Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1894, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. aT THE STAR Bi wee ee ie G S&S HL EAI spree New York Office, 68 Potter Buildixf. Part 3. Che F pening Star. Pages 17-20. WASHINGTON, D. C.. SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. THE NOUVEAU CIRQUE A Tank Girons That Delights the Parisians, THE BLACK AND WHITE CLOWNS The Promenade in the Stables Among the Horses. THE REVUE AND ITS SCENES Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS,. January 1804. HERE IS A TANK circus in Peris, and it is a joy to infants and to grown people. When other shows pall and all the world seems hollow, as it often does in Paris, it is well to pass an evening in the Nouveau Cirque, T scend at 10 o'clock, to see the water bub- biing up until the ring is like a lake. It is the selfsame ring | in which the negro clown Chocolat will have been seen to bite the dust a dozen Umes in the evening’s short first-part, be- cause he will not learn to refuse his con-| fidence to his unworthy confreres, who are white clowns. “Hey, Chocoiat! Venney jou-ay avec moa!" (Come play with me! The white clowns imitate the imperfect French ac- cent of English and Americans, to the great delight of Paris audieuces.) Then Chocolat approaches, beaming with good-fellowship, only to be once more de- ceived, tricked, done for and held up to scorn. The little cafidren clap their hands with joy. The Nouveau Cirque has an interior iike any other. You would not think of water, looking at its felt-floored ring, whose balus- trade is brilliantly upholstered in red plugh. It is a solid circus, built of stone, heated, moré luxuriously furnished than most thea- ters, and not a canvas tent that smells strong of the animals. Its front upon the rue Saint-Honore is’ vefy smart indeed. And, being one of the few amusement places in Paris to which careful. French People can take their young unmarried daughters, the aspect of its clientele is, in itself, a decoration. Night after night, from 8:20 till 10 o'clock, the decorous, well- fed, well-groomed audience sits, rank above Tank in comfortable circles of red plush, to watch the well-fed, well-groomed animals, to see the floor de-) briskly. The present program has three parts, the circus proper, a revue and then the tank show, which is called “The Yacht of M. Durand.” The cirous part has eight acts only. After Pipo and Crisidi, two small ponies, have gone through their exercises, the clowns perform a trick with hats, in which the luckless Chocolat is powdered white. | The Bareback Rider. There is a ‘Travail a Cheval sans Selle’ by Miss Margaret, who, I fancy, is an Irish | girl. Travail in French means “work,” and | this lady does her work well, riding bare- ; back. There is an illusion by the clowns, @ piece of foolery. Then the clown Pieran toni (all these clowns are given Italian | Rames) displays his jackass Bebe. It is a | jackass trained to refuse to leave the ring when his time comes to go. When his clown master looks at him he does his ; Work in good style, with a special trick of dashing round the circle and then turning like a flash upon his tracks, much quicker than a horse or pony. When his master turns his back, the jackass simply lies down on the carpet. No one can budge him, though half a dozen stablemen in blue suits with brass buttons gather round him gravely, tug at him and are obliged to lug him off at last, as if he were a Saratoga trunk. There is more serious circus rid- ing, Miss Ada Powell on four horses, very good and quite the same as everyone has seen. Most circus work is good work, no matter in what land you see it. Circus peo- ple have their own peculiar ways and one of them is honest work. You can become a comedian by having your cards printed. It is different to stand upon a bareback horse. With respect to the serious riding of this Paris circus, it appears to have but two peculiarities. One is what I have men- tioned, the close proximity of all spectators to the ring. Thus every motion, every shade of difficulty conquered by the per- former, is brought to the attention of the clients. They observe more closely and ap- preciate the riders’ skill more than they might ff separated from them by the dis- tance of a great ring. ‘The second feature of the riding gives at least one act, never omitted, of the “haute ecuse” of ordiaary horseback vii it is simply horsemanship on some beautifully trained stallion. ‘Then, last of all, the negro Chocolat must bite the dust again, butchered this time to {make a Paris holiday. The act is called “A human target.” Cho- colat is naturally the target. And all the little children coo with joy when he has knives thrown into his back, because they know that Chocolat is never really hurt. There is a special son why any one can laugh innocent:y 1a a: the spectacle of a negro clown who always gets the worst of it. The special ma>k of negroes in Paris is that they are socially as good as anybody else. There will be negro swells from Haytt or from Martinique in the audience to keep up the credit of the race, negro swells whose French is pe-fect, whose education has been had in universities, whose ways and manners i ‘Therefore Chocolat need not_ advantage merely for 2 reason of The Revue. The second part is the revue. This the- atrical and circus feature is a specialty of continental Europe. Externally a review 1s a disjointed melange of extravaganza and musical-farce-comedy, without plot, but re- horses, pigs and goats and other lucky beasts, perform in turn—beasts that have graduated through their own merits and €ocility from the low world of unskilled labor up to the life of artistes. Night after Right the luckless black (though he is brown) plays his pathetic-humorous part cf faith betrayed. The sawdust of the Nouveau ‘Cirque (although it has no sawdust) is very small, therefore the audience finds itself quite near, brought into a contact with the per- formers which is almost intimate. To heighten this, be een the parts, it is the ¢common privilege of all ta walk out in the stables. These stables, which are made a special feature of the Nouveau Cirque, have all the adjuncts of a theater foyer. You @rink, smoke, walk about, talk with your friends if you have any, and inspect the docile animals ai close range. Clowns and artisigs come and go, assistants, jockeys and scene shifters hurry about their affairs with a “Pardon me!" or “If you please!” ‘The lonely visitor in Paris feels for a short instant that he is a part of something acain and yet not in the way, and so Ke is grateful. It is an old trick of the Paris ¢ircuses, this little liberality, but it is a Uberality, although inspired by an intelli- Bent self-interest and the desire to show In the Ring. off to the best advantage all that the circus has and to make its visitors fel easy. Just as the ring ts small, so each part fo the program is short and every act moves plete with incident. It deals largely in poll- tics, and is what it pretends to be—a review of the leading events of the year in every branch of public life. A young woman in pink tights will personify the salon of the Champs Elysees, a demoiselle with a pair | Of scissors painted on he> skirt will repre- sent the government censorship of the the- | ater, while a third will stalk up to the foot- lights with the words: “I am the influenza.” | There is small use of scenery in a review. | In theaters it is often only one set scene |Fepresenting a prominent street corner. | Here the characters walk on and off; but there are two wio remain ever and always The first is a man called the " the other is a lady, called the ‘They are the gossips or cronies of the piece, a cross between the middleman of a negro minstrel show and a Greek cho- rus. They explain the alle: by thei> burlesque conversation, one always asking questions of the other. Characters in the Revue. In the short burles jue review of Neu- veau Cirque there is no scenery at all. Its first event is the serpentine dance, which | has given a host of imitators. One of the most desperate of these efforts has been the exhibition of Mile. Bob-Walter, who does the serpentine in a cage of lions. Here, where it is burlesque, the lions are brought jout into the ring, played on by colored @ € ne ee, Not We lee = Im the Audience. lights to greve, protentous music. They are Imitation lions, each ied by an imitation Nubian, with Chocolat in a brass helmet end @ pronged fore at thes nead. ‘The serpentine dancer is Brunin, a preternatu- rally tall and slim young man, whose chief claim to consideration is that he can twine Ais arms arovnd lus + aly in wu marvelous Way to scratch himseif while he is singin. | The Napoleon furore has its share. with the clown Piérantoni as the man of tiny. Hortense and Caroline squabble, wi gcod resounding blows and wrestlings, like | two female devils. Then Napoleo! en | fn his campaigns. Sapa Boom boom! An officer hurries in. is it?" “The Italian army regiment to clean them up! Boom. iB h t is it now?" oming by the belt flambes!”" t the Bel t the Seais Belgians, they are way!" “Then we > French pretend to laugh Yvette Guilbert, who i the Craggs Bregkers, w and Rave had a great! success as acrobats at the Folies-Bergere, Francisque Sarcey, the theatrical criti the French army in Dahomey and the Da- homeyans in Paris, mingle in this quick- moving burlesque with a score of other characters, and in the dialogue which bristles with allusions to local events, that tt would take a book to clear up. For ex- ample, the story of the Anthony Comstock- like League, of Jules Simon and Senator Berenger has never yet been told in En- glish. Its efforts to bring to punishment some strangely costum: demoiselles at last winter’s students’ ball caused the last spring’s students’ riots. The question is still a burning one. This explains why, for instance, when the imitation Craggs come on in evening clothes, the compere bows humbly to the audience and says apologetically: ‘“Messieurs et mesdames, the acrobats have not the habit to wear coats." The nine brothers take their coats off. “Messieurs et mesdames, the acro- bats have not the habit to wear panta- loons!" An old gentleman, a pretended spectator, shrieks in the third tier of seats; and, ris- ing up, indignantly stamps his way out. And then the Craggs take off their pants. So they perform their burlesque act in tights, the same as others do. Making the Lake. The getting ready of the circus ring be- low takes time. The great felt carpet has to be rolled up; and it requires the strength of twenty men. An immense car- riage frame on wheels fifteen feet high is used to haul it out. Then the yacht is brought on in sections and screwed to a high iron framework in the floor. When all is put together, it is seen to be an imi- tation steam latinch, large enough to hold a dozen persons, perched up on what seems lke a ship-yard platform. They turn the Ordinary Riding. water on, From a hundred small holes around the floor of the ring the water be- gins bubbling up, because the floor is being forced down into it. From a large hole in the center a torrent like a geyser boils. The floor is gone. All is water. Slowly the yacht sinks down, till the iron framewok holding it is lost to view and the fine boat sits naturally upon the bosom of the pond, with Chocolat hurrying to it importantly along the railing, dressed as a cook, to set his Kitchen up m the gall The Yacht of M. Durand. M. Durand, a retired pork butcher, is sup- Posed to live at Bougival along the Seine. he amuses himself by the gentle artol cangeing. Unexpectedly he succeeds to a superb legacy, One of his uncles, a pork butcher in America, leaves him all his for- tune, plus a steam yacht. The Leopard is actually in France, in dock at Gernouille- on-the-sea. lowed by all his family and his boatiu friends of Bougival. Received with open arms by the inhabitants of Gernouille-on- the-Sea, M. Durand gives a superb fete on board the Leopard. He makes himself cap- tain, discharges the crew, and invites his canoeing friends to take a trip, manning the yacht themselves. 3 “Forward the machine!” “On to Geneva! But night comes and seasickness. The old crew, in revenge for their discharze, have treacherously bored holes in the bot- tom of the yacht. The Leopard begins to sink. Chocolat upsets his stove and then the yacht takes fire. “Shoot the signal rockets! Hoist the distress flag!’ “Man the lifeboat! Row to the nearest shore: Saved! Two trips are made, the shore, which is the entrance to the circus ring, is only six feet off, and all are safe but Cho- colat. He is left on board to drown an} burn at once. He leaps into the seething billows and strikes out bravely for the red plush railing. And then the show is fin- ished. The absurdity, and the prettiness as well, are both surprising. The yacht is like a real one, with smoke and a steam whistle. The treacherous discharged crew are ballet girls, who stand around the railing, and do a dance before they leave the doomed am. teurs to their fate. The provincial police, the canoeists, fishers, fish-girls and a whole troup of pretty or of comic people, enliven each instant of the short three-quarters of an hour. And, when the audience, walking out, looks back upon the circus ring, now a cold pond with only the masts and smoke- stack of the Leopard visible upon its £ face, they wonder if it can be the selfsame ring round which the horses galloped fur- iously two hours before. sT RLING HEILIG. : i SUCCEEDS A TITLED RAKE. The New Duke of Marlborough Owes Much to the American Duchess. ‘The present young Duke of Marlborough is a rather commonplace-looking person. He came of age the other day and gave a brilliant coming-out ball at Blenheim to celebrate the event. His mother, the Mar- chioness of Blandford, acted as hostess. It will be remembered that this lady has never worn the title of Duchess of Marlborough, as she was divorced from the late duke before he succeeded to the title. The young duke’s ball was all the more effe tive for being given in a palace recently renovated and restored to its early dignity and freshness of appointment. For this renewed beauty of his home, says the New York Tribune,he is indebted to the money of the present Duchess of Marlborough, who was, before her marriage to the ‘duke, Mrs.Hammersiey, of New York. ———__-+ee- Harsh. From Truth. ‘The Professor—“And now, my dear, what is the lowest form of animal life?" The Co-ed. Girl (scornfully)—“Man.” ——___+-——_—_ From Life. Uncle Remus. “I guess dat mew! don’t kick de dashboard outen dis yeah cart any moah. Rattle up dem oats, honey, or we'se be late foh chuch.” THE USE OF CLOTUR Little Important Business Can Be Done Without It. TT SUPPRESSES THE FILIBUSTERERS, Mr. Randall Has Had Many Worthy Successors, GEN. OATES’ FAMOUS EFFORT. Written for The Evening Star. TIS A CLOTURE House. Necessity compels it. Without cloture very little im- portant business could be done, unless two-thirds of the members favored it. Then the House might do its work on suspension day, but at no other time. The tariff bill cannot go through the House ' without a cloture resolution from the committee on rules. The federal election bill passed under a cloture resolution. The Wilson bill repeal- ing the purchasing clause of the Sherman act went through under cloture. It is now the engine which the committee on rules use under the authority of the House when- ever the majority wants to do business. For some years after the close of the war there was no necessity for cloture. The republicans had a two-thirds majority in each branch of Congress, and could pass whatever measure they pleased on suspen- sion days. On such days, under the rules, there can be no filibustering, but it re- quires a two-thirds vote to pass a measure. The admission of the reconstructed states, however, deprived the republicans of their two-thirds majority, and led to filibuster- ing at critical moments. The first and most successful filibusterer since the war was Samuel J. Randall. He developed while James G. Blaine was Speaker. He led a parliamentary fight against a force bill, very Sdious to demo- crats. The Speaker, by arbitrary action, might have deprived him of his parlia- , Congressman Bland. mentary rights. Mr. Blaine, however, prid- ed himseif upon his rigid impartiality while in the Speaker's chair. Randall knew his man. He felt confident that while he con- fined himself to a strict parliamentary line of action, he would receive recognition and fair play. He led the fight with signal ability and won a lasting reputation. Nor did he stand higher in the affections of the people than the Speaker who, notwithstand- ing party exigencies, accorded him every privilege. Randall's success emboldened filibusterers in after years. When the direct-tax re- funding bill came before the Fiftieth Con- gress, Gen. William C. Oates of Alabama followed Randall's example. It was dur- ing the first session of that Congress. The most of the taxes to be refunded would go to the northern and western states. The bill carried about $17,000,000 and the south would receive only an infinitesimal portion of this amount. Representative Oates’ Victory. Gen. Oates’ first effort was to attach an amendment refunding the cotton ax, levied during the war. When the amendment fail- ed, he resorted to every parliamentary means to defeat the bill. Mr. Carlisle was Speaker. Blaine himself could not have acted with more impartiality. The House was in session repeatedly forty hours on a stretch,yet the bill made no progress. Oates had a little army barely strong enough to secure the yeas and nays, but it was vigt- lant and sleepless. It stood by him to the last. It included a very few northern democrats, who believed that, as the taxes could not be refunded to the parties who paid them, they ought not to be returned to the states that collected them. After a week of filibustering, Gen. Oates secured « compromise. The House agreed to let the matter go over until the second session, when, at a given time, it was to be finally settled. It was a shrewd com- promise. That fall President Cleveland was defeated by Gen. Harrison. The direct-tax refunding bill came up after the election. It passed the House by a large majority, and went through the Senate without a hitch. But President Cleveland vetoed it. Congressman Ontes. It was impossible to pass the bill over the veto, and Oates came out of the fight at last as triumphant as Randall in his force bill fight. Oates’ example, however, was contagious. Gen. James b. Weaver, Clifton R. Breck- inridge, the Rey. John Anderson of Kan- sas, and others became permeated with the filibustering microbe, and it became almost impossible to do any business in the House. Mr. Carlisle was so absolutely impartial as a presiding officer under the rules that two or three individual filibusterers couid shut off business at any time. The Hause was paralyzed at times for days and even weeks. The attention of the whole country was concentrated upon it, and the disgust became national. The feeling of the coun- try found expression in the fall elections, when the republicans carried the House by five majority. This majority increased the House met, by the elec- en from the new states. Rise of the Czar. Thomas B. Reed was elected Speaker He took the chair with the evident determina- to eight, before tion of His reign marked a new era in the legisla- tion of the House. He went to extreme lengths. Not only did he suppress the indi- vidual filibusterer, under his interpreta- tion of parliamentary law, but he took the silent filibusterers by the throat. He count- ed those present but not voting, so as to make a quorum. . Days of furious fighting followed. When an appeal from his rulings was secured, the republican majority of the House sustained him. His action was further confirmed by the adoption of new rules, giving him the authority which he had claimed under gen- eral parliamentary law. ‘Thus the silent filibusterer was squelched. The more noisy and active fellow received different treatment. The committee on rules were empowered to bring in a cloture resolution at any time, and under the rules a prompt vote was taken. It was thus that the McKinley bill and the Lodge bili were passed. By a similar action eight demo- crats were unseated, and the republican majority increased to twenty-two. | But business was business, as Maj. McKinley frequently remarked upon the floor of the House. The croaking of the filibustering frogs was no longer heard; and the bus! ness capacity of the House in the Fifty- |" first Congress was signally developed. in fact, it was over developed, as the fall election demonstrated. The people resented the arbitrary action of the majority in the Fifty-first Congress, more than they had resented the insane filibustering folly of the Fiftieth Congress. They sent nearly 150 democratic majority to the Fifty-second Congress. Charles F, Crisp succeeded Mr. Reed as Speaker. In a caucus to consider the pr posed new rules, a disposition to resume the old inane practice was evinced. A battle royal followed. It lasted for hours. The more conservative of the democrats did not Itke the idea of treading in Tom Reed’ footsteps. They also seemed to fear that, if they adopted rules under which individ- ual filibusterers could be suppressed, all other filibustering might go under. The newly elected Speaker finally took the floor, and made a masterly speech in favor of giving the committee on rules the power of cloture. His argument was so telling that the caucus adopted the cloture rule. It was done, however, with the understanding that | the power should not be exercised unless the majority of the democrats of the House demanded it. How well the business of the Fifty-second Congress was conducted the Record shows. While ‘suppressing individual filibusterers with the lever of the committee on rules, the democrats made no effort to suppress the silent filibusterer—the man who sits in his seat and smiles, but does not vote. The democratic majority, however, was so great that the silent filibusterer had very few opportunities to make himself felt. There was no necessity to count those pres- ent but not voting to secure a quorum. ‘The committee on rules were also very con- servative in using cloture. It was never brought in unless absolutely necessary. one time, a majority of the members of the House signed a petition for a cloture to secure action on a bridge will. The com- mittee on rules, however, parieyed with ¢ member presenting the request. They dis- liked the precedent it would establish. Ac- tion was secured in another way, and all were satisfied. The people apparently recognized the wis- dom of the course taken. They sent nearly a hundred democratic majority to the Fifty-third Congress. It adopted new rules and made manifest the fact that cloture in legislation has come to stay. The power of the committee on rules was confirmed, and without the understanding that it should be exercised only at the request of the majority of the democratic members. The committee, however, have never taken action unless it was clear that a majority demanded it. «@he reduction of the democratic majority in the House with the increase in member- ship, however, brought the siient filibuster- er again to the front. He appears now in all his glory, and Speaker Reed takes great pleasure in exhibiting him, believing that the exhibition sustains his action in count- ing a quorum as present and not voting. The republicant frequently refrain from voting, thus forcing the democrats to show a quorum of their own members. What Might Be Done. of the tariff bill for days after the holiday recess. Properly worked by the individual democrats who are opposed to the Wilson tariff bill, it might defeat it. It would not take more than forty democratic votes to | recommit the bill. It can be delayed in- definitely by the absence of less than that | number as long as the republicans refuse to vote. Before the holiday recess the power of | Congressman Breckinridge. cloture was manifested. It struck that great apostle of silver, Richard P. Bland Next to Judge Holman, he is credited with the longest service in the House. A defi feney bill was under consideration. It in. cluded mileage for members at the first regular session beginning on December 4. They had received mileage for the special session, called by the President. Bland fought the proposition ferociously. Driven to bay, he began to filibuster. The session lasted until the sun went down and stars appeared in the sky. Mr. Bland was implacable. would die in his seat before he would give way. The hands of the clock were moving toward 9, the members had gone without their dinners, and still the great Missour- ian stood at his desk, pounding it in indig- nation and roaring defiance to those around hit om Reed sat upon the republican side chuckling with joy. But a broader smile of satisfaction came over his face when young Charles Crisp, a son of the Speaker came up the atsie to him and said, “Mr. Reed, father wants to see you in the Speaker’s room for a few minutes.” The man from Maine lumbered down the aisle in the mellow gas-light, and made his exit through the door of ‘the Speaker's lobby. Three minutes afterwards he re- appeared, accompanied by Speaker Crisp | and Gen. Catchings. The House divined the situation in an in- | stant. The three were a quorum of the committee on rules. This committee had taken the filibusterers in hand and were about to apply cloture. There was an ebullition of joy. The House broke into cheers and the clapping of hands was deafening. Tom Reed's Shakespearean face revealed his inward emotion, as he lumber- ed back to his seat. It was the first time that he had ever experienced such a recep- tion from a democratic House. Under a resolution from the committee on rules cloture was promptly applied. Mr. Bland died hard. He availed himseif of all the latitude allowed by the rules, and gave up the gho&t as the clock in the Church of St. Aloysius was striking 9. AMOS J. CUMMINGS. ss t Lovely. J From Trath. Mrs. A.—‘My husband smokes cigarettes in the house ali day, and I do detest the What do you do about it?” eat onions and garlic just for spite.” Mrs. B.—It must be real sociable at your house.” It was this action that blocked the way | He acted as if he | wealth, has not made a new record; but his | spends on her for dinners, flowers and car- ‘ | | | Lincoln's and Harrison’ NOW A MILLIONAIRE, tion of suppressing individual filibusterers. | Senator Aldrich Has Joined the Mi- nority in the Upper House. IS A PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITY. Some Senators Who Have Experi- enced Fluctuations of Fortune, INTERESTING GOSSIP Written for The Eveuing Star. : ENATOR NELSON W. Aldrich has gone over to the minority —so long the majori- ty—of the Senate. He is one of its million- aires. In the years of his senatorial serv- ice, Mr. Aldrich has always been reckon- ed apoor man. He was not considered poverty-stricken. He did not borrow money and he did not live within his salary as. some Senators do. But, compared with Stockbridge of Michi- gan, who lives in ex-Senator Sawyer’s stone palace at Washington, or the Camerons, who keep up an expensive establishment on Lafayette Square, or the Brices, who spend thousands on every entertainment that they give at Corcoran House, he was poor. He lived modestly and did no enter- taining. His home was usually in a fash- ionable boarding house or a hotel. He had some members of his family with him most of the time, but not many of them. To |any one who does not know the possibilities of public life in Washington, Mr. Aldrich’s actual expenses under these conditions would seem absurd. I have never discussed the matter with him, but I have reason to believe that it has cost him more than $15,000 a year to live and support his fam- ily during at least the later years of his senatorial term. No wonder that he said to me two years ago that he did not be- eve that he could be a candidate for re- election to*the Senate, because he felt that he must look to the future of his family and make some provision for himself against the coming of age. At that time some business opportunities were open to him in New York and there was a possi- bility that he would leave Rhode Island. But he was persuaded to reconsider his de- termination, and the people of Rhode Is- land sent him to the Senate for another six years. eee Mr. Aldrich did not allow his re-election to interfere entirely with his business plans, however. A company was forming for the purehase and consolidation of the street railroads of Rhode Island—not only the city roads, but those connecting one town with another. Mr. Aldrich was asked to be one of a close syndicate of five to pur- chase these roads. He became the presi- dent of the consolidated company. The properties were bought at what was consid- ered a fair valuation, but much less than the amount for which they have since been capitalized and bonded. The capitalization 1s $5,000,000, and $5,000,000 worth of bonds on the property have been floated at par. At the present valuation of the stock of the consolidated roads Mr. Aldrich is a very rich man. His holdings are conserva- tively estimated at $2,000,000. His salary is $25,000 a year. cee It is not at all likely that Mr. Aldrich will attempt to make any social display in Wash- ington. His taste does not turn that way. He is an ardent student, and he takes more than ordinarily active intezest in mat- ters before Congress. His business cares will absorb much of his time. finds any recreation it will probably be in a game of cards—almost his only amusement. During the holiday recess he devoted all of his time to straightening his business af- fairsin Providence, so that he may give his undivided attention to the tariff Dill when it comes up in the Senate. Mr. Aldrich was the republican leader in the Senate when the present tariff law was under discussion; he will lead the republican forces in the tack on the tariff measure which the House will send over to the Senate this winter. No one in the Senate possesses a more perfect or ready knowledge of the tariff question. if he succeeds in defeating the Wilson bill, he will-be as conspicuous a champion of protection in the public eye as is Mr. Me- Kinley of Ohio. see Wealth is not the strongest recommenda- tion to political preferment. Most of the Presidential nominees have been poor men. George Washington was a notable excep- tion, But Mr. Aldrich’s good fortune, as it has made him independent, has opened up unusual opportunities before him. There is little doubt that if a favorable opportunity offers itself in the next republican national convention, Mr. Aldrich’s name will be of- fered in opposition to McKinley's, Cullom’s, i This could hap- pen only in the event that Reed of Maine w not a strong factor in the convention. Either of these men by himself could carry the whole New England delegation, and it is not at all unlikely that Aldrich could con- trol the delegation fi some of the great manufacturing states of the east. Of course, republican leaders believe now that the nomination will not go to the east. But forecasting convention results is profitless work. —— things have happened than the nominat®n of Aldrich for the Presi jdency. If he fights the Wilson bill in the | Senate and defeats it, he will be, as I said, quite as conspicuous a champion of protec. tion as McKinley. Mr. Aldrich, by his sudden acquisition of case is unusual. It happens more frequently that the man who leaves business to enter public life finds himself much poorer for his choice. Senator “Tom” Bowen of Colo- rado is a comparatively recent example. He came to the Senate rich, left it a poor man and fs now reported to have regained much of his riches. He was an odd characte: always a “good fellow,” popular with every one about him. He had a penchant for poker and he indulged it freely. Numberless are the poker stories told about him still, and gigantic the tales of his money making. He never discouraged the tale tellers. He was perfectly willing to pose as Monte Cristo. Mining incestments made Bowen's first fortune and brought him to the Senate, where he was for six years a good natured figurehead. He was more familiar*to the lobby of the Riggs House than to the floor of the Senate. Mining speculation at long range robbed him of his wealth and he went away from Washington comparatively poor. He has made money again in the mines. Senator Sabin of Minnesota was wealthy when he came to Washington. In the last year of his senatorial term he went into bankruptcy and he was rather hard up when he went away. Senator Gordon left a lucra- tive law practice to come to the Senate some | years ago. He resigned his seat because he said he could not afford to remain in Wash- He went to New York to practice law, but he gradually drifted into politics again and now he is in the Senate once more. But he is not well-to-do and he has been a decided sufferer by his political ex- periences. Recently he has had to eke out his income by lecturing. Senator Mitchell of Wisconsin came to the House a millionaire. Just after his election to the Senate the bank, of which he was president went to the wall and he found himself embarrassed. He is not a bankrupt, but he is not nearly so rich as he was when he went into politic Senator Jones of Nevada has lost several fortunes since he entered public life, but as And if he | ates modern | 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 or Publication, precedence being given to those first received, CU. he has recovered all of them his accounts just about balance. Senator Stewart, his colleague, Jost a fortune during his first term in the Senate, and when he came to Washington as Jas. G. Fair's successor he | Was accounted comparatively poor. He has made another fortune recently in real estate investments at the capital. He is preparing to reoccupy “Stewart's castle,” which the Chinese legation has vacated. He built it in the time of his early prosperity, but when he came back to Washington a few years ago he was too poor to it Senator Sherman had a very modest for- tune when he came to W: He bas increased it by fortunate real estate invest~ ments until he is a very wealthy — o. 6. © Most of the great men who have entered the Senate poor have left it poorer. This is true, too, of members of the House, or course there are remote instances of men who have saved money out of their salaries, One southern member boasted at the end of his term that he had lived on his mileage and stationery allowance and saved the whole of his salary—$10,000—in two years. Martin of Texas undoubtedly took away | $7,500 of his salary. But these are the ex- | ceptions. Cabinet service, too, is expensive, | Secretary Noble in the last administra- tion encroached on his private fortune. Sec- retary Tracy said that if President Harri- son had been re-elected he would not have |Temained in the cabinet, because he could | Bot afford to. The only person who made | any money out of office holding in that ad+ ministration was the President. A Presi- dent usually saves a good deal out of his | Salary. And sometimes he has opportuni- Ues to increase his store by legitimate in- vestment. President Cleveland is possibly the best illustration in public life today of the man who has profited while in politics. He came to Washington comparatively . He went away with a modest little fortune saved out of his salary and made in reat estate investments. Since that time, by for- tunate speculation made on the advice of men with whom his high office had brought him in contact, he has increased his wealth until he is now considered a rich man. Fol- lowing in the footsteps of his chief, Secre- tary Daniel S. Lamont has made profitable use of the acquaintances he formed during his term as private secretary to the Pres- ident and he has a tidy little income now to meet the deficiencies of a cabinet salary. GEORGE GRANTHAN BAIN, oe BAD HALF-HOUR. A He Got Away, but the Beauty of That Chair Was Ruined. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. At the home of a popular girl in this city @ most uncomfortable half hour was re- cently spent by a modest youth who had called to see her, ‘The youth is noted both for bashfulness and nervousness. The night in que#tion he went with @ friend to the girl's house. He took a com- fortable seat in a latge armchair, and, as was his habit, soon began to nervously poke his fingers into cracks and holes of the ornamental part of the chair. He shov- ed one finger into a hole in this manner, but found to his dismay that his knuckle positively refused to come back through the hole. The more the young man worked to re- lease his finger the harder it w; as the finger became swollen. The y: was too bashful to mention the ridiculous predica- ment into which he had gotten himself, but bore the pain in silence. He suffered’ un- told agony for fear his friend would go be- fore he released his finger. Finally the hostess noticed his apparent uneasiness. The youth with many blushes then told the cause. It was not until half an hour later that the bashful youth and |the chair parted company, The butler fin- j ally succeeded in releasing the finger with the aid of a hatchet and chisel, but the handsome chair is a thing of the past, A Chat in a Turkish Bath, From the Chicago Record. What becomes of the society woman om Friday? has always been about as much of a mystery as what becomes of snow birds in summer? Aside from the comparatively small number who drop in on a musical or | attend some little club reception, scarcely an echo remains of the gayeties which pre- | cede hangman's day. Now, however, a part | at least of the mystery is cleared up. They | go to the Turkish bath. They go in quite a different spirit from |the men. Men go because they must. It is |a sort of duty or necessity with them. | Women go for recreation and gossip. Not | gossip in its vulgar sense, but just for a | B00d, free, comfortable chat. Men drop in singly and are usually silent ‘and sullen. Turkish baths are a great place | for reflection, Women go in parties. Yesterday a number of prominent west |side women were missed from taeir homes. They were traced to the Turkish baths. An excursion through this palace, below the level of Lake Michigan, discovered as many congenial spirits from the north and south sides. Discreet groups of white-robed fig- ures sat or lounged about in easy attitudes. An intelligible word now and then found its way beyond earshot of its own group. Two rosy-cheeked girls—all women grow rosy under the seductive influence of a | Turkish bath—lay tucked up in blankets |siae by side in the cooling room. it was |not easy to decide just who or what they were. From their conversation it was cer- tain that they did not have as much money jas they would like to spend. But that sig- nifies nothing. No girl ever has. xz They talked about the “January sales” im the big shops, while a maid stood at the head of each drying and brushing her hair, “I wish I had saved up ali of my pin \money for a year ahead, so that I could buy everything I se Girls have that extrav- agant way of talking. But they under. stand one another as perfectly as an olf pn does her chicks wish I had not bought a single Christ- resent”—from the other—“when I see so lovely and so cheap.” Ac- i on the cheap. “Do you know what I was wishing the other day?”—this in a stage whisper. AD inquiring, encouraging look from the oth |“Well, T was wishing that, just if such | thing could be, you know—but of course it's |too terrible—I know it never could be.” An encouraging nod. “I was thinking that if vy aman could with propriety give to the ung lady the money, some of it, that he j You se this daring maiden hur- ried on, “this year I divide my own allow- lance and give nearly half of jt to different little charities.” “Yes,” said the other, “that would be @ state of things. But, now you have con- |fided in me, I will tell you an awful thing which I thought about just at Christmas | me. Really, € got so many Christmas | presents that didn’t suit me; many of them ere duplicates of things I had already. And do you know I wanted to sell those OT arst maiden sat straight up on her divan. She yanked her hair clear out of her maid's hands and brought tears to her ou—" urse T didn’t do ft, but it made me feel wicked. I sat and looked at silver toilet articles quart bottles of cologne and thought how much they would bring. |At holidays one needs so much money? Well. I finally put the things on the top |shelf of the closet there they will re- |main for some tim \" By this time most of the matinee bathers had finished their tollets and disappeared linto the cafe apovi And the two maidens jwere left talking to each other over the partition between their dressing rooms. — Foreign Extraction. From Truth.