kal trom the base of the Washington -Monu- ment when I squeez- ed my snap shot bulb, the particular provlem which occu- pied his mind is not material. I make this broad statement because it is a habit with allpeople as they visit the wondrous obelisk for the first time to marvel at cach new detail of the experience. I did not stand near enough to the first speaker to hear the conclusion of his prop- osition, but a young lady who stood near to him wondered if the thing “vibrates at all in case of a heavy wind storm,” and her young escort wondered “how deep down into the earth the foundation walls extend.” Neither inquiry was answered, because a middle-aged gentleman whose arms were well supplied with guide books wondered “if it is really 655 feet and 4 inches high.” At this a young man engaged in raking hay on the lawn volunteered the informa- tion that the figures stated were correct; Night and day, rain or shine, they keep | fiance had been working and waiting for | she pleaded as she flung} that the walls are 15 feet thick at the base and 18 inches thick at the top and that the total cost, thus far, has been about $1,500,000. Then, with a sort of self-con- scious pulling together of himself, he rested , picturesquely upon his rake and asked: “I wonder if you all know that that is all Maryland marble?” “No! is it?” inquired the young lady with a bewitchingly surprised smile. “Yes'm, an’ !'m a Maryland man my- self,” proudly answered the haymaker, as he resumed his raking. Then I found myself wondering if all visitors to the monument are alike pos- | sessed with the same impulse of surprise |and curiosity. Ere, I had time to answer my own inquiry our group had joined various other groups about the base of the column to learn that visitors are not re- ceived at all on Sundays or on any other day except between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. I had just looked at my watch to be reminded that I carried cen- tral standard time, when an attendant dpened the door to the monument and an- nounced: “The elevator car makes trips as often as possible so long as there are pas- sengers enough for a load. Otherwise trips are made every half hour. Those persons desiring to go up will please form in line for the first load.” The invitation was superfluous, because a line had already been formed and two bound trip, while 18 or 20 had been left be- hind for the second trip. By direction of the attendant those of us who constituted the overflow had taken seats along the inside wall on the left. Then some one asked “I wonder if it’s safe?" ~ I shall always be- leve that the inquiry Was prearranged to give an opportunity for an answer from the party who had “been up dozens of times” and who, I had figured out, was either the leading lady of a dramatic company or a_pros- perous and self-con- tained boarding house proprietor. At all events the ques- tion was the one that was on the lips of our several tongues and the reply was over- whelming. Thereafter the woman of ex- perience was a superior being and in her awful presence we lapsed into a state of silent insignificance, well content to listen to the attendant as he resumed his monoto- nous “All persons wishing to go up please take seats on the left Then a party who might have been a clergyman or a book agent asked: “How many persons will the car accommodate?” j and the attendant’s reply was “thirty.” While They Waited. “There are thirty on this side all ready,” | ventured the clergyman, and the attendant s | not deigning to reply, varied his song with: |All persons wishing to go up, please form in line on the right-hand side.” “But you told us to take seats on this | side,” chimed in half-a-dozen voices on the left as they jumped up to go over to the jright. “I know it, stay where you are,” said the attendant, “you go up cn the next trip and these people over here will take your places on the left, after you are gone.” ‘The lugubrious manner in which he referred to us as “gone” was not reassuring, but I had no time to brood over the matter, be- cause, just then I heard one gent!eman say to another: “Talk about the 20-story mon- 's of She-cago, why, sah, this build- as begun in 1848, when She-cago was ja village, sah! and it has about thirty | stories, sah!’ I learned later that the | speaker was an old resident of Alexandria. an hour, minutes, I realized that the place was a perfect Babel of weird noises. One very fragile looking young lady skipped lightly up the stairs, telling her friends that she would meet them above in fifteen minutes, and a middle-aged man, whose knees wob- bled perceptibly as he came down the last few steps, said: ‘There are $9 or 980 steps in this shaft, ‘cause I counted ‘em all the way down.” At last the car arrived on the down trip. It was a haughty thirty that proudly step- ped therefrom into the open air while a new thirty crowded into the place they had just vacated. Then there were a lot of neises, like nothing else that ts noisy, the car began its ascent and at least one of the passengers was wondering whether life tn- surance policies cover the risk of tours in monumental elevators We had just passed the fourth landing when the accompany- ing young lady made her anxious inquiry. It was in relation toa tremendously roaring crash whose reverber- ations came rushing down, or up, it was hard to tell which— like the detonations of a battery of ten- inch guns. The eleva- tor conductor — ex- plained: “Oh, that’s some smart aleck jumping with both feet on one of the iron floor landings.”” prompt explanation was a relief, was immedia ‘The but it ely followed in quick succes- ion by two additional shocks almost as one. » deafening were they in their long drawn, awful echoes that I felt that the obelisk, beginning at the top, had undertaken to | turn itself inside out. “That's what it is, I assre you, ladies and gentlemen,” quickly | spoke the conductor as he saw signs of fright among his passengers, “it's just a lot of blamed idiots jumping on the iron floors.”” “I'd like to jump on them with both feet,” observed the parson—if he was a parson— and every soul in that cage breathed a fer- | vent amen. Thus the crowd, standing closely together in the slowly but smoothly rising car, was restored to a condition of confidence—so far as appearances indicated—and thus ris- ing, they busied themselves looking through the wire meshes of the cage at the dimly lighted sections of stairway, which appear- ed, gnomelike, to be chasing each other first to this side and then to the other of the endless shaft. The noises were depress. “teee minutes later the car was on its first up-| ‘And as we waited and waited, seemingly j but in reality less than twenty ing until someone asked: do we have after we get to the top “You don’t go clear to the top,” answered the conductor. “This elevator takes you up only 500 feet.” “Only!” ejaculated a young lady who looked like a society girl in an illustrated weekly. “That's right,” said the conductor. “You see the monument is 535 feet high and we only take you up to the bottom of the py- ramid roof or peak of the monument, which is fifty-five feet high. After you get up there you may stay until 5 o'clock if you choose.”” “Is this the tallest affair of the kind in the world?” asked an elderly man who had a miniature badge of a fire engine on his left breast and was proud of it, and someone who was too deep in the crowd to be seen, cried out: “That's what! She's within nin teen feet of being twice as high up as thi top of the statue of Liberty on the Capitol. “O go on!” sneeringly observed another unknown, at which the conductor added: “Fact! It's the highest structure in the world, beating the city building at Phila- delphia—the next highest piece of architec- ture, by nearly eighteen fee! Inside the Great Shaft. I have no means of knowing who made the accompanying remark, but I am free to confess that, in my opinion, capital punish- ment would not be too severe for the cul- prit. Just think of it! The conductor had announced that we were 200 feet from the earth, and there we were with goodness knows how many cases of heart disease—in fact there was no way of knowing anything about the crowd, because we were standing packed together like the tiny splinters in @ penny bunch of matches. True, it was a case of compulsion, we were forced to be j brave, and there was no way out of it. Accordingly—and 1 say it with pride—I neu- tralized the effect of the stupid observation by saying, in a loud voice: “Hello, see the memorial tablets on the walls. There's one given by the Sons of Temperance of Rhode | Island.” Instantly all were interested in catching a glimpse of the only tablet we had been able to decipher on our way up, and at the same time all thoughts of a pos- sible breaking of the elevator cable were dispelled. Even now I cannot help thinking how fortunate it was that the Rhode Island tablet hove in view at just that instant. Of course I might have guessed at it had it been any other tablet, but that would have been less satisfactory. Speaking of the memorial tablets, it is not strange that a majority of them are scarce- ly legible to persons passing up and down in the elevator. In the first place, Ameri- cans as a nation were novites at monu- ment building forty-five years ago, and at that time elevators were practically un- known. Next, it is entirely safe to assume that a majority of those honorable com- mittees who had charge of preparing the various tablets were reasonably certain that | their very own and particular contributions would, by virtue of their excellence, be given a position on “the first floor, front.” ALWAYS AT WORK. Representatives Who Are Ever at Their Post of Duty. viow much tme/ WHEEL HORSES OF CONGRESS, They Pull Legislation Through Many a Rut. SKETCHES OF THE MEN. Written for The Evening Star. HE HOUSE IS AT times an evanescent body. Nearly 150 members live within a day's ride of the Capitol. Half of this number, at least, can reach home within There are evidences, also, that some of the Up 200 Feet. S’pose” the “Tope should break!” committees had an idea that the tablets were to be placed upon the outside surfaces of the monument very near to the ground and to be seen by daylight. Instead of this, however, they are on the inside faces of the walls and anywhere from eighteen feet to 260 feet from daylight, just visible under the scant illuminings from four electric lights each landing. More lights? There are about 1% electric lights in the monument now! Well, at last we reached the end of the terrific Hft, and for our reward we were given access to a series of pictures which | cannot be duplicated on this globe. That ts | extravagant? How so? Where else is there such a city of Washington? Point out to me another Potomac. Tell me of a second Virginia or a twin Maryland, with their Arlington heights and their Georgetown heights. Go find for me an exact copy of the wondrously beautiful stretches of moun- tains, valley, meadow and forest, reaching miles away in every direction to that hor- ——— : Hes- That's the National Observatory over ther She:-" Stop* They will see us. izon whose amazing circle compasses the chiefest of the sacred soil of America. And yet, filled as I was with the majesty. of these scenes, I am only human. Heiace I deserve pardon for stumbling unexpectedly as I changed my position to another win- dow, upon the following picture. Of course I couldn't help hearing what was said, but I made all the amends in my power by bastily passing on to the next window. Then, through fear of showiag my guilty knowledge in case I should meet the happy pair in the elevator, I began the descent afoot. Half an hour later I stood adm.iring the beautiful tablet from Michigan—a Mock | of pure native copper weighing 2,100 pounds, | with the word “Michigan” across its face in native silver—a gentleman and lady pass- ed me and I heard the man ask: a | you begin to wish you were in the elevato |" “No, I don't,” responded the lady, wouldn’t have that man see us again for anything. CHARLES 8S. HATHAWAY. “Taking bim into the firm.” —Puck. ten hours, and many of them are within six hours’ ride of the Capitol. It is this fact that makes a quorum of the House at times evanescent. A quorum present for business is a require- ment of the Constitution. Adding to this number of absentees those who are absent on business, or on account of sickness, it is very easy to account for the frequent want of a quorum. On party matters when- ever it is necessary to emphasize this ab- sence, the republicans refuse to vote, thus making it sometimes difficult to secure a quorum. Indeed, only measures of great national importance fill the seats in the chamber. When a final vote has been im Steele H Iman. taken upon any great measure, the quorum seems to vanish like the mists of morning. Those who live nearest to the Capitol are the ones who are usually absent when minor topics are discussed. There may be a quorum present in the city without being made manifest in the House. Scores of members are ramping the departments in the interest of their constituents with a deft eye to business in the House. A bill important to the inter- ests of their section of the country may draw them to their legislative duties, but they evidently consider that their imme- diate constituents are more inerested in offices than in bills drawn in the interest of those who live far away. Some Con- gressmen appear for a day or two in each week, make a short speech on some unim- portant matter so as to secure a place in press dispatches, and then disappear. They are like carrier pigeons, flying home on the first opportunity and distributing in- telligence. Others vanish for weeks, for months, and in two cases for years without being recorded on a yea or nay vote. Even among the steady attendants of the sessions of the House there are very few hard workers. The man who talks the most, as a usual thing, works the least. There are outriders and cavorters around the legislative coach, and a very few wheel horses. Judge Holman has been a wheel horse for a quarter of a century. No man can estimate the value of his services to the country, but age and hard work are telling upon him. He pulls in the traces as steadily as ever, but has not the strength and endurance characterizing him in former years. The old wheel horses are giving place to the new, and among the new ones there are some well worthy of mention. Georgia has two democratic wheel horses in the legislative traces. One is a man of great experience and of acknowledged abili- y. He is a member of the committee of ways and means, and has seen much ser- vice on this committee. He is Henry G. Turner of Quitman. He has taken a very active part in all the hearings before the committee of ways and means, and, like Speaker Crisp, was at one time chairman of the committee on elections. Indefatiga- ble in his committee work, he is a power on the floor of the House. His speeches,though few, are well seasoned and carry great weight. There is nothing dramatic or the- atrical about him. He speaks calmly and dispassionately, confining himself to the point at issue and elucidating facts very clearly and convincingly. Extremely cour- teous in bearing and language, he com- mands both the attention and the considera- tion of all who hear him. He is one of the steadiest and strongest of the wheel horses in the House. The nation, let alone his state, could ill afford to lose him. Another of the steady pullers from Geor- gia is Leonidas F. Livingston. Turner is as | quiet and placid as a June morning, but Livingston is as breezy and as stirring as the wind that scatters mountain gardens with the blossoms of fruit trees in spring. TurSer is undemonstrative in manner, and Livingston extremely demonstrative. The former never gets into a white heat, and Davia the latter never speaks without reaching it. He has-a clear, resonant voice and a pugna- clous temperament. Energetic, determined and firm set in his convictto! pound them into of all those around him. A good debater on the floor, he is equally a hard worker in committee. A member of the great committee on appro- priations, he devotes himself to its arduous duties. And with all he finds time to attend to the interests of his constituents in the de- partments. He has no fancy for Kobin he tries to | TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers are urgently re- quested to hand in advertisements the day prior to publication, in order that insertion may be as- sured. Want advertisements will be received up to noon of the day of publication, precedence being given to those first received. ee ———— Hood's barn, but goes direct across the field, jumping ditches and taking fences to reach the object sought. His fight with Hoke Smith over the Conyers post office gave him a national reputation, but his work in committee and on the floor of the House ought to make his fame enduring. There is the true Georgia grit about him and no mistake. Neither threats nor per- Suasion will ever drive him with the herd. His surname was not misplaced, and he shows his disposition in his face and man- ner. He has never been knocked out, and never will be while life lasts. Probably the steadiest, most lovable and influential wheel-horse in the House is David B. Culberson of Texas. Broad shoul- dered, full chested, unobtrusive in manner and dis; clary, he wields an untold power. Like Turner, he evinces no eagerness to enter into @ discussion, but once in it he eluci- dates the situation so clearly and crystal- lizes it in such few words as to carry sincere conviction. Indeed, the disposition of the House is such as to lead to the of a bill after it has been considered in Culber- | Son's committee. Backed by a plain state- ment from the chairman himself, it usually goes through without dispute and without |& word of protest. In this he stands with- jout a superior among chairmen of com- | mittees. He is as deliberate in movement and manner as in the consideration of a knotty point at law. Some fancy that he is lazy, but when they encounter him in de- bate he turns out to be the liveliest sort of |@ lazy man. A patient, careful investigator, | there is no better lawyer or legislator 07 the floor of the House, and none more in- fluential. Another member of the committee on the judiciary may be well termed a wheel-horse. William C. Oates. He is William C. Oates of Alabama, better known in his state as the “one-armed hero of the Wire Grass population.” No one will jever accuse him of being lazy. Activity marked him long ago fur her own. In the confederate army he was ever on the move and on the attack, and in the House it has j been the same. He has had his Chancellors- | ville and his Gettysburg in legislative exper- fence, as well as on the open field. His fight on behalf of the Torrey bankruptcy bill has been exceeded only by his fight against the direct tax refunding bill in the Piftieth Congress. Indeed, Oates takes scarcely any rest. He is on the stump in the south in every political campaign. Nor does he confine his efforts to his own stete. He walks over into Georgia and Florida. and awakens the echoes on behalf of state rights and a strict construction of the Con- stitution. Nor is he backward about awak- ening the echoes in the House of Represent- atives. A close fighter, he never asks for quarter. His ideas flow with charming flu- ency, and he can give and take with equal readiness. A conscientious worker in com- mittee, he uses facts and arguments with facility on the floor of the House. Some, at times have thought this wheel-horse a little erratic, but experience has convinced them of their error. He is now in magnificent trim for the coming campaign in Alabama and his friends predict that he will be the next governor of the state. One of the finest wheel horses on the Cc. R. Breckenridge. democratic side is Clifton R. Breckinridge of Arkansas. He is the son of John C. Breckinridge, once Vice President of the United States. Lacking the commanding presence of his father, he has all of his in- tellectual vigor, and is a more close and earnest worker and investigator. He is peculiarly adapted to service on the ways and means committee. Here he is the lieu- tenant of William L. Wilson, its chairman. There is probably no man in the country who -has studied the question of raising revenue more patiently and persistently ‘than Mr. Breckinridge. He has profited by the know-edge thus acquired, and the forth- coming bill will undoubtedly show his im- print. It is one thing, however, to acquire information and another to impart it. Breckinridge is at home in both roles. Al- though not gifted with the magnificent voice of his father he speaks clearly and enunciates his words perfectly, but the voice and the enunciation are no more clear than his arguments. They are stated concisely. The diction is perfect. Redun- dancy is not one of his qualities. He makes his points stand out like stars on a frosty night, and leaves them to produce their ef- fect upon his hearers. In the coming fight over the tariff Mr. Breckinridge will be a prominent figure. ‘o list of the democratic wheel horses would be perfect without the name of Jo- siah Pattersor. of Tennessee. Put him into the traces with Livingston, and they would look like brothers, yet the latter fought the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sher- man act to the bitter end, and the former advocated it. They are alike in style, man- ner, appearance and disposition. Each has |the courage of his convictions, and each would die in his tracks before surrendering to a foe. Patterson fought the anti-option bill like a hero. Rice Pierce warned him of the wrath to come for standing by his con- victions, but when the wrath did come it snatched Pierce bald-headed and left Pat- terson with over 8,0” majority. When with equa! obstinacy Mr. Patterson stood by President Cleveland in the present Con- gress, another Tennesseean talked about the wrath to come; yet from present indi- cations when the wrath does come it wt increase Patterson’s majority if It does not decrease that of his colleague. Patterson, like Livingston, fs a picturesque figure in the House. He talks like an old-time law- yer in the flush days of Alabama and Mis sissippi. His speeches are replete with logic and good sense, and awaken the » most Interest. It ts safe to say that the Memphis district has never been more abi; represented. So much for the democratic wheel horses. Sineular to say, all those men- tioned served in the confeferate army There are no more patriotic and trust- worthy men in the House. They represent hard work and steady pulling. Of course there are northern democrats who do some- times very brillant work, but the olf steady pullers from the north seem to have deen supplanted by men good ata dash or a svurt, but not werth much for stes4v work et the plow. The men whose nemese have heen mentioned are in th | eonts and alweve at wnrk. Without them the erone wonld he Pllet with weete the roade averrin with water courses an@ many : elf Ye fntae eer Aarne 1 creme For sick. nervons and nenratgic headache use ‘The sure cure—Bromo Seltzer.