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14 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAROH (94, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. A SENATOR'S BOOKS John Sherman’s Workshop and His Collection of Scraps. SOME OF BIS FAVORITE AUTHORS He Likes Novels and Studies the Classics. SOMEINSTANCES OF HIS NERVE .———— Written for The Evening Star. SPENT AN EVEN- ing recently in looking over the scrap books of a United States Senator. In them I found a large Part of the history of the Unfted States for the last thirty-eight years. They covered the whole of che ex- citing six years be- fore the war. They embraced speeches, interviews and stories gathered at Washington at the time cf the Great rebellion. They covered the days of reconstruction, and coming on down told the story of one noted man’s life as it ran | fm and out, affec our history from that time to this. They were the scrap books of Senator John Sher- man, member of Cone. ™, Senator’ of the | United State: Presidential ca eter. ecretary of the Treasury, ndidate and famous finan- ator Sherman's New House. It is interesting to study the intellectual fe of a public man. It fs more tnterest- ing when the man has for thirty-eight Years been at the head of affairs of a great Ration, and it is most interesting when the man has so decided a mental individuality as John Sherman of Ohio. You can get acme {dea of him by a peep into his workshop. He lives, you know, in his new, white stone mansion facing Franklin Square. His house stands on the site of the old. brick which he built when this famous park was little more tha a cow pasture, and en he was still a poor mem- ber of Congress. His present house 1s about fifty feet front, and it Is massive and beautiful. Its walis are thick enough to outlast the ages. You could drive a wagon Icad of hay up the wide stone steps which lead to its front door without brushing the Failings at the sides, and the hail in which You enter is so wide that the wagon could elmost turn around in it. The vestibule, with {ts tiled floor, is seen through long doors of thick plate glass, the solid panes of which reach, with only a narrow bind- ing of wood, from floor to ceiling, and by Pressing an_ electric button the inner doors open and vou find yourself in one of the most handsome and most characteristic of the new houses of Washington. You are struck with the genuinness of everything. All about you is solid, massive, beautiful and real. There is no varnish or veneering. ‘The wood work, selected from the finest of Ohio trees, is beautifv carved, and it has the polish of piano. The brass fix- tures which furnish the light are strong end firm, glass the size of a wash basin filter the electric rays, so that they meet your eyes with a soft, mellow light. At the right of you is the Senator’s'tibrary. At the left is a at parlor, and back of these is one of the finest dining rooms in Washington. From the rear of the hall wide stairs wind their way about walls lined with pictures to the second floor, and the effect of the arrangement gives the idea of abundance of room. Senator Sherman's Library. The Senator's library, on this first floor, fs, I judge, at least twenty-five feet long and about twenty fet in width. It Is walled with books, and ‘t represents the accumulation of a lifetire. Senator Sh man has been a book buyer from his hoy hood. He once told me that he began to buy books when he was a boy of fourteen, carrying a rod and chain in a surveying party on the Muskingum canal. He has now, all told, about 15,000 volt: and mong these are many fine editions. He likes good type, good paper and good bind- John Sherman. ing, ard his books embrace nearly every branch of | All of the famous novelists hav m his shelves, and he finds a part ntellectual rest in novel a Dickens and himself thoroughly literature of the student as well, s are filled with up in biology and { the last books he nithsonfan ler of French and i among his i many of the classics. hort- ths is orth owntr history of the lpr: there is a vhere his private papers are ker ¢ is now packed a@way the corr r of ht: Nfetime. | He has been his letters since he le thing of value has awit packed full of histor is scarcely a wid today who thi that 1s jon. Among othe: man i written its ¢ in Ne: friendships ¢ nearly tended most Ished and priv re nse be an you know, tt n. Sherman's entranke to 1 his death, end th or to the v that. T a to the hi d to well as s It ts in this 11 cetves his home al I 1 lat ar den at Ma mg the leading events of | and great globes of opalescent | side. One set of shelves is filled with books labeled “Speeches in Congress." There are a score and more of these and each of the books fe as large as a family Bible, or the largest ledger you have ever | seen. These are scrap books in which are pasted the speeches and addresses which Senater Sherman has delivered during the last thirty-eight years. They are bound tn green leather, and are made of heavy ma- nilla paper. The speeches are pasted only on one side of the page, and they include, in all, thousands of pages of closely-printed matter. ‘Thousands of Newspaper Scraps. In another case are the volumes of Sena- for Sherman’s newspaper scraps. These fill several shelves, and they are made up of newspaper comments, stories and inter- views about and with Senator Sherman. In them you find hundreds of editorials, some Pratsing and many condemning. There are three columns on every page, and the pages number thoiisands. During the past decale these newspaper clippings have been illus- trated, and the pictures which have been Published of Sherman might be taken at tandom for a photograph gallery of freaks. They look just about as much like him. Many of them have been made by chalk of these articles concerning Sherman are in the form of poetry. John Sherman's Duels. In one volume I find a number of cifzriage about Sherman and the bloody shirt, and, in | 1880, there was great talk of a duel be- tween Sherman and Wade Hampton. Sher- nected with the ku klux and had given evi- dence to show that he was correct. Wade Hampton did not try to controvert the evi- 4encs, but he satisfied himseif by sending the following letter, which he thought would bring Sherman to a duel: “CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., October 1. fon. John Sherman. “Sir: As you do not disclaim the language to which I have called your attention, I | have only to say that in using it,you uttered at you knew to be absolutely false. My address will be Columbia, S. C. “I am, your obedient servant, “WADE HAMPTON.” In reply to this Sherman reiterated his statements and published Hampton's Iet- laughed at all over the country. Sherman came much nearer a duel during his term in the House. He expected to be Sherman and Wright on the Capitol Steps. shot at that time and prepared himself for defense. He was making a speech one day, when a member named Wright, of Tennes- said that one o° his statements was a . Sherman did n the remark, but it was reported to him chat evening and the next day {t appeared in the Globe news- | Paper. Sherman rose to a question of privi- | lese. He said he had not heard the remark and he supposed that the gentleman who made it was in such a condition (drunk) that | he didn’t know what he was saying. As te |S this, Wright looked at him insolently, and Sherman picked up a box of wafers and | threw it in Wright's face. Wfight then tried to draw a pistol, but the other mem- | bers of Congress gathered around him «nd created such a sensation adjourned. Every one expected a luel, and Sherman was called upon by one of the | Southern members and asked what he ex- pected to do. Sherman repiied that he was list, but that he would repel any attack upon him with intevest. ays that he never he did the next that the How physical | He ts a geod shot, and he felt cooler in his life than morning, when he walked up to the Capitol | with a pistol in his pocket. He had made up his nrind that if Wright appr6ached him in such a manner as to justify it that he | would shoot him dead. He took a friend | with him and went out to the Capitol. He did mot see Wright until his return trip. As he walked down the steps to go home, Wright came out and walked down on the opposite side. The two passed around the fountain, which then stood in frent of the Capitol. Each man had a colleague with him, and Sherm_n expected Wright to shoot. He had his hand on Nis ptstol and he looked Wright in the eye, ready to raise the pistol and shoot him if he made any demonstra- tion of attack. Wright, however, saw that Sherman meant business, and he walked on Past without doing anythin: Sherman charged a_ man tying in one of his speeches in the Senate last fall. The man was an author, who Fad made some charges regarding the ~enate and silver, and Sherman publicly charged him with being a liar. A Senator of Nerve. It was not generally known that John Sherman wanted to go into the army. He |raised a brigade at Mansfield, Ohio, and he had two regiments of infantry, a battery of artillery and a squadron of cavalry com- | pletely officered, manned and equipped there. He had been at the battle of Bull Run, and went to Mansfield to raise these troops, intending to lead them into the war, but on his return to Washington he was persuaded to stay in Congress. There is no doubt, however, but what Sherman had plenty of nerve. He showed this first in that Kansas-Nebraska Investi- gation. Kansas was at the time filled with with ruffians, and the committee of Congress wl went out there were again and again threatened with death. The Senator has told me that they would often find a pic- ture of a coffin, over which was a skull and cross-bones, on the door of the room “when they came in the morning to open their session, and below this picture would be a warning for them to leave the terri- tory. “One day,” says Senator Sherman, “a man entered the room and began swear at the committee. He abused us in the most profane manner, and he v evi- dently spoiling for a fight. We had a sten- ographer with us, and as soon as the man began to talk I made a motion to him to He did so, and after iad gone on for about ten min- 1a halt, and told him that he + himself liable to arrest. I there- him if he knew what he had ag, and called upon the stenogra- his ndtes. nd was the las the man words rey jaw fell, and he a amanuen- he paper. It was shown t it fur a moment, and down his words. him » He looked tearing his hatr, he ex- es, by God! and rushed We did not see him again ution.” cK G. R. CARPETNER, so- How He Spelled His Name. . Lonts Repub ate Oitowell Wood, one of the lead- acters of New England, was once ing cha mmoned as a witness in court. When he and sworn, the ud; not S$ name, asked him to spell it, Mr. Wood began , double 0, d 2 Was too thick-witted to grasp this string of words an’ his pen in despair, aordinary name T a write-it for mt, Mr.— u, e@, double 1, ard; will | ir.—Air. Witness artists, and the cartoons of Thomas Nast | and of Puck and Judge are numerous. Some | | passengers, tied up to the wharf in tne | early morning of the 6th, so giving her pas- | man had charged Hampton with being con- | ter, and the result was that Hampton was’ Prevented him from so doing. The affair } Senator | to | FROM HONOLULU Reception of Senator Morgan's Re- port on the Hawaii Question. ADMIRAL IRWIN AND PEARL HARBOR | The Ex-Queen’s History and Some of Her Good Qualities. ” A NEW GOVERNMENT Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, March 8, 1894. The Oceanic, on which your Mr. Noyes, Mr. Kauffmann and party of eight were sengers a full day for expiration ashore. Honolulu is {nm its finest green robing after fifteen inches of rain in February. A large party took an afternoon train twenty miles | to Ewa sugar mill, a favorite excursion for Passengers in transit. There is time to ob- | serve the process of shaving up the cane _and making sugar, of which forty tons a | day are manufactured by the diffusion pro- cess. This train skirts the inland shores of Pearl harbor for twelve miles. The ride gives good views of the long reaches of wa- ter, although the harborsis still better seen from a steam launch on its waters. A fresh — impetus is Just now being given to hopes of | development of this noble haven by the ac- | tion of Admiral Irwin in making some fresh surveys of it. The surveys already made are very complete and minute. 1t is | understood that the admiral anticipates early action to be taken by Congress for | opening and improving the harbor and oc- cupying it as a naval station. Hence he de- sires w be able to give opinions when called | upon derived from personal examfhation | and knowledge. He 1s to put up on-ford’s Island, where he thinks the naval station | thereon. Not only the admiral’s laurich can his flagship, the Philadelphia, could run a plank ashore if she could get over the ob- structive bar a mile outside the land en- trance, A Naval Station on Ford's Island. A naval station on Ford’s Island will be well situated. It will be four miles from the sea and five miles from the bar, outside } of which an enemy would have to lie. ‘rhe | nearer the ocean, upon the point of Waipio (Wye-pee-o) peninsula, ‘The island itself is thoroughly salubrious. It is a coralline flat of S50 acres, elevated about twelve feet above the water. The soil is about a foot thick dn the coral, suthcient for good gar- dens, as is shown on the similar adjacent tesian water is easily obtained on the is- land. Enormous quantities of the sweetest spring water are going to waste on the mainiand one mile distant, where three | ter of the springs. The channels surrounding Ford’s Island are about half a mile in breadth, with deep | water anchorage everywhere. The opposite | shores are somewhat sparsely clothed with algaroba trees, in which the island aiso abounds. The climate is quite dry, with av- erage rainfall of 1.5 inches a month, except two or three wet months in winter. ‘rhe cco} trade winds constantly sweep over the ground, but have been deprived of most of their moisture by having previously crossed the low sierra backbone of Oahu. This beautiful low mountain range splendidly bounds the inland view, with the lonk, grassy slopes of its foothills in the fore- ground. The location is aDSolutely heait ful. No malaria is possible. Uncle Sam's men will there have a most charming pit of our “Paradise of the Pacitic.” Directly west of Ford's Isiend is the sim- | ilar ground of the Waipai Peninsula, upon the southern tongue of which the fortitied defenses are proposed to be located. This tract, however, is warmer and drier than’ | Ford’s Island, being farther to leeward. | The soil is poorer, and artesian water likely {to be somewhat brackish. Spring water, however, could be ptped down four miles | with the aid of a pump. Mr. Brown, the owner, expects the United States to pur- chase both the island and the 800 acres of the peninsula. As Pearl Harbor is the only | commodious haven of the North Pacific for | 6,000 miles west of North America, and ts | in the center of a tract of open ocean much larger than the continent of Asia, it {s not to be supposed that the United States will long defer taking possession of it. Satisfaction at Senator Morgan's Re- port. The Oceanic brought us the summary of Senator Morgan's report on the Hawalian investigation, together with the substance of the three minority reports. Our hop: of the results of the inquiry are fully real- ized. All parties in the committee appear to unite in sustaining the conclusion that the American forces took no part in the revolution, and that it was accomplished solely by the citizens. So far as we are in- formed the committee all appear to concur in condemning the queen as herself the cause of the revolution. So much seems clear, and seems to justify a strong sense of elation on our part, as of innocence ac- quitted and justified after full and fair trial. It is the very first time that this government has had the slightest hearing, with any knowledge of the question at ts- sue. Had we been permitted to summon all our selected witnesses and ourselves to cross-examine those of the queen, we could probably have made out even a stronger case. But we are well disposed to be con- tent with this as a fair trial of our cause, with the help and care of able and impartial judges in the committee. Perhaps our keenest satisfaction is in the vindication of Minister Stevens’ conduct, whom even the minority can only charge with undue moral support and sympathy. s noblest of men, and a true and pure Ameri- can patriot. All his sympathies and his | moral support were openly with us and had ver been so during his four years’ presence |in our weary struggle against the blind, semi-heathen despotism of akaua and his sister. It was his duty thus to lend the powerful moral influence of America to sup- port the effort to maintain representative government against the constant aggres- sions of the monarchy. His sympathy was in the interests of the monarchy itself. Had our royalty heeded him it would have been on the throne today, and we should be en- joying moderately satisfactory government under it. Mr. Stevens has undergone @ severe trial of misrepresentation. He has come out brightly, and the calumny and_ reproach which have been heaped upon him from high quarters, I feel assured, will only serve to make more conspicuous the dis- tinction which he has earned, and to make his name one not to be forgotten in Ameri- can history. The Ex-Queen'’s Conduct. Senator Morgan's characterization of the public and official conduct of the queen is not any too segere. So also of the character and attitude of the monarchy of late years. At the same time, in speaking of the personal character of Liliuokalant, some serious qualifications in her favor are due to her. She has never been regarded as a dissolute person, with whom respect- lable ladies could, on’ no terms, associate. ‘To women like her, of abortzinal blood, cer- | allowances have to be made, le to white women. tinction is necessarily made in a like that of Honolulu, where alf-white dies of culture do not absolutely forfeit social position by asional lapses which would be fatal to their white sisters py inherit tenden- nd a code o which make it ary to be extremely tolerant to them. To be otherwise would s eful social and church help of many really ex- ent women who inherit the peculiar weakness of Polynesian natures. Mrs. Dominis long lived ith a husband who was in feeble health and of irre; habits, although to her a sound busine and political adviser. He undoubtedly coun- tenanced in her certain deviations, whic {her inherited nature made unavoidable. | Society ignored these things In | prince ecnducted without open seandal. Since her | busband's death, and her accession to the | throne, the scandal has become more pro- | nounced. Yet, there has been no open and | admitted dissoluteness, - | character still maintain | tions with her, refu: eral verdict of the public. Liliuokalant is, unquestionably, a lady of some fine culture, and of some excellenctes disposition. How her severe experiences ring the past year have affected her per- ecept the gen- la We knew and loved Stevens as one of the | sonal disposition I cannot say. She would, naturally, become much embittered. She probably believes with sincerity in the jus- tice of her cause. She thinks it her duty to exercise severity upon the enemies of the monarchy and to make thorough work with them. She regards herself as P cegeersore a certain sacredness as queen. e also con- siders herself as the natural champion of the native Hawaiians and of their rights, which are paramount to all others, All the noble American civilization of the country ts as nothing to her if it impairs her rightful control as the sovereign of the native _Hawalians. In this respect she is a good deal of a fanatic. Some Things to Her Credit. Mrs. Dominis ts fairly to be credited with what seemed to be a sincerely earnest co- cperation with the benevolent efforts made to elevate Hawaiian girls by education in (raining schools. She contributed consider- able sums toward the education of such girls, and manifested very earnest interest in their progress. In the leading school of that class in Honolulu she held a very in- fluential status as their royal patroness. At the same time her influence was more or less felt to be deleterious upon the girls, by casting over their minds the glamor of the very dissolute court, and tending to make the sort of lives conducted by the debased habitues of that court an object of attrac- tion to the girls. | The ex-queen continues to live in good style at her private residence, jong known as Washington Place, which was built for- ty-five or fifty years ago by her husband’s father. Her property is now heavily mort- gaged. It is probable that notwithstanding her arrogant intentions expressed toward her political foes she could even now se- cure terms from them which would relieve her pecuniary straits. So far as known her health is not seriously impaired, although she is approaching sixty. Probably her | mulatto blood has given her greater vital- ity than is usual to Hawaiians. Notwith- standing his long and severe excesses, that blood enabled Kalakaua to survive to the age of fifty-five. Mrs. Dominis undoubtedly feels keenly the separation now created between her and her former white friends. Last Sunday | she came and sat in her front veranda Prof. Edward E, Ph should be located. The owner of this 1s- | |land, C. A. Brown, has a summer cottage | lie up to the low bluffs of the island, but | | principal works of defense will be two miles | peninsula of Pearl City. Abundance of ar- | mills for hulling rice are driven by the wa- | { tutional convention. \ | | | | | | | differences, and have predicted a general in order to listen the rich voice of the | artiste, Annis Montague, who was singi jin the church across the street, with a | choir composed of early schoolmates of ‘herself. ‘The artiste was a daughter of the | ex-queen’s early teacher, still living. Mrs. | Juliette Montague Cooke and Mrs, Dom- inis had always held a certain intimacy with the family, now interrupted. The aged Mrs, Cooke was one of a committee of three ladies who shortly before the revo- lution carried to the queen an earnest pe- tition to veto the lottery bill. It was the queen’s own pet measure, as was then known to the public. She received the committee with simulated emotion, but de- rided them behind their backs, mimicking | the feeble steps of Ner old teacher. Mrs. Dominis is a curious mixture of civ- {lized culture and heathen debasement. She was taken under very highly refining {influences in tender years. Her parents’ home was one of gross heathenism, her mother an @pen dissolute woman. The jinfluences of that heathen home seem to {have largely infected her character. In | personal intercourse she is peculiarly win- ning—not, intellectual, but with an un- usual degree of feminine grace and tact. It is impossible to estimate her merits or | demerits by ordinary standards of judg- ment. Organizing Representative Govern- ment. As already reported to you, the provis- fonal government has begun active work in organizing representative government. The special committee for that purpose will report to the councils this afternoon an act fcr elevting delegates to a constt- It is hoped that such election may be held in a few weeks, and a republican constitution speedily adopted. Various correspondents have anticipated | expected details as to the convention and the constitution, and I will deter discussing th topics to a later day, when more certainty can be attained, It Is enough to say that the prc t seems fair for the es- tablishment of what will be a stable form of goverfment of liberal character. Some uncesiness has existed for a num- ber of weeks by reason of dissensions in the ranks of the suporters of the govern- ment. These difficulties appear to be in a y of being substantially healed. As re, so-called tal and conserva- | elements tend to on, and party machinists and agitators avail themselves C n tendencies to gain political influ- ence. The agitation here has been based mainly upon protest against endeavors of the planting interest to renew the former Importation of Chinese Science aor: | Practice of medicine, Not only the rad a larg! = hal Sages si = > portion of the more conservative classe! Prot. Ph arte Rec =a moncticat a are anxious to make Hawali a home for | ated from the military school at Norwich, Vt. whites and not Asiatics. They desire to | He studied medicine reduce rather than to increase the num- (Lif aree! man and the greatest physician that America has produced—Dantel Webster and Edward E. Phelps—have both done honor to Dartinouth Col- lege, one us a student, the other as an instruc- tor. To Prof. Edward E. Phelps, M. D. World today owes longer Mfe and more freedom from sickness than to any other physician, Every Dartmouth alumnus of more than a dozen years’ standing remembers the swe in w he held the keen observer whose name appeared in the college catalogue next to that of presid@nt as professor of materin medica; and every younger graduate has admired the complete museum niedical botany, which Dr. college. But it was the world-famed Phelps of an infallible cure for those that result from an impaired nervous system and Smpure blood which bas endeavwd the great doc- tor to the world, and made his life an éra in the scorers of Prof. fearfal ills LL. D., the | Phelps gave to the | Prof. Nathan Sinith of ! rr rr re ee CZ Two giants among men—tbe greatest states-|New Haven, Conm., and graduated in medicine | the wonderful remedy to at Yale. | His unusual talent soon brought bim reputation | and prowinence among his professional brethren. | Tn 1835 he was elected to the professorship of j anatomy and surgery in the Vermont University. | [In 1841 he wae appointed lecturer on materia medica and medical botany in Dartmouth College. |The next year he was chosen professor of the chair then vacated by Prof. Robby, and occupied the | | chatr, the most Important one in the country, until | a few years before his death, in 1880, | He had for years foreseen the dangers of the | American -vay of living. He went about to find | @ acient! common sense remedy to cure the j; common evils that, under one name and another, result from sn unbealthful state of the nervous system, and within a score of years have seemed | to be sweeping over the country like an epidemic. | He succeeded. He gave to the medical profession a celebrated | remedy, whieh has since come to be known the world over as Pain Celery Compound. It was Dr. Phelps’ prescription which ever since has been freely used and prescribed by the most eminent of the profession. The formula was fur | ished to all reputable physicians. They found! ‘HONOR TO DARTMOUTH! E, Phelps, M. D., LL. D., Whose Giant Intellect Discovered Paine’s Celery Compound, be exactly what clatmed for it, a great nerve aod brain strength- ener and restorer. It was demonstrated beyond dovbt that Paine’s Celery Compound would cure nervous debility and exhaustion, peoralgia, sleep- lossness, dyspepsia, and all blood diseases. Tt was as barmiess as it was good, and it was the untversal advice of the medical that the compound be ptaced wi public could secure it, and thousands thts compound, which said had saved his own life, and the published testimonials of Mayor McShane of Montreal, the poet-author Hanly, George Wright, Marie Tem- pest, Councillor Morse, Mabel Jenness, and other inea and women of national repotation.bave brought the compound into special notice, As a well-known physician im this city ea: “Paine's Celery Compound is not @ patent medi- cine; tt 1s not a sarsaparilia; it ts not a mere tonic; it is not an ordinary nervine—tt is as far beyond them all as the diamond is superior te cheap glass.” ber of Chinese. So strong is the pressure in this direction that hardly any necessi- ties of the planters will be likely to avail in overcoming it. On this fssue there is really no ground for factious agitation, as the great body of the white citizens are of one mind on the subject. The royalists have become somewhat excited over our TWO-HANDED DRAW Popkins and Biges Indulge in a Game to the Latter’s Discomfiture. There is something barbarous about two- handed draw poker. It is a thoroughly cut- throat game. When five or six men are playing, the sport, though never savoring of altruism, perhaps, has the character of a general melee, in which no one’s efforts ere directed against any particular an- tagonist. But sit down deifberately to rob your friend, or be robbed by him, duel fashion, over a pack of cards—why, it is downright wicked! However, little Biggs never hesitates at doing a thing because it is wicked. He likes a game of two-handed poker. For the matter of that, Popkins was nothing loth when invited. The latter, moral principles, is no better than Biggs, though his reputation is on a superior plane. He is never seen to enter a saloon; POKER, break up to inure to their benefit. There is little in it, All the difficulties are being harmonized, and the supporters of the gov- ernment seem certain to pull together to ce it upon a firm basis. ‘The statement has been sent abzoad that the police have ascertained that a con- siderable body of men enlisted for the queen’s service by one Sansome at Van- couver have made their way here quietly, and are actually residing in Honolulu, pre- pared to join in insurrection against the government. Many still are incredulous as to the fact, and the evidence certainly does not appear to ordinary observation. The police are undoubtedly correct. We are probably secure against any actual attempt of these men, who are experfenced military veterans, because the police have been on the alert, having been thoroughly warrted from Vancouver and Puget’s sound. Sixty of the men are well marked down. The whole number is quite well known to ex- ceed 140. Did Davies Farnish the Moncey? It fs an interesting question, who has advanced the money to move and subsist such a force? All reports from Vancouver have attributed it to Theophilus H. Davies, the British guardian of the Princess Katu- lani, He has explicitly denied all knowl- edge of the business. Mr. Davies sails to- club. The collection of books dispiayed in his study at home ts almost wholly compos- ed of religious works; the French novels are under the sofa. The game was played at Biggs’ rooms. He could not very well invite a crowd there, because the landlady might object. In fact, such a thing did happen on one o¥ easion, when, in the midst of a most ex- During she began a made the hush that followed her intrusion her appearance. tae Washers te hie Wee Bane ehably | vigorous declamation, the burden of which | land, inv order again. to \disense the | W80 ‘hat gente “whose Noses. was needy eleven weeks in arrears might do better than gamble away the money that was owing to a poor woman with nine children to support. But a duo at poker may be played with Hawaiian question with the President, who seems to have leaned much to Mr. Davies’ views. Possibly the newspapers may tind it profitable to interview him. Mr. Davies is much given to writing , » ki noise. Indced, that style of ‘open letters” to people, and when they] uitle OF ne, Mowe. tnteedeention ut the neglect to reply he writes other letters at players that much conversation is out of the question, One or the other oecasion- ally remarks, “Your ante,” or “That's good,” and the cards are dealt again. There is a’ solemnity about two-handed “draw” which approaches the religious. Tt can hardly be termed a form of entertainment. On the contrary, {t 4s pure business—a cold-blooded style of gambling which the young should learn to avoid. They should be taught to eschew the vice, uniess a gang of at least five can be secured. Not. with entire sang froid, be it con- fessed, did little Biggs see the fickle god- dess in her most untender mood pursue him on the evening referred to. Beneath his breath he exhausted his vocabulary of profanity as his friend Popkins pulled in pot after pot. His luck was of the worst them. The Davies literature on Hawaii is becoming copious. He disavows any pur- suit of the Hawaiian throne for his ward, Kaiulani. His efforts to gain the rickety seat for her are, however, transparent. In all his labors he has been foiled, as well as Minister Willis, with whom he arrived here four months ago. The American peo- ple have stood square in the way of the efforts of these two gentlemen to rebuild Humpty Dumpty. They have done the great service of demonstrating the im- possibility of such reconstruction of de- molished eggs, already fetidly demoralized. They have also done the excellent service of enabling the American civilization of Hawaii to exhibit its strength and lofty prowess in behalf of freedom and honor- able government. We dismiss M>. Davies possible sort, giving him good hands, but in compassion, not in rancor. e always better ones to his adversary. At| KAMEHAMEHA. | midnight he had lost all the money in his | pocket—reckoned by Popkins next morning at $37.45. Then he had a brief spell of bet- ter fortune, ard it really seemed as ff ke was going to get back his investment. Again he began to lose, and for a while the luck seemed to wobble. Popkins got sleepy. He would have been glad to stop, but an unwritten law forbids a poker player who is much ahead to pause. Honor demans that he shall continue, in order that his opponent shall have a show to recover his money. So the game proceeded, unfortu- nately for Biggs, who Was struck about 3 a, m. by what he has since declared was the most frightful series of mischances that he ever ran up against. Whatever he might hold, Popkins invariably sat behind some- thing better, The game was on a cash basis. That had been positively agreed at the bezinning. Having lost every penny in his pockots, Biggs feH back on collateral. Having for- feited his watch some months previously to a gentleman who had accepted it as security for a loan, he decided to risk such articles of furniture in his rooms as were not the property of Mrs. Buggs, the Jand- Queer, Very! From Truth. Van Arndt—“Funny thing about society.” Miss Whirlsfair—“What is?" Van Arndt—"A girl is not ‘In’ it until she has ‘come out."” cer Cock Sure!”—S. M. H. lady. So, bit by bit, he parted with a shaving set, a dressing table, a writing desk, a student lamp, a boot blacking equipment, and two alarm clocks Having thus disposed of everything he owned, except his clothing-—for which Pop- kins was unwilling to gamble, because the garments were two sizes too small for him —Biggs finally consented to stop playing, the hour being nearly 6 a. m. He gave a receipted bill-of-sale for the furniture lost to the winner, who put the alarm clocks in his coat pockets and started for home. Though sleepy, Popkins experienced that sense of virtue which is to be derived from hours profitably employed—it matters rot What hours, Whistling a blithe melody, he | his ear. in respect to | though he takes rather large drinks at the | citing jack-pot, the mistress of the mansion | |Jumped upon the earliest street car. The conductor, who was Just out of bed. did not | Seem nearly so fresh and wide awake as he. Having seated himself in a corner of the vehicle, he looked up and saw on the cp- posite side a sign which read: “This car | uses Bouncer’s springs, contributing quiet and ease.” Said he to himself: “Quiet and ease—quiet and ease—quiet and ease.” 5 that time he was asleep. He thought hi Was strolling through a factory, in which |nothing stirred, because it was Sundaj |The great workshop, erdinarily so activ was deserted and silent as a tomb. Sud- denly, through some mysterious cause, there | Was a shock of energy. The wheels and | belts, though untended by human hands, began to revolve: there was & roar of en- gines, and—Popkins awoke. “What's up?” shouted the conductor in } Popkins couldn't imagine. He tried to | utter something inarticulate, while rubbing his eyes and looking about him at his fel- low-passengers, The car was fairly crowd- ed by this time with workmen going to | their daily toil. They all seemed amused and Interested. Strange to say, the whir- ring of wheels was still loudly audible. Was | he not yet awake? Popkins shook himseif and asked what in blank was the matter. ‘Then he jumped to his feet, and the truth cawned upon him. Biggs’ infernal clocks | Were going off in his pockets, though why they had been set at such an hour could {not be imagined. Perhaps it was an ac- | cident. It happened luckily for Popkins, ; found himself within half a >lock ‘of his own house, which he would 2 passed otherwise, to be carried out to the wills of Georgetown, who —_—— An Emprew | From Jenness Miller Monthiy. | The Empress Elizabeth of Austria pos- | Sesses a collection of jewels probably sur- passed alone by that of the Empress of Russia. Beside the family gems, which | are passed on from one empress to the | next, and are preserved in the imperial | treasury, the empress possesses a coll { tion of jewels, which have been presented | to her by the emperor and by foreign | princes, valued at four or five million marks. The collection was catalogued and | value estimated twenty-six years ago, an ration which took six days to accom- | plish, The most beautiful of the ornaments | is a necklace of three rows of pearls, which j the empress received from the emperor after the birth of the Crown Prince Rudolf. |These were at that time estimated at} seventy-five thousand gulden. Now they | are worth three hundred thousand gulden, as the pearl fisheries in Ceylon and Mz bar are steadily declining. The Empr Elizabeth no longer possesses all the jew-| els she had in 1866. Many of them ha been presented to her daughters and friends. Jewels. tee | Spare Ribs and € | From Life. phage. growth of the P 1 beauty, frees the sca: and all iuapurities, al color ip of dandruf, tetter TOBOGGANED DOWN A MOUNTAIN. The Daring Slide on Historic Lookout Taken by an Unknown Coaster. A short, compactly built man with a heavy blonde mustache took a toboxgan slide down Lookout mountaiu the other afternoon. He west via the tncline and made the trip from the Point Hotel to the engine house, a distance of 4.590 feet, In three and one-half minutes, which ts just one-third the time that ft takes a car to descend, remarks the Chattanooga Times. Fully 100 people saw him make the light- ning-like descent, and all were greatly ex- cited. The nervy coaster, however, was a8 cool as the proverbial cucumber, and. upon reaching the foot of mountain, walked away as coolly as though it had taken him an hour to descend. About 4 o'clock the coaster appeared at the Point Hotel with what appeared to be a block cf wood about eight inches square under his arm. On one side of the block was a ste+l horse- shoe, in the curve of which was 2 small flanged wheel. The other side of the Mock was slightly concave. The block was put on the outside rail of the incline, the wheel fitting close, and the horas of the horseshoe were on either side. Then the man put a heavy glove on his right hand, an sit- ting down on the block, started down the mountain without more ado. He held bis feet crossed straight and before him. and rested them on the iron rail. "ur a ~ feet the little one-wheel car moved slow: and then the speed incressed, until it and its human freight were golnag town the mountain at a rate that made the spect tors hold their breath. When a ve Was reached the coaster slowed up sliettly by s « his heeis against the and steadied himself by touching cable with his gloved hand. Final: nen he reached the v. heavy ervie rst took off ail brak down riving at the shot out of bottom he put on came to a brakes and w § the depot. Coolly rising from hit aucer vehicle he placed it under his arm and walked quiet ¥ before any of the use tonished spectators hud a chance t) ree cover their breath or ask any questions ~~ — a We America From Life. “Who was that distinguishe4-looking fele low you were just bowing to, Mabel? “That! Oh, that was one of fathers clerks “Really! I thought he FITCHBURCH Brethren. There t# no body of men who Inbor more hours as a contieman.” “WEST SHOE, m of the Went Shore continuously than roilraad mon. So constant and tiring their resnoasible duties that there are few who do not sufter from overwork and nervous trouble na it not take log before the pst comsti gives way to thn ravages of ry and kidney @ man that could raution bad been disease. Dyspepsia, m, urin troubles have incapacitated mai huve been saved if the proper pr. taken. ineer Wm. Huston of the West Shore ratimad, in king rter of : ple to negicet their phystea years I suffered from kid times I was in so muc ve up my to a te dixp then ition of yoo. a: “Por Asspepsin; tT would n under the ey tr h pain, ¥ engine. I of various physiclans, but derived Finally, one day Conductor Fraser of om, 4 said to me, “Huston, get a bottle of Dr. Tp Kenredy's Favorite Remedy; it will do yon set geod than all the doctors in ext 1 followed this advice, and in a few days I began to feel better and I have en well e sine E. A. Palmer of tb department at Tr good ne had received from using Fave Remedy, raid: “I wus troutied with urluary difficulty. tx Jong ti:ne.+My attention was called to Dr. Ket neds’s Favorite Remedy; I began its use, and iy few weeks was cured of the trouble. I have aime used tag . family medicine with splendid resulta, expecially cases of i ee coustipation and stomach, Dr. Kennedys Favorite Remedy is 9 antidote for diseases arising from urle acid blood; in cases of scrofula, sleeplessness Vousness, It cures where ali else falls. nat in the or a